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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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09STATE85455 | (C) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON TURKISH POLITICAL AND LEGAL VIEWS ON ERGENEKON (C-RE9-01306) [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE ERGENEKON PROCESS AS THIS REMAINS AN ISSUE OF HIGH POLICYMAKER INTEREST AND APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION POSTS CAN PROVIDE REGARDING BOTH TURKISH POLITICAL AND LEGAL VIEWS AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ERGENEKON, AS TIME, RESOURCES, AND PRESENT WOR [...] | 2009-08-17 15:46:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PINS TU |
09STATE85620 | A/S BLAKE-AKASHI TELECON [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 14 telephone conversation with Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Blake, Japanese Special Envoy to Sri Lanka Yasushi Akashi said that Japan, anticipating a change in government following upcoming elections, will delay the proposed U.S.-J [...] | 2009-08-17 20:25:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CE JA |
09STATE85629 | (C) CHINA: KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON UNREST IN [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED THE EXCELLENT REPORTING IN REFTELS ON UNREST IN URUMQI. REFTELS PROVED VITAL FOR THE DRAFTING OF FINISHED INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS, WHICH WERE RECEIVED WITH GREAT INTEREST BY POLICYMAKERS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. REF A PROVIDED DETAILS NOT AVAILABLE [...] | 2009-08-17 20:56:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV SOCI CH |
09STATE85758 | ACTION REQUEST: MOVING BEYOND MEMBERSHIP IN THE [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. ----------------- OBJECTIVE ----------------- 2. Post,s objective is to inform participants in the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) of USG views and intentions articulated in paragraph 6 with regard to expanding par [...] | 2009-08-18 13:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO |
09STATE86558 | WELFARE VISIT REQUEST TO IMPRISONED FORMER GUANTANAMO [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Since 2004, 12 Tajik detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have been returned to Tajikistan. Some were prosecuted by the Tajik government and imprisoned, while others were acquitted or served their prison sentences and [...] | 2009-08-19 20:02:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDRG TI |
09STATE86567 | DEMARCHE: PROSECUTING PIRATES OF EGYPTIAN [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 2. -------------- Objectives -------------- 2. Department requests that the Embassy approach the GOE at the appropriate level with the following objectives: -- Express U.S. admiration for the courageous self-rescue of the Egyptian crews of t [...] | 2009-08-19 20:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL EG |
09STATE86606 | BELARUS: ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON'S MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: In a wide ranging discussion with Assistant Secretary Gordon on August 14, Belarus' Presidential Administration Chief (White House Chief of Staff equivalent) Vladimir Makey conveyed Belarus' interest in improving relations with the U.S. Makey did not offer any concrete proposals, [...] | 2009-08-19 21:13:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PREL PGOV BO RS GG |
09STATE86825 | NATO SUPPORT TO INTERNATIONAL NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) This is an action request, see para 3. BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) At the recent NATO Summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, Allies adopted a "Comprehensive Strategic-level NATO Policy for Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Proliferation and Defending Against Chemical, Biological, [...] | 2009-08-20 16:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PARM PGOV PREL PSI PTER KNNP |
09STATE8700 | DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - [...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to participate in the Cobra Gold 09 Field Training Exercise scheduled from F [...] | 2009-01-30 20:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID |
09STATE8701 | DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - [...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to participate in the ODC - Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference to commenc [...] | 2009-01-30 20:38:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID |
09STATE8722 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: IMMEDIATE BUDGET SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy George Mitchell's trip to the region demonstrates the start of the Obama Administration's active U.S. engagement in the Middle East peace process. Empowering the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a focus of Mitchell's [...] | 2009-01-30 20:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG |
09STATE87251 | (U) GOVERNMENT RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THE MORALES ADMINISTRATION'S CURRENT RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM IN PANDO, BENI, AND POSSIBLY OTHER OPPOSITION DEPARTMENTS. WE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER REPORTING TO ILLUMINATE THE CURRENT SITUATION, INCLUDING THE INTENTIONS OF THE OPPOS [...] | 2009-08-21 14:18:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV BL |
09STATE87262 | (U) KUDOS FOR SERBIA TYCOON REQUIREMENTS [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS APPRECIATED REFTELS REGARDING THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF SERBIAN TYCOONS. THE REPORTS HELPED ANALYSTS GAIN A DEEPER KNOWLEDGE OF HOW WEALTHY SERBIAN BUSINESSMEN INFLUENCE POLITICS DOMESTICALLY AND THROUGHOUT THE REGION, ESPECIALLY SINCE THIS NON-TRANS [...] | 2009-08-21 14:28:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RI |
09STATE87508 | CIVILIAN PROTECTION AGAINST LRA ATTACKS IN THE [...] (U) This is an Action Request for Khartoum/Juba, Kinshasa, and Bangui. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) -- though dispersed by Operation Lightning Thunder/Rudia II -- continues to attack civilian populations in border areas of the Democratic Republic of the Cong [...] | 2009-08-21 20:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS CG UG SU |
09STATE8770 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...] | 2009-01-30 23:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
09STATE8780 | TALKING POINTS ON CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3 and 4. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Department requests that Embassy Khartoum and Embassy N'Djamena urge the Governments of Chad and Sudan to cease support of opposing rebel groups and continue to work toward normalized relations. T [...] | 2009-01-31 00:22:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF SU CD |
09STATE8790 | UNSC PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) This is an action message. Mission is requested to seek adoption of a UNSC press statement welcoming the provincial elections scheduled to take place in Iraq on Saturday, January 31. USUN should introduce the text at para 2 as the basis for the press statement, drawing on talking point [...] | 2009-01-31 00:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
09STATE88234 | (SBU) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON VIOLENCE IN WESTERN [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE FOLLOWING THE RECENT VIOLENCE AGAINST ETHNIC UIGHURS IN XINJIANG, CHINA. REFTEL OFFERED KEY INSIGHTS INTO THE CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HAN CHINESE AND UIGHURS FUELING THIS UNREST. REFTEL ALSO INDICATED THE NEGATIVE EFFECT THAT CONTINUED UNREST MAY HAVE [...] | 2009-08-24 21:25:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI CH KG KZ TI |
09STATE88237 | (SBU) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON ARMENIAN [...] (S) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE CLOSELY MONITORING THE ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT AND WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION POST CAN PROVIDE ON PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSIAN AND KEY ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, POLICIES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND LEADERSHIP TRAITS. THE FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE LIST OF TOPICS AND [...] | 2009-08-24 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PINR PGOV PREL AM |
09STATE88239 | (SBU) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON INDIVIDUALS OR [...] (S) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER INSIGHTS POST CAN PROVIDE ON INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS WHO POSE A POLITICAL THREAT TO PRESIDENT SARGSIAN'S ADMINISTRATION. INFORMATION ON THEIR PERSONAL OR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY ARMENIAN FIGURES AND/OR PRESIDENT SARGSIAN IS OF PARTIC [...] | 2009-08-24 21:32:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PINR PGOV PREL AM |
09STATE88438 | (SBU) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PRESIDENT [...] (S) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE CLOSELY MONITORING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KEY ARMENIAN OFFICIALS AND THE DE FACTO GOVERNMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH, AS WELL AS THE NEW ARMENIAN ADMINISTRATION,S POLICIES TOWARD THIS DISPUTE. WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION--PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES [...] | 2009-08-25 13:37:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PINR PGOV PREL AM |
09STATE88675 | SECRETARY CLINTON'S JULY 30 MEETING WITH [...] (U) July 30; 10:15 a.m.; Washington, DC. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary EUR Acting DAS William Lucas PA Spokesman Ian Kelly Executive Assistant Courtney Beale S Staff Joseph MacManus EUR/WE Director Maureen Cormack (Notetaker) Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn [...] | 2009-08-25 19:33:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
09STATE88753 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...] | 2009-08-25 20:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE88754 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-08-25 20:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE88755 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...] | 2009-08-25 20:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE88787 | REQUEST TO DELIVER LETTERS FROM THE SECRETARY TO [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. Summary: On August 11, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced its intent to transfer $200 million in budget support to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The transfer was completed on August 19. This level of support matches the U.S. gov [...] | 2009-08-25 23:38:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID KWBG PGOV OPDC PREL IS |
09STATE89113 | DEMARCHE TO AU AND ECOWAS ON DELAY OF GUINEAN [...] This is an action request for both Embassy Abuja and the U.S. Mission to the AU. Please see paragraph 3. Background: Guinean Elections Delayed ------------------------------------- 2. On August 17, the ruling military junta announced that Guinea's legislative and presidential elections [...] | 2009-08-26 17:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AU GV KDEM NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
09STATE90467 | TRANSFER OF POLICE TRAINING CONTRACT TO CSTC-A [...] ACTION REQUESTED: PARA 6. 2. IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL, AN INTERAGENCY MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN WAS HELD ON AUGUST 10 TO DISCUSS THE TRANSFER OF MOST POLICE TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE DOD COMBINED SECURITY TRANSITION COMMAND-AFGHANISTAN (CSTC-A). THIS TRANSFER OF RESPONSIBILITY [...] | 2009-08-31 14:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF MARR PGOV PINS PREL SOCI |
09STATE91068 | FORMER GTMO DETAINEE REQUEST FOR MEDICAL RECORDS AND [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 2. 2. (C) In response to reftel request, Department provides the following information that can be passed on to Tajik former Guantanamo detainees Shafi Rakhimovich Salikhov, aka, Maroof Saleemovich Salehove (ISN-208),and Mehrabon Faizulovich [...] | 2009-09-01 17:19:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDRG TI |
09STATE91299 | RESPONSE TO UK REQUEST FOR OPTIONS TO RESUME [...] (U) This is a response to an action request. 2. (C/NF) Summary and Guidance: Reftel requested guidance on what message to deliver to the UK Embassy regarding resumption of their Naval training mission in Iraq. The Department suggests the following (keyed to Reftel request): Â [...] | 2009-09-01 22:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ UK |
09STATE91691 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON CIO PERSONAL [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. General Periotto, we welcome your update on Article IV implementation and congratulate the Parties for their dedication and professi [...] | 2009-09-02 21:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE PREL |
09STATE91692 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO HOM [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States joins other delegations in welcoming you, Ambassador Zekolli, and thanking you for your thorough and detailed repo [...] | 2009-09-02 21:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL TZ |
09STATE91693 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: MURDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States joins the European Union in noting the deep concern expressed by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklo [...] | 2009-09-02 21:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL RU |
09STATE91695 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: THE SENTENCING OF [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States shares the concern expressed in the August 11 statement of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Haraszti on [...] | 2009-09-02 21:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL KZ |
09STATE91696 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: THE SENTENCING OF UZBEK [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States expresses its concern following the sentencing to twelve-and-one-half years' incarceration of the Uzbekistan journ [...] | 2009-09-02 21:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL UZ |
09STATE91703 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON THE [...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 3, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Today, a year after the August 2008 war, the situation in Georgia remains a matter of grave concern. A little over a y [...] | 2009-09-02 22:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09STATE91949 | EXPANDING THE REACH OF RADIO PROGRAMMING IN PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 16:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF PK BBG |
09STATE91952 | CONCERNS ON MARSHALL ISLANDS RATIFICATION OF THE [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post may draw on the talking points in paragraph 4 to respond to the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Island's request for the U.S. position on its potential ratification of the Ottawa Convention. 2. (SBU) Background: On December 2, 1997, PM and EAP repr [...] | 2009-09-03 16:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PARM RM |
09STATE92505 | (SBU) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED REFTEL REGARDING FOREIGN MINISTER LAJCAK'S JULY 20 MEETING. IT PROVIDED KEY INSIGHTS INTO LAJCAK'S JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE LAW, HIS VIEWS ON THE SITUATION SURROUNDING THE LANGUAGE LAW CONTROVERSY, AND HIS CRITICISM OF THE CE LETTE [...] | 2009-09-04 18:20:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PREL LO |
09STATE92506 | (U) KUDOS FOR SANTIAGO 000755 (C-AL9-01816) [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO THANK EMBASSY FOR REFTEL, WHICH PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO SEBASTIN PIERA. WITH THE ELECTIONS SET FOR DECEMBER, WE ARE INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND THIS CABLE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF SUMMARIZING GENERALLY KNOWN FACTS [...] | 2009-09-04 18:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV CI |
09STATE92509 | (C/NF) KUDOS FOR TIMELY BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING ON [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS APPRECIATE THE EXCELLENT BACKGROUND AND BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING ON RECENTLY APPOINTED FCO MINISTER IVAN LEWIS. REFTEL REGARDING LEWIS' BULLYING, POSSIBLE DEPRESSION AND SCANDALS, AS WELL AS COMMENTS ON THE STATE OF HIS MARRIAGE AND HOW THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SAW HIS AP [...] | 2009-09-04 18:24:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV UK |
09STATE92641 | PERSUADING THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA ON FREEDOM [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 8-11. BACKGROUND: ADVOCATING FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT ------------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Following the end of hostilities in May 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) moved over 270,000 internally displaced persons (ID [...] | 2009-09-04 23:21:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN CE |
09STATE92938 | DEMARCHE: ACTIVITIES IN SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. (SBU) Embassies Rome and Paris are asked to approach appropriate host government officials to collect information on their activities in the regions of Somaliland and Puntland in Somalia. In particular, the D [...] | 2009-09-08 13:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL SO |
09STATE93069 | (C/NF) SALVADORAN PRESIDENT FUNES'S RELATIONSHIP [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS APPRECIATE EMBASSY,S COVERAGE OF THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF PRESIDENT FUNES'S TERM. WE CONTINUE TO BE INTERESTED IN HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH FMLN HARDLINERS WHO HAVE BEEN APPOINTED TO HEAD SECURITY INSTITUTIONS. AS TIME AND RESOURCES ALLOW, WE WOULD APPRECIATE EMBASSY,S [...] | 2009-09-08 17:00:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV ES |
09STATE93356 | WASHINGTON LAYS OUT PARAMETERS FOR EGYPT ESF [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Cairo correctly understands that the most recent Government of Egypt (GOE) proposal for the Economic Support Funds (ESF) program goes beyond what Washington is willing to support in the name of better bilateral relation [...] | 2009-09-09 01:01:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EG PGOV PREL |
09STATE93581 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-09 15:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE93582 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-09 15:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE93687 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO REPORT BY [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 10 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States joins other delegations in welcoming Ambassador Almhofer back to the PC. We thank you for your thorough report. [...] | 2009-09-09 17:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV KV |
09STATE93694 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: THE SENTENCING OF [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 10 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States Government would like to add its voice to those of Kazakhstani and international human rights non-governmental or [...] | 2009-09-09 17:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL KZ |
09STATE93770 | MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO AUSTRALIAN FM [...] This is an action request. Post is requested to deliver the letter in para 2 from Secretary Clinton to Foreign Minister Smith in response to his August 26 correspondence. 2. Begin text of letter: Dear Mr. Minister: Thank you for your letter of August 26 and for taking new action to f [...] | 2009-09-09 18:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN KWBG PGOV PREL OPDC IS |
09STATE94259 | (C/NF) BOLIVIAN ELECTION PLANNING (C-AL9-01770) [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WELCOMED REFTEL REPORTING ON THE BILATERAL TALKS AND THE GOB,S DECISION TO SUSPEND USAID PROGRAMS. NOT SURPRISINGLY, WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE UPCOMING BOLIVIAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS, INCLUDING BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION [...] | 2009-09-10 19:01:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV BL |
09STATE94738 | UNSC SUDAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE: GUIDANCE FOR 15 [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. On September 15, the Chairman of the 1591 Committee concerning the Sudan will brief the UN Security Council on the work of the Sudan Sanctions Committee, covering the period June 20 to September 15. T [...] | 2009-09-11 18:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL XW UNSC |
09STATE94757 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE [...] (U) This is an action request for Embassies Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Baghdad, Berlin, Brasilia, Canberra, Doha, Jakarta, London, Mexico, Muscat, New Dehli, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, The Hague, Vienna, and the U.S. Mission to the European Union. Please see the action request in paragraph 5 [...] | 2009-09-11 18:19:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC IR |
09STATE94922 | QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP SEIZURES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Recent ship seizures by Georgian authorities in international waters off the coast of Abkhazia have provoked strong rhetoric from both Russian and Abkhaz de-facto officials. Quad members (U.S., Fran [...] | 2009-09-11 22:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL GG RS |
09STATE95918 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-15 20:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE95942 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-15 21:08:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE95943 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-15 21:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE95944 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-15 21:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE95980 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE AD-HOC [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Department requests that action addressees inform appropriate government officials of USG support for the September 22 working-level meeting in New York City of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC),the principal e [...] | 2009-09-15 22:00:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAL PGOV WBG EU IS |
09STATE96371 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON ALBANIAN [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 17 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chair. The United States congratulates the citizens and Government of Albania on the parliamentary elections held on June 28, 2009. The Governme [...] | 2009-09-16 19:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV KDEM AL |
09STATE96402 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 17 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States is pleased to take note of the recent comments by the distinguished Director of ODIHR Ambassador Janez Lenarcic o [...] | 2009-09-16 19:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL UZ |
09STATE96445 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO REPORT BY AMBASSADOR [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 17 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome, Ambassador Salber, (or Deputy Pietrusiewicz, as appropriate) to the Permanent Council. The United States applauds the valuable [...] | 2009-09-16 20:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV KV |
09STATE96501 | SRI LANKA: A/S BLAKE RAISES IDPS AND REPORT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake urged Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Bogollagama September 15 to allow freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) by the end of September, when monsoon rains will begin. A/S Blake stressed that the [...] | 2009-09-17 00:13:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS KAWC CE |
09STATE96684 | (U) KUDOS FOR BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING (C-AL9-01990) [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO THANK POST FOR REFTEL, WHICH PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT READOUT OF ONE OF ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS. WE ARE INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN INFORMATION REGARDING THE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS OF ARGENTINE POLITICAL PLAYERS IN THE RUN-UP TO THE 2011 PRESIDEN [...] | 2009-09-17 15:03:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV AR |
09STATE97443 | SUPPORTING IRAQ IN THE LEAD-UP TO ELECTIONS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request - please see para 8. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (S) The period between now and Iraqi national elections in January 2010 will be acutely sensitive within Iraq, both politically and in terms of security. It is extremely important that we wei [...] | 2009-09-18 22:19:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | IZ PGOV PREL |
09STATE97946 | DEPLOYMENTS OF U.S. SPECIAL FORCES IN PARAGUAY [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph eight. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: Since 2006, U.S. Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) has been engaged in equipping and training Paraguay's Joint Special Forces Unit (BCFE) with the implicit support of the government of Paraguay (in [...] | 2009-09-21 20:51:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | MASS PA PGOV PM PREL |
09STATE98265 | MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO NORWEGIAN [...] This is an action request. Post is requested to deliver the letter in paragraph 2 from Secretary Clinton to FM Stoere in response to his September 15 incoming letter. There will be no signed original to follow. 2. Begin text: Dear Mr. Minister: Thank you for your letter of September 1 [...] | 2009-09-22 16:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN KWBG PGOV PREL IS OPDC |
09STATE9857 | TALKING POINTS ON CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS FOR [...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Tripoli only. Request was sent earlier to other embassies in Reftel (B),but technical difficulties precluded Department from sending to Embassy Tripoli at that time. Please see paragraph 3 and 4. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Department requests [...] | 2009-02-03 21:27:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF SU CD |
09STATE98892 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE98896 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE98898 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE98900 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE98901 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
09STATE99029 | SUBJECT: OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 24 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Thank you, Madam Chair. Minister Kongatiev, welcome to the Permanent Council and thank you for your informative and insightful remarks. We appreciate your compr [...] | 2009-09-23 21:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KG |
09STATE99030 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO KYRGYZ [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the September 24 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Thank you, Madam Chair. Minister Kongatiev, welcome to the Permanent Council and thank you for your informative and insightful remarks. We appreciate your compr [...] | 2009-09-23 21:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KG |
09STATE99056 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON GENEVA [...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 24, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States commends the coordination by the OSCE, EU, and UN of the September 17 Geneva discussions on security [...] | 2009-09-23 22:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV GG |
09STATE99058 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO REPORT ON [...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 24, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States joins other delegations in expressing appreciation for this very thorough report. We welcome effor [...] | 2009-09-23 22:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV |
09STATE99067 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO REPORT ON [...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 24, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States joins other delegations in expressing appreciation for this very thorough report. We welcome effor [...] | 2009-09-24 00:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV |
09STATE99068 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON GENEVA [...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 24, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States commends the coordination by the OSCE, EU, and UN of the September 17 Geneva discussions on security [...] | 2009-09-24 00:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PGOV GG |
09STATE99089 | SECRETARY CLINTON'S MEETING WITH ESTONIAN [...] (U) Classified by EUR Assistant Secretary Nancy McEldowney, Acting, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) September 17, 2009, 2:15 2:45 P.M., Washington, D.C. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Secretary EUR DAS Pamela Quanrud Spokesperson Ian Kelly NSC Director Will Schlickenma [...] | 2009-09-24 02:11:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EAID ENRG MARR AF RS EN |
09STATE99783 | US PARTICIPATION IN JOINT DEMARCHE TO ICELAND ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an action request. Post is requested TO participate in a joint demarche to the Government of Iceland concerning their recent decisions regarding whaling activities. The text of the demarche is contained in paragraph 5. The United Kingdom has agreed to lead the demarc [...] | 2009-09-24 21:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS IC KSCA PGOV SENV IWC |
09STATE99791 | (C/NF) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON IRISH LISBON [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS APPRECIATED REFTEL ON THE PLAYERS AND FACTORS AFFECTING POTENTIAL RATIFICATION OF THE LISBON TREATY IN THE PLANNED OCTOBER 2009 REFERENDUM. EMBASSY INSIGHTS WERE VERY USEFUL, ESPECIALLY AS THEY PROVIDED MORE CLARITY ABOUT FLUCTUATING POLL NUMBERS, THE CURRENT IRISH [...] | 2009-09-24 21:40:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV EI |
09STOCKHOLM113 | EX GITMO DETAINEE GETS SWEDISH RESIDENCY ON APPEAL [...] (U) On February 18, the Swedish Migration Court, which hears appeals from petitioners unhappy with rulings from the autonomous Swedish Migration Board (SMB),granted permanent residency with refugee status to Adil Hakimjan, an ethnic Uighur and former Guantanamo detainee. The SMB denied Hakim [...] | 2009-02-18 16:56:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM SW |
09STOCKHOLM122 | DEMARCHE DELIVERD: DEMOCRACY IN MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN MR PGOV PHUM PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM124 | SWEDISH AID MINISTER CARLSSON TO ATTEND SHARM [...] Swedish MFA Desk Officer for the Middle East, Maria Velasco Ullenhag, told us February 23, that Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, will represent Sweden at the Sharm conference on March 2. Sweden is still reviewing the amount it will pledge at the conference [...] | 2009-02-23 12:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM SW |
09STOCKHOLM126 | SWEDEN APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY TO [...] (U) In preparation for its EU presidency the Swedish government appointed Anna Karin Enestrom as Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on February 20. Enestrom currently serves as ambassador to Pakistan. Bildt issued a press statement that said the appointment is a step in the government [...] | 2009-02-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR AF PK SW |
09STOCKHOLM141 | SPECIAL 301 FOR SWEDEN: POST RECOMMENDATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Stockholm recommends that Sweden continues to be placed in the Special 301 Initiative, and not be on the Watch List for 2009. We are aware of the differing recommendations of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) and PhRMA. Post recommendation is bas [...] | 2009-03-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM148 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR TO THE NORDICS ON INCREASING [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Afghan Ambassador to the Nordic countries, Jawed Ludin, met with CDA on February 26 to discuss ways to boost Sweden's role in Afghanistan. He focused on development aid as Sweden's comparative advantage. He suggested that Sweden should learn from Norway in its [...] | 2009-03-04 14:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR AF SW |
09STOCKHOLM149 | SWEDEN'S EU MINISTER ON COOPERATING WITH U.S. ON [...] (C) Summary: Sweden's EU Minister Cecilia Malmstrom met Charge on March 3 to discuss Sweden's upcoming EU presidency. On the Transatlantic Agenda, Malmstrom identified climate change, EU enlargement, Israeli-Palestinian talks and Afghanistan as being most important for cooperation with the US [...] | 2009-03-04 16:40:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EU AF TU SW |
09STOCKHOLM162 | SWEDEN APPOINTS U.S.-FRIENDLY SUPREME COMMANDER [...] On March 6, Lieutenant General Sverker Goranson was appointed the next Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. Currently, the 54-year-old Goranson is Director of the Joint Staff, making him in principle the chief aide of current Supreme Commander Hakan Syrn. Goranson will take over Ma [...] | 2009-03-06 15:56:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM163 | CORRECTED COPY: SWEDEN APPOINTS U.S.-FRIENDLY SUPREME [...] On March 6, Lieutenant General Sverker Goranson was appointed the next Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. Currently, the 54-year-old Goranson is Director of the Joint Staff, making him in principle the chief aide of current Supreme Commander Hakan Syren. Goranson will take over M [...] | 2009-03-06 16:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM169 | SWEDISH POLICE SEIZE LARGE QUANTITY OF PIRATED [...] Stockholm police have seized a computer server believed to contain the largest quantity of pirated material ever discovered in Sweden. The server was located in the Brandbergen neighborhood south of Stockholm and was part of a Nordic file sharing ring known as Sunnydale, according to the Swed [...] | 2009-03-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD EINT EIND PGOV TINT SW |
09STOCKHOLM170 | SWEDEN ON MARCH GAERC AND GYMNICH [...] (C) On March 10, Poloff discussed the March GAERC and GYMNICH with EU Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel; on March 6, POL Counselor met separately with EU Correspondent Magnus Scholdtz. Their comments follow: General Affairs Session: Afghanistan, Chad, Ireland ------------------------------- [...] | 2009-03-12 07:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO MD MW BK MK SU EG EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM193 | SWEDEN REPLY TO DEMARCHE: SEEKING ADDITIONAL DONOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 09:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO SO SW |
09STOCKHOLM194 | SWEDEN: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S) In response to reftel, post would like to add Sweden's communications infrastructure to the CI/KR list. Although Sweden does not posses a direct undersea cable from the U.S., Sweden is a central European communications hub. For example, Swedish company TeliaSonera is an international car [...] | 2009-03-20 13:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP SW |
09STOCKHOLM195 | SWEDISH FINANCE MINISTER ON FINANCIAL CRISIS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told Treasury DAS Meyer and CDA the following regarding the financial crisis, Swedish banks and the Baltics: - Swedish banks can absorb further losses given their profitability in recent years. The Swedish financial sector i [...] | 2009-03-20 15:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV EN LG LH SW |
09STOCKHOLM201 | A VISIT TO SWEDEN'S BIOREFINERY COAST [...] Summary: During a March 10-11 trip to three cities on the north east coast, embassy staff visited the heart of a traditional export industry - paper and pulp - in the process of redefining itself. These large paper and pulp mills are developing biofuels from previous waste by-products: ethano [...] | 2009-03-24 10:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV KGHG PGOV EAID SW |
09STOCKHOLM204 | SWEDEN LOOKS TO REFORM DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE [...] Summary: Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, announced March 9 that Sweden is evaluating its aid to multilateral organizations and is disappointed in how several UN organizations have used Swedish development assistance, singling out the following agencies: [...] | 2009-03-24 15:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ECIN EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM207 | Sweden's Deputy PM Comes to Washington with climate change [...] Summary. Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson is the pragmatic political leader of the Center Party that holds the Cabinet positions for energy, environment, industry and agriculture. She has a strong relationship with PM Reinfeldt and has worked closely with him recently to reverse [...] | 2009-03-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ENRG SENV KGHG SW |
09STOCKHOLM216 | SWEDISH AUTO INDUSTRY ENTERS CRITICAL PHASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish State Secretary for Enterprise Joran Hagglund told CDA on March 27 that the ailing Swedish auto companies Saab and Volvo Cars are entering a critical phase; Saab is in formal restructuring. The Swedish government will not step in and take over the Swedish auto companies [...] | 2009-03-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD ELTN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM221 | SWEDISH EMPLOYMENT MINISTER INVITES U.S. SECRETARY [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. At a meeting requested by the Minister for Employment Sven Otto Littorin which occured on March 31, Littorin told CDA that he has invited Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to attend an informal meeting of the 27 EU ministers for employment [...] | 2009-04-01 12:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM227 | SWEDISH FINANCE MINISTER PAINTS BLEAK PICTURE FOR [...] Summary: Swedish Minister of Finance Anders Borg predicted that Sweden's unemployment rate will hit 8.9 percent in 2009, 11.1 percent in 2010 and 11.7 percent in 2011 before slipping back to 11.3 percent in 2012. Borg alsoQredicted that deflation would emerge in 2009 with the Consumer Price I [...] | 2009-04-06 07:50:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM228 | SWEDISH HEALTH MINISTER TO INVITE NEW U.S. [...] Minister of Health and Social Affairs Goran Hagglund told CDA on April 6 that he would like to invite the new Secretary of Health and Human Services to Sweden. Hagglund intends to invite the HHS Secretary to the informal meeting of the 27 EU ministers for employment and social affairs (EPSCO) [...] | 2009-04-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EINT PGOV PREL TBIO TPHY SW |
09STOCKHOLM231 | SWEDISH VIEWS ON APRIL GAERC AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 1 meeting, EU Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel discussed the problematic invitation of Pres. Lukashenko to the May 7 Eastern Partnership launch; the EU's policy plans with Israel, Syria and Iran; upcoming (and rescheduled) summits, and Montenegro. Wendel told us he a [...] | 2009-04-07 16:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU BO IS IR SY MW ZK BM SP SW |
09STOCKHOLM233 | SWEDEN SUPPORTS RAPID DRAWDOWN OF OHR AND ALTHEA IN BOSNIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 09:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM245 | TRIAL OF ALLEGED SWEDISH TERRORIST BEGINS IN NEW YORK [...] On April 13, the trial began in New York of Swedish-Lebanese dual citizen Oussama Kassir. Kassir is accused of running a terrorist training camp in Oregon and hosting a web site with public access to the "The Mujahedeen Explosives Handbook." Kassir denies all charges and claims the evidence w [...] | 2009-04-14 15:26:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PINS PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM258 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONSULTING WITH EU ON BURMA [...] (C) On April 24, Emboffs delivered reftel demarche to Liselott Andersson, Head of the South East Asia Unit in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Andersson confirmed that there will be a rollover of the common position at the April 27 GAERC meeting. "The position is linked to what is happening [...] | 2009-04-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EU BM SW |
09STOCKHOLM259 | SWEDEN ON APRIL 27-28 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: We discussed Ref A GAERC points with Swedish MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall, the EU Correspondent's office, and MFA country desks April 22-24. They told us the Czechs keep changing the GAERC agenda and Sweden wants to add a point on the possibility of the EU publishing huma [...] | 2009-04-24 17:51:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM262 | SWEDEN PUSHES GREATER ENERGY SECURITY FOR BALTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Bo Diczfalusy, Director-General for Energy at the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Transportation, and MFA Baltic Desk Officer Isabella Torngren, told Econoffs on April 27 that Sweden: - views energy security as a key part of its EU Presidency focus on the Baltic Sea Strate [...] | 2009-04-27 13:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG LG LH PL RS FI SW |
09STOCKHOLM263 | SWEDEN RECALLS CDA TO SRI LANKA FOR CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) On April 28, Sweden recalled its Charge d'Affaires to Sri Lanka for "consultations" in response to the Sri Lankan government's denial of a visa for FM Carl Bildt. FMs Bildt, Milliband and Kouchner had decided at the April 27 GAERC to travel jointly on April 29 to Colombo for talks with the [...] | 2009-04-28 09:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU CE SW |
09STOCKHOLM266 | SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER BILDT'S WASHINGTON AGENDA [...] (S) Summary: For Bildt's May 4 visit to Washington, we recommend the following top three issues: additional contributions in Afghanistan, resettlement of Guantanamo detainees, and leadership in the EU on autonomous sanctions on Iran. Given Sweden's upcoming EU Presidency, July-December 2009, [...] | 2009-04-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM270 | SWEDISH FM BILDT WANTS BOSNIA TO BE AN EU [...] (C) Summary: On April 28, poloff discussed FM Bildt's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with BiH Desk Officer Dinka Jasarevic. FM Bildt visited Sarajevo on April 8-9 for both bilateral talks and Presidency Trio discussions with BiH officials. Bildt's main goal for his visit to Sarajevo wa [...] | 2009-04-30 13:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM274 | UIGHUR HAKIMJAN GRANTED PERMANENT RESIDENCY, AGAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM SW |
09STOCKHOLM276 | SPECIAL 301 FOR SWEDEN: RESULTS DISCUSSED WITH GOS [...] (SBU) Summary. A/DCM and Economic Specialist met with officials from the Swedish Ministries of Justice and Trade on April 29 to convey the results of the Special 301 review. The GOS welcomed the news that Sweden will not be on any watch list in 2009. They told us that the GOS gives priority [...] | 2009-05-05 12:20:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM287 | SWEDEN ON MAY 18-19 "SUPER GAERC" [...] (C) Summary: On May 8, poloff met with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel to discuss the GAERC agenda for May 18-19. Wendel said it will be a "Super GAERC," to include a special meeting between the Foreign and Defense Ministers. The overall agenda would therefore be brief. Highlights o [...] | 2009-05-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM IS GR GG RU EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM3 | SWEDISH CHARTER AIRCRAFT STARTS A REGULAR FLIGHT [...] On January 2, Nordic Airways, a Swedish private sector company, flew its first flight to Baghdad, carrying 150 passengers to Baghdad International Airport (BIA). According to Swedish press, this marks the first commercial passenger flight from Europe to the Iraqi capital since the UN imposed s [...] | 2009-01-05 12:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV IZ SW |
09STOCKHOLM309 | SWEDEN SCENESETTER FOR CODEL TANNER [...] The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm warmly welcomes your visit to Sweden, the first Congressional delegation to travel here since Rep. Larson of Connecticut visited in September 2007. The United States and Sweden share a strong and abiding relationship built on a foundation of shared values, cultural [...] | 2009-05-20 15:53:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV ECON SW |
09STOCKHOLM31 | GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: SWEDES OUTLINE PROCESS, WAIT [...] (S) Summary: Sweden will not decide "right away" whether it will accept Guantanamo detainees but will likely make a decision if it gets a "signal" from the Obama Administration, MFA State Secretary Belfrage told DCM on January 14. Sweden would need to think carefully about accepting ethnic Uig [...] | 2009-01-15 17:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM SW |
09STOCKHOLM322 | SWEDEN CONDEMNS DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] On May 25, the North Korean Ambassador to Sweden, Ri Hui Chol, was summoned to the MFA where State Secretary Frank Belfrage, the number two official in the ministry, delivered an official protest against North Korea's nuclear test. Belfrage called it an escalation of the already tense situati [...] | 2009-05-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL NK SW |
09STOCKHOLM327 | MALMO'S ISLAMISTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS CO-EXIST, UNEASILY [...] Summary: The Charge, accompanied by the Regional Senior Commercial Officer and the Energy and Environment Outreach Assistant visited Lund and Malmo in southern Sweden May 14-15 to learn more about the Swedish side of the Oresund Region. Malmo is reinventing itself and trying to improve its re [...] | 2009-05-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV KGHG KISL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM333 | Sweden on Olympic Baseball [...] Summary. Embassy Stockholm spoke with Gunilla Lindberg, one of Sweden's three International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, to seek support for the return of baseball and softball to the Olympic Games. Lindberg asserted the independence of IOC members from governmental pressure (U.S. or Swe [...] | 2009-06-02 12:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KOLY KPAO PGOV SCUL SW |
09STOCKHOLM337 | SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING THE AD-HOC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAL EAID PGOV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM342 | SWEDEN'S FOREIGN AID REFORM [...] Summary: Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson told journalists on May 7 that Swedish assistance still has a "long way to go" when she presented a comprehensive report of development assistance. She commented that Sweden must prepare and monitor programs [...] | 2009-06-04 06:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ECIN EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM35 | SENIOR POLDIR ON IRAN AND GAZA [...] (S) Summary: Swedish MFA Director-General for Political Affairs, Bjorn Lyrvall, told us January 15 that: -- On Iran, Sweden now backs an "intensified implementation of existing UN Security Council resolutions" that will result in EU designation of at least "one or two" more banks; -- It wo [...] | 2009-01-16 17:50:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IS SW |
09STOCKHOLM355 | AARGH! SWEDISH PIRATES SET SAIL FOR BRUSSELS [...] Summary and Comment: Sweden's two largest political parties, the ruling Moderates and opposition Social Democrats, saw little change over their 2004 levels of support in the June 7 European Parliament (EP) election here. Instead, the Greens and the pro-EU Liberal Party were the big winners -- [...] | 2009-06-10 13:42:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ECON KIPR SW |
09STOCKHOLM362 | SWEDEN ON JUNE 15-16 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: In preparation for the June 15-16 GAERC, Emboffs met June 11 with European Correspondent Magnus Scholdtz just prior to his meeting with Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt to review the GAERC. We also spoke earlier with Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel and other officials. They told [...] | 2009-06-12 16:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM IS GR GG RU EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM368 | POST SUPPORT OF POTUS BILATERAL WITH SWEDISH PM [...] (U) On June 16, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally requested a bilateral meeting for Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt with the President on the margins of the G8 in Italy on 8-10 July. (We understand the Swedish embassy in Washington passed this request to NSC also.) [...] | 2009-06-18 17:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EUN IT SW |
09STOCKHOLM374 | SAAB + KOENIGSEGG = KOENIGSSAAB? [...] (U) Summary: On June 16, GM revealed its plans for the future of Saab Automotive as Koenigsegg Group AB confirmed the details of a memorandum of understanding for the purchase of Saab. Koenigsegg is a Swedish sports car maker, producing as few as 18 exclusive cars per year. Commentators in [...] | 2009-06-23 08:31:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM375 | SWEDISH-IRAQI TRADE INCHING FORWARD [...] Summary: With the opening of the new Swedish embassy in Baghdad this summer, all signs point to further strengthening and deepening of the cooperative ties between Sweden and Iraq. Trade deals between Swedish companies and Iraq partners are inching forward despite financing troubles and secu [...] | 2009-06-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL IZ SW |
09STOCKHOLM384 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON'S JULY [...] (U) Embassy Stockholm warmly welcomes you to Sweden. The mood in Sweden is both eager anticipation for its turn to set the agendas and chair the EU meetings, and a bit of trepidation at the daunting list of issues, starting with the financial crisis and climate change. Bilateral relations are [...] | 2009-06-24 19:08:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR ECON SENV SW |
09STOCKHOLM390 | EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S 4TH OF JULY INVITATIONS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 15:28:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM4 | SWEDES TO PROVIDE $10 MILLION TO UNRWA'S GAZA [...] (SBU) On January 7, Poloff and Econoff shared reftel points with Fredrik Floren, Deputy Director for Levant Affairs & North Africa, Middle East and North Africa Department, at the Swedish MFA. Floren confirmed that Sweden will donate $10 million in humanitarian and development assistance. He [...] | 2009-01-07 12:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM SW |
09STOCKHOLM402 | DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM404 | SWEDISH COOPERATION FOR CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 14:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM408 | Swedes Propose Seminar to Break HLCG Redress Roadblock [...] (SBU) Summary. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) Mary Ellen Callahan met with her counterparts at the Swedish Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to discuss how to make progress on the final issue relating to the High Level Contact Group's agreement on the principles for [...] | 2009-07-08 05:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS EUN PGOV PREL KCRM SW |
09STOCKHOLM417 | RWANDAN GENOCIDE SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL PGOV RW EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM418 | EUR A/S GORDON'S JULY 3 MEETINGS WITH THE EU [...] (U) Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon met with the 27 EU Member State Political Directors in Stockholm July 3. He then met with the EU Political Directors "troika," comprising Swedish PolDir Bjorn Lyrvall, EU Council Secretariat DG Robert Cooper, EU External Re [...] | 2009-07-09 16:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV IR RS SW |
09STOCKHOLM444 | MOVING FORWARD WITH UKRAINE, BELARUS, AND GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 9, Poloffs and EUR/ACE Larry Silverman met with Malena Mard, Director of the Eastern Europe and Central Asian Department, and Johan Frisell, Head of the Eastern Europe Desk. Mard gave a rundown on the challenges Sweden expects during its EU Presidency between the EU and [...] | 2009-07-21 14:42:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UK BO GG EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM451 | SWEDES POSITIVE TO NEW MEMBERS JOINING THE CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 08:17:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM452 | U.S.-EU JHA SENIOR LEVEL MEETING, STOCKHOLM, JULY 9-10, [...] (SBU) Summary. U.S. and EU delegations met July 9 and 10 in Stockholm for the semiannual U.S.-EU Justice and Home Affairs Informal Senior Level Meeting. The meeting was unusually lively, substantive and outcome oriented, covering a lengthy agenda in an efficient manner. Delegates were well pr [...] | 2009-07-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM454 | SWEDEN: RECENT IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] Summary: Based on stress tests, the Financial Supervisory Authority stated that Sweden would be able to handle the losses incurred by its major banks on loans made to Baltic countries. The situation in Latvia became somewhat more stable when the Government was able to present its plans to re [...] | 2009-07-23 14:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM456 | SWEDEN TO CLOSE FIVE MISSIONS IN 2009 [...] (C) On July 23, the MFA officially announced the results of a controversy that has been brewing for some time: the closure of five of its missions abroad in 2009. This includes the consulates in New York and Los Angeles. MFA State Secretary Belfrage told CDA on June 30 that the closures and [...] | 2009-07-23 15:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM460 | SWEDISH SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) On July 23, Poloffs raised reftel points with Carl Magnus Eriksson, MFA Director for Peace Support Operations; Brigadier General Gunnar Karlson, MFA Military Advisor; and Karin Anderman, Deputy Director in the Department of Security Policy. Eriksson directed us to a press statement indicat [...] | 2009-07-24 07:26:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM464 | TREASURY COHEN TALKS SANCTIONS WITH THE SWEDES [...] (U) Summary: On June 18, Treasury's Assistant Secretary (A/S) for Terrorist Financing David Cohen, along with Treasury and Embassy Stockholm officials, met with Swedish officials involved with banking and sanctions policy. The Swedish interlocutors included Deputy Minister of Finance Mats Ode [...] | 2009-07-27 12:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON TERR PREL PGOV IR NK SW |
09STOCKHOLM466 | THE FOUR MAJOR SWEDISH BANKS REPORTING MAJOR CREDIT LOSSES [...] Summary: Sweden's banking sector is highly concentrated, with four large banking groups (Nordea, Handelsbanken, Swedbank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)) accounting for roughly 80 percent of sector assets. Beginning July 17, these four major banks presented their results for the seco [...] | 2009-07-27 13:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM467 | SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY TALKS TURKEY LEFTOVERS [...] (C) Summary: Following a July 19 DVC between EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Swedish MFA Director of EU Affairs Lars Wahlund (reftel),PolOff meet with Peder Spangberg, Turkey Desk Officer on July 23 for follow-up. Spangberg said his ideal outcome from the EU Presidency on December 31 is "handing ever [...] | 2009-07-28 07:22:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU SW |
09STOCKHOLM470 | IRANIANS BANNED FROM SWEDISH UNIVERSITIES [...] The Swedish Security Police (SAPO),along with two other agencies - the Inspectorate of Strategic Products and the Radiation Safety Administration - recently sent letters to seven Swedish universities relaying an EU Council regulation that imposed restrictions on Iranian and North Korean stude [...] | 2009-07-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM488 | SWEDEN HOSTS INFORMAL EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS [...] Summary: On July 15-17, Sweden hosted an informal EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) ministerial outside of Stockholm. The ministerial devoted its discussions to the future "Stockholm Program", a five year program on continued cooperation within the JHA area. The Ministers met in different se [...] | 2009-08-04 13:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV PREF PREL EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM490 | REPORTING OF SWEDISH MONEY LAUNDERING CASES DOUBLES [...] (SBU) Summary: According to recently released figures from the Swedish Financial Police, there were 13,048 cases of suspected money laundering amounting to $1.2 billion in 2008, an increase of 116 percent compared to 2007. Banks did a better job of reporting, increasing from 1,310 cases in 200 [...] | 2009-08-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PGOV PTER SW |
09STOCKHOLM495 | SWEDES REPORT THAT U.S. RESEARCH VESSEL VIOLATES [...] (SBU) Acting Economic Counselor was summoned to meet Deputy Director Andreas Ekengren, Security Policy Department, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 6 to receive a written protest from the Government of Sweden (GOS). Ekengren told Emboff that the U.S. research vessel T- [...] | 2009-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KRVC PBTS TPHY PGOV PHSA SW |
09STOCKHOLM496 | JULY GAERC DETAILS AND GYMNICH LOOKAHEAD FROM [...] (C) Acting DCM received additional details on the July 27 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) of the EU,s Foreign Ministers (FMs) from Hakan Emsgard, chief of the MFA's European Section, together with ambassadors from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, and Japan. E [...] | 2009-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW IR SO AF PK |
09STOCKHOLM5 | SWEDISH OFFICIAL ON IRAN: ELECTIONS, DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: In an initial call in December on the Swedes in their upcoming EU Presidency capacity (reftel),EUR/ERA Director Bill Lucas met with the MFA's Iran expert and deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa Division, Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt. Dannfelt said: -- The EU3 has the policy [...] | 2009-01-07 15:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IS SW |
09STOCKHOLM500 | SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY'S PLANS FOR AFGHAN ELECTION [...] The Swedish EU Presidency is working to develop an EU statement -- "a political blessing" -- to be released in conjunction with the August 20 elections in Afghanistan, MFA Afghanistan Desk Director Mathias Otterstedt told Poloffs August 11. Otterstedt, who had accompanied FM Bildt to Afghanis [...] | 2009-08-11 15:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO AF SW |
09STOCKHOLM502 | EU FEELING ITS WAY AHEAD WITH PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Nearly two months after the first EU-Pakistan summit on June 17, the EU is still working to identify counterterrorism and development projects that best suit the EU's capabilities and Pakistan's needs. Swedish MFA Pakistan Desk Officer Majeed Olerud told Poloffs August 7 that the [...] | 2009-08-12 09:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL EUN PK EU |
09STOCKHOLM507 | SWEDISH RESPONSE AND EU DECLARATION ON AUNG SAN [...] (U) Summary: The news of Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) conviction prompted strong reactions, both from Swedish officials and from the Swedish EU Presidency. All sources condemned the verdict and weighed in on the possible effects of sanctions on Burma and against those responsible for the verdic [...] | 2009-08-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL BM SW |
09STOCKHOLM509 | SWEDEN POC FOR NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (U) Amembassy Stockholm POC for nuclear nonproliferation issues is Economic Officer Richard W. LaRoche. Tel: 46 8 783 5326; Mobile: 46 70 783 5326; Fax: 46 8 783 5328; E-mail: larocherw@state.gov. 2. (U) The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs primary contact for nuclear nonproliferation is [...] | 2009-08-14 08:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA SW |
09STOCKHOLM51 | SWEDISH MFA ON JANUARY GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 13:42:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM542 | SWEDISH ARTICLE ON ISRAELI ORGAN HARVESTING OF [...] (U) An August 17 article in the largest selling Swedish tabloid "Aftonbladet" alleged that Israeli soldiers harvested organs from Palestinian youths for sale on international markets, and it tied this allegation to a NYC-based organ trafficking ring. This resulted in a diplomatic feud between [...] | 2009-08-24 14:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL IS SW |
09STOCKHOLM545 | SWEDEN ASKS ABOUT U.S. EXPECTATIONS FOR THE G-20 SUMMIT; [...] (SBU) Summary: As EU President, Sweden has asked what sort of political success the U.S. is seeking from the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. State Secretary for Finance Per Jansson noted the need to show concrete progress in handling the financial crisis, and on climate change. He also discusse [...] | 2009-08-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON SENV PGOV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM546 | PIRATE BAY CLOSED AS RESULT OF COURT INJUNCTION [...] (U) Notorious BitTorrent tracker site "The Pirate Bay" was closed down on August 24 after a court injunction. The Stockholm District Court ordered the Internet Service Provider Black Internet to stop supplying the file sharing site The Pirate Bay with capacity. Faced with a fine of 500,000 k [...] | 2009-08-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM551 | SWEDISH LEGAL OBSTACLES TO EXPRESSING REGRET FOR [...] Tensions between Israel and Sweden continue over an August 17 article in Sweden's largest tabloid newspaper, Aftonbladet, which alleged that Israeli troops harvested organs from Palestinian prisoners for sale on international markets. Press reports indicate Israel is asking for the GOS to cond [...] | 2009-08-26 13:40:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM553 | SWEDISH RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) On August 25, Emboffs discussed reftel points regarding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference with Deputy General Director Christer Ahlstrom and Deputy Director Asa Gustafsson Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs [...] | 2009-08-28 13:25:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA SW |
09STOCKHOLM557 | AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid his first call on Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt August 28. The tone of the meeting was very positive, yet casual, as they exchanged anecdotes about their common experiences in the world of information technology. Highlights of the meeting included: [...] | 2009-08-31 15:43:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AF TU SW |
09STOCKHOLM558 | SWEDISH NOTES ON SEPTEMBER GYMNICH AND GAERC [...] (C) Summary: European Foreign Ministers will discuss the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak),and improving the EU as a global actor at their informal Gymnich meeting in Stockholm 4-5 September. EU Secretariat Deputy Director Jonas Wendel and officer Wouter Vidlund, seconded from the [...] | 2009-08-31 15:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF IR IZ PK IS AL CE EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM565 | SWEDES OFFER MORE DETAIL ON SEPTEMBER GYMNICH [...] (C) Sweden's MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall provided Pol Counselor with details on Swedish plans for discussions of the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak),and improving the EU as a global actor at the informal gathering of EU foreign ministers ("Gymnich meeting") in Stockholm [...] | 2009-09-03 13:18:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF IR IZ PK IS AL CE EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM570 | SWEDEN,S PLANS FOR THE G-20, CONCERNS ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador, Sweden,s Finance Minister Anders Borg praised the new mind set of the U.S. Administration that has us participating in international institutions. He urged the U.S. to keep countries focused on the political need to prevent an economic coll [...] | 2009-09-08 08:34:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SENV SW |
09STOCKHOLM572 | "SWEDISH" CARS SOON CHINESE? [...] (U) Summary. Chinese car manufacturer Geely Automobile announced on September 8 that it is still interested in purchasing Volvo, now all of it. The news hit Sweden as Koenigsegg's Saab deal receives Chinese funding, creating fear among Swedish employees and workers unions that Swedish car ma [...] | 2009-09-09 13:25:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM577 | FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS AFPAK, IRAN, MEPP AT [...] (C) Summary: At the September 4-5 informal foreign ministers' meeting (Gymnich) in Stockholm, the Swedes deliberately limited the meeting agenda to provide adequate time for more thorough discussions, and the Swedes insisted on strict anonymity in reporting, a format that was broadly praised [...] | 2009-09-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AL CE EUN IR IS IZ PGOV PK PREL SY SW |
09STOCKHOLM594 | SWEDEN: ATTENDANCE AND OBJECTIVES AT THE AD-HOC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 14:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAL EAID PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM598 | SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY CALLS FOR DELIVERY ON DONOR [...] (C) EconOffs met with Foreign Ministry Middle East and North Africa Department officers on 18 September to follow-up on a previous demarche regarding the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting on 22 September (reftel). The Ministry's Palestinian Affairs desk officer reiterated the urgency of a dura [...] | 2009-09-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL EAID PGOV IS SW |
09STOCKHOLM599 | WHO IS CARL BILDT? [...] (C) Summary. As Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt heads to New York and Washington, we wanted to give you some background on this independent-minded individual who nevertheless wants very much to work with the United States to solve a variety of international problems. --A product of the C [...] | 2009-09-21 14:08:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AF IR RU SW |
09STOCKHOLM604 | SWEDEN URGES THE EU-US SUMMIT NOTE COOPERATION ON [...] (U) Summary: Sweden's Minister of Health has urged the U.S. to support Sweden's efforts to have the Leaders Declaration from the US-EU Summit state that the US and EU will work together against the silent pandemic of antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance, especially on providing needed incentive [...] | 2009-09-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV EU SENV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM605 | SWEDISH VIEWS ON RECENT TURKEY/CYPRUS DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Swedish MFA officers told us September 23 that "those closest" to the on-going Cyprus talks, including UN Special Envoy Alexander Downer, were optimistic about a "break-through" in November. With regards to Turkey, the Swedes admit there is a deal in place between French Presiden [...] | 2009-09-23 15:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM609 | DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN [...] Summary: Diaspora communities are vibrant and visible in Swedish life. Many of these groups arrived because of war and conflict at home. Some of the largest diaspora groups in Sweden include Iraqis (110,000),Iranians (80,000). Kurds (60,000) and Somalis (25,000). In-country outreach to imm [...] | 2009-09-25 12:41:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL BEXP BITO EAID OEXC OIIP PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM610 | KREMLIN COLD SHOULDER: EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT SET FOR [...] (C) Summary: Moscow finally agreed to attend the EU-Russia Summit to be hosted by the Swedish EU Presidency in Stockholm on November 18. But the Russians are still refusing a bilateral leaders' meeting between President Medvedev and PM Reinfeldt. Comment: The agreed summit date relieves some [...] | 2009-09-25 12:50:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN RU SW |
09STOCKHOLM615 | "WE LOOK UNCOORDINATED": SWEDES "EMBARRASSED" BY [...] (C) In a September 25 discussion with Poloff, Swedish Desk Officer for Iran, Ulf Samuelsson, confirmed media reports that Sweden, as EU President, did not/not walk out during Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad's UNGA speech on September 24. He said the red lines agreed upon by the EU-27 -- the denial o [...] | 2009-09-25 14:04:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR UN EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM616 | COUNCIL OF BALTIC SEA STATES SECRETARIAT CALLS FOR U.S. [...] (U) Summary: The USG is invited to the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Annual Consultation between the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) and the CBSS Observer States, in Stockholm on October 6. At a September 24 preparatory meeting, the CBSS Secretariat Director asked of Observer State [...] | 2009-09-28 05:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM62 | IRANIAN MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALAQ (MEK) PROTESTS IN SWEDEN [...] (C) In advance of the January 25 GAERC, hundreds of exile Iranians demonstrated in downtown Stockholm to have Mujahedin-E-Khalaq (MEK, also known as the People,s Mujahedin Organization of Iran or POI) removed from the EU Terrorist list. After MEK's removal by EU foreign ministers at the Janua [...] | 2009-01-29 09:26:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR PREL IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM624 | SWEDISH SUPPORT TO THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION [...] (U) Summary: During his one-day visit to Stockholm on September 3, Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region Howard Wolpe outlined three themes for U.S. engagement in the Great Lakes: peace consolidation, regional economic integration, and interstate cohesion on security issues. The Swe [...] | 2009-09-30 11:13:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | BE EMIN MARR MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL XW ZF ZU |
09STOCKHOLM629 | SWEDISH DEFENSE MINISTER ON AFGHANISTAN: "PLEASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his October 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Swedish Defense Minister Tolgfors spoke primarily about Afghanistan. Highlights included: -- Security in Sweden's PRT was good during the elections but is declining overall. Swedish troops are patrolling more aggressively as a res [...] | 2009-10-06 09:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PMIL PGOV KPAO AF SW |
09STOCKHOLM631 | SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PUBLICALLY PRESSURES LATVIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary: Swedish officials publicly chastised the Government of Latvia for its inability to present a 2010 budget that would satisfy IMF and EU conditions during the annual IMF meeting this weekend. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finance Minister Andres Borg warned Riga that [...] | 2009-10-07 05:21:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ECIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM632 | SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PUBLICALLY PRESSURES LATVIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary: Swedish officials publicly chastised the Government of Latvia for its inability to present a 2010 budget that would satisfy IMF and EU conditions during the annual IMF meeting this weekend. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finance Minister Andres Borg warned Riga that [...] | 2009-10-07 05:22:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ECIN PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM641 | SWEDEN ON P5+1 IRAN TALKS: RUSSIAN TRR SUPPORT IS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-09 15:13:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM649 | SWEDISH MFA STATE SECRETARY FRANK BELFRAGE ON USEU [...] (C) DCM discussed U.S.-EU Summit preparations and climate change with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage (DepSec equivalent) on October 13, two days before Belfrage's trip to Washington for talks with NSC and State counterparts. --Sweden still agreed with A/S Gordon's views expressed at the [...] | 2009-10-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV PGOV IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM65 | PLANNED SPRINGTIME VISITS BY SENIOR SWEDISH OFFICIALS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 15:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL OVIP SW |
09STOCKHOLM654 | SWEDISH PREVIEW OF OCTOBER GAERC [...] (SBU) Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel told poloff on October 16 that the October 26-7 GAERC will be done according to the "Bildt Format," which begins with a dinner on the 26th, and a full day of discussions on the 27th. The dinner topics are: --Iran non-proliferation issues, and maybe [...] | 2009-10-15 15:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR AF CE ZL ZF EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM667 | SWEDEN LEADS EU TROIKA TO NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Poloffs met with MFA Director General for Asia Klas Molin October 22 to deliver reftel points and discuss the EU Troika's planned visit to North Korea October 27-31; we also spoke earlier with North Korea desk office Emma Nordlund. Sweden holds the rotating EU Presidency, so Molin will lead [...] | 2009-10-23 14:21:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NK EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM668 | SWEDEN LEADS EU TROIKA TO NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Poloffs met with MFA Director General for Asia Klas Molin October 22 to deliver reftel points and discuss the EU Troika's planned visit to North Korea October 27-31; we also spoke earlier with North Korea desk office Emma Nordlund. Sweden holds the rotating EU Presidency, so Molin will lead [...] | 2009-10-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NK EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM669 | SWEDISH MFA: EU TESTING THE WATERS WITH BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN BM SW |
09STOCKHOLM674 | COUNCIL OF BALTIC SEA STATES SEEKS MORE COLLABORATION WITH [...] Summary: On October 6, REO and Embassy staff attended the annual consultations between the Council of Baltic Sea States and its observer states (including the U.S.). CBSS officials presented priorities for the upcoming year and highlighted successful ongoing cooperation under CBSS experts gro [...] | 2009-10-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM679 | WHO IS SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER FREDRIK REINFELDT? [...] (C) Summary: As Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt heads to Washington, we wanted to give you some background on this composed and reflective individual. This cable draws on personal observations of Post personnel and a review of recent public documents, and sketches Reinfeldt's most salient pe [...] | 2009-10-30 07:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM686 | OPPOSITION SOCIAL DEMS PLAN FOR 2010 ELECTIONS [...] (U) Sweden's opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP),the largest party in Parliament, held its 36th annual conference October 28-November 1. At the conference, the party decided its future domestic and foreign policy platforms -- all with an eye on the September 2010 general elections, when [...] | 2009-11-03 15:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM687 | SWEDISH RESPONSE TO SUDAN STRATEGY [...] (U) Poloff shared reftel points with Fredrik Folkunger, Desk Officer, Department of West Africa and the Horn of Africa on November 3. Folkunger expressed enthusiasm for the new U.S. Sudan strategy and emphasized that the Swedes "see no real divergent opinions" in the text. Sweden supports co [...] | 2009-11-04 11:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SU SW |
09STOCKHOLM691 | SWEDISH LEFT PARTY'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS: TROOPS [...] (C) Summary: On November 4, MP Hans Linde, the Left Party's foreign affairs spokesman, gave poloff a preview of his party's policy priorities, including on labor rights and Afghanistan -- two issues which are obstacles to consensus within the opposition Red-Green Coalition. Coalition parties [...] | 2009-11-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TU EUN AF SW |
09STOCKHOLM692 | MORE TURKEY TIDBITS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM703 | SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Sweden is not a significant illicit drug producing country. However, police report that Sweden is increasingly becoming a transit country for illegal drugs to other Nordic countries and Eastern European states. The fight against illegal drugs is an important government priority and enjoys stro [...] | 2009-11-09 13:29:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW |
09STOCKHOLM704 | SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 13:30:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW |
09STOCKHOLM705 | SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Sweden is not a significant illicit drug producing country. However, police report that Sweden is increasingly becoming a transit country for illegal drugs to other Nordic countries and Eastern European states. The fight against illegal drugs is an important government priority and enjoys stro [...] | 2009-11-09 14:46:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW |
09STOCKHOLM707 | SOCIAL DEM LEADER SAHLIN MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On November 9, Ambassador met with Social Democratic Party (SDP) Leader Mona Sahlin. Highlights of the conversation were: SDP supports Sweden's continued mission in Afghanistan; Sahlin would like to see increased cooperation with the U.S. on environment and cultural issues; and th [...] | 2009-11-10 09:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM708 | IRAN - STATEMENT ON EMBASSY TAKE-OVER ANNIVERSARY [...] On November 4 representatives of "The Green Movement of the People of Iran" delivered the statement in para 2 to U.S. Embassy Stockholm. They stated that the group was delivering the same statement to thirty (30) other U.S. Embassies. Embassy Stockholm received the document without comment. [...] | 2009-11-12 07:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC SW IR |
09STOCKHOLM709 | SWEDEN'S STATE SECRETARY SPILLS ON IRAN, ISRAEL, [...] (C) Summary: On November 9, DCM and acting PolCouns met with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Frank Belfrage, to review Swedish perspectives on the November 3-4 US-EU Summit. Belfrage relayed EU thinking on Iran (expert level groups are in constant discussions on appropriate types of sanc [...] | 2009-11-12 12:16:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN IR AF SW |
09STOCKHOLM711 | SWEDISH GOSSIP ON NEW EU POSITIONS [...] (C) On November 11, Swedish Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel gave acting PolCouns the Swedish scoop on the wheeling and dealing for new positions in Brussels. Reinfeldt has already spoken with each EU Member State and the announcement of the November 19 extraordinary meeting is an indicati [...] | 2009-11-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM712 | SWEDEN'S MENU FOR THE NOV. 16-7 SUPER GAERC [...] (C) Summary: On November 11, Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel discussed November 16-7 Super GAERC points with Acting PolCouns. Highlights include: improving EU-NATO cooperation; deciding on a way forward with Russia; preparing for the EU-Ukraine Summit; extending sanctions on Belarus; impr [...] | 2009-11-12 13:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN RU AF IS SW |
09STOCKHOLM713 | SWEDISH SOLDIERS CRITICALLY INJURED IN AFGHANISTAN [...] On November 11, five Swedish soldiers on patrol west of Mazar-e-Sharif were injured by an IED roadside bomb; their local interpreter died. Two of the soldiers suffered life-threatening injuries. The attack is the most serious for Swedish troops since November 2005, when two lieutenants were k [...] | 2009-11-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM715 | Swedish EU Presidency Minister for Communications Visit to [...] This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. Summary and Action Request: Post recommends appropriate policy-level Washington officials meet with Swedish Minister of Communications Asa Torstensson during her November 30-December 3 visit because she is seeking U.S. input into her [...] | 2009-11-13 12:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS KIPR ETRD EINT OVIP PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM718 | Update on Swedish EU Presidency Minister for Communications [...] (U) Summary: In Reftel, Post recommended appropriate policy-level Washington officials meet with Swedish Minister of Communications Asa Torstensson during her November 30-December 3 visit because she is seeking U.S. input into her efforts to "set the starting position" for discussions of the [...] | 2009-11-16 13:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETTC KIPR SENV EINT ETRD OVIP PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM720 | SWEDES ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT NOVEMBER 18 [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs on November 6 met with Swedish MFA Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Tobias Thyberg to discuss the November 18 EU-Russian Summit in Stockholm. The summit agenda will focus on climate change, the financial crisis, and energy issues. Leaders are also expec [...] | 2009-11-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN RU SW |
09STOCKHOLM723 | MINISTER MALMSTROM ANNOUNCED AS SWEDEN'S NEW EU [...] On November 17, PM Reinfeldt announced Cecilia Malmstrom, Minister for EU Affairs, as Sweden's new EU Commissioner. "She is a devout European with genuine academic background and experience as MEP", said Reinfeldt. Despite rumors that the position would be kept within the Moderate Party, PM [...] | 2009-11-18 10:50:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL EU SW |
09STOCKHOLM728 | SWEDES DENY EGYPTIANS' ASYLUM APPEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 09:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM732 | STOCKHOLM: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF [...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) Has Sweden worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- The official position of the Swedish MFA is that to "support democratic forces" and to contribute to "positive changes [...] | 2009-11-23 12:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PGOV CU SW |
09STOCKHOLM733 | SWEDEN: INTERNET PIRACY UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Implementation of the European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) continues to be controversial in Sweden. During their recent party congress, the opposition Social Democrat Party decided that the legislation needs to be changed. On a positive note, [...] | 2009-11-24 06:43:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR EINT ECPS ETRD PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM734 | Sweden's Economic Outlook Improves, But Problems Remain [...] (U) Summary: Sweden's economy continues to recover. Although still in recession, the 2009 fall in GDP is projected to be less at 4.6 percent. Unemployment will peak earlier than expected, and at a slightly lower level of 10.7 percent. Finance Ministry projections remain somewhat more negativ [...] | 2009-11-24 06:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM736 | CONCERNS ABOUT ACTA NEGOTIATIONS AND IPR UPDATE: IPRED, [...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish media and the usual blogger-circles have expressed similar concerns about the on-going ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) negotiations as we have seen in many other countries, mostly focusing on the secrecy and the internet chapter with its reported demands for [...] | 2009-11-24 12:31:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR EINT ETRD ECON PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM740 | SAAB: HOPE NOW WITH THE CHINESE AS KOENIGSEGG DEAL [...] (U) Summary. Luxury car maker Koenigsegg announced on November 24 that they will not pursue their purchase of Saab, blaming the "time-consuming bureaucracy" of the European Commission and other major players. All hope is now with the Chinese because the Swedish government reiterated that it [...] | 2009-11-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN EIND PGOV CH SW |
09STOCKHOLM743 | LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON DELIVERED TO SWEDISH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-27 09:28:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL EAID PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM746 | TWO DPRK DIPLOMATS ARRESTED IN SWEDEN FOR SMUGGLING [...] On November 20, all Swedish media reported that two North Korean diplomats - a man and a woman in their fifties - were arrested by Swedish customs officers for attempting to smuggle 230,000 cigarettes by ferry from Mariehamn, Finland. The couple protested and tried to claim diplomatic immuni [...] | 2009-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM756 | SWEDEN ON DECEMBER GAC/FAC AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff discussed the December 7-8 GAC/FAC agenda with Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel on December 3. The General Affairs Council (GAC) will discuss enlargement problems regarding Turkey (slow progress on Ankara),Macedonia (name problem),and Serbia (Serbian authorities t [...] | 2009-12-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN SW |
09STOCKHOLM770 | DEMARCHE ON OUTREACH FOR ASSISTANCE TO WFP IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PK SW |
09STOCKHOLM776 | EU PATENT BREAKTHROUGH DURING SWEDISH PRESIDENCY AND [...] (U) Summary: The EU Competitiveness Council, chaired by Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling, managed to broker a deal after over 40 years of efforts to agree on a unified EU patent system. Swedish Minister for Communications, Esa Torstensson discussed Swedish concerns about the ongoing ACTA [...] | 2009-12-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR EINT ETRD ECON PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM778 | SWEDISH-IRANIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS: BUSINESS AS [...] (S) Summary: Behind the Swedish government's reluctance to support further sanctions in Iran, especially unilateral European measures, is a dynamic (though still fairly small) trade involving some of Sweden's largest and most politically well-connected companies: Volvo, Ericsson and ABB to nam [...] | 2009-12-15 07:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | ECON ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM780 | SWEDEN LAUNCHES EASTERN EUROPE ENERGY EFFICIENCY [...] (U) Summary: On NOvember 26, Sweden launched the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership by hosting a donor conference, which raised more that EUR 90 million in pledges from European countries and the US to finance energy efficiency projects. Poloff attended donor conferen [...] | 2009-12-15 11:51:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN ECON EIND ENRG PGOV PREL SENV SW |
09STOCKHOLM785 | SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED PRIORITIZING DJIBOUTI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SW |
09STOCKHOLM790 | DPRK DIPLOMATS CONVICTED TO 8 MONTH IN PRISON FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 09:01:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM792 | CORRECTED COPY: DPRK DIPLOMATS CONVICTED TO 8 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 11:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
09STOCKHOLM793 | SWEDEN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE TRADE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL IR SW |
09STOCKHOLM799 | Post Gets Clarification of Sweden's Post COP-15 Public [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge called Prime Minister Reinfeldt's climate change advisor Lars Erik Liljelund to discuss recent public criticism of the United States by Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren. Liljelund agreed it was wrong to criticize U.S. efforts at Copenhagen, noting that the [...] | 2009-12-28 06:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG PREL PGOV ENRG SW |
09STOCKHOLM800 | Post Gets Clarification of Sweden's Post COP-15 Public [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge called Prime Minister Reinfeldt's climate change advisor Lars Erik Liljelund to discuss recent public criticism of the United States by Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren. Liljelund agreed it was wrong to criticize U.S. efforts at Copenhagen, noting that the [...] | 2009-12-28 06:16:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG PREL PGOV ENRG SW |
09STOCKHOLM86 | SWEDISH OPPOSITION LEADER ON PARTY'S FUTURE, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: Senior career diplomat, UN mediator and Social Democratic Party (SDP) elder Jan Eliasson met with CDA on February 8 to discuss the Transatlantic Partnership, Iran, Israel, Russia and Swedish domestic politics. He made the following points: -- U.S. and EU should deepen relations [...] | 2009-02-11 15:43:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU IR IS RU SU SW |
09STOCKHOLM91 | SWEDISH VIEWS ON FEBRUARY GAERC AGENDA ITEMS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 15:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW |
09STPETERSBURG115 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ZORKIN: INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a cordial and surprisingly open conversation with Ambassador and Consul General August 27, Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court, underscored the importance of strengthening judicial independence and the rule of law in Russia, welcomed the possibility [...] | 2009-09-02 08:00:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG116 | PIKALYOVO'S DILEMMA UNRESOLVED: COMPANIES KICK THE CAN [...] (U) Summary. Companies involved in the controversy surrounding the industrial complex in the town of Pikalyovo, Leningrad oblast, have agreed to extend until the end of 2009 the agreements PM Putin forcefully persuaded them to sign in June during a visit there. The extension will allow the i [...] | 2009-09-02 09:54:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV ECON EIND |
09STPETERSBURG139 | SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS CRY FOUL OVER CITY'S EVICTION PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: A running property dispute between local small-business owners and the St. Petersburg city administration has escalated, as the administration recently announced it will evict the entrepreneurs in January 2010 from a market they leased from the city in 2001. The lease expired in [...] | 2009-12-15 15:02:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM |
09STPETERSBURG22 | ST. PETERSBURG HR OMBUDSMAN - NOT YOUR EVERYDAY OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. In a February 10 meeting with the Consul General, the St. Petersburg Human Rights Ombudsman Igor Mikhaylov expounded on his interpretation of human rights and political views. The discussion ranged over his view of the raid on Memorial's headquarters, migrant workers, the rig [...] | 2009-02-18 14:01:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PHUM PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG27 | VOLOGDA OBLAST: KEEPING AFLOAT - SO FAR [...] (SBU) Summary. While Vologda Oblast's dependence on the ferrous metallurgy industry -- particularly steel exports -- renders it vulnerable to the global economic downturn, regional authorities thus far have managed to mitigate much of the impact thanks to Moscow's financial assistance and the [...] | 2009-03-10 11:27:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV RS ECON EIND |
09STPETERSBURG28 | UNITED RUSSIA WINS THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Numerous elections were held in Northwest Russia on March 1st at the oblast, city, and local levels. With turnout low, United Russia won everywhere resoundingly with only minor setbacks. The Communists and Liberal Democrats had relatively poor showings, and other opposition gr [...] | 2009-03-17 12:10:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG29 | GRYZLOV JR.: A LESSON IN KNOWING YOUR PLACE IN ST. [...] (SBU) Summary: Dmitriy Gryzlov, son of the State Duma Chairman, lost his electoral bid as an independent candidate in the St. Petersburg municipal elections on March 1st. After his loss, he was quick to accuse United Russia of unfair campaigning and election fraud. Gryzlov said also that the [...] | 2009-03-17 12:10:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG30 | KARELIA: STRIVING FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Worsening economic conditions and the uncertain prospects of recovery dominated the Consul General's meetings in Petrozavodsk. Local officials and business people are skeptical that the regional administration can solve the problems of the export-oriented Karelian economy, and [...] | 2009-03-19 08:30:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV ECON |
09STPETERSBURG31 | REBELLIOUS GOVERNOR OF MURMANSK OBLAST REPLACED [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev has relieved Murmansk Oblast Governor Yuriy Yevdokimov of his position and replaced him with Deputy Head of the State Fishing Committee Dmitriy Dmitriyenko. Medvedev's decision followed United Russia's recent election defeat in the city of Murmansk where the [...] | 2009-03-23 15:02:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV RS |
09STPETERSBURG32 | PSKOV OBLAST - VERTICAL OF POWER WITHOUT APOLOGY [...] (SBU) Summary. Pskov Oblast and City has a new political hierarchy with strong Kremlin ties -political and financial. The opposition sees these personnel moves as an effort to consolidate Muscovite control over the region. Local authorities say the oblast's and city's economies have not suff [...] | 2009-03-24 10:29:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV PREL ECON EN LG |
09STPETERSBURG46 | MATVIYENKO: REPORTS OF HER IMMINENT DEPARTURE EXAGGERATED? [...] (SBU) Summary. Rumors have circulated quietly in recent weeks that St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko may soon leave office, either of her own accord or be forced out. There's little solid evidence that she is on the way out, but that's not surprising given the sensitive nature of th [...] | 2009-04-13 20:45:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG49 | MURMANSK - POTENTIAL POLITICAL UPHEAVAL QUELLED [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 2009 replacement of Murmansk Oblast Governor Yevdokimov following his split from United Russia and support of successful mayoral candidate Sergey Subbotin created an uncertain political environment for the new mayor, with rumors that his election would be overturned in [...] | 2009-04-22 08:20:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG54 | ST. PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS POST SCRIPT [...] (SBU) Summary: While United Russia won the March 1 municipal elections in St. Petersburg by a wide margin, its victory was tainted by accusations of electoral fraud. Allegations by opposition groups range from improper denial of candidate registration to outright vote stealing, and were fairly [...] | 2009-04-27 10:38:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG62 | YOUNG GRYZLOV AND PUTINA: LEADING THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Dmitriy Gryzlov , the son of the Russian State Duma Chairman, and Vera Putina, cousin of the Prime Minister, are aiming to reshape youth policies in St. Petersburg by establishing and heading the city's Youth Parliament and Youth Government. Though the St. Petersburg branch of [...] | 2009-05-15 13:20:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG68 | PUTIN INTERVENES TO MEET WORKERS' DEMANDS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a display of political drama broadcast on national television, Prime Minister Putin rode into the small town of Pikalyovo in Leningrad Oblast on June 4 and forced a resolution to a simmering labor dispute, meeting workers' demands and publicly humiliating the Leningrad Govern [...] | 2009-06-10 09:15:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV ECON |
09STPETERSBURG7 | ST. PETERSBURG COURT ORDERS RETURN OF MEMORIAL PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 20, the St Petersburg court ordered the city's Prosecutor's Office to return computer hard drives and research materials confiscated in a December 4, 2008, raid on a local office of the human rights organization, Memorial. Memorial's victory in the case is not untar [...] | 2009-01-21 14:16:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV PHUM |
09STPETERSBURG70 | ARCHANGELSK DOCTOR'S ATTEMPT TO HEAL HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Around 300 people assembled in the central square of Archangelsk on May 29 to protest inadequate funding and equipment shortages in local hospitals and the lack of transparency in budget spending. The organizers of the protest were primarily surgeons from various regional hospitals. Arc [...] | 2009-06-11 11:06:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV SOCI |
09STPETERSBURG71 | RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH REACHES OUT TO ST PETERSBURG'S [...] (SBU) Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill addressed an audience of over 8,000 students at the Ice Palace Stadium in St. Petersburg on May 29, the second in a series of large-scale appearances made recently by the Patriarch. The Patriarch's hour-long address struck a very Western tone and at time [...] | 2009-06-11 12:26:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV KIRF |
09STPETERSBURG73 | DISPUTED ST. PETERSBURG MUNICIPAL ELECTION SEAT SAGA [...] (SBU) Summary: Controversy continues to surround St. Petersburg's March 1 municipal elections. In the city district of Morskoy Okrug, a local court cancelled the allegedly forged final election figures which deprived Yabloko candidate Boris Vishnevskiy of his apparent victory. But, Vishnevsk [...] | 2009-06-16 13:24:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG75 | UNITED RUSSIA WINS PETROZAVODSK MAYORAL ELECTION TWO WEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Karelia's Governor Katanandov appointed former opposition politician and mayoral candidate Davletkhan Alikhanov to the position of governor's representative in Russia's Federation Council. In exchange, Alikhanov withdrew from Petrozavodsk's mayoral election, which many thought [...] | 2009-06-18 08:49:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG8 | PETROZAVODSK MAYOR RESIGNS IN ROW WITH GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Petrozavodsk Mayor Viktor Maslyakov opened the new year by abruptly resigning in response to last year's decision by the regional government to move up the mayoral elections from 2010 to 2009. Several analysts believe the elections were moved forward because Karelian Republic G [...] | 2009-01-21 14:16:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG87 | UNITED RUSSIA CANDIDATE WINS PETROZAVODSK MAYORALTY [...] (SBU) United Russia candidate Nikolay Levin won, as expected, the July 5 mayoral election in Petrozavodsk with 59% of the vote, according to the Karelian Central Election Commission. After his main rival and previous opposition leader Davletkhan Alikhanov dropped out of the race in mid-June (r [...] | 2009-07-08 12:39:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV |
09STPETERSBURG92 | ST. PETERSBURG CITY GOVERNMENT INTERVENES TO RESOLVE PAY [...] (SBU) Summary. Workers at one of St. Petersburg's oldest and largest construction materials production companies - DSK-3 -- went on strike in early July after the firm failed to pay full staff salaries for five consecutive months. The company had blamed the salaries shortfall on non- payment [...] | 2009-07-24 13:58:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | RS PGOV ECON ELAB |
09STPETERSBURG93 | ECONOMIC CRISIS IMPACTS REGIONAL GOVERNMENT BUDGETS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 14:19:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON RS PGOV |
09STRASBOURG27 | STRASBOURG AND ISLAM: MOVES FORWARD; DISCRIMINATION STILL [...] (C)Strasbourg City Hall takes an pro-active approach toward the Muslim communities in the city, including via political and financial support for the construction of a new Grand Mosque. Our Muslim interlocutors are split along generational lines when they discuss discrimination - with young p [...] | 2009-11-06 15:31:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL FR |
09STRASBOURG5 | EASTERN FRENCH VIEWS ON WAR IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Most local and regional officials caution that the French public's tolerance for continued French fighting in Afghanistan will sharply decrease if there are waves of French casualties. Viewed from the eastern France, the Central Government has thus far not demonstrated any conce [...] | 2009-02-19 08:51:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AF FR |
09SURABAYA10 | EAST JAVA: GOVERNOR'S RACE ENDS WITH MURKY LESSONS FOR 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia's most populous province has finally elected a new governor after one general election and two run-off elections. Unprecedented televised testimony in Indonesia's Constitutional Court triggered a second runoff after vote buying in Madura was revealed. In a province of n [...] | 2009-02-03 11:23:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ID KISL KIRF |
09SURABAYA101 | EXXONMOBIL'S CEPU PROJECT: LOCAL POPULATION PERSPECTIVE MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: ExxonMobil's operation of the Cepu oil field has come under harsh media criticism for failure to meet production targets and the expectations of the local population. The situation on the ground, however, paints a different picture. While eager to see more economic impact from [...] | 2009-10-26 08:26:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON EINV PGOV PREL ID |
09SURABAYA106 | JPIP COMPETITION ENCOURAGES GOOD GOVERNANCE, EXPANDS INTO [...] (U) In 2001, Indonesia began a political transformation from the centralized system of the Suharto era to a decentralized system characterized by high levels of local autonomy. During the intervening eight years, some regency and city governments have used this new-found authority to improve t [...] | 2009-10-30 09:33:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID ID |
09SURABAYA107 | DECENTRALIZATION: AN EDUCATION TUG-OF-WAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Eight years after the government began pushing decision making to the local level under a policy of regional autonomy, the central government remains deeply involved in local-level education. The Constitution requires that local governments devote 20% of their annual budget to e [...] | 2009-11-05 05:36:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI EAID ECON ID |
09SURABAYA109 | SHARIA IN EASTERN INDONESIA WANING [...] Summary: While Aceh has gained international attention for new laws mandating stoning for adultery and banning pants for women, sharia law has gained little traction in Eastern Indonesia. Since 2003, 11 local governments have issued just 16 bylaws, most commonly to mandate the giving of alms, [...] | 2009-11-09 09:44:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KISL KIRF ID |
09SURABAYA111 | FISHERY LAW THREATENS MALUKU TRADITIONS, ECONOMY, [...] SUMMARY: Jakarta recently passed a law that sets a 12-mile off-shore boundary outside of which the national government controls. This law threatens the local traditions that have governed fishing practices, and sustained coastal resources, in the Maluku islands for centuries. Local groups are [...] | 2009-11-13 09:33:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SENV EFIS PHUM SOCI ID |
09SURABAYA113 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER MITIGATION, [...] SBU(U) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government has taken over full responsibility for mitigation efforts at the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster. Due to financial difficulties, Lapindo has not met the original compensation deadline. However, most victims have accepted an installment payment system that L [...] | 2009-11-24 04:27:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EINV SENV ENRG SOSI PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA116 | MANADO'S TRADITIONAL FISHERMEN AND FISH STOCKS FACE NUMEROUS [...] Representatives from the local NGO KELOLA and the North Sulawesi Traditional Fisherman Association (ANTRA) are trying to raise awareness about threats to the livelihood of traditional fishermen in North Sulawesi. Local fishermen established ANTRA, with a current membership of 1500, earlier thi [...] | 2009-12-03 06:13:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV PGOV SOCI ID |
09SURABAYA124 | SURABAYA TIP SEMINAR: DIFFICULTIES REMAIN IN COMBATTING TIP [...] (SBU) Several attendees at a recent Trafficking in Persons (TIP) seminar in Surabaya described prosecutors and judges as a weak link in the enforcement of TIP laws. Recently tightened government regulations were said to have made less-educated workers more vulnerable to trafficking. The Indo [...] | 2009-12-24 05:55:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KTIP ECON PGOV PHUM SOCI ID |
09SURABAYA13 | EAST JAVA: CHINESE SWEAT AND DIPLOMACY -- TRYING TO BUILD [...] (SBU) Summary: The bridge linking Surabaya and the nearby island of Madura is nearing completion. The Chinese continue efforts to transform their reported USD 1.6 billion in loans and financing into a milestone representative of China's increasingly close economic ties with Indonesia. China's V [...] | 2009-02-09 10:03:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ID CH |
09SURABAYA16 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: U.S. ADVISOR BUILDING [...] (SBU) Summary: After almost two months on site, the U.S. mud advisor Van Williams has built a strong working relationship with officials at the Sidoarjo Mud Management Agency (BPLS). The collapse of a major directional dike at the mudflow's epicenter has hampered BPLS's efforts to move large qu [...] | 2009-02-13 09:10:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA17 | EAST JAVA: BOY HEALER GIVING HEALTH MINISTER A BLACK EYE [...] (SBU) Summary: Seeking a cure from water blessed by a ten year old boy, thousands are flocking to a small village near the East Java city of Jombang. Provincial authorities have tried to stop the flood of potential patients, but with marginal success. Four have died while queuing to see the boy [...] | 2009-02-19 07:52:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ID |
09SURABAYA20 | LOMBOK: LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAYS AHMADIYAH CAN RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ahmadiyah refugees in Lombok's Transito Camp have received word via a local government spokesman that they can return home after nearly three years away. Members of this minority Islamic sect are determined to return despite limits that will remain on their religious practice. [...] | 2009-03-03 08:41:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID |
09SURABAYA23 | EAST JAVA: FEMALE CANDIDATES UNAFRAID OF COMPETITION [...] (SBU) Summary: East Java's female legislative candidates are not worried about their ability to compete in upcoming national elections despite the effective cancellation of a quota requiring that women account for 30% of candidates. More than gender, a lack of experience and education are th [...] | 2009-03-12 07:23:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL ID |
09SURABAYA26 | LOMBOK: AHMADIYAH'S RETURN POSTPONED [...] (SBU) Summary: As reported Reftel, members of the Ahmadiyah community in Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Tengah (NTB),intended to return to their home villages in the West Lombok Regency on March 14. At the request of the West Lombok government, the Ahmadis resident in Transito Camp have agreed to de [...] | 2009-03-16 07:35:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID |
09SURABAYA27 | SURABAYA RIVER POLLUTION LEADS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Surabaya City faces immense challenges to its water supply: pollution, seawater intrusion, and dwindling ground water. The Surabaya River, which provides 90% of the city's tap water, is being overwhelmed with industrial waste. Enforcement of environmental regulations has been i [...] | 2009-03-19 04:56:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA28 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: SUBSIDENCE CONTINUES TO HAMPER [...] (SBU) Summary: Subsidence north and west of the mudflow epicenter continues to hamper efforts by the Sidoarjo Muflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS) to pump mud into the Porong River. BPLS officials met with scientists from the National Geological Agency for a technical discussion but produced no new [...] | 2009-03-20 09:11:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV SENV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA33 | EAST JAVA: NEW BREED, OLD PROBLEMS, LOCAL OFFICIALS CHART [...] (SBU) Summary: Since elections started changing the face of Indonesian politics nearly a decade ago, cities and regencies in East Java are increasingly electing officials with private sector experience and clear plans for local development. Congen Surabaya visited Trenggalek Regency and Kedir [...] | 2009-04-09 09:15:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA36 | SOUTH SULAWESI: MORE YAWNING, LESS YELLING WHILE GOLKAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2009 Legislative elections in South Sulawesi were marked by a dip in turnout and a generally orderly process. This was in stark contrast to the angry crowds held back by concertina wire following the hotly contested 2007 South Sulawesi governor's election. Early results sho [...] | 2009-04-13 20:45:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ID |
09SURABAYA38 | MALUKU: HIGH TURNOUT, ENTHUSIASM, ETHNICITY NOT RELIGION [...] (SBU). Summary: The parliamentary elections in Maluku were peaceful and voter turnout was high. Despite the area's history of sectarian conflict, the outcome of this and recent local elections demonstrated that religion is no longer the primary factor in choosing political leadership. Voters te [...] | 2009-04-17 10:07:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL ASEC PHUM ID |
09SURABAYA4 | EAST JAVA AND CENTRAL SULAWESI: RHETORIC HEATS UP PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations against Israeli military action in the Gaza strip remain peaceful in Surabaya. Four recent demonstrations have focused on the Consulate itself and one on the Consular Agency in Bali. In Surabaya, protestors led by a local leader in the Islamic Cleric's Associa [...] | 2009-01-13 10:15:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF PINS ID PHUM KISL |
09SURABAYA40 | LOMBOK: FOUR AHMADI FAMILIES RETURN HOME WITHOUT INCIDENT [...] The Ahmadiyah representative in Lombok told Congen April 24 that the head of the Ketapang district office visited the Transito camp on April 14 to request the Ahmadis once again delay their return to their homes in the Gegerungan Village in West Lombok Regency for security reasons. The official [...] | 2009-04-24 10:25:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID |
09SURABAYA48 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: AS THIRD ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sidoarjo mudflow has buried over 700 hectares over the past three years and threatens critical infrastructure. While the East Java Governor is pushing speedy construction of a new transportation corridor around the mudflow, landowners are demanding compensation equivalent to [...] | 2009-05-13 03:29:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV SENV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA60 | EAST JAVA: A DUEL OVER THE ROLE OF INDONESIA'S GOVERNORS [...] (U) Summary: Do Indonesian governors represent the central government? Or, are they independent local leaders who must operate like corporate CEOs? Two well-known governors debated their roles during decentralization at a seminar sponsored by the Jawa Pos Institute of Pro Otonomi (JPIP). De [...] | 2009-06-11 03:03:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA62 | SURABAYA: SOUTHEAST ASIA'S LONGEST BRIDGE OPENS--BUT IMPACT [...] (U) Summary: After decades of sporadic planning, Indonesia's longest bridge opened on June 10th. Empty pockets and grass roots opposition stymied the span that now links the islands of Java and Madura. Burdened with symbolism before it carried its first car, skepticism over promised economic [...] | 2009-06-19 01:43:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EINV SOCI ID CH |
09SURABAYA66 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: GOVERNMENT PLANS TO TAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Three years after the Sidoarjo Mudflow disaster began, the Indonesian government signaled an intent to take over responsibility for mitigation from Lapindo Brantas, citing Lapindo's financial difficulties. If it follows through, the Sidoarjo Mud Management Agency (BPLS) will ex [...] | 2009-07-08 01:28:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV SENV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA68 | EASTERN INDONESIA: ISLAMIC VOTERS NOT SWAYED BY RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidential candidate Vice President Jusuf Kalla struggled to burnish his image as the choice of Islamic and non-Javanese religious voters during the campaign. However, early results suggest voters from Indonesia's largest Islamic organizations did not heed their leaders' cal [...] | 2009-07-09 09:10:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID |
09SURABAYA70 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: HOMES DISAPPEAR IN 10 SECONDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Several houses west of the epicenter of the Sidoarjo mudflow collapsed into a sinkhole on July 14. Approximately 200 houses were damaged, 40 houses heavily. The local Government is assisting with evacuation and compensation, but some residents refuse to leave. Severe and sudden [...] | 2009-07-17 10:15:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV SENV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA74 | EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: POLICE DROP CASE AGAINST LAPINDO; [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 5, the East Java Provincial Police Chief (Kapolda) announced that his office was dropping its investigation into the cause of the Sidoarjo mudflow. This decision effectively absolves the Lapindo company and its staff of responsibility for causing the mudflow, which ha [...] | 2009-08-13 01:54:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV SENV ELAB ENRG PGOV ASEC ID |
09SURABAYA76 | INDONESIAN FLEET REVIEW: U.S. NAVY DOMINATES THE SHOW AND [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. Navy, led by the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, dominated "Sail Bunaken" at the Indonesian Fleet Review (IFR) 2009, hosted by Indonesia in North Sulawesi August 12-20, 2009. Indonesian officials, the media, and the general public expressed overwhelming appreciation for the partici [...] | 2009-08-27 03:37:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO MARR PHSA ID |
09SURABAYA92 | NTT: CNN HERO'S ORPHANAGE FACES FUNDING PROBLEMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: CNN hero Soehardi Budi operates and funds the Roslin Orphanage in Kupang, the capital of Nusa Tenggara Timor (NTT). This orphanage provides refuge for 46 children, operates a farm and provides mobile library services to surrounding villages. Mr. Budi was recently fired from his [...] | 2009-10-09 05:27:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA93 | NTT: LONG-TERM CONDITIONS GENERATE HIGH INFANT/MATERNAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province, one of the poorest in Indonesia, faces serious health challenges, especially high maternal and infant mortality rates and child malnutrition. Experts blame problems with access, a lack of medical personnel, a lack of education and information, [...] | 2009-10-09 08:37:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV ID |
09SURABAYA94 | BREAST CANCER AWARENESS, BUT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OPTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Breast cancer diagnostic facilities are difficult to access in Indonesia, especially outside provincial capitals. Once a case of cancer is diagnosed, treatment is too expensive for all but the wealthiest individuals. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, ConGen Surabaya is [...] | 2009-10-16 05:09:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KWMN KPAO PGOV SOCI ID |
09SURABAYA98 | BALI'S JEMBRANA REGENCY: A MODEL OF EFFICIENCY [...] The Regency of Jembrana is recognized as a model for decentralization by prominent Indonesian media outlets, including Tempo. On a recent trip by Chargi d'Affaires Ted Osius to Jembrana, Jembrana's Regent, Prof Winasa, demonstrated the Regency's use of technology to improve operational effic [...] | 2009-10-22 09:32:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON ID |
09SURABAYA99 | NGOS RATE SURABAYA'S OFFICIAL EFFORTS TO COMBAT TIP: POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary. Representatives of local NGOs gave Surabaya's official efforts to combat trafficking in persons a failing grade overall. While generally praising the efforts of the police, the NGOs said the police were too under-resourced to be truly effective. The NGOs universally criticized [...] | 2009-10-23 06:14:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KTIP ECON PGOV ID |
09SUVA102 | FIJI'S LEADERS MEETING SETS STAGE FOR A PALAVER [...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings with Fijian political and government leaders, EAP/ANP Director Alcy Frelick heard a wide range of views about the recent Leaders of Political Parties (LOPP) meeting held on March 13, in which all of Fiji's political parties participated. Although the views [...] | 2009-03-20 03:45:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA105 | Fiji's Government Intimidates the Opposition; Bainimarama [...] (U) Summary: A recent spate of late-night vandalism targeting opponents of Fiji's interim government (IG) ratcheted up a notch Sunday night with two unsuccessful fire-bombings. Meanwhile, a group of young men verbally harassed Interim Prime Minister Bainimarama on March 14 during two apparentl [...] | 2009-03-25 05:53:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA107 | FIJI LEAHY REPORTING: CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OF GROSS [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Suva submits the following credible evidence of gross human rights violations by members of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and the Fiji Police. We have listed the individuals by name and then included a summary of the human rights abuses for which there is credible [...] | 2009-03-25 23:59:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR FJ |
09SUVA124 | FIJI APPEALS COURT RULES AGAINST BAINIMARAMA; DECLARES COUP [...] (U) Summary: Fiji's Court of Appeals today ruled against interim Prime Minister and Armed Forces Commander Frank Bainimarama by overturning an October 2008 High Court judgment legitimizing his interim government (IG). Delivering its judgment just a day after closing arguments, the court declare [...] | 2009-04-09 08:47:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA13 | AGEING BUT HEALTHY FIJI PRESIDENT PRAYS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Fiji President Iloilo, despite memory challenges likely caused by early Alzheimer,s disease, can be remarkably lucid and is well aware of the political situation in Fiji. Iloilo longs to retire but feels he must remain in office until a new government is elected, in order to pr [...] | 2009-01-13 05:26:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL FJ |
09SUVA130 | DIMINISHING MEDIA FREEDOM IN FIJI [...] (SBU) Summary. Media censorship in Fiji is at an all-time high and rising following the abrogation of its constitution on April 10. Under two decreed Public Emergency Regulations, the interim government (IG) is censoring news, placing military officers in key news rooms, deporting foreign jo [...] | 2009-04-16 03:34:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO FJ KDEM |
09SUVA131 | FIRST STEPS IN DEALING WITH POST-CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The abrogation of Fiji,s 1997 Constitution and the reinstatement of Fiji,s military-led interim government (IG) is the denouement of a series of IG blunders that has compounded the serious racial and economic problems already confronting ethnic and Indo-Fijians. The challenge [...] | 2009-04-16 08:10:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | FJ KDEM PGOV PREL |
09SUVA152 | ANXIOUS FIJI MAINTAINS SURFACE CALM [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the abrogation of its constitution, life largely continues as normal in Fiji. Beneath the surface, many Fijians remain fearful and angry over the recent events. Some Embassy contacts warn of civil unrest in the upcoming months, but most discount the likelihood. [...] | 2009-04-24 07:32:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM FJ |
09SUVA16 | Disaster Declaration for Flooding in Fiji - This is an [...] Excessive rainfall and tidal surges on Fiji's main island of Viti Levu has caused the death of nine and displacement of an estimated 9,000 residents. The Government of Fiji (GOF) has declared a state of emergency and is enforcing a curfew to safeguard lives and property. Early assessments fr [...] | 2009-01-14 04:59:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM FJ |
09SUVA171 | AMBASSADOR?S MEETING WITH PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM [...] (U) Summary: On May 4, I met with Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) to discuss Fiji's May 1 automatic suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) for failing to schedule elections by the end of 2009. Slade said that the unanimous decis [...] | 2009-05-04 08:18:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM EFIN PINR |
09SUVA176 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FORMER PM CHAUDHRY [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 7, I met with former prime minister and leader of the Fiji Labor Party (FLP) Mahendra Chaudhry. We discussed the situation in Fiji following the abrogation of its constitution and possible ways forward for the country. He said that the abrogation was a lost opportunity [...] | 2009-05-08 20:08:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA189 | C O R R E C T E D C O P Y SUVA 176 AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 7, I met with former prime minister and Fiji Labor Party (FLP)leader Mahendra Chaudhry. We discussed the situation in Fiji following the abrogation of its constitution and possible ways forward. He said that recent events amounted to a lost opportunity for the interim g [...] | 2009-05-11 07:47:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM FJ |
09SUVA21 | FIJI FLOOD REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] Embassy reported reftel that conditions affecting thousands of Fijians have worsened. 2. Since January, above average rainfall and tidal surges have caused floods on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, particularly affecting the towns of Ba, Nadi, Sigatoka, and Rakiraki in the western region. [...] | 2009-01-16 00:55:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM FJ |
09SUVA213 | FIJI REGIME DETAINS PROMINENT LAWYERS FOR [...] (C) On May 20, armed with a search warrant, at least ten Fiji Police officers entered the legal offices of Munro Leys, confiscated equipment and detained two senior partners. The police erroneously suspected that the lawyers were the source of Auckland-based anti-regime blog rawfijinews. [...] | 2009-05-21 03:46:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM FJ |
09SUVA216 | FORMER PM CHAUDHRY REQUESTS URGENT MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20, I met with former prime minister and leader of the Fiji Labor Party (FLP) Mahendra Chaudhry at his request. Chaudhry has yet to see Bainimarama since the abrogation but still wants a meeting to discuss the situation in Fiji. Chaudhry and deposed PM Laisenia Qarase ha [...] | 2009-05-21 23:32:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR FJ KDEM |
09SUVA219 | FIJI DE FACTO GOVERNMENT APPOINTS JUDGES AND WEAKENS LAW [...] (SBU) On May 22, Fiji's senior judicial positions were partially repopulated, as the de facto government appointed a new Chief Justice and four Judges of the High Court six weeks after the constitution was abrogated and the judiciary sacked on April 10 (reftel B). Five High Court Judges led by [...] | 2009-05-26 05:59:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM FJ |
09SUVA24 | Fiji's First Comprehensive Environmental Law Comes into [...] Summary: The Environment Management Act of 2005 and the subsequent regulations of 2007 have come into effect from January 1, 2009. This landmark measure is the first comprehensive environmental law in Fiji's history. Businesses generating waste or pollution are now required to obtain a perm [...] | 2009-01-20 22:00:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV FJ |
09SUVA245 | AMBASSADOR LUNCHES WITH TAIWAN'S TRADE MISSION [...] On June 4, I met with Victor Chin, Taiwan's Trade Mission Representative, for an informal luncheon to discuss Taiwan's goals in the region. Chin assured me that Taiwan was honoring its pledge to withhold any direct payments to Fiji's de facto PM Bainimarama. Chin recalled that immediately aft [...] | 2009-06-10 21:48:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TW FJ |
09SUVA247 | POLITICAL INTRIGUE AROUND A LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: A letter calling for Tongan Prime Minister Dr. Feleti "Fred" Sevele to resign caused a stir at the May 28 opening of Parliament. Senior parliamentarians and nobles alike reportedly supported the letter, which was written by a close confidant of the king. End summary. ------ [...] | 2009-06-10 23:13:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TN AS |
09SUVA250 | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ACTION PLAN PROMOTES PACIFIC ISLANDS [...] Since the election of President Obama, Pacific Island media has portrayed the United States in unprecedented favorable terms. We plan to further promote U.S. values and objectives through a variety of targeted public diplomacy activities. These initiatives will promote the development of de [...] | 2009-06-12 03:16:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM FJ |
09SUVA251 | NOTED ACADEMIC'S SPEECH BANNED BY FIJI'S DE FACTO [...] (U) On June 12, Fijian police banned the opening session of the Fiji Institute of Chartered Accountants annual congress in Nadi because Fiji lawyer and outspoken critic of the de facto government Graham Leung and Dr. Brij Lal, Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the Research School of Pa [...] | 2009-06-12 03:16:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA253 | FIJI'S REGIME MIGHT REVEAL ITS ELECTIONS ROADMAP IN TWO [...] (U) Fiji strongman Frank Bainimarama announced June 14 that his military-led regime plans to reveal a national roadmap to elections that will replace the defunct President's Political Dialogue Forum (PPDF) process. Bainimarama said that the roadmap will be announced in a "couple of weeks." H [...] | 2009-06-16 04:50:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA255 | FIJI GOVERNMENT BANS METHODIST CONFERENCE [...] Summary: On May 28, Fiji's military-led government banned the Methodist Church from holding its annual national conference after deeming the conference a threat to national security under the Public Emergency Regulations (PER). The agenda for the August conference reportedly included a discus [...] | 2009-06-16 21:25:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM PINR |
09SUVA267 | AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM SECRETARIAT PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) Australian high commission and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) secretariat officials reported that the Pacific Leader's Meeting and Post Forum Dialogue (PFD) chaired by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, August 4-7 in Cairns, would center on economic development in the Pacific region. Th [...] | 2009-06-26 05:03:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SUVA277 | FIJI ROADMAP TO DEMOCRACY LEADS NOWHERE [...] (U) On July 1, Fiji strongman Bainimarama gave a national address entitled "Fiji's Strategic Framework for Change" (text provided septel). Bainimarama outlined his regime's plans to establish a new constitution for Fiji by September 2013 and to lead the country to "true democratic, non-commun [...] | 2009-07-01 05:36:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR AMGT FJ |
09SUVA285 | Chinese Ambassador Discusses Fiji and the Upcoming PIF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China in Suva Han Zhiqiang and Ambassador McGann met on June 29 to compare understandings regarding the August 4-7 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders meeting in Cairns. Han, who wanted to meet prior to departing Suva for Beijing, observe [...] | 2009-07-07 04:57:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AMGT PINR FJ |
09SUVA346 | SCENE-SETTER FOR PACOM VISIT TO TONGA [...] (C) Your visit to Tonga comes at a time when the benefits of our increased engagement are coming to fruition. This past year, the Tonga Defense Service (TDS) completed a successful deployment to Iraq. The U.S. Navy,s Pacific Partnership 2009 mission took place in July. This joint effort wa [...] | 2009-08-31 04:35:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TN FJ PGOV PHUM |
09SUVA350 | KIRIBATI PRESIDENT SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION [...] In a discussion with Kiribati Chief of Protocol Bwena Maunaa, Deputy Chief of Mission Pruett learned that Kiribati President Anote Tong had survived a parliamentary no-confidence motion August 31. The motion failed on a vote of 20-25. 2. This was the second no-confidence motion against Ton [...] | 2009-09-02 23:19:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KR |
09SUVA441 | AMBASSADOR MCGANN MEETING WITH FIJI FM KUBUABOLA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-27 00:06:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CONS FJ |
09SUVA63 | UN-COMMONWEALTH MEDIATORS SEEK REASSURANCE [...] (SBU) A joint UN-Commonwealth team has visited Suva seeking reassurance from Fiji,s interim government (IG) that it still wants the UN and Commonwealth to mediate Fiji,s political crisis through a &President,s Political Dialogue Forum8 (PPDF). Interim Prime Minister Bainimarama has refused to [...] | 2009-02-18 05:53:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | FJ PGOV PHUM |
09SUVA73 | Ambassador McGann Presents Credentials in Nauru and Tuvalu [...] On February 6-8, 2009, Ambassador C. Steven McGann traveled to Nauru to present his credentials to President Marcus Stephen. During his time in Nauru, the Ambassador met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister for Commerce, Industry & Resources, Minister for Transport, Minister for Heal [...] | 2009-02-26 05:17:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PGOV PREL ODIP FJ |
09SUVA96 | FIJI'S RULE OF LAW IN "DIRE STRAITS" [...] (U) Summary: The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) released a report entitled "Dire Straits: A Report on the Rule of Law in Fiji" on March 3. The IBA completed the report despite being banned from visiting Fiji by the Interim Government (IG). The report concludes [...] | 2009-03-15 20:14:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
09SUVA99 | FIJI POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE ON AGENDA FOR DIALOGUE [...] (U) Summary: Fiji's political leaders met with Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama on March 13 and agreed on the agenda for a political dialogue being brokered with the support of the UN and the Commonwealth. It was the second time Fiji's 18 political parties have met since the [...] | 2009-03-19 02:50:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
09SYDNEY60 | FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER COMMENTS ON RUDD AND AN [...] (C/NF) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken a tactical, rather than strategic approach to the economic crisis, according to former opposition leader Brendan Nelson. As a result, Nelson predicts Rudd will back off of other strategic efforts, like the proposed emissions trading scheme and defen [...] | 2009-03-13 05:01:00 | Consulate Sydney | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MASS AS |
09SYDNEY70 | LABOR COULD FALL IN QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION [...] (C/NF) Queensland's Labor state government is dangerously close to losing reelection in the state's March 21 polls. The Labor party has dominated state politics for the last eight years, winning three consecutive elections and amassing a commanding 15-seat majority in Parliament. Public opinio [...] | 2009-03-19 06:53:00 | Consulate Sydney | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR AS |
09TAIPEI10 | TIBETANS END SIT-IN, TAIWAN TO ISSUE TEMPORARY [...] (C) Summary: A group of 107 ethnic Tibetans, who ended their 24-day outdoor sit-in on January 1, are now waiting for temporary residence permits that the government has promised to issue on January 9. The Tibetans arrived in Taiwan at different times since 2002, generally bearing travel docum [...] | 2009-01-06 11:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL TW |
09TAIPEI1004 | POLITICAL HEAT RISING IN WAKE OF TYPHOON MORAKOT [...] (C) Summary. Vice Foreign Minister Andrew Hsia became the first political victim of Typhoon Morakot, stepping down to accept responsibility for his Ministry's initial decision to refuse international aid. Members of Taiwan's opposition party- and some ruling party legislators - are calling fo [...] | 2009-08-18 10:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR AEMR PGOV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1005 | MORAKOT SITREP 6: HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY PASSES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has hit 127, with an additional 522 deaths likely to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Taiwan is moving into a second phase of disaster response, with operations focusing on sheltering and relocating victims. USAID/OFDA Acting Regional Advi [...] | 2009-08-18 23:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1011 | MORAKOT SITREP 7: RELIEF EFFORTS MAKING HEADWAY AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has risen slightly, but is likely to more than double at some point in the near future as more than 400 missing persons are unaccounted for in areas buried by mudslides. Rescue and evacuation efforts are largely complete and restoration of w [...] | 2009-08-19 10:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1013 | MORAKOT SITREP 8: TAIWAN SHIFTING FOCUS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The typhoon death toll stands at 141, with 440 individuals listed as missing. Services such as water, communications, and electricity have been restored to nearly 100 percent of affected households. The Central Emergency Operations Center is standing down, and will be replac [...] | 2009-08-20 08:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1029 | CODEL BERMAN'S AUGUST 20-22 VISIT TO TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance in response to Typhoon Morakot during the August 20-22 visit of CODEL Berman. President Ma Ying-jeou and opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen both underscored the importance of U.S. security commitments to Taiwan, including th [...] | 2009-08-25 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP OVIP MASS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1039 | PRESIDENT MA WELCOMES DALAI LAMA VISIT TO TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. President Ma approved in principle a visit by the Dalai Lama to Taiwan during the week of August 31-September 3. Earlier in the week, Kaohsiung Mayor (and the opposition DPP Party's most senior elected official) Chen Chu invited the Dalai Lama to come to Taiwan to offer comfort t [...] | 2009-08-27 09:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TW CH IN |
09TAIPEI1042 | PRESIDENT MA STRUGGLES TO RECOVER POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou is working full time to regain his political footing after widespread criticism he reacted far too slowly to Typhoon Morakot. With opinion polls showing a precipitous decline in his popularity, Ma went to the worst-hit villages to console victims, apologize [...] | 2009-08-28 00:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR AEMR PGOV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1043 | BROAD PUBLIC, OPPOSITION SUPPORT FOR U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Officials, academics and other AIT contacts associated with the ruling KMT party, as well as Taiwan's opposition, voice support for an extradition agreement with the United States. Media and public opinion polling also suggests that pursuing an agreement will be relatively non- [...] | 2009-08-28 04:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS KCRIM TW |
09TAIPEI1049 | REVIEW COMMITTEE REJECTS OPPPOSITION'S ECFA [...] (SBU) Summary: An Executive Yuan committee on August 27 rejected an opposition bid to hold a referendum on a proposed trade liberalization agreement with China. The proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) is a key component of President Ma Ying-jeou's policy to improve cross- [...] | 2009-08-28 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI1065 | FOREIGN MINISTER URGES PROGRESS ON BILATERAL TIES, [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan hopes the restoration of mutual trust in the bilateral relationship will result in concrete progress on bilateral issues, Foreign Minister Ou Hong-lien told the Director during their introductory meeting. The Director said the United States also wants to deepen the relatio [...] | 2009-09-01 10:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS ECON ETRD EAIR SENV UNGA TW US |
09TAIPEI1072 | TAIPEI COURT CONVICTS FORMER FIRST FAMILY MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary. A Taipei court on September 1 convicted four members of former President Chen Shui-bian's family of perjury and sentenced them to jail terms of six months to one year. No jail time is imminent because of the possibility of appeal and converting the sentences to community service. [...] | 2009-09-02 09:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1081 | PREMIER CALLS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT COOPERATION, [...] (C) Summary: Premier Liu Chao-shiuan agreed with the Director during their September 3 introductory meeting that Taiwan and the United States should strengthen disaster management cooperation. Liu, who is spearheading Typhoon Morakot reconstruction efforts, suggested that the Dalai Lama's vis [...] | 2009-09-03 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAGR TW CH |
09TAIPEI1092 | PRESIDENT MA SEEKS TO REGAIN POLITICAL FOOTING [...] (C) On September 7, President Ma Ying-jeou accepted the resignation of Premier Liu Chao-shiuan and the entire Cabinet in a bold effort to regain his political footing after the Government's much-criticized typhoon response. Ma chose two savvy politicians to lead the new Cabinet, Kuomintang (KM [...] | 2009-09-08 09:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1093 | TAIWAN MAKES A CASE FOR UNFCCC PARTICIPATION AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan is seeking U.S. assistance in a proposed bid to join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as an "emissions entity." Taiwan argues it should be allowed to actively participate through the UNFCCC in global environmental discussions that may af [...] | 2009-09-09 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC SENV PGOV PREL UNGA XE CH TW |
09TAIPEI1103 | LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON TYPHOON MORAKOT [...] (C) Summary. Cross-Strait relations would not suffer long-term or significant damage because of the Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan, Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng told the Director in a September 4 introductory meeting. Wang said the invitation to the Tibetan spiritual leader issued [...] | 2009-09-10 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PGOV PREL TW CH SENV UN |
09TAIPEI1104 | TAIWAN'S MAINLAND AFFAIRS MINISTER GIVES UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council Chair Lai Shin-Yuan gave a particularly upbeat assessment of cross-Strait ties during Director Stanton's introductory meeting on September 9. She said China's objections to the Dalai Lama's visit and to the U.S. military's typhoon relief efforts in Taiwan [...] | 2009-09-10 09:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TW CH |
09TAIPEI1106 | OPPOSITION LEADER: DPP SUPPORT WILL GROW AS RULING [...] (C) Summary. Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on September 10 she anticipated no policy shifts under President Ma Ying-jeou's new Cabinet and predicted the new Premier would have a tough time managing the executive branch. The ruling Kuomint [...] | 2009-09-11 07:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI1107 | CABINET RESHUFFLE: MANY NEW FACES, BUT NO MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of pursuing improved ties with China should continue apace under the new Cabinet sworn in September 10. In addition to naming a new Premier and Vice Premier, Ma put new faces atop key Ministries such as Defense, Foreign Affairs and Economics in th [...] | 2009-09-11 07:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1109 | LIFE SENTENCES FOR FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN, FIRST [...] (SBU) Summary. The Taipei District Court on September 11 convicted former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-jen on multiple corruption charges including embezzlement, money laundering, and bribery. The presiding judge handed down life sentences for both and $16 million in fines. [...] | 2009-09-11 10:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1111 | TAIPEI MAYOR SUPPORTIVE OF NEW OFFICE COMPOUND [...] (C) Summary: The Taipei municipal government would ensure that land adjacent to the New Office Compound (NOC) site would be available should AIT want to expand the project, Mayor Hau Lung-bin told the Director at their introductory meeting on September 11. Hau said he already had stopped plan [...] | 2009-09-14 08:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ABLD CH TW |
09TAIPEI1112 | FORMER PREMIER SAYS OPPOSITION PARTY HAS A CHANCE [...] (C) Summary. Former Premier Su Tseng-chang told the Director on September 14 he was optimistic the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) could return to power by regaining the people's confidence. The former DPP chairman criticized the current party leader as ineffective and hinted he wanted to [...] | 2009-09-15 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PG TW PGOV |
09TAIPEI1121 | DPP HEAVYWEIGHT FRANK HSIEH: OPPOSITION MUST CHECK [...] (C) Summary. The opposition needed to play an oversight role in Taiwan politics, given KMT dominance of the executive and legislative branches, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) former Presidential candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director during their introductory meeting. In particular, the D [...] | 2009-09-16 09:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1141 | TAINAN COURT ACQUITS KEY DPP PLAYER [...] (SBU) Summary. Tainan Mayor Hsu Tian-tsai, the opposition politician most vocal in demanding a fair trial for former President Chen Shui-bian, was himself recently acquitted of corruption charges. The Tainan District Court last month ruled in favor of Hsu in a corruption case related to a local [...] | 2009-09-21 02:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1145 | SEPTEMBER 26 BY-ELECTION GIVES TAIWAN OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has a strong chance to capture a Legislative Yuan seat in a closely watched by-election this week because of a local split in the ruling Kuomintang (KMT). A victory for the struggling opposition could provide momentum going into i [...] | 2009-09-21 08:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TW |
09TAIPEI1149 | UIGHUR DOCUMENTARY AT CENTER OF LATEST [...] (C) Summary: At the urging of the city government, a Kaohsiung film festival rescheduled the screening of a documentary about Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer in hopes of lessening possible PRC repercussions on the local economy. Several mainland tourist groups have cancelled visits to Kaohsiung [...] | 2009-09-22 10:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM CH TW |
09TAIPEI1150 | DIRECTOR MEETS KMT LEADERS IN KAOHSIUNG [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate September 17 meetings in Kaohsiung with the Director, two local KMT "heavyweights" underscored the KMT's need to accelerate typhoon reconstruction and economic growth in southern Taiwan. Executive Yuan Southern Office CEO Lo Shih-hsiung praised U.S. typhoon relief [...] | 2009-09-22 22:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV SENV TW |
09TAIPEI1153 | FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN'S TRIAL A BAROMETER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of former President Chen Shui-bian (reftels) demonstrated that no one is above the law in Taiwan, even as it also revealed shortcomings in Taiwan's relatively young judicial system, according to the U.S.-Asia Law Institute's Jerome Cohen. Although Taiwan's judicial sy [...] | 2009-09-23 05:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL PHUM CH TW |
09TAIPEI1157 | NEW TAIWAN PREMIER SAYS PRESIDENT MA REGAINING [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Premier Wu Den-yih told the Director on September 23 that President Ma Ying-jeou was regaining the public's support after it fell precipitously in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Morakot. On cross-Strait ties, Wu said he didn't foresee long-term harm from the Dal [...] | 2009-09-23 09:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ABLD AMED CH TW |
09TAIPEI1161 | DETENTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN EXTENDED AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. The Taiwan High Court judges who will hear former President Chen Shui-bian's appeal of his guilty verdict and life sentence for corruption decided on September 24 to extend his detention for three months. Although opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders have criticiz [...] | 2009-09-25 09:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1166 | DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH STRAITS [...] (C) Summary. Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Ping-kun (P. K. Chiang) told the Director on September 24 the pace of cross-Strait working-level negotiations had increased after a dip that was partly attributable to China's displeasure over the Dalai Lama's visit. Chiang said se [...] | 2009-09-25 10:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL TW EINV ETRD PGOV |
09TAIPEI1170 | TAIWAN OPPOSITION SCORES DOUBLE VICTORY IN [...] (C) Summary: Big wins by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in a September 26 legislative by-election and a separate referendum on a (government-backed) plan to allow casino resorts on one of Taiwan's offshore islands gave the DPP a much-needed morale boost and will energize s [...] | 2009-09-28 09:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TW |
09TAIPEI1177 | Penghu Says No to Casinos [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 26, Penghu rejected Taiwan's first local referendum on allowing a casino resort, with 56.4 percent of the voters casting 'no' votes. Although only 42 percent of Penghu's registered voters turned out for the vote, the result is binding. Taiwan officials think the refe [...] | 2009-09-29 09:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI1184 | TAIPEI REPLY ON INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT APEC FOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan has few domestic food-security concerns, but relies on imported food for 65 percent of its people's diet. Taiwan's main food-security concern is that, without access to most international organizations that address food security, Taiwan can neither access the latest infor [...] | 2009-09-30 10:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ETRD KGHG PGOV APEC TW |
09TAIPEI1185 | JUSTICE MINISTER LAYS OUT THREE PRIORITIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: In her introductory meeting with Director Stanton on September 30, Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng laid out three priorities on which she hoped Taiwan and the U.S. could strengthen cooperation. She urged progress toward a U.S.-Taiwan extradition agreement, an issue she said en [...] | 2009-10-01 07:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS KCRM PHUM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1189 | KMT GRANDEE LIEN CHAN CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Kuomintang (KMT) Honorary Chairman Lien Chan told the Director he favored gradual implementation of confidence-building measures to further improve relations with China. Lien spoke warmly about his relationship with China's President Hu Jintao, but appeared less enthusiastic abou [...] | 2009-10-02 08:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR APECO TW CH |
09TAIPEI1190 | FORMER VP ANNETTE LU CALLS FOR CAUTIOUS TIES WITH [...] (C) Summary: During an October 1 introductory meeting with the Director, former Vice President Annette Lu said Taiwan should engage China but do so cautiously and on clear terms. She added that any important agreements President Ma Ying-jeou reached with Beijing should be subject to legisla [...] | 2009-10-02 08:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS KCRM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1195 | TAIWAN READIES FOR TYPHOONS PARMA AND MELOR [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (CWB) on October 2 predicted course tracks for typhoons Parma and Melor that would bring potentially torrential rains to northern and eastern areas of Taiwan October 4-8. Lighter rains are expected in central and southern areas, which are still [...] | 2009-10-02 08:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI1219 | KMT ENTERING LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN WEAKENED [...] (C) Summary: The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) on October 11 expelled seven mavericks who launched challenges to official party candidates in December elections for 17 mayors and county magistrates. The insurgents could foil the campaigns of at least a few KMT candidates, thereby providing momentum [...] | 2009-10-13 06:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW |
09TAIPEI1236 | PRESIDENT MA TAKES OVER KUOMINTANG CHAIR IN MOVE [...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou's accession to Chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) should give a boost to his efforts at rapprochement with China. Analysts argued Ma was now better positioned to pass legislation in support of his China policy and to further strengthen ties between his [...] | 2009-10-19 06:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CH TW |
09TAIPEI1258 | OPPOSITION POLITICIANS ENDORSE U.S. EXTRADITION [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) wholeheartedly supported an extradition agreement with the United States, senior figures from Taiwan's major opposition party told Director Stanton during an October 21 dinner meeting. The politicians also expressed concern that President M [...] | 2009-10-23 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM KJUS CH TW |
09TAIPEI1261 | KAOHSIUNG MAYOR IN THE LIMELIGHT AS SHE RATTLES [...] (C) Summary: Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu has suddenly emerged as a star of the beleaguered opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). She won widespread kudos in July for her city's successful hosting of the World Games, a rare international event for diplomatically isolated Taiwan. She subse [...] | 2009-10-26 03:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CH TW |
09TAIPEI1266 | MAINLAND CHINA TOURISM PROVING DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD [...] (U) This is the first of two reports on political implications of newly launched people-to-people cross-Strait exchanges. This cable looks at the influx of Chinese tourists to Taiwan. Septel will look at mainland university students in Taiwan. 2. (C) Summary: Tour groups from nearly every c [...] | 2009-10-28 07:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM PREL ETRD SOCI CH TW |
09TAIPEI1274 | MA ADMINISTRATION "VERY GLOOMY" OVER U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council Secretary General Su Chi told the Director on October 30 that widespread public criticism of the recently signed U.S.-Taiwan protocol left him feeling very pessimistic about its prospects. He cited opposition from lawmakers who could derail the pact as p [...] | 2009-10-30 05:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAGR TW |
09TAIPEI1286 | CROSS-STRAIT SCHOLAR PREDICTS LOOSENING TIES [...] (C) Summary. One prominent cross-Strait scholar told AIT he foresaw that shifts in &three pillars8 of U.S.-Taiwan relations -- educational, economic and political/military ties -- would likely loosen our bilateral bonds. Arthur Ding, Research Fellow at the Institute of International Affairs [...] | 2009-11-03 00:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL TW PGOV |
09TAIPEI1293 | FLOW OF CHINA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO TAIWAN STARTS [...] (U) This is the second of two reports on the political implications of people-to-people cross-Strait exchanges. This cable looks at Chinese students coming to Taiwan. Reftel examined the influx of mainland Chinese tourists. 2. (C) Summary: Cross-Strait educational exchanges have developed m [...] | 2009-11-04 06:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EDU PINR KPAO TW CH |
09TAIPEI1308 | FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI ON BEEF, [...] (C) Summary: During a November 4 introductory meeting with the Director, former President Lee Teng-hui mainly attributed the current impasse on U.S. beef imports to the Kuomintang (KMT) administration's failure to inform Taiwan's people of its plans. The public needed to be assured that the [...] | 2009-11-05 22:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI1324 | NEXT STEPS FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Engaging Taiwan labor authorities remains a key goal for local U.S. counter-trafficking efforts. Recent high-profile anti-trafficking events, including G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca's October 23 DVC on labor trafficking, AIT Deputy Director's October 26 speech calling for increas [...] | 2009-11-09 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1341 | FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN SUFFERS SETBACKS IN [...] () Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian has suffered several legal setbacks since receiving a guilty verdict and life sentence in the first stage of his corruption trial. Taiwan's constitutional court rejected Chen's argument to dismiss the case because of legal irregulaties. His upcoming [...] | 2009-11-12 05:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI1350 | U.S. BEEF IMPORTS NOT A MAJOR ISSUE IN YEAR-END [...] (C) Summary: During recent reporting trips to three counties in north and central Taiwan, PolOffs found little evidence the controversy over expanded imports of U.S. beef would be a major issue in upcoming local elections. Although the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and even so [...] | 2009-11-13 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL ETRD TW |
09TAIPEI1368 | TAIWAN'S HUGE HAKKA POPULATION MUCH SOUGHT AFTER [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's political narrative long has centered on relations between mainland Chinese who fled here with the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 1940s and the island's Hoklo majority, whose ancestors migrated from southern Fujian province generations earlier. That analysis, however, fails to a [...] | 2009-11-17 07:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW CH |
09TAIPEI1397 | DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH KAOHSIUNG MAYOR CHEN CHU [...] (SBU) Summary: In her November 18 meeting with Director Stanton, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu reiterated familiar DPP themes, maintaining that the KMT was rolling back Taiwan's democracy and using the judiciary to persecute the DPP. Mayor Chen chided President Ma for tilting too far toward China [...] | 2009-11-25 03:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV SENV TW |
09TAIPEI1398 | ACADEMIC TALKS SET MILESTONE IN CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: A November 13-14 conference in Taipei on cross-Strait relations marked a milestone in PRC-Taiwan political discussions. The PRC delegation, which included distinguished academics and retired senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, was the highest-profile group from the M [...] | 2009-11-25 04:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PM PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1399 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT'S NOVEMBER 24 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AIT Chairman Ray Burghardt met with Ma Ying-jeou and National Security Council Secretary General Su Chi on November 24 to brief them on President Obama's recently-concluded trip to Asia and to discuss prospects for U.S.-Taiwan relations. Because of improvements in U.S.-Taiwan ti [...] | 2009-11-25 08:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD EAGR TW CH |
09TAIPEI140 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary. Although the global economic environment would make 2009 a tough year for Taiwan's ruling party, the KMT was in relatively good shape to face the electoral challenges ahead, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director during a wide-ranging February 9 dinner. The December race f [...] | 2009-02-10 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR WHO CH TW |
09TAIPEI1410 | AIT CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, BEEF [...] (C) Summary: President Obama strongly reaffirmed U.S. policy on Taiwan during his recent trip to China, AIT Chairman Ray Burghardt told ruling Kuomintang (KMT) officials and opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)leaders during his November 22-25 visit to Taipei. Taiwan officials urged [...] | 2009-11-30 10:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD EAGR TW CH |
09TAIPEI1412 | PRESIDENT MA, OPPOSITION PARTY SEEK POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Both President Ma Ying-jeou and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) view the December 5 elections for county magistrates, city mayors and local council members as crucial to resurrecting their battered political fortunes. Ma has been racing around the island to cam [...] | 2009-12-02 08:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | TW PGOV |
09TAIPEI1419 | YILAN COUNTY KEY BATTLEGROUND IN YEAR-END TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: The Yilan County magistrate race has emerged as the key battleground in the Dec. 5 elections for 17 city mayors and county magistrates. President Ma Ying-jeou has campaigned repeatedly for the Kuomintang (KMT) incumbent, who is facing a strong challenge from the opposition Democr [...] | 2009-12-03 03:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI1420 | CLARIFYING U.S. POLICY ON TAIWAN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan has one of the world's largest fishing industries, and already plays an active role in various regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). Taiwan's participation in these RFMOs helps meet U.S. conservation and economic interests, as would its participation in new [...] | 2009-12-03 07:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIS PGOV PREL PHSA SENV CH TW XB |
09TAIPEI1422 | AIT DIRECTOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 3 introductory meeting with the Director, Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah reaffirmed Taiwan's commitment to continued close cooperation with the United States on border security and anti-human trafficking issues. Jiang also said he hoped for progress on entering the [...] | 2009-12-03 09:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI1424 | PRESIDENT MA, OPPOSITION PARTY SEEK POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Both President Ma Ying-jeou and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) view the December 5 elections for county magistrates, city mayors and local council members as crucial to resurrecting their battered political fortunes. Ma has been racing around the island to cam [...] | 2009-12-03 09:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW CH PREL |
09TAIPEI1437 | LOCAL ELECTIONS A SETBACK FOR PRESIDENT MA [...] (C) Summary: The results of December 5 elections for 17 city mayors and county magistrates were a political setback for President Ma Ying-jeou and could have implications for his controversial opening to China. In capturing nearly as many votes as Ma's ruling Kuomintang (KMT),the opposition D [...] | 2009-12-07 09:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CH TW |
09TAIPEI1450 | SENIOR OPPOSITION ADVISOR SLAPPED WITH CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: Bikhim Hsiao, international affairs director for the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),has become the latest party figure accused of being entangled in the corruption investigation of former President Chen Shui-bian. A shocked Hsiao confirmed to PolOff on December 9 [...] | 2009-12-09 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW |
09TAIPEI1457 | DIRECTOR URGES TAIPEI MAYOR TO END ANTI-U.S. BEEF [...] (C) Summary: AIT Director Stanton on December 10 urged Taipei Mayor Hau Long-bin to end the city's campaign against sales of U.S. beef offal and ground beef, which were permitted under a recently signed U.S.-Taiwan protocol. The Director reiterated that U.S. beef was safe to consume and that t [...] | 2009-12-10 09:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD TW |
09TAIPEI1492 | WU CHIH-YANG POSSIBLE KMT UP AND COMER [...] (C) Summary. Among the winners in the Dec. 5 local elections for city mayors and county magistrates, Wu Chih-yang is garnering particular attention as an up-and-comer in the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party. The scion of KMT royalty, Wu is the third generation of his family to be elected magistr [...] | 2009-12-15 07:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI1499 | PRESIDENT MA UNSHEATHS THE "POCKETKNIFE" IN BID TO [...] (C) Summary: King Pu-tsung, a longtime trusted ally of President Ma Ying-jeou, returned to Taiwan from the Brookings Institution on December 16 to assume the post of Secretary General of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party. The hurried recall of King indicated Ma's deep concern after the KMT's p [...] | 2009-12-17 06:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW |
09TAIPEI1502 | KMT TO HOLD COURSE ON CROSS-STRAITS POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The senior Kuomintang (KMT) official on cross-Strait policy told the Deputy Director (DDIR) on December 16 that the party's setback in local elections earlier this month would not lead to substantive changes in President Ma Ying-jeou's opening to China. Chang Jung-kung said he b [...] | 2009-12-17 09:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV TW CH |
09TAIPEI1511 | DPP PROTESTS PLANNED AHEAD OF CROSS-STRAITS TALKS [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan,s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) hopes to attract 100,000 people to a December 20 protest of cross-Strait talks that opens two days later in Taichung City. Smaller protests are likely to greet the lead Chinese negotiator when he arrives the following day and to continu [...] | 2009-12-18 05:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TW CH |
09TAIPEI1521 | CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN RESTORES DPP CONFIDENCE, GAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Tsai Ing-wen is enjoying her highest level of support since becoming Democratic Progressive Party Chair in May 2008. The crowd at the December 20 DPP rally against President Ma Ying-jeou's cross-Strait policy rousingly welcomed Tsai to the stage, a marked contrast to the lukewar [...] | 2009-12-23 06:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TW CH PREL |
09TAIPEI183 | DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on February 17 that she was concerned about the lack of transparency in the KMT government's dealings with Beijing on WHA and a possible Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). Tsai worried that President Ma, anxious to [...] | 2009-02-18 11:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI194 | LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary. Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng told the Director on February 18 that Taiwan will continue to take a cautious approach to cross-Strait relations, ensuring that its fundamental security and sovereignty are not threatened. While agreeing on the need for dialogue betwee [...] | 2009-02-19 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD CH TW |
09TAIPEI197 | FM OU ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, TRA ANNIVERSARY [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Ou assured the Director on February 18 that the Foreign Ministry will keep AIT fully abreast of its planning for events related to the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and said no events are being planned on or around April 3, the anniversary of [...] | 2009-02-20 09:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CVIS CH TW |
09TAIPEI201 | KMT AND DPP BRACE FOR UPCOMING ELECTION CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Currently enjoying a dominant position in Taiwan politics, the ruling KMT is expected to do well in two legislative by-elections in March. In early December, however, the Ma Ying-jeou administration will face a much tougher "mid-term exam" when elections are held for county magi [...] | 2009-02-20 10:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI209 | NSC DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL ON ARMS SALES, [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan's arms sale requests, including those approved but not yet notified and those pending U.S. approval are an essential part of the Ma Administration,s defense and cross-Strait strategies, NSC Deputy Secretary General Ho Sze-yin told the Acting Director February 24. NSC Secre [...] | 2009-02-24 10:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ETRD MARR PGOV PREL EAID WHO TW |
09TAIPEI223 | NO LACK OF DRAMA IN FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN [...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian used pre-trial hearings this week to attack the credibility of several prosecutors, to plea for release from detention, and to claim he was being unfairly singled out for political reasons. As expected, Chen pleaded not guilty on all corruption-rel [...] | 2009-02-27 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI228 | KMT VICE CHAIRMAN WU DEN-YIH DISCUSSES ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Ruling KMT Vice Chairman Wu Den-yih told the Acting Director on February 25 his party cannot take lightly two upcoming legislative by-elections in Blue-majority Miaoli County (March 14) and Taipei City (March 28),given public dissatisfaction with the government over the economic [...] | 2009-03-02 09:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI238 | NSC OFFICIAL LEE HAI-TUNG ON DEFENSE REVIEWS, ARMS [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan's arms requests, including those approved, but not yet notified and those pending U.S. approval, are an essential part of the Ma Administration's defense and cross-Strait strategies, NSC Deputy Secretary General Lee Hai-Tung told the Acting Director on March 2. Lee identi [...] | 2009-03-04 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR CH TW |
09TAIPEI26 | 2008 IPR Wrap-up: Progress Continues, Trouble Spots [...] (SBU) The Taiwan authorities continued combating intellectual property rights (IPR) violations over the past 12 months. The long-awaited specialized IP Court started accepting cases in July 2008, and by year's end had a caseload of over 700 cases. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) [...] | 2009-01-08 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI260 | OPPOSITION LEADER ON CROSS-STRAIT TIES AND TAIWAN [...] (C) Taiwan will pay and unacceptably high political and economic cost for President Ma's proposed trade liberalization agreement with China, opposition DPP party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen predicted during a meeting with the Director March 9. Tsai also criticized Ma for his lack of transparency [...] | 2009-03-09 09:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ETRD PGOV ECON TW CH |
09TAIPEI276 | VFM HSIA ON CROSS-STRAIT TIES, FTA, VWP, [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan appreciates U.S. support, including Secretary Clinton's comments concerning its defense needs, Vice Foreign Minister Hsia told the Director during a March 11 meeting. Hsia expressed optimism about the prospects for obtaining WHA observer status, but admitted that he was not [...] | 2009-03-12 10:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL KJUS WHO TW CH |
09TAIPEI280 | MIAOLI COUNTY GEARS UP FOR BELLWETHER LEGISLATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in Miaoli County's first district head to the polls on Saturday, March 14 to replace KMT legislator Lee I-ting, whose 2008 election was nullified because of vote buying. The KMT nominee, Lee's wife Chen Luan-ying, is heavily favored to defeat her opponent, a former KMT m [...] | 2009-03-13 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI289 | KMT WORKS TO RALLY SUPPORTERS FOLLOWING SURPRISE [...] (C) Summary: Independent Kang Shih-ju won a narrow upset victory over the KMT's Chen Luan-ying in a by-election in Miaoli County's first legislative district on March 14. The outcome appears to have hinged on local politics and the very thin resume of Chen, who was running as a surrogate for h [...] | 2009-03-16 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI293 | FORMER DPP PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG ON ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. Despite President Ma,s unpopularity, the opposition DPP will have a hard time in December elections holding the offices it now controls, former Premier and DPP party elder Su Tseng-chang told the Director March 13. Su would not confirm whether he will seek the nod for the Taipei [...] | 2009-03-17 10:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI3 | TAIWAN PRESIDENT MA OFFERS OPTIMISM ON WHA, [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan is likely to make progress on its desire for more meaningful participation in the activities of the WHA and WHO, President Ma Ying-jeou told the Director during a cordial 45-minute meeting December 31. The President promised action in early January on efforts to open full [...] | 2009-01-02 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV TW CH |
09TAIPEI30 | TAIWAN DEPUTY NSA OFFERS INITIAL READOUT ON HU [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Ho Sze-yin offered the Deputy Director his preliminary assessment of Hu Jintao,s &six point8 speech on Taiwan. Although the speech repeats many earlier themes and phrases, President Ma is likely to focus on the signs of flexibility it offers. The speech se [...] | 2009-01-09 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV TW CH |
09TAIPEI304 | CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND DPP CHAIR TSAI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: AIT Chairman Burghardt told DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen on March 18 that the United States is pleased with President Ma Ying-jeou's efforts to improve cross-Strait ties. Tsai cautioned that DPP supporters are dissatisfied, believing Ma is moving too quickly and in a non-transparent w [...] | 2009-03-19 09:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI308 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT'S MARCH 16 MEETING WITH [...] (C) In a March 16 meeting with Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng, AIT Chairman Raymond Burghardt underscored U.S. security commitments to Taiwan and urged prompt legislative approval of Taiwan's WTO GPA accession. Wang expressed appreciation for continued U.S. support for Taiwan's [...] | 2009-03-19 09:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON CH TW |
09TAIPEI320 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FM OU DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Extradition, an FTA and visa waiver are Taiwan's top bilateral priorities, FM Ou told AIT Chairman Burghardt during their March 18 meeting. Although the leadership in Beijing has tacitly accepted Taiwan's diplomatic truce and mutual non-denial, this is not the case at lower lev [...] | 2009-03-20 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH ES PM |
09TAIPEI352 | SUBSTANTIVE TRIAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Following two months of pretrial hearings, the Taipei District Court opened the substantive portion of former President Chen Shui-bian's trial on March 26. On the first day, the court heard testimony accusing Chen of accepting bribes in connection with the Lungtan land deal, on [...] | 2009-03-26 10:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI356 | KMT TO FACE NEXT TEST IN TAIPEI LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: KMT candidate Chiang Nai-shin is expected to win Saturday's by-election in the Blue-majority Da'an District in Taipei City, though the KMT isn't taking any chances. DPP candidate Chou Po-ya has a slight chance if pan-Blue independent Yao Li-ming unexpectedly succeeds in siphoning [...] | 2009-03-27 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI367 | KMT WINS BY-ELECTION IN TAIPEI BUT WITH [...] (C) Summary: The ruling KMT's Chiang Nai-hsin won the March 28 legislative by-election in Taipei's Da'an District by a relatively slim 10 percentage margin over the DPP's Chou Po-ya. KMT leaders welcomed the victory but promised to reflect over the party's substandard performance in one of th [...] | 2009-03-30 10:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI374 | Taiwan Chiropractic Faces Long Road to Legalization [...] (SBU) Taiwan does not recognize chiropractic as a legitimate medical practice, and chiropractors operate in a legal gray area. Taiwan Department of Health (DOH) authorities recommend that chiropractors establish a chiropractic school or course of study in Taiwan as an intermediate step to full [...] | 2009-04-01 05:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI377 | THE DIRECTOR'S MARCH 31 MEETING WITH PREMIER LIU [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 31 meeting with the Director, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan said opening Taiwan's market to the full range of U.S. beef imports is only a matter of timing. He predicted the opening could take place as early as May or early June. The Premier saw no obstacles to Legislative Yu [...] | 2009-04-01 07:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD EAGR PREL CVIS KIPR TW |
09TAIPEI382 | FRANK HSIEH TO URGE FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN [...] (C) Summary: Former Premier and presidential candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director on April 1 that he would use his radio program later in the day to strongly urge former Chen Shui-bian to stop interfering in DPP politics. The party desperately needs to distance itself from the former pres [...] | 2009-04-01 10:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI388 | SOUTHERN TAIWAN: DPP NOMINEE IN DEEP-GREEN TAINAN COUNTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Not normally accustomed to the political spotlight, deep-Green Tainan County, former President Chen's home district, grabbed headlines on April 1 when the DPP announced its nominee for this December's county magistrate race. Despite some local DPP polls showing a clear edge fo [...] | 2009-04-03 01:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON TW |
09TAIPEI39 | TAIWAN NSC ON PIRATES, BEEF, HU JINTAO SPEECH AND [...] (C) Summary. This is an action request; please see paragraph 11. During a January 12 meeting with Director Young, NSC Secretary General Su Chi told us Taiwan is not seriously considering sending naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant ships. This was more a PR effort follo [...] | 2009-01-12 11:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV ECON ETRD EAGR TW CH |
09TAIPEI40 | FORMER PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG ON DPP POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Many supporters are urging him to run for county magistrate, either in Taipei County or another district in the December local elections, former Premier Su Tseng-chang told the Director. Meanwhile, other DPP partisans were advising him to avoid local politics and keep his sights [...] | 2009-01-12 11:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI416 | PRO-GREEN ACADEMICS WORRY TAIWAN IS BEING [...] (SBU) Summary: A number of Taiwan and international participants at a recent conference on the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) expressed concern that the rise of China, Taiwan's growing economic dependence on the PRC, and cross-Strait detente are drawing Taiwan increasingly [...] | 2009-04-07 10:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI430 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DECEMBER LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on April 8 that dissatisfied voters had sent a message to President Ma and the KMT in two recent legislative by-elections, where the party did not do as well as in 2008. Nonetheless, Wu did not expect the city and county elections in D [...] | 2009-04-08 10:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI433 | CROSS-STRAIT POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU [...] (C) Ma Ying-jeou is the central player in a vigorous, if at times poorly coordinated, effort to reshape Taiwan,s ties with China. While his approach to cross-Strait issues represents a dramatic shift from that of his predecessor, it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Ma will focus on [...] | 2009-04-09 07:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PINR ECON WHO TW CH US |
09TAIPEI438 | OPPOSITION DPP FACES DIFFICULT CHALLENGES IN [...] (C) Summary: The opposition DPP hopes to begin a comeback in key year-end local elections, but faces difficulties stemming from former President Chen's corruption trial, friction in the candidate nomination process, and a shortage of campaign funds. Too many politicians want to run in the Gre [...] | 2009-04-09 10:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI461 | CROSS-STRAIT DETENTE FUELS WORRIES ABOUT RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent pro-government conference on the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA),panelists, mostly from the U.S., expressed support for the Ma administration's efforts to improve cross-Strait relations and stressed that the U.S. will continue to provide Taiwan wi [...] | 2009-04-15 10:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI462 | DPP LEGISLATOR TRONG CHAI ON PARTY POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Opposition DPP legislator Trong Chai (Tsai Tung-jung) told the Director on April 13 that he was "not too optimistic" about his party's chances in the December local elections. Chai assessed the DPP would have a hard time retaining the six city and county magistrate seats it curre [...] | 2009-04-15 02:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI467 | GOVERNMENT TIGHT-LIPPED AS RUMORS OF WHA OBSERVER [...] (C) Despite widespread media speculation, Taiwan officials have been tight-lipped, both publicly and in private, about possible talks with China on Taipei's bid for WHA observer status. Although there are a number of sensitive political issues to be resolved, public statements by President M [...] | 2009-04-15 10:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV WHO TW CH |
09TAIPEI480 | MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL CHAIRWOMAN LAI SHIN-YUAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 22 meeting with the Director, Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan said the April 25-26 third round of cross-Strait talks in Nanjing will result in agreements on anti-crime and financial cooperation and scheduled passenger flights, as well as a joint statem [...] | 2009-04-22 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EAIR TW CH |
09TAIPEI486 | FORMER FM CHIEN ON BOAO FORUM: BEIJING WANTS MA TO [...] (C) In an April 22 meeting with the Director, former Foreign Minister Fredrick Chien said he was received warmly by PRC Premier Wen Jiabao at last week's Boao Forum, and also had two long private meetings with Wang Yi, Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO). Chien, who claimed he was no [...] | 2009-04-23 10:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI488 | DPP CHAIR ON U.S. TRIP, TAIWAN POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Opposition DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director during an April 23 meeting that the main purpose of her visit to the United States in early May was to "touch base with" supporters. DPP International Affairs Director Bikhim Hsiao added that fundraising was another important tr [...] | 2009-04-24 07:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI49 | TAIPEI MAYOR HAU LUNG-BIN ON POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on January 12, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin maintained that KMT party-government relations are smooth but admitted that President Ma and his core advisors have on occasion not communicated well with the KMT legislative caucus prior to controversial dec [...] | 2009-01-13 10:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI494 | TAIWAN PREPARED FOR CROSS-STRAIT TALKS IN NANJING [...] (C) Summary. According to Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),the April 25-26 talks in Nanjing between SEF and its counterpart, the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),will produce three agreements on cross-Strait flights, liberalization of the financial [...] | 2009-04-24 08:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI505 | NEW DPP SECRETARY GENERAL WU NAI-JEN DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. New DPP Secretary General Wu Nai-jen and the Director discussed the party's prospects for the December local elections and cross-Strait developments during an April 27 meeting at DPP headquarters. Wu, a senior DPP campaign strategist, characterized the December elections as "very [...] | 2009-04-28 09:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI510 | TAIWAN ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT ON WHA [...] (C) Based on an April 28 personal invitation from WHO Director General Margaret Chan, Taiwan Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan will lead a delegation to observe the May World Health Assembly meeting, VFM Andrew Hsia told the Director during an April 29 meeting. The invitation is the result of T [...] | 2009-04-29 10:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV WHO TW CH |
09TAIPEI514 | TAIWAN AVIATION INDUSTRY HAS MUTED REACTION TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The response in Taiwan to the agreement on passenger and cargo flights signed on April 26 in Nanjing (Reftel) has been mainly positive. Most industry representatives applaud the increase in the number of flights and more destinations. Some, however, question why only certain [...] | 2009-04-30 09:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI516 | PRESIDENTIAL CONFIDANTE ON CROSS-STRAIT MOMENTUM, [...] (C) The announcement that Taiwan will take part in this year's WHA meeting is part of President Ma's larger effort to create momentum behind cross-Strait engagement, Taoyuan county magistrate and presidential confidante Eric Chu told the Director during an April 29 meeting. This momentum will [...] | 2009-04-30 10:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TW WHO CH |
09TAIPEI517 | LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON WHA, [...] (C) Summary: Although recent progress in cross-Strait relations is generally positive, the pace of detente and the content of agreements like those recently signed in Nanjing need to take better account of Taiwan's sovereignty, security considerations, and the interests of the Taiwan people, L [...] | 2009-04-30 10:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI518 | STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN P.K. CHIANG [...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang told the Director on April 30 that President Ma Ying-jeou had hoped to put the proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) on the agenda for the next round of cross-Strait talks later this year. However, during t [...] | 2009-04-30 10:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
09TAIPEI529 | TRYING TIMES FOR DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN [...] (C) Summary: Tsai Ing-wen continues efforts to overcome challenges and revitalize Taiwan's major opposition party as she nears her first anniversary as DPP Chairperson. Tsai's moderate and cautious approach has drawn criticism from some DPP supporters who want the party to take a more confron [...] | 2009-05-01 09:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW |
09TAIPEI537 | TAIWAN OFFICIAL ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS IN NANJING [...] (C) Summary. On May 1, Vice Chairman Fu Don-cheng of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),provided an overview of the April 25-26 talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS). He characterized the aviation ag [...] | 2009-05-04 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI543 | STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION (SEF) CHAIRMAN P. K. [...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang tendered his resignation to President Ma Ying-jeou on May 4, citing his age (76) and physical condition. On May 6, Ma expressed his strong hope that Chiang would stay on and told the media he had rejected Chiang's resignat [...] | 2009-05-06 11:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI559 | PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU ON WHA, JAPAN [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou told the Director on May 7 that Taiwan plans to focus on participation in WHA and WHO activities for the present and not push to join other international organizations. Taiwan will proceed cautiously because Beijing is worried the WHA observership breakthro [...] | 2009-05-08 11:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR CH TW |
09TAIPEI570 | TAIWAN HOPES CROSS-STRAIT LEGAL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Cross-Strait Joint Crime-Fighting and Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement (cross-Strait MLAA) signed in Nanjing on April 26 (See ref B for text of agreement),is intended to expand and regularize the judicial cooperation already enjoyed on a case-by-case basis under the 1990 Kinm [...] | 2009-05-12 09:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRIM KJUS PGOV CH TW |
09TAIPEI571 | FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN TO REMAIN IN [...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian's detention was extended for another two months (May 26 - July 25) by the Taipei District Court on May 11. The decision came after a distraught Chen appeared in court on May 7 to appeal emotionally for his release from detention. Complaining to t [...] | 2009-05-12 10:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI577 | TAIWAN STOCK EXCHANGE OFFICIALS DOWNPLAY IMPACT OF [...] (SBU) Taiwan opened its securities markets to Chinese institutional investors in early May, but the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) is not expecting a large influx of portfolio investment from China anytime soon. Senior TSE executives tell AIT that the biggest impact of loosening Taiwan restric [...] | 2009-05-13 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW |
09TAIPEI578 | TAIPEI MAYOR HAU ON NEW OFFICE COMPOUND, DPP [...] (C) Summary. Taipei Mayor Hau Long-bin (KMT) accepted the Director's invitation to attend AIT's New Office Compound (NOC) site dedication ceremony on June 22. Hau also indicated that his staff had approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) about acquiring the plot of land adjacent to t [...] | 2009-05-13 09:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ABLD PREL PGOV EAIR TW CH |
09TAIPEI579 | DEEP GREEN LEADERS FRET OVER CROSS-STRAIT AND [...] (C) Summary: At a dinner for the Director on May 12 hosted by DPP Legislator Trong Chai, a group of Deep Green leaders registered their concerns about President Ma "selling out" Taiwan to the PRC. Trong Chai expressed hope the U.S. would take a more balanced approach to Taiwan politics and n [...] | 2009-05-13 10:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI589 | DPP AND PRO-GREEN GROUPS PLAN MAY 17 RALLY AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: The DPP and pro-Green organizations are gearing up for demonstrations in Taipei and Kaohsiung on Sunday, May 17, timed to coincide approximately with President Ma Ying-jeou,s first anniversary in office (May 20). After the demonstration in Taipei in front of the Presidential Of [...] | 2009-05-15 11:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI590 | MAC CHAIR ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS AND OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary. Cross-Strait talks continue to be successful, Mainland Affairs Council Chair Lai Shin-yuan stressed to the Director on May 14, and she dismissed opposition criticisms as baseless. Plans to open financial services markets on both sides of the Strait, along with investment oppor [...] | 2009-05-15 23:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI594 | OPPOSITION DPP AND PRO-GREEN ALLIES STAGE LARGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The DPP and pro-Green organizations held large demonstrations in Taipei and Kaohsiung on May 17 to protest the cross-Strait and other policies of President Ma Ying-jeou, who is just completing his first year in office (ref A). Both venues attracted large turnouts, although est [...] | 2009-05-18 09:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI605 | FORMER PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG DISCUSSES DPP [...] (C) Summary: The May 17-18 demonstrations against President Ma Ying-jeou and his policies were "satisfactory,"former Premier and opposition DPP heavyweight Su Tseng-chang told the Director during a May 19 meeting. The DPP-organized demonstrations gave a boost to Tsai Ing-wen, but the DPP Ch [...] | 2009-05-19 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI606 | TAIWAN VICE PREMIER SAYS ECONOMY IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 18 meeting with Director Young, Vice Premier Paul Chiu said he believes the worst is over for the economy and expects a turnaround by the end of the year. China's stimulus and other efforts directed towards Taiwan could have some positive effect, he stated. Chiu did not [...] | 2009-05-19 09:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI610 | TAIWAN RATIFIES TWO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COVENANTS [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou on May 14 signed the instruments of ratification for the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Local human rights advocates hailed the passage as a [...] | 2009-05-20 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCRM TW CH |
09TAIPEI623 | TAIWAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM: RELIABLE BUT ROOM FOR [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's judicial system is fundamentally reliable and independent, say legal scholars, practitioners, and officials, but there is room for reform - as evidenced by the controversy surrounding the prosecutions of former president Chen Shui-bian and other Democratic Progressive Par [...] | 2009-05-22 10:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRIM PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI624 | PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU RIDING HIGH AFTER FIRST [...] (C) Summary: Independent polling shows public satisfaction with President Ma Ying-jeou's performance has risen from 29 to 39 percent over the past two months. Much of the improvement appears due to the recent rise in the stock market and public expectations of a better economy in the future. [...] | 2009-05-22 11:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR MARR PINR US CH TW |
09TAIPEI625 | DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN ON DOMESTIC POLITICS AND [...] (C) Summary: DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director she decided to visit former President Chen on May 14 because the "absolutely absurd" court decision to continue Chen's detention had made her "very mad." Tsai said the DPP's May 17-18 protest demonstration against Ma administration polici [...] | 2009-05-22 12:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
09TAIPEI637 | SENIOR KMT OFFICIALS ON BILATERAL TIES, DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with the Director on May 26, Taoyuan County Magistrate Eric Chu and Taichung Mayor Jason Hu said PRC Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi had made a special effort to give them a good impression at the recent Fujian Cross-Strait Forum. Also, Wang had been q [...] | 2009-06-01 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR HK CH TW |
09TAIPEI651 | TAIWAN INTEREST IN EXTRADITION PACT REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: During his May 27 Los Angeles transit, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reiterated that signing an extradition agreement is a top priority for Taiwan's relations with the United States. Already, popular dissatisfaction with U.S. inability to return Taiwan fugitives is putting at risk [...] | 2009-06-03 09:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM KJUS PGOV CVIS KFRD TW CH |
09TAIPEI659 | C-AL9-00948: TAIWAN ESTABLISHES JOINT COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. As part of ongoing efforts to improve economic and trade relations, Taiwan announced the formation of a new Taiwan-Hong Kong cooperation mechanism after a June 5 meeting between Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam and Mainland Affairs Council Vi [...] | 2009-06-05 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PINR TW HK CH |
09TAIPEI67 | H5N2 OUTBREAK TESTS TAIWAN'S PREPAREDNESS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A low-pathogenic H5N2 virus outbreak, discovered on a Kaohsiung chicken farm in October 2008, but not reported for two months, underscores the need for transparency at the Council of Agriculture (COA) regarding virus outbreaks among poultry and animals. The authorities' slow re [...] | 2009-01-16 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA ETRD PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI670 | STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION (SEF) CHAIRMAN P. K. [...] (C) Summary. Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang confirmed he will be in China between June 16-21, with plans to meet Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin to initiate preliminary talks on the timing and agenda for the next round [...] | 2009-06-08 10:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL TW EINV ETRD PGOV |
09TAIPEI671 | KMT HONORARY CHAIRMAN LIEN CHAN ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: KMT Honorary Chairman Lien Chan told the Director on June 5 that he viewed PRC President Hu Jintao as more capable and much more flexible on cross-Strait policy than his predecessor Jiang Zemin. Lien thought cross-Strait discussions on an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement [...] | 2009-06-08 10:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR CH TW |
09TAIPEI683 | PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU TO RESUME KMT CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (U) President Ma Ying-jeou and KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung held a joint press conference on June 10 to announce that Ma will run, and Wu will not, in the upcoming party chairman election. Ma said he made the decision to run for chairman not to expand his power, but to bear full responsibility, [...] | 2009-06-10 11:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI713 | TAIWAN VISIT OF PRC OFFICIAL LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR [...] (C) The KMT announced on June 10 that the fifth round of the Cross-Strait Economic and Cultural Forum (aka the KMT-CCP Forum )will be held in Changsha on July 10-11. Senior officials of the KMT's National Policy Foundation (NPF) and Zheng Lizhong, Deputy Director of the PRC's Taiwan Affairs Of [...] | 2009-06-16 07:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD TW CH |
09TAIPEI716 | TAIWAN MAY SEEK GREATER ENGAGEMENT WITH ICAO [...] (SBU) Summary. During a series of meetings with U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) representatives June 3-4, officials of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) stated that Taiwan wishes to participate, in some manner, in the meetings of the International Civil Aviation Organization [...] | 2009-06-16 09:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR PREL PGOV TW CH |
09TAIPEI718 | TAIWAN TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] (C) On June 16, AIT Pol Chief delivered the Taiwan TIP Report narrative to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General of North American Affairs Harry Tseng. Tseng expressed particular interest in whether there were any significant changes compared to last year's report and whether Taiwan's [...] | 2009-06-17 06:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KWMN KCRM ELAB PHUM PGOV KPAO SMIG TW |
09TAIPEI725 | DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON MAINLAND AFFAIRS [...] (C) Summary: During the Director's farewell call on June 16, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Shin-yuan noted Taiwan's hope to expand meaningful participation in WHO activities and other functional international organizations following its success in becoming an observer at the r [...] | 2009-06-17 10:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAIR CH TW |
09TAIPEI737 | Penghu in Lead to Open Taiwan's First Casino [...] (SBU) Summary: Penghu County recently submitted an application to the Executive Yuan (EY) to establish a casino on the island, and will hold a legally-required referendum on the issue in August. The Ministry of Transportation and Communication (MOTC) will soon establish an interagency casino c [...] | 2009-06-22 02:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI754 | DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN [...] (C) Summary. The opposition DPP will issue a call for fairness in Taiwan's judicial system and for former President Chen Shui-bian's immediate release from detention, party Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director during his June 22 farewell call. The party's proposed referendum on a planned Econ [...] | 2009-06-23 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI778 | THE DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT MA [...] (C) Summary. The United States does not agree with the PRC view that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are out of step with improving cross-Strait ties, the Director told Ma Ying-jeou during his June 25 farewell call on the President. Taiwan arms purchases are intended solely to replace older systems [...] | 2009-06-26 10:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR TW CH |
09TAIPEI781 | MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATION LOWERS STAKES FOR BOTH [...] (C) Summary. On June 23, a Ministry of Interior panel endorsed proposals to elevate Taipei County to a special municipality, to upgrade and merge Taichung City and County into a special municipality, and to merge Kaohsiung County into Kaohsiung City, which is already a special municipality. [...] | 2009-06-29 03:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW |
09TAIPEI790 | THE DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Improvements in Taiwan-China relations have come at the expense of Taiwan's traditionally close relations with the United States and other partners, and of the island's long-term viability as a sovereign state, Lee Teng-hui warned the Director during his June 26 farewell call on t [...] | 2009-06-30 08:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW CH JA |
09TAIPEI847 | COURT SLAPS FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN WITH TWO MORE [...] (C) Summary. The Taipei District Court ruled on July 13 to extend former President Chen Shui-bian's detention period by two additional months. This marks the third time that the Court has extended Chen's detention. Chen, who was previously scheduled to be released on July 25, now is slated [...] | 2009-07-14 08:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW PREL KJUS |
09TAIPEI896 | DPP EXPELS MEMBERS FOR ATTENDING KMT-CCP FORUM [...] (C) Summary. The DPP expelled former legislator Hsu Jung-shu and former Council of Agriculture head Fan Chen-tzung from the party on July 27 for ignoring a party ban and attending the KMT-CCP Fifth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum in China. The DPP's stern stance demonstrates [...] | 2009-07-27 08:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI903 | DPP CHAIR TSAI ON KMT CHAIRMAN-ELECT MA, CHINA [...] (C) Summary. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen dismissed the idea of having a dialogue with President Ma Ying-jeou once he assumes the KMT chairmanship. Ma's overtures to meet with her were not genuine, Tsai told the Acting Director in a July 28 meeting. Although concerned about Ma's perceived pro-un [...] | 2009-07-28 09:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI904 | MA YING-JEOU, HU JINTAO EXCHANGE LETTERS THROUGH [...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou, elected Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman on July 26, received a congratulatory letter the same day from Hu Jintao, in his capacity as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ma sent a reply the following day thanking Hu for his message and c [...] | 2009-07-28 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI912 | TAIWAN ECONOMY STRUGGLES IN FIRST HALF OF 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Taiwan's economy continued to struggle through a steep slowdown during the first half of 2009. Foreign trade, domestic sales, and industrial production posted significant year-on-year declines. Inbound and outbound investment decreased sharply, inflation eased, and unemploymen [...] | 2009-07-30 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI913 | DPP CHAIR TSAI HOLDING STEADY BUT HURDLES REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen appears to have a firm handle on party politics this summer, partly due to initiatives on a referendum on President Ma's proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China and on judicial fairness. Tackling these projects that appeal to broad se [...] | 2009-07-30 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI914 | DPP CHAIR TSAI HOLDING STEADY BUT HURDLES REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen appears to have a firm handle on party politics this summer, partly due to initiatives on a referendum on President Ma's proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China and on judicial fairness. Tackling these projects that appeal to broad se [...] | 2009-07-30 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
09TAIPEI915 | MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL CHAIR LAI ON U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan told ADIR in a July 28 meeting that the overall message she received from U.S. officials and academics on her recent visit was support for Ma's cross-Strait policy and a strengthened U.S.-Taiwan relationship. Lai said, despi [...] | 2009-07-30 10:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI926 | PRESIDENT MA, CHAIRMAN MA: THE EFFECT OF MA'S [...] (C) Summary. As expected, President Ma Ying-jeou was elected Chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party in a July 26 election in which Ma was the lone candidate (reftel). Ma's decision to assume the Chairmanship reflects his pragmatic assessment of the need to exercise greater control over [...] | 2009-08-03 09:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW CH |
09TAIPEI939 | THE KMT-CCP CROSS-STRAIT FORUM UNDER CHAIRMAN MA [...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou, who was uncontested in the July 26 election for Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT),is likely to continue the KMT-CCP Cross-Strait Forum. The event, which held its fifth meeting July 11-12 in Changsha, Hunan, on educational, cultural, and social issues, has [...] | 2009-08-06 02:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
09TAIPEI966 | DEATH TOLL FROM TYPHOON MORAKOT RISES, RESCUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll and damages caused by Typhoon Morakot continue to rise as rescue workers fan out across central and southern Taiwan to ascertain the typhoon's full impact. Penetration into remote areas by rescuers, including members of the Ministry of National Defense's "speci [...] | 2009-08-11 09:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI974 | TYPHOON RECOVERY UNDER WAY AS USG DONATES [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST - PLEASE SEE PARA 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The official death toll from Typhoon Morakot continues to rise, hitting 67 in the latest count, and estimated economic losses have mounted to at least USD276 million in the agricultural sector alone. Infrastructure rep [...] | 2009-08-12 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI979 | TAIWAN REQUESTS USG TYPHOON RELIEF ASSISTANCE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST - PLEASE SEE PARAs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Taiwan Vice Foreign Minister Andrew Hsia contacted A/DIR August 13 to offer thanks for the U.S. contribution to the Taiwan Red Cross relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Morakot (ref) and to request additional U.S. assistanc [...] | 2009-08-13 09:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MCAP MARR AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI992 | MORAKOT DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 AS TAIWAN WELCOMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has reached 117 individuals. The agricultural sector has lost an estimated USD300 million, and road repair costs are already topping USD420 million. Local areas see continued improvements in infrastructure and sanitation conditions as rescu [...] | 2009-08-14 09:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TAIPEI996 | MORAKOT SITREP 5: DEATH TOLL CLIMBS AGAIN AS U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The estimated losses from Morakot continue to mount, suggesting this could be the most deadly weather-related disaster to hit Taiwan in fifty years. Relief and rebuilding efforts are gaining momentum. The arrival here of supplies provided by DoD received wide media coverage. [...] | 2009-08-17 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW |
09TALLINN10 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: ESTONIA'S HIDDEN ECONOMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The travel and tourism industry in Estonia accounts for an estimated one-fifth of GDP, and is increasingly important as the economy moves away from its old manufacturing base. In-bound and out-bound tourism from Finland, Sweden, Russia and elsewhere is thriving, and the cruise s [...] | 2009-01-08 14:52:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON EINV EN |
09TALLINN106 | ESTONIA TO CODEL BERKLEY: U.S. VALUES MAKE WORLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 14-15 visit to Tallinn by the Congressional delegation led by Representative Shelley Berkley (D-NV) provided an occasion for a clear affirmation of the strong U.S.-Estonia relationship. Media coverage was widespread and positive. All Estonian interlocutors urged caut [...] | 2009-04-17 11:05:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG OREP AMGT ASEC RU EN |
09TALLINN110 | Estonia Hopeful but Expects Little from Baltic [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Estonia (GOE) and Eesti Energia are hopeful the discussions at the April 27 Baltic Prime Ministers' Council will be positive, but they don't expect concrete results this weekend. Eesti Energia feels the new Lithuanian government does not grasp the complexity of [...] | 2009-04-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KGHG RU LH LG EN |
09TALLINN114 | ESTONIA'S PESSIMISTIC APPROACH TO RUSSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 14:44:00 | Embassy Tallinn | SECRET | PREL PGOV RS GG EN |
09TALLINN120 | ESTONIA ENDORSES U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A and accompanying Diplomatic Note to Eve Sirp, Counsellor for International Organizations at the Estonian MFA. Sirp confirmed Estonian support for the U.S. candidacy in the upcoming elections to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The GOE followed up [...] | 2009-05-05 13:04:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL EN |
09TALLINN125 | SCENESETTER FOR ESTONIAN PM ANSIP'S U.S. VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip will visit Washington and New York May 12-15. Estonia's longest- sitting Prime Minister is ardently pro-American, a leading advocate for Estonia's military engagements abroad and the face of Estonian fiscal restraint. In his meetings, the Prime Minist [...] | 2009-05-08 11:13:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG NATO ECON EN |
09TALLINN135 | ESTONIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN HAGUE GI PLENARY [...] (SBU) Estonia will participate in the 5th Plenary Meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) in The Hague, Netherlands June 15-16, 2009. In April, Poloff and her counterpart from the Russian Embassy jointly delivered reftel invitation to Paul Teesalu, Director of Divi [...] | 2009-05-13 11:18:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC KGIC PTER PREL EN |
09TALLINN144 | IMF CALLS ESTONIAN ECONOMY 'RESILIENT' AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Ansip's May 21 dismissal of junior coalition members - including his Minister of Finance - demonstrate how contentious the recent debates over budget cuts have been. Estonia's first quarter GDP in 2009 fell 15 percent over the same period in 2008. The GOE needs to make pai [...] | 2009-05-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EINV EN |
09TALLINN145 | ESTONIA'S PM DIMISSES COALITION PARTNER BUT [...] (C) On May 21, Prime Minister Ansip jettisoned the smallest partner (Social Democrats - SDE) in the ruling coalition after the Government failed to reach agreement on 383 Million EUR (6 billion eeks) in budget cuts. This weekend, Ansip's Reform Party and its remaining coalition partner (Isamaa [...] | 2009-05-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EN |
09TALLINN193 | Estonia Response to July GAERC Topics [...] (U) PolCouns met with Kristina Meius, Director of the MFA's European Division on July 22 to discuss reftel GAERC topics. Meius provided the following Estonian positions: 2. (C) Georgia: Meius stated the only possible long-term solution respects Georgia's independence, territo [...] | 2009-07-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EN EUN |
09TALLINN20 | ESTONIA SUPPORTS US-ISRAEL MOU [...] (U) On January 16, we delivered points in reftel to Juri Kahn, Division Director for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Estonian MFA. Kahn confirmed that Estonia shares the view that weapons transfers into Gaza must be stopped and that the international community has a role to play in this field. [...] | 2009-01-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EU IS EN |
09TALLINN205 | ESTONIA?S NATIONAL CYBER DEFENSE AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unprecedented and wide-spread cyber attacks in April/May 2007 galvanized Estonia to think strategically about the security of its critical IT infrastructure. Estonia's brainstorming has culminated in a new national cyber defense policy for 2009-2011, focused on strengthening ties [...] | 2009-07-30 12:22:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN |
09TALLINN207 | ESTONIA?S NATIONAL CYBER DEFENSE AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unprecedented and wide-spread cyber attacks in April/May 2007 galvanized Estonia to think strategically about the security of its critical IT infrastructure. Estonia's brainstorming has culminated in a new national cyber defense policy for 2009-2011, focused on strengthening ties [...] | 2009-07-30 12:22:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN |
09TALLINN223 | Estonia Likely to Accept Gitmo Detainee(s) [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a meeting with the Estonian Foreign Minister Paet on July 29 in Tallinn, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, Ambassador Daniel Fried, requested the Estonian government consider receiving detainees currently held at Guantanamo, who the U.S. government cannot return [...] | 2009-08-03 14:03:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDRG EN |
09TALLINN231 | ESTONIA?S NATIONAL CYBER DEFENSE AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unprecedented and wide-spread cyber attacks in April/May 2007 galvanized Estonia to think strategically about the security of its critical IT infrastructure. Estonia's brainstorming has culminated in a new national cyber defense policy for 2009-2011, focused on strengthening ties [...] | 2009-08-04 13:53:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN |
09TALLINN235 | Scenesetter for A/S Gordon's Visit to Estonia [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thank you for coming to Tallinn. Estonians and their government are strongly pro-American, joining us in Afghanistan and other missions abroad from a sense of common values, but also to buttress Estonian security. Estonians very much look to NATO (and the U.S. in particular) to [...] | 2009-08-05 12:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EN |
09TALLINN243 | Estonia Calls for Release of Aung San Suu Kyi [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 12:06:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV BM EN |
09TALLINN245 | Estonia's Q2 GDP Falls 16.6 Percent, but Fall is Slowing [...] According to Statistics Estonia, Estonia's GDP fell 16.6 percent year-on-year in the second quarter in 2009. Most of the decrease can be explained by reduced manufacturing, construction, wholesale trade, and financial intermediation. The good news is, the drop in GDP seems to be slowing. GDP [...] | 2009-08-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EN |
09TALLINN247 | A/S GORDON'S AUGUST 13 VISIT TO ESTONIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first official visit to Tallinn on August 13, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon and Estonian FM Urmas Paet discussed a wide range of issues and agreed there was much the U.S. and Estonia could do together to reinforce democracy in Eastern Eu [...] | 2009-08-19 15:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EN |
09TALLINN253 | RECALL 09 TALLINN 253 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-26 13:00:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EN |
09TALLINN255 | Estonia Still Committed to Georgia [...] (C) One year after Russia's invasion of Georgia, Estonia remains strongly committed to helping Georgia overcome the aftermath and avoid further hostilities. Estonia is driven both by a desire to share its own successful transformation with other post-Soviet states, and a fear that it too could [...] | 2009-08-26 14:07:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EN GG |
09TALLINN261 | Estonia's Gymnich Agenda [...] (U) PolCouns met with Kristina Meius, Director of the MFA's European Division, on September 3 to discuss reftel Gymnich topics. Meius provided the following Estonian positions for the four main Gymnich topics: 2. (SBU) Iran: The GOE is concerned about the deteriorating human rights situ [...] | 2009-09-03 11:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN EN |
09TALLINN267 | Estonian Response to September GAERC Points [...] Pol Chief delivered reftel points to Kristina Meius, Director of the MFA's European Division, on September 10. Meius provided the following responses: 2. Iran: Iran was discussed the previous week at the Gymnich, and there is little new. The GOE believes diplomatic pressure must rema [...] | 2009-09-10 13:28:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN EN |
09TALLINN27 | ESTONIA CONCLUDES IRAQ MILITARY MISSION BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22 the Government of Estonia (GOE) announced publicly its decision to end its participation in coalition operations in Iraq, bringing to a close five years of cooperation with the U.S. on the ground near Baghdad. The reason: the GOE --after repeated effort and strong s [...] | 2009-01-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ EN |
09TALLINN305 | Relations with Russia, From Estonia's Russian East [...] (U) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief recently visited Narva, in north-eastern Estonia, a city that sits (literally) on the EU's bridge to Russia. Narva is overwhelmingly ethnically and linguistically Russian, yet Emboff found that the city's ties to Russia are few and growing weaker. Students prefer t [...] | 2009-10-06 09:58:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EN |
09TALLINN311 | Estonia:Local Elections Outlook [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 18, Estonians and non-citizen legal residents will cast ballots in local elections for 226 town councils. While the debates outside Tallinn remain focused on local and domestic issues ("it's the economy, stupid") , the race in Tallinn is being trumpeted (by the oppo [...] | 2009-10-15 14:22:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EN |
09TALLINN315 | Estonia: Response to October GAERC Points [...] Pol Chief delivered reftel points to Kristina Meius, Director of the MFA's European Division, on October 22. Meius provided the following responses: 2. Afghanistan/Pakistan: Estonia believes the EU must play a more visible role in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and make this region a priori [...] | 2009-10-23 13:11:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN EN |
09TALLINN317 | Estonian FM Visit to Belarus; Lukashenko Goes On (and On and [...] (C) Summary: Pol Chief met with MFA Desk Officer for Belarus, Moldova, and Central Asia Risto Roos on October 28 for a read-out of Foreign Minister Urmas Paet's October 20 - 21 visit to Minsk. Lukashenko, assuring Paet that Estonia was not his enemy, spent the bulk of their 90-minute meeting lashin [...] | 2009-10-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO EN |
09TALLINN335 | Estonia: Opposition Dominates Local Elections [...] (U) SUMMARY. The October 18th local elections for 226 town councils throughout Estonia resulted in few surprises, other than a robust turnout of 60.57 percent, considerably higher than the 47.4 percent participating in the last local elections in 2005. The Center Party won a clear majority i [...] | 2009-11-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EN |
09TALLINN34 | ESTONIA'S POST-IRAQ AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22, the Government of Estonia (GOE) concluded formally Estonia's participation in coalition operations in Iraq, after lengthy negotiations between GOE and Government of Iraq (GOI) on the status of Estonian forces failed to produce results. In the days following this d [...] | 2009-02-02 12:06:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO IZ EN |
09TALLINN35 | Estonian - Russian Relations (Part 1): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Estonia's economic ties with Russia are modest and relatively straightforward. Bilateral trade with Russia has held steady for several years at around eight percent of Estonia's total, with imports dominated by mineral fuels. Exports are spread across all sectors. [...] | 2009-02-05 13:41:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV RU EN |
09TALLINN350 | ESTONIA'S PROPOSED 2010 BUDGET SPURS LITTLE DEBATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Estonia's 2010 budget quietly sailed through the first reading in the parliament - a surprising development given the 14 percent drop in GDP this year and the contentious budget debates of previous years. This might be a calm before the storm as the opposition parties are start [...] | 2009-10-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN EINV EN |
09TALLINN357 | Estonia Scenesetter for DAS Quanrud [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thank you for coming to Tallinn. Estonia is strongly supportive of USG policies, joining us in Afghanistan and in other missions abroad to buttress their own security, but also as a result of Estoniabs very real commitment to democracy. Fear of Russian aggression and/or manipul [...] | 2009-12-01 07:54:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EN |
09TALLINN36 | ESTONIAN ACCEPTS CROATIA AND ALBANIA NATO [...] (U) On February 6, 2009, the Government of Estonia formally accepted the accession to NATO of Albania and Croatia by depositing its instruments of ratification of the NATO Accession Protocols with the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn. Post will forward the documents to Washington. DECKER [...] | 2009-02-09 07:14:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO HR AL EN |
09TALLINN371 | Estonia: DAS Quanrud Discusses Afghanistan, Russia, the [...] (C) Summary: GOE officials reaffirmed to visiting EUR DAS that Estonia will remain in Afghanistan as long as needed, and is looking for ways to increase its presence. Estonia will contribute an additional trainer to EUPOL and a counter-IED team in Helmand Province, and is considering other opt [...] | 2009-12-16 10:30:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MOPS EN |
09TALLINN38 | ESTONIA ACCPETS CROATIA AND ALBANIA NATO ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Following Estonian Parliament's ratification of the NATO Protocols of Accession for Albania and Croatia on December 17, 2008, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves signed the instruments of ratification on February 12, 2008. The Government of Estonia provided these documents to the U.S. Embass [...] | 2009-02-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO HR AL EN |
09TALLINN381 | Parliamentary President on Afghan Commitment, Russian [...] (C) Summary: In his introductory call on President of the Parliament Ene Ergma on December 14, Ambassador applauded Estonia's contribution in Afghanistan, asked for her views on relations with Russia, and praised Estonia's remarkable economic resilience. Ergma stressed that she fully understand [...] | 2009-12-17 12:09:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EN |
09TALLINN383 | Estonia's Missing Russian Parties [...] (U) Summary: Even though one-third of Estonia's population is Russian-speaking, Estonia has no strong Russian political parties. The few ethnic Russian parties that have formed have remained on the margins of politics. Instead, largely because it is the only Estonian political party reaching o [...] | 2009-12-17 12:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI EN |
09TALLINN384 | USG HELPS BALTIC STATES FIND THEIR WAY TO CLEAN AND GREEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post and the Department of Energy organized the Baltic Clean and Green Energy Conference October 14-15 in Tallinn. The conference brought together more than 150 high level policymakers, energy technology experts, and industry leaders from around the region. The discussions focu [...] | 2009-11-27 09:05:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON PGOV EINV EN |
09TALLINN57 | Estonia Adapting as Economy Reels [...] (U) SUMMARY: While confidence in the government remains strong, recent economic data now show that Estonia?s economic slowdown has been more dramatic than anyone expected. The Government of Estonia (GOE) has responded quickly, cutting the FY2009 state budget by a further 6.7 percent on Februa [...] | 2009-03-06 07:04:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON EINV EN |
09TALLINN58 | ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO NPT SURVEY REQUEST [...] (U) On March 4, 2009, the Government of Estonia (GOE) provided a detailed response to Ref A (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) survey). The text of the GOE response appears in paragraph 3. Per reftel request, Post is unaware of other reporting of the GOE position on this issue. The GOE [...] | 2009-03-09 07:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL |
09TALLINN77 | ESTONIAN AGENDA FOR 2009 NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) The Government of Estonia (GOE) views the 60th anniversary NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl as a significant opportunity to showcase Alliance unity on issues such as Afghanistan and NATO enlargement. Estonia supports a new Strategic Concept and has proposed draft language for the final summ [...] | 2009-03-26 11:40:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS NATO EN |
09TALLINN86 | ESTONIA on AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN [...] (C) On March 31, POl/Econ Chief and DATT met with Christian-Marc Liflander, MOD Director for Policy Planning and MOD and Paul Teesalu, MFA Director for Security Policy to discuss the Government of Estonia response to the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategic Review (Ref A) as well as possible deliver [...] | 2009-04-01 07:21:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAIF NATO PK AF EN |
09TALLINN90 | ESTONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 5, 9 and 10. 2. (C) MFA Undersecretary Harri Tiido officially informed the Charge on April 2 that the GOE has decided it will 1) deploy an Estonian platoon to Afghanistan for elections security and 2) move forward with plans to fold an Estonian cont [...] | 2009-04-03 09:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAIF NATO AF EN |
09TASHKENT100 | UZBEKISTAN: NEW STUDY ON LABOR MIGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In December, the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) office in Tashkent published a new study on labor migration from Uzbekistan based on surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007. While the study does not reflect the impact of the current financial crisis upon labor migratio [...] | 2009-01-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON KIRF KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS KZ UZ |
09TASHKENT1027 | UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF MAY SEEK TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM [...] (C) On June 17, Matthew Taylor, the Public Relations Officer at UNICEF's Uzbekistan office, told poloff that the organization will be "changing tack" to take a harder line in its dealings with the Government of Uzbekistan. Taylor said that a coalition of NGOs, led by Human Rights Watch, [...] | 2009-06-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UNICEF ELAB PGOV PREL KTIP UZ |
09TASHKENT1037 | Uzbekistan Pledges Support for U.S. ICSC Candidate [...] (SBU) On June 19, Bakhrom Babayev of the UN and International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Poloff that Uzbekistan will support U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers for the UN International Civil Service Commission. He indicated that MFA had sent a diplomatic not [...] | 2009-06-22 06:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT105 | UZBEKISTAN: JAPANESE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON BILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: Japanese engagement in Uzbekistan appears to be on the rise, judging from recent comments from Japanese diplomats and consultants in Tashkent as well as press reporting. In addition to high-level Uzbek and Japanese visits in Tokyo and Tashkent in 2008, a "Central Asia Plus Japan" [...] | 2009-01-27 04:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL ECIN PGOV PBTS EAID UZ |
09TASHKENT1063 | Uzbekistan: Scenesetter for CODEL Faleomavaega's June Visit [...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes your trip, which marks the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Uzbekistan in four years. Uzbekistan is the most populous country in Central Asia, its 28 million (overwhelmingly Muslim) people nearly as many as the other four former Soviet republi [...] | 2009-06-24 11:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV ASEC BEXP ENRG ETRD KNNP MARR MOPS |
09TASHKENT108 | Medvedev's Visit to Uzbekistan [...] (C) Summary: Official Tashkent is still parsing the January 22-23 visit of Russian President Medvedev. Discussions here with contacts, including the Russian Embassy, have brought several key themes to the fore: -- Regional Water Issues: In a major victory for the Uzbeks in the perennial tug [...] | 2009-01-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ENRG RS UZ |
09TASHKENT1095 | Uzbekistan: Human Rights Round Table [...] (C) Summary: Local human rights activists and members of the diplomatic corps attended a round table discussion at the Embassy on June 23, 2009. Among the attendees was Elena Urlaeva, who reported she is doing fine after having been roughed last week by hooligans while doing activist wo [...] | 2009-06-26 10:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT1097 | Uzbekistan: Embassy Input for OSCE Human Dimension Meeting [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel request on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw (scheduled for September 28-October 9),we are providing the following input for the pre-HDIM demarche to the Uzbek government. We w [...] | 2009-06-26 12:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ OSCE KDEM |
09TASHKENT110 | UZBEKISTAN: INSPECTION OF BORDER CROSSING POINTS IN ANDIJON [...] (C) On January 20, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Assistant traveled to the Ferghana Valley to inspect EXBS and International Naroctics and Law Enforcement (INL) Program-funded equipment provided to the Border Guards of the National Security Service. The equipment [...] | 2009-01-28 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT1123 | Uzbekistan: Post Concerns over GSP-related Proposed Actions [...] (C) As part of the review of Uzbekistan for the Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP),the Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) have proposed to withdraw or limit GSP benefits if the GOU does not take certain actions related to child labor in the cotton se [...] | 2009-07-01 13:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB USTR UZ |
09TASHKENT1125 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY BURNS TO [...] (C) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes the visit of Under Secretary Burns and delegation. This visit comes at a pivotal moment as we seek to rebuild a relationship with the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) that has been foundering on the shoals of mutual mistrust for the past four years. Despite th [...] | 2009-07-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1161 | Uzbekistan: INP Representatives Highlight Radiation [...] (SBU) On June 30, Post handed over some 290,000 USD in equipment-including a handheld radiation monitor, a Yantar-1U detection system, and video monitoring sets-donated by the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense program to representatives from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics [...] | 2009-07-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KNNP PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1171 | Uzbekistan: CODEL Faleomavaega Meets with GOU Officials [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with Deputy Prime Minister Shaismatov and Foreign Minister Norov on June 29, Congressman Faleomavaega said that the U.S. needs to pay more attention to Central Asia and should approach relations with the governments of the region in a less ideological way. Faleomava [...] | 2009-07-08 11:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV ASEC BEXP ENRG ETRD MARR MOPS PHUM |
09TASHKENT1181 | Uzbekistan: UNSCR 1874 Demarches Delivered [...] (SBU) On July 8, Poloff delivered reftel demarches on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1874 to Nurillo Abdullaev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk. Post will report any substantive response. NORLAND [...] | 2009-07-09 11:33:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC ECON PREL PGOV MTCRE EFIN KN UZ |
09TASHKENT1201 | Uzbekistan: U.S.-Uzbekistan Working Group Discusses [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group (JWG) met on June 24 for an update on the implementation of 38 projects funded by U.S. Food for Progress programs. Despite the apparent benefits that these jointly-agreed projects on irrigation, improving agricultural productivity, and enh [...] | 2009-07-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ECIN SOCI PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1219 | Uzbekistan: Demarche on Results of U.S.-Russia Presidential [...] (C) On July 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the results of the U.S.-Russia presidential summit to Nurillo Abdullaev, Acting Americas Desk Chief at Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Abdullaev thanked Poloff for the detailed information. He remarked that Uzbekistan has been follo [...] | 2009-07-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS UZ |
09TASHKENT1243 | Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meets FM Norov [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns led an inter-agency delegation to Tashkent on July 12-13 that included NSC Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia Michael McFaul, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East and South Asia David Sedney. Burns used the occasion of a July 12 m [...] | 2009-07-17 04:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF UZ |
09TASHKENT1257 | Uzbekistan: International Conference Addresses Problems and [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan and the Marshall Center co-hosted a significant international conference focusing on regional security and stabilizing Afghanistan on June 17-18 in Tashkent. Uzbek participants appear to have been instructed to lobby for international support of Presid [...] | 2009-07-20 10:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ASEC EAID ECIN KNNP KTIA MASS PBTS PINS |
09TASHKENT1259 | Uzbekistan: GOU Officials Shut Down Embassy Outreach Event [...] (C) On July 16, Government of Uzbekistan officials shut down an educational outreach event conducted by Post's Public Affairs Section (PAS) Education Advisor (a Foreign Service National) and Summer Intern at a Samarkand language center. The "English for You" language center (an officially regi [...] | 2009-07-20 13:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | OEXC KPAO PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1269 | Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meeting with Uzbekistan Civil Society [...] (C) Summary: On July 12, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns and a delegation of U.S. officials met with five Uzbek civil society activists. The group explained that during the years since the 2005 Andijon events, civil society had been all but decimated. They we [...] | 2009-07-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT1271 | Uzbekistan: Under Secretary Burns' July 13 Meeting with [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting that lasted over three hours, President Karimov affirmed to Under Secretary Burns his desire to turn the page on U.S.-Uzbek relations and work together to restore trust based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Citing Afghanistan as Uzbekistan [...] | 2009-07-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM RS AF UZ |
09TASHKENT1273 | Uzbekistan: Former K2 Employee Describes Conditions in [...] (C) During a personal trip to Karshi on July 18-19, Poloff met with Furkat Tulqin, who worked at the U.S.'s Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Airbase as a procurement officer and interpreter between 2003 and 2005. Tulqin said that some 2,000 Uzbek citizens-mainly from Kashkadarya Province but also from ot [...] | 2009-07-22 09:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MARR PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1279 | Uzbekistan Responds to Afghanistan Demarche [...] (C) On July 22, Charge d'Affaires and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on assistance to Afghanistan to Uzbekistan's new MFA Americas Department Chief Bakhtiyor Ibragimov and Acting MFA USA Desk Chief Nurillo Abdullaev. Charge asked Uzbekistan to provide Post with a document outlining Uzbekista [...] | 2009-07-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS MARR PGOV AF UZ |
09TASHKENT128 | Uzbek Foreign Minister on Medvedev Visit [...] (C) Summary: Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov met with the Ambassador for over ninety minutes on January 29 for a wide ranging discussion that included Russian President Medvedev's visit to Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, NDN, relations with Tajikistan and regional issues. Norov expressed satisfaction wi [...] | 2009-02-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ENRG ECON TI RS UZ |
09TASHKENT1281 | Uzbekistan: Foreign Minister Likely to Participate at UNGA [...] (SBU) Charge d'Affaires and Poloff delivered reftel demarche requesting information on host country participation at the upcoming 64th UN General Assembly General Debate to MFA's Americas Department on July 22. New Chief of the Americas Department Bakhtiyor Ibragimov indicated that Foreign Min [...] | 2009-07-22 13:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT129 | UZBEKISTAN: A POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD FOR DEA'S RETURN [...] (C) Summary: On January 27-28, Visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Country Attache Chris Melink and Emboffs met with representatives from the Government of Uzbekistan to discuss further bilateral counternarcotics cooperation and the possibility of DEA's return to Uzbekistan. M [...] | 2009-02-02 15:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL KCRM PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT13 | BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEWLY APPOINTED HOKIM OF TASHKENT [...] (SBU) On December 16, 2008, President Islam Karimov appointed Rustam Kurbonnazarovich Holmatov as Hokim of Tashkent Province. (Note: This administrative region does not include the City of Tashkent itself, which is governed separately, but includes the populous territory surrounding the capi [...] | 2009-01-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT1315 | Uzbekistan: New MFA Americas Department Officials Proactive, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with us on July 22, new MFA Americas Department officials Bakhtiyor Ibragimov and Nurillo Abdullaev discussed a wide range of issues and showed themselves to be highly proactive, cooperative, and interested in addressing problems in our bilateral relationship. Ibragi [...] | 2009-07-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KPAO ECON UZ |
09TASHKENT1325 | Uzbekistan: Ataev and Norov Remarks Reflect Concerns About [...] (C) Summary: The first set of astonishingly high-level meetings between the Government of Uzbekistan and two representatives from the Center for Strategic and International Studies kicked off on July 27 with meetings between them and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, NSC First Deputy S [...] | 2009-07-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AORC PGOV ECIN ELTN ENRG KISL MARR MOPS |
09TASHKENT1357 | Uzbekistan: Rumors of Succession Planning, Government [...] (S/NF) Summary: On July 28, a member of the Government of Uzbekistan relayed to us a number of discussions taking place within Uzbekistan's Presidential Apparat about succession planning and government reshuffling. Some members of the Apparat believe that Gulnora Karimova will become President [...] | 2009-07-31 05:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR AORC RS UZ |
09TASHKENT136 | RFG: Uzbekistan Transit Next Steps [...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance at para 4. 2. (C) The diplomatic note containing the GOU's latest proposed agreement on transit (ref a) that was given to us on January 29 by Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov was confirmation that the GOU wants an agreement above and beyond a [...] | 2009-02-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT14 | UZBEKISTAN: STATE-RUN PRESS SAYS PUBLIC VIEWS GAZA CONFLICT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-06 18:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS UZ |
09TASHKENT141 | Manas May Raise Base Issue for Uzbekistan-and for U.S. [...] (C) Summary: The announcement in Moscow by Kyrgyz President Bakiyev that his government would close Manas air base has piqued interest in Tashkent, with the Uzbek MFA convoking the Ambassador today to inquire further. Although the Uzbeks said nothing to indicate that they wish to explore the p [...] | 2009-02-04 15:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UZ |
09TASHKENT1421 | Uzbekistan: Mixed Messages on Child Labor in the Cotton [...] (C) Summary: In conversations in the last few weeks with poloff, UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef and Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin have expressed their frustration with the GOU and its efforts to address child labor. Neither Shareef nor Barkin expected an inde [...] | 2009-08-05 10:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP UZ |
09TASHKENT1423 | Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits August 5, 2009 [...] (C) On July 29, Center for Strategic and International Studies representatives Andy Kuchins and Tom Sanderson met with us to give us a read-out of their meetings with various Government of Uzbekistan officials. Across the board, GOU officials appeared very enthusiastic about improving relation [...] | 2009-08-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC MOPS ECON PBTS PINR KJUS UZ |
09TASHKENT1431 | Uzbekistan: UNICEF: Rags to Riches [...] (C) In a "rags to riches" meeting between UNICEF representative Siyma Barkin and the Minister of Labor today, Minister Aktam Ahmatovich Haritov told Barkin that the GOU would like to implement all of the items in the UNICEF Work Plan, which was agreed to by the GOU last January. In fac [...] | 2009-08-06 12:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB UZ |
09TASHKENT1435 | Uzbekistan: ICRC Prison Monitoring Program Extended [...] (SBU) Rafaello Muller, Deputy Head of the International Committee for the Red Cross's (ICRC) Regional Delegation, informed poloff today that the GOU agreed on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, to extend last year's six-month pilot program allowing ICRC to enter and evaluate prisons. Prison visi [...] | 2009-08-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1437 | UZBEKISTAN: Human Rights Update [...] (C) Summary: Although Post was happy to report the continuation of a prison monitoring program by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),the human rights climate in Uzbekistan remains difficult, at best. The recent sentencing of journalist Dilmurod Sayyidov to twelve years [...] | 2009-08-10 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB UZ |
09TASHKENT1441 | Uzbekistan: Boosting Economic Ties with Brazil [...] (S/NF) On July 28, an official in Uzbekistan's Oliy Majlis provided Embassy's FSN Political Assistant with a readout of President Karimov's May trip to Brazil. (Note: The Uzbekistan National News Agency Online reported on May 28 that both sides signed agreements on technical cooperation; on e [...] | 2009-08-14 04:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | EAGR ECON ECIN PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1447 | Uzbekistan: Scenesetter for the Visit of General Petraeus [...] (S) Summary: Your second visit to Uzbekistan comes at a pivotal moment in the U.S.-Uzbek relationship and will build upon the July 12-13 visit of Under Secretary of State Bill Burns during which we proposed to the Uzbeks the establishment of a structured bilateral dialogue. The Uzbek leadershi [...] | 2009-08-14 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR AF UZ |
09TASHKENT1451 | AFGHANISTAN - MANAGING THE NEIGHBORS: UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) We have urged the Uzbeks to play a constructive role as the Afghan elections unfold. Ambassador discussed reftel points with Deputy FM Karamatov on Aug. 17, and CENTCOM Commanding General Petraeus delivered the message in his meetings with President Karimov, the Uzbek Foreign and Defense M [...] | 2009-08-19 09:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UZ AF |
09TASHKENT1455 | Uzbekistan: Officials Preview Parliamentary Changes, [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan, in collaboration with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),hosted a conference dedicated to parliamentary systems and political parties in Tashkent on July 1-2. GOU representatives responded favorably to presentations from a [...] | 2009-08-19 11:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT1459 | Uzbekistan: UNICEF Visitor: Child Labor Assessment Not [...] (C) Summary: UNICEF visiting Senior Child Protection Advisor Joanne Dunn met with DCM and poloff Monday, August 17 to discuss child labor and the upcoming cotton harvest. Dunn stated that it is "way too late" for an assessment to be planned and implemented during this year's cotton harv [...] | 2009-08-20 08:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT147 | UZBEKISTAN: FERGHANA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS PUTTING [...] (C) On January 21, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program Assistant visited Ferghana Province's Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Emboffs conducted end-use monitoring of counternarcotics equipment that the International Narc [...] | 2009-02-06 10:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT1475 | RECALL 09 TASHKENT 1475 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 06:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1479 | Uzbekistan: Amnesty Decree Announced, Human Rights Activist [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan announced an amnesty resolution last week, through which some prisoners and criminal defendants may apply to the court for clemency. The resolution includes several restrictions, which may serve to limit the number of political and religious p [...] | 2009-09-09 16:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1481 | Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid [...] (U) Summary: The Samarkand Regional Criminal Court commenced a hearing for journalist Dilmurod Sayid (aka Sayyidov) in Samarkand Province on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, to consider his harsh prison sentence and various procedural irregularities during his trial. Midway through the heari [...] | 2009-09-11 08:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT1483 | UPDATE ON UZBEKISTAN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHAN [...] (U) Summary: Following recent discussions on the subject, the MFA of Uzbekistan provided the Embassy with an update on their involvement in the socio-economic reconstruction of Afghanistan. The contributions of the GOU have been primarily in the area of restoring and rebuilding infrast [...] | 2009-09-11 11:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO ELTN AF UZ |
09TASHKENT1489 | Uzbekistan: Notes from the Northwest [...] (SBU) Summary: Hayitbay Yakirboy, a human rights activist from Khorezm, met with poloff on August 12, 2009 to discuss issues facing northwestern Uzbekistan. Yakirboy addressed labor trafficking problems and discontent in the semiautonomous region of Karakalpakstan and the northwest province o [...] | 2009-09-16 11:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1491 | Uzbekistan: Activists in Samarkand Making a Difference [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 8, Poloff met with ten human rights activists from "Ezgulik," the only registered human rights organization in Uzbekistan. They discussed their observations of trends in the areas of child labor and religious freedom, but most of them focus their attention on the [...] | 2009-09-16 12:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1493 | Tashkent Tidbits September 17, 2009 [...] (C) A Brazilian coach for Uzbekistan's premiere team, Bunyodkor, recently told PE Chief of an incident following a match against Bunyodkor's poor rival Pakhtakor (the cotton pickers)in which Bunyodkor lost 1-0 when most of its Brazilian star power got red cards in the first 10 minutes of play. [...] | 2009-09-17 11:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KCOR UZ |
09TASHKENT1496 | UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governmen [...] | 2009-08-17 06:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ |
09TASHKENT1499 | Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid [...] (SBU) Summary: The Regional Samarkand Court on September 11 upheld the 12.5 year sentence of independent journalist and human rights activist Dilmurod Sayid on charges of extortion and bribery. (See reftel.) Sayid's attorney will appeal this decision to the Chairman of the Regional Court, and [...] | 2009-09-18 08:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT150 | UZBEKISTAN INTERESTED IN RESUMING COOPERATION ON COMMODITY [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan has demonstrated interest in resuming cooperation on International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP) activities sponsored by the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program. These activities are intended to improve the abili [...] | 2009-02-09 11:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KNNP PBTS PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1501 | Uzbekistan: Hidirova Describes Her Imprisonment [...] (SBU) Post reported earlier this summer on the arrest and release of Jizzakh farmer and human rights activist Oyazimhon Hidirova (aka Khidirova),who spent roughly five weeks in jail after being arrested on charges of hooliganism. (See reftels.) Hidirova and her public defender Ziyodullo [...] | 2009-09-18 08:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1505 | Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...] | 2009-09-18 12:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1507 | Uzbekistan: Suspected Case of Anthrax Puts USG-Funded [...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of August, media in Uzbekistan reported a suspected case of Anthrax in the Toytepi region near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The man suspected with Anthrax was believed to have been exposed during the slaughtering of his cows. The Biological Threat Reduction Program labora [...] | 2009-09-18 12:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TBIO TSPL CDC UZ |
09TASHKENT1511 | Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...] | 2009-09-22 06:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1515 | Ambassador's Sept 23 Meeting with Uzbek FM Norov [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov expressed appreciation for the Eid message from the Secretary and said he looked forward to meetings on the margins of the UNGA next week. Commenting on the draft agenda for the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC),he [...] | 2009-09-23 12:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL ECON UZ |
09TASHKENT1519 | Uzbekistan: Baptist Leader Faces Criminal Charges [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 12:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1523 | Bukharan Jews Cite Religious Tolerance in Uzbekistan [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief joined members of one of Tashkent's Bukharan Jewish Synagogues on September 25 for their celebration of the beginning of the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday and their (delayed because of Ramadan) celebration of Uzbek Independence Day. Unlike other minority religious communities [...] | 2009-09-30 06:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KIRF UZ |
09TASHKENT1531 | POLITICAL PARTIES IN UZBEKISTAN: MUCH PAGEANTRY AND SOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives of Uzbekistan's four political parties gathered with a number of international observers and "experts" to discuss political parties and elections. Discussion was lively, but the "round table" was quite literally split down the middle, with local politicians on [...] | 2009-10-14 08:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UZ |
09TASHKENT1535 | Managing Uzbek Redlines in Bilateral Consultations [...] (C) Summary: Prior to the arrival in Tashkent of Assistant Secretary Blake, Foreign Minister Norov summoned the Ambassador for a meeting in which he reviewed the agenda for the visit and delivered the GOU's response to the U.S. draft agenda for the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC) (REF. B). [...] | 2009-10-15 11:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UZ |
09TASHKENT1543 | Uzbekistan: A/S Blake Meets with Civil Society [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, A/S Blake met with civil society representative Sukhrobjon Ismoilov in Tashkent. Ismoilov warned of a growing Islamist agenda amongst Uzbek exiles living in Europe - a particularly disturbing thought. He also addressed agricultural reform, advocating for [...] | 2009-10-16 12:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1545 | Uzbekistan: A/S Blake Meets with Leaders of Uzbek Parliament [...] (SBU) Summary: During his three-day visit to Tashkent, A/S Blake met with the leaders of both houses of the Uzbek parliament: the Speaker of the Oliy Majlis (the lower house),and the President of the Senate. Both seemed interested in developing greater ties with their counterparts in [...] | 2009-10-16 13:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV OREP UZ |
09TASHKENT1548 | UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governme [...] | 2009-08-25 12:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ |
09TASHKENT1549 | Uzbekistan: UNICEF Brainstorming Session on Child Labor: [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 8, UNICEF hosted a brainstorming session for members of the international community to discuss the issue of child labor in the cotton sector. Although the failure of Uzbekistan to invite the International Labor Organization (ILO) to do an assessment this year wa [...] | 2009-10-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UN UZ |
09TASHKENT1551 | Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits - October 26, 2009 [...] (C) According to both EU Embassy diplomatic contacts in Tashkent and press reporting, the EU looks set to lift its arms embargo on Uzbekistan, the last of the Andijon-related sanctions that remains since Brussels lifted the visa and travel ban in 2008. Although there apparently is not unanimity [...] | 2009-10-27 06:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON UZ |
09TASHKENT1555 | A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: SHOULD THE OSCE MONITOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) officials face a difficult decision as they consider whether to send a team to monitor Uzbekistan's parliamentary elections, slated to take place on Decemb [...] | 2009-10-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KDEM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT156 | UZBEKISTAN: PLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES WORSENING [...] (C) The newly arrived head of the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Refugee Support Unit in Tashkent, Ustina Kupreychik, reported that the situation for Afghan refugees in Uzbekistan has worsened since the fall (ref A). According to Kupreychik, 67 Afghan refugees have been forcibly [...] | 2009-02-10 05:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ |
09TASHKENT1573 | Uzbekistan: The Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26, poloff met with Chairman of Uzbekistan's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) to discuss concerns of various religious minority groups in the country. In preparation for the meeting and in the days that followed, poloff met with representatives from the Uz [...] | 2009-11-09 12:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ |
09TASHKENT1575 | Sanjar Umarov Released on November 7 [...] (C) Opposition leader Sanjar Umarov was released from prison on November 7. The next day, he came to the Embassy for a conversation with Ambassador Norland and Embassy staffers. Still in disbelief over the events of the previous two days, he expressed his gratitude for everyone's effort [...] | 2009-11-09 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1579 | Uzbekistan: The Cotton Harvest in Jizzakh [...] (C) Summary: On November 6, 2009, poloff met with human rights activists and a representative of the leading anti-trafficking NGO in Jizzakh, a city of roughly 150,000 people in a largely agricultural region about three hours southwest of Tashkent. Human rights activists spoke about seve [...] | 2009-11-13 12:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT158 | TASHKENT TIDBITS FEBRUARY 10, 2008 [...] (SBU) Post has updated its cost of living analysis for Uzbekistan through the end of 2008. At 21.6 percent, the cost of living grew more slowly in 2008 than in 2007, when it increased by 29.2 percent. The cost of foodstuffs increased by only 17.0 percent as contrasted with a 29.1 percent rise [...] | 2009-02-11 04:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT1585 | Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activist Beaten [...] (C) Summary: Human rights activist Bahtiyor Hamroev, a good contact of the Embassy from Jizzakh province, reported he was beaten by law enforcement on Wednesday, November 11, when he tried to meet recently returned opposition figure Bahodir Choriev in a Jizzakh cafC). A second activist, [...] | 2009-11-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1589 | Uzbekistan: TIP Interim Assessment [...] (U) In response to reftel, post submits the following information for the TIP Interim Assessment on Uzbekistan. A. Substantive Action to End the Use of Forced Labor During the Cotton Harvest --------------------------------------------- ---------------------- -------------- [...] | 2009-11-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG UZ |
09TASHKENT1593 | Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activists and Religious Figures [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 07:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM UZ |
09TASHKENT1597 | Uzbekistan: SCA DAS Krol Meets with Civil Society [...] (SBU) Summary: During his visit to Tashkent on November 18-21, DAS for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol reached out to civil society representatives, GOU officials, and journalists to discuss human rights and other broad issues facing Uzbekistan. (Please see reftels for a rea [...] | 2009-11-25 07:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1599 | Uzbekistan and Human Rights: The Lessons of Sanjar Umarov's [...] (C) Summary: The release from prison on November 7 of jailed businessman and opposition figure Sanjar Umarov was the most important step the GOU has taken on human rights this year. Umarov's release came about as the result of principled engagement and quiet, behind-the-scenes diplomacy. It wa [...] | 2009-11-30 06:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT16 | UZBEKISTAN: STATE-RUN PRESS SAYS PUBLIC VIEWS GAZA CONFLICT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-07 05:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS UZ |
09TASHKENT1603 | Uzbekistan: TIP Update: Trends and Tactics [...] (SBU) Summary: From early October to mid-November, poloff has had several meetings with government officials, NGO leaders, and representatives from the human rights community to discuss trends in trafficking, as well as anti-trafficking efforts. The GOU continues to prioritize tradition [...] | 2009-12-01 11:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP UZ |
09TASHKENT1609 | Uzbekistan: Human Rights Update [...] (SBU) Summary: Post continues to follow the cases of imprisoned journalist Dilmurod Sayyid (aka Saidov) and poet Yusuf Juma, two Uzbek citizens convicted of charges widely believed to be politically motivated. Family members of both Sayyid and Juma report the two men to be in bad health [...] | 2009-12-04 07:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1611 | Karimov speech spells out priorities for 2010 [...] (U) President Islom Karimov invited the Diplomatic Corps and an array of local dignitaries to the annual commemoration of Uzbekistan's Constitution Day December 5th at the impressive new white marble "Palace of Forums" on Amir Timur Square. These speeches are generally a review of the last ca [...] | 2009-12-07 10:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID UZ |
09TASHKENT162 | Uzbekistan Scenesetter for General Petraeus [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Uzbekistan is the first by a senior U.S. official since the new Administration took office and comes at a pivotal moment in regional politics. In Tashkent, as elsewhere in the region, there is concern about the course of events in Afghanistan and doubts as to whether [...] | 2009-02-11 12:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1627 | Uzbekistan: GOU Takes Small Steps on Child Labor [...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbekistan recently announced two initiatives to address child labor in the country: the first is a legislative change that reportedly will hold individuals responsible for using children to work under hazardous conditions; the second is the dedication of 2010 to youth de [...] | 2009-12-15 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1631 | Uzbekistan: The Saga of Bahodir Choriev [...] (U) Summary: Uzbekistan officials forcibly returned Bahadir Choriev, leader of the Birdamlik opposition party, to the United States on the morning of December 11. Choriev's presence had prompted much attention from law enforcement officials, and rights activists are in many ways relie [...] | 2009-12-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1637 | UZBEKISTAN: TASHKENT TIDBITS DECEMBER 18, 2009 [...] (SBU) Dilmurod Sayyid, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison last June, was transferred December 15 from Navoi Prison to Sangorod, the Tashkent-based prison hospital. Embassy contact Abdurahmon Tashanov, who attended Sayyid's trial, told the Embassy that he was turned away from v [...] | 2009-12-18 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI EINV ETRD UZ |
09TASHKENT1639 | UZBEKISTAN: GOU PROPOSAL ON TERMEZ [...] (C) Summary. An apparent Uzbek offer of troop transit to Afghanistan via Termez warrants close attention. It is not inconsistent with the gradual improvement in relations across the board, including on human rights, outlined in last week's political consultations with Foreign Minister Norov [...] | 2009-12-23 12:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ |
09TASHKENT1641 | UZBEKISTAN: FM NOROV "CLARIFIES" TERMEZ OFFER [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador Norland on another issue on December 24, FM Norov provided us with further information regarding the apparent Uzbek offer of troop transit to Afghanistan via Termez (reftel). The diplomatic note passed to the State Department on Dec. 21 described a trilateral U [...] | 2009-12-24 10:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ |
09TASHKENT1651 | PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN UZBEKISTAN: NOTHING WRONG BUT THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elections for Uzbekistan's lower house of Parliament took place on Sunday, December 27. Five election observation teams from the Embassy visited 33 polling stations in Tashkent and the neighboring regions, and concluded that although the elections were not free and fair (no opp [...] | 2009-12-30 11:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UZ |
09TASHKENT177 | UZBEKISTAN: REPORTS OF CRACKDOWN ON "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Uzbek authorities appear to be significantly ratcheting up the pressure on suspected members of the banned Nur (or "Nurcilar") religious organization, which is associated with the conservative (but not extremist) religious teachings and Pan-Turkish ideology of Turkish scholar Feth [...] | 2009-02-13 09:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ |
09TASHKENT182 | UZBEKISTAN: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON MINISTRY OF INTERNAL [...] (SBU) In January 2009, Lieutenant-Colonel Abdulkhamid Habirovich Hakimov was appointed as Chief of the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 2. (SBU) Abdulkhamid Habirovich Hakimov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1967. In 1993, after graduation [...] | 2009-02-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT1850 | Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to Assistant Secretary Blake's [...] (U) Summary: Media coverage of A/S Blake's visit to Uzbekistan was primarily factual and positive. Numerous articles noted U.S. appreciation for Uzbekistan's support of international efforts in Afghanistan. The existence of other shared interests was also noted by both state and unofficial medi [...] | 2009-10-23 03:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT193 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS SEEK TO BRIDGE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador recently met with activists from the independent Rapid Reaction human rights group (RRG),who described their plans for the upcoming year, including applying for official registration and setting up a "think-tank" with like-minded activists and defense attorneys to [...] | 2009-02-19 10:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ECON KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT194 | UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES DESCRIBE HARRASSMENT; [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, poloff met with 25 Afghan refugees at the office of a Tashkent-based NGO which provides humanitarian assistance to refugees. The Afghans alleged widespread harassment by government officials, and some refugees experienced forced deportation back to Afghanistan. T [...] | 2009-02-19 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ |
09TASHKENT1948 | THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN UZBEKISTAN: IS SECULARISM STRONGER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Gender issues in Uzbekistan continue to be a complicated matter. De jure, women in this secular, former Soviet society enjoy protections from discrimination, with relatively modern legislation and government policies pushing society towards greater gender equality. De fa [...] | 2009-11-02 11:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KWMN KISL UZ |
09TASHKENT1958 | UZBEKISTAN: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan is a geographically strategic crossroads between South Asia and Europe. It is primarily a transit country for opiates originating in Afghanistan, with an estimated 95 tons of Afghan opiates passing through Central Asia each year. Well-established trade routes fac [...] | 2009-11-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT196 | Uzbekistan: Submission for Ninth Annual Trafficking in [...] (SBU) Post's submission for the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report begins in paragraph 4. Per reftel, this information covers the period from March 2008 to February 2009. The information provided in the report has been gathered from numerous sources, including the Government of U [...] | 2009-02-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP PHUM KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KWMN ZK |
09TASHKENT197 | Uzbekistan Still Seems on Track with Money Laundering [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan is currently in the midst of a process to enact legislative changes that would bring its anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime into compliance with international standards. The Uzbeks are likely on track to f [...] | 2009-02-19 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON KCRM PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT2 | UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM WITH MVD [...] (C) Summary: On December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers and Emboffs discussed counterterrorism with several officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). The MVD officials held that Uzbekistan is stable and a system of information-sharing with other ministries an [...] | 2009-01-05 11:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PGOV PREL PINS UZ |
09TASHKENT206 | SUSPECTED AMCIT MISSIONARIES TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Authorities have told three AmCits associated with the New Hope faith-based humanitarian assistance NGO, which provides medical assistance to disabled persons in Tashkent, that they must depart Uzbekistan by February 25. Emboffs met with the AmCits, who plan to depart Uzbekistan [...] | 2009-02-23 13:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAID KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT208 | UZBEK WORKSHOP FOR IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540 -- A REGIONAL [...] (U) Summary: On February 10-11 a workshop on implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 was jointly sponsored in Tashkent by the Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) program and the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This cable addresses broader region [...] | 2009-02-24 08:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KNNP AORC OSCE UNSC UZ |
09TASHKENT2110 | Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to DAS Krol's Visit to Tashkent [...] (U) Summary: Local media reports on DAS Krol's visit to Uzbekistan were found only online. Of these, only two were by state media outlets. State media reported on the visit in the context of the adoption of the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABCs). Such reports were neutral in tone. Independen [...] | 2009-12-01 10:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT217 | UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST REPORTEDLY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF [...] (U) In an announcement on its website, the Ezgulik human rights group reported that independent journalist and human rights defender Dilurod Sayyidov was arrested in Tashkent on February 22 and handed over to authorities from Samarkand province on February 23. After his arrest, Sayyidov repo [...] | 2009-02-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT22 | UZBEKISTAN: TIP PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN CONTINUES; [...] (U) Summary: In the past few months, the government has continued a wide-ranging public awareness campaign on trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in the government-controlled mass media (ref A and B). Conducting a relatively non-extensive survey, poloff uncovered more than 70 separate TIP-related st [...] | 2009-01-07 12:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ RS UZ |
09TASHKENT222 | UZBEKISTAN: TRIAL OF ALLEGED RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST EXTRADITED [...] (C) Summary: The trial of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008, is nearing completion in Tashkent, according to an independent activist monitoring the trial. Juraboev has reportedly pled innocent to all the cha [...] | 2009-02-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG |
09TASHKENT223 | UZBEKISTAN: IV ALUMNUS AND DISABLED RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary: On January 21 an independent news website reported that Chairman of the Uzbek Society of the Disabled (and International Visitor Leadership Program [IVLP] alumnus) Oybek Isoqov had been arrested on charges of bribery. When CAO met with him on February 13, Isoqov denied all wrong [...] | 2009-02-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT226 | Uzbekistan: State-run Shelter for TIP Victims Nears [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice told poloff in separate meetings on February 11 that, pursuant to President Karimov's decree in November and the country's new anti-TIP law, the first state-run shelter for TIP victims is nearing completion and will off [...] | 2009-02-27 11:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP PHUM PREL KWMN SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT227 | UZBEKISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO GENERAL PETRAEUS'S VISIT [...] (U) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus's February 16-17 visit to Tashkent received broad media coverage in the local, state-run press, the international media and wire services, and on GOU-controlled and independent news websites. There was much speculation that his trip was link [...] | 2009-02-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT2292 | Uzbekistan: Media Reports on Parliamentary Elections [...] (U) Summary: In the run up to the elections, minor differences among parties were covered by both state and independent media to an extent never seen before. Coverage of the election results dominated media reports following the elections. State media highlighted high turnout among voters, whi [...] | 2009-12-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT23 | Uzbeks Skeptical on Afghanistan but Back Their Man in the [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador, Uzbek Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia Anvar Salikhbaev commented on the situation in Afghanistan, including the future of Gen. Dostum. The Uzbeks acknowledge his flaws but still support Dostum. They continue to fault Karzai for Afghanistan's problems [...] | 2009-01-07 14:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AF UZ |
09TASHKENT231 | Tashkent Tidbits - March 2, 2009 [...] (SBU) A successful ongoing INL-sponsored forensic laboratory improvement program implemented by DOJ-ICITAP suffered a mild setback when the Government of Uzbekistan delivered a diplomatic note on February 17 denying a proposal to send an Uzbek forensic scientist to the Harris County Medical Exa [...] | 2009-03-02 06:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ICRC KCOR ECON KCRM UZ |
09TASHKENT242 | Uzbekistan: Yusuf Jumaev Allegedly Mistreated in Jaslyk [...] (C) On February 27 poloff met with Feruza Yusufjon Kizi, the daughter of dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who is serving a five-year sentence at the Jaslyk prison in the remote northwest province of Karakalpakstan (ref B). Yusufjon Kizi was accompanied on the unscheduled visit to the Embassy by Ba [...] | 2009-03-03 08:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT244 | UZBEKISTAN, OSCE, AND WATER: CONVERSATION WITH OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador, OSCE Conflict Center Director Herbert Salber said he saw a slight opening in Uzbekistan's willingness to accept third party assistance to solve increasing water tensions in Central Asia. Uzbek officials do not exhibit the same confidence when dis [...] | 2009-03-03 10:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON SENV PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT246 | Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Rediscover Friendship of Peoples [...] (C) Summary: The Uzbeks pulled out all the stops for the February 24-25 visit of Turkmen President Berdymuhamedov to Tashkent, evidence that these two countries are rapidly developing a "special relationship." In addition to cultural and historical ties, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have common [...] | 2009-03-03 13:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET TX UZ |
09TASHKENT248 | How the Kagan Munitions Explosions Saved a Neighborhood and [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met informally in Tashkent with two English language professors from Bukhara State University on several social occasions between February 27 - March 1. Both are talented and highly motivated teachers who have a good pulse on community life from their vantage point in Bukh [...] | 2009-03-04 07:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON KCOR PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT249 | Activist: Andijon Province Has Become a Mini-Turkmenistan [...] (C) On March 3 well-known human rights activist and long-time Embassy contact Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov visited the Embassy and talked to poloff about current conditions in Andijon Province. He previously reported that, unusually, the province was being administered almost entirely by outsiders [...] | 2009-03-04 12:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT250 | HOKIM OF JIZZAKH PROVINCE QUIETLY REPLACED [...] (SBU) On February 18, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev went to Jizzakh and, according to a presidential decree, released Musa Anarbaev of his duties as Hokim of Jizzakh Province. Mirziyaev appointed Makhmud Parsamatovich Holbutayev to take his place. Before this assignment Holbutayev used to [...] | 2009-03-04 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT255 | A MICHIGAN BOOST TO FOOD SAFETY IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. On February 12-26 the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Cochran Program sponsored a food safety training tour in the U.S. for Uzbek, Tajik, and Armenian specialists. The program took place primarily at Michigan State University and included both workshops and site visits. Part [...] | 2009-03-06 11:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON SENV UZ |
09TASHKENT257 | Former Acting Governor of Samarkand Province Sentenced To 15 [...] (SBU) In April 2008 the state-controlled press reported that the Acting Hokim (Governor) of Samarkand Province, Azamkhon Bakhromov, was relieved of his duties and there were reports at that time that he was subsequently placed under house arrest (reftel). On March 3, sources told our Political [...] | 2009-03-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PTER PINR ZJ UZ |
09TASHKENT268 | Discussion With Uzbek FM on Afghanistan Transit: Defining [...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance at paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Talks with the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) on the exchange of letters for the transit of non-lethal cargo to Afghanistan have come very close to success, but we are not there yet. Politically, the GOU is [...] | 2009-03-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR UZ |
09TASHKENT270 | Uzbekistan: Global Initiative Demarche Delivered [...] (SBU) This is an action request (see para 3) and response to State 18574. 2. (C) On March 11, Poloff, the Russian Embassy's Senior Counselor Alexey Mochulsky, and the Korean Embassy's Third Secretary Kwon O Yul jointly delivered reftel demarche to Uzbek First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of the M [...] | 2009-03-12 11:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM KGIC PTER PGOV PREL KS RS UZ |
09TASHKENT271 | Uzbekistan: Institute for New Democracies Director Denied [...] (C) Summary: On March 5 the recently arrived AmCit Country Director of the U.S. Government-funded NGO Institute for New Democracies (IND) was denied accreditation by the Uzbek Government. This is a surprising and disappointing event which, as usual, has not yet been explained (Ambassador is wr [...] | 2009-03-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT277 | UZBEKISTAN: "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP CRACKDOWN CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Authorities are continuing a widespread crackdown on suspected members of "Nur," a banned conservative (but not extremist) religious organization associated with Turkish scholar Fethullah Gullen (ref A). According to reports from independent and state-controlled media, at least 1 [...] | 2009-03-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ |
09TASHKENT279 | UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON THREE CASES INVOLVING JOURNALISTS [...] (U) Summary: This cable provides updates on the cases of three journalists who have recently been imprisoned or charged with various crimes: Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov, a journalist from Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic who was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on politically-mo [...] | 2009-03-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO OSCE PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT281 | MFA Drubbing Over Tadjibayeva Award [...] (C) Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov convoked the Ambassador on March 13 to convey GOU displeasure over the March 11 International Women of Courage Award for Mutabar Tadjibayeva. Delivering in an icy tone a message that likely came on instruction from President Karimov, Norov said that giv [...] | 2009-03-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UZ |
09TASHKENT289 | UZBEKISTAN: UN CONVENTION ON DISABLED PERSONS ADOPTED; [...] (U) On March 2, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that new Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations in New York Murad Askarov signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol on February 27. The article noted tha [...] | 2009-03-16 08:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT3 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ON KILLING OF AKROMIYIST; [...] (C) Summary: An Andijon-based human rights activist recently reported the killing by law enforcement officials of a young member of "Akromiya," a religious-business organization whose members were at the center of the 2005 Andijon events. The activist specifically requested that the United [...] | 2009-01-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI KG |
09TASHKENT323 | At Times Angry Karimov Says Afghan Transit Can Continue, [...] (S) Summary. President Karimov told the Ambassador March 18 that his earlier understanding with General Petraeus regarding commercial transit of non-lethal cargo through Uzbekistan to Afghanistan remains in place, despite Karimov's evident embarrassment at the public recognition accorded hum [...] | 2009-03-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT327 | UZBEKISTAN: EDUCATION MINISTRY ON ANTI-CHILD LABOR EFFORTS; [...] (U) Summary: During a meeting on February 23, Ministry of Public Education officials discussed their efforts to combat child labor during the cotton harvest season. They reported that Uzbekistan's transition from 9-year to 12-year mandatory free secondary education, a major reform, would be f [...] | 2009-03-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON ELAB KCRM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT331 | UZBEKISTAN'S SYSTEM OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AT A [...] (SBU) Summary: A contact recently provided a copy of a government document entitled "Index of the Ministry of Public Education for the 2007-2008 Academic Year," which provides a useful snapshot of the country's primary and secondary education system. The document shows that few students study [...] | 2009-03-19 13:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT345 | Uzbekistan: Timing is Not Conducive for Demarche on [...] (C) Post determined that it would be counterproductive to deliver ref A demarche to the Government of Uzbekistan encouraging it to resist signs of de facto recognition for Abkhazia or South Ossetia. Uzbekistan has to date consistently resisted strong Russian pressure to recognize both breakawa [...] | 2009-03-23 11:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG UZ |
09TASHKENT361 | UZBEKISTAN: RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF PRISONER ABUSE AND DEATHS [...] (C) Summary: In the past few months, independent human rights activists and websites have reported on several serious human rights issues at Uzbek prisons, including deaths in custody. Activists also provided updates on the condition of political prisoners Alisher Karamatov and Sanjar Umarov. [...] | 2009-03-26 08:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT375 | Uzbekistan: Spring Road Woes Further Isolate Ferghana [...] (U) Summary: Poloff made an overland trip to the Ferghana Valley on March 20-22 and encountered poor road conditions on the only link between Tashkent Province and the three populous provinces on the other side of a high mountain range. The poor conditions may be a temporary result of heavy w [...] | 2009-03-26 12:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI MARR PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT395 | UZBEKISTAN INDICATES AREAS WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS IS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a report of Uzbekistan's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),Uzbek officials agreed to several substantive recommendations from other member states on how to improve its human rights record. Uzbek officials also anno [...] | 2009-03-30 04:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KIRF KPAO KTIP PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT399 | Uzbekistan to Participate in April Global Initiative Events [...] (C) On March 26, First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations and International Organizations Department informed Poloff that he will represent the Government of Uzbekistan at the April 14-15 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism workshop and A [...] | 2009-03-30 05:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KGIC PGOV PREL PINR PINS PTER UZ |
09TASHKENT415 | UZBEKISTAN: UNIVERSITIES NOT MEETING DEMAND FOR HIGHER [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent Embassy-sponsored Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) alumni reunion, one alumnus, a lecturer at a private university, revealed that the growth of the higher education system in Uzbekistan is not keeping pace with demand. Uzbekistan also lags behind its Centra [...] | 2009-03-31 10:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC ECON KPAO PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT423 | Uzbekistan: MFA Discusses Regional Security, Economic Issues [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan's Acting Americas Department Chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared his views of a wide range of regional security and economic issues in a recent meeting with us. His remarks tracked closely with comments we have recently heard from GOU officials--Uzbekistan re [...] | 2009-04-01 09:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC ENRG PTER PINS ECON SENV KTIA UZ |
09TASHKENT425 | UZBEKISTAN: JFDP ALUMNA OPENS DOORS TO EMBASSY IN URGENCH [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10 and 11 Public Affairs Section (PAS) staff successfully held English language training workshops in Urgench and discussed several upcoming projects with the rector of Urgench State University (UrSU). The rector was surprisingly candid and open to future collaboratio [...] | 2009-04-01 09:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT437 | Uzbekistan: Counternarcotics Meetings for CENTCOM and DEA [...] (C) Summary: Experts in counternarcotics, engineering, and contracting from the U.S. Army's Central Command (CENTCOM) as well as the visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Ankara-based Country Attache participated in meetings with a wide range of law enforcement and military representa [...] | 2009-04-03 08:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC SNAR KCRM MASS EAID PINR TI AF UZ |
09TASHKENT441 | Uzbekistan: World Bank Official Discusses Economic [...] (C) Summary: In a March 24 meeting with us, a World Bank economist discussed Uzbekistan's economy and the effects of the global financial crisis on it. Despite the limited exposure of Uzbekistan's financial sector to global markets, the slow-down in construction abroad (particularly in Russia) [...] | 2009-04-03 10:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EFIN ENRG EPET EINV PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT449 | UZBEKISTAN: SECURITY SERVICES SEEKING TO ENTRAP HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: The National Security Service (NSS) appears to be attempting to entrap the Embassy's Human Rights Officer by arranging meetings for him outside the Embassy on sensitive topics that could then be taped. On at least three separate occasions over the past month, we have strong re [...] | 2009-04-06 06:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT451 | UZBEKISTAN: THE WAY FORWARD ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: While human rights abuses remain all too common in Uzbekistan, the government has taken some positive steps in certain areas over the past year. Uzbekistan is not posed to become a democracy anytime soon, but we continue to believe that the most effective strategy for curbing abus [...] | 2009-04-06 12:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ELAB ICRC KDEM KIRF KISL KTIP PGOV PREL |
09TASHKENT453 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS REPORTING UNRELIABLE CHILD LABOR DATA [...] (C) Summary: On March 30, the independent Ezgulik human rights group released its report on child labor practices during the 2008 fall cotton harvest at a roundtable hosted by the British Embassy. While Ezgulik announced that nearly a million Uzbek children participated in the cotton harvest, [...] | 2009-04-06 12:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT463 | UZBEK ASYLUM-SEEKER EXTRADITED FROM KYRGYZSTAN RECEIVES [...] (C) On March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov provided poloff with court documents regarding the case of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008 (reftel). According to the documents, on February [...] | 2009-04-07 06:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG UZ |
09TASHKENT467 | Uzbekistan Parliament Passes Law Reestablishing an [...] (C) Summary: A Department of Justice (DOJ) expert traveled to Tashkent March 30 - April 2 to provide technical assistance to Uzbekistan regarding its draft anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CTF) legislation. Surprisingly, the Uzbek Senate passed the legislatio [...] | 2009-04-07 09:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN KCRM ECON ECIN PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT469 | Uzbekistan: DTRA and Uzbek Officials Review Biological [...] (C) Summary: A Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delegation met with officials from the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) in mid-March to discuss cooperation under the framework of the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The GOU showed up in force and at a high level--with many Deput [...] | 2009-04-07 11:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO TSPL PTER PINS PGOV PBTS PREL ASEC SENV UZ |
09TASHKENT483 | UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SIGNS NEW AGREEMENT ON CHILD LABOR WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador met with a visiting UNICEF representative from Geneva, who reported that UNICEF would sign a new Annual Work Plan with the government that fleshes out several key points from the September 2008 National Action Plan (NAP) on the elimination of child lab [...] | 2009-04-10 09:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI TX UZ |
09TASHKENT497 | UZBEKISTAN: RECENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the Embassy on March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov handed over to poloff a collection of court documents from recent trials he had monitored involving suspected religious extremists. The documents demonstrate that at least six women were [...] | 2009-04-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT511 | Uzbekistan: Anti-Corruption Workshop Launches UN Convention [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),with funding support from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),conducted a workshop on March 31 - April 1 on implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption. International experts, [...] | 2009-04-14 13:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KCOR SOCI PHUM LG UZ |
09TASHKENT519 | Uzbekistan: Host Government Practices on Information [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post has not observed any change in the status quo since its last cable on this issue. BUTCHER [...] | 2009-04-15 12:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KVPR CVIS PGOV PBTS PREL KHLS ASEC UZ |
09TASHKENT531 | Uzbekistan: New Hokims Elected to Senate Committees [...] (SBU) On March 27-28, 2009, Uzbekistan's Senate of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) held its eighteenth plenary session. Consistent with Article 77 of Uzbekistan's Constitution, recently-appointed hokims of Surkhandarya, Samarkand, Tashkent, Navoi, and Khorezm Provinces had been elected senators by [...] | 2009-04-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT55 | UZBEKISTAN: ANATOMY OF A HIZB UT-TAHRIR CASE [...] (C) Summary: This cable examines in depth a recent Hizb ut-Tahrir case reported by state-controlled and independent media and a local human rights activist. While the case highlights on-going abuses in the government's campaign against suspected religious extremists, it also demonstrates how [...] | 2009-01-13 10:49:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT555 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 11:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT559 | TASHKENT TIDBITS APRIL 22, 2009 [...] (SBU) We attended a roundtable on transboundary water issues at the Oliy Majlis on March 4. The two hour session was chaired by Sadyk Safaev, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and former Ambassador to the U.S. The roundtable produced nothing new in terms of policy; all speakers [...] | 2009-04-22 10:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ |
09TASHKENT56 | UZBEKISTAN: HIZB UT-TAHRIR ARRESTS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: State-controlled media, independent news website s, and local human rights activists continue to report on arrests in Uzbekistan of suspected members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) religious extremist group, as well as the arrests of other banned religious groups members. In 2008, t [...] | 2009-01-13 12:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI |
09TASHKENT563 | UZBEKISTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PRESS BLITZ CONTINUES [...] (U) Summary: Regular trafficking in persons (TIP) articles continue to be published in the state-controlled press, and public service announcements are prevalent in all forms of mass media. Uzbekistan's extensive efforts on raising public awareness and highlighting its powerful new criminal c [...] | 2009-04-22 13:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ |
09TASHKENT575 | UZBEKISTAN: SCENE SETTER FOR US TRANSCOM COMMANDER GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: In the context of the roll out of the new strategy for Afghanistan and the signing of the exchange of letters on transit, your visit is an opportunity to reinforce the message that Afghanistan is a common endeavor in which the United States and Uzbekistan are partners. Although the [...] | 2009-04-24 13:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT581 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ATTACKS ON HERSELF AND ADOPTED [...] (C) Summary: On April 23, poloff met with Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who reported being attacked by two unknown assailants on April 15 after receiving threatening phone calls for weeks demanding that she leave Uzbekistan. She also reported that her adopted 5-year old son wa [...] | 2009-04-27 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT585 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST ACCUSES OPPOSITIONISTS OF EMBEZZLING [...] (C) Summary: During an April 23 meeting with poloff, Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who was attacked by unknown assailants on April 15 (septel),accused Free Farmers Party leader Nigara Khidoyatova and Gulam Umarov, the son of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, [...] | 2009-04-27 12:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT59 | UZBEKISTAN: UZBEK SINGER NOT ARRESTED [...] (U) Reports in the press that popular Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was arrested on January 10 appear to be false. Reported yesterday by the independent Voice of Freedom website and then picked up by Kyrgyz News Agency AKIPress, the story claims that she was arrested during a wedding performan [...] | 2009-01-14 12:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KPAO SCUL UZ |
09TASHKENT597 | Uzbekistan: Global Initiative Demarche Delivered, Russians [...] (C) On April 24, Poloff and two Russian Embassy officials-Senior Counselor Alexey Mochulsky and Third Secretary Ekaterina Lazareva-jointly delivered reftel demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism plenary session to First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministr [...] | 2009-04-28 08:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL PGOV KGIC PTER MNUC RS UZ |
09TASHKENT601 | UZBEKISTAN: NARCOTICS SEIZURES NOW REGULARLY HIGHLIGHTED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the first of planned regular updates about narcotics seizures publicized in the Uzbek state-controlled mass media. Emboffs have noted a substantial increase recently in the number of articles and television news reports highlighting narcotics-related arrests and seizure [...] | 2009-04-29 04:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM PHUM KCOR ASEC TI UZ |
09TASHKENT615 | Uzbekistan: Ambassador Delivers Asian Development Bank [...] (SBU) On April 28, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on U.S. support for Asia with an Asian Development Bank (ADB) General Capital Increase to Uzbekistan's First Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Rustam Azimov. Azimov said that Uzbekistan will support the capital increase and that [...] | 2009-05-01 10:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID ADB UZ |
09TASHKENT647 | UZBEKISTAN: SIX MORE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONVICTIONS [...] (U) Summary: Convictions of six more trafficking offenders were reported in separate articles in the state-controlled press on April 30 - May 1, the latest examples of Uzbekistan's aggressive enforcement of its 2008 law and criminal code amendments. The Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs report [...] | 2009-05-06 10:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP UZ |
09TASHKENT649 | Uzbekistan: Short but Positive Meeting on Nuclear Forensics [...] (SBU) Summary: In a short but positive meeting at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) on April 21, INP officials signaled their receptivity to cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on nuclear forensics. (Note: Nuclear forensic [...] | 2009-05-06 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL KNNP PREL PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT669 | Uzbekistan: TRANSCOM Delegation Discusses Transit with GOU [...] (C) Summary: On April 29, a delegation led by Transportation Command Commander General Duncan McNabb met with First Deputy Prime Minister Azimov and with railway officials in Termez to discuss issues related to the transit of goods across Uzbekistan's borders to Afghanistan. Azimov conveyed t [...] | 2009-05-07 08:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC MOPS PGOV PINS PINR PTER EINV ECON ETRD AF |
09TASHKENT685 | Uzbekistan: Upcoming Conference on Stability and [...] (U) Summary: Uzbekistan's Foundation for Regional Policy and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies are organizing an international conference entitled "Afghanistan: Issues and Prospects of Stabilization and Reconstruction," to be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan June 17-19, 20 [...] | 2009-05-08 06:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS ASEC PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT703 | UZBEKISTAN: LONG-TIME MINISTER OF HEALTH SACKED [...] (C) Summary: On April 23, President Karimov relieved long-time Minister of Health Feruz Nazirov from his duties and appointed Adkham Ilkhamovich Ikramov, who had been serving as First Deputy Minister of Health, as his replacement. Reportedly, Nazirov was fired due to unsatisfactory work [...] | 2009-05-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI KCOR UZ |
09TASHKENT705 | UZBEKISTAN: ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK'S STOCK RISES WITH [...] (C) Summary: On May 3 Deputy Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tashkent office, Kiyoshy Tamaguchi, told poloff that ADB recently completed a favorable assessment of Uzbekistan for its 2009-2010 cycle, which cleared the way for a substantial increase in loans from USD 170 million to [...] | 2009-05-11 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON UZ |
09TASHKENT711 | Uzbekistan Confirms Participation in Economic Cooperation [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL PGOV AF UZ |
09TASHKENT715 | ACTIVIST SHARES VIEWS ON TRENDS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ambassador met with Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev, who argued that the recent government crackdown on independent groups over the past few months was largely driven by worries over presidential succession and the upcoming December 2009 Parliament [...] | 2009-05-12 11:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT73 | UZBEKISTAN: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post is providing the following update on child labor in Uzbekistan. In 2008, the Government of Uzbekistan undertook legal reforms to combat the use of child labor. In January 2008, Uzbekistan adopted a new law on children's rights which clarified protections for [...] | 2009-01-16 10:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB EIND ETRD KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI |
09TASHKENT74 | UZBEKISTAN: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Uzbekistan remains a country where conditions for foreign investors are difficult. Legislation guarantees attractive incentives, but in practice it is difficult for an investor to obtain these benefits. The Government of Uzbekistan retains control of large sectors of the economy [...] | 2009-01-16 13:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC |
09TASHKENT751 | UZBEKISTAN: AGRICULTURE, BORDERS, AND ISLAM IN THE FERGHANA [...] (C) Summary: Poloff visited the Ferghana Valley on May 5-6, traveling through Fergana and Andijon Provinces en route to Kyrgyzstan. The overland trip was a good opportunity to take the pulse of this unique and populous area of the country. The land border crossing with Kyrgyzstan between And [...] | 2009-05-13 10:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP SOCI EAGR KISL ASEC KG UZ |
09TASHKENT765 | UZBEKISTAN: COUNTERNARCOTICS MEETINGS INDICATE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ankara-based Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Country Attache and poloff accepted an invitation to tour the National Canine Center, which is operated by the State Customs Committee. On May 8 meetings were held with representatives of the Ministry of Internal Af [...] | 2009-05-14 13:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM PINR AF UZ |
09TASHKENT767 | UZBEKISTAN: UNODC HOSTS OPERATION TARCET PRECURSOR [...] (U) Summary: On May 12-13, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia hosted a policy planning session in Tashkent in preparation for the second year of Operation TARCET, which is focused on interdicting precursor chemicals en route to Afghanistan. Th [...] | 2009-05-14 13:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM ASEC UZ AF ZK IR |
09TASHKENT769 | UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON COMMEMMORATION BROKEN UP IN TASHKENT [...] (C) On May 13, a small group of human rights activists attempted to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the tragic events in Andijon by laying a wreath at the monument of courage in central Tashkent, according to the independent website Uznews.net. Poloff spoke with Dilorom Ishakova on May 1 [...] | 2009-05-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT785 | Uzbekistan: Customs Officials Pleased with Commodity [...] (C) Summary: U.S., Kazakh, and Uzbek instructors jointly conducted a Weapons of Mass Destruction Commodity Identification Training (WMD CIT) workshop for Uzbekistan's Customs officials at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent on May 6-8. The workshop marked a further step in re-eng [...] | 2009-05-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KNNP ASEC PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT795 | Uzbekistan: Korean Ambassador Shares Views of Cooperation [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Korean Ambassador Jea-min Kyun gave the Ambassador a read-out of Korean President Lee Myung-bak's visit to Uzbekistan earlier that week. An energetic President Karimov had accompanied Lee for virtually the entire duration of the three-day visit, and over the course of v [...] | 2009-05-18 12:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PGOV ENRG ETRD BEXP EAID EINV EMIN KS UZ |
09TASHKENT823 | Apparent Terrorist Attacks in Eastern Uzbekistan [...] (C) Several years of relative calm was broken in Uzbekistan's Andijon province on May 26 when a group of assailants armed with AK-47s attacked security force installations in the town of Khanabad on the border with Kyrgyzstan. Information on the attack and ensuing firefight is sketchy. An of [...] | 2009-05-27 12:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT825 | Asian Development Bank Eager to Move on Afghan Rail Line to [...] (SBU) On the margins of a May 22 economic conference in Tashkent devoted to President Karimov's approach to the global economic crisis, attended by numerous representatives of international financial institutions, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Director General for Central and West Asia, Ju [...] | 2009-05-27 12:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL PGOV PHUM ELTN UZ |
09TASHKENT83 | UZBEKISTAN: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] Per ref A, Embassy Tashkent appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. We recognize that child labor continues to be [...] | 2009-01-21 08:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT855 | Uzbekistan: Kosovo's World Bank Membership Demarche [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 11:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT859 | Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Olympic Committee [...] (SBU) On May 13, 2009, the General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan elected Malik Babaev Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan. He replaced Rustam Kurbanov, who was appointed to this position in March 2009 immediately after being relieved of his posit [...] | 2009-05-29 12:49:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT885 | Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Samarkand Police [...] (SBU) In May 2008, Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Colonel Hudayberdi Faizievich Pardaev as Chief of Samarkand City's Department of Internal Affairs. Pardaev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1962. In 1984, after graduation from the Samarkand State University, he began hi [...] | 2009-06-03 08:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT887 | Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Navoi Police Chief [...] (SBU) In May 2008, Uzbekistan's Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Major Feruz Uchkunovich Djuraev as Chief of Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs. Djuraev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1976. In 1997, after graduation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) [...] | 2009-06-03 08:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT889 | Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on Termez Railway Station [...] (SBU) In May 2008, Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Major Ravshan Nematovich Ismatov as Chief of the Transportation Section of Internal Affairs (Transportation Police) at Termez Railway Station in Surkhandarya Province. Ismatov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1963. He gra [...] | 2009-06-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UZ |
09TASHKENT915 | UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TRIAL OF JOURNALIST DILMUROD SAYYIDOV [...] (C) Summary: On June 1, the trial of journalist and Ezgulik member Dilmurod Sayyidov commenced near Samarkand. Ezgulik activist Abdurakhmon Tashanov, who is monitoring the trial, reported that there is some cause for "cautious optimism" after a motion was approved to include discussion of a p [...] | 2009-06-05 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT919 | Uzbekistan Gives Mixed Review of SCO Activities [...] (C) Summary: During a discussion of Uzbekistan's views of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on June 3, a representative of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that President Karimov will attend the SCO heads of state summit in Yekaterinburg June 15-16, immediately after [...] | 2009-06-05 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ECIN PGOV ECON PINS PTER UZ |
09TASHKENT929 | UZBEKISTAN: OSCE SPONSORS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WORKSHOPS [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4 in Tashkent the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sponsored a workshop on education efforts to promote awareness on human rights, which attracted several high-profile government officials and several international experts. A separate June 5 eve [...] | 2009-06-08 09:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE UZ |
09TASHKENT937 | Afghan Trans-Boundary Water Discussions: Maintaining [...] (SBU) Reftel (A) notes that the Afghan government, with USAID and USFOR-A sponsorship, will hold a two-day conference on water management in early July. If it does not already plan to do so, we recommend that Afghanistan be encouraged to invite Central Asian neighbors such as Uzbekistan to tak [...] | 2009-06-08 12:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV PREL SOCI SENV PBTS |
09TASHKENT941 | Uzbekistan: Border Security Training Courses at Termez [...] (C) Summary: From April 5 through April 17, U.S. Customs and Border Protection trainers conducted border interdiction and rail interdiction training courses for Government of Uzbekistan officials at Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. Uzbek participants actively participated in the training [...] | 2009-06-08 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV KNNP PHUM ASEC UZ |
09TASHKENT959 | UZBEKISTAN: NEW ATTORNEY LICENSING EXAMINATION REDUCES [...] (C) Summary: The newly-established Uzbekistan Chamber of Lawyers, which supplanted the Bar Association, is conducting its first round of mandatory new licensing examinations for all defense attorneys who actively practice in courts of law. Several attorneys have complained that the testing pr [...] | 2009-06-11 08:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCOR UZ |
09TASHKENT961 | UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON ACTIVIST OFFERS CONSPIRACY THEORIES [...] Summary: On June 9, emboffs met with Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov, a well-known human rights activist based in Andijon and a frequent contact for independent websites and the Embassy alike. Zaynabiddinov reported that his youngest son was arrested for a double murder and, although his son confessed [...] | 2009-06-11 08:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
09TASHKENT997 | UZBEKISTAN: HEAD OF ODIHR QUIETLY PLANNING VISIT AND [...] (C) Summary: The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ambassador in Uzbekistan, Istvan Venczel, told us that the Director of ODIHR is quietly planning to visit Tashkent and meet with high-ranking officials in July. The visit could set the stage for OSCE election monitorin [...] | 2009-06-16 12:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE PGOV UZ |
09TBILISI10 | ABKHAZ GANG LEADER MURDERED;FIRE-FIGHT AT [...] (C) Begin Summary: On January 3, Emzar Tchkadua, head of an Abkhaz separatist gang, was murdered. Tchkadua himself killed one of his own relatives and fellow gang members, Daur Ladikovich Tchkadua, on December 30. The Georgian Foreign Ministry (Ref A) and Georgian media reported that Russi [...] | 2009-01-05 14:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1000 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION SPLINTERING [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The non-parliamentary opposition has long consisted of a disparate group of individuals with divergent and often contradictory aims. Despite their obvious tactical disagreements and often mutual disdain among the leaders, they were able to remain united for nearly two [...] | 2009-06-01 13:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1005 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIAN REGIME CLAIMS 50,000 VOTE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Elections for the de facto South Ossetia parliament were held in South Ossetia on May 31 without any official internationally-recognized monitoring organizations taking part. De facto officials claimed to the Russian press that about 50,000 people voted, with 46 perce [...] | 2009-06-01 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KBDS RU GG |
09TBILISI1006 | EMBASSY TBILISI'S 2009 TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES PROPOSAL [...] Summary: Post is pleased to propose a project for the FY09 Taft Fund for Refugees in support of the registration of Georgia's Roma population, focusing initially on the majority of Georgia's Roma population who live in Tbilisi. The project aims to provide the international and local communit [...] | 2009-06-02 05:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1010 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS: AGAIN QUIET - TALKS ONGOING [...] (C) Summary: Only a few hundred protesters rallied in front of Parliament on June 1; a similar number blocked traffic for one hour in the afternoon in front of the Tbilisi Mayor's office. Cells continued to be removed by protesters from Rustaveli Avenue, with protesters and cells concentrat [...] | 2009-06-02 12:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1024 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS MEAGER - MOIA CONFIRMS FIRING [...] (C) Summary: A few hundred protesters rallied in front of Parliament on June 2; prior to that a joint statement was read at the Ministry of Defense condemning Saakashvili for what it called a "purposeful destruction" of the Georgian military. The statement called upon diplomats to monitor t [...] | 2009-06-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1033 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS: OBLIGATIONS CHARTER SIGNED - [...] (C) Summary: Protests were again small on June 3. A group of several hundred protesters gathered at the Supreme Court to watch 16 members of the non-parliamentary opposition sign an "Obligations Charter." The eight page document outlines the GoG's failures, the non-parliamentary oppositio [...] | 2009-06-04 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1035 | GEORGIA: DISCONTENT IN ABKHAZIA WITH RUSSIA'S WARM [...] (C) Summary and comment. According to press reporting and the Abkhaz government-in-exile, civil society groups and others in Abkhazia have begun to criticize de facto Abkhaz "president" Sergey Bagapsh for handing Abkhazia over to the Russians. Opposition leaders and ordinary Abkhaz appear es [...] | 2009-06-05 09:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1037 | GEORGIA: MESKHETIANS -- WHAT THEIR RETURN MEANS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: As part of its obligations to the Council of Europe, Georgia committed to establishing a legal way to repatriate Meskhetians, the former Muslim inhabitants of southern Georgia who were deported to Central Asia by Stalin. Georgia did that, and according to the time [...] | 2009-06-05 09:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RU GG |
09TBILISI1041 | GEORGIA: PROTEST UPDATE - GACHECHILADZE TALKING [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Protests again were meager on June 4 and appear to be losing more momentum. The Ambassador met with Irakli Alasania (Alliance) at his request. Alasania confirmed that Levan Gachechiladze is speaking with the GoG. Alasania said that according to Gachechiladze, Saakashvi [...] | 2009-06-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1055 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS: GACHECHILADZE - SAAKASHVILI TO [...] (C) Summary: More cells were taken down over the weekend of June 6-7 freeing Rustaveli Avenue in front of the Tbilisi Marriott. Cells remain adjacent to Parliament and still block a portion of Rustaveli Avenue. Protests were light over the weekend. The non-parliamentary opposition is pla [...] | 2009-06-08 15:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1056 | GEORGIA: MOIA RESPONDS TO INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Post continues to closely monitor claims of beatings, crime and other incidents surrounding the ongoing street protests in Tbilisi. In response to our inquiries about 22 reported incidents, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA) sent a detailed list of all reported inc [...] | 2009-06-08 15:02:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1058 | GEORGIA: POLL SHOWS PROTESTS AND PROTEST LEADERS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC),in partnership with the Eurasia Foundation, polled over 1,800 Georgians in May 2009 to gauge public opinion in regard to ongoing protests. The data indicated a significant negative outlook towards both the protest leaders a [...] | 2009-06-08 15:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1069 | GEORGIA: CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCED [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Speaker David Bakradze announced the creation of a Commission of Constitutional Reforms (Commission) June 3. As announced, the Commission will have a diverse composition, including representatives from the government, all willing political parties, representatives from [...] | 2009-06-10 12:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1089 | GEORGIA: A/S GORDON MEETS LEADERS FROM ACROSS [...] (C) Summary: On June 10, A/S Gordon met with Speaker David Bakradze, United National Movement (ruling party) MPs, Parliamentary opposition MPs, and non-parliamentary leaders. Speaker Bakradze explained the GoG's strategy in dealing with the ongoing protests and the history behind street polit [...] | 2009-06-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1095 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENT OPENS, VIOLENCE ENSUES [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Parliament convened for the first time since the protests started on April 9. The day was marked by violence as protesters attacked MP Gia Tortladze and threw rocks, eggs, and other objects at Speaker Bakradze. Five protesters were arrested in connection with the [...] | 2009-06-15 15:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1097 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS MOVE TO DIGHOMI; MOIA ADMITS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On June 15, after a demoralizing weekend for protest leaders in which the USG and other members of the diplomatic community condemned June 12 attacks by protesters against members of parliament, protesters who had taken part in the attacks dared police to come and g [...] | 2009-06-15 15:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1100 | GEORGIA: ARMENIAN BISHOP DISCUSSES CHALLENGES FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 12:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF AM GG |
09TBILISI1101 | GEORGIA: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS RE-OPENING THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Government of Georgia announced May 26 that negotiations with Russia were underway to open the border at Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi, the only land border point of entry with Russia in the undisputed territory of Georgia. Russia closed the border in June 2006 in order to [...] | 2009-06-16 13:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1104 | GEORGIA: GOG APOLOGIZES; NON-PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: The June 15 incident at the Dighomi Police Station (reftel) resulting in the detention of 39 protesters caused few initial political ripples. Non-parliamentary leaders addressed about 500-1000 supporters in front of Parliament at roughly 7 pm the same day. Non-parliamentary l [...] | 2009-06-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1108 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 09:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL EU NATO PGOV PHUM KDEM ECON GG |
09TBILISI112 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA-RUSSIA -- THE HONEYMOON IS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent stories from inside Abkhazia suggest that the initial euphoria following Russia's recognition of Abkhazia's independence has faded, with the reality of Russia's all encompassing influence sinking in. Russia already wields tremendous influence on the political, [...] | 2009-01-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1120 | GEORGIA: DEFENSE MINISTER SIKHARULIDIZE MEETS A/S [...] (C) Summary. On June 10, Defense Minister Sikharulidze and EUR Assistant Secretary Gordon discussed the state of the Georgian military, progress on reform, NATO prospects, bilateral cooperation, the Geneva process, and UNOMIG negotiations. Sikharulidze made clear that Russia poses a bigger t [...] | 2009-06-18 08:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1123 | IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUED MILITARY ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary. The June 22 kickoff of the U.S.-Georgia Charter Commission will raise the question of the future of our military cooperation. Embassy Moscow's recent cable (reftel) has highlighted Russian views and the potential impact on our attempt to reset our relations with Moscow. There are, howe [...] | 2009-06-18 12:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI113 | GEORGIA: ANOTHER STEP FORWARD - TALK SHOWS RESUME [...] (SBU) Summary: After a hiatus, Georgian Public Broadcasting channel is now running three political talk shows, Imedi TV has one, and Rustavi TV is planning to launch one as well. Kavkasia remains predominately a platform for opposition voices and newly-licensed Maestro is now producing its [...] | 2009-01-21 14:02:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1131 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA KEY TOPIC IN ABKHAZ POLITICS [...] (C) Summary and comment. In seeming contradiction to recent reports of concern in Abkhazia about Russian influence (ref A),UNOMIG officials, de facto authorities, opposition journalists, and NGOs in Abkhazia told visiting poloff that Abkhaz politicians are trying to out-do each other to show [...] | 2009-06-19 13:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1132 | GEORGIA: POTENTIAL IMPACT OF UNOMIG CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Russia's veto of a technical rollover of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia leaves a significant gap in both transparency of the military situation in Abkhazia and protection of its residents, especially those in the Gali region. Nevertheless, the actual impact may b [...] | 2009-06-19 13:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1134 | GEORGIA: CIVIL SOCIETY MEETS WITH A/S GORDON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 14:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09TBILISI1136 | GEORGIA: EXPLOSIONS DAMAGE TWO EUMM VEHICLES; [...] (C) On June 21st at approximately 1105 am, explosions damaged an EUMM armored patrol vehicle and accompanying private ambulance near Eristskali, located west of the Enguri River near the Abkhazian administrative boundary line in undisputed Georgian territory. The Georgian ambulance driver di [...] | 2009-06-22 12:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1140 | GEORGIA: CIVIL SOCIETY MEETS WITH A/S GORDON [...] (SBU) Summary. Georgian academics, analysts and civil society leaders discussed domestic politics, the necessity of developing more robust civil institutions, and relations with Russia at a June 11 lunch with EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon. While participants' opinions varied, in gen [...] | 2009-06-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09TBILISI1143 | GEORGIA: MFA INFORMED OF GEORGIA'S TIER ONE TIP [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on June 15th. Poloff emphasized the recommendations set forth in the report. Ms. Shonia promised to relay the information to the appropriate GOG officials, including at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, [...] | 2009-06-23 09:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KPAO KTIP |
09TBILISI1147 | GEORGIA: WEEKEND MEDIA REVIEW: NEW OFFER, SAME OLD [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the weekend, several politicians, including President Saakashvili, appeared in the media to discuss ongoing protests and political stalemate in Georgia. Saakashvili offered to allow twelve opposition leaders to reclaim their abandoned seats in Parliament and offered to am [...] | 2009-06-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1149 | GEORGIA: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ISSUES CLUSTER [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On April 14, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled "A Dying Practice" on the use of cluster munitions by Russia and Georgia in the August 2008 conflict. NGOs involved in explosive remnants of war (ERW) clearance in Georgia generally agree with the report [...] | 2009-06-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI GG |
09TBILISI1150 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] (C) Summary. There are conflicting reports on the extent of humanitarian-related problems in Gali among UNOMIG officials, NGOs in Zugdidi and Sukhumi, the Abkhazia Government in-exile and Abkhaz de facto authorities. The main issues affecting Georgian residents in Gali today include the lack [...] | 2009-06-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1158 | GEORGIAN THOUGHTS ON ARMENIAN/TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Representatives of the Georgian government, parliament, and academia have a wide range of opinions about recent improvements in the bilateral relationship between Armenia and Turkey. Even within the Georgian government, an incomplete and contradictory picture arises, [...] | 2009-06-24 11:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AZ TU GG |
09TBILISI1165 | GEORGIA: MINISTER SHASHKIN - GOG TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Aid, Dmitri Shashkin gave Poloff a wide-ranging assessment of the current political situation and the GoG's plans to move forward with its reform agenda without non-parliamentary opposition participation. Shashkin said that the GoG no longer h [...] | 2009-06-25 13:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI117 | GEORGIA: INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Internal Affairs Merabishvili told the Ambassador January 22 that using night-vision goggles, the Georgians had seen Russian special forces with sniper rifles conducting operations across the administrative boundary lines in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (UNOMIG made [...] | 2009-01-23 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RU |
09TBILISI118 | GEORGIA: GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON REMOVAL OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: In spite of the August conflict and loss of official Georgian access to the Abkhazia separatist region, MFA officials continue to seek U.S. assistance to develop a plan to remove four high-level radioactive [...] | 2009-01-23 13:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG GR |
09TBILISI1184 | GEORGIA: DISABILITIES FAIR HELPS RAISE AWARENESS [...] Summary: The first Disability Fair-Forum took place in Georgia June 14 and 15, bringing together 40 different international, non-governmental, governmental and business organizations to present their work and achievements in the disability sphere. Ambassador Tefft opened the awards ceremony [...] | 2009-06-29 06:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1188 | GEORGIA: SHARING INFORMATION WITH OMBUDSMAN'S [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In addition to the Embassy-Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA) tracking system (see reftel),post has established a working-level channel with the Ombudsman's Office to exchange information regarding incidents of protest-related violence. Post will continue to update it [...] | 2009-06-29 13:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI121 | GEORGIA: FOLLOW ON QUESTIONS ON REMOVAL OF SUKHUMI [...] (U) This is an action request. Post requests Department's assistance in providing responses to the questions in paragraph 3. End action request. 2. (C) Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to Giorgi Dolidze, MFA's Deputy Director of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department [...] | 2009-01-23 13:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1212 | GEORGIA: WEEKEND MEDIA REVIEW: PROTEST RALLY [...] (C) Summary: Non-parliamentary opposition leaders announced plans to hold a large-scale rally during Vice President Biden's visit to Georgia in July to demonstrate the opposition's strength and Georgia's "democratic aspirations." The non-parliamentary opposition's credibility suffered this [...] | 2009-07-01 14:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1213 | GEORGIA: GOG PROPOSES CANDIDATE FOR WHO REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On July 1, Ambassador Tefft met with Aleksandre Kvitashvili, Minister of Health, Labor and Social Welfare and Dr. Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO),Regional Office for Europe. Kvitashvili introduced Dr. Menabde and asked that the U.S. suppor [...] | 2009-07-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV WHO GG |
09TBILISI122 | GEORGIA OKAYS GAS TO SOUTH OSSETIA, ITERA ONLY [...] (C) Summary: On January 20, the Georgian Government issued an exception to the Law on Occupied Territories to Itera-Georgia in order to provide gas to South Ossetia. Itera-Georgia General Director David Beradze confirmed that Itera concluded a commercial contract with South Ossetia on Januar [...] | 2009-01-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV RU GG |
09TBILISI1221 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...] | 2009-07-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1222 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...] | 2009-07-02 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1234 | GEORGIA: FORMER PM GRIGOL MGALOBISHVILI NAMED NATO [...] (C) Summary. Grigol Mgalobishvili, former Prime Minister and career diplomat, was approved by the Georgian Parliament as Georgia's Permanent Representative to NATO on June 26, succeeding Revaz Beshidze. Mgalobishvili's tenure as Prime Minister, though short, was relatively well received(re [...] | 2009-07-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1235 | GEORGIA: MAESTRO TV GETS NATIONAL BROADCAST LICENSE [...] (C) Summary/Comment: On July 3, the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) granted pro-opposition Maestro TV's request for a ten-year satellite broadcasting license. This license will allow Maestro to broadcast nationwide. The decision was delayed for roughly a month by the GN [...] | 2009-07-06 13:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1236 | GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph . 2. (SBU) Shalva Tsiskarashvili, Deputy Director of the MFA Office of International Organizations, asked poloff about UNGA resolution 62/249, Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, dated May 29 2008 [...] | 2009-07-06 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1237 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON DEFECTION OF RUSSIAN SOLDIER [...] (C) Summary. The Russian soldier who requested asylum from Georgia met with his family in Tbilisi on July 4 and 5. EUMM, UNHCR, along with the Swiss (as the protective power for Russia in Georgia),Georgians and Russians, coordinated these meetings between Artemiev and his family. Artemiev's [...] | 2009-07-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1243 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RULE OF LAW WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Zurab Adeishvili on July 6 to discuss USG assistance in apprehending a wanted former advisor to President Shevardnadze, Temur Basilia. Basilia is believed to be in the U.S. The Ambassador took the opportunity to raise a number of is [...] | 2009-07-07 12:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1248 | GEORGIA: RESPONSE TO OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION REQUEST [...] (U) Summary and comment. In response to reftel A, post suggests raising human rights concerns in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. With recent Russian vetoes of the OSCE and UN observer missions, outside access to vulnerable populations in both regions is nearly non-exist [...] | 2009-07-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM GG RU |
09TBILISI1250 | GEORGIA: PROPOSED PROTEST LAW FURY - MORE SHOW [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A proposed draft law to clarify the existing law on protests has been subject to extensive criticism by the non-parliamentary opposition. A preliminary assessment by Post and our Tbilisi-based European diplomatic colleagues reveals the law to be well within the European [...] | 2009-07-08 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1285 | GEORGIA DENIES FLYING DRONES IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) De facto Abkhaz authorities have publicly accused Georgia of flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over Abkhazia on July 7. The de facto foreign ministry claims that two Georgian UAVs flew over the village of Saberio in Gali district and Khukhun in Tkvarcheli district. The Georgian MFA i [...] | 2009-07-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1289 | GEORGIA: PATRIARCH DISCUSSES CHURCH DELEGATION TO [...] (C) Summary: The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC),Ilia II discussed relations between Russia and Georgia, including relations between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and GOC over dinner with the Ambassador on July 7. Former Georgian Ambassador to Moscow Zurab Abashidze an [...] | 2009-07-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF RU GG |
09TBILISI1291 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS SAAKASHVILI MORE POPULAR, [...] (C) Summary/Comment: An International Republican Institute (IRI) poll was carried out from June 16th to June 25th, 2009 and polled 1500 Georgians aged 18 years and older in face-to-face interviews. The International Republican Institute found few surprises in its June polling data. The stat [...] | 2009-07-10 14:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1303 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT LESSONS LEARNED FROM THREE [...] (SBU) Embassy Prologue: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942 who just might well have been describing Georgian internal politics in July 2009. End Prologue. 2. [...] | 2009-07-14 14:02:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1304 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION - STUCK IN [...] (C) Summary/Comment: This is the second cable in a series analyzing opposition protests this spring against the Saakashvili government. This cable focuses on the non-parliamentary opposition which appears to have achieved little if anything positive from four months of street protests. Po [...] | 2009-07-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1305 | GEORGIA: PROTEST FALLOUT: LOTS OF LOSERS, BUT WILL [...] (C) Summary/Comment: This is the third in a series of three cables reviewing the longer term implications of the protests in Tbilisi this spring. The ultimate fallout from the protests which began in April is still to be determined. Some political actors among the non-parliamentary oppositi [...] | 2009-07-14 14:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1309 | GEORGIA: FAITH AND LANGUAGE NOT ENOUGH; GEORGIAN [...] (U) Summary. Georgian academics, artists and journalists gathered on June 18th at the Ambassador's residence to discuss the question of Georgian identity. Though specifically not intended to be a discussion of the current political situation, contemporary and historical politics were conside [...] | 2009-07-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI131 | GEORGIA: GAS RETURNS TO SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Itera-Georgia confirmed on Saturday, January 24 that it received approval from the Russian Government (reftel) to import gas from GazProm to sell to South Ossetia. Itera-Georgia repressurized the line and began supplying natural gas to South Ossetia early on January 24. This resumes [...] | 2009-01-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI132 | GEORGIA: POLITICIANS HIT THE AIRWAVES [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In a televised first, President Saakashvili answered four hours of call-in questioning from the general public on January 23. Opposition figures called the session a "Putin-like" stunt. In our view, the event actually resembled more of a "town-hall" political event and [...] | 2009-01-26 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1327 | GEORGIA: PROTEST LAW PASSED - RAKLES OPPONENTS [...] (C) Summary: The revision to the Law on Protests (reftel),which strengthens the Government's authorities, was passed July 17. Critics have questioned the need to enact the law so quickly and raised concerns about the provision that extended the maximum term of administrative detention fro [...] | 2009-07-20 12:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1339 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI OUTLINES NEXT STEPS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a nationally televised speech to Parliament July 20, President Saakashvili outlined his vision for next steps on reform and invited all elements of society to enter renewed dialogue. Key themes included the election code and local elections, constitutional and jud [...] | 2009-07-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP OTRA RS GG |
09TBILISI1358 | GEORGIA: RUSSIANS TIGHTEN CONTROL IN GALI [...] (C) Summary and comment. In recent weeks Russian Border Guards have tightened control over Abkhaz administrative boundary line crossing points. In a July 22 incident, they detained over 20 ethnic Georgians attempting to depart Abkhazia, confiscated Georgian passports from nine of them, and p [...] | 2009-07-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1382 | GEORGIA: HEAD OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Levan Kubaneishvili's July 20 resignation from his position as Georgia's public broadcasting (GPB) general director appears to be a tacit recognition of the continuing political battles that have swirled around the station for months. He has not publicly explained his resig [...] | 2009-07-30 15:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1408 | GEORGIA: MAJORITY NAMES LIKELY SUCCESSOR TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The United National Movement (UNM) has nominated Giorgi Tugushi to replace Sozar Subari as ombudsman. As the ruling party's candidate, Tugushi's confirmation by Parliament is all but guaranteed with a vote expected on July 31 (although it had not taken place by COB). Althoug [...] | 2009-07-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1409 | GEORGIA: INCIDENTS RAISE CONCERNS, MECHANISMS MEET [...] (C) Summary and comment. Deputy Foreign Minister Nalbandov told the Ambassador the government is concerned about a spate of recent incidents, especially as the August 7 first anniversary of Georgia's 2008 war with Russia approaches. An explosive device killed the father of a family of IDPs t [...] | 2009-07-31 14:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1427 | GEORGIA: ADDITIONAL PROVOCATIONS HEIGHTEN TENSION [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 2 Russian Border Guards set up poles in the village of Kveshi, 200 meters outside of the South Ossetian administrative boundary, as an apparent first step to establish a checkpoint; on August 3, the Russians and the poles were gone. On August 1 South Osseti [...] | 2009-08-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI148 | RUSSIAN SOLDIER DESERTS, SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On January 26 a Russian soldier based in the Akhalgori Valley inside South Ossetia deserted his post, crossed the administrative boundary at Odzisi, flagged down a Georgian Interior Ministry car, and requested asylum, based on his difficult living conditions. The Min [...] | 2009-01-28 13:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1510 | GEORGIA: THE REMAKING OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING [...] (C) Summary: Three seats on the public broadcasting board of trustees were filled on July 31 with remarkably little protest from within the parliament. The three men selected are generally highly respected for their objectiveness and better known for their sound academic work than for any p [...] | 2009-08-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1511 | GEORGIA: PRESENTATION ON CRIMINAL SYSTEM REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Representatives of the interagency council to reform Georgia's criminal justice system, established by Presidential decree in 2008, gave a presentation to diplomats and civil society representatives on a broad range of ongoing reforms in areas of juvenile justice, p [...] | 2009-08-07 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KUS GG |
09TBILISI1512 | GEORGIA: DEAL STRUCK TO PUSH BACK BY-ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliamentary minority faction Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) convinced the ruling United National Movement party (UNM) to postpone until 2010 by-elections in three single-mandate, majoritarian constituencies set for September 27. The by-elections will now be scheduled [...] | 2009-08-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1513 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON ALLEGED ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary/Comment: For the past week, Post has urged the Government to provide more details and investigate alleged beatings of opposition activists. On August 2, former Parliamentary Speaker and opposition leader Nino Burjanadze from the Democratic Movement-United Georgia (DMUG) party in [...] | 2009-08-07 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1514 | GEORGIA: MARKING THE AUGUST 7 ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) Summary: Georgians commemorated the one-year anniversary of the August 2008 conflict with numerous events around the country, including a mid-day visit by President Saakashvili to a cemetery containing the bodies of soldiers killed in the war, a nationwide moment of silence at 3 pm, an [...] | 2009-08-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS GG |
09TBILISI1517 | GEORGIA: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. Immediately following the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, our small USG aid programs in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were closed, with the exception of HALO Trust's demining program in Abkhazia. Other international donors, including the European Commission ( [...] | 2009-08-10 08:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID SOCI AID GG |
09TBILISI1519 | GEORGIA: UNEASY CALM AS WAR ANNIVERSARY COMES AND [...] (C) Summary. August 5 and 6 were uneasily calm after several days of incidents and allegations, followed by five Georgians being kidnapped and returned unharmed on August 7. On August 3, Georgian and South Ossetian forces traded allegations of an attack near Plavismani and Otrevi, and on Augu [...] | 2009-08-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1524 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR FRIED DISCUSSES GEORGIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his August 5-6 visit to Tbilisi, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay Ambassador Daniel Fried discussed with a wide-range of Senior Georgian officials the details of how Georgia planned to implement its offer to accept a number of detainees currently detained at Guantanamo B [...] | 2009-08-11 11:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1525 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR FRIED MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to Tbilisi on August 5 and 6, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay Ambassador Daniel Fried met with a range of senior Georgian officials, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze, Secretary of the National Security Council Eka Tkeshelashvili, Minister [...] | 2009-08-11 11:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RR GG |
09TBILISI1526 | GEORGIA: NATIONAL FORUM - QUIETLY BECOMING A PLAYER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In the wake of three months of protests, the National Forum seems to have found a message that resonates with the Georgian public. More importantly, National Forum leaders have shown a willingness to do the hard work necessary to build a grass-roots party despite limit [...] | 2009-08-11 11:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1528 | GEORGIA: NO SURPRISES IN SELECTION OF PUBLIC TV'S [...] (C) Summary/Comment: On August 10 Georgia Public Broadcasting's (GPB) Board of Trustees elected Gia Chanturia as the new GPB General Director. Perceived as the ruling United National Movement's (UNM) candidate, Chanturia was widely expected to be selected for the position (ref A). Chanturia i [...] | 2009-08-12 07:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1541 | GEORGIAN REACTIONS TO THE MEDVEDEV-YUSHCHENKO [...] (U) Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's August 11, 2009, letter and accompanying video address (available widely on the internet) to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dominated Georgian headlines and raised questions about Moscow's intentions. In the letter, Medvedev specif [...] | 2009-08-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV RU UK GG |
09TBILISI1543 | MR. PUTIN COMES TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Russian Prime Minister Putin visited Abkhazia August 12, renewing Russia's commitment to Abkhaz "independence" and promising nearly USD 500 million in spending on military infrastructure. Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh called the visit an example of the "dynamic [...] | 2009-08-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1551 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PLEASED WITH RECENT MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: The August 7 National Security Council Meeting attended by several opposition leaders, both parliamentary and non-parliamentary, and an August 12 meeting between opposition leaders and the Minister of Internal Affairs to discuss alleged political repression of opposition activi [...] | 2009-08-14 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1568 | GEORGIA: COURT RULES THAT BURJANADZE MUST PAY [...] (C) Summary: Nino Burjanadze (Democratic Movement - United Georgia) has been ordered by a Tbilisi court to pay 1.2 million lari (approximately USD 715,000) for her tax bill for her dacha in Tkneti, just outside of Tbilisi. The court upheld the assessment of the Ministry of Finance which Bu [...] | 2009-08-19 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1575 | GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Summary. Matthew Bryza paid his farewell visit as Deputy Assistant Secretary to Georgia August 9-11, meeting with senior officials and receiving a Golden Fleece award from President Saakashvili for his contributions to Georgian-American relations. After the ceremony, Bryza and Saakashvil [...] | 2009-08-20 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1580 | GEORGIA: MOIA FOLLOWS THROUGH, NON-PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of the August 12 meeting between opposition leaders and the MoIA (ref A),a dozen detainees have been released on bond. The MoIA continues to review the 44 cases that Irakli Alasania (Our Georgia - Free Democrats) provided during the meeting as well as other cases [...] | 2009-08-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1581 | GEORGIA: ENDING MEMBERSHIP IN CIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 18, 2009, Georgia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) organization officially expired, following the one year mandatory wait period after officially informing the organization f its intentions on August 14, 2008 in the aftermath of the war wi [...] | 2009-08-21 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09TBILISI1582 | GEORGIA: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT WITH ABKHAZIA AND UN [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In recent meetings, UN Special Representative Johann Verbeke and other European diplomats have proposed various ideas on the future of the international community's engagement with the breakaway regions, and a possible new role for the UN. Expressing satisfaction th [...] | 2009-08-24 04:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1587 | GEORGIAN COAST GUARD CRACKS DOWN ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 15 and 18 the Georgian Coast Guard detained two vessels for violations of the Law on Occupied Territories and other infractions, including for traveling in restricted Black Sea waters off the coast of Abkhazia. Although both vessels were stopped more than [...] | 2009-08-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV EWWT ETRD CB FR PM RS |
09TBILISI1588 | GEORGIA: MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SACKED [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nika Gilauri fired Minister of Economic Development Lasha Zhvania on August 21, ostensibly for poor performance. Zhvania held a near simultaneous press conference in which he announced he was resigning from the Ministry due in part to interference by others in th [...] | 2009-08-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1589 | GEORGIA: STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The reform of Georgia's police forces has been one of Georgia's most significant successes since the Rose Revolution, resulting in a decrease in corruption and improved public image for the police. However, because of the many agencies and branches with overlapping jurisdiction [...] | 2009-08-25 05:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR KBTS KCRM GG |
09TBILISI1625 | GEORGIA: IRI FOCUS GROUPS - ROSNER POLL INDICATE [...] (C) Summary: Recent IRI focus groups along with a United National Movement (UNM) poll indicate that President Saakashvili enjoys solid support and a large majority view that it is likely he will serve out his presidential term which ends in 2013. According to the August 8-12 UNM poll condu [...] | 2009-08-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1628 | GEORGIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE REPLACED [...] (U) On August 27, President Saakashvili removed Defense Minister Davit Sikharulidze from his position. Saakashvili named Deputy Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia the new Minister of Defense. Sikharulidze, also the former Georgian Ambassador to the U.S., reportedly will remain in the governmen [...] | 2009-08-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI164 | GEORGIA: UNOMIG OBSERVES SNIPER PATROL IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. On January 22 a UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) patrol in Abkhazia saw seven individuals in unmarked camouflage patrolling near the village of Gvashigverdi, just inside the administrative boundary. Among other weapons, the group carried three SVD sniper ri [...] | 2009-01-29 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1644 | GEORGIA: TROUBLING HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. The departure of UNOMIG and arrival of Russian Border Guards have not yet caused a new exodus of ethnic Georgian Gali residents from Abkhazia, according to local observers. Conditions, however, have deteriorated, and the local population is more nervous than ever. Problems incl [...] | 2009-09-01 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI165 | GEORGIA: THE RULING PARTY REFLECTS, DEVELOPS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: While highly confident in their ability to serve out their mandates, the leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) have gone through a period of self-evaluation as to how best to effectuate their political and policy aims in the coming year. UNM is poised to resume [...] | 2009-01-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1652 | GEORGIA: DEFENSE MINISTER AKHALAIA SEEKS TO [...] (C) Summary. Newly-appointed Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia met NATO resident Ambassadors September 2 in a "getting-to-know" you meeting. Akhalaia stressed that there would be no change in MOD priorities -- NATO integration, modernization of the armed forces and "preserving the peace" wer [...] | 2009-09-02 13:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL GG |
09TBILISI1653 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISMS HIT STRIDE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent meetings of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) for both Abkhazia and South Ossetia have showed progress toward the original concept: a forum enabling regular exchange of information and the pragmatic discussion of incidents and the security e [...] | 2009-09-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1669 | GEORGIA: RE-ENGAGING WITH ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. One year after the U.S. ceased nearly all aid to the breakaway regions in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war, the time is right to re-engage with Abkhazia. The Georgian government and the Abkhaz de facto authorities both support the idea, and U.S. long-term goals are bett [...] | 2009-09-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID OEXC RS GG |
09TBILISI1674 | GEORGIA: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH NINO BURJANADZE? [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Despite her almost complete lack of political support, Burjanadze, likely because of her past international role as Georgia's acting President (twice) and well-known Speaker as well as the on-going activities of her husband, still commands the GoG's attention. A growing [...] | 2009-09-08 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI168 | GEORGIA: NON PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The non-parliamentary opposition announced and distributed its Declaration of Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations of Georgia (Declaration) which calls for President Saakashvili's resignation; early presidential and parliamentary elections; and the establish [...] | 2009-01-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI169 | GEORGIA: THE ECONOMY IS SAAKASHVILI'S TOP PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary. Although in better financial shape than some of its neighbors, Georgia is starting to suffer from the overall international economic malaise. Georgia's banking sector remains sound due to high liquidity and conservative lending policies, but experts worry that a likely devaluat [...] | 2009-01-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI17 | GEORGIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PLANS REFORMS [...] (SBU) Begin summary. During a December 23 meeting with the Ambassador, new Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Giorgi Khachidze, was upbeat and energized about his plans for reforms, including the finalization of a strategic environmental plan for the country. He desc [...] | 2009-01-06 13:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV SCUL BEXP AID GG |
09TBILISI170 | GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS, FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) After a prolonged illness over the past few months, including extensive treatment in Europe, Prime Minister Mgaloblishvili submitted his resignation to the President on January 30. Although only 35 years old, Mgaloblishvili is suffering from kidney disease and as reported reftel, is visi [...] | 2009-01-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI171 | GEORGIA: GOVT AGREES TO LIMIT OFFENSIVE CAPABILITY [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a briefing for diplomats, EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) staff provided information about the January 26 agreement between the EUMM and the Georgian Ministry of Defense (MOD). The EUMM military advisor judged that the limitations the Georgians voluntarily imposed upo [...] | 2009-01-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1713 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ POLITICS HEAT UP AS ELECTIONS DRAW [...] (C) Summary and comment. Several recent incidents in Abkhazia point to heightened political tension in the area, including de facto "president" Bagapsh's order to his naval forces to attack Georgian ships entering Abkhaz water (reftel),the passage and repeal of the law on "citizenship" for e [...] | 2009-09-11 13:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF RU GG |
09TBILISI1714 | GEORGIA: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND SHIP SEIZURES [...] (C) Summary and comment. The latest round of the incident prevention and response mechanism (IPRM) meetings took place on September 3 in Ergneti for the South Ossetian side and September 8 in Gali for the Abkhaz side. The atmosphere during the South Ossetian IPRM was tense and a considerable [...] | 2009-09-11 13:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1729 | GEORGIA: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP SEIZURES [...] (C) As requested, Charge joined the German, French and UK Ambassadors in a September 16 meeting to deliver the points contained ref a to Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze. The Quad group reviewed the points and stressed that the decision to deliver this demarche jointly was intended [...] | 2009-09-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL GG RS |
09TBILISI1733 | GEORGIA: LABOR CODE UNDER REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Irakli Petriashvili, President of the Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC),met with Econoff to discuss ongoing talks between the GOG, GTUC, and employer association representatives regarding the ongoing review of Georgia's labor code. Petriashvili sad that his initiativ [...] | 2009-09-17 09:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1735 | GEORGIA: PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI'S TO-DO LIST AT UNGA [...] (C) Summary. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will be looking closely for evidence of any change in U.S. policy toward Georgia when he meets with the Secretary on the margins of the UNGA. According to several key presidential advisors, Saakashvili will seek reassurance at the highest [...] | 2009-09-17 13:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNGA GG |
09TBILISI1739 | GEORGIA WORRIES ABOUT BELARUSAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) Summary. Since Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgian policymakers have warned of a "cascade of recognitions" that could occur should Belarus follow suit. Belarusan President Lukashenko's September 15 statement that the Parliament would consider recognition when [...] | 2009-09-18 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1742 | Georgia: Visit of Senate Foreign Relations Staff [...] (U) Summary: Staff members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) Steven Feldstein, Jason Bruder, and Dillon Guthrie, visited Georgia from August 27 to August 30 and met with a variety of government, civil society, development and international representatives. Themes discussed inclu [...] | 2009-09-21 07:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1745 | GEORGIA: LIFE ON THE BRINK IN GALI [...] (C) Summary. A September 11 trip into Abkhazia confirmed many concerns about the marginal existence facing ethnic Georgian residents of Gali. Emboffs observed decrepit housing, execrable roads, collapsing schools, insufficient health care facilities, horse-drawn carts, and insect-threatene [...] | 2009-09-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR RS GG |
09TBILISI1755 | GEORGIA: SOME NON-PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES COME OFF [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Members of the Irakli Alasania-led Alliance for Georgia, Republican (represented by David Berznenishvili) and New Rights (represented by Mamuka Katsitadze) Parties followed political ally Irakli Alasania's earlier lead and joined the National Democratic Institute (NDI) [...] | 2009-09-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1756 | GEORGIA: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS TBILISI [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid an official visit to Tbilisi September 7-8 and was joined by his Deputy Under Secretary for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Ambassador Unal Cevikoz; Cevikoz later visited Sukhumi on September 10. Davutoglu met with President Saakashvi [...] | 2009-09-23 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU GG |
09TBILISI1757 | GEORGIA: RADICAL ORTHODOX GROUP STOPS MOSQUE [...] (C) Summary: On September 16, representative of two radical fundamentalist Georgian Orthodox groups, the "Society of Saint David the Builder" and "Union of Orthodox Parents" stopped construction on a mosque in the village of Talaveri. The groups demanded to see the villagers' construction perm [...] | 2009-09-23 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL AZ GG |
09TBILISI1760 | GEORGIA: MINISTER EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR U.S. [...] Summary. USG agencies and programs provide significant assistance to the Government of Georgia in the fields of nonproliferation, as well as nuclear and radiation safety. This assistance is provided by several different programs of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administr [...] | 2009-09-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM GG |
09TBILISI1765 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI EXPRESSES CONCERN TO DAS [...] (C) Summary. During her September 15 introductory call on President Saakashvili, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow urged him to make progress on democratic reforms as a way to increase support for Georgia within the international community and shore up domestic stability, echoing earlier comments from VP [...] | 2009-09-25 08:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL BR RU AM AZ GG |
09TBILISI1766 | GEORGIA: DAS KAIDANOW URGES DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN [...] (C) Summary: During meetings with a wide range of GoG officials, non-parliamentary opposition leaders, opposition and majority MPs, and members of civil society, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow stressed to all of her interlocutors the importance of political engagement and the need for progress on demo [...] | 2009-09-25 08:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1772 | GEORGIA: VISAS FOR DE FACTOS - THE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. According to ref A, Russia has indicated it intends to seek U.S. visas for Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto officials to travel to New York for discussions at the UN. In post's view, the issuance of such visas could undermine U.S. policy on the status of the regions; legitim [...] | 2009-09-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA CVIS RS GG |
09TBILISI1773 | GEORGIA: NATO ASSESSMENT TEAM OUTBRIEF ON HEELS OF [...] (C) Summary. Frank Boland, Head of Force Planning Department of NATO Defense Policy and Planning Division, and lead for the NATO Planning and Review Process (PARP) and Annual National Program (ANP) assessment team, briefed NATO Ambassadors and defense attaches on their most recent review, giv [...] | 2009-09-25 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1781 | GEORGIA: A TALE OF TWO ETHNIC MINORITY CITIES [...] (C) Summary: City government officials and NGOs in the Samtskhe-Javakheti (S-J) cities of Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki were upbeat about their future in Georgia, but worried about protecting their cultural and linguistic heritage. The majority of the estimated 300,000 ethnic Armenians in Georg [...] | 2009-09-29 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1784 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE'S TAX SAGA CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Former Speaker of Parliament, Nino Burjanadze (Democratic Movement - United Georgia) has indicated that she may challenge President Saakashvili to arrest her on what she believes are trumped up tax penalties in connection with a property she received for one lari (60 cents) in [...] | 2009-09-30 05:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1786 | GEORGIA: TAGLIAVINI REPORT FINDS PLENTY OF BLAME [...] (C) Summary. The EU-sponsored Tagliavini Commission on the August 2008 war, released in Brussels on September 30, points fingers at many parties, including Georgia, Russia, the de facto authorities, the United States, and the international community writ large. It expressly refuses to iden [...] | 2009-09-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1787 | GEORGIA: JEWISH COMMUNITY RESTORES SYNAGOGUE THEY [...] (U) With great fanfare, a 150-year-old Ashkenazi synagogue reopened in the "Old Tbilisi" district on September 15. The synagogue was badly damaged by a 1991 earthquake and was closed in 2005. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),who held their annual conference in Georgia last year, primari [...] | 2009-10-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1790 | GEORGIA: PREDICTABLE POLITICAL PARTY COMMENTARY ON [...] (U) Summary: Domestic political reaction to the Tagliavini report (reftel) predictably corresponded to long-held political perceptions. Various non-parliamentary opposition leaders took the opportunity, citing a finding in the report criticizing Georgia for a disproportionate use of force [...] | 2009-10-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RR GG |
09TBILISI18 | GEORGIA: ATTEMPTS TO REPRESSURIZE GAS PIPELINE TO [...] (C) Summary: Despite continued lack of access to sections of the natural gas pipeline running from Agara to Tskhinvali and on to Java, on December 31 the Georgian Oil and Gas Company (GOGC) pressurized the line to determine if gas could be restored to Tskhinvali. Unfortunately, during the r [...] | 2009-01-06 13:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1809 | GEORGIA: MR. LAVROV COMES TO GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visited Abkhazia during the first week of October, reportedly to sign an agreement on visa-free travel, discuss bilateral relations and confer about the results of the latest Geneva talks. Lavrov's schedule, as publicly released, included meetings [...] | 2009-10-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1810 | GEORGIA: MISSTEPS ON NEW OSCE PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary and comment. OSCE Chairman-in-Office Special Representative Christopoulos visited Tbilisi and Tskhinvali September 30 - October 2, hoping to reach agreement on modalities for a new roving OSCE presence. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Bokeria protested some process fouls, but a [...] | 2009-10-06 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1823 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASD VERSHBOW [...] (C) Summary. During your visit to Tbilisi, Saakashvili and his team will be watching closely for clues to any adjustments in U.S. policy toward Georgia. They will be anxious to discuss developments at the MOD, to clarify the new Minister's role and to reassure us of Georgia's commitment to [...] | 2009-10-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS GG |
09TBILISI1840 | GEORGIA: BIG SELL ON ECONOMIC REFORM UNDERMINED BY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 14:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1853 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TRYING TO [...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition has spent much of the last three months since July when the final "cells" were taken off of Rustaveli Avenue prior to the Vice President's visit staying out of the spotlight. Behind the scenes, leaders have been engaged in largely fruitless dis [...] | 2009-10-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1854 | GEORGIA: MFA PROPOSALS FOR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria outlined to the Charge Georgian plans for upcoming Strategic Partnership Commission Working Group meetings in Tbilisi. In addition to discussing dates, he suggested possible participation and broad strokes for agenda items. Each of the four working [...] | 2009-10-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENIV ENRG PGOV PREL |
09TBILISI1880 | GEORGIA: UN REP VERBEKE RAISES QUESTIONS ON [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. In an October 7 meeting with the Charge, UN Representative Johan Verbeke asked about the U.S. commitment to the Geneva talks -- in particular whether A/S Gordon would be attending the November 11 round. He said Russia was looking for an excuse to downgrade the pro [...] | 2009-10-09 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
09TBILISI1881 | GEORGIA: ROUGH RECEPTION FOR DANISH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During an October 6 visit to Abkhazia, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller met with de facto "foreign minister" Shamba and "president" Bagapsh. In meetings described by the Danish Honorary Consul, who accompanied the FM, as "disastrous," "poorly timed," and "awkward," Moell [...] | 2009-10-09 15:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV DA RS GG |
09TBILISI19 | GEORGIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ON NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Begin summary and comment. New Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Giorgi Khachidze, discussed nonproliferation issues with the Ambassador on December 23, focusing on a new donation from the U.S. of specialized equipment to handle radioactive materials at Georgi [...] | 2009-01-06 13:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP GG |
09TBILISI1915 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI ACKNOWLEDGES HIS IMAGE [...] (C) Summary. During a lunch following the Ambassador's credentials ceremony, President Saakashvili acknowledged the international community's questions about the Georgian Government's reform program. However, he insisted that he was committed to using the remaining four years of his term i [...] | 2009-10-19 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1919 | GEORGIA: RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL CROSSES THE BORDER [...] (C) Summary. On August 26, a car carrying three Armenian citizens entered Georgia from Armenia at the Sadakhlo border crossing. The car set off a gamma alarm on the radiation detection portal monitor. The driver provided a cursory explanation for the alarm, and the patrol police did not detain the [...] | 2009-10-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI1920 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT SUBMITS NOTIONAL BUDGET TO [...] (C) The Government's notional draft of the 2010 budget submitted to Parliament shows the economic difficulties facing the country and contains cuts across the board (except in key social spending areas). While the draft meets the Government's technical and legal requirements, it does not prov [...] | 2009-10-21 12:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1932 | GEORGIA: PUBLIC MORE OPTIMISTIC, BENEFITTING [...] (C) Summary: Georgians are more optimistic about their futures even as they struggle economically, according to the International Republican Institute's (IRI) latest poll. The shift in mood and economic stabilization have benefited the President and his party; Saakashvili received a 10 point [...] | 2009-10-23 16:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1935 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION - LOTS OF MEETINGS, [...] (C) Comment. The Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) have become more routine and therefore there is less "breaking news" to report out of them. This has led to more regular contact and a general reduction of tension among the participants. However, the same themes are discus [...] | 2009-10-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1949 | GEORGIA: ASD VERSHBOW LEADS SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. Under the umbrella of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow, Ambassador Bass, and an extended USG team jump-started the U.S.-Georgia Charter Working Groups. The meeting on October 20 with Georgian Deputy Defense Minis [...] | 2009-10-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1962 | GEORGIA:COUNTERING RUSSIAN CLAIMS OF TERRORISTS IN [...] (C) Summary: A visit to Pankisi revealed no evidence of Russian claims of increased terrorist activity in the region. Stopping in each village after reaching the gorge, CDM leader Giorgi Targamadze facilitated discussion among locals, police officials, and community leaders on the situation [...] | 2009-10-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1973 | GEORGIA INCLINED TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA GG |
09TBILISI1989 | GEORGIA: LONDON HOSTS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Participants at the October 14 meeting hosted by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office featured an open and candid exchange of views among Georgian officials, Quad and EU counterparts, and outside experts on other countries that have faced protracted political di [...] | 2009-11-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID CY EU GM RS UK GG |
09TBILISI1990 | GEORGIA: ALL RELATIVELY QUITE ON THE NOVEMBER 7 [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The second anniversary of the November 7, 2007, GoG crackdown on protesters were marked by low-key, sparsely attended and relatively uneventful demonstrations. The mile-long protest march from the Georgian Public Broadcaster's station to Parliament proceeded peacefully wi [...] | 2009-11-09 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1991 | GEORGIA: PRE-ELECTION VISIT TO ABKHAZIA - NEW [...] (C) Summary and comment. During a meeting in Sukhumi with Department and Embassy visitors, mid-level de facto officials expressed openness to additional visits from U.S. officials, but were non-committal on waiving the requirement for a "visa" for more senior visitors. They also expressed s [...] | 2009-11-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS EAID RS GG |
09TBILISI1998 | GEORGIA: DESERVING OF A SECOND MCC COMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary Since its Millennium Challenge compact came into effect in April 2006, Georgia has consistently performed well in implementation and has strived to maintain and improve upon MCC indicators. Georgia's strong performance in implementing the current compact underscores that the M [...] | 2009-11-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2002 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. The holding of this first Democracy Working Group as envisioned by the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Charter is greatly anticipated and will be closely followed by the Georgian Government, opposition leaders, and civil society. The Georgian delegation will be anxious to dis [...] | 2009-11-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2005 | GEORGIA: PROGRESS ON ELECTION CODE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition parties and the ruling United National Movement (UNM) have announced agreement on a number of key issues regarding the new electoral code, paving the way for a Venice Commission review. Behind the scenes negotiations within the UNM, amongst the opposition, and betwe [...] | 2009-11-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2009 | GEORGIA: PROGRESS ON ELECTION CODE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition parties and the ruling United National Movement (UNM) have announced agreement on a number of key issues regarding the new electoral code, paving the way for a Venice Commission review. Behind the scenes negotiations within the UNM, amongst the opposition, and betwe [...] | 2009-11-16 05:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM GG PREL |
09TBILISI2013 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON US STRATEGY FOR ENLARGEMENT GOALS FOR DECEMBER FOREIGN MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 13:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | GG NATO PGOV PREL |
09TBILISI2025 | GEORGIA: MISTRAL SALE COULD DESTABILIZE BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On November 13 and 16 Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze voiced serious concerns about the potentially destabilizing influence of France's possible sale of Mistral-class helicopter carrier ships to Russia (reftel) to DAS Tina Kaidanow and the Ambassador. As the broker of t [...] | 2009-11-19 12:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2027 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF GG |
09TBILISI2028 | GEORGIA: ELECTION LAW WORKING GROUP STALLS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: The United National Movement (UNM) announced that it would pull out of the Election Law Working Group (ELWG) on November 18 after consensus could not be reached, but informal talks among the parties continue. A wide-ranging package had been agreed to by all parties except for [...] | 2009-11-19 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI203 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF VCJCS [...] (SBU) Your visit to Georgia follows the visit of USAREUR Commanding General Ham, which was well-received by the Georgians, but focused mainly on military-to-military discussions. Your itinerary will be broader - we have requested meetings with the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, an [...] | 2009-02-04 10:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2056 | GEORGIA: SPEAKER BAKRADZE WORKING TO SALVAGE THE [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze told the Ambassador on November 20 that he was working to find consensus that would allow all parties who participated in the Electoral Law Working Group (ELWG) to sign on to a package of reforms. Bakradze said that he hoped to develop a ve [...] | 2009-11-24 14:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2066 | GEORGIA: UN SEES ABKHAZ INCIDENT PREVENTION [...] (C) Summary. UN officials see the Abkhaz Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism as a useful mechanism to defuse tensions that provides a constructive vehicle for engaging all sides. The UN reported that most IPRM procedural issues were resolved within the first meeting. They also noted t [...] | 2009-11-27 13:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI207 | GEORGIA: BORDER CONTROL CHANGES WORRY [...] (C) Summary and comment. Organizational changes within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) effective January 1, specifically in the Border Police and Patrol Police, have changed operations at Georgia's ports of entry. Previously, the Border Police controlled operations and passenger proc [...] | 2009-02-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV DOE KNNP GG |
09TBILISI2083 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ ELECTION CAMPAIGN HEATS UP [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN team member Hailu Mamo, a long-time Abkhazia observer, believes Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh now faces a tough battle for re-election. Given past elections in Abkhazia, it is possible that this could be a real contest. No single opposition candidate has em [...] | 2009-12-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2084 | GEORGIA: BELARUSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian Parliamentarians paid a visit to Georgia in late November, with part of the delegation stopping in Tbilisi to meet with Georgian government officials, and two smaller groups traveling into Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian press broadly covered the visit, and spec [...] | 2009-12-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO GG |
09TBILISI2102 | GEORGIA: DAS KAIDANOW TALKS DEMOCRACY, CONFLICTS, [...] (C) Summary. EUR DAS Kaidanow met with Georgian officials to urge further progress on democratic reforms and review the current situation around Georgia's conflict zones. She urged the government to avoid provocations in the Black Sea and discussed the increasingly heated tone of rhetoric f [...] | 2009-12-03 11:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI2103 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER PROMOTES PROGRESS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. On the margins of the U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC),DASD Wallander spoke with senior government and parliamentary counterparts about next steps on reform, NATO membership, the National Security Review, the government's engagement strategy with t [...] | 2009-12-03 11:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2105 | GEORGIA: UPCOMING LOCAL ELECTIONS REVEAL SIGNS OF [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The ruling United National Movement (UNM) has maintained its hold on political power in no small part due to its party discipline (ref B). Although it is premature to declare any sort of lame duck status or impending breakup of the UNM, it has become increasingly obvio [...] | 2009-12-03 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2106 | GEORGIA: CHURCH AND STATE, MAINTAINING A DELICATE [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Government officials are privately expressing frustration over the expansive role the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) plays in society. The long-hidden conflict between the GOC and GOG may be beginning to play out publicly in subtle ways. Internet videos mocking GOC Patr [...] | 2009-12-03 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG KIRF |
09TBILISI2109 | Georgia: Supportive Reaction to President Obama's Speech [...] (U) Summary: In line with Georgia's strong support of the mission in Afghanistan, senior Georgian officials and the MFA have publicly endorsed the plan laid out by President Obama on December 1st. Georgia's support is backed up by contributions: in November, Georgia sent 170 troops under the [...] | 2009-12-04 05:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI212 | GEORGIA: OFFICIALS AND PRESS DISMISS UNION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The reaction in Georgia to the February 3 meeting of the "Union of Georgians" in Russia, despite heavy coverage on Georgian television, has been mostly dismissive, with significant skepticism regarding its utility in improving relations between the neighbors. Following the meeti [...] | 2009-02-05 10:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI2131 | GEORGIA: DETENTIONS RAISE TENSIONS AROUND SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. A series of detentions over the past month has increased tension between Georgia and the South Ossetian de facto authorities. These recent incidents are not the only such cases, and older outstanding cases, some dating even from before the August 2008 war, have complicated reso [...] | 2009-12-04 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2137 | GEORGIA: A/S POSNER LEADS DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary: In the first full meeting of the Democracy Working Group under the umbrella of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, DRL A/S Posner and EUR DAS Kaidanow both challenged the GoG to continue its democratic evolution noting the crucial link between establishing a plur [...] | 2009-12-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2138 | GEORGIA: DRL A/S POSNER AND EUR DAS KADINOW HEAR [...] (C) Summary: In preparation for the Democracy Working Group, under the auspices of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission, members of the U.S. delegation met with leading civil society representatives and opposition political leaders who expressed concerns in several areas, includ [...] | 2009-12-07 13:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2170 | GEORGIA: ELECTORAL CODE PASSES FIRST READING, [...] (C) Summary: As expected, Parliament passed draft amendments to the electoral code on the first reading and is expected to adopt the law after a second and third reading scheduled for later this month. The draft consists of the general consensus as agreed to in the framework of the NDI spo [...] | 2009-12-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2171 | GEORGIA: 2010 BUDGET - CUTS CONTINUE [...] (U) Summary: The Parliament of Georgia approved the 2010 state budget on December 4, setting estimated revenues at GEL 5.17 billion (USD 3.1 billion, 1 USD = 1.68 GEL),a 20 percent decrease from 2009, and estimated expenditures at GEL 5.46 billion (USD 3.25 billion),a 21 percent decrease f [...] | 2009-12-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PRIL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI2179 | GEORGIA: TOLERANCE REIGNS AT THE OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE [...] Summary: For the first time, the Public Defender's Office (PDO) commemorated an "International Day of Tolerance," honoring several Georgian NGOs and individuals for their contribution toward advancing tolerance in Georgian society. This event brought together representatives from all the maj [...] | 2009-12-11 14:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2180 | GEORGIA: LATVIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS MISHA MORAL [...] (C) Summary: Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, accompanied by his wife and 65 Latvian businessmen, paid an official visit to Georgia in early December. With the economies of both Latvia and Georgia struggling, the visit centered on shared possibilities for enhanced business relationships. G [...] | 2009-12-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LV GG |
09TBILISI2181 | GEORGIA: BAGAPSH WINS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (SBU) According to the "central election commission" of Abkhazia, incumbent "president" Sergey Bagapsh won the "presidential elections" in Abkhazia on December 12 with 59.4 percent of the vote, avoiding the need for a run-off. There was a striking dichotomy in official Georgian reaction tothe [...] | 2009-12-14 15:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2203 | GEORGIA: GOVERNOR OF SHIDA KARTLI LOOKS TO THE [...] (C) Summary. Shida Kartli regional governor Vladimer (Lado) Vardzelashvili told us he is concentrating on looking past last year's conflict with Russia, helping the region's residents resume their daily lives and move forward instead of remaining bound to the war. In his view, the path to rei [...] | 2009-12-15 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS GG |
09TBILISI2204 | GEORGIA: CONSTRUCTIVE EXCHANGE ON THE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On December 11 Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili led a discussion with international partners of a draft strategy on engagement with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Characterizing it as a "human-centric" engagement (not de-occupation) plan, Yakobashvili called it the government's [...] | 2009-12-15 13:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID RS TU GG |
09TBILISI222 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION MUST CHOOSE [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Parliament is renewing its efforts to create a working group to reform Georgia's Election Code (ref A) in 2009. Speaker Bakradze has invited significant political parties (inside and outside of Parliament),five local NGOs, the Central Election Commission (CEC),and [...] | 2009-02-05 14:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI223 | GEORGIA: SKEPTICAL VIEW ON CAUCASUS STABILITY [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT. In a frank discussion, MFA International Organizations Director Sergi Kapanadze made it clear that the Georgians have no hope that anything substantive will come out of the Turkish proposed Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform, now or in the future, but were unwill [...] | 2009-02-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GG TK |
09TBILISI2239 | GEORGIA: TRAINING OF GEORGIAN BATTALION FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Both the U.S. and Georgia assess the ongoing training by U.S. Marines of the Georgian 31st battalion in preparation for deployment in Afghanistan as going well. The training is intended to increase Georgian forces' ability to operate in a counter-insurgency environme [...] | 2009-12-16 12:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF GG |
09TBILISI2240 | GEORGIA DOWNPLAYS NAURU'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgian officials downplayed the significance of Nauru's apparent December 14 recognition of Abkhazia's "independence," which Russia reportedly encouraged with an offer of $50 million to the island nation. Although officials are discussing with Australian counterpa [...] | 2009-12-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS XM AS NR RS GG |
09TBILISI2254 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS UGULAVA AS FRONT RUNNER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A recent International Republican Institute (IRI) poll of Tbilisi residents showed likely United National Movement (UNM) candidate and current mayor Gigi Ugulava with a significant lead on the field of probable Tbilisi mayoral candidates in upcoming local elections sche [...] | 2009-12-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON GG |
09TBILISI2255 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIANS SPURN OSCE WHILE [...] (C) Summary and comment. During a December 11 trip Tskhinvali, South Ossetian de facto representatives made clear to outgoing Greek OSCE Chairman Special Representative Christopoulos and his incoming Kazakh successor Bolat Nurgaliyev their lack of interest in an OSCE roving team, their tough [...] | 2009-12-21 12:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS EPET RS KZ GG |
09TBILISI2257 | GEORGIA: TWO TEENAGERS HELD SINCE NOVEMBER 4 [...] (C) Three Georgians youths were released by the South Ossetian de facto authorities on Saturday December 19th, including two teenagers detained on November 4th and one 16 year old boy detained in July (ref A). Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg met on December 17 [...] | 2009-12-21 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2276 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN SERVICEMAN SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. According to Ministry of Refugee Affairs (MRA) officials, a Russian contract soldier, Vitaliy Khripun, crossed the administrative border line (ABL) from the breakaway region of South Ossetia into undisputed Georgia December 20. The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and [...] | 2009-12-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG PHUM |
09TBILISI2277 | GEORGIA: WWII MEMORIAL RELOCATION IN KUTAISI ENDS [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: The planned relocation of a bronze Soviet-era memorial and destruction of its backdrop took a tragic turn when the explosion designed to demolish the backdrop killed two and injured others. The memorial was removed to make way for the construction of a new parliament [...] | 2009-12-23 05:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM RS GG |
09TBILISI2280 | GEORGIANS PREPARED TO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (C) Summary. The Governments of Georgia and Russia are continuing quiet talks regarding the opening of the land border crossing at Kazbegi-Larsi. Georgian FM Vashadze told the Ambassador that Georgia, Russia and Armenia will meet December 23-24 to continue the discussions begun in Yerevan in [...] | 2009-12-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM RS GG |
09TBILISI2283 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER MEETING WITH MINDEF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander laid out the results of the Bilateral Defense Consulations (BDC),reaffirming U.S. support for Georgia's defense reform and modernization along Euro-Atlantic lines in her meeting with Georgian Minister of Defense Bacho Akh [...] | 2009-12-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2291 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER LEADS BILATERAL DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On 19-20 November, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste A. Wallander co-chaired with First Deputy Minister of Defense Nikoloz Vashakidze the 2009 U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Tbilisi, Georgia. The BDC established the strategic direct [...] | 2009-12-29 12:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS |
09TBILISI23 | GEORGIA: NDI POLL SHOWS PUBLIC OPINION REMAINS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A new NDI poll taken in November 2008 shows that Georgian public opinion remains largely unchanged from earlier post-war polling by IRI and Greenberg, Quinlan, and Rosner Associates. The NDI poll shows some potential softening of support for President Saakashvili and th [...] | 2009-01-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2307 | GEORGIA: ELECTORAL CODE PASSES THIRD READING WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Electoral Code (ref A) passed its third reading after a three day delay due to opposition Christian Democrats' objections about voter lists and voter registration procedures. The only notable change to the code on the third reading was the adoption of an amendment that bar [...] | 2009-12-30 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI24 | GEORGIA: RUMORS, MANEUVERING, AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Well informed International Republican Institute Country Director, Dimitry Shashkin (strictly protect) has passed on several far fetched but widely circulated rumors in Tbilisi alleging a US or EU engineered plot to oust President Saakashvili in the spring. While the lik [...] | 2009-01-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI241 | Georgia: Poti Seaport Management Positive About the [...] (SBU) Summary: UAE-based Rakeen Group Managing Director of Poti Seaport Rony Saab briefed the DCM January 28 about the Group's vision for the port's development and received an update on the free industrial zone project. Saab sees huge potential in the seaport's development, particularly as [...] | 2009-02-06 08:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV GG |
09TBILISI255 | GEORGIA: NEW CABINET CONFIRMED, GOG STRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: As expected, Parliament confirmed Nika Gilauri as Prime Minister, Kakha Baindurashvili as Finance Minister, Dimitri Shashkin as Minister for Penitentiary, Probation and Legal Assistance, and Davit Tkeshelashvili as Minister for Regional Development and Infrastructure on Februa [...] | 2009-02-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI271 | GEORGIA: VP'S MUNICH SPEECH WELL RECEIVED, [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Vice President Biden's speech in Munich was very well received in Georgia making front page news in Georgian papers. The Vice President's firm remarks that the United States would never recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia garnered most of the headlines. The meeting [...] | 2009-02-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI272 | GEORGIA: KIDNAPPED FOOTBALL REFEREE FREED, [...] (SBU) Summary: A Georgian soccer referee, reportedly kidnapped on February 7 on Georgia's main east-west highway by armed South Ossetians, was released to Georgian police on February 8. South Ossetian de-facto authorities, and Russian officials, claim the referee was found and freed by Ossetia [...] | 2009-02-09 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI275 | GEORGIA: NUCLEAR SMUGGLING UPS AND DOWNS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Despite making great strides in combating nuclear smuggling, Georgia lacks a reliable system for effectively responding to incidents of nuclear and radioactive material detection. The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration/Office of Second Line [...] | 2009-02-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI276 | GEORGIA: SPEAKER BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: On February 6, 2009 Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze called in the diplomatic corps and representatives of implementing organizations such as NDI and IRI to discuss recent political developments and Parliament's progress and plans on democratic reforms. Bakradze [...] | 2009-02-10 12:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI292 | GEORGIA: NEW PM EXPRESSES CONCERN RE ECONOMY, REITERATES [...] (SBU) In his first official meeting since being confirmed as Prime Minister, Nika Gilauri told the Charge and AID Mission Director February 9 that he was very concerned about the state of the Georgian economy and outlined a series of initiatives aimed at garnering more budget and balance of p [...] | 2009-02-11 13:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI294 | GEORGIA: TERRORISM FINANCE NON-PAPER [...] (SBU) Poloffs met with representatives of the Georgian MFA's Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department on 4 February to pass reftel non-paper as well as discussed talking points. Deputy Director of the Department Giorgi Dolidze expressed his appreciation for the information, no [...] | 2009-02-11 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID GG |
09TBILISI313 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI WARNS OF EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: On February 12 President Saakashvili delivered his fifth annual state of the union address to the Parliament, which was attended by Members of Parliament, regional governors and the Mayor of Tbilisi, members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps including the Charge and a group of [...] | 2009-02-13 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI314 | GEORGIA: DISCOVERY OF ORPHAN RADIOACTIVE SOURCE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On Sunday, February 8, customs officers discovered by chance an orphan radioactive source buried near Kopitnari airport, which is fourteen kilometers west of Kutaisi in western Georgia. Officials from the Nuclear and Radioactive Safety Service (NRSS) determined that [...] | 2009-02-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI32 | GEORGIA: FUNDING RESTORED TO OPPOSITION AND [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Parliament recently passed a law to restore funding to six opposition parties who refused to enter Parliament. The law envisages special foundation funding based on the German stiftung model that Secretary Rice suggested during an earlier visit to Tbilisi to aid part [...] | 2009-01-08 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI321 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ, PROUD BUT NERVOUS -- AND READY TO [...] (C) Summary and comment. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, Abkhaz de facto officials and civil society representatives showed new confidence in their so-called independence, but also unease with Russia's increasing influence. They believe Russia's reco [...] | 2009-02-17 12:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI322 | GEORGIA: SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN GALI [...] (C) Summary. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, representatives of civil society in Gali provided information about several serious human rights concerns facing ethnic Georgians in Gali. They face extortion from well-organized criminal gangs; pressure t [...] | 2009-02-17 12:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI324 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA INTRODUCES POLITICAL TEAM, [...] (SBU) Summary: Irakli Alasania introduced his political "team" on February 16 at a widely attended presentation event that attracted representatives of most of parties that make up the non-parliamentary opposition and garnered major press attention. The notable names joining Alasania's effo [...] | 2009-02-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI333 | GEORGIA: REQUESTING IAEA INSPECTION OF SUKHUMI [...] (S) Poloff delivered Reftel A demarche to Nestan Bejanishvili, MFA's Second Secretary of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department on February 17. Bejanishvili thanked poloff for the information. In response to poloff's point that representatives from the Russian Mission in [...] | 2009-02-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI339 | GEORGIA: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON BLACK SEA DEFENSE [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Deputy Minister of Defense Giorgi Muchaidze called in Embassy Tbilisi's Defense Attache and Pol-Econ Chief to consult on Georgia's response to an invitation from the Turks for Georgia's Minister of Defense to participate in a Black [...] | 2009-02-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI345 | GEORGIA'S KAKHETI REGION: UNM DOMINATES, JOBS THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February visit to the eastern province of Kakheti, Georgia's version of the Napa Valley, both the Deputy Governor and Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) opposition members stressed that the region's primary political concern was the local economy, specifically the cr [...] | 2009-02-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI356 | GEORGIA: BUDGET OUTLOOK GRIM [...] (C) Summary: Georgia faces a grim budgetary picture in 2009, according to Deputy Minister of Finance Dimitri Gvindadze. In a meeting with USAID Mission Director and Econoff, Gvindadze inquired about the possibility of additional direct budget support, a long-term currency swap, and possibl [...] | 2009-02-23 13:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PRIL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI357 | GEORGIA: REFERENDUM PROCESS AN UPHILL CLIMB [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leaders outside of Parliament, led by Irakli Alasania, have begun discussing publicly the idea of a public vote either calling for new presidential elections or a referendum to change existing constitutional procedures for calling new elections. Current Georgian law [...] | 2009-02-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI358 | GEORGIA: MONITORS FIND NO BUILD-UP OF GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary: According to recent briefings by the EU and UN in Tbilisi, European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and United Nations Observation Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) monitors conducted no-notice inspections of Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) police stations and checkpoints [...] | 2009-02-23 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI359 | GEORGIA: NO RESPONSE YET ON NUCLEAR [...] Poloff delivered questions in reftel to Nestan Bejanishvili, MFA's Second Secretary of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, on February 17. Bejanishvili did not have immediate answers, but promised to advise poloff when there were substantive responses. Post will rep [...] | 2009-02-23 15:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09TBILISI365 | GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] Per reftel, Embassy Tbilisi submits its Investment Climate Statement for Georgia for 2009. Introduction Since 2004 when the Saakashvili Government came to power, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms in [...] | 2009-02-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV GG |
09TBILISI373 | GEORGIA: TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATION OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Per reftel action request, Emboffs delivered the terrorism designation of the U.S.-based Tamil Foundation on 24 February to Levan Nizharadze, Head of the Americas Division, Department of Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nizharadze expressed his appreciation for the informatio [...] | 2009-02-25 10:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID SL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI377 | GEORGIA: ENGAGING ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) As requested in reftels, Ambassador raised our views on Afghanistan's future with Foreign Minister Vashadze on February 25. FM Vashadze said that Georgia was eager to support our efforts, and was committed to providing a 150-man company by year's end to support the French contingent. Va [...] | 2009-02-25 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL PGOV MOPS MARR AF GG |
09TBILISI378 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE, CALL FOR [...] (C) Summary: Just a week after presenting his new political team and with much fanfare, former Georgian Ambassador to the UN Irakli Alasania announced February 23 that his political team would join forces with the Republican party, led by David Usupashvili, and the New Rights party, led by [...] | 2009-02-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI379 | GEORGIA: PENDING CHANGE AT NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Embassy Summary/Comment: Acting head of the National Bank of Georgia (NBG),David Amaglobeli told us that he will be replaced by the current head of the Financial Sector Authority, Giorgi Kadagidze. Amaglobeli believes the decision is in connection with his view that the National Bank o [...] | 2009-02-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI389 | GEORGIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO JOINING NATO [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Georgian officials continue to express through both public and private channels their continued commitment to NATO membership. On February 17, the Minister of Defense released his "Minister's Vision 2009," a public document that identifies NATO membership as one of [...] | 2009-02-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
09TBILISI395 | GEORGIA: PARTIES SIGN CODE OF CONDUCT PAVING THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a low-profile working meeting on February 26, Georgian political party leaders met to sign a "code of conduct" which represents the first step in forming a working group of party leaders from inside and outside of Parliament to develop an Election Legislation Wor [...] | 2009-02-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI398 | GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT GUIDANCE - [...] (C) Summary: Mark Hauf, attorney for Ina Gudavadze, widow of Badri Patarkatsishvili, has repeatedly approached the Ambassador and other Embassy officials and requested that Post advocate on behalf of Gudavadze with the Government of Georgia. Specifically, Hauf requests that Post demand that [...] | 2009-02-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI40 | GEORGIA: VERBEKE ON WAY FORWARD FOR UN [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative for Georgia Johan Verbeke offered the Ambassador initial thoughts on the prospects for renewal of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). He believes Russia would prefer to see the mission closed, but might not want to risk internationa [...] | 2009-01-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI407 | GEORGIA: DOZENS BLOCKED FROM HOMES IN OTOBAIA, [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. Although conflicting reports make it difficult to establish a precise chain of events,dozens of individuals were blocked from their homes in Otobaia after a resident of the village was detained and then fled from Abkhazia. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs c [...] | 2009-02-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI408 | GEORGIA: RUMORS OF A SPRING OFFENSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent weeks, we have detected a marked increase in comments, both public and private, that the Russians plan to invade Georgia in the spring. These rumors have started to percolate into the press, assisted by Georgian parliamentarians such as Chairman David Bakradze who expr [...] | 2009-02-27 15:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI409 | GEORGIA: U.S. AND GEORGIA SIGN JOINT DOCUMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, U.S. and Georgian representatives signed the "Addendum to the Joint Document of Georgian and U.S. Delegations on Georgia's Priority Needs to Improve Its Capabilities to Combat Nuclear Smuggling." This document addresses both the degradation of Georgia's anti-nuc [...] | 2009-02-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI417 | GEORGIA: THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH FM VASHADZE [...] (C) Georgian FM Grigol Vashadze is looking forward to his first opportunity to meet with you on the margins of the NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) meeting in Brussels on March 5. Your meeting with him, no matter how brief, will be an important signal of U.S. support at a time when some leaders [...] | 2009-03-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI42 | GEORGIA: REACTION TO U.S.-GEORGIA CHARTER [...] (SBU) Comment/Summary: The January 9 signing of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership ("Charter") and its significance dominated weekend news coverage in Tbilisi. The GOG hailed the agreement as a positive step forward in the bilateral relationship, although noted that it should n [...] | 2009-01-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI432 | GEORGIA: POSSIBILITIES FOR A NEW UNOMIG MANDATE [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative Verbeke has twice convened the British, French, German and U.S. chiefs of mission to brainstorm ideas for a new UN mission in Georgia. Taking for granted the eventual closure of the OSCE mission, Verbeke argued that the UN and EUMM will ne [...] | 2009-03-05 14:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
09TBILISI447 | GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...] | 2009-03-06 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI448 | GEORGIA: FINANCE MINISTER LAYS OUT AID PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Kakha Baindurashvili met the Ambassador February 27 to discuss options for the remaining tranche of pledged USG post-conflict assistance. Baindurashvili repeated that the GOG would prefer direct budget assistance; however, in lieu of budget assistance, Baindu [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI450 | GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI451 | GEORGIA: ESTABLISHMENT OF RUSSIAN INTERESTS [...] (SBU) On March 5, Georgia and Russia established interests sections in the Swiss embassies in Moscow and Tbilisi, respectively. In Tbilisi, Russian diplomats will continue to operate in the Russian Embassy building they occupied before the war; however, the building will be under a Swiss fla [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI453 | GEORGIA: NEW CORRECTIONS MINISTER FACES MANY [...] (C) Summary: New Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Dimitri Shashkin told the Ambassador that he faces significant challenges regarding Georgia's current penal system. He said he will focus first on creating a probationary system for the country, noting that the current system is [...] | 2009-03-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI463 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA CALLS FOR PLEBISCITE [...] (U) Summary: Former UN Ambassador Irakli Alasania announced that he and his political team would initiate the process of holding a non-binding plebiscite on the question of the removal of President Saakashvili from office. The announcement follows the March 5 expiration of the ten day peri [...] | 2009-03-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI468 | GEORGIA: DESPITE CONCERNS, GEORGIA WILL COOPERATE [...] (C) Summary. Senior Georgian officials have raised questions about the objectivity of two members of the EU's independent investigation of the causes of the August 2008 war. They have nevertheless pledged their continued support for and full cooperation with the commission's work. Swiss dip [...] | 2009-03-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI469 | GEORGIA: FORMER AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Former Georgian Ambassador to Russia, Erosi Kitsmarishvili, who famously told the ad hoc parliamentary committee on the war that the U.S. gave Georgia the green light, discussed with the Ambassador his future plans which include setting up an independent news channel; an econom [...] | 2009-03-10 15:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI470 | GEORGIA: NEW CORRECTIONS MINISTER TO TACKLE [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Dimitri Shashkin, who oversees Georgia's penitentiary, probation, and legal aid programs (septel),is also charged with coordinating the President's democratic reform agenda with actors inside and outside the government. During a Mar [...] | 2009-03-10 15:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI478 | GEORGIA: SEEKING JUSTICE AT THE ICJ [...] (C) Summary. On March 5, Poloff meet with Deputy Minister of Justice Tina Burjaliani to discuss the status Georgia's response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other pending legal cases in international courts. The Deputy Minister noted that Georgia is a state party to the ICC [...] | 2009-03-12 07:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI484 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISM STALLED [...] (C) Summary and comment. Despite efforts by the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM),OSCE and UNOMIG to facilitate implementation of the incident prevention mechanism agreed in Geneva, Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities have publicly announced their unwillingness tocooperate for now. The [...] | 2009-03-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI488 | GEORGIA: READOUT OF DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Nalbandov told the Ambassador that his March 1-3 visit to Tehran concentrated on issues of bilateral cooperation. In Tehran, Nalbandov, together with Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili, met with Chair of the Parliamentary [...] | 2009-03-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG IR |
09TBILISI502 | GEORGIA: NINO BURJANADZE -- WHAT'S THE GAMEPLAN? [...] (C) Summary: Former Speaker of Parliament Nino Burjanadze, who has a long-cultivated and well-deserved image of moderation both domestically and internationally, has expressed her intentions to play a prominent role in the planned April 9 protests calling for President Saakashvili's resigna [...] | 2009-03-16 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI503 | GEORGIA: FORMER PM NOGHAIDELI PREPARING FOR A [...] (C) Summary. Former prime minister and opposition politician Zurab Noghaideli told the Ambassador March 9 that many of Georgia's opposition politicians are incorrectly reading the will of the people. He argued that the time was not right for changing Georgia's government and predicted that [...] | 2009-03-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI508 | GEORGIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) Based on Reftel action request, Embassy held a meeting with relevant mission sections to discuss the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and any critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in Georgia whose loss could impact U.S. homeland security. Noting the inclusion [...] | 2009-03-17 13:02:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP |
09TBILISI509 | GEORGIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) Based on Reftel action request, Embassy held a meeting with relevant mission sections to discuss the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and any critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in Georgia whose loss could impact U.S. homeland security. Noting the inclusion [...] | 2009-03-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP |
09TBILISI512 | GEORGIA: IDPS: NEW AND OLD THEMES [...] (C) Summary: Recent trips to the west Georgian cities of Kutaisi and Zugdidi reinforce the impression that many of the problems for IDPs from the 1990's remain unaddressed, and the GoG's plan to target their needs directly has not yet yielded visible results. While the GoG has been criticiz [...] | 2009-03-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF RR GG |
09TBILISI522 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS THE ECONOMY IS PRIMARY [...] (C) Summary: The much anticipated poll from the USAID funded International Republican Institute (IRI) presented to the Ambassador on March 18, showed polling numbers for President Saakashvili and the United National Movement (UNM) have dropped somewhat from their post-war high in September [...] | 2009-03-19 15:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI523 | GEORGIA: ELECTION LEGISLATION WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) On March 17, 2008, seven political party representatives gathered at the offices of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) for the inaugural meeting of the Election Legislation Working Group (ELWG). Poloff, USAID, the EU/EC, Council of Europe (COE),IFES, and the OSCE observed the meet [...] | 2009-03-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI528 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON DUTCH OFFER TO HOST A [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 11:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI529 | GEORGIA: GOG TAKES OVER KAZTRANSGAZ, OVERWHELMING [...] (C) Summary. On March 16, the Georgian National Electricity Regulatory Commission (GNERC) announced it had appointed a &special administrator8 to manage KazTransGaz-Tbilisi, the Kazakhstani company that owns the Tbilisi natural gas distribution system. KazTransGaz is owned by the Kazakhstani [...] | 2009-03-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI535 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI SEEKS UNAMBIGUOUS SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging discussion, President Saakashvili and EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed regional developments, U.S. assistance for Georgia and next steps on the Geneva process. The President shared his views on opposition politicians and the planned April 9 protests. President Sa [...] | 2009-03-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM GG |
09TBILISI537 | GEORGIA: MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS INFORMS DIPCORP [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (MCLA) Dimitry Shashkin briefed the diplomatic corps March 18 on his ministry's current status and future plans. Shashkin addressed both corrections and democratic reforms, as he did with the Ambassador during a previous meeting (re [...] | 2009-03-20 14:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI538 | GEORGIA: GOG TO RECOGNIZE OTHER FAITHS, COULD LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili told the Ambassador on March 18 that the GoG is working on a change to the Civil Code to recognize additional churches, namely, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC),Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim faiths. Currently, only the Georgian Orth [...] | 2009-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF AR RU GG |
09TBILISI55 | GEORGIA: RUMOR MILL CHURNING FEEDING A RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Post is closely following what has the markings of a possible Russian disinformation campaign to create distrust and speculation with the United States and President Saakashvili in the Georgian public. Rumors of impending U.S. or other outside action to remove Saakashvil [...] | 2009-01-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI559 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE SUPPORTERS ARRESTED ON WEAPONS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: At roughly 5am on March 23, a number (roughly six to eight but exact numbers are still unclear) of Nino Burjanadze's supporters were arrested on charges of buying automatic weapons. Burjanadze called the Ambassador to register her outrage and to express concern that sh [...] | 2009-03-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI56 | GEORGIA: HALO TRUST'S CLEARANCE ACTIVITIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. A $4 million, USG-funded project being implemented by HALO Trust, a British demining NGO, for training, risk education, surveying and clearance operations in the Gori-Tskhinvali corridor and Abkhazia is back on track after a Georgian regulation threatened to derail [...] | 2009-01-13 14:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PREF SOCI GG |
09TBILISI57 | GEORGIA SIGNS MOU ON ENGURI WITH RUSSIAN FIRM RAO [...] (C) SUMMARY: First Deputy Minister of Energy Marika Valishvili confirmed that the Georgian Ministry of Energy and Russian electricity trader InterRAO signed on December 31 a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on joint management of the Enguri Hydropower Plant, located on both sides o [...] | 2009-01-13 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI584 | GEORGIA: FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: France's local Ambassador in Tbilisi Eric Fournier was remarkably blunt in his opening remarks at a local conference March 20 about current European Union policy towards Russia, as well as his own difficulties in getting his ministry in Paris to put Georgia on its pr [...] | 2009-03-24 12:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI585 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE SUPPORTERS ARRESTED - UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili called in the Ambassador to further elaborate the government's position on the arrests of Former Speaker Burjanadze's supporters. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs released a portion of the video evidence they c [...] | 2009-03-24 13:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GG |
09TBILISI594 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: At a March 17 meeting, Parliament's Human Rights Committee Chairman Gia Arsenishvili told Emboffs that the priorities of his committee are passage of the criminal procedure code (CPC),reforms in the penitentiary/parole systems, and concerns about the lack of Georgi [...] | 2009-03-24 14:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV GG |
09TBILISI604 | GEORGIA: EUR DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH PM BAKRADZE, [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze and discussed the future of the UNOMIG, OSCE, and EUMM monitoring missions as well as domestic politics. Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitri Shashkin explained his vision for revamping the penal [...] | 2009-03-26 07:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI618 | GEORGIA: APRIL 9 PROTEST MACHINATIONS IN FULL SWING [...] (C) Summary: Both the GOG and non-parliamentary opposition groups are formulating their plans to handle the upcoming April 9 protests at which the opposition will demand the resignation of President Saakashvili and holding new presidential elections. The GOG intends to take a low key appro [...] | 2009-03-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI626 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION MEMBERS IN KIRBALI ALLEGE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Residents of the village of Kirbali associated with the oppostion told OSCE that sometime during the week of March 15-21, local police officers approached them at their homes in the evening and asked questions for no apparent reason. Details of the report are sketchy [...] | 2009-03-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI640 | GEORGIA IMPROVES ITS SCORES IN FORBES RATING [...] Summary: Despite the August war with Russia and the global credit Crisis, Georgia's ranking in Forbes' annual rating of the best countries in which to do business improved from 68 in 2008 to 64 in 2009, out of 127 countries ranked. The ranking makes Georgia one of the leaders in the region an [...] | 2009-03-31 05:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV GG |
09TBILISI644 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA STILL BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD [...] (C) Summary: Head of the opposition Alliance for Georgia ("Alliance") Irakli Alasania requested a meeting with the Ambassador on March 30 to discuss plans for the April 9 protest. Alasania has been in discussions with the UNM ruling party regarding a possible dialogue to overcome the curre [...] | 2009-03-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI645 | Highlighting World TB day in Georgia [...] Summary: The Ambassador and Embassy officials joined the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) of Georgia to acknowledge World TB day at the recently opened National Center of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Tbilisi on March 24. At the event, the Ambassador congratulated those working in th [...] | 2009-04-01 06:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV GG |
09TBILISI656 | GEORGIA: PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI'S NEW HEALTH INSURANCE [...] Summary/Comment: On March 1, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's new government initiative to provide inexpensive health insurance to a wider circle of the population was officially launched. Registration for the program will remain open until July  [...] | 2009-04-02 07:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV GG |
09TBILISI657 | GEORGIA: PATRIARCH CALLS FOR CALM AHEAD OF APRIL 9 [...] (C) Summary. In an April 1 meeting, Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II expressed concern to the Ambassador that the approaching April 9 opposition protests could escalate into violence. The Patriarch said that President Saakashvili and nearly all the opposition leaders, including Alasania, [...] | 2009-04-02 09:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF RU GG |
09TBILISI660 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT OFFERS OPPOSITION STRUCTURED [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 1, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitry Shashkin presented a GOG proposal for dialogue and cooperation on the "second wave of democratic reforms" to the diplomatic community. Shashkin invited all political parties to discuss the government proposal on [...] | 2009-04-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI674 | GEORGIA: GOOD AND BAD NEWS FROM EUMM [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a recent trip to Moscow, EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) representatives heard that Russia and South Ossetia have taken steps toward establishing an Incident Prevention Mechanism (Abkhazia still awaits a new UN mandate). According to the EUMM, Russia expressed interes [...] | 2009-04-06 15:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI679 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PLANS FOR APRIL 9 PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Barring unforeseen circumstances, planned protests on April 9 will proceed as scheduled. We expect turnout to be substantial, probably numbering in the tens of thousands, but likely less than the 150,000-200,000 some non-parliamentary opposition figures have estimated. [...] | 2009-04-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
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