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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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09MASERU125 | POLITICIAN'S SHOOTING UNRELATED TO ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT [...] A member of parliament (MP) representing the National Independent Party (NIP),Dominic Motikoe, was shot and killed by the husband of another NIP member and fellow MP, `Mamotonosi Nkhahle. The fatal shooting took place Monday, April 27, 2009, in Maputsoe, about 90 kilometers from Maseru. Acc [...] | 2009-04-29 14:21:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU126 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: FOREIGN MINISTER INDIRECTLY [...] (C) The Minister of Foreign Affairs briefed heads of diplomatic missions on the ongoing investigation into last week's attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister, and later gave the same briefing in a joint press conference with the High Commissioners of Mozambique and South Africa. Although m [...] | 2009-04-29 15:41:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC LT |
09MASERU129 | LESOTHO'S NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE NAMES ASSASSINATION [...] (C) On Wednesday, April 29, Lesotho's National Security Service (NSS) allowed post's RSO to read a classified NSS document stating that they have identified the mastermind behind the April 22 attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister. According to NSS information, local businessman Jersey Ra [...] | 2009-04-30 14:12:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC LT |
09MASERU136 | LESOTHO: MURMURS OF AN IMMINENT CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] The tranquility that Lesotho politicians enjoyed in recent months was marred by violence on April 22, when attacks on the Prime Minister's official residence and on military barracks were carried out by gunmen (refs A and B). These attacks have come amidst growing speculation in the local medi [...] | 2009-05-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU141 | LESOTHO: NSS UPDATES ON ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Sources within the National Security Service (NSS) provided the Embassy with an update on the investigations into the recent assassination attempt of the Prime Minister (reftel). According to the NSS Director of External Operations, the South African Police Service (SAPS) informed them o [...] | 2009-05-07 13:48:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU142 | LESOTHO: FORMER POLITICAL REFUGEES GIVE PRESS CONFERENCE [...] Three Lesotho nationals who fled Lesotho in July 2007 held a press conference on Monday, May 4, 2009, two months after their return to Lesotho from South Africa. The LDF had detained the men in 2007 in connection with the search for army rifles which had been forcibly taken from military guar [...] | 2009-05-07 15:07:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU15 | LESOTHO 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Embassy Maseru submits the following information for Lesotho's 2009 Investment Climate Statement. Lesotho is open to foreign direct investment (FDI) and generally treats foreign investors well. With most investment originating from East Asia, FDI in Lesotho is primarily channeled into export-or [...] | 2009-01-20 07:16:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV USTR KTDB OPIC LT |
09MASERU153 | LESOTHO: RELATIONS DETERIORATE BETWEEN THE LAW SOCIETY AND [...] The Law Society of Lesotho (equivalent to the American Bar Association),convened a press conference on April 17, 2009, to announce the establishment of a "commission of inquiry on the root causes of the current unsatisfactory state of the administration of justice in Lesotho". The decision b [...] | 2009-05-18 10:30:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM LT |
09MASERU158 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: SOUTH AFRICA CONFIRMS ARREST OF [...] (SBU) In a conversation with Ambassador Nolan, the South African High Commissioner confirmed local press reports that South African police have arrested Makotoko Lerotholi in connection with the ongoing investigation into the April 22 attempted assassination of Lesotho's prime minister. Leroth [...] | 2009-05-19 14:02:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC LT |
09MASERU165 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: MEDIA REVIEW [...] In the May 14-20 issue of "The Monitor" weekly newspaper, a well-respected local columnist asks the question: "Is Lesotho a fertile breeding ground for international terrorism?" His points echo some of the Embassy's own concerns about security in the country, most forcefully brought to light [...] | 2009-05-22 19:33:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC LT |
09MASERU194 | ALLOCATION OF PARLIAMENTARY SEATS CONTINUES TO DOMINATE [...] In the aftermath of the April 22 attacks in Maseru (ref A),GOL authorities and members of the security establishment have asserted that the situation is back to normal. However, in recent days the issue of allocation of proportional seats in the National Assembly has resurfaced. This thorny [...] | 2009-06-15 10:33:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU2 | LESOTHO REVENUE AUTHORITY REQUESTS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM [...] Summary: On November 17 - 21 a mission headed by William Remington from the Department of Treasury' Office of Technical Assistance (OTA),visited the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) at the request of the LRA's Commissioner General (CG),Dr. Charles Jenkins. The CG had requested technical assist [...] | 2009-01-05 15:11:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TRSY PGOV LT |
09MASERU215 | LESOTHO: NEW TWIST IN THE CALL FOR MINISTERS TO BE FIRED [...] Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) Youth League members allegedly wrote a letter, dated June 6, 2009, which urged the Prime Minister to fire some cabinet ministers for incompetence. The letter has sparked controversy, as some sources accuse Mothetjoa Metsing, the Minister of Communications (w [...] | 2009-06-30 08:36:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU222 | SUSPECT IN THE APRIL ATTACKS IN LESOTHO SET FREE IN SOUTH [...] In a move that surprised many people in the capital Maseru, the weekly Lesotho Times issue of July 2 revealed that the South African authorities had released Makotoko "Mashai" Lerotholi from the custody of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS). According to the Lesotho Mounted Police Service [...] | 2009-07-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU224 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: SOUTH AFRICA ACKNOWLEDGES EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) National Security Service (NSS) and Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) sources notified post that on July 7, Makotoko Lerotholi attended a court hearing in Pretoria related to Lesotho's request to extradite him to stand trial in relation to the April 22 assassination attempt on the P [...] | 2009-07-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LT |
09MASERU231 | 2007 ELECTIONS: SADC-SPONSORED DIALOGUE ENDS IN STALEMATE [...] (U) Sir Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, returned to Maseru on July 8 to present his final report on the SADC-sponsored political dialogue to address concerns following the 2007 parliamentary elections. Masire's report gives a brief history of the dialogue process, which starte [...] | 2009-07-10 11:17:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LT |
09MASERU236 | DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE DELIVERED [...] Chargi d' Affaires a.i. met with the Director for Europe and Americas, Itumeleng Rafutho-Labuschagne and the Counselor in the Directorate of Political Affairs, Mr. Matete `Nena on Tuesday, July 14, 2009, to discuss the progress made by government of national unity in Zimbabwe. 2. CDA ind [...] | 2009-07-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU240 | INDEPENDENT ELECTION COMMISSION ANTICIPATES HURDLES, [...] SUMMARY: In their July 14 meeting, Charge d' Affaires (CDA) and Limakatso Mokhothu, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC),discussed challenges facing Lesotho as it prepares for the 2010 local government elections. Other topics of discussion focused on the Masire report [...] | 2009-07-16 10:14:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU241 | OPPOSITION PARTIES ISSUE TWO WEEK DEADLINE TO IEC [...] (U) Summary: A group of 10 opposition parties held a press conference at the Basotho National Party (BNP) headquarters on July 16. Representatives of the parties read a prepared statement and answered questions from the media and the public, urging the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to [...] | 2009-07-16 14:19:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LT |
09MASERU243 | OPPOSITION COMMITS TO PEACEFUL STAYAWAYS, ACKNOWLEDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition leader and head of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) Tom Thabane told CDA that he and his party members were committed to peaceful stayaways beginning August 3. He does admit that there is a possibility of violence if the government cracks down during the stayaway per [...] | 2009-07-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LT |
09MASERU25 | NO CHANGES AT THE TOP IN THE GOVERNING LCD NATIONAL [...] During its national congress from January 31 to February 2, 2009, the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party elected the following members to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC): 2. Leader: Pakalitha Mosisili - Prime Minister Deputy Leader: Lesao Lehohla - Depu [...] | 2009-02-05 06:04:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM LT |
09MASERU251 | OPPOSITION PARTY REQUESTS USG INTERVENTION TO RESOLVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with the leader of opposition party Marematlou Freedom party (MFP),Senator Vincent Malebo, on July 22, 2009. After discussing the governing party's manipulation of the electoral model in the 2007 national elections and the stay away planned to start August 3, Malebo cal [...] | 2009-07-27 08:27:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LT |
09MASERU257 | LESOTHO'S 2007 ELECTION DISPUTE: MEDIA REVIEW [...] The dispute between the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and major opposition parties over the allocation of proportional seats in parliament continues to dominate news. Both print and electronic media have given this burning issue of parliamentary seats headline coverage in the [...] | 2009-07-29 08:46:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU261 | ELECTIONS DISPUTE: LCD "WANTS TO TALK," BUT ABOUT WHAT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 30 meeting with CDA, Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa elaborated on points made at a July 29 press conference by the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD),stating that the government wants to talk to the opposition parties to find a resolution to the current im [...] | 2009-07-30 15:11:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LT |
09MASERU263 | OPPOSITION LEADERS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION ON POLITICAL IMPASSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge d' Affaires (CDA),met with the leader of the opposition Basotho National Party (BNP),Major General Justin Metsing Lekhanya on July 28, and subsequently met with the leader of the opposition Alliance of Congress Parties (ACP),Kelebone Maope on July 29. Both leaders are [...] | 2009-07-31 10:38:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LT |
09MASERU265 | PARTIES AGREE TO TALK AMID QUIET START TO THE STAY AWAY [...] SUMMARY: Monday morning was unusually quiet in Maseru on August 3, the first day of the general strike called by the opposition parties to protest the allocation of proportional representation seats in parliament following the 2007 national election. Some taxis were running, but streets were [...] | 2009-08-03 11:19:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV CASC LT |
09MASERU266 | MASERU STILL CALM AS TALKS POSTPONED BY ONE DAY [...] SUMMARY: The city of Maseru continues to operate on the second day of the strike, with buses, taxis and private vehicles running at a slow start, but close to normal operation by midday. The GOL will meet with opposition party leaders on Wednesday, August 5, to discuss the dispute called by the [...] | 2009-08-04 11:34:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV ASEC LT |
09MASERU269 | STAY AWAY CALLED OFF AS TALKS OPEN TODAY [...] (U) Tom Thabane, leader of Lesotho's largest opposition party, the All Basotho Convention (ABC),announced on August 4 that the stay away called for by a group of opposition parties had been called off. Thabane stated that the decision was made to end the general strike in order to facilitate [...] | 2009-08-05 08:36:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU271 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: ALLEGED MASTERMIND ARRESTED IN SOUTH [...] South African press are reporting that Jesse Ramakatane, alleged mastermind of the April 22 attempted assassination of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, was arrested in South Africa in connection with the investigation into the attack. He appeared in court in Bethlehem, Free State, South Afr [...] | 2009-08-06 14:40:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU272 | ELECTION DISPUTE: PARTIES SET AGENDA TO GUIDE LOCAL TALKS [...] Representatives of all political parties and the Independent Election Committee met on August 5 to begin talks around contentious issues related to the 2007 elections. In a meeting hosted at the local UNDP offices, the stakeholders agreed to accept retired local Anglican Bishop Phillip Mokuku [...] | 2009-08-06 15:02:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU279 | LESOTHO ELECTION DISPUTE: TALKS POSTPONED [...] Multi-party negotiations aimed at resolving the dispute over allocation of proportional representation seats following the 2007 snap elections were set to begin on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 (reftel). According to local media, talks have been postponed until Wednesday, August 19, 2009. In an [...] | 2009-08-14 08:21:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU290 | 2007 ELECTIONS DISPUTE: POLITICAL DIALOGUE POSTPONED [...] Multi-party talks on the dispute over the allocation of proportional representation seats following the 2007 national elections began on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, as scheduled. The Christian Council of Lesotho (CCL) Mediation Panel met with representatives of Lesotho's political parties at t [...] | 2009-08-21 11:40:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU316 | FIRST H1N1 CASES CONFIRMED IN MASERU [...] The Director of Lesotho's Disease Control Office of the Ministry of Health publicly confirmed five cases of H1N1 in Maseru during a televised interview on Lesotho TV on the evening of September 3, 2009. The five are all resident in urban Maseru and sought treatment at local health facilities. [...] | 2009-09-04 10:56:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED KFLU AMGT PGOV LT |
09MASERU324 | LESOTHO: GRIEVANCES AIRED AT LAW SOCIETY OF LESOTHO [...] The Law Society of Lesotho, which is the equivalent of the Bar Association in the U.S., hosted a symposium to discuss and provide analysis on the controversial Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP) vs. Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and others ("MFP vs. IEC") case on August 27, 2009. Particip [...] | 2009-09-09 14:25:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU330 | FOREIGN MINISTER'S TOUR D'HORIZON DOES NOT INCLUDE AU CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rob Nolan was invited by Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa to a meeting which resulted in a tour d'horizon discussion of the key issues in Lesotho's current political arena. Tsekoa stated that the government of Lesotho (GOL) is bringing together a commission of internati [...] | 2009-09-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD LT |
09MASERU376 | LESOTHO POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] The following is a selection of issues generating interest and debate in Lesotho's current political scene. Contents include: - Status of talks on the allocation of parliamentary seats - Alleged attacker in PM's assassination attempt dies - Public reaction to the controversial Land Bill - [...] | 2009-10-22 07:20:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL LT |
09MASERU378 | LESOTHO: UNIVERSITY STRIKE LEAVES SEVERAL STUDENTS INJURED [...] According to Embassy sources and local media, National University of Lesotho (NUL) students rioted on Thursday, October 22, damaging university property; burning tires; and putting up barricades at campus gates. The riots occurred after students learned that allowances for books, food, and acc [...] | 2009-10-23 11:07:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV CASC LT |
09MASERU380 | SADC ORGAN TROIKA ASSESSES STATUS OF 2007 ELECTION DISPUTE [...] The SADC Organ on Politics, Defense, and Security Cooperation sent the current leadership Troika to Lesotho for its initial review of the status of the dispute over the distribution of parliamentary seats in the 2007 election (reftel). Foreign Ministers from Mozambique, the current Organ cha [...] | 2009-10-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU382 | NATIONAL UNIVERSITY TO RESUME CLASSES NEXT WEEK [...] SUMMARY: Following Thursday's riots at National University of Lesotho (NUL),the atmosphere around the city of Roma and on campus is now calm and quiet. Students were evacuated from campus over the weekend and those reported injured have since been released from the hospital. End Summary. 2 [...] | 2009-10-27 13:29:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV CASC LT |
09MASERU388 | MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER VOICES CONCERN ABOUT LAND BILL [...] On Wednesday, October 28, Ambassador Rob Nolan met with the main opposition party leader, Tom Thabane, at the Embassy. The meeting's primary purpose was to clarify Thabane's opinion on the U.S. stance concerning the controversial Land Bill (ref A). According to Thabane, the ruling party has be [...] | 2009-11-03 09:05:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU389 | UNIVERSITY LECTURES RESUME AFTER DEADLY STRIKE [...] Lectures at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) resumed on November 2, almost two weeks after the deadly strike, after the Acting Vice Chancellor addressed students (reftels). Foreign students are reported to have returned to campus on Saturday, October 30. The University Senate establish [...] | 2009-11-03 13:21:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV LT |
09MASERU394 | OPPOSITION LEADER WANTS MORE SAY IN HOW MCC MONEY IS SPENT [...] On Friday, October 30, Ambassador Rob Nolan met with Kelebone Maope, Member of Parliament and leader of opposition political party the Lesotho People's Congress. Maope expressed concern that poor citizens of Lesotho will be exploited under the current version of the Land Bill (ref A). He fel [...] | 2009-11-04 16:01:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KMCA LT |
09MASERU396 | FOREIGN MINISTER PLEASED WITH MCC SCORECARD AND EFFORTS ON [...] Summary: On November 2, Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa welcomed Ambassador Rob Nolan, DCM Elizabeth Power, and Dr. Gene MacDonald, Resident Country Director for MCC-Lesotho, for a warm conversation that focused on MCC issues; he was pleased with Lesotho's results in the MCC scorecard, encour [...] | 2009-11-05 18:22:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KMCA LT |
09MASERU400 | DISCUSSION WITH OPPOSITION PARTY LEADERS CLEARS UP LAND BILL [...] On Thursday, November 5, Ambassador Rob Nolan invited representatives of Lesotho's leading opposition political parties to a discussion at his residence. Ten political leaders -- the majority of opposition parties represented in Parliament -- were in attendance. The discussion centered around [...] | 2009-11-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LT |
09MASERU410 | LESOTHO: INFORMATION ON SECURITY DIALOGUES [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Maseru would like to provide the following information. 2. The United States has an informal security dialogue with Lesotho, characterized by U.S.-sponsored training and exchanges; HIV prevention programs, including a DOD-funded specialist who sits [...] | 2009-11-20 09:00:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL LT |
09MASERU414 | DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS' CONSULTATIVE FORUM BRIEFED BY IMF [...] (U) On Tuesday, November 17, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hosted the Development Partners' Consultative Forum (DP CF) briefing by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission on Article IV consultations. The IMF expects Lesotho's economic growth to be around 1.5% in 2009. [...] | 2009-11-23 15:03:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN LT |
09MASERU445 | LESOTHO: HOMOSEXUALITY NOT LEGISLATED, BUT CULTURAL TABOOS [...] Lesotho has no anti-gay specific laws on the books, nor is there any movement at the moment to introduce a bill in parliament that would make homosexuality illegal. There is a law against sodomy, but all cases so far have involved adults abusing children. There is no evidence that this law is [...] | 2009-12-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV LT |
09MASERU447 | DISCONTENT WITH PRIME MINISTER RISING WITHIN GOVERNING PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Communications Mothetjoa Metsing, who is also the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) Secretary General, expressed his concerns to Ambassador Nolan about Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's decision not to retire at the end of his current term and his "dict [...] | 2009-12-31 06:55:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LT |
09MASERU448 | LESOTHO: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Embassy Maseru submits the following information for Lesotho's 2010 Investment Climate Statement. Lesotho is open to foreign direct investment (FDI) and views FDI as a means to drive growth, improve international competitiveness, and obtain access to foreign markets. Virtually all business sect [...] | 2009-12-31 08:46:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC LT |
09MASERU45 | LESOTHO: MISSION "KNOWS THE WAY WE USUALLY VOTE" [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 11:47:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL PGOV UNGA LT |
09MASERU58 | EMBASSY MASERU TAKES ITS SHOW ON THE ROAD [...] The US Embassy in Maseru has embarked on an ambitious plan to have monthly "Road Shows," allowing us to get out into some of Lesotho's ten districts to spread U.S. government messages. The plan is to take advantage of synergies between the programs of our Mission to maximize benefits for minim [...] | 2009-03-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV KHIV EAID LT |
09MATAMOROS18 | PUSHING THE TOURIST ECONOMY IN NORTHERN MEXICO: IS IT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 16:30:00 | Consulate Matamoros | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO ECON ELAB MX PGOV |
09MATAMOROS188 | DARK SECURITY CLOUD HOVERS OVER MATAMOROS BUSINESS [...] (U) Participants: Consul General Michael Barkin EconOff Angela Palazzolo National Vice President Roberto Capistran, CANACINTRA Mexico (La Camara Nacional de la Industria de Transformacisn) President Alejandro Fernandez Sandoval, COPARMEX Matamoros (Confederacisn Patronal de la Republica Me [...] | 2009-12-22 20:41:00 | Consulate Matamoros | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR ECON KCRM MX |
09MBABANE107 | SWAZI PS ON USG IN UNHRC; KOSOVO; MADAGASCAR; [...] (S) SUMMARY: On April 27, DCM Morrison discussed several pending demarches with Clifford Mamba, Principal Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. PS Mamba was positive about support for the U.S.'s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council, promised to consu [...] | 2009-04-28 06:43:00 | Embassy Mbabane | SECRET | AU EFIN IO MA PGOV PREL WZ SADC ZI KV |
09MBABANE141 | SWAZILAND ARMS PURCHASE ATTEMPTED [...] (S) SUMMARY: In December 2008, the GKOS sought to purchase approximately 60 million USD worth of military equipment, including helicopters, vehicles, weapons, and ammunition from a British weapons manufacturer. The British government denied the request over end-use concerns. In documents requesting [...] | 2009-06-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Mbabane | SECRET | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL WZ PINS MASS ETTC XF |
09MBABANE149 | SWAZI FM REQUESTS COMMITMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Swazi Foreign Minister Lutfo Dlamini stated that the current Swazi position on Madagascar was "basically" in accord with the urgent demarche (reftel B),but that for progress to be made toward the holding of elections, two initial issues must be resolved: (a) Funding for elections [...] | 2009-06-19 09:16:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL | IO MA PGOV PK WZ |
09MBABANE171 | MBABANE: INVITATION TO MINISTERS OF AGOA-ELIGIBLE [...] Letters of Invitation to the August 4-6, 2009, AGOA Forum to take place in Nairobi, Kenya, were delivered to the following Ministers of the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland (GKOS): The Honorable Mr. Lutfo Dlamini Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation The Honorabl [...] | 2009-07-21 14:49:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ZW |
09MBABANE197 | SWAZILAND TIER 3 TIP REASSESSMENT [...] SUMMARY: The government of the Kingdom of Swaziland (GKOS) has made significant and substantial progress in addressing human trafficking since the 2009 TIP report was published 90 days ago. It has moved forward on all of the items recommended in Swaziland's Tier 3 Action Plan. Swazi official [...] | 2009-08-20 05:39:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG WZ |
09MBABANE22 | ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL PROMISE DISREGARDED [...] SUMMARY: On January 22 local media reported Minister of Education and Training Wilson Ntshangase saying that his ministry doesn't know when it will enact free primary education. The constitution mandates free primary education in 2009. The Ministry issued a statement saying a shortage of te [...] | 2009-01-23 08:13:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM WZ |
09MBABANE250 | SEDITION/TERRORISM CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST LEADER OF [...] SUMMARY: On September 21, High Court Justice Mbutfo Mamba dismissed terrorism and sedition charges against Swaziland's best known dissident, banned political party leader Mario Masuku, citing poor evidence presented by the prosecution. The hearing, which came ten months after Masuku's arrest [...] | 2009-09-21 16:29:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM WZ |
09MBABANE259 | SWAZILAND: ARM AND ARM WITH SADC-C-AL9-01947 [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: This cable responds to the questions raised in reftel regarding the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland,s (GKOS) attitude towards SADC. The answers are keyed to the questions below. END SUMMARY. B. (C/NF) DO MEMBER STATE GOVERNMENTS SHOW SIGNIFICANT INTEREST IN WORKIN [...] | 2009-10-01 06:28:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PREL MCAP ETRD WZ |
09MBABANE26 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-28 08:51:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SZ |
09MBABANE274 | King Appoints Political Party Leader to Senior Advisory [...] SUMMARY: On September 21, Obed Dlamini, most senior member of the executive committee of the legally unrecognized Ngwane National Liberatory Congress (NNLC) "opposition" political party, took his seat on the Swaziland National Council (Liqoqo),the king's advisory council and one of the most p [...] | 2009-10-13 14:28:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM WZ |
09MBABANE286 | THE KING'S ECONOMY - CELL PHONE BUSINESS BENDS TO ROYAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Royal politics and King Mswati's business interests appear to have caused the ouster of Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) CEO Tebogo Mogapi and halted parastatal Swaziland Post and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) from selling the MTN shares it owns to raise money for a Next [...] | 2009-10-28 06:07:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV PGOV WZ SF |
09MBABANE307 | SWAZI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PESSIMISTIC ON CHANCES [...] (C ) I spent an hour and a half with Swazi Deputy Prime Minister Themba N. Masuku on November 2. An appointed Senator, Masuku joined the present government in his current capacity in August 2008, when he was recalled from his position as an international civil servant in the U.S. He told me [...] | 2009-11-09 14:47:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR WZ ZI BC |
09MBABANE308 | ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION GAINING STEAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 10, Ambassador Irving and PolOff met with Anti-Corruption Commissioner Justice H.M Mtegha and Deputy Commissioner Tebogo Fruhwith to discuss the Commission's work and good governance in Swaziland. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been in operation with a comm [...] | 2009-11-12 07:23:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM WZ |
09MBABANE310 | SWAZILAND'S POPULATION GROWTH APPROACHES ZERO; GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released some figures from the final 2007 Population and Housing Census report, indicating a Swaziland population of 1,018,449, compared with 980,727 in 1997. The anemic population increase of 37,722 people over ten years represents a growth r [...] | 2009-11-12 08:52:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI KHIV PINS WZ |
09MBABANE313 | SWAZILAND 2009 INTERIM TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Since the June 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, the Government of Swaziland has made substantial progress in addressing human trafficking. GKOS has acknowledged it did not take TIP seriously until this year, and therefore many initiatives to prosecute and punish traffickers [...] | 2009-11-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG WZ |
09MBABANE314 | SWAZILAND PASSES COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW [...] SUMMARY: Capping months of meetings and focus on trafficking in persons, King Mswati III has assented to the 2009 People Trafficking and People Smuggling Prohibition Act, passed by the Senate and House in October. The law is expected to be published in the government gazette within the next f [...] | 2009-11-16 13:04:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PGOV PHUM WZ |
09MBABANE316 | U.S.-SWAZI SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] SUMMARY: The United States has an informal security dialogue with Swaziland, characterized by U.S.-sponsored training and exchanges, HIV prevention programs, and ad hoc meetings with civilian and military officials at all levels to discuss security and military issues. The Defense Attache an [...] | 2009-11-17 12:00:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL WZ |
09MBABANE319 | SWAZI COMMERCE MINISTER: SUSTAINABLE SMALL ENTERPRISES AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade Jabulile Mashwama confided to Ambassador and PolOff November 19 that the need for Swazis to change their cultural mind-set and take on greater personal responsibility for their economic welfare was her biggest challenge. In government, [...] | 2009-11-19 15:27:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ETRD PGOV WZ |
09MBABANE337 | HOUSE SPEAKER EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STRONG PARLIAMENT, ASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Speaker of the House of Assembly Prince Guduza Dlamini stressed the need for a strong parliament in Swaziland and asked for assistance in strengthening capacity for members of parliament and staff in a December 10 meeting with the Ambassador and PolOff. Prince Guduza, who also [...] | 2009-12-11 10:20:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR WZ |
09MBABANE339 | PRINCE DAVID: ECONOMIC COLLAPSE TO FORCE REFORMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prince David Dlamini, half-brother to King Mswati III, a former Minister of Justice, and chairman of the constitutional commission that drafted Swaziland's current constitution, privately told Ambassador Irving that the pending economic breakdown in the kingdom would force politic [...] | 2009-12-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR WZ |
09MBABANE354 | SWAZI SOCIETAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS AND LESBIANS [...] Legal Status: British colonial era legislation against sodomy remains on the books, but post contacts knew of no cases where it had been used to arrest homosexuals. Early versions of the proposed Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence bill, which has been before Parliament since at least 2006, [...] | 2009-12-29 14:29:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV WZ |
09MBABANE4 | SUBJECT: PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES U.S./SWAZI [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 31, Ambassador Maurice Parker met with Swazi Prime Minister Barnabus Dlamini. The PM requested the meeting to gauge GKOS' standing with diplomatic missions accredited to Swaziland, and to request U.S. financial assistance in building a new state-of-the-art hospital [...] | 2009-01-07 11:14:00 | Embassy Mbabane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM PREL PTER PINR IR WZ |
09MBABANE52 | HIV PREVALENCE RATE IN SWAZILAND SAMPLE RISES, BUT [...] SUMMARY: On February 24th at a national public forum, Swaziland's Minister of Health Benedict Xaba released findings of the latest HIV Sentinel Surveillance Survey of a sample of pregnant women presenting at health clinics around the country. The late 2008 survey data show that HIV prevalenc [...] | 2009-03-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KTIP WZ |
09MBABANE67 | FRUITFUL DIALOGUE BETWEEN AMBASSADOR AND PM [...] SUMMARY: On March 6, Ambassador Parker met with Swazi Prime Minister (PM) Barnabus Sibusiso Dlamini. Discussion included: Ambassador Parker's impending departure from Swaziland; the 2008 Human Rights Report; current international perspective towards the government of the Kingdom of Swaziland [...] | 2009-03-13 02:51:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID WZ |
09MBABANE82 | SWAZI BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post provides the following information: --- The government of the Kingdom of Swaziland (GKOS) is receiving FY09 funded assistance. --- The GKOS does make its budget publicly available. --- Incomes and expenditures are included in the publicly available budget. [...] | 2009-03-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ECON WZ |
09MBABANE83 | SEC WORKS WITH SWAZI CENTRAL BANK [...] SUMMARY: On March 17 - 19, two Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials, funded by USAID, participated in a regulatory workshop on Ponzi and pyramid schemes, sponsored by the IMF and hosted by the Central Bank of Swaziland (CBS). The conference convened working level bank officials f [...] | 2009-03-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV WZ |
09MELBOURNE114 | AUSTRALIAN BANDAID DIPLOMACY IN INDIA [...] (C/NF) Three high level visits to India by Australian officials have had only a limited impact on cooling tempers still hot from a spike in violence against Indian students in Melbourne. Despite recent troubles and a historically inconsistent relationship, both India and Australia are making [...] | 2009-10-20 02:22:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IN AS |
09MELBOURNE116 | AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY TO TRIAL PRIMARY SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Both of Australia's major political parties are tinkering with their candidate selection processes in an attempt to reverse a trend of declining grass roots participation. The ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) will test trial a primary system in the November 2010 Victoria elections an [...] | 2009-10-29 04:46:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR AS |
09MELBOURNE119 | AUSTRALIAN VA MINISTER TO MEET U.S. COUNTERPART [...] (SBU) Alan Griffin, Australia's Minister for Veterans' Affairs, informed us that he is planning to meet U.S. Secretary for Veterans' Affairs Shinseki in New Zealand in February 2010 along with the VA ministers from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. We provide bio notes on this left- [...] | 2009-11-12 23:46:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV AS |
09MELBOURNE18 | Terror Trial: Benbrika Faces 15 Years in Jail [...] (SBU) Abdul Nacer Benbrika and six accomplices convicted of terror related charges in September were sentenced on February 3 to jail terms ranging from six to 15 years. Public reaction to the sentencing has been negligible, with many Muslim communities seeking to distance themselves from Benbr [...] | 2009-02-04 00:47:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV KVPR AS |
09MELBOURNE2 | Tasmania: Controversial Pulp Mill Granted Extension [...] (SBU) On January 5, federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett granted Gunns Ltd an additional 26 months to overcome ecosystem concerns surrounding its Tasmanian pulp mill. While financing the A$2.2 billion (US$1.57 billion) project is likely to be the more significant obstacle, the extension [...] | 2009-01-06 03:29:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV AS |
09MELBOURNE33 | VICTORIA ILL PREPARED FOR TERROR ATTACKS? [...] (C/NF) Victoria's Inspector General released an audit in mid-January criticizing the state government's preparation for a potential terrorist attack. The report found that a lack of cooperation between police and government agencies and a confusing tangle of legislation may slow the state's r [...] | 2009-02-26 22:14:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PGOV AS |
09MELBOURNE35 | Ethiopians Rally at Consulate Seeking Release of "Political [...] (SBU) Approximately 55 Ethiopian nationals rallied in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Melbourne protesting against the "despotic" regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawai and calling for the release of "political prisoners." The rally was peaceful and organized by "Australian Ethiopians f [...] | 2009-03-02 05:13:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ET AS |
09MELBOURNE56 | MELBOURNE BASED AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ON [...] (C) Abdul Khaliq Fazal, former Afghan Minister for Public Works (2001-2004) and declared presidential candidate in the August election, shared his initial policy platform with Consul General on April 27. If elected, Fazal says he will strengthen political parties and introduce a Prime Minister [...] | 2009-04-28 05:14:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF AS |
09MELBOURNE6 | Anti-Israel Protests in Melbourne and Adelaide [...] (SBU) Melbourne-based "Women for Peace" intends to hold a small vigil in front of the consulate building on January 9 to protest events in Gaza. So far, protesters have organized four rallies elsewhere in Melbourne and Adelaide over the past ten days condemning Israeli airstrikes and ground at [...] | 2009-01-08 04:15:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL IS AS |
09MELBOURNE65 | Indian Students Protest "Racist Attacks" [...] (SBU) Indian international students staged a large protest in Melbourne on May 31-June 1 claiming that they are being disproportionately targeted in a recent spike of robberies and assaults in Victoria and that police are not doing enough to stop the crimes. Police forcibly removed some protes [...] | 2009-06-02 04:24:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN AS |
09MELBOURNE68 | MELBOURNE BASED AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Abdul Khaliq Fazal, former Afghan Minister for Public Works (2001-2004),confirmed to post that he has withdrawn his candidacy for President of Afghanistan due to President Karzai's "dominant" position in the upcoming polls. End Summary. Candidate Withdraws ------------------- 2. ( [...] | 2009-06-10 22:14:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF AS |
09MELBOURNE69 | BIOGRAPHY - BILL SHORTEN MP [...] (C/NF) Consul General met with Melbourne-based Member of Parliament Bill Shorten, Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction. Widely touted as a future Prime Minister, we provide bio notes on this young, ambitious Parliamentarian. End summary. [...] | 2009-06-12 05:08:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV AS |
09MELBOURNE87 | BIO NOTES - RICHARD MARLES, MP [...] (SBU) Consul General met with Richard Marles, federal Member for Corio and Australia's new Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry on July 13. A rising star in the Australian Labor Party (ALP),we provide bio notes on this recently promoted Parliamentarian. End summary. Bio Not [...] | 2009-07-27 03:53:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV AS |
09MELBOURNE92 | VICTORIA'S MUSLIM COMMUNITIES [...] (SBU) The Muslim population represents a very small percentage of the Victorian community, yet it spends a disproportionate amount of time in the news due to events like the August 4 arrests of six terror suspects in Melbourne and the 2008-2009 Benbrika terror trial. In Victoria, it is not fai [...] | 2009-08-08 05:02:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR AS |
09MELBOURNE93 | 4 ARRESTED IN MORNING TERROR RAIDS ACROSS VICTORIA [...] (SBU) Four men were arrested and 19 homes were raided in Victoria this morning by federal and state police as a result of an ongoing terror investigation. The four men were allegedly planning suicide attacks against Australian targets. Victorian Chief of Police Simon Overland praised the effor [...] | 2009-08-08 05:21:00 | Consulate Melbourne | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PVPR PREL PGOV AS |
09MELBOURNE95 | RIGHT OF CENTER UNIONS DOMINATE IN VICTORIA [...] (C/NF) Unionized workers represent almost twenty percent of the Australian workforce, yet hold disproportionate political influence in federal and Victorian politics. Victorian right-of-center unions maintain a powerful sway over federal and state Ministers by engaging in backroom diplomacy, f [...] | 2009-08-12 03:56:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV AS |
09MEXICO1 | GOM Views on Next Steps in Regional Precursor Control [...] (SBU) Summary: Nadia Levy-Popp, Director of Precursor Chemicals in PGR/SIEDO, recently shared with Emboffs a report that reviews the status of precursor controls in Central America (below). Levy-Popp stressed the importance of training to the development of new precursor regimes in Central Ame [...] | 2009-01-02 14:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1055 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO MEXICO [...] (Confidential) Key Points --Despite the challenges presented by criminal violence in Mexico and the global financial crisis, President Calderon remains an effective and authoritative leader of an economically and politically viable nation. He is genuinely committed to leave a legacy at the e [...] | 2009-04-14 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO1076 | US - MEXICO DISCUSS GOM PROPOSAL TO NEGOTIATE [...] (SBU) Summary: US and Mexican officials held the third in a series of formal consultations under Articles 4 and 5 of the Western Gap treaty and regarding transboundary oil and gas reservoirs more generally March 31 in New Orleans. For the US side, the primary objective of the discussion was [...] | 2009-04-15 18:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1145 | Mexico Economic Weekly - April 20 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-04-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1191 | UNITED STEETWORKERS UNION HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUING [...] SUMMARY: Secretary Clinton,s recent visit to Mexico prompted the US president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW) to write to her on behalf of Mexico,s National Miners Union (SNTMMSRM). The letter, which received extensive media coverage, highlighted various aspects of the long running dis [...] | 2009-04-28 20:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON AFL CIO PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO1192 | EPR MEDIATION TALKS DISSOLVE [...] (U) Summary. On 21 April, the Mediation Commission (COMED) that had the role of mediator for dialogue between the EPR and the Mexican Government formally removed itself from any future exchanges. The COMED was composed of civil society representatives that had been identified by the EPR la [...] | 2009-04-28 22:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER MX |
09MEXICO1196 | CHURCH DEBATE ON ROLE IN CONFRONTING SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Comments by Durango Archbishop Hector Gonzalez Martinez April 17 about the whereabouts of fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman prompted a lively debate last week at the Mexican Bishops' Council about the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico,s ongoing drug war. Whil [...] | 2009-04-29 16:23:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KIRF MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI SNAR MX |
09MEXICO1197 | POTUS CODEL, ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE EXCHANGE [...] (U) Summary. Representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's (PGR) Office met with a group of U.S. Congressional members traveling with POTUS April 16 to discuss challenges in the GOM's efforts to combat organized crime. They stressed the importance of trust between the U.S. and Mexico [...] | 2009-04-29 16:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR KJUS MX |
09MEXICO1202 | PRI PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC FOR PARTY'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. CDA met with PRI President Beatriz Paredes for an April 24 breakfast. Discussion ranged from President Obama's recent visit to the PRI's prospects in the July legislative elections. Overall, Paredes was optimistic about the party's chances in the upcoming votes, as well as the 2 [...] | 2009-04-29 19:53:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO1247 | PRI SLOW TO FIRE UP CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary. Popular support for the PRI has declined in recent weeks, and long-time PRI operative Carlos Flores Rico says the party's apparent losses in part result from a lack of electoral leadership from the PRI's federal level authorities and tardiness in developing its election campaign [...] | 2009-05-06 22:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1260 | H1N1 ECONOMIC RELIEF PACKAGE - BEST MEDICINE? [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to resuscitate an economy laid low by the flu, on May 5 the Mexican government unveiled a stimulus package totaling 18.8 billion pesos (USD 1.4 billion). As the hardest hit sectors, tourism and SMEs will be the main beneficiaries of the plan, although Mexico's pork [...] | 2009-05-07 19:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD KFLU TBIO PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1276 | H1N1 INFECTS MEXICAN POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: While the Government of Mexico (GOM) generally got high marks for its response to the H1N1 flu outbreak, communication at times was lacking between federal and state health authorities, and in Mexico City the three main parties representing federal, state and local efforts ofte [...] | 2009-05-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KFLU TBIO PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1278 | MEXICO SENATE PASSES NARCOMENUDEO LEGISLATION [...] (C) On April 29 and 30, both chambers of the Mexican Congress passed reforms to penal code procedures for sanctioning street sales of illegal drugs ("narcomenudeo"). The legislation passed by wide margins (with considerable support from PAN legislators) and little public commentary or oppositi [...] | 2009-05-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1298 | MORE HELP FOR MEXICO'S SME'S HIT HARD BY H1N1 [...] This is the second in a series of cables reporting on the economic impact of the influenza outbreak in Mexico. 2. (SBU) Summary: In response to criticism of last week's economic rescue package (see reftel) for businesses hurt by the influenza outbreak was met with mixed reviews, with many b [...] | 2009-05-12 19:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD KFLU TBIO PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1306 | Mexico Economic Weekly - May 12 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-05-12 19:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1307 | TOUGHER MEXICO ANTITRUST LAW IN THE WORKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Mexico has one of Latin America's most open economies, its tenacious monopolies and weak regulation reduce consumer choice, boost the cost of doing business, and hamper Mexico's economic growth. Last month, influential PAN Senator Santiago Creel introduced a bill to amend [...] | 2009-05-12 20:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1308 | UNEVEN PROGRESS ON MEXICO'S SECURITY REFORM [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's Congress, in a burst of activity before the legislative session closed on April 30, approved a number of key security initiatives that had been left pending since the last session closed in December, including narcomenudeo, asset forfeiture, the Federal Police law, and t [...] | 2009-05-12 21:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO131 | MEXICO CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MEETING BETWEEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Mexican media reported extensively on the meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the Cultural Institute of Mexico January 12 in Washington. The press reported a positive, fluid dialogue between the two leaders on domestic and [...] | 2009-01-20 13:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MX |
09MEXICO1312 | TOUGHER MEXICO ANTITRUST LAW IN THE WORKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Mexico has one of Latin America's most open economies, its tenacious monopolies and weak regulation reduce consumer choice, boost the cost of doing business, and hamper Mexico's economic growth. Last month, influential PAN Senator Santiago Creel introduced a bill to amend [...] | 2009-05-13 14:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO133 | MEXICAN ARMY MAJOR ARRESTED FOR ASSISTING DRUG [...] (C) SUMMARY: A mid-level Mexican army major was arrested in late December 2008 for assisting drug traffickers and providing them with limited information about the activities and travel plans of Mexican President Felipe Calderon. According to an informant, the cartels were using the informati [...] | 2009-01-20 15:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR MX |
09MEXICO1339 | MEXICO'S FEDERAL POLICE TO RECEIVE A FACELIFT [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's Congress has passed a new Federal Police law, which will convert the Federal Preventive Police into the Federal Police with expanded investigative and intelligence authorities. The bill represents a compromise between President Calderon -- who had initially proposed to [...] | 2009-05-14 23:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1344 | RESPONSE UPDATE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (C) Below please find Post's updated responses regarding host government's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. The responses are keyed to the questions per reftel. All questions are included but only updated resp [...] | 2009-05-15 21:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CVIS ECON KVPR MX PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
09MEXICO1428 | Mexico Economic Weekly - May 22 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-05-23 18:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1461 | MIDTERM ELECTIONS SNAPSHOT: PRD REMAINS DIVIDED [...] (C) Summary: Factionalism, disorganization, and controversy continue to plague the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) well after campaigning for the July mid-term elections kicked off in early May. The leadership of Party President Jesus Ortega has not effectively galvanized the PRD, and th [...] | 2009-05-29 15:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1477 | MEXICO LOOKS TO CONSOLIDATE CENTRAL AMERICAN TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mexico will launch negotiations later this year with its Central American neighbors to consolidate its three trade agreements in the region into one treaty. With this initiative, Mexico appears to be looking beyond the current global crisis and position itself as the fulcrum o [...] | 2009-05-29 20:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1544 | MILITARY JURISDICTION OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CASES [...] (SBU) Summary. Concerned over the rise in human rights complaints against Mexico's military, a group of non-governmental organizations have appealed to Mexico's legal system as well as to international courts to secure the transfer of human rights cases involving military personnel from m [...] | 2009-06-03 21:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO1591 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 5 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-08 13:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1630 | PAN NARROWS GAP BUT STILL TRAILS PRI [...] (U) Summary. Mexico's governing National Action Party (PAN) has long trailed the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in polls tracking voters' preferences for the upcoming July 5 mid-term elections. More recently, though, polls have shown PAN narrowing the gap to 3-4 points with PAN's o [...] | 2009-06-10 20:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR MX |
09MEXICO1634 | CONSENSUS ELUDES MEXICANS ON ABORTION [...] Unclassified - Entire text. 2. Summary: A little more than two years after Mexico City moved to liberalize abortion within the Federal District, the decision remains controversial. The public is split on the issue of whether a woman should be able to seek an abortion during the first [...] | 2009-06-11 14:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
09MEXICO1664 | INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP MEETING: CONSENSUS ON [...] (U)U.S. and Mexican Congressional representatives gathered in Seattle, Washington June 5-7 for the annual Interparliamentary Group Meeting to discuss interests relating to the U.S.-Mexico Strategic Relationship, Migration and Wellbeing, Regional Economic Integration/Trade, and Alternative Ene [...] | 2009-06-12 20:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM PHUM MASS MX |
09MEXICO1667 | MEXICO: LEGISLATIVE AND GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. As the July 5 legislative, state, and local elections near, the PRI continues to maintain a consistent lead over its closest rival, the PAN. The parties' official campaigns have been lackluster as they have they have sought to evade the stricter electoral code by using more unde [...] | 2009-06-12 21:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1669 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 12 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-12 22:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1683 | MEXICO,S NEW ELECTORAL REGIME PROVING DIFFICULT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. In the run up to the first national elections since electoral reforms were passed in 2007, it is clear that the electoral regime crafted by ongress is butting up against Mexico,s political reality. Criticism of the law's inconsistencies abound, and the only question is whether [...] | 2009-06-15 19:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1758 | MIDTERM ELECTIONS SNAPSHOT: SOME UPS AND DOWNS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Patchy alliances may be the key factor to keeping afloat at least three of the five small parties, disadvantaged by the 2007 electoral reform, after the upcoming midterm elections July 5 in Mexico. The Green Party (PVEM) polls the highest, capturing attention by advocating a r [...] | 2009-06-18 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1830 | UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REFORM BILL [...] (U) Summary. In late April, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies adopted a bill modifying five articles of the Mexican Constitution as part of an effort to bring Mexican law into compliance with Mexico's international treaty obligations relating to human rights principles. If ultimately adopted [...] | 2009-06-25 00:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MX |
09MEXICO1841 | GOM FOCUSES ON MEXICO'S COMPETITIVENESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released "The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009," which provides a comprehensive overview of the country's current competitiveness and highlights Mexico's strengths and weaknesses. Ranked 60th in the Global Competitiveness Index 2008 [...] | 2009-06-26 18:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
09MEXICO1845 | NARCO-VIOLENCE SPIKES AGAIN [...] (SBU) Mexico's Attorney General's office has provided us figures on MexicoQ,s organized crime related death toll, which reached 3591 as of June 22. This is well on its way to matching or topping last year's record violence. Killings spiked considerably this month with nearly 200 narco-homic [...] | 2009-06-26 18:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO1862 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 26 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1890 | MEXICAN AUTO INDUSTRY ON ROUGH ROAD, SEEKING ROADSIDE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the Obama Administration has acted firmly to aid the United States' beleaguered automotive industry, the Mexican auto manufacturers are looking askance at their own government's seemingly lackluster response. In separate conversations, representatives from Mexico's auto [...] | 2009-06-30 21:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1894 | MEXICAN RAILROAD COMPANIES DERAILED FROM MONOPOLISTIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 24, cargo railroad companies Ferromex and Ferrosur were found guilty of monopoly practices and slapped with the maximum fine allowed under Mexican law (roughly equal to US$ 6 million each) by Mexico's anti-trust watchdog agency, the Federal Competition Commission (CFC). [...] | 2009-06-30 23:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO1895 | FINAL COUNTDOWN TO MEXICO'S JULY 5 LEGISLATIVE AND [...] (SBU) Summary. With the official campaign period ending on July 1, the parties made a final push this weekend in an attempt to provide candidates with a last minute boost just a week before the vote. PAN and PRI leaders have been aggressively courting voters with some success, while the PRD [...] | 2009-07-01 13:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO193 | THE BATTLE JOINED: NARCO VIOLENCE TRENDS IN 2008 [...] (C) 2008 set a new record for organized crime-related homicides with more than 6000 killings. Violence in Mexico suddenly provided fodder for U.S. and international media with commentators suggesting worse to come. While the death toll is already at disturbing levels, and there are no signs vi [...] | 2009-01-23 23:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO1947 | TROUBLED PRD ENTERS FINAL STRETCH IN MID-TERM [...] (C) Summary: A campaign that started with a whimper is ending with groans as the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) winds up its elections activities before July 5 polling. In Michoacan, accusations that the government is using ongoing law enforcement operations to political advantage seem [...] | 2009-07-02 21:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO195 | Mexico Economic Weekly - January 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements individual reporting from the Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-01-23 23:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1961 | EARLY RESULTS OF THE MEXICAN MIDTERM ELECTIONS: [...] (C) Summary. Early results of the July 5 midterm legislative and local elections indicate that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was the big winner and will supersede the ruling National Action Party (PAN) as the largest party in the 500 seat Chamber of Deputies. The final results [...] | 2009-07-06 22:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO1971 | NODEL KIRK TAKES UP SECURITY ISSUES AND VISA [...] (C) Summary: Representative Mark Kirk (R-IL) and two staff members discussed the Merida Initiative (MI),law enforcement efforts, and human rights with President Felipe Calderon and Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna during their visit to Guadalajara and Mexico City June 29-July 2, 2009. [...] | 2009-07-07 13:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM SMIG CVIS MX |
09MEXICO1988 | U.S. ARMY THINK TANK REPORT MAKES THE FRONT PAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. A Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) Report titled "Mexico's Narco-Insurgency and U.S. Counter Drug Policy" made the front page of El Universal's July 5 Sunday edition. Although, the SSI report was published in May 2009, El Universal led with a headline suggesting that the U.S. [...] | 2009-07-08 13:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO1993 | MEXICO'S PRI CONSIDERING NEXT STEPS AFTER ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) is now evaluating next steps and adapting its legislative approach to the new political reality following the July 5 elections. The party may be more proactive in shaping the congressional agenda and confronting the Calderon government [...] | 2009-07-08 17:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO20 | MEXICO ESTABLISHES DAILY MINIMUM WAGE FOR 2009 [...] SUMMARY: On December 18, 2008 Mexico,s government announced the establishment of the country,s daily minimum wage for 2009. Mexico,s minimum wage is set annually by a Commission under the auspices of the GOM,s Labor Secretariat at the end of each calendar year. This year the Commission propo [...] | 2009-01-06 18:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO2018 | POTENTIAL EFFECT OF ELECTIONS ON MEXICO'S ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The worse-than-expected congressional election defeat for Calderon, giving the PRI a near majority in the House of Deputies, will now afford the PRI the opportunity to assume greater initiative and certainly assert greater leverage in debates over the economic reform agenda. P [...] | 2009-07-10 00:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX |
09MEXICO2025 | GUERRERO: INCREASINGLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR [...] (C) Summary. At the invitation of the Peace Brigade International (PBI) and joined by representatives of the Canadian embassy, poloffs recently visited the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Poloffs spoke with indigenous rights groups and the State Human Rights Commission about what t [...] | 2009-07-10 17:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2038 | Mexico Economic Weekly - July 10 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Joe Salazar (salazarje3@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-07-13 19:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2039 | LA FAMILIA CARTEL RETALIATES FOR ARREST OF [...] (SBU) Summary. On July, 11, Mexican Federal Police (SSP) arrested Arnold Rueda Media -- the fourth highest ranking member of the organized crime syndicate known as "La Familia" -- at a residence in Morelia, Michoacan in southern Mexico, approximately 120 miles west of Mexico City. When a [...] | 2009-07-13 21:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2070 | MEXICO'S PRD LOOKING FOR UNITY, DIRECTION IN WAKE [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is trying to recover from serious losses in the July 5 midterm elections. Winning only 12 percent of the national vote, the party lost a high percentage of Federal Deputies and some traditional strongholds, including Guerrero and parts of [...] | 2009-07-16 13:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2071 | MUCH FINGER POINTING OVER PAN'S LOSS [...] (U) Summary. The governing National Action Party (PAN) suffered an unexpectedly tough loss in Mexico's July 5 mid-term elections, losing not only its plurality in the House of Deputies to its rival, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),but also two key governorships it had previously [...] | 2009-07-16 13:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR ECON MX |
09MEXICO2079 | O CANADA, WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 13, 2009, Canada announced that it will implement a visa requirement on travelers from Mexico and the Czech Republic, effective at 12:01 am, July 17. The putative reason, according to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is to quell the flow of applicants from both countri [...] | 2009-07-16 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PREF ECON PGOV SMIG MX EZ CA |
09MEXICO2093 | LA FAMILIA CONTINUES RAMPAGE IN MICHOACAN [...] (C) Summary: The Michoacan-based crime syndicate, "La Familia", has launched a sustained and deadly reprisal campaign against Mexican Law enforcement, unprecedented in its brutality. Per reftel, the attacks commenced in retaliation for the arrest of high ranking La Familia member Arnoldo Rued [...] | 2009-07-17 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2098 | EMBASSY MEXICO'S POLYGRAPH PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. In 2008, the Mexican government approached the U.S. Embassy Mexico City for assistance with vetting federal officials through the use of polygraph technology and stringent background checks. Building on existing cooperation mechanisms, we created a bilateral polygraph workin [...] | 2009-07-17 22:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO212 | MEXICO'S PRI JOCKEYS FOR JULY VOTE WITH AN EYE [...] (C) Summary. The Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) is confident six months out from the vote that it stands to make significant gains in July's federal legislative and gubernatorial elections, even as PRI luminaries approach the electoral contest with an eye toward the next presidential [...] | 2009-01-26 22:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2126 | PRI CONCOCTING POST-ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary. Following its midterm elections victory, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),is planning an agenda that increasingly looks focused on the budget and addressing the country's economic problems. The party will also pursue political reform efforts geared at limiting presiden [...] | 2009-07-21 00:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2133 | DHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY MORTON MEETS GOM CABINET [...] (C) Summary: Department of Homeland Security Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton and Chief of Staff Suzie Barr met on July 13 with several Government of Mexico (GOM) cabinet members. He discussed issues ranging from crafting a high-level working group foc [...] | 2009-07-21 21:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO2134 | DHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY MORTON MEETS GOM CABINET [...] (C) Summary: Department of Homeland Security Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton and Chief of Staff Suzie Barr met on July 13 with several Government of Mexico (GOM) cabinet members. He discussed issues ranging from crafting a high-level working group focused [...] | 2009-07-21 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO2144 | HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS REACHING FOR GREATER INFLUENCE [...] (SBU) As Mexico's human rights record comes under increased scrutiny, Mexican civil society groups devoted to promoting human rights are receiving greater international exposure. These groups have documented a rise in the incidence of abuses, suggesting a deteriorating human rights environmen [...] | 2009-07-22 21:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2150 | MEXICO'S JUSTICE REFORM EFFORTS: THE [...] (C) Summary. One year after the signing of security and justice constitutional reforms, progress at the federal level in implementation has been highly uneven. The GOM has been quick to begin work on the security portions of the reform, seeking to expand police and investigative authority and [...] | 2009-07-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2154 | CALDERON SEEKS LEGAL AUTHORITIES FOR MILITARY [...] (SBU) Summary. In late April, President Calderon proposed legislation to reform the National Security Act to strengthen the government's stance against organized crime and provide a firmer legal framework for the military's role in the fight against drug cartels. One of the most important cha [...] | 2009-07-23 18:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2172 | GOM/USG COUNTERDRUG COORDINATION PRODUCES HUGE [...] (SBU) Summary. Two major successes on 19 and 20 July reinforce the benefits of increased coordination and cooperation among U.S law enforcement agencies, the Department of Defense, and various components of the Mexican Government. Relying on U.S. intelligence, the Mexican Attorney General' [...] | 2009-07-24 17:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2179 | Mexico Economic Weekly - July 24 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Joe Salazar (salazarje3@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-07-24 21:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2195 | INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH MEXICO'S NATIONAL [...] SUMMARY: On July 8, an international delegation of legislators and union officials arrived in Mexico for a five-day visit to review the circumstances surrounding the long running dispute between Mexico's National Miners Union (SNTMMSRM),the Mexican mining industry and the GOM. The delegatio [...] | 2009-07-24 23:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV ENGR PINR PHUM MX |
09MEXICO2205 | PUSHED BY HIGHER FOOD PRICES, POVERTY IS UP IN MEXICO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Rural and urban poverty have shown a significant uptick in Mexico since 2006, despite a general decline since 1992 and despite the economy's strong performance. According to semi-independent analysis based on official 2008 figures, poverty increased from 42.6% in 2006 to 47.4% in [...] | 2009-07-27 18:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID SOCI PGOV MX |
09MEXICO2234 | POOR PERFORMANCE OF PT MEANS LUCIA MORETT FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. Wanted by Colombia and Ecuador for her connections to the FARC, Lucia Morett, a Mexican student from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),did not win a plurinominal seat for the Chamber of Deputies and therefore will not have immunity to protect her from extrad [...] | 2009-07-29 20:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2238 | U.S. AND MEXICAN MILITARY COORDINATION ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Mexican military shies away from addressing human rights issues publicly, SEDENA has taken a number of steps to improve its record and promote human rights. The U.S. has contributed to these efforts through a number of programs to which the Mexican military has p [...] | 2009-07-29 23:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2239 | GREEN PARTY LOOKS TO CONSOLIDATE ELECTORAL GAINS [...] (C) Summary: The Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) will look to consolidate significant gains it made in the July 5 midterm elections in a bid to expand its reach in 2012. Over the next three years in Congress, the party will endeavor to implement its campaign promises and push environmental legi [...] | 2009-07-29 23:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2240 | INITIAL TAKE ON CALDERON'S POLITICAL POSITIONING [...] (C) Summary. Since the July legislative elections, the Mexican media has painted a consistent picture of the results, touting them as a clear repudiation of Calderon's national security and economic policies. The media predicts that the PRI will be emboldened to reshape the national agenda, [...] | 2009-07-29 23:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2244 | MEXICO 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] a. Claimants A b. 1975 c. The Claimants signed a profit-sharing contract with a sulfur company controlled by the GOM. The investors were to have received payments for the life of the contract, but, in fact, received nothing. In 1975, the sulfur company offered to settle the dispute. [...] | 2009-07-30 16:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
09MEXICO2264 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Key Points --President Calderon remains committed to forging a legacy based on the rule of law, where Mexico's criminal organizations are severely diminished, and the benefits of Mexico's wealth and trade are more widely shared among its citizens. At the same time, he faces record leve [...] | 2009-07-31 20:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUS PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2309 | ZELAYA VISIT GIVES BOTH HONDURAN AND MEXICAN PRESIDENTS PULPIT TO DEMONSTRATE RESOLVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 13:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PINR PREL XK |
09MEXICO2339 | ZELAYA ANGLES FOR MEETING WITH POTUS [...] (C) Rodolfo Pastor, the Honduran Minister of Culture under President Zelaya, told Poloff August 6 that Mexican President Calderon agreed to pass a letter from Zelaya to President Obama at the upcomining Guadalajara Summit. The communique requests a state visit in Washinton with POTUS. It may [...] | 2009-08-07 00:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX XK |
09MEXICO2340 | MEXICO'S PRI LOOKING TO REFORM STATE, LIMIT [...] (C) Summary. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) wants to shift the balance of power in Mexico's political system, with the goal of strengthening Congress vis-a-vis the Presidency and further empowering the states. The party can count on some support from the Revolutionary Democratic [...] | 2009-08-07 00:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2342 | MEXICAN GOVERNMENT REACHES OUT TO CIVIL SOCIETY ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Continuing to improve its dialogue with Mexican civil society on security issues and the Merida Initiative, the GOM convened on August 6 a second open attendance meeting with NGOs and civil society. The Secretariat of Government (SEGOB) and the Secretariat of Foreign Relations [...] | 2009-08-07 17:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO240 | DEATH PENALTY DEBATE ROILS MEXICAN POLITICAL CLASS [...] (C) Summary. Proposals to reinstate the death penalty in Mexico have sparked considerable debate within the country's political circles, with the National Action Party and the Revolutionary Democratic Party strongly opposed, the Revolutionary Institutional Party measuring the public mood, and [...] | 2009-01-28 23:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2409 | THE GOM'S SIDE OF THE STORY, HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (C) Summary. Following the Embassy's visit to the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero last month to meet with human rights defenders (Reftel),Poloffs arranged meetings with the Secretary of Government (SEGOB) and the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP)'s Human Rights Directors to discuss [...] | 2009-08-13 22:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2440 | SECRETARY KESSEL AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BILATERAL ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual August 13 that Mexico is eager to continue working with the US on carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency, standards, a bilateral market for renewable energy, and gas flaring. Kessel emphasized the need for an acti [...] | 2009-08-17 22:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2442 | MEXICAN AND POST CONTACTS FOR NPT-RELATED ISSUES [...] (SBU) According to Julian Juarez Cadenas, Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE),the following Government of Mexico officials are responsible for arms control and disarmament issues: SRE: -- Amb. Juan Manuel Gomez Robl [...] | 2009-08-17 22:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO2445 | TRANSBOUNDARY RESERVOIRS - A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual August 13 that the Mexican proposal to negotiate a bilateral treaty on trans-boundary reservoirs provides a window of opportunity for the US and Mexico to engage constructively on the sensitive topic of oil production. N [...] | 2009-08-17 23:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2460 | PAN ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT IN WAKE OF PARTY DIVISION [...] Summary: On August 8, the National Action Party's (PAN's) Central Committee (CEN) elected Cesar Nava as its new party president. Nava, President Calderon's hand-picked candidate, replaces German Martinez who resigned in the aftermath of the PAN's stinging defeat in the July mid-term elections [...] | 2009-08-19 21:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2461 | WITH MERIDA HELP, MEXICAN CUSTOMS CLEANS HOUSE [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 15 the Government of Mexico announced that Mexican Customs (Aduanas) would not renew the expiring contract of its Fiscales (the armed enforcement element of Aduanas). Backed by a temporary deployment of Mexican military personnel, 722 members of the Fiscales (the ent [...] | 2009-08-19 21:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2462 | CBP HELPS TRANSFORM MEXICAN CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency is a natural partner with Mexican Customs (Aduanas). CBP plays an integral role in transforming Aduanas from a revenue collection agency to a law enforcement entity capable of preventing contraband from flowing across our common [...] | 2009-08-19 21:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2463 | CANADIAN INVESTIGATION OF BRAD WILL CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Three Canadian investigators, one forensic pathologist and two retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeants, traveled to Mexico from July 7-20, 2009 to review the circumstances surrounding the homicide of Bradley Will and the subsequent PGR investigation. The investigation [...] | 2009-08-19 21:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2471 | SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO RULE ON [...] (SBU) On Monday August 10, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled 6-5 that Mexico's amparo law (which outlines the instances in which citizens can challenge government actions and prior court rulings) does not allow the wife of a victim shot at a military checkpoint the right to contest military jurisd [...] | 2009-08-20 19:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2472 | SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO RULE ON [...] (SBU) On Monday August 10, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled 6-5 that Mexico's amparo law (which outlines the instances in which citizens can challenge government actions and prior court rulings) does not allow the wife of a victim shot at a military checkpoint the right to contest military jurisd [...] | 2009-08-20 19:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2473 | SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON ZETAS AND U.S. [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary: Since 1996, U.S. Embassy Mexico City has maintained an electronic database of all Mexican military trained with U.S. funds. These records show that the USG has trained nearly of 5,000 Mexican military personnel, including members of Mexico's Special Forces (GAFEs). Several promi [...] | 2009-08-21 03:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM PINR SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2483 | CALDERON PLAYS TO DOMESTIC AUDIENCES IN SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: President Calderon visited Colombia, Uruguay, and Brazil August 12-August 17 to advance economic and political interests. The Mexican press published flashy headlines from Calderon's stops in Colombia and Brazil -- one speaking to an ongoing bilateral program on security and an [...] | 2009-08-21 18:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | BR CO ECIN ECON EINT EPET MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2519 | Mexico Economic Weekly - August 21 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-08-26 02:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2536 | CONTROVERSY OVER THE RELEASE OF ACCUSED 1997 [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 12, the Mexican Supreme Court ordered the release of 20 individuals imprisoned for their involvement in the 1997 massacre in Chiapas that occurred at the height of the government's efforts to quell the violent Zapatista movement. The Court also ordered retrials for six [...] | 2009-08-26 23:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO2537 | MEXICO FACES BUDGET CHALLENGE; TAX HIKES, [...] (U) The Calderon administration faces a formidable challenge in preparing its 2010 budget. GDP contracted 10.3% in the second quarter of this year, the fourth consecutive quarter of decline. Weak tax collection, the recession, and low oil production, prices, and exports has created a 2.7% of [...] | 2009-08-26 23:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO2545 | PRI,S CONGRESSIONAL SELECTION PROCESS REVEALS [...] (C) Summary. On August 25, the PRI selected Francisco Rojas to be coordinator of the party's Chamber of Deputies bloc. Backroom negotiations and factional bickering characterized the selection process, leading to cracks in what has otherwise been a fairly united public party facade. Rojas is [...] | 2009-08-28 13:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2556 | MEXICO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY BE ON HIS WAY OUT [...] (C) Attorney General (PGR) Eduardo Medina Mora, oft-rumored to be up for replacement, appears to be on his way out of PGR. Marisela Morales Ibanez, head of the PGR's anti-organized crime unit, SIEDO, told a DOJ, ATF, and ICE delegation that the GOM will announce the change the week of August [...] | 2009-08-28 16:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2574 | WINNING OR ONE STEP BEHIND: GOM'S INTERDICTION [...] (SBU) Summary. While Mexican law enforcement officials have increased raids on the destruction of drug labs in recent months, the effort does not appear to be staunching the flow of drugs into the U.S. Instead, the raids have prompted producers to develop more creative manufacturing techniq [...] | 2009-08-31 15:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2579 | CDA'S MEETING WITH MEXICO STATE GOVERNOR ENRIQUE [...] (C) CDA met on August 21 with Mexico State Governor Enrique Pena Nieto, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),who is clearly looking for greater interaction between his administration and the United States. The meeting, which followed a visa appointment for his two children, came [...] | 2009-08-31 19:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2601 | Mexico Economic Weekly - August 21 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-08-31 23:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2616 | MEXICO READY TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretariat officials told State/WHA's visiting Director for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination that Mexico supports the Economic and Climate Change Partnership (ECPA). The GOM wants to highlight an ongoing initiative to promote North American standards for househol [...] | 2009-09-02 17:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO262 | Mexico Economic Weekly - January 30 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements individual reporting from the Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-01-29 20:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2636 | CALDERON STANDS FIRM ON SECURITY, SETS AMBITIOUS [...] Summary: On September 2 the Ambassador attended President Calderon's third state of the union address at the National Palace. The President made the address at the most difficult point yet in his six year term with the country facing record levels of violence and the economy entrenched in [...] | 2009-09-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2637 | MEXICO: BUDGET, ECONOMIC ISSUES LIKELY TO DOMINATE [...] (C) Summary. The Mexican legislative session opened on September 1 with new players and a dramatically changed political landscape, following the July midterm elections. With the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) now the largest party in the lower house -- the PRI has 237 sea [...] | 2009-09-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2638 | CALDERON SIGNS NARCOMENUDEO LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 20 President Calderon signed into law a reform that decriminalizes small scale possession of drugs for the purpose of consumption, shifts the responsibility for prosecuting small scale dealers to state authorities, increases the penalties for small scale dealers, an [...] | 2009-09-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR PINR MX |
09MEXICO2639 | MEXICO'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK IMPROVES SLIGHTLY; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO2666 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 4 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-09-08 23:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2676 | MEXICO: PROMISING FIRST TALKS WITH SEDENA ON HUMAN [...] (c) Summary: DATT, ODC Chief, DOJ Attache and Pol MinCouns met with officials from the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) on September 7 to discuss initiating a human rights dialogue with the Mexican military that would allow us to understand the legal process in the Mexican system of milit [...] | 2009-09-09 21:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PHUM PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2677 | MEXICO ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (U) Poloff discussed Government of Mexico (GOM) views on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT),negotiation of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT),and U.S.-Russian arms control efforts (ref. A) with Julian Juarez Cadenas, Deputy Direct [...] | 2009-09-09 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO2692 | CANADIAN VISAS FOR MEXICANS, PART TWO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since Canada's sudden imposition of a visa requirement for Mexican (and Czech) tourists on July 16, the Mexican government has countered only with a visa requirement for Canadian diplomats. Despite the initial visa backlog and outcry by the Mexican media that the requirement was [...] | 2009-09-11 22:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ECON PGOV PREF MX CA |
09MEXICO2701 | MEXICO: CALDERON MEETS PRI RESISTANCE ON [...] (c) Summary: Following up his bold state of the Union message ref A),President Calderon announced several expected Cabinet changes, eliminated a number of government secretariats, and recommended a series of economic measures that presaged an imminent tough battle on the budget (septel). Whi [...] | 2009-09-15 13:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EINT EPET MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2709 | GOM PROPOSES 2010 ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 8, the GOM submitted its 2010 budget and fiscal reform proposals to Congress following weeks of market speculation about what the GOM would propose. The speculation follows looming risk of Mexico's possible credit downgrade. Plunging revenues (due to falling oil p [...] | 2009-09-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2711 | FINANCE SECRETARY BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON 2010 BUDGET [...] (U) This is an action request for Treasury. See Para 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens briefed Ambassador on Mexico's 2010 budget, submitted September 8 to Mexico's Congress. . In facing what Carstens described as the "double shock" of the cyclical recession as well a [...] | 2009-09-15 22:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO273 | UN'S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Action Request: See para. 1, 6. 2. Summary. Mexico's NGO community energetically contributed to the UN's upcoming review of Mexico's human rights record through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Over 100 Mexican human rights NGOs collaborated in the preparation and submissio [...] | 2009-01-30 21:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM MX |
09MEXICO2738 | GOM LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL OIL REFINERY PROJECT [...] Summary: President Calderon announced August 2009 that state-owned oil company PEMEX selected Tula, Hidalgo as the site of its new "bicentennial" refinery, a state governed by the PRI opposition party. His statement brings to end a fierce eighteen-month battle between various Mexican states [...] | 2009-09-18 22:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2746 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 18 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-09-18 22:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2747 | UN SYG SPOTLIGHTS NONPROLIFERATION AND CLIMATE IN [...] (U) Summary: UN Secretary General (UN SYG) Ban Ki-Moon visited Mexico City September 7-8 as the keynote speaker for the 62nd annual conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the UN Department of Public Information on the theme of "for Peace and Development: Disarm Now." During [...] | 2009-09-18 22:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV PARM AORC TBIO PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2749 | MEXICO: MICHOACAN FACES TRIFECTA OF ECONOMIC, [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff traveled to Morelia, Michoacan August 18-21 to assess the political, economic, and security environment in the state with a number of officials from the major political parties, the state government, non-government organizations, and the academic world. Michoacan is em [...] | 2009-09-21 13:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID PHUM MX |
09MEXICO2759 | MEXICO: NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL -- THE GOOD, THE BAD [...] (C) Summary: President Calderon's decision to replace Mexican Attorney General Medina Mora could have far-reaching consequences: on prospects for judicial reform; on the GOM's ability to manage human rights' criticism; and on our efforts to move forward on an expanded Merida agenda. Calderon [...] | 2009-09-21 22:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SNAR |
09MEXICO2766 | YOUR MEETING WITH FM ESPINOSA AT UNGA [...] (SBU) Madam Secretary: Thanks to your leadership and the energy provided by the President's visit to Mexico in August we are off to a good start in broadening our discussion with Mexico on Merida and other priorities. President Calderon and his key civilian, military and security agency offici [...] | 2009-09-23 19:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO2778 | A LOOK AT MEXICO STATE, POTEMKIN VILLAGE STYLE [...] (C) Summary. Poloffs traveled to Toluca, the capital of Mexico State (Estado de Mexico - Edomex) and headquarters for popular Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) Governor Enrique Pena Nieto, on September 10-11 for what turned out to be two highly-orchestrated days of meetings with state o [...] | 2009-09-24 21:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2780 | EMBASSY ENGAGES CIVIL SOCIETY ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with representatives from Mexico's leading human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs),the Ambassador proposed a regular dialogue focused on an agenda that would address recurrent issues, seek to build confidence, and promote transparency on an agreed list o [...] | 2009-09-24 22:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO2784 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 25 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-09-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2792 | SENATE CONFIRMS ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. The Senate confirmed new Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez on September 24 after what clearly were backroom negotiations between the Calderon government and the PRI. The ratification process has been a win-win for the PRI, and in particular Senate leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones [...] | 2009-09-25 22:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2794 | GOM MAY DISCREETLY RAISE NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITH IRAN [...] (C) Poloff raised Reftel with Julian Juarez Cadenas, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs' (SRE) Director General for Nuclear, Security, and Legal Issues, expressing concern about Iran's perpetuation of its nuclear program. Poloff requested that the GOM discreetly raise reftel points with the I [...] | 2009-09-28 13:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | IR MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO2795 | MEXICO BACKS FOLLOW-ON TO UNSC 1820 [...] (C) Juan Gonzalez Mijares, the Foreign Ministry's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, underscored to Poloff 9/22 that the Mexican Government strongly supports initiatives that will provide technical support for victims of sexual violence, such as the follow-o [...] | 2009-09-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO283 | THE U.S.-MEXICAN RELATIONSHIP: MEETING CHALLENGES, [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's drug cartels are responsible for 60-80 percent of the cocaine and a significant percentage of other drugs entering the U.S., their activities corrupt Mexican institutions, foment insecurity throughout Mexico, and instigate rising violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. Disrup [...] | 2009-02-04 17:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR KJUS PINR MX |
09MEXICO2832 | THE GOM'S 2010 REVENUE PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Fiscal reform has become a critical element in addressing the GOM's 2010 budget shortfall, resulting from plunging revenues (due to falling oil production/prices and economic recession),and public expenditure that grew in tandem with skyrocketing oil prices from 2002-08 (see re [...] | 2009-09-30 15:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO2865 | TENSIONS BETWEEN GOM AND ELECTRICITY UNION ESCALATE [...] (C) Martin Esparza, leader of the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME),the radical union that runs state owned electricity company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC),threatened together with other unions to take a series of actions if the GOM does not recognize Esparza as legitimate leader [...] | 2009-10-03 01:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB ENRG MX PGOV |
09MEXICO2866 | MEXICO WILL RAISE CONCERNS ON GOM IN FIRST [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche in coordination with Emboffs from the French and British Embassies. We emphasized that a P5 1 delegation, including Under Secretary Burns, was in the process of meeting with Iranian representatives October 1, at the same time as our meeting with Julian Juarez Cade [...] | 2009-10-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PREL IR MNUC PARM |
09MEXICO288 | OBAMA-CALDERON MEETING RAISES EVENTUAL POSSIBILITY [...] Summary: As noted in reftel, the January 12 meeting between then President-elect Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon generated extensive coverage and commentary in Mexico,s national media. A significant portion of this media coverage focused on NAFTA and President Calderon,s oppositi [...] | 2009-02-04 18:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SENV PGOV PINR CEC KSTT MX |
09MEXICO2882 | ELEMENTS OF GOM POLICY TEAM INTERESTED IN FOCUSING [...] (C) Summary: At a dinner hosted by PGR for a visiting DOJ delegation, National Security Coordinator Tello Peon and Undersecretary for Governance Gutierrez Fernandez told the delegation they would like to explore seriously focusing our joint efforts on two or three key cities to reverse the cur [...] | 2009-10-05 20:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV SNAR MX |
09MEXICO2885 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 02 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-10-05 22:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2913 | VALDEZ, TELLO PEON TEAM UP ON BEYOND MERIDA [...] (S) Summary: CISEN Director Gueillermo Valdez has been officially tapped by President Calderon to serve as the administration's point man for coordinating the substance of Beyond Merida exchanges between the USG and the GoM. However, Director of the National Security System, Jorge Tello Peo [...] | 2009-10-07 13:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR PINR PHUM MX |
09MEXICO2952 | NORTHERN BORDER CONFERENCE FOCUSES SIGHTS ON ARMS [...] (SBU) Summary: GOM and USG law enforcement officials huddled September 22-26 in Phoenix at the Northern Border Conference to discuss expanding cooperation on combating arms trafficking. Both sides support a greater exchange of information on firearms sales as well as relevant legislation o [...] | 2009-10-09 22:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO299 | COOPERATION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY - AN OPENING TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Efforts to deepen US-Mexican collaboration on energy issues has been constrained in recent years by Mexico's sensitivity about foreign involvement in the hydrocarbons sector. Since the Calderon Administration's energy reform bill was approved in October 2008 and oil prices have [...] | 2009-02-05 13:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2995 | CHICONTEPEC - WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MEXICAN HYDROCARBONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Juan Carlos Zepeda, head of Mexico's newly created National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH),said that the press misquoted him last week as ordering PEMEX to stop drilling in Chicontepec. However, Zepeda is clearly unhappy with Pemex's current production policy in Chicontepec an [...] | 2009-10-16 22:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2996 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 16 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-16 22:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO30 | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the global financial crisis has weakened MexicoQs economy, most analysts do not fear a repeat of the 1995 peso collapse. Financial conditions in Mexico Q most notably the absence of a large foreign debt Q have improved measurably over the financial situation existing [...] | 2009-01-07 19:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3002 | PRISON REPATRIATIONS TO MEXICO: REQUEST FOR DHS GUIDANCE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The repatriation to Mexico of Mexican nationals currently incarcerated in California penal facilities has lately taken a prominent place in talks with GOM officials at the federal, state, and local levels. The directors for Me [...] | 2009-10-19 17:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG SOCI MX |
09MEXICO3010 | 2010 GOM BUDGET: OPPOSITION REJECTS AND BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Facing an October 20 deadline to approve the GOM's 2010 proposed revenue bill, PRI leaders, governors, and lawmakers met on October 12 to coordinate a consensus on the budget. According to local press reports, PRI lawmakers revealed that they will reject the GOM's 2% anti-pover [...] | 2009-10-19 18:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO3018 | MATAMOROS OFFICIALS: INTEL, COORDINATION, AND CONVICTIONS [...] (U) Participants: U.S. The Ambassador DCM John Feeley Consul General Michael Barkin (Matamoros) RSO Michael Flynn (Matamoros) Mexico Matamoros Mayor Erick Silva Santos Tamaulipas State Attorney General Jaime Rodriguez Inurrigarro SEMAR Vice Admiral Daniel Bozada Sanchez SEDENA General B [...] | 2009-10-19 22:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR ECON KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3053 | TREASURY A/S COHEN AND GOM OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (U) Summary. On October 1, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC) David S. Cohen met with Government of Mexico (GOM) officials in Mexico City, Mexico to discuss the collaboration between the GOM and U.S. Treasury on joint efforts to target the finances [...] | 2009-10-23 17:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO3061 | DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DENNIS BLAIR'S [...] (S/NF) Summary. DNI Dennis Blair met with President Calderon for about forty minutes at the Presidential Palace on October 19. The bulk of the discussion focused on cooperation on intelligence sharing and the integration of operations by Mexican intelligence and law enforcement authorities. Ca [...] | 2009-10-23 20:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3076 | DNI DENNIS BLAIR'S OCTOBER 19 MEETING WITH JORGE [...] (S/NF) Summary. On October 19, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair met with Executive Secretary of the National Public Security System Jorge Tello Peon and head of the national intelligence service (CISEN) Guillermo Valdes as a follow-on to the discussion with President Calderon (re [...] | 2009-10-26 23:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3077 | DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DENNIS BLAIR'S [...] (S/NF) Summary. DNI Dennis Blair met with Defense Secretary General Guillermo Galvan Galvan on October 19 on the heels of meetings with President Calderon and members of his national security team (ref a and b). The discussion focused largely on the military's role in the counternarcotics fight, [...] | 2009-10-26 23:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3079 | MEXICO: ATTORNEY GENERAL OVERTURNS FLAWED [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent favorable ruling by Mexican legal authorities on an appeal by an indigenous woman, sentenced for allegedly kidnapping six armed federal police agents in March 2006, is another hopeful sign that the Attorney General's office (PGR) is willing to overturn flawed decisions [...] | 2009-10-27 00:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3093 | SCENESETTER FOR SEPARATE MERIDA-RELATED VISITS: [...] (C) Summary. The upcoming visits of Secretary for Public Security (SSP) Genaro Garcia Luna and Attorney General (PGR) Arturo Chavez Chavez to Washington come at a key moment in our bilateral security relationship. We have made great progress on expanding security ties working through the Mer [...] | 2009-10-27 22:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3094 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-27 23:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3098 | US - MEXICO REVIEW SEISMIC; DISCUSS GOM PROPOSAL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: US and Mexican officials held the fourth in a series of formal consultations under Articles 4 and 5 of the Western Gap Treaty October 19 in Villahermosa, Mexico. In reviewing Mexican seismic data, USDEL found promising structures on the Mexican side of the boundary as well as p [...] | 2009-10-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO310 | LEGISLATIVE SESSION OPENS, ALL EYES ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's three largest political parties have developed action plans for the Congress' final legislative session. Each of the parties is looking not only to pass necessary economic and security measures, but also to use the session as an integrated part of their campaigns as they [...] | 2009-02-05 23:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO3101 | MEXICO: ARTICLE 29 'STATE OF EXCEPTION' -- [...] (S/NF) Summary. Defense Secretary Galvan raised recently the possibility of invoking Article 29 of the constitution to declare a state of exception in certain areas of the country that would provide more solid legal grounds for the military's role in the domestic counternarcotics (CN) fight. S [...] | 2009-10-28 21:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3107 | SME CRISIS EXPOSES WEAKNESSES IN MEXICO'S UNIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Apparently around 150,000 people marched in the streets of Mexico City Thursday, October 15 in a show of solidarity with the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME),the union of the now defunct electrical provider, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC). According to media polls and [...] | 2009-10-28 23:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3108 | MEXICO ARMS TRAFFICKING: INFORMATION SHARING AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Disrupting the flow of weapons into and throughout Mexico is the goal of the U.S.-Mexican bilateral arms trafficking implementation working group GC Armas. Our success will hinge on the joint collection of information on confiscated weapons together with the ability to trace [...] | 2009-10-28 23:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO3109 | MEXICO ARMS TRAFFICKING: ACCESS TO CONFISCATED [...] (SBU) Summary. Mexico is a awash with illegal firearms from unknown suppliers that arm organized crime groups and fuel escalating violence. Investigation and prosecution of illegal arms dealers is thwarted by in-fighting among Mexican institutions and legal restrictions that prevent the sha [...] | 2009-10-28 23:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO311 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL LOWEY TO [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico warmly welcomes you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. The U.S. and Mexico have developed a solid set of institutional relationships that allow us [...] | 2009-02-06 13:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3110 | SENATE TAKES UP 2010, WITH SENATORS DIVIDED OVER PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. As rating companies quietly consider downgrading Mexican debt, the Senate has now noisily taken up the Revenue Bill that the Chamber of Deputies amended and approved October 20. The Chamber had watered down the GOM's original proposal of modifying tax rates and tax laws design [...] | 2009-10-29 00:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3114 | MEXICO ARMS TRAFFICKING: ACCESS TO CONFISCATED [...] (SBU) Summary. Mexico is a awash with illegal firearms from unknown suppliers that arm organized crime groups and fuel escalating violence. Investigation and prosecution of illegal arms dealers is thwarted by in-fighting among Mexican institutions and legal restrictions that prevent the sha [...] | 2009-10-29 18:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO3120 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 30 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-30 17:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3121 | MEXICO: DF MAYOR'S GREEN TIPS AND CRIME BLUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City, underscored for the Ambassador on October 23 his top priorities for the city: security, public transportation, waste-control, climate change, solar energy and other renewables, and health care. Ebrard highlighted the city's efforts to inc [...] | 2009-10-30 17:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO3161 | UN/MEXICO: GOM WILL SUPPORT ARAB PROPOSAL ON [...] Poloff delivered demarche points in reftel A, emphasizing that, while the USG fully supported full investigations of all allegations of human rights violations during the Gaza conflict, we could not support an unbalanced resolution that focused entirely on the actions of Israel. Poloff stresse [...] | 2009-11-05 20:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MX PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KPAL ISPL PL |
09MEXICO3172 | MEXICAN SENATE CHOOSES FRONT-RUNNER TO HEAD HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mexican Senate's confirmation, on November 5, of Raul Plasencia Villanueva as the new President of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is a welcome leadership change that could herald a more activist and transparent era for an important state-sponsored advocate [...] | 2009-11-09 14:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3173 | VERACRUZ: ALL EYES ON 2010 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff traveled to Veracruz State in early October to meet with state officials, opposition politicians, and civil society representatives to discuss local conditions in the run-up to state governor and local congressional elections next year. The major parties are already in ful [...] | 2009-11-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3174 | OAXACA: STATE ELECTORAL POLITICS WITH NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloffs traveled to Oaxaca State October 14-16 to meet with a variety of local political leaders, government officials, and civil society representatives. Local elections in Oaxaca next year have caught the attention of national party leadership, with more at stake than the gov [...] | 2009-11-09 18:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3175 | MEXICO: OHCHR REPORT HIGHLIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS' [...] (C) Summary: The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on October 13 that expressed serious concerns about threats faced by human rights activists in the country. The report speaks to 128 cases of aggression against human rights defenders, including ten homicides. [...] | 2009-11-09 18:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3186 | Mexico Economic Weekly - November 6 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-11-09 22:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3195 | MEXICO: MORE INTERAGENCY COOPERATION NEEDED ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. President Calderon's security strategy lacks an effective intelligence apparatus to produce high quality information and targeted operations. Embassy officers working with the GOM report that Mexico's use of strategic and tactical intelligence is fractured, ad hoc, and reliant [...] | 2009-11-10 00:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3199 | ESPARZA'S LAST STAND? NATIONAL STRIKE LIKELY TO FAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The battle between the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) and the federal government over the shut-down of Mexican electricity company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC),is dwindling in Mexico City. Former SME leader, Martin Esparza, is mobilizing as many allies and arguments [...] | 2009-11-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3200 | ESPARZA'S LAST STAND? NATIONAL STRIKE LIKELY TO FAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The battle between the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) and the federal government over the shut-down of Mexican electricity company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC),is dwindling in Mexico City. Former SME leader, Martin Esparza, is mobilizing as many allies and arguments [...] | 2009-11-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3205 | CONGRESS APPROVES MOST 2010 REVENUE LEGISLATION [...] Summary. Legislators watered down the original GOM revenue and tax proposals (see reftel),eliminating some key elements of the original package, but maintaining an increase in value added taxes (IVA) and income tax rates. Finance Secretary Carstens said the package will help revive the econo [...] | 2009-11-10 23:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3208 | MEXICO: SAN PEDRO MAYOR DISAVOWS VIGILANTISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Mauricio Fernandez Garza, newly elected mayor in the Monterrey municipality of San Pedro, recently implicated himself in possible extralegal activities when he made public statements concerning the killing of suspected narco-traffickers several hours before their bodies were di [...] | 2009-11-12 13:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR SNAR MX |
09MEXICO3222 | SECRETARY KESSEL DISCUSSES BILATERAL ENERGY COOPERATON; [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual November 5 that she was pleased with progress made at the October 19 trans-boundary energy reservoir meeting in Villahermosa and welcomed news that the USG seeks to extend the moratorium in the Western Gap. Kessel welcom [...] | 2009-11-12 22:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3249 | MEXICO ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 17:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UN MX |
09MEXICO3250 | MEXICO ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 17:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UN MX |
09MEXICO3251 | MEXICO ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 17:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UN MX |
09MEXICO3260 | DRUGS AND DOWNTURN ON THE BORDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with the governors of Baja California and Chihuahua, the mayors of Matamoros, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juarez, military and civil security force commanders, maquila managers, non-governmental organizations, community activists, drug clinic doctors, renewable energy [...] | 2009-11-17 23:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR ECON KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3278 | SECRETARY LEW: YOUR VISIT TO MEXICO [...] (SBU) Jack: We are extremely grateful for your visit and confident you will leave with a solid appreciation of the challenges Mexico faces as it confronts the drug cartels, deals with the effects of the global recession, and struggles to consolidate democracy and the rule of law. Most importan [...] | 2009-11-19 17:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR ECON MX |
09MEXICO33 | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the global financial crisis has weakened MexicoQs economy, most analysts do not fear a repeat of the 1995 peso collapse. Financial conditions in Mexico Q most notably the absence of a large foreign debt Q have improved measurably over the financial situation existing [...] | 2009-01-07 19:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3311 | Mexico Economic Weekly - November 20 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-11-23 18:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3364 | GOM ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT U.S.-BOLIVIA TALKS [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 23 to Raphael Bernal, Director for South America, emphasizing that USG views the new Framework Agreement concluded October 27-28 as the opening of a more collaborative relationship with the Bolivian Government. Cuevas expressed appreciation for the US [...] | 2009-11-27 19:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MX PGOV PINR PREL BO |
09MEXICO3365 | TALKING PUBLIC SECURITY IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) On 17 November, Poloff attended the Second Forum for Public Security at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Cuernavaca, Morelos sponsored by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and UNAM's Law and Social Science Department. The 200 seat auditorium was fille [...] | 2009-11-27 23:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO3366 | MEXICO IMMIGRATION AND CBP ESTABLISH VITAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in agreement with Secretaria de Gobernacion (SEGOB)/Instituto Nacional de Migracion (INM) launched a trial of the Joint Security Program for Travelers (JSP) at the Mexico City International Airport [...] | 2009-11-27 23:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX |
09MEXICO3371 | RESULTS OF SME NATIONAL PROTEST: HOW WILL IT END? [...] (SBU) Summary: The much anticipated Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) national protest took place as planned on November 11, causing significant traffic complications in the Mexico City area. Sympathizers demonstrated in around 25 states with activities and participation ranging from im [...] | 2009-11-30 18:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3382 | CONGRESS APPROVES 2010 SPENDING LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 17, the Mexican Congress approved the 2010 budget, voting 437-25 to pass the spending bill, which includes MX$3.18 trillion (US$244 billion) in outlays. The budget for 2010 implies a deficit of 0.75% of GDP excluding debt from state oil monopoly Pemex, but with Pe [...] | 2009-12-01 20:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3403 | FEW TANGIBLE TAKEAWAYS FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. President Calderon at the November 26 meeting of the National Public Security System highlighted GOM accomplishments in overcoming Mexico's security challenges and took heat from local and state governments for not affording them sufficient resources to effectively deal with thei [...] | 2009-12-04 00:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3418 | Mexico Economic Weekly - December 4 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-12-04 20:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3423 | MEXICO: Scene setter for A/S Valenzuela [...] (SBU) Your visit comes at a crucial moment in our efforts to deepen our bilateral relationship with Mexico through an ambitious joint project to broaden the Merida initiative into a more comprehensive effort. We are in the midst of a dizzying level of bilateral activity, including a wave of [...] | 2009-12-04 20:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3443 | DEPSEC LEW STRESSES USG COMMITMENT TO COOPERATION [...] (U) Summary. Deputy Secretary Lew uQ his visit to Mexico November 22-24 to stress to the GOM and Mexican civil society the USGQs commitment to Mexico as it takes on organized crime and builds stronger law enforcement institutions. Lew underscored the importance of observing human rights as [...] | 2009-12-07 23:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3450 | SUPREME COURT DECLARES OAXACA GOVERNOR VIOLATED [...] Summary: After two years of review, the Mexican Supreme Court announced on Oct. 14 that serious human rights abuses occurred in the state of Oaxaca after a 2006 teacher's strike led to violent unrest. The Court specifically held Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and a number of top state security off [...] | 2009-12-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3455 | U/S OTERO LEADS USG TO HRC "REFLECTION GROUP" [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexico and France hosted a meeting in Mexico City October 29-30 on strengthening the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and to discuss the 2011 Review of its mandate by the General Assembly. A hand-selected group of HRC Member States, representing its five regional grou [...] | 2009-12-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MX PHUM PINR PREL PGOV |
09MEXICO3468 | SSP TO REPLACE MILITARY AS PRIMARY SECURITY PLAYER [...] (C) Summary. President Calderon will likely decide this week to make the Public Security Secretariat (SSP) the primary public security authority in Ciudad Juarez and return the military (SEDENA) to a more traditional, supporting role. Calderon's security team is proceeding under the assumptio [...] | 2009-12-10 01:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO348 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO MEXICO BY CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) On behalf of Mission Mexico, I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. Your visit is an opportunity to underscore the broad, deep relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and, in particular, our appreciation for President Calderon's demonstrated leadership in the area of security. Committed [...] | 2009-02-06 22:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3486 | BANK GOVERNOR APPOINTMENT SPARKS CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] Summary. (U) On December 9, President Calderon nominated Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens as the country's new central bank governor (Banxico). Carstens, whose nomination still needs to be ratified by the Senate, will replace Guillermo Ortiz who finishes his second six-year term at the end [...] | 2009-12-11 13:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3494 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT TO THE [...] (C) Your visit comes at a key moment in our efforts to deepen our bilateral relationship with Mexico and to provide guidance and support to the GOM as it makes a crucial move to address the worsening security environment in Ciudad Juarez. Any day, President Calderon is expected to make the Publ [...] | 2009-12-11 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3501 | MEXICO: VISIT OF A/S VALENZUELA (DEC 06-08) [...] (C) Summary: During his two day visit to Mexico (Dec 6-8),A/S Arturo Valenzuela met with senior Mexican officials including key counterparts from the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Governance, Federal Police and several key economic minstries. A visit to several Federal Police installations, [...] | 2009-12-11 21:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3504 | MEXICO: VISIT OF A/S VALENZUELA (DEC 06-08) [...] (SBU) Summary: During his two day visit to Mexico (Dec 6-8),A/S Arturo Valenzuela met with senior Mexican officials including key counterparts from the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Governance, Federal Police and several key economic ministries. A visit to several Federal Police installation [...] | 2009-12-14 16:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MASS ECON ETRD MX |
09MEXICO3557 | CALDERON'S REFORM PROPOSALS: THE POTENTIAL AND THE [...] (C) Summary. President Calderon has taken few concrete steps over the last several months on the ambitious ten-point reform agenda he laid down in September. He has walked back on most of his proposals, except for a bold initiative on political reform that would establish new rule for the poli [...] | 2009-12-16 03:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3573 | MEXICAN NAVY OPERATION NETS DRUG KINGPIN ARTURO [...] (S) Summary. Mexican Navy forces acting on U.S. information killed Arturo Beltran Leyva in an operation on December 16, the highest-level takedown of a cartel figure under the Calderon administration. The operation is a clear victory for the Mexican Government and an example of excellent USG-GOM co [...] | 2009-12-17 20:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3596 | MEXICO: PRESIDENT CALDERONQS BOLD [...] (SBU) Summary: President Calderon's proposal for amending the Mexican Constitution with a far-reaching political initiative would have far reaching consequences for implementing badly needed reform. In addition to allowing for direct reelection of Senators, Deputies and local officials, the pr [...] | 2009-12-21 22:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MASS ECON ETRD MX |
09MEXICO3617 | UPDATE: SSP TO REPLACE MILITARY AS PRIMARY [...] (C) Reftel provided a summary of the GOM's plans to make the federal police the coordinating force for security operations in Ciudad Juarez, with the military playing a supporting role. On December 22, Facundo Rosas Rosas, chief of the federal police force (SSP) under Public Security Secretar [...] | 2009-12-23 20:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3623 | MEXICO: UNODC REPRESENTATIVE SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) regional and country representatives recently met and discussed ways to promote greater regional coordination among our Merida partners on combating narco-trafficking with a view to producing more concrete progress. [...] | 2009-12-23 21:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL UN MX |
09MEXICO3624 | PRI SENATE LEADER PLEDGES COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Senator Manlio Beltrones December 18 to discuss bilateral coordination efforts, the Merida Initiative, military deployment in the northern part of the country, and President Calderon's political reform proposals (ref [...] | 2009-12-23 22:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3626 | PRODUCTIVE MEETING ON AIR INTERDICTION AGREEMENTS [...] Summary. In a breakthrough meeting with Mexican representatives from relevant national security and foreign affairs agencies, a U.S. delegation reviewed issues related to efforts begun in 2007 to obtain assurances that the GOM will not damage, destroy, or disable civil aircraft while "in ser [...] | 2009-12-23 22:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO3627 | MEXICO: BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Country Team is working on three coordinated tracks on a human rights engagement strategy that will enhance our ability to work more closely with the GOM and the Mexican military; establish a regular working dialogue with the human rights community; and support the work of c [...] | 2009-12-23 22:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
09MEXICO3634 | PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY ASSISTANT BRENNAN [...] (SBU) Summary. John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, used his visit to Mexico, December 14-15, to advance U.S.-Mexico cooperation against organized crime. Accepting an unprecedented format for senior bilateral meetings, the GOM organized each s [...] | 2009-12-28 13:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR KCRM PHUM MX |
09MEXICO3641 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Amnesty International criticized the Mexican military for alleged human rights abuses in a report released on December 8. Referring to five emblematic cases involving murder, torture and illegal detention, the report faulted the Government of Mexico (GOM) for lack of transpar [...] | 2009-12-28 17:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3642 | NEW MEXICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Raul Plascencia Villanueva at his inauguration ceremony November 17 as the new President of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) pledged changes that would strengthen the organization's ability to promote greater human rights respect. During the ceremony, Plascenci [...] | 2009-12-28 17:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3648 | SENATE APPROVES TWO NEW MINISTERS FOR MEXICO'S EVOLVING [...] Summary: On December 1, the Senate approved two new Supreme Court ministers with little public debate or review of their qualifications. Luis Maria Aguilar Morales and Arturo Zaldivar Lelo de Larrea assume their prestigious positions at a crucial time in the court's development. Over recent [...] | 2009-12-28 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO3658 | MEXICO PROVES A DANGEROUS PLACE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: NGOs and media outlets report a significant increase in threats and attacks against journalists over the last two years. While in 2007 only five deaths were reported, six journalists were killed in 2008 and twelve in 2009 according to the Social Communication National Center ( [...] | 2009-12-29 20:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3659 | AGUASCALIENTES TACKLES SECURITY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff traveled to Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes to assess the political, economic, and security situation in the state by talking with a number of legislators, officials from the state government, members of the state human rights commission, prominent business people and le [...] | 2009-12-30 14:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX |
09MEXICO3668 | MEXICO PROSECUTES FIRST CASE UNDER THE FEDERAL TIP LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 28, the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) charged 6 suspects with Trafficking in Persons (TIP) - the first time anyone has been charged under Mexico's TIP law since its adoption in November of 2007. The judge handling the case is evaluating the PGR's petitio [...] | 2009-12-31 18:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO413 | GOM INTERVENES TO STOP SPECULATION ON PESO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 23:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
09MEXICO414 | MONTERREY DEMONSTRATIONS LIKELY SPONSORED BY DRUG [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, and February 9 to February 12. Our contacts report that the [...] | 2009-02-17 15:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MEXICO42 | MEXICAN OIL PRODUCTION DECLINING - IMPLICATIONS FOR MEXICO, [...] (SBU) Summary: As the largest source of export earnings and contributor of over one third of budget revenues, the oil sector is a critical component of the Mexican economy. Due to the decline of Mexico's largest oil field and underinvestment in new exploration and exploitation, Mexican crude [...] | 2009-01-08 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV MX |
09MEXICO428 | MEXICO ON SUDAN/POTENTIAL ARTICLE 16 REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 18:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | CONS PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM MX |
09MEXICO442 | POLLS SHOW PRI GAIN AS CANDIDATE SELECTION MOVES [...] (C) Summary. Recent polling suggests that the PRI's campaign tactics, combined with rather public internal PAN squabbles, may be gaining traction with voters, giving the party a boost as it seeks to build popular momentum in the run-up to the July elections. The PRI's candidate selection proc [...] | 2009-02-18 17:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO45 | CALDERON ANNOUNCES MORE MEASURES TO STIMULATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Calderon announced on January 7 a new set of measures to help offset the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and stimulate the economy. "The National Accord in Favor of the Families' Economy and Employment" is the third economic program announced by the [...] | 2009-01-08 22:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO451 | MEXICO ON THE UPCOMING MARCH 2 CONFERENCE IN SHARM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 18:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG MX |
09MEXICO467 | MEXICO FACES GRIM EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2009 [...] Summary: Although the year is just two months old, government officials, leading private sector figures and academics are predicting a grim employment outlook for Mexico in 2009. According to the GOMQ,s National Statistics Institute (INEGI),by the end of 2008 official unemployment rate for [...] | 2009-02-20 20:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO472 | CODEL ENGEL DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES WITH [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Summary: During a February 17 lunch with Mexican Senators, Representative Eliot Engel and members of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Sub-committee discussed the growing economic and security challenges facing both the U.S. and Mexico. Chairm [...] | 2009-02-20 22:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO486 | VIOLENCE ESCALATES, CARTELS TAKE A STAND AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. After the close of Mexico's bloodiest year on record (see MEXICO 193),drug related violence shows no signs of subsiding in 2009 and in fact has increased along Mexico's northern border with the U.S. Several high-profile incidents in recent weeks ) including shootouts with Mexican [...] | 2009-02-23 13:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO509 | MEXICO LOOKS TO COLOMBIA AS SECURITY, REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's increased outreach to Colombia is driven by a number of factors, principally by both countries' shared security struggles. Mexico's outreach to its South American neighbor probably also is part of a desire to increase its influence in the hemisphere and cultivate Latin A [...] | 2009-02-23 19:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO544 | STANFORD FRAUD CASE SHAKES MEXICAN INVESTORS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican investors' confidence has been shaken once again by the financial scandal surrounding billionaire Robert Allen Stanford, this time affecting more Mexicans than the earlier Madoff case. Stanford Financial Group's Mexican subsidiary, Stanford Fondos S.A. de C.V., has repo [...] | 2009-02-25 22:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO577 | MEXICO TO MAKE MODEST CONTRIBUTION TO SHAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 18:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG MX |
09MEXICO582 | Mexico Economic Weekly - February 27 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-02-27 19:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO585 | HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON MEXICO DRAWS ATTENTION, [...] Summary. The Mexican press and political class focused on concerns expressed in the 2008 Human Right Report on Mexico regarding corruption and impunity as well as abuses committed in the course of the government's efforts to combat organized crime. Most commentators, including opposition po [...] | 2009-02-27 21:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR SNAR MX |
09MEXICO603 | DISAFFECTED FACTION OF MEXICO'S CONVERGENCIA PARTY [...] (C) Summary: A group within the small Convergencia Party decided March 1 to break ranks and affiliate themselves with the larger leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). The agreement between the Citizen Renovation Group (RECI) faction of Convergencia and the PRD was characterized as an [...] | 2009-03-02 23:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO604 | IMPACT OF A PRI CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY: THE MATH, [...] (C) Summary. The PRI appears to be on the ascendant, and talk in local press and political circles suggests that more observers are willing to discuss the prospect of a PRI majority in the Chamber of Deputies after July's legislative elections. The vote is still more than four months away, an [...] | 2009-03-03 13:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO605 | SUPREME COURT FINALLY DELIVERS ITS REPORT ON SAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Almost three years after the May 2006 police crackdown on local protesters in San Salvador Atenco which produced widespread human rights allegations, Mexico's Supreme Court finally delivered the results of an investigation it undertook in late 2006. While the report refrains [...] | 2009-03-03 13:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS MX |
09MEXICO632 | GONZALEZ STEPS DOWN AS UNDERSECRETARY OF [...] (U) Abraham Gonzalez resigned from his position as Undersecretary of Government (SEGOB) reportedly to make a run for election as a deputy for PAN in Jalisco. Gonzalez had assumed his post as Undersecretary under former Secretary of Government Francisco Ramirez Acuna at the outset of the Cal [...] | 2009-03-03 21:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO635 | TRANSBOUNDARY RESERVOIRS -- WHAT IS MOTIVATING [...] (SBU) Summary: For political, economic and strategic reasons, Mexico is ratcheting up efforts to engage the USG on a possible treaty governing transboundary reservoirs. We expect that this topic will be raised by the GOM to senior levels of the administration in an effort to create momentum. [...] | 2009-03-03 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV MX |
09MEXICO638 | MEXICO ON ICC ARREST WARRANT FOR SUDANESE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-04 15:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | CONS PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM MX |
09MEXICO647 | COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY TELLEZ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Scandal has overtaken Secretary of Communications and Transportation Luis Tellez Kuenzler. In a 3 March press conference, President Felipe Calderon accepted Tellez's resignation and named loyalist Juan Molinar Horcasitas to succeed him. Tellez, who oversaw the heavyweight min [...] | 2009-03-05 13:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EAIR ELTN EWWT PGOV USTR MX |
09MEXICO651 | MEXICO'S CONGRESS CONSIDERS CREATION OF NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The PRI has proposed constitutional changes that would permit the creation of a new National Guard Force, calling it a response to the deteriorating security situation in Mexico, as well as to the lack of a trustworthy and effective federal police force. Opinion is mixed in poli [...] | 2009-03-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO652 | SLOW START TO WORK ON KEY REFORMS IN MEXICO'S [...] (C) Summary. Congress is off to a slow start on passing several key items of security legislation despite earlier assurances from congressional contacts that this session will be fruitful. Squabbling amongst the parties appears to have delayed the passage of narcomenudeo, asset forfeiture, and [...] | 2009-03-05 19:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO656 | PRD PRESIDENT TELL CHARGE PARTY RECUPERATING; AMLO [...] (C) Summary: Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) President Jesus Ortega told CDA and PolMinCouns that 2006 presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) had essentially left the party, throwing his lot in with the Convergencia and Workers' parties. While some in the PRD remain [...] | 2009-03-05 21:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PINR PREL |
09MEXICO661 | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MEXICO REMAINS A PROBLEM [...] Summary. Violence against women in Mexico remains a serious problem, common not only in the highly publicized cases of Ciudad Juarez but in a number of other states. While the Mexican Government has made a good faith effort to strengthen efforts to combat violence against women, these effort [...] | 2009-03-06 00:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KWMN MX |
09MEXICO671 | CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY - POSSIBLE INITIATIVES WITH [...] Summary and Introduction: The GOM is interested in working more closely with the USG on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change. Post believes the Mexican position offers a significant opportunity to develop closer ties in a priority area for both countries and is exploring sev [...] | 2009-03-06 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO675 | THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY RAISES CLAMOR OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of Mexico's indigenous community continue to find themselves the objects of abuses according to local and international human rights NGOs. Recently, these groups have focused on the February 2009 murder of two indigenous leaders in Ayutla, in the state of Guerrero, al [...] | 2009-03-06 23:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MX |
09MEXICO685 | CODEL ENGEL DISCUSS SECURITY ISSUES WITH MEDINA [...] (U) Summary. On February 16, Attorney General (AG) Eduardo Medina Mora received U.S. Representative Eliot Engel and members of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Sub-committee. The AG was accompanied by Attorney General's Office (PGR) Special Advisor Oscar Rocha, Deputy Attorney G [...] | 2009-03-10 13:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO723 | UNTIED FARM WORKERS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT H-2 VISA [...] SUMMARY: In 2008 a large group of laborers were recruited from the Mexican pacific coastal state of Colima to do farm work in California and Iowa. According to the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, the Colima laborers entered the US with the hope of working there legally after complying with al [...] | 2009-03-10 23:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON CVIS EAGR PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO724 | MEXICO'S VIEWS ON THE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (U) Deputy PolCouns met with Julian Juarez Cardenas, the Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Ministry, to solicit Mexico's views on the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Juarez remarked that this was the first time in his experience that a USG of [...] | 2009-03-10 23:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO748 | CIUDAD JUAREZ AT A TIPPING POINT [...] (C) Summary. The federal government has dramatically expanded the size and scope of Joint Operation Chihuahua by ordering the deployment of an additional 5,000 troops and some 2,000 federal police officers to Ciudad Juarez in an attempt to combat high rates of violence in the area. The chain [...] | 2009-03-13 13:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO75 | DRAFT COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT FOR 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-13 13:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO771 | Mexico Economic Weekly - March 13 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-03-13 23:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO780 | GOM MAKES PUBLIC ITS PROPOSAL FOR LABOR LAW REFORM [...] SUMMARY: On February 9, the GOM finally made public its long awaited proposal for reforming Mexico's Federal Labor Law (FLL). In addition to presenting the proposal to the Mexican Congress the GOM,s Secretary of Labor also placed it on his ministry,s website thereby making it available to any [...] | 2009-03-17 18:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO802 | MEXICO ON ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR AMISOM AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 23:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SO MX |
09MEXICO803 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO MEXICO, [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico warmly welcomes you to Mexico City and Monterrey. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces, has the vision and political will to address them strategically and wants to work closely with us to meet common goals that are fundamental to h [...] | 2009-03-19 13:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO811 | EVERY CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY; MEXICO SEES POSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: While the deepening global crisis has worsened Mexico's economic outlook for 2009, the Mexican government feels it has a cushion to weather the crisis and shield its public finances in 2009 and 2010. The Finance Secretariat's chief economist pointed to the successful oil hedgin [...] | 2009-03-19 22:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
09MEXICO815 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL REYES, SKELTON, [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico welcomes you to Mexico City. Mexico is key to USG success in combating the trafficking of drugs, persons, arms and precursors, terrorism, and other transnational threats. Your visit is an opportunity to underscore the broad, deep relationship between the U.S. and Mexico [...] | 2009-03-20 15:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO826 | MEXICO VIEWS TIMING OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reaction to the announcement of President Barack Obama's first official visit to Mexico scheduled for April 16-17 has been generally positive. Media commentators expect Obama's meeting with President Felipe Calderon to focus on shared efforts to confront organized crime, econom [...] | 2009-03-20 20:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ECON MX |
09MEXICO838 | SOCIAL SECURITY WORKERS, UNION CONTEMPLATES [...] SUMMARY: Mexico,s the National Union of Social Security Workers (SNTSS) is contemplating changing its labor affiliation and has already moved to chance its political party connections. The SNTSS is a member of the National Workers Union (UNT),Mexico,s second largest labor federation. The [...] | 2009-03-23 18:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
09MEXICO868 | OHCHR'S OFFICE IN MEXICO EARNING ITS KEEP [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) opened a field office in Mexico in 2002 with a mandate to work with the Government of Mexico and a wide cross section of civil society with a view to developing a "diagnostic survey" that would identify the steps Mexico need [...] | 2009-03-24 21:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UN MX |
09MEXICO869 | MEXICO ON THE 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (C) Summary. Mexico believes future prospects for the Summit of the Americas (SOA) very much rely on the success of U.S. President Obama in injecting a new sense of purpose for the gathering. To Mexico's view, it is imperative the summit tackle the ongoing financial crisis. Interestingly, [...] | 2009-03-24 21:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV OAS PHUM VZ CU MX |
09MEXICO873 | MEXICO'S FEDERAL POLICE MERGER MAY BE DEAD [...] (C) Summary. President Calderon has reportedly dropped plans to reorganize the country's federal police forces by merging the some 4,700 members of the PGR's Federal Investigative Agency (AFI) with the Secretariat for Public Security's (SSP) Federal Preventative Police (PFP). President Caldero [...] | 2009-03-25 13:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO880 | SCENESETTER FOR THE FIREARMS-TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary: On behalf of the U.S. Mission I would like to welcome you to Mexico. The April 1-2 Firearms Trafficking and Enforcement Strategy Conference in Cuernavaca is taking place at a time when bilateral cooperation on law enforcement, has never been stronger. DHS/ICE and DOJ/ATF teams a [...] | 2009-03-25 17:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO896 | SOUTHWEST BORDER POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT DRAWS PRAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. plan announced March 24 to reinforce security at its southwest border was largely praised by officials in Mexico. The Foreign Secretary said the move hailed a new period of cooperation between the two countries, and the leader of the Senate indicated that it sends a v [...] | 2009-03-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ECON MX |
09MEXICO909 | CONSULATES NOGALES AND HERMOSILLO'S CONSULATES [...] (SBU) On February 24 and 25, Hermosillo and Nogales conoffs toured a common staging area in northern Sonora, following the well-worn route that &polleros,8 or migrant smugglers, use to move people from southern Mexico through the desert into the United States. Conoffs spoke with those who prov [...] | 2009-03-26 23:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
09MEXICO927 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL HOYER TO MEXICO, [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico welcomes you to Mexico City. Mexico is key to USG success in combating the trafficking of drugs, persons, arms and precursors, terrorism, and other transnational threats. Your visit is an opportunity to underscore the broad, deep relationship between the U.S. and Mexico [...] | 2009-03-27 22:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON MX |
09MEXICO935 | MEXICO'S PRI LOSES SUPPORT AS PAN STEPS UP ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary. Recent polling has showed a sharp drop in support of the PRI in the July electoral contests. The PRI's apparent slump comes in the midst of what has been an increasingly heated negative campaign by the PAN leadership to tie the party to narcotrafficking and damage its credentials [...] | 2009-03-31 19:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO973 | Mexico Economic Weekly - April 3 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Jonathan Austin (austinjt@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-04-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO982 | MEXICAN SENATE AGREES ON ASSET FORFEITURE LAW [...] (C) Summary. The Senate plenary unanimously approved on Thursday the asset forfeiture law, known in Mexico as "extincion de dominio," which has been languishing in Congress since it was proposed early last session. The bill is intended to enhance the government's ability to target the financ [...] | 2009-04-03 22:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO990 | MEXICO'S PRD PLAGUED AGAIN BY INTERNAL DISPUTES IN [...] (C) Summary: Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) plunged into internal discord once again, this time over the selection of candidates over the past two weeks for upcoming midterm elections. Both internal elections in select areas of the country and selections by the National Executive [...] | 2009-04-06 12:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MEXICO999 | MEXICO'S PRI APPROVES PLURINOMINAL CANDIDATE LIST [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's political parties are completing selection processes for candidates in the July legislative contest, with the PRI the first to release its candidate list for the proportional representational slots. The PRI has stacked its plurinominal list with party luminaries or their [...] | 2009-04-06 21:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
09MILAN172 | 2G,S - NORTHERN ITALIAN MUSLIMS WITHOUT A COUNTRY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 10:23:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PGOV SCUL IT |
09MILAN173 | ITALY'S LEGA NORD EYES BIG REGIONAL PRIZES [...] (C) Summary: With the Northern League's (LN) successful showing in recent local elections, attention is now turning to bigger prizes: regional governorships coming vacant in March 2010. With Veneto apparently in the bag, party leaders are now looking for at least one other scalp -- either Lom [...] | 2009-08-13 09:04:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IT |
09MILAN176 | WHO WILL RIDE THE NEXT WAVE OF LEGA NORD [...] (C) As mentioned in reftel, the 67 year-old founder of the Northern League (LN) political party, Umberto Bossi, remains in poor health due to a stroke he suffered in 2004. Though Bossi continues an active and provocative political life, constantly in the media and public eye, judging by appea [...] | 2009-08-19 09:18:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IT |
09MILAN20 | PADUA: DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPPORT FADING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Democratic Party (PD) in Northern Italy hopes to offset likely losses in the June EU parliamentary elections with some significant wins in the accompanying local elections where the individual popularity of candidates matters more. Key to this strategy would be the reelec [...] | 2009-01-28 15:26:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT |
09MILAN209 | LEGA'S BIG NIGHT OUT: FILM PREMIERE OF ""BARBAROSSA"" [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hundreds of local and national politicians, including PM Berlusconi, attended the Milan premiere of the colossal Braveheart-like epic film ""Barbarossa."" The movie tells the story of the birth of northern Italy,s Lombard League and its defeat of the Holy Roman army at the 12th c [...] | 2009-10-20 08:34:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
09MILAN214 | DAL MOLIN UPDATE: VICENZA COMMUNITY MOSTLY [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with local Vicenza politicians across the political spectrum, the general consensus was that the ugliest period of contentious and politically charged opposition to the U.S. army's Dal Molin base construction has passed. Their assessment is that most community residents [...] | 2009-11-10 13:25:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINS PREL IT |
09MILAN237 | MUSLIM 2GS SEEK INROADS TOWARD INTEGRATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 07:29:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PGOV SCUL IT |
09MILAN31 | IS THERE A FUTURE FOR MALPENSA? [...] (SBU) Summary: Doomsday scenarios abound in Milan following the decision by Alitalia to partner with Air France and decisively choose Rome as its sole hub. Predictions of immediate economic pain to the region are overstated, but certainly possible is an atrophying of the area's attractiveness [...] | 2009-02-10 10:32:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV IT |
09MILAN56 | PDL STALWARTS TALK POLITICS ALLA MILANESE [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate General Milan/Embassy Rome cable. 2. (C) Summary: Blunt assessments of local, national, and foreign policy issues emerged from a lunch the Consul General hosted for senior Milan-based national and EU political figures. In Milan, the imbroglio over the EXPO is e [...] | 2009-03-09 10:17:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IT |
09MILAN78 | NORTHERN ITALIAN "DISTRETTI" FACE THE GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Across Italy's industrial northern heartland, we've heard the same message with respect to the economic crisis in recent weeks: we're holding on, but won't last forever. Northern Italy's economy is dependent on clusters of "distretti," each with dozens of small firms that produ [...] | 2009-03-23 16:18:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IT |
09MILAN80 | NORTHERN LEAGUE PUSHES TO LEGALIZE ITS VOLUNTEER [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Rome and Consulate General Milan cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) In an environment of pervasive media coverage of violent crime perpetrated by immigrants (despite a significant statistical decrease in crime from 2007 to 2008),the Northern League (LN [...] | 2009-03-26 10:02:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI IT |
09MILAN95 | KEEPING BERLUSCONI CLOSE: NORTHERN LEAGUE STRATEGY [...] (C) Northern League (LN) insiders Roberto Calderoli, Minister for Legislative Simplification, and Giancarlo Giorgetti, President of the Finance Committee in the Chamber of Deputies described their strategy to make LN the hegemonic political party in Northern Italy over the next few years. Key [...] | 2009-04-28 15:41:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IT |
09MINSK100 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 27, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - March 25 Protest Passes Without Violence (para. 2) - Military Court Dismisses Forced Conscription Appeal (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Leader Fined (para. 4) - Convicte [...] | 2009-03-26 18:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK106 | BELARUS: INTERIOR MINISTER OUT, AT LONG LAST [...] (SBU) Civil society has reacted positively to the news that Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau (Vladimir Naumov) left office April 6; he ostensibly submitted his resignation based on health concerns, but is believed to have been dismissed. Navumau, who has been in charge of the Ministry of In [...] | 2009-04-07 09:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK109 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 3, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Prosecutors Extend Investigation against Volkovysk Activists (para. 2) - Vitebsk Opposition Activists Fined (para. 3) - Polish Activists Fined in Absentia (para. 4) - [...] | 2009-04-09 08:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK114 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 10, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - For Freedom Movement's Property Confiscated (para. 2) - Police to Investigate Desecration at Kurapaty (para. 3) Domestic Economy ---------------- - Lukashenka to [...] | 2009-04-10 14:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK127 | BELARUS: WORLD BANK, IMF SEE NEED FOR EXCHANGE RATE [...] (SBU) Post has met recently with a visiting World Bank team and the new IMF resrep. Their consensus view, shared by post, is that that resolution of the economic crisis in Belarus will require fundamental steps by the GOB beyond simply obtaining further loans and credits. Recognition of thi [...] | 2009-04-22 16:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PINR BO |
09MINSK131 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 24, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Lukashenka Delivers Annual Address to Nation and Parliament (para. 2) - An Opposition Youth Activist Wanted (para. 3) - Malady Front Member Jailed (para. 4) - Human R [...] | 2009-04-24 15:09:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK132 | BELARUS: HIGHLIGHTS OF LUKASHENKA'S ANNUAL ADDRESS [...] (SBU) The following message is based on lightly edited press reports of Belarusian President Lukashenka's annual address to the parliament and the Belarusian people. The event was marked by long passages when Lukashenka departed from his prepared remarks and spoke rather more directly, in so [...] | 2009-04-24 15:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM BO |
09MINSK133 | BELARUS: DEMONSTRATORS, POLICE CALM AT APRIL 26 PROTEST [...] (U) About 700-800 protestors gathered peacefully met in front of the Academy of Sciences Sunday April 26 for the annual Chernobyl March, marking the 23rd anniversary of the nuclear disaster. A variety of groups were represented, including the Young Belarus and European Belarus movements, the [...] | 2009-04-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
09MINSK136 | BELARUS: SERIOUS DISCORD WITHIN UNITED DEMOCRATIC FORCES [...] (SBU) The leader of a major opposition party has ignited controversy through an April 17 interview with Belarus' state-owned newspaper. In the interview, Belarusian Social-Democratic Party Gramada (BSDP-G) chair Levkovich generously complimented President Lukashenka and condemned fellow demo [...] | 2009-04-29 12:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK137 | BELARUS: REGIME VIEWS ON POSITIVE POLITICAL CHANGES, OTHER [...] (SBU) Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Valentin Rybakov met with Charge April 29 at the request of Presidential Administration head Vladimir Makey (Rybakov confirmed that rumors that Makey was still recovering from an illness). Charge inquired about statements made by Lukashenka in his an [...] | 2009-04-29 17:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CASC ETRD BO |
09MINSK138 | BELARUS: DENIAL OVER DEPTH OF ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (SBU) The GOB is realizing more and more that the global financial economic crisis will take a bigger toll on Belarus than originally expected. Senior government officials led by Lukashenka try to look optimistic (and so do the official statistics). The reality, however, is not bright and th [...] | 2009-04-29 17:34:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV BO |
09MINSK14 | BELARUS: POPULATION DISTRESSED AND DISILLUSIONED BY [...] On January 1, Belarus' National Bank announced a sharp devaluation of the national currency against the U.S. dollar, Euro (EUR) and Russian ruble (RUR),fulfilling an IMF condition for a USD 2.5 billion loan. The devaluation received highly skeptical responses from independent economic observ [...] | 2009-01-09 13:07:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EFIN BO |
09MINSK146 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 8, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - "Chernobyl March" Marked by Detentions, Raid (para. 2) - "Solidarity" Demonstrations Dispersed (para. 3) - BKGB Harasses Families of Opposition Youth (para. 4) - Oppos [...] | 2009-05-07 14:27:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK150 | BELARUS: IMF SEES NEED FOR ADDITIONAL RELIEF [...] (SBU) Charge met May 11 with the visiting IMF mission head and IMF resrep to discuss the IMF's stand-by agreement (SBA) with Belarus and the overall economic situation. Jarvis reported that the GOB was working well with the IMF and was largely on track with requirements, but that the GOB res [...] | 2009-05-12 11:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV BO |
09MINSK160 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 15, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Young Social Democrats Denied Registration (para. 2) - Police Curb Opposition Demonstration (para. 3) - Military Court Dismisses Forced Conscription Appeal (para. 4) - [...] | 2009-05-15 12:28:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK164 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 22, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Activists Detained (para. 2) - Human Rights Advocate Loses Appeal (para. 3) Domestic Economy ---------------- - Deputy Economy Minister: No more extern [...] | 2009-05-22 18:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK171 | BELARUS: NEW INTERIOR MINISTER APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Belarusian President Lukashenka formally appointed a new Minister of Internal Affairs June 2. Anatol Kulyashou, who has been acting Minister, is a career policeman -- in contrast to his predecessor. He has largely remained behind the scenes and is generally well regarded. The Ministry [...] | 2009-06-03 15:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK172 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JUNE 6, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Malady Front Activist Fined (para. 2) - Human Rights Group Denied Registration (para. 3) - Prosecutors Extend Criminal Investigation against Volkovysk Activists (para. [...] | 2009-06-08 09:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK183 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JUNE 12, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - "European Belarus" Activists Fined (para. 2) - Prisoner of Conscience Fined (para. 3) - United Civic Party Activists Fined (para. 4) Domestic Economy ------------ [...] | 2009-06-12 14:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK195 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JUNE 19, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Youth Convicted (para. 2) - Protestant Activist Fined (para. 3) - GOB Denies Registration to Opposition Party (para. 4) - Police Raid Residence of Malady Fr [...] | 2009-06-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK217 | BELARUS: CODEL CARDIN SECURES AMCIT'S RELEASE, ADVANCES [...] (SBU) A CODEL led by Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Cardin visited Belarus June 30, the most senior USG delegation since the 1994 visit of President Clinton. The CODEL met with President Lukashenka -- who pardoned AMCIT Emanuel Zeltser in response to the CODEL's request -- for over two [...] | 2009-07-03 22:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR BO |
09MINSK22 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 16, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Independent Newspaper Denied Print, Distribution, then Fined (para. 2) - Grodno Activists Detained and Searched (para. 3) - Brest Activists Detained (para. 4) - Local [...] | 2009-01-16 17:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MINSK228 | BELARUS POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 10, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Investigation Against Volkovysk Activists Extended (para. 2) - Jailed Volkovysk Activist's Associate and Employer Detained (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Fined (para. [...] | 2009-07-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK244 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 17, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Protestant Community Fined (para. 2) - Belarusian Popular Front Youth Member Expelled (para. 3) - Independent Journalists Warned (para. 4) - Jailed Volkovysk Activist [...] | 2009-07-17 14:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK248 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 24, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Another Opposition Activist From the 14 Is Amnestied (para. 2) - The Only Jailed Member of the 14 Stops His Hunger Strike (para. 3) - Jailed Volkovysk Activist Charge [...] | 2009-07-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK255 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 31, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Police Disperse Independence Proclamation Rallies (para. 2) - Independent Journalist Warned (para. 3) - Independent Magazine Denied Distribution (para. 4) - Party of Wo [...] | 2009-07-31 13:38:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MINSK27 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 23, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------------ - Opposition Youth's Draft Order Suspended (para. 2) - Opposition Denied Venues (para. 3) - Demonstration Dispersed, Opposition Youth Leader Detained (para. 4) - Pr [...] | 2009-01-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MINSK274 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 14, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Supreme Court Denies Registration Appeal of Human Rights NGO (para. 2) - Religious Groups Complain GOB Is Trying to Limit Their Ability to Have Houses of Worship (para [...] | 2009-08-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK275 | BELARUS DENIES NASHA VYASNA HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REGISTRATION [...] (U) On August 12, the Belarus Supreme Court refused to overturn the denial of state registration to the Nasha Vyasna (Belarusian for "Our Spring") human rights organization. The denial, the third since the organization was stripped of state registration in 2003, was an appeal of the Belarus Mi [...] | 2009-08-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK287 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 21, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Yuri Leonov Attributes His Release to High Attention of Media and Foreign Embassies (para. 2) - "For Freedom" Activist in Gomel Fined For White-Red-White, EU Flags and [...] | 2009-08-21 16:16:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK297 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - United Democratic Forces Finalized Procedures for Nominating Democratic Presidential Candidate (para. 2) - Supreme Court Upheld Registration Denial to the Party of Fre [...] | 2009-09-04 18:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK30 | GOB'S STEPS TOWARD MARKET REFORMS WELCOME WHILE INCOMPLETE [...] Summary: President Lukashenka signed his first decree in 2009 simplifying the process for registration and liquidation of businesses. The GOB further enumerated an ambitious, 52-point plan envisioning an overhaul of the country's business code in 2009 toward liberalizing the economy. While t [...] | 2009-01-26 16:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV BO |
09MINSK307 | BELARUS DENIES PARTY FOR FREEDOM AND PROGRESS REGISTRATION [...] (U) On August 26, the Belarus Supreme Court refused to overturn an earlier denial of registration of the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFP). This was the party's fourth registration attempt since 2003. 2. (U) During the appeal hearing, the Belarus Ministry of Justice representative claime [...] | 2009-09-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK317 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Continues to Use a Heavy Hand in Dispersing Opposition Demonstrations, Big or Small (para. 2) - GOB May No Longer Classify Unregistered NGOs and Political Part [...] | 2009-09-16 15:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK322 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB, Lithuania Defer Agreement on Simplified Border Crossing (para. 2) - GOB Continues to Harass and Fine Opposition Activists (para. 3) - Riot Police Disperse an Oppo [...] | 2009-09-18 16:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK332 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - New Life Church Still Facing Eviction, Receives Support from Visiting DRL Officer (para. 2) - "European Belarus" Activists Detained, Fined (para. 3) - GOB Continues to [...] | 2009-09-25 12:15:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK345 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - OCTOBER 9, 2009 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - IISEPS Survey: Despite Growing Pro-European Sentiments, Lukashenka Favored In Elections (para. 2) - GOB Continues to Try to Block Registered Parties from Getting Out [...] | 2009-10-13 15:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK357 | IN BELARUS THE JUDICIARY IS JUST ONE MORE TOOL OF CONTROL [...] (SBU) Summary. Two of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee's (BHC) most prominent human rights leaders, Harry Pogonyailo and Oleg Gulak, told Post that the Belarusian judicial system remains under the control of the Presidential Administration (PA) and the Justice Ministry (MOJ). According to t [...] | 2009-10-21 08:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
09MINSK359 | MID SIZE CITY IN BELARUS: ACTIVIST MORE CONFIDENT BUT [...] (U) Summary: On August 5, 2009 Chargi Scanlan visited Borisov, the second largest industrial center (pop 150,000) in the Minsk Oblast, where he met with the local authorities, state and private businesses, opposition political parties and civil society. While the authorities praised improveme [...] | 2009-10-23 16:00:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK360 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - OCTOBER 23, 2009 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Elections --------- - "Honest" Presidential Elections to be Held in Early 2011, so Says the CEC (para. 2) Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Parties Denied Registration, Evicted (para. [...] | 2009-10-26 18:50:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK382 | BELARUS:TWO CLEAR OPPOSITION CAMPS NOW EXIST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 18:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
09MINSK385 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - NOVEMBER 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 17:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MINSK390 | BELARUS: 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Summary. Belarus remains a transit route for illicit drugs and drug precursors. Reports of drug use and drug-related crime in Belarus increased in 2009, although there is no evidence of large-scale drug production in the country. In October 2008 the government adopted a National Action Plan [...] | 2009-12-03 14:00:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM SNAR BO |
09MINSK394 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 4, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Council of Europe Official Discusses Death Penalty with GOB, A CoE Condition (para. 2) - Santa Claus May Be Sent to Prison in Belarus (para. 3) - Despite Differences, [...] | 2009-12-04 20:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BO |
09MINSK413 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 18, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Christian Democracy Party Denied Registration, Members Harassed and Discredited (para. 2) - State TV Criticizes Opposition Activists over Abduction Allegations (para. [...] | 2009-12-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BO |
09MINSK415 | BELARUS ELECTION LAW AMENDMENTS: AN EXAMPLE OF NON-INCLUSIVE [...] Summary. The GOB is in the final stages of amending Belarus' electoral law in anticipation of local elections next April and presidential polls in 2011. While Lukashenka and other regime officials have publicly addressed proposed changes to the code, the amendment process has lacked transpar [...] | 2009-12-23 12:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM BO |
09MINSK426 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 31, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society, Media -------------------- - GOB Drafts a Bill to Regulate the Internet (para. 2) - Independent Polling: Belarusians Feel Economic Pinch, Criticize GOB Policies; Although Majority Stil [...] | 2009-12-31 13:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN BO |
09MINSK69 | BELARUS: DEEP DROPS IN EXPORTS TO RUSSIA, U.S. SHOW IMPACT [...] (SBU) Among other official Belarusian trade statistics, two figures stand out: decreases in exports to both Russia and the U.S. over 50 percent or more from 2007 to 2008. Russia is a major trade partner, and the U.S. significantly less so, but these figures confirm that the global financial c [...] | 2009-02-27 14:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PGOV BO |
09MINSK72 | BELARUS: NEW POLITICAL PARTY OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIL [...] (SBU) The Belarusian Christian Democracy Party (BCDP) held its founding congress in the "Palace of Culture" of the Minsk Tractor Factory February 28. While strongly conservative -- and somewhat confrontational -- in its philosophical outlook, the BCDP is seen by civil society as an important [...] | 2009-03-02 16:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK73 | BELARUS: NEW POLITICAL PARTY OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIL [...] (SBU) The Belarusian Christian Democracy Party (BCDP) held its founding congress in the "Palace of Culture" of the Minsk Tractor Factory February 28. While strongly conservative -- and somewhat confrontational -- in its philosophical outlook, the BCDP is seen by civil society as an important [...] | 2009-03-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
09MINSK78 | BELARUS: ECONOMY UNDER CONTINUED PRESSURE, BUT ON TRACK WITH [...] (SBU) Charge met March 5 with visiting IMF European Department Advisor Christopher Jarvis to discuss the economic situation in Belarus and the current state of the USD 2.46 billion provided to Belarus under a 15-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) by the IMF in January 2009 (reftels). Jarvis re [...] | 2009-03-05 18:00:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN PINR BO |
09MINSK87 | BELARUS: FINANCIAL CRISIS FORCES INWARD LOOK AT ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) As the global financial crisis hits Belarus' ailing economy harder month after month, the GOB is trying various methods to counterbalance it, though to little avail. While IMF conditions are being met, independent economic observers generally recognize that only radical market reforms [...] | 2009-03-17 09:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BO |
09MINSK92 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 20, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Youth Demonstrate on Solidarity Day (para. 2) - Unregistered Union of Poles Member Fined (para. 3) - Gomel Belarusian Christian Democrats Fined (para. 4) - [...] | 2009-03-19 15:16:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
09MONROVIA118 | LIBERIA: SENATOR ACQUITTED IN MURDER TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Margibi County Junior Senator Roland Kaine was acquitted of murder by Criminal Court "B" at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia on February 5. Senator Kaine was accused along with 15 others of murdering 21 youths in Grand Bassa County on June 7, 2008 in a land dispute. Six of the a [...] | 2009-02-06 13:23:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KRCM ASEC CASC PREL PHUM LI |
09MONROVIA119 | LIBERIA: GOL ANNOUNCES PRICE CUTS AND TAX CUTS [...] SUMMARY: The Liberian Ministry of Commerce lowered price ceilings on rice, petroleum and cement on January 29. The cuts come three days after the President announced a decrease in business and personal tax rates during her annual "State of the Nation" address January 26 (ref A). The President [...] | 2009-02-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV ECON EAGR LI |
09MONROVIA125 | LIBERIA: PRESIDENT SIRLEAF TESTIFIES AT TRC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After postponing several times, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf testified behind closed doors to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on February 12. Her testimony was subsequently broadcast on local radio stations. Sirleaf admitted being an early sympathizer of Charle [...] | 2009-02-13 12:49:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL LI |
09MONROVIA13 | QADHAFI VISITS LIBERIA [...] (U) Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi met with President Sirleaf January 3 in what the Executive Mansion termed a "transit stopover" at Roberts International Airport. According to press accounts, the two discussed "a wide range of issues, including bilateral relations between the two countries, th [...] | 2009-01-05 17:46:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC GV LY LI |
09MONROVIA134 | LIBERIA: MONROVIA'S NEW MAYOR CLEANING UP CITY FAST [...] (SBU) President Sirleaf appointed her friend and trusted confidante, Mary Broh, as Mayor of the City of Monrovia on February 6. As Mayor, Broh replaces the political placeholder Ophelia Hoff-Saytumah, wife of Minister of State for Economic and Legal Affairs, Morris Saytumah. The appointment [...] | 2009-02-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ABLG SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA142 | LIBERIA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH JEWEL HOWARD TAYLOR [...] (C) The Ambassador met with former First Lady and current Senior Senator from Bong County Jewel Howard Taylor February 10, at the Senator's request. Taylor remarked that she has not been invited to the Embassy since 2000 or 2001 because of her inclusion on the UN Travel Ban List, and said she [...] | 2009-02-18 16:54:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID LI |
09MONROVIA147 | LIBERIA: VOLUME I OF TRC REPORT PUBLISHED, ICGL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) submitted Volume I of its Final Report to the GOL December 19 (reftel) and just recently made it public on its website (www.trcofliberia.org). The report included a list of the "most significant" warring factions (see paragraph 5) and [...] | 2009-02-20 16:28:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID LI |
09MONROVIA160 | WHO WILL SUCCEED ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF? [...] (C) Summary: The next presidential elections in Liberia are almost three years away, and we sense that in many ways Liberian politicians are already gearing up for them. Potential candidates are building constituencies, keeping themselves in the press, and otherwise talking themselves up. Ho [...] | 2009-02-26 14:03:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA168 | CONTROVERSIAL POLICE APPOINTMENT OVERSHADOWS [...] (C) Summary: The recent appointment of former Police Director Paul Mulbah as "Advisor" to the Liberia National Police (LNP) has overshadowed several positive steps by the GOL to reform LNP operations. Human rights organizations have accused Mulbah of ordering torture and other human rights a [...] | 2009-03-03 17:26:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PHUM PGOV ASEC LI |
09MONROVIA169 | LIBERIA: UNITY PARTY SETBACK IN BY-ELECTION FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a severe setback for President Sirleaf's Unity Party, its candidate, Liberia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Conmany Wesseh, lost a senatorial by-election run-off in River Gee County to Nathaniel Williams (Liberia Destiny Party),a River Gee Senator during the [...] | 2009-03-03 18:56:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID CASC LI |
09MONROVIA186 | LIBERIA: AMBASSADOR TOURS RECOVERING LIBERIA PETROLEUM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) Managing Director Harry Greaves outlined an ambitious strategic development plan during the Ambassador's tour of LPRC facilities on February 23. The state-owned petroleum import and storage monopoly has undergone impressive financial and [...] | 2009-03-10 11:59:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EWWT ECON EINV PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA188 | PRO-TAYLOR ELEMENTS STILL A FORCE TO BE RECKONED [...] (C) Summary: The recent remarks by Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Stephen Rapp suggesting Charles Taylor may go free because of budgetary reasons caused alarm within the GOL and has emboldened Taylor supporters. Communication inside the Taylor camp remains intact, and those in leadership [...] | 2009-03-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PHUM KCRM LI |
09MONROVIA19 | LIBERIA: WEAK LEADERSHIP UNDERMINES COMMERCIAL FORESTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Weak leadership at the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has delayed resumption of commercial logging, placed millions of dollars of potential revenue at risk and jeopardized the success of the forestry reform program. The companies bidding on logging concessions consistent [...] | 2009-01-07 13:29:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV ECON EAID SENV LI |
09MONROVIA209 | LIBERIA: NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION REVOKES LICENSES OF [...] (U) Summary: The National Elections Commission (NEC) has revoked the licenses of ten political parties for violating the constitution and election laws of Liberia. The revocation came after persistent warnings that the parties were not in compliance with the law. Twenty registered parties rem [...] | 2009-03-20 11:13:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EAID LI |
09MONROVIA218 | LIBERIA: 1200 DELEGATES ATTEND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Sirleaf and President of Finland Tarja Halonen convened the successful "International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security" March 7-8 at the Samuel K. Doe Stadium in Monrovia. The resulting "Monrovia Declaration" cal [...] | 2009-03-24 15:08:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAO LI |
09MONROVIA219 | LIBERIA: IMPACT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS WORSENS [...] SUMMARY: Both the GOL and International Monetary Fund (IMF) report that the impact of the global financial crisis on Liberia may be more serious than previously expected (reftels). The IMF has revised Liberia's growth projections downward from 10.3% to 6% for 2009, and from 14.8% to 8% in 201 [...] | 2009-03-24 17:35:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EFIN LI |
09MONROVIA22 | LIBERIA TO WORK WITH ECOWAS ON GUINEA ACCORDING TO [...] (C) National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Boima Fahnbulleh told Ambassador and Deputy UN SRSG Jordan Ryan January 8 that Liberia fully backs the ECOWAS initiative to press the junta in Guinea to hold elections as soon as practical (he mentioned November 2009 as a likely date) as a "middle way" b [...] | 2009-01-08 15:39:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV LI |
09MONROVIA258 | LIBERIA: AIRPORT SECURITY DEFICIENCIES MAY DELAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: It remains unlikely that Roberts International Airport (RIA) will meet minimum standards for certification by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in time for Delta Airlines' scheduled inauguration of direct flights between the United States and Liberia June 8, despit [...] | 2009-04-10 14:08:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAIR ECON ETRD LI PGOV |
09MONROVIA26 | LIBERIA: PRS GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW PILLAR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs Amara Konneh is frustrated with how the Governance and Rule of Law (GRL) Pillar of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is functioning and has asked the President to assign it to another Minister. According to Konneh, the agreement made at [...] | 2009-01-08 17:53:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID LI |
09MONROVIA262 | LIBERIA: POWER PROJECT AND MINING CONCESSION RECEIVE [...] (U) The Liberian Legislature ratified two major concessions April 1: the $150 million Buchanan Renewable Power (BRP) plant to produce electricity by burning chipped rubber wood (Ref A),and the $2.6 billion China Union Mineral Development Agreement (MDA) to mine iron ore (Ref B). The two conce [...] | 2009-04-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN LI |
09MONROVIA289 | LIBERIA: RUBBER SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: Liberia's rubber sector provides 5.5% of its economic output, 85% of its exports and work for an estimated 50,000 Liberians. Roughly 40% of Liberia's rubber comes from small, Liberian-owned farms, with the remainder produced on large foreign-owned concessions. There has been l [...] | 2009-04-28 08:01:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ELAB EINV PHUM PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA311 | LIBERIA: FISHERIES UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH [...] SUMMARY: The fisheries sector has great potential for increased production and employment, but Liberia continues to import roughly twice the amount of fish it produces. According to the 2008 Annual Report from the Bureau of National Fisheries (BNF),profit margins for fish production are rela [...] | 2009-05-06 17:27:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ECON ETRD PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA318 | SCENESETTER ON UN ISSUES FOR LIBERIA VISIT OF UN [...] (U) America has always had a special place in the hearts of Liberians and that esteem has grown since the end of the civil war. Thousands of Liberians found refuge in the United States during the war, and around 400,000 Liberians, from a population of fewer than four million, now call America [...] | 2009-05-08 13:11:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV ECON OVIP LI |
09MONROVIA365 | LIBERIA: Census confirms population estimates; ignores [...] The final Census, released May 21, confirms a population of 3,476,608 Liberians. It notes a growth rate of 2.1% since the last census in 1984, and projects a doubling time of 33 years. There is no mention of the deaths (estimated at 250,000) or the massive emigration during the years of confl [...] | 2009-05-27 14:49:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA374 | LIBERIA:MAY 29TH MEETING OF CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (U) The May 29 meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy of the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) will be attended by Liberia. The following individuals plan to attend: * Margaret Ansumana, Deputy Commissioner and Delegation Leader, BMA *David Friesen, Head of Maritime Security, LISCR *Victor Do [...] | 2009-05-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR ECON PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA LI |
09MONROVIA375 | LIBERIA: DRAFT BUDGET IS BIGGER AND MORE DETAILED [...] (U) The GOL submitted its 2009-10 draft budget for legislative consideration on May 19. Despite the global financial crunch, the budget, at $347 million, shows a 16% increase over last year's and over 400% growth from the $80 million budget when the Sirleaf administration took office. It incl [...] | 2009-05-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON EAID PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA390 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SIRLEAF [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with the UN Security Council during their May 19-20 visit to Liberia, President Sirleaf expressed strong support for a continued UNMIL presence until Liberia can take over its own security. On several occasions, she called the peace "fragile" and easily able to be rever [...] | 2009-06-02 16:39:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO LI PGOV PREL UNSC |
09MONROVIA41 | PRESIDENT SIRLEAF'S POSITION AT ECOWAS SUMMIT [...] (C) President Sirleaf confirmed to Ambassador January 12 that she was "instrumental" in removing a provision in the draft ECOWAS communique on Guinea calling for sanctions (leaving in a condemnation of the coup, suspension of Guinea from ECOWAS, and a demand that the CNDD take immediate steps [...] | 2009-01-13 17:05:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC GV LI |
09MONROVIA415 | LIBERIA: BANKING SYSTEM STABILIZING DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Although banking services remain concentrated in Monrovia, the number of banks is increasing and most are expanding their reach outside the capital. Indicators of financial soundness are improving, and there is competition to increase services beyond money transfers and fee-bas [...] | 2009-06-10 17:52:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA431 | LIBERIA: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of one claim of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Liberia (GOL; under the National Transitional Government of Liberia - NTGL). a. Claimant A b. 2004 c. In late 2003 and spring 2004, a locally incorporated [...] | 2009-06-16 18:23:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EINV ECON KIDE OPIC PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA483 | NEW MAYOR CLEANS UP CITY HALL [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting Mayor Mary Broh has begun working as Monrovia's mayor without confirmation by the Senate. She has taken on efforts to rationalize city operations with the same vigor she has shown to clean up Monrovia's streets, clear some of the corruption from the port and reorganize t [...] | 2009-07-08 08:09:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI EAID LI |
09MONROVIA487 | LIBERIAN PRESIDENT NAMED IN TRC REPORT FOR HER ASSOCIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Reaction to the of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report of the Liberian civil crisis is mixed but steadily growing several days after its June 30 release. The GOL did not publically respond to the report's recommendation that President Sirleaf be banned from pu [...] | 2009-07-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL KDEM PINR EAID ASEC LI |
09MONROVIA50 | LIBERIA: FOURTH SESSION OF 52ND LEGISLATURE OPENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Liberian House and Senate held separate opening ceremonies January 12 to mark the beginning of the Fourth Session of the 52nd Legislature. About two-thirds of the Legislators were present, with some members still abroad after four months of recess. Vice President Boakai, a [...] | 2009-01-15 17:29:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID LI |
09MONROVIA532 | REACTION TO THE TRC REPORT -- A CALMER TONE [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the TRC report was released public opinion still does not appear to be fully informed of the content of the report. Debate centers around the most publicized aspects of the report, the banning of President Sirleaf from future public office and discussion of who was [...] | 2009-07-21 14:58:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL KDEM PINR EAID ASEC LI |
09MONROVIA547 | LIBERIA: SECURITY SITUATION STABLE; NO TARGETING OF [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 7. 2. SUMMARY. Embassy requests that DRL transmit this information to Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The security situation in Liberia continues to improve and post has received no reports that individuals are being attacked or harmed f [...] | 2009-07-29 15:27:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA549 | PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO TAYLOR,S ACCUSATIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Appeals for reconciliation in the wake of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report's release were amplified during events commemorating 162 years of independence. International visitors, including Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang and Economic Commu [...] | 2009-07-30 09:58:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PINR EG LI |
09MONROVIA550 | ECOWAS COMMISSION PRESIDENT ON TRUTH AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission President Mohamed Ibn Chambas shared his concerns with Ambassador that if the GOL does not respond appropriately to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) recommendations, the situation could degrade. [...] | 2009-07-30 16:36:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL KDEM PINR GV LI |
09MONROVIA567 | LIBERIA: RULING PARTY EXECUTIVES HOLD EXTRAORDINARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over 100 executive members of the ruling Unity Party (U.P.),including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, attended a one-day extraordinary party conference on July 11. Party executives agreed to hold a national convention in October 2009 where all leadership positions will be con [...] | 2009-08-05 16:57:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA569 | LIBERIA: NO TARGETING OF CHUCKIE TAYLOR SUPPORTERS [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see paragraph 7. 2. SUMMARY. Embassy requests that DRL transmit the following information to Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There have been no reports of threats or intimidation against former President Charles Taylor, his son "Chuckie" Taylor, thei [...] | 2009-08-05 17:28:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA570 | LIBERIA: SUDDEN DEATH OF MONROVIA-AREA SENATOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Montserrado County Senator Hanna Brent of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) died in Monrovia on August 3. The cause of death has not been made public. Senator Brent is the sixth legislator to die since January 2006. The race to succeed her is expected to be i [...] | 2009-08-06 08:03:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM EAID LI |
09MONROVIA589 | LIBERIA: PROTESTERS CALL FOR OUSTER OF PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY. A group of about 50 people demonstrated peacefully at the Embassy on August 7, calling for the creation of a war crimes tribunal and the resignation of President Sirleaf. They also asked the USG to stop the GOL from harassing Mulbah Morlu. A second demonstration may occur on Augus [...] | 2009-08-11 15:46:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA602 | TRANSITION FROM TRC TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has kicked off the establishment of Liberia's Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC) by handing the Senate a list of commissioner nominees for approval. This newest human rights commission iteration is the latest attempt by successive [...] | 2009-08-20 14:10:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA609 | ARREST OF PAKISTANI MALAFIDE PASSENGERS LAYS BARE WEAKNESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The removal of two malafide Pakistanis from a Brussels Airlines August 12 flight to Brussels by airline officials, and the GOL's subsequent investigation, has brought to light a well developed smuggling operation using the Roberts International Airport (RIA) VIP Lounge as a way [...] | 2009-08-24 17:59:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAIR ECON KFRD CPAS PREL PGOV KCRM EAID LI |
09MONROVIA628 | LIBERIA PASSES LONG-AWAITED PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-28 13:46:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN LI |
09MONROVIA646 | LIBERIA: PRESIDENT SIRLEAF DISSOLVES MAYORAL TASK FORCE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has dissolved a task force headed by Acting Monrovia City Mayor, Mary Broh, and apologized to members of the National Muslim Council after Broh and members of her task force were involved in a scuffle with Muslims at a mosque in Monrovia on August [...] | 2009-09-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA661 | FLAWED THRESHOLD BILL LIKELY TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Liberian House of Representatives approved a Threshold Bill on September 3 that is the same as the one passed earlier by the Senate. The final bill will double the maximum population in a constituency to 40,000 with a proviso that no county shall have fewer than two seats in [...] | 2009-09-11 12:40:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID LI |
09MONROVIA69 | LIBERIA: CDC CONVENTION FAILS TO HEAL RIFT IN PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC),the largest opposition party in Liberia, has been fractured into two since April 2008 (reftel),with one faction supporting 2005 presidential candidate George Weah and the other against, arguing that the uneducated soccer star left Liberia [...] | 2009-01-21 08:32:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID LI |
09MONROVIA691 | FINAL, EDITED TRC REPORT TO BE RELEASED IN OCTOBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Chairman Jerome Verdier confirmed to us on September 17 that the TRC's final, edited report's release date, expected on September 1, has been pushed to at least mid-October, when 200 copies of the report will be available for government o [...] | 2009-09-28 08:33:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS EAID LI |
09MONROVIA695 | SIRLEAF VETO PUSHES THRESHOLD BILL BACK TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 17, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf exercised her line-item veto authority to reject the Threshold Bill segment guaranteeing each county a minimum of two seats in the House of Representatives. This followed a determination by the Solicitor General confirming the t [...] | 2009-09-29 10:17:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID LI |
09MONROVIA722 | PRESIDENT SIRLEAF TO CONTINUE TO PRESS DADIS; CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: President Sirleaf does not believe anohTer visit to Conakry would be useful, but will continue to work with Wade, Gbagbo and Ibn Chambas on pressing Dadis to step down. She suggested a "demonstration of force" would help limit the bloodshed. Liberian security services are picking [...] | 2009-10-02 14:33:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ASEC SG GV LI |
09MONROVIA73 | LIBERIA: CHINESE FIRM WINS BID TO DEVELOP BONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: The China Union Investment Company has won the bid to redevelop Liberia's Bong iron ore mining range. The $2.6 billion concession agreement is the most lucrative investment contract signed by the Sirleaf government and is expected to create over 10,000 direct jobs and rehabilitate [...] | 2009-01-21 17:03:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA76 | LIBERIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] There is growing investor interest in Liberia, particularly in agriculture, construction, the extractive industries and tourism. UN sanctions on timber exports were lifted in 2006 and on diamonds in early 2007 as Liberia became compliant with the Kimberly Process. The removal of sanctions open [...] | 2009-01-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB ECON PGOV OPIC USTR KTDB LI |
09MONROVIA763 | LEGISLATURE SENDS ELECTORAL REFORM AMENDMENTS TO EXECUTIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The National Legislature has passed a constitutional amendment law that sets in motion reforms needed before the 2011 elections. The "Electoral Reform Law" was drafted with input from the law reform commission and civil society. It seeks to amend sections of the Liberian consti [...] | 2009-10-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA773 | PRESIDENT SIRLEAF ON GUINEA AND NIGER [...] (SBU) Ambassador called on President Sirleaf on October 19 upon the president's return from the October 17 ECOWAS summit in Abuja and her October 18 visit to Niamey as part of a high level mission. GUINEA ------ 2. (C) Sirleaf said that she has decided to take a stronger, more active sta [...] | 2009-10-20 11:41:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECOWAS NG GV LI |
09MONROVIA776 | MONTSERRADO SENATE BY-ELECTION A PRECURSOR TO 2011 VOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The National Elections Commission (NEC) will conduct a by-election on November 10 to elect a replacement for Montserrado Senator Hannah Brent who died on August 3. The official campaign period is October 14-18. Ten candidates have been approved and one disqualified. The by-el [...] | 2009-10-21 08:53:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA802 | 52ND LIBERIAN LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The 52nd National Legislature has concluded its fourth session, recessing until the fifth session begins in January 2010. Despite the fact that several key laws were passed and concession agreements ratified, the Legislature failed to pass crucial measures related to meeting Lib [...] | 2009-10-30 09:55:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA809 | HEAD OF CONCESSIONS COMMISSION MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Keith Jubah, chairman of the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission and President of the Rubber Planters Association, was shot to death November 1 outside his home at the Morris Farm near Kakata. Although police have identified three suspects, reports against them remain [...] | 2009-11-03 16:09:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR CASC ASEC KCRM PREL PGOV LI |
09MONROVIA822 | GOL AGREES TO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON ACCEPTING DEPORTEES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a productive meeting on October 27, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice confirmed that the GOL is prepared to receive 28 deportees in January 2010, and agreed to the drafting a Memorandum of Understanding with the USG outlining procedures for the return of deporte [...] | 2009-11-12 07:25:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM LI |
09MONROVIA833 | LIBERIA - SENATE BY-ELECTION RESULTS IN RUN-OFF [...] SUMMARY. Voter turnout was low in the November 10 Montserrado Senate by-election, with just 20 percent of voters participating. None of the ten candidates took an absolute majority of votes, so the two leading candidates, Geraldine Doe-Sheriff of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and [...] | 2009-11-17 16:15:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI LI |
09MONROVIA841 | LIBERIA - LARGEST PARTIES PREPARE FOR RUN-OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador called on Montserrado County Senate run-off candidates in separate November 18 meetings where she encouraged the Congress for Democratic Change's (CDC) Geraldine Doe Sheriff and Unity Party's (UP) to prevent the inciting of voters in the final November 24 round of the [...] | 2009-11-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Monrovia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA87 | LIBERIA: HOUSE SPEAKER ALLEGEDLY ORDERS BEATING OF FORMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Former lawmaker in the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA) Prince Toe has accused Speaker of the House Alex Tyler of ordering his bodyguards to beat him after Toe's pickup nearly collided with a vehicle in Tyler's convoy January 18. The Monrovia Magisterial Court i [...] | 2009-01-28 09:21:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LI |
09MONROVIA877 | LIBERIA: OPPOSITION WINS SENATE BY-ELECTION RUN-OFF [...] (U) SUMMARY. The opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) convincingly won the Montserrado County senatorial by-election in a second crucial test for the National Elections Commission (NEC). The ruling Unity Party (UP) lost the election despite heavy financial backing and support from f [...] | 2009-12-03 19:26:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI KPAO LI |
09MONROVIA90 | LIBERIA: PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CONTINUED REFORM IN THIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY. In her third State of the Nation Address before a joint session of the National Legislature January 26, President Sirleaf summarized the achievements of her government in 2008 and called for Liberia to "sustain this progress" in 2009. She vowed to continue the fight against corru [...] | 2009-01-28 18:04:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EINV KCRM CACS LI |
09MONROVIA906 | LIBERIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES DISCUSSES TRC PROCESS [...] SUMMARY. The members of the Liberian Council of Churches (LCC) told Ambassador that healing and reconciliation are more important than a harsh application of justice in dealing with perpetrators from the civil war. They fear that calls for prosecution will lead to renewed strife. Election [...] | 2009-12-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM LI |
09MONROVIA937 | LIBERIA: FINAL, EDITED TRC REPORT RELEASED AFTER MUCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After many delays, the final, edited version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report was released on December 8. It contained few changes, mostly the addition of 17 names to lists of perpetrators and more statistical analysis. Implementing the recommendations is [...] | 2009-12-17 08:40:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI EAID LI |
09MONTERREY100 | MEXICO: TRACKING NARCO-GRENADES [...] (SBU) During recent months Mexican narco-traffickers have directed a series of grenade attacks directed against, inter alia, Mexican law enforcement and military facilities, civilian crowds, and U.S. consular installations. The escalation in the strength and power of the weapons used by the [...] | 2009-03-03 17:19:00 | Consulate Monterrey | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MASS SNAR PGOV KCRM CASC MX KS |
09MONTERREY102 | NUEVO LEON?S EFFORTS TO REFORM STATE AND LOCAL POLICE HAVE [...] (C) Summary. The state of Nuevo Leon has instituted many changes to clean up its state and municipal police forces, including annual lie detector tests, the creation of an integrated municipal police force called Metropol, and the construction of a high technology C-4 CCTV monitoring center. T [...] | 2009-03-04 21:56:00 | Consulate Monterrey | SECRET//NOFORN | SNAR KCRM ASEC CASC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY109 | SLOW PROGRESS ON ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVES IN NUEVO LEON [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been a number of allegations of public corruption in Nuevo Leon - including bribes for transit police and building inspectors and misuse of funds - but these cases have resulted in few negatives consequences for those named. The only exception occurred when pr [...] | 2009-03-17 15:21:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | KCOR ECON PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY110 | PAN AND PRI RESORT TO OLD TACTICS IN NUEVO LEON GOVERNOR'S [...] (U) Summary. Despite earlier promises to hold primaries, the Nuevo Leon PAN and PRI parties both chose their candidates by direct designation, reflecting the parties' desire to control the process. The PAN selected Fernando Elizondo Barragan to be their candidate for governor and the PRI chos [...] | 2009-03-17 15:25:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KCRM KCOR MX |
09MONTERREY137 | MONTERREY: MONEY LAUNDERING MOVES FROM BANKS TO CASH [...] (SBU) Summary. Monterrey is a major destination for illegal bulk money transfers and money laundering from the United States. Although Mexico only intermittently prosecutes money launderers, our industry contacts believe that due to corporate self regulation and Mexican laws, money launderin [...] | 2009-04-08 19:05:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ETRD PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY14 | ATTACK ON TELEVISA TV STATION INCREASES PRESS INTIMIDATION [...] (C ) Summary. On January 6 the Televisa TV station in Monterrey was attacked by unknown assailants, who shot eight .40 caliber rounds into the station wall and threw a grenade over a fence into the parking lot, which exploded but did not injure anyone. The attack occurred while Televisa was br [...] | 2009-01-12 19:54:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PGOV KCRM PHUM MX |
09MONTERREY141 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN NUEVO LEON: POLICE IMPUNITY BUT FEW [...] (SBU) Summary. The militarization of the drug war in northern Mexico has not resulted in a significant increase in alleged human rights violations against the Mexican military in Nuevo Leon. Numerous human rights violations do occur in the state, but the alleged culprits usually are state a [...] | 2009-04-15 19:26:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SNAR KCRM PGOV ASEC CASC MX |
09MONTERREY158 | BUSINESS LEADERS SUPPORT MEXICAN MILITARY AND MERIDA [...] (SBU) Summary. ON April 23 Post convened a group of respected business leaders for an in-depth discussion of Mexico's progress on security, the role of the military and their perspective on the Merida Initiative. The business leaders thought that Mexico could be at a tipping point in [...] | 2009-05-07 19:10:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SOCI PGOV KCOR ECON MX |
09MONTERREY175 | BORDER STATES CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP AND MEXICO'S CLIMATE [...] Summary. The Mexican state and federal governments reaffirmed their commitment to combating climate change at the Border States Climate Change Workshop held April 22-23 in Monterrey, Mexico. The conference, sponsored by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC),was the first ever [...] | 2009-05-14 15:52:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY18 | BATISTA KIDNAPPING CASE: LITTLE REAL PROGRESS SO FAR [...] (C) Summary. Despite widespread publicity and continued USG efforts, there has been little progress in resolving the December 10 kidnapping of Felix Batista, an Amcit anti-kidnapping expert. Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira Valdes personally assured the Consul General that he would p [...] | 2009-01-14 22:24:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC SNAR PGOV KCRM ECON MX |
09MONTERREY190 | DRUG CARTELS INFILTRATE THE QUIET STATE OF ZACATECAS [...] (C) Summary. Although the state of Zacatecas appears relatively free from narcotics violence, two recent events demonstrate the extent to which the drug cartels have infiltrated the state government. On May 16 a convey of armed men freed 53 prisoners from a state prison in five minutes, w [...] | 2009-05-20 20:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PGOV CASC ASEC MX |
09MONTERREY202 | MEXICAN ECONOMIC RECESSION DEEPENS; BUSINESS COMPLAINS [...] (U) Summary. Mexico's growth rate showed a sharp 8.2% annualized decline in the first quarter of 2009, indicating a deeper recession than expected. Several local economists now project that Mexico's economy will decline 6-7% in 2009. Credit remains tight and confidence is still low, [...] | 2009-05-29 16:23:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN MX |
09MONTERREY206 | MEXICAN AUTO INDUSTRY HIT HARD BY U.S. RECESSION BUT EXPECTS [...] (U) Summary. The deep U.S. recession has dramatically reduced demand in the Mexican auto industry, a key source of industrial production and exports. Mexican auto producers are in an ornery mood, strongly criticizing the importation of used U.S. cars and their government's lack of su [...] | 2009-06-02 15:47:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN ETRD EFIN ELAB PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY210 | NUEVO LEON STATE PUBLIC SECURITY SECRETARY SEES A MIXED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 17:37:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM ASEC SNAR CASC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY218 | NUEVO LEON AND COAHUILA LEADERS SEEK TO "OUTSOURCE" PUBLIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 21:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM ASEC SNAR CASC PHUM PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY219 | MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS CREATE OPPORTUNITIES DESPITE THE [...] Summary: The state of Nuevo Leon is home to a number of private and public sector sources of microfinance which have helped borrowers to start informal family businesses. However, the unforeseen devaluation of the peso versus the dollar has put significant pressure on microfinance institutio [...] | 2009-06-12 22:30:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SOCI PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY223 | CARTELS WRESTLE FOR CONTROL OF DURANGO [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug trafficking organizations have transformed the state of Durango into one of the most violent battlegrounds in Mexico. Key institutions such as the church and the press have been terrorized as local civil society finds itself under siege. The number of violent deaths in [...] | 2009-06-16 21:36:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR CASC ASEC KCRM PGOV EAID MX |
09MONTERREY23 | (CORRECTED COPY) BATISTA KIDNAPPING CASE: LITTLE REAL [...] (C) Summary. Despite widespread publicity and continued USG efforts, there has been little progress in resolving the December 10 kidnapping of Felix Batista, an Amcit anti-kidnapping expert. Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira Valdes personally assured the Consul General that he would provide a [...] | 2009-01-21 21:14:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC SNAR PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY250 | MEXICAN MILITARY CONTINUING TO ARREST LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS [...] (SBU) Summary. In the last four weeks the Mexican military has stepped up their operations in Nuevo Leon resulting in high profile arrests of corrupt police officers and large seizures. While the military operations coincide with stronger rhetoric from President Calderon and there are allegati [...] | 2009-06-25 21:55:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC SNAR CASC KCRM PHUM KIPR PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY251 | COAHUILA STATE GOVERNOR SPONSORS SECURITY OUTREACH: FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. On June 23 Consulate Monterrey officials traveled to Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila state, to meet with Governor Humberto Moreira and his new law enforcement team. Per reftel, the latter now consists of Mexican Army flag officers seconded to various posts within the state a [...] | 2009-06-26 17:52:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM CASC PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY259 | CASINO TIES TO PAN CANDIDATES [...] (C) Summary. During this year?s midterm elections, President Calderon has accused opposition party governors of skimping in the war against the cartels and PAN party president German Martinez has directly blamed Nuevo Leon Governor Gonzalez Paras (PRI) for the increased violence in that state [...] | 2009-07-02 20:19:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PGOV CASC ASEC MX |
09MONTERREY261 | PAN FAILS TO RETAKE GOVERNORSHIP OF NUEVO LEON [...] (SBU) Summary. The PRI retained the governorship of Nuevo Leon and took majorities in the state legislative and congressional delegations in an election that focused heavily on economic and security issues. The PAN managed to retain control of the state capital, Monterrey, and other import [...] | 2009-07-07 17:01:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCRM KCOG MX |
09MONTERREY274 | CARTELS CONFRONTING MEXICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NUEVO LEON [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug cartel members staged an open shootout with federal police officers in the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe on July 14 resulting in six deaths. The Mexican military's round-up of 20 San Pedro police officers (including a commander in the city's command and control center) [...] | 2009-07-20 14:28:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM CASC PINS SNAR ASEC PTER PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY277 | POST-ELECTION FALLOUT IN MONTERREY [...] (SBU) Summary. Now that the PRI gubernatorial candidate, Rodrigo Medina, has won in Nuevo Leon, and local PRI candidates, in general, did better than expected, the political class is slowly adjusting to new realities. While the 36-year old Medina has yet to reveal the members of his gover [...] | 2009-07-23 21:11:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM MX |
09MONTERREY278 | MAQUILA ASSOCIATION WARNS OF LOSING COMPETITIVENESS [...] Summary. With the economic crisis and falling oil revenue impacting Mexico's federal budget, maquila owners are concerned that federal lawmakers will raise taxes on their industry to increase government revenue. John Castany, President of the Nuevo Leon Maquila Association, told EconOff on [...] | 2009-07-23 21:18:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN MX |
09MONTERREY284 | MILITARY PRESENCE NO PANACEA FOR NUEVO LEON [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers are continuing their campaign of intimidation against the publishers and staff of Northern Mexico's leading dealing newspaper - El Norte. El Norte leadership has reached out to local army commanders as the threats come in, but as the military is not set up to p [...] | 2009-07-27 13:55:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM CASC PHUM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY29 | ENERGY COUNCIL VISIT PROMOTES COOPERATION ON ENERGY ISSUES [...] (U) The U.S. Energy Council came to Monterrey on January 21 to meet private sector contacts and Nuevo Leon state officials to promote information sharing on energy issues ranging from alternative energy, ways to increase energy production and global warming. The Energy Council is a non- [...] | 2009-01-23 22:04:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY30 | DURANGO LOCALS BECOMING ACCUSTOMED TO RAMPANT DRUG CARTEL [...] (C) Summary. Over the past few months, Conoffs have met with state security officials and private sector contacts to assess rising drug violence in Durango. The local police forces are stretched thin and drug gangs have substantial control of the Durango prison. Our interlocutors warned Co [...] | 2009-01-23 23:10:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR CASC ASEC KCRM PGOV ECON MX |
09MONTERREY302 | REPORT FROM ZACATECAS: PROGRESS ON INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) Summary. In a July 27 meeting with Consulate officers, Zacatecas Governor Amalia Garcia Medina (PRD) discussed the development and security challenges facing her state. She proudly related her success in constructing highways to link isolated Zacatecas city (the capital) to urban center [...] | 2009-08-06 15:42:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PINS SNAR CASC ASEC ELTN SOCI MX |
09MONTERREY307 | LOCAL LEADERS STRUGGLE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; CULTURE OF [...] (C) Summary: A joint military/Nuevo Leon state operation to detain 21 San Pedro police officers (including a commander in the city's command and control center) on corruption charges has shocked many in the affluent Monterrey suburb and further contributed to eroding public confidence in loca [...] | 2009-08-07 14:35:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM SNAR SOCI MX |
09MONTERREY31 | MONTERREY CIVIL SOCIETY SEEKS TO RESPOND TO NARCO-VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Unnerved by the upsurge in kidnappings and overall violence, Monterrey civil society institutions - government officials, citizens groups, and the press - have set to work in attempt to find solutions. Some analysts worry, however, that the situation will get worse befor [...] | 2009-01-29 01:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR ASEC CASC PHUM PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY314 | MONTERREY ECONOMIST WEIGH PROSPECTS FOR RECOVERY IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Monterrey-based economists remain hopeful as employment in Mexico's formal sector recorded its second straight month of growth in July. Even though they believe the worst of the recession may be over, David Martinez, the Chief Economist for Nuevo Leon's Secretary of Economic [...] | 2009-08-19 17:16:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV ECON MX |
09MONTERREY318 | INTENSIFYING VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO SHAKE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Cartel violence in Monterrey has continued to shake public confidence in local authorities and burnish the military's image as a viable counter to the criminals. On August 17, the military dealt a major blow to Gulf Cartel operations in the Monterrey area with the take-down [...] | 2009-08-21 14:00:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PINS CASC SNAR ASEC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY32 | NUEVO LEON'S COLLABORATIVE MODEL FOR BUILDING ITS BIOTECH [...] Summary. The State of Nuevo Leon has identified the biotechnology industry as one of five key sectors for potential growth, building on its comparative advantages of strong universities, a business friendly climate and a tradition of public/private partnerships. The state and its private sec [...] | 2009-01-29 01:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR TBIO ECON EINV KIPR PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY33 | NUEVO LEON'S COLLABORATIVE MODEL FOR BUILDING ITS BIOTECH [...] Summary. The State of Nuevo Leon has identified the biotechnology industry as one of five key sectors for potential growth, building on its comparative advantages of strong universities, a business friendly climate and a tradition of public/private partnerships. The state and its private sec [...] | 2009-01-29 01:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR TBIO ECON EINV KIPR PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY34 | NUEVO LEON BUSINESS SURVEY SHOWS WORSENING SECURITY [...] (U) On January 14 the Monterrey Chapter of the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) conducted a survey of 56 employees working in the security and human resources divisions of area companies. Survey participants represented 22 American companies, 24 Mexican firms and 8 other foreign [...] | 2009-01-30 11:21:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EINV ECON ASEC SNAR CASC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY344 | SAN PEDRO MAYOR-ELECT PLANS HARDHITTING CAMPAIGN TO IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary. In a September meeting with the Mayor-elect of San Pedro, Nuevo Leon (the city with the highest per-capita income in Mexico),this incoming municipal chief executive provided us with a pessimistic assessment of the degree of narco infiltration into the Monterrey area's politica [...] | 2009-09-17 22:10:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PINS SNAR ASEC PHUM PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY349 | SAN LUIS POTOSI GOVERNOR-ELECT OUTLINES PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent meeting with the Consul General (CG),San Lusi Potosi Governor-elect Fernando Toranzo Fernandez, a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI),outlined his plans to improve economic, healthcare and security conditions in his state. He predicted that h [...] | 2009-09-22 20:01:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EIND EINV SOCI ASEC EAID ECON MX |
09MONTERREY350 | SAN LUIS POTOSI ECONOMY FORECAST TO IMPROVE; SECURITY STILL [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting with the Consul General (CG),San Luis Potosi State Secretary for Economic Development Carlos Barcena Pous predicted his state would post an economic upturn by year end, driven by increased industrial production. He readily criticized a tax-holiday pla [...] | 2009-09-22 21:11:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV PGOV ASEC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY351 | NUEVO LEON BUSINESS LEADERS SHARE DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador's September 2 - 4 trip to Monterrey offered him opportunities to receive varied perspectives on the state of the economy in Nuevo Leon, during sessions with the Group of Ten (leaders representing some of Mexico's largest industrial and financial conglomerates),th [...] | 2009-09-23 19:58:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ECIN EFIN EINV MX |
09MONTERREY352 | NUEVO LEON LEADERS DISCUSS PUBLIC SECURITY CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The annual Border Governors Conference which took place in Monterrey from September 2 - 4 offered the Ambassador and Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Gil Kerlikowske multiple fora to examine the state of public security in Nuevo Leon. While the state gove [...] | 2009-09-24 00:27:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR PREL PGOV ECON MX |
09MONTERREY354 | NUEVO LEON MOVES AHEAD WITH ORAL TRIAL PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: During a September 4 briefing, Nuevo Leon state and university officials told the Ambassador that around 50 percent of all trials in the state are now conducted at an oral hearing, the result of 2004 legislation mandating the change. Officials said they had intentionally intro [...] | 2009-09-24 18:50:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR PGOV SOCI PHUM MX |
09MONTERREY359 | BORDER GOVERNORS SEEK TO INCREASE REGIONAL INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 2-4, the annual Border Governors Conference took place in Monterrey. The event, hosted by Nuevo Leon Governor Gonzalez Paras, featured participation from New Mexico Governor Richardson, California Governor Schwarzenegger (via DVC),Ambassador Pascual, DHS Borde [...] | 2009-09-28 21:42:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN PGOV ECON SNAR MX |
09MONTERREY371 | NUEVO LEON'S NEW CABINET HAS FEW SURPRISES [...] (SBU) Summary: New Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina released the names of his cabinet members on October 3. With the exception of his choice for the Secretary of Public Security, Medina's choices overwhelmingly reflect continuity from the prior administration, which is not surprising give [...] | 2009-10-06 22:31:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN SOCI PINR MX |
09MONTERREY373 | INCOMING NUEVO LEON GOVERNOR FACES SERIOUS SECURITY [...] (U) This is the first in a two part series covering the challenges Nuevo Leon's new Governor faces upon assuming office. This first cable will focus on the security and political situation in Nuevo Leon. The second will overview the economic conditions in the state. 2. (C) Summary: Nuev [...] | 2009-10-09 15:47:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM ASEC SNAR CASC PHUM PGOV ECON MX |
09MONTERREY378 | FORMIDABLE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACE NEW NUEVO LEON GOVERNOR [...] (U) This is the second in a two part series covering the challenges Nuevo Leon's new administration is facing upon assuming office. This first cable focused on the security and political situation in Nuevo Leon. This cable overviews the fiscal and economic environment in the state government [...] | 2009-10-13 17:00:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MX |
09MONTERREY386 | VIOLENCE SPIKES AS NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKES THE REINS [...] (SBU) Within two weeks of taking office, Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina and his security team face a dramatic increase in violence. While such violence is hardly new to the state, its capital Monterrey has in the last week experienced three dramatic gun battles in public spaces, two of t [...] | 2009-10-16 20:17:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR KCRM PHUM PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY411 | OUTGOING MAYORS SPEAK ON THREATS FROM ORGANIZED CRIME; [...] (C) Summary: During separate conversations with Consul General, two outgoing Mayors briefed us on threats they had received from narcotraffickers during their tenure. The worst instance involved armed sicarios who stormed into one mayor's city hall office and demanded that he stop resisting [...] | 2009-10-30 18:29:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KCOR ASEC SNAR PHUM PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY412 | SAN PEDRO'S NEW MAYOR: BOTH FRIEND AND FOE OF ORGANIZED [...] (C) Summary. In his October 31 inauguration address, San Pedro Mayor (and former PAN federal Senator) Mauricio Fernandez lauded the execution of four suspected narco-traffickers -- four hours prior to the discovery of their bodies in the Mexico's Federal District. Fernandez's revelation, [...] | 2009-11-03 19:38:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY415 | KILLING OF POLICE CHIEF LATEST IN CARTEL VIOLENCE, [...] (C) Summary: On November 4, gunmen ambushed and killed the police chief of the Monterrey suburb of Garcia. Unconfirmed DEA sources identified at least one of the attackers as a member of Los Zetas. This is the latest in the drug cartels' endemic intimidation and violence campaign against [...] | 2009-11-06 22:20:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV PTER SOCI MX |
09MONTERREY434 | NUEVO LEON PROJECTS INCREASE IN H1N1 CASES [...] (SBU) Summary: Nuevo Leon Health officials are preparing for a sharp increase in H1N1 cases over the winter months that could be as high as 300%. However, state government stocks of antiviral medication remain low and, in some private pharmacies, unavailable. The state has yet to receive a [...] | 2009-11-18 18:33:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY435 | EMBATTLED SAN PEDRO MAYOR REFUSED ENTRY TO U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On November 13, Brownsville, Texas CBP officials denied entry to San Pedro's polemic mayor, Mauricio Fernandez and a female companion. Fernandez told media sources that he had forgotten his visa, but CBP sources indicated that they found a small quantity of marijuana in a pipe i [...] | 2009-11-18 23:09:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV PTER SOCI CVIS MX |
09MONTERREY438 | NUEVO LEON BUSINESS COMMUNITY PESSIMISTIC ABOUT NEW FISCAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Reaction to the passage of the modified 2009 Fiscal Law in Nuevo Leon ranges from stoic to pessimistic. Local business leaders and economists cite decreasing competitiveness, growing uncertainty, uncontrolled spending, and a failure to broaden the tax base among their stronges [...] | 2009-11-23 22:46:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ECIN EFIN EINV MX |
09MONTERREY441 | MEXICO BUSINESS SUMMIT FOCUSES ON THE FUTURE [...] (U) The 2009 Mexico Business Summit, "Beyond the Crisis, Creating a Vision for a New Era," held in Monterrey November 8 - 10, brought together prominent leaders from business, government and academia. Major topics at this year's Summit included North American economic development (particularl [...] | 2009-12-01 16:27:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND EINV PGOV ASEC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY442 | MEXICO BUSINESS SUMMIT FOCUSES ON THE FUTURE [...] (U) The 2009 Mexico Business Summit, "Beyond the Crisis, Creating a Vision for a New Era," held in Monterrey November 8 - 10, brought together prominent leaders from business, government and academia. Major topics at this year's Summit included North American economic development (particularl [...] | 2009-12-01 18:40:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND EINV PGOV ASEC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY445 | NUEVO LEON AND ZACATECAS GOVERNORS SEEK INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: On the margins of the Mexico Business Summit, held in Monterrey November 8-10 (reftel),the Ambassador met (separately) with the Governors of Nuevo Leon and Zacatecas. During a November 10 meeting, the Ambassador and Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina (PRI) discussed innovati [...] | 2009-12-07 20:53:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EIND EINV SOCI ASEC EAID ECON MX |
09MONTERREY453 | MONTERREY SHOOTOUTS LEAVE 17 DEAD, EXPOSE SHORTCOMINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: A wave of gang violence rocked Monterrey on December 4 as well-armed criminals faced down the Mexican marines in the Monterrey suburb of Juarez during an attempt to arrest a Los Zetas drug gang leader implicated in the assassination of a suburban police chief. The day culminated [...] | 2009-12-14 15:23:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM KCOR ASEC SNAR PHUM SOCI MX |
09MONTERREY456 | NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TAKING ROOT IN NUEVO LEON [...] (SBU) Summary. Nuevo Leon's Nanotechnology Incubator, the state's newest addition to its nanotechnology infrastructure, is nearing completion and promises to provide pilot scale production facilities to multiple institutes working together to further nanotechnology initiatives in northeastern [...] | 2009-12-14 20:24:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND EINT EINV PGOV TSPL MX |
09MONTERREY46 | SAN LUIS POTOSI TRAVELOGUE; SECURITY GOOD; ECONOMY IN [...] (U) Summary. We expect the 2009 governor's race in San Luis Potosi to focus on economic issues, since the state's security situation is relatively safe. San Luis Potosi has had success in developing manufacturing industries, but export demand is down due to the U.S. recession. The P [...] | 2009-02-04 14:29:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ETRD KCRM SNAR CASC MX |
09MONTERREY64 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, February 9 and February 10. Our contacts report that the narco [...] | 2009-02-12 18:25:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY65 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, February 9 and February 10. Our contacts report that the narco [...] | 2009-02-12 18:25:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY66 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, February 9 and February 10. Our contacts report that the narco [...] | 2009-02-12 18:25:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY67 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, February 9 and February 10. Our contacts report that the narco [...] | 2009-02-12 18:25:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY73 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, February 9 and February 10. Our contacts report that the narco [...] | 2009-02-12 22:35:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY74 | PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN MILITARY LIKELY ORGANIZED BY [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers in northern Mexico appear to be using a new tactic to combat the Mexican military by mounting demonstrations demanding that the military leave. There were demonstrations in Monterrey on January 19, and February 9 and February 12. Our contacts report that the n [...] | 2009-02-13 14:35:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTERREY79 | CONTINUING NARCO-DEMONSTRATIONS CHALLENGE NUEVO LEON [...] (C) Summary. Nuevo Leon residents are demanding that the state government do more to stop narco-funded demonstrations. Although the Nuevo Leon Governor and Secretary of Public Security have publicly said that organized crime is behind the protests - specifically naming the Gulf Cartel and th [...] | 2009-02-18 19:43:00 | Consulate Monterrey | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX |
09MONTEVIDEO121 | URUGUAY: PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ TO TRAVEL TO BRASILIA [...] (C) President Vazquez plans to travel to Brasilia March 10 for a meeting with President Lula. That summit is expected to produce agreement on several issues, according to FM Gonzalo Fernandez, including commitments to eliminate a longstanding tariff problem between the two countries and to in [...] | 2009-03-03 16:23:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN EINV ETRD |
09MONTEVIDEO128 | URUGUAY REVISITS ITS AMNESTY LAW [...] (C) The Uruguayan political establishment has returned forcefully to a debate dating from Uruguay's emergence from dictatorship 23 years ago. Uruguay's Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of requesting on February 6, 2009, that its separate but equal co-branches of government opine on t [...] | 2009-03-05 13:02:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO138 | URUGUAY: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S) Consultations with relevant Embassy sections led to the determination that Uruguay possesses no/no critical infrastructure so vital to the U.S. that its incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on U.S. security, national economic security, national public health or sa [...] | 2009-03-10 15:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP UY |
09MONTEVIDEO140 | URUGUAY CONSIDERS EXTENDING VOTE TO DIASPORA [...] The incumbent Frente Amplio (FA) coalition appears set to put a proposal of suffrage for Uruguayan expatriates to a public referendum. As the votes of thousands of returning expatriates played a key role in the FA's 2004 victory, the move is generally perceived to have been posited in order to [...] | 2009-03-10 16:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO141 | URUGUAY: VAZQUEZ RALLIES THE FA BASE [...] (U) In a downtown Montevideo rally attended by several thousand supporters, President Vazquez delivered an optimistic two-hour-long state of the union address that emphasized Uruguay's progress under his administration. His focus was on the success of ruling coalition Frente Amplio's social r [...] | 2009-03-10 16:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO171 | URUGUAY PROGRESS ON TIP: FIRST PROSECUTIONS BEGIN [...] On March 25, two members of a four-member criminal network were criminally charged with trafficking women to Spain. The investigation had previously focused on money laundering and involvement with drug trafficking, but investigators believe they uncovered enough evidence to augment those ac [...] | 2009-03-30 14:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO172 | URUGUAY PROGRESS ON TIP: FIRST PROSECUTIONS BEGIN [...] On March 25, two members of a four-member criminal network were criminally charged with trafficking women to Spain. The investigation had previously focused on money laundering and involvement with drug trafficking, but investigators believe they uncovered enough evidence to augment those ac [...] | 2009-03-30 14:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO178 | URUGUAY: HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] President Vazquez made his first Presidential visit to China March 21-26, leading a delegation of ministers, government representatives and over fifty entrepreneurs. Vazquez's trip was the fifth presidential visit to China since both countries established diplomatic relations in 1988. During [...] | 2009-04-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ETRD EINV PGOV CH UY |
09MONTEVIDEO182 | URUGUAY: NEW RULES FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE [...] SUMMARY. On the 2nd March, Uruguay's Senate passed draft legislation detailing the rules for financing campaigns during Uruguay's 2009 election cycle. Although, as in past years, the proposal only covers this year's election cycle, if made into law, it would mark the first time in Uruguay's h [...] | 2009-04-02 12:54:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON |
09MONTEVIDEO189 | URUGUAY'S SUCCESS WITH THE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD PROGRAM [...] Summary: Uruguay has taken a leading role in realizing the aims of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative and, under the auspices of its "Project Ceibal," as the project is known locally, is close to its goal of delivering a laptop to every child in the country. A recent poll has linked th [...] | 2009-04-06 19:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO193 | URUGUAY: FM GONZALO FERNANDEZ ON RECENT TRAVELS, [...] (C) FM Fernandez told the Charge April 2 that President Tabare Vazquez had an excellent meeting with VP Biden March 27 in Chile; that Uruguay is strengthening commercial ties with China; that he hopes to use an April 6 meeting with the Secretary to invite her to Uruguay; that Uruguay is not in [...] | 2009-04-07 16:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO214 | URUGUAY: UNASUR MULTILAT ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) GOU Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to embassy staff on April 16 that it had received the invitation to the UNASUR multilateral meeting to be held in the context of the SOA, and that they have already communicated the GOU's intent to attend the meeting through UNASUR channels. 2 [...] | 2009-04-16 17:57:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KSUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO23 | URUGUAY ESTABLISHES NEW COURTS TO TACKLE COMPLEX [...] SUMMARY. In an effort to ensure that complicated cases are properly understood and adjudicated, and to address the public's growing concern about organized crime and narcotics abuse and trafficking, the GOU has established two new courts to focus specifically on those areas. The Juzgados co [...] | 2009-01-15 19:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SOCI PGOV KCRM KJUS UY |
09MONTEVIDEO236 | URUGUAY: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON DINAH SHELTON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-28 11:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO249 | Uruguay Elections - Majority of Cabinet Likely to Seek [...] As the election season moves into higher gear, President Vazquez informed the members of his cabinet that any individuals who wish to campaign in October's general election will need to resign their positions after the June 28 primaries. It seems likely that the majority of the cabinet will do [...] | 2009-05-06 17:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO250 | URUGUAY: UN REPORT PUTS PRISON REFORM ON FRONT BURNER [...] A March report by UN Special Rapporteur for Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Manfred Nowak provoked a swift remedial action from the GOU. The prison system had been a long standing concern in Uruguay and Nowak, a highly experienced Human Rights expert invi [...] | 2009-05-06 18:25:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO267 | NEW MEDIA AND THE URUGUAYAN ELECTION [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) With the primary to decide presidential candidates set for June, and national elections for October, the campaigns of Uruguay's presidential hopefuls have ramped up. However, Urugu [...] | 2009-05-13 19:35:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO270 | URUGUAY: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FM FERNANDEZ [...] (C) In a May 5 meeting with Charge, Uruguayan FM Gonzalo Fernandez formally requested that President Obama visit Uruguay in August 2009, in conjunction with a possible trip to Brazil. Charge and Fernandez also discussed preparations and possible dates for an upcoming U.S.-Uruguay Trade and Inv [...] | 2009-05-14 19:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO297 | 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES: URUGUAY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-01 16:15:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO298 | DICTATORSHIP ERA ABUSES CONTINUE TO RESONATE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although Uruguay emerged from dictatorship rule 23 years ago, the legacy of that period and the fate of the disappeared continue to resonate in the political spectrum. A citizens' group in late April presented signatures to place a referendum on the October ballot to annul Uruguay's [...] | 2009-06-01 17:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO314 | SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE COLORADO PARTY? [...] After a historical drubbing in the 2004 elections, the once dominant Colorado party remains in the political wilderness. While a victory in this yearQs presidential election is practically impossible, the partyQs long-term hopes for recovery lie with the dynamic figure of Pedro Bordaberry, w [...] | 2009-06-08 13:10:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO316 | ENCE Sells Forestry Holdings, New Owners Announce an [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spanish forestry firm ENCE announced on May 22 the sale of most of its forestry plantations to a consortium formed by Finnish-Swedish Stora Enso and Chilean Arauco, and that it will not continue with plans to build a $1.2 billion cellulose plant. Stora Enso/Arauco announced they [...] | 2009-06-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO319 | URUGUAY: VAZQUEZ REPLACES INTERIOR MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 12:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO32 | MONTEVIDEO PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY SPEAKER ON [...] Summary: Post has prepared a proposal for the organization of a biofuels speaker program in Uruguay in FY2009. Given Uruguay's interest in energy diversification and our recent bilateral alternative energy MOU, post believes this funding possibility could spur development of Uruguay's biofu [...] | 2009-01-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO ENRG EAGR ECON PGOV KPAO ETRD UR |
09MONTEVIDEO331 | NATIONAL PARTY FACES CONTESTED PRIMARY [...] (SBU) As Uruguay approaches the June 28 primary elections, the opposition N... [...] | 2009-06-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO353 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: WHY "PEPE" MUJICA? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 16:00:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO377 | URUGUAY: NO SURPRISES IN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES [...] (C) There were few surprises in the June 28 elections to select presidential candidates from Uruguay,s three major political parties, as the front runners translated their respective poll advantages into solid victories. The big winners were ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle of the Blanco par [...] | 2009-06-29 15:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO381 | URUGUAYAN NATIONAL HERO JOSE ARTIGAS RETURNS TO THE POLITICAL SCENE [...] (SBU) Each year on June 19, Uruguayans of all political stripes celebrate the birthday of national hero Jose Artigas. Over the past three years, President Tabare Vazquez and his Frente Amplio (FA) coalition have changed this traditionally apolitical holiday into a joint celebration of Uruguayan in [...] | 2009-07-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO393 | URUGUAY: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LACALLE ON HIS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-08 16:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO402 | URUGUAY ADVANCES IN COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS [...] (U) Summary. On June 24, Uruguay's Anti-Drug Commission released a National Plan Against Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering, which aims to better coordinate the counternarcotics efforts of the varied agencies involved in fighting organized crime. Uruguay has recently created special tribu [...] | 2009-07-13 14:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO404 | URUGUAY'S 2009 SECOND QUARTER INL REPORT [...] SUMMARY: This report covers January through June 2009. The Government of Uruguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat (JND) continued to work diligently on drug enforcement activities during this period, and DEA support increased, opening six investigations during the period. Halfway through 200 [...] | 2009-07-13 16:35:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO409 | Uruguay: A Strong Start for the Opposition Blanco Party [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not... [...] | 2009-07-15 11:26:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO41 | URUGUAY SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY TO [...] Embassy Montevideo has received a diplomatic note from the GOU indicating Uruguay's intention to present its candidacy as a member of the UNESCO Executive Council for the period 2010-2013 in election to be held during the XXXV General Conference of the organization 6-23 October 2009 in Paris, [...] | 2009-01-22 18:27:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO410 | Uruguay: A Strong Start for the Opposition Blanco [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) While the results of UruguayQs June 28 internal elections largely conformed to expectations, a few surprises have emerged in the light of the full results. The ruling Frente Ampli [...] | 2009-07-15 11:27:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO411 | Uruguay: A Strong Start for the Opposition Blanco [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) While the results of UruguayQs June 28 internal elections largely conformed to expectations, a few surprises have emerged in the light of the full results. The ruling Frente Ampli [...] | 2009-07-15 11:28:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO42 | URUGUAY SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CANDIDACY OF DR. [...] Embassy Montevideo received diplomatic note 990/08 informing that Uruguay has nominated Dr. Ernesto Rubio for a new term as Sub-Director General of the WIPO in selections set to take place in Geneva beginning this month. 2. Unofficial translation of diplomatic note text from GOU Ministry of [...] | 2009-01-22 18:30:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO422 | EVO MORALES SEEKS INCREASED TRADE AND POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Bolivian President Evo Morales came to Uruguay on July 13. During a seven-hour visit, he met separately with President Tabare Vazquez, Vice President Rodolfo Nin Novoa, and Governor of Montevideo Ricardo Ehrlich, and then gave a midnight press conference before his departure. The most [...] | 2009-07-17 19:16:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR EPET UY |
09MONTEVIDEO434 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: PARTIES STRATEGIZE AS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) With the internal elections behind them, both the incumbent Frente Amplio (FA) and the opposition National Party (Blancos) have begun to devise the strategies that they hope will [...] | 2009-07-24 13:40:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO437 | URUGUAYAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOSE MUJICA SAYS [...] (C) Governing Frente Amplio coalition presidential candidate Senator Jose Mujica told the charge July 23 that the U.S. should count on him as a friend. He noted that he has relationships with and access to leaders within the hemisphere that have difficult relations with the USG, and said that [...] | 2009-07-27 17:15:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO438 | URUGUAYAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LUIS ALBERTO LACALLE [...] (U) This telegram is... [...] | 2009-07-27 17:30:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO440 | URUGUAY: LUNCH WITH COLORADO PARTY PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) On July 20, Charge met with Colorado Presidential candidate Pedro Bordaberry and four of his closest aides. Bordaberry, who currently polls around 10-12 percent, was realistic about his chances for victory this year, but believes he is setting the foundation for a victory as early as 201 [...] | 2009-07-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO444 | URUGUAY: PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ SEEKS MEETING WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) On July 16, Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez passed along to Charge a second request for President Vazquez to meet with President Obama in September (the first request was made in March 2009 and reiterated in Fernandez, meeting [...] | 2009-07-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO445 | URUGUAY: GOU INTERVENTIONS RE H1N1 [...] (U) Through contacts with local health practitioners and the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health, Post developed the following timeline of interventions pertaining to the H1N1 pendemic, as requested in reftel: -- First case: The first case of H1N1 in Uruguay was detected on May 23, 2009. Th [...] | 2009-07-30 18:14:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO UY |
09MONTEVIDEO468 | URUGUAY: MUJICA 2.0 UNVEILED IN BRAZIL? [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The FA may have regained some lost ground in the ongoing presidential race with the party's ticket, Jose Mujica and Danilo Astori, making a high-profile three-day visit to Brazil [...] | 2009-08-13 19:21:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO488 | URUGUAY: FRENTE AMPLIO CANDIDATE JOSE MUJICA ON [...] (U) Summary. On August 13, Jose ""Pepe"" Mujica and Danilo Astori, the Frente Amplio (FA) candidates for President and Vice President of Uruguay, held a campaign rally in the town of Paysandu. The event provided a case study into the differing campaigning styles and messages of the tw [...] | 2009-08-20 14:17:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UY |
09MONTEVIDEO498 | URUGUAY: DAS MCMULLEN EXPLAINS U.S.-COLOMBIA [...] (C) WHA DAS Chris McMullen visited Montevideo August 26 to provide background and information on the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) to Foreign Minister Fernandez and to the Uruguayan public. Fernandez told him that Uruguay would do what it could to ensure the success of the [...] | 2009-08-27 19:14:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP MOTT UY |
09MONTEVIDEO50 | PRESIDENT'S ORDER TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO DETENTION CENTER [...] Summary: Uruguayan media of all political denominations and types (radio, print media, and television) gave positive coverage to President Obama's order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. End Summary. 2. All Uruguayan dailies gave prominent coverage and positive editorial comme [...] | 2009-01-26 19:33:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PHUM UY |
09MONTEVIDEO509 | URUGUAYAN PARLIAMENT PASSES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [...] (U) On September 2, the Uruguayan Congress passed a law establishing government regulation of collective bargaining. Despite criticism from business leaders, the bill passed with support from both the leftist Frente Amplio coalition and the more conservative National Party, largely due to the [...] | 2009-09-04 11:46:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UY PGOV ELAB |
09MONTEVIDEO513 | URUGUAY'S ECONOMY MINISTER: MUJICA AND ASTORI ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Economy Alvaro Garcia told the charge September 3 that "no question" should remain that ruling Frente Amplio coalition Presidential candidate Jose Mujica and his running mate Danilo Astori "are on the same page" on Economic policy. Garcia explained that the Frente Amp [...] | 2009-09-08 14:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO514 | URUGUAY'S ECONOMY MINISTER: MUJICA AND ASTORI ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Economy Alvaro Garcia told the charge September 3 that "no question" should remain that ruling Frente Amplio coalition Presidential candidate Jose Mujica and his running mate Danilo Astori "are on the same page" on Economic policy. Garcia explained that the Frente Amp [...] | 2009-09-08 14:45:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO536 | FIFTY NGOS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS COME [...] Embassy Montevideo held its first ever Civil Society Summit on August 28. The event was a huge success, bringing together more than 80 community activists and government officials from 50 organizations. Post used the event to explain to eager but inexperienced local NGOs how best to pursue [...] | 2009-09-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO558 | URUGUAY AVOIDS ECONOMIC RECESSION, GOU THRILLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Uruguay's GDP grew by a mild 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2009, thus avoiding an economic recession. Growth was widespread among sectors, with only agriculture and electrical generation declining. The rise was led by rising public expenditure and public investment, whi [...] | 2009-09-25 19:31:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO560 | URUGUAY: CONTROVERSIAL MUJICA INTERVIEWS PROMPT [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) A number of controversial statements by Frente Amplio (FA) coalition presidential candidate Jose Mujica have led to a press firestorm and criticism of the candidate both from th [...] | 2009-09-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO572 | Uruguay Presidential Campaign Programs Released [...] After months of campaigning, in September, leading Uruguayan presidential candidates Jose Mujica and Luis Alberto Lacalle released their respective proposals for government. As both documents make clear, the fight for votes continues to be concentrated on the political middle ground. Conseque [...] | 2009-10-06 17:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO579 | URUGUAY: UNDECIDEDS GROW AS ELECTION APPROACHES [...] (U) Summary. With ==Qn [...] | 2009-10-09 12:12:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO592 | URUGUAY: BORDABERRY: LOOKING FAR BEYOND OCTOBER 25 [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. SUMMARY - - - - 2. (U) With the electoral coverage mostly focused on frontrunners Luis Alberto Lacalle and Jose Mujica, the presidential electionQs third place contender, Colorado Party candidate Pedro B [...] | 2009-10-21 09:16:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO595 | Uruguayan Elections: Counting Down to October 25 [...] (U) With Uruguayans voting October 25, local polling indicates that the two leading presidential candidates are running in place or even losing ground. A second round seems likely, as neither ruling Frente Amplio coalition candidate Jose Mujica nor National Party candidate Luis Lacalle appears [...] | 2009-10-21 18:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO60 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: STRUGGLE FOR RULING COALITION [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary - - - - 2. (SBU) For the first time in at least three election cycles, Uruguay's ruling Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition faces an internal struggle for the coalition's nomination for preside [...] | 2009-02-02 10:23:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR UY |
09MONTEVIDEO608 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: MUJICA ON TOP WITH TOUGH RUNOFF [...] (U) Jose Mujica of the ruling Frente Amplio coalition (FA) and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party (Blancos) will face off for the presidency in a November 29 runoff, after neither candidate was able to capture 50 percent of the vote in national elections October 25. With 98.5 percent o [...] | 2009-10-26 18:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO609 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: FRENTE AMPLIO WINS PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) The ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition will retain its majority in the Senate and Congress of Deputies following elections October 25, defying early projections that they would narrowly fall short of a majority. Updated vote totals increased the FAQs share to 48.16% of the vote, just enou [...] | 2009-10-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO615 | 700 Illegal Weapons Found in Uruguay [...] (S) Uruguayan police confiscated over 700 firearms October 30- November 1, including handguns, shotguns, military style rifles, grenades, rocket propelled grenades, and ammunition from what appears to have been an arms trafficking operation. At least five of the confiscated weapons are rep [...] | 2009-11-05 19:28:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | SNAR ASEC MASS PGOV UY BR |
09MONTEVIDEO619 | Largest Drug Seizure in Uruguayan History [...] (C) On October 15, Uruguayan officials seized 2.174 kilos of cocaine valued at over 108 million USD on a yacht just west of Montevideo. This seizure is the largest narcotic bust of its type in the history of Uruguay and the region. The seizure is the result of a successful internationa [...] | 2009-11-12 19:37:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR UY |
09MONTEVIDEO621 | Uruguay: A Race to the Runoff [...] (U) Uruguay's presidential runoff campaign is in full swing. Although both contenders are struggling to build on the October 25 elections, polls give ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition candidate Jose Mujica a significant lead (48 percent to 40 percent) for the November 29 run-off. As the Octo [...] | 2009-11-12 19:40:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO648 | URUGUAY: ELECTION RESULTS SHOW INTERNAL PARTY SHIFTS [...] (U) Summary. Uruguay's October 2009 presidential and legislative elections represented a historic change for all three major national political parties in regards to their internal dynamics. Within the incumbent Frente Amplio (FA) coalition, the elections reinforced the predominance of leadin [...] | 2009-11-12 18:32:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO666 | Uruguay: Mujica Strong Favorite in November 29 Presidential [...] (U) With the November 29 runoff election less than a week away, ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition candidate Jose Mujica appears in position to be elected the next President of Uruguay, with 48 percent of likely voters intending to support him, according to recent polls. Challenger Luis Alber [...] | 2009-11-24 18:48:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO680 | Jose Mujica Wins Uruguayan Presidency [...] (U) Summary. As predicted by all major polling companies, Frente Amplio candidate and former Tupamaro guerrilla Jose "Pepe" Mujica will be the next President of Uruguay, after winning 53 percent of the vote in a runoff election against Luis Alberto Lacalle November 29. Both Mujica and Lacalle [...] | 2009-11-30 18:51:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO714 | Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Valenzuela's December [...] ( SBU) Embassy Montevideo warmly welcomes your December 16-17 visit. You will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Uruguay during the Obama Administration. Arriving shortly after Uruguay's Presidential elections, your visit will allow us to recognize the excellent collaboration we h [...] | 2009-12-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON SNAR UY |
09MONTEVIDEO718 | Uruguay: President-Elect Mujica's Debut at Mercosur Summit [...] (U) The December 8-9 38th summit meeting of MERCOSUR, provided an appropriate platform for Jose Mujica's regional debut as president elect. Mujica was warmly received by the delegates and, thanks in particular to high profile meetings with Christina Kirchner and Hugo Chavez, managed to attract [...] | 2009-12-10 19:41:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO758 | Uruguay: President-Elect Mujica's Cabinet Taking Shape [...] (U) President elect Jose Mujica has buckled down to the business of appointing his cabinet. Mujica's selection process was complicated slightly by internal unrest within factions of the ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition, but those problems were resolved quickly. Although the announcement of [...] | 2009-12-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO78 | URUGUAY: FM LAUDS BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP, [...] (C) Getting to know officials in the new U.S. administration and helping them understand Uruguay's excellent relationship with the U.S. is a priority for President Vazquez during his last year in office, Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez told the Charge February 6. Complicating that challenge [...] | 2009-02-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TBIO UY |
09MONTEVIDEO89 | URUGUAY 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] SUMMARY: There is a relatively low incidence of trafficking in persons in Uruguay but the government is nonetheless undertaking robust efforts to improve public consciousness, detection, prosecution and protection of victims, to the extent possible with existing resources. These efforts to ta [...] | 2009-02-13 16:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UY |
09MONTEVIDEO90 | URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: THIRD CANDIDATE EMERGES FOR RULING COALITION NOMINATION [...] (U) A third candidate has emerged for the presidential nomination of Uruguay's ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition. Marcos Carambula is Mayor of Canelones, Uruguay's second-largest province, and he is hoping to draw support from the middle ground between longtime front-running senators Jose Mujica [...] | 2009-02-17 14:10:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR UY |
09MONTREAL299 | AMBASSADOR JACOBSON'S VISIT TO MONTREAL, DEC 14-15 [...] (U/NF) Summary. Ambassador Jacobson's second visit to Montreal December 14-15 introduced him to several influential personalities related to Quebec's politics, business and culture. The Ambassador also found a willing ally on intellectual property rights with the Bloc Quebecois party and press [...] | 2009-12-31 18:34:00 | Consulate Montreal | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV CA |
09MOSCOW1 | DEPUTY SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY NAZAROV MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 15 meeting with CODEL Tauscher, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Vladimir Nazarov called the lack of trust the main obstacle for U.S. and Russian cooperation, followed by ineffective mechanisms to guarantee security. Nazarov claimed that U.S. assistance t [...] | 2009-01-01 07:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR KNNP OREP RS |
09MOSCOW1003 | RUSSIA BLAMED FOR BLEAK SOUTH OSSETIA CIRCUMSTANCES [...] (C) Summary: In a recent spate of reports on the situation in South Ossetia, the Russian print and internet media painted a bleak picture of post-conflict living conditions and allowed discontent with Russia to shine through. The press noted the lack of aid and ineffectiveness of reconstruct [...] | 2009-04-20 13:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RS GG |
09MOSCOW1004 | GOR PROTESTS KUZNETSOV DETENTION BY GEORGIA [...] (SBU) The Russian MFA has sharply protested the detention of Nashi activist Aleksandr Kuznetsov by Georgian authorities on April 16, claiming the Georgian administration was "trying to accuse its external enemy, Russia, of everything" in claiming Kuznetsov had traveled to Georgia to plan prov [...] | 2009-04-20 13:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW1016 | RUSSIAN ANALYSTS ON IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE, AND RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Analysts told visiting Senators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson that Russia did not consider Iran a threat, and warned the U.S. against isolating Tehran or countenancing a military option to halt the Iranian nuclear program, which would lead to instability in the Middle East. Russia [...] | 2009-04-21 10:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OREP IR RS |
09MOSCOW1020 | RUSSIA CONDEMNS NATO-GEORGIA PFP EXERCISES [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev, Foreign Minster Lavrov, and Russian NATO PermRep Rogozin have sharply condemned the upcoming NATO-Georgia Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise, charging it would be "dangerous" to conduct it in an area where "tensions were running high," and threatening conse [...] | 2009-04-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO RS GG |
09MOSCOW1021 | CODEL LEVIN MEETS MARGELOV -- MD, Iran, Afghanistan, DPRK, [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 14 meeting with CODEL Levin, Russian Federation Council International Relations Committee Chair Mikhail Margelov said momentum on missile defense had been lost when the U.S. did not take up Russia on its offer on using the Gabala and Armavir radar stations, but state [...] | 2009-04-21 11:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MASS KNNP OREP RS |
09MOSCOW1034 | KIRILL CRONIES BENEFIT FROM RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 31, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Kirill presided over the first meeting of Church leaders since his enthronement, introducing significant personnel and structural changes to the ROC. Kirill appointed faithful supporter Bishop Ilarion as the new Chairman of [...] | 2009-04-22 08:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1047 | CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES IRAN AND MISSILE DEFENSE WITH [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. In an April 14 roundtable at his foundation, former President Mikhail Gorbachev expressed to Codel Levin cautious optimism on improving bilateral relations and called attention [...] | 2009-04-23 06:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MASS KNNP OREP RS |
09MOSCOW1051 | SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S TRIP TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Director Mueller: Your engagement with Russia's top law enforcement and security service heads provides an opportunity to help re-build US-Russian relations, following the positive trajectory set by Presidents Obama and Medvedev at their April 1 meeting in London. The Russian leadershi [...] | 2009-04-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | FBI PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW1053 | MEDVEDEV MEETS ALIYEV: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: During President Aliyev's April 17-18 visit to Moscow, Medvedev touted Russia's "mandate" in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict via presidential-level meetings, while Aliyev stuck to support for the Minsk Group process. Russia supported Aliyev's proposal for determining th [...] | 2009-04-23 15:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS AJ AM |
09MOSCOW106 | GOOD MONEY ON METROPOLITAN KIRILL AS THE NEXT [...] (C) Summary. In a two-stage process beginning January 25 and concluding January 29, a new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will be elected, with the winner determining whether the ROC remains on a conservative course or embarks on a liberal path. Contacts posit six leading co [...] | 2009-01-16 15:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI |
09MOSCOW1060 | DEBTS AND LEADERSHIP WOES FORCE YABLOKO TO THINK [...] (C) Summary: Suffering from dwindling membership, fraying internal discipline, and onerous debt, the Yabloko liberal opposition party has failed to resurrect its national prospects since overhauling its leadership structures in June 2008. After failing to register in all nine October regional [...] | 2009-04-24 07:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW1073 | GOR EDUCATION PLANS MISS LONG-TERM MARK [...] (C) The GOR is responding to reports that 14 percent of 700,000 university graduates in 2009 will not find work by instituting a series of measures intended to reduce labor market stress. Current plans will increase access to publicly funded slots in universities, lower the cost of student lo [...] | 2009-04-24 10:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1075 | RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN CONCERNS ABOUT UNLICENSED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD MASS RS |
09MOSCOW1076 | MFA ON NATO PFP EXERCISES IN GEORGIA, CHOD MEETING [...] (C) In an April 23 meeting, MFA General European Cooperation Director Vladimir Voronkov said the upcoming NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Cooperative Longbow/Cooperative Lancer 2009 exercises were a "sensitive issue" for Russia. He pointed out that the U.S. and Georgia conducted military mane [...] | 2009-04-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR RS NATO |
09MOSCOW1077 | RUSSIAN MFA ON UKRAINE, MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin rejected Ukrainian President Yushchenko's call for a "reset" in relations as gimmickry, noting a continued negative trajectory. While Putin and Tymoshenko will discuss USD 5 billion in Russian credits during their A [...] | 2009-04-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP MD |
09MOSCOW1080 | CHECHNYA COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION ENDS: CHANGES [...] (C) Summary: Consensus across the spectrum of Chechnya observers is that the Kremlin's decision to end its counterterrorism operation in Chechnya has the potential to bolster the republic's economy, but will otherwise effect little change. The opening of the Groznyy airport to international tr [...] | 2009-04-24 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1082 | RUSSIA UPBEAT ON INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISM; [...] (C) Russia gave upbeat assessments of the April 23 Incident Prevention Mechanism talks, while showing no flexibility on reaching a compromise over the OSCE mission in Georgia. Tatiana Mazanova from the 4th CIS Georgia Desk told us Russia was "very pleased" with the "successful" outcome of th [...] | 2009-04-24 14:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE RS GG |
09MOSCOW1091 | UNITED RUSSIA WINS SOCHI MAYORAL RACE AMID FRAUD [...] (C) Summary: Amid allegations of ballot-rigging and electoral fraud, United Russia's Anatoliy Pakhomov won Sochi's April 26 mayoral election with 77 percent of the "official vote." Opposition candidate Boris Nemtsov took 13.5 percent in the official count, and Communist Party (KPRF) candidate [...] | 2009-04-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1110 | MFA ON OSCE AND UNOMIG MISSIONS, INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting, MFA Fourth CIS Director Kelin showed no signs of flexibility on the OSCE mandate renewal. He downplayed prospects that a UN mandate for Abkhazia could be extended to South Ossetia, but predicted Russia's proposal for the UN mandate would "surprise" the W [...] | 2009-04-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG AZ |
09MOSCOW1111 | FM LAVROV DISCUSSES MISSILE DEFENSE AND IRAN WITH [...] (S) Summary. Foreign Minister Lavrov told visiting Codel Levin April 15 that arms control issues were Russia's top priority. Noting that Moscow was waiting for concrete proposals, including specific language, from the U.S. on a post-START treaty agreement, Lavrov said he recognized that the [...] | 2009-04-29 13:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR KACT IR RS |
09MOSCOW1112 | RUSSIAN JOBLESS RATE CLIMBS AS ECONOMY CONTRACTS [...] (C) According to GOR statistics released this week, actual unemployment surged to 7.5 million workers, or approximately 10% of the workforce, in March 2009. 3.5 million Russians have lost their jobs since last August. Meanwhile, the number of workers on administrative leave and partly employe [...] | 2009-04-29 14:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1113 | MFA ON THE PEACE PROCESS, ISRAEL, IRAN AND SUDAN [...] (Summary): MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Director Sergey Vershinin told us on April 28 that the GOR envisioned the proposed May 11 UNSC ministerial on the Middle East as a general discussion of the situation in the region and a chance to reiterate the Security Council's support f [...] | 2009-04-29 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC IS IR SU RS |
09MOSCOW1116 | PATRUSHEV TELLS CODEL LEVIN RUSSIA WANTS CLOSER [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor Patrushev told visiting CODEL Levin on April 15 that Russia wanted closer intelligence cooperation on Iran, and said that the GOR would pass to the USG via intelligence channels a list of Western companies assisting Iran in its nuclear ambitions. Medvede [...] | 2009-04-30 06:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV PARM PINR PINS MARR MCAP MASS MNUC |
09MOSCOW1119 | MEDVEDEV'S LIBERAL GESTURES AND PUTIN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: A series of liberal political gestures by Medvedev have excited speculation about dynamics within the political tandem, with a couple of analysts going so far as to predict Putin's imminent demise. However, well-connected political observers argue against over-interpreting these [...] | 2009-04-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1124 | COMMUNISTS IN OREL EMPOWERED AMIDST TWIN [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party (KPRF) in Orel is gaining support at the expense of United Russia due to the overwhelming level of government corruption there, and the economic crisis in general. Locals [...] | 2009-04-30 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR KCOR ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1125 | RUSSIAN MFA SAYS RASUL KUDAEV'S HEALTH IS [...] (SBU) On April 23 Post received the following response from the Russian MFA pursuant to our January 23, 2009 demarche concerning the treatment of former Guantanamo detainee Rasul Kudaev, currently in pre-trial detention in Nalchik, the capital of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria (reftels). [...] | 2009-04-30 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW113 | RUSSIAN MFA ON GAZA, LEBANON AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: In a January 16 meeting, MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin welcomed the U.S.-Israeli Anti-Smuggling MOU, which he thought would help produce the Egyptian brokered cease-fire, and urged early consultations by the Obama Administration on next steps. Vershini [...] | 2009-01-20 14:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR LE IQ IR IS RS |
09MOSCOW1137 | MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 13:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS |
09MOSCOW1138 | 30,000 DEMONSTRATORS DESCEND ON MOSCOW FOR MAY DAY [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On May Day, some 33 opposition groups, trade unions, and pro-government groups, numbering an estimated 30,000 individuals, took to the streets of Moscow. Protests were generally labor-related an [...] | 2009-05-04 14:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1139 | MOSCOW ON ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER LIEBERMAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials look forward to working with Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, who they believe may be more pragmatic on the peace process than his typically harsh rhetoric suggests. They remain unsure, however, just how large a role he will have in formulating key policy decisio [...] | 2009-05-05 04:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OFDP IS RS |
09MOSCOW1143 | MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 Medvedev dismissed the 63-year old Chief of the GRU, General Valentin Korabelnikov. No official reason was given for the dismissal, but experts told us Korabelnikov's impending dismissal had been rumored for months. Korabelnikov was known to be a Soviet-style gener [...] | 2009-05-05 07:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS |
09MOSCOW1144 | MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 Medvedev dismissed the 63-year old Chief of the GRU, General Valentin Korabelnikov. No official reason was given for the dismissal, but experts told us Korabelnikov's impending dismissal had been rumored for months. Korabelnikov was known to be a Soviet-style gener [...] | 2009-05-05 07:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS |
09MOSCOW1145 | RUSSIAN MFA SAYS GEORGIAN COUP ATTEMPT A SURPRISE [...] (C) In a 1300 May 5 conversation with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin expressed "surprise" at reports of a coup attempt in Georgia, reiterating that the event was unexpected. Karasin dismissed Georgian MinInt Merabishvili's accusations of Russian special services involvement [...] | 2009-05-05 09:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG |
09MOSCOW1148 | RUSSIA-UKRAINE: "COMPLICATED" ENERGY TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin repeatedly described Tymoshenko's April 29 energy talks with Putin as "complicated." In one-on-one, small group, and the plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation, it was decided that Ga [...] | 2009-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EFIN RS UP |
09MOSCOW1149 | RUSSIA SURPRISED BY URGENT MEETING OF CONTACT [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A demarche on May 5 to MFA Department of New Threats and Challenges Attache Azamat Nurgushiyev, who expressed the MFA's surprise at the U.S. proposal to hold a Contact Group meeting on May 29 in New York. The GOR had expected the meeting to be held in July, following th [...] | 2009-05-05 13:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR RS |
09MOSCOW1153 | RUSSIA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN FAILED GEORGIAN COUP [...] (C) Summary. The MFA, MOD, and Duma members all rejected Georgia's claims of Russian special service involvement in the failed Georgian coup attempt May 5, saying the accusations were meant to distract from internal instability that was the true cause of the uprising. The MFA stated Moscow [...] | 2009-05-06 03:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW1156 | RUSSIA: THE SITUATION IN KALMYKIA IS ANYTHING BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The predominantly Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia in Russia's Southern Federal District, headed by a chess-obsessed autocrat, has not been spared the corruption endemic to the rest of the country or the ethnic strife found in the nearby North Caucasus republics. Both the mayor o [...] | 2009-05-06 07:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KIRF PINR RS |
09MOSCOW1164 | MEDVEDEV-SARGSIAN: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a press conference after his April 23 meeting with Armenian President Sargsian, President Medvedev stressed the November 2 Moscow Declaration he personally had brokered as the basis for progress on Nagorno-Karabakh, while the MFA stated its hope the Turkey-Armenia rapprochemen [...] | 2009-05-06 13:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS AM AZ |
09MOSCOW1174 | TUVA: LONELY REPUBLIC SEEKS STABLE RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the remote Siberian republic of Tuva revealed overwhelming support for the ruling United Russia party, but social and economic isolation from the rest of the country. The capital of Tuva trumpeted no major businesses and relied on government allocations, small [...] | 2009-05-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1177 | MORE JOURNALISTS BEATEN AS FREEDOM HOUSE PANS [...] (C) Summary: On May 3, the U.S.-based NGO Freedom House released its report on freedom of speech worldwide in 2008, ranking Russia 174th out of 195 countries and designating Russia's media environment as "Not Free." The report pointed to government pressure on journalists, a large proportion o [...] | 2009-05-08 11:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1184 | CFE: A WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. Although Russian Foreign Ministry officials would like to overcome the impasse over the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE),other Russian interagency voices argue for its annulment. As noted in the non-paper provided to A/S Gottemoeller April 24, the MFA is prepared to c [...] | 2009-05-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCFE PGOV MARR RS |
09MOSCOW1185 | NEW KHAKASSIA GOVERNOR PUSHES ECONOMIC REFORM, [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the small southern Siberian republic of Khakassia revealed strong local government clearly support for the United Russia party, despite difficult economic challenges in the near future. Newly-appointed Governor Zimin has established his reputation as a Medvede [...] | 2009-05-08 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1199 | Russian Experts Give Congressman Rogers a Snapshot of [...] (SBU) On April 10, Russian scholars told Congressman Rogers that there was little popular opposition to the GOR and that any challenges to the government would come from elites, rather than the general populace. However, the leadership could use the threat of popular dissent to scare factions [...] | 2009-05-13 04:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON RS |
09MOSCOW12 | RUSSIA AND POLAND HOLD MISSILE DEFENSE TALKS [...] (C) On December 19 a Russian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Lieutenant-General Yevgeniy Buzhinskiy hosted a Polish delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister (and former Ambassador to the United States) Przemyslaw Grudzinski to discuss Polish missile defense (MD) t [...] | 2009-01-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR MASS MCAP RS PL |
09MOSCOW1205 | HEAT TURNED UP AGAINST JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent written appeals by Russian Federation Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka, Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia are facing enhanced scrutiny as local police pursue charges of "extremism" directed at JW religious literature. JW Amcit [...] | 2009-05-13 11:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1223 | RUSSIA - "TO THE BARRIER" NO MORE [...] (SBU) Summary. The decision in late April to pull Vladimir Solovyev's program, "To the Barrier," from the airwaves stirred controversy among Moscow's commentariat, reflecting the often conflicted attitude toward the host and his contradictory role as both regime advocate and critic. The reaso [...] | 2009-05-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW1224 | PUTIN'S ASIAN MEDIA LEITMOTIF: I'M IN CHARGE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Putin's interview with Japanese media and his briefer exchanges with reporters while in Japan and Mongolia have given pundits a wealth of information to analyze for signs of splits within the ruling "tandemocracy," as well as for indications of Putin's predilections [...] | 2009-05-14 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW1225 | RUSSIA'S HARDENING VIEWS ON SPHERE OF INFLUENCE [...] (C) As the Kremlin's new national security strategy (septel) reasserts the priority of strengthening Russian influence in the CIS, well-connected Russian analysts and government-supported institutniki increasingly call for "positive neutrality" or the "Finlandization" of Russia's neighbors. [...] | 2009-05-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON NATO OSCE RS |
09MOSCOW1226 | RUSSIAN PUBLIC TUNES OUT KHODORKOVSKIY [...] (C) Summary: The Khodorkovskiy/Lebedev trial resumed on May 12 after a two-week hiatus. A Levada Center poll released on the same day showed that only a third of the Russians polled were aware that the trial was taking place. Of those paying attention, most believed that the GOR will pressure [...] | 2009-05-14 14:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1238 | RUSSIA: UPDATES ON COLLECTION, SCREENING, AND [...] (C) Post responses are keyed to reftel questions. Please note that the working relationship between the USG and the Russian Federation is difficult and there is little information sharing outside of specific cases. Much of the information that follows is anecdotal, based on the Embassy's ex [...] | 2009-05-15 14:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS RS |
09MOSCOW1240 | MFA ON POSSIBILITY OF REGIME CHANGE IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. MFA Georgia section head Dmitriy Shtodin told us that the GOR would use the prospect of renewed diplomatic relations as a means of encouraging the Georgian people to replace Georgian President Saakashvili, but denied that Russia supported the Georgian opposition's protests or th [...] | 2009-05-18 07:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS GG |
09MOSCOW1249 | KADYROV FEELING THE PRESSURE AFTER TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Less than one month after Moscow lifted the counter-terrorism regime in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is beginning to show even less patience with opposing views. He has declared an end to the amnesty procedure by which former fighters came down from the mountains and out of the fore [...] | 2009-05-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREF RS |
09MOSCOW1250 | GAY RIGHTS ISSUE RAINS ON EUROVISION PARADE [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, police arrested more than 50 gay rights activists (80, by some accounts) at Sparrow Hills Park, where they were attempting to gather for an unsanctioned protest march. Organizer Nikolay Alekseyev announced that the march would take place downtown near Pushkin Square, d [...] | 2009-05-18 16:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1268 | RUSSIAN MFA ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Transnistria Conflict Negotiator Nesterushkin told us May 18 that DFM Karasin was planning to visit Chisinau and Tiraspol May 26-27 to pressure Smirnov to revoke the travel ban on Ambassador Chaudhry and EU negotiator Miszei, in order to make possible the next "3 plu [...] | 2009-05-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS FI MD |
09MOSCOW1273 | ITALIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (C-RE8-02675) [...] (S/NF) Economic ties, especially long-term gas contracts, are a pillar of Russia-Italy relations and affect Italy's policies toward Russia. Italian gas company ENI and Russian Gazprom have supply commitments in place until 2035, as well as a joint-construction agreement for the South Stream pipelin [...] | 2009-05-20 05:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET IT RS |
09MOSCOW1276 | RUSSIAN EXPERTS OFFER VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Russian experts on the DPRK see Pyongyang's April 5 missile test and subsequent announcement of withdrawal from the Six-Party Talks as a ploy to obtain further concessions from [...] | 2009-05-20 11:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KN RS |
09MOSCOW1280 | RUSSIAN VIEWS ON AN INTERNATIONAL PIRACY TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Russia favors some form of an international tribunal as the best means to ensure that suspected pirates are tried by uniform legal standards and to allow for thorough investigations to help build evidence against the criminal bosses directing piracy operations. Among the options [...] | 2009-05-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA RS |
09MOSCOW1282 | DELIVERY OF MD, JDEC VISIT DOCUMENTS: MFA PROMISES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered draft documents (reftel) and Russian language translations May 19 to Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov. (DCM had earlier also passed copies to MFA North Americas Department Director Neverov, and a copy was also delivered to MOD General Lieutenant Buzhinskiy.) Ryabkov th [...] | 2009-05-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW13 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-08 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW132 | TURNING RUSSIA INTO A MORE HELPFUL SIX PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Russian Six Party negotiator Grigoriy Logvinov is pressing for closer coordination with the new Administration. Early consultations, in Washington or Moscow (on the margins of the February 19-20 NEAPSM Working Group meeting),could potentially turn the GOR into a more helpful [...] | 2009-01-21 15:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KN KS CH RS |
09MOSCOW1332 | NORWEGIAN PM STOLTENBERG'S MEETINGS WITH MEDVEDEV [...] (C) On May 19, Norwegian PM Stoltenberg met separately with Putin and Medvedev for "friendly talks." The discussions focused on cooperation on the Far North and energy, but were not detailed. To the Norwegian delegation's surprise, neither Putin nor Medvedev raised contentious issues like N [...] | 2009-05-22 12:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EINV NO RS |
09MOSCOW1333 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC BM RS |
09MOSCOW1345 | A RUSSIAN MARSHALL PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN? [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent conference on Russian-Afghan relations organized by a Russian NGO provided Moscow an opportunity to demonstrate its concern over the situation in Afghanistan without committing to provide additional assistance to the country. The event brought together Russian official [...] | 2009-05-26 11:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID SNAR AF RS |
09MOSCOW1346 | RUSSIA AND THE ARCTIC: POLICY AND COMPETING VOICES [...] (C) In March, Medvedev approved Russia's long-delayed Arctic policy. It defined the region as Russia's strategic energy reserve, called for its promotion as a transportation corridor, and sought to balance cooperation with the country's security needs. The policy itself reflects competing [...] | 2009-05-26 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG SENV RS |
09MOSCOW1348 | MFA CONTEMPLATES RETURN TO CFE [...] (C) Summary: MFA DVBR Counselor Federyakov told us May 21 that recent press reports that Russian intended to propose a "revised version" of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty were referring to the proposals in the aide memoire passed to A/S Gottemoeller on April 24, not a new Russi [...] | 2009-05-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV MARR RS |
09MOSCOW1349 | RUSSIA: BURY HITLER, NOT STALIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 19, the Kremlin announced that it had formed a "Commission to Oppose Historical Falsification," to address any attempts to "cast doubt on our people's victory in World War II." This decision followed a May 7 proposal in the State Duma to introduce amendments criminalizin [...] | 2009-05-26 12:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1350 | UNITED RUSSIA: SPRING TRAINING FOR FALL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In the past week President Medvedev has stepped forward to chastise United Russia, Prime Minister Putin's political creation and vehicle for his political interests, for its reluctance to engage political opponents in public debate. This salvo at United Russia has triggered predic [...] | 2009-05-26 13:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1354 | GOR MAKES STRONG STATEMENTS ON NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of North Korea's nuclear and short-range missile tests, the Russian government has issued strong statements condemning the actions and declaring Pyongyang to be in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1718. While supporting the need for a new UNSC resolution [...] | 2009-05-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV UNSC KNNP KN RS |
09MOSCOW1355 | MFA ON RUSSIAN TROOPS IN ABKHAZIA, SOUTH OSSETIA; [...] (C) Summary. In a May 26 meeting, MFA IVth CIS Ambassador-at-large Dmitriy Tarabrin and Deputy Alexey Dvinyanin denied any Russian interference in Georgia's internal situation, and rejected reports of recent troop increases due to the ongoing demonstrations in Georgia. MFA I/O Head of Divis [...] | 2009-05-26 14:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN RS GG |
09MOSCOW1361 | RUSSIA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (SBU) In response to ref A request, GOR support for democracy and human rights in Cuba has been minimal. Cuban President Raul Castro visited Moscow in January 2009. The visit produced no major political agreements and only modest strengthening of the limited economic ties between the countrie [...] | 2009-05-27 12:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ECON PREL CU RS |
09MOSCOW1362 | READING THE TEA LEAVES ON MEDVEDEV'S [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's May 16 proposal to change the way the head, deputy head and secretary of Russia's Constitutional Court are selected passed all three readings by the State Duma on May 20 and 22, received the approval of the Federation Council on May 27, and now appears hea [...] | 2009-05-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW1363 | RUSSIAN MFA ON OSCE IN GEORGIA AND GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA IVth CIS Ambassador-at-large Dmitriy Tarabrin and Deputy Alexey Dvinyanin in a May 26 meeting reiterated that a continued OSCE presence in Georgia was contingent on approval of Russia's OSCE proposal for separate monitoring missions in South Ossetia and Georgia proper. Dviny [...] | 2009-05-27 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE RS GG |
09MOSCOW1373 | IZHORA STEEL WORKS NEEDS INVESTMENT TO REALIZE RUSSIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Izhora Steel Works currently is Russia's only producer of nuclear power plant equipment sets for Russia's 1000 megawatt pressurized light water reactors (VVER). Although Izhora claims it can meet current plans for domestic and international nuclear construction, it needs a [...] | 2009-05-28 09:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL ENRG PGOV SENV RS |
09MOSCOW1389 | MOSCOW RULES CONSTRAIN NIKITA BELYKH'S "LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary: Our May 20-21 visit to Kirov, one week after President Medvedev's own visit, revealed tight Moscow limits on the ambitions of Governor Nikita Belykh, a former opposition leader who assumed office in January 2009. Unable to implement political or mass media reforms, Belykh has tur [...] | 2009-05-28 17:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1397 | RUSSIA AND POLAND SEEK TO INTENSIFY RELATIONS [...] (C) The Russian MFA called Polish FM Sikorski's May 5-6 visit to Moscow a success for "intensifying relations." The MFA and Polish diplomats tell us that they have expanded track two mechanisms in an effort to keep contentious issues from derailing high-level talks. The GOR expressed its pr [...] | 2009-05-29 11:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS |
09MOSCOW1401 | MEDVEDEV CAPITALIZES ON MOSCOW POLICE FORCE [...] (SBU) Summary: An April 27 police shooting spree that was captured on video and placed on the internet rocked Moscow and gave President Medvedev an opportunity to burnish his anti-corruption credentials. In sacking Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin and four other high-level police officia [...] | 2009-05-29 12:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW1403 | Russia following South Ossetia elections [...] (SBU) Summary: The Russian press has been closely following the South Ossetian election campaign over the past several months. Reports cover the election mechanics and Russian assistance, which includes polling stations on Russian soil, election observers, and "methodological" aid. Pressure b [...] | 2009-05-29 13:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG RS |
09MOSCOW1404 | CONTROVERSIAL GENERAL NAMED HEAD OF RUSSIAN AIRBORNE [...] (SBU) Summary: Strongly criticized for war crimes committed in Chechnya by troops under his command, Lt. General Vladimir Shamanov's appointment to command Russian airborne troops is considered by some experts to be a message from the Russian leadership in support of not only military reform bu [...] | 2009-05-29 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MCAP PREL PINS RS |
09MOSCOW1423 | GLONASS DEPLOYMENT HAS FULL RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT [...] (SBU) At the third International Satellite Navigation Forum in Moscow from May 12-13, Russian officials took pains to demonstrate high-level government support for the previously behind-schedule Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). They assured the thousand plus government a [...] | 2009-06-01 10:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL PREL ECON KPAO ECIN TNGD PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW1436 | THE MAN WHO WRITES PUTIN'S FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING [...] (C) Summary: Putin has assembled for himself a small foreign policy team after moving from the Kremlin to the Russian White House, according to Yuri Kholkhov, a former MFA official who now prepares briefing papers for the Prime Minister. Russian prime ministers did not previously have a fore [...] | 2009-06-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1439 | IPR: RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTICIPATION IN A NORTHEAST [...] Summary. A delegation of Russian law enforcement officials participated in the 5th annual USPTO Northeast Baltic Regional Conference on Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment held in Helsinki, Finland on April 28-29, 2009. Their participation signals [...] | 2009-06-02 12:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD KIPR ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1440 | FSVTS ON ARMS TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary. In a recent meeting with Washington analysts, Aleksandr Y. Skobeltsyn, Chief 2nd Department for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS),reiterated FSVTS's role in Russia's arms export policy (reftel),stressing that his office focused on reviewing proposed arms sales to foreign c [...] | 2009-06-02 14:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR RS IR |
09MOSCOW1449 | RUSSIA'S ROSATOM AND ENVIRONMENTAL/NUCLEAR WATCHDOG GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Forum-Dialogue on "Nuclear Power, Society and Safety" held April 21 and 22 hosted by Rosatom State Corporation in Saint Petersburg featured Rosatom Director General Kiriyenko's affirmation the current Federal Targeted Plan (FTP) will continue as planned, but [...] | 2009-06-03 08:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL MNUC ENRG KRAD SENV PGOV KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1450 | COOPERATION ON RUSSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS: [...] (C) Despite the economic crisis, in recent months President Medvedev has kept up a steady flow of initiatives to combat corruption, his signature issue in the presidential campaign last year. Medvedev has largely focused these initiatives on corruption by officials, including declarations of [...] | 2009-06-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1457 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 13:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAL PGOV PREL WBG EU IS RS |
09MOSCOW1459 | FSVTS ON ARMS TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary. In a recent meeting with Washington analysts, Aleksandr Y. Skobeltsyn, Chief 2nd Department for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS),reiterated FSVTS's role in Russia's arms export policy (reftel),stressing that his office focused on reviewing proposed arms sales to foreign c [...] | 2009-06-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR RS IR |
09MOSCOW1469 | CSTO RAPID REACTION FORCE BECOMING A REALITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will gather in Moscow on June 14 to create a Moscow-based CSTO rapid reaction force (KSOR). MFA officials and experts agree that Russia's principal motivation for creating KSOR is to counter a possible northern influx [...] | 2009-06-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PINR MCAP MARR RS |
09MOSCOW1470 | RUSSIA AND BELARUS: A CLOSE BUT DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) PM Putin's May 29 visit to Minsk began a sharp exchange on Belarus's financial situation, with the Russian Finance Minister predicting the collapse of the Belarusian economy by the end of the year. According to analysts this latest spat was reflective of a "close but dysfunctional" relat [...] | 2009-06-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BO RS |
09MOSCOW1475 | RUSSIA EAGER TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT ON LETHAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 06:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AF RS |
09MOSCOW1479 | CLINTON-KOUCHNER LETTER AND UNOMIG DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, Ambassador delivered Ref B talking points on UNOMIG to DFM Karasin, while post delivered ref A and B demarche and letter to MFA Fourth CIS Director Kelin the same day, jointly with French Embassy DCM Philippe Lefort. Karasin said Russia would engage and negotiate on [...] | 2009-06-05 08:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW148 | RUSSIA TO SANCTION ARMS TRANSFERS TO GEORGIA? [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev signed a decree January 19 prohibiting the supply of military and dual-use items to Georgia, and threatening economic sanctions and the termination of military-economic and military-technical cooperation for foreign countries and entities engaged in such arms [...] | 2009-01-22 15:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS GG RS |
09MOSCOW1487 | RUSSIA EAGER TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT ON LETHAL [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials expressed genuine interest in overcoming obstacles to conclude an agreement with the U.S. on lethal transit to Afghanistan during May 27 talks, and passed a draft agreement to the U.S. delegation. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that there might be [...] | 2009-06-05 12:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AF RS |
09MOSCOW1488 | ISRAELI FM LIEBERMAN IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Israeli FM Lieberman's June 2-3 visit to Russia appears not to have broken new ground diplomatically, but cemented Moscow's impression that the Russian-speaking Lieberman is one of their own. The trip included meetings with Medvedev and Putin, as well as a lengthy discussion with [...] | 2009-06-05 13:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IS SY GG RS |
09MOSCOW149 | RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 15:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW1490 | ALEKSANDR EBRALIDZE--RUSSIA'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. While press reports describe St. Petersburg businessman Aleksandr Ebralidze as "the Kremlin's favorite" to become the next President in Georgia, South Caucasus watchers had not heard of Ebralidze before he announced his aspirations at a Georgian diaspora conference in Sochi in M [...] | 2009-06-05 13:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW1496 | RUMORS OF DEFENSE MINISTER OUSTER DISCOUNTED [...] (C) Summary: Local press reported that Defense Minister Serdyukov would be dismissed from his post and made Head of the Federal Customs Service (FTS),to be replaced by someone from within the Defense Ministry. A working group of Duma Deputies and military experts submitted a report to Medved [...] | 2009-06-08 10:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MCAP RS |
09MOSCOW1497 | NEMTSOV, MILOV: OBAMA MUST SHOW SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a June 3 meeting, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov -- co-leaders of the Solidarity opposition movement -- outlined for the Ambassador how President Obama should approach his July visit to Moscow. First, they argued, Ob [...] | 2009-06-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM OVIP RS |
09MOSCOW150 | RUSSIA TAKING UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Federation is taking the February 2009 review of the human rights situation here under the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) special mechanism seriously. The Senior Human Rights Adviser at the UN's mission in Moscow told us that last summer he [...] | 2009-01-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR UNHRC RS |
09MOSCOW1501 | MURDER OF TOP COP SHOWS THAT DAGESTAN IS STILL [...] (SBU) The June 5 shooting of Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgirei Magomedtagirov by a sniper while he stood outside a banquet hall where he was attending the wedding of a lower-ranking ministry official shows just how uncontrolled the security situation is in this North Caucasus republic. P [...] | 2009-06-08 15:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW1505 | CRISIS FAINTLY BOOSTS PRESS FREEDOM; PUBLIC SNOOZES [...] (SBU) Summary: Criticism of GOR policy in some print and internet media has sharpened as the financial crisis has taken hold. This has raised hopes among some liberal observers that the financial crisis will improve press freedom in Russia, by forcing GOR officials to be more open to criticis [...] | 2009-06-09 11:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM ECON SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1507 | KALUGA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT SPENDS ON DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to the ruling United Russia-dominated Kaluga Region, local government officials took great pains to portray it as one of the most attractive regions in Russia for foreign investment and, despite the current economic crisis, one that is thriving with virtu [...] | 2009-06-09 14:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM KCOR SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1508 | RUSSIA SUPPORTS DRPK UNSCR TEXT, SEEKS CLARITY ON [...] (C) Russian DFM Aleksandr Borodavkin called in Ambassador Beyrle late June 8 (Moscow time) to discuss the current draft UNSCR under consideration in New York condemning North Korea for its recent nuclear tests and missile launches. Borodavkin opened by noting that, in principle, Russia is read [...] | 2009-06-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV NK RS |
09MOSCOW1509 | DFM GRUSHKO ON NATO-RUSSIA AND EUROPEAN SECURITY [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko told the Ambassador June 8 that the GOR could not prepare in time for a formal NRC ministerial June 27, but would support an informal meeting, which would provide the political signal to allow reengagement on military to military cooperation. He was unwill [...] | 2009-06-09 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO UP RS |
09MOSCOW1525 | INFORMATION ON RUSSIA'S AFGHANISTAN POLICY MAKERS [...] (C) In response to ref A request for information on Russian leaders with influence on GOR Afghan policy, we have provided profiles of MFA officials involved in Russian policy toward Afghanistan. Of the MFA officials listed below, we classify the following as experts on Afghanistan: Aleksandr [...] | 2009-06-11 11:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL AF RS |
09MOSCOW1535 | UNITED RUSSIA MANIPULATES PENZA REGION'S MASSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to the Penza Region it was apparent that United Russia dominates the region to an extreme degree. Opposition forces, like the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF),the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR),and Just Russia have very little [...] | 2009-06-11 13:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1537 | GOR WITHDRAWS FROM SCHNEERSOHN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, [...] (C) On personal instructions from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Director for the North America Department Khudrin summoned us on June 11 and presented a note (scanned and emailed to EUR/RUS) that announced the GOR's withdrawal from United States court pro [...] | 2009-06-11 14:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW154 | RUSSIAN MFA ON TREATMENT OF FORMER GUANTANAMO [...] (C) We met with Artem Kudoyarov, Deputy Director in the MFA's North America Department, to convey reftel concerns about reports that the GOR has denied critical medical care to Rasul Kudaev, a former detainee at the Guantanamo detention center currently in Russian custody. In addition to ref [...] | 2009-01-23 13:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDGR PTER KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW1540 | Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations Seeks to Expand [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AORC EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS KG TI |
09MOSCOW1541 | RUSSIA: DEMARCHE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE [...] (C/NF) MFA Deputy Director Gorlach welcomed reftel demarche as an important signal and expressed interest in the idea of a joint U.S.-Russian statement for the Corfu ministerial. He said that Russia would not oppose efforts to discuss the human and economic agenda, but asked for specifics an [...] | 2009-06-11 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EU NATO OSCE RS |
09MOSCOW1542 | FM STEINMEIER URGES RUSSIA TO SEIZE THIS HISTORIC [...] (C) On a June 10 visit to Moscow, German FM Steinmeier met separately with President Medvedev, PM Putin, and FM Lavrov. According to the German embassy, the visit bolstered the strategic partnership, with Steinmeier using the opportunity to press Russia on nuclear disarmament negotiations wit [...] | 2009-06-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG GM RS |
09MOSCOW155 | MOSCOW GOVERNMENT COPES WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: According to Moscow city officials, the global economic crisis has not affected the average Muscovite to the same degree that it is impacting the capital's more affluent residents. In order to mitigate its effects and maintain a stable political climate in Moscow, the city gover [...] | 2009-01-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1562 | PUTIN, PIKALEVO, AND THE FAILURE OF THE POWER [...] (C) Summary. The events two weeks ago in the northwestern town of Pikalevo, in which frustrated workers in three small, idled plants blocked a federal highway to draw attention to their plight, demonstrated the failures of Russia's "vertical of power" and gave insight into the balance of power [...] | 2009-06-15 11:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW1591 | IMPLICATIONS OF REARMING GEORGIA FOR U.S.-RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: A decision to move towards a more robust military relationship with Georgia will imperil our efforts to re-start relations with Russia, if it is not carefully calibrated and deployed. While Medvedev understands the strategic and personal benefits of crafting a productive partnersh [...] | 2009-06-17 14:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW1597 | JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, SCIENTOLOGISTS UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The campaign against the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) in Russia, instigated by General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka in early 2009, continued in May and June. While a judge dismissed one case against the JW branch in Tolyatti on insufficient grounds, the situation in Samara Oblast, Sve [...] | 2009-06-18 07:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1599 | RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. NONPAPER ON AN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, MFA Legal Department Section Chief Titushkin provided a response to reftel nonpaper laying out U.S. opposition to an international piracy court. He explained that the GOR considered an international tribunal an appropriate forum to prosecute suspected pirates, espe [...] | 2009-06-18 08:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1603 | "PIKALEVO SYNDROME:" NOT A PANDEMIC, BUT STILL [...] (C) Government officials, business leaders, and economists have become fascinated over the past couple weeks with the potential spread of "Pikalevo syndrome" and the repetition in other single company towns of this month's highly publicized demonstration outside St. Petersburg. As expected, th [...] | 2009-06-18 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1605 | MEDVEDEV, MOSCOW DEMONSTRATE RESOLVE BY STAMPING [...] (SBU) Summary: In Moscow and across Russia, radical changes are afoot as gambling businesses scramble to comply with a new federal law restricting gambling facilities to four special gaming zones. Some gambling moguls are planning to move their businesses to other former Soviet republics and [...] | 2009-06-18 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1606 | CSTO RAPID REACTION FORCE LAUNCHED WITHOUT BELARUS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on June 14 signed documents to create the Moscow-based CSTO rapid reaction force (KSOR). Though in attendance at the summit, Uzbekistan did not sign the KSOR agreement, possibly for fear that KSOR may be used to settl [...] | 2009-06-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MCAP MARR RS ETRD BO |
09MOSCOW1619 | BUSINESS LEADER ON LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) met with Yanna Yakovleva, the head of Business Solidarity, a NGO dedicated to protecting Russian businesses from government extortion. Yakovleva expressed appreciation for a recent joint project with the Embassy that had changed the law o [...] | 2009-06-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KJUS SNAR RS |
09MOSCOW1620 | MEDVEDEV SENDS DUMA WATERED-DOWN AMENDMENTS TO NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17 President Medvedev sent to the Russian State Duma a packet of proposed changes to the NGO Law enacted in 2006 at the behest of then president Vladimir Putin. The proposed changes are minor -- permitting smaller NGOs to use shorter, less burdensome forms when registe [...] | 2009-06-19 12:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1621 | MFA ON UNOMIG FAILURE, NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: MFA IVth CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told us UNOMIG renewal talks failed in part due to the West's rigid response to Russia's earlier OSCE proposals, which caused Moscow to "tighten" its position on UNOMIG. Dvinyanin described Russia's concurrence with UNSCR 1866, which refer [...] | 2009-06-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN RS GG |
09MOSCOW1642 | NO OFFICIAL GOR POSITION ON PATRIOT MISSILES IN [...] (C) MFA North America Desk First Secretary Aleksey Ivanov told us the GOR had no official position on the possible rotating-basis deployment of Patriot anti-missile systems in Poland. He told us that many GOR officials, however privately oppose such a move because they interpret Polish statem [...] | 2009-06-22 10:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS MCAP MARR RS PL |
09MOSCOW1645 | SUMMIT DELIVERABLES: RYABKOV NOTES SPEED AND [...] (C) Summary: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed to Ambassador Steve Mull in a June 17 meeting in Moscow that the GOR is working hard to get responses to the "very creative hard work" delivered by Energy DepSec Poneman, A/S Gottemoeller and Ambassador Mull himself during r [...] | 2009-06-23 04:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1646 | SAMARA - A CITY OF TWO TALES [...] (SBU) Summary. The economic crisis has heightened the divide between the Samara oblast administration's relentless assertions of stability and the "non-official" story of growing discontent among the more politically active part of society and within elite circles. Samara officials assured us [...] | 2009-06-23 04:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW1649 | MOSCOW SAYS IRANIAN ELECTION AN INTERNAL AFFAIR [...] (U) Moscow has steered clear of the controversy over Iran's June 12 Presidential election, waiting until June 22 for the MFA to release a brief statement declaring the election a "purely internal affair." The statement did acknowledge that the election was being "challenged by other contender [...] | 2009-06-23 09:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR RS |
09MOSCOW1650 | RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS ON BLACK SEA FLEET "MOST [...] (C) Summary. The MFA was at pains to stress the success and cooperative tone of the June 10 Russia-Ukraine Black Sea Fleet sub-commission talks. The sides agreed on a mechanism for rapid exchange of information on urgent issues and a scheme to inventory land parcels used by the BSF, plus di [...] | 2009-06-23 12:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP RS UP |
09MOSCOW1653 | WOMEN IN MOSCOW CITY LEADERSHIP: AN UPHILL BATTLE [...] (SBU) Summary: As elsewhere in Russia, women in Moscow are underrepresented in high-level positions in politics. On the whole, women do not have equal opportunities as men to run for office because they lack the necessary financial and administrative means and have difficulty overcoming Russ [...] | 2009-06-23 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM KWMN SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1661 | RUSSIAN MEDIA, OFTEN CRITICAL OF FOREIGN [...] SUMMARY: A recent series of news items in the Russian press has cast an introspective spotlight on the perils that Russian children face in orphanages and domestic adoptive families. The media has increasingly drawn public attention to a spate of incidents in recent months in which Russian [...] | 2009-06-25 06:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CASC KOCI PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW1664 | START FOLLOW-ON: A/S GOTTEMOELLER PRESENTS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller led an inter-agency delegation that presented U.S. papers on SNDVs and ODSNWs, a draft Joint Understanding (Refs C and D),and the U.S. non-paper containing comments on the Russian "vision" paper to a Russian interagency delegation June 15-16. [...] | 2009-06-25 08:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KACT START MARR KNNP RS |
09MOSCOW1666 | VLADIMIR REGION WEATHERS THE CRISIS [...] (C) Labor, business, and government leaders in Vladimirskaya oblast remain optimistic about their region's future despite recent setbacks caused by the financial crisis. Regional administration officials anticipate the opening of sixteen new enterprises and production lines by the end of 2009 [...] | 2009-06-25 09:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1667 | GOR SO FAR LOW KEY ON MANAS [...] (SBU) In the wake of the Kyrgyz announcement that the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan had reached a new agreement on the continued use of the Manas airport in support of NATO operations in Afghanistan, official GOR reaction so far has maintained the consistent line that Manas is a matter of bilateral re [...] | 2009-06-25 10:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW1670 | VORKUTA: ARCTIC MINING TOWN WEATHERS CRISIS AMID [...] (SBU) Summary: A June 13-15 visit to Vorkuta, a former gulag mining town north of the Arctic Circle, revealed a company town (or so-called "monogorod") struggling to define itself amid "optimization" that has hemorrhaged jobs and residents over the past decade. A May 24 rally that attracted 1 [...] | 2009-06-25 13:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM SOCI PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1685 | SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS ACQUITTAL OF POLITKOVSKAYA [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 25, Russia's Supreme Court overturned the February acquittal of three men charged with the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, citing serious procedural violations, and ordered a retrial. The defendants' lawyers called the decision "political," and sta [...] | 2009-06-29 09:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1688 | SAMADUROV EXPECTS GUILTY VERDICT IN "FORBIDDEN [...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of former Sakharov Center Director Yuriy Samodurov and former curator of the New Tretyakov Gallery Andrey Yerofeyev has entered its third month of hearings at the Taganskiy district court in the criminal case brought against them for a 2006 modern art exhibit entitle [...] | 2009-06-29 11:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW1696 | FIRST BRIC SUMMIT OFFERS NO CONCRETE RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Though labeled a resounding success by Russian President Medvedev, the first formal BRIC summit offered few concrete results. While downplaying the future role of the group, Russian MFA officials stressed that BRIC was a consultative forum that aims to address pressing global pr [...] | 2009-06-29 14:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN EFIN BR CH IN RS |
09MOSCOW1730 | CUBA-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP (C-AL9-00784) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 16:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV CU RS |
09MOSCOW1732 | CUBA-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP (C-AL9-00784) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 05:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL PGOV CU RS |
09MOSCOW1733 | ALCOA INVESTMENT LIFTS SAMARA'S SAGGING ECONOMY [...] On June 23-24, the Ambassador visited Samara to officiate at the opening of the latest production line of the USD 750 million Alcoa investment in the Samara Metallurgical Plant, Russia's largest aluminum producing facility. The Ambassador met with Samara Governor Vladimir Vladimorovich Artyako [...] | 2009-07-02 08:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV SOCI RU |
09MOSCOW1738 | VORONIN VISITS MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. Russia said Moscow's agreement to meet with Moldovan President Voronin June 22 in Moscow was not election campaign assistance, but only support inasmuch as Moscow sought to maintain good relations with its neighbors and protect the interests of the Russian-speaking (voting) popu [...] | 2009-07-02 11:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS MD |
09MOSCOW1742 | YAVLINSKIY'S POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Ambassador Beyrle met with former Yabloko leader Grigoriy Yavlinskiy prior to the Obama-Medvedev summit to hear his views on U.S.-Russian relations, as well as his thoughts on how the U.S. should best approach bilateral relations. His top five recommendations pertain [...] | 2009-07-03 10:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1743 | MOSCOW CITY DUMA AMENDMENTS FAVOR A UNITED RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Moscow City Duma amended Moscow's Election Code on June 17, strategically changing the rules for its own elections. These measures set up a voting structure that favors United Russia's continual dominance in the October 11, 2009 Moscow City Duma elections. Key legislativ [...] | 2009-07-03 15:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW176 | KREMLIN DIRECTS UNITED RUSSIA TO "SPIN" CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: At the instruction of Kremlin officials, United Russia is taking a more active visible role in defending Russian government actions to the Russian public. Countering the anti-import duty protests and messages which have resonated in political and media circles for weeks, United Ru [...] | 2009-01-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1763 | MEDVEDEV IN BAKU: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of President Medvedev's visit to Baku June 29, Russia is optimistic that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be resolved in the near future. To effect that, Moscow plans no actions outside of the Minsk Group Process, which is organizing a meeting between the Armenian [...] | 2009-07-08 12:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS AZ |
09MOSCOW1764 | RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH KIRILL PROPOSES [...] (SBU) Summary. In advance of the July 6-8 visit to Moscow by President Obama, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill welcomed stronger ties between the U.S. and Russia and proposed a religious component to international peace negotiations. Kirill also presse [...] | 2009-07-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1780 | CODEL BERMAN MEETS WITH CARNEGIE CENTER AND AMCHAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings June 30, Codel Berman met with Carnegie Center experts and AmCham members. Carnegie's Trenin told the Codel that missile defense was the "make-or-break" issue for Russia's post-START treaty posture. Russia benefited from U.S. tensions with Iran, although i [...] | 2009-07-10 10:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1781 | U.S. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETS WITH DUMA [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Representatives of the House Foreign Affairs Committee met with Duma deputies June 29 to discuss an array of issues affecting U.S.-Russia relations. Economic topics included Russia's WTO membership aspirations, IPR, corruption, and energy, while the discussion of internal i [...] | 2009-07-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1790 | TATARSTAN'S EXPORT-ORIENTED ECONOMY AWAITS GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador Beyrle's June 24-25 visit to Kazan, Tatarstan President Mintimir Shaymiyev and members of the central Russian republic's business community told him that the republic's export-oriented local economy (oil and heavy machinery) is suffering greatly from the current [...] | 2009-07-10 14:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR KISL SCUL RS |
09MOSCOW1791 | UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS, WAGE ARREARS & REDUCED HOURS [...] (C) According to GOR data released last week, actual unemployment in Russia fell to 8.5 percent, or 6.5 million workers, in May. Employment was also down 1.9 percent, or 2.1 million workers, from May 2008. Experts predicted that the employment decline would continue because workers leaving t [...] | 2009-07-13 06:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1793 | ASD VERSHBOW DISCUSSES SUMMIT WITH ROUNDTABLE OF [...] (C) Summary: A panel of experts told ASD Vershbow the July 6-8 POTUS visit had been a success, with both sides working hard to ensure a positive outcome. Experts praised Obama's rhetoric as defending U.S. values without meddling in Russia's internal affairs. Being Obama's primary interlocut [...] | 2009-07-13 09:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP MNUC EAID RS |
09MOSCOW1794 | RUSSIAN MFA DOWNPLAYS DISCORD WITH UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. The MFA downplayed press speculation that Russia stood to benefit from the de-sovereignization of Ukraine, but said Russia would continue to protest against attempts to "ukrainize" Crimea. While several recent accords showed that Russia-Ukraine relations remained fruitful on the [...] | 2009-07-13 13:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW1797 | "DA, WE CAN": OPTIMISM SWEEPS CIVIL SOCIETY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Civil Society Summit of July 6-7 brought together approximately 100 NGO representatives from both the U.S. and Russia. Although participants were pleased with the detailed results of the Summit's various Working Groups, they saved their most effusive praise for President Ob [...] | 2009-07-13 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW180 | MOSCOW MULLS SOCIAL UNREST AFTER VLADIVOSTOK [...] (SBU) Summary: The scope and spontaneity of protests last December against the regime's anti-crisis policies sparked speculation about the potential for unrest and political crisis in the coming year. Opponents of the regime and even some loyalists seized upon the protests as a sign of broader [...] | 2009-01-27 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW1804 | EXPERT TELLS ASD VERSHBOW GOR HAS CHANGED ATTITUDE [...] (C) Summary: PIR Center Director Vladimir Orlov told ASD Vershbow on July 8 that the attempts to reset U.S.-Russia relations, culminating in the July 6-8 summit, had improved the GOR's attitude toward the United States. He expressed optimism that genuine U.S.-Russia cooperation would be poss [...] | 2009-07-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP MNUC RS |
09MOSCOW181 | UNHCR SECURITY ADVISOR IN NORTH CAUCASUS HOPEFUL [...] (C) Summary: According to UN security officials based in Vladikavkaz, Ingushetia's new president has made a promising start as he tries to restore calm to the restive North Caucasus republic. Recent attacks on civilians in North Ossetia, meanwhile, do not appear to these observers to portend [...] | 2009-01-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF MARR UNHCR PINR PTER RS |
09MOSCOW182 | INGUSHETIYA AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: In his first three months as president of Ingushetiya, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has made all the right moves to tackle what he believes are the three root causes of extremism and crime in the northern Caucasus republic -- corruption, unemployment and a lack of credibility in the gover [...] | 2009-01-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR PREF ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1827 | THE GOR'S "SECRET" VISIT TO KYRGYZSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7 Russian Minister of Defense Anatoliy Serdyukov and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin made a brief, unannounced visit to Kyrgyzstan to discuss Russia's interest in opening a second Russian military base in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. The base is expected to house [...] | 2009-07-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP EINV EMIN RS KG |
09MOSCOW1828 | EXCHANGE OF AFGHAN TRANSIT AGREEMENT NOTES [...] (SBU) On July 15 EmbOff delivered to Russian MFA North America Department Second Secretary Ruben Malayan the original and one copy of Embassy Note No. MFA/104/09, initialed on July 8, referring to the Afghan Transit Agreement signed on July 6. In exchange, Malayan delivered to EmbOff the origi [...] | 2009-07-15 14:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PGOV MARR MOPS MASS RS AF |
09MOSCOW1835 | DFM RYABKOV TAKES STOCK FOLLOWING "VERY GOOD" [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Ambassador July 16 that the Russian government viewed the Obama-Medvedev summit as a "very good visit," and said the MFA was preparing next steps for post-START negotiations, the ballistic missile joint threat assessment, and the bilateral [...] | 2009-07-17 10:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR MARR MNUC PARM IR RS |
09MOSCOW1869 | INTERNET PIRACY: RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT SUCCESSFULLY TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian law enforcement, in collaboration with local industry, conducted a raid against an Internet piracy release group "Interfilm" and arrested the owners of their bit- torrent site, "Interfilm.ru." The criminal action against this site is not only the first in Russia since th [...] | 2009-07-22 03:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD KIPR ECON RS |
09MOSCOW1873 | U/S BURNS JULY 7 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN: [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with U/S Burns July 7, on the margins of the President's visit to Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin said he was optimistic about the chances of a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He urged the U.S. and Russia to be transparent on dealings in [...] | 2009-07-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KG GG AZ AR RS |
09MOSCOW1876 | ROC ADVOCATES CREATION OF AN INTER-RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) External Church Relations Chairman Archbishop Hilarion advocated to the Ambassador for interfaith dialogue through the creation of an Inter-Religious Council within UNESCO and the strengthening of inter-Orthodox and inter-Christian relationships. [...] | 2009-07-22 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1910 | MARKET CLOSURE COMBATS FRAUD BUT UNEMPLOYS [...] (C) Moscow authorities closed the massive, open-air Cherkizovskiy market in the northeastern part of the city at the end of June after inspectors found multiple trade, sanitation, and fire code violations. Although technically closed temporarily pending resolution of the violations, city offi [...] | 2009-07-24 10:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW1912 | RUSSIA AND CHINA CONTINUE QUIET ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) In contrast to the high-profile visit of President Obama to Moscow two weeks ago and the attendant expectations for a "reset" U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship, Chinese President Hu Jintao's June 16-18 official visit was low key and almost routine. Moscow and Beijing are continuing a [...] | 2009-07-24 12:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN EFIN EINV CH RS |
09MOSCOW1936 | DFM KARASIN WARNS AGAINST US PARTICIPATION IN EU [...] (C) Summary. In a discussion July 28 that covered Georgia, Central Asia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and VP Biden's WSJ interview, DFM Grigoriy Karasin expressed strong opposition to the idea of U.S. forces participating in the renewed EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, calling the idea "surpri [...] | 2009-07-29 11:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR GG UK RS |
09MOSCOW196 | RUSSIAN SOLDIER FLEES TO GEORGIA [...] (U) On January 27 Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Aleksandr Drobyshevskiy announced that Georgian special services had captured Junior Sergeant Aleksandr Glukhov of the Russian army the previous night (reftel). Drobyshevskiy said that Glukhov's statements that he fled his post in th [...] | 2009-01-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS PBTS RU GG |
09MOSCOW197 | KIRILL ELECTED 16TH RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH [...] (SBU) Summary. Leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) gathered on January 27 at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior to elect Acting Patriarch Metropolitan Kirill as the Church's 16th Patriarch. Seventy-two percent of delegates picked Kirill, who deftly used his position and the me [...] | 2009-01-28 16:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW198 | GEORGIA: MFA'S HARDLINE VIEW ON OSCE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) The MFA told us January 28 that Russia had rejected the Greek proposal on "legal" grounds but stated that Russia would be ready to accept two equal-ranked mission offices (one in Georgia and one in South Ossetia) that reported to a "chapeau" organization in Vienna, but not one that reports [...] | 2009-01-28 16:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE GG RS |
09MOSCOW1995 | TENSIONS WITH GEORGIA: NATO ALLIES PONDER [...] (C) Summary. On August 4, NATO Quad Allies proposed a joint demarche to the GOR regarding the rising tensions with Georgia, accompanied by a similar approach to the GOG. On August 2 and 3, the MFA told us it had no information why Russian forces did not respond to Georgian attempts to contac [...] | 2009-08-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR SW OSCE |
09MOSCOW2 | RUSSIAN ANALYSTS COMPLAIN U.S. HAS BETRAYED RUSSIA'S TRUST [...] (SBU) Summary: A roundtable of Russian analysts described -- often in emotional terms -- for visiting Representatives Ellen Taushcer, Doug Lamborn, Rick Larsen, and Loretta Sanchez, the deep displeasure with which many Russians view the U.S. government. They blamed much of this on America's f [...] | 2009-01-01 07:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR OREP PINR RS |
09MOSCOW20 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-09 06:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW2001 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: NATO ALLIES DEMARCHE MFA [...] (C) Summary. On August 5, in response to a NATO Quad Allies' demarche on Georgia, MFA IVth CIS director Kelin insisted that Russia had not been invited to the 31 July Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting, but conceded that the Russian-Georgian hotline was not functioning July 30 [...] | 2009-08-05 16:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR |
09MOSCOW2006 | MOSCOW'S CRISIS SITUATION DETERIORATES FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: In January 2009, Moscow officials claimed that the global economic crisis had not affected the average Muscovite to the same degree as the capital's more affluent residents. Roughly six months later, the situation has deteriorated, but Moscow officials continue to maintain the [...] | 2009-08-06 07:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL PINR RS |
09MOSCOW201 | RIGHT CAUSE PARTY SUFFERS FROM INTERNAL RIFTS, [...] (C) Summary: Right Cause, a new Kremlin-friendly party created in November, continues to suffer from internal rifts and an uncertain relationship with the Kremlin that has left the nominated head of its Moscow City branch -- Evgeniy Chichvarkin -- exiled in London. Party leaders told us that [...] | 2009-01-29 13:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2046 | MOSCOW'S LEVELS - AND LEVERS - OF POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Moscow City government is unique to Russia in that Moscow's Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov exercises near complete control over all aspects of official life, including directly instructing many of the 1000 officials under him, and, by the accounts of some observers, taking the law int [...] | 2009-08-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2053 | AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG DELEGATION MEETINGS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russian Foreign Ministry and financial officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin, assured Ambassador Philip Goldberg and his delegation that Russia fully supports United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1874 and was already taking measures regardin [...] | 2009-08-11 11:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC EFIN KNNP UNSC RU KN |
09MOSCOW2055 | RUSSIA GETS USED TO THE IDEA OF A NON-COMMUNIST MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow is coming to terms with the Moldova election outcome, and has reached out via its ambassador to liberal party leaders. Experts, who describe the elections as a "peaceful example of post-Soviet countries' forging new political identities," assume Russia will cooperate wit [...] | 2009-08-11 13:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MD RS |
09MOSCOW2057 | SELIGER-2009 IN RUSSIAN "YEAR OF YOUTH" STRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Seliger-2009, the highly visible Russian government-run summer camp for young adults, has come to a close. This is the first year that Seliger has not been operated directly by the nationalist youth group "Nashi." However, during the first week of August the official youth wing [...] | 2009-08-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2067 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. MARINES TO TRAIN GEORGIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-13 09:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR RS GG AF |
09MOSCOW2068 | PATRIARCH KIRILL'S UKRAINE TRIP: DOMESTIC AND [...] (C) Summary: In light of the escalating diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Kyiv, the objectives of Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Kirill's July 27-August 5 visit to Ukraine are receiving renewed scrutiny, with an emphasis on his engagement with President Yushchenko and his amended [...] | 2009-08-13 09:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL ECON RS UP |
09MOSCOW2070 | HARDLY WORTH THE TRIP: MEDVEDEV'S VISIT TO CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The most significant result of President Medvedev's recent trip to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, where he attended an informal meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),was the signing of an agreement with Kyrgyzstan on the intention to establish another Russi [...] | 2009-08-13 09:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TI KG RS |
09MOSCOW2071 | MEDVEDEV BROADSIDES UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. While deploring recent Ukrainian "anti-Russian" policies, MFA and Presidential Administration statements underscored that President Medvedev's letter to Ukrainian President Yushchenko and the decision to postpone the departure of Russian ambassador-designate to Kyiv were meant t [...] | 2009-08-13 10:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS UP |
09MOSCOW2073 | NONPAPER ON JOINT THREAT ASSESSMENT RECEIVED [...] (S) On August 12 MFA DVBR Second Secretary Dmitriy Kostychenko passed us a nonpaper response to ref request for potential dates for further joint threat assessment consultations. 2. (SBU) Begin unofficial translation of nonpaper text: To be passed to the U.S. side Given the information [...] | 2009-08-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC RS |
09MOSCOW2074 | LATEST MURDER OF CHECHEN CHARITY ACTIVISTS LEAVES [...] (C) Summary: The August 10 abduction and murder in Grozniy of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, activists with the children's charity "Save the Generation," has left many wondering who carried out the attack and why it occurred. Commentators agree that the murders bring ad [...] | 2009-08-13 12:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2102 | MOSCOW OBLAST GOVERNMENT: ON THE BRINK OF [...] (C) Summary: The Moscow Oblast Government is on the verge of financial collapse. While the economic crisis is a contributing factor, corruption on a massive scale plays an equally significant role. Deputy Governor Aleksey Panteleyev, Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov's top ally, left his [...] | 2009-08-17 14:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2106 | RUSSIA IN DENIAL OVER GEORGIA'S CIS EXIT [...] (SBU) Summary: While Moscow officials speculate that Georgia under a new leadership might choose to reapply for CIS membership, analysts take Georgia's departure from that organization as an indication that the CIS only has "symbolic" importance, as former Soviet Union countries increasingly d [...] | 2009-08-18 12:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG RS |
09MOSCOW2108 | RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT [...] (C) Per reftel request, we delivered USG views on Russia's human rights and democracy performance to Tatyana Sulitskaya, Head of the European Division of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Sulitskaya called for a real dialogue on human rights at the upcoming OSCE H [...] | 2009-08-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR OSCE RS |
09MOSCOW2115 | GOR ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) On August 18, we, along with a representative from the British Embassy, conveyed reftel points to Afghan Section Counselor Movladjon Makhkamov of the MFA's 2nd Asia division. Makhkamov stated that Russia was interested in stability in Afghanistan and hoped that the elections would be open [...] | 2009-08-19 03:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PGOV PREL AF KPAO RS |
09MOSCOW212 | OSCE CIO'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) During the January 29 visit of Greek FM and OSCE CiO Bakoyannis to Moscow, Lavrov suggested Mevedev's proposed European Security Treaty (EST) be discussed at the Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). He proposed that the ASRC be held at the minister-level, and in Athens, instead of V [...] | 2009-01-30 07:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE RS |
09MOSCOW2121 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) POCS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW2168 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY OFF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO RS |
09MOSCOW2179 | IRKUTSK: TOUGH TIMES FOR WORKERS AND IMMIGRANTS, [...] (C) Summary: In Siberia's Irkutsk Oblast, businesses and their owners/managers, in particular prominent oligarchs such as Oleg Deripaska, also constitute the region's political elite, and everyone is scrambling dealing with the crisis. The Russian economic downturn may influence how and who ne [...] | 2009-08-24 13:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM SENV SOCI |
09MOSCOW2187 | RUSSIA ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA, MOD, and RosAtom are the GOR entities most heavily involved with nonproliferation issues, including the NPT. The MFA leads the interagency process, with the Prime Minister's office issuing the final orders (with little Kremlin involvement). Russia works most cl [...] | 2009-08-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW22 | OPPOSING IRAN PRESIDENCY AT UNDP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN EAID IR RS |
09MOSCOW220 | REDEFINING RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary. Current Russian policy toward Central Asia seeks to maintain Moscow's historical dominance while recognizing the need to cooperate with the U.S. and NATO on stabilizing Afghanistan and managing the transnational challenges confronting the region. A not-so-secret agenda to lock [...] | 2009-01-30 13:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS ZK AF |
09MOSCOW2209 | (S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POTENTIAL HIZBALLAH-IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM PGOV PREL PTER ECCT RS IR SY |
09MOSCOW2210 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMENTS BY INGUSH PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) On August 26, Ambassador delivered demarche (Ref A) to DFM Sergey Ryabkov regarding Ingush President Yevkurov's public claim that the United States supports instability in Russia. 2. (SBU) In response, Ryabkov stated that the Government of Russia (GOR) greatly appreciated President Ob [...] | 2009-08-27 12:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2211 | RUSSIA'S ALTAI REPUBLIC FACES ECONOMIC PROMISE AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Rising tourism presents an economic opportunity for the Altai Republic's mostly rural population, but also threatens its unspoiled wilderness. Threats include desecration of ancient cultural sites, poaching of endangered wildlife, and, to a lesser extent, illegal logging. Develop [...] | 2009-08-27 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EAID SOCI PGOV KCRM KDEM PREL RU |
09MOSCOW2229 | MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT VORONIN CALLS ON MEDVEDEV [...] (C) Summary. The MFA downplayed Moscow's role in Moldova's coalition talks, saying Moldovan President Voronin's August 21 meeting with President Medvedev in Sochi was motivated instead by the upcoming CIS summit. Liberal-Democratic leader Filat's positions on NATO and the CIS do not worry Mos [...] | 2009-08-28 05:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS MD |
09MOSCOW2230 | EMPLOYEES OF FAILING BUSINESSES SEEK [...] (C) On August 6, AvtoVaz workers rallied to demand the nationalization of their employer, which suspended production in August and planned to reduce the workweek in September. Demands for nationalization by workers and unions increased in frequency, particularly in industrial areas, owing to th [...] | 2009-08-28 06:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2238 | GOR PLANS $10 MILLION DONATION TO PALESTINIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel letter to Aleksandr Nikolayevich Rudakov, Palestine Desk Senior Counselor from the MFA's Middle East and North Africa Department. Rudakov stated that, in March, Russia pledged a $10 million biannual donation to the Palestinian Authority (PA),but he also admitted that [...] | 2009-08-28 13:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID KWBG PGOV OPDC PREL IS RS |
09MOSCOW224 | ANALYSTS QUESTION PAVEL FELGENHAUER'S CREDIBILITY [...] (C) Summary: While Russian analyst Pavel Felgenhauer's prediction of an August war with Georgia has been seized upon by Georgian decisionmakers as proof of Russian responsibility for the war (reftels),he is held in low regard by other respected Russian military analysts. Felgenhauer enjoys [...] | 2009-01-30 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW2240 | PUTIN TO VISIT GDANSK TO MARK 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (C) PM Putin will attend the commemoration of the outbreak of World War II in Gdansk, Poland on September 1. During a meeting with PM Tusk, the sides are expected to sign agreements on cultural exchanges, transit of the Kaliningrad Bay, and the transfer of Polish HEU to Russia for reprocessin [...] | 2009-08-28 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS |
09MOSCOW2241 | SOLIDARITY LEADER MILOV DISCUSSES UPCOMING [...] (U) Summary: Leading member of Solidarity and candidate for Moscow City Duma Vladimir Milov outlined for us his election platform and personal vision for the movement. Milov predicted overwhelming victory for ruling United Russia in city elections. He expects to lose election for his district [...] | 2009-08-28 14:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RS |
09MOSCOW2242 | DFM RYABKOV: GOR ENERGIZED ON SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP, [...] (C) Summary: In a lengthy and substantive discussion August 26, Ambassador reviewed with DFM Ryabkov a wide range of bilateral issues, including senior USG visits to Moscow in the coming months, high-level engagement on critical summit follow-up issues such as START follow-on and cooperation on [...] | 2009-08-28 14:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS |
09MOSCOW226 | PROVOCATIONS FROM RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES [...] (S) Summary. With their usual light touch and unique sense of timing, the security services appear to be tightening the screws on what they see as Russia's internal and foreign enemies along three fronts. First was a confidential letter from the Federal Security Service (FSB) demanding that USA [...] | 2009-01-30 15:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2294 | SENATOR MARGELOV ON COOPERATING, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary. In a September 2 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mikhail Margelov said Russia is hesitant to work outside the P5 plus 1 format when discussing possible sanctions against Iran. Margelov invited Ambassador Beyrle to present U.S. [...] | 2009-09-04 05:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC IR MARR PARM PGOV PREL RS SU UP |
09MOSCOW2298 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON [...] (C) Phil, we're all looking forward to seeing you out here next week. U.S.-Russian relations continue to feel the momentum from the July summit; your visit will be important in sharpening the focus of the Bilateral Presidential Commission and identifying areas where we can collaborate on a br [...] | 2009-09-04 10:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SENV ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW230 | MEDVEDEV CALLS BACK NEW LAW ON TREASON FOR [...] (C) Summary: On January 27 Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev ordered his administration to rework legislation submitted by the White House on December 12 containing amendments to the sections of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedures Codes before the State Duma and Federation Council could [...] | 2009-01-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2312 | RUSSIAN BAPTISTS SEEKING MAINSTREAM RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Russian Union of Gospel Christian Baptists (RUGCB) focuses on interfaith cooperation and targeted outreach to Russian elite to overcome mainstream biases toward non-traditional religions. The main venue for their outreach is an annual National Prayer Breakfast, modeled on W [...] | 2009-09-08 13:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2319 | APPOINTMENT OF NEW U.S. OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIR [...] (C) We met with MFA Minsk Group Counselor Yelena Kravchenko September 7 and 8 to discuss reftel announcement. Kravchenko told us Russian Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov remains on leave through the end of the week, but looks forward to receiving Ambassador Bradtke's phone call at his dacha. Best ti [...] | 2009-09-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS AJ |
09MOSCOW232 | WORKING WITH RUSSIA TO STABILIZE AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The February 10 interagency consultations led by SCA DAS Moon should launch a sustained effort to engage Russia on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia that reduces the zero-sum nature of U.S.-Russian relations in the region and increases the chances of our success in Afghanis [...] | 2009-02-02 08:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR SNAR NATO AF RS |
09MOSCOW2321 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA HAS LOW HOPES FOR SEPTEMBER 17 [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Alexei Dvinyanin told us September 8 that he had just finished all the papers for DFM Karasin to use at the Georgia-South Ossetia/Abkhazia talks in Geneva September 17. He reported that the Russian side expected no breakthroughs, no progress, but ho [...] | 2009-09-09 09:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW2330 | VENEZUELA TO RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia during a meeting with Russian President Medvedev in Moscow September 10. The decision was possibly sweetened by the conclusion of a number of agreements to develop energy resources [...] | 2009-09-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG RS VZ |
09MOSCOW2340 | MOSCOW CITY DUMA ELECTIONS: STILL EARLY, BUT [...] (C) Summary: On October 11 candidates will compete in elections for all 35 seats in the Moscow City Duma. August 26 was the deadline for submitting signatures, and over the following week the electoral committee proceeded to deny registration to 23 candidates of the 141 candidates competing [...] | 2009-09-11 15:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2349 | MEDVEDEV'S DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON DEFENSE [...] (U) On September 9, the Duma passed the first reading of President Medvedev's draft amendment the Law on Defense. Medvedev's proposed amendment addresses the operational use of Russia's armed forces outside Russia. Current legislation only allows the use of the armed forces outside Russia fo [...] | 2009-09-14 11:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PREL PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW2350 | POVERTY GROWTH REPORT UNDERESTIMATES THE PROBLEM [...] (C) The number of Russians living in poverty rose for the first time in seven years in the first quarter of 2009. Families with multiple children, single pensioners, and migrant laborers suffered most acutely. Experts and legislative officials accused the government of using an insufficient b [...] | 2009-09-14 13:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2354 | MEDVEDEV'S CALL FOR REFORM: ANYONE LISTENING? [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's article "Russia Forward," released on the Internet with little fanfare September 10, launched a vociferous debate among politicians and analysts about the feasibility and probability of the kinds of reforms needed to implement his vision for a more diverse eco [...] | 2009-09-14 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2360 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Alexei Dvinyanin September 14 -- Quad partners had been instructed to deliver the points separately. Dvinyanin welcomed the U.S. engagement with Georgian authorities, and confirmed that the GOR had been weighing on th [...] | 2009-09-15 07:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR RS GG GM FR UK |
09MOSCOW2367 | MAYOR DALEY VISIT: MOSCOW AND CHICAGO PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, accompanied by advisors and business leaders, visited Moscow September 2-6, 2009. The purpose of the visit included promoting commercial and cultural exchange between the cities, reaffirming the Moscow-Chicago Sister City relationship, and d [...] | 2009-09-15 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2369 | PUTIN ADVISOR USHAKOV: FIND WAYS TO ENGAGE PUTIN [...] (C) Summary: In a brief meeting cut shorter when Ushakov was called away, Prime Minister Putin's foreign policy advisor Ambassador Yuriy Ushakov kept his cards close to his vest on Putin's views about U.S.-Russian relations and issues having a direct impact on those ties, including cooperation [...] | 2009-09-16 04:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RS |
09MOSCOW2371 | RUSSIAN ANALYSTS TELL A/S GORDON ANTI-AMERICANISM [...] (C) On September 10, prominent Russian analysts and commentators questioned whether Russia's leadership had changed its approach to the U.S. and removed anti-Americanism as a "pillar" of its foreign policy. One analyst expressed her concern that the "reset" in relations would end up like the [...] | 2009-09-16 06:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG UP IR AJ AM RS |
09MOSCOW2373 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RYABKOV TELLS A/S GORDON [...] (C) In a September 10 meeting with A/S Gordon, Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said he saw no political barriers in the way of the START Follow-on Treaty or the October meeting of Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Lavrov. He pressed for concluding the composition of the Bilateral Preside [...] | 2009-09-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SENV RS |
09MOSCOW2376 | HR ACTIVISTS: SURKOV, NORTH CAUCASUS NOT A PRETTY [...] (C) Summary: In a September 9 meeting at the Embassy, human rights activists told Assistant Secretary Gordon the GOR had poured cold water on hopes for a meaningful way forward by appointing Kremlin Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov to represent Russia on the planned bilateral commission on civi [...] | 2009-09-16 13:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2389 | YOU'VE GOT MAIL - MIND IF WE HAVE A LOOK? [...] (C) Summary: The federal Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has issued a decree allowing eight law enforcement agencies access to citizens' mail and electronic correspondence, and to customer databases of postal and internet services. The decree found opposition inside and outside of t [...] | 2009-09-17 11:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW239 | RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...] | 2009-02-02 09:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2391 | RUSSIA AND MD: AWAITING CONFIRMATION [...] (C) Official Moscow took the news that the U.S. would "shelve" MD plans in the Czech Republic and Poland calmly, awaiting an official confirmation. Neither President Medvedev nor PM Putin have commented on the purported decision. Duma, defense, and commentators did not pass up the opportuni [...] | 2009-09-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL RS |
09MOSCOW24 | RUSSIAN DEPUTY PERMREP WILL ATTEND SOMALIA PIRACY MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN PTER RS |
09MOSCOW240 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN JANUARY 30: [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin told Ambassador January 30 that the GOR hoped for more flexibility and a move away from "unilateralism" by the new Administration. He said, while the international community could discuss the status and future of the region, Georgia neede [...] | 2009-02-02 10:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR GG AF KG UP RS |
09MOSCOW2412 | INCORPORATING UKRAINE INTO U.S.-RUSSIA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is shaping up as a key challenge in U.S.-Russian relations. The risk of serious trouble remains as long as the two governments are at loggerheads, and as long as Russian leaders engage in periodic bouts of historical propaganda aimed at undermining Ukraine's claim to na [...] | 2009-09-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PNAT PBTS ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW2413 | "CULTURE" IS NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSES [...] (SBU) Meeting with us to discuss a GOR attempt to water down UN Human Rights Council work by introducing a resolution on "respect for traditional values" (reftel),a member of the MFA's Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Cooperation acknowledged deep flaws in Russia's protection of rig [...] | 2009-09-21 12:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2416 | "RUSSIA, FORWARD!" 10 DAYS LATER: TANDEM [...] (C) Summary: Debate over President Medvedev's "Russia, Forward!" article continues unabated, though focus has turned from content and prospects for realizing his vision to consequences for the tandem. Medvedev's defense of his presidential authority in interviews with foreign correspondents - [...] | 2009-09-22 09:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2417 | NIZHNIY NOVGOROD HEEDS THE CALL FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On the sidelines of meetings of the U.S. - Russia Foundation in Nizhniy Novgorod September 15-16, Ambassador Beyrle emphasized the overall "reset" in U.S.- Russia relations to develop trust by promoting economic cooperation and face-to-face exchanges, a message that local author [...] | 2009-09-22 09:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS ECON EFIN PINR |
09MOSCOW2437 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE AD-HOC [...] (SBU) Embassy Moscow delivered reftel points to A.V. Efimov, Section Chief of the MFA's Middle East and North Africa Division. There was no substantive response. Rubin [...] | 2009-09-24 06:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAL PGOV WBG EU IS |
09MOSCOW2446 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN VIEW OF SEPTEMBER 17 GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told us that the status question was the biggest obstacle for progress in the September 17 Geneva talks. Russia rejected the co-chairs' drafts in the security working group, as they did not proceed from the starting point of Russian troops a [...] | 2009-09-25 11:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW2450 | UNITED RUSSIA POISED TO SWEEP ELECTIONS IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: United Russia has a great advantage and is poised to sweep the elections in the Moscow Oblast, where opposition groups have little support and laws are easily broken. The hot button political issues in the October 11 elections are taxes, land distribution, and corruption. End [...] | 2009-09-26 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR EFIN KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2458 | FIVE YEARS AFTER BESLAN, GOR STAYS TIGHT-LIPPED [...] (SBU) Summary: Five years after the Beslan terrorist attack, frustration continues about the GOR's handling of the crisis as it unfolded. While public focus on this issue has dissipated, a small but vocal minority of Russians has continued to agitate for the GOR to open an investigation of wh [...] | 2009-09-28 11:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2483 | AMBASSADOR BEFORE FED COUNCIL: "RESET" WITH [...] (C) Summary: On September 21, Ambassador Beyrle addressed the Federation Council's International Relations Committee, highlighting President Obama's visit to Moscow and the importance of developing closer relations between the U.S. and Russia. Questions from committee members focused on how t [...] | 2009-09-30 07:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2490 | STAFFDEL BRUDER VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Staff Delegation Bruder visited Moscow August 31-September 4 to seek ways to sustain momentum in the U.S.-Russian relationship after the successful July 2009 Presidential meeting in Moscow. While Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Margelov suggested re [...] | 2009-09-30 12:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV OREP RS |
09MOSCOW2496 | RUSSIA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and non-paper to MFA Asia-Pacific Region Division Chief Anatoly Borovik on September 30. Borovik said that Russia appreciated the conclusions of the Burma policy review and that USG plans for engagement were a "positive step." Inquiring about the nature of [...] | 2009-10-01 12:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM RS |
09MOSCOW2497 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUGGESTED LIST OF EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Embassy Moscow delivered the reftel suggested equipment list to Vitaly Rugalyov of the MFA Afghan Desk in the Second Asia Department. Rugalyov said that he would disseminate the list to the appropriate offices in the MFA and the MOD. He indicated that, in order to give the list fair cons [...] | 2009-10-01 12:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF RS |
09MOSCOW2504 | BELARUSIAN EMBASSY: NO GOR PRESSURE TO RECOGNIZE [...] (C) In a September 25 meeting, Counselor for Political Affairs of the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow Olga Dolgopolova told Poloff that Russia was not pressuring Belarus to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. She insisted that a decision either way on the issue would not a [...] | 2009-10-02 10:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS GG |
09MOSCOW2510 | INVITATION DELIVERED TO GOR FOR OCTOBER 14 P-5 [...] (SBU) On October 1, we informed the MFA North America Department and DVBR section about reftel invitation to a luncheon hosted by Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Susan Burk. The GOR had no official response at this time. Beyrle [...] | 2009-10-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG PGOV PREL PARM ENRG KNNP MNUC UNGA |
09MOSCOW2512 | KIROV: STRONG LEADERSHIP V. TOO MANY PROBLEMS [...] (C) The ailing, industrial economy of Kirov oblast shows little sign that the peak of the crisis has passed. With few exceptions, the region suffers from falling production, low levels of consumption, and inaccessible financing. Local SMEs continue to face heavy administrative burdens and hig [...] | 2009-10-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2518 | Did Russia and Georgia both lose the war? [...] (SBU) Summary: Official Russia hailed the EU's report on the August 2008 Georgia war, considering the core conclusion to be that Georgia started the armed hostilities. Duma and Federation Council officials reacted similarly, claiming the report called Russia's actions "legitimate." Analysts [...] | 2009-10-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EU GG RS |
09MOSCOW252 | GOR SUPPORTS ISAF TRANSIT OF GOODS TO AFGHANISTAN, [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: In response to ref A dipnote, the MFA has indicated that, provided all usual requirements for commercial shipments on Russia's rail network are met, there should be no difficulties with the proposed shipment of non-military goods to ISAF in Afghanistan using [...] | 2009-02-02 15:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS MARR MASS RS AF |
09MOSCOW2529 | ASD/ISA VERSHBOW'S SEPTEMBER 30 VISIT TO MOSCOW: [...] (C) SUMMARY: During consultations with GOR officials on September 30, Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow discussed ways to implement bilateral cooperation in a number of key areas of mutual interest. Both sides praised progress since t [...] | 2009-10-06 14:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR RS IR AF UP GG |
09MOSCOW2530 | POLLSTERS EXPLAIN MEDVEDEV AND "TEFLON VLAD'S" [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Moscow polling firms told PolOff that Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev are almost certain to maintain high public opinion ratings--barring a calamity--due largely in part to Putin's almost mythical status, reinforcing the consensus that Putin remain [...] | 2009-10-06 14:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2531 | MEDVEDEV, PUTIN, AND RUSSIA'S IRAN POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite Russian President Medvedev's September 24 remarks that sanctions against Iran might be necessary, other government officials and experts here caution that Russia will remain, for the time being, reluctant to pursue a tougher line against Tehran. The consensus among the R [...] | 2009-10-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS IR |
09MOSCOW2537 | AmbassadorQs Meeting with Chief Justice Lebedev [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 13:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2539 | WORKER SAFETY PROGRAM SHIFTS FROM REACTION TO [...] (SBU) Recent GOR statistics show modest progress in ensuring worker safety but also underscore the need for continued improvement. In 2008, over 50 percent of Russian workers labored in conditions that were dangerous to their health, according to a report on worker safety published by the Mi [...] | 2009-10-07 13:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW254 | DISSENTERS' DAY EVENTS IN MOSCOW RALLY CROWDS FOR, [...] (SBU) Summary: January 31 Dissenters' Day rallies in Moscow proved a failure for democratic and radical opposition groups, which focused more on attracting press coverage than domestic support. Not a single major leader of the liberal democratic opposition appeared at the amateurish "flash mob [...] | 2009-02-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RS |
09MOSCOW2542 | BELYKH FACES ROUGH YEAR AHEAD IN KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Our September 23-25 visit to Kirov revealed a newly-settled government slowly expanding its influence within the region. Strict limitations placed on Governor Belykh and his staff by local security services six months ago appear to have eased significantly, and the new government remai [...] | 2009-10-08 06:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2548 | GOR CLAIMS DIPLOMATIC COURIERS IN KABUL OBSTRUCTED [...] (C) On October 8, MFA North American Desk Second Secretary Sergey Kuznetsov passed us a nonpaper detailing GOR complaints that their diplomatic couriers in Kabul were stopped and searched by a private security firm at Kabul Arport on October 5. He added that FM Lavrov may raise this issue wit [...] | 2009-10-08 11:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ADPM ASEC RS AF |
09MOSCOW2550 | MFA CONTENT WITH EU REPORT ON AUGUST 2008 CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told visiting EUR/RUS desk officer that Russia was content with the EU's Report on the Conflict in Georgia. Major takeaways included that the August 7-8 aggression had been undertaken by Georgia, and that, in attacking peaceful South Ossetia [...] | 2009-10-08 12:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS EU GG |
09MOSCOW2551 | MFA ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told visiting EUR/RUS desk officer that the Geneva talks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia need to become more productive and produce recommendations that the UN or OSCE could approve. Georgia needs to sign non-use of force agreements with the b [...] | 2009-10-08 12:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW2559 | TOMSK: ANN ARBOR ON THE STEPPE - BUT CYNICISM [...] (SBU) Summary: As a university town and a former SPS bastion, Tomsk has a small but stable liberal electorate, and shows greater press freedom and tolerance for foreigners than many other regions in Russia. This press freedom has had little influence on local politics; most articles exposing [...] | 2009-10-09 11:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2560 | RELIABLE COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION: AN ABSENT [...] (SBU) An unpredictable legal system, specifically as it relates to resolving business disputes, has undermined foreign (and domestic) investor confidence in Russia. Some investors have focused on international arbitration and private dispute resolution to resolve commercial disputes involving [...] | 2009-10-09 11:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2564 | RUSSIA: NON-PAPER ON ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) At a meeting with EUR DAS Dan Russell October 12, MFA North America Acting Director Oleg Burmistrov passed the U.S. a non-paper on the Israeli-Arab conflict resolution. A scan of the non-paper has been e-mailed to EUR/RUS. An unofficial translation follows below. 2. (C) Unofficial tr [...] | 2009-10-12 11:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISR IS RS |
09MOSCOW2567 | DAS RUSSELL'S SEPTEMBER 28 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin told visiting DAS Dan Russell September 28 that the U.S. decision on missile defense created trust in the U.S.' "reset" intentions with Russia, although U.S.-Russia cooperation in some areas of the post-Soviet space would not be easy. The Russian [...] | 2009-10-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG UP MD AM AJ BO |
09MOSCOW2571 | TULA REGIONAL ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA CUTS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: With new, less democratic voting rules in place, Tula Oblast elections were held October 11. Discussions with opposition party groups revealed that United Russia has a firm grip on the region and United Russia-backed governor Viacheslav Dudka had already orchestrated a massive [...] | 2009-10-13 14:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2586 | ACTIVISTS ON PODRABINEK AND WHERE THE FAULT LINES [...] (C) Summary: At a roundtable gathering at Spaso House, a group of leading activists told the Ambassador that they continued to face an uphill battle in their work to promote civic freedoms. They said that their relationship with conservatives inside and outside of the GOR remained adversarial [...] | 2009-10-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2602 | DUMA THEATRICS: OPPOSITION STAGES WALK OUT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, deputies from all three "nominal" opposition parties of the State Duma, typically moderate in their criticism of the Russian government, walked out of the State Duma's plenary session in protest over vote rigging during October 11 local elections across Russia an [...] | 2009-10-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2605 | FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAIR MIRONOV ON RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: In an October 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Federation Council Chairman and Just Russia political party head Sergey Mironov offered frank analysis of recent national elections, as well as focused criticism of the ruling United Russia party. Just Russia is not considered to repre [...] | 2009-10-19 09:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2611 | U/S BURNS' OCTOBER 12 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin told Under Secretary Burns October 12 that Presidents Sargsian and Aliyev had made little progress in their recent talks on Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia does not consider a joint statement on the recent Turkey-Armenia protocol necessary. The Minsk G [...] | 2009-10-20 12:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG UP MD AM AJ TU AF TI KG KZ |
09MOSCOW2619 | POPULAR PUTIN CAN'T HELP GOVERNOR AND UNITED [...] (C) Summary: A two-day visit to the upper Volga city of Saratov gave us the opportunity to hear about the "power vertical," by which federal government and United Russia political party authorities exercise control over oblast-level activities. The very top-down approach to decision-making ha [...] | 2009-10-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2620 | UNION COALITION TO REPORT WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (C) An independent coalition of Russian unions plans to submit a complaint to the International Labor Organization (ILO) regarding alleged freedom of association violations at various industrial, educational, and service enterprises, including Ford Motor Company and General Motors (GM). The I [...] | 2009-10-21 12:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2623 | LANDSLIDE FOR UNITED RUSSIA IN MOSCOW, TULA, [...] (SBU) Summary: The ruling United Russia party dominated October 11 elections across Russia, thanks to the government's high ratings, its use of overwhelming administrative resources, and voting irregularities in the party's favor. Although official results for the Moscow City Duma elections [...] | 2009-10-21 14:17:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2643 | SAKHAROV PRIZE "BITTERSWEET" FOR ORLOV, MEMORIAL [...] (SBU) On October 22, the European Parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize to the rights group Memorial, specifically activists Oleg Orlov, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, and Sergey Kovalev. This is the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union that the prize, which includes a cash award of 50, [...] | 2009-10-23 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2651 | VOLGOGRAD: STING OF FINANCIAL CRISIS SOFTENED BY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW2653 | MURDERED INGUSHETIYA OPPOSITIONIST BURIED AS [...] (SBU) Former Ingushetiya oppositionist Maksharip Aushev was buried October 26 according to strict Muslim practice, one day after he died in a hail of gunfire October 25 while driving near Nalchik, the capital of the northern Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Ingushetiya president Yu [...] | 2009-10-27 04:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW268 | WHY MEDVEDEV MATTERS [...] (C) Summary: While Prime Minister Putin remains the linchpin within the Russian leadership, it is President Medvedev whose success as a political leader can tip the balance of power towards the elite faction that supports Russia's political and economic modernization. A series of crises hav [...] | 2009-02-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2686 | IRF REACTIONS: MFA GETS NASTY, ROC NICE [...] (C) Reactions to the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report (IRF) varied among official entities, indicating that not all of Russian officialdom had compared talking points before hitting the airwaves. In a scathing communique, the MFA sneered that "it seems that the authors decided not [...] | 2009-10-29 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2687 | SUDAN STRATEGY ROLLOUT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU RS |
09MOSCOW2688 | IS STALIN’S GHOST A THREAT TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM? [...] (C) Summary: Efforts to sanitize Stalin's role in Soviet history may be potentially damaging to academic freedom and linked to GOR efforts to increase authoritarian rule. Although some recent incidents have caused concern among human rights monitors, thus far GOR efforts to enlist academics to help [...] | 2009-10-30 11:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2690 | U.S. EXPLORES ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two conferences organized the week of October 2 in Vladivostok and Moscow highlighted both the importance of and challenges to increasing U.S.-Russian cooperation on environmental crimes. A 2007 prosecution of an Amcit for illegal hunting in Kamchatka failed in part because of [...] | 2009-10-30 12:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL CH RS |
09MOSCOW2693 | GOR RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOR LISTS [...] (U) Per reftel, on September 9 Post delivered a demarche to Nikolai Smirnov, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' North America Department, on the release of the Department of Labor's list of goods from countries that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs has reason to belie [...] | 2009-10-30 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2708 | RUSSIA WILL SUPPORT OIC ON "DEFAMATION OF [...] (C) Summary: In response to our demarche per reftel A, MFA representative Natalia Zolotova told us that Russia planned to support the "defamation of religions" resolution sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in the UN General Assembly. Zolotova said that absolute free speech [...] | 2009-11-02 14:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2710 | MFA OFFICIAL SAYS NORTH KOREA WILLING TO RETURN TO [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA Koreas Division Director Alexander Minaev said that recent Chinese and Russian overtures and the political heat of UN sanctions have made North Korea more willing to return to multiparty talks, although the regime may require a face-saving measure to do so. Eager to [...] | 2009-11-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KN RS |
09MOSCOW2711 | RUSSIA PONDERING NEXT STEPS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Moscow discussed Russia's Afghanistan policy with Vitaly Rugalyov of the MFA Afghan Desk in the Second Asia Department. He indicated that Russia remained committed to building a stable Afghanistan, although much depended on the new government and the U.S. strategy that w [...] | 2009-11-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF RS |
09MOSCOW2712 | RUSSIAN STEPS TO EXPAND ODA PROGRAMS [...] (U) This is an action request cable. Please see paragraph 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In 2007, then-President Putin called for the expansion of the GOR's Official Development Assistance (ODA) system, including the development of bilateral assistance programming. Putin mandate [...] | 2009-11-02 14:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EIND ELAB PGOV PREL RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2714 | RUSSIAN MFA ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Summary. Transnistria Conflict Negotiator Nesterushkin told us that the November 6 talks on Transnistria would be an important first contact between the conflict parties, but expressed concerns about the October 6 "3 plus 2" meeting in Vienna. He said U.S. suggestions at that meeting to [...] | 2009-11-02 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS MD |
09MOSCOW2719 | GOR GIVES, GETS LITTLE FROM ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. During the October 27-29 visit to Moscow of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, several bilateral cooperation and trade agreements were signed, but the meetings did not conclude with the GOR granting any substantive arms deals, nor did President Correa recognize the breakaway r [...] | 2009-11-03 12:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS EC |
09MOSCOW2721 | UKRAINIAN FM URGES MOSCOW TO TALK TO YUSHCHENKO [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Poroshenko urged Russia to resume contact with Ukraine at the presidential level, although both sides agreed there was no need for a "reset" in relations. Economic cooperation dominated the brief meeting, while pundits dis [...] | 2009-11-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW2722 | MOSCOW'S CHINESE DIASPORA A WIN-WIN FOR RUSSIA AND [...] 4 (b). Â [...] | 2009-11-03 12:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KCOR SMIG TIP RS |
09MOSCOW2731 | MEDVEDEV'S TEAM REMAINS SMALL, CONSIDERING RISKY [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's recent reorganization of the Presidential Administration (PA) was a tiny step toward strengthening his team, but the possible creation of a separate, presidentially-controlled "parallel vertical of power" risked damaging the established balance of power betw [...] | 2009-11-05 12:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2734 | RUSSIA: MOVING BEYOND BILATERAL ISSUES, MILIBAND [...] (C) During Foreign Secretary Miliband's November 1-2 visit, he put an end to the "period of standoff," but had little concrete to show for his visit. In pushing a new framework for cooperation, he set aside the most contentious issues and focused primarily on the international agenda during his mee [...] | 2009-11-05 17:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD SENV IR AF UK RS |
09MOSCOW2735 | GOR CONTINUES STOP-GAP BUSINESS MODEL [...] (C) Recent interventions in Pikalevo and Tolyatti demonstrated the GOR's commitment to preventing social unrest but also highlighted its failure to address the underlying problems facing Russian industry. After the enterprises of the Pikalevo production chain were unable to reach a new produc [...] | 2009-11-06 06:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ELAB PGOV RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2737 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA: FAILED BORDER CROSSING TALKS, [...] (C) Summary. Georgian Charge Shugarov said the Russia-Georgia talks on opening the Qazbegi-Larsi border post between Russia and Georgia failed because Russia insisted all legal documents governing Georgian border traffic had to be redone because Georgia had departed the CIS. Shugarov could [...] | 2009-11-06 08:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RS AM |
09MOSCOW2738 | A POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH ON SCHNEERSON COLLECTION [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA Special Culture Representative Mikhail Shvydkoy told us that the GOR might be willing to consider a compromise solution to the bilateral impasse over the Schneerson Collection. According to the compromise, the Library of Congress would write a letter requesting Schnee [...] | 2009-11-06 11:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL KIRF KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW2747 | RUSSIA: POLISH PM SIKORSKI REOPENS OLD FIGHTS [...] (SBU) Russian media and officials are concerned with Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski's November 4 comments to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In particular, they noted Sikorski's request for U.S. forces on the ground in Poland to "protect against Russian aggression" a [...] | 2009-11-06 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PL RS |
09MOSCOW2748 | ARRESTS IN MARKELOV MURDER BOOST GOR [...] (C) Summary: Authorities have arrested two suspects in the January 20 murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova. The suspects were allegedly members of an ultranationalist group known as Unified Brigade 88, who murdered Markelov as revenge [...] | 2009-11-06 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS RS |
09MOSCOW2754 | INFORMATION ON SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The USG and GOR have four existing, formal mechanisms for conducting security dialogues with the Russian Federation; all four are scheduled yearly. 1) Joint Staff Talks (JSTs): This event is hosted annually by U.S. Joint Staff J-5 or the GOR Chief of the Main OPS Directorate on a rotational [...] | 2009-11-09 15:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR |
09MOSCOW2755 | RUSSIAN MFA ON MOLDOVA ELECTIONS, TRANSNISTRIA, [...] (C) Summary. The MFA said that in late October, Moscow had urged Moldovan Communist Party leader Voronin and presidential hopeful Lupu to compromise in the November 10 Moldovan presidential election, without proposing specific details for any agreement. Still, Russian officials believed the [...] | 2009-11-09 15:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN RS MD |
09MOSCOW2764 | RUSSIA ON DONATIONS TO AFGHANISTAN: WE ALREADY [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Moscow met with Ali Mustafabeily, Deputy Director of the MFA's Second Asia Department, to discuss Russia's contributions to stabilizing Afghanistan. Mustafabeily stressed that the GOR was doing what it could financially and reiterated Moscow's preference for commercial t [...] | 2009-11-10 14:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF RS |
09MOSCOW2772 | SMOOTH RUNNING VERTICAL OF POWER IN KRASNODAR [...] (C) Summary: Longtime Governor Aleksandr Tkachev's efficient, heavy-handed control of Krasnodar Krai has helped the conservative region achieve and preserve political and economic stability, partially by undermining competitors during his first few years in office and preventing potential ch [...] | 2009-11-10 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAGR PINR PHUM ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2778 | CRIME(FIGHTING) DOESN'T PAY FOR BLOGGING POLICEMAN [...] (C) Summary: Novorossisk police Major Aleksey Dymovskiy's November 5 and 10 online video postings, where he accused local police chiefs of illegal and immoral actions, has touched a raw nerve in Russia, where trust in police is already low. Police officials, human rights activists, and journ [...] | 2009-11-12 12:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOG KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2779 | UNITED RUSSIA'S NEXT STEPS AFTER TAINTED REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 12:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW278 | RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...] | 2009-02-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2780 | LAVROV CALLS FOR OHR TRANSITION, LEAVES [...] (C) Russian FM Lavrov pressed for completion of outstanding "5 plus 2" conditions, and discussed trade and Soviet-era debt during his November 5 visit to Sarajevo. Lavrov was very critical of the Butmir package, and told the parties that it was outside of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC [...] | 2009-11-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD BK RS |
09MOSCOW2781 | MEDVEDEV'S ANNUAL ADDRESS: POLITICAL FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's second annual address to a joint session of the State Duma and Federation Council today built upon the intellectual foundation he had already laid in his September article "Russia, Forward!" (Ref A). Repeatedly citing the article and specific proposals from the [...] | 2009-11-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2782 | MEDVEDEV'S ANNUAL ADDRESS: ECONOMIC FOCUS SHOWS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to his 2008 address, in which he focused first and foremost on foreign policy, the war with Georgia and harsh criticism of the United States, the overwhelming focus of Medvedev's November 12 annual address was on domestic shortcomings and the need to take steps to addr [...] | 2009-11-12 15:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2788 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SRAP HOLBROOKE, NOVEMBER [...] (C) Ambassador Holbrooke, your visit to Moscow provides an opportunity to gain buy-in on our Afghan strategy with a key partner with both close-in experience and wide-ranging interests in Afghanistan. The GOR is looking for genuine consultations on regional strategy and needs to be convinced [...] | 2009-11-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AF RS |
09MOSCOW280 | RUSSIA'S CANDIDACY FOR RE-ELECTION TO UN HUMAN [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Moscow has received a diplomatic note dated February 2 requesting U.S. support for Russia's reelection to the UN Human Rights Council UNHRC) for a second three-year term. The note pointed out that the five permanent members of the Security Council generally support each ot [...] | 2009-02-05 15:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2800 | RUSSIA SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL ON IRAN, [...] (C) Deputy Russian Security Council Secretary Vladimir Nazarov told NSC Russia Director Solomon November 5 the Russian leadership is committed to concluding the START follow-on negotiations before the treaty expires in December. On Iran, Nazarov believes the U.S. and Russia have a "common la [...] | 2009-11-18 11:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM PGOV PREL MNUC IS RS IR |
09MOSCOW281 | CSTO ESTABLISHES RAPID REACTION FORCE [...] (U) On February 4 the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) agreed at a summit in Moscow to establish the Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF),to be based in Russia and under a single command. Medvedev proclaimed the CRRF would be "well-trained" and receive the most modern equipme [...] | 2009-02-05 16:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER MARR MCAP ECON RS ZK XG |
09MOSCOW282 | MOSCOW CHABAD NOT INTERESTED IN SCHNEERSOHN [...] (SBU) Summary. In a February 2 visit to the Russian State Library to view the Schneersohn Collection of sacred religious texts of the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Judaism, Director of the Library's Oriental Center Sergey Kukushkin told us that Moscow Chabad leaders had not visited the Collecti [...] | 2009-02-05 16:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2823 | EXPERTS REMAIN SKEPTICAL OF GOR'S ABILITY TO [...] (C) In a nod to President Medvedev's 2008 anti-corruption legislation, Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Russia at 146, up one spot from its 2008 147th ranking. This general lack of progress confirms what analysts have told us. Corruption in Russia remains a serious [...] | 2009-11-19 15:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2841 | GRYZLOV DRIVES INTO TREE WITH PROPOSED NEW AUTO TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, the Federation Council November 18 overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have doubled the basic vehicle registration tax rate and allocated the money for transportation infrastructure projects. On November 13 all United Russia's delegates to the State D [...] | 2009-11-20 16:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW2843 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN MFA ON GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Dvinyanin said there would be no more progress in the Geneva Talks on Georgia until Georgia agreed to sign non-use of force agreements with its breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In variance with DFM Karasin's public characteriza [...] | 2009-11-23 07:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW285 | GOR CONCERNED ABOUT UNLICENSED KALASHNIKOVS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) On February 2 MFA DVBR Third Secretary Aleksey Chumichev passed us a nonpaper that alleged a Nevada-based subsidiary of the Bulgarian company Arsenal Inc. was manufacturing Kalashnikov automatic rifles without a valid Russian li [...] | 2009-02-06 12:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD MASS RS |
09MOSCOW2878 | GOR NOT INTERESTED IN "TAKING THE NRC FORWARD" [...] (C) Summary: The MFA European Cooperation Desk told us the GOR remains interested in improving the NATO-Russia Council, but believes strategic-level agreement should precede reform of NRC structures, hence Russia's decision to disengage from the "Taking the NATO-Russia Council Forward" paper. [...] | 2009-11-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR NATO RS |
09MOSCOW2882 | UNITED RUSSIA UNVEILS "RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM," [...] (C) Summary: United Russia's national and regional leaders met in St. Petersburg November 20-21 for their annual review of party business. The highlights of the congress were the November 21 addresses by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. Medvedev praised United Russia for acting q [...] | 2009-11-25 12:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW2885 | INTEGRATING RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION KEY TO INNOVATION [...] (SBU) Summary: At an October 8 panel during the Second International NanoForum, Russian policy makers, scientists, educators and entrepreneurs discussed how to develop Russia's high technology economy and its nanotechnology workforce. President Medvedev told Forum participants on October 6 t [...] | 2009-11-27 07:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TNGD KPAO OEXC SCUL SOCI PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW2886 | BELYKH WANTS TO REFORM KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Kirov Oblast Governor Nikita Belykh met with Ambassador Beyrle November 18 to provide a review of his first year in office and discuss the road ahead. A former member of the opposition, Belykh declared, "I did not want power, and still do not want power, but power must be made to [...] | 2009-11-27 08:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM EAID ECON EFIN EMIN RS |
09MOSCOW2888 | PUTIN'S OFFER TO HELP GEORGIA: LESS THAN MEETS THE [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to some media reports about a statement from Prime Minister Putin that Russia would be willing to help Georgia out of its "dead end," we consider the comments to be merely a gesture to try to turn Georgian elites away from Saakashvili and that they do not represent a [...] | 2009-11-27 10:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW289 | GOR CONCERNED AZERBAIJAN WILL RAISE [...] (C) Summary: Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov told us February 6 the GOR had learned Azerbaijan was planning to make Nagorno-Karabakh an agenda item for the March UNGA session on protracted conflicts in the GUAM area, which ran the risk of halting the conflict resolution process. If this [...] | 2009-02-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS AJ |
09MOSCOW2890 | RECIPROCAL REPULSION: MOSCOW MAYOR LUZHKOV VERSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov and Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov are both from the ruling United Russia party. Initially close allies, hostility developed between them as they rose to power and competed for influence, attention, and resources. The two leaders not only have [...] | 2009-11-27 11:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KCOR RS |
09MOSCOW290 | COMMUNIST PARTY SHOWS NEW LIFE, BROADENS [...] (C) Summary: The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) has benefited from the economic crisis by attracting increased membership and strengthening its position as a populist alternative to the party of power, United Russia. The invigorated Communists demonstrated January 31 that they [...] | 2009-02-06 15:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2900 | GOR OPEN TO NRC STRUCTURAL REFORM, BUT NOT NOW [...] (C) DFM Grushko confirmed Russia sees no urgency in completing the NRC "Way Forward" document prior to the NATO ministerial. He claimed this move should not be interpreted as a lack of interest in the NRC, but reflective of Russia's desire to "put substance first" before taking decisions on s [...] | 2009-11-27 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR NATO RS |
09MOSCOW2902 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DETENTION OF GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarche, the MFA told us that Russia was pressing for the release of the four Georgian minors in South Ossetian custody. Russia expects them to be released within the next few days. The GOR supports a South Ossetian proposal to exchange all detainees, no [...] | 2009-11-27 14:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RS GG |
09MOSCOW2903 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY ROBERT [...] (C) Your visit to Moscow provides an opportunity to strengthen bilateral economic relations at a time when both our economies are beginning to show signs of recovery following an extremely difficult year. Because our economic relations with Russia were relatively stable even prior to the polit [...] | 2009-11-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW2905 | FAR AS A MODEL FOR CIVIL EMPOWERMENT [...] (C) Summary: As the State Duma prepared to vote on legislation that would have doubled the base vehicle registration tax November 18, the Federation of Automobile Owners of Russia (FAR) had already collected 85,000 signatures for a presidential petition against the measure. After unanimous Un [...] | 2009-11-30 12:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW291 | AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH DFM [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Borodavkin told Ambassador February 6 that Russia was prepared to cooperate with the U.S. to "assure American success" in Afghanistan, citing economic and humanitarian assistance, the NATO transit agreement, planned SCO conference in March, infrastructure pr [...] | 2009-02-06 16:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KG AF IR KS KN RS |
09MOSCOW2912 | Russia Adopts Law on Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | RS EAID ECON ENRG KGHG OTRA PARM PGOV SENV TSPL |
09MOSCOW2918 | DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA, N-K, MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE: [...] (C) In a November 26 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, DFM Karasin sounded alarm bells about Saakashvili's "irresponsible" escalation of Russia-Georgia tensions, warning the situation could lead to renewed conflict, partly because the U.S. is sending signals of support -- and, he claimed, weapon [...] | 2009-12-01 13:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW2924 | RUSSIAN EMPLOYERS FRET OVER WORKFORCE DECLINE [...] (SBU) By 2025, Russia will lose an estimated 14 million members of its working age population. Employers are struggling to cope with intensified competition for available workers and the divergence of labor supply and demand in various sectors and regions. While the GOR's 2025 Demographic Po [...] | 2009-12-02 13:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW2931 | INITIAL RUSSIAN REACTION TO AFGHAN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: In a December 1 meeting at the MFA, Ambassador Beyrle previewed the President's West Point speech with Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Borodavkin and Zamir Kabulov, head of the Second Asia Department. Borodavkin noted that the U.S. and Russia both had a stake in stabilizing Afghan [...] | 2009-12-02 16:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS AF PK |
09MOSCOW2932 | U.S. SCIENCE ADVISOR AND RUSSIAN SCIENCE MINISTER AGREE [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and Joan Rolf, Assistant Director for International Relations in OSTP, met Ru [...] | 2009-12-03 04:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TNGD SENV KNNP PGOV TBIO CVIS KRVC |
09MOSCOW2935 | RUSSIA'S THOUGHTS ON THE DPRK'S RETURN TO SIX [...] (S) In a December 1 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexeksey Borodavkin spoke about his recent trip to North Korea where he met with North Korean DFM Kung Sok-un. Borodavkin predicted that it would be difficult to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table; he c [...] | 2009-12-03 06:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PGOV PREL RS KN |
09MOSCOW2944 | KPRF DEPUTY HEAD MELNIKOV ON ELECTIONS, THE TANDEM [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Head of the Communist Party in the State Duma Ivan Melnikov and Andrey Petrovich Fillipov, Head of the International Department of the party's Central Committee, met with us December 4. Discussion included the October 11 elections, views of Medvedev's modernization drive, [...] | 2009-12-04 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW2946 | PUTIN EXUDES LEADERSHIP DURING FOUR HOUR Q AND A [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin displayed thorough knowledge of the issues facing Russia during a live, televised question and answer session which highlighted his role as Russia's dominant political figure. Most of the questions were focused on the economic situation and socio-economi [...] | 2009-12-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW295 | RUSSIA'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONSIDER KIRILL A [...] (SBU) Summary. At a February 4 ecumenical lunch hosted by Ambassador and Appeal of Conscience Foundation Director Rabbi Arthur Schneier, high level officials in Russia's Orthodox (ROC),Muslim, Protestant, and Jewish communities gathered to discuss religious freedom in Russia and honor Patri [...] | 2009-02-09 08:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW2954 | FEW LEADS ON NEVSKIY EXPRESS BOMBING [...] (SBU) Summary: Over one week after the reported November 27 bombing of the business class Nevskiy Express train from Moscow to St. Petersburg in which 27 people died and almost 100 others were injured, Russian authorities are still searching leads in the case. The neo-Nazi group Combat 18 w [...] | 2009-12-08 10:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2957 | RUSSIAN VIEWS OF ELECTIONS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: Experts do not see a strong Russian influence in the election campaign in the Georgian region of Abkhazia. This is due to Russia's negative experience from getting too involved in the 2005 elections, the dominance of domestic issues in the campaign, and a virtual agreement among [...] | 2009-12-08 12:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RS GG |
09MOSCOW2975 | DUMA FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN WARNS START [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW2983 | DUMA FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN WARNS START [...] (C) In a December 7 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev claimed that an "unequal" START follow-on treaty would expose President Medvedev to criticism from deputies from the Communist Party (KPRF),many of whom have direct expertise in ar [...] | 2009-12-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV RS |
09MOSCOW2984 | CADRE RESERVE LISTS HAVE LITTLE RELEVANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Ten months after its publication, the presidential cadre reserve list (reftel) and the ongoing compilation of a United Russia cadre reserve list remain more of a PR tactic than a systemic attempt to modernize the bureaucracy or strengthen President Medvedev's control over it. [...] | 2009-12-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW2993 | MAKSHARIP AUSHEV'S FAMILY APPRECIATES POSTHUMOUS [...] (C) The family of Maksharip Aushev greatly appreciates the December 10 post-humous awarding of the State Department's 2009 Human Rights Defender award to the slain Ingush opposition figure. Unknown assailants murdered Aushev in the northern Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on October [...] | 2009-12-10 17:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3 | DEPUTY SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY NAZAROV MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 15 meeting with CODEL Tauscher, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Vladimir Nazarov called the lack of trust the main obstacle for U.S. and Russian cooperation, followed by ineffective mechanisms to guarantee security. Nazarov claimed that U.S. assistance t [...] | 2009-01-01 07:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR KNNP OREP RS |
09MOSCOW3008 | AFGHANS WANT MORE THAN EMPTY PROMISES FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Embassy Moscow DAO representatives and Poloff met with General-Lieutenant Mohammad Sharif Akram, Military and Air Attache, and Colonel Abdullah Andar, Deputy Military and Air Attache, of the Embassy of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation to discuss the GOR's support for stabilizing Afgha [...] | 2009-12-14 14:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS AF |
09MOSCOW3010 | MOSCOW'S INCREASING FRUSTRATION WITH TEHRAN [...] (C) Summary: Official GOR reports and media have pronounced the Russian-Iranian relationship healthy and Minister of Energy's Shmatko's recent visit to Tehran as a success. Privately, GOR officials and Russian analysts agree that there are serious tensions in the bilateral relationship suc [...] | 2009-12-14 15:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP IAEA RS IR |
09MOSCOW3022 | GOR ON UKRAINE ELECTIONS, SECURITY ASSURANCES [...] (C) On December 15, MFA 2nd CIS Department Director Viktor Sorokin reiterated that the GOR did not favor any candidate in the upcoming elections in Ukraine. He stated that the current political crisis in Ukraine was the result of problems in the governmental system caused by President Yushc [...] | 2009-12-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS UP |
09MOSCOW303 | MFA ON SCO CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. The MFA official in charge of organizing the Russian-hosted March 25-27 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Conference on Afghanistan told us on February 3 that the GOR would welcome U.S., G8, NATO, and EU participation. The conference will focus on combating narco-traffick [...] | 2009-02-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS AF |
09MOSCOW3032 | RUSSIA ACCUSES GEORGIA OF MILITARY PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary. DFM Karasin expressed to Ambassador Beyrle concern over Georgian "military preparations" near Bazaleti, southeast of Akhalgori. Ambassador Beyrle responded that the U.S. did not see any reason for concern, as these were routine redeployments, which were observed and verified by [...] | 2009-12-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09MOSCOW3033 | ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE WANE IN RUSSIA REF: MOSCOW 2586 [...] (C) Summary: Russia has recently shown clear signs of throwing off its long and tragic history of anti-Semitism. In the past several years, official GOR policy has involved an aggressive campaign against anti-Semitism, coupled with positive official statements towards the Jewish community. Societal [...] | 2009-12-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KREL SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW3034 | SAKHAROV'S PRAGMATIC LEGACY [...] (C) Summary: Twenty years after his death, at a December 14-15 conference in Moscow, approximately 100 human rights leaders discussed the legacy of activist and Nobel Laureate Andrey Sakharov. Given the numerous blows dealt the Russian human rights community during the past several years, many [...] | 2009-12-17 15:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3037 | OPPOSITION LEADER KASPAROV OPTIMISTICALLY PREDICTS [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, opposition leader Garry Kasparov gave an upbeat assessment of how his Solidarity political movement is positioned to exploit the "inevitable chaos" that will arise from the current government's course. He argued that authoritarian [...] | 2009-12-18 09:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM ECON RS |
09MOSCOW3049 | MFA SAYS RUSSIA-TURKMENISTAN RELATIONS STRONG; GAS [...] (C) Summary. The MFA continues to emphasize Russia's stable political relations and growing economic and cultural ties with Turkmenistan, despite the recent impasse over gas shipments. Eager to maintain influence in the region despite Gazprom's gas glut, President Medvedev has agreed with T [...] | 2009-12-18 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG TX RS |
09MOSCOW3055 | RUSSIA ON MILITARY EQUIPMENT DONATIONS TO [...] (C) Summary: In parallel with SRAP Holbrooke's visit to Moscow, a U.S.-Russia interagency working group composed of counternarcotics and military experts met to discuss potential areas of cooperation and assistance to Afghanistan. Although the GOR counternarcotics programs for Afghan police [...] | 2009-12-21 06:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS AF |
09MOSCOW308 | MFA'S SPECIAL REP ON BIH, KOSOVO, EULEX [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. Summary ------- 2. (C) The MFA Special Representative Botsan-Kharchenko told us February 5 that Russia would be satisfied with a technocratic replacement to Office of High Representative (OHR) Lacjak to oversee what it expects will be the [...] | 2009-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BH KV UN RS |
09MOSCOW3090 | KREMLIN-CREATED RIGHT CAUSE PARTY'S INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: The triumvirate leadership of Right Cause has been in conflict since its establishment, with all three struggling to define the future of the party. Right Cause Co-Chair Boris Titov remains doubtful about the viability of his party in future elections, and confirmed that he is co [...] | 2009-12-23 13:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3091 | ENGAGING MUSLIM POPULATION ON "DEFAMATION OF [...] (SBU) In response to ref A request, Post has produced a plan of action for engaging both the GOR and Russia's Muslim population with the goal of ending support for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)'s "defamation of religion" resolutions in the United Nations. During our October [...] | 2009-12-23 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS |
09MOSCOW3094 | NONPAPER ON DISSUADING ABUSE OF NPT WITHDRAWAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW3096 | POINTS DELIVERED: SUBSIDIARY BODIES AT THE 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW3103 | MFA SUGGESTS AFGHANISTAN AS A BACK-DOOR MEANS OF [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to U/S Burns, Stephen Mull, met in Moscow with Zamir Kabulov, Director of the MFA's Second Asia Division, to discuss developments in Iran. Kabulov welcomed the change in American tactics to use both dialogue and pressure, but was downbeat on the prospects for succ [...] | 2009-12-24 08:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS AF IR |
09MOSCOW3104 | CONSTITUTION'S 15TH BIRTHDAY MORE OF A FUNERAL [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Constitution's fifteenth anniversary passed on December 12 with little fanfare. A VTsIOM poll showed that only 16 percent of respondents had read the Constitution and knew its contents. Many of the Constitution's authors feel disillusioned, noting that its provision [...] | 2009-12-24 08:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3105 | LIEBERMAN DISCUSSES TRADE AND IRAN IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: In Moscow for the Russia-Israel Intergovernmental Commission's first session in three years, FM Lieberman had discussions with Russian counterparts on economic and trade issues. This meeting is further evidence that the bilateral relationship continues its upward trend. Most an [...] | 2009-12-24 08:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS IS |
09MOSCOW3109 | SYSTEMIC REFORMS UNLIKELY WITHIN MEDVEDEV'S [...] (C) Summary: President Dmitriy Medvedev's high-profile campaign to modernize Russia appears designed to give Russia modest, mostly long-term, economic benefits without altering the basic economic and political structures that Medvedev inherited from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. To the chagrin of [...] | 2009-12-24 09:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3120 | AFGHAN LETHAL TRANSIT TALKS STALL OVER ICAO [...] (C) Summary: In a November 17 meeting that lasted longer than three hours, MFA North America Deputy Director Nikolay Sofinskiy noted that the transit of lethal goods over Russia to Afghanistan had the full support of POTUS and Medvedev. The GOR and USG now had to work out the modalities to mak [...] | 2009-12-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EAIR RS AF |
09MOSCOW3123 | CHANGING ROLES IN THE TANDEM LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Recent changes in the public messages and actions of President Medvedev have led to increased uncertainty among regional authorities and bureaucrats. Medvedev's recent decisions to dismiss officials in response to public outcries over the Perm nightclub tragedy and remove prison officials [...] | 2009-12-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS |
09MOSCOW3124 | WAGERS ON WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF [...] (C) Summary: The term of Dagestan's current president, Mukhu Aliyev, expires in February 2010. Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has not shown any haste in either naming a successor or appointing Aliyev to a new term, although he should have made the decision by now. Most money is now on [...] | 2009-12-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3125 | MEDVEDEV'S 2009 YEAR-IN-REVIEW EMPHASIZES ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev assessed on December 24 the most important achievements of 2009 during an interview in which he cited Russia's social and financial stability as the nation's key successes. He used the nationally-televised, live interview to push his economic modernization [...] | 2009-12-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW313 | MFA REJECTS CLAIMS OF ARMS TRANSFERS TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary: Russian Minsk Group co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov February 6 dismissed charges of recent Russian arms deliveries to Armenia, claiming the supporting documents were forged. Experts agree with that assessment, and join the MFA's January 21 statement that it would not be in Russia's int [...] | 2009-02-10 11:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS AJ AM MARR |
09MOSCOW3138 | A PREVIEW OF RUSSIA'S NEW MILITARY DOCTRINE [...] (C) Summary: Experts and media reports suggest Russia's new military doctrine, intended to project defense policy to 2020, will be issued in the near future. News headlines will focus on the fact that the new doctrine lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons if other countries infr [...] | 2009-12-29 13:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM PTER MARR MCAP MNUC RS |
09MOSCOW3143 | MEDVEDEV USING MVD REFORM TO INCREASE STANDING? [...] (SBU) President Medvedev, capitalizing on several recent high-profile events surrounding the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD),introduced on December 24 proposals intended to make the MVD more professional and centralized. Medvedev has frequently discussed the need to reform the MVD since [...] | 2009-12-30 10:35:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW3144 | RULE OF LAW LIPSTICK ON A POLITICAL PIG: [...] (C) Summary: The prosecution in the Khodorkovskiy/Lebedev trial has finished reading its 188 volumes of evidence, and has moved on to questioning witnesses. An observer for the International Bar Association stated his belief that the trial is being conducted fairly. Related events outside of R [...] | 2009-12-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW323 | ICRC Maintains No Humanitarian Crisis in South Ossetia [...] (SBU) Summary: In Moscow February 5, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Russian Delegation officials stated that there is no humanitarian emergency in South Ossetia, despite reports of potential food shortages. Although there are some needs that continue to demand attention, such [...] | 2009-02-11 07:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PINR ICRC RS GG |
09MOSCOW328 | OSCE FROZEN CONFLICTS ENVOY ON TALKS WITH GOR [...] (C) Summary: Reporting on his earlier meeting with DFM Karasin, OSCE Special Representative Christopoulos told Ambassador Beyrle February 10 that Russia supported the presence of OSCE military monitors inside South Ossetia, and was even considering adding language about such observers to the [...] | 2009-02-11 12:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG OSCE |
09MOSCOW361 | RUSSIAN XENOPHOBIA HAS ROOTS DEEPER THAN CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. The recent wave of high-profile xenophobic violence gripping Russia has raised concerns within Russia's migrant community, second in size only to that of the United States. While diaspora leaders lobbied to protect the interests of their citizens, labor migrants have endured in [...] | 2009-02-13 12:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI |
09MOSCOW389 | IRC Chief Says Working in Chechnya Getting Easier [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC)'s Russia Country Director spoke with Moscow diplomats February 11 about his work in the North Caucasus, some of it funded by State/PRM, and about the difficulty of functioning amid instability and corruption. Despite the obstacles, IRC's [...] | 2009-02-18 06:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM RS |
09MOSCOW397 | CASTRO VISITS MOSCOW TO REJUVENATE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Cuban President Raul Castro visited Moscow from January 28 to February 4 in an effort to boost trade ties and rejuvenate relations with Russia. Despite some exercises in Communist-era nostalgia, experts were quick to downplay any anti-U.S. angle to the trip. Medvedev and Castr [...] | 2009-02-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS EAID ETRD EPET EINV ENRG RS XM |
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