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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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09BOGOTA1270 | COLOMBIA SKIRTING RECESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Colombia's economy has slowed dramatically as a result of falling international demand for exports, a decline in investment, and weak domestic consumption. GDP growth for 2008 fell to 2.5 percent after reaching a high of 7.5 percent in 2007. The final quarter of 2008 registered [...] | 2009-04-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1294 | COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL MOVING AHEAD ON JOINT SECURITY [...] (C) The GOC is reaching out to Brazil and Peru to raise its regional profile and improve trade and security relations with its neighbors. Colombian and Brazil recently concluded an agreement to jointly monitor each other's airspace to combat illegal armed groups (the FARC) and narco-traffickin [...] | 2009-04-20 20:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
09BOGOTA1299 | COLOMBIA SEEKS USD 10.4 BILLON IMF CREDIT LINE AS [...] (SBU) Citing uncertainty over the outlook for the Colombian economy amid the global downturn, Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga announced April 20 the Colombian government's decision to request a USD 10.4 billion flexible line of credit from the International Monetary Fund. The decision fol [...] | 2009-04-21 23:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1334 | COLOMBIA DCA TALKS MOVE AHEAD DESPITE OBSTACLES [...] (C) U.S. and Colombian delegations reached tentative agreement on more than half of the draft text during round three of the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) negotiations in Bogota on April 14-16. Still, key provisions remain unresolved, with the GOC insisting it cannot meet some U.S. requ [...] | 2009-04-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS PGOV MCAP KTIA PTER CO |
09BOGOTA1338 | FARC CONTINUES HOSTAGE RELEASE STRATEGY TO STAY IN [...] (C) The FARC offered to release police hostage Pablo Moncayo in response to requests from "Colombians for Peace," the Piedad Cordoba-led group which advocates a humanitarian exchange. Peace Commissioner Frank Pearl told the Ambassador the GOC could not accept a humanitarian accord, and said it [...] | 2009-04-23 21:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA1352 | SENATE INVESTIGATION INTO SOACHA FALSE POSITIVE [...] (C) A public meeting convoked by the Colombian Senate on the Soacha killings turned heated when Senator Galan challenged Defense Minister Santos' claim that extrajudicial killings stopped after the GOC's high-profile dismissal of 27 military officers for the Soacha murders on October 30 last y [...] | 2009-04-24 18:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS MOPS MARR PTER MASS CO |
09BOGOTA1359 | CODEL HOYER FOCUSES ON FTA AND PLAN COLOMBIA IN [...] (SBU) Summary. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer led a Congressional Delegation to Cartagena and Medellin, Colombia, from April 6-8, 2009. President Uribe outlined to the delegation the progress Colombia has made, with U.S. support, on counternarcotics efforts and the fact that much remains t [...] | 2009-04-27 18:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD OREP PGOV ECON CO |
09BOGOTA1361 | COLOMBIA MANDATES FLEX FUEL VEHICLES DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under a new government decree, local automakers and importers will be required to sell only flex-fuel vehicles capable of running on any mixture of gasoline and ethanol up to 85 percent ethanol (E85). The decree phases in the requirement for new small vehicles beginning in 2012 [...] | 2009-04-27 19:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV ECON SENV CO |
09BOGOTA1364 | GOC CELEBRATES DON MARIO'S ARREST, BUT CONCERNS [...] (C) GOC officials celebrated the April 15 arrests of major narcotraffickers Daniel Rendon Herrera (aka "Don Mario") and Jose Leonardo Munoz (alias "Douglas"),noting that the detentions will disrupt drug flows in northern Colombia and send an important message to the public that no one is invi [...] | 2009-04-27 22:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1369 | CONGRESS MOVES TOWARDS APPROVAL OF CONTROVERSIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Victim's of Colombia's conflict have suffered death, kidnapping, rape, and the loss of land and other assets. The Justice and Peace Law (JPL) was the GOC's initial attempt to provide reparations to victims. Still, to date almost no victims have received reparations under the [...] | 2009-04-28 15:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1374 | URIBE SAYS ONLY THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND [...] (C) President Uribe ruled out any role for Piedad Cordoba and her "Colombians for Peace" group in further FARC hostage releases at a Town Hall meeting on April 25, saying only the ICRC and Catholic Church are authorized to facilitate such releases. Uribe said the GOC would not allow new relea [...] | 2009-04-28 19:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM BR CO |
09BOGOTA1376 | INVESTMENT EXPERT HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS OF RENEWABLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With funding from the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP),Embassy Bogota hosted the visit of Mapa Group Partner and renewable energy investment expert J.F. Scarborough April 19-22 to inform local audiences and policymakers about international investment trends in [...] | 2009-04-28 21:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ECON EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1379 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: MARCH 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for March, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 4,698 tracks during December. Six were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). One resulted in a Phase I event with the event ending wh [...] | 2009-04-29 16:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1385 | SUPREME COURT ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT [...] (C) After more than one hundred votes and a four month delay, the Supreme Court elected Augusto Ibanez as its new President. The delay reflected divisions between magistrates who favor a confrontational approach toward the executive and those who want lower Court-Executive tensions. Ibanez co [...] | 2009-04-29 20:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1412 | DAS DOMESTIC SPYING SCANDAL DEEPENS [...] (C) Colombia's leading newsweekly "Semana" broke new details on domestic spying by the Department of Administrative Security (DAS),alleging the DAS maintained an extensive illegal surveillance program against GOC opponents and Supreme Court magistrates. "Semana" claims the DAS has had a uni [...] | 2009-05-04 19:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1415 | DAS DOMESTIC SPYING SCANDAL DEEPENS [...] (C) Colombia's leading newsweekly "Semana" broke new details on domestic spying by the Department of Administrative Security (DAS),alleging the DAS maintained an extensive illegal surveillance program against GOC opponents and Supreme Court magistrates. "Semana" claims the DAS has had a uni [...] | 2009-05-04 19:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1442 | APRIL HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] The Prosecutor General (Fiscalia) asked for a 60-year sentence against ex-Senator Alvaro Garcia Romero for his role in facilitating paramilitary massacres, and charged former Cesar Governor Alvaro Araujo Noguera and his son, ex-Senator Alvaro Araujo Castro, for conspiring with paramilitaries t [...] | 2009-05-05 20:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA145 | HOMICIDES CONTINUE ON DOWNWARD TREND IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) The GOC's preliminary numbers for 2008 showed that homicides dropped from 16,318 in 2007 to 15,200 in 2008, a 6.8 percent decrease. Atlantico and Meta saw a ten percent reduction due to an increase in Police operations and military presence. Still, some regions -- including Medellin -- [...] | 2009-01-15 21:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1467 | COLOMBIA TRANSFORMING PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN LARGEST CITIES [...] Summary: Encouraged by the successful implementation of a bus rapid transit (BRT) system - locally known as TransMilenio - in Bogota, the GOC has launched an ambitious program to bring BRT to seven of Colombia's largest cities. While delays and cost overruns have complicated the effort, an e [...] | 2009-05-08 16:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN SENV SOCI KGHG PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1481 | COLOMBIA EAGER TO PURSUE ECPA COOPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a series of senior-level meetings April 29-30, GOC officials told State Western Hemisphere Affairs Director for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination Matt Rooney that Colombia was very interested in pursuing cooperation with the U.S. and regional partners under the Energy a [...] | 2009-05-11 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1493 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: APRIL 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for April, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 3,408 tracks during April. Three were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). One resulted in a Phase II event with the event ending wh [...] | 2009-05-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1506 | URIBE PLEDGES TO PROTECT JUSTICES FROM ILLEGAL [...] (C) President Uribe met with the heads of Colombia's highest courts following press revelations that Colombia's Department of Administrative Security (DAS) had conducted illegal surveillance and harassment of Supreme Court magistrates. The press reported that the magistrates left the meeting [...] | 2009-05-13 14:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1534 | FARC DESERTIONS SLOW, BUT MILITARY REGAINS [...] (C) FARC desertions dropped nearly 20% in the first quarter of 2009, slowing for the first time since 2005. Kills and captures also fell. Still, some military officials believe that FARC desertions are starting to "cut to the bone," citing the defections of more senior members. The Colombia [...] | 2009-05-14 21:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PGOV PREL PTER MARR PHUM SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA1539 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your trip to Colombia will allow you the opportunity to see the incredible progress Colombia has made from a near failed state to an economic, political, and social leader in Latin America over the last decade. Despite Colombia's significant progress, USG support remains critica [...] | 2009-05-15 14:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL OVIP EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA1554 | CODEL LEVIN'S FACT-FINDING MISSION TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Representative Sander Levin, Chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, visited Bogota, Medellin, and Cali from April 12-17. President Alvaro Uribe outlined GOC efforts to reduce violence against trade union members, increase resolution of labor cases, protect vulnerable groups [...] | 2009-05-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD OREP PGOV ECON CO |
09BOGOTA1582 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USNS COMFORT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of the USNS Comfort and her crew to Colombia from June 6-17. The humanitarian and medical services you will provide will be welcomed by the Government of Colombia (GOC) and by the people of Tumaco, Narino -- one of the poorest areas of Colombia. Your visit [...] | 2009-05-19 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV PTER OIIP SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA1587 | REELECTION BILL PASSES FINAL SENATE VOTE - THREE [...] (C) The Senate approved a bill on May 19, that would modify the constitution to allow the 2010 reelection of President Uribe in the fourth, and final, vote on the measure in Congress. The House version, which would allow for reelection only in 2014, and the Senate version will need to be reco [...] | 2009-05-20 20:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA1588 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD PRESSES COLOMBIAN ARMY [...] (C) The Ambassador met Colombian Army Commander Oscar Gonzalez on May 8 to voice concern over extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses. Gonzalez said the Army's Human Rights Directorate is facilitating the Prosecutor General Office's (Fiscalia) investigations of human rights cases and [...] | 2009-05-20 20:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA1595 | ERADICATION OF COCA -- GOOD NEWS FROM MANY FRONTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last year numerous surveys, studies, and serious field reports have come out touting the success of eradication in reducing the amount of cocaine produced, the funding available to narcoterrorists, the amount of coca leaf available, and the amount of coca under cultivati [...] | 2009-05-20 20:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA1596 | DCM HIGHLIGHTS U.S. ASSISTANCE TO VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-20 20:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV CO SCUL SNAR PHUM PTER |
09BOGOTA1618 | DAS REVELATIONS KEEP COMING [...] (C) The DAS scandal returned to the headlines on May 13 with media reports that the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) had spied on leading opposition figures in the 2006 elections and that a former DAS official linked high-ranking GOC officials to the illegal surveillance of Supreme [...] | 2009-05-22 17:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1624 | DAS SCANDAL REIGNITES URIBE-COURT FEUD [...] (C) The longstanding feud between Colombia's judicial and executive branches reignited on May 14 after media reports claimed a former Department of Administrative Security (DAS) official had testified about high-level GOC involvement in the illegal surveillance and monitoring of Supreme Court [...] | 2009-05-22 20:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1632 | POLITICIAN WITH FARC CONTACTS REACHES OUT TO [...] (C) At the urging of National Conciliation Commission official Father Dario Echeverri, Polcouns met with XXXXXXXXXXXX-- a politician who was previously authorized by the GOC to transmit messages to the FARC. XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed he had no specific message for the USG, but wanted to establish a [...] | 2009-05-26 18:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS CO |
09BOGOTA168 | COLOMBIA'S NEW S&T LAW HIGHLIGHTS PUSH FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In December 2008 the Colombian Congress approved a Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Law, with the intention for STI to become a major driver of Colombian productivity and long-term economic stability. The law increases GOC funding available for STI activities and resea [...] | 2009-01-21 15:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPL KCIS PGOV EINV CO |
09BOGOTA1701 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL MEEKS TO CARTAGENA AND [...] (SBU) Your attendance at the presentation of the Afro-Colombian Inter-Sectoral Commission's recommendations to Colombian Vice President Santos sends a strong signal of US support for the legitimate aspirations of this long-suffering minority. In addition to attending this meeting, you will mee [...] | 2009-05-28 11:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV EAID PHUM SNAR ECON PREL CO |
09BOGOTA1717 | CONTROVERSIAL RULING WOULD REDUCE COLOMBIA'S [...] (C) In a controversial ruling, the Colombian Council of State held that conscripted soldiers cannot engage in combat operations. The military leadership publicly criticized the Council's ruling, arguing that it would effectively remove half of the country's soldiers from combat and would prove [...] | 2009-05-28 17:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PTER MARR PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA1751 | POINTS OF CONTENTION IN COLOMBIAN LABOR LAW [...] (U) Unionists claim Colombian labor laws prevent workers from exercising their basic rights to associate, negotiate, and strike. They want the GOC to repeal or modify Article 5 of the Substantive Labor Code (CST),which limits the definition of a "worker" to someone with a labor contract; Ar [...] | 2009-06-01 11:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA1810 | CIVAIR COLOMBIA: U.S. CARRIER DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 16:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN CO |
09BOGOTA1811 | UPCOMING ELECTION OF NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 16:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AORC EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1813 | BANANA-SECTOR NEGOTIATIONS CONCLUDE POSITIVELY [...] (U) A strike that paralyzed banana exports for 13 days concluded on May 20 with an agreement to increase workers' salaries by 8% in the first year of a new collective bargaining agreement, and by the change in the local Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the second. Approximately 18,000 workers p [...] | 2009-06-04 17:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KJUS PHUM PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1814 | MCC MEETS WITH CROSS SECTION OF COLOMBIANS ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. During its initial visit to Colombia, a delegation from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) explained the organization's mission and procedures to Colombian Government, civil society, and business communities. The delegation's interlocutors in Bogota and Cali identified i [...] | 2009-06-04 19:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1824 | ARBITRARY DETENTION FOCUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Post's biannual certification consultations with human rights groups focused primarily on arbitrary detention. Participants reported the rate of detentions had declined under the new accusatory system. Still, they said the Colombian National Police (CNP) frequently abuse its right to provisi [...] | 2009-06-05 18:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS ELAB CO |
09BOGOTA1826 | MAY HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) Local United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Deputy Director Javier Hernandez told us extrajudicial killings by security forces fell 50% from 2007 to 2008. He said UNHCHR does not consider Defense Ministry Directive 29 to have been a factor in "false positive" cases, [...] | 2009-06-05 21:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER ELAB CO |
09BOGOTA1829 | THE INFORMAL COLOMBIAN ECONOMY - WHY IS IT SO [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite several years of strong economic growth and economic liberalization, much of Colombia's economic activity continues to fall in the informal, unregulated and untaxed sector. Estimates of the size of the informal economy range from 48 to 60 percent of GDP, depending on how [...] | 2009-06-08 16:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA1845 | MILITARY HUMAN RIGHTS ADVANCES FACE GROWING [...] (C) President Uribe is increasingly sensitive to the need for further human rights progress within the military, publicly praising the efforts of former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos in this regard. Current GOC human rights initiatives have garnered results: reducing extrajudicial kil [...] | 2009-06-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA1850 | GOC WANTS TO CONCLUDE S&T AGREEMENT AS DELIVERABLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOC reiterated its commitment to the U.S.-Colombia Science & Technology (S&T) Agreement and expressed urgency to reach an accord in the event that a potential Uribe-POTUS bilat takes place in the near future. Nonetheless, they still suggest numerous changes to the latest dra [...] | 2009-06-09 18:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPL KCIS PGOV EINV CO |
09BOGOTA1853 | U PARTY MOVES AHEAD ON URIBE REELECTION--BUT ALSO [...] (C) President Uribe's allies remain focused on changing the Constitution to allow the president to run for a third term, but U party President Restrepo told us former-Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos would be the party's candidate if Uribe does not run. The bill to change the Constitution t [...] | 2009-06-09 22:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA1861 | AFRO-COLOMBIAN CAUCUS FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO MAKE [...] (C) The Afro-Colombian Caucus, which consists of ten legislators from nine political parties, has five of its members investigated or jailed for alleged corruption or ties to illegal armed groups. The Caucus has succeeded in highlighting Afro-Colombian issues, but has not been effective in [...] | 2009-06-10 17:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA1879 | BOTH SIDES UP THE ANTE IN EXECUTIVE-COURT FEUD [...] (C) The ongoing feud between the executive and judicial branches heated up in the wake of the Supreme Court's June 4 conviction of two former congressmen for accepting bribes from GOC officials to help President Uribe's first reelection initiative. The Casa de Narino responded on June 7 by re [...] | 2009-06-11 19:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1891 | CONGRESSMAN GREGORY MEEKS VISIT TO CARTAGENA AND TUMACO [...] (SBU) Congressman Gregory Meeks visited Cartagena and Tumaco from May 28-31. In Cartagena, his attendance at the Afro-Colombian Commission's presentation of recommendations to Colombian Vice President Santos sent a strong signal of U.S. support for the legitimate aspirations of Afro-Colombian [...] | 2009-06-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV EAID PHUM SNAR ECON PREL CO |
09BOGOTA1894 | MEDELLIN'S MURDER RATE CONTINUES TO SOAR [...] (C) The murder rate in Medellin continues to soar, despite a late January GOC push to stem the increase. Medellin Secretary of Government Jesus Ramirez told us murders rose 80% in the city during the first five months of the year, compared with the same period in 2008. Ramirez and others att [...] | 2009-06-12 16:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA19 | TURMOIL FROM PYRAMID SCHEME CURBS SOUTHERN OIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Protests and strikes over the collapse of several pyramid schemes and the government's closure of the largest reputed scheme (reftel) have cut production of some oil producers in southern Colombia over 90 percent since November 2008. While the cuts did not prevent Colombia's ov [...] | 2009-01-07 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV PINR CO |
09BOGOTA1969 | FAJARDO DISPELS IDEA OF A UNITED FRONT AMONG [...] (C) Former Medellin Mayor and leading independent presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo told us there is not a unified front among the five independent presidential candidates and stressed that he will not join any anti-Uribe alliance. He maintains good relations with President Uribe's advis [...] | 2009-06-18 11:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA1975 | SUPREME COURT AND GOC UPDATE POSTIIONS ON [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with leaders of Colombia's Supreme Court and with Interior and Justice Minister Valencia Cossio to discuss extradition-related issues. The Ambassador stressed the USG's desire to keep positive relations with the Court, and said the Court might find USG input [...] | 2009-06-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA1982 | SUPREME COURT DENIES MARTIN SOMBRA'S EXTRADITION [...] (C) The Supreme Court denied our request for the extradition of FARC member Eli Mejia Mendoza ("Martin Sombra"),who was involved in the hostage-taking of the three American contractors rescued last July. The Court concluded that our request failed to meet the necessary "extraterritorial" req [...] | 2009-06-18 23:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA1983 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: MAY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for May, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 3,137 tracks during December. Four were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). There were no Phase I/II/III events this month. END SUMMA [...] | 2009-06-19 11:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1984 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: MAY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for May, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 3,137 tracks during December. Four were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). There were no Phase I/II/III events this month. END SUMM [...] | 2009-06-19 11:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1987 | CLIMATE TO REMAIN PRIORITY UNDER NEW ENVIRONMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The environmental and economic costs of climate change have resulted in increased GOC efforts to adapt to its potential impacts. The Ministry of Environment (MOE) is most concerned with the effects of climate on Colombia's high mountain areas, Caribbean Coast, and its health [...] | 2009-06-19 16:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA1999 | COLOMBIAN SENATORS INVESTIGATED IN [...] (U) In the most recent development in the "FARC-political" scandal, Colombian Inspector General Alejandro Ordonez announced on June 10 the opening of preliminary investigations against Colombian senators Piedad Cordoba, Wilson Borja and Gloria Ines Ramirez. Ordonez said the investigations are [...] | 2009-06-22 15:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PJUS PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA2001 | SCENESETTER FOR URIBE VISIT: RELATIONSHIP IN [...] (C) President Uribe will use his visit to reaffirm our strong bilateral ties. He will seek a timeline for approval of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, and will want continued U.S. help against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and drug trafficking organizations. Ur [...] | 2009-06-22 16:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAID SNAR PGOV PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA2015 | RAPPORTEUR SEES PROGRESS ON EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (U) United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston released his initial findings June 18. He praised the GOC's efforts to address 'false positives,' noting allegations of military extrajudicial killings have fallen sharply over the last 6-9 months, but called f [...] | 2009-06-22 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2016 | CTI INVESTIGATION INTO ILLEGAL DAS SURVEILLANCE [...] (C) A preliminary Prosecutor General Office (Fiscalia) report confirms media claims of extensive spying on human rights groups, journalists, and opposition leaders by the Department of Administrative Security (DAS). Investigators found evidence that the DAS--probably illegally--set up a secre [...] | 2009-06-23 18:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA2019 | CTI INVESTIGATION INTO ILLEGAL DAS SURVEILLANCE [...] (C) A preliminary Prosecutor General Office (Fiscalia) report confirms media claims of extensive spying on human rights groups, journalists, and opposition leaders by the Department of Administrative Security (DAS). Investigators found evidence that the DAS--probably illegally--set up a secre [...] | 2009-06-23 20:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA2020 | JEFFERSON SCIENCE FELLOW PROMOTES S&T DIPLOMACY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jefferson Science Fellow Tim DeVoogd visited Colombia June 8-12, exploring potential areas of bilateral Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) cooperation. He analyzed Colombia's STI system with federal and regional GOC stakeholders, leading universities and STI development [...] | 2009-06-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC CO TSPL PGOV EINV KCIS |
09BOGOTA2050 | ARMY IG ORDERED TO STOP 'FALSE POSITIVE' [...] (C) Army Inspector General General Carlos Suarez told us on June 23 that Army Commander General Oscar Gonzalez Pena had ordered him to temporarily stop investigating 'false positive' cases. Gonzalez claimed the investigations were undermining officers' morale and leading to fewer combat kil [...] | 2009-06-25 22:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA2052 | COLOMBIAN CONGRESS FREES 19,000 AUC FROM LEGAL [...] (SBU) The Colombian Congress passed a law on June 15 allowing the Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) to apply the 'principle of opportunity'--a plea bargain which allows suspension of criminal investigations--to 19,000 demobilized rank-and-file paramilitaries. The 19,000 demobilized in t [...] | 2009-06-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2065 | BOTH SIDES SEE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE IN VICTIMS' [...] (U) Citing exorbitant costs, the Uribe coalition voted down the final version of the Victim's bill--which would have provided financial and land reparations to all victims--on June 18. Victims' groups considered the loss a relative victory since the GOC-sponsored Victims' bill--which require [...] | 2009-06-26 22:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2073 | SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ACHIEVED DURING FOURTH ROUND [...] (C) U.S. and Colombian delegations made swift and significant progress during the fourth round of Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) talks, held in Bogota on June 23-25. The two sides reached nearly complete agreement on roughly eighty percent of the DCA text. President Uribe's instructions [...] | 2009-06-30 19:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS PGOV MCAP KTIA PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2088 | FISCALIA CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON SOACHA CASES [...] (U) The Fiscalia has formally charged 75 individuals--72 army and 3 civilians--for the 'false positive' murders of thirteen Soacha residents. In courtroom statements, prosecutors have attributed the motive to the military's informal bodycount system. Victims' families report receiving thre [...] | 2009-07-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2089 | JUNE HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) continues to make progress in 'false positive' investigations, with 75 people charged for involvement in the Soacha scandal and seven members of the Army convicted in older cases. The Fiscalia is currently investigating 1056 cases--involving [...] | 2009-07-01 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2144 | CIVAIR COLOMBIA: U.S. CARRIER DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 19:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN CO |
09BOGOTA2156 | URIBE PICKS FOR TOP PROSECUTOR FACE COURT SCRUTINY [...] (C) President Uribe nominated former Colombian Permanent Representative to the OAS Camilo Ospina, former Council of State magistrate Juan Angel Palacio, and long-time Uribe associate Virginia Uribe Betancur to replace Mario Iguaran as Prosecutor General. The Supreme Court will question all thre [...] | 2009-07-08 19:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA2173 | FISCALIA: NO PATTERN OF ARBITRARY DETENTION, BUT [...] (U) Advisor to the National Director of Prosecutors Maria Ximena Rincon told us the Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) is reviewing 32 cases documented in a recent Human Rights First (HRF) report on alleged baseless prosecutions and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders. The re [...] | 2009-07-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2186 | PORT DEMONSTRATIONS TURNOUT LOW, STRIKE NOT VIABLE [...] (U) Port laborers in Santa Marta, Cartagena, and Buenaventura marched July 3 to protest the GOC's alleged failure to meet its November 2008 promises. Low turnout and widespread fear of reprisals forced labor leaders to realize a planned strike July 13 was not viable. Ministry of Social Pro [...] | 2009-07-09 21:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KJUS PHUM PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2246 | THE URIBE COALITION: LESS THAN SOLID [...] (C) President Uribe's legislative coalition is focused on changing the Constitution to allow Uribe to run for a third term in 2010, but the House and Senate must reconcile differing versions of the reelection bill before it can go forward. After Congressional approval, Colombia's Constitution [...] | 2009-07-15 20:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA2345 | YOUTH OUTREACH VISIT FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. The DCM traveled on June 27 to the city of Barranquilla (in the Caribbean coast department of Atlantico) to visit a drug demand prevention program sponsored by the Lion's Club International and to participate in the inauguration ceremony for the Latin American Little League Tourna [...] | 2009-07-23 21:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2347 | DCM VISIT HIGHLIGHTS U.S. PRESENCE IN COFFEE COUNTRY [...] (U) On July 1 and 2, the DCM traveled to the heart of Colombia's coffee country to inaugurate three new AmCham branches and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Manizales Binational Center, all critical institutions to U.S. presence in the region. Coffee cultivation and processing remain the [...] | 2009-07-23 22:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2359 | URIBE AUTHORIZES CORDOBA PARTICIPATION, OPENS DOOR [...] (C) President Uribe reversed his previous position and announced on July 8 that Senator Piedad Cordoba was authorized to participate in Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) hostage releases, with the stipulation that the FARC's remaining 24 uniformed hostages be released simultaneousl [...] | 2009-07-24 23:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINS BR EC CO VT |
09BOGOTA2360 | TFHO1: HONDURAS UPDATE FROM COLOMBIA [...] (C) President Uribe met on July 20 with acting Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez and other representatives of the de facto Micheletti government. Lopez stirred controversy by telling Colombian media that Uribe had expressed sympathy with the Micheletti regime, but the GOC quickly clarifi [...] | 2009-07-24 23:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR AMGT HO PGOV CO XK XM |
09BOGOTA2376 | COLOMBIA DCA NEGOTIATIONS -- EMBASSY IDEAS FOR [...] (C) The GOC expects positive signals soon on Track II issues as DCA negotiations wrap up. They have repeatedly stated that satisfaction on Track II is a precondition for closing out the DCA. Embassy recommends positive responses without additional commitments, specifically a U.S. Air Force-t [...] | 2009-07-27 22:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS PGOV MCAP KTIA PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2449 | GOC CALM AS TENSIONS RISE WITH VENEZUELA, BUT [...] (C) The GOC is trying to keep an even keel in its latest bilateral dispute with Venezuela, hoping measured responses can lower the temperature and win international support. GOC officials note the GOC's calm responses to Chavez's provocative rhetoric position the GOC to come out ahead, but th [...] | 2009-07-31 11:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD VZ CO |
09BOGOTA2472 | JULY HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] The GOC launched its administrative reparations program; President Uribe issued reparations to victims of paramilitary, FARC and ELN violence in Popayan, Monteria and Medellin. To date, 230,000 individuals have registered to receive administrative reparations. United Nations Special Rapport [...] | 2009-08-03 19:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2482 | REELECTION EFFORT RUNNING OUT OF STEAM--AND TIME [...] (C) President Uribe's allies and opponents alike believe support is evaporating for the referendum to allow Uribe to run for a third term--and all agree time is running out to save it. The referendum bill faces delays in Congress and in the Constitutional Court which could significantly affec [...] | 2009-08-04 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2489 | BIOFUELS: US EXPERT URGES COLOMBIA TO LOOK TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With funding from the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs (EEB),Embassy Bogota hosted the visit of Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels Director Charlotte Opal September 3-5 to inform local biofuels producers and policymakers about the ongoing international dialogue [...] | 2009-08-05 17:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ECON PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2493 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JUNE 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for July, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 3,041 tracks during December. There were no Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). A Law Enforcement End game based on intelligence information [...] | 2009-08-05 20:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2505 | COLOMBIA DCA WORKING GROUP TALKS YIELD MORE [...] (C) U.S. and Colombian working group delegations met in Bogota on August 4-5 to discuss the remaining unresolved issues in the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). Despite the intense public debate playing out in Colombia and regionally concerning the DCA, the Government of Colombia (GOC) tea [...] | 2009-08-06 22:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PTER KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA2526 | COLOMBIA MOVES TO EXPEDITE IDENTIFICATION OF [...] (U) Summary. The GOC presented on August 5 a new state policy aimed at improving efforts to identify the remains of victims of forced disappearances. The policy will dedicate $48.3 million in investment and operations over five years, which is projected to increase the GOC's capacity for gene [...] | 2009-08-11 23:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2563 | COLOMBIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE (AUGUST 20-23) [...] (SBU) We welcome the return of House Democracy Assistance Commission Chairman David Price and delegation to Colombia. Your visit comes as a regional debate over a U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement has heated up and amidst significant political developments, as Congress exerts greater [...] | 2009-08-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EAID PGOV PREL SNAR PTER ETRD PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA257 | PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INAUGURATION RECEIVES BROAD, [...] SUMMARY: Reaction to the Inauguration of President Obama as reflected by the extensive and very positive media coverage for the new administration, as well as comment from our contacts, has been uniformly positive in Colombia. President Uribe and numerous Colombian government officials have [...] | 2009-01-27 14:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL PHUM ECIN EAID PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2583 | COLOMBIAN MEDIA OVERVIEW, 2008/2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over the past year (July 08-July 09) Colombian media coverage of the U.S. has remained positive. The most important development has been that private television channels Cadena Radial Colombiana (Caracol) and Radio Cadena Nacional de Colombia (RCN) reached an agreement in January [...] | 2009-08-17 17:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC ECPS PGOV KMDR KPAO CO |
09BOGOTA2585 | VICE PRESIDENT SANTOS PITCHES FTA PASSAGE [...] (C) On August 6, Colombian Vice President Santos encouraged Congressional passage of the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to the Ambassador and members of a fact-finding mission led by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Santos warned that failure to pass the [...] | 2009-08-17 19:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI USTR CO |
09BOGOTA2588 | OPPOSITION OUTREACH TO CHAVEZ OVER DCA IRKS GOC [...] (C) Several Colombian opposition politicians--most notably former President Ernesto Samper--visited Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas between August 6-8. All expressed a desire to serve as a bridge between the two countries during the current tensions. The Government of Colombia (GO [...] | 2009-08-18 14:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CO VZ |
09BOGOTA2604 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JULY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for July, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,758 tracks during July. There were two Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks ------- 2. ( [...] | 2009-08-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA262 | INVESTMENT HITS NEW HIGH IN 2008, BUT 2009 OUTLOOK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Colombia's success in improving security conditions and its investment climate has attracted record levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) over the last six years. According to preliminary data, FDI reached a new high of USD 10.5 billion in 2008 based on flows spread across va [...] | 2009-01-27 19:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EFIN PGOV OPIC USTR CO |
09BOGOTA2627 | WILL COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA TRADE SURVIVE THE RHETORIC? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Venezuela's July 28 decision to freeze diplomatic relations with Colombia has put the Colombian business community on edge and complicated bilateral trade discussions. While Colombian exports to Venezuela for the first half of 2009 had remained resilient in the face of an overa [...] | 2009-08-21 13:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2629 | ARMY IG STILL BLOCKED, BUT NEW MOD SPARKS HOPE [...] (C) Army Inspector General Suarez reports his recommendations for administrative dismissals of those implicated in 'false positive' murders are blocked. Suarez expressed frustration at the pace of criminal and disciplinary investigations and pointed to the immediacy of administrative dismis [...] | 2009-08-21 18:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA2712 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JULY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for July, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,758 tracks during July. There were two Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks ------- 2. ( [...] | 2009-08-25 19:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2714 | GOC SHARES LESSONS WITH MEXICO, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Colombia is deepening its cooperation with Mexico and sharing the hard-won lessons it learned combating narcotraffickers under Plan Colombia. The two governments used Mexican President Felipe Calderon's August 12-13 Bogota visit to announce increased GOC training of Mexican police, while [...] | 2009-08-25 21:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON PTER KJUS CO MX |
09BOGOTA2715 | GOC SHARES LESSONS WITH MEXICO, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Colombia is deepening its cooperation with Mexico and sharing the hard-won lessons it learned combating narcotraffickers under Plan Colombia. The two governments used Mexican President Felipe Calderon's August 12-13 Bogota visit to announce increased GOC training of Mexican police, while [...] | 2009-08-25 21:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON PTER KJUS CO MX |
09BOGOTA2736 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH MOD SILVA [...] (S/NF) In an August 20 conversation with newly installed Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva, Ambassador Brownfield discussed several regional issues related to the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). The Ambassador noted that any cross-border operations while the region was focused on the DCA would [...] | 2009-08-26 22:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS CO |
09BOGOTA275 | COMMENTS ON THE CHILD LABOR DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] (C) This is a response to the request for comment on the Department of Labor's (DOL) draft list of goods from counties that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. Post concurs [...] | 2009-01-28 13:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA2759 | GENERAL SAAVEDRA SENDS POSITIVE SIGNALS ON SECURITY [...] (SBU) The Embassy's Colombia Strategic Development Initiative (CSDI) working group met August 24 with Colombian Army General Carlos Saavedra, who coordinates implementation of the GOC's security strategy in relation to the National Consolidation Plan (PNC). Many areas targeted for CSDI assista [...] | 2009-08-28 19:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA2763 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JULY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for July, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,758 tracks during July. There were two Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks ------- 2. ( [...] | 2009-08-28 20:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2765 | LATEST AWA MASSACRE INCITES SWIFT RESPONSE, BUT [...] (C) Unknown actors murdered 12 Awa indigenous--including six minors--in their home the morning of Wednesday, August 26. Four people reportedly survived the attack. One of the victims, Tulia Garcia Guanga, was allegedly the sole witness to the May 25 'false positive'--military homicide repo [...] | 2009-08-28 21:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA2772 | THE 2010 COLOMBIAN ELECTIONS PROCESS [...] Colombia has entered into the 2010 election cycle. National legislative elections to replace the entire Senate and House ("Camara") are scheduled for March 14 and presidential elections are scheduled for May 30. Departmental (state) and local elections will take place in 2011. All elections [...] | 2009-08-31 12:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OAS CO |
09BOGOTA2786 | AERIAL ERADICATION RESUMES IN THE MACARENA CONSOLIDATION [...] Summary: On July 2, officials from the Macarena Consolidation Program (PCIM) met with NAS and the Colombian Antinarcotics Police to request aerial eradication operations in the PCIM. The request comes over a year after the Colombian government declared the PCIM off-limits to spray to accommod [...] | 2009-09-01 11:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL SENV KCRM PGOV PTER CO |
09BOGOTA2805 | 20 MILLION COLOMBIANS LIVE IN POVERTY: GOOD NEWS [...] (U) SUMMARY. In late August the GOC released 2008 poverty figures showing 46 percent of Colombians live below the poverty line, compared with 53.7 percent in 2002. Extreme poverty declined from 19.7 percent to 17.8 percent over the same period. Urban poverty reduction far outpaced that of r [...] | 2009-09-01 22:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2833 | CONGRESS APPROVES REELECTION REFERENDUM, BUT [...] (SBU) The Colombian Congress has approved legislation for a referendum on a third term for President Alvaro Uribe in May 2010, with the September 2 affirmative vote in the House of Representatives. After presidential signature, the Constitutional Court -- thought to be supportive of Uribe -- [...] | 2009-09-03 16:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA2834 | COLOMBIA: BIOFUELS MEANS JOBS IN POST-CONFLICT [...] (U) Summary. Environment Minister Carlos Costa recently highlighted for us the rationale behind Colombia's biofuels policy: 1) create jobs in rural and post-conflict zones; 2) remain self-sufficient as an energy producer; and 3) protect the environment. The policy has been bolstered by Colo [...] | 2009-09-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PGOV ECON CO |
09BOGOTA2836 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ON [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met with the country directors of the UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) separately to discuss the status of Colombia's conflict and several related human rights themes. Christian Salazar of the UNHCHR noted a [...] | 2009-09-03 17:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MASS MCAP MOPS KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA2838 | COLOMBIA: BIOFUELS MEANS JOBS IN POST-CONFLICT [...] (U) Summary. Environment Minister Carlos Costa recently highlighted for us the rationale behind Colombia's biofuels policy: 1) create jobs in rural and post-conflict zones; 2) remain self-sufficient as an energy producer; and 3) protect the environment. The policy has been bolstered by Colo [...] | 2009-09-03 18:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PGOV ECON CO |
09BOGOTA2839 | AWA MASSACRE: MANY ALLEGATIONS, FEW CLEAR FACTS [...] (C) Prosecutor General Human Rights Unit Director Castro said the unit has no suspects and has made no arrests in conjunction with the August 26 massacre of 12 Awa near Tumaco (Narino). Another source close to the investigation discounted military or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FA [...] | 2009-09-03 20:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA2872 | THOUSANDS OF COLOMBIANS YELL "NO MORE CHAVEZ!" [...] A group calling itself "No More Chavez" launched protests across Colombia and around the world on September 4 against the Government of Venezuela. Protesters demanded that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stay out of Colombia, grouped him with the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colo [...] | 2009-09-04 21:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM VE CO |
09BOGOTA2873 | TWO MEMBERS OF THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN CAUCUS ARRESTED [...] (C) On August 30, three members of the House of Representatives were arrested for paramilitary ties. Two of them, Edgar Eulises Torres and Odin Sanchez, were prominent members of the Afro-Colombian Caucus. This brings the total number of legislators that have been arrested for parapolitical [...] | 2009-09-04 23:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA2904 | AUGUST COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Colombian military is moving forward with its security strategy in support of the National Consolidation Plan (PNC),the GOC's effort to increase state presence in Colombia. Civilian participation at a senior level meeting for the Coordination Center for Integrated Action (CCAI),the [...] | 2009-09-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA2907 | MOD SILVA CALLS AMBASSADOR FOR PRE-UNASUR MEETING [...] (S/NF) Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva called the Ambassador for a meeting on August 26 in advance of the August 28 Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) summit. Silva described Brazilian Defense Minister Jobim's August 25-26 trip to Bogota as useful. Silva said Jobim had made an [...] | 2009-09-09 16:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL MASS MCAP PGOV KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA2908 | VFM FORERO GIVES AMBASSADOR READOUT ON UNASUR MEETING; AGREES TO LOWKEY DCA SIGNING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 17:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | CO HO KJUS KTIA MARR PGOV PHUM PREL VZ XM |
09BOGOTA292 | URIBE SIGNALS THAT HE MAY NOT RUN IN 2010 [...] (C) Summary: President Uribe has signaled he may drop his effort to amend the constitution to allow for a 2010 reelection bid, but his intentions remain unclear. A respected Medellin daily reported January 29 that Uribe would not seek reelection in 2010, and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santo [...] | 2009-01-29 13:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
09BOGOTA2920 | AUGUST HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) The Acting Prosecutor General announced September 7 that members of the military are not suspects in the August 26 murder of 12 Awa indigenous in Narino. The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Chief of Mission told us privately he is concerned military public posturin [...] | 2009-09-10 14:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER PREL ELAB CO |
09BOGOTA2921 | DAS ONCE AGAIN EMBROILED IN DOMESTIC SPYING SCANDAL [...] (S/NF) The Administrative Department of Security (DAS) is once again under fire with illegal recordings of Colombian magistrates leaked to the press and airing on the radio. Press article contend that recent scandals and subsequent investigations have not stopped the GOC from monitoring domest [...] | 2009-09-10 15:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA2922 | AMBASSADOR'S TRIP HIGHLIGHTS INCREASINGLY STRONG USG [...] (U) On August 25, the Ambassador gave the opening address to the tenth annual Fulbright conference on hemispheric relations at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla. He also inaugurated a U.S. Department of Commerce-sponsored corporate good governance program and met with leaders of the Ca [...] | 2009-09-10 21:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM OEXC SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA2923 | CODEL PRICE: COLOMBIANS EMPHASIZE DEFENSE COOPERATION, FREE [...] (U) The House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) visited Colombia from August 20-23. Led by Chairman David Price, HDAC met with President Uribe and Colombian Congressional leadership, including the Senate and House Foreign Affairs committees. President Uribe highlighted the successes of Pl [...] | 2009-09-11 14:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EAID PGOV PREL SNAR PTER ETRD PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA2930 | ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS SOFT POWER OF [...] (U) Summary: SOUTHCOM sponsored its second annual Marine Environmental Protection Conference in Cartagena from August 31-September 4. The conference introduced the Colombian Navy to a wide range of marine environmental enforcement issues and generated productive discussion among the particip [...] | 2009-09-12 15:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD MASS MCAP PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA294 | COLOMBIA INCREASES FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite accounting for less than 0.3 percent of global emissions, the Colombian Ministry of Environment (MOE) has placed increasing priority on climate change issues due to growing concerns of the impact on Colombia,s glaciers, coastal plains, and biodiversity. The MOE has inc [...] | 2009-01-29 16:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2951 | COLOMBIA: ANALYSTS AND OFFICIALS REVISE UPWARDS [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Vice Minister Natalia Salazar told EconOffs on September 9 that the GOC expects 2009 GDP growth rate to be positive at around 0.5 percent, due primarily to an increase in public infrastructure projects. This complements Colombian analysts' reports which, as of Septembe [...] | 2009-09-15 17:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA2958 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP TARGETED [...] (C) Ambassador Brownfield visited the prominent Colombian human rights NGO, the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ) on September 4 to launch the Embassy's new human rights strategy. CCJ Director Gustavo Gallon attributed responsibility for illegal intelligence collection by the Administrati [...] | 2009-09-15 21:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS PREL CO |
09BOGOTA2962 | UK INSTITUTE TO PUBLISH CONTENTS OF FARC LAPTOPS [...] (C) Vice Minister of Defense Sergio Jaamillo told us on September 10 that the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London plans to publish the contents of the hard drives belonging to deceased Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Secretariat member Raul Reyes. The [...] | 2009-09-16 14:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV PTER ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA2963 | AMBASSADOR AND VP SANTOS DISCUSS RESPONSE TO DAS [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador met with Vice President Francisco Santos and Administrative Department of Security (DAS) Director Felipe Munoz on September 15 to discuss DAS wiretapping scandals (reftel). The Ambassador made clear that the USG was close to severing all relations with the DAS. He stressed [...] | 2009-09-16 15:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KJUS ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA2977 | COLOMBIA OK WITH MAJORS LIST DETERMINATION FOR [...] (C) Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Director for Multilateral Political Affairs Margarita Orozco and Director for U.S. and Canadian Affairs Adriana Maldonado on September 14. Deputy Polcouns stressed that the USG was committed to remaining engaged with Bolivi [...] | 2009-09-16 18:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR UN BL CO |
09BOGOTA298 | ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN PROMPTS CUTS TO COLOMBIAN [...] (C) Summary. Reacting to a projected economic slowdown in 2009, the Government of Colombia (GOC) plans to cut the national budget by $1.4 billion, including a proposed $190 million reduction to the defense budget. The proposal would reduce future expenditures on ammunition, rifles, communicat [...] | 2009-01-29 21:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MASS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA2998 | COLOMBIA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR SEAT ON PAHO [...] This is an action request, see para 2. 2. (U) The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) delivered a diplomatic note requesting USG support in obtaining one of three vacant seats on the Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at elections this month in Was [...] | 2009-09-17 15:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA3000 | GOC RESPONSE TO TVPRA LIST OF GOODS PRODUCED WITH [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche to GOC officials on September 9 concerning the release of the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor." Only the Ministry of Social Protection (MPS) responded to the demarche, providing the embassy with a detai [...] | 2009-09-17 19:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PREL PTER USTR CO |
09BOGOTA3004 | LIBERAL PARTY TO TEST ITS STRENGTH IN UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Liberal Party insiders hope for a robust turnout in their September 27 primary to select local leaders and a presidential candidate in what they see as a test of strength. Cesar Gaviria, former president and head of the party, is publicly hammering away at the reelection referendum whil [...] | 2009-09-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3011 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MOD SILVA REGARDING UNASUR [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador met with Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva during a Colombian Air Force ceremony in Tres Esquinas, Caqueta on September 16, 2009. Silva said that the Government of Colombia (GOC) was satisfied with the outcome of the September 15 UNASUR summit in Quito, Ecuador. S [...] | 2009-09-18 18:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PTER KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA3018 | URIBE SET TO DISMANTLE DAS [...] (U) President Uribe announced on September 17th that he favored dismantling the wiretapping scandal-ridden Administrative Department of Security (DAS). In a much-anticipated move (reftels),Uribe proposed a much smaller entity managed by the Colombian National Police (CNP) that would focus on [...] | 2009-09-18 21:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS PREL PHUM PINR ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA3027 | GETTING OUT IN FRONT ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Our review of the principal human rights issues in Colombia has prompted Embassy Bogota to adopt a new human rights strategy that will more clearly state the USG's support for human rights here and those who defend them. We will adopt a rigorous agenda of meetings at the Ambassadorial an [...] | 2009-09-21 19:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS ELAB PREL CO |
09BOGOTA3031 | UNDP LABOR VIOLENCE STUDY KICKS OFF [...] (C) The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Colombia launched its long-anticipated labor violence study with an Ambassador-level planning meeting (which Ambassador Brownfield attended) and working-level workshop on September 4, 2009. The study will analyze the causes and effects of la [...] | 2009-09-21 20:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PREL PTER USTR CO |
09BOGOTA3033 | COLOMBIA'S INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AND BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The World Bank and World Economic Forum (WEF) published their "Doing Business" and "Global Competitiveness Index" reports on September 8. Colombia's ranking improved in both publications. The World Bank listed Colombia as the best country in Latin America for doing business, [...] | 2009-09-21 21:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA3035 | Uribe Informs Ambassador of DAS Investigation Developments [...] (S/NF) President Alvaro Uribe emphasized to the Ambassador and DCM on September 21 that he is determined to get to the bottom of the scandals surrounding the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) (see reftels). New evidence indicates that the orders for improper wiretaps, including of an [...] | 2009-09-22 13:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KJUS PREL PHUM PINR ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA3043 | (C/NF) COLOMBIAN SENATOR CLAIMS DEATH THREATS BY URIBE [...] (C/NF) Opposition Senator Rodrigo Lara told us he received death threats that he believes emanate from influential supporters of President Alvaro Uribe. Lara - son of a crusading Justice Minister slain by Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel - claims his own anti-corruption efforts unearthed corrup [...] | 2009-09-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KJUS SNAR |
09BOGOTA3045 | SCENESETTER FOR ONDCP DIRECTOR KERLIKOWSKE [...] (SBU) Embassy Bogota warmly welcomes the visit of R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Your visit comes as Colombia faces new challenges from narcotrafficking groups as well as some political uncertainty. The Colombian Congress has just approved a referend [...] | 2009-09-23 23:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3047 | URIBE'S PARTY WINS BIG IN POLITICAL MUSICAL CHAIRS [...] President Uribe's "U" party consolidated its Congressional base as part of a political reform that gave members until September 14 to change parties. While the changes left the balance of power between Uribe's coalition and the opposition in the Congress unchanged, the "U" and Conservative Par [...] | 2009-09-23 23:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA3049 | MURDERS OF UNIONISTS DROP AS PROSECUTIONS INCREASE [...] (SBU) The number of trade unionist killings to date in 2009 is 24, 47% less than the same period in 2008. The Prosecutor General's Labor Crimes Sub-Unit has racked up 44 convictions in 2009 against perpetrators of violence against unionists. The majority of Colombian unionists work in the pub [...] | 2009-09-24 16:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL PTER USTR CO |
09BOGOTA305 | GOC PRIVATIZATION OF PROTECTION PROGRAM [...] (U) Interior and Justice Minister (MOIJ) Fabio Valencia announced January 26 that the GOC-funded and administered protection program for at-risk individuals, including unionists and human rights defenders, will be contracted out to a private security firm starting January, 2010. The body guar [...] | 2009-01-30 20:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA3051 | Supreme Court Refuses To Appoint Uribe Nominee for [...] (C) Tensions between President Alvaro Uribe and the Supreme Court flared September 16 when the Court refused to accept Uribe's slate of three nominees for Prosecutor General. Questioning the suitability, honesty, and independence of the proposed candidates, the Court voted to declare that the [...] | 2009-09-24 20:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3057 | Supreme Court Refuses To Appoint Uribe Nominee for [...] (C) Tensions between President Alvaro Uribe and the Supreme Court flared September 16 when the Court refused to accept Uribe's slate of three nominees for Prosecutor General. Questioning the suitability, honesty, and independence of the proposed candidates, the Court voted to declare that the [...] | 2009-09-25 06:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3062 | Air Bridge Denial: August 2009 Program Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for August, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,880 tracks during August. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks --- [...] | 2009-09-22 20:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3070 | Air Bridge Denial: August 2009 Program Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for August, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,880 tracks during August. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks --- [...] | 2009-09-22 21:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3072 | Air Bridge Denial: August 2009 Program Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for August, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,880 tracks during August. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks --- [...] | 2009-09-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3073 | THE AWA ARE PLEASED WITH RESPONSE TO MASSACRE, WELCOME USG [...] (C) On September 15 the DCM and several USG officials met with the president of the Awa Indigenous People's Unity Association (UNIPA),Gabriel Bisbicus, and several representatives of the Awa community. Bisbicus said the Prosecutor General's investigation into the killing of 12 Awa by unknown [...] | 2009-09-25 22:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV PTER KJUS MOPS CO |
09BOGOTA3075 | QUARTERLY HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION FOCUSES ON "OFFENSIVE [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires Brian Nichols hosted the Embassy's quarterly consultations with human rights groups on September 14. As agreed previously with the groups, the discussion focused on issues dealing with general criteria for the Human Rights Certification process. The groups focused on the i [...] | 2009-09-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS ELAB PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3093 | COLOMBIA-ECUADOR TIES THAWING [...] (C/NF) Colombia and Ecuador announced on September 24 that they had begun the process of re-establishing diplomatic relations, which Ecuador severed in March 2008 after a Colombian military raid against a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) camp in Ecuadorian territory. The two sides [...] | 2009-09-29 15:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER ETRD OAS CO EC |
09BOGOTA3097 | OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES HIGHLIGHT WEAKNESS IN THE [...] (U) Former Defense Minister Rafael Pardo of the Liberal Party and Senator Gustavo Petro of the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) won their parties' presidential primaries on September 27. These two opposition parties viewed the elections as a test of strength but voter turnout was much lower t [...] | 2009-09-29 18:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3123 | CONSOLIDATION EFFORTS IN NARINO PROMPTS FARC THREAT [...] (C/NF) The Colombian National Police (CNP) obtained on August 22 a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 29th Front pamphlet declaring all social projects under the GOC's National Consolidation Plan (PNC) military targets. The CNP has reviewed the communique and believes it to be authe [...] | 2009-10-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SNAR EAID CO |
09BOGOTA3129 | SEPTEMBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) The United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders called on the GOC to increase dialogue with civil society and to allocate resources for criminal investigations into threats against defenders at the conclusion of her visit September 7-18. The United Nations Children's Fund p [...] | 2009-10-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS ELAB PREL CO |
09BOGOTA3145 | CRITICS CHARGE URIBE THIRD TERM BAD FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe's approval ratings remain steady at around 70% and he is expected to secure approval from the Constitutional Court for a referendum on reelection. Critics from across the ideological spectrum argue that a third term for President Uribe would further erode the quality [...] | 2009-10-08 16:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM CO |
09BOGOTA3147 | COLOMBIA'S PUBLIC BIDDING PROCESS COMES UNDER SCRUTINY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The September resignation of the National Concessions Institute Director, amid allegations of corruption, underscores the fragility and inconsistency associated with the bidding process on public projects in Colombia. Dealings with the Ministries of Transportation and Communica [...] | 2009-10-08 20:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ECPS MARR PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3177 | COLOMBIA PROPOSES ITS OWN CIA [...] (U) On October 8, the government submitted a bill to Colombian Congress that would authorize the President to dismantle the scandal-ridden Administrative Department of Security (DAS) and in its place create a "truly civilian intelligence agency" nominally called the "Central Intelligence Agency [...] | 2009-10-12 18:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR KCRM CO |
09BOGOTA3185 | UPDATE ON ILLEGAL WIRETAP SCANDALS [...] (S/NF) Colombian Government officials continue to engage in damage control in the wake of wiretap scandals embroiling the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) and the Prosecutor General's Office. The Prosecutor General's Office is investigating alleged crimes by former DAS officials as [...] | 2009-10-13 23:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3187 | GOC EFFORTS TO PROTECT EDUCATION-SECTOR UNIONISTS [...] (SBU) About 40% of murdered unionists in Colombia are public-sector educators. Ministry of Education (MOE) officials and labor leaders told us that armed groups and criminal gangs target educators because of their involvement in community affairs and politics. The Colombian Federation of Educ [...] | 2009-10-14 20:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR CO |
09BOGOTA319 | FARC RELEASES ADDITIONAL HOSTAGES IN ATTEMPT TO [...] (C) The FARC released four "political hostages," including three police and one soldier, on February 1 to Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba and the ICRC. Brazil provided logistical support, including two helicopters. The FARC's last two civilian "political" hostages--former Meta Governor Alan [...] | 2009-02-02 22:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA3223 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MOD SILVA ON AFGHANISTAN DEPLOYMENT [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador met with Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva and Vice Minister Sergio Jaramillo on October 1, 2009. Silva told the Ambassador that the Government of Colombia (GOC) wants to complete the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and review of Track II issues [...] | 2009-10-16 20:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PTER PHUM AF CO |
09BOGOTA3231 | UNHCHR PROPOSES PURGING INTELLIGENCE FILES, MONITORING [...] (C) United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Chief of Mission Christian Salazar requested on October 8 that the Ambassador support two UNHCHR proposals: a multi-year purging of intelligence files and a two-year monitoring of the military's implementation of its human rights pol [...] | 2009-10-19 19:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3241 | GOC MAKES INITIAL ARRESTS IN AWA MASSACRE [...] (C) The Colombian National Police (CNP) arrested five members of the criminal band "Cockroaches" ("Las cucarachas") for their alleged involvement in the August 26 murders of 12 Awa indigenous. United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Chief of Mission Christian Salazar said prose [...] | 2009-10-20 22:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3254 | EXTRADITION APPROVED FOR PYRAMID SCHEME MASTERMIND [...] (SBU) On October 14, the Colombian Supreme Court approved the extradition of David Murcia Guzman, head of the Colombian financial services firm DMG and the prime suspect in one of the largest pyramid schemes in Colombia. The ruling comes a month after the Court denied the U.S. extradition requ [...] | 2009-10-15 23:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR KJUS KCRM EFIN CO |
09BOGOTA3256 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: SEPTEMBER 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for September 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 1,703 tracks during September. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks [...] | 2009-10-15 23:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3261 | COLOMBIAN FRUSTRATION MOUNTS OVER INACTION ON U.S.-CTPA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While Colombians generally understand U.S. political realities associated with a vote on the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (U.S.-CTPA),resignation has grown within the Colombian government, business and academic communities over the lack of action on the accord. T [...] | 2009-10-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL ELAB EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3262 | SEPTEMBER COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (U) Diego Molano was named the new head of the President's Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation (Accion Social). The GOC has officially changed the name of "Fusion Centers" to "Regional Coordination Centers." Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Stockton visited the Plan for [...] | 2009-10-16 13:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA3267 | COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT SHOWS DECLINE IN NEW DISPLACEMENTS, [...] (U) The Colombian Government's (GOC) national registry of internally displaced persons (IDPs) shows a 10% decline in displacements in 2008. Social Action (Accion Social),the GOC's development agency charged with IDP assistance coordination, has registered only 86,397 new displacements through [...] | 2009-10-27 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PGOV PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3269 | JUAN MANUEL SANTOS DISCUSSES PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS WITH [...] (C) Former Minister of Defense and pre-candidate for President Juan Manuel Santos told Ambassador October 23 he believes President Alvaro Uribe is leaning toward reelection but may fail to fulfill the legal and electoral steps to achieve it. While promoting the third term for Uribe, Santos is [...] | 2009-10-27 23:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM CO EC VE |
09BOGOTA3271 | CNP HYPOTHESIS AS TO ILLEGAL WIRETAPS MASTERMINDS [...] (S/NF) XXXXXXXXXXXX told PolCouns and XXXXXXXXXXXX Colombia DeskOfficer on October 21 that the analysis of cell phone calls made by the six signers of mala fide judicial telephone intercept orders (see reftels) submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office pointed to an individual named XXXXXXX [...] | 2009-10-27 23:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3277 | Judicial Institutions' Family Feuds [...] (SBU) Colombia's dizzying array of judicial institutions has always made understanding and navigating its judicial system complicated and time-consuming. Moreover, recent turf battles have frozen the implementation of some policies and threaten to plunge the judicial system into crisis. Inspe [...] | 2009-10-28 21:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS SOCI KWMN PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3281 | GOC TAKES SOUNDINGS ON ELN PEACE TALKS [...] (S) The Government of Colombia (GOC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) continue to flirt with an official peace process but are far from taking concrete steps to initiate talks. Former National Liberation Army (ELN) peace negotiator Francisco Galan initiated an "exploration" of renewed peace [...] | 2009-10-29 18:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3283 | Supreme Court Still Pressing Uribe for New Prosecutor [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Supreme Court remains at an impasse with President Uribe regarding the selection of a new Prosecutor General (Fiscal General),maintaining its position that Uribe's slate of candidates ("terna") for the position are unqualified. Despite Uribe's recent nomination of administra [...] | 2009-10-29 23:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3287 | GOC REACTS CALMLY TO MASSACRE IN VENEZUELA, BUT WORRIES [...] (C/NF) The GOC has little information on the apparent massacre of nine Colombians (along with one Peruvian and one Venezuelan) whose bodies were discovered on October 24 in the Venezuelan state of Tachira. GOC officials say the GBRV has shared little and has paid no heed to Colombian offers of [...] | 2009-10-30 19:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER CO VE |
09BOGOTA3289 | AMBASSADOR SIGNED DCA ON OCTOBER 30 IN LOW-KEY CEREMONY [...] (SBU) The Ambassador signed the U.S. - Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in a low-key, private ceremony on October 30 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as instructed per reftel. Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaime Bermudez Merizalde, Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva Lujan, and Mini [...] | 2009-10-30 20:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA3296 | REP. MEEKS RECEIVES RECOGNITION FOR WORK ON AFRO-COLOMBIAN [...] (U) Representative Gregory Meeks visited Cali October 11-12 to receive an award from the University Santiago of Cali (USC) for his work promoting the rights of the Afro-Colombian community. He also met with: Afro-Colombian Fulbright students; the Board of Directors of USC; members of the Afro- [...] | 2009-10-16 17:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL PHUM ECON CO |
09BOGOTA330 | BOGOTA RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY [...] On January 30, Post delivered all points in reftel to Patricia Cortes, Director of the MFA's Office of U.S. and Canadian Affairs. Cortes told us that the Colombian Government's point of contact for NPT related issues will be Nhora Quintero, Coordinator for Disarmament in the MFA. The Embassy [...] | 2009-02-03 20:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA KNNP CO |
09BOGOTA3301 | FLOWER UNION WITHERS AFTER LABOR DISPUTE [...] (C) A labor dispute at a bankrupt flower farm is a case of lose-lose negotiating in Colombia. When workers occupied the Benilda, S.A. plantation in September to protest unpaid benefits, the company went into bankruptcy. The owner claimed he was hamstrung by high labor costs and currency appre [...] | 2009-11-03 16:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO |
09BOGOTA3302 | U.S. COMPANY DISTRAUGHT OVER PUBLICITY LINKING IT TO LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of Drummond in Colombia contends there is a concerted effort to link the U.S. firm with the murder of two labor leaders in 2001. Despite being declared innocent of any involvement in a U.S. court, the company is frustrated over the negative press it has received [...] | 2009-10-16 19:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON PREL ETRD EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3305 | Court Orders Further Investigation Into Santo Domingo [...] (C) The Twelfth Circuit Trial Judge of Bogota convicted two pilots of murder on September 24 for their involvement in the 1998 bombing of the village of Santo Domingo, Arauca that left 17 dead. The presiding judge ordered an investigation into then Major Sergio Garzon Velez, now a Colonel and t [...] | 2009-11-03 19:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS MOPS MASS CO |
09BOGOTA3313 | A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS HEATS UP COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA [...] (C/NF) The GOC is remaining cool in the face of rising bilateral tensions with Venezuela, with President Uribe and Foreign Minister Bermudez publicly calling for calm on November 4. However, observers worry Venezuelan actions reveal an aggressive intent. The GBRV blames alleged Colombian param [...] | 2009-11-05 18:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER ETRD VE CO |
09BOGOTA3333 | Ambassador Discusses DAS Scandal and Judicial Cooperation [...] (C) SUMMARY: Supreme Court President Augusto Ibanez thanked the Ambassador for USG support in ensuring a successful U.S. visit for Colombian judges and emphasized the Court's desire for ongoing collaboration. The Ambassador impressed upon Ibanez the need for continued exchange programs between [...] | 2009-11-09 13:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3335 | URIBE HEARS WAR DRUMS IN VENEZUELA [...] (S) Just after meeting with President Uribe and the military high command, Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva called the Ambassador on the evening of November 8. They believe that Venezuelan President Chavez' public declarations earlier that afternoon represented a major ratcheting up of war rhetori [...] | 2009-11-09 15:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS MOPS OAS CO VE |
09BOGOTA3343 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PROMINENT LABOR LEADER [...] (U) The Ambassador expressed USG support for the essential role unions play in healthy democratic societies in an October 29 meeting with the General Confederation of Workers (CGT). The CGT is one of the three main labor confederations in Colombia, with 270,000 members organized into approxima [...] | 2009-11-10 17:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO |
09BOGOTA3347 | COLOMBIA'S CLOUDY ELECTIONS PANORAMA [...] (SBU) As the May 30, 2010 presidential election draws nearer, campaigns have begun and the field of candidates is slowly being whittled down. However, the potential referendum to allow President Uribe to run for a third term combined with missing electoral rules of the game (especially regardi [...] | 2009-11-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM PINR OAS CO |
09BOGOTA335 | COLOMBIA RAISING ITS REGIONAL PROFILE, STARTING [...] (C) High-level meetings between Colombian and Mexican officials in recent months highlight the GOC's growing willingness to take on a leadership role in the region in combating terrorism, narcotics and other criminal activity. The two countries are working more closely than ever to fight narc [...] | 2009-02-03 21:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
09BOGOTA3362 | TELLING COLOMBIA'S STORY: FROM FAILING STATE TO STABLE ALLY [...] (SBU) The Ambassador challenged the Embassy's Country Team to critique and refine Post's strategic mission during the annual offsite meeting on October 5. The Country Team developed several objectives for the coming year, including: articulating and promoting the USG message on human rights i [...] | 2009-10-23 14:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PHUM PREF PTER MARR SNAR ETRD |
09BOGOTA3365 | OCTOBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) On October 26, the DCM addressed a labor event and conveyed the USG's strong support for the work of labor leaders and other activists. The Prosecutor General's Office obtained convictions and issued arrest warrants in cases involving military extrajudicial executions and paramilitary mass [...] | 2009-11-13 14:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PGOV PTER ELAB MOPS CO |
09BOGOTA3373 | URIBE REELECTION BID HITS ANOTHER SPEED BUMP [...] A sub-panel of Colombia's National Electoral Council (CNE) on November 12 announced it had invalidated the signatures on the nationwide petition that initiated the process of reforming the Constitution to allow President Uribe to run for a third term (ref A). The CNE's investigation began in [...] | 2009-11-13 20:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3375 | PROSECUTOR SINKS CASE AGAINST CORRUPT ADMIRAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) and the Inspector General's Office (Procuraduria) unexpectedly reversed course and called for all charges to be dropped in the case against retired Rear Admiral GarbrielArangoBacci for alleged links with narco-trafficking. In addition, b [...] | 2009-11-13 20:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3383 | ALABAMA GOVERNOR LEADS TRADE MISSION TO COLOMBIA [...] (C) Summary: Governor Bob Riley headed a 43-member Alabama delegation to Colombia and discussed trade opportunities and cooperation with President Uribe, five Governors, and representatives of Colombia's private sector and port authorities. In a private meeting, Uribe sought the Governor's vi [...] | 2009-11-13 22:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON OTRA EINV ELAB PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3389 | 2009 STALEMATE CONTINUES: COLOMBIA CONFLICT UPDATE FOR [...] (C) The Colombian military's momentum remained slower in the third quarter of 2009, with demobilizations, captures and kills of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members below 2008 levels. The Colombian military believes the FARC may be planning to concentrate on Cundinamarca depar [...] | 2009-11-16 18:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER MOPS MCAP ASEC PREL PGOV PREF CO |
09BOGOTA3393 | MOD OVERULES ARMY COMMANDER'S TRANSFER OF KEY HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Minister of Defense (MOD) Gabriel Silva Lujan countermanded a transfer order from the army commander that would have sent the reform-minded army inspector general to the defense attache post in Chile -- and to an early retirement. Instead, Army Inspector General (IG) Major General Carlos S [...] | 2009-11-17 16:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA3405 | COLOMBIA IN THE POLITICAL DOLDRUMS [...] (C) Colombian politics have entered a holding pattern while President Uribe awaits the next step of his quest for a third term. Scandals over agricultural subsidies and illegal surveillance have slightly tarnished Uribe's popularity but public concern over Venezuela's saber-ratting may bump him [...] | 2009-11-17 18:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3408 | Lack of Clarity and Increasing Polarization as Elections [...] (SBU) USAID carried out an elections assessment in September in anticipation of the upcoming 2010 presidential and congressional elections in Colombia. The main conclusions were: there is a lack of clarity surrounding the elections that has contributed to a sense of paralysis among key actors [...] | 2009-10-28 16:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL PREF PHUM OAS CO |
09BOGOTA3415 | COLOMBIA: ENERGY SECTOR TO EXPAND WITH EXIM FINANCING [...] (C) The energy sector in Colombia has big plans to expand and the Export-Import Bank (ExIm) and the U.S. Trade Development Agency (TDA) want to be part of this expansion by providing financial backing and trade capacity building assistance. ExIm plans to be the lead export credit agency for t [...] | 2009-11-18 18:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG ECON EINT ETRD CO |
09BOGOTA3421 | COLOMBIANS SEE UBIQUITOUS VENEZUELAN THREAT [...] (C/NF) Colombian officials and observers are increasingly concerned about the long-term threat Venezuela poses to their country. Experts inside and outside the government worry that any small incident along the tense border could spark a costly confrontation, given the decrease in communication and [...] | 2009-11-20 16:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS ETRD OAS CO VE |
09BOGOTA3422 | LAW OF EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY UNLIKELY THIS TERM [...] (SBU) The bill of Equality and Opportunity for Afro-Colombians will most likely not pass this legislative term. Members from the Afro-Colombian Caucus told us that due to the pre-electoral campaign season passing any piece of legislation was difficult. Moreover, the Vice President's Office tol [...] | 2009-10-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA3435 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD'S DEC 2-6 VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Your upcoming visit to Bogota and Cartagena is an opportunity to reassure the Colombians of our commitment to their fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups. Colombians have begun to perceive our decision not to be baited by Venezuela's bellicose rhetoric and trade freeze as [...] | 2009-11-24 15:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER ECON ETRD EAID SNAR MOPS CO |
09BOGOTA3437 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL FRASER'S NOV 30 - DEC 1 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Your return to Colombia is an opportunity to reassure the Colombians of our commitment to their fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups. Colombians have begun to perceive our decision not to be baited by Venezuela's bellicose rhetoric, violence against Colombians along the b [...] | 2009-11-25 18:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM PTER ECON ETRD EAID SNAR MOPS CO |
09BOGOTA3441 | XXXXXXXXXXXX TO AMBASSADOR: GOC ANGRY AT USG SILENCE ON VENEZUELA; PROBLEMS WITHIN MOD; NO NEW PROSECUTOR GENERAL [...] (S/NF) XXXXXXXXXXXX told the Ambassador on November 24 that President Uribe was angry with the USG for its lack of response to Venezuela's aggressions towards Colombia. XXXXXXXXXXXX also said the GOC was interpreting the cancelation of Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg's December 1-3 v [...] | 2009-11-25 20:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC MOPS PHUM KJUS PINR VE CO |
09BOGOTA3445 | COLOMBIA'S PLANNED TROOP DEPLOYMENTS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador discussed the Government of Colombia's (GOC) plans to deploy troops to Afghanistan with Defense Minister Gabriel Silva Lujan on November 12 per ref A. MOD Silva suggested that the GOC is waiting to publicly announce its decision to send troops to Afghanistan until the USG [...] | 2009-11-25 20:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO MOPS MARR MCAP PGOV CO AF |
09BOGOTA3455 | POLICE MAKE ARRESTS IN WIRETAP SCANDAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-27 22:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM CO |
09BOGOTA3457 | Colombian Ministers Skip UNASUR Meeting on DCA [...] (C) Vice Foreign Minister Clemencia Forero confirmed press reports on November 27 that Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez and Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva would not attend the UNASUR ministerial in Quito. The UNASUR ministerial had the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) as its [...] | 2009-11-27 23:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3483 | COLOMBIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY SOURS ON ISRAELI DEFENSE FIRM [...] (S/NF) General Oscar Naranjo, Director of the Colombian National Police (CNP),told the Ambassador on November 24 that Defense Minister Gabriel Silva was souring on the Defense Ministry's relationship with Israel. Naranjo said that the CNP's relationship with retired Israeli Major General Yisr [...] | 2009-12-01 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER IS PE PM CO |
09BOGOTA3485 | URIBE SILENT AS "DEADLINE" TO DECLARE CANDIDACY FOR [...] (U) With less than six months until the May 30 presidential election, the political panorama is as murky as ever (reftels). There is still no answer to the million dollar question: "will President Uribe run for a second reelection?" Observers and the entire spectrum of presidential candidates [...] | 2009-12-01 21:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3489 | COLOMBIA TO BE SUPPORTIVE IN COPENHAGEN; PROPOSES FORESTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Environment Minister Carlos Costa told the Deputy Chief of Mission that Colombia would support U.S. efforts at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Minister welcomed the close coordination and openness of U.S. negotiators and indicated the USG could count on Col [...] | 2009-12-01 23:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL UN CO |
09BOGOTA3491 | NOVEMBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) General Jaime Humberto Uscategui was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 1997 Mapiripan, Meta massacre -- Uscategui is the first general to be convicted for involvement in a paramilitary massacre. A non-commissioned officer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 2005 extrajudicial e [...] | 2009-12-01 23:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3499 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NGO RECEIVING THREATS [...] (C) On November 27, the Ambassador met with Leon Valencia, Director of the Colombian think tank New Rainbow Corporation (CNAI). The Ambassador expressed concern over the threats CNAI had received in October. The discussion centered on CNAI's annual report that posits the GOC's democratic secu [...] | 2009-12-03 21:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3503 | THE MEDELLIN MIRACLE LOSES ITS LUSTER [...] (C) Medellin's homicide rate continues to climb, reversing positive trends experienced between 2002 and 2008. Residents attribute the rise in murders to local criminal groups competing for turf in Medellin's underworld. As the GOC successfully eliminates cocaine kingpins nationally, drug traf [...] | 2009-12-04 20:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SOCI |
09BOGOTA3509 | UNHCHR TO AMBASSADOR: NGOS AND URIBE ARE OCEANS APART [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang shared her concerns with the Ambassador on December 2 about the growing distance between the Colombian Government and NGOs on their perception of the human rights situation. She attributed the discord in part to the ongo [...] | 2009-12-07 19:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3511 | Copenhagen Climate Summit: Colombian Delegation, Priorities, [...] (U) Summary. At the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, Environment Minister Carlos Costa will lead the Colombian delegation, which includes the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Director of IDEAM (a NOAA-like institution),and other advisors. Per reftels, Colombia will continue to be [...] | 2009-12-07 20:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON ENRG PGOV PREL UN CO |
09BOGOTA3515 | MORE RHETORIC, FEWER THREATS, IN COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA TENSIONS [...] (C/NF) Colombian-Venezuelan tensions appear to have improved slightly from the bellicose rhetoric of late November, but significant irritants remain and the situation is by no means stable. Military leaders in a key frontier area remain focused on Colombia's internal security situation, not on [...] | 2009-12-07 21:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS ETRD CO VE |
09BOGOTA3519 | DAS DIRECTOR: ILLEGALITY OF SURVEILLANCE UNCLEAR [...] (C) In a meeting with Polcouns November 13, Administrative Department of Security (DAS) Director Felipe Munoz said that allegations against his agency of illegal surveillance were exaggerated in some cases. Nevertheless, he emphasized that DAS is cooperating with Colombian judicial authorities [...] | 2009-12-07 22:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3521 | COLOMBIAN COURTS TAKE TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK [...] (SBU) The Colombian courts handed down two positive decisions in human rights cases, and a disappointing one in a public corruption case. On December 2 the Supreme Court sentenced former Sucre Department Governor and Ambassador to Chile Salvador Arana to 40 years in prison for his role in orde [...] | 2009-12-07 23:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3525 | Ambassador Discusses Drug Policy, DCA with Polo Democratico [...] (C) Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) presidential candidate Gustavo Petro told the Ambassador December 4 that U.S. drug policy was mistaken by attacking illegal drug production but not the political power behind it. Petro argued that land reform was key to rolling back the regional power that [...] | 2009-12-09 22:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR KJUS MARR CO |
09BOGOTA3526 | Researchers Assess Post-FARC Consolidation, Intelligentsia [...] (U) On October 28, think tank New Rainbow Corporation and the Dutch Embassy held a public forum on the Integral Plan for the Consolidation of La Macarena (PCIM). La Macarena lacked a state presence for years and was the home base region of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). R [...] | 2009-11-05 17:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA3527 | COLOMBIA DEBRIEF ON UNASUR MEETING GENERALLY POSITIVE, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Foreign Minister Forero told the Deputy Chief of Mission on November 30 that the Colombian government was pleased with the outcome of the UNASUR ministerial in Quito, noting in particular that Brazil was more conciliatory than in prior meetings. A key result was a consensus r [...] | 2009-12-10 15:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3535 | UPDATE ON COLOMBIANS EXPELLED FROM VENEZUELA [...] (C) The Colombian Government (GOC) continues to assist the nearly 600 Colombian (and 41 Brazilian) gold miners expelled from Venezuela on November 28. Another 200 Colombians fearing retaliation have also returned from the area on their own. The GOC sent a high-level delegation to the border t [...] | 2009-12-11 23:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL CO VE |
09BOGOTA3536 | DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S VISIT TO BARRANQUILLA AND [...] (U) The Deputy Chief of Mission, accompanied by USAID Mission Director and other embassy officers, travelled to Barranquilla and Cartagena on October 22-23, where he met with local political, business, and community leaders; visited commercial enterprises; and visited with beneficiaries of USAI [...] | 2009-11-05 21:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR CO |
09BOGOTA3537 | JUDICIAL SECTOR WORKERS BARRED FROM STRIKING [...] (SBU) On November 11 the Colombian Supreme Court ruled that a 2008 strike by 38,000 members of the National Association of Judicial Branch Employees (ASONAL JUDICIAL) over remuneration and judicial independence was illegal. The ruling has renewed debate over restrictions on the right of public [...] | 2009-12-14 17:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO |
09BOGOTA3557 | KOGUI SITUATION PROMPTS DEBATE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VS. [...] (C) Indigenous Kogui Christian Antanacio Moscote told us 28 Christians were detained by the Gonawindua Tayrona Organization (OGT),the governing body of the Sierra Nevada indigenous reserve, for failing to observe traditional religious rites. Moscote said traditional Koguis were willing to coe [...] | 2009-12-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CO |
09BOGOTA3559 | Charge Discusses Colombia-Panama Border Cooperation with [...] (S/NF) Charge d'Affaires met with General Oscar Naranjo, Director of the Colombian National Police (CNP),on December 15 to discuss Colombia - Panama law enforcement cooperation. Naranjo repeatedly stressed that cooperation with Panama would be completely coordinated with the USG, and that the [...] | 2009-12-16 20:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PINR ASEC PM CO |
09BOGOTA3576 | COLOMBIA'S 2010 BUDGET: SOCIAL PROTECTION AND SECURITY STLL [...] (U) Summary. The GOC budget for 2010 (US$ 78 billion) reflects a seven percent increase from 2009, with increases in defense and security, education, transportation, agriculture, social programs, and the Congress. For the first time, the defense and security budget surpassed education, in pa [...] | 2009-11-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON CO PGOV EFIN |
09BOGOTA3577 | COLOMBIA'S LEFT STRUGGLES FOR POLITICAL SPACE [...] (SBU) During eight years of an extremely popular center-right Uribe Administration, Colombia's political left has struggled to define itself, its opposition role, and ways to influence national institutions of power. The left has been fractured, changing, and not united by shared objectives or [...] | 2009-12-18 14:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON SNAR PHUM CO VE |
09BOGOTA3581 | QUARTERLY HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION FOCUSES ON JUDICIAL [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires Brian Nichols hosted the Embassy's quarterly consultations with human rights groups on December 15. The discussion focused on judicial independence, the failure to implement the new intelligence law, and specific cases of displacement and "social cleansing." The Director [...] | 2009-12-18 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS ELAB CO |
09BOGOTA3582 | OCTOBER COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (U) At a senior level coordinating meeting, Diego Molano, civilian lead of the National Consolidation Plan (PNC),set goals for consolidation and attempted to reinvigorate the interagency coordinating mechanism. The military is still playing a large role in Montes de Maria. USAID held 11 town [...] | 2009-11-10 21:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA3586 | Colombia Shares Lessons from Demobilizing over 51,000 [...] President Uribe and Frank Pearl, High Presidential Commissioner for Reintegration and High Commissioner for Peace, launched a document based on Colombia's experience in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) on November 3. The GOC initiative seeks to share with other nations in c [...] | 2009-11-12 14:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO BR HA RP |
09BOGOTA3592 | A NEW HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA FOR COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Bogota is engaged in a strategy to raise the USG profile on human rights in Colombia (ref). It is just as important to define the substantive areas where we hope to see progress in the coming year. In Post's opinion, key elements of our agenda with the GOC should be to: - [...] | 2009-11-12 18:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA3593 | VICE MINISTER OF DEFENSE JARAMILLO RESIGNS OVER THIRD TERM, [...] (C) Vice Minister of Defense Sergio Jaramillo resigned on December 17. He told the Charge d'Affaires on December 18 that despite his poor relationship with Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva Lujan, the real reason for his departure was his disagreement with President Alvaro Uribe's intention to [...] | 2009-12-21 23:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3595 | FARC AND ELN ANNOUNCE NON-AGGRESSION PACT [...] (C) The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) issued a joint communique in mid-December announcing non-aggression pact between the two organizations. Minister of Defense Gabriel Silva said that the pact shows the organizations are in a weakened st [...] | 2009-12-22 13:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA3599 | FARC KIDNAPS COLOMBIAN GOVERNOR FROM HIS RESIDENCE [...] (SBU) On the evening of December 21, approximately ten Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fighters dressed in Colombian military uniforms kidnapped the governor of Colombia's Caqueta department from his residence in Florencia. The kidnappers, believed to belong to the FARC'S Teofilo [...] | 2009-12-22 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MOPS MCAP PHUM PGOV ASEC CO |
09BOGOTA3621 | Unfinished Business: Reelection, Prosecutor General, Intel [...] (U) Although the Colombian Congress managed to pass the national budget and an extension of the "war tax" before adjourning in December 2009, the legislative and judicial branches left a number of important initiatives for the new year. These include: a Constitutional Court decision on whethe [...] | 2009-12-23 21:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA3635 | COLOMBIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL (JANUARY 7-10) [...] (SBU) Your upcoming visit to Cartagena and Monteria is an opportunity to discuss with the Colombians our shared fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups as well as the underlying social inequality that drives both phenomena. President Uribe's final decision on whether to push for r [...] | 2009-12-31 19:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL SNAR PTER ETRD PHUM MOPS OREP CO |
09BOGOTA3704 | FOR RELEASE: AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO PAIPA UNDERSCORES [...] (SBU) The Ambassador traveled to Paipa, Boyaca, on November 5 to speak at the Supreme Court-organized National Summit of General Jurisdiction, a conference which brought together judges from all over Colombia. The Ambassador stressed the importance of access to justice during Colombia's journe [...] | 2009-11-20 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR KJUS AID CO |
09BOGOTA378 | PRESIDENTS URIBE AND CHAVEZ MEET, ANNOUNCE JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' first visit to Colombia since the March 2007 diplomatic row over the GOC killing of FARC Secretariat member Raul Reyes (Ref A),President Uribe and he announced the creation of a USD 200 million joint fund and consultative commission to help busines [...] | 2009-02-05 14:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL VE CO |
09BOGOTA379 | PROTECTIONIST LABOR LAWS HINDER FORMAL ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Colombia's heavily taxed and regulated labor market--higher than many regionally--encourages informality and temporary contracts and cooperatives, said Vice President of the National Association of Industries (ANDI) Alberto Echavarria. He added that the 50% additional non-wage worker c [...] | 2009-02-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA3806 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: OCTOBER 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for October, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 1,711 tracks during October. There were five Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks -- [...] | 2009-11-30 20:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA3814 | POSITIVE HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT IN COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Vice President Santos extolled Colombia's entry as an "Engaged Government" in the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) program at a plenary meeting on November 18. Santos remarked that Colombia is a great example of the VPs process and offered to support othe [...] | 2009-12-01 23:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ENRG PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA383 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 9-13 VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) The signing of a new defense cooperation agreement (DCA) with the United States is a priority for President Uribe. The current negotiations come at a time when the GOC is eager to cement the historically solid U.S.-Colombian bilateral relationship under the new U.S. administration. The GOC and [...] | 2009-02-05 19:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MASS CO |
09BOGOTA3968 | NOVEMBER COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Embassy activated the Northern Band (Bajo Cauca in northern Antioquia) as the fourth Colombia Strategic Development Initiative (CSDI) priority zone. Montes de Maria will remain a part of CSDI but requires less coordinated action from USG agencies due to progress on the ground. Gener [...] | 2009-12-11 15:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA3998 | 2009 Colombian Demobilization Rates Down, Yet More [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Colombia's robust Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) policy continues to bear fruit late into 2009 primarily due to several years of sustained security operations. Yet, after high rates in 2007 and 2008, a natural leveling off is evident with demobilization slowi [...] | 2009-12-15 18:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PHUM PREL PTER MOPS PGOV PREF SNAR PM VE PE EC |
09BOGOTA400 | JANUARY HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (U) Prosecutors continued to order arrests of soldiers suspected of participating in extrajudicial executions. The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) charged 10 soldiers for the 2005 massacre of eight San Jose de Apartado Peace Community members. The Defense Ministry dismissed eleven m [...] | 2009-02-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA401 | DESERTIONS RISING, OPS SLOWING?: COLOMBIA CONFLICT [...] (C) The Colombian military did not score any high-profile tactical wins over the FARC in the fourth quarter of 2008, leading to a public perception that the GOC lost momentum following earlier successes. Some officers claimed commanders had become too cautious after the dismissal of 27 milita [...] | 2009-02-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA4048 | COLOMBIA'S POWERFUL TRAVEL AGENCIES SEEK STATE INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombia's powerful travel agency association has consistently lobbied for protectionist regulations to stave off the airlines' competitive advantage in online ticket sales. Two regulations are pending GOC approval that airlines oppose: one would require airlines to charge an [...] | 2009-12-18 21:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EINV ECON EINT PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA4088 | FOUR CONSECUTIVE QUARTERS OF NEGATIVE GROWTH; WILL THERE BE [...] Summary. Colombia's economic growth for the third quarter remained negative, at -0.2 percent. This is the fourth straight quarter of negative growth, but it reveals a northward trend that is expected to yield positive growth for the fourth quarter as well as for 2010. The GOC admits that th [...] | 2009-12-23 17:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINT PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA4120 | GAINS IN SECURITY PLUS $2.5 BILLION YIELD BIG INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. Due to consistent improvements in the security situation and US$2.5 billion in financial incentives, Colombia has been able to award the largest transportation project in its history - called "Ruta del Sol" or the Sun Route. This 1,000 kilometer highway project connects Colomb [...] | 2009-12-30 21:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA418 | COLOMBIA: INVITATION TO IDB 50TH ANNUAL MEETING IN [...] On February 6, Post received a diplomatic note from the Colombian Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs extending an invitation to Treasury Secretary Geithner to attend the 50th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the 24th Annual meeting [...] | 2009-02-09 20:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OVIP PGOV ECON OTRA EAID CO |
09BOGOTA427 | URIBE SLAMS FARC "INTELLECTUAL BLOCK" AFTER [...] (S) The FARC freed six "political" hostages the week of February 1 to the ICRC and members of the "Colombians for Peace" group led by Senator Piedad Cordoba. After the releases, Uribe slammed the FARC's "intellectual block"--a reference to Cordoba's group--for trying to "trick" Colombia and [...] | 2009-02-10 22:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA434 | SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST KIDNAPPING EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) The Colombian Supreme Court ruled on February 5 against the extradition of FARC member Alexander Farfan, ("Enrique Gafas") for the kidnapping of three Americans. This is the Court's seventh denial of U.S. extradition requests related to hostages or terrorism since August. In a confusi [...] | 2009-02-11 20:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SNAR KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA437 | REVISION: COLOMBIA-2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is a revised copy of the 2009 Colombia Investment Climate Statement (ref B). Please note minor changes in paragraphs 11 (Banking, Insurance and Telecommunications sections),41, 48, 51 and 71. Post will submit text via email to EEB/IFD/OIA and include in the 2009 Country Commercial Guid [...] | 2009-02-11 20:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON OPIC KTDB USTR EFIN KIPR PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA438 | FARC MASSACRES 17 INDIGENOUS IN NARINO - HIGH RISK [...] (SBU) The FARC killed at least 17 members of the Awa indigenous tribe, including three minors, on February 4 in the southwestern department of Narino. Details remain unconfirmed, but the local UNHCR Representative told us an eye-witness reported that the FARC tortured and stabbed the victims [...] | 2009-02-11 20:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA446 | COLOMBIA: INVITATION TO THE PRESIDENT FOR IDB [...] On February 10, Post received a copy of an invitation from President Alvaro Uribe to President Obama to attend the closing event of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Heads of State and Government Summit in Medellin on March 31, [...] | 2009-02-12 16:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP OTRA PGOV ECON EAID EFIN IDB CO |
09BOGOTA463 | PROTECTING COLOMBIA'S CRITICAL ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In follow up to the August 2008 Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary visit to Colombia and subsequent request by Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez, a team of DOE and U.S. Southern Command experts completed a preliminary scoping visit January 25-31, 20 [...] | 2009-02-13 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA477 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JANUARY 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for January, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 4,720 tracks during January of which two were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). There was one Phase III event that transitioned [...] | 2009-02-17 14:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA478 | NATIONAL POLICE SPEARHEAD RECORD YEAR OF DRUG SEIZURES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Colombian Public Forces set new records for seizures of cocaine (including base),marijuana, and drug labs in 2008. Colombian Public Forces seized 245 metric tons of cocaine and base, 258 metric tons (MTs) of marijuana, and 695 kilos of heroin this past year. They also de [...] | 2009-02-17 16:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA483 | STEADY PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN FIRST ROUND OF [...] (C) U.S. and Colombian delegations made steady progress in the first round of negotiations on a defense cooperation agreement (DCA). Citing regional tensions, the Colombian delegation attempted to include U.S. security guarantees in the text of the agreement, but later agreed to discuss these [...] | 2009-02-17 21:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MOPS MCAP MARR CO |
09BOGOTA485 | URIBE HARDENS LINE ON HUMANITARIAN ACCORD TALKS [...] (C) President Uribe ruled out talks with the FARC on a humanitarian exchange of FARC-held hostages for FARC members in Colombian jails, saying the FARC must unilaterally free its hostages. He also ordered the military to put "permanent pressure" on the FARC through "humanitarian encirclement [...] | 2009-02-17 22:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA488 | UPDATE ON FARC KILLINGS OF INDIGENOUS IN NARINO - [...] (U) The FARC confirmed in a communique on February 17 that a FARC unit executed eight Awa in Narino department after the victims supposedly "confessed" to collaborating with the Colombian military. Other reports say the FARC tortured and killed at least 17 Awa, with ten more missing. A human [...] | 2009-02-18 14:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA519 | WORRIED GOC ACTS TO SAVE "MEDELLIN MIRACLE" [...] (C) The GOC in late January launched a major push in Medellin to combat the rising rate of violent crime in the city and nearby areas. Medellin has enjoyed the most dramatic drop in homicide rates of any major city or region in Colombia under President Uribe's Democratic Security policy, mak [...] | 2009-02-18 20:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS KCRM CO SNAR |
09BOGOTA526 | SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 4-5 VISIT TO COLOMBIA OF [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of Admiral Mullen to Colombia, which comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. As you know from previous visits, in ten years, Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and terrorist haven to an economic, political, and social leader in [...] | 2009-02-19 18:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM MOPS MCAP ECON CO |
09BOGOTA542 | MILITARY'S HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES MEET RESISTANCE [...] (C) The Defense Ministry (MOD) continues to step up investigations into reports of murders committed by Army personnel, and has fired fifty-one officers and enlisted men implicated in the incidents--including 27 dismissed as a result of the Soacha murders. The MOD is also working to fix breakd [...] | 2009-02-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM MOPS MCAP KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA545 | IATTC: USG AND EC MAKE JOINT DEMARCHE OVER GOC [...] (U) Summary. On February 17, EconOff and the European Commission Political/Economic Counselor Gonzalo Fournier, discussed the GOC's position toward the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) with Carlos Robles, Director of Fishing at the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). The impetus fo [...] | 2009-02-20 16:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS PHSA SENV PGOV PREL CO |
09BOGOTA560 | FROM THE TOP DOWN: COLOMBIA'S ECONOMIC POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since 2002 Colombia has pursued a clear, if at times episodic, strategy to liberalize its economy, welcome foreign investment, and expand international trade. The strategy, technically implemented through a byzantine planning and interagency coordination process, is ostensibly the [...] | 2009-02-20 22:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PINR ENRG CO |
09BOGOTA569 | DAS CONTINUES DOMESTIC SPYING [...] (C) Colombia's leading news magazine reported that the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) illegally spied on a wide range of the GOC's domestic political opponents, including Supreme Court magistrates, opposition leaders and journalists. Some DAS officials reportedly monitored private [...] | 2009-02-23 21:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA570 | COLOMBIA'S NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Carolyn Cooley, phone number (57-1) 315-2129, fax number (57-1) 315-2163. Officer spent 50 hours preparing the report. 2. (SBU) Responses below are to questions in paragraphs 23-27 of reftel. ------- SUMMA [...] | 2009-02-24 13:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KWMN |
09BOGOTA571 | JOURNALIST RECEIVING DEATH THREATS - BLAMES GOC [...] (C) Independent journalist Hollman Morris told us he has received 50 death threats after President Uribe called him a "terrorist apologist" for his presence at the FARC's liberation of four hostages on February 1. He also complained that he was detained for seven hours by the Colombian mili [...] | 2009-02-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV PREL MOPS KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA59 | DECEMBER 2008: HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] The civilian Prosecutor General's Office announced investigations against four former generals for alleged previous ties to now-demobilized paramilitaries. On December 20, the FARC kidnapped ten men from Arrayanes (Meta). The Southern Bloc of the FARC admitted to the December 7 "mistake" ki [...] | 2009-01-09 21:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA597 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD DISCUSSES LABOR REFORM [...] (U) Ambassador Brownfield hosted a February 13 breakfast for union leaders of the General Work Confederation (CGT) and its member union, the Federation of Colombian Workers (FETRABOC) to discuss labor trends in Colombia. The Ambassador underscored the importance of working together on issue [...] | 2009-02-24 19:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI CO |
09BOGOTA612 | SEVERE FLOODING IN TUMACO AND OTHER COMMUNITIES IN NARIQO, [...] SUMMARY: As a result of heavy rains on February 15-16, 2009, the Mira River overflowed its banks causing severe flooding in the municipality of Tumaco, Nario. Over 6,000 families were affected (approximately 31,000 people) resulting in one confirmed death and 22 missing persons. The Chief of [...] | 2009-02-24 23:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV AEMR ASEC PHUM KFLO CO |
09BOGOTA613 | DEFENSE MINISTRY REACHES OUT TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (SBU) The Defense Ministry (MOD) invited members of the diplomatic corps to a February 20 briefing on the events surrounding the December 16 killing of Jose Legarda--husband of Cauca indigenous leader Aida Quilcue. Vice Minister Jaramillo said that the killing was accidental, but accepted tha [...] | 2009-02-25 13:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA614 | MONTES DE MARIA: RIPE FOR CONSOLIDATION [...] (SBU) GOC security efforts--coupled with the paramilitary demobilization process--have transformed the Montes de Maria region on Colombia's Caribbean Coast from the FARC's major stronghold in the north and an important paramilitary zone into an area ripe for consolidation and post-conflict ass [...] | 2009-02-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
09BOGOTA646 | BOGOTA MAYOR STRUGGLES AS POLO PARTY SEEKS TO SET [...] (C) Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno of the leftist Polo Party has been slammed by the media over a perceived "collapse" in the city--especially in mobility and security. Amidst rapidly falling poll ratings, Moreno has also faced tough criticism from members of his own party. Polo Senator Gustavo [...] | 2009-02-26 14:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN PGOV PREL PTER CO |
09BOGOTA647 | COLOMBIA: TRANSMITTAL OF LETTER FROM ACTING NMFS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 14:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV OTRA ECON PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA652 | STANFORD FINANCIAL SCANDAL FURTHER SHAKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Buffeted by the charges against and seizure of Stanford Financial Group's U.S. operations, the firm's nascent Colombian offices suspended operations voluntarily February 18. The exposure of Stanford's local independent brokerage clients appears limited with many already transfe [...] | 2009-02-26 19:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA688 | URIBE RESTRICTS DAS INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS IN [...] (C) President Uribe stripped authority from the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) to conduct wiretaps after press revelations that the DAS had illegally spied on domestic political figures. All DAS monitoring must now be done under the control of the Colombian National Police (CNP). [...] | 2009-03-02 15:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA697 | UNHCHR HIGHLIGHTS COLOMBIAN PROGRESS/CHALLENGES IN [...] (U) In its draft annual report on human rights, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) highlights GOC efforts to ensure human rights protections including: implementation of new policies to reduce extrajudicial executions, a focus on victims' rights concerns in public [...] | 2009-03-02 19:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS PGOV PTER CO |
09BOGOTA7 | COLOMBIAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A [...] SUMMARY. After four years of averaging over 5 percent growth capped by a record 7.5 percent expansion in 2007, Colombia's economy slowed significantly in 2008 under the combined pressure of currency appreciation and high interest rates in the first semester, and the cratering of commodity pri [...] | 2009-01-05 18:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA715 | PRESIDENT URIBE APPROVES THE "STRATEGIC LEAP" [...] (C) On February 19, President Uribe approved a comprehensive plan known as the "Strategic Leap," designed to achieve irreversibility in the GOC's fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and other criminal groups before his term ends in 2010. The plan calls for the deci [...] | 2009-03-02 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MOPS MCAP MASS MARR CO |
09BOGOTA721 | VISIT HIGHLIGHTS US ASSISTANCE TO SANTA MARTA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The DCM traveled on February 18 and 19 to the Port of Santa Marta (in the Caribbean coast department of Magdalena) to meet with local political, social, and business leaders and to visit the Santa Marta Port, La Remonta Antinarcotics Police Base, a USAID-funded clinic and school, [...] | 2009-03-03 18:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA728 | PRESIDENT FILLS CENTRAL BANK VACANCIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In surprise announcements February 27, President Uribe named two respected economists to fill openings on the Central Bank Board while the current Board cut its benchmark rate 1 percent amid slowing growth. The appointments defied expectations that President Uribe, a frequent cri [...] | 2009-03-03 22:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA732 | DISPUTE OVER MINING IN NATIONAL PARKS HEATS UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A long-running internal GOC dispute over mining within/around Colombia's national parks and forest reserves boiled over into public after the Ministry of Environment (MOE) alleged February 22 that industrial mining occurs in or near 15 parks, threatening critical biodiversity. [...] | 2009-03-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN SENV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA736 | FEBRUARY HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (U) The Foundation for the Freedom of the Press (FLIP) reported that for the first time in 23 years, no Colombian journalists were killed for their work in 2008. The FARC and the ELN mounted indiscriminate attacks against security forces resulting in civilian deaths. Two former AUC members [...] | 2009-03-04 17:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA743 | ARMY FINDS UNION LEADER IN FARC CAMP [...] Colombian troops captured labor leader Juan Efrain Mendoza in the same February 27 raid that netted Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) commander Bernardo Mosquera Machado ("Negro Antonio"). Mendoza initially tried to flee the soldiers, but later claimed the FARC had kidnapped him. [...] | 2009-03-04 19:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KJUS PGOV PTER SOCI PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA747 | CIVAIR COLOMBIA: DESIGNATION OF US CARRIER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-04 21:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN CO |
09BOGOTA749 | COLOMBIA DRUG SURVEY RESULTS OUT AND GOC USES THEM TO PUSH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Colombia released the National Household Drug Consumption Survey's executive summary on February 24 and used the results to re-launch efforts to penalize possession of a personal dosage of drugs, fueling the political battle between President Alvaro Uribe and P [...] | 2009-03-05 11:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA766 | ECOPETROL BUYS BACK CARTAGENA REFINERY; LOOKS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Marking the end of a troubled three-year partnership, on March 3 state-owned hydrocarbons company Ecopetrol repurchased Swiss-owned Glencore's 51 percent stake in the Cartagena refinery for USD 549 million. Glencore, which took a USD 109 million loss from the price it paid Ecop [...] | 2009-03-05 22:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA768 | "NO CHANCE" OF FARC PEACE TALKS AS PEACE [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo announced on February 28 that he will resign from office, effective in mid-March, to start a unified "Uribista" political movement. He said President Uribe does not expect peace talks to occur during the remainder of his term, and the President will n [...] | 2009-03-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
09BOGOTA776 | COLOMBIAN MILITARY OFFENSIVE GETS RESULTS [...] (SBU) The military scored several recent victories against the FARC, ending a lull of several months in which some questioned whether the GOC may have lost the initiative. On February 27, the Army's 5th Division captured "Negro Antonio," the deputy commander of the FARC's "Antonio Narino" urb [...] | 2009-03-06 20:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MOPS MCAP CO |
09BOGOTA792 | COMMISSION OF FORMER LATIN PRESIDENTS SUGGESTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 21:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA815 | COLOMBIA: COMMENTS ON PARKO SERVICES APPLICATION [...] (SBU) Upon review and consultation with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH),and local business community contacts, Post is aware of no derogatory information about the project company Parko Services listed in reftel. According to our contacts, the project [...] | 2009-03-11 21:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN EAID PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA852 | DON MARIO CONSOLIDATES POWER AS GOC INTENSIFIES [...] (C) GOC officials believe that leading narcotrafficker Daniel Rendon Herrera (aka "Don Mario") has consolidated control over most narcotrafficking in Antioquia and Choco, and has ALSO made major inroads in northeast Colombia. Rendon may also be starting to expand southward to gain access to tr [...] | 2009-03-16 13:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA856 | NEW EMBASSY BRANCH OFFICE OPENS IN CARTAGENA; RECEIVES [...] Summary: The Ambassador inaugurated a new Embassy Branch Office (EBO) in Cartagena on March 3 with an opening ceremony that included the participation of the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Clemencia Forero, the Governor of Bolivar, Joaco Hernando Berrio, and the Mayor of Cartagena, Judith [...] | 2009-03-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO PGOV CASC SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA896 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATES SEXUAL VIOLENCE [...] (U) The office of the Prosecutor General (Fiscalia) is investigating 183 cases of sexual abuses of women and girls allegedly committed by former paramilitaries, the FARC, and members of the military and police from 1993-2008. The United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCHR) highli [...] | 2009-03-17 20:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PTER MARR KJUS CO |
09BOGOTA9 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: NOVEMBER 2008 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for November, 2008, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 6160 tracks during November. Two were Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS). There was one Phase II event that transitioned to a ground Law [...] | 2009-01-05 19:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
09BOGOTA926 | SUPREME COURT DEFENDS ITS EXTRADITION STANCE; [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, then Supreme Court President Francisco Ricaurte told the DCM and JUDATT that he had not seen the March 6 U.S. diplomatic note on the Court's decision denying the extradition of FARC member Alexander Farfan Suarez ("Enrque Gafas") to the United States on kidnapping [...] | 2009-03-18 11:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA929 | SUPREME COURT DEFENDS ITS EXTRADITION STANCE; [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, then Supreme Court President Francisco Ricaurte told the DCM and JUDATT that he had not seen the March 6 U.S. diplomatic note on the Court's decision denying the extradition of FARC member Alexander Farfan Suarez ("Enrque Gafas") to the United States on kidnapping [...] | 2009-03-18 15:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA930 | SUPREME COURT DEFENDS ITS EXTRADITION STANCE; [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, then Supreme Court President Francisco Ricaurte told the DCM and JUDATT that he had not seen the March 6 U.S. diplomatic note on the Court's decision denying the extradition of FARC member Alexander Farfan Suarez ("Enrique Gafas") to the United States on kidnapping [...] | 2009-03-18 17:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PTER CO |
09BOGOTA95 | BOGOTA PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY SPEAKER ON NEXT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post requests that EEB fund a Spanish-speaking U.S. expert on development of second generation biofuels, focusing on trends in the biotechnology sector and how biofuels producers can prepare for the shift from current production technology to the next generation. While Colombia [...] | 2009-01-13 15:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR ECON PGOV TBIO KPAO CO |
09BOGOTA955 | PROGRESS IN ROUND TWO OF DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) U.S. and Colombian delegations made steady progress in the second round of negotiations on a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in Bogota on March 10-13. President Uribe had earlier expressed a desire to conclude the DCA ahead of the April 17-19 Summit of the Americas. Still, the GOC de [...] | 2009-03-19 17:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV MASS MCAP MOPS KTIA CO |
09BOGOTA958 | COLOMBIA'S NATIONAL AIRLINE: BRACING FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Amid worsening economic conditions, Colombia's national airline, Avianca, is re-assessing its routes and frequencies for 2009. The company has already postponed planned route additions and fleet acquisitions. Meanwhile, Avianca still expects to receive 13 new Airbus planes in [...] | 2009-03-19 18:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN CO |
09BOGOTA970 | SCENESETTER FOR TREASURY SECRETARY GEITHNER'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the first Cabinet Secretary of the new administration to visit Colombia, you trip comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. Evidenced by its hosting of the Inter-American Development Bank's 50th Annual Meeting in Medellin, Colombia has progressed from a [...] | 2009-03-20 18:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL OVIP EAID SNAR CO |
09BOGOTA974 | URIBE DEPLOYS TRUSTED LIEUTENANTS FOR REELECTION [...] (C) President Uribe has not said he intends to seek a third term in office, but his allies--with his support--are pushing hard for a constitutional change that would give him the option. Uribe has deployed trusted lieutenants to consolidate his control over coalition political parties and blo [...] | 2009-03-20 22:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF CO |
09BOGOTA981 | SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 6-8 VISIT OF CODEL HOYER AND [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and delegation to Colombia. Your visit comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. As many members of the delegation know from previous visits, in ten years Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and ter [...] | 2009-03-24 22:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD KJUS PHUM PTER CO |
09BOGOTA997 | PALM OIL FIRMS VOLUNTARILY RETURN SOME LAND TO [...] Summary: On February 16-17, three palm oil firms voluntarily returned 1269 hectares of land usurped by paramilitaries to the displaced Afro-Colombian communities of Curvarado and Jiguamiando in Choco department. The hand over follows years of pressure by the GOC, human rights groups, and the [...] | 2009-03-25 20:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON SOCI EAGR CO |
09BRASILIA1 | BRAZIL: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BROAD INDIAN LAND [...] (U) Summary. The Federal Supreme Court (STF),in a partial vote cast by eight of the 11 judges, ruled on December 10 that the Raposa Serra do Sol (RSS) Indian reservation in Roraima state should exist with a single continuous border. The decision will put an end to non-indigenous farming i [...] | 2009-01-02 13:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA1040 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) REVIEW [...] (C) Post has recently held extensive conversations with Brazilian authorities on the NPT revcon, particularly in connection with the August 5-6 visit of NSC WMD coordinator Samore (reported septel). Brazil believes that a successful revcon will be in its interest but defines success as the [...] | 2009-08-20 20:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL |
09BRASILIA1044 | TRIPARTITE DIALOGUE RESULTS IN AGREEMENT TO IMPROVE LABOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Responding to international concerns over poor working conditions and forced labor in the sugarcane sector, Brazil's President Lula signed on June 25, 2009, the National Commitment to Improve Labor Conditions in Sugarcane Activity. A tripartite dialogue between organizations repre [...] | 2009-08-24 10:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ENRG PGOV ELAB BR |
09BRASILIA1097 | BRAZIL: DATA COLLECTION OF BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) In response to REFTEL post gathered the following information regarding the Government of Brazil's (GOB) interventions and actions aimed at dealing with the convergence of the H1N1 outbreak and the Southern Hemisphere's annual flu season. GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS 2. (SBU) H1N1 flu [...] | 2009-09-01 16:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BR |
09BRASILIA1098 | BRAZIL'S CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM FIVE YEARS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A little more than five years into its existence, Brazil's conditional cash transfer program Bolsa Familia (PBF) continues to stir debate over its effectiveness. PBF aims to alleviate poverty both by providing for beneficiaries' short-run basic needs and by creating conditions [...] | 2009-09-01 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI SCUL EFIN ECON PREL BR |
09BRASILIA1104 | DIPLOMATIC DIALOGUE IN BRAZIL: WAITING ON OBAMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a broad off-the-record discussion of U.S.-Brazil foreign policy issues hosted by the CDA as part of U/S McHale's Diplomatic Dialogue Initiative (ref A),the select group of invited Brazilian opinion leaders were unanimous in stressing that, although they have been pleased wi [...] | 2009-09-03 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV SCUL ECON PREL BR |
09BRASILIA1112 | BRAZIL MORE SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. ARAB-ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary. The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE or Itamaraty) has no immediate response to our request in ref A to provide $10 million in direct budget support to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The relevant MRE department heads were receptive to the idea of a further Brazilian co [...] | 2009-09-04 20:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN EAID KWBG OPDC IS |
09BRASILIA1127 | LULA'S ALLIANCE WITH PMDB: MORE TROUBLE THAN IT'S [...] (C) The last couple of months have added new challenges to President Lula's bid to put his Casa Civil Minister Dilma Rousseff into the Planalto Palace as his successor in 2011. By leveraging his support for corruption-tainted Senate President Jose Sarney to reinforce a core electoral alliance [...] | 2009-09-10 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BR |
09BRASILIA1167 | JOINT ACTION PLAN TO ELIMINATE RACISM (JAPER) [...] Summary: In a September 8-9 technical meeting of the Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Discrimination and Promote Equality (JAPER) in Brasilia, the USG and GOB agreed on the following: -- an agenda for the October 22-23 Steering Group Meeting in Salvador featuring high-level [...] | 2009-09-17 21:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL BR |
09BRASILIA1184 | BRAZIL SHARES UPDATE ON SITUATION IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: Brazil,s Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Head of Mexico and Central America Division First Secretary Renato de Avila Viana told Poloff on September 22 at 14:00 EDT that, with power and water cut off and 70 pro-Zelaya protesters now also trapped on the compound, the situation [...] | 2009-09-23 10:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI BR HO |
09BRASILIA1188 | BRAZILIAN UNDERSECRETARY TALKS AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary. In his September 21 introductory lunch with the Charge D'Affaires, Ambassador Piragibe Tarrago, the recently named Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Under-Secretary for the newly created Middle Eastern and African Affairs portfolio, provided insight into Brazil's evolving dev [...] | 2009-09-23 18:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON IS |
09BRASILIA1195 | BRAZIL REQUESTS MORE HELP IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: Brazil,s Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Head of Mexico and Central America Division First Secretary Renato de Avila Viana told Poloff on September 24 that while the immediate threat to the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras has diminished, the GOB needs assistance getting their p [...] | 2009-09-25 10:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI BR HO |
09BRASILIA1206 | BRAZIL: POLICE PUBLICLY ADMIT AL QAEDA'S PRESENCE; [...] (U) Summary: The head of the Brazilian Federal Police,s (DPF) intelligence division admitted publicly during a Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, hearing on terrorism July 7 that an individual arrested in April on hate crimes-related charges was in fact linked to al Qaeda (AQ),the first time a Br [...] | 2009-10-01 15:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR BR |
09BRASILIA1210 | BRAZIL LACKS STRATEGY IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: Brazil, which had pinned much of its hope for a quick resolution of the Honduras crisis on the success of an OAS or Costa Rica President Arias, mission to Tegucigalpa, now seems at a loss of how to protect its Embassy in Tegucigalpa and negotiate itself out of the standstill in Ho [...] | 2009-10-02 10:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI BR HO |
09BRASILIA1216 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 5-7 VISIT OF S/CT [...] (C) The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been in recent decades, the result of the cordial personal connection already established between President Obama and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which is building on Lula,s excel [...] | 2009-10-02 21:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR BR |
09BRASILIA1230 | QOM REPORT GETS THE BRAZILIANS THINKING [...] (C) Summary. During an October 1 meeting with poloff, Ministry of Foreign Relations (MRE or Itamaraty) Central Asia (including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) Director Ricardo Luis Pires Ribeiro da Silva acknowledged that the September 24 report to the IAEA on the Qom nuclear facility ch [...] | 2009-10-07 17:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP BR IR |
09BRASILIA1250 | BRAZIL'S 2010 ELECTIONS: ONE YEAR OUT [...] (SBU) Summary. One year before Brazil's October 2010 national elections, Social Democratic Party (PSDB) presidential candidate Jose Serra continues to lead Labor Party (PT) hopeful Dilma Rousseff in the polls, while PMDB, Brazil's largest party, uses its bargaining leverage to maintain its a [...] | 2009-10-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA1262 | BRAZIL STILL LACKS A STRATEGY IN HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: A six-member Brazilian Congressional delegation traveled to Tegucigalpa September 30 to October 2 to support the Brazilian community in Honduras and met with Zelaya and Micheletti government officials. According to two members of the delegation, Zelaya appeared to be "fragile" and [...] | 2009-10-26 19:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI BR HO |
09BRASILIA1282 | BRAZIL: ILLICIT FINANCE CONFERENCE USES THE "T" [...] (SBU) Summary: An S/CT funded regional conference entitled "Illicit Financial Crimes" held in Rio de Janeiro during October 4-9, 2009, successfully brought together representatives from Brazil,s federal and state law enforcement community and countries from throughout Latin America. The week [...] | 2009-10-30 20:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PINR BR |
09BRASILIA1292 | Third Meeting of the Steering Group of the U.S.-Brazil [...] Summary: In an October 22-23 Steering Group meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality, the USG and GOB agreed on the following: -- the public launching of a $400,000 Small Grants Program for educational and cultural proj [...] | 2009-11-05 13:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI BR |
09BRASILIA1341 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: MANAGING THE VISIT OF IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary. CDA met separately November 18 with Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs II (Asia) Roberto Jaguaribe and Foreign Policy Advisor in the Presidency Marcel Biato to deliver demarche regarding the November 23 visit to Brazil of Iranian [...] | 2009-11-20 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AORC CASC BR IR |
09BRASILIA1360 | BRAZIL ON U.S.-BOLIVIA DIALOGUE, ARGENTINA, [...] SUMMARY. In a meeting November 19 with PolCouns, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) South America 1 (Southern Cone) Department head Minister Joao Luiz Pereira Pinto (protect) described Brazil-Bolivia relations as frustrating and indicated a continuing interest in trilateral counte [...] | 2009-11-24 18:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BR BL PY |
09BRASILIA1368 | AHMADINEJAD VISIT READOUT: A WELL-SCRIPTED AFFAIR [...] (SBU) This message covers our initial readout of the visit to Brazil by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Follow-up messages will be sent once we obtain a more in-depth readout of the conversation between President Lula and President Ahmadinejad. Summary ------- 2. (C) President [...] | 2009-11-25 19:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AORC CASC BR IR |
09BRASILIA1391 | PERES AND ABBAS VISITS IN PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Summary. The November visits by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, both shortly in advance of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's visit (ref A),led to few substantive results but helped Brazil craft its narrative as a hopeful emerging player in the Middl [...] | 2009-12-02 17:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KHUM KPAL IS IR |
09BRASILIA1407 | Brazil: Center-Left Presidential Candidates Compete for [...] (SBU) Summary. While the gap between front-running presidential candidates Jose Serra (PSDB) and Dilma Rousseff (PT) appears to be tightening, parties within President Lula's PT-led governing alliance are quietly considering other options besides supporting Dilma. Ciro Gomes (PSB) entered [...] | 2009-12-09 11:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BR |
09BRASILIA1427 | SUBSIDIARY BODIES AT THE 2010 NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 17:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA BR |
09BRASILIA1429 | Brazil: DEM, Corruption, and the Decline of the Right [...] (C) Summary. Federal District (Brasilia) Governor Jose Arruda, caught on camera accepting bribes in late November, continues in office to fight the charges against him, ensuring a drawn-out and damaging scandal for the DemC3cratas (DEM),Brazil's leading center-right opposition party. The [...] | 2009-12-18 19:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR BR |
09BRASILIA1435 | Strategy for Engaging Brazil on Defamation of Religions [...] (C) Summary: Brazilbs position on the bDefamation of Religionsb issue in the UN Human Rights Commission reflects a compromise between its objection to the concept on human rights grounds and its desire not to antagonize OIC countries with which it is trying to build relationships and which it s [...] | 2009-12-22 19:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC BR |
09BRASILIA1439 | 2016 Rio Olympics - The Future is Now [...] (C) SUMMARY. Brazilians greeted the October 1 announcement that the 2016 Summer Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro with an outpouring of national pride, a party on Copacabana beach and a sense of relief that the country is gaining some long overdue recognition as a regional and interna [...] | 2009-12-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BR KOLY ASEC PGOV |
09BRASILIA1468 | Trafficking in Persons and Child Sex Exploitation in the [...] Summary: The state of Goias, which surrounds Brasilia, has one of the highest incidences of human trafficking in Brazil; it also has a number of officials in the state with a strong commitment to dealing with the problem. In light of impending direct flights between Brasilia and Atlanta, whi [...] | 2009-12-15 18:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI KTIP BR |
09BRASILIA1472 | U.S.-Brazil Project on Racial Profiling by the Police -- [...] Summary: In meetings in Brasilia December 2-4, three U.S. technical experts, together with representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, Ministry of External Relations, Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) and Police Academy of the State of Santa Catarina, [...] | 2009-12-16 14:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB SNAR SOCI KCRM BR |
09BRASILIA1486 | BRAZIL: AECIO NEVES WITHDRAWS FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (SBU) In a press conference on December 17, Minas Gerais governor A????cio Neves officially terminated his "pre-candidacy" for the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) nomination in Brazil's 2010 Presidential elections, effectively leaving the PSDB field to Sao Paulo governor Jose Serra. [...] | 2009-12-18 19:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA1540 | BRAZIL: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The Brazilian government continues to cooperate in countering terrorism and related activities that could contribute to the facilitation of attacks in the region or elsewhere-to include investigating potential terrorism financing, document forgery networks, and other illicit activity. Opera [...] | 2009-12-31 13:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA156 | COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL: MAKING THE 3 PLUS 1 [...] (C) Summary: The 3 Plus 1 Mechanism on Security in the Triborder Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay remains, six years after its initial plenary session, the only instrument available to discuss counterterrorism (CT) with regional partners at the policy level. Given the likelihood t [...] | 2009-02-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA AR BR |
09BRASILIA167 | PMDB WINS TOP CONGRESS POSTS, COULD GET 2010 VEEP [...] (C) Summary. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) consolidated its position as kingmaker for the 2010 presidential election after winning the presidencies of both houses of Congress on February 2. While the PMDB will remain faithful to President Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) [...] | 2009-02-10 12:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BR |
09BRASILIA177 | UNDERSTANDING BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, PART 1: [...] (C) Summary. As Brazil takes an increasingly prominent place on the international stage, its Foreign Ministry, known widely as Itamaraty after its headquarters building, finds itself under the influence of four powerful personalities whose ideologies are shaping its foreign policy priorities [...] | 2009-02-11 19:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON OIIP BR |
09BRASILIA180 | UNDERSTANDING BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, PART 2: [...] (C) Summary: As Brazil takes an increasingly prominent place on the international stage, its Foreign Ministry, known widely as Itamaraty after its headquarters building, finds itself in a difficult transition, with new institutional challenges. Itamaraty is struggling to meet President Lula's [...] | 2009-02-12 20:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON OIIP BR |
09BRASILIA190 | UNDERSTANDING BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, PART 3: [...] (C) As Brazil takes an increasingly prominent place on the international stage, its Foreign Ministry, known widely as Itamaraty after its headquarters building, finds itself facing unaccustomed inter-agency competition. Still Brazil's most prestigious ministry and the unquestioned lead on fo [...] | 2009-02-13 16:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BR |
09BRASILIA273 | SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: AMBASSADOR MORALES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 6, USG Summit of the Americas (SOA) Coordinator Ambassador Hector Morales met with a team from the Brazilian Ministry for External Relations (MRE) led by Secretary General for Political Affairs Ambassador Vera Machado and including Brazilian Summit Coordinator Carlos D [...] | 2009-03-10 13:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENGR PREL ETRD EFIN EAGR |
09BRASILIA310 | Supporting Educational Improvements in Brazil: Public [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several international comparative measures demonstrate that Brazil's education system lags behind that of most of its Latin American neighbors, global competitors such as the BRIC countries, and more developed countries, which is causing a shortage of skilled labor and could be [...] | 2009-03-13 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OEXC SCUL ECON PREL PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA312 | Perceptions of President Obama, as Reflected in the [...] (U) SUMMARY: In Brazil, there is a great deal of public and media interest in President Barack Obama, going back to his emergence as the Democratic frontrunner in the middle stages of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. Obama's electoral victory and inauguration were covered very positively b [...] | 2009-03-13 18:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO BR |
09BRASILIA322 | FOLLOW UP ON BRAZIL'S SHARM AL SHEIKH PLEDGE [...] (U) On 10 March, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Counselor Claudio Cesar Nascimento, chief of the Middle East Division I of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Nascimento confirmed the USD 10 million pledge made by Foreign Minister Amorim at Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, and noted t [...] | 2009-03-16 17:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER EUN BR |
09BRASILIA349 | BRAZIL: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BROAD INDIAN LAND [...] Summary. In a landmark Indian land rights case, the Supreme Court on March 19 reached a final decision in favor of sweeping land rights for Indians on the Raposa Serra do Sol (RSS) reservation in Roraima state (reftel). Non-indigenous rice growers will have to abandon their plantations insid [...] | 2009-03-20 20:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA362 | BRAZIL'S RELATIONS WITH AFRICA -- SELECTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Reftel reported on Brazil's interest in Africa both as a matter of ethnic and cultural ties and of the policy of the Lula government to seek more global influence by cultivating other developing countries, the so called south-south policy. One year later, Africa retains its st [...] | 2009-03-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PREL PGOV ETRD |
09BRASILIA364 | (U) 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS (C-AL9-00153) [...] (C) Ref B reports on Summit of the Americas (SOA) Coordinator Ambassador Hector Morales meetings with Brazilian officials, notably the increased Brazilian focus on the SOA. According to Brazilian Ministry for External Relations (MRE) Undersecretary Vera Machado, Brazil views the SOA as comple [...] | 2009-03-24 20:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | BR PINR PGOV PREL |
09BRASILIA390 | THEFT OF SMALL PLANE ACTIVATES SHOOTDOWN PROCEDURES [...] (S/NF) Ref B describes a March 12 incident in which a small private aircraft was stolen at gunpoint in Luziania (approximately 23 miles from Brasilia) and after two hours was intentionally crashed into a parking lot of a shopping mall in Goiania, approximately 90 miles from Brasilia. The inc [...] | 2009-03-28 00:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | SNAR MOPS PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA422 | PROMOTING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR OAS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Brazil views Dinah Shelton very favorably but may have to vote for another candidate to repay obligations incurred in another election. Counselor Marcia Adorno, head of the Ministry of Exterior Relations's Division of Human Rights, told poloff on April 2 that she was familiar with Dinah [...] | 2009-04-06 16:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL OAS XM CA IAHRC |
09BRASILIA447 | BRAZILIAN CITY'S SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMS MAY BECOME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 16:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO ECON PREL SOCI BR |
09BRASILIA449 | BRAZILIAN CITY'S SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMS MAY BECOME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO ECON PREL SOCI BR |
09BRASILIA460 | TOP BRAZILIAN CONGRESSMAN PRIORITIZES ANTI-SLAVE LABOR [...] (U) Summary. The president of the Chamber of Deputies wants the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing expropriation of lands used for slave labor to be passed as soon as possible. The nine year old bill has been languishing in the lower house since 2004, but the Chamber president inte [...] | 2009-04-15 13:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA709 | Brazil: Initial Reactions on Cairo Speech [...] (U) Summary: In Brazil, President Obama's address to Muslims worldwide has drawn praise for its even-handed approach to the issues of religion and politics in the Middle East from government, congressional, academic contacts and from members of the Brazilian Middle Eastern and Muslim communitie [...] | 2009-06-04 22:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KPAO PREL PGOV ECON BR |
09BRASILIA771 | BRAZIL: CODEL THOMPSON DISCUSSES TERRORISM, [...] (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson (D-MS),accompanied by other 4 Committee Members and some 20 staff, visited Brasilia on May 28. In addition to a country team and special session with Department of Homeland Security representatives (ICE, CBP, [...] | 2009-06-18 19:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER OREP PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA772 | BRAZIL,S LULA: NO FRAUD IN IRANIAN ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR BR |
09BRASILIA773 | BRAZIL'S LULA: NO FRAUD IN IRANIAN ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In reaction to the protests following the Iranian presidential elections, President Lula went beyond the usual Brazilian platitudes about not commenting on the internal affairs of other countries and defended the legitimacy of the vote in Iran while reiterating his invitation to A [...] | 2009-06-18 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR BR |
09BRASILIA79 | World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children, [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Brazil underscored its commitment to tackling complex social issues by hosting the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children. The Congress gathered more than 3,500 delegates from over 170 countries to discuss, among other issues, new forms of sexual [...] | 2009-01-16 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB BR |
09BRASILIA791 | HOW SICK IS DILMA ROUSSEFF? [...] (C) Summary. Dilma Rousseff, President Lula's choice to succeed him as president in January 2011, cast doubt over her viability as a presidential candidate when doctors discovered in March that she has lymphatic cancer. Observers say the Presidential Palace is being transparent about her con [...] | 2009-06-19 21:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA799 | BRAZILIAN SENATE IN TUMULT OVER INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary. The Brazilian Senate is facing some tumult over internal management irregularities, and Senate President Jose Sarney has become the target of a media-driven campaign to force him out of the presidency. President Lula spoke in defense of Sarney but did not rein in senators from t [...] | 2009-06-22 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR BR |
09BRASILIA841 | PUBLIC MINISTRY OF LABOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND FIGHT [...] (U) Consistent with President Lula's policy of reducing corruption in the Government of Brazil, the Public Ministry of Labor launched its Strategic Planning project on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, establishing the directives and goals of the institution until 2022. The Public Ministry of Labor is [...] | 2009-06-30 19:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA905 | Brazil's 2010 Presidential Election: Early Snapshot [...] (SBU) Summary. The 2010 presidential election in Brazil, fifteen months out, currently looks like a two person contest between Minister Dilma Rousseff and Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra. Although Serra maintains his lead in the polls, Rousseff's steady rise in public opinion has some analysts [...] | 2009-07-20 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
09BRASILIA931 | BRAZIL: SENATE SCANDAL TAKES A BREATHER...BUT IT'S [...] (C) Despite weeks of attacks and a continuous drip of negative stories in the media, former Brazilian president and current Senate President Jose Sarney (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, PMDB- Amapa) remained in place as Congress left for a two week recess July 17. Although papers are car [...] | 2009-07-24 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR BR |
09BRATISLAVA115 | FINALLY, A SHORT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SEASON [...] (U) On March 6, the official presidential campaign was launched by seven candidates. Out of the seven, only two -- incumbent President Ivan Gasparovic and SDKU Deputy Chairwoman Iveta Radicova -- are genuine contenders. The first round of voting will be held on March 21. If no candidate earn [...] | 2009-03-06 15:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA118 | THE DIRTY TALE OF THE PEZINOK DUMP: "A CLOSED [...] (U) Here follows, in five acts, a tale of deception, conflict of interest, probable corruption, and -- last but not least -- impressive civic organization and commitment. Unfortunately for the Slovak citizens involved, absent an unlikely deus-ex-machina resolution their years-long struggle to [...] | 2009-03-09 10:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR LO |
09BRATISLAVA121 | SLOVAKIA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR UNESCO CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-10 14:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNESCO LO |
09BRATISLAVA122 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: PURSUING REPORTS ON NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Local media have uncovered information in archived intelligence files implicating Frantisek Blanarik, the head of Slovakia's National Security Office (NBU),as someone who knowingly cooperated with Communist-era intelligence services. If the information in the archived files is ac [...] | 2009-03-12 09:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO LO |
09BRATISLAVA143 | SLOVAK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: GASPAROVIC AND RADICOVA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Incumbent President Ivan Gasparovic and center-right opposition candidate Iveta Radicova have advanced to the second round of the Slovak presidential elections. Gasparovic took 46.7 percent of the vote in the March 21 first round, with Radicova receiving 38 percent in the seven- [...] | 2009-03-22 09:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA148 | GASPAROVIC AND FRIENDS PLAY THE NATIONALIST CARD [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary. After opposition candidate Iveta Radicova's better-than-expected showing in the first round of Slovak presidential elections March 21 (ref A),incumbent President Gasparovic and his supporters wasted no time playing the nationalist (read: anti-Hungarian) card in [...] | 2009-03-27 16:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA158 | AS ELECTION DAY APPROACHES, THE COALITION PULLS [...] (U) President Gasparovic, speaking before a recent gathering of Smer officials, stated that although he was not a member of any political party, it was as "if I were a member of Smer." He went on to warn that his defeat would be a catastrophe for Smer and the ruling coalition. Indeed, Gaspar [...] | 2009-04-02 15:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA160 | GASPAROVIC REELECTED SLOVAK PRESIDENT [...] (U) Incumbent Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic won reelection April 4. Gasparovic defeated opposition candidate Iveta Radicova 55.5 percent to 44.5 percent; most observers had predicted a Gasparovic victory. Turnout was almost 52 percent in this second round of presidential voting, up a notch [...] | 2009-04-05 08:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA163 | INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY MARRED BY TORTURE SCANDAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: International Roma Day 2009 began with Slovakia's own version of Abu Ghraib, as the leading daily SME broke the story of six Roma minors who were forced to strip and beat each other while in police custody in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice. This put an extremely somber tone to [...] | 2009-04-08 15:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA166 | SLOVAK JUSTICE: THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 11. 2. (C) Introduction and Summary. Since the Fico Government came to power in 2006, the state of the Slovak Judiciary has declined precipitously. As we have previously reported, one of the most serious problems is the Justice Minister himself. S [...] | 2009-04-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA169 | GASPAROVIC'S RE-ELECTION: TAKING HIM AT HIS WORD [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: While the Slovak presidency is largely ceremonial, the incumbent can make life comfortable (or difficult) for the Prime Minister and the ruling coalition. The relationship between former Prime Minister Meciar and then-President Kovac was the most conflictual in Sl [...] | 2009-04-15 07:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA176 | FOURTH ESTATE MALAISE: A YEAR UNDER THE PRESS LAW [...] (U) Introduction and Summary: A year has passed since the Slovak parliament approved a controversial press law that was decried by opposition politicians and international observers as a threat to media freedom (ref A). Of most concern to the law's critics was the broadly formulated "right of [...] | 2009-04-16 12:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA180 | SLAPSHOT: HOCKEY STAR WITHDRAWS FROM HALL OF FAME [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Last December, former Slovak Ambassador to the U.S. Martin Butora declined to accept an award from the Slovak Atlantic Commission because Interior Minister Kalinak was a co-awardee. Butora cited Kalinak's role in a government that systematically devalues civic soc [...] | 2009-04-20 06:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KCRM LO |
09BRATISLAVA189 | GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS DIALOGUE WITH EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff discussed ref points on the April 27-28 GAERC meeting with European Correspondent Albin Otruba on April 23. The discussion of Ukraine and Moldova, which will be held in the context of the Eastern Partnership, is the most interesting for Slovakia. Slovakia supports continu [...] | 2009-04-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN PGOV UP SY MD LO |
09BRATISLAVA190 | GASPAROVIC ON AFGHANISTAN, ASAD, ROMA, AND THE [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered President Obama's congratulatory letter to newly reelected Slovak President Gasparovic on April 22. In the course of their subsequent hour-long discussion, Gasparovic voiced worries about the Slovak economy, underscored his continued personal commitment to Slovak [...] | 2009-04-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NATO OPDC LO |
09BRATISLAVA191 | PRIME MINISTER FICO RESPONDS TO EU PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: After months of investigations, broad media coverage and multiple inquiries from the European Commission, Prime Minister Fico has ordered the cancellation of an illegal 119.5 million Euro tender let by the Construction Ministry (a Slovak National Party ministry). [...] | 2009-04-24 13:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA195 | SLOVAKIA: CORRUPTION IN SALE OF CO2 PERMITS [...] (C) In complaints to major media outlets, SDKU Deputy Chairman and former Finance Minister Ivan Miklos and SDKU MP Pavol Freso have accused the Ministry of Environment (MinEnv) of underselling 10-15 million tons in carbon emissions permits, resulting in losses of EUR 33-60 million. Assigned t [...] | 2009-04-29 06:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV SENV PREL ECON LO |
09BRATISLAVA207 | FICO SACKS SLOVAK ENVIRONMENT MINISTER [...] (U) In response to allegations of corruption over the sale of CO2 permits to the U.S.-registered Interblue Group (reftel),Prime Minister Robert Fico called for the resignation of Environment Minister Jan Chrbet; President Gasparovic dismissed Chrbet on May 6. The Slovak National Party (SNS),[...] | 2009-05-12 13:53:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR SENV LO |
09BRATISLAVA215 | DISTURBING INCIDENTS PROMPT COMPARISONS TO [...] (C) An alleged attempted poisoning of a judge's wife, repeated unlawful entries into the offices of Slovakia's premier watchdog NGO, and an 80-man strong police action against a Franciscan monastery led by a priest who was outspoken in his support for opposition presidential candidate Iveta Ra [...] | 2009-05-18 16:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA221 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES THE SPECIAL COURT [...] Summary. In a 7-6 decision, the Slovak Constitutional Court on May 20 ruled, pursuant to a complaint filed by a group of parliamentary deputies, that the Slovak Special Court Against Corruption is unconstitutional. Until recently, most analysts speculated that the Constitutional Court decisio [...] | 2009-05-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRIM LO |
09BRATISLAVA232 | LAJCAK CALLS IN CHARGE OVER EMBASSY'S STATEMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Slovak FM Lajcak called in Charge May 27 to relay President Gasparovic's extreme displeasure over Embassy Bratislava's recent public statements in which we expressed regret at the demise of the Special Court for anti-corruption cases. Lajcak said Gasparovic felt U.S. comments (a [...] | 2009-05-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR LO |
09BRATISLAVA238 | INTERBLUE CO2 PERMITS CONTRACT PUBLISHED, SANS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR SENV LO |
09BRATISLAVA241 | INTERBLUE CO2 PERMITS CONTRACT PUBLISHED, SANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Environment Minister Viliam Turksy (Slovak National Party - SNS) published the controversial contract arranging for the sale of CO2 permits to the U.S.-registered Interblue Group (ref A and B),but critical information including the price and number of permits sold was deleted [...] | 2009-06-04 06:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR SENV LO |
09BRATISLAVA243 | KOSICE TORTURE CASE: INVESTIGATION CONTINUES [...] Summary: We met recently with the Slovak Police and the General Prosecutor's Office for an official update on the police actions in response to the flagrant human rights abuses by the Kosice police involved in the torture of six Roma children in March. According to the police, the six culpabl [...] | 2009-06-05 13:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA247 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS: LITTLE INTEREST, [...] Nineteen percent of Slovaki voters Slovak voters turned out this weekend to elect Euro-Parliamentarians, besting their last-in-the-EU turnout of 17 percent five years ago, but showing little interest in the process. While PM Fico's Smer party did predictably well, gaining 5 seats, each of the [...] | 2009-06-08 15:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EU LO |
09BRATISLAVA248 | JUSTICE MINISTER HARABIN POISED TO BECOME SUPREME [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: The Slovak Judicial Council will elect a new Supreme Court Chairman on June 22. It appears virtually certain that Justice Minister Stefan Harabin, to whom half of the members of the Judicial Council are subordinate or otherwise beholden, will win. Justice and the [...] | 2009-06-09 13:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCOR LO |
09BRATISLAVA250 | GAERC: SLOVAK AND U.S. POSITIONS "NEVER CLOSER" [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff discussed ref points on the June 15-16 GAERC meeting with European Correspondent Albin Otruba on June 9. Otruba enthusiastically declared the U.S. and Slovak positions on GAERC issues are now closer than ever before. Otruba spoke at length about the President's speech in [...] | 2009-06-10 15:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA251 | SLOVAKIA CONCERNED ABOUT CFE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Roman Rosina, OSCE Officer in the Arms Control Department at MFA, and Martin Pangrac, NATO officer in the Security Policy Department. Rosina said Slovakia fully supports the U.S. initiative for dialogue, but would like the Conventional Forces in Europe ( [...] | 2009-06-10 15:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCE PREL EU NATO PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA256 | HARABIN DEMANDS $1.1 MILLION FROM MEDIA AS [...] (C) Summary: Justice Minister Stefan Harabin is demanding a total of over $1.1 million from four major Slovak media outlets for supposed damage to his reputation that they caused by reporting his links to a known drug dealer. In almost identical letters to the four companies, Harabin threatens [...] | 2009-06-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE LO |
09BRATISLAVA257 | ROMA PLENIPOTENTIARY RESIGNS [...] Summary: Anina Botosova, the Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Affairs, announced her resignation on June 10. The day before her resignation, Botosova was accused of allocating 22,000 euros to an NGO which she formerly headed, and was criticized for posthumously honoring her father, the lat [...] | 2009-06-15 08:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA261 | GASPAROVIC INAUGURATED FOR SECOND TERM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 13:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA262 | GASPAROVIC INAUGURATED FOR SECOND TERM [...] (SBU) Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic was sworn in June 15 for a second five-year term. The formalities were decidedly low-key; one daily newspaper here ran its main inauguration story under the headline, "The Inauguration Interested Mostly Tourists." And, indeed, the riot barriers, police [...] | 2009-06-17 13:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA281 | STEFAN HARABIN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME COURT [...] Justice Minister Stefan Harabin was elected Chairman of the Supreme Court on June 22. He received 15 out of 17 votes from members of the Slovak Judicial Council. Seven members of the Council were either appointed by Harabin, or are subordinate to him. Two members abstained. Harabin, whose re [...] | 2009-06-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM LO |
09BRATISLAVA282 | STEFAN HARABIN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME COURT [...] (C) Summary: Justice Minister Stefan Harabin was elected Chairman of the Supreme Court on June 22. He received 15 out of 17 votes from members of the Slovak Judicial Council. Two members abstained. Seven members of the Council were either appointed by Harabin, or are subordinate to him. Har [...] | 2009-06-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM LO |
09BRATISLAVA289 | CHIEF JUSTICE HARABIN'S TERM: "1825 DAYS OF DARKNESS"? [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: In a matter of weeks, significant negative developments have taken place in the Slovak judiciary. It will take some time to assess fully the ramifications of the June 22 election of Stefan Harabin as Chief Justice and the June 18 vote by the Slovak Parliament to e [...] | 2009-06-26 13:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUST LO |
09BRATISLAVA290 | SLOVAKS TO DEMARCHE IRANIANS, SUPPORT FREE AND FAIR AFGHAN [...] (C) During a June 26 meeting with the Charge, Slovak MFA State Secretary Diana Strofova said she would be meeting with the Iranian Ambassador (resident in Vienna) later that morning to deliver a demarche on the recent Iranian elections and their aftermath. She emphasized the Slovak demarche wa [...] | 2009-06-26 13:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF LO |
09BRATISLAVA291 | SLOVAK PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS OPERATIONS [...] (U) Summary. On June 19, Slovakia's parliament, by a vote of 134-0, approved a measure enabling Slovak Armed Forces to deploy 16 additional troops in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Deputies from all parliamentary parties supported the measure. T [...] | 2009-06-29 09:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AF LO |
09BRATISLAVA298 | CHINESE PRESIDENT HU IN SLOVAKIA: BUSINESS AND PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Slovakia on June 18-19. While the Slovak Government deemed the visit a success because it affirmed China's regard for Slovakia "as an important EU country" and produced contracts between Slovak and Chinese companies valued at 75.5 million euro, [...] | 2009-07-07 15:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH LO PHUM |
09BRATISLAVA303 | NEW DOUBTS ON INTEGRITY OF SLOVAK SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Following months of revelations drawn from archival files that the head of the Slovak National Security Office, Frantisek Blanarik, collaborated with the Communist-era Czechoslovak intelligence services, new information has come to light casting further do [...] | 2009-07-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA314 | VETERAN JUDGE DEMOTED FOR UNWILLINGNESS TO BOW TO HARABIN'S [...] (C) Summary: On July 8, a disciplinary senate ruled that veteran judge Anna Benesova be removed from her position at the Bratislava Regional Court and placed at the lower-level Bratislava District Court. Benesova was sanctioned by the senate for allegedly banning the recording of court [...] | 2009-07-16 15:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS LO |
09BRATISLAVA320 | SLOVAK LANGUAGE: "THE GLUE THAT HOLDS US TOGETHER"? [...] Summary: On June 30, the Slovak Parliament passed the now-infamous Amendment to the State Language Act. Seventy-nine of the 136 parliamentarians voted in favor of the amendment, which Culture Minister Madaric promoted as an attempt to protect the national language and "unite society," despite [...] | 2009-07-20 15:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA322 | EBRD FINANCING IMPROVES PROSPECT OF LONG-PROMISED HIGHWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EBRD approved EUR 250 million in financing for the 52-kilometer R1 express highway connecting Nitra to Tekovske Nemce, one of three sections of an east-west highway project organized under a public-private partnership (PPP) concept. The EBRD's decision is a critical milestone, [...] | 2009-07-21 13:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EFIN EAID PGOV PREL CH LO |
09BRATISLAVA324 | FOREIGN MINISTER LAJCAK ON HUNGARY AND FICO'S DESIRE TO [...] (C) Summary: During a July 20 dinner with the Charge, Foreign Minister Lajcak lamented the timing but defended the substance of the recently-passed amendments to the Slovak language law. He hoped to defuse the current "overreaction" by working quietly with Hungarian officials and the OSCE's [...] | 2009-07-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA333 | THE BUZZ: MOSQUITO INFESTATION GETS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After weeks of rain and days of sun, a mosquito infestation of seemingly Biblical proportions descended on Slovakia in July. While the conversation about the infestation has been mostly confined to idle chatter among residents, the discussion was elevated to the political arena [...] | 2009-07-28 14:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO TBIO SENV LO |
09BRATISLAVA341 | SLOVAKIA: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (U) We delivered reftel points to Marianna Lipkova and Miriam Joklova in the Department of Human Rights, Council of Europe, OSCE and Minorities at the MFA. Lipkova said Slovakia takes the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) seriously. She said the GOS plans on participat [...] | 2009-07-31 16:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KJUS UNHRC OSCE LO |
09BRATISLAVA353 | GYPSY TERROR PROVOKES MORE DEBATE THAN SOUL-SEARCHING [...] (U) Summary. An August 8 protest against "Gypsy Terror" in eastern Slovakia has opened a rift in Slovakia's nationalist movement and shown once-again that - where Slovakia's large and impoverished Roma community is concerned - even the "responsible" parliamentary parties face a delicate balanci [...] | 2009-08-12 10:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA363 | DOES THE ROMA PLENIPOTENTIARY HELP OR HURT THE ROMA? [...] Summary: According to some Roma activists, the government's Roma Plenipotentiary is the only government post in Slovakia that pays attention to the Roma issue. However, many of them believe that since the post's competencies have been reduced and diluted over time, it is now mostly a figurehea [...] | 2009-08-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA365 | FICO CALLS FOR END TO CO2 PERMITS DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of defending the sale of assigned amount unit (AAU) CO2 permits to the U.S.-registered Interblue Group (refs A, B, and C),Prime Minister Robert Fico has publicly acknowledged his opposition to the contract. While cancellation of the deal will likely prevent Interblue [...] | 2009-08-18 16:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KGHG SENV KCOR JA LO |
09BRATISLAVA367 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER FICO [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Charge met with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on August 18 for nearly an hour. Fico had originally asked the Charge to stop by to discuss the case of Aspect Energy, an American firm whose efforts to explore for natural gas in Slovakia have been subject to a s [...] | 2009-08-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AF LO |
09BRATISLAVA368 | THE EXTREMISM PARADOX [...] (C) Summary: Extremism is on the rise in Slovakia, and the Government's ability and willingness to combat it, despite a newly-passed extremism amendment to the Penal code, remains an open question. While the amendment supposedly strengthens the government's hand, many experts believe it is a [...] | 2009-08-21 09:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA370 | SLOVAKS RAISE OPTION OF DENYING ENTRY TO HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On August 21, FM Miroslav Lajcak convoked an urgent meeting with the Chiefs of Mission of Bratislava's diplomatic corps to explain Slovakia's opposition to the planned visit of Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom this afternoon at 6 pm (Bratislava time.) Solyom plans to attend an un [...] | 2009-08-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BRATISLAVA380 | SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL: SCHOOL SEGREGATION OF ROMANI CHILDREN [...] Summary: A disproportionately high percentage of Romani children in Slovakia are shunted into "special schools" for mentally handicapped children. The implications of this de facto segregation are broad and troublesome, as it mislabels children as handicapped, confines them to a substandard edu [...] | 2009-08-28 10:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA386 | HOMELAND SECURITY STAFFDEL TALKS VISA WAIVER PROGRAM WITH [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) On August 27th, Embassy Bratislava hosted five staffers from the House and Senate Committees on Homeland Security, along with Marc Frey, Director of the Visa Waiver Program Office at DHS, on the first stop of a regional fact-finding trip to Visa Waiver Program (VWP) member coun [...] | 2009-08-31 14:53:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA388 | SKYEUROPE: DEBT-FUELED NOSE DIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: With mounting cashflow problems forcing it to miss payments to airports and suppliers, SkyEurope ceased operations and prepared to file for bankruptcy shortly before midnight on August 31. Never once turning a profit in its eight-year existence, the budget airline's financial hea [...] | 2009-09-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV LO XG |
09BRATISLAVA390 | LOW EXPECTATIONS IN ADVANCE OF FICO-BAJNAI BILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 16:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU |
09BRATISLAVA406 | SLOVAKIA: CHARGE'S MEETING WITH FM LAJCAK [...] (C) Summary. Charge d'Affaires Eddins met with Foreign Minister Lajcak on September 18, prior to Lajcak's departure for the U.S. Lajcak reviewed his recent trips to Moscow and Minsk. Other topics included Afghanistan, Iran, Slovak-Hungarian relations, the Balkans, and Guantanamo detainees. [...] | 2009-09-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU BH |
09BRATISLAVA41 | GAERC RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Albin Otruba, European Correspondent at the Slovak MFA on January 21. Otruba said GAERC's agenda is still subject to change, but guessed it would include Kosovo, Guantanamo, the Middle East, Russia/Ukraine, and energy security only. Slovakia will be repr [...] | 2009-01-22 13:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF ZL SU ZI UP BO |
09BRATISLAVA413 | THE PURGE OF THE SLOVAK JUDICIARY [...] (U) Introduction and Summary: Negative trends in the Slovak judiciary (refs a-j) have intensified and accelerated since the June election of former Justice Minister Stefan Harabin to the position of Chief Justice of the Slovak Supreme Court. On what seems to be a daily basis, experience [...] | 2009-09-25 16:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA426 | SLOVAK JUDICIARY: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES [...] (U) Within a week of the Justice Ministry's suspension of Judge Jana Dubovcova for expressing her views (ref a),a sea change has taken place within the judiciary. Prior to this watershed event, the number of judges willing to speak publicly about problems in the judiciary numbered about [...] | 2009-10-02 13:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA428 | SLOVAKIA'S BORDER WITH UKRAINE [...] (U) Summary. On Monday, September 21, Embassy officers together with DHS/ICE attachi visited the Slovak-Ukraine border as the guests of the Border and Alien Police (BAP). Our purposes were (I) to assess any security changes since visa waiver accession; (ii) observe U.S.-donated inspection eq [...] | 2009-10-02 15:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PGOV LO UP PINR |
09BRATISLAVA449 | ORBAN IN SLOVAKIA: FOMENTS FEARS ABOUT INTENTIONS [...] Summary: Victor Orban, Chairman of Hungary's Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Union) party was a guest speaker at the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) convention on Saturday, October 17, in Rimavska Sobota, Eastern Slovakia. Orban provoked the consternation of many in Slovakia by alluding to autonomy f [...] | 2009-10-21 13:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HU LO |
09BRATISLAVA451 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO OCTOBER GAERC DEMARCHE [...] PolOff delivered talking points to Albin Otruba, European Correspondent at the Slovak MFA. Otruba stressed that Afghanistan is a priority country for Slovak development assistance, and that they are trying to coordinate with other EU members in this area. He noted that the EU would be di [...] | 2009-10-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EU LO |
09BRATISLAVA452 | SLOVAK CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR LOBBIES FOR THIRD TERM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: After vigorous behind-the-scenes lobbying by Ivan Sramko, Governor of Slovakia's Central Bank, the government has submitted a proposal to Parliament that would allow him to seek a third term in office and slash the Bank's board from 11 members to five. This move is widely seen as [...] | 2009-10-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA461 | SLOVAKIA'S ROSS PEROT: RICHARD SULIK [...] (U) Summary: Richard Sulik's Freedom and Solidarity party (SaS) was the unexpected success of the European Parliamentary elections earlier this year. Though SaS failed to win a MEP slot, it managed to win 4.8 percent of the vote after less than a year of existence and an inexpensive, privately [...] | 2009-10-29 16:46:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA462 | SLOVAKIA: REVOLVING DOOR CONTINUES AT SCANDAL-PLAGUED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a sudden and surprising move, PM Robert Fico nominated Jozef Medved, the Vice Rector of an obscure private university in central Slovakia, to be the next Environment Minister. As was the case with each of his several predecessors, Medved lacks a technical background or any e [...] | 2009-10-29 17:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SENV ECON KCOR LO |
09BRATISLAVA466 | THE 1989 DIVIDE IS GROWING [...] (C) Summary. Divisions between the Slovak protagonists of the Velvet Revolution and the current leadership are growing sharper as 20th anniversary commemorations approach. A flood of retrospectives are giving rise to reflections about the past, but also on the extent to which the aspirations [...] | 2009-11-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA47 | SLOVAK JUSTICE IS SUFFERING UNDER JUSTICE MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 13:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA472 | "THE PRIVATIZATION OF JUSTICE IN SLOVAKIA" [...] (SBU) The effects of Stefan Harabin's consolidation of judicial power can be seen in several recent administrative decisions on promotions and public disclosure, and in court rulings on civil cases. This cable outlines a specific instance of each of these three phenomena. Slavomir Cimerman, a [...] | 2009-11-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KCOR LO |
09BRATISLAVA474 | SLOVAKIA: FICO'S FAILURE TO RESOLVE INTERBLUE CO2 TRADING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A failure to resolve the Interblue CO2 permit scandal has prompted widespread suspicion that PM Robert Fico's Smer political party was deeply involved in the corrupt sale, which may ultimately cost Slovakia hundreds of millions of Euros in lost revenue. Although Fico has tried--wi [...] | 2009-11-10 09:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR SENV ECON LO |
09BRATISLAVA476 | WILL SMER SWEEP THE REGIONAL ELECTIONS? [...] Summary. On November 14, Slovak voters will elect regional parliaments in each of the eight Higher Territorial Units (VUC) and a chairman or `zupan' of each VUC. These will be the third regional elections in Slovakia's sixteen-year history. If no zupan candidate wins in the first round, a s [...] | 2009-11-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA48 | NEW FM LAJCAK ON THE JOB; UNCLEAR HOW LONG HE WILL [...] (U) Summary: On Monday, January 26, President Gasparovic formally appointed Miroslav Lajcak to replace Jan Kubis as Slovakia's Foreign Minister. Lajcak, currently serving as the EU Special Representative and High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has stated that he intends to remain in S [...] | 2009-01-28 09:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | SECRET | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA480 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER GAERC DEMARCHE [...] PolOff delivered referenced talking points on November 13 to Albin Otruba, European Correspondent at the Slovak MFA. Otruba agreed that EU cooperation with Russia is vital, and said that the Slovaks are interested in an "early warning" agreement on energy supply issues. Otruba also said that R [...] | 2009-11-13 12:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EU LO |
09BRATISLAVA481 | REGIONAL ELECTIONS: PLAYING ROUGH IN BRATISLAVA [...] (U) After a Bratislava municipal deputy questioned the decision of the Dubravka Mayor (Dubravka is a district of Bratislava) to offer a sweetheart lease to a reputed mobster, the deputy's car was torched. The deputy, Martin Zatovic (SDKU),believes he has a good chance to be elected on Novemb [...] | 2009-11-13 16:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA484 | SLOVAKIA PAINTED RED: FICO'S SMER STEAMROLLS OPPOSITION IN [...] Summary: The 2009 regional elections were a smashing victory for PM Robert Fico's ruling party, SMER ("Direction"). In four of the eight regions, SMER-supported regional governor or "zupan" candidates won over 50 percent of the vote and do not require a run-off; in the remaining four regions, [...] | 2009-11-19 16:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA485 | SLOVAKIA'S CIVIL AVIATION HITS BOTTOM, FAILS TO BOUNCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A toxic brew of incompetence, economic recession and predatory airlines has left Slovakia's airports largely empty and on the verge of financial collapse. Following the failure of discount airline SkyEurope this fall (reftel),Bratislava's airport has watched its passenger level [...] | 2009-11-20 09:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA486 | SLOVAK CABINET MOVES TO UNDERMINE ANTITRUST OVERSIGHT [...] (U) In a move that would strip the Slovak government's Antitrust Office of its oversight authority over recent consolidation in the health insurance industry, the cabinet approved this week an amendment to the Health Insurance law that will finalize the merger of two large state-owned insurance [...] | 2009-11-20 14:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EINV LO |
09BRATISLAVA489 | SLOVAKIA COMMEMORATES THE VELVET REVOLUTION: SNAPSHOTS FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA49 | CHIEF OF OFFICE CHARGED WITH GRANTING SECURITY [...] (U) Summary. Frantisek Blanarik, the Head of Slovakia's National Security Office (NBU),is under pressure after the exposure of archived files related to information he provided to the Military Counterintelligence Service (VKR) when he was a soldier in the mid-1980s. If Blanarik provided inform [...] | 2009-01-28 15:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA492 | SLOVAKIA ON NATO ENLARGEMENT: MACEDONIA AND BOSNIA SHOULD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 09:48:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA497 | DAS QUANRUD IN SLOVAKIA [...] (C) Summary: In a 29-hour visit to Bratislava, EUR DAS Pamela Quanrud met with a variety of senior Slovak government officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak and FM Miroslav Lajcak, as well as opposition leaders and members of the judiciary, civil society, and news media to di [...] | 2009-11-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG LO |
09BRATISLAVA498 | SLOVAK PRESIDENT SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL "STRATEGIC ENTERPRISES" [...] (U) Despite strong, unified opposition from both labor unions and the business community, President Gasparovic yesterday signed the "Strategic Enterprises" law (reftel) that was rushed through Parliament with little debate earlier this month. All of the international chambers of commerce prese [...] | 2009-11-27 14:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA501 | REGIONAL ELECTIONS: SMER SWEEPS ALL BUT ONE REGION [...] Summary: On November 28, Slovak voters in four of eight regions elected their new regional governors or "zupans" in the second round of Slovakia's regional elections. PM Fico's SMER ("direction") had already secured victory in the other four regions during the first round on November 14 (reft [...] | 2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL LO |
09BRATISLAVA509 | SLOVAK GOVERNMENT TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS ON SOLAR POWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The enthusiastic solar energy "gold rush" in Slovakia has hit a series of speed bumps in recent weeks and now faces an uncertain future, as the Slovak government's weak commitment to renewable energy has been further undermined by outright opposition from several important player [...] | 2009-12-09 14:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV ECON PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA519 | LIAR, LIAR, PRESS CONSPIRE [...] (SBU) Summary. PM Robert Fico convened an impromptu press conference on December 10 to vilify the press for pursuing a story about Fico's family connections to an emerging scandal involving the Slovak land fund (septel to follow). PM Fico claimed during the press conference that all the major [...] | 2009-12-18 14:51:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO LO |
09BRATISLAVA526 | THE FUTURE OF SLOVAKIA'S SOLAR POWER INDUSTRY GROWS EVEN [...] (SBU) Fears about a lack of transparency and openness in Slovakia's renewable energy industry were realized last week, as the government-owned power grid operator (SEPS) approved a list of solar power projects and announced that nothing further will be approvedQat least two years. The applicat [...] | 2009-12-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA53 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S FAREWELL TRIFECTA - FICO, [...] (C) Summary: In farewell calls on Prime Minister Fico, President Gasparovic, and Foreign Minister Kubis, Ambassador Obsitnik underscored his appreciation for U.S.-Slovak cooperation during his 13-month tenure, highlighting Slovakia's entry into the Visa Waiver Program and increasingly active [...] | 2009-01-29 13:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA54 | SMER-SNS-HZDS: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? [...] (C) Summary: The "worst case scenario" government of Smer-SNS-HZDS is now a certainty. We can expect many more challenges in advocating U.S. policy goals under a Fico-led government than during Mikulas Dzurinda's tenure, particularly on controversial issues such as the war in Iraq or support [...] | 2009-01-30 10:27:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KPAO EAID LO |
09BRATISLAVA55 | OPPOSITION SCORES ANOTHER GOAL (AGAINST ITSELF!) [...] (U) In a press conference on January 27 announcing a new initiative "Slovakia: You Can Do It!" in support of civic activism and political change -- represented first and foremost by support for opposition candidate Iveta Radicova -- former Justice Minister and Christian Democratic (MP) Daniel [...] | 2009-02-02 07:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV LO |
09BRATISLAVA56 | LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKING GROUP CONVENED [...] (SBU) Charge convened a plenary meeting of the Law Enforcement Working Group (LEWG) on January 22. As nearly half the participants are resident in third countries, the agenda was introductions and a description of active law enforcement interests in Slovakia. Participants represented RSO, Pol- [...] | 2009-02-02 07:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM LO |
09BRATISLAVA57 | SLOVAKIA'S UPR PROCESS [...] Per reftel request, PolOff discussed Slovakia's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) with Slovak NGO activists Laco Oravec of the Milan Semecka Foundation, and Branislav Tichy of Amnesty International, as well as the Deputy Director of the Slovak MFA's Human Rights Department (and the GOS report c [...] | 2009-02-02 10:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM UNHRC LO |
09BRATISLAVA70 | FICO'S ROLE MODEL: VLADIMIR PUTIN? [...] (C) Name this leader: He consolidated power and popularity during a period of unprecedented economic growth. As a hedge against any current or future challengers, he attacks the opposition and media relentlessly. He accuses NGOs of seeking to undermine the government and has supported legislati [...] | 2009-02-09 08:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO RU |
09BRATISLAVA76 | SLOVAKIA'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER ON THE WESTERN [...] (C) Slovakia's new Foreign Minister, High Representative and EU Special Representative to Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak, wants to maintain a strong focus on the Western Balkans in his new role. In a February 11 initial meeting with Charge, Lajcak also mentioned that he had intended to visit Washingt [...] | 2009-02-12 11:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO BH |
09BRATISLAVA85 | SLOVAKIA 2009 ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] SLOVAKIA'S TIP SITUATION A. SOURCES OF INFORMATION The MOI, local police, NGOs, and IOM are the best sources of information regarding the number and kinds of TIP victims. Though the numbers vary from source to source, they are generally reliable. IOM estimates between 150 to 200 individua [...] | 2009-02-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP PGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC |
09BRATISLAVA97 | CODEL Cardin Advances Human Rights Agenda in Bratislava [...] SUMMARY: During a one-day trip to Bratislava, Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) met with newly appointed Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, former Ambassador to the U.S. Martin Butora, and members of the Jewish and Roma communities. Throughout his meeting [...] | 2009-02-25 16:10:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LO |
09BRATISLAVA98 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY PREPCOM - SLOVAK [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff discussed reftel points briefly with Milan Ciganik, Director for Disarmament, OSCE and Counter-Terrorism at Slovakia's MFA. If the EU is able to find a common position for the third Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom),Slovakia will take that position. Differences bet [...] | 2009-02-27 07:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KMNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09BRAZZAVILLE101 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - APRIL 2, 2009 [...] French President's visit 2. Pointe-Noire port improvements to begin in October 3. Bilateral US-Congo trade 4. Venezuela Opens Embassy 5. First Conviction for Chimp Trafficking 6. Tibet, Anyone? 7. Who's in Charge? SARKOZY'S VISIT --------------- Â [...] | 2009-04-02 16:36:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL PGOV PHUM BEXP SENV CF CH FR VE |
09BRAZZAVILLE143 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - MAY 11, 2009 [...] The date has been set: Presidential elections for the Republic of the Congo (ROC) will be held July 12. Eligibility regulations were published: a candidate must be of Congolese nationality, of good morality, must have 15 years of professional experience, be between the ages of 40 and 70, and [...] | 2009-05-11 14:39:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV ETTC ETRD PGOV CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE146 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - MAY 15, 2009 [...] Presidential campaign is heating up: Although local press has remained mysteriously silent about the fact, a fire in the Republic of Congo's (ROC) President Sassou Nguesso's home village of Edou this past week destroyed at least two vehicles and a stockpile of election materials. Internation [...] | 2009-05-18 07:07:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON SOCI EAID TBIO CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE15 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - JANUARY 15, 2009 [...] NEW YEAR GREETINGS: We wish all our correspondents and well-wishers a happy 2009. After a holiday break, we today resume publication of "Brazzaville in Brief." It is our intention to publish this series each week, on Thursday or Friday, to highlight ongoing interesting developments in Braz [...] | 2009-01-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD SCUL KPAO CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE172 | (C) ELECTIONS SNAPSHOT: DISARRY ON ALL SIDES [...] 1.(C) Summary: Congo(B) will hold a Presidential election on July 12 for a seven-year Presidential term. With the filing deadline June 12, only Mathias Dzon has filed formal papers as a candidate from the opposition. In the non-Sassou camp, it is difficult to determine which of the pos [...] | 2009-06-05 15:41:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE173 | SASSOU NGUESSO THROWS HIS HAT IN THE RING FOR JULY 12 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 13:50:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE198 | (C) CONGO-B/EU: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION "NOT A PRIORITY FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 08:50:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE202 | CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE - CAMPAIGN OBSERVATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazzaville has been generally quiet since the start of campaigning last Friday. The campaign in the capital has so far displayed little energy, though things have been picking up since the weekend. Even though he has been out of town, Sassou has been the most visible candidate in [...] | 2009-07-02 10:10:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE206 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: CAMPAIGN UPDATE, 7 JULY [...] (SBU) President Sassou-Nguesso is dominating the campaign. In Brazzaville, his commercials flood television and the radio. Pro-Sassou rallies, as yet without the candidate, occur almost every day and draw hundreds of people, often drawn by popular musicians hired from Kinshasa. Sassou T-shirts [...] | 2009-07-08 15:29:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE207 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: CAMPAIGN UPDATE, 8 JULY [...] (SBU) The Opposition Front on July 7 held its biggest rally in Brazzaville so far outside the Massamba-Debat Stadium not far from the Embassy. Police estimated the crowd to number 700-800, while FSN poloff who was present put the figure at about 1,000. Although all three Front candidates were pre [...] | 2009-07-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE209 | CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE - CAMPAIGN UPDATE, JULY 9 [...] (SBU) Brazzaville has remained unusually quiet considering it is the last week of the presidential campaign. Two relatively large pro-Sassou rallies took place on July 8, one in theTalangai neighborhood in the northwest and one in the Makelekele neighborhood in the south. But the opposition stage [...] | 2009-07-09 15:35:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE23 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - JANUARY 22, 2009 [...] As we noted last week, the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville has now opened in the new embassy compound. Our address is: Boulevard Maya Maya Brazzaville, Republic of Congo The main embassy number is (country code 242) 612-2000. We will be updating our website information over the next severa [...] | 2009-01-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE241 | (U) MEDIA/DEBT: LES DEPECHES DE BRAZZAVILLE EDITORIALIZES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 08:55:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE285 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - OCTOBER 1, 2009 [...] (U) President Denis Sassou Nguesso and a large delegation of sixty arrived in New York on September 17. Sassou, First Lady Antoinette, the Foreign Minister, the Minster of Forestry, the Minister of the Environment and 25 others travelled on a chartered plane via Cape Verde. 2. (U) In hi [...] | 2009-10-01 12:56:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE328 | REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 12:25:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG |
09BRAZZAVILLE331 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF: NOVEMBER 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CF EFIN EAGR EINV ETRD |
09BRAZZAVILLE337 | (SBU) CONGO(B) GOVERNMENT UNEASY OVER EVENTS IN NORTHERN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-27 15:10:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PREL PREF CF CG |
09BRAZZAVILLE345 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF: DECEMBER 10, 2009 [...] (U) According to the GROC, there are now 77,488 displaced persons in camps spread along the Congo-Brazzaville bank of the Oubangui River, primarily in the Likouala region. Reports on both sides of the border indicate that what began as an ethnic conflict has now evolved into an organized rebel [...] | 2009-12-10 10:42:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CF EFIN EAGR EINV ETRD |
09BRAZZAVILLE362 | REFUGEE UPDATE - 88,000 DRC REFUGEES IN THE LIKOUALA REGION [...] (U) Over the last two months, 87,789 DRC refugees have crossed the Ubangui River into the Likouala region of the Congo in order to flee fighting in the Equateur province of DRC. DCM and RefCoord visited five of the approximately 60 refugee sites between December 17 and 19. The refugees are sp [...] | 2009-12-23 11:28:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV UNHCR WFP CT CM CG CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE368 | (SBU) BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF: DECEMBER 31, 2009: BUDGET, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 11:23:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN PREL CF CH ELAB PINS |
09BRAZZAVILLE4 | CONGO(B) - MAY 2009 UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF HUMAN [...] Embassy Brazzaville has been in touch with both the government focal point for the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights and the principal human rights NGO in Congo(B). 2. On the government side, the focal point is Valentin Mavoungou, Director General of Human Rights and Fundamental F [...] | 2009-01-07 10:44:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM UNHRC |
09BRAZZAVILLE72 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - MARCH 12, 2009 [...] In an operation running through March 2, the Congolese government bought a total of over 2,500 firearms, 66,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, and several hundred grenades, rockets, and artillery shells from the Pool area. The operation was financed with a 500 million CFA Congo government [...] | 2009-03-12 19:38:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PARM PINS ECON PREL EFIN MASS CF CH |
09BRAZZAVILLE80 | EU/USA/UNDP MEET WITH MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ELECTIONS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 17, at the initiative of the European Union, the EU (commission and presidency (Belgium) plus the resident chiefs of mission of France and Italy),the UNDP resrep/resident coordinator, and the U.S. Ambassador met with Minister of Territorial Administration Raymond Mboul [...] | 2009-03-19 10:27:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CF |
09BRAZZAVILLE97 | CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 14:55:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | OPIC USTR EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV KTDB CF |
09BRIDGETOWN114 | ANTIGUA: UPHEAVAL ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS [...] (C) Antiguan PM Spencer's February 17 announcement of March 12 as the date for parliamentary elections was almost immediately overshadowed by an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission of action being taken against U.S.-Antiguan citizen Sir Allen Stanford for "massive, on-going fraud [...] | 2009-02-18 21:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ST CN XL |
09BRIDGETOWN132 | INSIDE CRICKET: ST. KITTS AND NEVIS POLITICAL [...] (C) A long-time member of the ruling St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP),Dwyer Astaphan, recently resigned from the Douglas administration, opening the door for the Concerned Citizen Movement (CCM) -- a Nevis-based party -- to play a kingmaker's role, possibly in coalition with the oppos [...] | 2009-02-26 22:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN142 | CHINESE VICE PREMIER HUI,S VISIT: IT WAS ALL ABOUT [...] (C) The visit of Vice Premier Hui Liangyu to Barbados was more style than substance, according to senior MFA officials. The primary goal of the visit appears to have been to reinforce China,s commitment to the region in order to prevent any new flip-flops on the recognition of Taiwan followi [...] | 2009-03-04 19:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CN XL |
09BRIDGETOWN166 | DOMINICA POLECON ROUNDUP [...] (C) The Government of Dominica continues to suffer from small-time leadership, a perception that corruption is out of hand, and a lack of momentum in developing infrastructure for growth. The newly formed Integrity in Public Office Commission is operational, but hamstrung by lack of resource [...] | 2009-03-12 18:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PREL INRB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN171 | ANTIGUA RETURNS UPP TO POWER; ALP HEADS TO COURT [...] (C) Antigua and Barbuda's ruling United Progressive Party(UPP) won a closely contested election March 12, taking nine of the 17 seats and retaining its majority in parliament, but losing three previously-held seats in an election marred by delays and technical difficulties. Among the seats l [...] | 2009-03-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ST XL |
09BRIDGETOWN210 | ST LUCIA: GOVERNMENT WEAKNESS AND FOREIGN [...] (C) The government's integrity and accountability are under increasing strain in St. Lucia in the face of continued tensions within the governing party and windfall foreign funds being deployed by Taiwan into government constituencies. With the ongoing economic slowdown impacting the island, [...] | 2009-04-03 16:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PREL INRB XL CH TW EAID OFDP |
09BRIDGETOWN219 | Counter-Narcotics on our Eastern Caribbean Third Border: [...] (SBU) The countries of the Eastern Caribbean are seeing a steady increase in narcotics trafficking and the attendant problems of gun and gang violence in their communities. Trafficking is on the rise as drug runners look for alternate routes to compensate for successes under Plan Colombia and [...] | 2009-04-06 20:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN243 | SAINT LUCIA: ECONOMIC PROMISE AND PITFALLS [...] (U) The economy of St. Lucia is suffering from a decline in tourist arrivals, but the consensus is that the country is on the right path and should do well when the global economy recovers. American businesses see potential for their investments in St. Lucia, but believe the government needs [...] | 2009-04-24 21:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD XL PGOV KCRM PREL INRB |
09BRIDGETOWN27 | ST. VINCENT OPPOSITION - MORE HARD TIMES AHEAD [...] (C) Former St. Vincent Ambassador to the UN and cabinet minister under previous Mitchell administrations, Jonathan Peters, announced his return to politics in St. Vincent in a January 13 meeting at the Embassy. Peters has an ambitious plan both to take control of the opposition New Democratic [...] | 2009-01-15 17:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR XL |
09BRIDGETOWN293 | BARBADOS ANNOUNCES NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (SBU) A recent announcement by Barbados PM David Thompson that places greater restrictions on undocumented CARICOM aliens has elicited negative reactions from the opposition, the local Guyanese community, and regional commentators. While the policy is consistent with other GOB actions to "fe [...] | 2009-05-19 20:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV BB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN303 | BARBADOS: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Response to reftel queries for Barbados. -- Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. Barbados has not taken any steps to advance democracy or human rights in Cuba. -- Has the host country made public statem [...] | 2009-05-26 14:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU BB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN306 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) Response to reftel inquiries for Antigua and Barbuda. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. Antigua and Barbuda has not taken any steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. - Has the host cou [...] | 2009-05-26 14:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU XL |
09BRIDGETOWN339 | Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: May 2009 NAS Update [...] (SBU) The island nations that make up Embassy Bridgetown's area of responsibility - Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines continue to see a steady increase in the volume of narcotics destined for and transshipped th [...] | 2009-06-09 16:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN34 | FINAL DEPARTURE FROM POST - AMBASSADOR MARY MARTIN [...] Ambassador Mary Martin Ourisman departed post on Friday, January 16, 2009, at 12:46 p.m. local time for return to Washington, D.C. 2. The Transfer of Office certificate has been signed by Ambassador Mary Ourisman and Charge d'Affaires David Brent Hardt as follows; a signed original is file [...] | 2009-01-16 21:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PGOV PREL BB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN358 | ANTIGUA'S RULING PARTY UNDER PRESSURE FROM COURT [...] (C) In the three months since the election that saw the United Progressive Party (UPP) returned to power in Antigua, the government has found itself under pressure from legal challenges to election results from opposition Antigua Labor Party (ALP) and internal party infighting. The Antiguan [...] | 2009-06-17 15:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CN XL |
09BRIDGETOWN360 | 2009 EXPROPRIATION REPORT: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of one (1) claim of a United States person that may be outstanding against the Government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) End Summary. Claimant Designation ------------------- 2. (U) Claimant A Date of Expropiation --------------------- [...] | 2009-06-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
09BRIDGETOWN369 | EXPROPRIATION - ST. LUCIA [...] (SBU) St. Lucia has one outstanding expropriation case. ---------------------- Claimant Designation -------------------- 2. (U) Claimants A through F. --------------------- Date of Expropriation --------------------- 3. (U) The initial expropriation occurred in May 2008. The ti [...] | 2009-06-19 19:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN377 | ANTIGUA GOVT HOLDS TRUMP CARD OVER CORRUPT [...] (c) On June 22, UK High Commissioner Duncan Taylor passed to the Charge a copy of a "confidential opinion" from a law firm hired by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to investigate possible corrupt activities by the previous government with regards to repayment of a development loan. The [...] | 2009-06-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM CVIS XL |
09BRIDGETOWN388 | REQUEST FOR AGREMENT FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF HUBERT CHARLES [...] (SBU) Diplomatic Note 204/02/1-1460, dated June 23, 2009, was received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth of Dominica, requesting agreement for the appointment of Hubert Charles as Dominica's Ambassador to the United States. 2. (U) The diplomatic note included Mr. Charles' c [...] | 2009-06-30 17:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN41 | CUBA, DEPORTEES AND SECURITY TOP AGENDA IN [...] (C) During the Ambassador's January 8 farewell call on St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, he called on the U.S. to unconditionally end its economic embargo on Cuba. PM Gonsalves spoke at length about the deep, strong ties that bind the United States and the Caribb [...] | 2009-01-22 11:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KCRM PGOV PREL XL ZL |
09BRIDGETOWN417 | ST. KITTS AND NEVIS OPPOSITION LEADERS ANTICIPATE [...] (C) Opposition leaders from the People's Action Movement (PAM) on St. Kitts are renouncing their U.S. citizenship in anticipation of possible elections in July. Using the out of control crime wave and the government's lack of action as corner stone of a PAM campaign, leaders are confident they [...] | 2009-07-08 19:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN425 | ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ELECTIONS: WAITING FOR THE [...] (C) Michael Morton, Chairman of the largest private sector entity on St. Kitts and Nevis and a strong opposition party supporter, told emboffs in a recent meeting that he believes Prime Minister Denzil Douglas and the St. Kitts and Nevis Labor Party (SKLP) did not call elections as expected on [...] | 2009-07-15 14:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN438 | Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: June 2009 NAS Update [...] (SBU) The island nations that make up Embassy Bridgetown's area of responsibility - Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines continue to see a steady increase in the volume of narcotics destined for and transshipped th [...] | 2009-07-20 16:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN448 | ST. KITTS AND NEVIS HOSTS REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) In an effort to get a grip on escalating, gang-related violent crime in the Eastern Caribbean, St. Kitts and Nevis hosted the first Regional Conference on Youth Crime and Violence Prevention on June 22-23. The conference sought to define the scope of the problem, establish why the violence [...] | 2009-07-22 18:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM ECON SOCI PREL PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN5 | DOMINICA: AMATEURISH PM'S OFFICE BOTCHES [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Despite repeated confirmation the day prior to the Ambassador's planned December 17 farewell calls on Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and Foreign Minister Vince Henderson, both were no-shows [...] | 2009-01-05 18:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CASC XL |
09BRIDGETOWN500 | LEADING ST. VINCENT'S OPPOSITION -- WHAT'S SECOND [...] (C) Jonathan Peters, the former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Ambassador to the UN and Minister of Trade under Sir James Mitchell, met with poloffs to discuss his plans to run for opposition leader in St. Vincent. This was his third trip to the Embassy in less than a year, to ask for [...] | 2009-08-19 13:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN507 | GRENADA REPLACES CONTROVERSIAL AG IN CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) Grenada's year-old Government announced a cabinet reshuffle on 31 July, the centerpiece of which was the formal sacking of a controversial Attorney General. The reshuffle also resulted in the creation of two new ministries and the division of several others. According to the Senior Ad [...] | 2009-08-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN530 | LEADING ST. VINCENT'S OPPOSITION -- WHAT'S SECOND [...] (SBU) Jonathan Peters, the former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Ambassador to the UN and Minister of Trade under Sir James Mitchell, met with poloffs to discuss his plans to run for opposition leader in St. Vincent. This was his third trip to the Embassy in less than a year, to ask f [...] | 2009-09-01 19:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN6 | CUBA, HUMAN RIGHTS, SECURITY COOPERATION AND [...] (C). During a December 19 farewell call on Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, the Ambassador thanked Thompson for his efforts to work with us to strengthen regional security, urged him to reassess his government's approach to UN human rights resolutions, and reaffirmed U.S. support for co [...] | 2009-01-05 19:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KCRM PGOV PREL XL ZL |
09BRIDGETOWN615 | ST. VINCENT SET TO LAUNCH MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Vincentians are preparing for what will likely be a hotly contested vote in a November 25 referendum on a new constitution. The proposed constitution, which would turn the multi-island nation into a presidential republic, has been touted by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves as essential fo [...] | 2009-10-06 12:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR XL |
09BRIDGETOWN617 | (C-AL9-01941) LEADERSHIP PROFILE: BARBADOS PM [...] (C) Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is a bland but competent leader who is maintaining his country's long-standing tradition of political pragmatism and fiscal responsibility. He is also committed to an independent foreign policy of "moderation and commonsense." This commitment, refle [...] | 2009-10-06 20:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR INRB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN619 | ST LUCIA IFTAR HIGHLIGHTS COMPETITION IN LOCAL [...] (C) The Iftar hosted by the Embassy in St. Lucia continued our efforts begun in Barbados in 2007 to reach out to the small but growing Muslim Community in the Eastern Caribbean. This community is appreciative of U.S. engagement. The local dynamics among Muslim groups competing for scarce re [...] | 2009-10-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KISL SOCI XL |
09BRIDGETOWN622 | (C-AL9-01941) LEADERSHIP PROFILE: ST. VINCENT PM [...] (C/NF) Politically rooted in 1970s leftist movements, St. Vincent and the Grenadines' Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves is a pragmatic ideologue with a strong populist bent. He has the charisma and political savvy needed to keep himself in power for years to come, though his popularity is gradual [...] | 2009-10-08 12:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR INRB PREL PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN653 | RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...] | 2009-10-16 21:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN656 | RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...] | 2009-10-16 21:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN658 | RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...] | 2009-10-16 21:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN660 | SOUTHCOM ASSESSMENTS ON ST.LUCIA HOSPITAL [...] (C) The three assessments prepared by SOUTHCOM on the effects of the fire at St. Jude's hospital in St. Lucia were completed and delivered to Prime Minister King October 2. These assessments, encompassing the entire Medical infrastructure of southern St. Lucia, provided a roadmap for rebuildi [...] | 2009-10-16 21:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MASS PGOV PHUM PREL SL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN68 | CONGRATULATORY LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM DOMINICA'S [...] Embassy Bridgetown received Diplomatic Note No. 211/01-224 from Dominica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which included a letter from President Nicholas Liverpool containing a congratulatory message for President Barack Obama. The complete text of the letter follows in paragraph 2. When the or [...] | 2009-02-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN686 | 2009 TIP REPORT INTERIM ASSESSMENT: ST. VINCENT [...] (SBU) Since being placed on the Tier 2 Watchlist, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSVG) has worked cooperatively with the Embassy to ensure that the country addresses the perceived weaknesses that landed it on that list. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves spoke to the Charge an [...] | 2009-10-29 18:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV SMIG XL |
09BRIDGETOWN689 | ST. VINCENT CONTINUES IRAN COURTSHIP IN HOPES OF [...] (C) In his attempt to garner financial support for his signature International Airport project, St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (with encouragement from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez) has sought to forge closer relations with Iran. Although he has held two meetings with Iranian president [...] | 2009-10-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC PGOV PHUM PARM IR XL |
09BRIDGETOWN690 | VINCENTIAN NATIONAL DAY EVENTS SHARPEN BATTLE [...] (SBU) St. Vincent's November 25 constitutional referendum was the main focus of discussion with government and NGO interlocutors, and the main point of Independence Day remarks made by Prime Minister Gonsalves, during the October 27 festivities marking the country's 30th anniversary of indepen [...] | 2009-10-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN733 | Barbados Launches First-Ever Entrepreneurship Venture [...] The Barbados Government, in conjunction with a handful of local business leaders, announced the formation of the island nation's first-ever business start-up seed capital and venture capital fund on November 13. The fund, which was capitalized by the Barbados Government, will be administered [...] | 2009-11-19 18:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV PREL XL |
09BRIDGETOWN735 | GONSALVES DEFENDS TIES WITH VENEZUELA, BUT WELCOMES DEEPER [...] (C) In a three-hour marathon meeting with the Charge October 26, St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves outlined his efforts to combat drug trafficking and crime and his need for new assets and expanded U.S. support. He defended his close ties to Venezuela through ALBA and PetroCaribe, but [...] | 2009-11-19 20:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN739 | BARBADOS COAST GUARD COMMANDER TACKLES CORRUPTION, TRAINING [...] (C) Newly installed Barbados Coast Guard Commander Sean Reece emphasized the need for further training for his units as the Coast Guard grapples with serious internal corruption issues and regional capacity deficiencies. Reece commended the close cooperation between the Coast Guard and U.S. So [...] | 2009-12-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS SNAR CH XL |
09BRIDGETOWN741 | PM PONDERS ELECTIONS AFTER FAILED REDISTRICTING BID [...] (C) With no date yet set for St. Kitts and Nevis General elections, the constitutional deadline of March, 2010 is looming Larger, leaving the government with ever-more restricted room to maneuver. After an apparent opposition legal victory stemming from accusations of gerrymandering by the ru [...] | 2009-12-04 18:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ST XL |
09BRIDGETOWN743 | Dominica PM Calls Snap Elections for December 18 [...] (C) Prime Minister Skerrit announced snap elections to occur on the 18th of December. This is ten months earlier than required, and reflects Skerrit's calculation that his advantage may be at its peak due to an influx of assistance from Venezuela and China -- both officially in terms of infra [...] | 2009-12-04 21:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OAS XL VE |
09BRIDGETOWN745 | Dominica Election Primer: The Bolivarian Candidate [...] (C) With high unemployment and government corruption dominating election debates, Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has decided to take a gamble on his political career, betting that he can ride a wave of financial support from China and Venezuela to overcome his government's poor sho [...] | 2009-12-04 21:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON XL VE |
09BRIDGETOWN747 | (C-AL9-01941) LEADERSHIP PROFILE: DOMINICA PM ROOSEVELT [...] (C) Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica was the youngest head of government in the world when he took office in 2004 at 31 years of age. His youth has been highlighted as a reason for his naivetC) in international circles, but also as an indicator of well-honed political instincts th [...] | 2009-12-07 19:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV XL VE |
09BRIDGETOWN749 | The Last of the Caribs [...] (C) Dominica's Carib territory - one of the last vestiges of indigenous Carib culture in the Hemisphere -- is rapidly losing its cultural identity due to increasing government encroachment, the breakdown of public institutions, and the high rate of poverty and social ills within the Carib comm [...] | 2009-12-07 19:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI EAID ECON KWMN XL |
09BRIDGETOWN753 | (C-AL9-01941) LEADERSHIP PROFILE: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA PM [...] (C/NF) Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has gradually grown into his role as the dominant figure in Antiguan politics and, with his recent electoral victory, looks set to remain in power through 2014. Despite his decision to join ALBA and PetroCaribe and the fawning pro-ALBA rhetoric it has occ [...] | 2009-12-10 12:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PREL VE XL |
09BRIDGETOWN759 | St. Kitts Shooting for Number One [...] (C) Summary. The per capita murder rate in St. Kitts is on pace to be among the highest in the world for the second year in a row. The country has set a new record for gun murders, despite new gun legislation and a national crackdown on illegal fire arms. A poorly trained police force sore [...] | 2009-12-15 18:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KCRM EAID XL |
09BRIDGETOWN761 | Dominican PM's Boasts of Assistance Refuted by Anguilla and [...] (C) In what is seen as a significant pre-election mistake, Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced at a political rally that his government had extended USD$13.5 million in loans to Anguilla and Antigua to help its "downtrodden" fellow members of the Organization of Eastern Caribb [...] | 2009-12-16 19:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN765 | Dominica's Opposition Leader Cautiously Optimistic Despite [...] (C) Dominica's main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) leader Ron Green was cautiously optimistic in a call on the Charge in Bridgetown December 11, a week ahead of December 18 General Elections. Green lamented the role that outside money was playing in the election, especially by giving th [...] | 2009-12-16 19:58:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN769 | Where there's Smoke: Corruption in Dominica [...] (C) Allegations of corruption continue to mount against Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit as December 18 national elections approach. These allegations focus primarily on the Layou River Scandal, bogus Ambassadorial appointments, no bid government contracts, Ross University villas, an [...] | 2009-12-16 21:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR XL |
09BRIDGETOWN771 | Dominica's General Election Creates a Nearly One Party State [...] (C) Roosevelt Skerrit's Dominica Labour Party (DLP) won a landslide victory, capturing 18 of the 21 constituencies, with the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) relegated to only 3 seats. The final vote tally was 61 percent for the DLP, 35 percent for the UWP and 4 percent for the remaining [...] | 2009-12-22 22:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM OAS XL |
09BRIDGETOWN773 | St. Lucia Minister of Commerce Laments Government [...] (SBU) St. Lucia Commerce Minister Tessa Mangal outlined challenges facing the government in St. Lucia from poor training and lack of professional standards among civil servants in a December 4 meeting with the ChargC). Mangal expressed frustration over the lack of a customer service mentality [...] | 2009-12-24 15:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT ECON PGOV KWMN XL |
09BRIDGETOWN774 | ST. VINCENT REJECTS NEW CONSTITUTION: VOTERS DASH PM [...] (SBU) Vincentians voted convincingly November 25 to reject a constitutional referendum that would have significantly changed St. Vincent's structure of governance. The surprisingly sharp 56-44 percent defeat set Prime Minister Gonsalves on his heels and dashed his plans to follow the referendu [...] | 2009-12-02 12:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM XL |
09BRIDGETOWN786 | International Efforts Keep Drug Trafficking at Bay in [...] (SBU) A consistent presence of counter-drug assets from the international community throughout the summer had a noticeable impact on suppressing trafficking activity in the Eastern Caribbean. Most countries in the region continue to lack financial and human resources to adequately address the [...] | 2009-12-04 19:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
09BRIDGETOWN99 | ANTIGUA,S RULING PARTY FAVORED TO WIN ELECTION; [...] (C). Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer dissolved parliament February 9 to launch what will be a hotly contested election season. Spencer did not announce an election date, but hinted he will do so soon, with an election date expected by the end of March. The ruling United Progressive [...] | 2009-02-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ST CN XL |
09BRUSELS1292 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE NEW DELEGATION FOR RELATIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 15:37:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EUN |
09BRUSSELS1 | AMBASSADOR VISITS PRAGUE TO DISCUSS CZECH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech EU Presidency, which takes over on January 1, wants the new American president to meet the EU-27 heads of state in early April in Prague to discuss climate change and the Middle East. Czech FonMin Schwarzenberg is considering a trip to Washington in early February to mee [...] | 2009-01-01 09:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN SENV EFIN ECON ETTC IR EZ |
09BRUSSELS10 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU GIVES ADDITIONAL 3M EURO FOR [...] (U) The European Commission allocated 3 million euros from its general humanitarian budget on January 4 in response to the current crisis in Gaza. Total 2009 Commission funding for Gaza and the West Bank is 290 million euros, which includes 55 million from the European Commission Humanitarian [...] | 2009-01-06 16:38:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID LE PGOV PHUM PREL UNRWA EUN |
09BRUSSELS1011 | GOVERNMENTS IN WALLONIA AND BRUSSELS IN PLACE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS1012 | INTERVIEW OF BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PIETER DE CREM [...] Embassy wishes to provide Department with the text of the following interview of Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem, which appeared in the Dutch-language Belgian magazine, Humo, on July 14, 2009. 2. Begin text of interview: Q: As Defense Minister, you let our country fight along in [...] | 2009-07-23 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MOPS AF BE |
09BRUSSELS1047 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE'S JULY 28 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke met on July 28 with Yves Leterme, newly appointed Foreign Minister of Belgium. Holbrooke urged the GOB to ensure that the Belgian public understands how important operations in Afghanistan are to Belgian, Euro [...] | 2009-07-30 15:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV AF BE |
09BRUSSELS1048 | JULY GAERC - SWEDISH PRESIDENCY OUTLINES [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers (FMs),meeting in Brussels July 27 as the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC),received an overview of Swedish Presidency priorities for the next six months. The GAERC adopted without discussion numerous decisions, to include U.S.-EU neg [...] | 2009-07-30 17:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON EUN AF AL BO GG GR HR IC IR |
09BRUSSELS1053 | BELGIUM: SMALL IRANIAN PROTESTS REQUESTING U.S. [...] (U) Poloff met with three small groups of Iranians in front of the U.S. Embassy in Brussels on July 28, 29 and 31. Members of each group had immediate family inside Camp Ashraf and left Poloff with literature, which has been sent to the NEA/I desk. Their requests were for the U.S. to intervene [...] | 2009-07-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR BE ASEC |
09BRUSSELS1068 | BELGIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS IMMIGRATION STALEMATE [...] Summary: On July 17 the GOB agreed on new terms for dealing with the growing number of immigrants and asylum-seekers in Belgium. The agreement puts a thorny political problem to rest for a while, and illustrates Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy's talent for compromise in Belgian politics. En [...] | 2009-08-04 13:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS107 | FLEMISH AND FRANCOPHONE LIBERAL PARTIES VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: During her January 14 visit to Brussels, EUR/WE Director Pamela Spratlen met with representatives of the francophone and the Flemish liberal parties. She spoke with Koert Debeuf, Director of the Flemish Open VLD's Liberal Studies Center and Corentin de Salle, Counselor at the fra [...] | 2009-01-27 14:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS1071 | SRAP HOLBROOKE, EU HIGH REP SOLANA DISCUSS [...] (S//NF) Summary: On July 28, SRAP Richard Holbrooke and EU High Rep Javier Solana discussed their respective trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan, further support to the Pakistani government, the Afghan presidential elections, and Solana's impressions of the situation in Iran. During the meet [...] | 2009-08-05 11:16:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ENRG MOPS PGOV XD IR EUN |
09BRUSSELS1075 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: A FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the European Parliament (EP) has less decision-making power in foreign policy as compared to other EU policy areas, the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) is traditionally a prestigious one and offers a platform for high-level visitors to reach out to the EU. But the new [...] | 2009-08-06 05:17:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EUN |
09BRUSSELS108 | INTRODUCING THE EU IV: THE JUDICIAL, FINANCIAL, SUPERVISORY [...] In addition to its core policy and law-making institutions (the Commission, Council and European Council, and European Parliament - see REFs B and C),the EU institutional system also includes several other bodies with judicial, monetary, financial, supervisory or advisory functions. Among th [...] | 2009-01-27 15:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EINV EUN PTER KTFN KJUS UNSC IR |
09BRUSSELS1097 | BELGIUM: DONOR SUPPORT FOR THE SOMALIA TFG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO BE SO |
09BRUSSELS1105 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: INTRODUCING THE NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES, [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the past, the European Parliament's (EP) Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) served as the EP's platform for debate on often controversial issues regarding U.S. policy, including Guantanamo detainees and data transfer. If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, t [...] | 2009-08-10 15:48:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINT ECPS PTER EUN |
09BRUSSELS1118 | PERSPECTIVES FROM NEW DEPUTY PERMREP TO BELGIUM'S [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs and Polintern met on August 5 with Thomas Lambert, Belgium's new Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York. Lambert has just left a position as Deputy Chief of the Cabinet of former Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel De Gucht. Based on his insider's view of B [...] | 2009-08-12 09:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE IS KN IR UNSC |
09BRUSSELS1120 | BELGIUM: CLOSER COORDINATION WITH U.S. AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with Charge and Embassy political officers, the new Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Sub-Saharan Africa sought greater coordination and cooperation among donor countries active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He ex [...] | 2009-08-12 15:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE RW CG EU |
09BRUSSELS1122 | EU WILL PUBLISH NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST BURMA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the EU's swift and strong public condemnation of Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction, Poloff discussed the case on August 12 with the EU Council Secretariat, per reftel. If there are no objections from Member States to proposed EU sanctions, they will be published in the Of [...] | 2009-08-12 17:59:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BM EUN |
09BRUSSELS1129 | BELGIUM: URGING STRONG REACTION TO AUNG SAN SUU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-13 12:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BM BE |
09BRUSSELS1153 | UNSURPRISINGLY, GALILEO ALREADY LATE AND OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A late June communication released with little fanfare by the European Commission to the European Parliament and Council, explained current cost overruns and delays in deployment of the Galileo satellite navigation system. At the moment, complete deployment of all 30 satellite [...] | 2009-08-19 12:46:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH EAIR ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL RS TSPA EINV |
09BRUSSELS1188 | SCENESETTER FOR S/E HOWARD WOLPE'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Your visit will develop further the already close U.S. - Belgium strategic dialogue that has developed over the past year. MFA contacts will be excited to discuss the new Administration's developing perspective and policies on Africa, especially the Great Lakes region. Secretary Clinton [...] | 2009-08-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MOPS MARR SOCI CG BE |
09BRUSSELS1194 | SCENESETTER FOR S/E HOWARD WOLPE'S MEETINGS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION [...] (SBU) Your visit will be welcomed as an opportunity to deepen US-EU cooperation in the Great Lakes region. The EU has been heartened by the Obama administration's approach to Africa, and during A/S Carson's US-EU Troika on Africa 14 July in Stockholm, it was noted that the U.S. and EU are more [...] | 2009-08-28 12:14:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID BE ZF MASS |
09BRUSSELS1239 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SET TO CONFIRM BARROSO SEPT. 16 AS [...] (U) Summary: The European Parliament (EP) will likely re-elect European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on September 16. Under current Treaty of Nice rules, Barroso needs only a simple majority of the MEPs present to be re-elected, which he should have. However, Barroso, the only dec [...] | 2009-09-15 05:03:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EUN |
09BRUSSELS124 | BELGIAN LAW BANNING DEPLETED URANIUM TO TAKE [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: A law passed in 2007 banning depleted uranium (DU) munitions and armor-plating will come into effect in June 2009. Post requests that the Department (PM, IO, EUR, ISN, L and other interested bureaus) consider whether the law coul [...] | 2009-01-28 16:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS MNUC BE |
09BRUSSELS1244 | URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES [...] (C) USEU Poloff met separately on 9/15 with EU Council Secretariat and European Commission officials to seek EU assistance in urging Iran to resolve missing and detained Amcit cases. USEU Poloff requested that EU oficials raise the issue during meetings with Ianian officials and asked to be i [...] | 2009-09-15 18:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP CASC IR |
09BRUSSELS1248 | BELGIAN VIEWS AND DECISION-MAKING ON [...] Summary: Policy-making on non-proliferation and disarmament issues in Belgium is concentrated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the direction of Werner Bauwens, Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Final decisions on policy are made in consultation with Minister of Fo [...] | 2009-09-16 15:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09BRUSSELS125 | BELGIUM AND THE DRC: RELATIONS RENEWED BUT [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolIntern met January 28 with Belgian MFA Africa contacts to discuss the restoration of Belgium - DR Congo relations, mineral extraction issues, and the arrest of Laurent Nkunda. The PMs of Belgium and the DRC issued a statement January 24 that reestablished relations. [...] | 2009-01-28 18:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS CG RW BE |
09BRUSSELS1251 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION ATTENDANCE AT SEPTEMBER 22 [...] (SBU) Mission delivered reftel demarche regarding the September 22 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) Meeting to the Palestine Desk Officer at the European Commission (EC). She indicated that the EU understood that the level of attendance for the meeting had already been set at the senior level [...] | 2009-09-17 13:41:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAL PGOV WBG EU IS |
09BRUSSELS1255 | S/E WOLPE'S MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND [...] (C) Summary: Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe visited Brussels August 31 to September 1 to meet with Belgian MFA and Development contacts during a six nation visit to reestablish a transatlantic dialogue on Africa. The Belgians said the DRC, Rwanda, and Burundi were the top priorities o [...] | 2009-09-17 16:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN MARR MOPS PHUM SOCI KWMN |
09BRUSSELS1266 | EU FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET (GAERC) TO DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EU Foreign Ministers (FMs) met in Brussels on September 14-15 as the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) to review EU foreign policy priority areas. Discussions in the External Affairs Council centered on Iran, Afghanistan, and the Southern Caucasus, with the [...] | 2009-09-21 09:04:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINT ECPS PTER EUN |
09BRUSSELS1285 | BELGIAN LEGISLATORS WRITE TO URGE U.S. CONGRESS TO [...] (U) On September 21, nine members of the Belgian parliament sent a letter to U.S. Representatives Ed Pastor and Rodney Frelinghuysen, and Senators Byron Dorgan and Michael Bennet, urging them to end deployment of the B61 nuclear weapon. The text of the letter follows para 4. 2. (C) One sta [...] | 2009-09-23 15:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC MARR PREL PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS1292 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE NEW DELEGATION FOR RELATIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 15:37:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EUN |
09BRUSSELS1293 | THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Madame Secretary, In your first meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister (former Primer Minister) Yves Leterme in New York, Leterme is likely to focus on the lack of direct Belgian participation in the G-20, and perhaps be rather forceful in his manner. You should express appreci [...] | 2009-09-24 15:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS1304 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE NEW DELEGATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The new EP Delegation for Relations with the U.S. (U.S. Delegation) was designated on September 16 in Strasbourg. It is the largest EP delegation with 53 members and is in charge of developing relations with the U.S. Congress. For the first time in nearly 20 years the delegatio [...] | 2009-09-28 09:13:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EUN |
09BRUSSELS1315 | S/E WOLPE'S MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND [...] (U) This is a corrected version of canceled BRUSSELS 1255. 2. (C) Summary: Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe visited Brussels August 31 to September 1 to meet with Belgian MFA and Development contacts during a six nation visit to reestablish a transatlantic dialogue on Africa. The Bel [...] | 2009-09-30 06:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN MARR MOPS PHUM SOCI KWMN |
09BRUSSELS132 | AFGHANISTAN: CAN THE EU BE A STRONGER PARTNER IN [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. We currently have a window of opportunity to lay the groundwork for more EU contributions in Afghanistan. The current window may close as soon as April 3-4, 2009 -- the dates of the NATO Summit. It is unlikely that the 21 out of 27 EU member states who are also N [...] | 2009-01-29 16:36:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR NATO MARR AF AID BE EAID |
09BRUSSELS134 | AN OVERVIEW OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN ACTIVISM IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Five years ago the EU experienced its largest expansion to date with the accession of ten new member states*eight of which were Central European post-communist states*followed by the entry of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, which together comprise what is commonly known as the Cen [...] | 2009-01-29 17:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN XG |
09BRUSSELS1343 | EURO-BURMA NETWORK ENCOURAGES PRESSURE ON EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives from the Euro-Burma Network during a September 29 meeting with the Charge, lauded the recent Burma policy review and encouraged the U.S. to continue to lead coordination with the EU. The delegation was concerned that the EU will now attempt to lift sanctions an [...] | 2009-10-02 14:23:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC BU EUN |
09BRUSSELS1345 | BELGIUM: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS VIEWS ON EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium's foreign policy priorities in the EU include the EU's policy towards Belgium's former colonies, toward those countries where Belgian soldiers are posted, enlargement, and ensuring that EU foreign policy is developed according to agreed-upon standards. Belgium remains de [...] | 2009-10-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BE EU |
09BRUSSELS1360 | BELGIAN VIEWS ON IRANIAN PROLIFERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In a joint demarche, political officers from the United States, the United Kingdom and France urged Werner Bauwens, the Belgian MFA's Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, to show concern about the recently revealed clandestine uranium enrichment facility in Iran, an [...] | 2009-10-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL PGOV IR BE |
09BRUSSELS1363 | SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER SEMINAR ON UN TARGETED [...] (C//NF) Summary: In preparation for the Belgian-hosted UN Targeted Sanctions Seminar of Like-Minded Countries, post provides the following information on Belgian attitudes toward reform of 1267 sanctions and other counterterrorism (CT) issues. This is in part based on Treasury Assistant Sec [...] | 2009-10-09 15:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER KTFN ETTC PGOV EFIN PREL PINR KJUS PHUM |
09BRUSSELS1371 | EP: CHARGE PRESENTS THE US PERSPECTIVE TO THE DELEGATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. A large crowd of Members of Parliament (MEPs) and staffers attended the Charge's presentation on U.S.-EU relations during the September 30th meeting of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the U.S. This was the delegation's first meeting of the new session of p [...] | 2009-10-13 16:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EUN |
09BRUSSELS1394 | EPC GMO DEBATE : RISK OR OPPORTUNITY FOR EUROPE ? [...] SUMMARY: On October 15 in Brussels, the European Policy Center (EPC) hosted a lively debate on the role of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in European agriculture. Following largely pro-GMO remarks by European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel, spea [...] | 2009-10-16 15:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB EAGR PGOV OPIC BE |
09BRUSSELS1404 | ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...] | 2009-10-21 05:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN |
09BRUSSELS1412 | CORRECTED VERSION: ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...] | 2009-10-22 05:15:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN |
09BRUSSELS1416 | EXAMINING INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN EU HUMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),an independent US government commission established by Congress to monitor religious freedom worldwide and make policy recommendations to the executive and legislative branches, met with EU experts [...] | 2009-10-22 10:43:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM EUN |
09BRUSSELS1425 | BELGIUM'S GOALS FOR THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Gutman hosted a luncheon October 8 with the Belgian MFA Africa team and the Chief of Staff to Belgium's Minister for Development Cooperation to discuss Belgium's priorities in the African Great Lakes region. Regarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Belgium [...] | 2009-10-23 15:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI CG BE |
09BRUSSELS1427 | AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S OCTOBER 29 MEETING WITH [...] (S//NF//ORCON) Summary: Ambassador Gutman met October 22 with Foreign Minister Leterme and his Chief of Staff Frans Van Daele. FM Leterme made a strong push for Louis Michel for the next UNGA presidency. Ambassador Gutman questioned Michel's friendliness to the U.S. Van Daele termed the U. [...] | 2009-10-23 17:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM UN BE |
09BRUSSELS1456 | EU RESPONSE TO US SUDAN STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: EU Special Representative for Sudan, Torben Brylle, welcomed the new U.S. Sudan Strategy. Given the interlocking nature of the problems in Sudan, Brylle applauded the strategy's holistic view, the importance placed on the North-South issues in addition to Darfur, and the U.S. wi [...] | 2009-10-28 07:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09BRUSSELS1476 | EU LEADERS AGREE ON CZECH TERMS FOR SEALING TREATY OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: In order to obtain Czech President Vaclav Klaus's signature ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, EU leaders at their October 29-30 European Council meeting agreed to grant the Czech Republic an opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, per the Czech leader's request. Czech Repu [...] | 2009-10-30 15:22:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS148 | EMBASSY BELGIUM POINTS OF CONTACT FOR NPT-RELATED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 16:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09BRUSSELS1480 | NEW EUROPEAN UNION ACTION PLAN ON AFPAK: MODEST [...] (C) Summary: The new European Union (EU) Action plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, released during the monthly foreign ministers meeting October 27, presents a unified focus for further EU engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While it does not contain significant new commitments, it doe [...] | 2009-10-30 17:28:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EUN AF PK |
09BRUSSELS1481 | OCTOBER GAERC - AFGHANISTAN AND U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: During the October 26-27 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Luxembourg, EU Foreign Ministers (FMs) discussed a range of topics including Afghanistan, the Lisbon Treaty and upcoming summits, including the November 3 U.S.-EU Summit. The General Af [...] | 2009-10-30 18:21:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EUN AF BK CE MK IR |
09BRUSSELS1488 | BELGIUM'S FINANCE MINISTER ON FINANCIAL RECOVERY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders said Belgium is establishing a new supervisory system for banks in Belgium which would differentiate between systemic (too big to fail) banks and other, smaller institutions,. He attributed the near collapse of Belgian banks a year ago t [...] | 2009-11-03 06:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV UNGA SENV BE |
09BRUSSELS1505 | EUPOL DEPLOYMENT TO U.S. PRTS -- LETTERS [...] (C) Embassy Kabul, in Reftel, raises the importance of the issue of whether the U.S. should sign letters of agreement with the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL). In order to ensure that discussions on this issue in Washington and elsewhere focus on precisely what the Euro [...] | 2009-11-09 12:36:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS MARR EUN NATO AF |
09BRUSSELS1511 | BELGIUM AGREES WITH IMPORTANCE OF COORDINATION ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on the importance of coordination among allies of criteria for appointment of Afghan provincial governors and expressions of concern about their performance to the Afghan government to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Security Affairs, Francois De [...] | 2009-11-10 16:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO BE AF |
09BRUSSELS1512 | AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S OCTOBER 16 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with Belgian Defense Minister Peter De Crem, the Ambassador urged De Crem to take an active role in world security issues, including Afghanistan, closure of the Guantanamo prison, and climate change. De Crem was sympathetic, and indicated that Belgia [...] | 2009-11-10 16:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MNUC ECON BE |
09BRUSSELS1514 | BELGIUM: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] With a major world port at Antwerp, an airport with connections throughout Africa, and its proximity to major consumers in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and The Netherlands, Belgium has ecome a crucial transit point for a varietyof illegal drugs, especially cocaine and heroin. Belgium is not a [...] | 2009-11-10 16:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL KSEP BE |
09BRUSSELS1521 | BELGIAN PM VAN ROMPUY HARD TO REPLACE IF HE [...] (U) Summary: The Belgian media and academics believe PM Herman Van Rompuy is the most likely candidate for EU President. Van Rompuy has been a consensus-builder during his year in the Prime Minister's office and throughout his political career of more than 35 years. Van Rompuy shares a deep [...] | 2009-11-13 08:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR BE |
09BRUSSELS1522 | THE TREATY OF LISBON: AN OVERVIEW OF FORTHCOMING EU [...] (U) The Treaty of Lisbon, now scheduled to enter into force on December 1, is intended to streamline EU decision-making and to enhance EU effectiveness on the world scene through a series of institutional reforms. Changes of key interest to the USG include the creation of two new positions: pe [...] | 2009-11-13 11:43:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS1544 | U.S. AND EU RENEW DIALOGUE ON EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary in the Office of Disability Employment Policy Kathleen Martinez led a U.S. delegation in frank discussions with their EU counterparts during the U.S.-EU Seminar on Employment of Persons with Disabilities on November 5 and 6. A set of common approaches and problem [...] | 2009-11-19 10:16:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM EUN |
09BRUSSELS1554 | BELGIUM: JEWISH LEADERS CONCERNED BY ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A diverse range of opinions were voiced at the October 21 Jewish Leader roundtable. Anti-Semitism in Belgium expresses itself through youth violence and a common fear of wearing Jewish religious symbols in public since the second intifada in 2000. At one tenth the size o [...] | 2009-11-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SCUL IS BE |
09BRUSSELS1556 | BELGIUM: JEWISH LEADERS CONCERNED BY ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A diverse range of opinions were voiced at the October 21 Jewish Leader roundtable. Anti-Semitism in Belgium expresses itself through youth violence and a common fear of wearing Jewish religious symbols in public since the second intifada in 2000. At one tenth the size o [...] | 2009-11-20 15:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SCUL IS BE |
09BRUSSELS1569 | EU NOVEMBER GAERC - SELECTIONS FOR EU POSITIONS [...] (U) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers met November 16-17 in Brussels for their biannual "jumbo" or "super" General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) that included a November 16 informal meeting with EU Defense Ministers and a November 17 meeting with EU Development Ministers. Highli [...] | 2009-11-23 14:54:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN AF AL BO BK MK UP RS MOPS |
09BRUSSELS1579 | BELGIUM: KING ASKS FORMER PM MARTENS TO SMOOTH PATH [...] (SBU) After current Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was selected on November 19 as the first permanent President of the European Council, King Albert asked Minister of State and former PM Wilfried Martens to come back from retirement to serve as a "mediator" between the five parties t [...] | 2009-11-24 13:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS1580 | SCENESETTER FOR BILATERAL MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, Embassy Brussels welcomes your visit to Brussels on December 3-4 and your meetings with the in-coming Belgian Prime Minister, Yves Leterme, and the Foreign Minister, most likely Steven Vanackere. Your visit occurs at a moment when Belgians are poised to take a leading [...] | 2009-11-24 14:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR ECON BE AF |
09BRUSSELS1581 | AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S NOVEMBER 9 MEETING WITH [...] Summary: The Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on Charles Michel, Belgium's Minister for Development Cooperation, on November 9. Michel's ministry creates policy and oversees administration of a large part of Belgium's official development assistance to Afghanistan, Central Africa an [...] | 2009-11-24 15:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV BE AF CG |
09BRUSSELS1582 | BELGIUM: NEW LETERME GOVERNMENT EXPECTED NOVEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 16:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR BE |
09BRUSSELS1583 | BELGIUM: SUPPORTING MACEDONIA'S EU MEMBERSHIP AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 16:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EU EUN GR MK BE |
09BRUSSELS1592 | BELGIUM: LETERME II GOVERNMENT SWORN IN NOVEMBER 25 [...] (U) A new Belgian government was sworn in by King Albert II on Wednesday, November 25, highlighted by the return of Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) Yves Leterme as Prime Minister, and fellow CD&V member Steven Vanackere replacing Leterme as Foreign Minister. Leterme served as PM from March [...] | 2009-11-25 15:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BE |
09BRUSSELS1605 | GTIP DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAN KENNELLY'S MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary. GTIP Deputy Director Nan Kennelly met October 16 with Justice Ministry officials, a federal police officer in Antwerp, and Ambassador Gutman to discuss trends in trafficking in persons (TIP) in Belgium. She also stressed to the Justice Ministry the importance of obtaining up-to [...] | 2009-11-30 16:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS1606 | EU: HELP US REFORM CONGO'S ARMY [...] (C) On November 23, 2009, Charge received a written request from Javier Solana, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy formally seeking the participation the EU's security sectt U.S. would: foster better-cooral efforts to reform the D inhonn the EU Political a [...] | 2009-12-01 05:48:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN MARR PREL PINS MOPS XA PHUM PGOV CG |
09BRUSSELS1609 | DELIVERY OF LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO EU [...] (C) USEU delivered reftel letter from Secretary Clinton to newly appointed EU High Representative Catherine Ashton December 1--her first day in office. USEU also passed copies of the letter to EU Council and Commission officers resopnsible for Palestinian issues, who undertook to provide a r [...] | 2009-12-01 14:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL EAID PGOV EUN WBG |
09BRUSSELS1615 | EU PREPARING NEW HIGH REPRESENTATIVE TO PRESS BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff delivered reftel demarche to European Council Secretariat contact on November 30 who commented on the similarities between our policy points and the briefing paper he prepared for the new High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, Catherine Ashton. While the Council Secre [...] | 2009-12-01 16:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM EU |
09BRUSSELS1621 | MINISTERS TO DECIDE FINAL WORDING ON CONTENTIOUS [...] (C/NF) USEU Deputy Pol M-C spoke separately to Swedish, Italian and Spanish diplomats December 1 and 2 about the draft text on Middle East peace being prepared as a formal conclusion to be adopted at the December 7-8 Foreign Affairs Council (FAC--which replaces the GAERC). All three diplomats [...] | 2009-12-02 14:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EUN KWBG IS |
09BRUSSELS1629 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE'S DECEMBER 2 [...] (C) Summary: On December 2, Richard Holbrooke discussed President Obama's newly announced Afghanistan strategy with Steven Vanackere, the Foreign Minister of Belgium. Holbrooke said the strategy involves and increase in troops and training for the Afghan army and police to enable foreign tro [...] | 2009-12-03 13:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AF BE |
09BRUSSELS1633 | DHS SECRETARY NAPOLITANO'S NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: DHS Secretary Napolitano met November 6 with Belgian Minister of Interior Annemie Turtelboom to promote information sharing and security. The Secretary stressed the importance of finding a solution for the Swift Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) issue prior to December 1. [...] | 2009-12-03 17:14:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN KHLS KISL BE EU |
09BRUSSELS1635 | BELGIUM: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-04 09:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BM BE |
09BRUSSELS1637 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S DECEMBER 3 BILAT MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Richard Holbrooke held a bilateral meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on December 3 in Brussels to discuss the President's December 2 speech, Afghanistan's scheduled Parliamentary elections in May 2010, [...] | 2009-12-04 12:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM AF EUN |
09BRUSSELS1638 | INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN EFFORT IN AFGHANISTAN: [...] (S) SUMMARY: During Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke's December 2 meeting with NATO and EU SRAP counterparts he: -- Elicited a consensus among SRAPs that Afghan elections in May 2010 were neither possible nor desirable until electoral and constitutional [...] | 2009-12-04 16:39:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET | AF EUN MARR MOPS PGOV PREL EAID PINS |
09BRUSSELS1639 | HOLBROOKE & FM BILDT ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS, CIVILIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt told Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke in a December 3 meeting in Brussels that he agreed that Afghan elections due to be held in May 2010 must be postponed. He advocated using the upcoming releases of OSCE, [...] | 2009-12-04 18:28:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS EAID PINS PGOV PREL EUN SW PK IN |
09BRUSSELS1646 | VLAAMS BELANG BLUES: LONG STANDING PARTY DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-festering divisions inside the far-right Vlaams Belang (VB) have resulted in an open rift, with three party mainstays opting to resign from the party's executive board. Party President Bruno Valkeniers has managed to impose some face-saving cosmetic changes to the part [...] | 2009-12-07 17:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BE |
09BRUSSELS1656 | CHALLENGES WITH CHINA DISCUSSED AT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent EU-China human rights dialogue dominated discussions during the December 4 human rights exchange (HRE) on China. Participants from the EU, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Canada and the U.S. also discussed efforts to mainstre [...] | 2009-12-09 14:38:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EU |
09BRUSSELS1658 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S DEC 4 MEETING WITH KOREAN DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke met with South Korean Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Lee Yong-joon on the margins of the December 4 NATO Ministerial in Brussels. Lee said the Korean Parliament would discuss the GOK's planned PRT for Afghanistan in approximately two weeks. Korean fi [...] | 2009-12-10 13:39:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS EAID PINS PGOV PREL EUN SW PK IN |
09BRUSSELS1666 | SCENESETTER FOR BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PIETER DE [...] (C) Summary: Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem has been in office since March 2008 and is one of the United States' strongest friends in the Belgian government. Under his leadership, Belgium has returned its focus to NATO as the orienting factor in its defense policy. Now, Belgium is p [...] | 2009-12-11 15:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MNUC BE AF |
09BRUSSELS1684 | ENDING EU UNCERTAINTY ON EUPOL AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) In conversations with visiting S/CRS Ambassador Herbst and USEU poloffs on December 16 and 17, both EU Council Secretariat officials and diplomats from the Spanish EU delegation underlined the EU's continuing desire for a U.S.-EU technical agreement to enable EU civpol to deploy to U.S.- [...] | 2009-12-18 11:28:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS EAID PINS PGOV PREL EUN SP AF |
09BRUSSELS171 | EU INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Per reftel, this is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for the European Union. Post will email Word versions as instructed in reftel. The statement covers the following categories: --Openness to Foreign Investment Q-Conversion and Transfer Policies --Expropriation and Compensation -- [...] | 2009-02-06 11:28:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC BE |
09BRUSSELS1718 | BRUSSELS APPELLATE COURT ACQUITS DHKP-C OF [...] (U) Belgian media reported December 23 that the Brussels Appellate Court found the six defendants in the on-going DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party active in Turkey) case not guilty under Belgium's 2005 counterterrorism law. The defendants are Turks who were arrested in 1999 in [...] | 2009-12-23 15:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KISL TU BE |
09BRUSSELS1719 | EEB A/S FERNANDEZ IN BRUSSELS: IMPACT OF LISBON TREATY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During discussions with EU officials and stakeholders in Brussels on December 9-10, EEB Assistant Secretary Fernandez explored the current state of, and prospects for, the transatlantic economic relationship, the future of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC),the impact of t [...] | 2009-12-23 16:25:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS1724 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION BRIEFS THE EU'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Briefing the EU Council Political and Security Committee (PSC) in Brussels on December 18, Special Envoy Scott Gration said that the U.S. seeks to end the conflict in Darfur, supports the North-South Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and wants to keep Sudan from becomin [...] | 2009-12-24 09:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS PINR PREF SMIG KAWC KPKO |
09BRUSSELS1733 | U.S.-EU Drugs Troika Advances Counternarcotics Cooperation [...] (SBU) Summary: INL Assistant Secretary David T. Johnson led the U.S. delegation (USDEL) to the U.S.-EU Informal Drugs Troika meeting on December 1, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting focused primarily on U.S.-EU cooperation in combating West African drug trafficking, and produced the foll [...] | 2009-12-29 16:41:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCOR KCRM PGOV VXY EUN ZL |
09BRUSSELS1737 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR DEFENDS GO-SLOW ATTITUDE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Interior Annemie Turtelboom on December 16 to discuss possible contributions to police training in Afghanistan. Turtelboom took credit for obtaining cabinet approval for sending two or three police trainers and a magistrate to the EUPOL Afghani [...] | 2009-12-30 16:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS1740 | DEMARCHE TO EU ON AMCIT CASES IN IRAN [...] (C) On December 21, 2009, USEU Senior Consular Representative delivered ref A non-paper and talking points to Giorgio Porzio, Head of the Consular Communication Unit at the EU Council's Joint Situation Center. Porzio promised to relay the non-paper to Ambassador Maria Victoria Morera Villuen [...] | 2009-12-31 14:12:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EUN IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER |
09BRUSSELS21 | BELGIUM MLAT UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-08 14:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN EUN KCRM KTIA PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS218 | DISCUSSIONS AT U.S.-EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS [...] (U) This is an action request telegram; please see paragraph 29. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Participants at the U.S.-European Union (EU) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Informal Meeting in Prague February 5 to 6, 2009, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of cooperation against terr [...] | 2009-02-13 17:08:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUM CZ |
09BRUSSELS232 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU WEIGHING MAURITANIA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with Guido Carrara, European Commission Mauritania desk officer, and Ambassador Petr Kopriva, Africa director at the Czech PermRep to the European Union, both of whom were cautiously optimistic the EU will consider targeted sanctions against key junta leaders [...] | 2009-02-19 12:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MR ETTC CVIS EUN |
09BRUSSELS236 | CZECH MFA EASTERN EUROPE DIRECTOR ON THE BALKANS [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a dinner with Poloff February 18, Czech MFA Eastern and Southeastern Europe Director Tomas Szunyog was most interested in learning U.S. views about Bosnia. While acknowledging that a decision to close the Office of the High Representative (OHR) was unlikely at the March Pe [...] | 2009-02-19 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PBTS EUN AL HR KK SR SI EZ |
09BRUSSELS24 | BELGIUM FIVE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS TO BE HELD FOR [...] (SBU) A Brussels Court decided January 7 to extend for a period of 30 days the detention period of five of the six suspected terrorists held since December 11, 2008. The sixth, Jean-Cristophe Trefois, a Belgian citizen who converted to radical Islam will be held for 15 days, after prosecutors [...] | 2009-01-08 16:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS247 | AFGHANISTAN: GENERAL PETRAEUS HITS RE-SET BUTTON [...] (C) Summary. General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command, discussed Afghanistan with representatives from all 27 EU member states and other high-ranking EU officials in Brussels February 11 and 12. General Petraeus emphasized that his objective in meeting the EU was to consult [...] | 2009-02-20 16:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR NATO MARR AF AID BE EAID |
09BRUSSELS248 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. PLANS FOR MARCH 2 [...] (C) Summary: Drawing on Reftel points USEU discussed the March 2 donors' conference with EU officials and representatives of the Czech and Norwegian missions in Brussels, as well as with the EU's humanitarian aid organization, ECHO. According to our interlocutors, Javier Solana, Commissioner [...] | 2009-02-20 16:22:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EU KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER |
09BRUSSELS249 | BELGIUM: PETERCAM CHIEF ECONOMIST SPEAKS OUT ON [...] (SBU) This cable should not be posted on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Petercam Chief Economist Geert Noels (protect) told econoffs on February 19 that worries about Fortis' health are largely unwarranted, in his opinion. Petercam is Belgium's largest merchant bank, and has very good contacts [...] | 2009-02-20 17:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS250 | BELGIAN VIEWS ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (C) Summary: Belgium's main objective for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2010 Review Conference is making progress not only on non-proliferation but also disarmament, showing concrete results. The GOB would like to see the United States engage Iran on a bilateral basis. The USG [...] | 2009-02-23 09:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09BRUSSELS261 | EU ARCTIC POLICY: BRUSSELS LOOKS NORTH [...] (SBU) On February 20, Janos Herman, Policy Advisor and Deputy Political Director, DG External Relations, called on USEU's Economic Section to discuss the policy paper (i.e., communication) "The European Union and the Arctic Region" (issued in November) and the Commission's request for observer [...] | 2009-02-24 10:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SENV EUN |
09BRUSSELS267 | SCENESETTER FOR ACTING A/S CARTER WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] Acting A/S Carter, your trip to Brussels comes at a time when the Belgian government is eager for dialogue with the United States on Africa. Your willingness to meet MFA Africa policy hands will help show that the U.S. takes Belgian views seriously and is willing to consider coordinating with [...] | 2009-02-25 15:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS PREF PINS SOCI MOPS MARR |
09BRUSSELS280 | UNITY QUEST: CENTRAL EUROPEAN EFFORTS TO FORGE EU [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Renewed efforts by the Central Europeans to approach energy security from a common EU position are being obstructed by a lack of member state unity on the issue. Holding the rotating presidency of the European Council, the Czech Republic has made energy security [...] | 2009-02-27 12:28:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN ENRG EPET XH |
09BRUSSELS284 | ITALIANS SEEKING U.S. SUPPORT ON BOSNIA TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a lunch meeting with the Charge March 2, Italian PSC Ambassador Andrea Meloni sought U.S. support for changes to the international community's political and military posture in Bosnia. Fearing a loss of EU credibility in Bosnia if a new EUSR were not appointed quickly, Meloni [...] | 2009-03-02 14:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN BK IT |
09BRUSSELS293 | FRANCOPHONE LIBERAL REYNDERS EYES JUNE REGIONAL [...] Summary: In the upcoming June European and Regional elections, the Francophone Liberal (MR) party, led by Didier Reynders, seeks to become the number one party in the Walloon and Brussels regional governments. The MR's stronghold is Brussels, but Wallonia remains a contested area. Reynders h [...] | 2009-03-03 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS30 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION SUSPENDS AID TO NICARAGUAN [...] (C) On January 9, PolOff delivered reftel points to Petros Mavromichalis, head of the Mexico and Central America unit in the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations. Mavromichalis echoed U.S. concerns about the Government of Nicaragua's backsliding on democracy. Whe [...] | 2009-01-09 16:40:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL NU EUN |
09BRUSSELS314 | ACTING A/S CARTER'S MEETING WITH BELGIANS ON AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: Acting A/S Carter had a positive exchange of views with the Belgian MFA Africa Team at a breakfast hosted by Charge February 26. The MFA was represented by Africa Director Guy Trouveroy, Minister De Gucht's Deputy Chef du Cabinet Jean-Luc Bodson, Great Lakes Envoy Karl Dehaene, an [...] | 2009-03-06 10:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS CG BE |
09BRUSSELS315 | BELGIUM: MLAT TREATIES TO DEBUT IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) PolOff and PolIntern met with Foreign Minister De Gucht's Cabinet Director for Parliamentary Affairs Lieve De Cock and Ann De Ridder from the MFA Treaty Department March 4 to discuss the progress of the draft ratification legislation for the US-EU Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Ag [...] | 2009-03-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CJAN KCRM EUN KTIA BE |
09BRUSSELS324 | SCENESETTER FOR AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER YATES [...] (U) Deputy to the Commander of AFRICOM Yates, your trip to Brussels comes at a time when the Belgian government is eager for dialogue with the United States on Africa. Secretary of State Clinton met with Foreign Minister De Gucht March 6, and much of what De Gucht brought up centered on Africa [...] | 2009-03-11 05:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS CG BE |
09BRUSSELS327 | BELGIAN MFA VIEWS ON FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: CIA manager for South Asian analysis William Richardson met on March 3 with Christian Tanghe, Director for Asia, and Alain Hanssen, Director for South Asia, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Belgian officials expressed concern about the role played by Pakistan in the conflic [...] | 2009-03-11 08:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BE AF |
09BRUSSELS331 | CENTRAL EUROPEANS DRIVE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP BUT [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Experts on EU policy development point to the EU's Eastern Partnership Initiative as the most successful example of how Central European member states have been able to influence EU foreign policy to date. The Eastern Partnership is designed to encourage politic [...] | 2009-03-11 18:03:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EUN XG |
09BRUSSELS364 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLEDGE AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH [...] Mission confirms as reported reftel that the European Commission pledged EURO 440 million (approximately $572 million at an exchange rate of $1.3 to the Euro) for Palestinian assistance at the Sharm al-Sheikh donor conference. In announcing the pledge Commissioner Betina Ferrero-Waldner said [...] | 2009-03-13 15:17:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER PREL EAID EUN |
09BRUSSELS382 | STRUCTURAL FUNDS OFFER CENTRAL EUROPE MEANS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. Over the next four to six years, the ten Central European Member States that joined the EU since 2004 have the opportunity to avail themselves of some $223 billion (176.6 billion Euros) of EU Structural and Cohesion funds. These funds were established to advan [...] | 2009-03-17 16:56:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM EUN EFIN BEXP EIND EAID XG |
09BRUSSELS391 | INTRODUCING THE EUROPEAN UNION, PART VI: THE ACCESSION [...] The EU has been growing from the founding "Six" to the current EU-27. Enlargement is viewed as one of the EU's most successful policies and a powerful foreign policy tool for extending a zone of peace and democracy across the European continent. The tight conditions for membership and the va [...] | 2009-03-18 17:41:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN TU HR CY XH |
09BRUSSELS394 | EU SUDAN POLICY FOCUSES ON ENGAGEMENT THROUGH [...] (C) Summary: EU foreign ministers agreed this week that EU policy on Sudan should focus not on direct engagement with President Bashir, but rather on convincing African, Arab and other countries with influence in Sudan to intervene. The EU also agreed to keep the ICC decision and the subsequ [...] | 2009-03-19 15:27:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID SU EUN |
09BRUSSELS411 | Experts Meeting on Regional Economic Cooperation on [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Commission hosted a meeting of experts March 17 in Brussels to develop tangible areas for regional projects centered on Afghanistan ahead of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECC),to be held in Islamabad, perhaps in May. Experts repres [...] | 2009-03-23 12:36:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC BE AF |
09BRUSSELS413 | AFTER THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL: BARROSO HEADING TOWARD SECOND [...] (U) SUMMARY. Last week's European Council meeting appears to have been fruitful for Jose Manuel Barroso. Contacts among the EU leaders seemed to have helped Barroso regain what may prove decisive momentum in his campaign to be reappointed President of the EU Commission. His current five-yea [...] | 2009-03-23 15:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS420 | BELGIAN ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AFTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 15:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER EUN BE |
09BRUSSELS425 | Experts Meeting on Regional Economic Cooperation on [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Commission hosted a meeting of experts March 17 in Brussels to develop tangible areas for regional projects centered on Afghanistan ahead of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECC),to be held in Islamabad, perhaps in May. Experts represen [...] | 2009-03-25 15:03:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC BE AF |
09BRUSSELS430 | THREE FLEMISH MAJORITY PARTIES MAKE PROJECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The three major Flemish parties are in full gear campaigning for the regional elections June 7, 2009. Unable to buy more than four small TV segments, the parties are reaching out to voters through posters, mail, grass roots campaigning and any free publicity they can get in the new [...] | 2009-03-26 05:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS446 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU PREPARED TO INCREASE AMISOM [...] The European Commission has allocated 40 million euros for AMISOM support in 2008-2009 and is prepared to spend more if the African Union is able to absorb it, according to contacts. Poloff delivered reftel points March 27 to Ragnheidur Roubineau, Somalia desk officer at the Council Secretari [...] | 2009-03-27 14:02:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO SO EUN |
09BRUSSELS447 | THE STOCKHOLM PROGRAM: EUROPEAN UNION'S NEXT [...] (U) The European Union (EU) will adopt a new five-year program in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) in 2009, which will succeed the Hague Program in place since 2005. This program will outline EU-wide policy priorities and objectives for the years 2010-2014. In honor of the (July t [...] | 2009-03-27 15:13:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PREL KCRM SNAR PGOV SOCI CVIS |
09BRUSSELS453 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR UPGRADED TRANSATLANTIC TIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 14:19:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EUN |
09BRUSSELS454 | BELGIUM: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (S/NF) Post concurs with the items on Belgium's 2008 Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources list. 2. (S/NF) Port of Antwerp: The Port of Antwerp, despite the global economic downturn, remains a critical transit point for shipping to and from the United States, including at times U.S. mil [...] | 2009-03-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP BE |
09BRUSSELS455 | AFRICOM'S AMB YATES MEETS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND MOD [...] (C) Summary. AFRICOM's Deputy to the Commander for Civ/Mil Activities (DCMA) Mary Carlin Yates met with the Belgian MOD March 12 and MFA March 13 to share opinions and learn about Belgium's efforts in Africa. Ambassador Yates explained AFRICOM's mission and its holistic approach to supportin [...] | 2009-03-30 15:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS SOCI MNUC CG BE |
09BRUSSELS456 | AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER YATES' MARCH 12 MEETINGS [...] (S/NF) Summary: AFRICOM Deputy to the Commander for Civ/Mil Activities (DCMA) Mary Carlin Yates received a wide variety of opinions and input March 12 during meetings with representatives of the NGO community in Brussels, a lunch with Belgian parliamentarians, and a dinner with several Africa [...] | 2009-03-30 15:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS MNUC CG BE |
09BRUSSELS464 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU ON URGING IRAN TO RELEASE [...] (C) On March 30, USEU Mission officers delivered reftel demarche to EU Council Secretariat and Czech Presidency officials on the need for diplomatic pressure on Iran to release detained American citizen Roxana Saberi. Mission officers reviewed the case separately with Daniel Mic, Counselor [...] | 2009-03-31 13:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN IR |
09BRUSSELS475 | BELGIAN MFA ON NEW RESOURCES FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) The Belgian government has been considering for the past several weeks what actions it can take to support the need for an enhanced effort against the Taliban in Afghanistan, as outlined in the ref B white paper. Embassy delivered the white paper to the Belgian MFA's Office of Security Af [...] | 2009-04-01 14:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR EAID BE |
09BRUSSELS477 | CONCERNS OVER SIGNS OF GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of the umbrella organization of Jewish organizations in Belgium told the Charge and Pol/Econ Counselor on March 11 that he was concerned by signs of growing anti-Semitism in Belgium. Joel Rubinfeld, head of the Comite de Coordination d'Organisations Juives de Belgique [...] | 2009-04-02 04:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS478 | PM VAN ROMPUY OUTLINES HIS GOVERNMENT'S PRIORITIES [...] (U) Summary: Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, in a series of interviews with the Belgian press over the March 28-29, 2009 weekend, outlined his government's five top priorities. These priorities are: balancing the budget, the regularization of immigration, whether to phase out nucl [...] | 2009-04-02 07:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS496 | CENTRAL EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE SHOWS COALITION [...] (C) Summary and Introduction. Experts agree that effective EU policymaking is driven by coalitions among member states. They also agree that the Central European states that joined the EU since 2004 have only recently begun to employ coalition building. As a corollary, some EU experts cont [...] | 2009-04-02 16:20:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EUN XG ECON EFIN SENV |
09BRUSSELS497 | CHARGE'S VISIT TO MONS, BELGIUM [...] Summary: On March 30 Embassy Brussels Charge traveled with Embassy officers to the town of Mons in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Mons is a major town in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Brussels. The Charge met with the Governor of Hainaut Province, a city councilman of Mons, and t [...] | 2009-04-03 06:33:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV BE |
09BRUSSELS516 | BELGIAN JUSTICE MINISTER ON PRIORITIES, TRABELSI [...] (C) Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck, reprising his role as Justice Minister from an earlier government, told the Charge d'affaires on March 2, 2009 that his top priorities in his new post were to improve the efficiency of the judicial system in executing sanctions against criminals; modern [...] | 2009-04-06 15:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV JUS BE |
09BRUSSELS551 | BELGIUM:SPLIT BETWEEN LEFTISTS AND CENTRISTS COULD [...] (C) Summary: The Flemish Socialist Party (sp.a) is undergoing an internal struggle between leftists and centrists that could send it into the opposition after the June 7, 2009 regional elections. The party is currently part of the three party Flemish regional government with the Christian Dem [...] | 2009-04-09 15:32:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS558 | DEMARCHE ON BURMA POLICY DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 12:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD BM BE |
09BRUSSELS560 | EU COMMISSION OFFICIAL DETAILS CHINA,S SATELLITE [...] (S//NF) An EU Commission official provided insight to China,s efforts within the EU to acquire sensitive technologies, specifically those developed for the Galileo Satellite Navigation program. He explained that the mehods employed by China's Ministry of Science nd Technology (MOST) have only [...] | 2009-04-15 05:15:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | CH EAIR ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL TSPA EINV |
09BRUSSELS561 | EU COMMISSION OFFICIAL DETAILS CHINA,S SATELLITE [...] (S//NF) An EU Commission official provided insight to China,s efforts within the EU to acquire sensitive technologies, specifically those developed for the Galileo Satellite Navigation program. He explained that the methods employed by China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) have on [...] | 2009-04-15 05:28:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | CH EAIR ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL TSPA EINV |
09BRUSSELS566 | THE PLIGHT OF MON810: POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE IN THE EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 14, the German Ministry of Agriculture announced a ban on the cultivation and sale of Monsanto's GMO corn MON810, the only GMO varietal currently approved for cultivation in the European Union, in Germany. The German action follows the March 22 announcement by Luxembou [...] | 2009-04-16 13:15:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS57 | ANTWERP THE CITY OF DIVERSITY: TWO OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with two activists of Moroccan descent in Antwerp January 14 to get their readout on how local government engagement with the Muslim community and a readout on the January 4 demonstrations against Israel which became violent. The Antwerp police detained about 90 youth [...] | 2009-01-15 15:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL BE |
09BRUSSELS579 | EU REACTION TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Brussels-based EU officials working on Burma policy issues appreciated receiving reftel points on the status of the ongoing U.S. policy review. Although the EU still intends a straight rollover of its Common Position and restrictive measures, Foreign Ministers may issue politic [...] | 2009-04-17 19:33:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ETRD BM EUN |
09BRUSSELS580 | BELGIAN SHIP SEIZED BY SOMALI PIRATES AND AID [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian ship Pompei was seized by Somali pirates the morning of April 18. The ship is expected to reach the Somali coast on April 22 after a 70 hour voyage. Two aid workers from Doctors without Borders were also kidnapped April 19 in the Bokol region of Somalia. The Belgian [...] | 2009-04-20 09:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS BE SO |
09BRUSSELS583 | CdH OFFICIAL ON PARTY PHILOSOPHY AND ITS CHANCES IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: The cdH is a center-left party that is the third largest in Wallonia and Brussels regions. Formerly known as the Christian Democratic party, it puts an emphasis on values and on individual fulfillment as a major guide for decision making. In the upcoming regional elections, the [...] | 2009-04-20 15:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS588 | SCENE-SETTER FOR A/S CARTER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (SBU) Since your last visit to Brussels, dialogue between the U.S. and Belgium on Africa has continued. Belgian interest is currently focused on the plight of the Belgian ship taken over by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean April 17, and a Belgian doctor kidnapped in Somalia at the same time [...] | 2009-04-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS CG SO SU CD RW BY BN |
09BRUSSELS589 | BELGIAN LT GENERAL BUYSE SHARES LESSONS LEARNED IN [...] (C) Summary: Belgium's Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, Lieutenant General Jean-Paul Buyse, shared Belgian experience and lessons learned in Africa with Africom's Commander, Gen. William Ward and his staff during a visit to Africom HQ in Stuttgart on April 15. Buyse provid [...] | 2009-04-22 15:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM CG BE |
09BRUSSELS622 | INTRODUCING THE EU, PART VII: EU-U.S. COOPERATION UNDER THE [...] (U) Policy consultation and coordination between the United States and European Union has grown enormously over the past decade, and in many respects now rivals the level of discussion we have with such key allies as the UK, Germany and Japan. Our policy relationship with the EU differs from [...] | 2009-04-30 13:22:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EUN |
09BRUSSELS625 | BELGIUM STILL CONSIDERING POLICE TRAINERS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian government at the cabinet level is interested in providing police trainers to Afghanistan in cooperation with the UE or NATO. However, it is running into internal opposition by the Belgian Federal Police, which would have to provide the officers to staff such a missio [...] | 2009-04-30 14:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL EAID NATO AF BE |
09BRUSSELS629 | A/S FRIED MEETS WITH EU OFFICIALS ON RESETTLING [...] (C) The EU Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Gilles de Kerchove, and the European Commission Director General for Justice, Freedom, and Security, Jonathan Faull, informed A/S Fried and a U.S. interagency delegation in Brussels April 27 that the EU anticipates having a common political position [...] | 2009-04-30 17:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EUN EG |
09BRUSSELS648 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH BELGIUM'S PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy told Charge May 5 that he was very impressed by President Obama during their recent contacts in Strasbourg and Prague, especially the President's active role at the NATO summit in forging unanimity on the selection of a new NATO Secretary [...] | 2009-05-07 11:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN SENV PGOV ECON PINR BE |
09BRUSSELS654 | VLAAMS BELANG: FLANDERS' FAR RIGHT PARTY LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: The Far Right Vlaams Belang (VB) is campaigning hard in the run-up to the June 7 regional and European elections. The most notable slogans since the campaign began on March 7 are "Flemish Money in Flemish Hands" and "This is Our Land." These slogans are meant to conjure the VB's [...] | 2009-05-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL BE |
09BRUSSELS655 | VLAAMS BELANG: FLANDERS' FAR RIGHT PARTY LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: The Far Right Vlaams Belang (VB) is campaigning hard in the run-up to the June 7 regional and European elections. The most notable slogans since the campaign began on March 7 are "Flemish Money in Flemish Hands" and "This is Our Land." These slogans are meant to conjure the VB's [...] | 2009-05-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL BE |
09BRUSSELS656 | BELGIAN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The National Center for Development Cooperation is an umbrella organization for Belgian francophone NGOs providing development assistance worldwide, including some working in Afghanistan. Its Director, Arnaud Zacharie, was open to the need for assistance to Afghanistan and the id [...] | 2009-05-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS658 | BELGIAN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The National Center for Development Cooperation is an umbrella organization for Belgian francophone NGOs providing development assistance worldwide, including some working in Afghanistan. Its Director, Arnaud Zacharie, was open to the need for assistance to Afghanistan and the id [...] | 2009-05-08 15:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS659 | WALLONIA AND BRUSSELS REGIONAL ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgian voters will go to the polls in regional elections on June 7. The outcome of the election is not likely to shake the foundations of the federal government coalition unless a major upset of one of the federal coalition parties occurs, which would discredit some of the tr [...] | 2009-05-08 16:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON BE |
09BRUSSELS669 | A MONTH TO THE FLEMISH REGIONAL ELECTIONS: STATUS [...] (C) Summary: The Flemish regional elections will be held on June 7, along with the European Parliament Elections. Though PM Van Rompuy has said regional elections do not affect the federal government, all major national political decisions have been put on hold until after the regional electio [...] | 2009-05-11 15:53:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS679 | GOB STILL WILLING TO CONSIDER RESETTLING [...] (C) Summary: Belgium remains supportive of U.S. efforts to resettle Guantanamo detainees and is willing to consider specific proposals for resettlement, according to the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor Dirk Wouters. Wouters discounted comments by Alain Winants, Belgium's head of State Sec [...] | 2009-05-13 13:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS684 | BURMA: EU CONCERNED ABOUT ASSK HEALTH, PREPARING [...] (C) Poloff shared reftel points with Leo Nordholt Schulte, Burma Desk Officer at the European Council General Secretariat on May 10. Schulte said that the EU shared U.S. concerns about the continued detention and health of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),and planned to raise her detention when the [...] | 2009-05-13 15:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BM EUN |
09BRUSSELS693 | CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY MAIN OBSTACLE TO BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Thomas Baekelandt, told Charge on May 13 that Belgium's main concern about taking detainees from Guantanamo is the risk to Belgian and European security. He also said he would want to know why the U.S [...] | 2009-05-15 14:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS695 | MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO MAINTAIN OHRID IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: In his first meeting with EU High Representative (HR) Solana in Brussels on May 13, Macedonian President Ivanov pledged that Macedonia will "maintain Ohrid" and continue on the path of reforms necessary to achieve EU membership. Solana informed Ivanov that Macedonia would be [...] | 2009-05-15 17:51:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN KK MK GR |
09BRUSSELS697 | BELGIUM DESIRES TO "PRESERVE UNSCR 1267" BY ADDING [...] (C) On May 13, Charge met with Thomas Baekelandt, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Baekelandt said that sanctions under UNSCR 1267 against terrorist financing entities such as Al Barakat have been challenged in Belgian courts and in the European Court [...] | 2009-05-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ETTC PGOV PREL KTFN UN BE |
09BRUSSELS715 | DONNYBROOKS AND DEBACLES: BELGIUM'S REGIONAL [...] Summary: The Belgian regional and European elections will be held on June 7, and both Flemish and Francophone parties have used mudslinging tactics to get ahead in the polls. For the Flemish elections, the media fight between the Liberals and the populist Lijst Dedecker have hurt both parties, [...] | 2009-05-20 16:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS742 | SPECIAL ENVOY DAN FRIED DISCUSSES GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure (S/GC) Daniel Fried met with a group of Belgian officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Interior and Immigration on May 19. The group was chaired by Axel Delvoie, Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs of the MFA. Fried inf [...] | 2009-05-29 09:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV BE AF |
09BRUSSELS750 | A/S CARTER'S APRIL 23 MEETING WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] (C) Summary: The Charge hosted a breakfast April 23 for visiting Acting A/S for African Affairs Phillip Carter and NSC Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin with the Belgian MFA Africa Team. The Belgian guests were Deputy Chief of Cabinet to FM De Gucht Jean-Luc Bodson, Africa Director Gu [...] | 2009-05-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CG BE |
09BRUSSELS755 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS I: THE SETTING [...] SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP),the only multinational parliamentary assembly in the world elected by universal suffrage, will be re-elected 4-7 June across the 27 member states of the European Union for another five-year term. The EP's 754 members will represent 500 million citizens. [...] | 2009-06-02 11:11:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EUN ECON |
09BRUSSELS762 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS II: THE ISSUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Because of the June 4-7 European Parliament elections, there is no legislative activity btween early May and September. The economic risis and Turkey's accession are pan-European themes in some European Parliament campaigns. Unlike in the 2004 EP elections, U.S.-EU relations are [...] | 2009-06-02 16:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU EUN ECON |
09BRUSSELS770 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS III - A WHO-WILL-BE-WHO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Key posts in the European Parliament (EP) will be distributed in July. The five-year EP Presidency is likely to be shared between Jerzy Buzcek (EPP-ED, Poland) for the first half-term and Martin Schulz (PES, Germany) for the second, although other contenders are in the wings. T [...] | 2009-06-03 16:20:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EUN ECON |
09BRUSSELS779 | BELGIUM: PKK UPDATE [...] (S) Summary: Poloff and Polintern met with MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Thomas Baekelandt June 4 to receive an update on the PKK (DHKP/C) in Belgium prior to Deputy CT Coordinator Schlicher's scheduled trip to Brussels June 9. Poloff and Legatt also met with Belgian Federal Police Islam E [...] | 2009-06-05 09:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | KTFN PGOV PREL PTER IZ BE |
09BRUSSELS784 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE [...] (SBU) Mission delivered reftel demarche to officials who cover the Middle East at the EU Council, European Commission, and Czech Mission (the current EU presidency). According to the director for Middle East affairs at the Council, the upcoming Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting was di [...] | 2009-06-05 13:19:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAL PGOV PREL EU |
09BRUSSELS792 | BELGIAN FRANCOPHONE GREEN PARTY GEARS UP TO FORM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 28 meeting with the Charge d'Affaires, Belgian francophone green party Ecolo co-president, Jean-Michel Javaux, struck a warm and appreciative tone as he spoke of his relationship with the United States. He identified the election of President Obama and his more environme [...] | 2009-06-08 13:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SENV BE |
09BRUSSELS793 | BELGIUM'S JUNE 7 REGIONAL ELECTION RESULTS [...] Summary: Belgium's June 7 regional elections showed a clear division between the Flemish, Walloon, and Brussels regions. In Flanders the Christian Democrats (CD&V) remain the largest party with 23.1 percent of the vote total. The next three parties, all losing ground from the last regional [...] | 2009-06-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS813 | FLEMISH POLITICAL INSIDERS' ON REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the June 7 Flemish regional elections, Poloff and Polintern met with members of the four political parties that are likely to participate in the next Flemish regional government. The Flemish Christian-Democrats (CD&V) and current Minister-President Kris Peeters [...] | 2009-06-12 09:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS816 | REGIONAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS STRENGTHEN GREENS AND FLEMISH [...] The results of the June 7 regional and European elections of June 7 will allow the Belgian federal government of Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy (CD&V) to carry on, but the formation of regional government coalitions in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels could cause a reconsideration of the exis [...] | 2009-06-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS830 | BELGIAN POLICE PREPARING FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request for SCA-A. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Belgian Federal Police are preparing a report on the feasibility of sending two to four police trainers to Afghanistan. The contribution is likely to be in the framework of EUPOL-Afghanistan. Belg [...] | 2009-06-17 14:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL EAID NATO AF BE |
09BRUSSELS832 | RESULTS FROM BELGIUM'S EUROPEAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The results from the June 7, 2009 European Parliament elections came out as expected. On the francophone side, the Parti Socialiste (PS) and liberal Mouvement Reformateur (MR) together earned over 50 percent of the vote. The surging Green party, Ecolo, significantly improved upon [...] | 2009-06-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS846 | BELGIAN MUSLIMS REACT TO POTUS SPEECH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM SCUL KISL KWMN MO TU BE |
09BRUSSELS847 | EU LEADERS BACK BARROSO FOR NEW TERM AS COMMISSION HEAD; [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting unanimously backed Jose Manuel Barroso for another five-year term as Commission President, but stopped short of a formal nomination, pending consultations with the European Parliament. Newly elected MEPs will now have an opportu [...] | 2009-06-19 12:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS848 | EU LEADERS BACK BARROSO FOR NEW TERM AS COMMISSION HEAD; [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting unanimously backed Jose Manuel Barroso for another five-year term as Commission President, but stopped short of a formal nomination, pending consultations with the European Parliament. Newly elected MEPs will now have an opportu [...] | 2009-06-19 12:12:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS853 | BELGIAN MUSLIMS REACT TO POTUS SPEECH [...] (U) This cable is a correction for deleted BRUSSELS 846. Population figures for Muslims in para 2 have been revised upwards. 2. (SBU) Summary: At a June 10 luncheon for Muslim community leaders, activists, and academics, Charge elicited the reaction to President Obama's June 4 speech. Bel [...] | 2009-06-19 16:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM SCUL KISL KWMN MO TU BE |
09BRUSSELS855 | EU LEADERS AGREE ON GUARANTEES FOR IRELAND; NEW IRISH VOTE [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting painfully agreed on the format of guarantees designed to persuade Irish voters to back the Lisbon Treaty in another referendum. The specific guarantees do not alter the Lisbon Treaty but provide interpretation of it. They basic [...] | 2009-06-22 05:52:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN EI |
09BRUSSELS856 | EU LEADERS AGREE ON GUARANTEES FOR IRELAND; NEW IRISH VOTE [...] SUMMARY: EU leaders in their June 18-19 European Council meeting painfully agreed on the format of guarantees designed to persuade Irish voters to back the Lisbon Treaty in another referendum. The specific guarantees do not alter the Lisbon Treaty but provide interpretation of it. They bas [...] | 2009-06-22 06:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN EI |
09BRUSSELS865 | BELGIUM'S JUSTICE MINISTRY REACTS TO 2009 TIP [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Poloff and Polintern delivered reftel Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Justice Minister's Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Van den Reeck and Trafficking in Persons Coordinator Paule Somers on June 15. Both [...] | 2009-06-24 09:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL AE BE |
09BRUSSELS868 | CHARGES AGAINST FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-24 15:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS BE |
09BRUSSELS872 | GOVERNMENT COALITIONS BEGIN TO FORM AFTER BELGIAN REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the June 7 regional elections, Belgium's political parties have been conducting talks on forming regional government coalitions. In Francophone Belgium, formal negotiations have started on a Socialist (PS)-Christian Democrat (CDH)-Green (Ecolo) coalition. In Flanders, [...] | 2009-06-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS877 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: GROUPS PREPARE FOR VOTE ON BARROSO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 24, Joseph Daul, the chairman of the European People Party (EPP) group in the newly-elected European Parliament (EP),confirmed that the EPP would push for a confirmation vote of Jose Manuel Barroso as Commission President at the July 15 EP plenary session. The Progressive [...] | 2009-06-25 16:11:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS889 | BELGIUM SIGNS ON TO EU COUNCIL STATEMENT ON AFGHAN [...] Post delivered reftel demarche on June 22. On June 24, we were informed by the Afghan desk of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Belgium does not intend to make an individual declaration on the elections at the present time. The MFA referred to the common statement released by the European [...] | 2009-06-26 15:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF BE |
09BRUSSELS894 | EU-U.S. LATIN AMERICA POLICIES CONVERGING [...] (C) Summary: During biannual consultations on Latin American issues June 24, U.S. and EU officials agreed to seek opportunities to work together with select countries or regions, including, potentially, on counternarcotics and biofuels development in Bolivia and citizen security and renewable [...] | 2009-06-30 08:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XM EUN |
09BRUSSELS895 | BELGIUM ON PKK AND CT COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Ronald Schlicher met June 9 with Belgian CT officials to discuss PKK, Roj-TV, and wider CT cooperation; a luncheon hosted by the Charge covered additional CT themes. Ambassador Schlicher conveyed a message from Danish CT off [...] | 2009-06-30 09:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KISL PINR TU IZ BE |
09BRUSSELS907 | BELGIAN KING SIGNS MLAT AND EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN EUN KCRM KTIA PREL PGOV CASC BE |
09BRUSSELS908 | EU SUPPORTS EXPANDED PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) On June 29, PolOff delivered reftel points supporting an expanded Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia to Didier Lenoir, head of operations and exercises in the EU Council Secretariat. Lenoir, who led the EU's delegation to the May Contact Group meeting in New York, believes [...] | 2009-07-01 15:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL EUN |
09BRUSSELS912 | WORKING WITH THE EU ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In Brussels, June 15-17, Major General Richard L. Engel, USAF (Retired),Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Long Range Analysis Unit, National Intelligence Council (NIC) heard from high level Europeans that: the connection between security and climate change [...] | 2009-07-02 10:18:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KGHG SENV ENRG EUN |
09BRUSSELS945 | BELGIAN FM DE GUCHT TO MOVE TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION [...] (U) Belgian media reported July 8 that Flemish Liberal (OpenVLD) Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht would soon resign his posts to accept Belgian's EU commission seat being vacated by EU Commissioner for Development Louis Michel; Commissioner Michel will be sworn in as a m [...] | 2009-07-08 13:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU EUN BE |
09BRUSSELS951 | JAVIER SOLANA TO STEP DOWN THIS FALL: THE REPLACEMENT [...] Javier Solana recently told the Spanish press that he is "not planning to go any further" than his 10-year mandate (two terms of five years) as EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). This is the first time that Solana has indicated clearly in public that he [...] | 2009-07-08 15:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN |
09BRUSSELS966 | BELGIUM SUPPORTS MORE OPEN PARTICIPATION IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 15:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL BE |
09BRUSSELS970 | SACEUR: JULY 15 MEETING WITH THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Admiral Stavridis, Embassy Brussels welcomes your visit to Brussels and wishes to provide you background for your upcoming meetings with Belgian King Albert II, Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, Defense Minister Peter De Crem, and Chief of Defense General C [...] | 2009-07-14 06:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV ECON BE |
09BRUSSELS975 | THE NEW EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT STRONG ON [...] (SBU) Summary: According to our contacts, the European Parliament's (EP) new leaders will seek to strengthen relations with the United States during the new five-year term. Parliamentary leaders from the dominant center-right group hope for an early official U.S. visit and appear well dispose [...] | 2009-07-15 10:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EUN PGOV PREL KDEM MARR |
09BRUSSELS978 | JERZY BUZEK ELECTED EP PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: The European Parliament (EP) on July 14 elected as its new president former Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, the candidate of the European Peoples' Party (EPP-Christian Democrats). Buzek, a confirmed proponent of strong transatlantic ties, included the "strategic alliance with t [...] | 2009-07-16 09:58:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EUN |
09BRUSSELS986 | CONFIDENT NEW FLEMISH GOVERNMENT READY TO GO [...] (U) On July 13 the nine members of the 2009-2014 Flemish government were sworn in by the Flemish Parliament. Kris Peeters of the Christian Democratic Party (CD&V) will lead his second Flemish government, in a three-party coalition that includes the CD&V, the Socialists (sp.a),and the nationa [...] | 2009-07-17 15:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BE |
09BRUSSELS988 | BELGIUM: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER YVES LETERME [...] (SBU) Former Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in on July 16 as Belgium's new Foreign Minister, replacing Karel De Gucht who has moved to the European Commission as Commissioner for Development Assistance. Leterme served as Prime Minister from March 20 to December 22, 2008. Controversy ov [...] | 2009-07-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BE |
09BRUSSELS995 | BELGIAN REACTION TO RESULTS OF U.S.-RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points orally on July 15 to Willy De Buck, Director for Central and Eastern Europe in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. De Buck said that Belgium supports an open approach to Russia, but wants to be realistic. The GOB has taken note of the change of tone in Washing [...] | 2009-07-20 15:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV RS BE |
09BUCHAREST10 | ROMANIA: GAS IMPORTS HALTED, STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Imports on the second of two natural gas pipelines connecting Romania to Ukraine were halted the morning of January 7th. Romania is currently receiving no natural gas inflows from Ukraine and has declared a state of emergency. This declaration provides the Romanian Government [...] | 2009-01-07 14:53:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST110 | ROMANIA: CONTROVERSY OVER OFFSHORE ENERGY CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) Romania's initial euphoria after prevailing over Ukraine in a Black Sea boundary dispute has given way to political finger-pointing over offshore energy concessions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a February 3 ruling awarded Romania exclusive rights to 3,745 square miles of [...] | 2009-02-20 07:13:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PBTS ECON PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST114 | ROMANIA WILL ATTEND SHARM AL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE BUT [...] (SBU) Post's EconCoun on February 19 delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming Sharm Al-Sheikh conference to Mihaela Rutjens, Director for Development Assistance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Rutjens confirmed that the Government of Romania (GOR) had received an official invitati [...] | 2009-02-20 14:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PHUM PGOV KPAL RO |
09BUCHAREST115 | ROMANIA: ECONOMIC OFFICIALS PRIVATELY AGREE IMF [...] (C) Summary. Both the new State Secretary for budget issues at the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Gheorghe Gherghina, and the Prime Minister's new Economic Advisor, Ionut Popescu, told EconCoun this week that they believe a standby agreement with the IMF is advisable sooner rather than later, give [...] | 2009-02-20 14:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IMF RO |
09BUCHAREST132 | DEEP THROAT: PSD LEGISLATOR DISHES ON PSD INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: PSD legislator Georgian Pop predicted that Parliament would succesfully refer the Nastase corruption case to prosecutors next week. He underscored that Geoana was consolidating his hold on the PSD with the support of local barons including Constanta Mayor Mazare and Bucharest PS [...] | 2009-02-27 14:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST147 | MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR STRATEGIC POLICY ON BLACK [...] (C) Summary: POLMILOFF met with MFA Director General for Strategic Policy Calin Stoica on February 27 to discuss Black Sea strategy issues, including Romania's interest in the proposed Black Sea Defense Ministerial (BSDM). Stoica noted that Black Sea littoral states have not yet reached a com [...] | 2009-03-05 05:46:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RO |
09BUCHAREST153 | A PERFECT STORM: CORRUPTION, RULE OF LAW, AND JUSTICE REFORMS TAKE CENTER STAGE IN ROMANIA [...] (C) Summary: An unexpected convergence of factors has recently brought matters involving the Rule of Law (ROL) and much-needed justice reforms into high relief. These include, inter alia: reports of rising criminality amidst a declining economy; scandals involving the penal system; a parliamentary [...] | 2009-03-06 11:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS EU RO |
09BUCHAREST164 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT -- ROMANIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP RO |
09BUCHAREST188 | ROMANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ON DEPLOYMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Ministry of National Defense officials, the Director General for Defense Policy discussed current thinking regarding Romania's participation in its overseas deployments, reassuring the U.S. on continuity of operations. He also raised the option of providin [...] | 2009-03-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV IZ AF RO |
09BUCHAREST205 | ROMANIA AND IMF REACH AGREEMENT ON 19.5 BILLION [...] (U) International Monetary Fund (IMF)-led negotiations with the Government of Romania (GOR) over a financial assistance package successfully concluded on March 25th. The IMF, European Commission (EC),World Bank (WB),and other international financial institutions (IFIs) (principally the Eur [...] | 2009-03-26 05:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IMF EUN PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST234 | ROMANIA: RETROSPECTIVE ON NATURAL GAS CUTOFF [...] (C) While Romania successfully survived the January cut-off of natural gas imports from Russia, working-level officials at the Ministry of Economy (MOE) believe that pain was averted largely through lucky timing. Cornel Zeveleanu and Liviu Stoican, officials in the MOE's General Directorate [...] | 2009-04-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST237 | ROMANIA: IMF AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION POSES REAL [...] (C) Romanian officials are congratulating themselves on the external financing package (reftel) concluded with the International Monetary Fund (IMF),European Commission (EC),and World Bank (WB) as "much better than we expected," according to one Ministry of Finance (MOF) interlocutor. With [...] | 2009-04-08 05:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL IMF EUN RO |
09BUCHAREST24 | ROMANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Following is Embassy Bucharest's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. A. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ENCOURAGING INVESTMENT Romania actively seeks direct foreign investment. The Agency for Foreign Investment (ARIS),created in 2004, is designed to advertise the co [...] | 2009-01-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR RO |
09BUCHAREST243 | ROMANIA'S ROMA: STILL ON THE PERIPHERY [...] (SBU) As Romania's Roma celebrate their National Day this week, the community remains on the outskirts of mainstream Romanian society in almost every respect: politically disenfranchised; lacking access to adequate education, housing and employment; and victimized by prejudicial campaigns in t [...] | 2009-04-10 12:50:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST244 | ROMANIA AND MOLDOVA: FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS ALLIES [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu convoked NATO and EU Ambassadors on April 9 to request more robust public expressions of support for Romania in the wake of the expulsion of the Romanian Ambassador and Press Attache from Moldova. The intent of Diaconescu's appeal was not to [...] | 2009-04-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MO RO |
09BUCHAREST247 | DNA CHIEF PROSECUTOR MORAR: MORE BOMBSHELL [...] (C) Summary: DNA Chief Prosecutor Daniel Morar warned Emboffs that the fast-track code reform package now being debated in parliament is flawed, given inadequate consultations and provisions that would lower or eliminate criminal penalties for corruption, reductions in the statutes of limitations, [...] | 2009-04-10 14:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS RO |
09BUCHAREST25 | CHARGE CALL ON NEW FOREIGN MINISTER DIACONESCU [...] (C) Newly-installed Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu met with Charge on January 14 to share his thoughts on those foreign policy issues Romania will emphasize during his tenure. He first focused on neighborhood concerns, including the importance of improving Romanian-Ukrainian relations. [...] | 2009-01-15 05:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST255 | PRESIDENT BASESCU'S MOLDOVA SPEECH: NOBODY SHOULD [...] (SBU) At a special joint parliamentary session April 14, Romanian President Traian Basescu delivered a speech on recent developments in Moldova. Basescu prefaced his remarks by noting that he had deliberately avoided responding to "provocations" over the past week that might provide a pretext [...] | 2009-04-15 14:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MD RO |
09BUCHAREST261 | ROMANIA: GOVERNMENT ACTS ON IMF ACCORD, SLASHES [...] (U) Although the Government of Romania's (GOR) new agreement (reftel) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) still awaits final IMF Board approval, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Emil Boc moved on April 11 to begin implementation by slashing funding for government ministries. The formal " [...] | 2009-04-17 08:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IMF EUN RO |
09BUCHAREST272 | ROMANIA: SOURCES OF CONDUCT [...] (C) Summary: Though the fundamentals of Romania's foreign policy have not changed under the new coalition government led by Prime Minister Emil Boc, the combination of Russia's August 2008 incursion into Georgian territory, followed by another disconcerting Russian action in the region (the J [...] | 2009-04-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON ENRG RO |
09BUCHAREST3 | ROMANIA: SUFFICIENT GAS ON TAP DESPITE AN INITIAL [...] (C) Summary. The Russia-Ukraine gas dispute resulted in an initial 30 percent decline in Romanian gas imports from Russia via the two pipelines connecting Romania to Russia. Despite this substantial drop in imports, sufficient domestic production and gas reserves exist to manage demand in the [...] | 2009-01-06 10:19:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST315 | ROMANIA: HEALTHCARE REFORM ON THE AGENDA FOR 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Romanian healthcare system continues to suffer from neglect two decades after the fall of communism. Health statistics remain bleak, with the country occupying the worst position in the EU in terms of the frequency of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary diseases, diabetes, tub [...] | 2009-05-13 07:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED KHIV RO |
09BUCHAREST337 | ROMANIA: REGULATIONS CHOKE PHARMA COMPANIES [...] (SBU) Summary: American and other foreign pharmaceutical companies are upset that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has recently passed several ordinances which, taken together, severely impact their ability to operate profitably in Romania. With its "universal" healthcare system, the Government [...] | 2009-05-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED KHIV RO |
09BUCHAREST354 | DEVELOPMENT MINISTER BLAGA: PEOPLE WANT STABILITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 14:05:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST358 | ROMANIA: HEALTH MINISTER BAZAC OUTLINES HIS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 20 meeting, Minister of Health Ion Bazac shared privately with the Charge d'affaires many of the same goals for the health care sector that he has publicly outlined over the last several months (ref B). Agreeing that changes to the system are badly needed, Bazac was q [...] | 2009-05-28 12:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
09BUCHAREST390 | ROMANIA'S EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) on June 8 announced the results of the European Parliamentary (EP) elections held in Romania on Sunday, June 7. The PSD and PC coalition led the PDL by just over a percentage point (30.07-29.71). PNL came in at 14.52, PRM 8.65 and independent (and Presid [...] | 2009-06-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST397 | ROMANIA: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Summary: The United States Government is aware of eight (8) outstanding investment disputes and expropriation claims brought by United States persons or corporations that may be pending against the Government of Romania (GOR). There are no new cases since last year's report. Post recomm [...] | 2009-06-15 09:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST402 | SENATE PRESIDENT GEOANA RESIGNS FROM NATIONAL DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Mircea Geoana, the president of the Social-Democratic Party (PSD) and President of the Senate, announced on June 7 (the day of the European Parliamentary elections) he was resigning his position as vice-chair of the National Defense Council (CSAT). In explaining his decision, Geoana accu [...] | 2009-06-15 12:53:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST427 | ROMANIA: PROPERTY FUND MOVES FORWARD EVEN AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The long process of property restitution in Romania took a step in the right direction with the June 9 announcement that the American firm Franklin Templeton had won the bid to manage the Property Restitution Fund ("the Fund"). As reported reftel, delays in the manager selecti [...] | 2009-06-23 08:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD ECON CASC PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST43 | ROMANIA ON U.S. JANUARY GAERC VIEWS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL ENRG RO |
09BUCHAREST432 | FOREIGN MINISTER DIACONESCU ON CORFU MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 17 discussion with the Charge, Romanian FM Cristian Diaconescu shared concerns that the Corfu Informal Ministerial runs the risks of moving too fast and of not providing equitable hearings for all states. While Romania agrees with the U.S. demarche (reftel) on Corfu, th [...] | 2009-06-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL EU NATO PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST467 | ROMANIA: HEU FREE ZONE [...] (U) Summary: All remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) was safely removed from Romania following the successful conclusion of a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) operation under the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) on June 29th. This shipment removed Russian-origin H [...] | 2009-07-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PARM ECON PGOV KGIC RO |
09BUCHAREST473 | ROMANIAN CANDIDATE FOR NATO STRATEGIC CONCEPT [...] (SBU) MFA Director General Calin Stoica, accompanied by Security Policy (NATO) Minister Counselor Dan Grigorescu, met with Charge and POLMILOFF on July 7 to convey the GOR's support for Iulian Chifu to be a candidate for the NATO Secretary General's Panel of Experts to consult on the developme [...] | 2009-07-08 07:28:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST497 | ROMANIA: A 'EUROPEAN' MODEL FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Romania (GOR) is considering the creation of two vertically integrated energy companies formed out of existing state-owned assets, reversing a decentralization process that the GOR now sees as having been flawed. Instead, two "national champions" able to compe [...] | 2009-07-16 08:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV KGHG RO |
09BUCHAREST525 | ROMANIAN JUDICIARY UPDATE: CONSTITUTIONAL STALEMATE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 20, the Charge d'Affaires and DOJ RLA met with Prosecutor General Codruta Kovesi, Tom Barnes from the European Commission's Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, and Laura Stefan, anti-corruption expert with the Romanian Academic Society. Issues discussed included the [...] | 2009-07-28 05:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KCOR KJUS PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST527 | ROMANIA: CATHOLIC CHURCHES CLOSE TO PROTEST CONSTRUCTION [...] Summary. The Archbishop of Bucharest, with the purported support of the Vatican, ordered all Roman Catholic Churches in Bucharest closed on Sunday July 12th, except for Saint Joseph's Cathedral. There, a rally following Sunday mass attracted over 6,000 people to march on Victoria Palace, the P [...] | 2009-07-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SCUL PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST535 | ROMANIA: SORRY STATE OF EDUCATION A SUMMERTIME STAPLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Education has dominated the headlines of Romanian papers since early July as a public clash has played out between President Traian Basescu and Minister of Education Ecaterina Andronescu (PSD). The Ministry of Education's (MOE) recent decision to close three private universitie [...] | 2009-07-31 13:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI SCUL KPAO RO |
09BUCHAREST55 | GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH STRUGGLES TO REGAIN [...] (SBU) A Parliamentary committee will soon discuss a draft law which, if passed, will fundamentally alter the process of church restitution in Romania. Since the end of communism, the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, which represents less than ten percent of the population, has struggled with lit [...] | 2009-01-28 08:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST556 | ROMANIA: STATE CARRIER TAROM STILL INTERESTED IN [...] (C/NF) The Director-General of the state-owned airline Tarom, Ruxandra Brutaru, informed EconOff in an August 5 meeting that Tarom intends to consolidate its medium-range aircraft fleet around a single aircraft type within the next year. This fleet is currently composed of eleven Boeing 737s, [...] | 2009-08-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR ECON BEXP PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST563 | ROMANIA AND IMF: REVISE AGREEMENT AS THE ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary. Romania's economy is contracting at a much faster pace in 2009 than originally forecast and its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) requires important modifications as a result, an IMF monitoring team announced on August 10. Concluding their first quarterly revi [...] | 2009-08-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND PGOV IMF EUN RO |
09BUCHAREST57 | SENATE PRESIDENT MIRCEA GEOANA: MY CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Romanian Senate President Mircea Geoana said that he wanted to visit the United States at the earliest opportunity to ensure that the new Administration gets to "see us, hear the message from Bucharest, and remain focused on Romania and the region." Geoana added that he was also [...] | 2009-01-28 14:19:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS RO |
09BUCHAREST573 | ROMANIA TARGETS BLOATED PUBLIC SECTOR UNDER IMF ACCORD [...] (SBU) Summary. In order to comply with the revised IMF agreement (reftel),the Government of Romania (GOR) is being forced to take an axe to the bloated public sector. In the last two weeks, the GOR has announced plans for immediate furloughs as a short-term measure, with permanent layoffs a [...] | 2009-08-18 13:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EUN IMF RO |
09BUCHAREST58 | PD-L VICE PRESIDENT STOICA: LOOKING BEYOND THE [...] (C) Summary: PD-L Vice President Stoica evinced confidence in the prospects for the new Boc government, noting that Prime Minister Boc enjoyed many attributes including his position as head of a large party; the full support and confidence of the President; and lack of any corruption baggage. [...] | 2009-01-29 06:34:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST593 | ROMANIA: NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY MIRED IN SUMMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The center-right National Liberal Party (PNL) is on a losing streak. After its exclusion from the governing coalition following the November 2008 parliamentary elections, the party underperformed in the June 2009 European Parliament (EP) elections and PNL presidential candidate [...] | 2009-08-27 07:14:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST594 | ROMANIAN CABINET BYPASSING PARLIAMENT - AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. Under the Romanian Constitution, the Cabinet has the authority to issue "emergency ordinances" (EOs) in special circumstances. These acts take effect immediately and have the force of law. Although Parliament must subsequently ratify or overturn them, there is no time limit [...] | 2009-08-27 08:12:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV ECON RO |
09BUCHAREST597 | ROMANIA: PRESIDENT BASESCU REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: President Basescu reaffirmed his commitment to Romanian involvement in NATO operations in Afghanistan during a visit to a Romanian airbase where American and Romanian troops conduct joint-training programs. He emphasized the national pride which has come from working with the U [...] | 2009-08-28 13:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL ECON RO AF |
09BUCHAREST60 | ROMANIA: BASESCU UNDERSCORES NABUCCO SUPPORT, [...] (C) Summary: Europe needs to capitalize on the sour mood left by the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute to forge a tougher EU energy policy and to press forward with the Nabucco pipeline, President Traian Basescu told visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza on January 29. Basescu said he has made this argument [...] | 2009-01-30 12:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EFIN PREL PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST606 | ROMANIA'S JEWS: DYING OFF, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN [...] (SBU) As the Government of Romania prepares to inaugurate the Bucharest Holocaust Memorial October 8, Romania's Jewish community finds itself in a paradox. Anti-Semitism - though still prevalent and in some ways ingrained in Romanian society - has lost much of its virulence and overtness. At [...] | 2009-09-02 14:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST614 | ROMANIAN REACTION TO SEPTEMBER GYMNICH [...] (SBU) New POLCOUNS and POLOFF delivered REF non-paper September 3 to Cristian Olimid, MFA Director for EU External Relations. Olimid responded that the talking points were a bit late to be incorporated into FM Diaconescu's briefing papers. (n.b. Diaconescu had departed a day earlier for bilat [...] | 2009-09-04 09:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IS IR AF PK RO |
09BUCHAREST615 | MASSIVE LEGISLATION PACKAGE A LITMUS TEST FOR [...] (C) Summary: Deteriorating relations between the Liberal Democrats (PDL) and Social Democrats (PSD) may hit a critical point in the coming days. Prime Minister Emil Boc (PDL) intends to fast track through Parliament three key pieces of legislation. Disagreement on part of the substance - as [...] | 2009-09-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV RO |
09BUCHAREST616 | ROMANIA'S JEWS: DYING OFF, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN [...] (SBU) As the Government of Romania prepares to inaugurate the Bucharest Holocaust Memorial October 8, Romania's Jewish community finds itself in a paradox. Anti-Semitism - though still prevalent and in some ways ingrained in Romanian society - has lost much of its virulence and overtness. At [...] | 2009-09-08 10:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST622 | ROMANIA: REVISED BUDGET FACES POLITICAL HURDLES [...] (SBU) Summary. Following revisions to Romania's accord with the IMF (ref A),the Government of Romania (GOR) has formally approved changes to its budget to reflect new fiscal realities. This second budget "rectification" of the year allows the projected 2009 deficit to surge from 4.6 to 7.3 [...] | 2009-09-14 05:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EFIN PGOV IMF RO |
09BUCHAREST63 | SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR LAZAROIU: OPRESCU IS [...] (C) Summary: Senior Presidential Advisor Lazaroiu noted that--despite a beating from the press--recent internal polling data underscored that the Boc cabinet's approval ratings compared well with those of the first Tariceanu cabinet. President Basescu's overall favorability ratings remained h [...] | 2009-02-03 15:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS RO |
09BUCHAREST640 | PM TAKES LAST STEP ON LEGISLATIVE FAST-TRACKING; [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 17 opposition parties PNL and UDMR filed a no-confidence motion in the government of PM Boc after the final step in the Cabinet's attempt to fast-track a legislative package through Parliament (reftel). No members of the ruling coalition parties PDL and PSD have si [...] | 2009-09-21 04:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST655 | ROMANIA: ENERGY SCENESETTER FOR SE MORNINGSTAR [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar. Your visit comes at just the right time to send an important signal to our Romanian allies that the United States remains fully engaged in Eastern Europe, especially when it comes to energy security. [...] | 2009-09-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL OREP RO |
09BUCHAREST662 | COALITION TEETERS - WILL CAPTAIN BASESCU SAVE THE [...] (C) Summary. PM Emil Boc's September 28 announcement that he intended to replace Interior Minister and Deputy PM Dan Nica has led to a potential showdown between the coalition members in the current government, the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) which Boc chairs and the Social Democratic Par [...] | 2009-09-30 12:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST669 | COALITION COLLAPSES AS PSD MINISTERS RESIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 1 President Traian Basescu dismissed Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Dan Nica of PSD and appointed Regional Development Minister Vasile Blaga of PDL to assume both portfolios. PSD chairman Mircea Geoana responded by announcing that all PSD members of the PDL [...] | 2009-10-01 13:15:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST673 | ROMANIA: PREPARATIONS FOR AN H1N1 PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The start of the school year and continued steady uptick in AH1N1 cases has pushed the Government of Romania (GOR) to advance its planning for a potential flu pandemic. AH1N1's relatively low mortality rate to date has lessened the urgency of the planning, but the Ministry of [...] | 2009-10-06 04:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
09BUCHAREST676 | ROMANIA GENERAL STRIKE: POSTURING OR PRELUDE? [...] (SBU) In what the media and labor unions billed as the largest public sector strike in the post-communist era, some 800,000 government workers across Romania stayed home on October 5 to protest the unitary salary law which the Government of Romania (GOR) forced through Parliament in September [...] | 2009-10-06 13:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EFIN ECON PGOV IMF RO |
09BUCHAREST691 | CABINET FALLS IN FIRST SUCCESSFUL POST-1989 [...] (C) SUMMARY. For the first time since the 1989 revolution a Romanian government was toppled when the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) Cabinet fell on October 13. Using strict party discipline the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) received the votes necessary to [...] | 2009-10-14 04:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST694 | BASESCU, OPPOSITION NAME COMPETING CANDIDATES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the first successful no-confidence motion in Romania's post-Communist history (ref A),the opposition coalition of the National Liberal Party (PNL),the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UMDR) are attempting to force Presid [...] | 2009-10-15 14:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST702 | ROMANIA DEDICATES ITS FIRST-EVER HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL [...] Summary. The Government of Romania dedicated the country's first-ever Holocaust Memorial on October 8. Holocaust survivors, Jewish community leaders, foreign dignitaries and two former Presidents of Romania listened as President Basescu declared that the Romanian state bore responsibility fo [...] | 2009-10-19 05:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST716 | VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER BOC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Vice President Joseph Biden met with Interim Prime Minister Emil Boc on October 22, 2009. The Romanian Prime Minister and the Vice President discussed the motivations for the Vice President's trip to Europe and the reasons why Romania was chosen as the location for the trip's major [...] | 2009-10-23 14:13:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST723 | ROMANIA WON'T MEET 2009 IMF OBLIGATIONS, BASESCU [...] (SBU) With a joint assessment team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),European Commission (EC),and World Bank (WB) having arrived in Bucharest this week to review Romania's compliance, President Traian Basescu declared to reporters that Romania will not meet all its obligations to t [...] | 2009-10-29 05:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IMF EUN RO |
09BUCHAREST742 | ROMANIA: REQUEST FOR H1N1 VACCINE ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) This is an urgent action request; please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) The Ambassador was contacted on November 4 by Anca Ilinoiu, Senior Foreign Policy adviser to President Traian Basescu, with a "personal request from the President to President Obama" that the United States agree to pr [...] | 2009-11-05 04:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
09BUCHAREST745 | BASESCU SENDS A SECOND PDL PRIME MINISTER NOMINEE [...] (SBU) On Friday, 6 November 2009, President Traian Basescu announced the nomination of Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) vice chairman and popular Mayor of sector 3 of Bucharest, Liviu Negoita, for Prime Minister. The announcement came just one day after his first choice for a Prime Minister, Ce [...] | 2009-11-06 14:07:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST756 | ROMANIA: IMF TEAM DEPARTS AND TAKES ITS CHECKBOOK WITH IT [...] (SBU) The IMF assessment team charged with determining whether Romania has met its obligations for the next funding tranche packed its bags and went home on November 6, declaring in a closing news conference that it cannot complete its assessment until Romania resolves the current political impasse [...] | 2009-11-10 14:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IMF EUN RO |
09BUCHAREST758 | ROMANIA Election Update: Another Day, Another Cabinet [...] (SBU) Summary. President Basescu's latest PM designate, Liviu Negoita, submitted his proposed Cabinet and governing program to Parliament on November 9. The roster is similar to the recently rejected Croitoru cabinet (reftel),except for three "independent" ministers considered PDL sympathize [...] | 2009-11-10 16:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST760 | ROMANIAN REACTION TO PRE-NOVEMBER GAERC TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered Ref. non-paper November 13 to Cosmin Onisii, Director, U.S. and Canada Division. Onisii appreciated the timely delivery and noted that he would incorporate the talking points into the Romanian Foreign Minister's brief. Onisii provided no substantive feedback on the tal [...] | 2009-11-13 08:20:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RS UP SO RO |
09BUCHAREST761 | ROMANIA: TIME FOR PROGRESS ON ORTHODOX-GREEK [...] (C) Summary: In an October 23 introductory call with the Romanian Orthodox (BOR) Patriarch, Ambassador discussed the long-standing dispute between the BOR and the Greek Catholic Church in Romania over Greek Catholic buildings and properties transferred to the BOR by Romania's communist regi [...] | 2009-11-13 08:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST764 | ROMANIA: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FEATURES PLENTY OF ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: With just over a week to go before the first round of the presidential election, Romania's economic woes are foremost in the minds of voters. The leading presidential candidates have been long on rhetoric but short on specifics about how they would return the country to econom [...] | 2009-11-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL SOCI RO |
09BUCHAREST766 | ROMANIA'S ETHNIC HUNGARIANS: A CRUCIAL SWING VOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) is positioning itself as kingmaker for the upcoming Presidential elections. UDMR expects its candidate, Kelemen Hunor, to win approximately seven percent of the popular vote in the November 22 first round. The party w [...] | 2009-11-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST771 | ROMANIA: SUBWAY STRIKE GRIDLOCKS BUCHAREST ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) Workers in the Bucharest subway system (state-owned Metrorex) went on strike November 17, forcing the system's 650,000 daily riders to find alternate means of transportation and producing traffic gridlock in many areas of the city. Metrorex's 4,250 employees are demanding a 20 percent s [...] | 2009-11-17 09:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV IMF RO |
09BUCHAREST778 | ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: BASESCU-ANTONESCU DEBATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Traian Basescu and National Liberal Party (PNL) chair and candidate Crin Antonescu confronted each other in the first televised presidential debate November 14. The lively exchange touched upon many topics including education reform, taxes, the fiscal crisis and the [...] | 2009-11-19 04:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST783 | Romania: 11/22 Presidential Election: As Expected, [...] (SBU) Summary. With approximately 75 percent of ballots counted from the November 22 presidential election, incumbent Traian Basescu (32.8 percent) and Social Democrat (PSD) Mircea Geoana (29.8 percent) seem certain as expected to advance to the December 6 presidential runoff. Third place fini [...] | 2009-11-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST784 | ROMANIA: TRANSGAZ SUPPORTS NABUCCO BUT FINANCING [...] (C) Summary. Financing the Nabucco pipeline project will present significant challenges for state-owned natural gas carrier Transgaz, according to Deputy Director General Liviu Pintican. While the company remains supportive of the project and is working toward its ultimate realization, Trans [...] | 2009-11-24 08:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST787 | ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: PNL THROWS SUPPORT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Even as final election results showed incumbent President Basescu (PDL) and challenger Mircea Geoana (PSD) only a point apart after the November 22 first round elections, third place finisher Crin Antonescu announced November 24 that his National Liberal Party (PNL) would formall [...] | 2009-11-24 14:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST789 | ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: PNL throws its support to [...] (SBU) Summary. With more than 99 percent of votes counted, incumbent President Basescu and Social Democrat (PSD) candidate Geoana will advance to the December 6 Presidential runoff. In a November 22 statement third place finisher Crin Antonescu (National Liberals-PNL) again ruled out support [...] | 2009-11-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST798 | ROMANIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: FRONTRUNNER MIRCEA [...] (C) SUMMARY. This cable provides a first look at the potential foreign policy priorities of Mircea Geoana, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate who, for the moment, could be poised to unseat incumbent President Traian Basescu. Septels will address Geoana's political background, and als [...] | 2009-11-30 12:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR RO |
09BUCHAREST799 | ROMANIA ELECTION UPDATE: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Though a former Romanian Ambassador to Washington and former Foreign Minister, Social Democratic Party (PSD) presidential candidate Mircea Geoana has focused much more on domestic issues and party politics since becoming PSD Chairman in 2005. This cable profiles Geoana,s politi [...] | 2009-12-02 08:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR RO |
09BUCHAREST801 | ROMANIA: ROMGAZ TRIES TO ADAPT TO CHANGING ENERGY MARKET [...] (SBU) One of the top two gas producers in Romania, state-owned Romgaz, echoed in a November 20 meeting the previous public statements by OMV/Petrom and other private players on the domestic market that the regulated price of domestic gas suppresses production in Romania. Until now Romgaz has [...] | 2009-12-03 12:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST807 | ROMANIA ELECTIONS: ETHNIC HUNGARIANS TILT TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. The ethnic Hungarian party UDMR announced between rounds of the Romanian presidential race that it would support the PNL-PSD nomination of Sibiu Mayor Klaus Iohannis as Prime Minister, but stopped short of joining PNL in endorsing PSD candidate Mircea Geoana for the December 6 [...] | 2009-12-04 12:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI RO |
09BUCHAREST808 | Romania Election Update: Timisoara Coalition Agreement [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 1, the Social Democratic Party (PSD),the National Liberal Party (PNL),and the small, anti-communist National Christian Democratic Peasants' Party (PNTCD) signed a "Partnership for Timisoara," whose main provision is joint support for PSD presidential candidate Mirc [...] | 2009-12-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST809 | ROMANIA ELECTIONS: BASESCU GETS THE BEST OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Just three days before the December 6 Presidential runoff incumbent President Traian Basescu and Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Mircea Geoana met for their one and only televised debate before the second round of elections. Basescu is generally considered to have gotten [...] | 2009-12-07 04:31:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KCOR RO |
09BUCHAREST813 | DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN! INCUMBENT BASESCU DEFIES EXIT POLLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Defying pre-election surveys and most exit polls, incumbent Traian Basescu has won re-election in a hotly contested campaign. Against expectations, turnout in the runoff was very high, beating the first round by almost five points. Though there were no systematic problems, min [...] | 2009-12-07 10:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST815 | ELECTION UPDATE: AS ROMANIA COLLECTS ITS BREATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY. The surprising December 6 Basescu victory resulted from a last-minute Geoana collapse and strong support from overseas voters and ethnic Hungarians. The Social Democrats (PSD) announced on December 7 they would challenge the election results within the three days permitted by Ro [...] | 2009-12-07 14:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST823 | Romanian Reaction to December Foreign Affairs Council [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered Ref. non-paper December 4 to Cristian Olimid, Director, EU External Relations. Olimid indicated that the talking points had arrived too late for inclusion into the Romanian Foreign Minister's brief. Olimid provided no substantive feedback on the talking points and reque [...] | 2009-12-10 08:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS IR AF PK RO |
09BUCHAREST824 | ROMANIA ELECTIONS: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CRY FRAUD, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) has claimed systemic, nationwide electoral fraud and called for the annulment and re-run of the December 6 presidential runoff in which PSD candidate Mircea Geoana failed by a slim margin to unseat incumbent Traian Basescu. However, according to [...] | 2009-12-10 12:12:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST825 | INVESTING IN ROMANIA: CAPITAL OR LABOR? [...] (SBU) EconOff's recent visit to two American investors, oil drilling and pumping equipment manufacturer Cameron and fuel injection manufacturer Mefin Sinaia (owned by U.S.-based Walbridge Partners),revealed two very different manufacturing styles. Cameron's greenfield investment in a state-of [...] | 2009-12-10 12:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST832 | Romanian Elections: Basescu Widens Lead After Partial [...] (U) Summary. After a recount of all voided ballots, incumbent President Traian Basescu slightly widened his lead over Social Democrat (PSD) candidate Mircea Geoana by an additional 273 votes. On December 14 the electoral commission (BEC) submitted its report to the Constitutional Court, which [...] | 2009-12-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST834 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CONFIRMS BASESCU VICTORY; [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 14 the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) closed out the presidential election drama by rejecting appeals from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and validating the re-election of incumbent President Traian Basescu. PSD challenger Mircea Geoana accepted the CCR's dec [...] | 2009-12-15 12:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM RO |
09BUCHAREST840 | BASESCU STARTS ON A CONCILIATORY NOTE [...] (SBU) Summary. After the Constitutional Court certified his victory on December 16, incumbent president Traian Basescu adopted a new conciliatory tone, pledging improved performance in his second term and announcing "state modernization" as his main priority. Basescu declared his commitment to [...] | 2009-12-17 13:54:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON RO |
09BUCHAREST843 | ROMANIA: HEALTH SYSTEM REMAINS ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Romanian healthcare system is in serious trouble, beset by a convergence of the economic crisis, political instability, and government budgetary woes. A recent report by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) highlighted the major problems plaguing the system. With expenditu [...] | 2009-12-21 11:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMED EAID EFIN PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST85 | ROMANIA: 2009 BUDGET MIXES REALISM WITH WISHFUL THINKING [...] (SBU) The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a 2009 budget draft that is expected to be approved by Parliament without substantial amendments. The final draft combines selected doses of austerity with an effort to balance competing interests by promising priority projects to all parties; the r [...] | 2009-02-11 12:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RO |
09BUCHAREST857 | BASESCU BEGINS SECOND TERM WITH CALLS FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On December 21, 2009, Traian Basescu was sworn in for his second five-year term as the President of Romania. In his inaugural address he reaffirmed Romania's strategic alliance with the U.S. as the essential pillar of Romania's foreign policy and called for deeper integration wi [...] | 2009-12-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST863 | ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW CABINET, ENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 23 the Romanian Parliament approved the new Cabinet assembled by Prime Minister designate Emil Boc with an unexpectedly large majority. The new Cabinet includes members of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL),the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) [...] | 2009-12-24 06:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO |
09BUCHAREST94 | ROMANIA: AGRICULTURAL REFORM LAGGING AFTER EU ACCESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Romania's agricultural sector continues to struggle with the Communist legacy of collectivized farm land. Despite Romania's huge agricultural potential, its small farm size and lack of education in modern agricultural methods has left the agricultural sector as a chronic underp [...] | 2009-02-13 14:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ECIN EUN PGOV RO |
09BUDAPEST10 | HUNGARY WELL-POSITIONED TO WEATHER RUSSIA-UKRAINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Monday, January 5, Hungary joined the ranks of Central European countries experiencing disrupted supplies of Russian natural gas as a result of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine dispute. Hungary's significant stored gas reserves should ensure that gas continues flowing without int [...] | 2009-01-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU SR BH MK |
09BUDAPEST101 | BUDAPEST NABUCCO SUMMIT: SOME NEW MOMENTUM BUT NO [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoH-hosted Nabucco Summit in Budapest brought together twelve national delegations representing potential Nabucco suppliers (including Iraq, Egypt, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan),transit states, and consumers, including three EU prime ministers, the EU Energy Commissioner, [...] | 2009-02-04 05:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV EU HU |
09BUDAPEST113 | HUNGARY: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Post provides the following responses provided by the MFA's Security and Non-proliferation Department, keyed to questions outlined in ref A, paragraph 8. 3. A. (C) What are the host government's objectives for the NPT in general, and [...] | 2009-02-09 11:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM NPT MNUC ENGR HU |
09BUDAPEST129 | HUNGARY'S "SILENT SUPPORT" ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Clint Williamson visited Budapest February 13 and met with Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz, other MFA and Justice Ministry Officials, and the Prime Minister's Security and Foreign Policy Advisor Karoly Banai to discuss detainee issues, the GOH's role in the EU process, and [...] | 2009-02-19 15:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST135 | HUNGARY: MALEV'S ACTING CEO REVEALS ITS TRUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with Ambassador Foley on February 18, Malev Hungarian Airlines, acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO),Mr. Geza Fehervary, provided details on the company,s current financial situation. Pulling aside the veil of the current state-of-play with Malev,s Russian financia [...] | 2009-02-20 16:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU |
09BUDAPEST142 | VISIT OF CODEL LYNCH TO BUDAPEST, MARCH 2-3, 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Budapest grants country clearance and warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Lynch to Budapest from March 2 - 3, 2009. We look forward to your visit and would like to provide the following information in preparation for your arrival. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CLIMATE IN HUNGARY 2. [...] | 2009-02-25 13:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OREP PREL EFIN OTRA HU |
09BUDAPEST143 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, post is unable to identify any critical infrastructure or key resources in Hungary that, if destroyed, disrupted, or exploited, would have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States. Foley [...] | 2009-02-26 14:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP HU |
09BUDAPEST149 | HUNGARY, HATE SPEECH, AND RACISM [...] Coincidental, but timely, one day following the shooting death of a 27-year-old Romani man and his five year-old son in the village of Tatarszentgyorgy, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released their February 24 report that examined Hungarian racism and intoleranc [...] | 2009-02-27 14:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST15 | ROMA AT RISK: VICIOUS RHETORIC; VICIOUS CIRCLES [...] (SBU) Summary: A new study by the highly-respected think tank Political Capital concludes that intolerance is increasing in Hungary as long-standing prejudices are compounded by growing political frustration and economic uncertainty. The result has been an increase in extremist rhetoric and [...] | 2009-01-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
09BUDAPEST152 | HUNGARY'S RESPONSE TO MARCH 2 CONFERENCE, SHARM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 10:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM HU |
09BUDAPEST153 | (CORRECTED COPY) HUNGARY'S RESPONSE TO MARCH 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 11:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER PGOV EFIN KPAL HU |
09BUDAPEST168 | NEW VIOLENCE AGAINST ROMA TURNS FOCUS TO POLICE [...] (U) The string of violence against Roma continued on February 23 when two people were murdered in their home in the village of Tatarszentgyorgy in central Hungary. The victims, a 27-year-old father and his 5-year-old son, were inside when attackers threw a Molotov cocktail into the home and s [...] | 2009-03-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU |
09BUDAPEST180 | HUNGARY REQUESTS ADDITIONAL GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. MFA Senior State Secretary Marta Fekzsi told the Ambassador March 3 that the Hungarian Government continues to move forward on accepting a small number of Guantanamo detainees. Although ruling out accepting Uighurs due to [...] | 2009-03-06 14:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST188 | HUNGARY'S PLEDGE - MARCH 2 CONFERENCE IN SHARM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-10 11:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAL KWBG EFIN PHUM PTER EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST195 | GOH MATCHES PROGRESS ON NABUCCO WITH NEXT MOVES ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) In characteristically non-transparent fashion, Prime Minister Gyurcsany led a delegation comprised of cabinet ministers and business executives to Moscow on March 10 for a series of intergovernmental consultations and to sign [...] | 2009-03-13 11:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU |
09BUDAPEST198 | HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT'S PROBLEMATIC RUSSIAN [...] (C) In two separate meetings on March 12, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Zsolt Nemeth and the Prime Minister's Security and Foreign Policy Advisor, Karoly Banai, provided their views on the Prime Minister's recent trip to Moscow (ref A) for Ambassador Foley and visiting U.S. NATO Ambassado [...] | 2009-03-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN ENRG TSPL RS HU |
09BUDAPEST225 | PM GYURCSANY'S NO CONFIDENCE OFFER - SINCERE OR [...] (U) Summary. Prime Minister Gyurcsany's surprising intention to step down from his post following a planned constructive vote-of-no-confidence on April 14 adds further heat to the already polarized political environment. While Viktor Orban's opposition party Fidesz and the small Hungarian De [...] | 2009-03-23 16:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS HU |
09BUDAPEST226 | PM GYURCSANY MAYBE OUT OF OFFICE BUT NOT OUT OF [...] (U) Summary. In a surprise announcement at the Socialist Party (MSzP) Congress on March 21, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany told party members that he will step down as Prime Minister following a successful constructive-vote-of-no- confidence scheduled for April 14. Apologizing to party memb [...] | 2009-03-23 16:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS HU |
09BUDAPEST231 | IS THE PARTY OVER FOR THE HUNGARIAN DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Faced with internal party disagreements over the selection of former Finance Minister Lajos Bokros as the top party candidate for the upcoming European Parliamentary elections, the parliamentary caucus of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) ceased to exist on March 18. The di [...] | 2009-03-24 11:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN HU |
09BUDAPEST234 | NEW HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER OR EARLY ELECTIONS? [...] (U) Summary. Negotiations continue between the ruling Socialist party and their former coalition partner Free Democrats on a Prime Minister candidate to replace Ferenc Gyurcsany. Gyorgy Suranyi, former National Bank governor, appears to have SzDSz support, but he publicly states he will only [...] | 2009-03-25 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS HU |
09BUDAPEST250 | GYURCSANY - OUT AS PRIME MINISTER, OUT AS PARTY [...] (U) Summary. The Socialist and Free Democrats have agreed on a new Prime Ministerial candidate, Economic Minister Gordon Bajnai, with a constructive vote-of-no-confidence planned for April 14. With the largest opposition Fidesz and the extreme right-wing Jobbik parties continuing their call [...] | 2009-03-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS HU |
09BUDAPEST251 | GORDON BAJNAI: HE WHO WOULD BE PM...FOR NOW [...] (SBU) The Socialists (MSzP) and the Free Democrats (SzDSz) identify Minister of National Development and Economy Gordon Bajnai as their choice to replace outgoing Prime Minster Gyurcsany (septel). A political outsider and investment banker by training, forty-one year old Gordon Bajnai is not a [...] | 2009-03-30 15:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST252 | GORDON BAJNAI: HE WHO WOULD BE PM...FOR NOW [...] (SBU) The Socialists (MSzP) and the Free Democrats (SzDSz) identify Minister of National Development and Economy Gordon Bajnai as their choice to replace outgoing Prime Minster Gyurcsany (septel). A political outsider and investment banker by training, forty-one year old Gordon Bajnai is not a [...] | 2009-03-31 04:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST265 | MOL, GOH GIRD FOR DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIAN TAKEOVER [...] (C) Summary: While Hungary's political establishment has been singularly absorbed in the country's unfolding internal political drama, al--including top management at MOL--appear to have been caught off guard by the announcement on March 30 that Austria's OMV had sold its 21.2 percent stake in [...] | 2009-04-02 15:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU |
09BUDAPEST270 | HUNGARY REFINES GUANTANAMO DETAINEE REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph four. 2. (C) In an April 1 meeting with the DCM, MFA Senior State Secretary Marta Fekszi provided a non-paper related to Hungary's request for further information on several Guantanamo detainees. The non-paper states that Hungary is considering [...] | 2009-04-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST276 | HUNGARIAN SUMMER-LIKE WEATHER HEATS UP THE [...] (U) Summary. Socialists and Free Democrats agree on Gordon Bajnai as the Prime Minister candidate during weekend meetings. Parliamentary vote scheduled for April 14 to replace resigning Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany. Socialists also elected Ildiko Lendvai to eplace Gyurcsany as Party Presi [...] | 2009-04-06 15:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST28 | SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DAS JUDY GARBER [...] (SBU) Over the past four months, the GoH has been reacting to a series of crises that have gripped the nation's attention, beginning with the financial market crisis in October, followed by an ongoing diplomatic row with Solvakia, transportation sector strikes in December, and now the growing [...] | 2009-01-09 16:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST281 | HUNGARY: MALEV, AN EU CARRIER WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 18, the nearly bankrupt Hungarian airline, Malev, received a life-saving $13.6 million cash infusion from Russian-owned bank, Vnyshekonombank (VEB). Although Hungarian representation increased slightly on the company's board of directors, this latest addition to VEB's [...] | 2009-04-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU |
09BUDAPEST286 | HUNGARY WITH THE EU ON BURMA ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) MFA Asia/Pacific Deputy Director Laszlo Kuti and desk officer David Ambrus discussed reftel with PolOff on April 9. While acknowledging that Hungary has very limited contact, including trade, with Burma, Kuti said that the GOH fully supports the EU Common Position, and expects no changes [...] | 2009-04-09 16:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD BM HU |
09BUDAPEST289 | BLOOD, SWEAT, BUT NO TEARS: EMBASSY BUDAPEST [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Budapest rolled-up its sleeves and came out in force in support of the 2009 International Roma Day (IRD). Officers and local staff participated in three events around Hungary to mark the occasion and pay tribute to the important contributions of the Hungarian Roma communit [...] | 2009-04-10 09:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU |
09BUDAPEST297 | ONE YEAR, ONE GOVERNMENT, ONE FORINT [...] (U) Summary. As expected, in a constructive vote-of-no-confidence, with opposition parties abstaining or not voting, Hungarian Socialist and Free Democrat parliamentarians joined forces to elect Gordon Bajnai as Prime Minister April 14. Prior to the vote, Bajnai outlined his economic reform [...] | 2009-04-15 11:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST298 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: HUNGARIAN POSITION ON MADAGASCAR [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel talking points to Zita Szatmari, Head of Section for Southern Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She expressed concurrence with the general content of the points and agreed that the EU, the African Union (AU),and the U.S. need to speak with a common voice i [...] | 2009-04-15 13:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID PGOV SZ NO MA HU |
09BUDAPEST30 | HUNGARY MAKES DUE AMID GAS CRISIS; STEPS UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoH continues to improvise at home and abroad as it responds to the January 5 cutoff of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine. Hungary is currently tapping both its commercial and strategic gas storage reserves to the maximum extent possible while the GoH continues to tinker wit [...] | 2009-01-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU SR BH MK |
09BUDAPEST302 | HUNGARY - NEW GOVERNMENT, NEW MINISTERS [...] During remarks to Parliament prior to his election as the new Hungarian Prime Minister (reftel),Gordon Bajnai announced six new Heads of Ministries and two additional minister-level appointments. Short bios of the new ministers follow: - Minister of Foreign Affairs: Peter Balazs (replacin [...] | 2009-04-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS HU |
09BUDAPEST309 | HOLOCAUST DENIAL - HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION [...] (U) Summary. As the far-right Magyar Garda crossed the line into holocaust denial, Budapest observed the 60th anniversary of the holocaust. The "March of the Living" event the evening of April 19, attended by new Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, as well as the Charge and Parliamentarians across [...] | 2009-04-20 16:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST319 | GOVERNMENT RESUMES REGULAR BOND AUCTIONS [...] (U) On April 16, the Hungarian Debt Management Agency (AKK) announced it would restart regular long term government bond auctions. Regular auctions were suspended last October when demand for Hungarian government securities dropped significantly, contributing to Hungary's need to negotiate a [...] | 2009-04-24 13:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST320 | MOL SHAREHOLDER'S MEETING: ALL QUIET ON THE SURGUT [...] (SBU) Hungarian oil and gas giant MOL appears to have successfully barred the door, at least for the time being, against a possible takeover attempt by Russia's Surgutneftegaz (Surgut) (reftel). Econoff attended MOL's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 23, which, in light of widely-percei [...] | 2009-04-24 15:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU |
09BUDAPEST323 | PRIME MINISTER BAJNAI- A FRIEND IN NEED [...] (SBU) Summary. During Charge's meeting to deliver President Obama's congratulatory letter, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai outlined his views on the current economic restructuring plan and his first official international travel to the EU, NATO and Vienna. Noting a "slight shift in foreign poli [...] | 2009-04-28 12:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR HU |
09BUDAPEST336 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFENSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. In his intital meeting with the Charge, the new Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Balazs, highlighted Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's first official international visits to the EU, NATO and Austria on April 27 as part of a "great offensive" in foreign affairs. Balazs also said h [...] | 2009-05-04 15:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU NATO HU |
09BUDAPEST338 | HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEXT STEP TOWARD [...] (C) Summary: Hungary's Parliament recently approved the next step towards the eventual expansion of nuclear energy in Hungary. A feasibility study and tender offer will soon be underway for the probable addition of two new 1000MW reactors at the Paks nuclear plant at a total cost of about fi [...] | 2009-05-05 15:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US HU |
09BUDAPEST356 | SHADY GAS FIRM EMFESZ LATEST FRONT IN BATTLE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Hungarian press has been swirling with speculation surrounding the recent cutoff of gas supplies to shadowy Hungarian gas firm Emfesz and its subsequent disputed change of ownership. To some analysts, Emfesz is being squeezed out as part of a recent agreement between Russia [...] | 2009-05-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU UK HU |
09BUDAPEST360 | READING BETWEEN THE CRIMES: JUSTICE MINISTER [...] (U) During a breakfast attended by EmbOffs on March 4, Justice Minister Tibor Draskovics offered insights into the current situation of increasing violent attacks against Roma people. 2. (U) According to Draskovics, four broad crime trends are at play currently in Hungary. First, there ha [...] | 2009-05-14 11:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU |
09BUDAPEST361 | GAUGING THE HUNGARIAN PUBLIC'S TOLERANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: Despite frequent admonishments by key government and human rights leaders to respect the rights of the Hungarian Roma, several indicators point to a growing anti-Roma climate in Hungary. Two recent public opinion surveys indicate an overwhelming majority of Hungarians harbor str [...] | 2009-05-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST362 | JOBBIK AND RISING HUNGARIAN NATIONALISM [...] (SBU) Summary. As the European Parliamentary (EP) elections approach on June 7, many Hungarian political analysts and pollsters believe that the extreme-right Jobbik party will win at least one seat in the EP, providing it a potential "bounce" for the national elections currently scheduled fo [...] | 2009-05-14 16:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI EU HU |
09BUDAPEST376 | ANTI-ROMA PUBLIC OPINION IN HUNGARY: OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: News of a "dramatic increase" in anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary has been reported by both the international and domestic press in recent weeks. However, despite the conclusion that Hungarians are growing more anti-Roma, Post's review of historical polling data calls this into qu [...] | 2009-05-21 14:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST381 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL POE TO BUDAPEST, MAY 29-30, [...] (U) Embassy Budapest warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Poe to Budapest from May 29-30, 2009. We look forward to your visit and would like to provide the following information in preparation for your arrival. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CLIMATE IN HUNGARY 2. (SBU) The global financial crisis [...] | 2009-05-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OREP PREL EFIN OTRA HU |
09BUDAPEST384 | ALLEGED MAGYAR GARDA MEMBER ATTACKS ROMA FAMILY [...] (SBU) Post is closely following a violent attack on a Roma family from the village of Abadszalok in eastern Hungary. On May 27th at approximately 3:00 a.m. local time, a man entered the family's home and attacked the mother and father with a razor blade, slashing their throats, chests, and leg [...] | 2009-05-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU |
09BUDAPEST39 | REBUTTING EFFORTS TO UNDERMINE THE NABUCCO SUMMIT [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paras 5 and 6 for action request. NO CONFLICT OVER NABUCCO IN BUDAPEST 2. (SBU) Contrary to assertions made by USEU's contacts on the Commission, we wish to be categorical in stating that the upcoming Nabucco Summit in Budapest enjoys broad mu [...] | 2009-01-13 12:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST404 | MALEV AND THE BUDAPEST AIRPORT: BETTING ON FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Malev focuses on strengthening its regional market, hiring a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and adding flights to Romania and Russia. Budapest Airport is optimistic about the future, and is embarking on several development projects, but needs a strong Malev to be successful. Mal [...] | 2009-06-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU |
09BUDAPEST410 | EXTREMISTS EXCEED EXPECTATIONS IN EP ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary. With a 36 percent turnout for the June 7 European Parliamentary (EP) elections, Hungarian voters turned even further right than expected. Although the largest opposition party FIDESZ won the majority of seats (14 of 22) as predicted, the extreme-right Jobbik party, winning 15 pe [...] | 2009-06-08 14:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST411 | VIKTOR ORBAN AND FIDESZ - RANKLING SLOVAKIA [...] (SBU) Summary. FIDESZ, and especially party President Viktor Orban, have been under fire in recent weeks, both domestically and in the region over the Party's position on minorities and the representation of "ethnic Hungarian interests" in the European Parliament. In response the Slovak Nati [...] | 2009-06-09 05:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LO HU |
09BUDAPEST416 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE CORFU [...] (C) The Charge raised reftel points during June 9 office call on new MFA State Secretary for Political Affairs Gabor Iklody. Iklody responded that Hungary is "just as skeptical about the Russian proposal, but we are open to listen." He noted the current security system works, and if the Russi [...] | 2009-06-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO OSCE EU HU |
09BUDAPEST42 | GOVT BOND MARKET WAITING TO BOUNCE BACK [...] (C) Summary. The situation in the Hungarian government securities market improved only slightly in recent weeks following a tumultuous autumn that saw yields of 13-14 percent and massive sell-offs by non-resident investors. The government has sought to stabilize the market by suspending regu [...] | 2009-01-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST429 | HUNGARIAN EXTREMIST HEADED TO THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Two days after the extreme-right Jobbik party's surprising success in the European Parliamentary (EP) elections, lead candidate Krisztina Morvai provided further insight into her agenda at a breakfast with the international press corps. Self-confident, sometimes arrogant and [...] | 2009-06-16 10:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST430 | ORBAN AND FIDESZ: READY TO GOVERN [...] (SBU) Summary. FIDESZ is feeling good and is ready to govern - a confident and relaxed Viktor Orban told an international audience in Budapest on June 10, three days after scoring a major victory in the European Parliament elections. While acknowledging that the economy is the most important [...] | 2009-06-16 12:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST442 | HUNGARY: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) In response to reftel request for input into the 2009 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims, Embassy Budapest has no information to report on U.S. citizen expropriation claims or other qualifying investment disputes involving the Government of Hungary through June 1, 2009. [...] | 2009-06-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | KIDE CASC EINV PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST461 | AMBASSADOR FRIED'S GUANTANAMO DETAINEE MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy (S/GC) for the Closure of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facilities Ambassador Dan Fried met with Hungarian government officials and major political party leaders June 18 to discuss Hungary's willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees. MFA Senior State Secretary Vilmos S [...] | 2009-06-29 13:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER HU |
09BUDAPEST463 | ROMA AND JEWISH LEADERS RESPOND TO FAR RIGHT GAINS [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the far right Jobbik party's success in the June 7 European Parliament elections, the Charge and EmbOffs met with Jewish and Roma leaders to assess their communities' reactions. Contrary to expectations, the leaders expressed only moderate concern and revealed no cl [...] | 2009-06-29 14:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST49 | NO DIRECTION HOME: VOTERS MOVE LEFT ON ECONOMICS, [...] (C) Summary: As the MSzP prepares for party meetings which will set the course for the coming year, Prime Minister Gyurcsany's halting efforts to rekindle reform are meeting open opposition even from elements of his own party. If recent polling is correct, reforms will make little headway wi [...] | 2009-01-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
09BUDAPEST500 | MAGYAR GARDA BANNED - BUT NOT YET GONE [...] Summary. On July 2, the Budapest Court of Appeals issued a legally binding ruling banning the extreme right-wing, paramilitary Magyar Garda (MG). Jobbik President and Magyar Garda founder, Gabor Vona, said he will appeal the verdict. Responding to the ruling, MG members held an unauthorized [...] | 2009-07-10 11:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST501 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S MEETING WITH CHARGE [...] (SBU) Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs requested a meeting with Charge July 9 to discuss three topics: Guantanamo detainees; Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.; and relations with Slovakia. Concerning Guantanamo detainees, the FM said that the Government will decide before the end of Jul [...] | 2009-07-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER OFDP LO HU |
09BUDAPEST533 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JULY 27-28 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed issues on the agenda of the July 27-28 GAERC Meeting with EmbOff on July 24. Dekany noted that the agenda will focus on three items: Iran, Georgia, and Somalia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position on the [...] | 2009-07-24 13:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST553 | HUNGARY'S PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR THEIR EU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 13:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST556 | AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S MEETING WITH THE HUNGARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Daalder, accompanied by the Charge, met Hungarian Prime Minster Gordon Bajnai at Papa Airbase July 27. Bajnai reflected on the first 100 days of his administration, stating he places first priority on the value-based relationships found within NATO and the EU. Comme [...] | 2009-07-31 09:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP NATO EUN ZL AF HU |
09BUDAPEST573 | LOST IN TRANSLATION: HUNGARIANS PROTEST THE SLOVAK [...] (SBU) Summary. In protest of the recently amended Slovak language law, Hungarian officials are ratcheting up their public diplomacy efforts. Responding first, representatives of all four parliamentary factions signed a joint letter raising issues of discrimination. Following an August 3 mee [...] | 2009-08-07 10:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BUDAPEST590 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST URGING STRONG [...] (SBU) Emboff delivered the talking points contained in reftel to Gyula Petho, Director of the Asia bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Laszlo Takacs, Director of the Far East/Burma department. Petho and Takacs expressed agreement with the U.S. position on the Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK [...] | 2009-08-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL BM EU HU |
09BUDAPEST592 | BUDAPEST CONTACTS FOR NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION [...] Amembassy Budapest POC for nuclear nonproliferation issues is Political Officer Jon Martinson, Tel:36-1-475-4454, Mobile:36-30-677-4745; Fax:36-1-475-4700; E-mail:martinsonjl2@state.gov. 2. The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs primary contact for nuclear nonproliferation issues is Mark [...] | 2009-08-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL HU |
09BUDAPEST593 | GOH CHANGES ITS MIND:ISSUES STATEMENT CONDEMNING [...] (SBU) Post received word in the late afternoon of August 14 from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that, after further consideration, it would release a statement condemning the conviction and continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi. Emboff delivered the talking points contained in re [...] | 2009-08-14 15:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL BM EU HU |
09BUDAPEST60 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JANUARY 26-27 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed the reftel GAERC agenda with PolOff on January 23. Dekany stated that the agenda will focus on three items: the Gaza crisis, Guantanamo, and Russia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position papers on the subjec [...] | 2009-01-23 15:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST61 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JANUARY 26-27 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed the reftel GAERC agenda with PolOff on January 23. Dekany stated that the agenda will focus on three items: the Gaza crisis, Guantanamo, and Russia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position papers on the subjec [...] | 2009-01-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HU |
09BUDAPEST612 | OUTLAWED MAGYAR GARDA MARCHES ON [...] Summary. Defying authorities, the extreme-right Jobbik party swore in 620 new members for the banned Magyar Garda movement on August 22. In response, police intervened and launched legal proceedings against 176 members, including increasingly popular Jobbik President Gabor Vona. End Summar [...] | 2009-08-25 10:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST613 | SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY: NO LOVE LOST [...] (U) Summary. In the wake of President Solyom's aborted trip to Slovakia, the GOH is attempting to balance national outrage with an obvious need to improve bilateral relations with its northern neighbor. A meeting between the Foreign Ministers is scheduled for this weekend and may reduce tens [...] | 2009-08-25 11:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BUDAPEST616 | THE "GANG OF FOUR" ARRESTED FOR SERIAL MURDERS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. One year, 120 police officers and 100 million HUF ($500,000 USD) reward later, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested four men suspected of carrying out the unprecedented serial murders that have terrorized the Roma community. In a private brief to the Embassy's L [...] | 2009-08-25 15:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LO HU |
09BUDAPEST628 | STORING UP GAS FOR ANOTHER WINTER CUTOFF [...] (SBU) Summary: Hungary is nearing the completion of a significant addition to its already extensive natural gas storage capacity. This new capacity will further enable gas to continue flowing to consumers in Hungary and possibly to neighboring countries in the event of a cutoff similar to th [...] | 2009-09-01 11:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU UK HU |
09BUDAPEST667 | FICO-BAJNAI MEETING SUCCEEDS IN LOWERING BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The September 10 meeting between Prime Minister Bajnai and his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico seems to have succeeded in diminishing -- at least for now -- tensions that were roiled by the passage of a controversial Slovak language law and a heated dispute over a planned "pri [...] | 2009-09-11 17:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU |
09BUDAPEST679 | CUTTING IT CLOSE: GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO MEET 2009 AND 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: State Secretary Tamas Katona told analysts on September 11 that the Finance Ministry is determined to meet its 3.8 percent budget deficit target for 2009. Despite shortfalls in tax revenues, Katona believes that strict control of expenditures, hiring freezes, and other cost sav [...] | 2009-09-17 16:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST696 | HUNGARY AGREES TO ACCEPT A GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai told Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure (S/GC) September 16 that Hungary will accept one Guantanamo detainee, who will likely be of Palestinian origin. The main opposition party Fidesz has said it will support the government's decision and backed [...] | 2009-09-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER HU |
09BUDAPEST715 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (SBU) PolOff met with Gyula Petho, MFA's Asia/Pacific Department Head, on September 29 to discuss reftel. Expressing appreciation for the policy review read-out, Petho stated that Hungary fully supports direct dialogue with the Burmese Government. Based on the outlined USG policy, he expects [...] | 2009-09-29 16:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BM HU |
09BUDAPEST725 | PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR PAKS NUCLEAR EXPANSION [...] (C) Summary: Work on the possible expansion of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Plant proceeds apace as experts work to define Hungary's power generation needs in the coming decades and potential suppliers begin their marketing efforts. The tender is expected to occur sometime in early 2011. Political [...] | 2009-10-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US HU |
09BUDAPEST733 | HUNGARY'S CARDINAL OFFERS VIEWS ON CURRENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Charge d'Affaires, Cardinal Peter Erdo, Hungary's primate, criticized the current government, observed that corruption is pervasive, linked the political elite to organized crime and complained of the judiciary's ineffectiveness. He also believed that polit [...] | 2009-10-07 14:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EU HU |
09BUDAPEST760 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF WATER UTILITY FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: The Pecs city government has used a commercial dispute with France's Suez, the strategic investor and operator of the city's water plant, to basically expropriate the public utility. The move was orchestrated by the newly-elected Fidesz mayor and has raised serious concerns in bo [...] | 2009-10-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR FR HU |
09BUDAPEST766 | ATTRACTING NEGATIVE ATTENTION - FIDESZ MAYOR'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Fidesz Mayor Oszkar Molnar's recent inflammatory comments concerning Roma, gays, and Jews have attracted a strong response from opposition party leaders and citizen groups. Meanwhile, senior Fidesz party leaders, including Party President Viktor Orban, attempt to remain above [...] | 2009-10-19 11:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST771 | HUNGARIAN PRT - HOW (IN)EFFECTIVE? [...] (S/NF) Summary. The senior Hungarian MFA representative on the ground with the Hungarian PRT in Baghlan Province says the security situation is deteriorating, with limited Afghan military capability and a Hungarian PRT that is not effectively providing security. Stating that the Provincial A [...] | 2009-10-21 09:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PGOV PREL MCAP MOPS AF HU |
09BUDAPEST773 | HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO RATIFY [...] (U) The Hungarian parliament voted on October 19 to ratify the Nabucco Pipeline Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA),which was concluded on July 13 by Hungary, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The measure passed with 334 affirmative votes and one abstention, making Hungary the first Nabu [...] | 2009-10-21 14:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST787 | U.S. COMPANY LOSES OUT IN TAINTED RADIO TENDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Radio and Television Board (ORTT) voted October 28 to award the two national radio frequencies to bidders backed by the two largest Hungarian political parties. The decision leaves the current license holders, U.S.-based Emmis Communications' "Slager Radio," and [...] | 2009-10-29 16:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECPS KCOR HU |
09BUDAPEST790 | THE SHIFTING POLITICAL GROUNDS OF NORTHEAST HUNGARY [...] (C) Summary. The political ground is shifting in northeast Hungary, a former Socialist stronghold. Support for center-right Fidesz has grown significantly, and its politicians confidently predict a major victory in next April's national elections. Negative stereotypes and perceptions of Ro [...] | 2009-11-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST792 | HUNGARY INCSR PART I [...] (U) Summary: Hungary continues to be a primary narcotics transit country between Southwest Asia and Western Europe due to its combination of geographic location, a modern transportation system, and the unsettled political and social climate in the neighboring countries of the former Yugoslavia [...] | 2009-11-03 06:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST794 | A FIDESZ ECONOMIC PLAN DEVELOPS...BEHIND THE SCENES [...] (C) Summary. Behind the scenes, the opposition Fidesz party is developing details of its economic program should the party win next April's national elections, as polls widely predict. The main thrust of the program will be to try to increase employment and economic growth through reforming [...] | 2009-11-03 09:24:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST802 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar. Your November 16 visit to Budapest sends an important signal to our Hungarian allies that the U.S. continues to be fully engaged in European energy security. The Fourth Energy Forum, where you will [...] | 2009-11-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL OREP HU |
09BUDAPEST805 | COMMERCE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH HUNGARIAN PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke met with Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on October 20 in Budapest. Expressing USG appreciation for the alignment of shared values and interests with Hungary and its support in Afghanistan, the Secretary complemented the PM for his effort [...] | 2009-11-09 10:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV KGHG HU |
09BUDAPEST819 | HEATED CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ROMA AND [...] (U) Responding to a November 14 rally of the extreme-right Jobbik party and the banned Magyar Garda in the north-eastern Hungarian town of Sajobabony, local Roma attempted to break up the event, threatening the local Jobbik party chief. After a group of Roma assaulted one of the organizers, Job [...] | 2009-11-16 17:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST821 | BUDAPEST RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON SECURITY [...] (SBU) Post provides the following responses to the questions posed in reftel: 2. (SBU) Does the United States currently have an established security dialogue with your country? -- There are currently no Bilateral Defense Cooperation (BDC) talks scheduled with Hungary. That said, within o [...] | 2009-11-17 09:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR HU |
09BUDAPEST822 | SZEGED - PROSPERITY, POLITICS, AND DARK UNDERTONES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The prosperous university town of Szeged is home to Laszlo Botka, one of Hungary's rising young Socialist politicians who is positioning himself to pick up the pieces after his party's all but certain defeat in next April's parliamentary elections. However, there is a darker, di [...] | 2009-11-17 10:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST824 | 200 CIVIL SERVICE JOBS FOR ROMA -- HUNGARIAN STYLE [...] (U) Summary: Despite the public service hiring freeze, the GOH launched an affirmative action project that aims to induct 200 Roma college graduates into civil service positions by January 1, 2010. EU grants will cover salaries for the first year, after which the GOH hopes to add the new empl [...] | 2009-11-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI EU HU |
09BUDAPEST829 | FIDESZ ROLLS OUT ITS AGENDA TO THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Opposition party Fidesz, clearly confident of victory in next April's elections, rolled out its economic and foreign policy agenda to members of the diplomatic community November 18. With no margin of maneuver on fiscal policy, Fidesz intends to use monetary policy to help gene [...] | 2009-11-20 06:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ENRG HU |
09BUDAPEST834 | HUNGARY IN AFGHANISTAN - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 9 meeting with the Charge, senior MOD and MFA officers provided an in-depth review of current and future Hungarian operations in Afghanistan. In Hungary's first combat operations since the 1956 revolution, the group underscored Hungary's "unchanged commitment...bu [...] | 2009-11-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MCAP AF HU |
09BUDAPEST843 | AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S CONSULTATIONS IN BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Richard Morningstar visited Budapest on November 16-17 to take part in the "Fourth Energy Forum," a conference dedicated to fostering a broad discussion on European energy security. While in Budapest, Ambassador Morningstar met with [...] | 2009-11-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV PREL OREP HU |
09BUDAPEST846 | SLAGER RADIO CEASES BROADCASTING [...] (U) At midnight on November 18, having been denied its request for an injunction to prevent the transfer of its broadcasting license, American-owned Emmis Communication's Slager Radio ceased broadcasting in Hungary. 2. (U) Slager and Danubius Radio, the other long-term licensee, lost thei [...] | 2009-11-25 08:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV ECPS HU |
09BUDAPEST847 | SCENESETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER BAJNAI'S MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has received high marks from the International Monetary Fund for his management of the Hungarian economy after its near meltdown in October 2008. He has maintained the Hungarian commitment in Afghanistan despite very limited fiscal constraints, and [...] | 2009-11-25 15:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS ECON ENRG EINV HU |
09BUDAPEST851 | TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL: HUNGARY LIKELY TO REACQUIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian government, Malev Airlines, and Budapest Airport contacts confirmed that the GOH will likely reacquire a minority stake in recently improved but still debt-laden Malev from Russia's Putin-connected Vneshekonombank (VEB). Embassy contacts characterized VEB as ill-suited [...] | 2009-11-27 15:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU |
09BUDAPEST855 | DAS QUANRUD'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary. During a November 24-25 visit to Budapest, EUR DAS Pamela Quanrud met with the Prime Minister, other senior Hungarian government officials, the opposition party's senior foreign policy expert, and media representatives to discuss USG priority issues. The Prime Minister indicate [...] | 2009-12-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO ENGR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST857 | RESIGNATION OF HUNGARIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND [...] (U) Tibor Draskovics, Minister of Justice and Law enforcement, unexpectedly announced his resignation December 2. His resignation comes two days after the Parliament passed the controversial 2010 budget (septel). Draskovics stated that "we have successfully accomplished our legislative work [...] | 2009-12-02 11:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST858 | PARLIAMENT PASSES 2010 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. On November 30, Parliament approved the Bajnai government's 2010 budget. The fiscally conservative budget calls for a deficit of 3.8 percent, but critics maintain the government will substantially overshoot its target, based on underestimated expenditures and overestimated tax [...] | 2009-12-02 13:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST86 | GABOR VONA AND THE MAKING OF A HUNGARIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary. Jobbik party President Gabor Vona has emerged from obscurity to pursue his ambition to be a prime actor with a leading role on the stage of Hungarian politics. Gravitating from Fidesz, Vona took over leadership of the extreme-right Jobbik party in 2006. Using the Jobbik-created [...] | 2009-02-02 05:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU |
09BUDAPEST864 | DEBRECEN - FIDESZ FIEFDOM WITH GROWING JOBBIK [...] (C) Summary. Opposition party Fidesz has built up a nearly unassailable fiefdom in the eastern city of Debrecen, Hungary's second largest municipality. While the local Socialist party is in tatters, the far-right Jobbik movement appears to be gaining strength, especially among young univers [...] | 2009-12-04 10:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST866 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON USG OFFER TO EMBED CIVILIAN [...] (C) In mid-November, MOD Policy State Secretary Jozsef Bali provided PolOff copies of an unclassified cable and a draft U.S. MOU received from Hungary's Ambassador in Kabul, Sandor Matyus. Matyus' reporting cable addressed a request initiated by Embassy Kabul to embed four USG civilian perso [...] | 2009-12-04 11:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AF HU |
09BUDAPEST87 | NOTHING NEW UNDER THE GUN: GOH AIMS LOW ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: The GoH continues to talk loudly about its financial straits but to carry a very small stick on structural reform. Despite repeated references to the historic magnitude of the financial crisis, the Gyurcsany government appears to be aiming low by limiting its response to modest [...] | 2009-02-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST870 | HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) selected thirty-five year old parliamentary faction leader Attila Mesterhazy as its Prime Minster candidate for the 2010 national elections. A party member since 2002, Mesterhazy previously served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Chi [...] | 2009-12-04 16:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST872 | HUNGARY'S NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION PACKAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 26, the Bajnai administration submitted a new anti-corruption package to Parliament that addresses corruption in public procurements. The initiative is the latest in a series of proposals that have been publicly touted with great fanfare only to die quietly in the legi [...] | 2009-12-08 07:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR ETRD PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST875 | GYOR - JOBBIK CHALLENGING FIDESZ ON ITS HOME TURF [...] (C) SUMMARY. A popular local mayor has helped opposition party Fidesz gain control of the former Socialist party sinecure of Gyor in western Hungary. While local Fidesz politicians expect a crushing victory over the Socialists in next April's parliamentary elections, the far-right party, Job [...] | 2009-12-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
09BUDAPEST879 | HUNGARY RESPONSE: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message and talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asia/Pacific Department Head Gyula Petho and Southeast Asia Section Head Laszlo Takacs on December 8, 2009. Petho said that Hungary's policy towards Burma was essentially the same as that of the United States [...] | 2009-12-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM HU |
09BUDAPEST881 | MULTICULTURAL POLICING WORKSHOP ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of Post's continuing tolerance program, Post, the Hungarian Ministry of Justice (MOJ),and the FBI's International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) jointly conducted a two-day workshop in Budapest for senior police officials, prosecutors, and judges on policing in multi-cu [...] | 2009-12-11 16:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI EU HU |
09BUDAPEST885 | HUGE UNCONVENTIONAL GAS POTENTIAL LIKELY TO REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: There are substantial amounts of natural gas in the tight gas sands of southeastern Hungary, but initial tests to determine the technical feasibility of developing the resources have not been promising. End Summary. SIGNIFICANT UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVES 2. (SBU) Hungary [...] | 2009-12-14 11:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST886 | ARREST TAINTS BUDAPEST AIRPORT'S PREVIOUSLY CLEAN [...] (U) Hungarian authorities announced on December 5 the arrest of Budapest Airport's (BA) legal director Krisztina Renyi-Vamos, along with her former colleague Gyorgy Sziebert, who until this week served as legal director for Budapest transport company BKV. Both individuals were charged with br [...] | 2009-12-14 13:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN ETRD HU |
09BUDAPEST9 | SAY ANYTHING: THE PM'S MIXED MESSAGES [...] (C) Prime Minister Gyurcsany continues to calibrate his messages at the expense of his credibility. Throughout the past weeks, he has sought to assure the public that Hungary's economy has weathered a "foreign attack" and will maintain strict "social solidarity." At the same time, he has wor [...] | 2009-01-06 13:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KBIO HU |
09BUDAPEST901 | HUNGARY PASSES NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 14 the Hungarian Parliament passed a series of anti-corruption measures designed to reduce corruption in public procurements. The final vote was split down party lines, with near unanimous support from the governing Socialist party and near unanimous opposition from [...] | 2009-12-21 07:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR ETRD PREL PGOV HU |
09BUDAPEST909 | FOREIGN INVESTORS JITTERY OVER ACTIONS OF FIDESZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two recent actions by opposition party Fidesz mayors against private utility companies have rattled Hungary's foreign investors. Senior Fidesz advisors claim these are local incidents and emphasize their party has no policy to re-nationalize privatized utilities. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-12-30 10:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV KCOR FR HU |
09BUDAPEST910 | ENGAGING HUNGARY ON THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] (SBU) Hungary has a clear track record on the "defamation of religions" question. It backs the common EU position, which echoes USG recommendations, and in November 2009 voted against the UN Third Committee resolution on the issue. In the UN Human Rights Council, it has stood with us on other [...] | 2009-12-30 10:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KISL KDEM OPDC HU |
09BUENOSAIRES1008 | (C) CARLOS REUTEMANN, ARGENTINA'S RELUCTANT [...] (C) Summary: Peronist dissident -- and presumptive 2011 frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination -- Senator Carlos Reutemann from Santa Fe province shared his views with the CDA on the 2011 presidential race and the post-midterms strategy of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) [...] | 2009-09-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR KPAO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1017 | ARGENTINA: CFK'S NEW CABINET CHIEF [...] (S) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) promotion of former Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez (AF) to Cabinet Chief puts in place someone with six years of experience working for the First Couple, first as former president Nestor Kirchner's Interior Minister and then [...] | 2009-09-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR KCOR ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1026 | ARGENTINA: THERE'S LIFE AFTER THE CASA ROSADA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Eight weeks after leaving Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration, former Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa told Polcouns that he parted on good terms with CFK and "not so good terms" with CFK's husband and power behind the throne, former president Nestor Kir [...] | 2009-09-15 00:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1029 | ARGENTINA URGES CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT ON BOLIVIA IN [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered points in reftel regarding potential Majors List determination for Bolivia to Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti on September 14 (see septels for other issues discussed). Taccetti did not react with particular concern or surprise to the renewed listing of [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1030 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT DISMAYED BY DOL LIST OF [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to convey the GOA,s strong objection to the DOL List of Goods Produced by Forced and Child Labor. Taccetti complained that the extensive list of Argentine products on the list [...] | 2009-09-16 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL PGOV EIND PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1039 | ARGENTINA: FORMAL REQUEST FOR U.S. SIGNATURE ON CONVENTION [...] Embassy received via Diplomatic Note a letter dated September 10 from Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Taiana to Secretary Clinton in which Argentina requests U.S. support for the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Taiana request [...] | 2009-09-17 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1084 | Argentina: Kraft Conflict Heats Up As Police Remove Workers [...] (SBU) On Friday September 25, the government of the Province of Buenos Aires, with the support of the federal government, implemented, after much hesitation, a judge's decision and ordered the police to move into the Kraft plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The police forcibly removed abou [...] | 2009-09-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB PREL PGOV KSAC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1095 | Scenesetter for Secretary Solis' Visit to Argentina, [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your October 6-8 visit to Argentina. I will have been in the country a little less than three weeks when you arrive, and I am honored to have you among my first visitors. The Government of Argentina will also be extremely interested in [...] | 2009-10-02 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PGOV ECON ETRD AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1101 | ARGENTINA: A PRIMER ON ARGENTINA'S MEDIA BILL [...] (C) Summary: For decades, there has been consensus within Argentine political circles of the need to reform the 1980 media law, which dates to the military dictatorship (1976-1983). A year after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) first announced an effort at reform, the Chamber of [...] | 2009-10-02 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EINT EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1117 | Argentina Upgrades Agriculture to Ministry Level, Appoints [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner created a Ministry of Agriculture to be headed by Kirchner loyalist Julian Dominguez. This change upgrades the agriculture portfolio to a Ministry level - a status it had not held since 1981, despite Argentina's role as a [...] | 2009-10-08 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SNAR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM TBIO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1132 | DOES THE PASSAGE OF CONTROVERSIAL ARGENTINE MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: The government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the political grave in winning congressional approval of a controversial media bill. The Argentine Senate approved the bill (44-24) in the early hours of October 10, three weeks afte [...] | 2009-10-15 20:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EINV WTRO AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1147 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and critical [...] | 2009-10-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1148 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and cri [...] | 2009-10-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1160 | ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE WELCOMES LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights Julio Alak invited the Embassy Law Enforcement Working Group (LEWG) to brief him October 16 on the range of USG activities in the law enforcement area and to make suggestions regarding challenges he should address as minister. His [...] | 2009-10-26 00:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PTER KCRM PGOV EFIN AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1168 | ARGENTINA TRIP REPORT OF A/S TREASURY DAVID COHEN [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes David S. Cohen traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 2 to address members of the U.S.-Latin America Private Sector Dialogue (U.S.-LA PSD) and conduct meetings with the Central Bank of the Republic o [...] | 2009-10-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1172 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS A CORDIAL WELCOME TO AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre warmly received the Ambassador October 23, immediately expressing her pleasure at being able to welcome a woman in the post of U.S. Ambassador. Garre spoke with satisfaction of U.S.-Argentine security cooperation and described her September visit [...] | 2009-10-29 22:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1179 | ARGENTINA: VIOLENCE AMONG GOVERNMENT-SUPPORTED [...] (C) Summary: Argentine media and opposition are questioning government financial support of a group that attacked the venue for an October 16 speech in Jujuy by Senator Gerardo Morales, leader of the Radical Party (UCR). Morales blames 40 members of the piquetero group Tupac Amaru for orchest [...] | 2009-10-31 00:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI AR |
09BUENOSAIRES118 | ARGENTINA: SPANISH AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS CFK'S [...] (C) Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador Rafael Estrella February 2 to discuss the February 9-11 visit of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to Madrid. Estrella, a well-connected former politician, offered the following thoughts on the visit. 2. (C) Efforts to Pos [...] | 2009-02-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SP AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1183 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL REFORM BILL "TAILOR-MADE" FOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) sent Congress her proposal for political reforms, requiring mandatory primaries for picking party nominees, establishing new thresholds for parties, limiting the use of private funds for campaigns, and restricting the publi [...] | 2009-11-02 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1222 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS BUENOS AIRES MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Buenos Aires city mayor Mauricio Macri let slip to the Ambassador that he intends to run for president in 2011. He criticized the Kirchners for the failure of their economic model, for the country's growing crime problems, and for alienating the United States. He also reiterated past c [...] | 2009-11-12 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC AMGT AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1235 | (C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S FIRST TWO CABINET CHIEFS SAY KIRCHNERS' [...] (C) Summary: Over the past six weeks, we have held several conversations with President Fernandez de Kirchner's first two Cabinet Chiefs, Alberto Fernandez and Sergio Massa. Both believe that the Kirchners, despite their recent political successes, cannot win re-election in 2011. They disagree on w [...] | 2009-11-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1239 | Argentina: President of the Chamber of Deputies Welcomes [...] (SBU) Ambassador paid an introductory call on a warm and talkative Eduardo Fellner, President of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, November 12. Fellner, a strong supporter of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),speculated that the Lower House might consider political reform legislat [...] | 2009-11-20 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1257 | ARGENTINA FACES CHALLENGING AML/CFT REVIEW [...] (S/NF) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held a two week peer review of the Argentine anti-money laundering and counter terror finance (AML/CFT) regime. Although hoping to see some positive moves by Argentina, the FATF operational team leader is skeptical of the GoA's intentions to combat mone [...] | 2009-12-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER SNAR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KCOR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1259 | (C) Argentina: Media Freedoms Under Attack? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine media outlets are sounding the alarms over government changes to media licensing laws, an executive decree restricting where print media can be sold, government support for union blockades of media distribution plants, and government pressure on a private-public newsprin [...] | 2009-12-01 17:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES127 | ARGENTINA: PLAN FOR ENGAGEMENT ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER [...] (U) This is an action request for State and Southern Command, see para 6. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires is concerned that the decision to relocate one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) from Newport News, VA to Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport, FL, could be either misconstrued by Governm [...] | 2009-02-05 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1271 | Argentina: Kirchners Win Big on Political "Reform" Bill [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),taking advantage of her (soon-to-expire) majority in the lame-duck Congress, succeeded in getting her electoral reform bill passed without major modifications. Argentina's Senate approved 42 to 24 the bill requiring mandato [...] | 2009-12-07 19:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM |
09BUENOSAIRES1279 | Argentina: Deutsche Bank Country Chief Pessimistic About [...] (C) Marcelo Blanco, Argentina Country Director for Deutsche Bank, gave the Ambassador, DCM, and EconCouns on December 7 a very pessimistic assessment regarding the chances for a holdout deal in the immediate future. Blanco is the point-man for one of the three banks working with the GOA to co [...] | 2009-12-09 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EINT AR PGOV |
09BUENOSAIRES1280 | AMBASSADOR PURSUES MORE BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on November 19 with Science and Technology Minister Lino Baranao to inquire about the GoA's priorities and to discuss ways to expand bilateral cooperation. Baranao expressed his interest in moving Argentina from a culture of pure scientific research to one wh [...] | 2009-11-23 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO TPHY PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1291 | Argentina: GOA Creates USD 6.6 Billion Reserves Fund to [...] (C) The GOA has decided to use Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) reserves to create a quasi escrow fund to guarantee the payment of its regularly scheduled 2010 debt service obligations. While many analysts think the move will facilitate further government spending and thereby damage Argentina' [...] | 2009-12-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1294 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR WHO EXECUTIVE [...] (SBU) On November 19, ESTHCouns delivered ref demarche on the U.S. candidacy on the WHO Executive Board to Christian Hotton, in the Argentine MFA's Direction of International Organizations, along with copy of the diplomatic note sent a day earlier to the MFA. Hotton was aware of the four candid [...] | 2009-11-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO TPHY PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1302 | ARGENTINA: 2009 TIP Interim Assessment Response [...] Per Reftel instructions, below is post's interim assessment of Argentina's progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Our response is keyed to points found in reftel. A) Implementing the new anti-trafficking law: As of August 21, 2009, coordination for the O [...] | 2009-11-30 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1305 | (C) Argentine MFA Shares Some Concerns About Brazilian [...] (C) Summary: Argentine MFA nuclear non-proliferation officials shared concerns about the direction of Brazilian security policy in the final years of the Lula Government during a meeting December 10. These were "yellow lights" only, but the Argentines were concerned by Brazil's outreach to Ir [...] | 2009-12-24 16:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM PGOV BR AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1316 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador delivered climate change talking points (ref A and B) on December 1 to Argentina's Environment Secretary Homero Bibiloni and Climate Change Lead Negotiator Silvia Merega. She stressed the importance of reaching a politically binding agreement in Copenhagen and hi [...] | 2009-12-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG KGHG SENV PGOV PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1324 | Argentina: AES Energy Faces Challenges in Electric Sector - [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables which will examine U.S. company operations in the energy sector in Argentina. The series will conclude with an overview of the sector based largely on U.S. company views. Summary ------------ 2. (SBU). AES Argentina management descr [...] | 2009-12-04 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES134 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT'S G-20 PRIORITY: IFI REFORM [...] (C) The GoA is focused intensely on G-20 meetings and preparations, and will continue its push for reform of the international financial institutions (IFIs),Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez told Ambassador February 4. Fernandez said the GoA will promote "reasonable, serious, and prudent ref [...] | 2009-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR BR MX |
09BUENOSAIRES137 | (C) ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE SAYS [...] (C) Summary: With his customary candor, Senate President Pro Tempore Jose Pampuro, a moderate Peronist, told Ambassador Wayne February 4 that "the biggest problem" facing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration is its inability to engage in dialogue with the opposition [...] | 2009-02-09 19:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
09BUENOSAIRES14 | Argentina: New Agricultural Measures Will Have Little [...] (U) Summary: On December 22, 2008, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced a new package of stimulus measures for the Argentine agricultural sector. Although previously announced at the beginning of December, a plan to reduce the export tax on wheat and corn by five percentag [...] | 2009-01-05 17:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
09BUENOSAIRES1414 | Scenesetter for Codel Engel Visit to Argentina, January 5-7 [...] (SBU) Mr. Chairman, on behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Argentina. I will have been in the country for about four months when you arrive, and I am honored to have you among my first Congressional visitors. The Government of Argentina is interested in [...] | 2009-12-29 19:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PGOV ECON ETRD ELAB PHUM PTER KTIP |
09BUENOSAIRES1418 | Argentina: 2009 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (U) Buenos Aires Country Report on Terrorism submission for 2009 follows. Contact is Pol-Mil Officer Ted Craig, at craigtj@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Argentina and the United States cooperated well in analyzing possible terrorist threat information. During 2009, Argentina [...] | 2009-12-31 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC PGOV AR |
09BUENOSAIRES142 | (C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has made a series of positive comments about President Obama dating from last August. CFK's words signal that she hopes to turn a new page in bilateral relations and reflect genuine admiration for our new president and the process t [...] | 2009-02-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES144 | ARGENTINA: PERONIST DISSIDENT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In his first substantive meeting with Ambassador Wayne February 5, National Deputy and Peronist dissident Felipe Sola of the Peronist Union bloc discussed his 2011 presidential aspirations, this year's midterm elections, and the merits of a single ballot system. Sola is in the A [...] | 2009-02-11 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR |
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