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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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07ANKARA2001 | Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-08-03 12:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2004 | TURKEY'S NEW PARLIAMENT CONVENES TO ELECT SPEAKER [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Turkey's newly elected MPs took their oaths without incident on August 4 and will convene again on August 9 to begin electing a Speaker and forming a government. PM Erdogan is expected to announce h [...] | 2007-08-06 10:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2014 | TURKEY'S NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY DEPUTIES: FRESH SOPHISTICATES COVER UP OLD-LINE BRUISERS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is returning to parliament after five years on the sidelines, having carried 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 elections (septel). Since its coalition government with the Motherland Party (ANAP) and Democratic [...] | 2007-08-07 09:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2021 | TURKEY: ANNUAL MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND DISMISSALS [...] (C) Summary: Results of the 2007 Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting, announced August 4, included the promotion of 34 generals and admirals and the extension of service for 40 general officers. As expected, General Aydogan Babaoglu was named Air Force Commander, and Admiral Muzaafer Metin [...] | 2007-08-08 09:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TU |
07ANKARA2036 | TURKEY'S NEW SPEAKER TOPTAN A SOLID CHOICE; [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's parliament elected Koksal Toptan, a widely respected moderate, its new Speaker in condensed voting on August 9. Toptan, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Zonguldak deputy, is a former True Path Party (DYP) member with 30 years in government. Vi [...] | 2007-08-09 13:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2038 | TURKEY: KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ENTERS PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2041 | TURKEY: MHP SUCCESS TEMPERED BY HIGHER EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is reflecting on its shortcomings after winning only 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 general election. Their tally was enough to surmount the ten percent election threshold and score 71 seats in parliament (one MH [...] | 2007-08-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2043 | Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-08-10 09:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2061 | TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2062 | CODEL SHAYS: GOT UNDERSCORES SUPPORT FOR MALIKI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rep. Chris Shays told Turkish officials on August 8 that a reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq is inevitable, predicting that it would take place gradually. The Turks stressed that Iraq's disintegration would de-stabilize the region for decades. They called PM Maliki's August 7-8 An [...] | 2007-08-13 13:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM OREP AM IZ TU |
07ANKARA2072 | TURKEY: FM GUL LINING UP AS SOLE AKP PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. FM Abdullah Gul will lobby opposition party leaders today before making what most expect will be a formal announcement of his presidential candidacy. At an August 13 executive board meeting, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) apparently decided to back Gul as the part [...] | 2007-08-14 09:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2084 | TURKEY: IT'S OFFICIAL: FM GUL ANNOUNCES HIS [...] (U) FM Abdullah Gul submitted his presidential candidacy to parliament's new Speaker on August 14, formally opening his bid for the job as the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) sole candidate. After meeting with several opposition leaders, Gul told a press conference that, as presi [...] | 2007-08-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2085 | TURKEY VIEWS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AS INEVITABLE [...] (C) We delivered REF A points to MFA Deputy Director General for the Balkans and Western Europe Hasan Asan. Asan reiterated that Turkey remains committed to resolving Kosovo's final status and acknowledged that Kosovo independence is inevitable. Furthermore, Turkey strongly supports the prin [...] | 2007-08-14 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PGOV PREL KV YI UN |
07ANKARA2092 | TURKEY WARY BUT CALM ON TERRORIST PKK ANNIVERSARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: August 15 marks the 23rd anniversary of the PKK's first attacks against the Turkish state in 1984. While GOT security forces are on alert today, violence remains at a lower level than last year and domestic pressure to conduct a cross border operation into northern Iraq has droppe [...] | 2007-08-15 10:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL IZ TU |
07ANKARA2118 | TURKEY: GUL'S CANDIDACY MET WITH RESIGNATION AND [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Most Turks have accepted FM Abdullah's Gul's presidential candidacy (reftel) with either enthusiasm or resignation. The military is silently absorbing the blow that their earlier efforts to derail a Gul presidency crashed and burned. Leftist parties are in disarray, [...] | 2007-08-16 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TU |
07ANKARA2120 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SPECTER, AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: The new parliament is in the midst of electing Turkey,s next president, following general elections in July. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a significant victory, returning with a mandate to pursue its economic and political reform policies. On Iraq, Tur [...] | 2007-08-16 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AM ECON ENRG IZ OREP PGOV PINS PTER TU |
07ANKARA2133 | TURKEY'S PRESIDENT LEAVES NEW CABINET'S APPROVAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. In what many saw as a final insult and others called a gracious gesture, President Sezer told PM Erdogan to present his new cabinet to the next president for approval. Erdogan, who admitted being surprised by the move, played it as an outgoing president deferring to h [...] | 2007-08-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2134 | TURKEY: GOT CONCERNED ABOUT PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT is following developments in Pakistan with concern. It is encouraging President Musharraf to compromise with his political opponents and broaden his base. Though not enamored of Musharraf, the GOT fears his departure would herald much greater instability and is looking [...] | 2007-08-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AF PK TU |
07ANKARA2145 | TURKEY: GUL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OPENS A NEW ERA [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's long tradition of tumultuous politics has entered a new phase with FM Gul's renomination for president. The once all-powerful military, who tried to derail Gul's earlier bid with dire warnings of Islamic fundamentalism, have been knocked down a notch, and the "bedrock" p [...] | 2007-08-20 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2150 | TURKEY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE INVESTIGATES CRACKDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 15:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2173 | AMERICAN-TURKISH ASSOCIATION STAFFDEL FOCUSES ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 08:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2174 | TURKEY: ALEVIS CELEBRATE CULTURE, CALL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 08:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2184 | Update on PKK Violence (August 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-08-23 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2185 | TURKEY/IRAQ: GOT TO PRESS HASHIMI ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is bringing GOI VP Tariq al-Hashimi to Ankara August 23 for meetings with PM Erdogan and FM Gul to press for reconciliation as Turkish officials promised PM Maliki during his August 7-8 visit here. The Turks will use the visit to urge dialogue and constructive participatio [...] | 2007-08-23 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IZ TU |
07ANKARA2192 | KRG LOOKING FOR DIALOGUE WITH GOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) wants to establish a senior-level dialogue with the GOT, according to Safeen Dizayee, foreign policy advisor to KRG President Massoud Barzani. Iraqi Kurds are encouraged by a perceived slight increase in GOT flexibility to engage directly with [...] | 2007-08-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ TU |
07ANKARA2193 | TURKEY SHOCKED BY ADL REVERSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Anti-Defamation League's reversal in describing the events of 1915 as genocide has shocked Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the ADL statement and rejected ADL National Director Foxman's concern that passage of an Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) [...] | 2007-08-24 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM IS TU |
07ANKARA2194 | TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GOES TO DECISIVE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Turkey remains on track to election FM Abdullah Gul as its new president on Tuesday, August 28. The swearing in will take place at parliament the same evening at 6 pm local. Assuming nothing derails the presidential process, Justice and Development Party (AKP) cha [...] | 2007-08-24 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2195 | TURKEY: PRUDENTIAL REVOCATION - OSMAN BAYDEMIR [...] (C) Post was informed via reftel of the prudential revocation of Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir's visa based on his membership in the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). In our subsequent dialogue with Department, we were told the basis for this revocation was another agency's judgm [...] | 2007-08-24 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CVIS PGOV PTER TU |
07ANKARA2196 | GOT OFFICIALS PRESS CODEL SPECTER ON CONTINUED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials believe the U.S. must remain in Iraq to ensure the country's future as a unified state. They also see increased involvement by the United Nations as an asset. Senator Specter argued that Iraqi political leaders have had sufficient time to establish a power-shar [...] | 2007-08-24 14:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ IR SY |
07ANKARA2213 | MILITARY PUTS GUL ON NOTICE AS HE APPROACHES [...] (C) Summary: In a tersely worded Victory Day message to the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) posted to the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website the evening of August 27, Chief of Defense GEN Buyukanit condemned those seeking to undermine the unity and secular nature of the Turkish state. Buyukanit's mess [...] | 2007-08-28 10:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR TU |
07ANKARA2223 | TURKEY: ALL EYES ON PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Turkish parliament elected FM Abdullah Gul as Turkey's 11th President on August 28 with 339 votes. Gul was sworn in at 6 pm local. All but the Republican People's Party (CHP) attended the voting; CHP continued its boycott of both the vote and the swearing in. Th [...] | 2007-08-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2234 | TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL: RISKS, CHALLENGES, [...] (C) Summary: Abdullah Gul comes to office as Turkey's president already experienced on the international scene. His victory is one of personal and political tenacity; many had written him off after the military's e-memorandum derailed the attempt to elect him president in April. Looking ahead [...] | 2007-08-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TU |
07ANKARA2235 | PRESIDENT GUL APPROVES PM ERDOGAN'S GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Less than 24 hours after Abdullah Gul assumed the office of President, PM Erdogan submitted to Gul his proposed list for Turkey's 60th government. Gul approved the list, which contains 25 names, up from 23 in the previous government. It includes three Deputy Premiers/State Ministers who [...] | 2007-08-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2240 | TURKEY: POST-ELECTION ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQI KURDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the accession to the Presidency of former FM Abdullah Gul, the GOT will be looking to change the dynamic of its relationship with Iraqi Kurds and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). While the exact timing is not yet clear, GOT officials indicate Gul will first reach out [...] | 2007-08-31 11:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IZ TU |
07ANKARA2245 | TURKEY: PROMOTING DISCUSSIONS OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TU |
07ANKARA2246 | TURKEY: THUMBNAIL BIOS OF 60TH GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Thumbnail biographical sketches of the 25 ministers who comprise Turkey's 60th Government, as presented August 29, 2007 President Gul are below in para 2. Ministers are already in place and functioning; the government will seek a parliamentary vote of confidence on September 5. 2. (SBU [...] | 2007-08-31 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR TU |
07ANKARA2254 | Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-09-04 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2255 | Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-09-04 12:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2266 | TURKEY: "ERDOGAN II" GETS PARTY-LINE VOTE OF [...] (U) On September 5, the Turkish parliament gave PM Erdogan and his single-party Justice and Development Party (AKP) government a vote of confidence. As was the case with the presidential election (ref A),the vote split cleanly along party lines, with 337 AKPers voting for their government and [...] | 2007-09-05 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2269 | TURKEY: KURDISH MAYOR'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2279 | TURKEY: PLANNING FOR CONSULTATIONS ON/WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey will participate in the September 8-9 senior officials meeting in Baghdad, during which GOT officials hope to determine a date for the expanded neighbors ministerial meeting in Istanbul. The GOT will propose the October 31-November 1 time frame. GOT officials will also pa [...] | 2007-09-06 10:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
07ANKARA2282 | TURKEY: NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAM EMPHASIZES RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The program of the 60th government, which PM Erdogan read on August 31, builds on the Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) previous four-and-a-half years in government by emphasizing rights and social welfare. The program signals the GOT's determination to pursue liberal demo [...] | 2007-09-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2295 | TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER BABACAN: BABY JOHN TAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: With President Gul's official acceptance of the new cabinet proposed by PM Erdogan on August 29, Ali Babacan succeeded Gul as Turkey's foreign minister. The youngest of Erdogan's 25 ministers, some Turkish journalists used to call him "Baby John" because of his youthful appearanc [...] | 2007-09-07 14:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2313 | Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-09-11 10:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2324 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PACKAGE VOTE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The voting process for the October 21 referendum on the seven-article constitutional amendment package (the "Package") -- which foresees direct election of the President -- started September 11 at the border gates. One article is sowing confusion because it refers to [...] | 2007-09-12 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2335 | PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007 UNGA: [...] (U) Turkey just emerged with strengthened democratic credentials from a turbulent five-month period that tested its democracy. The result is a government with a new popular mandate, a parliament representative of 85 percent of the voters, and a new President who is likely to take an active fo [...] | 2007-09-13 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2336 | VISIT OF U/S BURNS TO TURKEY SEPTEMBER 18-20 [...] (C) Everything has changed since your January visit. A new electoral mandate for PM Erdogan; a new, activist President Gul; a victory for democracy; positive statements on US-Turkey relations and the imperative to push forward on EU accession-related reforms -- real opportunity for progress o [...] | 2007-09-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON ENRG MARR KNNP TU |
07ANKARA2350 | TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART I): ENERGY [...] (U) This is the first of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part II, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Through a string of recent energy deals with Turkey, Iran is demonstrating a continued capacity to conduct business in the international arena. Turkey has been all too accommo [...] | 2007-09-17 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU |
07ANKARA2351 | TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART II): SOME [...] (U) This is the second of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part I, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Energy needs notwithstanding, deepening commercial ties, and Iranian military action against PKK-affiliated targets in northern Iraq, are further bolstering Turkish [...] | 2007-09-17 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU |
07ANKARA2361 | TURKEY: MFA ON POTENTIAL LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER [...] (C) We pulsed Turkish MFA Middle East Department desk officer Cem Ulusoy regarding the Spanish proposal on a potential ESDP monitoring mission on the Lebanon-Syria border (ref A). Professing no knowledge of the Spanish proposal, Ulusoy said Turkey shares USG concerns about weapons smuggling f [...] | 2007-09-18 10:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL LE TU |
07ANKARA2365 | TURKEY: WILL CIVIL-MILITARY TENSIONS PLAY OUT IN [...] (C) Since Abdullah Gul's elevation to the presidency on August 28, Turks have been parsing every interaction between him and the military to discern the future of military-government relations. Despite a peaceful, uneasy coexistence, military leaders are clearly alarmed by the AKP's overwhelm [...] | 2007-09-18 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
07ANKARA2367 | Update on PKK Violence (September 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-09-19 04:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA237 | PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-02-05 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2384 | IBRAHIM PARLAK DEMARCHE REACTION: "OUR LAWS [...] We delivered reftel demarche urging issuance of a travel document enabling Ibrahim Parlak's return to Turkey. Akil Oktem, head of the Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was familiar with the case. He said the GOT has no travel document akin to the U.S. parole [...] | 2007-09-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA2403 | VETERAN DIPLOMAT FINALLY NAMED SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: On September 22, the Government of Turkey announced the appointment of Turkish Ambassador to Greece Tahsin Burcuoglu as Secretary General of Turkey's National Security Council (MGK),a post that has been vacant for months because of the previous President's refusal to sign off on [...] | 2007-09-24 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TU |
07ANKARA2405 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL OFF TO A PURPOSEFUL BUT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. President Gul's first weeks in office have set the tone for a more open, accessible, and constructively engaged presidency than that of his predecessor, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Gul is trying to demonstrate that he represents all Turks, not just those who voted for his fo [...] | 2007-09-25 10:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2412 | TURKEY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2413 | Update on PKK Violence (September 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-09-26 09:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2414 | TURKEY: HEADSCARF BAN DOMINATES INITIAL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary and comment. The debate over the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) proposed revisions to Turkey's 25-year old constitution is turning increasingly shrill, with particular focus on whether to lift the headscarf ban for university students. The party's delay in releasing [...] | 2007-09-26 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
07ANKARA242 | TURKEY: MFA TALKING POINTS ON OPERATIONS CARRIED [...] (C) On February 2, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department Head for International Terror Huseyin Ozdemir provided talking points on the January 29 coordinated operations in 6 provinces against the Haydar Kirkan group. After going through the talking points, Ozdemir pointedly drew at [...] | 2007-02-05 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA2420 | TURKEY: SENIOR GENERAL ON KURDISH ISSUE, [...] (C) Summary: In his annual address to new cadets at the start of the Turkish Military Academy's academic year, Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug (widely expected to become CHOD in 2008 -- ref. a) warned against attempts to redefine "secularism." He cautioned Kurdish nationali [...] | 2007-09-27 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
07ANKARA2445 | Update on PKK Violence (September 24-30, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-10-02 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2465 | TURKEY: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan warmly received U/S Burns on September 19 and underscored areas where Turkey is working to be a regional leader, in line with U.S. efforts, including Iraq, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),and troops in Afghanistan and Lebanon. Erdogan expressed frustr [...] | 2007-10-04 10:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2466 | TURKEY: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gul emphasized the GOT's wish to strengthen Turkish-U.S. ties during a September 19 meeting with U/S Burns. He wants to work closely with us on upcoming meetings of the Iraq Expanded Neighbors process and on Middle East peace. Gul noted the PKK as a major impediment to [...] | 2007-10-04 10:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2468 | TURKEY: POLITICAL REFORMS STALLED AS GOT FOCUSES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2469 | TURKEY/IRAQ: DEFENSE AND STATE INSPECTORS GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: During their September 28 visit to Ankara, DOD IG Kicklighter and DOS IG Krongard outlined for senior Turkish officials their mission to establish more effective controls and accountability for U.S. arms being provided to the security forces of Iraq and Afghanistan. They undersc [...] | 2007-10-04 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS KCRM IZ AF TU |
07ANKARA2470 | TURKEY'S OCTOBER 21 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT [...] (C) Summary. Turks go to the polls again October 21 to vote on a constitutional amendment package primarily aimed at allowing Turkey's president to be elected directly by the people rather than parliament. The package, which parliament approved in June over former President Sezer's veto, was [...] | 2007-10-04 12:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2484 | TURKEY'S NEW SPEAKER: PLEASE, NO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) During Ambassador's October 4 courtesy call, Koksal Toptan, the new speaker of Turkey's parliament, stressed his commitment to US-Turkey ties. Turkey was working well with the US on Iraq, including through the Neighbors process, and was strongly committed to Iraq's territorial and polit [...] | 2007-10-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU US |
07ANKARA2500 | TURKEY: WEEKEND AMBUSH BRINGS TEMPERATURE TO [...] (C) Summary: A PKK ambush October 7 killed 13 Turkish soldiers in southeastern Sirnak province,the biggest single loss the military has incurred in years and the latest in a string of terrorist incidents. A series of high level meetings, including a PM-President-CHOD meeting, and the counter [...] | 2007-10-09 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2502 | TURKEY: DELEGATIONS INVESTIGATE ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Following a September 29 attack on a minibus in southeastern Turkey that resulted in the deaths of 12 Turkish citizens, several delegations traveled to the site to investigate. As Turkish casualties mount in a series of attacks, mine explosions, and bombings from Sirnak to Izmir, [...] | 2007-10-09 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2503 | TURKEY'S COUNTER-TERRORISM COUNCIL: FULL ARRAY OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's counter-terrorism council met October 10 under the chairmanship of PM Erdogan. It issued a written statement which places all options - economic, political, legal and military - on the table. By taking a broad-reaching approach, the Turks are putting the Iraqis on noti [...] | 2007-10-09 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2517 | TURKS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT ARMENIAN [...] (U) Summary: Initial GOT reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) October 10 decision to send Resolution 106 - the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) - to the House floor reflects disappointment and anger, as well as appreciation for US Administration efforts and determination t [...] | 2007-10-11 10:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC PREL PTER MOPS TU US AM |
07ANKARA2521 | Update on PKK Violence (October 1 - 7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-10-11 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2524 | TURKEY: MANAGING PUBLIC OPINION ON ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary: With the capital emptied out for the end-of-Ramadan holiday, PM Erdogan and others in the GOT are carefully managing public opinion on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) passage of the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) and declining to detail retaliatory measures the GOT [...] | 2007-10-12 10:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ |
07ANKARA2533 | TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: GROWING VIOLENCE THREATENS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 13:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2537 | TURKEY: USD(P) EDELMAN AND A/S FRIED DISCUSS PKK [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Apakan and Deputy Defense Chief GEN Saygun told USD(P) Edelman and A/S Fried October 13 that Turkey is reaching the end of its patience with PKK terrorism and expects concrete US help. They noted recent unprecedented attacks, including rocket attac [...] | 2007-10-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER TU IZ |
07ANKARA2538 | FALL-OUT FROM HFAC PASSAGE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish government and public reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) October 10 approval of the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) was fueled by harsh statements from opposition political party leaders and some media commentators, as well as strong remarks by the Pr [...] | 2007-10-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ |
07ANKARA2539 | TURKEY: USD(P) EDELMAN AND A/S FRIED DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: USD(P) Edelman and EUR A/S Fried told Deputy Chief of Defense GEN Ergin Saygun October 13 that the Administration regrets House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of HR 106 and will continue to strongly oppose its passage by the House. They urged the Turkish military to avoid react [...] | 2007-10-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU AR AF IZ |
07ANKARA2546 | TURKS CLEAR THAT PARLIAMENTARY MOTION FOR CROSS [...] (SBU) On October 15, Turkish PM Erdogan's cabinet approved and forwarded to parliament a draft motion to authorize conducting cross border operations (CBO) against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. Parliament is scheduled to debate and vote on the motion October 17. If, as expected, parliamen [...] | 2007-10-16 09:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ |
07ANKARA2549 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER MOTION AUTHORIZING [...] (C) Summary. Under intense public pressure following an up-tick in terrorist killings, Turkey's parliament is scheduled to vote October 17 on a GOT proposal to authorize a cross-border operation (CBO) aimed at eliminating terrorist PKK camps in northern Iraq (reftels). The motion, submitted [...] | 2007-10-16 11:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS TU IZ |
07ANKARA2566 | TURKEY: MFA EXPLAINS PARLIAMENTARY MOTION ON CROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA convoked representatives of approximately 25 missions October 17 to explain the reasons behind the GOT's parliamentary motion to authorize a cross border operation (CBO) against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. MFA officials emphasized that passage of the motion by parliament [...] | 2007-10-17 10:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2573 | TURKEY: PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES MOTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 17, the Turkish parliament, as expected, approved by an overwhelming margin a government-sponsored motion authorizing a cross border operation (CBO) against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists in northern Iraq. It gives the government authority for one year to [...] | 2007-10-17 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2575 | TURKEY: PUBLIC CONFUSED ABOUT OCTOBER 21 REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary and comment. Three days before Turks vote October 21 on a package of constitutional amendments that would shift Turkey to direct presidential elections, the referendum process is in disarray. The package, which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) pushed through parliament las [...] | 2007-10-18 09:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2586 | IMF REVIEW TEAM ON TURKEY'S STATUS [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, Ambassador hosted G7 ambassadors for a readout by IMF Turkey Desk Chief Lorenzo Giorgianni and new IMF Resident Representative Hossein Samiei. The IMF team expressed concern about a lack of focus on economic policy by the government since the July election and con [...] | 2007-10-19 05:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV TU |
07ANKARA2589 | TURKEY: URGING PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY TO CONDMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2594 | TURKEY: NEW PRIME MINISTRY UNDERSECRETARY OPEN ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: In DCM's October 10 introductory call on new Prime Ministry Undersecretary Efkan Ala, Ala pointed to a possible cross-border operation (CBO) as one of a number of tools the GOT needs to combat the PKK. The problem is solvable through cooperation on all sides. A pro- [...] | 2007-10-19 13:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU US AM IZ |
07ANKARA2595 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY SAYS CROSS-BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA26 | TURKEY: 2006 DECA INSPECTION DEMONSTRATES PROGRESS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
07ANKARA2601 | PROVOCATIVE PKK ATTACKS IN SE TURKEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PKK terrorists have carried out attacks on Turkish security and other targets over the last 36 hours, accounting for the deaths of at least 12, and possibly more, security personnel. At least 16 security personnel were injured, along with another 17 civilians in a separate attack [...] | 2007-10-22 08:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV TU US IZ |
07ANKARA2604 | TURKEY ERUPTS OVER PKK ATTACKS; EIGHT SOLDIERS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: GOT leadership met late October 21 in a special counter terrorism "summit" to determine how to respond to the latest terrorist attacks. The public statement released by the Office of the Presidency reaffirmed the government's resolve in responding to terrorism and called for n [...] | 2007-10-22 12:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2605 | TURKEY: PUBLIC ATTACKS ON DTP OFFICES FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2606 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM PASSES; LEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turks passed a referendum package of constitutional amendments -- including a provision on direct election of the president -- by a comfortable margin in October 21 voting. However, confusion persists on a number of points, including how and when to implement the changes. Opposit [...] | 2007-10-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2608 | Update on PKK Violence (October 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents military contacts/clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Int [...] | 2007-10-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2618 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT TRIES TO QUELL PUBLIC FURY; PKK [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the face of growing public outrage over PKK terrorism, senior government officials have urged the public to remain calm and the media to report responsibly. They also have emphasized that Turkey should not lash out in anger but rather take action that is in the nation's best in [...] | 2007-10-23 11:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2620 | TURKEY TAKES TO THE STREETS - PUBLIC FURY AT PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY. A volatile social situation is rapidly emerging here in the wake of Sunday's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks near the Iraqi border, the third in as many weeks. Spontaneous protests are mushrooming into large unscheduled demonstrations, and public displays of anger and nat [...] | 2007-10-23 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2622 | TURKEY: OFFICIALS EXTREMELY ALARMED, ON MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. High-level officials from the ruling party and government bureaucracy are delivering the same anxious message: the Turkish people are on the verge of slipping beyond the government's control. Anger stoked by a series of vicious attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has r [...] | 2007-10-24 09:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA2624 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT PURSUES DIPLOMACY; CONTINUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: While FM Babacan pursued talks with senior Iraqi leaders in Baghdad October 23, the GOT continued its effort to calm domestic fury in the wake of October 21 terrorist attacks. Government officials implemented a little used law to muzzle radio and television broadcasts related to [...] | 2007-10-24 10:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2627 | TURKEY: EU HARMONIZATION PROCESS OVERSHADOWED BY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2630 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH LEADER AHMET TURK DEFENSIVE IN MEETING WITH EU AMBASSADORS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2632 | TURKEY: PUBLIC ANGER CONTINUES; SOME VIOLENCE; [...] (C) SUMMARY. Demonstrations of public anger continue on a widespread basis. Although anti-American sentiment colors the protests, most are largely focused on rage at the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Violence has been limited, but a potentially explosive situation remains. Leaders of all [...] | 2007-10-24 13:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA2641 | TURKEY: GOT CONSIDERING ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON KRG [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) recommended on October 24 that the GOT implement economic sanctions against groups supporting the PKK. The NSC's recommendation will be taken up by the cabinet in due course. Military operations in the border region of Hakkari Province [...] | 2007-10-25 11:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2651 | TURKEY NIXES GOI DELEGATION WITH KDP AND KRG [...] (C) Turkey's Iraq Coordinator Celikkol told Ambassador during an October 25 meeting that the GOT will not accept representatives of Iraqi Kurdish political parties nor of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in bilateral security discussions proposed by the GOI. Pointing to the presence of K [...] | 2007-10-25 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2656 | TURKEY PURSUES DIPLOMACY, POISED FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT continues to pursue diplomacy to pressure Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials, as well as the U.S., to take concrete steps to root out the PKK presence inside northern Iraq. However, Turkey remains poised to conduct a cross border operation (CBO) at any [...] | 2007-10-26 11:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2658 | TURKEY PURSUES DIPLOMACY, POISED FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT continues to pursue diplomacy to pressure Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials, as well as the U.S., to take concrete steps to root out the PKK presence inside northern Iraq. However, Turkey remains poised to conduct a cross border operation (CBO) at any [...] | 2007-10-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2660 | TURKEY: LONG-TIME ADVOCATES CITE BETRAYAL AND [...] (C) Summary: Anger on the streets pales in comparison with the deep sense of betrayal long-time friends of America are expressing to us. They assert we are on the brink of a full blown rupture in relations. End summary. 2. (C) Suat Kiniklioglu is the former head of the German Marshall Fu [...] | 2007-10-26 12:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU US |
07ANKARA2670 | GOT OFFICIALS STRESS UNITY, RECORD NUMBERS MARCH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As senior GOT officials stressed national unity on the 84th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic, Turks marched in record numbers in cities across the country to commemorate the holiday and to protest PKK terrorism. Turkish officials publicly characterized Octobe [...] | 2007-10-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2674 | TURKEY: MPS ACROSS POLITICAL SPECTRUM EXPRESS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MPs across the political spectrum have stressed to us that expectations for action are high. The context is public fury against the U.S. following recent PKK terrorist attacks in southeast Turkey. The MPs, ranging from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members to [...] | 2007-10-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2675 | TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN LEBANON SIDE MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE SY TU |
07ANKARA2677 | Update on PKK Violence (October 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...] | 2007-10-30 15:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2682 | PM ERDOGAN ROLLS OUT WASHINGTON AGENDA, CABINET [...] (C) Summary: During his October 30 address to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group, PM Erdogan laid out his agenda for his November 5 meeting with President Bush. Erdogan identified three main messages: 1) the U.S. must take necessary steps against the PKK; 2) the U.S [...] | 2007-10-31 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2685 | TURKEY SUPPORTS USG POLICY IN BOSNIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 13:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK TU NATO |
07ANKARA2697 | GOT DECIDES ON SANCTIONS, CONVEYS EXPECTATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the Council of Ministers agreed upon an as yet undisclosed package of economic sanctions aimed at the PKK and those who help them in Northern Iraq. Civilian flights that use Turkish airspace to travel to and from Erbil appear to have been largely curtailed, though [...] | 2007-11-01 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2707 | TURKEY: WELL-CONNECTED DIYARBAKIR MP TAKES A HARD [...] (C) Summary and comment: Governing party MP from Diyarbakir Ihsan Arslan's prescription for solving the current impasse Turkey faces with respect to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),northern Iraq and the US is that Turkey must take a hard look at the damaging policies it has purs [...] | 2007-11-02 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2713 | TURKEY: THE KURDISH DTP PARTY'S SQUANDERED [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: Despite having 20 of its representatives in parliament, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) has entirely sidelined itself during Turkey's confrontation with Iraq over the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The DTP erred [...] | 2007-11-05 11:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2717 | TURKEY REACTS TO HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] (SBU) All media headlined the November 4 release of the eight Turkish soldiers held hostage since October 21 by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Before boarding his plane to Washington for his November 5 meeting with President Bush, PM Erdogan thanked the U.S. and Iraqi governme [...] | 2007-11-05 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2724 | ERDAL INONU: A TURKISH PATRIOT IS LAID TO REST, [...] (SBU) Erdal Inonu -- professor and physicist, reluctant politician, social democrat, former Deputy PM and FM, and son of Turkey's second President, General Ismet Inonu -- was laid to rest November 4 in Istanbul. Inonu's epitaph could well read: here lies an honest, decent human being who wante [...] | 2007-11-06 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU |
07ANKARA2731 | TURKEY'S NATIONALISTIC JUDICIARY AN OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) Summary: A diverse array of legal experts agree the judiciary (judges and prosecutors) has been a major force in Turkey's failure to fully implement legal reforms related to its EU harmonization effort. Contacts from academia, private practice, government, and civil society told us that, [...] | 2007-11-07 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2733 | TURKEY'S KURDS RELIEVED BY OUTCOME OF PM ERDOGAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in southeast Turkey have all reacted positively to PM Erdogan's Oval Office meeting, noting that the chance of a cross-border land attack by Turkish forces has diminished significantly, though many still expect air strikes against PKK targets in the Qandil mountains [...] | 2007-11-07 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2736 | DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS [...] (U) This contains an urgent action request - please see para 5 below. 2. (C) Charge raised reftel points November 8 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay. He was accompanied by Middle East Deputy Director General Omer Onhon. Charge stressed both USG and Palestinian Authority Presid [...] | 2007-11-08 09:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU |
07ANKARA2739 | Update on PKK Violence (October 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...] | 2007-11-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2744 | TURKEY REACTS POSITIVELY TO ERDOGAN-POTUS MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Reactions in Turkey to PM Erdogan's November 5 meeting with President Bush span the spectrum depending on the political and ideological views of the individual or media outlet offering comment. In public comments subsequent to his meeting with POTUS, Erdogan has made clear his ap [...] | 2007-11-09 06:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER TU US IZ |
07ANKARA2751 | DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS [...] (S) Ambassador used the opportunity of a meeting late November 8 with Turkish FM Babacan on other subjects to urge steps by the Turkish authorities to stop the planned "International Jerusalem Meeting" planned for Istanbul and prevent HAMAS-related fundraising that may be planned there. Drawi [...] | 2007-11-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU |
07ANKARA2754 | TURKEY: 2006 DOMESTIC REPORT ON COMBATING HUMAN [...] (SBU) The GOT recently issued its 2006 Report on Combating Human Trafficking in Turkey. The report provides an overview of Turkey's anti-TIP legal framework, international cooperation mechanisms, TIP prevention and victim protection measures, and supporting 2006 statistical data. The report [...] | 2007-11-09 16:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SMIG KCRM KWMN TU |
07ANKARA2758 | Update on PKK Violence (November 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Inte [...] | 2007-11-13 10:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2760 | DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS [...] (s) Further to ref a, Ambassador raised November 13 with Turkish Presidency/PM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu US objections to the "International Jerusalem Meeting" planned for Istanbul. Davotoglu indicated that President Gul had discussed this earlier in the day with Palestinian President [...] | 2007-11-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU |
07ANKARA2762 | TURKEY: EU PROGRESS REPORT BRINGS NO SURPRISES [...] (C) Summary: The EU's annual progress report on Turkey, released November 6, went largely unnoticed here as the public and media remained focused on the latest PKK terrorist crisis. The GOT was pleased to see a "balanced" report, according to MFA and its EU Secretariat officials. Human righ [...] | 2007-11-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA277 | NATIONALISM TURNING NASTY IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. The nationalism that has been a unifying force since the Turkish Republic's founding in 1923 is becoming dangerously divisive under the pressure of national elections, government-military tensions and the continuing focus on the PKK in Iraq. The Dink assassination offered a bri [...] | 2007-02-09 10:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2774 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY ELECTS HARDLINER AS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) members elected Nurettin Demirtas, 34, as party chairman and adopted the concept of "democratic autonomy" during a November 8 extraordinary convention in Ankara. Several Kurdish contacts believe the elevation of Demirtas, a h [...] | 2007-11-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2775 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL CELEBRATES [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Gul descended on Azerbaijan, November 6-8, with a delegation of over 140 businessmen, pledging to elevate the bilateral economic relationship to a level matching the two countries' strong political ties. GOT officials and media alike interpret Gul's first state visit [...] | 2007-11-15 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG AJ AM TU |
07ANKARA278 | TURKEY'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DEBATE HEATS UP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2790 | TURKEY: UNAMI OFFICIAL SEES GREATER GOT INTEREST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Charge Michael Schulenburg sees increased GOT interest in a UN role in defusing tensions over the future status of Kirkuk. He sensed a new GOT willingness and approach. Schulenburg indicated that Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Pres [...] | 2007-11-19 09:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UN IZ TU |
07ANKARA2798 | Update on PKK Violence (November 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...] | 2007-11-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2807 | TURKEY: PROSECUTOR OPENS CLOSURE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's top prosecutor filed an indictment with the Constitutional Court on November 16 to close down the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) for alleged ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The indictment calls for a ban against DTP participat [...] | 2007-11-20 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2819 | TURKEY: DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on November 21 to MFA Latin America Head of Department Ece Ozturk Cil. Cil assured us that U.S. concerns in Latin America are strongly taken into account in Turkey's Latin America policies, given her department's location in the MFA Americas Directorate and Tur [...] | 2007-11-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE TU WHA |
07ANKARA2820 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL TO TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN; WILL [...] (C) Turkish President Gul telephoned President Musharraf November 19 to request an opportunity to visit Pakistan, preferably in early December, according to MFA South Asia desk officer Ilhan Sener. Traditionally, Pakistan is one of the first foreign visits by a Turkish President, after north [...] | 2007-11-23 15:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF PK TU |
07ANKARA2831 | TURKEY: CENTER-RIGHT DEMOCRAT PARTY DOWN FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. After an abysmal showing in Turkey's July 22 election, Democrat Party's (DP) reflections on how it got to this point and how to recover have been supplanted by fractious internal jockeying. Center-right consensus holds that DP was doomed as soon as the planned merger with the Mo [...] | 2007-11-26 17:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2833 | TURKEY: CODEL MURTHA DISCUSSES IRAQ, ARMENIA, AND [...] (SBU) Turkish President Gul expressed great appreciation for the efforts of Rep. Murtha and other Codel members to prevent House passage of the Armenian genocide Resolution (AGR). He said the meeting between President Bush and PM Erdogan on November 5 had brought Turkey and the US to a "good [...] | 2007-11-27 12:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OREP AM IZ IR TU |
07ANKARA2834 | TURKEY: CHP LEADER BAYKAL MAKES POTEMKIN SENSE, AT [...] (C) Summary. Deniz Baykal, Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP),recently proposed surprising policy approaches to Turkey's Kurdish problem, including starting to deal with northern Iraqi authorities. Baykal, a chronic contrarian, urged strategic thinking and outreach to Iraqi Kur [...] | 2007-11-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2837 | TURKEY: MALATYA MURDER TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY AMID [...] (C) Summary: The high-profile trial of seven men accused of the April murder of three Christian bookstore workers in the southeastern city of Malatya began on November 23. Five defendants face multiple life sentences for murder and terrorist acts; two others are charged with assisting in the [...] | 2007-11-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2848 | TURKEY: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Post responses are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) A. Watchlisting (see para 10, below) 3. (U) B. Traveler Information Collection. -- Who collects traveler information? Turkish National Police (TNP) Foreigner [...] | 2007-11-28 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS TU |
07ANKARA2850 | TURKEY'S ATTITUDE CHANGE; PRESSURE FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since PM Erdogan's November 5 meeting with President Bush, pressure for immediate Turkish military action against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist camps has subsided. While both government and military leaders continue to stress Turkish readiness to carry out cross-borde [...] | 2007-11-29 07:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ US |
07ANKARA2851 | TURKEY: CODEL MURTHA'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: DCHOD GEN Ergin Saygun briefed Codel Murtha on Turkey's struggle with PKK terrorism, the PKK's involvement in narcotics smuggling and organized crime, and the inadequate response of many European allies. On Armenia, Saygun stressed Yerevan's implied territorial claims on Turkey [...] | 2007-11-29 08:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OREP IZ IR AM TU |
07ANKARA2853 | Update on PKK Violence (November 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...] | 2007-11-29 10:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA286 | ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION: TURKS PREDICT DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Contacts from across the Turkish political spectrum are deeply alarmed at the prospect that a Congressional Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) is likely to pass for the first time this year. All predict a harsh reaction, especially from the public, in this already politically-cha [...] | 2007-02-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM US |
07ANKARA2863 | CODEL SHAYS TALKS PKK, KURDISH ISSUE, IRAQ, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rep. Christopher Shays met with MFA Under Secretary Apakan, Turkish General Staff (TGS) Plans and SIPDIS Operations Chief Maj. Gen. Kocak, and a group of current and former parliamentarians representing southeastern Turkey in Ankara on November 26 and 27, the first two days of [...] | 2007-11-30 16:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07ANKARA2864 | TURKEY/IRAQ: GOVERNMENT APPROVES OCTOBER 17 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Erdogan reportedly stated November 30 that the Council of Ministers and President Gul have authorized the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct a cross-border operation (CBO) against PKK terrorists operating in northern Iraq. Foreign Ministry and Turkish parliament contacts tel [...] | 2007-11-30 16:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ |
07ANKARA2875 | Update on PKK Violence (November 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website. TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Interior casualty data is not made public. As a result, actual numbers for total Turkish [...] | 2007-12-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2879 | POLL OPENS DOOR INTO TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary. A clear majority of residents polled in 14 southeastern Turkish provinces said they would prefer to live in Turkey even if an independent Kurdish state were founded in northern Iraq. The Turkish polling company Metropoll claimed its November survey of 1,079 people is the first [...] | 2007-12-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2885 | CODEL SHAYS GOES TO SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Representative Christopher Shays obtained first-hand insight into the Kurdish issue and efforts to counter the PKK during a November 27-28 visit to southeastern Turkey. He also toured the Habur border gate and was briefed on Turkish-Iraq [...] | 2007-12-04 08:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07ANKARA2886 | TURKEY: GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHONS CLAIM ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary: Turkish government policies are slowly suffocating the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP),according to representatives of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a U.S.-based group of Greek Orthodox laymen. In November 29 meetings, the delegation told Turkish officials crawling re [...] | 2007-12-04 08:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2888 | FIVE YEARS WAITING IN THE WINGS: CHILDREN'S LAW SIGNED [...] Turkish President Gul on December 1 signed into law the "Children's Law" which includes language implementing the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. The Turkish Parliament passed the law on November 22. 2. This marks the successful culmination of a five-year effort by pos [...] | 2007-12-04 09:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2898 | TURKEY: SECDEF'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (S) Our real-time intelligence and cooperation with Turkey in attacking PKK encampments in northern Iraq has turned around a relationship that soured in September and October due to the Armenian genocide resolution and PKK attacks. You should highlight our commitment to helping Turkey combat t [...] | 2007-12-05 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ |
07ANKARA2905 | TURKEY: ADANA GOVERNOR REVEALS HIS SUSPICIONS [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: At an opening ceremony of the Adana chapter of the EU-supported Civil Society Development Center (STGM),Adana Governor Ilhan Atis verbally attacked the coordinator, questioned European motives (and competence),and insisted civil soci [...] | 2007-12-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM TU |
07ANKARA2919 | TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM FOCUSES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a clumsy start, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) efforts to push through comprehensive constitutional revisions are gaining momentum. AKP officials, at least in private, are forthrightly stating that wholesale changes are necessary to wrench contr [...] | 2007-12-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TU |
07ANKARA2922 | TURKEY: POLITICAL HOT-BUTTON APPOINTMENT TESTS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. President Gul will shortly appoint a new chairman of the Higher Education Council (YOK),a body enshrined in the 1982 Constitution to oversee Turkey's university system and preserve its staunchly secularist nature. In a country perpetually challenged by perceived thr [...] | 2007-12-10 05:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2928 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL URGES PAKISTAN OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Turkish President Gul, during a December 2-3 visit to Islamabad, urged Pakistan's opposition leaders to put President Musharraf above the political fray and compete amongst themselves in the upcoming, January 6 elections. Pointing to the long and bumpy road Turkish [...] | 2007-12-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF PK TU |
07ANKARA2931 | Update on PKK Violence (December 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 1-7, 2007 reporting period, one GOT se [...] | 2007-12-11 05:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA2935 | TURKEY: GOT FLOATS A TRIAL BALLOON ON GENERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan sent up a trial balloon December 9 on the possibility of issuing some form of amnesty to PKK members. As the GOT and military continue to work closely with us to implement the November 5 understanding, they want to keep the pressure on both the PKK in northern Iraq and [...] | 2007-12-11 13:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2942 | TURKISH EFFORTS ON LEBANESE PRESIDENCY [...] (c) Further to reftels, Ambassador spoke December 11 with Turkish Presidency/PM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu about the Lebanese presidency state of play. Davutoglu said that he and PM Erdogan have been in touch on an almost daily basis over the past couple of weeks with key players in Bei [...] | 2007-12-11 16:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY TU |
07ANKARA2944 | TURKEY: GUL'S APPOINTMENT TO HIGHER EDUCATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 09:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2952 | TURKEY: GOT CONCERNED ABOUT NEW YORK SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA2958 | TURKEY: NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS LAW IRKS SECULAR [...] (C) Summary: President Gul's midnight signing of a new law governing the selection process for prosecutors and judges brought sharp criticism from a legal establishment that sees the move as a challenge to its independence by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The truth is more [...] | 2007-12-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2994 | TURKEY: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES VOICE OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's traditional religious minority communities -- Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Jewish Community -- recently have criticized elements of a draft Foundations Law, vetoed in 2006 by then-President Sezer, that Parliament is expected to take up in early 2008 [...] | 2007-12-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2998 | TURKEY: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES VOICE OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's traditional religious minority communities -- Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Jewish Community -- recently have criticized elements of a draft Foundations Law, vetoed in 2006 by then-President Sezer, that Parliament is expected to take up in early 2008 [...] | 2007-12-18 10:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3006 | TURKEY: REACTION TO MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY: Senior GOT and military officials continue to praise the strikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq and deny that civilian targets there were hit. However, inadequacies in interagency coordination and the sidelining of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plague GOT efforts to addre [...] | 2007-12-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MOPS PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07ANKARA3008 | Update on PKK Violence (December 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 8-15, 2007 reporting period, no GOT se [...] | 2007-12-19 09:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA3010 | TURKEY: CATHOLIC PRIEST STABBED IN IZMIR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Police detained a 19-year old Turkish man shortly after he stabbed Italian Priest Adiano Franchini inside Izmir's St. Antoine Church on Sunday, December 16. Franchini, who survived the attack and is recovering well, said he would not press charges against the attacke [...] | 2007-12-19 09:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3016 | TURKEY: RULING AKP TACKLES A TABOO -- IMPROVING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3017 | TURKEY: MHP'S BRIEF MOMENT OF NOTORIETY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP) members are quietly distancing themselves from the words of their colleague in parliament, Osman Durmus, who sharply criticized Chief of the General Staff General Buyukanit. MHP will wisely keep itself at arm's length from direct attacks [...] | 2007-12-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA3028 | TURKEY: REACTIONS TO CONTINUED AIRSTRIKES AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Public reaction to repeated Turkish strikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq continues to be positive. The role the U.S. has played in sharing intelligence and deconflicting Iraqi airspace has also received a great deal of positive attention. Turkish media continue to note [...] | 2007-12-26 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA3031 | Update on PKK Violence (December 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 16-23, 2007 reporting period, no GOT s [...] | 2007-12-27 06:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA3040 | TURKEY: 2007 ADVANCE SPECIAL 301 INITIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Turkish government has made little progress on six action items in the 2007 Advance Special 301 Initiative Action Plan since we presented it to them in August. Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) officials enthusiastically accepted the plan but, we surmise, ran into resistance with [...] | 2007-12-27 16:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV TU |
07ANKARA3044 | TURKEY PREPARING TO REVIVE EU REFORMS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary and comment: The EU's December 19 decision to open negotiations with Turkey on two new policy chapters appears to have calmed GOT officials infuriated by French President Sarkozy's maneuvering to have the terms "accession" and "membership" removed from the GAERC's December 10 stat [...] | 2007-12-28 08:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3045 | TURKEY: CODEL SKELTON DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) President Gul, PM Erdogan, DCHOD Saygun and DefMin Gonul all expressed satisfaction with U.S. support to Turkey against PKK terrorism. The Turkish people have a more positive view of the U.S. as a result. Codel Skelton stressed the common struggle against terrorism and U.S. understanding [...] | 2007-12-28 11:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OREP AM IZ IR TU KV IS KPAL |
07ANKARA3051 | TURKEY: BATMAN SEES LOCAL POLITICAL TENSIONS RISING [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Two prominent Batman Bar Association leaders in southeast Turkey told us during a recent visit that local political tensions between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) have inc [...] | 2007-12-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3052 | MGPKO2: TURKEY CONDEMNS BHUTTO ASSASSINATION, [...] (U) Turkey has strongly condemned the assassination of former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto and called for unity in the face of terrorism and extremism. In its December 27 statement, the MFA greeted the news of Bhutto's death with great sorrow and went on to state, "There is no doubt that thes [...] | 2007-12-28 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PK TU |
07ANKARA311 | MIDNIGHT EXPRESS IT'S NOT: MODEL TURKISH PRISON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA316 | Scenesetter for the Visit of CODEL Dicks to Turkey [...] Summary: Your visit comes at a critical period in the U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship as the government grapples with continued PKK terrorist attacks from northern Iraq, fears that Iraq's instability will spread beyond its borders, the aftermath of the Dink murder, a potential U.S. congressi [...] | 2007-02-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ETRD PGOV TU IZ IR |
07ANKARA319 | TURKEY: NATIONALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY CHAIRMAN DEVLET BAHCELI: NATIONALISM FOR ALL TURKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 5, Nationalist People's Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahceli outlined to Ambassador the party's priorities for the coming election year. His candor was hampered by an adherence to the party's declared goal of becoming the sole governing party after the general electio [...] | 2007-02-15 06:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA339 | PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News`ency, and international wilties and are often otherwise unreliable. 2. (U) During the January 16-31, 2007 [...] | 2007-02-06 08:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA372 | IRAQ: TURKEY EAGER TO MOVE ON NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] (S) Following up on ref email conveying the Secretary's interest in pursuing FonMin Gul's proposal to host a senior "Iraq neighbors" plus P5/G8 meeting in the near future, Ambassador met Feb. 16 with Gul and Feb. 19 with GOT Special Coordinator for Iraq Celikkol. They confirmed that Turkey en [...] | 2007-02-21 09:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU IZ IR SY EG SA |
07ANKARA381 | CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 11:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT OREP OTRA PGOV TK TRY |
07ANKARA383 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTRAL ASIA CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (C) Introduction: The U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship is in a critical phase as the government grapples with continued PKK terrorist attacks from northern Iraq, fears that Iraq's instability will spread beyond its borders, the aftermath of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink murder, [...] | 2007-02-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA385 | Kayseri: Eye of the Anatolian Tiger [...] (SBU) Summary: Kayseri, a city of one million people in the center of Turkey, is one of the centers of Turkey economic revival. The business elite tends to recycle investment capital back into the city, and credit is usually obtained overseas. The limits on Kayseri's development are its fic [...] | 2007-02-22 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI TU |
07ANKARA386 | IRAQI VP ABDEL MAHDI ASKS FOR TURKEY'S SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA387 | TURKISH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY CLASH OVER [...] (C) Summary: A dispute between Turkey's military and government over contacts with Iraqi Kurdish leaders is threatening to scuttle an already twice-postponed meeting between FonMin Gul and KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani. The military, even more than the political opposition, will attempt to use thi [...] | 2007-02-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA4 | TURKISH CONCERNS ON IRAQ, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will continue closely to cooperate with the US on Iraq and hopes Washington will share its evolving thinking prior to any public announcements, newly promoted MFA U/S Apakan told Ambassador December 30. After repeating remarks on Iraq made December 27 to the DCM (reftel),[...] | 2007-01-04 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA403 | RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) Ambassador raised ref a points February 22 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary (U/S-equivalent) Haydar Berk, stressing unacceptable Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic even though Russia knows missile defenses based in those countries pose no threat to the Russian strategic arsenal. [...] | 2007-02-23 16:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU |
07ANKARA404 | TURKISH PROFESSOR RECEIVES MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 17:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA406 | TURKISH FM GUL REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY: Turkish FM Gul told a congressional delegation that the US/Turkey relationship has weathered many storms but that a US congressional Armenian genocide resolution threatens to undermine cooperation on our shared goals for Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, NATO and more. US failure in Iraq will [...] | 2007-02-26 10:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ AR |
07ANKARA421 | INVITATION FOR TURKEY TO PARTICIPATE IN COESPU [...] We delivered reftel demarche jointly with Italian PolCouns Lucio Demichele on February 22 to Gulin Dinc, Head of Department, MFA International Political Organizations. We emphasized that the program was designed for training of trainers and that we would be prepared to send a joint U.S.-Itali [...] | 2007-02-27 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV TU |
07ANKARA423 | TURKEY: STAFFDEL TILLEMANN DISCUSSES ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-27 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE AM TU |
07ANKARA424 | TURKISH FM GUL REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish FM Gul told a congressional delegation that the US/Turkey relationship has weathered many storms but that a US congressional Armenian genocide resolution threatens to undermine cooperation on our shared goals for Iraq, Afghani and more. US failure `ill be Turkey's failu [...] | 2007-02-27 09:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ AR |
07ANKARA430 | ANKARA'S MAMAK DISTRICT: VOICES OF ANKARA'S HAVE NOTS [...] (SBU) Summary. A visit to one of Ankara's oldest squatter settlements provided insight into the multiple challenges Turkey faces in dealing with its endemic squatter housing problem, which is linked to persistent regional income disparities and the country's deep urban and rural poverty. Res [...] | 2007-02-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU |
07ANKARA432 | HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR TURKEY'S NEW MORTAGE LAW [...] (U) Summary. In a social and economic watershed moment for Turkey, officials, real estate developers and finance experts are trumpeting the recent passage of a long-awaited mortgage law as an important step toward transforming Turkey's housing market and blighted urban landscape, a move that c [...] | 2007-02-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV TU |
07ANKARA439 | TURKISH LOGISTICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO COALITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incirlik Air Base (IAB) in southern Turkey has been a strategic asset to coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first Gulf War. Current Turkish authorization to use IAB as air-refueling, cargo transit and FAA navigation aid operation hubs has saved the US hundreds of [...] | 2007-02-28 08:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ AF |
07ANKARA461 | TURKEY'S KURDS ALARMED BY GROWING EXTREMISM; [...] (C) Summary. Heading into the traditionally with thQ Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) (or even IQaqi president Talabani) as disrespectful, particularly given Turkey's readiness to defend Iraqi Turkomans. Baydemir said the escalation of tension, particularly the prospect of a Turkish military [...] | 2007-03-01 11:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA462 | TURKEY'S OWN "24" -- "VALLEY OF THE WOLVES" [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA465 | DESPITE ILL WILL, TURKEY PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary: Turkey plans to proceed with its planned outreach to the Iraqi Kurds, but what officials view as a steady stream of unhelpful rhetoric from the KRG leadership complicates this effort. Turks are dismayed by Masoud Barzani's Feb. 26 interview on Turkish television -- and annoyed by [...] | 2007-03-01 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA468 | HOPE FOR OUTREACH TO ARMENIA FADES [...] (C) Summary: Even as concern over a U.S. Congressional Armenian genocide resolution mounts, Turks from across the spectrum caution that in this election year Turkey will not/cannot make a dramatic gesture to Armenia. End summary. 2. (C) The hot-button issue of a possible Armenian genocide [...] | 2007-03-01 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM AJ |
07ANKARA470 | TURKEY: HAK-PAR POLITICIANS CONVICTED FOR USING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-02 07:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA474 | TURKEY FOCUSED ON POLITICAL PRESSURE TO STOP [...] (C) Summary: Recently announced plans by the Republic of Cyprus to move ahead with a licensing round for offshore oil exploration (reftel) are of great concern to Turkey. Although Turkey claims rights to the area in question under the Law of the Sea, Foreign Ministry officials say they will [...] | 2007-03-02 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EWWT PGOV PREL TU CY |
07ANKARA486 | PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-03-05 07:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA488 | MFA CENTRAL ASIA CONSULTATIONS IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's approach to Central Asian countries largely echoes ours: ensuring security and stability, promoting democracy and human rights and fostering economic development and integration. During broad consultations in Ankara, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum and MFA interlocutors explor [...] | 2007-03-05 08:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX AJ UZ TI AF KG TU |
07ANKARA489 | TURKEY EAGER TO COOPERATE ON CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Turkish government officials agreed with SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum to explore complementary cooperation where possible on our approaches to Central Asia (septel). Representatives from the Turkish General Staff, the Turkish International Cooperation Administration, the Foreign Trade [...] | 2007-03-05 08:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX AJ UZ TI AF KG TU |
07ANKARA494 | TURKEY: WEAPONS TRAINING DEPLOYMENTS REINITIATED [...] (C) On February 23, the US 22nd and 23rd Fighter Squadrons, based at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, completed a six-week long Weapons Training Deployment (WTD) (NOTE: Turkey prefers the use of the term Rotational Training Deployment) at Incirlik Air Base, the first significant WTD to take pl [...] | 2007-03-05 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU |
07ANKARA516 | TURKEY: DISPLACED VILLAGERS CRITICIZE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 13:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA519 | "MODERATE ISLAMIC" SUMMIT STILL UP IN THE AIR [...] (C) Summary: Timing for a follow-on summit to the February 24 Islamabad foreign ministers meeting on Middle East Peace remains unclear, according to Turkish MFA. Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey are concerned that the effort not be perceived as an anti-Iran initiative. Saudi Arabia wa [...] | 2007-03-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA522 | RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Acting DDG Serhan Yigit told us March 7 that Turkey had decided against making any public statement concerning Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic as we had urged MFA officials to do on February 22 and 23 (ref a). 2. (C) Yigit told us the MFA is concerned t [...] | 2007-03-08 09:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU |
07ANKARA531 | SMOOTHING THE ENTRY OF TURKISH OFFICIALS INTO THE [...] (U) Action request at para. 5. 2. (SBU) A Turkish delegation headed by Minister of State Ali Babacan and Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCHOD) GEN Ergin Saygun and including Undersecretary for Defense Industries Murad Bayar, TGS J-5 Strategy Division Chief MGEN Serdar Savas and other o [...] | 2007-03-08 15:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR CMGT TU |
07ANKARA542 | TURKISH COURT BLOCKS ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECPS OSCE TU |
07ANKARA548 | SPECIAL ENVOY FOR COUNTERING THE PKK RALSTON [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkey will review U.S. suggestions for deliverables on the PKK, GOT Special Envoy Baser told U.S. Special Envoy Ralston March 8. Turkey remains concerned that the PKK maintains a potentially intimidating presence in the Makhmour refugee camp, but will proceed with negotiations [...] | 2007-03-12 09:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PREF PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA559 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY HOLDS CONVENTION AMID [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA56 | U/S BURNS VISIT TO TURKEY JANUARY 18-19 [...] (S) Your visit comes at the start of a pivotal year for Turkey. Presidential and parliamentary elections will intensify internal political competition and aggravate nationalism at a time when Turkey finds itself more uncertain about its future -- both domestically and externally -- than any t [...] | 2007-01-11 15:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA560 | KEY TURKISH OFFICIAL ON TURKISH-IRAQI KURD CONTACTS [...] (C) Turkish FM/PM foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador and EUR DAS Bryza March 8 that contacts with the Iraqi Kurdish leadership will go forward, but probably not before late-spring or summer. As the initiator of Turkey's current effort at dialogue with the Iraqi Kurds begi [...] | 2007-03-12 16:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07ANKARA563 | TURKEY: CHIEF OF STAFF BUYUKANIT TAKES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Long-standing strains between the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and the AKP -led government have escalated recently into regular confrontations over foreign policy. On France, Cyprus and Iraq, Chief of Staff (CHOD) Buyukanit has preempted or disputed government positions, leaving t [...] | 2007-03-13 07:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU |
07ANKARA57 | TURKEY: THE GOT ON LEDRA STREET BRIDGE REMOVAL: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although GOT officials were not supportive of "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's decision to dismantle the Ledra Street footbridge at the Green Line in Nicosia, they nonetheless stated in the end it was Talat's decision to make. While Talat had broached the subject in late Novem [...] | 2007-01-11 16:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP MOPS TU CY |
07ANKARA574 | TENSION ESCALATING IN RUN-UP TO NEVRUZ HOLIDAY IN [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: The judicial offensive against several DTP politicians and growing militant activity by PKK supporters raise the possibility that this year's Nevruz (March 21) holiday could be particularly violent, according to many of our contacts in t [...] | 2007-03-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA588 | TURKEY: PRESSURE MOUNTING ON PM ERDOGAN BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Erdogan is the target of a growing pressure campaign from various quarters in the run-up to the filing for presidential candidacy on April 16. Recent remarks by military and opposition leaders, along with provocative media campaigns, are ratcheting up the tension in [...] | 2007-03-14 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA592 | TURKEY'S INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY; INCREASED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR OSCE TU |
07ANKARA610 | Business Sees Nationalism as Bigger Risk than Elections [...] (SBU) Summary. The head of Merrill Lynch's new Istanbul branch is not overly concerned about the short-term outlook for the Turkish economy or politics. He minimizes the double election year political risk, estimating a 95% chance that PM Erdogan will seek and get the presidency and a large [...] | 2007-03-17 07:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV TU |
07ANKARA629 | TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ONE MONTH OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the presidential election process beginning in just four weeks, political circles are bursting with theories about what the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will do. For his part, Prime Minister Erdogan has stuck to his declared intention not to signal any decision [...] | 2007-03-19 16:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA641 | TURK-AZERI DIASPORA TAKES AIM AT ARMENIAN DIASPORA [...] (C) Summary: A recent Turkish-Azeri diasporas forum in Baku is seeking to develop an organized counterbalance to the influence of the Armenian diaspora worldwide. Possible Turkish-Armenian rapprochement looks bleak, although MFA sources tell us FM Gul plans to approach Secretary Rice with a p [...] | 2007-03-21 12:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM AJ TU |
07ANKARA642 | TURKISH GOVERNMENT MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AKDAMAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA648 | THE TRUTH BEHIND THE AKP'S "SECRET ISLAMIC AGENDA" [...] (C) Summary. Ever since its victory in the 2002 general elections, rumours and suspicion have swirled around the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "secret" Islamist agenda. After more than four years in power, some doubters are relieved to find an AKP that appears conservative, We [...] | 2007-03-21 15:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU |
07ANKARA652 | TURKEY: LEFT-LEANING OPPOSITION SHOWING SOME SIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the past two weeks, Turkey's long-moribund, inchoate left has begun to show signs it may coalesce into a pre-election alliance. While there are significant hurdles to overcome -- in particular, who should head the formation -- they evince a new resolve to get in the game befor [...] | 2007-03-22 11:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA653 | TURKEY: FESTIVE NEVRUZ CELEBRATIONS PASS WITHOUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA654 | TURKEY: HIGH HOPES FOR PALESTINIAN NUG; MUBARAK [...] (U) Action Request in Para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials are hopeful the establishment of the new Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) represents a chance for a fresh start in establishing peace and security in the Palestinian territories as well as for dialogue between the Pa [...] | 2007-03-22 12:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS TU |
07ANKARA663 | KRG MAY BE PONDERING DELAYED KIRKUK REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Kurdish leadership is weighing political modalities for a delay in a Kirkuk referendum, visiting KRG foreign policy adviser Dizayee told us March 20. KRG-GOT dialogue is continuing, even though a meeting at the political level may not occur until after Turkey's mid-May [...] | 2007-03-23 12:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PREF PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA67 | TURKEY GENERALLY SUPPORTS NEW IRAQ STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Turkey supports the USG's new Iraq strategy, MFA Undersecretary Apakan told the Ambassador Jan. 12. Turkey still attaches significant importance to the Kirkuk and PKK issues, and will seek continued consultations on these in the weeks ahead. End summary. 2. (C) Ambassador call [...] | 2007-01-12 15:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA671 | TURKISH DEFMIN GONUL URGES AGAINST CLOSURE OF NATO [...] (C) Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gonul expressed to Ambassador on March 21 Turkey's concerns regarding NATO consideration in the Command Structure PE review of closing Component Command Air Izmir. Closure of that command would be "bad news for the Turkish people" for two reasons, accord [...] | 2007-03-23 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
07ANKARA688 | TURKEY: LOOKING TO NAIL DOWN DATE FOR IRAQ [...] (S) Action Request in para five. 2. (S) Turkey is moving ahead with planning of the Iraq neighbors plus ministerial to take place in Istanbul based upon reports that Iraqi PM Maliki has agreed on Istanbul as the venue. According to GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Amb. Oguz Celikkol, this inform [...] | 2007-03-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
07ANKARA699 | TURKEY CONTINUING EU REFORMS DESPITE SETBACK [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 06:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA700 | TURKEY: VERDICT IN CLOSELY WATCHED TORTURE TRIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 06:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA701 | TURKEY: NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS AGAINST GOT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 07:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV AF IT TU |
07ANKARA710 | TURKEY ON KOSOVO: SUPPORT AHTISAARI PLAN; HOPE TO [...] (C) Turkey continues to support UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's plan, including his recommendation that Kosovo become independent. We delivered ref a points March 27 to MFA Balkans Department Head Ilhan Saygili, who reiterated Turkey's long-standing position (reported ref b) in support of the pr [...] | 2007-03-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI TU |
07ANKARA711 | TURKEY: STONEWALLING ON UN-BROKERED CYPRUS TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's MFA characterizes recent Greek Cypriot steps to re-start UN-brokered talks and to facilitate a re-opening of the Ledra Street crossing of the Green Line in central Nicosia as "just for show." The GOT believes G/C President Papadopoulos is feeling pressure from the EU and [...] | 2007-03-28 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07ANKARA728 | EU Funding takes off in Turkey [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EU PGOV TU |
07ANKARA747 | TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA75 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR UNDER SECRETARY NICHOLAS [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Special Assistant Herro Mustafa. 2. (U) Cathy Westley, Political Officer, is your Control Officer. She can be reached at: Office 011-90-312-455-5555, EXT 2513; Home: 011-9 [...] | 2007-01-16 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OTRA AMGT AFIN PGOV TU |
07ANKARA750 | PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...] | 2007-04-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA773 | TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINDOW ABOUT TO OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's presidential election process officially begins April 16. Despite months of tail-chasing by the political classes, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's enigmatic silence on his own candidacy has frustrated pundits and opponents alike, while serving gradually to acclima [...] | 2007-04-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA778 | DESPITE ALLEGATIONS, MEDIA TAKEOVER PROBABLY NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) re-seized a major media group (including Sabah newspaper and ATV television) and other companies nominally belonging to businessman Turgay Ciner on April 1. The SDIF acted after it came to its attention in March that Ciner had e [...] | 2007-04-05 05:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN TU |
07ANKARA779 | TURKEY-ARMENIA PUSH AFTER ELECTIONS; NO HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with Turkish MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan, Ambassador reviewed the status of the draft Armenian genocide resolution in Congress and discussed prospects for an opening in Turkish-Armenian relations, highlighting USG willingness to work with Turkey once the electio [...] | 2007-04-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM KPAL |
07ANKARA78 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT DEVELOPS 2007 EU ROADMAP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-17 09:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA799 | THE POLITICS OF SPRAWL IN ANKARA'S NEIGHBORHOODS [...] (C) Summary. In visits to three of Ankara's poorer neighborhoods, we found officials and residents grappling with rural to urban migration challenges, unemployment and a political system that leaves many feeling unheard. As Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections approach, politica [...] | 2007-04-06 12:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU |
07ANKARA801 | FIFTH YEAR OF STRONG GROWTH IN TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-06 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV EU TU |
07ANKARA82 | TURKEY: GOT AND KRG MOVING TOWARD DIALOGUE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish Regional Government and the GOT are moving in the direction of initiating a dialogue, perhaps in early February, according to Masoud Barzani's foreign policy advisor (and former KDP Ankara rep.) Safeen Dizayee. According to Dizayee, GOT officials this week offered to [...] | 2007-01-17 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PREF TU IZ |
07ANKARA822 | TURKEY WARNS IRAQ AND US TO BRING BARZANI AND THE [...] (C) Summary: MFA separately called in both the Iraqi Ambassador and us to reiterate its concerns about recent combative rhetoric from KRG President Barzani, and to warn that Turkey reserves the right to take action against the PKK if the Iraqis will not. Turkish officials are concerned that B [...] | 2007-04-09 16:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA828 | TURKEY: TROUBLED GOVERNMENT-MEDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secularist contacts assert that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government pressures an important voice in society -- the media -- through a variety of means. Such charges have been leveled against previous governments, but AKP's concentrated hold on power m [...] | 2007-04-10 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA832 | TURKISH ANGER CONTINUES OVER SHIFT OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials remain persuaded that the Iraqi Kurds, then the Egyptian and Iraqi governments, essentially conspired to shift the "neighbors-plus" ministerial from Istanbul to Egypt. They have serious doubts as to whether all neighbors will attend the meeting, though Turkey wi [...] | 2007-04-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ EG |
07ANKARA849 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN OPPONENTS TALKING BIG BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In the final days before Turkey's presidential election process officially begins on April 16 (ref A),Prime Minister Erdogan's opponents are waging a last gasp effort to prevent his candidacy. Secularists' attempts to stir the public to action against the perceived Is [...] | 2007-04-12 11:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA859 | TURKISH MFA APPRECIATES EFFORTS TO AVERT GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting with Ambassador, MFA U/S (D equivalent) Ertugrul Apakan expressed appreciation for US Administration efforts to avert a congressional Armenian genocide resolution and asked about language of the Presidential proclamation that would be issued on the occasion [...] | 2007-04-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
07ANKARA861 | TURKISH CHIEF OF STAFF PUTS THE MILITARY BACK IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's Chief of Staff General Yasar Buyukanit in an hour-long televised speech to assembled military brass and press at the General Staff headquarters on April 12 addressed the military's three-decade long fight against terrorism, defended the military from accusations of wron [...] | 2007-04-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA875 | TURKEY ON NOTICE THAT BUYUKANIT STATEMENT ON CBO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador notified NSC SecGen Alpogan on April 13 that the statements by Chief of Staff Buyukanit on April 12 regarding Turkish Armed Forces support for a cross-border operation (CBO) into Iraq were harmful to US efforts to facilitate Iraqi cooperation on the PKK terrorist issue [...] | 2007-04-13 15:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ TU |
07ANKARA876 | MESSAGE TO PM ERDOGAN: TURKEY MUST REMAIN SECULAR [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's secularists staged a triple play to deter PM Erdogan from running for president as the election process gets underway on April 16. On April 14, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Ankara for a peaceful rally in support of secularism and the Republic. Th [...] | 2007-04-15 11:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA89 | TURKEY: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE [...] (C) Turkey continues to agree with the U.S. view of Kosovo's final status process and supports UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's timeline for moving forward toward resolution. Ambassador discussed the issue with MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Ertugrul Apakan January 17, emphasizing (per ref a) o [...] | 2007-01-18 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC |
07ANKARA891 | TURKEY: NSC SECGEN ON TURKISH HEZBOLLAH AND CYPRUS [...] (C) During an April 13 meeting to discuss CHOD Buyukanit's April 12 press conference (reftel) and the April 10 NSC meeting, outgoing NSC SecGen Yigit Alpogan advised Ambassador that Turkish Hezbollah could overtake PKK as the most serious security threat to Turkey and expressed pessimism about [...] | 2007-04-16 13:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU GR CY |
07ANKARA906 | Drowning in Tea Leaves - Turkish Press Coverage of the [...] Summary: As the Turkish Presidential election begins officially, the media's coverage leading up to the election has been obsessed with "will he or won't he," playing a guessing game rather than conducting any serious analysis of what it would mean for the country, should PM Erdogan become pr [...] | 2007-04-17 10:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV KPAO TU |
07ANKARA916 | TURKISH OPPOSITION'S DESPERATE MANEUVERING AS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With little ammunition to force PM Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to present a consensus candidate for Turkey's next president, the opposition has resurrected its threat to boycott the first round of voting (reftel A). Relying on a specious interpret [...] | 2007-04-18 11:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA933 | AFTERMATH: TRIPLE-MURDER OF CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-19 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA936 | TURKS CONCERNED ABOUT UNBALANCED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar called us in April 18, under instructions, to express concern about a program they had heard would be aired on Iraqi TV station Al Hurra soon regarding allegations of Armenian genocide. Torunlar said that, were thi [...] | 2007-04-20 09:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU IZ AM |
07ANKARA944 | TURKEY'S NEXT PRESIDENT: FM ABDULLAH GUL [...] (U) The suspense is over. PM Tayyip Erdogan, at an April 24 meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),announced that FM and Deputy PM Abdullah Gul is AKP's candidate to be Turkey's 11th president. AKP has the votes to elect its candidate by the third round, all but assuring [...] | 2007-04-24 10:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR TU |
07ANKARA959 | TURKEY: STILL COMMITTED TO JULY 8 PROCESS, BUT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish MFA Deputy Under Secretary responsible for Cyprus Haydar Berk claims that Turkey remains committed to the July 8 process. He said Turkey wants to ensure, though, that the Turkish Cypriots do not shoulder the blame for the process breaking down by agreeing to discuss [...] | 2007-04-25 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNFICYP TU CY |
07ANKARA964 | TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GUL CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many in Turkey are cautiously welcoming Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul's nomination for president (ref A) as one that eases national tensions and will serve Turkey's international standing well. Those who dreaded the specter of Prime Minister Erdogan's a [...] | 2007-04-25 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL TU |
07ANKARA965 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP EXPECTS ELECTORAL SUCCESS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA969 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES GOT ON ATTENDANCE AT SHARM [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is still weighing its level of attendance at the May 3-4 Sharm el-Sheikh meetings on Iraq, according to PM/FM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu. Turkey is still smarting from Iraq's decision not to hold the ministerials in Istanbul, and will press Iraqi FonMin Zebari for an [...] | 2007-04-26 09:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ IR SY EG |
07ANKARA971 | TURKEY ANNOUNCES 7-YEAR EU REFORM PLAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA979 | TURKEY: QUORUM QUESTION CONTINUES TO COMPLICATE [...] (C) Turkey's parliament will convene Friday, April 27, at 3pm to begin the first round of the presidential election process. The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is standing firm on its threat to boycott. If the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) fails to muster 367 deputi [...] | 2007-04-26 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
07ANKARA995 | ANKARA-BASED KURDISH RADIO STATION FACES RISING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA996 | TURKEY WILL SEND MINISTER TO SHARM MEETINGS, [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will send a state minister (to be named) to the May 3-4 Iraq meetings at Sharm el-Sheikh, GOT officials and the Iraqi Ambassador confirmed to us. MFA expects Iran and Syria will also send ministers. FonMin Gul reportedly appealed to visiting Iraqi FonMin Zebari April 26 f [...] | 2007-04-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ IR SY EG |
07ANTANANARIVO100 | COMOROS EAGER FOR BILATERAL TALKS WITH U.S. [...] SUMMARY. During meetings January 22-23 in the Union of the Comoros, PolEcon Chief and visiting Desk Officer laid the ground work for the first meeting of the U.S.-Comoros Joint Committee for Bilateral Cooperation. The Comoran officials expressed interest in discussing the African Growth and O [...] | 2007-01-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID ECON ENRG KISL CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1016 | Embassy's Third Annual Iftar Reception [...] The Ambassador and DCM hosted September 25 the Embassy's third annual Iftar reception in Antananarivo. Friends and contacts from Madagascar's diverse Muslim communities attended - Khoja, Sunni, Bohra, and Ismailis -- again expressing their appreciation for our hospitality. Interestingly, Mad [...] | 2007-10-05 03:19:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1021 | HILTON TO LEAVE MADAGASCAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Hilton Corporation confirmed that as of November 1 they will no longer manage the largest hotel in Madagascar. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) La Gazette, a local newspaper known for exaggeration, first reported the imminent departure of the Hilton. In typical sensationalist fashion, [...] | 2007-10-05 03:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV ECON MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1034 | HISTORIC SHIP VISIT WELL RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: The historic port call of the USS NORMANDY on the northern coastal city of Diego Suarez from September 29 through October 2, the first such formal ship visit to Madagascar since 1972, showcased greater U.S. engagement in Madagascar. President Ravalomanana's visit onboard the ship wa [...] | 2007-10-09 12:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1035 | ARRESTED MALAGASY MAYORS RECEIVE DUE PROCESS [...] The verdicts from the trials of two political opponents of President Ravalomanana were recently made public. After five months in pre-trial detention, former Mayor of Tamatave and presidential candidate Roland Ratsiraka (REF A) was acquitted October 4 of embezzlement of government funds and f [...] | 2007-10-10 03:49:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM ASEC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO104 | SENATOR RASAMOELY NAMED NEW CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR [...] The President on January 31 appointed Senator Frederick Rasamoely to be the new Governor of the Central Bank of Madagascar, replacing Gaston Ravelojaona who retires after 10 years as head of the Bank. Senator Rasamoely was previously the General Manager of Ny Havana Insurance Company and serv [...] | 2007-02-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1056 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SAMBI, "I WILL END ANJOUAN CRISIS OR [...] (U) This message includes an Action Request, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Celebrating the end of Ramadan October 13, Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Sambi made a public declaration that he would resolve the ongoing Anjouan crisis or resign. Reflecting on public opinion that he had accomplished [...] | 2007-10-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1063 | RULING PARTY VICTORIOUS IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The High Constitutional Court (HCC) announced October 13 the official results of the September 23 National Assembly elections: President Ravalomanana's "Tiako I Madagasikara" (TIM) party won 105 seats, others won 20 seats, and two elections were voided for irregularities. New el [...] | 2007-10-16 06:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1083 | TALKS BETWEEN COMORAN ISLAND LEADERS SEW CONFUSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Grand Comore Island President Mohamed Abdouloihab's unannounced October 19 visit to Anjouan has Union Government officials irate and the international community confused. Anjouan authorities reportedly hope Abdouloihab's visit will be perceived as the first step toward official [...] | 2007-10-22 13:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1085 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER HEADS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) As expected, former Prime Minister and ruling "Tiako-i-Madagasikara" (TIM) party member Jacques Sylla was unanimously elected President of Madagascar's National Assembly October 23 at the body's opening session. The only candidate, Sylla was approved by all 124 deputies present, with the [...] | 2007-10-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1103 | SECOND MALAGASY CABINET RESHUFFLE IN 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Marc Ravalomanana's October 27 cabinet reshuffle, the second of his current term in office, had few significant changes but portends some improvement in overall governance. Only three of the 19 Cabinet members are new to the government. Seven former ministers were dro [...] | 2007-10-29 12:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PBIO MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1114 | DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN MORONI DISCUSSES CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The diplomatic corps in Moroni and Government of the Union of the Comoros were surprised by Grande Comore island president Abdouloihab's visit to Anjouan. The international community, led by the African Union (AU),is working to apply sanctions and encourage the Union Governm [...] | 2007-11-02 10:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1131 | GRENADE ATTACK ON PRESIDENT'S COMPANY IN TULEAR [...] (SBU) An early morning grenade attack on a MAGRO building, part of the TIKO conglomerate owned by President Marc Ravalomanana, slightly injured one gendarme and caused minor material damages November 5. Local security forces in the southwestern city of Tulear have launched an investigation to [...] | 2007-11-07 04:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ASEC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1137 | PRESIDENT EMPOWERS WOMEN, WARNS SEX TOURISTS [...] SUMMARY: October was a groundbreaking month for women in Madagascar. Following the designation of the first ever female Minister of Defense (REF A),President Ravalomanana kicked off the opening conference of the Presidential Initiative on Women and Leadership with a sweeping speech calling [...] | 2007-11-08 09:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI SCUL PINR PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1147 | COMOROS SANCTIONS UNDERWAY, BACAR NOT BACKING DOWN [...] (U) African Union (AU) sanctions, including a travel ban and the freezing of assets, against 145 persons on the island of Anjouan (ref) are underway in the Union of the Comoros. With contradicting dates in media reports, the AU confirmed sanctions started on October 20 and will run out 45 day [...] | 2007-11-09 08:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO116 | MCC CEO DANILOVICH VISITS MADAGASCAR [...] SUMMARY: MCC CEO Ambassador John J. Danilovich, accompanied by Catholic Relief Services President and MCC Board Member Kenneth Hackett assessed progress under Madagascar's Compact January 31 to February 2. President Ravalomanana committed to take immediate steps for the remediation needed on [...] | 2007-02-06 08:12:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1171 | UNION PLEDGES NO ACTION AGAINST ANJOUAN BEFORE [...] (C) The people of the Union of the Comoros are on "standby" as the standoff with Anjouan continues. Union Government officials are committed to cooperating with the African Union (AU) to give sanctions against Anjouan (which will run out on November 24) a chance to work, but they will not wai [...] | 2007-11-16 08:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1173 | COMOROS TOO INDEBTED FOR DEBT RELIEF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 10:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1215 | FORMER COMORAN PRESIDENT AZALI ON SAMBI'S MISCUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former President Azali told the Ambassador the Union should negotiate with Anjouan's Colonel Bacar for the sole purpose of organizing elections on the island. Azali said President Sambi and the African Union had miscalculated in dealing with Bacar, but thought a solution was [...] | 2007-12-03 05:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1221 | LIFE IN ANJOUAN UNDER COLONEL BACAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reports from Anjouan, where EmbOffs have been unable to visit for six months, indicate life in limbo for most of the 240,000 people living there. There are unconfirmed reports that many opponents to Bacar, journalists, activists, intellectuals, and teachers, have been impriso [...] | 2007-12-04 04:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI EAID CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1227 | COMOROS: HOPE REMAINS FOR A NEGOTIATED ANJOUAN [...] (C) I visited Moroni November 28-30 to take stock of political and economic developments there, and to pave the way for A/S Frazer,s December 22-23 visit there. This visit came in the immediate wake of the AU Peace and Security Council,s (PSC ) see reftel a) decision to extend Anjouan sanctio [...] | 2007-12-06 04:17:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI EAID CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1231 | MADAGASCAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS UNDERWAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Campaign season for Madagascar's December 12 municipal elections is well underway, with the ruling TIM party dominating throughout most of the country. As usual, the Government of Madagascar (GOM) is mobilizing at the highest levels to pitch in with the campaigns; ministers are s [...] | 2007-12-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1236 | BRINGING COMOROS INTO THE FOLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we look at the question of AGOA eligibility for Comoros, the two key interlocking issues are security and opportunity - and how each could be strengthened by AGOA. The Comoran people have a tragic history and few economic endowments; their most famous native son is infamous - [...] | 2007-12-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID KDEM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1241 | PRESIDENT LOSES ANTANANARIVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Unofficial results from the December 12 municipal elections show the ruling TIM Party of President Marc Ravalomanana faring well throughout the country, with the notable exception of a humiliating upset in the capital of Antananarivo. Andry "TGV" Rajoelina, a successful busines [...] | 2007-12-13 13:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1243 | PRESIDENT LOSES ANTANANARIVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Unofficial results from the December 12 municipal elections show the ruling TIM Party of President Marc Ravalomanana faring well throughout the country, with the notable exception of a humiliating upset in the capital of Antananarivo. Andry "TGV" Rajoelina, a successful busines [...] | 2007-12-14 04:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1251 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S VISIT TO MADAGASCAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Welcome to Antananarivo! Your visit to Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros comes at an important time as both countries - in quite different circumstances - face challenges that are likely to define the future character of their governance. Your arrival, as the highest ra [...] | 2007-12-17 11:03:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1252 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S VISIT TO THE COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Welcome also to Moroni! Your visit to the Union of the Comoros comes as this fragile country faces the latest in a long series of challenges. Your arrival, as the highest ranking U.S. government official ever (we believe) to visit the archipelago, gives you leverage to help s [...] | 2007-12-17 13:52:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1269 | RULING PARTY CEDES POWER GRACEFULLY IN THE CAPITAL [...] (U) Official results trickling in from the December 12 municipal elections seem to confirm early speculation that the President's TIM party won throughout most of the country, with the exception of a spectacular defeat in Antananarivo (Reftel). Businessman and political unknown Andry "TGV" Ra [...] | 2007-12-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO180 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM TO BE HELD APRIL 4 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has announced a Constitutional Referendum to be held April 4, 2007. A hastily-convened committee is considering over 200 possible changes, and will soon make recommendations to the Council of Ministers, who will then decide which changes shoul [...] | 2007-02-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO227 | President's 2007 Report on AGOA - Madagascar [...] Per reftel, Post provides the following input on Madagascar for the President's 2007 Report on AGOA. MARKET ECONOMY/ECONOMIC REFORM/ELIMINATION OF BARRIERS --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. Madagascar continues to implement its program of macro-economic and stru [...] | 2007-03-08 06:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ECON PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO23 | COMORAN UNION PRESIDENT SAMBI AND ANJOUAN'S BACAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations with Union of the Comoros President Sambi and Anjouan Island "President" Bacar, Ambassador and DCM encouraged dialogue to resolve the ongoing dispute over security responsibility (reftel). A calmly intransigent Bacar insisted he had a right to have arme [...] | 2007-01-08 06:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL CN |
07ANTANANARIVO232 | GOM PROPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has publicly proposed a number of constitutional changes to be voted on in a referendum April 4, with the stated goal of driving forward the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP),its signature development program (REF A). Changes include eliminating the [...] | 2007-03-09 06:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO237 | CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM |
07ANTANANARIVO238 | AMBASSDOR'S MEETINGS WITH MAHAJANGA BUSINESS LEADERS [...] During American Week in Mahajanga (reftel),the Ambassador met with business and Muslim leaders to discuss the overall business climate and to listen to their concerns. Prevailing sentiment among business leaders was generally negative. They voiced complaints about the poor state of the Port [...] | 2007-03-09 13:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PGOV PHUM PREL KISL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO248 | CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM |
07ANTANANARIVO252 | CONCERNED PRESIDENT DENIES POWER GRAB [...] (C) President Ravalomanana summoned Ambassador McGee to his office on the morning of March 9 to address a number of issues. First, the President conveyed his concern at seeing Somalis and Pakistanis on the northern coast of Madagascar (location still being determined) during a recent vacation [...] | 2007-03-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC PREL FR MA EAID SENV KDEM |
07ANTANANARIVO301 | MIXED REACTIONS TO PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: With only eight days to go, Madagascar's upcoming constitutional referendum has failed to garner the same amount of enthusiasm seen in the recent presidential election. The average citizen has little understanding of the proposed amendments and public reactions have been mixed wi [...] | 2007-03-27 13:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO304 | Sambi Announces New Cabinet, Island Election Dates [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Sambi expanded his cabinet by adding four new Ministers and shrinking the massive portfolios of his existing team. None of the Ministers in place since 2006 was removed. The electoral commission also announced the Island President elections will be held June 10, with r [...] | 2007-03-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO321 | JAYA: MADAGACAR'S SIXTH CYCLONE [...] Tropical Cyclone Jaya made landfall on Madagascar's battered northeast coast on April 3, weakened as it crossed the north end of the island, then re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel on April 4. As of 1200 local time on April 4, the storm has largely dissipated, although it will be watched c [...] | 2007-04-04 11:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV PREL PGOV SOCI CASC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO325 | TURNOUT FOR REFERENDUM LOW BUT PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Anecdotal and radio reports from around the country reflect a peaceful day at the polls for Madagascar's constitutional referendum with no security incidents. Voter turnout seems to be considerably lower than for the recent presidential election due to apathy that the constitut [...] | 2007-04-04 13:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO352 | RESULTS NEARLY COMPLETE, REFERENDUM VICTORIOUS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Waiting on results from only 27 of the country's 17,000-plus polling stations, Madagascar's constitutional referendum passed with a 75.37 percent approval rate and a 43.7 percent voter turnout. The usual criticism from the opposition post-referendum will likely fall on deaf ears [...] | 2007-04-12 13:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO393 | AF/E Director Reddick in Antananarivo [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Madagascar April 15-18, East Africa Bureau (AF/E) Director Reddick paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister to discuss the April 4 referendum and ongoing disaster response. In meetings with the Red Cross and the Presidency, Director Reddick explored possible solutions to M [...] | 2007-04-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO399 | DELEGATION HOLDS BILATERAL TALKS WITH COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer's suggestion to President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi on the sidelines of UNGA last September (REF B),a U.S. delegation led by Director of the Office of East African Affairs Eunice Reddick held the first ever bilateral discussions wi [...] | 2007-04-24 11:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO404 | MADAGASCAR AT THE HALFWAY POINT OF MCC COMPACT [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Two years ago Madagascar became the first country to sign a Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),recognizing progress in investing in people, economic freedom, and governing justly. Remarkable achievements in the Compact's priority areas of l [...] | 2007-04-25 08:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO409 | Coastal City Boils Over Electricity Outages [...] (SBU) Public discontent over electricity outages boiled over April 26 as thousands of protestors set fire to a public building in the southern coastal city of Tulear. According to sources in the gendarmerie, members of the mob also kidnapped the regional director of the Penitentiary Administr [...] | 2007-04-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO411 | Comoran Union Government Fights Shell Banks [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an ongoing struggle to attract foreign investment and repair the country's reputation, the Government of the Union of the Comoros has taken steps to address its "shell banking" problem and has renewed its request for U.S. assistance. Vice President Idi recently briefed PolEco [...] | 2007-04-27 05:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER PGOV PREL ECON CN |
07ANTANANARIVO414 | TULEAR RIOTS CONTINUE, OTHER CITIES ON LOW SIMMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of unrest in Tamatave, political opposition groups are trying to take advantage of a string of student-initiated protests over poor university conditions and black-outs in a number of coastal cities -- particularly Tulear (REF A) -- to further their anti-referendum age [...] | 2007-04-27 10:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO417 | Opposition Leaders Arrested; Merina Flee Tulear [...] (SBU) Police in Tulear arrested four opposition leaders for allegedly leading the demonstrations which turned violent in the city April 27 (reftel): Senator Robert Razaka; National Assembly Deputy Dimby Benaria; Luc Vital, Chairman of the Tulear Communal Council; and Tsimarivo Railala. The [...] | 2007-04-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO419 | PRE-ELECTION SHOWDOWN IN THE COMOROS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political tensions are running high in the Union of the Comoros as the Union and Anjouan Island Governments jockey over whether President of Anjouan Mohamed Bacar (known for his secessionist tendencies and prickly relationship with the Union Government) must step down preceding th [...] | 2007-04-30 20:17:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS MASS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO420 | PRE-ELECTION SHOWDOWN IN THE COMOROS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political tensions are running high in the Union of the Comoros as the Union and Anjouan Island Governments jockey over whether President of Anjouan Mohamed Bacar (known for his secessionist tendencies and prickly relationship with the Union Government) must step down preceding th [...] | 2007-05-02 05:09:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS MASS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO425 | UNION AND ANJOUAN FORCES FINALLY CLASH IN COMOROS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The political tension in the Union of the Comoros that has been simmering in recent months between the rival jurisdictions of the Union Government of President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi and the Anjouan Island government headed by "President" Mohamed Bacar has finally broken into viole [...] | 2007-05-02 18:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS MASS ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO430 | U.S. FUND SEEKS MADAGASCAR FOREST DEAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since a meeting in September, 2006, between President Ravalomanana and the president of the Global Environment Fund (GEF),a deal to create a 30,000 hectare sustainable forestry operation in Madagascar has progressed in fits and starts. Interrupted by the December 3 presidential [...] | 2007-05-03 09:40:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID ECON PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO431 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] Post received the following letter to President George W. Bush from His Excellency Mr. Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, the President of the Union of the Comoros, via facsimile on May 2, 2314 local time. A copy of the letter is being faxed and emailed to AF/E Desk Officer Maria Beyzerov. 2. B [...] | 2007-05-03 11:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS MASS ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO435 | COASTAL UNREST CONTINUES IN MADAGASCAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Public demonstrations in Madagascar against blackouts and poor study conditions (reftels) have expanded to include political opposition grievances. Protests seem to be spreading to different coastal cities and even potentially Antananarivo. After several days of protests with li [...] | 2007-05-04 09:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO438 | COMOROS ISLAND IN DE FACTO SECESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After seizing control of the Union radio station and Union President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi's home on Anjouan May 3, "President" Mohamed Bacar's forces seem to be even more in control of the island. The first reported deaths of Union soldiers have sparked conflict between villag [...] | 2007-05-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS MASS ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO442 | Anjouan's Bacar Clings To Power [...] (SBU) Press reports that (former) Anjouan Island "governor" Bacar has accepted the Constitutional Court's decision for him to step down remain unconfirmed. Post Comoros Liaison indicates that Bacar stated he would resign - on the condition that he, not Union President Sambi, name the interim [...] | 2007-05-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO452 | COMOROS AWAITS SAMBI'S REACTION TO BACAR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union's (AU) special envoy to the Comoros Jose Francisco Madeira returned May 8 from a second mission to Anjouan, bringing back with him approximately 15 Union government officials and soldiers who had been held hostage by "President" Bacar's forces. Bacar told Made [...] | 2007-05-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO454 | AU BROKERS SHAKY ACCORD IN THE COMOROS [...] (SBU) In a deal signed late May 11 between Union of the Comoros Vice President Ikililou, African Union (AU) Envoy Madeira, Arab League Envoy Husni, and deposed Anjouan Island "president" Bacar, the defiant Bacar finally agreed to step down as ordered by the Constitutional Court (reftels). The [...] | 2007-05-14 13:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO477 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS HELP TO DISARM MILITIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador McGee met May 19 with Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, high-level Union officials, and island presidential candidates on both Grand Comores and Anjouan to urge all parties to work towards free, fair, transparent, and peaceful elections in the upcomi [...] | 2007-05-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM XA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO520 | EMBEZZLING PLAGUES MADAGASCAR'S CENTRAL BANK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Central Bank of Madagascar (BCM) faces growing concerns about its competence following recent cases of embezzlement. Three weeks ago evidence came to light that USD six million was missing at the BCM's Manakara agency. Local press reported last week another case of theft of [...] | 2007-05-31 11:22:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID MA |
07ANTANANARIVO522 | MIXED SIGNALS TO SEABOARD IN MADAGASCAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tamatave Port Director Pierrot Botozaza kept U.S. Seaboard Corporation representatives waiting for 12 hours on May 25 for scheduled negotiations to renew its lease on silos at the Port (Reftels). When the Port's lawyers finally met with Seaboard, they insisted an application for [...] | 2007-05-31 11:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECON KTDB PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO523 | NORWAY-FUNDED CORRUPTION EXPERT ADVISES MALAGASY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fredrik Galtung of the organization "tiri: Making Integrity Work" provided donors and anti-corruption officials a briefing May 25 following extensive consultations in Madagascar. He identified judicial reform as the top priority for any substantial improvement on transparency a [...] | 2007-05-31 12:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ETRD PREL ECON NO MA |
07ANTANANARIVO566 | ANJOUAN'S BACAR MOVES TO DERAIL COMOROS VOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence broke out again on the Comoran island of Anjouan June 5 as island strongman Mohamed Bacar continued his pattern of extralegal efforts to cling to power. Bacar, who stepped aside as island president to run for reelection (Reftels),appears to have no intention of losing [...] | 2007-06-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO567 | COMOROS' SAMBI POSTPONES ANJOUAN'S ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi postponed Anjouan's island election to June 17, contrary to international pressure. Deposed Anjouan island president Bacar continues his "end-game" threatening to hold elections anyway. Votes in Grand Comore and Moheli will go [...] | 2007-06-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO573 | TWO-THIRDS OF COMOROS ISLAND ELECTIONS SUCCESSFUL [...] (U) This is an Action Request - see para 6. 2. (SBU) The people of Grand Comore and Moheli in the Union of the Comoros went to the polls June 10 to elect new island "presidents" (governors). The pro-Sambi candidate Abduloihabi (known as "Albino") leads in Grand Comore, followed by a chari [...] | 2007-06-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO580 | STUDENTS BURN MADAGASCAR CAMPUS AMPHITHEATRE [...] (U) Police contacts report that an unknown number of students set fire to the amphitheatre on the campus at the University in Fianarantsoa, in south-central Madagascar, early June 13. The entire building and an adjoining registrar's office, where many students' files are stored, burned to the [...] | 2007-06-13 09:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO583 | AU CHALLENGES ANJOUAN'S BACAR IN COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union insists deposed island president Mohamed Bacar must allow island elections on Anjouan June 17; however, it cannot so far enforce compliance. The renegade Bacar is reportedly fortifying his position on the island against possible attack. (Note: No AmCits are [...] | 2007-06-13 12:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO585 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in Paragraph Two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support for a military effort to restore democracy to the island of Anjouan. Sambi describes the repeated efforts - by his government as we [...] | 2007-06-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO595 | COMOROS ELECTION POSTPONED AS BACAR SEIZES POWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shortly after inaugurating himself "President" of Anjouan on the morning of June 14, Colonel Mohamed Bacar resumed his position at the presidential palace. A high-level Comoran delegation will arrive in Addis Ababa June 14 to lobby the African Union (AU) to hold an extraordinar [...] | 2007-06-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO60 | U.S. DELEGATION CONGRATULATES MADAGASCAR'S PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Presidential Delegation led by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns attended the inauguration of President Marc Ravalomanana's second term and held a number of meetings on the sidelines. Applauding Ravalomanana's progressive leadership style, the delegation extended its congra [...] | 2007-01-22 14:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO608 | COMOROS AWAITS AU DECISION ON MILITARY OPTIONS [...] (U) With "President" Bacar of Anjouan refusing to hold new island presidential elections sanctioned by the international community, South Africa is reportedly organizing an urgent meeting of regional foreign ministries and an official from the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council June [...] | 2007-06-18 13:27:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO615 | AFRICAN UNION CHALLENGES BACAR IN THE COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An African Union (AU) ultimatum and ministerial delegation to the Union of the Comoros is applying pressure on renegade Anjouan island "President" Mohamed Bacar. All three islands of the Union are calm, awaiting Bacar's response to the AU. Rumors abound from Anjouan that Bacar [...] | 2007-06-21 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO623 | ICRC NOTES MINOR IMPROVEMENT IN MADAGASCAR PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Of 80 countries in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) monitors prison conditions; Madagascar continues to stand among the worst. An ICRC representative met with Embassy staff to note that while there have been positive trends over the past year in the Gov [...] | 2007-06-22 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO636 | COMOROS ELECTIONS: TWO OUT OF THREE SUCCEED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Island elections in Grande Comore and Moheli successfully completed their second rounds June 24. Embassy observers found the election in Grande Comore to be transparent and well-organized. Tensions are high between the Union government, African Union (AU),and other internatio [...] | 2007-06-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO640 | SEABOARD SILOS SOLUTION SIGNED IN MADAGASCAR [...] Seaboard Corporation's Armando Lopes signed a five-year lease extension for its silos at the Tamatave Port June 28. Tamatave Port Director Pierrot Botozaza and Minister of Transport Julien LaPorte have approved and signed the agreement. According to Lopes, the terms and conditions of the ext [...] | 2007-06-28 11:10:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON KTDB PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO642 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. POLITICAL SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in paragraph two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support urging an African Union (AU) decision to take robust action against Comoran warlord Mohamed Bacar. Sambi expresses his disappointmen [...] | 2007-06-29 11:26:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO681 | COMORANS HOLD BREATH WAITING FOR ANJOUAN ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Delegates of the Government of the Union of the Comoros as well as those sent by renegade Anjouan Island warlord Mohamed Bacar met under African Union auspices July 8 and 9 in Pretoria to seek a solution to their inter-island impasse. Rather than holding a negotiation between [...] | 2007-07-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO685 | COMOROS STABILITY IMPROVING ON TWO ISLANDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Compared to their predecessors, the newly installed island presidents on both Grande Comore and Moheli appear more conciliatory and more willing to work constructively with the Government of the Union of the Comoros. As such, prospects for greater Union stability - [...] | 2007-07-12 13:20:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PINR ASEC AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO687 | MADAGASCAR ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM AT RISK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID continues to play a vital leadership role among environment donors in Madagascar seeking to advocate and implement sound conservation and natural resource management policies. Review of the third phase of the environment program has been protracted and did not result in c [...] | 2007-07-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO EAGR ECON EAID PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO692 | FRENCH VIEW OF THE COMOROS [...] (C) French Ambassador to the Comoros, Christian Job, met Charge July 9 in Moroni and provided an overview of French-Comoran relations. According to Job, from the French side the relationship is grounded in four facts. First, the shared history dating from 1841. Second, legitimate French in [...] | 2007-07-13 10:03:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | CN EAID FR PGOV PINR PREL |
07ANTANANARIVO702 | MOHELI, THE FORGOTTEN COMORAN ISLAND [...] SUMMARY. There are four inhabited islands in the Comoran archipelago. France administers Mayotte. Of the other three, comprising the Union of the Comoros, two are of comparable size and population - Grande Comore being slightly larger than Anjouan. The third is Moheli, an environmental jew [...] | 2007-07-17 06:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV TBIO EAGR ECON PGOV CN |
07ANTANANARIVO710 | ENVIRONMENTAL TRAFFICKING IN MADAGASCAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Recent cases involving tropical hardwood and endangered tortoises highlight the serious problem of environmental smuggling in Madagascar. The island is attractive to smugglers because a broad range of unique species inhabit the island and because law enforcement services tend to [...] | 2007-07-19 10:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO EAGR ECON EAID PGOV CH MA |
07ANTANANARIVO715 | RAVALOMANANA'S CONTRADICTORY LEADERSHIP STYLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3, 2006, Marc Ravalomanana won a landslide reelection victory emerging ahead of 13 other candidates with 55 per cent of the vote. His nearest rival tallied less than 12 per cent. Coming five years after his initial disputed victory had plunged the nation to the brink [...] | 2007-07-20 05:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO718 | MALAGASY MAYOR FINALLY CAPTURED [...] (U) After eight months on the lam (REF D),former Mayor of Fianarantsoa and presidential candidate Pety Rakotoniaina was arrested by mixed police and gendarmes forces in the southern city of Fianarantsoa on the evening of July 19. For the moment, he is being held in Antananarivo under charges [...] | 2007-07-20 09:21:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ASEC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO721 | PRESIDENT TO DISSOLVE MADAGASCAR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Marc Ravalomanana announced July 20 his intention to dissolve the National Assembly and call legislative elections. His justifications include "realignment" with his Madagascar Action Plan (MAP) and the recent Constitutional Referendum; the Deputies' terms are also se [...] | 2007-07-23 12:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO74 | PRESIDENT RAVALOMANANA PROMISES MINISTRY OF [...] (C) An animated President Ravalomanana insisted he was "neutral and not interested" in Seaboard Corporation's operations at the Port of Tamatave; neither as President of Madagascar nor as owner/founder of the TIKO company (reftels). Holding up literature from the Dynatech Corporation, the Pre [...] | 2007-01-23 09:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EAGR KTDB PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO749 | MADAGASCAR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SEPTEMBER 23 [...] (U) Following a July 24 decree dissolving Madagascar's National Assembly, the Council of Ministers decided July 25 the election for Deputies to the National Assembly will be held September 23. In a power guaranteed by Article 69 of the Constitution, the Council also decided the new Assembly w [...] | 2007-07-27 04:18:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO758 | MADAGASCAR M.P. ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] (SBU) Roger Zara, a former deputy from the island of Nosy Be who represented President Marc Ravalomanana's Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM) party in the recently dissolved National Assembly (ref A),was arrested July 27 on corruption-related charges. He was reportedly summoned to the tribunal, accus [...] | 2007-07-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO77 | COMOROS PRESIDENT WELCOMES U.S. COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of the Union of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, met with the Ambassador January 18 and with Peace Corps Director Ronald Tschetter January 19 on the margins of the investiture of Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana (Ref A). Sambi reaffirmed his desire for as [...] | 2007-01-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | PREL PMIL PINR EFIN PGOV PTER EAID KISL CN |
07ANTANANARIVO779 | BACAR'S DEFIANCE LEAVES AU FEW OPTIONS IN THE COMOROS [...] (U) Little has changed in the Union of the Comoros in recent days (reftels). African Union (AU) Envoy Francisco Madeira again threatened Anjouan island renegade, Mohamed Bacar, and again offered an ultimatum. In a press statement July 28, Madeira said, "Bacar's boat is sinking and anyone lef [...] | 2007-08-02 12:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO78 | GENERAL NAMED PRIME MINISTER OF MADAGASCAR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On January 20 President Marc Ravalomanana appointed former Minister of Interior Lt-General Charles Rabemananjara as his new Prime Minister, to replace outgoing Prime Minister Jacques Sylla. Rabemananjara now has the task of forming a new Cabinet in consultation with the President [...] | 2007-01-23 14:27:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO813 | CANDIDATES LINING UP FOR MADAGASCAR'S ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With August 14 ending of the open season to declare candidacy in upcoming legislative elections (REF A),political parties are forming coalitions and preparing their hopefuls. President Ravalomanana's TIM party is actively selecting candidates throughout the 119 districts. To [...] | 2007-08-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO815 | COMORAN PRESIDENT CONSIDERING MILITARY OPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi wants the AU to take control of Anjouan by force to allow free elections there, and he believes this could be done without bloodshed. However, he will not wait indefinitely and has a plan for Union forces to take Anjouan - which he [...] | 2007-08-16 13:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO816 | CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IN COMOROS ATTACKED [...] In what appears to be a religiously motivated attack, unknown actors set off a petrol-bomb in a dispensary run by the Catholic relief agency Caritas in the village of Mbeni on the northeastern side of Grande Comore late August 12. No one was injured, but material damages included four burne [...] | 2007-08-20 05:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC SCUL CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO836 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Little more than 48 hours after arriving in Madagascar, Ambassador R. Niels Marquardt presented his credentials to Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana. In a wide-ranging discourse, the President expressed appreciation for U.S. programs and support, while requesting further assi [...] | 2007-08-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MA |
07ANTANANARIVO84 | MADAGASCAR PRIME MINISTER SELECTS NEW CABINET [...] (U) As anticipated in reftels, newly appointed Prime Minister Gen. Charles Rabemananjara (who maintains his portfolio as Minister of Interior),named his new cabinet January 25: -- Minister to the Presidency in charge of Decentralization and Land Use Planning: Yvan Andrianasandratriniony (F [...] | 2007-01-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO851 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MALAGASY PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara invited Ambassador Marquardt for a meeting the day after the credentials ceremony with the President. A friendly but direct Rabemananjara said Malagasy do not want a single ballot and the electoral commission is already strong and independent [...] | 2007-08-24 09:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EAID EWWT ASEC SNAR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO852 | IMF AFRICA DIRECTOR LAUDS MALAGASY ECONOMY [...] (U) International Monetary Fund Africa Director Bio-Tchane met President Marc Ravalomanana August 22 for consultations on Madagascar's economic management and performance. Bio-Tchane also held meetings with Minister of Finance Radavidson, Central Bank Governor Rasamoely, and private sector re [...] | 2007-08-24 10:17:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID MA |
07ANTANANARIVO853 | COMORAN FM JAFFAR REITERATES PRO-AMERICAN STANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Ahmed Said Ben Jaffar welcomed the Ambassador to the region, encouraging him to visit the Comoros to deliver credentials and see the country at the first opportunity. Jaffar expressed frustration that the African Union (AU) had not upheld commitments with regar [...] | 2007-08-27 11:18:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID CN |
07ANTANANARIVO869 | HIGH COURT ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES [...] (U) On August 23, Madagascar's High Constitutional Court published the official list of candidates for the September 23 National Assembly elections. 1,542 candidates, of whom 666 are former deputies, will compete for 127 seats. President Ravalomanana's Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM) party is the [...] | 2007-08-29 04:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO881 | ENERGY, THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Energy Minister Ramiaramanana is pursuing multiple partnerships to revitalize the state electric utility company. He explained to the Ambassador August 30 his ambitious plans to improve electricity supply in major coastal cities and in Antananarivo. The Minister is also keen [...] | 2007-08-31 06:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PGOV PREL ECON MA |
07ANTANANARIVO89 | MADAGASCAR OFFERS PEACEKEEPING TROOPS TO SOMALIA [...] (SBU) The Government of Madagascar (GOM) is prepared to pledge up to 800 troops for African Union Peace Keeping Operations (PKO) in Somalia. Major General Claude, head of the Gendarme, informed DATT that he has 100 troops ready for immediate deployment. 2. (SBU) General Mampianina, head of [...] | 2007-01-29 04:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL AU PGOV IO MA |
07ANTANANARIVO892 | EITI: CAN MADAGASCAR AVOID THE RESOURCE CURSE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Madagascar's Government and mining companies joined August 28 in making public declarations for the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). Much work remains for the GOM to meet all conditions, but the Presidency and Ministers of Energy and Mines are committed to m [...] | 2007-09-04 11:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EFIN EPET ECON PGOV EAID MA |
07ANTANANARIVO930 | ANTANANARIVO UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION [...] Post submits current contact information as requested in reftel for leadership at Post and for key host government officials. 2. Mission contact information: Country Code (Madagascar): +261 Country Code (Comoros): +269 IVG Access Code: 590 24 hour Switchboard: 20 22-212-57/58/59; 20 [...] | 2007-09-17 08:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PGOV MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO933 | AU SANCTIONS NEXT IN THE COMOROS IMPASSE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the Union of the Comoros (GOC) is expecting the African Union (AU) to apply concrete measures against rebel Anjouan warlord Col. Mohamed Bacar when its Foreign Ministers meet September 18 in Cape Town. Privately, we have heard the next step is likely to be sanct [...] | 2007-09-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS CN AU MO |
07ANTANANARIVO935 | COMOROS: PRESIDENT APPEALS TO U.S. WHILE HOPING [...] (C) Summary: With virtually his whole country's progress and prospects held hostage over the continuing impasse in Anjouan (reftel),Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi nonetheless projected an air of friendly calm in his first meeting with Ambassador Marquardt on September [...] | 2007-09-18 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS CN AU MO |
07ANTANANARIVO998 | LUKEWARM COMORAN REACTION TO LATEST AU MEETING [...] (U) Six "concerned" African Foreign Ministers met in Cape Town September 18 to discuss the ongoing de facto secession in Anjouan, Union of the Comoros. This Ministerial Council adopted the recommendations of an experts group that met in Addis Ababa September 4. While the declaration calls fo [...] | 2007-10-01 03:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ARAJEVO753 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAK POLITICAL LEADERS WARY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 and April 2, we met separately with Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, President of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic, and President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Zlatko Lagumdzija to discuss the situation in Srebrenica and [...] | 2007-04-06 07:52:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK |
07ASHGABAT1001 | TURKMENISTAN: NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION SERVICE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent introductory meeting with U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein, officials of Turkmenistan's National Civil Aviation Service expressed interest in possible developme [...] | 2007-09-21 12:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1003 | TURKMENISTAN: MEETING WITH INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Sensitive byt unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Deirector Shirin Ahmedova told poloff September 21 that the new Human Rights Commission has plans to cooperate closely with the UN and EU. The Commission also wants to devel [...] | 2007-09-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1008 | SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: WHO IS PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Little in the way of personal detail is known about the real President Berdimuhamedov, but examining rumors, official biographies and the comments of those who have worked with him provide some insight into his personality. Descended from Turkmen intelligentsia, Berdimuhamedov [...] | 2007-09-24 07:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1009 | TURKMENISTAN: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SUPPLIES READING MATERIAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) If you want to know about the United States, there probably is no better source than the Embassy's Public Diplomacy Section. Apparently, the people in charge of the preparations for President Berdimuhamedov's trip to UNGA rea [...] | 2007-09-24 09:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1014 | TURKMENISTAN: A TURKISH BUSINESSMAN WORRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Businessman and Turkmenistan insider Ahmet Chalik (protect throughout) describes President Berdimuhamedov as weak because he is beholden to outside interests, principally Russian. He says Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul are eager to promote a trilatera [...] | 2007-09-24 11:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EPET KDEM TU AJ KZ RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1018 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHT [...] (U) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation's August 20-25, 2007 visit to Turkmenistan, headed by Michael Cromartie, received positive state and international media. However, state media avoided any frank discussion of religious freedom issues with [...] | 2007-09-25 07:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT1030 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV PROMISES RELEASE OF [...] (C) During a September 24 debrief of UK Minister of Energy Malcolm Wick's 19-20 visit that focused primarily on oil and gas issues (septel),UK Ambassador Peter Butcher reported Wicks raised political development and human rights in meetings with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Deputy [...] | 2007-09-25 10:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1035 | TURKMENISTAN: CONDITIONS IN OWADAN PRISON [...] (C) A longtime Embassy contact, whose brother was imprisoned for the 2002 attack on the presidential motorcade, spoke recently with one of the 11 individuals granted clemency in August. (NOTE: The contact did not specify which one. END NOTE.) This person told our contact that rumors she ha [...] | 2007-09-26 12:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS TX |
07ASHGABAT1036 | TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIAN BAZAAR BURNS, BUT NO TAPE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An early morning fire on September 24 destroyed temporary kiosks as well as badly damaging two permanent retail areas of Ashgabat's Russian Bazaar in the center of downtown. Although there is no information rega [...] | 2007-09-26 13:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1037 | TURKMENISTAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION GRANTS FLEX RECRUITMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) The Ministry of Education (MOE) has approved the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) recruitment for 2007/2008, which will begin September 30. The surprise early approval is a break from the past and signals a possible chan [...] | 2007-09-27 03:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1039 | CATERPILLAR EXEC NOTES CHALLENGES, BUT "IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a September 26 meeting, Vladimir Naumov, General Manager of Zeppelin Caterpillar Turkmenistan JV said while President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov continues his predecessor's hands-on habits in terms of making [...] | 2007-09-27 09:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD JA TX |
07ASHGABAT1040 | TURKMENISTAN: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN GROUP IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post confirmed today that the evangelical Christian Source of Life Church in Turkmenabat was successfully registered on the 24th of September, after two years of process. The preacher, Jabar Aliyev, received news of it fro [...] | 2007-09-27 10:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1041 | TURKMENISTAN: REGIONAL UNODC MEETING PARTICIPANTS AGREE ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a September 17-19 regional counternarcotics meeting sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drug Control (UNODC) in Turkmenbashy, Turkmenistan, representatives of Paris Pact countries and international or [...] | 2007-09-27 11:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1042 | TURKMENISTAN: ASHGABAT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL [...] The Ashgabat International School (a Quality Schools International supported by the Department),Turkmenistan's only English-language expatriate school, suddenly and unexpectedly received a request from state-controlled Turkmen television to come and interview teachers and students at the sch [...] | 2007-09-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASCH SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1047 | TURKMENISTAN'S TEXTILE MINISTER SHARES HER -- AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DCM met with Turkmenistan's Minister of Textiles Jemal Geoklenova on September 26 for an introductory meeting on the textile industry in Turkmenistan. Appreciative of the experience brought by and lessons learned from international investors, Geoklenova explained that Presiden [...] | 2007-09-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EIND ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT1048 | TUKRMNEISTAN: AHAL PROVINCE OFFICIALS SHOW REMARKABLE NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a distinctive change over previous visits to Ahal in post's provincial reporting program, PAO was warmly welcomed and treated to a new level of hospitality and openness, particularly by a high-ranking alumnus of t [...] | 2007-09-28 12:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1050 | TURKMENISTAN FOREIGN MINISTER: GIVE US MORE TIME [...] (S) Charge met with Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov September 28 for a read-out of President Berdimuhamedov's September 23-27 visit to New York (septel). At the end of the meeting, Charge asked Meredov to dismiss his notetaker, as is normal practice for this issue, and raised the U.S. strong [...] | 2007-10-01 05:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC TX |
07ASHGABAT1053 | TURKMENISTAN PRESIDENT PLEASED WITH NEW YORK TRIP; [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Foreign Minister Meredov, President Berdimuhamedov left New York with a strongly positive reaction to his bilateral, business, and UN meetings. Meredov said the president asked him to thank the United States for its high level of professionalism in organization and [...] | 2007-10-01 07:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET SCUL KPAO KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1054 | TURKMENISTAN: NAVCENT COMMANDER OFFERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a September 29 meeting, the U.S. Navy Commander of the Combined Maritime Forces (NAVCENT),Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, offered Minister of Oil and Gas Baymyrat Hojamuhamedov assistance with improving Turkmenistan's capacity to deal with a variety of security threats to [...] | 2007-10-01 07:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EPET MARR TX |
07ASHGABAT1056 | TURKMENISTAN: RISING MARKET BASKET COSTS BEGINNING TO BE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As President Berdimuhamedov's latest foreign policy moves continue to receive heavy media play, citizens are beginning to complain about rising food prices. A recent market basket price comparison shows prices have increased an average of 20% since last year. While the reason [...] | 2007-10-01 09:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1059 | ASHGABAT RESPONSE TO CALL FOR INFORMATION-HOST [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Please find below post's responses to the information requested reftel. Watchlisting - The government of Turkmenistan maintains a law enforcement-based watch list against which the names of incoming Turkmen citizen passenger [...] | 2007-10-01 11:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KVPR KHLS CVIS ASEC TX |
07ASHGABAT1064 | POLIMEKS EXECUTIVE WANTS COLLABORATION WITH U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 27, a senior Turkish construction company official outlined the difficulties of living and doing business in Turkmenistan, such as police harassment and lack of Internet access, and how it makes find [...] | 2007-10-02 11:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EIND SOCI TU TX |
07ASHGABAT1066 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AGENCY FOR HYDROCARBON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Just back from a week-long orientation trip to the United States hosted by the U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA),the Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, Bayrammurat Muradov, told Charge October 2 that the trip ha [...] | 2007-10-03 10:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT1067 | TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON PLANS TO OPEN OFFICE, HOPES [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to two Chevron security officers, the oil company plans to open an office in Ashgabat in November or December, with an expatriate staff of four or five persons. Chevron is yet to name a country director. The company has proposals to work two sectors of Serdar off-shore [...] | 2007-10-03 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV ASEC TX |
07ASHGABAT1068 | TURKMENISTAN'S MARY PROVINCE: FARMERS PRO PRIVATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Farmers in Mary expressed their disgruntlement with the government cotton-growing and state-controlled purchasing system, and argued that farming private land would make farmers more prosperous, during a recent post visit to the province. Turkish factories appear to be provid [...] | 2007-10-03 12:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SOCISZX KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1072 | TUKRMENISTAN: ASHGABAT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FEATURED ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: State Television channel "TV4" October 3 ran a positive feature on Ashgabat International School that highlighted the school's American curriculum and international staff and students. In his interview, the school [...] | 2007-10-04 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASCH KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1073 | TURKMENISTAN: NARYSHKIN VISIT PROBABLY FOCUSED ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) According to press reports, during an October 3 meeting in Ashgabat, Sergei Naryshkin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Co-Chairman of the Turkmenistan-Russia Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation Commission, told Turkmeni [...] | 2007-10-04 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1074 | TURKMENISTAN: BURREN ENERGY MANAGER DISCUSSES THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over dinner, the Amcit operations manager for Burren Energy talked about many of the challenges that his company -- and most foreign firms doing business in Turkmenistan -- are facing, including problems with the [...] | 2007-10-05 04:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1075 | "NIGHT OF OMNIPOTENCE" AMNESTY LIST INCLUDES SOME [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On October 1, the state-run newspaper, "Neutral Turkmenistan," published the list of prisoners to be pardoned on October 9, in honor of the Night of Omnipotence. Some 8,837 names appeared, along with brief details about whe [...] | 2007-10-05 05:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1076 | PETRONAS IN TURKMENISTAN: FULL OF GAS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Petronas, which unexpectedly hit substantial (an estimated 20 billion cubic meters at maximum production) reserves of ethane- and propane-rich natural gas in the Caspian Sea, is looking at gas export options. The [...] | 2007-10-05 06:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT1078 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE SEES IMPROVEMENT IN HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: OSCE sees an improvement in human rights, in the attitude of the government toward human rights, and in the ability of the OSCE Ashgabat Center to do business, since Berdimuhamedov came to power in early 2007. For [...] | 2007-10-05 11:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1079 | TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN EXPERTS PRESS LEGAL REFORM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A German academic delegation from the German Association for Technical Cooperation visited Ashgabat the week of October 1 to hold a roundtable with a number of Turkmenistan's ministries and government agencies dir [...] | 2007-10-05 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1081 | TURKMENISTAN: HIGH-PROFILE AND IRF-CONCERN NAMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Post has learned that several additional names of interest were on the list of those to be amnestied on October 9. A source at the Turkish embassy confirmed that it was notified that six Turkish citizens were on the list [...] | 2007-10-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1083 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA UNSURE OF ITSELF WHILE THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. State media gave minor coverage to the U.S. CENTCOM visit, headed by the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, September 27-28. However, it had been believed that the visit would not be covered at all, according to working level sta [...] | 2007-10-09 03:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT1085 | YOUR VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) Erica: We look forward to your visit and want to ensure it will contribute to building our new bilateral relationship with Turkmenistan. In the nine months since the death of former President Niyazov, the new government has taken deliberate steps to move the country back toward the main [...] | 2007-10-09 07:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1088 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV REPLACES INTERIOR, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov replaced two power ministry heads during an October 8 meeting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Interior Minister, who is taking the blame for the fire in the Russian bazaar as well as other crimes, will likely be arrested for abuse of office, [...] | 2007-10-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT1089 | TURKMENISTAN'S BALKAN PROVINCE: ALUMNI KEEPING THE FLAME [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Meetings with FLEX alumni during a recent trip to Balkan province demonstrated the considerable thirst for greater exposure to the world beyond Turkmenistan's borders. Emboff also met a blind pastor of a still-un [...] | 2007-10-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1093 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV ASKS DRL TO POSTPONE [...] (C) During the course of other business on October 10, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov asked Charge if the DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles delegation couldn't please postpone its visit to Ashgabat planned for October 25. 2. (C) Looking pained, Meredov said, "I realize we did [...] | 2007-10-10 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1094 | TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER RELIGIOUS GROUP TO BE [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Timur Muradov, the pastor of the "Word of Life" Church, a small unregistered evangelical Christian group based in Turkmenbashy, called the Embassy October 10 to report that the Council on Religious Affairs Deputy Chairman, Nur [...] | 2007-10-10 10:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1096 | TURKMENISTAN: ONE AMERICAN'S TALE OF STARTING AN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over lunch October 9, an American businessman (cautiously) told of his experiences in opening an Ashgabat office of his information technology company, including a bump in the road involving a poorly chosen local [...] | 2007-10-10 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV TX |
07ASHGABAT1097 | TURKMENISTAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH PLANS PUSH FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Vatican representative will come to Ashgabat on December 11 or 12 to formally request that the Turkmenistan government register the Roman Catholic Church. The requirement that the head of a religious organization be a Turkmenistan citizen still remains a major impediment to reg [...] | 2007-10-10 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1098 | UNITED NATIONS REVIEWS RECENT GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 8 donor meeting organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),Turkmenistan Resident Representative Richard Young provided an update on recent United Nations' activity, and outlined the [...] | 2007-10-11 04:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1102 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes you to Turkmenistan. You are coming to Turkmenistan in the early months of an expanding dialogue between Turkmenistan and the international community in general, and the OSCE and the Unite [...] | 2007-10-11 11:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1103 | TURKMENISTAN: CORRECTION TO LIST OF THOSE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post has learned from OSCE human dimension officer Benjamin Moreau that Turkmenistan's former Ambassador to the OSCE Batyr Berdiev was not/not listed among the almost 9,000 names of those amnestied on Tuesday (reftel). [...] | 2007-10-11 11:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1104 | TURKMENISTAN: CONSIDERING NEW HYDROCARBON OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 22-29 orientation visit to Washington and Houston sponsored by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA),a high-level delegation of Turkmenistan hydrocarbon officials stressed they will be making substantial changes to Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon structure [...] | 2007-10-12 08:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV TX |
07ASHGABAT1106 | EU SOLANA'S TURKMENISTAN VISIT: INTENSIFYING [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Ambassador Christian Lechervy briefed the non-EU diplomatic corps October 12 (the EU ambassadors' briefing was October 11) on the October 9 Ashgabat visit by European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. The United States, Ukrai [...] | 2007-10-15 05:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV EPET SNAR EU IR AF RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1108 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE OPEN STATE MEDIA REFLECT GOVERNMMENT'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has observed steps towards a more open and informative state news media in Turkmenistan. Since the death of former President Niyazov, state media have slowly become more open to coverage of U.S. Government vis [...] | 2007-10-15 10:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1115 | TURKMENISTAN: LEBAP PROVINCE: CORNERSTONE OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit to Lebap province, officials from the provincial governor's office concerned with the cotton harvest provided provincial harvest statistics and answered some questions about growing cotton in [...] | 2007-10-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SOCI KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1117 | TURKMENISTAN COTTON HARVEST - AN EXPERIMENT IN CAPITALISM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to one of Turkmenistan's top producing cotton regions, EmbOff learned that the country is likely to be facing dramatically low cotton yields this year. Surprisingly, the government is turning [...] | 2007-10-16 06:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAGR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1118 | TURKMENISTAN AND U.S. PRESIDENTS' UNGA PHOTO-OP: [...] (U) On September 29, Turkmenistan's two largest state dailies, "Neutral Turkmenistan" (Russian, circ. 39,851) and "Turkmenistan" (Turkmen, circ. 29,091) highlighted President Berdimuhamedov's photo-op handshake with President Bush during UNGA in New York with a front-page, above-the-fold, thr [...] | 2007-10-16 06:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1119 | TURKMENISTAN: LIFE FOR JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post met with the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Turkmenistan and with one member who is currently serving a suspended sentence after refusing compulsory military service. The conversation with these individuals underscored the fact that little has yet changed in how the [...] | 2007-10-16 11:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1124 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW CURRENCY POSSIBLE HARBINGER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Turkmenistan has announced the introduction of new currency in 2009. The new notes will be go from one manat to 500 manats, vice the 5,000 and 10,000 manats, which are the notes most common in circulation now. Unlike the current bills, which all carry the lik [...] | 2007-10-17 12:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1126 | TURKMENISTAN: TURKISH BUSINESS LEADER "STRESSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Turkish businessman has recounted to us insider accounts of corruption and incompetence in Turkmenistan. We note his lament might be colored by his company's progressive loss of influence and contracts under the new government. His anecdotes suggest President Berdimuhamedov [...] | 2007-10-18 08:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV KCOR TU TX |
07ASHGABAT1127 | TURKMENISTAN: BOEING REPORTS NEW ORDERS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan Airlines' long-anticipated aircraft order is becoming reality. In addition to three airplanes -- two for the airline, and one for the president -- they are contracting for additional maintenance training and tools. The government anticipates a financial savings [...] | 2007-10-18 09:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAIR ENRG ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT1128 | TURKMENISTAN: COTTON INDUSTRY STILL TROUBLED [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Visits to the regions revealed that although President Berdimuhamedov can continue to rely on the cotton industry to bring in revenue, the sector needs reform and modernization. One positive change this year is [...] | 2007-10-18 14:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON EIND TX |
07ASHGABAT1129 | LONGTIME TURKMENISTAN EXPERT REPORTS POSITIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: EU-Tacis Turkmenistan Advisor Michael Wilson told econoff October 17 the Central Bank is cautiously considering a unified exchange rate, but the government fears the effect of shock therapy on the population. Wil [...] | 2007-10-19 05:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1130 | TURKEMNISTAN ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE ON HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Chairman Shirin Ahmedova told USAID Regional Democracy and Governance Office Director Kim Delaney October 18 that the Institute is on the hook to President Berdimuhamedov to [...] | 2007-10-19 06:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1133 | POULTRY AMENDMENT DOUBTFUL TO ALLEVIATE SHORTAGE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On October 1, President Berdimuhamedov signed an amendment to agricultural legislation that makes poultry producers exempt from tax on profits for the next three years, starting from the date of registration of the investment [...] | 2007-10-19 11:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1137 | TURKMENISTAN PASSES LAWS ON NATIONAL TOURISM ZONE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has established a new National Tourism Zone (NTZ) instead of the Free Economic Zone that President Berdimuhamedov had previewed in May. The purpose of the NTZ is to promote development of tourism, pa [...] | 2007-10-19 13:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV TX |
07ASHGABAT1140 | TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL REQUESTS PRESENTATION ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In USAID's first meeting with Turkmenistan's Supreme Council on Science and Technology on October 18, the Council's Deputy Chairwoman and Department Head for State Science Policy Realization explained the body's role [...] | 2007-10-22 09:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1141 | TURKMENISTAN: PETRONAS HAS BIG PLANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Petronas plans to ramp up operations in Turkmenistan and hopes to process 10 bcm of natural gas per year by 2012. According to Petronas' Turkmenistan general manager, Russia is a much more reliable business partner than Turkey, Azerbaijan, or Iran. Plans to sell gas to Russia [...] | 2007-10-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1143 | TURKMENISTAN: IRC ASHGABAT REQUESTS DEPARTMENT APPROVAL TO [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. The Information Resource Center in Ashgabat (IRC Ashgabat),part of Embassy Ashgabat's Public Affairs Section, would like to extend its Internet access service via wireless internet service (WIFI) to its patrons. The availability of the Intern [...] | 2007-10-23 09:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC ANET PGOV PHUM EAGR KPAO SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1144 | TURKMENISTAN: IRC ASHGABAT REQUESTS DEPARTMENT APPROVAL TO [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. The Information Resource Center in Ashgabat (IRC Ashgabat),part of Embassy Ashgabat's Public Affairs Section, would like to extend its Internet access service via wireless internet service (WIFI) to its patrons. The availability of the Intern [...] | 2007-10-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC ANET PGOV PHUM EAGR KPAO SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1146 | TURKMENISTAN: THE DE-NIYAZOVICATION OF ASHGABAT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) As part of a building boom that continues apace (septel),Turkmenistan will soon erect a number of new statues of prominent Turkmen historical figures in parks, along roadsides, and in fountain complexes. One sculpture will [...] | 2007-10-23 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1147 | MORE CHANGES TO THE FACE OF ASHGABAT, AND TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov has approved $1.8 billion in construction projects since he became president in February. As additional projects are constructed outside of Ashgabat, provincial residents say that infrastr [...] | 2007-10-23 11:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV SOCI TU TX |
07ASHGABAT1149 | TURKMENISTAN'S EVOLVING FACE OF NEUTRALITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Eight months into his term in office, Berdimuhamedov's diplomatic activity and public statements this year have begun to reveal a redesigned version of Turkmenistan's longstanding policy of "permanent neutrality" that may well assure the country's security and independence, whil [...] | 2007-10-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TX |
07ASHGABAT1156 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 24, the Director of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights Under the President of Turkmenistan, Shirin Ahmedova, proposed that the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) jointly organize [...] | 2007-10-26 06:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1159 | TURKMENISTAN: KARIMOV VISIT FOSTERS EXPANSION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Rakhman Rasulov described President Islom Karimov's October 18-19 visit to Turkmenistan as very successful in that it marked the first formal warming of the two countries' relationship since Niyazov's death. The new relationship can o [...] | 2007-10-26 09:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EPET UZ TX |
07ASHGABAT1164 | TURKMENISTAN'S 16TH INDEPENDENCE DAY: THE PAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rather than simply a family picnic in the park to watch fireworks, Independence Day in Turkmenistan was really Independence Week (and more) -- an elaborate, undeniably expensive, and highly choreographed series of events calculated to extol Turkmenistani contemporary sovereignty [...] | 2007-10-29 08:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EPET SOCI EU RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1165 | TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1166 | TURKMENISTAN: "DECISIVE STEP" CLOSES ANOTHER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On Sunday evening, October 28, as the capital relxed after the successes of its Independence Day events, Turkmen television aired a surprising film from the old Soviet film vaults that captured our attention. "Decisive Ste [...] | 2007-10-30 04:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1167 | TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIAN ENERGY COMPANIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 25, Turkmenistani government media reported that a rich gas deposit that will produce 4 bcm per year had been tapped at South Yoloten. On October 26, the eve of Turkmenistan's Independence Day, Presiden [...] | 2007-10-30 07:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV EPET RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1169 | TURKMENISTAN: ELI LILLY RE-ENTERS MARKET WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a seven-year absence from the Turkmenistani market, U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is re-engaging, initially with diabetes and cancer medications. Their registration process is underway, and they are working with the Ministry of Healthcare on capacity building to ensu [...] | 2007-10-31 08:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD TBIO TX |
07ASHGABAT1171 | TURKMENISTAN: NON-PAPER DELIVERED REGARDING U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 10:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PGOV PREL EFIN KNNP IR TX |
07ASHGABAT1172 | TURKMENISTAN: MAJOR INTERNATIONAL OIL PLAYERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) With the Turkmen International Oil and Gas Exhibition less than two weeks away, post provides the following compendium of the major foreign companies cooperating with the Turkmen government on oil exploration and developmen [...] | 2007-10-31 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET EINV ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT1179 | TURKMENISTAN: POSITIVE TRENDS IN STATE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: October's state media coverage of U.S. embassy events showed further improvement and suggests Turkmenistan is moving away from the exclusive cult-of-personality policies of the former President Niyazov era. In Tur [...] | 2007-11-01 06:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PROP SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1180 | TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1181 | TURKMENISTAN: GAC MARINE FACES THE HURDLES OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GAC Marine S.A. plays a vital role in Turkmenistan's hydrocarbons industry as the only contractor offering shipping and marine services to companies in offshore drilling. Gregory Flint (please protect),General Manager of the Turkmenistan office, recognizes the profitability [...] | 2007-11-01 09:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV EPET SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1182 | AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TURKMEN PROMOTE COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The California-based Christian evangelical group "Friends of the Turkmen" has spent a dozen years slowly building relations with Turkmenistan government officials. Although they have contacts with small Protestant congregations in the country, their focus is more on education and [...] | 2007-11-01 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1185 | TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: COMPENSATION, NOT JUST [...] (S) SUMMARY: According to Foreign Minister Meredov, Turkmenistan's problem with Azerbaijan is more fundamental than bilateral Caspian Sea delimitation. He accuses Azerbaijan and British Petroleum of stealing Turkmenistan's wealth from the disputed Osman/Chirag natural gas deposit. He also q [...] | 2007-11-02 10:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT1186 | TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SEEKS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Yatsenyuk's late-October visit to Ashgabat is part of an effort to re-establish a normal relationship between the two countries, after years of commercial disputes and changes in leader [...] | 2007-11-02 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD SCUL UP TX |
07ASHGABAT1187 | TURKMENISTAN: ALONG THE IRANIAN BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: EmbOffs toured on October 30 State Border Service (SBS) facilities near the Iranian border, including a kennel where tracker dogs are trained. In contrast to recent months, SBS hosts were warm and rather informal. Smuggling remains a seious problem along Turkmenistan's border with [...] | 2007-11-02 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC MARR IR TX |
07ASHGABAT1188 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW EMPHASIS ON IMPROVING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The President of Turkmenistan told State media and cultural officials that they must improve their profession. The President emphasized the need for developing creativity, learning from contemporary world practices [...] | 2007-11-05 04:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1190 | TURKMENISTAN: REUTERS REPORT ON EXCHANGE RATE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The November 1 report by Reuters that Turkmenistan state media had reported Turkmenistan would unify the official and black market exchange rates as part of a wider economic reform program is untrue. European Bank for Reco [...] | 2007-11-05 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1192 | SCENESETTER FOR THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, NEVADA [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Your visit to Turkmenistan follows the celebration on October 27th of Turkmenistan's 16th Anniversary of its independence. This visit helps continue the ongoing, bilateral dialogue on security issues, while r [...] | 2007-11-05 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET MARR PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1196 | ALBUQUERQUE-ASHGABAT SISTER CITY PROGRAM ILLUSTRATES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Representatives of Albuquerque's Sister City Foundation found their visit to be productive, and more significantly a major step forward in their relationship with the Ashgabat Mayor's office. The delegation attended multiple Independence Day events and conducted successful outre [...] | 2007-11-06 05:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1204 | TURKMENISTAN: IN-PRISON DEATHS OF "SPECIAL [...] (C) An embassy FSN (please protect) reported that she received a letter during the weekend of November 3 from her brother, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for his alleged participation in the November 2002 attack against former President Saparmyrat Niyazov's motorcade. (NOTE: The F [...] | 2007-11-06 12:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1206 | TURKMENISTAN DESIGNATES WORKING-LEVEL [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note to the Embassy on November 6 responding to an October 3 U.S. request for a working-level contact with whom the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) could liaise on counter- [...] | 2007-11-07 08:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1209 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S. FIRMS SEEKING TO ENTER HYDROCARBON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Business Sensitive. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Moderate reforms and a promise of a better investment climate in Turkmenistan by the country's new leadership have attracted renewed serious interest from U.S. oil majors, including both old an [...] | 2007-11-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV EPET RS AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT1210 | TURKMENISTAN RECEPTIVE TO CHINESE CALL FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's November 4 official visit to Turkmenistan, which focused on implementing the agreements that Berdimuhamedov signed during his July visit to Beijing, appears to have gone well, and the Turkmenistan-PRC bilateral relationship seems to be on the upsw [...] | 2007-11-08 05:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EPET SCUL CH TX |
07ASHGABAT1211 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF ENERGY [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Turkmenistan, the first by a cabinet-level official since 2002, will add value to the newly reinvigorated Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Exhibition (TIOGE). This visit will advance our bilateral [...] | 2007-11-08 07:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1213 | TURKMENISTAN'S OIL AND GAS EXHIBITION LEAVES NO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The administrative officer at Turkmenistan's Ministry of Oil and Gas (please protect) told an embassy employee that foreign interest in the November 13-15 Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Exhibition (TIOGE) has far e [...] | 2007-11-08 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1222 | TURKMANISTAN TRIANGULATES: CONOCOPHILLIPS/LUKOIL TANDEM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Business sensitive. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips and Lukoil are in the very final stages of negotiating a product-sharing agreement (PSA) for the Ordekli (Block 21) and Ogurji (Blocks 19 and 20) offshore fields. The PSA for t [...] | 2007-11-09 09:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EPET RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1223 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE TV REQUESTS U.S. EXPERTS FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. See para nine below. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post's PAO had an especially productive and open meeting with a Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting official that demonstrated a firm commitment and deisre for tangible movement on President Berdimuhamedov's recent ca [...] | 2007-11-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PROP EAID SCUL KPAO KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1226 | TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] This is the 2007-2008 INCSR Part II report on Turkmenistan. The text is keyed to the questions in reftel. The Post's point of contact for the INCSR, Part II draft is Kristine Marsh, Economic Officer (MarshKA@state.gov). GENERAL 2. Turkmenistan is not an important regional financial ce [...] | 2007-11-13 03:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN TX |
07ASHGABAT1227 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV IN BRUSSELS: A BRIEF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov's November 5-7 visit to Brussels seemed to reinforce that Turkmenistan is following its own path and, as yet, has little interest in the kinds of outward-looking compromises that could mak [...] | 2007-11-13 04:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV EPET SCUL EU TX |
07ASHGABAT123 | CAMPAIGN TRAIL: MARY WELAYAT STRESSES UNITY, STABILITY, [...] (U) CAO and POL/ECON LES met with Mary Welayat officials on January 18 to assess activity in the lead-up to Turkmenistan's first multi-candidate presidential elections (Niyazov was the sole candidate in the 1992 election). City and welayat (provincial) officials maintained a consistent line o [...] | 2007-01-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD TX TNGD KPAO |
07ASHGABAT1230 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT SHAKES UP HIS ECONOMIC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 12 session of the Cabinet of Ministers held less than a week after his return from Brussels, President Berdimuhamedov renamed the Ministry of Trade and Consumer Cooperation the Ministry of Trade [...] | 2007-11-14 08:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN EAGR ETRD SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1235 | TURKMENISTAN: RESOURCE NATIONALISM EXISTS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Government of Turkmenistan up to now has pursued a policy of resource nationalism by banning foreign companies from its gas fields in the East (foreign companies are working the Caspian oilfields),Turkmenistan may be reconsidering this policy. At the heart of this [...] | 2007-11-15 10:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1236 | TURKMENISTAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION WELCOMES PROPOSAL FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a November 9 meeting to discuss possible cooperation under USAID's new regional basic education program, Education Minister Muhammetgeldi Annaamanov told USAID representatives that training for primary and seconda [...] | 2007-11-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1239 | TURKMENISTAN: SUDDEN DROP IN UNOFFICIAL DOLLAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The unofficial exchange rate for the U.S. dollar in Ashgabat suddenly dropped sharply -- around 40% -- November 13 and 14, leading to panic in the city as individuals who had been exchanging their manat savings into dollars for more convenient storage in their homes (nobody here [...] | 2007-11-16 07:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1243 | TURKMENISTAN: MARY PASTOR DENIED EXIT [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The pastor of a small evangelical congregation in Mary province, Ilmurad Nurlyyev, told poloff November 16 that the Turkmenistan government prevented him from exiting the country. Nurlyyev, who heads a Turkmen Baptist C [...] | 2007-11-16 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1246 | TURKMENISTAN: A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN [...] (C) Turkmenistan has one of the most opaque political systems in the world. The decision-making process and relationships among the various elites are difficult for outside observers to ascertain. However, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) country director Tony Myron ( [...] | 2007-11-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT1248 | TURKMENISTAN MISSES POLISH NATIONAL DAY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Polish Ambassador Maciej Lang hosted a reception in Ashgabat on November 19 in honor of Poland's National Day. Standard practice for national day receptions in Ashgabat is for both Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Mered [...] | 2007-11-20 05:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG UP PL RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1251 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV EMPHASIZES: DO NOT ROCK THE MANAT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) According to a November 20 article in "Neutral Turkmenistan," Minister of Economy and Finance Hojamyrat Geldimyradov reported on the "leveling" of the manat/dollar exchange rate (reftel) at a Council of Ministers meeting on [...] | 2007-11-20 12:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1256 | SECRETARY OF ENERGY SAMUEL W. BODMAN'S MEETING [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman SIPDIS Senior Adviser Molly Williamson Assistant Secretary Karen Harbert Public Affairs Director Andrew Beck Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime M [...] | 2007-11-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV AF AJ IR KZ RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1257 | TURKEMNISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV AND SCA [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: SCA PDAS Steven Mann Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov continues to ask for cooperation in educati [...] | 2007-11-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AMGT SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1258 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV AND SCA [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: SCA PDAS Steven Mann Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly 90-minute meeting on November 16 with SCA PDAS Steve [...] | 2007-11-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EPET EINV RS TK AJ KZ TX |
07ASHGABAT1259 | TURKMENISTAN: UNUSUALLY OUTGOING DEPUTY PREMIER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 16 meeting with Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann, Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the SIPDIS Cabinet of Ministers for hydrocarbon issues, Tachberdi Tagiyev, was unusually forthcoming, even acknowledg [...] | 2007-11-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1260 | SECRETARY OF ENERGY SAMUEL W. BODMAN'S MEETING [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman SIPDIS Senior Adviser Molly Williamson Assistant Secretary Karen Harbert Public Affairs Director Andrew Beck Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: Deputy Prime Minister for Oil and Gas Tachberdi Tag [...] | 2007-11-21 11:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV AF AJ KZ RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1262 | ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN PRESS CONFERENCE AT TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) On November 15, Energy Secretary Bodman held a press conference at the Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Exhibition. The following is the transcript of the press conference: BEGIN TEXT: Secretary Bodman: Hello everyone. I'm Sam Bodman, the United States SIPDIS Secretary of [...] | 2007-11-23 04:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ENERG EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1263 | TURKMENISTAN: MARKET BASKET COSTS CONTINUE TO RISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent market basket price comparison showed that many basic market prices have continued to increase sharply over the last two months, with milk scoring the biggest increase (33%). While the reasons for this rapid increase vary, the higher cost of food globally, a shortage [...] | 2007-11-23 07:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI PREL |
07ASHGABAT1266 | TURKMENISTAN: IMF INCREASES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation visiting Turkmenistan in mid-November recommended that the government of Turkmenistan initiate step-by-step reforms to unify the dual exchange rate and increase transparency within government budgets, according to the IMF's repre [...] | 2007-11-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1269 | TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN WARMLY COVERED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman's November 14-15 visit to Turkmenistan received broad coverage in both state and international media. Bodman's remarks at Turkmenistan's International Oil and Gas Exhibition conference (TIOGE),and his meetings with Turkmenistan's preside [...] | 2007-11-23 11:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT1271 | TURKMENISTAN LIFTS REQUIREMENT FOR FOREIGNERS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The Head of the Department for Registration of Foreign Citizens at Turkmenistan's State Service of Registration of Foreign Citizens told an Embassy employee on November 20 that the government has lifted its ban requiring a [...] | 2007-11-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1274 | TURKMENISTAN: IMPENDING PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial People's Council elections are to be conducted on December 9, for the first time since the Berdimuhamedov government approved amendments to the law governing these elections in July 2007. The amendment [...] | 2007-11-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1282 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE MISSES BOAT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite earlier expressions of interest in a USAID proposal to develop an Investor's Roadmap to improve Turkmenistan's investment climate, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) is unwilling to commit to USG te [...] | 2007-11-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID PINR PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT1283 | TURKMENISTAN INTERNATIONAL OIL AND GAS EXHIBITION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: This year's Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Exhibition (TIOGE) and conference had the highest attendance since 2000 and attracted unprecedented interest from major petroleum companies, regional stakeholders [...] | 2007-11-26 13:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENERG EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1284 | TRIBES OF TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Notwithstanding 70 years of Soviet rule, tribalism remains a potent issue of potential division in Turkmenistan. One's tribal identity continues to influence who one will marry, whether one will enter the univers [...] | 2007-11-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1285 | TURKMENISTAN: LAUNCH IN BALKAN PROVINCE BRINGS NATIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 16, USAID's implementing partner Project HOPE organized a ceremony in Balkanabat city marking the expansion of DOTS, the internationally recognized approach to control tuberculosis (TB),to three new town [...] | 2007-11-26 14:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1293 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN OF DRL [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Rights and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles to Turkmenistan. Your visit will help to reinforce the U.S. government's message as it has [...] | 2007-11-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1296 | TURKMENISTAN/CIS SUMMIT: BERDIMUHAMEDOV PUSHES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: For the first time in nearly 15 years, Turkmenistan hosted the November 22 CIS Heads of Government summit. Although many may have been hoping that President Berdimuhamedov would agree to more active participation [...] | 2007-11-28 13:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON TX CIS |
07ASHGABAT1298 | TURKMENISTAN: ELECTION OFFICIALS CONFIDENT IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs met November 27 with Myrat Garryev, longtime chairman of the National Central Election Commission, and Shirin Akhmedova, the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, to assess the status [...] | 2007-11-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1299 | TURKMENISTAN: NIGHTLIFE OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emboffs recently got a glimpse into the nocturnal habits of Turkmenistan's rich and powerful. A male relative of President Berdimuhamedov was involved in a bar fight with a foreigner, but the police were never called. Two high-ranking Ministry of National Security officials (sec [...] | 2007-11-29 03:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT1305 | EBRD DELEGATION CONSIDERS GREATER ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A high-level EBRD delegation visited Turkmenistan to evaluate if there has been progress on reforms since President Berdimuhamedov took office in February. Delegation members wanted, in particular, to evaluate the status of human rights in Turkmenistan. In the next five to s [...] | 2007-11-30 12:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1307 | TURKMENISTAN: "THE DOOR IS OPEN, BUT WE FOLLOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with SCA PDAS Mann on November 16, Foreign Minister Meredov: -- reaffirmed Turkmenistan welcomes proposals from world-class energy companies; -- agreed more work needs to be done to reform the economy and improve the business climate; -- tout [...] | 2007-12-01 08:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET ETRD SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1308 | TURKMENISTAN: CREEPING FORWARD ON BANKING REFORM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At a meeting that President Berdimuhamedov held with senior bank officials on November 28, Central Bank (CBT) Chairman Geldimyrat Abylov reported that the CBT is continuing to study available options regarding fi [...] | 2007-12-03 07:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1316 | TURKMENISTAN/INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 28-30 visit to Turkmenistan, the Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Ambassador William Ramsay, found a country in the process of transition. Although there were [...] | 2007-12-03 15:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EPET PGOV TX IEA |
07ASHGABAT1317 | TURKMENISTAN: PHOTO OF TWO PRESIDENTS MAKES SECOND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On December 1, the photograph of President Bush and President Berdimuhamedov shaking hands when they met during the UN General Assembly in September was run on the front of page of both the Russian-language "Neutral Turkmenista [...] | 2007-12-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1325 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV TELLS OFFICIALS TO CLEAN UP THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At an impromptu Cabinet of Ministers meeting held during an Iranian trade show on November 30, President Berdimuhamedov was seemingly inspired by a three-dimensional satellite map of Ashgabat to issue several dir [...] | 2007-12-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1326 | TURKMENISTAN: JAZZ CD RELEASE A HUGE SUCCESS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the Embassy hosted an event "releasing" a free compact disk, with songs by the joint Turkmen-American Jazz group supported by the performing arts initiative program in July 2007. [...] | 2007-12-05 14:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL PINR KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1336 | TURKMENISTAN'S PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COUNCIL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Amid very light turnout, Turkmenistan's citizens voted for members of their provincial people's councils December 9. The Central Election Commission provided its typical overexaggerated estimates, claiming by th [...] | 2007-12-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1338 | TURKMENISTAN: INTRODUCTORY INTERNEWS VISIT -- "TWO OUT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 28-29, representatives from Internews and USAID met with the Minister of Culture, a group of Mejlis (Parliament) deputies, and Turkmen State University's initial class of future journalists to discuss pos [...] | 2007-12-11 09:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1339 | TURKMENISTAN'S COUNCIL ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met December 7 with the Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs, Charygeldi Seryayev to discuss religious freedom issues. Seryayev emphasized the there is inter-confessional harmon [...] | 2007-12-11 11:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1345 | TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL WOOS TURKMEN LEADERSHIP ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Turkmenistan hosted a highly-politicized December 6-8 official visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, who is the first Turkish president to visit here in seven years. President Gul arrived w [...] | 2007-12-14 04:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD TU TX |
07ASHGABAT1346 | INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS GIVES GREEN LIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On December 7, the Director of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan told a delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Er [...] | 2007-12-14 04:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1348 | TURKMENISTAN CORRUPTION: WHAT HAPPENS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption and nepotism remain problems in Turkmenistan, and Turkish firms and Bouygues have done particularly well in the lucrative construction industry because they have mastered the business environment here. Bouygues CEO Martin Bouygues' close and direct relationship to the p [...] | 2007-12-14 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ETRD PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1349 | TURKMENISTAN: MEJLIS CHAIRMAN FOCUSES ON BUILDING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation led by DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles discussed parliamentary reform SIPDIS December 7 with the chairman of Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament),who focused her comments on the [...] | 2007-12-14 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1350 | TURKMENISTAN MOJ OFFICIALS INTRIGUED BUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 7, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles and other delegation members met with Ministry of Justice (MOJ) officials to discuss registration of religious groups and NGOS as well as various [...] | 2007-12-14 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT1353 | TURKMENISTAN: REPORTS ABOUT LUKOIL/CONOCOPHILLIPS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On December 12, Moscow's Interfax news agency issued a report, cited to Lukoil board member Richard Matske, that Lukoil had signed an agreement with Turkmenistan to develop three Caspian Sea blocks. The following day, Int [...] | 2007-12-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1361 | TURKMENISTAN: REQUEST FOR ECA SPORTS PROJECTS [...] Post has witnessed a slow and gradual opening of Turkmenistan since February 2007. Under President Berdimuhamedov, physical education was re-introduced into secondary schools and universities. Berdimuhamedov also frequently emphasizes the value of cultural exchanges. Post believes that in th [...] | 2007-12-17 04:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PCUL PINR KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1364 | TURKMENISTAN: CONOCO-PHILLIPS AND CHEVRON UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new year is approaching with the two U.S. hydrocarbons firms -- ConocoPhillips and Chevron -- just a few months ago were bullish on perceived new opportunities in Turkmenistan but now resigned to the reality that ageements may still be at least a few months away. In ConocoP [...] | 2007-12-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT1365 | TURKMENISTAN: OPENING OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations Center for Preventive Diplomacy opened in Ashgabat December 10, amidst intense state media coverage and international attendance. Although the Center is to receive an operating budget of abou [...] | 2007-12-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1369 | TURKMENISTAN: CEC CHAIRMAN MORE THE PROBLEM THAN THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting with DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, Turkmenistan's Central Election Commission chairman declared Turkmenistan a democratic nation for the past 5,000 years and needs little in the way of reform. The cha [...] | 2007-12-18 05:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT137 | EUR/ACE COORDINATOR ADAMS MEETS WITH [...] (C) Turkmenistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov on January 31 provided EUR/ACE Adams a well-targetted series of requests for expanded cooperation in the fields of education, health, economic reforms and security. Meredov acknowledged Adams's caveat that the U.S. Congress was un [...] | 2007-02-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR OSCE PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT1370 | TURKMENISTAN: NGO ACTIVISTS ADVANCE LEGAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: NGO activists sat down with members of the visiting DRL delegation led by DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles in the modest ABA/CEELI office in Ashgabat to talk about the work they have been doing in cooperation with a vari [...] | 2007-12-18 07:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AID SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1371 | TURKMENISTAN: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON EU ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge met with French Ambassador Christian Lechervy December 18 for a read-out of European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel's December 10-11 visit to Ashgabat for the opening of the UN Preventive Diplomacy Center. As the contact representative for t [...] | 2007-12-18 10:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET KDEM EU FR TX |
07ASHGABAT1374 | TURKMENISTAN: MIXED REPORTS AND CYNICISM FROM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 8 roundtable discussion with minority registered and unregistered religious groups and a December 6 roundtable with community leaders and staff from USAID civil society implementing partner Coun [...] | 2007-12-18 15:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1377 | TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER FREEDOM-OF-MOVEMENT CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The sister of a Turkmen exile opposition leader is being barred from leaving Turkmenistan and pressured to relinquish her Turkmen citizenship. Authorities barred her from boarding an aircraft bound for Moscow on November 24, and seem bent on convincing her to leave the country [...] | 2007-12-19 09:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1379 | TURKMENISTAN: DAS BARKS-RUGGLES VISIT HIGHLIGHTED IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles visited Turkmenistan December 6-9, 2007. State media highlighted her meetings at Turkmenistan's ministries and government agencies. "Reuters" gave accurate coverage of the visit, focusing on a [...] | 2007-12-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1380 | INTERNET IS COMING TO TURKMENISTAN, BUT AT ITS OWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to an AmCit businessman in the information technology sector, progress on setting up a countrywide Internet network is behind schedule, perhaps because of the authorities' fear of change. That being said, the Ministry of Communications will announce the winner of a te [...] | 2007-12-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1381 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT NOTES REFORM PROGRESS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an unusually wide-ranging December 18 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov reviewed his government's accomplishments over the past year. Although the president said he was generally pleased with the pace of reforms, he noneth [...] | 2007-12-19 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV EFIN ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1387 | TURKMENISTAN'S GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES NEW LAWS ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet 2. (U) Turkmenistan's official Russian-language government newspaper, "Neutralnyy Turkmenistan," published two new laws on December 19 and 20: the 26-article "Law of Turkmenistan on State Guarantees of Equal Rights of Women" and the [...] | 2007-12-20 12:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN TX |
07ASHGABAT1389 | TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL OFFERS TO HOST USAID'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a very positive development on December 13, representatives of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST) verbally agreed to a proposal for cooperation with the USAID-funded Internet Access and Traini [...] | 2007-12-21 12:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1390 | TURKMENISTAN'S 2008 STATE BUDGET: STILL OPAQUE, STILL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The 2008 State Budget that Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov approved on December 14 has grown by 20% in nominal terms to slightly over 123 trillion manats ($23.7 billion at the official rate). Even at the w [...] | 2007-12-26 03:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT1391 | TURKMENISTAN: MFA WELCOMES USAID PROPOSAL FOR NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of his initial visit to Turkmenistan, USAID/CAR Regional Mission Director Bill Frej met with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vepa Hajiyev on December 13 to discuss potential opportunities to expan [...] | 2007-12-26 03:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1396 | LIMITED COMMEMORATION OF FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan commemorated the first anniversary of former President Saparmyrat Niyazov's death on December 21 with little fuss or true mourning. Reversing an earlier decision to let the people focus on the Kurban Bayram (Eid) holiday rather than the anniversary of Niyazov's de [...] | 2007-12-27 12:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1398 | TURKMENISTAN: CHALIK RECONCILED BUT DRAWS DOWN; [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Turkish President Gul's recent visit to Turkmenistan, President Berdimuhamedov and Turkish businessman Ahmet Chalik reconciled, and Chalik will finance and build a major mosque near Dashoguz. Chalik will maintain his energy interests in Turkmenistan but is mostly withdra [...] | 2007-12-27 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON SOCI TK TX |
07ASHGABAT140 | TURKMENISTAN APPARENTLY MOVES TO RELEASE EX-OIL [...] (C) According to the usually well-informed Turkish Ambassador, the Government of Turkmenistan is taking steps to release former Oil and Gas Deputy Chairman Yolly Gurbanmyradov, who has been in prison since October 2005 on charges of embezzlement and corruption. The ambassador also said the m [...] | 2007-02-05 14:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM PIA PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1400 | TURKMENISTAN'S NEW WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's new laws on women's rights and trafficking-in-persons, published on December 19 and 20 (reftel),demonstrate a noteworthy desire to address these two problem issues, according to two locally based foreign legal experts. Nonetheless, the two laws contain some subs [...] | 2007-12-28 10:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG SOCI KWMN TX |
07ASHGABAT1403 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV DECREES CHANGES TO EXCHANGE RATE, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) At a Cabinet of Ministers meeting on December 27, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov named "wide incorporation of the principles of market economy" as a "priority task" for 2007. In preparation for achieving a unified exch [...] | 2007-12-31 06:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT144 | Turkmenistan: Security Cooperation Has a Bright Future [...] (SBU) During two law enforcement/security meetings with four different ministries, the U.S. government assistance delegation visiting Turkmenistan January 31-February 2 were provided positive assessments of current United States - Turkmenistan cooperation in the law enforcement and security sph [...] | 2007-02-06 08:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT145 | COORDINATOR ADAMS MEETING WITH CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Assistance coordinator Tom Adams and Central Elections Commission Chairman Myrat Garryev discussed Turkmenistan's February 11 presidential elections in an hour-long meeting January 31. Garryev, who was mostly affable and responsive, began to bristle when Adams offered USG technical assis [...] | 2007-02-06 12:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD TX TNGD KPAO |
07ASHGABAT146 | Mejlis Speaker Nurberdiyeva Meeting with Adams Del: [...] (SBU) During a January 31 meeting with EUR/ACE Coordinator Tom Adams, USAID Assistant Administrator Doug Menarchik and USAID Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor Eric Rudenshiould, the new Speaker of Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament),Akja Nurberdiyeva, signaled cautious interest in cooper [...] | 2007-02-06 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT158 | U.S. ASSISTANCE GROUP MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK ACTING [...] (SBU) Under the umbrella of EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams' visit, USAID Regional Director Crowley raised program implementation issues with Central Bank of Turkmenistan (CBT) Chairman Geldymurad Abylov on January 30. Abylov stated that the CBT was working to prepare for introduction of national a [...] | 2007-02-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PINR EAGR ECON ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT162 | U.S. ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR ADAMS' MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams and delegation heard upbeat accounts of farming-sector developments from Turkmenistan's Agriculture Minister, Esenmyrat Orazgeldiyev, on January 31. Without mentioning recent years' notorious crop shortfalls and other problems, Orazgeldiyev depicted his sector a [...] | 2007-02-08 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD TX US |
07ASHGABAT164 | Balkan Province Election Commission: Voter Education [...] (SBU) Poloff met with a by now familiar, enthusiastic, Balkan Welayat (region) election commission in the regional capital, Balkanabat, on January 31. There was ample evidence that the commission was working to make the local presidential election process open and available to all eligible vot [...] | 2007-02-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT167 | Adams Delegation in Dashoguz Province: Also Optimistic [...] (SBU) Discussion of future assistance needs and hopes -- a welcome replacement to rote glorification of Niyazov and the Ruhnama -- dominated an intensive visit to Dashoguz on February 2 by members of the U.S. interagency assistance delegation led by EUR/ACE Coordinator Tom Adams. In meeting a [...] | 2007-02-08 14:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT168 | U.S. ASSISTANCE TEAMS VISIT TO MARY WELAYAT [...] (U) Throughout official and unofficial site meetings, Mary Province (Welayat) displayed a first-class welcome and openness to a visiting eight-member USG group including five members of EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams's assistance delegation on February 2. The day began with a cordial meeting at th [...] | 2007-02-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PINR PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT169 | Turkmenistan's Very Public Drug Burn [...] (SBU) The media, the diplomatic corps and Turkmenistan's State Counternarcotics Commission at the Cabinet of Ministers witnessed the incineration of 562 kilograms of narcotics, primarily seized along the border with Afghanistan from December 2006 through early February, on February 7. This, th [...] | 2007-02-09 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT171 | EUR/ACE VISIT WITH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Director of FSA Programs Deborah Klepp discussed potential areas for U.S. technical assistance with Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance (MOEF) Tuvakmammed Japarov and Chief International Specialist Galina Romanova on January 31 as part of EUR/ACE Coordinator Adams's Turkmenist [...] | 2007-02-09 10:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT174 | Elections, Activists and Faith in Dashoguz [...] (SBU) During a recent pre-election trip to Dashoguz Welayat (Province),local election officials were friendly but constrained, given the (unexpected) presence of Central Election Commission Chairman, Myrat Garryev. They maintained to the A/DCM that Turkmenistan's February 11 presidential ele [...] | 2007-02-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT175 | EUR/ACE Adams' Visit: Turkmenistan's Newest [...] (SBU) U.S. government security assistance delegates visiting Turkmenistan January 31-February 2 met with law-enforcement donor-community members from several international organizations and diplomatic missions for a discussion that quickly focused on border-security issues, specifically border- [...] | 2007-02-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT176 | CONFIDENCE AND SINCERE CONCERN FOR A "LEGITIMATE" VOTING [...] (U) Ahal Welayat (province) officials appeared well-prepared, sincere, and uncharacteristically inquisitive about America during PAO's visit concerning preparations for Turkmenistan's first ever multi-candidate election for the presidency. Despite the controlled nature of the transition and e [...] | 2007-02-09 13:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD TX TNGD KPAO ECON |
07ASHGABAT177 | PRE-ELECTIONS MEETINGS IN TURKMENABAT: THE SAME, YET [...] (SBU) On January 23, Charge d'Affaires a.i. Jennifer Brush, ConOff, and PolEcon LES visited Turkmenabat, the capital of Lebap Welayat (Province),to observe activity in the lead-up to Turkmenistan's first multi-candidate presidential elections. During her courtesy call with local officials, t [...] | 2007-02-09 13:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD TX TNGD KPAO ECON |
07ASHGABAT178 | TURKMENISTAN'S ECONOMIC PRISONERS MOVED TO [...] (C) According to a local embassy employee, whose brother was among them, 15 high-profile prisoners accused of economic crimes have been moved from the notorious Owadandepe Prison to the more humane Bayramagly prison outside of Mary City. Among those moved were former Minister of Water Managem [...] | 2007-02-09 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT179 | TURKMENISTAN AND UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IR KNNP PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT180 | TURKMENISTAN ON THE EVE OF A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT - [...] (C) A/S Boucher, the Government of Turkmenistan is delighted to host you again as is Team Ashgabat. Even though all of Washington may not be excited about the first-ever multi-candidate elections in Turkmenistan, the local population is over the top, soaking up every detail of the campaign. [...] | 2007-02-09 14:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT184 | TURKMENISTAN ELECTION DAY: HOPEFUL EXPECTANCY AMID [...] (SBU) Turkmenistan's election-day proceedings were smooth, relaxed and imbued with genuine, unusual popular enthusiasm over the day's proceedings. The already-broadcast official turnout figure of 98.25% is not credible, but should not wreck appreciation of the day's upside: Ashgabat long-tim [...] | 2007-02-12 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT19 | SCENESETTER FOR SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM'S JANUARY 10-13 [...] (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes DAS Feigenbaum and looks forward to a productive stay. Your visit, the second by a high-ranking State Department official since President Niyazov's death, will provide an opportunity to stress to Turkmenistan's top leadership that the United States looks [...] | 2007-01-05 12:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM TX US |
07ASHGABAT191 | UN SECRETARIAT OFFICIAL ON BERDIMUHAMMEDOV [...] (SBU) Charge exchanged post-Niyazov views February 10 with visiting UN Secretariat official Vladimir Goryayev, a Turkmenistan veteran with extraordinary local access. Goryayev predicted that change would be slow and cautious at best under Berdimuhammedov, since the latter will remain fettere [...] | 2007-02-13 11:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT193 | TURKMENISTAN MEDIA MAKES RARE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF U.S [...] (U) The presidential campaign in Turkmenistan overshadowed most other news in January. State media omitted coverage of a working visit by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Evan A. Feigenbaum on January 10-14. However, pro-government website TURKMENI [...] | 2007-02-14 09:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT197 | A/S BOUCHER MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTS NAZARBAYEV, [...] (C) Presidents of Kazakhstan, Georgia and Tajikistan, in separate February 14 meetings on the margins of the inauguration of Turkenistan's new President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, provided South Central Asia Assistant Secretary Boucher a uniform message on the need to go slow on SIPDIS pu [...] | 2007-02-15 09:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KZ PGOV PINR PREL TX ZF |
07ASHGABAT199 | A/S BOUCHER DICUSSES DEMOCRACY AND OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) During their 45 minute introductory meeting, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, looking relaxed and confident, told South Central Asia Assistant Secretary Boucher that he: SIPDIS -- was elected democratically, though he acknowledged Turkmenistan's electoral system n [...] | 2007-02-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT201 | ACTING PARLIAMENT SPEAKER NURBERDIYEVA WELCOMES A/S BOUCHER [...] (U) Acting Parliamentary (Mejlis) Speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva unreservedly welcomed SCA A/S Boucher's suggestion of legislative exchange and assistance activities in their cordial February 15 meeting. Nurberdiyeva described the Mejlis's altered functions and listed its main current agenda items [...] | 2007-02-16 12:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT203 | TURKMENISTAN'S DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE TELLS [...] (C) First Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel Atabayev was friendly and relaxed during his February 15 meeting with SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher. Echoing the tone and words of Minister of Defense Agageldi Mammetgeldiyev when he met with the EUR/ACE law enforcement assistance team on January [...] | 2007-02-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR PREL SNAR TX US |
07ASHGABAT204 | MFA MEREDOV TELLS BOUCHER TURKMENISTAN EAGER FOR [...] (C) Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov accepted Assistant Secretary Boucher's proposal to send U.S. experts in five SIPDIS areas -- education and health; economic reform, business development and agriculture; energy; political development and human rights; security -- to Turkmenistan over the [...] | 2007-02-16 14:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT21 | Turkmenistan's Presidential Candidates Raise Hopes With [...] (U) All channels of Turkmenistan State television were tuned to the first campaign meeting of two presidential hopefuls on the night of January 3, 2007, at a townhall-style gathering held at the Mekan Palace in Ashgabat. The Ashgabat-based candidates, Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Indust [...] | 2007-01-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT214 | Turkmenistan's Second President, Gurbanguly [...] (SBU) Interim President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov was installed as Turkmenistan's second president on February 14, after national election results were announced during a one-hour live broadcast meeting of the national People's Council. According to Central Election Commission Chairman Myrat [...] | 2007-02-20 13:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT215 | MINISTRY OF EDUCATION EDGES BLINDLY FORWARD ALONG APPROVED [...] (U) Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher's discussion with the Ministry of Education one day after the inauguration of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov revealed the ministry's grudging acceptance of the president's stated intention to reform higher education and extend the years of secondar [...] | 2007-02-20 13:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TX CVIS KPAO |
07ASHGABAT216 | MODEST VICTORIES TO ACHIEVE COVERAGE OF A/S BOUCHER VISIT [...] (U) Local and international media provided relatively accurate and full coverage of the Ashgabat portions of the visit of Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher. However, host SIPDIS government efforts to ban local and international coverage of his appearance at the [...] | 2007-02-21 11:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT217 | Turkmenistan Releases 2007 Drug Seizure Statistics [...] (SBU) Post received 2006 drug-seizure statistics from the Government of Turkmenistan via diplomatic note on February 9. The government has passed seizure statistics to post intermittently during the past two years, and post has also received data via the Ashgabat office of the [...] | 2007-02-21 11:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT22 | Turkmenistan's Presidential Candidates Raise Hopes With [...] (U) All channels of Turkmenistan State television were tuned to the first campaign meeting of two presidential hopefuls on the night of January 3, 2007, at a townhall-style gathering held at the Mekan Palace in Ashgabat. The Ashgabat-based candidates, Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Indust [...] | 2007-01-08 04:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT220 | A/S BOUCHER MEETS, VIEWS SUCCESS OF USG PROGRAMS IN LEBAP [...] (SBU) A/S Boucher found Turkmenabat (capital of Lebap province),broadly aglow in anticipation of new post-Niyazov openness and opportunities, and looking for the United States to help realize the latter, in his February 16 meetings with the governor, community-activist groups, American-Corne [...] | 2007-02-22 03:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT221 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV'S CABINET [...] (SBU) The collective impression of Berdimuhammedov's Cabinet decisions to date -- especially for the Ministries of Education and of Oil and Gas -- at first glance is dismaying and raises concerns that Turkmenistan's post-Niyazov governance is set to stay the same despite all the campaign hints [...] | 2007-02-22 03:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT226 | NEW ROUND OF CABINET ANNOUNCEMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (SBU) President Berdimuhammedov's latest tranche of personnel picks, published February 22, does even less than the prior day's to fuel outsiders' hope of early new approaches in Turkmenistan's governance. Locals, however (including many who have typically been skeptics),stand by their belie [...] | 2007-02-22 13:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT228 | CULTURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTMENTS IN TURKMENISTAN -- MORE [...] (U) President Berdimuhammedov's February 21 appointments in the cultural and educational sectors represent no break with the past, though in the case of the Institute of Culture and state daily newspaper, Neutral Turkmenistan, they may signal some change in the operation of the affected instit [...] | 2007-02-22 13:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT230 | BERDIMUHAMMEDOV APPOINTS TOP OIL/GAS DEPUTY [...] (SBU) The first, mild surprise in the formation of Turkmenistan,s new government is a positive one: the appointment of Tachberdy Tagiyev as Deputy Chairman with the oil/gas portfolio of the Council of the Cabinet of Ministers. Another February 22 personnel decision from Berdimuhammedov qui [...] | 2007-02-23 13:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT236 | IN TURKMENISTAN TOP SECURITY FIGURES RE-CONFIRMED; NEW [...] (U) Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov has reappointed his entire inherited "power ministries" team to serve in his own government, though without reappointing Defense Minister Mammetgeldiyev to his previous dual role as Secretary of the National Security Council. The new president also [...] | 2007-02-26 13:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT241 | OPENING OF ASHGABAT INTERNET CAFES -- SYMBOLIC OR A REAL [...] (U) Turkmenistan State news outlets and international news outlets widely reported the opening of two state-run Internet cafes in Ashgabat soon after the inauguration of new president Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov on February 14. The new Internet cafes represent a small step towards fulfilling B [...] | 2007-02-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD TX TNGD KPAO ECON CH |
07ASHGABAT242 | PDAS MANN SCENESETTER: TURKMENISTAN'S POST-NIYAZOV OIL/GAS [...] (SBU) In marked contrast to Niyazov, President Berdimuhammedov has no past or expertise in the hydrocarbon sector. His and his new government's first concern has been not to introduce any instability into the status quo, and they may initially be even more unready to enact new directions than [...] | 2007-02-28 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT259 | PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV RECEPTIVE TO PIPELINE [...] (C) President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov showed sincere interest in Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's detailed March 5 presentation of SIPDIS alternative paths to developing the country's energy sector. In the context of stressing his concern for development [...] | 2007-03-05 13:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG PGOV AF KZ TX US UZ TI IR |
07ASHGABAT261 | MEREDOV: TURKMENISTAN READY TO EXPLORE PIPELINE [...] (C) During a March 5 meeting with SCA PDAS Steven Mann, Turkmenistan Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman/Minister Rashit Meredov stated that Turkmenistan was reexamining its gas pipeline options and was ready to move forward with new gas relationships. He and Mann agreed to hold expert-level bil [...] | 2007-03-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT301 | TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT LIMITS COVERAGE OF POST EVENTS IN [...] (U) State media gave broad positive coverage on Assistant Secretary Richard A. Boucher's meeting with President SIPDIS Berdimuhammedov on February 15, both on state TV and print media. However, host government's effort to ban local coverage of A/S Boucher's appearance at the Turkmenabat Ped [...] | 2007-03-16 12:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT302 | MEDIA COVERAGE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MANN'S [...] (U) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's March 3-6 visit to Turkmenistan received wide and generally positive coverage in state media. State media only gave coverage of Mann's March 5 meeting with President Berdimuhammedov and omitted his meetings with other government officials [...] | 2007-03-16 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT324 | SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN PETER HOEKSTRA'S VISIT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes Congressman Hoekstra to Turkmenistan as the first visiting member of the United States Congress since 2002. Your visit helps to underscore t [...] | 2007-03-29 05:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT326 | Turkmenistan's President Focuses on Hydrocarbons in Cabinet [...] (SBU) President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov mapped out the short-term petroleum sector development objectives for 2007 during his weekly cabinet meeting on March 24. The president emphasized Turkmenistan's need to work with foreign investors and companies to improve the country's internal infra [...] | 2007-03-29 11:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EPET PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT348 | Moderate Changes Mark Turkmenistan's Agricultural People's [...] (U) President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Saparmyrat Niyazov, with his unanimous election as Chairman of the national People's Council (Halk Maslahaty) during an extraordinary March 30 session. This was followed by a unanimous decisi [...] | 2007-04-05 12:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT371 | RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV PROMISES [...] (SBU) During an April 5 meeting in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan,s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov and Russia,s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expanded the traditional Russian-Turkmenistani state dialog, touching on economic cooperation, but focusing a majority of the time on "humanitarion," [...] | 2007-04-12 14:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV PHUM PREL RS TX |
07ASHGABAT394 | LEBAP AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS SEEK BREAK WITH [...] (C) Air traffic controllers in Turkmenabat put forth in a March 21 conversation to PDOFF a litany of complaints of bad management within state airline Turkmenhowayollary (THY) and asked for embassy advice in attempts to found a government agency for air traffic control under the direct mana [...] | 2007-04-17 13:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT407 | DAS ROMANOWSKI SCENESETTER -- TURKMENISTAN AND ITS [...] (SBU) Your visit to Turkmenistan is an opportunity to help determine whether recently-elected President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov is serious about reform of the educational system or whether his pledge to improve education was more a cynical campaign ploy. Original enthusiasm over Berdimuham [...] | 2007-04-20 13:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT408 | RUSSIA FIGHTS BACK: TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMMEDOV [...] (C) President Berdimuhammedov's upcoming April 23-24 visit to Moscow, reported yesterday in Russian press, comes amidst growing signs that Russia is pushing hard to preserve its influence -* politically, economically, and in the cultural sphere -* in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. Berdimuhammedov [...] | 2007-04-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PINR PREL RS TX US |
07ASHGABAT422 | HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN ON TURKMENISTAN AND [...] (C) During an April 20 meeting, Hungarian Ambassador to Iran and Turkmenistan Istvan Venczel discussed developments in Turkmenistan and briefed Charge on the current political situation in Iran. Venczel, who has lived in Tehran since 2003, commented on issues of concern in Turkmenistan -- inc [...] | 2007-04-25 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX IR |
07ASHGABAT430 | BERDIMUHAMMEDOV AND PUTIN DISCUSS INCREASED GAS [...] (C) Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov's April 23-24 working visit to Moscow, described by local press as "a political sensation," resulted in no written agreements but represented a step forward in the bilateral relationship. Energy discussions topped the Russian agenda, with R [...] | 2007-04-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL RS SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT436 | ASHGABAT AMBASSADORS ON POLITICS, GROWING RUSSIAN [...] (C) Visiting Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia Dionisio de Leon, Charge, and embassy officers met with Ashgabat-based ambassadors on April 26-27 to solicit their impressions of the current political situation in Turkmenistan. Georgian Ambassador Alexy Petriashvili, U [...] | 2007-04-30 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET GG PGOV PREL RS TU TX UP |
07ASHGABAT44 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) During a three and a half hour meeting, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov on January 10 told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that Turkmenistan was willing to consider improving bilateral relations on a range of issues from human rights to trade to security. Meredov welcomed F [...] | 2007-01-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE MARR TX US |
07ASHGABAT454 | PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV TELLS UN HIGH [...] (SBU) UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Louise Arbour characterized her first meeting with Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov on May 3 as "extremely cordial and positive," though she told the Charge later that she had "received the run-around" on a number of issues, including freedom [...] | 2007-05-04 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV TX UN |
07ASHGABAT459 | Turkmenistan and Afghanistan Twice Talk on the Border, with [...] (SBU) Embassy staff met with border and counternarcotics officials from Turkmenistan and Afghanistan during a first ever multilateral meeting with U.S. Embassy Kabul representatives at the Aquina border crossing checkpoint in Afghanistan on April 9. The following week, embassy staff participat [...] | 2007-05-07 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR PINR KIPR PREL AF TX |
07ASHGABAT46 | Turkmenistan Customs Seeks Increased Cooperation [...] (SBU) Deputy Chief of Customs Amanmamet Muhammetgulyev told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum during an unexpected sit-down meeting at the Altyn Asyr Customs Training Center on January 10 that Customs has benefited from USG cooperation and looked forward to enhancing this relation [...] | 2007-01-16 03:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT460 | LTG WHITCOMB VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN, 24-25 APRIL [...] (C) Commander, ARCENT was cordially received in meetings with Turkmenistan's Deputy Defense Minister and Deputy Foreign Minister on April 25, 2007. The Deputy Defense Minister characterized current military cooperation with the United States as 'good,' especially in the areas of humanitarian [...] | 2007-05-07 12:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT48 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA INFORMATIVE ON USTDA DELEGATION [...] (U) State media provided positive and informative coverage on the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) delegation visit, headed by its regional director Dan Stein. The delegation held talks at ministries and agencies August 6-11, 2007. STATE MEDIA ANNOUNCES DELEGATION VISITING TURKMENI [...] | 2007-09-11 04:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT491 | TURKMENISTAN MEDIA SHOWS UNPRECEDENTED WARMTH TO POST IN [...] (U) State media coverage of post events in March was generally full and positive, with some key exceptions. Statements by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann during his March 3-6 visit received full but inaccurate coverage. Coverage of Peace Corps Day, the signing of an agreement [...] | 2007-05-15 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT501 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR NEUMANN: [...] (C) Ambassador Neumann, Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit here, which offers us an opportunity to engage the Government of Turkmenistan on a more substantive level on the issue of assistance to Afghanistan. Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov, after just a few months on the job, [...] | 2007-05-16 10:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR TX AF US |
07ASHGABAT504 | TURKMENISTAN'S EMINENCE GRISE RELEASED FROM [...] (C) Rumors of shadowy Chief of the Presidential Security Service Akmurat Rejepov's expected departure from the government were confirmed by a May 15 presidential decree announcing his assignment to "other work." An additional -- and more surprising change in Turkmenistan's security structu [...] | 2007-05-16 11:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PO TX |
07ASHGABAT520 | TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) A representative of Turkmenistan's Ministry of National Security (MNB) contacted polmiloff on May 22 to forward to Charge the ministry's decision to abolish the "black list" of citizens prevented from leaving Turkmenistan. During a follow-up conversation on May 23, the MNB contact said t [...] | 2007-05-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT525 | TURKMENISTAN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER HAGYEV [...] (C) Turkmenistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Hagyev told SCA Special Envoy for Assistance to Afghanistan Ron Neumann on May 21 that his country was eager to provide additional electricity to Afghanistan on a "mutually beneficial" basis, but was concerned by a "change in the wind" on Afghanistan' [...] | 2007-05-24 13:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV TX AF US |
07ASHGABAT54 | SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM'S DINNER WITH ASHGABAT [...] (U) SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum conferred with the UK, Georgian, Romanian, Ukrainian and Azerbaijani ambassadors plus the French, Turkish and German DCMs over a two-hour supper January 10. DAS Feigenbaum began by summarizing the USG's goals for his visit following the let [...] | 2007-01-16 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT548 | SCA/CEN OFFICE DIRECTOR SPRATLEN WARNS [...] (C) During an 80-minute May 11 meeting SCA/CEN Office Director Pamela Spratlen urged Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hagyev to improve freedom of movement from Turkmenistan or face withdrawal of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment waiver. Hagyev tried to justify his country's travel policy using legalis [...] | 2007-06-01 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV TX US |
07ASHGABAT55 | Gazprom's Turkmenistan Contract Secure [...] (SBU) A December 12 visit to Turkmenistan by Gazprom Board Member Valeriy Golubev, a December 21 conversation with the local Gazprom representative, and statements by Turkmenistan's Acting President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Niyazov's death, confirm [...] | 2007-01-16 13:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PGOV RU TX |
07ASHGABAT550 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV PROMISES [...] (C) Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov offered PDAS Mann and a high-level USG delegation on May 31 a mix of openness and old thinking. After hearing detailed USG proposals for technical assistance, feasibility studies and experts' exchanges -- all contributing to making Turkmenistan a [...] | 2007-06-01 13:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT56 | SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETS ASHGABAT BUSINESSMEN ON [...] (SBU) SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum got the up-close private-sector view of Turkmenistan's latest events over summer on January 10 with seven long-time expatriate business executives, most from the oil and gas sector. Pre-dinner discussion included gossip about the actual tim [...] | 2007-01-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT563 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPUTY CHAIRMAN MEREDOV TELLS [...] (C) Deputy Chairman for Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov told DAS Romanowski his government wanted to energize its relationship with the United States. While he refrained from making any commitments, and instead referred DAS Romanowski to the Ministry of Education, he listened attentively to he [...] | 2007-06-06 11:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI TX US |
07ASHGABAT583 | BERDIMUHAMMEDOV FIRES MINISTER OF CULTURE, RECTOR OF [...] (U) In his June 8 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhammedov fired Minister of Culture Enebay Atayeva and former Minister of Education-then-director of the International Turkmen Turkish University (ITTU) Shemshat Annagylyjova. Dismissing Atayeva with a reprimand for "serious shor [...] | 2007-06-12 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID TX US |
07ASHGABAT587 | POSITIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF PDAS MANN'S MAY VISIT TO [...] (U) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's May 30-June 1 visit to Turkmenistan, at the head of a high-level energy delegation, received wide and positive coverage in state media. The delegation included Regional Director for Europe and Asia of the U.S. Agency for Trade and Develop [...] | 2007-06-13 03:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT592 | PDAS MANN BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD HURTS [...] (SBU) During a May 30 roundtable with SCA PDAS Steve Mann, a varied group of expatriate business leaders broadly agreed that there had been very little change in the foreign business climate in Turkmenistan since the December death of President Niyazov. All noted that the Government of Turkme [...] | 2007-06-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT600 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMMEDOV REACHES OUT TO [...] (C) Since his February 11 inauguration, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has engaged in an unprecedented level of international engagement, a significant departure from the practices of his xenophobe predecessor. Since his May 11-12 meetings with Russia's President Vladimi [...] | 2007-06-18 11:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT609 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMMEDOV,S STATE VISIT TO [...] (C) Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov's June 15-16 visit to Tehran demonstrated that Iran continues to call the shots in its relationship with Turkmenistan. The joint communique, calling Iran's foreign policy "a stabilizing and peaceful force in the world," was more a reflection of Pe [...] | 2007-06-21 12:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT61 | TURKMENISTAN'S NURMAMMEDOV RELEASED DECEMBER 30 [...] (C) RFE/RL Ashgabat reporter Halmurad Gylchdurdiyev told poloffs on January 17 that Nurberdy Nurmammedov, a dissident figure from the late 1990s who still resides in Ashgabat and had been rumored for that reason to be a possible presidential candidate of the exiled Turkmenistan opposition, wa [...] | 2007-01-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT617 | MEJLIS SPEAKER WELCOMES DAS FEIGENBAUM'S OFFERS - BUT STOPS [...] (U) As part of his visit to Ashgabat to press forward in the bilateral relationship since the inauguration of President Berdimuhammedov, Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum met on June 25 with Mejlis (Parliament) Speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva to discuss opportunities for cooperation between [...] | 2007-06-26 13:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF |
07ASHGABAT618 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV TELLS SCA [...] (C) During a cordial 80-minute meeting on June 25, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that Turkmenistan was committed to expanded cooperation with the United States. He stated that a Trans-Caspian pipeline (TCP) remained on [...] | 2007-06-26 14:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG ECON ETRD TX AF US |
07ASHGABAT619 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum's two and a half hour meeting with Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman Rashit Meredov covered a wide range of issues in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere. At times, Meredov added humor to the discussion. Meredov responded favorably to the invit [...] | 2007-06-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC ENRG AF TX |
07ASHGABAT620 | SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM VS. THE TURKMENISTAN BOARD OF [...] (SBU) Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Evan Feigenbaum drew a line in the sand on American values in response to Deputy Chairman for Education, Health, Science, and Technology Hydyr Saparlyev,s feeble calls for a joint selection process of participants in exchange programs during their Jun [...] | 2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SCUL CVIS KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT636 | CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERATES INTEREST IN CASPIAN [...] (C) During 20 June meetings with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, Defense Minister GEN Agageldi Mammetgeldiyev, and State Border Service Chief GEN-MAJ Bayram Alovov the Commander of U.S. Central Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, found Turkmenistan's government open to energy pipeline [...] | 2007-06-29 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PINR ASEC PREL PGOV SNAR EPET IR |
07ASHGABAT637 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT TELLS CENTCOM COMMANDER [...] (C) Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov reaffirmed to the Commander, U.S. Central Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, during a 20 June meeting in Ashgabat that U.S. military aircraft could use Mary Military Airfield in emergency situations or in bad weather, but firmly refused [...] | 2007-06-29 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PINR PREL PGOV SNAR EPET IR AF RS |
07ASHGABAT650 | ROMANOWSKI DELEGATION RECEIVES UNPRECEDENTED COVERAGE IN [...] (U) The May 2-5 visit to Turkmenistan of an education delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alina L. Romanowski received wide coverage in state media. Her meetings with government officials from Turkmenistan's Mejlis (parliament),Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Ed [...] | 2007-07-03 10:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
07ASHGABAT660 | Blame Game in Negotiating Sales of Turkmenistan's Energy to [...] (U) While in Ashgabat to explore next steps in the bilateral relationship with President Berdimuhammedov's administration, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum met on June 25 with Minister of Energy and Industry Yusup Dawudov to discuss how the USG might assist with ongoing negotiati [...] | 2007-07-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF |
07ASHGABAT662 | CENTCOM ADMIRAL FALLON'S VISIT RECEIVES BROAD COVERAGE ON [...] (U) Media coverage of U.S. CENTCOM Commander Admiral William Fallon's June 20 meeting with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov fell into two distinct trends, with international sources focusing on American competition with Russia for gas resources while state media concentrated [...] | 2007-07-05 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF |
07ASHGABAT663 | EXTREME MAKEOVER IN TURKMENISTAN -- PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) The village of Babarap, located in Ahal Province, has been undergoing a massive transformation since early this year, when native son Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov assumed Turkmenistan's presidency. Streets and sidewalks are being paved; electricity lines strung; and sewer and water systems [...] | 2007-07-05 13:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT664 | OF CLOISTERS AND CONSTRUCTION, CHAPELS AND [...] (SBU) Late last year, the "Chronicles of Turkmenistan," a government opposition web site, reported that construction of a women's convent under Nikolsky Church in Ashgabat had halted in the face of Turkmenistani government threats. The web site, created by the independent "Turkmen Initiative [...] | 2007-07-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT666 | TURKMENISTAN CELEBRATES NEW PRESIDENT'S 50TH [...] (C) From uniform praise to media-covered receptions to commemorative coins, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's 50th birthday week provided a glimpse at how he is reflecting but also departing from the presidential culture of the late President Saparmyrat Niyazov. While there were some sign [...] | 2007-07-06 11:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT682 | INL'S Rule-of-Law Conference Shows Need and Desire for [...] (U) A June 4-6 U.S.-sponsored "Cooperation to Promote Rule-of-Law" conference allowed approximately 30 Turkmenistan law enforcement and justice officials to compare and contrast Turkmenistan's criminal justice system with those of the United States and Russia. The U.S. Department of Justice's [...] | 2007-07-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR |
07ASHGABAT695 | TURKMENISTAN MEDIA REACTION IN APRIL-MAY [...] (U) Media reaction to post events in April and May were overall very accurate and positive to major visitors and events, but the state media continued to ignore smaller security and cultural programs. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann (Ref D) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of S [...] | 2007-07-13 10:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT697 | PIPELINES DOMINATE FEIGENBAUM PRESS COVERAGE [...] (U) Despite Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan A. Feigenbaum's emphasis on developing a multidimensional relationship with Turkmenistan, media mostly focused on the single dimension of gas pipelines. Most media headlines, including pro-Government of Turkmenistan sites, contained the words "Trans [...] | 2007-07-13 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF |
07ASHGABAT698 | YKLYMOVA TO LEAVE TURKMENISTAN AFTER MORE THAN [...] (C) Confirming host government reports that she has been removed from the & black list,8 Maral Yklymova, daughter of suspected coup plotter Parahat Yklymov, received her passport from the Mary City authorities on April 23. Since then she has tested her freedom with frequent trips to Ashgaba [...] | 2007-07-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT699 | TURKEMISTAN ENERGY: FM MEREDOV SAYS U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: SCA PDAS Steve Mann met for nearly two hours on July 11 with Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov. Meredov: -- insisted Turkmenistan has significant gas deposits in its off-shore Caspian blocks that are open [...] | 2007-07-16 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV RS CH AZ |
07ASHGABAT701 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the July 13 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhamedov announced an important decision to recognize foreign educational degrees and appointed a new, possibly more dynamic and open Deputy Chair o [...] | 2007-07-17 09:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT707 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the July 13 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhamedov announced an important decision to recognize foreign educational degrees and appointed a new, possibly more dynamic and open Deputy Chair o [...] | 2007-07-17 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT711 | PRESIDENT OFFERS UP NEW REFORMS DURING HALF-YEAR [...] (SBU) A July 13 meeting of Turkmenistan's Cabinet of Ministers, a half-year review of government activities, delivered major personnel overhauls and a series of significant new initiatives, many of which Turkmenistan's citizens will welcome. In the meeting, President Berdimuhamedov not only [...] | 2007-07-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EFIN EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT715 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV DENIES REPORTS OF GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan,s Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov firmly denied reports that Turkmenistan plans to sell natural gas via Iran to Turkey and onward to Europe. He said, &Our relationship with the United States is very important. We wou [...] | 2007-07-19 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ENRG IR TU TX |
07ASHGABAT716 | STATE MEDIA GIVES UNSOLICITED, POSITIVE COVERAGE OF PDAS [...] (U) State media provided positive but limited coverage of Principal Deputy Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs meetings on July 12. International media borrowed text straight from state coverage or paraphrased its content. The oddity of the coverage is that it appeared bef [...] | 2007-07-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT717 | JUNE EDUCATION FAIRS DRAW THE BRAVE AND MOTIVATED -- [...] (SBU) Throughout June post co-sponsored a series of successful education fairs in Ashgabat and with each region's American Corners. The fairs, organized principally by implementing partner, American Councils (ACCELS),were successful despite almost no support, but also with no interference, f [...] | 2007-07-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT728 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: MYRADOV AVERS AMU DARYA BASIN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At an hour-long meeting on July 12 with Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Bayrammyrat Myradov, SCA Principal Deputy Secretary Steven R. Mann, EUR DA [...] | 2007-07-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET EINV RS CH AZ TX |
07ASHGABAT729 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE GAZPROMISTAN" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lively exchange of views between USDEL and First Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Jeparov, the U.S. side championed multiple export routes for Turkmenistan,s hydrocarbon resources, explained the economi [...] | 2007-07-23 12:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV TX RU |
07ASHGABAT731 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN OF [...] (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to Turkmenistan as the first-ever U.S. delegation here to focus solely on religious freedom. Your visit will help to reinforce the U.S. government's message as it has sought to "turn a new page" in [...] | 2007-07-23 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT734 | SUSTAINED MEDIA COVERAGE IN JUNE; GREATER ACCURACY IN STATE [...] (SBU) State media gave thorough, positive coverage on all high-level U.S. visits, but as usual ignored smaller programs or events. International media drew heavily from Turkmenistan state media sources for their own reporting in June, but provided different interpretations of the same informa [...] | 2007-07-24 11:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR ENRG TX |
07ASHGABAT741 | TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS USCIRF DEL [...] (SBU) After weeks of back and forth, and recent days of nearly hourly promises that the letters of invitation would be ready on time, Charge met with America's Desk Director Serdar Bashimov on July 25 to press for him to hand over the letters of invitation necessary for the U.S. Commission on [...] | 2007-07-25 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT742 | U.S. SUPPORT FOR STEVE CARR'S CANDIDACY TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF |
07ASHGABAT756 | TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE WELCOMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) In a July 23 meeting at Turkmenistan's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF),USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten and his economic growth delegation met with MOEF First Deputy Minister Tuwakmammet Ja [...] | 2007-07-27 17:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV ETRD EAGR TX |
07ASHGABAT757 | CENTRAL BANK OF TURKMENISTAN OPEN TO RENEWED U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) During a July 23 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan indicated openness to assistance from the United States for the first time in two years. Assistance [...] | 2007-07-27 17:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EAID EFIN TX |
07ASHGABAT758 | MEJLIS CHAIRS OPEN TO USAID COOPERATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) During a July 24 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, Maral Poltayeva, Chairperson of the Mejlis (Parliament) Committee on Social and Economic Policy, and Akmuhammet Shamuhammedov, Chairm [...] | 2007-07-30 03:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT759 | TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES USCIRF VISIT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Charge met with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Foreign Minister, Rashit Meredov, on July 27. Citing Secretary Rice that we have turned a new page in U.S.-Turkmenistan relations, Charge noted Turkmenistan's [...] | 2007-07-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT76 | PETRONAS IN TURKMENISTAN: FULL OF GAS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Petronas, which unexpectedly hit substantial (an estimated 20 billion cubic meters at maximum production) reserves of ethane- and propane-rich natural gas in the Caspian Sea, is looking at gas export options. The [...] | 2007-10-05 06:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT762 | TURKMENISTAN: DONORS COMPARE NOTES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten met on July 24 with representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB),UNDP, World Bank (WB) and EU/TACIS. All agreed that working assistance programs remains a c [...] | 2007-08-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT767 | Turkmenistan: 2007 Report on Investment [...] (U) a. Claimant A b. 2004: c. Claimant A concluded a contract on purchasing 3,000 tons of K-354 type carbon black at a price of $320.00 per ton with the State Concern "Turkmen Fertilizers and Chemistry" in November 2004. During 2005, the selling organization failed to deliver the [...] | 2007-08-02 09:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BTIO EINV CASC OPIC ENRG PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT768 | TURKMENISTAN: AFGHANISTAN'S "UNPROFESSIONAL" BEHAVIOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan's Ministry of Energy and Industry Foreign Economic Affairs Department Chief Eziz Berdimyradov blasted Afghanistan's approach to negotiating increased electrical sales as "unprofessional" and questione [...] | 2007-08-02 09:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX |
07ASHGABAT769 | TURKMENISTAN'S HYDROCARBONS: TOTAL JOINS THE RUSH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Olivier Bouygues, Vice President of French construction firm Bouygues, Senior Bouygues Vice President Aldo Karbonaro, and Yves-Louis Darricarrere, the president for exploration and production of the French hydrocarbons compa [...] | 2007-08-02 09:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EPET EINV FR TX |
07ASHGABAT773 | TURKMENISTAN: ENCOURAGING NEWS ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In following up on a Human Rights Watch HRW list of individuals previously banned from traveling outside of Turkmenistan, the embassy has learned that most, but still not all, of these individuals either have been allowed to travel abroad, or have been told that they may travel i [...] | 2007-08-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT778 | UNDERSTANDING TURKMENISTAN: DESCENT INTO FANTASY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is a two-part series. This first part reviews the Niyazov era and how he dragged his country into international disrepute. The second part suggests policy directions for Washington to consider, and reviews current con [...] | 2007-08-06 06:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV KDEM RS TX |
07ASHGABAT779 | UNDERSTANDING TURKMENISTAN: ASCENT INTO REALITY [...] (U) This is a two-part series. The first part reviewed the Niyazov era and how he dragged his country into international disrepute. This second part suggests policy directions for Washington to consider, and reviews current constraints that will make Turkmenistan's recovery a long-term proc [...] | 2007-08-06 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV KDEM RS TX |
07ASHGABAT780 | TURKMENISTAN: WAY FORWARD ON RESTARTING [...] (C) Charge met with Foreign Ministry Americas Desk Director Serdar Bashimov on August 3 for a regularly scheduled weekly meeting. As he does at every opportunity, Charge raised the urgent need to restart the Embassy's Surveillance Detection Program that the government of Turkmenistan stopped [...] | 2007-08-06 07:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC RS TX |
07ASHGABAT781 | SCENE-SETTER FOR A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes you to Turkmenistan. On August 13, you will head the U.S. delegation that participates in the opening ceremony of the new border-crossing point between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan at Imam [...] | 2007-08-06 08:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR ECON ENRG KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT803 | TURKMENISTAN: "DEVELOP CIVIL SOCIETY" MEANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Minister of Education Annaamanov appears slightly open to cooperation with the United States. However, his director of the International Department, Nury Bayramov, remains a significant impediment. Foreign Ministry Americas Department Director Bashimov told the Charge expli [...] | 2007-08-07 10:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT817 | TURKMENISTAN: DASHOGUZ FARMERS MAKE GOOD USE OF U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (U) During his July 25 meeting with USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, Dashoguz Hakim [governor]Saparmyrat Ashyrov positively assessed USAID's contributions to economic development in Dashoguz welayat [pro [...] | 2007-08-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID AF TX |
07ASHGABAT825 | TURKMENISTAN'S OIL AND GAS AGENCIES NOT YET READY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Oil and Gas Baramgeldy Nedirov, pinch-hitting for the Minister of Oil and Gas and other key oil sector officials who were in Kazakhstan, listened to an August 6 presentation by U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein and Contractor [...] | 2007-08-09 12:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT826 | TURKMENISTAN AND CASPIAN CONNECTOR: "DON'T [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkenistan does not want to be mentioned in the Terms of Reference for the TDA-funded Caspian feasibility study for transporting hydrocarbons from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan, but insists the door remains open for experts to study the connector idea. Timing may be an issue becaus [...] | 2007-08-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EPET AJ KZ TX |
07ASHGABAT827 | TURKMENISTAN: CLEMENCY FOR 11 PRISONERS, [...] (C) At a one-on-one August 9 meeting (other business reported septel),Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov told Charge in strict confidence President Berdimuhamedov had just hours earlier signed an order of clemency for 11 prisoners who had been convict [...] | 2007-08-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT829 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: CONOCOPHILLIPS/LUKOIL HOPE [...] (C) Charge met briefly late evening August 9 with ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. executives President for Russia and Caspian Region Don Wallette and Vice President for Exploration Tim Wallace. Houston-based Vice President for Upstream Bill Berry had already departed Turkmenistan. The meeting wa [...] | 2007-08-10 11:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV RS TX |
07ASHGABAT830 | TURKMENISTAN PROTESTS "NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES" [...] (C) Embassy received a diplomatic note dated August 7 protesting the series of articles C.J. Chivers published in "The New York Times" after he accompanied Commander CENTCOM Admiral Fallon to Turkmenistan June 19-20. The dip note pointedly reminded Embassy Ashgabat it had supported Chivers' [...] | 2007-08-10 11:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT831 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CLARIFICATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 9 Cabinet of Ministers session, a frustrated President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov lashed out against the lack of transparency and clarity in Turkmenistan's system of ministry funds -- the funds (often supplemented by fees, bribes and other sources of income) cont [...] | 2007-08-10 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT836 | TURKMENISTAN: FARMERS SPEAK OUT IN MARY PROVINCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. SUMMARY 2. (U) During his July 27 meeting with the economic growth delegation led by USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Drew Luten, a cautious Mary Hakim Muhammet Gurbannazarov credited the contributions of Turkmenistan's first [...] | 2007-08-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX |
07ASHGABAT839 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT APPROVES WORKING TO [...] (S) At the end of their August 14 meeting, EEB Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan asked to meet briefly one-on-one SIPDIS with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Sullivan delivered the following talking points: -- Mr. President, I have a very important but sensitive favor to ask of y [...] | 2007-08-15 13:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC TX |
07ASHGABAT84 | Russian Ambassador on NGO Activist Zatoka [...] (SBU) Russian Ambassador Igor Blatov told the Charge on January 19 that the Russian Embassy had been involved with the Zatoka case for "many days" and that he had met Foreign Minister Meredov on the issue. According to Blatov: -- Local law does not recognize dual citizenship. The governmen [...] | 2007-01-19 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS RU TX |
07ASHGABAT841 | FORMER AGRICULTURE MINISTER MEREDOV DISMISSAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition Turkmenistani news website Gundogar reported August 8 that police arrested former Minister of Agriculture Paizugeldy Meredov for embezzlement and corruption. Well-known for his close personal relation [...] | 2007-08-15 13:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR KCRM PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT843 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW WAVE OF CONSTRUCTION - TURKS GET MOST [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov is continuing the process begun by President Niyazov of transforming Ashgabat into a city of massive white marble buildings. Just as before, construction in Turkmenistan is primarily carri [...] | 2007-08-17 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT845 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT TO USCIRF: "DID I PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USCIRC meeting with President Berdimuhamedov was an honest give and take. The president told the delegation, "Take your time to meet whomever you want in Turkmenistan. Learn all you can. You'll probably fi [...] | 2007-08-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT851 | STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT USAID DELEGATION VISIT ON ECONOMIC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media provided positive and broad coverage at an unprecedented level for Deputy Assistant Administrator for USAID Drew Luten's visit to Turkmenistan, July 22-28, as the head of a delegation discussing economic [...] | 2007-08-20 12:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ECON SCUL KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT852 | TURKMENISTAN: A FURTHER STEP TOWARD ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of recent meetings with U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA) contractor Bronek Dutkiewicz, officials in Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon agencies -- and particularly the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbons (State Agency) -- enthusiastically embraced USTDA' [...] | 2007-08-21 08:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX |
07ASHGABAT853 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: SEANA ENERGY ENTERS THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A curious player has emerged in the current Klondikeskyy race to develop Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon wealth -- Seana Energy, a Singapore-registered, Ankara-based consortium of international private investors that purportedly includes significant U.S. private-sector participation. [...] | 2007-08-22 05:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EPET AJ KZ TU TX |
07ASHGABAT860 | TURKMENISTAN: USCIRF MEETS THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation's meeting with the Ministry of Education (MOE) was polite and lively, yet not particularly conclusive. Although Minister Muhammetgeldi Anna [...] | 2007-08-22 06:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KIRF KISL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT862 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY THERE'S HOPE, PART 2 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Lidiya Kerimi of the President's Institute of Democracy and Human Rights and editor of the Institute's journal, came to the Embassy's public Information Resource Center (IRC) on August 21. She inquisitively asked for help f [...] | 2007-08-22 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT863 | MEREDOV DESCRIBES TURKMENISTAN'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] USCIRF Chairman Michael Cromartie kicked off the session by asking Meredov about the right of Muslim citizens to go on the Hajj, given recent reports that some applicants are refused exit visas. Meredov responded that there are no restrictions for those seeking to go, especially if they have [...] | 2007-08-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT864 | TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 14 meeting at Turkmenistan's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF),EEB Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan and his delegation met with MOEF First Deputy Minister Tuwakmammet Japarov. Sullivan encou [...] | 2007-08-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EFIN ETRD EAGR TX |
07ASHGABAT865 | TURKMENISTAN'S HYDROCARBON AGENCY: "HELP!" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a remarkable meeting with EEB Assistant Secretary Sullivan, Turkmenistan's top energy negotiator, who is close to Berdimuhamedov, made crystal clear he is feeling overwhelmed by his responsibility and lack of [...] | 2007-08-23 06:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT866 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV SAYS HE WANTS U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During his meeting with EEB A/S Sullivan, President Berdimuhamedov -- expressed thanks to Secretary Rice for her attention to Turkmenistan and the region, particularly regarding her vision of Central/South Asia [...] | 2007-08-23 06:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET SNAR SCUL IR TX |
07ASHGABAT867 | TURKMENISTAN: NATO CONTACT REGIONAL REP BRIEFS ON [...] (SBU) Astana-based NATO Contact Regional Representative Tugay Tuncher briefed NATO-member embassies' chiefs of mission at a Turkish Embassy-hosted dinner on August 22 at the close of his three-day visit to Ashgabat. He met with Deputy Foreign Minister Hajiyev and a deputy minister of defense [...] | 2007-08-23 08:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EINV SNAR NATO TU TX |
07ASHGABAT871 | TURKMENISTAN: UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION AND CAMARADERIE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The August 13 opening ceremony for the Imamnazar border station was a resounding success for U.S.-Turkmenistan relations, and in terms of outreach to the public. EEB Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan headed the U [...] | 2007-08-23 09:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT873 | TURKMENISTAN: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has decided at the highest level it wants to cooperate with the United States on economic reform and energy policy. We need to take advantage of this historic opportunity with a tiger-team response. If we can be nimble enough to be successful, we will have three o [...] | 2007-08-23 10:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID EPET KDEM KIRF IR |
07ASHGABAT876 | HARD-WON 2007 TV CO-OP ON ECOLOGICAL ISSUES A GOLDEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In late June, a three-man crew of Turkmenistan state television journalists completed a high-spirited and enlightening TV CO-Operative Project focused on urban environmental issues. Despite worse-than-usual burea [...] | 2007-08-24 08:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PROP KPAO OPRC OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT877 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: SENIOR BP OFFICIALS MEET THE [...] (SBU) Senior British Petroleum (BP) officials called on Charge August 23 for a U.S. policy briefing: CEO of BP Exploration and Production, Group Vice President for Exploration and New Business Development Michael Daly, and BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. President for Business Development [...] | 2007-08-24 09:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET EINV AJ TX |
07ASHGABAT878 | TURKMENISTAN: USCIRF AT THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE: RUHNAMA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Ministry of Culture and TV/Radio Broadcasting, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation received a warm reception and more disjointed answers regarding the Ruhnama (the late [...] | 2007-08-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KIRF KISL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT885 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CREATES NEW HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An August 24 session of Turkmenistan's Cabinet of Ministers became a vehicle for President Berdimuhamedov to announce that he was establishing an interagency "Human Rights Commission" to coordinate work designed t [...] | 2007-08-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT893 | TURKMENISTAN: GETTING AROUND THE ROADBLOCK AT THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Ministry of Education (MOE),Charge made progress in drawing the Minister's attention to continuing concerns with the Embassy's education and exchange programs. This meeting was perhaps the first opportuni [...] | 2007-08-28 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT896 | TURKMENISTAN DOES NOT SEEK SCO MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) During an August 28 meeting with Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov (other issues septels),Charge asked if Turkmenistan seeks to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),noting President Berdimuhamedov had attended the August 16 SCO Summit in Bishkek -- a first for Turkmenistan. [...] | 2007-08-29 08:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS CH ZK TX |
07ASHGABAT897 | USCIRF IN TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT SIGNALS DESIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An August 19-25 visit by a delegation of commissioners and staffers from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) demonstrated that Turkmenistan is starting a transition that could lead to substantially improved religious tolerance. Given unprecedented ac [...] | 2007-08-29 09:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT899 | TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS TELL STAFFDEL ANAND THEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) staff delegation visiting Turkmenistan August 24-25 came eager to see evidence of positive changes in the right direction. All of their inter [...] | 2007-08-29 14:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT903 | TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS TELL HELSINKI COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 12-15 visit, a delegation of Helsinki Committee staffers saw evidence that Turkmenistan is beginning a slow and uneven, but undeniable, process of transition. In probably their best meeting, Turkmenistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev offered a compellin [...] | 2007-08-31 08:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EPET ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT907 | NEW PRESIDENT'S RECORD ON FIRINGS AND ARRESTS MAY [...] SUMMARY: Analytic commentary on Eurasian news and Turkmen opposition websites recently declared President Berdimuhamedov's leadership to be largely a mirror image of Niyazov's, and characterized the record of government dismissals and arrests since February as a "purge" of potential threats. [...] | 2007-08-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT908 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT TO ATTEND 62ND UN GENERAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) A. Attendance of the Head of State: -- President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov -- Arrival at JFK on September 23 at 13:00 hours. -- The president's spouse will not accompany. -- Interpretation in Russian will be requi [...] | 2007-09-04 13:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OVIP UNGA TX |
07ASHGABAT920 | TURKMENISTAN: IMPLEMENTING "EDUCATION REFORM" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: September 1 marked the first day of the new school year in Turkmenistan under new educational reforms that President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov enacted after taking office in February 2007. The changes, which inclu [...] | 2007-09-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID SCUL SOCI KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT922 | TURKMENISTAN: SEANA ENERGY PREPARES ITS OFFER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new international consortium of experts and investors is preparing to bid for the on-shore Yoloten gas field. The two founders of Seana Energy, an intentional consortium, are former but now-disaffected employees of Turkey's Chalik Energy. Seana Energy has significant U.S. pa [...] | 2007-09-05 10:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT923 | REQUESTING DATA FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COMPACT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 10:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID SCUL KMCA TX |
07ASHGABAT925 | BOEING REP: TURKMENISTAN AIR FACES LONG ROAD TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has tasked the new CEO of Turkmenistan Airlines, Gurbanyaz Tirkishov, with fixing long-standing operational issues with the airline. Berdimuhamedov announced the intention to place an order for new aircraft, in part to service all of the new [...] | 2007-09-05 11:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT927 | TURKMENISTAN INVITES SECRETARY RICE TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Turkmenistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the Embassy a diplomatic note September 3 stating that Turkmenistan will hold an international conference on "Preventive Diplomacy and International Cooperation" in Ashgabat on December 10-11. The conference is timed to coincide with Turkmen [...] | 2007-09-05 12:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PREL PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT930 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENE-SETTER FOR TREASURY VISIT, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes you to Turkmenistan. You are coming to Turkmenistan in the early months of a bilateral dialogue directed toward encouraging Turkmenistan to make the economic and finance reforms that will [...] | 2007-09-06 12:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN ENRG PHUM KIRF PGOV EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT956 | TUKRMENISTAN: THE TRIALS OF TOURISM [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Getting out of Turkmenistan proved as difficult as getting in for five AMCIT tourists who tried to exit with lapsed visas September 4. Negotiating Turkmenistan's rigid bureaucracy to get exit stamps took three d [...] | 2007-09-12 10:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT966 | TURKMENBASHY AMERICAN CORNER: MAYOR SAYS ONLY FOREIGN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The American Corner in the Caspian Sea port city of Turkmanbashy, closed since May 2005, can reopen if we find an "appropriate stand-alone building." This would entail higher expenses than normal for an American [...] | 2007-09-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT967 | TURKMENBASHY REFINERY WILL SOON PRODUCE MORE JET FUEL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Charge called on Turkmenbashy Refinery General Director Tagangeldi Mamedov September 11. Mamedov confirmed the refinery currently produces 6M tons of refined petroleum products a year, although the current capacity is 7.5M t [...] | 2007-09-13 10:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EPET EINV ETRD MARR AF TX |
07ASHGABAT968 | TURKMENISTAN: "IF WE BUILD IT, YOU WILL COME" -- [...] (U) SUMMARY: With the reconstruction of Ashgabat continuing apace, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is beginning to focus on giving the run-down Caspian port city of Turkmenbashy a major facelift that, in theory, would make it into a glitzy tourist destination while boosting employment in [...] | 2007-09-13 11:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV SOCI TU FR RS TX |
07ASHGABAT970 | TURKMENISTAN: "AVAZA INTERNATIONAL TOURIST ZONE" ANOTHER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) During a September 11 meeting with Mayor of Turkmenbashy Ashyrniyaz Pomanov, Charge asked him about the "Avaza International Tourist Zone" on the Caspian Sea that President Berdimuhamedov had announced with great fanfare on [...] | 2007-09-13 11:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV TX |
07ASHGABAT971 | TURKMENISTAN: LIFE AIN'T EASY IN TURKMENBASHY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) During a September 11 visit to the Caspian Sea port city, Turkmenbashy, Charge met at a cafe with three FLEX and one IVLP alumni. Although one of the oldest cities in Turkmenistan, founded in the mid-19th century during th [...] | 2007-09-14 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT975 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S.TREASURY DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 10 visit by a Department of the Treasury delegation demonstrated both a strong need for monetary and fiscal policy reform, and that Treasury assistance would be useful. Although the Central Bank's Ch [...] | 2007-09-14 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT976 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S.TREASURY DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 10 visit by a Department of the Treasury delegation demonstrated both a strong need for monetary and fiscal policy reform, and that Treasury assistance would be useful. Although the Central Bank's Ch [...] | 2007-09-14 13:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT977 | TURKMENISTAN: RUHNAMA GOING, GOING, BUT NOT YET [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Since Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov's inauguration in February, there has been a gradual diminution of the cult surrounding the Ruhnama. References to and articles on former President Niyazov's book in the [...] | 2007-09-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT983 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHT A/S [...] (U) State media positively highlighted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan's participation in the August 13 inauguration ceremony of the Imamnazar border checkpoint on the Turkmen-Afghan border and his August 14 meeting with Turkmenistan' [...] | 2007-09-18 09:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP RS TX |
07ASHGABAT990 | TURKMENISTAN: NAZARBAYEV VISIT YIELDS GOODWILL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Nazarbayev and President Berdimuhamedov held expansive meetings on strengthening economic ties between the two countries, focusing extensively on establishing hydrocarbon development joint ventures in the Caspian and improving land transportation networks between the [...] | 2007-09-19 10:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EPET IR TX |
07ASHGABAT993 | TURKMENISTAN: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT EMBASSY'S IFTAR [...] In contrast to past years, a number of high-level Government of Turkmenistan officials attended the Embassy's Iftar dinner on September 18. About 35 attendees participated, including Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov, Speaker of the Parliament Akja Nurberdiyeva, and the Chair [...] | 2007-09-21 07:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL KIRF KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT996 | TURKMENISTAN: GREATER ENGAGEMENT IN THE SPHERE OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USAID Religion, State and Society (RSS) specialist found a greater willingness by officials to discuss the possibility of cooperation during his September 17-21 visit to Turkmenistan. The director of the Instit [...] | 2007-09-21 11:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KIRF KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT997 | TURKMENISTAN: CONOCO-PHILLIPS TESTING THE WATERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Conoco-Phillips is looking at the feasibility of opening an office in Ashgabat, the company's General Counsel for Upstream Finance, Chuck Ferree, told Pol/Econ Chief on September 19. Ferree said he was doing research into th [...] | 2007-09-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENERG EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT999 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov continues to say publicly that the option of a Trans-Caspian pipeline (TCP) remains on the table, both Deputy Chairman/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov and Executive Director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbo [...] | 2007-09-21 12:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PGOV TX AJ |
07ASMARA135 | MAKING AN ERITREAN BORG: POLITICAL RE-EDUCATION [...] (U) The sole political party of Eritrea, the Peoples' Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),is harkening back to the days of Megistu and mandatory Marxist-Leninist education training. With the blessing of the Government of Eritrea (GSE),they have implemented political training for all gove [...] | 2007-02-09 06:14:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO SOCI ER |
07ASMARA146 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UPDATE: HARRASMENT, ARRESTS & [...] (U) Summary: The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) continues to persecute religious groups and detain individual church members. During the month of January, GSE officials confiscated the vestments of the deposed Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, who has been under house arr [...] | 2007-02-13 10:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI ER |
07ASMARA151 | DEATH OF ERITREAN JOURNALIST REMAINS UNCONFIRMED [...] (C) On February 8, 2007 Reporters sans Frontieres(RSF) issued a press release claiming Fessehaye "Joshua" Yohannes, an Eritrean journalist detained in September 2001 died in detention on January 11, 2007. According the RSF report, the Government of Eritrea was detaining him along with others [...] | 2007-02-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO SOCI ER |
07ASMARA158 | REMITTANCES AND HARD CURRENCY: ERITREA'S LIFELINE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As the Government of Eritrea (GSE) and its sole political party, the PFDJ, continue to hold the Eritrean economy in a strangle-hold, the economy continues to circle the drain, making hard currency and remittances the critical factors for Eritrea's on-going economic survival. Th [...] | 2007-02-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN ER |
07ASMARA16 | WFP EXPATRIATE ILLEGALLY DETAINED BY UNIDENTIFIED [...] (C) Summary: On December 17, a Belgian national working for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) was threatened and arrested by unidentified GSE authorities while taking photographs of street scenes in downtown Asmara. He was detained at a police station overnight before being released the foll [...] | 2007-01-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA162 | EASTERN FRONT PEACE AGREEMENT: STRUGGLING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the October 14 signing of the Eastern Front Peace Agreement (EFPA),the undercurrent of tensions, personal ambition and animosities between Eastern Front (EF) leaders came to a head, with a near collapse of the entity in December. The intercession of the Erit [...] | 2007-02-21 08:23:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU ER |
07ASMARA28 | GOING, GOING, NEARLY GONE: HUMAN RIGHTS & CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea, once praised by many for its freedoms and possibilities, has abandoned the path of human rights and instead become one of the most restrictive and controlling societies in the world. The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) operates with a callous indifference to [...] | 2007-01-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO |
07ASMARA338 | TROUBLED TIMES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) The Catholic Church continues to endure harassment and pressure from the Government of Eritrea (GSE) as the GSE insists that priests and seminarians participate in military training. In a meeting with Emboff on March 26, the Catholic Bishop of Asmara, Menghesteab Tesfamarian (protect) said [...] | 2007-03-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF ER |
07ASMARA345 | ERITREAN MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT "FROZEN" [...] (C) President Isaias Afwerki has, by all accounts, recently "frozen" Minister of National Development (MOND),Woldai Futur, essentially stripping him of his substantive responsibilities but stopping short of formally dismissing him. In January the European Commission and World Bank both r [...] | 2007-04-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAID ECON ER |
07ASMARA36 | TIME TO SPEAK UP: A NEW STRATEGY FOR ERITREA [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The serious abuses of human rights fo which the Government of Eritrea is responsible and its continued rejection of even the most fundamental democratic principles in governance remain serious problems and a major impediment to improvemen of bilateral ties. (refte [...] | 2007-01-11 13:57:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO ER |
07ASMARA393 | OSMAN SALEH MOHAMMED APPOINTED NEW MINISTER OF [...] (U) The Government of Eritrea (GSE) announced April 18 the appointment of Osman Saleh Mohammed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The position of Minister of Foreign Affairs has been vacant since the August 2005 death of former minister Ali Said. Simultaneously the GSE announced that Semere [...] | 2007-04-20 04:56:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ER |
07ASMARA397 | ERITREA ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL FROM IGAD [...] (U) The Government of the State of Eritrea(GSE) announced on April 21 that it had suspended its membership in the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development(IGAD). In an official statement posted on www.shabait.com, the GSE claimed it was "compelled to take the move due to the fact that a nu [...] | 2007-04-25 12:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ER |
07ASMARA421 | GSE ARRESTS PRESBYTERIANS FOLLOWING WORSHIP SERVICE [...] (C) Following worship services on Sunday, April 29, officials from the Government of Eritrea's (GSE) national security office appeared at the unregistered Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Asmara and arrested nearly 80 individuals, including two American citizen missionaries. Co [...] | 2007-05-03 13:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA445 | JAILS IN ASMARA: A RECENT ACCOUNT [...] (C) Summary: Recent experiences of individuals detained in an Asmara police station shed new light on both the conditions and the operations of jails at police stations. The benign neglect of the jail guards prove a stark contrast to the horrific accommodations described by individuals incarce [...] | 2007-05-10 13:16:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ER |
07ASMARA452 | RUMORS OF MUSLIM PERSECUTION AND DISAPPEARANCES [...] (C/NF) Over the past several months, Poloff has heard rumors of the arrest and disappearance of Muslims in the lowlands of Eritrea. According to several individuals, GSE security forces appear at the homes of Muslims in the lowland areas of the Northern and Southern Red Sea zobas (regions) an [...] | 2007-05-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA463 | INDEPENDENCE DAY DOES NOT MEAN FREEDOM IN ERITREA [...] In the days leading up to Eritrean Independence day on May 24, the Government of Eritrea flexes its muscles and shows again to the people of Eritrea how Eritrean independence does not equal freedom. The streets of Asmara are flooded with soldiers, in small and large groups. Placed at intervals [...] | 2007-05-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA464 | INDEPENDENCE DAY DOES NOT MEAN FREEDOM IN ERITREA [...] In the days leading up to Eritrean Independence day on May 24, the Government of Eritrea flexes its muscles and shows again to the people of Eritrea how Eritrean independence does not equal freedom. The streets of Asmara are flooded with soldiers, in small and large groups. Placed at intervals [...] | 2007-05-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA490 | ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONSECRATES NEW PATRIARCH [...] On Sunday May 27, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewhado Church consecrated Abune Dioskoros in Asmara as the church's fourth patriarch. Present at the ceremony were representatives from the Evangelical Lutheran church and the Eritrean mufti, and representatives of the Government of the State of Eritrea [...] | 2007-06-05 10:17:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA500 | PRESIDENT ISAIAS FOCUSES ON DOMESTIC ISSUES AND BORDER IN [...] SUMMARY: On May 24, the 16th anniversary of Eritrea's independence, President Isaias Afwerki spoke at length about domestic economic concerns and the border. The President's speech squarely blamed the U.S. for the lack of progress in demarcating the border and described international initiati [...] | 2007-06-06 14:22:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR ER |
07ASMARA509 | HOT AND DRY IN KEREN: THE LOCAL ECONOMY SHRIVELS UP [...] On a recent trip to Keren, Embassy employee observed that Eritrea's economic crisis appears more acute outside of the capital city of Asmara. Keren sits 91 km northwest of Asmara in the Anseba Zone. With a population of 120,000, Keren is a major agriculture center of Eritrea, particularly for [...] | 2007-06-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ECON ER |
07ASMARA615 | ASSAB TRIP REPORT - LOCAL ECONOMY TANKING [...] (C) Summary. Between June 16 and June 18, 2007, FSN members of post traveled to Assab, the second port city of Eritrea. They found an economy that had virtually ground to a halt and were told by local business owners that this was due to governmental restrictions on trade and movement. They [...] | 2007-07-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAID ECON EFIS ER |
07ASMARA620 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO GSE VIEWS ON [...] (U) In an interview posted on www.shaebia.org on July 9, Yemane Ghebremeskel, Director of the Office of President, offered the position of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) on a wide range of topics -- from religious freedom and human rights to international relations and Somalia. ( [...] | 2007-07-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA634 | DEADLY FORCE POLICY FOR ERITREANS ATTEMPTING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Source reported to RSO that a local party representative for the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),in a monthly meeting with PFDJ party members, stated that the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE),had instituted a shoot-to-kill policy for a [...] | 2007-07-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC ER |
07ASMARA640 | ERITREA: 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] The United States Government is aware of four claims by American citizens that may be outstanding against the Government of the State of Eritrea(GSE). All, four of these claims were reported in previous reports. Point of Contact for U.S. Embassy, Asmara, Eritrea is: Holly Holzer, Political a [...] | 2007-08-01 12:47:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENIV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV ER |
07ASMARA681 | FEEDBACK FROM ERITREA ON THE CLOSURE OF THE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Following notification on August 10 of the U.S. ordered closure of the Eritrean Consulate in Oakland, the Government of the State of Eritrea(GSE) remains officially quiet yet reports of great concern by the GSE trickle through to Embassy personnel. Members of Asmara's diploma [...] | 2007-08-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ASEC PINR ER |
07ASMARA699 | GSE STILL THREATENING CATHOLIC CHURCH'S AUTONOMY [...] (C) The Catholic Church continues to endure harassment and pressure from the Government of Eritrea (GSE) as the GSE threatens to repossess Church property used for social and educational programs and insist that priests and seminarians participate in military training. In an August 14 meeting, [...] | 2007-08-24 08:39:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA700 | BRITISH COUNCIL EMPLOYEE RELEASED [...] (C) On August 1, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) released a foreign national employee of the British Council detained since July 27. The GSE arrested the employee under the guise of national security after a visiting British diplomat was seen on the roof of the British Council co [...] | 2007-08-27 05:41:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KREC ASEC ER |
07ASMARA715 | REQUEST FOR UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION - ASMARA [...] The following is contact information for Embassy Asmara: Main switchboard number: 291-1-120004 After hours contact number-Post One: 291-1-122833 (direct) or 596-0000 (IVG) Tieline number: 596-0000 Duty Officer cell phone number can be reached through Post One: 1-291-1-122833 FAX num [...] | 2007-09-05 12:48:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PGOV ER |
07ASMARA736 | MEETING WITH UNMEE DEPUTY CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER [...] (S) SUMMARY: RSO and UK Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) met September 6 with the UNMEE Deputy Chief Security Officer (DCSO) to discuss the security situation in Eritrea. DCSO, RSO and UK DHM agreed to start a Security Officer's Working Group that would meet on a monthly/as needed basis. This fi [...] | 2007-09-18 08:54:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | ASEC PTER PINR PREL PGOV ER |
07ASMARA746 | PURPORTED GSE RESPONSE TO STATE SPONSOR OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: RSO met with Source who provided third-hand information on Eritrean views towards being designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the USG. Source said that a contact in the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) claims the GSE fully antici [...] | 2007-09-19 12:38:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PREL PGOV PINR ER |
07ASMARA776 | SOURCE INFO ON ALLEGED SUICIDE BOMBERS IN ERITREA [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: RSO met with Source on 10/1/2007 who provided third-hand information on alleged Somali suicide bombers present in Asmara. Source stated a group of young Somalis who have been trained as suicide bombers, are currently resident in Asmara. These Somalis allegedly plan to infil [...] | 2007-10-02 12:15:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PREL PGOV PINR ER |
07ASMARA800 | LGF MEMBER ARRESTED DURING ORTHODOX SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A local guard force (LGF) employee and a priest were picked up by the Eritrean Intelligence Service (ANS) during an Eritrean Orthodox church service on 10/07/07. The priest was released the same day but the LGF employee continues to be held in jail incommunicado. While the Gove [...] | 2007-10-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF ASEC PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA801 | INFORMATION FROM MILITARY DESERTER ON GSE MILITARY [...] (S/NF) An Embassy employee provided RSO with information from a friend who had just deserted from the Eritrean military. Employee stated his friend had been assigned to an armored or mechanized unit near the town of Senafe, located approximately 100 km SE of Asmara. The soldier told employee [...] | 2007-10-11 13:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS ASEC ER |
07ASMARA849 | AFP REPORTER "FROZEN" FOR MENTIONING GSE [...] (C) Days after Reporters without Borders (RSF) declared Eritrea the worst country in the world for press freedom, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) "froze" Agence France-Presse (AFP) stringer and British Citizen Peter Martell, forbidding him from filing stories from Eritrea. Initial [...] | 2007-10-26 08:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO ASEC ER |
07ASMARA850 | ASMARA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: MORE DETAILS EMERGE [...] (S) Summary: As the investigation into the shooting of National Security Agency Deputy Colonel Simon Ghebredenghil continues, an Eritrean businessman believed to be involved in the assassination attempt was shot and killed by Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) officials near the Ethiopian [...] | 2007-10-26 09:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV ASEC ER |
07ASMARA854 | CDA PROTESTS GSE ALLEGATIONS OF US SUPPORT FOR WAR [...] (U) Eritrean Government media reported on October 26 and 27, that Ethiopia planned an invasion of Eritrea the first week of November with the "blessing of the U.S." In the report, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) alleged that the Tigre People's Liberation Front (TPLF)/Government of [...] | 2007-10-29 12:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC ER |
07ASMARA857 | RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION CONTINUES: OVER 45 ERITREANS [...] (C) In an October 29 meeting with Poloff, Reverend Zecharias Abraham(strictly protect) relayed the story of an attempted escape by Mussie Issa, founder of the evangelical group, Youth for Christ, and the subsequent arrests of 45 of his supporters. According to Rev. Zecharias, officials from t [...] | 2007-10-31 12:53:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF ER |
07ASMARA858 | ERITREA: HOST GOVERNMENT PRACTICES: INFORMATION [...] (C) In response to reftel request for information regarding host government practices on information collection, screening and sharing, post provides the following responses. Answers are keyed to headers provided in reftel, paragraph 6. In addition, post advises that bilateral relations bet [...] | 2007-10-31 13:00:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KVPR PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS ER |
07ASMARA860 | WELL-CONNECTED ERITREAN TALKS OF ERITREA'S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Poloff met October 24 with a well-connected Eritrean-American, and regular contact, who passed second-hand information on the Government of the State of Eritrea's (GSE) war planning efforts and military strategy. According to him, the GSE anticipates that war with Ethiopia is [...] | 2007-11-01 13:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KPKO MOPS ASEC ER |
07ASMARA869 | CDA TEMPLATE [...] (C) On October 31, the Immigration Office of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) delivered a letter to the Catholic Secretariat of Eritrea, informing them that the office would no longer extend the residency and work permits of foreign sisters and priests working in Eritrea under expi [...] | 2007-11-08 07:50:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KPKO MOPS ASEC ER |
07ASMARA870 | ERITREANS NOTIFIED OF RELATIVES, DEATHS AT W,IA [...] (C) Beginning in September, Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) officials began notifying parents and spouses in Asmara of the deaths of their relatives during the past three to six months in the W'ia military training camp. Going from family to family, GSE military representatives have b [...] | 2007-11-08 08:00:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ER |
07ASMARA871 | GSE ORDERS CATHOLIC CHURCH FOREIGN STAFF TO LEAVE [...] (C) On October 31, the Immigration Office of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) delivered a letter to the Catholic Secretariat of Eritrea, informing them that the office would no longer extend the residency and work permits of foreign sisters and priests working in Eritrea under expi [...] | 2007-11-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KIRF PHUM ER |
07ASMARA896 | CDA HITS WALL WITH GSE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) On November 19, CDA met at her request with Yemane Ghebremeskel, Director of the Presidency for the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE). CDA expressed her hope that with the November 28 arrival of the new Ambassador, the Embassy could reopen dialogue with the GSE across a range of bi [...] | 2007-11-26 05:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SUR ER |
07ASMARA902 | RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION VICTIM STILL HARASSED BY GSE [...] (C) An Embassy locally employed staff member (LES) continues to be harassed by officials of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE),following his July arrest on religious grounds and release a month later. A member of the unregistered Full Gospel Pentecostal Church, the GSE informed the [...] | 2007-11-27 04:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF ER |
07ASMARA916 | NO GSE RESPONSE YET TO EEBC DECISION [...] (C) The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) has yet to respond officially to the November 30th statement of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission (EEBC). Many Eritreans anticipated the EEBC would provide much-awaited answers to the ongoing uncertainty about the border and expected that [...] | 2007-12-04 10:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ER |
07ASMARA917 | ANTI-AMERICAN PFDJ RALLIES IN ASMARA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),Eritrea's regime-affiliated and sole political party, has been holding a series of mandatory mass meetings for all party members in Asmara. An Eritrean who attended one of these meetings relayed to the RSO that the PFDJ tol [...] | 2007-12-04 10:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC KIRF ER |
07ASMARA935 | GSE BLAMES U.S. FOR FOOD AND FUEL SHORTAGES [...] (C) The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) through its sole political party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),continues to conduct community meetings to explain to the Eritrean people the reasons for the shortages of basic food items, such as sugar and flour, as well [...] | 2007-12-12 04:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI ECON ET ER |
07ASMARA936 | LIFTING THE VEIL ON CORRUPTION IN ERITREA [...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The October 2007 assassination attempt on Colonel Simon Ghebredenghil, the second-in-command at the Government of the State of Eritrea's (GSE) National Security Agency (ANS) lifted a corner on the veil over corrupt activities in Eritrea. The GSE, and many Eritrea [...] | 2007-12-12 04:24:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ER |
07ASMARA945 | ONE HEART, MANY DIVIDES: ETHNIC AFFILIATION IN ERITREA [...] The shared experience of the 30-year struggle for independence created a strong sense of national identity for most Eritreans. The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) promotes Eritrea as having "one heart" or "hade libbi" in Tigrinya - a motto that is seen often in the days leading up to [...] | 2007-12-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA950 | AFP Reporter Ordered to Leave Eritrea [...] (SBU) On December 11, AFP stringer and British national Peter Martell was ordered to appear at the office of Eritrean Minister of Information Ali Abdu to discuss his reporting activities in Eritrea. Mr. Abdu objected to an article Mr. Martell filed on November 22 entitled, "Looming Threat of R [...] | 2007-12-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PGOV ECPS ER |
07ASMARA951 | GSE FEARS OF INSURGENT ACTIVITY IN NORTHERN ERITREA [...] (S) An Eritrean employee of a mining company recently traveled on business to Zara, located approximately 120 kilometers north of Keren. Provided by the Eritrean military with an armed convoy, the employee reported a tense and nerve-wracking journey due to the fear of insurgent attacks. The t [...] | 2007-12-14 06:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | PGOV PINR PTER ASEC ER |
07ASTANA1033 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MARCH - APRIL 2007 [...] (U) The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Aftermath of the Conflict in Kazatkom ------------------------------------- 2. (U) F [...] | 2007-04-20 11:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1062 | KAZAKHSTAN: PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMAL SIGNING OF THE [...] (U) On April 25, the Government of Kazakhstan informed Post via diplomatic note that Ambassador Bagdad Amreyev, Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Egypt, will attend the signing of the International Compact with Iraq on May 3 in Egypt. 2. (SBU) Sergey Savelyev of the MFA's International Security di [...] | 2007-04-25 14:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN KZ |
07ASTANA1112 | KAZAKHSTAN: INL DESK OFFICER CHECKS OUT CAMELS, KAZAKHSTANI [...] Summary: In addition to attending the quarterly meetings reported septel, INL desk officer viewed border intercepts at the Tazhen border post in Western Kazakhstan; visited the Anti-TIP Center in Karaganda; shared a Nauryz meal at the Financial Police Academy in Koschi; learned of the increase [...] | 2007-04-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1113 | KAZAKHSTAN: INL FIRST QUARTER 2007 MEETINGS [...] Summary: Highlights of the INL Officer's quarterly meetings (accompanied by visiting INL/AAE desk officer) with GOK officials include a positive initial meeting with the new head of the MVD Drug Control Committee; agreement on scheduling of the opening of the MVD Anti-TIP Center; assurances of [...] | 2007-04-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1121 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) In an April 19 speech before the 6th Annual Eurasia Media Forum in Almaty, President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared that Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbors must take some responsibility for reconstructing Afghanistan, in part to help create a "belt of economic well-being" that would [...] | 2007-04-27 07:01:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF XD KZ |
07ASTANA1129 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, APRIL 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Journalist Still Missing ------------------------ 2. Journalist Oralgaysha Zhabagtaykyzy [...] | 2007-04-27 10:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA1145 | KAZAKHSTAN - ASTANA MEDIA NOTES FOR APRIL [...] (U) Summary: The Mazhilis has accepted for consideration a draft law on mass media. The draft was developed by the Congress of Journalists, chaired by presidential daughter and Mazhilis representative Dariga Nazarbayeva, in collaboration with media advocacy NGOs, the National Association of Br [...] | 2007-05-02 00:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA116 | KAZAKHSTAN'S PETROCHEMICAL AMBITIONS: [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) is aggressively encouraging foreign investment in a domestic petrochemical industry as part of its strategy to diversify the economy and to "climb the value chain" of hydrocarbon production. The GOK has authorized a predictable set of tax benef [...] | 2007-01-12 12:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL |
07ASTANA120 | KAZAKHSTAN: NO IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ON PRESIDENT'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-15 04:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR IZ MOPS PGOV PREL |
07ASTANA1243 | KAZAKHSTAN: MERMOUD DISCUSSES PUBLIC-PRIVATE [...] (C) Summary. In April 24-26 meetings with Prime Minister Masimov, other Kazakhstani government officials, and private sector representatives, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs J. Frank Mermoud discussed the Kazakhstani government,s fast-evolving approach to economic d [...] | 2007-05-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EPET ETRD PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA1246 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, APRIL - MAY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. President Meets with Moderate Opposition Leaders ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-05-10 01:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA125 | KAZAKHSTAN: NEW CABINET TO MAINTAIN POLICY COURSE [...] (C) Summary: President Nazarbayev's early January cabinet reshuffle will not have a major impact on Kazakhstani government policy, but may offer insight into the struggle for influence between power groups and would-be successors. New Prime Minister Karim Masimov is expected to maintain the e [...] | 2007-01-16 11:52:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1267 | KAZAKHSTAN: TWO SEX TRAFFICKERS GET SEVEN YEARS [...] On May 4, a local procurator in Aktobe, Kazakhstan announced that two Uzbekistani traffickers working in Kazakhstan had been sentenced the previous week to seven years in prison. Post's contacts at the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the convictions. 2. Investigating based on a ti [...] | 2007-05-14 00:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ |
07ASTANA128 | KAZAKHSTAN: REACHING OUT TO THE U.S. ON REDUCING ILLEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: While discussing our non-paper on U.S. policy on testing secondary school students for drugs, the Head of Youth Policy at the Ministry of Education said that not only law enforcement agencies but MinEd too was now providing grants to NGOs to create anti-drug programs and implemen [...] | 2007-01-17 08:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1286 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRELIMINARY INTEREST IN FOLLOW-UP REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points on May 7 to Askar Bishigayev, Deputy Chairman of the Agency for Informatization and Communications. Bishigayev stated that a follow-up telecommunications conference would be "quite interesting," remarking that Kazakhstan has a big transit potential. Bishi [...] | 2007-05-15 00:21:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA1304 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV TO ANNOUNCE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev will present a package of proposed constitutional amendments to a joint session of parliament on May 16. The draft amendments would transfer certain presidential powers to the parliament, change the method of electing the parliament, change the role of part [...] | 2007-05-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1323 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV FAST-TRACKS CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev presented a package of proposed constitutional amendments to a joint session of parliament on May 16, and instructed parliament to pass them this week. The proposed constitutional amendments retain significant power in the presidency, but increase the size [...] | 2007-05-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1324 | KAZAKHSTAN: SAVING THE LIVES OF POLICE OFFICERS [...] Summary: INL conducted a Police Officer Survival Techniques Course on April 16-27 at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy in Almaty. Ten operations officers of the criminal police and 13 officers from regional anti-narcotics units participated in the course taught by personnel from the D [...] | 2007-05-17 06:50:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1336 | KAZAKHSTAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief and Gennadiy Spiglazov of the Russian Embassy conveyed reftel points and agenda to Yerkin Akhinzhanov, head of the MFA's European Cooperation Department, on May 17. 2. (SBU) Akhinzhanov said that Kazakhstan was working to put together a diverse delegation for the OSCE conf [...] | 2007-05-18 00:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1357 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PACKAGE APPROVED WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament voted on May 18 to approve President Nazarbayev's package of constitutional amendments designed to increase the size and authority of the parliament, as well as to introduce other changes aimed at democratic reform. In a surprise move, a small group of parliamentaria [...] | 2007-05-18 10:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1371 | KAZAKHSTAN: FUTURE OF HARE KRISHNA COMMUNE REMAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Various government officials have assured the Hare Krishnas that their ongoing property dispute with local officials will be resolved fairly and peacefully, through negotiations. Although there is hope that an acceptable resolution will be found, so far the Hare Krishnas report [...] | 2007-05-21 11:09:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1415 | KAZAKHSTAN: RAKHAT ALIYEV,S THIRD STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: In a bizarre turn of events, presidential son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev appears to have finally exhausted President Nazarbayev's patience with a series of rash public statements accusing Kazakhstani officials of criminal activity and criticizing the recent package of constitutional am [...] | 2007-05-25 05:12:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1449 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROOD'S TRIP TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 08:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASTANA1466 | KAZAKHSTAN: AUTHORITIES PURSUE RAKHAT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the May 23 announcement of a criminal investigation involving presidential son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstani authorities have moved quickly to curtail Aliyev's ability to maneuver and to influence public opinion. President Nazarbayev fired Aliyev from his ambas [...] | 2007-05-30 00:16:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1512 | KAZAKHSTAN,S FINANCIAL SECTOR: A DANGER TO ITSELF [...] (SBU) Summary: In spite of the failure of a regional bank and the International Monetary Fund's recent characterization of Kazakhstani private sector external borrowing as an emerging "global market risk," the mood among Kazakhstani financiers remains upbeat. With no end to petrodollars in s [...] | 2007-06-03 11:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA1528 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MAY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Opposition Challenges Formation of Election Commissions ------------------------------------ [...] | 2007-06-05 06:02:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA1544 | KAZAKHSTAN PREPARING FOR GREATER INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: On May 25, SCA Special Envoy for Assistance to Afghanistan Ambassador Ronald Neumann briefed key government and business officials on the current situation in Afghanistan with the aim of encouraging greater Kazakhstani involvement in reconstruction and stabilization efforts. The K [...] | 2007-06-06 05:09:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF KZ |
07ASTANA1558 | KAZAKHSTANI OPPOSITION SHARPLY CRITICAL OF POLITICAL REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: After initially welcoming the reform proposals outlined in President Nazarbayev's May 16 speech, the Kazakhstani opposition movement has become sharply critical of the measures after analyzing the actual text of the constitutional amendments. The last-minute inclusion of a provi [...] | 2007-06-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1659 | KAZAKHSTAN: BOUCHER PRESSES POLITICAL REFORM WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-18 01:35:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KZ ECON ENRG |
07ASTANA1666 | KAZAKHSTAN: TIP REPORT GARNERS LITTLE ATTENTION BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, drawing on points provided in reftel, Charge delivered the TIP report demarche announcing Kazakhstan's Tier II Watch List ranking to Ministry of Justice Office Director Azimova, receiving a muted response in return. Charge provided a copy of the Kazakhstan TIP repor [...] | 2007-06-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRIM KZ |
07ASTANA1668 | CORRECTED COPY: KAZAKHSTAN: BOUCHER PRESSES [...] (C) Summary: In June 5-6 meetings with Assistant Secretary Boucher, Kazakhstani government officials defended SIPDIS recent constitutional amendments as far-reaching, while acknowledging the need for further reform. Opposition leaders, by contrast, called the reform package a "step backwa [...] | 2007-06-18 09:41:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KZ ECON ENRG |
07ASTANA168 | KAZAKHSTAN GETS NEW ELECTION BOSS [...] Summary: On January 17, the Mazhilis (lower house of parliament) selected Kuandyk Turgankulov as the new chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC),Vladimir Foos as the new deputy chairman, and Bakhyt Meldeshov as the new secretary. All of the appointees currently serve on the CEC, an [...] | 2007-01-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KZ |
07ASTANA1705 | KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOLISHES HARE KRISHNA HOMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Early on May 15, Karasai district officials demolished an additional 12 homes at the Hare Krishna commune outside of Almaty. As they did during the November 2006 demolitions, the police forced residents out of their homes while crews threw their possessions outside and demolishe [...] | 2007-06-19 09:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1709 | KAZAKHSTAN: SCO HAS NO PLANS TO USE THE BISHKEK [...] (S) On June 15, Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to Yerlan Shamishev, Chief of the SCO Security Section in the Asian Cooperation Department of the Kazakhstani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shamishev assured Poloff that as of the present time, the SC [...] | 2007-06-20 00:14:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS KZ |
07ASTANA1716 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT DISSOLVES MAZHILIS, CALLS ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: On June 18, the parliament passed a number of legislative amendments to implement the recent changes to Kazakhstan's constitution. Most of the legislative changes are identical to the recent constitutional changes, though the new law on elections sets forth the election process i [...] | 2007-06-21 00:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1722 | CORRECTED COPY: KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOLISHES [...] (SBU) Summary: Early on June 15, Karasai district officials demolished an additional 12 homes at the Hare Krishna commune outside of Almaty. As they did during the November 2006 demolitions, the police forced residents out of their homes while crews threw their possessions outside and demolish [...] | 2007-06-21 08:50:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA173 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following information is provided in response to reftel request. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Kazakhstan has made significant progress toward creating a market economy since its independence in 1991. The European Union in 2000 and the U.S. Department [...] | 2007-01-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR KZ |
07ASTANA1762 | KAZAKHSTAN: ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] Summary: On June 18, the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Astana hosted a coordination meeting on anti-money laundering, adding an hour for discussing counter-narcotics assistance. Representatives of the World Bank, OSCE, UNODC, BOMCA/CADAP, and the Embassies of France and Germany provided br [...] | 2007-06-27 08:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1796 | KAZAKHSTAN: VERDICT IN HIV OUTBREAK TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A court in South Kazakhstan sentenced seventeen medical workers to prison terms of up to five years for their roles in infecting over 100 children with HIV. Four senior health officials, including the former head of the South Kazakhstan's Region health department Nursulu Tasmaga [...] | 2007-07-02 04:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KHIV SOCI KZ |
07ASTANA1801 | KAZAKHSTAN: MAZHILIS ELECTION ROUNDDUP, JULY 2 [...] (U) This is the first in a series of weekly election roundups in advance of Kazakhstan's August 18 Mazhilis and Maslikhat elections. Items were drawn primarily from the local press and media. --------------------------------------------- - Social Democratic Party and True Ak Zhol Merge ----- [...] | 2007-07-02 10:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA1824 | KAZAKHSTAN: BORDER GUARDS VISIT U.S. AND WANT TO STAY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 17-26, the Director and Deputy Director of the Kazakhstani Border Guard training academy visited Washington, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, GA and Artesia, NM, and the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the Border Patrol in order to familiarize themselv [...] | 2007-07-06 00:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA1848 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: While some in the government seek to dampen expectations about the opposition's performance in upcoming parliamentary elections, the opposition itself is uniting and preparing to run an active campaign highlighting social justice issues and the presidential Nur Otan party's Achill [...] | 2007-07-09 00:09:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1877 | KAZAKHSTAN FACES ANOTHER POTENTIAL WATER CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: As a country short on water, Kazakhstan relies heavily on the resources of the Ili-Balkash Basin, particularly the Ili River and Lake Balkhash. Mismanagement, abuse, and increased water use by neighboring China all now threaten the Basin,s long-term sustainability. The problem [...] | 2007-07-10 05:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA190 | KAZAKHSTAN PREPARING FOR BN-350 TALKS [...] Poloff passed the draft agenda for January 24-25 BN-350 spent fuel program senior policy group discussions to Timur Zhantikin, Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Committee Chairman, and to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 19. Zhantikin promised to provide his comments on the agen [...] | 2007-01-22 11:48:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASTANA191 | KAZAKHSTAN PREPARING FOR BN-350 TALKS [...] Poloff passed the draft agenda for January 24-25 BN-350 spent fuel program senior policy group discussions to Timur Zhantikin, Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Committee Chairman, and to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 19. Zhantikin promised to provide his comments on the agen [...] | 2007-01-22 11:48:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASTANA1925 | KAZAKHSTAN: SIX TRAFFICKERS DO THE CRIME... AND GET TIME [...] (U) Summary: On July 12, the town court in the western Kazakhstani city of Aktobe convicted and sentenced six people for torturing and using force to secure the labor and sexual services of 13 citizens of Uzbekistan. The Uzbek men and women had been held as slaves in a sauna complex. The poli [...] | 2007-07-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ |
07ASTANA193 | KAZAKHSTAN PREPARING FOR BN-350 TALKS [...] Poloff passed the draft agenda for January 24-25 BN-350 spent fuel program senior policy group discussions to Timur Zhantikin, Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Committee Chairman, and to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 19. Zhantikin promised to provide his comments on the agen [...] | 2007-01-22 11:48:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASTANA1973 | KAZAKHSTAN: BORDER SECURITY DONOR MEETING [...] On July 16, Embassy Astana's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section hosted a Border Security Donor Coordination Meeting. Participants included the Deputy Head of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from Tashkent, the European Union Border Management Program in C [...] | 2007-07-23 02:06:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1988 | KAZAKHSTAN: COUNTER NARCOTICS DONOR MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan hosted another in a series of Counter Narcotics Donor Coordination meetings. Major General Nukenov, Chairman of the Committee on Combating Drug Trafficking (KBN) briefed partici [...] | 2007-07-23 05:10:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA1991 | KAZAKHSTAN: A LITTLE PRE-ELECTION SPIN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the July 13-14 nodel visit of Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, the GOK highlighted its preparations for the August parliamentary elections, arranging two separate trips for her to local polling stations. Domestic media coverage was extensive, and pro-government media outl [...] | 2007-07-23 08:11:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA204 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, JANUARY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Young Opposition Activists Jailed for Embezzlement ----------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-01-24 04:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA2098 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, JULY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Government Reshuffle Expected after Elections ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-08-03 08:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA2113 | KAZAKHSTAN: G/TIP ACTION PLAN SEEN AS A (MOSTLY) GOOD [...] (SBU) On July 26 INL Officer delivered the TIP Action Plan demarche providing recommendations for increasing Kazakhstan's conviction and sentencing of traffickers, and improving assistance to victims to Ministry of Justice Office Director Elvira Abilkhasimovna Azimova. INL Officer provided a [...] | 2007-08-05 11:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRIM KZ |
07ASTANA2178 | KAZAKHSTAN: STRUCTURE OF THE BORDER GUARD SERVICE [...] (SBU) Post continues to work with the Border Guard Service through programs to combat narcotics, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and trafficking in persons. Programs are implemented by Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office (INL) and Export Control and [...] | 2007-08-09 07:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA219 | BN-350 PERMANENT DISPOSITION TALKS BEGIN [...] (U) On January 24-25, a U.S. delegation led by NNSA Deputy Administrator William Tobey met with Kazakhstani officials for initial BN-350 spent fuel program Senior Policy Group (SPG) discussions. During the talks, the two sides agreed upon language for a draft joint communique establishing the [...] | 2007-01-25 09:48:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASTANA2192 | KAZAKHSTANI MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS MAY-JULY 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary of media developments: --As reported in local media, Bulat Utermuratov, head of management affairs in Kazakhstan's presidential administration, and Armanzhan Baitasov, Channel 31 president, each plan to sell 25 percent of Channel 31, Kazakhstan's most objective television station [...] | 2007-08-12 23:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2201 | KAZAKHSTAN DIPS ITS TOE IN ETHANOL [...] (SBU) Summary. The recently built ethanol plant in North Kazakhstan Oblast is touted by regional officials and company executives as the first ethanol production facility in all of the CIS. Officially opened in September 2006 (with President Nazarbayev pressing the "start" button to great fan [...] | 2007-08-13 03:25:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND ENRG PGOV KTDB KZ |
07ASTANA2214 | KAZAKHSTAN DRUG AND CRIME REPORT [...] Summary: According to the Agency of Statistics, law enforcement agencies documented 53,700 crimes during the first quarter of 2007. Economic crimes accounted for .07% (3,892) of the total. These crimes included fraudulent property legalization, illegal business activity, and other financial c [...] | 2007-08-13 23:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN SNAR SOCI PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM AU KZ |
07ASTANA2221 | CAMPAIGNING IN MANGISTAU OBLAST: INCREASED FAIRNESS, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 8-10, Poloff and Pol FSN traveled to Aktau in Mangistau Oblast (western Kazakhstan) to meet with political party representatives and NGOs in advance of the August 18 elections. In general, the Aktau political scene reflects trends apparent throughout the country, with [...] | 2007-08-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA2222 | CAMPAIGNING IN NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN OBLAST: WHERE ART THOU, [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern Kazakhstan Oblast (NKO) presents an interesting, albeit somewhat extreme, microcosm of Kazakhstan's campaign for upcoming Mazhilis [lower house of Parliament] and regional legislative elections. The oblast, which has the distinction of having been the strongest support [...] | 2007-08-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2223 | SCENESETTER: KAZAKHSTAN ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: With Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections headed into the final few days of campaigning, it is clear that the pre-election period has been substantially freer and fairer than in any prior election. As one pundit put it, the political field is now much more level, although there [...] | 2007-08-14 13:03:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA223 | JURY TRIAL SYSTEM DEBUTS IN KAZAKHSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: As of January 1, criminal defendants in Kazakhstan charged with aggravated murder have the right to request a jury trial. Under the system developed by Kazakhstani authorities, two judges, including the judge presiding at trial, participate on the jury along with nine lay jurors [...] | 2007-01-26 01:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA2239 | KAZAKHSTAN: MAZHILIS ELECTION ROUNDUP, AUGUST 17 [...] (U) This is the seventh and final cable in a series of weekly election roundups in advance of Kazakhstan's August 18 Mazhilis and Maslikhat elections. Items were drawn primarily from the local press and media. The official campaign season closed at midnight on August 16. ------------------- [...] | 2007-08-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA2244 | CAMPAIGNING IN EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN OBLAST: NUR OTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10-12, Conoff and Con FSN traveled to Ust-Kamenogorsk in Eastern Kazakhstan Oblast (central eastern Kazakhstan, bordering on China and Russia) to meet with political party representatives and local authorities in advance of the August 18 elections. Additionally, Conoff [...] | 2007-08-19 23:55:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA2318 | KAZAKHSTAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: [...] (SBU) Summary: Political parties competing in the August 18 Mazhilis elections had more freedom to campaign than ever before, the Central Election Commission operated professionally and transparently, and the voting process on election day was relatively smooth and fair. However, this progress [...] | 2007-08-27 01:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA232 | KAZAKHSTAN: NO RESPITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST HARE KRISHNA [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the negative publicity and diplomatic pressure Kazakhstan received after authorities executed a surprise demolition of Hare Krishna homes in November 2006, local government officials have not relented in their campaign to confiscate the Hare Krishna properties. In addit [...] | 2007-01-27 05:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2327 | KAZAKHSTAN: NUR OTAN CHOOSES NEW MAZHILIS MEMBERS [...] Summary: On August 24, Nur Otan selected 98 candidates from its party list to fill the Mazhilis seats it won in the August 18 elections. Deputy Prime Minister Aslan Musin and Minister of Labor and Social Protection Gulzhana Karagusova will vacate their posts to become deputies. On August 27, t [...] | 2007-08-27 10:01:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA2432 | CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA MEETS WITH PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV [...] (SBU) Summary: In a one-hour meeting with Congressmen Faleomavaega and Cannon and the Ambassador, President Nazarbayev discussed Kazakhstan's development, praised U.S.- Kazakhstan relations, critiqued U.S. foreign policy and offered advice on Russia. Nazarbayev called Kazakhstan the United St [...] | 2007-09-10 07:42:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2511 | MERMOUD DISCUSSES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. In September 3-5 meetings with leaders of Kazakhstan's government and business, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs J. Frank Mermoud discussed the planned October 22 Washington inauguration of the bilateral U.S.-Kazakhstani Public Private Partnership Initi [...] | 2007-09-13 09:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EINV ELTN PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2613 | KAZAKHSTAN NONCOMMITTAL ON CONTRIBUTING TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 10:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNSC LE KZ |
07ASTANA2686 | KAZAKHSTAN: URALSK COURT CONVICTS TWO WOMEN FOR TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Summary: On September 19, the district court in the western Kazakhstani city of Uralsk convicted and sentenced two women for trafficking in minors. End summary. 2. (U) In December 2006 the oblast-level Department of Interior received information about two schoolgirls aged 15 and 16 who [...] | 2007-09-26 04:34:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ |
07ASTANA2716 | GOVERNMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN PROPOSES RESOLUTION OF CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Summary. A new amendment to the Customs Code, enacted by the Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) on July 26, mandates submission of export declaration forms when bringing goods into the country "for free circulation." When the new statute came into force on August 21, it immediately stopped [...] | 2007-09-28 02:03:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND ENRG PGOV KTDB KZ |
07ASTANA2718 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONFUSION SURROUNDS TREASON INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 24, Committee for National Security (KNB) agents raided the headquarters of the Grace Presbyterian Church in Karaganda, a Grace Church in Ust Kamenogorsk, and several church-owned private homes in Karaganda, seizing documents and computers and questioning church officia [...] | 2007-09-28 10:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2760 | KAZAKHSTAN: RISING BREAD PRICES PRESENT CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: The price of bread has increased by thirty percent in Kazakhstan over the last two months. The bread crisis has galvanized opposition parties, who have been vocal in their criticism of the government. The People's Communist Party has started a petition campaign in protest agains [...] | 2007-10-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KZ |
07ASTANA2761 | KAZAKHSTAN: RISING BREAD PRICES PRESENT CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: The price of bread has increased by thirty percent in Kazakhstan over the last two months. The bread crisis has galvanized opposition parties, who have been vocal in their criticism of the government. The People's Communist Party has started a petition campaign in protest agains [...] | 2007-10-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KZ |
07ASTANA2762 | KAZAKHSTAN: RISING BREAD PRICES PRESENT CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: The price of bread has increased by thirty percent in Kazakhstan over the last two months. The bread crisis has galvanized opposition parties, who have been vocal in their criticism of the government. The People's Communist Party has started a petition campaign in protest agains [...] | 2007-10-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KZ |
07ASTANA2765 | KAZAKHSTAN: RISING BREAD PRICES PRESENT CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: The price of bread has increased by thirty percent in Kazakhstan over the last two months. The bread crisis has galvanized opposition parties, who have been vocal in their criticism of the government. The People's Communist Party has started a petition campaign in protest agains [...] | 2007-10-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KZ |
07ASTANA277 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: While recent Kazakhstani headlines have been dominated by discussion of the country's new government, its bid to assume the OSCE chairmanship, and a democratization initiative presumed to be in the works, the real, abiding story here is Kazakhstan's economy. The country's natura [...] | 2007-01-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD KZ |
07ASTANA2807 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT ADVANCES QUESTIONABLE MEDIA REFORM [...] (U) Summary: On October 1, Adil Soz and several other media watchdog groups circulated copies of draft amendments to Kazakhstan's law concerning defamation in the media, as well as an open letter to Parliament criticizing the draft. Among other things, the proposed legislation removes imprison [...] | 2007-10-12 12:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2818 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRODI VISIT FOCUSES ON ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: During his October 8-9 visit to Kazakhstan, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi urged President Nazarbayev to avoid short-term solutions to long-term problems in the energy sector, focusing particularly on the Kashagan dispute and proposed amendments to Kazakhstan's law on subs [...] | 2007-10-15 12:08:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG KZ |
07ASTANA2819 | KAZAKHSTAN: MFA ADVISOR DISCUSSES SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a discussion with Poloff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisor for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Yerlan Shamishev stated that the SCO has a broad mandate and serves an important purpose because it solidifies links between Central Asian member states and Russia a [...] | 2007-10-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2823 | KAZAKHSTAN'S CUSTOMS SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON AMID HOPES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. The Kazakhstani customs shutdown, precipitated by the late-August enactment of a law with severe unintended consequences (reftel),continues. The Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) is pursuing a potential resolution on two different tracks: enactment of a law designed to relax the [...] | 2007-10-16 02:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND ENRG PGOV CASC KTDB KZ |
07ASTANA2851 | SOLANA DISCUSSES OSCE, ENERGY, AND IRAN WITH SOLANA [...] (SBU) Summary: European Union High Representative for External Policy and Security Javier Solana met with President Nazarbayev in Astana on October 10. Solana asked Nazarbayev to consider the option of chairing the OSCE after 2009. Nazarbayev told Solana that proposed amendments to the law on [...] | 2007-10-19 05:59:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2934 | KAZAKHSTANI BUSINESSMAN AGAIN REQUESTS USG HELP [...] (S) Rakhat Kereitbayev (General Director of KazInvest, Chairman of the Board of Kanimansur, and Advisor to Kazyna Chairman Kelimbetov) updated Econoff on October 14 and 24 on the latest status of the Kazakhstani bid for Afghanistan's AYNAK mine (Ref A and B). Zia Massoud, Afghanistan's 1st Vi [...] | 2007-10-24 13:54:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | AF CH ECON EINV ELTN EMIN ETRD IR KZ PGOV |
07ASTANA2935 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION WEBSITES BLOCKED [...] (U) On October 24, Tamara Kaleyeva of the media watchdog group Adil Soz and web publishers Yuriy Mizinov and Sergey Duvanov held a press conference in Almaty to criticize the blockage within Kazakhstan of four independent/opposition-oriented websites. According to the press conference organizer [...] | 2007-10-28 07:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA295 | KAZAKHSTAN MEDIA NEWS [...] (U) "Kazakhstan Media News" is a reporting series tracking events and developments affecting Kazakhstan's media. DRAFT LAW ON REGISTERING PRINT HOUSES RAISES CONCERN 2. (U) In December the Ministry of Information submitted to the Mazhilis, Kazakhstan's lower house of parliament, a draft [...] | 2007-02-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA3011 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT CONTINUES CRACKDOWN AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstani law enforcement initiated a harassment campaign last week against four opposition newspapers that recently published stories about Rakhat Aliyev that included transcripts of recordings of embarrassing telephone conversations among high-level government officials. F [...] | 2007-11-06 02:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA3025 | KAZAKHSTAN MANAGING REVERBERATIONS OF THE U.S. SUBPRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. The global reverberations of the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. have not passed Kazakhstan by. Though most observers believe that the impact of the current turbulence will be limited and not threaten the country's long-term economic prospects, there are nevertheless short [...] | 2007-11-07 07:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN EINV KTDB KZ |
07ASTANA309 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, FEBRUARY 2, 2007 [...] (U) The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. "Shanyrak District Defenders" Stand Trial ----------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-02-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KZ |
07ASTANA3138 | KAZAKHSTAN: KORZHOVA DISMISSED AS FINANCE MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 09:22:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KZ PGOV PREL KCOR |
07ASTANA3139 | UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES SEES POSITIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 09:22:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA3140 | KAZAKHSTAN: KORZHOVA DISMISSED AS FINANCE MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 09:22:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KZ PGOV PREL KCOR |
07ASTANA3152 | KAZAKHSTAN: KORZHOVA DISMISSED AS FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) Finance Minister Korzhova, whose departure had been rumored for several months, has been dismissed and replaced by Bolat Zhamishev. Korzhova's tenure was a problematic one, with the Finance Ministry showing itself ineffective at dealing with a number of issues, including the recent custom [...] | 2007-11-19 12:03:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KZ PGOV PREL KCOR |
07ASTANA3153 | UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES SEES POSITIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 12:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA3162 | KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR 2007 [...] Post is pleased that Kazakhstan has made significant progress in addressing key deficiencies highlighted in June 2007 TIP report and is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel A. All responses are keyed to reftel A. 2. PARA 6A (a): Three corrupt anti-TIP police o [...] | 2007-11-20 11:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3178 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2007-2008 INCSR, PART II, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND [...] In response to reftel A, the text of Part II of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),Financial Crimes and Money Laundering for Kazakhstan follows. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. Kazakhstan, with its developed and modern banking system, has become a financia [...] | 2007-11-23 08:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN PGOV KCRM KCOR KZ |
07ASTANA3185 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN BANKING, [...] (SBU) Summary. Kazakhstan's central bank foresees 7 percent economic growth in 2008. Even so, the bank's chairman acknowledged to the Ambassador that challenges remain, particularly for the banking and construction sectors. The government appears firm in its commitment to support Kazakhstan [...] | 2007-11-26 05:14:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN EINV KTDB KZ |
07ASTANA3188 | KAZAKHSTAN"S APPROACH TO OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 21 to Chingiz Kaskeyev, Head of the MFA's OSCE Division. Kaskeyev called U.S. aims for the OSCE Ministerial praiseworthy and said that some of the areas highlighted by Poloff, such as enhanced engagement with Afghanistan, counterterrorism, and [...] | 2007-11-27 05:13:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA3207 | ADDITION TO KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR [...] The following is an addition to the TIP Interim Assessment Report (reftel B). The information was received from the GOK after the submission of retel B and is in response to reftel A. 2. Victims of trafficking are protected under a GOK law on the protection of participants of the criminal p [...] | 2007-11-28 09:23:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3303 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 7, 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. ----------------------------- --------------------------------- Kazakh Nationalists Are Agai [...] | 2007-12-12 11:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA3313 | KAZAKHSTAN TAKES STEPS TOWARDS RATIFICATION OF SLAVERY AND [...] Kazakhstan has taken another step towards ratification of the Slavery Convention, Protocol of Changes and Amendments to the Slavery Convention, and the Additional Protocol on Slavery Abolishment (Slavery Convention). 2. The Slavery Convention was approved by the Mazhilis (the lower chamber [...] | 2007-12-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3350 | NAZARBAYEV'S INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS [...] President Nazarbayev delivered his annual Independence Day address on December 14. His remarks largely focused on Kazakhstan's economic achievements and the government's successes in the socio-economic sphere, especially regarding health care, education, and pensions and other forms of socio- [...] | 2007-12-21 02:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PHUM OSCE SOCI OEXC KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA3368 | SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: BECOMING A LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary. Young, U.S.-educated and fed up with local corruption, Viktor Frolov wants to enter politics and change the way things are done in his native Petropavlovsk (capital of Northern Kazakhstan oblast). Frolov told Econoff that, despite being defeated in his first campaign for the Pet [...] | 2007-12-27 03:10:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KDEM KZ OSCE PGOV PHUM |
07ASTANA3379 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN KAZAKHSTAN: SOME [...] (C) Summary: With a burgeoning self-confidence fostered by impressive economic growth, Kazakhstan is exercising tighter control over the exploitation of its natural resources. New laws,including an amendment to the law on subsoil use which allows for the termination of a subsoil use contract [...] | 2007-12-28 05:19:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ECON KZ |
07ASTANA367 | KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS ANTI-TIP TRAINING COURSE FOR LAW [...] Summary. The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office, in cooperation with International Organization for Migration (IOM),conducted a four day training course for law enforcement, Border Guards, the Procuracy, and the Judiciary on prevention of trafficking in human beings and [...] | 2007-02-12 04:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PINS PGOV PHUM KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA460 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES ENERGY, [...] (C) Summary: In February 4-6 meetings in Astana with Prime Minister Masimov and GOK cabinet members, A/S Sullivan and delegation communicated strong USG support for multiple oil and gas export routes (including potential Trans-Caspian pipelines),Kazakhstan's efforts to diversify its economy, [...] | 2007-02-22 08:13:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL |
07ASTANA48 | KAZAKHSTAN CONTEMPLATES DEMOCRATIC REFORM [...] (C) Summary: There is widespread expectation in Kazakhstan that President Nazarbayev will announce a package of democratic reform proposals early in the new year. The timing and content of the initiative is not yet known, and some are skeptical that the proposals will represent fundamental c [...] | 2007-01-08 12:31:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA515 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMOCRATIZATION COMMISSION COMPLETES ITS WORK [...] (SBU) Summary: During the final meeting of Kazakhstan's Democratization Commission on February 19, President Nursultan Nazarbayev accepted many of the democratic reform proposals put forward by the Commission's five working groups and announced the formation of a new working group designed to m [...] | 2007-02-26 01:19:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA522 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, FEBRUARY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Trial of True Ak Zhol Leader Bulat Abilov ----------------------------------------- 2. O [...] | 2007-02-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA578 | KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS TRAINING COURSE FOR FINANCIAL [...] Summary: Embassy Astana's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office, in cooperation with the Financial Police Academy (FPA),conducted a five day training course on money laundering and financial investigative techniques for financial police investigators in Astana February 13-1 [...] | 2007-03-03 09:42:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA594 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 28, President Nursultan Nazarbayev delivered his annual state of the nation address before a joint session of parliament. The address, entitled "New Kazakhstan in the New World," was intended primarily for domestic consumption, with a heavy focus on modernizing socia [...] | 2007-03-06 09:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA604 | BOUCHER COVERS DEMOCRATIC REFORM, REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings on February 26-27 with Prime Minister Masimov, Foreign Minister Tazhin, and Senate Speaker Tokayev, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher told the Kazakhstani leadership that the U.S. is eager to build upon the momentum created [...] | 2007-03-07 05:17:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KZ ENRG KDEM |
07ASTANA605 | KAZAKHSTAN: BOUCHER DISCUSSES POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstani opposition leaders told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher that President Nazarbayev,s recent statements regarding political reform do not reflect actual political will for change. They see the proposals as an effort to create the [...] | 2007-03-07 05:18:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA618 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-12 01:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA652 | KAZAKHSTANI JOURNALISTS DEMAND RESIGNATION OF INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A dispute between Kazakhstani journalists and Minister of Information Yermukhamet Yertysbayev boiled over the week of March 5 when prominent media advocates demanded the minister's resignation for his adversarial attitude toward the media. On March 2, as TV cameras rolled, Yer [...] | 2007-03-13 10:44:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA654 | CORRECTED COPY: KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-14 03:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA692 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-19 03:55:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA693 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-19 03:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA723 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-20 02:43:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA741 | KAZAKHSTAN: "OPERATION RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM" NETS BAPTISTS, [...] (U) Summary: From February 12-21, law enforcement services in the Northern Kazakhstan Oblast conducted a preventative sweep entitled "Operation Religious Extremism," purportedly as part of a CIS-wide program to combat terrorism and violent extremism. Authorities detained the leaders of eight Ch [...] | 2007-03-26 00:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA834 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MARCH 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Chechen-Kazakh Conflict in Kazatkom Village ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-04-03 02:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA856 | GE SEEKS TO BUILD ON SUCCESSES IN KAZAKHSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 13 and 29, high-ranking GE executives discussed with Ambassador Ordway the company's plans for Kazakhstan. Six months after signing a contract, valued at about $700 million, with Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ, Kazakhstan's national railroad company),the company held in [...] | 2007-04-04 09:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ENRG EAIR ETRD EPET KZ |
07ASTANA86 | KAZAKHSTAN: KARIM MASIMOV NAMED NEXT PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev named Karim Masimov Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister on January 10, replacing Daniyal Akhmetov. Masimov's nomination was approved by a joint session of Parliament the same day. Once Masimov is officially appointed to the position, he will have 10 days to r [...] | 2007-01-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KZ |
07ASTANA87 | KAZAKHSTAN: KARIM MASIMOV NAMED NEXT PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev named Karim Masimov Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister on January 10, replacing Daniyal Akhmetov. Masimov's nomination was approved by a joint session of Parliament the same day. Once Masimov is officially appointed to the position, he will have 10 days to r [...] | 2007-01-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KZ |
07ASTANA905 | AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR KAZAKHSTAN'S ETHNIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Although they have not suffered the level of upheaval experienced by Russian minorities in other former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan's ethnic Russians face concerns created by their dwindling political influence and the potential long-term ascendancy of the Kazakh language. Som [...] | 2007-04-09 10:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA918 | UPDATE ON KAZAKHSTANI JOURNALISTS CONFLICT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The rapid escalation of the conflict between Era TV and Information Minister Yermukhamet Yertysbayev in early March was just as rapidly defused by mid-month. Yertysbayev apologized March 14 "to all" whom he "might have offended" during a live television program. After Yertysba [...] | 2007-04-11 00:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA924 | KAZAKHSTAN: SPANISH FM MORATINOS SEES HOPE FOR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) OSCE Chairman-in-Office Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos wrapped up his two-day visit to Kazakhstan with a briefing on April 11 for the press and diplomatic corps. Echoing the April 10 OSCE press release, Moratinos said that it was vital for Kazakhstan to make concrete progress [...] | 2007-04-12 00:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA93 | KAZAKHSTAN ACCEPTS DATES FOR BN-350 TALKS [...] (SBU) Almaz Tulebayev, Director of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) Department of Nuclear Energy and International Affairs, told Pol-Econ Officer on January 10 that Kazakhstan agrees to the dates of January 24-25 for senior level policy discussions on the final disposition of [...] | 2007-01-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
07ASUNCION101 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 3 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Pucheta New Supreme Court Chief Justice -- Senator Morinigo in Intensive Care; Driver Dead -- Senate Approves Peacekeepers for Cyprus -- Paraguay Second-Least Competitive Country in Americas -- IPR Unit Attacked in Press PUCHETA NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE 2. (C) S [...] | 2007-02-09 18:24:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV MCAP MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION1014 | LIBERAL PARTY PRIMARY TOO CLOSE TO CALL [...] (U) Paraguay's Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and the Liberal Party (PLRA) held separate primaries December 9. The former confirmed ex-Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo's presidential candidacy (on behalf of the Patriotic Alliance for Change coalition) and the latter attempted to name his runnin [...] | 2007-12-10 20:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1023 | A POSITIVE STEP AGAINST CORRUPTION-TRAVEL VOUCHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A process that began in July ended December 6 with the indictment of 37 officials from the Customs Investigative Unit for falsifying travel vouchers. The Internal Investigative Unit's Coordinator in the Ministry of Finance, Patricia Marchewka, initiated the investigation in Jul [...] | 2007-12-13 12:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ECPS PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1031 | PARAGUAY'S COUNTERDRUG AGENCY UNDER INVESTIGATION [...] (U) Economic crimes prosecutor Arnaldo Giuzzio opened a formal investigation of members of Paraguay's National Counternarcotics Secretariat (SENAD) December 7 regarding alleged irregularities involving a food services contract. Giuzzio confiscated SENAD files pertaining to the alleged failure [...] | 2007-12-14 19:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1043 | COLORADO PRIMARY: OVELAR EDGING OUT CASTIGLIONI? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Colorado Party, with over 1.6 million registered voters and over 60 years in power in Paraguay, held its primary December 16. President Duarte's handpicked successor, Blanca Ovelar, has a slim lead of approximately 8,000 votes over former Vice President Luis Castiglioni, with [...] | 2007-12-17 11:08:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1045 | BELOVED FATHERLAND PARTY CONFIRMS FADUL'S CANDIDACY [...] (U) Paraguay's business-oriented Beloved Fatherland Party (PPQ) held its primary December 16, confirming the unopposed candidacy of Pedro Fadul for president and Ronald Dietze for vice president. Approximately 40 percent of the PPQ's 9,908 registered voters turned out to select the party's ca [...] | 2007-12-18 10:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1048 | COLORADO PRIMARY UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Castiglioni campaign insiders report that electoral certificates for all 5,533 Colorado Party polling stations show Castiglioni has a razor-thin 3,800 vote lead over "oficialista" former Education Minister Blanca Ovelar for the Colorado Party presidential nomination. The formal vo [...] | 2007-12-18 13:47:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
07ASUNCION1057 | PUBLIC VIEWS DUARTE ADMINISTRATION MOST CORRUPT IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Transparency International/Paraguay's (TP) 2007 corruption survey indicated that the public considers the Duarte administration the most corrupt since 1997. The survey published a variety of corruption indicators revealing that Paraguayans' primary concerns are corruption, unemp [...] | 2007-12-21 10:10:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PA |
07ASUNCION1069 | PARAGUAYAN CONGRESS PASSES NEW PENAL CODE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 09:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR PREL PA |
07ASUNCION1076 | CONTROVERSY OVER COLORADO PARTY PRIMARY CONTINUES [...] (C) Pre-candidate Luis Castiglioni won the Colorado Party re-vote of one Asuncion polling station December 30. The re-vote was held because the December 16 Colorado Party primary at this location was marred by fraud and violence. Despite a strong police presence, there were further incidents o [...] | 2007-12-31 14:18:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION128 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 10 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Prostitutes Detained in Spain -- Stroessner Era PNP Commissioner Sentenced -- Poor Conditions in Tacumbu for Prisoners -- Dengue Fever Update PARAGUAYAN PROSTITUTES DETAINED IN SPAIN 2. (U) Spanish authorites raided a brothel in Cuenca, Spain, February 3 and [...] | 2007-02-20 19:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PA |
07ASUNCION140 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Airborne Brigade (BAT) 2. First Air Brigade (1BDA) 3. Army Special Forces (TEE) 4. Marine Infantry Command (COMIM) 5. Presidential Escort Regiment (REP) 6. National Antinarcotics Secretariat (SENAD) 7. Logistics Command (CDO LOG) 8. National Police Special Operations Force (FOPE) 9. [...] | 2007-02-22 15:07:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION144 | PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT LOOKING AT "OVIEDO" OPTION [...] (C) Summary. Paraguay's Presidential election in May 2008 dominates the political scene. Leftist priest Fernando Lugo is outpolling both of his closest competitors ) imprisoned coup-plotter Lino Oviedo and current President Duarte ) by a two to one margin. Ironically, all three face Cons [...] | 2007-02-26 11:45:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION146 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 17 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Conviction Against Gonzalez Maachi Overturned -- Supreme Court Rules Congress Not To Oversee Dam Funds -- CAPSTONE Class in Paraguay -- Ambassador Visits Cooperatives -- MCC Brings Investors to Paraguay -- Fostering Competitiveness CONVICTION AGAINST GONZALEZ MAACHI OVERT [...] | 2007-02-26 17:02:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION159 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 24 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Soto Moves On Military Transformation -- Animal Health Service Goes To Paris -- Ycua Bolanos Fire Case to be Retried -- MCA Legislative Component Suspended SOTO MOVES ON MILITARY TRANSFORMATION 2. (C) General Bernardino Soto Estigarribia, the Commander of the Armed For [...] | 2007-03-02 19:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION160 | LUGO RENOUNCES HIS PRIESTHOOD ... AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bishop Fernando Lugo continues to lead presidential polls, prompting some Colorado Party leaders to argue he is ineligible based on the Constitutional bar against "ministers from any religion" being President. To overcome that potential hurdle, Lugo submitted his second letter in [...] | 2007-03-05 11:50:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION161 | LUGO RENOUNCES HIS PRIESTHOOD ... AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bishop Fernando Lugo continues to lead presidential polls, prompting some Colorado Party leaders to argue he is ineligible based on the Constitutional bar against "ministers from any religion" being President. To overcome that potential hurdle, Lugo submitted his second letter in [...] | 2007-03-05 11:50:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION176 | PARAGUAY: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON RECASTING SOFA [...] (U) Action request: See paras. 2 and 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Both MFA lawyer Tito Velasquez and Vice-Presidential advisor Juan Facetti praised the new draft SOFA text (reftel B) as a significant improvement over prior texts in terms of addressing GOP concerns. Velasquez still does not beli [...] | 2007-03-07 17:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION177 | PARAGUAY: ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL UNDER FIRE AS STAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pressure by a powerful Colorado Senator produced the removal of a senior official from Paraguay's Electoral Tribunal (TSJE). The ensuing internal fight amongst the three TSJE ministers projects the image of an increasingly dysfunctional, fractured organization. Historically, the [...] | 2007-03-07 17:39:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION18 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE DECEMBER [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Engineering Know How -- Threshold Program, First Ever Inter-Institutional Agreement -- Cuban National Arrives Safely in Miami -- First Class Graduation -- Paraguay Attracting Investment PARAGUAYAN ENGINEERING KNOW HOW 2. (U) An Anatov 124-100, the largest [...] | 2007-01-11 22:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAIR KCRM KMCA CU PA |
07ASUNCION182 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Airborne Brigade (BAT) 2. First Air Brigade (1BDA) 3. Army Special Forces (TEE) 4. Marine Infantry Command (COMIM) 5. Presidential Escort Regiment (REP) 6. National Antinarcotics Secretariat (SENAD) 7. Logistics Command (CDO LOG) 8. National Police Special Operations Force (FOPE) 9. [...] | 2007-03-08 12:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION184 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR THE MCC [...] (U) In support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID),Post is requesting human rights vetting, in accordance with the Leahy Amendment, of the personnel listed below that will be participating in the MCC Threshold Country Program. Post has no credible information of human righ [...] | 2007-03-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION186 | PARAGUAY ASKS USG FOR DENGUE HELP [...] (U) This is an Action request, see para 2. 2. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As discussed in reftel, the Government of Paraguay requested USG help March 5 with its dengue epidemic, specifically asking for help in purchasing industrial-sized sprayers for dengue fumigation. Reftel requested assista [...] | 2007-03-08 22:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PA |
07ASUNCION193 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 3 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: Action Request, see para 2. -- POTUS and the Mayor -- Barakat Kidnapped -- Better Health with Better Information -- Journalist Attacked by Log Traffickers -- Afro-Paraguayans Release Report POTUS AND THE MAYOR 2. (U) POTUS, March 5 speech on the Americas was widely cover [...] | 2007-03-09 16:35:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PA |
07ASUNCION202 | URGENT - REQUEST FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 10 and 11. 2. (U) President Duarte, under law 3159 and Presidential Decree 9056, declared the dengue fever situation a national emergency February 27. In what is the country,s worst outbreak in seven years, more than 19,189 cases have been confirmed [...] | 2007-03-13 22:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION207 | ADDITIONAL DENGUE-RELATED ITEMS REQUESTED [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 2. 2. (U) The Paraguayan National Emergency Secretariat has requested additional USG assistance in acquiring the following items for their dengue emergency: Qty. Item A. 50,000 - Eppendorf-type micro tubes made of high transparency propyl [...] | 2007-03-14 22:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION208 | PARAGUAY: LUGO STILL IN CLERGY; JOINS OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bishop Fernando Lugo continues to poll high in the run up to the May 2008 general elections, despite his apparent Constitutional ineligibility. The Apostolic Nuncio in Paraguay maintains that Lugo is a Bishop and forbidden by Canon rules to seek public office. During a March 3 ca [...] | 2007-03-15 11:30:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION241 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 10 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Colorado Internal Battle Boils Over -- Supreme Court Justices Violate Ethics -- FARC linked to Cubas Case -- SENAD Burns 256 Kilos of Cocaine -- Treasury Notes Auctioned -- Soto Gets Fourth Star COLORADO INTERNAL BATTLE BOILS OVER 2. (C) Juan Facetti, Senior Advisor [...] | 2007-03-23 18:59:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PA |
07ASUNCION242 | PARAGUAY: "OVIEDO" OPTION STILL IN SUSPENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Paraguay's Attorney General has recommended that the conviction of imprisoned coup plotter Lino Oviedo be reviewed on the basis of new evidence. Supreme Court President then announced the entire court would take its decision on the question of review by mid-April. A decision t [...] | 2007-03-26 11:25:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION243 | PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT LOOKING AT "OVIEDO" OPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 11:26:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION250 | PARAGUAY: DUARTE TILTS LEFT LOOKING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Duarte's statements applauding Chavez' "overdose of democracy," attacking "neoliberalism," and criticizing U.S. policies could be characterized as representing a substantive shift further to the left. However, they also reflect as much if not more Duarte's growing [...] | 2007-03-27 22:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VE PA |
07ASUNCION252 | PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT AND VP ON DIFFERENT PAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Duarte continues to obstruct Vice President Castiglioni's bid to be the Colorado Party's presidential candidate, signaling his preference for his Minister of Education, Blanca Ovelar as a woman whose ideology is be closer to his (e.g. Socialist). Undeterred, Castiglion [...] | 2007-03-28 11:23:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION255 | VP ABRUPTLY ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTAL CANDIDACY [...] (C) Vice President Luis Castiglioni abruptly announced March 28 his 2008 candidacy for President. Highlighting his campaign platform and plans for Paraguay. Castiglioni said that he wants to "build a nation that will promote and give protection to private business in order to help create jobs [...] | 2007-03-29 11:25:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION256 | PARAGUAYAN PRIEST LUGO'S CONVERSION TO POLITICS A [...] (C) Catholic priest Fernando Lugo exploded onto the Paraguayan national political stage as a potential candidate for Paraguay's presidency in March 2006 as the keynote speaker at an anti-government demonstration. However, Lugo is hardly a novice to politics judging from his family's involve [...] | 2007-03-29 20:57:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV KDEM KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION260 | PARAGUAY: LUGO'S MARCH FALLS FLAT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Fernando Lugo could only draw some 10-15 thousand supporters to a March 29 demonstration protesting corruption, a far cry short of last year's demonstration that drew upwards of some 40,000 and effectively launched Lugo's bid for the Presidency. Lugo was clearly the star of the [...] | 2007-03-30 18:02:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION261 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 24 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Ethics Tribunal Earns Credibility -- SEN Gets Korea Donation; Poll Says 300k Dengue Cases -- Police and Protesters Clash; 40 Reported Injured -- Vice President looks at USAID Health program ETHICS TRIBUNAL EARNS CREDIBILITY 2. (C) Esteban Armando Kriskovich, Director [...] | 2007-03-30 18:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION262 | PARAGUAY: BATTLE ROYALE IN MAKING OVER VP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Few politicians, including President Duarte, have responded in depth publicly to Vice-President Castiglioni's surprise announcement on March 28 of his presidential bid. In a hard-ball backroom maneuver, however, VP supporter Senator Argana has been warned that supporting Casti [...] | 2007-03-30 18:17:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION285 | PARAGUAY SCENESETTER FOR SOUTHCOM COMMANDER [...] (C) Admiral Staviridis, Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to promote U.S. interests focused on strengthening democratic institutions, promoting sound economic policies and good governance, disrupting criminal organizations, and combating terrorist financing. You com [...] | 2007-04-04 21:40:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS SNAR PA |
07ASUNCION298 | PARAGUAY: URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-10 21:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION303 | PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT'S RANTS STIRS UP RUMORS OF [...] (C) President Duarte's leftward tilt in search of popular support continues, stirring rumors he is plotting an "autogolpe" to overcome opposition in Congress. An advisor to the Vice President told us Duarte had intended to invoke special powers authorized in the Constitution to shut down Co [...] | 2007-04-12 16:55:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION306 | PARAGUAY: OAS SG STEERS CLEAR OF INTERNAL FIGHTS, [...] (U) SUMMARY. OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza used a visit to Paraguay to focus on the 2008 Presidential elections but declined to enter the debate on a number of swirling controversies. He offered generally favorable views on the state of democracy in Latin America, but criticized [...] | 2007-04-12 22:31:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PA PGOV PREL OAS |
07ASUNCION318 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 31 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Ambassador Inaugurates Anti-Drug Out Post -- Ambassador Donates Trucks to Customs -- Japanese Nationals Kidnapped -- Cabral Returns -- TIP: Lebanese-Paraguayan Accused of Trafficking AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES ANTI-DRUG OUTPOST 2. (U) The Ambassador inaugurated April 11 th [...] | 2007-04-17 19:25:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN SMIG PA |
07ASUNCION336 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Asuncion Councilman Seeks USG Support, Gets Earful -- Paraguay, Venezuela Sign Energy Agreement -- NWC Students Visit Paraguay -- IOM Reports 495 Paraguayan Prostitutes in EU, Argentina ASUNCION COUNCILMAN SEEKS USG SUPPORT, GETS EARFUL 2. (C) Asuncion Councilman Gera [...] | 2007-04-23 20:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN |
07ASUNCION346 | PARAGUAY: ELECTORAL CALENDAR TAKING SHAPE, FIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay's Presidential/ Congressional election will likely be held April 20, 2008. Candidates also must register with the Electoral Tribunal (TSJE) 60 days prior; separately, political parties must identify their candidates in the form of primaries some 90 to 135 days before the [...] | 2007-04-26 17:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION355 | FONMIN TO A/S SHANNON: PARAGUAY SEEKS ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Paraguayan Foreign Minister Ramirez stressed with A/S Shannon the need for greater access to U.S. markets and an agreement on biofuels to more effectively counter the appeal of Chavez's populist message and generously funded assistance offers. He asserted Paraguay's rejection o [...] | 2007-04-30 13:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER ECON PA |
07ASUNCION356 | PRESIDENT DUARTE WELCOMES GREATER U.S. LEADERSHIP, [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Duarte warmly welcomed A/S Shannon's visit to Paraguay and applauded U.S. efforts to reassert its leadership in Latin America, including by responding more profoundly to the social challenges that face the region. Democracy is still fragile in the region for its fail [...] | 2007-04-30 13:30:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON PA |
07ASUNCION36 | PARAGUAY: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON 505 AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 16:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MASS PGOV PA |
07ASUNCION37 | PARAGUAY: GUIDANCE ON NEGOTIATING A SOFA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 17:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION379 | PARAGUAY: A/S SHANNON STRESSES POSITIVE U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: A/S Shannon expressed during his April 26-28 visit the U.S. commitment to strengthening our relationship with Paraguay and the region, based on a deeper appreciation for the economic and social challenges facing the region. Members of U.S.-funded investigative units expressed their [...] | 2007-05-07 21:11:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER ECON PA |
07ASUNCION383 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 20 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- President Postpones Spain Trip -- Government Monopoly Cripples Internet -- Deputies Pass Penal Code Reform -- Ycau Bolanos Case Can't Seat Judge Panel -- Journalists Protest Inaction on Cases PRESIDENT POSTPONES SPAIN TRIP 2. (C) President Duarte postponed his trip to [...] | 2007-05-08 22:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AID ECON PA |
07ASUNCION386 | PARAGUAY ON BELARUS AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: [...] (C) POL staff delivered reftel points to Ana Maria Baiardi, the MFA's Director General of Multilateral Policy, and Terumi Matsuo, the MFA's Director for International Organizations. Baiardi conveyed that Paraguay shared our concerns regarding Belarus and had no intention of supporting Belarus [...] | 2007-05-10 21:47:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC PA |
07ASUNCION389 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 5-11, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- CDA Meets the Israeli Ambassador -- TSJE Credibility Low; Infighting Continues -- New Customs Unit Seizes Contraband -- Indigenous Get Help from Itaipu CDA MEETS THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR 2. (C) The CDA received Israeli Ambassador to Paraguay (resident in Argentina) Raf [...] | 2007-05-11 17:15:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA AR VE |
07ASUNCION394 | PARAGUAY: AN OUNCE OF DRUG DISRUPTION WORTH A KILO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay remains a major transshipment corridor for (mostly Bolivian) cocaine, Colombian FARC arms-for-drugs deals and regional money-laundering. But the combination here now of strong leadership, new infrastructure, strengthened legislation, beefed-up human resources and the be [...] | 2007-05-16 23:04:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION396 | COM CONFERENCE: A SOUTHERN CONE PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During May 8-9 Southern Cone / Brazil COM Conference in Rio de Janiero, the five Southern Cone Ambassadors discussed aggressive plans of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to create a unified Bolivarian movement throughout Latin America, particularly focusing on activities within their respe [...] | 2007-05-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON AR BO BR CH PA UY VE |
07ASUNCION4 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR THE MCC [...] Jose Felix Alcaraz Rios 11/20/1967 Capiata 2. Pablo Fredy Ortiz Gonzalez 06/30/1970 Ita 3. Salvador Ramon Rodriquez 09/04/1971 Aregua 4. Jorge Ramon Estigarribia Ibarra 03/29/1972 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-01-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION403 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 12-18, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Building a Transparent Court -- Paraguay Attracting Call Centers -- Health Ministry Milk Program Under Scrutiny -- New Judges (Again) for Ycua Bolanos Panel -- MCC Director Visits Paraguay MCC DIRECTOR VISITS PARAGUAY 2. (U) MCC Threshold Programs Director Maria Longi [...] | 2007-05-18 16:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PA |
07ASUNCION431 | PARAGUAY: INVESTIGATIVE TEAM UNCOVERS LARGE FRAUD [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Controller General's investigative support unit, established with support from USAID/Paraguay, uncovered a scheme in the Education and Culture Ministry that involved the misuse and misappropriation of funds. Funds intended to provide basic food supplies for poor elementary sc [...] | 2007-05-24 12:53:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KCRM KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION435 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 19-25, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- San Pedro; Concepcion Welcome Ambassador -- Paraguay free of Foot and Mouth Disease with vaccination -- IPR Customs Conference held in Asuncion -- Senate Annuls Land Grab -- SOCSOUTH Commander Visits Paraguay -- PolOff Tours Chaco SAN PEDRO; CONCEPCION WELCOME AMBASSADOR [...] | 2007-05-25 20:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION440 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR USAID [...] Valdez Ayala, Luis Antonio 04/06/1969 Asuncion 2. Acosta David, Elena Ramona 08/18/1982 San Lorenzo 3. Vera Barrientos, Olivorio 05/11/1962 Caazapa 4. Barrios Suarez, Carlos Manuel 02/05/1977 Asuncion 5. Medina Gimenez, Francisco Daniel 07/26/1971 Pirayu 6. Gimenez Maciel, Pedro Hilar [...] | 2007-05-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL AID PA |
07ASUNCION441 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Ramirez Alfonso, Amado Pablo 06/30/1970 Caacupe 2. Solabarrrieta Ruiz Diaz, Vanderley 05/31/1973 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-05-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION449 | PARAGUAY A RELUCTANT PARTICIPANT IN BANCO DEL SUR [...] (C) Vice Minister of Economy Jorge von Horoch told econoff that Paraguay agreed to join Banco del Sur at a meeting of Finance Ministers in Asuncion on May 22, along with Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia. Technical discussions will continue in Buenos Aires on June 1. Von Horo [...] | 2007-06-04 13:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PA PGOV PINR PREL |
07ASUNCION451 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 26 - [...] SUMMARY: -- TIP Consultant Quits Amid Threats -- Second Peacekeeping Force Deploys -- Director of Intellectual Property Leaving Post -- Civil Society Input for MCA -- Supporting Transparency in Local Leadership -- Support for Ethics Code Grows -- Court Backs Tax Compliance TIP CONSULT [...] | 2007-06-04 15:40:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN KCRM PA MASS MOPS |
07ASUNCION456 | JournalistsQ Union Backs Down on Backing Chavez [...] Responding to a fierce backlash over its defense of Chavez decision not to renew RCTVQs license, the SPP reversed course on the communiqu issued May 29th (reftel). The majority of SPP members voted 6/1 to issue a new communiqu that rejects Qthe attack on press freedom. 2. The new communiqu [...] | 2007-06-05 12:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL PA |
07ASUNCION479 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION481 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 2-8, [...] SUMMARY -- Central Bank Regulates Street Money Changers -- Tax Collection Climbs -- USAID Launches Land Use Plan CENTRAL BANK REGULATES STREET MONEY CHANGERS 2. (U) The Central Bank granted permits to about 200 street money changers and is expected to grant 200 more permits by mid-Jun [...] | 2007-06-11 17:17:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION486 | PARAGUAY: RESPONSE TO MAJOR LIST / CERTIFICATION [...] Below find Post's submission on the Government of Paraguay (GOP) cooperation on counter-narcotics and other drug-related issues. 2. The United States Government (USG) asked the GOP to keep pressure on major international drug organizations trafficking drugs through investigations, arrests [...] | 2007-06-13 11:31:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM PA |
07ASUNCION489 | PARAGUAY: DUARTE PURGES DISSIDENTS FROM [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Duarte,s Secretary, Carlos Liseras, announced June 5 changes in the cabinet. The Minister of Public Works and Minister of Interior have been replaced or reassigned. In addition, Duarte replaced the Director of Yacyreta Binational Entity, the Executive Director of Itaip [...] | 2007-06-13 14:40:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL ECON PA |
07ASUNCION500 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 9-15, [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- Wasmosy Case Nearing Acquittal -- Proposed Reorganization of the Air Force -- Banana Blockade -- Tigo Widens Coverage -- TFCA Group Has First Meeting WASMOSY CASE NEARING AN ACQUITTAL 2. (U) Former President Juan Carlos Wasmosy may soon be acquitted of his 2002 fraud [...] | 2007-06-15 20:44:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AID ECON PA |
07ASUNCION538 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 16-22, [...] SUMMARY -- Striking Uranium -- Child's Name: Unknown -- Cargill Investment Worth Beans -- INL Funds Fight for IPR -- Drug Addiction Doubles STRIKING URANIUM 2. (U) Alexander Hirtz of Transandes Paraguay SA announced that the Canadian company has confirmed the existence of uranium in [...] | 2007-06-28 17:04:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION547 | TAX AUTHORITY VICE MINISTER NEUFELD REPLACED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Minister of Taxation Andreas Neufeld Toews, who heads Paraguay's Tax Administration, resigned June 28 and will be replaced by Maria Gloria Paez, a close advisor to Neufeld who is expected to maintain the Administration's policies and maintain progress on the MCC Threshold Prog [...] | 2007-06-29 16:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION552 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 23-29, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- A Dissident Divide -- Election Turned Congressional Smackdown -- GOP Forgets Their Fogeys A DISSIDENT DIVIDE 2. (U) Alfredo "Goli" Stroessner announced June 27 that The Peace and Progress Movement (MPP) would withdraw its support for presidential hopeful Vice President [...] | 2007-07-03 20:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION560 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION561 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Marcos Manuel Miranda Caceres 18OCT1962 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-07-06 12:20:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION57 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JANUARY 13 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Dengue Outbreak; Politician Dead -- Impeachment for two Elections Ministers? -- USAID Helps Expand HealthCare -- Environmental Ministry Seizes Rare Birds, Animal Skins -- IDB Offers USD 1.2 Million for Chaco Region DENGUE OUTBREAK; POLITICIAN DEAD 2. (U) Four people di [...] | 2007-01-26 17:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV PA |
07ASUNCION570 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ILEA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 20:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION574 | DUARTE UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Shortly after President Nicanor DUARTE Frutos took office in 2003, he forged an accord with the opposition centered on promoting reform and combating corruption. His embrace of sound macroeconomic policies brought Paraguay back from the brink of bankruptcy; his promise of reform [...] | 2007-07-11 13:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PA VZ |
07ASUNCION577 | PARAGUAY: CASTIGLIONI FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Duarte has endorsed his Education Minister Blanca Ovelar as the Colorado Party candidate to succeed him. Seeking to obstruct the bid launched by his Vice-President Luis Castiglioni, he forced the party to embrace a "socialist" ideology at its recent convention and has f [...] | 2007-07-11 16:30:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PA |
07ASUNCION578 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ILEA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-11 20:01:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION595 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JULY 4-13, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Supreme Court Power: Terrorism Dealt a Blow -- Two New Ministers -- New Senate Leadership -- Call on New Congress Leaders -- Got Justice? Prosecutors Taken Off Case -- Whistleblower System: Public Officials Beware! -- Going the Last Mile -- Viva the Environment! -- Custom [...] | 2007-07-19 18:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION596 | ANOTHER MERCOSUR SUMMIT WITH FEW CONCRETE RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay hosted the 33rd Mercosur Summit on June 29 and passed the rotating Mercosur Presidency to Uruguay. Six regional presidents attended from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile and endorsed a 38-point Declaration offering form but little substance. Venezu [...] | 2007-07-19 19:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PA PGOV PREL |
07ASUNCION613 | DON'T COUNT OVIEDO OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: In a unanimous decision July 23, the Supreme Court's criminal chamber dismissed charges against imprisoned General Lino Oviedo for his role in the 1999 assassination of Vice President Luis Argana. The criminal chamber's decision dominated press coverage July 23-24 and generated cr [...] | 2007-07-26 17:29:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION616 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST OFFICE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 12:10:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION62 | PARAGUAY: URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR [...] Vicente Gonzalez Medina 22 JAN 1958 Carapegua CASON [...] | 2007-01-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION632 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JULY 14-27, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Yeehah! Prosecutors Praised -- Utave: Too Little, Too Late -- SENAD In Action -- United Nations Funds Family Health --------------------------- YEEHAH! PROSECUTORS PRAISED --------------------------- 2. (U) Ambassador Cason held a "white hat" ceremony on July 20 appl [...] | 2007-08-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION634 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER PROMISES MORE OF SAME [...] President Duarte named Dr. Cesar Amado Barreto Otazu July 30 to head the Ministry of Finance, replacing former Minister Ernst Bergen, who resigned -- according to the media -- for personal reasons. Barreto becomes Duarte's third finance minister in four years. In his initial press statement, [...] | 2007-08-01 21:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PINR PA |
07ASUNCION636 | OVIEDO CLEARS ANOTHER HURDLE TO RUNNING FOR [...] (U) The Supreme Court's criminal chamber ruled July 31 in favor of former General Lino Oviedo's habeas corpus motion for his involvement in the 1999 violence known as "marzo paraguayo." Relying on technical grounds similar to those the Court used July 23 to grant Oviedo's habeas corpus motion [...] | 2007-08-01 21:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PA |
07ASUNCION638 | EARLY POLLING PREDICTS OPPOSITION WIN [...] (U) A June 24-28 poll indicated that if next April's elections were held today, Paraguay's opposition would end 60-plus years of uninterrupted Colorado Party rule. When asked which party they would support (without naming specific candidates),45.3 percent of voters chose the political opposi [...] | 2007-08-02 21:24:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PA |
07ASUNCION639 | Physical Security and Stockpile Management Assessment and [...] This cable contains an action request for PR/WRA and SA/LW and is a retransmission of reftel. See para. 5. 2. An explosion at the Paraguayan Military's main ordinance depot in January 2007 destroyed one of the storage sheds for commercial explosives and initiating devices. After the explos [...] | 2007-08-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | DOD PGOV PARM PA |
07ASUNCION643 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-06 19:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION687 | DUARTE TAKES ON THE CHURCH [...] (SBU) President Duarte, who has been actively campaigning for Colorado Party presidential pre-candidate Blanca Ovelar, has extended his verbal attacks on resigned Catholic bishop (and front-runner) Fernando Lugo to the Catholic Church as a whole. On August 12, Duarte implicitly jabbed Lugo whe [...] | 2007-08-17 19:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION688 | INTERAGENCY COOPERATION ON TRI-BORDER AREA [...] (C) Embassy Asuncion hosted August 8-9 a conference on Tri-Border Area (TBA) terrorist finance and money laundering. Forty USG participants from Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay represented the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury, as well as th [...] | 2007-08-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV PA |
07ASUNCION689 | SCENE-SETTER FOR LT. GEN. SEIP'S VISIT TO PARAGUAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes Lt. Gen. Seip August 21-22. Your visit provides an opportunity to promote U.S. interests in strengthening democratic institutions, promoting sound economic policies and good governance, disrupting criminal organizations, and combating terrorist f [...] | 2007-08-20 20:02:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS SNAR PA |
07ASUNCION714 | MANAGING EXPECTATIONS OF NEW SEPRELAD DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reviews of Dr. Angel Gabriel GONZALEZ Caceres, Paraguay's new director of the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering (SEPRELAD),are quite mixed. A former Central Bank president (2003-2005),Gonzalez also served two terms as Banking Superintendent (1998-99 and 1999-200 [...] | 2007-08-27 13:07:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ECON PA |
07ASUNCION722 | A CHAT WITH LUGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential pre-candidate Fernando Lugo spoke confidently about his legal ability to run for the presidency in an August 27 meeting with DCM and Pol/Econ Chief, but failed to provide any details about his campaign platform or plans for governing Paraguay. While reluctant to def [...] | 2007-08-29 13:46:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
07ASUNCION727 | ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL REQUESTS ELECTIONS ASSISTANCE [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Electoral Tribunal (TSJE) Judges Juan Manual Morales, Rafael Dendia, and Alberto Ramirez requested elections assistance from the United States during August 23 - 25 meetings with POL Chief and PolOff. The judges stressed the importance of international observers for Paragua [...] | 2007-08-30 19:57:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION734 | PARAGUAY'S NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CHIEF [...] (C) Ambassador discussed USG expectations with SEPRELAD's new director, Gabriel Gonzalez, August 30. Gonzalez expressed his disappointment that the Paraguayan government "abandoned" SEPRELAD and allocated only USD 200,000 to the organization for the coming fiscal year. The Ambassador noted G [...] | 2007-09-05 13:39:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PTER EFIN SNAR PA |
07ASUNCION739 | OVIEDO RELEASED ON CONDITIONAL LIBERTY [...] (SBU) Paraguay's Supreme Military Tribunal granted convicted coup-plotter General Lino Oviedo conditional liberty at approximately 11:00 a.m. EST September 6. All major press outlets carried the story. Oviedo waved to approximately 500 gathered supporters as he walked out of prison in civili [...] | 2007-09-06 16:12:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PINS ASEC PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION743 | PDVSA EXPANDING INTO PARAGUAY AND ELSEWHERE? [...] (C) Hermes Rafael "Rambo" Saguier, current advisor to pre-presidential candidate Fernando Lugo, provided DCM with a July 13 letter from PDVSA, Venezuela's state owned petroleum company, which sought Saguier's legal services. The letter, written "within the framework of the international policy [...] | 2007-09-06 19:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV PREL PA VE |
07ASUNCION748 | ALL EYES ON OVIEDO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Supreme Military Tribunal unanimously decided September 6 to release General Lino Oviedo from jail on conditional liberty for his attempted 1996 coup (ref). Despite Oviedo's attorneys' contention that he enjoys full legal rights, many analysts agree he is not legally entitled [...] | 2007-09-07 19:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
07ASUNCION77 | PARAGUAY,S MERCOSUR DIRECTOR SKEPTICAL [...] (C) Paraguay,s lead Mercosur coordinator, Didier Olmedo, shared his deep skepticism of the bloc to econoff. He criticized Mercosur as diluted by a political agenda that has evolved to the exclusion of the issues important to Paraguay: greater integration with real market access not restricted [...] | 2007-01-31 21:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PA PGOV PINR PREL |
07ASUNCION774 | EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE POURS IN TO DAMPEN FIRE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Duarte administration declared a state of national emergency September 12 in response to the worst fire disaster in Paraguayan history -- three weeks after the fires started -- and provided limited emergency relief to affected areas. An OFDA expert monitored the fires by air [...] | 2007-09-18 23:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAGR MASS PA |
07ASUNCION81 | VENENZUELAN INTEREST IN PARAGUAYAN BANKS [...] (C) Venezuelan State Development Bank BANDES is investigating the possibility of purchasing a Paraguayan financial institution as it or other Venezuelan State entities have done in Bolivia and Uruguay, and may do in Ecuador and Nicaragua. BANDES intends to provide financing for micro-enterpri [...] | 2007-02-02 11:31:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PA PGOV PINR PREL |
07ASUNCION819 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hundreds of indigenous persons earned land concessions from the government August 3 and September 24 after commandeering Asuncion's two most popular parks, the latest in a series of indigenous efforts to promote land rights and resource preservation. Indigenous groups comprise a [...] | 2007-10-03 16:18:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM IAHRC PA |
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