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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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06CARACAS2165 | HUMAN TRAFFICKING NGO A.M.B.A.R. - PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) Summary. Poloffs visited the Women's Association for Well-Being and Reciprocal Assistance (A.M.B.A.R.),a recipient of an Economic Support Fund (ESF) Grant approved by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP). (reftel) Highlights of its volunteered three-month prog [...] | 2006-07-21 12:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM SCUL SNAR VE |
06CARACAS217 | ZULIA GOVERNOR ACCUSED OF COUP PLOTTING [...] (C) Zulia Governor and potential presidential contender Manuel Rosales is engaged in heavy mudslinging with the mayor of Venezuela's second largest city, Maracaibo. Mayor Gian Carlo Di Martino accuses Rosales of traveling to Bogota to meet with Colombian military officials and exiled Venezue [...] | 2006-01-30 18:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2183 | TEODORO PETKOFF'S PRESIDENTIAL BID MAY BE RUNNING [...] (C) PolCouns met with opposition presidential candidate Teodoro Petkoff's campaign manager Francisco Layrisse July 12 to discuss the campaign's progress and the recent rift between Petkoff, Sumate, and other leading contenders, Julio Borges and Governor Manuel Rosales, over the primary to cho [...] | 2006-07-21 19:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2215 | CAPRILES TRIAL RETURNS TO SQUARE ONE [...] (C) Summary. On July 21, poloff attended the latest episode of the ongoing Henrique Capriles Radonski trial at Caracas's Palacio de Justicia (reftels). The Mayor of Baruta faces charges for allegedly inciting violence at a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy during the 2002 attempted coup. How [...] | 2006-07-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS2238 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU TROIKA -- ELECTION [...] (C) During a lunch for EU Troika representatives at the Ambassador's residence July 26, Finnish Ambassador Mikko Pyhala said the EU received a formal invitation to observe the December 3 presidential elections. (Note: Venezuelan-based representatives of the OAS and Carter Center report they [...] | 2006-07-28 15:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EU OAS VE |
06CARACAS226 | ILO VISITS VENEZUELA, ORIT LEAVES [...] (C) The International Labor Organization (ILO) Direct Contact Mission visiting Venezuela told Poloff January 25 the Venezuelan government had promised, once again, to make necessary changes to laws governing unions to comply with ILO Agreement 87 on the Freedom of Association. Venezuelan Work [...] | 2006-01-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2272 | VENEZUELAN ATTACKS ON PRESS CONTINUE [...] (C) This cable is the next in a series of updates on Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) harassment of and limitations on the freedom of press. The BRV uses the courts, government media outlets, regulations and verbal threats to create not only a system of government-imposed censorship, [...] | 2006-08-01 17:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2275 | CHAVEZ' GUIDE TO DISMANTLING THE JUDICIARY [...] (C) When President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, there was general dissatisfaction with the judicial system, which the Venezuelan public viewed as extremely corrupt. He used his mandate and his majority in the National Constituent Assembly to create laws that purported to make the judici [...] | 2006-08-01 19:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2279 | NO SURPRISE ON CNE'S CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING AND [...] (C) The National Electoral Council announced on July 31 the regulations that will govern campaign publicity and advertising for during the presidential campaign period. The new regulations do not limit Chavez,s weekly Alo Presidente television address, nor will they restrict his use of "cad [...] | 2006-08-02 22:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2286 | NO SURPRISE ON CNE'S CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING AND [...] (C) The National Electoral Council announced on July 31 the regulations that will govern campaign publicity and advertising for during the presidential campaign period. The new regulations do not limit Chavez,s weekly Alo Presidente television address, nor will they restrict his use of "cad [...] | 2006-08-03 14:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2321 | VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION PRIMARY MAY PROVE UNNECESSARY [...] (C) Sumate's representatives have indicated publicly and privately that preparations for the opposition primaries scheduled for August 13 are on track, but may be scuttled if the leading opposition candidates are able to agree on a consensus candidate. Rumors, fueled by Zulia State Governor [...] | 2006-08-04 21:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2348 | HARD-LINE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MADURO NAMED [...] (C) Summary. According to a well-placed BRV official, President Chavez will soon name National Assembly president Nicholas Maduro, an anti-American aparatchik, to be his new Foreign Minister. Maduro can be expected to inject new, but continued hostile, energy into the Ministry of Foreign Aff [...] | 2006-08-08 19:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2367 | CASTRO'S ILLNESS; IMPACT ON THE BRV, ON BRV-GOC [...] (S/NF) BRV reaction to the announcement of Castro's illness and recovery directly mirrored that of the Cuban regime. There is no reason to believe that the fundamentals of the Cuba-Venezuela relationship -- with Venezuela providing huge resource flows, and the Cubans providing tens of thousand [...] | 2006-08-10 02:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KDEM VE CU |
06CARACAS237 | LIFE IN THE RED ASSEMBLY NOT THAT ROSY [...] (C) Newly elected Deputy Francisco Torrealba, a pro-Chavez union leader, told Poloff January 25 his initial impression of the all pro-Chavez National Assembly (AN) is that there is unity in objectives, but "discrepancies" on how to achieve them. Deputies receive little parliamentary training d [...] | 2006-01-31 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2374 | WHAT OUR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IS REALLY DOING IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-10 14:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2392 | MANUEL ROSALES: CREDIBLE CANDIDATE, UNLIKELY WINNER [...] (C) Summary. Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales was named the opposition unity candidate for the December 3 election on August 9. Rosales is an experienced and tested politician who has secured the broad support of a significant portion of Venezuela's fractious opposition, is a serious presidentia [...] | 2006-08-11 21:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2393 | CHAVEZ RETURNS, RESHUFFLES HIGH-LEVEL BRV POSTS [...] (C) President Chavez's return from his most recent world tour sparked a series of shifts in the BRV leadership. Several high-level officials have been moved, resigned, threatened to resign, or been replaced. Along with Nicolas Maduro's appointment as Foreign Minister (ref a),Chavez announce [...] | 2006-08-12 11:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2405 | SUMATE ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Action Request - Paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Sumate continues to be under pressure, including threat of prosecution because of the USD 300,000 DRL grant. On August 4, Sumate board member Roberto Abdul asked poloff for a letter from the Department noting the return of the DRL funds. [...] | 2006-08-14 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2406 | CHAVEZ ROMANCES THE CARIBBEAN TO GAIN UNSC VOTE [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,s (BRV) bid for a seat on the UN Security Council will depend partially on the support of the fifteen CARICOM countries (almost half of the 33 Latin American votes). A CARICOM consensus in favor of support for Venezuela, while assumed by Pres [...] | 2006-08-14 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL VE |
06CARACAS2414 | ACCION DEMOCRATICA DIVIDED OVER ELECTION [...] (C) Accion Democratica's (AD) public debate over whether to participate in the December 3 presidential election highlights continued internal leadership struggles. One faction, led by Secretary General Henry Ramos Allup, is firmly advocating a boycott of the vote, while a separate group is [...] | 2006-08-15 14:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2449 | NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TO CARRY ON [...] (C) National Assembly (AN) Deputy and hard-line Chavista Cilia Flores was unanimously elected to the AN presidency. She replaces her common-law husband, Nicolas Maduro, following his resignation from the post on August 8 to assume his new role as Foreign Minister. President Chavez once again [...] | 2006-08-17 18:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2466 | WHERE IS CARLOS ORTEGA?: BRV CAPITALIZING ON LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Carlos Ortega, the leader of the anti-Chavez Venezuela Workers Confederation (CTV),along with three jailed military officers, reportedly escaped August 13 from a maximum security military prison. Going on the offensive, the BRV is accusing the opposition of engaging in a "U.S.- [...] | 2006-08-18 18:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB KDEM PHUM VE |
06CARACAS2472 | PRIMERO JUSTICIA POWER PLAYS COULD RISK OPPOSITION [...] (C) The latest public skirmish between Primero Justicia (PJ) President Julio Borges and now ousted Secretary General Gerardo Blyde raises questions about the future of the only growing opposition party, and provides fodder for the already well-armed President Chavez. On August 12, Borges' fac [...] | 2006-08-18 21:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2478 | SUMATE UNDER SEIGE [...] (C) The National Assembly committee investigating Sumate released an August 15 report claiming Sumate committed tax evasion, fraud, foreign exchange law violations, false accounting, and treason, and called on the tax authority, foreign exchange commission, and banking officials to investigat [...] | 2006-08-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2527 | HUGO CASTRO?: THE TORCH PASSING VIEWED FROM [...] (C) Summary. The media images of President Chavez's August 13 visit with the ailing Fidel Castro have received wide press play in Venezuela. For many Venezuelans, they confirmed that Chavez aspires to succeed Fidel as the leader of the international socialist movement. Key Embassy contacts [...] | 2006-08-23 20:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS254 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MARACAIBO JAN. 26 [...] (C) Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city and a current political hotspot, was the destination for the Ambassador's most recent in-country outreach program on January 26. During his visit the Ambassador presented scholarships to nine indigenous students on behalf of the Venezuelan-Amer [...] | 2006-02-02 13:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS259 | PRIMERO JUSTICA STRUGGLING TO STAY TOGETHER [...] (C) A long-brewing rivalry is threatening to weaken Primero Justicia (PJ) as Secretary General Gerardo Blyde and Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez fight party president and presidential candidate Julio Borges and Baruta Mayor Henrique Caprilles for control of the party. To keep the party together, [...] | 2006-02-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS260 | BOLIVARIANS BRING OUT THE "RED CARPET" FOR WORLD [...] (C) The Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez put the best face on the Bolivarian Revolution to participants of the Sixth World Social Forum -- Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas January 24-29. The government did an adequate job at managing the unwieldy event, made both easier by low tu [...] | 2006-02-02 15:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2620 | CARACAS MAYORAL TIRADE HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Metropolitan Mayor Juan Barreto used the podium at an August 22 public event to obscenely berate the popular opposition mayors of Chacao and Baruta, Leopoldo Lopez and Henrique Capriles Radonski. Barreto's assault on two of Venezuela's most charismatic anti-Chavez leaders embar [...] | 2006-08-30 20:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2621 | AD LEADERSHIP STILL AT WAR WITH ITSELF [...] (C) Accion Democratica (AD) is still divided over whether to boycott the December 3 presidential election. Secretary General Henry Ramos Allup rammed through a party SIPDIS line that it will abstain from the vote, but defections from the abstentionist camp, particularly at the rank and fil [...] | 2006-08-30 20:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM PGOV VE |
06CARACAS265 | WSF: BOLIVARIAN HIJACK OR ANTI-IMPERIALIST FIZZLE? [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez probably fell short of dazzling anti-globalist activists during the January 24-29 World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas. The six-day event ended without fanfare, suggesting that activists either were disenchanted with the progress of their yearly pow wow or annoyed by the Bo [...] | 2006-02-02 17:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2682 | SNAPSHOT OF VENEZUELAN MILITARY OFFICIALS IN [...] (C) President Chavez continues to stack Venezuelan civil society with military loyalists, and a uniformed presence extends from ministries to national banks to local government. Chavez' BRV is at a profound level a militaristic regime, characterized by a strict hierarchy. The pervasive presen [...] | 2006-09-06 18:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2693 | THE BOLIVARIAN PLAYBOOK: WRITING A CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Post offers this look at President Chavez' Constituent Assembly in order to provide insight to other governments in the region that may follow a similar path (reftels). Chavez convoked in 1999 a Constituent Assembly that, in the end, provided Chavez with a constitution that abetted his [...] | 2006-09-06 22:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2762 | GUILTY RULING IN "CASO KENNEDY" - BRV TRIES TO [...] (C) One of Caracas' more controversial criminal cases, the 2005 murder of three university students at a police roadblock, reached its pre-appellate conclusion August 31 with the sentencing of 24 police officers. The case epitomizes Venezuela's security problem, police corruption and resulti [...] | 2006-09-11 20:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS28 | CHAVEZ MEDDLING CAUSES PERU TO WITHDRAW AMBASSADOR [...] (C) On January 3, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged his support for leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a move that prompted the GOP to withdra7 )43-"!33!$/2 4/ -%.%:5%,! &/2#/.35,4!4)/.3). ,)-!. ^5-!,!-!$% ! 3urprise appearance at a ceremony honoring the visit of [...] | 2006-01-05 21:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2817 | BRV: DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-15 13:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV VE |
06CARACAS2826 | VENEZUELA POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS: SIMONOVIS, [...] (C) On September 6, Poloffs attended the ongoing trial of former Caracas Metropolitan Police officials Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, and Lazarro Forero, and eight other police officers, who are being charged as accomplices to murder for events related to the civil disturbances and the temporary [...] | 2006-09-15 19:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS2877 | BRV ATTACKS ON A FREE PRESS CONTINUE UNABATED [...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable updates the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) efforts to restrict freedom of press. As indicated in reftels, the BRV employs a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorical - to harass the private media, inducing self-censorship [...] | 2006-09-19 17:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS288 | CHAVEZ MEETS WITH JEWISH LEADERS, OFFERS TO [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez met with Venezuelan Jewish community leaders January 31 in response to recent allegations of anti-Semitism against Chavez. Jewish leaders complained of anti-Semitic statements in official media; proposed legal punishments for anti-Semitic attacks; and expressed conce [...] | 2006-02-03 19:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE IR |
06CARACAS298 | CHAVEZ CELEBRATES SEVEN YEARS IN POWER, GOES FOR [...] (C) In a six-hour presentation celebrating his seventh year in office on February 2, President Hugo Chavez enjoyed musical performances, conferred several awards, summarized his administration's accomplishments, announced the expulsion of the US Naval Attache, warned the Embassy against futur [...] | 2006-02-06 19:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON ELAB SOCI VE |
06CARACAS2983 | POLLS SHOW ROSALES ADVANCING, BUT ABSTENTIONISM [...] (C) Pollster Alfredo Keller told PolCouns September 20 that while his latest poll indicates hard-core opposition support (32 percent) outranks that of hard-core Chavismo (25 percent),continued distrust in the electoral system will result in high abstention rates that will almost certainly al [...] | 2006-09-29 21:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3069 | ROSALES RALLY GIVES OPPOSITION A BOOST [...] (C) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, October 8 "Avalanche" Rally in Caracas, the biggest opposition event since the 2004 presidential recall referendum, put some new life into Rosales' long-shot campaign. The opposition also demonstrated that it retains residual "street power" a [...] | 2006-10-11 17:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL VE |
06CARACAS307 | ATTORNEY WARNS EMBASSY OF SPY CHARGES [...] (C) The attorney for five Venezuelan naval officers accused of espionage on behalf of the USG described to Poloff the details of the case being developed against his clients. Bastidas said the Bolivarian Government accessed e-mail accounts of the defendants and altered messages, including ones [...] | 2006-02-07 20:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3171 | SUMATE PREPARES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary - Ambassador met October 10 with the subdued, but determined leadership of election NGO Sumate to discuss the upcoming December 3 presidential election. Despite the ongoing threat of political persecution, Sumate is teaming up with the opposition to mount an ambitious election obs [...] | 2006-10-20 16:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL VE |
06CARACAS3239 | ELECTORAL LOGISTICS CONTINUE TO FAVOR CHAVEZ [...] (C) The National Electoral Council's (CNE) preparations for the December 3 presidential election give President Chavez a significant electoral advantage. Four of the five CNE directors are pro-Chavez. The directors have consistently denied opposition requests, such as eliminating fingerprin [...] | 2006-10-27 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3240 | STAFFDEL MEACHAM MEETS SUMATE LEADERS [...] (C) Visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham, accompanied by USAID officer and poloff, met October 23 with the leadership of the electoral NGO Sumate. Sumate leaders predicted Chavez would likely win the December 3 presidential election through a combination of f [...] | 2006-10-27 21:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS332 | CHAVEZ CONVOKES MEGA-MARCH, TARGETS "THE EMPIRE" [...] (C) President Chavez convoked a march of more than a million supporters February 4 to commemorate the anniversary of his failed 1992 coup. During his march speech and the following day's Alo Presidente broadcast, Chavez called on his supporters to unite and prepare themselves for what he pr [...] | 2006-02-08 20:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI VE |
06CARACAS337 | CATHOLIC RECTOR SAYS OPPOSITION MUST PLAY CHAVEZ' [...] (C) Catholic University Rector Luis Ugalde told A/Polcouns February 7 the opposition must see the presidential elections through despite the obstacles President Hugo Chavez is sure to throw up. Ugalde said Chavez' recent dialogues with the church and private sector are an obvious ruse designed [...] | 2006-02-09 16:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE |
06CARACAS339 | SUMATE DIRECTORS HARASSED, FACING POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The case of four directors of Sumate accused of conspiracy for having accepted a US$30,000-grant from National Endowment for Democracy (NED) entered a dramatic new phase on February 7 when, after months of delays, a Caracas judge initiated the trial. In the clearly orchestrated [...] | 2006-02-09 16:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS340 | SUMATE TRIAL: RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Unlike in the past, the current process against the NGO Sumate's leadership may result in their going to jail. Here in Caracas, we are in regular contact with Sumate, monitoring the hearings, engaging the press, and pressi [...] | 2006-02-09 16:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3426 | OAS AND EU EOMS SET, BUT PROSPECTS FOR ROBUST [...] (C) Summary. The BRV's deliberate policy of delay has successfully impeded effective, impartial international observation of the December 3 presidential election. After receiving an invitation to observe in June, the EU was not able to sign an MOU with the National Electoral Council (CNE) unt [...] | 2006-11-17 18:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3448 | THE MILITARY'S INCREASINGLY RED ROLE IN THE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and his hand-picked military leaders are coordinating the armed forces' efforts to provide Election Day security in ways that are likely to intimidate some opposition voters. Under the auspices of "Plan Republica," the Venezuelan National Armed Forces (FAN) will [...] | 2006-11-21 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM MARR VE |
06CARACAS3456 | ROSALES' PLANS TO DETER/DETECT ELECTORAL FRAUD [...] (C) Summary. The Rosales campaign is preparing what appears to be well-organized and sophisticated electoral monitoring operations to deter and detect government fraud. Rosales' witnesses at election tables will be asked to help ensure that voting machines are not corrupted as well as transmi [...] | 2006-11-22 22:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3462 | BARINAS STATE: OPPOSITION UNABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez' campaign team announced that Chavez will hold one of his last major campaign rallies in his native state of Barinas. Chavez is an odds-on favorite to carry the western plains state of Barinas, but he is not running as strong as might be expected in a state wher [...] | 2006-11-24 18:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3466 | ELECTION UPDATE: CAMPAIGN HEADS INTO THE FINAL [...] (C) With less than two weeks before the presidential election, both President Chavez and opposition candidate Rosales are trying to shore up their bases as well as attract undecided voters. President Chavez has considerable inherent advantages as he continues to inaugurate ambitious public wo [...] | 2006-11-24 21:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3476 | CHAVEZ AND ROSALES MOBILIZE HUGE CROWDS IN FINAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and President Chavez both held their last major campaign rallies in Caracas November 25 and 26, respectively. Rosales delivered a milestone stump speech November 25 to hundreds of thousands of supporters, easily his biggest campaign rally to d [...] | 2006-11-27 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3477 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: SIX DAYS OUT [...] (C) Both opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and President Hugo Chavez took advantage of the last weekend of campaigning before the December 3 elections to stage some of the largest rallies seen in Venezuela in recent years. The OAS and EU electoral observation missions met with electoral offi [...] | 2006-11-27 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3483 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: FIVE DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez continues to travel widely in Venezuela and open major public works projects during the final days of campaigning. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales met November 27 with members of the European Union's Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) and publicly urged th [...] | 2006-11-28 20:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3495 | CARABOBO STATE: ROSALES AND CHAVEZ CAMPAIGNS SEE [...] (C) Both the Chavez and Rosales campaigns claim they will win in the hotly-contested state of Carabobo, the state with the fourth largest number of voters. The Chavez campaign is focusing on its grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts to woo an estimated 30 percent of voters planning to abstain f [...] | 2006-11-29 22:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3501 | ROSALES READIES ELECTORAL MACHINE FOR SUNDAY [...] (C) Summary. As the December 3 presidential vote nears, the Manuel Rosales campaign is still struggling to get its organization in place. Senior campaign officials insist their vote tabulation network will work faster than the National Electoral Council (CNE) on election day, though there ar [...] | 2006-11-30 20:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3507 | CHAVEZ DIRTY TRICKS, THE ROSALES "BUBBLE," AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Apart from a few rock-throwing attacks by Chavistas, the Rosales and Chavez campaigns have to date largely stayed away from each other. However, the December 3 presidential election will inevitably put ardent activists of both camps in close proximity. Both the Chavez and Rosale [...] | 2006-11-30 22:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ASEC VE |
06CARACAS3513 | STATE OF VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL OBSERVATION EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. The electoral observation missions (EOMs) have missed most of the key "lead-up" events in the electoral preparation process and have had to scale back previously planned activities. Post believes it to be very unlikely that they will be able to mount a comprehensive observation e [...] | 2006-12-01 16:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE PREL |
06CARACAS3516 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: TWO DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and opposition candidate Manuel Rosales officially concluded their campaigns November 30 with press events and final rallies. Chavez claimed without proof that his government recently foiled an assassination attempt against Rosales aimed at discrediting Chavez. [...] | 2006-12-01 17:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3518 | CORRECTED COPY: STATE OF VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary. The electoral observation missions (EOMs) have missed most of the key "lead-up" events in the electoral preparation process and have had to scale back previously planned activities. It will be very difficult for them to mount a comprehensive observation effort. In effect, they w [...] | 2006-12-01 20:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE PREL |
06CARACAS3527 | JOE Q. VOTER'S DECEMBER 3 EXPERIENCE [...] (U) On December 3, approximately sixteen million Venezuelans will be registered to vote for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) next President. Using one of approximately 33,000 voting machines at about one of 11,000 voting centers, the voters will go through a fairly convoluted el [...] | 2006-12-01 22:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3530 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE - NOON (EST) [...] (SBU) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales told the media that he is concerned that voting delays are occurring disproportionately in traditional opposition strongholds. Rosales nevertheless said that voting was occurring with "a certain degree of normality." A relaxed President Cha [...] | 2006-12-03 18:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3531 | ELECTION UPDATE - DEC 3, CLOSE OF POLLS [...] (C) Summary. While the Venezuelan presidential election was conducted December 3 without major incidents, both the Chavez and Rosales campaigns have access to widely varying exit polls. We do not place much faith in any of these polls at this point. The National Electoral Council (CNE) is e [...] | 2006-12-03 23:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3547 | TIME TO REDOUBLE OUR PRO-DEMOCRACY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary. We understand the Deputies Committee asked in November whether Embassy has the needed resources to promote our country team strategy. We waited until after the Venezuelan presidential election to respond. The answer is that we are grateful for all resources made available, but i [...] | 2006-12-05 17:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3571 | VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS WRAP UP: OBSERVERS ENDORSE [...] (C) The OAS, EU, and domestic NGO Ojo Electoral observation missions released on December 4 and 5 their preliminary assessments of the presidential election. All congratulated the National Electoral Council (CNE) for providing adequate electoral conditions and abiding by its agreements, desp [...] | 2006-12-08 14:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3572 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared President Chavez the winner of the December 3 election on December 5; he was re-elected for six more years. While the presidential election did not usher in any tectonic shifts, it did reveal some clear winners and losers. [...] | 2006-12-08 15:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL VE |
06CARACAS3585 | A NEW DIRECTION IN THE CAPRILES TRIAL? [...] (C) SUMMARY The trial of outspoken opposition mayor of Baruta (a Caracas municipality) Henrique Capriles Radonski resumed on December 6. Capriles is accused of unlawful entry and violation of international principles for his role in the events of April 12, 2002, at the Cuban Embassy. Polof [...] | 2006-12-08 18:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM VE |
06CARACAS3598 | VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS: ISSUES FOR FUTURE [...] (C) A comparison of the 2005 EU and OAS electoral observation missions' (EOM) reports and the 2006 missions' preliminary observations reveals the BRV has resolved less than half of the issues singled out last year. Some of the so-called improvements, such as the naming of a new National Elec [...] | 2006-12-11 14:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3604 | POST-ELECTION: CAN ROSALES STAY THE COURSE? [...] (C) SUMMARY Although he lost to President Chavez by a substantial margin on December 3, Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales emerged from the presidential election as Venezuela's preeminent opposition leader. It remains to be seen whether the momentum Rosales enjoyed as a candidate will continue. [...] | 2006-12-12 20:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL VE |
06CARACAS3609 | VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS: THE EMBASSY'S TAKE ON VOTING [...] (C) Post sent out roughly 40 observers to seven states and Caracas for the December 3 presidential election. Although they did not have official observer credentials, Embassy observers were able to enter approximately 75 percent of the roughly 120 voting centers visited. Emboffs were thus ab [...] | 2006-12-13 13:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3628 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION SEASON MORE PEACEFUL THAN [...] (SBU) Before the December 3 presidential elections, isolated attacks on opposition challenger Manuel Rosales' campaign rallies in September and October suggested the likelihood of an increasing spiral of electoral violence (reftels). President Chavez' campaign tried to blame the opposition f [...] | 2006-12-15 16:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3646 | CAPRILES ACQUITTED ON ALL CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY After four years and eight months, Baruta Mayor Henrique Capriles Radonski was acquitted December 15 of all charges stemming from incidents at the Cuban Embassy on April 12, 2002. The opposition mayor of Baruta municipality (a metropolitan Caracas borough where the U.S. Embassy [...] | 2006-12-18 21:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
06CARACAS3670 | TWO YEARS AND LITTLE RESOLUTION IN DANILO ANDERSON [...] (C) Summary. After two years of searching for the intellectual authors of prosecutor Danilo Anderson's November 2004 murder, Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez' December 14 announcement of the so-called conclusive findings indicated the BRV is no closer to discovering the masterminds. Rodrigu [...] | 2006-12-21 20:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS397 | VENEZUELA: BOSTON GROUP FUTURE MURKY [...] (C) With the current climate of bilateral relations, post is not optimistic about the future of the US-Venezuelan bipartisan legislative forum, known as the Boston Group (BG). Even before President Chavez' February 2 and 4 speeches (ref a and b),post was unable to secure meetings with Natio [...] | 2006-02-14 18:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS399 | OPPOSITION MAYOR LOPEZ HELD FOR TWO HOURS BY GUNMEN [...] (C) On February 10, 20 armed gunmen forced their way into a college seminar at the University of Carabobo in which Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez was speaking and threatened the mayor for nearly two hours. Government officials refused to respond, citing legal prohibitions from entering college [...] | 2006-02-14 20:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS457 | AMBASSADOR URGES EU/LATAM SUPPORT FOR SUMATE [...] (C) Ambassador convened a meeting of European and Latin American diplomats February 10 to discuss diplomatic steps to support the four Sumate directors charged with conspiracy, after it appeared some of the defendants might be detained pending the outcome of the trial. Ambassador reviewed USG [...] | 2006-02-17 19:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS459 | CARACAS BRIDGE CLOSURE: WEEK SIX [...] (SBU) Six weeks after the Caracas-La Guaira bridge closure, transportation remains cumbersome and important sectors of the greater Caracas-area economy continue to be affected. BRV plans for a February 26 opening of the bypass road will not restore pre-closure traffic volume. U.S. airlines [...] | 2006-02-17 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN EAIR ETRD KDEM PGOV ASECVE VE |
06CARACAS461 | SUMATE REPRIEVE MAY BE BRIEF INDEED [...] (C) A Caracas appeals court accepted on February 9 a motion by lawyers for the four Sumate directors that vacates the entire process to date, and requires a new trial to be initiated. That new trial may not kick off until sometime between May and August, however Sumate's lawyers warned Polcoun [...] | 2006-02-17 23:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS480 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TAKES UP CNE REPLACEMENT [...] (C) On February 7, the National Assembly (AN) began the process of appointing a new National Electoral Council (CNE) by naming 11 AN deputies to the candidate selection committee. The committee is currently receiving nominations for the committee's remaining 10 civil society members, who ar [...] | 2006-02-21 20:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS484 | NEW TRIBES MISSION COMPLYING WITH WITHDRAWAL ORDER [...] (C) The New Tribes Mission (NTM) has removed all of its personnel from indigenous tribal areas in compliance with the February 12 deadline given by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). The Supreme Court (TSJ) on February 3 denied NTM's request for a stay of the Interior Ministry's Nove [...] | 2006-02-22 19:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM CACS VE |
06CARACAS492 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS IRAN DEMARCHE TO BRV MFA [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points on Iran's nuclear program to Vice Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Alcides Rondon on February 10. Rondon said the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) saw no evidence of non-peaceful purposes for Iran's nuclear program and cha [...] | 2006-02-22 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS493 | BRV OFFICIALS DEMAND RESPECT FROM VISITING WHA/AND [...] (C) During an orientation visit by WHA/AND Director, Deputy Director, and Desk Officer, senior Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials echoed the common theme of wanting improved bilateral relations based on respect for sovereignty. Rene Arreaza, chief of staff to Vice President Rang [...] | 2006-02-22 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS494 | CHAVEZ NATURALIZES COLOMBIANS TO GET VOTES [...] (C) In an effort to reach President Chavez' goal of obtaining 10 million votes in December's presidential elections, the BRV is using the tried and true method of stuffing the voter registry by naturalizing migrants and handing out identification cards through its Mision Identidad (Mission I [...] | 2006-02-22 21:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS495 | CARACAS ARCHBISHOP RAISED TO CARDINAL [...] (U) The Vatican announced February 21 that Caracas Archbishop Jorge Urosa had been nominated by Pope Benedict XVI as Cardinal. Press reports said Urosa would be formally installed at a meeting of cardinals in the Vatican on March 24. Urosa, 63, is one of 15 new cardinals to be appointed in [...] | 2006-02-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS510 | CHAVEZ PUSHES A STEP CLOSER TO PRESIDENT FOR LIFE [...] (C) During his weekly Alo Presidente television show President Chavez warned that if the opposition decided not to participate in the December 3 presidential election, he would convoke a referendum on whether he should run for re-election in 2013. If approved, Chavez could overturn the const [...] | 2006-02-24 13:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS520 | FREEDOM HOUSE - CATALYST FOR AN EMERGING HUMAN [...] (C) The Freedom House USAID project began operations in Venezuela in late 2004, in an environment of reported increases in human rights abuses and judicial impunity. The community of human rights organizations in Venezuela continues to be ill-equipped to deal with the unfolding scenario and [...] | 2006-02-24 18:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM VE |
06CARACAS532 | CHAVEZ RESHUFFLES CABINET MINISTERS [...] (C) On February 24, President Chavez swore in six new members of his cabinet, including the Minister of Light Industry and Commerce, Minister of Land and Agriculture, Minister of Labor, Minister of the People's Economy, the Minister of Food, and the newly created Minister of the Secretariat [...] | 2006-03-02 16:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS536 | NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND VENEZUELAN PRESS [...] (C) The government stepped up its actions against the Venezuelan press recently in a concerted bid to muzzle the opposition media during this election year. Following a January 23 court ruling that severely limited the media's ability to report on the case of assassinated prosecutor Danilo And [...] | 2006-03-02 18:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE |
06CARACAS590 | REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS CONDEMNING AL-ASKARIYA [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Third Secretary for North America Robinson Zapata had no substantive response to reftel demarche requesting that host countries issue statements condemning the Al-Askariya shrine bombing. Zapata agreed, however, to pass talking points to Vice Minister for Nor [...] | 2006-03-06 17:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPOA PTER IZ |
06CARACAS631 | JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF VENEZUELA DISTANCES FROM [...] (SBU) Recently, the president of Junior Achievement Venezuela visited the Embassy to convey his organization's decision to cancel a planned annual reception for supporters which was to be held at the Ambassador's residence. The decision was the result of a split vote by their board of director [...] | 2006-03-08 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO VE |
06CARACAS662 | BRV BACKS OFF ZULIAN SEPARATIST ALLEGATIONS "FOR [...] (C) Zulia state governor Manuel Rosales came out swinging March 7 against the separatist allegations launched against him by President Chavez on March 5. On his weekly television program "Alo Presidente", Chavez accused Rosales of working hand in hand with the United States to create a secessio [...] | 2006-03-13 11:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS663 | CHAVEZ APPOINTS NEW COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION [...] (C) In a press conference on March 9, Communications and Information Minister Yuri Pimentel announced that he would be replaced by current National Assembly Deputy and major player in the Movimienta Quinta Republica (MVR),Willian Lara. Lara said his ministry would be open to the media, but [...] | 2006-03-13 13:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS664 | JOURNALIST IMPRISONED PENDING CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] (C) Talk show host Gustavo Azocar was arrested March 6 in connection with a corruption investigation against him for allegedly defrauding the Tachira state lottery in 2000. A Tachira state court March 7 sustained the prosecution's argument that Azocar posed a flight risk because of his suppose [...] | 2006-03-13 18:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE |
06CARACAS666 | CHAVEZ VS. BUSH 2006 [...] (C) An apparently authentic 2006 campaign plan for President Chavez's political party, the Movimiento Quinta Republica (MVR),has been circulating on the internet and reported on by the press. The plan includes campaign themes and objectives as well as strategies for communication and party [...] | 2006-03-13 20:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS688 | VENEZUELA'S NEW CARDINAL: CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) On March 10, the Ambassador met with Archbishop (and Cardinal-designate) Jorge Urosa and the Papal Nuncio Giacinto Berlocco at the Nunciature in Caracas to discuss the current situation in Venezuela, as well as ways the Embassy and the Church might cooperate in the future. The Ambassador [...] | 2006-03-14 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS698 | ANOTHER TRANSPORTISTA PROTEST OUTSIDE EMBASSY [...] (U) The transport workers held a small peaceful demonstration on March 15 outside the Embassy. This, like the February 23 demonstration (ref a),was likely organized by the BRV. At about 1 pm roughly two dozen almost empty buses arrived at the Embassy. The caravan had been driving around t [...] | 2006-03-16 11:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KDEM PGOV VE |
06CARACAS702 | COPEI LEADERSHIP STEPS DOWN [...] (C) COPEI (Christian Democracy) President Eduardo Fernandez and Secretary General Cesar Perez Vivas resigned from their positions March 10 after the board rejected the party's annual report, according to press reports. Fernandez, a popular but figurehead leader, was gracious in his resignation [...] | 2006-03-16 12:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS703 | VENEZUELAN ADVENTISTS ALSO UNDER BRV SUSPICION [...] (C) The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church is depicted in a government training film for "Ribas Mission" students as a fanatical religious sect that spreads terror among indigenous tribes and spies for the CIA, according a video shown to Emboffs by SDA officials February 21. SDA officials thou [...] | 2006-03-16 12:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE |
06CARACAS717 | BRV PUMMELS THE PRESS AGAIN [...] (C) The BRV moved again against the opposition media, implicating a total of six journalists in legal actions in the past week. Two columnists at Caracas daily El Nacional and four local radio announcers at an Anzoategui state radio station were caught up in the latest sweep. The move follows [...] | 2006-03-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE |
06CARACAS718 | VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION DEBATES BETWEEN CONDITIONS [...] (C) Since early January, the opposition has debated whether and how to unite forces for the December 3 presidential election. The current dilemma over whether to focus solely on securing transparent electoral conditions or to also choose a single opposition candidate has resulted in three pr [...] | 2006-03-17 15:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS719 | BRV REACTS TO EU OBSERVERS FINAL REPORT [...] (SBU) The EU international observation mission released its final report in Caracas on March 15. Observers met with government officials in advance to prepare them for the report. Government response has been relatively positive, although National Electoral Council President Jorge Rodriguez [...] | 2006-03-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS720 | URUGUAY PRESIDENT'S STATE VISIT TO VENEZUELA [...] (C) During his state visit to Venezuela March 14-15, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez and President Chavez signed 12 cooperative agreements, discussed the revitalization of MERCOSUR, and held a joint press conference on free trade. The two also toured a shoe-manufacturing cooperative and [...] | 2006-03-17 16:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KDEM PGOV VE |
06CARACAS735 | NATIONAL RESISTANCE COMMAND READIES ABSTENTIONIST [...] (C) The opposition group National Resistance Command (CNR) is organizing nationwide to force a political crisis related to the December presidential elections, according to CNR leaders. If demands for transparent elections are not met by June 3 (at which time election law would require closure [...] | 2006-03-20 18:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS742 | CARACAS-LA GUAIRA BRIDGE COLLAPSES [...] (SBU) On March 19, the closed bridge linking Caracas and its international air and sea ports collapsed. Chavez and the Ministry of Infrastructure (MINFRA) both stated that the BRV had knowledge of the imminent collapse and were planning to demolish the bridge, but that they didn't release thi [...] | 2006-03-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR ETRD KDEM PGOV ASEC VE |
06CARACAS744 | MAYOR CAPRILES -- THIS MAY BE MY LAST TRIP [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolCouns met with Baruta Mayor Henrique Capriles Radonski to discuss the Mayor's late March trip to Washington. Capriles had initially planned to travel later in the Spring, but the government has re-instituted criminal charges against him related to the April 12, 2002 [...] | 2006-03-21 16:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE |
06CARACAS751 | CHAVEZ' ANGER-BASED LEADERSHIP [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez currently faces the conundrum of whether he can maintain a leadership style of exploiting resentment among Venezuela's poor while extolling the benefits of a seven-year revolution, according to anti-Chavez psychiatrist Roberto de Vries. De Vries describes Venezuelans' emot [...] | 2006-03-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE |
06CARACAS756 | TWO IVLP CANDIDATES DROP OUT AMIDST BOLIVARIAN [...] (C) A labor leader from the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and one from the National Workers Union (UNT) withdrew suddenly from the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) after one of them received threats from the government. CTV Executive Secretary Antonio Suarez said he [...] | 2006-03-22 21:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS757 | SUMATE'S ALEJANDRO PLAZ REVIEWS ONGOING PROJECTS, [...] (C) PolCouns met with electoral NGO Sumate President Alejandro Plaz March 21 to discuss the progress of Sumate's audit of the electoral registry and his recent trip to Peru and the United States. Their temporary reprieve from trial is allowing them to re-focus on their electoral activities. [...] | 2006-03-23 10:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS VE |
06CARACAS76 | MAJOR CARACAS HIGHWAY SHUTS DOWN AS RESIDENTS [...] (SBU) On January 9, residents of "El Chupulun" in the municipality of Baruta staged protests on the Prados del Este highway, a major Caracas thoroughfare, shutting it down for two and half hours and causing major traffic congestion. The residents were demanding that the mayor of Baruta take [...] | 2006-01-12 18:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS779 | CHAVEZ ALLY AND FOE NOMINATED AS USUN PERM REP [...] (C) On March 21, President Chavez nominated Francisco Arias Cardenas as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Arias was a comrade-in-arms of Chavez during the failed 1992 military coup against then President Carlos Andres Perez. Arias later split ways with Chavez accus [...] | 2006-03-24 16:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS785 | AMBASSADOR GETS DELAYED BY PROTESTERS IN GUARICO [...] (C) Ambassador Brownfield and Emboffs were tracked by an aggressive and ultimately violent group of protesters on March 22 during an outreach trip to the state of Guarico (though there were no injuries to Embassy personnel). A noon-hour press conference and lunch at a local club dragged into [...] | 2006-03-27 10:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL EAID ASEC VE |
06CARACAS872 | VICE MINISTER FOR NORTH AMERICA SANCTIONED AND [...] (C) On March 27, Venezuela's Supreme Court decided to lift a stay on a Comptroller General sanction against Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and International Organizations Mari Pili Hernandez for mishandling public funds. The Comptroller sanctions, if applied, would requi [...] | 2006-03-30 16:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS882 | ZULIA GOVERNOR PROBES FOR USG SUPPORT TO [...] (C) Zulia Governor and possible presidential candidate Manuel Rosales asked the Ambassador March 30 what kind of support the USG was willing to give to the opposition given President Hugo Chavez' overwhelming advantage in the December 3 presidential elections. The Ambassador outlined Embassy [...] | 2006-03-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS903 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE: INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS IN [...] (C) We have carefully considered whether or not it makes sense for the USG to advocate (and possibly substantially fund) an international election observation mission (EOM) for the December presidential elections. While an EOM would likely act as a brake on Bolivarian electoral excesses, we [...] | 2006-04-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS904 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL TO REGULATE NGO [...] (C) The National Assembly's Permanent Committee on Foreign Policy has put forth a proposal to regulate the activities of NGOs within Venezuela. It comes on the heels of another proposal in 2005 which surprised the NGOs, who technically have observer status on the committee. The previous pr [...] | 2006-04-03 18:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS911 | CHAVEZ'S MEDIA WAR WAGES ON [...] (C) The first quarter of this year saw another BRV offensive against the media -- one of the few remaining independent democratic institutions in Venezuela. The BRV launched a new series of high profile legal attacks targeting members of the opposition press, a Caracas court ruled in favor of [...] | 2006-04-03 23:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO VE |
06CARACAS939 | PROTESTS BREAK OUT OVER YOUTH SLAYINGS [...] (U) Venezuelans were shocked by the April 4 discovery of the slain bodies of three young brothers and their driver who had been kidnapped in Caracas 41 days before. The kidnappers, alleged publicly to be Caracas Metropolitan Police officers, demanded a US$4.5 million ransom from the children' [...] | 2006-04-06 10:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS942 | CHILD SLAYINGS DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE FOR SECOND [...] (C) The government has begun reacting to the spontaneous public outcry over the murder of three kidnapped children and their driver (Reftel). Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon expressed his government's condolences late April 5 for the deaths amidst widespread pot-banging protests. [...] | 2006-04-06 18:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CARACAS959 | MURDER PROTESTS DIE DOWN IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) After three days of mourning and protests over the tragic kidnap/murders of three Venezuelan-Canadian youths, Venezuela appears to be returning to normal. This latest spate of protests was unconventional in that it stemmed from social unrest rather than traditional political strife and th [...] | 2006-04-07 20:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
06CASABLANCA1233 | MOROCCANS PROTEST HIGH PRICES WITH LOW TURN-OUT [...] (U) Summary: As Ramadan began in late September, so did protests in Casablanca and other major cities against the rise in prices of basic commodities. However, levels of participation were lower than organizers had hoped. This was due in part to the fact that the GOM gained union acceptance [...] | 2006-10-31 10:39:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
06CASABLANCA1325 | MOROCCAN BANKS ON REGIONAL GROWTH, REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent series of meetings with Morocco's three national banks showed that while they have distinct personalities, they share a strong interest in expanding to francophone Africa and other countries in the Maghreb. They also agree that the economic climate in Morocco has improv [...] | 2006-12-20 08:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
06CHIANGMAI159 | AFTER HELPING TO PLOT COUP, THIRD ARMY COMMANDER CALLS THE [...] (C) Summary. The general in charge of northern Thailand came out blazing Friday with allegations that coup planning began months ago and that the former government wiretapped the Privy Council and the palace. He asserted a need to clear out Thaksin loyalists in the region and proposed that th [...] | 2006-09-26 05:53:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MOPS ASEC TH |
06CHIANGMAI160 | ARMY ALERT TO POSSIBLE SIGNS OF RURAL OPPOSITION [...] (U) Media sources report that 2nd and 3rd Army commands have put troops on alert to block counter-coup moves by local organizers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in the two regions most densely populated by party supporters. 2. (SBU) According to a j [...] | 2006-09-26 07:38:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
06CHIANGMAI193 | FEARS OF THAKSIN'S RETURN FOCUS ON NORTHERN BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern Thai contacts dismissed as groundless rumors that former Prime Minister Thaksin plans to re-enter the country from China via Thailand's the northern border. The 3rd Army is seen as a likely source for the widely reported stories, either as a way of testing the wa [...] | 2006-11-07 10:50:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL TH |
06COLOMBO1443 | MALDIVES: CROSS-PARTY COOPERATION YIELDS GENERALLY [...] (C) Summary: Following a July 19 meeting between the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) and the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in Colombo, facilitated by the British High Commissioner, the two sides upheld commitments to move the reform agenda forward. In exchange for [...] | 2006-09-05 05:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM MV |
06COLOMBO287 | SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-23 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ CE |
06COLOMBO288 | MALDIVES: REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS CONDEMNING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ MV |
06CONAKRY101 | GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE; [...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...] | 2006-01-30 12:55:00 | Embassy Conakry | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS KDEM GV |
06CONAKRY93 | DASD WHELAN SCORES RARE ENCOUNTER WITH GUINEAN [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a surprise development, Guinean President Lansana Conte received Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan at the Presidential Palace on January 25. Plagued by poor health, Conte has not to our knowledge held any meetings with persons outside h [...] | 2006-01-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Conakry | SECRET | PGOV PREL MASS KDEM PINS GV |
06CONAKRY94 | GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE; [...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...] | 2006-01-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Conakry | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV MASS GV |
06COPENHAGEN336 | MOHAMMED CARTOONS: DENMARK WILL NOT PROSECUTE THE NEWSPAPER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 05:28:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER DA KDEM |
06COPENHAGEN973 | DANES SAY EU CONSENSUS DOES NOT SUPPORT NICARAGUAN [...] (C) While Denmark shares U.S. concerns expressed in ref draft statement, it also will not break with the EU consensus that the release of a statement now is premature. MFA Head of Section for Latin America Erik Hoeg told Pol/Econ Counselor and PolOff July 17 that Denmark saw "very little to d [...] | 2006-07-19 09:08:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM AORC PGOV PREL NU DA |
06DAKAR1149 | THERE'S TALK OF ANOTHER ELECTION POSTPONEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Some in the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) say poor logistics will require technical postponement of the February presidential and parliamentary elections to June 2007, past expiration of Wade's constitutional term. We have told them we would find that unacceptable. The opposit [...] | 2006-05-15 15:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS PINR SG |
06DAKAR1292 | AN INCIDENT OF PRE-ELECTORAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE [...] (U) On May 28, in Prime Minister Macky Sall's hometown of Fatick, the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) youth movement mixed it up with followers of Serigne Mamoune Niasse, the partially blind marabout from nearby Kaolack who is backing ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck's presidential cam [...] | 2006-06-01 12:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
06DAKAR133 | AN INAUSPICIOUS START FOR THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Every party involved with the 2007 legislative and presidential elections faces serious obstacles. President Wade is so concerned with ensuring a solid win that he is exploring ways to change Senegal,s electoral system and has approached former Prime Minister Seck,s camp, looking for a [...] | 2006-01-19 16:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
06DAKAR154 | GUINEA-BISSAU: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON, BUT WHERE'S [...] (C) The Vieira/Aristides Gomes Government continues to develop its program, and neither the Popular National Assembly (ANP) nor the Supreme Court seems anxious to bring the Government down. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) continues to argue for [...] | 2006-01-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL KDEM BR FR GV SG PU |
06DAKAR1721 | SEEKING TRANSFORMATIONAL PRESSURE POINTS IN THE [...] (C) Ref A sums up interagency talks on Senegal's 2007 elections and suggests "engaging ... Muslim Brotherhoods ... to ensure peaceful, fair and free elections." Our first reaction was that this would be a delicate exercise, given our focus on promoting Islamic-Christian dialogue, doctrinal m [...] | 2006-07-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL SG |
06DAKAR1787 | SENEGAL,S MCA TEAM HOSTS CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM; MCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 10, the Government of Senegal,s (GOS) &Agence pour la Mise en Oeuvre du Plateforme de Diamniadio8 (AMPMD),brought together representatives from civil society, the private sector, local government and donors to discuss Senegal,s compact development to date, solicit feedba [...] | 2006-07-25 16:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM ECON KDEM KMCA SG |
06DAKAR181 | SECK CASE: DOES WADE NOW FEAR A TRIAL? [...] (C) Six months after his arrest, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck is still in pre-trial detention. However, on January 24, the Government acted on a judge,s recommendation to drop the most serious charge against Seck, that of being a threat to national security. This could pave the way for [...] | 2006-01-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS SG |
06DAKAR185 | SENEGAL ELECTIONS NOW SET FOR FEBRUARY 2007, BUT [...] On January 24, the prosecution dropped for lack of evidence "the threat to national security and defense" charges against former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck (Ref A) and his co-defendants: Hassan Fares, Mbaye Coulibaly, Sandrine Fares, Sandrine Madec, El Hadji Ndary Gueye and Coumba Ngouye Thi [...] | 2006-01-26 07:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS SG |
06DAKAR2001 | MORE CANDIDACIES AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) President Wade made official his intent to run for the presidency in 2007, as did Ousmane Kane, an international lawyer residing in New York, and Landing Savane, head of the AJ/PADS party. The Interior Ministry said that more than 75 percent of the cards have been produced for those who h [...] | 2006-08-21 10:46:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SG |
06DAKAR2088 | GUINEA-BISSAU: PAIGC REQUIRED TO INVITE BACK [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Bissau-Guinean court ordered the lead opposition party, the Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC),to allow suspended members, such as President Vieira, Prime Minister Gomes, and others, to rejoin the party. This steps up the tempo of national reco [...] | 2006-08-31 09:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM PU |
06DAKAR2149 | GUINEA-BISSAU: SSH PROGRAM 2006 OBLIGATION REPORT [...] Embassy Dakar's obligation report for the Ambassador's Special Self Help projects follows. The project selection committee recommended and tha Ambassador approved two projects totaling USD 15,000, which is the entire amount of Post's FY2006 SSH allocation for Guinea-Bissau. Post has signed ag [...] | 2006-09-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM EAID PU |
06DAKAR2150 | DHRF PROGRAM FY2006 INTERIM REPORT [...] Embassy Dakar's FY2005 Interim Report for Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) projects follows. The project selection committee recommended and the Ambassador approved four projects totaling USD 80,000, which is the entire amount of Post's FY2006 DHRF allocation. Post has signed agreement [...] | 2006-09-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM SG |
06DAKAR2185 | DRC ELECTIONS: PRESIDENT WADE REQUESTS U.S./EU [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL KPKO PGOV KDEM CG SG |
06DAKAR2244 | GUINEA-BISSAU: OBLIGATION REPORT FOR DHRF GRANT [...] Embassy Dakar's obligation report for the Guinea-Bissau Democracy and Human Rights Fund project follows. The project selection committee recommended and the Ambassador approved one project worth USD 30,000, which is the entire amount of the FY2006 DHRF allocation for Guinea-Bissau. A special [...] | 2006-09-17 17:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PU |
06DAKAR2307 | TARIQ RAMADAN ENCOURAGES SENEGALESE MUSLIMS TO [...] (SBU) Tariq Ramadan, the Islamic scholar of Egyptian origin, gave a series of conferences to Islamic audiences in Senegal in August. His talks drew large audiences and enthusiastic press coverage, focused on his dual messages encouraging Muslims to take active part in politics but, at the sa [...] | 2006-09-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL KDEM PINR SG |
06DAKAR2479 | FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR [...] (C) Ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Abdoulaye Wade's "spiritual son" and strategist until he fired and jailed him, is testing popular support for his presidential bid in a pre-campaign tour of the regions. We had no direct contact with Seck since April 2004, but in the last three weeks we ha [...] | 2006-10-16 11:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON PINS PINR KDEM KMCA KHDP SG |
06DAKAR2979 | OPPOSITION SEEMS BENT ON SELF-DESTRUCTION [...] (C) At lunchtime December 18, two opposition leaders told us by phone they are preparing to announce that the opposition will run multiple presidential candidates and two separate legislative lists. The Socialists may coalesce with ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, who plans to return to Dakar t [...] | 2006-12-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM SG |
06DAKAR368 | SENEGAL'S SOCIALIST PARTY IN CRISIS [...] (C) With one year to go until 2007 presidential and legislative elections, Senegal's leading opposition party is experiencing turmoil. Dissidents have created a faction within the Socialist Party (PS). Their goal is to suppress any aspirations PS Chair Ousmane Tanor Dieng has for the presid [...] | 2006-02-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SG |
06DAKAR610 | BISSAU-GUINEAN MEDIA ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government and private media in Guinea- Bissau barely function and rely heavily on the international donor community to survive. Nonetheless, editors have a solid grasp of the role of independent media in building a pluralist democracy as well as advancing national reconciliat [...] | 2006-03-09 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SCUL KDEM KPAO PU |
06DAMASCUS1508 | SYRIA FIRST QUARTER REPORT ON FREEDOM AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy's implementation of its 2005 Democratic Reform Strategy in the first three months of 2006 has been constrained by a hardening SARG attitude towards reform and SARG efforts to restrict Embassy operations, both largely prompted by the strained political atmosphere evid [...] | 2006-04-04 12:48:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO KMPI AMGT |
06DAMASCUS517 | THE MUSLIM BROTHERS IN SYRIA; PART I: COULD THEY [...] (U) This is the first of two cables that assess the potential political influence of the Muslim Brothers in Syria. 2. (U) PART I. DIFFICULTIES IN ASSESSING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD POWER; CONSTRAINTS ON MB INFLUENCE 3. (C) Summary: In the wake of former VP Khaddam's flirtation with the M [...] | 2006-02-08 15:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL KDEM SY |
06DAMASCUS531 | THE MUSLIM BROTHERS IN SYRIA, PART II: COULD THEY [...] (U) This is the second of two cables that assess the potential power of the Muslim Brothers in Syria. 2. (U) PART II. REASONS FOR THE EXAGGERATED ESTIMATES OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD INFLUENCE 3. (C) Summary: Most estimates of potential Muslim Brother support range between ten and thirty [...] | 2006-02-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL KDEM SY |
06DAMASCUS760 | MORE ON USG FUNDING OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The USG's Syrian Democracy Announcement continues to provoke conflicting views here among the opposition and other political figures. Reftel reported on an initial sounding that produced primarily negative views. A second look at the issue has prompted a more nuanced set of rea [...] | 2006-02-27 09:57:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SY |
06DARESSALAAM451 | TANZANIA NOT PLANNING STATEMENT CONCERNING SHRINE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-10 15:06:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO PTER IZ TZ |
06DARESSALAAM977 | GUARDED OPTIMISM FOR NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT BY [...] (C) On May 25, Poloff had pressed Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, for a public statement applauding formation of the new Iraqi government (reftel). Mulamula said that while the Government of Tanzania (GOT) was encouraged by the [...] | 2006-06-16 14:12:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ TZ |
06DHAKA1072 | HASINA DISMISSES ZIA'S OFFER OF DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) On March 1, opposition Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina dismissed as unnecessary Prime Minister Zia,s offer in parliament to form a committee to discuss proposed electoral reforms. Speaking to a mass rally in Chittagong, Hasina declared that her proposals were clear and required n [...] | 2006-03-02 10:31:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA1107 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS WITH MFA MORSHED KHAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Crowley met with Morshed Khan and discussed terrorism, elections, protection of minorities, the BDG economy and corruption, and possible reductions in US AID funding. Khan reviewed the BDG's positive actions on counterterrorism, expressed optimism about the elections, [...] | 2006-03-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM ETRD PTER IR BG |
06DHAKA1366 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY, PM ZIA DISCUSS ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Joseph Crowley thanked PM Khaleda Zia on February 22 for her government's recent steps to protect religious minorities, praised steps to control extremism and stressed the importance of free, fair and transparent elections. He encouraged a stronger response to cor [...] | 2006-03-15 00:42:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM KCRM BG |
06DHAKA1367 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY, PM ZIA DISCUSS ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Joseph Crowley thanked PM Khaleda Zia on February 22 for her government's recent steps to protect religious minorities, praised steps to control extremism and stressed the importance of free, fair and transparent elections. He encouraged a stronger response to cor [...] | 2006-03-15 00:42:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM KCRM BG |
06DHAKA1525 | WELCOME TO SCA: THE BANGLADESH AGENDA [...] (C) It's not George Harrison's Bangladesh anymore. Major advances in health, education, and food security have given Bangladesh a stability and a future that seemed unthinkable just 20 years ago. Bangladeshis are tolerant, moderate people who generally live at peace with their Hindu and Chri [...] | 2006-03-20 09:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PREL PTER KISL KDEM BG |
06DHAKA2739 | FORMER PRESIDENT CALLS HOUSE FIRE BNP [...] (C) Summary. Former president B. Chowdhury and his son Mahi label the mysterious early morning fire that enveloped three areas of their Dhaka home an assassination attempt by BNP elements fearful of their party's allegedly growing popularity. BNP desire to deter the defection of restless parl [...] | 2006-05-15 08:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA280 | YOUR VISIT TO BANGLADESH [...] (S) Everything and nothing has changed in Bangladesh since your last visit in May 2005. JMB's stunning onslaught of violence finally forced the BDG to acknowledge that terrorism and extremism exist in Bangladesh, but domestic politics remain as polarized and painful as ever. Your BNP and MFA [...] | 2006-01-20 11:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PREL PTER KISL KDEM BG BGD |
06DHAKA3063 | ELECTION COMMISSIONER PLEDGES TO IMPLEMENT COURT [...] (C) Summary. CEC Aziz promised Ambassador he will fully honor a Supreme Court order to revise rather than create a brand new voter list. He charged a "powerful section" (the Awami League) and the media with misrepresenting his actions to spread chaos and undermine elections. Despite calls for [...] | 2006-05-25 12:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
06DHAKA3147 | CONSPIRACY THEORIES SWIRL IN DHAKA [...] (C) Summary. Last week's garment factory riots, and the sudden illness of President Ahmed, rekindled conspiracy rumors across the spectrum regarding alleged moves to subvert or substantially change the electoral process. The least far-fetched may be that PM Zia would, as an insurance policy [...] | 2006-05-31 10:43:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA338 | TILTING AT WINDMILLS [...] (C) Kamal Hossain is the principal drafter of Bangladesh's constitution and the country's most prominent civil libertarian. Foreign minister in Sheikh Mujib's government, he left the Awami League, he says, to protest the AL's embrace of black money and thugery in post-Ershad politics. As cha [...] | 2006-01-23 08:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PTER BG BGD |
06DHAKA3680 | PM SECRETARY SIDDIQUI DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Butenis discussed the upcoming elections with Dr. Kamal Siddiqui, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, during a brief June 18 courtesy call. Dr. Siddiqui welcomed the attention of the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia as the "four key partners". He said these partners [...] | 2006-06-20 07:52:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
06DHAKA3690 | STILL UNDER FIRE, ELECTION COMMISSION ADJUSTS [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Election Commission (EC) is trying to move forward with plans for the voter list in the wake of the Supreme Court decision which nullified the "fresh" enumeration. The EC was forced to backtrack on its plans to use some of the information gathered in the nullified enumeration, [...] | 2006-06-20 10:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
06DHAKA3725 | BDG CONTEMPLATES POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL RESIGNATION [...] (C) Summary: The BDG is considering replacing ailing President Iajuddin Ahmed out of concern that his poor health will prevent him from running his office during the term of the caretaker government ahead of next January's parliamentary elections. PM Zia favors giving Ahmed some more time eith [...] | 2006-06-21 10:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BG |
06DHAKA4169 | AMBASSADOR VISITS KIBRIA FAMILY [...] (U) On July 9, the Ambassador paid a call on the Kibria family, the third in a series of five visits to families of victims of political violence. Asma Kibria, Shah Kibria's widow, son Reza (an academic formerly resident in Brisbane, Australia),daughter Nazli, Reza's wife, and several grandch [...] | 2006-07-10 10:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA4254 | QUAD "TEA GROUP" DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH PM'S [...] (C) Ambassador hosted a dinner for Reaz Rahman, the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor, on July 9. British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury and Australian High Commissioner Doug Foskett also attended. (Canadian High Commissioner remains out of the country.) The purpose of the dinner was [...] | 2006-07-12 09:42:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM BG |
06DHAKA431 | A/S ROCCA MEETS WITH BANGLADESH PM ZIA [...] (C) Summary: In a January 26 meeting with Prime Minister Zia, Assistant Secretary for South Asia Christina Rocca discussed extremism, elections and political violence and delivered the President's letter to the PM. PM Zia reiterated her commitment to speak out forcefully against extremism [...] | 2006-01-27 08:07:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KCRM BG BGD |
06DHAKA563 | SCA A/S ROCCA'S MEETING WITH GENERAL ERSHAD [...] (SBU) On January 27, SCA A/S Christina Rocca met with Jatiya Party chairman General Ershad. Charge and conoff (notetaker) were also present. 2. (C) Asked to comment on the current state of affairs in Bangladesh, Ershad replied, &You mean fundamentalism and the Election Commission?8 [...] | 2006-02-02 00:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG BGD |
06DHAKA564 | SCA A/S ROCCA'S MEETING WITH AWAMI LEAGUE LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Hasina complained that the ruling BNP-JI coalition seeks to eliminate all opposition in the run-up to the next election, and that given a free and fair choice, the Bangladeshi people would naturally choose the Awami League as their leaders. However, she declined to m [...] | 2006-02-02 00:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG BGD |
06DHAKA5839 | AMBASSADOR BUTENIS DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Butenis met September 14 with President Iajuddin Ahmed to solicit his views on the current political situation, the upcoming elections, and his role during the caretaker government. The President expressed confidence in his ability to fulfill his constitutional role during th [...] | 2006-09-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA5892 | FACILITATING POLITICAL DIALOGUE: "PLEASE DO [...] (S) Summary. As Bangladesh's polarized political parties count down to the arrival of the Caretaker regime in late October, we, with support from our Canadian, British, and Australian colleagues, are working publicly and privately to promote dialogue between the opposition Awami League and the [...] | 2006-09-18 11:47:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6091 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LEADER HASINA [...] (C) During a September 27 one-hour meeting with Ambassador to discuss her pending visit to the United States, Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina reaffirmed her commitment to discuss election reforms with the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Hasina stated that her notional travel d [...] | 2006-10-03 10:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6109 | FORMER POWER MINISTER CLAIMS WHISTLEBLOWING LED TO [...] (U) The Prime Minister appointed Ukil Abdus Sattar as Power Secretary on October 3. Sattar replaces Anarul Kabir Talukder, who was forced to resign on September 29, just three months after taking over as Power Secretary. Talukder was forced out following attacks on power company offices an [...] | 2006-10-04 10:46:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV KDEM KCRM BG |
06DHAKA6110 | INTER-PARTY DIALOGUE INCHES FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. After several false starts, the secretaries general of the two main parties are poised to meet in parliament to talk about talks on the upcoming election. There is little hope of a breakthrough as both parties remain wedded to hard-line positions, but the breathless press coverage [...] | 2006-10-04 11:19:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM BG |
06DHAKA6179 | QUAD AGREEMENT ON BANGLADESH ELECTION THRESHOLDS [...] (C) On October 4, the U.S., U.K., Australian, and Canadian heads of mission met and gave final approval for the UK-drafted elections threshold paper and the U.S.-drafted caretaker government engagement framework (see below). The heads of mission also discussed efforts to promote dialogue and [...] | 2006-10-05 13:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG UK AS CA |
06DHAKA6184 | QUAD AGREEMENT ON BANGLADESH ELECTION THRESHOLDS [...] (C) On October 4, the U.S., U.K., Australian, and Canadian heads of mission met and gave final approval for the UK-drafted elections threshold paper and the U.S.-drafted caretaker government engagement framework (see below). The heads of mission also discussed efforts to promote dialogue and [...] | 2006-10-06 03:36:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG UK AS CA |
06DHAKA623 | GRAND RALLY MARKS END OF LONG MARCH;AL PROMISES [...] (U) On February 5, following a three day march from all quadrants of the country, the Awami League and other opposition parties held a large rally in Dhaka. The leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina stated that the AL would return to Parliament this week, in order to formally present its d [...] | 2006-02-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6301 | INTER-PARTY ELECTION TALKS RESUME: MORE FORM OVER [...] (SBU) On October 16, Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary-general Mannan Bhuiyan and Abdul Jalil, his SIPDIS counterpart from the opposition Awami League, met for 45 minutes in the fifth round of inter-party talks on the upcoming election. Afterwards, both leaders told reporters they had [...] | 2006-10-16 10:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6416 | STREET CLASHES CONTINUE AS POLITICAL LEADERS [...] (C) Summary. Street clashes in Dhaka resumed on Sunday as President Ahmed met separately with representatives of the four major parties to seek common ground for finding Bangladesh's next chief caretaker adviser. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, its coalition partner Jamaat Islami, a [...] | 2006-10-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6422 | PRESIDENT SWORN IN AS CARETAKER CHIEF ADVISER [...] (C) Summary. President Ahmed's surprise selection as head of the caretaker government does not end Bangladesh's political crisis, but gives the country a much-needed breather. The opposition has sensibly adopted a wait-and-see attitude on whether Ahmed acts to produce, as promised, free and f [...] | 2006-10-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6493 | HASINA TELLS AMBASSADOR ELECTION COMMISSIONERS [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Hasina indicated to Ambassador some flexibility on her demands for caretaker government action but underscored the centrality of "reconstituting" the Election Commission to avert renewed street violence after November 3. She discounted as cosmetic Chief Adviser [...] | 2006-11-01 07:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6539 | KHALEDA ZIA ASSURES AMBASSADOR HER PARTY OPPOSES [...] (SBU) Late November 1, Ambassador and poloff (notetaker) called on former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her residence on the military cantonment. Morshed Khan, recently Foreign Minister, and Manan Bhuiyan, secretary general of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were also present. 2. (C) Amb [...] | 2006-11-02 09:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6582 | OPPOSITION LEADER BLINKS ON ULTIMATUM [...] (C) On November 3, Awami League president Sheikh Hasina unexpectedly extended until November 11 her deadline for government action on her 11 demands pertaining to the upcoming elections. 2. (C) According to Awami League contacts, she made the decision because of assurances from Chief Advise [...] | 2006-11-06 10:56:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6613 | CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER RULES OUT RESIGNATION [...] (C) Summary. Controversial Chief Election Commissioner Aziz told Ambassador the constitution and his commitment to a successful election preclude his resignation. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On November 6, Ambassador and poloff (notetaker) called on Chief Election Commissioner Muhammad Aziz. Al [...] | 2006-11-07 10:07:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6634 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO BANGLADESH [...] (C) Bangladesh is fixated on looming elections. Turbulent in the best of times, this year they are plagued by violence, a possible boycott, a wobbly caretaker government, a meddling former ruling party, and an aggressive opposition divided on whether it really wants an election. Despite faci [...] | 2006-11-09 08:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6635 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO BANGLADESH [...] (C) Bangladesh is fixated on looming elections. Turbulent in the best of times, this year they are plagued by violence, a possible boycott, a wobbly caretaker government, a meddling former ruling party, and an aggressive opposition divided on whether it really wants an election. Despite faci [...] | 2006-11-09 08:19:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6642 | SECOND DAY OF OPPOSITION BLOCKADE GRIPS BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) Summary. In the second day of the nationwide transportation blockade led by the Awami League, one demonstrator in Dhaka was killed and several dozen injured. Clashes, however, were sporadic, the number of demonstrators was relatively modest, and the violence was less than many had feared [...] | 2006-11-13 11:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6644 | NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE CONTINUES AMID NEW TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary. There were no reports of major violence on the third day of the opposition's nationwide blockade. Last night, government officials met with representatives of the opposition coalition to discuss options for breaking the political impasse, and will meet with the former ruling c [...] | 2006-11-14 10:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6647 | DHAKA INCHES BACK TO NORMAL AMID RUMORS OF [...] (C) Summary. There were no reports of major incidents during the fourth day of the opposition's nationwide transportation blockade program in Bangladesh. Traffic is nearing normal levels in many areas of Dhaka, and demonstrators appear more festive than confrontational. Two Awami League lead [...] | 2006-11-15 10:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6660 | BLOCKADE SUSPENSION HINGES ON ELECTION COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary. Privately, the Awami League says that purging the Election Commission would secure its participation in the upcoming election, but many Bangladeshis doubt Chief Adviser Ahmed would let that happen and fear that an intensified nationwide blockade will resume on Monday. End Summary [...] | 2006-11-16 10:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6665 | BOUCHER STRESSES NON-VIOLENCE, DIALOGUE, AND FREE [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher stressed to Bangladeshi political leaders U.S. government support for free, fair, credible and peaceful elections, and urged all parties to refrain from violence. Chief Advisor Ahmed expressed confidence that elections would take place peacefully and [...] | 2006-11-19 08:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA6668 | RENEWED OPPOSITION BLOCKADE LOOMS [...] (SBU) Summary. With the two major parties still deadlocked over the composition of the Election Commission, the opposition's nationwide transportation blockades seems set to resume on Monday. End Summary. Blockade Set To Resume ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Late November 18, Presiden [...] | 2006-11-19 10:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6683 | TODAY'S ACTION AWAY FROM THE STREETS [...] (C) Summary. Embattled Chief Election Commissioner Aziz may be contemplating a long leave of absence, which could remove one opposition flash point, but the Awami League now demands that Chief Adviser Ahmed also go before lifting its nationwide blockade. Rumors that Chief Adviser Ahmed suffe [...] | 2006-11-20 11:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6692 | EMBATTLED CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER EDGES CLOSER [...] (C) Summary. Though many pitfalls remain, new flexibility from both sides may soon produce a reconstituted election commission and an end to the nationwide blockade. End Summary. Exit Strategies for Aziz ------------------------ 2. (SBU) As the opposition's renewed nationwide transpor [...] | 2006-11-22 10:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6709 | OPPOSITION AGITATION CONTINUES AS ELECTION DATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition continues to press wide-ranging demands through the courts and in the streets, but it is unclear whether it is prepared to resume its nationwide blockade. The Election Commission's announcement today that the election will be on January 21 may heighten anxieties [...] | 2006-11-27 09:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6719 | ZIA TO AMBASSADOR: YOU'RE ALL PRO-AWAMI LEAGUE [...] (SBU) Late November 29, Ambassador met for 75 minutes with Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has recently taken the initiative to reach out to key chiefs of mission. Former Foreign Minister Morshed Khan, party secretary general Mannan Bhuiyan, and former foreign affairs [...] | 2006-11-30 07:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6724 | BANGLADESH HEADS TOWARD RENEWED OPPOSITION BLOCKADE [...] (SBU) Summary. The government and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have offered some changes in the election schedule, but the Awami League says this is not enough to avert a resumption of its nationwide blockade. Political tensions are inching up, as reflected by an apparent rampage this af [...] | 2006-11-30 10:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6739 | OPPOSITION REJECTS COMPROMISE PACKAGE BUT TALKS [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leaders dismissed a compromise package and vowed to press on with their nationwide blockade program, but talks continue to break the logjam. The blockade is not being vigorously enforced, but inter-city transportation arteries are blocked, and some officials fear a pr [...] | 2006-12-04 09:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6763 | HASINA RULES OUT NEW TALKS WITH INTERIM MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. As the army deployed today nationwide "to aid civil administration," Awami League president Sheikh Hasina told Ambassador there is no point in resuming talks with Caretaker Government advisers because "they know our position and they know what to do." Publicly, the Awami League [...] | 2006-12-10 09:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM BG |
06DHAKA6767 | CARETAKER ADVISERS REPORTEDLY RESCIND RESIGNATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Chief Adviser Ahmed has reportedly persuaded at least three of the four advisers who tendered their resignations today to step back and join other advisors in a meeting with Ahmed to discuss their concerns about his performance. In response to press reports of the resignations, [...] | 2006-12-11 09:44:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6777 | CHIEF ADVISER ASSURES ARMY WILL BE NEUTRAL [...] (C) Summary. Chief Adviser Ahmed told Ambassador that controversial Election Commissioner Modahbir Chowdhury will be replace with a pro-Awami League civil servant, and that army units deployed in aid to civil administration have strict instructs to act neutrally. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On [...] | 2006-12-13 07:57:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6780 | HASINA REPORTEDLY ORDERS TROOPS TO PREPARE FOR [...] (C) At 1430 local December 13, Awami League Organizing Secretary Mukhul Bose called us to report that he had just SIPDIS left a meeting where party president Sheikh Hasina had instructed mid-level officials to prepare for elections. She reportedly stated she would continue to voice various [...] | 2006-12-13 08:55:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6808 | AWAMI LEAGUE DENIES RECEIVING COMPROMISE PACKAGE [...] (C) Late December 19, presidential adviser Mukhles Rahman Chowdhury told us that a caretaker government proposal has been delivered to the leaders of the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The proposal called for Hasina's written commitment to participate in election [...] | 2006-12-19 10:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6844 | AWAMI LEAGUE SIGNS ELECTORAL PACT WITH ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) News on December 24 that the Awami League (AL) would contest the elections was overshadowed by reports the AL had entered into an election pact with an Islamic party. The press reported that AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Khelafat-e-Maj [...] | 2006-12-28 09:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA932 | REPRESENTATIVE CROWLEY MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On February 21, Representative Joseph Crowley began his visit to Dhaka by laying a wreath at the monument to the Bangla Language Movement in commemoration of National Language Day. Mr. Crowley, accompanied by USAID Mission Director George and poloff (notetaker),met separately with lea [...] | 2006-02-23 02:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM BD |
06DHAKA994 | BANGLADESH DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 09:47:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER BG |
06DILI101 | DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS IN PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTIONS; UNDP [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent discussions with representatives of international election assistance NGOs and via requests for assistance relayed to the UN, senior Government of East Timor (GOET) officials have revealed an outline of their plans for the 2007 legislative and presidential elections. E [...] | 2006-03-07 05:42:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI161 | PRIME MINISTER'S AND PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES EMPHASIZE ECONOMIC [...] Summary: Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and President Xanana Gusmao on April 4 addressed the annual Timor-Leste Development Partners Meeting. Alkatiri used the forum to announce a new approach to economic growth and poverty reduction. He stated that the "fight against poverty must be seen by al [...] | 2006-04-10 03:44:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI167 | AMBASSADOR GUTERRES TO CHALLENGE ALKATIRI FOR FRETILIN PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Preparations for Fretilin's National Party Congress are well underway. Delegates to the Congress have been elected at district meetings that began in February. Within the party it has long been assumed that Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri would continue in a second term as Secreta [...] | 2006-04-12 09:13:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI214 | AMBASSADOR GUTERRES ON POLITICAL/SECURITY SITUATION AND [...] (SBU) Emboff met with East Timor's Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, Jose Luis Guterres, on May 6. Guterres is running against Prime Minister Alkatiri for Secretary General of the ruling Fretilin Party in the party congress scheduled for May 17-20. Ambassador Guterres conveyed st [...] | 2006-05-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI224 | FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS: RECENT EVENTS SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER [...] (C) Summary. In light of the serious unresolved issues and current potential for unrest, Fretilin party leaders continue to discuss whether the party Congress should go forward as planned in Dili on May 17-19. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's public popularity, never his strong suit, is at its l [...] | 2006-05-11 15:07:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI231 | FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS WILL BE "A REAL FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources within and close to the ruling party, the Fretilin Party Congress scheduled to take place in Dili May 17-19, will be "a real fight". The competition will not only be between the two dominant candidates for Secretary General, but also over competing vi [...] | 2006-05-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI232 | FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS WILL BE "A REAL FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources within and close to the ruling party, the Fretilin Party Congress scheduled to take place in Dili May 17-19, will be "a real fight". The competition will not only be between the two dominant candidates for Secretary General, but also over competing vi [...] | 2006-05-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI236 | FOREIGN MINISTER REPORTS PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 13 meeting with the Diplomatic Corps, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta reported that significant progress was made over the weekend to ease tensions with the dissident military groups including the group led by Major Reinado and the 591 Petitioners led by Lt. Salsinha. [...] | 2006-05-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC KPKO KDEM TT |
06DILI239 | EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 17, 2006 [...] (U) Commercial, transportation, and civic activity in the city are normal. A few roadblocks have been established around the area where the Fretilin Party Congress is taking place. There were 76 seats open on outbound flights. The Australian, British Irish, Korean, New Zealand, Philippines, [...] | 2006-05-17 16:03:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC AMGT PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI240 | EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 18, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. - LIFE IN DILI - FRETILIN CONGRESS DAY 2 - AMERICAN CITIZENS ISSUES - EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE - SECURITY ASSESSMENT LIFE IN DILI Â [...] | 2006-05-18 15:15:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI243 | EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 19, 2006 [...] (U) The city continues to return to normal and there were several reports of additional refugees returning to Dili Transportation was functioning normally; schools and markets were open. Despite a heavy security presence, restaurants in the immediate area around the party congress were open. [...] | 2006-05-19 11:11:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI245 | CHARGE MEETS WITH STATE MINISTER ANA PESSOA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge Stein and USAID representative Fuller held a warm meeting with Senior Minister and Minister for State Administration Ana Pessoa on May 22, 2006 to discuss the commission she leads to investigate the grievances of the former FDTL soldiers, the "petitioners" dismissed earlier [...] | 2006-05-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI246 | DILI SITREP MAY 22 [...] (SBU) The situation was more tense than in recent days as rumors and exaggerations circulated widely. An outbreak of communal violence in Becora (Dili's easternmost suburb),where gangs of eastern and western youth armed with slingshots, knives, and machetes clashed intermittently throughout t [...] | 2006-05-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI291 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH MINISTER RAMOS-HORTA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-03 19:12:00 | Embassy Dili | SECRET | ASEC PGOV MOPS PHUM TT KDEM KPKO |
06DILI355 | RAMOS-HORTA BECOMES PRIME MINISTER IN NEW FRETILIN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MOPS TT |
06DILI356 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador congratulated newly inaugurated Deputy Prime Minister Estanislau Da Silva and discussed the new Government's priorities. According to Da Silva, who had been the Fretilin leadership's first choice for Prime Minister, the discussions between President Xanana Gusmao [...] | 2006-07-11 11:25:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF KJUS EAID KDEM PINR TT |
06DILI357 | PRESIDENT GUSMAO SAYS RAMOS-HORTA WILL LEAD A REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met today with President Xanana Gusmao, who gave a detailed account of the negotiations that led up to the appointment of the new Government that was sworn in today. The President also expressed his confidence that Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta will lead a reform gov [...] | 2006-07-11 15:12:00 | Embassy Dili | SECRET | PREL PGOV PREF KJUS KCRM KDEM PINR TT |
06DILI363 | BISHOP NASCIMENTO IS WORRIED, BUT WILLING TO HELP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-13 11:06:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM PINR KPKO TT AS PO |
06DILI372 | PRIME MINISTER RAMOS HORTA'S LATEST VIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: In several conversations with Ambassador and Emboffs following his swearing in as East Timor's new Prime Minister, Jose Ramos Horta shared his views on some issues facing his government. Among the subjects addressed were: his delicate working relationship with the Fretilin party; [...] | 2006-07-19 00:15:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO UN PO AU TT |
06DILI428 | FRETILIN FACTIONS RESPOND TO COURT DECISION AFFIRMING [...] (U) Summary: The Court of Appeals this week issued its official decision rejecting the argument that the re-election of Mari Alkatiri and Francisco "Lu'olo" Guterres to the Fretilin party leadership at the party congress in May was illegal. The case was brought by members of Fretilin's interna [...] | 2006-08-22 11:07:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KDEM TT |
06DILI429 | PRESIDENT GUSMAO ASKS ANNAN TO RETAIN SRSG HASEGAWA THROUGH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-23 09:13:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC KPKO TT JA |
06DILI439 | PRESIDENT GUSMAO CONCERNED ABOUT CAPE VERDE SRSG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-29 02:56:00 | Embassy Dili | SECRET//NOFORN | CV PO TT KPKO UN PREL KDEM PHUM |
06DILI455 | THE VIEW FROM AILIEU: REINADO'S POPULARITY ENDURES, F-FDTL [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs on Wednesday, September 6 traveled to Aileu to look into developments there since dissident Major Alfredo Reinado escaped from prison in Dili last week. Aileu is the location where he established his initial base following his departure from his armed forces (FDTL)post i [...] | 2006-09-11 00:23:00 | Embassy Dili | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO ASEC AU TT |
06DILI491 | EAST TIMOR'S STRONGEST OPPOSITION PARTY GAINING MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) Summary: East Timor's strongest opposition party, the Democratic Party (PD),held its national congress on September 29 - October 1, reelecting the incumbent leadership. The congress demonstrated that PD has emerged as a well-organized and well-funded party with a strong base among the y [...] | 2006-10-05 05:54:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ID TT |
06DILI528 | UPDATE ON EAST TIMOR ELECTION ISSUES [...] Summary: Representatives of IFES, the International Republican Institute (IRI),and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on October 18 briefed Charge d'Affaires on their electoral related programs and the current status of preparations for the 2007 elections. Discussions centered around th [...] | 2006-10-24 15:47:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI600 | UPDATE ON ELECTION ISSUES: STILL NO ELECTORAL LAW [...] Summary: Parliament has made some progress on passing electoral legislation but the overall process remains excruciatingly slow. While a law governing the supervisory body was finally passed on December 6, the review of the legislation on parliamentary elections, begun last week, has made only [...] | 2006-12-18 10:20:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM UN TT |
06DILI604 | AFTER SLOW START, PARLIAMENT RUSHES THROUGH ELECTION LAW [...] The National Parliament in a press release issued late yesterday announced passage of the draft parliamentary election law drafted by the ruling Fretilin party. In contrast to last week's deliberations (reftel) which addressed the first 16 articles one at a time, the remainder of the legislati [...] | 2006-12-19 12:12:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM UN TT |
06DJIBOUTI314 | IMAGES FROM THE REGIONAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN [...] (U) SUMMARRY: Unprecedented aspects have been noticed during the campaign for Djibouti's first ever Regional Elections for which campaigning began on February 25 and ended on March 8. The Regional and Communal Elections are set to take place on March 10, 2006. At the end of 2005, President Gu [...] | 2006-03-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM DJ |
06DOHA1257 | DISAPPOINTMENT IN ELECTED MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (U) Summary. A recent newspaper survey revealed that most Qataris are disappointed in the performance of the Central Municipal Council, to date Qatar's only elected body. Critics said that the Council has no real power and has not accomplished anything of note. The survey suggests that Qataris [...] | 2006-08-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM QA |
06DOHA1575 | QATARI MFA: AL JAZEERA S NOT A BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: After recalling its Ambassador from Qatar October 19 in protest at the content of an Al Jazeera interview with a Tunisian opposition member concerning the Tunisian government's hijab policy, the Tunisian government (GOT) announced the closure of its mission to Qatar October 25. A [...] | 2006-10-30 05:05:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV QA TS |
06DOHA1603 | DEMOCRACIES CONFERENCE DOES NOT MEET EXPECTATIONS; [...] (SBU) Summary. The International Conference of New or Restored Democracies did not meet the Qatari hosts' greater expectations and a range of participants felt that international representation was at a low level. The Israeli FM's plans to attend and then cancellation left the conference organ [...] | 2006-11-02 15:07:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAL IS QA |
06DOHA1639 | QATAR SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR PARAGUAY TO HOST NEXT [...] (C) Mohamed al-Rumaihy, Assistant to the Minister for Follow-Up Affairs at the Qatari MFA and Qatar's chief organizer for the Sixth International Conference for New or Restored Democracies (ICNRD - see reftel),asked Ambassador November 8 for USG assistance in raising funds for Paraguay to hos [...] | 2006-11-09 13:11:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM QA |
06DOHA362 | QATARI WOMEN ON ELECTION ISSUES [...] Summary. The political section recently met with a group of Qatari women as part of Post's outreach activities to Qatari women in support of their efforts to realize broad political participation in society. Young and old women from various professional backgrounds credited Sheikha Mozah, wife [...] | 2006-03-09 13:35:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN KDEM KMPI QA |
06DOHA456 | DOHA ROUNDUP [...] Topics: ----------- -Energy & Economy, paragraphs 2-4 -Labor, para. 5 -Civil Society, para. 6 -Drug Abuse, para. 7 --------------------------- Launch of Energy City Qatar --------------------------- 2. Hailed as the Middle East's first energy business hub, Energy City Qatar (ECQ),[...] | 2006-03-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EINV ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV INL SOCI |
06DOHA524 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON DEMOCRACY, TERRORISM, IRAN [...] Summary. First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) gave a speech on democratization in the Middle East April 1 during the Doha Cultural Festival. Answering questions afterwards, he said that Qatar will hold the first elections for the country's legislative body in ear [...] | 2006-04-06 04:08:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM ECON PTER IZ IR QA |
06DUBAI3054 | DURING VISIT BY CONGENOFFS, RAS AL-KHAIMAH SHIHUH RENEW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 10:15:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS SOCI KDEM MU AE |
06DUBAI6940 | RAS AL KHAIMAH SHEIKH DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, FREE TRADE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 13:27:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KDEM AE |
06DUBLIN1384 | IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Stephen Dawson, Deputy Director of Middle East Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, on December 4. Dawson agreed that the political equation in Iran is fundamentally skewed and undemocratic, though Ireland would not view the election of the Assembly [...] | 2006-12-04 16:56:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV IR IE |
06DUBLIN201 | IRISH TO JOIN EU STATEMENT ON SHRINE BOMBING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 14:55:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER EI |
06DUBLIN275 | BELARUS: IRELAND SUPPORTS U.S.-EU COORDINATION, [...] (SBU) Ireland agrees strongly with U.S. points on the continuing importance of U.S.-EU coordination in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the March 19 presidential election in Belarus, according to Ruadhri Dowling, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First Secretary for Russia and Eastern Europe [...] | 2006-03-15 14:52:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV EUN BO EI |
06DUBLIN578 | IRELAND WELCOMES THE NEWLY FORMED GOVERNMENT IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 17:26:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ EI |
06DUBLIN718 | GOI CONCERNED ABOUT VENEZUELAN NGOS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 09:56:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV VE EI EAID |
06DUSHANBE1174 | TAJIKISTAN: HELSINKI COMMISSION COUNSEL'S FIRST VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: H. Knox Thames, Counsel for the U.S. Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, visited Tajikistan June 14-17 for the first time. During his trip, he met with political party representatives, religious leaders, government officials, [...] | 2006-06-26 05:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1283 | TAJIKISTAN: MODERATE IRPT DEPUTY REFUSES PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's (IRPT) First Deputy Chairman, Muhiddin Kabiri refused to accept the party's chairmanship. Kabiri told PolOff at the Embassy's July 4th celebration that the party's current chairman, Said Abdullo Nuri, asked Kabiri to be the next IRPT head, but Kabi [...] | 2006-07-06 09:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF KISL TI |
06DUSHANBE1329 | TAJIKISTAN'S SDPT CHAIRMAN SUFFERS STROKE, ALLEGES FOUL [...] (C) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) met with PolOff July 13 after suffering a minor stroke two weeks earlier. Zoyirov, an energetic opposition politician, was noticeably absent during the Embassy's official opening on June 28 and the July 4 r [...] | 2006-07-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1353 | TAJIKISTAN: DPT'S ISKANDAROV SAFE IN PRISON, FOR NOW [...] (U) Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) Deputy Chairman, Rahmatullo Valiev assured PolOff July 12 that the DPT's Chairman Mahmmadruzi Iskandarov is not being maltreated in prison, and discussed the emergence of the "Vatan" (Motherland) faction of the DPT. 2. (U) Valiev reported that [...] | 2006-07-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1361 | TIT-FOR-TAT OP-ED SLAMS AMBASSADOR'S SUPPORTING TAJIK [...] (U) SUMMARY: The steady stream of (probably) Russian-influenced black propaganda against the United States continues in the Tajik press. A recent article alleges U.S. NGOs foment "color revolutions," the United States has done nothing for Tajikistan's economic development, the purpose of th [...] | 2006-07-19 13:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KPAO TI |
06DUSHANBE1362 | TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MEDIA COALITION NOT ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) Three prominent media associations formed the new Partnership for Democracy in June, a media coalition group designed to address misunderstandings among journalistic bodies and foster improved relations between mass media and the government. However, despite the group's good intentions [...] | 2006-07-20 08:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1420 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT RAHMONOV [...] (C) During the Ambassador's 90-minute one-on-one farewell call with President Rahmonov July 19, the President spoke without notes, because, we learned later, he had not expected a working meeting. President Foreign Policy Adviser Erkin Rahmatulloyev told us, "Generally, ambassadors come to sa [...] | 2006-07-24 08:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PROP ECON EINV ENRG MARR KDEM IR |
06DUSHANBE1423 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON TAJIK FM TALBAK NAZAROV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his July 17 official farewell call on Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov, the Ambassador summed up the progress in the U.S.-Tajik relationship over the past three years, including increased border assistance, a new U.S. Embassy and U.S. involvement in hydropower and infra [...] | 2006-07-25 11:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MARR KDEM IR RS TI |
06DUSHANBE1425 | NDI NOT GETTING THE ANSWERS THEY WANT FROM TAJIK GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and Deputy Minister of Justice Sharipova, National Democratic Institute (NDI) representatives pressed the Tajik government to register the organization and issue a visa for an American staff member to manage the Dushanbe office. [...] | 2006-07-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1439 | REFLECTIONS ON THREE YEARS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) Three years ago, before I arrived in Dushanbe, I noticed wryly that nearly every reporting cable from the Post seemed to include the descriptive phrase, "Tajikistan, destroyed by civil war~." Greatly harmed and set back? Yes. Destroyed? No. Especially not the spirit of the nation and p [...] | 2006-07-28 08:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID AMGT KPAO KDEM RS TI |
06DUSHANBE1470 | TAJIKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES CONSIDER BOYCOTTING ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main opposition political parties are considering boycotting Tajikistan's presidential election as a statement of protest. Knowing Rahmonov will win handily and worried legitimate opposition candidates may not even have a chance to run, the Democratic Party of Tajikis [...] | 2006-08-02 12:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE151 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KICKS OFF TAJIKISTAN'S 2006 PRESIDENTIAL [...] Although President Emomali Rahmonov has not officially announced that he will be a candidate for the late 2006 presidential election in Tajikistan, Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov more than endorsed him at a press conference on January 24. According to multiple press reports, he said, [...] | 2006-01-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PROP KDEM RS TI |
06DUSHANBE1524 | TAJIKISTAN'S IRPT CHAIRMAN SAID ABDULLO NURI PASSES AWAY [...] (U) The Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party, Said Abdullo Nuri passed away August 9 at approximately 16:30. Nuri had been suffering from stomach cancer and his death was not unexpected. He had received periodic treatments in Iran and Germany for over a year and returned to Dushanbe Ju [...] | 2006-08-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL TI |
06DUSHANBE1549 | THE END OF AN ERA FOR TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY [...] SUMMARY: Chargi d'Affaires attended Said Abdullo Nuri's funeral held in Dushanbe August 10. Nuri, the Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) passed away August 9 (reftel) after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was well-attended by prominent officials and leader [...] | 2006-08-11 10:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL TI |
06DUSHANBE1575 | TAJIKISTAN: FORMER DCA CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON [...] (U) A Tajik court sentenced former Drug Control Agency Chairman, Lieutenant General Ghaffor Mirzoyev August 11 to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow Tajikistan's President Rahmonov. Mirzoyev was arrested August 6, 2004 and officially charged with 36 crimes including attempt to toppl [...] | 2006-08-17 04:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1587 | TAJIKISTAN: KABIRI LEADS ISLAMIC PARTY AFTER NURI'S DEATH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan elected Muhiddin Kabiri as its acting-chairman after Nuri's death. The press and some political analysts speculate the party will split without Nuri's leadership and it will not elect Kabiri as the chairman because, as a moderate, he is [...] | 2006-08-18 11:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1593 | TAJIK FM NAZAROV'S MEETING WITH DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tan and relaxed from his trip to the EurAsEC meeting in Sochi, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov told Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum August 18 that U.S- Tajik bilateral relations were based on trust, and hoped the next phase would focus on economic assista [...] | 2006-08-21 12:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE1599 | TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR RAHMATULLOYEV MEETS DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor on Foreign Policy Erkin Rahmatulloyev waxed philosophical on Central Asia's history and role in U.S. policy and the challenges facing his country, but agreed with Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that the U.S. and Tajik governments share the same pr [...] | 2006-08-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM KISL TI |
06DUSHANBE1608 | TAJIK GOVERNMENT SETS LOOSE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS [...] (U) Tajikistan's parliament adopted an amnesty law August 17 that would free 4,000 prisoners and reduce the terms of 11,000. All women above the age of 55, children under the age of 18, first time offenders, along with other designated groups will be eligible for amnesty. Families will be g [...] | 2006-08-28 07:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1613 | TEN WEEKS TO ELECTIONS, TAJIKISTAN MOVING SLOWLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten weeks out from the November Presidential election, Tajik authorities are moving very slowly to implement improvements to the electoral process. After a significant step forward in May, when Tajik authorities presented donors with a the first government plans to address previ [...] | 2006-08-28 12:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1621 | TAJIKISTAN: UNKNOWN ASSAILANT SETS SYNAGOGUE ON FIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An unknown assailant set Dushanbe's synagogue on fire August 18 by throwing a Molotov cocktail through a first floor window. Fortunately, a neighbor sounded the alarm and the fire was put out before it was able to spread and engulf the entire building. Dushanbe's Fire Departme [...] | 2006-08-29 12:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC KIRF KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1623 | TAJIKISTAN: SDPT CHAIRMAN RETURNS FROM MEDICAL TREATMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (SDPT) Chairman, Rahmatullo Zoyirov met with PolOff August 28 after returning from treatment in Moscow and Switzerland following his stroke. Zoyirov appeared healthy and reinvigorated, and discussed the upcoming presidential election [...] | 2006-08-30 05:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TI RS |
06DUSHANBE1628 | MERCY CORPS UNDER SCRUTINY FROM TAJIK JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik authorities, reacting to a secret poison pen letter to the Ministry of Justice from disgruntled Mercy Corps local staff, threatened to deport a Mercy Corps expat unless the Embassy intervened to correct the situation. Mercy Corps conducted an internal investigation, and fo [...] | 2006-08-31 07:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1654 | NINE WEEKS OUT: OSCE UNDECIDED ON ELECTION OBSERVERS IN [...] (U) After a weeklong visit, the OSCE/ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) remains undecided on whether or not it will send a full-scale observation mission for the November 6 presidential election. The NAM, comprised of three OSCE/ODIHR officials, debriefed international missions August 31 o [...] | 2006-09-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1655 | TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 4, just one business day after arriving at post, Ambassador Jacobson presented her credentials to Tajik President Emomoli Rahmonov. Rahmonov thanked the United States for its support of counter terrorism and counter narcotics efforts and said he looked forward to [...] | 2006-09-06 13:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE1662 | IRPT CONFIRMS KABIRI AS CHAIRMAN IN EMOTIONAL CONGRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) confirmed Muhiddin Kabiri as its chairman during an emotional political party congress with members still mourning the loss of former chairman Said Abdullo Nuri. The IRPT delegates presented a united front and members gave impa [...] | 2006-09-07 10:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1705 | ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...] | 2006-09-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE1706 | ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...] | 2006-09-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE1723 | EIGHT WEEKS OUT: CCER ISSUING DECREES LEFT AND RIGHT [...] Tajikistan's Central Committee on Elections and Referenda (CCER) signed a new decree September 15 addressing candidates' usage of mass media during the presidential campaign, establishing polling stations and forming a working group to deal with international observers. The decrees are a smal [...] | 2006-09-19 08:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1744 | SEVEN WEEKS OUT: LET THE GAMES BEGIN, TAJIK ELECTION [...] (U) Five political parties officially announced their candidates for president during congresses held September 16-17. The candidates thus far are all chairmen of their parties, have little nationwide popular support and are weak politicians. With the exception of Narziev's Socialist Party o [...] | 2006-09-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE175 | TAJIKISTAN'S SOUTH SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: Kulob, the President's home region and nearby Qurghon-Teppa face the same corruption, high unemployment, and political and free press restrictions that plague the rest of the country. In meetings with PolOff January 23-24, journalists, NGOs and community leaders from Kulob, Qurghon [...] | 2006-01-27 09:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1773 | SIX WEEKS OUT: NO STRONG CANDIDATE WILL CHALLENGE RAHMONOV [...] (U) Tajikistan's opposition political party congresses have taken a stance not to participate in the election. Short of boycotting the election, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT),the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) and the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT) [...] | 2006-09-28 02:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE178 | AMBASSADOR PROTESTS SECURITY MINISTRY CRACK-DOWN ON NDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 27, the Ambassador forcefully protested to Foreign Minister Nazarov the Security Ministry's recent crackdown on the National Democratic Insitute in Dushanbe. Nazarov agreed to intervene with the Minister of Security and to bring the problem to President Rahmonov's at [...] | 2006-01-27 10:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM RS TI |
06DUSHANBE179 | COUNTERING NEO-SOVIET ANTI-U.S. AND ANTI-DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Especially when analyzing the so-called "color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, neo-Soviet authoritarians have dominated the information space and defined the world view in Central Asia. U.S. Embassies' Public Affairs Sections face an up-hill battle because Russian media [...] | 2006-01-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM KPAO RS TI |
06DUSHANBE1803 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO DUSHANBE [...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes Assistant Secretary Boucher back to Tajikistan. This visit will be a good opportunity for you to build upon your May meetings in Dushanbe and give an extra push for better conduct one month before the presidential election. 2. (C) The U.S.-Tajikistan bilat [...] | 2006-09-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV TI |
06DUSHANBE1840 | FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKS SOUTH FOR OPPORTUNITY AND NERVOUSLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 45-minute meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Foreign Minister Talbak SIPDIS Nazarov remarked that the United States and Tajikistan have a positive bilateral relationship because they have built an atmosphere of trust. He thanked Boucher for [...] | 2006-10-07 08:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI |
06DUSHANBE1841 | TAJIK PRESIDENT TELLS BOUCHER ELECTION SHOULD MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Tajikistan's President SIPDIS Emomali Rahmonov stressed the positive bilateral relationship with the United States. Stating he wanted to deepen contacts at every level, Rahmonov thanked the United Stat [...] | 2006-10-07 08:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI |
06DUSHANBE1848 | ONE MONTH OUT: TAJIK GOVT SHUTS DOWN WEBSITES AHEAD OF THE [...] (U) Tajikistan's internet service providers blocked access to several websites deemed "opposition" sites one month ahead of the November 6 presidential election. Sites include popular news information agencies such as Ferghana.ru and Centralasia.ru. The Ministry of Communications' Agency o [...] | 2006-10-10 09:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1863 | FOUR WEEKS OUT: POLITICAL PARTY FACTION BRIBES MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Four weeks out from the November 6 presidential election, five candidates have successfully registered candidate. Opposition political parties are weaker than ever, as a faction of the Democratic Party has won government approval. The government ordered internet providers to block ne [...] | 2006-10-12 11:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1935 | THREE WEEKS OUT: OBSERVER MISSION DEPLOYING WITH MORE VIGOR [...] (C) Three weeks out, Tajikistan shows few visible signs of an impending presidential election. Aside from a two-story poster of President Rahmonov (resplendent with five by two foot eyebrows) on Dushanbe's main boulevard, campaign materials are conspicuously absent in the capital. PolOffs sa [...] | 2006-10-23 06:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE1998 | ONE WEEK OUT: RAHMONOV'S PR CAMPAIGN STRENGTHENS, DPT DRAMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With six days to go before the election, the pocket party candidates have hit the campaign trail and look more like public relations agents campaigning for Rahmonov than candidates in their own right. The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) drama continues with the remnant DP [...] | 2006-10-31 12:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2020 | TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES FEAR SITUATION WILL DETERIORATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Tajik presidential election a foregone conclusion, Tajik political parties try to plan for after the election, but from their perspective, the future looks bleak. Political party leaders predict that the government will clamp down on political activity. Some are runni [...] | 2006-11-03 07:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2033 | TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The polls have yet to close, but Tajikistan's presidential election seems to suffer from many of the same problems as the 2005 parliamentary election. The pre-election period did witness positive cooperation between international organizations (especially the United Nations a [...] | 2006-11-06 14:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2038 | RAHMONOV WINS TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH 79.3 PERCENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov won a third term with 79.3 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. Embassy observers deployed throughout Tajikistan witnessed the gamut of election practices from completely transparent tabulation processes to blatant ballot stuffing by commissi [...] | 2006-11-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE204 | NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...] | 2006-02-01 10:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI |
06DUSHANBE2044 | POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO RAHMONOV'S WIN [...] (U) Tajik president Emomali Rahmonov won 79.3 percent of the vote in the November 6 election. Although his popularity is genuine among the people, opposition parties remain vocal in criticizing the election and will continue to express dissatisfaction with the current president and call him [...] | 2006-11-08 13:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2050 | TAJIK ELECTION NUMBERS SHOW SURPRISING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahmonov's re-election to a third term November 6 indicates his genuine popularity among Tajiks and reflects the people's recognition that Rahmonov's years as president have coincided with a period of relative stability in the country. Many in fact were surprised Rahmonov did [...] | 2006-11-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2111 | PRESIDENT RAHMONOV CELEBRATES THIRD TERM WITH PRECIOUS [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov was sworn in to his third term on November 18, a warm sun-filled day. The festivities were low key, but expensive, filled with precious jewels, flag waving patriots, a military parade, and one shiny new car. Embassy sources estimate inauguration costs amount from [...] | 2006-11-22 05:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2147 | DEMONSTRATORS CHARGE ILLEGAL DETENTION AND VIOLATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three Democratic Party of Tajikistan members were released November 19 after serving 15 days in prison for organizing a demonstration. Khairiddin Gulyaev and Temur Toshev (also known as Temur Iskandarov),two of the imprisoned members, met with Poloff November 22 to assert thei [...] | 2006-11-28 11:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2149 | IN TAJIKISTAN'S WINDY CITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT WELCOMES NGO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Whether building bridges, running an internet access center, or publishing youth newspapers, international and local NGOs operate effectively and with few bureaucratic barriers in the city and district of Faisobod. District Chairman Ismatullo Zaidov was quick to praise NGO contr [...] | 2006-11-29 05:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KHUM KDEM ENRG TI |
06DUSHANBE2169 | TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state committees from 25 to 17 and state agencies from 15 [...] | 2006-12-04 05:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE2171 | TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] This cable is to replace Dushanbe 2169. 2. President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state comm [...] | 2006-12-04 10:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE2186 | COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS IMAM RETURNS FROM U.S. TO PREACH [...] (U) Badriddin Karimov, a local Tajik imam who participated in the USAID-sponsored Community Connections Program, "Religion in a Secular Society," returned to Tajikistan inspired by the pluralism and tolerance he observed in the United States. On the 20-day program to the United States, Karim [...] | 2006-12-07 06:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KIRF KPAO EAID TI |
06DUSHANBE2193 | REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNTRY [...] Post looks forward to the release of the 2006 Human Rights Report. Post plans to translate the Tajikistan Country Report into both Russian and Tajik. Tajik is the official state language and Russian is commonly used among government officials, civil society, media, and the general population [...] | 2006-12-08 10:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM TI |
06DUSHANBE2206 | IRPT MEMBER CONVICTED, FREEDOM OF SPEECH VIOLATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A city court convicted Mukhtorjon Shodiev, an Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member, December 6 of inciting violence and calling for an overthrow of the government in remarks he gave in front a small, private audience. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. [...] | 2006-12-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL TI |
06DUSHANBE2209 | TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: NO GOOD NEWS FOR U.S. DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nothing about President's Rahmonov's new cabinet suggests that democracy and human rights programs will now operate more freely. After months of Tajik officials counseling us to "wait until after the November 6 election" to push for registration of the National Democr [...] | 2006-12-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2210 | DUSHANBE'S MAYOR STRIKES AGAIN, AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dushanbe's Mayor Ubaidulloyev, known for his autonomy in governing Tajikistan's capital, has his eye on a building owned by the Grace Sun Min Church and wants to turn the building into a school. However, his motives appear suspect, in light of his past attempts to take the chur [...] | 2006-12-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2219 | TRADING PLACES: TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET OF OLD HANDS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a few exceptions, Tajik President Rahmonov's post-election appointments simply shuffled loyalists and favorites into different positions, further concentrating power in the hands of those from his home region of Kulob. Instead of naming new, younger officials or educated tech [...] | 2006-12-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM TI AF |
06DUSHANBE2226 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...] | 2006-12-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE2228 | HOW WE CAN HELP THE TAJIK ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARE FOR [...] (U) This is an Action cable. See Paragraphs 5 and 9. 2. (U) Without the pressure of an upcoming election and with the international spotlight shining elsewhere, we have an unusual opportunity to engage Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda. The CCER would like to ma [...] | 2006-12-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPOA KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE224 | NDI DIRECTOR SHOULD RETURN TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Acting Foreign Minister Yatimov paved a way for National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan to register and return to Dushanbe. Sargsyan left for Moscow on February 1 after harassment and pressure from Tajik officials. Yatimov knew the [...] | 2006-02-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI |
06DUSHANBE239 | THE CIS NEEDS A CNN RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE SERVICE [...] (C) This message is Central Asia specific, but it is relevant to the other countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, as the other U.S. ambassadors to CIS countries agreed during a January 4 meeting in the Department with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Russia is increasingly flexing its p [...] | 2006-02-06 04:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROP KDEM KPAO RS ZK |
06DUSHANBE246 | ROUNDTABLE WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR AND LOCAL MEDIA [...] The Ambassador and PAO met on February 3 with 15 local editors and other prominent journalists for a 90-minute informal but on-the-record roundtable. ------------ U.S. PATRIOT ACT ------------ 2. The journalists covered a variety of topics, starting with the State of the Union address [...] | 2006-02-06 12:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PINR PROP KDEM KPAO TI |
06DUSHANBE250 | DPT ACTING LEADER: "WE DON'T FEEL YOUR SUPPORT" [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolOff met for an hour on February 6 with Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT),Rahmatullo Valiyev. The imprisoned Mahmadruzi Iskandarov is still the DPT's titular head. The meeting was within the context of a DPT effort, as evidenced by its Febr [...] | 2006-02-07 04:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE268 | NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED [...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...] | 2006-02-08 12:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI |
06DUSHANBE269 | NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED [...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...] | 2006-02-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI |
06DUSHANBE276 | REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...] | 2006-02-11 05:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI |
06DUSHANBE277 | REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...] | 2006-02-11 05:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI |
06DUSHANBE284 | KHUJAND, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OF TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Khujand, Tajikistan's "second city," in the Ferghana Valley and separated from Dushanbe by a formidable mountain range, represents what Tajikistan could be - not a democratic paradise, but a confident, relatively progressive, stable society open to new ideas and cautiously resist [...] | 2006-02-13 08:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID KPAO KDEM RS UZ KG TI |
06DUSHANBE304 | BBC IN DUSHANBE: "DON'T DIS A SMALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN GET [...] (C) In a surprisingly tough meeting February 14, the Ambassador joined his European and OSCE colleagues for what was supposed to have been a joint Western demarche about the BBC Tajik Service having lost its permission January 10 to broadcast on FM-106 in Dushanbe (reftel). French Ambassador [...] | 2006-02-15 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO UK TI |
06DUSHANBE306 | ONE STEP FORWARD: NDI ACTING DEPUTY RE-REGISTERED BY TAJIK [...] As First Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov categorically promised the Ambassador February 14, the Tajik Government re-registered National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Deputy Director Nurul Rakhimbekov February 15, the last possible day before his legal status would have lapsed. 2. DCM [...] | 2006-02-15 09:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE307 | FM NAZAROV SAYS NGO DRAFT LAW "POSTPONED INDEFINITELY" [...] (C) At the end of a long meeting February 14 on BBC registration and licensing (ref A),the Ambassador noted to Foreign Minister Nazarov a February 11 press statement (ref B) in which a Ministry of Justice official called for a "law stipulating strict control over activities of NGOs." The [...] | 2006-02-15 09:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP KDEM RS TI |
06DUSHANBE322 | TAJIKISTAN: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR KEY VISITORS FROM [...] (C) During an interagency meeting in Washington in January to elaborate the Tajikistan section of the policy document, "A Strategy for Central Asia," the Ambassador undertook to recommend names of key Tajik insiders who could be invited to Washington for low-profile but high-level conversation [...] | 2006-02-21 05:51:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE338 | TAJIKISTAN: POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVIST FREED FROM JAIL [...] Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) activist and lawyer Fayzinoso Vohidova was released from prison February 21. On October 13 the Sughd regional prosecutor's charged Vohidova with "forgery and the production and sale of forged documents", "evading tax payments", and "causing damage b [...] | 2006-02-23 05:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE408 | TAJIKISTAN: IRPT LEADER CLOSELY WATCHED [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, First Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) will travel to the United States March 8 to deliver a speech at Columbia University on the state of religion and politics in Tajikistan after the wave of "color revolutions" in other post-Soviet countries. Kab [...] | 2006-03-02 05:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE502 | EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS ON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a read-out of his just-concluded meeting with President Rahmonov, EU Special Representative for Central Asia Kubis said that a calm and confident Rahmonov undertook to improve (to a degree) Tajik elections, reasserted his unreserved willingness to support coalition efforts in [...] | 2006-03-15 12:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON KDEM RS IR UZ AF TI |
06DUSHANBE509 | DUSHANBE HOSTS INAUGURAL SCA REGIONAL REPORTING OFFICERS [...] Embassy Dushanbe hosted the first-ever reporting officers conference for Central and South Asia March 10-11 to discuss challenges of reporting in the age of transformational diplomacy and to identify emerging trends in crosscutting issues. Officers from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrg [...] | 2006-03-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM KPAO RS CH IR AF ZK KG TI |
06DUSHANBE546 | TAJIKISTAN: HOW TO IMPROVE THE NOVEMBER 2006 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Although it is getting late in the game, we still have an opportunity, if we begin work now, to influence the Government of Tajikistan to take steps forward toward meeting international standards in the November 2006 presidential election. If we can achieve this modest goal, we will hav [...] | 2006-03-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE575 | OSCE CHAIRMAN DE GUCHT BRIEFLY VISITS DUSHANBE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Visiting OSCE Chairman-in-Office de Gucht raised the draft NGO and religion laws with President Rahmonov, pressed for BBC to be re-registered for FM broadcasts in Dushanbe, and discussed [...] | 2006-03-30 11:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF UK UZ TI |
06DUSHANBE620 | TAJIKISTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Dear Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: I would like to solicit your help in advancing democracy in Tajikistan. See request in para eight. 3. (U) Tajikistan's next presidential election will be i [...] | 2006-04-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE648 | TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS RAHMONOV WILL USE LIBEL SUIT AS [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) told PolOff April 6 President Rahmonov likely will stop the lawsuit filed by Dushanbe Vodokanal against IRPT Chairman Said Abdullo Nuri closer to the election in November. 2. (U) Dushanbe Vo [...] | 2006-04-11 10:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE666 | TAJIKISTAN'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAY SPLIT IN TWO [...] (SBU) Rahmatullo Valiev, Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT) Deputy Chairman, told Embassy sources April 8 that he is confident a new DPT faction, "Homeland" (Vatan) formed by Masud Sobirov, will not supercede the DPT and may not have the support necessary to be formally adopted. Sobirov c [...] | 2006-04-11 12:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE704 | TAJIK JOURNALISTS UNION SUSPENSION NOT A CRACK DOWN ON MEDIA [...] On April 11 the Ministry of Justice announced a Dushanbe district court suspended the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan for three months. The suspension is not seen as a threat to media freedom, but rather a move by the government to oust the Union's current chairman, Hayot Davlatov. 2. [...] | 2006-04-14 06:55:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE751 | TAJIKISTAN: UNTOP AND OSCE SPONSOR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for the Tajikistan Office for Peace Building (UNTOP),Ambassador Vladimir Sotirov (secunded to the UN from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry),cond [...] | 2006-04-24 09:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE779 | TAJIKISTAN'S SHARIPOV DISCUSSES CORRUPTION, IRAN, RUSSIA, [...] (C) The Ambassador met April 26 with Director of the President's Strategic Research Center (SRC) Suhrob Sharipov for a wide-ranging discussion on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),anti-corruption efforts in Tajikistan, Iranian-Tajik relations, and Tajikistan's increasing unease with [...] | 2006-04-27 08:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG SOCI KCOR KMCA KDEM IR RS |
06DUSHANBE801 | TAJIKISTAN SCENE-SETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND [...] (SBU) Richard and Elisabeth, we are very grateful you are visiting Tajikistan. As you have quickly learned, Central Asia is not the easiest place for the United States to do business, especially since Russia has declared these countries its sphere of influence and is taking all sorts of measu [...] | 2006-04-29 09:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SNAR KDEM KPAO RS TI |
06DUSHANBE817 | NDI: PROTEST SUBMITTED TO MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post submitted the following diplomatic note to the MFA May 3 lodging a formal protest against the treatment of NDI: BEGIN TEXT: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its comp [...] | 2006-05-03 11:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE836 | TAJIKISTAN: NDI IN WASHINGTON WANTS SHOWDOWN MEETING WITH [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) President Ken Wallach and the Ambassador spoke by telephone May 5. Wallach thanked the Ambassador and Embassy Dushanbe for continuous support and advocacy for NDI. 2. (C) Wallach said he had spoken by telephone with Nurul Rakhimbekov, NDI's former [...] | 2006-05-05 09:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE840 | TAJIKISTAN: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY EVENTS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe marked World Press Freedom Day with an on-line press conference with the Ambassador answering questions from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. The Ambassador also participated in a World Press Freedom Day roundtable hosted by Internews, the Institute for War and P [...] | 2006-05-07 07:49:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE858 | SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR MILLARD ESTABLISH SOLID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher and National Security Council Senior Adviser Elisabeth Millard met with President Emomali Rahmonov for nearly two hours on May 8 to discuss strengthening cooperation between Tajikistan and the United States i [...] | 2006-05-10 06:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM KISL KPAO RS IR |
06DUSHANBE861 | TAJIKISTAN: NDI DEBRIEFS RAKHIMBEKOV ON HIS DETENTION, [...] (C) Embassy Dushanbe received the following memo dated May 5 from National Democratic Institute headquarters in Washington. Although it arrived via unclassified e-mail, we are sending it through the classified network because of the sensitivity of the information. 2. (C) BEGIN TEXT: ND [...] | 2006-05-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM 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 |
06DUSHANBE865 | TAJIKISTAN: SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC MILLARD MEET WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and National Security Council Senior Director Elisabeth Millard met May 8 with Tajikistan's political party leade [...] | 2006-05-10 17:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO TI |
06DUSHANBE867 | WILL SCO SUMMIT RAISE WESTERN NGOS? [...] (SBU) Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov has gone public denouncing Western NGOs in Tajikistan. "Biznis i Politika" (April 20) published the long texty of a speech he delivered earlier at a Dushanbe roundtable for Russian-speaking Tajik intelligentsia, "The Role of NGOs in the Development [...] | 2006-05-11 11:47:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PROP KDEM RS TI |
06DUSHANBE899 | TAJIKISTAN: SDPT LEADER QUESTIONED BY GENERAL PROSECUTOR'S [...] (U) Chairman of the Socialist Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT),Rahmatullo Zoyirov, was questioned four times by the General Prosecutor's office. Zoyirov told PolOff the General Prosecutor's office summoned him repeatedly to interrogate him on his recent statement claiming Tajikistan's [...] | 2006-05-17 10:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE920 | TAJIKISTAN: ELECTIONS COMMISSION APPEALS FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] Heads of diplomatic missions convened at the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peacebuilding (UNTOP) for the international donor community's monthly meeting on electoral issues May 17. Mirzoali Boltuyev, Chairman of the Central Commission on Elections and Referenda (CCER),presented a chart [...] | 2006-05-19 12:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
06DUSHANBE945 | TAJIKISTAN: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVT FORMATION [...] DCM delivered talking points per reftel to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 22. Nasredinov promised to pass the points on to the MFA's Asia and Africa desk and will respond to the Embassy if the desk has any [...] | 2006-05-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO IZ TI |
06DUSHANBE949 | TAJIKISTAN: UNTOP MANDATE NEEDS IMMEDIATE RENEWAL ACTION [...] (C) UN Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador Vladimir Sotirov (please protect throughout) of the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-building (UNTOP) asked to see the Ambassador urgently on May 24. 2. (SBU) In mid-May every year, the UN Security Council extends the U [...] | 2006-05-24 08:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM UN TI |
06DUSHANBE995 | TAJIKISTAN: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR BETTER ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although we can predict six months before Tajikistan's presidential election that it will not fully meet international standards, we have the opportunity to ensure that the election is conducted significantly better than any previous election in Tajikistan's short independent his [...] | 2006-05-30 10:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
06EFTOSANAA1996 | ELECTIONS: CHARGE PRESSES FREEDOM AGENDA WITH [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: In an unexpected meeting called by Saleh to discuss other issues (septel) on July 11, Charge pressed Saleh on respecting the June agreement of principles signed by the ruling party and the opposition. Charge particularly emphasized that equal access to government-owned med [...] | 2006-07-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM MEPI YE |
06FREETOWN322 | Sierra Leoneans React to Human Rights Report [...] On April 13, the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee hosted its second annual workshop on the status of human rights in Sierra Leone and used the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices as its basis for discussion. Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Alusine Fofana used t [...] | 2006-04-19 17:11:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PREL SL |
06FREETOWN379 | GOVERNMENT STOPS COOPERATION WITH UN MISSION OVER [...] (C) President Kabbah and his Government did not like the criticisms in the recent UN Secretary General's quarterly report to the Security Council on the UNIOSIL mission and reacted by discontinuing cooperation with the UN mission. The international community supports UNIOSIL and the Executive [...] | 2006-05-11 19:44:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL USUN KDEM SL |
06FREETOWN389 | SYG ANNAN CALL TO KABBAH RESTORES GOSL-UNIOSIL [...] (C) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's telephone call from Vienna to President Kabbah late on May 12 looks to have restored the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) - UNIOSIL relationship. Annan's call followed his May 10 letter to Kabbah (reftel). As a result, Kabbah reportedly rescinded the Go [...] | 2006-05-15 18:03:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM USUN SL |
06FREETOWN409 | RE-ARRESTED: AMCIT ACCUSED OF TREASON [...] (C) On May 16, one day after a magistrate judge released American Citizen Michael Chemidlin and three Sierra Leoneans held on charges of conspiracy and treason for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, police re-arrested Chemidlin and two of the three Sierra Leoneans. The m [...] | 2006-05-24 10:07:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PINS KCRM PREL PHUM KDEM KAWC SL |
06FREETOWN499 | SIERRA LEONE PREPARES FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 18:46:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SL |
06FREETOWN511 | UNPP ELECTS US COLLEGE PROFESSOR AS PRESIDENTIAL [...] Summary: On June 16 and 17, the United National People's Party (UNPP) held a national convention in Freetown to elect a new party leader and presidential candidate. Delegates elected Abdul Karim Koroma, a U.S. professor, as presidential candidate. One party official denied the legitimacy of [...] | 2006-06-22 16:44:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SL |
06FREETOWN535 | Decentralization Two Years On: Hopeful Signs [...] Since May 2004, when Sierra Leone held its first local elections in 32 years, local government has made tremendous progress. Devolution of government responsibility and funding have begun to occur in a real way, and local communities are starting to see the benefits. Although there is still [...] | 2006-07-03 07:28:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SL |
06FREETOWN681 | RIGGED CHIEFDOM ELECTIONS: A WORRYING SIGN FOR 2007 [...] (C) On August 12, a new Mandingo paramount chief was crowned in the predominantly Limba Biriwa Chiefdom. The election was preceded by a dispute over eligible electors, a court injunction, a refusal by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to oversee the elections, and Limba-Mandingo violenc [...] | 2006-08-18 15:51:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SL |
06FREETOWN776 | SIERRA LEONE'S RULING PARTY THREATENS RIVALS [...] (C) During a recent trip to ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) strongholds in southern and eastern Sierra Leone to gauge the popularity of Charles Margai's SLPP breakaway party, the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC),PolOff found a disturbing pattern of manipulation, intimi [...] | 2006-09-15 16:49:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM SL |
06GEORGETOWN1019 | PARLIAMENT OPENS, ABSENT OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of meetings and phone calls between President Jagdeo and opposition party leaders seemed to clear a path for the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) to attend the opening of Parliament on September 28, but walk out before Jagdeo's speech. However, an eleventh hou [...] | 2006-09-29 20:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN1043 | GUYANA: OUR POST-ELECTION AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo starts his second five-year term with a firm parliamentary majority and apparent control over his own People's Progressive Party (PPP). He aligned his priorities in an October 2 conversation with the Ambassador as breaking Guyana's wave of violent crime [...] | 2006-10-05 20:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN1065 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MAISTO,S OCTOBER 18-20 [...] (U) We warmly welcome your visit to Georgetown. You are arriving at an important historical moment, shortly after the first peaceful elections in nearly a decade. In the run-up to elections and during the victory celebrations, President Jagdeo promised to widen political dialogue and to push [...] | 2006-10-12 20:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN1135 | OAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO VISITS GUYANA: TALKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS),visited Georgetown October 18-20, meeting government and opposition leaders, addressing local media, and encouraging the pursuit of democracy and development. He also used his tr [...] | 2006-10-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN1138 | PNCR-1G COMES TO PARLIAMENT ) DEBATE PRESIDENT,S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 20:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN1162 | AFC ALLEGES MISCOUNT, CLAIMS PRIME MINISTER'S SEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Alliance for Change (AFC) alleges that several ballot boxes were left off of the total tally in Region Ten, costing the party a seat in parliament. In a press conference, AFC leaders called on the ruling People's Progressive Party/CIVIC (PPP/C) to voluntarily relinquish th [...] | 2006-11-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN1180 | EMBATTLED PCNR TO DISCUSS LEADERSHIP ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Persistent rumors that leader Robert Corbin is on his way out, as well as a public airing of complaints by some members of the party's youth arm, have recently dogged the opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNCR). After its dismal election showing, the PNCR appears to [...] | 2006-11-08 18:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN1186 | STAFFDEL MEACHAM AND TOON VISIT: DISCUSS MLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Carl Meacham and Bernard Toon, Senior Professional Staff Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, traveled to Guyana November 2-4. The primary focus of their visit was to understand the process and procedures whereby the State Department oversees security assistan [...] | 2006-11-09 21:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KDEM OREP GY |
06GEORGETOWN167 | A/SYG RAMDIN WANTS STRONG OAS ENGAGEMENT IN GUYANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin visited Guyana February 13-14. Key takeaways from his visit are: a) Ramdin wants to increase OAS' involvement in Guyana and will act quickly to form a long-term mission of some sort; b) he wants any OAS electoral observation mission to act in close part [...] | 2006-02-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY OAS |
06GEORGETOWN181 | OPPOSITION DRAWS BATTLE LINE: ELECTION PREVIEW #4 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Technical preparations for Guyana's elections are proceeding reasonably well (ref A),but the process is deadlocked for political reasons. The main opposition party PNC/R, facing dim electoral prospects, is working to obstruct and discredit the election process. The PNC/R lea [...] | 2006-02-24 20:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN235 | JAGDEO TAKING CAMPAIGN TO LOW ROAD: ELECTION [...] (C) President Jagdeo summoned Ambassador as well as the British and Canadian High Commissioners to his home on short notice Saturday March 4. Jagdeo wanted to discuss the elections and security. He said that he has started his campaign. (Note: Jagdeo has not yet been officially designated th [...] | 2006-03-13 16:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM SNAR KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN248 | EMINENT GUYANESE WARN DIPLOMATS OF ELECTION THREATS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with donors March 8 and 10 to discuss their deep concerns about preparations for Guyana's upcoming elections, the deteriorating security situation, and the disturbing nexus between the two. These Guyanese civil society figures a [...] | 2006-03-14 16:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM KCRM GY |
06GEORGETOWN257 | Radio, monopoly and technology in Guyana [...] Summary: The Stabroek News, the leading independent daily newspaper in Guyana, carried an editorial on Friday, March 17, analyzing GoG ambivalence with regard to radio broadcasting in Guyana. The editorial is reproduced below: Begin Text: One cannot avoid the conclusion that after thirt [...] | 2006-03-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PROP PGOV PHUM SCUL KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN308 | GUYANA POLL DATE UNDER THREAT: ELECTION PREVIEW #6 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The likelihood of Guyana holding elections by the August 4 constitutional due date has plummeted over the past ten days. The Guyana Elections Commissioner (GECOM) Secretariat - the technical staff - took the country by SIPDIS surprise March 24 when they circulated a draft re [...] | 2006-04-03 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN344 | OAS OBSERVERS FOR GUYANA, CONCERN OVER ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. OAS A/SYG Ramdin led a three-person OAS mission to Guyana April 6-11 that paves the way for an OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) with a broader role of ensuring that Guyana has elections. His visit coincided with the Guyana Elections Commission's (GECOM) capitulation that [...] | 2006-04-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS XL GY |
06GEORGETOWN462 | POLITICAL STALEMATE CONTINUES: ELECTION PREVIEW #8 [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana's election impasse has moved into a new phase. The country currently has neither a legislature (dissolved May 2 by President Jagdeo) nor an election date (no new date has been set since the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) decided April 12 that it could not meet the Au [...] | 2006-05-17 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN471 | OPPOSITION SUES GOG, WANTS COURT TO WEIGH IN ON [...] (U) The main opposition PNC/R threw up another major obstacle to election preparations May 18. It filed a lawsuit in Guyana's High Court challenging the legality of a May 2 constitutional amendment that had extended the election deadline to September 2. The plaintiff is Joe Hamilton, the PNC [...] | 2006-05-19 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN493 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR NEW [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered demarche per reftel May 24 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General (and number two) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper does not believe the GoG has had any communication or interaction with the new Iraqi government. Although providing assistance is out of [...] | 2006-05-25 18:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PGOV KPAO IZ GY |
06GEORGETOWN499 | TIME HAS COME FOR COORDINATED PLAN ON GUYANA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Commonwealth Secretariat's Special Envoy to Guyana briefed Ambassador and other donor representatives May 25 on his "depressing" visit to Guyana. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) conceded May 24 that it would not be able to hold elections before September 12, beyond e [...] | 2006-05-25 21:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN594 | GUYANA VOTER LIST IN LEGAL LIMBO: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is progressing with its work to prepare a final voter list for the upcoming national elections. But Guyanese disagree whether registered electors must reside in Guyana to have the right to vote. Because emigration rates are so high, this i [...] | 2006-06-19 20:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN595 | AMBASSADOR: TIE IDB DEBT FORGIVENESS, MCC TO REFORM [...] (C) I recently learned that the IDB is planning to forgive the debt owed by its five poorest members -- including almost a half billion dollars that Guyana owes. I cannot stress enough the unique opportunity this gives us to induce meaningful reform in a country that has obstinately resisted [...] | 2006-06-20 15:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KDEM KMCA GY |
06GEORGETOWN663 | GUYANA POLITICS BACK TO THE FORE: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. Election-related activity hit a lull in the latter half of June as news of narco-criminal Shaheed "Roger" Khan's arrest transfixed Guyana. With Khan now in U.S. custody, election controversy is heating up again. Although many electoral preparations are progressing well, the main [...] | 2006-07-07 18:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN667 | PLAN TO COAX GUYANA INTO IMPLEMENTING GOVERNANCE [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA -- see para 6. 2. (C) Ambassador met July 6 with mission chiefs from UK, Canada, European Community (EC),UNDP, IDB, and World Bank to discuss a strategy for approaching President Jagdeo with a coordinated message on elections. The group proposes that [...] | 2006-07-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN685 | JAGDEO DETERMINED TO HOLD ELECTIONS ON AUGUST 28 [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo is determined to hold national elections on August 28 -- one to two weeks sooner than expected -- and within the constitutional deadline. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) needs to push hard to be ready by then. The pressure is also on donor countries and [...] | 2006-07-13 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN69 | HAITI COOL TO CARICOM OFFER TO OBSERVE, ASSIST [...] (SBU) During a meeting on a separate issue with CARICOM SYG Carrington on January 17, CARICOM A/SYG Granderson told Ambassador that "after much procrastination" Haiti had informed CARICOM that "Haiti does not really need CARICOM technical assistance for the elections". Granderson is trying to [...] | 2006-01-19 21:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM GY HA XL CARICOM |
06GEORGETOWN71 | GECOM MAKES ENCOURAGING PROGRESS: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. Preparations for Guyana's 2006 elections are gathering steam. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has addressed donor concerns in a number of areas. This cable reviews the latest status of various preparation activities -- observers, voter registration, media code of conduct [...] | 2006-01-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN710 | GUYANA: RESPONSES TO DEMARCHE ON GOVERNANCE REFORMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: US, UK, Canada and EU chiefs of mission delivered demarche on governance reforms to President Jagdeo July 13, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin July 14, the upstart Alliance For Change (AFC) July 17, and the ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) July 18. Jagdeo generally agreed w [...] | 2006-07-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OAS GY UK CA |
06GEORGETOWN724 | GUYANA ELECTIONS ON AUGUST 28; PNC WILL PARTICIPATE [...] (U) Summary: President Jagdeo announced to the nation July 21 that general elections will be held on August 28. The following day, opposition leader Robert Corbin said the People's National Congress (PNC) will contest the elections, grudgingly, rather than follow through on its threat to boyc [...] | 2006-07-24 19:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN743 | NOMINATION DAY AND POLL PUT GUYANA ELECTIONS INTO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown was boisterous on July 26 Nomination Day as the political parties -- arriving in turns to the tune of chanting supporters and Caribbean music -- presented their candidate lists to the Chief Election Officer at City Hall. A less than expected total of eleven parties ap [...] | 2006-07-28 13:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN804 | ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE OUTLINES STRATEGY, GAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dick Morris, political advisor to third-party contender Alliance for Change (AFC),described the party's strategy as it heads into the final weeks of its campaign. The AFC is optimistic that it can continue to siphon votes from the opposition People's National Congress (PNC) while [...] | 2006-08-10 19:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN832 | PUSHING FOR POST-ELECTION REFORMS IN GUYANA [...] (C) Chiefs of mission from the US, UK, Canada, EU, UNDP IDB, World Bank, and IMF (collectively, the "donors") met August 15 to identify and agree on donors' next steps to coax the incoming post-election government into implementing critical governance reforms. 2. (C) The donors agreed on se [...] | 2006-08-17 21:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN833 | GUYANA ELECTION SCENARIOS: POSSIBLE UNREST, [...] (U) SUMMARY: With elections just a week away, Guyana's 65-seat National Assembly is still up for grabs and the security situation remains on edge. While Bharrat Jagdeo looks all but certain to win another term as president with a plurality, his People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) may fal [...] | 2006-08-21 18:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN838 | DISCIPLINED SERVICES VOTE: SMOOTH, BUT A COUPLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a preview of the August 28 elections, members of Guyana's disciplined services voted on August 21. Initially there was confusion over the ballots at a few polling stations and some service members did not find their names on the voters list. This underscores the fallibility of [...] | 2006-08-22 20:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN850 | GUYANA GENERAL ELECTIONS AUGUST 28: FINAL PREVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Heading into the final weekend before Guyana's August 28 general elections, international observers have descended upon the capital in force. Two dozen Mission employees and contractors will participate as observers under the OAS' auspices. The ruling People's Progressive Par [...] | 2006-08-25 19:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN854 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT AUGUST 28, [...] (U) As of 15:30, election day is proceeding as smoothly as could be expected. We have spoken with all 17 OAS observer teams that include U.S. Mission personnel. Eight of these teams are around Georgetown, the others are dispersed throughout the country. Altogether, these teams have observed a [...] | 2006-08-28 20:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN855 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...] | 2006-08-29 18:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN860 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 30 AT 15:00 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Georgetown continues to remain quiet two days after the August 28 national and regional elections, but things may change as the official results are announced. Although both international and local observers agree that the vote went technically well, conflicting reports concernin [...] | 2006-08-30 20:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN862 | SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 31 [...] (C) SUMMARY: GECOM is expected to officially announce final results at 6:00 p.m. showing that the ruling PPP/C has won the election and will retain its majority in the National Parliament. Due to persistent rumors yesterday of impending street protests by PNCR supporters, the PNCR released a [...] | 2006-08-31 20:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN869 | SUBJECT: THE RESULTS ARE IN: PPP/C IN A LANDSLIDE [...] (U) The Guyana Elections Commission announced the official results of the August 28 national and regional elections yesterday evening - the result: the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in a landslide. With 338,839 total votes cast, the ruling PPP/C received 183,887 (54.6%) votes, the [...] | 2006-09-01 19:49:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN915 | SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION: FREE, FAIR AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's 2006 national and regional elections: free, somewhat fair, but not transparent. International observers agree that: (1) the elections were technically a success; (2) proper procedures were followed at polling places in the subsequent vote count. However, there are lo [...] | 2006-09-13 20:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN925 | PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL LOYALTY KEY IN CABINET [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo's new cabinet, sworn in September 9, showcases a cadre of up-and-coming, Moscow-educated party leaders with close personal ties to the President. While this cabinet also confirms the ascendancy of the more venal Janet Jagan faction of the People's Progressive P [...] | 2006-09-15 14:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN932 | SIGNIFICANT ELECTORAL REFORM DOUBTFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Broad national and international consensus says Guyana's August 28 elections were a qualified success. The vote itself was free, fair and transparent; even the losing opposition candidates conceded defeat before the last ballot was counted. But smooth voting and the unchara [...] | 2006-09-15 20:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
06GEORGETOWN954 | STRING OF SUSPICIOUS FIRES FUELS GOSSIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Unexplained fires have recently damaged a series of buildings in Georgetown and beyond. Arson is suspected, but authorities have not determined if there was foul play. Memories of previous post-election arson and the nature of the burned properties--two regional government he [...] | 2006-09-20 19:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
06GEORGETOWN96 | CARICOM TO OBSERVE HAITI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-27 19:29:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HA XL |
06GEORGETOWN974 | WHO NEEDS A GOVERNMENT? GUYANA NOT BOTHERED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PNCR and AFC have both filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the delay in convening Parliament and of the swearing-in of government ministers before they were formally elected to Parliament. Also, in an unprecedented move President Jagdeo left the country for [...] | 2006-09-22 20:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS GY |
06GUATEMALA1961 | AMBASSADOR MAISTO'S SEPTEMBER 27-28 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During a September 27-28 visit to Guatemala, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS John Maisto promoted "relevant multilateralism" in a number of fora and discussed the Guatemala-Belize dispute with the Belizean Ambassador to Guatemala and with senior officials in the Guatemalan Foreign Mi [...] | 2006-10-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA KDEM OTRA OAS GT BH HO |
06GUATEMALA2201 | GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 18:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM CU GT |
06GUATEMALA2473 | GUATEMALA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH UN TO CREATE [...] Summary: The Government of Guatemala (GOG) signed an agreement with the United Nations December 12 to establish the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Pending approval and ratification by the Guatemalan Congress, the independent UN-led body will investigate illeg [...] | 2006-12-19 18:12:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT |
06GUATEMALA2486 | GUATEMALAN WOMEN'S GROUP REPORTS DECLINE IN [...] Summary: According to a recent study by Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres (GGM),only 11 percent of the total number of murders of women in Guatemala should be labeled "femicide," which GGM considers the most extreme manifestation of violence against women. Based on investigations conducted over [...] | 2006-12-21 22:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT |
06GUATEMALA856 | GUATEMALA'S RISING CRIME, COSTS DEEPEN POLITICAL [...] Summary. Guatemalans are most concerned about violent crime and the rising cost of living, the majority believes that Guatemala is on the wrong path, and many Guatemalans say they are worse off than one year ago. Those were the findings of a nation-wide CID-Gallup survey conducted from April [...] | 2006-05-03 22:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPAO SNAR GT |
06GUAYAQUIL1002 | GUAYAQUIL: NOBOA AND PRIAN WIN BIG, SOCIAL CHRISTIAN'S TAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Conservative, populist presidential candidate Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) carried Guayas province in the first round elections with 36 percent of the vote, in line with the disproportionate strength he showed in all three coastal provinces. The Guayaquil based Social Christian Party ( [...] | 2006-10-25 16:18:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06HANOI1235 | VIETNAM SUPPORTIVE OF NEW GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN will publicly congratulate the new Government of Iraq and will re-extend its invitation to senior Iraqi officials to visit Vietnam, including the Minister of Trade. Vietnam says it has a long history of friendly relations with Iraq and would like to get them back on tra [...] | 2006-05-22 23:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO IZ PREL KDEM VM |
06HARARE113 | ADDENDUM TO ZIMBABWE SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 07:24:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ZI KDEM |
06HARARE1247 | PARLIAMENTARY WOMEN'S CAUCUS GAINING GREATER VOICE [...] (U) Zimbabwe,s Parliamentary Women,s Caucus on October 6 met with civil society and donor representatives to call for greater cooperation across party lines on gender issues. Participants at the meeting said that the Caucus, which is lead by ZANU-PF MP Flora Bhuka and MDC MP Thokozani Khupe, [...] | 2006-10-16 09:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM ZI |
06HAVANA10078 | PAYA PRESENTS PROPOSAL FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya has unveiled his latest push for a democratic Constitution, calling for a legal framework that would embrace multiple political parties, private enterprise and "social justice." The document, entitled "All Cubans," stems from a "N [...] | 2006-05-11 22:30:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU |
06HAVANA10271 | MOTHER OF ALL MARCHES BY CUBA'S "LADIES IN WHITE" [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White," relatives of political prisoners, held a successful protest march in Havana on May 13. Seventeen Ladies marched from the house of leading member Laura Pollan to a monument honoring Leonor Diaz, the mother of national hero Jose Marti, and laid flowers to [...] | 2006-05-15 21:01:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA10738 | NEW THINKING IS NEEDED, PAYA TELLS CHIEF OF MISSION [...] (C) Summary. Leading Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, chief of the Christian Liberation Movement and driving force behind the Varela Project, told the COM May 18 that "we all have to do new things" to help bring democracy to Cuba. When asked about a recent overture from Martha Beatriz Roque, he s [...] | 2006-05-22 18:33:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA11234 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: The health of hunger-striking dissident Guillermo Farinas has taken a turn for the worse, and he is threatening to leave his hospital to "go home to die." The "Ladies in White" are to be awarded Human Rights First's annual prize. Activists reacted positively to their May 24 con [...] | 2006-05-26 21:12:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA11516 | "FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC CUBA" INSPIRE ACTIVISTS, [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists got a boost from the May 24 conference call with the "Group of Friends of Democratic Cuba," a loose alliance of US Representatives, European diplomats in Washington, prominent members of the Miami exile community and others. One of the activist part [...] | 2006-06-02 20:53:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA11957 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: With Internet advocate Guillermo Farinas up to Day 128 of his hunger strike, 38 supporters have announced a sympathy fast. Oswaldo Paya of Varela Project fame is summarizing his "Program for All Cubans" in a pamphlet. Paya is also collecting evidence on bogus pro-democracy acti [...] | 2006-06-08 13:06:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL KWMN SOCI CU |
06HAVANA12488 | BRITISH POLOFF ANALYZES "COMMON POSITION" ON CUBA [...] (C) Summary: The UK's human rights officer in Havana shared with us June 15 her thoughts on the European Council's recently released draft conclusions on the EU's "Common Position" toward Cuba. (The draft states, among other things, the EU's commitment to seeking dialogue with both the Cuban G [...] | 2006-06-16 15:25:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA12981 | EX-POLITBURO MEMBER CONVICTED OF INFLUENCE-PEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: A Cuban court has convicted Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte, a former member of the Cuban Communist Party's Political Bureau (Politburo),of influence-peddling and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The June 16 conviction was announced June 21 in a page-two bulletin in state-co [...] | 2006-06-22 16:09:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA13065 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government has resumed systematic harassment of pro-democracy activists following a respite in which the European Council discussed a "Common Position" on Cuba and the UN launched its Human Rights Council. After laying low for two weeks, GOC-organized militants on June 2 [...] | 2006-06-22 19:53:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA13740 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: JULY 5, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The number of documented political prisoners in Cuba dropped by four percentage points over the past six months, as the Cuban Government stepped up its use of less-scrutinized forms of control, including warnings, beatings and "acts of repudiation." Government-directed thugs hel [...] | 2006-07-05 14:50:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA13782 | IN HAVANA, A (MOSTLY) HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY [...] (C) Summary: Baseball trumped politics in Havana on July 4, with nearly 600 people attending USINT Havana's baseball-themed Independence Day celebration at the Chief of Mission's Residence. Civil-society figures, including Cuba's most prominent dissidents, mingled with third-country diplomat [...] | 2006-07-05 20:20:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA14841 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP JULY 21, 2016 [...] (C) Summary. Within a 24-hour period, Cuban authorities arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to four years dissident Alexander Santos Hernandez for "dangerousness." Another dissident, Camilo Cairo Falcon, was sentenced to one year of correctional work for "public disorder," following his p [...] | 2006-07-21 20:23:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA15674 | ROQUE UNVEILS PLAN FOR TRANSITION GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Martha Beatriz Roque has released a 27-page transition plan for Cuba produced by her Assembly to Promote Civil Society. Titled "Anticipating the Day After," the 15-section document is a self-described "compendium of ideas" that focuses on issu [...] | 2006-08-07 22:03:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU |
06HAVANA15749 | ANTI-DISSIDENT ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IN CUBA [...] (C) Summary: Cuban regime agents continue to carry out "acts of repudiation" and other aggressive actions against pro-democracy activists, but to no greater or lesser extent than before the July 31 announcement of Fidel Castro's temporary withdrawal. Since then, at least five anti-dissident i [...] | 2006-08-09 11:49:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU |
06HAVANA15860 | CUBAN ACTIVISTS MOURN DEATH OF GUSTAVO ARCOS [...] (C) Cuban pro-democracy activists on August 9 mourned as Gustavo Arcos, grandfather of the island's human rights movement, was cremated in Havana. Arcos died the previous day at a hospital after battling a number of ailments, including Alzheimers. According to his widow, his dying wish was t [...] | 2006-08-09 20:19:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16023 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 11, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" expressed concern that their weekly march outside Havana's Santa Rita church on Sunday, April 13, will be their most dangerous ever, as it coincides with the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro and could prompt a counter-protest by regime supporters. Elsewhere i [...] | 2006-08-11 20:45:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16439 | NO RELIEF FOR CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS, OR THEIR [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's political prisoners continue to suffer from appalling and unhealthy prison conditions, while many of their family members face vindictive and even terrifying acts organized by the Cuban Government. On August 16 and 17, USINT spoke on the phone with the spouses or parents of [...] | 2006-08-18 17:30:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16609 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 18, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church's senior official in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, celebrated a mass for recently deceased pro-democracy activist Gustavo Arcos on August 17, with diplomats, activists and journalists in attendance. For an hour, at least, Arcos got his dying wish of a unified o [...] | 2006-08-18 19:55:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16698 | DEATH THREAT FOR CUBAN ACTIVIST ROQUE [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-regime thugs held a late-night "act of repudiation" August 19-20 outside the home of pro-democracy activist Martha Beatriz Roque and brandished a pistol while inviting her to "step outside so we can kill you." Roque, head of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),[...] | 2006-08-21 20:46:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16699 | RETALIATION FEARED AFTER MASS FOR GUSTAVO ARCOS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists are weighing the impact of Cardinal Jaime Ortega's controversial mass, celebrated August 17, for Gustavo Arcos, the recently deceased dean of the island's human rights movement. Activists say the GOC is livid over the event and that retaliation agains [...] | 2006-08-21 21:18:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16867 | CUBAN ACTIVIST FERRER PREPARES CALL FOR PLEBISCITE [...] (C) Summary: Dissident Cuban doctor Darsi Ferrer remains conspicuously out of prison, two weeks after calling on the Cuban people to openly defy the Government. Ferrer told us August 23 he is fearful and uneasy over the GOC's failure to arrest him for his appeal, which was carried by five Mia [...] | 2006-08-23 20:43:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16868 | ROQUE ON TENTATIVE COOPERATION WITH PAYA, OTHERS [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban activist Martha Beatriz Roque expressed optimism August 23 over what she described as her warming ties with Oswaldo Paya, the other heavyweight in the splintered dissident community. Roque said that at an August 17 event, she and Paya conversed and saw eye to eye on [...] | 2006-08-23 22:02:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA16901 | FARINAS HUNGER STRIKE HITS DAY 205 [...] (C) Summary. The hunger strike of Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas reached 205 days on August 24, after the independent journalist allowed the flow of IV fluids to be restored following his transfer to a hospital room where he could receive visitors. Farinas' girlfriend, dissident Noelia Ped [...] | 2006-08-24 17:07:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA17059 | RUMOR CONTROL: FIDEL SAID TO UNDERGO NEW OPERATION [...] (C) Summary: As would be expected, Havana is awash in rumors over the health of Fidel Castro. One, from a dissident who has provided accurate information in the past, says Castro underwent follow-up surgery between August 24 and 26, but that no other details are available. Our suspicion that [...] | 2006-08-29 12:12:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA17126 | CUBAN ACTIVISTS REACHING OUT TO NAM PARTICIPANTS [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" have started distributing a letter to nations that will participate in or observe Havana's September 11-16 meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. The letter calls on foreign governments to request the immediate, unconditional liberation of Cuba's peaceful p [...] | 2006-08-30 20:40:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA17683 | CUBAN FARINAS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE AFTER SEVEN MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike August 31 after surviving on IV fluids for seven months in a campaign for internet access for all Cubans. The independent journalist decided to end the hunger strike following a joint appeal by three leading women dissiden [...] | 2006-09-01 18:55:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA17684 | CUBAN GOVT DETAINS DISSIDENT DOCTOR DARSI FERRER [...] (C) Summary: Around 50 Cuban State Security officers took dissident doctor Darsi Ferrer into custody September 1 and held him at a Havana police station, where, according to his wife, Yusnaimy Jorge, he refused to sign an official warning. The Government accused him of putting up "Cambio" ("Ch [...] | 2006-09-01 19:26:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA20774 | REPRESSION IN CUBA WORSE UNDER RAUL, SAY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Many Cuban human rights activists believe that repression has worsened on the island since the July 31 "proclamation" that Raul Castro had assumed temporary control. Between October 2 and 5, we asked ten leading human rights and pro-democracy advocates - a majority of them former [...] | 2006-10-06 21:30:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA21100 | AT CUBA'S INDEPENDENT LIBRARIES, UNCENSORED DEBATE [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's outlawed Assembly to Promote Civil Society (ASPC),led by Martha Beatriz Roque, launched its "Congress" of independent librarians October 10 and reported successful meetings in at least six provinces. APSC said 153 independent libraries are taking part in the four-and-a-ha [...] | 2006-10-13 20:36:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA21636 | CUBAN MILITANTS PUMMEL INDEPENDENT LIBRARIANS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban communist militants brutally attacked two dissidents in Villa Clara province on October 10, the opening day of an extended "Congress" of independent librarians. The attack, which lasted more than an hour and involved forcibly transporting the dissidents from one city to ano [...] | 2006-10-19 22:32:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA22158 | DISSIDENT DETENTIONS AND ROBBERIES ON RISE IN CUBA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: While rumors abound over how much time Fidel Castro has left (septel),Cuban authorities are increasingly detaining and even robbing pro-democracy and human rights activists. In the past 10 days, at least seven dissidents were detained, most for brief periods, after v [...] | 2006-10-25 22:31:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA22539 | CUBA FREES POLITICAL DETAINEE, LETS 3 OTHERS LEAVE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Cuban Government freed political detainee Ricardo Medina Salabarria on October 25 after holding him without charge for more than 15 months. Medina, head of the religious affairs committee of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),was taken into custody after [...] | 2006-10-30 17:31:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA22900 | CUBAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADERS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-02 22:46:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA22904 | CUBAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government briefly detained opposition youth leader Edgard Lopez Moreno and two other dissidents on November 2 after they visited a USINT internet center. Police seized materials from Lopez and the others and warned them to halt their dissident activities. The detentio [...] | 2006-11-03 14:06:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23342 | CUBAN ACTIVISTS SLAM REGIME IN MESSAGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists signaled to participants in the Montevideo Ibero-American Summit their dismay over the participants' failure to hold the Cuban Government accountable for human rights violations. Oswaldo Paya of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) released a stat [...] | 2006-11-06 22:45:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23355 | CUBAN PROSECUTOR SEEKS 15 YEARS FOR PRISON [...] (C) The Cuban Government has informed the family of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo that he has been indicted for jailhouse disorder and disrespect - charges for which the Pinar del Rio prosecutor is seeking 15 years. Zapata's mother shared a copy of the indictment with us on November [...] | 2006-11-06 22:48:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23502 | CUBAN INMATES DECRY LACK OF MEDICAL CARE, FRESH AIR [...] (C) In a relatively rare move, Cuba's Foreign Ministry has accepted and promised to respond to a letter from prisoners denouncing conditions at Kilo 5 prison in Pinar del Rio. The letter, dated November 1, was written by a common prisoner, Nestor Hernandez Escalona, and signed by 13 others, th [...] | 2006-11-13 22:03:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23515 | DISSIDENT DETAINED AFTER FAILING TO ANSWER SURVEY [...] (C) Summary: A recent incident involving Cuban dissident Niurka Brito Rivas illustrates how the Cuban regime sometimes attempts to incriminate its opponents in illegal activity. Brito spent three days in jail in October, without charges, after she failed to fill out a survey sent by her daughte [...] | 2006-11-15 21:21:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23521 | CUBAN INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST GARCIA DETAINED, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-16 20:27:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23527 | CUBAN PRO-DEMOCRACY GROUP TO DISTRIBUTE BULLETINS [...] (C) A leading Cuban pro-democracy group, Martha Beatriz Roque's Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),plans to start distributing a two-sheet, four-page news "bulletin" on the streets of several Cuban cities on December 10, Human Rights Day. On November 15, Roque shared with us a draft of [...] | 2006-11-17 21:07:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23544 | CUBA RELEASES 3 DETAINEES, PROLONGS JAILING OF 2 [...] (C) Summary. The Cuban Government has released from prison three more dissidents, one of whom had been convicted and two held without charges since a July 22, 2005 protest in Havana. The releases bring to at least five the number of political detainees/prisoners freed in recent weeks. Meanwhi [...] | 2006-11-27 14:29:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23546 | LANDMARK FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG CUBAN [...] (C) Summary: An unprecedented opposition youth forum brought together young Cuban pro-democracy activists and counterparts from Monterrey, Mexico on November 24 in Havana. The three-hour-long event, held at the PAO Residence, saw participants engage in open debate after watching an inspiration [...] | 2006-11-27 19:37:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23547 | IN WAKE OF GAO REPORT, DISSIDENTS ISSUE STATEMENT [...] (C) As debate swirls within Cuba's human rights community over a GAO report that questions oversight and spending for Cuban democracy programs, four leading activists have signed a statement that they say is aimed at expressing support for certain exile groups, including the Support Group for [...] | 2006-11-28 21:21:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23566 | CUBAN POLITICAL POLICE DETAIN YOUTH ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: Cuban State Security officials searched the home of youth activist Ahmed Rodriguez Albacia on December 4 and took him into detention, ten days after he helped organize an opposition youth forum that brought together three influential youth groups. Witnesses said the officials for [...] | 2006-12-04 21:48:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23578 | PAYA ON RAUL SPEECH: FREEDOM NEEDED, NOT SHOW OF [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban human rights activist Oswaldo Paya of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has responded to General Raul Castro's December 2 speech by saying the Cuban people need basic freedoms, not a show of military force. Paya, founder of the Varela Project signature drive f [...] | 2006-12-06 22:27:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23579 | CUBAN 75ER PALACIOS GAINS CONDITIONAL RELEASE [...] (S) Summary: The Cuban Government granted conditional probation December 6 to self-described pro-democracy activist Hector Palacios Ruiz, allowing him to head home from the Havana hospital where he says he spent the last three years. Palacios, apparently freed on health grounds, belongs to the [...] | 2006-12-06 22:39:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23582 | ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, CUBAN MOB ATTACKS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: A large group of Cuban communist militants and State Security officials broke up a Human Rights Day march by 12 peaceful activists, throwing several to the ground in front of UNESCO's Havana office. The activists, led by Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, were pushed, kicked and punched, [...] | 2006-12-11 21:11:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23588 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FLAKE: FIDEL EBBING AWAY [...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake arrives at a pivotal, historic time in Cuba. We and others consider Fidel Castro's health to be so critical that he could die any day. His brother, Raul Castro, has been in charge since July 31, 2006, and has done nothing to significantly change the Cuban regime's [...] | 2006-12-12 18:10:00 | US Interests Section Havana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV ECON PHUM KDEM SMIG CU |
06HAVANA23602 | PAYA: IT'S TIME FOR U.S.-CUBA DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya told COM on December 13 that the time has come for the United States and Cuba to hold talks in order to "change the atmosphere" in bilateral relations. Paya said the Cuban Government has for decades succeeded at making the United [...] | 2006-12-14 21:05:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23608 | CUBAN REGIME STIFFS CODEL FLAKE [...] (C) Summary: A Congressional Delegation led by Rep. Jeff Flake (R/AZ) spent the December 15-17 weekend publicly urging a change in US policy, but privately getting rebuffed by a Cuban regime that insisted it had no reason or desire to reform itself. The CODEL presented a letter requesting re [...] | 2006-12-18 17:00:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU |
06HAVANA23611 | "LADIES IN WHITE" WEBSITE LAUNCHED [...] (C) A new, polished website on Cuba's "Ladies in White" was launched on December 18, produced by the NGO Spanish Solidarity With Cuba. The professionally crafted website (www.damasdeblanco.com),created with the Ladies' permission, describes the group's genesis (in April 2003, following the " [...] | 2006-12-18 20:44:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23612 | CODEL FLAKE PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake was besieged by international press upon arrival in Havana on December 15 (reftel). Both in their individual comments to the media and in a joint statement read at a December 17 press conference, CODEL members characterized this as a time for dialogue and an "histor [...] | 2006-12-18 20:55:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU |
06HAVANA23617 | CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP UNVEILS NEW MAGAZINE [...] (C) Summary: A new 75-page magazine, "Dawn," has been produced by the Cuban Human Rights Foundation, headed by blind activist Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva of Ciego de Avila. A Foundation member shared the first edition with us on December 18. Some of the material is already outdated, but the pu [...] | 2006-12-19 21:12:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA23623 | CUBA: REGIME ECONOMIC THINKING, PLANNING CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: A well-informed off-island source briefed us on December 20 on what he had learned of the evolving activity within the regime leadership to address the economic situation. Our source reports that the regime for the moment is focusing new ideas in just two provinces -- Pinar del R [...] | 2006-12-21 16:35:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINT ECON KDEM CU |
06HAVANA9060 | ROQUE ROUGHED UP, BLOCKED FROM ATTENDING USG EVENT [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Marta Beatriz Roque was recovering on April 26 after being roughed up by Communist militants who prevented her from leaving her neighborhood to attend a USG-organized event. Roque was not alone in being blocked; Elsa Morejon, the wife of polit [...] | 2006-04-26 21:42:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA9102 | ROCA, SANCHEZ RAP USINT'S INTERNET-ACCESS POLICY [...] (C) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXX on April 18 requested a meeting with COM, without declaring the reason. At the April 24 meeting, they presented a list of 10 independent journalists banned from USINT's two Internet Centers since 2004, saying they had been unfairly blacklisted. XXXXXXXXXXX called the [...] | 2006-04-27 19:40:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA9342 | POLITICAL PLURALISM KEY TO CUBA'S FUTURE, SAYS PAYA [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya met with the COM on April 27 and argued that it will be imperative for a future, legitimate Cuban Government to embrace political pluralism. Paya said individual members of the Communist Party (CP) should not be excluded from the [...] | 2006-04-28 22:15:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU |
06HAVANA9469 | CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is recovering after being roughed up by Communist militants outside her home. Roque, weary but defiant, met with COM April 29 and expressed pleasure with the wide media coverage of the incident and subsequent foreign-government attenti [...] | 2006-05-05 14:36:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU |
06HAVANA9846 | ROADTRIP BY CANADIAN POLOFF YIELDS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Canadian Poloff Ram Kamineni, who covers human rights, briefed us May 5 on his recent weeklong road-trip to the cities of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Manicaragua, Puerto Padre, Santa Clara and Santiago. Kamineni met dozens of pro-democracy activists and "Ladies in White" (relatives of [...] | 2006-05-08 20:18:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU |
06HELSINKI1216 | IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS - FINNISH RESPONSE [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Middle East Office Eija Rotinen Dec. 8. Rotinen said that US views concerning Iran's upcoming elections are "nearly identical" to those of the Finnish EU Presidency. The electoral process in Iran is not democratic, Rotinen added, and the bodies be [...] | 2006-12-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR FI |
06HELSINKI1217 | PRESERVING THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT [...] (S) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Middle East Officer Eija Rotinen Dec. 8. Rotinen thanked us for sharing further information about SARG efforts to destabilize the Lebanese government and expressed great concern about what may happen next in Lebanon in light of the recent murders and [...] | 2006-12-08 15:17:00 | Embassy Helsinki | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS FI |
06HELSINKI149 | FINLAND: REACTION TO AL- ASKARIYA SHRINE BOMBING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered statements in reftel to the MFA's Middle-East bureau. The Director for Middle-East Affairs said that Finland was playing an active role in intra-EU deliberations on the Al-Askariya shrine bombing, and that she believed an EU statement condemning the attack might be re [...] | 2006-02-23 08:46:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER FI |
06HELSINKI18 | FINNS SUPPORT JOINT STATEMENT TO BELARUS; WILL [...] (C) Following up on reftels, PolChief called on MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Matti Turunen to discuss Belarus. The GOF views a joint US-EU demarche to Lukashenko in advance of the March election as imperative, Turunen said. Finland, for its part, would welcome a very stron [...] | 2006-01-05 14:50:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM BO FI EUN |
06HELSINKI585 | FINLAND RESPONSE TO SUPPORT FOR NICARAGUAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KDEM NU PGOV PREL FI |
06HELSINKI876 | FINLAND SUPPORTS DELAY OF KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-31 07:55:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KZ FI |
06HILLAH10 | NAJAF'S ZURFI PLEADS FOR US AID [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On January 21, SET Najaf met with former Najaf Governor and head of the Loyalty to An Najaf party, Adnan Al Zurfi. The meeting covered a wide range of subjects. Zurfi expressed his view that the recent December 15 national election, while n [...] | 2006-01-25 19:07:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH103 | NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED: BABIL POLICE CHIEF UNDER FIRE [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT Cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Babil Police Chief General Qais Hamza Aboud Al-Momouri has yet again come under political fire from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) affiliated Babil Provincial Governor, Salem Saleh Mehdi Al-Muslimawi. This time Qais [...] | 2006-06-12 16:19:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH106 | NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED: PART II [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT Cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: During a series of recent meetings Babil Province Governor Salem Saleh Mehdi Al-Muslimawi and members of the Provincial Council (PC) related to REO and PRT staff that the security situation in the province is deteriorating as evidenced by the v [...] | 2006-06-17 05:34:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH109 | BABIL SCIRI BOSS ON SECURITY, DEMOCRACY, AND POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During a recent meeting Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraqi (SCIRI) Babil party boss, and also Provincial Council (PC) member, Ali Al Qasser presented Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) staff with an insider's view of the party's [...] | 2006-06-22 13:13:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH11 | NAJAF ELECTION RESULTS REACTION [...] (U) This is a SET NAJAF cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Just a day after the release of the results of the December 15 national election by the IECI, reaction in the Najaf province was diverse and pointed. Many in the province, including local government officials and members of the United Iraqi [...] | 2006-01-26 13:02:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH110 | A CASUAL COMEDY: SOUTH CENTRAL PROVINCIAL COUNCILS THREATEN [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT Cable 2. (C) SUMMARY. During a June 23 meeting held in Najaf, representatives from all south-central provincial councils (PC),as well as from Baghdad and Kirkuk, held an "emergency" meeting concerning the arrest of Karbala Provincial Council Chair Aqeel Fahim Al-Zub [...] | 2006-06-24 11:35:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH12 | WASIT ELECTION RESULTS REACTION: UIA/555 SAVORS CONFIRMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Members of the Shi'a Islamist United Iraqi Alliance/555 list savored the overwhelming victory of their slate after election results were announced on January 20. The UIA/555 won seven of the eight seats allocated to the province, with Ayad Allawi's National Iraqi List/671 picking [...] | 2006-01-26 13:02:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH13 | WASIT BADR ORG. DEPUTY ON THE SADRIST CHALLENGE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-26 18:22:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV MOPS KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH17 | BABIL OFFICIALS TELL DAS GODEC THEY LIKE PRT AND PRDC BUT [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Robert Godec met with Babil province officials to discuss the Babil Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and the Iraqi-run Provincial Reconstruction Development Committee (PRDC). T [...] | 2006-02-12 14:31:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH18 | WASIT POLITICAL OUTSIDERS PREPARE FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Wasit Provincial Council and local officials outside of the ruling Shi'a Islamist groupings (principally the major constituent parties of the United Iraqi Alliance) have begun preparations for provincial elections to be held on an undetermined date in 2006. A slate of secular PC an [...] | 2006-02-12 15:23:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
06HILLAH23 | WASIT COR REP ON UIA OVERTURES TO ALLAWI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shaykh Jamal Al-Batik, the sole Wasit National Iraqi List (ballot number 731) member in the incoming Council of Representatives, related discussions between Iyad Allawi and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq head Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. According to Al-Batik, Hakim has [...] | 2006-02-21 18:23:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH27 | WASIT UIA LEADER LINES UP BEHIND JA'AFARI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mohammed Al-Khateeb, outgoing Wasit Deputy governor and future United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) representative in the Council of Representatives (CoR),predicted Prime Minister-designate Ja'afari would survive protracted coalition negotiations between the UIA and the Kurdish bloc. Al-Kh [...] | 2006-02-23 18:20:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL MOPS IZ |
06HILLAH38 | WASIT SISTANI REP RESIGNED TO INCREASING SADRIST INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Former Transitional National Assembly member and Wasit province representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Habib Saman Al-Khateeb, expressed his frustration with the rising influence of Sadrists in his hometown of Numaniyah and across the province in a meeting with Regional Em [...] | 2006-03-05 18:35:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH42 | WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CONDEMNS U.S. ROLE IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a contentious meeting with Regional Embassy Office Al-Hillah staff in Al-Kut, the Wasit Provincial Council (PC) Chairman and members of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) harshly criticized the United States' role in the ongoing government formation negot [...] | 2006-03-12 17:01:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL PHUM PTER IZ |
06HILLAH53 | MUQTADA AL SADR MEETS WITH AYATOLLAH AL SISTANI: OFFERS [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. According to two independent sources, on March 30, in a hastily arranged meeting, Muqtada Al Sadr met with Ayatollah Al Sistani to discuss recent events and solicit the Ayatollah's advice. Sistani reportedly told Sadr that he had to remain pea [...] | 2006-03-31 18:18:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH54 | FORMER NAJAF GOVERNOR ON AL-SADR, IRANIAN INFLUENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former Najaf Governor and head of the Loyalty to An Najaf party Adnan Al Zurfi believes Muqtada Al-Sadr wishes to avoid armed confrontation with coalition forces, but is finding it difficult to keep Madhi Army militia under his direct control. Sadr, Zurfi commented, is listening to [...] | 2006-04-05 10:05:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH59 | AYATOLLAHS BLAME U.S. FOR SECTARIAN VIOLENCE [...] This is a SET NAJAF cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In reaction to the terrorist attacks near Najaf's Imam Ali Shrine (April 6) and the Attack at Baghdad's Buratha mosque (April 7) two of the major Shi'a clerics affiliated with Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani issued sharply worded Fatwas blaming the Un [...] | 2006-04-09 18:55:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
06HILLAH60 | SOUTH CENTRAL: NAJAF, KARBALA SERMONS CALL FOR END TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Friday sermons in both Najaf and Karbala condemned ongoing sectarian violence and demanded an end to the political wrangling over the formation of a national government. In Najaf, a high-ranking Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) cleric also expressed his f [...] | 2006-04-09 18:55:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
06HILLAH66 | NAJAF: SADR MEETS WITH SISTANI'S SON, SUPPORTS JA'AFARI FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On the evening of April 13, Mohammad Ridha Sistani, son of Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, visited Moqtada Al-Sadr at his residence in the Al-Hannah district of Najaf to discuss the ongoing government formation process. According to sources from within Sadr's and Sistani's offices, Sadr [...] | 2006-04-15 15:15:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH67 | WASIT: SUWERAH SHAYKH ON RECONSTRUCTION, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prince Sa'ad Mizher Al-Sumarmed, a prominent tribal figure in the Suwerah area of Northwest Wasit, predicted an increase in Sadrist influence when provincial elections are held after the formation of the national government in Baghdad. Without U.S. backing and security guarantees, [...] | 2006-04-16 18:02:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH7 | DIWANIYAH IECI HEAD SHARES FINAL PROVINCIAL VOTE, THOUGHTS [...] (C) Summary: The Diwaniyah Province head of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) told REO Al-Hillah staff that the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA, ballot number 555) won seven of Diwaniyah's eight National Assembly seats. The director attributed the result to the mobilization of Shi' [...] | 2006-01-09 14:51:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH72 | SOUTH CENTRAL SHI'A VIEWS ON SELECTION OF JAWAD AL-MALIKI AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After the April 22 selection of Jawad Al-Maliki as the Prime Minister-designate, REO Hillah canvassed leaders in the heavily Shi'a South Central region of Iraq for their views on this development. Not surprisingly, reaction to Maliki's selection broke down mostly along Shi'a Isl [...] | 2006-04-27 17:19:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH76 | WASIT SADRISTS: SISTANI EDICT ON MILITIAS DOES NOT APPLY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The head of the Wasit Sadr Office, Bashaar Al-Mousawi, in an April 30 meeting with Regional Embassy Office (REO) Al-Hillah staff, insisted that the April 27 statement on militias from Grand Ayatollah Sistani does not apply to Sadrist Jaysh Al-Mahdi forces in the province. JAM for [...] | 2006-05-02 18:33:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH79 | SCANDAL IN ISKANDARIYAH: BABIL PC MEDDLING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using the Babil Province Council (PC),SCIRI (Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq) political meddling in northern Babil local politics is on the rise, notably at the expense of secular and mixed Shi'a-Sunni city governments. The recent move to disband the mixed Iskandar [...] | 2006-05-09 13:43:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH80 | BABIL POLICE CHIEF SACKED [...] (SBU) This afternoon the Babil Provincial Council (PC),in a 24 to 2 vote, recommended the termination of Province Police Chief Qais Hamza Aboud Al-Momouri (commonly known as "General Qais") to the MOI as per CPA Order 71. The PC further voted to install Qais' deputy, Farris Jassim as the new [...] | 2006-05-09 15:21:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH82 | NORTH BABIL SUNNI SHEIKHS CALL FOR RETENTION OF IP CHIEF, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with the Regional Coordinator (RC) nine Sunni Sheikhs and tribal leaders from northern Babil Province made a passionate appeal for the REO to prevent the termination of Provincial Police Chief General Qais Hamza Aboud Al-Momouri (ref). The Sheikhs argued th [...] | 2006-05-13 16:49:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
06HILLAH83 | FORMER SHI'A PROPONENT OF FEDERALISM CHANGES HIS MIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well known regional proponent of federalism has reversed course. After several years of holding seminars on federalism, often at the behest of South Central politicians, Diwaniyah Law School President Malin Lilo explained that he was now convinced that federalism would result i [...] | 2006-05-13 18:10:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
06HILLAH87 | POSING AS A STATESMAN, MUQTADA AL-SADR CONDEMNS [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 16, in response to a query from a group of Iraqi teachers based in Libya, Muqtada Al-Sadr issued a "fatwa" decrying the reopening of full diplomatic ties between the United States and Libya. (NOTE: Because he does not have the nece [...] | 2006-05-18 17:45:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH90 | MUQTADA AL-SADR THREATENS BOYCOTT OF PARLIAMENT MEMBERS WHO [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: On May 19, the eve of the expected announcement of the newly formed national government, radical anti-American cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr issued a statement outlining his expectations for Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). Sadr noted th [...] | 2006-05-20 17:59:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH91 | DECONSTRUCTING BABIL? SECULAR SHI'AS AND SUNNIS WARY OF PC, [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The unabated efforts of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) to usurp power from local municipalities and gain control of the provincial security forces continue to provoke a secular Shi'a and Sunni backlash against the SCIRI-controlled body (ref [...] | 2006-05-23 15:08:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH92 | ISLAMIC DA'WA PARTY CHIEF IN BABIL CALLING FOR IRAQI [...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During a recent meeting Abu Al-Basri, Islamic Da'wa Party Chief of Babil Province, offered Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) staff insight into the party's opinions on reconstruction, the Provincial Council (PC),other Shi'a Islamist parties [...] | 2006-05-24 11:57:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH95 | DURING FRIDAY PRAYERS IN KUFA, MUQTADA AL-SADR APPEARS TO [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (C) Summary: On Friday, May 26, Muqtada Al-Sadr made an appearance during the midday prayers at the Kufa mosque in Najaf province. Sadr last spoke in Kufa mosque on April 7. Sadr called on "true believers" to begin to strictly follow Islamic teachings. [...] | 2006-06-01 10:45:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06HILLAH97 | IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI AND AYATOLLAH SISTANI DISCUSS US-IRAN [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (S) Summary: On May 27, Iranian Foreign Minister (FM) Manouchehr Mottaki visited local officials and members of the religious community in Najaf. Mottaki's visit began at one of Shia Islam's most holy sites, the Imam Ali Shrine. He visited Grand Ayatol [...] | 2006-06-01 14:31:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
06ISLAMABAD10467 | ELECTION COMMISSION STARTS TO UNVEIL ITS PLAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: Encouraging developments out of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and from senior GOP officials indicate that US-led international pressure may be chipping away at the business-as-usual approach many expected from Pakistan,s electoral machinery. Building on over one year [...] | 2006-06-05 12:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL PK AADP EAID |
06ISLAMABAD11883 | INTERNATIONAL ELECTION MONITORING IN PAKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Effective monitoring is vital to strengthen the credibility of Pakistan's upcoming elections. Among other things, this requires strong coordination and a broadly international response. Multiple election monitoring initiatives involving many donors will waste scarce resources a [...] | 2006-06-22 13:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL PK AADP EAID |
06ISLAMABAD16956 | HUDOOD AMENDMENTS MOVED TO COMMITTEE AS ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: After a initial failure to convene a quorum on August 18, the Pakistan Muslim League-led (PML) government of Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz introduced a bill during the August 21 National Assembly session proposing amendments to the Hudood Ordinance, the draconian 19 [...] | 2006-08-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PGOV KWMN KDEM PHUM |
06ISLAMABAD18917 | HUDOOD ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS: A BIG SLOPPY MESS [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: With President Musharraf on official travel in the U.S., the governing Pakistan Muslim League (PML) announced a tactical retreat in it beleaguered campaign to amend the Hudood Ordinance, the Sharia-based laws on criminalizing extramarital sexual relations and e [...] | 2006-09-25 11:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM PK |
06ISLAMABAD19121 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (1): THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF [...] (C) Pakistan is now entering a year of high political stakes, as President Musharraf grapples with his own future in the run-up to provincial and federal parliamentary while political allies and rivals parry and position themselves for possible post-election scenarios. These elections will pl [...] | 2006-09-27 13:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK |
06ISLAMABAD19122 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (2): THE BASICS [...] (U) This cable, the second in a series of cables mapping the political terrain as Pakistan approaches nationwide elections in 2007, reviews the fundamentals of the Pakistani electoral system, as well as possible time lines for the sequencing of provincial, federal and presidential elections. [...] | 2006-09-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD19123 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (3): ELECTORATE AND PARTIES [...] (C/NF) Summary and introduction. Pakistani voters have historically alternated between anti-incumbent backlashes and populist ground swells in which voters simply join the bandwagon of expected winners. Which behavior prevails in the coming elections will depend on the ratio of anti-governm [...] | 2006-09-27 13:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD19124 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (4): THE UNIFORM [...] (C) This cable, the fourth in a series mapping the political terrain as Pakistan approaches nationwide elections in 2007, reviews a uniquely Pakistani issues that will color the run-up to presidential, provincial and federal parliamentary elections: whether President Musharraf will relinqui [...] | 2006-09-27 13:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK |
06ISLAMABAD19125 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (5): MUSHARRAF'S COALITION [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Pervez Musharraf has three options for ensuring a solid political foundation for his moderate and progressive agenda as he prepares for 2007 elections. He can stand by the present Pakistan Muslim League (PML) coalition and leadership; stick with the PML, but di [...] | 2006-09-27 13:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD19126 | PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (6): THE U.S. ROLE [...] (C/NF) Summary and introduction: The U.S. casts an outsized shadow over Pakistani domestic politics; with the onset of these elections, we have an opportunity to nudge Pakistan toward a stable and sustainable democratic order. Throughout the coming year, we should confirm our support for a [...] | 2006-09-27 13:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL |
06ISLAMABAD22572 | POSTURING OVER WOMEN'S RIGHTS LEGISLATION REFLECTS [...] (C) With no fanfare and in the privacy of his office, President Musharraf signed the Women's Protection Bill (WPB) into law on December 1. The bill,s contentious journey through Parliament cast into sharp relief the cleavages within and between Pakistan's major political parties. The Pakista [...] | 2006-12-23 05:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KWMN PK |
06ISLAMABAD22643 | DUBAI WEDDING BRINGS PML, PPP TOGETHER [...] (U) On 26 December, ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Shujatt) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto (BB) spoke for more than 20 minutes at the Dubai wedding of Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob's daughter (Yaqoob is the Pakistani founder and chai [...] | 2006-12-29 07:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
06ISLAMABAD3208 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF CONDEMNS AL-ASKARIYA SHRINE [...] (C) On February 23, 2006, per reftel instruction, PolCounselor contacted MFA Spokesperson Tasneem Aslam and MFA Americas Director General Sohail Mehmood to urge the Government of Pakistan (GOP) to issue a statement condemning the bombing of the al-Askariya Shrine. He also shared with the MF [...] | 2006-02-24 11:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KPAO PGOV PK PREL PTER PAS |
06ISLAMABAD3804 | CARTOONS FAIL TO UNITE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: For a brief moment, Pakistan's political opposition appeared poised to transform popular anger over the Danish cartoon issue into protests against the Musharraf government. In the end, however, self-interest and government inducements have combined to split the divergent parties [...] | 2006-03-08 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM PK |
06ISLAMABAD3807 | POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR PM - A/S JOHN HILLEN [...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned March 15 - 18 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan to [...] | 2006-03-08 14:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | KDEM MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06ISLAMABAD3808 | SLIGHT GAINS FOR PML IN SENATE ELECTIONS [...] (C) In a follow-up to the January 2nd "retirement" of 50 Senators (reftel A),Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) in each of Pakistan's four provinces were charged with electing replacements on March 6. Each Provincial Assembly elected 11 Senators in a secret-ballot overseen by the Provi [...] | 2006-03-08 14:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV KDEM |
06ISLAMABAD4595 | DRL FUNDING FOR 2007 PAKISTAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Post has designed an electoral support strategy in order to promote free and fair elections national and provincial elections in 2007. In order to implement fully the various aspects of this strategy, we will require dedicated funding support from DRL to complement our USAID DG [...] | 2006-03-20 14:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM KDEM PK |
06ISLAMABAD6116 | A/S BOUCHER MEETS SENATE CHAIRMAN AND NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with visiting Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, Senate Chairman Mohammedmian SIPDIS Soomro and National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain confirmed their support for the USAID legislative strengthening project. Both leaders promised to secure a si [...] | 2006-04-11 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID PK |
06ISLAMABAD6117 | A/S BOUCHER MEETING WITH CHIEF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with A/S Boucher, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Qazi Mohammad Farooq stressed his commitment to holding a free and fair election in 2007. A/S Bouhcer pledged our continued support and stressed the importance of the commission's independence as vital to su [...] | 2006-04-11 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PK |
06ISLAMABAD8148 | A STRATEGY FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: With the appointment of a credible, permanent Chief Election Commissioner (CEC),Pakistan is moving in the necessary direction for free and fair elections in 2007. Post believes that the credibility of the 2007 contest has significant implications for long-term stability and de [...] | 2006-05-05 08:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM EAID OIIP KPAO PK |
06ISLAMABAD9486 | GOP PM AZIZ CONGRATULATES NEW IRAQI PRIME MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PK PREL IZ KDEM |
06ISLAMABAD9704 | FREE, FAIR, AND ISI: THE PML ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary: According to PML Secretary General Mushahid Hussain, the party's goal in the upcoming elections is a plurality in the National Assembly. He identified urban areas in central Punjab (Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad) as the chief battlegrounds, predicted a strong PML victory in [...] | 2006-05-25 11:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER MOPS PK AF IR |
06ISLAMABAD9890 | PARTIES PREPARE THEIR ELECTORAL STRATEGIES [...] (S/NF) Summary: Electoral strategies for Pakistan's major parties are coalescing in advance of the likely late 2007/early 2008 national and provincial elections. At this stage, most parties, save the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),have adopted a go-it-alone strategy. The ruling Pakist [...] | 2006-05-30 08:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL PK |
06ISLAMABAD9964 | PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY [...] (C/NF) Summary: The upcoming national and provincial elections will be an important bellwether on progress towards democratization in Pakistan. However, free and fair elections must be supported by long-term systemic changes that are necessary to institute good governance and firm civilian co [...] | 2006-05-31 07:02:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PHUM PK |
06ISTANBUL211 | BMENA: TURKS KEEP DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE DIALOGUE [...] (U) Summary: A February 6-7 conference organized by the Turkish NGO TESEV within the framework of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) brought together 150 NGO and government representatives from around the Middle East and North Africa to develop an action platform to increase the role o [...] | 2006-02-17 09:10:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TU XD XF XI KDEM KWMN |
06JAKARTA10039 | GOI ACTIVELY WORKING TO COUNTER JIHAD CALLS [...] (C) The Indonesian government, led by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY),has responded to public clamoring for jihad on the part of militant groups by urging the Indonesian public to respond realistically and rationally to events in the Middle East. Following a cabinet discussion of ho [...] | 2006-08-09 10:51:00 | Embassy Jakarta | SECRET | PTER PGOV PINR KDEM KISL ASEC ID IZ |
06JAKARTA10298 | INDONESIA WANTS TO ELEVATE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/P Director of Policy Planning Dr. Stephen Krasner met on August 11 with Indonesian Foreign Ministry officials for a strategic dialogue on U.S.-Indonesian relations. Led by Secretary General Imron Cotan, the Indonesians stressed their desire to expand and deepen bilateral coope [...] | 2006-08-15 11:07:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PARM KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA11376 | CRUCIAL 2007 JAKARTA GOVERNOR,S RACE TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) Approximately one year before Jakarta holds its first ever directly elected Governor's race, behind the scenes political maneuvering is already in full swing, reflecting the high stakes involved in what will be the most significant Indonesian election prior to the 2009 Legislative and Pres [...] | 2006-09-13 08:56:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA11769 | GOI TROUBLED BY EVENTS IN THAILAND [...] (C) On September 20, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono convened a meeting of top advisors to discuss the coup's implications for Indonesia. Several times during that day, one of the President's top foreign policy advisors pressed the Charge for information about the USG's understanding of th [...] | 2006-09-21 10:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA12334 | FROM ETHNIC CLEANSING TO JOB CREATION: WEST [...] (C) Nearly five years after the most recent escalation in hostilities between the Dayak and Madurese communities in West Kalimantan, the province's key political operators believe tensions have abated and that the situation has finally stabilized. While relations between the Dayaks and Madure [...] | 2006-10-10 06:42:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA12779 | ACEH PEACE PROCESS MOVING FORWARD, HEADING TOWARD [...] The Aceh peace process continues to move forward. Elections have been scheduled for December 11, and work has begun on implementing the Law on Governance of Aceh (LOGA). The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) is winding down its work and expects to cease operation on December 15. Reintegration paym [...] | 2006-10-20 10:28:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA13121 | SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT WEATHERS VOUCHER SCANDAL [...] (C) Agung Laksono, Chairman of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR),has apparently emerged relatively unscathed from a scandal surrounding his involvement in a school voucher distribution exercise. The controversy erupted following the revelation that he improperly handed out vouchers [...] | 2006-11-07 08:23:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA13173 | SHOWDOWN BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND VP OVER REFORM UNIT [...] (C) President Yudhoyono and Vice President Kalla have skirmished publicly over SBY's decision to advance the President's reform agenda. Although referred to in general terms for months, the "Presidential Work Unit on Managing Policy and Reform Programs (UKP3KR)" was reportedly designed and un [...] | 2006-11-09 11:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID |
06JAKARTA13233 | BALL IN SBY'S COURT ON REFORM UNIT [...] (C) With Golkar's November 13-16 annual national leadership meeting as a backdrop, Vice President Jusuf Kalla publicly called for Golkar's continued support for the Yudhoyono administration and privately sought to mend fences with the President following last week's public feud over plans for [...] | 2006-11-17 10:22:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID |
06JAKARTA13289 | ACEH: MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN GAM REINTEGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: After refusing for more than a year, GAM finally provided a list of ex-combatants to the government, paving the way for some reintegration payments to be made before the end of the year. GAM's providing names breaks the impasse, but persisting differences on land compensation, [...] | 2006-11-24 04:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC ID |
06JAKARTA13305 | Aceh: Official Campaign Season Begins [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Official campaigning began in Aceh on November 24, although advertisements for some candidates have been up for weeks, giving a slight advantage to well- financed candidates. GAM "Prime Minister Malik Mahmud returned to Aceh to try to reunify the GAM movement and to voic [...] | 2006-11-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PREL KDEM ASEC ID |
06JAKARTA13328 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FORMER PRESIDENT HABIBIE [...] (C) On November 27 the Ambassador met with former President B.J. Habibie at his residence in suburban Jakarta. Looking relaxed and displaying characteristic energy and enthusiasm, the former President declared President Bush's November 20 visit a success, discussed his recently released memoir [...] | 2006-11-28 09:59:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA13361 | MEGAWATI SURVEYS THE INDONESIAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) During a November 28 meeting with the Ambassador, former President Megawati Soekarnoputri avoided discussing whether she would consider cooperating with President Yudhoyono's government, bemoaned the increasing influence of Islamists in Indonesian politics, and outlined the challenges of d [...] | 2006-11-30 09:22:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA13379 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GUS DUR [...] (C) During a November 30 meeting with the Ambassador, an uncharacteristically reserved former President Abdurrachman Wahid (aka Gus Dur) gave his views on U.S.-Indonesia relations and President Bush's visit, Indonesia's economic shortcomings, and developments within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and th [...] | 2006-12-01 09:58:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA13419 | PKS SUFFERS ELECTORAL SETBACK [...] (C) The ascendant Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) fell just short in its attempt to register a defining victory in the November 26 Banten provincial governor's race. The Banten Electoral Commission certified the election results on December 1 and declared Golkar's Ratu Atut Chosiyah the winner [...] | 2006-12-06 08:42:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA13426 | ACEH: FRONT RUNNERS IN ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: As the official campaign period winds down, no pair of candidates has taken a decisive lead in the race to become Aceh Governor and Vice Governor. Three pairs of candidates -- Malek Raden and Fuad Zakaria, Humam Hamid and Hasbi Abdullah, and Azwar Abubakar and Nasir Djamil -- have [...] | 2006-12-07 04:07:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KHUM ASEC ID |
06JAKARTA13450 | DPR PASSES NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL BILL [...] (C) On December 7, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) unanimously passed a bill requiring the creation of a new presidential advisory council within three months. The nine-member council will be charged with advising the President on a full range of issues, its mandate expiring at [...] | 2006-12-08 10:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID |
06JAKARTA13462 | ACEH HOLDS FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS, THE FIRST [...] Summary: The U.S. Mission in Indonesia fielded a team of 40 U.S. officials and local support staff to monitor the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11. Embassy's press release, below, provides our endorsement of the election pr [...] | 2006-12-11 12:10:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID |
06JAKARTA13481 | U.S. OBSERVATION TEAM FOR ACEH ELECTIONS: WHAT WE [...] (SBU) Summary: A comprehensive post-election analysis of questionnaires returned by members of the official U.S. election observation team confirm our initial report (reftel) that the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11 were fre [...] | 2006-12-14 09:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID |
06JAKARTA13577 | WIRANTO LAUNCHES NEW PARTY [...] (C) Summary. Retired General Wiranto unveiled his new political party, the People's Conscience Party (Hanura),on December 21. Flanked by several prominent political and military personalities, the failed 2004 presidential candidate announced his new party would help serve as a vehicle for th [...] | 2006-12-22 05:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA1374 | INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT TAKES UP DRAFT ACEH LAW [...] (SBU) The Yudhoyono administration on January 26 delivered its draft Law on Governing Aceh (LOGA) to the House of Representatives (DPR) for debate. The August 15, 2005 GOI-GAM MOU, which ended the armed conflict, requires the law's passage by March 31 -- a deadline that would require legislat [...] | 2006-02-02 11:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV EFIN KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA2107 | INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) We delivered and discussed reftel points February 15 with Wahib, DFA Deputy Director for Middle Eastern Affairs. Wahib replied that the GOI is cautiously optimistic that Hamas will behave differently as a ruling coalition partner than it behaved as an opposition group. He said the GOI [...] | 2006-02-16 09:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER KISL ID |
06JAKARTA2515 | CODEL KOLBE AND HDAC ENGAGE INDONESIAN LEGISLATORS [...] CODEL Kolbe met on February 21-22 with top legislators from the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) in the first overseas visit of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). Indonesian legislators welcomed the CODEL,s expertise on legislative affairs and its encouragement for the [...] | 2006-02-24 08:59:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA3161 | NORTH SUMATRA GOVERNOR NAMED DESPITE ALLEGATIONS [...] (SBU) North Sumatra Deputy Governor Rudolf Pardede will become Acting Governor of North Sumatra on March 10, months after former Governor Rizul Nurdin's unfortunate death. The announcement of his appointment came after several weeks of increased activity in the investigation of Pardede's alleg [...] | 2006-03-10 00:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA4407 | VOTE COUNTS FINAL IN PAPUAN GUBERNATORIAL RACES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provincial Election Commissions of Papua and West Irian Jaya have announced final vote tabulations in direct elections for governor held on March 10 and March 11 respectively. On March 22, the Electoral Commission of West Irian Jaya certified incumbent Bram Atururi as the v [...] | 2006-04-05 07:23:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA4811 | GAM REINTEGRATION SLOW, ECONOMY AND POLITICS NOT [...] (SBU) On April 10 former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) activists hosted a prayer meeting (Doa Bersama) in Tiro, Aceh, to mark Mohammed's Birthday, attracting over 1000 Acehnese from throughout the province. At the meeting, Conoff had numerous discussions about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) [...] | 2006-04-18 01:09:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID ASEC KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA5789 | ASD RODMAN'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman met Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan on April 12. Both expressed strong interest in expanding military ties. Imron pressed for USG training for Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus); [...] | 2006-05-09 06:23:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS MARR PHUM KDEM KAWC TT BM TW |
06JAKARTA6331 | LEGISLATURE AIMING TO PASS ACEH LAW [...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) aims to pass the Law on Governing Aceh within weeks, and a senior member of the Special Committee deliberating the draft considered this goal attainable. Golkar legislator Marzuki Darusman told us on May 8 that political parties sought to avoi [...] | 2006-05-18 09:41:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL ID |
06JAKARTA6332 | GOI DROPS CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST FORMER [...] (C) The Yudhoyono administration appeared inconsistent and confused as prosecutors dropped corruption charges against ailing former President Suharto. The handling of Suharto's case illustrates poor policy coordination at the top level of the GOI, and the outcome appears to have reduced, at le [...] | 2006-05-18 10:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KJUS KCRM ID |
06JAKARTA7941 | ADVISOR WORRIES ABOUT YUDHOYONO'S POLITICAL [...] (S/NF) President Yudhoyono has yet to consolidate political power and could lose his 2009 reelection bid if he cannot show significant achievements in the near future, according to T.B. Silalahi, Special Advisor to the President. In a June 13 meeting, T.B. told us that he had recently sought [...] | 2006-06-23 09:51:00 | Embassy Jakarta | SECRET | PGOV KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA8064 | ACEH LAW INCHING CLOSER TO PASSAGE [...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR),moving along at a characteristically glacial pace, continues to deliberate the finer points of the draft law on Governing Aceh at the Committee level. The principle remaining issue involves fund transfers from the central government. While [...] | 2006-06-27 09:38:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM ID |
06JAKARTA8263 | PKS DEMONSTRATION ONCE AGAIN INVOLVES THE USE OF [...] (C) During a July 2 Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) demonstration at the U.S. Embassy protesting Israeli actions in Gaza, at least one demonstrator brandished a toy gun (ref A). On July 3 the leading local English language daily carried a prominent photo in which one such demonstrator gleefull [...] | 2006-07-03 11:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KISL KDEM ASEC ID |
06JAKARTA9043 | WEST JAVA: A SNAPSHOT OF THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) With the second most registered voters and the largest population of any Indonesian province, West Java will figure prominently in the political calculus of each of the major parties as they begin to position themselves for the 2009 legislative and presidential election. West Java,s nation [...] | 2006-07-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM ID |
06JEDDAH245 | MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 24: [...] (C) On March 24, speaking from Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani harangued a congregation of more than 500 with theories blaming Iran and Shi'a for the growing sectarian violence in Iraq. He speculated that the people who demolished the Shi'ite mosque were the sa [...] | 2006-03-29 07:27:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR KISL |
06JEDDAH257 | WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION LACKLUSTER IN JEDDAH CHAMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the wake of the historic November 2005 election for the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI),in which two female candidates were victorious, participation by women in JCCI affairs has been limited, and, in an April 1, 2006 election, only one woman ran [...] | 2006-04-02 14:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KDEM KWMN PGOV SA |
06JEDDAH286 | THE CG IN SOUTHERN SAUDI ARABIA, PART II - THE [...] (S) SUMMARY. At the conclusion of the formal meeting between the Consul General and Nejran Governor Prince Mishael bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, CG, Congenoff, and A/RSO were invited for drinks with the Governor at his home. Throughout the 2 hour-long informal meeting Prince Mishael spoke candidly [...] | 2006-04-11 10:40:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | EAID ECON IR KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
06JEDDAH341 | SETBACKS FOR SAUDI WOMEN CALL PERCEIVED REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two recent setbacks to the empowerment of women demonstrate that while this policy has received official support from the highest levels of the Saudi government, such changes face significant opposition within society at large. Last week, the Pan-Arab daily "Asharq Al Awsat" repo [...] | 2006-05-08 05:02:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KWMN PGOV SA SCUL SOCI KMPI |
06JERUSALEM1106 | FATAH LEGISLATORS SEE ISRAELI ACTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. During a March 13 meeting in Bethlehem, four Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members asserted that Israeli policies had played a deciding factor in the Hamas victory in the January 25 legislative elections. These mid-level Fatah leaders, who are close to Fatah's g [...] | 2006-03-17 14:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1117 | FATAH FACTION CALLS FOR PA TO DISSOLVE [...] (C) In the wake of the Hamas PLC victory and the March 14 IDF Jericho raid, calls by Fatah cadres to dissolve the Palestinian Authority and transfer responsibility for administering the West Bank and Gaza back to Israel as occupying power have begun to resurface. Paragraph 3 contains the text [...] | 2006-03-17 16:52:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG KDEM PGOV |
06JERUSALEM114 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials January 9 reported to the Consul General that the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has provided conflicting messages on its ability to provide Election Day security. The MOI has agreed to abide by CEC procedures for early voting for the [...] | 2006-01-09 18:33:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM1175 | HAMAS-LED CABINET TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) During a March 19 meeting in Gaza with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas, Hamas PM-designate Isma'il Haniyyah presented Abbas with a list of cabinet ministers for the next Palestinian government. The Palestinian media, citing unnamed Hamas and PA sources, has identified [...] | 2006-03-22 16:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1262 | PLC APPROVES HAMAS-LED CABINET, GOVERNMENT PLATFORM [...] (C) Summary. Following two-days of debate, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) March 28 approved the Hamas government platform and 24-member Palestinian cabinet. The vote was 71 in favor, 36 against, with two abstentions. Fatah and Third Way PLC members led the opposition to the gove [...] | 2006-03-28 17:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1287 | PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO ISRAELI ELECTIONS [...] (C) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) welcomed acting PM Olmert's comments after the election supporting negotiations, and a number of Fatah interlocutors stressed Abu Mazen's genuine willingness to negotiate. Fatah members all stressed that any progress in negotiations depended upon Israel [...] | 2006-03-29 15:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1337 | PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION FACING INSOLVENCY [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials warned international donors that the CEC faced insolvency unless it received immediate financial assistance to cover its one-year budget. CEC Chairman Dr. Hana Nasir said that the CEC -- an independent agency whose leade [...] | 2006-04-03 13:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM139 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) January 11 appealed for independent Fatah candidates running in the district races to withdraw their candidacies. Palestinian contacts suggest that this request will have minimal effect on most of these candidates. [...] | 2006-01-12 10:41:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM1501 | PALESTINIAN FACTIONS DIVVY UP PLC COMMITTEES [...] (C) The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) formally approved member assignments to 12 PLC committees following negotiations between Hamas, Fatah, and the other factions in the Council. Hamas is slated to control six of the 12 committees, Fatah four, and one each for Salam Fayyad's Third [...] | 2006-04-12 13:04:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1567 | HAMAS PREDICTS CHAOS IF INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION [...] (SBU) Summary. In what may appear to be an escalating war of words, Hamas officials, including PM Isma'il Haniyyah, April 14-16 lashed out at U.S., European, and Israeli efforts to isolate and undermine the new Hamas-led government. In comments before tens of thousands of Muslim worshipper [...] | 2006-04-17 16:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM157 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat January 12 provided the Consul General a one-page statement endorsed by 19 of the 39 Jerusalem PLC candidates. The statement, which includes the signatures of four Hamas candidates, urges that elections be held as scheduled regardless of any potential [...] | 2006-01-13 17:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM1590 | MIXED PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO TEL AVIV BOMBING [...] (C) Summary. Disparate Palestinian reaction to the April 17 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv has shed further light on divisions between the Hamas leadership and President Abbas. While Abbas and the senior Fatah leadership have condemned the attack, Hamas officials -- either affiliated with th [...] | 2006-04-18 16:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1621 | GREEKS, ARMENIANS PREDICTING CALM DURING HOLY FIRE [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem religious officials from the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates are cautiously optimistic that the April 22 Holy Fire celebration in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher will pass without incident. Greek Patriarchate officials April 21 were confident that deposed [...] | 2006-04-21 16:21:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1648 | FORMER PLC MEMBER ASSESSES ELECTIONS, HAMAS, AND [...] (C) Summary. Former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Ziad Abu Zayyad (Jerusalem, independent) April 21 presented his assessment of the challenges confronting Palestinians and the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA) to Senator Christopher Dodd and the Consul General. On the re [...] | 2006-04-24 16:44:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1673 | YASSER ABED RABBO: MAKING THE CASE AGAINST HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) member Yasser Abed Rabbo argued that President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Fatah needed a more coherent strategy to deal with Hamas and gain support among the public. Abed Rabbo said th [...] | 2006-04-25 15:46:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1686 | PECDAR HEAD MAKES PITCH FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 meeting with the Consul General, former Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Public Works and Housing Mohammed Shtayyah criticized statements from Hamas leader Khaled Mishal, which he said reflected the inability of the Hamas-led PA to respond to the growi [...] | 2006-04-26 15:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1748 | JERUSALEM CATHOLIC HOSPICE DESCRIBES PROBLEMS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 25 meeting with ConGen Poloff, the lead attorney for the Hospice Saint Vincent de Paul -- a Vatican-supported institution situated near the Old City of Jerusalem -- appealed for USG intervention with the Government of Israel (GOI) in response to the constructi [...] | 2006-05-02 10:21:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM1782 | PALESTINIAN LEGAL SNAPSHOT: AL-AQSA GUNMEN IMPOSE [...] (C) Summary. In a case that underscores the precarious nature of the Palestinian Authority (PA) judicial system and the absence of law and order in Palestinian controlled areas, gunmen from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades last month intervened in a private homeowner dispute by imposing a sol [...] | 2006-05-05 13:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM SCUL IS |
06JERUSALEM190 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian and Israeli officials met January 16 to work on technical issues relating to voting in East Jerusalem. Officials discussed the possibility of issuing 6,000 tickets to East Jerusalem residents to allow them to vote at designated post offices. Both sides are schedu [...] | 2006-01-17 17:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM2008 | JERUSALEM PLC MEMBER CALLS FOR MORE NUANCE IN [...] (C) Summary. During a May 15 meeting with the Consul General, Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Bernard Sabella called for more nuance in the international community's approach toward the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA). Sabella agreed that pressure should be pla [...] | 2006-05-17 16:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2060 | UNRWA OFFICIALS OUTLINE CONTACT POLICY WITH PA, [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 12 meeting with IO Assistant Secretary Kristen Silverberg, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi said that his agency would maintain "minimal" contact with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Grandi argued that some technical interaction is necessar [...] | 2006-05-22 13:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2135 | ABBAS SETS DEADLINE FOR "NATIONAL DIALOGUE" [...] (C) Summary. Representatives from Fatah, Hamas, other Palestinian factions, and civil society convened May 25 in Ramallah and Gaza City for a two-day session of "National Dialogue." In his speech before conference delegates in Ramallah, Palestinian President Abbas (Abu Mazen) set a 10-day [...] | 2006-05-25 17:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2151 | DIVERGENT REACTIONS TO ABU MAZEN'S NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Hamas has yet to articulate a consistent position on Abu Mazen's intention to hold a national referendum proposal. Fatah officials have noted the discrepancy in statements from Hamas, a division which they hope to exploit in the coming 10-day discussion period. Meanwhile, the [...] | 2006-05-26 15:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2170 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE PROCEEDING [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian President Abbas agreed with Hamas representatives May 28 to divide the National Dialogue into three separate tracks: a Ramallah track on the prisoners' initiative; a Gaza track on easing Fatah-Hamas tensions; and a PLO track, possibly to take place in Cairo, on ref [...] | 2006-05-30 15:38:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2223 | EREKAT DENOUNCES ISRAELI PLAN TO REVOKE JERUSALEM [...] (SBU) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat June 1 faxed to the ConGen a letter addressed to NEA A/S Welch criticizing statements by Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On, published in the Israeli media on May 30, threatening to revoke the residency status of three Hamas PLC members from Jerusa [...] | 2006-06-01 15:11:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2246 | ABU MAZEN, HAMAS HEADING TOWARD SHOW-DOWN OVER [...] (C) Summary. A show-down between Abu Mazen and Hamas is looming as the midnight June 5 deadline to reach consensus on the prisoners' initiative nears. Absent an agreement, Abu Mazen intends to proceed with a presidential decree to hold a referendum on the initiative within the next 40 days [...] | 2006-06-05 15:57:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2273 | ABBAS APPOINTS NEW WEST BANK COMMANDER OF FORCE-17 [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian President Abbas (Abu Mazen) appointed Mahmud Damra to head the West Bank contingent of Force-17, a security force under the president's exclusive authority. Damra is suspected by the GOI of involvement in several lethal attacks against Israelis, including one that [...] | 2006-06-06 16:03:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2274 | ABBAS DELAYS ISSUANCE OF REFERENDUM DECREE [...] (C) Summary. Following June 6 consultations between President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) in Ramallah, spokesmen for the president announced that he intends to delay for several days issuing a decree on holding a national referendum. The delay reportedly stem [...] | 2006-06-06 16:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM240 | SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Fatah and Hamas candidates in Gaza signed an agreement pledging to refrain from displaying weaponry and abide by the democratic process. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met January 18 for additional discussions regarding Jerusalem voting. During a January 18 meeting at C [...] | 2006-01-19 17:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM |
06JERUSALEM2473 | PRCS HEAD SAYS KEY MOU IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. During a June 14 meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) president Yunis al-Khatib, the Consul General encouraged al-Khatib to work diligently to resolve the outstanding issues in advance of the June 20 International Conference of the Red Cross and the [...] | 2006-06-16 04:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM2509 | NABIL AMR ON REFERENDUM, ABU MAZEN [...] (C) Summary. During a June 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, presidential media advisor Nabil Amr said that Abu Mazen was correct to proceed with the national referendum -- despite Amr's own objections to the prisoners' initiative -- in order to force the demise of the Hamas-l [...] | 2006-06-19 08:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM257 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Central Elections Committee (CEC) published the finalized procedures for East Jerusalem voting on January 19. President Abbas signed a decree advancing the voting period for members of the PASF by one day to begin on January 21. Dozens of East Jerusalem residents clashed wit [...] | 2006-01-20 16:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM |
06JERUSALEM2821 | PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION SUSPENDS [...] (C) Ammar Dweik, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC),on July 5 confirmed to ConGen Poloff that the CEC had received a two-sentence letter from Abu Mazen's Chief of Staff Rafiq Husseini requesting that the CEC suspend preparations for the July [...] | 2006-07-05 15:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM286 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Voting by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces continued for a third and final day, January 23, with turnout reported around 82 percent of registered voters at the conclusion of the second day of voting. ConGen contacts expect final turnout over 90 percent of registered [...] | 2006-01-23 15:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM324 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Fatah activist associated with Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) candidate Ghassan Shakaa was killed in Nablus early on January 24, reportedly by gunmen associated with rival Fatah leader Jamal al-Tirawi. Large Fatah and Hamas rallies on January 23 marked the officia [...] | 2006-01-24 17:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM |
06JERUSALEM338 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) Con Gen election observers report elections proceeding smoothly in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the first hours of voting. PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),speaking to the media, commended the ongoing polling and described the events as "an election festival." Three polling stations i [...] | 2006-01-25 09:33:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM340 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 12:30 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly. There was media coverage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas leader Mohammed Zahar casting votes in their respective locations. There continued to be reports of some votin [...] | 2006-01-25 12:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM345 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 2:30 pm local time, PLC elections continued to go smoothly with 45 percent voter turnout in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip after seven and a half hours of voting. CEC Chairman Hanna Nasser estimated that voter turnout would be 75-80 percent by the end of the day and predicted that [...] | 2006-01-25 14:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM KPAL KWBG IS |
06JERUSALEM347 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 6:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly with only sporadic reports of violence. The Central Elections Commission reported voter turnout at 64.7 percent with 810,000 voting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Slow lines at East Jerusa [...] | 2006-01-25 17:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC KDEM KPAL KWBG IS |
06JERUSALEM348 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 9:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly in most areas, with nearly 81 percent voter turnout in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after over 12 hours of voting. The CEC determined that there would not be an overall extension of the votin [...] | 2006-01-25 20:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV |
06JERUSALEM349 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of midnight on Election Day, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) was counting votes with preliminary results not expected until later on January 26. Polls in Jerusalem closed at 2100L, two hours after the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The election was notably free of serious vo [...] | 2006-01-25 22:43:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL |
06JERUSALEM366 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: DAY AFTER [...] (C) Palestinian political figures awoke on January 26 to the signs of a political earthquake, with Hamas now generally expected to gain a majority in the new Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Fatah candidates Sa'eb Erekat and Mohammed Dahlan said the results were "a disaster" and spoke o [...] | 2006-01-26 12:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM385 | POTENTIAL MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES: ZIAD ABU AMR AND [...] (C) Two possible compromise candidates that Hamas may offer in upcoming consultations over government formation with President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) are Ziad Abu Amr, a re-elected independent PLC member from Gaza City and Mustafa Bargouthi, the head of the "Independent Palestine" party whi [...] | 2006-01-27 16:44:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM386 | PA BASIC LAW: SEPERATION OF POWERS AND SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PA Basic Law and Presidential Decrees are the primary legal bases for government formation and control of the PA Security Forces (PASF). While the law is clear on some issues such as the selection of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, the Basic Law does not say a [...] | 2006-01-27 16:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL |
06JERUSALEM458 | HAMAS EMPHASIZING UNITY AND MODERATION; FATAH AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas leaders inside the West Bank and Gaza continue to emphasize unity and moderation in their public statements, while the ConGen has received reports that senior PASF and Fatah officials are growing increasingly fearful of the impending transfer of governmental authority. Hamas [...] | 2006-02-01 16:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL |
06JERUSALEM4760 | PALESTINIAN CEC DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CONGEN REPS MET WITH HANA NASSER, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PALESTINIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION (CEC),AND ALSO Q-CHAIRED A MEETING OF THE CEC-ELECTION REFORM SUPPORT GROUP (ERSG) ON NOVEMBER 7 IN RAMALLAH. PRIVATELY, NASSER CRITICIZED FATAH'S LACK OF DISCIPLINE DURING THE PLC E [...] | 2006-11-08 16:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAL KWBG |
06JERUSALEM4774 | PROBLEMS IN PALESTINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM LEAD TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE PALESTINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM SUFFERS FROM A SEVERE SHORTAGE IN THE NUMBER OF JUDGES, WHICH HAS LED TO SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN PROCESSING CRIMINAL CASES, ACCORDING TO ISSA ABU SHARAR, THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE PALESTINIAN HIGHER JUDICIARY COUNCIL. THE BACKUP OF CASES HAS IMPACT [...] | 2006-11-09 15:04:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG KDEM |
06JERUSALEM483 | HAMAS LEADERS: BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DATA [...] (C) The incoming, newly elected Hamas PLC membership is a diverse and well-educated group. Some of the most prominent incoming PLC members bring with them administrative experience developed during the al-Aqsa Intifada, when Islamic charities and traditional reconciliation committees moved in [...] | 2006-02-02 17:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL |
06JERUSALEM5000 | FAYAD CALLS FOR LEADERSHIP, SUGGESTS BARGHOUTI IN [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. SENATORS MCCAIN (AZ),LIEBERMAN (CT),COLLINS (ME),THUNE (SD),AND REPRESENTATIVE KIRK (IL) MET DECEMBER 18 WITH PLC MEMBER AND FORMER MINISTER OF FINANCE SALAM FAYYAD AND SAID AFTERWARDS THAT THEY WERE UPLIFTED BY HIS OPTIMISM IN THE FACE OF A WORSENING PALESTINIAN CRISIS [...] | 2006-12-19 16:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06JERUSALEM561 | HAMAS GOVERNMENT TALKS ONGOING IN CAIRO [...] (C) Senior Hamas officials, representing the political leadership in Gaza and Damascus, February 6 commenced talks in Cairo on the formation of the next Palestinian cabinet. The Damascus delegation included Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mish'al, deputy chief Musa Abu Marzouk, and burea [...] | 2006-02-07 16:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM EG |
06JERUSALEM581 | ABU MAZEN'S OFFICE STRATEGIZING FOR HAMAS-LED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor Ghaith al-Omari told Consul General February 7 that his office is working to formulate a response to HAMAS's victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. Al-Omari said the PA is considering a number of ideas to strengthen presidential cont [...] | 2006-02-08 14:46:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL |
06JERUSALEM67 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) January 4 delivered a letter to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) requesting that the commission be "relieved of its duties" for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. CEC Chief Elector [...] | 2006-01-05 17:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM670 | PLC CONVENES, MAKES SOME CHANGES TO STATUS QUO, [...] (C) The current Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) met February 13 in Ramallah and Gaza (via DVC) and took a number of controversial decisions, including the approval of a draft law giving President Mahmud Abbas the power to appoint judges without PLC endorsement to the Constitutional Court [...] | 2006-02-14 16:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KDEM KWBG |
06JERUSALEM693 | MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] (C) Summary. During a February 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)-elect member Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi denied reports emanating from Hamas sources that he or other individuals from his faction, "Independent Palestine", were engaged in negot [...] | 2006-02-15 16:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM720 | INCOMING FATAH PLC MEMBERS TAKE 'WAIT AND SEE' [...] (C) Summary. In separate February 15 meetings with ConGen Poloff, newly elected Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members Dr. Emile Jarjou'i and Dr. Bernard Sabella, urged caution from both Fatah and the international community in its approach toward the incoming Hamas-led govern [...] | 2006-02-17 11:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM725 | NEW PLC: POSITIVE ABU MAZEN SPEECH; HAMAS [...] (C) In the February 18 swearing-in of the new Palestinian Legislative Council, President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) asked Hamas to form the next government, but also attempted to bind Hamas to negotiations with Israel based on previous agreements and President Bush's vision of a two-state solu [...] | 2006-02-18 16:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM79 | OLIVE GROVE DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN WEST BANK VILLAGE [...] (SBU) Palestinian villagers from the southern West Bank village of Juwaya January 6 discovered 102 olive trees -- planted over 30 years ago -- deliberately cut down, presumably by settlers residing in nearby Ma'on settlement. According to contacts from the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT),[...] | 2006-01-06 17:25:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PHUM |
06JERUSALEM795 | EREKAT URGING ABU MAZEN TO TAKE TOUGH STAND [...] (C) Summary. During a February 22 meeting with NEA DAS Dibble and the Consul General, PLO Chief Negotiator Dr. Sa'eb Erekat said that he had urged Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to stand firm against Hamas. Erekat, who speculated that Hamas could announce the [...] | 2006-02-23 17:12:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM80 | PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Hamas January 5 endorsed a Code of Conduct for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections that it had earlier refused to sign in October. The Chief Electoral Officer for the Central Elections Commission (CEC),Ammar Dweik, reported that Abu Mazen had yet t [...] | 2006-01-06 18:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM |
06JERUSALEM887 | LETTER FROM NEW (HAMAS) PLC SPEAKER TO CONSUL [...] On March 1, Post received a fax from Aziz Dweik, newly elected speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Text in paragraph 2; Post does not intend to respond to this letter. 2. Begin text: HE Mr. Jacob Walles Consul General of the United States Jerusalem Your Excellency, It [...] | 2006-03-02 13:26:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KPAL KWBG |
06JERUSALEM903 | FORMER JERUSALEM PLC MEMBER ASSESSES HAMAS, ABU [...] (C) Summary. During a March 2 meeting with ConGen Poloff, former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Ziad Abu Zayyad (Jerusalem, independent) provided his assessment of the challenges confronting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the new PLC. On Hamas forming the next Palestinia [...] | 2006-03-03 17:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS |
06KABUL1281 | KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. Other [...] | 2006-03-23 17:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL1428 | PARLIAMENT OPPOSES RAHMAN RELEASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, pointedly criticized the GOA handling of the Abdul Rahman case during several hours of debate on March 29. Most criticism focused on the perception that the Karzai government caved to foreign pressure, bypassing correct [...] | 2006-03-30 03:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL1440 | CORRECTED COPY: KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. [...] | 2006-03-30 11:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL1753 | WOMEN MPS RECEIVE MUCH ATTENTION, FACE MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Women in the Afghan National Assembly face many challenges: political divisions, sometimes uncoordinated aid efforts, and traditional attitudes. Women are vocal and regular contributors to debate, and hold some key leadership positions, but it is unclear what their impact will [...] | 2006-04-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KWMN AF |
06KABUL1791 | AFGHAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES 20 OF 25 MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On Thursday, April 20, the Afghan National Assembly approved the majority of President Karzai's nominated Cabinet Ministers. Significant confirmations included Engineer Zarar as Minister of Interior and Spanta as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Minister of Culture Raheen and Mini [...] | 2006-04-20 15:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL18 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MOVES FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The tone of the second week for Afghanistan's National Assembly (NA) has been positive, with members of parliament open to new ideas and mostly constructive debate. The NA spent the week finalizing its leadership and discussing its rules of procedure. The formation of caucuse [...] | 2006-01-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL1976 | 20 MINISTERS SWORN IN; WOLESI JIRGA REVIEWS THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 1 and 2, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament reviewed the GOA budget, posing extensive questions to Minister of Finance Ahadi about the government's finances. During debate, the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) emphasized two points: first, it has the right to closely review the [...] | 2006-05-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2323 | PARLIAMENT REJECTS BUDGET [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 21, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament rejected the GOA budget by a clear majority (although with only around half of MPs voting). The impasse occurred after the GOA rejected Parliament's suggested changes to the budget, including an increase in salaries for civil s [...] | 2006-05-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2364 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES ONLY TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On Wednesday, May 24, the Afghan National Assembly approved only two of four Supreme Court Justices put to a vote. The two approved Justices - Mawlawi Mohammad Qasem and Mohammad Aleem Nasemi - are both Pashtun Sharia law faculty graduates. Of the five remaining Justices, thre [...] | 2006-05-24 14:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL24 | MP BIO: ALEMI BALKHI [...] (U) This is the first in a series of biographic reporting cables on Afghanistan's newly elected Parliamentarians. Additional reports will be sent as PolOffs continue to meet personally with new MPs during the coming weeks. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The striking feature of PolOff's December 31 meeting [...] | 2006-01-03 07:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2468 | PARLIAMENT REJECTS SHINWARI AS CHIEF JUSTICE [...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 27, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament rejected two additional Supreme Court nominations, including conservative Chief Justice Shinwari. END SUMMARY. Vote Count ---------- 2. (SBU) The rejection of Shinwari and additional nominee Roostayi brings the total numb [...] | 2006-05-30 12:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2551 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES REVISED BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly approved a revised national budget, including modest increases in government salaries and payments to the disabled, on June 3. The new budget, which did not go above the previously agreed ceiling, accommodates Parliament's most significant concerns; [...] | 2006-06-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EFIN KDEM AF |
06KABUL257 | PRT/QALAH-E NAW: MP BIOS: BADGHIS PROVINCE [...] Summary: This cable provides biographic information on three members of the Afghan National Assembly from Badghis province. Azita Rafat is a young female activist focused on development for her province and with a particular concern about the Badghis custom of selling girls. Yaqub Khan is [...] | 2006-01-18 06:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR EAID PHUM KJUS AF KFEM |
06KABUL258 | PRT/BAMYAN: POOR FACILITIES, CORRUPTION PLAGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The law enforcement organs in Bamyan are on life support. Poorly paid, equipped, and trained police do little to counter lawlessness in the Central Highlands. Police and prosecution corruption exacerbates and undermines the people's already shaky faith in Central Government aut [...] | 2006-01-18 06:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM SOCI AF |
06KABUL2704 | PARLIAMENT SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Both houses of the Afghan National Assembly have drafted revisions to the Provincial Council Law, which will be considered by the Wolesi Jirga upon their return from recess in July. The revisions would strengthen the role of Provincial Councils in provincial governance, giving [...] | 2006-06-14 05:28:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2727 | PARLIAMENT'S FIRST SESSION: REVIEW AND ATMOSPHERICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly ended its first session on June 5 having achieved several key milestones, including the confirmation of 20 ministers and the passage of the budget. Notable trends in the first session of Parliament included occasional hints of ethnic divisions beneat [...] | 2006-06-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL275 | AFGHAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: UPCOMING AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly (NA) will resume session on Saturday, January 21. On the immediate agenda are continued discussion on rules of procedure and the formation of political groups and committees. Debate on approving the Cabinet and transitional laws will most likely [...] | 2006-01-19 12:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL2956 | ITALIAN VICE FOREIGN MINISTER SUPPORTS ROADS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 30-minute meeting with the Ambassador June 23, The Italian Vice Minister Vernetti focused attention primarily on roads and customs trainers. The Italians continue to work on expanding the customs training programs out of Herat in order to increase GOA revenue. The Italians [...] | 2006-06-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL3449 | MP FAIZULLAH ZAKI HEALTHY, FOCUSED ON STABILITY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 1 meeting with DCM, Faizullah Zaki, MP from Jowzjan, pronounced himself in good health, and interested in downplaying the attack on him in June (REFTEL). While not explicitly stating that Dostum was behind the attack, Zaki said that he wanted to minimize reaction to [...] | 2006-08-02 09:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL3470 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PUL-E-CHARKHI OFFICERS [...] (U) In accordance with Leahy requirements, Post requests the vet individuals that will be trained as the Officer corps at Block IV of Kabul. Post requests a response from the Department within ten worki 1.Name: Haji Safiullah Fathers Name: Haji Juma Khan Village: Bagh Ala [...] | 2006-08-03 12:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL PHUM PGOV PINR AF |
06KABUL3471 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PUL-E-CHARKHI GUARD FORCE [...] (U) In accordance with Leahy requirements, Post requests the vet individuals that will be trained as the guard force at Block IV of Pu These individuals comprise the lower-level enlisted personnel. Post commissioned officers septel. Post requests a response from the Depa working days. 1. [...] | 2006-08-03 12:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL PHUM PGOV PINR AF |
06KABUL3752 | REQUEST VETTING FOR KABUL IMET CANDIDATES [...] (U) In order to comply with Leahy requirements, Post is forwarding the names and biodata of two Afghan officers selected for IMET training. They will attend the Senior Executive Seminar to be held at the Marshall Center, Germany, which is scheduled to begin August 28, 2006. Both individuals [...] | 2006-08-22 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PINR AF |
06KABUL3927 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING: PAK-AFGHAN [...] (U) In order to comply with Leahy requirements, Post is forwarding herewith the names and biodata of eight Afghan officers selected for IMET training. They will attend the Afghanistan-Pakistan Confidence Building Seminar to be held September 17-30 in Garmisch, Germany. The individuals have b [...] | 2006-09-01 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PINR AF |
06KABUL417 | DEBATE BUT NO ACTION IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Assembly's first week in session after a holiday recess was marked by heated debate over procedures for approval of the Cabinet and travel by Members of Parliament overseas. After initially agreeing to approve the Cabinet Minister by Minister, the Wolesi Jirga (lowe [...] | 2006-01-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL426 | FREED EDITOR ASKS FOR US FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/DCM and EMBOFFS met with freed editor Ali Mohaqeq Nasab. He expressed thanks for the Embassy's efforts to influence his release and asked for substantial funding to supplement his women's rights publication and other endeavors. While funding for the scale of projects Nasab w [...] | 2006-01-31 11:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL43 | INDEPENDENT ELECTION COMMISSION FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nations Development Program faces a USD 11 million shortfall from the 2005 Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council elections and an additional 2.9 million for transition support to the new Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) Without additional assistance, the U [...] | 2006-01-04 01:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL4322 | PRESIDENT KARZAI ISSUES DECREE ESTABLISHING [...] (U) On September 17, four days before the deadline, Afghanistan met the first benchmark from the London Compact (Pillar II: Governance, Rule of Law, and Human Rights) when President Karzai issued a decree establishing a Special Consultative Board to recommend candidates for Presidential appoi [...] | 2006-09-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM AF |
06KABUL4390 | REQUEST VETTING FOR KABUL CANDIDATES [...] (U) In order to comply with Leahy requirements, Post is forwarding the names and biodata of five Afghan officials of the Presidential Protection Service for DS/ATA training. They will attend a senior leadership course to be held at the American University, Washington, D.C. It is scheduled to [...] | 2006-09-27 03:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PINR AFIN ASEC AF |
06KABUL467 | THE AFGHAN TWILIGHT ZONE: PROPOSAL FOR A NEW PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several well-known members of Parliament (MPs),including Qanooni, Rabbani, and Fahim, have allegedly begun discussing the creation of the position of Prime Minister. The proposal has not yet been brought to the floor of the Parliament and the MPs' motives are still unclear, but [...] | 2006-02-03 11:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL490 | QANOONI DENIES INTEREST IN PRIME MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 4 meeting with DCM and POLOFFs, Wolesi Jirga Speaker Yunus Qanooni denied interest in creating the post of Prime Minister. He reiterated his interest in a close relationship with President Karzai and the United States and stated that the Parliament had higher prio [...] | 2006-02-05 11:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL538 | PRT/GHAZNI: JUSTICE REFORMS MAINTAIN MOMENTUM [...] SUMMARY: The Ghazni Judicial Conference, held December 14-15, 2005, brought key GOA officials from the Supreme Court, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior to Ghazni to meet with provincial justice officials and to rview how well the Ghazni justice system complies with proper judicial [...] | 2006-02-07 11:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM AF |
06KABUL539 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEBATES ACTION ON AFGHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff attended a January 18 meeting to discuss the possibility of a shake up in the Supreme Court and how the international community should react. Beyond general agreement that they would support a transparent process and qualified candidates, viewpoints diverged on how best to [...] | 2006-02-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL559 | PRT/GHAZNI:NAWA, GHAZNI'S LOST DISTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Geographically isolated and largely ignored by the Afghan government and the international community, the southern district of Nawa is one of Ghazni's most troubled security environments and is vulnerable to infiltration by anti-government forces from neighboring Paktika and Zabu [...] | 2006-02-08 11:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PINR AF |
06KABUL64 | HAZARAJAT FEELING NEGLECTED AGAIN; ACTING DAI [...] (U) SUMMARY: Acting Governor of Dai Kundi Province Ahmadullah Nawid and Hazara political activist Zulfiqar Omid were pleased on January 5 to once again voice their complaints to a USG PolOff about the lack of development attention being given to the Hazarajat region. Describing the region as [...] | 2006-01-05 13:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL686 | POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT FAIL TO TAKE HOLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is considering disba [...] | 2006-02-15 05:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL747 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/PHD OFFICERS [...] Embassy Kabul welcomes DRL/PHD Officers Saba Ghori and Jennifer King, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on March 4-8, 2006, to monitor and evaluate DRL's Human Rights and Democracy Funds (HRDF) projects in Afghanistan. Control Officer is Chris Hensman, Political Offi [...] | 2006-02-21 07:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM OTRA PGOV PHUM AF |
06KABUL813 | CORRECTED COPY: POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU/REL ISAF) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is consideri [...] | 2006-02-25 05:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL839 | PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...] | 2006-02-27 06:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL851 | PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...] | 2006-02-27 09:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL91 | MP BIO: ABDUL RASUL SAYYAF [...] (U) This is the second in a series of biographic reporting cables on Afghanistan's newly elected Parliamentarians. Additional reports will be sent as EMBOFFS continue to meet personally with new MPs during the coming weeks. 2. (SBU) Summary: Amb and POLOFF met with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf on 3 J [...] | 2006-01-08 10:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
06KABUL942 | PRT HERAT - HERAT'S ASHURA RIOTS: THE HEAVY HAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the surface, the February 9-10 Sunni-Shia riots in Herat were a seamless transition from a "spontaneous" February 7 protest against the Prophet Mohammed caricatures. We believe, however, the riots were in part the result of political connivance by Energy Minister and former H [...] | 2006-03-05 14:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
06KAMPALA1573 | POSTCARD FROM MASAKA: MULTIPARTY OPPORTUNITIES AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Internal party conflict between national and local NRM officials is an important trend in Uganda's new multiparty system. On August 14, poloffs visited Masaka, a large rural district located southwest of Kampala notable for its diversity of political party representation at b [...] | 2006-08-18 11:54:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID UG |
06KAMPALA1613 | NORTHERN UGANDA: RETURNS OF DISPLACED PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In northern Uganda, humanitarian organizations are reporting increases in the numbers of internally displaced persons returning to their land. The process of "decongestion" of the camps has led to the spontaneous movement of IDPs from more crowded camps to areas where they can [...] | 2006-08-25 12:34:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID PREF UG SU |
06KATHMANDU1189 | STUDENT POLITICAL LEADERS WANT INTRA-PARTY [...] (C) Student political leaders representing all major political parties met with the Ambassador on May 5 to discuss Nepal's transition to democracy and their hopes for the future. A dynamic group, the students demonstrated a keen understanding of the difficulties faced by their party leaders. [...] | 2006-05-09 06:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
06KATHMANDU1254 | WOMEN POLITICAL PARTY MEMBERS WANT INTRA-PARTY [...] (C) The Ambassador met with nine members of the newly formed Women's Caucus, a group of women politicians from the seven-party alliance and other major parties, on May 15 to discuss the role of women in Nepali politics. The women noted that there was now a higher understanding of the importan [...] | 2006-05-16 08:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
06KATHMANDU1282 | EUPHORIA, BUT SOME QUESTIONS, OVER PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Nepalese throughout the country took to the streets on May 18 and 19 to peacefully celebrate the May 18 "historic" Declaration of the sovereignty of Parliament (reftel). Civil society leaders welcomed the Declaration, but privately worried about its implementation and legality. Business p [...] | 2006-05-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM ECON NP |
06KATHMANDU1285 | EUPHORIA, BUT SOME QUESTIONS, OVER PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Nepalese throughout the country took to the streets on May 18 and 19 to peacefully celebrate the May 18 "historic" Declaration of the sovereignty of Parliament (reftel). Civil society leaders welcomed the Declaration, but privately worried about its implementation and legality. Business p [...] | 2006-05-19 12:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM ECON NP |
06KATHMANDU1340 | MAOISTS PROJECT POWER IN MID-WESTERN DISTRICTS [...] (C) During a May 22-24 visit to the mid-western districts of Bardiya and Banke, Emboffs found an atmosphere of fear instilled by the Maoists, despite the cease-fire and 12-point understanding with the seven-party alliance. The Maoists continue to extort, kidnap, train and recruit, while claimi [...] | 2006-05-26 09:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
06KATHMANDU1784 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS -- A LONG AND [...] (C) On July 5, a team visiting from the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) told Charge and Emboffs that ideal election preparations to a constituent assembly would likely take at least one year from the time the Government of Nepal (GON) begins planning. The IFES team conced [...] | 2006-07-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
06KATHMANDU2489 | NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 10:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU NP |
06KATHMANDU957 | PROFESSIONALS INCREASING SUPPORT FOR PRO-DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Numerous professionals and professional organizations have either announced their support through press statements or staged protests around the country as pro-democracy demonstrations called by the seven-party alliance continued into a seventh day. Health services in major hospitals arou [...] | 2006-04-12 12:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM NP |
06KATHMANDU971 | KING'S NEW YEARS' MESSAGE DISAPPOINTING [...] (C) The King's much anticipated New Year's speech on April 14 contained no concrete initiatives, but called on "all political parties to join in a dialogue, which we have always advocated, to bear the responsibility of and contribute towards activating the multiparty democratic polity." Par [...] | 2006-04-14 07:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PTER KDEM NP |
06KHARTOUM2344 | SPLM PARTY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY - EXPAND LINKAGES [...] (C) Summary: Senior SPLM members say they are focused on expanding the party by reaching out to the Mesiriya in Abeyi, Nubans in South Kordofan, and groups in Darfur where they see party support growing. Some SPLM leaders discreetly are exploring the possibility of a trilateral dialogue ) SPL [...] | 2006-09-25 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SU |
06KHARTOUM2507 | SUDAN - BLUE NILE STATE SITUATION REPORT [...] On July 20, USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) staff traveled through southern Blue Nile State. The team assessed the progress of the USAID-funded Farmer-Nomad Peace Conference, the status of local government capacity, transfer of authority to local levels, and potential area [...] | 2006-10-16 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM2739 | SUDAN - SOUTHERN KORDOFAN SITUATION REPORT [...] On September 2, USAID staff visited Kadugli and Abyei towns in Southern Kordofan State to track progress on the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and determine appropriate areas for USAID support. In the state capital, Kadugli, some administrative restructuring has occu [...] | 2006-11-26 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2869 | DARFUR - NGO OUTLOOK BLEAK IN MEETING WITH SE [...] (SBU) On December 12, Special Envoy Natsios met with 11 members of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) NGO Forum Steering Committee in Khartoum to solicit their perspectives on the humanitarian situation in Darfur. Oxfam, Help Age, Tearfund, the International Rescue Committee (IRC),Norweg [...] | 2006-12-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2876 | DARFUR: NGOS RELOCATE STAFF FROM GEREIDA IDP CAMP [...] (SBU) At approximately 2130 hours on December 18, armed men believed to be Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/Minawi) elements stole 14 vehicles from three compounds in Gereida, South Darfur. As a result, all humanitarian organizations except the International Committee of the Red Cross [...] | 2006-12-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP PGOV |
06KHARTOUM2877 | SUDAN: HAC INTERROGATES USAID PARTNER [...] (C) The Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) is in the process of collecting information on all humanitarian organizations working in Sudan. The effort appears to be part of an annual exercise aimed at identifying humanitarian staff and assets. The process inc [...] | 2006-12-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2919 | SUDAN - INCREASING DISCONTENT AMONG THE MISSERIYA [...] (C) Summary: On November 16, a crowd of 700 demonstrated in the Misseriya town of Al Fula, Southern Kordofan State, to protest the Government of National Unity,s (GNU) failure to provide the Misseriya people with their share of oil revenues. In a subsequent meeting on November 18, the Misser [...] | 2006-12-28 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM509 | SUDAN DENOUNCES SAMARRA BOMBING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KDEM KISL SU IZ |
06KIEV1025 | GUAM: Azerbaijan Remains the Dissenting Voice on a [...] (SBU) On March 15, Yevhen Koziy, Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office, informed INLOff that experts from GUAM member states (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova),and not the National Coordinators (NCs) as stated in ref A, participated in the March 13-14 meeting in Kiev to final [...] | 2006-03-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM ENRG GUAM |
06KIEV1062 | UKRAINE/BELARUS/RUSSIA: GOU VIEWS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: During EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 meetings in Kiev, Deputy Defense Minister Polyakov said that while security issues in the Ukraine-Russia relationship were secondary to political and military aspects, his Ministry (MoD) tried to play a "good cop" role by reinforcing a produ [...] | 2006-03-17 15:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KDEM PHUM PINR RS BO UP |
06KIEV1073 | UKRAINE: SIXTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, Charge hosted a roundtable discussion with NGOs on the March 26 Rada (parliament) and local government elections. One NGO representative predicted long lines at polling stations, and attributed the poor organization of the elections to a lack of government meddlin [...] | 2006-03-20 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIEV1084 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT SIGNS TWO OF THREE AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed into law March 17 two of the three bills passed by the Rada March 14, amending parliamentary and local election laws (reftel). The bills Yushchenko signed (now known as law No. 3519-IV) included provisions allowing District Election Commissions [...] | 2006-03-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM UP OSCE |
06KIEV1107 | UKRAINE: DELIVERABLES FOR GUAM SUMMIT, NSDC AND [...] (C) Summary: According to a National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) staff official, the May GUAM summit aims to feature agreements to enhance regional energy security and cooperation in solving "frozen conflicts." The official opined that NSDC Secretary Kinakh's visit to Moscow might ha [...] | 2006-03-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EUN ENRG PGOV PINR RS AZ GG MD UP |
06KIEV1109 | UKRAINE: REGIONS PARTY CONSULTANT ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 17, AmCit Catherine Barnes (please protect),a member of the consulting team from U.S. political consulting firm Davis-Manafort working for the opposition Party of Regions, told USAIDOff that Regions officials had expressed concern over the potential for "substantial f [...] | 2006-03-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIEV1136 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO ON ELECTIONS, COALITIONS [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, President Yushchenko expressed confidence that problems in staffing polling stations would be fixed in time for the March 26 elections, but said that he would not sign a Rada-passed bill allowing citizens to be added to the voter list on ele [...] | 2006-03-24 07:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
06KIEV1159 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO RALLIES FAITHFUL ON THE MAIDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a rally March 23 on Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti),the geographical and spiritual center of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, former PM Yuliya Tymoshenko strived to recreate the spirit of the November-December 2004 protests that broke the Kuchma regime [...] | 2006-03-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM UP |
06KIEV1162 | UKRAINE/BELARUS: GOU STATEMENTS ON BELARUSAN [...] (SBU) On March 24 DCM relayed concerns (ref A) regarding a March 21 MFA statement calling the international isolation of Belarus ineffective (ref B) to MFA Second Territorial Department Deputy Director Ihor Prokopchuk. DCM characterized the March 21 statement by GOU spokesman Filipchuk as unh [...] | 2006-03-24 16:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM |
06KIEV1163 | UKRAINE: ELECTION DAY REPORT -- ORANGE MAJORITY [...] (C) Summary: Election day has proceeded without problems on a national scale that should affect the outcome of the vote, despite a variety of adminstrative deficiencies in many polling stations and allegations by all sides of wrongdoing by their opponents. Main concerns going in to election d [...] | 2006-03-26 20:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM |
06KIEV1169 | UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION TALKS STALL [...] (C) Summary: On the basis of exit polls projecting a surprisingly strong second-place showing in the March 26 parliamentary elections for her eponymous bloc, Yuliya Tymoshenko is driving to close a deal that will reunite the original Orange coalition and return her to the PM slot. Oleksandr M [...] | 2006-03-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ETRD |
06KIEV1177 | UKRAINE: POST-ELECTION DAY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ballot counting for the March 26 national parliamentary vote (ref B) proceeded without significant incident throughout the night and into the morning of 27 March, with official results slowly coming in through the day and approaching the exit polling results by the national con [...] | 2006-03-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
06KIEV1194 | UKRAINE: RADA ELECTION TALLY AT 83 PERCENT; KIEV [...] (C) Summary: Official results continued to come in slowly but steadily through the day March 28, with relative percentages holding steady at Yanukovych 30, Tymoshenko 22 and Our Ukraine 15. Most parties have not voiced any significant complaints about the election, but Tymoshenko's bloc cont [...] | 2006-03-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
06KIEV1243 | UKRAINE: ELECTION RESULTS OVER 97 PERCENT; PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: With over 97 percent of the national parliamentary vote tallied by 6 pm March 29, opposition Party of Regions continued to lead with 31.8 percent of the vote, followed by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) at 22.4 percent, and President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine at 14.1 percent. Five [...] | 2006-03-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
06KIEV1245 | UKRAINE: DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT IN BREZHNEV'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a check of 12 polling stations and while observing opening and closing procedures at two others in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk oblast),an Embassy election monitoring team participating with the OSCE/ODIHR election mission found few irregularities March 26-27. The vast [...] | 2006-03-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIEV1247 | UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT OF SEVERODONETSK, HOST [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, site of the infamous November 28, 2004 separatist rally held at the height of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, at which then-PM Yanukovych, many Party of Regions backers from e [...] | 2006-03-29 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIEV1258 | UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: REGIONS PARTY TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: In an election in which the status of Russian language and ties with Russia figured heavily in the local political agenda, voters in Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea delivered the majority of their votes to Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions in voting for the national [...] | 2006-03-30 12:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM |
06KIEV1261 | UKRAINE ELECTION 2006: WINNERS, LOSERS, TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary and local elections are not yet final, and negotiations to form a majority Rada coalition have not yet concluded, it is already clear that the elections highlighted a number of winners and losers, as well as trends in Ukraine's deve [...] | 2006-03-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UP |
06KIEV1313 | UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: IN TERNOPIL, TYMOSHENKO [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in Ternopil city, capitol of the eponymous western oblast that voted 96% for Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine's 2004 presidential election and 69% for Our Ukraine in the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2006 voting for the pa [...] | 2006-04-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIEV1540 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S PARTY "ENDORSES" PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's Hamlet-like dance over whether or when to endorse ex-Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko's claim on returning to her old job in the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" continued April 14 when the Executive Council of the People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party's Politic [...] | 2006-04-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
06KIEV1662 | UKRAINE: RADA MAJORITY COALITION TALKS RESUME; [...] (C) Summary: After a ten-day hiatus, coalition negotiations between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists resumed April 25, deputy Socialist Party leader Iosyp Vinsky told Ambassador April 27. Our Ukraine's Roman Zvarych, Tymoshenko (standin [...] | 2006-04-27 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
06KIEV1698 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S ZVARYCH ON AGREEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department chief Roman Zvarych confirmed that, in ongoing Rada majority coalition negotiations between Our Ukraine (OU),Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists, two documents had been signed April 25, one on co [...] | 2006-04-28 13:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM UP |
06KIEV2068 | UKRAINE/GUAM: U.S.-GUAM BILATERAL MEETING [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. delegation of EUR DAS Kramer and Vice-Presidential Deputy National Security Adviser Wood met with GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) representatives May 22. GUAM representatives favorably noted strong U.S.-GUAM past and present cooperation. Kramer congratulat [...] | 2006-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM ETRD EAID AORC UNMIK PINR YI AZ GG |
06KIEV2331 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...] | 2006-06-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP |
06KIEV2358 | UKRAINE/ROMANIA/BLACK SEA FORUM: FRIENDLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine and Romania have enjoyed markedly warmer relations post-Orange Revolution, according to Romanian Embassy counselor Stanciu, with Romanian President Basescu visiting Kiev three times. MFA Romania desk officer Popyk told us three areas continued to be irritants in the bi [...] | 2006-06-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ETRD SENV KDEM RO UP |
06KIEV3029 | UKRAINE: TALE OF TWO VIKTORS: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES [...] (C) Summary. In another last minute decision crucial to the political future of Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko initiated the procedures required for dissolution of the Rada (parliament) August 2, only to agree in the middle of the night instead to endorse Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovyc [...] | 2006-08-04 06:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
06KIEV3332 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary. During subdued Independence Day celebrations August 24, President Yushchenko stressed that the western-focussed policies adopted after the Orange Revolution (i.e., pursuing EU and NATO membership) would be continued by Ukraine's new government led by Viktor Yanukovych that he des [...] | 2006-08-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM MARR UP |
06KIEV335 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH DISCUSSES GAS DEAL, RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 24 meeting with opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych and Rada Deputy Taras Chornovil, EUR A/S Fried told Yanukovych the U.S. supported Ukraine and would work with whatever democratically-elected government the people of Ukraine chose. The U.S. would [...] | 2006-01-26 08:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM ETRD ENRG EPET UP WTO |
06KIEV3532 | UKRAINE: MFA OFFICIAL WORRIES THAT KOSOVO [...] (C) Polcouns updated MFA Acting Director General for Political Affairs Olexander Tsvietkov September 12 on the situation with respect to Kosovo, drawing on information from ref b. Knowing that the situation in Kosovo was to be discussed, Tsvietkov presented us with a non-paper, text in para 4 [...] | 2006-09-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK PGOV UN YI MD UP |
06KIEV3755 | UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...] | 2006-09-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP |
06KIEV382 | UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said, during a January 30 meeting with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies Head Bruce Jackson and Ambassador, that the Ukrainian government did not favor Kosovo independence. Such an outcome would destabilize the political situation in S [...] | 2006-01-30 15:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM PINR YI UP UNMIK OSCE |
06KIEV400 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...] | 2006-01-31 16:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
06KIEV656 | UKRAINE: FOURTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: At an Ambassador-hosted roundtable on the March 26 Rada (Parliament) and local government elections February 14, NGO representatives felt that while most voters were aware of the shift to elections based on party lists, this awareness dropped off significantly in rural areas. N [...] | 2006-02-17 14:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
06KIEV957 | UKRAINE: USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley visited Kiev February 28-March 2 and met with OSCE, Central Election Commission (CEC),and political party representatives to get a better sense of how the run-up to the March 26 elections was proceeding. She noted repeatedly that the U [...] | 2006-03-13 18:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
06KIGALI1063 | MAYOR PRESENTS HER VISION FOR KIGALI [...] (U) Summary. On 3 November Kigali City Mayor, Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, briefed diplomatic corps and a small group of stakeholders on her strategic vision for the city. Kacyira presented her municipal government's mission, to make Kigali "a safer, cleaner, more competitive modern city with exp [...] | 2006-11-07 08:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV ECON RW |
06KIGALI1223 | PRESS FREEDOM: END OF YEAR WRAP-UP [...] Issues of press freedom in 2006 remained the subject of much debate and action in Rwanda. A year which began with public criticism of Rwanda's media by President Kagame and of individual reporters by other officials later saw clear signs that senior GOR officials recognize the importance of a [...] | 2006-12-22 11:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI180 | MEDIA COVERAGE OF BIZIMUMGU TRIAL REFLECTS [...] (U) Summary: Local and international media provided mixed commentary on the Bizimungu verdict announced February 17 (reftel). While some lauded the long-awaited decision of the Rwandan Supreme Court as a positive development in Rwanda's judicial reform process and an example of the judiciary [...] | 2006-02-23 15:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI181 | RWANDA SENATE ASSERTS AUTONOMY, SUMMONS MINISTERS [...] (U) Summary: On February 2 and 9, Internal Affairs Minister Christophe Bazivamo and Justice Minister Edda Mukabagwiza were summoned by the Senate to two public hearings to address questions on national security and judicial issues. Senators expressed concerns over serious human rights violat [...] | 2006-02-23 15:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI183 | 2006 SECTOR-LEVEL ELECTIONS: ORDERLY, HIGH VOTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The second phase of 2006 Rwanda local elections, conducted February 20 at the sector level, proceeded smoothly. Polling sites were easy to find and easy to access, and local National Electoral Commission staff appeared to follow established guidelines and procedures. Voters w [...] | 2006-02-24 07:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI220 | KIGALI CITY ELECTS WOMAN MAYOR [...] Summary: In the final phase of 2006 local elections March 4, a woman parliamentarian was elected mayor of Kigali by an overwhelming majority. As in the earlier phases of the electoral process (reftels),voter turnout was high. An estimated 94 percent of the electoral college, comprised of [...] | 2006-03-06 15:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI228 | HOTEL RWANDA MANAGER NO HERO TO GOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been an ongoing public campaign to discredit Paul Rusesabagina, the former manager of Hotel des Mille Collines during the 1994 genocide and current hero in the US and Europe due to the film 'Hotel Rwanda', in Rwanda. The efforts to damage the reputation of Mr. Rusesabagin [...] | 2006-03-08 06:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR RW BG |
06KIGALI267 | STATUS OF RWANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary. On 13 March, Ambassador met with Sylvie Zainabo Kayitesi, the Chairperson of the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR),to present the 2005 Human Rights Report (HRR) and discuss the work of the NCHR. Ambassador Arietti discussed the importance the USG places on the respect [...] | 2006-03-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI281 | PRESIDENT KAGAME RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] Summary: On March 11 President Kagame announced a cabinet reshuffle, replacing the Finance Minister, dropping three ministers, and creating a new ministerial post in the Office of the President for scientific research and technology. Despite rumors for several weeks of an impending shake-up [...] | 2006-03-23 16:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RW |
06KIGALI286 | RWANDA SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF AF A/S JENDAYI [...] Post warmly welcomes your visit to Rwanda. Rwanda is a country struggling to overcome its past and bring its people and economy into the 21st century. The legacy of the 1994 genocide in which up to one million people were killed still haunts the country and underlies the tension faced by a [...] | 2006-03-28 05:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KDEM RW |
06KIGALI291 | GOR Discusses Human Rights Report, Promises [...] (SBU) Summary: During a candid meeting March 22 with Ambassador and Embassy poloffs and PD officer on the 2005 Human Rights Report, senior GOR officials raised several issues, including what they characterized as the report's accusatory tone and lack of context. Officials also voiced concern [...] | 2006-03-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI365 | VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER TO RWANDA [...] (C) In a successful, productive visit to Rwanda April 4-8, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer engaged in candid discussion on a broad range of issues from regional security, bilateral relations, and Darfur to democracy and human rights. In her meetings with senior [...] | 2006-04-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAGR KDEM PHUM KPKO MOPS RW CG |
06KIGALI382 | National Reconciliation a Top Priority for Rwanda [...] Summary: During an April 20 meeting with Ambassador, National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) Executive Secretary Fatuma Ndangiza described NURC's primary role as promoting national reconciliation through civic education. Since 1999, NURC has conducted surveys, including a nation [...] | 2006-04-24 17:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI393 | Catholic Church of Rwanda Supports Gacaca, [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April 11 meeting with the Papal Nuncio, Ambassador brought up a recent note verbale from the Vatican that criticized gacaca (ref A). Ambassador noted that he is aware of concerns that gacaca is not serving the purpose for which it was created and that the GOR, itself, [...] | 2006-04-26 18:04:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI405 | Embassy Comments on Vatican Note on Gacaca [...] Summary: Ref (A) Vatican note criticizes the gacaca tribunals in Rwanda for not serving the purposes for which they were created. It characterizes the gacaca process as politically manipulated and procedurally flawed, citing specific concerns. While Embassy recognizes, as does the GOR, tha [...] | 2006-04-28 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS VT RW |
06KIGALI407 | FORMER PRESIDENT ASKS KAGAME FOR A PARDON [...] (U) Summary. Ex-President Pasteur Bizimungu recently submitted a handwritten letter to President Kagame requesting a pardon for his 2004 conviction for incitement of civil disobedience, formation of a criminal association and embezzlement of public funds. In the letter, Bizimungu maintains th [...] | 2006-04-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | AFSN KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI408 | Embassy Commemorates 28 Local Staff Killed During [...] Summary: On April 20 Embassy held a memorial service in honor of 28 locally engaged staff killed during the 1994 genocide. The fifth annual commemoration brought together American and local staff with the widows and orphans of the victims. In his remarks, Ambassador acknowledged that the i [...] | 2006-04-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AFSN KDEM RW |
06KIGALI411 | Ambassador Urges GOR to Publicly Respond to [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met April 21 with the recently appointed Minister of Internal Security to discuss bilateral cooperation on security, human rights, and democracy. He urged the Ministry to investigate and publish its findings in response to each reported incident of alleged police hara [...] | 2006-05-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI456 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT ELIGIBILITY [...] (C) In its recent indicator analysis of Rwanda, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) noted that Rwanda failed four of the six Ruling Justly indicators. Based on consolidated evaluations of third-party institutions, MCC provided Embassy Kigali a summary of Rwanda,s strengths and weakness [...] | 2006-05-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI480 | THE STATE OF PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA [...] (U) Press freedom in Rwanda--despite the legacy of a media tainted by complicity in the genocide and lingering mistrust between the government and journalists--has in recent years taken root. Several independent radio stations and newspapers currently are operating. While reports of self-cen [...] | 2006-05-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI482 | Catholic Archbishop Notes Improved Church-State [...] Summary: During a May 17 discussion with polchief on religious freedom in Rwanda, the Catholic Archbishop of Kigali noted that relations between the GOR and the Catholic Church have improved, with greater collaboration on social services and other services, such as security. He noted, howev [...] | 2006-05-18 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI RW |
06KIGALI496 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S ROUNDTABLE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. During a roundtable discussion April 5 with Rwandan parliamentarians and a separate call on the president of the Rwandan Senate, Assistant Secretary Frazer addressed recent developments in the Great Lakes region, human rights issues, the role of parliament in Rwandan society, [...] | 2006-05-25 06:24:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM KMCA RW CG |
06KIGALI517 | U.S. TRIPARTITE DELEGATION MEMBERS DISCUSS HUMAN [...] Summary: During a May 24 meeting with Ambassador Arietti and visiting U.S. Tripartite Plus delegation members, Rwandan parliamentarians discussed the gap between perception and reality on Rwanda's performance on human rights. They asserted that outsiders criticize Rwanda without fully under [...] | 2006-05-31 15:59:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KMCA RW |
06KIGALI540 | RWANDAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS MEET WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 24 meeting with prominent local civil society leaders, Ambassador expressed U.S. support of the role of civil society in Rwanda, stressing the critical balance it brings to government decision- making. Civil society leaders discussed their goals, successes, and in [...] | 2006-06-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
06KIGALI595 | FRENCH REPORTER ORDERED TO LEAVE RWANDA [...] (U) Summary. Radio France International (RFI) correspondent, French citizen Sonia Rolley, left Kigali on June 10 after the GOR refused to renew her visa. Rolley had worked on and off in Rwanda since October 2004 but the visa renewal request was rejected by Rwandan Immigration and she was di [...] | 2006-06-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL RW |
06KIGALI726 | GOR ON RELATIONS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) Summary. On July 5 Emboffs met with GOR officials to discuss the relationship between civil society and the GOR. The meeting provided an opportunity for the GOR to clarify its relationship with NGOs, religious organizations, and political parties operating in the country, and to address a [...] | 2006-07-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI727 | NEW HIGH COUNCIL OF THE PRESS APPOINTMENTS [...] (C) Summary. In June the GOR confirmed new appointments for the country,s nine-person High Council of the Press (HCP),which is charged with both regulation of the media and promotion of press freedom in the country. It is hoped that this iteration of the Council (this is the second Council t [...] | 2006-07-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM UNESCO RW |
06KIGALI784 | JOURNALIST FREED BY GACACA AUTHORITIES [...] (U) Summary. On July 28, Jean Leonard Rugambage, a journalist for the Kinyarwanda fortnightly newspaper Umuco,, who was charged with murdering a bank official in his home district during the genocide, was freed after 11 months in detention. Rugambage had been formally charged with murder one [...] | 2006-08-11 09:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI790 | 'UMUCO' EDITOR BONAVENTURE BIZUMUREMYI REFUSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than one week after being served with a summons to be questioned by the criminal investigation division of the Rwandan National Police, Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, editor of the Kinyarwanda language fortnightly 'Umuco,' remains unwilling to appear for questioning and is on the r [...] | 2006-08-14 11:41:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI836 | KIGALI'S NEW MAYOR BANS MOTORCYCLE TAXIS [...] (U) Kigali city residents awoke on Monday, August 21 to an odd sight in central areas of the city: the complete absence of motorcycle taxis plying their trade on busy thoroughfares. The Kigali City Council, led by its new Mayor, Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, banned commercial motorcycles (termed "bod [...] | 2006-08-29 16:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM RW |
06KIGALI842 | PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA: CHARGES OF HARASSMENT AND [...] (U) During August, there have been several incidents of alleged threats, and one physical attack, against Rwandan journalists by unknown perpetrators. Two journalists have left the country, although one may return soon. GOR officials vehemently deny any official GOR involvement in negative [...] | 2006-08-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM RW |
06KIGALI848 | GOR RENEWS VOA BROADCAST AGREEMENTS, AIRS ITS [...] On Thursday, August 31, Voice of America Director David Jackson renewed VOA's transmission agreement with Rwanda's public broadcaster, ORINFOR, and signed a licensing agreement with the Ministry of Information. The GOR took the opportunity of the signings to voice strong concerns about what i [...] | 2006-08-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PREL RW |
06KINSHAA1386 | DRC ELECTIONS PPRD, INDEPENDENTS STILL LEADING IN [...] (U) Summary.The latest legislative election results releasedby the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) show the People's Party for Recostruction and Development (PPRD) leading all other parties with 26 percent of the 250 seats awarded to date. A total of 39 independent candidates have won s [...] | 2006-08-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1025 | DRC ELECTIONS: MORE THAN 13,000 CANDIDATES FOR [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced June 22 the provisional list of candidates for the DRC's provincial legislatures. According to the CEI, 13,371 candidate dossiers were accepted for the 632 seats nationwide; 466 potential candidacies were declared inadmissible. The DRC's [...] | 2006-06-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1032 | ON CAMPAIGN EVE: INCONCLUSIVE ROUND 2 MEETING OF [...] (C) Summary: Key officials of the DRC Transition, including Vice Presidents, members of the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT),the Independent Election Commission (CEI) President, and others gathered the afternoon of June 28 to continue last June 21's session (reftel) [...] | 2006-06-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1033 | DRC ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY BEGINS [...] (U) The official campaign period for the DRC's presidential and legislative elections commenced June 29, marking the beginning of the final electoral phase before the country's July 30 elections. In total, 33 presidential candidates are running for office, as well as 9,709 candidates (from 213 [...] | 2006-06-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1036 | KABILA ANNOUNCES NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCE [...] The recent spate of political alliances, including presidential candidate (and Mobutu-era Central Bank Governor) Pierre Pay Pay's CODECO and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's RENACO (ref A) continued with the June 24 announcement of the Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP). Presiden [...] | 2006-06-29 15:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1058 | ARS AND VOA SPEAKERS EMPOWER 200 MORE JOURNALISTS IN DRC [...] (U) Summary: Crisscrossing the Congo in April and June, ahead of historic elections July 30, VOA Chief Editor (Central Africa French service) Ferdinand Ferella, and ARS Speaker Eduardo Cue held seven workshops in five cities, for a total of 200 radio and television journalists. PAO accompanied [...] | 2006-07-03 10:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM CG KDEM KPAO |
06KINSHASA1064 | JUNE 30 IN DRC PASSES WITHOUT MAJOR INCIDENT [...] (U) The DRC celebrated June 30 its 46th anniversary of independence without major security problems despite expectations of civil disturbances from political opposition parties protesting the continuation of the country's transitional government. The DRC's National Day, which coincided with th [...] | 2006-07-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1067 | MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN THE DRC'S ELECTION OFFICIALLY BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: The first, historic televised presidential debate, marking the June 29 opening of the official campaign, was a technical success, and it set an enviably moderate tone. Unfortunately, only two of the expected five candidates participated, and rather obscure ones at that. Elsewher [...] | 2006-07-05 10:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CG KDEM KPAO |
06KINSHASA1076 | RCD/N PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROGER LUMBALA, A [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Pol intern met with Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie - National (RCD/N) Presidential candidate Roger Lumbala to discuss the candidate's presidential vision in the run-up to the elections. The meeting took place at Lumbala's house in Kinshasa, against the bac [...] | 2006-07-06 10:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL |
06KINSHASA1077 | FARDC COMMANDER DIES SUDDENLY OF UNKNOWN CAUSES [...] (C) General Sylvain Buki, the deputy chief of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC),died suddenly the evening of July 4 of unknown causes. According to military sources, Buki had reportedly been sick for the past two weeks with what was believed to be malaria and had been self-medicating for the [...] | 2006-07-06 10:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1078 | KABILA'S CAMPAIGN -- HE'S OFF AND RUNNING [...] President Kabila inaugurated his official run for the presidency on June 30 with two strategically-placed appearances in the first days of the presidential campaign. In rallies held in Butembo and Goma, two key cities of North Kivu, Kabila appeared in front of sizeable crowds -- groups made u [...] | 2006-07-06 10:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1085 | PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CLOSES FINAL [...] (U) President of the National Assembly Thomas Luhaka invoked "cloture," formally closing the final plenary session of the transitional National Assembly, on July 3. Two crucial pieces of legislation, the draft law on magistrates and the landmark legislation on sexual violence (septel) have b [...] | 2006-07-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1102 | FORMER UDPS OFFICIAL GEARING UP FOR LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Former UDPS member Eve Bazaiba -- the only publicly-declared member of the opposition party running in the DRC's elections -- has officially begun her campaign for a seat in the National Assembly, despite threats being made against her. Bazaiba, running as an independent, said she [...] | 2006-07-10 11:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1124 | CAMPAIGN UPDATE: BEMBA'S MLC [...] (C) Summary: With the presidential campaign well underway, Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's campaign as the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC)'s candidate is among the most visible in Kinshasa. The theme of Bemba's campaign posters, as well as his party literature, is "securit [...] | 2006-07-12 10:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1131 | MOBUTISTS CLAIM SECRET TO DRC GOVERNANCE: PAYOFFS [...] (C) Summary. During a June 7 meeting with poloff officials of the Popular Movement for the Revolution (MPR),one of two self-proclaimed Mobutist groups, demanded American support and claimed they alone held the secret to successfully governing the DRC. Following a lengthy rant against alle [...] | 2006-07-13 10:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1153 | DRC ELECTIONS: LAST-MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS ADDING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced July 15 that it has been able to verify some 24.4 million legitimately registered voters in the DRC, a number slightly below the original figure of 25.7 million. The CEI has estimated, however, that those 1.27 million "missing" [...] | 2006-07-19 09:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1161 | PPRD: EVEN IF KABILA WINS, CAN HIS PARTY SURVIVE? [...] (C) Summary: Although President Kabila is one of the most visible and strongest presidential candidates in the DRC's upcoming election, his ostensible party, the PPRD, is in organizational disarray and showing structural flaws which could pose serious concerns for the future. Unless the par [...] | 2006-07-20 09:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1162 | DRC ELECTIONS: LOOKING AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: With two weeks left in the DRC's election campaign, it is increasingly clear that incumbent president Joseph Kabila is the likely victor. Whether he will win on the first round (i.e., July 30) as his supporters continue to predict is far less certain, although current polling puts [...] | 2006-07-20 09:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1179 | PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL NYAMWISI THROWS VOTES TO [...] (SBU) Presidential candidate Mbusa Nyamwisi confirmed in an interview July 23 with Radio France Internationale (RFI) that he was urging his supporters to vote for incumbent President Joseph Kabila. The interview confirmed growing speculation that the one-time RCD-K/ML rebel leader's lacklus [...] | 2006-07-25 12:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1181 | DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIANS HOLDING THEIR BREATH AS [...] (C) Summary: As the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections draw closer, the prevailing attitude among Kasaians towards the electoral process is largely one of profound mistrust. Fueled by the belief that their region has been ignored and exploited by the central government for ye [...] | 2006-07-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1185 | DRC ELECTIONS: UDPS A WANING THREAT IN THE KASAIS [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) -- which continues to boycott the DRC's July 30 elections -- remains a dominant presence in its traditional strongholds of Western and Eastern Kasai provinces. UDPS support and influence, however, are slowly declining i [...] | 2006-07-26 10:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1195 | BEMBA'S SECURITY FORCES FIRE WEAPONS DURING VP'S [...] (C) As Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba made his way on foot from Kinshasa's airport to the city's soccer stadium for an anticipated political rally, his security forces reportedly fired their weapons into the air as jet aircraft flew overhead. The planes, dispatched by Air Force Chief of Staf [...] | 2006-07-27 14:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1206 | DRC ELECTIONS: SECURITY CONCERNS IN THE KASAIS [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces have long been political flashpoints in the DRC due largely to the influence of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). Rallies and demonstrations in both provinces have in the past often devolved into violent clashes between politic [...] | 2006-07-28 09:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1208 | DRC ELECTIONS: POLITICAL LEADERS URGE CALM AFTER [...] (C) The atmosphere in Kinshasa is largely calm two days before the scheduled July 30 presidential and legislative elections, despite several outbreaks of violence in the city July 27. As reported reftel, some security forces of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba (Movement for the Liberation of C [...] | 2006-07-28 13:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1209 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 1 [...] (U) The Democratic Republic of Congo remains largely calm on the eve of the July 30 presidential and legislative elections. A few isolated security incidents have taken place in Kinshasa and Mbuji Mayi in the past day, but they have not kept election workers nationwide from completing last-minu [...] | 2006-07-29 18:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1210 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 2 [...] (U) Polls in the Democratic Republic of Congo opened largely on time for the historic July 30 presidential and legislative elections. Turnout is reportedly high in the east and moderate in Kinshasa, and numbers could rise after morning church services. Observers report surprisingly well-or [...] | 2006-07-30 08:32:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1211 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 3: SMOOTH OPERATIONS [...] By late afternoon, most areas of the country have reported large but orderly numbers of voters, competent poll workers, and helpful police. Report after report has described patient lines of Congolese voters, some dressed in their Sunday best, but devoting this particular Sunday to participa [...] | 2006-07-30 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1212 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 4: VOTING ENDS, COUNTING [...] According to reports from international elections observers countrywide, voting officially ended in all polling stations on time and with few reported problems. While the voting process itself has benefited from a variety of "lessons learned" from the constitutional referendum in December 20 [...] | 2006-07-30 19:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1213 | DRC ELECTIONS: THE DAY AFTER [...] (U) Summary: Despite some expected technical and logistical difficulties, coupled with isolated incidents of violence and intimidation in the Kasai provinces, the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections were held in a largely calm and orderly fashion. Voter turnout nationwide appe [...] | 2006-07-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1220 | DRC ELECTIONS: CARTER CENTER "HOPEFUL" ABOUT VOTE [...] (U) The Carter Center's election observation mission released a preliminary statement August 1 on the DRC's July 30 elections, noting that polling stations were "well-organized" and that election officials "competently fulfilled" their duties. In a Kinshasa press conference, the Carter Center' [...] | 2006-08-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1223 | DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA CLAIMING VICTORY ABSENT [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has already begun claiming victory in the DRC's July 30 presidential elections, broadcasting purported results via television and radio stations he owns. Before polls even closed, the Bemba-owned station CCTV began reporting "results" from polling sites thr [...] | 2006-08-03 12:00:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1231 | DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA ALLEGES VOTE "MARRED BY [...] (U) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa and his party, the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD),alleged the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections were "marred by irregularities." In a six-page statement released July 31 by the RCD's secretary general, the party lays out a series of a [...] | 2006-08-03 16:33:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1233 | DRC ELECTIONS: EU MISSION DECLARES VOTE MANAGED [...] (U) The European Union's Election Observation Mission (MOEUE) released August 2 its preliminary statement on the DRC's July 30 elections, noting that the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) managed the vote "efficiently" despite political tension and certain inequalities observed during the [...] | 2006-08-04 08:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1236 | DRC ELECTIONS: CEI PROMISES INVESTIGATION AFTER [...] (C) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu promised August 4 that the Commission will investigate the burning of an unknown number of marked ballots and vote tally sheets at an election liaison office in Kinshasa. In a meeting with the Ambassador and Repres [...] | 2006-08-04 13:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1237 | ELECTIONS OBSERVATION IN BUNIA [...] Summary: (U) Pol Intern traveled to Bunia (Ituri District) to observe the DRC's July 30 elections. Visits to over ten different voting centers and approximately 100 individual stations revealed no significant evidence of irregularities. Despite sometimes long and cumbersome voting lines, the d [...] | 2006-08-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1238 | DRC ELECTIONS: CIAT DISMAYED BY POLITICIZATION OF [...] (U) The International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) issued a declaration August 3 expressing its "dismay" over the "flagrant politicization" of the vote counting process after the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections. The CIAT statement comes after a similar comm [...] | 2006-08-04 13:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1241 | ELECTIONS OBSERVATION IN BAS-CONGO [...] (U) Summary. Elections in Bas-Congo proceeded calmly and with high voter turnout. EconOff observed election and post-election procedures at numerous polling sites July 28-August 1. EconOff witnessed no evidence of fraud, but did observe many procedural irregularities, most of which appeared to [...] | 2006-08-04 16:43:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1249 | DRC ELECTIONS: AFRICAN OBSERVER MISSIONS GIVE [...] (U) Summary: Several African election observation missions have released their preliminary statements regarding the DRC's July 30 president and legislative elections. While noting the logistical challenges poll workers faced, most African missions declared the vote to have been conducted succe [...] | 2006-08-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1251 | DRC ELECTIONS: KASHALA SEES HIMSELF AS CONGO'S NEW [...] (C) Summary: Oscar Kashala is declaring himself an "emerging leader" and "power broker" capable of deciding the eventual winner of the Congo's presidency. Basing his claims on an apparently strong showing in the Kasai provinces and in Kinshasa, Kashala said he will come in third behind Presiden [...] | 2006-08-08 08:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1255 | DRC ELECTIONS: MARKETING BEMBA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with Vice President (and presidential candidate) Jean-Pierre Bemba on August 3. During the meeting, Bemba disingenuously said all the right things and gave all the right responses as he pretended to distance himself from the effo [...] | 2006-08-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1256 | DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA STILL CRYING FOUL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with Vice President (and presidential candidate) Azarias Ruberwa on August 2. During the meeting, Ruberwa repeated his allegations of "widespread fraud" and promised to pursue his complaints through the appropriate legal channels [...] | 2006-08-09 11:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1257 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA LEADING BEMBA IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) With just five percent of all electoral districts nationwide having reported their ballot counts, incumbent President Joseph Kabila has taken a large and early lead over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Six of the eight districts reporting, however, are in eastern DRC, where Kabila was [...] | 2006-08-09 11:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1264 | DRC ELECTIONS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT KINSHASA'S [...] (U) Summary: Following the enormous logistical challenge of organizing the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections comes an equally daunting task: the collection, compilation and verification of tens of millions of ballots from some 50,000 polling stations nationwide. In Kinshasa, [...] | 2006-08-11 07:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1265 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA CONFIDENT, UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with President (and presidential candidate) Joseph Kabila on August 5. Kabila noted that managing the responses of losing candidates and the high expectations from the Congolese people will be the most important challenges for th [...] | 2006-08-11 08:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1267 | DRC ELECTIONS: OBSERVATION IN THE KIVUS [...] (U) Summary: The July 30 elections saw high turnout among North Kivu's 2.5 million and South Kivu's 1.6 million registered voters. Reports from EmbOffs who served as observers in the east indicate that despite logistical and voter education problems, elections in the Kivus were generally w [...] | 2006-08-11 10:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1269 | DRC ELECTIONS: EARLY RESULTS SHOW KABILA IN LEAD [...] (U) With nearly 20 percent of the DRC's electoral districts reporting their presidential results, Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) figures show that incumbent President Joseph Kabila is leading Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba 48 to 20 percent. As of August 10, 32 of the country's 169 di [...] | 2006-08-11 14:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1270 | OPPOSITION FIGURE LEAVES SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Pastor Theodore Ngoy, a minor opposition figure who was jailed December 31 for "offending the president" (reftel A) and later "escaped" to the South African Embassy in Kinshasa where he took up residence March 2 (reftel B),finally left the embassy on July 30. Ngoy said the South Afri [...] | 2006-08-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1277 | DRC ELECTIONS: WITH 46 PERCENT OF DISTRICTS [...] (U) As of August 14, 46 percent of the DRC's electoral districts have reported results from the DRC July 30 presidential election. In the 78 of 169 districts having announced results, incumbent President Joseph Kabila is leading Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba 55 to 17 percent. Nzanga Mobutu, [...] | 2006-08-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1278 | DRC ELECTIONS: EMINENT PERSONS GROUP URGES CALM [...] (U) The International Committee of Wise Men ("Comite des Sages") issued August 12 a declaration congratulating the Congolese people and authorities for the calm and peaceful manner in which the country's July 30 elections were held. The Committee urged political candidates and the population t [...] | 2006-08-14 14:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1280 | DRC ELECTIONS: RELIGIOUS GROUPS CALL FOR PEACE AND [...] (U) The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and the leaders of the five largest religious communities released August 12 separate statements congratulating the Congolese people for their maturity and calm during the July 30 election, and appealing to all Congolese to remain tolerant [...] | 2006-08-14 17:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1293 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA MAINTAINS LEAD WITH 60 [...] (U) Preliminary vote tallies from the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) through August 16 show 60 percent of the DRC's electoral districts have reported their presidential results. In the 101 of 169 districts having finished compiling ballots, incumbent President Joseph Kabila is leading [...] | 2006-08-16 15:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1300 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA LEAD SLIPPING BELOW 50 [...] (SBU) As of August 17, initial voting results from approximately 63 percent of the DRC's electoral districts show incumbent President Joseph Kabila's lead narrowing over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. According to the results posted from 107 of the 169 districts, Kabila leads Bemba 48.5 to [...] | 2006-08-17 14:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1302 | THREE TV STATIONS SUSPENDED AFTER BROADCASTS RAISE TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Three television stations were suspended from broadcasting August 17 by order of the High Media Authority (HAM). The three are state-owned RTNC1, the MLC-affiliated CCTV, and the religious station RTAE, all of which have been showing violent scenes, notably from the pillaging wh [...] | 2006-08-18 10:37:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1307 | DRC HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP ISSUES REPORT ON [...] (U) Summary: The National Observatory for Human Rights (ONDH),one of the five "citizen institutions" of the DRC's transitional government, issued August 12 a report detailing its findings concerning campaign-related violence in the month leading up to the country's July 30 presidential and le [...] | 2006-08-18 12:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA131 | MLC VS. OLIVIER KAMITATU [...] (SBU) The intraparty battle within the MLC has now moved to the courts. Olivier Kamitatu, the former MLC Secretary General and current Speaker of the National Assembly, has filed suit against the MLC for expelling him from his party post and attempting to remove him as Speaker. Kamitatu's No [...] | 2006-01-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1310 | DRC ELECTIONS: GIZENGA AN EMERGING FORCE [...] (C) Summary: Antoine Gizenga, secretary general of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU),met with the Ambassador August 17. The long-time opposition figure, who almost certainly will likely place third in the first round of presidential voting and is the potential kingmaker in a second round, sa [...] | 2006-08-18 15:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1311 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA, BEMBA MOVE TO SECOND ROUND [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced the evening of August 20 official provisional results from the DRC's July 30 presidential election. According to CEI figures, incumbent President Joseph Kabila won 44.81 percent of the votes cast to Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's 20.0 [...] | 2006-08-21 09:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO ASEC CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1345 | DRC ELECTIONS: CHALLENGE PERIOD EXTENDED DUE TO [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) has extended the period for bringing challenges to the provisional presidential election results announced August 20. CEI spokesman Dieudonne Mirimo said political parties and independent candidates -- the two groups authorized to raise challenge [...] | 2006-08-24 13:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1357 | THE UNNECESSARY DRC CRISIS, AND BEYOND [...] (C) Summary: Kinshasa military clashes from Aug 20 - 22 represented arguably the biggest threat to date in DRC's difficult Transition process, although by Aug 24 the capital began resuming more normal activity. This crisis was confined exclusively to Central Kinshasa, in essence a clash betw [...] | 2006-08-28 17:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA1370 | DRC ELECTIONS: PPRD HOLDS SLIM PLURALITY IN [...] (U) With approximately half of the DRC's electoral districts reporting, initial election results for the National Assembly show the Kabila-affiliated People's Party for Reconstruction and Development (PPRD) currently leading all other political parties. No results, however, have yet been poste [...] | 2006-08-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1378 | MIXED COMMISSION BEGINS WORK ON INVESTIGATING [...] (U) The first session of the newly established Mixed Commission -- bringing together representatives of President Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba -- was held August 29 at MONUC headquarters. As reported reftels, the goals of the Commission are to facilitate a dialogue between the K [...] | 2006-08-30 15:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1388 | Kinshasa Broadcast Media Pledge to Try to Avoid Turning [...] (U) Summary: In the wake of inflammatory broadcasts and counter-broadcasts pitting media allied with Jean-Pierre Bemba and Joseph Kabila against each other, the directors of Kinshasa television stations signed pledges of good conduct on August 26 and 30. There has already been one violation [...] | 2006-08-31 16:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINS KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1401 | Media Pledge Extends to Kabila and Bemba Camps [...] (SBU) Summary: High-level representatives of both President Kabila and VP Bemba on September 4 signed a pledge to rein in their respective media. The Ambassador has heard from representatives of President Kabila that pro-Bemba broadcast media will be restored by the end of this week. The pled [...] | 2006-09-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1406 | DRC ELECTIONS: VALIDATION OF FIRST-ROUND [...] (U) Summary. The DRC's Supreme Court has delayed rendering its decision on the country's first-round presidential results due to a debate surrounding the timing of the second round of voting. The Court had been scheduled September 5 to make public its decision, which would have validated the r [...] | 2006-09-08 10:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1407 | DRC ELECTIONS: VALIDATION OF FIRST-ROUND [...] (U) Summary. The DRC's Supreme Court has delayed rendering its decision on the country's first-round presidential results due to a debate surrounding the timing of the second round of voting. The Court had been scheduled September 5 to make public its decision, which would have validated the r [...] | 2006-09-08 10:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1408 | DRC ELECTIONS: VALIDATION OF FIRST-ROUND [...] (U) Summary. The DRC's Supreme Court has delayed rendering its decision on the country's first-round presidential results due to a debate surrounding the timing of the second round of voting. The Court had been scheduled September 5 to make public its decision, which would have validated the r [...] | 2006-09-08 10:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1409 | DRC ELECTIONS: CARTER CENTER CONCLUDES FIRST-ROUND [...] (U) Summary: The Carter Center concluded in a September 1 statement that the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections were "credible," despite important procedural and logistical flaws. While voting and the counting process were generally successful, the Center noted certain irregul [...] | 2006-09-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1412 | DRC ELECTIONS: PROVISIONAL LEGISLATIVE RESULTS [...] (U) Summary: National provisional results released September 7 by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) for the DRC's next National Assembly show no political party or coalition controlling a majority of the chamber's 500 seats. According to the CEI figures, the People's Party for Reconst [...] | 2006-09-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1434 | BEMBA MEDIA IS BACK AND ALREADY SANCTIONED BY HAM [...] (U) Summary. One day after recommencing their broadcast operations, two television stations owned by Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba were sanctioned by the High Media Authority (HAM) for violating the media code of conduct. The two stations had broadcast scenes from Bemba's political [...] | 2006-09-13 17:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1438 | OCTOBER 29 REMAINS LIKELY SECOND-ROUND DRC [...] (U) The DR Congo Supreme Court of Justice ruled September 13 that the October 29 date set by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) for the second round presidential run-off election was unconstitutional. Citing the new constitution approved by voters in December, 2005 the Court declared th [...] | 2006-09-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1439 | THREE DAYS IN KINSHASA: HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS AND A [...] (C) Summary. Two days of high-level visitors to Kinshasa September 11 and 12 were followed September 13 by the long-awaited face-to-face meeting between President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, the two protagonists in the Congolese presidential elections and August 20-22 [...] | 2006-09-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG EUN UK SA |
06KINSHASA144 | CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE: FY-2006 CALL FOR AMBASSADOR'S [...] Embassy Brazzaville's selection committee has identified six, well-developed programs for funding by the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program in FY-06. The reputation and familiarity of this initiative have increased significantly in recent years as post endeavors to re-establish a full tim [...] | 2006-01-27 12:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM EAID AMGT CF CG ECON XA AID |
06KINSHASA1447 | Media Authority Issues Ruling Against Pro-Kabila TV [...] (U) Following its decisions September 12 - when the High Media Authority (HAM) reprimanded or fined two Bemba-owned TV stations (for jumping the gun with campaign broadcasts) and issued a warning to the state-owned RTNC (for a show where Jean-Pierre Bemba was referred to as a treacherous snake) [...] | 2006-09-15 11:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINS KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1448 | ANOTHER TRANSITION PROCEDURAL GLITCH [...] (U) In accordance with the DRC,s very complicated new constitution, and following the July 30 presidential and National Assembly elections, the 500 members of the new elected National Assembly are to take office in an initial session on September 22. The ceremonial installation is expected to [...] | 2006-09-15 13:00:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1451 | SUPREME COURT ALLOWS OCTOBER 29 DR CONGO ELECTION [...] (U) The DRC's Supreme Court ruled September 15 that the October 29 date for the second-round presidential run-off election can stand. Responding to a September 5 appeal filed by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),the Court declared that it is "technically impossible" to organize elec [...] | 2006-09-15 13:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1458 | RUBERWA AS STATESMAN: AUDITIONING FOR HIS NEXT [...] (C) Summary. Congolese Vice President and disappointed presidential candidate Azarias Ruberwa has positioned himself as a mediator and statesmen in the run-up to the second round of elections. His primary message now consists of three main points: reconciliation between Kabila and Bemba, act [...] | 2006-09-18 16:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1465 | DRC LEADERSHIP GAP LOOMS: A VIEW FROM THE ECONOMY [...] (U) As reported in reftel B, the GDRC is about to face serious leadership voids in several ministries and in some state enterprises. Several current ministers, vice ministers and parastatal managers who have won seats in the National Assembly must now decide if they will resign their positions [...] | 2006-09-19 11:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EMIN KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1470 | FIRE AT VP BEMBA'S TELEVISION STATIONS ONE DAY, [...] (SBU) Summary: A fire broke out September 18 at a building housing offices of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba,s MLC party and his television stations. The fire was quickly extinguished, although two serious associated injuries have been reported; there were no Amcits involved. The cause o [...] | 2006-09-19 17:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1471 | KABILA ALLIES CLAIM DRC PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY [...] (U) Officials of a coalition of political parties that support DR Congo President Joseph Kabila claim to have assembled a majority in the newly-elected National Assembly. In a September 19 declaration, Coordinator Andre-Philippe Futa of the Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) said the [...] | 2006-09-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1472 | BEMBA,S MEN FAN THE FLAMES IN THE WAKE OF [...] (U) Summary: Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's political party issued a strongly-worded statement September 19 charging that the fire that knocked his media outlets off the air the day before was a "criminal act" designed to prevent him from conducting campaigning. Bemba's political allian [...] | 2006-09-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1478 | BEMBA,S READOUT OF KABILA MEETING REINFORCES [...] (C) Summary. DR Congo VP Bemba gave a readout of his meeting last week with Presidet Kabila during a September 18 discussion with te Ambassador. His version focused on their exchnges of views, including charges and counter-chargs, on the August 20-22 armed confrontations between their troops. [...] | 2006-09-21 16:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1481 | SECOND ROUND DR CONGO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SET TO [...] (U) DR Congo's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) has set the dates for official campaigning in the October 29 second-round presidential and provincial assembly elections. CEI President Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu announced that the presidential campaign will last 15 days, from October 13 [...] | 2006-09-22 09:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1484 | SECOND ROUND DR CONGO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SET TO [...] (U) DR Congo's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) has set the dates for official campaigning in the October 29 second-round presidential and provincial assembly elections. CEI President Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu announced that the presidential campaign will last 15 days, from October 13 [...] | 2006-09-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1485 | GIZENGA'S PARTY MAKES COMMON CAUSE WITH KABILA IN [...] (C) Summary: Antoine Gizenga's Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU) announced September 21 it would join a parliamentary coalition of the Kabila-affiliated Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP),and will support President Kabila in the October 29 presidential run-off. While such an alliance [...] | 2006-09-22 11:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1487 | UDPS STRUGGLING TO SAVE ITS FUTURE IN LATEST [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have been quietly negotiating with representatives of both President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba since DR Congo's July 30 first-round elections. They say talks with Kabila's People's Pa [...] | 2006-09-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1499 | CONGO'S NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS WORK [...] (U) DR Congo's newly-elected National Assembly met for the first time September 22 in Kinshasa. Of the 500 deputies elected on July 29, 438 participated in the largely ceremonial session. The pro-forma selection of its provisional bureau was the Assembly's sole order of business. 2. (U) J [...] | 2006-09-26 13:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1505 | DRC'S BEMBA FORMS NEW ALLIANCE TO COUNTER KABILA [...] (SBU) Summary: DR Congo Vice President Bemba announced September 23 the creation of a new political alliance, the Union for the Nation (UN). It appears unlikely to bolster significantly his electoral prospects in the October 29 presidential vote. End summary. 2. (U) Congolese Vice Presid [...] | 2006-09-27 16:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1508 | UDPS SHOWS PUBLIC SPLIT OVER POSSIBLE ALLIANCE [...] (U) Summary. Infighting among members of DR Congo's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party spilled over into the public September 26 when several members issued a communique supporting the presidential candidacy of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Bemba's Movement for the Liber [...] | 2006-09-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1518 | Media Authority Issues Further Rulings; Bemba Media Resume [...] (U) Summary: Bemba-owned TV stations, which had nearly been destroyed by fire, have resumed broadcasting. A pro-Bemba radio station, whose signal was shut down in late August, is also back on the air. The High Media Authority (HAM) suspended or reprimanded two Kinshasa TV stations September 26 [...] | 2006-09-29 11:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1521 | CAMPAIGN OPENS FOR DR CONGO'S PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Campaigning officially began at midnight September 28 for the DRC's provincial assembly elections. The 11 assemblies constitute a new level of government for the DRC, and are granted considerable authority under its new constitution. The new DRC constitution stipulates that the central gov [...] | 2006-09-29 11:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1523 | KABILA AND BEMBA AGREE ON MOVES TO REDUCE ARMS ON [...] (U) Negotiators for President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba signed an agreement September 23 aimed at reducing arms on the streets of Kinshasa and the risk of further confrontations between their armed forces. The agreement aims to calm tensions in the wake of the August 2 [...] | 2006-09-29 13:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF KDEM MARR CG |
06KINSHASA1529 | GIZENGA OFFICIALLY SIGNS ON TO SUPPORT KABILA, [...] (U) Summary: PALU leader Antoine Gizenga formalized his support September 30 for President Joseph Kabila in the second round of DR Congo's presidential elections in an agreement that also guarantees PALU the position of Prime Minister. The agreement also commits PALU and Kabila,s AMP to a co [...] | 2006-10-02 16:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1540 | OSCAR KASHALA -- NOT THE FORCE HE THOUGHT HE WAS [...] (C) Summary: Former DR Congo presidential candidate (and American citizen) Oscar Kashala, who once claimed to be the next "power broker" in Congolese politics (reftel),has proven little more than a flash in the pan. He won less than four percent of the vote in the July 30 presidential elect [...] | 2006-10-05 15:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1555 | HIGH MEDIA AUTHORITY SUSPENDS PRO-KABILA NEWSPAPER [...] (U) Summary: The High Media Authority suspended the pro-Kabila daily "L'Avenir" for impugning political adversaries. The HAM also reduced sanctions against those accused of inflammatory rhetoric during the official launching of the pro-Bemba political alliance. End summary. 2. (U) The High [...] | 2006-10-10 18:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG |
06KINSHASA1557 | POLITICAL FIGURE NGOY RUNS AFOUL OF MEDIA AUTHORITY [...] (U) Pastor Theodore Ngoy, a minor opposition figure arrested in 2005 for offending the president, has made headlines again by violating the Code of Good Conduct for Political Parties and the Media. During an October 3 political broadcast on Canal Congo Television (CCTV),which is owned by V [...] | 2006-10-11 11:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM ELECTIONS CG |
06KINSHASA1558 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR MASSIVE PARTICIPATION IN [...] (U) The influential National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) called upon all Congolese to vote in massive numbers in the upcoming October 29 presidential runoff and provincial assembly elections, but maintained that the Catholic Church (as well as CENCO itself) will remain neutral in the [...] | 2006-10-11 11:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1559 | MONUC TO CONTINUE JOINT PATROLS IN KINSHASA AFTER [...] (U) In an October 7 interview with Radio Okapi, SRSG William Swing confirmed that MONUC will continue operating joint patrols in Kinshasa -- comprising MONUC peacekeepers and police forces, Congolese national police (PNC),and EUFOR troops -- beyond the October 29 election and the immediate p [...] | 2006-10-11 11:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1561 | WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MANDATES APPROVED, KEY [...] (U) Summary: With the mandates for newly-elected National Assembly delegates approved, the eight-day delay period for all members to accept or reject their seats expires October 11. As a result, the 49 members elected to the National Assembly who have also been serving as Ministers, governor [...] | 2006-10-11 17:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1562 | UDPS LEADERS IN EASTERN KASAI URGE VOTERS TO HEAD [...] (U) Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) leaders in Eastern Kasai province -- the stronghold of the party and home province of its president Etienne Tshisekedi -- issued a communique October 6 encouraging all Congolese to participate "massively" in the October 29 presidential runoff a [...] | 2006-10-11 17:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1573 | DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA DECLARES HIMSELF NEUTRAL [...] (U) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa announced October 12 that he and his party -- the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) -- will remain neutral in the upcoming presidential runoff election between President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. The RCD's Founder's College release [...] | 2006-10-13 12:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1575 | DRC ELECTIONS: MEDIA AUTHORITY SETS PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) The DRC's High Media Authority (HAM) has proposed for October 26 the one and only planned presidential debate between President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Neither Kabila nor Bemba participated in the handful of televised debates held among the 32 candidates who ran [...] | 2006-10-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1578 | DRC ELECTIONS: SECOND-ROUND PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (U) Campaigning for the DRC's second-round presidential race officially begins at midnight local time October 13. President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, the top two finishers among the 32 contenders in the first round on July 30, will have just fifteen days for their cam [...] | 2006-10-13 19:32:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1591 | EASTERN KASAI GOVERNOR REJECTS ASSEMBLY SEAT: [...] (C) Summary: Dominique Kanku, the governor of Eastern Kasai province, has declined to take his seat in the DRC's new National Assembly, opting instead to remain in his current position. Kanku is the first high-level GDRC official elected to parliament on July 30 to make it known he intends to [...] | 2006-10-17 11:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1601 | EMINENT PERSONS COMMITTEE URGES ALL TO CONTRIBUTE [...] (U) The Eminent Persons Committee, chaired by former Mozambique president Joachim Chissano, issued a statement October 14 calling on all Congolese to contribute to the stability of the DRC's electoral process. The statement followed a series of meetings by the Committee with political officia [...] | 2006-10-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1602 | TSHISEKEDI EXPELS UDPS MEMBERS ADVOCATING ALLIANCE [...] (U) Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) President Etienne Tshisekedi issued two decisions October 16 effectively expelling several high-ranking members of the party who have been advocating an alliance with presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba. Those named were members of the p [...] | 2006-10-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1603 | DRC ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Four days into the DRC's second-round presidential campaign, preparations are on track for the October 29 vote. Ballots and voting materials are being delivered, while training of poll workers is entering its final stages. The general mood of the country remains calm, although [...] | 2006-10-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1616 | FINAL WAVE OF APPOINTMENTS IN TRANSITIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Following President Kabila's ruling faction appointments of replacements for newly elected National Assembly members who were required to retire from their government posts on October 11 (ref A),the remaining transitional factions followed suit by naming their own replacements [...] | 2006-10-19 15:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1618 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA AND NZANGA MOBUTU FORMALIZE [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila and Nzanga Mobutu, sons of two bitter enemies, signed an accord October 17 in Kinshasa to ally their parties for the October 29 presidential run-off election and in the new National Assembly. Nzanga, head of the Union of Mobutuist Democrats (UDEMO),had announced hi [...] | 2006-10-19 15:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1622 | DRC CAMPAIGN ELECTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba have signed an agreement detailing the code of conduct for the presidential campaign. There is not yet agreement, however, regarding the adoption of a post-electoral accord providing certain guarantee [...] | 2006-10-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1635 | DRC ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: With five days remaining until the DRC's October 29 presidential and provincial assembly elections, logistical aspects remain on track. A post-election agreement governing the status of the electoral loser has yet to be agreed upon, with advisers to President Kabila calling such a [...] | 2006-10-24 11:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1642 | DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIANS SHOWING GREATER [...] (C) Summary: With the DRC's second-round presidential elections taking place October 29, attitudes towards the electoral process in the provinces of Western and Eastern Kasai are changing. Kasaian in the strongholds of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have been to some degree [...] | 2006-10-25 08:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1643 | EU-GDRC PRESIDENCY TENSIONS [...] (C) The British, French, and Belgian Ambassadors informed the Ambassador October 24 that a European Union (EU) ministerial-level "Troika" delegation in Kinshasa two weeks ago had been unable to secure a meeting with President Kabila, to the general irritation of the Europeans. The three diplo [...] | 2006-10-25 10:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL CG GE EU |
06KINSHASA1644 | DRC ELECTIONS: KASHALA ENDORSES BEMBA FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Former DRC presidential candidate Oscar Kashala officially endorsed Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba for president October 24. Kashala will begin campaigning immediately on Bemba's behalf, beginning with a trip to Western and Eastern Kasai provinces, followed by visits to Lubumbashi, Nor [...] | 2006-10-25 11:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1652 | DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIAN VOTES WILL BE KEY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces are a key battleground in the October 29 presidential election. The over two million voters who abstained in the July 30 first round could be crucial to victory for President Joseph Kabila or Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Neither obtained a [...] | 2006-10-25 18:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1654 | DRC ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Plans for a debate between President Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba have been scrapped because neither camp could agree on the format for the encounter. Neither Kabila nor Bemba has personally campaigned as the official campaign period comes to a close, although Bemba [...] | 2006-10-26 14:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1663 | DRC ELECTIONS: SECURITY CONCERNS MINIMAL IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces witnessed acts of politically-related violence before and during the July 30 elections. The potential for isolated incidents remains, but security and political officials in the region do not foresee problems that could derail the October 29 ele [...] | 2006-10-27 10:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1664 | NZANGA MOBUTU RETURNS TO KINSHASA AFTER VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Nzanga Mobutu is reportedly safe and en route to Kinshasa following violence October 26 in Gbadolite in Equateur province. Congolese military forces and MONUC peacekeepers re-established order after some looting and civil unrest in the late afternoon. Gbadolite is calm on October [...] | 2006-10-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA1666 | DRC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RUNOFF: SITREP 10/27 [...] (U) Campaigning for the October 29 DRC vote ends October 27 at midnight. Voters will elect delegates to the new provincial assemblies, which will later elect senators and governors, but the race dominating the public eye is the second round presidential runoff between transitional President [...] | 2006-10-27 12:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1667 | DRC ELECTIONS: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS [...] (U) The following is a series of frequently asked questions and answers regarding the DRC's October 29 presidential run-off and provincial assembly elections. ----------------------------------------- Q: WHAT IS THE OCTOBER 29 ELECTION ABOUT? ----------------------------------------- 2. [...] | 2006-10-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1668 | DRC ELECTIONS: PALU CONFIDENT ITS MEMBERS WILL [...] (C) Summary: Close advisers to Antoine Gizenga, the Secretary General of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU),said SIPDIS they are confident the party's supporters will vote for President Joseph Kabila in the October 29 run-off election. They confirmed that Gizenga himself will not campaign f [...] | 2006-10-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1669 | DRC ELECTIONS: MLC LEADERS ON CAMPAIGN AND [...] (C) Summary: Key officials of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) say they are confident that Bemba will hold key strongholds in the October 29 presidential election and increase his tally elsewhere. They complain that MLC supporters are being harassed [...] | 2006-10-28 13:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1670 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 10/28, 1200 [...] (U) Summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo remains calm on the eve of the October 29 presidential and provincial elections. Official campaigning ended at midnight October 27 and there have been no reports since of serious incidents in Kinshasa or elsewhere. Voting will begin at 0600 local ti [...] | 2006-10-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1671 | DRC ELECTION DAY: SITREP 1, 10/29 1000 [...] Senior representatives from the Kabila and Bemba camps issued a joint appeal October 28 requesting their followers to vote with "the same calm, order and serenity" as they did in the first round. A copy of the statement has been transmitted to AF/C and S/ES-O. An unofficial translation of p [...] | 2006-10-29 10:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1672 | DRC ELECTION DAY: SITREP 2, 10/29 1230 [...] Despite isolated problems, observers continue to report generally smooth, orderly voting throughout the country in the October 29 DRC elections. Without exception, voters seem to be familiar with the process, which has helped reduce the amount of time people are spending waiting to vote. [...] | 2006-10-29 11:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1673 | DRC ELECTION DAY: SITREP 3, 10/29 1600 [...] (U) The heavy rain that began early this morning in Kinshasa stopped around 1400 local time. Embassy observers in the capital report that voter turnout since midday has slowly and steadily increased as the rain abated. The Ambassador and DAS Don Yamamoto are leading a 15-member team of Embassy [...] | 2006-10-29 15:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1674 | DRC ELECTION DAY: SITREP 4, 10/29 2130 [...] Kabila and Bemba reached agreement late this afternoon on a Declaration of Post-Electoral Intentions that includes commitments for both the winner and loser in the October 29 presidential election. The declaration, signed by Samba Kaputo for Kabila and Thomas Luhaka for Bemba and witnessed b [...] | 2006-10-29 21:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1675 | SITREP 5: INITIAL OBSERVATIONS: PEACEFUL AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Preliminary conversations with representatives of several of the international observer missions in DR Congo for the October 29 elections generally reflected U.S. Mission reports of mostly peaceful and efficient voting in all areas of the country. Missions will release officia [...] | 2006-10-30 11:33:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1677 | DRC ELECTIONS: VOTING COMPLETED, COMPILATION BEGINS [...] (U) Summary: The DRC's October 29 presidential run-off and provincial assembly elections generally passed smoothly and peacefully, with only a few logistical problems and isolated incidents of violence reported. Officials with the major political parties have expressed their overall satisfactio [...] | 2006-10-30 13:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1679 | DRC ELECTIONS: MLC POST-ELECTION PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) party said before the October 29 election that a Bemba-led government would work closely with President Kabila's PPRD. They say the immediate focus would be on reform of the security [...] | 2006-10-31 08:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1683 | DRC ELECTIONS: BALLOT COMPILATION UNDERWAY WITH [...] (U) Summary: AF DAS Yamamoto emphasized to the Congolese press strong U.S. interest in working with a freely-elected Congolese government after heading the U.S. observer team for the October 29 DRC elections. One of two Kinshasa television stations owned by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba is a [...] | 2006-10-31 15:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1686 | SOUTH AFRICAN OBSERVER MISSIONS CALLS DRC [...] (U) The South African Observer Mission (SAOM) characterized the DRC's October 29 presidential and provincial elections as "democratic, peaceful, credible, and transparent." The 108-member observer mission was deployed in all eleven provinces, with an average of three teams in each. It was le [...] | 2006-11-01 09:43:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SA CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1687 | DRC ELECTIONS: CDCE/EURAC OBSERVERS PRAISE CONDUCT [...] (U) A joint observation mission of the Civil Society Framework for Cooperation in Election Observation (CDCE) and the European Network for Central Africa (EURAC) praised the conduct of second-round DRC elections in a statement released October 31. The mission, which included more than 50,000 [...] | 2006-11-01 13:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1689 | BEMBA MEDIA STILL OFF THE AIR [...] (SBU) Summary: Political and technical problems have kept media owned by presidential contender Jean-Pierre Bemba off the air for most of the last few days, both before and after the October 29 voting. MONUC is reportedly mediating this issue in an attempt to restore the signals. The High Media [...] | 2006-11-01 15:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1692 | DRC ELECTIONS: CARTER CENTER COMMENDS "ORDERLY AND [...] (U) Former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark released a preliminary statement by the Carter Center on the October 29 DRC elections at a press conference November 1 in Kinshasa. The Carter Center congratulated the Congolese people for an orderly and peaceful vote, and credited the Independent [...] | 2006-11-02 12:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1693 | KABILA ALLIES LOOK AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Kabila allies Kamitatu and Ghonda told the Ambassador November 1 they were optimistic about elections, with Kabila garnering a total percentage in the mid-50,s percentile. Kamitatu believes the new National Assembly organization is moving forward, and both the Congolese politicia [...] | 2006-11-02 12:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1694 | DRC ELECTIONS: FATAKI RE-VOTE ON FOR TODAY, BALLOT [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced November 1 it had delayed by one day a scheduled re-vote in the distant Ituri District town of Fataki. The CEI had ordered a re-vote at 43 polling sites after a mob destroyed ballots and other material following the killing of two CEI wo [...] | 2006-11-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1697 | ELECTION RELATED DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Malu Malu provided a briefing to members of the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) at the regular weekly CIAT meeting November 2. Among the highlights of his presentation: a) Work to tabulate results from the Octob [...] | 2006-11-03 08:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA170 | NORTH KIVU TENSIONS UNDERSCORE NEED FOR SYSTEM [...] (C) Actions by "insurgent" FARDC troops over the weekend of January 21, reported in reftel and previous cables, represent a major setback to efforts to establish stability in the province. There are continuing clashes in the province between "insurgent" troops and primarily MONUC forces. The [...] | 2006-02-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA1701 | DRC ELECTION AUTHORITIES SEEKS TO AVOID ABUSE OF PARTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of presidential candidates Kabila and Bemba signed an agreement November 1 not to publish partial election results. Two newspapers have been suspended by the High Media Authority (HAM) for abusive extrapolation of partial results. HAM President Mutinga has report [...] | 2006-11-03 11:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1702 | DRC ELECTIONS: 18 PERCENT OF POLLING STATIONS [...] (U) DRC Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Apollinaire Malu Malu said in a November 2 press conference that results from more than 9,000 of the DRC's 50,045 polling stations have been compiled. Although this represents 18 percent of all stations, the CEI has not yet released any [...] | 2006-11-03 11:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1703 | DRC ELECTIONS: EU PRAISES CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS [...] (U) The European Union Electoral Mission released a preliminary statement regarding the October 29 DRC election on November 1. It praised the elections as peaceful and orderly, and highlighted the organizational effectiveness of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI). The EU mission depl [...] | 2006-11-03 11:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1709 | DRC ELECTIONS: EIGHT OBSERVER MISSIONS ISSUE [...] (U) On November 2, eight international observer missions issued a positive joint statement on the October 29 DRC provincial and second-round presidential elections. The missions collectively deployed teams in all eleven provinces, including the capital, Kinshasa. They represented the Carter [...] | 2006-11-06 10:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA171 | SOUTH KIVU: NEW FACES, OLD PROBLEMS [...] (C) Summary: In Jan 12-13 meetings with the Ambassador and EmbOff, the new South Kivu Governor, MONUC Pakistani Brigade Commander, and FARDC Military Commander all expressed their commitment to moving ahead with a positive agenda for the province. The discussions, however, revealed many famili [...] | 2006-02-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1712 | DRC ELECTIONS: FIRST RESULTS SHOW KABILA WITH [...] (U) The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) posted on its website November 5 the first official vote tallies from the October 29 presidential election. The numbers represent only six percent of the country's electoral districts and give President Joseph Kabila a lead over Vice Preside [...] | 2006-11-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1714 | DRC ELECTIONS: SUPREME COURT REMOVES BEMBA ALLY [...] (U) The DRC's Supreme Court overturned the July 30 election to the National Assembly of a close ally of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba November 2 on grounds of voter intimidation and fraud. Roger Lumbala, president of the RCD/N political party, had his victory annulled after the Court found [...] | 2006-11-06 16:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1715 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Presidential security adviser (and newly-elected parliamentarian) Guillaume Samba Kaputo believes that President Kabila comfortably won the second round of presidential elections on October 29 with as much as 60% of the vote. Though not discounting the possibility of violence onc [...] | 2006-11-06 16:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO ECON CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1716 | DRC ELECTIONS: AFRICAN OBSERVER MISSIONS ECHO [...] (U) Summary. Interim statements on the October 29 DRC elections released this week by four African observer missions echoed the conclusions of other international observers (reftels): the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) conduct of elections improved from the July 30 first-round, poll [...] | 2006-11-07 10:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1719 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA MAINTAINS LEAD OVER BEMBA IN [...] (U) The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) on November 7 released results from five additional electoral districts from the October 29 presidential election. Seventeen electoral districts, ten percent of the country's total, have been reported to date and give President Joseph Kabila [...] | 2006-11-07 14:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1724 | DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA MAINTAINS LEAD WITH 26 [...] (U) With results from 26 percent of the DRC's electoral districts now tabulated, President Joseph Kabila maintains a preliminary lead over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba in the October 29 DRC presidential vote. The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) released results from 27 additional el [...] | 2006-11-08 17:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1725 | KABILA AND BEMBA HOLD FIRST POST-ELECTION MEETING [...] (U) Presidential candidates Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba met November 7 for the first time since the October 29 run-off vote. The meeting, at the Presidential Palace in Kinshasa, was only the second time the two have been seen in public together since the August 20-22 shootout between th [...] | 2006-11-08 17:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1729 | DRC ELECTIONS: 57 PERCENT OF DISTRICTS REPORTING, [...] (U) Votes from 57 percent of the DRC's electoral districts have now been tabulated. President Joseph Kabila has received 62.3 percent of the votes counted, Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba 37.7 percent. More than half these votes come from Kabila's eastern strongholds. The total number of valid [...] | 2006-11-09 14:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1730 | MEDIA REGULATORY BODY BARS POLITICIANS FROM THE AIR, [...] (U) Summary: Over the past week, the High Media Authority (HAM) sanctioned or warned several politicians for proclaiming the victory of either presidential candidate, and for other provocative speech. Three newspapers were suspended for election-related infractions. A number of television and [...] | 2006-11-09 14:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1732 | DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA ALLEGES DISCREPANCIES IN VOTE [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has charged that the vote counts for the October 29 election being released by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) differ significantly from those provided by his MLC party's witnesses. In a November 8 letter to CEI President Apollinaire Malu Malu, [...] | 2006-11-10 09:53:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1736 | DRC ELECTIONS: VOTE COUNT NEARLY COMPLETE [...] (U) As of November 13, preliminary figures released by the DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),accounting for 90 percent of the country's electoral districts, place President Joseph Kabila ahead of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba by 58.8 to 41.2 percent. Approximately 2.5 million vo [...] | 2006-11-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA174 | MLC NOMINATES BEMBA FOR PRESIDENT, ADOPTS PLATFORM [...] (U) Summary: The Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) held its party congress January 27-29 in Kinshasa in advance of national elections in 2006. The MLC unanimously nominated the party's chairman, Jean-Pierre Bemba, as its presidential candidate and adopted a national campaign platform. [...] | 2006-02-01 17:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1742 | DRC ELECTIONS: 94 PERCENT OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila leads Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba by 59.3 to 40.7 percent of votes thus far counted by the DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI). As of November 14, the CEI has reported preliminary results from 159 of the country's 169 electoral districts, nearly 94 per [...] | 2006-11-14 10:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1743 | BEMBA FOCUSING ON POLITICAL FUTURE IN OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary. Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has effectively recognized he has lost the October 29 DRC elections, but is laying the groundwork for claiming electoral fraud. Nonetheless, he increasingly is focusing on his political future. He told the Ambassador he and his troops plan to m [...] | 2006-11-14 13:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO AADP CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1746 | CATHOLIC CARDINAL ISSUES INCENDIARY STATEMENT RE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Catholic Cardinal of Kinshasa, Frederic Etsou, conducted a November 13 interview from Paris with Radio France International(RFI)where he is being treated for illness , and issued a written statement, attacking the integrity of the DRC elections and accusing the West of seek [...] | 2006-11-14 17:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA175 | VICE PRESIDENT RUBERWA STILL CONFIDENT OF [...] (C) During a January 25 discussion, VP Azarias Ruberwa (President of the Rally for Congolese Democracy party) told PolCouns that he is confident of his chances to win election as president of the DRC. (Note: Ruberwa was unanimously nominated as his party's presidential candidate during the p [...] | 2006-02-01 17:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1751 | DRC ELECTIONS: UNOFFICIAL TALLIES COMPLETE [...] (SBU) With 100 percent of electoral districts reporting as of November 15, unofficial tallies released by the DRC Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) show President Joseph Kabila with 58.07 percent of the vote versus Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's 41.93 percent. CEI spokesman Dieudonne [...] | 2006-11-15 15:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1752 | FAILED CANDIDATES DENOUNCE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE [...] (SBU) Fifteen members of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's presidential campaign alliance, including Oscar Kashala, issued a statement November 14 denouncing the DRC Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) for releasing fraudulent vote tallies. All except Roger Lumbala, whose election to pa [...] | 2006-11-15 15:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1753 | GOVERNMENT TARGETS STREET GANGS FOR "NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Government authorities plan to transport several hundred allegedly criminal homeless adults and children to rural areas for agricultural work or schooling following their detention in the aftermath of November 11 violence in Kinshasa (reftel). The Minister of the Interior outl [...] | 2006-11-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1754 | CARTER CENTER ISSUES SECOND POST-ELECTION STATEMENT [...] (SBU) In the aftermath of the incendiary claims in a November 13 statement from Cardinal Etsou attacking the integrity of the DRC elections (reftel),several international election observer groups are issuing statements of their own reasserting the positive assessments of the electoral proces [...] | 2006-11-15 16:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1755 | PROVISIONAL RESULTS GIVE KABILA WIN IN DRC [...] (U) The DRC Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) released provisional results of the October 29 presidential runoff giving Transitional President Joseph Kabila a victory over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba by 58.05 to 41.95 percent. CEI President Apollinaire Malu Malu announced the resul [...] | 2006-11-16 09:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1757 | DRC ELECTIONS: THE NATIONWIDE STATISTICS [...] (U) The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced provisional presidential election results November 15, giving President Kabila victory over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba by 58.05 to 41.95 percent. A total of 16.2 million valid votes were cast, with a nationwide participation [...] | 2006-11-16 15:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1758 | DRC PARLIAMENT: LUTUNDULA ADVOCATES AMBITIOUS [...] (U) Summary: Longtime Congolese parliamentarian Christophe Lutundula outlined his legislative priorities for the new National Assembly in a November 8 meeting with EmbOffs. Lutundula advocates broad reforms and scrutiny of contracts in the natural resources sector, as well as stringent meas [...] | 2006-11-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN KCOR KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1759 | VOTES BY SPECIAL DISPENSATION -- A REAL ISSUE? [...] (U) Summary: DRC presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba and his alliance have raised concerns about the large number of ballots by special dispensation ("derogation") in the October 29 election. They claim these votes were cast fraudulently by supporters of rival Joseph Kabila. Vote brea [...] | 2006-11-17 08:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1762 | DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA SAYS HE WILL CHALLENGE [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba said November 16 that he cannot accept the results of the DRC's October 29 presidential election and that he will use legal means to challenge the outcome. Bemba read a statement in both French and Lingala in a special broadcast on one of the Kinshasa-based [...] | 2006-11-17 10:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1774 | CEI RESPONSES TO BEMBA'S COMPLAINTS [...] (U) Summary: Presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba, in his capacity as President of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC),filed six separate complaints with electoral authorities of alleged irregularities in the DRC's October 29 election. Most were general and not backed up [...] | 2006-11-21 09:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1777 | VIOLENCE STRIKES COURTHOUSE, DELIBERATIONS AND [...] (U) Summary: Supporters of presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba clashed with police November 21 at the Supreme Court building on the initial day of hearings on Bemba's chalenges to provisional presidential election resuls announced on November 15. No American citizens ere involved, altho [...] | 2006-11-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1778 | EU ANALYSIS FINDS NO SUPPORT FOR BEMBA FRAUD CLAIMS [...] (U) An analysis by the European Union (EU) Electoral Observer Mission of votes cast in the October 29 presidential election does not support charges of widespread fraud raised by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba and his supporters in complaints to the Independent Electoral Commission (ref A) [...] | 2006-11-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1779 | MEDIA REPORT MISTAKES TRIBAL CONFLICT FOR [...] (U) Summary. A November 20 wire service report erred in describing a conflict in Bolobo, 175 miles north of Kinshasa, as fighting between Kabila and Bemba supporters. In fact, the violence was a flare-up of a longstanding inter-tribal dispute over land-use rights and had nothing to do with [...] | 2006-11-22 16:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1780 | BEMBA ADVISER PREDICTS COURT LOSS, PROVINCIAL WINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Delly Sesanga, a key member of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC),expects Bemba's Supreme Court challenge of the October 29 presidential vote will not succeed. He claimed that early vote tallies indicated the MLC will control at [...] | 2006-11-24 09:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1782 | DRC ELECTIONS: SUPREME COURT BEHIND SCHEDULE IN [...] (U) Summary: The DRC's Supreme Court has fallen behind schedule in ruling on legal challenges to the results of the July 30 legislative elections. The DRC's electoral law stipulates the Court has two months to deliberate and rule on electoral complaints. As of November 18, however, the Court h [...] | 2006-11-24 10:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1786 | POLL ON MEDIA USAGE IN KINSHASA SHOWS PUBLIC SOMEWHAT [...] (U) Summary: According to a recent poll, television ranks first in terms of overall audience in Kinshasa, radio second and newspapers third. Newscasts are the programs most watched and listened to overall in broadcast media. Politically-affiliated media, particularly pro-Kabila outlets, lost au [...] | 2006-11-27 08:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1788 | DRC ELECTIONS: PRO-KABILA COALITION AHEAD IN AT [...] (U) Summary: The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) has announced results for 472 of the 632 provincial assembly seats in the October 29 election. According to CEI tallies, President Joseph Kabila's Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) coalition has won majorities in four of [...] | 2006-11-27 14:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1789 | SUPREME COURT RULING ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (U) The DRC Supreme Court, after its deliberations were disrupted by violence at the Court on November 21 (reftel),resumed hearing arguments November 24 and 25 on Jean-Pierre Bemba's electoral challenge, and resumed reviewing the provisional presidential election results announced on November [...] | 2006-11-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1791 | KABILA DECLARED PRESIDENT; SUPREME COURT THROWS [...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court on November 27 certified the provisional results of the October 29 presidential runoff by declaring Joseph Kabila the victor of the DRC's first democratic presidential election in over 40 years. The Court also dismissed each of Jean-Pierre Bemba's eight elector [...] | 2006-11-28 12:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1795 | KINSHASA GOVERNOR PROMISES POLICE REFORMS [...] (C) Summary. Kinshasa Governor Baudouin Liwanga reviewed issues November 22 raised by the Supreme Court riot by Bemba supporters the day before. He acknowledged that the lack of discipline by police who fled the scene was a serious problem, and took note of the Ambassador's concern about the [...] | 2006-11-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO ASEC CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1799 | GOVERNMENT SENDS SHEGUES TO WORK CAMP, RELEASES [...] (U) MONUC's human rights division reported on November 15 that the number of apparently homeless persons rounded up by police following politically-inspired violence November 11 had grown to 505 from the original total of 337. The three hours of violence between supporters of presidential c [...] | 2006-11-29 08:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA18 | PRESIDENT KABILA'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE [...] (U) In a televised New Year's message December 31, President Joseph Kabila thanked the Congolese for their patience and sacrifices as the country nears the end of the transition period. Affirming his determination to lead the nation to free and fair elections, he congratulated them on the hi [...] | 2006-01-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA1802 | DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA PLEDGES TO LEAD POLITICAL [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba said November 28 he will remain a member of the DRC's political opposition. In a nationally televised address November 28, Bemba said in the larger interest of the nation and of the necessity to preserve peace and prevent violence, he will undertake the res [...] | 2006-11-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1817 | KABILA AND BEMBA HOLD PRIVATE MEETING [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba met at Bemba's riverside residence early in the afternoon of November 30. This was the first meeting between the two since the Supreme Court's official certification of Kabila's election (reftel). 2. (SBU) Presidency official [...] | 2006-12-01 11:43:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1824 | RUBERWA LOOKS TOWARD THE FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. In a private meeting, Vice President Azarias Ruberwa emphasized the need to address the security, political and judicial concerns of defeated presidential candidate and fellow Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. He declared himself open to working with President Joseph Kabila as [...] | 2006-12-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO AADP CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1827 | DRC ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES [...] (SBU) Summary: The pro-Kabila Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) has won majorities in at least five of the DRC's eleven provincial assemblies, according to provisional figures announced December 1. The pro-Bemba Union for the Nation (UN) coalition has won control of at least two. Pr [...] | 2006-12-04 16:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1833 | KABILA INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD [...] Summary: Joseph Kabila was inaugurated as the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo on December 6. Numerous African heads of state as well as high level international delegations attended the ceremony in Kinshasa. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao headed the USG Presidential Delegation [...] | 2006-12-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1848 | DRC ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION EXTENDS [...] (U) The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) has extended the registration deadline for candidates running for provincial governors and vice governors through December 12. The CEI had originally planned to end enrollment December 8. According to CEI spokesman Dieudonne Mirimo, the exten [...] | 2006-12-11 14:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1853 | DRC ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION PUBLISHES LIST [...] (U) Summary: The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) published December 12 the provisional list of 1,127 candidates running for the 108 seats available in the national Senate. Former Vice Presidents Jean-Pierre Bemba and Abdoulaye Yerodia, along with several former presidential candid [...] | 2006-12-13 17:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1856 | UNRESOLVED POLITICAL QUESTIONS, BEHIND-THE-SCENES [...] (C) Summary. Longtime Congolese political figure Antoine Gizenga is expected to be named as prime minister in the new government of President Joseph Kabila. Kabila has been presented with recommendations for ministerial appointments, but has announced no nominations. Formal installation o [...] | 2006-12-14 11:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1871 | BEMBA FLIES TO EUROPE TO TREAT BROKEN LEG [...] (SBU) Presidential runner-up and transitional vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba apparently broke his left leg on December 15, necessitating his evacuation to Europe for specialist treatment. The local media reported that Bemba stumbled during a regular "exercise session" at his home on Decemb [...] | 2006-12-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1882 | OPPOSITION LAWYER CHARGED WITH INSURRECTION, ARMS [...] (C) Summary: Marie-Therese Nlandu Mpolo-Mene, a senior official during the Mobutu regime and an ally of Jean-Pierre Bemba, was charged by a military court December 11 with incitement to overthrow the government and with possession of illegal firearms. Kinshasa Special Police had arrested Nl [...] | 2006-12-20 14:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA1890 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: MOMENTUM IN MOVING TOWARD [...] Summary. Antoine Gizenga, widely expected to become Prime Minister, was named government "informateur" on December 19 and is charged with determining if a majority can be found in the National Assembly. The Supreme Court will soon announce its certification of the National Assembly's Intern [...] | 2006-12-21 17:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1895 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: SUPREME COURT APPROVES NATIONAL [...] (U) The DRC's Supreme Court approved the Internal Rules for the National Assembly on December 21, two days ahead of the deadline (reftel). According to the Constitution, each parliamentary chamber's first duty is to draft internal rules which must be reviewed for constitutionality by the Supr [...] | 2006-12-22 09:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1928 | PARLIAMENTARY UPDATE: DRC NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The DRC's new National Assembly will elect its new leadership ("Permanent Bureau") by December 28. Vital Kamerhe is expected to be elected the assembly's president. Election of the new parliamentary leadership should be closely followed by the announcement of the prime ministe [...] | 2006-12-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1933 | 2006 REPORT SHOWS MORE OBSTACLES TO PRESS FREEEDOM IN DR [...] (SBU) Summary: The raw statistics of JED's annual report for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) show a quantitative increase in violations of press freedom in 2006. Bitterly fought elections, the DRC's first in two generations, and corrupt practices by underpaid journalists could well acc [...] | 2006-12-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CG KDEM KPAO |
06KINSHASA1939 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-29 09:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA197 | DRC: SUPREME COURT CERTIFIES REFERENDUM RESULTS, [...] (U) The Supreme Court on February 3 certified the results of the December 18-19 constitutional referendum. As reported reftel, the referendum passed with 84 percent of the vote in favor and 16 percent against. The constitution will become effective after being promulgated by President Joseph Ka [...] | 2006-02-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA210 | ABSENTEE CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) President Joseph Kabila's political party, the PPRD, is winding up a general convention in Kinshasa (to be reported septel). The primary purpose of the gathering is to energize the party and nominate Joseph Kabila as the party's candidate in presidential elections expected in coming mon [...] | 2006-02-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA211 | KABILA TO INITIATE CONSULTATIONS WITH NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Presidency staff have confirmed to us that President Kabila will be initiating a series of consultations in Kinshasa with a variety of North Kivu provincial community leaders in an effort to reduce tensions in the province following the recent violence initiated by "insurgent" FARDC troops [...] | 2006-02-08 12:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA222 | PPRD NOMINATES KABILA FOR PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: The People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) February 6 nominated President Joseph Kabila as its candidate for the DRC's presidential elections in 2006. During a disorganized party congress in Kinshasa, the PPRD lauded Kabila's efforts to bring peace and stability [...] | 2006-02-09 15:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA225 | ARS SPEAKER EDUARDO CUE: CORRUPTION OR [...] Summary: In a high-quality, versatile performance, ARS Speaker Eduardo Cue, the Paris-based U.S. News and World Report Correspondent, led two full-day workshops for 60 journalists and lectured to another 50 students of journalism in Kinshasa, February 1-3. With a studied mix of ethical, theor [...] | 2006-02-09 18:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM CG KPAO KDEM |
06KINSHASA228 | DRC ELECTIONS UPDATE: LAST REGISTRATION CENTERS [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced February 9 that the last remaining voter registration centers, located in Bandundu and Equateur provinces, will close February 10, bringing an end to enrollment efforts nationwide. Though the official enrollment period ended December 15, [...] | 2006-02-10 15:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA23 | UDPS, TSHISEKEDI ASSERT CHANGE IN DIRECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an ostensible reversal of its political strategy, the Union for Democratic and Social Progress (UDPS) announced it will participate in the DRC's 2006 elections, with UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi running as a candidate for president. As with previous messages from Tshisekedi [...] | 2006-01-05 13:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA234 | PRESIDENT TO PROMULGATE CONSTITUTION FEBRUARY 18 [...] (U) President Kabila intends on February 18 to promulgate the constitution approved overwhelmingly by Congolese voters in a December 18-19 referendum. A large ceremony is apparently being planned, to include a military parade, a speech by Kabila, and the presence of ROC President Sassou Ngues [...] | 2006-02-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA240 | CIAT COMMUNIQUE SUPPORTS MEDIA AUTHORITY [...] (U) Summary: State-owned television and radio (RTNC) devoted more than four hours to the PPRD party on February 6, when the PPRD nominated Joseph Kabila to be its presidential candidate. The following day, the High Media Authority (HAM) suspended for 48 hours political reporting on RTNC for v [...] | 2006-02-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CG KDEM KPAO CIAT |
06KINSHASA247 | UDPS MOVES TOWARDS ELECTIONS KICKING AND SCREAMING [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings, Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) officials said the long-time opposition party will participate in the upcoming national DRC elections and is planning to hold a national congress in February. These same officials, however, complained bitterly [...] | 2006-02-14 16:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA342 | MAI MAI RESISTANCE PATRIOTS PARTY SUPPORTS KABILA [...] (SBU) At its congress February 14-15 in Kinshasa, the Mai Mai Resistance Patriots Party (CRM) endorsed current President Joseph Kabila as its candidate for president. Party members also agreed to seek alliances with other parties in order to be part of a legislative majority with a say in the [...] | 2006-03-01 15:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA360 | SECURITY SECTOR REFORM: GOING NOWHERE, SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Security Sector Reform Joint Commission met on March 1 to address a heavy agenda, including the police census and the military disarmament and integration process. Despite the repeated concerns from the international community and the usual excuses from the GDRC, business r [...] | 2006-03-03 13:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA369 | DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CONDEMNATION OF [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered March 3 reftel demarche and statements to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said the GDRC deplored the attack on the Al-Askariya shrine as well as any acts of violence in Iraq. He added that the USG must find a solution to the violence or ri [...] | 2006-03-06 10:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ CG |
06KINSHASA379 | CONGOLESE BISHOPS WEIGH IN ON ELECTORAL PROCESS [...] (U) Following a week-long conference from February 27-March 4, the Congolese National Episcopal Conference (CENCO) -- an influential political actor in the DRC -- issued a statement from the country's Catholic bishops on the state of political events in the DRC. In its message, CENCO deplored [...] | 2006-03-07 12:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA380 | WESTERN KASAI: CALM, BUT UNPREDICTABLE [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and EconOff February 21-23 visited Kananga, the capital of Eastern Kasai province. During the visit, PolOff met with a variety of local political representatives and civil society actors to gauge the province's preparedness for national elections in 2006 and the potential f [...] | 2006-03-07 12:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA381 | "ESCAPED" OPPOSITION LEADER TAKES REFUGE AT SOUTH [...] (SBU) Following a March 2 Supreme Court hearing regarding the legality of his detention, Pastor Ngoy, a minor but vocal opposition leader, managed to elude his police guard to take refuge at the South African embassy. He had been jailed at Kinshasa Central Prison since December 31 for "offendi [...] | 2006-03-07 12:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA39 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION SAYS NO TO UDPS DEMANDS [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced January 7 that it would not reopen registration centers for the convenience of UDPS members who boycotted the registration process from June to December 2005. CEI Director Abbe Malu Malu noted that the time constraints of the electoral [...] | 2006-01-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA405 | EASTERN KASAI: UDPS FANS TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and EconOff conducted a two-day visit February 23-24 to Mbuji-Mayi, the capital of Eastern Kasai province. During the trip, emboffs met with a variety of local officials, political party representatives and MONUC staff to assess the political, economic and security situatio [...] | 2006-03-09 16:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA410 | ELECTORAL LAW PROMULGATED; FIRST ROUND OF [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila signed the DRC's long-awaited electoral law the evening of March 8 and officially promulgated the document March 9. The electoral law lays out the conditions under which the DRC will hold its first national democratic elections in more than 40 years. With its promul [...] | 2006-03-10 12:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA422 | UDPS OFFICIAL RELEASED FROM DETENTION [...] (C) Following his arrest March 10 during a demonstration in Kinshasa (reftel),Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) Secretary General Remy Masamba was released from police custody after being held for approximately two hours. Masamba told PolCouns March 11 he was treated "like a cele [...] | 2006-03-13 14:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA424 | RUBERWA STILL MULLING WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) I met with Vice President Ruberwa at his residence late Monday morning, March 13, to discuss the ongoing debate about his and his party,s (RCD-Goma) status in the Transition and electoral process. Only Ruberwa Chief of Staff Jean-Marie Emungu was also present, and Emungu confined himself [...] | 2006-03-13 16:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA44 | GOVERNMENT ARRESTS MINOR OPPOSITION FIGURE [...] (SBU) Pastor Theodore Ngoy, an opposition gadfly and self-proclaimed presidential candidate, was arrested December 29. His arrest came one day after he filed a motion with the Supreme Court to cancel the results of the December 18 referendum due to his (comment: unsubstantiated) claim that P [...] | 2006-01-09 15:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA457 | RCD-GOMA DEBATES CONTINUE [...] (C) A delegation of CIAT Ambassadors, including UN SRSG Swing and the European Commission, Canadian, British, and American Chiefs of Mission, met with Vice President Ruberwa Thursday evening for about an hour and a half to discuss the ongoing debate about RCD-Goma's status and continuing parti [...] | 2006-03-17 11:09:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA459 | LEADING MLC POLITICIAN OPTS FOR INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) party suffered a second high-profile defection March 15 when Minister of Plan Alexis Thambwe Mwamba announced that he would run for election as an independent candidate, and resigned from the MLC and from his ministerial po [...] | 2006-03-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA460 | TSHISEKEDI REMAINS DISSATISFIED WITH ELECTORAL [...] (U) Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS),told several hundred party supporters March 14 that his party will participate in national elections, but only if the electoral process is "credible" and "fair." Tshisekedi said during a rally at UD [...] | 2006-03-17 13:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA467 | GUEHENNO ASSESSES DRC POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (U) UN Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno completed his 9-day visit to the DRC with a press briefing March 15, urging the Congolese and their political leaders to continue moving towards free and democratic elections. Guehenno, on his fifth trip to DRC with [...] | 2006-03-20 17:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA470 | N. KIVU GOVERNOR POLITICAL POSITIONING [...] (C) During a February 28 dinner in Goma (North Kivu Province) Governor Eugene Serufuli asserted to the Ambassador his confidence about the electoral future of North Kivu. Serufuli indicated that he has been coordinating with President Kabila and his staff, ostensibly regarding handling of the [...] | 2006-03-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG |
06KINSHASA474 | UDPS RECEIVES AUTHORIZATION FOR MARCH 22 [...] (U) The opposition party Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) received authorization March 20 from the Governor of Kinshasa to hold a peaceful march in Kinshasa March 22. The UDPS plans to march in the city's central district and deliver a letter at MONUC headquarters for SYG Kofi An [...] | 2006-03-21 16:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA477 | UDPS HOLDS PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION IN KINSHASA [...] (U) As announced (reftel),the opposition party Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) March 22 held a peaceful demonstration in central Kinshasa. By late morning, approximately 700 UDPS supporters had gathered at Kinshasa's central train station. A portion of this group marched to MON [...] | 2006-03-22 16:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA485 | KOFI ANNAN'S VISIT TO DRC CONTINUES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Continuing to promote the international theme of a steady march toward peaceful elections and conflict-free governmental transition, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan completed his two-day trip to Kinshasa and left for Kisangani the morning of March 23. During his meetings with DRC [...] | 2006-03-23 17:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA489 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: KABILA, BEMBA REGISTER, [...] (U) Summary: Incumbent President Joseph Kabila officially registered March 23 as an independent candidate in the DRC's upcoming democratic elections. Vice Presidents Jean-Pierre Bemba (MLC) and Z'ahidi Ngoma (political opposition) had already registered on March 21 and 22, respectively. Vice [...] | 2006-03-24 15:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA493 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: RUBERWA IS IN, TSHISEKEDI STILL [...] (C) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa (president of the Rally for Congolese Democracy, RCD) confirmed March 26 that he and his party will take part in upcoming elections, despite previous threats to boycott the remainder of the transition or elections, or both (ref). He told PolCouns that the list [...] | 2006-03-28 06:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA494 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: RUBERWA IS IN, TSHISEKEDI STILL [...] (C) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa (president of the Rally for Congolese Democracy, RCD) confirmed March 26 that he and his party will take part in upcoming elections, despite previous threats to boycott the remainder of the transition or elections, or both (ref). He told PolCouns that the list [...] | 2006-03-28 06:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA504 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IMPASSE LIKELY SOLVED [...] (C) The question of who should preside over the National Assembly, Olivier Kamitatu or Thomas Luhaka, may have been resolved. The two met March 28 in a discussion facilitated by President Kabila's Ambassador-at-Large Antoine Ghonda, and they reached an agreement on key issues underpinning Kami [...] | 2006-03-30 10:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA505 | UDPS MEMBER ENTERS PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Eve Bazaiba, member of the UDPS Founders and so-called Director of the party (in charge of recruitment and social programs) registered March 23 as an independent presidential candidate. Her decision prompted party leader Etienne Tshisekedi to hold a meeting over the weekend with the Founde [...] | 2006-03-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
06KINSHASA528 | A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH DRC VICE PRESIDENT RUBERWA [...] (C) Summary: During an April 2 meeting, DRC Vice President Azarias Ruberwa provided an overview of current Congolese developments remarkably similar to that given earlier in the day by President Kabila (ref). He emphasized that despite last-minute complications, the electoral process is ir [...] | 2006-04-04 07:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MARR EFIN CG |