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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04BRUSSELS3782 |
U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1 EUR DAS Laura Kennedy held semi-annual consultations with the EU on Caucasus and Central Asia (COEST). Caucasus discussions concentrated on establishing a political process to resolve the South Ossetia conflict (Kennedy met separately on South Ossetia with Heikki [...] |
2004-09-08 14:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID GG AM AJ KZ KG TI TX UZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS666 |
US-EU COEST CONSULTATIONS PART 1: CENTRAL ASIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 9 in Brussels, EUR DAS Lynn Pascoe -- accompanied by EUR/ACE Deputy Dan Rosenblum and EUR/ERA Director Kathy Allegrone -- discussed US-EU cooperation in Central Asia and the South Caucasus with the EU's COEST Troika. This cable covers the Central Asia portion of the [...] |
2004-02-13 15:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KZ KG TI TX UZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04DUSHANBE170 |
TAJIKISTAN: ISLAMIC PARTY'S KABIRI UNPLUGGED [...] (C) Summary: At a small dinner party on January 29, First Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Revival Party Muhiddin Kabiri freely discussed the upcoming elections and his party's chances of success. Drawing on his experiences in the last parliamentary elections, he opined that President Rahmonov [...] |
2004-02-01 05:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KISL KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05AMMAN1725 |
ENGAGING JORDAN ON REDIRECTION OF IRAQI WMD [...] (SBU) Anne Harrington, Deputy Director of the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction (NP/PTR), Richard Jarvis, PTR's Iraq Program Manager, and Amman's ESTH Hub Director visited several Amman-based NGOs to discuss their possible collaboration with State's program to redirect Iraqi WMD scienti [...] |
2005-03-02 08:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL JO IZ TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1596 |
DOES EVERYONE LOVE A PARTY? TAJIKS ABOUT TO FIND OUT [...] (SBU) Three new political parties have recently started the process of registering with Ministry of Justice. Whether they will be successful depends less on their paperwork and more on their support of or threat to existing power structures. 2. (U) Party of the Economic Reform o [...] |
2005-10-03 03:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1605 |
TAJIK SUPPORT FOR PSI [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-04 10:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL TX TI PARM |
| 05DUSHANBE1606 |
TAJIK SUPPORT FOR PSI [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-04 10:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL TX TI PARM |
| 05DUSHANBE1612 |
IIR 6 947 0003 06/ ITEMS OF INTEREST IN THE GBAO (U) [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-05 11:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1613 |
"JUSTICE" IN TAJIKISTAN: ISKANDAROV SENTENCED TO 23 YEARS IN [...] Tajikistan's Supreme Court sentenced Mahmadruzi Iskandarov, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan and former head of Tojikgaz, Tajikistan's state-run natural gas monopoly, to 23 years in a maximum-security prison. The court authorized the government to strip Iskandarov of his [...] |
2005-10-06 08:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1616 |
"JUSTICE" IN TAJIKISTAN: ISKANDAROV SENTENCED TO 23 YEARS IN [...] Tajikistan's Supreme Court sentenced Mahmadruzi Iskandarov, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan and former head of Tojikgaz, Tajikistan's state-run natural gas monopoly, to 23 years in a maximum-security prison. The court authorized the government to strip Iskandarov of his [...] |
2005-10-06 10:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1617 |
SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY RICE TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes your visit to Tajikistan, the first-ever by a Secretary of State to Tajikistan as an independent country. The historical importance is not lost on Tajikistan's leaders or people. All will have high expectations of a successful visit leading to closer cooperation [...] |
2005-10-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1620 |
IIR 6 947 0054 05/TAJIK BORDER GUARD ASSESSMENTS (U) [...] MEMORANDUM, "SPECIAL REPORT - PILOT ZONE 1"(U), 1 COPY, 33 PAGES, 20050504 (C). 2. MEMORANDUM, "TAJIK BORDER FORCE - THE NEED FOR AN ASSESSMENT IN ORDER TO SOLVE ITS MYRIAD DEFICIENCIES" (C), 1 COPY, 5 PAGES, 20050519 (C). ACQ: (U) DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (20050708) DISSEM: (U) FIELD: EMBA [...] |
2005-10-07 03:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1621 |
IIR 6 947 0022 04/VISIT TO TURSUNZODA BORDER GUARD POST [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-07 03:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1622 |
IIR 6 947 0062 05/GARM AND VICINITY (U) [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-07 03:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1642 |
IIR 6 947 0006 06/NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT LIMITATION (U) [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1644 |
IIR 6 947 0005 06/CHINESE GIVE 32 VEHICLES TO TAJIK ARMED [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MCAP TI CH |
| 05DUSHANBE1646 |
NO NEWS BAD NEWS FOR INTERNEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Internews is the third major NGO to encounter serious registration problems with the Tajik government. In addition, a key Internews project to establish community radio stations may collapse without the registration and licensing of its local partners. Government officials have [...] |
2005-10-08 10:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1648 |
TAJIKISTAN: CIVIL AND GOVERNMENT AVIATION AUTHORITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 6, Under Secretary Robert Joseph met with Head of the Tajikistan Department of Civil Aviation Khamroyev Firuz and Tajik Air Force Chief of Staff General-Major Safaraliev. The Tajiks reiterated their support for ridding the world of the scourge of terrorism and the transfer o [...] |
2005-10-10 07:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IR KN TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1650 |
IIR 6 947 0007 06/ UZBEKS DENY FRENCH MILITARY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI FR UZ |
| 05DUSHANBE1678 |
TAJIKISTAN EXBS PROGRAM ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] EXBS advisor conducted an 11 day assessment/end use monitor trip through the Gorno - Badakhshan and Sogd regions of Tajikistan which included the Afghan, Chinese, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek borders. Please see Dushanbe 1503 for summary. 2. The European Commission Border Management and Drug [...] |
2005-10-17 09:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1695 |
TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV TO VISIT TURKEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkish Ambassador Cengizer revealed on October 18 that he has completed negotiations for Tajikistan's President Rahmonov to make an official visit to Turkey January 19-24, 2006. Rahmonov will [...] |
2005-10-18 11:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TU TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1696 |
A SHOT ACROSS THE NGO BOW? POST SEEKS GUIDANCE IN RESPONSE [...] Copies of constituent documents; 2. The structure (including that of the head and field offices), personnel structure and the number of their staff; 3. The biodata of the personnel of these organizations, including foreign and local; 4. Exact legal addresses of these org [...] |
2005-10-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1701 |
LAWYER'S ARREST COULD SIGNAL GOV'T TIGHTENING SCREWS ON [...] (U) Fayzinoso Vohidova, a well-known lawyer and an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), was arrested and charged by the Sughd regional prosecutor's office with one criminal act for forgery, and production and sale of forged documents, which includes practicing la [...] |
2005-10-20 07:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1702 |
TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR ZARIPOV COUNSELS NO SHARP RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN PROVOCATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-20 09:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1708 |
TAJIK MINISTRY OF EDUCATION BANS HIJABS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS [...] Deputy Minister of Education Farkhod Rakhimov announced on October 19 that hijabs (Muslim head-coverings) are banned in schools and institutions of higher education. Education officials were instructed to disseminate this message throughout their schools. Students who violate this edict will [...] |
2005-10-21 09:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1729 |
TAJIKISTAN: SWIMMING AROUND IN AUTHORITARIAN MOLASSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trying to do the U.S. Government's business in Tajikistan has never been easy, in part because of under-staffing and low capacity at many of the ministries. Further, the authoritarian desire to micromanage, as well as the inclination to buck even minor decisions up to a minister [...] |
2005-10-25 08:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1732 |
TAJIKISTAN: FERMENT FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: While the Government of Tajikistan is loathe to license new independent media outlets, ferment is occurring. A new, independent weekly newspaper has appeared, albeit with microscopic ci [...] |
2005-10-26 04:40:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PROP KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1733 |
TAJIKISTAN AND USCENTCOM COOPERATE TO DELIVER DISASTER [...] (U) With airlift support by the U.S. Central Command and the U.S. Air Force, the Government of Tajikistan shipped 25 tons of humanitarian assistance to Pakistan via separate sorties on October 20 and 22. The Tajik contribution included food, medicine, blankets, and clothes. At the request of [...] |
2005-10-26 09:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID MOPS PK TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1737 |
DUSHANBE SYNAGOGUE RELOCATION STILL UNRESOLVED, BUT COMING [...] (U) Sentitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) The Ambassador called on Rabbi Mikhail Abdurahmonov on October 26. Koen Davydov, the newly-elected Tajik chairman of the community who has business interests in Israel, also sat in. On October 21 [...] |
2005-10-27 08:51:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KIRF TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1741 |
RUSSIANS RESCIND INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT REQUIREMENT FOR [...] (U) The Tajik and Russian governments officially announced that beginning November 1, citizens of both countries may travel between Russia and Tajikistan on their internal passports. A spokesman for the Tajik MFA stressed the understanding was not an "international agreement" nor would it cre [...] |
2005-10-28 11:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SMIG RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1742 |
TAJIKISTAN: MOJ COMES A BIT MORE CLEAN ON REGISTRATIONS [...] (U) The weekly Tajik-language newspaper, "Zindagi," published excerpts October 27 from a recent Ministry of Justice press conference in which a Tajik official noted that some foreign NGOs had activities "beyond the framework of their charters." Isroil Shoyev, Chief, Department of Legal Entit [...] |
2005-10-28 12:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1743 |
CARE/TAJIKISTAN FY 2006 NOVEMBER CALL FORWARD FOR THE FY [...] Mission concurs with CARE's re-submission of previous call forward postponed for below mentioned commodities for arrival in March, 2006. Mission supports CARE's request for commodities for distribution submitted on behalf of CARE, Save the Children and Counterpart. 2. Mission understa [...] |
2005-10-31 07:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1745 |
TAJIKISTAN: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FINDS JUDICIARY [...] (C) During his recent visit to Tajikistan, UN Special Rapporteur on Independent Judiciary and Lawyers Leandro Despuy noted a great imbalance between the power of Tajikistan's prosecutors, and the weakness of lawyers ("advocates") and judges in the system. United Nations Tajikistan Office of [...] |
2005-10-31 10:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1746 |
TAJIKISTAN: JAPANESE CHARGE: "TOKYO LOOKING FOR NEW IDEAS [...] (SBU) New Japanese Charge d'affaires Hiroshi Takahashi called on the Ambassador on October 26. Unlike his, Takahashi is energetic and brimming with ideas based on his extensive experience in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. 2. (U) Takahashi noted his government established the "Japan Plus Cen [...] |
2005-10-31 11:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD ELAB KDEM JA IN AF UZ TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1751 |
TAJIKISTAN: PROVINCIAL LIFE CHANGES SLOWLY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On October 27 in the southern city of Kurgan Tyube, EmbOffs met with a sampling of community leaders. Change comes slowly in the provinces, old habits die hard, and the bureaucracy retai [...] |
2005-11-01 09:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI KISL KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1776 |
TAJIKISTAN: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE - BILATERAL INFORMATION [...] (U) Request for guidance. See para five below. 2. (C) In November 2003, President Rahmonov told the Ambassador he wanted to be able to broadcast a wider variety of news and opinion on Tajik State TV than simply Russia-generated material. The Embassy offered access to VOA-TV Russian-langu [...] |
2005-11-04 11:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1779 |
TAJIKISTAN: STOPPING AVIAN FLU AT ITS BORDERS WITH NO [...] To date, Tajikistan has no reported cases of Avian Flu. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture as well as the country's Veterinary Services have taken stringent measures to stop Avian Flu from entering Tajikistan's borders. 2. The Veterinary Service has begun to capture and examine wild [...] |
2005-11-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EAID TBIO KSCA SOCI TI KSTH WHO |
| 05DUSHANBE1786 |
TAJIK AIR MONOPOLY HARMS TAJIKISTAN'S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite 30% annual growth, Tajikistan State Airlines (TSA) presents a mismanaged, bloated organization unable and unwilling to reform itself or respond to market forces. Turkish Air is still negotiating to fly between Istanbul and Dushanbe, but threatens the very lucrative [...] |
2005-11-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR ECON TI TU RS |
| 05DUSHANBE1793 |
EU SWIMMING IN THE SAME MOLASSES IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) In a meeting with the European Commission, Muzaffar Isakov, Director of the Aid Coordination Unit of the President of Tajikistan, suggested that while EC experts and consultants would continue to receive visas for Tajikistan, international NGO workers were less welcome. Barbara Plinkert, [...] |
2005-11-09 10:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1796 |
NDI FENDS OFF RAID BY INTERIOR MINISTRY [...] (C) During a National Democratic Institute (NDI) training program for Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) members, three plainclothes militia members tried to break up the event, calling it an "unauthorized religious gathering." According to NDI program directors Gegham Sargsyan an [...] |
2005-11-09 11:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1798 |
TAJIKISTAN: FREEDOM HOUSE IN STRATEGIC RETREAT [...] (SBU) Primarily due to the ending of its DRL grant, Freedom House is shifting its Tajikistan efforts to a local NGO. Robert Freedman, Washington-based Program Director, told the Ambassador November 9 that Freedom House did not want its Tajik partners and human rights defenders to feel abando [...] |
2005-11-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1802 |
DEMARCH DELIVERED: DESTRUCTION OF STATE BORDER PROTECTION [...] Post delivered reftel demarche on MANPAD destruction on November 9 to General Saidamir Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection Committee (Tajik Border Guards). 2. On the first point, Zuhurov said Tajikistan is working well with OSCE on the destruction of small arms, light weapons, [...] |
2005-11-10 06:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1805 |
TIPS FROM THE MFA ON HOW TO FIGHT THE WAR OVER NGO'S IN [...] (C) DCM had a long talk with MFA North America Chief Ismatullo Nasredinov on November 10 on the growing pressure on U.S. and other Western NGO's. The DCM said Tajikistan appeared to be taking a step backwards by not providing registration, visas, or other support for NGO's like the Rotary Cl [...] |
2005-11-10 11:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1812 |
DESPITE RUSSIAN PRESSURE, THE UNITED STATES CAN PROMOTE ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Although we now de-emphasize its previous Cold-War primacy in U.S. foreign policy, Russia still requires clear-eyed scrutiny for the havoc it can play with the President's democracy agenda and larger goals for transformational diplomacy in the former Soviet republics. We believe Russia [...] |
2005-11-14 06:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PROP ECON EAID KDEM KPAO RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1814 |
TAJIKISTAN: IMAGINED REPORT TO MOSCOW BY THE RUSSIAN [...] (C) The following is an Embassy Dushanbe exercise to imagine a report that Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov might submit to the Kremlin. It draws on Post's observations of the last 18 months, Russian and regional media reports, and other reporting. This cable should be read as a compan [...] |
2005-11-14 08:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1826 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NGOS TIRED OF CORRUPTION AND VISA DELAYS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the monthly NGO Forum meeting, the only surprise was that a handful of NGOS had not experienced visa problems or been forced to pay bribes for airline tickets or continuous electricity. The November 17 meeting underscored the Dushanbe development community's increased [...] |
2005-11-18 12:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1828 |
TAJIKISTAN: SERIOUS POLITICIAN ZOYIROV CHARGES RAHMONOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan Chairman Zoyirov continues to be a voice in the Tajik political wilderness logically and intelligently demanding that the Government of Tajikistan conform to the laws in its constitution - at least in part because he was one of the key drafte [...] |
2005-11-21 04:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1839 |
TAJIKISTAN NOT OVERLY PLEASED BY NEW RUSSIA-UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Nazarov did not hide his unease about the November 14 Russia-Uzbekistan Alliance. Tajikistan is concerned that Tashkent will use it's "new best friend" status with Moscow to harm Dushanbe's interests. He judged it would be unth [...] |
2005-11-21 12:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR EU RS UZ TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1840 |
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ISTANBUL CENTRAL ASIA TECHNICAL WORKSHOP [...] The goal of the workshop was to build a partnership between technical advisors and export control agencies on a regional level. The objectives were to find regional common ground against smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and propose projects to support the primary goal. 2. Regiona [...] |
2005-11-21 13:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1852 |
UNHCR PROGRESS AND NEED FOR HELP IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) The UN High Commission for Refugees is shifting its focus from emergency operations in Tajikistan for remaining refugees, to development programs that will help to integrate the mostly Afghan refugee community into Tajik society. The shift is made possible by Tajikistan's political stabili [...] |
2005-11-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1855 |
TAJIKISTAN: NEW ECON REFORM PARTY CHAIRMAN SAYS TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's new Party of Economic Reform (PER) calls for gradual economic changes beginning with agriculture reform, developing industry around farm products, and creating a financial [...] |
2005-11-23 11:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1856 |
TAJIKISTAN: GOVT UNABLE TO HANDLE POTENTIAL AVIAN FLU [...] Head Veterinarian, Dr. Mulojon Amirbekov, explicitly stated that Tajikistan is not prepared to combat an Avian Flu outbreak. Tajikistan does not have a strategy for containing a pandemic if it occurs; however, various government ministries have taken measures, within their capabilities, to avo [...] |
2005-11-23 11:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR EAID TBIO SENV KSCA SOCI TI KSTH WHO |
| 05DUSHANBE1858 |
SIRODJIDDIN ASLOV APPOINTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS [...] (SBU) Sirodjiddin Mukhriddinovich Aslov has been named as Tajikistan's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations. For the last two years Alsov has been Deputy Foreign Minister and a useful and active interlocutor for the Embassy. 2. (SBU) The following are notes from his official [...] |
2005-11-25 06:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TI UNGA |
| 05DUSHANBE1867 |
AGRARIAN PARTY OF TAJIKISTAN: ANOTHER POCKET PARTY FOR [...] The Agrarian Party of Tajikistan (APT) is the brainchild of its Chairman, Amir Karakulov, or so he insists. Karakulov, a former member of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, decided three years ago that he would like to form his own party to protect farmers' rights. A self-proclaimed Soviet-E [...] |
2005-11-28 04:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1869 |
TAJIKISTAN: TWO NEW DEPUTY MINISTERS APPOINTED [...] (U) President Rahmonov unexpectedly appointed two key deputy ministers on November 24 - Saidmumin Sattorovich Yatimov as new First Deputy Foreign Minister and Kosim Abdusalomovich Gaforov as Deputy Minister of Security. 2. (SBU) Major-General Yatimov had been Deputy Minister of Security f [...] |
2005-11-28 06:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1870 |
MODERATE TAJIK ISLAMIC LEADER KABIRI WAL... [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-28 07:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1878 |
EVERYTHING'S COMING UP COTTON IN TURSONZODA, TAJIKISTAN [...] In a series of meetings November 25, government officials, farmers and a businessman were universally--and surprisingly-- positive about the economic and political situation in Tursonzoda. The Dushanbe-appointed Chairman of the City Administration Barakatullo Akhmedov emphasized there were "n [...] |
2005-11-30 09:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAGR TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1897 |
AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF [...] At the invitation of the Central Executive Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT, ruling party), on November 30 in Dushanbe the ambassador spoke to an overflow crowd of college students, members of parliament, NGO representatives, PDPT activists, and journalists on "Th [...] |
2005-11-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1898 |
AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF [...] At the invitation of the Central Executive Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT, ruling party), on November 30 in Dushanbe the ambassador spoke to an overflow crowd of college students, members of parliament, NGO representatives, PDPT activists, and journalists on "Th [...] |
2005-11-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1921 |
MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMONOV: HIS VIEWS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with President Emomali Rahmonov on December 1 for two and a half hours. We report the meeting in three cables. This is two of three. The other two cover Rahmonov's views on (1) the U.S.-Tajikistan bilateral relationship and Tajik politics, and (2) Uzbekistan. 2. (S) SUMMARY [...] |
2005-12-02 10:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MARR RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1941 |
CARE/TAJIKISTAN FY 2006 DECEMBER CALL FORWARD FOR THE FY [...] Mission concurs with CARE's re-submission of previous call forward postponed of below mentioned commodities for arrival in April, 2006. Mission supports CARE's request for commodities for distribution submitted on behalf of CARE, Save the Children and Counterpart. 2. Mission understan [...] |
2005-12-05 06:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1944 |
IIR 6 947 0013 06/AIDS, MEDICAL PERSONAL CARE, LEADERS DO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-05 11:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1947 |
TAJIK GOVERNMENT-WESTERN NGO ROUNDTABLE: ATTENDANCE HIGH, [...] (SBU) What looked like a routine meeting was a small breakthrough for Tajikistan's development community. The December 2 roundtable discussion of donors, NGOs and government was the first time all three groups came together on any subject, let alone the sensitive issues of NGO intentions, re [...] |
2005-12-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1950 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NORTHERN REGION WANTS TO BE INDEPENDENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Historically, the Sughd region in northern Tajikistan served as the intellectual and economic hub of Tajikistan. Its proximity to Uzbekistan still grants it trade, business and access to media and information outside of Tajikistan. Although Dushanbe attempts to keep a tight re [...] |
2005-12-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KISL KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1951 |
TAJIKISTAN'S ENVIRONMENT SUFFERS DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS [...] Funding and management problems prevent Tajikistan from protecting its natural resources. In a December 2 meeting with PolOff, Rustam Latipov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Environmental Protection and Forestry (SCEPF) complained that the government fails to recognize the benefit [...] |
2005-12-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON SENV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1963 |
IIR 6 947 0014 06/BELGIANS LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE TO TERMEZ [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-08 06:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI BE UZ |
| 05DUSHANBE1964 |
IIR 6 947 0015 06/PRESIDENT TO DECLARE NEW NATIONAL GUARD [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-08 06:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1966 |
TAJIKISTAN'S VIEWS OF US FORCE POSTURE (C-RE5-00249) [...] (S) Post's DATT and DCM polled their colleagues informally on the questions below. The following answers should be seen as the Tajik government's current mood on these hypothetical questions. When and if negotiations were to start, outside pressures and local politics would influence the rh [...] |
2005-12-08 09:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PINR MARR PREL AJ PL RO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE1981 |
TAJIKISTAN POULTRY BAN CONFUSION; AVIAN FLU: ADDRESSING [...] Although the government of Tajikistan officially issued poultry bans on ten countries, customs inspectors are unaware of the new regulations. Mahmadnazar Tashrifov, Senior Inspector of the Department of Veterinary Service reported that to date, the department has authorized three resolutions [...] |
2005-12-09 10:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR EAID PREL TBIO SENV TI USTR |
| 05DUSHANBE2003 |
TAJIKISTAN EXBS PROGRAM ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] Advisor visited Tursunzada land port twice during the period to assess the progress of modular buildings being installed by TFI. The project is on schedule and will be completed by 23 December 2005 barring any unforeseen problems. This is a $68,000 EXBS project to upgrade the border crossing [...] |
2005-12-09 12:52:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2004 |
TAJIKISTAN: THE GRINCH WHO STOLE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. To celebrate Human Rights Day 2005, Post planned for a roundtable discussion with Tajik students on the Department's annual Human Rights Report. Initially, the selected venue was Dushanbe's premier university, the Russia-funded Russian-Tajik Slavonic University. After compli [...] |
2005-12-09 13:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2005 |
THE GRINCH CHANGES HIS MIND: U.S. EMBASSY'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) After the close of business on December 9, Ismat Nasredinov, Post's MFA contact and Chief of the North America Desk, contacted PAS to inform that the previously canceled Human Rights roundtable discussion at Tajik Technical University, planned for December 12, was back on track (septel). [...] |
2005-12-09 13:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2006 |
VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD HAZMAT RESPONSE ASSESSMENT TEAM [...] SUMMARY: Four members of the Virginia National Guard (VNG) assessed the capability of Tajik ministries to respond to a hazardous materials incident. The team visited the Ministries of Emergency Situations, Defense, State Border Protection Committee, Academy of Sciences, and local fire departm [...] |
2005-12-09 13:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2008 |
TAJIKISTAN CADA DIRECTOR REMAINS IN COUNTRY FOR NOW [...] (SBU) EmbOffs met with David Lovett and Paul Linge, the outgoing and present Country Directors of the Central Asian Development Agency, a non-denominational Christian-supported aid NGO December 9. Lovett's visa expired in November and, after thirteen years in Tajikistan, the government denie [...] |
2005-12-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2012 |
COUNTERING DISINFORMATION IN DUSHANBE [...] SUMMARY: Is the United States responsible for the "Color Revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan? Are Americans employed in such organizations as CARE and the National Democratic Institute spies fomenting revolution? Are U.S.-funded legal assistance programs designed to turn childr [...] |
2005-12-12 11:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PROP KDEM KPAO RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2013 |
TAJIKISTAN'S HYDROPOWER: GEOPOLITICAL GAME OR GOOD [...] (SBU) President Rahmonov hosted a December 11 meeting to discuss Tajikistan's hydropower projects. Tajikistan is one of the world's leading countries in hydropower potential, and increasingly feasibility studies point to domestic and foreign markets that could help Tajikistan realize the eco [...] |
2005-12-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ENRG TI TDA |
| 05DUSHANBE2014 |
ENGAGING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DISCUSSION AT TAJIK TECHNOLOGICAL [...] The Russian Embassy and Tajik Embassy didn't want it to happen. But CdA and EmbOffs held a broad-ranging and energetic discussion with students and faculty members of the Tajik Technological University for Human Rights Day 2005 (NOTE: Not Tajik Technical University as stated in reftels A and [...] |
2005-12-13 07:51:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2028 |
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION NGO UNDER FIRE IN TAJIKISTAN [...] Charge met with the American Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) on December 12 to discuss their ongoing struggle with the Tajik State-owned media. ABA/CEELI's "Street Law" program in Tajikistan's secondary schools (reftel) first came under fire in the pre [...] |
2005-12-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2029 |
IIR 6 947 0017 06/UPDATE ON FRENCH DEFENSE MINISTER VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-13 12:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP TI FR |
| 05DUSHANBE2037 |
FORMER SECURITY OFFICIAL TAKES ON DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Newly installed Deputy Foreign Minister Saimumil Yatimov met with Charge today for their first substantive meeting. Yatimov is well known as a former Ministry of Security official who dealt with international affairs, but his appointment to a high post in the Foreign Ministry was interpret [...] |
2005-12-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2038 |
TAJIK GOVT INSISTS PASSPORT DECISION REVERSAL PRACTICAL NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan orders Tajiks to use international passports when traveling to Russia despite an Eurasian Economic Community (EEC) agreement permitting citizens to travel using internal passports. This affects up to one million labor migrants who do not have the expensive interna [...] |
2005-12-14 13:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB SMIG TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2039 |
TAJIKISTAN: BOMB SUITS TO SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT [...] They weigh over 70 pounds, but the Kevlar inside may someday save the life of a Tajik bomb squad first responder. On 14 December, the Charge' turned over 2 bomb suits to the "OMON" Special Operations Unit in Dushanbe. Each suit costs just over $24,000. This effort was as a result of an Embas [...] |
2005-12-15 08:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2050 |
TAJIKISTAN'S PROPOSED LAW RESTRICTS NGOS' RIGHTS AND [...] (C) The Tajik government is debating a law aimed to control NGO activities that could threaten the legal status of international NGOs. The Embassy received a draft copy of the Law On Public Organizations (Associations) leaked to the Soros Foundation. The Foundation also provided the Embassy [...] |
2005-12-19 04:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2052 |
TAJIKISTAN WMD EXECUTIVE SEMINAR IN BUDAPEST [...] SUMMARY: The Tajikistan Weapons of Mass Destruction executive seminar held in Budapest 12-17 December ended Friday with mixed reviews. Although the seminar was an opportunity to assess Tajikistan's ability to combat the proliferation of WMD and exchange information, some Tajiks complained di [...] |
2005-12-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2062 |
TAJIKISTAN: `SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQ ELECTION [...] (U) PolOff delivered talking points per State 225860, 'Seeking Public Support for December 15 Iraq Election' to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs December 20. Nasredinov promised to pass the information along t [...] |
2005-12-20 12:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2063 |
TAJIKISTAN: TOWN AND GOWN CLASH OR YOUTH FRUSTRATION WITH [...] (U) Police arrested five people December 16 after two days of physical clashes between urban and rural youth in the northern city of Khujand. Local youth started a fight with Khujand State University students from the rural Mastchoh district in a public billiards hall on December 13. The M [...] |
2005-12-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2064 |
TAJIK JOURNALIST RELEASED FROM PRISON [...] (U) Prison authorities in Istaravshan released Jumaboy Tolibov December 16 after several months of legal wrangling. Sabit Azamov, the Ayni district's General Prosecutor, ordered Tolibov's arrest on April 24. As the chairman of the Ayni district's legal department, Tolibov published commentar [...] |
2005-12-20 12:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2083 |
TAJIKISTAN MIN OF SECURITY CLOSELY WATCHES INDEPENDENT [...] (C) The Tajik government may be ratcheting up its already successful efforts to limit freedom of speech. National Association of Independent Mass Media in Tajikistan (NANSMIT) chairman, Nuriddin Karshiboev confided to Poloff December 16 that his contacts at the Ministry of Security--- his fo [...] |
2005-12-22 06:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2084 |
PRESIDENTIAL HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-22 06:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2090 |
"WITHOUT THE US, ROGUN WILL NOT BE BUILT": TAJIK [...] (C) The United States and AES still have significant roles to play in Tajikistan's hydropower sector. Tajik Minister of Energy Jurabek Nurmamatov told PolOff rumors of RusAl dominating the Rogun project did not reflect the Ministry's position or the Tajik government's. RusAl had taken only a [...] |
2005-12-23 10:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG TI TDA |
| 05DUSHANBE2092 |
TAJIKISTAN POLITICAL PARTIES UNDERGO CHANGES TO PREPARE FOR [...] (U) In a show of possibly implementing major party reforms, on December 20 the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) held a roundtable to solicit opinions from political scientists, government officials and other political parties on the role of the IRPT in society. The Democratic Party [...] |
2005-12-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2094 |
"WITHOUT THE US, ROGUN WILL NOT BE BUILT": TAJIK ENERGY [...] (C) The United States and AES still have significant roles to play in Tajikistan's hydropower sector. Tajik Minister of Energy Jurabek Nurmamatov told PolOff rumors of RusAl dominating the Rogun project did not reflect the Ministry's position or the Tajik government's. RusAl had taken only a [...] |
2005-12-27 10:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG TI RS AF |
| 05DUSHANBE2097 |
BACK IN THE USSR? TAJIKISTAN'S SECURITY WONKS UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Tajikistan understands the economic and security benefits of globalization, but Russia remains Central Asia's most important global partner. These two themes dominated the papers at a conference on "Globalization: National Interests and National Security for Central Asian Countries" sp [...] |
2005-12-27 13:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TI PHUM ENRG |
| 05DUSHANBE2129 |
TAJIK MEDIA NAMES RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR "DIPLOMAT OF THE YEAR" [...] A New Year's tradition, Tajikistan's electronic news agency "Asia Plus" and Russian-language independent paper "Kurier Tajikistana" published best of the year lists, sourced from editors' personal opinions and popularity polls, and the diplomatic community wasn't left out of their end of the y [...] |
2005-12-30 06:47:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO RS TI |
| 05DUSHANBE2130 |
PROGRESS, BUT NO ETA FOR TURKISH AIR IN TAJIKISTAN [...] Turkish Airlines (TKA) has moved one step closer to introducing a new Istanbul-Dushanbe. The Turkish Ambassador Altay Cenziger reported a framework agreement was signed December 23, allowing Turkish Airlines to conduct technical assessments and preparations for the new route. He estimated f [...] |
2005-12-30 07:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAIR ECON TI |
| 06ALMATY1489 |
REGIONAL ELECTRICITY: AES EXPLORES PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: AES Country Manager Dale Perry told Econoff on April 17 that AES was near to signing an MOU with "KMG-Energy," a newly-created subsidiary of Kazakhstan's state-owned oil-and-gas company, KazMunaiGaz (KMG), to cooperate in the construction and operation of regional electricity tra [...] |
2006-04-24 10:14:00 | US Office Almaty | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL TI AF |
| 06ASHGABAT1312 |
A/S BOUCHER'S MEETING WITH TAJIKISTAN'S PRESIDENT [...] (C) Taking the opportunity to meet prior to the wreath laying for Niyazov's funeral, visiting A/S Boucher and Charge met with President of Tajikistan, Imomali Rahmonov, and discussed Rahmonov's views on Turkmenistan's future, U.S. relations with Uzbekistan, energy cooperation, and the situatio [...] |
2006-12-27 13:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX TI UZ US |
| 06ASTANA42 |
KAZAKHSTAN: ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER MEETS WITH TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 5 meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher and Elisabeth Millard of the NSC, Minister of SIPDIS Transport and Communications Mamin discussed the new $26 billion Transportation Strategy, ambitious plans for Air Astana, and ideas for infrastructure projects aimed t [...] |
2006-05-10 16:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAIR KZ AF TI UZ KG TX ZK |
| 06BEIJING20105 |
PRC-TAJIKISTAN: PREMIER WEN DISCUSSES BORDER, [...] (C) Summary: Premier Wen Jiabao's September 14-16 state visit to Tajikistan focused on discussion of economic development, the disputed China-Tajikistan border and counterterrorism issues. A joint communiqu issued after the visit emphasized the parties' desire to resolve territorial dispute [...] |
2006-09-21 09:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TI CH |
| 06BEIJING8919 |
URGENT DEMARCHE REQUEST: PARTICIPATION IN MAY [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-12 12:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL SNAR CH RS TI |
| 06BEIJING9673 |
SCO: MFA, SCO SECRETARIAT AND RUSSIAN EMBASSY [...] (C) Senior Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) official Du Wei, who serves as Assistant to SCO Secretary General Zhang Deguang, expressed understanding of U.S. concerns regarding the possibility of statements critical of the U.S. presence in Central Asia being issued at the June SCO Summi [...] |
2006-05-19 10:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR RS CH KZ TI UZ |
| 06BRUSSELS731 |
EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA, [...] (C) Summary: In U.S.-EU COEST Troika consultations on Caucasus and Central Asia on February 23, EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed with EU officials how to change the dynamic of discussions on South Ossetia. Echoing an EU Presidency statement on February 21, EU representatives agreed that the inte [...] |
2006-03-06 08:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG AM AJ TX KZ TI KG USEU BRUSSELS |
| 06DUSHANBE1 |
CARE/TAJIKISTAN FY 2006 JANUARY CALL FORWARD FOR THE FY [...] The purpose of this cable is to provide Mission concurrence with CARE's submission of below mentioned commodities for arrival in May, 2006. Mission supports CARE's request for commodities for distribution submitted on behalf of CARE, Mercy Corps, Save the Children and Counterpart. 2. [...] |
2006-01-03 04:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1013 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON TAJIK-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although they met ostensibly for Presidential Adviser Rahmatulloyev to give a read-out of the Putin-Rahmonov meeting in Sochi, Rahmatulloyev, clearly authorized by President Rahmonov, spent much of the 90-minute meeting laying out Tajikistan's exasperation with Russia and Uzbekis [...] |
2006-05-31 11:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON EINV ENRG UZ RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1027 |
TAJIKISTAN'S POWER POLITICS: DEPUTY PM GHULOMOV REMAINS [...] (SBU) Tajikistan is the most attractive country in Central Asia for hydro power investment, according to Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, and he intends to demonstrate that to investors and suppliers alike at the "Energy Without Borders" conference in Istanbul June 12-14. In a 45-minute meeti [...] |
2006-06-02 11:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1067 |
TURKISH EMBASSY WANTS BETTER INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN [...] (C) Turkey supports U.S. efforts to develop Tajikistan's energy sector and other infrastructure projects, but Turkish Embassy Chargi d' Affaires Askin Cakmak suggested that for those projects to succeed, donor countries need to send the Tajik government a strong message to improve the investm [...] |
2006-06-07 07:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID TI TU |
| 06DUSHANBE1174 |
TAJIKISTAN: HELSINKI COMMISSION COUNSEL'S FIRST VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: H. Knox Thames, Counsel for the U.S. Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, visited Tajikistan June 14-17 for the first time. During his trip, he met with political party representatives, religious leaders, government officials, [...] |
2006-06-26 05:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1176 |
TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIA AND CHINA INTERESTED IN RESULTS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: "So the United States plans to invest a billion dollars in Tajik hydropower this year?" asked Zheng Wei, political officer at the Chinese Embassy in Dushanbe. As a result of local press coverage of the U.S.-sponsored energy conference in Istanbul, Chinese and Russian diplomats [...] |
2006-06-26 06:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID RS CH TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1178 |
RUSSIAN BUSINESSES IN TAJIKISTAN: "WE HAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE [...] (C) According to Vasiliy Beldugin, the Russian Embassy's Economic Counselor in Dushanbe, Russian companies experience the same problems with corruption and bureaucracy that frustrate other foreign investors. "Some people assume that because of the strategic partnership, Russian companies coul [...] |
2006-06-26 06:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV EAID PREL TI RU |
| 06DUSHANBE1222 |
RAO UES AND WORLD BANK PRESSING TAJIK ENERGY MINISTRY [...] (C) The World Bank is advocating that Russian energy giant RAO UES be the official sponsor of an international energy meeting in Dushanbe, but Tajik energy officials are unsure of the signal that will send to other investors, and hope to get a "more neutral" sponsor, such as the Asian Develop [...] |
2006-06-30 13:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1223 |
TAJIK PRESIDENT HELPS DEDICATE NEW EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: After giving remarks at the June 29 dedication ceremony for Dushanbe's new Embassy, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov spent twenty minutes in a private meeting with CdA and OBO Director Williams discussing Tajikistan's future and the influx of new investment and infrastructure pr [...] |
2006-06-30 13:09:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG RS CH TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1233 |
TAJIKISTAN: JAPAN READY TO PROVIDE MORE BORDER ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The Japanese Ambassador to Tajikistan Hiroshi Takahashi said the Japanese government intends to provide increased technical assistance to Tajik border guards and rebuild another road in the south of the country from Dusti to Kurgan-Tyube. In a meeting with Chargi d'Affaires and Post's Se [...] |
2006-07-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1283 |
TAJIKISTAN: MODERATE IRPT DEPUTY REFUSES PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's (IRPT) First Deputy Chairman, Muhiddin Kabiri refused to accept the party's chairmanship. Kabiri told PolOff at the Embassy's July 4th celebration that the party's current chairman, Said Abdullo Nuri, asked Kabiri to be the next IRPT head, but Kabi [...] |
2006-07-06 09:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1285 |
TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER NAZAROV ON INCREASING REGIONAL [...] (S) In a 'just between us' session with the Ambassador on July 6, Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov offered a litany of challenges to Tajikistan's regional foreign policy and even sovereignty. The meeting was ostensibly to preview Secretary Rumsfeld's July 10-11 visit with President Rahmonov, b [...] |
2006-07-07 04:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1294 |
LET THEM EAT SOMETHING OTHER THAN CAKE! DUSHANBE'S MAYOR [...] (SBU) A letter from the French Ambassador asking the Dushanbe city government to halt street construction during an outdoor Bastille Day celebration has led to the temporary closure of a popular Dushanbe restaurant and highlighted just how risky it is to invest in Tajikistan, or even more dan [...] |
2006-07-12 08:47:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV EAID ECON TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1296 |
RUMSFELD VISIT AND RUSSIA - WHO'S ON THE SIDE OF THE [...] (S) Russian Charge Viacheslav Svetlichny was the first diplomat to seek a readout of Secretary Rumsfeld's visit to Tajikistan and his meeting with President Rahmonov. The Ambassador joked with him on July 12 that Svetlichny must surely already have a near-verbatim treatment of the meeting fro [...] |
2006-07-12 11:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1314 |
TAJIK AIR STILL DOESN'T GET IT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five months after taking the helm of Tajikistan State Airlines (TSA), Director Hakimsho Tilloyev declined to identify any improvements or changes under his leadership and instead complained about Turkish Air stealing TSA's passengers to Istanbul. He informed PolOff July 12 tha [...] |
2006-07-13 12:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAIR EINV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1315 |
TAJIKISTAN: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PARM KN KNNP TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1329 |
TAJIKISTAN'S SDPT CHAIRMAN SUFFERS STROKE, ALLEGES FOUL [...] (C) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) met with PolOff July 13 after suffering a minor stroke two weeks earlier. Zoyirov, an energetic opposition politician, was noticeably absent during the Embassy's official opening on June 28 and the July 4 r [...] |
2006-07-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1353 |
TAJIKISTAN: DPT'S ISKANDAROV SAFE IN PRISON, FOR NOW [...] (U) Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) Deputy Chairman, Rahmatullo Valiev assured PolOff July 12 that the DPT's Chairman Mahmmadruzi Iskandarov is not being maltreated in prison, and discussed the emergence of the "Vatan" (Motherland) faction of the DPT. 2. (U) Valiev reported that [...] |
2006-07-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1354 |
TAJIKISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES UNDER SCRUTINY [...] (U) Tajik media reported that Murodullo Davlatov, Chairman of the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA), in a press conference July 13, singled out the Jehovah's Witnesses and said that the group's proselytizing activities "arouse public indignation." Valery Dudaev, Tajikistan's Jehov [...] |
2006-07-19 09:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1361 |
TIT-FOR-TAT OP-ED SLAMS AMBASSADOR'S SUPPORTING TAJIK [...] (U) SUMMARY: The steady stream of (probably) Russian-influenced black propaganda against the United States continues in the Tajik press. A recent article alleges U.S. NGOs foment "color revolutions," the United States has done nothing for Tajikistan's economic development, the purpose of th [...] |
2006-07-19 13:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KPAO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1362 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MEDIA COALITION NOT ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) Three prominent media associations formed the new Partnership for Democracy in June, a media coalition group designed to address misunderstandings among journalistic bodies and foster improved relations between mass media and the government. However, despite the group's good intentions [...] |
2006-07-20 08:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1423 |
AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON TAJIK FM TALBAK NAZAROV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his July 17 official farewell call on Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov, the Ambassador summed up the progress in the U.S.-Tajik relationship over the past three years, including increased border assistance, a new U.S. Embassy and U.S. involvement in hydropower and infra [...] |
2006-07-25 11:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MARR KDEM IR RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1424 |
TAJIK INDUSTRY MINISTER WANTS U.S. JOINT VENTURE TO FLY [...] (SBU) An antimony mining joint venture with New Jersey-based COMSUP has been so successful, according to Minister of Industry Zaid Saidov, the Tajik government would prefer the U.S. firm own one hundred percent of the operation, rather than 49%. In a July 18 meeting with PolOff, Saidov expl [...] |
2006-07-25 11:09:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1425 |
NDI NOT GETTING THE ANSWERS THEY WANT FROM TAJIK GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and Deputy Minister of Justice Sharipova, National Democratic Institute (NDI) representatives pressed the Tajik government to register the organization and issue a visa for an American staff member to manage the Dushanbe office. [...] |
2006-07-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1434 |
IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...] |
2006-07-27 13:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR |
| 06DUSHANBE1435 |
IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...] |
2006-07-27 13:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR |
| 06DUSHANBE1439 |
REFLECTIONS ON THREE YEARS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) Three years ago, before I arrived in Dushanbe, I noticed wryly that nearly every reporting cable from the Post seemed to include the descriptive phrase, "Tajikistan, destroyed by civil war~." Greatly harmed and set back? Yes. Destroyed? No. Especially not the spirit of the nation and p [...] |
2006-07-28 08:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID AMGT KPAO KDEM RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1442 |
PRESIDENT KARZAI WORRIES ABOUT RUSSIAN INTENTIONS IN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai invited the Ambassador for a private one-hour breakfast at the Presidential Guest House in Dushanbe before returning to Kabul July 28. After a 20-minute one-on-one, Karzai invited his foreign minister and two other advisers to join. WHAT'S RUSSIA UP [...] |
2006-07-28 10:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR RS AF IR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1462 |
U.S.-RUSSIA COOPERATION STILL POSSIBLE IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) The departing U.S. Ambassador hosted a final farewell reception at the U.S. Residence July 31. Russian Charge d'affairs Vyacheslav Svetlichniy, a career diplomat, attended. He pulled the Ambassador aside and said he sincerely wished our two governments could attain the same degree of mutu [...] |
2006-08-01 10:43:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG SNAR RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1464 |
OLD-GUARD TAJIK MINISTER OF DEFENSE OBSESSES ON NATO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador endured a three-hour-plus one-on-one lunch August 1 with Tajikistan's Minister of Defense Sherali Khairulloyev. Apart from the general conversation, the minister apologized for previous mil-mil relations that didn't meet expectations; harped repeatedly on NATO, Georgia, [...] |
2006-08-01 12:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR GG RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1465 |
TAJIKISTAN: U.S. EMBASSY PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE [...] Two earthquakes, ranging from 5.0 to 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck southern Tajikistan's Qumsangir district July 29. The earthquakes affected over 1,600 households and nearly 9,000 people. Officially, three deaths were reported, all of them children. The media reported approximately 20 pe [...] |
2006-08-01 13:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1469 |
THREE "IRAN-FREE" STEPS TO BRING TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) The "Persian Language Summit" in Dushanbe July 26 highlighted the cultural and linguistic ties between Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran, but also provided an opportunity for the three presidents to declare publicly their economic and energy ties (Reftel A). At the close of the press con [...] |
2006-08-02 11:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR |
| 06DUSHANBE1470 |
TAJIKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES CONSIDER BOYCOTTING ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main opposition political parties are considering boycotting Tajikistan's presidential election as a statement of protest. Knowing Rahmonov will win handily and worried legitimate opposition candidates may not even have a chance to run, the Democratic Party of Tajikis [...] |
2006-08-02 12:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1498 |
RADIO SILENCE CONTINUES FOR BBC IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) Tajikistan's State Radio and Television Committee (SRTC) announced August 2 it refused to give BBC a license to broadcast in Tajiki/ Farsi on FM radio. Margaret Belof, the British DCM, told PolOff August 3 the committee based its refusal on two grounds: the BBC is still not properly re [...] |
2006-08-04 11:51:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE151 |
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KICKS OFF TAJIKISTAN'S 2006 PRESIDENTIAL [...] Although President Emomali Rahmonov has not officially announced that he will be a candidate for the late 2006 presidential election in Tajikistan, Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov more than endorsed him at a press conference on January 24. According to multiple press reports, he said, [...] |
2006-01-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PROP KDEM RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1523 |
TAJIKISTAN'S EARTHQUAKE RELIEF STATUS REPORT [...] More than a week after two earthquakes shook Tajikistan's Qumsangir District in Khatlon province on the southern border with Afghanistan July 29 (reftel), the Tajik government and donors continue to help displaced residents. Under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, the Tajik g [...] |
2006-08-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1524 |
TAJIKISTAN'S IRPT CHAIRMAN SAID ABDULLO NURI PASSES AWAY [...] (U) The Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party, Said Abdullo Nuri passed away August 9 at approximately 16:30. Nuri had been suffering from stomach cancer and his death was not unexpected. He had received periodic treatments in Iran and Germany for over a year and returned to Dushanbe Ju [...] |
2006-08-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1545 |
WIIL ROGUN EVER GET BUILT? TAJIKISTAN AND RUSAL ENGAGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Is RusAl on the verge of abandoning Rogun, or merely posturing to hasten its acquisition of Tajik state-owned aluminum smelter TadAZ? In the past week, Tajik and regional news agencies have published several articles on Rogun and other Russian-Tajik investments, questioning the [...] |
2006-08-11 06:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF IR |
| 06DUSHANBE1549 |
THE END OF AN ERA FOR TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY [...] SUMMARY: Chargi d'Affaires attended Said Abdullo Nuri's funeral held in Dushanbe August 10. Nuri, the Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) passed away August 9 (reftel) after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was well-attended by prominent officials and leader [...] |
2006-08-11 10:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1555 |
BUMPS ON THE SILK ROAD: TAJIK PRESIDENT RAHMONOV PROMOTES [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov conducted a five-day state visit to India from August 6-10, his first trip to India since 2004. Rahmonov sought to bolster flagging economic relations between India and Tajikistan, encouraging Indian investments in hydro power projects. The two countries signed fiv [...] |
2006-08-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ENRG EFIN TI IN |
| 06DUSHANBE1557 |
TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER DISAPPOINTED IN ISRAEL [...] (C) Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov responded to the points on UNSC resolution 1701 (reftel) by voicing his concern over the situation in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In a 45-minute discussion with Charge, Nazarov suggested Israel should compensate Lebanon for the "$3 billio [...] |
2006-08-14 12:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR IR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1558 |
TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: LET THE FLOOD GATES OF WATER [...] SUMMARY: Senior Afghan water officials visited Tajikistan August 2-9 to discuss bilateral cooperation in developing joint projects along the Amu Darya and Pyanj Rivers, which form the Afghan-Tajik border. The highly successful visit initiated a practical dialogue and strong partnership betw [...] |
2006-08-15 03:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR ENRG AF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1573 |
TAJIK AIR STILL NOT SOARING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the surface, two recent developments in the airline sector appeared to signal forward progress. However, despite opening the long-completed air terminal at Khujand and coming closer to leasing two Airbus aircraft, Tajik Air remains a protectionist, Soviet-style state-run enti [...] |
2006-08-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAIR EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1575 |
TAJIKISTAN: FORMER DCA CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON [...] (U) A Tajik court sentenced former Drug Control Agency Chairman, Lieutenant General Ghaffor Mirzoyev August 11 to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow Tajikistan's President Rahmonov. Mirzoyev was arrested August 6, 2004 and officially charged with 36 crimes including attempt to toppl [...] |
2006-08-17 04:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1576 |
INDIAN EXPECATIONS FOR TAJIKISTAN POSITIVE, BUT REALISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: India will continue to assist Tajikistan through exchanges, grants, military cooperation and targeted investment, but the memoranda signed during President Rahmonov's August 6-10 state visit to India only "legalized" initiatives already underway. G. Balusubramanian, [...] |
2006-08-17 06:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IN TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1587 |
TAJIKISTAN: KABIRI LEADS ISLAMIC PARTY AFTER NURI'S DEATH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan elected Muhiddin Kabiri as its acting-chairman after Nuri's death. The press and some political analysts speculate the party will split without Nuri's leadership and it will not elect Kabiri as the chairman because, as a moderate, he is [...] |
2006-08-18 11:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1588 |
TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACKS [...] (SBU) At an internal party meeting August 16, several Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan members spoke out strongly against Israel's strikes in Lebanon and Palestine and criticized the U.S. response. Since the beginning of the recent Lebanon-Israeli conflict, the IRPT criticized Israel [...] |
2006-08-18 12:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1593 |
TAJIK FM NAZAROV'S MEETING WITH DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tan and relaxed from his trip to the EurAsEC meeting in Sochi, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov told Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum August 18 that U.S- Tajik bilateral relations were based on trust, and hoped the next phase would focus on economic assista [...] |
2006-08-21 12:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1594 |
REGIONAL INTEGRATION: TAJIKISTAN'S FIRST PRIVATE-PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pamir Energy, Tajikistan's first private-public energy joint venture, manages at best 40% cost recovery and faces a local government that refuses to enforce collection. In a theatrical August 19 site visit with cameras rolling and an audience including Deputy Assistant Secretar [...] |
2006-08-21 13:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE1597 |
TAJIKISTAN: DEMONSTRATIONS IN AUTONOMOUS REGION A SIGN OF UNREST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two demonstrations in front of the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast governor's office August 18-19 illustrate increasing unrest in the economically downtrodden remote area also known as the Pamirs. The several hundred strong crowd protested against the central government and [...] |
2006-08-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AF TI SNAR |
| 06DUSHANBE1599 |
TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR RAHMATULLOYEV MEETS DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor on Foreign Policy Erkin Rahmatulloyev waxed philosophical on Central Asia's history and role in U.S. policy and the challenges facing his country, but agreed with Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that the U.S. and Tajik governments share the same pr [...] |
2006-08-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE16 |
RUSSIA PLEASED WITH BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) The year 2005 was very fruitful for Russia in Tajikistan, according to the Russian DCM Viacheslav Svetlichny. He highlighted the realization of long-standing commitments, particularly those made by President Putin in October 2004 to withdraw Russian border forces and increase economic ass [...] |
2006-01-03 10:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG TI RS |
| 06DUSHANBE1600 |
TAJIKISTAN: WARM TEMPERATURES RAISE LAKE SAREZ'S WATER [...] Two recent earthquakes that damaged thousands of homes in southern Tajikistan offered a bracing reminder that this mountainous country remains seismically very active (Reftel). In 1911, a strong earthquake rocked Tajikistan's Pamir mountains, triggering a massive landslide that created the Uso [...] |
2006-08-23 12:44:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SENV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1608 |
TAJIK GOVERNMENT SETS LOOSE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS [...] (U) Tajikistan's parliament adopted an amnesty law August 17 that would free 4,000 prisoners and reduce the terms of 11,000. All women above the age of 55, children under the age of 18, first time offenders, along with other designated groups will be eligible for amnesty. Families will be g [...] |
2006-08-28 07:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1613 |
TEN WEEKS TO ELECTIONS, TAJIKISTAN MOVING SLOWLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten weeks out from the November Presidential election, Tajik authorities are moving very slowly to implement improvements to the electoral process. After a significant step forward in May, when Tajik authorities presented donors with a the first government plans to address previ [...] |
2006-08-28 12:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1621 |
TAJIKISTAN: UNKNOWN ASSAILANT SETS SYNAGOGUE ON FIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An unknown assailant set Dushanbe's synagogue on fire August 18 by throwing a Molotov cocktail through a first floor window. Fortunately, a neighbor sounded the alarm and the fire was put out before it was able to spread and engulf the entire building. Dushanbe's Fire Departme [...] |
2006-08-29 12:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC KIRF KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1623 |
TAJIKISTAN: SDPT CHAIRMAN RETURNS FROM MEDICAL TREATMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (SDPT) Chairman, Rahmatullo Zoyirov met with PolOff August 28 after returning from treatment in Moscow and Switzerland following his stroke. Zoyirov appeared healthy and reinvigorated, and discussed the upcoming presidential election [...] |
2006-08-30 05:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TI RS |
| 06DUSHANBE1625 |
TAJIKISTAN'S DONALD TRUMP: "NUR" MAY BECOME A LOCAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An upstart local competitor to Tajik Air has reached an agreement to begin domestic and international flights using new Russian planes. "NUR" recently opened its airport terminal in Khujand, will invest $15 million to renovate the airport in Qurghon-Teppa in the south, and nego [...] |
2006-08-30 07:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EAIR EINV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1628 |
MERCY CORPS UNDER SCRUTINY FROM TAJIK JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik authorities, reacting to a secret poison pen letter to the Ministry of Justice from disgruntled Mercy Corps local staff, threatened to deport a Mercy Corps expat unless the Embassy intervened to correct the situation. Mercy Corps conducted an internal investigation, and fo [...] |
2006-08-31 07:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1641 |
IMF TO TAJIKISTAN: LOOKING A BIT DEBT-HEAVY, AREN'T WE? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concerns over Tajikistan's accepting $637 million in debt from China, but feels confident the Tajik government still supports economic reforms. During a donor briefing the IMF reported inflation in Tajikistan exceeded expectations due to [...] |
2006-09-05 06:59:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1650 |
CHINESE MAKING BIG FOOTPRINT ON TAJIKISTAN'S INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With $637 million in low-interest credits for roads, a tunnel and high voltage transmission lines, China has positioned itself as Tajikistan's biggest and fastest-moving foreign investor. By funding key infrastructure projects, China seeks to strengthen its ties with Tajikistan [...] |
2006-09-05 11:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN ENRG TI CH |
| 06DUSHANBE1654 |
NINE WEEKS OUT: OSCE UNDECIDED ON ELECTION OBSERVERS IN [...] (U) After a weeklong visit, the OSCE/ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) remains undecided on whether or not it will send a full-scale observation mission for the November 6 presidential election. The NAM, comprised of three OSCE/ODIHR officials, debriefed international missions August 31 o [...] |
2006-09-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1655 |
TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 4, just one business day after arriving at post, Ambassador Jacobson presented her credentials to Tajik President Emomoli Rahmonov. Rahmonov thanked the United States for its support of counter terrorism and counter narcotics efforts and said he looked forward to [...] |
2006-09-06 13:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1661 |
TAJIKISTAN CONSIDERS NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY "OPEN AND [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov said that Tajikistan had not made a final decision about signing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) agreement in Kazakhstan September 8, and that they regarded the treaty as "open." In a 90-minute meeting with DCM and PolOff September 6 ( [...] |
2006-09-07 10:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR KNNP UN TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1662 |
IRPT CONFIRMS KABIRI AS CHAIRMAN IN EMOTIONAL CONGRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) confirmed Muhiddin Kabiri as its chairman during an emotional political party congress with members still mourning the loss of former chairman Said Abdullo Nuri. The IRPT delegates presented a united front and members gave impa [...] |
2006-09-07 10:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1667 |
IT'S ALL RELATIVE: THE TAJIK TEXTILE BIZ [...] (U) SUMMARY: Two major textile manufacturers in Tajikistan have taken two different roads to success. Tajik Textiles uses its familial and political networks to succeed, while Giovani Manufacturing features a glitzy, Western-style approach. Although President Rahmonov's development program c [...] |
2006-09-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV EAGR EIND TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1705 |
ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...] |
2006-09-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1706 |
ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...] |
2006-09-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1711 |
AMBASSADOR'S FIRST SUBSTANTIVE MEETING WITH TAJIK FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a Letter of Agreement signing ceremony 9/13 (reftel a), Foreign Minister Nazarov invited Ambassador for a one-on-one meeting to discuss issues she had raised prior to presenting credentials 9/4 (reftel b). While Nazarov could not offer any concrete assistance on any o [...] |
2006-09-14 08:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EINV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1717 |
TAJIKISTAN - AN OCEAN OF IRONY: ABUNDANT WATER IN A [...] (U) SUMMARY: Water gushes down the mountains of Tajikistan, the most water-rich country in Central Asia. Yet people lack clean drinking water, utilities are poorly managed, and poor irrigation hinders agricultural development. There exists tremendous potential for hydropower development fo [...] |
2006-09-15 11:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SENV TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1718 |
CHINESE PRIME MINISTER BRINGS GOOD FORTUNE TO SCO TALKSIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fifth session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of government began September 15 in Dushanbe to a flourish of publicity. High-level representatives from China, Russia, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, observers from India, Iran, Pakistan, and Mongoli [...] |
2006-09-15 13:09:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG PREL EAID TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1720 |
TAJIK SYNAGOGUE AND ORTHODOX CHURCH SUFFERS ANOTHER MOLOTOV [...] (U) Assailants threw Molotov cocktails onto the premises of the Jewish synagogue and Russian Orthodox Church September 14. The assailants and their motives are unknown but synagogue members verified that two young Tajik men ages 17-20 threw three Molotov cocktails into the synagogue. Two Mo [...] |
2006-09-18 07:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1723 |
EIGHT WEEKS OUT: CCER ISSUING DECREES LEFT AND RIGHT [...] Tajikistan's Central Committee on Elections and Referenda (CCER) signed a new decree September 15 addressing candidates' usage of mass media during the presidential campaign, establishing polling stations and forming a working group to deal with international observers. The decrees are a smal [...] |
2006-09-19 08:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1726 |
DUSHANBE SCO CONFERENCE - MOVING BEYOND SECURITY INTO [...] SUMMARY: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) focused on economic and energy cooperation in its Dushanbe meetings September 15-16. The six member countries issued a joint communique affirming their intention to further cooperate in economic, trade, scientific, technological, social, cu [...] |
2006-09-20 12:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG EAID TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1738 |
TAJIKISTAN RESPONSE TO TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND [...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy Dushanbe submits the following information regarding Tajikistan's compliance with U.S. and international trade agreements. 2. (U) Tajikistan has not entered into trade agreements with the United States directly, and is not a member of the World Trade O [...] |
2006-09-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1740 |
TAJIK KIDS ARE PICKIN' COTTON! [...] Cotton picking season has descended on Tajikistan, and just as in the days of central planning, several reporting districts are already exceeding set targets. According to news reports, Kulob region in Khatlon Olbast has yielded over 21,000 tons of cotton - 26% of the region's annual target. [...] |
2006-09-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1744 |
SEVEN WEEKS OUT: LET THE GAMES BEGIN, TAJIK ELECTION [...] (U) Five political parties officially announced their candidates for president during congresses held September 16-17. The candidates thus far are all chairmen of their parties, have little nationwide popular support and are weak politicians. With the exception of Narziev's Socialist Party o [...] |
2006-09-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1749 |
FASHION ALERT - TAJIKISTAN'S TEXTILES HIT THE WORLD MARKET [...] This cable responds to action request (ref A) for data on the textile and apparel market in Tajikistan. 2. INTRODUCTION: Walking down the streets of Dushanbe, a trained eye easily spots the latest fashion trends among the many pedestrians. Men sport short-sleeve button-down shirts and t [...] |
2006-09-22 14:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD TI EAGR EIND ELAB PGOV |
| 06DUSHANBE175 |
TAJIKISTAN'S SOUTH SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: Kulob, the President's home region and nearby Qurghon-Teppa face the same corruption, high unemployment, and political and free press restrictions that plague the rest of the country. In meetings with PolOff January 23-24, journalists, NGOs and community leaders from Kulob, Qurghon [...] |
2006-01-27 09:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1758 |
TAJIK BORDER POSTS STILL SUFFER FROM LAST YEAR'S FLOODING [...] (SBU) Embassy Officers visited four border posts in the Moscovsky region bordering Afghanistan and saw how last year's severe flooding destroyed the units' buildings, seriously hindering the border guards' ability to protect the Tajik border from illicit activity. In addition to flood damag [...] |
2006-09-26 11:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR AF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1765 |
CHINESE DRAGON STEPS GENTLY IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan Li Huilai laid out the founding principles of friendship between Tajikistan and China, including economic, security, and cultural relations, at an academic conference hosted by the Tajik Center for Strategic Research in Dushanbe on September 26. Acad [...] |
2006-09-27 10:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1766 |
TAJIKISTAN: KABIRI'S IRPT TAKES A "TIME OUT" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an hour-long introductory call with the Ambassador September 26, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) leader Muhiddin Kabiri described his party's reasoning for not participating in the upcoming presidential elections. Kabiri said the party would use the next [...] |
2006-09-27 10:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OEXC TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1773 |
SIX WEEKS OUT: NO STRONG CANDIDATE WILL CHALLENGE RAHMONOV [...] (U) Tajikistan's opposition political party congresses have taken a stance not to participate in the election. Short of boycotting the election, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) and the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT) [...] |
2006-09-28 02:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE178 |
AMBASSADOR PROTESTS SECURITY MINISTRY CRACK-DOWN ON NDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 27, the Ambassador forcefully protested to Foreign Minister Nazarov the Security Ministry's recent crackdown on the National Democratic Insitute in Dushanbe. Nazarov agreed to intervene with the Minister of Security and to bring the problem to President Rahmonov's at [...] |
2006-01-27 10:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE179 |
COUNTERING NEO-SOVIET ANTI-U.S. AND ANTI-DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Especially when analyzing the so-called "color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, neo-Soviet authoritarians have dominated the information space and defined the world view in Central Asia. U.S. Embassies' Public Affairs Sections face an up-hill battle because Russian media [...] |
2006-01-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM KPAO RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1803 |
SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO DUSHANBE [...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes Assistant Secretary Boucher back to Tajikistan. This visit will be a good opportunity for you to build upon your May meetings in Dushanbe and give an extra push for better conduct one month before the presidential election. 2. (C) The U.S.-Tajikistan bilat [...] |
2006-09-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1840 |
FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKS SOUTH FOR OPPORTUNITY AND NERVOUSLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 45-minute meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Foreign Minister Talbak SIPDIS Nazarov remarked that the United States and Tajikistan have a positive bilateral relationship because they have built an atmosphere of trust. He thanked Boucher for [...] |
2006-10-07 08:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1841 |
TAJIK PRESIDENT TELLS BOUCHER ELECTION SHOULD MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Tajikistan's President SIPDIS Emomali Rahmonov stressed the positive bilateral relationship with the United States. Stating he wanted to deepen contacts at every level, Rahmonov thanked the United Stat [...] |
2006-10-07 08:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1844 |
VROOM! VROOM! CAR SHOPPING IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's automotive imports reached $177.4 million for the first eight months of 2006, a 300% jump from the previous year, according to GosKomStat. Despite high gasoline prices and massive shipping costs, Tajikistan's "nouveau riche" enjoys spending its wealth on high-priced [...] |
2006-10-10 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ELTN EINV EIND ELAB PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1845 |
SOUTHERN TAJIKISTAN: ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE HELPS DUST OFF [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: Kulob recently celebrated the 2,700-year anniversary of its founding. Unfortunately, the nearly three millennia have not been kind to the city. Three hours southeast of Dushanbe, Kulob (known as Kulyab in Russian) is a town of 30,000-50,000 people. All across Tajikistan, [...] |
2006-10-10 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1846 |
SOUTHERN TAJIKISTAN'S RUSTED BELT: INDUSTRY IN [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: Called Kurgan-Tube by the Soviets, Qurghon-Teppa is a depressed city of 80,000 people, sixty minutes south of Dushanbe in the Khatlon region. Remains of the city's crumbling industrial infrastructure line city streets. The mayor threatened to re-nationalize failing industr [...] |
2006-10-10 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1848 |
ONE MONTH OUT: TAJIK GOVT SHUTS DOWN WEBSITES AHEAD OF THE [...] (U) Tajikistan's internet service providers blocked access to several websites deemed "opposition" sites one month ahead of the November 6 presidential election. Sites include popular news information agencies such as Ferghana.ru and Centralasia.ru. The Ministry of Communications' Agency o [...] |
2006-10-10 09:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1863 |
FOUR WEEKS OUT: POLITICAL PARTY FACTION BRIBES MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Four weeks out from the November 6 presidential election, five candidates have successfully registered candidate. Opposition political parties are weaker than ever, as a faction of the Democratic Party has won government approval. The government ordered internet providers to block ne [...] |
2006-10-12 11:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1908 |
DON'T DRINK THE BOTTLED WATER, EITHER: THREE TAJIK [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: EmbOffs met October 13 with representatives of three companies in Hissor, located 25 minutes west of Dushanbe. On the railway line from Uzbekistan to Dushanbe, Hissor is a key wholesale trading area, with construction materials, gas, wheat flour, canned food, and water bo [...] |
2006-10-18 07:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1931 |
DESPITE THE CHAMPAGNE, NOT MUCH TO CELEBRATE IN TAJIKISTAN'S [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: During an October 17 visit to Shahrinau -- Persian for "New City" -- PolOffs found nothing new in tours of a wineless winery, a school with no electricity and talks with local government officials. The district, located 25 kilometers east of Dushanbe and 25 km west of the Uz [...] |
2006-10-20 05:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EAID ENGR ETRD TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1935 |
THREE WEEKS OUT: OBSERVER MISSION DEPLOYING WITH MORE VIGOR [...] (C) Three weeks out, Tajikistan shows few visible signs of an impending presidential election. Aside from a two-story poster of President Rahmonov (resplendent with five by two foot eyebrows) on Dushanbe's main boulevard, campaign materials are conspicuously absent in the capital. PolOffs sa [...] |
2006-10-23 06:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1943 |
TAJIK FINANCE MINISTER ASKS U.S. FOR DEBT RELIEF [...] (U) In her introductory meeting with Minister of Finance Safarali Najmuddinov October 19, Ambassador Jacobson discussed Tajikistan's evolving economic progress, debt-taking, and state budget priorities. The Minister raised the issue of Tajikistan's $17 million debt to the United States, and [...] |
2006-10-25 10:43:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1945 |
GRADUAL PROGRESS, BUT VISIBLE PROBLEMS AT TWO TAJIK-AFGHAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An October 18 visit to two border posts revealed extremely basic living conditions and a slow but solid start to U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts. Soldiers at Bakhorat and Bog outposts on the border with Afghanistan face winter with limited electricity and supplies, and alm [...] |
2006-10-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR PINR TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE1948 |
TAJIK FINANCE MINISTER ASKS U.S. FOR DEBT RELIEF (CORRECTED [...] (U) In her introductory meeting with Minister of Finance Safarali Najmuddinov October 19, Ambassador Jacobson discussed Tajikistan's evolving economic progress, debt-taking, and state budget priorities. The Minister raised the issue of Tajikistan's $17 million debt to the United States, and [...] |
2006-10-26 05:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE195 |
FRAUD SUMMARY - TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Tajikistan, independent since the Soviet breakup in 1991, is the poorest Central Asian republic and the ninth poorest country per capita in the world. The vast majority of the population lives well below the poverty line, inducing many working-age Tajik males to bec [...] |
2006-01-30 11:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1950 |
"FAIR AND ACCURATE" INFORMATION THE KEY TO GOOD U.S.-UZBEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The key to improved U.S.-Uzbek relations is to provide leadership with "true, accurate and fair information," according to Mirodil Abdurazzakov, the Uzbek Ambassador in Dushanbe. In an Oct. 19 meeting with PolOff, Abdurazzakov described Uzbek democracy as "more diplomatic" than [...] |
2006-10-26 09:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD TI UZ |
| 06DUSHANBE1977 |
IRAN HAWKS WARES IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: Iran staged a business exhibition in Dushanbe October 27-30 with over 40 Iranian companies participating. The well-attended exhibition featured building materials, engineering consulting services, consumer goods, medical equipment, furniture, pharmaceuticals, and other goods. [...] |
2006-10-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG PREL TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE199 |
TAJIK CABINET SHUFFLE PLACES OLD RAHMONOV ALLY IN KEY ECON [...] (U) Tajik President Rahmonov appointed Matlubkhon Davlatov as State Advisor to the President for Economic Policy, replacing Faizullo Kholboboyev. The January 30 decree elevated Davlatov to the senior economic position in Tajikistan and named Kholboboyev Representative to the CIS and the Eura [...] |
2006-01-31 11:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1998 |
ONE WEEK OUT: RAHMONOV'S PR CAMPAIGN STRENGTHENS, DPT DRAMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With six days to go before the election, the pocket party candidates have hit the campaign trail and look more like public relations agents campaigning for Rahmonov than candidates in their own right. The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) drama continues with the remnant DP [...] |
2006-10-31 12:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2 |
TAJIKISTAN'S TOP EXPORT, COTTON, CONTINUES TO DECLINE [...] SUMMARY: Tajikistan's cotton harvest continues to decline since the fall of the Soviet Union due to lack of farm capital, poor land management, and detrimental financing options. The government acknowledges a need to change policies to resuscitate the cotton industry, but real reform has bee [...] |
2006-01-03 05:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2000 |
"PLEASE TRAIN OUR WORKERS" -- TAJIK BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Summary. While the upper echelons of the Tajik government focus on immense energy projects, a frank and lively discussion by local businesspeople offered fresh examples of corruption and decay in the small and medium enterprise sector, especially related to customs, standards, and the lac [...] |
2006-10-31 12:59:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EIND EFIN EAID PREL TBIO ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2017 |
SUPERMARKET SWEEP - THE NEW LOOK OF GROCERIES IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: A TAJIK-DUTCH JOINT VENTURE HAS CREATED THE FIRST WESTERN-STYLE SUPERMARKET CHAIN IN TAJIKISTAN, "ORIMA," FEATURING HUNDREDS OF IMPORTED PRODUCTS AIMED AT THE LOCAL MARKET. UTILIZING A SERIES OF EXCLUSIVE PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION PAGE 2 RUEWMFS2017 UNCLAS DUSHANBE 002017 SIPDI [...] |
2006-11-02 17:03:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EINV EIND ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2019 |
DUSHANBE ELECTRICITY CONFERENCE PRODUCES MEMORANDUM OF [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan moved three steps closer to establishing a regional transmission system and electricity market at the Second Central and South Asia regional electricity market conference. During the October 26-28 conference in Dushanbe, [...] |
2006-11-03 07:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF KG PK |
| 06DUSHANBE2020 |
TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES FEAR SITUATION WILL DETERIORATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Tajik presidential election a foregone conclusion, Tajik political parties try to plan for after the election, but from their perspective, the future looks bleak. Political party leaders predict that the government will clamp down on political activity. Some are runni [...] |
2006-11-03 07:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2033 |
TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The polls have yet to close, but Tajikistan's presidential election seems to suffer from many of the same problems as the 2005 parliamentary election. The pre-election period did witness positive cooperation between international organizations (especially the United Nations a [...] |
2006-11-06 14:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2038 |
RAHMONOV WINS TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH 79.3 PERCENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov won a third term with 79.3 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. Embassy observers deployed throughout Tajikistan witnessed the gamut of election practices from completely transparent tabulation processes to blatant ballot stuffing by commissi [...] |
2006-11-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE204 |
NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...] |
2006-02-01 10:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2044 |
POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO RAHMONOV'S WIN [...] (U) Tajik president Emomali Rahmonov won 79.3 percent of the vote in the November 6 election. Although his popularity is genuine among the people, opposition parties remain vocal in criticizing the election and will continue to express dissatisfaction with the current president and call him [...] |
2006-11-08 13:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2050 |
TAJIK ELECTION NUMBERS SHOW SURPRISING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahmonov's re-election to a third term November 6 indicates his genuine popularity among Tajiks and reflects the people's recognition that Rahmonov's years as president have coincided with a period of relative stability in the country. Many in fact were surprised Rahmonov did [...] |
2006-11-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE208 |
TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izzatullo Sharipov, granted EmbOffs access in hopes the United St [...] |
2006-02-01 11:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2084 |
DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION DELIVERED, USUN [...] (C) PolOff discussed talking points per reftel on the demarche on Belarus' anti-U.S. United Nations resolution with Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 15. 2. (C) Nasredinov acknowledged Bel [...] |
2006-11-15 11:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2095 |
MCC NOT IN TAJIKISTAN'S SIGHTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: EmbOffs delivered Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecards and talking points to multiple audiences of unenthusiastic Tajik officials. Tajik government officials recognize that the country still has far to go to be considered for MCC candidacy, and sidestepped our attem [...] |
2006-11-16 04:17:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2105 |
DEMARCHE ON EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION OF UNGA DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Post delivered talking points per reftel to the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of the Department on International Organizations, Nuriddin Shamsov. Shamsov did not have any immediate substantial comments on the Emergency Special Session, but said the MFA will relay the talking [...] |
2006-11-17 08:24:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2107 |
DEFENDING TAJIKISTAN'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan has taken significant steps over the past year to protect intellectual property, but much work remains in order to change its position on the Special 301 List. Advances include: an amendment to the Law on Intellectual Property to protect copyright owners from Internet [...] |
2006-11-17 14:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETTC ECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2109 |
CONTRACTUAL ISSUES IMPEDE CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS AT THE [...] (SBU) EmbOffs along with General Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection Committee surveyed the Tajik-Afghan border posts of Khirmanjo, Bakhorat and Bog November 15 and discovered slow progress at two of the three U.S.-funded renovation sites. Contractual issues impede substantive p [...] |
2006-11-20 15:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SNAR TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE2111 |
PRESIDENT RAHMONOV CELEBRATES THIRD TERM WITH PRECIOUS [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov was sworn in to his third term on November 18, a warm sun-filled day. The festivities were low key, but expensive, filled with precious jewels, flag waving patriots, a military parade, and one shiny new car. Embassy sources estimate inauguration costs amount from [...] |
2006-11-22 05:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2113 |
WHETHER TO COOPERATE: MIXED SIGNALS FROM THE RUSSIANS IN [...] (C) Summary: On September 21 Embassy Dushanbe, together with our Russian diplomatic and military colleagues, commemorated the 1992 evacuation of American diplomats from Dushanbe at the start of the Tajik civil war. The Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division resident in Dushanbe was instrumental in [...] |
2006-11-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2147 |
DEMONSTRATORS CHARGE ILLEGAL DETENTION AND VIOLATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three Democratic Party of Tajikistan members were released November 19 after serving 15 days in prison for organizing a demonstration. Khairiddin Gulyaev and Temur Toshev (also known as Temur Iskandarov), two of the imprisoned members, met with Poloff November 22 to assert thei [...] |
2006-11-28 11:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2149 |
IN TAJIKISTAN'S WINDY CITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT WELCOMES NGO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Whether building bridges, running an internet access center, or publishing youth newspapers, international and local NGOs operate effectively and with few bureaucratic barriers in the city and district of Faisobod. District Chairman Ismatullo Zaidov was quick to praise NGO contr [...] |
2006-11-29 05:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KHUM KDEM ENRG TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2153 |
VISIT TO TAJIK BORDER GUARD TRAINING CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: A Russian-run training facility for Tajik troops has some modern conveniences, but the training program relies on Soviet educational methods to teach under-educated Border Guards the basics. PolOff and Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) representative visited the Leninsky Trai [...] |
2006-11-29 12:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SNAR TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE2169 |
TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state committees from 25 to 17 and state agencies from 15 [...] |
2006-12-04 05:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2171 |
TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] This cable is to replace Dushanbe 2169. 2. President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state comm [...] |
2006-12-04 10:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2177 |
TAJIKISTAN'S WATER PROBLEMS HAVE A DIRECT EFFECT ON HEALTH [...] SUMMARY: Nowhere is the theme of this year's United Nations' Human Development Report entitled "Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis" more fitting than in Tajikistan. Despite an abundance of water in Tajikistan's many rivers and enormous hydroelectric potential, Tajiki [...] |
2006-12-05 13:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID EAGR ENV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2186 |
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS IMAM RETURNS FROM U.S. TO PREACH [...] (U) Badriddin Karimov, a local Tajik imam who participated in the USAID-sponsored Community Connections Program, "Religion in a Secular Society," returned to Tajikistan inspired by the pluralism and tolerance he observed in the United States. On the 20-day program to the United States, Karim [...] |
2006-12-07 06:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KIRF KPAO EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2191 |
NOVEMBER 06 TAJIK BORDER WRAP-UP [...] (U) This cable summarizes Post's border security, counterterrorism and counternarcotics activities for November 2006. 2. (SBU) Border Guard Training Center Visit: EmbOffs visited Dushanbe's Leninsky Training Center, where the Russian military trains the Tajik Border Guards. Decorated w [...] |
2006-12-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR PGOV PINR TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE2193 |
REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNTRY [...] Post looks forward to the release of the 2006 Human Rights Report. Post plans to translate the Tajikistan Country Report into both Russian and Tajik. Tajik is the official state language and Russian is commonly used among government officials, civil society, media, and the general population [...] |
2006-12-08 10:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2201 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: PRO-RUSSIAN OLD GUARD ENSCONCED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Despite some pre-election hints that Tajik President Rahmonov planned to clean house in the Defense and Security Ministries, the old guard remains firmly ensconced and has consolidated power by incorporating the Border Guards into the security structure. After winni [...] |
2006-12-11 12:49:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINL SNAR TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE2205 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET INCLINED TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik and foreign observers agree Tajikistan's economy and infrastructure need a total overhaul. President Rahmonov's November 30 governmental restructuring and early December cabinet appointments to economic positions suggest he understands that he needs a competent set of advi [...] |
2006-12-12 12:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EAIR ENRG EAID ETRD TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2206 |
IRPT MEMBER CONVICTED, FREEDOM OF SPEECH VIOLATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A city court convicted Mukhtorjon Shodiev, an Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member, December 6 of inciting violence and calling for an overthrow of the government in remarks he gave in front a small, private audience. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. [...] |
2006-12-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2209 |
TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: NO GOOD NEWS FOR U.S. DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nothing about President's Rahmonov's new cabinet suggests that democracy and human rights programs will now operate more freely. After months of Tajik officials counseling us to "wait until after the November 6 election" to push for registration of the National Democr [...] |
2006-12-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2210 |
DUSHANBE'S MAYOR STRIKES AGAIN, AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dushanbe's Mayor Ubaidulloyev, known for his autonomy in governing Tajikistan's capital, has his eye on a building owned by the Grace Sun Min Church and wants to turn the building into a school. However, his motives appear suspect, in light of his past attempts to take the chur [...] |
2006-12-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2219 |
TRADING PLACES: TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET OF OLD HANDS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a few exceptions, Tajik President Rahmonov's post-election appointments simply shuffled loyalists and favorites into different positions, further concentrating power in the hands of those from his home region of Kulob. Instead of naming new, younger officials or educated tech [...] |
2006-12-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE2223 |
INITIAL MEETING WITH NEW TAJIK BORDER GUARDS CHIEF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The newly appointed head of the Tajik Border Forces within the State Committee on National Security, General-Major (US 1-star equivalent) Mirzoev, invited representatives from the U.S. Embassy and other donor countries and implementing agencies to an introductory meeting. General [...] |
2006-12-18 06:43:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR MASS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2225 |
ANOTHER DAM CABLE FROM TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Boom!! After four hours of waiting for Tajik President Rahmonov and Russian energy utility RAO UES head Anatoli Chubais to arrive by car, when thick fog prevented helicopter travel, observers witnessed a single explosion block the mighty Vaksh River at Sangtuda. The river was diverted th [...] |
2006-12-19 11:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2226 |
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...] |
2006-12-19 12:52:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2228 |
HOW WE CAN HELP THE TAJIK ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARE FOR [...] (U) This is an Action cable. See Paragraphs 5 and 9. 2. (U) Without the pressure of an upcoming election and with the international spotlight shining elsewhere, we have an unusual opportunity to engage Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda. The CCER would like to ma [...] |
2006-12-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPOA KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2229 |
AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH NEW TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met December 20 with Hamrakhon Zaripov in his new capacity as Tajikistan's Foreign Minister. Zaripov agreed to "coordinate with relevant ministries and the president" on responses to the Ambassador's requests for forward movement on registration and visas for Natio [...] |
2006-12-20 12:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ENRG TI |
| 06DUSHANBE224 |
NDI DIRECTOR SHOULD RETURN TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Acting Foreign Minister Yatimov paved a way for National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan to register and return to Dushanbe. Sargsyan left for Moscow on February 1 after harassment and pressure from Tajik officials. Yatimov knew the [...] |
2006-02-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2243 |
A MINOR MIRACLE? TAJIK SETTLEMENT WITH NORSK HYDRO COULD BE [...] (C) With the December 20 signing of a cooperation agreement between Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro and Tajikistan's state-owned aluminum factory TadAZ, Tajikistan resolved one of its stickiest investment cases. Moscow-based Norwegian Ambassador Oyvind Nordsletten called on Ambassador J [...] |
2006-12-22 09:59:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV ETRD TI NO |
| 06DUSHANBE2247 |
THE FUTURE OF TAJIK COTTON - ANYTHING BUT LIGHT AND FLUFFY [...] (U) Summary: Despite the ailing cotton sector's debt-ridden farms and declining harvest, cotton remains Tajikistan's most important export and biggest crop. International donors have joined forces, backing major projects to reinvigorate the sector. The Government of Tajikistan, the National [...] |
2006-12-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EAID ELAB PGOV PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE226 |
TAJIKISTAN SDPT MEMBERS RELEASED FROM JAIL [...] Two Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) members imprisoned after the parliamentary elections last year have been released. Nizomaddin Begmatov, the Rasulov District SDPT Chairman and Nasim Shukurov, a member of the Sughd Region's SDPT branch were released on January 31 and February 1 [...] |
2006-02-02 13:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE227 |
TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) This message replaces REFTEL A, adding TAG: CASC. 2. (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izz [...] |
2006-02-03 03:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TI |
| 06DUSHANBE236 |
TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIA KICKS OFF ITS G-8 YEAR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Ambassador convened the other G-8 ambassadors on February 2 to announce a cooperative effort during the Russian G-8 presidency. Although this seems to be mostly a public re [...] |
2006-02-03 12:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE237 |
TAJIKISTAN'S BORDER CHIEF DISCUSSES U.S. ASSISTANCE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Chairman of the Border Protection Committee General Saidamir Zuhurov on February 2 to assess his views on U.S. assistance and to seek his views on Russia's role in Tajik border affairs. Zuhurov praised the United States as a most reliable partner. Thoug [...] |
2006-02-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC SNAR RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE246 |
ROUNDTABLE WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR AND LOCAL MEDIA [...] The Ambassador and PAO met on February 3 with 15 local editors and other prominent journalists for a 90-minute informal but on-the-record roundtable. ------------ U.S. PATRIOT ACT ------------ 2. The journalists covered a variety of topics, starting with the State of the Union address [...] |
2006-02-06 12:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PINR PROP KDEM KPAO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE250 |
DPT ACTING LEADER: "WE DON'T FEEL YOUR SUPPORT" [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolOff met for an hour on February 6 with Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT), Rahmatullo Valiyev. The imprisoned Mahmadruzi Iskandarov is still the DPT's titular head. The meeting was within the context of a DPT effort, as evidenced by its Febr [...] |
2006-02-07 04:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE268 |
NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED [...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...] |
2006-02-08 12:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE269 |
NDI REGISTRATION: YOUR DOG'S TAIL IS CROOKED [...] (SBU) Tajik folk wisdom has it that even if all your papers are in order, inspectors will find something wrong -- your dog's tail is crooked -- for example. After many promises that re-registration for National Democratic Institute (NDI) personnel was solved, it turns out to be unsolved. DCM [...] |
2006-02-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PINR PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE272 |
TAJIKISTAN: MURKY BUSINESS AND GEO-POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two meetings with U.S. businessmen on February 9, a reliable CEO passed along the rumor that the largest cell-phone and Internet company in Tajikistan, Babilon-T, is founded on drug money and may sooner or later be bought by Moscow's Sistema-MTS. A less reliable U.S. interlo [...] |
2006-02-10 05:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV ENRG SNAR RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE275 |
TADAZ CLAIMS POLLUTION HAS DECREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Central Asia's Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO) and PolOff visited the Tajikistan Aluminum (TadAZ) plant in Tursun-Zoda near the Uzbekistan border February 9. Uzbekistan blames the Tajik government for allowing TadAZ to pollute the environment, [...] |
2006-02-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EIND ETRD SENV RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE276 |
REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...] |
2006-02-11 05:19:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE277 |
REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...] |
2006-02-11 05:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE278 |
TAJIKISTAN'S RECENT UPSURGE IN VIOLENCE HIGHLIGHTED BY [...] (SBU) Since the beginning of the year, the local media have reported a number of killings of government security officials. The Tajik government often linked the murders to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). However, no credible links to the IMU have been proven. Because of the report [...] |
2006-02-11 06:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE279 |
TAJIKISTAN: IRAN POINTS DELIVERED [...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points on February 10 on the IAEA decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council along with the President's and Secretary's talking points. Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the MFA accepted the points and sa [...] |
2006-02-13 05:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP IR AORC TI |
| 06DUSHANBE284 |
KHUJAND, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OF TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Khujand, Tajikistan's "second city," in the Ferghana Valley and separated from Dushanbe by a formidable mountain range, represents what Tajikistan could be - not a democratic paradise, but a confident, relatively progressive, stable society open to new ideas and cautiously resist [...] |
2006-02-13 08:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID KPAO KDEM RS UZ KG TI |
| 06DUSHANBE300 |
TAJIKISTAN HUMANITARIAN DEMINING: REQUEST FOR PM SUPPORT [...] Post appreciates PM/WRA information (reftel) and strongly supports further engagement on demining in Tajikistan, including a Policy Assessment Visit and funding for the Tajik Mine Action Committee through the United Nations Development Program. MINES ALONG THE AFGHAN BORDER 2. Russia la [...] |
2006-02-14 07:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KHDP TI |
| 06DUSHANBE302 |
TAJIK TRANSPORT MINISTER PLEASED WITH BRIDGE [...] On his first visit to the U.S.-funded bridge construction site at Nizhniy Pyanzh, Transportation Minister Ashurov expressed great satisfaction and offered to get involved personally if problems arise regarding the cement supply or customs. During the February 13 visit with PolOff and a visit [...] |
2006-02-14 12:33:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELTN ECON TI AF |
| 06DUSHANBE304 |
BBC IN DUSHANBE: "DON'T DIS A SMALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN GET [...] (C) In a surprisingly tough meeting February 14, the Ambassador joined his European and OSCE colleagues for what was supposed to have been a joint Western demarche about the BBC Tajik Service having lost its permission January 10 to broadcast on FM-106 in Dushanbe (reftel). French Ambassador [...] |
2006-02-15 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO UK TI |
| 06DUSHANBE305 |
TAJIK GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO CREATION OF SCA BUREAU [...] The Ambassador presented reftel talking points as a non-paper to First Deputy Foreign Minister Saimumin Yatimov on February 14. Yatimov was familiar with the issue. He said the Tajik Embassy in Washington had already reported the information and had characterized it as a positive development [...] |
2006-02-15 07:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE306 |
ONE STEP FORWARD: NDI ACTING DEPUTY RE-REGISTERED BY TAJIK [...] As First Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov categorically promised the Ambassador February 14, the Tajik Government re-registered National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Deputy Director Nurul Rakhimbekov February 15, the last possible day before his legal status would have lapsed. 2. DCM [...] |
2006-02-15 09:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE307 |
FM NAZAROV SAYS NGO DRAFT LAW "POSTPONED INDEFINITELY" [...] (C) At the end of a long meeting February 14 on BBC registration and licensing (ref A), the Ambassador noted to Foreign Minister Nazarov a February 11 press statement (ref B) in which a Ministry of Justice official called for a "law stipulating strict control over activities of NGOs." The [...] |
2006-02-15 09:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP KDEM RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE311 |
SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER TO ASK PERMISSION THAN BEG [...] (U) USAID Dushanbe requested guidance from the Ambassador February 15 on a sensitive issue. The U.S. NGO Community Habitat and Finance (CHF)'s Alternative to Conflict in Tajikistan program has an Economic Opportunity Center (EOC) in Isfara in the sensitive Farghana Valley that offers computer [...] |
2006-02-16 11:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KISL KIRF TI |
| 06DUSHANBE316 |
TURNING THE PROPAGANDA OF COMPETITION INTO THE PUBLIC [...] U.S. Ambassador Hoagland and Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov jointly presented certificates to the first 15 graduates of the U.S.-funded Ministry of Interior Criminal Intelligence Analytical Center February 17 in Dushanbe. With INL funding, the United States renovated and equipped the [...] |
2006-02-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PROP PTER SNAR KCRM KPAO RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE32 |
EMERGENCY SUPPLIES FOR TAJIKISTAN BORDER GUARDS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-04 12:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PREL TI |
| 06DUSHANBE321 |
NEW ECONOMIC ADVISER INTENDS TO ACCELERATE REFORM [...] (C) Newly appointed Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs Matlubhon Davlatov characterized his appointment not as a change in President Rahmonov's economic reform agenda but as a means to accelerate it. "I'm not new to this team," he told the Ambassador during a February 17 initial meeting [...] |
2006-02-21 05:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID TI |
| 06DUSHANBE322 |
TAJIKISTAN: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR KEY VISITORS FROM [...] (C) During an interagency meeting in Washington in January to elaborate the Tajikistan section of the policy document, "A Strategy for Central Asia," the Ambassador undertook to recommend names of key Tajik insiders who could be invited to Washington for low-profile but high-level conversation [...] |
2006-02-21 05:51:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM TI |
| 06DUSHANBE326 |
HYDROPOWER 101: A GUIDE TO TAJIKISTAN'S PROSPECTS, PROJECTS, [...] (U) Tajikistan's mountains and rivers provide it an estimated four percent of the world's hydropower resources. The Tajik government has no shortage of promises and offers to help develop this natural resource, and is currently balancing competing interests and priorities to maximize the fina [...] |
2006-02-21 11:46:00 | |||