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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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04ACCRA1784READOUT OF MCC CEO PAUL APPLEGARTH'S VISIT TO GHANA
[...] (SBU) Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Paul Applegarth visited Ghana August 23-24, conducting site visits and meeting with President Kufuor, Finance Minister Osafo Maafo, and the Ministry of Finance team in charge of preparing Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact. The [...]
2004-09-01 17:29:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EFIN ETRD ECON GH MCA
04ACCRA1810SURVEY OF GHANA'S EVOLVING BANKING SECTOR
[...] (SBU) The Government of Ghana's (GoG) sound macro policies have led to lower inflation and interest rates, paving the way for local banks and insurance companies to introduce innovative new products and vie for the 95 percent of Ghanaians who do not use the formal financial system. Banks can [...]
2004-09-07 12:52:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EFIN ECON GH
04ACCRA2319FINANCE MINISTER'S UPBEAT STATUS REPORT ON GHANA'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Osafo Maafo gave an optimistic appraisal of Ghana's planning for the Millennium Challenge Act (MCA) during a November 22 meeting with Ambassador Yates. In response to concerns raised by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),Osafo Maafo reconfigured Ghana [...]
2004-11-29 11:22:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID EINV EAGR EFIN GH OPIC MCA
04COLOMBO1958MCA POTENTIAL THREATENS ESF AND DA FUNDING/US
[...] (SBU) RICH, I FEEL COMPELLED TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO A POTENTIALLY MAJOR PROBLEM WITH US ASSISTANCE TO SRI LANKA, AND, I ASSUME, SOME OTHER MCA ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES. FOLLOWING THE OMB PASSBACK EXERCISE, WE HAVE HEARD THAT ESF AND DA FUNDS FOR SRI LANKA WERE SLASHED BY 50 PERCENT, USING THE RA [...]
2004-12-08 05:32:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON AMGT KMCA CE LTTE
04LILONGWE1072BUNGLED WAGE REFORMS CAUSE LABOR PROBLEMS
[...] (SBU) Government wage reforms that took effect in October have produced some unrest among civil servants. Hospital workers briefly struck in Lilongwe early this month, and teachers are threatening to strike in Blantyre. The problems center on miscalculations in a consolidated pay packaged de [...]
2004-11-23 12:37:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EFIN EINV KMCA MI
04LILONGWE1110BLANTYRE MAYOR ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION
[...] (U) The mayor of Malawi's largest city, Blantyre, has been arrested for corruption, according to unconfirmed newspaper reports. John Chikakwiya, a senior member of the nominally ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) and one of the leading loyalists of former President Bakili Muluzi, is reported [...]
2004-12-03 11:33:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV KCOR KMCA MI
04LILONGWE1126MALAWI'S PARLIAMENT SEEKS BIGGER ROLE
[...] (U) Malawi's Parliament appears to be in the process of defining a new, more active role for itself in economic policy. Leading members of several relevant committees have told us they intend to hold public hearings on policy direction, to gain earlier access to draft legislation, and to head [...]
2004-12-10 07:50:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV KMCA KDEM MI POL
04LILONGWE1164MALAWI'S FERTILIZER SHORTAGE THREATENS 2005 HARVEST
[...] (U) Malawi's farmers are unable to find enough fertilizer as they near the end of their yearly planting season. The shortage results largely from Government delays in ordering stocks for its subsidy programs and confused signalling to private sector suppliers. While the shortages are expected [...]
2004-12-23 14:25:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR KMCA EFIN EAID MI
04SANAA2389DPM SOFAN WARMLY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation warmly welcomed Ambassador to Yemen on 9/6. After reviewing recent progress in development cooperation and touching on the negative economic effects of the al-Houthi problem, Sofan and Ambassador discusse [...]
2004-09-08 05:33:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALKMCA EAID ECON LE YM COM
04SANAA2521WHY ECONOMIC REFORM IS FAILING IN YEMEN
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: On September 25 Parliament and the Shura Council voted by a clear majority to reject the ROYG's five year economic plan, which included several hotly debated economic reform proposals. The economic package failed because there was no presidential initiative, no strate [...]
2004-09-29 06:04:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALECON KMCA KMPI PGOV YM COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA2803DFM NOMAN DEPRESSED OVER RISING CORRUPTION IN YEMEN
[...] (C) Summary: In a candid and wide ranging discussion on November 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman advised Pol/Econ Chief and Deputy that Post should convey to high-level ROYG officials the perils of corruption. Noman advised the Embassy to communicate to journalists and businessmen mo [...]
2004-11-03 11:13:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KMCA YM ECON COM
04TEGUCIGALPA1985HONDURAN OIL TRUCKERS' STRIKE BLOCKS NORTHERN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Striking oil truckers blocked the main highway to Puerto Cortes in northern Honduras for 19 hours from the night of August 30 to the afternoon of August 31, before Honduran police cleared the road and detained two strike leaders. The strike was triggered by a contract dispute w [...]
2004-09-03 20:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETECON ENRG ELAB PGOV KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2267HONDURAS: UNDP PROCUREMENT DEBATE CONTINUES TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 27, the Honduran National Association of Industries (ANDI) issued a two-page open letter denouncing the United Nations Development Program,s (UNDP) handling of the ongoing bid process for container inspection systems at Puerto Cortes. Post has already received comp [...]
2004-10-12 20:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECPS EINV PGOV EWWT KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2299Honduras: Progress Toward an MCC Compact
[...] (SBU) Summary: MCC representatives visited Honduras October 4-8 to continue due diligence investigations in preparation for evaluating and signing a Compact agreement in the next several months. This visit is the 5th visit since May, when Honduras was short-listed as a country invited to app [...]
2004-10-14 13:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2424HONDURAS: TAX SERVICE STRENGTHENS INTERNAL
[...] (C) Summary: The tax authority,s internal affairs unit, known as the Transparency Unit, has mounted a vigorous effort over the last 18 months to investigate and combat corruption within the tax and customs services. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dismissals for corruption have had an a [...]
2004-10-29 15:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2426CORRECTED COPY: HONDURAS CASHIERS ITS TAX MAN;
[...] (C) Summary: On October 15, it was reported that Mario Duarte, head of the Executive Revenue Directorate (DEI, the GOH equivalent of the USG,s Internal Revenue Service) will be moved out of his position effective November 1. Duarte will become the new Director of the National Ports Company. [...]
2004-10-29 15:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2427HONDURAS TELECOMMS UPDATE OCTOBER 2004
[...] (C) Summary: On October 12, EconChief met with Jose Renan Caballero, Chief Telecommunications Advisor on the President,s Modernization Commission, to discuss recent developments in the telecommunications sector. Caballero was candid regarding Alcatel, Communitel, Megatel, the new telecommuni [...]
2004-10-29 17:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECPS EINV PGOV ELAB KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2440MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT MADURO'S VISIT TO
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/23, entitled "Amnesty." "President Maduro is visiting Washington, and because President Bush is probably busy with his electoral campaign, he met with Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss several issues of interest to both [...]
2004-11-01 12:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG ECON KMCA KPAO HO
04YEREVAN1892 ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE -- AUGUST 27, 2004
[...] (SBU) GOAM Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Secretariat Coordinator Hovik Azizyan confirmed to us during SIPDIS an informal meeting August 25 that the GOAM had pushed back its planned proposal submission schedule. Azizyan said the change was necessary due to the large number of propo [...]
2004-08-27 12:01:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KMCA EAID AM
04YEREVAN1972AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT
[...] (C) On September 4, 2004, Ambassador Evans presented his letters of credence to President Robert Kocharian. The Ambassador conveyed warm best wishes from President Bush, and explained how U.S. goals for the South Caucasus -- enhancing security and stability, strengthening democratic institutio [...]
2004-09-08 10:22:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KMCA ECON AM
05ACCRA1110WESTEL UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to avert the high cost of arbitration, Westel's Managing Director, Bill Taylor, and the GoG are working towards an agreement to end their seven-year-old dispute. According to Taylor, Westel submitted a terms sheet acceptable to the GoG in March, but Westel's Seatt [...]
2005-06-03 11:09:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KMCA GH ECPS
05ACCRA1134GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, MAY 2005
[...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for May 2005. The issues covered are: -- GoG Moves Forward on MCA Program Development -- Ghana Hosts G8/NEPAD Summit on Agriculture -- GoG/donors discuss new Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Local Poultry Producers Sue G [...]
2005-06-07 17:28:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KMCA EAGR EFIN ECPS ENRG GH
05ACCRA1317GHANA PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS WAY
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Yates met July 1 with President Kufuor to discuss ways to accelerate Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. Ambassador delivered Ref A talking points, emphasizing that both sides needed to increase engagement in order to conclude an agreement within a rea [...]
2005-07-06 17:08:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEAID KMCA GH MCA
05ACCRA1389WESTEL UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After three months of negotiations, Westel has broken off talks with the GoG and is once again pursuing international arbitration. With the June 30 arbitration filing date looming, Westel reached an agreement with the GoG that included the mobile spectrum it has sought since th [...]
2005-07-14 17:32:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KMCA GH ECPS
05ACCRA1391GHANA AND AGOA: RECENT SUCCESSES WITH A DIVERSE
[...] (SBU) In 2004, Ghana increased its exports to the U.S. under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) by over 85%, to over $74 million dollars -- accounting for over 50% of Ghana's total exports to the U.S. In 2005, USAID's West Africa Regional Program's Accra-based West Africa Trade Hub [...]
2005-07-14 17:34:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV KMCA GH
05ACCRA1812GHANA ECON HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005
[...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for August and September 2005. The issues covered are: -- ExxonMobil Exits Ghana, Thirteen other African Countries -- Visit of US Coast Guard Port Security Liaison Officers -- MCC gives $3 million to Develop GoG Compa [...]
2005-09-08 12:25:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD ECPS KMCA GH
05ACCRA1868GOG BUYS WESTEL TO END SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DISPUTE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Western Wireless International (WWI),the primary shareholder in Ghana's embattled second national operator Westel, has sold its interest in the company to the parastatel Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for USD 10 million. WWI dropped its international arbitration case [...]
2005-09-15 12:47:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH ECON KMCA ECPS EINV
05ACCRA2344PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS MCA
[...] (SBU) On November 11, 2005, Ambassador Bridgewater and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) officials held the most open and frank discussion to date with President Kufuor about the state of Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. On the eve of meetings in Washington between the [...]
2005-11-16 12:50:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA ECON EAGR PREL GH MCA
05ACCRA519AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S PRESIDENT ON MCA, TIP,
[...] (C) Ambassador Yates met March 9 with President Kufuor to recommend urgent action on Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, Trafficking in Persons (TIP) legislation, and planning for the April G8/NEPAD Agricultural Productivity Conference (Ref A). The President acknowledged the [...]
2005-03-15 17:22:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EAGR ETRD KWMN PHUM PREL KMCA GH
05ACCRA552AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S NEW ENERGY MINISTER, MIKE
[...] (C) The Ambassador used a March 14 courtesy call on new Energy Minister Mike Oquaye to inquire about the status of petroleum sector deregulation and highlight USAID technical assistance to the energy sector and West Africa Gas Pipeline. Oquaye confirmed the GoG would halt the deregulation proc [...]
2005-03-18 13:57:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG ETRD KMCA GH
05ACCRA553AMBASSADOR AND NEW ENERGY MINISTER DISCUSS
[...] (C) During a March 14 courtesy call on new Energy Minister Mike Oquaye (see Reftel for readout) Ambassador Yates inquired about the GoG's recent agreement with "Arabian Gulf Oil Limited," purportedly from Bahrain, on a USD 2.8 billion oil refinery investment. Oquaye was unable to give details, [...]
2005-03-18 14:01:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG ETRD KMCA GH
05ACCRA570GHANA'S PRESIDENCY RESPONDS TO EMBASSY LOBBYING ON
[...] (C) Summary: Senior GoG advisors to President Kufuor told Emboffs of steps they are taking to accelerate Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) process. They have instructed the Finance Ministry to expedite the financing and full-time staffing of a permanent Ghanaian MCA team, with the g [...]
2005-03-22 15:03:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG ETRD KMCA GH MCA
05ACCRA650AMBASSADOR AND FINANCE MINISTER SIGN BILATERAL
[...] Ambassador Yates and GoG Finance Minister Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu signed the bilateral Paris Club debt reduction agreement (Refs A and B) on Thursday, March 31, 2004. Under the agreement, the U.S. forgives USD 4,641,600, which represents 100 percent reduction of the eligible stock of debt owed to [...]
2005-04-01 14:13:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTIA KMCA
05ACCRA656FIRE AT PORT KILLS 15, DAMAGES OIL REFINERY SUPPLY
[...] (U) Summary: On March 25 a large fire at the port of Tema broke out on a ship at the PCS Tema Shipyard (PCS) and damaged the parastatel Tema Oil Refinery's (TOR) fuel offloading pipeline, the Volta River Aluminum Company's (VALCO) alumina conveyor and a small shipping and cold storage company. [...]
2005-04-04 07:53:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALKMCA ETRD ENRG
05ACCRA658GHANA'S PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE NEXT FOUR
[...] (C) Post,s view of Ghana,s prospects over the next four years follows, and is in part based on the President's hour-long tour d'horizon with the Ambassador on March 9 and post-election conversations between Emboffs and key Ghanaian players. The political challenges ahead include increases in [...]
2005-04-04 09:11:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN GH KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL EINV
05ASUNCION1167(C) AMBASSADOR URGES STRONGER ACTION ON CUSTOMS BY
[...] (C) In a meeting requested by the Ambassador, Minister Bergen supported the Ambassador,s requests that a new investigative unit to be created in Customs fall directly under the supervision of the Customs Director, and that members of that unit and two others in the Ministry of Finance be subj [...]
2005-09-14 20:44:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KMCA KCRM SNAR PA
05ASUNCION1242PARAGUAY'S PLAN TO FORMALIZE CDE
[...] The GOP has announced a new tax plan designed to help formalize the economy of Ciudad del Este, situated on the border with Brazil. The system will be voluntary and is expected to take effect in November. Participants will receive benefits such as lower tariffs and lower up-front tax paymen [...]
2005-10-04 14:52:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD KIPR KCRM KMCA KTFN PREL PA
05ASUNCION417PARAGUAY: SENATE PASSES PUBLIC BANKING LAW
[...] In a special session on March 8, the Paraguayan Senate passed the public banking law establishing a single second tier public bank, complying with a performance criterion and opening the way for the fourth review of Paraguay's International Monetary Fund program. The Senate debated for about [...]
2005-03-28 10:41:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV KMCA PGOV PREL PA
05ASUNCION423PARAGUAY: POST SUPPORTS ICE PROPOSAL FOR A TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: USG Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have proposed the creation of a Trade Transparency Module (TTM) in Paraguay, identified as the second highest priority country after Colombia. A TTM involves the use of sophisticated data mining software to ana [...]
2005-03-28 19:05:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD KIPR KMCA KCRM KTFN PTER PA
05ASUNCION926Putting It Together: Paraguay's Maquilas Provide
[...] In operation since 2001, Paraguay's maquilas are designed to stimulate local manufacturing for export. Under preferences unique to Paraguay, only forty percent of the content of the products must originate within MERCOSUR for the products to enter other MERCOSUR countries tariff-free. The sec [...]
2005-07-20 17:16:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV BEXP PGOV KMCA PA
05COLOMBO574SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF MCC CEO PAUL APPLEGARTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: MCC CEO Applegarth's visit comes as Sri Lanka begins the post-Tsunami transition from relief to reconstruction. With ample public and private funds available for tsunami reconstruction, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Embassy see MCA funding as an opportunity to addre [...]
2005-03-22 11:09:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA ECON EAID EFIN CE
05COLOMBO678VISIT OF MCC CEO APPLEGARTH TO SRI LANKA INCREASES
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 29-31 visit to Sri Lanka, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Paul Applegarth discussed Sri Lanka's potential compact proposal with President Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Rajapakse, Finance Minister Amunagama, Central Bank Governor Mendis, Opposition Lea [...]
2005-04-06 11:04:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKMCA EAID ECON PREL CE
05DAKAR3213SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is on the verge of entering a year-long election campaign leading up to the 2007 elections. The Senegalese are proud to be a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the U [...]
2005-12-29 12:57:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KMCA KPKO SG
05DHAKA3178CELLPHONE CONNECTION TAX CHOKES SECTOR GROWTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The BDG has attempted to squeeze private cellphone providers with a new tax on SIM/RIM cards. The four largest cellphone providers, already in control of the most lucrative portion of the cellphone user market, have balked, leading to a new tax that will be passed along to the [...]
2005-07-07 09:11:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKMCA ECON KSCA ECPS EFIN ETRD PGOV TSPL BG
05LILONGWE107MALAWI REIGNING IN PARASTATALS, PUSHING
[...] (SBU) President Bingu wa Mutharika has recently reactivated the GOM's privatization program with a public speech strongly endorsing the Privatization Commission's efforts to push ahead with selling parastatal corporations. He is also said to have ordered the halt of operations at the Malawi De [...]
2005-02-03 12:17:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA KCOR PREL ECON EINV EAID MI
05LILONGWE117PRESIDENT RESIGNS FROM OWN PARTY, RESHUFFLES
[...] Summary: In a dramatic move, President Bingu wa Mutharika has resigned from his own party, making a definitive break with his predecessor, Bakili Muluzi. In addition, Mutharika has fired two ministers and two deputy ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The actions are positive moves, both [...]
2005-02-07 14:08:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM EAID KMCA MI
05LILONGWE128MALAWI CONSIDERS NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
[...] (SBU) As Malawi's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) reaches the end of its three-year life, the GOM has floated the idea of taking a new tack as it develops its next PRSP. The proposed new agenda would be based on the Malawi Economic Growth Strategy, essentially a plan for removing constr [...]
2005-02-09 10:57:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN EINV PREL KMCA MI
05LILONGWE131MALAWI'S ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT RATCHETS UP
[...] (U) Malawi's president used Malawi's Anti-Corruption Day on February 5 as a platform to reaffirm his stance against corruption and to use the issue as a political lever against the ruling party. As he raises the profile of this issue still further, the main GOM agency responsible for prosecut [...]
2005-02-10 14:41:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EINV KCOR PGOV KMCA MI
05LILONGWE143MALAWI CROP ESTIMATE: SHORTAGE COMING
[...] (U) Malawi's first crop estimates show a shortage of over 20 percent in maize, due mainly to late distribution of fertilizer and a developing dry spell. Grain stocks are adequate for now, though the hunger season is now reaching its peak. If the crop is seriously impaired, it may begin to imp [...]
2005-02-15 14:54:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAGR ECON EAID PREL MI
05LILONGWE146BIODATA - MALAWI'S NEW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] CDA paid a courtesy call to new Minister of Foreign Affairs Davis Katsonga on February 14. Katsonga, whose appointment to Foreign Affairs comes in the wake of the President's departure from the United Democratic Front (UDF),expressed his support for the president and his anti- corruption in [...]
2005-02-16 14:10:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PINR KMCA MI
05LILONGWE166PRESIDENT PRESSES DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
[...] Summary: President Mutharika last week launched a new series of regular meetings with donor heads of mission, and used the occasion to amplify his vision of Malawi's development. The president emphasized economic growth, rural development, performance evaluation, and the need to mobilize all [...]
2005-02-22 14:31:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID KMCA MI
05LILONGWE179UDF OFFICIALS CRY FOUL, DEFEND PARTY
[...] SUMMARY. In a February 17 meeting with the donor community, four United Democratic Front (UDF) officials lashed out bitterly against President Muthartika. The officials outlined the political hazards of Mutharika's new party, professed support for his anti-corruption efforts, and denied tha [...]
2005-02-25 11:06:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KCOR PHUM KMCA MI
05LILONGWE188NATIONAL ACTION GROUP
[...] Summary: Over the past year, Malawi has seen a remarkable reversal in the level of importance the GOM has placed on the role of the private sector in contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction. Now, more than ever, the US Mission is uniquely positioned to contribute significantly to [...]
2005-03-02 08:28:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ECON EINV EFIN ETRD KMCA MI
05LILONGWE202DVC on MCA Threshold Program Gets Rave Reviews
[...] Post wishes to thank all those in Washington who organized and participated in the March 1 digital video conference hosted by USAID Washington on the Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Program. The DVC received high-level participation here, and key MCC officials in Washington were able [...]
2005-03-04 06:01:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA KPAO PGOV ECON MI
05LILONGWE302PREACHING FREE MARKETS IN MALAWI
[...] Over the past several months, Mission Lilongwe's economic team has undertaken a concerted effort to promote the virtues of free markets among Malawi's key decision makers. The country has made halfhearted efforts toward market reforms in recent years, and the new president is pressing a pro-gr [...]
2005-04-06 11:23:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR KMCA MI
05LILONGWE341MALAWI SCORES FIRST BIG CORRUPTION WIN
[...] The mayor of Blantyre, Malawi's largest city, was convicted of theft yesterday. The Blantyre Magistrate's Court sentenced John Chikakwiya to three years in prison for stealing MK400,000 ($3,700) of funds solicited from a local merchant for city road repairs. This is the first conviction of a [...]
2005-04-21 06:11:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDECON KCOR PREL KMCA MI
05LILONGWE409MALAWI'S BUDGET CONSULTATIONS
[...] (U) In preliminary budget consultations with donors, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe sketched an FY 2005/06 budget that would include some tax reform, allocations for humanitarian food relief, and a comparatively modest fertilizer subsidy. The budget for development will be increased by 35 pe [...]
2005-05-13 11:56:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL KMCA BUD FIN
05LILONGWE447RURAL LOAN PROGRAM ENDANGERS MICROFINANCE SECTOR
[...] Summary: Against the advice of donors and banking experts, the GOM has launched a controversial rural loan program with subsidized interest rates, administered by a state-owned bank that has no experience in microfinance. The U.S. and other donors have expressed our concerns, but the GOM is de [...]
2005-05-26 06:33:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR KMCA MI BUD FIN
05LILONGWE448GOVERNMENT CLOSES FINANCE BANK OF MALAWI
[...] (U) In a move that took the Malawian business community by surprise, the GOM revoked the license of Finance Bank of Malawi (FBM) and closed the bank without warning on May 19. In public statements, the GOM has said the bank was regularly violating the country's banking regulations. GOM sources [...]
2005-05-26 09:50:00Embassy LilongweCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCOR KMCA EINV PREL MI BUD FIN
05LILONGWE579PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA'S LEADERSHIP STYLE
[...] Despite a year of solid success in imposing discipline on government spending and launching a strong anti-corruption campaign, President Mutharika has been frustrated in his reform agenda by an increasingly militant opposition and a weak civil service. A series of negative media stories has p [...]
2005-07-08 09:20:00Embassy LilongweCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KMCA MI
05LILONGWE738(C) MUTHARIKA ON REFORM AND POLITICS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT BINGU WA MUTHARIKA ON AUGUST 25, 2005. DURING THE TRADITIONAL ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATION AFTER THE FORMAL CEREMONY, PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA EXPOUNDED AT LENGTH ON HIS PROGRAM (SELF-RELIANCE) AND MALAWI POLITICS (STALEMATED IN PARLIAMENT),[...]
2005-08-26 09:56:00Embassy LilongweCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA EAID MI
05MANILA5261 CALL ON PRESIDENT ARROYO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with President Arroyo on November 7, USAID Assistant Administrator for the Asia Near East Bureau (AA/ANE) James R. Kunder and US Embassy Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Paul W. Jones highlighted how the USG's development assistance program carried out by USAID supports Phi [...]
2005-11-08 05:47:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA EFIN EINV PREL PHUM RP
05MAPUTO7SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF STAFFDEL MCLEAN TO
[...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the U.S. contribution in the fight against HIV/AIDS and Mozambique's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) concept paper. You are arriving just after presidential and legislative [...]
2005-01-04 12:11:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KHIV KMCA ECON ETRD MZ MCC
05MAPUTO829BUDGET SUPPORT DONORS OBJECT TO DEDICATED MCC
[...] (U) On June 30, the Dutch Ambassador and the Finnish Charge, the incoming and outgoing heads of the Group of 17 donors who provide budget support to the Mozambican government (GRM),called on Charge to deliver a letter expressing concern over the GRM's decision to set up a unit in the Planning [...]
2005-07-05 13:00:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON MZ MCC
05NAIROBI2691 KENYA'S BUDGET: MORE SPENDING, BUT BETTER FOCUSED
[...] (U) This is a joint State-USAID cable 2. (SBU) Summary: Kenya's new budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 foresees a 34% nominal increase in spending, but proposes to spend proportionally more money in areas deemed crucial to economic development and poverty reduction, namely healt [...]
2005-06-30 12:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV EAID KMCA KE
05NAIROBI3180ENGAGING KENYA ON ITS MCA THRESHOLD PROPOSAL
[...] (U) This is joint Embassy-USAID Message. 2. (C) Embassy Nairobi welcomes the proposed August 15-19 visit by MCC personnel to evaluate Kenya's application for MCC Threshold funding and encourages an early country clearance request. We see the purpose of this visit as assessing Kenya's eff [...]
2005-08-05 07:32:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKMCA EAID PGOV ECON EFIN PREL KCOR KE MCA
05NAIROBI660 DONORS: NO BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR KENYA'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, World Bank Kenya hosted the quarterly meeting of the Donor Coordination Group (DCG) at which near consensus was expressed that the planning for the April 11-12 annual Consultative Group Meeting (CG) for Kenya could not be "business as usual" in light of the resi [...]
2005-02-14 12:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KCOR KMCA PGOV KPAO KE
05PRETORIA2971POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary. While the government's macroeconomic and stabilization effort is largely complete, South Africa faces formidable medium and long-term challenges to reduce high unemployment and widespread poverty. More than a decade after apartheid, poverty and unemployment are still dramatica [...]
2005-07-27 11:54:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN EINV KMCA SF
05PRETORIA2977SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEED AND PROSPECT FOR GROWTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fiscal and budgetary reforms of the past decade have built a firm foundation upon which the South African economy can build, but life for many South Africans has not improved much since the transition to majority rule in 1994. Widespread unemployment, rapid urbanization, and di [...]
2005-07-27 13:12:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA EFIN EINV SF
05PRETORIA3014ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. When South Africa grows, so does Africa. A main challenge for South Africa is how it can use its engine of trade to benefit its own poor as well as the poor on the continent. The South African government regards trade and investment with the rest of Africa with increasing poli [...]
2005-07-29 07:32:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON EAID KMCA SF USTR
05RABAT1070KING MOHAMMED VI LAUNCHES MAJOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nationally televised address on May 18, King Mohammed VI announced a major government initiative to combat poverty, create jobs, improve infrastructure, and open the Moroccan economy. The speech's timing -- almost to the day of the second anniversary of the May 16, 2003 [...]
2005-05-19 16:12:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV KMCA KMPI ELAB EAID MO
05RABAT122MCC CEO APPLEGARTH MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Driss Jettou laid out for Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Paul Applegarth his government's top development priorities in a January 12 meeting attended by Ambassador Riley and Salahuddine Tazi, the Foreign Ministry's director of American Affairs. Also present [...]
2005-01-14 17:33:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKMCA EAID ECON PREL PHUM MO
05RABAT124MCC CEO APPLEGARTH MEETING WITH MOROCCAN FOREIGN
[...] (U) Summary: Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Paul Applegarth met with MFA Americas Director Salaheddine Tazi and Director for Bilateral Affairs Youssef Amrani on January 12 to formally congratulate the Government of Morocco on its eligibility to apply for Millennium Challenge Account fun [...]
2005-01-14 17:40:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID ECON PREL EINV MO
05RABAT1768GOM PITCHES MCC ON DRAFT MCA COMPACT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 15 and 16, Prime Minister Jettou, Foreign Affairs Minister Delegate Fassi Fihri, and more than a dozen other Government of Morocco (GOM) officials gave a first glimpse of Morocco's draft Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal to Millennium Challenge Corporation [...]
2005-08-23 10:15:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA MO
05RABAT1842THE KING'S ROYAL FOUNDATIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN MOROCCAN POLITICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Palace's royal foundations occupy a unique position in Morocco's political landscape. Headed by a member of the royal family (often the King),they are autonomous from the government, which allows them freedom of action and funding, but have the ability to closely partner w [...]
2005-09-01 15:47:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EAID KMCA KMPI MO
05RABAT2540AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO MOROCCO'S DESERT SOUTH
[...] Summary: Ambassador traveled to Morocco's southeastern province of Errachidia December 6-9 to review USG assistance programs in the area and explore ways the Government of Morocco might use Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) funding to generate income and employment in the overwhelmingly rur [...]
2005-12-20 16:33:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR KMCA SENV ASEC PGOV MO
05RABAT452AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PALACE ADVISOR MOHAMMED
[...] (U) Summary: Continuing a series of calls on Royal Palace Advisors, Ambassador met February 18 with Mohammed Kabbaj, one of King Mohammed's lead advisors on trade, finance and investment matters. Kabbaj and Ambassador engaged in a free-flowing discussion of the GOM's economic plans and prior [...]
2005-03-03 13:23:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN PREL PGOV KMCA MO
05RABAT850MOROCCO STATE OF PLAY ON MCA
[...] (C) Summary: Recent meetings with GOM officials, from working-level contacts to Ministers, reveal that Morocco is moving forward on developing its Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact and has instituted a formalized coordinating structure. According to these contacts, the GOM will focus [...]
2005-04-25 12:46:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON EAID KMCA KMPI PGOV MO
05SANAA1054DRAFT PRESS LAW CONCERNS JOURNALISTS
[...] (C) Summary. On April 25 the ROYG's draft of a proposed new press law was leaked to the Yemen press. Journalists, citing more restrictions than in the old law and the lack of ROYG consultations with the Syndicate in drafting the law, are disappointed. Minister of Information, Hussein al-Awadi [...]
2005-04-29 09:00:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KMPI KMCA YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA1300YEMEN'S DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY TO SUPPORT
[...] Per reftel, included below is requested report on Yemen's democratic reform strategy to support the Freedom Agenda. Begin text. ------------ A. Overview ------------ The Government of Yemen has demonstrated rhetorical and real commitment to the goals of democracy and human rights. T [...]
2005-05-15 12:41:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ECON PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO KMPI KMCA YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA1352ROYG INSIDERS INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED WITH SALEH CLAN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-23 14:26:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR KMCA KMPI DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA144RECENT JUDICIAL RESHUFFLE: REFORM OR VANDETTA
[...] (U) Summary. Most legal experts view a recent reshuffle of the Yemeni judiciary by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) more as a vendetta against supporters of rebel cleric Hussein al-Houthi (reftel) than as a serious effort to reform Yemen's weak judiciary. What is required, they note, is a po [...]
2005-01-25 11:36:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMPI KMCA KCOR YM KHUM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA1446DONORS ADDRESS THE KEY TO REFORM IN YEMEN: PUBLIC
[...] Summary: The donor community sponsored a workshop in May on the critical but oft-neglected subject of public finance management (PFM). In an effort to develop a work plan for rationalizing the budgeting process, currently a source of extensive corruption and mismanagement, the Ministry of Fin [...]
2005-05-29 11:52:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV PGOV KMCA KMPI YM ECON COM
05SANAA1589GOOD NEWS FOR YEMEN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE: DUBAI
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On June 8 the ROYG announced Dubai Ports International (DPI) the winner of a 35-year concession to operate and develop the Aden Port and Aden Container Terminal (ACT). DPI is the world's fifth largest port operator, managing 18 international ports and terminals worldwide [...]
2005-06-14 11:10:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EWWT ETRD KMCA KMPI YM COM
05SANAA1597HUNT OIL READY TO SUE ROYG IN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary. Neither side is backing down in the dispute between headline American company Hunt Oil and the ROYG over the cancellation of Hunt's five-year extension to operate lucrative block 18 in Maarib. Ambassador briefed Yemen Hunt head Wyndell Caveness following his meeting with Presiden [...]
2005-06-15 13:45:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID EPET KMCA KMPI YM COM ENERGY
05SANAA1729CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT EARLY MARRIAGE IN YEMEN SEEKS
[...] Summary. Pol/Off attended an Oxfam-sponsored presentation on early marriage in Yemen on June 7. Yemeni researchers presented results from a national study on the prevalence, causes, and societal consequences of early marriage. Oxfam, in conjunction with Save the Children - Sweden, plans to l [...]
2005-06-22 06:12:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID KWMN PHUM SOCI KMCA KMPI YM
05SANAA1782PARLIAMENTARIANS SEEK TO LIMIT EXECUTIVE
[...] (C) Summary. On June 11 the Yemeni Parliament passed new by-laws aimed at reforming its infrastructure. Among other reforms, the bill would reduce the Speaker of Parliament's term from six years to two. Ambassador discussed the new bill with several reformist MPs on June 14. The legislators [...]
2005-06-27 13:27:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA1790PRIORITIES FOR WASHINGTON VISIT: SALEH NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
[...] (S) Summary: Significant progress has been made in our relationship with Yemen in the past four years. The ROYG has arrested and tried perpetrators of the USS Cole and VM Limburg attacks, shared GWOT-related information, collaborated in the capture of AQ suspects and helped uncover plots agains [...]
2005-06-28 15:44:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR PARMS MARR KDEM KMCA KMPI YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA1820OPPOSITION COALITION PREPARES FOR 2006 ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. In recent weeks Sanaa has been abuzz with rumors that the opposition party coalition, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) plans to nominate a challenger to President Saleh in 2006. In late May, members of the JMP central committee, comprised of one designated representative from eac [...]
2005-07-03 05:17:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA1877JEFFREY SACHS VISITS SANAA, WARNS OF ECONOMIC
[...] (U) Summary. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the UN Millennium Project, projected a bleak future for Yemen without dramatic policy changes and a significant increase in foreign assistance during a visit to Sanaa, July 1-4. In Sachs's view, poor economic performance, declining natural resources, a [...]
2005-07-11 10:10:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EPET KMPI KMCA YM COM
05SANAA1919SALEH PURSUES TRIBAL APPROACH TO ECONOMIC REFORMS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Yemen's Parliament approved a general sales tax law in early July, which met with fierce protest from business leaders. After hearing their complaints regarding the potential for abuse and corruption, President Saleh locked business leaders in a room with ROYG officials and de [...]
2005-07-18 11:24:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV KMCA KMPI YM COM
05SANAA193DPM SOFAN PROMOTES DONOR HARMONIZATION AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 30, Ambassador joined key donors and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Ahmed Sofan in signing a declaration on their intent to enhance donor coordination in Yemen. In a follow-on meeting with Sofan, Ambassador raised Socotr [...]
2005-02-02 10:25:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA ECON ETRD EAID EINV YM COM
05SANAA1959SALEH AUTHORIZES ECONOMIC REFORMS: ROYG BRACES FOR
[...] (C) Summary. On July 18, President Saleh approved long-delayed portions of the economic reform package. A reduction or elimination of the fuel subsidy is likely to accompany this decision, and some fear it will lead to civil unrest. Several reports indicate that the security forces will emp [...]
2005-07-19 15:12:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV KMCA KMPI YM COM
05SANAA2023CHARGE DISCUSSES LIFTING OF SUBSIDIES, CABINET
[...] (C) As riots were beginning to break out across the capital on July 19, CDA discussed pressing current issues with Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman, followed by a brief unscheduled meeting with Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi. Noman was critical of ROYG handling of the lifting of oil and [...]
2005-07-25 14:02:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PGOV OVIP ECON ENRG SOCI EAID KMCA KMPI YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2032SALEH'S WITHDRAWAL: TO RUN OR NOT TO RUN?
[...] (C) Summary. President Saleh shocked many with his July 17 announcement that he would not be a candidate for reelection in 2006. His statement came days before the ROYG's decision to implement unpopular economic reforms resulting in hikes in oil and gas prices of over fifty percent. While rec [...]
2005-07-26 13:53:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KDEM KMCA KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2062SALEH "RESCUES" YEMEN FROM PRICE HIKES
[...] (C) Summary. Following a week of protests against the ROYG's decision to partially lift fuel subsidies, on July 25 President Saleh ordered the Cabinet to reduce prices by seven to 22 percent. The President reached his decision after consulting with tribal leaders, who in return agreed to lift [...]
2005-07-28 09:43:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV ENRG KMPI KMCA YM COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2095SALEH ON TERRORISM, IRAQ, PEACE PROCESS, AND REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with President Saleh on August 1 to deliver ref A demarche for Arab League Capitals and discuss his November meeting with President Bush. Discussions focused on combating terrorism, the situation in Iraq, economic and democratic reforms, and Saleh's trip. News of K [...]
2005-08-01 15:12:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PTER KDEM KMCA KMPI KPAL IZ YM DEMARCHE
05SANAA2162HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW CHIEF OF YEMENI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Amidst calls of "Enough corruption! Enough plundering!" and "Let's put unity back on track," the Yemen Socialist Party (YSP),Yemen's third most influential political party, concluded its Fifth Annual Conference on July 31. The conference wrapped up with the election of a new s [...]
2005-08-07 12:35:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI KWMN YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2414WHERE DOES ISLAH'S HEART LIE?
[...] (C) Summary: With the 2006 Presidential and Local Council elections fast approaching, the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, or "Islah" is taking center stage in Yemeni politics. Islah is a coalition of northern tribal interests and the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood (YMB). The party boasts the hig [...]
2005-08-21 10:41:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER KISL KDEM KMPI KMCA YM
05SANAA265YEMEN SUBMITS THRESHOLD PAPER: REACHING MCC A
[...] Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Sofan presented Yemen's MCC-Threshold Concept Paper to USAID Director on Jan. 30. The paper was recommended for approval on Jan. 30 by letter to AID/PPC/MCA, signed by Ambassador and USAID Director. The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) [...]
2005-02-08 12:49:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EFIN EIND EINV KMCA KMPI PGOV YM ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA2766WILL SALEH'S SUCCESSOR PLEASE STAND UP?
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-17 12:29:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNKDEM KMCA KMPI PGOV PINR PREL PTER YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2920PARLIAMENT FLEXES MUSCLES, CHALLENGES ROYG ON
[...] (C) Summary. In its last session, Yemen's Parliament asserted its constitutional authority in unprecedented fashion, summoning ministers for questioning, challenging ROYG corruption, and even passing original legislation. Parliamentarians also took aim at the Speaker, Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar [...]
2005-10-10 12:17:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMPI KMCA YM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA2922MCC ESSENTIAL TO STABILITY AND REFORM IN YEMEN
[...] (S) Summary: Millennium Challenge Corporation programs are crucial to Yemen's future and to U.S. national security interests. Yemen stands at an important crossroads in its path to development and reform. For Yemen's reformers, MCC offers an important way forward. If the United States walks [...]
2005-10-11 06:39:00Embassy SanaaSECRETECPS EFIN EIND EINV PGOV KMCA KMPI YM ECON COM
05SANAA2957RECORD OIL REVENUES FOR YEMEN -- WHERE HAS THE
[...] (C) Summary. In September, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) submitted a record supplementary budget to Parliament for approval, totaling 50 percent of the original 2005 budget. As a result of higher than expected oil revenues and the lifting of fuel subsidies, Yemen is showing a revenue surplus [...]
2005-10-12 11:28:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ECON KMCA KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA3018DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR YEMEN -- QUARTERLY
[...] (C) Summary: Post implemented the initial phase of Yemen's Democratic Reform Strategy with mixed results. (Ref A) This quarterly report demonstrates progress for women in political participation, and in the role of Parliament providing a check on the executive. (Ref B) The ROYG's Threshold Pr [...]
2005-10-18 12:10:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMPI KMCA ECON PHUM YM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA310MEPI PROJECTS SHOWING RESULTS IN YEMEN
[...] Summary. MEPI programs are making progress and solidifying MEPI's track record in Yemen. CHF's vocational training center, forming a new partnership with local NGO Girls World Communication Center (GWCC),opened classes beginning in February. IFES has begun implementation of the GIS Bounda [...]
2005-02-15 05:51:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KMCA KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA3187ASSAULT ON TWO JOURNALISTS: NEWEST CASE IN SPATE
[...] (U) Summary: On October 29, Moujeeb Sweileh, a cameraman with the "Al-Arabiya" news channel, and Najib Al-Sharai, from "Al-Akhbariya," were assaulted by ROYG security forces while attempting to cover a strike at a textile factory in Sanaa. The attack is just one of a long string of physical and [...]
2005-11-01 12:35:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KMPI KMCA YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA328POWERFUL FINANCE MINISTER AL-SALAMI ON THE
[...] (C) Summary. Time may be up for Finance Minister al-Salami. Rumors are spreading throughout Sanaa that President Saleh will remove the Minister from office in an upcoming cabinet shuffle. A number of small but significant political losses for Salami appear to give teeth to this rumor. Sal [...]
2005-02-16 14:06:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV KMCA KMPI PGOV YM KBIO DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA3591UNITEL SIGNS CONTRACT FOR YEMEN'S THIRD GSM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. After winning Yemen's third GSM license under a dubious tendering process with a staggering bid of USD 149 billion, Unitel has now failed to pay. Initially billed by the Ministry of Telecommunications as a Chinese company, Unitel now appears to have no Chinese investors at all. [...]
2005-12-27 11:25:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ECPS EIND EINV ETTC KMPI KMCA YM ECON COM
05SANAA37ECONOMIC REFORM PART DEUX: ROYG MAKING LIMITED
[...] (C) Summary. During a rancorous Parliamentary session on December 26, Prime Minister Ba Jammal's bodyguards ushered him out of the building while he was trying to give a speech promoting the government's 2005 budget. Attached to the budget are much needed economic reforms including reduction o [...]
2005-01-06 13:16:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KMCA KMPI YM ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA420CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS CALL ON U/S DOBRIANSKY FOR
[...] Summary: On February 24, Undersecretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, explored at a roundtable with Yemeni NGOs areas where the U.S. can support Yemen's nascent civil society. Representatives from forty NGOs raised concerns over human rights abuses, women's access to political and eco [...]
2005-02-28 14:11:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR KMCA KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
05SANAA853MINISTER SOFAN ON MCC THRESHOLD: WE'LL DO IT
[...] USAID Director and Pol/Econoff met March 28 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Ahmad Sofan. USAID Director conveyed that Yemen's MCC Threshold paper was very strong (reftel),and urged the ROYG to focus on specific reforms within the MCC categor [...]
2005-04-02 13:08:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EIND EINV PGOV KMCA KMPI YM TAGS
05SANAA8732004 CENSUS RESULTS: FIVE MILLION MISSING YEMENIS?
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On March 16, the Yemen Central Statistics Organization (CSO) surprised the donor community in Sanaa, along with many ROYG officials, by announcing a 2004 Census result of 19.7 million Yemenis, an apparent drop from an estimated 22 million. Earlier that day, two senior [...]
2005-04-06 11:00:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID ELAB SOCI KWMN KMPI KMCA KDEM YM DOMESTIC POLITICS COM
05SANAA9MCC VISITS SANAA: YEMEN ON THE THRESHOLD
[...] (SBU) Summary. USAID Millennium Challenge Account Secretariat Representatives Bryan Kurtz and Steve Feldstein SIPDIS and MCC Threshold Country Managing Director Kevin Saba briefed senior level ROYG officials at the Ministries of Planning, Justice, and Human Rights December 16-19 on requirem [...]
2005-01-02 15:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA KCOR PGOV YM KMEPI ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
05SANAA905YEMEMI DOCTORS STRIKE, ACCUSE ROYG OF DOING HARM
[...] (C) Summary. Yemeni doctors recently suspended a strike against the ROYG. In a rare nation-wide organized strike in modern Yemeni history, the physicians demanded higher wages and a return of seized assets. None of the issues have been resolved, and it appears likely the doctors will strike [...]
2005-04-12 04:12:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB ECON KMPI KMCA YM COM
05SANSALVADOR2336SALVADORAN BUDGET DATA FOR MCC
[...] The Salvadoran Ministry of Finance, in coordination with the Technical Secretariat, provided seven-years' of budget data to the MCC in response to reftels. Emboffs who worked with Salvadoran officials on this task were impressed by the professional effort they put forth to compile the data in [...]
2005-08-22 15:02:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMCA EAID ES
05SANSALVADOR2392AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAQ CONTINGENT, COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ VISIT WITH PRESIDENT SACA
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 courtesy call on President Saca, the Ambassador praised Saca's commitment to the Iraq effort by sending a fifth Salvadoran contingent, announced that Commerce Secretary Gutierrez would be coming to El Salvador October 21-22, and offered Embassy assistance to the G [...]
2005-08-26 20:53:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA EAID ES
05SANSALVADOR2689REGISTERING A BUSINESS IN EL SALVADOR
[...] The World Bank's "Doing Business in 2006" reports that it takes 40 days and about $2,775 to register a limited liability company (corporation) with start-up capital of $23,500 in El Salvador. We believe the process takes 40 days but that the actual cost is only about $775, $2,000 less than t [...]
2005-09-28 20:27:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EINV ES
05TEGUCIGALPA1648MCA HONDURAS MOVING FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: MCC and the GOH continue to make progress towards MCA-Honduras implementation. MCC has now filled the position of Mission Director for Honduras. GOH domestic legislation to bring the Compact agreement with Millennium Challenge Corporation into force is quietly making the rounds i [...]
2005-08-08 19:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN PREL KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1825HONDURAS CSI MOVING AHEAD
[...] Following a week-long visit to review progress, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS/CBP) team reports that GOH support for the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program remains strong and preparations at Puerto Cortes continue to move forward. Team leader Mark Reich and Jacob Aguilar bri [...]
2005-09-02 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV PINS KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1841GOH Approves MCC Compact and Creates MCA-Honduras
[...] On August 26, the Honduran National Assembly approved the MCC Compact and on August 30 approved the law creating MCA- Honduras, which is the GOH legal entity that will be responsible for implementing the MCC Program. 2. MCC staff will be working with GOH to complete the remaining steps so t [...]
2005-09-07 22:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1843SHIPPERS HIKE HONDURAN PORT FEES, SPURRING
[...] (C) On August 26, the private shippers' umbrella organization -- the Central America Discussion Agreement (CADA) -- informed Honduran importers and exporters that effective September 1, shippers would raise container handling fees by USD 5-15 per container. According to CADA, this price incre [...]
2005-09-08 21:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT KJUS ECON ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA331HONDURAS: ONEROUS PORT FEES COULD THREATEN
[...] (C) Summary: In December 2004, the GOH National Congress approved legislation obligating the government to pay a hefty per-container fee of USD 18 for empty containers and USD 37 for loaded containers for x-ray scanning. The law dictates that the Ministry of Finance pay these fees to the servi [...]
2005-02-11 20:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA363HONDURAS: PORT FEES: THE HONDURAN PRIVATE SECTOR
[...] (C) Summary: The GOH has recently approved a USD 55 per container fee for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes (Ref A). This fee, if passed on to port users, would nearly double port costs, rendering the port uncompetitive and resulting in trade and investment diversion away from Honduras (Ref B). [...]
2005-02-14 20:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA366HONDURAS: POST SUPPORTS CUSTOMS SERVICE REQUEST
[...] This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. On February 10, Post received a written request, dated January 31, 2005, from Customs Director Arquimedez Jimenez for technical assistance to improve various facets of the Honduran Customs Service. Jimenez specifically cites CAFTA implementa [...]
2005-02-15 13:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA399HONDURAS: PORT FEE IMPLEMENTATION SUSPENDED
[...] (U) Summary: A united private sector has succeeded in temporarily halting the entry into force of a contract for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes, citing the potential economic damage that the contracted fee of USD 55 per container would do to Honduran competitiveness. The respite is temporar [...]
2005-02-18 18:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA544HONDURAS: MINFIN HINTS AT PORT FEES COMPROMISE
[...] (C) On the margins of another meeting on March 4, EconChief raised the port x-ray scanning fees question (ref A) with Minister of Finance William Chong Wong, Vice Minister of Finance for Revenues Donald Dubon, Director of the Tax Service (the DEI) Jose Manuel Carcamo, and Director of Customs A [...]
2005-03-10 14:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA546HONDURAS: PORT FEE NOT SUSPENDED AFTER ALL;
[...] (C) Summary: Contrary to alleged assurances made by President Maduro on February 11 that he would suspend publication and entry into force of the controversial new contract for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes, the contract was published in the official Gaceta on February 15. The question of [...]
2005-03-10 14:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA646EMBASSY SUPPORTS CSI FOR HONDURAS
[...] Post strongly supports the Government of Honduras, request to be included in the next tranche of countries invited to join the Container Security Initiative (CSI). The GOH has shown an awareness of the importance of maritime security and demonstrated the political will to take the necessary s [...]
2005-03-28 12:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA769HONDURAN PORT FEE REDUCTION AGREED TO IN PRINCIPLE
[...] (C) Summary: Following a public exchange of vitriol earlier this year over port fees -- in which accusations of fraud, deception, graft, tax evasion, smuggling, and unconstitutionality were repeatedly hurled (detailed reftels) -- the GOH and private sector sat down last month to work out a mu [...]
2005-04-11 14:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05YEREVAN142 MCA COMPACT PROPOSAL NEARS COMPLETION -
[...] (SBU) During a January 25 meeting with Embassy and USAID representatives, GOAM Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Tigran Khachatryan said that the GOAM's consultants were nearing completion on the MCA compact proposal and expected to present a copy to the GOAM MCA Board by February 10. Af [...]
2005-01-27 13:35:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN409 COMPACT PROPOSAL MOVES ALONG -- FROM LOCAL
[...] (SBU) The GOAM has informed Post that AVAG Solutions, the local consulting firm hired to compile Armenia's MCA compact proposal, completed its work and presented a draft version of the proposal to the GOAM MCA Board of Trustees on March 2. The Board reportedly discussed and approved the docu [...]
2005-03-07 13:37:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID KMCA AM
06ACCRA1899GHANA: TRADE AND INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
[...] During a July 19-23 visit to Ghana, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Florie Liser, Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance Holly Vineyard and SIPDIS accompanying USG officials engaged with GOG officials and members of Ghana's private sector to discuss strategi [...]
2006-08-18 12:04:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EINV ETRD KMCA PGOV PREL GH
06AMMAN7625MCC SCORE CARD DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-04 14:10:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRC ECON KMCA MCC JO
06AMMAN7737PRODUCTIVE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF PARLIAMENT
[...] ( SBU ) Summary: Jordan's Parliament concluded its extraordinary session September 28, six weeks after King Abdullah recalled the legislators and handed them an ambitious 42-bill agenda (ref A). A potential crisis over two imprisoned Islamist MPs was averted when the Islamic Action Front ba [...]
2006-10-10 15:03:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMCA KDEM KMPI KTFN EFIN JO
06ASUNCION1028PARAGUAY: MCC COUNTRY SELECTION AND DELIVERY OF
[...] (SBU) The USAID director delivered the MCC Scorecard and talking points to Minister Carlos Walde, President Duarte,s Economic Advisor on Wednesday, October 4. Paraguay,s "performance" against the MCA median on each of the indicator areas related to ruling justly, economic freedom, and investi [...]
2006-10-11 11:36:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC PA
06ASUNCION274PARAGUAY: TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN'S VISIT CREATES NEW
[...] Summary. Treasury A/S Patrick O'Brien's visit to Paraguay on 3/8 offered an excellent opportunity to reinforce with key GOP officials, legislators, and business community leaders the importance the U.S. attaches to rapid adoption of a strong anti-money laundering law. All interlocutors stre [...]
2006-03-13 20:02:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM KMCA PA
06ASUNCION732PARAGUAY - RAPID GROWTH OF MAQUILA SECTOR
[...] Exports from Paraguayan maquilas (low-tax, export-oriented manufacturing or service businesses) are growing rapidly. From 2006 through 2007, the Paraguayan Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) expects to receive over USD 40 million in additional foreign investment in the sector. Paraguay s [...]
2006-07-17 11:00:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV BEXP KMCA PA
06ASUNCION852PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, AUGUST 12
[...] (U) Summary -- Senate Passes TFCA -- SENAD Seizes Illegal Weapons -- President Signs Decree to Create New Customs Unit -- Supreme Court Rejects Case Against American Airlines -- Stroessner Goes Out on Top ---------------------- Senate Passes TFCA ------------------ 2. (U) On 8/17, [...]
2006-08-18 18:57:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EINV KMCA PTER KCRM PY
06BANJUL11THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT'S YEAR-END INTERVIEW
[...] (C) In a year-end television interview, President Jammeh, in a vintage, shoot-from-the-hip performance, spoke of general economic improvement in 2005, while characterizing the dismal state of public utilities as among the country's "dramatic failures." He was optimistic about prospects for de [...]
2006-01-06 18:21:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM PINS KMCA GA
06BANJUL15THE GAMBIA: OPPOSITION HOLDS RALLY
[...] (SBU) Per ref a, representative of opposition coalition, National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD),told us January 4 of NADD's plan to stage an outdoor mass rally January 7, but expressed doubt that authorities would give the required authorization. Ambassador subsequently raised [...]
2006-01-09 16:41:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL153THE GAMBIA: THE MALAISE EASES
[...] (C) The malaise gripping The Gambia's political and human rights arenas at the end of 2005 is easing somewhat, as Nigerian President Obasanjo's February 5-6 mediation visit was successful in bringing about improved dialog between mercurial, rough-hewn President Jammeh and the opposition. Besid [...]
2006-03-11 14:09:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL212THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON AFTERMATH OF
[...] (C) In April 6 meeting with senior presidential adviser, Secretary General Njie, Ambassador reiterated our concern SIPDIS over reports of detainees' mistreatment, detention of National Assembly Speaker and others, and private newspaper's closure in connection with the recent aborted coup at [...]
2006-04-06 17:34:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL222THE GAMBIA: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS FOLLOWING FOILED
[...] (C) President Jammeh continues his efforts to demonstrate that he remains in charge and that the public is rallying around him, while opposition parties issued a statement April 9 expressing doubt about the GOTG's capacity to "manage the apparent crisis." There are signs of disarray at the N [...]
2006-04-10 17:19:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL225THE GAMBIA: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON DETAINEES
[...] (C) Ambassador met April 13 with Foreign Minister's deputy, William Joof, to reiterate our concern over authorities' reported abuses following the March 21 aborted coup plot and to reiterate our request for prompt access to detained American citizen (dual national) Tamsir Jasseh (ref a). (NOTE [...]
2006-04-13 13:22:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPROG PREL PHUM PINS CASC ASEC KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL233THE GAMBIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER REMOVED,
[...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker, Sheriff Dibba, suspected of involvement in the failed coup plot, was released from detention April 15, but removed from the National Assembly by President Jammeh. A senior National Intelligence Agency official, Keemo Balajo, was also released and his job res [...]
2006-04-18 14:07:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL249THE GAMBIA: MORE DETAINEES RELEASED, OTHER
[...] (C) The General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, "Independent," are among detainees released April 20 and ostensibly cleared of involvement in the aborted coup plot March 21. Ambassador met April 21 with Interior Minister Jatta and pressed again for access to Amcit detainee and for [...]
2006-04-21 16:11:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL252THE GAMBIA: FURTHER DEMARCHE ON ACCESS TO AMCIT,
[...] (C) Ambassador met April 24 with Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary William Joof and repeated previous requests for SIPDIS access to Amcit Tamsir Jasseh, detained for suspected involvement in the March 21 aborted coup plot (ref a). Ambassador stressed dismay at the delay in our obtaining a [...]
2006-04-24 17:30:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL269THE GAMBIA: INDEPENDENT STILL SHUT; GM DETAILS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The General Manager of the journal,"The Independent", Madi Ceesay, met with DCM and Poloff on April 27 to advise us of the ongoing closure of the journal by the GOTG and to make us aware of the torture that he and others have experienced while in detention. Ceesay was detained from [...]
2006-05-02 10:08:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL316THE GAMBIA: MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON
[...] (C) Ambassador met May 18 with President Jammeh's senior advisor, Secretary General Mambury Njie, to stress our ongoing concern over the negative trend in the GTOG's human rights record following the aborted coup plot here March 21 (ref a). Ambassador warned that as a result of this negative [...]
2006-05-18 14:44:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL318THE GAMBIA: UDPATE ON DETAINEES, STATUS OF
[...] (SBU) Ref a reports the initial court hearing March 10 for 16 detainees charged in connection with the coup plot thwarted here March 21. Our contacts indicate that, in subsequent days, these detainees have finally been allowed to receive visits from family members and lawyers; refs b and c re [...]
2006-05-19 12:17:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KMCA AU GA
06BANJUL396THE GAMBIA: SCENE-SETTER FOR VCI PDAS FORD'S AND
[...] (C) VCI PDAS Ford and AF DAS Thomas-Greenfield will visit The Gambia against the backdrop of the AU Summit -- for which the GOTG is feverishly preparing -- but also against the backdrop of markedly negative human rights trend in this country, as highlighted by abuses following the coup plot t [...]
2006-06-22 09:47:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID MASS KMCA PTER PINS EINV ETRD
06BANJUL407THE GAMBIA: MUTED REACTION SO FAR TO MCA
[...] (C) In the aftermath of the Millenium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) June 16 decision to suspend The Gambia's eligibility for Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) assistance due to the GOTG's deteriorating performance on various eligiblity criteria (refs a and b),the Gambian reaction has so far [...]
2006-06-27 14:16:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KMCA EAID GA
06BANJUL422THE GAMBIA: AF DAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD'S MEETING
[...] (C) President Jammeh extended a warm welcome to visiting AF DAS Thomas-Greenfield, who urged the GOTG to take steps to reverse the negative trends in GOTG's performance that had resulted in the suspension of The Gambia's MCA eligibility. Jammeh gave assurances that opposition parties would be [...]
2006-07-06 09:57:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KMCA PGOV AU GA
06BANJUL439THE GAMBIA: REACHING OUT TO VENEZUELA, IRAN
[...] (C) Prominent journalist and Embassy contact portrayed President Jammeh's invitation to Venezuelan and Iranian leaders to recent African Union Summit here as a swipe at the U.S. following the suspension of The Gambia's MCA eligibility. According to our source, Chavez actively lobbied Summit d [...]
2006-07-12 14:35:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA UNSC GA IR VE GT
06BANJUL444THE GAMBIA: DAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD DISCUSSES HUMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. While visiting The Gambia to attend the African Union (AU) Summit, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield met with government and civil society leaders to discuss concerns over the negative trend in their country's human rights record (see reftel f [...]
2006-07-14 05:37:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALKMCA PGOV PHUM PREL AU GA
06BANJUL529THE GAMBIA WELCOMES IRANIAN DELEGATION; SEEKS
[...] (C) A 28-member delegation from Iran, headed by Muhammad Eskandari, Iranian Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Special Envoy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, visted The Gambia August 22-24. The visit was a follow-up to a meeting between President Jammeh and the Iranian president duri [...]
2006-08-25 19:24:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA IR GA
06BANJUL558THE GAMBIA: RECOMMENDATION FOR MEETING WITH
[...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 5. 2. (U) As reported septel, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister equivalent) Lamin Kaba Bajo will head The Gambia's delegation to the upcoming UNGA session. The GOTG has requested meetings for Bajo with the Secretary and AF A/S [...]
2006-09-08 12:08:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UNGA KMCA GA
06BANJUL576THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON THE MEDIA
[...] (C) The generally negative trend in The Gambia's media environment continues, despite the enhanced media coverage accorded the opposition in connection with its Presidential election campaigning. The National Intelligence Agency detained a television reporter, who was subsequently fired, and [...]
2006-09-18 09:35:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL588THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT JAMMEH WINS RE-ELECTION IN
[...] (C) As expected, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has won re-election in the September 22 contest, receiving over 65 percent of the vote, according to virtually complete results announced as of September 23 afternoon by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Embassy observation teams dispa [...]
2006-09-23 16:18:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KMCA KDEM GA
06BANJUL589THE GAMBIA: JAMMEH FORMALLY DECLARED WINNER IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-25 08:54:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KMCA KDEM GA
06BANJUL594THE GAMBIA: OPPOSITION, OBSERVER REACTIONS TO
[...] (C) Presidential candidate Ousainou Darboe challenged the results of the September 22 presidential election as a sham, but nonetheless vowed to participate in the upcoming National Assembly elections rather than boycott them, as in 2002. Darboe acknowledged better behavior by the ruling APRC p [...]
2006-09-26 18:05:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KMCA GA
06BANJUL601THE GAMBIA: MORE REACTIONS TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) A well-informed journalist, Pap Saine, portrayed Taiwan and local businessmen of Lebanese origin as key sources of funding for President Jammeh's successful re-election campaign. A Commonwealth Secretariat official and election observer, Prof. Ade Adefuye, asserted that Jammeh's victory [...]
2006-09-28 18:00:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KMCA GA
06BANJUL614THE GAMBIA: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH SECRETARY GENERAL
[...] (C) The senior presidential advisor, Secretary General Njie, indicated a desire to engage with us on steps the GOTG needed to take in seeking reinstatement of MCA eligibility. At the same time, he cited President Jammeh's ongoing resentment over the suspension of eligibility as well as irritat [...]
2006-10-03 13:49:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KMCA GA
06BANJUL707THE GAMBIA: FY07 MCC SELECTION PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Ambassador informed Foreign Minister Bala Garba Jahumpa that the Millenium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Board of Directors did not re-select The Gambia for Compact eligibility for FY07 as it was currently suspended. Ambassador urged the GOTG to address the areas of policy [...]
2006-11-20 12:51:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID EFIN KMCA PREL PGOV GA
06BANJUL712THE GAMBIA: MORE SENIOR PERSONNEL CHANGES IN GOTG
[...] (C) Interior Secretary of State (Minister) Jatta was removed in President Jammeh's ongoing personnel shakeup, and former Gambian Ambassadors to Nigeria and Morocco were among new appointees. We do not/not believe that the change of leadership at the National Intelligence Agency signals a desi [...]
2006-11-23 13:17:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMCA PTER GA
06BANJUL717THE GAMBIA: GOTG DECLINES TO ENGAGE ON MCA
[...] (U) Ref a reported Ambassador's notification to Foreign Minister that The Gambia's was not re-selected for MCA compact eligibility for FY07 due to its current suspension (ref b),but that the Embassy remained at the GOTG's disposal for consultation on steps that it could take in pursuit of rei [...]
2006-11-27 16:09:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA EAID EFIN GA
06BANJUL731THE GAMBIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S COMMITMENT
[...] (C) In meeting with Ambassador, National Assembly Speaker Bidwell indicated that she plans to convey to President Jammeh her concern over the negative human rights trend here; she cited the ordeal of former parliamentarian Duta Kamaso as illustrative of that trend. Bidwell stressed her determ [...]
2006-12-04 12:55:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KMCA GA
06BANJUL761THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S INAUGURATION
[...] (C) The December 15 inauguration of President Jammeh's third term featured pomp and ceremony, and the bombastic leader used the occasion to portray The Gambia as a future "economic superpower," while also requesting Gambians' "forgiveness." Four African heads of state (Nigeria, Togo, Mauritan [...]
2006-12-20 15:15:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMCA GA IR SG
06BANJUL763THE GAMBIA: THE BUDGET, BACKLOG, AND BANK LOANS
[...] The Department of Finance disclosed budget figures for 2006 and estimates for 2007 before the National Assembly on December 6, with poverty reduction and consolidation of fiscal policy as the key highlights for the coming fiscal year. Secretary of State for Finance, Musa Bala Gaye, admitted [...]
2006-12-20 17:55:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV KMCA IMF GA
06BANJUL776NDI IN THE GAMBIA: EXPLORING POLITICAL SPACE
[...] (C) In preparation for the January 25, 2007 National Assembly elections, representatives from the National Democratic Institute (NDI) conducted Training of Trainers sessions on election observation with the three main political parties/coalitions December 15-21. The reps found all three par [...]
2006-12-28 16:13:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KMCA GA
06BANJUL9THE GAMBIA: BRITISH CONCERN OVER HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In January 4 conversation with Ambassador, UK High Commissioner Eric Jenkinson stated that HMG fully shared our concern over the negative trend of late in the GOTG's human rights record, as highlighted by the detention and prosecution of three leading opposition politicians (ref a). He sai [...]
2006-01-05 16:42:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KMCA GA UK
06BERLIN1937GERMAN VIEWS ON S/P INITIATIVE, "PARTNERSHIP FOR
[...] (C) Summary: S/P Director Dr. Stephen Krasner consulted with German officials June 29 on the "Partnership for Better Governance" initiative (PBG). The PBG would be a multilateral partnership to support the emergence of democratic institutions in the developing world by contracting to provid [...]
2006-07-11 08:06:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM KCRS KMCA KMPI GM
06BRUSSELS791LEVERAGING EU ASSISTANCE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bush's historic visit to Brussels in February 2005 has been followed by increased US-European cooperation on a range of political and security issues. An important component of that cooperation is greater synergy between US and EU approaches to development and humani [...]
2006-03-08 10:55:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KDEM PREF PREL KMCA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
06COLOMBO1731 MALDIVES SCORECARD DELIVERED, EMBASSY URGES CONSIDERATION
[...] SUMMARY: DCM and EconOff met with Dr. Mohamed Asim, Maldives High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, to discuss the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC's) scorecard, Maldives' designation as a Candidate country, and the fact that the MCC Board must still determine whether to invite Maldives to d [...]
2006-10-20 05:40:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC MV
06COLOMBO1732 SRI LANKA MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED; "INVESTING IN PEOPLE"
[...] SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Scorecard results were delivered to officials at the Ministry of Planning and Implementation. Officials paid particular attention to the below-median statistics listed in the Investing in People category, and asked Embassy to forward releva [...]
2006-10-20 05:41:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC CE
06COLOMBO1821SRI LANKA: INFORMATION FOR MCC NOVEMBER 8 MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Sri Lanka continue to be considered MCC-eligible. MCC projects would increase overall prosperity and support our main objective of helping Sri Lanka attain a lasting peace. Violence between Government of Sri Lanka forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil [...]
2006-11-03 06:34:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MCC KMCA CE
06COLOMBO1825MALDIVES: INFORMATION FOR MCC NOVEMBER 8 MEETING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: As a candidate country that has met the Millennium Challenge Corporation,s (MCC,s) threshold requirements, post recommends that Maldives be selected for eligibility by the MCC Board. Maldives, a small but ambitious country with an educated population, seeks to diversify its eco [...]
2006-11-03 10:42:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD KMCA MV PREL
06COLOMBO2090COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EILEEN BURKE,
[...] Post grants country clearance to Eileen Burke, Lawrence Camp and Andrew Farnum of Millennium Challenge Corporation to visit Colombo from January 3 to January 28, 2007. The purpose of their visit is to continue due diligence on the SME Development portions of the GOSL?s Millennium Challenge Com [...]
2006-12-18 05:35:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON OTRA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE
06COTONOU1149BENIN: MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE A SUCCESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Benin hosted a ministerial conference on "Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea" in Cotonou on November 13-15. The conference, sponsored by NAVEUR, and organized by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS),involved ministerial delegations from [...]
2006-11-21 15:46:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS ETRD ECON MARR KMCA PGOV PREL BN EWWT
06COTONOU1198BENIN: GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF INITIAL AUDITS OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The GoB has announced the much-anticipated results of the audits of twenty-one ministries and several major parastatals for the 2003-2006 period. President Yayi's government initiated these audits immediately upon taking office in April 2006, as part of a high priority effort to i [...]
2006-12-11 12:54:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KMCA BN
06COTONOU1231BENIN: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS REFERRAL OF TWO
[...] On December 21, 2006, after examining a report from a parliamentary investigative committee, the Legal Committee of the National Assembly recommended that Cosme Sehlin and Valentin Houd, respectively the former ministers of Finance and Institutional Relations under President Mathieu Kerekou, be [...]
2006-12-22 09:26:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
06COTONOU989BENIN'S MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COMPACT EBNTERS INTO
[...] President Yayi hosted a major ceremony to mark entry into force of Benin's Millennium Challenge Compact. The compact will focus on four major activities: the port, land tenure, financial reform, and improvements to commercial dispute resolution. In his remarks, Yayi particularly stressed the [...]
2006-10-12 11:48:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON PREL KCOR BN
06DAKAR1086TRAVEL, DARFUR, MCA AND U.S. ASSISTANCE ON WADE'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Wade asked the Ambassador to meet with him on May 4. The 30-minute meeting covered his upcoming trip to the United States, France and Switzerland; a potential official trip later this year to meet with President Bush and to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) C [...]
2006-05-08 15:52:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP EAID KMCA PHUM SG
06DAKAR1204PRIME MINISTER SALL COMMENTS ON MCA, ELECTIONS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Prime Minister Macky Sall to discuss the status of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP) and election preparations. The Prime Minister stressed that the MCA Compact is the GOS, highest prio [...]
2006-05-18 17:04:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID PINR PINS PREL KMCA KHDP SG
06DAKAR1268PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL REPRESENTS WATERSHED IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 2, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade convened an extraordinary Presidential Council to review the status of Senegal's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal. Prime Minister Macky Sall, most Ministers, heads of major independent agencies, representatives of mult [...]
2006-05-30 15:53:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EIND KMCA SOCI SG
06DAKAR1623SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in prom [...]
2006-07-07 15:22:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP ECON PHUM EAID MASS PGOV PREL SOCI KMCA
06DAKAR1787SENEGAL,S MCA TEAM HOSTS CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM; MCC
[...] (C) Summary: On July 10, the Government of Senegal,s (GOS) &Agence pour la Mise en Oeuvre du Plateforme de Diamniadio8 (AMPMD),brought together representatives from civil society, the private sector, local government and donors to discuss Senegal,s compact development to date, solicit feedba [...]
2006-07-25 16:23:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM ECON KDEM KMCA SG
06DAKAR1845FRUSTRATED BY SLOW PACE OF MCA AND OTHER
[...] (U) On July 27, President Abdoualye Wade held a press conference at which he confirmed his candidacy for the February 2007 presidential election, announced that he expects to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact in Washington in September, and highlighted his frustration with W [...]
2006-08-01 15:01:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEAID EINV KMCA SG
06DAKAR2245SENEGAL'S ENERGY CRISIS WORSENS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There seems to be no medium- or long-term strategy to Senegal's energy crisis. After a year of rancor, the relationship between GE/GTi Dakar and Senelec has further deteriorated, and both's debts are mounting. On September 16, GTi shut down because of a lack of fuel, and the [...]
2006-09-18 09:17:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG
06DAKAR2364SENEGAL'S STRATEGY TO ADDRESS ITS ENERGY CRISIS
[...] (SBU) As we enter the ninth month of Senegal's energy crisis, the GOS and energy parastatals have outlined a number of steps that they hope will stabilize the situation. With presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007, there is widespread agreement among sector analysts that th [...]
2006-09-29 17:09:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG CH IR LY MO
06DAKAR2460WESTERN OIL COMPANIES REDUCE HOLDINGS IN SENEGAL AS OTHER
[...] (SBU) Citing poor returns on investments, Exxon-Mobil officials have announced publicly the sale of its 300 service stations in Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Cameroon, Kenya, and the island of Reunion to the Libyan firm Tamoil. At the same time, Royal Dutch Shell is quietly selling off the r [...]
2006-10-13 06:15:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA CH IR LY MO SG
06DAKAR2479FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR
[...] (C) Ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Abdoulaye Wade's "spiritual son" and strategist until he fired and jailed him, is testing popular support for his presidential bid in a pre-campaign tour of the regions. We had no direct contact with Seck since April 2004, but in the last three weeks we ha [...]
2006-10-16 11:34:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID ECON PINS PINR KDEM KMCA KHDP SG
06DAKAR2703SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR A/S HARTY
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in [...]
2006-11-08 18:01:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP CMGT SMIG ECON EAID PGOV PREL KMCA SG
06DAKAR418PRIME MINISTER PROMISES TO FOLLOW UP ON MCC CEO
[...] (SBU) On February 20, Charge hand delivered the translated copy of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer John Danilovich,s February 13 letter to Senegalese Prime Minister Macky Sall (Ref A). Sall noted that he had already received the English-language version from th [...]
2006-02-21 14:52:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL SG
06DAKAR81CODEL KOLBE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT WADE FOCUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Codel Kolbe met with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade for over 75 minutes on January 4. They discussed Senegal,s Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal; peacekeeping; human rights, especially the charges against former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck; and the Casamance peace [...]
2006-01-12 15:47:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALOREP EAID PHUM PREL KMCA KPKO SG
06DAKAR939AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER EXAMINES SENEGAL'S POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Director of West African Affairs Phillip Carter visited Dakar, March 26 through 29, to assess the political and economic situation. He had informative exchanges with a variety of GOS officials, Islamic leaders and opposition politicians. Carter praised recent steps taken by the [...]
2006-04-18 18:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG PGOV PHUM KMCA SG
06DUSHANBE779TAJIKISTAN'S SHARIPOV DISCUSSES CORRUPTION, IRAN, RUSSIA,
[...] (C) The Ambassador met April 26 with Director of the President's Strategic Research Center (SRC) Suhrob Sharipov for a wide-ranging discussion on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),anti-corruption efforts in Tajikistan, Iranian-Tajik relations, and Tajikistan's increasing unease with [...]
2006-04-27 08:35:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ENRG SOCI KCOR KMCA KDEM IR RS
06GEORGETOWN1056GOG REACTION TO MCC FY07 SCORECARD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: USAID Mission Director and State EconOff delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) FY07 indicator scorecard to Chief Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon, Minister of Finance Ashni Singh, and Advisor within the Ministry of Finance Coby Frimpong on October 5. The GOG acknowle [...]
2006-10-10 19:36:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA GY
06GEORGETOWN595AMBASSADOR: TIE IDB DEBT FORGIVENESS, MCC TO REFORM
[...] (C) I recently learned that the IDB is planning to forgive the debt owed by its five poorest members -- including almost a half billion dollars that Guyana owes. I cannot stress enough the unique opportunity this gives us to induce meaningful reform in a country that has obstinately resisted [...]
2006-06-20 15:05:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID EFIN KDEM KMCA GY
06JAKARTA11379INDONESIA - 2007 BUDGET RAISES SOCIAL SPENDING
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia's (GOI) Rp 746.5 trillion (USD 82.1 billion) draft 2007 budget proposes double digit percentage increases in spending on health, education and social welfare programs, with the total amount of central government spending on these programs reaching Rp [...]
2006-09-13 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KMCA KCOR PGOV ENRG TBIO ID
06JAKARTA12687 INDONESIA AND MCC COMPACT ELIGIBILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) administration has made important progress in the past year implementing a broad-based development strategy emphasizing poverty reduction, private sector growth, and good governance. SBY's bold anti-corruption efforts continue to dism [...]
2006-10-18 10:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KMCA KCOR ID
06JAKARTA12775PARLIAMENT PASSES 2007 BUDGET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Parliament approved a Rp 763.6 trillion (USD 83.4 billion) FY 2007 budget on October 17. Spending for personnel, materials and social programs is slated to rise significantly in 2007 in line with President Yudhoyono's plans to reform the civil service and improve health and ed [...]
2006-10-20 10:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KMCA KCOR PGOV ENRG TBIO ID
06JAKARTA12798VP KALLA ON THE COURTS, MCC, PEACE CORPS AND MIDDLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Vice President Jusuf Kalla told the Ambassador on October 20 that the Supreme Court is "not using logic" in its approach to the Munir case, and that people are rightly not happy with the Pollycarpus verdict. He said the Supreme Court would soon reconsider its decision taking int [...]
2006-10-23 07:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL KMCA PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12939 INDONESIA SEEKS COMPACT ELIGIBILITY, APPRECIATES
[...] H.E. President of the Republic of Indonesia 2. H.E. Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia 3. H.E. Ms. Condoleeza Rice, US Secretary of State (Chair, MCC) 4. Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs, the Republic of Indonesia 5. Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of Indon [...]
2006-11-01 10:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV ECON KMCA ID
06JAKARTA3490SBY'S ANTI CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) anti-corruption campaign, the most significant since Indonesia's independence, has made progress in recent months with a slew of high-profile investigations and prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials [...]
2006-03-20 00:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4519INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-11 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4520INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] (SBU) Summary. A slew of high-profile corruption prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials over the past year has energized the media and civil society groups and placed newfound and largely positive pressure on the bureaucracy (Reftel). Permanently reducing t [...]
2006-04-11 00:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA5420TAX, CUSTOMS CHIEFS REPLACED IN REFORM EFFORT
[...] (C) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) replaced the long-serving, corrupt, and powerful Directors General of Taxation and Customs on April 21. The decision shows SBY's strong support for Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati's efforts to reform the Ministry of Finance (MOF) b [...]
2006-04-29 02:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PINR KCOR KMCA PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8006DONORS OFFER FINANCING, EARTHQUAKE HELP AT CGI
[...] (U) Summary. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono and other Government of Indonesia (GOI) ministers expressed optimism that economic growth and investment would pick up in the second half of 2006 at the June 14 Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) meeting in Jakarta. Several Minist [...]
2006-06-26 10:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV ECON EFIN KMCA PTER PREL ID
06KATHMANDU2695MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION'S FY 07 SCORECARD
[...] (U) On October 11, Emboff presented the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC's) FY 07 Nepal Scorecard to Ministry of Finance Under Secretary for the Foreign Aid Coordination Division Madhu K. Marasini. Mr. Marasini was not familiar with the MCC. Emboff explained the purpose of the scoreca [...]
2006-10-12 02:14:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC NP
06KIGALI1199MCC VISIT TO RWANDA A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. From December 10-12 a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) delegation held an intensive round of meetings with GOR officials, local and international NGOs (including USAID partners),the private sector, the media, and heads of diplomatic missions in Kigali. The MCC team int [...]
2006-12-15 10:15:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KMCA RW
06KIGALI496ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S ROUNDTABLE WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a roundtable discussion April 5 with Rwandan parliamentarians and a separate call on the president of the Rwandan Senate, Assistant Secretary Frazer addressed recent developments in the Great Lakes region, human rights issues, the role of parliament in Rwandan society, [...]
2006-05-25 06:24:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL PHUM KMCA RW CG
06KIGALI517U.S. TRIPARTITE DELEGATION MEMBERS DISCUSS HUMAN
[...] Summary: During a May 24 meeting with Ambassador Arietti and visiting U.S. Tripartite Plus delegation members, Rwandan parliamentarians discussed the gap between perception and reality on Rwanda's performance on human rights. They asserted that outsiders criticize Rwanda without fully under [...]
2006-05-31 15:59:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KMCA RW
06KINGSTON1687JAMAICA/VENEZUELA: DEAL CLARIFIED AND IRRITATION
[...] (C) Summary: Clear numbers that clarify the extent of Jamaica's deals with Venezuela (outlined ref. A.) have emerged. The Venezuelan government has purchased a 49 percent stake in the GOJ-owned PetroJam refinery for USD 64 million, according to Dr. Jean Dixon, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry [...]
2006-08-25 18:37:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EPET KMCA PGOV PREL MOPS MARR UNSC
06KINGSTON2328JAMAICA: CDA'S MEETING WITH PERMANENT SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a regular bimonthly meeting with GOJ Permanent Secretary Douglas Saunders, he and CDA discussed a range of areas of mutual interest. CDA, accompanied by econoff, delivered reftel talking points on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI),the Millennium Challenge Corp [...]
2006-12-01 19:23:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ETRD EFIN KMCA OAS MARR MOPS JM XL
06KINGSTON930VISIT OF WHA/DAS PATRICK DUDDY TO KINGSTON,
[...] (U) Summary: On April 27 and 28, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Patrick Duddy SIPDIS visited Kingston, Jamaica. On April 27, Duddy met with GOJ officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the details of which are reported in ref. A. On April [...]
2006-05-12 20:05:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDABLD AMGT ECON EAID PREL KMCA JM
06LILONGWE690MALAWI PASSES ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BILL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-09 07:01:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KCOR KMCA EAID MI
06LILONGWE848REFORMS MOVE AHEAD AS MCA THRESHOLD PROGRAM GETS UNDERWAY
[...] (U) Summary: Since the official launch of Millennium Challenge Threshold Program activities in April of this year, Malawi has made important gains in addressing corruption and improving public finance management, the two focus areas for the program. The advances have included legislative actio [...]
2006-09-25 15:08:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN KMCA PGOV MI
06LILONGWE889MALAWI: THE CASE FOR MCA COMPACT ELIGIBILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two years, Malawi has embarked on a process of positive reform, led by the government of President Mutharika, that has effectively reversed many years of corruption and misrule. The GOM has decisively taken control of its own development agenda, and has embraced th [...]
2006-10-10 11:13:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN KMCA PGOV MI
06LILONGWE914The Shire-Zambezi Waterway: God's Highway or Bingu's
[...] (U) Summary: President Bingu wa Mutharika is strongly pushing the idea of re-opening the Shire and Zambezi rivers to commercial navigation, to help address Malawi's serious problem of limited and expensive transportation links to global markets. A recent EU-funded pre-feasibility study offers [...]
2006-10-19 09:45:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EWWT ELTN KMCA PGOV MI
06MADRID2736SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Millenium Challenge Corporation representatives; Michael Grossman, Senior Country Director, Francophone Africa and David Picha, Agricultural Consultant to travel to Madrid, Spain from October 25 to October 29, 2006. The purpose of this vis [...]
2006-10-26 15:13:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AFIN OTRA ECON SP KMCA
06MANAGUA2222ADVANCING MCA GOALS: THE VISIT OF CEO JOHN
[...] (U) Summary. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO John Danilovich visited Nicaragua September 20-22 to meet with MCC-Nicaragua board members and staff, inaugurate MCC-Nicaragua projects, and participate in the launch of the first Investor Summit for West Nicaragua with President Enrique [...]
2006-10-06 23:24:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN EAGR ETRD ELTN ECON KMCA NU
06MANAGUA715LEON: SANDINISTA BASTION WELCOMES AMBASSADOR, MCC
[...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's recent trip to Leon department, the upcoming November national elections were on the tongues of all interlocutors. The cradle of Liberalism, intellectual Leon is now a Sandinista (FSLN) bastion, with ten of its eleven mayors in the department FSLN militants. [...]
2006-03-30 22:55:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL KMCA EFIN ECON
06MANILA4174 Ambassador Raises Commercial Issues with Secretary of
[...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with GRP Secretary of Finance Gary Teves, Ambassador raised protection of private lending for small and medium enterprises, USAID exemption from taxes, progress on the MCA Threshold Program, and investment and trade disputes. Teves made no commitments, but indicated [...]
2006-10-03 02:27:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID PGOV KMCA RP
06MANILA4703PRESIDENT ARROYO COMMITTED TO FTA; MCC COMPACT
[...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo expressed to Ambassador a firm commitment to negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States and obtaining a compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Arroyo assigned Secretary of Trade to look into requirements for an FTA and expressed dismay [...]
2006-11-15 08:28:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON EAID EINV KMCA PINS RP
06MAPUTO1026COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-14 12:51:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1081COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) VISIT TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-24 13:04:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1118COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) VISIT TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-01 08:03:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1253COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC STAFF AND PROVISIONAL COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON STAFF TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-28 08:21:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1302COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC, NICOLE HEWITT AND BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ASSOCIATES TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-11 10:05:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1382COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC, SALLY CAMERON AND JAMES RIORDAN TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-27 12:52:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1423COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC MARK HUISENGA AND CASSIA CARVALHO-PACHECO TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-03 11:30:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1448COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC, BRIAN APP AND
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for Brian App and James Riordan to travel to Mozambique, from 11 Nov 2006 until 18 November 2006 to discuss and develop compact procurement strategies with the MCC and MCA. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinerar [...]
2006-11-09 15:17:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1449COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC, BRIAN APP AND
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for John Arnold from 11 Nov 2006 until 18 November 2006 and Donald Hart from 13 November 2006 to 25 November 2006 to travel to Mozambique, to conduct pre- feasibility studies for the Nacala Free Trade Zone component. Please advise as soon as [...]
2006-11-09 15:17:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO1584COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC STEPHEN GAULL
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Stephen Gaull and Darius Mans to travel to Mozambique, from 17 December 2006 until 21 December 2006 to meet with Mozambique's Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia, to discuss MCA-Mozambique compact signing and progra [...]
2006-12-08 10:09:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO423COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) VISIT TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-11 08:10:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO461COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC staff to travel to Mozambique on the following dates to conduct kick off meetings for 609(g) financed contractors and to follow up on governance structure. Beverly Watson, Associate Country Director, Operations Arrival: 20 April [...]
2006-04-20 14:29:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO633COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC staff to travel to Mozambique on the following dates to further program design for the MCA- Mozambique Program. Jonathan Saiger, Director, Infrastructure Arrival: 05 June 2006 Departure: 10 June 2006 Mark Huisenga, Director, A [...]
2006-06-02 09:15:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06MAPUTO94COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) VISIT TO TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-20 07:25:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
06NIAMEY1122DISGRACED FORMER MINISTERS INDICTED BY NATIONAL
[...] Hamani Harouna and Ari Ibrahim - both former Ministers of Basic Education and Literacy in the Government of Niger (GON) - were formally indicted by the National Assembly this week, during an extraordinary session devoted primarily to examining the two men's culpability in the public education [...]
2006-10-04 13:58:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR KMCA NG
06NIAMEY1252November 13 Meeting with Government of Niger (GON) Prime
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 13 meeting lasting over an hour, Ambassador Allen, accompanied by USAID program manager Mark Wentling, met with Prime Minister Hama Amadou to discuss Niger's selection as a MCC threshold country. PM staff members Secretary General Malam Ari Boucar and Principal Ad [...]
2006-11-14 15:44:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EAID KMCA NG
06NIAMEY787NIGER: GON MOVES TO IMPROVE INVESTMENT CLIMATE
[...] SUMMARY. On July 13, Government of Niger (GON) Prime Minister (PM) Hama Amadou held a meeting with the Council of Ministers and members of the National Counsel of Private Investors (CNIP) to review the latter's recommended reforms to the process of setting up a business in Niger. The PM ordere [...]
2006-07-26 15:58:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDETRB ECON KMCA PREL NG
06NIAMEY847OPPOSITION 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 15:58:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KMCA NG
06PARAMARIBO772SURINAME'S RESPONSE TO THE MCC BOARD SELECTION OF
[...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Government of Suriname acknowledged receipt of information. A position paper on MCC, which the MFA official indicated he would be writing on several previous occasions was never produced. MFA official, Terence [...]
2006-12-04 15:10:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KMCA PREL NS
06RABAT1196MILLENNIUM 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 18:40:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO
06RABAT1676COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Rabat warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Levy, Magda Ismail, Steven Clarke, David Picha, Herve Plusquellec and Samuel Hobbs, of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to travel to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Ourzazate, and Fes, Morocco September 13 - October 8, [...]
2006-09-08 17:01:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA KPAO AFIN EAID ECON OTRA
06RABAT1677DONOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO
[...] (U) This is the third part of a three part series on international donor activities in Morocco. Part 1 (ref A) covered the World Bank while part 2 (ref B) discussed the European Union's Barcelona Process. 2. (U) Summary. A wide variety of international donor organizations are present in [...]
2006-09-08 17:09:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO
06RABAT176WORLD BANK PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO
[...] (SBU) Summary. The World Bank (WB) is one of the longest serving development assistance programs in Morocco and currently has 16 outstanding loans to the GOM worth a total of approximately $500 million. It seeks to help modernize Moroccan institutions through technical analysis and lending [...]
2006-02-03 07:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO
06RABAT1861MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION SCORECARD
[...] On October 5, DCM and econoff delivered Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard talking points to the MFA's Director of the Americas Desk, Ambassador Abdellah Tazi. Tazi accentuated the positive after learning how Morocco's promotion from MCC's Low Income Country (LIC) category to t [...]
2006-10-05 18:35:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA MO
06RABAT225NEW 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 10:43:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO
06RABAT638MCA: 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 18:27:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID ECON SOCI MO
06SANAA146DONORS CALL FOR ROYG PARTICIPATION IN EITI, OTHER
[...] On January 24, post participated in the second of a series of ROYG-donor dialogues on governance reform objectives. The meeting focused on measures to improve the business enabling environment in Yemen, and allowed the donors an opportunity to present specific reforms the ROYG could take in th [...]
2006-01-28 11:32:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EINV EPET KMCA YM COM
06SANAA1742RULING PARTY OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON ELECTIONS, LOCAL
[...] (C) Summary. On May 31, Ambassador met with the ruling GPC party's new ASYG for Political and External Relations (and also Minister of Youth and Sports),Abd al-Rahman al-Aqwa. During the meeting, Aqwa informed Ambassador that a recent breakdown in negotiations (now back on track) between his [...]
2006-06-12 13:42:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA1743JMP-GPC DEAL APPEARS IMMINENT
[...] (U) On July 12, the opposition Yemeni Congregation for Reform party's (Islah) internet news service, "Sahwa.net," quoted Mohammed Qahtan -- Islahi Head of External Relations and spokesperson for the Joint Meetings Party opposition coalition (JMP) -- as saying that (year-long rocky) negotiation [...]
2006-06-12 13:49:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI PINR YM
06SANAA1850SALEH AT DAD: DON'T PREACH TO US, FEED US!
[...] (C) Summary. On June 25, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary, Scott Carpenter, met with President Saleh and expressed disappointment with his comments during the opening ceremony of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) conference being held in Sanaa June 25-26. Saleh, who started off by express [...]
2006-06-26 08:28:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2006MAVERICK FINANCE MINISTER CHARGES AHEAD ON REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's new Minister of Finance, Dr. Seif al-Asali, may march to the beat of a different drummer, but he appears to be making progress on reform following years of corruption by his predecessor. Under Asali's leadership, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is implementing the first phas [...]
2006-07-12 14:59:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID PINR KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2058YEMEN'S DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY REVISED
[...] SUMMARY: Since its articulation of a Democratic Reform Strategy nearly one year ago, Post has registered a number of successes. The sustainability of such changes remains uncertain, however, and they are at best only small steps on the road to democracy. In order to consolidate recent refo [...]
2006-07-18 09:57:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA2063WTO MEETING BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO TRADE REFORMS
[...] SUMMARY: When it comes to trade reform, Yemen may finally be willing to do business. The ROYG's World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating team recently returned from the third Working Party meeting in Geneva reporting significant progress. Despite some differences on tariff rates, the ROYG [...]
2006-07-18 13:21:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID ECIN KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2143MEPI SUPPORT FOR IFC CONTRIBUTES TO REFORM IN YEMEN
[...] SUMMARY: After establishing its offices in Yemen over a year ago, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is now addressing issues that are critical to reforms required by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the World Bank. At the request of the ROYG, the IFC will undertake an [...]
2006-07-30 06:46:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON EFIN KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2441AMBASSADOR FINDS STRONG ALLY IN MINISTER OF FINANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 14, Ambassador met Minister of Finance Dr. Saif Al-Asali who was strongly supportive of the U.S. position on Hezbollah. MOF suggested that Yemen was the best hope for the region in its example as an emerging democracy, and urged the United States to back reformers like [...]
2006-08-19 11:08:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA2546JUSTICE MINISTER LEADS WAY FOR INDEPENDENT COURTS
[...] SUMMARY: Ambassador met the Minister of Justice (MOJ) Ghazi Shaif al-Aghbari on August 27 to discuss judicial reforms and related programs. Under the new minister, Yemen has taken substantive steps to strengthen the independence of the courts, which has produced results in combating corrupt [...]
2006-08-29 14:22:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2559UNDER YEMEN'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE PEOPLE'S
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Yemen's Chief Justice Esam Abdul-Wahab al-Samawi for the first time on August 29, and discovered a youthful voice for reform and moderation. Samawi expressed the need for a clearer legal framework for trying suspected terrorists and would-be jihadis. As the newly a [...]
2006-09-03 10:49:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EAID KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA2693U.S. AND YEMEN FIGHT CORRUPTION WITH EYE ON MCC
[...] SUMMARY: On September 13, Ambassador signed a USD 1.73 million agreement with the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) for anti-corruption programming. Minister of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) Abdulkareem al-Arhabi is planning to visit Washington October 11-12 in advance of a [...]
2006-09-19 14:55:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID ECON KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA3610U.S. CONVENES DONOR GROUP TO CONFRONT CORRUPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Following Yemen's suspension from the Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Program (MCA),Ambassador gathered an informal group of key donors to discuss ways of jointly pushing for reform in Yemen. Declining performance in political and economic indicators has already led to a [...]
2006-01-02 11:32:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EINV KMCA KMPI YM COM
06SANAA41ROYG STAGGERS FORWARD IN FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Yemen's Cabinet approved a new anti-corruption law, calling for the creation of an independent High Commission for National Corruption. Neither the extent of the Commission's powers nor its relationship to existing ROYG institutions -- or the newly created anti-corruption role fo [...]
2006-01-08 13:08:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KMCA KMPI PGOV PINR PREL YM COM
06SANAA537SALEH FEELS PRESSURE TO REFORM, RESPONDS WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's recent cabinet reshuffle was brought about by, among other factors, coordinated pressure for reform by donor countries. On February 8, Post met with President Saleh, together with the Germans, British, and Dutch. The delegation pressed Saleh for specific actions to fight [...]
2006-03-05 07:12:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA588AMBASSADOR AND NEW M/INFO DISCUSS NEW PRESS LAW
[...] Summary: During Ambassador's February 22 introductory call on new Minister of Information (M/INFO),Hassan al-Lawzi, discussions centered around the proposed media law. The M/INFO noted that the proposed press law bill, as written, was designed to guarantee freedom of information and confided [...]
2006-03-07 13:45:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KMPI KMCA YM
06SANAA649AN UNDECIDED JMP KEEPS ON POSTURING
[...] (C) Summary. After a four-month dispute with the Supreme Council for Elections and Referendum (SCER),the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) opposition party coalition continues to demand that the SCER balance thousands of its GPC-affiliated employees with JMP loyalists. The JMP claims that this wil [...]
2006-03-14 10:44:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA835IMF OFFERS GLOOMY PROGNOSIS FOR YEMEN'S ECONOMY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 20, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its Article IV Consultation for Yemen. In a briefing for donors, the Fund's macroeconomic projections were decidedly bleak, emphasizing an impending fiscal crisis caused by declining oil reserves and increased spending. [...]
2006-03-25 13:56:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ECON EPET EINV KALR KMCA KMPI YM
06SANAA926FREEDOM AGENDA BRINGS DOWN GOVERNMENT: 2006 FIRST
[...] SUMMARY: The Freedom Agenda had a dramatic impact in Yemen within the last quarter, resulting in significant advances in fighting corruption, women's representation in government, independence of the judiciary, and other key areas. Post marshaled a multilateral initiative to pressure President [...]
2006-04-04 13:34:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KMPI KMCA ECON PHUM YM
06SANSALVADOR1643EL SALVADOR: FMLN'S "FULL-COURT PRESS" AGAINST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The hard-left opposition party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) has launched an offensive against the Salvadoran Government's proposed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project. An FMLN delegation to be led by FMLN Deputy Jose Salvador Arias plans to travel to [...]
2006-06-23 21:31:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALES PGOV PREL KMCA
06SANSALVADOR1849EL SALVADOR: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FMLN LEADERS ON MCA AND JULY 5 POLICE KILLINGS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 12 luncheon that had been planned with leaders of the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) prior to the July 5 murders of Civilian National Police riot-cotrol (PNC/UMO) officers at the National University (UES),Ambassador Barclay discussed the p [...]
2006-07-21 18:05:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALECON ES PGOV PREL PTER KMCA
06SANSALVADOR2996LEGISLATURE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES MCC COMPACT
[...] Summary. The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly unanimously approved December 20 the nearly $461 million Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact and its implementing legislation. FMLN Legislative Deputies supported the Compact but had expressed concerns about parts of the implementing legislat [...]
2006-12-22 15:24:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ECON PGOV KMCA MCC ES
06SANSALVADOR413SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA
[...] (C) President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca will meet with the President February 24, shortly before El Salvador's March 12 national congressional and mayoral elections. Saca hopes the meeting with the President will further aid his party's chances in the elections, and help him soundly defeat the [...]
2006-02-17 17:20:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALES PGOV PREL OVIP ETRD MARR MASS KMCA
06SANSALVADOR832UNDERSECRETARY HUGHES' MARCH 17 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes met with President Tony Saca on the morning of March 17 to discuss national and regional politics as well as bilateral issues. President Saca's remark that the United States and El Salvador were "amigos siempre" became a public t [...]
2006-03-28 18:45:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL ETRD KMCA PGOV ES
06TIRANA313SCENESETTER FOR MCC VISIT TO ALBANIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The new Government of Albania (GoA),led by Prime Minister Sali Berisha, took office in September 2005. Berisha's governing coalition, led by his Democratic Party, was elected largely on a campaign promise to combat endemic organized crime and corruption. The new GoA has ta [...]
2006-03-28 14:36:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA OTRA AL
06TIRANA351ALBANIA AND USAID SIGN MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Corporation's CEO Ambassador Danilovich and VP Bent visited Albania on April 3 to participate in a signing ceremony for a USD 13.8 million Threshold Program Agreement and to meet with GoA officials. The program is designed to reduce the opportunities for [...]
2006-04-07 07:56:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA OTRA AL
06TUNIS2287TUNISIA NOT INTERESTED IN MCA
[...] (SBU) In reponse to Embassy reminders for financial data for Millennium Challenge Account selection, the Government of Tunisia has declined to submit the required information, thereby withdrawing Tunisia from consideration for MCA funding. In a meeting with EconOff, MFA Deputy Director for th [...]
2006-09-05 11:25:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID KMCA TS
06ULAANBAATAR137Prime Minister Reviews Bilateral Relationship
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prime Minister Enkhbold reaffirmed his government's commitment to close relations with the United States during an hour-long initial call by the Ambassador on February 23. Enkhbold confirmed that the Cabinet had decided the previous day to approve a sixth rotation [...]
2006-02-26 23:35:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PHUM ETRD PGOV KMCA PTER PINR
06ULAANBAATAR572Exim's First Visit to Mongolia: Transactions in Aircraft
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) Export Finance Group Senior Vice President (SVP) John McAdams visited Mongolia July 6 to 11 to explain Ex-Im Bank's programs. Prime Minister Enkhbold gave McAdams an overview of the Mongolian situation and desired projects, w [...]
2006-07-27 23:29:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID PGOV PREL KMCA MG
06ULAANBAATAR667WHITHER U.S.-MONGOLIA RELATIONS?
[...] (U) As I conclude my three-year tour as chief of mission in Mongolia, I offer the following reflections on the past and recommendations for the future, as we pursue the "comprehensive partnership" with Mongolia that was first enunciated in the July 2004, and reaffirmed in the November 2005, Jo [...]
2006-09-07 09:54:00Embassy UlaanbaatarCONFIDENTIALMG PREL EAID ECON PGOV KMCA MASS
06ULAANBAATAR671Codel Kolbe Advances U.S. Interests
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 1-3 visit, Codel Kolbe examined U.S. assistance programs in Mongolia, with a particular focus on the proposed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. The Codel stressed that qualifying for MCA is not enough, and that Mongolia will need to take the time and e [...]
2006-09-08 07:40:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OREP PGOV MARR EAID KMCA KPAO MG
06ULAANBAATAR783AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-17 08:40:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL EAID KCOR KMCA MG
06ULAANBAATAR829Country Clearance for MCA's Roche International
[...] We welcome and grant country clearance to Roche International consultants Christian Berube, David Burns, Asil Gezen, Dennis Lindberg, Lawrence Phipps, and Deana Silverston for their travels to Mongolia during the month of November. The purpose of the visit is to work with MCC's Burak Inanc and [...]
2006-11-11 07:29:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA EAID KMCA ECON MG
06YAOUNDE1883CAMEROON: CORRUPTION TRIAL EMBROILS FIRST LADY,
[...] (C) Summary. Defense attorneys in the FEICOM corruption trial created tumult in the courtroom and a splash in the headlines when they demanded, on December 19, that the court hear testimony from First Lady Chantal Biya and other Cameroonian notables who feature prominently in the list of il [...]
2006-12-21 13:22:00Embassy YaoundeCONFIDENTIALKCOR ECON PGOV EFIN KMCA CM PINR
06YEREVAN1204SETTING THE STAGE FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Election experts offer mixed views of ongoing efforts to improve key democratic institutions prior to the May 2007 parliamentary election. The challenges -- technical, bureaucratic and political -- are daunting. However there is room for cautious optimism that the GOAM is at lea [...]
2006-09-05 10:20:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMCA KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1440ARMENIA'S SCORECARD DELIVERED WITH A WARNING ON
[...] (SBU) On October 6, 2006, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and MCC Resident Country Director Alex Russin presented the MCC Indicator Scorecard on Armenia to Armenia's full MCA Governing Council, chaired by the Prime Minister. While we told the Council that Armenia had technically passed the criteria, [...]
2006-10-13 10:03:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM KMCA AM
07ADDISABABA2381ETHIOPIA: CONFERENCE EXAMINES PROGRESS TOWARD MDGS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At a half-day seminar, GOE and NGO officials discussed Ethiopia's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Participants highlighted that Ethiopia had integrated and streamlined MDGs into national development polices and programs, such as the 2002-2005 Su [...]
2007-07-30 07:49:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA ET
07AMMAN4328JORDAN: MCC INDICATOR SCORECARDS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Reftel points were delivered to Nasser Shraideh, Secretary General at the Ministry of Planning, on October 23 SIPDIS by visiting MCC Director of Threshold Programs Maria Longi, accompanied by DCM and USAID officers. MCC representative Longi explained the rationale of the scorecards, [...]
2007-10-25 06:20:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC
07AMMAN528LOWER HOUSE ENDORSES MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT REFORM
[...] (SBU) Jordan's lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, endorsed the government's municipal government reform bill. If also approved by the Senate and the King, the bill will lead to municipal elections in early summer. During the debate, Prime Minister Bakhit announced that his g [...]
2007-02-06 07:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KDEM JO
07ANTANANARIVO116 MCC CEO DANILOVICH VISITS MADAGASCAR
[...] SUMMARY: MCC CEO Ambassador John J. Danilovich, accompanied by Catholic Relief Services President and MCC Board Member Kenneth Hackett assessed progress under Madagascar's Compact January 31 to February 2. President Ravalomanana committed to take immediate steps for the remediation needed on [...]
2007-02-06 08:12:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA
07ANTANANARIVO236AMERICAN WEEK IN MAHAJANGA IS A HIT
[...] SUMMARY: From February 27 - March 1, 40 Mission personnel and numerous partners hosted American Week in Mahajanga, a city on Madagascar's northwestern coast with a sizeable Muslim population. Well over 5,000 local citizens visited our exhibit booths, attended an Embassy-sponsored basketball to [...]
2007-03-09 10:23:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM KMCA KPAO EAID PHUM PINR AMGT ASOC MA
07ANTANANARIVO404MADAGASCAR AT THE HALFWAY POINT OF MCC COMPACT
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Two years ago Madagascar became the first country to sign a Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),recognizing progress in investing in people, economic freedom, and governing justly. Remarkable achievements in the Compact's priority areas of l [...]
2007-04-25 08:23:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALEAID KMCA ECON PGOV PREL MA
07ASHGABAT923 REQUESTING DATA FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COMPACT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 10:44:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID SCUL KMCA TX
07ASUNCION18PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE DECEMBER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Engineering Know How -- Threshold Program, First Ever Inter-Institutional Agreement -- Cuban National Arrives Safely in Miami -- First Class Graduation -- Paraguay Attracting Investment PARAGUAYAN ENGINEERING KNOW HOW 2. (U) An Anatov 124-100, the largest [...]
2007-01-11 22:00:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAIR KCRM KMCA CU PA
07BAMAKO1367AMBASSADOR DANILOVICH'S VISIT TO MALI: MCC SCORECARD,
[...] Summary: During his recent visit to Mali, MCC CEO Ambassador Danilovich discussed the MCC's Scorecard with Malian Prime Minister Modibo Sidibe November 14. MCC officials held a series of follow-on meetings with Malians to develop plans to address issues raised by the scorecard. Danilovich a [...]
2007-11-29 16:47:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA ML
07BANJUL100THE GAMBIA: GOTG DEFENDS ITS RECORD FOLLOWING MCA
[...] (SBU) On February 23, the Embassy received a letter, dated February 13, addressed to Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Danilovich from the Gambian President's senior adviser, Secretary General Elizabeth Harding. In the letter, Ms. Harding asserts that the GOTG is "perplexed" over the M [...]
2007-02-26 16:48:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL KMCA PGOV EAID PHUM GA
07BANJUL11THE GAMBIA: AN IRASCIBLE PRESIDENT JAMMEH IN
[...] (C) In a year-end television interview, an irascible President Jammeh delivered a familiar diatribe against Western donors while also taking a swipe at Senegal. His derisive remarks about the opposition are hardly encouraging in the runup to the National Assembly elections January 25. END SUM [...]
2007-01-09 16:53:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KMCA SG GA
07BANJUL126THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT JAMMEH'S SPEECH TO NATIONAL
[...] (C) An unusually subdued President Jammeh delivered his annual address March 2 marking the National Assembly's opening session for 2007. Providing a broad overview of GOTG actions in 2006 and plans for 2007, he highlighted the GOTG's getting back on track with the IMF, while omitting any menti [...]
2007-03-09 17:06:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SOCI KMCA EPET GA
07BANJUL147THE GAMBIA: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FINANCE
[...] (C) Finance and Economy Minister Bala Gaye and Central Bank Governor Jatta were predictably upbeat on the GOTG's success in getting back on track with the IMF and were optimistic that The Gambia would perform satisfactorily under the new PRGF so as to qualify for debt relief as early as mid-20 [...]
2007-03-20 08:48:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ETRD EFIN PREL KMCA PTER IMF GA
07BANJUL167THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
[...] (C) In recent discussions on the negative human rights trend here, our contacts were downbeat on prospects for early improvement. A reform-minded Muslim cleric, Imam Baba Leigh, portrayed a cowed and co-opted Islamic relgious establishment as unwilling to confront President Jammeh over the GOT [...]
2007-04-02 11:02:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMCA KISL GA
07BANJUL173THE GAMBIA: THE SAGA OF FATOU JAW MANNEH
[...] (C) Reftel reports authorities' March 28 detention of a U.S-based Gambian (and U.S. legal permanent resident) journalist and fervent opposition supporter, Fatou Jaw Manneh. Manneh, resident in the U.S. for over ten years since she was granted political asylum in 1994, was picked up by officer [...]
2007-04-04 16:47:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KMCA GA
07BANJUL180THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON CASE OF FATOU JAW MANNEH
[...] (C) Reftels report the March 28 detention and subsequent trial of U.S.-based Gambian journalist and opposition supporter Fatou Jaw Manneh. She is currently free on bail after pleading not guilty, and her trial resumes April 11; emboffs plan to attend the session. There is the possibility tha [...]
2007-04-10 14:09:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KMCA GA
07BANJUL197THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TIES WITH IRAN, VENEZUELA
[...] (U) Following February reports that The Gambia and Iran would soon exchange embassies (ref a),GOTG officials confirm the official opening April 15 of The Gambian Embassy in the Iranian capital. We are told that Gambian Foreign Minister Bala Garba Jahumpa headed the GOTG's delegation at the ev [...]
2007-04-17 15:28:00Embassy BanjulSECRETPREL PGOV MASS GA IR VE KMCA
07BANJUL207THE GAMBIA: FATOU JAW MANNEH'S TRIAL CONTINUES
[...] (U) The trial of U.S.-based journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh, accused of sedition, resumed on April 20 with a closed court session, during which an officer of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) continued his testimony from April 13. Journalistic accounts of the session report that the witness [...]
2007-04-23 17:55:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KMCA KDEM GA
07BANJUL240THE GAMBIA: CIVILIAN DEFENDANT IN TREASON TRIAL
[...] (C) Ref a reported the April 19 conviction of ten military personnel for involvement in the abortive coup plot of March 2006. The separate trial of four civilian defendants -- among them dual (U.S.-Gambian) citizen Tamsir Jasseh -- continues. At the May 2 trial session, according to media r [...]
2007-05-07 13:55:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KMCA KDEM GA
07BANJUL251THE GAMBIA: PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO VENEZUELA AND CUBA
[...] (C) Gambian President Jammeh came away from his recent trip to Venezuela with a grant of $30 million and an unknown amount of oil-related assistance, according to our source. We are told that Jammeh, in his aid pitch to Venezuelan leader Chavez, claimed that the U.S. had "abandoned" him -- cit [...]
2007-05-15 18:09:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA EPET GA VE CU
07BANJUL34THE GAMBIA: JOURNALIST ON U.S, IRANIAN TIES
[...] (C) President Jammeh remains deeply resentful over the suspension of MCA eligibility and holds Ambassador personally responsible, but advisers are quietly warning Jammeh to avoid going too far in antagonizing the U.S., according to well-informed journalist and Embassy contact. He said Jammeh h [...]
2007-01-22 11:16:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS KMCA GA IR
07BANJUL614GOTG ANNOUNCES 2008 DRAFT BUDGET
[...] (SBU) The budget figures for the 2008 fiscal year and 2007 year-end estimates released on December 3 indicate that the GOTG's new revenue collection systems are working. The budget numbers reflect, at least on paper, the government's focus of the current IMF Poverty Reduction and Strategy Pa [...]
2007-12-13 16:04:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV KMCA IMF GA
07BISHKEK832KYRGYZ REFORMS: UNDER THE RADAR, BUT HAVING AN
[...] (C) Summary: Against a backdrop of domestic political wrangling, changes in government personnel, and heated debate over the presence of the Manas Airbase, important reforms are beginning to reshape Kyrgyzstan's economy, business environment, criminal justice system, and media. While these [...]
2007-06-27 03:31:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCOR KMCA KG
07BOGOTA7842COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FY08 MCC SCORECARDS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 14:28:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC CO
07COLOMBO1165SRI LANKA: TRINCOMALEE TAMILS WARY OF GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM met with local government officials, civil society leaders, and community members in the eastern city of Trincomalee on August 10-12th to discuss the security and humanitarian situation in the area and promote policies that will foster peace and economic development. The Gov [...]
2007-08-24 08:07:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PTER PHUM PREF MOPS PREL KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1218SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT REVIVES SOVEREIGN BOND ISSUE PLANS;
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka plans to issue the country's first international sovereign bond, in hopes of raising $500 million to fund infrastructure projects. However, the main opposition United National Party has announced that a future UNP government would not honor the bonds [...]
2007-09-05 12:48:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1252SRI LANKA: SUCCESS IN GARMENT IPR CASES; LESS PROGRESS IN
[...] Summary: US apparel brands have found some level of success in combating piracy in Sri Lankan courts. In August 2007, the Colombo Commercial High Court issued an order in settlement in favor of Polo/Lauren, LLP, the largest IPR enforcement case in the apparel sector to date. Other companies [...]
2007-09-12 02:27:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR EAID KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1305SRI LANKA: 6.2% GDP GROWTH IN FIRST HALF OF 2007 AMIDST
[...] (U) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka's GDP grew at an annual rate of 6.2% for the first half of 2007. The trade deficit narrowed as export growth significantly exceeded import growth. Growing remittances compensated for much of the trade deficit and boosted foreign exchange reserves to a level [...]
2007-09-20 10:36:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1313 SRI LANKA: TOURISM INDUSTRY PINS HOPE ON NEW TOURISM ACT
[...] Summary: On October 1, following a two year delay, the government will implement the Tourism Act of 2005. The law provides for greater private sector participation in government-controlled tourism regulatory, promotion and training agencies. More importantly, the private sector will now ha [...]
2007-09-24 05:12:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EFIN EAID KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1352SRI LANKA: CONFLICT CONTRIBUTES TO BRAIN DRAIN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Professionals and business people are steadily migrating out of Sri Lanka in pursuit of better living conditions and a more stable business environment. Many are Tamils and Muslims fleeing the conflict and persistent harassment. The "brain drain" is depleting a local talent pool [...]
2007-10-02 05:31:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ELAB KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1391SRI LANKA: MIXED REACTIONS TO NEW U.S. LAW ON MARITIME
[...] SUMMARY: Colombo Port authorities and managers of shipping lines expressed opposing views on the ability to meet the new U.S. law on maritime cargo scanning requirements. Authorities of the Port of Colombo maintain that the port will be able to scan all U.S.-bound shipping containers by year [...]
2007-10-09 09:30:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD PREL PTER KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1399 SRI LANKA: LAGGING IN WORLD BANK EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
[...] Summary: Sri Lanka rated poorly in the World Bank Group's just-released Doing Business 2008 index and in the middle of Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perception Index. In the Ease of Doing Business index, Sri Lanka ranked 101 out of 178 economies. Notable was its ranking of 133 [...]
2007-10-10 09:14:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EAID KMCA KCOR CE
07COLOMBO1488SRI LANKA: DEBUT SOVEREIGN BOND ISSUE RAISES $500 MILLION
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: International investors, 40% of them American, purchased all $500 million of Sri Lanka's first-ever sovereign bond issue, despite domestic opposition efforts to block the sale. The government offered 8.25% coupon bonds with a five-year maturity, and received orders [...]
2007-11-01 08:53:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1580 SRI LANKA: INCSR PART II 2007-2008 SUBMISSION
[...] The following is Embassy Colombo's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II regarding money laundering and financial crimes, per request in reftel. 2. Begin text: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is neither an important regional financial center nor a preferred center for money [...]
2007-11-21 11:34:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1661SRI LANKA: 2008 BUDGET WOULD BOOST DEFENSE AND TRANSFERS TO RAJAPAKSA CONSTITUENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Rajapaksa government could survive or fall depending on the outcome of a December 14 final vote on its 2008 budget. The proposed budget continues the president's emphasis on high taxes to fund big government and transfers to his primary constituents: civil servan [...]
2007-12-13 10:55:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KMCA PGOV CE
07COLOMBO1687MCC DECISION NOT TO RE-SELECT SRI LANKA FOR COMPACT
[...] (SBU) Sri Lanka's national focal point for Millennium Challenge Account issues, Secretary of Ministry of Plan Implementation Dhara Wijayatilake, contacted Econoff December 20 to seek clarification regarding the MCC board's December 12 decision regarding Sri Lanka. Wijayatilake had seen a local [...]
2007-12-20 10:58:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL CE
07COLOMBO244COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GEOFF MOYLE, ANURA
[...] Post grants country clearance to consultants Geoff Moyle, Anura Widananpathirana, Ed Ely and John Standingford of URS Corporation to travel to Sri Lanka from January 23 to February 23, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to continue due diligence on the Infrastructure and ESA portions of the GOSL' [...]
2007-02-08 11:30:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE
07COLOMBO352COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DARIUS NASSIRY, EILEEN BURKE,
[...] Post grants country clearance to Darius Nassiry, Eileen Burke, Carlton Bennett, Doris McMahon, Mary Jo Johnson, Thomas Hohenthaner, Berry Deren and Amanda Beatty of Millennium Challenge Corporation to travel to Sri Lanka from March 11 - 30, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to continue due dilig [...]
2007-03-02 06:46:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE
07COLOMBO56COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NANDA KUMAR RANGANATHAN AND
[...] Post grants country clearance to Nanda Kumar Ranganathan and Gail Chambers of Millennium Challenge Corporation and URS consultant Michael Jacobs to travel to Sri Lanka from January 21 to February 1, 2007. Embassy control officer is Mr. Richard Merrin, Commercial Attache and Economic Officer, t [...]
2007-01-11 12:21:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE
07COTONOU25BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI APPOINTS NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE
[...] On January 9, 2007, President Boni Yayi announced that his chief of staff, Nestor Dako, was being named as Minister of Justice and Spokesman of the Government. Mr. Dako replaces Mr. Abraham Zinzindohou who has been appointed as Benin's member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UE [...]
2007-01-12 11:01:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR KMCA BN
07COTONOU477BENIN: UPDATE ON EFFORTS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BENIN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In conjunction with President Yayi's program to fight corruption in the administration and advance good governance in the country, the Front of National Anti-Corruption Organizations (FONAC) has accused two former Executive Directors of the Benin Electric Energy Corporation (SBEE [...]
2007-06-29 09:15:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
07COTONOU512BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI APPOINTS 9 STATE AUDITORS TO INCREASE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of his program to crack down on corruption in the country, and particularly in reaction to the recent cases of corruption that have shocked the public (Reftel),President Yayi has appointed nine new State Auditors to the State Audit Office of Benin. In doing so, he has on [...]
2007-07-12 04:28:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
07COTONOU534BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI ORGANIZES AND LEADS A MARCH AGAINST
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 16, President Boni Yayi led a march and rally against corruption through downtown Cotonou. Government officials and persons from all sectors of civil society took part in the event, which was not announced in advance and which took the public and press by surprise. This i [...]
2007-07-17 12:01:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
07COTONOU639BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI FIRES FOUR SENIOR OFFICERS OVER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Yayi dismissed four customs officials after an investigation conducted by the State Audit Office (IGE) revealed their involvement in a case of customs fraud. An announcement from the office of the President informed the public of the dismissal of the four officials. END [...]
2007-08-20 03:29:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
07COTONOU875 PARLIAMENT WELCOMES USG'S TOUR D'HORIZON ON US/BENIN
[...] Summary: In a November 13, 2007 speech, the Ambassador outlined major elements of the USG/Benin cooperative partnership for economic growth and trade, investing in people, poverty reduction, anti-corruption, and regional peace and security in a well-attended National Assembly session in Porto [...]
2007-11-16 08:06:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD ECON EWWT MASS PTER KMCA
07COTONOU931STATE AUDIT OFFICE SPEARHEADS FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The State Audit Office or "Inspection General d'Etat" (IGE) recently assumed a higher profile with investigations of Benin's state electricity company (Ref A) and the former state fuel company. On December 4, PolOff and the Political Assistant met with Jacques Alidou Kousse, the St [...]
2007-12-07 10:02:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA BN
07COTONOU955BENIN'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM HEADS TOWARD IMPASSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-19 12:13:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMCA BN
07DAKAR1035DEEP CUTS IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WILL HARM SENEGAL'S
[...] (SBU) Having recently been apprised of possible significant cuts to USAID/Senegal's operating (OE) budget and development program, perhaps as early as the current fiscal year, I feel compelled to provide an initial reaction in the hope that there is still an opportunity for this Mission, as we [...]
2007-05-14 07:48:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL KMCA PGOV SG
07DAKAR1039SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIRALS STUFFLEBEEM AND
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for legislative elections on June 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in promoting peace and [...]
2007-05-14 12:10:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP MARR PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR1276MCC TELLS GOS IT HAS ENDED SUPPORT OF ORIGINAL COMPACT
[...] (U) Possible action request for the Department, Johannesburg and Cape Town in para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The MCC has informed President Wade and Prime Minister Macky Sall that it will not continue supporting Senegal's MCC Compact proposal, the Diamniadio Platform. The MCC remains keen to [...]
2007-06-13 16:41:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON SG
07DAKAR1323SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR FIRST LADY (FLOTUS)
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, President Abdoulaye Wade has just changed Prime Ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States [...]
2007-06-21 08:05:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR1508 REACTION TO MCC DECISION AND JAFZA DEAL: QUESTIONS FROM
[...] (U) The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) decision to withdraw from the "Diamniadio" industrial platform project (reftel) has opened the door for Senegal's opposition politicians and press to challenge President Abdoulaye Wade's administration on governance, public finances, and commitm [...]
2007-07-20 09:43:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON SG
07DAKAR1530 SENEGAL APPEARS READY TO GIVE-UP ON MCC OPPORTUNITY
[...] (U) This cable includes an action request for MCC with coordination by the Department. Please see para 5 below. 2. (SBU) Summary: Senegal's Minister of Finance Abdoulaye Diop confirmed that Senegal insists on terms likely unacceptable to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for fin [...]
2007-07-24 15:16:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON SG
07DAKAR1993 WADE INFORMS AND MISINFORMS ON MCC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has publicly confirmed that his government will not pursue a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact to help with Dakar's toll road project. Having previously lost the opportunity for MCC funding of a new industrial platform because of [...]
2007-10-05 07:47:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON SG
07DAKAR2144 DELIVERY OF MCC SCORECARD IS OCCASION FOR CRITICISM BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In receiving Senegal's FY08 MCC Scorecard, Presidential Advisor Aminata Niane criticized the MCC's lack of clarifying information in the annual indicators and the lack of flexibility by the MCC to help Senegal, an "important partner," achieve a compact. Minister Niane was not [...]
2007-11-06 14:18:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON MCC SG
07DAKAR696SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION ATTENDING
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for President Abdoulaye Wade's second inauguration on April 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United Sta [...]
2007-03-27 14:12:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP ELAB PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR823LABOR SECRETARY CHAO LEADS PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO
[...] SUMMARY: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao led the presidential delegation to the second inauguration of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, as well as the 47th anniversary celebration of Senegal's independence from France and related events. During the April 3-5 festivities, Senegal hosted [...]
2007-04-16 06:59:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP ELAB EAIR PGOV KMCA SG
07DARESSALAAM1009TANZANIA'S CENTRAL BANK UNDER FIRE IN PRESS FOR
[...] SUMMARY. Throughout June and July, a steady beat of corruption claims against the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) have featured on the front pages of almost every major Tanzanian newspaper. Allegations in the press focus on the prohibitive construction costs of the new BOT "twin towers," payments ma [...]
2007-07-18 13:23:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALECON EAID KMCA PGOV PREL PHUM PINR TZ
07DARESSALAAM1037BIG FISH STILL RISKY CATCH IN TANZANIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Tanzania's Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB) has never successfully prosecuted a high-level corruption case involving either the private or public sector. On July 14, the Director General of the PCB, Edward Hoseah, assured the DCM that the PCB was now prepared to prosecute a milest [...]
2007-07-24 14:06:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID KMCA PINR TZ
07DUSHANBE1612MCC DEMARCHE - TAJIKS STILL MISSING THE POINT
[...] (U) Summary. EmbOffs delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard to a variety of Tajik officials, who roundly ignored its implications and instead attacked the legitimacy and methodology behind the indicators. Kyrgyzstan's pending Threshold Program caught the attention of se [...]
2007-11-14 04:21:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TI
07FREETOWN670SIERRA LEONE SCORECARD AND REACTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following recent elections, a new government has been installed in Sierra Leone. In the course of making introductory calls on the new cabinet ministers, the Ambassador discussed the MCC and provided copies of the scorecard to key Ministers. The delivery of the scorecard was se [...]
2007-11-09 11:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD KMCA MCC SL
07HANOI1883VIETNAM'S MCC INDICATORS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post delivered MCC indicators and relevant talking points to Deputy Director General Ngoc of the Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on November 2. Ngoc asked whether Vietnam would become a threshold country. We explained that the MCC Board selectio [...]
2007-11-05 02:04:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ETRD KMCA MCC ECON VM
07JAKARTA2411CORRUPTION ERADICATION COMMISSION SELECTING NEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Selection Committee is evaluating new commissioners for a four-year term beginning late December 2007. The new commissioners will lead the KPK at a critical time, determining the future direction of the KPK and the larger anti-corrup [...]
2007-08-31 09:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2464MEASURED PROGRESS IN EFFORT TO REJUVENATE
[...] (C) Responding to a Constitutional Court ruling, a Ministry of Law drafting team has endorsed a proposal which would preserve key elements of the Anti-Corruption Court. The new draft competes with an earlier proposal which would basically pull down the pillars, eliminating aspects of the court [...]
2007-09-06 09:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID
07JAKARTA2610U/S JEFFERY BRIEFED ON ANTI-CORRUPTION REFORM SUCCESSES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders told visiting Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III September 10 that they have "caught some big fish" (e.g. former governors),but anti-corruption reform will take decades. [...]
2007-09-18 00:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2715INDONESIA PREPARES TO HOST UN CORRUPTION CONFERENCE - ASSET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Asset recovery will be the GOI's top priority as host of the second Conference of State Parties (COSP) for the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC),to be held in Bali on January 28-February 1 2008. A ministerial-level inter-agency national team led by the Ministry of Foreig [...]
2007-09-26 06:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2745GENERALLY POSITIVE ASSESSMENT OF INDONESIA'S ECONOMY
[...] Summary: Several key economic officials proviced a generally positive assessment overall of Indonesia's economy. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono chaired a high-level briefing for donors and the private sector on September 25, noting that Indonesia's economy has grown more than [...]
2007-09-28 03:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV KMCA KCOR ID
07JAKARTA2753CAUGHT IN THE ACT -- MEMBER OF JUDICIAL ETHICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Agents of a key anti-corruption body this week arrested a member of the Judicial Commission on ethics who had apparently just accepted a sizable bribe. The dramatic arrest--which netted substantial media coverage--is an acute embarassment to the Commission, which already has com [...]
2007-09-28 08:13:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
07JAKARTA2777INDONESIA - 2008 DRAFT BUDGET, SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN
[...] (U) Summary. On August 16, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) presented to the Parliament his FY 2008 draft budget, which focused heavily on boosting infrastructure spending. The draft budget targets 6.8% economic growth for 2008, up from 6.3% expected in 2007, with 6% inflation. In or [...]
2007-10-02 07:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KMCA ECON KCOR PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2864SUPREME AUDIT BOARD SETTING VISION, LACKING CAPACITY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Supreme Audit Board (BPK) presented its semiannual audit report to Parliament on October 10, documenting 1,543 cases that caused $854 million in losses to the state. The BPK performs key government oversight functions, yet lacks the resources, capacity, and cooper [...]
2007-10-11 03:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2875YOGYAKARTA - PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Yogyakarta provincial leadership has instituted several initiatives to promote greater accountability and more responsive local government. The Governor established public and private ombudsman offices and a regional oversight body to promote better governance. Despite some [...]
2007-10-11 09:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2953INDONESIA'S SUPREME COURT -- LACK OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Supreme Court has made progress in implementing reforms designed to improve the efficiency and professionalism of the judiciary. The Court's potential remains unfulfilled, however, largely due its reluctance to tackle the issue of judicial accountability. While movin [...]
2007-10-22 09:25:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID
07JAKARTA2974CORRUPTION NEWS -- MAKING STRIDES IN GOI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest news related to corruption, the GOI continues to make strides in improving inter-agency coordination in anti-corruption cases. In a controversial case, the Supreme Court has overturned convictions against 10 local politicians. A civil case against a Suharto-linked [...]
2007-10-24 06:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID
07JAKARTA3130 INDONESIA AND MCC COMPACT ELIGIBILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia's strong performance on its FY08 MCC indicator scorecard is a testimony to the country's stunning progress of transforming into a modern, free-market, secular and democratic nation that plays a positive and active role in the international community. Recognizing these [...]
2007-11-09 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KMCA KCOR ID
07JAKARTA3134ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION LEADING INDONESIAN REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leads the anti-corruption movement in Indonesia through its high-level investigations, vigorous prosecutions, and highly respected reform-minded leadership. Our legal, law enforcement, and NGO contacts broadly agree that the KPK's leade [...]
2007-11-13 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA3135SUCCESS OF INDONESIA'S MCC THRESHOLD PROGRAM
[...] Summary: Indonesia's two-year, $55 million Threshold Program focuses on the Control of Corruption ($35 million) and Immunization Coverage ($20 million),two areas where Indonesia fell short on its FY 2006 MCC indicator Scorecard. The Threshold Program projects, operational since April 2007, h [...]
2007-11-13 04:32:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMCA KCOR KJUS TBIO ID
07JAKARTA3137MCC - INDONESIA'S EDUCATION SPENDING
[...] Summary. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) requires GOI to report annually a set of indicators, and to provide explanation. This cable explains the challenging methodology in properly capturing education expenditures, as well as issues and progress concerning the sector. We believe t [...]
2007-11-13 07:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KMCA SCUL PGOV KPAO ID
07JAKARTA3173CORRUPTION UPDATE -- DIPLOMATS, FORMER MINISTERS,
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: November's corruption highlights include: a credible media report alleges corruption at the Foreign Ministry; a former minister has been named a suspect in a corruption case involving the sale of two crude oil tankers; [...]
2007-11-15 09:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
07JAKARTA3175INDONESIA - STOLEN ASSET RECOVERY INITIATIVE TO FOCUS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN-World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative will make recommendations for a technical assistance program in Indonesia. Indonesia has limited technical capacity and uneven political will to recover assets internationally. Managing expectations of StAR is critical a [...]
2007-11-15 10:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
07JAKARTA3469SUPREME COURT UNDER FIRE
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A recent Supreme Court decision ordering new provincial elections in South Sulawesi has revived allegations of incompetence and political influence peddling at the Court. Critics of the decision--which has [...]
2007-12-27 07:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
07LILONGWE155MCA FOSTERS CREATION OF NATIONAL MEDIA COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-28 07:17:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID KMCA KPAO KIIP MI
07LILONGWE792MALAWI: U.S. TRAINING SCORES A SUCCESS FOR PROSECUTORS;
[...] (U) Summary. A recent criminal case stands out as an example of the Malawi Prosecutor's Office's stated willingness to apply lessons learned from MCC/DOJ OPDAT assistance and utilize progressive western methods of prosecution. A DOJ OPDAT trained prosecutor scored a first ever in Malawian jur [...]
2007-10-23 07:21:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID KMCA KJUS KCRM KPAO MI
07LILONGWE863MALAWI: NEW DIRECTOR OF ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU APPROVED
[...] (U) On November 13 the National Assembly's Public Appointments Committee (PAC) approved President Mutharika's appointee as Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The new Director, Alexius Nampota, was the ACB's Deputy Director from its inception in 1998 until late 2004. The confirmation [...]
2007-11-19 13:47:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR MI
07LILONGWE866MALAWI - MCC'S TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY PROVES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mutharika and other government leaders expressed public disappointment and frustration with the 2007 Transparency International (TI) corruption perception ratings for Malawi. Mutharika's main criticism was that TI had no local representation and was dealing with old i [...]
2007-11-21 07:06:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON KMCA MI
07MAPUTO1022COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officers Mark Huisenga and Gloria Kessler to travel to Mozambique, from August 28, 2007 until September 12, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to address implementation issues on the Farmers Income Support project. Please advise as so [...]
2007-08-27 10:04:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO1089COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officer Paul Tetrault (Procurement Specialist, Booz Allen Hamilton) to travel to Mozambique, from September 16, 2007 until October 3, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to oversee the Fiscal Agent and Procurement Agent Proposal evalua [...]
2007-09-11 09:31:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO134COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Marcelo Bueno, Jonathan Saiger, David Gentry, and Omar Hopkins to travel to Mozambique, from 04 February 2007 until 24 February 2007 to conduct due diligence on the MCA-Mozambique final proposal regarding infrastructure and fiscal ac [...]
2007-01-30 08:48:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO153COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Paul Tetrault and Alberto Neyra Estens to travel to Mozambique, from 08 February 2007 until 20 February 2007 to oversee the Fiscal Agent and Procurement Agent Expression of Interest (EOI) evaluation proceedings. Please advise as soon [...]
2007-02-05 06:29:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO245COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Maria Claudia Pachon, and Cassia Carvalho-Pacheco to travel to Mozambique, collectively, from March 12 to March 23, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduct due diligence on the MCA-Mozambique final proposal and to address impleme [...]
2007-02-28 12:03:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO261COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Jonathan Saiger, Jonathan Nash, John Polk, and Marcelo Bueno to travel to Mozambique, collectively, from March 11 to 30, 2007. The purpose of these trips is to conduct due diligence on the MCA-Mozambique final proposal and to address [...]
2007-03-05 13:02:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO298COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Carlos Linares to travel to Mozambique, from March 11 to 24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduct due diligence on the infrastructure section of the MCA-Mozambique proposal to MCC. Please advise as soon as possible regarding a [...]
2007-03-13 11:42:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO320COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Jonathan Bloom and Kristin Penn to travel to Mozambique, from March 25 to 30,2007. The purpose of this trip is to participate in the Gates Foundation sponsored workshop titled "Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crop [...]
2007-03-16 07:43:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO386COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MCC VISITORS
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Charles Shea, Maria Claudia Pachon, Stephen Gaull, Jonathan Saiger, Marycel Tuazon, Beverly Watson, David Ameyaw, Cassia Carvalho-Pacheco, Celeste Tarricone, Jigar Bhatt, and Jolyne Sanjak to travel to Mozambique, from 08 April 2007 t [...]
2007-04-02 14:47:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO425COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Darius Mans to travel to Mozambique, from April 30, 2007 until May 2, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to due diligence wrap up, relationship management, and Compact development/ implementation discussions. Please advise as soon as [...]
2007-04-10 13:12:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO478COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Lori Beaman to travel to Mozambique, from April 30, 2007 until May 8, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with MozambiqueQs Monitoring and Evaluation Team to help design an evaluation strategy for projects proposed to MCC by th [...]
2007-04-24 09:26:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO680COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Chris Bertels and Manuel Avila to travel to Mozambique, from July 15, 2007 until July 22, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess local audit firm capabilities. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinerar [...]
2007-06-18 15:00:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO684COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officers Chris Bertels and Manuel Avila to travel to Mozambique, from July 15, 2007 until July 22, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess local audit firm capabilities. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or [...]
2007-06-19 14:02:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO685COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORP
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Chris Bertels and Manuel Avila to travel to Mozambique, from July 15, 2007 until July 22, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess local audit firm capabilities. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinerar [...]
2007-06-19 14:03:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO691COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officer Maria Claudia Pachon to travel to Mozambique, from July 01, 2007 until July 06, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to further develop implementation planning. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinera [...]
2007-06-20 07:28:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO692COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officer Maria Claudia Pachon to travel to Mozambique, from July 01, 2007 until July 06, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to further develop implementation planning. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinera [...]
2007-06-20 07:51:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO773COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CHRIS BERTELS AND
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for Chris Bertels and Manuel Avila to travel to Mozambique, from July 15, 2007 until July 22, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess local audit firm capabilities. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinerary ch [...]
2007-07-06 09:56:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON AFIN OTRA NH MZ
07MAPUTO774COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officers Karen Benjamin, Gary Dayton, Cassia Carvalho- Pacheco, Irlene Gallardo, David Gentry, Joe Hook, Barbara Hayes and Marycel Tuazon to travel to Mozambique, from July 11, 2007 until August 24, 2007. The purpose of these trips i [...]
2007-07-06 09:56:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO81COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for visit by MCC team in reftel. Please advise as soon as possible regarding any schedule or itinerary changes; refer to paragraph 13 regarding visa requirements. 2. Control Officer: John Wysham, Econ/Pol Chief at the Embassy, will be [...]
2007-01-18 13:35:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN MZ
07MAPUTO889COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officers Darius Mans and Gary Jacobs to travel to Mozambique, from July 30, 2007 until August 22, 2007. The purpose of these trips is to perform a security assessment of the MCC Mission Office (Gary Jacobs) and to launch the MCA-Moza [...]
2007-07-27 07:51:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MAPUTO952COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for MCC Officer Maria Pachon to travel to Mozambique, from August 31, 2007 until March 27, 2008. The purpose of this trip is to act as the Acting Deputy Resident Country Director for Mozambique. Please advise as soon as possible regarding an [...]
2007-08-13 08:41:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID ECON OVIP AFIN OTRA MZ
07MASERU135SCHEDULE OF MANAGING DIRECTOR MANS VISIT
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Perry and Finance Minister Thahane reviewed March 7, 2007 the necessary elements (including a potential address by the King at a Special Parlimentary session 3/16/07) for a fruitful visit by Darius Mans, Managing Director of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),taking into [...]
2007-03-07 14:43:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKHIV KMCA PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU231LESOTHO: VISIT OF MCC MANAGING DIRECTOR DARIUS MANS AND MCC
[...] (SBU) As the potential signing of a Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact draws nearer, MCC Managing Director for Anglophone and Lusophone Africa, Dr. Darius Mans, visited Lesotho on March 15-16, 2007, for a series of meetings with GOL officials and other stakeholders. Prior to Dr. Mans [...]
2007-04-19 16:12:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID ECON PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU281"THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT" -- LESOTHO'S MONARCH SPEAKS
[...] (SBU) In a May 16 farewell call on Lesotho's King Letsie III, His Majesty expressly asked Ambassador Perry to convey to President Bush a sincere "Thank You" for his PEPFAR and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) initiatives. The King stated his gratitude for the increases in PEPFAR funding to a [...]
2007-05-16 14:43:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KMCA LT
07MASERU296LESOTHO: NATURAL RESOURCES MINISTER CALLS ON REHO
[...] At a May 15 reception to mark the forthcoming departure of U.S. Ambassador June Carter Perry, Monyane Moleleki, Lesotho's Minister of Natural Resources, approached visiting Regional Environment and Health Officer (REHO) Anthony Woods and requested for a meeting the following day. REHO and Pol [...]
2007-05-22 14:49:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KMCA ECON EAGR EAID LT
07MASERU370LESOTHO: PM VISITS SOUTH AFRICA DESPITE TROUBLE AT HOME
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 18-20, the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Phakalitha Mosisili, conducted an official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. An official communiqui on the visit mentioned the signing of agreements on several bilateral issues, including the cross-border movement of citizens. In his [...]
2007-06-26 15:47:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON KMCA KDEM EAID SF LT
07MASERU412SCENESETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER MOSISILI'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Mosisili's imminent visit to Washington to sign a $362.5 million MCA Compact on July 23 with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) comes at a high point in the U.S.-Lesotho bilateral relationship, reflecting many shared values, mutual cooperation, successful [...]
2007-07-12 18:33:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV PREL PHUM KMCA LT
07MASERU460LESOTHO: ALLEGED COUP PLOTTERS FACE HARASSMENT IN LESOTHO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 31, the Lesotho Defense Forces (LDF) redetained two soldiers charged with high treason immediately upon their release on bail from Maseru's "Maximum Central Prison." Meanwhile, local media and opposition political leaders claim that South African National Defense Force [...]
2007-08-01 15:31:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS KMCA LT
07MASERU563LESOTHO: AMBASSADOR NOLAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO KING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 10, Ambassador Robert B. Nolan presented his credentials to Lesotho's King Letsie III at the Royal Palace in Maseru. During their private conversation following the presentation, the King emphasized the excellent state of U.S.-Lesotho bilateral relations following th [...]
2007-10-10 16:41:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID KHIV KMCA LT
07MINSK917MCC INDICATOR SCORES DELIVERED TO BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 16:14:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC BO
07MONROVIA1348LIBERIA: MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED; GOL EAGER FOR THRESHOLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff delivered Liberia's MCC scorecard and reftel points to Minister of Commerce and Industry Frances Johnson Morris during an introductory call. There has been press reporting here on President Sirleaf's appeal, during her recent meetings with the President and others in W [...]
2007-11-16 16:22:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD KMCA MCC PHUM LI
07NIAMEY100PRES. TANDJA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN NAILS A
[...] In his remarks on Niger's Republic Day, December 18, 2006, President Tandja declared war on corruption in public life. He instructed the Minister of Justice to take action on over 60 cases that had developed since a public education funds scandal came to light last summer (reftels A,B). In the [...]
2007-02-01 16:56:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR KMCA NG
07NIAMEY158IN LAST PLACE AND FALLING: THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION IN
[...] Niger's education system ranks among the worst in the world. It suffers from a crumbling infrastructure, a lack of resources and a teacher corps that is under-trained and demoralized. Niger's woes are compounded by a population growth rate of 3.4%, one of the highest in the world. Corruption [...]
2007-02-22 15:59:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KMCA NG
07NOUAKCHOTT1010 Mauritania Exceeds Development Funding Target at Paris
[...] The Government of Mauritania, with support from the World Bank, the European Commission and the UN Development Program, convened the fifth Consultative Group (CG) meeting in Paris December 4 and 5. Some three dozen bilateral and multilateral partners reviewed Mauritania's national development [...]
2007-12-11 15:49:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PHUM KMCA MR
07NOUAKCHOTT334MAURITANIA SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION
[...] (C) After almost 30 years of military rule, Mauritania's first credibly elected president since independence will be sworn in on April 19. The U.S., in cooperation with its international partners and the Mauritanian transitional government, worked actively to bring about this historic transit [...]
2007-04-05 18:55:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA MARR MASS ASEC
07SANAA1950EMBASSY FOLLOW-UP TO MCC SIGNING CEREMONY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 27 meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister, the Ambassador emphasized that the ROYG's release of convicted terrorist Jamal al-Badawi had led the Millennium Challenge Corporation to postpone indefinitely the signing of the Threshold Country Plan (TCP) signing cerem [...]
2007-10-27 18:05:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALAID EAID ECON EFIN KMCA PREL YM
07SANAA2044SALEH ADVISOR TELLS AMBASSADOR THE PRESIDENT NOW
[...] (S) The Ambassador met November 3 with senior Presidential advisor AbdulKarim al-Eryani to discuss the case of Jamal al-Badawi and the recent meeting between the Ambassador and President Saleh. Eryani emphasized that the meeting was important insofar as it clarified for Saleh the magnitude of [...]
2007-11-04 09:23:00Embassy SanaaSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL KMCA EAID EFIN ECON YM
07SANSALVADOR1037EL SALVADOR: MCC DEPUTY CEO BENT MEETS WITH HUMAN
[...] SUMMARY: In a free-ranging May 18 discussion with Deputy CEO Rodney Bent of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),Dr. Beatrice Carrillo of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) outlined what in her view represent the most serious threats to continued progress in rule of law i [...]
2007-05-28 14:35:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDES PGOV PHUM PREL KMCA
07ULAANBAATAR266Action Request: GOM Proposes October for Visit of President
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Tsogtbaatar called in the Charge on May 7 to propose dates for President Enkhbayar's trip to the United States. Tsogtbaatar stated that any time during the month of October could be made to wor [...]
2007-05-08 02:43:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP EAID MARR KMCA MG
07ULAANBAATAR310Scope Paper and Issues for Assistant Secretary Hill's June
[...] (SBU) SCOPE: Assistant Secretary Hill's visit to Mongolia fulfills the dual purposes of: 1) reinforcing the strong U.S.-Mongolia relationship and, 2) attendance at the Asia Society's June 15-18 Williamsburg conference (the conference is covered in a separate memo). This visit fulfills a lon [...]
2007-05-29 06:46:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF MARR EAID KMCA MG IZ KN
07ULAANBAATAR327MCC Issues Briefer for Assistant Secretary Hill's June
[...] (SBU) The following draft bullets and talking points are provided in preparation for Assistant Secretary Hill's planned visit to Mongolia. 2. (SBU) Background: -- After three years of false starts and sometimes emotional give-and-take with MCC, there is very strong optimism that a Compact [...]
2007-06-12 00:09:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF MARR EAID KMCA MG
07ULAANBAATAR335Trade and Economic Issues Briefing for Assistant Secretary
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia's economy grew 8% in 2006 (yielding GDP of US$2.7 billion) and is projected to reach 7.5% in 2007. Mining (copper, coal and gold),cashmere, tourism, and small retail trade were the primary economic drivers, coupled with high world commodity prices. Mining prospects im [...]
2007-06-12 23:31:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF MARR EAID KMCA MG IZ KN
07ULAANBAATAR712Ambassador Meets New Minister of Industry and Trade
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Minister of Industry and Trade Kh. Narankhuu told the Ambassador, during an initial courtesy call December 21, that the Government of Mongolia (GOM) hopes to conclude one or both of the two major mining projects under consideration (Oyu Tolgoi and Tavan Tolgoi) ov [...]
2007-12-27 00:32:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON SENV MARR PGOV KMCA MG
07YAOUNDE1143CAMEROON: PM SALUTES "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Garvey, in her initial call on Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni on September 18, told the PM that the U.S. would continue to be "open, honest and supportive" of Cameroon and would maintain its focus on strengthening democratic processes, fostering economic growth, and [...]
2007-09-18 16:22:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KMCA PHUM PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1208CAMEROON'S RE-RUN ELECTIONS: PREP IMPROVES, MAJOR
[...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Cameroon held re-run elections for 17 parliamentary seats following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the July 22 election results for these seats because of gross irregularities. The ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) did predictably we [...]
2007-10-05 08:39:00Embassy YaoundeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KMCA EAID CM
07YAOUNDE61CAMEROON: AMBASSADOR AND FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSS
[...] (U) Summary: On January 17, the Ambassador and Finance Minister Abah Abah discussed Cameroon's revised, updated action plan to qualify for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the ongoing anti-corruption and good governance efforts of the government of Cameroon (GRC). The Minister sa [...]
2007-01-17 16:14:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA CM
07YEREVAN307MCC VP HEWKO DRIVES HOME COST OF BAD ELECTIONS
[...] (C) During his March 8-9 visit to Yerevan, MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko praised Armenia's implementation of the MCC Compact while sending a clear message that in order to remain eligible for funding, elections in May must be a "significant improvement towards full compliance wi [...]
2007-03-15 09:29:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA AM
08ACCRA1515GHANA TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHLIGHTS,
[...] SUMMARY: A. Ghana's civil aviation sector is poised for expansion, based on the combination of increased passenger loads and the expected increased demand for air travel associated with growth in the oil and gas sector. An infrastructure expansion plan worth USD 122 million has been approv [...]
2008-12-02 07:38:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ELTN ELAB EWWT EINV EFIN KMCA GH
08ATHENS1338GREEK REPLY ON ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA: WE PLAN ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 13:59:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDGR KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08ATHENS1350GREECE CULTIVATING LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a wide-ranging discussion with DCM, MFA Secretary General for International Economic Affairs Theodore Skylakakis emphasized steps he is taking to improve contacts with least-developed countries on climate change. He hopes his efforts will lead to increased coordination, hope [...]
2008-09-23 14:24:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID KMCA KCERS KIPR GR GA AF
08ATHENS1463GREEK GOVERNMENT'S PLANS FOR OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, the Embassy raised reftel A points regarding the October 22 Georgia Donors' Conference with the MFA and the head of Hellenic Aid. Both indicated that while additional funding may potentially be forthcoming, the GoG does not appear prepared to make a pledge durin [...]
2008-10-21 12:15:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA KCRS EAID EFIN PREL GR
08BANJUL18THE GAMBIA'S 2008 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
[...] (U) On December 20, 2007, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a press release announcing that The Gambia has reached completion point under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, and is now eligible for debt relief under HIPC and the Multilater [...]
2008-01-08 17:03:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV KMCA IMF GA
08BANJUL19JAMMEH DERIDES HIPC AND DEBT RELIEF AS "CHICKEN CHANGE"
[...] In response to a journalist's questions concerning The Gambia's new debt relief package (reftel),President Jammeh has derided the package and the Bretton Woods institutions. He described the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative as a disguised apology owed to Africa for years of [...]
2008-01-09 13:21:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV KMCA IMF GA
08BEIJING3750DEMARCHE DELIVERED--ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 07:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG CH RS
08BEIJING3968DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 01:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN CG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS
08BEIJING3980DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 08:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN CG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS
08BOGOTA3967COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FY09 MCC SCORECARDS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 18:00:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA CO
08BRUSSELS1591BELGIUM: OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA DONORS' CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 08:40:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL KMCA KCRS GG BE
08BUCHAREST786ROMANIA: ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] (SBU) EconCouns met October 3 with Anamaria Almasan, Acting Director for EU External Relations and Development Assistance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to convey reftel information on U.S. aid to Georgia and to inquire about Romanian plans for both bilateral and EU-coordinated assis [...]
2008-10-07 14:43:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUN PREL GG RO
08CANBERRA1039AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-16 00:02:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS AS
08CHISINAU663SOVA URGES MCC ROADS IN TRANSNISTRIA
[...] (C) Summary: Minister for Reintegration Vasile Sova urged the USG to move ahead with including Transnistrian (TN) roads in the Moldovan MCC compact. Sova said the biggest disappointment for TN "President" Smirnov would be a U.S. decision to finance these roads. Such a decision could turn t [...]
2008-06-24 12:57:00Embassy ChisinauCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS PINR KMCA MD
08COLOMBO1073SRI LANKA: AUSTR DELANEY DISCUSSES LABOR AND THE AFL-CIO
[...] (U) Summary: During a November 11-14 visit, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) Michael Delaney met with key Sri Lankan government officials and local trade union representatives to discuss the June 2008 AFL-CIO petition to USTR that alleges Sri Lanka's labor laws do not comply with i [...]
2008-11-28 03:01:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD EINV EAID PGOV KMCA CE
08COLOMBO1123 SRI LANKA PASSES 2009 BUDGET
[...] Summary: (SBU) Parliament easily passed the 2009 GSL budget on December 8, one month following President Rajapaksa's presentation of the draft on November 6. This is Rajapaksa's fourth budget since coming into office in 2005 on a platform of poverty reduction, steering investment to disadvan [...]
2008-12-09 11:54:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV MARR KMCA CE
08COLOMBO1133 SRI LANKA: FINANCING HARDSHIPS IN NEW YEAR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lanka's macroeconomic outlook for 2009 is weakening. In November Central Bank reserves declined, for the fourth straight month, to around $2 billion, or less than 2 months of imports. The trade deficit in the first ten months expanded by 78%, and the Central Bank (CB) expe [...]
2008-12-15 11:15:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KMCA CE
08COLOMBO366SRI LANKA: 2007 GDP GROWTH REPORTEDLY 6.8%; FITCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lanka continued its healthy economic growth in 2007, reporting a 6.8% increase in real gross domestic product for the year. Weaknesses in the government's statistical methodology suggest the actual growth figure may have been lower, probably closer to 6%. The reported outco [...]
2008-04-09 11:00:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN KMCA CE
08COLOMBO370SRI LANKA: RAIN HURTS RICE CROP; PRICES RISE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Torrential rains are damaging paddy yields in the main rice growing areas of Sri Lanka, with as many as 15,000 hectares lost. Domestic prices are up in wholesale markets and sharp increases in retail prices have started and will continue unless international supplies can be as [...]
2008-04-10 02:49:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KCOR KMCA PGOV CE
08COLOMBO428RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES - SRI LANKA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The impact of rising food prices is affecting all households in Sri Lanka. Recent jumps in prices of rice and other food commodities have come on top of 20% domestic inflation rates. In the past year, food commodity prices are up 50-100%, and the trend is continuing. On averag [...]
2008-04-30 11:37:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EAGR KMCA PGOV CE
08COLOMBO450SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT SEEKS LOWER BORROWING COSTS BY
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Seeking to reduce government borrowing costs, Sri Lanka opened ten percent of its short-term local currency Treasury bill market to foreign investors. The Central Bank calculates, accurately it appears after the first day of trading, that offering the 3-12 month de [...]
2008-05-09 04:59:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV KMCA CE
08COLOMBO638SRI LANKA: POWER SECTOR BADLY NEEDS REFORM,
[...] Summary: The state owned Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is the primary provider of electricity to Sri Lanka. The company is plagued with inefficiencies and a spiraling debt. Sri Lanka is dependent on petroleum products to produce 60 percent of its electricity. The price of production is sky [...]
2008-07-02 11:36:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG EINV KCOR KMCA PGOV CE
08COLOMBO730SRI LANKA: TREASURY SECRETARY OFFERS TO RESIGN FOLLOWING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 28, P. B. Jayasundera, Treasury Secretary, handed in his resignation following a Supreme Court judgment that severely criticized his role in the privatization of Lanka Marine Services (LMS),a government-owned bunkering company. Jayasundera, Rajapakse's primary economic [...]
2008-07-29 12:38:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EINV KCOR KMCA PGOV CE
08COLOMBO821SRI LANKA: IMF CONCERNED ABOUT ECONOMIC POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting with Econoffs, IMF officials visiting Sri Lanka for "Article IV" consultations privately expressed concerns about Sri Lanka's persistently high inflation, various fiscal problems, and external imbalances. Taken together, these signs from the Sri Lankan economy [...]
2008-09-02 01:59:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON KMCA CE
08COLOMBO922 SRI LANKA: ECONOMY GROWING, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN
[...] (U) Summary: Despite the war, Sri Lanka's GDP grew by a respectable 6.6% in the first half of 2008. The Sri Lankan rupee (SLR) remains relatively steady due to Central Bank intervention. Other key macro indicators weakened. Inflation remains high at 24.3%. The trade deficit expanded sharply [...]
2008-10-07 11:50:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD KMCA CE
08COTONOU151BENIN: COSTAL PROTECTION WORKS TO START - SEA POLLUTION
[...] On February 26, 2008, President Boni Yayi officially launched construction of jetties which will fight coastal erosion along a 7.5 km stretch of eroding coastline located to the east of the Port of Cotonou (reftel). Francois Noudegbessi, the Minister of Urban Development, Land Reform and Coasta [...]
2008-03-07 08:47:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EPET KMCA BN
08COTONOU196BENIN: CRISIS IN MICROCREDIT SECTOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Benin (GOB) dismissed the Director General of PADME, a microcredit institution, for mismanagement disclosed by a report from the Financial Audit Office (IGF). The Director General (DG) and the employees of PADME denied all allegations of mismanagement and malfeasa [...]
2008-04-08 06:12:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN
08COTONOU290BENIN WRAP-UP MAY 2 - MAY 16, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 06:43:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBN KMCA PGOV PHUM
08COTONOU317BENIN WRAP-UP MAY 17 - MAY 30, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 14:27:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBN EAGR KMCA KNAR PGOV
08COTONOU450BENIN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT STANDSTILL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Since July 7th deputies from the G4 and G13 (Ref B) have blocked all deliberations in the National Assembly. The deputies, who form a majority, demand the creation of an independent commission to investigate National Assembly President Mathurin Nago's management of the Assembly. T [...]
2008-07-29 17:00:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KMCA BN
08COTONOU452BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI CIRCUMVENTS IMPASSE IN NATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 17:18:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KMCA BN
08COTONOU46SCENESETTER FOR THE POTUS VISIT TO BENIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-18 13:34:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALOVIP BUSH GEORGE PGOV EAID KMCA BN
08COTONOU617BENIN: LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INERTIA HAMPER GOB
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Judicial inertia and active resistance in Benin's National Assembly temper the positive impact of President Boni Yayi's ambitious anti-corruption and economic governance agenda. Political gridlock continues as opposition parties consolidate control of the National Assembly wrestl [...]
2008-09-29 13:47:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA PINR BN
08COTONOU622BENIN: OPPOSITION PARTIES TIGHTEN GRIP ON PRESIDENT YAYI
[...] (U) SUMMARY: To encourage participation of opposition parties in his government, President Yayi has held extensive talks with their leaders. These include the Renaissance of Benin (RB),the Social Democracy Party (PSD),the Party for Democratic Renewal (PRD),the African Movement for Democracy [...]
2008-09-29 15:18:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KMCA BN
08DAKAR1282 SENEGAL ACHIEVES MILESTONE IN RENEWED EFFORT TO ACHIEVE AN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: By presenting comprehensive concept papers in a timely manner for important projects, including roads, irrigation, and judicial reform, Senegal has achieved an important milestone in its effort to sign an MCC Compact. MCC Vice President John Hewko told the MCA-Senegal Steering [...]
2008-11-05 17:40:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA ECON EFIN EINV ETRD SG
08DAKAR183 SENEGAL RESTARTS MCC EFFORT WITH POSITIVE STEPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: After four years of missteps and missed opportunities, Senegal is again pursuing a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact, with some positive initial efforts. Responding to MCC criteria for re-engagement, Senegal has established a new counterpart agency and has agreed t [...]
2008-02-15 12:49:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KMCA PREL ECON MCC SG
08DAKAR825AN INSIDER'S CRITICAL VIEW OF PRESIDENT WADE'S
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During a June 28 lunch at a local restaurant with Econ Counselor, one of President Wade's Financial/Economic Advisors, Habib Mbaye, quietly offered a starkly negative view of Wade's policies and priorities, and also the corrupt influence of the President's son, Karim. Mbaye (str [...]
2008-07-15 11:58:00Embassy DakarSECRETPGOV PREL KCOR ECON KMCA SG
08DILI94TIMOR-LESTE EAGER TO BEGIN WORK ON MCC COMPACT AND
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dili welcomes and is ready to support the initiation on March 25 of discussions between MCC Vice President John Hewko and his team, and senior members of the government of Timor-Leste (GOTL) on a potential MCC Compact as well as Timor's remediation process. The March 25 teleconf [...]
2008-03-21 08:57:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA TT
08DJIBOUTI684DJIBOUTI MCC ROUNDUP: SUBSTANTIAL FY2008 PROGRESS
[...] SUMMARY: In FY2008, Djibouti made significant strides in several areas measured by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) indicators. Some of Djibouti's achievements--such as holding free and fair legislative elections that brought two more women into parliament, organizing a national semi [...]
2008-08-26 11:22:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON PHUM SOCI SENV KCOR KMCA KWMN
08DJIBOUTI885DJIBOUTI ON FY09 MCA SCORES: THE BALL'S IN OUR COURT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In delivering advance copies of Djibouti's FY2009 Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Scorecard to GODJ officials (per reftel),Post welcomed Djibouti's Presidential-level commitment to improving indicator performance. In light of Djibouti's slight backsliding in FY2009 scores, Pos [...]
2008-11-11 15:03:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PHUM SOCI SENV KCOR KMCA KWMN DJ
08DUBLIN583IRISH AID TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-22 14:57:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS EI
08HELSINKI451GEORGIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] Econ Assistant delivered reftel points regarding the upcoming International Georgia Reconstruction Donors Conference in Brussels to Mr Jaakko Lehtovirta, Georgia Desk Officer at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The MFA is working to determine how much room there is in Finland's [...]
2008-10-07 08:22:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN EINV KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG FI
08HELSINKI469FINLAND'S RESPONSE TO SECOND GEORGIA DEMARCHE
[...] Econ Officer delivered reftel talking points to Jaakko Lehtovirta, Georgia Desk Officer at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The MFA is currently formulating the amount and direction of aid it will provide for Georgia's recovery efforts. 2. The MFA received the Joint Needs As [...]
2008-10-16 10:49:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS FI
08ISLAMABAD3715MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC): DELIVERY OF
[...] EconOff delivered reftel demarche outlining Pakistan's FY09 score for consideration under the Millennium Challenge Corporation to Ministry of Finance Joint Secretary/Director M. Mumtaz Malik on November 19. Malik thanked EconOff for the information and said the GoP will continue to work toward [...]
2008-11-28 11:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC PK
08JAKARTA1631SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE SET TO RETIRE; SEARCH
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court will retire in November. The selection process for his replacement has started in the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR). Although Chi [...]
2008-08-28 03:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
08JAKARTA17CORRUPTION UPDATE -- FORMER ENVOY CONVICTED OF
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. It is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In the latest corruption news: the former Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia was convicted and sentenced to prison for overcharging visa applicants; the A [...]
2008-01-03 10:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
08JAKARTA1815ANTI-CORRUPTION REFORM RESHAPING INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although corruption remains endemic, Indonesia is making continued progress to root it out. In the past six months, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested six Members of Parliament in six separate scandals. Challenges remain: limited resources, legal challenge [...]
2008-09-25 07:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
08JAKARTA183JUDICIAL REFORMS MOVE FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Supreme Court is moving ahead on efforts to reform its management practices and is instructing officials on a new judicial code of conduct. Also on the reform track, the Attorney General's Office recently completed a project focused on instructing prosecutors on new human r [...]
2008-01-30 05:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
08JAKARTA1871IN WIN FOR REFORM, PARLIAMENT NIXES SUPREME COURT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Amid mounting pressure from pro-judicial reform groups, the Indonesian Parliament (DPR) has decided to postpone indefinitely consideration of a controversial Supreme Court bill. The bill would have extended the mandatory retirement age for the justices of the Supreme Court, inc [...]
2008-10-07 08:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
08JAKARTA2009INDONESIA SHOULD BE AWARDED MCC COMPACT STATUS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Millennium Challenge Corporation Board should declare Indonesia Compact eligible at its December meeting. Over the past decade, Indonesia has transformed itself from an authoritarian state to the world's third-largest democracy committed to policies that promote political a [...]
2008-10-31 04:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KMCA EAID PRESL ID
08JAKARTA2058DISCUSSING NOVEMBER 15 SUMMIT WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono (SBY) wants Indonesia to be part of the solution at the upcoming Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy. At SBY's request, Ambassador Hume briefed him on summit preparations in a meeting on November 5. SBY welcomed the G-20 Leaders format and st [...]
2008-11-06 10:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SENV ENRG KMCA PGOV PREL MCC ID
08JAKARTA208CORRUPTION UPDATE -- SUSPECTS NAMED IN HIGHLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named the current Bank Indonesia Governor a suspect in a case involving the alleged diversion of funds to legislators. In other news: evidence has surfaced that several officials received bribes related to the procurement of fire truc [...]
2008-02-01 05:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
08JAKARTA2146Institutionalizing anti-corruption reform in Indonesia
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia is taking concrete steps to institutionalize its fight against corruption, laying the groundwork for continued anti-corruption efforts regardless of who wins next year's Parliamentary and Presidential elections. The Corruption Eradication Commission, Attorney General's [...]
2008-11-20 11:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
08JAKARTA517IAGGA INDONESIA REPORT
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in STATE 18836, regarding the International Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Act. Below is the text of Embassy Jakarta's report. Government Efforts ------------------ 2. (U) The Government of Indonesia (GOI) is in the process of a significant [...]
2008-03-13 08:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS ID
08JAKARTA640SUHARTO-LINKED FOUNDATION FOUND LIABLE FOR $110
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An Indonesian court ruled on March 27 that the Suharto family-linked Supersemar Foundation had diverted state funds. The court ordered the Foundation to pay $110 million. The court ruled, however, that the Suharto family was not liable. It is positive that the Indonesian legal [...]
2008-04-01 05:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA ID
08JAKARTA956SUPREME COURT PROGRESSES BUT RESISTS GREATER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite progress on several fronts, the Supreme Court continues to resist efforts to introduce greater accountability. The Court's 2007 annual report cites progress on workload management, case management and transparency, but critics complain that the Court has blocked externa [...]
2008-05-14 09:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
08KATHMANDU1184NEPAL MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 09:52:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC NP
08LILONGWE63MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) INITIAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) team headed by VP John Hewko visited Malawi January 13-17 to initiate the compact development process following Malawi,s selection as compact eligible in 2007 (reftel). The visit provided an opportunity to meet with a variety of stakehol [...]
2008-01-29 14:47:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON KMCA MCC PGOV PREL MI
08LILONGWE94MALAWI: PRESIDENT FIRES TWO IN CABINET RESHUFFLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika reshuffled his cabinet on Feb. 8 for the sixth time since taking office in 2004. Mutharika removed Minister of National Defense Bob Khamisa, who is involved in a fertilizer subsidy coupon scandal, and Minister of Health Marjorie Ngaunje. Despite criticism fr [...]
2008-02-12 14:33:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KMCA MI
08LISBON2603NO PORTUGUESE BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 09:11:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDGG RS KCRS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL PO
08LJUBLJANA470SLOVENIA WILL NOT MAKE ANY BILATERAL PLEDGE AT THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 11:08:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUN KMCA KCRS SI
08LUSAKA1184ZAMBIA ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACES MCA COMPACT
[...] (SBU) In a December 18 meeting, the Ambassador briefed President Rupiah Banda on Zambia's newly announced Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact eligibility. The Ambassador stressed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) board had selected Zambia because of its commitment to gov [...]
2008-12-19 08:24:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL KMCA ZA
08LUSAKA441GRZ (STILL) DELIBERATING ON CRITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging conversation with DCM and Poloff on anti-corruption topics, Cabinet Secretary Kanganja noted little progress on anti-money laundering, but said that Cabinet is currently considering a National Anti-Corruption Policy, as well as guidelines governing the use of sei [...]
2008-04-17 12:16:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALKCOR PGOV PREL KMCA ZA
08LUSAKA479 RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES -
[...] (U) Summary. This cable responds to questions in reftel regarding the impact of rising food/agricultural commodity prices in Zambia. Although Zambia is experiencing food price inflation, at rates exceeding overall inflation, its prices are not directly tied to global market prices, and theref [...]
2008-04-30 12:46:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PREL KMCA ZA
08MANAGUA1436NICARAGUA: ORTEGA SAYS VENEZUELAN ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (SBU) In reaction to MCC's announcement to freeze disbursements and review its program, President Ortega said on December 1 that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had promised to provide funds to continue the implementation of MCC programs if they are canceled. Ortega claimed that U.S. assista [...]
2008-12-03 15:27:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN PREL KMCA NU
08MANAMA724BAHRAIN: WAIT AND SEE ON GEORGIAN RECONSTRUCTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-22 06:43:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL KMCA KCRS GG RS BA
08MANILA2676 Philippine Government Makes Case for MCC Compact
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador was briefed by senior Philippine officials on Philippine Government anti-corruption initiatives over the past year. They made the case for Compact reselection by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The team highlighted increased prosecutions of officials [...]
2008-12-09 09:24:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC RP
08MBABANE236 SWAZILAND - MCC BACK ON RADAR
[...] SUMMARY: On August 8, 2008, Ambassador Maurice Parker met with King Mswati III and discussed a variety of topics, including Swaziland's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) scorecard and qualification possibilities. King Mswati showed extreme interest and said he would organize a committee to [...]
2008-08-11 12:31:00Embassy MbabaneUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KMCA WZ
08MONROVIA336LIBERIA: 21 REFORMS TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS CLIMATE MAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL has announced 21 reforms to improve Liberia's ranking in the IFC "Doing Business" index by enhancing the business climate. The rapid progress reflects President Sirleaf's commitment and the productive collaboration between the GOL and the business community to target r [...]
2008-05-05 13:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV BEXP EFIN ETRD ECON KMCA LI
08MUSCAT724OMAN UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] (C) During an October 13 meeting with Mohammed al-Hassan, Director of Political Affairs for Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi, Pol-Econ Chief delivered ref A and B demarches and urged the Omani government to strongly consider making a contribution to reconstruction efforts in Georgia [...]
2008-10-15 09:50:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EFIN KCRS KMCA GG MU
08NEWDELHI2567GOI CURRENTLY HAS NO PLANS TO OFFER AID TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 02:51:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG RS IN
08NIAMEY1093NIGER: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT TANDJA ON
[...] (U) Summary. On November 11, Ambassador Allen, accompanied by USAID Country Program Manager (CPM) Wentling and USAID/MCC Threshold Program Manager (TPM) Schulman, met with President Tandja, his Cabinet Director Maman and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Dagra to discuss supplemental food s [...]
2008-11-14 11:27:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPREL KMCA EAID SOCI SCUL NG
08NOUAKCHOTT252MAURITANIAN GOVERNMENT CABINET RESHUFFLE -- RETURN
[...] (C) One year into his administration, President Abdallahi is changing his team. The change was long anticipated -- a change from a government that reflected the necessary political compromises of the immediate post-election to a government that takes greater account of political, ethnic and [...]
2008-05-28 13:57:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT323POLITICAL STORM SEASON IN MAURITANIA
[...] (C) Over the past several weeks, Mauritanian media has been rife with political intrigue. President Abdallahi is said to have had a falling out with his security head General Aziz leading to rumors of impending coups. The opposition is trying to pull together the one-third majority of the Na [...]
2008-06-25 18:38:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT332MAURITANIAN DEPUTIES VOTE TO INTRODUCE MOTION OF
[...] (U) On 30 June 2008, 39 deputies in the Mauritanian Parliament signed a bill to introduce a motion of censure against the government of Prime Minister Waghef. 29 signatories to the bill were from the majority National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL) party. According to artic [...]
2008-06-30 17:45:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT400DISCONTENT IN THE RANKS: PARLIAMENTARIANS
[...] (SBU) Tension continues to mount between President Abdallahi and the Parliament following the installation of a new Government on 15 July 2008. The new Government was the President's attempt to placate Parliamentarians from his PNDD-ADIL party who introduced a motion of censure against Prime [...]
2008-07-31 14:35:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT654MEETING WITH FORMER ECON MINISTER VEZZAZ --
[...] (C) MCC Scorecard A Validation Of Abdallahi Policies: Charge met November 5 with former Minister of Economy and Finance (and current FNDD economic director) Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz who had been the Mission's principal ministerial counterpart in the development of Mauritania's MCC Thres [...]
2008-11-06 13:34:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT686MAKING IT PERSONAL
[...] (U) Anticipating the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) November 1Oth 2008 release of country indicators, Nouakchott issued a release noting that Mauritanian advances outlined in the report had been made during the democratic Abdallahi administration. Mission wished to forestall attempts [...]
2008-11-20 08:00:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KMCA MR
08OSLO559NORWEGIANS WILL DONATE: GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 08:37:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS NO
08OTTAWA1243CANADA EYEING C$10 MILLION ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 16:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGG RS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08OTTAWA1343CANADA TO PLEDGE C$3 MILLION AT GEORGIA DONORS'
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 17:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGG RS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08PRAGUE633CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ASSISTANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 15:47:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG RS EZ
08RABAT1063MOROCCO: DELIVERY OF 2009 INDICATOR SCORECARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Economic Counselor and MCC Country Director delivered advance copies of Morocco's 2009 indicator scorecard in November 5 meetings with Minister of Economic and General Affairs Nizar Baraka and Primature Secretary-General Mohamed Hajoui, and then subsequently with officials at th [...]
2008-11-10 12:09:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PGOV PREL ECON KMCA MCC
08RABAT1167PRIME MINISTER TOUTS PROGRESS IN MCC SCORECARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: As previewed during the delivery of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard for Morocco for 2009 (Ref A),Secretary General to the Prime Minister Mohamed Hajoui provided to the Ambassador a copy of Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi's December 12 letter to Ambassador J [...]
2008-12-17 16:12:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA MO
08RABAT155THE AMBASSADOR'S VISITS TO ZAGORA AND AGADIR
[...] Summary: During January 24-25 visits to the provinces of Zagora and Agadir, the Ambassador called on ranking local officials, met with local civil society leaders, and visited a range of USG-funded projects. The Ambassador and Embassy team found in Zagora a rural and remote province beset by [...]
2008-02-19 17:48:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SCUL KPAO KMCA PREL MO
08RABAT20AMBASSADOR,S JANUARY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 3, on the eve of his departure for the next round on UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara, Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri expressed his frustration with Algeria's unwillingness to move beyond the status quo to resolve the issue and truly cooperate on economic and securi [...]
2008-01-09 06:19:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS EAID KMCA KPAL MO
08RABAT617AMBASSADOR AND KING MOHAMMED VI DISCUSS MILLENNIUM
[...] (C) During the Ambassador's June 30 meeting with King Mohammed VI, they briefly went over the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. The Ambassador expressed his pride in its focus on creating sustainable jobs for the poorest sectors of the economy, much like the King,s own National Ini [...]
2008-07-03 12:49:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALEAID KMCA MO
08RABAT735MOROCCO: THE AMBASSADOR'S CHAT WITH A KEY ROYAL
[...] (C) Abdelaziz Belfkih, Counselor to King Mohammed VI on education, energy and agriculture issues, told the Ambassador that concern over energy and fuel supplies remains a high priority for the Kingdom, but mitigating strategies are hampered by Morocco's complicated relationship with Algeria. [...]
2008-08-07 13:08:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON PHUM ENRG PGOV PINR PREL KMCA MO
08RIGA641LATVIA TO PLEDGE AT GEORGIA DONORS' CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 14:45:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS LG
08ROME1219ITALIAN FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO DECREASE 60% IN
[...] (SBU) On 23 September, Counselor Massoni of the Italian MFA told Econoff that Italy's foreign assistance in 2009 is expected to decrease by 60% from 2008, dropping to 0.11% of GDP. This is expected to produce, in the year of the Italy's G8 presidency, a sharp reduction in Italy's humanitari [...]
2008-09-30 16:23:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08ROME1273ITALY TO GIVE ONLY 1.6M EUROS IN BILATERAL AID FOR GEORGIA
[...] (C) On 16 October Econoff delivered reftel A demarche on assistance to Georgia to Stefano Soliman, Deputy Director for Balkans/ Middle East Development Cooperation at the MFA. According to Soliman, Italy will provide a minimum of 1.6 million euros in bilateral general aid for displaced person [...]
2008-10-17 13:50:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN GG KMCA PREL RS KCRS
08SANSALVADOR1254EL SALVADOR: MCC FY09 SCORECARD DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 19:44:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON ETRD KMCA MCC PGOV PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR1382FOMILENIO APPOINTS NEW PERMANENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. The FOMILENIO Board of Directors December 10 selected interim Executive Director Jose Angel Quiros as the new permanent Executive Director for the Salvadoran Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact implementing organization. Quiros has broad experience in road constructi [...]
2008-12-18 20:26:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID ECON ES
08SANSALVADOR1386FOMILENIO APPOINTS NEW PERMANENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. The FOMILENIO Board of Directors December 10 selected interim Executive Director Jose Angel Quiros as the new permanent Executive Director for the Salvadoran Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact implementing entity. Quiros has broad experience in road construction an [...]
2008-12-19 17:04:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMCA EAID ECON ES
08SEOUL2061ROK RESPONSE TO GEORGIA DONORS' CONFERENCE REQUEST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 00:00:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL RS KMCA KCRS KS
08SOFIA636BULGARIA WILL DECIDE ON ASSISTANCE AFTER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-29 16:03:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG RS BU
08STATE104566U/S BURNS' CONVERSATION WITH TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (U) September 26, 2008; 5:30 p.m.; New York. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary William Burns Daniel Delk, EAP/MTS (Notetaker) Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta, President Zacarias da Costa, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nelson Santos, Permanent Representative, UN Mission Jorge Camo [...]
2008-09-30 23:51:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP ECON KMCA MARR PMIL
08STATE112584GEORGIA PM LAYS OUT ECONOMIC CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary: Georgian PM Gurgenidze told U/S Jeffery October 13 that the economic situation in Georgia was still highly fragile because of the now combined effects of the August Russian invasion and the possible regional contagion from the financial crisis. He stated that in light of the glo [...]
2008-10-22 18:56:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN EU GG KCRS KMCA PREL RS
08STATE133489MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) BOARD
[...] Action request for action addressees (FY09 MCA Compact Eligible and Threshold Eligible countries) in paragraph 11. 2. SUMMARY. The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Board of Directors met December 11, 2008, and selected three new countries -- Indonesia, Zambia, and Colombia -- as [...]
2008-12-22 17:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC
08STOCKHOLM657SWEDISH RESPONSE: ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA FOLLOWING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-02 12:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL KCRS KMCA EUMEM GG RS SW
08TOKYO2931OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) DevCon Reed met with Hideki Uyama, Director of MOFA's Second Country Assistance Planning Division, International Cooperation Bureau to deliver the points contained in reftel on October 22. 2. (SBU) Mr. Uyama advised that Japan shares the same views with the United States and it is ver [...]
2008-10-21 05:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL KMCA KCRS GG JA
08TUNIS1151DELIVERED DEMARCHE ON MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 13:32:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TS
08ULAANBAATAR159(C) MFA, GIA REPS SAY MONGOLIA WON'T DEPORT DPRK
[...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior officials of Mongolia's General Intelligence Agency (GIA) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),in separate early-April meetings, offered somewhat divergent views on a number of DPRK refugee-related issues, but both denied that the Mongolian Government has cha [...]
2008-04-11 08:48:00Embassy UlaanbaatarSECRETPREF SMIG PREL KMCA PHUM PINR MG
08ULAANBAATAR351VOTE ON GOVERNMENT DISSOLUTION FAILS
[...] (SBU) The parliamentary vote demanded by the Democratic Party (DP) for the dissolution of Prime Minister S.Bayar's government failed on July 18. Following a long plenary discussion of the post-election violence on July 1, the demand was put to a vote. Of the 53 MPs making up the quorum, 16 vo [...]
2008-07-18 08:45:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KMCA SOCI MG
08ULAANBAATAR355Candidate Profile: On the Campaign Trail--The Mongol Way
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade, S.Otgonbat (strictly protect) shared his experience as a campaign manager for J. Enkbayar, an upstart Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) businessman in his 30's and a candidate in Mongolia's remote southwestern [...]
2008-07-21 00:17:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON PHUM KCOR PGOV KMCA SOCI MG
08VIENNA1416AUSTRIAN ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] (U) Polchief discussed reftel points September 25 with Stefan Weidinger, MFA unit chief for Development Cooperation in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. Weidinger noted that the Southern Caucasus, including Georgia, is one of the MFA's seven priority regions for assistance worldwide. He said [...]
2008-09-25 12:56:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG RS AU
08WARSAW1218POLISH MFA WORKING WITH FINANCE MINISTRY ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-17 15:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS PL
08WINDHOEK249AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ZIMBABWE, LAND REFORM WITH
[...] (C) During a cordial 45-minute meeting with the Ambassador in his office on August 12, Foreign Minister Marco Hausiku declined to describe the kind of agreement he hoped ZANU-PF and the MDC would reach, saying that was up to Zimbabweans. The Ambassador stressed the U.S. view that Morgan Tsvangi [...]
2008-08-13 16:24:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM EAID EAGR KMCA ZI WA
08WINDHOEK254NAMIBIAN MINISTER OF LANDS: EXPROPRIATION SHOULD
[...] (C) Minister of Lands and Resettlement Alpheus Naruseb told the Ambassador on August 13 that expropriation of land (eminent domain) should be a last resort, and that he intends to allocate land without antagonizing key stakeholders and nsure it remains productive. He lamented that a majority o [...]
2008-08-18 16:23:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR PGOV PHUM KMCA PINR WA
08WINDHOEK331AMIDST ACCUSATIONS, NAMIBIAN GOVERNMENT BACKS MCA
[...] (C) Beginning September 18, the SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) began leveling unfounded accusations that certain senior Namibian government officials were planning to sell off Etosha National Park to the United States Government using the recently signed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) co [...]
2008-10-15 16:51:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALKMCA PGOV ECON WA
08WINDHOEK335NAMIBIA: PRIME MINISTER CONVOKES CHARGE ON MCC
[...] (C) Prime Minister Nahas Angula convoked the Charge d'affaires October 21 to express the Namibian Government's (GRN) continued commitment to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program, following news reports that senior ruling SWAPO party officials continue to have serious concerns about [...]
2008-10-21 15:36:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALKMCA PGOV ECON WA
08WINDHOEK337NAMIBIA MCA COMPACT: THE HARD ROAD TO RATIFICATION
[...] (C) Charge d'affaires called on Namibia's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact lead negotiator Franz Kapofi on October 23 to discuss the prospects for the Compact's ratification before Parliament' December-January recess. Charge emphasized that failure to ratify the Compact before the r [...]
2008-10-24 15:45:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALKMCA PGOV ECON WA
08YAOUNDE26CAMEROON'S NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMY: DYNAMIC AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 8 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) Louis Paul Motaze highlighted the need for more decisive action to spur economic growth and improve Cameroon's business climate. He was anxious to engage on the M [...]
2008-01-10 09:23:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EIND KMCA CM
09ACCRA1162GHANA PROMISES SUPPORT FOR USG GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD
[...] SUMMARY: On October 30, Econoff, USAID and MCC representatives delivered REFTEL A demarche to Government of Ghana (GOG) Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) officials, including the Deputy Minister for Fisheries, and the Chief Technical Advisor to the Minister of Food and Agriculture. GOG [...]
2009-11-06 11:03:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EAID KMCA GH
09ACCRA1164GHANA'S CAADP COMPACT SUPPORTS U.S. FOOD SECURITY GOALS
[...] Summary and Comment: The Government of Ghana outlined its commitments to agricultural growth and poverty reduction policies in a two-day roundtable to advance NEPAD's Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) and the G8 L'Aquila Summit five point declaration. Commitments by [...]
2009-11-06 11:04:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EAID KMCA GH
09ASHGABAT1373TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON MCC INDICATOR SCORECARD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-29 09:04:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TX
09BAGHDAD2106IRAQ'S PROGRESS ON MCC INDICATORS: OUR ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's post-conflict economy continues to improve but it remains challenged by deep-rooted problems of corruption, red tape, an ill-equipped workforce, and land disputes. Although the GOI still focuses a lot of energy on the development of its oil sector, future foreign investme [...]
2009-08-05 08:49:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IZ KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAGHDAD2816IRAQ'S PROGRESS REPORT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI's completion of its "Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Monitoring Indicators" report shows that the government may be serious about tracking progress on socio-economic indicators. According to the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology's (COSIT's [...]
2009-10-19 16:03:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KMCA PHUM PGOV IZ
09COLOMBO215 SRI LANKA: MORE STIMULUS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In addition to a Rs 16 billion (USD 140 million) stimulus package announced in December 2008 (ref a),the GSL recently announced several steps to provide support to its economy, introducing a Rs 4.2 billion (USD 36 million) stimulus package for finance and leasing companies, inter [...]
2009-02-26 10:19:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KMCA CE
09COLOMBO22 SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT UNVEILS ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 30, the government announced a 16 billion rupee (USD 140 million) economic stimulus package intended to aid various ailing economic sectors and ensure 6% GDP growth in 2009. Actual implementation mechanisms for the plan remain unclear, and certain components of the [...]
2009-01-07 11:11:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KMCA CE
09COLOMBO392SRI LANKA: GDP GROWS BY 6% in 2008, BUT PROSPECTS ARE
[...] (U) Summary: The Sri Lankan economy grew by a healthy 6% in 2008, despite the fourth quarter global economic slowdown, the escalated conflict in the north, and terrorist attacks elsewhere. Total GDP was $40.1 billion. This translates into a per capita income of $2,014. Inflation surged to 28 [...]
2009-04-03 06:53:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN KMCA CE
09COLOMBO600SRI LANKA: OIL HEDGE BACK BEFORE SUPREME COURT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The filing of a new fundamental rights petition before the Supreme Court once again calls into question the legality of oil hedge contracts between the Ceylon Petroleum Company (CPC) and several international and local banks. The petition asserts, among other issues, that CPC [...]
2009-06-09 11:29:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV KMCA CE
09COLOMBO944BOOMING SRI LANKAN STOCK MARKET SHOWS ECONOMIC
[...] Summary. The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) surged to a record high in early October, making it the world,s second best performing stock market in 2009. According to analysts, the CSE is rising due to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war (thereby lowering the risk premium for the country),l [...]
2009-10-12 04:26:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDCE ECON EFIN KMCA EINV
09COTONOU125BENIN: BUDGET TRANSPARENCY
[...] This cable is U.S. Embassy Cotonou's response to the questions posed reftel. 2. Benin is a recipient of U.S. foreign assistance and is receiving funding in FY09. 3. The National Assembly approves the budget in December. It is published by the government and delivered to ministries. A [...]
2009-04-02 11:19:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCOR KMCA PINR BN
09COTONOU145BENIN: GPRA Report - MCA-Benin's press conference
[...] DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY: Following the March 30-31, 2009 visit to Benin by the Vice President and the Deputy Vice President for Africa of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a press conference to discuss the results of the visit. Ambassador Gayleat [...]
2009-04-16 07:37:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID KDEM KPAO BN
09COTONOU148BENIN: GPRA Report - MCA-Benin's press conference
[...] DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY: Following the March 30-31, 2009 visit to Benin by the Vice President and the Deputy Vice President for Africa of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a press conference to discuss the results of the visit. Ambassador Gayleat [...]
2009-04-16 13:30:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA EAID KDEM KPAO BN
09DAKAR105FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IMPACT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON
[...] Summary: In response to Ref B request, Post submits the following information on the possible impact of the global financial crisis on assistance programs in Senegal. Ref A and previous reports have outlined the general impact of the global financial crisis on Senegal's broader economic cond [...]
2009-01-27 13:26:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN ECON SOCI KMCA SG
09DARESSALAAM42Tanzanian Media Reaction: Ambassador Green Concludes Tour
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 13:35:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO KMDR KHIV KMCA TZ
09DARESSALAAM72BANK OF TANZANIA TOWERS SCANDAL LANDS IN COURT; USG
[...] (U) The Government of Tanzania launched prosecutions January 27 of two former Bank of Tanzania (BOT) officials for their role in the construction of the BOT towers. Amatus Liyumba, former director of personnel and administration, and former project manager Deogratius Kweka were charged with ca [...]
2009-02-03 04:06:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KMCA PGOV PREL TZ
09JAKARTA108INDONESIAN SUPREME COURT CHOOSES A NEW CHIEF TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The members of Indonesia's Supreme Court have chosen Harifin A. Tumpa to be the next Chief Justice. Tumpa had previously served as one of the court's vice chiefs and had been serving as the interim Chief Justice after the former Chief reached mandatory retirement age in October [...]
2009-01-20 10:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
09JAKARTA1811MCC FY10 INDONESIA SCORECARD A "SHOCKER"
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. AN EMBASSY OFFICIAL DELIVERED THE MCC FY10 SCORECARD FOR INDONESIA TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDONESIA (GOI) ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, 2009. A SENIOR INDONESIAN OFFICIAL EXPRESSED SHOCK AT THE RATINGS AND DEEP CONCERN OVER PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS IT MIGHT TRIGGER. THE OFFICIAL WORRIED THA [...]
2009-10-30 08:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1812MCC FY10 INDONESIA SCORECARD A QSHOCKER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-30 08:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1869REWARD PERFORMANCE: RESELECT INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy strongly supports MCC reselecting Indonesia as eligible for compact. Indonesia deserves reselection based on its performance both on and outside the indicators. Failing to reselect Indonesia would dash Indonesian expectations created by the U.S. government and would we [...]
2009-11-12 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1870REWARD PERFORMANCE: RESELECT INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy strongly supports MCC reselecting Indonesia as eligible for compact. Indonesia deserves reselection based on its performance both on and outside the indicators. Failing to reselect Indonesia would dash Indonesian expectations created by the U.S. government and would we [...]
2009-11-12 00:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1949MCC VISIT: NOW IS THE TIME FOR INTENSE WORK
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The MCC visit has successfully refocused Indonesian attention on a MCC Compact. Meetings with key ministers, the local Indonesian technical team, and many experts provided valuable input as well as allowed sharing of the requirements and timeline for a Compact. However, work is ju [...]
2009-11-25 10:08:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09KAMPALA1364UGANDA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE - CHILD SOLDIERS
[...] (SBU) PolOff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) provisions and impending implementation per reftel demarche on November 27 (ref. A). The United Nations removed Uganda from the list of countries that actively recruit children into the armed forces in [...]
2009-12-07 07:41:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN KMCA PGOV PREL SMIG
09KIGALI472NEXT STEPS FOR THE RWANDA-DRC PARTNERSHIP
[...] (S) In a July 24 conversation with DCM (then Charge),National Security Service (NSS) Director General Emmanuel Ndahiro said he expected Presidents Kagame and Kabila to meet some time before the UNGA sessions in New York in September. He did not have a specific date, but added that the possib [...]
2009-07-30 14:03:00Embassy KigaliSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS KMCA RW
09KINSHASA1141DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DRC HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER:
[...] Per reftel, on December 22 DCM and Poloff delivered information on changes to the Child Soldier Prevention Act to Minister of Human Rights Upio Kakura Wapol. Kakura responded with candor after listening to the salient points of the demarche concerning the definition of a child soldier, the i [...]
2009-12-24 09:48:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KMCA KTIP PGOV KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG
09LIBREVILLE139SAO TOME & PRINCIPE - UPDATE ON MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] (SBU) Senior political leadership in Sao Tome and Principe (STP),including the president and prime minister, remain committed to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) threshold program but frustrated over what they perceive as a lack of progress. MCC Threshold Programs Director Malik Ch [...]
2009-04-06 09:50:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EFIN ETRD ECON KMCA TP
09LILONGWE445MALAWI: AMBASSADOR REVIEWS RELATIONS WITH NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-11 15:44:00Embassy LilongweCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KMCA MI AGR
09LUSAKA937MCA-ZAMBIA'S CONSTRAINTS ANALYSIS ROAD SHOW
[...] (U) Zambia's Millenium Challenge Account office (MCA-Z) presented its preliminary constraints analysis (CA) results in a whirlwind 15-day road show to government and private sector stakeholders. The report includes separate employability and business environment analyses, and concludes that e [...]
2009-12-14 14:24:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID KMCA ZA
09MADRID67SCENESETTER FOR MADRID HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON FOOD
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. This meeting is of great importance to Spanish President Zapatero. It is also very important for our bilateral relationship, as it is the first high-level engagement since our change of government, which the GOS hopes will [...]
2009-01-21 10:08:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID KMCA SMIG SOCI SP
09MAPUTO1038Labor Law does not impact NEC Construction Project
[...] As per REFTEL, Post does not foresee any impact whatsoever on New Embassy Compound (NEC) construction project due to Mozambican labor law. Post also notes several large construction projects already underway in country, which have not been adversely affected by current Mozambican labor law. [...]
2009-09-18 07:40:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ABLD EAID KMCA KTIA MZ
09MAPUTO675PM SUPPORTS COUNTRY ASSISTANCE STRATEGY AND
[...] SUMMARY: The Charge d'Affaires and other senior Mission staff met with Mozambican Prime Minister, Dr. Luisa Diogo on June 19 to share the recently-approved USG Country Assistance Strategy and discuss the process of developing a Partnership Framework to guide programming to address HIV/AIDS over [...]
2009-06-23 07:10:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV SOCI KMCA KTIA AMGT
09MAPUTO676PM SUPPORTS COUNTRY ASSISTANCE STRATEGY AND
[...] SUMMARY: The Charge dQAffaires and other senior Mission staff met with Mozambican Prime Minister, Dr. Luisa Diogo on June 19 to share the recently-approved USG Country Assistance Strategy and discuss the process of developing a Partnership Framework to guide programming to address HIV/AIDS over [...]
2009-06-23 07:10:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV SOCI KMCA KTIA AMGT
09MASERU387PEPFAR / MCC COLLABORATION YIELDS RESULTS IN LESOTHO
[...] Excellent collaboration between Embassy Maseru's PEPFAR and MCC teams is resulting in efficient linking of USG-funded activities and leveraging resources for greater impact in pursuit of common health goals. High level support for interagency collaboration; common objectives; Lesotho governme [...]
2009-11-03 07:34:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KMCA KHIV LT
09MASERU394OPPOSITION LEADER WANTS MORE SAY IN HOW MCC MONEY IS SPENT
[...] On Friday, October 30, Ambassador Rob Nolan met with Kelebone Maope, Member of Parliament and leader of opposition political party the Lesotho People's Congress. Maope expressed concern that poor citizens of Lesotho will be exploited under the current version of the Land Bill (ref A). He fel [...]
2009-11-04 16:01:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KMCA LT
09MASERU396FOREIGN MINISTER PLEASED WITH MCC SCORECARD AND EFFORTS ON
[...] Summary: On November 2, Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa welcomed Ambassador Rob Nolan, DCM Elizabeth Power, and Dr. Gene MacDonald, Resident Country Director for MCC-Lesotho, for a warm conversation that focused on MCC issues; he was pleased with Lesotho's results in the MCC scorecard, encour [...]
2009-11-05 18:22:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KMCA LT
09MONROVIA373 LIBERIA: REFORMS BOOST INVESTMENT CLIMATE
[...] Liberia continues to work at improving the business climate and moving up the IFC's "Doing Business" index. Eighteen new reforms, following up on 21 last year, simplify requirements for Starting a Business, Trading Across Borders, Registering Property, and Construction Permits. (See para. 5. [...]
2009-05-29 11:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV BEXP ETRD EAID ECON KMCA LI
09NIAMEY132 NIGER EXPROPRIATES TELEPHONE UTILITY SONITEL
[...] SUMMARY: On February 12, the Government of Niger (GON) unilaterally announced a decision to reduce the term of the operating license of the country's privatized telecoms provider SONITEL, effectively ending the management of Dataport LTD, the foreign-owned consortium that had purchased 51% own [...]
2009-03-16 07:08:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ECPS KPRV ELAB EINV KMCA NG
09NIAMEY336NIAMEY: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FINANCE MINISTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Allen, accompanied by Embassy Econ/ConsOff (notetaker),met with Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, Minister of Economy and Finance on May 8, 2009, at Zeine's request. He called attention to Niger's high growth rate in 2008 and expressed the Government of Niger's (GON) intere [...]
2009-05-12 07:33:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND PGOV KMCA EAID NG
09NIAMEY337// ZFR //ZFR NIAMEY: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FINANCE MINISTER //
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 07:33:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND PGOV KDEM KMCA EAID NG
09NIAMEY869ENCOURAGING NIGER BUDGET TRANSPARENCY
[...] Ambassador delivered to the Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister ref A demarche encouraging central government budget transparency as requested. FM responded that the GON continues to work on improving transparency and that she will share the contents of the demarche with the Minister of [...]
2009-11-06 17:17:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KMCA NG
09SANAA1576YEMEN: ROYG ASKS FOR MORE U.S. FLEXIBILITY ON WTO
[...] SUMMARY: The ROYG continues to balk at what it claims are unfair U.S. demands regarding WTO accession, even as it insists it is still willing to make a good faith effort in ongoing negotiations. The WTO accession team at the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) recognizes that Yemen needs to [...]
2009-08-23 12:44:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAID ECIN PREL PGOV KMCA KMPI YM
09SANAA2219DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IMPLEMENTATION OF CHILD
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on December 14 to Khalil Mohammed of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Two Americas Department and Amani Ali Salih al-Wathai, assistant to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Muhi al-Dhabbi. Mohammed and Wathai accepted the points of the dem [...]
2009-12-15 15:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
09STATE121328IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 22:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
09STATE130865MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) BOARD
[...] This message contains an action request for action addressees (FY10 MCA Compact eligible countries) in paragraph 10. 2. SUMMARY. The Millennium Challenge Corporation,s (MCC) Board of Directors met December 9, 2009 to select countries as eligible for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Co [...]
2009-12-24 14:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC
09TIRANA730 Embassy Concerns Over Albania's Consideration for MCC
[...] (SBU) The November 9 release of the FY2010 Scorecard marked an important milestone for Albania, technically qualifying it as eligible for consideration for Compact Status. Most notable is the fact that for the first time, Albania scored slightly above the median in terms of "Control of Corrup [...]
2009-11-13 05:49:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC AL
09ULAANBAATAR132 RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER VISITS MONGOLIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Ulaanbaatar on the afternoon of May 13 for a half-day of meetings with Mongolian government officials. In addition to Putin's hour-long private meeting with Mongolian Prime Minister S. Bayar, Mongolian and Russian officials held [...]
2009-05-15 08:58:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON PHUM KCOR KMCA SOCI MG
10ABIDJAN69COTE D'IVOIRE: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, post submits the following information on Cote d'Ivoire for the Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. POC for this report is Political Officer (FS-04) Tanya Salseth, phone: (225) 22.49.45.70, fax: (225) 22.49.40.10. Poloff spent 30 hours in the prepara [...]
2010-02-17 14:59:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP KMCA ELAB IV
10AMMAN218GOVERNMENT ENACTS CONTROVERSIAL TAX LAWS TO STREAMLINE AND LOWER RATES, AND EMPOWER TAX AUTHORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Jordan enacted recently two new tax laws to lower income tax rates and grant greater powers to tax authorities. The laws, which will remain in force until a new parliament is elected and votes on them, represent the first notable achievement of the new governm [...]
2010-01-21 10:23:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV JO KMCA
10ASHGABAT203REPORT OF TURKMEN TRAFFICKING VICTIM SELLING HIS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) According to a relative of a local Embassy employee, a desperate Turkmen trafficking victim in Turkey sold his kidney in order to obtain money to return home. The family of the young man from Mary province reported that he w [...]
2010-02-12 08:19:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KMCA
10ASHGABAT51TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ABOUT MCC COUNTRIES FOR FY
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-14 08:59:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TX
10BAKU136AZERBAIJAN 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Embassy submits answers to reftel questions on Trafficking in Persons in Azerbaijan. Point of contact is Poloff Joanna Ganson and she can be reach by phone 994-12-498-0335, fax 994-12-465-6671, and email gansonjh@state.gov. Estimated number of hours spent on thi [...]
2010-02-25 13:21:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR KTIP ELAB KMCA PREF
10BANGKOK468THAILAND: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 06:09:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH
10BRATISLAVA71SLOVAKIA 2010 ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] SLOVAKIA'S TIP SITUATION A. SOURCES OF INFORMATION The Ministry of the Interior (MOI),police, the International Organization for Migration (IOM),and NGOs are reliable sources of information regarding the number and kinds of TIP victims. In March 2010, the government will open an Inter [...]
2010-02-18 15:39:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA
10BRIDGETOWN15TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
[...] (U) As requested ref A, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. --------------------------------------------- ------ PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------ [...]
2010-01-19 19:15:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KWMN KTIP PGOV PHUM SMIG ASEC
10BRIDGETOWN164TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
[...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. --------------------------------------------- ---- Para 25 - The Country's TIP Situation --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (SBU) [...]
2010-02-18 16:09:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PREF ELAB ASEC SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA XL
10BRIDGETOWN25TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS
[...] (U) As requested reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. --------------------------------------------- ------ PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION --------------------------------------------- ------ [...]
2010-02-01 14:51:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KWMN SMIG
10BRIDGETOWN33TIP SUBMISSION - ST KITTS AND NEVIS
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. ------------------------------------- PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A. What is [...]
2010-02-23 20:38:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PREF ELAB ASEC SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA XL
10CAIRO211Tenth Annual Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report - Cairo
[...] (U) This cable contains U.S. Embassy Cairo's response to Trafficking in Persons (TIP) contribution requirements (reftel A). The following text contains responses to paragraphs 23-29 in the original tasking cable. 2. (U) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. Available sources of inf [...]
2010-02-16 15:08:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KCRM PGOV PREF PHUM KFRD KWMN KMCA SMIG
10CARACAS231Venezuela's 2010 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 20:49:00Embassy CaracasUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KMCA PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC KCRM KFRD KWMN KTIP
10CHISINAU83MOLDOVA: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-16 13:37:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN MD PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
10COLOMBO34THE MALDIVES HAS GREATLY IMPROVED ITS BUDGET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Maldivian President Nasheed has made improving budget transparency a goal for the Maldives. The Government of the Maldives (GOM) has taken action by adopting a public accounting system and using the IMF's Government Financial Statistics (GFS) budgetary format. The GOM has [...]
2010-01-19 10:00:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN KMCA MV PREL
10COPENHAGEN88TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: POST'S INPUT TO 10TH
[...] (U) Post is providing the following answers keyed to question headings in REFTEL. 2. (SBU) DENMARK'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. The following is a list of sources and their websites that offer information regarding human trafficking in Denmark: -The United Nations Human Rights Council - www. [...]
2010-02-16 07:39:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB KMCA DA
10COTONOU53 BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI's STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
[...] SUMMARY: In his annual year-end State of the Nation address, President Yayi emphasized that the Government of Benin (GOB)has made steady progress towards prosperity and stronger democracy, despite the international economic crisis and regional threats to peace and security. Yayi underscored [...]
2010-01-29 11:54:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EFIN PHUM KMCA BN
10COTONOU88BENIN: AF A/S CARSON AND FOREIGN MINISTER STRESS BILATERAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 5, 2010, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson met Benin's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marie Ehouzou in Cotonou. The meeting was very cordial, and focused on shared values and shared commitment to democracy and development. A/S Carson announced [...]
2010-02-16 14:07:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID KDEM KMCA HA BN
10COTONOU90BENIN: AF A/S CARSON MEETS PRESIDENT YAYI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Carson's meeting with Benin's President Yayi strongly buttressed Yayi's determination to pursue close collaboration with the USG. Yayi stressed his government's concern for Haiti and its reconstruction after the January earthquake; the importance of USG support for Benin's [...]
2010-02-16 14:18:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID KDEM KMCA HA BN
10DAKAR127Ambassador Discusses Corruption with Senegalese President
[...] (U) Summary: After nearly two hours of a mostly one-on-one discussion that included lighter and more tense exchanges, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade took the suggestion to demonstrate tangible steps of fighting corruption. Wade relied on his standard defense of the fact there have been no [...]
2010-02-18 17:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KMCA ECON SG
10DAMASCUS172SYRIA - 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Post's submission of the annual trafficking in persons report. The Embassy's point of contact is Anthony A. Deaton. Office telephone: ( 963) (11) 3391-3207. Fax ( 963) (11) 3391-4687. Mr. Deaton (FS-03) spent 30 hours in preparation of the report, which is structured t [...]
2010-02-28 11:52:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV PREL ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA
10DJIBOUTI193DJIBOUTI: 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This message contains Embassy Djibouti's 2010 trafficking in persons (TIP) submission. Responses are keyed to ref A numbering and lettering. Since the late 2007 passage of Djibouti's comprehensive anti-TIP law, awareness and acknowledgement of TIP as an important challenge con [...]
2010-02-17 10:07:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP SMIG PREF PHUM KWMN ASEC KFRD ELAB KMCA DJ
10DUBLIN65IRELAND - TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 10:47:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EI ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10GEORGETOWN78TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT - GUYANA
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information available include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Ministry [...]
2010-02-10 16:23:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA GY
10HAMILTON26BERMUDA: TENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) (Question 25A) CONGEN Hamilton verifies that trafficking is not a significant problem in Bermuda. The Bermuda Police Service (BPS),the Bermuda Department of Immigration, the Bermuda Department of Labor and Training, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),social workers at Ki [...]
2010-02-16 13:58:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KMCA KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10HARARE158Zimbabwe: Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons Report
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Harare's response to questions posed to Post in ref B. --------------------------------- Zimbabwe's TIP Situation --------------------------------- -- 25 A. (SBU) There are no reliable statistics on the trafficking problem in Zimbabwe. Most informa [...]
2010-02-23 20:01:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PGOV PREL PREF ELAB SMIG ASEC KMCA KWMN
10JAKARTA134POTUS Indonesia Climate Initiative: from Science to
[...] (SBU) Embassy Jakarta suggests the framework below as a way to carry a POTUS message on climate change and environment during his upcoming visit to Indonesia. SOLUSI is the Indonesian word for "solution" and could be the name of an Obama climate and environment initiative. SOLUSI -- Science, [...]
2010-01-29 10:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID KGHG SENV KMCA MCC PREL ID
10JAKARTA189 FORMER GRAFT BUSTER FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
[...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) A South Jakarta court found former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chief Antasari Azhar guilty of planning the murder of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen on February 11, sentencing him to 18 years in priso [...]
2010-02-12 08:31:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS KMCA KCOR MCC ID
10JAKARTA258INDONESIA - ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-27 19:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10JAKARTA56DCM TACKLES TOUGH PARTNERSHIP ISSUES WITH
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's new parliamentary commission leaders expressed concerns about our bilateral health cooperation and asked for more U.S. investment in a January 13 meeting with the DCM. The DCM a [...]
2010-01-15 07:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ECON KDEM KMCA
10JAKARTA65INDONESIA AND THE INTERNET: DEMOCRACY, PROGRESS AND
[...] SUMMARY: Indonesia is a unique example of how free and open new media and technology can support democracy and economic growth, a theme we understand Secretary Clinton plans to address at the Newseum on January 21. Indonesian civil society is already harnessing social networking media to influ [...]
2010-01-15 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI ID KMCA MCC KPAO
10JAKARTA66EMBATTLED CORRUPTION BUSTERS SCORE VICTORY WITH
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) scored a major victory with the arrest of corruption suspect Anggodo Widjojo. The arrest not only fulfills the public's sense of justice, but d [...]
2010-01-15 10:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS KMCA KCOR MCC ID
10JAKARTA74INDONESIA-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive, but Unclassified - Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The following is the draft text of the 2009-2010 Indonesia International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR) Part 1, Drugs and Chemical Control for Indonesia. Please treat as Sensitive, but Uncla [...]
2010-01-19 10:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR KMCA MCC ASEC ID
10KIGALI122RWANDA EAGER TO TAKE GREATER OWNERSHIP OF FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 4-5 annual meeting with development partners to review progress and efforts to make aid more effective, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) proposed to limit the number of sectors in which each donor country works in order to reduce transaction costs and risks of d [...]
2010-02-25 08:55:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR EINV SOCI ECON KMCA RW
10KIGALI76INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER AWAITS VERDICT IN DEFAMATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Editor and journalist Didas Gasana and journalist Richard Kayigamba of the independent Kinyarwanda-language weekly newspaper Umuseso appeared in court January 27 on charges of defamation and invasion of privacy over an article they published alleging an affair between the mayor [...]
2010-02-09 09:42:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMCA MCC PHUM KPAO RW
10KINSHASA248DRC: RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS FOR THE TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) This message contains Embassy Kinshasa's responses keyed to questions in reftel on trafficking in persons. THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION 2. (SBU) Begin responses to paragraph 25: --A. What is (are) the source(s) of available information on trafficking in persons? What plans are in [...]
2010-02-24 07:04:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD KMCA SMIG ASEC ELAB CG
10LAPAZ306BOLIVIA TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) ANNUAL REPORT
[...] (SBU) Embassy La Paz submits the following response to the questions posed in paragraphs 25-35 of the cable guidance (reftel) regarding the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. 25. THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: A. The primary sources for the information contained in this [...]
2010-02-18 15:06:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM BL KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PREF SMIG KMCA
10LILONGWE130MALAWI: 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY. The government of Malawi remains engaged in the fight against trafficking but continues to suffer from a lack of resources. Malawi is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking and the GOM acknowledges that trafficking is a problem. The Ministry of Women and Child Dev [...]
2010-02-16 17:33:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB EAID KMCA
10MADRID183TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR SPAIN
[...] (SBU) Pursuant to Ref A, the following is input from Embassy Madrid and CG Barcelona for the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Post will need to supply an update cable to incorporate additional legal and judicial statistics. Embassy POC is POLOFF Hugh Clifton, Tel. (34) 91-587 [...]
2010-02-16 16:12:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA
10MANAGUA228Nicarargua: Trafficking in Persons Report 2010
[...] (U) Following is Embassy Managua's 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The information is keyed to reftel paragraphs 25-30. --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. (SBU) Nicaragua's TIP Situation (reftel para 25) --------------------------------------------- ---- [...]
2010-02-17 20:54:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA NU
10MAPUTO128PRESIDENT THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR USG SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 10 Ambassador Rowe presented her credentials to the GRM at a formal ceremony at the Presidency hosted by President Guebuza. During the brief but substantive discussion which followed, Guebuza described the GRM's relationship with the USG as "excellent," expressing [...]
2010-02-12 12:03:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA MCC SNAR EAID MZ
10MAPUTO129CORRECTED COPY: PRESIDENT THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 10 Ambassador Rowe presented her credentials to the GRM at a formal ceremony at the Presidency hosted by President Guebuza. During the brief but substantive discussion which followed, Guebuza described the GRM's relationship with the USG as "excellent," expressing [...]
2010-02-12 13:21:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA SNAR EAID MZ
10MAPUTO139PRESIDENT GUEBUZA DISCUSSES ECONOMY WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the February 10 accreditation Ceremony (reftel),the Ambassador met February 12 with President Armando Guebuza for an initial 20-minute courtesy call. Guebuza described U.S.-Mozambican bilateral relations as "excellent" and provided perspectives on the challenges of p [...]
2010-02-16 16:25:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KMCA ECON EAID MZ
10MAPUTO86XXXXXXXXXXXX TALKS OF CORRUPTION AT THE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Charge recently met with XXXXXXXXXXXX --("the source") who described his frustrations with FRELIMO, President Guebuza, and Mohamed Bashir Suleiman (MBS). He complained that they exercise complete control over the licit and illicit economy of Mozambique. The source, who has exc [...]
2010-01-28 06:21:00Embassy MaputoSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM KMCA MCC SNAR EINV MZ
10MASERU49LAND REFORM ISSUE CONTINUES TO REVEAL FAULT LINES WITHIN
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Local Government and Chieftainship Ponts'o Sekatle accused Ambassador Nolan of betraying her by engaging in a public diplomacy campaign around the land reform bill currently before parliament, although she later acknowledged that post was forced to take action to coun [...]
2010-02-16 13:14:00Embassy MaseruCONFIDENTIALPGOV KMCA LT
10NDJAMENA105CHAD: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2010 REPORT
[...] (U) This is Post's submission for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. --------------------------- THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION --------------------------- 2. (SBU) Paragraph 25: A. Government entities, international organizations, and i [...]
2010-02-18 15:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KMCA CD
10OSLO100NORWAY 2010 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Oslo's points of contact for TIP issues are Scott Sommers, Political Officer ( 47) 21 30 88 69, fax ( 47) 22 55 43 13 and Tord Bergesen, Political Specialist, LES ( 47) 21 30 85 02. Poloff spent approximately 35 hours researching and preparing this report. End Summary. [...]
2010-02-22 13:06:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KMCA NI
10OTTAWA208CANADA 2010 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 23:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CA ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
10PRAIA19CAPE VERDE RECORDS LOWEST INFLATION RATE OF THE LAST FOR
[...] (U) Cape Verde recorded an overall inflation rate of just 1% in 2009, the lowest annual inflation rate since 2005 and a 5.8% reduction from 2008's rate. Cape Verde's National Statistics Institute announced the news this week and noted the low inflation was as a result of a good harvest year pa [...]
2010-01-15 18:12:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD KMCA CV
10PRISTINA77TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR KOSOVO
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 15:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID ELAB KCRM KDEM KFRD KJUS KMCA KTIP KV KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10RABAT121AMBASSADOR AND MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
[...] Summary: When the Ambassador called on the Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries Akhannouch on January 14, they focused on agricultural trade, the recent approval of changes to the chocolate standard, the MCA and Maroc Vert's (Green Morocco's) progress, and water resource managemen [...]
2010-02-12 11:34:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD EINV KMCA MO
10REYKJAVIK31 ICELAND: 2010 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In 2009 Iceland took significant steps to combat trafficking in persons. The Government of Iceland, for the first time, prosecuted alleged trafficking violators on TIP specific charges. In addition, the government passed and began to implement the country's first anti-TIP natio [...]
2010-02-23 16:31:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA
10SECION03OF08VIENNA176AUSTRIA: TENTH ANNUALTRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 12:14:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AU ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10SURABAYA11EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: REDUCED VOLUME OF MUDFLOW AIDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Concerns that the 2006 Sidoarjo mud volcano would quickly engulf the entire regency have proven unfounded. Reduced volume of mudflow aided efforts to contain the area affected. Initial bank restrictions on loans to Sidaorjo businesses and residences threatened the overall econo [...]
2010-01-28 09:47:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EINV SENV ENRG PGOV MCC KMCA ID
10SURABAYA7MIXED REACTIONS IN EASTERN INDONESIA TOWARD ASEAN/CHINA FTA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political and business leaders in Eastern Indonesia have mixed views of the impact that the recently implemented ASEAN/China FTA will have on local economies. Some express concern that the FTA will allow cheap Chinese goods to flood local markets. Others express optimism that [...]
2010-01-21 09:17:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID PGOV SOCI KMCA MCC ID
10TALLINN72Estonia: Submission for Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's Anti-Trafficking Report for Estonia. Responses are keyed to the checklist in REF A. Post's points of contact on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) are Political Officer Johnathan Hilton (Email: HiltonJA@state.gov; Tel: +372-668-8291) and Political Assistant Rii [...]
2010-02-12 11:45:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KMCA PGOV PHUM EN
10TASHKENT97Uzbekistan: Submission for 10th Annual Trafficking in
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 09:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP KMCA UZ
10TUNIS123TUNISIA: INPUT FOR THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Neither the Tunis offices of the IOM, UNHCR, or UNICEF, nor any local or international NGOs working in Tunisia, identified any specific instances of trafficking during the reporitng period. End summary. 2. (SBU) This cable responds to questions posed by the Department in re [...]
2010-02-18 15:33:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA PHUM PREF SMIG
10VIENNA176AUSTRIA: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (U) Below please find Embassy Vienna's submission for the tenth annual TIP report. Responses are keyed to reftel. BEGIN TEXT: 25. (SBU) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- A. The available information on trafficking in persons comes from a wide range of [...]
2010-02-17 12:14:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA
10WINDHOEK25Namibian Foreign Minister Discusses MINURCAT, SADC
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 17, Ambassador paid a New Year courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Hausiku. Hausiku offered his views on Namibia's contribution to the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) in light of Chad's President Deby's call to end [...]
2010-02-18 15:51:00Embassy WindhoekCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU KPKO KMCA WA CD
10YEREVAN105ARMENIA 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 14:05:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAM ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG
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