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07MOSCOW674 | RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: TIME OUT ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Russia and Moldova began negotiating a package in secret after the reconciliation last August between SIPDIS Presidents Putin and Voronin. The package included the status of Transnistria within a neutral Moldova, the modalities of governance and peacekeeping, and assurances that Transn [...] | 2007-02-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS |
07MOSCOW677 | RUSSIANS SUPPORT AFRICAN UNION FORCE IN SOMALIA [...] (C) On February 15 we delivered reftel points to Oleg Dadayev, chief of the MFA's Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea Section, urging support for an African Union force in Somalia. Dadayev said the GOR would support an African Union Force as well as the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia. [...] | 2007-02-15 15:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL EUN SO RS |
07MOSCOW695 | NGOS: SILVER LINING BUT A LOOMING DARK CLOUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: After initial difficulties in getting re-registered, our U.S. and foreign NGO contacts have resumed normal activities and express little concern over the follow-on reporting requirements. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) surprisingly has even expressed interest in working [...] | 2007-02-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID RS |
07MOSCOW697 | RUSSIA: KHODORKOVSKIY/LEBEDEV CHARGES DETAILED [...] (C) Summary. Russia's Attorney General has charged Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev with two counts of embezzlement and two counts of money-laundering (under Articles 160 and 174 of the Russian Criminal Code),which carry a maximum sentence of 15 and 10 years, respectively. The case i [...] | 2007-02-16 12:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV RS |
07MOSCOW705 | PUTIN'S MUNICH SPEECH: ONE WEEK LATER [...] (C) Summary: One week after delivery, Putin's Munich speech continues to draw praise among Russian analysts as a direct expression of Moscow's foreign policy views and a needed corrective to Western assumptions which take Russian interests for granted. Among Moscow experts, there was littl [...] | 2007-02-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS |
07MOSCOW707 | RUSSIA: OVERSIGHT AGENCY HEAD TAKES STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 14 discussion with the Ambassador, Rostekhnadzor Director Pulikovskiy said Russia will focus on training and safety when it expands its nuclear energy network. No one wants to repeat the "bitter experience" of Chornobyl, he said. He looks forward to a product [...] | 2007-02-16 15:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL ETRD PARM RU KS KN |
07MOSCOW749 | CONGRESSMAN LANTOS' MEETING WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Tom Lantos, meeting with FM Lavrov February 19, underlined the importance of building strong ties between Russia and the U.S. by reinvigorating links between legislators and working together on issues like nuclear nonproliferation. Lavrov welcomed closer legislati [...] | 2007-02-21 11:34:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OREP RS |
07MOSCOW753 | HIRC Chairman Lantos Meeting with Russian Security Council [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 19 meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov, HIRC Chairman Lantos announced his intent to introduce legislation repealing Jackson-Vanik and inaugurate a formal congressional working group with Russian Duma Chairman of the International Relations Com [...] | 2007-02-21 12:47:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OREP RS |
07MOSCOW754 | IRAN: SANCTIONS DECREE SUBJECT OF INTERAGENCY [...] (C) We discussed reftel requests regarding implementation of UNSCR 1737 (Iran) with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov told us that a draft presidential decree necessary to implement the sanctions regim [...] | 2007-02-21 13:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP EFIN ETTC KTFN IR RS |
07MOSCOW770 | MISSILE DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR LAUNCH NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 13:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MNUC OPRC PARM PREL RS |
07MOSCOW774 | RUSSIA: PROSECUTORS COMPLETE KHODORKOVSKIY [...] (C) Summary. On February 16, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office announced that it had completed the preliminary investigation in the new criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev (Reftel). The case file will now be turned over to the defendants and their lawyers for [...] | 2007-02-22 14:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL RS |
07MOSCOW777 | BOSNIA: RUSSIANS NOT KEEN ON EXTENDING OFFICE OF [...] (C) Vadim Gorelov, Chief of the MFA's Bosnia and Herzegovina Affairs Section, told us February 21 that the GOR would not be able agree to extend the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner (OHC) at the February 26-27 Peace Implementations Council's Steering Committee meeting. Gorelov s [...] | 2007-02-22 16:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK RS |
07MOSCOW78 | ISKANDER-E MISSILE FOR LIBYA: RUSSIA HEDGES ON [...] (S) On January 11 we conveyed to the MFA U.S interest (ref) in a technical experts meeting in Moscow before January 29 to discuss issues relating to Libya's possible purchase of the Iskander-E missile. Sergey Petlyakov, Chief of the Arms Technology and Transfer Division of the Foreign Ministr [...] | 2007-01-11 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM PREL MCAP KNNP LY UK RS |
07MOSCOW827 | RUSSIA: THE CASE FOR LIMITED U.S. FUNDING OF RFFE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission strongly supports continued limited USG funding for the Russian Foundation for Free Elections (RFFE) under its existing grant. U.S. monies would be used only to train election observers and to operate a voter hotline. While RFFE does receive some government support, cont [...] | 2007-02-27 16:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM RS |
07MOSCOW828 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAMAS VISIT, SYRIA, AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov told the Ambassador February 27 that the MFA saw Hamas as evolving in its views on Israel following a February 26-27 Moscow visit by Hamas Politburo Chief Mishal. While Mishal was not willing to directly address publicly the question of recogni [...] | 2007-02-27 16:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EAID IS LE SY IZ SA RS |
07MOSCOW842 | RUSSIA: ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KN PARM RS IR |
07MOSCOW845 | "FOR A JUST RUSSIA" POSITIONS SELF AS [...] (SBU) The second, Kremlin-approved party, "For a Just Russia (SR)" at its inaugural congress February 24-27 combined left-wing rhetoric, criticism of the GOR's performance, anger at its treatment in the regions, and patriotism in a credible effort to establish itself as an alternative to the g [...] | 2007-02-28 16:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI PREL RS |
07MOSCOW849 | DPRK: MOSCOW REACTS TO SIX-PARTY RESULTS [...] (C) Moscow's North Korea hands -- both official and unofficial --- welcomed the results of the February Six-Party Talks but remained critical of U.S. policies towards the DPRK. While the MFA's terse announcement summarized the decisions made in Beijing, Foreign Minister Lavrov was more expan [...] | 2007-02-28 17:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS |
07MOSCOW871 | MOSCOW MAYOR IN SEVASTOPOL: MFA DISTANCES ITSELF [...] (C) Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov's February 21 rant in Sevastopol about Russian interests in Crimea merited modest coverage on the major evening television news programs, but did not have much resonance in GOR official circles. The GOR continues to emphasize the "new maturity" in Russian-Ukrai [...] | 2007-03-01 13:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP RS |
07MOSCOW873 | RUSSIA:AEROFLOT-BOEING DEAL UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hard as it may be to believe, the Aeroflot wide-bodied tender is not over, and Boeing has not written off the deal (as speculated in the press). Yet prospects diminish as Boeing's delivery advantage slips with each passing month the contract remains unsigned -- even though Aerofl [...] | 2007-03-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR PREL RS |
07MOSCOW875 | RUSSIA'S GAS WEAKNESS [...] (C) Summary. Owing in part to rapid economic growth but also in large part to poorly managed resources by Gazprom, Russia is facing a gas production crunch. While this problem was recognized early on by analysts, the GOR seems to have only awakened to the dilemma relatively recently. Gazprom [...] | 2007-03-01 14:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
07MOSCOW979 | DCM RAISES WORLD VISION'S SUSPENSION WITH THE MFA [...] (C) The DCM expressed our concern over the suspension of World Vision's activities in Chechnya with MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov in a March 5 meeting. He noted our continued support for World Vision, its history of excellent work in the region, and asked if MFA could pro [...] | 2007-03-07 16:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PINR PREL RS |
07MOSCOW980 | RUSSIAN ENERGY: PROSPECTS FOR DEALS IN THE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Despite increased GOR control over the sector, U.S. majors are involved in several high-profile deals and below-the-radar deals are becoming more common as well. Russia will need western expertise -- most urgently on the gas side -- as it moves to exploit the offshore and the ea [...] | 2007-03-09 03:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
07MUMBAI134 | KAKODKAR GIVES POSITIVE HEARING TO U.S. INDUSTRY [...] (C) DAE Secretary Anil Kakodkar made a strong positive impression on members of USIBC's nuclear trade delegation during their March 8 meeting in Mumbai. In a briefing following the meeting, most delegation members told us that Kakodkar made compelling arguments to include reprocessing rights i [...] | 2007-03-09 14:05:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG SENV BEXP EFIN EINV EPET EMIN ETRD PREL |
07MUMBAI38 | MUMBAI GOES TO THE POLLS ON FEBRUARY 1 [...] (SBU) Residents of Mumbai and several other cities in Maharashtra will go to the polls on Feb. 1 to elect the 277 members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),the city's main municipal body. As in the past, the urban poor, swayed by opportunistic politicians who deliver the pork sh [...] | 2007-01-23 05:53:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUMBAI39 | BJP, SHIV SENA FACE TROUBLES HEADING INTO MUMBAI ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Since 1992 a "saffron alliance" of Shiv Sena and the BJP has controlled the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),Mumbai's main municipal body. By all accounts, both parties will struggle to maintain power in the BMC in the elections scheduled for February 1 (ref A). The Shiv Sena w [...] | 2007-01-23 07:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUMBAI649 | SECRETARY PAULSON SPEAKS AT INDIAN INFRASTRUCTURE CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: At an Infrastructure Conference in Mumbai on October 29, 2007, visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson encouraged continued economic reforms in India, especially transparent and independent regulatory frameworks. He underscored India's need to develop a domestic corporate bond [...] | 2007-11-07 13:36:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG PREL IN |
07MUMBAI651 | CHURCH ADVOCACY RESULTS IN ACTION BY RELUCTANT POLICE AFTER [...] Summary: On October 25, 15 to 20 members of a right- wing Hindu group allegedly assaulted and injured five nuns of the Franciscan Clarist order near Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Christian sources told us that the Indore police were initially reluctant to register a complaint against the Hindu att [...] | 2007-11-08 07:11:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM IN |
07MUMBAI81 | SHIV SENA/BJP DEFY EXPECTATIONS, RETAIN CONTROL OF MUMBAI [...] (SBU) Defying nay-sayers, the Shiv Sena/BJP alliance retained control of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in the February 1 elections (ref A). The alliance will return to power with a smaller majority, however. The result cemented Uddhav Thackeray's claim to succeed his aging father and Shiv [...] | 2007-02-08 11:19:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN |
07MUNICH106 | BAVARIAN TAKE ON DOHA AND CLOSER TRANSATLATIC INTEGRATION [...] In a discussion with senior officials from the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs and the State Chancery, Embassy Berlin EMIN stressed the urgency of German and EU action to revitalize the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) now. He pointed to statements by Chancellor Merkel and other senior Ge [...] | 2007-02-21 17:13:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECON GM |
07MUNICH196 | CRISIS AT SIEMENS - JUST HOW BAD IS IT? [...] Manufacturing giant Siemens, a household name in Germany and in much of the world, has become embroiled in a recent string of scandals ranging from "outsourced" job losses to accusations of bribery of customers and unions that have tarnished the firm's reputation. Even before the March 27 ar [...] | 2007-04-03 14:40:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN GM |
07MUNICH218 | BECKSTEIN LEADS BAVARIA'S GET-TOUGH APPROACH TO ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) Guenther Beckstein, Germany's longest-serving state Interior Minister and presumptive future Bavarian Minister President (REF A),has for years identified Islamic terrorism as the greatest risk to domestic security in Germany. According to Beckstein, about 50 people living in Bavaria ha [...] | 2007-04-11 09:34:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
07MUNICH258 | MUNICH PROSECUTOR DOES NOT ANTICIPATE EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) ConGen Munich contacted Munich Deputy District Attorney August Stern on April 24 in an effort to clarify whether the "request for provisional arrest" by his office in the Al Masri case (Ref A) would lead to a request for extradition under Article 16 of the bilateral extradition treaty b [...] | 2007-04-25 09:14:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PTER GM |
07MUNICH325 | MUNICH G-8 JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS MEETING [...] The below text is the concluding declaration from the G-8 Justice and Interior Ministers Meeting held in Munich May 23-25. The U.S. was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jackson. 2. Begin text: During our meeting in Munich on [...] | 2007-05-25 15:24:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
07MUNICH409 | ANSAR AL-ISLAM MEMBERS CONVICTED BY BAVARIAN COURT [...] (SBU) The Bavarian Supreme Court sentenced Ansar al-Islam member Farhad Kanabi Ahmad to five years and six months in prison on July 9 following the sentencing of Dieman Abdulkadir Izzat to three years and three months in prison on June 25. Prosecutors had asked for sentences of six years for [...] | 2007-07-11 07:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ETTC PGOV PREL KCRM KISL KVPR GM |
07MUNICH412 | NAVIGATING A MESS: EADS OFFICIALS ON GALILEO [...] (SBU) Senior EADS-Astrium officials told ConGen Munich the recent collapse of the Galileo consortium of private firms resulted as much from squabbling between EU states over apportionment of contracts as a failure to find a workable economic model. They described the current economic model as [...] | 2007-07-13 13:56:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
07MUNICH463 | BIOGAS IN BAVARIA: A MODEL FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE? [...] ConGen Munich visited a biomethane plant in Pliening, Bavaria built and run by Schmack Biogas AG, a leader in the biogas field. The plant is a showcase for the state of the art in biogas technology, and an example of the potential of biomass as a fuel source. Schmack representatives are optim [...] | 2007-08-13 05:40:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL ENRG TRGY KGHG GM |
07MUNICH646 | PROPOSED BAVARIAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) A controversial proposal for an Islamic academy in Munich illustrates some of the challenges of balancing integration and security concerns in a conservative German state. The academy, to be funded by the UAE, would be a first-of-its-kind proposal by IVLP grantee Imam Benjamin Idriz of t [...] | 2007-12-18 11:18:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | GE KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER SOCI |
07MUNICH652 | GALILEO AND THE EU -- NAVIGATING THE PORK BARREL [...] (SBU) EADS-Astrium officials told Embassy Berlin EMIN and ConGen Munich that the Galileo satellite navigation project is proceeding under its new EU funding mechanism, albeit well behind schedule. The officials expressed frustration at the Byzantine web of EU politics and blatant promotion of [...] | 2007-12-21 10:53:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
07MUNICH81 | PUTIN AND GATES DOMINATE MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) The February 9-11 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as "Wehrkunde") on "Global Crises - Global Responsibilities" was dominated by differing visions of the Transatlantic role in global security. Chancellor Merkel, Secretary Gates, Senators McCain and Lieberman, a [...] | 2007-02-12 17:28:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO OSCE PARM PREL GM IR AF RS |
07MUSCAT1004 | FOREIGN WORKERS ENGAGE IN VIOLENT PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: Low-skilled workers from India and Nepal employed by a Muscat-area cleaning company recently protested over alleged contract violations and poor living conditions in the company-owned and operated housing compound. The workers created a disturbance, and Omani security forces repo [...] | 2007-10-31 08:02:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT1006 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 12:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA MU |
07MUSCAT101 | TERRORIST LIST: OMAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 13:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT1012 | U.S.-OMAN MEETING IN THE HAGUE ON CWC HOST COUNTRY [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief met on November 3 with Abdullah al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the Department of International Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to confirm a proposed meeting in The Hague between the Omani and U.S. delegations to the conference of the states parties to the Chemi [...] | 2007-11-03 13:00:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KTIA CWC MU |
07MUSCAT102 | OMANI MFA UNDER SECRETARY ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al Busaidi told the Ambassador on January 31 that the next Arab League Summit would be held in Riyadh in late March. According to Sayyid Badr, Saudi King Abdullah had insisted that the summit be held in Riyadh, rather than in Sharm [...] | 2007-01-31 13:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL YE MU |
07MUSCAT1027 | DRAFT MOU ON GAS PRODUCTION WEIGHTED TOWARD IRAN [...] (S) Embassy has obtained a draft working copy (used by an Iranian delegation visiting Muscat) of the May 14, 2007, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Oman Oil Company (OOC),which outlines the scope of bilateral cooperation on natural gas. [...] | 2007-11-07 12:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL ECON EPET IR MU |
07MUSCAT103 | OMANI-SAUDI INITIATIVE TO CONVENE SOMALIA [...] (C) During a January 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Omani Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al Busaidi said that Sultan Qaboos and Saudi King Abdullah had discussed and tentatively agreed to convene a conference in Riyadh to help stabilize Somalia and shore up the Somali Transitio [...] | 2007-01-31 14:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SO MU |
07MUSCAT1034 | SULTAN QABOOS TO NEW OMAN MAJLIS: STATUS QUO JUST [...] (C) Sultan Qaboos delivered his annual address opening the Majlis Oman on November 6. During the relatively rare public speaking engagement, the Sultan tipped his hat to the work of the Majlis and expressed appreciation for voter participation in the recent national elections (refs A, B). How [...] | 2007-11-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MU |
07MUSCAT1035 | MINISTER AGREES ONUS ON OMAN TO COMPLETE FTA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) On November 11, the Ambassador met with Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali Sultan to deliver reftel letter from USTR Susan Schwab and gain an update on pending U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) action items. In [...] | 2007-11-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1036 | MINISTER REMINDED OF IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (C) In light of ongoing discussions between Oman and Iran regarding joint oil and gas projects (reftel),the Ambassador reminded Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali Sultan on November 11 of the provisions of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA). (Note: The Minister also serves as chairm [...] | 2007-11-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EPET PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT1040 | OMANIS SPEAK OUT ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) In attempt to get an unvarnished view of U.S. foreign policy from well-educated Omanis, who are normally reluctant to openly share their opinions on political topics, the Ambassador convened on November 6 the first of a planned series of small-scale discussion groups. Entitled "First Tue [...] | 2007-11-13 11:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KDEM MU |
07MUSCAT1046 | WORKERS INVOLVED IN LABOR PROTEST DEPORTED [...] (C) Three weeks after a reportedly violent demonstration by 500-600 Indian and Nepalese workers of the al-Nebha cleaning company against alleged contract violations and poor living conditions (reftel),contacts report that there have been no further protests and that the situation at the comp [...] | 2007-11-14 11:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MU |
07MUSCAT1061 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MORAN'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (U) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Oman. We look forward to your arrival on November 25 to discuss regional stability and economic development issues in the context of our overall bilateral relationship. In order to fulfill these objectives, we are seeking an [...] | 2007-11-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ELAB PHUM MU |
07MUSCAT1063 | ROYAL DECREE ISSUED FOR CITES ACCESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 13:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1064 | OMAN CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE TO ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE [...] (C) On November 20, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi confirmed to the Ambassador that he will lead Oman's delegation to the November 26 Annapolis Conference. The Minister will be accompanied by Mohammed al-Hassan, Director of Political Affairs, Minister's Office, and A [...] | 2007-11-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PGOV MU |
07MUSCAT1065 | OCTOBER 31 U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S/NF) During the October 31 U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat, Omani officials -- led by MFA Secretary General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi -- claimed that SIPDIS current U.S. policy towards Iran, including the use of sanctions, was pushing the region into a crisis and emboldenin [...] | 2007-11-20 14:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT1079 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES' [...] (SBU) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. We have requested an audience for you with Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Oman's head of state, as well as a meeting with your Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi, Minister Responsible for Defense Affa [...] | 2007-11-27 10:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP |
07MUSCAT1091 | OMANI COMMERCE MINISTER TALKS UP FTA BENEFITS WITH [...] (SBU) Oman's Commerce and Industry Minister spoke highly of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement's (FTA) potential to strengthen bilateral economic relations during a November 26 visit to Muscat by a U.S. Congressional delegation. The Agreement, according to the Minister, would assist government [...] | 2007-12-04 07:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1092 | OMAN CLOSE TO ESTABLISHING FIU, IMPLEMENTING [...] (SBU) Oman continues to move closer toward the formal establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the promulgation of a new "Law to Combat Terrorism Financing." Both initiatives are part of the government's broader efforts to strengthen its anti-money laundering and counter-terrori [...] | 2007-12-04 07:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT1093 | BIGGER BUDGET EXPECTED FOR OMAN IN 2008 [...] (C) The Ministry of National Economy presented the first glimpse of Oman's 2008 budget during a November 26 presentation by its Minister before representatives of the Majlis al-Shura. The budget numbers, which the Ministry characterized as striking a balance between economic development and f [...] | 2007-12-04 10:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1096 | CODEL MORAN MEETING WITH OMANI DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, the Omani Deputy Prime Minister praised U.S.-Oman relations and welcomed U.S. engagement in the region. He characterized Iran as a country determined to win respect from the international community and discounted inf [...] | 2007-12-05 06:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KPAL ECON ENRG IR MU |
07MUSCAT1101 | OMAN WILL CONTINUE CURRENCY PEG TO DOLLAR [...] (C) On November 26, the Ambassador discussed Oman's monetary policy with Minister of National Economy, and Supervisor of the Ministry of Finance, Ahmed bin Abdul Nabi Macki. Macki stated that Oman was not contemplating, and was adamantly opposed to, changing its rial peg to the dollar. "The d [...] | 2007-12-05 12:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1102 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS CHAIRMAN REAFFIRMS [...] (U) This is an Action Message. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) On December 2, the Ambassador met with Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Chairman Mohammed al-Khusaibi, along with Committee Members Naashiah al-Kharusi and Colonel Mohsin al-Hafeedh, to discuss progress toward est [...] | 2007-12-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1116 | OMANIS HIRING MAIDS FROM THE UAE: FOLLOW-UP AND [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the embassies of labor-exporting countries report that some recruitment agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue to force women who have run away from their Emerati sponsors to accept employment in Oman. Omani sponsors hire the women in the UAE and transport [...] | 2007-12-12 07:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU |
07MUSCAT1120 | OMANI PLANS FOR PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 11:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS MU |
07MUSCAT1121 | OMANI SUPPORT FOR LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on December 12 during a meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Sayyid Badr SIPDIS confirmed that Oman supported the holding of timely Lebanese presidential elections without linkage to other issues, bu [...] | 2007-12-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM LE SY MU |
07MUSCAT1122 | OMAN DOUBTFUL ON IRANIAN SUSPENSION OF NUCLEAR [...] (C) During a December 12 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, the Ambassador drew from refs A and C to emphasize continuing U.S. concerns over Iran's nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile development programs following the release of the Nation [...] | 2007-12-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR MU |
07MUSCAT1124 | OMAN STILL MULLING RE-OPENING OF BAGHDAD EMBASSY [...] (C) In follow-up to discussions at the October 31 U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (reftel),the Ambassador asked Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi on December 12 about the status of plans to re-open Oman's embassy in Baghdad. Sayyid Badr replied that the g [...] | 2007-12-12 12:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ MU |
07MUSCAT1125 | OMANI OFFICIALS WARN THAT SETTLEMENT EXPANSION [...] (C) In discussing Oman's plans for the December 17 donors conference in Paris (reftel),Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi told the Ambassador SIPDIS on December 12 that while financial support for the Palestinian Authority was important, it was "not enough [...] | 2007-12-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS MU |
07MUSCAT1126 | THE ROYAL GUESSING GAME: THE NEXT GENERATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: The question of the royal succession is an exquisitely sensitive one in Oman. When the topic arises as to who might follow Sultan Qaboos, a common reaction is a conversation-ending "may he live forever." The Sultanate has historically lacked a crown prince system like many of i [...] | 2007-12-15 07:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PINR PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1136 | OMAN REMAINS COMMITTED TO DOLLAR [...] (C) The Central Bank Executive President affirmed to the Ambassador that Oman would maintain its currency peg to the dollar and the current rate of exchange, although he also asked for the USG's support in stabilizing the greenback. He acknowledged that inflationary pressures were calling into [...] | 2007-12-17 13:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1139 | OMANI FM PROMOTES STRONGER COMMERCIAL TIES [...] (U) In a December 25 interview with private Arabic-language daily "al-Shabiba," Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi stressed the importance of improving commercial ties with regional partners to stimulate both trade and foreign direct investment. He cited the govern [...] | 2007-12-29 14:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT1140 | OMANI GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS BHUTTO ASSASSINATION [...] (U) On December 27, Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a public statement condemning the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Characterizing the act as "brutal" and "criminal," the government expressed its "deep sympathy and condolences" to Bhutto's family and the Pakistani people. The Min [...] | 2007-12-29 14:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PTER SHUM MU |
07MUSCAT129 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL JOHN P. [...] (S) General Abizaid: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to seeing you and hearing your perspective on activities in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in [...] | 2007-02-06 15:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT132 | TRANSPORT MINISTER UPDATES BUSINESS COMMUNITY ON [...] (SBU) The Minister of Transport and Communications, accompanied by project design consultants, briefed the local business community on February 7 on the progress of new terminal construction at Muscat's Seeb and Salalah international airports. Tenders will be issued once the detailed design w [...] | 2007-02-11 12:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT135 | OMANI SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 11:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EFIN IR MU |
07MUSCAT136 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points and related documents on February 11 to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi. The Ambassador noted that becoming a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (Global Initiative) would complement Oman's cu [...] | 2007-02-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KGIT KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT137 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER SHARES VIEWS ON SOMALIA [...] (C) During a February 11 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi, the Ambassador delivered the U.S. response to the Omani-Saudi proposal to convene a regional foreign ministers' meeting on Somalia (refs A and B),and also raised ref C points seeking support for [...] | 2007-02-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS SO MU |
07MUSCAT152 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS DAMASCUS; PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs reported that Syrian officials were preoccupied with the large number of Iraqi refugees in Syria during his recent visit to Damascus. The Syrians, he contended, were hopeful for an amicable resolution to the political crisis in Beir [...] | 2007-02-14 13:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER IR IZ LE MU |
07MUSCAT154 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO ISRAELI MINISTER LIVNI: [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi met privately this week with Israeli Foreign Minister Livni in Madrid. Their brief talks focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the announcement of a Palestinian national unity government, which Oman sees a [...] | 2007-02-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS MU |
07MUSCAT155 | SCENESETTER FOR NAVCENT COMMANDER VADM PATRICK [...] (S) Vice Admiral Walsh: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism. Like other GCC countries, it is becoming increasingly concerned with Iranian intentions in the Gulf. Oman expressed high-level interest i [...] | 2007-02-18 08:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT16 | FTA AWARENESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS OMAN'S BFIF [...] On December 6, 2006, the Embassy, in coordination with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED),and the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI),sponsored a successful "2006 Oman-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Awareness [...] | 2007-01-07 08:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ETRD BEXP MU |
07MUSCAT167 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (S) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism. Regional threat issues continue to be a prominent concern for Oman's leadership. Oman is disturbed by Iran's growing influence in the region and its inability to come to [...] | 2007-02-20 07:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | OVIP PREL ECON MU |
07MUSCAT171 | SOHAR PORT OFFICIALS THINKING BIG [...] Port of Sohar officials continue to think big in terms of port expansion as industrial projects for the complex continue to come on-line. The Port is positioning itself as a convenient economic alternative to ports within the Arabian Gulf, with its dry, liquid, and container terminals already [...] | 2007-02-20 12:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EWWT PREL MU |
07MUSCAT172 | AGRICULTURE MINISTRY GRAPPLES WITH WATER AND [...] The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries identified water scarcity and disease control as top priorities for the Ministry in efforts to sustain employment in these historically important sectors. The Minister further expressed interest in hosting a research facility that was initially destin [...] | 2007-02-20 12:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PREL KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT179 | UNRESOLVED PASSPORT ISSUES COMPOUNDING AFGHAN [...] This is an action request for Department guidance. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During a recent meeting with the Ambassador, the Charge d' Affairs of the Embassy of Afghanistan to Oman, Sayyid Mohammad Gailani, stated that he is facing considerable difficulty conducting his official busi [...] | 2007-02-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF MU |
07MUSCAT188 | IRAQI DELEGATION RECEIVES ADVICE, SUPPORT FROM [...] (C) Summary: An Iraqi delegation led by the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs visited Muscat from February 16-18. Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, Yousef bin Alawi, told the group that the Iraqi government needed to "speak with one voice" and promote policies that [...] | 2007-02-26 08:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ MU |
07MUSCAT190 | MORE POWER ON THE HORIZON FOR OMAN [...] (U) This message contains sensitive business information. Please protect accordingly. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Anticipated increases in Oman's power and water consumption will necessitate a concurrent increase in production capacity, according to projections from the Oman Power [...] | 2007-02-26 09:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT191 | FTA PROCESS WEARING ON FRUSTRATED COMMERCE MINISTER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) The Ambassador recently received information via Baker Donelson, Oman's counsel in Washington, that Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan is tiring of the slow pace of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement implement [...] | 2007-02-26 13:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON MU |
07MUSCAT193 | OMAN PREPARING TO DRAFT ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION [...] (C) The Ambassador and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi had a frank discussion on February 21 about trafficking in persons (TIP) and Oman's lack of progress in addressing the USG's TIP concerns. The Ambassador informed the Under Secretary that the Embass [...] | 2007-02-27 07:48:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN MU |
07MUSCAT201 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 13:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT206 | CORRECTED COPY - OMANIS HIRING MAIDS FROM THE UAE: PROBABLY [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts report that Omanis are hiring domestic employees from recruitment agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and bringing them across the border into Oman. The practice of hiring maids from a third-country allegedly is legal, but a number of women who claim to h [...] | 2007-03-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU |
07MUSCAT207 | COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY HEARS OMANI FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Commerce Deputy Secretary David Sampson called for forging stronger commercial ties in anticipation of the implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) during February 6 meetings with Omani government and business leaders. Oman's business community expressed its eagerness to [...] | 2007-03-03 09:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT217 | TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT? [...] On Mach 3, Shaikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Qatabi, President of the Majlis al-Shura, opened the National Sympsium on Food Safety in Muscat, sponsored by the inistry of Regional Municipalities, Environment ad Water Resources in association with the Ministy of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture a [...] | 2007-03-06 06:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO PREL EAR MU |
07MUSCAT227 | OMANI REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATE REPORT ON JANUARY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Embassy Muscat recently received a diplomatic note, dated February 28, 2007, from the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the January 8, 2007 collision of a U.S. military submarine and a Japanese oil tanker near the S [...] | 2007-03-06 11:38:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP MARR MU |
07MUSCAT234 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES READOUT FROM MARCH [...] (C) Summary: Oman's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador on March 10 that Iranian officials during his most recent trip to Tehran were eager to restart negotiations to resolve concerns over Iran's nuclear program. They asserted, however, that suspension of uranium enrichment activities could [...] | 2007-03-11 04:38:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL IR LE MU |
07MUSCAT246 | SUCCESSFUL CUSTOMS WORKSHOP CONCLUDES [...] The U.S. Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP),in association with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),staged a successful MEPI-funded U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) workshop for customs officials from the Royal Oman Police (ROP). The workshop, part of a technical assist [...] | 2007-03-11 11:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT247 | OMAN RESPONSE TO CITES IMPLEMENTATION CONCERN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-11 11:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT252 | OMAN CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN MEFTA TRADE AND [...] (U) On March 10, the Ambassador met with Salem al-Ismaily, the Executive President of the Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED),to urge Oman's participation in the proposed March 29 Middle East Free Trade Agreement (MEFTA) Trade and Investment Conference. Ismai [...] | 2007-03-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT253 | TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE KEY TO MOVING FTA FORWARD [...] (C) During a March 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Oman's Investment Promotion and Export Development Executive President identified the Omani bureaucracy's lack of requisite expertise as the primary cause for the delay in the FTA implementation process. He noted that the USG's offering of t [...] | 2007-03-12 13:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT254 | FAREWELL WISHES FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL [...] As you conclude your exceptional career of service to our nation, I extend to you my personal best wishes and sincere thanks. I and many others have greatly appreciated your service to our country, particularly in this critical part of the world. From my experience, I know that both the King [...] | 2007-03-13 04:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MNUC MOPS PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT263 | WELCOME MESSAGE FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL [...] (S) Admiral, I warmly welcome you in your new command. Though I know your immediate attention will be focused on critical issues elsewhere in the region, I want to take this opportunity to highlight some issues related to one of our longest standing and most reliable allies in the region. [...] | 2007-03-14 05:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS MNUC MOPS PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT281 | UPDATE ON OMAN'S PARTICIPATION IN MEFTA CONFERENCE [...] Building on information reported ref B, Embassy has received updated information regarding the composition of the Omani delegation to the Middle East Free Trade Agreement Trade and Investment Conference. The delegation will now be headed by Dr. Salem bin Nasser al-Ismaily, Chief Executive Off [...] | 2007-03-20 06:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD BEXP MU |
07MUSCAT29 | BIGGER BUDGET ON TAP FOR OMAN IN 2007 [...] (U) Oman's 2007 budget, recently unveiled by the Minister of National Economy, calls for increased expenditures in anticipation of increased revenues. The government intends to plow a significant portion of the budget into investment-related initiatives to boost energy production and to diver [...] | 2007-01-09 12:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT298 | MINISTER OF MANPOWER OUTLINES ANTI-TIP ACTIONS; [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request (see paragraph 8). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During a meeting in early March with the Ambassador, Minister of Manpower Juma bin ali al-Juma shared elements of his Ministry's initial plans to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). In ad [...] | 2007-03-25 11:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT305 | OMAN CONSIDERS JOINING GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met on March 21 with Mohammad Al-Hassan, Deputy Director of the Office of Political Affairs for Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs bin Alawi, and Abdullah al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Department at the MFA, to continue ongoing discussions (r [...] | 2007-03-27 08:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT309 | DOD ACTING A/S MARY BETH LONG REVIEWS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 20 meeting with Acting DoD A/S Mary Beth Long, Omani MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi emphasized the need to find a "political solution" to the situation in Iraq, noting that violence there was fueling the spread of extremist ideology. He urged the U.S. to [...] | 2007-03-27 13:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER KPAL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT324 | IN AL BURAIMI, FENCES MAKE FRUSTRATED NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary: Disgruntled residents of the Omani border city of al Buraimi claim that the Abu Dhabi emirate's border security and immigration controls are having a negative effect on their lives and economy. Oman has not responded with stringent border controls of its own, although the Royal O [...] | 2007-04-01 09:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MU |
07MUSCAT341 | CITES REMAINS PENDING BEFORE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) On April 2, the Ambassador raised the issue of Oman's accession to the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) with Humud al-Busaidi, Secretary General for the Council of Ministers. Busaidi stated that the Council had a considerable backlog of pending legislatio [...] | 2007-04-09 06:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT344 | OMANI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 10:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT355 | OMAN MOVING FORWARD ON PRIVATIZATION EFFORTS [...] (U) The Ministry of National Economy's Director of Privatization provided Econoff a status report on the government's various privatization initiatives in the power, water, waste, telecommunications, and postal sectors. The government will continue to proceed with its efforts at a measured pa [...] | 2007-04-11 05:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT358 | MOU ON CHALLENGE INSPECTIONS UNDER CHEMICAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points on April 10 to Abdullah al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the Department of International Affairs at the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Riyami stated that he was very well acquainted with [...] | 2007-04-11 12:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KTIA CWC MU |
07MUSCAT359 | BRITISH AMBASSADOR LAUDS OMANI ROLE IN IRAN’S [...] (C) During a May 11 meeting with the Ambassador, British Ambassador Noel Guckian expressed great satisfaction with Oman's efforts to facilitate the release of the 15 members of the British Royal Navy seized by Iranian forces on March 23. Guckian stated that he had been in near daily contact with Om [...] | 2007-04-11 12:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT366 | OMAN PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EFIN IZ MU |
07MUSCAT368 | FORMER IRAQI PM SHARES VIEWS DURING VISIT TO OMAN [...] (C) On April 14, the Ambassador discussed the April 8 visit of Iraq's former premier Iyad Allawi with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Per bin Alawi, the Omani government welcomed Allawi to Muscat as part of its efforts to strengthen relations with Iraq, as requested [...] | 2007-04-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ MU |
07MUSCAT369 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER CLAIMS IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) The unconditional release of the British sailors and marines by Iran earlier this month was ordered by Supreme Leader Khamenei over the strong objections of President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad, according to Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi. Bin Alawi told the Amb [...] | 2007-04-16 13:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT370 | FOREIGN MINISTER PLANNING MAY VISIT TO THE U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During an April 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi indicated he wished to travel to Washington, DC in May to meet with senior USG officials. He noted that his travel dates wo [...] | 2007-04-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP MU |
07MUSCAT371 | IAEA CHIEF VISITS MUSCAT [...] (C) Following talks with GCC and Saudi officials in Riyadh on April 12, IAEA Director General Mohammed al-Baradei made an unannounced visit to Muscat en route to Jordan and met with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi. Bin Alawi informed the Ambassador on April 14 that [...] | 2007-04-16 13:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT375 | MINISTER OF LEGAL AFFAIRS EXPECTS ANTI-TIP LAW [...] (C) At an April 15 meeting at the Ministry, the Ambassador pressed Minister of Legal Affairs, Mohammad al Alawi, for information about Oman's proposed anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation and a date when a law could be expected. The Minister stated that his Ministry has begun work on [...] | 2007-04-17 12:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN MU |
07MUSCAT378 | OMAN AIR RAMPS UP FOR EXPANSION [...] (C) Officials in the government and the airline industry confirmed press reports that Oman would draw down its stake in Gulf Air to focus on developing its own carrier, Oman Air, with the primary purpose of bringing tourists to the Sultanate. Oman Air faces the near-term challenge of leasing [...] | 2007-04-18 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT38 | SCENESETTER: VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE [...] (U) Greetings and welcome to Oman. The Embassy staff and I look forward to your arrival on February 5 to promote the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement in the context of our overall bilateral relationship. In addition to your planned participation as the keynote speaker at an Oman Chamber of Com [...] | 2007-01-14 14:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ETRD EAIR EIND PGOV PREL OTRA MU |
07MUSCAT387 | ROP STAFFING CONSTRAINTS PRESENT CHALLENGE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Oman currently participates in two USG security programs designed to scan containerized cargo in overseas ports. The Department of Energy's (DOE) Megaports initiative and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Container Security Initiative are scheduled to begin linked opera [...] | 2007-04-21 12:24:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL KNNP KSTC MU |
07MUSCAT388 | RECONCILING ANTI-TIP POLICY & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 9 through 12. 2. (SBU) Summary: Some expatriate workers who fill Oman's low-paid, low-skill service sector jobs face exploitative conditions and may be victims of trafficking. Workers in the commercial cleaning industry, including those under co [...] | 2007-04-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ELAB SMIG AMGT MU |
07MUSCAT41 | OMAN DOWNBEAT ON IRAQI PM MALIKI IN ADVANCE OF GCC [...] (C) Ambassador met on January 15 with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi in advance of the GCC plus 2 meeting in Kuwait to discuss the President's January 10 announcement on Iraqi policy (ref A),as well as the recent visit of Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora to Mu [...] | 2007-01-15 13:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ MU |
07MUSCAT414 | OMANIS TELL IRAQI PRIME MINISTER MALIKI "LEAD ALL [...] (C) Summary: Sultan Qaboos in his two-hour meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister (PM) Nouri al-Maliki told the visitor that he should set aside parochial and personal interests to "govern all Iraqis." The PM reviewed current challenges facing his government, highlighting the challenges [...] | 2007-04-29 11:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT415 | OMANI RESPONSE TO BEHEADING OF CAPTIVE BY CHILD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-29 12:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO MU |
07MUSCAT416 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (S) Admiral Fallon: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your wife to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to meeting you and hearing your perspective on events in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. As one of our oldest allies in the Mid [...] | 2007-04-29 13:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
07MUSCAT418 | OMAN ACCEDES TO IPR CONVENTIONS AND TREATIES [...] Local media reported that on April 23 the Omani government acceded to several international conventions and treaties pertaining to the protection of intellectual property. According to government-owned Arabic daily "Oman," Royal Decree 37/2007 directed Oman's immediate accession to the 1974 Co [...] | 2007-04-30 07:37:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL KPIR MU |
07MUSCAT42 | LEBANESE PM SINIORA IN MUSCAT: REQUESTS ADDITIONAL [...] (C) In a January 15 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi to discuss U.S. policy on Iraq (septel),Ambassador inquired about the visit of Lebanese PM Siniora the previous day (January 14) to Muscat. Bin Alawi replied that Siniora's meeting with Sultan Qaboos h [...] | 2007-01-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LE MU |
07MUSCAT427 | OMAN NON-RESPONSIVE ON SUPPORT FOR AMISOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 10:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS AL SO MU |
07MUSCAT435 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ -- OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAPS MOPS PREL PTER IZ MU |
07MUSCAT436 | IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS OMANIS HE'S EAGER [...] (U) See paragraph 5 action request. 2. (C) On the margins of the Oman-Iran Joint Economic Committee meeting in Muscat May 1, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motaki met briefly with Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi. While the Joint Committee meeting ha [...] | 2007-05-02 13:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT441 | IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS MUSCAT [...] (C) Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki visited Muscat from May 1-2 to attend the Oman-Iran Joint Economic Committee. While in Oman, he met briefly with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi (reftel) and was received by Sultan Qaboos, who reportedly extended an inv [...] | 2007-05-06 13:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD IR MU |
07MUSCAT448 | HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW OF DOD-FUNDED TRAINING [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para 2. 2. Embassy Muscat requests the Department's immediate assistance in performing human rights vetting for BAIT REEHAN, ASHRAF KHALIL RAMADHAN (DOB: August 13, 1972; Omani Passport #: 00561233) [...] | 2007-05-07 13:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR MASS MU |
07MUSCAT453 | BELARUS CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-08 11:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHRC MU |
07MUSCAT455 | MORE FRUSTRATION ON FTA IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS [...] (C) DCM, Econoff, and USTR consultant Jennifer Hillman on May 5 reviewed the outstanding issues related to the implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan. Maqbool welcomed former USTR General Counsel Hillman to Muscat, [...] | 2007-05-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT460 | ASSESSMENT ON UNHRC ELECTION: OMAN [...] (C) In response to ref A, the Ambassador met May 10 with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi to urge the Omani government to support Slovenia and Bosnia for seats on the UN Human Rights Council and to reject the bid of Belarus. (Note: The Ambassador previously raised U.S [...] | 2007-05-10 18:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC MU |
07MUSCAT461 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER ON UPCOMING VISIT OF [...] (C) The principal reasons for the visit of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad to Muscat are to give the Sultan an opportunity to meet and talk to the president and to discuss "Iran's image in the international community," according to Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bi [...] | 2007-05-11 10:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT467 | OMAN'S ALI MAJID COMMENTS ON IRAQ, UPCOMING VISIT [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad visit's to Muscat, General Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari, Minister of the Royal Office and head of the Office of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, told me that he had become very pessimistic about Iraq's future. Nevertheless, Om [...] | 2007-05-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT468 | OMAN CONFIRMS DATE FOR GSD TALKS [...] (SBU) The office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi has confirmed that the Under Secretary will be available to conduct the next round of Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) talks in Washington, D.C. the morning of June 18. Sayyid Badr has requested that he b [...] | 2007-05-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER IR MU |
07MUSCAT471 | COMMERCE MINISTER UPBEAT ON FTA AFTER CONSULTANT'S [...] (SBU) Oman's Commerce and Industry Minister and a USTR consultant discussed the progress made on outstanding U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) implementation issues after a week-long set of meetings with relevant stakeholders. The Minister was very appreciative of the consultant's efforts [...] | 2007-05-14 10:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT484 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS MUSCAT [...] (U) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Muscat from the UAE on the afternoon of May 14 for a two-day official visit to Oman. He was accompanied by a delegation of ten Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Minister of Labor Mohammed Jahromi and Ministe [...] | 2007-05-15 14:18:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT485 | TRAVEL OF UNSC DESIGNATED IRANIANS: OMAN [...] (U) Pol/Econ delivered reftel request and related information May 15 to Humeid al-Maani, Deputy Office Director for Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Maani gave no substantive response, but stated that he would forward the information to the Under Secr [...] | 2007-05-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT488 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi is looking forward to his visit to Washington, and particularly to his meeting with the Secretary. As the long-time de facto Foreign Minister for SIPDIS one of our oldest and most reliable friends in the Gulf, he [...] | 2007-05-16 11:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT493 | AHMADINEJAD VISIT TO MUSCAT "SHORT ON SUBSTANCE" [...] (C) In the late evening of May 16, the Deputy Chief of Mission received a readout of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's May 14-15 visit to Muscat from Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Bin Alawi characterized Ahmadinejad's visit as "rather short," noting that the [...] | 2007-05-17 09:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MU |
07MUSCAT503 | CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON MEETING WITH [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, Commander of USCENTCOM, received a warm welcome during his first office call with Lieutenant General Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF). The COSSAF expressed a strong desire to continue Oman's close working relationship with the U.S. Armed Forces [...] | 2007-05-20 12:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ MU |
07MUSCAT504 | CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON [...] (C) Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin-Said met May 12 with Admiral William Fallon, commander of U.S. CENTCOM. On Iraq, the Sultan spoke positively about Prime Minister Maliki, but noted that Maliki and his ministers needed to do more to govern for "all Iraqis." He also indirectly criticized the atti [...] | 2007-05-20 12:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT517 | OMAN DELIVERY OF UNSCR 1747 MESSAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 07:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC MU |
07MUSCAT522 | OMAN TO MAINTAIN DOLLAR PEG [...] (C) On May 27, Econoff confirmed with Central Bank of Oman Examination Manager Mansour al-Raisi that the Omani government remains committed to maintaining its dollar peg after Kuwait's recent decision to utilize a basket of currencies for valuation purposes. Raisi stated that the Central Bank [...] | 2007-05-28 04:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT529 | PSI FOURTH ANNIVERSARY: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 08:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT532 | ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 12:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC MTCRE KSCA ETTC TSPA MU |
07MUSCAT533 | OMAN HAS "STANDING ORDER" TO COMPLETE FTA BY JUNE [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraphs 5 and 6. 2. (SBU) On May 29, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi (Deputy Minister-equivalent) SIPDIS provided the Ambassador a readout of a May 29 meeting the Ministry held with those Omani agencies inv [...] | 2007-05-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT539 | APPOINTMENT REQUESTS FOR OMANI MFA UNDER SECRETARY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi will be traveling to Washington, D.C. to conduct Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) talks with U.S. officials on June 18 (reftel). During his stay in Washington, [...] | 2007-05-30 12:47:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP MU |
07MUSCAT545 | RARE OMANI CANDOR: AMBASSADOR HEARS LOCAL VIEWS OF [...] (SBU) From May 16-22, the Ambassador traveled overland from Muscat to Salalah and on to the Yemeni border - a trip of more than 1,300 kilometers - meeting with tribal sheikhs and other local officials along the way. The trip provided a unique opportunity to reach out to Omanis at the grassroot [...] | 2007-05-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL KPAO KISL IR IS IZ MU |
07MUSCAT546 | CITES VOTE PLACED ON COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AGENDA [...] (C) During a May 30 conversation with the Ambassador, MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi stated that he had recently completed three telephone calls with senior Omani officials and that as a result, a vote approving Oman's accession to the Convention on the International Trade of Endan [...] | 2007-05-30 13:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT551 | (S) DELIVERY OF POINTS ON SALE BY OMANI FIRM FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 05:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MTCRE ETTC IR MU |
07MUSCAT553 | INVITATION FOR OMANI DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 07:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR MU |
07MUSCAT557 | CITES VOTE IMMINENT [...] (C) On June 2, the Ambassador raised the issue of Oman's pledge to accede to the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) with Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan. Maqbool predicted that the Council of Ministers would act on implementing legislation [...] | 2007-06-03 12:17:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ETRD PREL MU |
07MUSCAT559 | OMAN DOWNPLAYS ISA IMPORTANCE AMIDST GAS CONCERNS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) On June 2, the Ambassador raised ref A concerns with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Bin Alawi responded that the Sultanate was in critical need of gas supplies to fuel its ambitious industrialization [...] | 2007-06-03 12:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT56 | CENTRAL BANK REAFFIRMS THAT OMAN WILL NOT JOIN GCC [...] (C) The Executive President of Oman's Central Bank noted in a meeting with the Ambassador that rushed timing and the government's reluctance to cede control over monetary and budgetary policy led to the decision to opt out of the proposed GCC monetary union. The Central Bank official expresse [...] | 2007-01-17 13:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT560 | COMMERCE MINISTER DOUR ON FTA PROGRESS [...] (U) On June 2, the Ambassador reviewed the status of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) implementation process with Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan. The Minister opened the conversation by acknowledging receipt of USG comments on Oman's draft tender law, which he not [...] | 2007-06-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT561 | OMANI SUPPORT FOR U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT567 | OMAN CONSIDERS PUBLISHING WARNING ON STUDY IN THE [...] (C) Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi told the Ambassador during a June 2 meeting that the government is considering publishing an announcement in local media warning Omanis of the possibility of detention by U.S. law enforcement authorities if they choose to study in th [...] | 2007-06-04 13:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OEXC SCUL KHLS KPAO CMGT CVIS MU |
07MUSCAT586 | TROPICAL CYCLONE GONU CAUSES SEVERE HARDSHIP FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Low-skilled expatriate workers - particularly those residing in employer-owned compounds locally known as "labor camps" - were severely affected by tropical cyclone Gonu and continue to face food and water shortages. The number of storm-related fatalities among these workers r [...] | 2007-06-11 11:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL AEMR ELBA SMIG MU |
07MUSCAT587 | OMANI MEDIA CHALLENGED BY CYCLONE REPORTING [...] (SBU) The profound limitations of Oman's media, public and private, have been thrown into high relief by the challenge of reporting the approach, onset, and aftermath of Cyclone Gonu between June 4 and the present. While basic information regarding the storm's arrival was disseminated on a re [...] | 2007-06-11 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OIIP KPAO PREL PGOV KMDR MU |
07MUSCAT595 | OMAN WILL CONSIDER PARTICIPATION IN IRAQI WMD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel information on June 11 to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi and requested that the Omani government agree to accept Iraqi WMD/missile scientists for one-year professional [...] | 2007-06-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PARM PINR PINS PREF PREL PTER IZ MU |
07MUSCAT596 | OMAN ISSUES CYCLONE RECOVERY DIRECTIVES, QUIETLY [...] (SBU) After being conspicuously absent from the public eye during and following the devastating impact of tropical cyclone Gonu on Oma (refs A-C),Sultan Qabos presided over a heavily-publicized meeting of the Council of Ministers on the evening of June 11 at his residence outside of Muscat. [...] | 2007-06-12 12:18:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | AMER AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KSAC KHLS MOPS |
07MUSCAT597 | TIP DEMARCHE READ OUT- CONCERN OVER TIER 3 [...] (C) On Monday morning, June 11, Emboffs delivered ref A, the Trafficking in Person's (TIP) demarche on Oman's Tier 3 designation, to the Director of the Under Secretary's Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Humaid al-Ma'ani. Al-Ma'ani expressed his disappointment with the lowered [...] | 2007-06-12 12:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KWMN KNNP MARR MU |
07MUSCAT60 | ARROGANCE, IGNORANCE CLOUDING IRANIAN JUDGEMENT [...] (C) Arrogance and overconfidence are clouding the judgment of the Iranian leadership, according to Mohammed bin Mafoudh al-Ardhi, former commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO). The retired Air Vice Marshall told the Ambassador January 16 that on a recent visit to Iran, he had met w [...] | 2007-01-22 03:00:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MU |
07MUSCAT602 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER SHARES VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) During a June 2 meeting with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador raised ref C concerns over a reported invitation by Iran to GCC states to inspect its Bushehr nuclear reactor. Bin Alawi responded that Iran had not issued a "formal invitation" to conduct such an [...] | 2007-06-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KNNP IR MU |
07MUSCAT61 | OMANI DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE CHIEF WARNS OF [...] (C) Summary: Iran has embarked on a policy of expansionism in the Arab and Muslim world, using religion to divide Arab Muslims, destabilize the region and threaten U.S. interests, according to Gen. Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari, Minister of the Royal Office and Supreme Commander of the Armed Fo [...] | 2007-01-22 12:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV IR MU |
07MUSCAT624 | OMAN REACHES OUT TO ASIAN TRADE PARTNERS [...] The Ministers of National Economy and Commerce & Industry recently staged a four-nation Asian tour to strengthen Oman's economic relationships with key energy importers. During the trip to South Korea, Japan, China, and Vietnam, the ministers concluded agreements for joint ventures in the pro [...] | 2007-06-17 06:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT627 | DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON U.S. EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] Post delivered ref A non-paper on additional designations under Executive Order 13382 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on June 18, 2007. In accordance with Oman's previous responses to similar notifications, the Central Bank will publish and distribute the names of the i [...] | 2007-06-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU |
07MUSCAT634 | ARABSAT BROADCASTS OF AL-ZAWRAA AND AL-MANAR: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL PTER KPAO MU |
07MUSCAT651 | SPONSORSHIP SYSTEM CONTRIBUTES TO TRAFFICKING, [...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts claim that the sponsorship system of recruiting and hiring low-skilled and domestic foreign workers contributes to trafficking in persons (TIP) in Oman. The system establishes conditions conducive to exploitation by making many workers dependent on their sponsors for the [...] | 2007-06-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU |
07MUSCAT652 | OMANI GOVERNMENT AND PRESS QUIET ABOUT POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) The Omani government and local press has provided scant details on Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool Ali Sultan's current visit to Tehran and meetings with Iranian officials. Oman's Ministry of Information reported simply that Maqbool and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mott [...] | 2007-06-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON EINV MU |
07MUSCAT661 | OMANI ACTIVIST SPEAKS OUT ON AL HURRA [...] (C) Summary: In what contacts say is a first, an Omani human rights activist appeared recently on the al-Hurra television network to criticize the Omani government's record on human rights. The activist, Tayba al-Ma'wali ) who was imprisoned in 2005 after speaking against the actions of gove [...] | 2007-07-02 03:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PINR KMPI KPAO SCUL SOCI MU |
07MUSCAT671 | STOPPING FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO IRAQ: OMAN [...] (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on July 3 to Humaid al-Maani, Office Director for Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid al Badr al-Busaidi. (Note: Al-Maani had recently returned to Muscat from Washington after participating in the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue. E [...] | 2007-07-03 10:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ MU |
07MUSCAT688 | JULY 31 GCC+2 MEETING: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MU |
07MUSCAT700 | OMANI REACTION TO JULY 16 POTUS SPEECH [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 18, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi commended the President's July 16 speech on the Middle East peace process, emphasizing that "this is an opportunity that cannot be missed." He qualified his otherwise optimistic [...] | 2007-07-18 12:08:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL MU |
07MUSCAT703 | OMAN PUBLICLY WELCOMES POTUS CALL FOR MIDDLE EAST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 08:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL MU |
07MUSCAT705 | GCC+2 MEETING: OMANI VIEWS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi recommended that the upcoming GCC plus 2 meeting focus primarily on the peace process and Iraq. Bin Alawi hoped that an agreement coul [...] | 2007-07-23 10:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ MU |
07MUSCAT709 | READOUT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (C) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi told the Ambassador that during his July 17 stop in Tehran, Iranian officials expressed a desire to advance their dialogue with the U.S. on Iraq, but were concerned over reports that the U.S. was arming tribal groups in Anbar [...] | 2007-07-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EPET ENRG ECON IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT727 | OMAN STANDS FIRM ON DOLLAR [...] (U) Responding to Kuwait's recent decision to revalue the dinar against the dollar, Mohammed Nasser al-Jahadhmy, Executive Vice President at the Central Bank of Oman, stated to the media on July 26 that the government did not intend to revalue the Omani rial (RO),which is currently pegged to t [...] | 2007-07-29 12:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT73 | C-NE6-02218: OMAN-ISRAEL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Oman maintains contacts with the Israeli government and has quietly welcomed official Israeli visitors. Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi has spoken to Israeli Foreign Minister Livni on several occasions, and met with an Israeli delegation in Muscat in D [...] | 2007-01-24 15:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL IS MU |
07MUSCAT734 | EDITORIAL CHALLENGES OMAN'S TIP RANKING [...] (U) An English language daily editorial criticized the USG for ranking Oman as a Tier III country in its trafficking-in-persons (TIP) report and claimed that TIP allegations regarding Oman were not factually supported. The editorial acknowledged, however, that more should be done in Oman to c [...] | 2007-07-30 13:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT737 | OMAN DELIVERY OF TERRORIST FINANCE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 15:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREL PTER UNSC MU |
07MUSCAT755 | OMAN UPDATE TO 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ATTENDANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-04 12:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA MU |
07MUSCAT760 | OMAN MEDIA REPORTING ON SECRETARY'S EGYPT VISIT [...] Omani print media outlets generally carried positive, direct news reports on the Secretary's July 31 meetings with Arab ministers in Sharm el-Sheikh. English-language dailies the "Times of Oman" and the "Oman Daily Observer" ran upbeat, front-page headlines on August 2 highlighting the Secreta [...] | 2007-08-05 12:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KPAL MU |
07MUSCAT774 | MINISTER HOPEFUL OF OCTOBER IMPLEMENTATION OF FTA [...] (C) On August 8, Ambassador telephoned Commerce and Industry Minister Maqbool bin Ali Sultan in London (on vacation) to discuss the Omani government's progress on completing the outstanding items required for implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement. Maqbool appreciated receiving [...] | 2007-08-08 12:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT778 | OMAN PROGRESS REPORT ON ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Since being designated by the Department as a "Tier 3" country in the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, the Omani government has drafted, with the assistance of a prominent U.S.-based expert, an anti-TIP law that both criminalizes the trafficking of individuals and establishes a nation [...] | 2007-08-13 10:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MU |
07MUSCAT779 | OMAN RESPONSE TO PA ASSISTANCE REQUEST [...] (C) On August 12, the Ambassador raised reftel points with Yusuf bin Alawi, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs. Bin Alawi responded that while the Omani government channels all its foreign assistance to the Palestinian Authority through the Arab League, he would "take a look" at what the [...] | 2007-08-13 10:17:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL PREL MU |
07MUSCAT781 | OMAN RESPONSE TO 62ND UNGA ATTENDANCE REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 04:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP UNGA KSEP MU |
07MUSCAT783 | GCC SUMMIT SHIFTS TO DOHA [...] (U) Media reports on August 6 publicly confirmed the shifting of the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) annual summit from Muscat to Doha. The media announced that Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs had delivered a note from the Sultan to the Emir of Qatar requesting that the venue [...] | 2007-08-15 08:43:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MU |
07MUSCAT786 | SCENESETTER FOR NEA A/S WELCH VISIT TO MUSCAT (AUG [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Omani officials look forward to meeting with you to receive updates on issues concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, and Iran. While Oman remains a strong friend and ally and cooperates with us on a wide range of subject [...] | 2007-08-15 13:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL KNNP ECON PDEM MU |
07MUSCAT788 | TIP, VISAS TOP LIST OF NEW OMANI CHAMBER OF [...] (U) On August 15, the Ambassador discussed with incoming Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) Chairman Khalil bin Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Khunji. Khunji immediately raised his concern that the USG's Tier 3 ranking of Oman in the latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report would advers [...] | 2007-08-18 10:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PHUM ETRD MU |
07MUSCAT804 | DOW STILL INTERESTED IN POLYETHYLENE PROJECT [...] (SBU) On August 22, Louis Vega, Dow Chemical's Director of Public Affairs for India, the Middle East, and North Africa, confirmed with Econoff that the company remained interested in working with the Omani government on constructing a polyethylene plant in the Port of Sohar industrial complex [...] | 2007-08-22 12:18:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PREL MU |
07MUSCAT810 | IRAN TRANSIT POINT FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO OMAN [...] (C) Summary: Thousands of illegal immigrants, primarily from Pakistan and Afghanistan, enter Oman by boat across the Gulf of Oman from Iran every year. Contacts in the Royal Oman Police (ROP) Coast Guard accuse elements of the Iranian Republican Guard (IRGC) of facilitating the flow of illegal [...] | 2007-08-27 10:41:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG ELAB IR MU |
07MUSCAT822 | TIP GETS NEGATIVE PRESS COVERAGE; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Throughout the summer, Oman's press has given negative coverage to the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and Oman's Tier 3 designation, with multiple articles questioning the report's credibility and U.S. motives. Nevertheless, the government continues to make progress on [...] | 2007-08-29 09:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT83 | SOMALI MIGRANTS ENTER OMAN THROUGH OPEN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs recently visited sections of Oman's border with Yemen, observing that much of the border lacks fencing and generally is open to illegal traffic. Somali immigrants continue to enter Oman along well-traveled smuggling routes, though not in large numbers. Many of the Somali [...] | 2007-01-28 10:58:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PHUM MOPS ETTC MNUC SO YE MU |
07MUSCAT830 | OMANI RESPONSE TO IRAQI LEADERS AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 15:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ MU |
07MUSCAT850 | OMAN'S COMMERCE MINISTER REAFFIRMS DRIVE TOWARD FTA [...] (C) On August 30, the Ambassador met with Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali Sultan to discuss outstanding issues related to the implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Maqbool noted that promulgation of three draft laws remains pending. He stated that the [...] | 2007-09-05 04:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL ECPS MU |
07MUSCAT860 | MINISTER CONFIDENT OF OMAN'S FISCAL POSITION [...] (C) Omani Minister of National Economy Ahmed Macki is upbeat on the Sultanate's financial health, despite the significant damage and expense of recovery from Tropical Cyclone Gonu in June. Of greater concern to the Minister is the general rise in prices, which is leading to a lack of affordab [...] | 2007-09-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PREL EAIR MU |
07MUSCAT870 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Since your visit here four months ago, Oman continues to be concerned with regional issues, especially events in Iraq and Iran, participated in the June Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) meeting in Washington, D.C., and was struck by a m [...] | 2007-09-11 12:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP |
07MUSCAT879 | LABOR SENDING COUNTRIES DISCUSS TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent luncheon hosted by the Ambassador, chiefs of mission (COM) from trafficking source country embassies in Oman asked for U.S. assistance in pushing the Omani government to improve conditions for foreign workers by: enforcing existing labor and immigration laws; ins [...] | 2007-09-12 12:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT915 | ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON MEETINGS WITH OMANI [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, USCENTCOM Commander, met with Lieutenant General (LTG) Ahmed bin Harith Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF) and with Minister Responsible for Defense Affairs Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi on 19 September in Muscat. Both the COSSAF and [...] | 2007-09-29 05:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT919 | ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON MEETING WITH OMANI [...] (C) Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi discussed both Iraq and Iran during a September 19 meeting with CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon. Bin Alawi noted the many challenges facing efforts to stabilize Iraq, including competing factions and militia groups, but [...] | 2007-09-29 07:07:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR IZ MU |
07MUSCAT920 | GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ASSURE AMBASSADOR LAGON OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP),visited Muscat on September 22 to engage Omanis on trafficking and encourage the government to execute measures in the USG's anti-TIP action plan for Oman. Top officials in the Roy [...] | 2007-09-29 07:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU |
07MUSCAT933 | OMAN RESPONSE TO G8-BMENA FORUM REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 12:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMPI KDEM MU |
07MUSCAT948 | 2007 RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS REPORT ELICITS POSITIVE [...] (SBU) Officials at the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs (MERA) characterized the 2007 International Religious Freedoms Report (IRFR) as a fair assessment of religious freedom in Oman and welcomed continued dialogue with the USG on this issue. Post has identified a number of opport [...] | 2007-10-10 10:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OPRC KIRF KPAO MU |
07MUSCAT949 | UPDATED DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR OMAN [...] (C) As reported ref B, Oman represents a challenging environment for U.S. efforts to directly promote democracy. Civil society is under-developed and the registration of new non-governmental organizations and associations (which are limited in their areas of activity) can literally take years. [...] | 2007-10-10 10:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL MU |
07MUSCAT952 | OMAN AGREES TO PROPOSED DATE FOR GULF SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 12:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINS PREL MU |
07MUSCAT953 | OMAN OPEN TO MEETING IN THE HAGUE ON CWC HOST [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief met on October 10 with Abdullah al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the Department of International Affairs at the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver ref A information and inquire on the status of the bilateral host country agreement (HCA) concerning the conduct of cha [...] | 2007-10-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KTIA CWC MU |
07MUSCAT977 | OMANI RESPONSE TO INVITATION TO MNF-I COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS OTRA IZ MU |
07MUSCAT982 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GULF SECURITY [...] Embassy Muscat grants country clearance to the Gulf Security Dialogue Team to travel to Muscat on October 30, 2007 for Gulf Security Dialogue meetings. Please note action items in paragraphs five and eight. 2. Cellular Telephones: For security reasons, all visitors are required to possess [...] | 2007-10-24 11:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA AMGT MU |
07MUSCAT984 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes Ambassador Mull and the U.S. delegation to the next round of the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat. Post expects that the meeting will increase understanding and strengthen bilateral cooperation on mutual security issues facing the Gulf region [...] | 2007-10-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU |
07MUSCAT989 | ARAB DONORS CONFERENCE ON DARFUR: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-28 12:42:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SU MU |
07NAHA128 | OKINAWA MAYORS FINALLY REALIZE BASE REALIGNMENT IS REAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 07:43:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
07NAHA47 | DEFENSE MINISTER KYUMA AGREES TO PRESS AHEAD ON FRF PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: DEFENSE MINISTER KYUMA TRAVELED TO OKINAWA FOR A ""PRIVATE"" BUT WIDELY REPORTED MEETING WITH THE CONSUL GENERAL TO DISCUSS THE WAY FORWARD ON IMPLEMENTING THE FUTENMA REPLACEMENT FACILITY (FRF) PLAN THAT HAD BEEN AGREED TO BY THE TWO GOVERNMENTS AT THE OCTOBER 2005 AND MAY 2006 S [...] | 2007-03-12 08:33:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINS PREL JA IZ |
07NAHA49 | WEATHER GIVES OKINAWA GOVERNOR OPTION OF SIDE-STEPPING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-16 04:01:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL JA CH TW |
07NAHA53 | GOVERNOR NAKAIMA NOT YET READY TO ACCEPT FRF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 08:45:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA MARR PREL |
07NAHA89 | FIRST USN CIVILIAN PORT CALL IN OKINAWA A SUCCESS [...] (S) The mine countermeasures ships USS Guardian (MCM 5) and USS Patriot (MCM 7) conducted the first USN call on a civilian port in Okinawa Prefecture since Okinawa's 1972 reversion to Japan, successfully visiting Sonai Port on Yonaguni Island June 24-26. This port call to Japan's westernmost [...] | 2007-06-27 11:29:00 | Consulate Naha | SECRET | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
07NAHA90 | OKINAWAN GOVERNOR SUFFERS STROKE, 2 WEEKS CONVELESCENCE [...] (U) On June 25 Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) officials and the local media reported that Governor Hirokazu NAKAIMA suffered a mild stroke, and would convalesce for two weeks before returning to public responsibilities. According to the press, the stroke might have occurred as early as [...] | 2007-06-28 08:42:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
07NAHA94 | MEDIA PAPERS OVER OKINAWANS' DIFFERENCES ON MASS SUICIDES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MOE) decision on March 30, 2007 to delete references to "military ordered" mass suicides from high school textbooks has met a strong reaction in Okinawa, where the large majority assumes the over 700 suicides t [...] | 2007-07-05 04:27:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | JA PREL PGOV MARR |
07NAIROBI10 | SOMALIA - LETTER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH FROM PRESIDENT [...] Ambassador Ranneberger was presented the following letter today. The letter is dated December 30, 2006 Text of letter: Mr. President, I am writing to communicate with you the situation in Somalia in the light of the recent developments that, in my view present a better opportunity to ac [...] | 2007-01-03 11:15:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PGOV PREL ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI1009 | U.S./CHINA DIALOGUE - KENYA RESPONSE [...] (SBU) In response to ref B, Embassy Nairobi directs Washington to refs A, C, and D. Ref D is a baseline cable on the economic dimensions of the China-Kenya relationship. Refs A and C contain additional new information on the same topic, and in so doing responds to many of the issues raised r [...] | 2007-03-02 09:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG EFIN PREL PGOV KE CH |
07NAIROBI1015 | AML BILL TO BE TOP GOK PRIORITY IN MARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (AMLTF) officials say they adopted many of USDOJ's suggested amendments to the anti-money laundering bill, including the critical definition of criminal offense, and that the bill will be one of the Government of Kenya's top priorities in th [...] | 2007-03-02 11:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER KCRM KE |
07NAIROBI103 | SOMALIA: JANUARY 5 MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia centered on supporting Somalia at this crucial moment, in particular with respect to consolidating stability through an inclusive political process, security, and humanitarian and development assistance. Th [...] | 2007-01-08 06:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI1035 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 18 - UPDATE ON [...] With diplomatic support from the US Ambassador, and persistence from the humanitarian community, the flow of assistance from Kenya to Somalia has improved. However, unpredictable security regulations at El Wak and Mandera continue to delay the movement of humanitarian staff and the transport [...] | 2007-03-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
07NAIROBI1041 | Civil Society Meetings on Reconciliation [...] (C) Civil Society groups, and the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr clan, have met and discussed specific recommendations for the planned National Reconciliation Congress. In the meantime, the Transitional Federal Government is proceeding with plans for the Congress. President Yusuf announced a start d [...] | 2007-03-05 14:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1042 | Civil Society Meetings on Reconciliation [...] (C) Civil Society groups, and the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr clan, have met and discussed specific recommendations for the planned National Reconciliation Congress. In the meantime, the Transitional Federal Government is proceeding with plans for the Congress. President Yusuf announced a start d [...] | 2007-03-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1069 | KENYA ELECTIONS: MAIN PARTIES STRUGGLE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: While talk of early or snap elections has faded, the political debate has shifted to the main parties' internal leadership struggles. On the opposition side, leaders continue to put on a brave face regarding the viability of their coalition ODM-K party. In the President's NARC- [...] | 2007-03-06 13:37:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR KE |
07NAIROBI1087 | KENYA'S PLANS FOR IGAD MEETINGS ON SOMALIA AND [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Political Affairs Thomas Amolo briefed PolCouns on Kenya's plans as IGAD Chair to host two IGAD meetings in the coming months. The first meeting will focus on Somalia and take place in late April. It is likely to be a ministerial level meet [...] | 2007-03-07 13:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KE SO SU |
07NAIROBI1093 | POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE IN KALONZO COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials and local leaders in Machakos, a medium-sized Kenyan city, are no less engaged in the current general elections debate than their counterparts in the capital, but have a cooler view of what the next 10 months hold. Overwhelmingly populated by members of the Kamba tri [...] | 2007-03-07 13:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KE |
07NAIROBI1127 | Somali Insurgents Attack Arriving Ugandans [...] (C) Summary. Mortars interrupted the welcoming ceremony on Tuesday (3/6) for the first contingent of arriving Ugandan troops. Ethiopian troops engaged in a firefight with unknown gunmen the same day, and insurgents attacked a Ugandan vehicle convoy on Wednesday (3/7). As many as 16 Somali [...] | 2007-03-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID ASEC MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1128 | KENYA ELECTIONS: NARC-K IN THE DARK, ODM ROADSHOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A day before it was scheduled to kickoff, NARC-Kenya postponed indefinitely its party elections and President Kibaki's expected announcement of his candidacy. The sudden change of plans was accompanied by further protest from one-time government supporter, Health Minister Charit [...] | 2007-03-09 10:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR KE |
07NAIROBI1130 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 19 ? CHOLERA [...] The rate of new cholera cases is declining in most areas of southern and central Somalia following repairs to water and sanitation facilities damaged from recent flooding. However, repairs are needed in Lower Shabelle Region and Mogadishu, where insecurity has thus far obstructed response ef [...] | 2007-03-09 10:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI1133 | Somalia - Hawiye Clan Meeting [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 10:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ASEC SO |
07NAIROBI1135 | SOMALIA EMBASSY MEDIA OUTREACH [...] (U) On March 7 the Embassy of the Somali Republic in Nairobi held a media conference and issued the following statement. Begin Text: Embassy of the Somali Republic Nairobi -Kenya GOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS OF THE PRESS: First I would like to take this opportunity t [...] | 2007-03-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1178 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 19 - CHOLERA [...] The rate of new cholera cases is declining in most areas of southern and central Somalia following repairs to water and sanitation facilities damaged from recent flooding. However, repairs are needed in Lower Shabelle Region and Mogadishu, where insecurity has thus far obstructed response ef [...] | 2007-03-14 11:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI1181 | CANCEL MESSAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 11:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KE PREL |
07NAIROBI1221 | KENYA'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES, DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya has ambitious plans to open a number of diplomatic missions around the world. The overriding goal of Kenyan diplomacy is to promote economic development through greater market access and increased investment and remittances. Africa has replaced Europe as the chief preocc [...] | 2007-03-15 11:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KE PREL SENV |
07NAIROBI1248 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 20 - [...] By March 8, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had received reports of more than 40,000 people leaving Mogadishu over the past month. The majority are new internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing escalating insecurity in the capital, however, up to 10,000 of the ID [...] | 2007-03-19 08:39:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
07NAIROBI1318 | KENYA PRESIDENT REOPENS PARLIAMENT: FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opening the final session of Parliament before December's general elections, President Kibaki on March 20 delivered a speech strongly focused on his government's development accomplishments. While he noted that the government will reintroduce the anti-money laundering bill and [...] | 2007-03-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC PTER KE |
07NAIROBI1335 | SOMALIA - HAWIYE/ETHOPIAN "TRUCE" [...] (C) After heavy fighting midweek (reftels),Ethiopia opened talks yesterday with Hawiye leaders in Mogadishu. Reportedly the Hawiye told the Ethiopians they see three options: the Ethiopians can remain in Somalia as a neutral force while Somalis work out their own problems; the Ethiopians can [...] | 2007-03-23 11:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1336 | Ambassador?s call to Somali TFG President Yusuf [...] (C) Ambassador Ranneberger spoke with TFG President Yusuf the evening of March 22 to discuss the security situation and to urge restraint. The Ambassador noted that the TFG draft framework for the national reconciliation conference is positive and a basis for maintaining momentum to build an [...] | 2007-03-23 12:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1362 | DROUGHT RECOVERY ASSESSMENT ? MARSABIT [...] Following severe drought conditions in 2006, livestock, agriculture, nutrition, and livelihoods are improving in Marsabit District of northern Kenya. A successful short rains season from October through December and coordinated relief efforts combined to boost early drought recovery of affec [...] | 2007-03-26 13:37:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL KE |
07NAIROBI1385 | KENYA ELECTORAL COMMISSION: PRESSURE'S ON, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Electoral Commission of Kenya Chairman Samuel Kivuitu is confident his team will be able to successfully administer national elections later this year, but skeptical of the government's conduct and attitude toward the Commission. Kivuitu told the Ambassador during a March 22 mee [...] | 2007-03-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1393 | Somalia Requests Anti-Pirate Assistance [...] (SBU) Under cover of Diplomatic Note ESR/1381/N/07 dated March 16, 2007, the Somali Embassy transmitted the following letter from Foreign Minister Hurreh to Ambassador Ranneberger: TFG MFA letterhead Quote. Ref: FA-IC/010097/07 Date: 14/03/2007 Mr. Michael E. Ranneberger Ambass [...] | 2007-03-28 08:36:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EAID PREL MOPS SO US |
07NAIROBI1407 | Somalia--Kenya Requests Anti-Pirate Assistance [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EAID PREL MOPS SO US |
07NAIROBI1416 | AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR WAR CRIMES URGES KENYA TO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met privately with GOK Ministers to push for Felicien Kabuga's apprehension and also met with various Chiefs of Mission to discuss further cooperative strategies on the issue. It is widely believed that Kabuga, ICTR fugi [...] | 2007-03-29 09:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM RW KE |
07NAIROBI1439 | OPPOSITION POLITICS: SUSPICION, ALLIES, AND A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two opposition insiders recently shared their views on the current state of play within ODM-Kenya party ranks. While there is plenty of suspicion and alliance-making, there is still no apparent movement towards consensus on a single ODM-K presidential candidate or even on how [...] | 2007-03-30 10:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1440 | Somali -- Heavy Fighting Continues [...] (C) Fighting continues today (3/30) in Mogadishu between Ethiopian forces and militia of the Hawiye/Haber Gedir sub-clan, and it appears to remain concentrated around the stadium in the northern part of the city. The Ethiopians do not appear to be advancing and may be surrounded in some loca [...] | 2007-03-30 10:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1456 | Somali Security Chief on Fighting [...] (C) In the context of a meeting at the Embassy on April 1 with DS agents regarding future VIP travel to Somalia, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) security chief Mohamed Warsame Farah (AKA Darawish) discussed the current fighting in Mogadishu with Poloff. He stated that he had been in Ye [...] | 2007-04-02 11:16:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER ASEC MOPS PGOV PREL EAID SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1463 | Somalia -- Update on Fighting [...] (C) Heavy fighting continued in Mogadishu on Saturday (March 31) resulting in considerable damage to involved neighborhoods and innumerable casualties. Ethiopian forces made more effective use of tanks and artillery to take advantage of the difficulty opposing forces had in countering thes [...] | 2007-04-02 16:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL MOPS SO ET UG |
07NAIROBI1514 | KENYA CONSTITUTION: MINIMUM REFORMS, MAXIMUM DEBATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A step back from complete overhaul, the current constitutional review debate in Kenya centers on a slate of "minimum reforms." Supporters of the proposed changes, many of which concern the electoral process, argue that these initial reforms must be made before the next general [...] | 2007-04-04 09:38:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KE |
07NAIROBI1603 | BAD GOVERNANCE THE ROOT OF INSECURITY IN MT. ELGON [...] (SBU) Summary: With the death toll approaching 150 and the number of displaced persons rising to above 61,700, the conflict over land settlement in the Mt. Elgon district of Western Kenya has become a major political issue. The Kibaki administration is promoting dialogue among the warring fa [...] | 2007-04-12 06:52:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KE |
07NAIROBI1636 | Somali Truce Holds Despite Fighting [...] (U) The truce between Hawiye clan militia and Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu appears to be holding despite relatively heavy small arms and mortar fire since Tuesday evening (4/12). The fighting was mainly between Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and Hawiye/Abgal militia, with occa [...] | 2007-04-13 11:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI169 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 1 [...] As of January 4, the UN does not expect to issue a Flash Appeal or a revised Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia. As the humanitarian community adapts to the evolving situation, Lower Juba, Middle Juba, and Middle Shabelle regions have emerged as agencies' top response priorities. [...] | 2007-01-10 05:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI1715 | Somalia Fight Sharp but Short [...] (U) Press reporting and Embassy sources indicate fighting in Mogadishu last night (4/17) between Ethiopian forces and Hawiye/Haber Gedir militia, concentrated between the stadium and the presidential palace compound (Villa Somalia). According to the sources, there was heavy artillery and mort [...] | 2007-04-18 13:38:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1747 | TWO TOP OPPOSITION CANDIDATES LAY OUT THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During recent separate lunches with the Ambassador, the two top candidates of the main opposition coalition (the Orange Democratic Movement Kenya, ODM-K),Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, discussed their strategies for the national elections later this year. While both expresse [...] | 2007-04-19 12:57:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1748 | KENYA: IMPORTANT VISIT OF SECURITY MINISTER MICHUKI [...] (C) Summary: Ensuring success of the April 25-7 visit to Washington of Kenyan Minister of Security Michuki is vitally important to U.S. interests with respect to Somalia, broader efforts to fight insecurity (both crime and terrorism),and keeping the Kenyan democratic process on track. This [...] | 2007-04-19 13:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC AFIN PINS PREL KE SO |
07NAIROBI1775 | Kenya: TIP Project Proposal Solicitation For G/Tip-Managed [...] Kenya is a tier two watch list country because it is a source, destination and transit country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The GOK is making efforts to address most aspects of TIP, but suffers from resource constraints, both financial and human. It therefore relies heavily on internation [...] | 2007-04-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KE |
07NAIROBI1789 | POLITICS IN LUOLAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The perception that the central government is actively opposed to the interests of Nyanza Province's Luo community and its leaders motivates many Luos to stand firmly behind "their man" Raila Odinga. Support for Odinga's ODM-K is widespread in Nyanza, but a pile-up in identific [...] | 2007-04-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1792 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 19, the DCM and the German and Swiss Ambassadors called on Commissioners of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) to discuss the ECK's administration of Kenya's next general election, expected in December. Among the topics discussed were: presentation of a non-paper de [...] | 2007-04-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1830 | FRACTURED LUHYA IN WESTERN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The diverse Luhya groups in Kenya's Western Province defy a single characterization. However, disillusionment with the current administration's failure to deliver on its campaign promises is creating fertile ground for eager opposition ODM-K campaigners. END SUMMARY. Divers [...] | 2007-04-26 12:55:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1867 | SOMALIA--THE WAY FORWARD [...] (U) Summary. Building on Nairobi 1401, this message lays out a roadmap for influencing Somalia towards security and stability. Many of the elements we delineated in reftel remain relevant to current developments. End summary. 2. (C) The fighting in Mogadishu in recent weeks has clouded effo [...] | 2007-04-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID SO ET |
07NAIROBI1905 | Somalia--TFG/Hawiye Talks and Appointments [...] (SBU) On April 29, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf met with members of the Hawiye Leadership Committee in his headquarters, Villa Somalia. The meeting was initiated by Ethiopian military commanders and included TFG Prime Minster Ali Gedi and Ethiopian General [...] | 2007-05-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1907 | NURTURING DEMOCRACY -- AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO [...] Summary. During a four-day trip to Nyanza and Western Provinces (in western Kenyan),the Ambassador talked with a wide cross-section of Kenyans about the state of democracy in the country, and about the importance of an inclusive, fair, and transparent electoral process. Although rich in res [...] | 2007-05-03 10:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI1918 | Somalia--Peace Is Not Yet at Hand [...] (C) Since the termination of fighting in Mogadishu last Thursday (4/26),the city has been unusually calm, in terms of combat; and the daily mortar, RPG, and small arms attacks have ceased--for the time being. Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian troops reportedly are moving f [...] | 2007-05-03 14:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1926 | MICHUKI LAUDS VISIT TO U.S., RELEASES JOINT [...] (SBU) On Thursday May 3, Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security John Michuki called Ambassador to express his appreciation for his Qhighly constructiveQ visit to Washington. He said that he particularly appreciated the high level at which he was received. He to [...] | 2007-05-04 07:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM KE |
07NAIROBI1930 | Somalia-Ambassador's Telecon with Hawiye Elder [...] (U) On May 2, the Ambassador spoke with Haji Abdi Iman (Imaam) Omar, chairman of the Hawiye Leadership Committee. The Ambassador contacted Omar because of the leadership role he and his colleagues are playing in discussions with the Ethiopians and, most recently, with President Abdullahi Yusu [...] | 2007-05-04 09:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1931 | Somalia-Ambassador's Letters to TFG President and [...] (U) Following telecon with Hawiye Leadership Committee Chairman Haji Abdi Iman Omar, and in an effort to support the critical dialogue process, the Ambassador sent the following letters to Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf and Chairman Haji Abdi Iman (Imaam). 2. (C) [...] | 2007-05-04 09:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1959 | Somalia-Telcon with NGRC Chairman Ali Mahdi [...] (SBU) On May 3, Somalia Political Unit staff had a conference call with National Reconciliation and Governance Committee (NGRC) Chairman Ali Mahdi on current developments in the planning for the upcoming National Reconciliation Congress. 2. (SBU) In the conversation, we emphasized that with [...] | 2007-05-08 12:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI1996 | Somalia--Round Two of TFG/Hawiye Talks [...] (C) Summary. Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf met with elders from the Hawiye clan for a second time since the fighting ended on April 28. The talks were reportedly cordial although PM Gedi evidenced continued hostility towards the elders. There appear to be indicatio [...] | 2007-05-09 15:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI2040 | KENYA TO RETAIN IGAD CHAIR, PLANS SUMMIT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya will retain the chairmanship of IGAD at least through August and probably beyond. Kenya's immediate tasks as IGAD Chair are 1) to convince Eritrea to return to IGAD, 2) to promote Somali reconciliation and the success of AMISOM, and 3) to convene an IGAD Head of State su [...] | 2007-05-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KE SO SU |
07NAIROBI2069 | Somalia - Meeting with President Yusuf [...] (C) Summary. During a May 15 meeting, TFG President Yusuf told the Ambassador that he is pursuing dialogue with various sub-clans and is committed to power-sharing to be worked out in the context of the National Reconciliation Congress. He indicated his intention to replace Prime Minister Gedi [...] | 2007-05-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2098 | Somalia - Meeting with Solana Envoy [...] (C) On May 14 the Ambassador met with Jean-Christophe Belliard, the Personal Envoy for Somalia of Javier Solana, EU Secretary-General. Belliard first visited Cairo and Addis Ababa before coming to Nairobi. In Addis Ababa Belliard met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who reportedly expressed [...] | 2007-05-16 11:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2099 | Somalia--Divide and Conquer Dialogue [...] (U) Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf met with politicians, intellectuals, and officials of the Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Ayr sub-clan on May 10 at the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Among the Ayr were Justice Minister Hassan Dimbil, political leader Mohamed Ulusow, and two m [...] | 2007-05-16 11:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2118 | GOVERNMENT-BACKED CANDIDATE WINS COAST BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the government's backing, Harrison Kombe, of the Shirikisho party, won the May 14 low-turnout parliamentary by-election in the coastal Magarini constituency. The result was not surprising. Kombe won resoundingly with 37 percent of the votes cast, far ahead of the competi [...] | 2007-05-17 14:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI213 | ICRC LETTER ON SOMALIA [...] On January 11 Embassy Nairobi received a letter from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) informing the USG that the ICRC considers U.S. actions in Somalia to be governed by the rules applicable to situations of non-international armed conflict. Full text follows in para 2. [...] | 2007-01-12 05:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2151 | Somalia - Meeting with Ethiopian State Minister [...] (C) Summary: As requested, the Ambassador met May 20 with Tekeda Alemu, Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs to discuss a joint U.S.-Ethiopian approach on Somalia. Tekeda pressed on a U.S.-Ethiopia meeting with Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf to be held i [...] | 2007-05-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2152 | IMPACT OF OFDA DROUGHT PROGRAMS IN KENYA. [...] Communities in Kenya's Makueni District are benefiting from USAID/OFDA 2005-2006 drought programming. A combination of newly constructed rainwater harvesting structures, expansion of piped water grids and rehabilitation of boreholes in several communities have improved water quality, increas [...] | 2007-05-22 04:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL KE |
07NAIROBI216 | PARTNERSHIP PRESENTATION TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] As previously reported, on November 21 the Ambassador delivered a major speech on U.S.-Kenyan relations which noted the important democratic progress that Kenya is making, but also talked frankly about the persistent problems of corruption and tribalism. Delivery of the speech was part of a b [...] | 2007-01-12 07:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON ETRD EFIN KE |
07NAIROBI220 | PRESIDENT HAND PICKS ELECTORAL COMMISSIONERS; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In what opposition leaders are calling a "blow to multi-party democracy," President Kibaki on January 11 appointed nine Commissioners to the Electoral Commission of Kenya, without consulting opposition parties. Although completely within Kenyan law, the move sets a bad preceden [...] | 2007-01-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI2209 | Somalia--Security a Long Way Off [...] (C) Summary. The level of violence has risen in Mogadishu and the provinces since the Ethiopian/TFG action against the Ayr sub-clan and Courts' radicals in late April 2007. Attacks tend to be more focused than earlier in the year. While this violence could be laid at the feet of Islamic ex [...] | 2007-05-23 14:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC EWWT EAID SO ET UG KS |
07NAIROBI2214 | SOMALIA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - HEALTH IN [...] Summary: Despite years of chaos, insecurity and absence of a functioning Ministry of Health, Mogadishu continues to benefit from a serviceable, if limited, health system for those with sufficient resources to access it. Despite significant challenges, such as heavy fighting, limited access, [...] | 2007-05-24 06:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
07NAIROBI2215 | MUNGIKI: KENYA'S LARGEST CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mungiki, a large criminal organization operating within the Kikuyu community, has a network of supporters within the government bureaucracy and political leadership. It's use of extreme violence to amplify its influence through terror and its parallel government weakens th [...] | 2007-05-24 07:41:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KDEM KE PGOV PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI2238 | MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM MUNGIKI-LAND: "I'M [...] (C) Summary: Member of Parliament Elias Mbau recounts his own intimidation by the Mungiki in his constituency. He frankly admits that he was forced to change his tune after initially publicly opposing the criminal organization. He also confirms reports that the Mungiki have supporters in gov [...] | 2007-05-25 09:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC KCRM KDEM KE PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI2239 | MEETING WITH SOMALI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with Somalia's Foreign Minister, the Ambassador warned that time is running out for genuine reconciliation. The US will not support a conference that does not offer political reconciliation. Without political reconciliation, clan war will resume. The TFG needs t [...] | 2007-05-25 10:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR SO |
07NAIROBI2240 | OPINION LEADERS TALK POLITICS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of conversations with visiting Ambassador Johnnie Carson, opposition leaders, government officials and civil society interlocutors agreed that there was still much uncertainty surrounding the strength of Kenyan political coalitions and President Kibaki's health, that t [...] | 2007-05-25 10:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PINR PHUM KCOR PTER KE |
07NAIROBI2263 | Ali Mahdi on the Somalia Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee (NGRC) to discuss planning and preparations for the National Reconciliation Congress (NRC) that will begin June 14. Mahdi confirmed that the NRC will cover social, political, and tr [...] | 2007-05-29 14:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2281 | Meeting with Former Foreign Minister Hurreh [...] (C) Summary. At a meeting with the Ambassador, Somali Education Minister Hurreh discussed the milieu of the upcoming National Reconciliation Congress and confirmed that the pressure to remove Prime Minister Gedi from office is building. The Ambassador emphasized that the Congress must inclu [...] | 2007-05-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL SO ET |
07NAIROBI2289 | SOMALIA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: FOOD SECURITY [...] SUMMARY: Studies show improved food security in south and central Somalia despite continuing conflict. Pastoralists and agro-pastoralists are showing signs of recovery. While the food security situation is also improving for riverine communities, this group remains particularly vulnerable to [...] | 2007-05-31 11:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
07NAIROBI2299 | Somalia--NGRC Independence in Doubt [...] (C) Summary. The May 25 resolution passed by Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament originally reported to confirm the independence of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee has proven to be ambiguous, at best, upon review of the actual text. The reported behind-the-scenes [...] | 2007-06-01 08:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI23 | SOMALIA - - OVERVIEW OF CURRENT ISSUES [...] (C) Somalis across the spectrum ) including TFG officials, members of civil society, the business community, clan elders, and even moderate members of the Islamic Courts ) are all telling us that they deeply appreciate the positive role that the U.S. has been playing since the start of the Eth [...] | 2007-01-03 18:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2326 | Somalia - Meeting with President Yusuf [...] (C) Summary. During a June 5 meeting, President Yusuf welcomed as positive the joint A/S Frazer/Lord Triesman letter to him and agreed with its key points, including on the need for inclusive reconciliation on an urgent basis. Yusuf promised to send a written communication to the Contact Group [...] | 2007-06-05 08:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL SO |
07NAIROBI2330 | KENYA: PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER ON RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Enhanced Kenyan-Ethiopian security and administrative coordination at the regional/provincial level is lowering tensions between the feuding Gabra and Borana (Oromo) communities and improving relations at border crossing points. However, Kenya's Provincial Commissioner for Easter [...] | 2007-06-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KE ET |
07NAIROBI2344 | SOMALIA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - PROTECTION [...] SUMMARY: Reports from humanitarian agencies highlight grave humanitarian protection concerns in Mogadishu. Key issues include ongoing violent attacks, unexploded ordnance (UXO),and evictions from public buildings. While the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U [...] | 2007-06-06 08:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
07NAIROBI2349 | SOMALIA: LETTER FROM TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF TO THE [...] Per reftel, we followed up with the Somalia Embassy in Nairobi and received the attached letter from TFG President Yusuf to the International Contact Group meeting in London. 2. Text of letter: Honorable Representatives of the Contact Group: I wish to express my appreciation for the s [...] | 2007-06-06 10:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SCUL SO |
07NAIROBI2351 | KENYAN NOTABLES DISCUSS THE NEIGHBORS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his recent visit to Kenya, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, National Intelligence Officer for Africa, discussed developments in Somalia and Sudan with Kenyan interlocutors. From the Kenyan perspective, instability in both countries is of significant concern for Kenya's well-b [...] | 2007-06-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PTER KE SO SU |
07NAIROBI2375 | KENYAN OPPOSITION POLITICS: DEAL OR NO DEAL? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Uncertainty and mistrust endure within the opposition coalition. While the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) continues to struggle with its presidential nomination process, it is increasingly clear that back-room deals will be made, egos will be bruised, and ODM-K leaders [...] | 2007-06-07 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KE |
07NAIROBI2405 | POLICE ENGAGE MUNGIKI CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following through on its pledge to destroy the Mungiki criminal organization, the Government of Kenya deployed hundreds of police to Nairobi's Mathare slum this week. Security forces conducted a series of operations to round up suspects. At least 18 people died during the ope [...] | 2007-06-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KE |
07NAIROBI2406 | Travel to Somalia [...] (SBU) Summary. This message lays out proposed plans for travel by USG personnel to Somalia during the next 6 months. End Summary. -------------------------------- National Reconciliation Congress -------------------------------- 2. (C) The Somalia National Reconciliation Congress (NRC) [...] | 2007-06-08 15:50:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2421 | Somalia -- Delay in Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee (NGRC) told the Ambassador on June 10 that the kickoff for the National Reconciliation Congress (NRC),planned to begin on June 14, has been delayed by two weeks. Mahdi said the delay was inevitable because much re [...] | 2007-06-11 13:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2446 | KANU NATIONAL CONFERENCE: KENYATTA HOLDS HIS GROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Amid ongoing debate about the party's position within the opposition coalition and an internal power struggle, KANU held its National Delegates' Conference in Nairobi on June 11. According to KANU officials, the meeting was a success as the party made clear its position with r [...] | 2007-06-12 13:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI2452 | SOMALIA -- COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S/NF) As described in current threat assessments, travel of USG personnel into Somalia, particularly in Mogadishu, remains problematic (Ref A). However, attendance by an appropriately high level USG official at the opening of Somalia's Nation [...] | 2007-06-12 14:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER MOPS SO |
07NAIROBI2525 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, the Ambassador discussed with President Kibaki the expanding bilateral partnership, the problem of insecurity, governance issues, the elections set for later this year, and regional issues (Somalia and Sudan). Kibaki emphasized his desire to work closel [...] | 2007-06-18 12:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EFIN KCRM KE PINR PREL PTER SO SU |
07NAIROBI255 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 3 - HEALTH [...] The November-December floods raised concern that Somalia would see an increase in cases of water-borne diseases, malaria, and respiratory infections. Additionally, recent outbreaks of cholera and Rift Valley fever (RVF) have prompted Somalia health sector agencies to coordinate response plans [...] | 2007-01-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI2550 | Nairobi Mini-Dublin Group Views on Kenya [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nairobi Mini-Dublin Group consensus is that Kenya is increasingly becoming a major transit route for cocaine and heroin, from South America and Asia, to European and other Western markets. Corruption, weak law enforcement, and lack of political will continue to make Kenya an attr [...] | 2007-06-20 05:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR KE |
07NAIROBI2566 | KENYATTA KEEPING HIS OPTIONS WIDE OPEN [...] (SBU) When KANU Chairman and opposition presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta failed to meet the June 15 deadline for formally declaring himself an Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) candidate, there was speculation that KANU was splitting from ODM-K. Kenyatta has not (yet) pulled KANU o [...] | 2007-06-20 13:21:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI2567 | Trafficking in Persons: Ambassador?s Trip [...] Summary. See para 8 for action request. The combination of the Ambassador?s visit to the Kenyan coast, the rollout of the GTIP annual report, and celebrations of the Day of the African Child cast a spotlight on the problems of trafficking and sex tourism in Kenya. As a result of the Ambassad [...] | 2007-06-20 14:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG PREL PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI2575 | Ambassador's Visit to the Kenyan Coast [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KE PGOV KCRM KWMN SNAR PHUM PTER |
07NAIROBI2578 | Somalia - Conversation with President Yusuf [...] (C) The Ambassador, at his request, spoke with President Yusuf by phone on June 20 to raise the following: the amnesty, concerns about recent arrests, expansion of the national reconciliation committee, and the desire to have a more extended conversation with Yusuf during his next visit to Na [...] | 2007-06-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI2606 | Tour d'Horizon with Prime Minister Gedi [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Envoy John Yates met Prime Minister Ali Gedi on June 21 to discuss the June 18 announcement of a general amnesty, preparations for the National Reconciliation Congress, the current security situation, and the PM's upcoming travel to Washington and New Y [...] | 2007-06-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2614 | Somalia - Response Letter from Yusuf [...] Following on the transmission of a letter to TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf, the Ambassador received a response on June 22. 2. The text of the letter from Yusuf reads as follows: Dear Mr. Ambassador: Your letter of June 21, 2007, is clearly in line with other previous letters that showe [...] | 2007-06-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SO |
07NAIROBI2618 | Ali Mahdi on National Reconciliation Congress [...] (C) Summary: On June 22 Ali Mahdi, Chairman of the National Governance and Reconciliation Committee, and other committee members and advisors briefed the Ambassador and Special Envoy on delegate selection for the Congress, his meetings with the Hawiye, the status of security service and the sit [...] | 2007-06-26 04:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER KPAO SO ET |
07NAIROBI263 | PRIME MINISTER GEDI PROMISES A "NEW SOMALIA," ACTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 7 meeting in Nairobi with Assistant Secretary Frazer, Somali Prime Minister Ali Gedi was confident a "new Somalia" was on its way, and appealed for immediate donor support. The rosy picture Gedi painted did not mask the very serious problems which remain within the [...] | 2007-01-17 05:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI2630 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2631 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2632 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2640 | Somalia -- Update on AMISOM [...] (C) The following (paras 2-14) is a retransmission in Department format of Reftel titled "Ugandan Peacekeeping Presence in Somalia, mid-June 2007" disseminated by Embassy Nairobi's Defense Attache Office (DAO) on June 25. 2. (S/REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. As of mid-June 2007, the AU Mission in [...] | 2007-06-27 13:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI2764 | KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADMIRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...] | 2007-07-06 05:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KE PGOV PREL |
07NAIROBI2773 | JULY 4 - HIGHLIGHTING BILATERAL PARTNERSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC [...] The Mission used the July 4 reception to highlight the U.S.-Kenyan partnership and to focus on shared democratic values. (See text of Ambassador's remarks in paragraph 6.) These themes have increasingly strong resonance with all sectors of Kenyan society and politics. As a result, the turnout [...] | 2007-07-06 07:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KEDM KE |
07NAIROBI294 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 4 ? FOOD AID [...] The 2007 UN Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia estimates that 1.4 million people are food insecure. In response, the UN World Food Program (WFP) plans to deliver 114,000 metric tons (MT) to more than 1 million people, and CARE plans to distribute food to approximately 400,000 oth [...] | 2007-01-17 13:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL EAGR SO |
07NAIROBI2974 | KENYA POLICE: REFORMS APLENTY, BUT PERFORMANCE LAGS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kibaki administration has implemented significant reforms of the Kenya Police Service and greatly increased its resources. The worst police abuses of the Moi-era have been eradicated. However, reforms and increased resources have not yet yielded a dramatic rise in police [...] | 2007-07-19 12:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASIG KCRM KE PREL PTER |
07NAIROBI3059 | SUDAN, DARFUR: UN ADVISOR PEKKA HAVISTO BRIEFS SE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pekka Haavisto, senior UN Advisor on Darfur, briefed the U.S. President's Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios on UN/AU efforts to organize effective peace talks for Darfur. Haavisto discussed the upcoming Tripoli and Mombasa (Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, CHD) meetings i [...] | 2007-07-26 09:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AU SU ER ET LY CD |
07NAIROBI3093 | ADMIRAL FALLON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 19 meeting with visiting CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon and the Charge, Kenyan President Kibaki praised the U.S. Kenya partnership, while encouraging greater U.S. attention to the region. With respect to Kenya, Kibaki appealed for greater U.S. assistance f [...] | 2007-07-30 07:16:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MASS PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI3175 | Somalia - Travel Plan and Security Assessment [...] (S/NF) This is an action request. See para 10. This message proposes travel to Somalia during the next three months. I consider this travel essential to advance the high USG foreign policy priority to promote security and stability in Somalia. The travel is aimed at: facilitating our inter [...] | 2007-08-06 11:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3227 | SUDAN - MOI AS SPECIAL ENVOY, IGAD SUMMIT, AND [...] (C) Summary. This message responds to reftel. It reports on the role ex-President Moi wants to play as the newly appointed Special Envoy on Sudan and discusses possible next steps, including the proposed IGAD summit. These steps could include mobilizing U.S. and international support for t [...] | 2007-08-10 08:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KE SU |
07NAIROBI3251 | COURT RULES FATHER KAISER'S DEATH HOMICIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: The recent finding by a Kenyan court that the death in 2000 of an American priest, Father John Kaiser, was a result of homicide has stirred renewed interest in the case due to his prominence as a human rights activist and vocal opponent of the former Kenyan government. The Cour [...] | 2007-08-13 11:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM CASC KE |
07NAIROBI3257 | Somalia - PM Gedi on Reconciliation [...] (SBU) See para 15 for action recommended. The Ambassador met August 11 with Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Gedi to discuss reconciliation efforts, security in Mogadishu, and TFG efforts to secure Arab support. End Summary. -------------------------------- [...] | 2007-08-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3281 | SOMALIA - TELCON WITH NGRC CHAIRMAN ALI MAHDI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Special Envoy spoke with National Governance and Reconciliation Council Chair Ali Mahdi by telephone August 14 to obtain update on National Reconciliation Congress. Mahdi confirmed that reconciliation portion of proceedings were "successfully" completed August 9 and that politic [...] | 2007-08-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI3313 | Somalia - Norwegian Diplomacy [...] (C) We met August 15 with Brynjulf Mugaas, Norwegian Counselor for Somalia, to discuss Norwegian regional diplomacy focused on Somalia. Mugaas told us he spoke at length August 14 with Ibrahim Addow (Hawiye/Haber Gedir/Sa'ad),the former "Foreign Secretary" of the Council of Islamic Courts (CIC [...] | 2007-08-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3373 | Somaliland -- Foreign Minister on the Way Forward [...] (C) Summary. On August 20, the Ambassador held consultations with Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Mohamed Duale (at his request) to discuss the full range of issues in the U.S.-Somaliland relationship. Topics included the arrest of opposition political leaders, elections and recognition [...] | 2007-08-22 09:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3375 | Somalia -- President Yusuf on the Way Forward [...] (C) Following the U.S.-TFG consultations on August 16 (Ref A) President Yusuf privately discussed with the Ambassador and Special Envoy Yates the way forward on national reconciliation and other issues. 2. (S/NF) Yusuf said that some members of the TFG, including Prime Minister Gedi, want t [...] | 2007-08-22 09:26:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3440 | SUDAN SPECIAL ENVOY MOI ON HIS ROLE AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) See para 7 for action request. The Ambassador met with ex-President Moi, now Kenya,s Special Envoy on Sudan, to raise the points in ref D, to obtain a readout of his visit to Khartoum, and to discuss next steps. 2. (C) Moi said that his meeting with Sudanese President Bashir focused exc [...] | 2007-08-28 06:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | CA IT NL PHUM PREL SU UK NT KE |
07NAIROBI3457 | IT'S HARD OUT THERE FOR A (WOMAN) CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three aspiring members of parliament, two women and one first-time candidate, shared their views recently on the difficult and generally very undemocratic process by which a Kenyan attempts to get elected, in particular the party nomination process. Their accounts confirmed wh [...] | 2007-08-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI3463 | Somalia - NRC Closing and Next Steps [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 14:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI3564 | Somalia-After the Reconciliation Congress [...] (SBU) Summary: As anticipated the NRC closed on August 30. Chairman Ali Mahdi recognizes the reconciliation process will be ongoing, and he expects to continue playing a pivotal role. (See Septel text of NRC Communique) President Yusuf has committed the TFG to moving forward with the transitio [...] | 2007-09-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3642 | KENYAN SPECIAL ENVOY MOI ACCEPTS INVITATIONS, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SU PREL PHUM KE |
07NAIROBI3664 | Somalia: Alleged Assassination Threat [...] (S/NF) Summary: Somalia Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf allegedly told Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles in Addis that he intends to remove Somalia TFG Prime Minister Gedi on October 14 or 15. Meles warned Yusuf against doing so, and told Yusuf to maintain the current TF [...] | 2007-09-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI369 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 6 NUTRITION IN [...] In 2006, nutrition surveys revealed high rates of malnutrition in Bakool, Bay, Gedo, Lower Juba, and Middle Juba, while Hiraan, the Shabelle Valley, and parts of central Somalia had slightly better rates. In response, the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF),the UN cluster lead for nutrition, is sca [...] | 2007-01-22 08:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI3795 | Somalia: Gedi/Yusuf Tensions Intensify [...] (C) Arrests, detentions, and firings marked the latest developments in the growing tension between Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Gedi as dividing lines are reportedly being drawn in Mogadishu. An Ethiopian intervention may in the works, [...] | 2007-09-25 14:52:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI3797 | Puntland/Somaliland Border Fighting [...] (SBU) On September 24, InterPeace, a U.S. funded peace-building and reconciliation NGO, alerted supporters within the international community in Nairobi that the long-standing conflict between sub-clans in the Las Anod region of western Somaliland appeared likely to escalate into open fighting [...] | 2007-09-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI380 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 5 - BORDER [...] On January 3, the Government of Kenya (GOK) officially closed the Kenya-Somalia border, preventing displaced people from crossing into Kenya and relief supplies from transiting into Somalia. Liboi, El Wak, and Mandera on the Kenya side of the border are main transit points for refugees and r [...] | 2007-01-23 06:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI3992 | Somalia - Tour d'horizon with Minister Hurreh [...] (C) Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Minister of Education Ismael Hurreh told the Ambassador October 3 that on or about October 12 the government of Prime Minister Gedi will be dissolved by Parliament. There is no leading candidate to replace Gedi. End Summary. ----------------------- [...] | 2007-10-09 10:26:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI407 | KENYA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY PLAYS POLITICS, EXONERATES [...] (C) Summary: In a setback to political and judicial accountability in Kenya, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) went public on January 19 with its recommendation, accepted by the Attorney General, to close investigations against two former cabinet ministers implicated on good evidence [...] | 2007-01-24 04:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PREL ECON EFIN KE |
07NAIROBI4097 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) Chairman Samuel Kivuitu recently prepared a speech on the theme "Election 2007: Can Kenya Remain a Model for Africa?" The speech was delivered to the Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations by Kivuitu's deputy, as the Ch [...] | 2007-10-16 08:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI4175 | KENYA'S ELECTIONS: PRESIDENT KIBAKI'S NATIONAL DAY [...] (SBU) On October 20, President Mwai Kibaki delivered a National Day speech at Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium before a near capacity crowd. Rival presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, was seated near the speaker's podium with other senior leaders of the opposition. Kibaki used the occassion [...] | 2007-10-22 15:34:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KE |
07NAIROBI4186 | PRESIDENT KIBAKI DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) On October 22, President Mwai Kibaki delivered a televised address dissolving Parliament and officially triggering Kenya?s election clock. Kibaki also announced that he signed eleven bills into law immediately prior to the dissolution, including the important Political Parties Bill (ref [...] | 2007-10-24 03:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUM KE |
07NAIROBI4232 | KENYA ELECTIONS: WOMEN CANDIDATES INTIMIDATED BUT NOT DEFEATED [...] (SBU) Summary: In the last two months, at least six women candidates for local office and Parliamentary seats have been physically attacked in attempts to intimidate them into dropping out of the race. On October 7, Asha Ali became the latest victim of such an attack. Ali, who is running fo [...] | 2007-10-26 09:27:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4234 | KENYA ELECTIONS: PARTY PRIMARIES TRIGGER SOME VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to Kenya's national elections, some violence is occurring. Clashes have happened in areas which so strongly favor one party that the person who secures the party nomination is essentially assured of winning the Parliamentary seat. This type of intra-party violenc [...] | 2007-10-26 12:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4235 | KENYA ELECTIONS: Kenya Elections: The Swing States Part One: Rift Valley Province [...] (SBU) Summary: Rift Valley Province (RVP) is one of Kenya's most geographically and ethnically diverse provinces, encompassing both desperately poor arid lands and wealthy agricultural regions. Former President Daniel arap Moi, who is backing the re-election campaign of President Kibaki, hails [...] | 2007-10-26 12:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4236 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTION DATE SET FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) just announced that the national elections will take place beginning on December 27. The silver-lining to a nation that now must spend its holiday season embroiled in what promises to be turbulent elections is that most people will be visiting fami [...] | 2007-10-26 12:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KCOR KE |
07NAIROBI424 | KENYA: ETHNIC MAKE UP OF THE GOK [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyans often accuse the Kibaki administration of stacking the government with fellow Kikuyus. Our study of the top 198 government positions indicates that in fact Kikuyu representation is in line with their share of the general population. However, Kikuyu ministers run the k [...] | 2007-01-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4240 | Somalia - TFG Prime Minster Gedi Resigns [...] (SBU) Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minster Ali Mohamed Gedi offered his resignation to TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf on October 29 in Baidoa. Gedi's resignation follows several weeks of acrimonious political debate in parliament on whether a vote of confidence should be called o [...] | 2007-10-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4247 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING THE U.N. GENERAL [...] (SBU) Reftel demarche was delivered September 28, 2007 to Ambassador Chepsongol, Director Political Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In response the following Diplomatic Note was received October 2:"Complimentary opening - Has the honour to refer to the latter's request for Kenya [...] | 2007-10-30 09:21:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07NAIROBI4248 | KENYA ELECTIONS: UNIFEM ROLLS OUT GENDER RAPID RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 10:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL KCOR KE |
07NAIROBI4258 | KENYA ELECTIONS: SWING STATES PART TWO: WESTERN [...] (SBU) Along with Rift Valley and the Coast, we have identified Western Province (WP) as one of Kenya's three key "swing states" in deciding the December 27 national elections. These three provinces potentially contain enough electoral votes and polling volatility to decide the election. Ref [...] | 2007-10-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4269 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ODM RALLY ON THE COAST: FANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: PolCouns observed an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) rally in the coastal town of Khilifi during which some prominent ODM leaders used explicitly anti-Kikuyu language, receiving roars of approval from the crowd. Other prominent ODM leaders chose to appeal to reason rather than [...] | 2007-10-31 12:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI429 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 8 DADAAB [...] From January 17 to January 20, the Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Michael Hess visited the Somalia USG Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Nairobi, Kenya. While in Nairobi, the USAID/DCHA Assistant Administ [...] | 2007-01-24 13:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4312 | Somalia - Conversation with President Yusuf [...] (C) On November 1 Ambassador and Special Envoy telephoned President Yusuf to discuss the search for a replacement for former Prime Minister Ali Gedi. They also underlined our concern about the current insecurities and humanitarian situation in Mogadishu. 2. (C) President Yusuf said the sea [...] | 2007-11-02 10:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4397 | JOINT STATEMENT OF U.N. COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (SBU) The Fifth Special Meeting of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee with Regional and Sub-Regional Organizations on "Prevention of Terrorist Movement and Effective Border Security" was held in Nairobi on October 29-31. A draft "Joint Statement and Plan of Action" on counter-terrorism was [...] | 2007-11-07 09:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PGOV KE |
07NAIROBI4411 | KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 1: 49 DAYS AWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Mission Nairobi will send out over 60 observers nationwide for the party nomination process (primaries) scheduled around 16 November. Kalonzo Musyoka has until 13 November to decide if he wants to stand down in Kibaki's favor, as the presidential ballot will be set after tha [...] | 2007-11-09 03:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4416 | KENYA TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON [...] (SBU) In response to ref A, the situation in Kenya regarding cash smuggling has not improved or changed from that described in ref B. The 2007 INCSR text remains accurate: Kenya has little in the way of cross-border currency controls. GOK regulations require that any amount of cash above $5,000 [...] | 2007-11-09 08:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER KE |
07NAIROBI4425 | DEMARCHE REGARDING THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY DRAFT [...] (SBU) As per reftel B, the GOK informed post via Diplomatic Note, dated October 2nd, stating, "Complimentary opening - Has the honour to refer to the latter's request for Kenya to support its Resolution on, "Condemning the use of Rape as an Instrument of State Policy," to be tabled at the Unit [...] | 2007-11-13 13:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07NAIROBI4427 | KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...] | 2007-11-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4428 | KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...] | 2007-11-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4430 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN RE-APPOINTED [...] (SBU) On 12 November, President Kibaki re-appointed Samuel Kivuitu as Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya effective 3 December for a full five year term. The US Mission advocated in favor of Kivuitu's re-appointment over the last several months, including numerous discussions of the [...] | 2007-11-14 04:05:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4457 | KENYA ELECTIONS: POLLING MATTERS [...] (C) Our election analysis (reftels) indicates a close race for the presidency. This analysis is based on voter registration data and traditional turnout rates as well as polling on presidential candidate preferences. We were concerned that widely published public opinion polls, which showed [...] | 2007-11-14 13:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI448 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 7 NON-FOOD [...] In fiscal year (FY) 2006, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) provided $6.9 million in non-food humanitarian assistance to agencies focused on drought response and recovery within the health, nutrition, livelihood, and water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. OFDA funds [...] | 2007-01-25 13:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4510 | SOMALIA PRIME MINISTER -- Yusuf Changes His Mind [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nur Hassan Hussein "Adde" will likely be announced as the new Prime Minister of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) November 20 rather than Sheikh Hassan Ali Nur who had been presented to us as the presumptive candidate just one week ago. We were told that Nur's ca [...] | 2007-11-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI4511 | SOMALIA PRIME MINISTER -- Yusuf Changes His Mind [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nur Hassan Hussein "Adde" will likely be announced as the new Prime Minister of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) November 20 rather than Sheikh Hassan Ali Nur who had been presented to us as the presumptive candidate just one week ago. We were told that Nur's ca [...] | 2007-11-20 14:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET |
07NAIROBI4512 | KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 2: 37 DAYS AWAY [...] SUMMARY: Nine presidential candidates will contest the 27 December election. The ECK plans to release the final, approved list of parliamentary candidates on 23 November. The final voter register indicates that the top five ethnic voting blocs are Kikuyu/Meru/Embu (27 pct),Kalenjin (13 pct) [...] | 2007-11-21 04:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4550 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Kenya provides the following on host government practices in response to REFTEL. A. Watchlisting: -- If host government maintains a "watchlist," how many records does the watchlist contain, and how many are terrorist-related? Answer: The GoK/Immigration has approximate [...] | 2007-11-23 11:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KE |
07NAIROBI4601 | KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 3: 29 DAYS AWAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: An average of 12 candidates will compete in each of Kenya's 210 parliamentary constituencies (2,547 candidates in total). The Steadman poll, generally considered the most credible, now shows Raila at 43.6 percent, Kibaki at 43.3 percent and Kalonzo at 11.4 percent. So far, we [...] | 2007-11-28 14:39:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4615 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 13:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS KE |
07NAIROBI4630 | LOOKING FOR MR. KABUGA: POSSIBLE SIGNS OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Chief Prosecutor Jallow of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) met on 29 November with Kenyan Foreign Minister Tuju. FM Tuju promised Jallow that he would press for the Kenyan government to increase its cooperation with the ICTR's efforts to find and apprehen [...] | 2007-12-03 07:50:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KE PGOV PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI4647 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nearly ten percent of outgoing Members of Parliament (MPs) were eliminated in party nomination exercises while a further 25 percent lost major party nominations and took refuge with smaller parties where their prospects for reelection are exceedingly dim. President Kibaki's Pa [...] | 2007-12-04 15:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4648 | Somalia - Update on Health of President Yusuf [...] (C) As per refs Somalia Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf is quite ill and was flown to Nairobi from Baidoa early on the morning of December 4. Post's Regional Medical Officer (RMO) visited Yusuf in Nairobi hospital and reported that the President looked frail, but othe [...] | 2007-12-04 15:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4656 | Somalia - President Yusuf Health Update #2 [...] (C) As per Reftel Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf is quite ill and was flown to Nairobi from Baidoa early on the morning of December 4. Post's Regional Medical Officer (RMO) has consulted with Yusuf's attending physician at Nairobi hospital and was infor [...] | 2007-12-05 13:15:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4674 | Somalia - Cabinet Prospects [...] (C) Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur "Madobe," Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia, told us Parliament is highly likely not to endorse PM Hussein's cabinet as announced December 2. Moreover, if submitted as now formulated and rejected by Parliament, Madobe said the government would [...] | 2007-12-07 08:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4745 | KENYA ELECTIONS: CREDIBLE VOTE LIKELY, BUT WE'RE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Less than three weeks from the election, we remain confident that the exercise will be generally free and fair. This confidence is based on six pillars: an independent and non-partisan electoral commission, free and vibrant civil society organizations and media, responsible be [...] | 2007-12-14 04:01:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4749 | INAUGURAL MEETING OF FRIENDS OF AU EASBRIG FORUM [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE. ACTION REQUEST AT PARA 7. 2. (U) SUMMARY: AT THE INVITATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION'S EASTERN AFRICA STANDBY BRIGADE COORDINATION MECHANISM (EASBRICOM),CURRENT AND POTENTIAL DONORS MET IN NAIROBI ON DECEMBER 10 TO DISCUSS EASBRIG'S STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE TERMS [...] | 2007-12-14 08:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL KE XW |
07NAIROBI4756 | U.S. Support for Kenya's Electoral Process [...] (SBU) SUMMARY & INTRODUCTION: In the run up to Kenya's 27 December presidential and parliamentary elections, the USG is heavily engaged to support a free and fair electoral process in order to preserve, broaden and deepen Kenya?s democratic gains (see also reftel). Given indications that th [...] | 2007-12-14 10:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4759 | KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 4: 13 DAYS AWAY: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Political Section compared notes with other well informed political observers on prominent government and opposition MPs likely to be defeated in the parliamentary contest. The results appear below. In total, we expect the defeat of 136 MPs out of a total of 210 (65 perc [...] | 2007-12-17 03:39:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI477 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 9 RIFT VALLEY [...] On January 23, the first human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Somalia was confirmed. Animal sampling is currently targeting Afmadow District and Dobley near the Kenya border. To date, no animal samples have been tested or confirmed for RVF. RVF Task Force members report that local radi [...] | 2007-01-26 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4788 | KENYA ELECTIONS: STATE OF PLAY ON ELECTION [...] Kenya will be awash in election observers by the time voters go to the polls on December 27. Roughly 17,500 international and domestic observers will cover about 27,500 polling stations in 210 parliamentary constituencies, in addition to party agents who will monitor the proceedings on behal [...] | 2007-12-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL KE PGOV |
07NAIROBI4803 | KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 5: 9 DAYS AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The latest opinion polls show Odinga in the lead. All three major candidates express public confidence, while some of their prominent supporters express private gloom. There exists a theoretical possibility that Odinga or Kibaki could win the national vote while still failin [...] | 2007-12-18 12:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI4804 | MEDIA COVERAGE OF KENYAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN: REASONABLE [...] Summary: A UNDP-funded, independent assessment of Kenyan mainstream media coverage in the run-up to the December 27 general election indicated that, from November 10 to December 10, media coverage was generally balanced and accurate, with a few notable exceptions. This coincided with US Embas [...] | 2007-12-18 12:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PREL OPRC PHUM KPAO KE |
07NAIROBI4816 | KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 6: 7 DAYS AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Steadman Group released its final poll results: 45.5 percent Raila Odinga, 42.7 percent Mwai Kibaki and 9.6 percent Kalonzo Musyoka. Given the vagaries of turnout rates, this makes the election too close to call. Two pro-Kibaki parliamentary candidates in Odinga's Langata [...] | 2007-12-20 14:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM KE |
07NAIROBI4825 | KENYA ELECTIONS: THE BATTLE FOR LANGATA - HOW A [...] (C) Kenya,s Constitution requires that its President also be an elected Member of Parliament. Of the three major presidential candidates, only Raila Odinga lacks a safe seat. Odinga's choice to run for parliament in the ethnically mixed, Nairobi-based Langata constituency he has represented [...] | 2007-12-21 12:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KE |
07NAIROBI4827 | KENYA ELECTIONS: STATE OF PLAY ON ELECTION [...] Kenya will be awash in election observers by the time voters go to the polls on December 27. Roughly 17,500 international and domestic observers will cover about 27,500 polling stations in 210 parliamentary constituencies, in addition to party agents who will monitor the proceedings on behal [...] | 2007-12-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL KE PGOV |
07NAIROBI4828 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL VIOLENCE - ECK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The run up to the December 27 election is proving to be more violent than the last such contest in 2002, but still much less violent than Kenya's first two multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997. The majority of campaign activity falls within the bounds of the Electoral Code of [...] | 2007-12-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL KE PGOV |
07NAIROBI4829 | KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL VIOLENCE - ECK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The run up to the December 27 election is proving to be more violent than the last such contest in 2002, but still much less violent than Kenya's first two multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997. The majority of campaign activity falls within the bounds of the Electoral Code of [...] | 2007-12-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL KE PGOV |
07NAIROBI483 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 9 RIFT VALLEY [...] On January 23, the first human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Somalia was confirmed. Animal sampling is currently targeting Afmadow District and Dobley near the Kenya border. To date, no animal samples have been tested or confirmed for RVF. RVF Task Force members report that local radi [...] | 2007-01-29 05:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI4830 | KENYA ON THE EVE OF NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] Summary: On balance, the Kenyan elections set for December 27 will likely be credible, but determining this will require careful reading of what is likely to be a messy process. Although President Kibaki and his Party of National Unity (PNU) could eek out victory, many observers see a win by o [...] | 2007-12-24 11:12:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE |
07NAIROBI4832 | KENYA'S ELECTIONS - A POSITIVE PROCESS THUS FAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The relatively smooth and peaceful way in which the elections were carried out on December 27 represents a victory first and foremost for the Kenyan people and their democracy. Herculean efforts by the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK),the responsible statements made by t [...] | 2007-12-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE |
07NAIROBI511 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN KENYA [...] Per request in ref B para 2, we suggest the following influential women from Kenyan civil society and government be included in S/WE's world wide roster of women leaders: 2. Wangari MAATHAI; 2005 Nobel Peace Laureate; Founding Director of Kenya's Greenbelt Movement; The Greenbelt Movement, [...] | 2007-01-30 13:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KE |
07NAIROBI523 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 10 UN [...] The UN Country Team has launched a plan that outlines five priorities to achieve stabilization in Somalia over the next six months. The UN requests $50 million to achieve concrete outcomes from February to August 2007. The UN's priorities outlined in the document are building institutional [...] | 2007-01-31 11:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI5401 | SOMALIA DISCUSSIONS WITH TFG FOREIGN MINISTER HURRE [...] (C) As the Somalia crisis has unfolded, TFG Foreign Minister Hurre, who has been in Nairobi throughout, has been a useful source of information and insights into TFG actions. While he does not have much political clout within the TFG, he is in close contact with Yusuf and Gedi and reliably p [...] | 2007-01-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5402 | SOMALIA TFG PARLIAMENT SPEAKER HASSAN'S ROLE [...] (C) As the current situation in Somalia has unfolded, we have been in close touch with TFG Parliament Speaker Hassan. Hassan left Baidoa over a month ago, stating that Parliament could not deliberate with freedom given pressures coming from President Yusuf and PM Gedi. He has insisted that Ged [...] | 2007-01-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5403 | SOMALIA - SHEIKH SHARIF AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF [...] Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a respected [...] | 2007-01-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5404 | SOMALIA - KENYAN INTERDICTION OF TERRORISTS AND [...] (C) As the leadership of the Islamic Courts and the high value targets of interest to us fled towards Kismayo, we urged the Kenyan government to reinforce security along the land and sea borders to interdict/deter/apprehend any of these individuals seeking to cross into Kenya. 2. (C) The Ke [...] | 2007-01-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5405 | SOMALIA - CONVERSATIONS WITH TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF [...] (C) Since the start of the Ethiopian intervention in Somalia, the Ambassador has been in close contact with TFG Prime Minister Gedi by phone, first from Baidoa and, during the past three days, from Mogadishu, and with President Yusuf. Yusuf from the outset has indicated that he understands th [...] | 2007-01-02 10:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5406 | "CORRECTED COPY TO INCLUDE PARAGRAPH [...] (S) Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a resp [...] | 2007-01-02 11:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI5407 | SOMALIA - US CITIZENS [...] A variety of reporting indicates that there are a significant number of U.S. citizens in Somalia (particularly in Mogadishu),although we have no reliable statistics. Our clear impression is that most are duel nationals. A number of Amcits are in parliament and/or are players elsewhere on th [...] | 2007-01-02 12:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC CASC SO KE |
07NAIROBI5408 | IN THE CIC'S WAKE, WARLORDS SEEK TO REASSERT THEIR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following the swift withdrawal of CIC forces from central and southern Somalia, several of Somalia's more notorious warlords are seeking to reassert their influence. The resurging warlords are reportedly assuming control of the weapons turned over by the CIC to the s [...] | 2007-01-02 17:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI594 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 12 - FOOD [...] According to the preliminary results of the UN Food and Agriculture's (FAO) Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) and the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) multi-agency post-short rains assessment, the October-December rains in Somalia were largely beneficial for pasto [...] | 2007-02-05 14:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI67 | SOMALIA: KENYAN PUSHBACK OF ASYLUM SEEKERS [...] (C) The Ambassador raised reftel points with Foreign Minister Tuju the morning of January 4. The Ambassador emphasized the need for Kenya to cease the involuntary return of refugees (400 from Liboi and another 291 from Lamu) and meet its international humanitarian obligations to open its bord [...] | 2007-01-04 13:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM EIAD PTER KE SO |
07NAIROBI720 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 13 - CHOLERA [...] A suspected cholera outbreak has affected more than 600 people and resulted in as many as 40 deaths in southern and central Somalia. UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the health sector have responded to the outbreak quickly, collecting biological samples to confirm the [...] | 2007-02-12 10:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI733 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PARTNERSHIP WITH PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the successful delivery of the presentation of the U.S.-Kenya partnership to President Kibaki in December, a Mission team led by the Ambassador on February 7 gave the Mission's "Partnership Presentation" to the leadership of Kenya's Parliament. During the well-attend [...] | 2007-02-13 10:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL EAID PTER ASEC KE |
07NAIROBI759 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT #14 [...] As the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) expands its administrative reach in southern and central Somalia, humanitarian agencies have begun to engage with relevant TFG ministries and Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs). USAID's implementing partners in Somalia interact with l [...] | 2007-02-14 12:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI762 | Somalia Security Highlights [...] (C) Two Somali groups have emerged claiming to lead the resistance to the TFG and its Ethiopian supporters. One of the groups has threatened to attack aircraft attempting to use Mogadishu International Airport, though it may be satisfied for the time being with disrupting TFG revenue flows. [...] | 2007-02-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI790 | TFG Appointments [...] (U) In the last few days, TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf has appointed more than 70 local and regional administrative positions in Galgudud, Lower Juba, Middle Juba, and Bakool regions. According to sources in Mogadishu, on February 13 the TFG nominated commissioners for the 16 districts in the [...] | 2007-02-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI791 | KENYA AGREES TO POSTPONE IGAD SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: We discussed the points in reftel with senior Government of Kenya officials. They are postponing the IGAD summit to mid-March or later and agreed to discuss with their IGAD partners our strong suggestion that the Sudan CPA should have its own summit. End Summary. 2. (U) We [...] | 2007-02-15 16:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SO SU |
07NAIROBI820 | KENYA NOMINATION - AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN [...] The Ambassador nominates for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage Kenyan Member of Parliament Njoki Ndung'u. In the face of fierce opposition, Ms. Ndung'u, one of only 18 women MPs in Kenya, drafted and championed the successful passage of the Sexual Offenses Act 2006. [...] | 2007-02-20 11:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI KE |
07NAIROBI828 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 15 - THE CLUSTER [...] OCHA and UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) principals endorsed a cluster approach to international responses to humanitarian crises in 2005. The UN cluster system was designed as a global mechanism to address and identify gaps in response efforts and enhance the quality of humanitari [...] | 2007-02-21 07:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI87 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON REFOULEMENT DELIVERED TO THE [...] Embassy Nairobi sent a diplomatic note to the Kenyan MFA on January 5 expressing concern over reports of refoulement of Somali asylum seekers, the text of which follows. Begin Text of Diplomatic Note: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Fo [...] | 2007-01-05 10:12:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI870 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 16 - THE IMPACT [...] Continuing insecurity and political uncertainty in Somalia are displacing some populations from Mogadishu and impeding humanitarian operations in Lower Juba Region and Mogadishu. USAID's partners continue to operate under extremely difficult circumstances, but the populations that remain ina [...] | 2007-02-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI875 | Kenya Terrorist Finance: Illicit Cash Couriers [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan officials share USG concern over cash couriers and money laundering, partly because of cash smuggling over the Somali border. Kenya's draft anti-money laundering (AML) bill contains provisions requiring declaration of monetary instruments over USD 5,000, criminalizes will [...] | 2007-02-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KCRM KE |
07NAIROBI905 | Somali Insurgents Attack Ethiopians [...] Somali insurgents attacked Ethiopian forces camped at the former Defense Ministry building in Mogadishu on February 23 between 1730 and 1800 local time. In what sources describe as a well-planned attack, insurgents caught the Ethiopians off guard with mortars and automatic weapons fire. The [...] | 2007-02-26 13:14:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI906 | Somalia Security: A Stagnant Insurgency [...] (C) The Somali insurgency in Mogadishu remains deadly but does not appear to be spreading significantly throughout the country. Perpetrators include Islamic Courts remnants, marginalized Hawiye clan members, disaffected warlords, and common criminals; and they continue to terrorize the city's [...] | 2007-02-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAIROBI91 | COMMUNIQUE OF JANUARY 5 INTERNATIONAL CONTACT [...] The International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia met on January 5 in Nairobi, Kenya, co-chaired by Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer and Kenyan Minister for Foreign SIPDIS Affairs Raphael Tuju. Details of the meeting will follow septel. The text of the communique issued following the ICG [...] | 2007-01-05 14:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE |
07NAIROBI919 | REGIONAL RIFT VALLEY FEVER UPDATE [...] A Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in East Africa has mostly affected Kenya, with smaller outbreaks in Somalia and Tanzania, although weather conditions threaten to cause the spread of RVF further south and west. Through a combination of factors, including information campaigns and favorable [...] | 2007-02-27 09:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL |
07NAIROBI927 | KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...] | 2007-02-27 11:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI966 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 17 ? [...] A fire in Bardera town, in southern Somalia's Gedo Region, on February 22 displaced approximately 700 families and destroyed homes and personal assets. The fire underlines the humanitarian conditions that many poor Somalis face in towns across the country. The humanitarian community, with e [...] | 2007-02-28 12:34:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
07NAIROBI973 | KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF S/WCI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...] | 2007-03-01 06:42:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KE |
07NAIROBI990 | Somali Insurgents Switch to Assassinations [...] (C) Summary. Following a mortar and RPG attack last week on an Ethiopian encampment, insurgents this week have only attacked with hand grenades and personal weapons. The TFG Prime Minister's brother-in-law was among the assassinated. Banditry appears to be a growing problem in Mogadishu a [...] | 2007-03-01 14:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PREF ASEC MOPS SO ET |
07NAPLES118 | APULIA: INNOVATION AT HOME, OUTREACH TO THE BALKANS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 20:52:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL IT |
07NAPLES119 | THE NAPLES GARBAGE CRISIS: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN ITALIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the accumulation of garbage in Italy's Campania region has declined significantly since it grew to crisis proportions earlier this year, continued national and even international press coverage have made it a symbol of everything that is wrong with the Italian South: i [...] | 2007-11-20 16:38:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV PREL CASC TBIO IT |
07NASSAU1133 | CUBAN REFUGEE MEDEVAC CONTINGENCY: BAHAMAS STILL [...] (C) Post conveyed the Department's initial request for Medevac contingency (REF A) to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas August 17. Charge also raised the issue with the Foreign Minister at that time, and later noted to the Minister that the Hungarians had agreed to accept the [...] | 2007-09-11 21:09:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL CU BF |
07NASSAU1196 | OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP SEEKS CONTINUED DIALOGUE [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Perry Christie hosted a working lunch for the Charge and Embassy senior staff September 24 to exchange views on current bilateral issues and domestic Bahamian politics. Christie, who remains as Leader of the Opposition, emphasized his party's commitment throughout t [...] | 2007-09-26 19:16:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR ETRD BF |
07NASSAU1244 | WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES REGULATING WOODEN-HULLED COMERCIAL [...] (SBU) On September 6 the U.S./Bahamas Joint Task Force (JTF) Working Group held a meeting to follow-up its June 14 meeting discussing how to eliminate the narcotics and migrant trafficking threats posed by wooden-hulled Haitian sailing sloops in The Bahamas. During the discussions, Bahamian of [...] | 2007-10-04 18:34:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL BF |
07NASSAU137 | WHTI IMPLEMENTED SMOOTHLY, BUT MINISTER TAKES [...] (U) Following predictions that the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) would be a "category six hurricane" for The Bahamas (reftel),implementation of WHTI on January 23 came and went with little fanfare and no noticeable change in the normal flow of tourists to The Bahamas. In its fi [...] | 2007-01-30 21:47:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CPAS PREL ECON BF |
07NASSAU1386 | BAHAMAS WILL SUPPORT U.S-BACKED COUNTRY-SPECIFIC [...] (SBU) On October 19, then Charge delivered reftel demarche points urging a principled stand against all no-action motions in the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee and seeking Bahamian support for U.S. priority, country-specific resolutions to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign [...] | 2007-11-14 21:12:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN BF |
07NASSAU1399 | AMBASSADOR SIEGEL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] Summary: Ambassador Siegel presented his credentials to Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna on November 14 in a ceremony at Government House. Prior to the ceremony, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Brent Symonette, who affirmed the government's desire to maintain the best possible rel [...] | 2007-11-16 22:10:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | APER PREL PTER UNGA BF |
07NASSAU1428 | BAHAMAS WILL NOT ATTEND COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (U) PolChief delivered reftel demarche points October 26 in a conversation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Sheila Carey. She gave no specific indications of SIPDIS the government's position with regard to attendance at the Ministerial meeting in Bamako, Mali. In a foll [...] | 2007-11-29 21:56:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA BF |
07NASSAU1455 | BAHAMAS REACTS POSITIVELY, SEEKS MORE INFO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bahamian officials reacted positively to initial briefings on the IOM Deportee Reintegration Pilot Project, but seek further details regarding its timing, progress and scope. They would also welcome clarification of the distinction between governmental and non-governmental invo [...] | 2007-12-06 21:35:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PHUM SMIG BF |
07NASSAU169 | BRAZIL TO OPEN EMBASSY IN THE BAHAMAS [...] On February 1, Poloff had a chance meeting with the new Brazilian Ambassador to The Bahamas, Tomas Mauricio Guggenheim, on the street outside their homes. Guggenheim, former ambassador to Gabon, said Brazil was in the process of opening an Embassy in The Bahamas. He is currently searching f [...] | 2007-02-07 19:40:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SMIG BR BF |
07NASSAU195 | BAHAMAS NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF [...] Post nominates Dr. Sandra Dean-Patterson for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Dr. SIPDIS Dean-Patterson is a pioneering advocate for women's rights in The Bahamas. She has been a public spokeswoman on women's rights and violence against women for decades, promotin [...] | 2007-02-14 21:53:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO BF |
07NASSAU231 | DEFENSE FORCE SEEKS TO EXPAND REGIONAL INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 9, Ambassador met with Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) Commodore Clifford Scavella to discuss the bilateral military relationship. Scavella wants to expand the RBDF's international role, and improve its migrant interdiction capabilities. He expressed interest in [...] | 2007-02-27 12:14:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP SMIG PREL KPKO BF HA |
07NASSAU273 | CABINET MINISTER RESIGNS OVER PHOTOS WITH ANNA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Bahamian Minister of Immigration Shane Gibson resigned February 18 following publication of photographs of Gibson embracing Smith in her bed. The photos, which also appeared to show an exchange of gifts, created additional press and opposition scrutiny of potential irregularities in Sm [...] | 2007-03-06 15:13:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR BF |
07NASSAU297 | AMBASSADOR AND FM MITCHELL REVIEW PSI, AUTEC, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rood and Foreign Minister Mitchell met March 7 to review outstanding bilateral issues, including the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),the U.S. request to install new sonar arrays at the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center (AUTEC),the Ambassador's [...] | 2007-03-09 12:21:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PROV PREL KNNP KTIA BF |
07NASSAU332 | AMBASSADOR AND ATTORNEY GENERAL DISCUSS PSI, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rood and Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson discussed the status of ongoing joint criminal investigations, extraditions, and other law enforcement issues under the AG's jurisdiction. The Attorney General provided her reaction to elements of the just released huma [...] | 2007-03-16 16:07:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | BF ECON KJUS KNNP MARR PREL |
07NASSAU413 | DELAYS IN BUILDING OF NEW CHINESE EMBASSY AND [...] (C) During Ambassador Rood's farewell call with Chinese Ambassador Li March 27, Poloff met with Dong Sheng, Cultural and Protocol Officer for the Chinese Embassy to The Bahamas. Asked about plans for a new Chinese embassy building in Nassau, Sheng said that a site had been purchased on Village [...] | 2007-03-30 20:52:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR CH BF |
07NASSAU414 | OPPOSITION LEADER INGRAHAM SUPPORTS US ON AVIATION [...] (C) Summary: In a final courtesy call, Ambassador Rood and Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Hubert Ingraham discussed aviation issues, judicial reform, educational initiatives, bilateral cooperation and upcoming elections. Ingraham promised to work closely with the FAA on aviation issues i [...] | 2007-04-02 11:24:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR EAIR BF |
07NASSAU435 | PM CHRISTIE CALLS MAY 2 ELECTIONS; TIGHT RACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 4, Prime Minister Perry Christie dissolved parliament and announced that elections will be held May 2. At present, the race is too close to call, and neither party is likely to enjoy the same parliamentary majority now held by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). The key [...] | 2007-04-04 21:10:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM |
07NASSAU455 | ATTORNEY GENERAL OPENS WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) During his farewell call on Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson on April 4, Ambassador Rood reiterated his interest in seeing the U.S. and The Bahamas conclude a Proliferation Security Initiative agreement (PSI) -- a poin [...] | 2007-04-11 22:20:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNMP BF |
07NASSAU510 | BAHAMAS REQUEST FOR G/TIP FUNDING [...] This is in response to reftel invitation for proposals to combat trafficking in persons. In lieu of separate submission of proposal and summary cable, Post here submits The Government of the Bahamas' proposal for INCLE and/or ESF funds, formatted pursuant to reftel request: A. Bahamas De [...] | 2007-04-20 19:32:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG BF |
07NASSAU516 | TIGHT, EMOTIONAL RACE LEADS TO PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) The Bahamas is generally known for peaceful and fair elections, but with political parties contending desperately for voters in a tight election scheduled for May 2, an increasing lack of civility between the parties has carried over into the public. A brawl between supporters, including [...] | 2007-04-23 20:23:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM BF |
07NASSAU523 | EMBATTLED FOREIGN MINISTER ACCUSED OF CHINESE VISA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Bahamian Consular Affairs Chief Dorothea Lafleur in a private lunch with Embassy's Consular Chief accused Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell of complicity in pressuring consular officers to issue visas to patently ineligible applicants. She further alleged that Mitchell was involve [...] | 2007-04-24 21:35:00 | Embassy Nassau | SECRET | PGOV PREL KCOR CH BF |
07NASSAU549 | BAHAMAS NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING NEW WAY FORWARD [...] (C) The Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas does not have the capacity to contribute military or civilian resources to support the New Way Forward on Iraq. The Bahamian military consists of only 1000 troops, two ships and no air force. The entire military budget for The Bahamas is [...] | 2007-04-30 20:30:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ BF |
07NASSAU550 | PRE-ELECTION ROUNDUP: MOMENTUM TO FNM AS PARTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the final run up to May 2 elections, violence has faded, replaced with isolated vote-buying allegations, though these are not expected to compromise outcomes. In its recently released party platform, the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) has promised to restrict foreig [...] | 2007-04-30 21:12:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF |
07NASSAU551 | WATERING THE GRASS ROOTS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff observed last-minute campaigning by Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell in his hotly-contested Fox Hill constituency. With small constituencies of only about 4000 people, candidates know voters by name, and are expected to visit with each voter personally. The result is a de [...] | 2007-04-30 21:38:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM BF |
07NASSAU559 | INGRAHAM AND FREE NATIONAL MOVEMENT WIN BAHAMIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to still unofficial counts, The Free National Movement (FNM) captured 24 of 41 parliamentary seats in Bahamian elections May 2. Hubert Ingraham, who served as Prime Minister from 1992-2002, returns to office and is expected to name his cabinet in the coming week. Desp [...] | 2007-05-03 20:43:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF |
07NASSAU579 | BRENT SYMONETTE NAMED BAHAMIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham tapped Free National Movement (FNM) Deputy Party Leader Brent Symonette as The Bahamas' new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs May 4. Symonette is a successful businessman and a former Attorney General and Minister of Tourism in [...] | 2007-05-07 22:31:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD BF |
07NASSAU608 | NEW BAHAMIAN CABINET BUILT FOR ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham made his initial cabinet appointments May 7, with others following in subsequent days. With few exceptions, the new Ministers are experienced and well-suited to their portfolios, having served in Ingraham's previous government. Ingraham r [...] | 2007-05-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAIR BF |
07NASSAU610 | FOREIGN MINISTER SYMONETTE PLEDGES NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge paid his first official courtesy call on new Bahamian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Brent Symonette May 13, outlining U.S. priorities including the upcoming Conference on the Caribbean, elections to the UN Human Rights Council, a Proliferation Security Agreem [...] | 2007-05-15 22:08:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC EAIR ETRD PTER BF |
07NASSAU611 | BAHAMAS HAS "NO INTEREST" IN CARIBBEAN SINGLE [...] In a May 14 statement to local press, Prime Minister Ingraham said that The Bahamas has no economic interest "whatsoever" in the Caribbean Single Market Economy (CSME). CSME integration had been heavily promoted in the face of strong domestic opposition by former Foreign Minister Fred Mitchel [...] | 2007-05-15 22:18:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD ECIN BF |
07NASSAU630 | BAHAMAS REVIEW FOR TITLE III SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post recommends waiver of the provisions of Title III of the Libertad Act for The Bahamas. The Bahamas has had a cordial relationship with Cuba, has supported Cuba in international fora, and has engaged in both cultural and economic exchanges with Cuba, including promotion of Cub [...] | 2007-05-21 17:12:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU BF |
07NASSAU664 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) Pol chief delivered reftel (a) demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Permanent Secretary Marilyn Zonicle. Zonicle appreciated the USG's points regarding the growing security concerns resulting from the close cooperation between Venezuela and Iran. Zonicle indicated that The Baham [...] | 2007-05-30 11:24:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM BF IR VZ |
07NASSAU673 | GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE: INGRAHAM ROLLS OUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Ingraham rolled out his government's plans for The Bahamas at the ceremonial opening of parliament May 23. Picking up on his campaign theme of restoring trust, Ingraham pledged to focus on good governance, accountability, transparency and respect for human righ [...] | 2007-05-31 18:41:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EINV KCOR BF |
07NASSAU682 | CONFIRMATION OF BAHAMIAN ATTENDANCE AT [...] The Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the following delegates will attend the U.S.-CARICOM Ministerial summit: -- The Right Honorable Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of The Bahamas -- The Honorable Brent Symonette, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs [...] | 2007-06-04 21:48:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL BF |
07NASSAU753 | PRIME MINISTER INGRAHAM SEEKS CLOSE TIES WITH U.S. [...] (C) On June 13, the Charge called on Prime Minister Ingraham to congratulate him on his recent election and to review U.S. and Bahamian priorities in advance of the June 18-21 Conference on the Caribbean. In a productive 45-minute meeting, Ingraham promised to consider a Proliferation Securi [...] | 2007-06-15 22:49:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR PTER MCAP PHUM CU VE BF |
07NASSAU93 | BAHAMAS: NAMES OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] The following is in response to reftel request for The Bahamas' top five most influential women in civil society or government: The Honorable Cynthia A. Pratt, M.P. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Churchill Building P.O. Box N-3217 Nassau, The Bahamas (242) 356-6 [...] | 2007-01-24 21:48:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL BF |
07NASSAU94 | BAHAMAS MASS MIGRATION CONTINGENCY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) The following information is provided in response to reftel request, tracked to reftel questions: a. (C) Would your host government be willing to establish a camp to house at least 1,000 migrants interdicted by the U.S. during a mass migration? Would they be willing if the U.S. paid t [...] | 2007-01-24 21:54:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREF PREL HA CU BF |
07NASSAU965 | BAHAMAS INFORMED OF IMPORT SAFETY WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 22:17:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PREL BF |
07NASSAU966 | BAHAMAS REPRESENTATION AT 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 22:17:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA ITRA OVIP BF |
07NASSAU967 | TERRORISM FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AS-QARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 22:22:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PREL PTER PGOV BF |
07NDJAMENA101 | CHAD: NEW CLASHES ON SUDAN/CHAD BORDER [...] (U) In what was apparently a combined operation, UFDD (Union of Forces for Democracy and Development),RAFD (African Assembly of Democratic Forces) and RNDP (National Assembly for Democracy and Progress) rebels attacked Adre in the early hours of February 1. Humanitarian aid workers in the ar [...] | 2007-02-01 17:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA104 | CHAD: Inter-ethnic Fighting in Guereda [...] (SBU) While Humanitarian workers report that fighting in around Adre subsided last night after some 200 houses in different villages were burned and 120 civilian and combatant wounded hospitalized, the situation around Guereda remains tense. Some 30 rebels are reported dead in fighting betwe [...] | 2007-02-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA119 | FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH SLM/A REBEL LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM/A) Chairman Ahmed Abdelshafi met with the Ambassador for the first time since the meeting of Special Envoy (SE) Natsios with rebel leaders in Abeche on January 19 (Ref A). Abdelshafi continues to reject the Darfur Peace Agreement as a basis for f [...] | 2007-02-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF CD SU SCRS |
07NDJAMENA121 | PRESIDENT DEBY BACKTRACKING ON UN FORCE IN EASTERN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 18:46:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | CD KPKO PREF PREL SU SCRSERD |
07NDJAMENA122 | PRESIDENT DEBY BACKTRACKING ON UN FORCE IN EASTERN [...] (C) UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi told the Ambassador in meetings February 5 and 6 that President Deby seems to have backtracked on deployment of a UN military peacekeeping force to eastern Chad. Instead, Deby's preference remains a civilian police (ci [...] | 2007-02-07 20:31:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KPKO CD SU SCRS |
07NDJAMENA129 | ADDITIONAL FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH NRF/JEM [...] (C) Summary. The NRF has high ambitions for a commanders conference/political meeting scheduled for Abeche starting 12 February. However, there remain issues of who will attend and how much consensus they will reach. Meanwhile, the NRF's renunciation of regime change (as recommended by Speci [...] | 2007-02-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF CD SU CRS |
07NDJAMENA131 | CHAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Meets President [...] (U) According to a Chadian presidential webpage article, Iranian Foreign Minister Mountasher Mountaki met with President Deby earlier this week (February 4). Webpage photos show the Iranian foreign minister with President Deby at the Zakouma Game Preserve in southeastern Chad. The Iranian fo [...] | 2007-02-09 23:25:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EPET IR CD |
07NDJAMENA142 | CHAD'S OURE CASSONI REFUGEE CAMP POSES UNIQUE RISKS [...] (SBU) Summary. Oure Cassoni refugee Camp, close to the Sudan border, continues to be highly politicized. Both the camp and the host community of Bahai lack security (reftels). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is active in trying to repatriate Sudanese soldiers hospitaliz [...] | 2007-02-14 14:08:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL KCRS CD SU |
07NDJAMENA149 | CHAD'S GRAND IMAM REQUESTS HELP TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Post calls attention to the following request from Chad's Grand Imam, Sheikh Hissein Hassan Abakar, conveyed in a February 7 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel). In the meeting, Abakar requested assistance from Post and the USG to investigate and interdict possible terrorist and extremis [...] | 2007-02-15 16:26:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN CD PGOV PREL |
07NDJAMENA163 | CHAD INTERETHNIC CONFLICT: "A POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leading "Chad watcher" Roland Marchal emphasized that resolving the Darfur crisis required pressure on President Deby - pressure on Khartoum was not enough. President Deby's calculated pitting of ethnic group against ethnic group in eastern Chad (for the sake of regime survival [...] | 2007-02-23 08:09:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF CD SU |
07NDJAMENA167 | EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE [...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...] | 2007-02-26 09:11:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD |
07NDJAMENA171 | EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE [...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...] | 2007-02-26 14:17:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD |
07NDJAMENA175 | DARFUR/ABECHE CONFERENCES YET TO MATERIALIZE, BUT [...] (C). Summary. Although the proposed rebel conferences in Darfur and Abeche still have not occurred, a number of rebel leaders did attend the Tripoli conference last week. According to representatives of the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) in Ndjamena, a unified SLM must still be achieved [...] | 2007-02-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LY CD SU SCRS |
07NDJAMENA176 | CHAD'S VIEWS ON A UN BORDER FORCE: TALK WITH US [...] (SBU) Chad is open to discussions on a UN peacekeeping force on its border with Sudan, but believes its mandate should be focused on protecting civilian populations, Chad's Foreign Minister Allam-mi told the Ambassador February 27. Speaking on his cell phone in Paris en route to Moscow and T [...] | 2007-02-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC CD |
07NDJAMENA18 | DEBY PEACE ACCORD WITH FUC'S NOUR -- ONE LESS [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of Sudanese government support and an alleged payment of $5.5 million from Libyan President Moammar Gadaffi may have combined to induce Chadian rebel leader Mahamat Nour to sign a peace agreement with the Deby government in Tripoli December 24. The significance of [...] | 2007-01-09 15:15:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | CD MOPS PGOV PREL |
07NDJAMENA181 | CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] A search of embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individuals nominated for training with Special Operations Forces in May and June 2007. INK name check pending. 2. Unit: Chadian Second Ant [...] | 2007-02-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC MASS PHUM PINR PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA189 | CHAD'S POSITION ON A UN BORDER FORCE HARDENING [...] (U) On February 28 the Ambassador was called to the Foreign Ministry to receive a statement from Acting Foreign Minister Djidda Moussa Outman clarifying Chad's reservations on proposals by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for a peacekeepi [...] | 2007-02-28 15:54:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC CD |
07NDJAMENA195 | CHAD: PRIME MINISTER YOADIMNADJI DIES; KASSIRE [...] (SBU) President Deby selected Dr. Nouradine Delwa Kassire Koumakoye to replace Prime Minister Yoadimnadji who died in Paris on February 24. Kassire previously served as Prime Minister from 1993-1995. Kassire is a southern Muslim with ties to some of Chad,s northern ethnic groups. --------- [...] | 2007-03-01 15:17:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA199 | ABECHE: EASTERN CHAD HUB FOR THE UN, NGOS AND ANY [...] (u) Summary. Abeche is the major city in eastern Chad, used as a hub by the UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work in the region. Security remains an issue, with the UN still drawn down to essential personnel only (Phase IV)). UN and NGO staff favor a [...] | 2007-03-02 15:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PREL KCRS KPKO CD SU |
07NDJAMENA200 | ABECHE: EASTERN CHAD HUB FOR THE UN, NGOS AND ANY [...] (u) Summary. Abeche is the major city in eastern Chad, used as a hub by the UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work in the region. Security remains an issue, with the UN still drawn down to essential personnel only (Phase IV)). UN and NGO staff favor a [...] | 2007-03-02 15:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PREL KCRS KPKO CD SU |
07NDJAMENA204 | CHAD/USA SIGN AGREEMENT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF [...] On March 5, the Ambassador signed an agreement with the Government of Chad on the establishment of the American International School of N'djamena. The Secretary of State for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Djidda Moussa Outman, signed for the Government of Chad. [...] | 2007-03-05 16:59:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | ASCH PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA205 | LET'S TAKE THIS YES FOR AN ANSWER: NEXT STEPS ON A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION: President Deby's rejection of the UN border force proposed by the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) leaves an opening for bringing in a smaller force tasked with protecting humanitarian operations in eastern Chad. We believe we should pur [...] | 2007-03-05 17:20:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD |
07NDJAMENA245 | CHAD EXPLAINS RESERVATIONS ON UN BORDER FORCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad supports a UN force of police and gendarmes to protect refugees, displaced Chadians, and humanitarian workers on its border with Sudan, but not proposals for a much larger military force, Chad's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador March 20. He said a "massive" force ra [...] | 2007-03-20 16:46:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD |
07NDJAMENA251 | AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE IN SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) The Ambassador presented points in ref to Foreign Minister Allam-mi in a meeting on March 20. 2. (S) The Foreign Minister responded that the United States will require Libya's approval for the request for overflights even before Chad's. He said Chad prefers to solve its problems wit [...] | 2007-03-21 16:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | SECRET | MARR PBTS PINR PREL GR LI SU CD |
07NDJAMENA258 | CHAD: MEETING WITH AHMED DIRAIJ [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SFDA) leader Ahmed Diraij shared his impressions of diplomatic moves and countermoves by Chad, Sudan and Eritrea relative to the Darfur conflict with the Ambassador March 21. He expected continuing jockeying for position in the week ahead amo [...] | 2007-03-26 12:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SU CD |
07NDJAMENA262 | NEW CHAD CABINET: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, YOUR [...] (SBU) President Deby's new cabinet, announced on March 4, features eight new ministers. The new cabinet has several notable characteristics. Some 13 percent have participated in the international visitors program and one is a former USAID employee. For the first time in recent memory, the c [...] | 2007-03-26 15:47:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA278 | CHAD: DAS SWAN MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) James C. Swan April 2, Chad Foreign Minister SIPDIS Allam-mi explained that he had not yet briefed the Cabinet on his meetings in New York and therefore could not give an update on whether a green light would be given to the [...] | 2007-04-03 09:43:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV UNSC CD SU |
07NDJAMENA291 | SUDANESE REBELS STILL A LONG WAY FROM UNIFYING [...] (C) Summary. NRF officials, including two ex-pat political representatives from the UK, indicated frustration at the slow progress of unifying the Sudanese rebels in a meeting with them April 4. They said they see the United States as an important friend and ally and urged diplomatic pressu [...] | 2007-04-04 17:15:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF CD SU CRS |
07NDJAMENA302 | CHAD SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE [...] (C) Summary: United States interests in Chad have evolved over the last seven years. Highlights of the new relationship include U.S. humanitarian support for the Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad and U.S. political leadership in seeking a resolution of the Darfur conflict, U.S./Chad coopera [...] | 2007-04-06 11:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF OTRA SU CD |
07NDJAMENA325 | CLASHES CONTINUE, IDP SITUATION WORSENS IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last two weeks the security and humanitarian situation in eastern Chad has taken a dangerous turn for the worse. The Dar Sila region near the border with Sudan south of Abeche has been the scene of attacks by janjaweed militias, an upsurge in new Internally Displaced [...] | 2007-04-13 08:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD SU |
07NDJAMENA331 | DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING WITH DARFUR REBELS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Sudanese rebel movements from JEM, NMRD and SLA met with Deputy Secretary Negroponte in Ndjamena, April 17. The movements explained that three months of meetings in Chad had failed to unify the movements, but that they were still trying. The effort by GNU V [...] | 2007-04-18 08:25:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV SU CD |
07NDJAMENA34 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN CHAD [...] Per request paragraph 2 reftel, names follow of five most influential women from civil society and government in Chad. 2. Mariam Moussa, Minister of Solidarity and Micro Credit, (235) 52-05-76 and (235) 632-8609. Ph.D. in public management and active campaigner for poverty alleviation. [...] | 2007-01-11 09:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA341 | DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE MEETS CHADIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Negroponte met President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister (FM) Alam-mi late Monday afternoon April 16, in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. In both meetings the Deputy Secretary discussed regional peace and stability, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur [...] | 2007-04-20 11:34:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | SECRET | PGOV OVIP PREL PREF UNSC CD SU |
07NDJAMENA385 | JEM LEADER ON CHAD-SUDAN BORDER CONFLICT [...] (C) More fighting on the Chad-Sudan border is likely as both countries move to implement the agreement reached in Riyadh to stop supporting rebel groups aimed at each other, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Chairman Khalil Ibrahim told the Ambassador and Poloff May 5. Khalil expected Kha [...] | 2007-05-07 14:54:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CD SU |
07NDJAMENA396 | SUDAN REBEL LEADER SEEKS DARFUR PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is ready to start Darfur peace talks tomorrow and wants to cooperate with the United States, JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim stressed in a meeting on May 5. Khalil expressed support for the United Nation's mediation effort, a Darfur ceasefire [...] | 2007-05-08 16:59:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD |
07NDJAMENA410 | CHADIAN TROOP BUILD-UP UNDERWAY; ALL QUIET, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Chad (GOC) is ready to launch a major attack against Chadian rebels if the rebels cross over from Sudan for one last offensive before the rainy season -- or if they are expelled by Sudan. Embassy sources do not put much weight in the Saudi-brokered accord between [...] | 2007-05-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CD SU |
07NDJAMENA42 | NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Capping the reestablishment of relations with Chad, China's foreign minister visited N'Djamena January 6-7. China,s new envoy to Chad told the Ambassador that China recognizes that development in Chad and the region requires peace and stability. He noted China's interest in C [...] | 2007-01-12 10:41:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EPET MOPS PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA43 | C-130'S FOR CHAD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad wants to buy four C-130 aircraft at a cost of over USD 300 million. Whether Chad needs or can afford so many new aircraft is questionable. Also an issue is how they will be used. Chad wants to buy them primarily to defend the regime against a backlash provoked by its re [...] | 2007-01-12 12:06:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP EFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA434 | SLM UNITY MEETING YIELDS STILL ANOTHER FACTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The attempt to reunify the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) at Ameri in Darfur last month appears instead to have succeeded in giving birth to yet another splinter group. According to its spokesman, speaking with us on May 22, the newly christened Revolutionary Military Counc [...] | 2007-05-23 14:42:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD SU |
07NDJAMENA445 | CHAD: ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD III [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 16:27:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA446 | CHAD ELECTION DIALOGUE: A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY? [...] (U) SUMMARY: Discussions on electoral reform are moving forward between the Mouvement Patriotique de Salut (MPS),Chad's ruling party, and the opposition. Agreement could come in the next weeks. Even diehard critics of the regime see promise that the talks could lead toward a more inclusive [...] | 2007-05-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA455 | GRAND IMAM VOICES CONCERN OVER EXTREMISTS' "NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY Fundamentalist and extremist ideologies continue to gain influence in Chad, according to the Grand Imam, who reported on the "new strategy" of a number of Islamic organizations. The World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and the Islamic Forum (IF) have been officially banned by [...] | 2007-06-04 18:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CD PGOV PREL KISL |
07NDJAMENA457 | CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY ON UNFORCE ND DIALOGUE [...] Summary: President Deb, in a meeting with the Ambassador June 4, welcoed the announcement by the United States of additonal sanctions on Sudan. He continuedto resist the idea of an international force in Chad. Money for such an expensive project, he said, would be better spent moving refug [...] | 2007-06-05 10:00:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL HUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA462 | SLM LEADER COMMENTS ON UNIFICATION EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prospects for leaders within the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) to unify appear to be dim and getting dimmer. During a recent meeting with SLM leader Adam Shogar, he expressed dismay with recent unification efforts, and was focused on the differences between the vari [...] | 2007-06-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC SU CD |
07NDJAMENA468 | KOME OILFIELD SECURITY [...] (SBU) After receiving tearline information that suspected extremists had allegedly conducted surveillance on the Doba Oil facility in Chad, on May 24, 2007 the Regional Security Officer was invited to review the oilfield security operation in the Kome region of Chad near the city of Doba by the [...] | 2007-06-06 13:53:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CD EPET PGOV PREL |
07NDJAMENA474 | CHAD/SUDAN: MASALIT RESTIVENESS [...] (SBU) Summary: A new Darfur rebel group is being formed composed of Masalit who object to control by Zaghawans, whether Chadian or Darfurian. The group may not get off the ground, but its formation is indicative of the splintering trend among the Darfur rebels and dissatisfaction among Masa [...] | 2007-06-07 13:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA477 | CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER ON REBELS AND PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 7, Foreign Minister Allam-Mi said that both Sudan and Chad were adequately abiding by the Riyadh accord's requirement to rein in each other's rebels. Greater calm had prevailed in eastern Chad as a result. Allam-mi hardened his verbiage op [...] | 2007-06-07 15:56:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH SU |
07NDJAMENA484 | CHAD: EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY [...] SUMMARY: According to Chad's finance and oil ministers, the Economic and Monetary Commission of Central Africa (CEMAC) is seized with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and, within Chad, the oil minister heads a team that is supposed to address EITI's requirments. END [...] | 2007-06-11 15:59:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA487 | CHAD: WORLD BANK VIEWS ON EVE OF MULTIDONOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the eve of the multidonor meeting in Ndjamena, World Bank experts assess that Chad's poverty indicators are headed downward, despite a 2007 spike in oil revenues. With most of its oil revenues consumed by military expenditures already in the first quarter of 2007, Chad is f [...] | 2007-06-12 08:15:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA488 | CHAD: LIMITS OF OIL REVENUE OVERSIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 11, the head of the oil-revenue supervisory office ("College"),Lamana Abdoulaye, acknowledged that the strictures on his office substantially diminished its effectiveness. He also claimed the College had turned back some faulty projects a [...] | 2007-06-13 09:26:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON EFIN PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA499 | CHAD: IMPORTANT JUNCTURE IN INTERNAL POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing political dialogue in Chad has come to a crunch point. According to a senior official who serves as go-between in the dialogue, several key areas of disagreement remain, but each one is surmountable. A prominent oppositionist has removed himself from the dialogu [...] | 2007-06-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA504 | CHAD: KOUCHNER PLAN ACCEPTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby hasaccepted a two-track humanitarian protection pla for eastern Chadthat Kouchner proposed to him une 10. The plan is modest but achievable. It culd have a relatively quick impact in protecting efugees and internally displaced persons, as well s somewhat reduci [...] | 2007-06-18 10:45:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO CD PHUM PREF |
07NDJAMENA506 | ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy NQDjamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...] | 2007-06-19 16:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA507 | CHAD: TOWARD FREER RADIO AND [...] (U) Summary: There are some potentially significant changes underway in ChadQs media environment, and, with the apparent end of the State of Emergency, censorship of the independent press has virtually ceased. First, ChadQs government-controlled national radio and television are moving tow [...] | 2007-06-19 16:16:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA508 | CORRECTED VERSION: ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy N'Djamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...] | 2007-06-20 06:43:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA509 | CORRECTED VERSION; CHAD: TOWARD FREER RADIO AND [...] (U) Summary: There are some potentially significant changes underway in Chad's media environment, and, with the apparent end of the State of Emergency, censorship of the independent press has virtually ceased. First, Chad's government-controlled national radio and television are moving tow [...] | 2007-06-20 06:44:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA516 | CHAD: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON DIALOGUE, REBELS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abderaman Moussa, the National Mediator, and Jean Alingue, prominent oppositionist, gave the Ambassador June 19 their very different views on the ongoing political dialogue and, in particular, participation of the rebels. Alingue said that the dialogue had reached agreement o [...] | 2007-06-21 18:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA517 | CHAD/SUDAN: JEM PERSPECTIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Taljadine Niam, JEM representative in Chad, met the Ambassador June 20 at his request, seeking to maintain contact despite sanctions on JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim. Khalil, he claimed, had departed Chad for Darfur with "all" the JEM forces. He said JEM (contrary to its blockin [...] | 2007-06-21 18:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA53 | CHAD:SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] (S/NF) Following are AmEmbassy N'djamena's comments on Section 1206 proposals for Chad. Given the fragility of the political situation in Chad, highly visible equipment deliveries or major new training programs should be avoided, 2. (S/NF) A. Improve Partner National Intelligence (Al [...] | 2007-01-22 11:43:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PK PM PREL MASS CD |
07NDJAMENA530 | CHAD: FURTHER ON KOUCHNER PLAN [...] (SBU) Francois Dureau, representing the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in talks in Chad, briefed ambassadors June 25, before departing the country, on the status of the two-track humanitarian protection plan for eastern Chad (reftel). He said that most of the discussions had [...] | 2007-06-26 15:15:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO CD PHUM PREF |
07NDJAMENA531 | CHAD MISSES 70 PERCENT TARGET BUT WORLD BANK STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank and IMF concluded two weeks of meetings with the Chadian government June 24, pleased with the participation of all ministries and opennness of the process. They brought senior Chadian officials, including military, together for the first time to focus on budget [...] | 2007-06-26 15:22:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA544 | CHAD: FISSURES IN OPPOSITION RANKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two tracks of government-opposition talks have been under way for the past week, one with the Chadian rebels in Tripoli, the other a continuation of the internal dialogue in Ndjamena. Preliminary indications suggest that serious fissures are developing within the formerly cohe [...] | 2007-06-29 10:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CD LY SU |
07NDJAMENA553 | TRANSFORMING CHAD: A CAUTIONARY TALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last three years the United States has devoted more attention and resources to Chad than at any time since the joint fight against Libyan aggression in the 1980's. Chad is a major beneficiary of the Trans Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership initiative. It receive [...] | 2007-07-03 20:54:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07NDJAMENA555 | CHAD: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR YOUNOUSMI ON SUDAN, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's close advisor Adoum Younousmi told the Ambassador July 3 that, during his trip to Khartoum the previous week, he had found the Sudanese leaders "lacking in vision" in their objectives in Darfur, but "evolving." They had asked for Chadian mediation with the Da [...] | 2007-07-04 10:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV CD SU |
07NDJAMENA557 | DEMOCRACY AND STABILITY IN CHAD: IS THERE HOPE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Idriss Deby Itno is a master survivor in a political culture as cruel and a neighborhood as dangerous as any in the world. Over the course of the last few years he has succeeded once again in facing down all challengers despite the fierce backlash his move to become [...] | 2007-07-05 07:35:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
07NDJAMENA564 | CHAD/SUDAN: ROUNDING UP DARFUR REBELS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The funeral and associated traditional mourning customs for President Deby's son tied up key players in Ndjamena, with the result that the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD) still does not have Chadian approval for a flight to take Darfur rebels to Mombasa. CHD is focusing [...] | 2007-07-06 09:23:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA594 | CHAD: TWO UNEASY TRACKS OF DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Strains within the opposition coalition have not yet led to an open rupture, but the internal political dialogue is blocked over the issue of a government of consensus. Meanwhile, there is apparent progress in the parallel dialogue in Tripoli between the government and rebels [...] | 2007-07-13 18:06:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CD LY SU |
07NDJAMENA618 | CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER ON ARUSHA MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi stressed to Charge that Chad would do all it could to ensure a successful meeting in Arusha. Referring to Embassy demarches concerning the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue's aborted meeting in Mombasa, he stated that Chad did not want to have a bi [...] | 2007-07-25 16:39:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SU CD |
07NDJAMENA619 | EASTERN CHAD - INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT UPDATE [...] Most internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad are now receiving assistance from humanitarian organizations. The numbers have stabilized at about 170,000, and due to the rains no major conflict is expected for several months. Issues faced by the humanitarian community include insecu [...] | 2007-07-25 17:17:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA62 | VISIT OF SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS TO CHAD: MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister Allam-mi on January 18 in N'djamena, Chad, Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios expressed thanks to Chad for receiving Darfur refugees and for its support for a UN force on the border. He stressed that [...] | 2007-01-23 16:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA623 | UNDER-AGE RECRUITMENT IN CHAD [...] SUMMARY: International media attention to under-age recruitment in Chad, stimulated by reports from Human Rights Watch and UN, has brought an indignant rebuke from the government spokesman, but, at the working level, it appears to have resulted in enhanced cooperation from the Ministry of De [...] | 2007-07-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MCAP KAWC PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA625 | EASTERN CHAD - IDP NEEDS BEING MET [...] Most of the estimated 173,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad are now receiving assistance from humanitarian organizations. USAID/OFDA's partners and other humanitarian organizations are providing services to the IDPs in the water/sanitation/hygiene (WASH),health/nutritio [...] | 2007-07-30 16:18:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA628 | CHAD: SECTION 1206 FOR FY 07 [...] (S/NOFORN) Post has reviewed the FY 07 proposed 1206 activity (reftel A) and declines the following program: Tactical Communications Interoperability (TCI) (USD 3.144) for Chad, Algeria, Mauritania and Nigeria Reason: At this time a number of training and equipment activities are underway [...] | 2007-07-31 10:17:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | SECRET | PARM PK PM PREL MASS CD |
07NDJAMENA633 | CHAD - UN OCHA WEAKNESSES [...] (SBU) The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) effort to coordinate humanitarian activities in eastern Chad is falling short of expectations and promises made to donors earlier in 2007. To improve its performance, OCHA HQ needs to take eastern Chad's requirements more [...] | 2007-08-02 13:20:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA637 | SCENESTTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] (C) General Ward: Your first visit to Chad will highlight for President Idriss Deby Itno the importance the United States attaches to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) and U.S. appreciation for Chad's support on counter-terrorism issues. We anticipate that the President [...] | 2007-08-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD |
07NDJAMENA64 | CHAD: AU CHAIRMANSHIP VOTE [...] (C) In the absence of Foreign Minister Allam-mi, who has already departed for the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns in ref over the AU Chairmanship elections with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Djidda Moussa Outman on January 24. [...] | 2007-01-24 10:21:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA649 | CHAD SHOWS RENEWED INTEREST IN EXTRACTIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chadian officials, including the Minister of Oil, briefed donors on plans to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in two World Bank-hosted meetings July 26 and July 31, 2007. Chad had already expressed interest in joining EITI in 2004, but there [...] | 2007-08-08 05:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | CD ECON EPET PREL |
07NDJAMENA657 | GUINNESS TESTS THE WATERS IN CHAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 26, Chad's only brewery, Les Brasseries du Tchad (BDT),announced the addition of Guinness to its existing product line. Chad's neighbor, Cameroon, has produced Guinness for years and some Cameroonian Guinness was imported to Chad both legally and clandestinely. By pr [...] | 2007-08-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD ETRD ECON PGOV PREL |
07NDJAMENA665 | GENERAL WARD,S MEETING WITH CHAD PRESIDENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Commander of the European Military Command General William Ward met President Deby August 8 in Chad in a meeting primarily focused on aircraft sales. While arguing the case for Chad's need for C-130's, President Deby also expressed interest in learning more about the C-2 [...] | 2007-08-14 13:28:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | CD PGOV PREL |
07NDJAMENA674 | EASTERN CHAD - USAID FIELD VISIT TO DOGDORE IDP [...] The week of August 13, a USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) field officer based in eastern Chad traveled to the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Dogdore, the largest IDP site in eastern Chad. Dogdore's proximity to the Chad-Sudan border and the [...] | 2007-08-16 16:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA675 | POLITICAL ACCORD REACHED WITH CHADIAN OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: After eight months of negotiation under the aegis of the European Union (EU) and the UN, Chad's ruling party (MPS) signed an agreement August 13 with the opposition coalition (CPDC) on reform of Chad's electoral process. The signing took place in the presence of President Idri [...] | 2007-08-17 07:19:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA676 | CHINA IN CHAD: AN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mr. Huang Mingyuan, Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Chinese (PRC) Embassy in Chad, provided an overview of the current state of China's activities here. Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China has responded to a variety of needs expressed by the Chad [...] | 2007-08-17 10:47:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD CH ECON ETRD PREL ENRG EPET |
07NDJAMENA689 | CHAD SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JACKSON LEE [...] (U) U.S. Embassy N'Djamena warmly welcomes CODEL Jackson Lee to Chad August 26-27, 2007. Chad is a landlocked, impoverished nation situated in the geographical "heart" of Africa. Violent regime change has been the rule since independence in 1960. Chad's estimated 9.4 million people are prim [...] | 2007-08-23 09:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA70 | SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS TO REBELS: TIME IS NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his meeting with DPA non- signatory groups, Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios delivered a clear message to rebel leaders gathered in eastern Chad that the only solution to the Darfur crisis was through negotiation. He informed them that the USG supported an all-incl [...] | 2007-01-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF CD SU |
07NDJAMENA712 | CHAD:EU TEAM ASKS HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the week-long visit of a European Commission Technical Assessment Team, many questions were still unanswered as to how a possible multidimensional UN/EU force would go about protecting refugees, IDPs and humanitarian workers in eastern Chad given the complex political an [...] | 2007-09-07 15:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
07NDJAMENA752 | UNDER-AGE RECRUITMENT IN DARFUR REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR protection officers in Darfur refugee camps in Farchana and Iriba report recent incidents of recruitment of under-age combatants for Sudanese rebel movements. Chadian officials assert that they are working to prevent recruitment and ensure the civilian character of the re [...] | 2007-09-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CD SU |
07NDJAMENA755 | SUDAN REBEL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN/AU organized September 19-20 meeting in N'Djamena was billed as an opportunity to organize Sudan rebel movement delegations and positions before the October 27, 2007 negotiation in Tripoli, but from most accounts it was inconclusive on all fronts and lacked the presenc [...] | 2007-09-27 15:53:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF CD SU |
07NDJAMENA784 | SUDAN REBELS IN CHAD REPORT JEM SPLIT [...] (SBU) Summary: JEM representatives informed Emboffs that a split has taken place within the movement, pitting Chairman Khalil Ibrahim on one side against his former Vice-Chair Bahar and field Commander Banda on the other. JEM "Chief Negotiator" Ahmed Tugod Lissan accused JEM/Bahar of perpetrat [...] | 2007-10-10 08:52:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF CD SU |
07NDJAMENA792 | PEACE ACCORDS MULTIPLY WITH FRINGE CHAD REBEL [...] (SBU) Summary. Five minor Chadian rebel/exile groups have signed generic peace agreements with the Government of Chad (GOC) in the last two weeks. The agreements include amnesty for rebels and a commitment to integrate rebel forces into the Chadian army and civil service. Negotiations in Trip [...] | 2007-10-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LY GB BN CD |
07NDJAMENA807 | CHAD: NO PROGRESS ON DETAINED AMCIT [...] (SBU) No progress has been made in the more than five days of contacts between members of the Chadian Tubu community and the MDJT rebel group currently holding Amcit Steve Godbolt in Zoumri, northern Chad. The local Radio France International (RFI) reporter had agreed to temporarily hold off [...] | 2007-10-17 15:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PGOV PTER PREL CD LY |
07NDJAMENA822 | CHAD REBEL GROUP ISSUES PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING SEIZED [...] The Paris-based Chad opposition web site "Al-Wihda" (alwihdainfo.com) has carried a number of postings concerning American Cash Steven Godbold, seized by the MDJT on October 12 in Zoumri, Chad, including one by the group which claims to have seized him. We cannot attest to the authenticity of [...] | 2007-10-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL CASC CD LY |
07NDJAMENA852 | CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED: [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November. Post will report any substantive response septel. TAMLYN [...] | 2007-11-05 09:10:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA854 | CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 09:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA876 | CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS ON GUANTANAMO CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Deby has directed his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps to seek the liberation of Chadian Guantanamo detainee Mohamed Algharani (aka Yousef Abkir Salih Al Qarani). Department guidance requested (see para 5). End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 5, Post rece [...] | 2007-11-09 10:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA877 | PRESIDENT DEBY SIGNS "THE LAST PEACE AGREEMENT" [...] (C) Summary. President Deby signed what he called "the last peace agreement" with the remaining Chadian rebel groups at large in Libya on October 25. The formation of a new Government is still expected but other events (in particular, the Zoe's Ark Affair) have taken up government attention. [...] | 2007-11-13 08:22:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CD |
07NDJAMENA890 | MINURCAT AND EUFOR STIRRING IN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: A new kind of international operation is slowing standing up in Chad as European (EUFOR) and UN (MINURCAT) forces embark on a joint exercise in providing security to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Chad's isolated eastern provinces bordering Sudan. Given the [...] | 2007-11-16 11:41:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL UNSC PREF CD SU CT |
07NDJAMENA9 | PRESIDENT DEBY CELEBRATES 16 [...] (SBU) Summary: President Idriss Deby Itno celebrated the sixteenth anniversary of his successful coup detat (December 1, 1990) at the annual day of freedom and democracy, held this year in the southern town of Kyabe, in the Moyen Chari region of Chad, on December 29. Representatives from th [...] | 2007-01-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CD |
07NDJAMENA916 | CHAD: FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ON BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. Chadian rebels have taken up arms again, almost one year to the day that they seized and held Chad's eastern town of Abeche for 24 hours. Rebel groups UFDD and RFC claim that the Libyan-brokered peace agreement is not being honored; the Government of Chad points the finger at [...] | 2007-11-29 17:34:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CD SU |
07NDJAMENA920 | CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES, DEFENSE MINISTER FIRED [...] (SBU) Summary: Heaving fighting continues between the government and rebel factions in eastern Chad, with significant casualties among the President's clan. President Deby returned to N'Djamena on December 1 to commemorate 17 years in power and to fire the Defense Minister (former FUC rebel M [...] | 2007-12-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL CD SU |
07NDJAMENA921 | CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES, DEFENSE MINISTER FIRED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL CD SU |
07NDJAMENA933 | CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN ANT AND RFC [...] (C) Summary. Fighting continues in the Biltine area between the Chadian army (ANT) and the RFC rebel group. Cut off from supply lines in the Sudan, the RFC may not be able to survive a siege. On the other hand, coordinated action between the RFC and the UFDD could pull the ANT away and prol [...] | 2007-12-06 06:40:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF SD CD |
07NDJAMENA94 | CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY ASKS TO BUY FOUR C-130 [...] (U) President Idriss Deby Itno has sent a letter to the President requesting approval for the purchase of four new C-130 aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales program. Dated January 19 and delivered by Chadian Ambassador to the United States Mahamoud Bechir to the Ambassador January 30, [...] | 2007-01-31 11:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN PGOV PREL CD |
07NDJAMENA944 | CHAD: CONTINUED FIGHTING AND HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary. Intermittent fighting between the Government and rebel groups has spread to the CAR/Sudan/Chad tri-border region. The UN and NGO's have drawn-down expatriate staff from the Farchana and Goz Beida areas, but road travel and humanitarian flights continue. Common banditry (rather [...] | 2007-12-07 17:09:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV CD SU |
07NDJAMENA951 | CHAD: EUFOR PROSPECTS GLOOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Cancellation or postponement of EUFOR due to resource and logistics constraints is a possibility according to EUFOR's General Gannacia. Nonetheless, EUFOR and MINURCAT advance teams continue to lay the groundwork for eventual deployment. MINURCAT may request assistance from do [...] | 2007-12-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PGOV PREL PREF CD CR |
07NDJAMENA99 | FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH NRF REBEL LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has not yet been able to convince other members of the National Redemption Front (NRF) to issue a statement renouncing any intentions of seeking to overthrow the regime in Khartoum, JEM's political representatives told the Ambassador January [...] | 2007-02-01 12:04:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF CD SU SCRS |
07NEWDELHI1009 | AMBASSADOR PUSHES FOR DEFENSE SALES AND [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 call on Minister of Defense A.K. Antony, the Ambassador: -- emphasized the commitment the USG and American companies have demonstrated toward India's defense trade; -- pressed for a level playing field for American defense companies seeking business in India; [...] | 2007-02-28 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS IN |
07NEWDELHI1010 | BOFORS SCANDAL MIDDLEMAN CAUSING TROUBLE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 27, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs disrupted both houses of Parliament, demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over alleged UPA mishandling of Ottavio Quattrocchi's extradition from Argentina. Quattrocchi is the main accused in the Bofors gun payo [...] | 2007-02-28 13:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IN |
07NEWDELHI1050 | INDIA AND U.S. HOLD COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh and Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic chaired the 8th U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) on February 28th in New Delhi. Calling the timing "late, but better late than ne [...] | 2007-03-02 14:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI1051 | INDIANS OFFER BLEAK ASSESSMENT OF AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (S) Summary: During the February 28, 2007 session of the U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),the Indian delegation gave a tour d'horizon of developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to help set the stage for the day's discussions (reported Septel). Indian int [...] | 2007-03-02 14:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1076 | MEA ASKS U.S. TO PROPOSE DATES FOR PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-06 02:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO IN |
07NEWDELHI1097 | DEMARCHE TO INDIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL FOURTH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-06 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC BM IN |
07NEWDELHI1098 | CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS RE-EMERGES IN INDIA - MAN VS. [...] (U) Summary: After a 32 year hiatus, the chikungunya virus is making a comeback in India. While the Government of India (GOI) estimates over 180,000 cases of chikungunya infection since December 2005, the actual number of cases is difficult to assess. The GOI,s lack of transparency in reporti [...] | 2007-03-06 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AMED EAGR IN KFLU ECON PREL SENV TBIO PTER |
07NEWDELHI1101 | CONGRESS LEADERS CRITICIZE NUCLEAR DEAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a string of electoral defeats in Bihar, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, and Punjab, the most influential voices in the Delhi cocktail circuit as well as some of our most insightful political contacts in the states are telling us with one voice that Sonia Gandhi and her personal ad [...] | 2007-03-06 16:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON KISL KDEM KNNP PARM IN |
07NEWDELHI1216 | DEMARCHE ON ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1218 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECRETARY SAMUEL W. BODMAN'S MARCH 2007 VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary Bodman, the members of the Country Team warmly welcome you to New Delhi and Mumbai and look forward to your arrival on March 19. You are visiting at a crucial time in Indo-U.S. relations and are positioned to significantly advance our growing government-to-government, commer [...] | 2007-03-13 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY EPET EAID SENV PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI1248 | US PARTICIPATION IN AMAN 07 "SURPRISES" AND [...] (C) PolCouns was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs by Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar on 12 March for an urgent meeting to discuss the USG's participation in the multinational joint naval exercise "Aman 07." Kumar delivered the non-paper in para. 4 to Polcouns as directed [...] | 2007-03-14 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS CH PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1250 | INDO-FIJIAN RELATIONS GOOD DESPITE MILITARY COUP [...] (C) Summary: Fiji's interim Foreign Affairs and External Trade Minister, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, visited New Delhi March 3-4 (reftel). He met with both Ambika Soni, Indian Minister of Tourism and Culture, and Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of External Affairs, from whom Nailatikau reportedly re [...] | 2007-03-14 13:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FJ IN PBTS PGOV PINR |
07NEWDELHI1273 | BJP RE-ENERGIZED, LOOKING FORWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-15 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ECON KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1274 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing an election in April and May 2007 that could displace the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government. Although the political situation in UP is fluid and changing rapidly, there was a consensus on a number of key points during a mi [...] | 2007-03-15 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KISL KDEM KCRM IN |
07NEWDELHI1275 | HIZBOLLAH AND HAMAS DELEGATES PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Delegates of the "International Conference on War, Imperialism and Resistance: West Asia," held in New Delhi March 12-14, adopted a resolution urging the Indian government to change its Middle East policy, break ties with Israel, and promote dialogue with Iran. Hizbollah spokes [...] | 2007-03-15 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IS IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1292 | ECON HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW DELHI(March 12-16, 2007) [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 12-16, 2006. --------------------------------------------- - ECONOMIST CONFERENCE: GOI ROLLS OUT RED CARPET --------------------------------------------- - 2. (U) Prime Minister Singh address [...] | 2007-03-16 11:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EFIN ECON ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI1293 | SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) (Americas) Joint Secretary Gaitri Kumar on March 16. PolCouns also delivered demarche to the office of MEA (UN Economic and Social) Joint Secretary Manjeev Singh Puri, who has responsibility for instructing the Ind [...] | 2007-03-16 11:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IN |
07NEWDELHI1295 | KASHMIRI REJECTIONIST HARDLINER GEELANI SEEKS U.S. [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for CA, S/CT, DS, PA, SCA and others. Please see paragraphs 15 and 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani applied March 16 for a visa to travel to the United States for medical treatment for cancer in his one remaining kid [...] | 2007-03-16 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER CVIS ASEC PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL |
07NEWDELHI1297 | NAXALITES KILL 55 IN ATTACK ON SECURITY FORCES IN [...] (C) Summary. Hundreds of Naxalite insurgents stormed a heavily-fortified security post in the Dantewada district of southern Chhattisgarh during a pre-dawn raid on March 15. After three hours of fighting, 55 security and police personnel were killed. This unfortunate and gruesome attack co [...] | 2007-03-16 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN |
07NEWDELHI1302 | GOI "VERY UNEASY" ABOUT RECENT EVENTS IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) SUMMARY: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's recent visit to Dhaka was "excellent," according to Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar. Chief Adviser of the Caretaker Government Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed received high marks from the GOI with Kumar noting that, "He talks like us. He's brillian [...] | 2007-03-19 06:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BG CE IN |
07NEWDELHI1325 | INDIA FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL IN AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary. Indian strategic thinkers agree that China is leading India in involvement with Africa by almost all economic and political measures. Not only does China have a greater volume of bilateral trade with Africa, but China is also pouring development aid and concessional loans into [...] | 2007-03-19 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN CH ECON ENRG EPET EAGR |
07NEWDELHI1327 | INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE OFFICERS HEAD TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 13:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AF IN |
07NEWDELHI1328 | PRIME MINISTER WARM ON U.S.-INDIA-JAPAN TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. PM Singh told Ashley Tellis he hoped a U.S.-India-Japan trilateral dialogue could become official at the Foreign Secretary level. The PM's comment seems to reflect a fairly broad sentiment in New Delhi, as recent public speakers have come out in support of closer trilateral ties [...] | 2007-03-19 13:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IN JA |
07NEWDELHI1345 | OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM UNESCO SPECIAL SESSION: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL UNESCO IS IN |
07NEWDELHI1346 | DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM: INDIA DEFERS TO ITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 14:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ACABQ AORC APER UNGA IN |
07NEWDELHI1383 | AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, WOMEN'S [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Prime Minister Media Advisor Sanjaya Baru, Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli: -- discussed Indo-Pakistan relations, agreeing that the relationship is in relatively good shape at this time; -- urged her interlocutors [...] | 2007-03-22 12:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWMN PK IN |
07NEWDELHI139 | MINISTER OF STATE SHARMA: 123 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. In a January 9 meeting, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told the Ambassador: - India has "too much political capital invested" in the civil-nuclear agreement to allow for 123 Agreement talks to languish, adding a successful 123 conclusion is "imperative;" [...] | 2007-01-10 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KNNP EAGR SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI1401 | AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI ENCOURAGES INDO-US [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings, Senior Adviser to the Secretary Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli met with Ministry of SIPDIS External Affairs (MEA) officials March 22 to discuss a number of UN-related issues, including: - India's role on the UN Human Rights Council - Secretary General Ban [...] | 2007-03-22 13:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI1402 | HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL VOTE ON SUDAN: INDIA FAVORS [...] (C) Senior Adviser to the Secretary Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli met March 22 with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Singh Puri and delivered reftel points. Puri rebutted, saying that there had been "good forward movement" in Geneva on the ne [...] | 2007-03-22 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IN |
07NEWDELHI1424 | BJP MEMBER CLAIMS THE RSS IS ACTIVE IN NEPAL - CORRECTED [...] (S) SUMMARY: Bharataya Janata Party (BJP) member and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist Seshadiri Chari (PROTECT),claimed March 19 that the RSS is involved with the Madhesi movement in Nepal's southern Terai region. This is the first RSS confirmation Post has had. Chari claimed the [...] | 2007-03-23 10:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS KISL NP PK CH IN |
07NEWDELHI1425 | EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES MANDATE AT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1446 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: BIHAR IS MORE THAN JUST CROPS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the last two decades, Bihar was ruled by a kleptocratic and corrupt government, suffered from discriminatory central government policies, and was mired in caste and class-ridden social divides. Despite its Buddhist sacred sites, bountiful rivers and fertile soil, Bihar has [...] | 2007-03-23 14:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1458 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: BIHAR IS MORE THAN JUST CROPS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the last two decades, Bihar was ruled by a kleptocratic and corrupt government, suffered from discriminatory central government policies, and was mired in caste and class-ridden social divides. Despite its Buddhist sacred sites, bountiful rivers and fertile soil, Bihar has [...] | 2007-03-26 09:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1485 | OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIAN SOFT POWER IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: As requested, this cable contains specific, concrete ideas for opportunities for India to use soft power in helping Afghanistan's reconstruction, with the broader objective of seeking ways for the U.S. to synergize its efforts with Afghanistan's "natural ally." Some of the ideas are ne [...] | 2007-03-28 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON ENRG SCUL SOCI AF IN |
07NEWDELHI1486 | UNSCR 1747 - INDIA WILL SUPPORT IMPOSITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EFIN IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC |
07NEWDELHI1488 | A SNAPSHOT OF INDIAN THOUGHTS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In various meetings over the last few weeks, Post has been taking stock of what Indian analysts, professors, lawmakers and journalists are thinking about Iran. This cable is a summary of those conversations. Interlocutors agreed that, while Indians do not want a nuclear Iran, t [...] | 2007-03-28 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ELTN IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1509 | DELHI DIARY, MARCH 8-29 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for March 8-29, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting. Former Iranian President Gets a Warm Reception in India ------ 2. (SBU) The mostly Indian audience at the India Today annual "conclave" March 23 h [...] | 2007-03-29 14:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF KNNP IR BT KZ |
07NEWDELHI1517 | INDIA "WILL CONSIDER" IRAN REQUEST TO BECOME SAARC [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department - please see paragraph six. 2. (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon announced on March 28 that the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Council of Ministers, during its April 2 meeting in New Delhi, will conside [...] | 2007-03-30 10:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IN |
07NEWDELHI1532 | DCM REVIEWS FULL SLATE OF BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) In a courtesy call on new Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta on March 30, the DCM recalled their long-standing friendship, briefed Gupta on the many ways that the USG works with the Home Ministry to advance our bilateral agenda, and sought Gupta's help to improve Embassy interactions with his M [...] | 2007-03-30 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PHUM |
07NEWDELHI1534 | DEMARCHE: INDIA PREFERS ELECTIONS TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Secretary Menon told Ambassador Mulford that India would "stick by its agreements" with the U.S. on Nepal. In a separate meeting, the Ambassador expressed concern to National Security Advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan about a new GOI flexibility with regard to the Maoists' f [...] | 2007-03-30 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NP IN |
07NEWDELHI1536 | BJP COCKY ABOUT UTTAR PRADESH AND DELHI POLL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 25, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) kicked off its campaign for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) State Assembly elections with a bang. The BJP is focusing on the UP elections, which start on April 7 with results to be announced May 11, and on April 5 Delhi Municipal electi [...] | 2007-03-30 14:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1620 | KARZAI TELLS BOUCHER THAT AFGHANISTAN IS GROWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai April 3 on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, Assistant Secretary Boucher noted that Pakistan had given Karzai a warm welcome into the organization. A Joint Jirga session last week was succe [...] | 2007-04-04 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS PTER AF PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1622 | PM KOIRALA UPDATES ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Boucher met Prime Minister Koirala of Nepal April 3 on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit, and assured him that the U.S. supported the Government of Nepal, despite misgivings regarding Maoist entry into the Interim Gov [...] | 2007-04-04 14:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV NP BT IN |
07NEWDELHI1640 | PM WANGCHUK UPDATES ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and Ambassador David Mulford met Prime Minister Wangchuk of Bhutan April 4 on the margins of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit to discuss Bhutan's ongoing democratization [...] | 2007-04-05 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM MOPS NP IN |
07NEWDELHI1641 | BANGLADESH LEADER TELLS BOUCHER CREDIBLE ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed of Bangladesh told Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher April 5 that free, fair and credible elections were the primary goal of the caretaker government. In a meeting following the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit in New Delhi, [...] | 2007-04-05 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BG IN |
07NEWDELHI1642 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES EDUCATION REFORM WITH NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4, Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher met with National Knowledge Commission member Deepak Nayar to discuss the state of affairs in education reform in India and possible areas of cooperation between the United States and India. During an hour long lively conversation, [...] | 2007-04-05 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL IN |
07NEWDELHI1643 | SRI LANKA'S FOREIGN MINISTER ASSURES BOUCHER THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WILL BE ADDRESSED AND REQUESTS MORE SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, Assistant Secretary Boucher emphasized that it was vital that the forthcoming devolution package reassure moderate Tamils about their future place in Sri Lankan society and guarantee that their rights are protected. [...] | 2007-04-05 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER CE IN |
07NEWDELHI1653 | THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA - PART I [...] (SBU) Summary: During the March 19-24 visit of Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Women's Empowerment Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Mission officers joined Ambassador Tahir-Kheli to survey New Delhi's leading NGOs, think tanks, pundits, government officials and activists on the ch [...] | 2007-04-09 07:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI KWMN IN |
07NEWDELHI1675 | BJP WINS BIG IN DELHI LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) On April 5, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept Delhi's Municipal Council polls, winning 164 of 272 seats (60 percent),reducing Congress from 103 seats to 67. The widely-predicted outcome boosted BJP spirits on the eve of the multi-stage Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections. After its victo [...] | 2007-04-09 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI1676 | CODEL LOWEY DISCUSSES 123 AGREEMENT, CONGRESSIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint meeting with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister Shyam Saran, Codel Lowey outlined their concerns on the civil-nuclear agreement, including fears that the Government of India (GOI) had come to the conclusion that the U.S. Congre [...] | 2007-04-09 14:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI1698 | INDIA DID NOT ATTEND IRAN'S NATANZ RIBBON-CUTTING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha April 9. Amandeep Singh Gill, Director of MEA Disarmament and International Security Affairs, told PolOff April 10 that the MEA had instructed its Embassy i [...] | 2007-04-10 13:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC |
07NEWDELHI1699 | DESPITE WILD SPECULATION, UTTAR PRADESH ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: Uttar Pradesh (UP) completed its first phase of polling on April 7. Due to the active involvement of an effective Election Commission (EC),the vote went smoothly and was violence free. Notoriously unreliable exit polls predict that the SP and BJP will lose seats, while Congre [...] | 2007-04-10 13:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1702 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER REVIEWS SOUTH ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: During a one hour meeting on April 5, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon reviewed political and economic developments with Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. When it comes to the region, New Delhi a [...] | 2007-04-11 07:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR PREF ECON ETRD AF |
07NEWDELHI1704 | INDO-PAK DISCUSSIONS ON SAARC SIDELINES HINT AT [...] (C) Summary: The recently concluded SAARC Summit (April 3-4) was notable for its lack of major tension over the perennially contentious issues between India and Pakistan. Indo-Pak experts on the sidelines of SAARC saw signals that a proposal may be just around the corner to try to resolve l [...] | 2007-04-11 09:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1715 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND GAITRI KUMAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-11 11:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS KPAO ENRG PARM PTER |
07NEWDELHI1720 | DELHI DIARY, MARCH 29-APRIL 11 [...] (C) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for March 8-29, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Naxalites Looking to Join the Fray in Kashmir -- BJP Coalesces Its Strategy of Attack on Congress -- Civil Society Holds SAARC Accountabl [...] | 2007-04-11 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PK IR JA IN |
07NEWDELHI1723 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND GAITRI KUMAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher met Ministry of External Affairs SIPDIS Joint Secretary Gaitri Kumar April 5 to review progress and obstacles on key U.S.- India bilateral issues, including defense, military relations, education, the Agricult [...] | 2007-04-11 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS KPAO ENRG PARM PTER |
07NEWDELHI1727 | PDP WINS PUBLIC BATTLE OVER JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) Summary: People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Muhammad Sayeed rather astutely and with exquisite timing caused a major dilemma that threatened to unravel the Congress-PDP coalition government of Jammu and Kashmir state. In negotiations before the SAARC Summit and on the eve of Ut [...] | 2007-04-12 05:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1749 | THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA - PART II [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the second in a two part series on the status of women in India. This cable is derived from Post's ongoing analysis of the issues facing women as well as conversations with politicians, think tanks, NGO activists, pundits, and government officials during Senior Advisor to [...] | 2007-04-12 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI KWMN IN |
07NEWDELHI1866 | DELHI DIARY, APRIL 12-19 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 12-19, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Third Phase of the Uttar Pradesh Election Completed -- The Saffron Crowd Finding a Home in the BJP Again -- Chief of Naval Operations Vi [...] | 2007-04-19 08:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC KUNR ETRD EPET KWMN BR |
07NEWDELHI188 | INDIA KEEN TO BAN KUWAIT'S REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC [...] (C) India is likely to support strongly US efforts to designate domestically and under UNSCR 1267 Kuwait's Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) as a financier of international terrorism. Indian officials have previously expressed their fear of spillover of the group's activities in Bang [...] | 2007-01-12 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN KISL PAK IN |
07NEWDELHI1915 | RAHUL GANDHI JUMPS INTO THE U.P. ELECTORAL FRAY [...] (C) Summary: Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Gandhi family dynasty, has made a number of gaffes, suggesting an uneven start to his active political career. During a series of ""roadshows"" meant to jump-start the Congress campaign in ongoing Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections, Rahul made ellipti [...] | 2007-04-23 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN PK |
07NEWDELHI1918 | CALM OR CHAOS IN STORE FOR NEPAL? INDIAN EXPERTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian experts and politicians sounded off at a recent roundtable hosted by PolCouns, in which guests debated whether or not the likely delay of Nepal's Constituent Assembly elections would be harmful to the peace process. While some experts claimed chaos would ensue if electio [...] | 2007-04-23 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR NP IN |
07NEWDELHI1920 | RECORD CROWD ATTENDS HARDLINE SEPARATIST GEELANI'S [...] (C) Summary: In a show of force as well as strength, hardline separatist Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani held a rally in Srinagar on April 22nd to mark his return to the Valley following cancer surgery in Mumbai. Our interlocutors say the rally was attended by several thousand mostly young people -- [...] | 2007-04-23 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI1921 | HINDU RIGHT WING PLANNING AN ANTI-MAOIST COALITION [...] (C) Former Commerce, Law and Justice Minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party, told DepPolCouns April 23 that he is headed to Nepal April 26 to meet "secretly" with King Gyanendra and publicly with Prime Minister Koirala, whom he described as "an old friend." Swamy was a m [...] | 2007-04-23 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR NP IN |
07NEWDELHI193 | IRAQ: GUIDANCE DELIVERED TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA [...] (C) As the DCM was delivering reftel demarche to the Indian government (see below),in a visit to broadcaster CNN-IBN, Ambassador briefed the entire editorial team on bilateral relations and specifically addressed the President's new initiative on Iraq. In an subsequent interview, Ambassador [...] | 2007-01-12 12:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV IZ IN |
07NEWDELHI1938 | BRINGING SHAME ON FEMALE FETICIDE IN RAJASTHAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On an April 10-14 trip to Rajasthan, Poloff met with government officials, NGO's and others combating female feticide. They outlined hopeful new steps they are taking. Although only in the early stages, such programs hold promise in making inroads against female feticide and [...] | 2007-04-24 11:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KWMN ECON PREL SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI1946 | NO CLEAR LEADER EMERGES FROM THE FOURTH PHASE OF [...] (C) Summary: The fourth phase of the contentious Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections came off without a hitch in a remote area of the state bordering on Nepal, which has been a stronghold of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP). An influential caste leader from the area split from the SP and launched h [...] | 2007-04-24 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1971 | GOI JOINT SECRETARY (EAST ASIA): CHINA BORDER [...] (C) Summary. In an April 25 discussion, new MEA JS (East Asia) Vijay Gokhale: -- briefed PolCouns on the latest round of India-China border talks, saying little progress was made; -- downplayed the May 1 visit by North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Hyong Jun, stating such a meeting was a [...] | 2007-04-25 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH KN JA IN |
07NEWDELHI1973 | DEMARCHE ON SAMOA LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRY STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC EAID ECON UNGA WS IN |
07NEWDELHI1974 | INDIA CAPABLE BUT UNWILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAQ [...] (C) The Government of India (GOI) is capable of sending both military and civilian resources to help accomplish the mission in Iraq, but the will to do so does not exist. In 2003, when the U.S. first approached the GOI to contribute troops to Iraq, then-Prime Minister Vajpayee's initial reac [...] | 2007-04-25 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS PTER IZ IN |
07NEWDELHI1975 | RUMINATIONS OF A BJP LEADER ON DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) On April 24, PolCouns met with former Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, who is currently a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. A party insider who is well-connected to the BJP leadership, Sinha spoke at some length on current Indian domestic politics. Sinha emp [...] | 2007-04-25 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI1976 | ONE PRIVATE SCHOOL IN RAJASTHAN TRIES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On an April 10-14 trip through Rajasthan, PolOff discussed Indian public education with politicians, school directors, and journalists. They confirmed that the poor quality of public schools compels parents to rely on private options to ensure their children receive a good edu [...] | 2007-04-25 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI1977 | DELHI DIARY, APRIL 20-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 20-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mid-Election Scandal Could Shake Up Politics -- Bhutan,s Voters Elect "Yellow" in Mock Polls -- Another Bomb Found and Defused in Bhutan [...] | 2007-04-25 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS KCRM KDEM PHUM SOCI PTER MOPS |
07NEWDELHI2037 | INDIAN OFFICIAL SEES BANGLADESH AT CROSSROADS, SRI [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with PolCouns on April 26, MEA Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar: -- said that the caretaker government in Bangladesh has reached a crossroads by allowing Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to return, stating such a move weakens the government and will force it to reassert itself in [...] | 2007-04-27 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BG BM CE IN |
07NEWDELHI2056 | BIOGRAPHY: MEA JOINT SECRETARY GAITRI KUMAR [...] (C) Gaitri Kumar replaced Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as Ministry for External Affairs (MEA),Joint Secretary (Americas) in January. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986. Prior to her current assignment, her career trajectory is as follows: --1987-1989 - Third Secretary/Second Secreta [...] | 2007-04-30 11:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2067 | BIOGRAPHY: RAJASTHAN CHIEF MINISTER VASUNDHARA RAJE [...] (C) On an April 10-14 trip to Rajasthan, PolOff met with politicians, journalists, NGOs, and academicians to get a fix on the current state of affairs. This cable is largely derived from conversations during this trip about Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje. A POLITICAL MAHARANI ------- [...] | 2007-04-30 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KWMN IN |
07NEWDELHI2070 | RAJASTHAN STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE FROM THE HINDI BELT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rajasthan, located in North India and bordering Pakistan, is the country's largest state and embodies numerous contradictions. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje (ref A),although extremely popular, is heavily criticized and not expected to win the [...] | 2007-05-01 06:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR SOCI ECON KWMN KIRF |
07NEWDELHI2072 | G-8 SEEKING IMPROVED CT COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns attended a meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in New Delhi, which is now chaired by the German Political Counselor. The group attempts to coordinate G-8 efforts to partner with the Indian government against terrorism. The group discussed each coun [...] | 2007-05-01 08:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI209 | MUKHERJEE'S PAKISTAN TRIP YIELDS LITTLE FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee met with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad on January 13th and 14th, announcing that Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri will visit New Delhi in February, inaugurating the next round of composite dialogue with Foreign Secretary talks on March 13th a [...] | 2007-01-16 10:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2092 | LATEST UTTAR PRADESH POLL CONFIRMS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: The fifth phase of seven phases of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election concluded on April 28, with a growing consensus that this election will likely spell the end of SP rule. An effective Election Commission has prevented the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) from using dirty tricks to [...] | 2007-05-02 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI210 | COMMUNISTS COPECETIC WITH UPA REGIONAL APPROACH, [...] (C) Summary: The Left Front (LF) and UPA are locked in agreement when it comes to South Asian regional policy, but differ sharply when it comes to the US and countries with which the US has disputes, such as Iran. In preparation for his January 13-14 Pakistan visit, External Affairs Minister [...] | 2007-01-16 11:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR KDEM IN PK BT BG |
07NEWDELHI2101 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MEA JOINT SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN) JOINT SECRETARY T.C.A. RAGHAVAN MAY 1, POLCOUNS RAISED PETROLEUM SIPDIS AND NATURAL GAS MINISTER MURLI DEORA'S RECENT STOPOVER IN TEHRAN. RAGHAVAN SAID HE HAD NOT RECEIVED DETAILS, [...] | 2007-05-02 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET ETRD MARR PINR MOPS IR |
07NEWDELHI2102 | PM HOSTS THIRD JAMMU AND KASHMIR ROUNDTABLE AS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh chaired a third Roundtable Conference in New Delhi with Kashmiri leaders on April 21st, although separatists from both moderate and hard-line political camps refused to attend. The Prime Minister sat through more than 10 hours of presentations by Kashmiri p [...] | 2007-05-02 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2106 | DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE'S BID FOR CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 06:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV UNCSD AORC ZI IN |
07NEWDELHI2107 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 07:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNHRC BO IN |
07NEWDELHI2117 | INDIAN DEOBANDIS SAY PAKISTANI JUI-F WILLING TO BROKER PEACE TALKS WITH TALIBAN [...] (S) Summary: Poloffs met on April 27th with Pandit N. K. Sharma -- who once headed Muslim Outreach for the Rao government and who claims close ties to the Gandhi family -- as well as Maulana Mahmood Madani, a member of Parliament and prominent leader of the Deobandi political organization Jamiat U [...] | 2007-05-03 10:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2126 | HINDU RIGHT WINGER SAYS CLEAR-CUT NEPAL POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Commerce, Law and Justice Minister, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party, gave DepPolCouns May 1 a read-out of his April 26 visit to Nepal. Swamy said he met one-on-one with the following: -- King Gyanendra -- Gyanendra's son Crown Prince Paras -- Prime [...] | 2007-05-03 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR NP IN |
07NEWDELHI2139 | DELHI DIARY, APRIL 26-MAY 4 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 26-May 4, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Indian Boots on the Ground in Afghanistan? -- Parliamentary Histrionics Play On -- Bhutanese Refugees Want To Participate In Election [...] | 2007-05-04 11:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF PK IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2140 | BSP MAINTAINS ITS LEAD IN UTTAR PRADESH SIXTH [...] (U) The sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election took place without significant problems on May 3. Polling was conducted in 52 constituencies in nine districts in a remote area of southeastern UP. Three of the districts are home to Naxalite activity, but they did not emerge from their [...] | 2007-05-04 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2142 | IRAN MANIPULATING INDIAN ELITE OPINION-MAKERS [...] (C) This cable contains an action request for SCA. Please see paragraph 6. New Iranian Mischief ------ 2. (C) Ambassador K.V. Rajan, former Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs and current Chairman of the Prime Minister's National Security Advisory Board (NSAB),called Charge May 4 for a [...] | 2007-05-04 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2177 | NEW PUNJABI LEADERSHIP SEEKS EDUCATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 2 meeting with POLCOUNS in Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh and Principal Secretary to the Punjab Chief Minister D.S. Guru discussed opportunities for India/U.S. education cooperation, water and electricity subsidies, relations with Pakistan, and [...] | 2007-05-07 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SCUL IN PK |
07NEWDELHI2192 | IRAN ENCOURAGES INDIAN ELITE TO GET BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Left-wing think-tanker Professor S.D. Muni told PolCouns May 7 about his trip to Iran, fully paid for and sponsored by the Government of Iran, in which he and 13 Indian academics, former diplomats, journalists and scientists visited the Arak heavy water complex and met the Minis [...] | 2007-05-08 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ENRG EPET MNUC IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2203 | UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS CONCLUDED; RESULTS ON MAY [...] (U) On May 8, polling concluded in the seventh and final phase of the protracted election in Uttar Pradesh (UP). The voting took place in 59 constituencies in East UP. Approximately 45 percent of the electorate cast their votes and there were no reported security incidents. The East UP dist [...] | 2007-05-09 07:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2209 | INDIA COMPARES ASIA DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 09:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM XB AS CA ID JA KS NZ RP IN |
07NEWDELHI2223 | INDIA-PAKISTAN STILL STUCK ON SIACHEN TALKS [...] (S) Summary: Indian Defense Minister A K Antony traveled to the Army's Siachen base camp to demonstrate his administration's ongoing tough stance toward Pakistan in negotiations over troop withdrawal from the peaks surrounding the glacier, as well as to set a marker by which India can claim v [...] | 2007-05-09 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2225 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 5-9 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 5-9, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- GOI Responds to LTTE Air Attacks in Sri Lanka with Increased Vigilance in the South -- Think-tanker: Lantos Letter "Less Than Diplomatic" [...] | 2007-05-09 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR MNUC PTER PINR BT CE UK |
07NEWDELHI2230 | PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS AMIDST CHAOS: US LAWMAKERS' [...] (C) Summary: May 7 marked another day of shouting and chaos in both houses of the Indian Parliament. Congress went after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the fake encounter killings of Muslims in Gujarat, demanding the resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi for his alleged [...] | 2007-05-09 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ENRG IN IR |
07NEWDELHI2246 | BILDT IN INDIA: REBUILDING TRADE TIES AND MORE [...] (C) Summary. In his May 2-4 visit to India, Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt, accompanied by an impressive business delegation, brought a message that Sweden will aggressively pursue its share of India's bulging consumer market. Also aiming for a stake in the lucrative Indian defense market, B [...] | 2007-05-10 11:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD MARR KNNP IN |
07NEWDELHI2247 | INDIA REQUESTS FORMAL TERRORISM WATCH LIST EXCHANGE [...] (S) This is an ACTION request for the Department S/CT and SCA. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Indian MEA Counter-Terrorism Cell Director I M Pandey passed a request to Poloff that the U.S. and India sign an agreement to create a formal and continuous channel to exchange terrorism [...] | 2007-05-10 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL ASEC |
07NEWDELHI2254 | GOI REMAINS SKEPTICAL ON IRANIAN GAS PIPELINE AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: EconMinCouns delivered to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG) Secretary M.S. Srinivasan on May 9 information that he had requested (ref A) confirming that -- contrary to top Iranian officials' claims to Srinivasan -- Iran does not have domestic engineering and technologi [...] | 2007-05-10 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | EPET ELTN PREL EINV PGOV IN PK IR |
07NEWDELHI2258 | TERRORIST INFILTRATION FALLING IN INDIAN KASHMIR, INCREASING IN INDIAN HEARTLAND [...] (S) Summary: The Indian Home Ministry released its finding on May 10th that terrorist infiltration from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir into Indian Kashmir fell to an all time low from January through March of 2007. Although these winter months are often considered a low period in violence and infil [...] | 2007-05-10 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2266 | A MAYAWATI LANDSLIDE IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS [...] (U) Although the EC has not yet released the final vote tally in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Legislative Assembly Elections, initial analysis indicates a clear victory for the BSP party of former Chief Minister Mayawati, and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has already conceded defeat. NDTV proj [...] | 2007-05-11 06:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2268 | MAYAWATI VICTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Mayawati's decisive victory in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections will reverberate throughout India and has serious implications for the UPA government in New Delhi and for India/US relations. Projections now place her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party just a hair's breath away [...] | 2007-05-11 08:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI2313 | AFTER UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on May 11 and the state and India's domestic politics will never be the same. Mayawati, the new Chief Minister of UP, handed decisive defeats not only to her bitter rivals the Samajwadi Party (SP),but t [...] | 2007-05-14 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PTER SCUL KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI2360 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 10-17 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 10-17, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Handicapping the Presidential Race -- The Mysterious Process of Indian Presidential Elections -- Next Phase of India-Pakistan Composite Di [...] | 2007-05-17 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MASS PINR SOCI PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2370 | REQUEST FOR BUSH-SINGH MEETING AT G-8 SUMMIT [...] This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph three. 2. Post received on May 18 from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs a diplomatic note requesting a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Singh and President Bush to take place during the G-8 Summit in Germany [...] | 2007-05-18 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI2390 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH CPI-M POLITBURO CHIEF SITARAM [...] SUMMARY (C) On May 17, PolCouns met with Sitaram Yechury, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) Member of Parliament (MP),member of the politburo and editor of the party journal "People's Democracy." Yechury welcomed the outcome of the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections a [...] | 2007-05-18 13:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2432 | PUNJAB CONTINUES TO SIMMER OVER RELIGIOUS LEADER'S [...] (SBU) Since May 14, Punjab has been in a state of crisis over an alleged sacrilegious act. Sikh leaders have demanded that Sant Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim, the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect apologize for insulting their faith by dressing up as the tenth holy Guru in Sikhism, Guru Go [...] | 2007-05-22 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2433 | BIOGRAPHY: UTTAR PRADESH CHIEF MINISTER MAYAWATI: [...] (C) On May 13, 2007, Kumari Mayawati, commonly referred to as Mayawati or Bhenji (sister),was sworn in as Chief Minister (CM) of Uttar Pradesh (UP),India's most populous state. President of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),a party created to represent low caste voters, Mayawati has long been [...] | 2007-05-22 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2449 | NEW INDIAN DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. In an initial courtesy call on incoming Deputy National Security Advisor L.K. Ponappa, Charge highlighted U.S. priorities for the bilateral security relationship and invited Ponappa to visit Washington at the earliest convenience to begin building contacts with USG counterparts. [...] | 2007-05-23 10:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2456 | POINTS ON UNSCRS 1267 AND 1735 DELIVERED [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar May 21. Kumar reconfirmed the Government of India's (GOI) commitment to implement fully all UN Security Council Resolutions. She said she had discussed these demarches with ME [...] | 2007-05-23 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2457 | UNSCR 1747 DEFINITION OF "ARMS AND RELATED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2458 | DEMARCHE ON NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 12:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU IN |
07NEWDELHI2460 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 18-23 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 18-23, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Crude Bombs in UP Point to Internal Politics -- India Gives the Green Light for Civil Servants to Visit China -- Indian Army Chief Begins [...] | 2007-05-23 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR PHUM BT PK CH IN |
07NEWDELHI2475 | THE UPA AT THREE YEARS - MIRED IN MEDIOCRITY [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a "Report to the People" on May 22, outlining the achievements of his UPA government at the three year point. The PM acknowledged that inflation is a problem, providing assurances that his government would take measures to keep it from hur [...] | 2007-05-24 10:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM PINR PTER KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2480 | IRAQ'S OIL MINISTER TO SEEK INDIAN INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani will visit India May 25-28, leading a delegation from a broad spectrum of the Iraqi government, in addition to several businesspeople. The main goal for Iraq is to get an Indian agreement for investment in either building a new oil refine [...] | 2007-05-24 12:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG IQ IN |
07NEWDELHI2533 | BIOGRAPHY: SATISH CHANDRA MISHRA, BAHUJAN SAMAJ [...] (C) Satish Chandra Mishra, Member of Parliament (MP) from Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) and General Secretary of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),is widely acknowledged to be the right hand man of Mayawati, the new powerful BSP Chief Minister (CM) of UP. She inducted him i [...] | 2007-05-29 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2553 | GOI BRIEFED ON AIR DEFENSE CONSULTATIONS WITH SRI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) expressed appreciation for the briefing provided by the Defense Attache (DATT) regarding the recent U.S. military survey of the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) air defense capabilities. MEA requested the USG to apprise the GOI of radar equipmen [...] | 2007-05-30 09:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM CE BM |
07NEWDELHI2563 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 24-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 24-30, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Left Groups Disparage United Progressive Alliance Performance -- Kerala Communist Party Punishes Leaders for Public Feud -- BJP Hopes for [...] | 2007-05-30 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM BT IN |
07NEWDELHI2564 | PROTESTS IN RAJASTHAN TURN VIOLENT [...] (C) On May 28, caste tensions turned violent in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)ruled state of Rajasthan. Demanding to be socially demoted from the Other Backward Caste (OBC) to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, the Gujjar community staged protests and blocked national highways in Rajasthan. [...] | 2007-05-30 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PHUM PREL PINR SCUL IN |
07NEWDELHI2583 | TENSIONS IN RAJASTHAN ESCALATE AND SPREAD [...] (SBU) The Gujjar community continues it demands to be socially demoted from the Other Backward Castes (OBC) category to the Schedule Tribe (ST) category to access job and education benefits reserved for STs. Violent Gujjar demonstrations have escalated and spread to neighboring states over th [...] | 2007-05-31 15:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ASEC PTER SCUL CASC IN |
07NEWDELHI2621 | KASHMIRI PARAMILITARY SEEKING US VISA [...] (S) This is an ACTION Request for the Department. SCA please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Kashmiri paramilitary leader and J&K State MLA Usman Abdul Majid is seeking a U.S. visa to attend functions hosted in Washington by the United States Institute of Peace starting on June 7th. Majid is a le [...] | 2007-06-04 11:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2624 | SITREP: TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN RAJASTHAN BATTLE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Tensions in Rajasthan between the Gujjar and Meena communities continued unabated on June 2, as Meenas staged counter-demonstrations against Gujjar protests. To maintain pressure on the government, Gujjar leaders brought their protests to the capital, calling a bandh (general s [...] | 2007-06-04 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2628 | INDIA HAS NO CIVIL SOCIETY OR DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-05 05:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2636 | GOVERNMENT AND GUJJARS REACH DEAL: RAJASTHAN LIMPS [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, Rajasthan Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje and Gujjar leader Col. Kirori Singh Bhaisala reached an agreement that ended the Gujjar agitation. Under the terms of the compact, the Rajasthan state government will establish a three-person committee to investigate the Guj [...] | 2007-06-05 11:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2664 | DELHI DIARY, MAY 31-JUNE 6 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 31-June 6, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mayawati Escapes the Noose -- Bhutan Now Has Four Political Parties -- Bhutan Reaffirms Support for "One China" Policy Mayawati Esc [...] | 2007-06-06 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF KDEM PHUM BT CH TW KS IN |
07NEWDELHI2669 | INDIA'S 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1747 STILL BEING [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points and text of the USG 60-day report on UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1747 June 6 to MEA Deputy Secretary (United Nations Political) Ajaneesh Kumar, who stated that the Government of India (GOI) was still in the process of formulating its 60-day report [...] | 2007-06-07 08:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP EFIN UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY IR IN |
07NEWDELHI2678 | A THIRD FRONT GETS OFF TO A SHAKY START [...] (C) Summary: On June 6, eight regional parties met in Hyderabad under the auspices of Telegu Desam Party (TDP) President N. Chandrababu Naidu and agreed to form a "third front" aimed at eventually unseating the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and forming the government. The j [...] | 2007-06-07 12:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI268 | INDIA SEEKS U.S. HELP TO KEEP "UNNECESSARY" [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran called A/PolCouns on January 18 to convey the following demarche regarding the upcoming vote on Nepal in the UNSC: -- In the spirit of superb, close and on-going US-India coordination on Nepal, India wanted the U.S. to keep the "bigger picture" in [...] | 2007-01-18 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORC MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI27 | INDIA RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (C) DCM received a letter dated December 20, 2006 from Manjeev Singh Puri, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social),responding to Ambassador SIPDIS Mulford's letter of November 6, 2006 inviting India to participate in the "Core Group" meeting to help shape the [...] | 2007-01-04 01:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR BR MX SF IN |
07NEWDELHI2711 | DEMARCHE ON SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 10:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF CH IN IR MG PK RS ZK |
07NEWDELHI2722 | INDIA ENHANCING TIES WITH LIBYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs Director for West Africa and North Africa N.J. Gangte characterized External Affairs Minister (EAM) Pranab Mukherjee's 26-28 May visit to Tripoli as "a political blessing to the bilateral economic activity." Mukherjee and Libyan FM Abul Rehman S [...] | 2007-06-12 05:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN LY ENRG KPET ECON |
07NEWDELHI2763 | INDIA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE STILL WIDE OPEN [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, the Indian Election Commission (EC) notified the Presidential election, stipulating that Presidential nominations must be filed by June 30. The election will occur on July 19 and the winner will be announced July 21. With the election imminent, the ruling United Prog [...] | 2007-06-13 11:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI2766 | DELHI DIARY, JUNE 6 - 13 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 6 - 13, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: POL-MIL: -- India, China announce joint military exercises -- Russian Ground Force commander visits India -- Russia continues to gouge I [...] | 2007-06-13 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV MASS MARR KOMC KSTC RS |
07NEWDELHI2788 | NEW UNION CABINET SECRETARY: K.M. CHANDRASEKHAR [...] (C) On June 14, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh named former Revenue Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, K.M. Chandrasekhar, as Union Cabinet Secretary. A member of the 1970 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) -- Kerala Cadre, Chandrasekhar now holds the highest ranking bureaucra [...] | 2007-06-14 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2792 | HOT, TENSE SUMMER AWAITS JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) SUMMARY: An unknown group claiming to be Al Qaeda's Indian wing has made and distributed in Jammu recorded statements declaring jihad on India. The Indian Army and several trusted analyst and journalist sources have scornfully dismissed the claim as a hoax, similar to last year's publici [...] | 2007-06-15 01:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2805 | INDIA ON THE THRESHOLD OF ELECTING ITS FIRST WOMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 14, after what threatened to become an insurmountable impasse, Congress and Left Party leaders agreed on current Rajasthan Governor Pratibha Devisingh Patil as the UPA/Left nominee for President of India. A longtime Gandhi/Nehru family loyalist, Patil would be the first [...] | 2007-06-15 09:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KIRF IN |
07NEWDELHI2830 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR 123 CONCLUSION, SIGHTS ON [...] (C) Summary. In a June 15 meeting with National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, the Ambassador: -- pressed for the earliest possible conclusion to 123 Agreement negotiations and pressed the Indian to clarify their notion of a stand-alone fully safeguarded reprocessing facility; -- urged for [...] | 2007-06-18 10:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KNNP TSPA SENV SCUL IN EAGR |
07NEWDELHI2836 | INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS PART ONE - BUDDING MIL-MIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Army Chief General and Chairman of Staffs Committee (COSC) J.J. Singh led a delegation of army, navy, and air force officers on a five-day visit to China in an effort to expand military relations. Highlights of the visit included: -an agreement to conduct periodic joint [...] | 2007-06-19 03:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH IN |
07NEWDELHI2840 | THE NEW UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT WANTS CLOSE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 05:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SCUL SOCI EIND EINV ENRG |
07NEWDELHI2865 | DELHI DIARY, JUNE 13-20 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 13-20, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Gloomy Pakistan Envoy -- GOI Ministry of Defense sends Shekhar Dutt to Bait the Bear -- Doctor in India Arrested for Female Feticide -- [...] | 2007-06-20 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI2911 | PATIL PITCHES ONE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] (U) On June 20, her last day as Governor of Rajasthan, UPA Presidential hopeful Prathiba Patil forwarded the state's controversial anti-conversion bill to President Adbul Kalam for legal review and guidance on its constitutional merits. Governors have the option to send state legislation to the [...] | 2007-06-22 11:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI2912 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 18-22, 2007. FIRST ROUND ON INDIA/EC FTA TALKS TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK -------------- 2. (SBU) European Commission Trade Counselor Bermejo told us that the first round of negotiations for an Indian [...] | 2007-06-22 11:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR |
07NEWDELHI2916 | CONCLUSION OF THE SEVENTH US-INDIA WORKING GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The seventh annual US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on June 19 focused on opportunities for the U.S. and India to work together to meet new challenges in global peacekeeping capacity. IO PDAS James Warlick led the US delegation, and Joint Secretary Sanjiv Arora of the [...] | 2007-06-22 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR UNGA IN |
07NEWDELHI2918 | INDIAN OFFICIALS PRESS PDAS WARLICK ON UN REFORM, [...] (C) Summary. In side meetings around the U.S.-India Peacekeeping Joint Working Group, Indian officials: -- pressed PDAS Warlick to support India's bid for a permanent UN Security Council; -- briefed on India's efforts within the G4 and the wider UN membership for the perm seat; -- agreed o [...] | 2007-06-25 01:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNR IN |
07NEWDELHI2935 | KASHMIR ANXIOUS WITH LITTLE SHORT-TERM HOPE FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Unknown terrorists threw a grenade at a bus stop in Doda in J & K June 25, wounding 15, three critically. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, both Shi'a and Sunni, staged minor, non-violent street actions and chanted anti-US slogans June 14 and 15 to protest the Iraq Samarra Mosque bom [...] | 2007-06-25 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI2957 | ROME RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-26 10:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IN AF |
07NEWDELHI2991 | DELHI DIARY, JUNE 20-27 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 20-27, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- KK Katyal: Potential for South Asian Parliament -- Tawang Residents Speak Out Against China's Territorial Claims -- Controversy Continue [...] | 2007-06-27 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI3000 | DARFUR DEMARCHE - INDIA IS UNDECIDED ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-28 10:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU IN |
07NEWDELHI3031 | THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: A HOUSE IN DISARRAY [...] (C) Summary: In the Spring of 2007, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appeared to be making a comeback after a series of electoral wins in both state assembly and municipal elections (reftel A). However, the euphoria ended following the party's abysmal performance in the May and June Uttar Pra [...] | 2007-06-29 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI3034 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 25-29, 2007. COMING SOON - EFFORTS TO AMEND THE MONEY LAUNDERING ACT --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (SBU) During a meeting with Econoff on June 29, Joint Secretary of Reve [...] | 2007-06-29 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR |
07NEWDELHI306 | INDIA ON ALERT AS USUAL FOR REPUBLIC DAY THREATS [...] (C) Summary. As India's Republic Day fast approaches, security in the capital and the country's largest cities has increased to its highest level as Indians prepare for a significant national holiday. Airports remain on alert as press reports surfaced of threats, over the January 13-14 week [...] | 2007-01-19 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI3081 | DELHI DIARY, JUNE 28-JULY 5 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 28-July 5, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- SAARC Protocol on Trafficking Likely -- Mayawati Lays Out Her Priorities SAARC Protocol on Trafficking Likely ------- 2. (SBU [...] | 2007-07-05 05:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IN |
07NEWDELHI310 | INDIA SET TO INCREASE PLEDGED AID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) Summary. PolOffs met with Afghan Second Secretary Asadi to discuss Foreign Minister Mukherjee's January 22nd to 23rd visit to Afghanistan, including press reports that India is considering increasing its aid to Afghanistan by $100 million. Asadi, speaking through an interpreter, also gav [...] | 2007-01-19 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ETRD MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI3132 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 2-6, 2007. Foreign Banks Report High Profit Growth, Yet Opportunity Costs are Extreme ----------------- 2. (U) Major foreign banks in India have reported a healthy growth in net profits in the [...] | 2007-07-09 10:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN IR |
07NEWDELHI3134 | INDO-PAK TALKS ON TERRORISM AND NARCOTICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian Home Minister Madhukar Gupta and Pakistani Secretary of the Interior, Syed Kmal Shah, met July 2-3 for the fourth round of Home Secretary-level talks on Terrorism and Drug Trafficking as part of the continuing Composite Dialogue process. Major topics were an exchange of [...] | 2007-07-09 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PINR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI3227 | EXCESSIVE AIRSPACE CLAIM DEMARCHE - INDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-13 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAIR KREC MARR MOPS PHSA BM IN |
07NEWDELHI3248 | DELHI DIARY, JULY 6-16 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 6-16, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Sweet Success in Ethiopia: India Invests in Ethiopian Sugar and Wins African Support for a Security Council Seat -- India Looks East with [...] | 2007-07-16 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR KUNR EINV PTER MCAP AS |
07NEWDELHI3281 | CD DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INDIA HEDGES ON ALL BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IN |
07NEWDELHI3318 | U.N. ADVISOR ON BURMA ENCOURAGES INDIA TO PROMOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, met with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon during a July 10-12 visit to New Delhi. According to the MEA, Gambari recognized India's ability to influence Burma, and expresse [...] | 2007-07-20 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR MASS PGOV PHUM BM IN |
07NEWDELHI3336 | INDIAN LEGISLATORS ELECT FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: After courting controversy and enduring a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led assault (Ref B & C) on her alleged corruption, Pratibha Devisingh Patil swept the Indian Presidential election on July 19, becoming the first woman to hold the mostly ceremonial but prestigious office. On [...] | 2007-07-23 14:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL KWMN PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI3383 | DELHI DIARY, JULY 17-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 17-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Questions General Toolan on China and Nepal -- Australia and India Raising the Bar on Defense Cooperation -- Indian Vice-Presidential [...] | 2007-07-25 11:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MARR MCAP MASS KPKO PBTS |
07NEWDELHI342 | BJP DOWNPLAYS IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's January 3 luncheon meeting with the BJP leadership proved to be largely a flash in the pan. Subsequent events and statements by BJP insiders confirm that little of substance took place at the meeting, which consisted primarily of a briefing by Minister of External Affa [...] | 2007-01-22 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR PTER KDEM IN PK BT |
07NEWDELHI343 | INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, CAUTIOUS [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan expressed optimism about the general trajectory of talks with Pakistan during a January 22nd meeting with Ambassador Mulford, although he said Prime Minister Singh was unlikely to schedule a trip to Islamabad before the SAARC summit in Ap [...] | 2007-01-22 13:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK |
07NEWDELHI346 | UTTAR PRADESH MUSLIMS - DISILLUSIONED AND MORE [...] (C) Summary: The Muslims of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are increasingly fed-up with the corruption and poor governance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, with many ready to desert to Congress and the rival BSP. Lucknow's Shias have historic and cultural tie [...] | 2007-01-23 06:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SCUL IN IZ IR |
07NEWDELHI3462 | INDIA'S LEFT FRONT (C-NE7-01274) [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel's request for reporting on the Left Front in India, Post has compiled below a list of reporting out of Chennai, Kolkata, and New Delhi on the Left from the past year. There is a negligible Left presence in the Mumbai Consulate district. The cables below re [...] | 2007-07-31 09:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI3521 | INDIAN VIEWS ON CENTRAL ASIA: AIRBASE HOPES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Deputy Secretary for Eurasia L. Savithri denied that India was SIPDIS establishing a military base in Ayni, Tajikistan, as had been reported in the press, insisting that the Government of India (GOI) was only involved in a civilian project of runwa [...] | 2007-08-03 10:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS MARR KISL SNAR AF KZ CH |
07NEWDELHI3529 | DELHI DIARY, JULY 26-AUGUST 3 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 26-August 3, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India "Looks East" and Discusses Bus Links with Burma -- NHCR Releases Guidelines for Child Rape Cases -- Five Arrested in Child La [...] | 2007-08-03 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF KCRM ELTN BM IN |
07NEWDELHI362 | INDIAN AND CHINESE OFFICIALS MUM ON BORDER TALKS [...] SUMMARY: (C) Indian and Chinese officials are adhering to a joint "gag rule" regarding their ninth round of border talks held on 17-18 January, probably exercising understandable caution after Chinese Ambassador Sun Yaxi's brash claims to the state of Arunachal Pradesh cast a pall over Pre [...] | 2007-01-23 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH |
07NEWDELHI3633 | COMMUNIST LEADER YECHURY: PARTY WILL NOT BLOCK 123 [...] (C) Summary. In an August 9 meeting, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) Polit Bureau member and Head of the International Department Sitaram Yechury told PolCouns: -- The Left will not join the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in demanding a vote in next week's Parliament dis [...] | 2007-08-09 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI364 | INDIA CHOOSES NATIONAL INTERESTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited Burma on January 19-22 to enlist the junta's help in India's counterterrorism efforts in the Northeast, to cooperate on the erection of border fences, and to attempt to secure a natural gas supply. The visit was trumpeted as a su [...] | 2007-01-23 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN CE |
07NEWDELHI3657 | VICTORY PREDICTED FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Our contacts, media reports, and senior FSNs are confident that Ambassador Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the vice presidential nominee of the ruling UPA coalition and Left parties, will emerge victorious from today's contest in the electoral college comprising of members of Parliament. "The Hi [...] | 2007-08-10 12:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI3664 | HAL CHIEF ASSERTS U.S. LICENSING, VISA PROCEDURES [...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. Charge agreed to meet with the Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at the latter's request on the margins of a visit to Bangalore to accompany U.S. Senator John Ensign. After briefing Cha [...] | 2007-08-13 06:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD CVIS IN |
07NEWDELHI3691 | NUCLEAR DEAL REACTION: LOTS OF NOISE, SOME HURT [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties loudly shouted protest slogans during Prime Minister Singh's August 13 suo moto speech in the lower house on the civil-nuclear agreement, and the reaction is expected to grow more boisterous as parliamentary debate continues the week of August 20. The Congress [...] | 2007-08-14 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI3728 | INDIAN PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS AGAIN OVER NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. Both houses of the Indian Parliament were forced to adjourn on August 16 as opposition and Left parties disrupted proceedings, saying Prime Minister Singh had misled Parliament on the civil-nuclear agreement. Indian media reporting on Spokesman Sean McCormack's August 15 statemen [...] | 2007-08-16 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI3844 | DELHI DIARY, AUG 04-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 4-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Opens a 22-year-old "Rulebook" to Keep Other Government Entities Out of Foreign Affairs -- Indo-Pak Border to Open for Trade October [...] | 2007-08-22 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR KISL KWBG KPAL ELTN AS |
07NEWDELHI3905 | SCO SUMMIT: INDIA "WATCHING AND WAITING" ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for Eurasia Sandeep Arya and Under Secretary L. Savithri told PolOff Aug. 23 that the Government SIPDIS of India (GOI) was not interested in seeking full membe [...] | 2007-08-27 12:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS ENRG MARR CH KZ KG TX TI UZ |
07NEWDELHI3909 | JAPANESE PM ABE TAKES ECONOMIC & SECURITY TIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Calling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's August 21-23 visit to New Delhi a "historic milestone" which witnessed the elevation of the Indo-Japan Global and Strategic Partnership, Japanese Embassy colleagues in New Delhi claimed to be "very happy" with the trip. Ministry of External Af [...] | 2007-08-27 14:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ECON MARR JA IN |
07NEWDELHI396 | THE UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT TEETERS ON THE EDGE [...] (C) Summary: A long series of missteps by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh (UP),has convinced most observers that its days are numbered and its ouster from power seemingly inevitable. Congress and an important regional party have withdrawn support from the SP government, re [...] | 2007-01-25 08:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI3972 | DELHI DIARY, AUGUST 22-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 22-30, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Narayanan in Moscow for Defense Talks -- India and Russia to Conduct Indra 2007 War Games in Russia in September Narayanan in Mosc [...] | 2007-08-31 09:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS RS IN |
07NEWDELHI406 | INDIA MULLING TALKS WITH KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS [...] (S) Summary. Deputy PolCouns met with one of India's chief negotiators with the Kashmiri separatists, Union Cabinet Minister for Water Resources Professor Saifuddin Soz, himself a Kashmiri, to discuss Mirwaiz Omar Farooq's visit to Pakistan, New Delhi's response to the Mirwaiz's statements de [...] | 2007-01-25 11:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4088 | DELHI DIARY, AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 7 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 09:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM ENRG IN |
07NEWDELHI4095 | DEHI DIARY, AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 7 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 31-September 7, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Chennai Yawns through New President's First Visit -- Playing the Muslim Card: Congress Prepares for Possible Mid-term Electio [...] | 2007-09-07 10:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM ENRG IN |
07NEWDELHI4215 | INDIA PROVIDES NON-PAPER RESPONSE AND DATES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request for ISN and SCA. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director of the Disarmament and International Security Division (DISA) Amandeep Singh Gill gave poloff September 14 India's non-paper response (below) to the U.S. non-papers provided [...] | 2007-09-14 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL MTCRE KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4224 | DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 8-14 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai. Below is a compilation of political highlights for September 8-14, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Senior Nuclear Scientist Speaks in Support of Nuclear Deal -- BJP [...] | 2007-09-14 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP KISL IR PK BU IN |
07NEWDELHI4253 | INDIA AND BHUTAN IRF REPORT: DELIVERY, POSTING AND [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post is pleased to report that the International Religious Freedom Report's Introduction, Executive Summary and individual country reports for India and Bhutan were posted in English on the Embassy's website immediately upon release and clearance from the Department. PolOff als [...] | 2007-09-17 12:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF IN |
07NEWDELHI4254 | INDIA AND THE COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF ISLAM AND [...] (C) PolOff spoke with Ministry of External Affairs Under Secretary for United Nations Political Affairs Vishwas Nagee SIPDIS September 10, who stated that the Government of India has not yet decided who will represent India at the Ministerial Meeting of Communities of Democracies in Bamako [...] | 2007-09-17 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI4272 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CEO FORUM ISSUES WITH PLANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met September 14 with Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Ahluwalia to discuss the upcoming CEO Forum, mid-October visit to India by Energy Deputy Secretary Sell for the APP and Energy Dialogue, and the end of October visit by Treasury Secretary Paulson and [...] | 2007-09-18 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV PREL PARM TSPL KNNP TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4377 | IRAN AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL ARE NOT ELECTION ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an Iran roundtable event hosted by PolCouns September 19, a group of Indian analysts, journalists and diplomats agreed that, while the Government of India (GOI) was struggling to live down the perception that it took orders from Washington, neither the nuclear deal nor Ir [...] | 2007-09-26 01:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP MOPS ENRG EPET PINR KISL |
07NEWDELHI439 | ACQUISITIONS DIRECTOR GENERAL SUGGESTS BELL [...] (SBU) Contains proprietary information. Please protect accordingly 2. (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Defense Director General (Acquisitions) Banerjee told DCM that Bell Helicopter had been disqualified from the 197 Army helicopters competition, due to non-compliance with two essential paramet [...] | 2007-01-29 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL ETRD IN |
07NEWDELHI4396 | UTTAR PRADESH POLITICIANS DISSECT US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: On September 6, PolCouns met with a cross section of political leaders in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (UP). As the group did not feel comfortable publicly critiquing the new government established under the leadership of Chief Minister Mayawati, the conversation quickly turned to Indo- [...] | 2007-09-26 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI4414 | DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 15-27 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai in conveying items of interest for September 15-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India to Launch Israeli Spy Satellite? -- BJP President Urges UN Resolution 1373 Sa [...] | 2007-09-28 05:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL PTER MARR MOPS PHUM IS PK TI |
07NEWDELHI4450 | MWCD SECRETARY TO G/TIP - NEW INITIATIVES WILL [...] Summary: On September 17, Ambassador Mark Lagon, Coordinator of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),met with Deepa Jain Singh, Secretary of the Ministry for Women and Child Development (MWCD). Ambassador Lagon presented Singh with the latest version of the Traffic [...] | 2007-10-01 08:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM OTRA SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI4456 | WEST BENGAL CPM LEADER STANDS STRONG AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following two days of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) central committee meetings September 29-30 in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu took a stand separating himself and his clique from the hardliners opposed to the 123 Agreement and the Indo-U.S. civil nucle [...] | 2007-10-01 11:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP PARM TSPL ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4473 | INDIA AND NEPAL HOLD TALKS ON BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: India and Nepal held Home Secretary level talks on border security in Kathmandu September 26. The two sides agreed to set up a joint task force of security agencies for better cross border cooperation. Indian Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta stated that the Government of India [...] | 2007-10-03 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR NP IN |
07NEWDELHI4487 | DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 4 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for September 28-October 4, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Trucks Cross Indo-Pak Border for the First Time in 60 Years -- New Army Chief Assumes Office -- Protests and Rallies Portend [...] | 2007-10-04 10:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELTN MARR MOPS PHUM PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4493 | NEPAL ELECTIONS - NOW OR NEVER ACCORDING TO THE MEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Nepal and Bhutan Preeti Saran told PolCouns October 3 that it would be difficult for the Government of Nepal to switch to a proportional representation system now, as the Maoists are demanding, but that the Interim Parliament might [...] | 2007-10-04 10:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS NP CH IN |
07NEWDELHI4537 | UTTAR PRADESH: MAYAWATI HAS LITTLE TO SHOW FOR [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit by Emboffs to Uttar Pradesh (UP) revealed that newly elected Chief Minister Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has left a trail of governance and policy missteps in her first 100 days in office but continues to engender hope and confidence in many sections of [...] | 2007-10-09 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PARM IN |
07NEWDELHI456 | INDIAN EXPERTS VOICE CONCERN ABOUT MIDEAST AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 24th roundtable on the Middle East, aka &West Asia8, Indian experts and Emboffs and PolCouns discussed the U.S. and Indian roles in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Gulf. The Indian experts urged greater [...] | 2007-01-30 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI4587 | REQUEST FOR IDENTIFIER INFORMATION FOR JAFAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 11:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM XD XE IR IN |
07NEWDELHI4592 | INDIA - MESSAGE ON INDIAN FIRM OFFERING [...] (C) PolOff delivered points in Ref A demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (Disarmament and International Security) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade October 11. Khobargade confirmed that India's export control laws strictly regulate graphite, which will make it easy to prevent this transa [...] | 2007-10-12 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR IN |
07NEWDELHI4597 | DELHI DIARY, OCT 5-12 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 5-12, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- FM Mukherjee Visiting Moscow -- India Put the Brakes on Rail Service to Dhaka -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Trip to Africa -- Sin [...] | 2007-10-12 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELTN MOPS MARR ENRG EPET BG SN SF |
07NEWDELHI4690 | DELHI DIARY, OCT 13-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 13-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Indo-Pak Dialogue on Conventional and Nuclear Confidence Building Measures -- SAARC Home Ministers Meeting Scheduled for Next Week -- [...] | 2007-10-23 08:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PBTS PK BT IN |
07NEWDELHI4700 | THE SON ALSO RISES: RAHUL GANDHI TAKES ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary: Congress Party supremo Sonia Gandhi appointed son Rahul Gandhi to a senior position in the Congress Party on September 24, a move that gives Rahul a formal role in the party organization and is seen as ensuring a clear line of dynastic succession. The appointment came as part of [...] | 2007-10-23 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PARM ENRG IN |
07NEWDELHI4714 | EMBASSY PLANS TO OBSERVE BHUTAN'S FIRST ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Marking the transition from absolute monarchy to democracy, the Kingdom of Bhutan will hold its first national elections in December 2007 and March 2008. Though the USG has no formal diplomatic relations with the Bhutanese government, the Bhutanese have welcomed Embassy observers [...] | 2007-10-24 11:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL PINR PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI4724 | INDIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT WALKER FOR UN IAAC SEAT [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on October 24. Patnaik replied that he "sees no problem" for the GOI to support Mr. Walker's candidacy for the Western Europe and Other States Group (WEOG) seat on the UN Independent Audit Adv [...] | 2007-10-25 09:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KUNR AORC IN |
07NEWDELHI4731 | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD: REKHA MISHRA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Per reftel, please find Embassy,s nominations for the Secretary of State,s Award for International Women of Courage. In a country of over a billion people, India is home to dozens of worthy candidates who are extraordinary leaders in furthering justice and equality. This year Em [...] | 2007-10-25 13:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN KISL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI4756 | NEW DELHI NERVOUSLY WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: India-Pakistan relations continue to exude positive vibrations, but officials in New Delhi are closely watching developments in Pakistan for storm clouds on the diplomatic horizon. The Composite Dialogue process continues unabated despite distractions at the political level in [...] | 2007-10-26 11:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4758 | DELHI DIARY, OCT 23-26 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 23-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India, China and Russia Jointly Oppose Further Burma Sanctions -- Bhutanese Election Dates Announced India, China and Russia Jointl [...] | 2007-10-26 11:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG MARR CH RS BT BM IN |
07NEWDELHI4761 | INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER CHIDES RUSSIANS ON ARMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: While meeting with his Russian counterparts for high-level military discussions in Moscow October 16 ) 20, Indian Defense Minister Antony signed an agreement with Russia to co-develop a fifth generation fighter jet intended to rival the F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Figh [...] | 2007-10-26 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR KOMC KSTC IN RS |
07NEWDELHI4766 | ANGELA MERKEL TO FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] (U) SUMMARY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be accompanied by a large private business delegation when she visits New Delhi October 29, and her visit will focus on Indo-German bilateral ties rather than EU and multilateral issues such as the NSG. German and Indian officials are expected [...] | 2007-10-29 01:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECIN ECON EFIN ETRD ETTC KGHG SENV |
07NEWDELHI4767 | MEA INSISTS INDIAN POLICY ON U.S.-LED MISSILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the October 24 trilateral meeting in Harbin, China, reporters asked Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee if India was going to join a U.S.-led missile defense system. Mukherjee dismissed the idea as "groundless." Despite press reports here signaling an [...] | 2007-10-29 01:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MCAP MARR IN RS CH |
07NEWDELHI4803 | BJP LEADERS RESPOND POSITIVELY TO AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of separate meetings October 24-30, the Ambassador encouraged senior BJP leaders Brajesh Mishra, L.K. Advani and Rajnath Singh to set aside their political differences with the ruling Congress Party and recognize that the civil nuclear cooperation initiative was fi [...] | 2007-10-31 10:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4804 | UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on October 29. Patnaik confirmed to Poloff October 30 that he had passed the request onto the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN, which will take the lead on deciding the final GOI posi [...] | 2007-10-31 10:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA UN IN |
07NEWDELHI4822 | MEA SLAMS UNMIN, URGES ELECTIONS AT THE SOONEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (for Nepal and Bhutan) Preeti Saran conveyed in an SIPDIS October 30 meeting with Acting PolCouns her government's disappointment with the electoral delay in Nepal, emphasized the need for New Delhi and Washington to pressure [...] | 2007-10-31 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF KDEM UN BT NP IN |
07NEWDELHI4830 | MTAG INDIA: MAYURAKSHI IS NOT INVOLVED IN [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to reftel demarches. Khobargade noted that three issues concerning the Indian firm Mayurakshi had been resolved: [...] | 2007-11-01 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR BU IN |
07NEWDELHI4831 | MTAG INDIA: TITANIUM TANTALUM DOES NOT HAVE AN [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to reftel demarche regarding the Indian firm Titanium Tantalum having an Iranian representative or agent. Khobargade [...] | 2007-11-01 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR IN |
07NEWDELHI4832 | AMBASSADOR, INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a November 1 meeting between Ambassador Mulford and Minister of Defense A.K. Antony, the Ambassador: -- stressed the probity and accountability of American business practices in the context of defense sales to India, providing Antony with a copy of the Foreign Corrupt Practic [...] | 2007-11-01 13:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PARM MNUC ECPS BEXP ENRG PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4835 | ABRIDGED WINTER SESSION OF PARLIAMENT DUE TO KEY [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming winter session of Parliament is likely to start a week sooner (on November 15) and run shorter than in previous years. The condensed schedule would allow party leaders a few days of full-scale campaigning for state assembly elections in Gujarat on December 11 and 16 [...] | 2007-11-02 08:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4847 | INDIA CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE AT APDP BREAKFAST, [...] Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora confirmed to Acting PolCouns November 2 that India's delegation to the Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako Nov 14-16 will be headed by Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs. Arora a [...] | 2007-11-05 04:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI4848 | INDIA CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE AT APDP BREAKFAST, [...] Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora confirmed to Acting PolCouns November 2 that India's delegation to the Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako Nov 14-16 will be headed by Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs. Arora a [...] | 2007-11-05 05:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI4855 | DELHI DIARY, OCT 27-NOV 2 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 27-November 2, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- March of the Landless -- Tehelka Expos of Modi Role in 2002 Gujarat Riots -- Bhutan Takes Out the Trash -- Indian Military to [...] | 2007-11-05 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS BT IN |
07NEWDELHI4857 | JASWANT SINGH SUPPORTS THE NUCLEAR DEAL BUT [...] (C) Summary: In separate November 5 meetings with senior BJP leaders and former Foreign Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh, the Ambassador argued that the 123 Agreement and Hyde Act had no impact on India's strategic program and urged them to take a statesmanlike attitude towards the n [...] | 2007-11-05 14:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4881 | PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE, GUJARAT ELECTIONS KEY TO GOI [...] (C) Summary: The upcoming winter session of Parliament in mid-November and Gujarat state assembly elections in mid-December will play a key role in shaping GOI actions on the US-India civil nuclear agreement. The respective positions of the Congress Party and the Left parties are likely to be fine- [...] | 2007-11-06 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI4887 | MERKEL URGES INDIAN ACTION ON BURMA, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel took advantage of her first visit to India to address recent developments and crises in India's neighborhood and beyond. Merkel urged India to publicly condemn Burma for its recent anti-democratic internal crackdowns. Prime Minister Singh sideste [...] | 2007-11-07 06:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS KUNR AF BM GM IR IN |
07NEWDELHI4897 | MTAG INDIA: GROW-ON-EXPORTS AND PHULCHAND EXPORTS [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to requests for information passed to the GOI in June 2007 by Assistant Secretary of State for International Security [...] | 2007-11-07 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL PARM KN IN |
07NEWDELHI4898 | MEA SILENT REGARDING PUBLIC DECLARATION OF BAN ON [...] (C)SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary T.S. Tirumurti acknowledged that the Government of India (GOI) denied a Burmese request for military equipment but did not comment on PolCouns' suggestion that the GOI announce the decision publicly. Tirumurti reported that three Burmese recently arrested in Manipur [...] | 2007-11-07 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BM IN |
07NEWDELHI4899 | INDIA TALKS 123 WITH PAKISTAN DURING CBM DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Director Amandeep Singh Gill gave PolOffs a read-out November 6 of the fourth round of Conventional and Nuclear Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) held in New Delhi October 18-19. During the nuclear CBM [...] | 2007-11-07 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP MARR MNUC MOPS KTIA PK IN |
07NEWDELHI4900 | APDP BREAKFAST INVITATION DELIVERED TO GOVERNMENT [...] PolCouns delivered ref A invitation to MEA Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora on SIPDIS November 6, drawing attention to the fact that the breakfast has been moved up to eight from eight-thirty am. Arora had previously confirmed GOI attendance at the APDP breakfast (re [...] | 2007-11-08 01:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN ML |
07NEWDELHI4902 | INDIA PREFERS QUIET APPROACH ON FATF STATEMENT AND [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered the demarche and background paper (reftel A) to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Director Anand Bajaj at the Ministry of Finance on November 7 and to Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar at the Ministry of External Affairs on November 2, respectiv [...] | 2007-11-08 06:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC IN |
07NEWDELHI4925 | BHUTANESE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - GOI TELLS A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Bhutan and Nepal Preeti Saran and MEA Joint SIPDIS Secretary for Americas Gaitri Kumar told Assistant Secretary SIPDIS for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Ellen Sauerbrey November 8 that the Government of Indi [...] | 2007-11-08 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NP BT IN |
07NEWDELHI4932 | BANGLADESH HIGH COMMISSION REFUTES MEA CLAIMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bangladesh Political Minister in Delhi dismissed as untrue Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) claims that Bangladesh is unwilling to ensure security of the "Friendship Train" operations. She asserted that the two sides continue to search for a mutually acceptable solu [...] | 2007-11-13 04:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BG IN |
07NEWDELHI4946 | INDIAN GOVERNMENT RELUCTANT TO REVEAL ITS POSITION [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on November 13, noting the tight deadline for a decision, with the vote only two days away. Patnaik replied that the GOI is still deliberating on its position, stating "we'll do whatever [...] | 2007-11-13 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA UN IN |
07NEWDELHI4989 | DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 3-15 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi, in coordination with Consulate Chennai, for November 3-15, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Indo-Japan Relations Expected to Continue Positive Trend, But On Hold While Fukuda Gets Settl [...] | 2007-11-15 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CH JA IN |
07NEWDELHI5002 | INDIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ONLY ON DPRK VOTE IN UN [...] (SBU) Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on November 16, urging the GOI, as a huge democracy and defender of human rights, to support these resolutions, or at least, to agree not to render no-action votes. Patnaik reiterated th [...] | 2007-11-16 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA BO BM CU IR KN SU IN |
07NEWDELHI5026 | INDIA WANTS TO STAY QUIET ON ITS WESTERN (IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told the Ambassador November 19 that the Indian government had not yet determined how it would express its concern about the IAEA Director General's Iran report. Although he conveyed the Indian government's continuing concern with the lack of t [...] | 2007-11-20 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR EPET ENRG EINV IR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5047 | DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 16-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 16-21, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Concerns about Negotiating with the Taliban -- PM Singh Uses ASEAN to Urge Burma to Expedite the Reconciliation Process -- Three [...] | 2007-11-21 09:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR PK AF CH SN KS JP |
07NEWDELHI5053 | SUGGESTIONS FOR AREAS OF FOCUSED COOPERATION IN [...] (C) Summary. In preparation for Assistant Secretary Silverberg's November 30 meeting with Additional Secretary K.C. Singh, Post would like to suggest several UN-related issues ripe for closer collaboration with the GOI. These include peacekeeping, religious freedom, UN budget reform, energy [...] | 2007-11-21 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO KUNR USUN IN |
07NEWDELHI5054 | RAHUL PROVIDES STAR POWER, CONGRESS REAFFIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Rahul Gandhi generated the buzz and excitement for party faithful at his official coming out party at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting on November 17. Beside the celebration of Rahul (Refs A,B),the party strongly supported Congress President Sonia Gandhi,s and P [...] | 2007-11-21 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PARM ENRG IN |
07NEWDELHI5059 | MOHAMMAD SALIM SPOUTS COMMUNIST LINE ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) Member of Parliament Mohammad Salim justified the violence in Nandrigram to PolCouns November 20 by claiming that the Communists drove out violent Maoists and restored law and order in the area. Now, he asserted, the CPM will prioritize pe [...] | 2007-11-21 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI5098 | TORRES STRAITS PILOTAGE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on November 26. He had no substantive comment at this time and offered to reply after consulting within the Ministry. MULFORD [...] | 2007-11-27 06:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA PBTS EWWT PREL KTIA SENV AS IN |
07NEWDELHI5099 | DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAELI UN RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on November 26, urging the GOI to vote no or at a minimum abstain in voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in reftel. Agarwal affirmed that he will consult within the Minist [...] | 2007-11-27 07:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNGA KPAL IS IN |
07NEWDELHI51 | LIMP GOI RESPONSE TO SADDAM EXECUTION DICTATED BY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a tepid if not unhelpful response to the December 30 execution of Saddam Hussein. This was dictated by Congress concerns regarding the sensibilities of India's Muslims. Congress faces a crucial election in Uttar Pradesh (UP) later this year and the state's Muslim [...] | 2007-01-04 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC KDEM KISL SCUL PGOV IN IZ |
07NEWDELHI511 | SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...] | 2007-02-01 15:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5118 | NEW INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has announced that Jayant Prasad, presently serving as India's PermRep in Geneva, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Afghanistan, succeeding Rakesh Sood. 2. (SBU) COMMENT: U.S. diplomats who worked with him say Prasad is an ent [...] | 2007-11-28 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR IN AF |
07NEWDELHI5119 | AUTHOR TASLIMA NASREEN: PAWN IN POLITICAL WEB [...] (SBU) Summary: Claiming that the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) pushed her to leave Kolkata (ref A),controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finally settled in a "safe place" in Delhi under the security of the Indian central government. Her flight from Kolkata sparked a po [...] | 2007-11-28 13:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KISL ASEC BG IN |
07NEWDELHI5127 | A/S SAUERBREY VOICES CONCERN OVER SRI LANKA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey's points regarding the status of Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) slow pace of identification and prosecution of human rights abusers, allegations of child recruitment into the [...] | 2007-11-29 05:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER CE IN |
07NEWDELHI513 | SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...] | 2007-02-02 01:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI5137 | FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS PARLIAMENT NO U.S. PRESSURE ON GAS [...] (SBU) Media reported on November 28, 2007 that India's Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Murkherjee, had sent to the Lok Sabha a written reply to a question in which he denies that the U.S. has asked India not to move forward with the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) natural gas pipeline [...] | 2007-11-30 01:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL EPET EINV PGOV IN IR |
07NEWDELHI5139 | INDIA MAINTAINS MODEST RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (SBU) In response to the request for information on India's relations with Cuba set out in ref a, Embassy New Delhi provides the following assessment based on the most recent and readily available information. Indo-Cuban Relations Mostly Symbolic Legacy of NAM ------------------------------ [...] | 2007-11-30 06:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU IN |
07NEWDELHI5156 | CONGRESS PUNTS UNAUTHORIZED CONSTRUCTION MESS INTO [...] Summary: The Indian Parliament passed a law on November 27 that set a moratorium on demolition in Delhi of any unlawful construction, including unauthorized slum dwellings and commercial establishments, until at least 2009. Unauthorized construction has been a charged political issue ever sinc [...] | 2007-11-30 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI5157 | DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 22-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 22-30,2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India Freezes Arms sales to Burma -- India votes against the UN's draft resolution on Burma -- PM Singh to Visit China -- Indian is Fi [...] | 2007-11-30 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER SENV ECON CH BM IN |
07NEWDELHI5158 | TERRORISTS USE U.P. NODES TO SWIFTLY REACT TO [...] (C) Summary: The November 23 terrorist bombings in Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad in response to the arrests of three alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) members seeking to kidnap Rahul Gandhi killed at least thirteen people and injured many more (Ref A). Politicians quickly scrambled to blame e [...] | 2007-12-03 01:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER AESC PGOV CASC PREL KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI5174 | MILD PARLIAMENT DEBATE SHOWS CONGRESS ENJOYS [...] (C) Summary: Meeting at a November 30 roundtable, Indian observers thought that the November 28 lower house debate in Parliament on the civil nuclear cooperation initiative effectively showed that the Congress Party has the strength to go forward on the deal. Several analysts pointed to the s [...] | 2007-12-03 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI5180 | INDIA PROPOSES RECIPROCAL VOTING FOR UN CERD [...] (U) This is an action message for IO/RHS and SCA - see para 4. 2. (U) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar and Director (United SIPDIS Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on November 21, urging the GOI to support Pierre Richard Prospe [...] | 2007-12-04 05:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA IN |
07NEWDELHI5189 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: YALDA SHOJAE SANGANI [...] (C) Embassy New Delhi refers Yalda Shojae Sangani to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) based on her experiece of persecution in Iran. Below is biographical information of the principal applicant, a description of the persecution claim, her current economic means, and health conditio [...] | 2007-12-04 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI5206 | NUCLEAR DEBATE RERUN GETS PERSONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Personal attacks between the ruling Congress Party and opposition BJP leaders marked the eight-hour-plus December 4-5 Rajya Sabha (upper house) nuclear debate in Parliament. Going over the same arguments as in previous Parliament debates, the Left and United National Progressiv [...] | 2007-12-05 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI5219 | UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik and Director Khalid Bin Jamal, Ministry of Commerce and Industry on December 5, urging the GOI to help oppose any revisions to UNCITRAL's current rules. Patnaik confirmed that he had pass [...] | 2007-12-06 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNCITRAL UN IN |
07NEWDELHI5226 | FORMER HARYANA CONGRESS CHIEF MINISTER DITCHES [...] (C) Summary: The departure from the Congress Party of Haryana heavyweight Bhajan Lal muddies the political landscape in the state and weakens the Congress Party's electoral prospects. Bhajan Lal commands a considerable following among certain sections of the state's non-Jat community. By sp [...] | 2007-12-07 10:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI5228 | DELHI DIARY, DECEMBER 3-7 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for December 3-7, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Delhi Police on Terror Alert -- Babri Masjid: Continues to Cast Shadow -- India Conducts New Missile Defense Tests. -- Minor Demonstra [...] | 2007-12-07 11:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KISL MCAP PINR SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI5234 | GOI APPROACHED ON SUPPORTING UNGA PLENARY VOTES ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on December 6, seeking GOI support to ratify these resolutions in the upcoming UNGA Plenary vote. Agarwal confirmed that he had passed the request onto the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, wh [...] | 2007-12-07 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA IN IR KN |
07NEWDELHI5235 | INDIA LAUNCHES NOVEL HIV/AIDS AWARENESS PROGRAM [...] (U) On December 1, the GOI commemorated World AIDS day with the launch of the Red Ribbon Express, a seven-coach train designed to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS throughout India and provide education and health services,particurlarly in areas with low media reach. The train will travel across Ind [...] | 2007-12-07 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI5237 | GOI APPROACHED ON OPPOSING UNGA PLENARY [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on December 7, reinforcing the USG desire that the GOI vote no or at a minimum abstain in voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in ref A. Agarwal affirmed that he will [...] | 2007-12-07 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS IN |
07NEWDELHI5238 | GOI SACKS HEAD OF PREMIER MEDICAL INSTITUTE [...] (C) Summary: One of the only pieces of legislation to emerge from the winter session of Parliament was a bill to remove an eminent cardiac surgeon from his position as head of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The bill was sheperded through the the legislature by Health [...] | 2007-12-07 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI5239 | A/S SAUERBREY BRIEFED ON CHINA-TIBET NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 9-11 visit to Dharmasala, Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey met the Kashag (Tibetan Executive Cabinet) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). The Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) Professor Samdhong Rinpoche told A/S S [...] | 2007-12-07 13:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM KIRF IN |
07NEWDELHI5240 | A/S SAUERBREY MEETS THE DALAI LAMA [...] Summary: On November 10, Population, Refugee, and Migration Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. The Dalai Lama shared his favorable views on resettling Tibetan refugees in Western countries, which differs from those of some members of the Tibetan [...] | 2007-12-07 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI5243 | A/S SAUERBREY DISCUSSES REFUGEE PROBLEM WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On a November 4-7 trip to Bhutan, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Ellen SIPDIS Sauerbrey met with the Fourth and former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, and the Managing Director of Kuensel, the national n [...] | 2007-12-07 14:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN BT |
07NEWDELHI5254 | BHUTAN APPROACHED ON OPPOSING UNGA PLENARY [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) First Secretary Karma Choeda on December 7, reinforcing the USG desire that the RGOB abstain from voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in ref A. Choeda affirmed that he would raise the i [...] | 2007-12-10 11:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS IN |
07NEWDELHI5258 | DOMICHI AFFIRMS CONTINUED CLOSE U.S-JAPAN [...] (C) Summary. Japanese Ambassador-Designate Domichi, in an initial courtesy call on Ambassador: -- hinted that Japan will likely support the civil-nuclear deal in the IAEA and NSG, while expressing his hope that the U.S. will understands Japan's sensitivities on nuclear issues; -- said he [...] | 2007-12-10 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNUC KNNP JA IN |
07NEWDELHI5278 | BJP TO FIGHT NEXT ELECTION UNDER ADVANI LEADERSHIP [...] (U) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on December 10 that former Party President, former Deputy Prime Minister and longtime party heavyweight Lal Krishan Advani would be its candidate for Prime Minister going into the next national elections. In a show of party unity, BJP President [...] | 2007-12-11 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
07NEWDELHI5280 | RAILWAY MINISTER LALU REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR DEAL BUT WANTS POLITICAL CONSENSUS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Railways and key government ally Lalu Prasad Yadav told the Ambassador December 7 that he sought to convince the Left of the benefits of implementing the U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation initiative. Yadav said that he saw the need for energy as a major challenge facing [...] | 2007-12-11 14:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
07NEWDELHI5290 | USG SHOULD GIVE BHUTAN BACK FROZEN DRUK AIR FUNDS [...] (C) I would like to bring to your personal attention the long-standing unresolved matter of Bhutanese government funds frozen due to USG economic sanctions against Burma. I want to offer a way forward for resolving this bilateral irritant with the Bhutanese and thereby send a message that the [...] | 2007-12-12 10:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EAIR IN BT |
07NEWDELHI5299 | BHUTAN EXPERIENCING GROWING PAINS IN ITS [...] (C) Summary: In November, Poloff accompanied Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) A/S Ellen Sauerbrey to Bhutan to discuss resolution of the protracted Bhutanese refugee crisis in Nepal (ref A). During this visit, interlocutors including the former King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Prime Minis [...] | 2007-12-13 09:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM KWMN IN BT |
07NEWDELHI5305 | HIMACHAL PRADESH ELECTIONS: BJP EDGE [...] (SBU) Summary: With the rhetorical back and forth between Congress and the BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) over the US-India nuclear initiative and the Gujarat elections, little attention has focused on the December 19 state polls in Himachal Pradesh (HP). Based on anti-incumbency, conventional [...] | 2007-12-13 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IN |
07NEWDELHI5306 | INDIA CONTINUES "CLOSE AND NEIGHBORLY" TIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that Deputy Minister in Burma's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kyaw Thu visited Delhi on December 11-12 for regularly scheduled Foreign Office consultations. Thu met with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Foreign Sec [...] | 2007-12-13 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM IN |
07NEWDELHI5319 | DELHI DIARY, DECEMBER 10-14 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for December 10-14, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Bhutan Election Commission Disqualifies Third Political Party. -- India Finally Offers Balanced Assessment of Israeli-Palestini [...] | 2007-12-14 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS KPAL IS IN BT |
07NEWDELHI5327 | INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY TO GC HAYNES: TIES [...] (C) Summary. In a December 14 meeting among Department of Defense General Counsel William J. Haynes, Indian Defense Secretary Vijay Singh, and Integrated Defense Staff Chief SIPDIS General Hardev Singh Lidder, Singh and Lidder: -- Accepted responsibility on India for failure to complete [...] | 2007-12-17 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR IN |
07NEWDELHI5334 | DALAI LAMA OUTFLANKS PRC ON SUCCESSION [...] (C) SUMARY: In response to China's State Administration of Religious Affairs' August 2007 decree declaring that tulkas (living Buddhas) must be approved by the state, the Dalai Lama announced on November 28 that he may call for a public referendum to decide the fate of the institution of the [...] | 2007-12-17 12:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH IN |
07NEWDELHI5335 | MENON ND CHAVAN ASSURE U.S. FIRMS OF NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan assured a visiting trade mission of nuclear-related firms December 10-11 that India would purchase U.S. reactors. Menon recognized that a "letter of intent" would help the [...] | 2007-12-17 12:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY BEXP EINV |
07NEWDELHI535 | BJP LEADERSHIP SHUFFLE COMPOUNDS CONFUSION [...] (U) On January 29, BJP Party President Rajnath Singh announced a shake-up in the party leadership. He moved Arun Jaitley, considered by many to be the most articulate and perhaps the sharpest of the party's Generation Next leadership, from "Party Spokesman" to "Secretary of the Parliamentary [...] | 2007-02-02 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KIRF IN |
07NEWDELHI5367 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: NEW DELHI CONFERENCE DISCUSSES THREAT, [...] The Government of India (GOI) hosted a successful international conference on avian and pandemic influenza, in collaboration with the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI),on December 4-6. Several themes emerged: that the international community cannot let down it [...] | 2007-12-20 05:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR KFLU EAID PREL IN |
07NEWDELHI5380 | DELHI DIARY, DEC 17-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for Decemebr 17-21, 2007, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Court Orders Reopening Riots Case Against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler -- Rajasthan Gujjars Threaten Warpath Again -- India-China [...] | 2007-12-20 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF CVIS PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM SOCI NP VM CH |
07NEWDELHI5392 | INDIAN OBSERVERS (MOSTLY) THINK NUCLEAR DEAL WILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Gathered at a December 26 roundtable, politicians and journalists largely agreed that the UPA government will still complete the nuclear deal despite the Congress Party's overwhelming loss in the Gujarat state elections, but differed on the process and reasoning. Member of Parl [...] | 2007-12-26 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN IR AF |
07NEWDELHI5410 | RETAINING UNMIS FORCE COMMANDER LIDDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 07:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PKO UN MARR IN SU |
07NEWDELHI5422 | INDIAN REACTION TO BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION, AND WORRY OVER CONTROL OF PAK-BASED TERRORISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER |
07NEWDELHI574 | INDIA PREPARING FOR US-INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary: Deputy PolCouns met on February 1st with the new Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for India's Counter-Terrorism Cell, Indra Mani Pandey, as well as Director (Military Affairs) Brig. AS Nundal, who is acting as a coordinator for the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Wo [...] | 2007-02-06 09:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI582 | NEPALI MPS FIND INDIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepali Congress - Democratic (NC-D) Members of Parliament Prakash Mahat and Arjun Thapa told Poloff February 1 that PM Singh had said one day earlier the government of India was ready to support the government of Nepal in addressing the unrest in Nepal's Terai region. In a meet [...] | 2007-02-06 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS SCUL ECON NP IN |
07NEWDELHI636 | KASHMIRIS IRATE OVER CUSTODIAL KILLINGS; PM SINGH TAKING ACTION [...] (S) Srinagar was once again gripped with protests on February 7th, as police officials announced that they had dug up five unmarked graves in an ongoing investigation of custodial killings. Our interlocutors say Prime Minister Singh is influencing the investigations as a confidence building [...] | 2007-02-08 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI658 | INDIA COMPLETES PLANS TO BUY FORTY MORE SUKHOI 30S [...] (U) Reporting from Aero India in Bangalore, Indian media quoted Chief of Air Staff S.P. Tyagi on February 8 as saying India would soon sign a deal to import 40 more Sukhoi-30 planes from Russia. The news, which was overshadowed in morning papers by multi-billionaire Ratan Tata's "exhilarating [...] | 2007-02-09 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI661 | PUNJAB'S ELECTION OUTCOME REMAINS MURKY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI662 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: INDIA RISING, PUNJAB STRUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: For decades, Punjab has struggled with corruption and bad political leadership. Despite its reputation as the breadbasket of India, Punjab's agriculture economy is failing and the common Punjabi feels left out of India's economic boom. Unemployment is widespread, inflation is r [...] | 2007-02-09 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI663 | MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...] | 2007-02-12 01:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR |
07NEWDELHI664 | MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...] | 2007-02-12 01:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR |
07NEWDELHI701 | INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MIG-35, [...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Maples, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on February 8th to discuss joint efforts to increase U.S.-India defense cooperation. NSA Narayanan explained India's longstanding concern about Chinese d [...] | 2007-02-12 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI729 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR OPEN TO INCREASED INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afghan Ambassador to India, Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, told Ambassador Mulford February 12 that India and Afghanistan had a strong relationship, and that Indian help in strengthening Afghanistan's infrastructure was welcome. He said that Pakistan is overly sensitive about India [...] | 2007-02-13 11:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS ELTN AF PK IR IN |
07NEWDELHI750 | PUNJAB OUTCOME TOO CLOSE TO CALL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 12:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI752 | BOTH SIDES VICTORIOUS IN BAGLIHAR VERDICT, INDIA [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank-appointed neutral expert announced his ruling on February 12 regarding the controversial Baglihar dam project, which both Pakistan and India claimed as a victory. Several specifications contested by Pakistan are being addressed, but the overall design of the dam [...] | 2007-02-14 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWWT ECON PBTS ENRG ECIN KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI753 | PUNJAB OUTCOME TOO CLOSE TO CALL [...] (U) On February 13, despite heavy rains an estimated 65-70 percent of Punjab's 10 million member electorate voted in the state's hotly-contested Legislative Assembly election. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)/BJP coalition and the Congress are vying for political leadership in the state (reftel). [...] | 2007-02-14 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI776 | MORE BAD NEWS FOR U.P. CHIEF MINISTER MULAYAM [...] (SBU) In Uttar Pradesh (UP),the shaky and beleaguered government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav (reftels) came another step closer to falling on February 14. The Supreme Court ruled that the defection of 13 MLAs from the opposition BSP to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) on August 27, [...] | 2007-02-15 11:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN |
07NEWDELHI779 | INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DEMANDS DEMARCATION ON [...] (U) Speaking to Indian reporters on February 10th on the sidelines of a conference on India and the ASEAN sponsored by the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, Indian Defense Minister AK Antony reiterated that any agreement with Pakistan over Siachen would be unacceptable to the Indian [...] | 2007-02-15 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI783 | GUTIERREZ WEIGHS IN WITH FM MUKHERJEE ON BELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even while extolling the significant growth in U.S. ) India economic and political ties and assuring the GOI,s continued support, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stubbornly defended to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Under Secretary Frank Lavin, and Ambas [...] | 2007-02-15 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI786 | INDIA APPEASES LEFT AND MUSLIMS WITH TEHRAN VISIT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Times of India" diplomatic correspondent Indrani Bagchi, who accompanied Foreign Minister Mukherjee on his visit to Tehran February 6-7, told Deputy PolCouns that the visit had been an exercise by the government of India (GOI) to garner headlines that would please the Indian Mus [...] | 2007-02-15 13:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET PARM KNNP IR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI813 | INDIAN RESPONSE TO SIX-PARTY TALKS AGREEMENT: [...] (C) In response to reftel, Ambassador delivered points on the announcement of the "Initial Actions" agreement at Six-Party Talks to Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on February 15, noting the Six Parties have come up with a way forward on resolving the North Korean weapons program. Menon q [...] | 2007-02-16 11:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN IN |
07NEWDELHI816 | INDIA, RUSSIA, AND CHINA TRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) Summary. In their seventh trilateral meeting, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China discussed substantive issues including cooperation on terrorism, crime, trade, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and UN reform. Deliverables were few; however, the meetings have served to institutional [...] | 2007-02-16 12:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS CH IN |
07NEWDELHI839 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: DHIA NOOR MOWAFAK [...] (SBU) Embassy New Delhi refers the following former translator for the U.S. military to the U.S. refugee admissions program (USRAP). Below is biographic information of the principal applicant and dependents, a description of the persecution claim, his current economic means and health condit [...] | 2007-02-20 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL IN IZ |
07NEWDELHI847 | GOI EXPOUNDS UPON ITS BURMA POLICY AFTER RECEIVING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka and the Maldives) Mohan Kumar. Kumar made the following points regarding the GOI's current Burma policy: -After a period of limited interaction with Burma because of its po [...] | 2007-02-20 13:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM BM IN |
07NEWDELHI849 | SAMJHAUTA EXPRESS TRAIN BOMBINGS UNEXPECTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: Indian and Pakistani officials rushed to mobilize joint efforts in response to the February 18th attack on the New Delhi to Lahore Samjhauta ("friendship") Express train, which killed 67 Indian and Pakistani nationals. Indian press reports point out that this may be the first ti [...] | 2007-02-20 14:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI863 | INDIA CONCERNED ABOUT VIOLENCE POSSIBLY CROSSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of India (GOI) officials acknowledged February 7 that India is concerned about the possibility of violence in Nepal's Terai region spilling over into India. The government of Nepal (GON) should address the concerns of ethnic Indian Madhesis who have been violently pr [...] | 2007-02-21 10:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR NP IN |
07NEWDELHI870 | ITALIAN PM PRODI HAS "SATISFYING" TRIP TO INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Italian Prime Minister Prodi and his 400-person entourage wrapped up their five-day trip to India on February 15 in New Delhi. The trip was marked by a heavy emphasis on business opportunities between the two countries (reftel) and personal rapport between Prodi and Prime Mini [...] | 2007-02-21 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP PARM TSPL ECON IT IN |
07NEWDELHI871 | SAMAJWADI PARTY PULLS SUPPORT FROM UPA GOVERNMENT, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 14:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KISL IN |
07NEWDELHI872 | INDIA AWASH WITH SPECULATION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP [...] (S) Summary. As the death toll in the February 19th Samjauta Express bombing continued to rise on February 21st, press reports in India began to hint at rumors that the likely culprits were Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad. Police and Indian officials, however, continue to join their Pakis [...] | 2007-02-21 14:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN |
07NEWDELHI909 | SCENESETTER: INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT WORKING [...] (S) Summary: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes the visit of Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, and looks forward to adding dynamism to the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) and developing an atmosphere where ideas and information are easily exchanged by b [...] | 2007-02-23 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL KTFN |
07NEWDELHI910 | UTTARAKHAND: SLIM MARGIN MAY DETERMINE ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 21st, an estimated 55-60% of Uttarakhand's 6 million member electorate voted in the second Legislative Assembly election since the state was created out of Uttar Pradesh in 2000 (reftel). The main battle was between the BJP and Congress for sixty-nine assembly seat [...] | 2007-02-23 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI916 | WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, JAPAN AND INDIA KICK OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The governments of India and Japan are hoping to commence a new economic partnership with round one of negotiations on the Japan-India Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA),followed by the visit of a high-level Japanese business delegation to India. The Economic Minister of the [...] | 2007-02-23 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ECIN EINV JP CH IN |
07NEWDELHI94 | PARTY SPOKESMEN AGREE THAT EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, during the annual meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),political leaders from the BJP, Congress and the CPI(M) examined Indian economic policy from their own ideological perspectives. Despite an attempt by the BJP's Ravi Sh [...] | 2007-01-09 11:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD ELAB ENRG PGOV PREL PINR IN |
07NEWDELHI944 | MOD ASSURES STAFFDEL FARKAS INDIA WILL CHOOSE [...] (C) Summary. On February 23, MOD Acting Joint Secretary for Planning and International Cooperation Kiran Chadha, Chadha told Steffdel Farkas: -- India's procurement policy is guided by the Defense Procurement Policy of 2006; -- promised that in upcoming procurements India will be "choosin [...] | 2007-02-26 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ETRD IN |
07NEWDELHI945 | STAFFDEL FARKAS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C) On February 23, Senate/House Armed Services Committee staffdel Farkas met with Dilip Sinha, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, then separately with Brigadier AS Nundal, MEA Director for Military Affairs, and Avinash Pandey, MEA Director for Co [...] | 2007-02-26 14:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF IR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI946 | STAFFDEL FARKAS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C) On February 23, Senate/House Armed Services Committee staffdel Farkas met with Dilip Sinha, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, then separately with Brigadier AS Nundal, MEA Director for Military Affairs, and Avinash Pandey, MEA Director for Co [...] | 2007-02-26 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER NATO IN |
07NEWDELHI974 | INDIAN JOURNALISTS AND POLITICAL WATCHERS [...] (C) On February 16, a group of distinguished Indian journalists and political strategists gathered in Delhi for a digital video conference (DVC) discussion of Iran,s nuclear program with U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Mission in Vienna Ambassador Schulte. With two IAEA votes and many [...] | 2007-02-27 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF IR PK IN |
07NEWDELHI975 | BJP WINS CLEAR MAJORITY IN UTTARAKHAND [...] (U) Summary: The Uttarakhand unofficial election results were announced February 27, and the BJP won a clear mandate to form the next state government. According to media reports, Congress has conceded defeat, with state party spokesman Surendra Agarwal blaming divisions among secular voters [...] | 2007-02-27 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
07NEWDELHI976 | UTTAR PRADESH FACES A LONG BITTER ELECTION SEASON [...] (C) Summary. The protracted drama of Uttar Pradesh (UP) politics is likely to go on throughout a long grueling election campaign, and may not even be resolved after the election results are out. Despite growing opposition against SP misrule, the crafty UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav [...] | 2007-02-27 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KISL IN |
07NIAMEY1064 | U.S. AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH GOVERNMENT OF NIGER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 12:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NG |
07NIAMEY1181 | NIGER: MIST SPORTS CARAVAN SCORES BIG AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. The 16-day Military Information Support Team (MIST) sports caravan/tolerance campaign, lauded by local authorities for its timeliness, reiterated last year's theme "One Family, One Niger." Insecurity in the northern region of Agadez prevented the Nigerien junior girls and junio [...] | 2007-09-12 15:34:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PROP PREL SCUL NGO |
07NIAMEY1188 | NIGER: GOVERNMENT ENTERS CYBERSPACE [...] The Government of Niger (GON) announced the launch of two websites on September 11, 2007, connecting government institutions and the Presidency to cyberspace for the first time. Both websites (French language) are still a work in progress, but reflect a step forward for the GON institutions. [...] | 2007-09-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | TINT PGOV PREL SOCI NG |
07NIAMEY1217 | NIGER: MEETING WITH HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, Ambassador Allen met with the Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace, Mohamed Anacko, to discuss the insecurity in northern Niger and to inquire whether the cessation of violence during Ramadan bodes well for possible future neg [...] | 2007-09-26 16:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS ASEC PREL NG |
07NIAMEY1270 | NIGER: In News from Abroad GON President Tandja Rules Out [...] (U) Summary. Local newspapers have reported and are commenting on excerpts of Government of Niger (GON) President Mamadou Tandja's October 2 interview with "Le Monde". In that interview Tandja rules out running for a third term and invites combatants in northern Niger to lay down their arms. [...] | 2007-10-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI NG |
07NIAMEY1301 | NIGERIEN PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES DONOR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister addressed donor concerns about the situation in the north and press freedom in an October 19 meeting with diplomats and foreign aid officials. The Prime Minister called the meeting to discuss these issue in Niamey, rather than in the upcoming dono [...] | 2007-10-22 13:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS EAID NG |
07NIAMEY1359 | A BRIDGE FROM CHINA TO NIGER [...] Summary. The November 5, 2007 groundbreaking and laying of the first stone for a long-awaited second bridge in the capital city of Niamey symbolizes an increasingly closer relationship between two friends, the Republic of Niger (RON) and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Exchanges between [...] | 2007-11-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG EPET SOCI NG CH |
07NIAMEY1430 | NIGER: THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) A truck hit a landmine south of Agadez on December 5. The Nigerien Military has resupplied its garrison in Ifeoruane. The MNJ claims the United States as friend based on a VOA stringer's contact with it. The GON is organizing a regional conference on trafficking. A UN consultant has [...] | 2007-12-05 18:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREL NG |
07NIAMEY22 | FOUR YEARS ON, NIGERIEN NGO UP IN ARMS OVER NIGER [...] Apparently prompted by the execution of Saddam Hussein, on Sunday, January 7, a Nigerien NGO gave a press release denouncing the USG for its "false accusation against Niger for the sale of uranium to Iraq." The NGO, CODDAE - the "Collective for the Defense of Rights to Energy in Niger" - is m [...] | 2007-01-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO NG |
07NIAMEY531 | AGADEZ: THE KHADAFI SHOW [...] (U) As reported reftel A, Libyan leader Mouammar El Khadafi celebrated Mouloud with regional heads of state in the northern Nigerien city of Agadez. While avoiding the sort of controversial pronouncements -- on, inter alia, an independent Tuareg state in the Sahel -- that characterized his 200 [...] | 2007-04-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LY NG |
07NIAMEY62 | NORTHERN NIGER POST KIDAL: UN STAFF / VOLUNTEERS [...] (C) During recent travel to Tahoua, a city in north-central Niger, Poloff interacted with several United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) who work with Tuareg and Arab ex-combatants in the country's northern Azaouagh region. The Azaouagh borders Mali's Kidal region, and is an area of concern for sev [...] | 2007-01-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PTER NG |
07NIAMEY625 | NIGER: A PESSIMISTIC ASSESSMENT OF GON-TUAREG [...] (C) Summary: Mohamed Anacko, the man responsible for implementing the 1995 agreement ending the Tuareg rebellion, fears that President Tandja's desire for a military solution to the recent Tuareg uprising risks turning it into a full fledged rebellion that could affect the entire region. He [...] | 2007-05-03 12:06:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL CASC EMIN NG |
07NIAMEY635 | NIGER: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Opposition party officials are concerned about the stalled trial regarding corruption in the education sector, student violence, and the lack of action during the current Assembly session. Their biggest concern, however, is the recent violence in the north, which they said could t [...] | 2007-05-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NG |
07NIAMEY636 | NIGER: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Abouba hinted that the GON was negotiating with dissident Tuaregs, but he largely dismissed their grievances. He feared alliances developing involving the Tuareg rebels, drug traffickers, AQIM and the Nigerian Taliban. He did not appear to be particularly seize [...] | 2007-05-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EMIN CASC PINR NG |
07NIAMEY639 | NIGER: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON THE SECURITY SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador to Niger believes a GON attempt to defeat Tuareg dissidents risks turning bandits and drug smugglers into something much worse, possibly to include allies of AQIM. The Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) cannot defeat the Mouvement des Nigerien pour la Justice (MNJ),[...] | 2007-05-08 11:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS FR NG |
07NIAMEY641 | NIGER PROFITS FROM URANIUM IN REVITALIZED MARKET [...] (C) For the first time since 1983, the Government of Niger (GON) will exercise its right to purchase and sell some of the country's uranium production this year. Moreover, it may sell its share (anticipated to be 300 tons this year and as much as 1,045 tons/year from 2008) to an American power [...] | 2007-05-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL NG BBSR BTIO |
07NIAMEY646 | NIGER: MINISTER OF DEFENSE ASKS USG NOT TO ABANDON [...] (C) Summary. Government of Niger (GON) Defense Minister (DefMin),Hassane Souley, requested a meeting with Ambassador Allen to ask for USG support of GON military efforts to deal with Tuareg dissidents in the North. The GON seeks military support, especially intelligence assistance. The DefMi [...] | 2007-05-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL NG |
07NIAMEY656 | NIGER: GON EFFORTS REGARDING TUAREG DISSIDENTS, [...] Nigerien police officer and Tuareg ex-combatant Daouada Algabid on May 10 told DCM that a high-level French military delegation is in Niamey to ask the GON to allow French troops currently in Chad to come to Niger to provide security for the French Uranium company AREVA's mines near Arlit. Th [...] | 2007-05-11 10:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS FR NG |
07NIAMEY713 | NIGER: MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS (MRA) [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador, accompanied by locally-engaged staff Political Assistant (notetaker),paid a May 16 courtesy call on the recently-appointed Cabinet Minister for the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MRA),Issaka Labo. The MRA's responsibilities include a security element complementa [...] | 2007-05-22 11:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI PINR NG |
07NIAMEY728 | NIGER: KORANIC SCHOOLS CALL FOR HELP [...] (C) During recent travel across southern Niger, Poloff interacted with traditional and religious leaders and religious educators. In each instance, they were concerned by the quality and diversity of instruction they were able to offer in their madrassas. Religious leaders felt that many Niger [...] | 2007-05-24 13:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PINR SCUL SOCI PGOV PREL PTER NG |
07NICOSIA1002 | FM LAVROV DELIVERS SUPPORT FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Cypriot opinion leaders characterized Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's December 9-10 visit to the island as "Russia Riding to the Rescue." Lavrov's timing was impeccable, and seemingly too providential (for the G/C cause) to be coincidental. He arrived shortly before two [...] | 2007-12-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY RU SE |
07NICOSIA1006 | Political Polling Center-stage in Cypriot Election [...] (SBU) Summary: With the Cypriot presidential campaign in full-swing, pollsters are conducting and presenting "Gallups" nearly every week. Compared to the February 2003 race and earlier elections, their numbers have almost doubled. Cypriot media outlets conduct many surveys, and later devote [...] | 2007-12-21 12:46:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA1010 | DECEMBER 2007 TIP UPDATE: CHURCH OF CYPRUS JOINS [...] SUMMMARY: December proved a busy and fruitful month in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) in Cyprus. First, a new and highly-visible actor -- the Church of Cyprus -- vowed to "get involved" in combating trafficking. The Church intends to study the severity of TIP on the island and [...] | 2007-12-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TIP KCRM KWMN CY |
07NICOSIA103 | INTERNAL, EXTERNAL WOES THREATEN T/C "STATE U" [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Cyprus's Eastern Mediterranean University is "in dire trouble," worries Vice Rector for Student Affairs Samil Ergodan and Senior Advisor to the Rector Johann Pillai. Beset by labor strife, empty "government" funding commitments, and cronyism at home, the "TRNC's state" univ [...] | 2007-02-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OEXC PREL KPAO CY TU |
07NICOSIA111 | CYPRUS TO CONSCRIPT HERETOFORE EXEMPT MINORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Cyprus's Ministry of Defense announced January 9 its intention to lift an exemption that allowed the country's "official religious groups" -- Maronites, Armenians, and Latins -- to avoid compulsory military service in the Greek Cypriot National Guard (GCNG). Rather than present [...] | 2007-02-05 14:44:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA115 | ARMENIANS IN CYPRUS: FITTING IN BEATS FALLING OUT [...] SUMMARY: Successful for four hundred years in maintaining their unique culture, language and religion, Cyprus's Armenians -- who enjoy "official religious group" status under the Republic's 1960 convention -- nonetheless seek closer ties to the majority Greek Cypriot population. As such, Arm [...] | 2007-02-07 09:12:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CY TU |
07NICOSIA120 | CYPRUS OIL AND GAS LICENSING RIGHTS CHALLENGED BY [...] (C) Summary: The GoC intends to go forward with its first licensing round for the exploration and exploitation of potential offshore oil and natural gas deposits, despite strong criticism and thinly-veiled threats from the Government of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot leadership. The GoC plans [...] | 2007-02-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PGOV PREL EINV ECON TU CY |
07NICOSIA124 | CYPRUS'S "LATINS" CHART COURSE FOR GROWTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The smallest of Cyprus's three "official religious groups," the "Latins," originally the descendants of the island's Frankish and Venetian overlords, are also the least homogenous. This Roman Catholic grouping, along with the Armenian Orthodox and Maronite Catholics, were recogn [...] | 2007-02-12 15:26:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CY |
07NICOSIA126 | NEW TURKISH ENGAGEMENT REGS; LIVE FIRE IN BUFFER [...] (U) UN Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) military informed Embassy DAO January 31 that Turkish Forces (TF) a day earlier had fired on Greek Cypriot farmers in or near the Buffer Zone (BZ). Two separate incidents had occurred, in Astromeritis, west of Nicosia and the site of a BZ crossing point, and i [...] | 2007-02-13 10:27:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP MOPS CY TU |
07NICOSIA127 | CYPRUS SKITTISH OVER POSSIBLE TURKISH ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The MFA summoned DCM February 12 to voice "serious concerns" over reports from UN DPKO that Turkey sought to take over Germany's leadership of UNIFIL naval operations. Post appreciates Department information on Turkey's possible role in UNIFIL naval operation [...] | 2007-02-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNIFIL CY LE TU |
07NICOSIA135 | CYPRUS - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE NOMINATION [...] Per reftel action request, Embassy Nicosia nominates anti-TIP activist Ms. Mine Yucel for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. For further information regarding this nominee, please contact Embassy's Bicommunal Program Coordinator Juliette Dickstein, dicksteinja@state.gov, [...] | 2007-02-14 09:16:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO CY |
07NICOSIA136 | OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SOON TO ANNOUNCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Parliamentarian and former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will stand in Cyprus's 2008 presidential elections, with a formal announcement likely in March. Behind the decision to run was his conviction that a new generation of leaders should take command in Cyprus, [...] | 2007-02-14 09:18:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM CY |
07NICOSIA140 | CYPRUS: CIV-MIL RELATIONS HIT NEW LOW, TALAT [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Relations between the increasingly assertive Turkish military and the increasingly hesitant Turkish Cypriot civilian leadership have taken a definite turn for the worse in recent months. The January contest of wills between "TRNC President" Talat and the generals ove [...] | 2007-02-14 13:55:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM UNFICYP MOPS TU CY |
07NICOSIA145 | EXBS: CYPRUS EXBS REPORTING CABLE: OCTOBER 2006 - JANUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: During the reporting period DoD's International Counterproliferation Program (ICP) conducted a "WMD Executive Seminar" and a "Training Needs Assessment". DoE began the installation of new Radiation Portal Monitors at the Port of Limassol. Seven Cypriot Customs officials parti [...] | 2007-02-16 15:14:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNPP CY |
07NICOSIA146 | BOTH CYPRIOT COMMUNITIES AND THE TURKISH ARMY, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 15:14:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL PREL PGOV CY TU |
07NICOSIA151 | BOTH CYPRIOT COMMUNITIES AND THE TURKISH ARMY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent roll-out of a Greek-drafted history textbook containing a "nationalistically" incorrect and too-short Cyprus section has sparked protests in Nicosia and prompted demands that the government draft its own texts instead of relying on mother Greece's. In the meantime, th [...] | 2007-02-21 05:58:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | OEXC KPAO SCUL PREL PGOV CY TU |
07NICOSIA194 | CYPRUS WAITING ON BOSNIA TO ASK FOR UNHRC SUPPORT [...] (C) On February 23, Embassy transmitted Reftel points on Bosnia's UNHRC candidacy to MFA Multilateral Affairs Attache Demitra Chrystodoulou, and followed up several times afterward. Chrystodoulou responded March 6, noting that Bosnia had not yet officially requested Cyprus's support for its c [...] | 2007-03-07 14:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC CY |
07NICOSIA197 | COMMUNIST CHIEF UNDECIDED ON PRESIDENTIAL RUN [...] (C) SUMMARY: AKEL desires continued cooperation with coalition mates DIKO and EDEK, Secretary General Dimitris Christofias informed the Ambassador March 5. Nonetheless, party leaders have not yet determined whether to support a re-election bid by President Tassos Papadopoulos, urge the coal [...] | 2007-03-07 15:54:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CY TU |
07NICOSIA205 | HOPES HIGHER FOR LEDRA STREET REOPENING, BROADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On President Tassos Papadopoulos's command, Greek Cypriot workers late March 8 demolished a wall and viewing platform on Ledra Street, raising hopes that a Buffer Zone crossing in the heart of Old Nicosia might soon open. T/C leaders greeted the wall's fall with guarded optimism, [...] | 2007-03-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA209 | DIKO: NEW LEADERSHIP, OLD THINK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Of Cyprus's Big Four political parties, only DIKO saw its vote haul increase in the most recent elections (December 2006). A confident DIKO President Marios Karoyian attributes the success to a reorganization effort he initiated upon taking office in October. The party's mess [...] | 2007-03-12 15:09:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CY TU |
07NICOSIA21 | TALAT'S SHOWDOWN WITH TURKISH ARMY OVER LEDRA [...] (C) SUMMARY. "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's public promise to remove the controversial pedestrian bridge at the Green Line on Ledra Street has put him on a collision course with the Turkish military. The bridge, which crosses over a Turkish army patrol track along the north edge of the Bu [...] | 2007-01-05 16:25:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNFICYP EUN MOPS TU CY |
07NICOSIA211 | MESSAGE CANCELLATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 07:03:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | CY PGOV PHUM PREL |
07NICOSIA213 | Cyprus Steps Up Anti-Trafficking Efforts [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with authorities and NGO representatives involved in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP),EmbOffs and visiting Desk Officer witnessed increased efforts and new initiatives. In the south, the GOC has taken concrete steps to fulfill the "Three P's" -- [...] | 2007-03-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM CY |
07NICOSIA217 | CYPRUS TO QUIETLY SUPPORT U.S.-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS [...] (SBU) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche March 13 to Cypriot Communications Minister Charis Thrassou and PermSec Makis Constantinides. Thrassou noted that the GoC's positions on aviation issues do not carry much weight within the EU, given that Cypriot carriers possess only around 15 ai [...] | 2007-03-13 14:17:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EAIR ECON PREL EUN CY |
07NICOSIA220 | CYPRUS TO SUPPORT ASEAN POSITION ON BURMA [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel points March 9 to MFA Asian Affairs Director Ambassador Andreas Skarparis. Skarparis (previously Cypriot ambassador to Rangoon) responded March 14 that the GOC has considered points and agrees with contents. He noted that Cyprus would follow EU consensus, but "if t [...] | 2007-03-15 07:53:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM BM EUN CY |
07NICOSIA256 | UN-BROKERED TALKS HIT SNAG; SPEED BUMP OR MAJOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two week ago, there was cause for Cyprus Problem optimism. Hairline cracks were showing in hard-line President Tassos Papadopoulos's coalition, Brussels appeared to be tiring of Nicosia's maximalist position on Turkish Cypriot direct trade, and T/C leaders mostly were behaving, [...] | 2007-03-23 15:31:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA260 | CYPRUS TO ENDORSE EU DECLARATION ON ZIMBABWE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 12:26:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNHCR EUN ZI CY |
07NICOSIA263 | ROC TO FOLLOW EU CONSENSUS ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) In response to Reftel, DCM March 23 delivered Kosovo-related points to Euripides Evriviades, MFA Political Director and former ambassador in Washington. In her demarche, she emphasized that Kosovo's independence was inevitable; it was vital the international community closely coordinate [...] | 2007-03-27 05:27:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY |
07NICOSIA28 | UN MISSION IN CYPRUS SUCCESSFUL ANTI-TIP/SEA [...] (U) Per Ref A instructions, the below updates Ref B July 2006 report. 2. (U) Ms. Sally Anne Corcoran, UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Civil Affairs Political Officer, continues to be the UN mission's "gender focal point," charged with educating UN civilian and military personnel a [...] | 2007-01-10 08:08:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO CY |
07NICOSIA282 | ARCHBISHOP TAKING STEPS ON INTER-FAITH TALKS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent Cyprus developments on inter-faith dialogue, Church re-organization, and the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) dominated discussion at a March 22 meeting between Poloff and Archbishopric official Bishop Vasilios. In a pleasant surprise, new Archbishop Chrysostom [...] | 2007-04-02 13:32:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CY |
07NICOSIA301 | NATIONALISTS AND DEEP STATE STIRRING THE "TRNC" POT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent months, nationalist elements in the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" appear to be manufacturing and/or exploiting events in order to pressure pro-solution "President" Mehmet Ali Talat and "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer to toe a harder line more consistent with polici [...] | 2007-04-05 07:57:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA303 | CYPRUS: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post delivered on April 2 demarche notifying the GOC that the USG has designated Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) under E.O. 13382 to Attorney General Petros Clerides and Central Bank Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou. We have also delivered copies to M [...] | 2007-04-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR CY |
07NICOSIA304 | DIKO LEADER CLASHES WITH PRESIDENTIAL PALACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent appointment of controversial "insider" Kikis Lazarides as the executive chairman of troubled state-controlled Cyprus Airways has sparked a new round of bickering between the Presidential Palace and leaders of the three-party governing coalition. Party chieftains init [...] | 2007-04-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAIR CY |
07NICOSIA318 | CYPRUS: PREPARING TO SIGN THE U.S.-EU AIR TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) Post delivered on April 4 reftel demarche on the U.S.-EU air transport agreement to Iacovos Demetriou, Air Transport Chief, Civil Aviation Department. Demetriou noted that the GOC was fully supportive of the EU transport ministers' political decision to approve the first stage of the U. [...] | 2007-04-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA PREL EUN CY |
07NICOSIA340 | IN TOURING IRANIAN FACILITY SANS INSTRUCTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: RoC Ambassador to Iran Charalambos Kapsos, acting without instructions from Nicosia, defied European Union counsel and attended the April 9 ribbon-cutting of Iran's Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, according to April 16 local media accounts. A Foreign Ministry official subsequentl [...] | 2007-04-18 11:55:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM MNUC TRGY AORC PREL CY |
07NICOSIA347 | CYPRUS PRE-GAERC: LITTLE ON AIR TRANSPORT [...] (C) In response to Reftel, the Embassy April 19 delivered GAERC-related non-paper to the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's European Union Affairs Division. We focused on two issues: 1) our desire that Cyprus and other member states individually approve the EU-U.S. Air Transport Agreement text at the [...] | 2007-04-20 08:41:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EUN PHUM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA365 | T/C LABOR UNIONS DISAPPOINTED WITH "GOVERNMENT" [...] Summary: Turkish Cypriot (T/C) labor union leaders are voicing growing disappointment with the performance of the current "TRNC government." The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) came to power in 2005 with overwhelming labor support, union representatives told us in a series of recent meetings; [...] | 2007-04-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ELAB PHUM CY |
07NICOSIA385 | CYPRUS TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 08:45:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC CY |
07NICOSIA408 | CYPRUS: DEMARCHE ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE ANNUAL WORLD [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, post delivered on May 10 demarche on the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva, May 14-23, 2007, to Dr. Andreas Polynikis, Chief Health Officer at the Ministry of Health. Dr. Polynikis will represent Cyprus at the WHA. Avian Influenza ----------- [...] | 2007-05-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO CY |
07NICOSIA411 | CYPRUS WELCOMES GI INVITATION, WILL ATTEND [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, the Embassy May 10 delivered the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) "invitation" to Marios Kountarides, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's deputy chief for multilateral affairs. In his remarks, PolChief welcomed Cyprus as a new GI partner nation and vo [...] | 2007-05-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PARM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA418 | FAMAGUSTA MAYOR FAVORS INCREASED BI-COMMUNAL [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Despite the total failure of the so-called "Finnish Initiative" in 2006 (Reftel),Greek Cypriot officials and property owners in Famagusta are actively seeking ways to keep their issue on the political map. The opening of the fenced-off area of Varosha and it [...] | 2007-05-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA434 | TURKISH CYPRIOT CENSUS DEBATE FOCUSES ON NATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Native" Turkish Cypriots continue to outnumber their mainland Turkey-born brethren, according to a controversial census that T/C authorities conducted in 2006 but whose results they are releasing in periodic installments. The census findings also refute an oft-repeated Greek Cy [...] | 2007-05-18 11:12:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU CY |
07NICOSIA435 | CYPRUS TO SUPPORT PRC RESOLUTION AT OIE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 04:24:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR AORG TW CH CY |
07NICOSIA451 | CYPRUS CLAIMS "NO TIME" TO TAKE STANCE ON SYRIA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 10:17:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PHUM SY EUN CY |
07NICOSIA456 | PRISON BRAWL REVEALS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, DISCOMFORT WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turf battles over drug dealing morphed into open rioting May 8 at a prison in north Nicosia. Unable to suppress the fighting, penitentiary leadership summoned for assistance "TRNC" riot police, who ended the conflict quickly. Soon afterwards, however, media alleged that polic [...] | 2007-05-29 14:12:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL CY TU |
07NICOSIA46 | CYPRUS'S FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] Per reftel request. NAME: Ms. Eliana Nicolaou TITLE: Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) INSTITUTION: Government of the Republic of Cyprus CONTACT INFO: ERA House Diagorou 2, Nicosia. Office: (357) 22-405501, Fax: (357) 22-672881, E-mail: ombudsman@ombudsman.gov.cy NAME: Mrs. Gul [...] | 2007-01-16 14:34:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA475 | AKEL FERMENT DENTS SENSE OF INEVITABLE PAPADOPOULOS SECOND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As late as mid-May, Communist party AKEL looked certain to back the re-election of Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and the continuation of the three-party (AKEL, EDEK, DIKO) governing coalition. Papadopoulos likely considered the Communists' support a given when he revea [...] | 2007-06-01 10:37:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA489 | FRINGE CANDIDATE SUPPORTS ANNAN PLAN REVIVAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Costas Themistocleous, a former Minister of Agriculture in the Glafkos Clerides administration (1998-2003),will run in next year's presidential elections, "not to win, but to tell Cypriots my version of the 'truth' about the Cyprus problem." Themistocleous warns that Cyprus is [...] | 2007-06-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA506 | MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE'S FIRST REMAINS HANDOVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Genetics testing and anthropological investigations have positively identified the remains of 29 Cypriots who went missing between 1963 and 1974, according to UN Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) International Member Christophe Girod. CMP staff will notify families beginning [...] | 2007-06-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV UN CY TU |
07NICOSIA507 | "TRNC" PROPERTY COMMISSION GATHERING STEAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Established in 2005 as a "local remedy" for Greek Cypriots seeking redress over confiscated property in northern Cyprus, the "TRNC Property Commission" is gaining visibility and, in certain circles, acceptance. Over 180 G/Cs have petitioned the Commission seeking restitution of [...] | 2007-06-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU |
07NICOSIA510 | NEW GOC MEASURES FOR TURKISH CYPRIOTS: LESS THAN [...] (C) Summary and comment: The GoC recently announced new measures ostensibly designed to promote economic development in the Turkish Cypriot community. These include 30 million Euro in grants from 2007 to 2010 to joint ventures with at least 30 percent Turkish Cypriot participation (although [...] | 2007-06-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EUN CY |
07NICOSIA514 | CYPRUS TO BE HELPFUL WITHIN EU ON FURTHER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IR CY PHUM EUN |
07NICOSIA519 | POSITIVE REACTIONS TO TIP REPORT; SIDES FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a refreshing change from prior years, Cypriots on both sides of the Buffer Zone reacted constructively to the June 12 release of the 2007 TIP Report. Authorities, faced with a fair and factual report (and ranking),publicly admitted the need to combat trafficking in persons [...] | 2007-06-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV CY SMIG KPAO |
07NICOSIA52 | ASSIMILATION, AGING THREATEN CYPRUS MARONITES [...] SUMMARY: The Maronite community -- self-described as 6,000-strong but likely half that -- enjoys "official religious group" status under Cyprus's 1960 constitution. Concentrated historically in four villages south and west of Kyrenia, the Catholic Maronites endured near-total dislocation aft [...] | 2007-01-16 15:26:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNFICYP PHUM PREF TU CY |
07NICOSIA521 | SOUTH'S TURKISH CYPRIOTS CITE DISCRIMINATION, NEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Perhaps 1500 Turkish Cypriots reside in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Like the enclaved Greek Cypriots of the Karpass peninsula, the T/C community, centered in second-city Limassol, endures isolation and depends heavily on Republic of Cyprus handouts for its exist [...] | 2007-06-18 14:03:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV CY TU |
07NICOSIA525 | FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER KASOULIDES ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ioannis Kasoulides, the Cypriot foreign minister during the second Glafcos Clerides administration (1998-2003) and a leading member of the Democratic Rally party (DISY),announced June 13 that he would run as an independent in the February 2008 presidential elections. Before a [...] | 2007-06-19 11:49:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA547 | CYPRUS TO SUPPORT UNITAID THROUGH GOC BUDGET [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post has obtained the following information concerning Cyprus's support for the International Drug Purchase Facility (UNITAID). In May 2007, the Ministerial Council reportedly approved a proposal by the Ministry of Finance to fund Cyprus' participation in UNITAID thro [...] | 2007-06-28 06:00:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID TBIO KHIV PREL EUN CY |
07NICOSIA551 | CYPRUS ALSO CONCERNED WITH INTERNET FREEDOM IN CUBA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-02 05:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT PREL ECON TINT CU XL XG CY |
07NICOSIA567 | UNFICYP CONTINUES SUCCESSFUL COMBATING OF TIP AND [...] (U) Per Ref A instructions, the below updates Ref B January 2007 and Ref C July 2006 reports. 2. (U) Ms. Sally Anne Corcoran, UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Civil Affairs Political Officer, continues to be the UN mission,s &gender focal point,8 charged with educating UN civilia [...] | 2007-07-06 13:51:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO CY PREL |
07NICOSIA57 | MINISTER'S DEATH MAY HARM BILAT COOPERATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Education and Culture Pefkios Georgiades, a childhood friend of RoC President Tassos Papadopoulos, died suddenly January 17 from cardiac arrest; he was 72. An internationally renowned architect whose works are prominent in Nicosia, Georgiades, a former participant i [...] | 2007-01-18 15:08:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO OEXC CY |
07NICOSIA571 | CYPRUS REACTION TO AMB SWING'S IOM DIRECTOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 07:48:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | CY EUN PREF PREL SMIG AORC |
07NICOSIA577 | CYPRUS WILL CONSIDER SENDING MESSAGE TO NEIGHBORS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 04:05:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | CY PREL PTER IZ |
07NICOSIA579 | AKEL CONGRESS GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CYPRUS'S FIRST COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) Summary: In a historical first, coalition partner and communist party AKEL decided at its July 8 congress to nominate its own leader, Demetris Christofias, as presidential candidate, either for the pro-government coalition parties jointly or on his own. The decision signals the end of th [...] | 2007-07-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA583 | ELECTORAL HEAT ON, PAPADOPOULOS MOVES ON ONE-YEAR [...] (C) Summary: ROC President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat are likely to meet in an attempt to "break through the stalemate" of their agreement on July 8 of last year. In two July 5 letters sent to the UN and forwarded to Talat, Papadopoulos called for two se [...] | 2007-07-12 05:26:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PGOV PREL |
07NICOSIA585 | LILLIKAS ON PAPADOP'S POLITICAL FUTURE (AND HIS [...] (C) In a one-on-one conversation on the evening of July 11, Foreign Minister Giorgos Lillikas, who earlier that day had submitted his resignation to President Papadopoulos, offered the Ambassador comments on the collapse of the governing coalition and the upcoming presidential race. Lillikas n [...] | 2007-07-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PGOV PREL |
07NICOSIA594 | TURKEY'S ELECTIONS AS SEEN FROM THE "TRNC" [...] (SBU) With only six days until Turkey goes to the polls, the July 22 election is, perhaps surprisingly, not at the forefront of everyone's minds in Cyprus's north, the self-proclaimed, unrecognized "TRNC." This is partly because ongoing domestic issues, including a "government" financial scan [...] | 2007-07-16 10:45:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA596 | CYPRUS'S FOUR NEW CABINET MINISTERS SWORN IN [...] (SBU) GOC President Tassos Papadopoulos announced July 13 the appointment of four new ministers (including the first woman Foreign Minister, career diplomat Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis) to serve for the remaining seven months of the current administration. The four replace the communist AKEL mini [...] | 2007-07-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRN CY |
07NICOSIA610 | CORRUPTION SCANDAL CRIPPLING "TRNC GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Summary: The "parliament" of the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" ("TRNC") officially entered its summer break on July 13, but the "government," led by "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer's Republican Turkish Party (CTP),will find the summer months to be uncomfortable. C [...] | 2007-07-20 13:10:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PGOV PREL TU |
07NICOSIA613 | TIP: CYPRUS WORKING ON USG'S RECOMMENDED MEASURES; [...] (U) Poloffs July 24 delivered reftel non-paper to Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides and MFA Multilateral Affairs Attache Doros Venezis. Savvides (the GOC's interagency anti-TIP coordinator) told Poloffs that the GOC has started work already on the five recommended measures [...] | 2007-07-24 13:13:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA619 | TURKISH ELECTORATE GRANTS "TRNC GOVERNMENT" WISH [...] (C) Summary: The resounding win of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey was a surprise to most Turkish Cypriot contacts of the Embassy and has stabilized the wobbly CTP-OP "TRNC Government". The post-election euphoria, though, will not dispel the allegations of corruption that [...] | 2007-07-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | CY PGOV PREL |
07NICOSIA620 | PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS OFFICIALLY ENTERS PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 24, the last of the three main contenders for the presidency, incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos, officially confirmed that he will seek reelection. The main themes of his televised announcement were the rejection of the Annan Plan and support of the subsequent July 8 process [...] | 2007-07-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA634 | CYPRUS: LITERACY AND HEALTH EVENT HOSTED BY MRS. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 08:33:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA CY |
07NICOSIA635 | PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ON CYPRUS'S DELEGATION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 08:33:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA CY |
07NICOSIA640 | YOUTH POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS: CYPRUS'S FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Every major political party in the Republic of Cyprus has a youth branch. The two largest and most significant are EDON and NEDISY, affiliates of Cyprus's largest political organizations, AKEL and DISY, respectively. Though distinct from the mother parties, these Greek Cyprio [...] | 2007-08-07 11:16:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL CY |
07NICOSIA651 | TALAT FINALLY BLINKS; DEMINING TO RESTART IN CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Commission and UN Development Program officials July 30 signed an agreement that allows humanitarian demining activities in the Cypriot Buffer Zone to continue, hopefully to their conclusion. Financing for operations, approximately four million euro, will come from the [...] | 2007-08-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNFICYP MOPS MASS CY TU |
07NICOSIA657 | NO CHANGE ON CYPRIOTS' APPROACH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, PolChief August 8 delivered Kosovo-related points to Constantinos Chrystomides in the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's European Affairs division. Covering a staffing gap and admitting Kosovo and the broader Balkans were not his regular beat, Chrystomides offered only the [...] | 2007-08-09 11:35:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SE KO CY |
07NICOSIA664 | PAPADOPOULOS CONFIDENT ON RE-ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (C) During the course of a visit to Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and his family at their beach house in Protoras, Ambassador asked Papadopoulos for his thoughts on the looming campaign. Papadopoulos,s first reply was that "of the three of us, I think that my chances are best, becaus [...] | 2007-08-14 13:31:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA669 | PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGER KASOULIDES SEES OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ebullient and outgoing as ever, DISY-supported presidential candidate Ioannis Kasoulides displayed a new air in a recent meeting with EmbOffs: confidence. Just two months ago, certain he faced a Herculean challenge in defeating incumbent Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, Ka [...] | 2007-08-17 09:21:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA674 | "TRNC": THE MUFTI RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Beset for months by allegations he had misused his office for political gains, Turkish Cypriot Mufti Ahmet Yonluer resigned his position August 14. In actuality a mid-level "TRNC" bureaucrat who couldn't find Mecca with a map -- Yonluer's ceremonial robes, displayed prominently [...] | 2007-08-17 14:14:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA685 | TALAT WILL MEET, BUT IS WARY OF PAPADAPOULOS'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Domestic political concerns -- mainly the need to show Greek Cypriot voters that their president sought a Cyprus Problem solution -- was driving Tassos Papadopoulos's push for a meeting of community leaders, "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat told the Ambassador August 20. Despite [...] | 2007-08-22 15:34:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU |
07NICOSIA691 | THE CYPRIOT PATH FROM JUNIOR OFFICER TO AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Cypriot Foreign Ministry is a relatively small institution, accepting a dozen new professionals per year; most are among Cyprus's best and brightest. New diplomats enter the corps through a hiring process lasting seven months. Once on board, an A100-like (but shorter) ori [...] | 2007-08-24 10:40:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OFDP PGOV PREL CY |
07NICOSIA696 | RUMORS OF DEVELOPMENT SHAKE CYPRUS'S KARPASS [...] (U) Summary: The pristine Karpass peninsula, the long finger of land stretching northeast "like a dagger toward the heart of Anatolia," has dominated north Cyprus newscasts nightly this summer. A sleepy corner of the island known more for its turtle hatcheries and unbroken surf, Karpass has [...] | 2007-08-27 11:56:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SENV CY TU |
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