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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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06USUNNEWYORK1008 | UN/IRAQ: S/I AMBASSADOR JEFFREY ON AN IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) Begin Summary. S/I Ambassador Jim Jeffrey briefed UN U/SYG Gambari and SRSG for Iraq Qazi May 9 on the proposal to develop an "Iraq Compact," whereby UNAMI would work closely with the newly elected Iraqi government to help al-Maliki's cabinet expand Iraq's partnership with the internation [...] | 2006-05-18 09:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK1010 | UNMIK/KOSOVO: AHTISAARI BRIEFS CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) Summary. The Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari briefed the Coordinating and Drafting Group (Contact Group plus Greece, Slovakia and Denmark) May 12 on his upcoming consultations in June and his plans for the parties to meet in Ju [...] | 2006-05-18 14:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV UNMIK YI |
06USUNNEWYORK1013 | UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS FOLLOW-ON [...] The Security Council May 17 adopted a follow-up resolution to urge progress on the implementation of UNSCR 1559 (2004). Drafted by the UK, U.S. and France and co-sponsored by Slovakia and Denmark, UNSCR 1680 (2006) was adopted by a 13-0-2 vote, with Russia and China abstaining. 2. Reflectin [...] | 2006-05-18 17:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1014 | UN/IRAQ: IRAQI CHARGE ON MNF REVIEW, UNAMI AND [...] (C) MNF Review: In a May 16 meeting, Ambassador Bolton and Iraqi Charge Estrabadi discussed the upcoming June UNSC review of the mandate for the Multi National Force-Iraq (MNF-I). Estrabadi said he had heard rumors of Russian proposals that would derail the mandate review and wanted to make [...] | 2006-05-18 17:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK1016 | INDIA REJECTS UNSC BRIEFING ON NEPAL AS WELL AS UN [...] (C) Summary. During a May 16 meeting on Nepal hosted by UK PermRep to the UN Sir Emyr Jones Parry and attended by Special Adviser to SYG Annan Vijay Nambiar and USUN Deputy PermRep Wolff -- but not Indian PermRep Nirupam Sen, who decided at the last minute not to attend -- the UK pushed for a [...] | 2006-05-18 20:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV UNSC NP |
06USUNNEWYORK1017 | DARFUR RESOLUTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY WITH SOME [...] (C) After three rounds of working-level negotiations and an eleventh-hour Ambassadorial exchange over timing of adoption, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously May 16 to adopt Resolution 1679 (2006),Chapter VII reference and all (text in Paragraph 7). Congo, Denmark, France, [...] | 2006-05-18 20:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1018 | WESTERN SAHARA: AMBASSADOR BOLTON'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 joint call with SRSG for Western Sahara Francesco Bastagli, Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum, noted the Security Council's April rollover of the MINURSO mandate and its failure to take action on the Secretary General's recommendation of direct talks bet [...] | 2006-05-18 21:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK1033 | INDIAN DPR PLEDGES TO COOPERATE WITH USG ON NEPAL, UN BUDGET, AND SYG SELECTION [...] (C/NF) During a May 19 lunch with USUN Deputy PermRep Wolff, Indian Deputy PermRep Ajai Malhotra (protect) reported that he had been sent to New York with instructions from Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran to cooperate with the USG on the broad range of issues facing both countries at the UN. [...] | 2006-05-19 21:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNSC KUNR AORC NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1035 | AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETING WITH UNMIK SRSG SOREN [...] (C) During a May 19 meeting at the Brook Club in New York, Ambassador Wisner and UNMIK SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen discussed recent developments in the Kosovo status process and progress towards standards implementation. (Note: As the Brook Club does not allow note taking on its premises, thi [...] | 2006-05-19 22:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK YI |
06USUNNEWYORK1039 | COUNCIL APPEARS READY TO DOWNSIZE UNMEE, BUT SOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Acknowledging the failure of the May 17 meeting of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) to produce a breakthrough in the border standoff between Ethiopia and Eritrea, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members finally expressed their readiness to downsize the UN M [...] | 2006-05-23 13:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1041 | DRC SANCTIONS: UK PROPOSES REVISED LIST OF NAMES [...] (C) As reported in REFTEL, the UK would like to press forward with a list of names for sanctioning under UNSCR 1649. UKUN gave USUN on May 22 a revised list of targets. UKUN stressed its desire to move quickly and submit the names for sanctioning, ideally before the Security Council travels [...] | 2006-05-23 20:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV CG |
06USUNNEWYORK1042 | DRC SANCTIONS: UK PROPOSES REVISED LIST OF NAMES [...] (C) As reported in REFTEL, the UK would like to press forward with a list of names for sanctioning under UNSCR 1649. UKUN gave USUN on May 22 a revised list of targets. UKUN stressed its desire to move quickly and submit the names for sanctioning, ideally before the Security Council travels [...] | 2006-05-23 20:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV CG |
06USUNNEWYORK1043 | BALKAN PERMREPS MEET AMBASSADOR WISNER TO TALK [...] (C) Romanian Ambassador Mihnea Motoc hosted a dinner on May 16 for U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner to discuss the future status of Kosovo. Other invitees included the permanent representatives from Greece, Slovakia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and S [...] | 2006-05-23 20:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK YI EU SR |
06USUNNEWYORK1066 | EGELAND TELLS UNSC NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General (U/SYG) Jan Egeland told the UN Security Council (UNSC) on May 19 that while 2005 was a 'lost' year in terms of peace and reconciliation in the Darfur crisis, 2006 was looking up, [...] | 2006-05-24 13:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1075 | UN SECRETARIAT SAYS NEPALIS SUPPORT EXPANDED UN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 23 meeting with visiting IO/UNP Deskoff and USUN Poloff, UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) officer Tamrat Samuel briefed on his recently-completed visit to Nepal and India and outlined his views of a possible expanded role for the UN in Nepal. Samuel said ne [...] | 2006-05-26 13:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1078 | 1267 COMMITTEE: FRENCH REACTION TO U.S. PAPER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French Mission stressed its desire to work closely with the USUN to reach agreement on how to revise listing and de-listing procedures in the UN Security Council's 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Committee. French Mission officials met with USUN on May 22 to respond to our April 27 d [...] | 2006-05-26 18:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK1088 | UNSC: MAY MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING [...] Summary: In the monthly briefing to the Security Council held May 24, U/SYG Ibrahim Gambari addressed the following subjects: developments on the Quartet's support for an EU funding mechanism for Palestinian assistance; the impact of Israeli closures, barrier construction and settlement activ [...] | 2006-05-31 13:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1093 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] SUMMARY: Members of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee communicated May 25 via videoconference with Court Registrar Lovemore Munlo and other Court officials to discuss the proposed $26.8 million budget projected for July 2006-June 2007, progress in the three trials now underw [...] | 2006-05-31 18:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
06USUNNEWYORK1123 | HAITI: UN SECRETARIAT SOLICITS VIEWS ON CHANGES TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, Director of the UN DPKO Europe and Latin America Division, convened Friends of Haiti experts on May 26 to outline preliminary UN views and solicit feedback on possible changes to the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) after UNSCR [...] | 2006-06-02 15:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
06USUNNEWYORK1137 | UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: The Chairs of the UN Security Council's three subsidiary counterterrorism committees (the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),the 1267 or Al-Qaida/ Taliban Sanctions Committee, and the 1540 Committee on nonproliferation) briefed the Council for the fifth time on their committees' a [...] | 2006-06-05 15:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC ETTC PGOV PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK1142 | LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNMEE'S 'RIGHTSIZING' [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 31, after almost seven hours of continuous, mostly ambassadorial-level negotiations, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted as a Presidential text resolution 1681, which reduced the military component of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) [...] | 2006-06-05 21:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1148 | ICTY PRESIDENT POCAR PREVIEWS JUNE 7 ADDRESS FOR [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY. Appealing for continuing U.S. support, Judge Fausto Pocar, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),previewed his June 7 address to the Security Council for Ambassador Wolff on June 5. Pocar said he would focus on the ICTY's work [...] | 2006-06-06 20:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC NL BK |
06USUNNEWYORK1149 | CHINESE LOOK FOR INCREASED COOPERATION AS SC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) Annabi gave the Security Council June 2 an overview of the current situation throughout Sudan in advance of the UNSC's Mission to Sudan, Addis Ababa and Chad. The most notable part of [...] | 2006-06-06 20:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1156 | HAITI SRSG MULET CALLS FOR MAINTAINING MINUSTAH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi convened Friends of Haiti (U.S., France, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile) on June 1 to meet newly-appointed Special Repres [...] | 2006-06-06 22:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
06USUNNEWYORK1157 | SYG ANNAN DISCUSSES IRAN, DARFUR, SOMALIA AND UN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting convened at his request, Secretary-General (SYG) Annan gave Ambassador Bolton a SIPDIS read-out of his recent conversation with head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Larijani on the incentives package just presented by European Union High Representative [...] | 2006-06-06 23:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT AORC CM IR NI PGOV PREL PTER SO SU |
06USUNNEWYORK1158 | A/SYG ANNABI BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In Security Council consultations on June 2, A/SYG Annabi briefed Council members on the latest report on UNFICYP and reiterated the Secretariat's position that the situation on Cyprus is not yet ripe for another political mission aimed at final resolution of the conflict. A/S [...] | 2006-06-07 14:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC CY UNFICYP |
06USUNNEWYORK1174 | UNSC/SOMALIA: UN URGES AGAINST SUPPORTING FACTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 8 briefing to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),Department of Political Affairs Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) Kalomoh warned Members 'this is not the time to abandon Somalia,' given what he called the 'tense military stand-off' between militias of the U [...] | 2006-06-08 22:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER SO UNSC IGAD |
06USUNNEWYORK1196 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1683 ON LIBERIA [...] On June 13, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1683, which amends the arms embargo in Liberia. The new resolution allows the Government of Liberia to procure a limited number of weapons for vetted and trained security personnel. 2. BEGIN TEXT: The Security Council, [...] | 2006-06-13 22:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
06USUNNEWYORK1225 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL REVIEWS MANDATE FOR THE [...] (U) Summary: The UNSC held public and private sessions on June 15 to review the mandate of the Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I) as well as to review Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) arrangements. Council members voiced unanimous support fo [...] | 2006-06-16 21:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK1226 | UNSC EXTENDS UNIIIC MANDATE AND ALLOWS BRAMMERTZ [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Security Council voted unanimously on June 16 to adopt UNSCR 1686 (text contained in ref A),which extends the mandate of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) until 15 June 2007 and "supports the Commission's intention" to extend further its [...] | 2006-06-16 21:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC SY LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1228 | DRC SANCTIONS: COMMITTEE CHAIR CALLS FOR MORE [...] (C) DRC Sanctions Committee Chairman, Peruvian PermRep de Rivero, recently called on members of the Committee to submit new names of individuals and entities for sanctions under resolution 1596. Both France and the UK would like to respond to the Chairman,s call and submit new names for listi [...] | 2006-06-16 21:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CG EFIN ETTC PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1235 | 1267 COMMITTEE: BELGIAN DE-LISTING REQUEST [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see Para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Belgian Mission recently provided more information to USUN about the background of two individuals for whom Belgium has requested de-listing from the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Committee's sanctions list. The information w [...] | 2006-06-19 20:17:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | ETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV BE |
06USUNNEWYORK1244 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1689 ON LIBERIA [...] On June 20, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1689, which lifts timber sanctions in Liberia. If the Liberian Congress fails to pass necessary forestry legislation within 90 days, resolution 1689 expresses the Council's determination to reinstate the timber ban. The new res [...] | 2006-06-20 21:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
06USUNNEWYORK1248 | UNSC/SOMALIA: MOST MEMBERS ANXIOUS FOR ACTION ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At June 19 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consultations on Somalia, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Fall discussed humanitarian, political and security aspects of the current crisis, outlining five possible scenarios that could result from the powe [...] | 2006-06-21 16:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER SO UNSC IGAD |
06USUNNEWYORK1251 | RUSSIA CHALLENGES POSITIVE JESSEN-PETERSEN REPORT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 20 Security Council meeting on the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK),SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen praised new Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Agim Ceku for action on reforms and accelerated progress on standards implementation, [...] | 2006-06-21 20:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06USUNNEWYORK1254 | INDIA AND THE U.S.: BILATERAL TIES NOT REFLECTED [...] (C) Summary and Comment. India's positions on key issues of importance to the U.S. in New York do not appear to have kept pace with the increasingly strong bilateral ties developing in New Delhi and Washington. India is perceived as one of a handful of countries (which includes Egypt, Pakistan, B [...] | 2006-06-21 22:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON AORC KUNR UNSC IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1255 | SPECIAL ADVISER ON AFRICA LEGWAILA: 'UN CAN'T [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 14 courtesy call, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa Legwaila Joseph Legwaila (formerly Special Representative of the SYG for the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) shared his 'professional peacekeeper' views with Ambassador Bolton on the proliferat [...] | 2006-06-21 22:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XW ZF KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1268 | UNSC: JUNE MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING [...] Summary: During the monthly briefing on Middle East issues to the Security Council June 21, UN U/SYG Ibrahim Gambari reviewed recent events, including intra-Palestinian political developments and the welcome prospect of an imminent Olmert-Abbas meeting; an increase in violence resulting in dea [...] | 2006-06-23 22:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1287 | NEPAL: INDIA SUPPORTS UN ROLE IN MAOIST DDR BUT IS [...] (SBU) Summary. Indian Mission to the UN diplomat Harsh Shringla told Poloff June 20 that while his government supports the early establishment of a UN mission in Nepal to monitor Maoist disarmament, New Delhi would greatly prefer to avoid adding Nepal to the UNSC agenda for discussion -- lest [...] | 2006-06-29 14:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO NP IN |
06USUNNEWYORK1336 | PLANNING FOR THE UNIFIL RENEWAL: ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary. Israeli Mission to the UN Political Counselor Gilad Cohen told Poloffs the week of June 26 that the GOI believes the upcoming UNSC resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) should urge the Lebanese Government to deploy forces to thre [...] | 2006-07-10 21:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO IS LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1349 | UNSC/SUDAN: PROPOSED WAY FORWARD IN SECURING [...] (C) In the wake of Sudanese President Al-Bashir's public expressions of categorical opposition to a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Darfur, we face considerable challenges in securing a resolution to mandate such a presence. While the majority of UN Security Council (SC) Members fa [...] | 2006-07-12 17:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1365 | CHINESE SHOW FLEXIBILITY ON FATF IN CTC [...] The Chinese expert on the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) advised USUN LegalOff on July 13 that China would not object to having the CTC include the 40 Recommendations on Money Laundering and the 9 Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing of the Financial Action Tas [...] | 2006-07-14 19:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1366 | LEGAL COUNSEL MICHEL REPORTS OLA/LEBANESE NEAR [...] (SBU) Begin summary: UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel told the P-3 on July 12 that UN lawyers and Lebanese judges Ralph Riachy and Choucri Sadr achieved progress last week in negotiating a draft agreement and statute to establish a tribunal to try those responsible for the assassination of fo [...] | 2006-07-14 21:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SY LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1367 | US VETOES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON MIDDLE EAST SITUATION [...] The U.S. July 13 cast a no vote -- its first in nearly two years -- to veto an unbalanced Qatari-sponsored resolution on the current Palestinian-Israeli situation in the Middle East. The final vote was 10-1(US)-4(UK, Denmark, Slovakia and Peru). Ambassador Bolton's Statement ---------------- [...] | 2006-07-17 15:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1375 | TAGLIAVINI'S LAST UNSC APPEARANCE ON ABKHAZIA: [...] (C) Summary: Speaking before the Security Council in a private meeting about the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) on July 11, Georgian Parliament President Nino Burjanadze delivered a powerful political rebuke of the policies of the Russian Federation on practically every level. Burja [...] | 2006-07-17 20:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RS |
06USUNNEWYORK1378 | SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI BRIEFS UNSC ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, the Security Council met for a briefing by Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari on his progress on overseeing the Kosovo Future Status Talks. The unusual format for the day involved three separate events: a private meeting of the Security Council, closed consultations in wh [...] | 2006-07-18 02:00:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06USUNNEWYORK1392 | SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES LEBANON; SEVERAL [...] (C) Summary. During closed consultations on July 17, the UN Security Council heard briefings from DPA U/SYG Gambari and DPKO A/SYG Lute on the situation in Lebanon and discussed possible reaction from the Council. Gambari and Lute condemned Hizballah attacks on Israel, expressed concerns abo [...] | 2006-07-19 15:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO LE IS |
06USUNNEWYORK1405 | GUEHENNO BRIEFS ON COTE D'IVOIRE AND UPCOMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 13, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Under-Secretary General (U/SYG) Guehenno briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) on discussions held on July 5 in Cote d'Ivoire between Secretary-General (SYG) Kofi Annan and African leaders regarding the region's peace pro [...] | 2006-07-25 15:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IV PGOV UNSC XA KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1410 | 1540: P-5 EXPERTS NEAR AGREEMENT ON DRAFT [...] Begin summary: P-5 experts met informally July 24 to discuss a UK draft of the 12-month program of work for the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) (ref A). USUN stressed the U.S. desire for the Committee to agree upon a work program soon and urged the [...] | 2006-07-25 20:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER AORC KNNP UNSC PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK1430 | 1267 COMMITTEE PROCEDURAL PROTECTIONS AND FAIRNESS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see Paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) For the past few weeks, USUN and the French Mission have been working quietly on bridging our differences in the "due process" debate currently underway in the UN Security Council's 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee ( [...] | 2006-07-31 15:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK1434 | UNSC/UNMEE: MEMBERS FEAR SPREAD OF CONFLICT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Africa Division Director Titov updated the Security Council at July 27 consultations on the status of UNSCR 1681 (2006) implementation and on the situation on the ground between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Members looked forw [...] | 2006-08-01 13:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ER ET PGOV PREL SO UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1435 | AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS: INCREASING TRANSPARENCY [...] SUMMARY. The Chairman of the UN Security Council's 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee, Argentine Ambassador Cesar Mayoral, held an open briefing and question and answer session for the general UN membership on July 26. This was the first such session conducted by Mayoral. The goal w [...] | 2006-08-01 14:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK1438 | NHLAPO BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON LRA AND NORTHERN [...] (SBU) On July 28, the Director of the Africa I Division in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, Welile Nhlapo, updated the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the threat of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda. He noted that the progress of peace talks in Juba, Southern [...] | 2006-08-01 15:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU UG UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1440 | USUN/NEA MEETING WITH SYG'S PERSONAL ENVOY FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a July 26 meeting at USUN with Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum, NEA/DAS Gordon Gray explained current U.S. thinking on Western Sahara: encouragement of the submission of a robust Moroccan autonomy plan before the October expiration of the MINURSO mandate and [...] | 2006-08-01 19:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK1441 | LORD CARLILE SEEKS U.S. VIEWS ON DEFINING TERRORISM [...] This is an action request; please see para 9. 2. In a videoteleconference with USUN LegalOff, Department attorneys, and UKUN legal advisers on July 31, Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew Q.C., the UK,s independent reviewer of the Terrorist Act, sought U.S. views on the negotiations of the Compr [...] | 2006-08-02 13:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV UNSC KTFN UNGA UK |
06USUNNEWYORK1519 | UPDATE ON SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSIONS ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) The U.S. and France continue to work intensively and urgently in New York and in capitals to reach agreement on a draft UNSC resolution calling for a full cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. Ambassador Bolton and French Permanent Representative de la Sabliere met again [...] | 2006-08-10 00:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO IS LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1538 | UNSC/SUDAN: SO CLOSE YET STILL SO FAR AWAY FROM [...] (C) Expectations are mounting ahead of August 17 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consultations on Darfur, and the question remains of how to proceed on the draft resolution authorizing transition of the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a UN operation. The draft is stuck in [...] | 2006-08-15 12:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1542 | S/E LEFKOWITZ MEETING WITH VIETNAMESE PERM REP [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Jay Lefkowitz met with Vietnamese Perm Rep Le Luong Minh to discuss North Korean refugees. While professing a lack of knowledge about North Korean refugees in Vietnam, Perm Rep Minh took note of our interest in this issue and said he would report this to his capital [...] | 2006-08-15 20:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV KN KS VM |
06USUNNEWYORK1544 | UNIFIL FORCE GENERATION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) chaired a meeting of UNIFIL Troop Contributing Countries (TCC) on Friday August 11 and two follow-on "technical meetings" on Saturday August 12 and Monday August 14 with both current and potential contributors. The purpose of these [...] | 2006-08-15 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC IS LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1545 | UNIFIL FORCE GENERATION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) chaired a meeting of UNIFIL Troop Contributing Countries (TCC) on Friday August 11 and two follow-on "technical meetings" on Saturday August 12 and Monday August 14 with both current and potential contributors. The purpose of these [...] | 2006-08-15 22:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC IS LE |
06USUNNEWYORK1546 | AMBASSADOR WOLFF'S MEETING WITH MINSK GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary. Minsk Group Co-chair reps met with Acting General Assembly President August 14 to discuss the Azerbaijani draft resolution regarding the fires that have been raging since June in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Ambassador Wolff delivered reftel points, which were endo [...] | 2006-08-16 13:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNGA AJ AM |
06USUNNEWYORK1569 | TERRORIST BOMBINGS CONVENTION: U.S. RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-17 21:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EG KTIA OPDC PGOV PREL PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK1581 | SOMALIA: FALL BRIEFS AND UNSC DISCUSSES DRAFT [...] Stresses the obligation of all Member States to comply fully with the measures imposed by resolution 733 (1992),in particular paragraph 5, and further elaborated in paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 1425(2002); 2. Decides that those individuals and entities designated by the Committee [...] | 2006-08-18 21:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1595 | MEETING OF MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS WITH AZERI [...] (SBU) Summary. Minsk Group Co-chair reps met with Azeri PermRep Aliyev August 18 to discuss the Azeri draft GA resolution regarding the fires that have been raging since June in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Ambassador Wolff delivered reftel points, which were endorsed by the oth [...] | 2006-08-21 18:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNGA AJ AM |
06USUNNEWYORK1598 | UNSC/DARFUR: ANNABI BRIEFS AND DRAFT RESOLUTION IS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In August 17 Security Council consultations, Assistant Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations Annabi painted a bleak picture of the current situation in Darfur as a result of the faltering Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and the weak African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). [...] | 2006-08-21 23:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1599 | STATE OF PLAY ON NEGOTIATIONS ON UK-US DARFUR [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 3. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. This cable outlines the views of key Security Council delegations on the UK-U.S. draft resolution authorizing the transition from an African Union (AU)-led to a UN-led force in Darfur. Russia, China and Fr [...] | 2006-08-22 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1610 | UNSC/DARFUR: NEGOTIATIONS STALLED OVER TIMING AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Negotiations on the UK-U.S. draft Darfur resolution are at a standstill after the second Experts Meeting August 22. There are disputes over both the timing and content of our draft. Some delegations failed to provide formal comments pending external input. Others, including the [...] | 2006-08-22 23:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ET PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1613 | UNSC CONSULTATIONS: BRIEFING ON KINSHASA VIOLENCE [...] Summary: On August 22, Assistant SYG for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi briefed the Security Council on the violent clashes of feuding forces in Kinshasa on August 21 and 22 and on efforts by UN officials and CIAT ambassadors to restore calm. Annabi confirmed that representatives of the [...] | 2006-08-23 21:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNSC KPKO CG |
06USUNNEWYORK1621 | UNSC/SUDAN: COUNCIL MEETING WILL PROCEED DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Security Council agreed August 24 to go forward with a meeting on Darfur scheduled for August 28, despite the fact that Sudanese President Bashir, the Arab League, and the Organization of Islamic Conference declined the Council's invitation to participate in the session. Th [...] | 2006-08-25 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
06USUNNEWYORK1660 | UNSC/DARFUR: COUNCIL INCHING TOWARD ADOPTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an August 28 meeting of the Security Council on Darfur, the majority of delegations said that the dire situation in Darfur argued for swift Council action to finalize and adopt the UK-U.S. draft resolution by August 31, although delegations acknowledged that the Governme [...] | 2006-08-28 23:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ET PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1689 | UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (SBU) The UN's Electoral Assistance Division hosted a discussion August 31 in New York on electoral assistance to Timor-Leste. Finn Reske-Nielsen, newly named deputy SRSG (Reconstruction, Development, Humanitarian Affairs) to Timor-Leste, outlined his plan to closely coordinate with local Emb [...] | 2006-09-01 15:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM TT PO GV EAID |
06USUNNEWYORK1703 | COUNCIL APPROVES UN DARFUR FORCE BY COUNT OF [...] (U) In an August 31 formal meeting, the Security Council adopted the UK-U.S. draft resolution expanding UNMIS' mandate into Darfur. The draft included nine co-sponsors: Argentina, Denmark, France, Ghana, Greece, Slovakia, Tanzania, the UK and the U.S. The final vote count was 12 votes in favo [...] | 2006-09-01 19:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1717 | AMB WOLFF AND UN U/SYG GAMBARI DISCUSS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Summary: DPR Amb Wolff advised UN U/SYG Ibrahim Gambari August 31 that the USG is highly skeptical about a Security Council ministerial on the peace process at this time. Amb Wolff noted, moreover, that since the Arab League has been unable to explain the purpose of the meeting, has fail [...] | 2006-09-01 22:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK1758 | GAMBARI BRIEFS UNSC: COUNCIL SILENCE BROKEN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 29, following a briefing by Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, Security Council members -- in a small, but welcome step forward -- agreed to a press statement that broke the Council's silence on the Cyprus issue for the first time since the [...] | 2006-09-07 20:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CY GR TU |
06USUNNEWYORK1778 | CTC DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON UNSCR 1624, CTED TRIPS [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: At its 169th meeting on September 7, the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) discussed its draft report to the Security Council on resolution 1624 (2005),the Counter-Terrorism Committee's Executive Directorate's (CTED) July visit to Malaysia, CTED's upcoming [...] | 2006-09-11 20:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV AA |
06USUNNEWYORK1780 | UNSC/SUDAN: UN PATIENCE WEARING THIN ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Secretary-General Annan set a somber tone at the September 11 Security Council Debate on Darfur, beseeching the Council to assert itself in response to the 'death and suffering, perhaps on a catastrophic scale' confronting the people of Darfur. SYG Annan had harsh words for the [...] | 2006-09-11 22:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1822 | UNSC/DARFUR: DEPUTY SYG CALLS FOR AFRICAN, ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY. United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown convened a September 14 meeting of P5 Ambassadors plus the Greek Ambassador (as current UN Security Council President) to discuss the way forward on Darfur, based on the briefing SRSG Pronk gave to Darfur Partners in Khart [...] | 2006-09-15 21:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1823 | FIRST UNSC KOSOVO MEETING FOR JOACHIM RUCKER [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 13, in his first appearance at a Security Council meeting on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK),SRSG Joachim Rucker praised Kosovo's leadership for having "now achieved most of the priorities on standards implementation." Kosovo Pr [...] | 2006-09-16 14:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06USUNNEWYORK1853 | UNSC/SUDAN: UNMIS MANDATE EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 8 [...] (SBU) On September 22, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1709, renewing the mandate of the UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) for a period of two weeks. Delegates from the Chinese, Qatari and Russian Missions reiterated concerns in consultations immediately prece [...] | 2006-09-22 20:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1882 | UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE [...] The Chairs of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),1267 or Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee, and 1540 Committee on nonproliferation briefed the Council in a public meeting on September 28, 2006. The three Chairs described their committees' accomplishments over the [...] | 2006-09-29 21:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC ETTC PREL PGOV KTFN PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK1934 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH SYG ANNAN ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 5 meeting with UN SYG Kofi Annan, Special Presidential Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios underscored the importance of moving forward with UN support for AMIS and persuading Sudanese President Bashir to back down from his rejection of a UN peacekeeping force in [...] | 2006-10-10 22:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1935 | QATAR PERMREP: WE CAN BEST HELP WITH DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 5 meeting with US Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios at the United Nations, Qatar PermRep Nassir Abdul Aziz al-Nasser said Qatar is eager to play an expanded role in creating a solution to the crisis in Darfur and can best influence the Government of Sudan [...] | 2006-10-10 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1936 | CHINESE AND RUSSIAN PERMREPS TELL NATSIOS TO TAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 4 visit to the United Nations, Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios met separately with the Permanent Representatives of the PRC and Russia. Both envoys welcomed Natsios' role and broader mission, taking the opportunity to urge the USG not to pursue sanctions o [...] | 2006-10-10 22:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC SU |
06USUNNEWYORK1944 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 5 meeting in New York with Arab League Ambassador Yahya Mahmassani, Special Presidential Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios urged the Arab League to use its influence over the Government of Sudan (GOS) to persuade President Bashir to accept the UN Peacekeeping fo [...] | 2006-10-12 00:00:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1945 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH DPKO U/SYG GUEHENNO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 5 meeting with UN DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno, Special Presidential Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios pushed DPKO to move quickly on implementing the UN support package for AMIS. Guehenno voiced cautious optimism regarding recent developments related to Dar [...] | 2006-10-12 00:00:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1976 | US/UK/UN TRILATERAL ON UN ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: The UN met with the UK and U.S. missions October 12 to discuss the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI),the Iraq Compact and related issues. UNAMI has temporarily withdrawn most staff from its Basrah office after MNF-I withdrew assets, although it plans on returning once their [...] | 2006-10-13 23:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ PINS |
06USUNNEWYORK2032 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL REVIEWS LIBERIA SANCTIONS [...] The UN Security Council, per resolution 1689, reviewed Liberia sanctions during a closed meeting October 20. Danish PermRep Ellen Loj (Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee) delivered a summary of committee discussions and the views of the Panel of Experts, which monitors sanctions impl [...] | 2006-10-23 21:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
06USUNNEWYORK2046 | UN LEGAL COUNSEL REPORTS ON EFFORTS TO CONCLUDE [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Legal Adviser John Bellinger and Ambassador Wolff met with UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel and his deputy, Larry Johnson, October 25, to discuss Lebanese and key Council members' views on the draft statute and agreement to establish a tribunal to try those responsible for [...] | 2006-10-26 20:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SY LE |
06USUNNEWYORK2050 | UN SYG REQUEST FOR AMIS SUPPORT [...] (U) Please find below the text of a letter from UN SYG Kofi Annan requesting USG material and financial assistance for the AMIS support package. The UN SYG has approached other delegations, including the EU, with similar requests. DPKO has promised to convene a meeting before November 3 to up [...] | 2006-10-30 16:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2073 | UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO FOR SIX [...] The Security Council October 31 extended the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to April 30, 2007. UNSCR 1720 (2006),based on a draft text developed and sponsored by Friends of Western Sahara (U.S., UK, France, Russia and [...] | 2006-11-01 16:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK2077 | UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON THE SUDAN 10/27 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an October 27 briefing to the UNSC on the Sudan, UN DPKO U/SYG Jean-Marie Guehenno called for "creativity" to break the diplomatic impasse with Khartoum regarding a UN peacekeeping deployment in Darfur. UK PermRep Emyr Jones Parry presented a UK compromise proposal for a [...] | 2006-11-01 22:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2084 | SYG CONVENES P-5 TO SEEK EARLY AGREEMENT ON TEXTS [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Secretary-General Annan met with the P-5 ambassadors on November 1, appealing to the P-5 to show flexibility and reach agreement within the next few days on the draft GOL/UN agreement and accompanying statute to establish a tribunal to try those responsible for the assassinati [...] | 2006-11-02 19:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SY LE |
06USUNNEWYORK2095 | UNSC MINURSO CONSULTATIONS: ON TRACK FOR SIX-MONTH [...] Summary: DPKO Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi and the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum summarized for the Security Council October 25 the UN's latest assessment of the situation in the Western Sahara. Speaking for the United States, Ambassador Sand [...] | 2006-11-02 23:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK2123 | UNSC/IRAN: NOVEMBER 3RD MEETING P5 PLUS ONE [...] Summary: The P5 plus one met on Friday, November 3, at the UK Mission at 11:30 to discuss the EU3 draft resolution on Iran. Russia reiterated its complaints about the EU3 text and circulated its extensive &corrections8 (emailed to State and NSC),which Ambassador Churkin described as consist [...] | 2006-11-06 17:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL UNSC PGOV IR |
06USUNNEWYORK2126 | MNF-I RENEWAL: STATE OF PLAY IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Discussions regarding a renewal of UNSCR 1637, which authorizes the MNF-I and the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB),are beginning in New York. Informal soundings of P-5 members indicate they remain willing to support a renewal resolution in response to a speci [...] | 2006-11-06 18:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ PINS |
06USUNNEWYORK2146 | U.S. VETOES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ISRAEL ACTION IN [...] The U.S. November 11 cast a no vote to veto an unbalanced Qatari-sponsored resolution on the situation in the Middle East, and specifically on casualties that resulted from a November 8 Israeli military operation shelling of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. The final vote was 10-1(U.S.)-4(UK, Denmark, Sl [...] | 2006-11-13 21:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK2155 | NEPALESE PERMREP TO FORMALLY ASK FOR UN [...] (C) Summary and comment: DPR Wolff met November 13 with Indian DPR Malhotra and November 14 with Nepalese PermRep Acharya to discuss the Nepalese request for UN assistance in implementing the November 8 peace deal between the government of Nepal and the Maoists. Malhotra and Acharya confirmed [...] | 2006-11-14 23:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN NP UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK2156 | AUSTRALIAN AMENDMENT TO RESOLUTION AGAINST CUBA [...] (C) Summary: Australia's push to amend the 61st General Assembly (GA) Resolution on "The Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba" failed due to a no-action motion raised by Cuba with a 127-50-5 vote. The GA adopt [...] | 2006-11-15 01:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA ETRD PGOV PREL EUN CU |
06USUNNEWYORK2157 | P5 MEETING ON UN SYG SUDAN PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN D/SYG Mark Malloch Brown briefed the P5 on November 14 regarding the UN's planned approach with the Government of Sudan (GOS) at the November 16 meeting of the UN, P5, African Union, and Arab League in Addis Ababa. The UN SYG plans to put forward the Phased Approach Paper (pl [...] | 2006-11-15 19:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2164 | IRAQ COMPACT: UPDATING UN MEMBER STATES ON [...] (U) Summary: On November 13, the UN invited all member-states to an update on the Iraq Compact. Over 70 countries heard remarks from Iraqi Minister of Planning Ali Baban, Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown, and UNDP Associate Administrator Ad Melkert. All three speakers said the Ira [...] | 2006-11-17 00:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK2165 | NEPAL PEACE PROCESS: NEXT STEPS AT THE UN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following the November 8 peace agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Maoists, the UN has begun contingency planning for its potential role in providing support for the implementation of the agreement, including assistance in the security sector ("arms manag [...] | 2006-11-17 00:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NP UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK2168 | HIGH REPRESENTATIVE SCHWARTZ-SCHILLING SPEAKS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 8 Security Council meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),High Representative Christian Schwartz-Schilling told members that the state of affairs regarding progress on reform in the country had become a "complex reality." The High Representative stated that we [...] | 2006-11-17 16:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BK |
06USUNNEWYORK2181 | GEORGIAN PERMREP HOLDS BRAINSTORMING SESSION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Georgian Mission to the UN is getting busy. On November 3, Georgian Permrep Irakli Alasania hosted the New York Friends for a discussion titled "on a comprehensive peaceful solution to the conflict in Abkhazia." Alasania made obvious efforts to be accommodating to the Rus [...] | 2006-11-22 21:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG YI |
06USUNNEWYORK2182 | BELGIUM RELUCTANT TO TAKE CTC OR 1267 CHAIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian PermRep Verbeke told Amb Wolff on November 21 that Belgium is reluctant to assume the Chairmanship of the UNSC's Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) because of resource constraints. He also said Belgium is disinclined to accept the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committe [...] | 2006-11-22 21:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV BE |
06USUNNEWYORK2196 | SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES NEPAL; PROMISES QUICK [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, the Security Council discussed during a private meeting the November 22 letter from the Secretary-General proposing UN support for the peace process in Nepal. The SYG,s Personal Representative to the peace process, Ian Martin, briefed and responded to questions [...] | 2006-11-30 00:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC NP |
06USUNNEWYORK2202 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' NOVEMBER 27 MEETING WITH UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Status, Martti Ahtisaari, told U/S Burns he plans to deliver his package of recommendations on the future status of Kosovo to the UN Security Council in March 2006, after presenting it to Serbian and Kosovar leadership in late January. Ahtisaari's cove [...] | 2006-12-01 23:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN YI |
06USUNNEWYORK2203 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' NOVEMBER 27 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary Burns reassured Kosovo President Sejdiu of U.S. resolve to complete the final status process for Kosovo, despite the two month delay in negotiations to accommodate Serbian parliamentary elections. Burns acknowledged that the Serbs, supported by the Russians in the [...] | 2006-12-01 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN YI |
06USUNNEWYORK2232 | UN DPKO GUEHENNO: BASHIR HAS NOT MADE A STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios met with UN DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno on December 4 to discuss next steps for Darfur. Guehenno stated that Sudanese President Bashir has still not made a "strategic shift" in his position that would allow for the three- [...] | 2006-12-08 21:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2233 | SE NATIOS' MEETING WITH SYG ANNAN ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 4 meeting with SYG Kofi Annan, Presidential Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios pushed for quick implementation of the Addis Ababa principles and highlighted the need for clarity on the mission's command and control. Annan expressed optimism in the face o [...] | 2006-12-08 21:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2242 | SECURITY CONCERNS DOMINATE DURING UNAMI/MNF-I [...] (U) Summary: On December 11, UN SRSG for Iraq Ashraf Qazi and Ambassador Sanders on behalf of MNF-I presented their quarterly briefings during a public meeting of the Security Council regarding the situation in Iraq. In his remarks, Qazi issued a stark warning, saying that the recent quarterly [...] | 2006-12-12 16:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK2266 | INCOMING SYG BAN KI-MOON CANNOT ATTEND SALVADORAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 20:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK2281 | SE NATIOS' MEETING WITH PRC PERMREP WANG [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 21 working lunch with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, Chinese UN Permanent Representative AMB Wang Guangya emphasized that the U.S. and the PRC share a common objective of a peaceful settlement to the Darfur crisis. Wang expressed optimism that Sudanese President [...] | 2006-12-22 20:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2282 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH DPKO USYG GUEHENNO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 21 meeting with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, UN DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno expressed skepticism that Sudanese President Bashir would provide a wholly forthcoming and constructive response to SYG Annan's letter outlining specific steps the Government of Sudan [...] | 2006-12-22 20:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK2293 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1732 ON SANCTIONS [...] On December 21, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1732, which terminates the Security Council's Informal Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions by deciding that the group has fulfilled its mandate. The resolution also takes note of several best practices papers, which [...] | 2006-12-27 20:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC EFIN KTFN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK2294 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1731 ON LIBERIA [...] On December 20, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1731, which extends diamond sanctions, the arms embargo, and the travel ban. The new resolution also amends the arms embargo to make it easier for Liberia to procure non-lethal military equipment. UNSCR 1731 highlights the [...] | 2006-12-27 21:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
06USUNNEWYORK2296 | UNSC ADOPTS RES 1730 ON SANCTIONS "DUE PROCESS" [...] (U) On December 19, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1730, concerning fair and clear procedures ("due process") for removing individuals and entities from under sanctions (delisting). UNSCR 1730 establishes an administrative focal point within the Secretariat, to which san [...] | 2006-12-27 22:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EFIN KTFN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK2297 | UNSC ADOPTS RES 1735 ON AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) On December 22, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1735, regarding al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions. The resolution focuses on sanctioning active members of the Taliban who are responsible for the upsurge in violence in Afghanistan. It also emphasizes the importance of [...] | 2006-12-27 22:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN KTFN UNSC PREL PGOV AF |
06USUNNEWYORK340 | UNSC/SANCTIONS: CHINA'S ETLO/SHAT DESIGNATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 5. 2. (C) PolCouns delivered demarche (reftels A and B) to Chinese Political Coordinator Li Junhua. Li responded that China was "quite disappointed" at the U.S. decision and stressed that the ETLO/SHAT designation request came from the "highe [...] | 2006-02-23 22:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV PTER CH |
06USUNNEWYORK346 | UN/IRAQ: FEBRUARY 23 U.S.-UK-UN TRILATERAL MEETING [...] Begin Summary. During the February 23 UN-U.S.-UK trilateral meeting on UNAMI staff and security, UN Secretariat staff gave an update on UNAMI electoral and SIPDIS constitutional assistance. They indicated that Japan had shown interest in providing aviation support for UNAMI, but had not [...] | 2006-02-24 16:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK349 | HAITI: UNSC AND CORE GROUP COMMEND LATORTUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. During an open briefing to the UN Security Council and a subsequent meeting of the Haiti Core Group on February 22, Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH) Prime Minister Gerard Latortue commended his government and the Haitian people on the conduct of first-round elections on 7 Feb [...] | 2006-02-24 19:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
06USUNNEWYORK351 | UN SECRETARIAT AND JAPAN SUGGEST RAISING NEPAL IN [...] (SBU) UN Undersecretary for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari will raise possible UN Security Council consideration of the political crisis in Nepal during his February 27 visit to Washington, UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Asia Political Officer Tamrat Samuel told Poloff on February [...] | 2006-02-24 21:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NP |
06USUNNEWYORK375 | UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a public meeting on 21 February 2006, the Chairmen of the UN Security Council's three subsidiary counterterrorism committees (the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),the 1267 or Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee, and the 1540 Committee on nonproliferation) briefed the Council [...] | 2006-02-27 23:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC ETTC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK390 | SRSG PRONK DEPLORES AU DELAY AND WARNS GNU IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 28 meeting with Ambassador Bolton, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Sudan Jan Pronk warned that the Government of National Unity (GNU) was using anti-West and anti-UN rhetoric to 'gang up' on African Union (AU) Members and other countries on [...] | 2006-03-01 16:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK394 | RESPONSE TO URGENT DEMARCHE REQUEST IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) Ambassador Wolff made Ref A points to United Nations Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown, SIPDIS putting particular emphasis on the March 4 time constraint. Malloch Brown said he had spoken with Secretary-General Annan hours earlier on the subject of African Union Miss [...] | 2006-03-01 19:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK413 | UNSC: UNSCO DE SOTO DISCUSSES CONUNDRUM OF [...] (C) Begin Summary: During his monthly briefing February 28 to the Security Council, the UN Special Coordinator on the Middle East Alvaro de Soto discussed the determinants of the current Palestinian assistance conundrum and the consequences of international inaction. Reporting that it is too s [...] | 2006-03-03 19:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPAL |
06USUNNEWYORK419 | FURTHER RESPONSE TO URGENT DEMARCHE REQUEST IN [...] (C) Further to Ref A, Ambassador Wolff had a follow-up conversation March 2 with United Nations Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown. Malloch Brown mentioned he had spoken with Deputy Secretary Zoellick March 1 about Darfue, including the March 7 meeting in Brussels at which [...] | 2006-03-03 22:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK423 | LEBANESE LEGAL DELEGATION LEAVES NEW YORK WITH PLAN [...] Summary. Department lawyers and USUN Political and Legal Officers met again (reftel) March 2 with the Lebanese Tribunal team to review the status of planning for the prosecution of those responsible for the Hariri assassination. The team was about to return to Beirut after concluding a seri [...] | 2006-03-04 00:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL UNSC LE |
06USUNNEWYORK435 | UN/IRAQ: ASSESSMENT MISSION FOR KUWAIT BORDER [...] Begin Summary. USUN met March 2 with Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) official Eliza Kimball, who had just returned from Kuwait. Kimball reported on the February mission of four UN staff to assess the Iraq-Kuwait border posts, consistent with reftel. This assessment mission was [...] | 2006-03-08 18:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ KU |
06USUNNEWYORK453 | AHTISAARI BRIEFS UNSC ON KOSOVO FUTURE STATUS [...] (C) Summary: In closed UNSC consultations March 7, Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari briefed Security Council members on his work to date in the Kosovo Future Status Process. Delivering a candid message, Ahtisaari argued while the current government in Belgrade is not responsible for what Milo [...] | 2006-03-09 22:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK SR YI |
06USUNNEWYORK454 | UN/IRAQ: UNAMI SECURITY ISSUES AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Begin Summary. The SYG hosted a policy committee meeting March 7 for senior UN staff to discuss Iraq. He decided to expand UN operations in Erbil and approved the plan for mid- and long-term UNAMI accommodation in Baghdad. He decided not to expand in Basra for now and continued to insis [...] | 2006-03-09 23:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV ASEC IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK459 | UN/IRAQ: PERRICOS PRESSES SECURITY COUNCIL TO [...] (C) Begin Summary. In his briefing to the UNSC, Acting UNMOVIC Chairman Demitrius Perricos urged the UNSC to address UNMOVIC's mandate and discussed in detail his concerns about the chemical weapons (CW) site at Muthanna. He also highlighted Iraq's failure to engage thus far on this file. A [...] | 2006-03-10 14:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV UNMOVIC IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK503 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UN OUTLINES EXPANDED FORMAT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wolff made reftel points in a meeting with UN Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) for Peacekeeping Hedi Annabi and other Department of Peacekeeping Officials (DPKO) officials on March 10. He urged the Secretariat to ensure the UN Assistance Mission in SIPDIS Afgh [...] | 2006-03-14 19:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF |
06USUNNEWYORK507 | UN AFGHAN SRSG KOENIGS COMMITTED TO EXPANDED [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wolff pressed ref A points on the composition of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) during an introductory meeting with UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Afghanistan Tom Koenigs on March 14. The Ambassador emphasized USG c [...] | 2006-03-15 13:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF |
06USUNNEWYORK514 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] USUN management-reform (M/R) officer joined other Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee members in a formal meeting March 13 to discuss the Committee's upcoming trip to Freetown, the Court's precarious financial future, and the need to prod the Court's judges to increase judicial ef [...] | 2006-03-16 14:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
06USUNNEWYORK536 | RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SOMALIA: PROSPECTS FOR PEACE [...] Summary: Recent developments in Somalia have improved the prospect for peace, however the process remains vulnerable, and the pressing humanitarian crisis demands immediate international attention. The signing of the Aden Declaration and subsequent convening of the Parliament are important [...] | 2006-03-17 23:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL SO UNSC KPKO XW |
06USUNNEWYORK549 | BRAMMERTZ SAYS HARIRI INVESTIGATION WILL TAKE [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: Ambassadors Bolton and Sanders met March 15 with Serge Brammertz, Commissioner of the International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC). Brammertz issued his first UNIIIC interim report on March 14, met with other P-5 ambassadors March 15, and briefed the Securit [...] | 2006-03-21 11:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KCRM UNSC LE SY |
06USUNNEWYORK576 | UN/IRAQ:HIGH-LEVEL U.S.-UN DIALOGUE ON IRAQ [...] (C) Begin Summary. In a useful and detailed March 16 meeting, the U.S. and UN, led by S/I Ambassador Jeffrey and DPA U/SYG Gambari respectively, exchanged views on Iraq. The U.S. expressed appreciation for the work of the UN, especially SRSG Qazi, and urged an increased UN role, especially [...] | 2006-03-23 16:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK589 | UN/IRAQ: UNSC QUARTERLY MEETING ON UNAMI AND MNF [...] (C) Begin Summary. In the March 15 UNSC meeting on Iraq, SRSG Qazi expressed concerns about sectarian violence and the human rights situation in Iraq, but described success in meeting the benchmarks in the political process. On behalf of the MNF, Ambassador Bolton briefed progress in trans [...] | 2006-03-23 23:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK602 | UN/IRAQ: MARCH 23 TRILATERAL MEETING ON UNAMI [...] (C) Begin Summary. During the March 23 UN-U.S.-UK trilateral meeting on UNAMI staff and security, UN Secretariat staff gave an update on UNAMI staff and electoral SIPDIS assistance. They said Japan remains interested in providing aviation support for UNAMI and reviewed the U.S. list of p [...] | 2006-03-24 23:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK613 | UN LEGAL COUNSEL BRIEFS ON LEBANON SPECIAL COURT [...] Nicolas Michel, UN Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, briefed Security Council members March 23 on the status of preparations for a Lebanese Special Court. The briefing followed the release on March 21 of the Secretary General's Report (S/2006/176) on efforts to assist the Government [...] | 2006-03-28 14:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM LE PGOV PREL UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK618 | A STEP CLOSER TO TRANSITION: WITH UNSCR 1663 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Sudan Jan Pronk's March 21 SIPDIS briefing to the Security Council revealed persistent divisions among Members on the prospect of African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) transition and imposition of targeted sanctio [...] | 2006-03-28 20:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK642 | AFRICAN TOUR D'HORIZON WITH UK LORD TRIESMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 20 Ambassador Bolton met with UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lord SIPDIS Triesman to discuss Horn of Africa issues - namely Sudan, Ethiopia/Eritrea and Somalia - as well as the Great Lakes region (in particular the DRC),Charles Taylor and Z [...] | 2006-03-30 21:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ET NI PGOV SO SU ZI KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK643 | UNSC: HEARS BRAMMERTZ, ISSUES STATEMENT ON THIRD [...] In his March 16 briefing to the Security Council on the "Third report of the International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005),1636 (2005),and 1644 (2005)" that included both his open briefing and his comments in close [...] | 2006-03-30 22:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK644 | UNSC: RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Recalling a letter from the Government of Lebanon requesting the establishment of a tribunal of an international character to try all those responsible for the terrorist bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri as well as its request to the Secretary-General in UNSCR [...] | 2006-03-30 22:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC LE |
06USUNNEWYORK645 | UNSC OPEN DEBATE ON HAITI: ALL SMILES AND MANY [...] Summary. During an open debate on Haiti in the United Nations Security Council on March 27, UN Secretary-General Annan and representatives from 30 countries -- including Foreign Ministers or Vice-Ministers from Greece, Guyana, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, and Br [...] | 2006-03-30 23:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
06USUNNEWYORK714 | MARCH 30 ROLLOUT OF WATSON INSTITUTE PAPER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a March 30 luncheon at the UN, Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies unveiled its final white paper on "Strengthening Targeted Sanctions through Fair and Clear Procedures," research for which had been commissioned and sponsored by the governments of Germ [...] | 2006-04-04 22:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PHUM PGOV PTER ETTC |
06USUNNEWYORK732 | TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN MEETS CTC CHAIRMAN LOJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Counter-Terrorism Committee's (CTC) primary responsibility was to build a truly international coalition in the fight against terrorism by ensuring that less developed States were not "left behind," explained CTC Chairman Loj during her meeting with Treasury Assistant Secret [...] | 2006-04-05 18:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC ETTC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK734 | UNSC/SUDAN: IMPEDIMENTS TO ACTION ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Progress toward transition of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a United Nations operation is stalled due to a stonewalling and recalcitrant Government of National Unity (GNU) in Sudan and a passive African Union (AU). While everyone at the UN talks about e [...] | 2006-04-05 23:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK762 | UNSC: MARCH MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING [...] (U) In his March 30 briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tuliameni Kalomoh discussed the new Palestinian government, the just-completed Israeli elections, security issues, the humanitarian situation in Gaza and [...] | 2006-04-11 15:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK767 | ALGERIANS IN NEW YORK OBJECT TO VAN WALSUM [...] (C) Summary: Algerian PR Youcef Yousfi March 22 conveyed Algeria's objections to Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum's proposal that Algeria participate as a party in negotiations with Morocco on the issue of Western Sahara and to a presumed forthcoming Moroccan autonomy proposa [...] | 2006-04-11 20:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK770 | UNSC/SUDAN: PRST ON DARFUR ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY [...] (C) In an April 11 formal meeting, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Darfur - UN document S/PRST/2006/16; text in Paragraph 4. The agreed-upon text reflected a hurried consensus that the sponsoring delegation, the UK (which [...] | 2006-04-12 13:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK794 | AMBASSADOR BOLTON PROPOSES TO JUMP START SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. The conflict in Western Sahara remains at a stalemate. From my perspective in New York, a fresh approach to Security Council action on MINURSO's mandate is one available option if we seek to accelerate Moroccan action on autonomy for the Western Sahara. If such an approach fails [...] | 2006-04-14 13:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK796 | UN/IRAQ: APRIL 13 U.S.-UK-UN TRILATERAL MEETING ON [...] (C) Begin Summary. During the April 13 UN-U.S.-UK trilateral meeting on UNAMI staff and security, UN Secretariat staff gave an update on UNAMI staff and security SIPDIS concerns, especially in southeast Iraq. They reported requests to the Brazilian and Turkish Missions for a dedicated ai [...] | 2006-04-14 15:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ KU JA |
06USUNNEWYORK800 | UNSC/SUDAN: CHAD INSTABILITY IS REGIONAL THREAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At April 13 consultations, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Africa Director Titov gave the Security Council an overview of the current situation in Chad and its potential consequences for regional stability, calling for a strengthening of the African Un [...] | 2006-04-17 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD CT PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK801 | UNSC EXTENDS UNMEE MANDATE UNTIL MAY 15 [...] (U) In a formal meeting of the United Nations Security Council on April 13, members voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea until May 15, leaving open the possibility of converting UNMEE into an observer mission by that time. The resolution was adopted [...] | 2006-04-17 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK816 | UN/IRAQ: APRIL 17 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON IRAQ/KUWAIT [...] (U) Vorontsov: In April 17 consultations, High-Level Coordinator Yuli Vorontsov briefed the UNSC on the repatriation and return of Kuwaiti and third country nationals or their remains. He said there were few substantial developments since December 2005. He commended the Kuwaiti authorities [...] | 2006-04-19 14:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV UNMOVIC IZ KU |
06USUNNEWYORK819 | A/S SILVERBERG MEETS WITH U/SYG DPKO GUEHENNO TO [...] (C) Summary: Accompanied by USUN Ambassador Jackie Sanders, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Kristen Silverberg met with Under Secretary General for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Jean-Marie Guehenno and DPKO Assistant Secretary General Hedi A [...] | 2006-04-19 17:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK825 | UN/IRAQ: APRIL 19 REVIEW OF IRAQ ISSUES WITH [...] (C) During an April 19 meeting between UNMOVIC Acting Executive Chairman Demitrius Perricos and USUN staff, the following subjects were addressed: the non-paper on bunkers in Muthanna; the Iraq WMD compendium summary; and the Iraqi request for a copy of its FFCD of its chemical weapons progra [...] | 2006-04-19 23:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV UNMOVIC IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK833 | LIBERIA COMMITTEE CHAIR'S TRIP AND FUTURE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following her recent visit to Monrovia, the Permanent Representative of Denmark to the UN and Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee Ellen Loj concluded the Security Council should send a positive signal to the new Liberian government during the Council's scheduled June revie [...] | 2006-04-24 13:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
06USUNNEWYORK835 | UNSC/SUDAN: PALLOR HANGS OVER MEMBERS' ASSESSMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. At an April 18 open briefing to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),African Union (AU) Special Envoy to the Abuja Peace Talks Salim Ahmed Salim, with what seemed like a false sense of security and optimism, proclaimed Darfur peace negotiations to be in the 'ho [...] | 2006-04-24 13:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CD NI PGOV PHUM PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK836 | UN/IRAQ: SYG LETTER REGARDING UNMOVIC MANDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 14:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV UNMOVIC IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK845 | UN COUNTER-TERRORISM EXECUTIVE DIRECTORATE (CTED) [...] (U) Summary. In an April 18 meeting, CTED Director Ruperez reiterated his interest in close co-operation with the USG on counter-terrorism, discussed CTED's progress during the past six months and plans for its future. USUN shared USG priorities for increasing CTED effectiveness. End Summa [...] | 2006-04-24 18:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK855 | UN/IRAQ: UNSC PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] On April 25, UN Security Council (UNSC) President, Chinese PR Wang read out a press statement agreed by the UNSC regarding the formation of an Iraqi government. UKUN had drafted the statement in consultation with the U.S. 2. Text as Follows. Begin text. The members of the Security Cou [...] | 2006-04-26 13:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK857 | UNSC/SUDAN: COUNCIL ADOPTS PRST ON CHAD/SUDAN [...] (U) In an April 25 formal meeting, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a Congolese-drafted Presidential Statement (PRST) addressing the situation between Chad and Sudan. Last-minute edits to the text resulted in deletion of our proposed reference to a pending European Union Mis [...] | 2006-04-26 18:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CD CT PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK881 | HAITI: UN SECRETARIAT GREETS DEPARTMENTAL [...] (C) Summary. During meetings with UN Secretariat officials in New York on April 18, Interim S/CRS Head Ambassador Tim Carney outlined the USG's Departmental Stabilization Initiative (DSI) to promote reform and reconstruction efforts in troubled areas of Haiti outside of Port-au-Prince. The A [...] | 2006-04-26 23:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
06USUNNEWYORK882 | AMBASSADOR WISNER DISCUSSES KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 25 meeting in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Secretary's Special SIPDIS Representative for the Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner communicated current U.S thinking on the road ahead for Kosovo in 2006 and solicited the Secretary [...] | 2006-04-27 17:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC YI UNMIK |
06USUNNEWYORK885 | UNSC: LEBANESE PM FOUAD SINIORA BRIEFS SECURITY [...] Summary: Before a public meeting of the Security Council April 21, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora briefed on the Lebanese National Dialogue and delivered a strong message in support of Council actions and the recently released Secretary General's third report on UNSCR 1559. Siniora [...] | 2006-04-27 22:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK889 | UNSC/SUDAN: CONGO FEELS NO SENSE OF URGENCY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. April 26 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consultations witnessed a veritable face-off on Darfur. In one corner was Congolese Permanent Representative (PR) and representative of the African Union (AU) Chairmanship Ikouebe, who, under obvious pressure from Paris [...] | 2006-04-28 19:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CD NI PGOV PREL SU UNSC ZF KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK890 | UNSC/SUDAN: COUNCIL ADOPTS SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) In an April 25 formal meeting, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution imposing on four Sudanese individuals the targeted sanctions (travel ban and assets freeze) authorized by UNSCR 1591 (2005). The vote count was 12 in favor and three abstentions (China, Qatar, [...] | 2006-04-28 19:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC NI PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK912 | UN ON LRA: 'SYMPTOM OF PROBLEM THAT ONLY UGANDA [...] (SBU) At April 26 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consultations, Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Assistant-Secretary-General Kalomoh made recommendations for addressing the regional threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),most of which centered around a more proactive ap [...] | 2006-05-04 12:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CG ETTC MOPS PGOV PREL SU UG KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK913 | UNSC: A/SYG ANNABI AND PERSONAL ENVOY VAN WALSUM [...] Summary: During a private meeting of the Security Council April 25, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Heidi Annabi reported on MINURSO operations, and the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum discussed the Secretary-General's latest r [...] | 2006-05-04 13:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
06USUNNEWYORK915 | LARSEN TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL WHY SYRIA NEEDS TO [...] (SBU) Summary. During private consultations with the UNSC on April 26, UN Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen robustly argued that full implementation of UNSCR 1559 would not be achieved until Syria responded to Lebanon's offer to demarcate their shared border and establish diplomatic relations. [...] | 2006-05-04 13:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC LE SY |
06USUNNEWYORK917 | 1267 COMMITTEE PROCEDURAL PROTECTIONS AND FAIRNESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN delivered demarche (REF A) to all other P-5 delegations April 27 - 28. P-5 delegations supported U.S. efforts to address &due process8 concerns as a way to strengthen the 1267 sanctions regime and to encourage more States to participate in the 1267 process. France and Russia [...] | 2006-05-04 15:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK920 | PRESSING UN ON LEBANESE TRIBUNAL [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with Nicolas Michel, the UN's Under Secretary General for Legal Affairs, Ambassador Wolff requested an update on the UN's efforts to draft a treaty to establish a tribunal to try any suspects in the murder of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Ambassador Wolff emphasized tha [...] | 2006-05-04 21:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY |
06USUNNEWYORK944 | UN ON SUDAN: 'PLEASE GIVE US MONEY' [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST. Secretary-General (SYG) Annan hosted a May 4 meeting of the Group of Friends of Darfur to drum financial support for the humanitarian assistance program in Darfur, which, according OCHA U/SYG Egeland, is facing a $500 million funding shortfall. DPKO A/SYG [...] | 2006-05-10 20:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NI PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
06USUNNEWYORK945 | COUNCIL FAVORS TWO-WEEK ROLLOVER OF UNMEE'S MANDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a May 8 briefing to the Security Council, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant-Secretary-General Annabi told Members that if the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) were to continue its monitoring activities and eventually support borde [...] | 2006-05-10 21:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK972 | UN/SANCTIONS: UNSCR 1676 RENEWS SOMALIA MONITORING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 10 May 2006 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted UNSC Resolution 1676, renewing the mandate of the Somalia Monitoring Group (MG) for an additional six months. In closed consultations immediately beforehand, Qatar PermRep Ambassador Nasser, Chairman of the Somalia Sancti [...] | 2006-05-12 20:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC SO ETTC PREL PGOV XW |
06USUNNEWYORK974 | CYPRUS: BRYZA AND SILLIMAN'S NEW YORK MEETINGS [...] (S) Summary: On May 10, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and EUR/SE Director Doug Silliman traveled to New York for meetings on Cyprus with U/SYG Ibrahim Gambari and SRSG on Cyprus and UNFICYP head Michael Moller. In a lunch meeting with Moller and his deputy Susan Allee joined by USUN Ambassador Sanders, [...] | 2006-05-13 01:23:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PGOV PREL UNSC TU CY |
06USUNNEWYORK992 | UN/CYPRUS:U/SYG BRIEFING TO P5 ON CYPRUS TRAVEL [...] (SBU) U/SYG for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari convoked the P5 May 12 to brief on his plans to travel to Cyprus and to seek UNSC support for the trip. He will next brief the full Council. (Note: The travel dates are not yet set. End Note.) Gambari has four goals for the trip: 1) enco [...] | 2006-05-15 22:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC PGOV CY |
06VATICAN110 | VATICAN SUPPORTIVE ON SOMALIA [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for Somalia Monsignor Lucio Sembrano voiced support for U.S and international community efforts on that country during a June 13 meeting. Sembrano, who has engaged with us on Somalia in the past (ref a),had asked us for an update on the situation. We outlined [...] | 2006-06-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV SO VT KE |
06VATICAN181 | CHALDEAN IRAQI CHURCH CONTINUES TO SUFFER LOSSES [...] (S) Summary: Monsignor Philip Najim, Representative of the Chaldean Catholic Church to the Holy See and the Chaldeans' European representative, told PolOffs in an August 28 meeting that the Chaldean Church continues to lose many of its faithful due to the deteriorating security situation in Ir [...] | 2006-08-30 18:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KIRF PHUM IZ VT |
06VATICAN183 | VATICAN: IRAQI AMBASSADOR WARNS OF UNIFIED ISLAMIC THREAT [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See Yelda, sees severe consequences to western interests should radical Shia and Sunni factions ever put aside their differences and unite. Yelda, an Assyrian Christian, counseled the U.S. to take steps now to combat this possibility by portraying Iran [...] | 2006-09-01 09:16:00 | Embassy Vatican | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IZ VT |
06VATICAN203 | VATICAN: MEDIA RESPONSE TO POPE'S RESPONSE ADDRESS [...] September 21 reaction by Vatican-based media to Pope Benedict's September 20th general audience remarks was strongly positive. Most press outlets reported the pope used the occasion to again express regret that his remarks on Islam had been misunderstood and to emphasize his "profound respect [...] | 2006-09-21 16:49:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IT VT |
06VATICAN211 | ROME'S INTER-FAITH MEETING [...] Summary: Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni hosted an inter-faith meeting on September 19 attended by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; Sami Salem, Imam of Rome's Grand Mosque; Abdallah Redouane, Secretary-General of Rome's Islamic Cultural Ce [...] | 2006-10-03 13:43:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KISL PGOV PHUM VT IT |
06VATICAN219 | CHALDEAN: IRAQI CHRISTIANS TARGETED AFTER POPE'S REMARKS [...] (S) Summary: Monsignor Philip Najim, Representative of the Chaldean Catholic Church to the Holy See, and the Chaldean Patriarch's First Counselor, Bishop Ibrahim Ibrahim of Detroit, Michigan told Poloff in a recent meeting that Christians faced increasing violence in Iraq. They said the papal [...] | 2006-10-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR IZ VT |
06VATICAN226 | VATICAN: NGO CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN RESETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary: Chaldean and Syrian Church Leaders in Mosul, Iraq have proposed resettling displaced Iraqi Christians in an area of Northern Iraq. Vatican-affiliated NGO the Community of Sant'Egidio plans to visit Northern Iraq in November to meet with Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) leaders [...] | 2006-10-24 13:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IZ VT |
06VATICAN229 | VATICAN: CONSULAR ISSUES AND IRAQI CHRISTIANS [...] (U) This is an action request. See Para 4. --------------------------------------------- ---- Iraqi Christian Refugees Face Immigration Hurdles --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (SBU) As delineated in reftel, Monsignor Philip Najim, Representative of the Chaldean Ca [...] | 2006-10-25 15:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PGOV KIRF PHUM IZ VT |
06VATICAN233 | VATICAN OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT AGAINST HUSSEIN VERDICT [...] (U) Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, criticized the recent death sentence issued to Saddam Hussein in an interview with Italy's leading newspaper, center-right Corriere della Sera November 6. Martino stated that "punishing one crime with anot [...] | 2006-11-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KIRF PGOV PHUM VT IZ |
06VATICAN238 | VATICAN RECOGNIZES NEED FOR CALM IN CONGO [...] Holy See Deputy FM Parolin told the Ambassador November 16 that he was aware of Congolese Cardinal Etsou's inflammatory statements. Parolin agreed that the objective for all concerned was a peaceful acceptance of the election results. He said he had spoken to the Papal Nuncio November 16 and [...] | 2006-11-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI VT KDEM PGOV CG PREL |
06VATICAN243 | VATICAN OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ABOUT PRC - HOLY SEE RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Monsignor Rota-Graziosi is pessimistic about the chances for a break through on Holy See-PRC relations. Rota-Graziosi did not see the recent release of jailed Bishop An Shuxin as significant and was unfazed by reports indicating An had regist [...] | 2006-11-24 13:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CH HK VT |
06VATICAN248 | HOLY SEE: MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, following is Embassy Vatican's Muslim Engagement Strategy. Deputy Chief of Mission Chris Sandrolini will be post's minority-engagement officer. 2. (SBU) Begin text: The Holy See is in effect the central government of the Catholic Church. Its head of state, Pope Benedic [...] | 2006-12-01 17:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI VT |
06VATICAN255 | HOLY SEE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRAN ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-07 17:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM IR VT |
06VATICAN31 | CHINESE PRIEST ENCOURAGES POTUS WORDS ON FREEDOM [...] (C) Fr. Shu-Jie Chen of the Chinese Patriotic Church said February 21 that he appreciated the President's speaking out recently in China on religious freedom issues. Chen offered mild criticism of the Chinese government on human rights issues, but offered a generally positive view of religio [...] | 2006-02-23 08:52:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV VT CH |
06VATICAN33 | DARFUR: SANT'EGIDIO MONITORING PROCESS [...] (C) The Community of Sant'Egidio continues to monitor closely the Darfur peace process, but is waiting until the end of the current round of negotiations to retake a more active role. Scelzo bemoaned the widening of the Darfur crisis and said he hoped that "Darfurian stake-holders" could reg [...] | 2006-02-24 15:16:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VT SU PHUM |
06VATICAN36 | POPE CONDEMNS SHIA MOSQUE BOMBING [...] In response to the bombing of the Shia mosque on February 22, Pope Benedict XVI on February 26 severely condemned all "violence done in the name of God." Pope Benedict went on to emphasize, "These are the actions that sow mourning, fuel hatred and gravely hinder the already difficult work of [...] | 2006-02-28 15:28:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO PTER IZ VT |
06VATICAN37 | HOLY SEE/VENEZUELA: CARDINAL'S HAT FOR UROSA MARKS VATICAN [...] (C) Summary. The rapid elevation to Cardinal of Archbishop Urosa is a mark of Holy See interest in Venezuela and Venezuelan Catholics. Not incidentally, it puts Urosa in a position to draw attention away from retired Cardinal Castillo Lara, whose scraps with the Chavez regime have not been [...] | 2006-02-28 17:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VT VE |
06VATICAN38 | CARDINAL ZEN: A SHOT ACROSS THE BOWS TO BEIJING? [...] (C) The nomination of Cardinal-elect Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun is a clear signal from the Holy See to Beijing. The nomination highlights several issues: the importance of China and the Catholic Chinese to Pope Benedict; the Vatican's support for Zen's past strong public statements for religious free [...] | 2006-03-01 11:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV VT CH |
06VATICAN44 | LENT BRINGS MIX OF SPIRITUALITY, POLITICS TO VATICAN [...] (SBU) The Lenten season brings with it an atmosphere of increased devotion in and around Vatican City, but politics can play a role in even the most spiritual activities. Governance stalls in the offices of the Vatican MFA and elsewhere in the Curia during the first week of Lent when the pope [...] | 2006-03-20 11:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI VT |
06VATICAN52 | HOLY SEE'S UNDERSTANDING OF CHINESE VIEWS ON NAMING OF [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador discussed the naming of a Chinese cardinal during a conversation with Holy See deputy foreign minister Parolin on March 15. Parolin noted the restrained reaction of the Chinese foreign ministry, the negative reaction of the Patriotic Association, and the difficulty of [...] | 2006-03-28 09:47:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL CH VT |
06VATICAN64 | HOLY SEE SUPPORTS PSI [...] (C) Holy See Office Director for Disarmament Paolo Conversi noted April 7 the Vatican's support for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) (ref a) and noted the Holy See's previous support at events such as the first anniversary meeting for the PSI in May 2004 (ref b). As he has done in [...] | 2006-04-12 14:10:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP XX VT |
06VATICAN88 | VATICAN: EAST TIMORESE ACTIVIST CALLS FOR ATTENTION [...] (SBU) Fernanda Borges, the founder of East Timor's National Party, was in Rome recently pleading for greater international attention to the disorder and violence in her country. We met with Borges at the headquarters of the Community of Sant'Egidio, the Catholic lay group best known for conf [...] | 2006-05-26 14:46:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM VT ID |
06VIENNA1102 | European Imams Meet in Vienna April 7-9 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Some 130 European Islamic leaders and Islam experts from more than 40 countries attended an April 7-9 conference of European imams in Vienna. The agenda focused on integration of Muslims into European societies, education, politics, women's rights, and the Mohammed cartoon deba [...] | 2006-04-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KISL EUN AU |
06VIENNA1105 | CONFERENCE ON NEXT STEPS FOR REACH LEGISLATION [...] On March 30 and 31, the Austrian Presidency hosted an experts workshop, entitled "REACH At the Edge of the Second Reading," to discuss next steps. Officials from all 25 Member States, the EU Commission, the EU Parliament (EP),industry and NGOs participated. 2. Thomas Jakl from the Austr [...] | 2006-04-18 06:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EIND ECON PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1173 | KOSOVO: U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE WISNER BRIEFS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Frank Wisner, the U.S. Kosovo Special Representative, discussed Kosovo status issues on April 21 with Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting. Wisner bluntly outlined the problem: Belgrade has decided to ignore private messages that the outcome of the st [...] | 2006-04-24 15:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KS AU |
06VIENNA1174 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: ADDRESSING UN FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 16:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL AF AU |
06VIENNA1190 | RAIFFEISEN BANK ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO OPT OUT [...] During an April 24 briefing for journalists, Herbert Stepic, Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding (RI),a holding company for Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB),announced that RZB's subsidiary Raiffeisen Investment AG (RIAG) will opt out as a 50% shareholder of the Ukrain [...] | 2006-04-26 06:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1209 | Former Freedom Party MP Gudenus Guilty of [...] On April 26, the Vienna Criminal Court convicted a former member of the Upper House of Parliament for the rightwing/populist Freedom Party (FPO),John Gudenus, to a suspended one-year prison sentence on the grounds of having violated Austrian anti-Neo-Nazi law. In public interviews last year [...] | 2006-04-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1270 | Government Rescues BAWAG - Gets "Thanks" From [...] (U) In a May 1 meeting, the GoA and the Austrian financial sector agreed on a rescue package for Austria's fourth largest banking group, BAWAG P.S.K. (BAWAG). The GoA will provide a temporary Euro 900 million government guarantee to BAWAG to stop massive withdrawals and to reassure BAWAG cus [...] | 2006-05-04 07:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV ELAB AU |
06VIENNA1301 | 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES - AUSTRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-08 11:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV |
06VIENNA136 | Austria to Restitute Five Klimt Paintings [...] The GoA will transfer ownership of five Gustav Klimt paintings currently in the possession of the federally owned Austrian Gallery to a group of heirs led by Los Angeles resident Maria Altmann. Education Minister Elisabeth Gehrer announced today, January 17, that she will order restitution o [...] | 2006-01-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1385 | KOSOVO STATUS: PRISTINA AND BELGRADE REMAIN FAR [...] (SBU) THIS IS A REPORT FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS SUMMARIZING THE MAY 4-5 TALKS ON DECENTRALIZATION/ MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES. A COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY WAS PROVIDED REFTEL. 2. (SBU) PRISTINA AND BELGRADE OFFERED VASTLY DIFFERENT PROPOSALS ON [...] | 2006-05-12 07:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA1419 | EU-LATIN AMERICA SUMMIT: SLOW PROGRESS TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the May 11-12 EU-LAC (Latin America/Caribbean) Summit, the two regions sought strategies for closer cooperation. A striking lack of unity among LAC countries hampered the effort. The meeting produced a "Declaration of Vienna" enumerating common goals, among them the continu [...] | 2006-05-15 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM CU BL VE EUN AU |
06VIENNA1482 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY ISSUES DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Embassy Vienna delivered ref demarche to Austrian Foreign Ministry May 18. 2. (U) On May 19, the Austrian EU Presidency issued a declaration urging the Syrian authorities to reconsider all cases of political prisoners and immediately release all prisoners of conscience. The text [...] | 2006-05-19 15:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL SY AU |
06VIENNA1491 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY ISSUES DECLARATION [...] (SBU) The Government of Austria, in its capacity as President of the European Union, issued a declaration on May 22 welcoming the formation of the new Iraqi government. The Austrian EU Presidency said it saw the process as the completion of the political transition in Iraq. 2. (U) Text [...] | 2006-05-22 13:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AU |
06VIENNA1501 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: MAY 22 UPDATE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS MARTTI AHTISAARI SPENT MOST OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS TRAVELING TO EUROPEAN CAPITALS AND WASHINGTON, AND IN [...] | 2006-05-23 10:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA1551 | May 4 U.S.-Russia - EU Multi Presidency Meeting [...] (SBU) Summary. In the first meeting of its kind, U.S., Russian and EU officials met informally in Vienna May 4 to discuss possible areas for future cooperation in the fight against terrorism, organized crime and corruption, and illegal immigration. The U.S. delegation was led by Attorney G [...] | 2006-05-31 11:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CVIS CPAS KCRM KFRD SMIG EUN AU |
06VIENNA1552 | May 4 EU Ministerial on the Role of Internal [...] (SBU) Summary. Over 50 states and international organizations attended the May 4-5 Austrian Presidency sponsored Internal Security Ministerial, designed in part to implement the EU JHA External Strategy paper adopted in December 2005. A U.S. delegation led by Attorney General Gonzales, who [...] | 2006-05-31 11:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CVIS CPAS KCRM KFRD SMIG EUN AU |
06VIENNA1555 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: MAY 23 MEETING ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). A MORE DETAILED READOUT OF THE MAY 23 NEGOTIATION SESSION IS GIVEN REF. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) THE MAY 23 MEETING ON RELIGIOUS SITES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE WAS M [...] | 2006-05-31 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA1556 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: MAY 22 UPDATE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS MARTTI AHTISAARI MET WITH SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER KOSTUNICA ON MAY 22; THE MEETING WAS CHARACTERIZED BY [...] | 2006-05-31 13:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA1563 | AUSTRIA ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (SBU) Ambassador discussed reftel points with acting Austrian Foreign Minister Johannes Kyrle on May 31. EconPolCouns also highlighted reftel message with MFA Middle East assistant secretary equivalent Ralph Scheide. 2. (C) Kyrle welcomed the Secretary's statement, noting its "historic na [...] | 2006-05-31 17:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG AU |
06VIENNA157 | FORMER GOVERNOR KLASNIC TO CHAIR FUTURE FUND [...] On January 13, the Board of Trustees of the Future Fund, charged with disbursing 20 million Euro in surplus monies from the Reconciliation Fund for Nazi-era forced and slave laborers, elected former Styrian Governor Waltraud Klasnic as its chairwoman. The Future Fund will finance projects to [...] | 2006-01-18 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1586 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY URGES IRAN TO RETURN TO [...] In her capacity as current President of the EU Council, Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik issued a statement on behalf of the EU urging Iran to return to the negotiating table. Before the June 1 "P5 1" meeting in Vienna, Plassnik met separately with Secretary of State Condoleeza Ri [...] | 2006-06-02 12:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KNNP ETTC MNUC ENRG IR EUN AU |
06VIENNA1633 | BAWAG Settles Refco Lawsuit Out-of-Court [...] BAWAG P.S.K. (BAWAG),Austria's troubled fourth largest banking group, reached an out-of-court settlement June 5 with creditors from the bankrupt U.S. brokerage firm Refco. As part of the settlement, BAWAG reportedly acknowledged that it assisted former Refco CEO Philip Bennett to conceal hu [...] | 2006-06-07 11:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV AU |
06VIENNA1649 | May 3 EU-U.S. JHA Ministerial Troika [...] Summary. The U.S. - EU JHA Ministerial Troika was held in Vienna May 3 with the U.S. delegation led by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, accompanied by DHS Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson. The EU delegation was headed by SIPDIS Austrian Minister of the Interior Prokop, Justice Minister [...] | 2006-06-08 09:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CVIS CPAS KCRM KFRD SMIG EUN AU |
06VIENNA1733 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: JUNE 9 UPDATE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS MARTTI AHTISAARI DISCUSSED THE KOSOVO FINAL STATUS PROCESS AND LIKELY RESULT WITH RUSSIAN AND CHINESE O [...] | 2006-06-14 14:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA1735 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S JUNE 21 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations have a solid base in the common values of democracy and civil rights. Austria's international activities contribute to our shared vision of a world of peace, freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Pursuant to a 1955 constitutional law, Austria is neutral. Austria [...] | 2006-06-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
06VIENNA185 | HAIDER DEFIES COURT OVER BILINGUAL TOWN SIGNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Joerg Haider, Carinthian governor and chairman of the junior partner in the federal coalition, Alliance Future Austria (BZO),is refusing to implement Constitutional Court rulings that call for more bilingual (German/Slovene) town signs in the border regions of Carinthia. Haide [...] | 2006-01-20 15:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
06VIENNA1898 | AUSTRIA EXTENDS PARTICIPATION IN EU'S IRAQ TRAINING [...] (SBU) On June 22, Parliament's Steering committee unanimously voted to extend Austrian participation in the EU's integrated mission to support rule of law in Iraq (EUJUST LEX) to December 2007. Parliament authorized the government to deploy up to three Justice Ministry trainers and up to two [...] | 2006-06-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EUN MARR KPAO IZ AU |
06VIENNA1939 | GOVERNMENTS COMMIT TO NABUCCO PIPELINE -- INDUSTRY [...] (C) At a June 26 conference, senior government officials from Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as well as EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, signed a joint declaration to initiate the Nabucco pipeline project. Construction of the Euro 4.6 billion ($5.8 billion) pipeline s [...] | 2006-06-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV EUN AU |
06VIENNA2088 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON SUPPORTING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) A/DCM presented reftel points on July 12 to Thomas Schnoell, the Austrian MFA's acting assistant secretary-level director for Central and Eastern Europe. 2. (C) Schnoell agreed with our points, and undertook to seek opportunities for Austrian officials to make public expressions of [...] | 2006-07-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK |
06VIENNA2096 | AUSTRIAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS SET FOR OCTOBER 1 [...] (SBU) On July 12, following weeks of speculation about the date of the national parliamentary elections this fall, all four floor leaders of the parties represented in parliament agreed on a motion calling for elections on October 1. On July 14, the four parties will adopt the motion in the l [...] | 2006-07-13 15:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
06VIENNA2097 | AUSTRIAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS SET FOR OCTOBER 1 [...] (SBU) On July 12, following weeks of speculation about the date of the national parliamentary elections this fall, all four floor leaders of the parties represented in parliament agreed on a motion calling for elections on October 1. On July 14, the four parties will adopt the motion in the l [...] | 2006-07-14 06:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
06VIENNA2140 | Status of Efforts to Support Jewish Cemeteries [...] (U) According to the January 2001 U.S.-Austrian Washington Agreement on Holocaust property, "Austria will provide additional support for the restoration and maintenance of Jewish cemeteries, known or unknown, in Austria." Under these terms, the Federal Government has encouraged states and mu [...] | 2006-07-18 12:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA2155 | Visit of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat [...] (SBU) Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti- Semitism Gregg Rickman visited Vienna July 5-8 to pay introductory calls on Austrian and Jewish community representatives, as well as OSCE and EU officials. Rickman met with MFA Legal Adviser Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff; Secretary General of the Na [...] | 2006-07-19 11:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA2158 | COMPROMISE ON BILINGUAL TOWN SIGNS FALLS APART [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chancellor Schuessel's latest effort to broker a broad-based compromise on additional bilingual (German-Slovenian) town signs in the southern state of Carinthia has fallen short. The Chancellor had hoped to dispose of this long-standing irritant by passing an amendment to the M [...] | 2006-07-19 13:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
06VIENNA2322 | AUSTRIA'S EU PRESIDENCY: MANAGING THE GAME [...] (C) Summary: The Austrians approached the EU presidency like a solid backup quarterback takes the field: they had modest expectations, they strove for technical competence, and they set realistic goals. Their biggest successes -- winning agreement on a financial perspective, getting agreem [...] | 2006-08-03 11:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EUN AU |
06VIENNA2442 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: AUGUST 10 UPDATE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) TALKS ON DECENTRALIZATION AND COMMUNITY RIGHTS TOOK PLACE IN VIENNA ON AUGUST 7 AND 8 (READOUT OF TALKS GIVEN SEPTEL). UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR [...] | 2006-08-17 12:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA2516 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SUPPORT FOR JOINT/PARALLEL [...] (C) Acting Economic-Political Counselor and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on August 18 to Elisabeth Koegler, the Acting Head of the MFA,s Human Rights Division. Koegler pointed out that, during its EU Presidency this spring, Austria had worked to highlight the mistreatment of political pr [...] | 2006-08-22 16:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU |
06VIENNA2576 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] Economic-Political Counselor and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on August 28 to Dr. Helmut Tichy, Head of the MFA's International Law Division. Tichy confirmed that he was aware of Michael Matheson's candidacy for re-election to the ILC. He noted Matheson's strong credentials for the posi [...] | 2006-08-29 07:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNGA AU |
06VIENNA2602 | UNOSEK UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 21-25 [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI AND HIS POLICY TEAM TRAVELED TO PRISTINA DURING THE WEEK OF AUGUST 21 TO HOLD MEETINGS WITH THE UNITY TEAM IN AN EF [...] | 2006-08-30 14:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA2612 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA ON EU FOREIGN [...] (SBU) A/DCM conveyed reftel points to MFA Middle East/Africa director Ralph Scheide on August 31. Scheide will convey the points to Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik. Scheide has confirmed that Plassnik supports tough measures to prevent Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons. McCaw [...] | 2006-09-01 08:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL UN EU IR AU |
06VIENNA2688 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON SERBIA'S ICTY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on September 8 to Thomas Schnoell, Austrian MFA DAS for Balkan Affairs. 2. (C) Schnoell reported that he had just been in Brussels, where he had met with the ICTY's political advisor. It was clear that the Serbian action plan needed implementat [...] | 2006-09-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI AU |
06VIENNA2715 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on September 12 to Peter Huber, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level deputy director for International Organizations. 2. (SBU) Huber said Austria had not yet determined whether a "political level" figure would represent Austria at the CD meeting. In a [...] | 2006-09-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AU |
06VIENNA2731 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS: SEPTEMBER 8-9 TALKS MAKE LITTLE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) DESPITE A MORE POSITIVE SPIN IN THE MEDIA, TECHNICAL TALKS ON KOSOVO HELD IN VIENNA SEPTEMBER 8 AND 9 MADE LITTLE PROGRESS. THE MEETINGS C [...] | 2006-09-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA2738 | GAERC -- DEMARCHES ON IRAN, OTHER POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel points on September 13 to Austrian MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken. Riecken made the following substantive comments. 2. (C) Western Balkans: There will be council conclusions on Bosnia and on Montenegro, Riecken said. The reference to Monte [...] | 2006-09-13 15:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN PARM KNNP IR EU AU |
06VIENNA2787 | AUSTRIA'S OCTOBER 1 NATIONAL ELECTIONS -- FINDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Austria's October 1 elections take place in the context of a political shift that followed this year's revelations of fraud in the trade union-affiliated bank, BAWAG. This established a new political reality in which Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel's conservative People's Party [...] | 2006-09-19 13:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
06VIENNA2809 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS AND [...] (U) EconPolCouns and PolOff delivered reftel demarche on September 20 to Peter Huber, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level Deputy Director for International Organizations. 2. (U) Huber said he "could guarantee" that Austria would support the need to reach a concensus outcome on the scale of asses [...] | 2006-09-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNGA AU |
06VIENNA2895 | AUSTRIAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY CALLS FOR "DIALOGUE" REACTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-27 08:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA2924 | AUSTRIA'S OCTOBER 1 NATIONAL ELECTIONS -- [...] (SBU) Summary: This weekend's elections will likely result in a clear victory by the conservative People's Party (OVP) of Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. It will be no landslide, however, as the Social Democratic Party (SPO) has managed to shore up its position. Under current conditions, th [...] | 2006-09-29 11:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
06VIENNA2941 | Austria's October 1 Election Surprise: People's Party [...] Summary: Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's Austrian People's Party (OVP) suffered a stinging defeat at the polls on October 1. Contrary to every pollster's and analyst's expectations (and ours as well),Schuessel's party plummeted 8 points to second place. The opposition Social Democratic Part [...] | 2006-10-02 13:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
06VIENNA2947 | KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S. [...] Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, and Justice Minister Karin Gastinger on September 26. DCM discussed the issue separately with Chancellery Foreign Policy Advisor Hans-Peter Manz on September 26. EconPolCou [...] | 2006-10-03 09:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KCOR ECON EAID EINV PGOV KCRM AU |
06VIENNA2949 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SUPPORT FOR REVISED [...] (C) EconPolOff delivered ref A demarche on October 2 to Elisabeth Koegler, the Acting Head of the MFA's Human Rights Division. Koegler stated that Austria, during its EU Presidency this spring, had consistently highlighted the PRC's mistreatment of prisoners. She noted that her colleagues i [...] | 2006-10-03 11:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU |
06VIENNA3022 | AUSTRIAN ELECTION FOLLOW-UP: GREENS NOW NUMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: The results of Austria's October 1 elections shifted somewhat with the announcement of the tally of absentee votes on October 9. In the final count, the Greens emerged for the first time as Austria's third strongest party. On October 11, Austrian President Heinz Fischer gave [...] | 2006-10-12 08:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MASS AU |
06VIENNA3025 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on October 11 to Andreas Riecken, the Austrian MFA's European Correspondent. 2. (C) Riecken made the following substantive comments on reftel points: -- Sudan: Riecken said there was broad agreement between the EU and US on Sudan. He not [...] | 2006-10-12 09:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU AU |
06VIENNA3093 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: PRESERVING LEGANESE PM [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on October 17 to Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's Assistant Secretary-level Director for the Middle East and North Africa. SIPDIS 2. (S) Scheide took careful note of our points. He said the Austrian Embassy in Damascus had engaged with the [...] | 2006-10-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE AU |
06VIENNA3105 | OMV ON NABUCCO AND GAZPROM [...] (C) OMV Gas executives Werner Auli and Reinhard Mitschek told emboffs on October 12 that Nabucco Pipeline International had formally requested exemptions from the EU's Gas Directive -- restricting initial third-party access to the pipeline to 50% and insulating the project from tariff reducti [...] | 2006-10-19 13:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV PREL AU |
06VIENNA3202 | AUSTRIAN ELECTION FOLLOW-UP: NEW PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The new Austrian parliament met for the first time on October 30. As is traditional, the parliament voted members of the top three parties -- the Social Democratic Party (SPO),the People's Party (OVP) and the Greens -- to the three parliamentary leadership positions. Of cons [...] | 2006-10-31 16:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR AU |
06VIENNA323 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BUY BACK KLIMT [...] (U) Austrian Education Minister Elisabeth Gehrer has announced that the Austrian government will not buy back any of the five Gustav Klimt paintings that an arbitration panel decided to restitute to heirs of the original owner. Gehrer made the announcement after the government's cabinet meeti [...] | 2006-02-02 17:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA324 | AUSTRIA ON A WAY FORWARD ON TURKEY/CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: The Austrian presidency will seek movement on ending the isolation of Northern Cyprus, starting with direct trade, but will do this quietly in order to avoid a torpedoing of the initiative by the Cypriots or by the British, who (according to the Austrian MFA's Southern Europe he [...] | 2006-02-02 19:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU EU AU |
06VIENNA3264 | AUSTRIA ON NOVEMBER 13-14 EU FOREING MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel points on November 7 to Andreas Riecken, the Austrian MFA's European Correspondent. 2. (C) Riecken made the following substantive comments: -- Western Balkans: Kosovo will be a lunch topic, and Serbia will be a topic during the regular meeting, Riecken said. [...] | 2006-11-08 09:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN AU |
06VIENNA3297 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE IN VIENNA [...] Delegates from 306 national trade union organizations representing 168 million workers in 154 countries met Nov. 1-3 in Vienna to found the International Trade Union Confederation. "The Confederation exists to unite and mobilize the democratic and independent forces of world trade unionism i [...] | 2006-11-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ILO |
06VIENNA3336 | (SBU) UNOSEK: CONTINUING WORK AND OUTREACH DURING INTERIM [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICER IN THE OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR KOSOVO STATUS (UNOSEK). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: ON NOVEMBER 10, FOLLOWING THE SERBIAN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS WOULD BE HELD IN JANUARY, UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE FUTURE STATUS PROC [...] | 2006-11-15 15:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK SR YI AU |
06VIENNA3354 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT COALITION TALKS: "NOT YET [...] (SBU) Summary: Although observers in Austria keep pronouncing negotiations toward a Grand Coalition as dead, like a bad movie,they keep springing back from the grave to argue the matter. Two and a half weeks after the conservative People's Party (OVP) walked out on coalition talks with the [...] | 2006-11-17 17:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR AU |
06VIENNA3355 | AUSTRIA: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Per reftel, Post is submitting Part I of the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR) on Drugs and Chemical Control. Post will provide updates as they become available. Embassy POC for the INCSR Part I is Economic-Political Officer Dayna R. Robison, office phone: 43 [...] | 2006-11-20 07:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM AU |
06VIENNA3407 | Vandal Trashes Jewish School in Vienna [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Jewish school in Vienna, the Lauder Chabad School, was the subject of a destructive rampage early Sunday morning. The suspect, who seems to have acted alone, reportedly identified himself to police at his arrest as "Adolf Hitler." However, it remains unclear whethe [...] | 2006-11-27 14:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA3417 | EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES NABUCCO WITH OMV [...] (C) During a November 16 meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer acknowledged that Azeri gas is the most politically and commercially attractive source for the startup of the Nabucco pipeline scheduled in 2011. However, Ruttenstorfer questioned whether Azeri reserves w [...] | 2006-11-28 15:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV PREL AU |
06VIENNA3451 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON IRANIAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) A/DCM presented reftel demarche on November 30 to Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's A/S-equivalent Director for the Middle East and Africa. 2. (C) Scheide said Austria agreed that the Iranian electoral system needed to be more democratic. He said, however, that Austria would normal [...] | 2006-12-01 10:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR AU |
06VIENNA3459 | DEAMRCHE TO AUSTRIA ON PRESERVING THE [...] (SBU) A/DCM presented reftel demarche on November 30 to Austrian MFA Middle East and Africa Director Ralph Scheide. 2. (S) Scheide said Austria, like the rest of the EU, had a clear position in supoprt of the UN Security Council resolutions on Lebanon. Austria will support Lebanese sover [...] | 2006-12-01 13:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE AU |
06VIENNA3482 | AUSTRIA'S OPPOSITION TO CZECH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (SBU) The recent Czech decision to grant a final operating license for the controversial Temelin nuclear power plant has unleashed a barrage of criticism in Austria. State government officials in Upper Austria, which lies approximately 40 miles from Temelin, have been the most vehement critic [...] | 2006-12-05 11:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PGOV EUN AU |
06VIENNA3491 | AUSTRIA ON THE DECEMBER 11-12 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) A/DCM delivered reftel demarches on the upcoming EU Foreign Ministers meeting (GAERC) to Austrian European Correspondent Andreas Riecken on December 6. 2. (C) Riecken made the following substantive comments: -- On the China Arms Embargo: Riecken confirmed that there was a policy [...] | 2006-12-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN PARM CH AU |
06VIENNA3524 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN FINANCIAL [...] (S/NF) Acting DCM and EconUnit Chief delivered reftel points on December 7 to Thomas Wieser, Director General of Economic Policy and Financial Markets in the Ministry of Finance (U/S-level). Wieser said that in his view, "if the letter of credit had not come from Bank Saderat, it would have [...] | 2006-12-12 10:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN PARM KNNP PREL PGOV IR AU |
06VIENNA3583 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT FORMATION: JANUARY 11 SET FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Austria's political leadership has declared that there will be a new government on January 11. The parties agree in principle that the new government should be a Grand Coalition, but they have not yet reached agreement on key issues. The possibility remains that the Social D [...] | 2006-12-20 10:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR AU |
06VIENNA3590 | Vienna Appellate Court Suspends Remaining Sentence for [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA3591 | THE AUSTRIAN ECONOMY - STATUS AND POLICY OUTLOOK IN LIGHT [...] (SBU) The Austrian National Bank (ANB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have recently presented positive analyses of the Austrian economy and the impact of reforms over the last five years. However, both the ANB and IMF recommend that Austria should continue to focus on macroeconomic [...] | 2006-12-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
06VIENNA383 | "SOUND OF EUROPE" CONFERENCE: THE EU IN ANALYSIS [...] SUMMARY: Austrian Chancellor (and current chairman of the European Council) Wolfgang Schuessel invited more than 400 European political and cultural personalities to a January 27-28 conference on the "Sound of Europe." The conference, which took place in Salzburg, examined the European ident [...] | 2006-02-08 14:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN AU |
06VIENNA41 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY UPS THE ANTE ON ENERGY [...] (U) Summary: In response to the dispute over natural gas supplies between Ukraine and Russia, Austrian officials have given new weight to their plan of making energy a focal point of Austria's EU presidency. Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik said in a public statement that the EU would discuss [...] | 2006-01-05 17:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AU |
06VIENNA42 | AUSTRIAN RAIFFEISEN IN THE MIDDLE OF RUSSIA- [...] According to Austrian and international media reports, the Austrian Raiffeisen Investment Group (RIAG),a subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB),played a pivotal role in the Russian-Ukrainian gas deal. At the core of the deal (reportedly) is an arrangement for the Ukrainian Naftogaz com [...] | 2006-01-05 17:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AU |
06VIENNA462 | 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR AUSTRIA [...] Following is 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Austria, keyed to reftel instructions: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- AUSTRIA -------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ With the European Union's (EU) enlargement in May 2004, Austria's location beca [...] | 2006-02-15 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR AU |
06VIENNA562 | AUSTRIA TO MAKE STATEMENT OF CONDEMNATION OF THE [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns raised reftel points during a February 23 meeting with Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's assistant secretary-level director for Middle East and African Affairs. SIPDIS We passed Scheide the texts of statements by the President and by Amb. Khalilzad and Gen. Casey. Schei [...] | 2006-02-23 16:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ AU |
06VIENNA567 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY STATEMENT ON THE BOMBING OF [...] Following is the text of the statement by the Austrian Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the bombing of the Immam Ali-Hadi Mosque in Samarra. BEGIN TEXT The European Union condemns the criminal and sacrilegious bombing of the Imman Ali-Hadi Mosque in Samarra on 22 February wh [...] | 2006-02-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ AU |
06VIENNA576 | EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK LOAN TO SYRIA: AUSTRIAN [...] (C) On February 24-25, post met separately with the following GoA officials to underscore reftel concerns with European Investment Bank (EIB) loans to Syria: Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's Assistant Secretary-level Director for the Middle East and Africa; Melitta Schubert, Head of the MFA's [...] | 2006-02-24 16:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV SY AU |
06VIENNA630 | SPECIAL ENVOY AND AUSTRIAN MFA LEGAL ADVISOR [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Edward B. O'Donnell met Austrian MFA Legal Advisor Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff (successor to Austrian Holocaust negotiator Hans Winkler, now MFA State Secretary) on February 23 to exchange views on the SIPDIS remaining issues in imple [...] | 2006-03-02 11:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
06VIENNA663 | SOCIAL DEMOCRAT ENDS COALITION WITH HAIDER IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 28, new Carinthian Social Democratic (SPO) leader Gabi Schaunig ended the two-year old state-level coalition with Governor Joerg Haider's BZO and called for snap elections. Schaunig accused Haider of repeatedly sabotaging agreements with her SPO, most recently over [...] | 2006-03-03 15:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
06VIENNA726 | FOLLOW UP ON DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN NGO SUMATE [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns followed up on reftel demarche on March 8, with Rudolf Lennkh, the Austrian MFA's assistant secretary-level Director for the Americas, and DAS-level SIPDIS Latin America section head Andreas Melan. 2. (C) Lennkh said Austrian Embassy Washington DCM Harald Guenther ha [...] | 2006-03-09 16:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EU VE AU |
06VIENNA746 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH'S VISIT TO VIENNA, [...] (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations have a solid basis in the common values of democracy and civil rights, and Austria's international activities contribute to our shared vision of a world of peace, freedom, democracy and prosperity. Austria holds the rotating Presidency of the EU Council for the [...] | 2006-03-10 14:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
06VIENNA785 | AUSTRIA ON REACTION TO BELARUS ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: During a March 14 meeting, MFA Belarus expert Josef Litschauer said Austria would issue a "presidential statement" on the Belarusian elections an hour after the ODIHR press conference (which will take place at 2:00 pm Minsk time on March 20). Litschauer said there was no EU con [...] | 2006-03-15 13:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV BO AU EUN |
06VIENNA786 | Abbas Plea for Continuation of EU Assistance [...] (U) PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS VISITED VIENNA ON MARCH 14. THE TALKS WITH GOA OFFICIALS CENTERED ON ABBAS' PLEA FOR CONTINUATION OF EU ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIANS. 2. (U) ABBAS UNDERLINED THE PALESTINIAN COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, THE OSLO ACCORDS, THE ROADMAP, AN [...] | 2006-03-15 14:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS EUN AU |
06VIENNA829 | Abbas Plea for Continuation of EU Assistance [...] (U) PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS VISITED VIENNA ON MARCH 14. THE TALKS WITH GOA OFFICIALS CENTERED ON ABBAS' PLEA FOR CONTINUATION OF EU ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIANS. 2. (U) ABBAS UNDERLINED THE PALESTINIAN COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, THE OSLO ACCORDS, THE ROADMAP, AN [...] | 2006-03-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS EUN AU |
06VIENNA832 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 13:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI IR EUN AU |
06VIENNA833 | HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN SYRIA: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Pol Unit Chief conveyed reftel points on March 17 to MFA DAS-equivalent for Middle East affairs Wolfgang Lapuh. Lapuh said the timing of the demarche was excellent. The MFA had received an EU report (note: presumably either from the EU Commission or Council Secretariat) detailing the sam [...] | 2006-03-20 14:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SY AU EUN |
06VIENNA857 | UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES OF THE UN OFFICE OF THE [...] (U) The following is information gathered by the US liaison officer to the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations (UNOSEK) in Vienna. 2. (SBU) Summary: In addition to the second round of talks on decentralization in Vienna on 17 March, the UN Office of the Special Envoy for [...] | 2006-03-21 16:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SR YI AU UNMIK |
06VIENNA864 | IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS [...] Stefan Benner from the Ministry of Justice's Department for Criminal Matters told us March 21 that the Viennese Public Prosecutor's Office had initiated pre-trial investigations against Austrian companies, which Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports mentioned as possible suspects of fra [...] | 2006-03-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN |
06VIENNA870 | KOSOVO: READOUT OF MARCH 17 TALKS ON [...] (U) The following is information gathered by the US liaison officer to the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations (UNOSEK) in Vienna. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The March 17 talks on decentralization were largely free of polemics and stuck to the agenda of the financing of [...] | 2006-03-23 11:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SR YI AU UNMIK |
06VIENNA893 | KOSOVO STATUS: SERBS AND KOSOVARS DRAW REDLINES ON [...] (U) The following is information gathered by the US liaison officer to the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations (UNOSEK) in Vienna. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a March 17 meeting, top Serbian negotiators acknowledged to UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari that Kosovo's " [...] | 2006-03-24 16:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SR YI AU UNMIK |
06VIENNA976 | Bank's Problems Shake Austrian Political Scene [...] Austria's fourth largest banking group, BAWAG P.S.K. (BAWAG),already reeling from questionable loans to the bankrupt U.S. futures and commodities brokerage firm Refco, has admitted it incurred (hitherto concealed) losses of Euro one billion in 2000. The losses stemmed from high risk specula [...] | 2006-04-03 13:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV ELAB AU |
06VIENTIANE1141 | A SAD ANNIVERSARY: WHERE ARE THE 26 CHILDREN AS WE [...] (U) This message contains an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: The case of the 26 missing children has been unresolved since December 2005. Since then, there have been rumors that the children may have been secretly deported back to Thailand or ev [...] | 2006-11-28 08:03:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH |
06VIENTIANE1232 | REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS VICE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota, in her first visit to Laos, pressed Vice Foreign Minister Phongsavath to accept more of a role for NGOs, to take advantage of international respect for the ICRC by allowing it to monitor the situation of the Hmong within Laos, to resolve [...] | 2006-12-29 05:40:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH |
06VIENTIANE1234 | REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS LAO VICE PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum pressed Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad for more cooperation on dealing with unexploded ordnance, education, and health care and effectively used her attendance at Christmas Mass to indicate the importance of freedom of religion to the United [...] | 2006-12-29 05:49:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH |
06VIENTIANE298 | DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES' LAO VISIT [...] (C) UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Wendy Chamberlin's March 28-30 visit offered some promise of a positive resolution to Laos' continued detention of 27 Hmong deportees. Chamberlin met with Politburo member Pany Yathoteu, and ethnic Hmong, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Phongsava [...] | 2006-03-30 06:53:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM TH LA |
06VIENTIANE302 | THE LAO COMMUNIST PARTY'S GAME PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) -- the ruling Communist Party -- has absolute confidence in its ability to govern Laos well into the future. The Party believes that it is responsible for economic gains over the past decade, not comprehending that much of that progress w [...] | 2006-03-30 09:28:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV SOCI LA |
06VIENTIANE306 | NEW CENTRAL COMMITTEE LINEUP [...] LTG Choummaly Sayasone (3) Present position: Lao State Vice President (since 2001),Party Secretary General Previous position: -- Deputy Prime Minister -- Minister of National Defense -- Vice Minister of National Defense Age: 69 Date of birth: June 3, 1936 Place of birth: Attapeu Province [...] | 2006-03-31 08:29:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR LA |
06VIENTIANE307 | ADB EXAMINES ITS OPTIONS IN A DONOR-DRIVEN ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary. As part of a new Country Strategy and Program (CSP),the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to re-vamp and trim its lending and granting policies for Laos. This is partly in response to criticisms of ADB projects from development partners, but mostly due to ADB guidelines for conti [...] | 2006-03-31 09:13:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PGOV PHUM ECON LA |
06VIENTIANE311 | CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAO CONTEXT [...] (C) Summary. In a late February visit, DRL/IRF analyst Dr. Clarissa Adamson met with religious leaders and government officials to press for greater religious freedom and the release of four religious prisoners. Noting the slow pace of progress in Laos, Bishop Khamse of Vientiane,s Catholic [...] | 2006-04-03 09:09:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF LA |
06VIENTIANE312 | LAOS' NEW PARTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CHOUMMALY [...] (C) The 8th Party Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) elected Choummaly Sayasone as its new Secretary-General on March 21. Choummaly has been a fixture in the Central Committee for more than two decades, but remains one of the least-known of the senior leaders. A long-tim [...] | 2006-04-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE316 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INFO ON LOCATION OF MISSING [...] (C) Amnesty International analyst Brittis Edman (please protect),in Thailand recently to gather details about the deportation and subsequent disappearance of the 27 Hmong, called us from Bangkok March 30 to report on her visit to Petchaboon province, where she met with family members of the c [...] | 2006-04-03 10:50:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF KCRM TH LA |
06VIENTIANE321 | MORE DETAILS ON LOCATION OF MISSING HMONG CHILDREN [...] (C) Embassy spoke to two sources today who provided additional details about the location of the missing group of 27 Hmong deported from Thailand (reftel). Although there are inconsistencies between the two reports, together they lead us to believe that the 22 girls in the group are likely stil [...] | 2006-04-04 10:39:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KCRM TH LA |
06VIENTIANE404 | LAO RESPONSE ON PSI INITIATIVE [...] (C) Embassy demarched the MFA's International Organizations Department on March 31 and again on May 4 regarding the PSI initiative, conveying the talking points contained in reftel. International Organizations Director Saleumsai Kommasith told us that the GoL was "closely following" discussio [...] | 2006-05-04 09:32:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PHSA PGOV PREL KNNP LA |
06VIENTIANE405 | THE EU AND THE WAGES OF FECKLESS AID IN LAOS [...] (C) Summary: Feckless aid has long provided a life-line to the Lao government, despite its failure to meet conditions set for certain projects and its regular violations of human rights. Major donors such as the Japanese look set to continue to bankroll the regime unconditionally, and the EU [...] | 2006-05-04 09:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PHUM LA |
06VIENTIANE433 | HOW TO RUN AN ELECTION IN A ONE-PARTY STATE [...] (C) Communist Party members dominated the slate of candidates in the April 30 National Assembly elections: only two candidates of the 175 standing were "independents," and that by a stretch of imagination. The government touted the improved qualifications of the 115 newly-elected representati [...] | 2006-05-15 09:18:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE434 | THREAT TO DEPORT LAO HMONG GROUP FROM PETCHABOON [...] (C) Summary: Several sources reported to us over the weekend that Thai authorities had arrested a group of 24 Lao citizen ethnic Hmong in Petchaboon province on May 11 and had threatened to deport them to Laos. According to these sources the Hmong were "remote people" who had fled Laos as a r [...] | 2006-05-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KIRF TH LA |
06VIENTIANE443 | PROSPECTS FOR A JOINT DEMARCHE ON MISSING HMONG [...] (C) The "like-minded" Embassies in Vientiane have agreed that a joint demarche to the Lao government on the missing Hmong children should be the next step in ongoing efforts to secure the release of the group. The decision whether to deliver the demarche will depend on the outcome of ongoing [...] | 2006-05-17 10:07:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KIRF TH LA |
06VIENTIANE447 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: LAOS REWRITES ITS [...] (C) Laos isn't unique among countries whose governments rewrite history to serve their own ends, but the Communist leadership here has taken the process to its extreme. The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has concocted a black-and-white version of the recent past that is designed pure [...] | 2006-05-19 04:30:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV PINR LA |
06VIENTIANE489 | LAO REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel announcement orally to Director-General of Europe-Americas Department Southam Sakhonhninhom this afternoon, emphasizing the need for the GoL to issue a public statement of support for the U.S. initiative and to use whatever contacts it might have with the Irania [...] | 2006-06-01 07:59:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LA |
06VIENTIANE496 | PLANS FOR JOINT DEMARCHE ON MISSING HMONG CHILDREN [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see para 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) With no sign of the Lao intending to release the 26 Hmong children held since December, the "like-minded" group in Vientiane plans to jointly demarche the Lao government as soon as modalities can be arranged, perhaps a [...] | 2006-06-02 04:47:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF TH LA |
06VIENTIANE500 | MORE ON MISSING CHILDREN [...] (C) Further to our cable earlier today regarding the joint demarche on the missing Hmong children (reftel),this afternoon UNDP ResRep Finn Reske-Nielsen informed us that UN New York had urged him to be "pro-active" about the case, and agreed to have him write the Foreign Minister to solicit a [...] | 2006-06-02 09:40:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV KIRF TH LA |
06VIENTIANE509 | ROK EMBASSY ASKED TO APPROACH GOL ON 10 DPRK [...] (C) Summary: The ROK Foreign Ministry has asked its Embassy in Vientiane to approach the GoL to seek a "humanitarian" solution for 10 DPRK citizens currently imprisoned in Luang Prabang province. The ROK Embassy intends to raise the case of these 10 with the Deputy Foreign Minister, but -- lik [...] | 2006-06-06 09:08:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KN LA |
06VIENTIANE512 | LAO MFA ON TIP REPORT FOR LAOS [...] (C) Ambassador briefed MFA's Europe-Americas Department Director-General Southam Sakhonnhinhom today on the TIP report for Laos, conveying the talking points and Action Plan contained in refs A and B. 2. (C) Southam, who had already read the TIP Report for Laos and ref talking points we had [...] | 2006-06-06 09:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL KTIP LA |
06VIENTIANE519 | SURRENDER, FLIGHT OR DEATH -- THE HMONG "REMOTE [...] (C) Summary: More than 600 Hmong "remote people" have turned themselves in to Lao authorities since mid-2005, but the GoL has not permitted international access to any of their resettlement areas; their welfare and condition are unknown. Other Hmong have gone to Thailand, accounting in part fo [...] | 2006-06-07 09:51:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREF PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE526 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY "ELECTS" A NEW PRESIDENT AND [...] (C) Summary: In its inaugural session June 8, the newly-elected National Assembly selected a new President, Vice President and Prime Minister and approved the Prime Minister's cabinet. Party Secretary Choummaly Sayasone takes over as President of Laos, while former PM Bounnyang Vorachit has be [...] | 2006-06-08 10:21:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE536 | LAO RELEASE 10 NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM SEEKERS AND TWO [...] (C) Summary: The South Korean Embassy has told us that the Lao police in Luang Prabang had released 10 North Korean asylum seekers and their two South Korean escorts detained since last week (reftel). The two South Koreans have already departed Laos for Thailand; the 10 North Koreans are in Vi [...] | 2006-06-12 10:02:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KN LA |
06VIENTIANE565 | REAFFIRMING THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP," NEW LAO [...] (C) Summary: In his first major act since taking office Jun 8 (reftel),newly-selected President Choummaly Sayasone traveled to Vietnam June 19-22, meeting with the senior Vietnamese leadership. Almost immediately after his return to Laos, the President will turn around to travel to Beijing. T [...] | 2006-06-23 01:34:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH VM LA |
06VIENTIANE596 | THE GREAT LAND GRAB [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic development is spurring a land grab in broad areas of the country, and the poorest Lao are paying the price. What is feeding the frenzy is a boom in the mining industry and in agricultural commodities, principally rubber and eucalyptus. Foreign investment projects are [...] | 2006-06-30 06:10:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM EAGR PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE636 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LAO WOMEN'S UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with newly-elected Lao Women's Union (LWU) President Sisay Leudetmounsone July 6 to discuss Embassy cooperation with the LWU across a range of issues. The LWU has played a prominent role on TIP issues, and Ambassador used the occasion to explain Laos' recent Tier [...] | 2006-07-07 06:33:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KWMN LA |
06VIENTIANE646 | LAO PRESIDENT PAYS HOMAGE TO CHINA [...] (C) During his June 27-July 2 visit to China, Lao President Choummaly met with the senior Chinese leadership and signed an agreement for a low-interest loan for 280 million Yuan (about $35 million) that we understand will be used in part to fund the purchase of construction equipment. The Chin [...] | 2006-07-10 09:15:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE674 | TAKE ALL THE TREES, PUT 'EM IN TREE MUSEUM: [...] (U) Summary: Laos' hardwood forests are rapidly being depleted ravaged by timber interests from three adjacent economies, with Japan and China as the largest final destination markets. The GoL does not have the capability or the will to manage the country's natural resources responsibly. So-ca [...] | 2006-07-19 06:56:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENIV ETRD PGOV LA |
06VIENTIANE894 | CASE OF 26 MISSING HMONG CHILDREN STILL OF CONCERN [...] (C) This cable requests the Department pass an action request to Embassy Luxembourg; please see paragraph 14. It also has kudos for USUN and Embassy Sweden which we request the Department pass on; please see paragraph 15. 2. (C) Summary: &Like-minded8 senior diplomats met to discuss the c [...] | 2006-09-14 10:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UNDP |
06VILNIUS102 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN [...] (SBU) Senators McCain and Lieberman, a hearty welcome and our sincere thanks to you and your colleagues for traveling to Lithuania! Your visit will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror and bolster int [...] | 2006-02-02 08:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OVIP BO LH |
06VILNIUS1050 | LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU LANDS ON HIS FEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Albinas Januska was appointed advisor to Prime Minister Kirkilas on November 20, ending weeks of speculation following his abrupt resignation as Undersecretary at MFA (reftel). Although he remains under a cloud of allegations, Januska appears likely to weather the storm. We ex [...] | 2006-11-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS1068 | LITHUANIA SEEKS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SPECIAL 301 [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (U) Summary: Post welcomes the opportunity to engage the new Lithuanian government -- whose cabinet is dealing with the Special 301 process for the first time -- in a cooperative effort to improve Lithuania's intellec [...] | 2006-11-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS1089 | LITHUANIAN FM TO RAISE TURKEY, BELARUS, EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's FM plans to intervene at the December 11 GAERC to support Turkey's EU accession, discourage the repeal of GSP for Belarus, and oppose draft language in the upcoming European Council conclusions about "integration capacity" and "constitutional treaty reform." The Minis [...] | 2006-12-08 12:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN LH |
06VILNIUS11 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Congressman Sensenbrenner, on behalf of Ambassador Stephen Mull and our colleagues at the U.S. Mission in Vilnius, thank you for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War [...] | 2006-01-06 05:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OVIP PL LH |
06VILNIUS1110 | LITHUANIA'S NEW BUDGET INCREASES DEFENSE SPENDING, [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Defense Juozas Olekas told the Ambassador that Lithuania's 2007 budget meets the Defense Ministry's goal of programming an increase in defense spending as a percentage of GDP of .05 percent, to 1.25 percent. While this is technically accurate due to modest official [...] | 2006-12-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR LH |
06VILNIUS121 | FALSE ALARM: NO BIRD FLU IN LITHUANIA [...] Reports of a possible case of avian influenza in Lithuania's port city of Klaipeda have proved false. The Ministry of Health initially feared that the disease may have caused the death of an Indian sailor, who died on February 6 while his ship was docked in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. E [...] | 2006-02-07 14:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS137 | PDAS VOLKER MEETS WITH LITHUANIA'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and Ambassador discussed regional issues February 8 with MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, Lithuania's chief foreign policy strategist. Januska provided a readout of a "difficult conversation" between GOL FM Valionis and Ukrainian FM Tarasyuk in which Valionis urged [...] | 2006-02-10 16:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH |
06VILNIUS146 | LITHUANIA: RESTITUTION LEGISLATION FOR JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lithuania is moving ahead with plans for the restitution of former Jewish communal property, an important element in addressing its Nazi and Soviet legacy. The government's support for restitution remains solid, and the GOL plans to submit the necessary legislation to Parliament [...] | 2006-02-13 13:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KNAR PHUM LH |
06VILNIUS223 | LITHUANIA'S AI PREPAREDNESS: IS FOUR PERCENT ENOUGH? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL continues to plan for the arrival of avian influenza (AI) virus in Lithuania, but budgetary constraints may hinder preparations, particularly the acquisition of antiviral medication. The Government issued orders requiring owners to sequester domestic birds indoors and p [...] | 2006-03-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR SOCI PGOV KFLU LH |
06VILNIUS233 | AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS STRONG BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, on February 28 to discuss regional development, promote student travel to the United States, and pay a courtesy call on Lithuania's new Air Force Commander. The Ambassador highlighted our strong bilateral relation [...] | 2006-03-06 10:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
06VILNIUS278 | ELECTION EVE DUSTUP IN LITHUANIA-BELARUS RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lithuanian-Belarusian relations are tense on the eve of the March 19 elections. The decision by the Minsk regime to deny visas to six Lithuanian MPs who planned to observe the elections led Parliament to pass a resolution condemning the Lukashenko government. The Lithuanian Fo [...] | 2006-03-17 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BO LH |
06VILNIUS355 | RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S PRISON TIME EXTENDED; [...] A Vilnius court extended the imprisonment of former Russian banker Igor Babenko for three months on April 7. After the Vilnius court ruled on September 8, 2005, to extradite Babenko (reftel),the Migration Department subsequently granted asylum status on January 30. The Prosecutor General app [...] | 2006-04-12 10:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM LH RS |
06VILNIUS357 | PARLIAMENT OUSTS SPEAKER IN LATEST LITHUANIAN [...] (C) The Lithuanian parliament removed Speaker Arturas Paulauskas April 11 in an overwhelming vote of no confidence that resulted in his New Union party's departure from the ruling coalition. It appears the remaining three coalition partners will succeed in retaining control of the government [...] | 2006-04-12 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
06VILNIUS367 | LITHUANIA: THREE-PARTY COALITION REGROUPS [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of Lithuania's Social Democrat, Labor, and Farmers parties signed an agreement April 12 to govern as a coalition following Parliament's removal of parliamentary chairman Paulauskas and the withdrawal of his New Union party from the government. Under the agreement, Prime [...] | 2006-04-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
06VILNIUS376 | LITHUANIAN COALITION LOSES ITS MAJORITY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A member of Lithuania's ruling coalition, Kazys Bobelis, withdrew from his party April 20, depriving the coalition government of a clear majority in the Parliament. This move comes nine days after the parliament removed its speaker, prompting the speaker's Nw Union (Social Liber [...] | 2006-04-20 15:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS42 | CODEL SENSENBRENNER DISCUSSES VISA WAIVER PROGRAM [...] Summary: Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, discussed Lithuania's Visa Waiver Program (VWP) prospects and expressed U.S. appreciation for Lithuania's support in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in meetings with President Adamkus and other senior off [...] | 2006-01-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CVIS OVIP LH |
06VILNIUS431 | LABOR PARTY SPLITS, COALITION KEEPS IT TOGETHER [...] (C) Eight members of parliament, including the newly elected Speaker, withdrew from the Labor Party May 2 and 3, formed a new parliamentary group, and promised to support the ruling coalition of which they are no longer officially members. Over four hundred Labor Party members followed the pa [...] | 2006-05-10 14:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS459 | POLISH COMPANY SURGING IN BID TO BUY LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish energy company PKN Orlen has emerged as the frontrunner to secure a controlling interest in Lithuania's oil refinery, according to a reliable government source. Court challenges in the United States and Netherlands continue and may yet derail the sale of the refinery. [...] | 2006-05-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD NL RS LH |
06VILNIUS470 | LITHUANIA'S RULING COALITION ENCOUNTERS MORE TROUBLE [...] (SBU) Lithuania's three-party governing coalition is defending itself against yet another challenge to its rule, even as a new party is maneuvering to join. New Parliament Speaker Viktoras Muntianas is leading the new Civil Democracy Party bid for coalition membership, demanding a cabinet seat [...] | 2006-05-23 07:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS473 | DISTRICT COURT OVERTURNS RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S [...] Vilnius District Administrative Court revoked on May 22 the Migration Department's decision granting Russian banker Igor Babenko asylum in Lithuania. Babenko has seven days to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. Barring an appeal, the ruling sets the stage for the Vilnius Appeals Co [...] | 2006-05-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM PHUM LH RS |
06VILNIUS502 | LITHUANIA'S GOVERNING COALITION COLLAPSES [...] (C) Lithuania's ruling coalition collapsed on May 31 when its biggest member, the Labor Party, withdrew. PM Brazauskas and President Adamkus met today to discuss next steps. Multiple sources indicate the PM has tendered his resignation, although the PM has not made a public announcement. We [...] | 2006-05-31 13:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS511 | INTERIM GOVERNMENT TAKES POWER IN LITHUANIA [...] (C) Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas handed a letter of resignation to the President Valdas Adamkus on June 1, following the May 31 withdrawal of the Labor Party and its five ministers from the ruling coalition (reftel). Brazauskas's Cabinet remains in place on an interim basis wi [...] | 2006-06-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS512 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES AGREEMENT TO SELL LITHUANIA'S [...] (C) Lithuania's parliament on June 1 approved the sale of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery to the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Next, the EU's competition authority must approve the deal, a process that could take months. With the question of the next owners now answered, MN will [...] | 2006-06-02 14:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LT RS |
06VILNIUS520 | 2006 TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We delivered Lithuania's 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) narrative and tier ranking to Lina Gubreviciute of the MFA's Americas Section on June 5. Gubreviciute thanked us for the courtesy copy and reiterated Lithuania's commitment to combat trafficking in persons. She said that Lithu [...] | 2006-06-06 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL LH |
06VILNIUS523 | (C) PM BRAZAUSKAS'S PRE-RESIGNATION FAREWELL [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, during the Ambassador's May 30 farewell call, outlined his five-year plan to increase defense spending and affirmed his commitment to Jewish property restitution. The Ambassador noted the GOL's tremendous contribution to the Global war On Ter [...] | 2006-06-06 14:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EINV KNAR LH RS |
06VILNIUS526 | LITHUANIA: RAINBOW COALITION PROVES ELUSIVE [...] (C) Lithuania's Social Democratic and Conservative Parties are working to form a ruling coalition, either separately or together, in the wake of the June 1 collapse of the Government of Lithuania (refs a and b). The President, favoring a rainbow coalition government, continues to consult with [...] | 2006-06-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
06VILNIUS53 | WORKING WITH THE BRAZAUSKAS GOVERNMENT: LOOKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: One year ago, we laid out a plan to strategically engage the newly elected coalition government headed by veteran politician Algirdas Brazauskas (reftel). Despite political tumult within the coalition, we succeeded in enlisting the new government to support key U.S. objectives, [...] | 2006-01-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AMGT EINV LH |
06VILNIUS549 | PRESSURE BUILDS TO CONSTRUCT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well-placed source says that a two-year French plan to convince the GOL to build a French-designed nuclear power plant is succeeding. According to this account, the French have persuaded many of Lithuania's political leaders of the need to build a nuclear power plant as soon a [...] | 2006-06-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV ECON LH FR |
06VILNIUS561 | JUSTICE MINISTER PROMISES NO CHANGE IN STATEGIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Lithuania's acting Minister of Justice Gintautas Buzinskas, during the Ambassador's June 9 farewell call, said that there will be no slippage in the GOL's commitment to Jewish property restitution. He also thanked the United States for its excellent law enforcement cooperation. [...] | 2006-06-15 13:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KNAR LH |
06VILNIUS562 | LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES SOCIAL DEMOCRAT FOR [...] (SBU) President Valdas Adamkus nominated Social Democrat and acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis for the post of Prime Minister on June 15. Parliament needs to vote on the nomination before June 22, and may vote as early as June 20. The Social Democratic parliamentary bloc has not yet bee [...] | 2006-06-15 13:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
06VILNIUS570 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Muntianas, during the Ambassador's June 6 farewell call, expressed hope that a government coalition uniting Lithuania's political left and right will soon emerge. He declared his willingness to move Jewish property restitution forward a [...] | 2006-06-19 10:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EINV KNAR LH |
06VILNIUS581 | PARLIAMENT REJECTS SOCIAL DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian Parliament today rejected Acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis's candidacy for prime minister. Fifty-two MPs supported the Social Democrat's candidacy, 48 voted against, and 32 abstained; his appointment required a simple majority of those present (67 votes). The Pre [...] | 2006-06-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
06VILNIUS584 | JEWISH CEMETERY IN VILNIUS - OVERVIEW AND UPDATE [...] (SBU) The newest front in Lithuania's struggle to come to terms with its troubled past is a Jewish cemetery that Russian Czars closed in 1830 and which they and the Soviets largely destroyed. The site, known as the Snipiskes cemetery, has attracted the fervent interest of the Committee for th [...] | 2006-06-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KNAR LH |
06VILNIUS591 | LITHUANIA RESPONSIVE TO TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our interlocutors here positively appraised the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and reftel points. The report,s recommendations have already inspired the GOL to implement measures to improve anti-trafficking efforts. The GOL is also working on a comprehensive strateg [...] | 2006-06-23 09:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG LH |
06VILNIUS610 | LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT NOMINATES DEFENSE MINISTER AS [...] (SBU) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus nominated acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister June 28. The parliament held hearings on the nomination June 29 and will vote on Kirkilas's candidacy as early as July 4. The Social Democrats and Conservatives appea [...] | 2006-06-29 14:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR LH |
06VILNIUS620 | PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES KIRKILAS AS PRIME [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament overwhelmingly approved Acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister on July 4. The Social Democrat must submit the government's program and his proposed cabinet to the parliament by July 19, but may do so sooner. Zigmantas Balcytis wi [...] | 2006-07-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS623 | PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER CONDEMN JEWISH CEMETERY VANDALISM [...] (U) Vandals tore down 22 monuments at a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius on June 24. President Valdas Adamkus, acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis, and Vilnius City mayor Arturas Zuokas publicly condemned the desecration and urged local law enforcement to find and punish the perpetrators. The [...] | 2006-07-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNAR PHUM PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS637 | LITHUANIA SEEKS TO LINK UP WITH POLISH AND SWEDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Plans to link Lithuania to the electricity grids of Poland and Sweden are moving forward, according to several well-placed sources. These links would complement the nearly complete Estonia-Finland power bridge and hook the Baltics into Western Europe's electricity grid for the fi [...] | 2006-07-07 11:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV LH PL SW |
06VILNIUS67 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW LITHUANIAN PROSECUTOR [...] Ambassador Mull and Lithuania's new Prosecutor General Algimantas Valantinas agreed January 17 to continue close bilateral cooperation in law enforcement and legal assistance, particularly to surmounting problems that may arise in extradition cases. The Ambassador thanked Valantinas for his [...] | 2006-01-24 10:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KNEI ASEC LG LH |
06VILNIUS675 | LITHUANIA'S 14TH GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE AS [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament approved Prime Minister- designate Gediminas Kirkilas's government program and cabinet July 18 by a vote of 59 to 49. Support came from the coalition of 53 MPs with additional support from three Labor members and three Homeland Union (conservative) members in the [...] | 2006-07-18 13:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
06VILNIUS707 | LITHUANIA: FINNISH PRESIDENCY OK TO INVITE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 14:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LH BU |
06VILNIUS787 | LITHUANIA FOLLOWING KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-23 08:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI LH |
06VILNIUS813 | LITHUANIA'S LABOR PARTY: UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP? [...] (C) Summary: The Labor Party, recently fallen from power amid scandal, elected former Economy Minister Kestutis Dauksys its new leader August 26. Dauksys called for changes to the way Labor runs itself, but continued publicly to link the party to its disgraced former leader. It seems clear [...] | 2006-08-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS82 | VILNIUS'S LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO INFLUX OF [...] This is the first cable in a two-part series detailing efforts law enforcement in Lithuania's capital of Vilnius are taking to meet the increased demand upon its services by a burgeoning tourist industry, and a review of Vilnius's local criminal justice facilities. 2. Summary. More touri [...] | 2006-01-26 11:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CMGT KCRM PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS83 | A VIEW FROM BEHIND BARS: VILNIUS'S LUKISKES [...] This is the second cable in a two-part series detailing efforts law enforcement in Lithuania's capital of Vilnius is taking to meet the increased demand upon its services by a burgeoning tourist industry, and a review of Vilnius's local criminal justice facilities. 2. Summary. Lithuania [...] | 2006-01-26 12:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CMGT CPAS PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS84 | GOL ACKNOWLEDGES U.S. ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-26 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV AF LH |
06VILNIUS922 | LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU QUITS AMID PRESS [...] (C) Summary. The surprise resignation on September 29 of one of Lithuania's most influential foreign policy figures has shaken the Foreign Ministry. MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, long considered the Ministry's most influential official, has close ties to Lithuania's security services an [...] | 2006-10-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS938 | LITHUANIA TO INTERVENE ON GEORGIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's Foreign Minister Vaitiekunas intends to intervene on Georgia-Russia relations and Ukraine-EU relations at the October 16-17 GAERC. With Poland, the GOL may also act to block the new EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement that the Finnish Presidency is negoti [...] | 2006-10-12 12:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | UN PREL PGOV LT |
06VILNIUS98 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES CIVIL SOCIETY AND TOLERANCE IN PANEVEZYS [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to Panevezys, Lithuanias fifth largest city, on January 19 to congratulate local officials on their successful efforts to combat crime, lower unemployment, and develop local industry. At the same time, the Ambassador expressed concern over the emigration of t [...] | 2006-02-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV LH |
06WARSAW111 | BUDGET IS PASSED; ELECTIONS STILL POSSIBLE [...] Voting well past midnight on January 25, the Polish Parliament passed the budget proposed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party by a vote of 269 to 180. Voting was protracted owing to 225 proposed amendments, each considered and voted individually. The budget was passed by a party-line v [...] | 2006-01-25 14:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW1169 | ARE THE KACZYNSKIS WOBBLY ON DEMOCRACY? [...] (C) Summary: One month into the political marriage of convenience which delivered a long-sought parliamentary majority, the Kaczynski brothers are moving forward with their agenda to beat back the last vestiges of Polish Communism by means that their critics charge are anti-democratic. Thei [...] | 2006-06-14 09:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PL PREL |
06WARSAW1171 | POLISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REFORM: CASTING OUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, President Lech Kaczynski signed into law three bills that will liquidate Poland's existing Military Information Services (WSI) on September 30, 2006 in order to create two new services on October 1, 2006, the Military Intelligence Service (SWW) and the Military Counte [...] | 2006-06-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MCAP PGOV MARR PL |
06WARSAW1202 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN ANTI-NGO LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 15:33:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PL |
06WARSAW131 | ASSISTANT SECRETARIES FRIED AND FLORY MEETING WITH [...] (C) State Department Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Peter Flory, accompanied by Ambassador, EUR DAS Mark Pekala, NSC Senior Director Damon Wilson, and Polcouns, met January 25 with Prime Mi [...] | 2006-01-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG MASS MARR EINV PL |
06WARSAW1314 | GOP REQUESTS US CONTACT SLOVAK GOVERNMENT ABOUT [...] (C) This cable contains an action request, para 2. (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting S/P Director Stephen Krasner, officials at the Ministry of Economy requested U.S. assistance in contacting the government of Slovakia about Polish interest in acquiring from Yukos its 49 perc [...] | 2006-06-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PL UR RS KZ LH LO EZ PGOV |
06WARSAW134 | CIVIC PLATFORM AND LAW AND JUSTICE INSIDERS SEE [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) leaders and insiders told Ambassador and Poloffs that early elections are increasingly likely, despite the Sejm's passage of the budget January 24. After a late night January 26 Sejm session in which PiS once agai [...] | 2006-01-27 16:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW148 | U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE II - ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) Begin Summary. Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable reports on the Energy [...] | 2006-01-31 18:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL PL UP RS NO AJ TX |
06WARSAW1489 | ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE POLISH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) is stung by criticism that it is anti-Semitic, gutting Holocaust education, and too slow to act on long delayed private property restitution, but does not have a strategy to deal with these problems. PiS points to its heretofore good [...] | 2006-07-20 14:03:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNAR PL |
06WARSAW149 | RESPONDING TO POLISH NON-PAPER REQUESTING [...] (C) Summary. Post received January 24 a non-paper apparently prepared personally by DefMin Sikorski, revising the non-paper he had handed to Secretary Rumsfeld December 7 in Washington. Unless otherwise instructed Embassy intends to use talking points at para. 7 in responding to GOP official [...] | 2006-01-31 19:00:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP MASS PGOV OVIP PL |
06WARSAW1570 | OPERATION PROMISED LAND - ITALIANS AND POLES TAKE [...] Summary: On July 18, Polish and Italian police made simultaneous arrests of 25 individuals allegedly involved in the trafficking and forced labor of an estimated 1000 Polish citizens in the Apulia region of southern Italy. PolOff and LegAtt met with the Polish police officers involved in the [...] | 2006-08-02 08:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV PL |
06WARSAW1580 | CASTRO SUCCESSION: POLAND SUGGESTS A "FRESH START" [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOP has not yet developed a policy on Castro succession, but Henryk Szlajfer, the senior MFA official dealing with Cuba, suggested that the best approach would be to "set aside" the existing record on Cuba and make a fresh start at reaching a trans-Atlantic consensus with the [...] | 2006-08-03 09:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM CU PL EU |
06WARSAW159 | VISIT OF POLISH PRESIDENT LECH KACZYNSKI TO [...] (C) Polish President Lech Kaczynski's determination to make his second foreign trip (after the Vatican) to Washington, with less than two months in office, is testament to our close partnership and to the deep admiration the new president has for the United States. A longtime activist in the [...] | 2006-02-01 16:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL |
06WARSAW1595 | U.S. AIR MARSHALS TRAIN POLISH BORDER GUARDS [...] SUMMARY: In July 2006, sixteen Polish Border Guards (BG) attended two weeks of airport/border security training at the Federal Air Marshal Training Facility in Atlantic City, NJ. The Program provided Polish air marshals with the skills and capabilities necessary to provide security aboard Pol [...] | 2006-08-04 12:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PARM PREL ECON PTER PL |
06WARSAW1610 | NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI [...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...] | 2006-08-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PL |
06WARSAW1630 | NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI [...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...] | 2006-08-07 15:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PL |
06WARSAW1646 | JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI TAKES CHARGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Speaking non-stop for an hour and forty minutes without break, and only rarely looking at his notes, PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski delivered on August 4 an impressive tour d'horizon of Polish government policies, making clear that he is solidly in charge of the gov [...] | 2006-08-09 07:10:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR PL |
06WARSAW1721 | WORKING WITH THE KACZYNSKI BROTHERS - GO STRAIGHT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Now that PM Jarek Kaczynski has consolidated power domestically, the Polish government is starting to re-consider its position in the world. Jarek Kaczynski has very little foreign affairs experience, but he has also chosen to take foreign policy decision-making authority on him [...] | 2006-08-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR OVIP PL |
06WARSAW176 | U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE III: EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable covers the SD sessions on East [...] | 2006-02-03 15:03:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL UP BO RU |
06WARSAW177 | POLISH GOVERNING PARTY SIGNS COOPERATION ACCORD [...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party concluded a "stabilization pact" February 2 with opposition protest parties Self-Defense (SO) and the League of Polish Families (LPR),committing the parties to cooperate on a detailed legislative agenda but stopping short of a form [...] | 2006-02-03 15:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW1798 | NEW DEPUTY DEFMINS: MACIEREWICZ STIRS UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed MOD U/S Antoni Macierewicz, responsible for transformation of the military intelligence services (REF A),has triggered an uproar by accusing "most former Polish foreign ministers" of being Soviet agents. PM Kaczynski who forced the appointment over DefMin Sikorsk [...] | 2006-08-26 05:00:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PL |
06WARSAW2057 | (C) MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLAND: REQUEST FOR AN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) As reported reftel, public debate in Poland over Missile Defense is intensifying even as the Polish government prepares itself for an expected U.S. offer on MD. A critical element of both processes is the perceived reaction and/or th [...] | 2006-09-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
06WARSAW2063 | SO LEADER LEPPER FORCED OUT OF GOVERNMENT AMID [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski on the evening of September 19 forced out his Agriculture Minister, Andrzej Lepper, in a surprise move that has many speculating that early elections will be called for November. Kaczynski gave as an explanation only that Lepper had been a disrupti [...] | 2006-09-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PROG PL |
06WARSAW2111 | MISSILE DEFENSE: POLAND OPEN TO SHARING WITH [...] (C) Splitting Missile Defense assets between Poland and the Czech Republic is a good idea according to Robert Kupiecki, Director of MFA Security Policy and Chairman of Poland's interagency working group on Missile Defense. On September 29, he told DCM that he and his counterpart in the Czech [...] | 2006-09-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
06WARSAW2113 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH POLISH PM JAROSLAW [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried met with Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on September 8, 2006 and discussed Ukraine, Belarus, and energy security, all topics that we expect the PM to raise when he travels to Washington next week. Fried also discussed the chilly state of [...] | 2006-09-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON OVIP |
06WARSAW2115 | TURBULENT POLITICAL SCENE CONTINUES AS PM [...] (C) Summary: Poland's seemingly endless political turbulence continues to follow twists and turns that lead to constant speculation and disagreement about whether there will be early elections, whether Law and Justice (PiS) can form a new majority, and whether the opposition can cobble toget [...] | 2006-09-29 15:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PL |
06WARSAW2159 | A/S FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH FM FOTYGA, MFA AND MOD [...] (C) Summary: (C) A/S Fried met September 8 with MFA and MOD officials to discuss a range of bilateral issues, and was hosted at dinner later that evening by Foreign Minister Fotyga. An extensive part of both conversations focused on Ukraine, and how to encourage the Ukrainian government to c [...] | 2006-10-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON OVIP |
06WARSAW2188 | RUSSIAN FM LAVROV IN POLAND: A SOFT TOUCH, EXCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian FM Sergei Lavrov met October 5 with President Lech Kaczynski, PM Jarek Kaczynski and FM Anna Fotyga during a one-day visit to Warsaw. According to senior officials from the MFA and presidential chancellery, the overall tone of the visit was positive, although little was a [...] | 2006-10-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL RS GG IR |
06WARSAW2218 | BACK TO THE FUTURE: ANDRZEJ LEPPER RETURNS TO [...] (C) Summary: In a late night meeting October 16, away from the glare of the press, Andrzej Lepper and his Self-Defense (SO) party returned to the coalition government led by Law and Justice (PiS) PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who had dumped Lepper a scant four weeks ago. Lepper was restored to his [...] | 2006-10-17 15:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW2246 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE - PRESERVING LEBANESE PM [...] (S) Pol External Chief delivered reftel talking points on Syrian efforts to destabilize the Lebanese political situation October 20 to MFA Middle East & Africa Department Director Krzysztof Plominski. According to Plominski, MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski (de facto PolDir) was planning to visit [...] | 2006-10-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM PLN LE SY |
06WARSAW2286 | REVIVAL OF JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Twentieth century Poland's history of Jewish relations has made many Jews see Poland solely as a Jewish cemetery and hotbed of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism persists, but is no worse than most European countries, and rejection of anti-Semitism is on the rise, notwithstanding th [...] | 2006-10-27 13:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KNAR PGOV PHUM PREL PL |
06WARSAW231 | POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER MELLER TO RESIGN [...] (SBU) Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller all but confirmed during a February 13 press conference that he intends to resign his post, citing frustration over his diminishing authority over Polish foreign policy. Meller denied press speculation that he might step down for health or family rea [...] | 2006-02-14 11:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2312 | MFA DEMORALIZED AND WEAKENED UNDER FM FOTYGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lech Kaczynski's tight grip on foreign policy has squeezed out his own Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a corresponding loss of effectiveness in European institutions and overall quality in Polish foreign policy. The politicization of top and mid-level positions, [...] | 2006-11-02 16:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW2322 | UPCOMING LOCAL ELECTIONS VIEWED AS A BAROMETER OF [...] (U) Summary: Poles will vote in municipal and regional elections nationwide on November 12, in what is cast as a referendum on the Kaczynski government, and a barometer of their political strength in the wake of the latest series of domestic political troubles. The race for mayor in Warsaw i [...] | 2006-11-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | QEL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2372 | POLISH OPPOSITION RUNNING STRONG IN URBAN AREAS [...] In the final days before Poles vote in local and regional elections, opposition candidates are poised to capture a majority of Polish cities and are running ahead of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) in regional assemblies (sejmiks). With multiple candidates running in most mayoral races [...] | 2006-11-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW2389 | INCUMBENTS AND OPPOSITION CLAIM VICTORY IN LOCAL [...] Summary. Poles voted in municipal and regional elections nationwide on November 12, with many incumbents sailing to re-election, and the opposition Civic Platform (PO) running strong in provincial assemblies. The center piece of the election, the race for Warsaw mayor, will see a run off on [...] | 2006-11-14 14:57:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2415 | TOUGH TIMES FOR THE LEAGUE OF POLISH FAMILIES [...] (C) Summary. Only six months after joining the ruling Polish government coalition, the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families (LPR) was the big loser in last weekend's regional elections, and faces an uncertain future. Party leader Roman Giertych has been a lightning rod for criticism, an [...] | 2006-11-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2470 | OPPOSITION CAPTURES WARSAW MAYORALTY [...] Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz from the opposition Civic Platform (PO) will become Warsaw's first woman mayor on Saturday, December 2. Gronkiewicz-Waltz won a decisive victory against former PM Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the acting Mayor, in run off elections held on November 26. Gronkiewicz-Waltz ca [...] | 2006-11-28 16:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2511 | POLAND: GOVERNMENT STEPS UP EFFORTS VS. FORCED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the months since stories broke of Poles trafficked to Spain and Italy for forced labor (Reftel) the Polish government has stepped up efforts in the fight against human trafficking. The Polish National Police (PNP) has supplemented the five person Central Anti-Trafficking Uni [...] | 2006-12-06 15:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV IT PL SP SW UK |
06WARSAW2545 | POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S FLAWED [...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered reftel demarche December 1 to Krzysztof Plominski, Acting Director of MFA Middle East/Africa Department. Plominski acknowledged the U.S. position and expressed similar concerns over the undemocratic candidate selection process for Assembly of Experts and the "circu [...] | 2006-12-08 15:55:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR PL |
06WARSAW2546 | POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESERVING THE [...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered Ref A demarche December 1 to Krzysztof Plominski, Acting Director of MFA Middle East Africa Department. Plominski responded that the GOP was watching closely the situation in Lebanon following the assassination of Pierre Gemayel. Poland continued to support the de [...] | 2006-12-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS PL |
06WARSAW2609 | POLISH COALITION FINDS FACE-SAVING EXITS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling coalition continues to lurch along, after two weeks of political distraction spurred by revelations of a sex scandal in Samoobrona (SO) and renewed accusation of neo-Nazi activity by the League of Polish Families (LPR) youth wing. While both junior partners foun [...] | 2006-12-19 15:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW2611 | S/CT CRUMPTON HEARS POLISH PERSPECTIVES OF THE GWOT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PL |
06WARSAW2614 | POLAND'S RESPONSE TO GLOBAL PURSUIT OF TERRORIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Through various interviews with GOP officials, Post obtained the following responses to reftel questions on databases, watchlists, information sharing and biometrics. In response to reftel question, given the information below, Poland appears to be a valid partner for data shar [...] | 2006-12-19 16:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS PL |
06WARSAW2636 | S/CT CRUMPTON HEARS POLISH PERSPECTIVES OF THE GWOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on December 13, Deputy Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, and Chief of the National Security Bureau, Wladyslaw Stasiak, conveyed their thoughts on counterterrorism to Ambassador Henry Crumpton, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism. In his si [...] | 2006-12-22 09:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PL |
06WARSAW269 | POLISH FM MELLER TO REMAIN UNTIL A SUCCESSOR CAN [...] (C) The Polish president and prime minister declined to act on Foreign Minister Stefan Meller's reported resignation, offering instead some general words of support and indications that Meller's concerns about his position (notably his absence from the National Security Council) will be addres [...] | 2006-02-17 15:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW296 | POLES WILL NOT MEET WITH HAMAS [...] (C) Polcouns met February 23 with Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for Africa and the Middle East, to deliver reftel demarche on meetings with Hamas. Plominski said that Hamas had not made a request to send a delegation, and that Poland would not accept such a Hamas delegation even if aske [...] | 2006-02-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW297 | POLES ISSUE STATEMENT CONDEMNING BOMBING OF THE [...] (C) Polcouns met February 23 with Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for Africa and the Middle East, and as per reftel requested that Poland issue a statement condemning the bombing of the al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra. Plominski said that a statement was under preparation that would condemn t [...] | 2006-02-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ PL |
06WARSAW325 | UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER FAILS TO CLARIFY GAS [...] (C) Energy issues dominated the discussions during the February 16-17 visit to Poland by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and the separate February 21 visit by Anatolij Kinach, Secretary of the Ukrainian Office of National Security and Defense. According to the MFA, however, the Po [...] | 2006-02-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ENRG PL UP |
06WARSAW329 | YASTRZHEMBSKY VISIT HAILED AS SIGNALING WARMING IN [...] (C) Summary: Polish officials told us they hope the January 20 visit to Poland by Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, will signal the end of the "mini cold war" between Russia and Poland. Yastrzhembsky discussed a potential meeting between Putin and Polish [...] | 2006-02-27 15:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL RU |
06WARSAW348 | POLAND WILL PROPOSE POSTPONEMENT OF EIB LOAN TO [...] (C) Begin Summary. Poland's MFA reported that it will recommend postponing a final decision on the EIB loan to the Syrian government until after a report on Syria's cooperation on the Rafiq Hariri assasination is provided to the UNSC in late March. Poland is uncertain that the postponement [...] | 2006-03-01 16:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV SY PL |
06WARSAW353 | POLISH PRESIDENT CAUTIONS YUSHCHENKO ON GAS DEAL [...] (C) In the course of his February 28-March 1 visit to Ukraine, Polish President Lech Kaczynski delivered a strong message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on the January gas deal with Russia, expressing concern about the consequences of the agreement for Ukraine's economy and its abili [...] | 2006-03-02 13:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV UP PL |
06WARSAW381 | INFIGHTING CONTINUES AMONG STABILIZATION PACT [...] (SBU) Summary: While the Stabilization Pact signed February 2 between Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Self Defense (SO) helped stave off early elections, it has not stopped political battling among the partners, nor guaranteed the smooth [...] | 2006-03-03 16:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW48 | POLISH PROTEST PARTIES FACE CHALLENGES IN BACKING [...] (SBU) Since coalition talks with Civic Platform (PO) fell apart in late October, the minority Law and Justice (PiS) government has relied on the support of two protest parties in parliament: Andrzej Lepper's populist, agrarian Self Defense (SO) and the extreme right-wing League of Polish Fami [...] | 2006-01-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW487 | POLISH PRESIDENT KACZYNSKI'S FIRST VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Polish government and German embassy officials judged Polish President Lech Kaczynski's March 8-9 visit to Berlin (his first-ever visit to Germany, "besides the Frankfurt airport," as he put it) a success, although low expectations and an evident sense of relief that it had not go [...] | 2006-03-16 13:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM GM PL |
06WARSAW497 | POLISH DEFENSE TRANSFORMATION AT A STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite its position as a minority government and ongoing domestic political battles, the Marcinkiewicz government is beginning to define the future strategic direction of the Polish military. In the coming months, the parliament will consider bills that would radically reorganiz [...] | 2006-03-17 09:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL |
06WARSAW504 | POLAND MOVES TO ACCELERATES MILITARY MODERNIZATION [...] SUMMARY: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Defense Minister (DefMin) Sikorski announced their shared intention to accelerate modernization of the Polish military at a press conference following the annual meeting of Defense Ministry and Armed Forces leadership on March 13. Their plan include [...] | 2006-03-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL |
06WARSAW518 | IN FRUSTRATION, POLISH GOVERNING PARTY CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Declaring "no other way out" of Poland's ongoing political stalemate, governing Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced March 18 that his party will seek to dissolve parliament and hold new elections in May, prior to Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled visit to Poland at the [...] | 2006-03-20 16:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PL |
06WARSAW53 | POLISH BUDGET ROW HIGHLIGHTS GOVERNING PARTY'S [...] (SBU) Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) minority government set off an uproar January 11 among opposition parliamentary groups, including those supporting the government, when it backed off from scheduling a budget vote this weekend, reviving suspicions that PiS plans to use a budget delay to cal [...] | 2006-01-12 15:43:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW547 | CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL STRIKES DOWN PORTIONS OF [...] (SBU) On March 23 the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland (Supreme Court equivalent) ruled that four articles of the new media law rammed through Parliament in late December last year (Reftels A and B) were unconstitutional. As a result the operations of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) [...] | 2006-03-24 13:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL PL |
06WARSAW581 | KACZYNSKI TWINS PRESS FOR ELECTIONS OR COALITION [...] (C) Summary: The political drama in Warsaw continues unabated with President Lech Kaczynski on March 23 joining in calls for early parliamentary elections this spring. Unconvinced, the Polish parliament voted down a proposal by the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party intended as a first st [...] | 2006-03-28 14:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW809 | FM MELLER SUBMITS RESIGNATION [...] Widely anticipated, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller submitted his resignation on April 28. Meller said at a press conference that he does not believe that the proposed coalition between the governing Law and Justice party, Self Defense and a break away group from the League of Polish F [...] | 2006-05-02 10:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
06WARSAW920 | ISRAELI AMBASSADOR RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT GIERTYCH [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Ambassador to Poland David Peleg called on President Lech Kaczynski May 17 to express his government's concern over the appointment of Roman Giertych as Minister of Education, given Giertych's anti-Semitic associations and his new responsibility for Holocaust education p [...] | 2006-05-18 15:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PL |
06WARSAW944 | POLISH STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 14:53:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ PL |
06WARSAW953 | POLISH PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN, GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian and German presidents paid reciprocal visits to Polish President Lech Kaczynski in mid-May, marking the importance of those bilateral relationships and the slow warming of personal contacts between the apprehensive Polish leader and his colleagues next door. With Yu [...] | 2006-05-23 10:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GM UP PL |
06WARSAW980 | POLAND'S ORLEN ANXIOUS FOR COURT DECISION IT CAN [...] (C) Summary: PKN Orlen's Wojciech Wroblewski, told us that PKN Orlen is waiting for U.S. court approval of the sale by YUKOS of its controlling stake in the Mazeikiu refinery for the purchase to go through. PKN Orlen aggressively pursued the sale both as a strategic asset and as a way to b [...] | 2006-05-25 15:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD LH PL RS KZ |
06WELLINGTON10 | PARLIAMENT'S COMMITTEE RESTRUCTURING REDUCES [...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of the National Party's strong showing in New Zealand's September elections, the ruling Labour Party's MPs face far stronger opposition in Parliament's select committees, which review proposed legislation. There are signs that National is trying to make life espe [...] | 2006-01-08 18:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON1016 | NEW ZEALAND REACTION TO JOINING [...] Summary: New Zealand officials are generally supportive of the objective of enhanced international cooperation in the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) as proposed in reftel and welcome the opportunity to participate further in its development but are also seeking clarification [...] | 2006-12-27 22:12:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON128 | NATIONAL CONTEMPLATES CHANGE ON NUCLEAR BAN STANCE [...] (C) Summary: The opposition National Party is considering changing its policy regarding New Zealand's anti-nuclear ban, hoping to thereby remove one of Labour's strongest weapons against National. Senior Party officials have explained to us behind the scenes that the modification would only cl [...] | 2006-02-17 05:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON133 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GENERAL ABIZAID TO NEW [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visit on 23-25 January. The Government has just returned from its lengthy Christmas and summer holiday period and has real anxiety that it is vulnerable to opposition attacks in a number of areas, including foreign and defense policies and the Gov [...] | 2006-02-21 21:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON157 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR KRAWITZ'S FEBRUARY MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: Discussions during ANP Director Krawitz's February 8-11 visit to New Zealand addressed PRC activities in the Pacific, Pacific Island issues, regional stability, counter-terrorism, Antarctica, U.S.-New Zealand relations, bilateral military ties, and launch of a new U.S.-New Zealan [...] | 2006-02-28 04:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON167 | FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS U.S. SHOULD RECOGNIZE NZ'S [...] (C) Summary: According to Foreign Minister Winston Peters, his recent public observation that the United States should appreciate New Zealand's contributions in the South Pacific was not meant to be a criticism. Peters assures us that he was calling for both sides to recognize the positive [...] | 2006-03-02 02:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON18 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADM [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visits on January 15-19 (PACAF) and January 16-22 (PACOM). New Zealand officials are also eager to meet with you. You will be arriving in New Zealand towards the end of the summer holiday period. With Parliament out of session until mid-February [...] | 2006-01-10 02:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON195 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILL'S MARCH 18-20 VISIT TO [...] (C) The Embassy welcomes your upcoming visit to New Zealand, which will enable you to meet a broad range of New Zealanders, including academics, journalists, lawyers, and students. Your meetings with GNZ officials will allow for productive discussions about regional/Pacific Island and securi [...] | 2006-03-12 18:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OVIP NZ |
06WELLINGTON218 | NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO IIC FINDINGS [...] The New Zealand government has investigated two companies named in the Independent Inquiry Committee's interim report released October 27, 2005, on allegations of illegal fund transfers to Iraq. The government investigation found no evidence of such transfers by the two companies. In addition, [...] | 2006-03-21 04:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON220 | POSSIBLE FUTURE LABOUR PARTY LEADER RESIGNS FROM CABINET [...] (SBU) New Zealand's political landscape has been shaken by the resignation from Cabinet of David Parker, a talented Labour MP viewed as a potential future party leader, only five months after he was first elevated from the backbenches. The resignation followed magazine allegations that Parker [...] | 2006-03-22 19:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON221 | COOK ISLANDS HIGH COMMISSIONER SACKED FOR PLOTTING [...] (SBU) On March 3, citing involvement in a plot to topple him from Government, Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai sacked Dr. Robert Woonton as High Commissioner to New Zealand. Marurai succeeded Woonton as Prime Minister in December 2004, and Woonton became High Commissioner as a politica [...] | 2006-03-22 19:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBIO NZ |
06WELLINGTON226 | A PUBLIC INDISCRETION RAISES QUESTIONS OF [...] (SBU) A new public attack by one Labour minister on another could be a sign of increasing internal division in Prime Minster Helen Clark's Government. A public display of dissent. --------------------------- 2. (SBU) That the Minister of State Dover Samuels broke ranks with a cabinet col [...] | 2006-03-23 19:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON230 | GNZ AIMS TO COOL EXPECTATIONS FOR U.S. FTA [...] (C) Summary: The New Zealand government is preparing the public for the likelihood it will not attain free trade negotiations with the United States any time soon. After six years of pressing its case for such a deal, the Labour-led government has turned its attention to agreements in Asia. T [...] | 2006-03-24 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON234 | APPROACH TO NEW ZEALAND ON ISRAEL/JUSCANZ [...] (C) Summary: As requested reftel, Ambassador McCormick and the Australian and Canadian High Commissioners called on Foreign Minister Peters to urge that New Zealand support Israeli membership in the Geneva JUSCANZ group. Peters promised to discuss the issue with Prime Minister Clark, and we [...] | 2006-03-27 05:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NZ |
06WELLINGTON247 | PETERS PROVIDES GNZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE PACIFIC [...] (U) In a March 28 speech, Foreign Minister Winston Peters outlined GNZ objectives in the Pacific. Delivered to a group of more than 200 diplomats, bureaucrats, academics, scholars and former politicos, Peters' speech provided a country-by-country review of GNZ strategies for the region. 2. [...] | 2006-03-29 04:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON253 | SAMOA ELECTIONS: AUSTRALIA AND NZ PREDICT MORE OF [...] (C) Summary: Officials of New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Australian High Commission (Australian HC) in Wellington have been closely watching Samoa's elections. Both anticipate that a high number of election petitions and a large volume of candidates (especi [...] | 2006-04-03 05:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ WS |
06WELLINGTON260 | THE NUCLEAR BAN AND NEW ZEALAND'S IDENTITY [...] (C) Summary: For reasons of history and politics, New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation has become a core part of the nation's psyche. The ban arose just as the country was forging its post-colonial identity, and has become as integral to many Kiwis as the Constitution is to us. Although w [...] | 2006-04-05 03:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON268 | LABOUR'S NEW TALENT DEFICIT. [...] (SBU) Summary: After two full terms in power, PM Clark has failed to effectively rejuvenate her Labour Party's ranks. Labour's lack of recognizable next generation leadership could be a real handicap over the short to-medium term, especially as the opposition National Party has a number of cap [...] | 2006-04-10 19:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON27 | NEW ZEALAND: PLEDGING FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-11 23:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV AF NZ |
06WELLINGTON284 | A/S HILL'S MEETINGS WITH NEW ZEALAND OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: During his March 19-20 visit to Wellington and Auckland, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher R. Hill met with GNZ officials from foreign affairs, defense, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. All agreed that the United States and N [...] | 2006-04-13 02:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV XB NZ |
06WELLINGTON286 | A/S HILL'S MEETINGS WITH PM CLARK AND FM PETERS [...] (C) Summary: During separate March 20 meetings with Prime Minister Clark and Foreign Minister Peters in Wellington, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill encouraged the United States and New Zealand to work together in areas such as the Pacific Islands and Afghanistan. Prime Minister [...] | 2006-04-13 03:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL XB NZ |
06WELLINGTON298 | GNZ REACTION TO SOLOMONS UNREST [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials believe the situation in Honiara has calmed down, especially given the presence of stepped up RAMSI and local police security presence. But GNZ worries about future flashpoints, such as the upcoming inauguration of PM Rini. They also fear a possible spillo [...] | 2006-04-20 05:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP NZ |
06WELLINGTON349 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DONATION FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-07 23:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL AF NZ |
06WELLINGTON366 | NEW ZEALAND FACES LONG MARCH TO CHINA FTA [...] (C) Summary: Negotiations on a China-New Zealand free-trade agreement have been slow going since their start 16 months ago, and the road ahead looks long and difficult, with China firmly in the driver's seat. Beijing has pitted New Zealand against Australia, trying to hold New Zealand hostage [...] | 2006-05-11 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON379 | GNZ REMAINS COOL TO ISRAELI JUSCANZ PARTICIPATION [...] (C) As noted Ref A, Ambassador McCormick and his Australian and Canadian counterparts met with Minister Peters in late May to urge that New Zealand support Israeli membership in the Geneva JUSCANZ group. This followed representations by other Embassy officers at lower levels. Minister Peters [...] | 2006-05-16 23:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NZ |
06WELLINGTON380 | FM PETERS CLAIMS BRASH LIED ABOUT U.S. SUPPORT AT [...] (C) Summary: NZ First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters, cheered on by the Government, has created a furor by claiming leaked e-mails prove National Party leader Don Brash courted US support for his party's general election campaign. The National Party has countered that Peters and th [...] | 2006-05-16 23:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV |
06WELLINGTON384 | SAMOAN GOVERNMENT: NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA [...] (C) Summary: Officials for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Australia High Commission in Wellington continue to follow closely the implications of Samoa's March 31 general election. Both recognize the potential for improved governance following the announceme [...] | 2006-05-18 05:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ WS |
06WELLINGTON389 | MORE ON FM PETER'S E-MAIL OUTBURST: AN ANTI-GOFF [...] (C) Summary: Chris Trotter, New Zealand's leading left-wing political analyst believes the recent attack by New Zealand First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters on National Party Leader Don Brash was actually aimed at Trade and Defense Minister Phil Goff. In a recent article in the "I [...] | 2006-05-19 05:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON395 | NEW ZEALAND ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING FORMATION OF NEW [...] New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters issued a statement May 22 hailing the formation of the new Iraqi government. "I congratulate Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and his colleagues on persevering over many months with forming a representative list of Cabinet members," Peters said in his sta [...] | 2006-05-24 04:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KPAO PGOV IZ NZ |
06WELLINGTON405 | NEW ZEALAND ON STANDBY FOR EAST TIMOR [...] (C) GNZ officials are deciding what support New Zealand will provide to E. Timor now that the Timorese government has officially asked for help. In the morning of May 25, NZ Defense Force (NZDF) Assistant Chief for Strategic Commitments and Intelligence, Brigadier Warren Whiting, told DATT a [...] | 2006-05-25 04:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC TT NZ AS |
06WELLINGTON406 | NZ UPDATE ON THE SOLOMONS [...] (C) Summary: GNZ officials report that a May 19 meeting between New Zealand Foreign Minister Peters, Australian Foreign Minister Downer, and Solomon Island officials was "difficult." However, the Solomons PM was much more conciliatory during a separate meeting with Peters on May 23. Most Sol [...] | 2006-05-26 00:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON42 | ACT PARTY'S DECLINE COULD SPELL NEAR-TERM END OF [...] (SBU) The expected resignation of the long-serving president of the ACT party could knock the center right out of New Zealand politics, at least over the short term. The president's recent statements suggesting her party should become a think tank instead illustrates the depths to which ACT h [...] | 2006-01-17 04:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON432 | ELECTION OF NEW GREEN PARTY CO-LEADER UNLIKELY TO HERALD [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly eight months after the death of co-leader Rod Donald, the Green Party has chosen Russel Norman as his replacement. Elected by delegates at the party's annual conference, Norman will share the leadership with Jeannette Fitzsimons, who was re-elected female co-leader for th [...] | 2006-06-06 23:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON449 | THINLY STRETCHED NEW ZEALAND MILITARY AIMS HIGH, [...] (C) Summary: The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) is being rebuilt after decades of neglect. The Labour Government, ideologically drawn to a peace-keeping role for the NZDF, has nonetheless proved willing to deploy small expeditionary forces around the world. Given that the entire military [...] | 2006-06-12 05:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PMIL NZ |
06WELLINGTON450 | FIRST PROSECUTION FOR SEDITION IN NEW ZEALAND IN 75 YEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the first time in nearly three quarters of a century, a New Zealander has been found guilty of sedition. Cases of sedition are extremely rare in New Zealand, with convictions rarer still. The exceptional nature of the charge has helped generated a good deal attention over whe [...] | 2006-06-12 23:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON456 | 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES: NEW ZEALAND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-15 04:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON459 | NEW ZEALAND TAKING LOOK AT WTO GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT [...] (U) Summary: Urged by members of the New Zealand business community, the New Zealand government has agreed to review its decision not to join the WTO Government Procurement Agreement. However, government officials expect the review to show that the government's costs of complying with the agre [...] | 2006-06-15 23:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON470 | PRESENCE OF 9/11 HIJACKER CRONY IN NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) The New Zealand Government announced on June 11 that it had two weeks earlier deported Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, a Saudi national of Yemeni background. When Ali had lived in the United States some years ago, he studied flying and roomed in Phoenix with 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour, wh [...] | 2006-06-20 22:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER NZ |
06WELLINGTON482 | NZ MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN PSI "LEADING [...] (C) This message contains an action request, at para 4. 2. (C) On June 22, Pol-Econ Couns was called into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) by Michael Swain, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Division, and Nik Green, Policy Officer. Swain explained that GNZ officials [...] | 2006-06-23 05:39:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS NZ |
06WELLINGTON483 | SOME QUESTION NZ'S DEFENSE STRATEGIES IN LIGHT OF RECENT [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts have generally welcomed the defense spending increases in this year's budget. Some question, however, the general direction of New Zealand defense policy, and others remain concerned about what they say are continued problems with NZ Defense Force (NZDF) recruitment and [...] | 2006-06-26 00:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON488 | NZ UPDATE ON E.TIMOR [...] (C) Summary: On June 26, Prime Minister Clark and Police Minister Annette King announced that up to 25 New Zealand police officers would be sent to E. Timor for a three-month deployment. The police will join the 167 NZ Defence Force personnel already in the country. Meanwhile, Ministry of [...] | 2006-06-27 04:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS ASEC KPKO MY AS TT NZ |
06WELLINGTON489 | NZ ON UN REFORM AND THE BUDGET CAP [...] (C) On June 27, the DCM discussed reftel draft reform resolution with Joan Mosley, Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mosley said she had already received and studied carefully the US-Australia-Japan paper. GNZ agrees completely with the paper's intent [...] | 2006-06-28 06:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNGA NZ |
06WELLINGTON504 | NZ SUPPORTS IMMEDIATE FMCT NEGOTIATIONS, BUT... [...] (C) New Zealand supports immediate negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) and could accept the US-proposed mandate as the basis for talks, according to Caroline McDonald, Director of the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). McDonald told [...] | 2006-07-05 05:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP CDG PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON507 | FOREIGN MINISTER PETERS CONDEMNS N.KOREA MISSILE [...] (C) On July 5, Foreign Minister Peters issued a strongly-worded statement condemning North Korea's missile tests. David Taylor, Director of the North Asian Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) says that Peters rang the Ministry from his official travels in Hungary to [...] | 2006-07-06 02:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ KN |
06WELLINGTON513 | DEATH OF MAORI INFANTS BRINGS DEBATE & DISCORD [...] (SBU) The brutal deaths of twin Maori babies who lived in a house with several benefit recipients has sparked nationwide debate over the actions of the family. It has also highlighted the growing problem of welfare dependency, drug and alcohol addiction and child neglect within the Maori commu [...] | 2006-07-07 03:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON526 | FOREIGN MINISTER PETERS' TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: During his July visit to Washington, NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters hopes to focus discussion away from the nuclear issue and towards positive areas of bilateral cooperation. Peters, who has from the start of his tenure openly called for improved US-NZ relations, will quiet [...] | 2006-07-10 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON533 | DEPARTING NZ MINISTER ASSUMES NEW TRADE ROLE [...] (SBU) Labour Cabinet Minister Jim Sutton has announced his retirement from politics to become a Trade Ambassador for New Zealand and Chair of Landcorp. His departure from Parliament will not alter the balance of power as he will be replaced by the next person on the Labour Party List, lawyer Ch [...] | 2006-07-11 22:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON539 | COMMISSION FOR ASSISTANCE TO A FREE CUBA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-13 00:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CU NZ |
06WELLINGTON547 | NEW ZEALAND: STATUS ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST SCREENING [...] (U) Following is an update on the status of New Zealand's efforts regarding the HSPD-6 initiative: 2. (SBU) The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS),which is the lead agency for the HSPD-6 initiative in New Zealand, is continuing to review the draft agreement. Because the agre [...] | 2006-07-14 01:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON55 | NEW ZEALAND NOMINATION FOR FSN POLITICAL [...] Embassy Wellington submits the following nomination for the FSN Staff Political Training Course to be held in Washington from April 3 - 14, 2006. 2. Name: Craig Brian Greaves Grade: 9 Step 2. Length of Service: Start date - May 16, 2005. English language ability: level 4 (native spea [...] | 2006-01-20 01:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI AFSN PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON575 | COOK ISLANDS: QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE DISSOLVES [...] (U) On July 24, the Queen's Representative dissolved the Cook Islands Parliament and called for a snap election. The move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet. A new election must be held within ninety days. End summary. 2. (SBU) The Queen's Representative, HE Sir Frederic [...] | 2006-07-26 05:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL CW NZ XV |
06WELLINGTON577 | DESPITE BAD POLLING, PARTY UNITES BEHIND BRASH, FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Recent polling in New Zealand, which showed a continued decline in the number of New Zealanders who would prefer National Party leader Don Brash as Prime Minister, could have a profound affect on the party's ability to form the next government. The continual decline in Brash's personal po [...] | 2006-07-26 05:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON598 | REPORT ON LABOUR MP SCANDAL SETS OFF MAELSTROM [...] (C) A report on a scandal involving Labour MP Taito Philip Field threatens to become another thorn in the Government's side. The report cleared Field of the main allegation but raised serious questions about his behavior as a MP. The opposition National Party claims that this and other questi [...] | 2006-08-01 19:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON626 | MESSAGE FOR EAP DAS DAVIES FROM AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Kia ora! New Zealand officials are very enthusiastic about your upcoming visit, which they see as the latest sign of our improving bilateral communication and cooperation. The officials plan to update you on New Zealand's activities in the Pacific and beyond. They also wish to contin [...] | 2006-08-13 19:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OTRA NZ |
06WELLINGTON627 | MESSAGE FOR EAP DAS DAVIES FROM AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Kia ora! New Zealand officials are very enthusiastic about your upcoming visit, which they see as the latest sign of our improving bilateral communication and cooperation. The officials plan to update you on New Zealand's activities in the Pacific and beyond. They also wish to contin [...] | 2006-08-13 19:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OTRA NZ |
06WELLINGTON655 | VISIT OF EAP DAS DAVIES TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is eager to continue to identify areas of future US-NZ cooperation, GNZ officials told EAP DAS Glyn Davies during his August 17-19 visit. But PM Clark and other senior officials are wary of riling the Labour party's left, and prefer that we gradually signal our dialo [...] | 2006-08-22 01:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ US |
06WELLINGTON669 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANP DIRECTOR C. STEVEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ANP Director C. Steven McGann and Economic Officer Alisa Wong to travel to New Zealand from September 9 - 14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with embassy and consulate staff and also New Zealand government officials. 2. ( [...] | 2006-08-28 03:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PGOV PREL AS FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON690 | SCANDALS APLENTY, BUT TALK OF LABOUR'S DEMISE IS [...] (SBU) Labour's recent political problems have been compounded by new accusations of election campaign spending abuse. Meanwhile, new evidence of inappropriate behavior by an already disgraced Labour MP may finally force Labour's leadership to kick him out of the party, impairing the Government' [...] | 2006-09-01 03:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON717 | GNZ SHOULD IMPROVE U.S. TIES, SAYS FORMER NZ [...] (C) New Zealand's former Ambassador to the United States, John Wood, told an inflential local international affairs organization that New Zealand should take the initiative to improve US-NZ ties. Wood cited GNZ officials' anti-US election campaign rhetoric as a low point in the relationship. [...] | 2006-09-11 05:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON721 | NATIONAL LEADER'S EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR THREATENS [...] (SBU) National Party leader Don Brash has taken a leave of absence following revelations that he has been having an affair for two years with a member of the conservative Business Roundtable. During the fractious 2005 general election campaign, Brash had been accused of taking large contribu [...] | 2006-09-13 06:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON725 | DON BRASH NOT DOWN FOR THE COUNT - YET [...] (C) National Party MPs insist they will stand by embattled leader Don Brash amidst controversy over his private life (REF A) and will continue to focus on the party's political agenda. Despite the party's bravado, a prominent conservative political analyst believes that Brash's leadership has [...] | 2006-09-14 19:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON732 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S MEETINGS WITH GNZ: [...] (C) Summary: During September 13 meetings in Wellington, GNZ officials told EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann that PM Clark and NZ Ministers support greater US-NZ cooperation. McGann and his counterparts agreed that meetings over the coming months between both sides' leaders and senior officials [...] | 2006-09-19 01:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD NZ US |
06WELLINGTON733 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND: [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. officials are interested in participating in a U.S. special session proposed by the Pacific Island Forum (PIF),EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) at a September 12 meeting in Wellington. McGann and MFAT agreed the USG and G [...] | 2006-09-19 01:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ XV US CH TW |
06WELLINGTON735 | POLLS SHOWS BRASH SURVIVING SCANDAL, SO FAR. [...] (SBU) An alleged extramarital affair has not diminished National Party leader Don Brash's popularity with voters, according to a recent poll. Kiwis seem to be registering distaste that their MPs' private lives are being made public. But many analysts believe that Brash's handling of this incide [...] | 2006-09-19 04:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON736 | GNZ THINKING ON ANTARCTIC COMMEMORATIONS, LOGISTICS [...] (SBU) GNZ officials welcome USG participation in and support for January events hosted by PM Clark to commemorate the International Polar year and the 50th anniversary of US-NZ cooperation in Antarctica. New Zealand may also host events in-country for official USG visitors, including those una [...] | 2006-09-19 19:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV OTRA NZ US |
06WELLINGTON753 | ROGUE NATIONAL MP IS SHOWN THE DOOR AFTER CAUCUS VOTE [...] (SBU) The leader of the National Party, Dr. Don Brash, has shocked the political establishment by announcing that outspoken National MP Brian Connell has been suspended from National's caucus after a secret ballot. At a caucus meeting two weeks ago, Connell challenged Brash over his alleged a [...] | 2006-09-26 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON756 | LABOUR LOSES SUPPORT AMID POISONOUS BODY POLITIC [...] (SBU) PM Helen Clark's withering attack on National Party leader Dr. Don Brash has sent National surging ahead in latest NZ political polls. Late last week, Clark called for a halt to smears on MPs' personal lives and, in the next sentence, called Brash "corrosive and cancerous". National claim [...] | 2006-09-27 00:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON760 | MORE ON NEW ZEALAND'S UNIFIL CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (C) On September 27, Matthew Paterson, Senior Policy Officer in the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) confirmed to PE Couns that GNZ has approved the deployment of a 6-person technical team for UNMAS/UNIFIL, pending UN approval and the identification [...] | 2006-09-27 22:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NZ UN LE |
06WELLINGTON761 | MORE ON NEW ZEALAND'S UNIFIL CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (C) On September 27, Matthew Paterson, Senior Policy Officer in the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) confirmed to PE Couns that GNZ has approved the deployment of a 6-person technical team for UNMAS/UNIFIL, pending UN approval and the identification [...] | 2006-09-27 22:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NZ UN LE |
06WELLINGTON762 | COOK ISLANDS: PRELIMINARY ELECTION RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, September 26, the Cooks Islands held general elections. Preliminary results show the Democratic Party (Demos),led by PM Jim Marurai, ahead of the Cook Islands Party (CIP),14 seats to 10 in the 24-seat Parliament. New Zealand's High Commission in Rarotonga believes [...] | 2006-09-28 03:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CW NZ XV |
06WELLINGTON773 | DELAY IN USG APPROVAL OF NEW ZEALAND'S A-4 PLANE SALE A [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request at para 8. 2. (C) Summary: The New Zealand Defence Force is evaluating how the further delay or cancellation of the GNZ's proposed sale of its last air combat planes to a private U.S. buyer could impact defense planning. NZDF will probably [...] | 2006-10-02 03:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MOPS NZ |
06WELLINGTON8 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visit on January 12-3. New Zealand officials are also eager to meet with you. You will be arriving in New Zealand towards the end of the summer holiday period. With Parliament out of session until mid-February and many families on holiday, thing [...] | 2006-01-05 23:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON811 | KIWI MUSLIMS: HEADING TOWARD INTEGRATION OR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Zealand's small but active Muslim community points to a member of parliament, regular appearances on national television by community leaders, ready access to the Prime Minister and her cabinet, and joint statements with Jewish organizations as hallmarks of movement into [...] | 2006-10-17 02:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS SMIG PGOV PREL PTER NZ KISL |
06WELLINGTON815 | NZ WORRIES FRICTIONS COULD DERAIL PACIFIC ISLAND [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is working behind the scenes to help ensure that frictions over the Solomon Islands and other regional issues do not derail the October 23-26 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) meetings. PMs Clark and Howard are scheduled to discuss their goals for the meeting by telephone [...] | 2006-10-18 04:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ XV XU |
06WELLINGTON820 | VISIT OF U.S. TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY FOR [...] Summary: U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, Timothy Adams consulted with New Zealand (NZ) government officials, private bank economists, academics and business people in Wellington on October 16 to ascertain the current state of the NZ economy. Consensus among experts was that NZ is relatively st [...] | 2006-10-18 23:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON826 | KIWI MUSLIMS: WAHHABIS IN THEIR MIDST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Zealand Muslims are getting increased attention from broader society as the community faces internal divisions, Wahhabi influence from overseas groups, and discrimination. Alleged Wahhabi activities have been at the heart of some publicized schisms involving mosque admin [...] | 2006-10-24 02:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PREL KISL SMIG NZ |
06WELLINGTON832 | VISIT OF U.S. TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY FOR [...] (C) Summary: On his recent trip to New Zealand, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, Timothy Adams consulted with officials, private economists, academics and business people to ascertain the current state of the NZ economy. Consensus among experts was that NZ is relatively stable and in the midst o [...] | 2006-10-25 02:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON851 | NEW ZEALAND'S REACTION TO POLITICAL TENSIONS IN FIJI [...] (C) In discussions November 1 regarding political tensions in Fiji with Heather Riddell, Director of Pacific Division at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),Post learned that GNZ will shortly be issuing a formal statement declaring that Fiji's military commander Bainimarama is obliged [...] | 2006-11-01 04:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR CASC ASEC FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON866 | NEW ZEALAND'S READ-OUT FROM PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM [...] (C) Summary: GNZ reports that initial concerns that the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) would be derailed over tensions between Solomon Island and Australia regarding the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomons (RAMSI) were resolved by private dialogue among Leaders during retreat. The sessions betw [...] | 2006-11-03 01:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ XV XU |
06WELLINGTON89 | NZ DISARMAMENT MINISTER SUPPORTS DECISION ON IRAN [...] (U) On February 1, New Zealand Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff issued a public statement in support of the IAEA extraordinary meeting decision to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council. Goff, who is also New Zealand's Defense Minister, highlighted the concern [...] | 2006-02-02 04:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PGOV KNNP IR NZ |
06WELLINGTON90 | NEW ZEALAND'S PM SORTS OUT MINISTERS' PORTFOLIOS [...] (C) New Zealand Prime Minister Clark has decided that Jim Sutton, who on December 31 wrapped up his tenure as trade negotiations minister, will remain a minister of state inside Cabinet. Former Foreign Minister Phil Goff has taken over as trade negotiations minister. The prime minister provid [...] | 2006-02-02 07:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON912 | GNZ CLOSELY MONITORING FIJI, MAY APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: GNZ is aware that Commodore Bainimarama told the U.S. DATT in Suva he will mount a coup in early December if GOF does not meet all his demands. NZ ministries are to review a list of possible GNZ responses if a coup takes place. They will also likely approach Bainimarama during [...] | 2006-11-21 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV NZ FJ |
06WELLINGTON915 | ANTARCTIC COMMEMORATIONS: GNZ HOLIDAY CLOSURES AND [...] (U) New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has advised us by Diplomatic Note (para. 2) that MFAT will be closed for the Christmas and New Year holidays from December 23, 2006 to January 2, 2007. This is a good reminder that many NZ officials will soon be taking off for Chr [...] | 2006-11-21 03:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SENV OTRA AY NZ |
06WELLINGTON923 | IS NATIONAL'S LATEST CRISIS BRASH'S TIPPING POINT? [...] (C) Summary: The author of a soon to be published book claims it will prove National Party leaders have mislead their own caucus and the public about the party's fundraising and other contacts with religious and corporate players during the 2005 campaign. Nats leader Don Brash only days ago [...] | 2006-11-23 17:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON924 | GNZ TO DELIVER STRONG POINTS TO FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA [...] (C) The GNZ MFAT has prepared strongly worded points, which it has passed to the British Defence Attache Nigel Lloyd (DA),who will convey them to Commodore Bainimarama at a private lunch with Bainimarama on November 23 at the DA's residence. (The points are repeated below at para 3). Foreign [...] | 2006-11-23 17:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON927 | NEW ZEALAND: AUCKLAND STADIUM DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Aucklanders are locked in an emotional debate over where to build a stadium to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The debate has highlighted the divided nature of decision-making in New Zealand largest city, as well as Auckland's uneasy relationship with the rest of the country. [...] | 2006-11-24 02:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON928 | OPPOSITION LEADER BRASH RESIGNS; KEY TIPPED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Zealand's main opposition party leader, Dr. Don Brash, has resigned after weeks of speculation over his leadership. Dogged by a series of gaffes and missteps that raised questions over his political judgment, Brash announced that the National Party will caucus on Monday to pi [...] | 2006-11-24 03:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
06WELLINGTON930 | TONGANS IN NEW ZEALAND APPALLED BY VIOLENCE BUT [...] (C) Summary. A prominent member of the Tongan community in Auckland reports that, while local Tongans were shocked by last Thursday's violence in Nuku'alofa, it has not dissuaded them of the need for democratic reform. Local Tongans put much of the blame for the violence not on the pro-democ [...] | 2006-11-26 18:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TN NZ |
06WELLINGTON931 | GNZ TOUGH BUT PESSIMISTIC ON FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA [...] (U) This is an action cable, see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: GNZ anticipates that Commodore Bainimarama will execute his plan to remove members of the government of Fiji on December 4 regardless of what he hears from foreign critics. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters will meet with [...] | 2006-11-26 18:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV FJ TN NZ |
06WELLINGTON935 | JOHN KEY ELECTED NEW OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: John Key has won the leadership of New Zealand's main opposition party, the National Party. In an uncontested election, Key replaced Dr. Don Brash who resigned last week after three turbulent years at the helm. National also elected a new Deputy Leader and Finance spokesman: t [...] | 2006-11-27 18:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON938 | GNZ HOSTS FIJI'S QARASE AND BAINIMARAMA FOR TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Bainimarama on November 27, New Zealand's Foreign Minister won his agreement to a meeting with Fiji's PM Qarase; PM Clark then called the PM and persuaded him to come for the meeting. The meeting will take place at New Zealand's Government House from 10:00 a.m. [...] | 2006-11-28 05:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON943 | GNZ SAYS FIJI TALKS CONSTRUCTIVE BUT IS TAKING NO [...] (C) Summary: Fiji Prime Minister Qarase and Commodore Bainimarama today met for two and a quarter hours at Government House in Wellington. New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) characterized the meeting as a "considered and serious discussion" of Bainimarama's nine demands [...] | 2006-11-29 07:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON951 | NZ OFFICIALS SOMEWHAT PESSIMISTIC ON FIJI [...] (C) Summary: GNZ officials remain positive about yesterday's talks in Wellington between Fiji PM Qarase and Commodore Frank Bainimarama, and say the PM now has a chance to win hearts and minds to his cause. But they say they believe a coup is more likely than a resolution, and think RFMF ma [...] | 2006-11-30 06:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON952 | FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER BRASH RESIGNS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Don Brash has resigned from Parliament, barely a week after he resigned his leadership of the main opposition National Party. Brash's five years in office, particularly the three as party leader, were characterized by controversy. As leader he elevated National's status but h [...] | 2006-11-30 07:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON953 | NEW NATIONAL LEADER WANTS CLOSER TIES TO U.S. BUT [...] (C) Summary: The opposition National Party's new leader, John Key, says that although he favors closer relations between the United States and New Zealand, he believes his country should maintain its nuclear-free policy. Key is clearly trying to remove the nuclear issue from the political ag [...] | 2006-11-30 08:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON954 | FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER BRASH RESIGNS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Don Brash has resigned from Parliament, barely a week after he resigned his leadership of the main opposition National Party. Brash's five years in office, particularly the three as party leader, were characterized by controversy. As leader he elevated National's status but h [...] | 2006-11-30 18:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NZ |
06WELLINGTON966 | NEW ZEALAND INCREASES SANCTIONS ON FIJI [...] (U) Summary: At 4:45 pm on December 6 local time, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced stringent new sanctions "in response to the Fijian Military's unlawful seizure of power." In a public statement, Clark and Peters said the Cabinet had approved the measu [...] | 2006-12-06 04:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL FJ NZ |
06WELLINGTON967 | E.O. 13382 ENTITIES -- EXAMPLES OF PROLIFERATION [...] (S) On December 6, PE Couns delivered reftel information to David Taylor, Director of the North Asia Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Taylor said that the information will greatly help NZ officials understand the range of proliferation activities to watch for. He also s [...] | 2006-12-07 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL PGOV NZ KN |
06WELLINGTON970 | NEW ZEALAND AGREES TO FUND HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: GNZ has approved necessary funding needed to implement an HSPD-6 agreement with the United States, and would like NZ's liaison in Washington to meet with CA to go over next steps. End summary. 2. (C) PE Couns and Econoff met on December 1 with Mike XXXXXXXXXXXX manager of the co [...] | 2006-12-08 02:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL NZ |
06WINDHOEK79 | POHAMBA LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1, President Hifikepunye Pohamba officially launched the Namibian Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). In his speech marking the event, Pohamba reiterated his distaste for corruption and urged the ACC to pursue all corrupt individuals "regardless of their status in s [...] | 2006-02-03 10:31:00 | Embassy Windhoek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID ECON PHUM WA |
06YAOUNDE1431 | CAMEROON MILITARY READY TO ENGAGE IN PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) In a September 8 meeting with DATT, General Ren-Claude MEKA, Chief of Staff of Cameroon's Armed Forces, said Cameroon was prepared to eventually contribute up to a batallion for international peacekeeping operations. Cameroon has the political and military will to participate in PKO, but [...] | 2006-09-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV CM |
06YAOUNDE1811 | TOUGH LOVE IN CAMEROON'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Summary. Corruption, specifically the Government's faithfulness to its anti-corruption promises, continues to take center stage in Cameroon. Indeed, this was Anti-corruption Week in Cameroon, as the Prime Minister launched a high-profile seminar on how to implment the UN Anti-Corrupt [...] | 2006-12-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PREL PGOV EFIN CM |
06YAOUNDE1840 | CAMEROON: EXTRAORDINARY LEGISLATIVE SESSION ON [...] (U) As expected (reftel),the President of the National Assembly issued an order December 13 convoking an extraordinary session of the National Assembly to begin December 14, immediately upon the conclusion of the regular session. According to the order, the National Assembly will consider fo [...] | 2006-12-14 09:55:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CM |
06YAOUNDE1847 | U.S. OPPORTUNITIES IN CAMEROON'S AMBITIOUS POWER [...] (U) Summary. Cameroon is "thirsty" for new investments in the oil, gas, and power sectors, and eager to establish partnerships with American companies and relevant USG agencies, according to Dudley Achu Sama, the seniormost technical advisor at the Ministry of Water and Energy (French acron [...] | 2006-12-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EINV ETRD ECON PGOV PINR CM |
06YAOUNDE1883 | CAMEROON: CORRUPTION TRIAL EMBROILS FIRST LADY, [...] (C) Summary. Defense attorneys in the FEICOM corruption trial created tumult in the courtroom and a splash in the headlines when they demanded, on December 19, that the court hear testimony from First Lady Chantal Biya and other Cameroonian notables who feature prominently in the list of il [...] | 2006-12-21 13:22:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR ECON PGOV EFIN KMCA CM PINR |
06YAOUNDE816 | CAMEROON: A TALE OF TWO PRESIDENCIES [...] (C) In its 46 years of independence, Cameroon has only known two presidents, Ahmadou Ahidjo (1960-1982) and Paul Biya (1982-present). Ahidjo was a charismatic and decisive man who ruled a one-party state where citizens had no voice in their leadership. Under Ahidjo, Cameroon's economy fared [...] | 2006-05-24 16:28:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM PINR CM |
06YAOUNDE928 | CAMEROON HIT BY A SERIES OF STRIKES [...] (U) Cameroon has been hit by four strikes in the first two weeks of June, some of which are related. Employees of the national airline (CAMAIR),taxi drivers, Wackenhut security guards and university students have all walked out. While it is too soon to characterize this as a "wave," four i [...] | 2006-06-16 06:36:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB CM EAIR ASEC EFIN |
06YEREVAN1000 | ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER VOICES SUPPORT FOR OSCE [...] (SBU) Addressing the extraordinary congress of Republican Party of Armenia (reftel),the chairman of the party, Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, spoke about the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh (NK) conflict, reiterating that the most recent proposals put forth by the OSCE Minsk group (name [...] | 2006-07-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN1010 | YOUR VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you on your first trip to the region wearing both your co-chair and DAS hats. The situation on the ground here in Yerevan has changed somewhat since your last visit in March. While your visit will be brief, your meetings with key leaders will offer us an opp [...] | 2006-07-27 10:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN1019 | A PROSTITUTE'S STORY: SEX AND TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) Poverty and desperation are the largest factors contributing to trafficking in persons in Armenia, according to prostitutes, police and NGOs in Vanadzor, Armenia's third-largest city. We met them during a July 14 trip to the city, where prostitutes gather after dusk in the traffic circle outsid [...] | 2006-07-28 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1020 | MERMOUD VISIT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR REGIONAL [...] (C) During his recent visit to Yerevan, State Department Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud targeted Armenia's perennial problems of customs and tax administration and corruption as critical areas in need of reform. In addition to his meetings with the Pr [...] | 2006-07-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV EINV AM |
06YEREVAN104 | COALITION NOMINATES KOCHARIAN ADVISOR FOR OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) Armenia's governing coalition announced January 20 that it would nominate long-time Kocharian confidant Armen Harutyunyan as the country's next Ombudsman. Local NGOs were divided in their reactions to the announcement, but most told us that the nomination would have significant politica [...] | 2006-01-24 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1046 | HUNGER-STRIKING CONVICTS ATTEMPT SUICIDE AFTER [...] (U) Four men serving life sentences at Yerevan's Nubarashen detention facility tried to slit their wrists after a failed escape attempt. The escape attempt followed a hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners in protest of the prison conditions. A task force from the human rights ombudsman's [...] | 2006-08-02 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1072 | OPPOSITION PARTY ACCUSES GOAM OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Armenia's Heritage Party, an opposition party with a popular, outspoken leader but no seats in parliament, was evicted from its downtown offices in March 2006. Party officials told us they believed the government was behind the eviction, as well as other interference with their operations [...] | 2006-08-08 03:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1075 | PRESIDENT'S OFFICE INSTITUTES CONTROL OVER [...] (C) A number of media analysts and press representatives have reported that the GOAM is exerting increasing control over the broadcast media, and that this pressure is being exercised directly by the Armenian President's office. These controls appear to include requirements that television st [...] | 2006-08-08 07:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1082 | OPPOSITION DEFECTOR MAKES IT OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Justice Bloc secretary Viktor Dallakian submitted his long-anticipated resignation from the bloc August 5. Dallakian told us earlier this year that he planned to accept business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan's offer to lead Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party (reftel). Dallakian has not yet [...] | 2006-08-09 03:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN1091 | AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...] | 2006-08-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU |
06YEREVAN1101 | APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO [...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...] | 2006-08-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM |
06YEREVAN1123 | AMBASSADOR SUPPORTS RESOLUTION 1701 IN ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] On August 14, the Ambassador gave an interview to Armenian Public TV to explain UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on Lebanon. The interview was aired without commentary on Public TV's evening news, the most-watched news programs in the country. During the interview, Ambassador Evans emphas [...] | 2006-08-17 05:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UN KPAO LE AM |
06YEREVAN1148 | JOURNALIST RETRACTS SOME ABUSE CHARGES...THE RIGHT ONES [...] (U) SUMMARY: A local journalist, Gagik Shamshian, beaten up in July (reftel) has retracted allegations that a local official's brother was involved. The retraction seems to have come under duress from local authorities, who have filed unrelated criminal charges against the journalist. END SUM [...] | 2006-08-23 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1161 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE [...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...] | 2006-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
06YEREVAN1179 | PASSING THE BAR: ARMENIA'S LAWYERS SWEAT THROUGH A RITE OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Last weekend, in a hot, somewhat dilapidated university gym, 309 aspiring Armenian attorneys sat for a legal rite of passage, the bar exam. Armenia has not offered a licensing exam for advocates in over five years and has one of the lowest percentages of lawyers per capita in the [...] | 2006-08-30 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN118 | OPPOSITION BOYCOTT BREAKING DOWN, NOT OFFICIALLY [...] (C) Members of the opposition Justice Bloc in the National Assembly are poised "to take a more active role in the parliament" but remain unwilling to officially end their boycott. Justice Bloc leader Stepan Demirchian told us he intended to use the spring sessions of the National Assembly (s [...] | 2006-01-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN119 | RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN ARMENIA, NATURAL GAS [...] (C) Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov arrived in Armenia January 26 for meetings with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and Chief of General Staff General Mikhael Harutiunyan. Speaking at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport (extreme weather conditions postpone [...] | 2006-01-27 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN1204 | SETTING THE STAGE FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Election experts offer mixed views of ongoing efforts to improve key democratic institutions prior to the May 2007 parliamentary election. The challenges -- technical, bureaucratic and political -- are daunting. However there is room for cautious optimism that the GOAM is at lea [...] | 2006-09-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KMCA KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1237 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PARLIAMENT SPEAKER [...] (C) Parliament Speaker Torosian told the Ambassador at a September 6 meeting that Armenia was committed to holding democratic elections in 2007 and 2008 and that work on revisions to the electoral code had nearly reached consensus, both among drafters and with international community advisers [...] | 2006-09-08 10:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR AM |
06YEREVAN1248 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PM MARGARIAN [...] (C) WARM WISHES: The Ambassador's September 5 farewell call on Prime Minister Andranik Margarian was brief and businesslike. Margarian praised the bilateral cooperation and achievements of the last two years, notably the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact and the ongoing U.S.-Armenia [...] | 2006-09-11 09:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1249 | DEFMIN SARGSIAN REVEIWS N-K, IRAN, AND ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sargsian lauded the growing bilateral defense relationship, before complaining about Azerbaijan's approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations. He said that Azerbaijan constantly revises its demands, and called for the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to demand greater consistency from the [...] | 2006-09-11 09:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR AM IR |
06YEREVAN1254 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD'S SEPTEMBER 19-20 [...] (S) SUMMARY: We look forward to welcoming you to Armenia. Armenia and the United States have lately enjoyed increasing trust and military cooperation. While Armenia initially lagged behind its fellow South Caucasus republics in developing relationships with Western nations and Euro-Atlantic i [...] | 2006-09-11 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1264 | THE POLITICAL BUZZ: A SNAPSHOT OF LOCAL ANALYST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Garik Tsarukyan's new "Prosperous Armenia" faction is the hottest political topic, with divided views over the extent to which this pro-government faction is independent of the ruling Republican Party. Local analysts are generally pessimistic about chances for fair parliamentar [...] | 2006-09-13 06:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1265 | FM OSKANIAN'S FAREWELL SENDOFF TOUCHES ALL THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian's farewell lunch for the Ambassador offered a review of current issues. Oskanian expressed relief and exasperation about the ability to reach consensus on how the NK/Occupied Territories fires issue would be managed at the UNGA. He worried over the Iranian nuclear [...] | 2006-09-13 07:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETTC EAID SCUL OVIP KNNP UNGA AM IR |
06YEREVAN1268 | GEORGIA ARRESTS ARMENIANS FOR CROSSING SEPARATIST [...] (C) Since early August, numerous Armenian citizens have been arrested in Georgia for transiting the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia without Georgian permission, which is illegal under Georgian law. Armenian media claim that 100 have been arrested. Armenian diplomats have co [...] | 2006-09-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM GG RU |
06YEREVAN1271 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DARFUR AT THE NAM SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 14:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU AM |
06YEREVAN1280 | VIKTOR DALLAKIAN OUTLINES POLITICAL PREDICTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN129 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TRYING TO ENGAGE ON [...] (C) On January 26, Post delivered reftel points regarding issues of concern during the final negotiations on Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) at the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM). Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations [...] | 2006-01-31 07:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1320 | NGO SCORES VICTORY WITH VOLUNTEERISM LAW [...] In an encouraging victory for self-governance, on September 14, the GOAM approved a draft law pushed by a civil society NGO. The law would recognize the concept of a volunteer employee, and put a stop to tax inspectors' insistence that cash-strapped NGOs pay social security and income taxes f [...] | 2006-09-22 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1328 | GENERAL WARD TALKS FMF AND N-K WITH DEFMIN [...] (C) EUCOM Deputy Commander General William Ward visited the GOAM's 12th Peacekeeping Battalion and the Ministry of Defense during his visit to Yerevan this week. He thanked Armenia for its contributions to KFOR and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and pushed both the commander of the peacekeeping bat [...] | 2006-09-25 06:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM AM |
06YEREVAN1330 | ARMENIA'S SOVIET-STYLE INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE A [...] (SBU) Armenia celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its independence on September 21 with an over-the-top Soviet-style display of military power in a long parade on Yerevan's Republic Square and a host of other events celebrating Armenia's development. Literally thousands of soldiers and c [...] | 2006-09-25 09:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN1342 | BANK CONTENDING FOR MCC BUSINESS SUBJECT OF [...] (C) Armenian regulators and the IMF have both flagged concerns about possible wrongdoing and suspicious transactions at Converse Bank, a major local bank, which we understand is a short-listed candidate to handle MCC transactions. The Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) financial intelligence chi [...] | 2006-09-27 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KTFN MCC AM |
06YEREVAN1364 | MEN PARTICIPATE IN NDI WOMEN'S FORUM FOR THE FIRST [...] (C) The National Democratic Institute (NDI)'s fifth Women's Forum featured male speakers for the first time. The male politicians -- one pro-government, one opposition -- had mastered some progressive sound bites, but were far from fully egalitarian. Nonetheless, there has been some progress [...] | 2006-10-02 10:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN AM |
06YEREVAN1365 | LOCAL ACTIVISTS SKEPTICAL FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, donor organizations presented election assistance plans to a group of local NGO partners. The NGOs were pessimistic that technical assistance and training would make much difference to the conduct of the 2007 elections, believing the GOAM would pre-determine the [...] | 2006-10-02 12:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1368 | ARMENIAN SURPRISE: PARLIAMENT BALKS AT [...] (SBU) Parliamentarians refused to rush a controversial government-proposed bill on media during an extraordinary session September 26 and 27. MPs were irritated both at the government's tactical high-handedness and at the draft's proposal to curtail broadcasts of parliament's activity. Media [...] | 2006-10-03 04:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1371 | DFM KIRAKOSSIAN UNDERWHELMED BY TURKISH JOINT [...] (S) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian was unimpressed by Turkey's recent non-paper on joint commissions, viewing it as "a step backward" for Armenia's priorities. He resents Turkey's determination (as he sees it) to postpone any discussion on the broader issues of the current relationship until after [...] | 2006-10-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV AM TU |
06YEREVAN1374 | IRANIAN PROFESSOR DISCUSSES NUKES, UNIVERSITY [...] (C) A Tehran professor who participated in a local thinktank's seminar this week in Yerevan said sanctions and incompetent Iranian foreign policy were to blame for Iran's lack of involvement in the South Caucasus. He also complained that Iran was being punished for its intentions to build a n [...] | 2006-10-04 06:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL MARR IR AM |
06YEREVAN1388 | GUAM ALLIES GANG UP ON RUSSIA DURING THINKTANK [...] (U) A Russian analyst who spouted anti-Western rhetoric at a local thinktank seminar this week in Yerevan found himself outnumbered when panelists from Georgia (including a former foreign minister),Ukraine and Azerbaijan ganged up on him during their speeches and particularly during the quest [...] | 2006-10-05 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK GG RU AZ AM |
06YEREVAN139 | ARMENIA CONVICTS MORE TRAFFICKERS [...] (SBU) On January 12 the first instance court of Kotayk Region sentenced Gayane Mirzoyan and Avetis Kiziriyan to four and a half years of prison under charges of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The defendants worked for a notorious pimp in Dubai, Anahit Malkhasyan, who died in a car accident on [...] | 2006-01-31 12:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
06YEREVAN1393 | GOVERNMENT TAKES BACK MEDIA BILL [...] (U) The government withdrew a controversial bill on media with a promise to revise it after parliamentarians walked out on a floor vote. A quorum of parliamentarians were present at the start of the October 3 session, but when it came time to vote on the bill, many of them, including at least [...] | 2006-10-06 04:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1396 | ARMENIANS WORRIED ABOUT EFFECTS OF GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Public statements from Armenian officials are generally calm and balanced, but acknowledge the effects on Armenia of the Russian blockade of Georgia. Privately, officials are more concerned, and more of them blame Georgia than Russia. PM Markarian told visiting DAS Matt Bryza on October [...] | 2006-10-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU AM |
06YEREVAN1403 | CHIRAC AVOIDS DEMOCRACY TALK, FOCUSES ON 1915 [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac avoided tough democracy talk during his first visit to Armenia September 29 through October 1, preferring instead to focus on crowd-pleasers like "genocide" recognition. Chirac also told reporters that Nagorno Karabakh settlement talks should remain the p [...] | 2006-10-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR AM |
06YEREVAN1419 | ARMENIA NARROWLY AVOIDS A MAJOR MISSTEP IN PROPOSED LEGAL [...] (SBU) A recent attempt by the Armenian Ministry of Justice to propose judicial reforms in the chaotic area of expert witnesses came perilously close to making a bad situation worse in criminal, civil, and administrative legal proceedings. During the week of September 11-15, 2006, representativ [...] | 2006-10-11 09:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS AM |
06YEREVAN1422 | TV STATION DROPS INTERVIEW WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) A regional television station run by members of a pro-governmental parliamentary group decided not to air an interview with the head of the opposition Orinats Yerkir party and former parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian. The move demonstrates the low level of professionalism of the Arm [...] | 2006-10-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1424 | PUSHING ARMENIA TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST KONGRA GEL [...] (S) The Government of Armenia has taken little action to respond to USG requests to address concerns about the possible presence and activity of Kongra Gel in Armenia. A recent high-level push by visiting DAS Matt Bryza got a more positive response, but it is too soon to tell if the GOAM will [...] | 2006-10-11 12:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM |
06YEREVAN1429 | ROMANIAN PRESIDENT PUSHES EURO INTEGRATION DURING [...] (C) Romanian President Traian Basescu played the role of European statesman during his visit to Yerevan last week, using his meetings to push issues high on the agenda of most Western diplomatic missions in Armenia. Basescu's nuanced approach was a marked contrast to that of French President [...] | 2006-10-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PGOV PREL RO AM |
06YEREVAN1440 | ARMENIA'S SCORECARD DELIVERED WITH A WARNING ON [...] (SBU) On October 6, 2006, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and MCC Resident Country Director Alex Russin presented the MCC Indicator Scorecard on Armenia to Armenia's full MCA Governing Council, chaired by the Prime Minister. While we told the Council that Armenia had technically passed the criteria, [...] | 2006-10-13 10:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM KMCA AM |
06YEREVAN1445 | ARMENIAN REGIONAL NGOS MEETING WITH SOME SUCCESS [...] PAO and PAS Grants Manager recently visited several NGOs outside of Yerevan that had received support from the Democracy Commission, whose work encompassed anti-corruption (in public education),journalism, and human rights. Not only did we find dedicated people, young and old, staffing the o [...] | 2006-10-13 11:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1457 | SETTLING SCORES ON THE STREET IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Oligarchs and thugs have taken to settling scores on the street in greater numbers in the last few months, and high-profile assassinations and murder attempts are on the rise in Armenia. Though the crimes do not appear to be related, and in most cases the motives are unclear, the increase i [...] | 2006-10-18 04:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN1466 | GOAM REPS AND NGOS DISCUSS MEDIA AMENDMENTS [...] The Partnership for Open Society Institute (OSI) local NGO held a discussion on media freedom in Armenia on October 9. The discussion focused on the draft amendments on media regulations that the government plans to re-submit following the parliament's failure to achieve a quorum for an Octob [...] | 2006-10-19 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1476 | BRYZA AND PRIME MINISTER DISCUSES DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) EUR DAS Bryza met with Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian on October 4 to encourage Armenia to work towards free and fair elections in 2007 and 2008 and to discuss energy security and other regional issues. Markarian was open and engaged. He welcomed U.S. assistance on elections [...] | 2006-10-20 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ENRG IR TU AM |
06YEREVAN1484 | ASSESSING KURDISH MILITANCY IN ARMENIA -- SO FAR, [...] (S) PKK activities in Armenia seem thus far to be fairly low-level, though Armenia's Yezidi community -- an ethnic minority related to Kurds by blood and language -- may be receptive to PKK outreach. Among other things, we have heard reports that the PKK sends money to some Armenian Yezidi a [...] | 2006-10-24 09:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1516 | REVISED ELECTION CODE MOVING FORWARD, FINALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia passed its revised election code through its first reading October 26, a small positive step. The draft can still be modified before final passage. OSCE/ODIHR and the Council of Europe Venice Commission (CoE/VC) provided a detailed joint commentary on the draft bill. The [...] | 2006-10-30 04:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE AM |
06YEREVAN1524 | PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...] | 2006-10-31 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
06YEREVAN1530 | KOCHARIAN COMPLAINS TO EU AMBASSADORS ABOUT N-K [...] (C) In a meeting with EU Heads of Mission on October 27, President Kocharian was deeply pessimistic about chances for a settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh, resigned that Armenia would pay a greater cost for poor Russia-Georgia relations than either of the two parties, and expressed some frustratio [...] | 2006-10-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OSCE AM |
06YEREVAN1539 | TV STATIONS AIR AD CRITICIZING OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opposition Orinats Yerkir Party has called for an official investigation into a television advertisement that it said unfairly denigrated the leader of its party, Artur Baghdasarian. According to the party, the advertisement is part of a "black PR" campaign that government o [...] | 2006-11-02 08:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1548 | POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) Post delivered a major push on trafficking in persons this week, meeting a number of senior government officials to discuss the GOAM's anti-trafficking efforts. In each meeting, we delivered a strong message: Armenia risks another year on the Tier 2 Watch List, or worse, if the GOAM doesn' [...] | 2006-11-02 14:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
06YEREVAN1565 | USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY PUSHES FAIR ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Julie Finley, US Ambassador to the OSCE, visited Armenia October 17-19, and met a wide range of GOAM officials and non-governmental contacts. While they embraced her strong messages on free and fair elections, media freedom, trafficking in persons (TIP),and anti-corruption, offi [...] | 2006-11-06 04:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM |
06YEREVAN1586 | FM OSKANIAN BLASTS GUL FOR MOSCOW COMMENTS ON [...] (C) FM Oskanian responded November 4 to Turkish FM Gul's remarks to RFE/RL on Turkish-Armenian relations. Oskanian's statement rebuked Turkey for ignoring President Kocharian's April 2005 response to PM Erdogan's historical commission proposal, and for Turkey's renewed insistence on the histo [...] | 2006-11-08 13:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
06YEREVAN1597 | ARMENIA'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Armenia has improved its record on four of the five interim assessment indicators provided to post by G/TIP. There have been no positive developments so far this year for the fifth indicator, "vigorously investigating and prosecuting officials for complicity in trafficking." However, we [...] | 2006-11-14 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | HSTC KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN1602 | FM OSKANIAN PRESENTS FOREIGN POLICY GOALS [...] (C) Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian presented a succinct outline of Armenian foreign and domestic policy priorities during the Wilton Park Conference on the South Caucasus held in Yerevan November 6 - 10. Oskanian elaborated on Armenia's foreign policy of "complementarity," identified economic li [...] | 2006-11-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ TU AM |
06YEREVAN1633 | ARMENIA RATIFIES HAGUE CONVENTION ON INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, President Kocharian signed into law the bill ratifying the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. The GOAM had worked toward ratification for several years, but relevant agencies were divided on whether to ratify first and then work on implementation or implement f [...] | 2006-11-21 11:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | CACS PGOV PHUM KTIA KOCI KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1644 | ARMENIAN ADVANCES WITH FMF AND IMET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After years of pushing against our refusal to allow use of Foreign Military Financing (FMF to purchase communications equipment for the entire Armenian army -- including units stationed on the border with Azerbaijan -- the Armenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) has finally agreed to [...] | 2006-11-27 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PARM MASS MARR AM AJ |
06YEREVAN1645 | JAVAKHETI: AN ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Georgia,s predominantly Armenian Samstkhe-Javakheti (S-J) region periodically makes news in Armenia, colored by the local perception here that Georgians treat their Armenian minority shabbily. Armenian government officials have not generally complained on this theme, but others, including [...] | 2006-11-27 13:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG AM |
06YEREVAN1646 | OPPOSITION POLITICIAN CLAIMS GOVERNMENT BANNED HIM [...] (C) The leader of the opposition New Times Party, Aram Karapetian, has announced that the GOAM has banned television stations from providing him with airtime. A New Times spokesperson says no television station has aired a political interview with Karapetian since April 2005. Television stat [...] | 2006-11-28 08:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1667 | RESULTS OF POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) A November 27 meeting with the Prosecutor General (PG) suggests our series of "straight talk" interventions with GOAM officials in late October and early November (ref B) may be bearing fruit. The PG was more forthcoming than in previous meetings, foreshadowing changes to the PG anti-TIP u [...] | 2006-12-01 11:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN1673 | FM OSKANIAN UPBEAT ON N-K NEGOTIATIONS, WARNS [...] (C) In a December 1 briefing to Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions resident in Yerevan, FM Oskanian said that the November 28 meeting between Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev was "positive and productive." He went into limited detail about new elements which will be the basis of future discussions [...] | 2006-12-04 11:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET UNGA AM |
06YEREVAN1674 | DE FACTO N-K AUTHORITIES INVITE U.S. TO OBSERVE [...] (C) The Yerevan representative office of the self-declared "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) asked post to convey a letter to EUR DAS Matt Bryza, in his capacity as Minsk Group co-chair, advising him of an NKR referendum December 10 and inviting him to observe the proceedings. Full text of the [...] | 2006-12-04 16:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ |
06YEREVAN1677 | REQUEST FOR TREATMENT OF IRAQ-WOUNDED ARMENIAN [...] Post strongly urges that the Department of Defense approve the evacuation to Walter Reed Army Medical Center of Armenian First Lieutenant Georgi Nalbandian, who was wounded during his service with coalition forces in Iraq. Providing treatment and rehabilitative care to Nalbandian in Washington [...] | 2006-12-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS AM |
06YEREVAN1680 | ARMENIA: TERRORIST LISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-06 10:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER KVPR KTFN AM |
06YEREVAN1683 | ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT REAUTHORIZES IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] The National Assembly voted December 6 to reauthorize the Armenia's troop deployment to Iraq. The 85-19 vote followed two days of vigorous debate, and the personal appearance of Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian who debated with some skeptical deputies the wisdom of the deployment on the parlia [...] | 2006-12-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PREL AM IZ |
06YEREVAN1685 | NDI PRESIDENT'S VISIT SPEAKS TO ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1688 | ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER PRESSES ALMOST STOP ROLLING [...] (U) Armenia's leading printing company announced on December 1 that it had run out of newsprint and would cease printing Armenian newspapers December 6. The company said it could no longer import paper due to Russia's closure of the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgian border, as well as the [...] | 2006-12-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM OPRC KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN169 | EMBASSY YEREVAN EMPHASIZES STATE OF THE UNION [...] Embassy Yerevan took advantage of the public diplomacy opportunities provided by the President's State of the Union Address in a variety of events and formats. As a result, the Armenian media extensively covered the major foreign policy themes of the speech. Specifically, the Ambassador's F [...] | 2006-02-06 13:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1700 | ARMENIA TV ARGUES ITS CASE [...] (SBU) MCC Country Director and PAO met with Armenia TV President Bagrat Sargsian and toured the company's facilities. Sargsian affirmed his belief in the TV channel's independence and promised to provide opposition candidates a platform to air their views in the lead-up to the May parliamenta [...] | 2006-12-11 08:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1704 | ARMENIA'S HEAD IN THE SAND ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) During a two-day conference on domestic violence in Yerevan, representatives of the police and the Prosecutor General's (PG) office variously denied the existence of the problem in Armenia, used flowery language to expound upon the strength of the Armenian family and vigorously opposed lo [...] | 2006-12-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN AM |
06YEREVAN1705 | ARMENIA'S PRESS REPORTS ON REFERENDUM IN "NKR" [...] (SBU) The Armenian media widely covered the constitutional referendum held December 10 in the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." According to preliminary results, the constitution passed by 98.6 percent, with an 87 percent voter turnout. Newspapers complained at the international community's refus [...] | 2006-12-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM AJ |
06YEREVAN1706 | ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Members of parliament debated the country's first-ever draft National Security Strategy December 1. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian presented the draft and moderated a remarkably civil and constructive discussion. Heads of foreign missions, representatives of NGOs and journalists were in [...] | 2006-12-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EAID KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1711 | NK WAR VETERAN ARRESTED FOR SEDITION, FACES [...] (C) On December 10, Armenian authorities detained Nagorno-Karabakh war hero Zhirair Sefilian on charges of plotting to overthrow the government by force. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Sefilian and alleged co-conspirator Vardan Malkhasian while the offices and apartment [...] | 2006-12-12 13:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN1715 | RESULTS OF PG'S TIP INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Although we believe the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office's internal probe into allegations of investigatorial misconduct was less than thorough, we were pleased to learn December 11 that the PG's order to restructure his Anti-TIP Unit includes the reduction in status and transfer of the ac [...] | 2006-12-13 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN1716 | ARMENIA PROSECUTES FIRST LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On December 12, a court in Gyumri ruled on the first-ever labor trafficking case in Armenia, sentencing the trafficker to five years of imprisonment and financial compensation for the victims. According to testimony, the victims had been trafficked to Russia to work construction near Alme [...] | 2006-12-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
06YEREVAN1717 | MCC INITIAL DISBURSEMENT RECEIVES WIDE-SPREAD PUBLICITY [...] (U) On December 12, MCC, MCA-Armenia, and the U.S. Embassy held a press conference and reception to announce that Armenia had completed the requirements necessary to receive an Initial Disbursement of approximately USD 1.4 million of the Millennium Challenge Compact's USD 236 million. The pres [...] | 2006-12-14 06:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
06YEREVAN1726 | ARMENIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2006. Per reftel instruction, the following is an update of Armenia's 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. END SUMMARY. 2. With substantial U.S. assistance, Armenia continues to strengthen its capacity to counter th [...] | 2006-12-18 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC AM |
06YEREVAN1735 | KOCHARIAN LAYS DOWN HIS MARKERS ON ELECTION PERIOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian delivered a nationally-televised interview December 15, laying out his expectations for the campaign season and May 2007 parliamentary elections. Kocharian called for elections to be free and fair, placing the onus on election commissions and political parti [...] | 2006-12-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM |
06YEREVAN1742 | AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER CAPTURED BY ARMENIAN TROOPS [...] (U) The Armenian press reports that an Azerbaijani soldier was captured by ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) on the line of contact December 7, after he reportedly crossed into Armenian-controlled territory east of N-K, in the Aghdam District. It is unclear whether 19-year-old V [...] | 2006-12-20 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM |
06YEREVAN1745 | POLITICAL BLOOD SPORT GOES COLLEGIATE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-21 07:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM KDEM KPAO |
06YEREVAN1748 | POLITICAL BLOOD SPORT GOES COLLEGIATE [...] (U) Summary: The European Academy - a relatively new private college - has found itself at the center of a political skirmish. The Academy's Board of Trustees is chaired by former Parliament Speaker and current political wilderness-dweller Artur Baghdasarian. A recent court case brought aga [...] | 2006-12-21 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1750 | CDA HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS LUNCH [...] (C) Lively discussion at a Human Rights Day lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires December 20 demonstrated that, while Armenia's most vocal human rights advocates agree that the upcoming parliamentary elections will not be free and fair, they do not fear airing their most damning complaints in [...] | 2006-12-21 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV APER KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN1757 | THREE LIFE PRISONERS FREED BY ARMENIA'S HIGHEST COURT [...] (U) In a very surprising move, Armenia's highest court overturned the conviction and sentences of three defendants in a controversial murder case December 22. Soldiers Razmik Sargsian, Musa Serobian and Araik Zalian had been serving life sentences for the 2003 murder of two fellow servicemen i [...] | 2006-12-22 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN189 | ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC: FEARING A DEAL ON N-K [...] (C) Despite the fact that only a handful of people in the GOAM have any concrete information about the state of the discussions on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K),the Armenian political class is clearly concerned that a deal might well be in the works. In contrast to senior government officials' publi [...] | 2006-02-08 13:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN191 | ARMENIA SET TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-08 00:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM MARR AM |
06YEREVAN214 | USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...] | 2006-02-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
06YEREVAN227 | FULL TEXT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REPORT ON N-K [...] (SBU) The National Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations released its report on the March 29-30, 2005 hearings on the "Nagorno Karabakh Problem: Settlement Ways" (original in English). Although at this late date the report itself is not likely to inform Armenian public opinion, its relea [...] | 2006-02-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN237 | IS AN N-K SETTLEMENT DEAD? EVERYONE POINTING [...] (C) Official Yerevan remains careful not to close the door on the possibility of a settlement in the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while opposition politicians and thinktankers appear almost gleeful in what is being widely reported as a breakdown in the talks at Rambouillet. Most im [...] | 2006-02-15 14:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN238 | ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN REFLECTS ON RAMBOUILLET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Oskanian was not as pessimistic about the results of Rambouillet as we had anticipated when we heard him reflect on the event and on his views of the way ahead February 15. Although agreement eluded the two presidents at Paris, it was Oskanian's view that many is [...] | 2006-02-16 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM AJ OSCE |
06YEREVAN244 | DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE: PM ON BOARD, WITH CAVEATS [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed USG plans for democracy assistance leading up to the 2007-2008 elections and designed to bolster Armenia's record on ruling justly during a recent meeting with Prime Minister Andranik Markarian. Noting the failures in the constitutional referendum in 2005, the Amb [...] | 2006-02-17 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN246 | NA ELECTS HARUTYUNYAN OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) The National Assembly elected Armen Harutyunyan as Armenia's new Human Rights Ombudsman on February 17. As the president's candidate, his election was not in doubt, but the governing coalition and the president found they needed to expend more political capital than they had intended un [...] | 2006-02-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN255 | DEMOCRACY, MCA AND CORRUPTION FOCUS OF USATF [...] (SBU) Minister of Finance Vardan Khachatryan and Ambassador Evans co-chaired the mid-term review session of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) February 17. The USG raised issues linked to the Action Plan of the September 2005 USATF meeting held in Washington and reque [...] | 2006-02-22 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN257 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN258 | ORPHANED RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES IN ARMENIA: SEARCH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian nuclear regulatory authorities are preparing to ship two high-intensity, orphaned radiological sources to Russia for secure storage. According to the director of the quasi-govermenta [...] | 2006-02-23 03:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP AM |
06YEREVAN264 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TO CONDEMN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-23 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER IZ AM |
06YEREVAN267 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...] | 2006-02-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC |
06YEREVAN274 | GHUKASIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIA TO LEAVE THE [...] (C) Nagorno-Karabakh "president" Arkady Ghukasian called on Armenia to pursue negotiations with Azerbaijan only if N-K representatives were a part of the process. Although Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian quickly moved to issue a clarification of Ghukasian's comments, the GOAM was clearly [...] | 2006-02-24 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN280 | ARMENIA'S NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Although parliamentary and presidential elections are still more than a year away, Yerevan's political season is well and truly underway. Several well-known political and business figures have announced the formation of new political parties in early 2006, in effect revealing their ambiti [...] | 2006-02-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN281 | KEEPING ARMENIA'S LIGHTS ON: PIPE DREAMS AND [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian is, by most accounts, Armenia's negotiator-in-chief on energy. He has personally formulated and, through a tight network of close advisors, controlled the implementation of the GOAM's strategically important and financially significant energy deals with Russia a [...] | 2006-02-27 10:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP GG AJ AM |
06YEREVAN282 | TUMANYAN OUT, GEVORKIAN IN -- PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) President Kocharian accepted Chief of Staff Artashes Tumanyan's resignation on February 24, then immediately named his long-time senior assistant, Armen Gevorkian, in Tumanyan's place. Although Gevorkian had been the de-facto head of Kocharian's administration for a number of years, Tuman [...] | 2006-02-27 13:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR AM |
06YEREVAN294 | MORE ON RAMBOUILLET FROM KOCHARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private discussion February 28 with the Ambassador, President Kocharian did not rule out further talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, but dilated at some length on why he believed Rambouillet had been doomed to failure from the outset, and why he did not believe that Azeri President Al [...] | 2006-03-01 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ AM PGOV PREL OSCE |
06YEREVAN315 | N-K: KOCHARIAN'S PRIME-TIME INTERVIEW [...] (SBU) In a rare, 45-minute television interview aired live on March 2, President Kocharian addressed Nagorno-Karabakh and OSCE-Minsk Group-led negotiations at Rambouillet in February. Looking fully at ease and in complete control of the scene, Kocharian answered questions from a carefully se [...] | 2006-03-02 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN33 | FORMER HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER GRANDSTANDING, [...] (SBU) Larisa Alaverdyan's tenure as Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) concluded January 5, under the terms of Armenia's newly amended constitution (reftel). On January 4, President Robert Kocharian created an ad hoc commission to oversee the HRD's administrative activities until Parl [...] | 2006-01-10 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN350 | ACTION ALONG THE ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BORDER [...] (C) Cease-fire violations along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified over the last several weeks, according to news reports confirmed by Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan and Ministry of Foreign Affairs OSCE Desk Officer Head Varuzhan Nersissia [...] | 2006-03-09 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR AJ AM |
06YEREVAN370 | YEREVAN AMBASSADORS ISSUE CALL FOR FREE, FAIR [...] (SBU) In the wake of the flawed referendum on constitutional changes held in Armenia last November, chiefs of mission accredited to Yerevan found themselves on the same page: almost all had cautiously endorsed the amendments, which were worked out in consultations with the Council of Europe's [...] | 2006-03-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN389 | SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM |
06YEREVAN423 | DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH NA SPEAKER BAGHDASARIAN [...] (C) During his March 7-8 visit to Yerevan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza pressed National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian to take a leadership role in developing Armenia's democratic institutions and urged Armenia to work with neighbors toward g [...] | 2006-03-26 10:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN432 | EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES N-K, ENERGY SECURITY AND [...] (C) During an informal dinner March 15 with a group of Armenian political leaders, visiting EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried underlined the USG's policy that strong democracies were better equipped to solve the region's most pressing problems, especially the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and [...] | 2006-03-27 09:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IR AM RU |
06YEREVAN458 | SHOOTING DISRUPTS MARCH 29 OSCE MONITORING MISSION [...] (C) OSCE Special Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk told CDA on March 31 that he called off a March 29 cease fire monitoring event because shots were fired in the vicinity and neither the "N-K" nor the Azeri side could account for their origin. A report signed by OSCE Special Representatives And [...] | 2006-03-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS OSCE AJ AM |
06YEREVAN473 | PRESS ALLEGES "RELIGIOUS SECTS" COLLUDING WITH [...] (C) A short, vague, and unsigned article published April 4 in opposition weekly Iravunk, alleged that a "top police official" had information that "religious sects," in particular Mormons and Pentecostals, had established ties with "well known criminals" who protected the "sects' interests" pr [...] | 2006-04-03 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KRCM AM |
06YEREVAN481 | ARMENIAN MPS REJECT PUBLIC TV'S CALL TO END [...] (SBU) At a March 4 press conference, National Assembly (NA) Speaker Artur Baghdasarian announced that NA leaders decided to reject calls by Chairman of Armenian Public TV and Public Radio Aleksan Harutiunian to abolish a law requiring Public TV to broadcast National Assembly sessions. Oppositi [...] | 2006-04-04 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
06YEREVAN484 | JUDGES CONTINUE TO DEMONIZE TIP VICTIMS AND [...] (SBU) Armenian courts continue to stigmatize trafficking victims and hinder the efforts of law-enforcement bodies to punish traffickers. On March 2 the Court of Appeals downgraded a trafficking conviction into pimping and reduced the key defendant's sentence. Hope and Help NGO, which provide [...] | 2006-04-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP HSTC PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN487 | ARMENIANS ALSO AMONG RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-05 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR AM |
06YEREVAN489 | ARMENIA'S NORTHWEST PROVINCE: DEAD END? [...] (C) Armenia's northwest Shirak province is bound by a closed border with Turkey to the west and the Samstkhe-Javakheti region of Georgia to the north. A 1988 earthquake centered in Shirak killed tens of thousands of people and leveled a significant portion of the region's infrastructure. Alm [...] | 2006-04-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN549 | IRANIAN-ARMENIAN SCIENCE UNIVERSITY EXPECTED TO [...] (C) Iran's largest state-sponsored university -- with branches in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and correspondence courses on-line -- recently partnered with Yerevan State University (YSU) to establish a private "Armenian-Iranian Science University" in Yerevan, according to YSU's Caucasian Center [...] | 2006-04-17 11:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IR AM |
06YEREVAN557 | ARMENIAN KATHOLIKOS PLANS OUTREACH TO TURKEY, [...] (C) The Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, told Ambassador April 18 that he planned to visit Istanbul June 20-26 at the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch, but would not be venturing further into Turkey on this, his first visit there. Instead, he hoped to make a second [...] | 2006-04-18 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM AJ TU |
06YEREVAN56 | TRAFFICKER SENTENCED IN FIRST CASE OF ARMENIA [...] (SBU) On January 8, the first instance court of Artashat sentenced Sos Meliksetyan, charged under the trafficking statute (Article 132) with aggravating circumstances (reftels),to two years of corrective labor. Under this verdict Meliksetyan, who exploited three women and a minor girl from U [...] | 2006-01-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
06YEREVAN560 | CODEL KOLBE: KOCHARIAN REQUESTS BENCHMARKS TO [...] (C) During their April 10-12 visit to Yerevan (ref A),Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Operations Jim Kolbe, Congressman Scott Garrett and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Amb. John Danilovich discussed developments related to im [...] | 2006-04-18 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV EAID AM |
06YEREVAN566 | ARMENIAN SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT ON ELECTORAL REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The OSCE Ambassadors' group (reftel) met with Speaker Baghdasarian of the Armenian National Assembly for an extensive briefing and discussion of electoral law revisions that have been sent to OSCE/ODIHR and the Council of Europe's Venice Commission for expert review. The new e [...] | 2006-04-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN6 | KOCHARIAN MENTIONS MCA, IRAN DURING ANNUAL NEW [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian's New Year's address, which is traditionally broadcast via all local television stations in Armenia on January 31, included a specific reference to the Millennium Challenge Account program. Kocharian said that thanks to the MCA program, Armenia would "see a brea [...] | 2006-01-04 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN623 | TURKISH FM GUL EXPRESSES HIS CONDOLENCES TO FM [...] (U) The MFA Press Service announced May 4 that FM Oskanian had received a letter of condolences from Turkish FM Abdullah Gul. While the information did not yet make the Armenian papers, wire services carried a brief notice about the letter, quoting FM Gul as having written, "It was with deep [...] | 2006-05-05 06:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM TU |
06YEREVAN647 | BAGHDASARIAN LEADING HIS PARTY INTO THE COLD? [...] (C) In a series of recent setbacks for National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian and his Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law, OY) party, it is becoming apparent that Baghdasarian is being marginalized well before the 2007 parliamentary elections (ref A). Baghdasarian's penchant for playing to a We [...] | 2006-05-10 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN661 | "PROSPEROUS ARMENIA" - OLIGARCH'S NEW PARTY [...] (C) The political grouping "Prosperous Armenia" is gathering steam and is expected to be one of the most important factors as the political season heats up. Its leader, the business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan, has declared that his goal is to support financially a group of professional legislato [...] | 2006-05-12 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN662 | "A CIVILIZED DIVORCE"--BAGHDASARIAN LEAVES [...] (C) National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian formally announced his party's withdrawal from the governing coalition and his intention to step down as Speaker during a press conference May 12. His formal announcement ended intense speculation about his falling out with President Kocharian [...] | 2006-05-12 10:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN688 | GOOD POLITICAL CLIMATE IN ARMENIA FOR A DEAL ON N-K [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you to Yerevan again. Given your familiarity with the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, we would like to take this opportunity to update you on domestic political developments, some of which may influence Armenian decision-making with respect to N-K. 2. (C) Des [...] | 2006-05-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OTRA OSCE AJ AM |
06YEREVAN691 | DASHNAKS PICK UP MINISTER OF EDUCATION SLOT [...] (SBU) Nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaktsutyun) party received a new cabinet portfolio after Speaker of the National Assembly Artur Baghdasaryan pulled his Orinats Yerkir (OY) party and its cabinet members from the ruling coalition on May 12 (reftel). On May 17, Pres [...] | 2006-05-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN692 | ARMENIA'S SYUNIK MARZ: NOT MUCH GROWTH AND LITTLE [...] (C) Armenia's southern Syunik region feels very little of the economic growth that is now so obvious in the capital. Separated from the rest of Armenia by mountains and connected by a two-lane road occasionally washed out by landslides, Syunik borders the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan on the [...] | 2006-05-19 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL AM IR |
06YEREVAN696 | NA SPEAKER BAGDASARIAN FORMALLY RESIGNS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN701 | SHAKING OUT THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Armenia's governing coalition, now down to two official members, will be strengthened with the (informal) addition of the United Labor Party and the continued support of the People's Deputy Group. Current Deputy Speaker Tigran Torosyan (Republican) is looking ever more likely to fill the [...] | 2006-05-24 03:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN710 | NA RATIFIES MCC COMPACT; AMBASSADOR DELIVERS [...] (U) On May 24, the Armenian National Assembly ratified the GOAM's Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for USD 235.6 million. The vote was 77 to 0 in favor with 4 abstentions. The Compact was signed in Washington on March 27 by MCC Chief Executive Officer Ambassador John D [...] | 2006-05-24 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN714 | FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW [...] (SBU) On May 25, ten (of eleven) National Assembly members who left outgoing Speaker Artur Baghdasarian's Orinats Yerkir (OY) Party Faction, created a new deputy group called Gortsarar (Entrepreneur). The members of Gortsarar elected Grigor Margaryan, the owner of "Bellagio" restaurants netwo [...] | 2006-05-25 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN721 | A1-PLUS FAILS YET AGAIN TO WIN FREQUENCY [...] (SBU) The independent television and media company A1-Plus failed to win a radio frequency in the latest of its recurrent attempts to resume broadcasts. The National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR, a regulatory body appointed by President Robert Kocharian) rejected the A1-Plus appli [...] | 2006-05-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN74 | KOCHARIAN WON'T CONDEMN REFERENDUM, STILL HOPES [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Kocharian, the Ambassador pressed for a clearer GOAM acknowledgement of shortcomings in the November 27 constitutional referendum. The January 12 response to Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Danilovich from FM Oskanian was a principled statement, [...] | 2006-01-18 11:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN743 | ARMENIA: OPINION POLL ON N-K SETTLEMENT, POLITICS [...] (C) The vast majority of Armenians believe it is important to solve the problems related to Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) in the "near future," according to the results of a May 2006 Gallup poll commissioned by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The poll results also demonstrated that, wh [...] | 2006-05-31 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM |
06YEREVAN747 | ARMENIA PARLIAMENT ELECTS NEW SPEAKER, NO [...] (SBU) On June 1, the Armenian Parliament elected Tigran Torosyan to the post of Speaker of the National Assembly, which became vacant on May 29 (reftel A). Torosyan, a member of Armenia's Republican Party and the former Deputy Speaker, was the only candidate. The vote was 94-1, with two ballo [...] | 2006-06-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN751 | ARMENIANS CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with President Kocharian late June 1 to deliver ref A points on Iran, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian the following day. Kocharian had no immediate reaction except to repeat his concerns about the heightening tensions over Iran's nuclear program, to la [...] | 2006-06-02 10:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM |
06YEREVAN761 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) DCM presented reftel points and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report summary for Armenia to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission, during a June 5 meeting. Mkrtumyan said the Anti-TIP Commission would take ou [...] | 2006-06-05 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN784 | ARMENIA SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) GOAM Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian publicly declared Armenia's support for the U.S. statement on Iran during a June 8 press conference (see text in paragraph 3 below). Oskanian's statement came after the Ambassador's push to President Robert Kocharian, Oskanian and Deputy Foreign Minis [...] | 2006-06-09 10:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
06YEREVAN785 | ARMENIA'S NEW (OLD) MINISTER OF EDUCATION [...] Summary: On June 5, Ambassador, DCM and CAO met with newly appointed Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan, who took up his post when the party of Parliament Speaker Baghdassarian left the ruling coalition in early May. Mkrtchyan made a strong first impression, with a firm command of the chall [...] | 2006-06-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI AM |
06YEREVAN819 | TURKISH MP'S VISIT TO ARMENIA MARRED BY HEATED [...] (C) A member of the Turkish parliament made Armenian news June 13 when he got into a verbal scuffle with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosyan during a rare visit to Armenia. Twenty parliamentarians visited Armenia June 12-14 on an information-gathering trip managed by the NATO i [...] | 2006-06-15 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PGOV PREL TU AM |
06YEREVAN830 | REBEL A1-PLUS MEDIA OUTLET MAY BE FORCED OUT OF [...] (SBU) Independent media outlet A1-Plus is being forced to vacate its offices, which may result in the shut-down of its website and newspaper. The Ministry of Territorial Administration has offered a new set of offices to the news outlet, whose television station was forced off the air in 2002 [...] | 2006-06-20 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM OPRC KMDR KPAO AM |
06YEREVAN831 | ARMENIAN PRESIDENT GOING TO TEHRAN [...] (C) Armenian President Robert Kocharian will accept a long-standing invitation to visit Tehran for a working visit that has been tentatively set for July 5-6, according to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, who told the Ambassador this June 20 in the course of a meeting on ano [...] | 2006-06-20 10:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM |
06YEREVAN836 | TIP RATING CATCHES KOCHARIAN'S ATTENTION [...] (C) Armenia's second consecutive ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watchlist seems to have touched a nerve in the highest levels of Armenian government. During a June 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian confirmed news reports that Preside [...] | 2006-06-21 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN838 | YEREVAN-BATUMI TRAIN DEPARTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN [...] A train departed Yerevan for the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi on June 17, marking the first train service between the Armenian capital and the autonomous region of Adjara in 14 years. According to press reports quoting Georgian Minister of Economic Development Irakli Chogovadze, A [...] | 2006-06-21 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG AM |
06YEREVAN840 | TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER [...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...] | 2006-06-22 03:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM |
06YEREVAN850 | ARMENIA: UN OPTIONAL ANTI-TORTURE CONVENTION [...] The United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force June 22 in Armenia. The Parliament unanimously ratified the Protocol on May 31. The Protocol, which the UN General Assembly adopted in December [...] | 2006-06-23 11:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN851 | N-K DFM BLAMES FIRES ON AZERI TRACER BULLETS AS [...] (SBU) A top "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) official has refuted Azeri allegations that the Armenian military is starting fires in Azerbaijani settlements bordering N-K. NKR "Deputy Foreign Minister" Masis Mayilian told the press some of the fires were natural occurrences, but that Azeri tra [...] | 2006-06-23 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN858 | ARMENIAN PRESS BLASTS TURKISH RECEPTION OF [...] Armenian cultural and political leaders blasted the GOT in the press following an incident during which a group of about 50 protesters reportedly egged cars carrying Armenian religious dignitaries on their way to meet the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Istanbul airport. Accordi [...] | 2006-06-26 10:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM |
06YEREVAN875 | GOAM INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF MENTAL HOME ABUSE, [...] (C) Armenia's sensationalist press has reported allegations of human organ sales from a state-run mental facility in a western province of Armenia. While the prosecutor's investigation has not turned up evidence of organ sales, it did uncover widespread malnutrition, abuse and medical malprac [...] | 2006-06-29 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN895 | ARMENIA RELEASES ANTI-TIP MANUALS FOR ITS OVERSEAS [...] At the release of a USG-funded anti-trafficking in persons manual for Armenian consular officials overseas, GOAM officials pledged to improve their track record in identifying and protecting trafficking victims and to strengthen Armenia's interagency Anti-TiP Commission. End Summary. 2. [...] | 2006-07-03 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
06YEREVAN914 | KOCHARIAN'S JULY 5-6 "WORKING VISIT" TO IRAN [...] (C) From July 5-6, during a "working visit" to Iran, President Kocharian met twice with President Ahmadi-Najad and presided over the signing of several agreements to further economic and cultural cooperation. Most significant of these dealt with increasing energy integration, including the c [...] | 2006-07-07 11:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM |
06YEREVAN920 | GOAM OFFICIALS WORRY GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (U) The July 7 closing of the Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars checkpoint (reftel) between Russia and Georgia is worrying GOAM officials. GOAM Prime Minister Andranik Margarian told reporters the closure will become a serious problem for Yerevan, particularly in the agricultural sector. End Summary. [...] | 2006-07-11 03:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN922 | OSCE: "NOTHING TO" AZERI CLAIMS OF ARMENIAN ARSON [...] (C) There is "nothing to" the claim that Armenians had set fires to destroy Azeri property in the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Andrzej Kasprzyk, special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office (CiO) on the Minsk Conference. The OSCE sent a monitoring gr [...] | 2006-07-11 06:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
06YEREVAN933 | ARMENIAN MEDIA CONCERNED ABOUT TABLOID EDITOR'S [...] (C) The Armenian media is concerned about the arrest and pre-trial detention of the editor of Zhamanak Yerevan, Arman Babajanyan, on charges of document fraud and the evasion of military service. Babajanyan reportedly confessed to the charges that he forged documents between 1996 and 2002 to g [...] | 2006-07-12 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN938 | MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES GOAM-GOG BORDER [...] (C) The Georgian and Armenian governments have delimited between 100 and 110 kilometers of the border between the two countries, and the entire project should be completed by year's end, according to the director of the MFA's Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Department. Though the sta [...] | 2006-07-13 11:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU AM |
06YEREVAN946 | NDI HOLDS WOMEN'S FORUM IN YEREVAN [...] (U) The National Democratic Institute (NDI) put on a well-attended forum about women and elections earlier this month. The event was the latest in a series that is part of NDI's Women's Leadership Forum of Armenia (WLFA),established in March, part of the Mission's USAID Democracy Promotion S [...] | 2006-07-17 08:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KWMN AM |
06YEREVAN951 | HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER: DEMOCRACY COULD BE [...] (C) During a July 13 lunch with Mission staff at the Ambassador's residence, Armenian Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan speculated about Armenia's chances of becoming the region's leading democracy. When the Ambassador raised the linkage between potentially fraudulent elections and susp [...] | 2006-07-17 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN952 | KOCHARIAN'S NEW COMMISSION ON ARMENIAN- [...] (U) Armenian President Robert Kocharian recently established a new Commission to better coordinate Armenia's collaboration with Europe. The high-ranking commission has been given two months to develop a timeline of "concrete activities" to fulfill Armenia's commitments to the Council of Europ [...] | 2006-07-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN959 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMISSION FOR ASSISTANCE TO A [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan July 17. Mkrtumyan said Armenia stands behind the USG in its efforts. "Our voting pattern has changed drastically in favor of the U.S. on this issue," he sai [...] | 2006-07-18 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
06YEREVAN960 | ARMENIA DRAMATICALLY INCREASES PENALTIES FOR [...] (SBU) Recent changes in Armenia's Criminal Code significantly increase penalties for trafficking in persons (TIP),making them commensurate with penalties for crimes such as rape. The Prosecutor General initiated the amendments, which took effect July 16. The changes attempt to distinguish be [...] | 2006-07-19 06:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HTSC AM |
06YEREVAN970 | ARMENIAN REFUGEE POPULATION DWINDLES AS PEOPLE [...] (C) Armenia's refugee population has dwindled enormously since hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled across the border from Azerbaijan, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) statistics. UNHCR Representative Peter Nicolaus told us preliminary results from the Armeni [...] | 2006-07-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM |
06YEREVAN971 | PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON CLAIMS OPPOSITION HAS [...] (C) On July 4, Presidential Spokesperson Victor Soghomonian sent official letters to OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti and Head of the "Ago" monitoring group of the COE Council of Ministers Ambassador Roland Wegener refuting claims that opposition politicians are not [...] | 2006-07-19 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN983 | ARMENIAN JOURNALISM REMAINS A DANGEROUS PROFESSION [...] (SBU) Two recent incidents, although they are unrelated, highlight the fact that journalists in Armenia are subject to intimidation. Journalist Edik Baghdasaryan reported receiving e-mail threats following the publication of an article on his web site about oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan's new poli [...] | 2006-07-21 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
06YEREVAN985 | DEFENSE MINISTER SARGSIAN OFFICIALLY ENTERS THE [...] (C) Although parliamentary elections are still nearly a year away and presidential elections are almost two years off, Armenia's political scene has begun to coalesce. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian has long been tipped as the likely successor to President Kocharian, and on July 14, he declar [...] | 2006-07-21 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN991 | DEFENSE MINISTER JOINS RULING REPUBLICAN, [...] (SBU) As expected (reftel) the leadership of the governing Republican Party finally secured the long-awaited membership of Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, electing him to the post of chairman of the party's governing council during its extraordinary congress July 22. The party also e [...] | 2006-07-25 05:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
06YEREVAN998 | GOAM HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 61ST UNGA [...] (SBU) Post submits the following list of high-level GOAM attendees for the 61st UNGA per reftel instructions. MFA International Organizations Department Director Valery Mkrtumyan told us schedules remain tentative but that Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will head the GOAM delegation. Post [...] | 2006-07-25 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA AM |
06YEREVAN999 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU SPECIAL [...] (C) During a July 25 meeting with the Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby seemed most concerned with determining what "flanking measures" he could take to assist the Minsk Group in getting Nagorno Karabakh (NK) negotiations back on track. The Ambassador [...] | 2006-07-25 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM |
06ZAGREB1 | TWO YEARS IN POWER: RESILIENCE AND STABILITY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During his second year in office, PM Ivo Sanader led his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) through domestic difficulties and over critical Euro-Atlantic integration hurdles. At the same time, he sustained a government coalition whose unquestionable stability defies th [...] | 2006-01-01 15:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC KCRM PHUM PREF HR |
06ZAGREB103 | AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met 23 January with Budimir Loncar, President Mesic's foreign policy advisor and a long-time Mesic advisor and confidant. Loncar delivered a letter from Mesic to President Bush (to be pouched to EUR/SCE) seeking public support and joint "sponsorship" of efforts to com [...] | 2006-01-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CASC HR |
06ZAGREB1039 | ARTICLE 98: MESIC'S COUNTERPROPOSAL [...] (C) Presidential foreign policy advisor Tomislav Jakic wrote former Ambassador Frank in late June (reftel) stating that President Mesic's office had examined the US draft "security cooperation agreement" which incorporated non-extradition language without specific mention of the ICC or Article [...] | 2006-08-31 13:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM |
06ZAGREB1055 | GOC SKETCHES OUT RETURNEE HOUSING PROGRAM [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On 25 August the GOC approved a housing program for ethnic Serbs that provides for the construction of apartments for former tenancy rights holders (socialized housing) in non-war affected areas (outside the Areas of Special State Concern, or ASSC). The $500 million [...] | 2006-09-06 08:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ZAGREB1110 | KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS - CROATIAN VIEW [...] (U) Post briefed MFA contacts on reftel points on August 22 and 28. Asst MFA for EU and NATO Member States Neven Pelicaric told Charge at time that the GoC appreciated the USG's continued engagement on this sensitive issue. 2. (C) COMMENT: While PM Sanader has made repeated media comments [...] | 2006-09-14 13:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1115 | Ambassador's Call on Minister for Refugee Issues [...] (SBU) Ambassador paid his initial courtesy call on Bozidar Kalmeta, Minister for Sea, Transport, Tourism and Development on September 19. 2. (SBU) Ambassador raised the GOC's newly-approved housing program for former tenancy rights holders outside war- affected areas (reftel). At the meet [...] | 2006-09-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR REFUGEES |
06ZAGREB1126 | BORDER POLITICS TEST GOOD NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador raised the recent flare-up in Croatia's ongoing border dispute with Slovenia (reftels) on September 15 with MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic, urging continued high-level communication with Ljubljana and a measured and non-confrontational approach to the [...] | 2006-09-15 13:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SI HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1168 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH HSP ADVISOR MATE GRANIC [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met September 22 with former foreign minister and "strategic advisor" to the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) Mate Granic at the latter's request. Granic described the recent evolution of the HSP's world view as it sought to shed its nationalistic image and become a main [...] | 2006-09-27 11:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR |
06ZAGREB1178 | BARROSO, THE EU'S "PAUSE" AND AVOIDING A "DOUBLE [...] (C) Despite EU and Croatian Government efforts to downplay Commission President Barroso's comments about a "pause" in the EU's enlargement process, the damage has been done. For many Croatians, Barroso has turned on its head the EU's assurance that "When you are ready to join us, we will be r [...] | 2006-09-28 10:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EU HR |
06ZAGREB1231 | SCENESETTER - PM SANADER’S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Fifteen years after the death of Yugoslavia and eleven years after a horrible civil war, Croatia is poised to become that rarity ) a Balkans success story. With EU entry negotiations underway, tourism arrivals breaking records, and new construction on every corner, Croatia is rebranding itself [...] | 2006-10-11 10:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR EUN NATO |
06ZAGREB1233 | MEETING WITH CROATIAN MINISTER OF ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader will travel to Washington to meet with President Bush on October 17. Sanader's meeting with the President comes at an important time for Croatia as it seeks to bind itself firmly to Euro-Atlantic institutions. Securing continued economic growth is a c [...] | 2006-10-11 13:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV HR EUN |
06ZAGREB1247 | CROATS WELCOME DIALOGUE WITH US ON BOSNIAN ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During an October 9-10 visit to Zagreb, US Ambassador to BiH McElhaney updated top officials on USG views regarding BiH's future. He also called on Croatian political leaders to help encourage Bosnian Croats to support future constitutional reform efforts. The GoC, t [...] | 2006-10-16 08:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1251 | CROATIA AND SERBIA TO EXCHANGE WAR CRIMES EVIDENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic and Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic signed a bilateral agreement in Zagreb October 13 on cooperation in war crimes prosecutions. Like the document Bajic signed with his Montenegrin counterpart in July (reftel),the a [...] | 2006-10-16 13:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC PGOV SR HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1260 | FAR RIGHT POSITIONS ITSELF FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary and comment: The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) has consolidated its status as a major right-wing political party and gained greater acceptability as a democratic political entity, although some statements made by its leaders occasionally echo its extreme nationalist past. Domestica [...] | 2006-10-18 07:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS |
06ZAGREB1285 | JUDGE ORDERS GLAVAS DETAINED [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Zagreb County Court today ordered the detention of MP Branimir Glavas to prevent him from intimidating witnesses in an ongoing war crimes investigation that implicates him in the torture and murder of Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991 (reftels). Parliament, which e [...] | 2006-10-23 13:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1307 | AMB WISNER IN ZAGREB -- ENGAGING CROATIANS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador Wisner's first visit to Zagreb is well timed, coming just days after President Bush's White House acknowledgement of Croatia's leadership role in regional stability during his meeting with PM Ivo Sanader. In addition, MP Milorad Pupovac, a leading represe [...] | 2006-10-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1314 | CROATIAN PRESS COVERAGE OF PRIME MINISTER SANADER'S VISIT [...] Summary. Reporting on Croatian Prime Minister Sanader's visit to Washington was mainly positive in tone and grew more enthusiastic as the visit drew to an end, though a few commentaries wondered what concessions Croatia might have made to earn the top-level treatment that Sanader received in t [...] | 2006-10-30 11:14:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR PGOV PREL HR |
06ZAGREB1322 | CROATIAN COMMITMENT TO KOSOVO OUTREACH DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During his October 29-30 visit to Zagreb, Ambassador Wisner secured the GoC's commitment to actively assist in the region in promoting acceptance of Kosovo's future final status package. In meetings with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar Kita [...] | 2006-11-02 08:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1330 | NGO REPORTS CROATIAN SOCIETY GRADUALLY OPENING BUT WORK [...] Croatian NGO iDEMO (the Institute for Democracy) on November 2 marked the publication of its Society Openness Index 2006 at a well-attended public presentation in Zagreb. Based on research by sociologists and other experts, as well as public opinion surveys, the Index examines six areas of so [...] | 2006-11-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM HR |
06ZAGREB1334 | MAINTAINING BILATERAL MOMENTUM AFTER PM'S WHITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As discussed at PM Sanader's October 18 lunch with the Vice-President, the Ambassador and FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic began a series of regular reviews of outstanding bilateral issues October 27. State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic and DCM also attended. Embassy provides this overv [...] | 2006-11-06 11:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAIR ETRD PHUM KJUS HR |
06ZAGREB1352 | INTERNATIONALS SEE GLAVAS AS JUDICIAL TEST CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Observers in the international community are calling the war crimes investigation against MP Branimir Glavas (reftels) a test case of the maturity of the Croatian judiciary that will serve as an indicator of readiness for Euro-Atlantic integration. Glavas, now the sub [...] | 2006-11-08 14:52:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1364 | IRAQ: CROATIA OFFERS WEAPONS AND TRAINING TO NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic provided PolOff November 9 with a list of weapons and training courses the GoC has offered to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I). Weapons range from 500 x 7.62mm assault rifles to 10 x 82mm recoilless guns, w [...] | 2006-11-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR ASEC IZ HR DEFENSE REFORM |
06ZAGREB1380 | DEBATE ON GLAVAS DETENTION DIVIDES PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks postponed a vote today that may have led to the release of MP Branimir Glavas from detention (reftels). The planned vote did not have PM Ivo Sanader's support and had sparked widespread public criticism. Glavas has been in detention [...] | 2006-11-17 16:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1390 | CROATIAN PM SANADER ASSURES AMBASSADOR ABOUT GLAVAS [...] (C) Ambassador told PM Ivo Sanader November 20 that the USG was watching carefully the progress of the Glavas case (reftel) and how the parliament dealt with it. He encouraged Sanader to promote a solution that preserved the principles of rule of law and equality of all Croatians before the la [...] | 2006-11-20 16:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1391 | CROATIAN PRIME MINISTER SANADER READY TO ENGAGE [...] (C) PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador November 20 that he was ready to engage with the Kosovar Serbs and other minority group members in Kosovo, as promised to Special Envoy Frank Wisner October 30 (reftel). Sanader said he would talk about the status of national minorities in Croatia and how [...] | 2006-11-20 16:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR YI |
06ZAGREB1392 | CROATIAN PM SANADER SAYS HE CANNOT SUPPORT THE [...] (C) Summary: It would not be possible for him to support the Bosnian constitutional reform package from last spring, PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador November 20. Doing so would pit him against half the BiH Croatian community as well as the Catholic church, and would damage him both at ho [...] | 2006-11-20 16:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR BK |
06ZAGREB1405 | PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS GLAVAS DETENTION [...] Parliament voted November 22 to confirm a committee decision to strip MP Branimir Glavas of his immunity from detention, allowing the court to keep him in detention based both on the gravity of the alleged crimes and the protection of witnesses (reftels). Glavas could face up to a year of inv [...] | 2006-11-22 14:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1421 | PROGRESS MADE IN MINORITY EMPLOYMENT, BUT OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A November 27 roundtable discussion sponsored jointly by the Parliament, GOC and OSCE Mission highlighted progress made by local and regional administrations in employing minorities (mainly ethnic Serbs),while Serb politicians complained about delays in implementing [...] | 2006-11-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1423 | GOC PRESENTS BOSNIAN CROAT PROPOSAL FOR BIH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic briefed Charge d'Affaires November 30 on a two-option proposal from Bosnian Croat leaders for modifications that would enable them to support the BiH constitutional reform plan. Charge cautioned against calls to reopen the reform [...] | 2006-11-30 14:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1424 | GOC WELCOMES RIGA LANGUAGE, PROMISES CONTINUED [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On November 30, MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic expressed to Charge d'Affaires the SIPDIS GoC's appreciation of the positive assessment of Croatia in both the Riga communique and President Bush's speech. "We think Riga was a joint step forward," he said, stress [...] | 2006-11-30 15:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
06ZAGREB1425 | CROATIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY MARKS 90 YEARS OF OFFICIAL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At a November 29 commemoration, Croatia's top political leadership paid tribute to the local Islamic community as an active and constructive participant in civil society, and acknowledged the importance of promoting tolerance and religious pluralism in Croatia. The Presi [...] | 2006-12-01 07:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1435 | GOC SUPPORTS PFP FOR SERBIA, BIH, AND MONTENEGRO [...] In briefing for NATO Ambassadors December 01, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic said the GoC warmly welcomes accession of Serbia, BiH, and Montenegro into the Partnership for Peace (PfP). According to Simunovic, this will enable Croatia to raise regional cooperation to a ne [...] | 2006-12-04 12:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO SR BK MW HR |
06ZAGREB1436 | SETBACK IN GLAVAS INVESTIGATION [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Zagreb County Court investigative judge Zdenko Posavec decided December 2 to release MP Branimir Glavas from detention and suspend further investigative hearings into his suspected involvement in war crimes against Serb civilians in 1991 due to his deteriorated health afte [...] | 2006-12-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1439 | MORE ON BOSNIAN CROAT PROPOSALS FOR BIH [...] (SBU) Ambassador met December 4 with MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic to follow up on Bosnian Croat proposals for amending the BiH constitutional reform package that Biscevic had given DCM November 30 (reftel). 2. (SBU) Parliamentary Houses: Biscevic confirmed that in the proposal th [...] | 2006-12-04 14:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB1460 | ELECTIONS DUE IN 2007 ALREADY SHAPING CROATIAN POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Early elections remain unlikely as the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) holds on to enough coalition partners to pass a budget and approve (with additional opposition support) continued overseas troop deployments. Nevertheless, general elections are due by Nove [...] | 2006-12-08 14:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1461 | ISAF: PARLIAMENT APPROVES TROOP INCREASE, TWO-YEAR [...] (U) On December 8, Parliament approved a two-year extension of the Croatian troop deployment to NATO's International Stabilization and Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan by a vote of 102 to 1. The extension also authorizes expanding the force from the current 147 to 200 soldiers in 2007 a [...] | 2006-12-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR ASEC AF HR |
06ZAGREB1462 | NATIONAL NATO COMMITTEE APPOINTS HEAD OF PUBLIC [...] The National Committee on NATO Membership (reftel),under the chairmanship by President Stjepan Mesic, PM Ivo Sanader, and Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, met on December 7 to review conclusions of the Riga Summit. In its second meeting since its formation in November, the committee expre [...] | 2006-12-11 09:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
06ZAGREB1466 | DECISION TO RELEASE GLAVAS OVERTURNED [...] A Zagreb County Court panel of judges on December 11 quashed the December 2 decision of investigative judge Zdenko Posavec to release MP Branimir Glavas from detention and suspend further investigative hearings into his suspected involvement in war crimes against Serb civilians in 1991 in the [...] | 2006-12-12 13:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB1467 | CROATIA ON CEFTA: SIGN AND KEEP TALKING [...] (SBU) In a December 11 meeting with Croatian MFA State Secretary Hido Biscevic, Ambassador urged the GOC to show SIPDIS flexibility in working to find a solution to the current disagreement with Bosnia over CEFTA, stressing Croatia's role in the region and the fact that a CEFTA without Bosni [...] | 2006-12-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL PGOV HR BK SY |
06ZAGREB1468 | GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR- GLOBAL PURSUIT OF TERRORIST [...] (U) The following is post's reply to REFTEL. 2. (SBU) Immigration Databases: -- Croatia uses the National Border Management Information System (NBMIS). This is a regional integrated system being provided through EU CARDS which incorporates data from EUROPOL, INTERPOL, Schengen and Nation [...] | 2006-12-13 09:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CVIS KVPR PGOV PINR PREL PTER KHLS |
06ZAGREB1480 | RIGHT WING WINS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS IN EASTERN CITY OF [...] Summary and comment: The regional Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB, a party led by war-crimes suspect and local strongman Branimir Glavas) and the right-wing Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) won over half the seats in the Osijek city neighborhood councils (the lowest [...] | 2006-12-14 11:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1484 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON [...] (C) The Ambassador told FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic December 14 that there is a lot of concern in Washington about the negotiations between Croatia and Bosnia on the Central European Free Trade Area. The USG hopes the GOC will find some way to reach a compromise that will allow BiH to sign CE [...] | 2006-12-14 14:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL PGOV HR BK SY |
06ZAGREB1490 | MAINTAINING MOMENTUM AFTER THE CROATIAN PRIME [...] (U) Summary: Following up on their October 27 meeting, Ambassador and DCM met with Croatian FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic December 14 to review progress on outstanding issues and areas of cooperation. Discussions on CEFTA and BiH have been reported separately. Kosovo 2. (C) The Ambassado [...] | 2006-12-15 14:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIPR CASC CJAN EFIN EAIR EUN NATO |
06ZAGREB1495 | Refugee Fund Helps Open Multi-ethnic [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On December 6, Ambassador commemorated the opening of a US-funded multi-ethnic seniors home in Siroka Rijeka near Cetingrad on the Bosnian border. Operated by the local Islamic community, the home offers daytime activities and services for elderly in the community as well [...] | 2006-12-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1507 | SCANDALS SHAKE THE MFA [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been rocked recently by a diplomatic scandal and possible cover-up. The case involves the arrest of the husband of an officer assigned to the consulate in Los Angeles for heroin possession in January 2005. The information alleged [...] | 2006-12-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB1513 | GOC SOLVES RETURNEE HOUSING DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. A December 7 Government meeting approved a resolution "process" for temporary occupants of refugee homes who made unsolicited investments to the properties and are seeking compensation from the refugee owners. Along with the OSCE, UNHCR, and EU, Post has pressed the [...] | 2006-12-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB159 | OPPOSITION ALIVE AND KICKING, BUT POWER CAN WAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-08 10:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB168 | Croatia's Refugee Programs Proceeding, Slowly [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Continuing their monthly meetings on refugee return issues, the Ambassador and other principals from the international community (OSCE, UNHCR and EU) met with Minister for Trade, Transport and Development Bozidar Kalmeta February 6 to review progress. Perhaps the gr [...] | 2006-02-09 13:39:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB173 | Croatia's Refugee Programs Proceeding, Slowly [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Continuing their monthly meetings on refugee return issues, the Ambassador and other principals from the international community (OSCE, UNHCR and EU) met with Minister for Trade, Transport and Development Bozidar Kalmeta February 6 to review progress. Perhaps the g [...] | 2006-02-10 10:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB183 | NEW JUSTICE MINISTER INHERITS SOLID JUDICIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-10 16:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KAWC PGOV PREL HR |
06ZAGREB233 | GLAVAS: WINGS CLIPPED, BUT WATCH THE CLAWS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Branimir Glavas, the Slavonian strongman who broke ranks with PM Ivo Sanader and the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) last year (ref C),has been politically isolated and his power limited to Osijek and the surrounding county. While Glavas currently serves as th [...] | 2006-02-22 13:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR |
06ZAGREB243 | CROATIA RESPONDS TO REQUEST FOR [...] Poloff delivered reftel points to North America Desk Deputy Director Ankica Vlasic on February 23. Later that same day, the MFA GOC issued the following statement as reported by the Croatian news agency HINA. Begin Quote: It is with regret that (the Ministry) has received news of a bomb at [...] | 2006-02-24 12:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ HR |
06ZAGREB25 | Croatia Scene Setter for Lt. General Hanlon [...] SUMMARY: The last few months have brought a string of good news for Croatia and the government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. With EU accession negotiations opened on October 4 and fugitive general Ante Gotovina arrested in Spain on December 7, Croatia has now cleared the major political obst [...] | 2006-01-09 07:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV MARR HR |
06ZAGREB278 | SIX-MONTH DELAY OF JUDICIARY SCREENING [...] (SBU) EC representatives confirmed 28 February that "screening" of Croatian legislation and practice in preparation for adopting the Acquis chapters dealing with human rights and the judiciary would be postponed for six months to September 2006. Local press put an inflammatory spin on the new [...] | 2006-03-01 15:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM HR |
06ZAGREB281 | CROATIA SCENE SETTER FOR AMBASSADOR NULAND AND THE [...] SUMMARY: The last few months have brought a string of good news for Croatia and the government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. With EU accession negotiations opened on October 4 and fugitive general Ante Gotovina arrested in Spain on December 7, Croatia has now cleared major political obstacle [...] | 2006-03-02 15:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PGOV MARR HR |
06ZAGREB294 | LORA RE-TRIAL VERDICT: CROATIAN JUDGES FIND [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Split County Court on March 2 found eight Croatian soldiers guilty of the torture and murder of ethnic Serb civilians at Lora Prison in 1992. Sentences ranged from six to eight years in prison. This decision reverses a notoriously biased 2002 acquittal thrown out by [...] | 2006-03-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB295 | CROATIA-SLOVENIA BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Croatia and Slovenia enjoy generally good bilateral relations. Nevertheless, unresolved issues concerning maritime boundaries and the land border, the jointly-owned Krsko nuclear power plant and Croatian deposits in the former Ljubljanska Banka are persistent irrita [...] | 2006-03-03 16:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON HR SI |
06ZAGREB296 | CROATIA WELCOMES PSI PAPERS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel papers on March 3 to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director for International Security Programs, MFA. Bujas-Juraga welcomed receiving the input prior to the Warsaw meeting and said she would review them carefully. 2. (SBU) Bujas-Juraga said that she would brief intereste [...] | 2006-03-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMFO MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL HR |
06ZAGREB319 | POLICE AND PROSECUTORS TO ESTABLISH [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After months of negotiations, the Ministry of Interior and the Deputy Attorney General confirmed to Embassy Zagreb's SEED-funded ICITAP (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program) organized crime advisor March 8 their firm plans to establish an inv [...] | 2006-03-09 14:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM HR |
06ZAGREB337 | CROATIA SCENE SETTER FOR SENATOR VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Croatia and the government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader have enjoyed several important successes since your last visit in May 2005. With EU accession negotiations opened on October 4 and Hague indictee Ante Gotovina arrested in Spain on December 7, Croatia has now cleared majo [...] | 2006-03-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB348 | NEW JUSTICE MINISTER PUSHES FOR REFORM RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT: In a March 2 introductory call on new Justice Minister Ana Lovrin, Ambassador Frank urged the continuation of Croatia,s ambitious judicial reform program. Lovrin said that the judicial reforms started by her predecessor would be continued, and that she expected to see [...] | 2006-03-14 15:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS CASC CJAN HR |
06ZAGREB366 | ICJ CASES WEAVE DANGEROUS WEB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In light of recent local media reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina's case against Serbia and Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and speculation regarding a possible future BiH case against Croatia, PolOff met March 15 with Professor Ivan Simonovi [...] | 2006-03-17 15:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL PGOV BK SR HR |
06ZAGREB384 | NEW CROATIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY LATEST [...] (SBU) On March 16 the GoC approved and sent to the Sabor for ratification a new Strategy for the Battle Against Corruption. In presenting the Strategy to the public the previous week, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader emphasized that the battle against corruption is a permanent war that the Governme [...] | 2006-03-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM HR |
06ZAGREB417 | SENATOR VOINOVICH PROMOTES PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senator Voinovich met March 23 with President Stjepan Mesic, Minister of Foreign Affairs Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, and Parliamentarians from across the political spectrum to discuss NATO accession, Article 98 (ref A),and Croatia's potential role in resolving Kosovo's [...] | 2006-03-28 15:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV SR YI HR |
06ZAGREB435 | HDZ: PARTY CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS EURO CREDENTIALS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) used its 10th biennial party convention on April 1 in Vukovar to highlight its progress in bringing the country closer to Europe and EU membership. With leadership elections not due for another two years, this "reporting" congres [...] | 2006-04-03 13:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB446 | EARLY LOCAL ELECTIONS OFFER NATIONAL PREVIEW [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The GoC has called early local elections for April 9 in two counties, the city of Velika Gorica and the small municipality of Nova Gradiska due to administrative irregularities following the regularly-scheduled polls in May 2005 (reftels). What would normally be a relativ [...] | 2006-04-06 14:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB448 | GOC'S REFUGEE PROGRAMS: PUTTING THEIR MONEY WHERE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Ambassador and Principals from the EU, UNHCR, and the OSCE convened with Minister Bozidar Kalmeta on 15 March to review the month's progress on refugee issues. The Minister provided the GOC's sizeable financial commitments, which total $350 million in 2006 - or one [...] | 2006-04-06 14:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB45 | CROATIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] SUMMARY: Only in recent years has Croatia begun to emerge as an attractive destination for investment. Croatia lagged behind many of the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe in attracting foreign investment following the fall of the Berlin Wall, partly as a result of the conflicts [...] | 2006-01-13 12:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC |
06ZAGREB461 | VPOTUS SCENESETTER: PUSHING CROATIA'S INTEGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Vice President Cheney will visit Croatia at a time of political optimism following the opening of accession negotiations with the European Union in October 2005, the arrest of war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina in December 2005, and the prospect of NATO membership growing [...] | 2006-04-11 12:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC SIPDIS HR |
06ZAGREB525 | Refugee Housing Scandal: No Investigative Progress [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Over the past year the Croatian Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) made only marginal progress in investigating thousands of potential cases of illegal sales of ethnic Serb houses to the Croatian State Agency for Refugee Property (APN). Int [...] | 2006-04-26 11:14:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB527 | MESIC DECLINES IRANIAN INVITATION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: President Stjepan Mesic declined an invitation last week from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to visit Tehran, special presidential advisor for international relations Budimir Loncar told Ambassador Frank on April 21. When the Iranian Ambassador to Croatia pres [...] | 2006-04-26 11:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XF IR HR |
06ZAGREB537 | Opposition Takes All In Early Local Elections [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) has managed to enter governing coalitions in all three major places where early local elections were held on April 9 (reftels),pushing the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) from local power in two counties and hanging on t [...] | 2006-04-27 07:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR |
06ZAGREB538 | CROATIA AGREES TO SEEK SERBIAN ENDORSEMENT OF PSI [...] (C) PolOffs delivered reftel points to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Head of the Department for International Security, MFA on April 26. Bujas-Juraga agreed that Croatia could best approach Serbia for interest in endorsing the PSI principles. She said that she had received little traction in previous [...] | 2006-04-27 11:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP HR |
06ZAGREB560 | GLAVAS: PROSECUTOR ASKS PARLIAMENT TO STRIP [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic asked Parliament on April 25 to strip Osijek strongman Branimir Glavas of his immunity as an MP in order to indict him on charges of war crimes against ethnic Serb civilians in 1991 (reftels). Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, wh [...] | 2006-05-03 11:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB588 | GLAVAS: PARLIAMENT LIFTS IMMUNITY [...] (U) Parliament voted on May 10 by an overwhelming majority to strip Osijek strongman Branimir Glavas of his immunity from criminal prosecution as a member of parliament. This opens the door for Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic to pursue an indictment against him on charges of war crimes ag [...] | 2006-05-11 09:52:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB676 | CROATIAN'S ARE POSITIVE ABOUT U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] 1. (C) Ambassador demarched MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic the evening of May 31 drawing on reftel talking points. Biscevic said that the GOC supported the US move on Iran, a point he reemphasized in a June 1 meeting. He hoped that the Iranians would show maturity and act responsibly to [...] | 2006-06-01 13:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR IR |
06ZAGREB680 | INVESTIGATIVE JUDGE QUESTIONS LOCAL LEADER [...] Summary and comment: MP and local leader Branimir Glavas was interviewed June 1 by an investigative judge about 1991 war crimes in the city of Osijek. When Glavas and another suspect complete their statements, the investigative judge will decide on their criminal prosecution. Neither Glavas n [...] | 2006-06-02 13:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB690 | CROATIA SUPPORTS STABILITY PACT TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Croatian MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic told Ambassador June 1 that Croatia supports the transformation of the Stability Pact into a regionally-owned organization and believes the U.S. will need to play an active role in the process. The GOC anticipates that a [...] | 2006-06-06 13:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR BK SR |
06ZAGREB721 | Croatia recognizes Montenegro [...] The Government of Croatia (GOC) convened an extraordinary session on June 12 to recognize Montenegro as an independent and sovereign state. The decision was preceded by a meeting between President Mesic and Prime Minister Sanader where the pair agreed that the GOC should go ahead and recogn [...] | 2006-06-13 12:02:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB739 | CROATIA CONSIDERS ESTABLISHING EMBASSY IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Following FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's visit to Afghanistan in April, the MFA has established a small committee to consider the ramifications of establishing a permanent diplomatic presence in Kabul, MFA Assistant Ministe [...] | 2006-06-14 12:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV HR AF |
06ZAGREB780 | SERBIAN PRESIDENT TADIC'S VISIT TO CROATIA: A [...] (U) Serbian President Boris Tadic visited Croatia on June 27, meeting with President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and traveling with President Mesic to the town of Knin, where the two statesmen met with ethnic Serb returnees. While the visit was held in a highly positive atmosph [...] | 2006-06-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB809 | (C) CROATIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ARTICLE 98, NATO [...] (C) Summary: The President's office and the Croatian Government are working on a "counterproposal" regarding the US desire to conclude a Bilateral Security Cooperation (Article 98) Agreement with the US, President Stjepan Mesic told Ambassador Frank during a June 29 farewell call. The two al [...] | 2006-07-03 12:52:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO MARR HR |
06ZAGREB816 | INTELLIGENCE SERVICES TO MERGE UNDER NEW LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatia's Intelligence and Counterintelligence Agencies (OA and POA) will merge into a single Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) under a new law adopted by Parliament on June 30. Tomislav Karamarko, the current head of POA and architect of the new law, is widely e [...] | 2006-07-06 10:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PHUM HR HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ZAGREB823 | CROATIA SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During your July 9-10 stop in Dubrovnik for the conference "Completing Europe's Southern Dimension: The Values that Bind Us," you will witness firsthand the GoC's unshakable enthusiasm for promoting Euro-Atlantic integration. Still paddling on the wave of political op [...] | 2006-07-07 11:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC SIPDIS HR |
06ZAGREB846 | JUSTICE MINISTER - PROPERTY RESTITUTION ONE STEP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 12 introductory call on Justice Minister Ana Lovrin, Ambassador Bradtke stressed the importance the USG places on Croatia's continued judicial reforms and on creation of a fair and transparent process in dealing with property restitution claims from the time of the for [...] | 2006-07-14 13:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS CASC CJAN HR HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ZAGREB847 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PM SANADER [...] (C) Croatia is committed to promoting ever stronger Transatlantic cooperation, PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador during a July 13 introductory call. Europe and the United States can only succeed when they work together; Sanader emphasized that now, as well as when Croatia is a member of the [...] | 2006-07-14 13:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV HR EU UP |
06ZAGREB861 | MFA CONDEMNS HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS, SYRIAN COMPLICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The MFA condemned Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Lebanese territory in a July 17 statement and called on the international community to facilitate a quick calming of the crisis. The MFA's director of middle eastern affairs told PolOff that the GoC fears the confli [...] | 2006-07-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB872 | CROATIAN PM SANADER HAS POSITIVE UK VISIT [...] (U) PM Ivo Sanader's July 18 meeting with British PM Tony Blair during his first official visit to London received wide coverage in the Croatian press. The media focused on Blair's strong support of Croatia's EU accession and his statement that "there is no sense that Croatia has to wait for o [...] | 2006-07-21 10:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EU HR UK |
06ZAGREB884 | GLAVAS: PROSECUTION SEEKS DETENTION OVER WITNESS [...] (U) Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic requested on July 20 that the Zagreb County Court order the detention of MP Branimir Glavas to prevent him from intimidating witnesses in an ongoing war crimes investigation that implicates him in the torture and murder of Serb civilians in 1991 (reftels) [...] | 2006-07-21 14:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB897 | CROATIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ TO PRESENT CREDENTIALS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (C) Newly-appointed Croatian Ambassador to Iraq Jerko Vukas will travel to Baghdad August 01-03 in order to present his credentials and open direct diplomatic contact with the Iraqi Government. Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs [...] | 2006-07-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ASEC IZ HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB898 | NEW PAGE IN RELATIONS WITH SERBIA? [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: PM Ivo Sanader capped a recent surge in bilateral contact between Serbia and Croatia by opening the new Bajakovo-Batrovci border crossing with Serbian PM Kostunica on July 21 and traveling to Belgrade for meetings with both Kostunica and Serbian President Tadic. While [...] | 2006-07-27 09:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC SR HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB904 | CROATIAN DELEGATION TO IRAQ - AGENDA [...] (C) Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic advised PolOff July 28 that the delegation he will lead to Baghdad August 1-3 (reftel) has secured all necessary appointments through the Polish Embassy in Baghdad to enable Croatian Ambassador to Iraq Jerko Vukas to present his credenti [...] | 2006-07-28 09:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ASEC IZ HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
06ZAGREB911 | CROATIA SEEKS FUNDING TO CONTINUE AIDS- [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 04:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KHIV PHUM PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB943 | MARGETIC - CROATIANS ARREST JOURNALIST AT ICTY [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatian authorities arrested journalist Domagoj Margetic on August 4 for contempt of court at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) after he published on his U.S.-based website a list of 102 protected witnesses from the tri [...] | 2006-08-08 13:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC KHJUS HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB948 | OPERATION STORM VIDEO - PROSECUTOR LAUNCHES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic has forwarded the war-time video recently aired on Belgrade's B-92 television to the Ministry of Interior and requested a full investigation of the crimes shown. After watching the video and reviewing an extensive analysis done by C [...] | 2006-08-10 08:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
06ZAGREB952 | CROATIA SEEKS FUNDING TO CONTINUE AIDS- [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-10 13:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KHIV PHUM PGOV HR |
06ZAGREB983 | IRAQ: CROATIA AIMING FOR PERMANENT PRESENCE AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT : Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic thanked Charge August 8 for Embassy Baghdad's assistance to his delegation during an August 1-3 visit to Iraq (reftels). Simunovic characterized the visit as extremely positive and noted that Zagreb's new Ambassador [...] | 2006-08-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ASEC IZ HR |
07ABIDJAN1003 | COTE D IVOIRE FINES STRIKING PHYSICIANS [...] (U) The Government of Cote d Ivoire decided on September 20 to suspend the September salary of the leaders of the union representing physicians, the Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Santede Cote d Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),which organized a strike by public sector physicians September [...] | 2007-09-27 15:04:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN1006 | COTE D'IVOIRE: COMPAORE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary. Boureima Badini, Special Representative of Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) Facilitator Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, told Charge on September 27 that both President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro are committed to OPA implementation, but that there is a lack of trust [...] | 2007-09-28 15:07:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV UV |
07ABIDJAN1019 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PM SPOKESMAN OPTIMISTIC, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Alain Lobognon, Spokesman for the Prime Minister, told Emboffs on October 2 that Interior Minister Desire Tagro is trying to stall the "audiences foraines" (tribunals that will issue birth certificates to those who never had them) process. According to Lobognon, the delay in the [...] | 2007-10-03 17:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN1033 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UN INVESTIGATION INTO ATTACK ON PM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A four-member UN team is visiting Cote d,Ivoire in response to President Gbagbo,s request to the Secretary General for an independent investigation into the SIPDIS June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro,s plane in Bouake. The team, headed by Terseli Loial, is spending a week in [...] | 2007-10-05 17:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN IV |
07ABIDJAN1036 | IFIS, DONORS DISCUSS FISCAL GOVERNANCE AND [...] (C) Summary. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) staff convened top bilateral donors September 28 to discuss their negotiations with the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) on fiscal controls and next steps. Cote d'Ivoire is staying current with the July 2007 arrears financing packa [...] | 2007-10-07 10:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IMF ECON PGOV PREL EMIN EAGR ENRG EPET |
07ABIDJAN1042 | "L'AFFAIRE FULTON" - THE UPSTATE NY CHOCOLATE [...] (C) Summary. A September 18 letter to World Bank President Zoellick alleging President Gbagbo and a quasi-governmental cocoa regulatory body have manipulated the purchase of a Fulton, New York chocolate factory for fraudulent purposes has generated substantial interest locally (reftel a). T [...] | 2007-10-11 07:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IBRD IMF EFIN EINV EAGR PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN1080 | OPA LIMPING ALONG [...] (C) Summary. United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) officials told TDY State/INR analyst and Pol/Econ Chief that, while Ivorians support the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA),their optimism could wane if they do not begin to see concrete steps on its implementation. However, ther [...] | 2007-10-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN1084 | COTE D'IVOIRE ROLLS OUT PRELIMINARY COCOA-CHILD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Prime Minister's interministerial taskforce rolled out preliminary results of its industry-funded survey of child labor in the cocoa sector on Oct. 12. It found that 22 percent of children in the region are involved in cocoa production, and a majority of them are involved [...] | 2007-10-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV |
07ABIDJAN1094 | THE COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR AFFAIR - GBAGBO ENTOURAGE [...] (C) Summary. On October 11, police and prosecutors made public allegations that a counterfeit US dollar ring had been broken up in Abidjan. Three high-level officials close to the President were implicated by the accused owner of the premises in which the evidence had been found. The next [...] | 2007-10-26 07:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL KCRM IV |
07ABIDJAN1110 | COTE D' IVOIRE SCENESETTER FOR D VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d,Ivoire. You will be the highest ranking USG official to visit Abidjan since 2005 when AF Assistant Secretary Connie Newman visited to discuss the peace process. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG interest i [...] | 2007-10-31 18:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN1135 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PM'S OFFICE TOUTS OPA PROGRESS AND [...] (U) Summary. The Prime Minister's spokesman, Meite Sindou, held a press conference November 6 to discuss the status of government efforts to move beyond the current crisis. The most interesting new bits of information he gave: the PM and the President make joint decisions; the President will m [...] | 2007-11-09 11:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN114 | COTE D'IVOIRE APPARENTLY SPENT WORLD BANK ARREARS [...] (C) World Bank Chief of Mission Peter N'Gomba and Senior Economist Richard Donffonso told EconChief January 26 that an ongoing IMF audit of Ivorian governmental finances is pointing strongly to the conclusion that Cote d'Ivoire has spent the USD 160 million it had borrowed to cover part of it [...] | 2007-01-31 11:12:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN1157 | DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S TRIP TO COTE D'IVOIRE [...] ( C ) Summary: The Deputy Secretary and AF Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer were well-received by government and SIPDIS opposition leaders as well as UN officials during their November 10-11 visit to Abidjan. In all of his meetings, the Deputy explained that the purpose of his visit was t [...] | 2007-11-16 16:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP IV |
07ABIDJAN1176 | DOES LACK OF DONOR ASSISTANCE EXPLAIN SLOW [...] (C) Summary: During a number of recent public events, President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro have blamed slow implementation of the Ougadougou Peace Agrement (OPA) on a lack of international donor assistance. The Prime Minister and President both made this assertion in meetings with the [...] | 2007-11-26 16:12:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IBRD IMF IV |
07ABIDJAN1180 | COTE D'IVOIRE ADOPTS PLAN AGAINST CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has adopted a National Plan of Action Against Child Trafficking and Labor that will run from September 2007 through December 2009. The plan's overall objectives are: to adopt laws specifically prohibiting these practices, to determine the scope of [...] | 2007-11-27 16:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV SMIG SOCI IV |
07ABIDJAN1181 | AUDIENCES FORAINES PROCEEDING CLUMSILY, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The audiences foraines process is proceeding clumsily but without violence. Less than a quarter of the planned tribunals have been deployed since the process was launched on September 25 and public awareness remains low. Political parties are closely monitoring the proceedings [...] | 2007-11-27 17:43:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN1183 | PARTIES HAMMERING OUT CODE OF CONDUCT FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Political parties participated in a forum November 13-14 during which they finalized the language on a code of conduct for elections. The text calls upon signatories to take steps to ensure democratic, free, open and transparent elections. Ruling FPI party leaders declined to [...] | 2007-11-28 09:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN1187 | COTE D'IVOIRE: OPA IMPLEMENTATION AT CRITICAL STAGE [...] (C) Summary. Modalities to carry out the identification process were the main subject of the November 18-22 meeting of the OPA Evaluation and Monitoring Committee (CEA). The parties' positions were so irreconcilable that Interior Minister Tagro reportedly abandoned the meeting along with his d [...] | 2007-11-28 18:46:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN12 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EDUCATION IN THE FN-HELD NORTH [...] (U) Summary: The efforts to administer the New Forces (NF)-held north by the Ministry of Education are viewed by the FN and academics in the region with suspicion bordering on contempt. EconOfficers visited Bouake and Korhogo, and found that the ongoing public primary school teacher's strike [...] | 2007-01-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB IV PGOV KISL USAID |
07ABIDJAN120 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PARAMEDICS END DEBILITATING STRIKE [...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire's "paramedics" (public health workers excluding doctors, who have pursued their own pay grievances independently) ended a 3-week old strike on January 29, following government commitments to give them two thirds of the pay increase they were demanding. This agreement, incre [...] | 2007-02-01 11:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN1208 | GROWTH OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM - COTE D'IVOIRE [...] Summary. Because of its lucrative potential, Cote d'Ivoire's oil and gas sector is vulnerable to resource nationalism and signs of the government's willingess to abuse its position are evident. U.S. firm Devon Energy reports the parastatal PETROCI has attempted to strong-arm it into selling [...] | 2007-12-07 15:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON PGOV IMF IV |
07ABIDJAN1209 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MEETING 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. A Joint International Monetary Fund, World Bank and African Development Bank team briefed the donor community on its initial findings on November 26. The assessment team was broadly complimentary of the government's efforts to remain within budget targets and to adopt more tra [...] | 2007-12-07 17:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV |
07ABIDJAN1227 | SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d'Ivoire. Yours will be the second recent visit of high-level U.S. government officials, following the November visit of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG intere [...] | 2007-12-14 17:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV |
07ABIDJAN1236 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO VISITS NEW FORCES STRONGHOLD; [...] (SBU) Summary: From November 28-30, President Gbagbo visited the north of Cote d'Ivoire for the first time since becoming head of state. Press reports were favorable and key Gbagbo aides noted that large crowds welcomed the President. The visit demonstrated that the general public is anxious f [...] | 2007-12-18 16:44:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON UN IV |
07ABIDJAN1238 | SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit. Yours will be the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Cote d'Ivoire in many years. Senator Harkin and Representative Engle's roles in developing and implementing the international public/private accord (the "Harkin-Engle Protocol" [...] | 2007-12-18 18:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV |
07ABIDJAN1241 | SPECIAL REP BADINI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OPA; FOCUS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador discussed recent developments with the Ouagadougou Political Accord with the Facilitator,s special representative, Boureima Badini, on December 14. Badini confirmed that the complementary accords were meant to keep pressure on the parties, but said he was satisfied tha [...] | 2007-12-20 07:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID MARR IV |
07ABIDJAN1245 | OPPOSITION LEADER OUATTARA STILL DOUBTS GBAGBO'S COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: In a December 20, conversation with Ambassador, RDR par leader Ouattara expressed concern about ongoing delays in the deploymen audiences foraines teams, the lack of precision about the identificatio process and the role of technical operator SAGEM. The RDR will be prepa a presiden [...] | 2007-12-21 16:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID IV |
07ABIDJAN128 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE EFFORTS CONTINUE BUT REAL [...] (C) Summary. Peace efforts here continue but it is far from clear whether they will bear fruit. Burkina Faso President Compaore, as new Chairman of ECOWAS, has moved quickly to take on a central mediating role in the upcoming direct dialogue between President Gbagbo and rebel New Forces (FN) [...] | 2007-02-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN141 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S DIRECT DIALOGUE UNFOLDS; [...] Summary. Direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces counterparts kicked off in Ouagadougou on February 5. No substantive negotiations were held, but despite this, participants and observers were upbeat. Apparently an agenda for the much-anticipated direct Gba [...] | 2007-02-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV PREL |
07ABIDJAN162 | DIRECT DIALOGUE WRESTLING WITH IDENTIFICATION ISSUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following last week's widely publicized kick off of direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces (FN) counterparts, this week the cracks are beginning to surface as the talks wrestle with the issue of identification. Although there have been some press [...] | 2007-02-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN168 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO PROMISES TO INTEGRATE [...] (C) In a controversial but not entirely unexpected move, President Gbagbo announced February 13 that the 4000 "New Recruits" would be hired into the military. This move came after on February 1-2, New Recruits fired automatic weapons in the air in several towns in government-held territory to [...] | 2007-02-15 11:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN174 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POSTAL WORKERS ON STRIKE [...] (U) Workers from the Ivorian state postal company &Poste de Cote d,Ivoire8 led by the main union, the National Post and Telecommunications Union (SYNAPOSTEL) went on strike on February 9 in opposition to a court ruling reinstating the former Director General Sebastien ZEHI, who had been sacked [...] | 2007-02-16 15:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV ECON ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN200 | COTE D'IVOIRE: IDENTIFICATION PROCEEDING SLOWLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The identification process continues to proceed at a snail's pace. Two courts in Abidjan are issuing both birth certificates and certificates of nationality despite the lack of political agreement on Prime Minister Banny's revised procedures which call for issuing these two docum [...] | 2007-02-23 14:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN203 | COTE D'IVOIRE:SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS STRIKE [...] (U) On February 19, Ivorian police arrested five members, including the secretary general, of the secondary school teachers, coordination, &Coordination des Enseignants du Second Degre de Cote d,Ivoire8, CES-CI. Since February 6 this informal, unrecognized labor movement has been leading a se [...] | 2007-02-23 16:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN225 | $190 MILLION SETTLEMENT BY TRAFIGURA OF TOXIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The widely-reported February 13 "amicable" settlement of $190 million between the government of Cote d'Ivoire and the Dutch-based oil trading firm Trafigura to end current and future litigation and criminal proceedings against the firm and its subsidiaries continues to reverb [...] | 2007-03-01 12:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN226 | COTE D'IVOIRE: NO VISIBLE PROGRESS IN OUAGADOUGOU [...] (C) Summary. There are no signs of significant progress in the Gbagbo-proposed "direct talks" with rebel New Forces (FN) leader Soro that President Compaore of Burkina Faso is trying to mediate. There has been no face-to-face meeting between the two principals and even their representatives a [...] | 2007-03-01 15:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN234 | CHINESE INFLUENCE IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AN UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. China plays a passive role in the political scene in Cote d'Ivoire, and typically proffers the rhetoric of non-interference in national affairs with regards to the Ivorian political crisis. China is not a supplier of military hardware or training to either faction. China is [...] | 2007-03-02 19:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN XA IV |
07ABIDJAN240 | COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA [...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated the talking points in reftel to Foreign Minister Bakayoko on March 5. Minister Bakayoko confirmed that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire, particularly the Presidency, had made a number of demarches to President Conte urging him to find a peaceful solution to the [...] | 2007-03-05 16:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | GV PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN242 | PEACE ACCORD IN OUAGADOUGOU - OBSERVERS, POLITICAL [...] (C) Confounding the expectations of many, (reftel b),President Compaore brokered an ambitious peace accord over the evening of Saturday, March 3rd. Signed by both President Gbagbo and Forces Nouvelles leader Soro in Ouaga, the agreement is both detailed and vague: attempting to overcome the [...] | 2007-03-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IV |
07ABIDJAN243 | SORO'S COMMENTS ON THE OUAGA AGREEMENT [...] (C) Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro told the Ambassador on March 3 that he was cautiously optimistic that the Ouaga Agreement will move Cote d'Ivoire out of crisis. He noted that, while the agreement dealt with the familiar issues addressed in previous agreements, the Ouaga Agreement [...] | 2007-03-06 11:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
07ABIDJAN245 | BEDIE, OUATTARA, AND BANNY REACTIONS TO THE OUAGA [...] (C) Former President Bedie, former Prime Minister Ouattara, and current Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador on March 5 that they are cautiously optimistic concerning the Ouaga Agreement signed the previous day. They all noted, however, that the agreement raises as many questions as it [...] | 2007-03-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
07ABIDJAN256 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNEVENTFUL THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held its 13th meeting in Abidjan March 2. Perhaps the most dramatic moment came when the Communications Minister Delegate briefed the group on the growing pro-Gbagbo bias in the state-owned media since Gbagbo replaced the leadership of both [...] | 2007-03-08 16:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN281 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO ON THE OUAGA PEACE AGREEMENT [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on March 14, President Gbagbo made the following points concerning the Ouaga Peace Agreement (OPA): -- Gbagbo and Soro signed the Ouaga Peace Agreement and therefore all those associated with Gbagbo and Soro are committed to its implementation. -- [...] | 2007-03-15 16:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV PREL |
07ABIDJAN304 | COTE D'IVOIRE PEACE AGREEMENT: ALL EYES STILL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political actors in Abidjan are still looking ahead to what round two of the Ouagadougou Peace Accord (OPA) will bring as NF leader Guillaume Soro and President Gbagbo negotiate the powers of the Prime Minister. In the meantime, Soro is under pressure to accept the Premiership. [...] | 2007-03-22 07:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN312 | AUTHORITIES EXPEL LEBANESE-IVORIAN IN VAT TAX [...] (C) Summary. Lebanese-Ivorian trader Ibrahim Reda was expelled from Cote d'Ivoire for inciting other traders to violate the VAT tax laws, prompting an ongoing shutdown of a part of the important Lebanese-owned commercial sector. Senior ONUCI officials have been approached by Reda's wife for [...] | 2007-03-23 13:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IV PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER |
07ABIDJAN314 | TEACHERS, PROFESSORS, MEDICAL WORKERS END STRIKES; [...] (U) Summary. Within the last few weeks, striking secondary school teachers (reftel),university professors and researchers, and medical technicians and nurses all ended their strikes, bringing a measure of labor calm to the government-controlled zone (the strikes did not take place in the F [...] | 2007-03-23 15:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN318 | ENGAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL, LOCAL FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary. The Ouaga Accords have forced international and private financial institutions to react. World Bank staff is anxious to find a mechanism to disburse USD 104 million in DDR funds. The IMF is equally anxious to pry open government oil, gas and cocoa accounts as a precursor to a [...] | 2007-03-23 18:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN333 | NEW FORCES LEADER SORO TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26 the ex-rebel movement New Forces (NF) announced that it has reached a deal with President Gbagbo's representatives in which NF leader Guillaume Soro will become Prime Minister. Some press reports and NF sources indicate that Gbagbo will issue a decree to this effect t [...] | 2007-03-28 07:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC IV |
07ABIDJAN340 | GBAGBO ISSUES DECREE NAMING SORO PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a widely anticipated move, late evening March 29 President Gbagbo signed the decree naming ex-rebel New Forces (NF) leader Guillaume Soro the third Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire since the September 19, 2002 failed NF rebellion. The announcement has some renewed hope that [...] | 2007-03-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN361 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SORO OFFICIALLY PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Ex-rebel leader Guillaume Soro officially took over the Premiership Wednesday, April 4 at a ceremony at the Prime Minister's compound that included outgoing Prime Minister Banny and most of his cabinet. Soro, who had been named Prime Minister on March 29 by presidential decree, said th [...] | 2007-04-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN379 | GOVERNMENT, REBELS AND IMPARTIAL FORCES DISMANTLE [...] (SBU) Representatives of the Ivorian army, the New Forces and ONUCI and Licorne peacekeepers signed an agreement on April 11 to dismantle the zone of confidence (ZOC) starting Monday, April 16. The drawdown of the ZOC will begin at midnight in a concrete step to implement the Ouagadougou Peac [...] | 2007-04-12 17:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN391 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO WANTS TO REDUCE THE UN'S [...] (C) During a meeting with the Ambassador on Friday, April 13, President Gbagbo emphasized that the UN should play a support role, not a lead role, in the political process in Cote d'Ivoire. He referred to President Compaore's March 27 letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, which he said wa [...] | 2007-04-17 14:03:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV KPKO PGOV |
07ABIDJAN402 | COTE D'IVOIRE: REPORT CARD FOR WEEK 2 OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY After using week one to get his cabinet installed, the respectful and friendly ceremony marking the beginning of the dissolution of the Zone of Confidence (ZOC) and the opening of the Joint Integrated Command Center (ICC) has been the highlight of week two of the Soro government. [...] | 2007-04-20 17:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN403 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 17:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UN IV |
07ABIDJAN43 | COTE D'IVOIRE: U.S. POLICY FOR BREAKING THE [...] (C) Summary. The continuing political stalemate in Cote d,Ivoire, as the clock winds down on any chance of elections this year, poses the question: what can the United States do to re-energize the peace process? We do not believe the United States should try to take the lead -- among other [...] | 2007-01-12 11:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN466 | SORO PRESIDES OVER GOV'T SEMINAR OUTLINING [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 2nd, following a week-long "pre-seminar" dominated by technocrats, new Prime Minister Guillaume Soro presided over a "governmental seminar in Yamoussoukro to define the way forward regarding each of the elements laid out in the Ouaga Accord of March 4. This included i [...] | 2007-05-04 19:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN489 | SORO-GBAGBO ALLIANCE UNHINGES THE OPPOSITION, [...] (C) Summary: Opposition RHDP parties, particularly the PDCI and RDR, led by former President Bedie and Alassane Ouattara respectively, have been widely critical in recent weeks of key New Forces leaders and by extension the Soro Prime Ministership. While the increasing rancor illustrates the [...] | 2007-05-11 15:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN503 | WORLD BANK, IMF, AFDB PUSH COTE D'IVOIRE, DONORS [...] (C) Summary. The IFIs are pressing a coordinated effort to address Cote d'Ivoire's $450 million in arrears to the World Bank in order to allow reengagement by the Bretton Woods institutions. The outlines of the deal were put forth in the recent aide memoire signed in Washington between Ivo [...] | 2007-05-14 17:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN521 | PRIME MINISTER SORO TO PRESENT NEW ACTION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 16, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro focused on the following issues: -- it has taken time for him to get organized, but he will present an action plan, including a matrix timetable, next week; -- the timetable included in the Ouaga Agree [...] | 2007-05-18 13:04:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV EFIN |
07ABIDJAN539 | UNIVERSITY TEACHERS STRKE CONTINUES, PROMPTS [...] (SBU)The public university teachers, strike, which has continued on and off for more than a year, has garered renewed attention by the recent actions aganst it by the thuggish, pro-Gbagbo students, unin, FESCI (septel). The strike, led by the Natioal Coordination of Higher-Level Teachers and [...] | 2007-05-22 17:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB IV |
07ABIDJAN54 | TWELFTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING [...] (C) Summary. At an unexpectedly short twelfth meeting of the International Working group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny sought to convince the group that the political situation here is not at a total impasse, but he had almost no progress to show. Rebel FN (New Forces) leader Soro stressed the [...] | 2007-01-18 11:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN544 | COTE D'IVOIRE: REASSESSING THE UNOCI MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The evolving political and security climate in Cote d'Ivoire in light of the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) and the increasing demands on the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) mission pose the question: what should UNOCI's role be in this fragile security env [...] | 2007-05-23 11:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN551 | DISARMAMENT OF MILITIAS OFF TO SYMBOLIC START [...] (U) Ivoirian government officials organized a ceremony in the town of Guiglo on May 19 to mark the resumption of the disarmament and demobilization of militias (DDM) in the volatile west of the country. At the ceremony, attended by President Gbagbo, FANCI commander General Mangou, and Acting [...] | 2007-05-24 14:13:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KPKO PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN558 | COTE D'IVOIRE: STUDENT UNION RAID HEADQUARTERS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Monday, May 21 a mob of more than 200 youth from the Federation of Secondary and University Students of Cote d'Ivoire (FESCI) concurrently attacked the offices of two prominent Ivoirian human rights NGOs, the Ivoirian League for Human Rights (LIDHO) and the Association for the [...] | 2007-05-25 21:07:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IV |
07ABIDJAN560 | COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTRICITY GENERATION FALTERS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Privately-owned national electricity distribution company CIE and the Ministry of Energy and Mines continue to squabble over who is to blame for shortfalls in investments needed to boost natural gas production to meet national and regional energy needs. CIE, owned by French f [...] | 2007-05-29 13:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON IV PGOV PREL |
07ABIDJAN580 | PRIME MINISTER'S ADVISERS SAY OUAGA PEACE ACCORD [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Tourism and Prime Minister Soro confidant Sidiki Konate and the PM,s Political Counselor, Adama Bictogo, told selected Ambassadors on June 1 that the implementation of the Ouaga Peace Accord roadmap will move into high gear starting next week with the redeployment of [...] | 2007-06-01 19:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IV |
07ABIDJAN614 | UNIVERSITY TEACHERS SUSPEND THEIR STRIKE, [...] (SBU) On May 30, the university professors and researchers from the "Coordination Nationale des Enseignants et Chercheurs" (CNEC) suspended their six-week old strike, ushering in the resumption of classes nationwide and ending the looming threat of an annulled school year (reftel). CNEC too [...] | 2007-06-11 15:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB IV |
07ABIDJAN615 | OUAGA ACCORD AT 90 DAYS - ASSESSING ITS [...] (C) Summary. Since the signature of the Ouaga Accord on March 4, Cote d'Ivoire has seen both successes and shortcomings in its implementation. At the 90 day mark, several key tasks remain undone, while a number of others have been accomplished (even if incompletely). The overall report ca [...] | 2007-06-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN633 | COMPAORE CHAIRS OUAGA ACCORD'S FIRST "PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary. OPA facilitator Compaore hosted the first Permanent Consultative Mechanism (CPC) on June 12, bringing together Gbagbo, Soro, Ouattara and Bedie. Members issued a brief, harmonious press statement that touched on key questions of DDR and dismantlement of the militias, as well a [...] | 2007-06-18 18:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC IV |
07ABIDJAN676 | 2007 COTE D'IVOIRE REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan is aware of no new investment disputes or expropriation claims involving U.S. persons against the Government of Cote d'Ivoire. 2. (SBU) Post is pleased to report the end of the sole outstanding investment dispute reported from Cote d'Ivoire, the Cora de Comstar matter [...] | 2007-06-26 11:36:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN689 | COTE D'IVOIRE, WB AND IMF STAFF CONCLUDE [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank and IMF, working in tandem, finalized a deal on June 27 that would provide financing packages for the post-conflict transition (WB) and emergency budget support (IMF) in exchange for the GoCI paying 50 percent of its WB arrears and adoption of strict fiscal contr [...] | 2007-06-28 13:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV |
07ABIDJAN691 | END OF JUNE ASSESSMENT OF OUAGA ACCORD [...] (C) Summary. Implementation of the Ouaga Accord has not moved substantially since the Yamoussoukro CPC (reftel B). The Integrated Command Center is not functioning, the question of military ranks continues to bedevil efforts to begin integrating the militaries and the process of DDR, while [...] | 2007-06-29 09:17:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN705 | THREE KILLED BUT PRIME MINISTER SORO UNHURT AFTER [...] (C) Multiple sources confirm Prime Minister and New Forces leader Guillaume Soro is alive and well after an RPG attack on an airplane in which he was traveling at Bouake airport on the morning of June 29. ONUCI Acting SRSG Abu Moussa told us that, according to UN Air Ops personnel who witnesse [...] | 2007-06-29 16:39:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL KPKO IV |
07ABIDJAN719 | WHO TRIED TO KILL SORO? THE SPECULATION IS WELL [...] (C) Summary. Since the June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. The facts remain scarce, adding fuel to the unending speculation. The suspects are numerous, ranging from the most obvious (disaffected members of the Forces Nouvelles) to the absurd (ONU [...] | 2007-07-03 11:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IV |
07ABIDJAN732 | PM SORO CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF [...] Several Ambassadors accompanied acting SRSG Abou Moussa to Bouake to visit Prime Minister Soro on July 3. The meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes, devoted more time to formal expressions of sympathy and Soro's detailed account of what happened than to substantive political discussions. [...] | 2007-07-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | IV PGOV PREL |
07ABIDJAN753 | COTE D'IVOIRE ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES [...] (C) Emboff met with Presidential diplomatic advisor Ambassador Ottra Toure on July 10 to follow up a June 19 delivery of reftel letter and points to President Gbagbo by the U.K.'s DFID. During the conversation, Ambassador Ottra Toure appeared siezed with the issue, although she said that ne [...] | 2007-07-11 16:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL ECON IBRD IV |
07ABIDJAN755 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO AGREES TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 11, President Gbagbo stated that he had agreed to an international investigation of the attempt on PM Soro's life "in order to make the Prime Minister happy." To have objected to the investigation would have encouraged unnecessary suspicion in th [...] | 2007-07-12 11:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV PREL |
07ABIDJAN764 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT DRIFTS AFTER ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary. Since the March 29 attack on the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Soro, the peace process implementation has been at a near-standstill. Soro and his small team appear knocked off stride (although he could be "playing possum" and proceeding cautiously while recovering his footi [...] | 2007-07-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN765 | IMF PRESSURES COTE D'IVOIRE TO ABANDON JP MORGAN [...] (C) In a somewhat abrupt denouement to the monthlong negotiations around the debt securitization deal between JP Morgan and the Ivorian pension fund CNPS (reftel),the local IMF representative convinced the Minister of Finance Charles Diby during a July 10 videoconference to abandon the proje [...] | 2007-07-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL IBRD IV |
07ABIDJAN8 | PM BANNY: POLITICAL GRIDLOCK [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 3, Prime Minister Banny stated that Cote d'Ivoire is basically in political gridlock. All the political actors are waiting to see what will happen next. He characterized President Gbagbo's five proposals for dealing with the crisis as non-pro [...] | 2007-01-04 14:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
07ABIDJAN803 | SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHT-LIPPED ON [...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...] | 2007-08-01 07:47:00 | Embassy Abidjan | SECRET | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN804 | SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHTLIPPED ON AUTHORS [...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...] | 2007-08-01 07:47:00 | Embassy Abidjan | SECRET | PGOV PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN831 | COTE D'IVOIRE LIGHTS FLAME OF PEACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire held a July 30 "flame of peace" symbolic disarmament ceremony in the Forces Nouvelles stronghold of Bouake. While the ceremony was attended by 7 African heads of state or government, Ivorian opposition leaders Henri Konan Bedie, Alassane Ouattara a [...] | 2007-08-09 17:23:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IC |
07ABIDJAN832 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNOCI A/SRSG ANALYZES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Acting United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Abou Moussa underscored to Charge d'Affaires and Poloff August 9 the importance of the "balance" that the U.S. provides on the Ivorian political scene. Moussa said UNOC [...] | 2007-08-09 17:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN856 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON DEMOBILIZATION, [...] (C) Summary. Alain Michel Lobognon, Communications Director at the Prime Minister's Office, and Jean-Luc Stalon, Chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Unit, told Poloff that agreement on the ranks of the Forces Nouv [...] | 2007-08-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS IV |
07ABIDJAN863 | COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF STAFFDELS SMITH AND CLACK [...] (C) Summary. Shannon Smith, Majority Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mark Clack, Foreign Relations Staff Member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Cote d'Ivoire August 10-15. Smith and Clack conducted a review of programs under the Presi [...] | 2007-08-17 09:33:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN864 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES IDENTIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a televised address to the nation on August 6, the eve of Cote d'Ivoire's anniversary of independence, President Gbagbo announced the resumption of the public identification hearings ("audiences foraines"),pledged his commitment to fair, transparent and open elections, and cal [...] | 2007-08-17 10:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IV KDEM |
07ABIDJAN88 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO CONTINUES TO PUSH HIS OWN [...] (U) On January 22 President Gbagbo met with the diplomatic corps to receive their New Year,s greetings. In his speech for the occasion, Gbagbo reiterated the proposals for resolving Cote d,Ivoire,s crisis that he had first put forward December 19 (reftel). Once again, he called for direct di [...] | 2007-01-25 14:56:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
07ABIDJAN880 | ASSESSING THE STRENGTH OF THE FORCES NOUVELLES, [...] (C) Summary. An Embassy team composed of Charge Vicki Huddleston and Econ Chief Ervin Massinga to the Bouake and Korhogo regions, both under Forces Nouvelles (FN) control, and spoke to United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI),non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Rassamblement [...] | 2007-08-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO IV |
07ABIDJAN892 | COTE D'IVOIRE: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Henri Ettien Amoikon, Director of the Minister of Defense's Cabinet, told Poloff August 21 that President Gbagbo told members of the Armed Forces (FANCI - Forces Armees Nationales de Cote d'Ivoire) August 14 that the Ivorian state will pay its year-long arrears of soldiers' bonus [...] | 2007-08-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS IV |
07ABIDJAN900 | COTE D'IVOIRE: VIEWS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet Sarata Ottro Toure told Poloff August 23 that President Laurent Gbagbo is committed to holding elections and that it is possible to hold elections by December 2007 or January 2008. Toure said that, since the 2000 elections were the most [...] | 2007-08-24 17:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN904 | COTE D'IVOIRE DELEGATION TO UNGA [...] (SBU) Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) United Nations and International Organizations Department, told Poloff August 27 that Minister of Foreign Affairs Youssouf Bakayoko will head Cote d'Ivoire's delegation to the United Nations General As [...] | 2007-08-28 12:08:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNGA IV |
07ABIDJAN906 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UDPCI SECGEN FORECASTS VIOLENCE IF [...] (C) Summary. Alassane Salif N'Diaye, Secretary General of the opposition political party Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote d'Ivoire (Union Pour la Democratie et pour la Paix en Cote d'Ivoire - UDPCI),told Poloffs August 24 that the UDPCI supports the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA),but [...] | 2007-08-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN907 | COTE D'IVOIRE: VIEWS FROM SMALLER PARTIES [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met separately August 27 with Robert Guei Bombet, President of the "Renaissance" party (Parti La Renaissance) and with Francis Wodie, President of the Ivorian Workers' party (Parti Ivorien des Travailleurs - PTI). Both lamented the lack of implementation of the Ouagadougou [...] | 2007-08-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN909 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EXPRESSED HOPE, ANXIETY FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 18 ceremony in his honor in the far northern city of Ferkessedougou, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro announced that the audiences foraines (tribunals that will issue replacement birth certificates) will resume the beginning of September after the government's recess. [...] | 2007-08-29 10:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABIDJAN925 | COTTON, CASHEWS, TIMBER: MAINSTAYS OF THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Cotton, cashews and forest products are the mainstays of the economy in the North and West, but each sector is experiencing varying levels of difficulty. Cotton production is down by 40 percent since the division of the country in 2002, and both producers and ginning enterpris [...] | 2007-09-04 07:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PGOV EAID ETRD SENV IV |
07ABIDJAN927 | COTE D IVOIRE: OUATTARA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY [...] (U) Former Ivorian Prime Minister and long-time President of the Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR) party Alassane Ouattara announced his candidacy for the Ivorian presidential election during an August 25 speech in Paris to RDR supporters in Europe. (Note: the date of the election has not [...] | 2007-09-04 07:45:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN935 | ELECTIONS PLANNING IN COTE D'IVOIRE: WHO'S IN [...] (C) Summary: The composition and responsibilities of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),the main body responsible for organizing elections in Cote d'Ivoire, has been highly politicized and subject to contentious infighting since the crisis erupted in 2002. The CEI is composed of memb [...] | 2007-09-05 16:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UN IV |
07ABIDJAN95 | INCREASING U.S. SUPPORT FOR COTE D'IVOIRE'S [...] (U) Post strongly supports the IFES proposal for a two-year project to expand U.S. support for the electoral process in Cote d,Ivoire. 2. (U) IFES has done excellent work in the first phase of this project. In particular, the Prime Minister,s Secretary General wrote to us that the roundtab [...] | 2007-01-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN955 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FPI THINKS ELECTIONS WILL SOLVE [...] (C) Summary. Ivorian Popular Front (Front Populaire Ivoirien - FPI) Secretary General Sylvain Miaka Ouretto told Poloff September 7 that the FPI is not "against France," but that France should treat Cote d'Ivoire as a partner. Ouretto said elections are the solution to Cote d'Ivoire's crisis [...] | 2007-09-11 16:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IV |
07ABIDJAN962 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FRANCE'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. French Deputy Chief of Mission Sebastien Minot told Poloff September 11 that the differences in the positions of the Ivorian government and the Forces Nouvelles on disarmament and identification may be difficult to reconcile and could derail the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) [...] | 2007-09-13 16:41:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV FR |
07ABIDJAN969 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PHYSICIANS STRIKE [...] Public sector physicians were on strike September 4-13, demanding a two-fold wage increase. Responding to pressure from the government and public, the leader of the doctors' union (Syndicat des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d'Ivoire - SYNACASS/CI) announced an eight-day suspension of [...] | 2007-09-14 17:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV IV |
07ABIDJAN995 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe announced September 13 that Cote d'Ivoire will be ready for presidential elections by October 2008. Mambe has always asserted that it would take 10-12 months to complete the identification and voter registration pro [...] | 2007-09-25 15:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
07ABUDHABI1015 | JUNE 11 U.S.-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] (S) Summary: Department of State International Security and Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation Initiatives (ISN/CPI) Director Tony Foley led an interagency delegation to the June 11 US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF) working groups meetings in Abu Dhabi to discuss questions relate [...] | 2007-06-19 08:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
07ABUDHABI1016 | UNIFEM SUPPORTS TOWARDS MORE UAE WOMEN POLITICAL [...] On June 13, Sheikha Fatima, widow of the late President Sheikh Zayed, honored 220 women graduates of the "Enhancing the Role of Women Parliamentarians" program, which was organized in 2005 by the General Women's Union in conjunction with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). [...] | 2007-06-19 09:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KWMN KMPI AE |
07ABUDHABI1154 | DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR THE UAE: ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: This message updates the Mission's first Democracy Strategy dated May 2005 (Ref A). Despite progress made over the last two years in the area of democratic reform )- including the country's first limited election of half of the advisory Federal National Council (FNC) -) the UAE [...] | 2007-07-11 11:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | KDEM KMPI PGOV ELAB PHUM KPAO AE |
07ABUDHABI1177 | FOREIGN MINISTER ABDULLAH ON GCC +2, SYRIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on July 14 evening to discuss the planned GCC 2 meeting (Ref A),his upcoming trip to Syria with UAE President Khalifa, and Pakistan. END SUMMARY. GCC 2; Israeli-Palestinian Issue ----------------------- [...] | 2007-07-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ IS SY PK AE |
07ABUDHABI1238 | ABZ ON GCC+2, UNGA, IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Ambassador previewed the themes to be discussed at the upcoming July 31 GCC 2 Sharm el-Sheikh meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on July 23 (ref A). AbZ asked for additional information on the issue of increased assistance for Iraq, wondering if the Iraq C [...] | 2007-07-23 13:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV UNGA IZ IR LE AE |
07ABUDHABI1272 | UAE NATIONAL TRAFFICKING COMMITTEE CHAIR ON UAE [...] (SBU) On July 29, Ambassador spoke with UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs (and Chair of the UAE's Human Trafficking Committee) Anwar Gargash to follow-up on her June 21 session with him (reftel) and to inquire about reports of a new women's shelter opening in Dubai. Ga [...] | 2007-07-30 06:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ELAB AE |
07ABUDHABI1338 | ABU DHABI GOVERNMENT UNVEILS ITS "POLICY AGENDA 2007-2008" [...] (U) Ambassadors and Charges of foreign embassies in Abu Dhabi were called to a meeting on August 6 at the Emirates Palace Hotel for a roll-out on its new "Emirate of Abu Dhabi Policy Agenda 2007-2008." Diplomats were given a half-hour powerpoint presentation followed by brief Q&A on the Abu Dha [...] | 2007-08-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI AE |
07ABUDHABI1458 | FREEDOM AGENDA UPDATE FOR UAE [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Arab Emirates is a relatively progressive yet still conservative Muslim state with a large and diverse foreign population. The expansion of Western style freedoms is incremental. Embassy Abu Dhabi and ConGen Dubai regularly meet with UAEG officials and the broader [...] | 2007-08-30 15:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KMPI KPAO SCUL XF AE |
07ABUDHABI1555 | UAE PRESS WELCOMES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] (U) On September 17, most local English and Arabic dailies in the UAE cited the release of the 2007 U.S. International Religious Freedom (IRF) report prominently and in positive terms. Coverage generally highlighted the report's validation of UAE efforts to promote religious tolerance. The p [...] | 2007-09-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO KIRF AE |
07ABUDHABI158 | SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF U/S FORE TO THE UAE [...] (SBU) U/S Fore, Mission UAE warmly welcomes you and looks forward to your February 13-14 visit to Dubai. Your meeting with Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR) will allow us to make progress on our new consulate compound (NCC) project and request [...] | 2007-02-01 13:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETTC IR MASS AE |
07ABUDHABI164 | UAE DENIES SENDING WEAPONS TO GAZA [...] The UAE has publicly dismissed Hamas claims that it had dispatched weapons and ammunitions to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. On February 1, in a press release headlined "UAE Astonished at Allegations of Sending Weapons to Gaza," the official Emirates News Agency (WAM) stated that the UAE d [...] | 2007-02-04 10:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAL PARM AE |
07ABUDHABI1824 | Supporting Argentina's Request for Interpol Approval of Red [...] (S) On November 1, DCM spoke with UAE's designated representative at November 5-8 INTERPOL General Assembly in Marrakech, Ministry of Interior Director of Interpol, Lt. Col. Ali Salem Al Khayal, strongly supporting message conveyed on October 28 by Argentinian ambassador to the UAE, Ruben Edwa [...] | 2007-11-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR AE |
07ABUDHABI1859 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN THE UAE [...] (C) The question of resource nationalism in the UAE is complicated by the federal nature of the country. Constitutionally, natural resources belong to the individual emirates rather than the UAE Federal Government. Each emirate, therefore, sets its own policies with regard to oil and gas deve [...] | 2007-11-07 09:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV AE |
07ABUDHABI1869 | KEEPING THE FOCUS ON FREEDOM -- UAE DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: This message reflects priorities in the U.S. Mission to the UAE's Democracy Strategy, originally designed in 2005 (ref J) and substantially updated in July, 2007 (ref F). It is designed to guide the practical application of resources, both programmatic and diplomatic, in pursui [...] | 2007-11-08 13:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KMPI PGOV ELAB PHUM KPAO AE |
07ABUDHABI1883 | JUSTICE MINISTRY REQUESTS SPECIFIC TIP TRAINING [...] This is an action request cable. 2. Summary: The UAE Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has requested specific training for judges and prosecutors in implementing of its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) law. For a training workshop in February, 2008, MoJ is looking for advice from practitioners with [...] | 2007-11-14 13:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ELAB KCRM PGOV AE |
07ABUDHABI1891 | INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT: ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to ref A request for interim assessment of UAEG efforts toward advancement of TIP goals. As confirmed by Ambassador Lagon's September visit (ref D),the UAE seeks to gain respect for its compassionate treatment of foreign workers and build institutions to s [...] | 2007-11-15 16:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB UN AE |
07ABUDHABI1919 | UAE DELEGATION TO ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE [...] Principal plus two for dinner and conference, in order of protocol: A) Principal: His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan Title: Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates Passport Number: 18666 DOB: 04/30/1972 POB: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Date of Issue: 07 [...] | 2007-11-25 10:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV CVIS AMGT AE |
07ABUDHABI194 | UAE MINISTRY OF LABOR INVITES PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 5 the UAE Ministry of Labor published a revised labor law on a special web site and invited public comment. The law mainly provides for new ways to encourage "Emiratization." Contrary to what Embassy had been led to believe, the law does not adddress collective bar [...] | 2007-02-07 11:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI GTIP AE |
07ABUDHABI1942 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 13:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV AE |
07ABUDHABI1966 | BANK SEPAH PROVIDES FINANCIAL SERVICES TO TANCHON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 13:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | ETTC PARM PGOV PREL IR AE |
07ABUDHABI198 | UAE LABOR UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 5, Obaid Al-Zahmai Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor (MOL) and Yousif Al-Noor, Labor Advisor to the MOL told econoff that the MoL was working with the Dubai executive council on a specialized labor court to facilitate the hearing of labor disputes in [...] | 2007-02-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CVIS GTIP TC |
07ABUDHABI1998 | UAE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES [...] Summary: the UAE, the second largest economy in the Arab World, is in the midst of aggressive economic development. Dubai is building high profile luxury projects such as the "Palms" and the world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Dubai. On November 19, 2007, Amman ESTH Hub Officer visited Abu [...] | 2007-12-13 13:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EAID PGOV AE |
07ABUDHABI2002 | UAE Human Rights Association fractures while former [...] (C) Four out of seven board members of the only human rights association in the UAE resigned December 4, putting into effect a public welfare law that forced closure of the Emirates Human Rights Association (EHRA). Disgruntled board members cited lack of transparency and intolerance for oppo [...] | 2007-12-13 15:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB KPMI PREL PGOV AE |
07ABUDHABI203 | UAE INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 10:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR |
07ABUDHABI208 | Federal National Council Set to Convene February 12 - UAEG [...] On February 6, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued a decree setting the date for the FNC's opening session as Monday, February 12. At the same time he announced that plans were under development--and would soon be announced--to strengthen the FNC's legislative powers, and c [...] | 2007-02-11 06:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM AE |
07ABUDHABI229 | SLOW MOVEMENT ON NATIONAL-LEVEL CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) During a February 8 call on Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Ambassador inquired about the UAE's national crisis management system -- the planning for which began in early 2005 but which has not seen any progress other than the establishment of a National Security Council [...] | 2007-02-12 13:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KCIP ASEC AE |
07ABUDHABI275 | UAE CREATES "COMMODITY CONTROL COMMITTEE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 14 February, the UAE provided a letter outlining the creation of a federal "Executive Committee on Commodity Control Procedures" to manage and oversee UAE export controls. The committee shares most of its objectives and many of its members with the existing Counterproliferatio [...] | 2007-02-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC IR AE |
07ABUDHABI276 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S ROOD: THE US-UAE [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Rood, Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE for the third meeting of the US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF) on March 1. The UAE CTF Chair, Brigadier General Mohammad Al Qemzi -- Dubai's General Department of State Security Direc [...] | 2007-02-15 14:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | AE ETTC IR PGOV PREL |
07ABUDHABI280 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S ROOD: THE US-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Rood, Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE for the third meeting of the US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF) on March 1. The UAE CTF Chair, Brigadier General Mohammad Al Qemzi -- Dubai's General Department of State Security Direct [...] | 2007-02-19 04:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | AE ETTC IR PGOV PREL |
07ABUDHABI421 | MINSTER OF ECONOMY SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC ETRD PREL PGOV PARM IR AE |
07ABUDHABI422 | MARCH 1 US-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 13:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
07ABUDHABI427 | UAE ATTENDANCE AT INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ [...] (SBU) On March 11, Embassy passed copy of letter from Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt to UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) along with cover message from Ambassador urging UAE to send senior level participants to the UN Interim Meeting. Econchief contacted Ministry [...] | 2007-03-14 09:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI430 | UAE TO SEND AMBASSADOR TO US TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) On March 14, MFA senior America's desk officer Rowda Al-Otaiba contacted econchief to say that the UAE had changed its head of delegation to the March 16 ICI interim meeting. The head of delegation would be Ambassador Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash UAE Ambassador to the U.S. rather than the U [...] | 2007-03-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI493 | IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITIES NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
07ABUDHABI599 | UAE PRESIDENT DEFENDS LABOR SITUATION IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary: On March 28, 2007, local Arabic and English language dailies, released an interview by the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The interview discusses, among other issues, the situation of the expatriate labor force and the imb [...] | 2007-04-12 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI GTIP AE |
07ABUDHABI620 | FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCIL (FNC) SPEAKER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: On April 12 Ambassador and PolOff called on the Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC),Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair, who is also the CEO of the largest private bank in the UAE, at his offices in Dubai. The Speaker described the UAE's path to democracy and full elections of the FN [...] | 2007-04-16 10:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ETTC AE |
07ABUDHABI633 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ (ICI) - UAE [...] (U) As part of our continuing efforts to urge the UAE to attend the ICI signing cerimony and to reaffirm its decision to forgive Iraqi debt, Ambassador met with UAE Minister of State for Financial and Industrial Affairs Dr. Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharbash on April 17. Dr. Kharbash stated that t [...] | 2007-04-17 11:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI635 | UAE VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER UNVEILS NEW [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MbR),Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, presented a new government strategy to UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The plan, developed by the UAE Cabinet, covered six areas: 1) soci [...] | 2007-04-17 14:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON PREL PHUM EINV SCUL AE |
07ABUDHABI683 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT ON IRAQ (ICI) - UAE ATTENDANCE AND [...] (C) On April 19 Ambassador spoke to UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) to press for high level attendance at the May 3 International Compact on Iraq, preferably AbZ himself. Ambassador also raised the issue of UAE's forgiveness of Iraqi debt (Paris Club terms, following Saudi Arabia's April 17 ann [...] | 2007-04-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI813 | MFA ACTING UNDER SECRETARY ON MAY 13-14 [...] (C) During May 17 meeting with CDA, MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan reflected on this week's visit by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. Although Al Haidan is a senior UAE diplomat who spent 10 years in Tehran, he readily acknowledged that he did not attend any of the meetings with the Iranian lead [...] | 2007-05-17 14:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PGOV PREL KNNP IR AE |
07ABUDHABI97 | U/S BURNS' JANUARY 22 MEETING WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE [...] (S) Summary. UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) sketched for U/S Burns his impressions during a January 9 visit to Tehran. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed (MbZ) in a wide-ranging discussion expressed strong reservations about free elections in the Middle East, stating that greater democra [...] | 2007-01-24 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KPAL ETTC IZ IR IS SY LE AE |
07ABUJA1012 | NIGERIA ELECTION AFTERMATH: FURTHER SUGGESTIONS [...] (C) As both international and domestic observers reported, the April elections took place in a political environment of manipulation, bribery, intimidation and outright fraud. Independent observers (including IRI and NDI) have been clear in their assessments of the shortcomings of the electi [...] | 2007-05-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM NI |
07ABUJA102 | ECOWAS ELECTIONS ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Summary: ECOWAS has established an Electoral Assistance Unit within its Commission for Political Affairs, Defense, and Security. The unit is preparing to field assesment teams to seven presidential and legislative elections in the subregion in 2007, including Nigeria's April polls. Form [...] | 2007-01-18 13:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1057 | IMAM ATTACKED BY WORSHIPPERS AT KADUNA MOSQUE [...] (U) BBC radio reported that the Imam at the Suleiman Bello Mosque in Kaduna, one of the city's prominent mosques, was attacked and beaten by worshippers at the Friday prayers on May 18. 2. (C) A contact from Kaduna who was at the mosque described the incident to PolCouns as politically [...] | 2007-05-25 13:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA1065 | PDP POLICY RALLY FOR THE NEWLY ELECTED [...] (C) On May 19, Poloff attended the PDP Policy Retreat for the newly elected members of the PDP held in Abuja at the International Conference Center. The Keynote speaker was former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and current lobbyist/chairman of Goodworks International Andrew Young. The [...] | 2007-05-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NI PGOV ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA1081 | NIGERIAN REQUEST FOR A MEETING BY PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA WITH [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Ambassador to the U.S., George Obiozor and President Yar'Adua's Special Advisor Benjamin Ademola "Danny" Adebiyi meet with the Ambassador at their request on May 31. They asked that President Bush meet with President Yar'Adua, "if only for two minutes" on the margins [...] | 2007-06-01 08:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1091 | NIGERIA: LABOR/CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES ON INAUGURATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A two-day nationwide strike to protest the outcome of the April elections had limited impact on the Nigerian political situation. While there were no street protests in Abuja, police in Lagos and Benin City disrupted rallies by members of the Labor and Civil Society Coalition ( [...] | 2007-06-01 12:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KLAB NI |
07ABUJA112 | CHIEFS OF MISSION ON ELECTIONS, DELTA SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the Ambassador met with a small group of Chiefs of Mission (COMs) to discuss preparations and outlook for the April elections and the security situation in the Delta. All present agreed that preparation for a credible April election is deficient, though it was no [...] | 2007-01-18 16:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA113 | SPOT REPORT: DAILY TRUST DIRECTOR ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Local media are reporting on January 17-18 that Mallam Muhammed Bello Ilyas Damagun was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on January 16 on charges of terrorism. He is a director of the company which publishes the Daily Trust Newspaper. He is alleged to run a terrorist organ [...] | 2007-01-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PTER PHUM PGOV NI |
07ABUJA1153 | President Yar'Adua's First Appointments [...] Summary: President Yar'Adua made some of the first official appointments to his government on May 30. He announced that Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),while Major-General Abdullahi Mohammed retains the post of Chief of Staff and Ma [...] | 2007-06-07 13:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KJUS NI |
07ABUJA1155 | NIGERIA: LABOR LEADERS EXPLAIN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Adulwaheed Ibrahim Omar and President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Peter Esele told Poloff they had made a conscious decision not to call their union members into the street following the April elections. The labor leaders soug [...] | 2007-06-07 13:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1157 | NIGERIA: SENATOR NELSON MEETS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 2, Senator Bill Nelson met with Nigerian newly-elected President Umaru Musa Yar'adua. Yar'adua said that poverty alleviation is a priority in his administration in order to stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. He looked forward to greater intelligence cooperation b [...] | 2007-06-08 07:02:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EPET ENGR PTER NI |
07ABUJA1162 | AMBASSADORIAL MEETING WITH NSA MUKHTAR ON HOSTAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to their request, Nigerian National Security Advisor General Abdullahi Mukhtar convened a meeting of Ambassadors from countries currently affected by hostage taking in the Niger Delta. He stressed that the GON knows the identities of the expatriates in captivity and [...] | 2007-06-08 11:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PTER NI |
07ABUJA1169 | A/S FRAZER'S MAY 29 MEETING WITH NIGERIAN CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Frazer met on May 29 with representatives of civil society groups that had been involved in the 2007 elections. While the participants disagreed amongst themselves on many of the issues surrounding the elections, they agreed that the Nigerian electorate had been, in effect, [...] | 2007-06-11 15:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1170 | SENATOR SARAKI OFFERS VIEWS ON YAR,ADUA, NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with Kwara Senator Gbemisola Saraki-Fowora of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) June 6 to discuss her views on the April elections, the Yar'adua administration, and the events leading up to the inaugural session of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS). Senator Sara [...] | 2007-06-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07ABUJA123 | NIGERIA: HALF OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS REGISTERED [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has registered 35 million voters as of January 18. However, IFES has serious concerns about data quality and the transfer of data from 40,000 registration machines into a central database to form the voters roll. [...] | 2007-01-19 12:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07ABUJA1238 | PAY HIKE FOR YAR'ADUA, TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC),which monitors withdrawals from the Federation Account, recommends revenue sharing agreements across the three tiers of government, and recommends salaries and other allowances for public officials announced a new Consolidated [...] | 2007-06-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1252 | SIXTH NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's National Assembly, which began its sixth session on June 5, faces high turnover in its ranks. NASS leadership elections held to the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) geopolitical zoning formula, with Benue Senator David Mark elected as Senate President and Osun Represent [...] | 2007-06-15 11:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1262 | NIGERIA: EX-IM BANK ABUJA VISIT [...] Summary. ExIm Bank officials visited Abuja June 11, 2007 to assess the banking sector and country risk. They visited the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),and the Debt Management Office (DMO). They had further meetings [...] | 2007-06-18 08:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV NI |
07ABUJA1263 | NIGERIA: SEN. NELSON MEETS WITH OIL EXECS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Senator Nelson's June 1 meeting with John Chaplin, Managing Director of ExxonMobil in Nigeria (EM) and Anne Pickard, Regional Executive Vice President for Shell Exploration and Production in Africa, the executives lamented that criminal gangs have slowed oil production and [...] | 2007-06-18 09:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENGR EPET PREL PGOV PTER NI |
07ABUJA1265 | AF A/S FRAZER'S MAY 29 MEETING WITH NIGERIA PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a May 29 meeting with A/S Frazer, newly inaugurated President Yar'Adua said he would reform Nigeria's flawed electoral system and continue his predecessor's economic reforms. He has established peace and security in the Delta as a first priority of his administration. He in [...] | 2007-06-18 11:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PTER NI |
07ABUJA1276 | DOKUBO-ASARI RELEASED ON CONDITIONAL BAIL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Nigeria's Federal High Court on June 14 released Niger Delta militant leader and Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari on conditional bail based on his deteriorating health. This decision reverses the Nigerian Supreme Court's June 8 ruling that [...] | 2007-06-18 15:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PINR NI |
07ABUJA1278 | NIGERIA: LABOR TO COMMENCE NATIONAL STRIKE JUNE 20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) announced on June 18 that they will call on member unions to initiate an indefinite national strike beginning at midnight on June 20. Talks between the GON and the union confederations ende [...] | 2007-06-18 15:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB NI |
07ABUJA1281 | THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BRIGIDIER - NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: This cable provides biographical details for selected Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) members. Top leaders of the sixth NASS include Senate President David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Patricia Etteh, and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu. They are all P [...] | 2007-06-19 08:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR NI |
07ABUJA1294 | NIGERIA: GON/LABOR NEGOTIATE TO 12TH HOUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following negotiations into the night on June 18 and again on the morning of June 19, labor leaders have gained three of their demands and the GON has met them in the middle on the fourth. The GON agreed to lower the fuel price to 70 Naira per liter, not the previous price of [...] | 2007-06-19 15:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB PHUM NI |
07ABUJA1302 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE -- SITREP #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) initiated a national labor strike at midnight on the morning on June 20. Oil companies report that essential personnel have reported for work and there is no impact as of yet on production. Airports closed in Abuj [...] | 2007-06-20 13:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ENRG EAIR NI |
07ABUJA1303 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #2 [...] (SBU) The national labor strike continues as of close of business June 20. NLC General Secretary John Odah told Poloff the NLC and GON will hold an informal meeting in the evening. NLC, TUC and the GON are scheduled to meet again formally at 10 AM on June 21. The strike will continue tomorr [...] | 2007-06-20 16:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM ENRG EIAR NI |
07ABUJA131 | NIGERIA ELECTION SNAPSHOTS #4 [...] (SBU) This cable is the fourth in a series of elections snapshots designed to provide a sense of the local environment in the run up to the elections planned for April 2007. In-depth information will continue to be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interestin [...] | 2007-01-23 14:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA1317 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #3 [...] (SBU) The national labor strike continues June 21 and it appears Nigeria is headed for a third day of striking. The meeting between labor leaders and the GON which was scheduled for 10 AM June 21 did not/not take place. According to NLC Deputy General Secretary Olaitan Oyerinde, it was clear [...] | 2007-06-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB PHUM PREL ENRG ASEC NI |
07ABUJA1319 | NIGERIA: STRIKE POSES CONCERN FOR GON AND LABOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the national labor strike finishes its second day, the GON appears to have dug in its heals on capitulating further to labor's demands. For its part, labor appears intransigent and may be changing its bottom line negotiating position (Ref. A). If so, the unions stand to lose [...] | 2007-06-21 16:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI |
07ABUJA1326 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #4 [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) As Nigeria enters Day Three of the national labor strike, fuel availability and transportation remain critical problems. Though the strike remains peaceful, road blocks (some set up by labor sympathizers and others by groups of hoodlums) have been reported in Jos, Gombe, Kano [...] | 2007-06-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI |
07ABUJA1327 | NIGERIAN ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP RELUCTANTLY SUPPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met on June 19 with the Secretary General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Dr. Lateef Adegbite to discuss Nigerian Islamic leadership support for President Yar'Adua and Nigeria's participation in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),[...] | 2007-06-22 13:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL NI |
07ABUJA1342 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #5 [...] (SBU) Labor unions and the GON reached agreement late on June 23 (Day Four of the strike),with the strike officially ending at midnight that night. The agreement followed a reported intervention by President Yar'adua. In public statements immediately following the announcement of an agreeme [...] | 2007-06-25 14:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI |
07ABUJA1344 | STATUS OF REFORMS IN THE NIGERIAN HOUSING SECTOR [...] Summary. Key elements of the Land Use Act, which are major obstacles to housing reforms, will require a constitutional amendment to change. President Yar'Adua is eager to create an enabling environment for the housing sector. Key amendments proposed to housing-related legislation were not pass [...] | 2007-06-26 08:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI |
07ABUJA1350 | NORTHERN UNION PUSHES UNITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary General of the Northern Union (NU) Dr. Ibrahim Lame met with PolOff on June 22 to discuss NU pressure on recent presidential aspirants Muhammadu Buhari (ANPP) and Atiku Abubakar (AC) to join a proposed government of national unity with President Umaru Yar'Adua. While no [...] | 2007-06-26 13:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM NI |
07ABUJA1353 | NIGERIA: CURRENT DEBT PROFILE AND FUTURE DEBT PLANS [...] Summary. On June 11, Econ and EXIM bank officers met with Nigeria's Debt Management Office (DMO). The Government of Nigeria's (GON) external debt as of March 2007 stood at $3.287 billion, of which 87% was held by multilateral institutions. Domestic debt totaled 1.87 trillion naira ($14.7 bi [...] | 2007-06-26 15:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV NI |
07ABUJA1366 | NIGERIA: 2007 STRIKE INDICATIVE OF NEW PARADIGM? [...] (C) SUMMARY. The 2007 national labor strike (reftels) differed in some significant ways from other Nigerian national labor strikes. In particular, the 2007 strike was well-managed within the labor movement, was non-violent and resulted in a win-win agreement between the government and the la [...] | 2007-06-27 15:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG NI |
07ABUJA1368 | OIL COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE TALKS HOSTAGES, DELTA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emboffs on June 8 met with a representative of Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (CNL) to discuss the events leading up to the June 2 release of six CNL employees kidnapped on May 1 in Bayelsa State. The representative indicated Bayelsa State officials leaned heavily on CNL for supplies and l [...] | 2007-06-28 08:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR ENRG NI |
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