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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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06KHARTOUM259 | STARTING FROM SCRATCH IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In courtesy calls on a dozen ministers of the GoSS, CG Juba has been impressed by the frankness of the ministers in describing the difficulties of making the broken institutions of Southern Sudan functional. Virtually every meeting begins with an inventory of what must be done b [...] | 2006-02-02 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI EAID SENV SU |
06KHARTOUM2590 | DARFUR - EMERGENCY FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION ASSESSMENT [...] Preliminary results of the third Darfur Emergency Food Security and Nutrition Assessment (EFSNA) conducted in September 2006 show child malnutrition rates holding steady and mortality rates decreasing for three consecutive years. Stability and improvement were attributed to a combined effort o [...] | 2006-10-31 14:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM2602 | DARFUR - PROTECTION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN ENHANCED AFRICAN [...] (SBU) In anticipation of the transition in peacekeeping forces in Darfur either from the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a United Nations (UN) force or to an AMIS mission augmented by a package of assistance from the UN, USAID assessed AMIS's performance last year in the protection of [...] | 2006-11-02 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
06KHARTOUM2609 | SO. SUDAN: SOUTH BLAMES NORTH FOR UPSURGE IN [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) has yet to produce concrete evidence that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are behind the current upsurge in violence in areas east and south of Juba. The deployment of a brigade of Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops to the affected a [...] | 2006-11-02 16:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV ASEC SOCI UG UN SU |
06KHARTOUM264 | ANTI-DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL PROTEST SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) On February 2, an angry crowd of approximately 100 students surrounded the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Agencies Coordinating Together (ACT)/CARITAS (which houses Norwegian NGOs) compounds in Nyala, South Darfur, and stoned several vehicles at 10:00 in the morning. The NGO staff were [...] | 2006-02-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM SOCI PTER DA NO US SU |
06KHARTOUM2666 | SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: PREPARATIONS FOR UN U/S EGELAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs (USYG) Jan Egeland departed Juba November 12 for a meeting with Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chief Joseph Kony on the Sudan-Congo border. Before the meeting, Egeland had expressed serious doubt about whether it would actually [...] | 2006-11-14 13:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI PGOV UN SU UG CG |
06KHARTOUM2667 | JUBA VIOLENCE AFTERMATH: RUMORS OF SAF PRISONER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Attacks attributed to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) around Juba have slowed within the last week, but still continue. The LRA has denied responsibility for these incidents of violence, and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials still maintain that the Sudanese Armed f [...] | 2006-11-14 13:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI PGOV UN SU |
06KHARTOUM2668 | DARFUR-DARFUR DIALOGUE AND CONSULTATION OFFICIALLY [...] Summary: The long-awaited Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation (DDDC),mandated by the May 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA),is finally off the ground. All participants in its inauguration agreed the DDDC was vital to the success of the DPA and broader efforts to restore the social fabric [...] | 2006-11-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
06KHARTOUM2694 | Sudan/Uganda/DRC: UN Humanitarian Chief Meets Head of [...] (U) SUMMARY: Lord's Resistance Army LRA rebel chief Joseph Kony pressed for the withdrawal of Ugandan forces from Southern Sudan during a brief meeting with UN Under Secretary General (USYG) Jan Egeland on November 12 at the village of Nabanga on the Sudan-Congo border. Kony refused Egeland's [...] | 2006-11-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI PGOV UN SU UG CG |
06KHARTOUM2696 | SUDAN - AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE 12 [...] On November 5, 2006, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) convened a Technical Task Force (TTF) meeting on Avian Influenza (AI). FAO and the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Federal Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries (FMARF) are to finalize, in coordination with all stak [...] | 2006-11-19 10:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU KFLU |
06KHARTOUM2709 | Darfur - UN USYG Egeland Warns of Worsening Situation [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the strong efforts of the non-governmental organization (NGO) community and the commitment of the donor community, the humanitarian situation in Darfur is poised to deteriorate, according to Jan Egeland, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Re [...] | 2006-11-20 14:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PHUM PREF SOCI PGOV KAWC UN SU |
06KHARTOUM271 | SUDAN: Reaction to Danish Cartoon Relatively [...] Summary: Despite some violence in Darfur and a Friday demonstration in Khartoum, the situation here has remained relatively calm. The Norwegian Embassy received a threat, but is being well protected by Sudanese forces. There is some concern that Danish and Norwegian NGO's may have to halt [...] | 2006-02-06 10:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL SOCI SCUL PGOV KISL DA NO US SU |
06KHARTOUM2710 | Government of Sudan Launches Military [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese armed forces, reinforced by air power and allied Arab janjaweed militia, have launched major attacks against rebels in the area of Birmaza in North Darfur from late October to the present. UN, AU, NGO, and press accounts report that scores of livestock were looted and [...] | 2006-11-20 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
06KHARTOUM272 | Darfur: 2005 Protection Year in Review - [...] In analyzing protection trends in 2005, it is striking to note how many issues remained similar when compared with 2004 (reftel A). The large-scale humanitarian needs in Darfur have been the result of widespread human rights violations, including the attacking and killing of civilians, rape [...] | 2006-02-06 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM2721 | DARFUR - INCREASED TENSION IN ABU SHOUK CAMP [...] (SBU) During the last five months, Abu Shouk - a 54,000 internally displaced person (IDP) camp on the outskirts of El Fasher, North Darfur - has been the scene of ethnic tension and clashes. Between November 12 and 15, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) suspended humanitari [...] | 2006-11-22 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
06KHARTOUM2725 | DARFUR: MFA CRITICISES U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY REMARKS [...] (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Ali Al-Sadig described Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios' November 20 statements on Darfur as being "inappropriate and not serving to resolve the situation in Darfur." "We have no idea of the content of Plan A, never mind Plan B which he refers to [...] | 2006-11-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
06KHARTOUM2739 | SUDAN - SOUTHERN KORDOFAN SITUATION REPORT [...] On September 2, USAID staff visited Kadugli and Abyei towns in Southern Kordofan State to track progress on the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and determine appropriate areas for USAID support. In the state capital, Kadugli, some administrative restructuring has occu [...] | 2006-11-26 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2747 | PRES. BASHIR,S JUBA VISIT: SECURITY, ABYEI, CPA, [...] (C) Summary: President Bashir,s November 18 visit to Juba has done little to assure southern Sudanese of Khartoum,s sincerity in ending support for the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and militia groups widely believed to be responsible for recent violence in Juba and surrounding areas. Bashir pled [...] | 2006-11-27 16:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAID MOPS SOCI ASEC US SU |
06KHARTOUM2762 | DARFUR: "A CERTAIN KIND OF CHAOS" [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings with tribal leaders, humanitarian workers, and United Nations staff during a recent visit to North and West Darfur, CDA Hume heard accounts of the disintegration of the territory's society, the rise in the Sudanese government's harassment and restriction of [...] | 2006-11-29 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR MOPS AU EAID PREF SOCI |
06KHARTOUM2771 | Juba Roundup: GoSS Ratifies State Constitutions, Ignoring [...] (U) The following is a brief round-up of current issues from the Consulate General in Juba: --GoSS Goes Ahead with State Constitutions; --Minor SPLM Reshuffle Finishes with State Minister; --Penal Code Marks First Laws in Southern Sudan; --Juba Bridge Still Hanging On; and --Chinese Establi [...] | 2006-12-01 03:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI PREL PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM2772 | Malakal Update: Ceasefire Holding [...] (U) Summary: A ceasefire in Malakal between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) appears to have held through December 1, although sporadic gunfire and looting continues. UN agencies and NGOs are providing initial humanitarian assistance, including assist [...] | 2006-12-01 19:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS CASC EAID SOCI UN SU |
06KHARTOUM2786 | AU SPECIAL ENVOY SALIM BRIEFS INT'L PARTNERS, [...] (C) Summary: AU Special Envoy Salim A. Salim told international partners and CDA Hume separately on Nov. 29 that getting DPA non-signatories on board when signatories were not abiding by it was difficult. He noted Pres. Bashir's continued opposition to a hybrid AU/UN PKO force, and said a jo [...] | 2006-12-03 16:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EAID MOPS SOCI ASEC US SU |
06KHARTOUM2788 | SUDAN - NEEDS ASSESSMENTS IN KASSALA STATE [...] (U) From November 5 to 9, the UN led a Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) to examine the food and non-food aid needs of Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees in Kassala State, eastern Sudan. For the first time, the JAM was carried out in conjunction with the UN World Food Program (WFP)-led Annual Needs [...] | 2006-12-04 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
06KHARTOUM2812 | CDA Addresses Darfur Crisis in Local Press [...] (U) In an interview with Arabic daily "Al-Sudani," the Charge d'Affaires addressed the Sudanese security apparatus' failure to stem the violence in Darfur, while also noting slight improvement in the humanitarian situation. The Charge noted that UN Security Council resolutions, such as Resolut [...] | 2006-12-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF KPAO PHUM SOCI UN SU |
06KHARTOUM2847 | UNPAID SPLA TROOPS RIOT IN JUBA [...] (U) Approximately 100 armed Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops marched from Gumbo to the Garang Memorial in Juba on the morning of December 15, demanding payment for back wages. Some 80 soldiers then surrounded the Legislative Assembly building and fired several shots in the air. On [...] | 2006-12-15 11:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS ELAB ASEC SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM2863 | DARFUR - VISIT OF THE USAID-OFDA DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] From November 30 to December 2, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Deputy Director Greg Gottlieb and a team of USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) field staff visited Nyala, South Darfur, to assess humanitarian conditions an [...] | 2006-12-18 07:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
06KHARTOUM2864 | SUDAN - JOINT PLAN FOR IDP RETURNS IN 2007 [...] The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator (DSRSG/RC/HC) held a Donor Coordination Meeting on December 3 to introduce the joint UN, Government of National Unity (GNU),and Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) plan to return 150,000 intern [...] | 2006-12-18 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM2869 | DARFUR - NGO OUTLOOK BLEAK IN MEETING WITH SE [...] (SBU) On December 12, Special Envoy Natsios met with 11 members of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) NGO Forum Steering Committee in Khartoum to solicit their perspectives on the humanitarian situation in Darfur. Oxfam, Help Age, Tearfund, the International Rescue Committee (IRC),Norweg [...] | 2006-12-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2876 | DARFUR: NGOS RELOCATE STAFF FROM GEREIDA IDP CAMP [...] (SBU) At approximately 2130 hours on December 18, armed men believed to be Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/Minawi) elements stole 14 vehicles from three compounds in Gereida, South Darfur. As a result, all humanitarian organizations except the International Committee of the Red Cross [...] | 2006-12-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP PGOV |
06KHARTOUM2877 | SUDAN: HAC INTERROGATES USAID PARTNER [...] (C) The Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) is in the process of collecting information on all humanitarian organizations working in Sudan. The effort appears to be part of an annual exercise aimed at identifying humanitarian staff and assets. The process inc [...] | 2006-12-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM288 | DARFUR SITUATION UPDATE AND RECENT TRENDS [...] From April 2004 to November 2005, the number of people affected by the Darfur crisis has risen from 1.1 million to more than 3.5 million. While the response of the international humanitarian community has been successful in meeting critical humanitarian needs and saving lives in Darfur, the [...] | 2006-02-07 14:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM2889 | IRATE EMBASSY NEIGHBORS SEEK LEGAL REDRESS [...] Summary: The June 28, 2003, closure of the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum for security reasons is once again getting press attention. Some 29 merchants and residents negatively affected by the closure of Ali Abdel Latif Street reportedly are seeking compensation from the U.S [...] | 2006-12-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC AMGT PREL SOCI KPAO SU |
06KHARTOUM289 | Sudan: Source of Fragility - USAID visit to [...] From January 23 to 30, a USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) team visited Malakal town, capital of Upper Nile State, and the surrounding areas to discuss priority needs and plan immediate activities that will promote stability. The team traveled up [...] | 2006-02-07 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM2892 | DARFUR: UN STATES HUMANITARIAN STRUCTURE ON THE [...] (C) Summary: During a December 21 meeting with Charge Hume, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for the United Nations (UN) in Sudan Manuel d,Silva and Deputy Director for Sudan of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Michael McDonagh [...] | 2006-12-21 16:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL SU UN |
06KHARTOUM290 | SUDAN - World Bank Holds Preparatory Meeting for [...] On February 7, The World Bank convened a meeting to brief donors on the progress toward preparing the Sudan Consortium meeting in Paris on March 8 and 9, 2006. Charge and USAID rep attended. The meeting was co-chaired by the Norwegian Ambassador, the Joint National Transition Team (JNTT),a [...] | 2006-02-07 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM291 | Sudan: Government-Imposed Impediments to [...] Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Darfur are becoming increasingly frustrated by Sudanese government Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) procedures on reporting, hiring, permits, and visas. The Technical Coordination Committee, which was formed to monitor the implementation of t [...] | 2006-02-07 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM2911 | SUDAN: UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES 2007 WORK PLAN [...] On December 19, 2006, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (DSRSG) and UN Humanitarian Coordinator Manuel da SIPDIS Silva and representatives of the Government of National Unity (GNU) launched the 2007 Work Plan for Sudan, with a budget of USD 1.8 billion. The GNU and [...] | 2006-12-27 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
06KHARTOUM2919 | SUDAN - INCREASING DISCONTENT AMONG THE MISSERIYA [...] (C) Summary: On November 16, a crowd of 700 demonstrated in the Misseriya town of Al Fula, Southern Kordofan State, to protest the Government of National Unity,s (GNU) failure to provide the Misseriya people with their share of oil revenues. In a subsequent meeting on November 18, the Misser [...] | 2006-12-28 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI SU KHDP |
06KHARTOUM2925 | AEC Plenary Minutes - Dec. 12 Meeting [...] Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 15th plenary session in Khartoum on December 12. The plenary session involved somewhat heated discussion about the AEC Chairman's recent remarks to the press about the oil fields and other armed groups (OAGs) operating in the S [...] | 2006-12-31 06:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PREL SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM2926 | Darfur: North Darfur Violence against Women Campaign [...] Summary: With the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, women and children are increasingly the victims of rape and abuse. Sudanese Government representatives admit the social and educational marginalization of women, especially internally displaced persons (IDPs),but deny the worsenin [...] | 2006-12-31 06:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KWMN SCUL SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM308 | Darfur: Overview of Protection Trends in 2005 - [...] This cable represents the second in a series of three to review the protection situation and humanitarian response in 2005. Over the course of the year, it became increasingly evident that the problems in Darfur could be characterized as a complex political and human rights crisis. The sit [...] | 2006-02-09 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM317 | SUDAN: MISSERYA OFFER DINKA ABYEI ADMINISTRATION [...] (C) Summary: Misserya tribal leaders from Muglad recently traveled to Abyei to offer the Ngok Dinka all Abyei administration positions in return for not demanding implementation of the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) finding, according to UNMIS contacts. The proposal follows weeks of mutua [...] | 2006-02-09 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM350 | SUDAN/DARFUR: NO IMPLEMENTATION OF VAW PLAN OF [...] (SBU) A visit to the field reveals there is little real progress to date in the implementation on the ground of the Plan of Action to Combat Violence Against Women. Government officials had recently (reftel A) cited some human rights training for the police, the stationing of female police off [...] | 2006-02-13 13:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN PHUM PREL SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM395 | Southern Sudan: The Dinka Bor Come Home [...] Summary: Regional Refugee Coordinator Sam Healy and CG Juba accompanied a UNHCR delegation to Bor, Jonglei State, on February 13 for a first-hand look at the return of the second group vulnerable Dinka Bor transported from Juba to Bor on a Nile barge. Conversations with local officials and [...] | 2006-02-15 09:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PREF PGOV EAID SU |
06KHARTOUM409 | New Consumer Price Survey in Juba [...] The following is a listing of prices in the consumer markets of Juba for the week beginning February 6. Items were selected based on an informal survey of the most commonly sold items. A local resident in Juba employed by the USG collected all data. 2. While a more formal consumer price [...] | 2006-02-16 09:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREF SOCI PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM411 | Southern Sudan: New Consumer Price Survey in [...] The following is a listing of prices in the consumer markets of Juba for the week beginning February 6. Items were selected based on an informal survey of the most commonly sold items. A local resident in Juba employed by the USG collected all data. 2. While a more formal consumer price [...] | 2006-02-16 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREF SOCI PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM424 | Darfur: Overview of Protection Trends in 2005 [...] This cable represents the third and final in a series to review the issue of protection and the related humanitarian response in 2005. In the Darfur crisis, humanitarian protection - defined as efforts to mitigate the risks of violence, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of vulnerable groups [...] | 2006-02-18 11:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM452 | Sudan: USAID Visit to Twic County, Warab State [...] From February 13 to 16, a USAID/Sudan Field Office (USAID/SFO) team visited Wunrok, Turalei, Mayen Abun, and Abindau Payams in Twic County, Warab State, to explore how USAID-funded programs could reduce the potential for conflict and promote a stabilizing influence in support of the Comprehen [...] | 2006-02-22 10:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM454 | NRC EVACUATES FROM SOUTH DARFUR [...] On February 21, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) evacuated international staff members working in South Darfur. NRC international headquarters made the determination to remove staff in response to weeks of Sudanese government warnings that the safety of NRC staff could not be guaranteed. [...] | 2006-02-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM467 | Sudan: Full Court Press Against UN [...] The Government of Sudan is continuing its intensive public and diplomatic efforts to oppose UN intervention in Darfur. In addition to a significant media blitz, and the public chastising of SRSG Jan Pronk, the government has pushed in the National Assembly. Foreign Minister Lam Akol address [...] | 2006-02-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR KPKO UN AU SU |
06KHARTOUM474 | DISPLACEMENT TRENDS IN DARFUR [...] After a relative lull in fighting and displacements for most of 2005, November and December marked an increase in the size and frequency of population movements within Darfur that has yet to subside. Many movements have resulted, in large part, from struggles for territory and influence betw [...] | 2006-02-23 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM478 | UNDECLARED CHOLERA EPIDEMIC CONTINUES IN JUBA [...] SUMMARY: The office of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan confirmed on February 20 that WHO has cultured six positive cholera infections, the tripwire for declaring an epidemic. The GoSS, however, has thus far not officially declared an emergency, and the UN and other bodies [...] | 2006-02-23 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI TBIO SU |
06KHARTOUM480 | BUDDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SOUTH [...] (U) Summary: On February 17, CG Juba met with four representatives of the South Sudan Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (SSCCIA) to review efforts to build a business base in the South. They described the weaknesses of the private sector, including lack of capacity, absence of en [...] | 2006-02-23 16:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV EAID EAGR SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM482 | POST MORTEM ON CONFLICT IN JONGLEI, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 17, CG Juba met with Gatkuoth D. Kuich, Member of the Southern Legislative Assembly from the Waat Constituency in Jonglei State, where fighting broke out between the SPLA and Nuer militia two weeks past. Kuich had traveled to the area and interviewed civilians, SPL [...] | 2006-02-23 16:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PINS SOCI PINR PHUM SU |
06KHARTOUM483 | CG Juba Round-Up [...] (SBU) AEC Visit: Assessment and Evaluation Commissioner Tom Vraalsen visited Juba and met with Riek Machar and the GoSS Minister of Finance, among others. He confirmed that the Government of National Unity had transferred a hefty sum from petroleum revenues into GoSS coffers, but the GoSS rem [...] | 2006-02-23 16:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN EPET TBIO SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM491 | Sudan/Unity State: Sources of Fragility [...] USAID staff visited Rubkona/Bentiu from February 19- 22, 2006. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has significantly improved security as the militia groups that dominated the area during the war have integrated into the SPLA. However, a number of factors threaten the uneasy peace: a di [...] | 2006-02-27 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM500 | UPDATE #3: Sudan Unrelenting in Public [...] SUMMARY: Heavy government public opposition to UN intervention in Darfur enters its second week as President Bashir expressed his uncompromising opposition to UN re-hatting. Cabinet members, political parties, and pro-government newspapers and civic organizations also continue to express th [...] | 2006-02-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR KPKO UN AU SU |
06KHARTOUM578 | SUDAN BRIEFS: TRADE/AID TO KENYA; NORWAY IN [...] SUMMARY: This week's installment of news briefs not included in post's other reporting includes prospects for a Sudan-Kenya trade agreement, together with South Sudan's USD 1 million donation for Kenyan famine relief; Norway's assurances that it will continue to support peacekeeping and reli [...] | 2006-03-07 06:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETRD EPET SOCI SENV SU KE NO CH |
06KHARTOUM588 | CG Juba Roundup - March 6 [...] (U) Disease Spreads: While the cholera epidemic seems to have peaked in Juba on February 19th, and run its course in Yei, it continues to spread to other parts of the south up the Nile river. Cases have been reported in Pibor, Bor, Torit, Numile, Terekeka, and Lafon. The Government of South [...] | 2006-03-07 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM597 | GNU Forms Population Census Council per CPA [...] On January 7, Government of National Unity (GNU) President Omar al-Bashir established the Population Census Council through Presidential Decree number 2/2006. As outlined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),Section 1.8.1 of the power-sharing agreement, this council will formulate the [...] | 2006-03-08 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM606 | Anti-International Intervention Campaign [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudan continues its campaign against U.N. intervention in Darfur, with a steady stream of protests and actions taken by the press, government, and public to reject the introduction of international forces to replace those of the African Union. End summary. ------------------ [...] | 2006-03-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI US AU SU |
06KHARTOUM607 | SUDAN - IRC CEASES HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) The IRC has decided to end cross-border operations from Eritrea serving the eastern enclave of Hamesh Koreib following government and UN-OCHA pressure. Samaritan's Purse, however, continues to work in the area. The SPLM is scheduled to depart Hamesh Koreib over the next three months, po [...] | 2006-03-08 17:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM619 | WEST DARFUR - ZALINGEI UPDATE [...] In mid-February, a USAID Darfur Field Office (DFO) protection officer visited Zalingei in West Darfur. Zalingei town has generally been calm throughout the Darfur crisis, although the Zalingei "corridor," which includes Garsila and Mukjar (septel),was the site of brutal janjaweed attacks in [...] | 2006-03-09 06:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM620 | WESTERN BAHR EL GHAZAL - SOURCES OF FRAGILITY [...] A team of USAID staff and key USAID partners visited Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State and Aweil town in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State from February 22 to 26. The trip was part of a series of visits to areas of USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DC [...] | 2006-03-09 06:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM631 | CG Juba Round-up - March 10 [...] The following is a round-up of recent events in Juba and Southern Sudan. This cable covers SSDF clashes outside of Abyei, banditry in Yuai, continued disarmament in Jonglei, SSDF Warlord Gabriel Tang beginning peace talks, a land dispute in Bentiu, Multi-Donor Trust Fund activities, women's [...] | 2006-03-10 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI ASEC ECON SU |
06KHARTOUM634 | Southern Sudan: Telecom Challenges [...] SUMMARY: The lack of reliable cell phone connectivity in Juba has made communications, and all operations, more difficult for the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),local businesses, and the international community. Most organizations rely on Thuraya satellite phones, which are expensive [...] | 2006-03-10 19:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS PGOV PINR SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM637 | NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL - SOURCES OF FRAGILITY [...] A team of USAID staff and key USAID partners visited Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State (Ref a) and Aweil town in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State from February 22 to 26. The trip was part of a series of visits to areas of USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance [...] | 2006-03-11 06:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM639 | RETURNEES ARRIVING IN HUGE NUMBERS TO WESTERN [...] The USAID/Khartoum Senior Humanitarian Advisor and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Specialist visited Unity State from February 19 to 23 to review the IDP returns situation and examine sources of fragility. As reported reftels, the USAID Khartoum IDP Specialist also traveled with a USAID [...] | 2006-03-11 10:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM666 | Kuwaiti Kismit: Juba's 5-Star Hotel, Port, and [...] SUMMARY: A 5-star destination resort rises from the dusty streets of Juba. A modern port handles 15,000 tons of cargo a month while the tourists at the neighboring harbor enjoy a bite to eat and some shopping before taking a pleasure cruise on the Nile. This is the future of Juba, accordin [...] | 2006-03-15 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI PREL KU QA SU |
06KHARTOUM687 | SUDAN AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - STILL NO CASES [...] Despite the spread of the avian influenza virus to some African countries, including neighboring Egypt, no cases of avian influenza have been reported in birds or humans in Sudan. The Government of National Unity's (GNU) preparations to date have mainly consisted of the formation of committe [...] | 2006-03-18 06:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM688 | KOSTI WHARF - BURSTING AT THE SEAMS [...] On March 9, the USAID/Khartoum Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Officer conducted a one-day visit to Kosti to investigate reports of huge crowds of returnees to Southern Sudan stranded at Kosti wharf for weeks. The 1,400 returnees at the wharf exceed its capacity of 750. USAID partner Adve [...] | 2006-03-18 06:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM694 | WEST DARFUR - GARSILA AND MUKJAR UPDATE [...] This is the second in a series of three USAID cables giving an overview of the humanitarian situation in West Darfur State. In early March, two USAID Field Officers visited Beja, Deleig, Garsila, and Mukjar in the Zalingei - Mukjar corridor of West Darfur. The purpose of the trip was threef [...] | 2006-03-19 03:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM697 | Nuba Mountains - Where are the Peace Dividends? [...] This is the first of two cables prepared by a USAID team that visited South Kordofan State and Abyei from February 26 to March 8, 2006. The purpose of the mission was to a) monitor USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) programs, b) assess the returns [...] | 2006-03-19 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM700 | ACUTE WATERY DIARREHA AND OTHER POTENTIAL [...] From February 18 to March 3, 2006, a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Public Health Advisor traveled to Juba, Southern Sudan, to meet with USAID/OFDA health partners and assess the response to the Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) outbreak in Juba and surrounding areas. [...] | 2006-03-20 07:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM701 | IDPs in Central and Eastern Equatoria: USAID [...] In February, two officials from the USAID Sudan Field Office (USAID/SFO) in Nairobi traveled to Juba, Kajo- Keji, Nimule, and Lobone in Central and Eastern Equatoria States of Southern Sudan. The USAID team met with government officials and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to discuss plan [...] | 2006-03-20 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM720 | KHARTOUM IDPS - CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE [...] On March 14, the Consultative Committee on Khartoum internally displaced persons (IDPs) met with Khartoum State authorities to discuss the status of IDP relocations in Khartoum. The committee wished to gain assurances from Khartoum State authorities that agreed- upon procedures for relocatin [...] | 2006-03-22 10:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM728 | ABYEI REVISITED - POWER VACUUM REMAINS [...] This is the second of two cables prepared by a USAID team that visited South Kordofan State and Abyei from February 17 to March 8, 2006. The purpose of the mission was to a) monitor USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) programs, b) assess the returns [...] | 2006-03-23 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM741 | ACUTE WATERY DIARRHEA OUTBREAK - EARLY RAINS [...] The outbreak of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) continues in Southern Sudan. The U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that the AWD outbreak derived from a single strain of cholera. WHO reported that between January 28 and March 22, 8,684 cases of AWD including 231 deaths had been [...] | 2006-03-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM742 | SPLM HOLDS SEMINAR ON ABYEI ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: An SPLM presentation explained the background of the Abyei border issue and argued for implementation of the report of the Abyei Boundaries Commission as a key component of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. After explaining the rationale behind the decision, they rejected the n [...] | 2006-03-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM751 | RETURNEES ARRIVING IN HUGE NUMBERS TO WESTERN [...] The USAID/Khartoum Senior Humanitarian Advisor and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Specialist visited Unity State from February 19 to 23 to review the IDP returns situation and examine sources of fragility. As reported reftels, the USAID Khartoum IDP Specialist also traveled with a USAID [...] | 2006-03-26 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM775 | USAID MEETING WITH FOOD SECURITY AND [...] On March 9 and 10, USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) and USAID Sudan Field Office (USAID SFO) staff met with USAID/DCHA food security and agriculture partners and USAID SFO livelihoods partners in Rumbek to discuss the current status of the sectors [...] | 2006-03-28 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM779 | PRES. ADVISOR MANSOUR KHALID DISCUSSES KEY [...] (C) Summary: President Advisor Mansour Khalid said the SPLM leadership had recently discussed the Darfur conflict, the rising political tensions of the past two weeks, and the implementation of the CPA. He said the CPA was being implemented "deviously," with selectivity and sequencing major [...] | 2006-03-28 13:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO SOCI PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM781 | PRES. ADVISOR MANSOUR KHALID PROVIDES SPLM [...] (C) Summary: In a March 23 discussion with Pol/Econ Chief, Presidential Advisor Mansour Khalid (SPLM) said the SPLM had drafted a position paper on the current political situation in Sudan in response to recent events, including protests and inflammatory statements by government officials. T [...] | 2006-03-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KPKO SU |
06KHARTOUM796 | Pres. Bashir Interview with Al-Jazira at Arab [...] Summary: In a March 29 interview with Al-Jazira, President Bashir said: many southern forces had supported the government during the North-South civil war; Khartoum was both a northern state and the national capital subject to shari'ah law; the Arab League had pledged to support AMIS financ [...] | 2006-03-30 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU |
06KHARTOUM797 | KALMA CAMP - UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF NRC [...] On March 30, Charge, an Embassy Political Officer, and two USAID Darfur Field Office representatives met with the Sudan country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). NRC serves as coordinator for Kalma camp in South Darfur. NRC sought a meeting with Embassy and USAID officials to [...] | 2006-03-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM798 | Local Press, AU Special Rep React to Arab [...] Summary: Khartoum media coverage of the Arab League Summit was favorable, with extensive coverage on television, radio, and newspapers, both in English and Arabic. AU Special Representative Kingibe criticized Arab League offers of financial support for AMIS, referring to it as "medicine aft [...] | 2006-03-30 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU |
06KHARTOUM808 | Local Press Account Alleges CIA Is Studying [...] On March 30, pro-government Arabic daily Al-Intibaha published an article claiming that the CIA was active in Darfur to study its geography in advance of intelligence and military operations. 2. The text of the article per unofficial Embassy translation is as follows: (Begin text) C [...] | 2006-04-02 09:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU |
06KHARTOUM811 | Arab League Summit: Khartoum Declaration [...] The Arab League Summit took place March 28-29 in Khartoum (reftel). The Khartoum Declaration was printed on March 30 by the daily London Al-Quds Al-Arabi in Arabic. 2. The text of the Arab League Khartoum Declaration per FBIS translation of the Al-Quds Al-Arabi publication is as follows [...] | 2006-04-02 13:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU |
06KHARTOUM817 | Juba Shows Signs of Inflation in March [...] A market survey in Juba taken the second week of March shows some signs of inflationary tendencies. Overall prices jumped nearly 8 points from a similar survey taken in February. Food and beverages led the way with a rise of 8.5 percent, although this was partially offset by a small decrea [...] | 2006-04-03 07:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREF SOCI PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM824 | DARFUR: NRC WITHDRAWING FROM KALMA CAMP [...] The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is in the process of pulling out of Kalma camp in South Darfur. Despite UN and humanitarian community efforts, the GNU has not renewed NRC's camp coordination agreement, which expires today. As of this writing, Norway is delivering a message of inquiry/pr [...] | 2006-04-04 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM825 | Sudanese Gov't Inaction Prevents UN U/S Egeland [...] (SBU) On April 3, the Sudanese government denied permission for UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland to travel to Nyala and Khartoum. According to World Food Program Flight Operations Coordinator Nigel Sanders (protect),the Sudanese government did not respond to a [...] | 2006-04-04 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU |
06KHARTOUM828 | USAID RESPONSE TO GEREIDA DISPLACEMENTS [...] On April 2, a USAID Darfur Field Office representative participated in an interagency visit to Gereida, South Darfur. USAID is playing a key role in supporting expanded humanitarian assistance to the area, where interethnic fighting has caused the internally displaced person (IDP) population [...] | 2006-04-04 12:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM852 | Sudan: The NGO Act Passed [...] (SBU) On March 16, the President signed the Organization of Humanitarian and Voluntary Work Act. The NGO Consortium has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in the Constitutional Court. The UN also plans to offer technical assistance in implementing the law to help minimize the negati [...] | 2006-04-07 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM853 | SUDANESE GOVERNMENT INCREASINGLY OBSTRUCTING [...] In recent months, the Government of National Unity (GNU) has increasingly sought to obstruct humanitarian work, slowing the delivery of aid to millions of displaced people within Sudan. A host of events illustrate the escalation of harassment and restrictions directed toward humanitarian org [...] | 2006-04-08 04:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM859 | South Sudan: Early Rains Affect Development [...] The rainy season in Central Equatoria began in early March, six weeks earlier than expected, altering a variety of development and humanitarian assistance plans. It has also raised fears that the acute watery diarrhea outbreak, largely contained in Juba and the rest of Equatoria, may again sp [...] | 2006-04-09 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREF SOCI PINR SU |
06KHARTOUM861 | THE ANGLOPHONES: SUDAN,S NEIGHBORS, PART ONE OF [...] (SBU) Introduction: Sudan, the largest and arguably the most ethnically complex country in Africa, has nine neighbors, tied with the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the most in Africa. This is the first of a series of four cables describing the bilateral relationship between Sudan and [...] | 2006-04-09 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI SCUL ECON ETRD KEAI UG SU |
06KHARTOUM908 | SUDAN: RESOURCE-HUNGRY WFP TO HALVE RATIONS [...] On April 11, 2006, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) hosted a meeting for donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide details on plans for addressing funding and pipeline shortfalls for the next three to four months. Beginning in April, in order extend stocks through the hung [...] | 2006-04-16 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM SOCI SU |
06KHARTOUM935 | SUDAN - SUSPECTED AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK, Sitrep 1 [...] (SBU) WHO contacted USAID on April 18 to alert us to possible outbreak of avian flu in Sudan. Today a rapid test by the Government of Sudan on nasal secretions and serum from affected birds revealed Strain A flu. 2. (SBU) A WHO outbreak investigation team is scheduled to arrive in Khartoum [...] | 2006-04-18 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM938 | Sudan: Door Open to Restoring Relations with [...] Summary: At high levels, Sudan publicly denies involvement in Chad, and has declined to sever diplomatic relations or to expel the Chadian charge d'affaires from Khartoum. Sudan also maintains that the door is open for closer engagement with Chad. In general, the tone of the official Sudan [...] | 2006-04-18 17:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PRL PGOV SOCI CD SU |
06KHARTOUM939 | DARFUR: GEREIDA - AN UNEASY PEACE [...] On April 12, a USAID representative and colleagues from the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO) and U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) Emergency Office visited Gereida, South Darfur, to determine what additional resources and partners are required to assist the Ge [...] | 2006-04-19 05:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM943 | Southern Sudan: Tambura Residents Demand [...] SUMMARY: The Acting Consul General (A/CG) accompanied representatives from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) to Tambura, a county seat near the border of the Central Africa Republic (CAR). This is the first visit by USG officials to the area since the peace deal was sign [...] | 2006-04-19 09:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI AID SU |
06KHARTOUM945 | SUDAN - AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK, Sitrep 2, April 19 [...] (SBU) Sudanese and international press were full of articles in the last day regarding the possibility of H5N1 Avian flu virus in Sudan. Some press articles claimed that the virus had been confirmed. As of today, however, only the existence of H5 had been confirmed by special test kits brought [...] | 2006-04-20 09:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM949 | SUDAN/Humanitarian obstruction: Charge's call [...] (SBU) In a heated meeting with Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Hassibo, Charge and USAID Farnsworth raised the new NGO law, Egeland, NRC, fuel and the SOFA. Charge noted the contrast between the constructive work being accomplished in Abuja (with the energetic help of the USG),and Sudan's [...] | 2006-04-20 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PREF PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM951 | DARFUR FOOD ASSISTANCE UPDATE [...] From April 11 to 13, 2006, a USAID team visited Nyala, Gereida, and El Fasher to evaluate food assistance programming in South and North Darfur. Ref A provides details on the humanitarian situation in Gereida, including updated information on food assistance activities. 2. Inadequate i [...] | 2006-04-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM954 | SUDAN: IDP RETURNS IN NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL [...] From April 10 to 12, a USAID representative visited Aweil town and Malualkon, located in Aweil East County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, to assess the status of IDP returns. Overall, the U.N. is doing a good job coordinating the humanitarian response, monitoring sector coverage, and iden [...] | 2006-04-20 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
06KHARTOUM978 | Name Game: Southern Sudan Asserts Itself [...] As the people of Southern Sudan work to recover from the occupation by the North, many areas see changing the name of their village, county, or even state as a way to show the land is now theirs. The most significant of these changes is the recent decision of Bahr al-Jabal State to rename it [...] | 2006-04-25 10:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR SOCI EAID SU |
06KHARTOUM979 | CG Juba Round-up April 24 [...] Ethnic Fighting in Western Equatoria: During a routine patrol, 11 police officers returning to Yambio were attacked by Dinka bandits about 30 kilometers west of the town. UNMIS has located the bodies of two of the officers, and it presumes the other 9 dead. Because the police officers were [...] | 2006-04-25 10:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI EAID PREF SU |
06KHARTOUM980 | Southern Sudan: Panyagor Struggles for Recovery [...] Summary: Of all the places visited by CG Juba officials during a recent PRM monitoring and evaluation trip (septel),Panyagor is by far the least developed. Also known as Mabior, the town is located north of Bor in what is now Twic East County (Note: Many Southern towns changed their name d [...] | 2006-04-25 10:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI EAID PREF SU |
06KHARTOUM981 | Southern Sudan: Cattle Rustling Season Precedes [...] (U) SUMMARY: The end of dry-season migration in Jonglei has led to a series of cattle raids targeting herders throughout the state. Cattle rustling is common in Southern Sudan, especially at the end of the dry season when water is the most scarce and herds must travel the furthest. The SPLA [...] | 2006-04-25 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC SOCI MOPS SU |
06KHARTOUM990 | GOSS MINISTER SAYS SSDF CLASHES VIOLATE CPA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports John Luk Jok told the Acting Consul General (A/CG) that he believes the recent South Sudan Defense Force (SSDF) clashes in the Upper Nile state are a violation of the CPA. While the situation in the Upper Nile is now calm, the past two week [...] | 2006-04-25 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS SOCI KPKO SU |
06KIEV1061 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S INTERFAITH DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) At a February 27 lunch hosted by Ambassador (that included prominent clergymen, M.P.s, think- tankers and journalists),participants in a recent International Visitors Leadership Program on interfaith dialogue praised the quality of their program. They had been impressed, in particular, [...] | 2006-03-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI |
06KIEV1108 | UKRAINE: POSSIBLE ELECTION DAY AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) With Ukraine's pivotal March 26 parliamentary (and local) election day drawing closer, claims by all sides continue that their opponents are abusing or plan to abuse administrative resources to influence election results at various levels. NGOs and international election observation missi [...] | 2006-03-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI |
06KIEV1128 | UKRAINE: IN THIS CORNER! EX-CHAMPION KLYCHKO RUNS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 22 meeting with TDY PolOff, Volodymyr Bondarenko, head of Kiev mayoral candidate (and recent world boxing champion) Vitaliy Klychko's campaign, described campaign impediments including incumbent Mayor Omelchenko's use of administrative resources and biased media cove [...] | 2006-03-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI |
06KIEV1192 | UKRAINE: IN ORANGE RIVNE OBLAST, TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) The March 26 elections in western Ukraine's Rivne Oblast were the cleanest in the region's post-independence history, according to NGO representatives, OSCE election monitors and local media reports. There were administrative glitches that lengthened both the voting and counting. The OSC [...] | 2006-03-28 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI |
06KIEV1480 | UKRAINE: CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH YULIYA TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) In an April 13 meeting with CODEL Frist, former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko averred that Ukraine's March 26 elections showed the desire of the Ukrainian people for a renewed Orange coalition government. Thanking Senator Frist for encouraging Team Orange reconciliation, Tymoshenko str [...] | 2006-04-13 17:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON ETRD ENRG OREP |
06KIEV1531 | UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ORDERED TO ARREST [...] (C) Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told Ambassador on April 14 that he had been ordered by the Prosecutor General (PG) to arrest senior Tymoshenko Bloc politicians Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin for illegally destroying Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on the January gas deal w [...] | 2006-04-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV1663 | UKRAINE: BAPTISTS CAUGHT IN MIDDLE OF RADA [...] (C) In an April 27 meeting with Ambassador, the longtime head of the All-Ukraine Baptist Union, Gregoriy Komendant, asked for help in stopping the Prosecutor General's Office from seizing the Union's downtown Kiev headquarters building. Beginning in November 2005, the PGO has accused the Union [...] | 2006-04-27 16:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP |
06KIEV1706 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER POROSHENKO ON RADA [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov (refs A and B). Coalition talks with the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) were [...] | 2006-04-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV1994 | UKRAINE: KRAMER-WOOD 5/22 MEETING WITH FORMER [...] (C) In a May 22 meeting with visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, and Ambassador, former State Secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko stressed that Ukraine's next prime minister should be a politically independent technocrat -- not a politician. Zinchenko had advised President Yu [...] | 2006-05-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI ECON PREL UP RS |
06KIEV1995 | UKRAINE: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk during a May 17 farewell call. Tarasyuk promised to review the issue carefully and to pay personal attention to it. He observed that the current Ukrainian government had been [...] | 2006-05-24 15:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM SOCI SU UP |
06KIEV1996 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON EX-PM [...] (C) During Ambassador's May 23 farewell call, Party of Regions chief Viktor Yanukovych said he bore Ambassador "no ill will" over the events of the Orange Revolution, commenting that the two had "worked well together." Yanukovych spoke in great detail about his "problems with the law," explain [...] | 2006-05-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2038 | UKRAINE: EUR DAS KRAMER AND OVP DNSA WOOD'S 5/23 [...] (C) In a lengthy May 23 discussion with Ambassador, EUR DAS David Kramer, and OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, Our Ukraine's (OU) lead negotiator in the coalition formation talks predicted that an "Orange variant" would soon prevail and that a new government would be in place by mid-July. The new [...] | 2006-05-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2123 | UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT'S POINT MAN ON RELIGION OFFERS [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian government's point man on religious issues, the State Department for Religious Issues (SDRI) chief Ihor Bondarchuk, told us June 1 that, for a variety of reasons, he had tendered his resignation. Bondarchuk criticized the Yushchenko administration's "unprofessional" handli [...] | 2006-06-01 14:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP |
06KIEV2166 | UKRAINE: CODEL BLUNT'S 5/29 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) During a May 29 meeting with CODEL Blunt, President Yushchenko characterized Ukraine's economic growth as "strong" and predicted that a new Orange coalition government would be formed "in a couple of days." Negotiations over top leadership positions had begun May 29 and should be complet [...] | 2006-06-05 09:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON CASC KOCI |
06KIEV2208 | UKRAINE: RADA CONVENES, COALITION FORMATION GETS [...] (C) Nearly 11 weeks after national parliamentary and local elections, Ukraine remains without a Rada majority coalition. A June 7 Rada session opened and closed quickly, with 227 Orange MPs voting to adjourn until June 14. Deputies from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party stayed on t [...] | 2006-06-07 17:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL MARR UP |
06KIEV2246 | UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) The Rada's five-member Provisional Presidium on June 8 voted down a motion by 176 opposition MPs to hold a special Rada session that would likely have focused on the situation in Crimea (reftels). The three "Orange" presidium members, who voted "no," dismissed the opposition's appeal as [...] | 2006-06-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
06KIEV2281 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAYS COALITION TALKS ARE [...] (C) Yuliya Tymoshenko told DCM on June 12 that talks on forming an Orange coalition were deadlocked over Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz' insistence on being made Rada Speaker. Tymoshenko had tried to reason with Moroz, but he was dug in, knowing that this would be his "political swan [...] | 2006-06-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RS UP |
06KIEV2296 | UKRAINE: WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT WEDNESDAY'S (JUNE 14) [...] (C) With no Orange coalition formed as of 1800 local time, two aides to senior Orange politicians have told us that the Party of Regions may essentially take charge of the coalition formation process at the June 14 Rada session. According to our interlocutors, Communist MP Martynyuk, who is sl [...] | 2006-06-13 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2316 | UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, SIGNS OF AN ORANGE-BLUE [...] (C) At the June 14 parliament (Rada) session, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz attempted to revive talks to form an Orange coalition by dropping his demand to become Rada Speaker. In return, he asked Our Ukraine (OU) to divide all government posts, down to district chiefs, among the Ora [...] | 2006-06-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
06KIEV2329 | UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, PARTY OF REGIONS UPBEAT [...] (C) The action at the June 15 Rada session was not at the rostrum, but on the floor and in the hallways, where Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych shook hands, slapped backs and assured reporters that Regions would sign a coalition agreement on June 20 -- when the Rada reconvenes. Our U [...] | 2006-06-15 15:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
06KIEV2331 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...] | 2006-06-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP |
06KIEV2359 | UKRAINE: ORANGE-BLUE COALITION TALKS ALLEGEDLY [...] (C) A coalition agreement between the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine (OU) could be reached tonight (June 16),according to Regions MP and de facto shadow foreign minister Leonid Kozhara. In a conversation with DCM, Kozhara dismissed OU's public distinction between "consultations" and "negot [...] | 2006-06-16 16:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
06KIEV2403 | UKRAINE: ANOTHER RADA SESSION ENDS WITHOUT A [...] (C) The Rada (parliament) held two short sessions June 20 but adjourned until June 21 without forming a majority coalition. Before the morning session, Our Ukraine (OU) MP Roman Zvayrch claimed to us that talks with OU's Orange partners were deadlocked over Yuliya Tymoshenko's refusal to acce [...] | 2006-06-20 15:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
06KIEV2436 | UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION DEAL "UNDER THREAT" - OR [...] (C) Ukraine's coalition drama continued June 21, inching closer to an Orange Coalition, but also featuring a potential obstacle -- Petro Poroshenko as Our Ukraine's Rada Speaker nominee -- that could possibly cause the deal to unravel or create discord in the months to come. The Rada met brief [...] | 2006-06-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2461 | UKRAINE: COALITION OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES FINALLY [...] (C) Nearly three months after the March 26 elections, Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialist Party (SPU) finally created a parliamentary majority of the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" mid-day June 22 by presenting a coalition agreement with the signatures of 239 [...] | 2006-06-22 17:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2462 | UKRAINE: SPURNED REGIONS VOWS TO "PAINT FENCES" [...] (C) Following the June 22 formation of parliamentary majority of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialists, the direction of the spurned Party of Regions was being taken over by party "radicals," according to moderate Regions deputy leader Volodymyr Makeyenko. Bombastic [...] | 2006-06-22 17:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
06KIEV2500 | UKRAINE: REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH ON NEW [...] (SBU) In a lengthy June 23 meeting with an American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych claimed that anti-Semitic violence was infrequent in Ukraine and repeated the Soviet-era canard that such violence primarily occurred in "radical" western oblasts. Y [...] | 2006-06-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP |
06KIEV2530 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR TAYLOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH [...] (C) In his first meeting with Ambassador Taylor, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych criticized President Yushchenko for caving in to USG pressure to spurn Regions and bless the formation of an Orange coalition. The Orange team was deeply divided and may not even be able to get its cand [...] | 2006-06-29 17:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR ECON PREL RS UP |
06KIEV3933 | UKRAINE: Rada Reviews Natural Gas Sector; Allows Price Rise [...] (SBU) Summary. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) reviewed on October 4 the preliminary results of its investigatory commission on NaftoHaz and the natural gas sector. The commission reported multiple instances of mismanagement, malfeasance, and possible criminal acts within state-owned oil and [...] | 2006-10-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV SOCI RS UP |
06KIEV743 | UKRAINE: MFA DEFENDS DEPORTATION OF UZBEKS, LABELS [...] (S) In a written response to our February 17 non-paper about Ukraine's refoulement of a group of Uzbek asylum seekers (refs A and B),MFA asserted that the Uzbeks had been deported in accordance with domestic and international law, dismissed the Uzbeks' asylum claims as "manifestly unfounded," [...] | 2006-02-23 17:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF PREL PTER UP UZ |
06KIEV986 | UKRAINE: MFA ON MAUP-RELATED VISA CASE [...] (C) MFA Director General Borys Bazylevsky told Consul General March 14 that the Ukrainian Government was considering banning the entry into Ukraine of AMCIT David Duke. The move would be part of a broader GOU effort to rein in the activities of the anti-Semitic Inter-Regional Academy of Perso [...] | 2006-03-14 15:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI |
06KIGALI1198 | RWANDA UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary. There are few updates to post's August submission of Worst Forms of Child Labor information for mandatory reporting requirements as requested (ref A). GOR continues to take the issue seriously; however, progress is gradual due to the lack of capacity in the Ministries charged with [...] | 2006-12-14 16:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI USAID RW |
06KIGALI1223 | PRESS FREEDOM: END OF YEAR WRAP-UP [...] Issues of press freedom in 2006 remained the subject of much debate and action in Rwanda. A year which began with public criticism of Rwanda's media by President Kagame and of individual reporters by other officials later saw clear signs that senior GOR officials recognize the importance of a [...] | 2006-12-22 11:16:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI269 | RWANDA IMPLEMENTS MEASURES TO COMBAT THREAT OF [...] With the recent outbreaks of Avian Influenza (AI) in Africa, Rwanda is moving forward in its preparedness to address the threat to both human and animal populations. The Government of Rwanda (GOR) has revitalized an inter- ministerial steering committee, originally formed in November 2005. Th [...] | 2006-03-20 11:49:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI TBIO WHO RW |
06KIGALI277 | AMIS RE-HAT AND 3RD PROTOCOL DEMARCHES TO GOR [...] (SBU) On 21 March, poloff delivered demarche and talking points (ref A) to Augustin Rutikara, America's desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rutikara was noncommittal when asked if the GOR would remain in Darfur if and when it becomes a UN mission. He acknowledged the questionable [...] | 2006-03-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AORC ICRC PHUM PREF SZ SU RW |
06KIGALI286 | RWANDA SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF AF A/S JENDAYI [...] Post warmly welcomes your visit to Rwanda. Rwanda is a country struggling to overcome its past and bring its people and economy into the 21st century. The legacy of the 1994 genocide in which up to one million people were killed still haunts the country and underlies the tension faced by a [...] | 2006-03-28 05:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KDEM RW |
06KIGALI405 | Embassy Comments on Vatican Note on Gacaca [...] Summary: Ref (A) Vatican note criticizes the gacaca tribunals in Rwanda for not serving the purposes for which they were created. It characterizes the gacaca process as politically manipulated and procedurally flawed, citing specific concerns. While Embassy recognizes, as does the GOR, tha [...] | 2006-04-28 11:29:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS VT RW |
06KIGALI408 | Embassy Commemorates 28 Local Staff Killed During [...] Summary: On April 20 Embassy held a memorial service in honor of 28 locally engaged staff killed during the 1994 genocide. The fifth annual commemoration brought together American and local staff with the widows and orphans of the victims. In his remarks, Ambassador acknowledged that the i [...] | 2006-04-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AFSN KDEM RW |
06KIGALI410 | GOR DEMARCHED ON UN HRC AND AU MISSION IN SUDAN [...] (U) On 28 April, DCM delivered the talking points from refs to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Secretary General Amandin Rugira. 2. (SBU) Rugira said he was aware of the reported lack of response by African Union forces in close proximity to attacks on civilians in Darfur. He s [...] | 2006-05-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR NATO PARM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SOCI EUN |
06KIGALI456 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT ELIGIBILITY [...] (C) In its recent indicator analysis of Rwanda, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) noted that Rwanda failed four of the six Ruling Justly indicators. Based on consolidated evaluations of third-party institutions, MCC provided Embassy Kigali a summary of Rwanda,s strengths and weakness [...] | 2006-05-12 06:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI464 | Rwandan Government Action on Child Protection and [...] Summary: During a May 8 courtesy call on the Minister in Charge of Family and Gender Promotion in the Prime Minister's Office, Ambassador underscored USG interest in gender issues, in particular trafficking in persons, and Embassy's desire to provide assistance to the GOR to combat child pros [...] | 2006-05-15 14:15:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB SOCI RW |
06KIGALI480 | THE STATE OF PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA [...] (U) Press freedom in Rwanda--despite the legacy of a media tainted by complicity in the genocide and lingering mistrust between the government and journalists--has in recent years taken root. Several independent radio stations and newspapers currently are operating. While reports of self-cen [...] | 2006-05-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KJUS RW |
06KIGALI482 | Catholic Archbishop Notes Improved Church-State [...] Summary: During a May 17 discussion with polchief on religious freedom in Rwanda, the Catholic Archbishop of Kigali noted that relations between the GOR and the Catholic Church have improved, with greater collaboration on social services and other services, such as security. He noted, howev [...] | 2006-05-18 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI RW |
06KIGALI614 | PRESSING GOR ON AMIS TRANSITION TO UN [...] On 27 June poloff delivered demarche (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs desk officer Daniel Mutezintare in order to reiterate Ambassador's earlier discussions with Foreign Minister Murigande on the USG position on the re-hatting of AMIS to a UN peacekeeping operation. Poloff emphasized t [...] | 2006-06-28 09:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR PINS PREL SOCI SU RW |
06KINGSTON1798 | JAMAICA: ECONOMIC GROWTH EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, [...] Jamaica's economy is estimated to have grown by 2.8 percent between April and June 2006 -- twice the rate projected by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ),and this despite a shock to the construction sector from a recent cement crisis (ref. A). Growth has been largely the result of touris [...] | 2006-09-12 19:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND PREL SOCI JM |
06KINGSTON1805 | JAMAICA: DEBT AND ANEMIC GROWTH ENCUMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 20:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV PINR SOCI IDB IMF JM XL |
06KINGSTON1881 | JAMAICA: POLICE SICK-OUT [...] (U) Hundreds of rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) called in sick to press for an improved wage offer from the Government on September 20-21, thus hampering Security operations across the island. Police are demanding a 75 percent increase in salary and additional be [...] | 2006-09-22 12:02:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR ASEC EFIN ELAB SOCI IMF |
06KINGSTON2021 | JAMAICA: A TRAFIGURA SCANDAL PRIMER [...] (SBU) The six-month old administration of People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller faces embarrassing and intense scrutiny over its acceptance of JMD 31 million (approximately USD 475,000) from a Dutch-based oil trading firm. The firm, Trafigura Beheer BV, holds the [...] | 2006-10-12 12:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KCOR JM |
06KINGSTON2022 | JAMAICA: A TRAFIGURA SCANDAL PRIMER [...] (SBU) The six-month old administration of People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller faces embarrassing and intense scrutiny over its acceptance of JMD 31 million (approximately USD 475,000) from a Dutch-based oil trading firm. The firm, Trafigura Beheer BV, holds the [...] | 2006-10-12 12:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KCOR JM |
06KINGSTON2150 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION PARTY'S ORIENTATION ON KEY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 20:29:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PTER SOCI CPAS |
06KINGSTON2189 | JAMAICA: NEW POLL SHOWS RULING PNP AND OPPOSITION [...] (U) The ruling People's National Party (PNP) and opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are tied for public support at 32 percent each, according to the latest Bill Johnson poll commissioned by the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. Since Portia Simpson Miller (PSM) became head of the PNP and Prime Min [...] | 2006-11-07 19:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON ENRG KCOR JM XL XK |
06KINGSTON2251 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION JAMAICAN LABOUR PARTY STAGES [...] (C) With music blaring and clouds of ganga floating in the air, the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) staged its 63rd Annual Conference November 18-19 at the National Arena in Kingston. Local media estimated the crowd of green-clad supporters in the "tens of thousands," with the vast majority watchin [...] | 2006-11-20 16:27:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EDU PINR SOCI XL XK JM |
06KINGSTON2384 | JAMAICA: MALARIAL OUTBREAK UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The Jamaican malaria outbreak (reftel) will likely get worse before it gets better, according to Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Country Director Dr. Ernest Pate. In private discussions with Embassy officials on December 8, Pate said that there are 53 confirmed cases, but [...] | 2006-12-08 18:22:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI TBIO CASC PGOV AID CDC JM XL |
06KINGSTON294 | RECENT ALLEGED HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE DEFIES EASY [...] (C) In November and December 2005, two murders in Jamaica were labeled by some gay activists as homophobic hate crimes, although senior police contacts described the killings as resulting from common robberies. On November 30, 2005, a leading HIV/AIDS activist, Lenford "Steve" Harvey, was fou [...] | 2006-02-10 20:19:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM SOCI JM PHUM |
06KINGSTON402 | PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER WINS PNP RACE TO SUCCEED [...] (C) On February 25 Peoples National Party (PNP) delegates elected Portia Simpson Miller to succeed P.J. Patterson as party president and Prime Minister (the latter subject to the expected confirmation by the PNP parliamentary majority, followed by ratification by the Governor General). Patters [...] | 2006-02-27 20:57:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI JM |
06KINGSTON682 | CODEL ISSA'S MARCH 30 MEETING WITH NEWLY INSTALLED [...] Codel Issa met with newly installed Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on March 30, shortly after the PM was sworn in at King's House. The cordial meeting lasted nearly one-and-a-quarter hours. Simpson-Miller expressed determination to move quickly to address Jamaica's joblessness and high [...] | 2006-04-06 16:20:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KCRM SOCI JM |
06KINSHASA1462 | TEACHER'S STRIKE PETERS OUT [...] (U) Summary. The DRC's public school teachers' strike has ended after just two weeks, and students are slowly returning to school as of September 18. Teachers were on strike in several parts of the DRC to press for increased salaries and benefits, but realized it is unlikely the current lame d [...] | 2006-09-19 11:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI CG |
06KINSHASA1746 | CATHOLIC CARDINAL ISSUES INCENDIARY STATEMENT RE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Catholic Cardinal of Kinshasa, Frederic Etsou, conducted a November 13 interview from Paris with Radio France International(RFI)where he is being treated for illness , and issued a written statement, attacking the integrity of the DRC elections and accusing the West of seek [...] | 2006-11-14 17:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI CG ELECTIONS |
06KINSHASA1862 | 2006 UPDATED CHILD LABOR INFORMATION [...] (U) Summary. The GDRC has made little progress in combating the worst forms of child labor in this final year of the transitional government. However, with the installation of a new government, 2007 may see some increased efforts to ameliorate this serious problem, as the elected government can [...] | 2006-12-15 13:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIN ETRD EAID PHUM SOCI CG |
06KINSHASA357 | DRC: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. The GDRC Avian Influenza Commission, composed of representatives from the Ministries of Agriculture, Health, External Commerce, and Environment, released the DRC Country Contingency Plan (CCP) on February 24. The CCP seeks over USD 16M to prepare for and respond to the anticipa [...] | 2006-03-03 11:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR ECON SENV SOCI CG |
06KINSHASA443 | USAID/OFDA FEBRUARY VISIT TO NORTH KIVU AND [...] (U) This is the 2nd of two communications reporting observations from the trip of the OFDA team in eastern DRC in February 2006. Discussed here is the team's visit to North Kivu and Ituri. In the Beni-Eringeti area of North Kivu, USAID/OFDA partner Solidarites is implementing an innovative pr [...] | 2006-03-15 14:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PHUM PREF CG |
06KINSHASA451 | USAID/OFDA FEBRUARY VISIT TO NORTH KIVU AND [...] (U) This is the 2nd of two communications reporting observations from the trip of the OFDA team in eastern DRC in February 2006. Discussed here is the team's visit to North Kivu and Ituri. In the Beni-Eringeti area of North Kivu, USAID/OFDA partner Solidarites is implementing an innovative pr [...] | 2006-03-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PHUM PREF CG |
06KINSHASA797 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? [...] (U) DRC's physicians launched a general strike in public hospitals May 8, and are now providing only emergency services. The doctors' primary demands are a wage increase and the payment of salary arrears. 2. (U) April 28, Synamed, a physicians' union, advised the Health and Civil Service [...] | 2006-05-22 05:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG |
06KINSHASA879 | Doctors' Strike Spreads [...] (U) Doctor's union members and health employees of Kinshasa's public hospitals have decided to continue and intensify their strike, begun on May 8 (reftel). They say that the GDRC has not made sufficient efforts to respond to their demands. 2. (U) On May 29, SYNAMED, the union that repres [...] | 2006-06-02 12:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG |
06KUALALUMPUR1908 | MALAYSIAN YOUTH POLL REVEALS RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-12 08:00:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PINR SOCI KISL MY |
06KUALALUMPUR1913 | MALAYSIAN YOUTH POLL REVEALS SHARP ETHNIC DIVIDE [...] (SBU) A recent opinion poll, funded by The Asia Foundation, of over 1,500 young Malaysian adults aged 18-32 showed sharp differences of views on religion and national identity and the relation between state and religion among the country's three largest ethnic groups - the Malays, Chinese and [...] | 2006-10-13 02:49:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PINR SOCI KISL MY |
06KUWAIT1505 | FROM CRADLE-TO-GRAVE: AN OVERVIEW OF KUWAIT'S WELFARE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: With its immense oil wealth, the Kuwaiti Government provides Kuwaiti citizens, who do not pay taxes, with cradle-to-grave welfare benefits, including free health care, free education, public or private sector employment, and substantial housing assistance. (Note: Ku [...] | 2006-05-01 11:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI KU |
06KUWAIT2970 | CABINET APPROVES 200 KD ($692) GRANT FOR ALL KUWAITI [...] (U) The Cabinet approved July 23 an Amiri directive giving all one million Kuwaiti citizens a single financial grant of 200 KD ($692). Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Dr. Ismail Al-Shatti said the grant was given "to ease the financial burdens suffered by the Kuwa [...] | 2006-07-24 13:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI KU |
06KUWAIT3322 | NEW SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR MINISTER LISTS [...] (C/NF) Summary: New Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid told the Ambassador August 15 that he intended to improve Kuwait's international image through better oversight of charities and strengthening the legal protections for Kuwait's expatriate worker population. He [...] | 2006-08-16 10:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM SOCI PGOV PTER KU TIP KTFN |
06KUWAIT3692 | AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE PLANS TRIP TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Kuwait's Ambassador-designate to Iraq Ali Al-Mumin cited reciprocity issues as the most important stumbling block to upgraded diplomatic representation in Baghdad. He noted that issues involving security, site location and transportation between Iraq and Kuwait needed to be reso [...] | 2006-09-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KISL OFDP PINR SOCI IZ KU |
06LAGOS1024 | NIGERIA SSH OBLIGATION STATUS [...] The SSH committee has identified eleven special self-help projects to fund for FY 2006. The signing of the project, with activity agreements signings pending will take place after final site visits. Mission has implemented shifted Ambassador Campbell''s decision to transferthe focus of the SS [...] | 2006-07-24 16:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SOCI AFIN AMGT NI |
06LAGOS1239 | SSH/DHRF GRANT FUNDS SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) On September 19, the Consul General signed thirteen grant agreements to fund Special Self-help (SSH) and Democracy Human Rights Fund (DHRF) projects in the Niger Delta states of Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, and Akwa Ibom. The SSH grants fund community development projects, including boreholes [...] | 2006-09-29 10:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SOCI AFIN AMGT NI |
06LAGOS1417 | DHRF GRANT ENCOURAGES WOMEN CANDIDATES IN NIGER DELTA [...] (U) Summary: Twenty-eight women candidates, campaign coordinators, and aspiring political and party leaders attended the October 24-25 Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) workshop, QMainstreaming Women Leaders into the Political Process in NigeriaQs Niger Delta States of Rivers, Bayelsa, D [...] | 2006-12-12 14:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV EAID ECON SOCI NI |
06LAGOS1449 | FUEL SHORTAGES, POVERTY ARE BACKDROP TO PIPELINE [...] (C) Fuel leaking from a pipeline breached by vandals in the early hours of December 26 exploded, killing 269 people and injuring an additional 160 persons in the blast and ensuing fire, according to the Nigerian Red Cross. Early press reports put the number of deaths at 700, and some report [...] | 2006-12-27 16:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG SOCI ASEC PTER NI |
06LAGOS146 | ALLOCATION REQUEST FOR THE AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria requests USD 250,000 for its Special Self Help (SSH) program for FY06. Given the strategic importance of the Niger Delta to American interests in Nigeria and to Nigeria's very stability, Mission would like to focus our self help efforts on easing tensions and improving l [...] | 2006-02-01 16:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM SOCI NI |
06LAGOS292 | YORUBA MOSLEMS TEMPERATE TOWARD WEST [...] (SBU) At a dinner hosted by a prominent leader of ethnic Yoruba Moslems at a USG-sponsored conference on Islam, Terrorism, and African Development, Yoruba elites generally set a tone of cooperation with the West and moderation in religious fervor. This tone contrasted starkly with the prese [...] | 2006-02-27 06:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER SCUL SOCI NI |
06LAPAZ1062 | BOLIVIA: MORALES AND JUDICIARY FACE OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales has accused key actors in the judicial sector of protecting "sacred cows" and resisting the process of political change. In response, key representatives of the justice sector have accused the President of interfering with and politicizing justice. Although l [...] | 2006-04-19 15:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM USAID BL |
06LAPAZ1114 | GOVERNMENT FACES RISING SOCIAL SECTOR TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Amid accusations that the government has failed to keep its promises, social sector frustration, including among the MAS's highland support base, is rising. Civil sector leaders in Santa Cruz and Tarija have also stepped up their anti-government pressures. The Government has m [...] | 2006-04-24 18:21:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ELAB PHUM PGOV BL |
06LAPAZ1159 | NATIONALIZATION AS GRAND POLITICAL GESTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: By announcing the nationalization of Bolivia's hydrocarbons sector, President Evo Morales has again proven himself a master of the grand political gesture. Timed to coincide with the kick off the campaign for the Constituent Assembly and accompanied by the symbolic taking of g [...] | 2006-05-02 17:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ENRG ECON PGOV SOCI PREL BL |
06LAPAZ1245 | PRESIDENT MORALES FOCUSED ON POPULISM AT 100 DAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first 100 days in office, Evo Morales has focused almost exclusively on political goals with short-term domestic appeal and negative long-term consequences. At home, his efforts to consolidate power in the executive appeal to Bolivian demands for stability and jobs after y [...] | 2006-05-09 15:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL SOCI ETRD BL |
06LAPAZ1254 | BOLIVIA: FISSURES IN THE MORALES GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Evo Morales entered his fourth month in office with rifts developing within his government and Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Morales' abrupt firing of associates for alleged corruption, autocratic management style, and rhetorical attacks against the United Stat [...] | 2006-05-09 20:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL SOCI |
06LAPAZ1317 | OPPOSITION PROSPECTS ARE WEAK FOR THE CONSTITUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition to President Evo Morales, Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party enters the campaign for the Constituent Assembly elections on July 2 even weaker than before the general elections in December 2006. The best-known opposition leaders--Podemos, Jorge Quiroga and UN,s S [...] | 2006-05-16 17:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL SOCI |
06LAPAZ1322 | MAS HAS STRONG ADVANTAGE ENTERING THE CONSTITUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party will launch their campaign for the 2 July Constituent Assembly election on May 26 riding a wave of popular support for the President's hydrocarbons nationalization decree. The MAS remains the most powerful party [...] | 2006-05-17 12:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ1332 | ECONOMIC ROOTS OF BOLIVIA'S SOCIAL REVOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic factors, which have fed the growing political disaffection of Bolivia's majority poor, have helped fuel the country's rolling "social revolution." Take persistent poverty. The percentage of Bolivia's population living below the poverty line has remained virtually uncha [...] | 2006-05-17 18:25:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB SMIG SOCI PGOV EINV EPET BL |
06LAPAZ1337 | GOB PROMISES LAND REFORM [...] Summary: The GOB announced on May 8 that it planned to distribute between 11 and 14 million hectares of land to farmers, indigenous communities, and the landless through eight supreme decrees and a revision of the 1996 Agrarian Reform Law. On May 17, the GOB told the press that President Mora [...] | 2006-05-17 20:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON SMIG SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ1418 | BOLIVIA IN CHAVEZ' EMBRACE [...] (C) Summary: The MAS party's May 26 Chapare-based campaign kick-off for the Constituent Assembly -- featuring President Evo Morales and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in the shared leading role -- revealed a Bolivian government fallen openly into Venezuela's embrace. Venezuelan offici [...] | 2006-05-30 14:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV SOCI ELAB BL |
06LAPAZ168 | BOLIVIA AND VENEZUELA WASTE NO TIME SIGNING [...] (U) On President Evo Morales' first full day in office, Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a series of cooperation agreements covering energy, sports, health, medicine, education and agriculture. Chavez called the signing of these agreements "the start of a new period of rel [...] | 2006-01-23 21:00:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ169 | CHILE'S LAGOS HOPEFUL ABOUT BOLIVIA'S MORALES [...] (C) Summary: During their January 22 meeting in La Paz, President of Chile Ricardo Lagos told WHA A/S Shannon that the U.S. should keep the doors open with Evo Morales to prevent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from gaining disproportionate influence. Lagos said he had explained Chile's his [...] | 2006-01-23 21:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI ELAB CI BL |
06LAPAZ1711 | GOB VOWS TO "DECOLONIZE" EDUCATION, THREATENING ACS [...] (SBU) Summary: After weeks of rumors concerning educational reform, Bolivia's education minister announced June 22 that the GOB planned to "decolonize" education to make all schools, public and private, equal. He declared the American Cooperative School part of a system that caters to a fortu [...] | 2006-06-23 21:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASCH APER AMGT PGOV SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ1794 | SANTA CRUZ: THOUSANDS SHOW SUPPORT FOR AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated 400,000 people gathered in Santa Cruz June 28 to support civic leaders' campaign for a "yes" vote in the July 2 departmental autonomy referendum. Speakers accused the Morales administration of attempting to consolidate "hegemonic" power and declared autonomy a means [...] | 2006-06-29 21:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ1795 | MORE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: Following the GOB's June 22 announcement of its plan to "decolonize" and secularize education (reftel),pressure from the Catholic Church led the Morales administration to soften its position at least as regards Church interests. The GOB hosted a seminar June 26-28 on its propos [...] | 2006-06-29 21:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASCH APER AMGT PGOV SOCI PREL BL |
06LAPAZ1859 | SANTA CRUZ LABOR DISPUTE PROMPTS GOB INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: July 3 clashes between feuding branches of Santa Cruz' Departmental Labor Confederation prompted the GOB to dismiss the department's police chief and install military guards at key administrative buildings. Minister of Government Alicia Munoz accused the police chief of neglige [...] | 2006-07-07 20:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PREL PGOV SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ195 | MORALES-SHANNON MEETING: PRESIDENT RECOUNTS [...] (C) Summary: Summary: In their January 21 meeting, WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon told President-elect Evo Morales the U.S. agenda in Bolivia reflected our larger agenda in the region: consolidating democracy, promoting economic growth through free markets and integration, and protec [...] | 2006-01-26 15:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL |
06LAPAZ1956 | EDUCATION CONGRESS ENDORSES SECULAR EDUCATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Days of contentious debate ended July 14 with the National Education Congress' endorsement of a secular education system that "respects the beliefs and spirituality of indigenous nations and the Bolivian people" and "rejects all dogmatic impositions." The Catholic Church accuse [...] | 2006-07-19 17:42:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASCH APER AMGT PGOV PREL SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ196 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST NAMED BOLIVIA'S AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Morales will reportedly appoint human rights activist Sacha Llorenti as Bolivia's next Ambassador to the U.S., tasking the new envoy with securing the extradition of former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. It is tempting to read an "anti-U.S." message into [...] | 2006-01-26 20:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ2017 | STATE CRITICIZES CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: A growing confrontation between church and state, which began as a debate about religious education, has broadened into a larger discussion of religion in general. Religion and religious education will be discussed in Congress in relation to a pending education bill as well as in [...] | 2006-07-26 18:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASCH APER AMGT PGOV PREL SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ2626 | SPAIN: A BEACON OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) Summary: For many Bolivians, Spain is a beacon of economic opportunity. Newspapers highlight an upsurge in travel, airlines report full flights to Madrid, and business owners say skilled craftsmen are increasingly seeking work abroad. Bolivians' desire to escape may reflect growing polit [...] | 2006-09-28 20:35:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ275 | STAFFDEL BRENNAN: GREETING THE NEW BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Summary: During their January 24-27 visit to Bolivia, staffdel Brennan (House International Relations Committee staff Ted Brennan, Kristen Gilley, Paul Oostburg-Sanz, Mark Walker, and Dan Getz) met with Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, newly-minted legislators and ministers, Santa C [...] | 2006-02-06 18:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI ELAB BL |
06LAPAZ3041 | LOWER HOUSE APPROVES FRAMEWORK FOR LAND REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The framework of the Morales administration's controversial bill to modify the 1996 agrarian reform (INRA) law (reftel) was approved by the lower house on November 7, after a week-long march by several hundred indigenous people in the eastern lowlands. The chamber of deputies m [...] | 2006-11-09 20:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON KJUS SMIG SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ413 | NATIONAL ELECTORAL COURT PRESIDENT TO RESIGN [...] (C) Summary: President of the National Electoral Court Oscar Hassenteufel told Poloff February 15 he was concerned about the government's seeming intention to control even autonomous Bolivian institutions -- and in particular to purge the Electoral Court and dominate the Constituent Assembly [...] | 2006-02-16 17:43:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM BL |
06LAPAZ443 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: EYE ON THE PRIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constituent Assembly (CA) is shaping up to be Bolivia's grand political prize and the Evo Morales administration has devoted itself almost exclusively to passing legislation assuring near total control of the process to the MAS (the governing party),including with threats [...] | 2006-02-21 17:56:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV BL |
06LAPAZ587 | DISSENT IN EVO'S RANKS [...] (C) Giovanny Hervas, a social sector leader from the altiplano, told poloff on March 2 that there is a growing discontent among his peers with the Morales government. Hervas, who is associated with the Fejuve of El Alto (and will soon run for the presidency of that organization),the Yungas co [...] | 2006-03-06 19:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ6 | INITIAL MEETING WITH EVO MORALES: BRASS TACKS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 2 "breaking the ice" meeting with the Ambassador, President-elect Evo Morales claimed he had not publicly maligned President Bush (at least not in the post-election period) and expressed deep resentment about being branded a "narco-terrorist" by U.S. officials. Moral [...] | 2006-01-03 16:25:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL SIPDIS |
06LAPAZ70 | SANTA CRUZ: ANXIETY ABOUT UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Many Santa Cruz civic representatives, stunned by the MAS's decisive electoral victory, are anxious about Bolivia's uncertain future. Some believe the MAS government will immediately begin dismantling the market-based economic model while postponing (for tactical reasons) its [...] | 2006-01-11 21:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV ENRG SOCI ELAB BL |
06LAPAZ767 | LITERACY AND IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT CAMPAIGNS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cuban-led national literacy campaign was kicked off to great fanfare on March 20, with President Morales pledging to eradicate illiteracy in 30 months. High-level Cuban and Venezuelan officials who participated in the ceremony accused past Bolivian governments of failing to [...] | 2006-03-21 14:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR BL |
06LAPAZ810 | MORALES ACCUSES U.S. OF BEING BEHIND DEADLY [...] (C) Summary: The deadly bombings in downtown La Paz late March 21 appear to be the isolated handiwork of a mentally unstable U.S. citizen and his Uruguayan partner (refs A and B). But that hasn't stopped observers in Bolivia's political cauldron from speculating wildly about the hidden politi [...] | 2006-03-23 19:42:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PTER ECON ETRD BL |
06LAPAZ859 | CONTINUED GOVERNMENT INSINUATIONS OF U.S. ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Government officials, including President Morales, have continued to suggest a possible USG role in the deadly La Paz bombings March 21 (ref). While Morales has persisted in professing ignorance about any formal expression of U.S. displeasure, March 26 news articles out [...] | 2006-03-28 14:00:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET SOCI ELAB PTER BL |
06LAPAZ93 | DEALING WITH THE MAS-LED BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) As the Washington policy community meets on January 17 for a Deputies Committee meeting on Bolivia, Embassy La Paz submits the following reflections on how to best engage, or limit our engagement, with the new GOB and President Evo Morales, as well as other suggestions concerning potential [...] | 2006-01-17 15:45:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BL |
06LAPAZ96 | BOLIVIA: SCENESETTER FOR A/S SHANNON [...] (C) Summary: You will arrive in Bolivia at a time of potentially profound transformation, amid an atmosphere of pervasive uncertainty and hope. We have engaged with President-elect Evo Morales (ref),but in a manner indicating something less than a business-as-usual embrace for his governmen [...] | 2006-01-17 15:53:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET ENRG SOCI ELAB SNAR BL |
06LAPAZ969 | BOLIVIA: THE ATTRACTION OF DREAMS OVER REALITY [...] (C) Summary: If every country relies on myths and dreams, Bolivia's dependence crosses a critical threshold, often blinding political leaders to practical realities and to the pragmatic steps best suited to confront them. Bolivia's perennial demand for sovereign access to the sea from Chile [...] | 2006-04-07 14:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV ECON ELAB PREL BL |
06LAPAZ985 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: LISTS OUT; GOVERNMENT SEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The list of candidates for the Constituent Assembly, publicly released on April 4, suggests an opposition increasingly fragmented and in disarray. While this should boost the MAS's hope to dominate the assembly, the ruling party has problems of its own. These stem from social [...] | 2006-04-10 17:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PHUM EAID BL |
06LIBREVILLE505 | GABON'S SCHOOLS FAIL END OF YEAR EXAMS [...] Few of Gabon's students passed their exams this year: only 17% of students completing ninth grade succeeded in the entry exam for secondary school (BEPC),and just 35% of secondary students passed the baccalaureat exam, equivalent to a high school diploma. Gabon's results are much worse than t [...] | 2006-08-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI GB |
06LILONGWE1062 | SUDAN - URGING HOST GOVERNMENT'S ABSENCE FROM [...] Post recieved retel talking points on the morning of December 5, 2006, however Malawi's attendees (the Minister of Trade, the Malawian Ambassador to the European Union, the Assistant Director of Trade and the First Secretary in Brussels) had already left for Khartoum. Post has delivered talki [...] | 2006-12-06 15:28:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI |
06LIMA1215 | SUDAN - ACCELERATING UNSC RE-HATTING (PERU) [...] (C) On 3/21 Poloff discussed UNSC re-hatting of the Sudan PKO with Foreign Ministry Director of Multilateral Affairs Julio Garro and Deputy Director of UN Affairs Miguel Barreto. Poloff emphasized the USG view that the African Union's request for re-hatting was definitive and without precondit [...] | 2006-03-28 17:46:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU PE |
06LIMA1240 | SUDAN - ACCELERATING UNSC RE-HATTING [...] (C) On 3/21 Poloff discussed UNSC re-hatting of the Sudan PKO with Foreign Ministry Director of Multilateral Affairs Julio Garro and Deputy Director of UN Affairs Miguel Barreto. Poloff emphasized the USG view that the African Union's request for re-hatting was definitive and without precondi [...] | 2006-03-30 15:50:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU PE |
06LIMA1995 | PERU'S FIRST QUARTER ECONOMIC SURPRISE [...] (U) Summary: Just-released Q106 economic results indicate that Peru's economy grew 6.85 percent for the quarter, surprising the GOP and analysts alike. Given January's and February's relatively moderate growth rates of 4.4 percent and 4.9 percent, March's 10.7 percent growth not only exceede [...] | 2006-05-22 19:48:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA2230 | GOP APPROVES DEFERMENT DOE RUN/LA OROYA CLEANUP [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 29, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) granted final approval, but with conditions, to Doe Run Peru's extension request for its sulfur dioxide (SO2) environmental cleanup plan at the La Oroya smelter. Doe Run will have three more years to complete three SO2 treatmen [...] | 2006-06-05 21:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EMIN EINV ETRD SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA3662 | MINING COMPANIES TO MAKE "VOLUNTARY" SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION [...] (U) Summary: To fend off political pressure, including the specter of a windfall tax, mining companies operating in Peru agreed to make a "voluntary" contribution of up to $773 million over the next five years. The solution, in which Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo played a key role, was see [...] | 2006-09-14 17:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EMIN EINV ETRD SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA4712 | PERU: UPDATE TO GSP WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Post submits the following additional information to last year's update of the 2004 Worst Forms of Child Labor Report. Responses are keyed to items in Ref A. A) Formal institutional mechanisms to investigate and address complaints relating to allegations of the worst forms of child labor. [...] | 2006-12-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PGOV PHUM PE |
06LIMA474 | PERUVIAN ECONOMY FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-06 15:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA728 | FLIRTING WITH DISASTER? OLLANTA HUMALA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The rise in the polls of the ultra- nationalist, anti-system presidential candidate Ollanta Humala has created considerable interest and concern about the kinds of economic policies he would implement as President. He has not yet offered an economic platform, and it is not cle [...] | 2006-02-23 22:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA953 | ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP PLAN FOR LA OROYA SMELTER [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. firm Doe Run requested in December to extend timetable for implementing its Environmental Compliance Plan (PAMA) sulfur dioxide (SO2) treatment project at the La Oroya copper smelter. Heavy metal and sulfur dioxide emissions have plagued La Oroya since its 1922 startup, [...] | 2006-03-10 17:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EMIN EINV ETRD SOCI PGOV PE |
06LIMA990 | PERU: ANTICORRUPTION AND GOOD GOVERNANCE REPORT [...] (U) Responding to reftel, Embassy Lima submits the following information for the International Anticorruption and Good Governance Act Report. Context ------- 2. (U) Corruption is a serious problem in Peru, and the Government in the last several years has begun to take initiatives to com [...] | 2006-03-13 22:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV SOCI PGOV PE |
06LONDON2020 | (C) SUDAN: UK PUSHES RE-HATTING AND SENSITIVITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Gregor Lusty March 17. Lusty said the UK agrees with those points and is also pressing appropriate African states to support quick action on re-hatting AMIS as a UN operation. He said the UK stresses the importanc [...] | 2006-03-17 17:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI NATO SU UK |
06LUANDA1235 | ANGOLA - ELECTORAL PROCESS NOVEMBER UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- --Registration Process Drawing Crowds --Observers Slowly Becoming Accredited --Some Minor Glitches --Too Many Political Parties in Angola? --National Council for Social Communication Constituted ------------------------------------- Registration Process Contin [...] | 2006-11-28 06:11:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KMDR AO |
06LUANDA1236 | ANGOLA - NOVEMBER POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- ---Voter Registration Campaign Update ---Supreme Court Host Conference on Penal System ---Independence Day Inaugurations, Honors and Celebrations ---Ambrosio de Lemos Appointed as New Chief of Police ----------------------------------- Voter Registration Campaign [...] | 2006-11-29 17:05:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI PINR AO |
06LUANDA1316 | ANGOLA - DECEMBER POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Topics Covered ---------------------- -- MPLA Promotes National Plan -- Muslims Allowed To Reopen Mosques -- Workshop on "Human Rights and Poverty" -- GRA Launches "www.angola-portal.ao" MPLA Promotes National Plan During 50th Anniversary ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2006-12-29 10:30:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI PINR TINT AO KISL |
06LUXEMBOURG557 | EMBASSY LUXEMBOURG'S MISSION DISASTER RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-18 15:15:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SOCI EAID LU |
06MADRID1966 | PLAN AFRICA: SPAIN INTRODUCES SELF TO NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 26, Vice President Fernandez de la Vega officially rolled out Plan Africa, an ambitious project developed by the Zapatero government to address what it perceives to be a glaring hole in Spanish foreign policy. Prompted both by fears of international terrorism and by more [...] | 2006-08-03 15:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SMIG SOCI SP XY |
06MANAGUA1002 | NICARAGUA'S MOST WANTED PART I: THE CRIMES OF [...] (SBU) In preparation for the November 2006 national elections in Nicaragua, post has developed three "rap sheets" on the records of Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista party (FSLN) and Arnoldo Aleman, highlighting their systematic crimes and abuses. The rap sheets contain short summaries of the crime [...] | 2006-05-05 15:56:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM SOCI ECON EAID NU |
06MANAGUA1003 | NICARAGUA'S MOST WANTED PART II: THE CRIMES OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-05 17:17:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM SOCI ECON EAID NU |
06MANAGUA1004 | NICARAGUA'S MOST WANTED PART III: THE CRIMES OF [...] (SBU) This is the third and final cable in a series summarizing the crimes and abuses of power committed by Nicaragua's corrupt party bosses and their associates. The first cable focused on Daniel Ortega and his family, the second highlighted the abuses of the FSLN, both while in power in th [...] | 2006-05-05 17:53:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM SOCI ECON EAID NU |
06MANAGUA1057 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS: FIVE ALLIANCES EMERGE, APRE [...] (SBU) Summary: The deadline to register political alliances for Nicaragua's national elections in November came and went on May 11 without a deal to unite the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN). The big surprise of the day was APRE's decision to break [...] | 2006-05-12 21:44:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1079 | VENEZUELAN FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO NICARAGUA,S FSLN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY/BACKGROUND: Although Post possesses no specific numbers on the level of support Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is providing to Sandinista (FSLN) candidate Daniel Ortega, we are certain that Chavez' direct and indirect assistance to Ortega is substantial, could well reach the [...] | 2006-05-17 14:26:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR ENRG EFIN PGOV NU PREL SOCI VE EPET EAGR |
06MANAGUA1193 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS: LIBERAL CHONTALENOS FEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the May 31 deadline to register party candidates for the November national elections and the fact that both major Liberal groups determined to run separately, we found most Liberals in Chontales still hoping for a united front to challenge the FSLN in November. Supporter [...] | 2006-06-05 16:35:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA124 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: JINOTEGA [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with political, religious, and economic leaders in Jinotega department reveal an affinity across the Liberal spectrum for dissident presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre, although Liberal leaders acknowledged that local campesinos -- the majority of the populati [...] | 2006-01-23 20:56:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1333 | MANY NICARAGUAN EVANGELICALS WANT TO SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: Many leaders of the evangelical community in Nicaragua prefer ALN presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre as the best option to lead Nicaragua after the November elections. Most feel, however, that Montealegre has not done enough to promote evangelical candidates and politicia [...] | 2006-06-19 14:47:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM KIRF NU |
06MANAGUA1359 | VERIFICATION SUCCESSFUL, BUT CSE NOTES SOME [...] (U) Summary: With over 45 percent of eligible Nicaraguan voters estimated to have verified their status and location on the official voters list (padron),the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) proclaimed the two-weekend verification process a success. This assessment was supported by observers f [...] | 2006-06-20 21:59:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1400 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: RIO SAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Nicaraguan department of Rio San Juan is largely rural and a majority of the population has voted Liberal in every election since 1990. The FSLN has, however, captured a consistently large minority of the vote. Local political, religious, and community leaders disagree on [...] | 2006-06-27 16:35:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1552 | REMOTE RIO SAN JUAN HAS MUCH UNDEVELOPED POTENTIAL [...] (U) Summary: During a June 21 to 23 trip to the remote Nicaraguan department of Rio San Juan, poloff and political specialist met with political, business, and religious leaders to discuss economic and social conditions in the area. We learned that the economy is largely based on the exploita [...] | 2006-07-14 19:49:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1555 | MPN URGES REFORMS IN POLITICAL PLATFORMS TO BREAK [...] (U) SUMMARY: El Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN),a local pro-democracy NGO presented its "Basic Agenda of the Nation" to a diverse audience, including representatives from several European embassies. The MpN introduced 28 proposals they propose that political parties incorporate into their p [...] | 2006-07-17 13:40:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1556 | PLC MAYORS DEMAND ALEMAN LEAVE PARTY [...] (C) Summary: A group of 15 mayors and municipal leaders from northern areas of Nicaragua held a press conference in Managua on July 12 to insist that convicted PLC leader Arnoldo Aleman and his family leave the PLC for the good of the party and the good of the country. This event followed a s [...] | 2006-07-17 14:06:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1565 | MPN WARNS OF CEDULA IRREGULARITIES [...] (C) Summary: Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) leaders warned poloffs on July 14 that Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) is failing to issue national/voter ID cards (cedulas) in a fair and efficient manner. A recent MpN study of eligible voters in secondary schools revealed that only 18 [...] | 2006-07-18 15:27:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR SOCI OAS NU |
06MANAGUA1572 | MRS CANDIDATE JARQUIN: "WE ARE THE RESPONSIBLE [...] (C) Summary: New MRS presidential candidate Edmundo Jarquin assured Ambassador that he will continue deceased candidate Herty Lewites' strategy of pursuing "responsible" social and economic policies and a productive relationship with the USG. Jarquin admitted that he struggles with name recog [...] | 2006-07-18 22:36:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1573 | A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN: A LOOK AT THE 2006 [...] (U) SUMMARY: National Assembly candidates from FSLN, PLC, AC, ALN and MRS presented their parties, legislative priorities in a panel discussion broadcast live by Channel 10. ALN's Jamileth Bonilla emphasized poverty reduction, job creation, education and social justice, while PLC's Francisc [...] | 2006-07-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1717 | CEDULA APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Under pressure from Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) and other civil society groups (reftel),Nicaragua's National Assembly voted on August 4 to extend the deadline for soliciting the national voter/ID card from August 6 to August 21. The media reported and CSE officials confirmed a [...] | 2006-08-08 19:20:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1731 | NICARAGUA ELECTIONS: FSLN CONFIDENT OF FIRST ROUND [...] (C) Summary: With FSLN internal polls supposedly demonstrating an 8-10 point lead over the nearest challenger, FSLN Foreign Affairs officer Samuel Santos is confident that perennial FSLN presidential candidate Daniel Ortega can win in the first round of elections. The FSLN's confidence was fu [...] | 2006-08-09 22:39:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1760 | MONTEALEGRE ALLIES CONFIDENT OF VICTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior advisor to ALN presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre, Edmundo Leal and Conservative Party (PC) president Azalia Aviles recently expressed confidence that Montealegre will win the November 5 national election. Briefly interrupted to defend himself before the National As [...] | 2006-08-14 22:31:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1827 | NICARAGUA ELECTIONS: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN SEASON [...] (U) Summary: Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) launched the official campaign season with a ceremony on August 18. CSE president Roberto Rivas used the occasion to admonish observer groups and remind the public that the CSE is the final arbiter of the November 5 national elections. [...] | 2006-08-22 16:08:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA1839 | NICARAGUA ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: With only two an a half months left before the Nicaraguan national elections on November 5, the Liberals remain divided and the Sandinista dissidents are running low on funds. Five parties continue to contest the elections with the following candidates: Daniel Ortega (Sandinista [...] | 2006-08-22 21:52:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA193 | GOVERNMENT DECLARES MEDICAL STRIKE ILLEGAL, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A widespread strike of medical workers, led by a Sandinista (FSLN)-affiliated union, has paralyzed most Nicaraguan public hospitals for the last week. On January 20, the Minister of Labor declared the strike illegal, allowing the Ministry of Health to fire striking union leade [...] | 2006-01-27 15:09:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ELAB ECON EFIN NU |
06MANAGUA1953 | FSLN GOVERNMENT PLAN, PART I [...] SUMMARY: The Sandinista Front for National Liberation's (FSLN) government plan for the upcoming election promises a world of social programs and "quick fixes" to real problems while ignoring past statements and actions. FSLN presidential candidate Daniel Ortega expanded the plan and made his [...] | 2006-09-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA2053 | NORTHERNERS BEMOAN MANAGUA NEGLECT TO AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The pressing needs of local leaders, NGO's and election campaigns were clearly presented during the Ambassador's recent trip to the rural northern departments of Madriz, Nuevo Segovia, and Esteli. The Ambassador garnered considerable support for his anti Aleman-Ortega pact messa [...] | 2006-09-18 22:12:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA2077 | MARTINEZ CUENCA WORRIED ABOUT AN ORTEGA WIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting with Polcouns and emboffs on 11 September, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) dissident Alejandro Martinez Cuenca voiced his concern that savvy Sandinista campaigning and a weak and distracted center-right have strengthened Daniel Ortega's campaign. Th [...] | 2006-09-21 15:55:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NU PGOV SOCI |
06MANAGUA2094 | ELECTION DISPUTES GALORE -- AND HOW THEY COULD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The possible threats that impugnaciones (election disputes) pose to a legitimate election in November were recently discussed and explained at a forum hosted by IPADE and NDI. Candidates from all parties, with the exception of the FSLN, were in attendance and participated in [...] | 2006-09-22 19:00:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA2116 | NICARAGUA ELECTIONS UPDATE: WHERE WE ARE NOW [...] (C) Summary: Sandinista Front (FSLN) candidate Daniel Ortega remains stagnant in the polls, though within striking distance of victory (using fraudulent means),while the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) under Eduardo Montealegre and the Sandinista Renovation Movement's (MRS) Edmundo Jarquin [...] | 2006-09-26 18:49:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA212 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: RAAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs visited the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) on January 19 to discuss the upcoming March 5 regional elections with political, religious, and NGO officials. Both partisan and independent authorities reported that Eduardo Montealegre is gaining strength in the regi [...] | 2006-01-27 23:30:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA221 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: CARAZO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings with political, economic and religious leaders in the Department of Carazo suggest that by far the two most popular presidential candidates there are Eduardo Montealegre and Herty Lewites. Montealegre has successfully siphoned off elements of the PLC departmental organi [...] | 2006-01-30 22:28:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA222 | NICARAGUAN REGIONAL REPORTING--SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) During a January 26 election reporting trip to the department of Carazo, just south and east of Managua (reftel),emboffs discussed a range of economic, social, and religious issues with local leaders. Businessmen Aquiles Jaenz, Edgard Bermudez, and Ramon Conrado, the President, Secreta [...] | 2006-01-30 22:32:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ELAB ECON EFIN KIRF SMIG NU |
06MANAGUA223 | NICARAGUA'S OAS AMBASSADOR CONCERNED ABOUT FRAUD [...] (SBU) The OAS election observation team and efforts to combat election fraud may fail unless certain steps are taken, according to Nicaraguan Ambassador to the OAS Jose Luis Velasquez. Velasquez, and senior MFA advisor Ariel Granera, during a 26 January meeting with the Ambassador, DCM and P [...] | 2006-01-30 22:51:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA23 | BOLANOS CONFIDENT HE CAN DEMAND KEY LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: In a recent breakfast meeting on January 4, Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos told the Ambassador that he could obtain agreement on key legislation during negotiations for the upcoming elections for the National Assembly's Executive Board ("Junta Directiva"). Such legislation [...] | 2006-01-05 23:19:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM SOCI OAS NU |
06MANAGUA2329 | ALN PLATFORM FOCUSES ON EMPLOYMENT AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaraguan presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre's Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) has created a campaign platform that focuses on creating employment -- with specific plans for women, youth, and small and medium enterprises -- and alleviating Nicaragua's periodic energy [...] | 2006-10-20 12:11:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA2433 | ADDITIONAL ALN PROPOSALS ON ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The ALN's final policy proposals concerning the environment, social justice, and security build on the earlier plans regarding employment and energy efficiency (reftel). ALN presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre presented his complete plan of government during an October 2 [...] | 2006-11-01 23:44:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA2492 | ONCE UPON A NICARAGUAN ELECTION: TALES OF A U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: The U.S. Embassy community contributed 46 observers to the international force on November 5th. Traveling to each of Nicaragua's 17 departments, observer teams left by plane and automobile early on Saturday the 4th. Their collective experiences paint a colorful picture of Nicarag [...] | 2006-11-09 22:50:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA250 | AS MEDICAL STRIKE WIDENS, MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The doctor's strike that has paralyzed many public sector hospitals for over two weeks has widened to include the powerful Sandinista union Fetsalud, which represents the vast majority of public sector health care workers. Minister of Health Margarita Gurdian insists that she [...] | 2006-02-02 17:01:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ELAB EFIN NU |
06MANAGUA270 | NICARAGUA: COFFEE IS CAPRICIOUS KING IN JINOTEGA [...] (U) Summary: The economy of the northern Nicaragua department of Jinotega is almost entirely dependent on one crop: coffee. The international price of coffee drives the fortunes of the region, and a poor transportation infrastructure inhibits the development of other industries. The shaky eco [...] | 2006-02-03 23:40:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EAGR PGOV SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA281 | "BOILING THE FROG": HOW THE SANDINISTAS HAVE [...] (C) Summary: A former top official in Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) recently described to Emboffs the seamier side of the CSE -- an organization he claims is riddled with corruption and fraudulent partisan influence from top to bottom. In addition to blatant financial fraud and [...] | 2006-02-06 19:31:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM KCOR NU |
06MANAGUA399 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: BOACO [...] (C) Summary: On February 10, Property Officer and LES Lawyer visited Boaco, the rural capital of the Department of Boaco, located just to the north and east of Managua, to discuss upcoming elections with local leaders. While individuals differed on the merits of presidential and legislative [...] | 2006-02-21 17:25:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NU PGOV SOCI |
06MANAGUA417 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: RIVAS [...] (C) Summary: With the November national elections still distant in the minds of the citizens of the southern Nicaraguan department of Rivas, none of the major candidates seems to have made a significant impact on the views of the voting public. That stated, most contacts indicate that Nicarag [...] | 2006-02-22 23:00:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA511 | NICARAGUAN ATLANTIC COAST ELECTIONS: PLC GARNERS [...] (U) Summary: Belying early predictions of an FSLN victory in the March 5 regional council elections for the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) and South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS),the PLC surged ahead as late returns from rural voting centers were added to the vote count. The FSL [...] | 2006-03-07 23:59:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI OAS NU |
06MANAGUA556 | NICARAGUA ATLANTIC COAST ELECTIONS: PLC SUPREME IN [...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results for the allocation of seats on the Councils of the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) and North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) indicate that the PLC will win enough positions to control the RAAS without having to form an alliance with another party. In [...] | 2006-03-13 19:14:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SNAR SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA568 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: ESTELI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings with political and economic leaders in the department of Esteli suggest that the Sandinistas (FSLN) continue to dominate the city of Esteli and that this strength, combined with a solid organization, will be enough to ensure an FSLN victory in the department in November [...] | 2006-03-14 16:50:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA578 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: MADRIZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings with political, economic, and civil society leaders in the department of Madriz suggest that the department's Liberal roots remain strong, and that the FSLN can be beaten there, despite the fact that it currently controls most municipalities and enjoys considerable sup [...] | 2006-03-14 22:52:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA609 | NICARAGUAN REGIONAL REPORTING--SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an elections reporting trip to the northwestern departments of Esteli and Madriz March 8-10 (reported in reftels),emboffs discussed a variety of economic and social issues with local leaders, including representatives of most major political parties, the Catholic Chur [...] | 2006-03-16 19:51:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ELAB ECON EFIN KIRF SMIG NU |
06MANAGUA633 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: MASAYA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Meetings with political and business leaders in the department of Masaya suggest that the presidential race remains wide open. While most Liberals leader agree that Eduardo Montealegre is the likely Liberal candidate, support for him among the small business owners, who form t [...] | 2006-03-21 21:33:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NU PGOV SOCI |
06MANAGUA648 | TOURISM MAKES RIVAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL [...] (U) The southern Nicaraguan department of Rivas has capitalized on its natural beauty and relatively well developed transportation infrastructure to build an economy increasingly based on tourism. During the civil war of the 1980s, Rivas was not a battleground, but a refuge, and the departmen [...] | 2006-03-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA711 | ARELLANO DISCUSSES DEFECTION TO ALN-PC, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Outspoken National Assembly deputy Delia Arellano plans to actively recruit "converts" in the evangelical community to support presidential candidate Eduardo Montealegre now that she has become a member of Montealegre's ALN-PC caucus (reftel). Arellano backs a proposal to chose a [...] | 2006-03-30 16:02:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA721 | CHONTALES, NICARAGUA: WHERE CATTLE AND LIBERALS [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Chontales is renowned for its cattle and Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) members. Forty percent of all cows in this cattle nation are raised in this small region, wedged between Lake Nicaragua to the West and the Autonomous Southern Atlantic Region (RAAS) to th [...] | 2006-03-31 14:27:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA728 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PLC MAYORS AND PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERS IN JINOTEGA [...] (C) Summary: After speaking at a CAFTA workforce briefing, touring a milk products plant certified by the FDA, and inaugurating a USAID-sponsored vegetable packing plant in the northern Nicaraguan department of Jinotega, Ambassador took the opportunity to meet with a group of PLC mayors and the Jin [...] | 2006-03-31 23:08:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA738 | JOSE RIZO, ALEMAN'S "CHOSEN ONE," SELECTED AS PLC [...] (SBU) Summary: After receiving a large majority of votes in the March 31 PLC "mini conventions," Jose Rizo was ratified by the PLC general convention on April 2 as the party's presidential candidate. RizoQ,s large margin of victory (64%),as well as a last-minute change to divide voting into [...] | 2006-04-03 21:36:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA8 | LEADING LIBERAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AGREE ON [...] (C) Summary: During a cordial breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, leading Liberal presidential candidates Eduardo Montealegre, Jose Antonio Alvarado and Jose Rizo agreed in principle that the Liberals must unite to confront the FSLN in the 2006 elections and wrest the Liberal Constitutional [...] | 2006-01-04 21:25:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA807 | CSE CONTINUES TECHNICAL WORK AS PLC/FSLN BATTLE [...] (C) Summary: The inter-institutional battle over control of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) continues even as the CSE embarks on a new electoral cycle. In the midst of conflicting court rulings and a PLC-driven National Assembly threat to invalidate CSE president Roberto Rivas' app [...] | 2006-04-11 16:35:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA813 | CHONTALES, NICARAGUA: CALL FOR UNITY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: While baseball is Nicaragua's national sport, it is surpassed by politics in the Department of Chontales. Emotions are still raw in this cattle raising region where misguided economic policy, Contra attacks and Sandinista reprisals devastated the countryside in the 1980's. Dur [...] | 2006-04-11 22:44:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA835 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: MATAGALPA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 30, Property Officer and LES Lawyer visited Matagalpa, capital of the northeastern Nicaraguan Department of Matagalpa, to discuss upcoming national elections with local business, political and civil society leaders and to gauge their views on the prospect of free and [...] | 2006-04-17 18:38:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NU PGOV SOCI |
06MANAGUA841 | VENEZUELA NOW USING FERTILIZER TO GROW SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In only the latest example of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) efforts to bolster the Sandinista Front Party (FSLN) in Nicaragua's 2006 national elections, 11,260 metric tons of urea have been sent for distribution by a Sandinista Cooperative to the rural poor as part of an [...] | 2006-04-17 21:26:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | ECON ENRG EFIN PGOV NU PREL SOCI VE CU EPET |
06MANAGUA869 | NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS REGIONAL REPORTING: NUEVA [...] (C) Summary: Liberals of all stripes in the largely Liberal Nicaraguan department of Nueva Segovia recently expressed concern to Emboffs that the FSLN is gaining support with poor voters by distributing agricultural goods and helping followers obtain voting documents in advance of the Novembe [...] | 2006-04-20 18:03:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
06MANAGUA964 | MOVING CLOSER TO MANPADS DESTRUCTION? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conversations with representatives of the different political parties represented in Nicaragua's National Assembly reveal a claimed willingness from all sides to approve the destruction of another 651 MANPADS (leaving Nicaragua with an official stock of 400 MANPADS). Nicaraguan [...] | 2006-05-03 14:38:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM KDEM SOCI |
06MANAGUA967 | VISIT TO NICARAGUAN DEPARTMENTS OF LEON AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During their April 25 visit to the departments of Leon and Chinandega, DAS Kirsten Madison and USAID DAA Mike Magan repeated the USG's commitment to strengthening democracy, the rule of law and economic growth in Nicaragua, and explored the views of local business and political [...] | 2006-05-03 16:09:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD KDEM NU PGOV SOCI |
06MANAMA419 | BAHRAIN: CALLING FOR THE RELEASE OF AKBAR GANJI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-18 09:05:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI BA IR REGION |
06MANAMA885 | BAHRAIN: FOLLOW UP ON DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL SOCI BA SU REGION BILAT |
06MANILA1075 | "NO CNN CAMERA CREWS!" -- CHILD PRISONERS IN THE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: A recent visit by emboffs to a jail in a town near Manila highlighted in a microcosm the problem of incarcerated children in the Philippines. On the national level, the GRP is trying to address [...] | 2006-03-08 09:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KOCI SOCI OPRC RP |
06MANILA1230 | POSITIVE REACTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON [...] (U) Summary: Mission's efforts to alert the Philippine public of the Country Reports on Human Rights 2005, including a chat on the Virtual Consulate Davao website, paid off with generally positive and constructive responses from the media and from key contacts. Mission will continue to devel [...] | 2006-03-20 06:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI RP |
06MANILA1259 | LOCAL ISSUES -- NOT MANILA POLITICS -- DOMINATE [...] (C) Summary: Based on emboffs March 16-17 visit, recent political turbulence in Manila appears to have garnered little attention in Isabela Province in northeastern Luzon. Governor Grace Padaca, the 2006 Ninoy Aquino Award for Public Service winner, remains popular, but faces entrenched oppo [...] | 2006-03-21 07:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON PREL PINR SOCI RP |
06MANILA1275 | PRESIDENT ARROYO WORKS TO SHORE UP SUPPORT IN [...] (C) Summary: In light of recent political turbulence, President Arroyo has been reaching out to high-level members of the Catholic clergy in an effort to shore up support. Arroyo has also taken care not to cross the Church on two key issues: mining and population policy. Arroyo's efforts a [...] | 2006-03-22 05:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI PINS EMIN RP |
06MANILA1595 | NEW LEGISLATION ON CHILD PRISONERS [...] (U) Summary: Both houses of Congress have now approved the "Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006," aimed at curbing the problem of child prisoners by moving minors out of the adult criminal justice system and building more youth detention facilities. President Arroyo is slated to sign t [...] | 2006-04-10 06:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI EAID RP |
06MANILA1726 | MAJOR ANTI-CORRUPTION CASES MOVE FORWARD, SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary: The criminal trial on corruption charges of former Comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Major General Carlos Garcia will begin on April 25. The court has issued warrants for the arrest of Garcia's wife and three sons, but they remain in hiding. Despite Garcia [...] | 2006-04-20 08:19:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR SOCI RP |
06MANILA1865 | COURT MARTIAL AFFIRMED IN MAJOR ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (U) On April 26, 2006, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Generoso Senga affirmed the guilty verdict in the court martial of former Major General Carlos Garcia on corruption charges. The court martial sentenced Garcia on December 2, 2005 to two years' confinement at hard labor, and the verdict had [...] | 2006-04-28 09:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON KCOR SOCI RP |
06MANILA2172 | COURT ACQUITS GENERAL GARCIA OF PERJURY; PLUNDER [...] (U) On May 22, the third division of the Sandiganbayan (anti-graft court) acquitted retired Major General Carlos Garcia of one count of perjury. The charges stemmed from Garcia's failure to disclose three motor vehicles on his mandatory Statement of Assets, Liability and Net worth (SALN). D [...] | 2006-05-24 06:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON KCOR SOCI RP |
06MANILA2273 | ANATOMY OF AN EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING [...] (C) Summary: During POL team's recent visit to Puerto Princesa, the capital of Palawan in the western Philippines, contacts expressed their deep concern about the brazen daytime killing of a well-known radio broadcaster and former politician on May 22. GRP authorities arrested a serving mem [...] | 2006-06-01 06:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SOCI RP |
06MANILA2418 | RECENT SUPREME COURT RULINGS REASSERT INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: In recent decisions, the Philippine Supreme Court has showed a strong independent streak in the face of accusations that it had been too close to President Arroyo. The Court remains committed to its judicial reform program, to which the USG makes substantial contributions. These [...] | 2006-06-09 07:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM SOCI EAID RP |
06MANILA3098 | SONA 2006: ARROYO PROJECTS OPTIMISM, WANTS TO SPEND [...] (SBU) Summary. With a buoyant air and an unusual high tech power point presentation, President Arroyo laid out ambitious development goals for four new supra-regions in the Philippines during the remainder of her term, and asked all to achieve together a "prosperous and united" Philippines [...] | 2006-07-24 10:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI PTER RP |
06MANILA3412 | PHILIPPINE BROADBAND: NARROWING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE [...] Private companies are partnering with Philippine's network of 5,443 public secondary schools to install computer laboratories by 2010. Over 800 schools have been connected to date, and 200 more will enjoy the benefits of these labs by December, 2006. A USAID program has contributed hardware [...] | 2006-08-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINT EAID SOCI APEC RP |
06MANILA3414 | CHARGE' AND PRESIDENT ARROYO INAUGURATE U.S. CALL CENTER; [...] Charge' d'Affaires Paul W. Jones traveled to Pampanga in Central Luzon to join President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in cutting the ribbon for a new U.S. call center in the Clark Special Economic Zone. While in the area, Charge' also visited the Clark Air Base Cemetery and Asian Aerospace Corpora [...] | 2006-08-15 08:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EAID EAIR SOCI RP |
06MANILA3478 | LARGEST OIL SPILL IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY-REQUEST FOR [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. The tanker "Solar I" sank in Guimaras Strait in the Philippines August 11 and discharged 200,000 liters of its 2.1 million liters of oil. The spill is moving on-shore and threatening fisheries, marine reserves, [...] | 2006-08-18 08:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EWWT TPHY EAID SOCI RP |
06MANILA350 | "COUNCIL OF STATE" MEETING: MUCH HYPE, BUT LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: A Malacanang-sponsored Council of State meeting took place on January 24. The meeting brought together some 75 notables to discuss "issues of national interest," though the Opposition largely boycotted the meeting. The group agreed to create a commission to advocate for Consti [...] | 2006-01-25 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PHUM SOCI RP |
06MANILA3549 | USG TEAM ARRIVES TO ASSESS PHILIPPINE OIL SPILL [...] A USG oil spill response team arrived in the Philippines on August 23 to help the government assess the damage from the oil spilled by tanker "Solar I" in the Guimaras Strait and to plan remediation efforts. The team met with the Embassy's ad hoc oil spill working group, the Department of Fore [...] | 2006-08-24 11:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EWWT TPHY EAID SOCI RP |
06MANILA3685 | USG TEAM DELIVERS OIL SPILL ASSESSMENT TO PHILIPPINE [...] A USG oil spill response team has been assessing damage caused by the oil spilled by tanker "Solar I" in the Guimaras Strait since August 24 and delivered its findings to the Philippine government on September 1. The team has been invited by the Philippine Coast Guard to remain and continue r [...] | 2006-09-05 07:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EWWT TPHY EAID SOCI RP |
06MANILA407 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR "MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY," [...] (C) Summary: At the conclusion of their semi-annual meeting on January 29, the Catholic Bishops' issued a long statement that called for "moral accountability" and recommended that Filipinos "search for truth" through Constitutionally-mandated processes and via non-violence. The Bishops' wen [...] | 2006-01-30 09:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS SOCI ECON RP VT |
06MANILA4162 | RESPONSE TO DEVASTATION OF TYPHOON MILENYO [...] Summary: Manila continues to recover from its worst typhoon in eleven years, while reports of devastation from outlying provinces of Southern Luzon continue to pour in. Four days after the typhoon, electricity and water is off in large parts of Manila, including Mission employee neighborhoods [...] | 2006-10-02 10:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
06MANILA424 | MADRASAH PROJECT: AFTER COMPLETING U.S. TRAINING, [...] (U) This Message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: Twenty-eight madrasah educators from Mindanao have completed training courses in the U.S. on American educational practices and values, as part of a USD 400,000 USG-sponsored "Madrasah Teacher Tr [...] | 2006-01-31 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SOCI KISL RP |
06MANILA4241 | Typhoon Aftermath: Assessing Economic Costs [...] The death toll from Typhoon Milenyo may surpass 200 and the estimated damage to property and infrastructure exceeds $40 million. Losses from power outages and other constraints on economic activity raise the costs even higher. However, with electricity almost fully restored and streets clear [...] | 2006-10-05 08:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR SENV SOCI RP |
06MANILA4544 | Typhoon Milenyo: Damage and Assistance Update [...] Another powerful typhoon swept across the Philippines October 30, even as the government raised the damage estimate from Typhoon Milenyo to $131 million. End Summary. 2. The Philippine government revised its assessment of the destruction from Typhoon Milenyo, which felled numerous trees, [...] | 2006-11-02 04:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR SENV SOCI RP |
06MANILA4814 | SENATE PRESIDENT VILLAR SEEKS QUANTIFIABLE RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador November 22, new Senate President Manuel Villar predicted that the Senate will pass a budget before the end of the calendar year and characterized the chances of passage of the anti-terrorism bill as excellent. Senator Villar suspects that the A [...] | 2006-11-27 04:02:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM SOCI MARR RP |
06MANILA4877 | Typhoon Reming Casualties Over 1000 in Southern Luzon [...] Heavy rains from Typhoon Reming on November 30 caused the massive flow of volcanic debris from the slopes of recently erupted Mount Mayon in the southern Luzon province of Albay. The mudslides buried villages and outlying homes and farms, leaving over 1000 people dead or missing and causing m [...] | 2006-12-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR CASC SENV SOCI RP |
06MANILA4916 | ASSISTING TYPHOON REMING VICTIMS [...] Summary: Over 1300 people are dead or missing due to the volcanic debris and mudslides caused by Typhoon Reming. In response to this tragedy, the Ambassador exercised her disaster assistance authority, enabling USAID to provide some $400,000 in assistance to relief organizations. Airlifted [...] | 2006-12-06 10:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR CASC SOCI RP |
06MANILA4919 | NEXT STEPS TO ASSISTING TYPHOON REMING VICTIMS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE -- SEE PARA 5. 2. (U) A December 6 on-the-ground assessment by a joint USAID-JUSMAG team provided a snapshot of the area in southern Luzon recovering from Typhoon Reming, which struck the Philippines November 30-December 1. The disaster affected more than a [...] | 2006-12-07 10:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR CASC SOCI RP |
06MANILA4941 | FOLLOWING UP ON THE SOLAR I OIL SPILL [...] (U) Although long-term damage to ecosystems from the Guimaras oil spill appears limited, there has been a substantial impact on the already tenuous livelihoods of fishermen who worked the contaminated areas. Some international assistance has been lined up to help develop alternative livelihoo [...] | 2006-12-11 03:26:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EWWT TPHY EAID SOCI RP |
06MANILA695 | OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS AS A POLITICAL FORCE [...] (C) Summary: The over eight million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) already have an important and growing role as an economic force, sending roughly USD 10 billion worth of remittances home each year. On the political side, however, OFWs were not granted the right to vote in absentia until [...] | 2006-02-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PINR RP |
06MANILA755 | FUNERALS FOR FIL-AM SOLDIERS UNDERSCORE CLOSE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Military funerals for two Filipino-American soldiers killed in Iraq were recently held in the Philippines. The funerals drew large crowds and generated highly positive local press play. In sp [...] | 2006-02-22 03:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI MOPS KPAO RP IZ |
06MANILA81 | PRESIDENT ARROYO SET TO CONVENE "COUNCIL OF STATE" [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo plans to convene a "Council of State" meeting on January 24. The meeting, the first of its kind in many years, would involve government personalities and other notables in a discussion of "national issues." Opposition figures are being invited to the meeting, [...] | 2006-01-06 09:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI RP VT |
06MAPUTO1190 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PERLITA MUIRURI, PRM OFFICER, TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL OTRA SOCI MZ |
06MAPUTO1604 | MOZAMBIQUE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT [...] Mozambique is a party to the ILO convention against the worst forms of child labor. The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) has a regulatory framework in place to monitor and prosecute infractions of the labor code, but it does not have a regulatory body specifically devoted to chi [...] | 2006-12-15 10:41:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MZ |
06MAPUTO586 | Mozambique - Comment on UNFPA Country Program [...] Per reftel, we offer below comments on UNFPA's Country Program in Mozambique. Comments on Program Content --------------------------- 2. The content of UNFPA program in Mozambique is appropriate, and takes in consideration the dynamics of the country. We are most familiar with activitie [...] | 2006-05-22 11:31:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID SOCI MZ |
06MAPUTO786 | MOZAMBIQUE: PRESSING AU MEMBERS TO STAND FIRM ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-30 13:04:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL MARR PINS SOCI MZ |
06MASERU188 | PROGRESS OF USG HIV/AIDS PROGRAM IN LESOTHO [...] USG Programs in the Kingdom of Lesotho, a non-'focus' country under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),are reaping recognition from Basotho governmental and non-governmental corners. The extensive interaction of the HIV/AIDS Coordinator with local entities, continued pub [...] | 2006-04-19 13:31:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PREL PHUM SOCI LT |
06MASERU225 | ATLANTA'S MAYOR AND LESOTHO'S YOUNGEST AIDS VICTIMS [...] SUMMARY ----------------- Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin visited Lesotho from 10 April - 13 April 2006 as a guest of CARE International. Ambassador June Carter Perry met with the Mayor on three separate occasions, an introductory meeting with the Ambassador in the Chancery, celebrations at a [...] | 2006-05-10 10:50:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI KHIV OEXC OVIP PREL SOCI PGOV SCUL PHUM LT |
06MASERU298 | DAS THOMPSON'S VISIT TO LESOTHO [...] Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Carol Thompson visited Maseru June 14-16 following her attendance at the Second Annual President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Conference in Durban, South Africa. She met with the First Lady of Lesotho, the Deputy Prime Minist [...] | 2006-06-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PREL KDEM SOCI LT |
06MASERU307 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AU MEMBERS AND UN TRANSITION [...] (C) Per reftel, AMB met with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ntsinyi (Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment/Deputy Secretary of the Ruling LCD Party) concerning the moment of truth for the African Union (AU). Ambassador reinforced the point that the African countries cannot let Bash [...] | 2006-06-29 15:02:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KPKO PINS SOCI SU LT |
06MASERU345 | STREET VENDORS RIOT OVER CITY COUNCIL CLEANUP [...] SUMMARY: Street vendors on the old Maseru Bus stop staged a demonstration against the City Council on July 13, to protest against the removal of their tables and food from the area overnight. The group forced shop owners, who are mostly Chinese to close down their shops, and hurled barricade [...] | 2006-07-25 10:31:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ASEC LT |
06MASERU455 | LESOTHO: OBLIGATION OF FY06 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND [...] Total FY06 allocation received for Maseru Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) is USD 30,000. USAID legal and accounting offices have reviewed the draft agreements and the USAID accounting office is expected to finalize the obligations upon notification of signing of agreements by post. [...] | 2006-09-13 16:19:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SOCI XA LT |
06MASERU491 | LESOTHO: OBLIGATION OF FY06 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND [...] Subject grant agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Law Office (632-DHRF-06-001) for the purchase of law books has been cancelled in its entirety in compliance with DHRF requirements as per refs A and B. Amendment No. 1 to effect this change was signed by COM [...] | 2006-09-29 14:17:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SOCI XA LT |
06MINSK1117 | INDEPENDENT POLLING: MILINKEVICH SUPPORT RATINGS DECLINE [...] Summary: Independent Belarusian pollster Manaev September 25 gave Poloff results of his fifth post election survey conducted in August. Opposition coalition presidential candidate Milinkevich's support rating dropped 8.8 points since March to 11.6%, whereas President Lukashenko's support rati [...] | 2006-10-17 04:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK1225 | INDEPENDENT POLLING REPORTS INCREASE IN INDEPENDENT RADIO [...] Independent Belarusian pollster Manaev November 21 gave Ambassador the results of his sixth and final post election survey. According to his results, both the amount of Belarusians who listen to foreign radio broadcasts and who use the internet continue to increase. Support ratings decreased s [...] | 2006-11-29 11:25:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK134 | Demarche On UN Reform [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-09 05:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PHUM PREL SOCI BO |
06MINSK152 | Belarus Getting Sicker [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Lukashenko's "Third Way Economic Miracle," the Belarusian population is now sicker, dies earlier and has fewer children than during the late Soviet period. Doctors at the CitiHope NGO recently passed to Econoff a report they drafted chronicling the systematic worsening o [...] | 2006-02-14 08:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON TBIO ENRG MNUC SENV BO |
06MINSK463 | Post-Election Polling: Lukashenko Wins, but Not by As Much [...] Summary: The IISEPS polling service recently unveiled the results of the first post-election poll. IISEPS found that about 64% of the electorate voted for Lukashenko, 20% less than the regime claims. Despite this discrepancy, a slim majority of Belarusians view the elections as free and fair. [...] | 2006-04-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK638 | Youth Flash Mobs on Rise Despite Repression [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Flash mobs have increasingly become one of the principal methods of protest by anti-Lukashenko activists since the March presidential elections. Consequently, Belarusian authorities have steadily intensified their already significant repression of flash-mob activists. Police [...] | 2006-06-16 05:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI BO |
06MINSK664 | Belarus Faces Pension Crisis [...] Summary: On May 18, Econoff met with the head of the Ministry of Labor's pension office, and on May 30 attended a conference where several GOB officials described an upcoming pension crisis. Belarus has 2.6 million pensioners, 27% of the population, and this number will grow in coming years. T [...] | 2006-06-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN SOCI BO |
06MINSK669 | POLL OF BELARUSIAN ELITES SHOWS SUPPORT FOR OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, Oleg Manaev, head of the de- registered IISEPS sociological research center, presented the results of additional post-election polling to the Ambassador. Throughout May, IISEPS polled 60 respondents, described as "laders and experts" inside and outside Belarus' gvernm [...] | 2006-06-23 05:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK720 | POST REVIEW OF GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, [...] On June 27, 2006 USAID Country Representative, USAID Activity Manager and an Embassy Poloff met with UNDP HIV/AIDS Program Manager, the UNDP Resident Representative and the Belarus Global Fund Project Manager to discuss the results of Phase I of the project (which ends November 30, 2006) and p [...] | 2006-07-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO BO |
06MINSK758 | IISEPS Polling: Lukashenko Still Enjoys Popular Support [...] SUMMARY: On July 10, Director of the independent polling service IISEPS Oleg Manaev gave Ambassador the results of two opinion surveys conducted in June. Lukashenko maintains a high support rating, with 55 percent of those polled claiming they would vote for Lukashenko again should elections b [...] | 2006-07-21 05:35:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO |
06MINSK893 | GOB - "AVIAN INFLUENZA NOT BEHIND 100,000 POULTRY [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 100,000 chickens have died in two separate accidents at Belarusian poultry farms since July 14. The GOB stressed that human error was at fault and maintained that AI was not detected. Health officials reiterated that the deaths were unfortunate accidents, but ass [...] | 2006-08-17 07:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO PGOV PHUM BO |
06MONTEVIDEO1012 | VAZQUEZ' HONEYMOON IS OVER [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez' approval rating dipped below fifty percent for the first time according to an October poll. When he was sworn in eighteen months ago, his approval rating stood at sixty-nine percent. The anti-climax surrounding a possible Free Trade Agreement (reftel),a worsen [...] | 2006-10-25 18:47:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI ELAB MARR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1068 | LACKLUSTER XVI IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT IN MONTEVIDEO [...] (SBU) Summary: The XVI Ibero-American Summit took place in Montevideo on 3-5 November without major logistical or security incidents. Leaders from 22 Latin American and European countries focused on "Migration and Development," though we detected few concrete accomplishments in these areas. [...] | 2006-11-06 19:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC SOCI XM SP PO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1097 | HOW MERCOSUR HAS CHANGED [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: This telegram contains a healthy dose of subjective analysis designed to stimulate constructive debate on an issue of regional importance. The Embassy is keenly interested in Mercosur, not only because its headquarters are located here, but also because we have [...] | 2006-11-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL AORC SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO1143 | UY MOVES TO PREVENT DAMAGE FROM PROTESTS [...] (U) Summary: November 29, President Vazquez ordered the Uruguayan military to create a protective ring around the controversial Botnia paper mill in order to prevent possible acts of sabotage. The GOU also filed a complaint against Argentina with the International Court of Justice demanding a [...] | 2006-12-01 10:36:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO139 | URUGUAY UPDATE ON UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (U) This telegram responds to action request in paragraph 2 of ref A. 2. (SBU) The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adopted last October in Paris is not on Uruguay's legislative agenda. The National Congress ends its recess on March 1. We a [...] | 2006-02-09 18:25:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL SOCI UNESCO UY |
06MONTEVIDEO149 | DISPUTE OVER PULP MILLS DEEPENS [...] (C) Summary: The pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay (reftel) has only intensified in the past month, and the dispute, which until recently had been a provincial issue for Argentina, has become a national cause in Uruguay for which vital interests are at stake. Uruguay contends tha [...] | 2006-02-13 19:08:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO155 | MINISTER'S TOUGH TALK ON PAPER MILL DISPUTE, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Charge to discuss upcoming visits to the U.S. (ref A),Industry Minister Jorge Lepra commented that Uruguay is searching for international support in its dispute with Argentina over the construction of giant paper mills on a shared river (ref B). He added th [...] | 2006-02-14 16:26:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO230 | THE VAZQUEZ ADMINISTRATION AT THE ONE-YEAR MARK [...] (C) Summary: The Frente Amplio (FA) Government completed its first year in power on March 1 with more achievements than setbacks. In typical fashion, little fanfare marked the day as President Vazquez had sent his state-of-the-union report to Congress a week earlier. It is clear that his adr [...] | 2006-03-07 19:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD SOCI ELAB PINR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO268 | PULP MILLS: VAZQUEZ' TRIP EXPOSES HARSH REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: President Tabare Vazquez returned empty-handed from an erratic eight-day tour of regional countries designed to drum up support for Uruguay's position in the serious paper mill dispute with Argentina (ref A). From our point of view, the trip was a disaster, especially his confusi [...] | 2006-03-20 18:34:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI EINV ECON AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO353 | PAPER MILLS DISPUTE: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (SBU) The long-running dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over construction of giant pulp mills on a shared river seems to have worsened and entered into a more litigious phase after Presidents Vazquez and Kirchner canceled their plans to meet on the issue last week. Uruguayan public critic [...] | 2006-04-12 19:19:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI EINV SENV AORC AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO376 | PAPERMILL DISPUTE HAS FINLAND'S ATTENTION [...] (U) In Uruguay there has been widespread dissatisfaction over reports from Sao Paulo that Brazil and Argentina will not support the papermill dispute's submission to Mercosur's conflict resolution mechanism, as Presidents Lula da Silva and Nestor Kirchner apparently consider the affair to be p [...] | 2006-04-26 19:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI EINV SENV AORC UY |
06MONTEVIDEO415 | SCENESETTER AMBASSADOR MAISTO'S VISIT TO URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Uruguay on May 18 comes on the heels of a very successful May 4 meeting between Uruguayan President Vazquez and President Bush in Washington. Uruguay is important to U.S. interests as an example of temperate, long-standing democracy in a region that has largely lu [...] | 2006-05-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL AORC PGOV SOCI UY |
06MONTEVIDEO46 | URUGUAY'S PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN CRISIS [...] (U) Minister of the Economy, Daniel Astori recently stated that Uruguay must decentralize and strengthen its system of higher education or risk a faltering economy. Post analysis concurs with Astori's assessment. Statistics show that the vast majority of university-age students will never ac [...] | 2006-01-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI EINV ELAB UY |
06MONTEVIDEO529 | PULP MILL DISPUTE GOES TO COURT [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruguay's dispute with Argentina over the construction of two pulp mills on a shared river (reftels) has reached the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On June 8, both sides, backed by expensive international law firms, presented their opening arguments to the ICJ's 15 magistr [...] | 2006-06-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO640 | HAGUE RULING ON PULP MILLS FAVORABLE TO URUGUAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-13 16:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI KLIG EINV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO907 | ENCE PULLS MILL PLANS IN URUGUAY; BLOCKADE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Spanish company ENCE informed the GOU that it will relocate its planned paper mill, but we suspect that the mill may never be built. Reports also indicate that Argentine protesters renewed last season's blockade of bridges into Uruguay and called on the remaining paper mill [...] | 2006-09-25 19:42:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI ECIN ETRD AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO963 | DICTATORSHIP'S WOUNDS STILL FELT IN URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Uruguay's ongoing debate over the teaching of history and a recent public shouting match between the sons of important actors during Uruguay's dictatorship both illustrate the importance of that period to modern politics and policy in Uruguay. The complex history of [...] | 2006-10-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB UY |
06MONTEVIDEO977 | ONCE AGAIN, THE PULP MILLS PLAGUE URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The long-running dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over the construction of pulp mills on a shared river shows no signs of letting up. For the second time this tourist season, Argentine environmental protesters will block international bridges linking the two countries. Wor [...] | 2006-10-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
06MONTREAL820 | Montreal Hosts the First Ever OutGames [...] Montreal is set to host the 1st World OutGames from July 26-August 5. An offshoot of the Federation of Gay Games (held this year in Chicago),which has traditionally focused on providing a venue for homosexuals to openly engage in sports competitions, the OutGames has added a three-day inter [...] | 2006-07-28 13:00:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI CASC CA |
06MONTREAL922 | Montreal Celebrates OutGames Success - Part 2 of 2 [...] The 1st World OutGames, held in Montreal June 26-August 5, drew some 500,000 spectators, 10,248 athletes, and 5,200 volunteers and has been touted by officials, media, and human rights activists alike as a success. The three-day conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Huma [...] | 2006-08-24 20:16:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI CASC CA |
06MOSCOW10289 | RUSSIAN PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON POLICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: An overwhelming majority of the Russian public believes that human rights abuse by police is widespread according to recent polling data. The police, on the contrary, believe they are unfairly maligned, but recognize problems within the MVD. These and other findings presented on Se [...] | 2006-09-14 15:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW10605 | KREMLIN UNHAPPINESS CAUSES MOSCOW'S "DOMASHNIY" [...] (C) Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Venediktov confirmed to Embassy September 19 that a newly-minted television program hosted by him and telejournalist Svetlana Sorokina had been pulled from the air following a September 10 episode that the authorities had apparently found too controversi [...] | 2006-09-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW10704 | HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN ON NGO [...] (C) In a September 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin endorsed moving forward on the proposed U.S.-Russian roundtable on democracy and human rights, and said he was prepared to discuss modalities when in Washington October 10-12. Lukin offered to intercede on [...] | 2006-09-25 09:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11266 | KREMLIN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRWOMAN PROMISES NO [...] (C) Chairwoman of the Presidential Administration Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Ella Pamfilova emphatically assured Ambassador October 5 that "nothing would happen" to curtail the activities of NGOs not re-registered by the October 18 deadline. Pamfilova's office was monitoring t [...] | 2006-10-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11276 | UNITED RUSSIA AIMS TO WIN BY A WIDE MARGIN IN TUVA [...] (SBU) Embassy visited the Republic of Tuva October 1-5, in advance of the October 8 regional election. Tuva is tightly controlled by Regional Head Sherig-Ool Oorzhak, who became a member of United Russia (YR) eight months ago, and it is widely believed that YR will win a decisive majority, wit [...] | 2006-10-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11279 | THE OCTOBER 8 REGIONAL ELECTIONS AS A PROVING [...] (C) The October 8 elections are being viewed by commentators here as a rehearsal for the 2007 State Duma elections (which some see as a rehearsal for the 2008 presidential contest). Viewed from that vantage point, the contests, in nine regions and republics of Russia, should offer the Kremlin [...] | 2006-10-06 15:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11631 | RODINA: SATISFIED BUT SUING [...] (SBU) Rodina had a poor showing in the October 8 regional elections; it crossed the 7 percent threshold for representation in only one region: Astrakhan. Nevertheless, Deputy Chair of Rodina's Executive Committee Maksim Puchkov in an October 12 conversation found cause for optimism in the vo [...] | 2006-10-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11695 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov reviewed the October 8 regional elections, recent developments in electoral technology, prospects for the 2007 regional and national (Duma) elections, and possible further amendments to the election law in a meeting with Embas [...] | 2006-10-19 06:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW11989 | IN ANNUAL Q&A, PUTIN EXCLUDES THIRD TERM, WORRIES [...] (SBU) On October 25, President Putin hosted his annual "direct line to the President," during which he answered questions from Russia's regions and from Russian speakers abroad (Sevastopol, Ukraine). This year's "direct line" lasted 2 hours and 54 minutes, outstripping last year's by one minu [...] | 2006-10-25 14:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW12042 | FORMER RUSSIAN PM KASYANOV: OPPOSITION WOES, [...] (C) In a recent one-on-one lunch with Ambassador, a confident ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov cited reasons to be optimistic about his presidential prospects: -- the business community's alleged latent support for his economic reform agenda; -- the weakness of current contenders Medve [...] | 2006-10-27 11:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12143 | NINETEEN PARTIES REGISTERED FOR 2007 ELECTIONS; [...] (C) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has completed its inspection of the 35 political parties that filed for re-registration according to the new, more stringent requirements of the amended electoral law. A FRS representative at an October 26 press conference reported that sixteen of th [...] | 2006-11-01 07:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12448 | BRYANSK: CASE STUDY OF A REGIONAL PARTY OF POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Once a keystone of post-Soviet Communist control, the political scene in Bryansk region is now dominated by United Russia (YR). YR has attracted the youth, business, and elite vote - votes that used to be divided between the Communist Party and liberal parties like the Union of [...] | 2006-11-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12901 | "A JUST RUSSIA": DIFFICULT BEGINNING, UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Spravedlivaya Rossiya (SR) (&A Just Russia8),often referred to as the &second8 Kremlin party, has been officially registered. The party has moved to constitute itself at the federal and local levels, by combining elements of its constituent parties --Rodina, the Russian Party of Life, an [...] | 2006-12-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW12942 | RUSSIAN DUMA DEFENSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TOUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Viktor Zavarzin, Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, gave his annual briefing to Moscow's military attache corps December 12. During the 90-minute presentation, Zavarzin summarized his committee's legislative activities -- weapons modernization and improvements in s [...] | 2006-12-15 13:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PREL SOCI PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW13136 | ZHIRINOVSKIY,S LDPR LOOKS TO THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) December marks the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the Liberal Democrat Party of Russia (LDPR). LDPR's lack of any discernible platform is compensated for by the indomitable LDPR Chairman Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, whose instinct for the outrageous continues to resonate with a sig [...] | 2006-12-28 15:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW13168 | ALTAI KRAI: PICKETS AND PLURALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Altai Krai is one of the most economically depressed regions in Russia, it has an unusually high level of civic activity and political pluralism and is home to outspoken liberal Republican Party Head Vladimir Ryzhkov. United Russia dominates, but the Communists, Agrarians, [...] | 2006-12-29 09:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW13172 | HARD TIMES FOR RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Civil society and liberal political party leaders are sharply divided over the role of NGOs in partisan politics. While Moscow's most prominent human rights activist strongly defends the policy of overt political opposition, many NGO representatives are uncomfortable with, or opposed to, a [...] | 2006-12-29 15:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW1445 | SPRING STATE DUMA SESSION OFF TO SLOW START [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The spring semester of the Russian State Duma, which began on January 11 and will run through mid-June, got off to a slow start. Deputies are burdened with almost 600 draft laws, with 52 designated as priority bills focusing on water and forestry regulation, transportation safe [...] | 2006-02-15 12:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL PHUM SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW152 | ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK ON CHABAD SYNAGOGUE IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of January 11, a 20-year-old man broke into a Lubavitch synagogue in Moscow during prayer services and injured eight men, including an AmCit. None of the victims has life-threatening injuries, but some are reportedly in serious but stable condition. The Foreign [...] | 2006-01-12 16:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI |
06MOSCOW1974 | RUSSIA'S RODINA CONTENDS WITH KREMLIN PRESSURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rodina Party has embarked on a campaign to polish its image, softening (but not completely eliminating) its harsh criticism of minority migrants, while focusing on economic opportunity and social justice as the primary avenues for "transforming nationalism into patriotism." [...] | 2006-03-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW262 | UPDATE ON ATTACK ON MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the January 11 attack on a Chabad synagogue in Moscow (ref A),a prosecutor reported finding ammunition, a list of synagogues and nationalist literature in the home of the attacker. The prosecutor said the attacker was not a member of an extremist organization [...] | 2006-01-13 16:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSCOW2914 | RUSSIAN MFA ON AMIS RE-HATTING [...] (C) On March 21 Poloff delivered reftel demarche on re-hatting the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan to MFA Department of International Organizations Counselor Oleg Kravchenko. Kravchenko agreed that there was no ambiguity in the AU March 10 statement and that its intention was clearly to [...] | 2006-03-22 14:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL SOCI SU RS |
06MOSCOW3815 | RUSSIAN NATIONALIST DMITRIY ROGOZIN GOING ... [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rodina Party chairman Dmitriy Rogozin resigned from that position March 25, as observers expected, and also stepped down from his position as Rodina faction chairman in the State Duma April 4. The departure of the mercurial Rogozin has done nothing to mend internal rifts within [...] | 2006-04-12 07:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW387 | RABBI LAZAR ON SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Berl Lazar, one of the leaders of Russia's Jewish community, said that though concerns about extremism in the country had been mounting, the January 11 synagogue attack had been a "wake-up call." He said the incident offered opportunit [...] | 2006-01-18 13:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PREL PINR RS |
06MOSCOW4572 | $4.5M U.S. Investment, Andy Warhol and American Corner [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Burns' visit to Samara April 17-18 revealed a city ripe for additional U.S. investment and eager for increased contacts and exchanges with American academic and business counterparts. The Ambassado [...] | 2006-04-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW5557 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DUMA FIRST DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 23 with Duma First Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov, who agreed that inter-parliamentary exchanges should be encouraged. He noted that a newly created Duma working group will address legislative initiatives proposed by President Putin in his Annual Address. Morozo [...] | 2006-05-26 07:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI |
06MOSCOW6334 | GROWTH AND CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA'S REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: While none would dispute that Moscow leads Russia in economic development, it is increasingly clear that many cities beyond Moscow are experiencing healthy growth. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in large provincial cities report expanded opportunities and gradually imp [...] | 2006-06-14 10:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB SOCI POL RS |
06MOSCOW6815 | SOCIAL MOBILITY IN RUSSIA: WHICH WAY TO THE MIDDLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With real average incomes up 66 percent over the past five years, Russia's middle class has begun to emerge from the shadows -- after all, someone other than the mega rich has to be buying all those TV sets, cars and cell phones. Understanding that the movement is now well unde [...] | 2006-06-27 11:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EINV ELAB EFIN PGOV RS |
06MOSCOW7493 | WORLD RELIGIOUS LEADERS SUMMIT IN RUSSIA CALLS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Moscow July 3-5, more than 200 religious leaders and clergy from over 40 countries called on believers of all faiths to engage in dialogue and partnership to resolve global problems, as well as to challenge terrorism, extremism, and efforts to restrict religious freed [...] | 2006-07-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PINR RS |
06MOSCOW797 | A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 18 meeting with DRL A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that his office has seen an increase in complaints of human rights violations. Lukin highlighted his office's critical analysis of the first draft of the NGO law, saying [...] | 2006-01-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS |
06MOSUL15 | LOCAL NGO LAUNCHING NEW WOMEN'S CENTER IN MOSUL [...] (SBU) In an effort to address concerns of unemployment, job training, and community counseling for Iraqi women, members of the Assembly of Ninevah NGOs, a local NGO umbrella organization, have created a second women's center for western Mosul. The effort expands on the already existing Iraq W [...] | 2006-02-14 15:00:00 | REO Mosul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ ECON ELAB SCUL SOCI PINT |
06MUSCAT104 | OMAN ONLINE: BIN LADEN TAPE, FTA, DANISH CARTOONS [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-01-26 13:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1064 | CURRENT STATE OF HIV/AIDS PROGRAMS IN OMAN [...] A UNICEF report outlining its next five-year plan for Oman, done in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, provided updated statistics on the AIDS picture. While HIV rates remain low and numerically static, incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases is rising. The Ministry of Health [...] | 2006-07-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1065 | FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PART OF NATIONAL ACTION [...] Troubling polling data on the acceptability of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Oman in a 2001 questionnaire for 16-18 year olds led to a 2004 survey of Omani women by the Ministry of Health. The surprising results revealed that more than half of women polled had undergone FGM. UNICEF's co [...] | 2006-07-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KWMN PHUM MU |
06MUSCAT1177 | TFLE01: OMAN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN DELIVERY OF [...] During a July 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary (deputy-secretary equivalent) Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi expressed his concern regarding the logistics of delivering humanitarian assistance for Lebanese relief efforts. Sayyid Badr noted that Oman is current [...] | 2006-08-01 05:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT125 | OMAN ONLINE: HAMAS VICTORY, AMERICANS INSULTING ISLAM, [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-01-31 09:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1487 | RAMADAN IN OMAN: SPIRITS ARE HIGH, BUT SO ARE PRICES [...] (SBU) Omanis are in a generally positive mood as Ramadan draws to a close. Seasonal goodwill, however, has been blemished by complaints of price increases on basic foodstuffs and other items. As elsewhere in the region, Omanis are watching Arabic-language serial programs on television produce [...] | 2006-10-21 03:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON MU |
06MUSCAT168 | OMAN ONLINE: FTA AND LABOR RIGHTS, OMANI REACTION TO [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-02-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT1711 | UPDATE ON OMAN'S ACTIONS AGAINST WORST FORMS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID |
06MUSCAT207 | GOVERNMENT CRITIC ALLEGES AMCIT AILING IN PRISON [...] (SBU) Recently released former parliamentarian Taybah al-Ma'wali claims that unsanitary prison conditions and poor medical care have caused a serious decline in convicted Amcit Rebecca Thompson's health. Her charges, however, are at variance with what Conoff and other independent visitors have [...] | 2006-02-14 08:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT219 | OMAN ONLINE: HEALTH CARE, A DISMISSAL, AND DENMARK [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-02-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT25 | OMAN ONLINE: STUDENTS HARASSED; SORRY TO SHAYKHA; [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-01-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT288 | OMAN ONLINE: SECTARIAN STRIFE, MAHATHIR INTERVIEW [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wholly reflective o [...] | 2006-03-01 13:18:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT350 | GOVERNMENT REINS IN SQUATTERS [...] (SBU) The Omani government has taken action in recent weeks to remove illegal squatter farms that local tribes had built up over the past year in a remote semi-desert area in the southern Dhofar region. The steps were spurred by concerns over illicit water usage and the government's efforts t [...] | 2006-03-10 19:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV PBTS PGOV SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT388 | JERICHO PRISON ATTACK DRAWS IRE AT U.S., UK [...] (U) The March 14 Israeli raid on Jericho Prison and seizure of Palestinian suspects drew strong condemnation in Omani newspaper editorials the following day. The independently owned Arabic daily "Al-Watan" placed its editorial on the front page, asserting that Israel's actions were clearly il [...] | 2006-03-15 15:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL SOCI OIIP KMDR KPAO IS MU |
06MUSCAT389 | OMAN ONLINE: HUMAN RIGHTS, FOLEY KILLERS, AND PRISON [...] Summary: The Omani Internet message board "al-Sablah" is the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language forum for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While neither totally free nor wholly reflectiv [...] | 2006-03-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI MU |
06MUSCAT851 | RARE PUBLIC PROTEST BY TEACHERS, GRADUATES [...] (SBU) In a rare protest on May 28, approximately 200 teachers and graduates from government-operated Colleges of Education (CoE) gathered in front of the Ministry of Education (MoE) and demanded to speak with the minister, Yahya bin Saud al-Salimi, about diminishing promotions for teachers and [...] | 2006-05-31 09:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV ELAB PINS MU |
06MUSCAT858 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SPEAKS TO FOREIGN MEDIA, [...] (C) Former parliamentarian and human rights activist Taybah al-Ma'wali told foreign media and the Embassy in May that she fears for her safety and alleges that Oman's Internal Security Service (ISS) is collecting evidence to make another case against her. Ironically, at the same time as grant [...] | 2006-05-31 11:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR MU |
06MUSCAT982 | MINISTER OF AWQAF APPRECIATES OUTREACH, SEEKS [...] (U) Oman's Minister of Awqaf expressed his appreciation for recent U.S. military outreach efforts involving an exchange of visits. He noted that such cultural dialogue benefits both countries and advances mutual goals of promoting tolerance. In the context of Muscat as "Cultural Capital of t [...] | 2006-06-18 12:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KISL SOCI MASS KIRF SCUL MU |
06NAIROBI1008 | IMMEDIATE RESPONSE NEEDED TO ADDRESS EAST AFRICA [...] (SBU) On March 5, I hosted a lunch for 15 Nairobi-based Chiefs of Mission in honor of visiting World Food Program Executive Director James T. Morris. The reason I was willing to press the other COMs to give up their Sunday afternoon was this Mission's growing concern about the unfolding huma [...] | 2006-03-07 09:36:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD ECON EAGR SENV PREL PGOV SOCI KE |
06NAIROBI1161 | 17TH HORN OF AFRICA CLIMATE OUTLOOK FORUM [...] The 17th Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) climate outlook forum (COF) took place in Nairobi March 1-3, organized by the USAID-supported Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC). The forum brought together policy makers, technical expert [...] | 2006-03-15 04:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV TPHY XW ZF EAGR ECON ETRD KE PGOV SOCI |
06NAIROBI1434 | KENYA FY2006 DHRF BUDGET REQUEST [...] Embassy Nairobi requests USD100,000 for our FY2006 Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) program. This represents a USD9,000 increase over the amount obligated in FY2005. Post is requesting this small increase to have the flexibility to either fund one more deserving organization than the f [...] | 2006-03-31 08:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI KE |
06NAIROBI1438 | OFDA VISIT TO KENYA'S MARSABIT DISTRICT [...] An acute dry season, amplified by poor seasonal rains last November is eroding livelihoods and food security of pastoralist populations in Kenya's Marsabit District. Livestock numbers have declined due to the lack of access to pasture and water. Tribal conflict is preventing many pastoralis [...] | 2006-03-31 09:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KE PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAGR SENV SOCI |
06NAIROBI1514 | OFDA VISIT TO KENYA'S MARSABIT DISTRICT [...] An acute dry season, amplified by poor seasonal rains last November is eroding livelihoods and food security of pastoralist populations in Kenya's Marsabit District. Livestock numbers have declined due to the lack of access to pasture and water. Tribal conflict is preventing many pastoralis [...] | 2006-04-05 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KE SOCI SENV ETRD EAGR ECON PGOV PREL |
06NAIROBI1561 | USAID/OFDA VISIT TO KENYA'S KAJIADO DISTRICT. [...] Three weeks of consistent rainfall has replenished pasture and natural water points in the Mashuru Division of Kenya's Kajiado District. The start of the long rains season should halt the decline in livestock numbers caused by recent dry conditions. Farmers have extensively planted crops an [...] | 2006-04-10 09:21:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KE ECON EAGR PGOV SOCI |
06NAIROBI1819 | POST'S RESPONSE TO PROPOSED WJEI PROGRAM FOR KENYA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes the Interagency Assessment Team,s recommendations for a Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative (WJEI) in Kenya and its request for Post input on the advisability, feasibility, and costs of the proposed activities, as well as a second area for geographic focus. Po [...] | 2006-04-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI KE |
06NAIROBI2518 | UN WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN [...] On May 29, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) convened a three-day humanitarian information network workshop in Nairobi focused on Africa-specific concerns. This year's workshop is a continuation of a process begun in 2002. The primary purpose of the Nairobi wo [...] | 2006-06-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SOCI UN XA |
06NAIROBI279 | HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN KENYA?S NORTHEASTERN [...] Persistent drought and underdevelopment in Kenya's Northeastern Province continues to erode humanitarian indicators. Erratic rainfall during the Sept-Nov short rains season has failed to replenish natural water points or pasture causing degradation of local livestock, the main source of food [...] | 2006-01-20 07:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KE ECON EAGR EFIN PGOV SOCI |
06NAIROBI3016 | PROCEEDINGS FROM 19TH SEMI-ANNUAL ALNAP [...] From June 13 to 15, 2006, the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) convened its 19th semi- annual conference. The aim of the meeting was for humanitarian actors to draw out key aspects of learning, accountability, and performance related t [...] | 2006-07-11 06:00:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SOCI UN XA |
06NAIROBI3394 | REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-04 08:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SOCI UN XA |
06NAIROBI3437 | KENYA CRIMINALIZES SEXUAL (AND SOME TRAFFICKING) [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 31, Kenya's National Assembly voted to criminalize the worst forms of sexual offenses, including rape, defilement, child pornography and sex tourism, and sexual harassment. While amendments to the bill may have watered down some of the proposed protections, the passage of [...] | 2006-08-08 08:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL EAID SOCI KE |
06NAIROBI3630 | REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP [...] The second stage of implementation of the Crop Crisis Control Project (C3P) was launched with a regional planning workshop in Kigali, Rwanda June 13- 15, 2006. The goal of this activity, supported by the Famine Prevention Fund, is a regionally coordinated response to the catastrophic spread of [...] | 2006-08-18 10:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SOCI UN XA |
06NAIROBI4000 | KENYAN MEDIA GOES WILD OVER SENATOR OBAMA [...] Summary: Media reaction to United States Senator Barack Obama's (D-IL) visit to Kenya was overwhelmingly positive and included extensive coverage. Over-the-fold, inside articles and letters to the editor by members of the general Kenyan public were almost exclusively positive descriptions an [...] | 2006-09-14 11:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP OPRC OREP PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM KE |
06NAIROBI4002 | KENYAN MEDIA GOES WILD OVER SENATOR OBAMA [...] Summary: Media reaction to United States Senator Barack Obama?s (D-IL) visit to Kenya was overwhelmingly positive and included extensive coverage. Over-the-fold, inside articles and letters to the editor by members of the general Kenyan public were almost exclusively positive descriptions a [...] | 2006-09-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP OPRC OREP PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM KE |
06NAIROBI4334 | COAST PROVINCE - DIVERSITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE POLITICAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The diversity of Kenya's Coast Province reflects an important part of the country's rich history and highlights the challenge that this fledgling democracy faces to develop a truly inclusive process focused on national issues, as opposed to the current tribally-driven system. Duri [...] | 2006-10-06 08:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL KISL PGOV ECON KE KDEM PTER SNAR |
06NAIROBI4359 | AMBASSADOR'S IFTAR REMARKS ON THE COAST [...] (U) The Ambassador hosted an Iftar dinner in Mombasa, Kenya's port town and a center of its Islamic culture, on September 26 (reftel),early in the Islamic holy month of Ramadhan. The dinner was attended by an overflow crowd of Kenyan Muslim dignitaries, including the Chief Khadi (judge and sc [...] | 2006-10-10 07:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL KISL KE |
06NAIROBI4366 | AMBASSADOR'S IFTAR REMARKS ON THE COAST [...] The Ambassador hosted an Iftar dinner in Mombasa, Kenya's port town and a center of its Islamic culture, on September 26 (reftel),early in the Islamic holy month of Ramadhan. The dinner was attended by an overflow crowd of Kenyan Muslim dignitaries, including the Chief Khadi (judge and schola [...] | 2006-10-11 07:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL KISL KE |
06NAIROBI5001 | KENYA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WOMEN'S JUSTICE AND [...] Summary: Post reiterates our firm commitment to implementing the WJEI program in Kenya and looks forward to implementing an effective initiative to bolster Kenya,s capacity to combat violence against women. Post Mission Planning Team (MPT),comprised of USAID, DOJ, RSO, Political, and the [...] | 2006-11-22 14:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SNAR SOCI PGOV PHUM KE SF BN ZA |
06NAIROBI5299 | USG HUMANITARIAN PLANNING FOR SOMALIA [...] Fears of conflict between the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the Islamic Courts are growing. USG and other humanitarian organizations are working together on contingency planning efforts. These include developing scenarios (based on the assumption that non-combatants will be [...] | 2006-12-19 13:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PREF PREL SO |
06NAIROBI738 | AMBASSADORS' FIRST HAND LOOK AT FAMINE CONDITIONS [...] Summary: U.S. Representative to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO),Ambassador Tony Hall, joined Ambassador Bellamy, the Swedish Ambassador, the Deputy U.K. High Commissioner, WFP, USAID and GOK officials including Assistant Secretary Ibrahim Maalim and District Commissioner Samuel [...] | 2006-02-17 07:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD ECON EAGR SENV PREL PGOV SOCI KE |
06NAIROBI744 | KENYA DROUGHT UPDATE ? FEBRUARY 2006 [...] The short rains (October-December) food security interagency assessment has been completed. The overall assessment process and methodology was coordinated and backstopped by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) comprising of representatives of GOK, NGO and UN agencies. USAID/Kenya E [...] | 2006-02-17 13:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KE EAGR EIND PGOV SOCI |
06NAIROBI96 | Disaster Re-Declaration, Kenya Drought [...] Summary: Drought conditions continue in Kenya. Ambassador declares a disaster for FY 2006 and requests new assistance from USAID's Offices of Foreign Disaster Assistance and Food for Peace. End Summary 2. Drought conditions persist in Kenya due to widespread failure of the short rains s [...] | 2006-01-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD ECON PREL PGOV SOCI KE |
06NDJAMENA672 | CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHE [...] The Director of President Deby's Civil Cabinet has sent the following written response to Ambassador Wall concerning reftel B demarche on ending support to Sudanese rebels. 2. Begin text: May 11 Excellence, Mr. Ambassador, I have the honor to bring to your attention that His Excel [...] | 2006-05-12 15:04:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS SOCI SU CD |
06NDJAMENA820 | AMBASSADOR'S FY 2006 DISASTER RE-DECLARATION OF A [...] Disaster Determination. The Republic of Chad continues to suffer from an ongoing disaster that warrants U.S. Government assistance to meet the emergency requirements of conflict-affected populations in the east of the country. This disaster exceeds the host country's ability to provide an ade [...] | 2006-06-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SOCI CD |
06NEWDELHI1095 | CARTOONS: GOI ISSUES STATEMENT OF CONCERN, INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: Indian Muslims joined in scattered protests against the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad following Friday prayers on February 10. Most denounced the offensive cartoons, while a few directed their anger into either anti-US demonstrations (encouraged by the Iranian E [...] | 2006-02-13 14:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KISL KDEM SCUL IN DA IR |
06NEWDELHI1174 | PRESIDENT KALAM LOOKS FARTHER EAST FOR NEW [...] (C) Summary: Giving new reach to India's "Look East" policy, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's January 31 to February 9 visit to Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea produced new education, defense and economic initiatives in a region whose importance to the GOI is growing steadily. Durin [...] | 2006-02-15 14:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN ENRG KNNP ETRD ECON SOCI SCUL MASS |
06NEWDELHI3471 | CONGRESS SHOOTS ITSELF BY REVIVING THE CASTE QUOTA [...] (C) Summary. The Congress party needlessly set off a political firestorm by proposing a bill to add a 27 percent quota for "other backward castes (OBCs)" in public higher education institutions. OBCs are castes that do not face traditional discrimination but have been determined to be "econo [...] | 2006-05-18 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI4928 | J&K CROSS-SECTION AGREES, EVERYTHING SLIPPING [...] (C) Summary: July 5-8 meetings in Srinagar and Jammu with a cross-section of journalists, police officials, NGO activists, businesspeople, and politicians from most major J&K parties demonstrated to Poloff and PolFSN that our J&K interlocutors are united as never before in their assessment th [...] | 2006-07-13 10:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL CASC PHUM PBTS SCUL SOCI PREF |
06NEWDELHI6886 | PRIME MINISTER COUP IN POLITICAL BATTLE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-05 08:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINR SOCI IN |
06NEWDELHI7304 | EMBASSY HOSTS ONE OF DELHI'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Mission India hosted its Iftar on October 18 in New Delhi. Now an annual event, this Mission Iftar is eagerly awaited by the Muslim community and has become one of the "must attend" Iftar parties during the fasting month of Ramzan. Influential Muslims attended from all over India. Man [...] | 2006-10-23 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL KISL SOCI KPAO IN |
06NEWDELHI8419 | HINDI BELT MUSLIMS EAGER TO COMBAT POLIO BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The persistence of polio in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been the subject of considerable media speculation and analysis, with much of the focus on the Muslim community. Poloff and POL FSN traveled to the area December 11-13 to gauge Muslim views on the subject. The near-u [...] | 2006-12-19 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI888 | CARTOON WARS: INDIAN MUSLIMS (BARELY) PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Indian Muslim reaction to the controversy over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper spilled out into the streets on February 6 in the form of a peaceful city-wide strike in Muslim-majority Srinagar, a student demonstration in New Delhi, and small [...] | 2006-02-07 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL ASEC OVIP KDEM SOCI IN IR DA |
06NIAMEY1023 | NIGER: CONSOLIDATING PEACE IN THE AIR AND AZAWAK [...] SUMMARY. MORE THAN 11 YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF PEACE ACCORDS, FORMER MEMBERS OF VARIOUS TUAREG RESISTANCE FRONTS HAVE BEGUN TO RECEIVE THE SUPPORT THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED. ON SEPTEMBER 8, IN A HALF-DAY CEREMONY IN AGADEZ, THE FIRST CHECKS WERE HANDED TO THE HEADS OF 25 COOPERATIVE GROUPS. [...] | 2006-09-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EAGR SOCI SENV NG |
06NIAMEY1074 | NIGER: REQUESTS FROM ALL CORNERS FOR MORE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-22 16:01:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI MARR EAID ASEC NG |
06NIAMEY1088 | JAILED JOURNALISTS FAIL ON APPEAL: 18 MONTHS [...] Mamane Abou and Oumarou Keita, jailed publisher and editor-in-chief of Niger's leading opposition weekly, "Le Republican," had appealed their September 1 convictions and eighteen month prison sentences to the Niamey Court of Appeals (reftel A). On September 25, that court ruled against them - [...] | 2006-09-27 16:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
06NIAMEY1101 | NIGER: REQUESTS FROM ALL CORNERS FOR MORE U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Dialogue with Government of Niger (GON) officials (President, Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers),magistrates/judges, high commissioners, military commanders/police, both First Ladies (Pres. Tandja has two wives),regional leaders, parliamentarians, journalists, educators, women [...] | 2006-09-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI MARR EAID ASEC KPAO NG |
06NIAMEY1133 | TSCTP FUNDED REINSERTION OF EX-COMBATANTS [...] (C) Reftel reported on the first phase of project implementation for the partly TSCTP funded Tuareg ex-combatant reinsertion program. Further information was forthcoming at the second and final ceremony, held in Tahoua on October 6. Poloff represented the mission at an event targeting ex-comba [...] | 2006-10-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID SOCI NG |
06NIAMEY1190 | NIGER: GOVERNMENT MOVES TO EXPEL NOMADIC ARABS [...] (C) Since the evening of Tuesday, October 25, BBC Africa service has been reporting on an attempt by Government of Niger (GON) authorities to expel an uncertain number of nomadic Arabs known as "Mahamid Arabs" from the Chadian border region in the country's extreme east (Diffa region, near Lak [...] | 2006-10-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PSEC PBTS PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI |
06NIAMEY1192 | GON "CLARIFIES" POSITION ON MAHAMID ARAB EXPULSION [...] (U) In an evening press conference on October 25, Government of Niger (GON) Spokesman and Minister for Institutional Relations Mohamed Ben-Omar attempted to "clarify" Interior Minister Mounkaila Modi's earlier remarks on the expulsion of the nomadic Mahamid Arabs from the eastern region of the [...] | 2006-10-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI NG |
06NIAMEY1193 | ISLAM IN NIGER: SLOW MOTION CULTURAL CHANGE [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables examining the changing nature of Islam in Niger and its implications for the world's least developed Muslim democracy. Emboffs' recent travel to Maradi - a key trading center on the Niger/Nigeria border in the heart of "Hausaland" - and our examinati [...] | 2006-10-26 13:54:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
06NIAMEY1203 | NIGER: GOVERNMENT RESCINDS ORDER TO EXPEL NOMADIC [...] The Government of Niger (GON) Council of Ministers, under the direction of GON President Mamadou Tandja, held a special session on Friday, October 27, to review an October 24 decision (reported reftel) that called for the expulsion of Mahamid Arabs from the Diffa region (eastern Niger borderin [...] | 2006-10-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI |
06NIAMEY574 | HEAVY ABSENTEEISM AS NIGERIEN ASSEMBLY REJECTS [...] (U) In an evening vote on the last day of its spring session, the Nigerien National Assembly, on June 3rd, rejected a bill for the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the African Human and People's Rights Charter relating to Women's Rights in Africa. The additional protocol was adopted [...] | 2006-06-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO SOCI KWMN NG |
06NIAMEY746 | THE SCOPE OF CORRUPTION AND EDUCATIONAL FAILURE [...] Less than two weeks after they were administered nation-wide, results of the "Brevet d'Etudes du Premier Cycle," (BEPC) and "Certificat de Fin d'Etudes du Premier Degre" (CFEPD) are starting to trickle in. The preliminary results have shocked Nigeriens. While, in a typical year, thirty-five t [...] | 2006-07-12 13:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO NG |
06NIAMEY788 | GON FIRES TEACHERS AS NIGERIEN SCHOOLS FAIL A [...] Following the country's worst ever academic exam results (reftel),the Government of Niger's (GON) Council of Ministers announced on July 14 the firing without pension of 19 tenured high school teachers and the termination of one contract teacher, in connection with alleged fraud in the admin [...] | 2006-07-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO NG |
06NIAMEY847 | OPPOSITION PUBLISHER, EDITOR JAILED FOR ALLEGING [...] (SBU) On August 4, Maman Abou and Oumarou Keita - respectively the Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of "Le Republican," Niger's oldest, best respected, and most widely circulated opposition weekly - were arrested and jailed by the Detective Branch of the Nigerien National Police. The two men [...] | 2006-08-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KMCA NG |
06NIAMEY865 | UPDATE ON JAILED JOURNALISTS: MAMAN ABOU AND [...] As noted reftel, Maman Abou and Oumarou Keita, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the opposition weekly "Le Republican," were tried by the Niamey Regional Court on August 14. Claiming that the men's detention in two separate prisons located far from the capitol was illegal, and that they wo [...] | 2006-08-16 17:37:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR NG |
06NIAMEY883 | GON REPORTS SLIGHTLY LOWER CONSUMER PRICES FOR JULY [...] While popular concern and civil society protest over the cost of various consumer items - ranging from public water and electricity to cell phone rates and gasoline - remained a salient political issue over the last month, the Government of Niger's (GON) Institut National de la Statistique (IN [...] | 2006-08-21 08:16:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI NG |
06NIAMEY920 | NIGER DRAFT POPULATION POLICY DECLARATION [...] SUMMARY. THE MINISTRY OF POPULATION AND SOCIAL ACTION RELEASED SUBJECT DECLARATION IN JULY 2006. EMBASSY BELIEVES IT OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF NIGER (GON) RELEASED SUCH A DECLARATION, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF THE STRONG OPPOSITION SHOWN IN THE PAST BY SOME CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC [...] | 2006-08-30 10:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR SOCI SENV NG |
06NIAMEY922 | EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST [...] (SBU) The Ambassador hosted a lunch on Wednesday August 23rd for key anti-slavery contacts: Ilguilas Weila of Timidria, Niger's preeminent anti-slavery NGO; Moustapha Kadi, a civil society activist and author of a recent and comprehensive book on Nigerien caste-based servitude; Aichatou Bety [...] | 2006-09-01 09:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN NG |
06NICOSIA409 | CYPRUS WILL CONSIDER ISSUING STATEMENT ABOUT AKBAR [...] (C) On March 17, poloff delivered reftel message to Charalambos Hadjisavvas in the MFA's Division of Middle Eastern and North African Affairs. Hadjisavvas said he would consider our request, but would have to consult first with his director. SCHLICHER [...] | 2006-03-20 07:00:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM SOCI CY |
06NICOSIA525 | CYPRUS WILL FOLLOW THE EU CROWD ON THE BAHAI IN [...] (U) On April 7, poloff delivered reftel message to Charalambos Hadjisavvas, who follows Middle Eastern issues in the MFA's office of bilateral affairs. Hadjisavvas agreed to investigate whether the EU planned to issue a statement and to pass the request for demarches to his director. He not [...] | 2006-04-07 14:03:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR CY |
06NICOSIA593 | READING TEA LEAVES: POLLS SHOW MIXED FEELINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent CyBC poll suggesting that only 45 percent of Greek Cypriots are willing to live together with Turkish Cypriots (down from 67 percent when the Green Line checkpoints opened in 2003) has raised serious questions in the minds of many local pundits over whether a solution to [...] | 2006-04-20 13:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI EUN CY |
06NICOSIA721 | Turkish Cypriot Areas Become Active Transit Point [...] Located along a heavily-used migration route and hobbled by weak border controls, the area administered by Turkish Cypriots - the unrecognized "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)" - is becoming an attractive transit point for undocumented economic migrants, especially from the Middle [...] | 2006-05-17 12:48:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KFRD PGOV PREL TU CY EUN SMIG CVIS |
06NICOSIA758 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON STEPS TO RESTRICT VISAS FOR [...] (C) On May 12, Poloff delivered reftel message to Stelios Makriyiannis, who handles Africa in the MFA's Political Affairs Division. Makriyiannis noted the U.S. decision to restrict visas to members of Sudan's Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),but made clear that the ROC did not intend to [...] | 2006-05-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PINS SOCI |
06NICOSIA768 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING FOLLOW-UP ON DARFUR [...] On May 17, Poloff delivered reftel message to Stelios Makriyiannis, who handles Africa in the MFA's Political Affairs Division. Makriyiannis agreed to pass the points forward and said that Cyprus would continue to support the EU's position on Darfur. In addition, the ROC agreed during the M [...] | 2006-05-23 12:52:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL SOCI SU |
06OSLO1189 | NORWAY HAS TERRORISTS? THE RISING TIDE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Anti-Semitism and Muslim extremism appear to be on the rise in Norway. On 22 September authorities charged four men for terrorism in the wake of an attack on the main synagogue in Oslo and related threats to the Israeli and American embassies. Two of the suspects are of Pakistani [...] | 2006-09-27 10:23:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KISL PREL PGOV SOCI IS PK NO |
06OSLO1486 | NORWAY: AMBASSADOR HOSTS INTEGRATION DINNER, WHICH [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 6 December, the Ambassador hosted a dinner which brought together leading government officials, parliamentarians, and immigrant community leaders to debate Norway's integration practices and to discuss the American experience and what role the embassy can play in the Norwegian [...] | 2006-12-08 14:18:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI NO |
06OSLO1501 | U.S. VIEW ON HIGH-LEVEL PANEL REPORT SHARED WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-15 12:29:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA PREL PHUM SOCI EAID NO |
06OSLO322 | NORWAY TO JOIN EU STATEMENT ON GANJI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 08:39:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM SOCI NO |
06OSLO325 | ACCELERATING UNSC ACTION ON REHATTING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 13:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU NO |
06OSLO652 | NORWEGIAN FOLLOW-UP ON DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-19 15:20:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL SOCI SU NO |
06OTTAWA153 | ECONOMIC POLICY IN CANADA'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] While the governing Liberal Party has highlighted its own strong economic record, and while both they and the leading Conservative Party have made various spending promises, economic policies have been less significant in this campaign than other issues such as crime and political corruption. [...] | 2006-01-18 21:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA NDP |
06PANAMA1578 | SAN MIGUELITO AND PANAMAQS GROWING GANG PROBLEM [...] (SBU) Gang activity in Panama is growing, but so too is the GOPQs awareness of the problem as well as GOP and civil society response to it. Gang activity is evident not only in the capital itself, but also in small communities such as San Miguelito, also part of the metropolitan area of Pana [...] | 2006-08-11 20:04:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI |
06PANAMA1628 | PUBLIC EDUCATION IN PANAMA [...] Panama's Minister of Education Miguel Angel Canizalez called July 27 for educational reforms at all levels--including elementary, middle, and high schools--in order to remain competitive. Canizales' remarks were in step with President Torrijos' proclaimed desire to advance educational reforms [...] | 2006-08-18 21:06:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI |
06PANAMA2392 | UPDATE FOR WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT [...] (U) Please find below updated information on child labor in Panama, divided by section. Post will report additional statistics septel as they become available. Incidence and Nature of Child Labor ----------------------------------- - The Comptroller General's Office reports that over 47, [...] | 2006-12-15 21:59:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PM |
06PARAMARIBO214 | STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY: DVC SPARKS DISCUSSION ON [...] (U) Embassy Paramaribo held a Digital Video Conference (DVC) titled "Preparing for Elections, It's Never too Early to Start" on April 7 to stimulate discussion between U.S. and Surinamese election experts on improving electoral systems in Suriname. Over the last decade, democracy has taken ho [...] | 2006-04-13 20:19:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON NS |
06PARAMARIBO219 | GROWING DIVIDE WITHIN PRESIDENT VENETIAAN'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Eight months into his second consecutive term, President Ronald Venetiaan is presiding over an increasingly fractured eight-party coalition. The all- Maroon (descendants of escaped slaves) A-Combination (AC) is in a coalition standoff with the President's New Front grouping over [...] | 2006-04-20 12:08:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON NS |
06PARAMARIBO343 | INCREASED VENEZUELAN ACTIVISM IN SURINAME HAS [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela's profile in Suriname is on the rise thanks to economic initiatives such as PetroCaribe, a joint Cuban-Venezuelan health care assistance program, and a steady public relations campaign by its Embassy over the past year. Despite this heightened engagement, Venezuela's act [...] | 2006-06-09 18:55:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KCRM MARR SOCI SCUL VE |
06PARAMARIBO425 | Venezuelan Independence Celebrations: a Blooper in [...] (U) The Venezuelan Embassy in Paramaribo marked the 195th anniversary of independence with a string of events. Celebrations kicked off with an art exhibit on June 30, followed by an evening of Venezuelan food and culture and the crowning of the Queen of the Venezuelan Cultural Institute, a wre [...] | 2006-07-07 18:15:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI VE NS |
06PARAMARIBO798 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION IN [...] (U) In response to ref. A Post provides the following updated information on Suriname's commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, previously submitted in Ref. B. A. (U) Since Post reported on the labor situation in Suriname in 2005, the country has ratified ILO Convention 182 [...] | 2006-12-21 17:26:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID |
06PARAMARIBO81 | SURINAME'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY REACTS PEACEFULLY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-08 19:50:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SCUL NS |
06PARIS1031 | SEGOLENE ROYAL DISCUSSES STRATEGY FOR 2007, TRIP [...] (C) Summary: In a February 8 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party (PS) presidential hopeful, current media darling and president of the Poitou-Charentes region Segolene Royal left no doubt as to her determination to win election as president of France in 2007. She matter-of-factly assessed [...] | 2006-02-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1113 | UDF LEADER FRANCOIS BAYROU REVIEWS HIS CENTRIST [...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on February 16, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader Francois Bayrou reaffirmed "that France needs a centrist alternative" (ref B). He admitted, however, that the French persist in thinking in terms of "right and left," making it unlikely [...] | 2006-02-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1251 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAYMOND BARRE SHARES [...] (C) In a February 21 meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, former prime minister Raymond Barre cautioned against any overconfidence that right-wing, nativist and xenophobic sentiment in France might be something of the past. If anything, in Barre's view, popular reaction to urban unrest and other [...] | 2006-02-28 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1681 | SARKOZY ADVISOR ON FIRST EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, END [...] (C) Summary: Former Industry Minister and close Sarkozy advisor Patrick Devedjian predicted March 15 that student and labor union opposition to the First Employment Contract (CPE) was spreading and might yet become a major test for the government. In any event, he believed that PM de Villepin [...] | 2006-03-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL FR SOCI PINR EUN |
06PARIS1720 | FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER RICHARD: INSIGHTS ON EU [...] (C) In a meeting March 9, Ambassador Stapleton and former defense minister Alain Richard exchanged views on the roles of NATO and the ESDP, on the steady continuity in France's defense policies under Richard's successor (current Defense Minister Michele Aliot-Marie),and on French domestic pol [...] | 2006-03-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON MARR |
06PARIS1721 | SUDAN: FRANCE TO CONSIDER WAYS OF ENCOURAGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF PDAS Elisabeth Barbier said on March 17 that France would consider whether and how best to encourage other countries to support a rapid conversion of AMIS into a UN operation for Sudan. She agreed with us that the AU decision to transition AMIS to a UN mission was not c [...] | 2006-03-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU FR |
06PARIS1967 | FRANCE BRACES FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROTESTS, AS [...] (SBU) The weeks of protest (ref A) against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) could well peak tomorrow, March 28. Leftist student associations, backed by the full organizational weight of France's major trade union federations and the center left Socialist Party (PS),h [...] | 2006-03-27 18:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS2006 | MARCH 28 PROTESTS SIZABLE -- ORGANIZERS VOW [...] (U) As of 1900 hours Paris time on March 28, preliminary police reports cite a turn-out for today's (ref A) nationwide demonstrations of over a million, double that recorded during previous protests against the Villepin government,s First Employment Contract (CPE). Earlier in the day, Prime [...] | 2006-03-28 19:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
06PARIS2048 | AFTERMATH OF MARCH 28 PROTESTS: PRESSURE TO DEFUSE [...] (SBU) Following March 28's sizable demonstrations against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (refs A and B),there is a growing sense among both the French public and political class that leadership on both sides of the issue should find a way to defuse the burgeoning [...] | 2006-03-29 19:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CASC EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS2086 | SUBURBAN UNREST AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: HOW [...] (C) Summary: Unlike the anarchic violence of November, the current demonstrations by students and organized labor against the First Employment Contract (CPE) have largely proceeded peacefully despite violent acts by bands of underclass suburban youths directed against police and demonstrator [...] | 2006-03-30 16:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON FR PINR CASC SOCI |
06PARIS2095 | CPE LAW DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL -- CHIRAC TO [...] (U) At 2000 local time March 30 France's Constitutional Council announced that it had decided that the Equal Opportunity Law -- including its controversial First Employment Contract (CPE) article -- did not/not violate the constitution (refs A and B). According to initial press reports, the [...] | 2006-03-30 19:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
06PARIS2127 | IMPROMPTU "SMS GRAPEVINE" DEMONSTRATIONS BY [...] (U) During the day of March 31, most university and high school students who have mobilized against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (ref A) took in the news of President's Chirac's likely promolugation of the controversial law (ref B). Some however, engaged in a rang [...] | 2006-03-31 17:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS217 | AVIAN FLU: WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL [...] Summary: In Advance of the January 17-18 International Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza, The Director General of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) is pleased with the level of cooperation among the various international organizations leading this effort (World bank [...] | 2006-01-12 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TBIO SOCI SENV TSPL KSCA EAGR OIE |
06PARIS2314 | FRENCH MUSLIM LEADER DESCRIBES BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR [...] (C) Summary: National Federation of French Muslims (FNMF) president Mohammed Bechari provided a frank assessment of the current state of French Muslim communities and institutions to Poloffs March 31. Bechari described disaffected, suburban Muslim youth in the throes of an identity crisis, an [...] | 2006-04-07 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER PINR SOCI MO FR |
06PARIS2315 | FRENCH FULLY AGREE ON NEED TO PROTEST IRANIAN [...] (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran/Iraq/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan confirmed the GoF's "full agreement" with reftel points on Iranian government mistreatment of religious minorities during an April 6 discussion with poloff. Sivan added that the GoF had recently sought insertion of langua [...] | 2006-04-07 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IR FR |
06PARIS2772 | EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MINISTER DESCRIBES CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Junior Minister for Promotion of Equal Opportunities Azouz Begag provided the Ambassador April 19 with a candid assessment of the current situation of minorities in France. Begag blamed discrimination for unemployment levels as high as 40 and 50 percent in many of the ghetto-like [...] | 2006-04-27 10:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI SCUL KISL PINR KPAO FR |
06PARIS3182 | MAY 11 MFA MEETINGS WITH JEM KHALIL IBRAHIM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim seemed determined to oppose the Abuja accords on Darfur despite GOF advice that he sign them, MFA AF DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal reported on May 12, following her meeting with him the previous day. Khalil Ibrahim did not seemed fazed by the possible [...] | 2006-05-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PINS SOCI SU FR |
06PARIS3315 | FRENCH FIRMLY SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF supports completely the U.S. position set forth in ref A, MFA Sudan deskoff Jeremie Robert said on May 17. France will encourage non-signatories to the Darfur Peace Agreement to sign it, and believes that Abdulwahid Al-Nur can be persuaded to sign the agreement, If no [...] | 2006-05-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI EAID SU FR |
06PARIS3362 | UNESCO: DAKAR OFFICE CHIEF OUTLINES DECENTRALIZATION [...] Summary and Comment: To explore issues relating to decentralization, Ambassador Oliver and Science Officer met with Lalla Aicha Ben Barka, Director of the UNESCO Office in Dakar and the regional office for Education in Africa (BREDA). Although the UNESCO secretariat often highlights its decen [...] | 2006-05-19 08:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KDEM KSCA SOCI XA SG UNESCO EDU |
06PARIS341 | UNESCO: AMBASSADOR USES JANUARY 16 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by N. Cooper Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, reasons 1.4.(D) 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Ambassador Louise V. Oliver's January 16 meeting with UNESCO DG MATSUURA focused on USG program priorities including literacy (and the Honorary Ambassador role of the First Lady) and [...] | 2006-01-19 09:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC SCUL SOCI UNESCO KSA |
06PARIS3450 | UNESCO REFORM: NEW STRATEGY UNVEILED ON VOLUNTARY [...] This is a Guidance Request, see para 4. 2. Summary and Comment: UNESCO Extrabudgetary Funding Director Moller briefed Geneva Group members on the Director general's plans for a more strategic approach to extra-budgetary resources; these now account for more than half of UNESCO's funding. T [...] | 2006-05-22 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KSCA SOCI UNESCO |
06PARIS3783 | (C) MUSLIM LEADERS IN LYON STRESS UNITY AT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the regional Muslim Council (CRCM) in Rhone-Alpes stressed a message of unity and moderation during a joint meeting with poloff in Lyon May 31. The CRCM leaders, who represent three rival factions within the national French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),stresse [...] | 2006-06-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PINR SOCI MO AG TU FR |
06PARIS3901 | SARKOZY ALLY ON CHIRAC'S ISOLATION AND SARKOZY'S [...] (C) Over lunch on June 1 with Ambassador Stapleton, center-right candidate for mayor of Paris and Sarkozy ally Francoise de Panafieu gave a somber portrait of President Chirac's growing isolation. She conveyed Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) legislators' growing apprehension that the publ [...] | 2006-06-09 10:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS393 | UNESCO: SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES SECTOR [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 11, Dr. Marc Renaud, former president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, outlined for selected delegations his recommendations regarding the future role of UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Sector: to act as an "observatory"; [...] | 2006-01-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KSCA SOCI UNESCO |
06PARIS4159 | UK DELEGATION SEEKS EU CONSENSUS ON UNESCO'S ROLE IN [...] At a June 16 informal meeting of UNESCO delegates, the UK deputy informed Mission Officer that the UK is, in advance of Group I consultations in Athens on the medium-term strategy, seeking to achieve EU consensus on a non-paper on UNESCO's role. The aim of the UK paper is to encourage UNESCO t [...] | 2006-06-16 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID SOCI UK UNESCO |
06PARIS4206 | UNESCO: OVERVIEW OF UNESCO'S WORK ON DESERTIFICATION AND [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. At a June 13 information session, UNESCO secretariat experts discussed the continuing progress the organization has made with regard to desertification and arid zones. After outlining UNESCO's history of action in this area, panelists presented some of UNESCO's curre [...] | 2006-06-19 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KS AORC TSPL EAID SENV SOCI UNESCO KSCI |
06PARIS4247 | SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER ON HOW PS-LED FRANCE WOULD [...] (C) Socialist Party (PS) First Secretary Francois Hollande and PS National Secretary for International Affairs Pierre Moscovici briefed the Ambassador June 8 on the turbulent race for the presidential nomination within the PS and the hurdles facing the party as it looks to next year's presiden [...] | 2006-06-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS4406 | FRANCE WILL LIKELY SEND A/S-EQUIVALENT TO RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-26 15:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS PGOV PHUM SOCI FR |
06PARIS4411 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN: CHIRAC SHOULD REIN [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin confided to Ambassador Stapleton during a June 15 lunch that he was worried by President Chirac's waning authority. Raffarin said he had advised the president on the importance of restoring the respective roles of the presidency, prime minister an [...] | 2006-06-26 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS4643 | UNESCO: U.S. COMMITMENT TO IMPROVED WATER RESOURCES HIGHLIGHTE [...] THE OPENING DAYS OF THE 17TH MEETING OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONAL HYDROLOGICAL PROGRAM (IHP IGC, JULY 3-7) HAVE ALREADY YIELDED SEVERAL IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF U.S. RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH UNESCO'S ACTIVITIES IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. 2. ON JULY 4, THE COUNCIL - IN WHICH TH [...] | 2006-07-06 16:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KS AORC TSPL EAID SENV SOCI UNESCO KSCI |
06PARIS4673 | UNESCO REFORM: GENEVA GROUP TO TACKLE UN "COHERENCE" [...] This is a Guidance Request, see para 3. 2. At its July 12 meeting, the UNESCO Geneva Group of donor member states will focus on the ongoing exercise to enhance UN system-wide coherence in the areas of humanitarian assistance, the environment and development. The meeting will start with a [...] | 2006-07-07 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KSCA SOCI UNESCO |
06PARIS5183 | UNESCO: SESAME CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON CONTINUED MID EAST [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. The Council of the Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) convened for its eighth meeting at UNESCO Headquarters on July 10-11, 2006. The centerpiece of the program is a synchrotron light source, to be installed in Jor [...] | 2006-08-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO TPHY TSPA KISL SOCI XF JO |
06PARIS5341 | USG Delegation Report on 17th Meeting of the UNESCO [...] A US delegation participated in the 17th meeting of the UNESCO International Hydrology Program (IHP) Intergovernmental Council (IGC) at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, July 3-7, 2006. The delegation consisted of: Mathew C. Larsen, U.S. Geological Survey (head of delegation),Verne R. Sch [...] | 2006-08-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO KS AORC TSPL EAID KSCI SENV SOCI |
06PARIS536 | UNESCO: ADG CULTURE [...] (U) Classified by Andrew Koss, Deputy Chief of Mission, reason 1.4. (D) 2. (U) This is a request for guidance, see para 7. 3. (C) I am very concerned that all indications are that Francoise Riviere, a French national who currently heads the Director General's cabinet, has the inside [...] | 2006-01-26 18:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL SOCI UNESCO |
06PARIS5974 | FRENCH ELECTION 2007: NICOLAS SARKOZY -- THE [...] (C) Eight months before France's 2007 Presidential election, Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy remains the best positioned of the many contenders for France's presidency. He is a markedly different presidential heavyweight, pro-American and committed to free-market principles. Notwithstanding [...] | 2006-09-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS5975 | INTERIOR MINISTER SARKOZY ON EVE OF HIS TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told Ambassador September 5 he was "proud and honored" to be meeting with President Bush on September 12. President Chirac had pressured him "not to go to the U.S.," Sarkozy said, but this would not stop him from "affirming my loyal friendship" for the [...] | 2006-09-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS6781 | ELECTION 2007 TIMELINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first round of France's next presidential election will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2007. Between now and then, the nomination of their candidates by the two major parties, the composition of the (long) list of participants in the first round of the election, and the [...] | 2006-10-13 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS706 | SCENESETTER FOR PARIS VISIT HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome you to Paris to meet with Health Minister Bertrand and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of Institut Pasteur, Professor Alice Dautry. The Embassy works closely with the Ministry of Health on a range of matters, including avian flu, AIDS and the Global [...] | 2006-02-02 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL ECON SOCI FR |
06PARIS7084 | THE FUSE AND THE POWDER KEG: FRANCE ONE YEAR AFTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One year after violent unrest lit up France's underclass suburbs for three weeks, the country's poor suburban neighborhoods remain troubled. Religious identity in these largely Muslim areas was not a significant causal factor then, nor has it become one now. Instead, failure [...] | 2006-10-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI ELAB FR PGOV |
06PARIS7424 | SEGOLENE ROYAL'S VICTORY MOVES HER CLOSER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Segolene Royal's overwhelming first-round victory in the November 16 Socialist Party (PS) presidential primary makes it official -- she will be the candidate of the center-left in next year's presidential election, likely in a tight race against the center-right's Nicolas Sarkozy. [...] | 2006-11-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS7795 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH JACQUES [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried met with recognized intellectual and long-time Segolene Royal confidant Jacques Attali on December 6. Attali underlined that Royal, even though she is a leading contender for France's presidency in next spring's elections, has had very little experience making and [...] | 2006-12-14 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EUN PINR SOCI ECON PREL FR |
06PARIS7887 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FRANCE DECLINES REQUEST TO [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered answers to follow-up questions from reftel A. on Cuban and Haitian protected migrants (see also reftels B. and C.) on December 8 to Pierre Brethes, MFA officer in the Office of Asylum and Immigration. Brethes responded that illegal immigration to France from its oversea [...] | 2006-12-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | FR PREF CU HA SOCI |
06PARIS953 | EUR PDAS VOLKER'S FEB 3 MEETING WITH SARKOZY [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kurt Volker reviewed on February 3 with Patrick Devedjian, a former industry minister and key advisor to Interior Minister Sarkozy, how a possible Sarkozy administration would likely approach relations with the U.S. Devedjian said a Sarkozy [...] | 2006-02-14 17:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS993 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL PARRIES WITH EXECUTIVE [...] Summary: On January 19, 2006 the UNESCO Executive Board met for an information meeting with UNESCO Director-General (DG) Matsuura. Members of the Executive Board were invited to submit questions in advance of the meeting. Rather than answer questions directly, the DG read prepared remarks t [...] | 2006-02-16 11:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL AORC SOCI UNESCO |
06PESHAWAR346 | PML-Q FACTIONS CLASH [...] (SBU) A June 29 clash between two factions of the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) Pakistan Muslim League - Q (PML-Q) exposed deep fissures in the party's provincial leadership. A forward bloc supported by Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Relations Salim Saifullah Khan scheduled a pr [...] | 2006-07-06 06:02:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI PK |
06PHNOMPENH1755 | CAMBODIA: WORST DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK SINCE 1998 [...] Summary. Cambodia is in the midst of its worst dengue outbreak since 1998, with 10,000 Cambodian children already infected this year. Phnom Penh's SOS Clinic, a popular choice among the expatriate community, reports 47 dengue cases so far this year, in contrast to 45 during all of 2005. Th [...] | 2006-09-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI AMED CB |
06PORTAUPRINCE2243 | GOH OPEN TO RENEWED CRIMINAL TRANSFERS? [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador, accompanied by Santo Domingo-resident LEGATT and ALEGATT and Consul General, met with Justice Minister Rene Magloire and State Secretary Eucher-Luc Joseph on November 7 to discuss resumption of the transfer of Haitian criminal suspects to the United States for pros [...] | 2006-11-21 19:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI SNAR CASC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2337 | WYCLEF IN CONCERT: PROMOTING HAITI'S FUTURE [...] Wyclef Jean, Haiti's most prominent celebrity and public figure, held a free concert for more than 20,000 people December 1 in Jacmel, a southern coastal city about 3 hours from Port-au-Prince. The crowd, hemmed in between the beach on one side and a concrete wall on the other, extended for m [...] | 2006-12-07 16:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KHIV HA |
06PORTLOUIS759 | MAURITIUS: UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Post has compiled the following information on child labor in Mauritius in response to questions posed in reftel. //CHILD LABOR LAWS AND REGULATIONS// 2. On November 21, 2006, the Government of Mauritius (GOM) amended the Labor Act to raise the minimum employment age from 15 to 16 years i [...] | 2006-12-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI MP |
06PORTOFSPAIN1385 | SUDAN: URGING HOST GOVERNMENT'S ABSENCE FROM [...] On December 5, Polchief learned that MFA European Affairs Division Director Sandra Trotman was already in Khartoum for the December 7-8 ACP Summit meeting. Accordingly, we faxed selected Reftel talking points to the MFA for onward transmission to Miss Trotman. 2. Please note that all of M [...] | 2006-12-05 17:54:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI SU TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN666 | HURRICANE SEASON PLANNING - TRINIDAD & TOBAGO [...] Embassy Port of Spain primary and alternate Mission Disaster Relief Officers are as follows: Mission Disaster Relief Officer (MDRO) --------------------------------------- A. David Miller Economic Chief Tour Ends: July 2006 Tel: (868) 622-6371, Ext. 2112-work Tel: (868) 632-8592-home [...] | 2006-06-01 20:05:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI SENV TD |
06PRAGUE1414 | CZECH REPUBLIC: SKILL GAPS IN LABOR MARKET [...] Summary: The Czech Republic has been the darling of foreign investors in Central Europe, and as a result FDI is the number one engine of GDP growth. Foreign investors have taken advantage of the low-cost, highly skilled workforce and duty-free access to the EU to build mostly assembly plants, [...] | 2006-11-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EINV ECIN SOCI SCUL EZ |
06PRETORIA1052 | SOUTH AFRICAN HIV/AIDS SPENDING IN 2006 BUDGET [...] Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel presented South Africa's 2006 Budget, highlighting the South African government's planned expenditures and revenues over the following three years. Expenditures on social development constitute over half of total expenditures. Spending on health and [...] | 2006-03-14 11:48:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA1195 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 24 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-03-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA1415 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 7 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-04-07 12:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA142 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 13 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-01-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA1657 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 21 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-04-21 13:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA1821 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 4 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-05-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2065 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 19 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-05-19 07:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2249 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH June 2 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-06-01 14:44:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA320 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 27 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-01-27 12:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA603 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 10 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-02-10 13:26:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA790 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 24 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-02-24 11:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRETORIA990 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 10 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-03-10 07:59:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
06PRISTINA1071 | KOSOVO: COM DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: COM used the inauguration of a USAID-funded school renovation project in Serb-majority north Mitrovica to underscore the U.S. commitment to the continued presence of a vibrant Serb community in Kosovo, with full legal rights and special protections for its cultural and religio [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV SOCI PREL UNMIK YI PHUM |
06PRISTINA1072 | KOSOVO: GORANI EDUCATION DISAGREEMENT ILLUSTRATES [...] (SBU) A long-simmering disagreement between Gorani leaders, Kosovar education officials, and Belgrade's Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK) highlights the complex situation of the Gorani, a Muslim minority who live in the southern part of Dragas municipality and speak a dialect o [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA1091 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...] | 2006-12-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI |
06PRISTINA352 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...] | 2006-04-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA495 | RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN HARD-LINE AND MODERATE SERBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ever since moderate Bishop Teodosije welcomed Kosovo President Sejdiu to Decani Monastery on Orthodox Easter, the rift between Teodosije and hard-line Bishop Artemije has widened. After the visit, Artemije blasted Teodosije in the media, and the hardline Serbian National Coun [...] | 2006-06-09 17:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI |
06QUITO2497 | OF PIPELINES AND LIFELINES: PETROECUADOR AND THE [...] (U) Summary: On August 19 a story broke in the Ecuadorian media about a pipeline leak and oil spill near the environmentally sensitive Cuyabeno Animal Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon region. In extensive coverage, the media has speculated on the causes and environmental effects of the spill. The [...] | 2006-10-11 21:29:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EPET ECON EAGR EAID PGOV SOCI EC |
06QUITO259 | UNREALISTIC HUAORANI CONFRONT LOGGING AND [...] Summary: With an agenda focusing on illegal logging, their relationship with the petroleum industry, and institutional corruption, the Huaorani indigenous group held a general assembly in the jungle community of Nemonpari. While laudable in its effort to tackle these pressing issues, the new [...] | 2006-02-01 13:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID SOCI EPET ECON PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO639 | INDIGENOUS PROTEST FTA, OXY; GOVERNMENT MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Government Minister Alfredo Castillo resigned on May 15 after indigenous blocked key highways throughout eight central provinces beginning on March 14 to threaten an indefinite "progressive national mobilization" demanding an end to FTA negotiations, the expulsion of Occidenta [...] | 2006-03-15 23:17:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM EC |
06RABAT1111 | MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Moroccan economic think tank Centre Marocain de Conjoncture (CMC) is forecasting that the economy will grow by 7.1 percent in 2006, outpacing GOM forecasts of 5.4 percent. The CMC said strong farming output will be the driver behind the growth. The GOM had predicted 5.4 percent growth on th [...] | 2006-06-09 07:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR KNNP SOCI MO |
06RABAT1196 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION BRIEFS PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 16, Prime Minister Driss Jettou met with Ambassador Riley and the visiting team from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to discuss the results of the MCC team's recent meetings with the Government of Morocco's (GOM) Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) team. The [...] | 2006-06-19 18:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO |
06RABAT1266 | MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Moroccan trade with its Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) partners - Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia - reached $686 million in 2005, nearly double the previous year but still only a fraction of Morocco's total trade. Moroccan imports from the AMU totaled $550 million, up from $330 million in 2 [...] | 2006-06-29 17:10:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAIR EINV SOCI MO |
06RABAT2 | ASYLUM SEEKERS OVERWHELM UNHCR IN RABAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 30, Poloffs from Rabat and Casablanca met with UNHCR Head of Mission, Johannes van der Klaauw, at UNHCR headquarters in Rabat to discuss the status of refugee seekers in Morocco and UNHCR,s future plans. Van der Klaauw highlighted the challenges with the dramatic [...] | 2006-01-03 08:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB MO PHUM PREF PREL SMIG SOCI |
06RABAT225 | NEW CEO OF MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION VISITS [...] (U) Summary. New Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO, Ambassador John Danilovich, visited Morocco January 24- 27 to review and discuss the country's progress in preparing its compact proposal to use MCC funds. Danilovich and his staff met with Prime Minister Driss Jettou, the GOM's M [...] | 2006-02-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO |
06RABAT638 | MCA: MOROCCO HOLDS NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 28-29, the GOM hosted a national consultative workshop with NGOs, local associations, academics, private sector representatives and members of the international donor community as part of its consultation process for developing a compact proposal to access funds from [...] | 2006-04-07 18:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA EAID ECON SOCI MO |
06RABAT661 | THE BARCELONA PROCESS IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Currently, the European Union (EU) has over $1.5 billion in ongoing projects in Morocco under the Barcelona Process (BP). These projects cover issues related to economics, social services, environmental protection and human rights. The European Commission (EC) in Rabat repor [...] | 2006-04-13 16:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV SOCI MO |
06RANGOON1195 | THREE DISEASES FUND DONORS MOVE AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The new Three Diseases (3D) Fund in Burma should become operational by December 2006. The UN is recruiting Fund staff and the UK just announced a $38 million funding commitment to the 3D Fund, while the Netherlands committed one million euros. The six donor nations -- UK, EC, [...] | 2006-08-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID SOCI KHIV BM |
06RANGOON124 | TECHNOCRATS WILLING TO ENGAGE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (C) Summary: The first visit of USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor based in Bangkok, prompted a rare level of access and engagement by GOB counterparts. Eager for information as well as support, experts at the Ministries of Health and, especially, Livestock and Fisheries discussed [...] | 2006-01-31 01:12:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1542 | THE DRY ZONE SPILLS OVER: FLOODS, AIDS AND TIP [...] (C) Summary: Recent heavy rains created havoc across Burma's central Dry Zone. Dams burst, Mandalay airport's main access road flooded, and many other roads washed away, leaving dozens of villagers drowned and transportation crippled. Excessive rains severely damaged peanut crops, a primary [...] | 2006-10-18 06:22:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL GTIP SOCI BM |
06RANGOON157 | AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GLOBAL FUND IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Six Western donor countries seek to establish a new fund addressing Burma's "Three Diseases" of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. A "formulation team" of consultants will visit Burma for three weeks in February to establish the parameters for the program, which the UN Office for Project [...] | 2006-02-07 02:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM |
06RANGOON1762 | THE GOB'S LONG-WINDED DEFENSE AGAINST UNSC ACTION [...] (U) Summary: the GOB called a last-minute press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on November 29 to try to refute UNSC discussion of the regional threat Burma poses through the spread of refugees, diseases and narcotics to neighboring states. Two Cabinet Ministers, joined by a Deputy Minister and the [...] | 2006-12-01 11:21:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI SNAR BM |
06RANGOON1777 | BURMA: OPPOSITION WINS HEARTS ON WORLD AIDS DAY [...] SUMMARY: The National League for Democracy (NLD) and members of the 88 Generation Students (88GS) used World AIDS Day to show compassion and care for HIV/AIDS victims and their families and to help raise greater awareness among the public. The NLD honored over 100 HIV/AIDS health workers and [...] | 2006-12-07 10:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM |
06RANGOON259 | BURMA: CONVERGING ON AI ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor, on a second visit to Rangoon, encouraged WHO and FAO to identify needs and strengthen their capacity to investigate and respond to AI outbreaks in Burma. The GOB updated its national response plan, but some responsible ministries st [...] | 2006-02-26 23:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON3 | BURMESE REGIME CORRUPTS YOUTH AND COERCES SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met on Dec. 22 with NLD women leaders (including four Members-elect of Parliament) representing Rangoon, Mandalay, and Mogok cities; Bago Division; Karen State; Shan State; and Mon State. The NLD matriarchs, some who had snuck out of their homes, covertly boarded trains fo [...] | 2006-01-03 10:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID ECON BM |
06RANGOON345 | SUSPECTED AI OUTBREAK AMONG BIRDS IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 12, GOB officials informed FAO and WHO officials of a suspected outbreak on March 8 of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial poultry farm in Mandalay Division. Specimens collected by a joint-ministerial investigation team from Rangoon tested positive f [...] | 2006-03-14 23:31:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO CASC KFLU BM |
06RANGOON451 | NLD AND ETHNICS: DIFFERING VIEWS ON FEDERALISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the recent PD-sponsored visit of a U.S. federalism expert, senior National League for Democracy (NLD) party leaders asserted that they do not consider ethnic minority states capable of properly forming and running their own subnational administrations in a post-transition [...] | 2006-04-03 09:31:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID BM NLD |
06RANGOON452 | KACHIN YOUTH EVOLVE INTO A POLITICAL ENTITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Burma's northernmost state, diverse political, religious, military, and ceasefire groups struggle to address the needs of the Kachin people, who face extensive discrimination from Burma's ruling military regime (ref A). One group of activists who seem to be breaking out and fo [...] | 2006-04-03 09:44:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID BM |
06RANGOON668 | SOCIAL PROJECTS BENEFIT PIPELINE VILLAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The controversial pipeline running from the Yadana gas field in the Andaman Sea to Thailand is expected to produce over $800 million in revenue this year for its joint venture partners TOTAL, UNOCAL, PTTEP (the Thai government petroleum company),and the Myanmar Oil and Gas Ente [...] | 2006-05-19 09:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SOCI PGOV BM |
06RANGOON704 | UNFPA IN BURMA: MAINTAINING STATUS QUO [...] (SBU) UNFPA's efforts to build capacity among reproductive health care providers, provide contraceptives, raise awareness and conduct research have provided valuable, effective assistance at the local level. GOB involvement has been mainly supportive. The key issues to address at the upcomin [...] | 2006-05-30 07:09:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SOCI BM |
06RANGOON707 | GOING IT ALONE IN SOUTHERN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese government, having gained an upper hand over insurgents and perceiving no local political threats, generally neglects the southern Burmese seaport of Dawei. The coastal border region, however, blessed with a robust fishing industry and productive agricultural sector, [...] | 2006-05-30 09:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON EAID SOCI BM TH |
06RANGOON82 | BURMA'S PRO-AMERICAN KACHIN STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge traveled to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northernmost Burma, Jan 8-10 and met with interlocutors from a variety of different organizations representive of the Kachin people, one of Burma's seven main ethnic minority groups. She heard the same themes repeat [...] | 2006-01-20 00:03:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SNAR PREL BM |
06REYKJAVIK89 | ICELANDIC STATEMENT ON AKBAR GANGI: ONLY IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-16 17:15:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IR IC |
06RIGA657 | RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES VISITS LATVIA [...] SUMMARY. At the invitation of Ambassador Bailey, a three-person team from Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) visited Latvia July 24-28. The team visited a number of hospitals and orphanages to assess the quality of care and look for possible areas of cooperation. They also met with repr [...] | 2006-08-18 05:42:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI OPRC LG |
06RIGA859 | LATVIA'S ELECTIONS: MODERATE HARMONY CENTER BEATS HARDLINE [...] Summary. One of the major upsets in Latvia's October 7 parliamentary elections was the poor showing of hard-line For Human Rights in a United Latvia (PCTVL) list versus its main rivals in the race for the votes of the Russian-speaking electorate, the moderate Harmony Center (SC) ticket. Even t [...] | 2006-10-20 05:48:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI LG |
06RIGA924 | LATVIA: JEWISH PROPERTY RESTITUTION MOVING FORWARD [...] Our lobbying efforts of recent weeks appear to have helped unblock stalled progress on Jewish property restitution (reftel). On November 6, the Latvian cabinet approved the draft legislation for Jewish Property Restitution for heirless properties. The legislation will now be moved to the Saei [...] | 2006-11-07 12:49:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI LG |
06RIGA959 | LATVIA: PARLIAMENT PUNTS ON NEXT PHASE OF JEWISH [...] Summary: The Saeima (Latvian parliament) on November 23 rejected a draft bill that would have provided financial assistance to the local Jewish community to compensate the losses suffered during the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Latvia. The government's bill failed because abstention [...] | 2006-11-24 15:02:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI LG |
06RIYADH1982 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 5 [...] (SBU) During a recent lunch with PolOff, an appointed member of the Al-Ahsa municipal council who is also an American-educated professor of plant physiology fielded two phone calls from students. The first was from a female graduate student who needed help on some laboratory research she was [...] | 2006-03-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PREL SA |
06RIYADH2893 | GULF WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: CIVIL SOCIETY, SAUDI [...] (SBU) Summary: Jameyat Fatat al Khaleej is one of the oldest women's charitable societies in Saudi Arabia, and provides an example of a civil society organization welcomed by the government. Founded and run by women from the Eastern Province's most prominent business families, and with close [...] | 2006-04-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH3301 | CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EP: THE ICE IS SLOWLY [...] (C) Government influence and oversight pervade the Eastern Province's (EP's) older civil society organizations. The SAG provides part of their funding, appoints or approves board members, and regulates their by-laws. Yet the ice is slowly breaking. The government is beginning to relinquish [...] | 2006-05-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KMPI KDEM SA |
06RIYADH3315 | HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE: LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: Higher education in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia offers limited opportunities for students, particularly women and Shi'a. What is available is of questionable quality, suffering from centralized and religious control, poor student preparation, and difficulty in recruitin [...] | 2006-05-02 15:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF KWMN SA |
06RIYADH3346 | BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY, ONE DISCUSSION AT A TIME [...] (C) Summary: In the past year, Consulate officers have observed increasing numbers of small civil society groups forming in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Also notable is that many of the groups have started to cooperate and interact with each other in pursuit of larger goals. As an [...] | 2006-05-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH3974 | BETWEEN OIL WELLS AND THE SEA: A POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (SBU) "Over there you can see one of Aramco's wells," Nabih Al-Ibrahim, a Saudi Aramco engineer and an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, told PolOff and PAO, gesturing to his left as the group drove down the main access road into his home town of Awamiya off the Dhahran-Jubail high [...] | 2006-05-22 10:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR SA |
06RIYADH5314 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 7 [...] (SBU) Dr. Abdullah Al-Kadi, director of Al Bir, the largest charitable organization in the Eastern Province (EP),estimated to the CG that there were 3.7 million residents in the EP, of whom 20 percent (740,000) were expatriates. Al-Kadi, a U.S.-trained architect and urban planner, has constr [...] | 2006-07-05 05:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET SOCI PINR PGOV SA |
06RIYADH5451 | HASAWI SHI'A CONTINUE ADVOCACY EFFORTS IN RIYADH [...] (C) In separate meetings with PolOff and PAO on July 8, Hasawi Shi'a activists Sadeq Al-Ramadan and Mohammed Al-Jubran discussed Shi'a advocacy efforts with the SAG. Al-Ramadan mentioned that he was part of a small delegation that visited the Vice Minister of Information and several other min [...] | 2006-07-10 08:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA |
06RIYADH5904 | TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN THE EP: [...] (C) Opportunities abound in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province (EP) for ConGen Dhahran to expand its work with EP residents to help them transform Saudi Arabia's future. Since September 11, EP residents have claimed, and the SAG has tolerated, much greater latitude to discuss the country's and p [...] | 2006-07-25 08:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM SA |
06ROME1006 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: On March 28, USMISSION UN ROME met with FAO Animal Production and Health (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation (TCE) Divisions staff to discuss Azerbaijan; global Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) expert needs; personal protective equipment (PPE) needs in the West [...] | 2006-04-04 07:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO |
06ROME1090 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] USMISSION UN ROME staff covered the USDA/Washington April 3-6 meetings with FAO on providing U.S. experts for FAO's global efforts to combat Avian Influenza. A separate reporting cable will be issued. During some free periods this week, USMISSION UN ROME held brief discussions with FAO Anim [...] | 2006-04-11 07:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME1149 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: U.S. ASSISTANCE TO THE FAO/OIE [...] Summary: A USDA administrative team from FAS and APHIS visited FAO HQ in Rome April 3-6 to survey FAO resource needs and determine how best to provide personnel resources to assist with HPAI emergency response efforts. FAO is moving forward with plans to establish a Crisis Management Center [...] | 2006-04-14 09:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME1603 | ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON DARFUR ACCORD, NOT EXPECTING [...] (C) Poloff met with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, May 11 to deliver Reftel A points encouraging Italy to restrict the issuance of visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM); and May 24 to deliver Reftel B points outlining issues for follow-up to the [...] | 2006-05-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SOCI PINS SU IT |
06ROME163 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...] | 2006-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME1739 | ITALIAN GRADS DISCUSS JOB SEEKING WOES [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Spogli hosted a "garden chat" for recent alumni of Rome's Catholic University LUMSA (Free University of the Assumption of Mary Most Holy) May 31, 2006. The dozen young adults occupied a variety of private and public sector positions. One was unemployed and still seekin [...] | 2006-06-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI EIND EINV SCUL IT |
06ROME428 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment arrives [...] | 2006-02-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME430 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment team ar [...] | 2006-02-13 12:18:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME435 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ITALY, IRAQ, [...] Based on communications today between USMISSION UN Rome staff and Dr. Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, FAO will conduct a press conference on February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The message that will be relayed will include the following: 2. On the Government of Italy's efforts: -- FAO [...] | 2006-02-13 15:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME464 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE PROVIDES [...] On February 14, FAO held a press conference to provide a global update on Avian Influenza. Areas highlighted were Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Europe in general (with a primary focus on Italy),and future preparations for Latin America/Caribbean. Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Product [...] | 2006-02-15 16:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME626 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO DISCUSSIONS ON INCIDENT [...] Summary: In discussions over the past week, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth and Senior Operations Officer Cristina Amaral updated us on FAO activities to combat Avian Influenza (AI). FAO senior management is acting to remove management constraints by: a) instituting a special wai [...] | 2006-03-01 16:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO BG BM CB EG ID KE LA ML NI VM FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME678 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: In an effort to keep all USG agencies in Washington and in the field informed on FAO activities to combat and control Avian Influenza (AI),USMISSION UN ROME has instituted this new weekly reporting cable. FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) and Animal Produc [...] | 2006-03-03 16:58:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME766 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: During three days of high-level and technical level discussions with FAO on March 7-9, a consensus was reached that a more robust global response was needed, with FAO, in coordination with OIE, as the global coordinator. FAO hosted the series of meetings relating to improving emerge [...] | 2006-03-10 17:11:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME860 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, USMISSION UN ROME staff met with various members of FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) for an update on Avian Influenza (AI) operations worldwide as well specific country programs. Much of t [...] | 2006-03-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME87 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ANIMAL SITUATION IN [...] Summary. Responding to alarming media reports on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Turkey, on January 9, USMISSION UN Rome asked Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer (SVO),to share with us FAO's assessment of the situation in Turkey and ongoing work to control [...] | 2006-01-10 16:04:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME915 | DEMARCHE CONCERNING PENDING ADOPTION CASES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A, Conoff contacted the GOI Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 22 to raise the issue of pending Romanian adoption cases. According to Minister Giuseppe Panocchia, the GOI agrees with the U.S. that the rigid position of the Romanian government on the outstandi [...] | 2006-03-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KOCI CASC CVIS PREL SOCI RO IT EUN UN |
06ROME925 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: Three FAO documents were shared with USMISSIN UN ROME this week: -- Following meetings earlier this month with several donors, FAO and OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) released on March 17 the jointly prepared proposal to strengthen response to Highly Pathogenic Avia [...] | 2006-03-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06RPODUBAI13 | AHMADINEJAD USES UNIVERSITIES FOR POLITICAL ENDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 14:42:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | SECRET | IR PGOV SOCI |
06SANAA1125 | YEMEN CANDIDATES FOR JUNE PEIA TRAINING COURSE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-23 11:18:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PINS PREL SENV SOCI XF |
06SANAA223 | SANAA'S HIP NEW CAFE BULLDOZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30, bulldozers ripped through the patio of Zorba's Cafe, an establishment that had rapidly become a popular hang-out for both locals and foreigners. Zorba's expatriate owners had high hopes that opening the first sidewalk cafe in Sanaa would allow them to recoup thei [...] | 2006-02-01 12:53:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV SOCI YM COM |
06SANJOSE2800 | BELIZE: TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION ACT OVERSIGHT BOARD [...] SUMMARY. REO attended the November 2, 2006 meeting of the Belize Tropical Forest Conservation Act Oversight Committee in remote Punta Gorda. The meeting provided an opportunity to review 2006 NGO reports, which focused on community outreach and enforcement activities, and approve 2007 workpl [...] | 2006-12-21 16:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON PGOV EAGR SOCI BH |
06SANJOSE444 | "MORAL POWER:" ARIAS AND NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) National security in an Oscar Arias administration will be pursued at three levels: (1) Internationally, Arias will use his prestige as a Nobel laureate to be an advocate for multilateralism, international law, and disarmament. (2) At home the principal external security issues will be [...] | 2006-02-24 21:13:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL MASS SNAR SMIG SOCI PBTS NI CS |
06SANJOSE656 | "COSTA RICA, INC.": ANTI-CAFTA-DR FILM MIXES [...] Summary: A slick new film appearing periodically on Costa Rican public television uses a mixture of emotionally laden images, misquotes, and insinuations (probably falling just short of libel) to attack the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). While object [...] | 2006-03-24 17:08:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD SOCI CS |
06SANJOSE91 | KEY DEPUTIES POINT TO VOTING ON CAFTA-DR AFTER NEW [...] On January 11, 2006 Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) and Ambassador met with key members of the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly to discuss the status of ratification of the Central America-Dominican Republic-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). Rolando Lacle, Chair of the Assembly's Intern [...] | 2006-01-13 15:37:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECPS ECON PREL PGOV SOCI CS |
06SANSALVADOR2056 | THREE MONTHS INTO HER TERM, SAN SALVADOR'S FMLN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Little more than three months into her term as Mayor of San Salvador, the FMLN's Violeta Menjivar suffers approval ratings of only 45 percent. A crisis in trash collection has turned many urban streets into foul-smelling and unsanitary garbage dumps. Heavy rains have caused di [...] | 2006-08-21 17:47:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL CH SOCI |
06SANSALVADOR2960 | EL SALVADOR: 2006 WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Pursuant to reftel, this cable provides information on the worst forms of child labor in El Salvador. As a country eligible for trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP),El Salvador has implemented steps to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, including [...] | 2006-12-18 15:34:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ELAB ES ETRD PHUM SOCI |
06SANSALVADOR514 | SALVADORAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS MUDDLE AHEAD [...] SUMMARY: El Salvador's most prominent civil society organizations grew out of the nation's 12-year armed conflict, but many international donors have switched their focus elsewhere since the 1992 end of hostilities. Most Salvadoran NGOs are struggling to replace lost international support w [...] | 2006-03-01 21:45:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KOCI SOCI ES |
06SANSALVADOR521 | EL SALVADOR ELECTIONS: LA PAZ AND CUSCATLAN [...] SUMMARY: Poloff visited the cities of Zacatecoluca and Olocuilta in the La Paz Department on February 22. Two days later, Poloff visited the cities of Cojutepeque and Santa Cruz Michapa in the neighboring Cuscatlan department. Zacatecoluca and Cojutepeque are the capitals of their respectiv [...] | 2006-03-02 21:22:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CU ES SOCI |
06SANTIAGO1058 | OAS PERMREP MAISTO DISCUSSES OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: OAS PermRep Maisto outlined USG objectives for the OAS General Assembly during meetings with senior Foreign Ministry officials on May 16. Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Portales agreed to consider the U.S. non-paper on introducing a resolution during the [...] | 2006-05-18 20:26:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS PGOV SOCI VZ CI |
06SANTIAGO1204 | STUDENT PROTESTS GATHER WIDE SUPPORT [...] Summary. On May 30, almost eighty percent of Chile's one million high school students participated in a nation-wide strike. In several major cities including Santiago, protests turned mildly violent. What began as a minor movement in April has now gained widespread public support for major e [...] | 2006-06-01 19:28:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO151 | CHILE AND MEXICO TO SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Deputy Director Alex Geiger confirmed to Poloff on January 23 that Chile and Mexico would sign "a strategic partnership agreement" during Mexican President Fox's visit to Chile on January 25-26. Geiger, who earlier had characterized the accord as an [...] | 2006-01-23 20:54:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI CI ME |
06SANTIAGO170 | PRESIDENT-ELECT BACHELET: ASSERTING INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet has gotten off to a quietly assertive start following her victory over Alianza opposition's Sebastian Pinera in the January 15 presidential run-off election. Her initial public statements and meetings appear designed to show her intention to govern i [...] | 2006-01-25 20:32:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR CL |
06SANTIAGO179 | PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR BACHELET'S MARCH 11 [...] The Chilean government has initiated preparations for the inauguration of President-elect Michelle Bachelet and the new Congress on March 11. According to the Foreign Ministry's Protocol Office and press reports, the inauguration activities are likely to include: --March 10: President Lagos [...] | 2006-01-26 18:11:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR CI |
06SANTIAGO2194 | SOUTHERN CHILE -- FAR FROM SANTIAGO BUT DOING JUST [...] SUMMARY. Southern Chile is booming. With unemployment rates half the national average or below, the south's busy cities can appear rundown physically but boast vibrant economies below the weathered surface. Not all of southern Chile enjoys the same dynamism and infrastructure, however, as t [...] | 2006-10-18 18:54:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO2210 | STUDENT PROTESTS FAIL TO GAIN PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] The latest round of public student protests thus far have failed to garner wide support among the Chilean population, including among the leaders of the May and June student strikes. Unlike the strikes in May and June, these protests have been sporadic, disorganized and mostly non-violent. So [...] | 2006-10-19 20:16:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO253 | PRESIDENT-ELECT BACHELET TASKS CABINET TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet delivered to her cabinet on January 31 the priority initiatives for the first 100 days of her administration. Bachelet subsequently told the press that her cabinet had until February 20 to review the initiatives and identify creative ways to impl [...] | 2006-02-03 18:52:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO428 | CHILE: BACHELET ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C) On March 1, President-elect Michele Bachelet announced the names of the undersecretaries in her new cabinet -- essentially the second tier of the executive branch of the government. Her choices follow the same pattern set by the appointment of cabinet members, combining new faces with exp [...] | 2006-03-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TBIO PREL SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO887 | FORMER LAGOS MINISTERS LAUNCH FOUNDATION TO [...] This is an action request. See para 7. 2. Summary: Several ex-ministers and supporters of former President Lagos have launched a foundation to promote Chile's successes throughout the region. "Project America" Director Jose Viera-Gallo told Embassy officers that one of the foundation's ob [...] | 2006-04-28 15:12:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI CI VZ |
06SANTIAGO94 | BACHELET DEFEATS PINERA TO BECOME CHILE'S FIRST [...] Summary: The ruling center-left Concertacion coalition's candidate Michelle Bachelet defeated center-right Alianza opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera in the January 15 run-off election to become Chile's first female president. As of 2000 local time (1800 EST),and with more than 97 percent [...] | 2006-01-15 23:39:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI CI |
06SANTODOMINGO168 | HAITIAN MIGRANT DEATHS REVEAL WEAK BORDER CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary. The January 11 death by suffocation of 24 illegal Haitian migrants has triggered a Dominican Government response that includes a formal apology to Haitian authorities, a presidential promise to seek justice with the formation of a "blue-ribbon" investigative committee, and the ne [...] | 2006-01-13 23:12:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR ELTN HA KJUS MARR PREF PREL SOCI |
06SANTODOMINGO2465 | NEW DOMINICAN CRIME CONTROL INITIATIVES TAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thousands of military soldiers joined police in joint nighttime patrols throughout the country this week in an effort to quell violent crime and enforce new curfews on the sale of alcohol. These initiatives, among others, were implemented by presidential decree this week in [...] | 2006-07-28 21:14:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR CASC PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM |
06SANTODOMINGO3031 | THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT--YOUNG AND TOOTHLESS [...] Summary. Many believed that President Fernandez would replace the Minister of Environment, Max Puig, at the mid-term point. After many cabinet shifts, however, Fernandez decided to keep Puig, which is a good indicator of where Environment falls on Fernandez's list of priorities....near the [...] | 2006-09-22 20:33:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | DR EAGR EAID ECON SENV SOCI TBIO |
06SANTODOMINGO3086 | FERNANDEZ CRIME INITIATIVES CREDITED FOR DROP IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Violent crime statistics for the month of August showed a significant reduction in the country's homicide rate, which many attribute to the success of President Fernandez's July anti-crime initiatives. Of note is the low incidence of extrajudicial killings carried out by police i [...] | 2006-09-27 20:39:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR CASC PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM |
06SANTODOMINGO3359 | A DOMINICAN STRIKE THREATENS THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY [...] SUMMARY: Employees of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD),the largest university in the Dominican Republic, carried out a 48-hour strike this week in protest of a university-wide change in medical insurance providers. Workers resumed normal activity on Wednesday, but organizers [...] | 2006-10-26 20:35:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB DR PGOV SCUL SOCI |
06SANTODOMINGO3650 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DEMARCHED ON AFCARPAC [...] On December 4, poloff delivered reftel points to the office of Deputy Secretary of State Alejandra Liriano. Staffers indicated that her office had no knowledge of an invitation to the Khartoum AFCARPAC meeting, and committed to investigate who in the Dominican government, if anyone, had. Follo [...] | 2006-12-05 17:48:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI SU DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3668 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CONFIRMS NO ATTENDANCE AT [...] On December 7, poloff received confirmation from Ambassador for UN and OAS Affairs Michelle Cohen that the Dominican Republic will not/not attend the Khartoum AFCARPAC. BULLEN [...] | 2006-12-07 18:26:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI SU DR |
06SAOPAULO1038 | WHA PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETINGS IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) During a September 18-21 visit to Sao Paulo to attend the WHA ELO Conference, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with a series of experts on questions of foreign policy, international trade, and socio-economic issues. Private sector representatives painted a gloomy economic picture, noting t [...] | 2006-09-27 16:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EINV ETRD SOCI ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO121 | LULA'S GOVERNMENT IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A PT PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Although they deny it, members of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) who attended the Sixth World Social Forum - Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas in late January had some difficult moments. The event became Hugo Chavez's show and Brazil was critici [...] | 2006-02-07 17:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO215 | LEADER OF THE 1992 CARANDIRU PRISON MASSACRE ACQUITTED OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, Police Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes was absolved of responsibility for the infamous 1992 Carandiru prison massacre by a Special Session of the Sao Paulo State Court of Justice. The Court overturned a 2001 grand jury sentence of 632 years in prison for Guimaraes. [...] | 2006-02-24 23:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO280 | LABOR LEADERS DIFFER OVER LULA GOVERNMENT, BUT MOST WORKERS [...] (SBU) During his March 6-7 visit to Sao Paulo, Labor Attache met with representatives of three major labor organizations and the ruling Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT),as well as some academics specializing in labor issues. With the exception of representatives of the influen [...] | 2006-03-15 13:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO319 | GANGS ON THE RISE IN SAO PAULO'S WOMEN'S PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Director of Training for the Sao Paulo state prison system, street gang influence within Sao Paulo prisons has notably increased over the last three years. Particularly disturbing in this trend is that for the first time, prison officials see the influence of g [...] | 2006-03-22 17:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO332 | LANDLESS MOVEMENT'S EARLY YEAR ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Land invasions led by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST) and allied groups have begun in the Sao Paulo Consular District (southern and part of southeastern Brasil) in anticipation of the annual Red April protests (ref A). Early Mar [...] | 2006-03-24 18:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PREL ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO348 | SEVEN DEAD IN LATEST WAVE OF PCC-LED RIOTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seven inmates died during a 21-hour rebellion that rocked a public jail in Sao Paulo state March 23-24. This deadly event occurred two days after a series of prison disturbances in four municipalities in the state, and is believed to have been organized by the powerful gang, [...] | 2006-03-29 19:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO371 | PROSPECTS FOR LABOR REFORM AFTER BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS [...] Summary: Labor expert Jose Pastore told Poloff he has advised opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin not to pursue comprehensive labor reform immediately upon taking office, should he win, but to begin with more modest and less controversial legislative proposals that would remove di [...] | 2006-04-06 10:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV SOCI ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO498 | SAO PAULO'S ARAB COMMUNITY: DIVERSITY AND DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) While the Lebanese Christian community in Sao Paulo is active in politics, the Arab community in general (Muslim and Christian) lacks political clout at the national level. In fact, our conversations with a number of Christian and Muslim leaders of Sao Paulo's large Middle Eastern comm [...] | 2006-05-09 16:00:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KISL KIRF SOCI SCUL BR |
06SAOPAULO526 | GANG WAGES WAR ON SAO PAULO POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The notorious Sao Paulo organized crime gang First Capital Command ("PCC") waged a deadly and brutal assault against the police over the weekend, killing 44 officers and injuring another 27 in up to 180 attacks across Sao Paulo state. The police, in turn, killed 23 suspected cr [...] | 2006-05-15 20:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO532 | SAO PAULO STREET WAR OVER, BUT WHO WON? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three-night assault on Sao Paulo police forces by the organized crime gang PCC seemed to have ended Monday evening (May 15) as suddenly as it started. The daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Tuesday, May 16, that the PCC leadership called a truce after reaching an [...] | 2006-05-16 18:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO551 | SAO PAULO POLICE STRIKE BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reaction to a wave of violence orchestrated by the organized crime gang First Capital Command (PCC) which left over 100 persons dead including over 40 law enforcement officers, Sao Paulo police stepped up patrols and checkpoints on Tuesday and Wednesday (May 16-17) in certai [...] | 2006-05-18 20:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO573 | DUST SETTLES IN SAO PAULO AFTER VIOLENT CRIME WAVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Criminal activities associated with last week's violent crime wave orchestrated by the organized criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC) have all but ceased in and around Sao Paulo. A few random incidents that appear related were reported over the weekend, but in general, [...] | 2006-05-22 18:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO643 | BRAZIL'S WORKING/MIDDLE CLASS GAINS PURCHASING POWER, [...] Brazil's working/lower-middle class has been making slow but steady progress in regaining purchasing power over the last two years after seeing its economic position erode for a decade (1994-2003) (reftel). These families are becoming more sophisticated in their purchases, with the most notab [...] | 2006-06-06 19:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PINR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO708 | PCC FOILED IN ATTEMPTED ATTACKS ON OUTSKIRTS OF SP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo state security officials reported on Monday, June 26, that police foiled several attacks against employees of detention facilities planned by Sao Paulo's notorious criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC). State officials said imprisoned PCC leaders ordered stre [...] | 2006-06-27 18:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO742 | PCC KILLS PRISON GUARDS AT HOME, POLICE NAB DOZENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ten days after a raid that left 13 of their compatriots dead and five apprehended, the PCC has carried out almost daily, precise assassinations and attempts on prison guards at their homes around Sao Paulo. Five guards have been killed and several other law enforcement person [...] | 2006-07-07 16:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO751 | SNAPSHOT OF PRISON CHAOS IN SAO PAULO STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the past month, Sao Paulo prison officials have been housing over 1400 prisoners in an open yard designed to hold about 160 people in the Araraquara prison in northern Sao Paulo state. No AmCits are currently housed in Araraquara, but one AmCit is being held in somewhat si [...] | 2006-07-10 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO761 | INCREASED OVERNIGHT VIOLENCE IN SAO PAULO LIKELY DUE TO [...] Sao Paulo's slow burn of violence directed against prison and police officials by the organized criminal gang PCC over the past weeks flared during the early morning hours of July 12. Reminiscent of the beginning of the violence unleashed on Sao Paulo and neighboring cities in mid-May by the P [...] | 2006-07-13 09:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO765 | REDUCED VIOLENCE IN SAO PAULO NIGHT OF JULY 12, BUS [...] Sao Paulo and neighboring cities again suffered attacks the night of July 12/morning of July 13 from the organized criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC),though at a reduced level compared to the previous night. Two deaths from July 12 were reported, though apparently no one was killed in [...] | 2006-07-14 08:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO771 | VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO DIMINISH IN SAO PAULO NIGHT OF JULY [...] (U) Sao Paulo and neighboring cities suffered a third night of attacks the evening of July 12/morning of July 13 from the organized criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC),though the level of violence continued to fall. There were only about 17 attacks (no deaths) reported overnight: two in [...] | 2006-07-14 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO782 | SAO PAULO LEBANESE AND MUSLIM REACTIONS TO EVENTS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federation of Muslims Associations in Brazil sent a letter to the Consul General in Sao Paulo expressing "immense concern" regarding the recent military actions conducted by Israel in Lebanon, especially as it affects Brazilians currently in Lebanon for tourism and to visit [...] | 2006-07-18 19:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ASEC PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO865 | PRE-FATHER'S DAY ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BY PCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo residents awoke Monday morning, August 7, to reports of yet another round of bus burnings and bomb and gun attacks against police targets orchestrated by the organized crime ring PCC. Twenty-seven attacks were reported in greater Sao Paulo by the office of the state [...] | 2006-08-07 19:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO869 | SAO PAULO FACES DAY 2 OF PRE-FATHER'S DAY JITTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The dawn of Tuesday, August 8, marked Day Two of the third wave of PCC violence in Sao Paulo State since May (ref A). Metropolitan Sao Paulo was spared from attacks overnight, but cities scattered throughout Sao Paulo state suffered from homemade bomb and Molotov cocktail att [...] | 2006-08-08 20:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO873 | FEWER PCC ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BUT NEW POLITICAL BATTLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The third day of what is being called the third wave of PCC-led attacks in Sao Paulo state brought only a few new incidents on Wednesday morning, August 9. The newest attacks, however, included targets in upper-scale neighborhoods and the greater use of homemade bombs. Meanwh [...] | 2006-08-09 19:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO887 | QUIET IN SAO PAULO, BUT JOURNALISTS' KIDNAPPING MARKS NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sao Paulo residents enjoyed a relatively quiet Father's Day weekend, as a feared repeat of the widespread violence that occurred on Mother's Day three months ago failed to materialize (ref B). Some 13,000 inmates were given weekend furloughs for the holiday, but only scattered [...] | 2006-08-14 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO988 | COMMANDER OF CARANDIRU MASSACRE FOUND MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The police commander who was in charge of operations during the infamous 1992 police massacre of inmates at Sao Paulo's Carandiru Prison was found dead in his apartment on Sunday night, September 10. Early reports indicate that Ubiratan Guimaraes, who retired from the police f [...] | 2006-09-12 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR SOCI BR |
06SARAJEVO1020 | BOSNIA: RELIGION AND POLITICS APPEALING MIX FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has long been politically involved in issues surrounding Croat returns, specifically the question of who is primarily to blame for the low numbers of Bosnian Croat refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) who returned to [...] | 2006-05-09 13:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO1024 | BOSNIA: TRAFFICKER GETS EIGHT YEARS [...] On April 25, the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) State Court handed down the second-longest sentence in the history of Bosnia's anti-trafficking statute, which allows for a maximum sentence of ten years. Mostar trafficker Nermin Cupina was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. The judge also or [...] | 2006-05-10 08:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO1173 | BOSNIA: PLIGHT OF PENSIONERS DIRE [...] Summary: Bosnia's 500,000 pensioners represent its largest special-interest group and will be influential in the October 2006 general elections. They also vote in a higher proportion than younger citizens. Increasingly squeezed by Bosnia's new national value-added tax (VAT) and rising health ca [...] | 2006-05-25 12:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO1230 | BOSNIA: PM CAVES ON INVESTIGATING FATE OF SERBS IN [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, the BiH Council of Ministers decided to form a state commission to investigate "the truth about the suffering of all citizens of Sarajevo" from 1992-1995. Although Bosnian Serb leaders had long pushed for a commission to investigate the deaths and disappearances of Sara [...] | 2006-06-01 11:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO738 | BOSNIA: TRUTH COMMISSION PROPOSALS CONTROVERSIAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. 2. (SBU) Summary: A number of local and international organizations have put forward concepts for the formation of a "truth and reconciliation commission" for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). However, some of the key players suffer from compet [...] | 2006-04-07 14:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI BK |
06SEOUL1629 | Round-Up of North-South Exchanges: April 2006 [...] North-South exchanges during April included cooperative efforts to preserve historic relics in the North, as well as practical exchanges in the agricultural, cultural and athletic fields. South Korea's humanitarian assistance to the North during April appeared to be smaller than in previous m [...] | 2006-05-15 22:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG SOCI ETRD KS KN |
06SEOUL1879 | NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: DPRK AND ROK REACH [...] (SBU) North Korean and South Korean delegations meeting on Jeju Island reached an agreement late on June 6 that should allow the two sides to go forward with test runs of the two reconstructed cross-border railways located on the east and west coasts of the Korean Peninsula. Under the deal, S [...] | 2006-06-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL1908 | KORUS FTA: A LOOK AT KOREAN PUBLIC OPINION [...] Generally speaking, the Korean public remains noticeably supportive of the conclusion of a U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement despite steady public protests and often-critical media coverage. The proportion of citizens who feel strongly about the initiative is relatively small, however, so there [...] | 2006-06-09 01:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SOCI PGOV KS |
06SEOUL1947 | DPRK ECONOMY: PDAS STEPHENS' VISIT TO KAESONG [...] (SBU) EAP PDAS Stephens visited the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) project site on June 2, finding conditions consistent with previous Embassy reporting (reftels). Some new findings included additional detail on wage and employment conditions in the complex, as well as the existence of a sm [...] | 2006-06-12 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL1952 | DPRK ECONOMY: PDAS STEPHENS' VISIT TO KAESONG [...] (SBU) EAP PDAS Stephens visited the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) project site on June 2, finding conditions consistent with previous Embassy reporting (reftels). Some new findings included additional detail on wage and employment conditions in the complex, as well as the existence of a sm [...] | 2006-06-13 00:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL2392 | "YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY:" THE RISING STATUS [...] (U) Korean women are better educated then ever before and are working in greater numbers outside the home, joining management, becoming professionals, and entering politics. The entry of women into the public arena suggests that the ROK is slowly breaking away from its Confucian male-centered [...] | 2006-07-18 08:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL3433 | INR A/S FORT'S MEETING WITH MOU VICE MINISTER SHIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 27 meeting, Ministry of Unification (MOU) Vice Minister Shin Eon-sang told visiting INR Assistant Secretary (A/S) Randall Fort that the international community needed to create an environment where North Korea's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) would be useless. [...] | 2006-10-10 07:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL4138 | KOREA'S RAGING REAL ESTATE SPECULATION [...] (C) Korea's speculative fever in metropolitan real estate recently claimed three victims: Construction Minister Choo Byung-jik and two Blue House presidential advisors, Senior Secretary on Public Information Lee Baek-man and Economic Advisor Chung Moon-soo. Their departures were carefully o [...] | 2006-12-02 03:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN EINV ECON SOCI PGOV KS |
06SEOUL498 | FORMER KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS [...] (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul, a think tank researcher who defected to South Korea in 1994 after years of living among the DPRK elite, told poloff on February 8 that social discontent among the DPRK's working class was kept in check through propaganda and periodic acts of decency by the state, rath [...] | 2006-02-14 05:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI MNUC PINR EAID ECON KN KS |
06SEOUL595 | THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS [...] (SBU) ROK academics interviewed in recent weeks by poloff were divided on whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would name his successor in the near future, and on whether Kim would choose one of his sons as his heir or seek outside the Kim family. Most believed Kim Jong-il's second son, Ki [...] | 2006-02-23 07:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR MNUC SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL609 | NGO PROJECT TARGETS FAMILY REUNION FOR [...] (SBU) On February 22, Stephen W. Linton, Chair of the Eugene Bell Foundation (EBF),an NGO with a long history of providing humanitarian assistance to DPRK medical institutions, told the Ambassador about his organization's new project to help Korean-Americans locate relatives in the DPRK. Li [...] | 2006-02-24 06:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI EAID KN KS |
06SEOUL657 | PROMINENT SCHOLAR SAYS U.S. SHOULD UNDERMINE DPRK [...] (SBU) Andrei Lankov, a prominent authority on the DPRK, told the Ambassador on February 27 that the United States should ignore the DPRK at a political level, as the Kim Jong-il regime was a threat only to its own people. He argued that a low-key effort to provide greater information to Nor [...] | 2006-03-02 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI KS KN |
06SEOUL930 | GERMAN DCM IN PYONGYANG: NO INSTABILITY IN DPRK [...] (C) Klaus Wendelberger, DCM at the German Embassy in Pyongyang, told poloff that the DPRK had moved aggressively in recent months to reassert control of the North Korean population, taking steps ranging from resuming control of the rice supply to tighter limits on the flow of information, inc [...] | 2006-03-22 08:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI ECON PHUM KN |
06SHANGHAI6861 | CHINESE LEGAL EXPERTS CALL FOR REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Chinese Prosecutors, judges and legal scholars attending the 2006 China Litigation Law National Conference in Hangzhou from September 27-28 urged that amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law include provisions to protect human rights and constrain governmental power through due p [...] | 2006-10-25 09:31:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KJUS CH |
06SINGAPORE228 | DPM WONG ON CASINO REGULATION AND THE TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs (MHA) Wong Kan Seng and the Ambassador discussed our extensive intelligence and law enforcement cooperation and ways to improve them during a January 24 courtesy call. Turning to casino regulation, Minister Wong said Singapore ha [...] | 2006-01-26 03:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SOCI KCRM SN |
06SINGAPORE563 | IIP COORDINATOR ALEXANDER FELDMAN'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Minister Goh Chock Tong expressed his concern about a rising tide of Islamic conservatism to Coordinator for International Information Programs (IIP) Alexander Feldman during his February 16 - 19 visit to Singapore. SM Goh urged the United States to encourage Muslims to [...] | 2006-02-24 06:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SOCI KISL SN |
06SINGAPORE792 | SINGAPORE'S FY2006 BUDGET PRIMES PUMP FOR GENERAL [...] Summary. With an eye on anticipated but still not officially announced general elections, Singapore's FY2006 budget offers a S$2.6 billion (US$1.6 billion) "Progress Package" targeting primarily lower income groups. The budget also includes the usual array of fiscal incentives for specific i [...] | 2006-03-14 06:34:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EINV PGOV SOCI KTDB SN |
06SOFIA1042 | AVIAN FLU DISCOVERED IN BULGARIAN DOMESTIC FLOCKS, [...] SUMMARY: Avian Influenza (AI) has been identified in poultry in Slanchogled (a predominantly ethnic-Turkish village in the southern Kardzhali region),where at least 107 chickens died between July 11 and 19. This is the first suspected case of AI in domestic stock. Until now, all other rep [...] | 2006-07-26 03:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO BU |
06SOFIA1718 | BULGARIA'S FIRST EU BUDGET CONTINUES FISCAL DISCIPLINE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Parliament approved the 2007 state budget on December 19 - Bulgaria's first as a full EU member state. It is a fiscally disciplined plan with an expected surplus of 0.8 percent of GDP (well above the Maastricht requirement of a 3 percent deficit or better for Euro entry.) This co [...] | 2006-12-29 12:21:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI BU |
06SOFIA233 | BULGARIA CONFIRMS FIRST CASE OF AVIAN FLU [...] (U) SUMMARY: Bulgarian officials on February 12 confirmed the country's first case of avian flu. Authorities over the weekend were informed by a British reference lab that a wild swan found in the Danube near the Northwestern town of Vidin had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus. Two ot [...] | 2006-02-13 16:08:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL SOCI WHO BG |
06SOFIA59 | BULGARIA'S LATEST RESPONSE TO AVIAN FLU [...] (U) The Embassy's avian flu working group met January 12 to discuss the GOB's latest response to the threat of AI following the recent deaths of three people in neighboring Turkey from the virus. It also reviewed Post's AI tripwires and agreed none had been reached. According to Embassy cont [...] | 2006-01-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI BG KSTH WHO |
06SOFIA661 | BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALISTS REAPING WHAT THEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist party Ataka is reeling from self-inflicted wounds just one year after its founding. A recent scandal steming from the erratic behavior of several Ataka members following a highway accident has contributed to a sharp decline in the party's support and led [...] | 2006-05-10 11:47:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PINR SOCI RU BU |
06SOFIA68 | BULGARIA: COURT HEARS APPEAL OF JEWISH PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY. A five member panel of the Supreme Cassation Court (SCC) held a hearing January 17 on the Bulgarian Jewish community's appeal regarding restitution of the disputed Rila Hotel (reftel). The Jewish community organization Shalom is appealing a July 2005 decision on grounds that it [...] | 2006-01-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KTIA BU |
06STOCKHOLM235 | SWEDEN'S IMMIGRANTS' DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent GoS reports show immigrants in Sweden to be overrepresented in crime and sick leave statistics, which are interpreted as being indicators of integration shortcomings. The level of attention applied to the issue of integration stands to increase as we approach the S [...] | 2006-02-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PINS PGOV KCRM ASEC SW |
06TAIPEI1558 | AIT DIRECTOR AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNER LEE [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan Nobel Prize winner Lee Yuan-Tseh told AIT Director he felt that the PRC's policy of only talking with the opposition Kuomingtang (KMT) was unequivocally wrong. While disappointed with President Chen's performance, he also criticized the KMT for its dealings with the PRC. [...] | 2006-05-08 07:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV SOCI EDU CH TW |
06TAIPEI193 | TAIWAN: AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] Summary. Taiwan continues to be H5N1 free and to prepare to counter a potential Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak. It has staged large-scale drills and distributed information in multiple languages to increase the flow of information to the public. Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency (TEPA [...] | 2006-01-19 21:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO WHO TW |
06TAIPEI738 | Vietnamese Brides in Southern Taiwan - [...] Summary. Foreign brides, and their social and educational problems have once more captured considerable attention in the wake of late 2005 news coverage of a group of Vietnamese women entering Taiwan (ref A) via marriage documents for the actual purpose of prostitution. While a few Vietname [...] | 2006-03-09 05:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI VM TW |
06TALLINN369 | ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN REGIME'S TREATMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-20 12:51:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR EN |
06TALLINN475 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) On May 17 Polecoff delivered reftel points on restricting visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),and encouraging support for the Darfur Peace Agreement, to Marek Luts, MFA Sudan Desk Officer. According to Luts, some in Brussels would like to see an end to EU fundin [...] | 2006-05-18 14:27:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PINS SOCI EAID EN |
06TALLINN535 | ESTONIA: PDAS VERGA DISCUSSES DISASTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On the margins of his participation in a Baltic Defense College seminar, OSD PDAS for Homeland Defense Peter Verga met with the Secretaries General of the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs on June 1. Verga shared insights on the challenges of inter-agency coordination [...] | 2006-06-06 07:37:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR SOCI EN |
06TALLINN576 | ESTONIA: EMBASSY'S EFFORTS TO PROMOTE RACIAL [...] (U) Summary: Discussion in Estonia about tolerance and integration has focused mainly on the cultural and linguistic divide between the Estonian and Russian communities. Looking forward, the GOE intends to broaden its Integration Action Plan to include initiatives designed to address integrat [...] | 2006-06-16 14:26:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI EN |
06TALLINN578 | ESTONIA: EMBASSY'S EFFORTS TO PROMOTE RACIAL [...] (U) Summary: Discussion in Estonia about tolerance and integration has focused mainly on the cultural and linguistic divide between the Estonian and Russian communities. Looking forward, the GOE intends to broaden its Integration Action Plan to include initiatives designed to address integrat [...] | 2006-06-16 14:53:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI EN |
06TALLINN907 | PANDORA 2006: MOCK BIRD FLU PANDEMIC RESPONSE EXERCISE [...] (U) Summary: GOE is in the process of wrapping up PANDORA 2006, a multi-stage program created to test how Estonia's crisis management systems would respond to a bird flu pandemic. The program is being used as a learning tool to highlight some of the GOE's crisis management strengths and wea [...] | 2006-10-05 11:42:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI EAGR PGOV EN |
06TALLINN988 | ESTONIA OFFERS FREE CITIZENSHIP COURSES [...] (U) Summary. The number of stateless people living in Estonia has declined significantly since 1992. A new program to provide citizenship training to non-citizens is being jointly funded by the GOE and the EU. It will help up to 10,000 more stateless people meet the qualifications for citi [...] | 2006-11-03 10:34:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EN RS PHUM SOCI |
06TASHKENT1707 | FEARS OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM GROWING [...] (C) Summary: The GOU has urged Tashkent community leaders to take robust measures to discourage Islamist tendencies among the public. An Embassy contact with strong local government connections said that officials expressed fear that Islamists may be planning disturbances ahead of the 2007 P [...] | 2006-09-07 10:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM PTER SOCI UZ |
06TASHKENT532 | INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS HANGING ON BY A THREAD [...] (C)Summary: Deutsche Welle stringer Obid Shabanov told Poloff that the MFA revoked his accreditation after he wrote a report about Uzbek migrant laborers freezing to death on a bus headed to Russia. Only one Deutsche Welle stringer is still accredited. Several international wire agency corre [...] | 2006-03-23 02:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG SOCI GM KDEM UZ |
06TASHKENT694 | CULTURAL DELEGATION HEADED TO RUSSIA EXCLUDES [...] (C) According to a source in the parliament, an Uzbek cultural delegation will travel to Saint Petersburg from April 17-22 to participate in the Forum of Art and Science Intellectuals of the CIS countries. The delegation was invited by the rector of Moscow State University, actor Kyril Lavrov [...] | 2006-04-07 14:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL PGOV PREL RU UZ |
06TASHKENT774 | RUSSIA CONSIDERS OPENING CONSULATES, REGULARIZING [...] (C) Summary: Russian Embassy Counselor Yury Lebedev told Poloff that Russia is considering opening consulates in Samarkand and Ferghana City. This would be based on a reciprocal agreement under which Uzbekistan would open two consulates in Russia. However, a final decision has not yet been r [...] | 2006-04-20 11:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB SMIG ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV RS UZ |
06TASHKENT802 | (CORRECTED COPY) WORRYING TRENDS IN EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: Politics continue to play a defining role in education in Uzbekistan. In a reflection of its close ties to Moscow, the GOU is considering increasing the number of hours of compulsory Russian language classes. Teachers have been instructed to inform the Ministry of Education if a [...] | 2006-04-24 07:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL PGOV PHUM CVIS UZ |
06TASHKENT808 | WORRYING TRENDS IN EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: Politics continue to play a defining role in education in Uzbekistan. In a reflection of its close ties to Moscow, the GOU is considering increasing the number of hours of compulsory Russian language classes. Teachers have been instructed to inform the Ministry of Education if a [...] | 2006-04-24 12:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL PGOV PHUM CVIS UZ |
06TASHKENT825 | UZBEKISTAN AND SOUTH KOREA DEEPEN THEIR LABOR [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan and South Korea are taking steps to strengthen their labor relations. Sources at the Uzbek Ministry of Labor and South Korean Embassy told Poloff that their governments have agreed to facilitate labor contracts for Uzbek guest workers. Uzbekistan will reportedly become [...] | 2006-04-26 03:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB SMIG ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV KS UZ |
06TASHKENT826 | AN INVITATION TO FRIDAY PRAYER [...] (U) This is the second in a series on the state of Islam in Uzbekistan, with future cables addressing the relationship of mosque and state and the growing market for Islamic materials and media. 2. (C) Summary: During a recent visit to a neighborhood mosque during Friday prayers, poloff [...] | 2006-04-26 03:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF KISL PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
06TASHKENT881 | BRITISH STUDY PROGRAMS MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Despite an often rocky Uzbek-British relationship, British sources in Tashkent indicate that the GOU has not imposed direct obstacles to study programs in the UK. A scholarship program jointly supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),Open Society Institute, and a [...] | 2006-05-03 13:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL PGOV PREL PHUM UZ |
06TASHKENT948 | TENSE WEEKEND IN TASHKENT [...] (C) Summary: The first anniversary of the Andijon unrest generally passed quietly in Tashkent. However, tension in the capital was higher over the weekend, as evidenced by several unrelated, yet illustrative, events. Students at several universities were ordered to report to class on May 13 [...] | 2006-05-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI UZ |
06TEGUCIGALPA1008 | HONDURAS: IMF INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT TREND [...] (C) Summary: The International Monetary Fund is increasingly concerned about the direction of GOH fiscal policies. Rising losses in parastatal telecommunications and energy companies, coupled with the possibility of a return to unsustainable wage hikes for teachers, threaten to shatter GOH c [...] | 2006-06-02 23:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA1131 | HONDURAN MINISTER OF FINANCE RESIGNS, SAYS IT IS [...] (C) Summary: GOH Minister of Finance Hugo Noe Pino resigned on June 16, effective July 1, when he will be replaced by Vice Minister Rebecca Santos. Noe Pino assured EconChief that his resignation was not in protest, but rather was the result of the President's desire to send him as Honduras' [...] | 2006-06-22 14:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA1310 | HONDURAN CONGRESS ABROGATES KEY IMF CONDITIONALITY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: As feared, on July 18 the Honduran Congress voted to remove the Teachers Wages and Benefits Law (Ley de Estatutos de Docente) from coverage by the 2003 Wage Reform Law (Ley de Reordenamiento del Sistema Retributivo). Rem [...] | 2006-07-21 23:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA1489 | HONDURAN CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT "QUIETLY DOING HER [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank President Gabriela Nunez is content with Honduras' macro-economic situation, citing a stable exchange rate and declining inflation. Nunez was sanguine (perhaps too much so) on the likely impact on the economy of the recent mammoth wage increase granted by the GOH t [...] | 2006-08-16 21:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA1857 | HONDURAS: IMF WAITING FOR GOH DEMONSTRATION OF [...] (C) Summary: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) shares donor concerns that GOH fiscal discipline is eroding and the GOH has lost previous momentum towards policy reforms. While the Fund has not publicly declared it, facts on the ground seem to indicate that the GOH PRGF program has gone of [...] | 2006-10-02 20:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA1950 | HONDURAS: LOOSE MONEY: SPURRING GROWTH OR RISKING [...] (C) Summary: In stark contrast to its unhelpful and seemingly improvised trade policies and crumbling fiscal discipline (reftel),the GOH has implemented a more coherent and thus-far successful (if risky) monetary policy. The GOH is pushing down interest rates and pushing up money supply, wi [...] | 2006-10-13 21:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA2046 | HONDURAS: MIN FIN SEEKING DONOR SUPPORT AND MORE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 23 meeting with Ambassador, Minister of Finance Rebeca Santos asked for additional technical assistance to assist her ministry in improving fiscal administration and oversight and increasing transparency. She also renewed her request for technical assistance in bud [...] | 2006-10-27 16:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA2095 | RESIGNATION OF ADVISING MINISTER ON HOUSING NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Advising Minister on Housing Hector Briceno resigned in a huff on 10/27, lamenting a lack of political support from President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. Briceno, whose appointment to an "advising ministry" (with no agency to direct) was a political payoff in the first place, is [...] | 2006-11-02 22:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA2347 | WHY ENFORCE ANTI-TRUST LAWS WHEN PRICE FIXING IS [...] (U) Summary. Over the past year the Honduran press has reported frequently on increasing prices of basic goods, including corn flour, sugar, rice, meat, eggs, and even cement. Rallied by local leftist political parties and an active press campaign, the Honduran people have clamored for governm [...] | 2006-12-20 22:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA2352 | HONDURAN BANKING SECTOR CONSOLIDATING AS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The purchase by General Electric of Honduran Banco Mercantil (BAMER) marks the fifth such acquisition to affect Honduras this year, but the first aimed specifically at Honduras. Consolidation of the sector at the hands of more experienced foreign banks (including Citibank, HSBC [...] | 2006-12-21 19:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI HO |
06TEGUCIGALPA2373 | HONDURAS: IMPORT-LED GROWTH? [...] (C) Summary: The Central Bank of Honduras is predicting economic growth for 2006 of 5.3 to 5.8 percent. Some bankers are now openly talking about a possible resurgence of inflation in 2007, and made their fears plain by under-subscribing a recent GOH bond issuance, complaining that yields o [...] | 2006-12-27 22:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI HO |
06THEHAGUE1001 | ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: There are a growing number of Islamic schools in The Netherlands, but they are hardly madrassas. All are state funded, follow the national Dutch curriculum, teach in Dutch, and have largely Dutch personnel. Although the number of Islamic schools is small - 47 in the whole country - the [...] | 2006-05-04 15:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE1081 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: STEPS TO RESTRICT VISAS TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche May 10 to MFA Sudan Task Force officer Sjoerd Sjoerdsma. The Dutch are in agreement with us: So long as the JEM is given until May 15, failure to sign the accords should result in visa restrictions or other punitive action. 2. (C) Following up on reftel [...] | 2006-05-12 13:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS MARR PINS SOCI SU NL |
06THEHAGUE1110 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: FOLLOW-UP ON DARFUR PEACE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 05:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI EAID SU NL |
06THEHAGUE141 | UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING AMONG DUTCH MUSLIMS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Unemployment among the almost 700,000 ethnic Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands is high and rising. While the overall unemployment level in the country stabilized last year at 6.5 percent, survey data presented this week show that unemployment among the Turkish and Moroccan im [...] | 2006-01-20 15:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI PHUM PGOV ELAB KISL NL |
06THEHAGUE1708 | NETHERLANDS: TURKISH IMAMS DENIED RESIDENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Netherlands, new, tighter immigration policies are causing friction with the country,s 436 mosques, which rely heavily on foreign-born clerics to lead their congregations. At least 18 Turkish mosques are without imams as a result of immigration delays. Meanwhile, the Neth [...] | 2006-08-04 16:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL PREL PGOV PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE2515 | EMBASSY HOSTS DUTCH-U.S. MUSLIM DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Embassy and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund convened the mission's most extensive outreach effort to date on November 1-2 when more than 120 Dutch and American Muslims, government officials, policy experts, civil rights and business leaders gathered fo [...] | 2006-11-29 16:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL SOCI KPAO PHUM PREL KISL PINR NL |
06THEHAGUE265 | HOLOCAUST ART RESTITUTION: DUTCH RETURN PAINTINGS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a historic move, the Dutch government announced on February 6 the return of 202 of some of the greatest Dutch, Flemish, and Italian paintings to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a Dutch Jewish art collector and dealer who fled the Netherlands during World War II. While th [...] | 2006-02-07 13:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM SOCI NL |
06THEHAGUE308 | NETHERLANDS/OUTREACH: CHARGE MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge met with Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen February 3 to discuss opportunities for Muslim outreach in the city. Cohen complained that the media had distorted his recent comments on "unrest" in Amsterdam, but acknowledged religious/ethnic tensions remain a serious problem. He cr [...] | 2006-02-10 12:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE314 | UPDATE ON DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The Danish cartoons remain a hot topic in the Netherlands. So far, there have been no violent reactions here, but officials are watching closely a planned "peaceful demonstration" in Amsterdam on February 11. PM Balkenende and other government officials have expressed support f [...] | 2006-02-10 17:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE357 | NETHERLANDS/ISLAM: MORE ON CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Danish cartoon controversy continues to resonate in the Netherlands. Two small, generally peaceful demonstrations were held February 10 in Maastricht and February 11 in Amsterdam. Two well-known Muslim Amsterdam officials have attempted to downplay the issue in an effort t [...] | 2006-02-16 15:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE402 | DUTCH MUSLIM BUSINESS COMMUNITY - A GUIDE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The number of ethnic Muslim entrepreneurs and related business organizations in the Netherlands has increased significantly in recent years. Over the last few months, Emboffs have met with some of these organizations, as well as with traditional Dutch employer associations th [...] | 2006-02-23 11:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV KISL PINR NL |
06THEHAGUE406 | REACHING OUT TO THE DUTCH MUSLIM BUSINESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An Embassy lunch with members of the Dutch Muslim business community on February 8 succeeded in launching a constructive dialogue on discrimination in Dutch employment practices, unemployment among young ethnic Muslims, and the pros and cons of membership in ethnic business [...] | 2006-02-23 12:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV KISL PINR NL |
06THEHAGUE416 | SCENESETTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND EMPLOYMENT [...] (U) Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Aart de Geus is in the United States to examine U.S. approaches to work place issues related to family and child care. His visit is part of broader information-gathering effort to identify effective labor and social welfare policies, in preparati [...] | 2006-02-24 14:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV SOCI NL |
06THEHAGUE563 | NETHERLANDS: COORDINATING STATEMENTS ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 10:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI IR NL |
06THEHAGUE582 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: ACCELERATING UNSC ACTION ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 20 to Dutch Special Envoy for Sudan, Ambassador WGJM Wessels. The Dutch are in full agreement with us on the danger of Russia, China, Qatar and perhaps others scuppering UNSC action. Wessels is travelling to Abuja this evening and will weigh in, over [...] | 2006-03-20 12:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU NL |
06THEHAGUE610 | NETHERLANDS/MUSLIM OUTREACH: INTEGRATION EXAM [...] Summary: Effective March 15, certain nationalities will need to pass a civic integration exam to immigrate to the Netherlands. Initial reactions in local and foreign press have been divided on whether such a policy will result in better integration of immigrants in the country or only further [...] | 2006-03-22 06:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE764 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: PROTESTING THE IRANIAN REGIME'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-07 16:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI IR NL |
06THEHAGUE940 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: SPURRING AMIS ACTION TO PROTECT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 07:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM PINS PREL SOCI SU NL |
06TOKYO1112 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 2 [...] No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. -- Doesn't Pay to Cheat on the AI Test: Police Arrest Ibaraki Chicken Swappers -- 2. On February 27, prefectural police arrested four veterinarians and employees of the IKN Egg Farm Comp [...] | 2006-03-02 06:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1265 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 9 [...] No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. -- LPAI Stricken Ibaraki Prefecture to Further Strengthen its Outbreak Prevention Measures -- 2. On March 7, Ibaraki Prefecture authorities announced that they would strengthen measures [...] | 2006-03-09 07:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1397 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 16 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period March 9 to March 16. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- Tests on Migratory Birds Negative for HPAI -- 2. The Ministry of Environment (M [...] | 2006-03-16 05:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1527 | JAPANESE CURRENTLY UNDECIDED ON SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-23 08:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU IO JA |
06TOKYO1529 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 23 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period March 16 to March 23. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- New Domestic AI Poultry Vaccine Developed -- 2. On March 21, a research group [...] | 2006-03-23 09:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1592 | LOCAL COURT ORDERS SHUTDOWN OF NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (SBU) On March 24, the Kanazawa District Court ordered the Hokuriku Electric Power Company (Rikuden) to shut down operations at Unit Two of its Shika Nuclear Power Plant due to safety concerns over its ability to withstand powerful earthquakes. The court ruled that there was a real possibilit [...] | 2006-03-27 09:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TSPL KSCA SOCI JA |
06TOKYO1613 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: DETAILS ON JAPAN'S USD 155 [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 9. ---------- Background ---------- 2. (U) On March 23, AID Counselor and ESToff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MOFA) Economic Cooperation Bureau Aid Planning Division Deputy Director Taro Yamamoto to receive [...] | 2006-03-28 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1693 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 30 [...] (U) The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period March 23 to March 30. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- Tokyo Decides on Details for AI Assistance -- 2. (U) The GOJ recently deci [...] | 2006-03-30 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1843 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 6 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period March 30 to April 6. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- Ibaraki Governor: "MHLW is Irresponsible" -- 2. On April 4, Ibaraki Governor Ma [...] | 2006-04-06 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO1888 | JAPAN SEEKING MORE EVIDENCE WHILE CONSIDERING [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel points regarding Tehran's treatment of religious minorities to MOFA Second Middle East Division on April 5 . On April 7, Second Middle East's Koichi Nakao replied [...] | 2006-04-07 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR JA |
06TOKYO2017 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 13 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period April 6 to 13. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- H5N1 to be designated a "Government-Decreed" Infectious Disease -- 2. The Ministr [...] | 2006-04-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2074 | CHERNOBYL DISASTER COMMEMORATED IN TOKYO [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 16, Japanese anti-nuclear and Chernobyl assistance organizations hosted a 20th anniversary symposium on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Yuri Scherbak, current Foreign Policy Advisor to outgoing Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Speaker Lytvyn and former Ukrainian Ambassador [...] | 2006-04-17 23:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SOCI PARM TRGY JA |
06TOKYO2135 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 19 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period April 13 to 19. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. -- H5N1 to become a "Government-Decreed" Infectious Disease -- 2. On April 14, the [...] | 2006-04-19 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2307 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 27 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period April 19 to 27. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the past week. - Japan's 19.3 Million to OIE and FAO Further Discussed - 2. On April 25 and 26, the [...] | 2006-04-27 10:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2438 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MAY 2 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period April 27 to May 2. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during that period. -- MAFF Suspends UK Poultry Imports, Turns to US for More -- 2. On April 29, the Min [...] | 2006-05-02 08:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2572 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MAY 11 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period May 2 to 11. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Japan-ASEAN Initiative to Combat Pandemic Influenza Launched -- 2. On May 2, the [...] | 2006-05-11 09:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2688 | JAPAN: GETTING ORGANS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES [...] Summary. On April 21, a study group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) study group conducted a survey to study the number of Japanese citizens seeking organ transplants in foreign countries. The study report revealed that at least 522 individuals had organ transplant operat [...] | 2006-05-16 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED TBIO SOCI JA |
06TOKYO2691 | CORRECTED COPY - JAPAN: GETTING ORGANS IN FOREIGN [...] This is a corrected copy of ref C. 2. Summary. On April 21, a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) study group conducted a survey to study the number of Japanese citizens seeking organ transplants in foreign countries. The study revealed that at least 522 individuals had organ t [...] | 2006-05-16 09:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED TBIO SOCI JA |
06TOKYO2719 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MAY 17 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period May 11 to 17. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- More Positive Cases from Last Year -- 2. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfa [...] | 2006-05-17 09:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2907 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT MAY 25 [...] The following is an update of avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period May 17-25. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during this period. Details on Draft Guidelines on Japan's ASEAN Tamiflu/PPE Stockpile --------------------------- [...] | 2006-05-25 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO2912 | JAPAN: ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] GOJ Approves Nuclear Energy Policy for the Next Decade: On October 14, the GOJ agreed to follow basic recommendations put forth by the Atomic Energy Commission that call for maintaining the policy of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for the next ten years. The new policy includes a study on t [...] | 2006-05-25 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TBIO TNGD TPHY TRGY TSPA TSPL SENV SOCI |
06TOKYO3008 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JUNE 1 [...] The following is an update of avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period May 25 to June 1. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during this period. H5N1 Designated As Government-Decreed "Quarantinable" Infectious Disease -------------- [...] | 2006-06-01 04:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO3169 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JUNE 01 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period June 1-8. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. Ibaraki Issue Safety Declaration -------------------------------- 2. On June 1, Masaru [...] | 2006-06-08 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO3245 | JAPANESE OFFICIALS WARN OF MEASLES OUTBREAK [...] Summary. On May 12, the Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center (IDSC) issued a warning that measles might spread across Japan. According to the IDSC, group outbreaks have occurred in Ibaraki and Saitama prefectures since early April 2006. In order to strengthen the countermeasures against [...] | 2006-06-13 05:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED TBIO SOCI JA |
06TOKYO3317 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JUNE 15 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period June 8 to 15. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Ibaraki Prefecture Poultry Industry Hit Hard by Last Year's LPAI Outbreaks -- 2. [...] | 2006-06-15 09:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO3514 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JUNE 22 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period June 16 to June 22. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Importation of French Chickens to Resume -- 2. On June 19, the Ministry of [...] | 2006-06-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO3529 | "OTHER RUSSIA" NGO EVENT: JAPAN UNDECIDED [...] On June 23, Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel demarche seeking Japan's presence at the July 11-12 "Other Russia" NGO event to MOFA Russia Division Principal Deputy Director Kazuhiko Nakamura. Nakamura said that Japan was still considering whether it would send a representative [...] | 2006-06-26 06:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS JA |
06TOKYO3622 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JUNE 29 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period June 22 to 29. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Ibaraki Announces End of AI Outbreaks -- 2. On June 23, the Ibaraki Prefectural [...] | 2006-06-29 09:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO3811 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JULY 07 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan for the period June 29 to July 07. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Incineration of All Kyoto H5N1 Bird Feces by Fall -- 2. On June 28, the Kyo [...] | 2006-07-07 09:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO3953 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JULY 14 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period July 07 to 14. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. SCHIEFFER [...] | 2006-07-14 09:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO397 | TECRO ASKS FOR US SUPPORT FOR TAIWAN OBSERVER [...] (C) USAID Counselor and ESToff met with three officials from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Japan on January 25. TECRO Liaison Division Director Peter M. Y. Tsai, Deputy Director Juei-hu Hsu and Political Division Second Secretary Joe Ting-Chang Hsu requeste [...] | 2006-01-25 08:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SOCI WHO JA KFLU |
06TOKYO4089 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JULY 21 [...] The following is an update on avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period July 14 to 21. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. 2. The University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Sciences has begun collaborativ [...] | 2006-07-21 11:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4205 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JULY 27 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period July 21 to 27. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Yamaguchi Prefecture to Conduct a Drill -- 2. In late August, Yamaguchi Prefectura [...] | 2006-07-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4368 | TOKYO TOUTS CANDIDATE FOR WHO DG: HHS A/S AGWUNOBI [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 24, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health John Agwunobi met with Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) Minister Jiro Kawasaki and other senior officials to discuss a wide range of regional and bilateral health issues, includ [...] | 2006-08-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4369 | JAPANESE CONCERNS ON IPAPI AND REGIONAL STOCKPILES [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information and is intended for internal USG use only. 2. (SBU) Summary. Japanese officials are concerned about management issues surrounding the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI) and see the need for settin [...] | 2006-08-03 12:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4409 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 03 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period July 27 to August 03. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. 2. In August, a research team of Hokkaido University and Shiga University Med [...] | 2006-08-07 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4425 | JAPAN'S ANNUAL REPORT ON HIV/AIDS FOR 2005 [...] According to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) AIDS Surveillance Committee Annual Report on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic for 2005, a total of 832 new HIV- positive cases and 367 new AIDS cases were reported in Japan during the year. While the number of new HIV positive cases incr [...] | 2006-08-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI KHIV AMED KSCA JA |
06TOKYO4525 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 10 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period August 03 to August 10. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Importation of German Chickens to Resume -- 2. On August 8, the Ministry [...] | 2006-08-11 05:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO4853 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 24 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period August 10 to August 24. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Company to Begin Clinical Test of AI Antiviral -- 2. The Toyama Chemica [...] | 2006-08-24 05:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO5039 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 31 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period August 24 to August 31. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Japan's Cooperation with China -- Â [...] | 2006-09-05 06:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO5903 | ABE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Although Prime Minister Abe's campaign platform for addressing social disparity issues lacked detail, he has already laid significant groundwork for related government programs, according to Cabinet Office and ministry contacts. Six members of his so-called "second chance" parliamentary [...] | 2006-10-11 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV SOCI ECON EFIN EINV JA |
06TOKYO594 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: TOKYO WEEKLY FEBRUARY 2 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. -- MHLW Briefing on AI to Diplomatic Community -- 2. On January 26, ESToff attended a Diplomatic Briefing Session hosted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) during which the Minist [...] | 2006-02-02 08:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO5970 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT OCOBER 13 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period August 31 to October 13. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. -- The GOJ Conducted a Tabletop Drill on Pandemic Influenza -- Â [...] | 2006-10-13 05:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO6098 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT OCTOBER 19 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period October 13 to October 19. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Japanese Developers Confirm the Effectiveness of a New AI Vaccine for Humans -- Â [...] | 2006-10-19 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO6529 | A REVIEW OF JAPAN'S ANTI-TIP POLICY: PROGRESS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 02:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB SOCI SMIG JA |
06TOKYO6538 | A REVIEW OF JAPAN'S ANTI-TIP POLICY: PROGRESS AND [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 18. 2. (U) Summary and Comment: Increased vigilance by police and immigration officers as well as new legislation has brought positive change to the trafficking-in-persons (TIP) situation in Japan. These measures have forc [...] | 2006-11-15 06:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB SOCI SMIG JA |
06TOKYO6569 | 2006 JAPAN INCSR PART I [...] (U) Japan's efforts to fight drug trafficking comply with international standards. A party to the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotics, Japan cooperates with other countries in intelligence sharing and law enforcement. Methamphetamine abuse remains the bigg [...] | 2006-11-16 05:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SOCI JA |
06TOKYO6689 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT November 22 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period October 19 to November 22. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Importation of US Chickens to Stop -- 2. On November 16, in response to the recen [...] | 2006-11-22 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO6907 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT December 07 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period November 22 to December 07. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. -- Importation of Korean Chickens to Stop - 2. On November 24, in response to the r [...] | 2006-12-08 07:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO7106 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT December 21 [...] There were no significant avian influenza (AI) developments in Japan during the period December 07 to 21. No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the above period. --Japan to Strengthen Monitoring of Migratory Birds- Â [...] | 2006-12-22 03:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
06TOKYO729 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: TOKYO WEEKLY FEBRUARY 9 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. -- H5N2 Infection not from Wild Birds... -- 2. (U) Ibaraki Prefectural Authorities announced on February 6 that all of the tests it conducted on 354 wild birds since October of last year came back [...] | 2006-02-09 09:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO850 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 16 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. Consulate-General Sapporo contributed to this week's AI report. -- Chugai Planning Domestic Production of Tamiflu -- 2. The Chugai Pharmaceutical Company has finalized plans to produce the antivi [...] | 2006-02-16 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TOKYO958 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 23 [...] (U) No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the past week. -- Dead Bird Calls, Tabletops and More Money: Local Preparations Continue Throughout Japan -- 2. (U) On February 15, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) established a call-in des [...] | 2006-02-23 08:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO JA |
06TUNIS1081 | REDUCED WORK HOURS FOR WOMEN: ADVANCING WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In March, President Ben Ali announced that his 2004 election proposal to allow women to work for half the hours for two-thirds the pay would be enacted in 2007. (NOTE: It is not yet clear if this proposal will apply to all women in the work force or only nursing mothers. END NOTE. [...] | 2006-05-08 11:25:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI ELAB PGOV PHUM TS |
06TUNIS1239 | REDUCED WORK HOURS FOR WOMEN: ADVANTAGE OR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In March 2006, President Ben Ali announced that his 2004 election proposal to allow women to work for half the hours for two-thirds the pay would be enacted in 2007. According to press reports, the draft law will apply to women working in the public sector with children under si [...] | 2006-05-23 14:12:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI ELAB PGOV PHUM TS |
06TUNIS1428 | GOT ISLAMIC CREDENTIALS UNDER ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of allegations and rumors that the GOT is violating basic Islamic principles have spread throughout Tunisia this spring, forcing the government to take aggressive action to prove its Islamic bona fides. In June, a human rights group alleged that prison officials had dese [...] | 2006-06-12 12:11:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | SOCI KDEM PGOV PTER TS |
06TUNIS1675 | DAS GRAY ENGAGES MFA ON SUDAN, UN REFORM [...] (C) During his June 28 meeting with Tunisian Deputy Foreign Minister for the Americas and Asia Saida Chtioui, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, accompanied by Ambassador, raised reftel demarche on the transition of AMIS to a United Nations peacekeeping operation (PKO) in Darfur. Chti [...] | 2006-07-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR KPKO PINS SOCI SU TS |
06TUNIS2170 | Beywatch: Are You Really American? [...] The following is one of a series of reporting cables drafted by Post's entry level officers, which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader a look into everyday life in Tunisia that may not be central to more formal repor [...] | 2006-08-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI SCUL ECON TS |
06TUNIS2175 | Beywatch: Where Men can be Men: Cafes in Tunisia [...] The following is one of a series of reporting cables drafted by Post's entry level officers, which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader a sense of everyday life in Tunisia that may not be central to more formal repor [...] | 2006-08-21 12:31:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI TS |
06TUNIS2299 | LAW ADOPTED ON REDUCED HOURS FOR WOMEN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 18, the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies adopted a law that will allow some female employees to work part-time while still receiving two-thirds of their original salary. While the GOT states the law was motivated by a desire to allow Tunisians to balance family and professiona [...] | 2006-09-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI TS |
06TUNIS2321 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Tunis warmly welcomes the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) delegation's September 13-14 2006 visit to Tunisia. This cable provides a brief overview of the political situation in Tunisia, as well as a summary of the business climate. -------------------------- [...] | 2006-09-08 11:45:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER ASEC ECON TS |
06TUNIS2492 | HIV/AIDS AND THE GLOBAL FUND: EMBASSY TUNIS [...] (U) Per reftel, an interagency committee, comprised of participants from the Health Unit, Public Affairs, the Political and Economic Section, and DOD's Office of Defense Cooperation reviewed the GOT submission to the Global Fund. The following comments are keyed to reftel para 8 questions: [...] | 2006-10-04 09:17:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO TS |
06TUNIS2679 | WOMENS' "NGO": LESS HIJAB, MORE BEN ALI [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent meeting of a major pro-GOT Tunisian women's NGO to discuss Tunisian values turned into a rally in support of Ben Ali and his policies. While ostensibly a meeting in support of secular and moderate values, the October 27 event organized by the National Union of the Tunisi [...] | 2006-11-01 09:48:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI TS |
06TUNIS2702 | EMBASSY TUNIS PREPARES NIV APPLICANTS FOR NEW EVAF [...] SUMMARY: For the last two months, post consular and public affairs sections have been engaged in a campaign to increase public awareness about the new EVAF requirements. Through press releases and a roundtable discussion, liaison with the host government, and by using posters and public speakin [...] | 2006-11-03 08:49:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT SOCI LY TS |
06TUNIS2783 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-21 07:34:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI TS |
06TUNIS2910 | Beywatch: American Passports and African Development? [...] INTRODUCTION: This report is one of a series drafted by Post's entry level officers which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader a sense of everyday life in Tunisia. For more information about Tunisia or the Embassy Tuni [...] | 2006-12-14 15:34:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI CVIS SY TS |
06TUNIS2957 | THE BUSINESS OF HAJJ IN TUNISIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. DESPITE THEIR GOVERNMENT'S SECULAR LEANINGS, THE NUMBER OF TUNISIANS WISHING TO PERFORM THE ANNUAL HAJJ PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA IS INCREASING IN PARALLEL WITH TUNISIANS GENERALLY BECOMING MORE RELIGIOUS. WHILE TUNISIAN AUTHORITIES, LIKE MOST MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS, UNDERTAKE SIGNIFICANT [...] | 2006-12-22 10:32:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PREL TS |
06TUNIS423 | NIH DIRECTOR ZERHOUNI ASSESSES POSSIBILITIES FOR [...] SUMMARY. National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni accompanied by a multi-disciplinary team, visited Tunis January 19-21 to understand research priorities and related GOT commitment. The team was impressed with the state of care and research in Tunisia; found the involve [...] | 2006-02-27 15:43:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM TBIO KPAO SOCI NIH OVIP MEPI |
06TUNIS540 | MODERATE TUNISIAN RESPONSE TO CARTOON CRISIS [...] (U) Summary: Most Tunisian intellectuals and media responded with moderate and thoughtful commentary to the Danish cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohamed. While some editors used the polemic as an occasion to again criticize American foreign policy in the Arab world, most of the editorial re [...] | 2006-03-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO ECIP SOCI TS |
06TUNIS73 | BEYWATCH - NEWS FROM TUNISIA AT THE END OF 2005 [...] The following is one of a series of reporting cables drafted predominantly by Post's entry level officers, which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the different perspectives offered in each of the following vignettes will give the reader a look into everyday life in Tunisia that may no [...] | 2006-01-17 07:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI UN TS |
06TUNIS753 | American Diplomat Builds Bridges of Understanding [...] Summary. During a March cultural program funded by the ECA Performing Arts Initiative and organized by Tunis PA, Embassy Political Officer Brennan Gilmore helped score a significant public diplomacy hit through his musical collaboration with Tunisian musician Riadh Fehri in a group called "K [...] | 2006-03-30 12:51:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC OPRC SCUL SOCI TS |
06TUNIS755 | Embassy Tunis Opens First American Corner in [...] Summary. In January 2006, in the presence of close to 200 Tunisians, the Ambassador inaugurated the first American Corner in the country at the Tunis AMIDEAST headquarters. In his speech to a wide range of government officials, journalists, students, academics, and civil society partners, the [...] | 2006-03-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP OPRC SCUL SOCI OEXC TS |
06TUNIS881 | THE "PEOPLE'S CAR" PROGRAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of the fundamental components of President Ben Ali's national agenda is the so-called "People's Car" program, established in 1996. Designed to support the ability of Tunisians to buy cars, the program supplies a set number of small family cars at reduced prices. Given high T [...] | 2006-04-14 14:22:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SOCI TS |
06ULAANBAATAR385 | Gandan Monastery Invites Dalai Lama for Visit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-18 07:35:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI MG CH |
06ULAANBAATAR454 | Genghis Khan Makes A Comeback [...] Earlier this week, Chinggis Khaan (Genghis Khan) replaced the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP). The MPRP, the social democratic descendant of the Communist Party which ruled Mongolia for nearly seven decades, is the dominant party in the coalition government formed in January. [...] | 2006-06-14 06:09:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI MG |
06ULAANBAATAR578 | Mining Conflict Leads to One Death and Forcible Removal of [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 27, police forcibly removed approximately 8000 artisal, or "ninja," miners from a gold mining area 100 miles northwest of Ulaanbaatar. The removal followed two weeks of sporadic clashes with looting ninjas, including one on July 12 in which one person attacking the com [...] | 2006-07-29 06:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EMIN SOCI MG |
06ULAANBAATAR588 | Crowd of Thousands in Central Square Demands "Change" [...] Over the past few months, Ulaanbaatar's central Sukhbaatar Square has been home to dozens of demonstrations for a variety of causes. The target of the protesters, Government House, is conveniently located just north of the Square. Demonstrators have demanded the resignation of the government [...] | 2006-08-03 07:49:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PHUM MG |
06ULAANBAATAR591 | IMF PUTS NEW PROGRAM NEGOTIATIONS WITH MONGOLIA ON [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Local IMF Resident Representative Jang (strictly protect) told Emboffs August 3 that the IMF had decided to postpone further discussion with the Government of Mongolia (GOM) over a new IMF program to replace its long-lapsed program. Jang was now informing key donors and would a [...] | 2006-08-03 08:52:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN EAID PREL PGOV SOCI MG |
06ULAANBAATAR608 | FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS FOR ADVICE ON POSSIBLE DALAI [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 4. 2. (C) After an August 9 meeting on another matter, Foreign Minister Enkhbold asked to meet the Ambassador one-on-one. Enkhbold said that Gandan monastery had told the government it wishes to invite the Dalai Lama to Mongolia for a visit [...] | 2006-08-10 08:12:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI PHUM KIRF MG CH |
06ULAANBAATAR621 | Mongolia's Shadow Economy: Half as Large as the Official [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to a USAID-funded analysis, the informal economy in Mongolia is about 45% to 50% the size of the formal economy. This contrasts with the current official estimate of just 11% from the National Statistics Office (NSO). Using a new estimate based on a large sample surv [...] | 2006-08-16 02:23:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAID MARR SOCI MG |
06ULAANBAATAR622 | Efforts Against Domestic Violence Increasing [...] Mongolia is increasing efforts to combat an epidemic of domestic violence which affects perhaps a third of all women. As well as a 2004 law, a draft national action plan will be submitted in September, and the Supreme Court may clarify some remaining legal issues in coming months. While publ [...] | 2006-08-16 02:47:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI EAID PREF MG |
06ULAANBAATAR625 | DALAI LAMA TO VISIT MONGOLIA AUGUST 21-28 [...] (C) The Japanese DCM told EP chief on August 16 that the Dalai Lama will transit Japan next week en route to Mongolia. The DCM said that Tokyo had informed the Japanese embassy here that the Dalai Lama would transit Japan en route to Mongolia on August 21, and would transit Japan again on Au [...] | 2006-08-16 06:37:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI MG CH JA |
06ULAANBAATAR628 | Mongolia's Looming Mercury Pollution Crisis [...] Summary. The widespread use of mercury in the informal gold mining sector in Mongolia has produced a looming environmental crisis. As many as 100,000 "ninja" miners -- 15-20% of them children -- now work in the sector, a number that has sharply increased in the last five years. Illegal u [...] | 2006-08-17 05:47:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV EMIN SOCI ELAB PHUM MG |
06ULAANBAATAR638 | DALAI LAMA TO VISIT MONGOLIA AUGUST 21-28 [...] (C) The Dalai Lama will visit Mongolia August 21-28, at the invitation of the head lama of Gandan Monastery, the leading Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the country. He will transit Japan in both directions, as he did during his last visit in 2002. President Enkhbayar, in his capacity as the [...] | 2006-08-21 07:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI MG CH JA |
06ULAANBAATAR660 | Fiscal Snapshot: High Mining Revenues a Boon and a Danger [...] SUMMARY: Buoyed by sharp GDP growth in the last few years, Mongolia's government finds itself in a time of relative plenty. However, these large revenue increases have been driven by high international commodity prices for gold and copper. When the good times end for copper and gold, Mongoli [...] | 2006-09-05 02:51:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL EAID EMIN SOCI MG |
06USUNNEWYORK1070 | UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT'S 14TH [...] (U) Summary: Building on reforms advanced since the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the May 1-12 fourteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14) successfully focused on practical approaches to increase access to modern energy services. An interagency U.S. [...] | 2006-05-25 14:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI ENRG EAID TRGY ECON UN |
06USUNNEWYORK1120 | HUNGARY: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Hungary to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Prof. Dr. Andrea Peto for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2007-2010. The elec [...] | 2006-06-01 18:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM HU |
06USUNNEWYORK1480 | POST CLEARANCE: USDEL FOR THE AUGUST 2006 [...] Mission grants post clearance and warmly welcomes the proposed visit of the members of the U.S. delegation to USUN. Control Officer is LAURIE SHESTACK, available at office telephone (212) 415-4204, email SHESTACKLL@state.gov, cell phone (646) 245-4308. 2. Mission is currently arranging b [...] | 2006-08-03 21:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN AORC SOCI |
06USUNNEWYORK1716 | LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) TAKE [...] (U) Summary: Least Developed Countries (LDCs) continue to press for a contentious draft outcome document, which would require laborious negotiation, for adoption during the LDC High Level Meeting at UN headquarters September 18-19, immediately preceding the General Debate of the 61st General [...] | 2006-09-01 22:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNGA UN |
06USUNNEWYORK1839 | CONFERENCE ON UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION: NGOS [...] SUMMARY: On September 5, civil society think tanks, NGOs, and UN mission representatives discussed next steps for the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) during a German NGO-sponsored symposium on "Getting the Peacebuilding Commission off the Ground - How to Include Civil Society on the Ground." [...] | 2006-09-20 13:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO EAID SOCI BR SL |
06USUNNEWYORK1855 | UN SEEKS FUNDING FOR WOMEN'S WEBSITE [...] (U) USUN has received a letter from Carolyn Hannan, Director, Division for the Advancement of Women, dated August 25, 2006, providing banking details for contributions to the WomenWatch Website. Text in paragraph 2 below. BEGIN TEXT 2. (U) Excellency, The joint United Nations website on [...] | 2006-09-25 14:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK1908 | WRAP-UP OF UNDP/UNFPA EXECUTIVE BOARD SESSION, [...] The Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) met in New York September 11-13, 2006. This cable reports on the UNDP segment. UNFPA segment will follow septel. 2. Begin Summary. Twenty-seven program documents (www. [...] | 2006-10-04 15:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNDP UNFPA ECON SOCI |
06USUNNEWYORK1920 | UNFPA SEGMENT OF THE SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE [...] Summary: At the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board meeting in New York on September 11-13, UNFPA Executive Director Obaid stressed the importance of equity and human rights for the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people. She said reproductive health, women's empowerment, and gender equality re [...] | 2006-10-06 00:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREF PREL UNFPA |
06USUNNEWYORK2172 | VOTE RESULTS OF UN,S THIRD COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: On November 16, Member States voted on 17 resolutions in the UN's Third Committee (Human Rights). The resolutions that passed over objections of the USG received a plurality of support from non-aligned nations. A resolution sponsored by Egypt on the Right of the Palestinian People t [...] | 2006-11-21 15:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PTER SMIG SCUL UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK363 | AZERBAIJAN: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Azerbaijan for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2007-2011. The elections will be held durin [...] | 2006-02-27 14:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM AJ |
06USUNNEWYORK417 | ARGENTINA: COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Dr. Norberto Liwski for re-election to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The elections are scheduled to take place during the 11th Meeting of States [...] | 2006-03-03 20:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN SOCI PHUM AR |
06USUNNEWYORK444 | SOUTH AFRICA: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Ms. Hazel Edith Gumede Shelton for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2007-2010. The electi [...] | 2006-03-09 14:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM SF |
06USUNNEWYORK482 | THAILAND: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Dr. Saisuree Chutikul for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2007-2010. The elections will be h [...] | 2006-03-14 14:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM TH |
06USUNNEWYORK516 | IRAQ: CSW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature for membership on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The elections will be held during the resumed organizational session of the Economic a [...] | 2006-03-16 14:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SOCI UNCSW KWMN IZ |
06USUNNEWYORK559 | BENIN: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Hugette Bokpe-Gnacadja for re-election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2007-2010. The el [...] | 2006-03-22 14:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM BN |
06USUNNEWYORK583 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION: UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Professor Yuri M. Kolosov for re-election to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The elections will be held during th [...] | 2006-03-23 19:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SOCI PHUM UN RS |
06USUNNEWYORK604 | NIGERIA: CEDAW CANDIDACY [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Mrs. Saudatu Mahdi Magajiya Shehu for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term [...] | 2006-03-27 14:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CEDAW UNAUS SOCI PHUM NI |
06USUNNEWYORK616 | LETTER FROM U/SYG JOSE OCAMPO ON THE TRUST FUND ON [...] Mission received the following note dated March 10, 2006, from Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, addressed to Ambassador Bolton, regarding contributions for the Voluntary Fund on Indigenous Issues. Text of note follows in para 2 below. 2. Begin [...] | 2006-03-28 16:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PHUM EAID UN |
06USUNNEWYORK627 | CAMEROON: UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cameroon to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Mr. Clement Atangana for re-election to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The elections will be held during the [...] | 2006-03-29 18:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SOCI PHUM UN CM |
06USUNNEWYORK718 | NIGERIA: UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Ambassador A. J. Nanna for election to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The elections will be held duri [...] | 2006-04-05 14:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SOCI PHUM UN |
06USUNNEWYORK741 | MONGOLIAN INVITATION TO U/S DOBRIANSKY TO ATTEND [...] USUN received a letter, dated March 27, 2006 from the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations, transmitting an invitation to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky, to attend the International Follow-Up Conference on New or Restored Democracies [...] | 2006-04-06 19:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI UN KDEM |
06USUNNEWYORK776 | LETTER FROM UNDP ADMINISTRATOR KEMAL DERVIS TO U/S [...] USUN received a letter, dated April 5, 2006 addressed to Ambassador Bolton, transmitting a letter to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paul Dobriansky, regarding UNDP's role in the Community of Democracies. Text of letter and note follow below. 2. Begin text of c [...] | 2006-04-12 18:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI UN KDEM EAID |
06USUNNEWYORK828 | PHILIPPINES: UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND [...] Mission has received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations requesting USG support for the candidature of Dr. Virginia Bonoan Dandan for re-election to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The elections will be held during the res [...] | 2006-04-20 19:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SOCI PHUM UN RP |
06USUNNEWYORK851 | UN REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PLANS FOR THE SECOND [...] Mission received the following note from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs regarding the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People and requesting information regarding plans of the USG for the Second Decade and views as to a midterm and end-of-ter [...] | 2006-04-26 13:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PHUM UN |
06VATICAN101 | CARDINAL ZEN OPTIMISTIC ON HOLY SEE-CHINA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong, visiting Rome, told DCM that both the Holy See and China want to put their talks back on track, and that Rome's negotiator will be heading soon to Beijing for this reason. He also commented on his relations with Beijing and the Patriotic Association, th [...] | 2006-06-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT |
06VATICAN126 | CATHOLIC - ORTHODOX RELATIONS: NATIONALITY COUNTS [...] (C) New hope for Catholic-Orthodox relations in the pontificate of Benedict XVI has been predicated in part upon the exit of the Polish Pope John Paul II, seen by many as an obstacle to improved relations with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) because of his nationality and his role in the do [...] | 2006-07-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI PL RS TU VT |
06VATICAN128 | HOLY SEE: POPE TO EMPHASIZE FAMILY VALUES IN SPAIN [...] (C) In advance of Pope Benedict XVI's July 8 departure for Valencia, Spain for the World Meeting of Families, Post spoke to the Holy See and to Spanish representation to the Vatican. Vatican officials acknowledged to us that issues such as relaxed regulations on divorce, embryonic stem cell re [...] | 2006-07-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT SP |
06VATICAN130 | UGANDA: SANT'EGIDIO WORKING ON LRA [...] (C) Mario Giro of the Community of Sant'Egidio told the Ambassador that he had met recently with Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),to discuss possible talks between the LRA and the government of Uganda. The meeting itself was inconclusive, but Giro said there was still a [...] | 2006-07-10 13:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM SOCI UG SU VT |
06VATICAN141 | POPE AVOIDS CONFRONTATION IN SPAIN [...] (C) Pope Benedict XVI promoted traditional Catholic doctrine on the family and bioethics during his recent visit to Spain, but opted for respectful dialogue over open attacks against the Spanish government's policies on gay marriage, divorce and abortion. The pope aimed to pitch his message to the [...] | 2006-07-19 16:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF SP VT |
06VATICAN142 | LEBANON-ISRAEL: VATICAN FINE-TUNING ITS POSITION [...] (C) Pope Benedict XVI's July 18 comment expressing support for the G-8 statement on the crisis in Lebanon and Israel helped establish a more helpful Vatican position on the conflict after a more one-sided statement by Cardinal Secretary of State Sodano July 14 (reftel). Holy See messages on [...] | 2006-07-20 13:27:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS IS LE SOCI KIRF PHUM VT |
06VATICAN143 | LEBANON/ISRAEL: VATICAN HOPES FOR CEASE-FIRE, NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (U) The Vatican released a new statement (complete text emailed to EUR/WE and in para. three below) on the "worsening situation in the Middle East" this afternoon (July 20). The statement noted the pope's "great concern" for the "destinies of all the peoples involved" and expressed hope for [...] | 2006-07-20 16:12:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS LE IS PHUM SOCI KIRF VT |
06VATICAN169 | LEBANON: CATHOLIC MEDIA COMMENTARY [...] (U) Catholic media have given balanced coverage to the war in Lebanon, while editorial material has tended to criticize U.S. support for Israel as well as Israel's "disproportionate" response to Hezbollah terrorism. More "page space" has been given to the greater loss of civilian life in Leba [...] | 2006-08-11 12:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI VT |
06VATICAN179 | CODEL SHAYS ENGAGES VATICAN ON MIDDLE EAST, SUDAN [...] (C) CODEL Shays engaged DFM Parolin on the Middle East and Sudan August 24, capping a visit to these areas with a stop in Rome. Parolin told the CODEL that the families of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers had approached the papal representative in Jerusalem and that Church personnel were tryin [...] | 2006-08-29 14:03:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF IZ IS LE SU VT |
06VATICAN180 | LEBANON: VATICAN MONITORS AID, CALLS FOR MORE RAW MATERIALS [...] (C) Echoing a recent diplomatic note sent to the Embassy (ref a),Holy See Country Director for the Middle East Coppola told us August 29 that the Lebanese people needed raw materials for building and other reconstruction projects. Coppola described his recent trip with a papal envoy to Leba [...] | 2006-08-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PHUM KIRF LE IS VT |
06VATICAN194 | SANT'EGIDIO HOSTS 20TH ANNUAL INTER-FAITH CONFERENCE IN [...] (SBU) Catholic NGO the Community of Sant'Egidio brought together religious representatives from many of the world's faiths September 4-5 to find common ground in peace and reconciliation. The Community's annual meeting was dedicated to Pope John Paul II, who initiated the series of meetings [...] | 2006-09-12 13:54:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI PHUM VT |
06VATICAN206 | VATICAN: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES, TONE SHIFTING [...] (C) In a further effort at damage control following his remarks last week in Germany, Pope Benedict has invited ambassadors from predominantly Muslim countries to meet with him September 25. Criticism of the pontiff from the Muslim world has been well documented; there are, however, various [...] | 2006-09-22 16:57:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PTER KIRF VT |
06VATICAN207 | POPE CONVENES MUSLIM AMBASSADORS [...] (C) Pope Benedict XVI expressed "esteem and profound respect" for Muslims at a meeting September 25 with ambassadors from Muslim nations. He did not retract the quotation he used in Regensburg (reftels),or give further explanation of his speech in Germany. The pope instead emphasized posit [...] | 2006-09-25 16:45:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PHUM KIRF VT |
06VATICAN209 | VATICAN: MUSLIM AMBASSADORS REACT TO PAPAL GESTURES [...] (C) The ambassadors of several Muslim nations told Ambassador Rooney in recent days that they were ready to move on after the flap with Pope Benedict XVI. Some were still sensitive about the pope's quotation in his Regensburg speech, and all felt the pope had made a mistake in using it. Acc [...] | 2006-10-03 12:48:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PTER SOCI PHUM VT |
06VATICAN210 | INDONESIAN-VATICAN RELATIONS: A BUMP IN THE ROAD [...] (C) Indonesian Ambassador Prayitno told Ambassador Rooney recently that he was optimistic about Indonesian - Holy See relations despite the recent papal flap and the execution of three Catholics there. He said that despite numerous entreaties by the Vatican, there was never any chance that [...] | 2006-10-03 13:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PTER PHUM SOCI ID VT |
06VATICAN211 | ROME'S INTER-FAITH MEETING [...] Summary: Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni hosted an inter-faith meeting on September 19 attended by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; Sami Salem, Imam of Rome's Grand Mosque; Abdallah Redouane, Secretary-General of Rome's Islamic Cultural Ce [...] | 2006-10-03 13:43:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KISL PGOV PHUM VT IT |
06VATICAN216 | VATICAN: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] (U) Below please find background information to serve as a scene setter for the upcoming CODEL SMITH. ------------ The Holy See ------------ 2. (SBU) The Holy See is the composite of the authority, jurisdiction, and sovereignty vested in the Pope and his advisors to direct the Roman Cat [...] | 2006-10-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP VT SOCI PHUM |
06VATICAN232 | VATICAN LOOKS AHEAD AFTER REGENSBURG [...] (C) With some lingering reverberations from the Muslim world, the dust has settled in the Vatican following the controversial speech by Pope Benedict XVI in Regensburg, Germany on September 12. As the Holy See takes stock of what happened, this cable seeks to answer the key questions on Rege [...] | 2006-10-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PHUM KIRF VT |
06VATICAN233 | VATICAN OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT AGAINST HUSSEIN VERDICT [...] (U) Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, criticized the recent death sentence issued to Saddam Hussein in an interview with Italy's leading newspaper, center-right Corriere della Sera November 6. Martino stated that "punishing one crime with anot [...] | 2006-11-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KIRF PGOV PHUM VT IZ |
06VATICAN238 | VATICAN RECOGNIZES NEED FOR CALM IN CONGO [...] Holy See Deputy FM Parolin told the Ambassador November 16 that he was aware of Congolese Cardinal Etsou's inflammatory statements. Parolin agreed that the objective for all concerned was a peaceful acceptance of the election results. He said he had spoken to the Papal Nuncio November 16 and [...] | 2006-11-16 15:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI VT KDEM PGOV CG PREL |
06VATICAN240 | HOLY SEE: MARTINO DISCUSSES NICARAGUA, SECURITY WALL WITH [...] (C) Cardinal Renato Martino (please strictly protect here) told the Ambassador November 16 that the Holy See had attempted to get Cardinal Obando y Bravo out of Nicaragua in the run-up to the recent elections, but that Obando y Bravo had not acted on the Vatican's "invitation" for him to come [...] | 2006-11-21 14:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI NU CU MX VT |
06VATICAN241 | VATICAN: ISRAELI VISIT ADDRESSES FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT [...] (C) The Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry will visit the Vatican November 27 to discuss issues related to the Fundamental Agreement between Israel and the Holy See, an attempt to break the logjam on negotiations. Some Vatican contacts fear the visit may turn out to be an Israe [...] | 2006-11-22 17:09:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KIRF PHUM SOCI VT |
06VATICAN248 | HOLY SEE: MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, following is Embassy Vatican's Muslim Engagement Strategy. Deputy Chief of Mission Chris Sandrolini will be post's minority-engagement officer. 2. (SBU) Begin text: The Holy See is in effect the central government of the Catholic Church. Its head of state, Pope Benedic [...] | 2006-12-01 17:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI VT |
06VATICAN249 | VATICAN: ENCOURAGEMENT, BUT NO CHANGE ON TURKEY/EU POLICY [...] (C) Despite media reports to the contrary, the Vatican remains officially neutral on the subject of Turkey's EU bid. It maintains its position that it sees "no obstacle" to Turkey's entry if the GoT fulfills the Copenhagen criteria on religious freedom. Holy See officials were quick to speak out an [...] | 2006-12-01 17:24:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI TU VT |
06VATICAN254 | POPE CALLS FOR END TO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HIV/AIDS [...] (U) Pope Benedict XVI told the audience at his Sunday prayer service November 26 that he hoped World AIDS day would "serve to foster greater responsibility in curing the disease, as well as in the commitment to avoid all discrimination of those who have been affected." The pope went on to pr [...] | 2006-12-07 09:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KHIV SOCI |
06VATICAN256 | TURKEY: VATICAN BACKS INTEGRATION [...] (C) While not officially endorsing Turkey's entry into the EU (ref a),the Holy See continues to support the dialogue and reform process connected to the issue. Top officials, including the pope, have spoken positively in public and private about European integration. Although they are critical of [...] | 2006-12-07 17:58:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PHUM TU VT |
06VATICAN261 | LEBANON: VATICAN FOCUSED, ENVOY NOT YET NAMED [...] (C) As discussed (ref a),the Holy See should shortly name a special envoy to Lebanon, most likely former Secretary for Relations with States and experienced Lebanon hand Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran. Meanwhile, Department calls to Papal Nuncio Sambi in Washington and current Secretary for Rel [...] | 2006-12-13 17:06:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | LE SOCI PREL VT |
06VATICAN264 | LEBANON: HOLY SEE ENVOY PROPOSAL ON HOLD [...] (C) Holy See FM equivalent Mamberti told the Ambassador December 18 that the Vatican had decided to hold off on sending an envoy to Lebanon (ref a),saying that circumstances were not right for such a mission. In a separate conversation, a Vatican official implied that the Holy See was waiti [...] | 2006-12-18 17:40:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | LE PREL SOCI PHUM SY VT |
06VATICAN265 | POPE, OLMERT DISCUSS LEBANON, POSSIBLE VISIT TO ISRAEL [...] (C) Referring to last summer's Lebanon conflict, Pope Benedict emphasized the need to protect civilians during his December 13 meeting with Israeli PM Olmert. The pope asked Olmert to ease obstacles for pilgrims traveling to Bethlehem during the Christmas season and said he was open to visit [...] | 2006-12-18 17:50:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI LE IS VT |
06VATICAN269 | LATIN AMERICA: 1999 VATICAN DOCUMENT STILL GIVES DIRECTION [...] (SBU) Latin America is home to about half of the world's more than one billion-plus Catholics, making it a key region for the Holy See. It is also a region where the Catholic Church is losing many adherents, especially to evangelical groups. For these reasons and others, Latin America is oft [...] | 2006-12-27 18:04:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI ECON VT XM |
06VATICAN39 | HOLY SEE: VISIT OF SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. End summary. 2. (C) Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visited the Holy See February 17, meeting with senior Vatican officials for about an hour and a half. At the request of the Holy See, the meeting was limited to three per side, with the Holy See participants [...] | 2006-03-01 12:00:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI SP VT |
06VATICAN40 | (CORRECTED COPY) HOLY SEE: VISIT OF SPANISH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. Vatican and Spanish contacts describe the recent visit to the Holy See of Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos as a success which improved the tone of the bilateral dialogue. Main topics included the forthcoming papal visit to Valencia, church/state relations in Spain, and the Alli [...] | 2006-03-01 14:46:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT SP |
06VATICAN44 | LENT BRINGS MIX OF SPIRITUALITY, POLITICS TO VATICAN [...] (SBU) The Lenten season brings with it an atmosphere of increased devotion in and around Vatican City, but politics can play a role in even the most spiritual activities. Governance stalls in the offices of the Vatican MFA and elsewhere in the Curia during the first week of Lent when the pope [...] | 2006-03-20 11:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI VT |
06VATICAN53 | MOROCCO INCREASING ENGAGEMENT WITH VATICAN [...] (SBU) Ali Achour, Morocco's new ambassador to the Holy See, told Ambassador Rooney March 27 that his country was planning to intensify its work with the Holy See on interreligious dialogue and understanding. He recalled the visit of Pope John Paul II to Morocco in 1985, after which the kingdo [...] | 2006-03-29 09:01:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF SOCI PHUM MO SA VT |
06VATICAN54 | VATICAN: VENEZUELANS FETE CARDINAL UROSA [...] (C) The Venezuelan Embassy to the Holy See wasted no time in cozying up to freshly-minted Cardinal Jorge Urosa, organizing a mass at which he presided in the aftermath of the March 24 consistory. Holy See Country Director for Venezuela Nicolas Thevenin told us the turnout for the mass was go [...] | 2006-03-30 12:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | VE PHUM KIRF SOCI VT |
06VATICAN55 | VATICAN MFA AND MARTINO: DIFFERENT TAKES ON CUBA [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for Cuba Thevenin made it clear in a recent conversation with us that the Vatican MFA (Secretariat of State) did not share Cardinal Martino's views on religious freedom in Cuba (ref a). He outlined the many ways in which the Church's activities were curbed, from [...] | 2006-03-30 12:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF SOCI PHUM CU VT |
06VATICAN57 | HOLY SEE'S CHINA NEGOTIATOR "HOPEFUL BUT WITHOUT ILLUSIONS" [...] (C) Summary. The Holy See's principal China negotiator, Archbishop Celli, described the situation of the Catholic Church in China as complex, with continuing subtle layers of control in key areas. With regard to the bilateral relationship between China and the Holy See, the Vatican remains h [...] | 2006-03-31 15:49:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI KIRF VT CH |
06VATICAN59 | HOLY SEE RAISES OBJECTIONS TO RWANDA'S GACACA TRIBUNALS [...] (SBU) Summary. Holy See deputy foreign minister Parolin asked ambassador to transmit to Washington a note verbale and accompanying text on the gacaca tribunals in Rwanda. The Holy See believes that the tribunals are politically manipulated and procedurally flawed and are not serving their int [...] | 2006-04-03 13:49:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI VT RW |
06VATICAN6 | VATICAN ENCOURAGING MUSLIM SELF-CRITICISM ON TERROR [...] (C) The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) told the Ambassador January 10 that he constantly emphasized to his Muslim interlocutors the importance of condemning terrorism. He agreed with the Ambassador that as important as Pope Benedict's consistent conde [...] | 2006-01-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI VT PTER |
06VATICAN60 | (CORRECTED COPY) HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] | 2006-04-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI FT MX BR |
06VATICAN61 | HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN CARDINALS SEEK USG HELP [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] | 2006-04-03 16:03:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI VT MX BR |
06VATICAN62 | PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY STILL ENGAGED ON BIOTECH [...] (U) A pro-biotech conference was held at the Regina Apostolorum Atheneum in Rome last week. Two of the three speakers were scientists working in the field of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and the third was the Cabinet Chief for the Italian Ministry of Environment and Land Protection. [...] | 2006-04-12 09:14:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | VT PREL PHUM EAGR SOCI TBIO |
06VATICAN67 | VATICAN HARDENING LINE ON ISLAM [...] (C) Relations with Islam and the issue of reciprocity for worship have taken center stage recently at the Holy See. Pope Benedict took the initial step in this direction in February with strong comments when he welcomed Morocco's new ambassador. Since then successive Vatican officials hav [...] | 2006-04-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | VT KIRF PTER PHUM SOCI |
06VATICAN70 | CHAVEZ COMING TO VATICAN; PRIEST'S DEATH RAISES EYEBROWS [...] (C) Holy See MFA Country Director for Venezuela Thevenin confirmed that President Chavez would visit the pope and secretary of state, most likely May 11. Thevenin said there SIPDIS might well be a press statement on the margins of the meetings at which time the Holy See would have an oppor [...] | 2006-05-02 13:54:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI VE VT |
06VATICAN73 | CASTILLO LARA PRIMES POPE FOR CHAVEZ; VENEZUELAN PRIEST [...] (C) Fr. Pedro Freites, Rector of the Venezuelan College in Rome, confirmed to us May 4 that Cardinal Castillo Lara had briefed the pope thoroughly on President Chavez during his recent audience (ref a). Freites was confident that the pope had heard what he needed to hear, and said he hoped t [...] | 2006-05-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI VE VT |
06VATICAN74 | CHINA'S ILLICIT ORDINATIONS ANGER VATICAN [...] (C) The Holy See released a statement May 4 roundly condemning the recent unauthorized ordinations of two Chinese priests as bishops. In strong language, it referred to the "profound disappointment" of Pope Benedict XVI, and to the automatic excommunication of the new bishops and those b [...] | 2006-05-05 10:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI CH VT |
06VATICAN83 | POPE TRAVELS TO POLAND: PART ONE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 11:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PL SOCI PREL VT |
06VATICAN84 | POPE TRAVELS TO POLAND: PART TWO [...] (U) This cable is the second of two messages previewing Pope Benedict's May 25-28 visit to Poland. Reftel details Poland's continuing importance to the Holy See and touches on several on-going issues in the Polish Church from the perspective of the Vatican. This installment focuses in more [...] | 2006-05-24 07:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PREL PL VT |
06VATICAN87 | IRAQ: NEW VATICAN NUNCIO OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) Archbishop-designate Francis Chullikatt, soon to be papal nuncio in Baghdad, told the Charge May 25 that he was optimistic about the future in Iraq. He said he saw a "glimmer of hope" in the new government. Chullikatt compared the situation to those in other countries where he has been [...] | 2006-05-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ VT KIRF SOCI PHUM |
06VATICAN91 | HOLY SEE RESPONDS TO INDIAN CRITICISM OVER CONVERSION ISSUE [...] (C) Summary. Holy See contacts gave further background to Embassy Vatican on the recent controversy over remarks made by the pope criticizing anti-conversion laws in India. Our contacts suggested that the pope's remarks were neither surprising to the GOI, nor drafted in an ad hoc manner; and that [...] | 2006-05-31 08:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT IN |
06VIENNA3297 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE IN VIENNA [...] Delegates from 306 national trade union organizations representing 168 million workers in 154 countries met Nov. 1-3 in Vienna to found the International Trade Union Confederation. "The Confederation exists to unite and mobilize the democratic and independent forces of world trade unionism i [...] | 2006-11-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ILO |
06VIENNA830 | SUDAN: UNSC ACTION ON RE-HATTING - EU PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel points to MFA A/S-equivalent for International Organizations Helmut Boeck and his deputy Peter Huber on March 17. Boeck pointed out that Austria is not currently a UNSC member. However, as EU Council President Austria chairs discussions of UN issues in va [...] | 2006-03-20 12:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL SOCI SU AU UNSC EUN |
06VIENNA832 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 13:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI IR EUN AU |
06VIENNA941 | AUSTRIAN ENERGY INITIATIVES - BEST PRACTICES [...] Post solicited information about domestic and international energy initiatives from Herbert Lechner, Scientific Director from the quasi-governmental "Austrian Energy Agency" (AEA),and from Aloisia Woergetter, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Sustainable Development Unit. The GoA pro [...] | 2006-03-30 11:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI ENGR EAID EPET TRGY AU |
06VIENTIANE302 | THE LAO COMMUNIST PARTY'S GAME PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) -- the ruling Communist Party -- has absolute confidence in its ability to govern Laos well into the future. The Party believes that it is responsible for economic gains over the past decade, not comprehending that much of that progress w [...] | 2006-03-30 09:28:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV SOCI LA |
06VIENTIANE311 | CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAO CONTEXT [...] (C) Summary. In a late February visit, DRL/IRF analyst Dr. Clarissa Adamson met with religious leaders and government officials to press for greater religious freedom and the release of four religious prisoners. Noting the slow pace of progress in Laos, Bishop Khamse of Vientiane,s Catholic [...] | 2006-04-03 09:09:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF LA |
06VIENTIANE332 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT NO.27 [...] (U) During the visit of Dr. Nabarro, FAO Representative Leena Kirjavainen on behalf of Lao Agriculture Minister Siene announced to the donors that Dr. Webster's group had found the H5N1 virus in some Vientiane ducks. Although the Minister has not heard this directly from Dr. Webster, he said [...] | 2006-04-07 09:57:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON SOCI PREL LA KFLU |
06VIENTIANE364 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 21 [...] (SBU) AI in Ducks: New information from Dr. Webster provided in a summary of a manuscript being submitted to "Nature" indicates that the number of H5N1 infected ducks his project documented in Laos exceeded 30. These findings resulted from a joint project between St. Jude Hospital and that [...] | 2006-04-21 06:29:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON SOCI PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE400 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT MAY 3 [...] (SBU) Possible Human Case: We have heard from the Australians of a possible human AI case in Houaphan Province (near Vietnam). Embassy's CDC representative is checking with the UN agencies and GOL on this. 2. (SBU) Announcing AI in ducks: The GOL finally notified the OIE of Dr. Webster' [...] | 2006-05-03 09:14:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON SOCI PREL KFLU LA |
06VIENTIANE447 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: LAOS REWRITES ITS [...] (C) Laos isn't unique among countries whose governments rewrite history to serve their own ends, but the Communist leadership here has taken the process to its extreme. The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) has concocted a black-and-white version of the recent past that is designed pure [...] | 2006-05-19 04:30:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV PINR LA |
06VIENTIANE596 | THE GREAT LAND GRAB [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic development is spurring a land grab in broad areas of the country, and the poorest Lao are paying the price. What is feeding the frenzy is a boom in the mining industry and in agricultural commodities, principally rubber and eucalyptus. Foreign investment projects are [...] | 2006-06-30 06:10:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM EAGR PREL LA |
06VIENTIANE696 | PROBABLE OUTBREAK OF AVIAN FLU IN LAOS [...] Post has received information from FAO regarding a probable outbreak of Avian Influenza in Dong Bang Village, Xaythang District, about 20 kilometers north of Vientiane City, in Vientiane Province. The outbreak was reported to FAO and WHO on July 14, but information was withheld from the wider [...] | 2006-07-25 08:11:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON KFLU PREL SOCI LA |
06VIENTIANE757 | LAOS WEEKLY AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] Summary: The GoL says it has succeeded in controlling AI - the kind of statement that suggests that they do not fully appreciate the seriousness of the situation. Public reporting on AI has improved somewhat, due to GoL nervousness about recent outbreaks, but the fact is the response was too li [...] | 2006-08-11 07:48:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON SOCI PREL KFLU LA |
06VILNIUS121 | FALSE ALARM: NO BIRD FLU IN LITHUANIA [...] Reports of a possible case of avian influenza in Lithuania's port city of Klaipeda have proved false. The Ministry of Health initially feared that the disease may have caused the death of an Indian sailor, who died on February 6 while his ship was docked in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. E [...] | 2006-02-07 14:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV LH |
06VILNIUS223 | LITHUANIA'S AI PREPAREDNESS: IS FOUR PERCENT ENOUGH? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL continues to plan for the arrival of avian influenza (AI) virus in Lithuania, but budgetary constraints may hinder preparations, particularly the acquisition of antiviral medication. The Government issued orders requiring owners to sequester domestic birds indoors and p [...] | 2006-03-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR SOCI PGOV KFLU LH |
06WARSAW1683 | Emigration Tightens Poland's Labor Markets: "Will the Last [...] That Poles are leaving Poland in search of jobs and higher wages in other countries is nothing new. For Poland this is merely dj vu, yet another wave of emigration, another generation of young Poles leaving the country in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Past migrations of Poles hav [...] | 2006-08-12 10:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ELAB SOCI PREL SMIG PL XG XH |
06WARSAW2564 | POLAND: AMBASSADOR'S INTRO CALL ON NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on new Minister of Construction, Andrzej Aumiller on December 7. During the meeting, Aumiller explained his hope to build 3 million housing units in Poland over the next eight year [...] | 2006-12-13 15:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PL |
06YEREVAN1707 | WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REMAIN RARE IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In 2006, the Armenian government tightened some of its legislation pertaining to child labor. While there is still no explicit law against the worst forms of child labor, at the end of 2005 the government adopted a list of occupations considered too hazardous for children. The Labor Cod [...] | 2006-12-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID AM |
06YEREVAN487 | ARMENIANS ALSO AMONG RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-05 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR AM |
06YEREVAN785 | ARMENIA'S NEW (OLD) MINISTER OF EDUCATION [...] Summary: On June 5, Ambassador, DCM and CAO met with newly appointed Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan, who took up his post when the party of Parliament Speaker Baghdassarian left the ruling coalition in early May. Mkrtchyan made a strong first impression, with a firm command of the chall [...] | 2006-06-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI AM |
06ZAGREB1494 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: CROATIA [...] Summary: Croatia has a strong institutional and legal framework for protecting the rights of minors and a good track record of taking action to prevent child labor. Problems are isolated and infrequent. Most reported abuses occur in the entertainment, hospitality, retail, industrial construct [...] | 2006-12-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID HR |
07ABIDJAN1180 | COTE D'IVOIRE ADOPTS PLAN AGAINST CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has adopted a National Plan of Action Against Child Trafficking and Labor that will run from September 2007 through December 2009. The plan's overall objectives are: to adopt laws specifically prohibiting these practices, to determine the scope of [...] | 2007-11-27 16:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV SMIG SOCI IV |
07ABIDJAN1219 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following updated information on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in Cote d'Ivoire. POC for this report is Economic Chief Ervin Massinga. A) Laws and Regulations Proscribing the Worst Forms of Child Labor --------- 2 [...] | 2007-12-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI IV |
07ABIDJAN1265 | EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has the will to combat drug trafficking, but lacks the capacity. Also, as it concentrates on steering the country out of its five-year political crisis, its attention is focused on other priorities. The Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat Drug Traffick [...] | 2007-12-31 16:33:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID KCRM PREL SOCI SNAR IV |
07ABIDJAN293 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR PREPARING FOR JUNE DEADLINE [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled with Lou Mazel, DCM Monrovia, and Mohamud Osman, USAID/FFP Dakar, from February 25 to March 3 to visit WFP and UNHCR offices in Cote d'Ivoire (Tabou, Guiglo) and Liberia (Harper) and to meet with refugees and [...] | 2007-03-19 09:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID UNHCR SOCI LI IV |
07ABIDJAN997 | STATELESSNESS IN COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (SBU) Summary. Refugee Office Program Assistant participated in a September 13 trip organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ministry of Justice to the towns of Meagui and Soube in western Cote d'Ivoire. The purpose of the trip was to exami [...] | 2007-09-25 17:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL SOCI IV |
07ABUDHABI1126 | EMIRATES FOUNDATION: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS [...] (C) On June 28 Emboffs met with Peter Cleaves, Emirates Foundation CEO, to discuss the Foundation,s plans to advance intellectual and social growth in the UAE. The Emirates Foundation, launched in 2005 by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),has an endowment of over USD 100 [...] | 2007-07-05 12:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID SOCI SCUL AE |
07ABUDHABI1338 | ABU DHABI GOVERNMENT UNVEILS ITS "POLICY AGENDA 2007-2008" [...] (U) Ambassadors and Charges of foreign embassies in Abu Dhabi were called to a meeting on August 6 at the Emirates Palace Hotel for a roll-out on its new "Emirate of Abu Dhabi Policy Agenda 2007-2008." Diplomats were given a half-hour powerpoint presentation followed by brief Q&A on the Abu Dha [...] | 2007-08-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI AE |
07ABUDHABI1508 | UAE RESPONSE TO LUNCHEON ON LITERACY AND HEALTH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 11:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA |
07ABUDHABI194 | UAE MINISTRY OF LABOR INVITES PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 5 the UAE Ministry of Labor published a revised labor law on a special web site and invited public comment. The law mainly provides for new ways to encourage "Emiratization." Contrary to what Embassy had been led to believe, the law does not adddress collective bar [...] | 2007-02-07 11:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI GTIP AE |
07ABUDHABI198 | UAE LABOR UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 5, Obaid Al-Zahmai Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor (MOL) and Yousif Al-Noor, Labor Advisor to the MOL told econoff that the MoL was working with the Dubai executive council on a specialized labor court to facilitate the hearing of labor disputes in [...] | 2007-02-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CVIS GTIP TC |
07ABUDHABI599 | UAE PRESIDENT DEFENDS LABOR SITUATION IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary: On March 28, 2007, local Arabic and English language dailies, released an interview by the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The interview discusses, among other issues, the situation of the expatriate labor force and the imb [...] | 2007-04-12 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI GTIP AE |
07ABUDHABI949 | THE NEW MOHAMMAD BIN RASHID FOUNDATION: A $10 BILLION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This is a joint Embassy-ConGen Dubai message. Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, on May 19 announced the establishment of the USD 10 billion Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) to improve education, cr [...] | 2007-06-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SOCI SCUL AE |
07ABUJA1671 | NORTHERN VIEWS ON YAR'ADUA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Influential northern Nigerians remain split over whether the May 29 inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern Hausa-Fulani Muslim from Katsina state, may portend a change of fortune for the North. His northern extraction is overshadowed for many by the manner in which [...] | 2007-08-03 12:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI NI |
07ABUJA215 | INSIDER'S VIEW OF ABUJA MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 31, PolOff met with Abuja-based Imam and 2005 International Visitor Program grantee Fouad Adeyemi, founder and director of al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society. Imam Fouad disclosed that he is presently teaching a course on the fundamentals of Islamic worship and belief to m [...] | 2007-02-02 08:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KISL KDEM SOCI SCUL OEXC NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA2201 | NIGERIA: NORTHERN POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR SEPT/OCT [...] (U) This cable is a roundup of recent political developments across northern Nigeria, including: -- Alleged Christian-Muslim Violence Erupts in Kano -- Sharia Court Bans Play Critical of Sharia Implementation -- Bauchi Governor Yuguda Probes Former Governor Mu'azu ------------------------- [...] | 2007-10-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM SOCI NI |
07ABUJA2237 | OUTBREAK OF VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS IN NIGERIA [...] Summary. An outbreak of at least 69 circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (cVDPV) cases have been reported between 2006-7 mostly in Nigeria's northern states of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Bauchi, and Jigawa due to low immunization of children under five years. Internationally, cVDPVs has been kn [...] | 2007-10-22 10:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAID DEOC SOCI PGOV NI |
07ABUJA2307 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONDEMNING THE USE OF RAPE AS [...] Post delivered reftel demarche. Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for the Second United Nations Department Ambassador M. K. Ibrahim said in a follow-up telcon that Nigeria would be willing to co-sponsor the resolution with the U.S. PIASCIK [...] | 2007-10-31 15:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI NI |
07ABUJA2330 | WATER- A CHERISHED COMMODITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hadelia Jama'are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBDA) covers over 45,000 square kilometers with the potential to irrigate 212,000 hectares in Kano, Bauch and Jigawa states. Agriculture is a big driver of Nigerian economic performance representing nearly 41% of GDP and [...] | 2007-11-02 11:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO SENV PGOV SOCI NI |
07ABUJA2465 | NIGERIA: DESERTIFICATION A GROWING PROBLEM [...] Summary. At least 40% of the surface area surrounding the Sahara Desert is threatened by desertification, drought and desert encroachment. Nigeria is losing 1,355 square miles (sqm) of range and crop lands each year, and the far northern states of Sokoto, Kebbi and Katsina have had more than 4 [...] | 2007-11-28 17:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV SOCI NI |
07ABUJA2546 | NIGERIA COMMEMORATES WORLD AIDS DAY [...] Summary: The HIV infection rate in Nigeria is estimated to be 4.4% or 3.9 million inhabitants with the most vulnerable the 20-24 year age group along with an estimated 930,000 orphans. The USG is the largest bilateral donor at $304 million for 2007 and holds the donor coordination chairmanshi [...] | 2007-12-11 10:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAID KPAO SOCI PGOV NI |
07ABUJA44 | NIGERIA CENSUS RESULTS - STATUS QUO MAINTAINED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Nigerian National Population Commission (NPC) released the first census in 15 years. The census tabulations affirmed conventional wisdom that the majority of the population is in the 17 northern states - 75 million compared to 65 million in the southern states. The largest [...] | 2007-01-10 15:47:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KDEM ECON PGOV EAID NI CENSUS |
07ABUJA484 | AMIN CHAIRMAN WARNS OF EXTREMISM, PLEDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6, Poloff met with Sheikh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Al-Hussaini, Chairman of the Assembly of Muslims in Nigeria (AMIN),at his Abuja residence. Sheikh Al-Hussaini is also Chairman of the Fatwa Committee of both the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Nigeria and the Jama'a [...] | 2007-03-13 13:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL PTER SOCI NI |
07ABUJA489 | NIGERIA: DOCTORS' STRIKE HIGHLIGHTS HEALTH SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Doctors at Nigeria's public hospitals initiated a two-day warning strike on March 5 to protest eroding pay and benefits under a newly enacted salary structure. The new structure fixes rates for previously percentage-based allowances and calculates taxes on the gross rather tha [...] | 2007-03-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB SOCI TBIO NI |
07ABUJA621 | PRESIDENT LAUNCHES NIGER DELTA MASTER PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a high-profile, media event, President Obasanjo on March 27 launched the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan. The following day, March 28, the Minister of External Affairs hosted a breakfast with the diplomatic corps focused on the Delta. The President, in a wide [...] | 2007-03-30 08:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID SOCI NI |
07ABUJA628 | NIGERIA'S ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of elections, from some angles Nigeria's economic performance looks impressive: low debt, high reserves, strong export earnings, stable inflation, GDP per capita up, strong non-oil sector growth, improved budget management, and increasingly modern banking all form the b [...] | 2007-03-30 14:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EFIN ENRG EAID SOCI NI |
07ACCRA1096 | Health Workers Strike: Over but not Forgotten [...] Summary: Health workers, with the exception of medical doctors, called a nationwide strike over wages beginning April 30. The GoG declared the strike illegal but with two exceptions, public hospitals were reduced to a skeleton crew, or less, with little or no service provision. The strike w [...] | 2007-05-16 16:16:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN SOCI GH |
07ACCRA155 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KUFUOR: TIDBITS ON ENERGY, [...] (SBU) In a January 23 meeting with Ambassador, President Kufuor made a strong plea for help with power generation. Ghana needs 100 megawatts by mid-February to avoid power disruptions during the March Jubilee celebrations, he said. Ambassador mentioned several U.S. commercial options, about [...] | 2007-01-23 18:11:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG GH PREL SOCI |
07ACCRA2118 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 17:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN AORC PHUM SOCI GH |
07ACCRA2417 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 17:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA GH |
07ACCRA2443 | GHANAIAN WOMEN - 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS BUT A LONG WAY TO GO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representing more than half the population, Ghanaian women have contributed substantially to Ghana's development since independence. Aside from their critical role in Ghana's economy, women participate in the public sphere, taking on leading positions in politics and civil socie [...] | 2007-11-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN SOCI ECON GH |
07ACCRA2511 | WOMEN IN GHANA'S DEVELOPMENT - ACHIEVEMENTS AND OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women have contributed significantly to Ghana's social and economic development since its independence fifty years ago. They play a critical role in agriculture, Ghana's largest economic sector, and are responsible for most of the nation's food production. In recent years, Ghan [...] | 2007-12-12 07:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN SOCI ECON ELAB GH |
07ACCRA285 | GHANA AT 50: SETTING THE SCENE - JUBILEE...NOT [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of reports looking at Ghana at 50, intended to be scene setters for the official delegation which will be visiting this year. On March 6, Ghana will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary as Sub-Saharan Africa's first independent country. The mood so [...] | 2007-02-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | GH MCAP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI |
07ACCRA321 | GHANA AT 50: A MIXED ECONOMIC RECORD [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the fourth in a series of scene setter cables on Ghana at 50. Ghana can not only boast stability and an emerging democracy (septels),but also two decades of sustained economic growth and modest poverty reduction. However, economic stability is fragile, heavily depe [...] | 2007-02-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN GH SOCI |
07ADDISABABA1652 | ETHIOPIAN PATRIARCH A CRITICAL ALLY ON THE BATTLEFRONT [...] SUMMARY. The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Petros, and the Ambassador appeared at a public event on May 23 to advocate for HIV/AIDS victims to take antiretroviral treatment (ART),not just traditional holy water alone, as treatment for their disease. Hundreds of worshipper [...] | 2007-05-30 07:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EAID KHIV SOCI OEXC ET |
07ADDISABABA2006 | ETHIOPIAN COFFEE FARMERS TRAPPED IN A CYCLE OF [...] SUMMARY. Ethiopia is often referred to as the birthplace of coffee, and Ethiopians are proud to say that coffee is named after the Kaffa region (currently Oromiya Region),where it was first discovered over 1,000 years ago. Today, Ethiopia produces 300,000 tons of coffee per year. Further, [...] | 2007-06-27 06:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON BEXP SOCI ET |
07ADDISABABA2472 | ETHIOPIA: GIRLS LEAVING ORPHANAGES: A VULNERABLE [...] SUMMARY: A conversation with girls in a government-run children's home in Addis Ababa indicates limited economic options exist for this vulnerable population. Government support after age 18 is minimal, and the girls are not prepared for an independent life. One of the potential livelihoods [...] | 2007-08-07 10:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB ET KWMN SOCI |
07ADDISABABA3435 | ETHIOPIA: UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION [...] Requested information about the worst forms of child labor in Ethiopia follows and is organized per reftel instructions. 2. For further references, please contact Political/Economic Affairs Officer Kimberly Wright at: WRIGHTKE2@STATE.GOV 3. Incidence and Nature of Child Labor In 2005 [...] | 2007-12-03 04:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID ET |
07AITTAIPEI876 | TAIWAN DEVELOPS CELL-BASED AVIAN FLU VACCINE [...] According to local media reports, Taiwan has developed a cell-based vaccine to counter the H5N1 Avian influenza (AI) virus. The government-funded National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) took just one year and NT$40 million (about $1.21 million) to successfully develop the vaccine. 2. T [...] | 2007-04-19 08:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT CASC TBIO SOCI TW |
07ALGIERS1078 | TO BE ALGERIAN AND IN A WHEELCHAIR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Algerian government does not adequately respond to the needs of the country's 3 million handicapped people, according to the officially recognized Algerian Federation of Wheelchair Associations. The group's president describes Algeria's handicapped as "living in isolation" at [...] | 2007-07-29 06:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS1115 | LONGSTANDING ACTIVIST'S VIEW ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A societal respect for human rights is lacking in Algeria, according to prominent human rights activist and lawyer Ali Yahia Abdenour. Looking back over decades of his work, he commented that while some progress has been made in comparison to the low point of the 1990s, signific [...] | 2007-08-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV AG |
07ALGIERS1326 | HOPEFUL WESTERN ALGERIA LOOKS TO THE U.S. [...] SUMMARY: The northwestern Algerian town of Sig and the neighboring city of Mascara are well established migrant-sending communities that produce a disproportionately large number of visa applicants. A strong migration relationship with immigrant communities in the U.S., combined with the lac [...] | 2007-09-18 06:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SOCI KFRD ASEC CVIS AG |
07ALGIERS1617 | ALGERIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE IMPLODING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH),the country's best-known independent human rights organization, is in turmoil. Two camps have emerged and are struggling for control, one headed by Hocine Zehouane, LADDH president since 2005, and the other by Ali Yahi [...] | 2007-11-05 17:26:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV AG |
07ALGIERS1704 | THE HARRAGA - NOT JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE [...] SUMMARY: Over the past year, the problem of "harraga" -- desperate young Algerians setting out for Spain and Italy on makeshift boats -- has grown notably worse. The phenomenon is no longer limited to underprivileged youth, but now includes older and wealthier individuals otherwise able to s [...] | 2007-11-26 08:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS1784 | ALGERIA: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The absence of reliable statistics makes it difficult to assess the extent of child labor in Algeria, especially the worst forms of child labor. The information provided in this cable is drawn from the Algerian labor code, the Algerian constitution and press reports. Post was un [...] | 2007-12-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS259 | COPS AND ROBBERS: ALGERIA COPES WITH MOUNTING CRIME [...] SUMMARY: The recent robbery of Algiers' consular chief at knifepoint typifies the rising crime rate in Algeria. Aggressive, violent and often armed theft has spiked even as insurgent violence has generally diminished over the last four years. Public perception, media coverage and police admi [...] | 2007-03-01 09:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER ASEC ECON SOCI CASC AG |
07ALGIERS912 | HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS AND GOA DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, four prominent human rights lawyers and Messaoud Boufercha, Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),discussed legal issues and opportunities for increased bilateral cooperation. Lawyers, who were coincidentally i [...] | 2007-06-28 09:45:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS913 | MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, LAWYERS AND OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings June 9-10 with DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles, Algerian media, government and political party representatives and members of the legal community gave their views on press freedom and Algeria's defamation laws. Journalists and lawyers said freedom of expression in Al [...] | 2007-06-28 09:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS929 | MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COUNTERS EXTREMISM [...] (C) Algeria's Religious Affairs ministry has mounted a campaign to reign in extremist imams. The campaign promotes a unified, anti-violence version of Islam and will result in important staffing changes in schools and mosques. On June 23, Minister of Religious Affairs M. Boualem Ghoulamallah [...] | 2007-07-02 06:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KISL SCUL SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS958 | TO BE ALGERIAN AND GAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles 333 and 338 of Algeria's penal code criminalize public homosexual behavior and there is no specific legal protection of homosexuals in the country. In a July 2 meeting held at the headquarters of Algerian NGO AIDS Algerie, five young members of Algeria's male homosexual [...] | 2007-07-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI SCUL AG |
07AMMAN1185 | JORDAN,S CABINET PROPOSES MANDATORY MILITARY [...] (U) The cabinet agreed March 5 to seek parliamentary approval of a bill reviving conscription. The proposal would require both men and women to participate in three months of military training -- men at army camps and women at universities. Prime Minister Marouf Al Bakhit said in a speech M [...] | 2007-03-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN1479 | LIBERALIZATION OF FUEL PRICES POSTPONED [...] (C) Summary: As it prepares for municipal and parliamentary elections in the summer and fall of this year, the GOJ has deferred its earlier plan to completely eliminate oil subsidies and liberalize all fuel prices by March 2007. The Secretary General of the Finance Ministry privately lamented [...] | 2007-04-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN2017 | Developing Aqaba - The Gateway to Jordan [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a May 2-3 trip to Aqaba, the Ambassador discussed the significant achievements in development of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) with local officials, shipping agents, students, young entrepreneurs, scientists, and environmental activists. The private sector has i [...] | 2007-05-13 09:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV SENV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN2241 | GOJ DEFENDS MOVE ON GREEK PATRIARCH [...] (C) In conversations May 22 and May 24, the director of FM Khatib's private office, Thamer Adwan, stressed to Polcouns that the GOJ was carrying out its responsibilities under the Jordan-Israel peace treaty and Greek church law when it withdrew its recognition of Theophilos III, the Greek Ort [...] | 2007-05-24 13:45:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN2255 | UPDATE ON JORDANIAN REFORM INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Jordan has actively advanced the political and social reform agendas laid out at the July 2006 national unity conference (ref A). Since that time Parliament passed reform bills dealing with municipal government, political parties, press and publications, access to government in [...] | 2007-05-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KMCC SOCI JO |
07AMMAN2305 | GOJ ELABORATES ON ITS WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: JORDAN'S RATIONALE FOR WITHDRAWING RECOGNITION OF GREEK ORTHODOX PATRIARCH THEOPHILOS III IS BASED ON UNFULFILLED PROMISES REGARDING THE RECLAMATION OF CHURCH LANDS AND INCREASING THE ROLE OF ARAB MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH MADE TO THE GOJ WHEN THEOPHILOS ASCENDED TO THE PATRIARCHY [...] | 2007-05-31 07:25:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI JO KWBG IS |
07AMMAN2482 | MINOR CLASH ERUPTS AS JORDAN RECLAIMS STATE-OWNED [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian police killed a gunman in the Jordan Valley in connection with a GOJ program to reclaim state-owned property throughout the country. Jordanian police consider the incident a criminal matter. The restoration of the state's rights in face of longstanding illicit use by [...] | 2007-06-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN2538 | GOJ REVERSES COURSE AND RECOGNIZES GREEK PATRIARCH [...] (U) A month-long disagreement between the Government of Jordan and the Greek Orthodox Church ended on June 12. Local media reported that the GOJ reversed its May 12 decision to withdraw recognition of Patriarch Theophilos III of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem (ref b). At a June 12 pre [...] | 2007-06-13 14:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KWBG JO IS |
07AMMAN2640 | UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO EDUCATE ADDITIONAL IRAQIS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Amman remains actively engaged with the GOJ, UNICEF, UNHCR, and key NGOs in preparing programs that will enable Jordanian public schools to accept additional Iraqi students. While all parties await the results of the FAFO survey (ref a) on the demographics of Iraqis in [...] | 2007-06-20 14:05:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN27 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN [...] (C) Summary: Iraqis in Jordan generally remain integrated into Jordan's economy, and many continue to travel frequently between the two countries. UNHCR is optimistic that the GOJ will respond positively to its request to carry out a socio-economic survey of Iraqis who are in Jordan but perm [...] | 2007-01-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF ECON SMIG SOCI IZ JO |
07AMMAN2784 | UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JUNE 28 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan will host a neighbors' conference in July about Iraqi refugees. UNICEF, UNHCR, the USG and NGOs continue to prepare to assist the GOJ educate Iraqi schoolchildren in Jordan, but await a GOJ mechanism to approve and implement them. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has not [...] | 2007-06-28 12:13:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV SOCI EAID JO IZ |
07AMMAN2964 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 10 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ is still planning for an Iraq Neighbors conference on refugee issues July 22, although concerns about Syrian and Iranian participation seem to be slowing the decision-making. Meanwhile, the GOJ is working to clarify its policy on enrollment of Iraqi children in schools, [...] | 2007-07-10 10:12:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN2981 | PRIVATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECT [...] (U) On June 26, Jordan's Ministry of Education (MoE) issued its annual letter to Jordanian private school principals advising them which students would be permitted to enroll in private schools for the 2007/2008 academic year. The letter stated that non-Jordanian students could register for sc [...] | 2007-07-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3085 | UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 19 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Jordan decision this week that Iraqi children - regardless of legal residency status - will be permitted to enroll in school for the coming academic year is a major breakthrough (ref A),but still unannounced and closely held. Although GOJ border tightening has [...] | 2007-07-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SOCI IZ JO |
07AMMAN3208 | MODEST PROGRESS ACHIEVED AT JULY 26 RWG IN AMMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Modest progress was achieved during the July 26 Jordanian-Iraqi co-chaired Refugee Working Group (RWG) in Amman. In a significant breakthrough, the Government of Jordan announced the opening of its public and private schools to displaced Iraqis living in Jordan, regardless of t [...] | 2007-07-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO SY EG IR TU |
07AMMAN3369 | GOJ RAPIDLY PREPARING SCHOOLS FOR IRAQI STUDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Education (MoE) sent a letter to all public school principals on August 6 instructing them to allow Iraqi students to register in public and private schools regardless of residence status for the 2007-08 school term. Major Jordanian daily newspapers prominently r [...] | 2007-08-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3545 | UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - AUGUST 22 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minster Khatib confirmed that the Governments of Iraq and Jordan agreed in principle to implement a process for issuing visas to Iraqis seeking to enter Jordan. Jordanian schools began on August 19, though with far fewer Iraqis then expected. USAID, UNICEF, UNHCR and [...] | 2007-08-22 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3557 | FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS OVER DECISION TO MAINTAIN [...] (S) Summary: A government decision to maintain fuel subsidies, for now, has prompted the August 21 resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ziad Fariz. Fariz had sought an immediate end to the subsidy in favor of direct cash payments to low-income families, to lessen the di [...] | 2007-08-23 09:44:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | EFIN EPET EAGR PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN3584 | JORDAN'S FEED SUBSIDY PROGRAM: ANIMAL CENSUS IS FIRST STEP [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) recently concluded a livestock census, the first serious attempt since 1998 to determine the number of ruminants - sheep, goats, camels, and cattle - in Jordan. Officials told the press the survey was part of a broader effort to establish the geographic [...] | 2007-08-27 03:26:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EFIN PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN3661 | END OF FEED SUBSIDY PROGRAM PROVOKES PROTESTS AND SLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 14:33:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EFIN PGOV SOCI JO |