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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07SANTODOMINGO76 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #13: A NEW, MORE SERIOUS [...] This is the thirteenth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. 2. (SBU) In November 2006 the Senate chose a new 9-member elections authority (JCE),composed for the most part of eminent jurists. The JCE is showing gr [...] | 2007-01-12 17:32:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | DR PGOV PREL PINR |
07SANTODOMINGO808 | DEMARCHES ON UNSCR 1747 AND DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S [...] POLOFF delivered Reftels' talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Ambassador Rhadys Abreu, Acting Dominican Chief of United Nations and Organization of American States Affairs (Assistant Secretary-equivalent),took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report an [...] | 2007-04-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IAEA IR DR |
07SANTODOMINGO825 | DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES, 14: BANINTER PROSECUTORS [...] (U) This is the 14th in a series of cables following the Dominican banking frauds and prosecutions. Extensive additional material on prosecutions is available on our SIPRNET site. Baninter Prosecutors "Guarantee" Convictions, but Fear Sentencing Phase - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...] | 2007-04-12 17:23:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL DR |
07SANTODOMINGO840 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXTENDS INVITATION TO REGIONAL [...] Embassy has received a letter from Dominican Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena inviting U.S. participation in an upcoming conference on regional penitentiary practices and penitentiary reform to be held in Santo Domingo, June 20-22, 2007. Post requests notification regarding USG intent t [...] | 2007-04-13 19:10:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KJUS KHUM OTRA DR |
07SANTODOMINGO846 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #23: PARTY UNITY UNDER [...] (U) This is the 23rd cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. PARTY UNITY UNDER STRESS AS PLD PREPARES FOR PRIMARY VOTE (SBU) On April 11 POLOFF met with Danilo Diaz of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). As [...] | 2007-04-13 20:37:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL DR |
07SANTODOMINGO926 | PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ SENDS CONDOLENCES FOR VIRGINIA [...] President Leonel Fernandez expressed his condolences for the Virginia Tech tragedy to President Bush in an April 17 letter (received by the Embassy on April 19). An unofficial translation of the letter follows. 2. Begin translation. April 17, 2007 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Si [...] | 2007-04-20 18:08:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL DR |
07SAOPAULO1001 | MICROSOFT SEES GOB ATTACKS AGAINST IPR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting in Sao Paulo with Ambassador Sobel, Microsoft Brazil President Michel Levy stated that current GOB policies are antagonistic towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). According to Levy, the GOB through the Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) has mounted an i [...] | 2007-12-21 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL |
07SAOPAULO166 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH SAO PAULO GOVERNOR SERRA, [...] (SBU) Summary: During his February 6-7, 2007 visit to Sao Paulo, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns and his delegation were hosted for lunch by Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra and key members of Serra's cabinet. U/S Burns and the Governor discussed cooperation on biofuels, [...] | 2007-03-01 16:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR EPET SNAR ASEC EINV BR |
07SAOPAULO167 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' SPEECH IN SAO PAULO, FEBRUARY 6, [...] (U) Summary: In a speech at the new American Studies Center at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) in Sao Paulo February 6, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns highlighted common challenges and opportunities that Brazil and the U.S. face and called for strengthen [...] | 2007-03-01 16:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC OEXP KPAO PREL PGOV SCUL BR |
07SAOPAULO212 | VISIT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO SAO PAULO, BRAZIL [...] (SBU) On March 8-9, President George W. Bush came to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first stop in his five-country visit to the Latin American nations of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. This visit served to underscore the U.S. commitment to the Western Hemisphere and highlighted [...] | 2007-03-19 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BUSH GEORGE PREL PGOV SOCI EPET KTIA BR |
07SAOPAULO250 | SAO PAULO GETS NEW ARCHBISHOP [...] Summary: On March 21, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, Secretary-General of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB),to be the next Archbishop of Sao Paulo. Dom Odilo replaces Dom Claudio Hummes, who in October of last year was named Cardinal Prefect of the Cong [...] | 2007-03-27 16:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PREL PGOV PINR ECON BR |
07SAOPAULO36 | AMBASSADOR AND SAO PAULO GOVERNOR DISCUSS CRIME, PUBLIC [...] (SBU) During an hour-long meeting with the Ambassador, Jose Serra, Governor of Sao Paulo state, said that his most immediate priority upon taking office was public security, especially in the metropolitan public transportation system, which is the state government's responsibility. Though sta [...] | 2007-01-17 10:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR EINV ASEC PREL BR |
07SAOPAULO444 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSONQS VISIT TO SAO PAULO, MAY 15, 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 17:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO447 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSONQS VISIT TO SAO [...] (SBU) During her May 15 visit to Sao Paulo, INL A/S Anne Patterson participated in a roundtable with police, prosecutors, and other experts, who discussed the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal organization (see refs C-D) and the different experiences of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with ga [...] | 2007-05-25 09:47:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC BR |
07SAOPAULO464 | POPE BENEDICT'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Sao Paulo, the first trip to Latin America of his papacy, was received with popular enthusiasm and saturation media coverage. In his several sermons and other public utterances, the Pope called on the faithful to adhere to Church rules on personal morali [...] | 2007-05-29 17:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PREL PGOV PINR SOCI BR |
07SAOPAULO58 | HELPING SAO PAULO AUTHORITIES RESPOND TO SECURITY THREATS [...] (SBU) Consul General met January 17 with Sao Paulo State Secretary of Metropolitan Transportation Jose Luiz Portella and his SIPDIS team to follow up on Governor Serra's request (ref A) for security assistance in the subway and train systems. Portella described the challenges these systems [...] | 2007-01-24 09:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL BR |
07SAOPAULO601 | CONVERSATION WITH AN OLD FRIEND OF LULA [...] (C) At a June 26 lunch with poloff and econoff, businessman and lobbyist Mohamad Ali Laila (protect) shared his views on President Lula, the PT, Brazil,s relations with Venezuela, and the Lebanese and Muslim communities in Sao Paulo. Laila, who is President Lula,s neighbor in Sao Bernardo [...] | 2007-07-12 14:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SCUL BR LE |
07SAOPAULO718 | DESPITE CHALLENGES, PRC,S INTEREST AND INFLUENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 18:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV EMIN KNNP BR CH |
07SAOPAULO726 | BRAZIL: MOVING FORWARD ON BILATERAL HEALTH ISSUES [...] (SBU) The government of Brazil is interested in increasing bilateral health cooperation with the United States and particularly in setting up joint programs in Africa, especially in the area of training medical technicians. According to Brazilian contacts, working together on health issues is [...] | 2007-08-27 20:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TBIO EAID TSPL BR PGOV SOCI |
07SAOPAULO915 | DESPITE PROBLEMS, BRAZILIAN AIRLINES OPTIMISTIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with the Presidents of the two leading Brazilian airlines TAM and Gol on October 22 to discuss developments in the aviation sector. Both firms noted that Brazil's underdeveloped infrastructure is buckling under increased air traffic in recent years. The T [...] | 2007-11-14 09:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL MARR PGOV ECON EINV BEXP BR |
07SAOPAULO966 | CODEL REID'S VISIT TO FOZ DO IGUACU, BRAZIL [...] (U) During a November 27-28 visit to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, Codel Reid met with the Ambassador and Embassy Brasilia and ConGen Sao Paulo officers, visited Federal Police headquarters and an operating center of the Maritime Federal Police, and toured Itaipu Dam. The delegation dined with three [...] | 2007-12-12 09:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PTER KCRM OPRC BR |
07SAOPAULO991 | JUDGES WARN THAT BRAZIL MUST DO MORE TO BATTLE [...] (C) Sao Paulo Supreme Court justices are concerned about the possibility of growing ties between organized crime and terrorism in Brazil. During a December 5-7 visit to Sao Paulo by Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the Northern D [...] | 2007-12-19 18:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV OEXC OIIP KCRM BR |
07SARAJEVO100 | BOSNIA - OBSTACLES AND OPENINGS FOR TRANSNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 11, the Charge and State Court President Meddzida Kreso discussed the possibility of Bosnia making judicial cooperation agreements with neighboring countries. The discussion was a continuation of the dialogue USG officials are encouraging among the Balkan countries ab [...] | 2007-01-16 17:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO1042 | BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC SIGNALS WILLINGNESS TO MAKE [...] (C) President Haris Silajdzic says that he views his trip to Washington the week of May 21 as a good opportunity to reach basic agreements on police and constitutional reform. Silajdzic said that the concurrent visit of Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to Washington would allo [...] | 2007-05-14 15:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO1058 | BOSNIA: DODIK CHALLENGES STATE COMPETENCIES [...] (C) On May 4, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik publicly announced his intention to reverse past transfers of RS competencies to the Bosnian state. Dodik's announcement was followed closely by a lawsuit, filed by SNSD parliamentarian Milorad Zivkovic, challenging the constitutionality of [...] | 2007-05-15 10:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO1059 | BOSNIA - DODIK INDICATES WILLINGNESS TO TALK WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 14, we met with Republika Srpska PM and President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) Milorad Dodik to discuss making progress on constitutional and police reform before he and Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic visit Washington next wee [...] | 2007-05-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1068 | BOSNIA - THE STATE PROSECUTOR AND STATE COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 26 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica from July 11, 1995 has placed the issue of war crimes prsecutions near the top of the Bosnian political genda. The current political environment has highlghted criti [...] | 2007-05-16 14:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KAWC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1071 | BOSNIA: SADOVIC POLITICIZES MINISTRY OF SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Since his January appointment, Tarik Sadovic has adopted a highly political approach to his role as Minister of Security and worked almost exclusively to advance Bosniak ethnic interests. Sadovic has excluded non-Bosniak Ministry officials, including the Deputy Minister, from pol [...] | 2007-05-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM PTER BK |
07SARAJEVO109 | BOSNIA: EUFOR MOVING AHEAD WITH DRAWDOWN PLANS [...] (C) The European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR Operation Althea) continues planning to approximately halve its forces in Bosnia this spring. A decision to drawdown was taken "in principle" in December, and is expected to be confirmed in Brussels by the PSC on February 27 or 28, [...] | 2007-01-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1127 | BOSNIA: MILETIC IN JEOPARDY AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: Attempts to oust Federation Police Chief Zlatko Miletic continue. On May 29 the Federation Parliament plans to vote on the legality of the last-minute mandate extension of the current Independent Supervisory Review Board (ISRB) and its decision to re-appoint Federation Police Dir [...] | 2007-05-24 11:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KJUS PINR KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO1157 | NEW SERBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES EARLY OFFICIAL [...] (C) Summary: During his first official visit to Bosnia May 28, new Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic stressed his government's commitment to improving relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and ICTY cooperation. Alkalaj provided post a generally positive readout of his meeting with Jeremic. [...] | 2007-05-29 12:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS SR BK |
07SARAJEVO1163 | BOSNIA - 2007 PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR PRM [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (U) In response to PRM's announced renewal of the Ambassador's Fund for Refugees for the seventh year (ref),we have identified a critical gap in returnee assistance and protection for FY 07. Last year PRM provided funding for the e [...] | 2007-05-29 13:49:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | BK PHUM PREF PREL |
07SARAJEVO117 | BOSNIA: MEASURED REACTIONS TO KOSTUNICA AND [...] (C) Recent comments attributed to Serbian officials, including Premier Vojislav Kostunica and Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, linking Kosovo with the status of the Republika Srpska add fuel to the constant drumbeat of statements from Srpska PM Dodik about a referedum for Srpska independence. T [...] | 2007-01-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | BK PREL UNMIK YI SR |
07SARAJEVO1177 | BOSNIA - INSIDE THE MIND OF KOMSIC'S CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 6, Zeljko Komsic, the Croat member of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency, will take over the rotating chairmanship of the Presidency from the Serb member, Nebojsa Radmanovic. Radmanovic has, in our estimation, turned in a solid performance. Komsic's chairmanship comes at a particul [...] | 2007-05-30 11:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1191 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP SET TO BEGIN CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 30, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling met with the Ambassador as well as the German and EC Delegation Ambassadors to discuss plans for consulting with Bosnian political leaders about the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC). Schilling ex [...] | 2007-05-31 16:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO12 | BOSNIA - NUDGING PARTIES TOWARD RESPONSIBILITY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months after Bosnia's October 1 election, negotiations to form a coalition government remain stalled. In an effort to facilitate conversation among the key political players, the Ambassador hosted a series of meetings over the last ten days. The aim was to provide forum wh [...] | 2007-01-04 16:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO1209 | BOSNIA: DEFENSE PROPERTY RESOLUTION LAGS, SETS [...] (C) Summary. Over a year behind schedule, the Bosnian Ministry of Defense (MOD) submitted a plan to the Council of Ministers for the resolution of defense property issues between the entities and the state. The plan, required by the 2005 Law on Defense, loosely dictates a transfer arrangement [...] | 2007-06-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO121 | MILETIC MANDATE RENEWED [...] (C) On January 18 an independent personnel board reconfirmed its decision to appoint Zlatko Miletic as Federation Police Chief. The Federation parliamentary committee charged with administrative oversight upheld the legality of the decision thus overruling the opposition of Miletic opponents i [...] | 2007-01-18 16:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | BK KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL PTER |
07SARAJEVO1211 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC SUGGESTS RAISING SREBRENICA AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Srebrenica Initiative Board announced plans to hold a public demonstration in front of parliament on June 11 in support if its demand for secession from Republika Srpska. Spokesmen for all three major Bosniak parties endorsed the demonstration. Earlier in the week, the Party [...] | 2007-06-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KAWC KJUS UN BK |
07SARAJEVO1212 | BOSNIA: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS ON WAR CRIMINALS [...] (S/NF) Summary: In the past seven days two distinct but significant events connected to bringing war criminals to justice occurred in the Republika Srpska (RS). The first, a major success, happened on May 31, when police from the Republika Srpska (RS) apprehended ICTY-indicted Zdravko Tolimir [...] | 2007-06-01 17:06:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL ICTY BK |
07SARAJEVO13 | PARTIES REACH COALITION AGREEMENT [...] (C) On January 3 seven Bosnian political parties reached a coalition agreement breaking the deadlock on government formation and the seating of Parliament that has existed since the October 1, 2006 national elections. Coalition parties endorsed an agreement confirming Nikola Spiric (SNSD) as [...] | 2007-01-04 17:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1317 | YOUR JUNE 13-14 VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (C) Your visit comes at a particularly troubled time in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a reemergence of nationalism and inflammatory rhetoric has elevated the political temperature to levels some say has not been seen since before the war. With Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and Stojan Zupljanin re [...] | 2007-06-12 05:50:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC KJUS PREL ICTY BK |
07SARAJEVO1352 | BOSNIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 18-19 PIC [...] (C) The June 18-19 PIC will take place against a political climate that has not been as difficult in many years, possibly since the outbreak of the war. The February 26 verdict of the International Court of Justice, ruling that genocide occurred in Bosnia during the war, has refocused Bosniak [...] | 2007-06-15 16:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO136 | GUIDANCE REQUEST - BOSNIA'S MULTINATIONAL FORCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Following our initial presentation of the President's Iraq strategy last week (Ref A),the Ambassador met with the all three members of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency to discuss the deployment in Iraq of Bosnia's Expl [...] | 2007-01-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1375 | SILAJDZIC AND THE "LEGAL OPTION" [...] (C) For several months, Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic has alluded to legal avenues by which to "annul the legacy of genocide in Bosnia" and compel the international community to "implement" the February 26 verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Silajdzic's legal visi [...] | 2007-06-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PHUM PREL |
07SARAJEVO1401 | BOSNIA: DEFENSE MINISTER POSITIVE ON WIDER [...] (S) Summary. Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic told the Ambassador that he remains committed to exploring options for expanded Bosnian coalition deployments in the coming year. Cikotic said that he would focus the ministry and military on developing further niche capable units, with an eye tow [...] | 2007-06-22 14:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO1403 | AMB. WILLIAMSON DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE ON PIFWCS, [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Sarajevo, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues J. Clint Williamson met with top Bosnian politicians, justice officials and members of international organizations to discuss improving Bosnia's justice system in advance of the ICTY's planned 2009 clos [...] | 2007-06-25 05:39:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC ICTY KJUS PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO1429 | OHR IMPOSED LEGISLATION ROILS RSNA [...] (C) On June 25, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling invoked the Bonn Powers to impose legislation placing the Potocari Memorial Foundation and its property under state government control. The legislation had been introduced on June 13 in parliament and had been rejected by the Ser [...] | 2007-06-27 17:02:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PHUM PREL |
07SARAJEVO1437 | BOSNIA: COVIC ON CROAT POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) President Dragan Covic recently discussed Croat party politics and the chances for a renewed round of talks on constitutional reform. Covic highlighted that recent rumors of a merger between HDZ and the breakaway HDZ-1990 were unfounded because of [...] | 2007-06-28 13:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1461 | BOSNIA: PIC CONFRONTS DETERIORATING POLITICAL [...] (C) During the June 18-19 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) in Sarajevo, Bosnian political leaders demonstrated little willingness toabandon the nationalist rhetoric and confrontatinal positions that have stalled the reform proces and resulted in government paralysis. PM Spiri [...] | 2007-07-02 14:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL EUN |
07SARAJEVO1471 | BOSNIA: EAGLE BASE TRANSFER CEREMONY MARKS NEW ERA [...] (SBU) Summary. The return of Eagle Base in Tuzla to the authority of Bosnia-Herzegovina was marked in a poignant ceremony at the facility on June 30. The ceremony focused on the essential contributions to peace and security of the approximately 100,000 U.S. servicemen and women who served in [...] | 2007-07-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1503 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP USES BONN POWERS TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Only the second week into his tenure as High Representative, Miroslav Lajcak will use the Bonn Powers on July 10 to amend state-level legislation in order to strengthen Bosnia,s ability to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Lajca [...] | 2007-07-09 18:10:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KCRM KJUS PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1519 | BOSNIA CANTON 7 GOVERNMENT REMAINS IN LIMBO [...] SUMMARY: (C) During a July 6 meeting Canton 7/Herzegovina Neretva Canton (HNK) Prime Minister designate Marin Raspudic, of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ-BH),claimed that near-term prospects for forming a government in the canton are bleak. The cantonal governmen [...] | 2007-07-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1529 | VISA INELIGIBILITY ON FOREIGN POLICY GROUNDS - [...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On July 10, the High Representative Miroslav Lajcak dismissed Mr. Dragomir Andan from office for activities deemed to obstruct implementation of the Dayton Agreement. Andan is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the former Director of th [...] | 2007-07-13 05:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | CIVS KAWC ICTY PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1545 | BOSNIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 19-20 VISIT OF [...] (C) Your visit comes at a time of high political polarization in Bosnia. Increased tensions have resulted in the near total paralysis of government and the reform process. Nationalism has even begun to impact the defense reform agenda, where we have seen some recent slippage in the so far suc [...] | 2007-07-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1547 | BOSNIA - SREBRENICA: AN ISSUE DEFLATED, BUT NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and representatives from the international community July 11 participated in events to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 1995 genocide that took place in Srebrenica. The commemoration followed a politically tense four months in Bosnia after the International Cour [...] | 2007-07-16 13:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO1563 | BOSNIA - A GLIMMER OF HOPE ON DEFENSE PROPERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 12, the State and two Entity Prime Ministers reached an "Agreement on Basic Principles" on defense property, which holds out the prospect of finally resolving a vexing issue that has hampered Bosnia's defense reform efforts over the last several months. The principles pro [...] | 2007-07-17 15:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PARM MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1564 | BOSNIAN CROATS TO CHALLENGE PBS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Bosnian Croat political parties have reacted negatively to the Federation government,s July 13 endorsement of a Public Broadcasting Systems (PBS) law, a key precondition for Bosnia to sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU. Bosnian Croat ministers in t [...] | 2007-07-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1577 | BOSNIA - IT IS TIME TO PUT BRCKO BACK ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the Peace Implementation Council's December 2007 decision not to close OHR, our central concern regarding Brcko has been the District's disput%&QJkQQ! of Brcko's relationship with the State (Ref A). With the ITA dispute behind us, it is time to refocus our energies on put [...] | 2007-07-23 08:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO158 | BOSNIA: SERBIAN PM KOSTUNICA IN BANJA LUKA; [...] (SBU) Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica visited Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 19 to attend the signing of a 646 million EUR contract to sell Republika Srpska,s (RS) telecommunications operator to Telekom Srbija. In addition to the Telekom deal, Serbian and RS officials also sign [...] | 2007-01-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PREL YI SR |
07SARAJEVO1584 | EXPANDING BOSNIA,S IRAQ MISSION [...] Summary: (C) On 18 July, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq Lawrence Butler and OSD Director of Coalition Operations Peter McVety had constructive meetings with Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic, Chief of Defense LTG Sifet Podzic, and Council of Ministers Chairman Nikola Spiric to d [...] | 2007-07-23 16:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO161 | BOSNIA - CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over recent months RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has adopted an increasingly confrontational stance with the international community. Although he has steered clear of redlines, Dodik has repeatedly linked Kosovo independence with the status of the Republika Srpska (RS). In this [...] | 2007-01-23 14:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL YI SR BK |
07SARAJEVO162 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC RAISES ALGERIAN 6 GUANTANAMO [...] (S) SUMMARY: At a January 18 meeting, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency raised the Algerian 6 with the Ambassador. Silajdzic said that his impression was that the U.S. planned to release the six men and posed several questions about how their citizenship might impact that decision. We foll [...] | 2007-01-23 15:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1624 | VISA INELIGIBILITY ON FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On July 16 the Office of the High Representative supplied Embassy with a list of 90 individuals who are currently under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for suspected involvement in war crimes in conne [...] | 2007-07-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | CIVS KAWC ICTY PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1625 | BOSNIA: DONOR CONSENSUS GROWS FOR BUILDING A STATE [...] (C) Summary: Radovan Stankovic's escape from Foca Prison in the Republika Srpska dramatically demonstrated the legal and physical shortcomings of housing convicted war criminals and other dangerous convicts in entity prisons. Stankovic's case has galvanized the international community to reex [...] | 2007-07-27 09:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KCRM KJUS PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO163 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP CONTEMPLATES ACTION AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a January 22 meeting with the Ambassador, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said he could no longer allow Dodik's irresponsible rhetoric to go unpunished. With this in mind, he planned to summon Dodik to Sarajevo and implement one "targeted measure" against Repub [...] | 2007-01-23 15:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1663 | BOSNIA - THE NEW HIGHREP: A NEW STYLE, NEW HOPE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In his first few weeks on the job, new High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has moved quickly to take charge of OHR and improve its operations. He has also sent a clear signal to Bosnian political leaders and the Bosnian public that he will be a different kind of HighRep than hi [...] | 2007-08-01 14:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1671 | BOSNIA - CROATS REVIVE THIRD ENTITY CONCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Croat political leaders have become increasingly open in their search for a politically palatable way to repackage old demands for a third Croat entity. The nationalist rhetoric of Haris Silajdzic and Milorad Dodik, which has included statements about abolishing entities and "fe [...] | 2007-08-03 07:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1672 | BOSNIA - CROATS REVIVE THIRD ENTITY CONCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Croat political leaders have become increasingly open in their search for a politically palatable way to repackage old demands for a third Croat entity. The nationalist rhetoric of Haris Silajdzic and Milorad Dodik, which has included statements about abolishing entities and "fe [...] | 2007-08-03 07:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1673 | BOSNIA - SNSD CALLS FOR RIGHT TO REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY:In an interview with Republika Srpska (RS) wire service SRNA, RS PM Milorad Dodik on August 1 stated that the RS would condition its future participation in constitutional reform talks to the inclusion of a specific provision in the constitution granting the RS the right to hold [...] | 2007-08-03 07:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1678 | BOSNIA-CROATS MAKE RUCKUS IN THE CALM OF SUMMER [...] Summary: (C) Croat issues have taken center stage in an otherwise calm political environment, as most other politicians appear to be gearing up for a lazy August. Croats finally managed to resolve the nagging issue of forming a government in the Herzegovina Neretva Canton (HNK),but the ideol [...] | 2007-08-03 11:57:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO1700 | BOSNIA: ADMIRAL ULRICH URGES OFFICIALS TO MEET PFP [...] (C) During a July 19-20 visit to Sarajevo, Admiral Harry Ulrich, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and NATO Forces South, met separately with Presidency members Zeljko Komsic and Haris Silajdzic, Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic, Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Sifet Podzic and Hi [...] | 2007-08-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK MARR PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO1738 | BOSNIA: GEORGIAN ARMS DEAL REVIVED? [...] (S) In recent weeks, several high-ranking government officials have raised the possibility of reviving a Bosnia-Georgia arms deal that was scuttled in 2006 over strenuous Russian objections. President Komsic and his senior advisors seem to be the main proponents of reviving the sale, which i [...] | 2007-08-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PARM MASS MARR BK GG RS SR |
07SARAJEVO1766 | BOSNIA-THE TREBINJE WILDFIRES, A STUDY IN BAD [...] (SBU) Ambassador discussed the recent series of fires with local officials in Trebinje where a large number of blazes and outdated equipment had hindered firefighting. The problem was compounded by the failure of State-level institutions, including the Presidency, to provide guidance and addr [...] | 2007-08-13 14:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV HR BK |
07SARAJEVO1806 | CARDINAL MCCARRICK VISITS BOSNIA [...] (C) Washington Archbishop Emeritus Cardinal Theodore McCarrick visited Bosnia August 14 to 16. While in Sarajevo Cardinal McCarrick met with Croat member and Chairman of the Tri-Presidency Zeljko Komsic, Islamic Community leader Reisu-l-Ulema Mustafa effendi Ceric and Jewish Community Preside [...] | 2007-08-21 05:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PHUM PREL |
07SARAJEVO1815 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAN CROATS PARTIES AND THE CROATIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: When Zagreb holds national elections in November, Bosnian Croat voters will also go to the polls to select representatives for the "Croat Diaspora" electoral unit in the Croatian Sabor. In the past, HDZ-BiH, Bosnia's largest Croat political party, has backed the candidate list pu [...] | 2007-08-23 08:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1822 | BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR PRESSES USG LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador August 22 raised the issues of civil protection, our upcoming law enforcement agenda, defense reform, and the increase in nationalist rhetoric during an August 22 meeting with Council of Ministers (CoM) Chair Nikola Spiric. Using recent fires as an example, Ambassador [...] | 2007-08-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SENV HR BK |
07SARAJEVO1849 | BOSNIA: PROMOTING DISCUSSIONS OF THE COMPLEMENTARY [...] (C) Per reftel, post recommends the following individuals as possible Bosnian interlocutors on the complementary nature of Islam and Democracy: Government Officials and Political Leaders: - Sulejman Tihic, former Bosniak member of the Presidency and current president of the Party for Democ [...] | 2007-08-30 05:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BK |
07SARAJEVO186 | BOSNIA - DODIK RECEIVES CLEAR U.S. WARNING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 and delivered a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status. He told Dodik that if such rhetoric did not cease, the USG would be forced to [...] | 2007-01-25 19:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1862 | BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR DELIVERS STERN MESSAGE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Bosnian Serb member of the Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic August 29 to deliver a strong message that the USG was growing increasingly concerned by recent comments from Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, radmanovic himself, and other senior Allian [...] | 2007-08-30 14:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO1872 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAKS TORPEDO PROSPECTS FOR POLICE [...] (C) Since assuming office in July, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has stated publicly that his first major task would be concluding an agreement on Police Reform in September, allowing Bosnia to initial an SAA with the EU. Lajcak circulated a draft of the proposal in private talks this we [...] | 2007-08-31 15:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO1914 | BOSNIA: DODIK AND SILAJDZIC [...] (C) During separate meetings with Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic, Ambassador urged both leaders to consider the consequences of a police reform collapse on Bosnia's Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) prospects. Ambassador warned Dodik that his rhetoric over recent weeks has cros [...] | 2007-09-06 15:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO1915 | BOSNIA: DODIK AND SILAJDZIC REBUFF HIGH [...] (C) High Representative Lajcak delivered his first major policy address to a joint session of Parliament and the state and entity governments. Lajcak warned that there will be "certain consequences" for continued provocation and the stalemate could soon prompt the international community to c [...] | 2007-09-06 16:24:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO1929 | BOSNIA: DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES COALITION [...] (C) Ambassador paid a farewell call on Bosnian Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic September 5, highlighting the importance of Bosnia's continued support for coalition operations, and the necessity to finish the defense reform agenda in order to make the country a credible candidate for NATO mem [...] | 2007-09-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1980 | CONTINUED NECESSITY TO MAINTAIN US MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. Replacing the US military commander of NATO HQ Sarajevo with a European is premature and would adversely affect US interests in Bosnia. Turning over NATO HQ to the Europeans would make the organization virtually indistinguishable from EUFOR, and undermine its standing and influe [...] | 2007-09-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO1986 | BOSNIAN SECURITY AGENCY HEADS PLEDGE COOPERATION [...] (C) DCM, September 10, hosted heads of security and law enforcement agencies to lunch to discuss maximizing interagency cooperation. Agency heads stressed their commitment to interagency cooperation but complained that political leaders make effective police and intelligence work difficult. [...] | 2007-09-19 06:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK KCRM PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
07SARAJEVO1987 | BOSNIA - LAJCAK DELIVERS POLICE REFORM STRATEGY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak presented to Quint Ambassadors on September 18 his strategy for securing a deal on police reform. OHR will continue with technical talks on police reform while maintaining political pressure on party leaders to compromise. After a two-hour mee [...] | 2007-09-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN UN RS BK |
07SARAJEVO1990 | BOSNIA - YOUTUBE, FORMER BOSNIAN COMMANDER DELIC, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 14, a video clip of Rasim Delic, the highest ranking Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY),addressing mujahedeen surfaced. Delic is accused of not preventing war crimes committed by mujahedeen during the 1992-1995 war. [...] | 2007-09-19 10:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KAWC KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO1999 | BOSNIA - DEFENSE REFORM PROGRESSES BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the past six months, Bosnia has made important progress in defense reform. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic and his senior deputies have demonstrated that they are committed to reforms and moved quickly to fill the leadership vacuum that existed at the Ministry of Defense (Mo [...] | 2007-09-20 08:51:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2018 | BOSNIA: EMBASSY TO PROVIDE A MILLION EUROS FOR [...] (U) After carefully reviewing our priorities and SEED funding plans, we have decided to allocate the USD equivalent of one (approximately 1.394) million euros in 2007 bilateral SEED funding to support the Bosnian government,s planned construction of a state prison. The entire project is expec [...] | 2007-09-21 07:42:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO2031 | BOSNIA - ADMONISHING TIHIC TO SPLIT WITH SILAJDZIC [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered a strong message to SDA President Sulejman Tihic to compromise on police reform so that Bosnia-Herzegovina could initial a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU. Tihic related his negative views of the current OHR police reform protocol (reftel) an [...] | 2007-09-21 15:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO2047 | SCENESETTER FOR DASD CAGAN VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (S) Summary. Bosnia has provided valuable assistance to coalition operations in Iraq over the past two years with the deployment of its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit. After the visit of DAS Butler (Reftel A),we secured approval from civilian and military officials at the Ministry of [...] | 2007-09-26 07:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2057 | BOSNIA - CROATS SIGN CONSTITUTIONAL DECLARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 21, the leaders of six Croat political parties finally signed the Croat &Declaration on Principles of Constitutional Reform.8 The final text is notably more nationalistic than previous drafts we had seen. Most notably, the final document includes language on &territo [...] | 2007-09-26 18:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2073 | BOSNIA - INITIAL MEETING OF WAR CRIMES RECOVERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Strategy for War Crimes Recovery Working Group met for the first time on September 19. The Working Group was established by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the wake of the February International Court Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide took place in and around Sreb [...] | 2007-09-28 16:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS MCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2080 | BOSNIA - DODIK-SILAJDZIC PROTOCOL ON POLICE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late on Friday, September 28, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik and Bosniak Member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic signed a 3-page "Protocol on Police Reform." The consensus among Bosnian political leaders, OHR and other international community representatives is that [...] | 2007-10-01 16:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2082 | YOUTUBE THREATS TO BOSNIAK LEADERS [...] (U) On September 29, a user identified as Hattab 72 posted a nine-minute video clip on YouTube threatening President Haris Silajdzic, Islamic Community President Reis Ceric, and SDA President Sulejman Tihic with &political, moral, and religious assassination8 if they continue to support the [...] | 2007-10-01 18:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KAWC KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2086 | BOSNIA- KOMSIC APOLOGIZES FOR WARTIME ATROCITIES [...] (SBU) On October 1, Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic acknowledged that individuals in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH),the Bosniak dominated force during the war, committed atrocities that must be punished. Speaking at a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of founding of the 1st [...] | 2007-10-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO210 | BOSNIA CONSIDERS UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) On January 29, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Anton Rill, Deputy Foreign Minister, inquiring whether Bosnia would consider running for an Eastern Europe Group seat in the UN Human Rights Commission. Deputy Minister Rill replied that a Bosnian UNHRC candidacy would be an "excellent i [...] | 2007-01-29 17:34:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHRC BK |
07SARAJEVO211 | BOSNIA - DODIK HEARS CLEAR U.S. MESSAGE TO DESIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 to deliver a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status, as well as with press statements like the recent article in Croatia,s &Globus8 which strike at [...] | 2007-01-30 06:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PINR PREL |
07SARAJEVO2142 | BOSNIAN DEFENSE LEADERSHIP TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL [...] (S) DASD Debra Cagan visited Sarajevo September 28 to encourage the senior Bosnian defense leadership to augment their military deployments in support of coalition operations Iraq. DASD Cagan urged Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic and Chief of the Joint Staff LTG Sifet Podzic to deploy an in [...] | 2007-10-04 16:23:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO2143 | BOSNIA - HIREP REJECTS SILAJDZIC-DODIK PROTOCOL [...] (C) High Representative Miroslav Lajcak issued a statement October 4 formally rejecting the Police Reform Protocol signed by Party for BiH (SBiH) President Haris Silajdzic and Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) President Milorad Dodik (Ref A). The HighRep made the announcement af [...] | 2007-10-05 06:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2160 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] (U) Ambassador Charles English presented his credentials yesterday to the BiH government. After first meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chief of Protocol, the Ambassador presented his credentials to Zejlko Komsic, Chairman and Croat member of the Tri Presidency, during a formal [...] | 2007-10-05 17:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO2174 | BOSNIA--HIREP ON MOSCOW TRIP, POLICE REFORM, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 8 dinner for Quint Ambassadors and previewed in an earlier courtesy call with the Ambassador that day, OHR High Representative Miroslav Lajcak shared a read-out from his visit to Moscow, his plans for police reform, and ideas to promote Dayton-implementation . L [...] | 2007-10-09 15:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2179 | BOSNIA: AMBASSADOR FOCUSES ON POLITICAL SITUATION, [...] (C) Ambassador made his initial call on the Bosnian Tri-Presidency October 9, stressing US support for Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration, the need for constructive leadership from the Presidency, and the importance of consensus in moving the reform agenda forward. All three Presidents affirme [...] | 2007-10-10 12:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2180 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PM SPIRIC [...] (C) Ambassador English paid an introductory call on Prime Minister Nikola Spiric on October 9. Ambassador emphasized abiding U.S. interests in developments in Bosnia and a commitment to work with forward-looking Bosnian leaders who are focused on the future to realize the goal of Euro-Atlanti [...] | 2007-10-10 12:57:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2195 | BOSNIA - POLICE REFORM TALKS FINALLY COLLAPSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak conducted a series of bilateral meetings with political party leaders warning them that they had one "last chance" to reach a deal on police reform; Croat party leaders distributed an alternative protocol that met the three EU principles and was designed [...] | 2007-10-11 18:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2201 | BOSNIA - WAR CRIMES AND JURISPRUDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict earlier this year and the deteriorating political situation have stirred renewed interest in the country,s fragmented judicial system and its ability to manage war crimes cases. The State Court,s potential war crimes workload has e [...] | 2007-10-16 08:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ICTY KAWC PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2229 | BOSNIA - WOMAN OF COURAGE NOMINATION FOR FATA [...] (U) Post nominates Fata Orlovic as an International Woman of Courage for 2008. For more than 8 years, Ms. Orlovic, a Muslim, has been involved in a political and legal battle with the Government of the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Serb Orthodox Church for the return of property illegally tak [...] | 2007-10-19 07:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO BK |
07SARAJEVO2236 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP IMPOSES FIRST MEASURES; DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19, High Representative Lajcak publicly announced three measures designed to improve decision-making in and the functionality of state-level government. After Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik was briefed by OHR in advance of the actions, he called the Ambassador [...] | 2007-10-19 17:23:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2237 | BOSNIA - SERBS CONTINUE PLANS TO CONFRONT HIGHREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite intensive public and private diplomacy over the October 19-21 period, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik and other leaders of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) still appear determined to force a confrontation over the HighRep,s October 19 use of the B [...] | 2007-10-22 11:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO224 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [...] In response to reftel action request, the following is Embassy Sarajevo's list of five extremely influential women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These women represent a variety of professional and ethnic backgrounds and were chosen for their national influence. Name: Lidija Korac Title: Co-C [...] | 2007-01-31 09:39:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO2252 | BOSNIA - DODIK DECIDES ON CONFRONTATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: It appears that Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik has again reversed course and decided to confront head on the authority of the High Representative. Despite a three hour meeting with the HighRep on October 22, at which Do [...] | 2007-10-23 19:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2253 | BOSNIA-BOSNIAK PARTIES VIE FOR CONTROL OF PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. Since taking office in April in the Federation, the leadership of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Party for BiH (SBiH),the two largest Bosniak affiliated parties, have jockeyed for control of two large Federation-run enterprises, BiH Telecom and Elektropriveda BiH. Both [...] | 2007-10-24 09:23:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON BK |
07SARAJEVO2261 | BOSNIA- AMBASSADOR REACHES OUT TO RADMANOVIC ON [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador spoke with Bosnian Serb member of the Tri-Presidency Nebosja Radmanovic October 24 to make clear that recent rhetoric and actions by RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik were leading the RS into a direct and serious confrontation with the international community and the U [...] | 2007-10-24 13:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2266 | BOSNIA - DODIK SEEKS AMBASSADOR'S HELP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik called the Ambassador on October 24 to ask for help finding a positive resolution to the confrontation between the RS and the international community over the measures announced by the HighRep on October 19. Dodik outlined his concerns about [...] | 2007-10-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2277 | BOSNIA- RS LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS HIGH REP'S LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. On October 25, Bosnian Serb Member of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic told the Ambassador that the RS leadership still had reservations about the constitutionality of the recent High Representative measures to facilitate decision-making in state-level institutions. Radmano [...] | 2007-10-25 16:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2278 | BOSINA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 25, 2007 [...] (C) In a telephone call with the Ambassador, SDA President Sulejman Tihic expressed concern over situation in the RS and asserted Dodik,s behavior was part of coordinated plot with Belgrade to destabilize Bosnia and link Kosovo to the RS. Tihic explained he had met today with SDA RSNA delega [...] | 2007-10-25 17:06:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2279 | BOSNIA: RS PUBLIC OPINION SOLIDLY BEHIND DODIK [...] (C) RS media outlets overwhelmingly support PM Milorad Dodik and echo his opposition to the announced OHR Bonn Powers impositions. Predictably, under these circumstances, RS public opinion increasingly echoes now familiar SNSD assertions that the High Representative has put Serbs at risk and [...] | 2007-10-25 19:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2293 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE OCTOBER 30-31 PIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska Premier Milorad Dodik's ongoing challenge to the authority of the High Representative represents a serious challenge to U.S. interests and is the most fundamental challenge to the integrity of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the signing of Dayton. Kosov [...] | 2007-10-26 16:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2294 | BOSNIA - GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES NATIONAL JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Early in his tenure, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak indicated that he would focus greater OHR attention on the justice sector. His preoccuption with police reform and now the current poltiical crisis with Republika Srpska (RS) meant that he has not devoted as much time to the issue [...] | 2007-10-26 17:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO2295 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAN-SERB GENERALS MEET WITH DODIK [...] (S) Summary. Chief of the Joint Staff Lieutenant General Sifet Podzic informed us that Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik met with Deputy Defense Minister Igor Crnadak and all the Bosnian-Serb general officers October 26 in Banja Luka. Podzic said such a meeting was highly unusu [...] | 2007-10-26 18:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2296 | BOSNIA- DEFENSE MINISTER ON SECURITY SITUATION [...] Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic requested to meet with the Ambassador on October 27 to discuss developments in the security situation in Bosnia. Though clear threats to the stability of the country were present, Cikotic told the Ambassador that he believed that he had control over the secu [...] | 2007-10-27 17:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO230 | BOSNIA - PROSECUTOR TO OPEN INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On January 31, we formally requested that the State Prosecutor and State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) open a full investigation of USG-funded humanitarian demining programs (Ref A). Both organizations pledged to conduct a thorough investigation separate from the [...] | 2007-01-31 17:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MASS PREL MOPS PGOV KCRM BK SI |
07SARAJEVO2309 | BOSNIA - EUR/SCE DIRECTOR CHRIS HOH'S OCTOBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. During his October 16-20 visit to the Brcko District, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo, visiting EUR/SCE Director Christopher Hoh expressed concern about the current political stalemate, but pledged continued US support to help Bosnia move forward. While the economy has visibly improved [...] | 2007-10-29 14:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2313 | BOSNIA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 29, 2007 [...] (U) The RS government met before today's session of the RS National Assembly Speaker (RSNA) and concluded that the High Representative's measures are anti-Dayton and endorsed PM Milorad Dodik's view that they must be overturned. The RS government decision was passed to the RSNA as the basis fo [...] | 2007-10-29 18:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2315 | BOSNIA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 30, 2007 [...] (C) Yesterday's special session of the RS National Assembly resumed this morning in order to approve the text of a resolution negotiated over the evening. The resolution which consisted of language agreed by SNSD, SDS, the Serb Radical Party and PDP passed with 71 votes in favor and 6 votes, [...] | 2007-10-30 16:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2316 | BOSNIA - RS MEDIA FOCUSING ON WARTIME PAST, NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the last year, there has been a steady stream of reporting from Republika Srpska (RS) media about the 1992-1995 war. Almost all of it has focused on alleged crimes and perceived injustices committed against the Serbs, including the post-war "failure" of international and stat [...] | 2007-10-31 07:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2369 | BOSNIA: SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 17:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK IZ MARR MOPS PREL |
07SARAJEVO2370 | BOSNIA: PM SPIRIC RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Nikola Spiric submitted his written resignation on Thursday, November 1. It remains unclear whether the Presidency must formally accept or reject the resignation and Presidency members met today without taking a decision. OHR lawyers believe that the resignation took eff [...] | 2007-11-02 18:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2371 | PIC EXPRESSES PROFOUND CONCERN; RUSSIA BREAKS [...] (C) During the October 30-31 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council, representatives expressed deep concerns over the increased political tensions precipitated by Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik's moves to challenge the authority of the High Representative. With the notabl [...] | 2007-11-02 18:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2372 | BOSNIA: DAS DICARLO'S MEETINGS WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) EUR DAS DiCarlo held bilateral meetings with political leaders on the margins of the October 30-31 PIC to discuss the current political crisis in Bosnia. She reviewed USG concerns with Haris Silajdzic (SBiH),Dragan Covic (HDZ),and Sulejman Tihic. Silajdzic complained about the high bar [...] | 2007-11-02 19:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2373 | BOSNIA: DODIK MEETS DAS DICARLO; REJECTS LAJCAK [...] (C) On the margins of the October 31 session of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC),the Ambassador and EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to register U.S. concerns with his reactions to High Representative Lajcak's October 19 measures and [...] | 2007-11-02 19:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2392 | BOSNIA - RSNA SPECIAL SESSION CONCLUSIONS [...] (SBU) On the evening of November 5 the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) resumed the special session previously adjourned on October 29. The session, which had been postponed several times throughout the day while talks between OHR lawyers and RS officials continued, met for approxim [...] | 2007-11-06 15:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO2395 | BOSNIA- DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIAN MLRS SALE [...] (S) Summary. The dispute over the proposed sale of Bosnian Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) components to Georgia has resurfaced -- this time with an unusual new twist. As previously reported (reftel),an earlier request by Georgia to purchase the systems was scuttled on "foreign policy [...] | 2007-11-07 07:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2406 | LEGAL TALKS CONCLUDE - DODIK LOOKS HEADED FOR [...] (C) On November 6, talks between OHR lawyers and RS government experts, with the goal of resolving RS concerns over the High Representative's October 19 measures, concluded without agreement. The same day, the OHR Legal Advisor, on instructions from the High Representative, informed Steering [...] | 2007-11-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2408 | BOSNIA - CAR BOMB KILLS OUTSPOKEN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 6, a car bomb killed civil servant Milan Vukelic in Banja Luka. According to media reports, Vukelic was an outspoken critic of the government and had been the target of attacks in the past. Unknown perpetrators burned his vehicle and set fire to his mother's house [...] | 2007-11-08 17:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO2409 | BOSNIA: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON JEWISH [...] (U) Ambassador held an introductory meeting with Jewish Community leader Jacob Finci on November 5 to discuss the community's state of affairs. Finci noted that the Bosnian Jewish community, which currently numbers around 1000 members but faces a declining birth rate, is heavily focused on [...] | 2007-11-08 17:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SOCI BK |
07SARAJEVO2425 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S NOVEMBER 15 REPORT TO THE UN [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six. 2. (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak will make his semi-annual report to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against the backdrop Bosnia's most serious political crisis since Dayton. Bosnian Serb Chairman of the Counci [...] | 2007-11-13 16:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EU UN BK |
07SARAJEVO2448 | BOSNIA - KEEPING THE US FLAG ON NATO HQ SARAJEVO [...] (C/NF) Earlier this year, my predecessor concluded that it remained critical to U.S. objectives in Bosnia for a U.S. general officer to command NATO HQ Sarajevo (Ref A). After careful review, I have now reached the same conclusion. I am writing to ask you to reconsider the decision not to ret [...] | 2007-11-14 17:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2487 | BOSNIA--SECURITY MINISTER ON SPIRIC RESIGNATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 13 meeting, the Ambassador and Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic discussed the work of the Council of Ministers (CoM) in technical mandate and the selection process for the director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA). Sadovic blames Serbian [...] | 2007-11-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2490 | BOSNIA- HDZ-1990 PARTY CONGRESS CALLS FOR "ETHNIC [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 10 in Mostar, the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ-1990) held its first party congress since its founding in April 2006. Delegates re-elected the senior party leadership, including Chairman Bozo Ljubic and Deputy Chairman Martin Raguz. The participation of Croat [...] | 2007-11-16 14:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR BK |
07SARAJEVO2516 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC USES STATEHOOD COMMEMORATION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Presidency's commemoration of Bosnia's Statehood Day November 20, which marks the 64th anniversary of the declaration of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Anti-Fascist Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) during World War II, took a particularly political and [...] | 2007-11-21 18:24:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2517 | BOSNIA - FM ALKALAJ SEEKS CONTROL OF NATO [...] (C) Summary: Given the current political environment, keeping Bosnia on the NATO track is even more critical to U.S. objectives here. Therefore, we are concerned by a recent move by Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Sven Alkalaj to politicize this issue by challenging Minister of Defense (MOD [...] | 2007-11-21 18:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2518 | BOSNIA - LAJCAK BRIEFS QUINT AMBASSADORS ON NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak briefed Quint Ambassadors on November 21 about the current political crisis and his plans for managing it. Lajcak told the Quint that he plans to attend the November 22 meeting of governing-coalition political party leaders hosted by Bosniak member of t [...] | 2007-11-21 18:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
07SARAJEVO2519 | BOSNIA - MEDIA REPORT U.S. PLANS TO REMOVE DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The week of November 12, Bosnian media outlets reported that the U.S. hatched a plan to enable High Representative Lajcak to remove Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik by exposing his links to corruption and criminal activities. The story, which first surfaced on t [...] | 2007-11-21 18:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2535 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM AGREEMENT GIVES DODIK MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the six governing political parties adopted an Action Plan on Police Reform during a meeting in Sarajevo on November 22 (see paragraph six below). The Action Plan lays out a timetable for implementing the October 28 Mostar Declaration, which had reaffirmed the three [...] | 2007-11-23 17:26:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO2536 | BOSNIA - RADMANOVIC "OPTIMISTIC" THAT RESOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 23, Ambassador met with Bosnian-Serb member of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic to discuss the ongoing political crisis and the outcome of the November 22 meeting of coalition political party leaders. The Ambassador also asked Radmanovic whether recent statements [...] | 2007-11-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2537 | BOSNIA - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COLLEGIUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with the Ambassador on November 22, the three Speakers of the House of Representatives (HoR),known as the Collegium, each stated they were committed to amending HoR rules of procedure by December 1 in order to comply with the High Representatives October 19 m [...] | 2007-11-26 21:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2555 | BOSNIA- CHALLENGES FOR THE STATE COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past four years, the State Prosecutor,s Office and State Court have made important strides building Bosnia,s capacity to try war crimes cases. Preliminary information on likely future war crimes cases suggests a demanding workload and challenges for both the prosecutor an [...] | 2007-11-27 16:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO2556 | BOSNIA - QUINT AMBASSADORS URGE BOSNIAKS TO ENGAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Quint Ambassadors met separately with Sulejman Tihic, President of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA),and Haris Silajdzic, President of the Party for Bosnia (SBiH),to urge them to engage constructively in negotiations over the High Representative's proposed changes to the Par [...] | 2007-11-27 17:34:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2557 | BOSNIA: NGOS PAINT A GLOOMY PICTURE OF POLITICAL [...] (U) On November 21, the Ambassador hosted NGO representatives participating at a roundtable commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords. Participants were pessimistic about the prospects for improvements in Bosnia's political environment and complained of [...] | 2007-11-28 10:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI BK |
07SARAJEVO2568 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC SEEKS CONTROL OF FEDERATION TV [...] (SBU) Summary: Political and media contacts allege that Bosniak nationalist parties are conspiring to seek control over the editorial policies of public television. An upcoming vote in Parliament to replace the Bosniak board member for Bosnia-Herzegovina Radio and Television (BHRT) will provi [...] | 2007-11-30 12:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KPAO BK |
07SARAJEVO2570 | BOSNIA - OIC AMBASSADORS SUPPORT HIGH [...] (C) The Ambassador hosted a November 27 lunch for key Organization of Islamic Council (OIC) Ambassadors and Charges in Sarajevo. The OIC Ambassadors expressed support for High Representative Lajcak and his October 19 measures. They also endorsed the Ambassador's Dayton anniversary message th [...] | 2007-11-30 15:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2573 | BOSNIA - HDZ 1990 WEIGHS IN ON CURRENT POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: On November 28, Ambassador met with Bozo Ljubic, Minister of Transport and Communication, and Chairman of the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ-1990) (one of the six parties in coalition in state-level government) to discuss the ongoing political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovin [...] | 2007-11-30 17:36:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2574 | BOSNIA - POSSIBLE DEAL OPENS WINDOW FOR INITIALING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Developments over the course of November 29-30 have brought us very close to resolution of the political crisis over High Representative Lajcak,s October 19 measures designed to facilitate decision-making in the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and the Council of Ministers (CoM). This [...] | 2007-11-30 20:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK EU |
07SARAJEVO2575 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S DECEMBER 4-5 [...] (C) SUMMARY: After six weeks of an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the High Representative, backed by the international community, and Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik, backed by the RS political establishment, both sides have blinked a bit. It now appears that we may have a dea [...] | 2007-11-30 20:19:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO2586 | BOSNIA- RS GOVERNMENT STYMIES DEFENSE PROPERTY [...] (C) Summary. NATO HQ,s efforts to finalize a comprehensive transfer agreement on movable defense property were dealt a serious setback on November 29. At a meeting in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS) government representatives back-tracked on initial commitments made to NATO HQ and declined [...] | 2007-12-03 16:10:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2595 | DEMARCHE ON THE NIE'S ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-04 13:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM IR BK |
07SARAJEVO2623 | BOSNIA - PREVIEW OF DECEMBER 9 RS SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 9, Republika Srpska (RS) will hold a special election for RS President to fill a position vacated by the September 30 death of former RS President Milan Jelic. While there are several strong candidates, most analysts agree that none of them are likely to defeat the [...] | 2007-12-07 14:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO2629 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP LAJCAK AND QUINT AMBASSADORS LOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak met with Quint Ambassadors on December 6 to take stock of the situation in Bosnia and discuss how best to manage key issues over the next several weeks. Lajcak reported that Prime Minister Spiric (still in a technical mandate) planning to establish a wo [...] | 2007-12-10 13:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO2631 | BOSNIA TO VOTE FOR COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 16:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA BK |
07SARAJEVO2632 | BOSNIA - RS PLANS TO KEEP SURPLUS ARMS, AMMUNITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following up Assistant Secretary Fried's December 5 exchange with Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik, we met with RS "Military Advisor" Dusko Cetkovic on December 6 to discuss defense property issues. We expressed our concern about statements by RS negotiators that the RS wan [...] | 2007-12-10 17:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2636 | A/S FRIED'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During a December 4-5 visit to Sarajevo, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met with Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic, Party for Democratic Action president Sulejman Tihic, Social Democratic Party president Zlatko Lagumdzija and Hig [...] | 2007-12-11 12:57:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO2647 | BOSNIA- FOREIGN MINISTRY UPDATED ON MNF-I UNSC [...] (C) We presented points, draft UNSC resolutions, and letters per reftel to Acting Assistant Foreign Minister Davorka Istuk, MFA America's Desk Officer Asim Karahasanovic, and Foreign Minister's Advisor Asim Dorovic. Istuk thanked us for the information, and requested further updates as availa [...] | 2007-12-11 17:03:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR IZ BK |
07SARAJEVO2648 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic comes to Washington December 17-21 for Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDCs) and other meetings ready to present his vision completing Bosnia's defense reform, expanding Bosnia's participation in coalition support operations, and expediting NATO ac [...] | 2007-12-11 18:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2653 | BOSNIA- DAO VERIFIES DESTRUCTION OF AMMUNITION [...] (U) DAO visited the Bosnian Armed Forces' ammunition destruction facility in Doboj December 11 to verify destruction of ammunition per terms of US-BiH agreement (Ref A). DAO confirms that destruction of first segment of ammunition, 870 tons, occurred as required by the agreement. Minister of [...] | 2007-12-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO2655 | BOSNIA- PRESIDENT KOMSIC SUPPORTS US POSITION ON [...] (C) On December 12, Ambassador reviewed reftel points on next steps on Kosovo status with Chairman of the Presidency Zeljko Komsic. Ambassador highlighted the points recently raised by A/S Fried during his visit to Sarajevo that the United States understands the particularly delicate position [...] | 2007-12-12 16:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK YI |
07SARAJEVO2670 | BOSNIA - EU RETREAT ON POLICE REFORM MAY HERALD AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Laktasi, Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik's hometown, leaders from the six governing parties agreed on December 11 to the terms of reference for a working group that would draft legislation creating the seven state-level police support bodies called for in the Sarajevo [...] | 2007-12-17 08:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO2681 | BOSNIA TO MAINTAIN UNGA VOTE AGAINST FUNDING OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 15:17:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV UNGA BK |
07SARAJEVO2682 | BOSNIA - STATE PRSECUTOR'S OFFICE BEGINS TO TACKLE [...] (C) Although it was established four years ago, the Special Department for Organized Crimes (SDOC) at the State Prosecutor,s Office is only now starting to prosecute the most complex corruption, organized and financial crimes in Bosnia. With our strong support, Drew Engel, the Deputy Chief Pr [...] | 2007-12-17 17:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON PREL KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO288 | SCENESETTER - AMBASSADOR ROONEY'S FEBRUARY 13 [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are pleased to welcome you and your delegation to Sarajevo on February 13. Your visit, which includes a roundtable at the Inter-Religious Council (IRC),a lunch hosted by Cardinal Puljic (the head of the Catholic Church in Bosnia),and a tour of major religious sites in Saraje [...] | 2007-02-08 09:07:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BK |
07SARAJEVO292 | BOSNIA: USG MESSAGE ON KOSOVO DELIVERED TO KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with all three members of the Bosnian Tri-Presidency and the DCM with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs February 5 and 6 to discuss the Ahtisaari Kosovo plan. All of the Embassy's interlocutors expressed cautious support for the proposal, and none said they were [...] | 2007-02-08 14:39:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK YI |
07SARAJEVO310 | PRESIDENCY EXTENDS MANDATE OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Presidency extended the mandate of the Bosnian Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq through the end of the year. If confirmed by the parliament, the decision will permit a fifth rotation of the unit to deploy to Iraq in May as we requested. The provision requirin [...] | 2007-02-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO356 | BOSNIA: HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 16:10:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS XX BK |
07SARAJEVO36 | BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC AND TIHIC AGREE DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Charge January 5 and 8, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic of the Party for BiH (SBiH) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA) President Sulejman Tihic both made clear that defense reform will continue to be a high priority for the new governing co [...] | 2007-01-09 11:21:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO362 | BOSNIA - ICJ RULING ON GENOCIDE WILL SHAKE BOSNIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 12, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that on February 26 it would rule on the case concerning the "Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro)." Whatever th [...] | 2007-02-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO369 | BOSNIAN DEMINING INVESTIGATION UPDATE: [...] (S/NF) In consultations regarding investigations into allegations of misconduct by organizations involved in demining, State Prosecutor Jurcevic and SIPA officials informed us that they would begin investigatory work shortly. Both organizations again pledged to undertake a thorough and comp [...] | 2007-02-14 16:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET//NOFORN | MASS PREL MOPS PGOV KCRM BK SI |
07SARAJEVO373 | BOSNIA: OSD DASD FATA VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (C) Summary. Your visit comes after two years of nearly uninterrupted progress in the defense sphere in Bosnia. Bosnia has successfully created a unified, single Armed Forces and maintains a robust and continuously straightening security relationship with the United States. Leaders and the pub [...] | 2007-02-15 13:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO41 | BOSNIA - THE HIGHREP'S PROPOSAL FOR PHASE II [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Representative (High Rep) shared with us his draft proposal for conducting phase II of constitutional reform (A copy of the 21-page paper was e-mailed to EUR/SCE) and asked for official U.S. comments on it. The HighRep proposes establishing a Commission on Constitutional [...] | 2007-01-10 09:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK EU |
07SARAJEVO433 | BOSNIA: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING CLAIMS OHR [...] (C) Over Presidents' Day weekend, the Bosnian Constitutional Court released a July 2006 decision calling on the Bosnian government to address human rights violations stemming from OHR's 2004 removal from office of two Republika Srpska (RS) officials who had abetted war criminals. The Court ru [...] | 2007-02-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EUN UNSC BK |
07SARAJEVO438 | BOSNIA WILL PURSUE UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] Following leadership changes in the BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the DCM delivered REF. A demarche to incoming BiH Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Trisic-Babic on February 21. Embassy had demarched the previous Deputy Foreign Minister Anton Rill on January 29 (REF. B). Trisic-Babic said Bosn [...] | 2007-02-23 15:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PREL UNHRC |
07SARAJEVO441 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 26-27 PIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: We expect the February 26-27 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) to approve a one-year extension of OHR's mandate (i.e., to June 2008),though we anticipate the Russians will complicate efforts to reach consensus on this decision. High Representative Christian Schwa [...] | 2007-02-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO444 | BOSNIA: POLITICIANS BLAME INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taking diametrically opposed positions, Federation-based and Republika Srpska-based political leaders reached an impasse following a week of increasingly confrontational negotiations over adopting a Draft Implementation Plan for Police Reform (the "Implementation Plan") (REF. B). [...] | 2007-02-26 06:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS EUN PREL PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO456 | BOSNIAN REACTIONS TO ICJ VERDICT: FROM [...] (U) Following weeks of speculation and building up of expectations, the announcement by the International Court of Justice that Serbia and Montenegro were not guilty of genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina provoked immediate reactions across the political spectrum here. [...] | 2007-02-26 16:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO467 | BOSNIA: OSD DAS FATA'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata visited Sarajevo February 21 for discussions with senior Bosnian leaders on Bosnia's NATO integration process and continued U.S. support for defense reform and Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration. DASD Fata made [...] | 2007-02-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO509 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S OFFICE WILL STAY UNTIL JUNE 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: At their February 26-27 meeting, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Political Directors agreed to continue the OHR's mandate with the aim of closing it down by June 30, 2008. Russia refused to join the consensus, however, insisting on a footnote in the communique highlighting [...] | 2007-03-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS KAWC BK |
07SARAJEVO510 | BOSNIA - NEW BATTLE BEGINS OVER CITIZENSHIP LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opening salvo in what could prove to be an ugly political battle over amendments to the Bosnian Law on Citizenship came on February 27, when FM Sven Alkalaj (Party for BiH (SBiH)) sent a diplomatic note to the Serbian MFA informing it that the bilateral agreement on dual cit [...] | 2007-03-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BK |
07SARAJEVO526 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP BALKS AT ANNULLING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six below. 2. (C) High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling convened a special session of the Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA) on March 7 to discuss the recently released decision by the Bosnian Constitutional Court calling on the Bosnian [...] | 2007-03-07 16:36:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC BK UN |
07SARAJEVO528 | BOSNIA SEEKS GUIDANCE ON PURSUING UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see action request, paragraph 4. 2. (C) On March 7, the DCM and BiH Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj discussed Bosnia's potential bid for one of the two Eastern European Group (EEG) seats on the UN Human Rights Council (REF. B and C). Alkalaj said Sloven [...] | 2007-03-08 16:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC SI BK |
07SARAJEVO541 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETS WITH BIH FOREIGN MINISTER SVEN [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM, called on new Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj at the Ministry March 7. In a wide-ranging exchange, Minister Alkalaj reviewed Bosnia's efforts to fulfill itsPartnership for Peace (PfP) commitments, and disussed the current controversy [...] | 2007-03-09 17:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM PGOV PINR ENRG EPET BK |
07SARAJEVO552 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM TALKS FALTER AS EC [...] (SBU) Summary: The German Embassy March 6 hosted police reform negotiations with the leaders of eight major political parties in the hopes of facilitating agreement on police reform in anticipation of the March 16 visit of EU Commissioner for Enlargement Oli Rehn. Ambassadors from the US, Ger [...] | 2007-03-12 11:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO556 | BOSNIA - TENSIONS RISE AS BOSNIAKS CALL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the February 26 International Court of Justice Verdict (ICJ) that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, there have been growing calls for giving the municipality special status within Bosnia. This campaign has been stoked by Bosniak politicians, particularly Bosniak member [...] | 2007-03-12 16:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO557 | BOSNIA: MOD REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE FOR AMMO [...] (U) Following up on the November 2006 visit of PM/WRA program managers, Acting Minister of Defense Marina Pendes submitted a formal request to the Embassy for USG financial assistance in the disposal of 2600 tons of unstable ammunition and infrastructure upgrades to the BiH Armed Forces' ordin [...] | 2007-03-12 16:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO579 | BOSNIA: SREBRENICA "SPECIAL STATUS" SESSION ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a response to the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) finding of genocide in Srebrenica, Srebrenica Municipality Mayor Abdurahman Malkic hosted a meeting on March 12 to discuss proposals that his municipality seceed from the Republika Srpska (RS) and receive "special status" [...] | 2007-03-13 18:49:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO595 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC BLOCKS POLICE REFORM DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: March 12 police reform talks organized by High Representative Schwarz-Schilling collapsed after Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic refused an offer from Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik to transfer competency and authority for the RS police to the state, provided [...] | 2007-03-15 19:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM EU BK |
07SARAJEVO596 | BOSNIA - REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON FINDING OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. U.S. Must Vote on Whether to Acknowledge Geneocide --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (C) At the March 12 Foundation of Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery Executive Board Meeting, ("Foundation") Amor Ma [...] | 2007-03-15 19:03:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KAWC BK |
07SARAJEVO60 | BOSNIA: TIHIC LOOKS TO CIKOTIC AS NEXT DEFENSE [...] (C) Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Chairman Suljeman Tihic confirmed to CDA and NATO POLAD that he would nominate former general Selmo Cikotic to be Bosnia's next minister of defense, considering that the USG and NATO had no objection to his appointment. Tihic said he may be able to submit t [...] | 2007-01-11 16:37:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO607 | BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC CALLS FOR RADICAL SURGERY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 12 ad hoc meeting (ref A) on the status of Srebrenica, the Ambassador met with Bosniak (Muslim) leaders March 14 to urge calm and solicit their plans for Srebrenica in light of the February 26 International Court of Justice verdict on genocide in Srebrenica. [...] | 2007-03-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO615 | BOSNIA - THE PERILOUS POLITICS OF RECALL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the October 2006 elections, eight Bosnian municipal councils, mainly in the Eastern portion of Republika Srpska (RS),have begun initiatives to remove their mayors. Though recall is ostensibly a tool for holding accountable a mayor who does not perform his/her duties, po [...] | 2007-03-20 11:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO62 | DECERTIFIED POLICE: SOLUTION REMAINS ELUSIVE [...] (U) This is an Action Request for the Department. Please see Para 8. 2. (C) Summary: After a December 21-22 visit to Sarajevo, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg assessed that the International Police Task Force (IPTF) police decertification process had flaws [...] | 2007-01-11 17:17:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK KJUS PGOV PINR PREL EUN UNSC |
07SARAJEVO63 | STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOLDS INAUGURAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The State House of Representatives (HoR) held its inaugural session January 11. The session focused mainly on procedural matters, including the selection of the House leadership, creation of a committee to select cabinet ministers, and confirmation of the Prime Ministerial ca [...] | 2007-01-11 17:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV BK |
07SARAJEVO650 | BOSNIA - WAHHABISM THREATENS TRADITIONAL BOSNIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Community (IC) is on the defensive as Bosnian Islam undergoes an identity crisis. While the scope of the problem remains unclear, there is a general recognition that more extreme believers (foreigners and nationals) are deliberately disrupting Bosnian Muslim communiti [...] | 2007-03-23 16:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KISL SCUL BK |
07SARAJEVO651 | BOSNIA - NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: One year ago, Bosnia's prospects looked brighter than they had at any moment since Dayton. Today, the accomplishments of post-war reconstruction have been placed in question. Externally, the drawdown of the international presence here, coupled with Europe's stupor over future en [...] | 2007-03-23 16:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO670 | BOSNIA: FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER NAMED NATO [...] (SBU) On March 27, the Tri-Presidency appointed former Defense Minister Nikola Radovanovic as Bosnia's new Ambassador to NATO. Radovanovic is expected to assume his duties in the coming weeks and will head-up Bosnia's effort to move through the Partnership for Peace (PfP) processes to full NA [...] | 2007-03-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO674 | BOSNIA - THE PRESIDENCY DEVELOPS A STAFF-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bosnian Tri-Presidency has begun to develop a staff that can serve their respective bosses. On a day-to-day basis the vast majority of our contact with the Presidency takes place at the staff level, which has provided an important avenue for influencing their bosses' thinking [...] | 2007-03-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
07SARAJEVO677 | BOSNIA - THE CHALLENGE OF WAR CRIMES PROSECUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict, Srebrenica victims associations had often appealed for U.S. help in bringing to justice local police or other officials they "knew" to be war criminals. Last week the Srebrenica Municipal Council identified the Republika [...] | 2007-03-27 17:39:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO686 | BOSNIA - SREBRENICA'S CITIZENS LIKELIEST LOSERS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Long ignored by state and entity politicians, Srebrenica Municipality is now the subject of a tug-of-war pitting political interests of the country's leading Bosniak politicians against those of Srebrenica's local community. In the wake of the ICJ verdict, calls for Srebrenica's s [...] | 2007-03-29 08:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO706 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAK LEADERSHIP DISMISSES WARNINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29, the Ambassador and High Representative Schwarz Schilling met with the Bosniak political leadership to express their concern about growing political tensions over Srebrenica. They stressed the international community's commitment to helping Srebrenica residents and ur [...] | 2007-03-30 12:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO728 | BOSNIA: PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS EXTENDED IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. The Bosnian Parliament voted March 30 to confirm the Presidency's decision to extend the mandate of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq through the end of 2007. The move clears the final legal hurdle to the deployment of a fifth EOD rotation in May. Securing the ex [...] | 2007-04-02 11:51:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO752 | BOSNIA - OHR URGES SPEEDY RESOLUTION TO [...] (SBU) On April 5, the Office of the High Representative (OHR) convened a meeting of representatives from the U.S. and current European members of the Security Council and urged them to support a UK proposal that would end the current standoff between the Bosnian government and the UN over the [...] | 2007-04-05 16:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN BK |
07SARAJEVO753 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAK POLITICAL LEADERS WARY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 and April 2, we met separately with Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, President of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic, and President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Zlatko Lagumdzija to discuss the situation in Srebrenica and [...] | 2007-04-06 07:52:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK |
07SARAJEVO754 | BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO SREBRENICA TO CALM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and embassy staff traveled to Srebrenica April 3 to meet with local citizens and to discuss possible improvements to living conditions for municipality residents. Srebrenica has been the subject of a Bosniak political movement for secession since the February ICJ verdi [...] | 2007-04-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO757 | BOSNIA: SANADER VISIT ADVANCES BILATERAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Bosnian government officials and the Croatian DCM described Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's March 28-30 visit to Bosnia as positive and constructive. His impact on internal Bosnian Croat politics was less clear. Croatia and Bosnia concluded agreements on dual citizenship an [...] | 2007-04-06 09:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON HR BK |
07SARAJEVO791 | A/S FRIED'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During his April 3-5 visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried conveyed a message of strong U.S. support for Bosnia's path to Europe. He urged political leaders to seize current opportunities to finalize constitutional and police reforms, thereby cementing Bosni [...] | 2007-04-12 16:10:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
07SARAJEVO801 | BOSNIA OFFERS TO HOST COMBINED ENDEAVOR 2008 [...] (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note from Acting Minister of Defense Marina Pendes offering Bosnia as the host and organizer of the Combined Endeavor 2008 (CE 08) military exercise. The Ministry of Defense is offering the barracks in Banja Luka and the nearby training center in Manjaca as the [...] | 2007-04-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO804 | BOSNIA DEMINING: PROSECUTOR REQUESTS QSI REPORT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. After briefings from the Quality Solutions International (QSI) team on their recent assessment of demining operations in Bosnia, post believes the report highlights the importance of changing our demining operating pr [...] | 2007-04-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM MASS PREL MOPS PGOV BK SI |
07SARAJEVO807 | BOSNIA - BRATUNAC THE NEXT SREBRENICA? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 12, 2007, the Bosniak Association "Women of Podrinje" intends to bury 108 identified victims of the May 1992 Bratunac massacre in land owned by the Islamic Community. However, Bratunac Mayor Nedeljko Mladjenovic (SDS) and Serb delegates in the Bratunac Municipal Council [...] | 2007-04-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO808 | RSNA VOTES TO SCRAP POLICE REFORM DIRECTORATE [...] (SBU) Summary: This week the Republika Srpska (RS) government and RS National Assembly both took separate decisions rejecting the Police Reform Directorate (PRD) final report and calling for new police reform talks. At its April 11 session the RSNA approved a conclusion calling for a referend [...] | 2007-04-13 16:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM BK |
07SARAJEVO832 | BOSNIA: BUGOJNO INDICTMENTS TIMED TO DERAIL [...] (C) On April 16, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested two individuals on orders from the State Prosecutor over their alleged involvement in the disappearance of Bosnian-Croats in the Central Bosnian town of Bugojno in 1993. The arrests of the two individuals, former B [...] | 2007-04-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO836 | "SCORPIONS" VERDICT FUELS BOSNIAK GRIEVANCES [...] (U) Sentences handed down by the Special War Crimes Court in Belgrade on April 10 for four members of the "Scorpions" military unit for war crimes against Bosniak citizens of Trnovo, Bosnia (ref A) have exacerbated tensions among Bosnians, already high as a result of the ICJ verdict. The sent [...] | 2007-04-17 16:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS BK SR |
07SARAJEVO84 | BOSNIA SUPPORTIVE OF IRAQ STRATEGY, SEEKS [...] (C) Chairman of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsha Radmanovic told CDA that Bosnia was supportive of the new Iraq strategy, and noted Bosnia's continued support for Global War on Terror (GWOT) activities. Radmanovic cited the deployment of Bosnia's explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) units to Iraq as [...] | 2007-01-12 16:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO863 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC CONTINUES TO PROVOKE POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since he returned to Bosnian politics during last year's elections, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Siladjic has actively worked toward creating a Bosniak Muslim rejectionist front that, in his words to the Ambassador, "will stand up to the Serbs and be as obstructionis [...] | 2007-04-20 17:06:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
07SARAJEVO87 | PM SPIRIC PRESENTS PLAN FOR GOVERNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the vote on his confirmation January 11 to become Bosnia's new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister),Nikola Spiric of the Serb Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) presented a detailed work plan for the new government. In a 40-minute speech [...] | 2007-01-12 17:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ECON KCRM KJUS EUN BK |
07SARAJEVO931 | BOSNIA BEHIND CONTINUED COALITION PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO932 | BOSNIA: NEW MINISTER OF DEFENSE TO ATTEND [...] (SBU) Newly-installed Bosnian Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic, along with Deputy Defense Minister Igor Crnadak and Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces' Operational Command BG Mirko Tepsic, will attend the Coalition Conference in Tampa, Florida April 30-May 2. Cikotic, who assumed his duties [...] | 2007-04-27 12:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO935 | BOSNIA: FOREIGN MINISTER ALKALAJ SHOULD HEAR A [...] (C) Summary. Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj arrives in Washington April 30 for a week-long visit. Having served as the Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S (1994- 2000),Alkalaj is no stranger to Washington, but this will be his first U.S. visit as Foreign Minister. Although he assumed his [...] | 2007-04-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO937 | BOSNIA - TAKING ON RADICAL BOSNIAK MUSLIM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We stepped up our efforts during the week of April 23 to undercut efforts, particularly of Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, to further radicalize the political situation in Bosnia. We met with the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) leadership to deliver [...] | 2007-04-30 05:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PINR PREL UN KJWC BK PK |
07SARAJEVO946 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 27 MEETING WITH HARIS SILAJDZIC [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic on April 27. Silajdzic who had recently returned from a visit to Doha briefed on a USD 100 million Qatari fund for investment in Bosnia and asserted he was attempting to refocus the Presidency on economic development issues [...] | 2007-04-30 16:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
07SARAJEVO950 | BOSNIA: ASSISTANCE FOR PRESIDENCY VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) The three-member Bosnian Presidency accompanied by Defense Minister will travel to Iraq on May 15 to visit Bosnia's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit at Camp Echo. The delegation also seeks bilateral meetings in Baghdad. [...] | 2007-05-03 15:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO955 | BOSNIA: ASSISTANCE FOR PRESIDENCY VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) The three-member Bosnian Presidency accompanied by Defense Minister will travel to Iraq on May 15 to visit Bosnia's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit at Camp Echo. The delegation also seeks bilateral meetings in Baghdad. [...] | 2007-05-04 05:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
07SARAJEVO970 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During his April 27-29 state visit to Bosnia, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf emphasized a consistent message of interfaith harmony and tolerance and the need for Bosnia to complete the process of postwar reconstruction. Musharraf repeated this constructive message throughout [...] | 2007-05-04 17:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PREL PGOV PK |
07SARAJEVO971 | OHR PUTS FORWARD LAJCAK AS NEXT HIGH [...] (C) At the May 4 session of the weekly Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting of Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA),Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian announced that the EU had named Slovakian diplomat Ambassador Miroslav Lajcak as the candidate to succeed Christian Shwart [...] | 2007-05-04 17:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN BK UNSC |
07SARAJEVO995 | BOSNIA - CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE EUROPEANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in his capacity as European Union Special Representative (EUSR),briefed Quint Ambassadors (plus the European Commission Ambassador) on the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC),which would be responsible for guiding a longer-term [...] | 2007-05-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EU BK |
07SECTION02OF03EIJING483 | U/S HUGHES URGES INCREASED EXCHANGES, MEDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-22 12:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SCUL PHUM KOLY KPAO KIRF CH |
07SECTON03OF04DAKAR269 | SENEGAL: SENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-02 11:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG ECON |
07SEOUL1011 | KORUS FTA IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - RATIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The KORUS FTA, after the signing, will be sent to the National Assembly for ratification. Pundits consider this most likely in September. The ratification process could be intense, involving protests and blockages. Still, according to Assembly contacts, the KORUS FTA will pass, [...] | 2007-04-06 08:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL1012 | ELECTION EXPERTS SHARE VIEWS ON FTA AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, a pollster, an ex-spokesperson for presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon, a political consultant and a professor shared their views of the current political landscape in Korea and on the factors that would determine the outcome of Dece [...] | 2007-04-06 08:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1047 | CHUNG DONG-YOUNG'S ADVISORS SET FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Advisors to presidential hopeful and former Uri Party chairman Chung Dong-young's (DY) told us April 4 that Chung likely would leave the Uri Party to form his own coalition party before the presidential candidate registration deadline of April 23. Chung's advisors asserted th [...] | 2007-04-10 07:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KN KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL1051 | SHIELD S08D-05: ROK FIRM BIOTRON TERMINATED [...] (S) On April 6, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) told poloff that the ROK firm Biotron did not/not fulfill an order of two large fermenters by the Iranian firm Samamicro. In fact, Biotron terminated all n [...] | 2007-04-10 09:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM PREL CBW ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL1052 | FM SONG ON FTA, 6PT, U.S.-ROK ALLIANCE, AND IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 10, Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told the Ambassador that the ROKG and USG should stay coordinated on the KORUS FTA to avoid any perception that different interpretations existed on what was negotiated. Some in the ROK were concerned that the U.S. Congress might push f [...] | 2007-04-10 10:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KS KN IZ |
07SEOUL1078 | PRESIDENT ROH'S MEETING WITH RICHARDSON-PRINCIPI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 12 meeting with President Roh Moo-hyun, New Mexico Governor Richardson and former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Anthony Principi said that the DPRK had been cooperative in assisting the transfer of the remains of servicemen thought to have died during the Korean War. [...] | 2007-04-13 04:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL1088 | GWANGJU: BIRTHPLACE OF ROK DEMOCRACY GEARS UP FOR [...] (SBU) Gwangju's votes were pivotal in electing Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 1997 and 2002. Also, the May 18, 1980 student uprising and massacre in Gwangju was a defining moment in Korea's modern history and, due to misinformation that tied the U.S. to the event, a source of anti-American [...] | 2007-04-16 04:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL1108 | DPRK DEFECTOR PERSONIFIES MATERIALISTIC MOTIVES FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 29, Lim Il, a North Korean defector, spoke at the monthly meeting of the AhRin Forum in Seoul to an audience of academics and foreign diplomats posted to the ROK and the DPRK. Lim described his journey from North Korea to the South, where he received asylum in 1998, via [...] | 2007-04-17 01:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM KS KN |
07SEOUL1112 | GOVERNOR RICHARDSON AND FORMER SECRETARY PRINCIPI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 11-12 visit to Seoul, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Principi noted that the DPRK had been cooperative in facilitating the transfer of the remains of servicemen thought to have died during the Korean War. The Richa [...] | 2007-04-17 04:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MUNC KS KN |
07SEOUL1119 | MOFAT FORECASTS ROUGH SEAS FOR LIANCOURT ROCKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOFAT Director-General for Treaties Im Han-taek on April 17 told A/DCM that Seoul and Tokyo were in consultation on how to conduct surveys for radioactive materials located in disputed waters in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Japan's position is that Tokyo does not want a joint so [...] | 2007-04-17 09:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS JA |
07SEOUL112 | 2007 ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: If the vote for president of South Korea were today, Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, with between 40 and 50 percent support in all leading polls, would be the runaway winner with second place going to GNP's Park Geun-hye. The bronze medal would go [...] | 2007-01-12 08:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PIRN KS |
07SEOUL1120 | MOFAT DISCUSSES IRAQI PM MALIKI'S VISIT TO ROK AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 17, A/DCM met with Ma Young-sam, MOFAT'S Director-General for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, to discuss the April 11-13 visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to South Korea. Ma said that the main purpose of Maliki's visit was improving bilateral economic cooperation [...] | 2007-04-17 09:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KS IZ |
07SEOUL1126 | NSC DIRECTOR CHA'S 4/12 MEETING WITH PARK SUN-WON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12, NSC Director for Asian Affairs Victor Cha met with Park Sun-won, Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy, to provide a readout of the April 8-11 visit to North Korea by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Ant [...] | 2007-04-18 06:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL114 | DELIVERED: REQUEST FOR ALLIED DEMARCHE TO CHINA [...] (S) The Ambassador delivered the talking points contained in reftel A to Cho Jung-pyo, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday January 14, 2007. He also showed A/FM Cho the photographs of the event, but as instructed did not leave the photographs behind. [...] | 2007-01-14 03:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC MARR |
07SEOUL1141 | PRIVATE BROADCASTING TO NORTH KOREA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fueled by foreign funding, three Seoul-based radio stations are broadcasting news, information about defection, entertainment and other programming into the DPRK via shortwave platforms located overseas. The three -- Free NK Radio (FreeNK),Open Radio for North Korea (OpenRad [...] | 2007-04-19 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL1151 | ROH CONFIDANTE AHN HEE-JONG MEETS NORTH KOREANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Roh Moo-hyun longtime confidante Ahn Hee-jung contacted North Korean officials in Beijing on October, 20 2006 in an unofficial attempt to start a communication channel with the North. Ahn's contact was a violation of the Inter-Korean cooperation and exchange law, but Roh has pub [...] | 2007-04-20 05:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KS |
07SEOUL1158 | SOUTH KOREANS' SHOCK AND GRIEF OVER THE VIRGINIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From all indications, South Koreans were shocked, saddened, and sorry about the mass murder at Virginia Tech by South Korean national Cho Seung-hui. South Koreans -- ranging from ordinary citizens to the President -- have expressed their condolences to the victims and their fam [...] | 2007-04-20 08:59:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1175 | KOREAS AGREE TO RICE AID AND TEST RUNS OF RAILWAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 23 briefing on the April 18-22 Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee talks in Pyongyang, Director-General for Unification Policy Planning Um Jong-sik told A/DCM that the ROKG used the meetings to emphasize the need for the DPRK to implement the Februar [...] | 2007-04-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC EAID KS KN |
07SEOUL1189 | MOFAT DELIVERS NONPAPER ON KIC EXPANSION [...] (C) In an April 23 meeting with A/DCM, MOFAT Director-General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae passed a nonpaper that says, given the February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement, the ROKG intends to resume efforts to expand development of the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),which had be [...] | 2007-04-24 07:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC EAID KS KN |
07SEOUL1203 | HOW PRESIDENTIAL CAMPS ARE APPEALING TO KOREAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Korean youth today are generally less interested in politics, do not have a particular attachment to a candidate or political party, and are most concerned with the economy and finding a job. Unlike in the past, where the majority of the youth held progressive views on pol [...] | 2007-04-25 08:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KS |
07SEOUL1211 | THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (1 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY OF CABLE SERIES: This report, the first in a series of three on the U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Alliance, examines South Korean perceptions of their security environment. The second looks at what role the ROK sees for the Alliance in its security. The final report addresses how [...] | 2007-04-26 07:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA |
07SEOUL1213 | ROK BY-ELECTIONS: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? [...] (SBU) In by-elections held on Wednesday April 25, Korean voters elected three National Assembly members, one from the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) and none from the ruling Uri Party. Still, as this election ended GNP's streak of dominating by-elections that started in summer 200 [...] | 2007-04-26 07:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1215 | THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (2 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the ROK perceives its security environment, concluding that the Korean public and their policy makers are heavily conflicted when it comes to relations with their neig [...] | 2007-04-26 07:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA |
07SEOUL1216 | THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (3 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third and final cable in a series reporting on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the Republic of Korea views its security environment. Reftel B looked at how the U.S.-ROK Alliance fits with ROK security perspectives. This final rep [...] | 2007-04-26 08:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA |
07SEOUL122 | ROKG HAS TENTATIVE PLANS FOR ARF WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-16 06:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AORC ARF KS |
07SEOUL1230 | THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ADMIRAL YI [...] (U) Koreans on April 28 will celebrate the 262nd anniversary of Admiral Yi Sun-shin's birthday. Admiral Yi is remembered for inventing the "turtle ship" -- which was the world's first metal-armored warship -- his brilliance as a strategist and, most of all, for his 16th century victories aga [...] | 2007-04-27 09:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | JA KS PGOV PHUM PREL |
07SEOUL1263 | ROKG SUPPORTIVE OF ASIA DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Political External Chief delivered Ref A talking points to MOFAT Director of Human Rights and Social Affairs Kim Moon-hwan on May 1. Consistent with his initial reaction to the Asia Democracy Partnership ADP, Kim was personally supportive of the proposal (Ref B). The ROK, as one of the [...] | 2007-05-01 08:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KS |
07SEOUL1286 | ROK OPPOSES BELARUS, SUPPORTS SLOVENIA FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 08:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC KS |
07SEOUL1313 | ROK BACKS IRAQ PARTICIPANT STATUS FOR CD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 05:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNGA KS |
07SEOUL1327 | TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON'S MARCH VISIT TO SEOUL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On the eve of the 8th KORUS-FTA round, Treasury Secretary Paulson visited Seoul March 6-7 to meet President Roh Moo-hyun, Deputy Prime Minister Kwon O-kyu, and Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong. His discussions reaffirmed: (1) high-level support on both sides for keeping the KORUS- [...] | 2007-05-07 01:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD KN KS PREL EINV PGOV |
07SEOUL1329 | ROKG SUPPORTS USG CLUSTER MUNITIONS POLICY [...] (C) On April 26 Acting DAS Frank J. Ruggiero met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Senior Coordinator for International Organizations Hwang Joon-kook and Kim Jong-hoon, Deputy Director of the International Disarmament Division of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) to seek [...] | 2007-05-07 03:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MCAP PREL KS |
07SEOUL136 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH FORMER PRESIDENT KIM [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, Ambassador and Mrs. Vershbow hosted former President Kim Dae-jung and his wife Lee Hee-Ho to lunch at the Ambassador's Residence. While professing to avoid interfering in politics, the 83-year old Kim -- who said his health had improved recently -- offered his vie [...] | 2007-01-17 07:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC ETRD ECON KS KN CH |
07SEOUL1361 | SOHN HAK-KYU PLANS TRIP NORTH TO BOOST RATINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Gyeonggi Governor and presidential candidate Sohn Hak-kyu met with the Ambassador on May 7 to discuss his planned May 9-12 trip to North Korea, where he hopes to discuss his proposed 10-year reconstruction plan for the North. He hoped his visit would contribute to the dev [...] | 2007-05-08 07:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL1365 | PROMINENT NK DEFECTORS FORM RADICAL NGO [...] (C) "Aquariums of Pyongyang" author Kang Cheol-hwan, former DPRK inner-circle member Hwang Jang-yop and other prominent North Korean defectors have formed a new organization, the Committee for Democratization of North Korea (CDNK). Its main goals are to topple the DPRK regime and organize def [...] | 2007-05-08 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL1384 | LEE AND PARK SHOWDOWN HEATS UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The two leading candidates for president face a decision point: whether to remain within the Grand National Party (GNP),agreeing to abide by the results of the party's August primary, or whether to leave the party and pursue the presidency independently. The two leading candida [...] | 2007-05-09 08:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1385 | ROKG "VERY SATISFIED" WITH INTERNATIONAL COMPACT [...] (C) On May 9, Do Bong-kae, Deputy Director of Development Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) told poloff that ROK Foreign Minister Song Min-soon was "very satisfied" with the results of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) conference in Egypt. Do said tha [...] | 2007-05-09 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EFIN KS IZ |
07SEOUL1386 | ROKG HOLDS LINE ON UN COUNTRY-SPECIFIC SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 09:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EUN KS |
07SEOUL1387 | MEDIA REPORTS NORTH SOUGHT TALKS WITH SOUTH BEFORE [...] (C) Secret contacts between Seoul and Pyongyang are nothing new. Many previous ROK presidents, including Kim Dae-jung, Roh Tae-woo and Park Chung-hee, relied on their secret negotiations to harvest significant results. A flurry SIPDIS of press revelations indicate that President Roh Moo-h [...] | 2007-05-09 22:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL1404 | ROK VIEWS ON UNHRC ELECTION--AGAINST BELARUS, FOR [...] (C) Nick: We enjoy good cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on UN Human Rights Council (HRC) issues and have been told that the ROK will oppose the Belarus bid for a seat on the HRC. MOFAT told us on two occasions on May 2 (Ref B) and again on May 10, that Seoul would [...] | 2007-05-10 09:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC KS |
07SEOUL1405 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BAEK ON FTA, ALLIANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 10 lunch meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun said his responsibilities were defined: work closely to support the KORUS FTA, USFK relocation agreements, and progress in the Six-Party Talks (6PT). Baek expressed optimism that the Banco De [...] | 2007-05-10 09:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL1412 | NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETARY PARK SEES LITTLE [...] (C) Dr. Park Sun-won, Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy, offered a rather trouble-free assessment of the USFK camp return and relocation funding issues when he met with the A/DCM on May 10 at the Blue House. Dr. Park said he had met with ROK Minister of National Defen [...] | 2007-05-11 05:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KS |
07SEOUL1413 | ROKG COMMENTS ON REVISED U.S. ARF PROPOSALS [...] (C) On May 11, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Kim Jong-min of the Security Policy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Kim said the revised U.S. proposals were appreciated, but noted that ROKG comments on previous drafts had just been sent to the ROK representati [...] | 2007-05-11 06:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ARF KNNP PTER KS |
07SEOUL1418 | LEE MYUNG-BAK ADVISOR ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND DPRK [...] (C) Nam Sung-wook, Korea University economics professor and top North Korea policy advisor to leading presidential contender Lee Myung-bak, told Poloffs during a May 9 meeting that the 2007 presidential election was essentially about the economy, with North Korea a secondary issue. He said fo [...] | 2007-05-11 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS PINR |
07SEOUL1439 | URI PARTY VISIT TO PYONGYANG: DPRK SAID IT IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five Uri Party parliamentarians, led by potential presidential candidate Rep. Kim Hyuk-kyu, met with the Ambassador on May 9 to brief him on their May 2-5 trip to Pyongyang. Kim said that the North Korean side had stressed: (a) its commitment to implementing the February 13 "Initi [...] | 2007-05-14 06:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL1444 | FORMER PM HAN MYEONG-SOOK SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND U.S. [...] (C) Former Prime Minister and current presidential contender Han Myeong-sook met with the Ambassador over lunch on May 11. Han expressed optimism that the KORUS FTA maintained strong support in the National Assembly and may be ratified in the fall; legislators opposed to the FTA were in the [...] | 2007-05-14 08:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1448 | S/CRS AMBASSADOR HERBST'S CONSULTATIONS IN SEOUL [...] (SBU) The U.S. and ROKG held a second round of consultations on reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) issues on April 26. The U.S. delegation led by Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) John Herbst obtained Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Vice Minister Ch [...] | 2007-05-15 01:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRS KS |
07SEOUL1463 | ROK-JAPAN-CHINA TO HOLD DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 15, MOFAT's Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Director-General, Cho Yong-chun, told POL M/C that China will host a Deputy Foreign Minister trilateral with ROK and Japanese counterparts on May 19 in Beijing. Cho said this meeting, the first Foreign Ministry senior officials [...] | 2007-05-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS CH JA |
07SEOUL1479 | PROGRESSIVES STILL FAR FROM UNITED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GNP candidates have, for now, patched up their differences and are headed toward an August primary showdown. (See Reftel) However, on the progressive side of the political spectrum, the disparate groups and their leaders are far from united. Pro-Roh politicians as well as Pr [...] | 2007-05-16 08:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1480 | UNIFICATION MINISTER CLAIMS RICE AID TO DPRK CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung expressed enthusiasm about the planned May 17 inter-Korean railways tests calling them a first step toward restoring peace to the Korean Peninsula. Lee said that inter-Korean dialogue and Six-Party Talks ( [...] | 2007-05-16 09:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL1491 | ROKG: NO LINKAGE FOR SMA FUNDS AND USFK RELOCATION [...] (C) Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Shim Yoon-joe requested a meeting with the Ambassador to convey the ROKG response to the issues raised by Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless with ROK Ambassador Lee Tae-shik on May 8. Shim said that the ROKG appreciated Lawless's explanat [...] | 2007-05-17 01:47:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL151 | CLEARANCE FOR EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S TRAVEL TO KOREA [...] (U) Embassy Seoul warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 25-28, 2007 official visit to Seoul by EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas J. Christensen. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political Officer Andrew Bennett [...] | 2007-01-18 07:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AMGT OTRA KS |
07SEOUL1532 | ROKG SUPPORTS USG ARF PROPOSALS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On May 18, Kim Jong-min of the Security Policy Division and Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),delivered the ROKG official response to [...] | 2007-05-18 06:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ARF KNNP PTER KS |
07SEOUL1533 | (S) ROK RESPONSE: EFFORTS BY IRAN'S MISSILE [...] This is an action request. Post requests that Department provide information requested by the ROKG in para 3. 2. (S) Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),told poloff that Insung International Co [...] | 2007-05-18 07:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL1546 | ROK HOPES FOR CHINA-TAWAIN CONSENSUS AT OIE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 05:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR AORG KS CH TW |
07SEOUL1551 | ROKG WILL NOT ATTEND LIMA MEETING ON CLUSTER [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim said that the ROKG position on cluster munitions (CM) had not changed since the April 24 bilateral discussions with Acting DAS Frank Ruggier [...] | 2007-05-21 06:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL MOPS KS |
07SEOUL1557 | BILATERAL RICE AID TO START IN LATE MAY BUT 6PT [...] (C) Rice assistance: MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae said that the ROKG would provide some bilateral rice aid by the end of May, given political and interagency pressure to do so; ideally, the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) issue would be resolved by then and the DPRK would start Yongbyon shutd [...] | 2007-05-21 09:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON KS KN |
07SEOUL1576 | XXXXXXXXXXXX SHARES IDEAS ON DPRK [...] (C)XXXXXXXXXXXX Arranging an Eric Clapton concert in Pyongyang could also be useful, he said, given Kim Jong-il's second son's devotion to the rock legend. END SUMMARY. XXXXXXXXXXXX ---------------------------------- 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX DOING BUSINESS IN THE DPRK -------------------------- [...] | 2007-05-23 02:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL1585 | ROKG RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Officials of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provided Poloff with an overview of the Republic of Korea (ROK)'s official assistance to Afghanistan since 2002. KOICA provided USD 45 million of assistance from 2002-2004 and has pledged an additional USD 10 milli [...] | 2007-05-23 07:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAID MARR PREL KS AF |
07SEOUL160 | CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION TAKES SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise statement last week President Roh proposed a constitutional revision to change the current single five-year presidential term to a renewable four-year term to synchronize the presidential and general elections. Roh said he would soon initiate a bill to revise the con [...] | 2007-01-19 02:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PIRN KS |
07SEOUL1608 | ACCOUNTS OF THE INTER-KOREAN RAILWAYS TRAIL RUNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With much fanfare on May 17, South and North Korea conducted test runs of two cross-border railways. Before the trains departed in the morning, ROK Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung said that the test runs indicated that "the heart of the Korean Peninsula is beating again." M [...] | 2007-05-25 08:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL1655 | RESPONSE RECEIVED: FOLLOWING UP ON U.S. PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) On May 22, poloff delivered reftel points, including the non-paper, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Disarmament and Non-Proliferation officer Youn Jong Kwon. A response was provided by Kwon on May 30 addressing the U.S. proposal "that Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Part [...] | 2007-06-01 00:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IR KS PARM PREL |
07SEOUL1656 | RESPONSE RECEIVED: FOLLOWING UP ON THE U.S. [...] (SBU) On May 22, poloff delivered reftel points, including the non-paper, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Disarmament and Non-Proliferation officer Youn Jong Kwon. A response was provided by Kwon on May 30. Kwon stated that the ROKG is content with the current agenda, as pro [...] | 2007-06-01 00:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL166 | GNP: IN THE LEAD, BUT NOT IN THE BAG? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Goh Kun's withdrawal from the presidential elections in South Korea means that the top three most popular candidates are all from the conservative Grand National Party (GNP). With combined approval ratings for the three GNP candidates according to a January 16 SBS-Hankook Resear [...] | 2007-01-19 07:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL167 | WHITHER URI PARTY? [...] (C) Summary: The progressive Uri Party, facing rock bottom popularity with only single-digit support, suffered another major setback with the departure of Goh Kun from the presidential race on January 16. First and foremost challenge for Uri leaders is to decide what form the party should ta [...] | 2007-01-19 07:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1670 | LEE MYUNG-BAK FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS ON U.S.-ROK [...] (C) Members of presidential contender Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy team told poloffs on May 30 that Lee would likely advocate a "pragmatic" approach to the U.S.-ROK alliance, aimed principally to preserve room to strengthen the relationship after the election without alienating progressives [...] | 2007-06-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL1686 | LEE MYUNG-BAK DREAMS UP A CANAL PROJECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Pan-Korea Grand Waterway is a key campaign pledge of ROK's leading presidential hopeful, Lee Myung-bak of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP). Lee is the frontrunner in the poll with 37.8 percent of the public supporting him in a May 30 poll by Joongang Daily. (His [...] | 2007-06-04 08:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON KS |
07SEOUL1687 | NORTH-SOUTH MINISTERIAL HITS RICE HEADWIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 briefing for the diplomatic community, Um Jong-sik, Director-General for Unification Policy Planning at the Ministry of Unification (MOU),described the May 29 - June 1 inter-Korean ministerial talks as helpful in that the North Koreans showed up and did not walk out [...] | 2007-06-04 09:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC EAID KS KN |
07SEOUL1689 | THE PAST AND FUTURE OF LABOR STRUGGLES IN KOREA [...] (SBU) In a meeting with poloff on May 23, Korea Labor & Society Institute Chairman Lee Won-bo said that labor union leaders in Korea continue to be arrested, but reluctantly conceded that police had legitimate reasons for doing so. Although Korea's labor laws have undergone some serious refor [...] | 2007-06-05 00:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL169 | ROKG DEMARCHES CHINESE EMBASSY ON ASAT TEST [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 19, Park Chul-min, Director of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) provided poloff with the ROKG response to the Ambassador's January 14 demarche regarding China's anti-satelli [...] | 2007-01-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL CH |
07SEOUL170 | ROKG STILL PLANS TO ALLOW MACHINE TOOL EXPORT TO [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 19, poloff delivered reftel A points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Deputy Kim Jae-woo. Kim informed poloff that the primary factor in the ROKG decision was the lack of [...] | 2007-01-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MTCR PREL ETTC KS PK |
07SEOUL1710 | ROKG ON VENEZUELA-IRAN RELATIONSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-05 09:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL ECON PTER VE IR KS |
07SEOUL1711 | LEE MYUNG-BAK: SMOOTH SAILING TILL DECEMBER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 meeting, the Ambassador and GNP presidential front-runner Lee Myung-bak discussed North Korea, the December elections, and the FTA. Lee also asked the Ambassador to help set up a meeting with Secretary Rice during his scheduled June 11-14 trip to Washington D.C. Le [...] | 2007-06-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS ECON KN |
07SEOUL1712 | PARK GEUN-HYE REMAINS CONFIDENT IN HER PRINCIPLES [...] (C) In a June 4 meeting with the Ambassador, ROK presidential candidate Park Geun-hye said that she was optimistic that the public would increasingly support her campaign as she got her policy messages out. Park said that the public responded well to the first nationally televised debate am [...] | 2007-06-05 09:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL173 | MOFAT PROTESTS GENERAL BELL'S PUBLIC REMARKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with the acting DCM, MOFAT Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byong-jae expressed a strong protest about two aspects of the public remarks General Bell had delivered at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent's Club earlier in the day. The first prob [...] | 2007-01-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV KN KS |
07SEOUL1738 | ROKG TO ATTEND GLOBAL INITIATIVE CONFERENCE IN [...] (SBU) On June 1 poloff met with Park Chul-min, MOFAT's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Director, to formally welcome the ROKG into the Global Initiative (GI) as a new partner nation; deliver ref a points including a request for a government-wide GI point-of-contact (POC); and encouraging act [...] | 2007-06-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PTER KGIC KS |
07SEOUL1739 | ROKG SHARES CONCERNS ON RUSSIA-BURMA NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (S) On June 1, poloff discussed USG views on the inadvisability of Russian-Burmese nuclear cooperation to MOFAT's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Director Park Chul-min. Park responded that Seoul shared USG concerns about potential nuclear proliferation consequences. However, the ROKG woul [...] | 2007-06-07 08:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL KNNP KGIC RS BM |
07SEOUL1740 | ROK-JAPAN-PRC TRILATERAL BARELY MENTIONS DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The June 3 trilateral foreign ministers' meeting focused on efforts to increase trilateral economic and civic cooperation, but glossed over security issues in Northeast Asia (including North Korea) and other regions, MOFAT contacts told poloffs on June 5. The host-ROK agenda had [...] | 2007-06-07 08:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG KS JA CH |
07SEOUL175 | NEXT STEPS ON NORTH KOREANS IN PHNOM PENH [...] (C) On January 19, poloff delivered ref a points, on the four North Korean asylum seekers in Cambodia, to Yu Joon-ha, Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division. Yu said that the ROKG's position remained the same since it was asked in October 2006 (ref b),which was that Seoul had no o [...] | 2007-01-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KS CB |
07SEOUL1755 | ROKG RELUCTANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO WFP PROGRAM IN DPRK [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On June 8, A/POL delivered ref A points recommending that the ROKG contribute to the WFP's DPRK program as soon as possible despite the lack of DPRK enthusiasm for the idea, to Cho Byung-jae, Director-General for North American Affairs at the Mi [...] | 2007-06-08 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EAGR WFP KS KN |
07SEOUL1756 | PROGRESSIVE KINGMAKERS: STILL UNDECIDED ON 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Roh Moo-hyun and former President Kim Dae-jung are the kingmakers on the progressive side of Korean politics, but with fewer than 200 days to go until the December 19 election, neither has made clear whom he supports for president. Meanwhile, on the conservative side [...] | 2007-06-08 09:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL1774 | ROKG SUPPORTS HRC COUNTRY-SPECIFIC MANDATES, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 07:47:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KS |
07SEOUL1816 | ROKG PREFERS SEPARATE DEMARCHES TO THAILAND ON [...] (C) On May 12, Park Ji-hyun, Deputy Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division, expressed appreciation that the USG supported the ROKG's efforts to resist the Royal Thailand Government's proposal that all North Korean asylum seekers travel from Thailand to South Korea before being proces [...] | 2007-06-14 07:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KS KN TH |
07SEOUL1817 | MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-14 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EUN KS IR |
07SEOUL1826 | MOFAT EQUIVOCAL ABOUT CONTINUING THE ROK PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary. In a June 7 meeting, DoS and OSD representatives presented the ROKG with a proposed course of action for the ROK's continued presence in Afghanistan beyond 2007. In response, Ministry of Trade and Foreign Affairs (MOFAT) North America III Division Director Lee Jeong-kyu acknowl [...] | 2007-06-15 04:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS |
07SEOUL1841 | PROGRESSIVE COALTION: CLEAR AS MUD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 11, the Ambassador met with Park Sang-cheon and Kim Han-gill, the co-chairs of the newly formed Moderate Unified Democrats (MUD) and discussed FTA, North Korea, Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),SOFA and the future of the MUD party. The MUD co-chairs said their goal was [...] | 2007-06-18 08:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL1845 | ROKG SUPPORTS REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON SCO [...] (S) On June 19, Hong Sa Won Hwi of the Security Policy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade delivered the ROKG response to reftel demarche. Hong said that he fully sympathizes with U.S. concerns over the SCO's recent movement in military and political affairs. To this end, [...] | 2007-06-19 02:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KS MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL ZK |
07SEOUL185 | GENERAL BELL MEETS KOREAN NSC POLICY CHIEF BAEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 17, 2007, General Burwell B. Bell, Commander UNC/CFC/USFK, paid an introductory call on Dr. Baek Jong-chon, the recently appointed Unification, Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Chief of the Presidential Secretariat and head of South Korea's National Security SIPD [...] | 2007-01-22 05:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV KS |
07SEOUL1852 | SPI 13: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) Summary. The thirteenth U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 13) took place June 8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transition of wartime operational command (OPCON),UNC Armistice maintenance responsibilities, airspace management, security cooperation in Afghanista [...] | 2007-06-19 08:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN |
07SEOUL1882 | ROKG INFORMED OF DENIED NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 07:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREF PREL PINR KTIP KS KN MG |
07SEOUL1893 | DUSD LAWLESS' ALLIANCE MEETINGS WITH MOFAT, BLUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 7, visiting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (DUSD) Richard Lawless met with the following senior South Korean officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and the Blue House: Senior Secretary to the President for National Security Yun Byung-se, MOFAT No [...] | 2007-06-22 04:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL1894 | (S) ROKG DENIES PENDING LICENSE FOR EXPORT OF [...] (S) On June 22, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed poloff that the ROK Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy (MOCIE) had completed its investigation of Insung International Corporation [...] | 2007-06-22 04:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL1908 | NEW ROK SMA FORMULA HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC [...] (C) Summary. On June 5, 2007, Ambassador Robert Loftis, Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements, held a two-hour discussion and working lunch with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae to discuss the ROK's "Propo [...] | 2007-06-25 08:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL1911 | REPORTERS NOT AS WELCOME IN KOREAN MINISTRIES [...] (U) On May 22, Korea's cabinet passed new rules that will, unless opposition from the media and many members of the National Assembly proves too strong, dramatically alter the current structure of press rooms at most ministry offices. Under the new press policy, which could be implemented im [...] | 2007-06-26 00:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL194 | DEFECTORS SEEK NK REGIME CHANGE THROUGH CIVIL [...] (C) People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE) is an organization newly founded by resettled North Koreans. While its short-term goal is to increase awareness of North Korea's human rights issues, the organization hopes ultimately to establish a network in the ROK, China and North Ko [...] | 2007-01-22 08:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL1964 | FORMER PRESIDENT KIM YOUNG-SAM: LOOKING FORWARD TO [...] (C) Summary: In a June 26 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam (KYS) said that the next ROK president would be a conservative from the Grand National Party, either former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak or former GNP Chairperson Park Geun-hye. Kim believed that Lee, [...] | 2007-06-29 06:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL1965 | ROKG TO CONSIDER CONTRIBUTION FOR HYBRID [...] (C) On June 28, the DCM conveyed reftel objectives encouraging capitals to contribute to expected UN/AU Hybrid Operations in Darfur to Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The DCM expressed USG appreciati [...] | 2007-07-01 23:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO UNSC MASS KS SU |
07SEOUL1967 | PRAGMATIC CONCERNS TAKE PRECEDENCE FOR NK DEFECTORS [...] (SBU) During a June 26-28 leadership camp sponsored by NGO Citizens' Alliance for North Korea Human Rights (Citizens' Alliance),16 young North Korean defectors received the message of democratic activism. However, more pragmatic advice on adjusting to South Korean society captivated their a [...] | 2007-07-02 02:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL1997 | NK HUMAN RIGHTS PROMINENT IN ROKG ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) The ROKG on May 22 unveiled its five-year National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. The 250-page report, which was compiled by the Ministry of Justice, touched on issues surrounding North Korean defectors in South Korea and efforts to improve human rights in [...] | 2007-07-05 07:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2014 | FOREIGN POLICY OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH KOREAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Korea's presidential candidates have focused much of their campaign efforts on domestic and economic issues. On foreign policy, from what we can glean from public statements, debates, and meetings with foreign policy advisors, one thing is certain: all of the candidates, [...] | 2007-07-05 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL2042 | ROKG FAVORABLE TO USG CANDIDATE FOR IOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 07:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL AORC EUN SMIG KS |
07SEOUL2047 | CAN THE NON-GNP CANDIDATES COME TOGETHER? [...] (U) Despite a GNP-centered race thus far, the liberal side is also gearing up for the presidential race, with a steady flow of hopefuls throwing their hat into the ring. Major center-left hopefuls, mostly those from the ruling camp, recently agreed to launch a new united party and stand behin [...] | 2007-07-09 08:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2048 | GAP IN POLLS CLOSING BETWEEN TWO GNP HEAVYWEIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The gap in polls between the frontrunner Lee Myung-bak and his rival Park Geun-hye from the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) started to drop off significantly in recent weeks. The shrinking gap comes from Lee's falling popularity amid revelations by Park's camp and the [...] | 2007-07-09 23:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2081 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CRITICIZES ROKG FOR MISHANDLING [...] (U) Summary. On June 25-26, the ROK National Assembly's Committee on Environment and Labor held a hearing on the clean up of returned USFK bases, expressing strongly critical views on the environmental conditions of those bases. Current and former top officials from the ROKG, including Forei [...] | 2007-07-11 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MARR PREL PARM KS |
07SEOUL2096 | REGIONALISM: STILL A FACTOR IN KOREAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Korean voters have traditionally voted in regional blocs for their favored candidate in local and national elections. In the 2002 presidential elections, Roh Moo-hyun received over 90 percent support in the southwest Jeolla Provinces. Despite Roh's campaign pledge to rid politics of r [...] | 2007-07-13 01:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL210 | ASAT: CHINESE RESPONSE TO ROK DEMARCHE [...] (C) In response to the ROKG's demarche objecting to China's anti-satellite test (Ref A),the Chinese Foreign Ministry contacted the ROK Embassy in Beijing to convey the following points: -- China confirms that it had conducted a test in space on January 11; -- The test was not aimed at [...] | 2007-01-23 05:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC MARR KS CH |
07SEOUL2109 | RARE ACCOUNT OF DPRK "TOTALLY CONTROLLED" PRISON [...] (SBU) A North Korean defector recounted his experience as a second-generation prisoner in a DPRK political prison camp. He described the public execution of his mother and brother; starvation; torture with hot coals; and an education system bereft of politics, history, or any reality outside [...] | 2007-07-13 07:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2144 | KAESONG INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: THE INTER-KOREAN [...] (C) The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),a tidy enclave where 24 South Korean companies employ almost 16,000 North Korean workers on DPRK soil, is the most tangible and significant aspect of North-South relations. By our calculation using parallel market exchange rates, the North Korean gov [...] | 2007-07-18 06:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KS KN |
07SEOUL2146 | AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...] | 2007-07-18 07:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS |
07SEOUL2157 | AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...] | 2007-07-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS |
07SEOUL217 | POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 2: ENERGY [...] (C) S/P Director Dr. Stephen Krasner and his delegation met with Korean and Japanese counterparts January 10-11 for a trilateral policy planning dialogue (ref a). Over lunch on January 11, the three delegations discussed energy security, peacebuilding, and UN reform. Both Korea and Japan, [...] | 2007-01-23 07:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL AORC KUNR KPKO KS JA US |
07SEOUL2178 | ROK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: STILL THE POLITICS OF [...] (C) The late Gregory Henderson, an FSO who had served several tours in Korea in the 1940s and 1960s, is well remembered as the author of "Korea: The Politics of the Vortex." The title remains an accurate description of Korean politics today: a spiraling whirlpool that sucks everything toward [...] | 2007-07-20 05:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2179 | ROKG TO INVESTIGATE SOUTH KOREAN TRADING COMPANIES [...] (S) On July 20, poloff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim agreed that, if verified, the case would represent a serious matter of proliferation concern. Ki [...] | 2007-07-20 07:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS KN TW |
07SEOUL2180 | STUDENTS' VIEWS ON CANDIDATES' FOREIGN POLICY [...] In an informal survey of college students, we found that the majority of students acknowledged the importance of foreign policy in the upcoming presidential election. Most, however, appeared to be utterly uninformed about the candidates' policies. This outcome likely reflects the conscious [...] | 2007-07-20 07:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL2189 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHUNG DONG-YOUNG REACHES [...] (SBU) Summary: Former Unification Minister and Uri Party chair Chung Dong-young was the guest of honor on July 11 at the 170th Symposium on Korea's Foreign and Security Policy hosted by the Asia-Pacific Policy Research Institute (APPRI). Chung began his speech by criticizing not only his com [...] | 2007-07-22 22:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL219 | ROKG SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 23, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Kim said that the Republic of Korea (ROK) agreed that any discus [...] | 2007-01-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL22 | ROK DEFENSE WHITE PAPER LABELS DPRK A 'SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) released its biennial Defense White Paper on December 29. The White Paper upgraded its characterization of the DPRK from a "direct military threat" to a "serious threat" to national security. The White Paper's focus remains on the threat po [...] | 2007-01-04 04:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL220 | POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 1: THE KOREAN [...] (C) During Session 1 of the January 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Talks, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Park In-kook, Japanese Deputy Vice Minister Masaharu Kono, and S/P Director Stephen R. Krasner outlined their respective countries' foreign policy priorities and strategies toward North Ko [...] | 2007-01-23 08:30:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KS |
07SEOUL2209 | ROK DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES HOSTAGE [...] (C) In a July 23 meeting with the CDA, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Shim Yoon-joe expressed ROKG appreciation for USG cooperation and information sharing in handling the Taliban kidnapping of Korean civilians in Afghanistan. In particular, Shim said that the ROKG appreciated USG assurances th [...] | 2007-07-23 09:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MARR AF KS |
07SEOUL221 | POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 3: CHINA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/P Krasner discussed China, India and East Asian architecture with ROK Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-kook and Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kono during U.S.-Japan-ROK Trilateral Policy Planning Talks on J [...] | 2007-01-23 08:30:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PREL PARM CH IN |
07SEOUL222 | JAPAN, ROK KEEN ON ASIA-PACIFIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT [...] (SBU) During the course of trilateral talks among the U.S., ROK and Japan held in Seoul on January 11, both ROKG Vice Foreign Minister Park In-kook and GOJ Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kono expressed preliminary interest in the idea of an Asia-Pacific Democracy Partnership [...] | 2007-01-23 08:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KS |
07SEOUL2241 | ROK LEANING TOWARD INCLUDING RUSSIA, NIGERIA, [...] (SBU) On July 18, poloff delivered reftel points to Jang Hyun-cheol, Deputy Director of MOFAT's Human Rights and Social Affairs Division. On July 23, Jang replied that, while the ROK agrees with the USG's views concerning the state of democracy in Russia, Venezuela, and Nigeria, the ROK belie [...] | 2007-07-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM UNGA |
07SEOUL2253 | TIMING OF ROKG DELEGATION TO UNGA UNDETERMINED [...] (C) On July 25, Lee Kyung-chul, Deputy Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told poloff that President Roh Moo-hyun intended to participate in the UNGA General Debate, with an address tentatively set for September 25. However, the timing of his trip was expe [...] | 2007-07-26 22:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP ITRA KSEP UNGA KS |
07SEOUL2269 | RELIGIOUS FERVOR AMONG KOREAN VOTERS [...] (SBU) Religion is emerging as an influencing factor in the December South Korean presidential election. Both liberal and conservative religious groups have formed liaisons with like-minded NGOs, bolstering each side's position on controversial issues. In particular, conservative Protestant g [...] | 2007-07-27 08:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2270 | ROKG PARTICIPANTS FOR SECOND NPT PREPCOM UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) On July 26, Ham, Sang-wook, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told poloff that the ROKG has not yet determined who would represent the ROKG at the second Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) in April-May 2008. Ham s [...] | 2007-07-27 08:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT KS |
07SEOUL2271 | (S) ROKG NEXT STEPS ON SEIZED SYRIA-BOUND STEEL [...] (S) On July 27, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim said that the ROKG, through the ROK Embassy in Beijing, had requested that the Chinese government investigate t [...] | 2007-07-27 08:30:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS SY CH |
07SEOUL2283 | ROKG INFORMED ABOUT UNGA EVENT ON LITERACY AND [...] (C) On July 30, poloff conveyed ref A information, regarding the September 24 heads of state spouse event on literacy and health that will be hosted by Mrs. Bush, to Lee Kyung-chul, Deputy Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Lee expressed appreciation for [...] | 2007-07-30 08:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA OVIP KS |
07SEOUL2297 | MOFAT WILL RELAY AZERBAIJAN HR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) On July 31, poloff delivered reftel points about recent human rights issues in Azerbaijan to Kim Pil-woo, First Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Human Rights and Social Affairs Division. Poloff requested that MOFAT encourage its mission in Baku to actively coordina [...] | 2007-07-31 08:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AJ EUN KDEM OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL KS |
07SEOUL23 | ROK DEFENSE REFORM AND THE 2007 NATIONAL DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary. The ROK National Assembly (NA) has approved the Bill on Defense Reform designed to modernize the ROK military by the year 2020 at the cost of Won 621 trillion (USD 667.7 billion). Motivating factors behind the military modernization plan include deterring the North Korean threat, [...] | 2007-01-04 04:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2336 | AFGHAN HOSTAGE SITUATION: MISSION'S ASSESSMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fifteen days after 23 Korean hostages were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, emotions are running high in Korea. Especially after two hostages were killed, pressure is mounting on the ROKG to ensure the remaining hostages are saved. Some politicians and leftist groups are [...] | 2007-08-03 08:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PGOV PREL PTER AF KN KS |
07SEOUL2337 | ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda of meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David S. Sedney during his SIPDIS orientation trip to the ROK on August 2. ROKG officials in the Ministry fo Froiegn Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry [...] | 2007-08-04 06:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MOPS KS AF |
07SEOUL2338 | CANCEL SEOUL 02337 [...] (U) ALL ADDEES PLEASE CANCEL SEOUL 02337. MESSAGE WILL BE RESENT UNDER NEW MRN AND MCN. THANK YOU. STANTON [...] | 2007-08-04 06:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KS PARM PREL |
07SEOUL2356 | NEW LIBERAL PARTY: UNDP NOT QUITE UNITED [...] SUMMARY (SBU) In pursuit of a grand coalition of the liberals, defectors from the ruling Uri Party and the Moderate United Democrats (MUD) launched the new progressive party "United New Democratic Party (UNDP)" on August 5. With eighty-five lawmakers, the new party emerged as the second larg [...] | 2007-08-06 08:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL2361 | KOREAN MEDIA TAKES THE RIGHT LINE ON AFGHAN HOSTAGE CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 6 meeting with Embassy Seoul PAO, a senior writer for one of Korea's three largest and most influential national dailies explained that the mainstream media have made a conscious editorial decision to advise Koreans not to blame the hostage crisis on the United Sta [...] | 2007-08-07 07:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PROP PTER KS AF |
07SEOUL2368 | ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda at meetings Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David Sedney had with several ROK officials on August 2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry of National Defense (MND),and Blue House's Nati [...] | 2007-08-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MOPS KS AF |
07SEOUL2369 | DASD SEDNEY MEETINGS IN SEOUL: UNRESOLVED SMA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ongoing ROK hostage crisis in Afghanistan (reported reftel) and unresolved issues surrounding the relocation of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) and the use of Special Measures Agreement (SMA) funds for relocation were key ROK agenda items in meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary [...] | 2007-08-07 08:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL2383 | ROH ANNOUNCES AUGUST 28-30 NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With the ROK presidential election only four months away and his favored candidates registering only single-digit support, President Roh Moo-hyun has played his ace in the hole, the North Korea card. The announcement today, August 8 that Roh would go to Pyongyang to meet with K [...] | 2007-08-08 22:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL2409 | REQUEST TO EXAMINE BANK MELLAT TRANSACTIONS IN [...] (S) On August 6, poloff delivered reftel non-paper and talking points to Ham, Sang-wook, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division. Ham undertook to share the non-paper and request for investigation with the ROK Ministry of [...] | 2007-08-10 07:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL KS IR |
07SEOUL2410 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT LIKELY TO BROADEN ECONOMIC [...] (C) During the two days since the surprise announcement of an August 28-30 North-South summit to be held in Pyongyang (reftel),hints have emerged that the ROKG will offer to considerably broaden economic cooperation with the North under the heading of "social overhead capital," possibly inclu [...] | 2007-08-10 09:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL2422 | ROKG PARTICIPATION FOR OCTOBER SPIEZ [...] (SBU) On August 6, poloff delivered reftel demarche and letter of invitation to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Kim said that due to other more pressing matters, the ROKG had not yet decided w [...] | 2007-08-13 04:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP ENRG PREL KS |
07SEOUL2444 | MOFAT DEPUTY MINISTER PARK TO TAKE LEAD ON [...] (C) On August 14, Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations at MOFAT, met with the Charge d'Affaires to inform him he would be leaving the next day for Afghanistan where he would take over as lead official for the South Korean government's handling of th [...] | 2007-08-14 10:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS KS AF |
07SEOUL2445 | MOFAT DEPUTY MINISTER PARK TO TAKE LEAD ON [...] (C) On August 14, Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations at MOFAT, met with the Charge d'Affaires to inform him he would be leaving the next day for Afghanistan where he would take over as lead official for the South Korean government's handling of th [...] | 2007-08-14 10:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS KS AF |
07SEOUL2457 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT: PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Progressive National Assembly members Lee Hwa-young and Kim Chong-ryul told poloffs on August 16 that President Roh Moo-hyun will emphasize strengthening economic ties during the August 28-30 summit with Kim Jong-il because he sees denuclearization as best handled through the Six-Party Ta [...] | 2007-08-16 08:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL ECON EINV |
07SEOUL2458 | ROK TO SEND FLOOD AID TO NORTH KOREA [...] (SBU) The DPRK experienced heavy flooding from August 7-12, and with more rain possible in the coming days for central North Korea, additional flooding is possible. In contrast to previous years, the DPRK has asked for relief assistance within days of the flooding. Official damage assessments [...] | 2007-08-16 11:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF KN KS EIAID |
07SEOUL2471 | GNP DECISION TIME APPROACHES: LEE MYUNG-BAK IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) will hold its primary in polling booths throughout the country. Polls show a significant lead for front-runner Lee Myung-bak -- anywhere from 5 to 12 percent -- and while the number of undecided voters is still high and the [...] | 2007-08-17 06:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL2481 | PRESIDENT ROH SETS MODEST GOALS FOR SUMMIT IN [...] (SBU) In his August 15 National Day speech, President Roh Moo-hyun set modest goals for his planned August 28-30 summit with the DPRK's Kim Jong-il, saying that the meeting should help the two Koreas "develop their relationship into one that is predictable and trustworthy," and defending his a [...] | 2007-08-17 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL2482 | PRESIDENT ROH MAGNANIMOUS ON US-ROK RELATIONS [...] (C/NF) In an August 16 Blue House meeting following the ceremony honoring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, ROK President Roh Moo-hyun detailed the many positive advances in U.S.- ROK relations accomplished during his term in office, including the relocation of U.S. Fo [...] | 2007-08-19 22:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR KS |
07SEOUL2529 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT: FOREIGN AND UNIFICATION MINISTERS [...] (C) Expanded North-South economic cooperation is only possible if the DPRK continues to make progress on denuclearization, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Song Min-soon told the Ambassador at an August 20 meeting. -- Song also said the summit would be about implementing existing agreem [...] | 2007-08-21 09:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL ECON EINV |
07SEOUL2531 | NORTH/SOUTH AGREE TO WAGE HIKE AT KAESONG [...] (C) On August 3, North and South Korean authorities agreed to give North Korean workers at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) a 5-percent pay raise, effective September 10. DPRK authorities had sought two earlier pay raises since the KIC broke ground in 2003, but this pay hike is the first [...] | 2007-08-21 22:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2534 | ROKG INVESTIGATION FINDS ROK COMPANIES DID NOT [...] (S) On August 21, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kim Jae-woo told poloff that the ROKG had completed its investigation of the six ROK trading companies listed in reftel A nonpaper that allegedly facilitated sales [...] | 2007-08-22 01:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS KN TW |
07SEOUL2539 | GNP CANDIDATE LEE MYUNG-BAK TAKES AIM TOWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak won a narrow victory in the Grand National Party (GNP) primary and is well positioned to become the next ROK President. Based on his public statements and on conversations with his key advisors, important elements of Lee's campaign for the Dece [...] | 2007-08-22 08:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2547 | SEOUL RESPONSE: BANK MELLAT TRANSACTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 06:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | IR KNNP PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL2556 | REPORT ON 14TH U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE [...] (S) SUMMARY: The 14th Security Policy Initiative meeting (SPI-14) was held on July 27 in Hawaii. OSD/APSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James Shinn headed the U.S. delegation. The Korean delegation was led by Dr. Jeon Jei Guk, Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy, Ministr [...] | 2007-08-24 05:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR KS |
07SEOUL2560 | SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY VEHICLES SALE TO IRAN [...] (C) During a meeting on August 23 with Park Chul-min, Director of the Disarmament and Non-proliferation Division at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Park inquired whether the U.S. Government would have any objection to the following sale of Kia Motors vehicles to [...] | 2007-08-24 06:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PINS PTER MASS KS IR AF IZ |
07SEOUL2573 | LEE MYUNG-BAK COMES OUT AGAINST OCTOBER SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: GNP Presidential Candidate Lee Myung-bak advisor Nam Sung-wook told poloffs on August 23 that newly-crowned GNP candidate Lee was opposed to the proposed October 2-4 North-South Summit because of the effect it could have on the December elections, and because the summit aftermat [...] | 2007-08-27 08:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2574 | ROK OPTIMISTIC TALIBAN WILL RELEASE KOREAN [...] (S) The Ambassador was called in to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) late in the day on August 27 to receive an upbeat report on the status of the Korean hostage negotiations in Afghanistan. Deputy Minister for Political Affairs Shim Yoon-joe, who was serving as acting forei [...] | 2007-08-27 10:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PTER PREL PINR MARR MOPS KS AF |
07SEOUL2596 | DPRK ECONOMY SHRINKS IN 2006: BANK OF KOREA [...] (SBU) Relying on official but suspect DPRK data, the Bank of Korea's (BOK) report on the DPRK economy is noteworthy for spotlighting 2006 as a recession year, ending a seven-year growth streak. The DPRK economy shrank 1.1 percent in real terms -- compared with 3.8-percent growth reported fo [...] | 2007-08-28 07:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2634 | FTA: TRADE MINISTER KIM DISCUSSES BEEF, RICE, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 29, newly appointed Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon reviewed major KORUS-FTA trade issues with Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and the Ambassador. TM Kim said the FTA remained on track for submission to the National Assembly in early September -- and President Roh was s [...] | 2007-08-31 01:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PREL KS |
07SEOUL2648 | ROKG INTERNAL WRANGLING OVER NLL, A NORTH-SOUTH [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. How the October 2-4 North-South summit should deal with the Northern Limit Line (NLL) is a major preoccupation for the South Korean government and the press. The issue is significant because the North has steadfastly refused to discuss a laundry list of military-to-military i [...] | 2007-08-31 07:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR KS KN |
07SEOUL2651 | ROK TO CONDUCT UAV HAESEONG-II FLIGHT TEST (S) [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 07:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KS MARR PARM PREL |
07SEOUL2653 | HOSTAGES AND RAMIFICATIONS ARE COMING HOME TO KOREA [...] (S) SUMMARY: On August 30, all of the remaining Korean hostages held by their Taliban captors in Afghanistan were turned over to the International Committee of the Red Crescent in Ghazni. Out of the 23 Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban, two were killed, two were released on August 13, and th [...] | 2007-08-31 08:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR MARR MOPS AF KS |
07SEOUL2674 | BLUE HOUSE PREVIEWS U.S.-ROK SUMMIT MEETING: FTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the September 7 APEC bilateral summit meeting in Sydney, President Roh will inform President Bush that Korea has presented the U.S.-Korea FTA (KORUS FTA) to the National Assembly for ratification just prior to the meeting, a key Blue House economic adviser told us September [...] | 2007-09-04 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | AS EAGR ETRD IN KS PREL |
07SEOUL2675 | (S) ROKG PLANS TO ALLOW SYRIA-BOUND STEEL [...] (S) On August 31, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, informed poloff that the ROKG had decided to allow the transshipment of Syria-bound steel that had been seized by ROK authorities in June. Kim said that the [...] | 2007-09-04 08:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS SY CH |
07SEOUL2694 | SUBJECT: NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: HOW IT CAME ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: According to a senior Blue House staffer, the Roh Administration had been pursuing a North-South summit for several years, but to no avail until two months ago. The negotiations were conducted by NIS (National Intelligence Service) and NSC staff. Cabinet members, including Fore [...] | 2007-09-05 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL2695 | THE LONE STAR SAGA CONTINUES: HONG KONG SHANGHAI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 3, Lone Star Funds (LS),a Dallas-based private equity firm, agreed to sell its 51-percent management stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) for USD 6.3 billion, pending regulatory approval. The sale would permit LS to c [...] | 2007-09-05 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2696 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON ROK-DPRK SUMMIT AND [...] (C) During a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun, who will accompany President Roh Moo-hyun to the APEC meetings, said that the October 2-4 North-South summit would support the Six-Party Talks and denuclearization, but he was not confident that Kim [...] | 2007-09-05 08:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL270 | WILL THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ELECT THE NEXT KOREAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Historically, regionalism has played an important role in Korean presidential elections. But in 2002, young voters successfully mobilized and helped Roh Moo-hyun edge out Lee Hoi-chang by a 2.2 percent margin. The media had a frenzy touting the "youth revolution," and the da [...] | 2007-01-29 05:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2713 | UNDP PRE-PRIMARY: WORKING FROM NINE TO FIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an attempt to generate interest in the fledgling liberal United New Democratic Party (UNDP) and to reduce the number of candidates, the successor to the Uri Party conducted a pre-primary to pare down the number of candidates from nine to five over September 3-5. The five winne [...] | 2007-09-06 08:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2728 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PROF. MOON CHUNG-IN, GNP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador discussed the latest developments in the Six-Party Talks, the upcoming North-South summit and ROK's December presidential elections with Yonsei Political Science Professor Moon Chung-in and GNP Lawmaker Won Hee-ryong. Over a relaxed lunch, Moon explained that Pres [...] | 2007-09-07 08:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL276 | PDAS STEPHENS' MEETING WITH DEPUTY UNIFICATION [...] (C) Deputy Minister of Unification for Unification Policy and Public Relations Lee Kwan-sei told EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathy Stephens that the ROKG was cautiously optimistic about progress at the next round of Six Party Talks (6PT),would continue the suspension of rice-and- [...] | 2007-01-29 07:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PREL OVIP |
07SEOUL2761 | JAPAN-DPRK WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: A Japanese Embassy contact told us that the September 5-6 Japan-North Korea bilateral meeting in Ulaanbaatar was "better" than the previous meeting in Hanoi, especially the overall atmosphere. One concrete result was that North Korea agreed to have further meetings. Substantive [...] | 2007-09-11 08:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN JP |
07SEOUL2800 | TOP POLITICAL ANALYST SAYS "LUCKY LEE" WILL WIN IN [...] (C) Summary: With just over three months until the presidential election, GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak leads all polls and most political observers predict he will celebrate his birthday, December 19, with a victory. Park Song-min, head of MIN political consultants, a leading political analyst [...] | 2007-09-14 02:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2842 | AFGHANISTAN: HOSTAGE CRISIS DOES NOT AFFECT ROKG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On September 17, Cho Byung-Jae, Director General for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),told Pol M/C that the ROKG had decided to move forward with its pre-ROK hostage crisis pla [...] | 2007-09-17 08:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER PGOV MASS KS AF IZ |
07SEOUL2845 | THREE-MAN RACE EMERGES AFTER FIRST ROUND IN UNDP [...] (C) Summary: Former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young was the big winner in the United New Democratic Party's four primary elections held over the weekend, placing first in three out of the four races. Former Gyeonggi Province Governor Sohn Hak-kyu came in second, despite his higher poll [...] | 2007-09-17 09:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2861 | LEE WINS PRIMARY, WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) Summary: Conservative Grand National Party (GNP) presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak has started to revamp the party just three months ahead of the presidential election. After emerging as the GNP candidate on August 20, Lee stated that he would embrace Park Geun-hye's supporters. Howeve [...] | 2007-09-18 06:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL287 | URI PARTY: RATS JUMP SHIP; CAN THEY SWIM? [...] (C) Summary: Between January 23 and 28, four members of the Uri Party withdrew from the ruling Uri Party. Before the February 14 party convention, many others are expected to follow suit and abandon President Roh's party. With the withdrawal of National Assemblyman Im Jong-in on January 23, [...] | 2007-01-30 07:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL2876 | SENIOR KBS CORRESPONDENTS SEE GNP'S VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: According to two senior Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) correspondents, Lee Myung-bak would be victorious in December, not because of Lee's qualities or performance, but because of three big macro trends in Korean society: less nationalism, more suspicion of North Korea, and m [...] | 2007-09-19 05:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2886 | CHUNG OVERTAKES SOHN IN POLLS [...] (C) Summary: Chung Dong-young's early victories in the first rounds of the liberal United New Democratic Party's (UNDP) primaries (See reftel) boosted his poll ratings into the double digits for the first time. A September 18 Donga Ilbo newspaper poll also showed a six percent drop for conser [...] | 2007-09-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2906 | NSA BAEK: EXPECT NO SURPRISES FROM N-S SUMMIT [...] (C) National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun told the Ambassador during a September 19 meeting that all potential agenda items for the North-South Summit were now public knowledge. As a result, there would be no surprises at the summit. Baek thought that a joint summit statement would be 1/3 [...] | 2007-09-20 08:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL2940 | FORMER UNIFICATION MINISTER JUNG SE-HYUN ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with poloff, former Unification Minister (Jan. 2002-Jun. 2004) Jung Se-hyun said that the upcoming October 2-4 North-South summit would focus on the economy. Jung said that a commitment by one of the major ROK chaebols (Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc.) to in [...] | 2007-09-27 06:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2960 | ADVISOR SAYS GNP CANDIDATE LEE LACKS CLEAR FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha, a senior advisor to Lee Myung-bak, told poloffs on September 26 that Lee's lack of overall foreign policy vision worried him. Since Lee did not have a fixed idea about how Korea should relate to its neighbors, Lee was flexible and open to ide [...] | 2007-09-28 08:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL2974 | SUBJECT: ISSUES TO WATCH AT THE ROK-DPRK SUMMIT, [...] (C) President Roh Moo-hyun and his 300-person entourage of businesspeople, journalists and support staff will drive from Seoul to Pyongyang on the morning of October 2 for the second ROK-DPRK summit meeting with Kim Jong-il. This is the first chance for Roh and Kim Jong-il to meet face to face [...] | 2007-10-01 10:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL2990 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT DAY 1: PAGEANTRY AND PEACE BUT NO [...] (U) Summary: President Roh walked for a few meters across the inter-Korean border and later met Kim Jong-il outside the House of Culture in Pyongyang, allaying the fears of some who feared that Kim would snub his South Korean counterpart on day one of the summit. The day's events were carried [...] | 2007-10-02 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL3006 | ROH SURPRISED BY DPRK ATTITUDE, BUT NO SURPRISES [...] (C) While the joint declaration from the North-South Summit contained no major surprises, President Roh was reported as being surprised by the level of suspicion in his meetings with the DPRK. The joint declaration included a DPRK commitment to denuclearization but made no overt mention of th [...] | 2007-10-04 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL3007 | ROH SURPRISED BY DPRK ATTITUDE, BUT NO SURPRISES [...] (C) While the joint declaration from the North-South Summit contained no major surprises, President Roh was reported as being surprised by the level of suspicion in his meetings with the DPRK. The joint declaration included a DPRK commitment to denuclearization and a peace regime to replace t [...] | 2007-10-04 09:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN ECON |
07SEOUL3017 | CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE MAKES ONLINE GAINS [...] (C) Summary. In the 2002 presidential election the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) lost the battle for internet supremacy. In an effort to right that wrong, GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak is using the internet to boost visibility among young voters, already a bastion of his political s [...] | 2007-10-05 05:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3018 | UNDP CHANGES PRIMARY RULES AMID FRAUD ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The United New Democratic Party (UNDP) announced October 3 it would combine the remaining eight primary races into a "one-shot" one-day primary event on October 14. The party hopes to address allegations of voter fraud and generate more voter interest with the change. The singl [...] | 2007-10-05 05:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3024 | MOFAT READOUT OF NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: ROH "WENT TO [...] (C) In an October 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Foreign Minister Cho Jung-pyo said that the ROK had reached a comprehensive agreement on the future direction of inter-Korean relations during the North-South Summit. Peace, inter-Korean economic cooperation, and reconciliation were the ma [...] | 2007-10-05 08:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PROG PREL PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL3026 | ROK-DPRK SUMMIT DECLARATION: AMBITIOUS PLAN WILL [...] (C) The "Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity" that emerged from the October 2-4 summit between President Roh Moo-hyun and the DPRK's Kim Jong-il is a "Sunshine Policy" manifesto: an action plan for peace-building and engagement that progressi [...] | 2007-10-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS ECON PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL3043 | MOU MINISTER DOWNPLAYS SUMMIT TENSIONS, HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) In an October 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-jung went into detail about the personal dynamics between President Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Jong-il at the October 2-4 Summit, and downplayed the awkward moments between the two. Lee's overall impression of the summit [...] | 2007-10-09 06:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROG KS KN |
07SEOUL3058 | DARK HORSE CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN - DOES HE HAVE [...] (C) Summary: Dark horse independent candidate Moon Kuk-hyun presented himself as a liberal, pro-business alternative to conservative Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak. Speaking comfortably in English and Korean before a packed audience at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Clu [...] | 2007-10-11 02:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3080 | UNDP PRIMARY PREVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Though the race for the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidacy is tightening and allegations of voter fraud persist, former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young is in the lead and could be the UNDP candidate if his strong national organization can get out the vote and hold [...] | 2007-10-12 05:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3086 | ALL KEY POLITICAL FACTORS FAVOR GNP CANDIDATE LEE [...] (C) Summary: With just 68 days until the presidential election, there is no indication that the liberal camp will be able to overcome Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak's lead. (In an October 5 SBS-Hankook Ilbo poll, Lee received 47.6 percent support to 11.3 percent for his cl [...] | 2007-10-12 06:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3104 | EAST ASIA DASD SEDNEY'S MEETINGS IN SEOUL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings in Seoul on October 9-10, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney met with U.S.-ROK Alliance counterparts in MOFAT and MND to discuss preparations for the visit of Secretary Gates for the November 6-7 Security Consultative Meeting. They also discussed [...] | 2007-10-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AF KS |
07SEOUL3117 | MT. KUMGANG SHOWS GROWING ROK FOOTPRINT IN DPRK [...] (C) Summary. Mount Kumgang is sometimes regarded as a one-sided transfer of ROK tourist funds to DPRK coffers without much prospect of influencing the DPRK. The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),in contrast, is seen as more beneficial because 16,000 North Korean workers are exposed to South [...] | 2007-10-17 06:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN ECON PREL |
07SEOUL3122 | NEW UNDP CANDIDATE CHUNG BANKS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, the progressive United New Democratic Party (UNDP) announced that former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young is the party's candidate for the December 19 presidential election. Chung won with a comfortable 43.8 percent of all physical, mobile phone, and opinion [...] | 2007-10-17 07:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3137 | LEE UNVEILS OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP TEAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In forming his campaign leadership team, Grand National Party (GNP) presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak tried to combine both party members and outside figures in what he termed a "2 6" leadership formula - two campaign chairmen from within the party plus six co-chairs from ou [...] | 2007-10-19 07:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3159 | ROK TROOPS IN IRAQ: UNDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: On the same day President Roh formally proposed to extend the stay of the Zaytun unit in Iraq for one more year (see septel),United New Democratic Party (UNDP) Candidate Chung Dong-young formally announced that he would oppose the proposal. Chung and the leaders of the UNDP cit [...] | 2007-10-23 07:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS PINR |
07SEOUL3178 | CHUNG DONG-YOUNG ADVISORS: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent meeting with Emboffs, members of United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young's policy advisory team discussed Chung's economic policy, his views on the U.S. and his strategy for overcoming Lee Myung-bak's sizable lead in the final 60 days of the ca [...] | 2007-10-25 07:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3186 | TIMELINE AND PROSPECTS FOR ROK'S IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) The ROKG officially kicked off proceedings to decide on extending the deployment of South Korean troops to Irbil, Iraq. On October 23, President Roh made a televised announcement asking for understanding and cooperation to extend the deployment for another year. The extension bill faces [...] | 2007-10-26 06:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS PINR |
07SEOUL3191 | COURT RULINGS UNDERMINE LEGAL PROGRESS IN FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary: The ROKG has made some progress in addressing sexual harassment, but recent court rulings overturning convictions point to an underlying cultural tolerance for demeaning behavior toward women in the workplace. Ironically, a number of convictions were reversed after the complaina [...] | 2007-10-26 06:59:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3214 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo, your host for the 39th Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) November 6-7, has done a tremendous job in stabilizing the ROK-U.S. Alliance in his 12 months as Defense Minister. By helping to resolve the most contentious issues (OPCON transfer, camp returns),he [...] | 2007-10-30 07:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR KS |
07SEOUL3224 | BLUE HOUSE ADVISORS: WE WILL LOSE IN DECEMBER BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 30, Poloffs met with two working-level Blue House policy advisers. The two, both typical "Roh-sa-mo" supporters who owe their Blue House jobs to their work on the Roh campaign in 2002, were pessimistic about United New Democratic Party (UNDP) Candidate Chung Dong-you [...] | 2007-10-31 07:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3225 | KIM KYUNG-JOON'S EXTRADITION CASE [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the Ambassador met with former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha, co-chairman of Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak's election campaign and one of his main foreign policy advisers. Responding to Yoo's earlier request concerning the BBK extradition case, [...] | 2007-10-31 08:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3236 | ROKG SOLICITS U.S. VIEWS ON COMMERCIAL SALE OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (C) On October 31, Park Chul-min, Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) shared information regarding the pending sale of up to 3000 vehicles to the Venezuelan milit [...] | 2007-11-01 06:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS MARR PARM PREL VE |
07SEOUL3256 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN FOCUSES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1 independent presidential candidate Moon Kuk-hyun outlined his platform during breakfast with the Ambassador. Moon's support rate has been hovering just below 10 percent, but he is still optimistic these rates will reach 20 percent by the end of November. Moon's ove [...] | 2007-11-05 01:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS |
07SEOUL3266 | ROK WILLING TO PROSECUTE PIRATES, SEEKS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche and non-paper, Park In-kook, Deputy Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Global Issues, agreed on the need for stronger multilateral enforcement mechanisms against piracy. In a November 6 meeting with the DCM, Park asked in particular about th [...] | 2007-11-06 06:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KCSY PHSA PTER PREL EWWT UN UNSC IMO PM |
07SEOUL3268 | CANDIDATE LEE HOI-CHANG: THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sensing an opportunity that the imminent return of a financial swindle figure could destroy Lee Myung-bak's candidacy, two-time presidential runner-up and former Grand National Party (GNP) Chairman Lee Hoi-chang, 72, is expected to announce a third bid for the presidency in the [...] | 2007-11-06 06:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3269 | CANDIDATE RHEE IN-JAE: STILL RUNNING [...] (C) Summary: Over a November 2 lunch with the Ambassador, Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Rhee In-jae explained that if he were elected president, U.S.-ROK relations would improve, he would institute policies that encouraged reform in North Korea, and he would create many quality [...] | 2007-11-06 07:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS |
07SEOUL3279 | ROK: NHK-II PIP MISSILE TEST FLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-07 06:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PARM PREL MARR KS |
07SEOUL3285 | THE LEE HOI-CHANG EFFECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative Lee Hoi-chang's November 7 entry into the 2007 presidential race changes the election dynamics. What many clearly saw as the inevitable landslide win of Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak has been cast into doubt. Simply put, the majority of votes for [...] | 2007-11-08 06:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS |
07SEOUL3287 | ROH MOO-HYUN: NOT SO LAME DUCK? [...] (C) Summary: President Roh is entering the last 100 days of his presidency determined to avoid the lame duck fate of his predecessors; so far, he has done a credible job. Former Presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung limped through the last months of their presidencies with single-digit a [...] | 2007-11-08 06:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL329 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP A/S HILL AND SPECIAL [...] (U) Embassy Seoul warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 3-5, 2007 official visit to Seoul by EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill and Special Assistant Thomas B. Gibbons. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political External [...] | 2007-02-02 07:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL AMGT KS |
07SEOUL3297 | ROH PUSHING NORTH KOREAN AGENDA TO BITTER END [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8, poloffs met with Professor Kim Keun-sik, professor of North Korea studies at Kyungnam University and Blue House advisor on North Korean policy. Kim accompanied Roh to Pyongyang for the October 2-4 summit and is a reliable source on Roh's DPRK policy. While acknow [...] | 2007-11-09 07:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL331 | ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LEE MYUNG-BAK: [...] (SBU) Summary: Former Seoul Mayor and opposition Grand National Party (GNP) Presidential Candidate Lee Myung-bak is topping the charts with 44.6 percent approval ratings, according to a January 30 Donga Ilbo Newspaper poll. Promising affordable homes for newly married couples, jobs for all a [...] | 2007-02-02 08:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL3312 | UNDP-DP MERGER: DOES 13 PLUS 1.2 EQUAL VICTORY? [...] (C) Summary: On November 12, United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young and Democratic Party (DP) candidate Rhee In-je announced they would merge their two parties and that a unified presidential candidate would be chosen based on two debates and the results of two rounds of [...] | 2007-11-14 07:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3319 | ROKG ENDORSES GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) The ROKG endorses the principles of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and plans to participate in the June 11-12 meeting in Kazakhstan, MOFAT Director for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Park Chul-min told Poloffs from the U.S. and Russian Embassies at a May 22 meeting. [...] | 2007-05-22 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PARM PINR PINS KNNP MCAP KS |
07SEOUL3320 | ROKG SHARES BROAD INTERPRETATION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC KS IR |
07SEOUL3323 | ROK OPINION OF CHINA DRIVEN BY GOGURYEO ANXIETY [...] (C) Mt. Baekdu, known in China as Mt. Changbai, is considered in Korea to be a sacred mountain, containing the legendary foundation of the nation. This highest mountain in Korea (and Manchuria) has come to the fore for many South Koreans because they perceive Chinese economic, cultural, and [...] | 2007-11-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PROG PREL |
07SEOUL3326 | ROK WILL VOTE AGAINST NO-ACTION MOTIONS IN UN 3RD [...] (C) Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights and Social Affairs, said that the ROKG would take a principled stand against all no-action votes on human rights issues in the Third Committee. The ROK mission at the UN has already been alerted to this instruction. Jang stated that [...] | 2007-11-16 04:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA KS |
07SEOUL333 | PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL CHUNG DONG-YOUNG: CONTENDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the American model of celebrity turned politician, former news anchor Chung Dong-young enjoyed rising star status as one of the founders of the Uri Party, a close ally of Roh Moo-hyun, and a Minister of Unification who met with Kim Jong-il. Soon after Chung's histori [...] | 2007-02-02 09:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL3331 | CANDIDATES OFFER NO GOOD SOLUTION TO EDUCATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Education, more specifically the need to get one's child into college, is of great concern to South Korean parents, who spend more than four times the OECD average on education, most of which goes toward private tutoring. The cost and stress of this system make educational reform [...] | 2007-11-16 06:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CH KN KS RS |
07SEOUL3361 | WEEK OF DESTINY: ONE MONTH TILL PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In the next ten days the outcome of the December 19 election will become clearer since after the official candidate registration period November 25-6 the candidates will be confirmed. Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak still holds some hope that former GNP Chairm [...] | 2007-11-21 04:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3366 | UNDP CANDIDATE CHUNG TO JEOLLA: WHERE'S THE LOVE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Jeolla region has historically supported liberal politics and progressive candidates. Overwhelming (over 90 percent) support in the Jeolla provinces helped Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun gain office in otherwise closely contested elections in 1997 and 2002, respectively. Des [...] | 2007-11-23 04:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3367 | ROK UNLIKELY TO CHANGE POSITION ON ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) Kim Eun-jeong, MOFAT Deputy Director of the United Nations Division, said that the ROK was unlikely to change its stance of abstaining on the three anti-Israel resolutions mentioned in reftel. The ROKG's position has been consistent over the years, Kim explained, and there was "not a high [...] | 2007-11-23 06:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS KS |
07SEOUL3368 | ROKG FAVORABLE ON PROSPER NOMINATION TO UN [...] (C) Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights and Social Affairs, said that the ROKG would favorably consider Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper's re-election campaign for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. As the election would not be held [...] | 2007-11-23 06:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA KS |
07SEOUL3385 | ROKG BRIEFS U.S. OFFICIALS IN ADVANCE OF N-S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 26 the U.S.- ROK Senior Working Group, consisting of representatives from MOFAT, MND, UNC/CFC/USFK and the Embassy, met for a briefing on the ROK strategy for the November 27-29 North-South Defense Ministerial. The briefing conducted by BG Moon Sung-mook of MND's No [...] | 2007-11-26 07:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PARM PREL MNUC KN KS |
07SEOUL3408 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SAVES TOUGH ISSUES FOR FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the National Assembly (NA) session, which ended on November 23, Korea's parliament approved several controversial bills, but left the KORUS FTA and the Iraq troop deployment extension for later sessions. Possibly the most controversial of the bills passed was a proposal -- ve [...] | 2007-11-28 05:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS |
07SEOUL3410 | UNDP CHUNG DONG-YOUNG'S CAMP FACING UPHILL BATTLE [...] (C) Summary: In designing his campaign leadership team and strategies, United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young has tried to integrate creative new outreach programs to directly involve the public. Chung's advisors are mainly former staff members from Chung's days in th [...] | 2007-11-28 06:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS |
07SEOUL3414 | SUBJECT: INTER-KOREAN PRIME MINISTERS' AGREEMENT: [...] (C) Summary: The November 14-16 South-North Prime Ministerial talks between the ROK's Han Duck-soo and the DPRK's Kim Yong-il ended with a detailed agreement -- eight pages, eight articles and 48 subsidiary points -- to implement many of the economic engagement projects that President Roh Moo [...] | 2007-11-28 07:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KS KN PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL3424 | THE HEAT IS ON: OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: The 23-day official presidential campaign period kicked off November 27 with large rallies consisting mostly of yelling, dancing and hugging of voters. Despite the compact campaign period, bubbling scandals, late entries of candidates and intrigue surrounding North Korea, Park Ge [...] | 2007-11-30 06:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3426 | UNCOVERING THE DJ KIDNAPPING: CLOSING THE DOOR ON [...] (C) Summary: The life of former President Kim Dae-jung, often referred to as Asia's Nelson Mandela, is a microcosm of the turbulent course of post-war Korean politics. Beginning in the 1960s, Kim, a native of the historically repressed Jeolla region, became a vocal pro-democracy activist and [...] | 2007-11-30 07:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3427 | SCENESETTER FOR NSA BAEK'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ROK National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun will make what he sees as his final visit to Washington in his current position on December 3-4. In a November 28 meeting with the Ambassador, he said that the main reason for the trip was to coordinate on relevant U.S.-ROK issues fo [...] | 2007-11-30 08:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL3428 | DPRK ECONOMY: THE CHINESE "GRAB" FOR MINERAL [...] (C) Generating significant press 'buzz' between the North/South Prime Ministerial and Defense Ministers meetings this November, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) recently issued a report urging the ROKG to adopt new policies promoting natural resource development in the DPRK. [...] | 2007-11-30 08:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN ETRD PREL PGOV KN KS CH |
07SEOUL3449 | ROK TO CONDUCT UAV HAESONG-II TEST FLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-04 07:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KS MARR PARM PREL |
07SEOUL3461 | ROKG REPORTS PROGRESS ON CAMP ZAYTUN MOU IN ERBIL [...] (SBU) On December 3, Poloff delivered reftel points to Kang Young-shin, Deputy Director, Development Cooperation Division, and Kang Myung-il, Deputy Director, ROK-U.S. Security Cooperation Division of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). In a follow-up meeting on December 4, [...] | 2007-12-05 06:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KS MARR PARM PREL |
07SEOUL3463 | UNGA FOLLOW UP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points on December 4 to MOFAT's Deputy Director of Human Rights and Social Affairs, Jang Hyun-cheol and First Secretary Kim Pil-woo. Jang said that the ROK decision to abstain on the North Korea Human Rights Resolution came only after "painful discussions" withi [...] | 2007-12-05 07:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL3464 | LEE MYUNG-BAK CLEARED IN BBK SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary: On December 5, the Prosecutor's Office announced that Lee Myung-bak was clear of suspicion in the BBK stock manipulation scandal. While the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) and others have vowed to continue to fight to unearth Lee Myung-bak's connection to the scandal, the off [...] | 2007-12-05 07:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3465 | REGIONALISM ALIVE AND KICKING IN SWING PROVINCE OF [...] (C) Summary: Insistence among pundits in Seoul that regionalism is declining falls on deaf ears in the swing provinces of the Chungcheong region. The region is divided into two provinces, North and South Chungcheong, in which Daejeon, with its population of about 1.5 million people, is the l [...] | 2007-12-05 07:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS |
07SEOUL3484 | GYEONGSANG: ANTICIPATING THE CONSERVATIVE REVIVAL [...] (C) Summary: The Gyeongsang province has long been associated with strong ties to political conservatism. The area's largest city, Busan, is a shipping hub and its economy is dependent upon industrial and trade-related activities centered around its marine ports. Its profile continues to [...] | 2007-12-09 22:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3485 | LEE MYUNG-BAK STRETCHES HIS LEAD: KEY CONTACTS SAY [...] (C) Summary: On December 7 poloffs met with several key Assembly contacts to gauge the mood in the National Assembly one day after the first televised presidential debate. All interlocutors from both the GNP and UNDP agreed that the "game was over" and Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee [...] | 2007-12-09 22:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3510 | LEE MYUNG-BAK AND MONK MYOCHUNG: TWO PEAS FROM A [...] (C) Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak is virtually assured of a victory December 19, but according to a contact who has been covering the Lee camp since summer 2006, a victory December 19 is just the first in a series of goals Lee and his top advisors have laid out. In the Ap [...] | 2007-12-11 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3511 | CHUNG DONG-YOUNG CAMPAIGN MANAGER: CHUNG AND [...] (C) Summary: Over coffee on December 10, former lawmaker and current head of UNDP candidate Chung Dong-young's campaign, Chyung Dai-chul, told the Ambassador that he had no confidence that candidate Chung could mount a serious challenge to frontrunner Lee Myung-bak. If the liberals unified b [...] | 2007-12-11 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3513 | ROK UAV HAESONG-II TEST FLIGHT RESCHEDULED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 03:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KS MARR PARM PREL |
07SEOUL3515 | SEOUL 2007 CABLES REGARDING DECEMBER 19 [...] (U) Provided below is a list of post's cables pertaining to the December 17 Presidential election. This list may be useful in answering questions related to the candidates and the election. Paragraph 2 highlights key cables by category (Bio Sketches, Ambassador/Embassy Visitors - Candidate [...] | 2007-12-12 06:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL3525 | BLUE HOUSE AIDES SOMBER, READY FOR THE WORST [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs recently met with working level Blue House policy advisors Jo Su-jeong and Kim Tae-hwan who said that morale in the Blue House was low since the Prosecutor's Office cleared Lee Myung-bak of all charges related to the BBK stock-manipulation scandal December 5, but that ther [...] | 2007-12-13 05:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3527 | LOOKING IN THE CRYSTAL BALL: LEE MYUNG-BAK'S [...] (C) Summary: Past presidents have traditionally started their tenure by choosing academics or National Assembly members as their first foreign ministers, later replaced by career diplomats. The current bet among our MOFAT and campaign contacts is that Lee Myung-bak might decide to stick wit [...] | 2007-12-13 21:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL353 | DM PARK IN-KOOK ON CONCERNS ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 5 lunch hosted by Park In-kook, MOFAT Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations, Park updated the DCM on recent actions the ROK had taken to implement UNSCR 1718 and tighten inspections at the Western Transportation Corridor (TC West) t [...] | 2007-02-06 05:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD MNUC PARM PREL KN KS |
07SEOUL3531 | NORTH KOREA REFUGEES FACE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA [...] (SBU) This cable is the first in a two-part series about psychological issues facing North Korean refugees. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As the number of North Korean refugees arriving in the South continues to rise, so too do the accounts of harsh living conditions that North Koreans faced on a day t [...] | 2007-12-14 03:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL3535 | SOUTH-NORTH RELATIONS SINCE OCTOBER SUMMIT: HAIL [...] (C) President Roh Moo-hyun's October summit with Kim Jong-il was not the fourth-quarter touchdown that progressives were hoping for. Compared to the euphoria of the first South-North summit in June 2000, the public reaction was tepid, with no discernible effect on the presidential campaign. [...] | 2007-12-14 06:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PREL ECON EINV |
07SEOUL3538 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES: DEALING WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL [...] (SBU) This cable is the second in a two-part series about psychological issues that North Korean defectors are facing. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A small group of doctors, politicians and academics in South Korea are working to bring North Korean defector's psychological challenges, including Post-Tr [...] | 2007-12-14 06:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL3539 | FOREIGN MINISTER AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS HANDLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told the Ambassador during a December 13 meeting that he wanted to continue close coordination with the USG during the remainder of President Roh Moo-hyun's term, and that he understood the Embassy's need to engage with the president-elect's transiti [...] | 2007-12-14 07:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PREL ABLD |
07SEOUL3540 | GNP LAWMAKER PARK JIN ON LEE MYUNG-BAK FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 14 meeting with POL M/C and POL Internal Chief, Grand National Party (GNP) lawmaker Park Jin explained that no one in the Lee Myung-bak campaign team was publicly planning for the transition despite the GNP candidate's commanding lead in all polls. However, he allo [...] | 2007-12-14 07:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3550 | KBS REPORTER: LEE MYUNG-BAK PRAGMATIC, SHY [...] (C) Summary: KBS reporter Min Kyung-wook, Washington correspondent until June 2007, is currently producing a 30-minute documentary on Lee Myung-bak to air December 20 on the national TV station. Recently, Min shared his impressions after a full month researching Lee's life, meeting his old a [...] | 2007-12-17 05:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3551 | SOUTH KOREA TO VOTE AGAINST DURBAN REVIEW IN UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 06:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS KN |
07SEOUL3552 | POLLSTERS SAY LEE MYUNG-BAK WILL WIN BIG DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Two days before the Korean presidential election and five days since the prohibition on political polling went into place, two representatives from leading polling firms told POL M/C and POL INT that Lee Myung-bak would convincingly win the December 19 presidential election but m [...] | 2007-12-17 06:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3554 | ROK UAV HAESONG-II TEST FLIGHT CANCELED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 07:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KS MARR PARM PREL |
07SEOUL3555 | BBK TO HAUNT PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE? [...] (C) Summary: It does not look like Lee Myung-bak's political problems will be over with his presidential election victory in two days. On December 17, the National Assembly convened to approve the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into allegations that Lee was involved in BBK's [...] | 2007-12-17 21:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3561 | "BULLDOZER" LEE MUST LEARN TO PLAY NICE IN [...] (C) Summary: At an open forum discussion on December 13, Professor Hahm Sung-deuk of Korea University talked about how challenges facing the next Korean President differ from those facing past presidents. ROKG decision-making has evolved from an executive-military nexus that prevailed from t [...] | 2007-12-18 03:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL357 | THE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH GNP PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with GNP Presidential candidate Park Geun-hye on February 5. Park reiterated her commitment to follow her principles and run a clean campaign against her GNP rival, Lee Myung-bak, and dispelled any notions that she might leave the party to run as an independen [...] | 2007-02-06 09:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL3573 | ROKG REMAINS SUPPORTIVE OF USG POLICY ON CLUSTER [...] (C) On December 17, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Park Jee-won of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Park confirmed that the ROKG considers cluster munitions to be of significant continued military utility and is conce [...] | 2007-12-19 06:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL MARR KS |
07SEOUL3574 | LEE MYUNG-BAK WINS IN A LANDSLIDE [...] (C) Summary: On December 19 former Seoul Mayor and Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak handily won South Korea's presidential election, ending 10 years of liberal government in South Korea. Thanks to his landslide victory, Lee Myung-bak now has a mandate from the public, which [...] | 2007-12-19 09:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3575 | WHO IS PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE MYUNG-BAK? [...] (C) SUMMARY: President-elect Lee Myung-bak is a self-made businessman and politician and his successful experience as CEO of Hyundai Construction and Seoul Mayor lead many to believe he will accomplish great things as the seventh President of Korea. The most thoroughly investigated president [...] | 2007-12-19 09:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3577 | NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: DOE-KOREA [...] (U) Per reftel authorization, the Ambassador designated Pol M/C Joseph Y. Yun to sign the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea and the Department of Energy of the United States of America for Cooperation on the Global Threat Re [...] | 2007-12-20 05:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL ETTC KS UP |
07SEOUL3578 | LEE SWEEPS ALL REGIONS EXCEPT JEOLLA [...] (SBU) Summary: December 19, Lee Myung-bak was elected President of Korea with 48.6 percent of the vote. Second place went to Chung Dong-young with 26.3 percent while Lee Hoi-chang came in third with 15.1 percent. Lee Myung-bak was the first conservative candidate since direct elections were [...] | 2007-12-20 06:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3579 | "ANYTHING BUT ROH" CARRIES THE DAY FOR [...] (C) Summary: GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak won a landslide victory in the December 19 presidential election, winning 49 percent of the votes in a field of ten candiates and carrying all regions except Jeolla Provinces. Among pundits a strong consensus is emerging that Lee's was able to sweep to [...] | 2007-12-20 07:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3581 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE MYUNG-BAK [...] (C) During a December 20 call on President-elect Lee Myung-bak, the Ambassador congratulated Lee on his decisive election victory, noting that President Bush planned on calling him later in the day. The Ambassador said the USG looked forward to working with Lee and his administration to stre [...] | 2007-12-20 07:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN ECON PINR |
07SEOUL359 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES 6PT, AID, KIC WITH [...] (C) In a February 5 meeting with Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung, the Ambassador noted that if progress were made at the Six Party Talks (6PT),it would be important to coordinate international approaches to synchronize assistance with DPRK actions ondenuclearization and to maintain our le [...] | 2007-02-06 09:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KS KN |
07SEOUL3595 | LEE MYUNG-BAK'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM: PRESIDENT LEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 24 meeting with President-elect Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy advisors, the Ambassador discussed the alliance, North Korea, Iraq troop extension, the KORUS FTA, Lee's first trip to the U.S., and the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The team was optimistic that, under Pr [...] | 2007-12-26 06:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3596 | PARTISAN DIVIDE PRESENTS PROBLEMS FOR KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Assembly (NA) on December 10 convened an extraordinary session to deal with outstanding legislation for 2007. Among issues likely to be discussed before the end of the year are legislation extending the deployment of troops to Iraq as well as the 2008 budget. Altho [...] | 2007-12-26 06:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3608 | PRESIDENT-ELECT NAMES TRANSITION LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 26 President-elect Lee Myung-bak formally named Lee Kyung-sook chairperson of his transition team, making her the first Korean woman to serve in that capacity. Lee has named a total of 26 people, filling some key positions. In addition to the Chairperson, Lee Myun [...] | 2007-12-28 06:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
07SEOUL3610 | KOREA AND RUSSIA TO STUDY POSSIBLE GAS PIPELINE [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The governments of Korea and Russia agreed during a December 11-12 meeting in Moscow to jointly conduct a feasibility study for a possible gas pipeline extending from the Russian Far East (RFE) to South Korea. According to the Mini [...] | 2007-12-28 06:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL RS KN KS |
07SEOUL371 | ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: HOW THEY DEFINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With less than 11 months until South Korea's presidential election, the candidates continue to focus their public comments on building personal popularity rather than tackling policy issues. In various meetings with Embassy officers, the four frontrunners for the presidency pro [...] | 2007-02-07 07:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL374 | ROKG WILL NOT ATTEND OSLO CM CONFERENCE [...] (C) In a follow-up conversation regarding reftel demarche, Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told poloff that the ROKG had decided against attending the Norwegian-sponsored Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions February 22-23. [...] | 2007-02-07 08:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PARM PREL |
07SEOUL381 | ENSURING EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 04:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP EFIN KS IR |
07SEOUL382 | EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S CONSULTATIONS ON CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen met with ROKG officials and academics January 26-27 to discuss North Korean asylum seekers, Six Party Talks (6PT),and China. The DAS told his ROKG interlocutors that the USG appreciated Seoul's cooperation with efforts to resett [...] | 2007-02-08 04:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MNUC PREF KS KN CH |
07SEOUL401 | DEFECTOR RECOUNTS DPRK TORTURE AND "REEDUCATION" [...] (C) North Korean defector Lee Myeong-bok escaped from the DPRK in 1998 was repatriated from China in 2002. He escaped again in 2004 to come to the ROK via Mongolia. In persuading DPRK interrogators that he had contact with neither South Koreans nor missionaries in China -- although he was cl [...] | 2007-02-09 07:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SEOUL406 | ROKG CONSIDERING GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) On February 9, Deputy POL M/C delivered reftel points encouraging the ROK to consider becoming a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (Global Initiative) to Park Chul-min, MOFAT's Director of the Disarmament and Non-proliferation Division. Park said that [...] | 2007-02-11 22:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KGIT KNNP IAEA SK |
07SEOUL421 | ROKG WELCOMES HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 07:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAL KWBG KS IS |
07SEOUL449 | ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PARK GEUN-HYE: CAN SHE [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye, currently second in all presidential polls with about 20 percent support, is the first woman to run for president in Korea. As former President Park Chung-hee's daughter, she earns votes from those who are nostalgic for the double [...] | 2007-02-14 07:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL450 | MND VM KIM BOASTS PROGRESS ON YONGSAN RELOCATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 13, ROK Vice Minister of National Defense, Kim Young-lyong, told the Ambassador that forward progress was being made on implementation of the Yongsan Relocation Plan (YRP). He said Minister of National Defense Kim Jang-soo had made implementation of YRP a priority, [...] | 2007-02-14 07:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS KS |
07SEOUL456 | ROK-JAPAN TIES STUCK BETWEEN STAGNATION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 9 luncheon with poloffs, Japanese Embassy Political Counselor Yamamoto Yasushi characterized ROK-Japanese relations as stagnant and opined that significant improvement in bilateral relations was unlikely until after the Roh Moo-hyun administration left office be [...] | 2007-02-14 09:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS JA |
07SEOUL457 | KOREAS TO HOLD WORKING-LEVEL TALKS ON FEBRUARY 15 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 14, MOU Director-General for Unification Policy Planning Um Jong-sik told A/DCM that North and South Korea had agreed to hold working-level talks on February 15 at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC). The main objective was to set a date to resume North-South minist [...] | 2007-02-14 09:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS KN |
07SEOUL471 | ROKG SEEKS CLOSE COORDINATION ON NEXT STEPS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-15 08:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP KS KN |
07SEOUL472 | LEE MYUNG-BAK: QUALIFIED, READY AND IN FIRST PLACE [...] (C) Summary: Over a one-on-one lunch with the Ambassador on February 13, former Seoul Mayor and leading presidential contender Lee Myung-bak explained that voters in Korea wanted their next president to be, first and foremost, an effective leader, not focusing on regionalism, but on policies, [...] | 2007-02-15 09:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN |
07SEOUL487 | SOUTH KOREA GRADUALLY EXPANDING RELATIONS WITH NATO [...] (C) In a February 9 meeting with visiting EAP/K Andrew Hyde, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,s (MOFAT) Director of the Security Policy Division, Kim Chang-sik, emphasized that the ROKG sought increased cooperation with NATO but that it would take time to establish the proper internal pr [...] | 2007-02-16 08:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AORC NATO KS |
07SEOUL489 | PLANS TO COMMEMORATE THE "PYONGYANG REVIVAL" IN [...] (SBU) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of Protestant Americans came to Korea and found a reception. By 1907, Jang Dae Hyun Church in Pyongyang became the center of what became known as the "Pyongyang Revival," earned it the moniker "Jerusalem of the East." To commemo [...] | 2007-02-20 04:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KS PHUM SCUL PREL |
07SEOUL498 | UNIFICATION MINISTER PREVIEWS NORTH-SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-on-one breakfast meeting on February 20 with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung stressed that the February 13 Beijing agreement on "initial actions" was a good first step, but implementation was now the key. He said that the ROKG at inter-Korean minister [...] | 2007-02-20 08:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KS KN |
07SEOUL550 | MOFAT RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) On February 26, POL M/C and Russian DCM Alexander Timonin delivered ref A points encouraging the ROKG to participate in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to Song Young-wan, MOFAT's Director-General for International Organizations. Song agreed that the Initiative was imp [...] | 2007-02-26 08:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PARM PINR PINS KNNP MCAP KS |
07SEOUL568 | IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-27 08:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KS IR |
07SEOUL569 | ROKG INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL SALE OF MOBILE PHONE [...] (S) In a February 27 meeting with Park Chul-min, MOFAT's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Division Director, Deputy POL M/C discussed ref a points urging Seoul to investigate whether a ROK firm was seeking to transfer mobile phone jammers to Iran. Park said MOFAT, upon receiving the points [...] | 2007-02-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL570 | LAWMAKERS PROPOSE DENUCLEARIZED DPRK BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A resolution introduced by a group of lawmakers opposing wartime OPCON transfer passed the Defense Committee on February 21 and is scheduled for a National Assembly plenary vote in the coming weeks. The leaders of the anti-OPCON coalition, including a former Defense Minister, me [...] | 2007-02-27 08:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN |
07SEOUL592 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHUNG DONG-YOUNG DISCUSSES [...] (C) During a February 26 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former Unification Minister and presidential hopeful Chung Dong-young and National Assembly members Chae Su-chan and Chung Eui-young discussed Korean politics, the Six Party process and resumption of aid to North Korea and the inc [...] | 2007-03-02 00:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL604 | USER CREATED CONTENT (UCC) - THE NEXT BIG [...] Summary. User-created content (UCC),digital information produced and posted by Internet users, is poised to play a major role in Korea's upcoming presidential election. Candidates are jockeying for prime Internet channels from which to project carefully crafted images to mass audiences, and [...] | 2007-03-02 08:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL615 | OPTIMISTIC KINGMAKER CHUN JUNG-BAE'S GREAT [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former Justice Minister Chun Jung-bae said that he left the Uri Party in January in order to spearhead efforts to create a new political party to revitalize progressive voters and renew support for a reform-minded party. Thr [...] | 2007-03-05 02:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL617 | ROKG INFORMED OF FBI-HOSTED GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 05:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PARM PINR PINS KNNP MCAP KS |
07SEOUL634 | NORTH-SOUTH MINISTERIAL TIES HUMANITARIAN AID TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 5 briefing on the February 27-March 2 inter-Korean ministerial in Pyongyang, Assistant Minister for Unification Policy and Public Affairs Lee Kwan-sei told POL M/C that Seoul had three objectives for the talks: (1) to "normalize" inter-Korean relations stalled followin [...] | 2007-03-06 02:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC EAID KS KN |
07SEOUL656 | RELIABLE REPLACEMENT WARHEAD (RRW): INITIAL ROK [...] (U) On March 2, Poloff delivered reftel points on the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) issue to Hahm Seong-wook, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Hahm stated that he appreciated the information shared and noted t [...] | 2007-03-06 07:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL KS |
07SEOUL657 | MTCR: ROK SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. UAV/CRUISE MISSILE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-06 07:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA KS |
07SEOUL659 | SPI 11: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) The eleventh U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 11) took place February 7-8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transfer of wartime operational command (OPCON),the transition of Armistice Maintenance Responsibilities (AMRs),USFK camp returns, the status of the Yong [...] | 2007-03-06 08:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN |
07SEOUL662 | MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA: NGO [...] (C) Chairman of the EugeneBell Foundation Stephen Linton, whose Seoul-based organization has provided over USD 25 million worth of medical and other assistance to North Korea since 1995, said that: -- experience had taught him that the best way to provide such aid was in the form of integrat [...] | 2007-03-07 02:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KN |
07SEOUL673 | ROKG COMMENTS ON U.S. GOALS FOR FOURTH HRC SESSION [...] (C) On March 5, poloff delivered reftel points on U.S. priorities at the Human Right Council fourth session to Kim Pil-woo, Deputy Director of MOFAT Human Rights and Social Affairs Division and requested ROKG views. On March 7, Kim responded with an initial assessment, adding that MOFAT was [...] | 2007-03-07 07:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC KS |
07SEOUL695 | URI PARTY CHAIRMAN, JAPAN, RUSSIA, CHINA [...] (C) Summary: With over 20 reporters present at a March 2 lunch, Uri Party Chairman Chung Se-kyun, the Ambassador, Ambassador Ning Fukui of China, Ambassador Shotaro Oshima of Japan, Ambassador Gleb Ivanshentsov of Russia, along with Uri Party leaders lauded the Six Party February 13 "Initial [...] | 2007-03-08 07:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL705 | HAN DUCK-SOO NEW ROK PM-DESIGNATE [...] (C) Summary: President Roh appointed esteemed bureaucrat Han Duck-soo as Prime Minister on March 9. Han is currently Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Facilitating KORUS FTA and his nomination will be helpful for a successful conclusion of a KORUS FTA agreement. Han has few enemies a [...] | 2007-03-09 08:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS PINR |
07SEOUL734 | ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: WHO IS SEEING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean voters are adamant that economic growth should be the top priority for the next ROK president. In response to this clear mandate from the people, top presidential contenders are offering some unique proposals aimed at stimulating the economy and spurring job creation. [...] | 2007-03-12 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KS |
07SEOUL746 | DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED: INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 04:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC APER UNGA |
07SEOUL763 | EAP/MLS DIRECTOR RAPSON'S CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson on March 9 met with ROK officials to exchange views and discuss USG objectives on Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Burma and DPRK refugees. ROK officials conveyed general support for greater political freedoms and participation in Burm [...] | 2007-03-15 02:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF KS BM CB TH |
07SEOUL770 | FORMER PM LEE HAE-CHAN'S VIST TO PYONGYANG: NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a March 14 breakfast with the Ambassador, former PM and current Uri lawmaker Lee Hae-chan said that, during his recent four-day trip to Pyongyang, he had told North Korea's number two, Kim Young-nam, that a North-South summit should occur only after concrete progress was mad [...] | 2007-03-15 09:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL793 | ROK INQUIRIES ON PRT LEADERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (C) In a March 16 meeting with Director General for North American Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Cho Byung-jae, POL M/C raised the issue of ROKG plans to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. C [...] | 2007-03-19 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS |
07SEOUL794 | KIM GEUN-TAE SILENT ON ELECTIONS, VOCAL ON FTA AND [...] (C) While deflecting direct questions about his presidential aspirations, former Uri Party Chairman Kim Geun-tae spoke candidly over lunch with the Ambassador on March 15 about a number of issues including the KORUS FTA, Comfort Women, an inter-Korean Summit, and the Six-Party Talks. On the [...] | 2007-03-19 09:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL795 | CHARTING OUT INTER-KOREAN COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: At February 27 - March 2 inter-Korean ministerial talks, the Koreas agreed to resume several stalled North-South projects, including: construction of a family reunion center at Mt. Kumgang; video and direct family reunions; Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee and Red Cross t [...] | 2007-03-19 09:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MNUC KS KN |
07SEOUL799 | ROK ATTITUDES ON UNIFICATION: LONG-TERM PLANS VS. [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement has once again brought to the fore the resumption of inter-Korean engagement and the overall relationship between the two Koreas, including reunification. The ROK's constitution and presidential oath call for Korean un [...] | 2007-03-20 02:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC ECON KS KN |
07SEOUL807 | ROK COMPANY NOT SELLING MOBILE PHONE JAMMERS TO [...] (S) On March 20, MOFAT's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Division Deputy Director, Lee Kyu-ho, told poloff that the ROKG had completed its investigation into concerns that Iran was seeking to acquire mobile phone jammers from a South Korean company (reftels) and had determined that the sale [...] | 2007-03-20 07:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC KS IR |
07SEOUL808 | ROKG MULLING EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 07:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHCR KS ZI |
07SEOUL809 | ROKG SUPPORTS GLOBAL FORUM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP OTRA AORC ECON KCOR KCRM KJUS KS |
07SEOUL811 | SOHN HAK-KYU LEAVES THE GNP: POLITICAL FUTURE OVER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sohn Hak-kyu announced March 19 that he was leaving the GNP to create a "new political order." While at it, he took a swipe at the GNP, calling the opposition party full of "obsolete conservatives" with "incapable warriors from the Cold War." The announcement came after several [...] | 2007-03-20 07:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PGOV PINR PREL |
07SEOUL82 | NEW MINISTER OF UNIFICATION VOCAL ON NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) When he replaced Lee Jong-seok as Minister of Unification in mid-December, President Roh Moo-hyun's confidant Lee Jae-joung said that Seoul's engagement policy with the North -- essentially on hold since the July missile launches -- would not change. But since then he has irked conservati [...] | 2007-01-10 23:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS KN EAID |
07SEOUL83 | POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROK'S 2007 BUDGET [...] (SBU) In a marathon session that lasted through the night and concluded at 5 a.m. on 27 December, the National Assembly came to an agreement on the 2007 budget. The approved budget will allow local governments to spend more on infrastructure projects and social welfare while some funding fo [...] | 2007-01-11 00:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KS |
07SEOUL849 | ROKG TO RESUME SUSPENDED FLOOD AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 22, ROK Vice Unification Minister Shin Eon-sang announced that the ROKG on March 28 would resume shipments of "emergency" aid to North Korea that was pledged following mid-July 2006 floods, but halted after the DPRK's nuclear test in October 2006. The remaining flood re [...] | 2007-03-22 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KS KN |
07SEOUL851 | FORMER PRESIDENT KIM YOUNG-SAM ON NORTH KOREA AND [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam (KYS) was his usual self: energetic, warm, and, above all, generous with his opinions. Warning that "communists could never be trusted," KYS expressed the concern that Washington was getting to [...] | 2007-03-23 01:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS |
07SEOUL860 | ROK LIKELY TO OPPOSE OIC RESOLUTION AT HRC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 05:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNHRC KS |
07SEOUL870 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UPCOMING U.S. INITIATIVES IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 07:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM EAID MARR ARF KS XB |
07SEOUL897 | GNP OVER A BARREL ON NORTH KOREA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of initial progress in the Six-Party Talks, the conservative opposition Grand National Party (GNP) has recently started to moderate its criticism of engagement with North Korea. One GNP lawmaker justified possibly adjusting GNP policy to the new political climate, sa [...] | 2007-03-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KS |
07SEOUL912 | VICTIMS' ORGANIZATION REQUESTS U.S. JOIN EFFORT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Shin Sung-won, Director of North America Division II of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed Embassy that the Republic of Korea (ROK) will finance a USD 200,000 task force under the Special Law to Restore the Reputat [...] | 2007-03-29 05:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PREL MOPS |
07SEOUL914 | POLITICIANS GO HUNGRY TO OPPOSE FTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two progressive presidential contenders started a hunger strike this week demanding the KORUS FTA talks be halted. Coupled with recent controversial statements out of the Blue House - Roh said he was, "the one to make the final decision on the FTA" - political debate about the F [...] | 2007-03-29 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KS PGOV PREL |
07SEOUL931 | SOHN HAK-KYU STICKS TO HIS PRINCIPLES [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador since leaving the GNP Party on March 19, Presidential aspirant (and former Gyeonggi Governor) Sohn Hak-kyu said that he had to leave because he was not willing to compromise his principles to stay in line with the inflexible GNP platform. Sohn exp [...] | 2007-03-30 05:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL934 | UK EMBASSY PYONGYANG PERSPECTIVE: CHANCE MEETINGS [...] (C) Richard Vowles, DCM at the British Embassy in Pyongyang, told a group of diplomats at a March 28 dinner in Seoul that his Embassy operates largely in an information-free "bubble" in Pyongyang, gaining little from frequent meetings with MFA officials. The four UK officers have almost compl [...] | 2007-03-30 06:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PREL |
07SEOUL935 | ADVISERS TO GNP CANDIDATE PARK GEUN-HYE STRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 foreign policy advisers to opposition GNP presidential candidate Park Geun-hye told us that a Park administration would restore the U.S.-ROK alliance as the central pillar of ROK foreign policy. They stated that Park's priorities would be made explicit during an Apri [...] | 2007-03-30 06:47:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS |
07SEOUL955 | ROK CONTRIBUTION TO USFK RELOCATION: A GLASS MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent Ministry of Defense (MND) press release, the ROKG estimated that it would pay about half of the total cost of about USD 10 billion to relocate U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to Pyungtaek/ Camp Humphreys. However, USFK estimates that the ROK share will be far more than half. [...] | 2007-04-02 06:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PARM PREL MARR |
07SEOUL959 | ROK RESPONSE TO DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE [...] On April 2, Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to Hahm Seong-wook, Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Hahm noted that discussions among the relevant ROKG agencies about how UNSCR 1737 measures would be implemented [...] | 2007-04-02 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR KS |
07SEOUL97 | THE EMPLOYER STRIKES BACK: HYUNDAI SUES ITS UNION [...] (SBU) After a year during which Hyundai Motors recorded an estimated 1.8 billion dollars in lost sales due to labor disruptions, management decided to reduce the amount of year-end bonuses for its workers and only pay 100 percent of a month's salary as opposed to the typical 150 percent. Duri [...] | 2007-01-11 08:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL971 | ROK-JAPAN MINISTERIAL TALKS DOGGED BY HISTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 2, MOFAT Northeast Asia Division I Director Lee Hee-sup told poloff that the March 31 - April 1 talks between ROK Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso focused on history issues (comfort women, textbooks, Yasukuni) and included dis [...] | 2007-04-03 06:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KS JA |
07SEOUL972 | SMA RATIFIED, BUT NEW SMA FORMULA NOT YET READY [...] (U) In a April 2 plenary session, the National Assembly ratified the 2007-2008 Special Measures Agreement (SMA). Of the 245 representatives present, 192 (78.3 percent) voted in favor of the agreement, 28 (11.43 percent) against, and 25 (10.2 percent) abstained. 2. (SBU) The Joint U.S.-RO [...] | 2007-04-03 07:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PARM PREL |
07SEOUL973 | ROKG REQUESTS ASSISTANCE WITH NATO TRANSITION IN [...] (C) On April 2, POL-MIL Chief met with Lee Jeong-kyu, Director of North America Division III of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) to discuss ROKG concerns over additional NATO requirements for the transition of ROK troops to NATO/ International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) [...] | 2007-04-03 07:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PARM PREL MARR MOPS |
07SEOUL974 | HAN DUCK-SOO SWORN IN AS ROK PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Roh swore in Han Duck-soo as Prime Minister on April 3 after Han's confirmation sailed through the National Assembly on April 2, just hours after the conclusion of the historic KORUS FTA. Han played a central role in the successful conclusion of the KORUS FTA agreement, [...] | 2007-04-03 09:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS PINR |
07SEOUL975 | GNP PRIMARY SCHEDULE - WORKING OUT THE DETAILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 19, the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) agreed to hold its presidential primary before August 21 (most likely August 19) and the number of eligible participants will be 200,000 split between senior GNP members (40,000),party members (60,000),public voters (60,000) [...] | 2007-04-03 09:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KS |
07SEOUL98 | PRESIDENT'S IRAQ POLICY ADDRESS: ROK REACTIONS [...] (U) Summary: During a previously scheduled luncheon for new Vice Foreign Minister Cho Jung-pyo, the Ambassador reinforced the President's January 10 announcement on Iraq policy, emphasizing the President's appreciation for the contributions made by the ROK troops in Iraq. VFM Cho said that [...] | 2007-01-11 08:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ KS |
07SEOUL987 | PRESIDENT ROH: RIDING THE FTA'S WAVE OF SUPPORT [...] (SBU) In the two days following the announcement that the U.S. and Korea had reached an agreement on the KORUS FTA, support for President Roh Moo-hyun has seen a sizable jump in polls. Although the current jump in support may give Roh more room to arrange the much desired inter-Korean summit, [...] | 2007-04-04 08:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
07SEOUL988 | NGO URGES RECOGNITION OF KOREAN WAR ABDUCTEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador on April 3, the president of the Korean War Abductees' Family Union asked that the DPRK Human Rights Report and the Report on Terrorism both be expanded to include the issue of Korean War abductees. KWAFU alleges that the DPRK abducted over 80,000 So [...] | 2007-04-04 09:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN |
07SHANGHAI110 | POLICY PLANNING STAFFER GREEN SHANGHAI MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: During his meetings with Shanghai Academics on January 17, Policy Planning Staffer James Green engaged academics on East Asian security issues, including North Korea and Taiwan. Academics were pessimistic that there would be any progress on North Korea in the near future. Academ [...] | 2007-02-16 05:23:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH KN TW |
07SHANGHAI161 | CITIBANK'S STANLEY ON GDB AND CHINA BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with Beijing Financial Attache David Loevinger, Treasury Asia DAS Robert Dohner, Asia Director Mathew Haarsager and Congenoffs, Citigroup China CEO Richard Stanley expressed great appreciation for USG support which facilitated its December acquisition of [...] | 2007-03-23 08:21:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI167 | FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK SHANGHAI VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a well-received speech at the third annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture in Shanghai on March 21. Zoellick called for China to play a more cooperative role on Korea, Iran, Sudan and energy security. The text of the speech [...] | 2007-03-26 08:42:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI178 | JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Japanese contacts in Shanghai, Japanese Prime Minister Abe's October 2006 breakthrough visit to Beijing has dramatically improved the climate for Japanese investment in Shanghai, as well as led to an overall increase in cultural exchanges. The number of Japanese Ch [...] | 2007-03-29 05:38:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PREL CH JA |
07SHANGHAI247 | CFETS UPDATE ON FX AND BOND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) President Xie Duo told Embassy ECON M/C Robert Luke on April 19 that CFETS continued to carry out policies to make China's foreign exchange (FX) trading system more market-based and efficient, including: increasing the number of over [...] | 2007-04-25 06:17:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI250 | CSRC ISSUES DRAFT REGS FOR NYSE/NASDAQ REP OFFICES [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 25, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published draft rules to allow foreign stock exchanges, such as NYSE or NASDAQ, to open representative offices in China as had been promised during the initial Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) talks in December 2006 [...] | 2007-04-26 09:02:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI251 | CHINA FINANCIAL FUTURES EXCHANGE NOT YET READY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with Embassy Econ M/C, China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) Deputy General Manager Hu Zheng and CFFEX Head of R&D Zhang Xiaogang provided a briefing on the status of CFFEX, obstacles it had overcome to date, and prospects for becoming operational. Sinc [...] | 2007-04-26 09:06:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI26 | FRB TOLD: NO OVERHEATING AND BUSINESS GOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) delegation led by Governor Kevin Warsh met with economic analysts, U.S. business leaders, and equity market analysts during a December visit to Shanghai. Economic analysts offered the contrarian view that China's economy was not overheated, and, in t [...] | 2007-01-12 02:12:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV CH |
07SHANGHAI283 | EAST CHINA DISPATCHES, MAY 14, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: In this Dispatch, we learn that Shanghai loves luxury cars, anti-Japanese sentiment still simmers, Internet rumors spread quickly in Shanghai, even migrants dream of making it big on the stock market, information on IPR continues to be welcomed, and some Shanghai youth are passi [...] | 2007-05-14 07:37:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV SOCI OEXC OIIP KPAO CH |
07SHANGHAI291 | CHINA HOSTS AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the African Development Bank (AFDB) 2007 Annual Meetings in Shanghai on May 16 with a speech that stressed China's sincere commitment to helping Africa develop and acknowledged that China needed to further implement its own financial sector reforms [...] | 2007-05-16 09:14:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CH XA |
07SHANGHAI314 | SHANGHAI ACADEMIC HUANG RENWEI ON POLITICS, FOREIGN AND [...] (C) Summary. On May 25, Consul General met with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Vice President Huang Renwei, one of Shanghai's leading Americanologists. Huang had a positive appraisal of Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping thus far; in another six months, he will have mastered his brief s [...] | 2007-05-25 09:42:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH TW |
07SHANGHAI325 | STOCK MARKET TOO HOT, SO CHINA RAISES TAXES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on May 29 that the stamp tax charged on every stock trade would rise from .1 percent to .3 percent of the total value of that trade, effective May 30. Consulate contacts and industry analysts said this was a further attempt to cool down C [...] | 2007-05-30 10:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI330 | CHINA'S BANKING REFORMS FAST ENOUGH FOR HSBC [...] (SBU) Summary: At a meeting with visiting Embassy Finatt on May 16, HSBC China Deputy CEO Bryan Stiles and Global Markets Managing Director David Liao said HSBC's local incorporation had gone smoothly. HSBC believed that Chinese regulators would soon allow foreign banks to offer retail RMB cu [...] | 2007-05-31 15:20:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI332 | A FUND MANAGER'S VIEW ON THE CHINA MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Lombarda China Fund Manager Ian Midgely told visiting Embassy Finatt, on May 16, that the Chinese government was attempting to rein in an overvalued stock market without an overly heavy-handed approach that would undermine the market reforms put in place to promote capital marke [...] | 2007-06-01 02:36:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI333 | GOLDMAN SACH'S GAOHUA SECURITIES: AN ONLY CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary: Goldman Sachs' venture in China, Gaohua Securities, has both benefited and suffered from being the only foreign-controlled, full service securities firm in China. Goldman's method of obtaining control of a Chinese licensed securities firm by giving unsecured loans to trusted Chin [...] | 2007-06-01 02:37:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI334 | HAITONG SECURITIES ON CHINA'S STOCK MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from Haitong Securities Company told visiting Embassy Financial Attache (Finatt) on May 16 that competition from foreign companies would ultimately strengthen China's securities industry. Haitong has struggled to accurately value China's listed companies and mana [...] | 2007-06-01 02:37:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI335 | SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...] | 2007-06-01 03:09:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD |
07SHANGHAI337 | PROBLEMS LOOMING FOR M&A AND VENTURE CAPITALISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: International private equity (PE) and venture capitalist (VC) representatives told visiting Embassy Finatt, on May 16, that Chinese regulations which took effect in September 2006 have effectively shut them out from doing business in China. Since the "Provisions for Foreign Inv [...] | 2007-06-01 11:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI370 | FRB SENIOR ECONOMIST AHMED'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: During his June 6-7 visit to Shanghai, visiting Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Division of International Finance Emerging Market Economies Section Senior Economist Shaghil Ahmed met with a cross-section of Shanghai economic experts and officials in the banking, securities, and real [...] | 2007-06-18 04:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI416 | SHANGHAI ACADEMIC VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with Poloffs in mid-June and early July, four Shanghai academics specializing in Korea studies predicted that there would be a long and difficult path of negotiations ahead for the Six-Party talks. Two other academics said, however, that North Korea would react positi [...] | 2007-07-05 08:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KS KN CH |
07SHANGHAI420 | A BLEAK SPRING FOR LAKE TAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Since mid-May, Lake Tai, the third-largest freshwater lake in China, has experienced a massive outbreak of blue-green algae. In a series of recent meetings with Congenoffs, government officials and academics in Jiangsu Province discussed the enormous challenges confronting Lak [...] | 2007-07-06 08:53:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL PHUM CH |
07SHANGHAI43 | SHANGHAI SCHOLARS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: During a January 19 lunch with PDAS Stephens, Shanghai scholars were pessimistic that there would be progress on North Korea in the near term. One scholar said that while North Korea would continue to participate in the Six-Party Talks, it would never give up its nuclear program. [...] | 2007-01-23 02:53:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW JA KN |
07SHANGHAI450 | VANUATU OPENS A CONSULATE IN SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary: During the opening of the Vanuatu Consulate in Shanghai on July 17, Vanuatu officials emphasized their strong commitment to the One China Policy and encouraged more Chinese investment, trade and tourism to the pacific island country. The opening of the consulate comes on the heels [...] | 2007-07-18 05:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH XV |
07SHANGHAI474 | EAST CHINA'S SOUTH KOREAN COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in August 1992, South Koreans have flocked to Shanghai in search of economic and educational opportunities. More than 110,000 South Koreans live in east China (Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai),with some 70,000 [...] | 2007-07-30 06:46:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD EINV KIRF CH KS KN |
07SHANGHAI482 | ANHUI CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU DISCUSSES JULY FLOODS [...] (SBU) Summary: Anhui Civil Affairs officials in a meeting with Poloff on July 26 described the current flooding as the most severe in 50 years. While the worst was likely over, the disaster had impacted 16 million people, displaced over half a million, destroyed 90,000 homes, and caused almo [...] | 2007-08-01 10:25:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL PHUM ECON CH |
07SHANGHAI483 | WUXI EAGER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COLLABORATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 19 meeting, Wuxi Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials were eager to discuss the Lake Tai crisis and opportunities for cooperation; however, they were much less eager for Congenoffs to actually see Lake Tai. Wuxi EPB officials vented their frustrations [...] | 2007-08-02 04:51:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL PHUM EIND CH |
07SHANGHAI529 | SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ON SCO, RUSSIA, IRAN AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: In a lunch discussion with DPO on August 20, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Academic Pan Guang noted Russia's increased interest in energy coordination at the recent SCO Summit in Bishkek and asserted that this represented a slight shift in Russian policy towards the SC [...] | 2007-08-22 07:13:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG CH RS TI TX UZ KZ IR KN |
07SHANGHAI532 | SHANGHAI TAIWAN SCHOLARS WARN NEXT TWELVE MONTHS CRITICAL, [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Institute for Taiwan Studies researchers expressed strong concerns about political developments in Taiwan through May 2008 and about potential United States actions or reactions in response to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's plans for a Taiwan referendum on United Na [...] | 2007-08-23 09:28:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
07SHANGHAI535 | CODEL HASTERT VISITS SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10- 12, Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL),Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) and two staff members from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce visited Shanghai to engage U.S. businesses energy, environment and business climate issues. Representatives from GE sh [...] | 2007-08-27 01:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EFIN SENV PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI546 | CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN'S AUGUST 22 BREAKFAST WITH SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai scholars of strategic and American studies urged the United States to suspend arms sales to Taiwan through the May 2008 Presidential election in an August 22 meeting with United States Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen. Chen Shui-bian was described as a [...] | 2007-08-29 02:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP MARR OVIP CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN CH TW |
07SHANGHAI557 | SHANGHAI FINANCIAL LEADERS DISCUSS SED [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Chinese financial service company executives, the Strategic EcoQic Dialogue (SED) plays an important and positive role in advancing U.S.-Chinese relations and understanding. While foreign investments in the financial services sector, and the technology, products, a [...] | 2007-08-31 11:17:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL ECON PINR KPAO CH |
07SHANGHAI570 | FUDAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: During an August 30 lunch discussion with Fudan Center for American Studies Director Shen Dingli and Deputy Director Xin Qiang, the academics predicted that Beijing would not take any military measures in reaction to the referendum on UN membership in Taiwan. However, anger was bu [...] | 2007-09-05 09:19:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR CH TW KN |
07SHANGHAI573 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS WITH SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary: During a September 3 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, five leading Shanghai academics spoke positively about U.S.-China relations, which one described as stable and predictable. Shanghai Institute for International Studies Vice President Yang Jiemian expressed concern, however, [...] | 2007-09-06 06:42:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD CH TW KN |
07SHANGHAI580 | COMMENTS ON FORMER SHANGHAI PARTY SECRETARY CHEN LIANGYU'S [...] (C) Summary: A Shanghai legal expert told us that Chen Liangyu's corruption case represented a serious loss of face for Shanghai. Politically, Shanghai was too important to be allowed to differ from Beijing. Our interlocutor predicted that Chen would be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, and [...] | 2007-09-07 04:59:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH |
07SHANGHAI589 | CHEMICAL SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOP IN [...] Summary: Over 100 Jiangsu Province Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials, representing both the provincial and local EPBs, attended a Chemical Safety and Emergency Preparedness Workshop in Nanjing on August 21-22. At the workshop, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) train [...] | 2007-09-10 07:36:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL PHUM CH |
07SHANGHAI6 | CODEL BARTLETT'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI: JANUARY 1-2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 1 meeting with Zhou Muyao, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, CODEL Bartlett discussed China's efforts to address energy issues, especially in the rural sector. Zhou highlighted the strong ties between the United States and Shanghai and gave [...] | 2007-01-04 03:16:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ENRG CH |
07SHANGHAI601 | SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in late August, Shanghai cross-Strait experts expressed concerns about Taiwan's referendum on UN membership, which they believed touched on the redline of the Anti-Secession Law and created a basis for Taiwan independence. While there were many voices in Ch [...] | 2007-09-11 03:25:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
07SHANGHAI603 | AMBASSADOR MEETS SHANGHAI MAYOR AND ATTENDS AMCHAM [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6, the Ambassador, together with former Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, met with Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng. Following the meeting, the three officials offered remarks at AmCham Shanghai's 7th Annual Government Appreciation Dinner attended by 120 Shanghai and provinc [...] | 2007-09-12 00:29:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EFIN PINR PGOV PREL KIPR ELTN CH |
07SHANGHAI620 | NODEL LARSEN DISCUSSES FOOD SAFETY IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai-based U.S. businessmen told visiting Congressmen Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) that concerns about China's food and product safety were "legitimate." While China's laws and regulations were adequate, the inability of the Central Government to implement these [...] | 2007-09-19 07:14:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ECON PREL ETRD CH |
07SHANGHAI640 | VISIT OF AFRICA BUREAU SENIOR ADVISOR, AMBASSADOR RUTH A. [...] (SBU) Summary: In Shanghai from September 8-14, Ambassador Ruth A. Davis participated in the Vital Voices symposium for Chinese and African women business leaders, met with Chinese Africa experts, visited two Chinese companies investing in Africa and delivered a lecture on U.S.-African policy [...] | 2007-09-30 00:46:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON CH XA |
07SHANGHAI647 | EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the U.S. Special Olympics Delegation, headed by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Secretary Spellings expressed appreciation for China's support for the Special Olympics and delivered a letter from President Bush to Presid [...] | 2007-10-04 07:02:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI70 | NYSE/NASDAQ: NO OFFICES, BUT STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Seeing China as the next great frontier for emerging markets, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ have been engaging in a "Great Game" to persuade Chinese companies to list on their respective exchanges. Chinese entrepreneurs view being listed on U.S. markets as the si [...] | 2007-01-31 08:20:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI759 | SFRC STAFFER JANUZZI READ-OUT OF NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: Chinese, South Korean and United States academics and officials agreed that North Korea (DPRK) has not yet decided if it will give up its nuclear weapons according to a read-out provided by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Frank Januzzi on a November 27 [...] | 2007-11-28 06:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KNNP KS KN CH |
07SHANGHAI769 | SHANGHAI ACADEMICS, BUSINESSMEN TO AMBASSADOR HOLMER: KEEP [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai-based academics and businessmen stressed the importance of having the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) focus on long-term policy issues between the two countries in order to insure its relevance and sustainability beyond 2009 in meetings with Treasury Department SED Speci [...] | 2007-12-04 06:49:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
07SHANGHAI771 | EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON LEADERSHIP CHANGES [...] (S) Summary: East China academic and business contacts who closely follow national political developments say that the size and selection of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) at the 17th Party Congress in October reflected institutionalization of power and power transfer. Vice President [...] | 2007-12-04 09:30:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL ECON CH |
07SHANGHAI785 | LEADING INDIAN IT COMPANIES BULLISH ON CHINA MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with high level managers of three Indian information technology (IT) companies operating in Shanghai -- Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Satyam Computer Services -- to discuss their current operations and future outlook for the China market. They expla [...] | 2007-12-11 09:05:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV PREL CH IN |
07SHANGHAI789 | SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in mid-November to discuss China-India relations, Shanghai's leading South Asia academic experts provided differing views on a variety of issues including border disputes, United Nations Security Council reform, energy competition, and regional dynamics. T [...] | 2007-12-13 01:06:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG PARM CH IN RS |
07SHANGHAI790 | CHINA-RUSSIA RELATIONS: VIEWS FROM SHANGHAI ACADEMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in early December on China-Russia relations, Shanghai's leading academic experts on Russia characterized the bilateral relationship as "very good." They noted the excellent personal relationship between the two countries' leaders, which, they claim, ensures [...] | 2007-12-13 08:44:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG PARM MCAP CH RS |
07SHANGHAI791 | SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. During a December 11 lunch, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi warned that the 2008 referendum on Taiwan's UN membership would have serious consequences for cross-Straits relations. The referendum has a good chance of passing, especially if [...] | 2007-12-13 09:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
07SHANGHAI801 | SHANGHAI LEADERSHIP AND BIOGRAPHICAL POTPOURRI [...] (S) Summary: Yang Yuanxing, husband of a new Politburo member, describes Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng as a capable and clean leader whose style of seeking out problems rather than latest accomplishments in discussions with subordinates often discomfits those officials. Yu is dismiss [...] | 2007-12-20 06:41:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL ECON CH |
07SHANGHAI804 | NANJING: 70 YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRE [...] (C) Summary: A day after Nanjing commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Poloff met with students, an academic, an official from the local Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) and visited the Nanjing Massacre Museum to discuss Japan and Sino-Japanese relations. Although the FAO off [...] | 2007-12-21 07:29:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI CH JA |
07SHANGHAI83 | NYSE SAYS REP OFFICES NOT LIKELY SOON [...] (C) Summary: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Executive Director for Asia Pacific Yeeli Zheng updated Econoff on NYSE's efforts to open a representational office on February 8. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Shang Fulin appeared resistant to timely progress on this issue [...] | 2007-02-08 03:58:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV PREL CH |
07SHENYANG101 | PRC/DPRK: BORDER TRADE AND SOME NEW FRICTIONS (MAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There continue to be differences between Jilin and Liaoning Provinces in the volume and scrutiny of their trade with North Korea. PRC-DPRK frictions have recently emerged in Ji'an, where Chinese officials have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing neighboring North Korea [...] | 2007-05-31 02:33:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG102 | PRC/DPRK: SCARLET FEVER, SMUGGLING, BORDER- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC authorities in Jilin recently claimed they have taken measures to prevent a scarlet fever outbreak in the DPRK from making its way into China. Though officials would not confirm the outbreak, they privately stressed that they are prepared. South Koreans appear to be playing b [...] | 2007-05-31 02:34:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PINR KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG108 | DPRK NUKE AFTERMATH, UNSCR 1718 ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hours after Pyongyang's October 9, 2006 nuclear test, the PLA dispatched a team to Changbai--the PRC border locality closest to the site of the explosion-- to test for contamination, according to Changbai County Communist Party Secretary Miao Chunxiu. Miao said he learned about [...] | 2007-06-05 04:31:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG115 | DPRK-INTERNAL: RASON TURBINES, MORE PUST DELAYS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPRK and ROK officials are expected to meet soon in Shenyang to discuss a humanitarian group's proposal to privately finance and install a 750 KW wind turbine in Rason. The opening of Pyongyang's first private university has been pushed back until 2008 as a result of export licen [...] | 2007-06-25 08:32:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG126 | PRC-DPRK: BORDER INSPECTIONS AND TRADE ISSUES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official Chinese scrutiny of land-based PRC-DPRK cargo/passenger traffic continues to range along the border into mid-2007. Land ports in Nanping (conduit for the many tons of iron ore extracted from North Korea's Musan mine) and Dandong are sites of significant levels of activit [...] | 2007-07-09 02:21:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG127 | PRC-ROK KOGURYO SPARRING CONTINUES, QUIETLY, IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly two years after an August 2005 agreement aimed at shelving their neuralgic political dispute over Koguryo--the kingdom that at various points between 37 BC and 668 AD subsumed parts of modern-day northeast China, North Korea and South Korea--PRC-ROK dueling over ancient hi [...] | 2007-07-09 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH KN KS |
07SHENYANG128 | PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS; DRUGS; NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts report that, at least anecdotally, the numbers of North Korean border-crossers encountered this year are fewer than last, though the overall numbers and reasons for the decline are unclear. Jilin Province's ongoing anti-drug campaign is netting more seizures of illeg [...] | 2007-07-09 03:25:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KWMN KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG131 | Taiwan's Kuomintang Representative Given Warm Reception in Harbin [...] Summary: The 18th Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation attracted participants from all over the world, showing that what was once largely a Sino-Russian event has become truly international. Event organizers claimed two hundred of the world's five hundred largest corpor [...] | 2007-07-11 09:12:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH TW |
07SHENYANG133 | NORTH KOREAN "NEOVIAGRA," MINERALS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to Dandong's second DPRK Import- Export Commodity Fair in late June highlighted China's interest in North Korean natural resources and the comparatively low wage rates on the North Korean side of the border. But contacts point out that further down the proverbial line, th [...] | 2007-07-13 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG145 | PRC-DPRK: BORDER OFFICIALS ON MUSAN MINE, RAJIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC imports of North Korean iron ore from Musan are fueling a surge in activity at China's Nanping Land Port; Chinese truckers collecting the ore comprised over ninety percent of the 50,000 passengers that transited the port last year, local Chinese officials say. Plans to link n [...] | 2007-07-27 07:26:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV ECON PREL KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG152 | ANGANG STEEL HOPES TO GROW AT HOME AND ABROAD [...] Summary: Zhang Xiaogang, Chairman of Anshan Iron and Steel Corporation (AnSteel),recently discussed an impending meeting with John Surma, President of International Iron and Steel Institute and potential cooperation with U.S. Steel Executive Committee of the IISI in New York on July 12 and 13, [...] | 2007-08-03 08:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH |
07SHENYANG155 | China's Brilliance Automotive to Enter U.S. Market in [...] Summary. Liu Xuemin, General Office Vice-Director of Huachen Group told Econoff recently that, contrary to some trade reports about delays, China's Brilliance Automotive -- the publicly traded arm of state-owned Huachen Group -- will begin exports to the United States in early September of thi [...] | 2007-08-07 08:39:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH |
07SHENYANG171 | SHENYANG'S AVIATION ECONOMIC ZONE BRING'S MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: City officials and business representatives confirmed that Shenyang will establish an aviation economic zone in the area south of the Hunnan Development Zone and north of Taoxian International Airport and that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) will establish a new company made u [...] | 2007-09-07 10:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAIR ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL |
07SHENYANG175 | LATE AUGUST TRIP TO THE DPRK/CHINA/RUSSIA BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 10:07:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KS KN CH |
07SHENYANG178 | PRC/DPRK: NEW NK BORDER FENCING; INSPECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent PRC inspections of cross-border PRC- DPRK traffic through Dandong show no change. One Western NGO recently shipping flood-related medical aid to North Korea encountered rather "strict" PRC customs requirements that slowed the shipment by several days. North Korea has star [...] | 2007-09-14 11:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ECON PREF KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG205 | PRC-DPRK: NK BORDER-CROSSERS, HUMAN SMUGGLING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of North Korean border-crossers entering China in 2007 thus far looks to be roughly on par with 2005/2006 levels despite the DPRK's agricultural difficulties and natural disasters earlier this year, according to a Liaoning scholar engaged in internal, state- sponsored r [...] | 2007-10-29 05:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG216 | PYONGYANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (C) Summary: Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST) President and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) founding President Dr. Kim Chin Kyong, PUST Executive Vice President David Kim, and YUST Director Norma Nichols provided updates on PUST construction progress and [...] | 2007-11-19 07:58:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH SPILL |
07SHENYANG244 | PRC-DPRK: UPDATE ON NK REPATRIATIONS/ASYLUM- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC border officials in Baishan tell us that they continue to apprehend and repatriate North Korean border-crossers in their jurisdiction. Japan's Shenyang Consulate is now home to seven North Korean asylum-seekers, including two young children. North Korean authorities near Si [...] | 2007-12-13 03:56:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PINR KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG250 | CESSNA HOPES TO OPEN CHINA TO PRIVATE AVIATION [...] (U) Cessna Aircraft Corporation, as part of successful negotiations to contract with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) to manufacture Cessna's new 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA),received assurances from Chinese officials that, by the time the aircraft rolls off the production lin [...] | 2007-12-20 07:39:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAIR ECON PREL |
07SHENYANG78 | NORTH KOREA/CHINA: SMALLER-SCALE SMUGGLING ACROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a recent crackdown by PRC and DPRK authorities, Chinese smugglers--often partnering with local North Korean military contacts--reportedly continue to operate near Dandong. A fair amount of smuggling in the area appears to be smaller-scale in nature, though profits can nev [...] | 2007-04-30 10:27:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS CH |
07SHENYANG79 | NORTH KOREA ROUNDUP: PROPAGANDA, REMITTANCES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is a roundup of North Korea-related information collected by Post in recent weeks. Contacts report that nuclear propaganda has recently started disappearing in North Korea's major cities, including Pyongyang. Pyongyang's private university, PUST, appears to be back on track [...] | 2007-04-30 10:29:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH |
07SINGAPORE1003 | M/V GANT STAR: GOS PROVIDES STORAGE COST ESTIMATE [...] (S) Jonathan Tow of MFA's International Organizations Directorate on May 23 provided us with a storage cost estimate for the 20 containers of sodium perchlorate Singapore seized April 21 (reftels). 2. (S) Tow said Singapore Customs estimated that storing the containers would cost approxim [...] | 2007-05-24 09:15:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE1131 | U.S.-SINGAPORE COUNTERPROLIFERATION DIALOGUE [...] (S) Summary: The second U.S.-Singapore Counterproliferation (CP) Dialogue in Washington June 14 offers an opportunity to review our steadily expanding bilateral CP cooperation and encourage Singapore to further strengthen its export control regime )- in particular through monitoring of transs [...] | 2007-06-12 09:32:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | PARM MNUC KNNP ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE118 | SINGAPORE SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S IRAQ POLICY [...] (SBU) Ambassador Herbold briefed MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho on the elements of the President's new Iraq strategy on January 17, and thanked Singapore for its continuing support in Iraq (reftel). Peter Ho told the Ambassador that Singapore strongly supports our Iraq policy and that it wou [...] | 2007-01-17 10:10:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV MOPS MARR IZ SN |
07SINGAPORE1242 | (S) SINGAPORE TO APPROACH MALTA FIRST REGARDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-28 09:26:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL NMNUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE1255 | (S) SINGAPORE'S MESSAGE TO MALTA REGARDING M/V [...] (S) MFA delivered the following non-paper to us on June 29. Per reftel, this language was to be given to Malta on June 28 via Singapore's mission to the United Nations in New York. Also per reftel, Singapore has agreed to the U.S. raising this issue in follow-up discussions with Malta on th [...] | 2007-07-02 05:40:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL NMUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE1258 | (S) SINGAPORE MIGHT RELEASE PRECURSOR CHEMICALS TO [...] (S) MFA's International Organizations Directorate Deputy Director Michelle Teo-Jacob said that Singapore was close to determining the fate of 20 containers of missile propellant precursor it seized on April 21 (reftels). Without saying so directly, she indicated during a June 28 meeting that [...] | 2007-07-02 07:13:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE127 | DELIVERED: REQUEST TO CONTINUE DETAINING STEEL [...] (S/NF) E/P Counselor and Econoff on January 18 delivered ref A demarche to MFA's International Organizations Director Tan Yee Woan and Assistant Director Ong Soo Chuan, urging that Singapore continue detaining the steel plates shipment rather than requiring the shipper to return it to China (r [...] | 2007-01-18 09:51:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1304 | SINGAPORE URGES GREATER U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials and academics urged greater and more sophisticated U.S. regional engagement during meetings with Policy Planning (S/P) Principal Deputy Director Matthew Waxman June 25-27. GOS leaders argued that a USG failure to understand the importance of "process" in Asia [...] | 2007-07-06 09:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD IN PGOV PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1314 | AMBASSADOR LAGON ENCOURAGES GOS TO APPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Mark Lagon urged Singapore to quickly approve long-delayed anti-TIP Penal Code Amendments during his June 29 visit to Singapore. The GOS explained that the anti-TIP provisions are part of comprehensive reform of the Penal Cod [...] | 2007-07-10 00:24:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL PHUM KCRM KOCI KWMN SN |
07SINGAPORE1323 | SCENESETTER FOR EEB A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Singapore looks forward to your July 22-23 visit. While we are not allies, the United States enjoys a close relationship with Singapore, based on similar strategic views and substantial trade and investment ties. Singapore is a keen observer of regional developments, but for po [...] | 2007-07-11 09:08:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1404 | PM LEE HSIEN LOONG: ME AND MY (DAD'S) SHADOW [...] (C) Summary: After almost three years as Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong still has not come out of the shadow of his father, modern Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew (LKY). Long seen as arrogant and preordained to take over the reins of government, PM Lee has been successful in softeni [...] | 2007-07-30 07:29:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN SN |
07SINGAPORE1409 | INTEL LEAK IRKS GOS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 02:59:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE156 | SINGAPORE PLEASED WITH ASEAN AND EAST ASIA SUMMITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director for ASEAN Jacky Foo provided us an upbeat assessment January 19 of the recently concluded ASEAN and East Asian Summits in Cebu. The 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu demonstrated that ASEAN integration was moving forward, Foo said. There were [...] | 2007-01-23 09:02:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SENV SN |
07SINGAPORE1591 | AFGHANISTAN PRT: NO SINGAPORE COMBAT FORCES, BUT [...] (C) Singapore will not send combat personnel to Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Scot Marciel and the Ambassador during an August 24 meeting. It would be "politically impossible" to do so, Kausikan asserted. [...] | 2007-08-29 06:31:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AF SN |
07SINGAPORE1592 | INFORMATION REGARDING SEANA ENERGY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, this message provides information about the Singapore-registered company Seana Energy Pte. Ltd. 2. (SBU) Seana Energy Pte. Ltd. is a limited private company established on March 15, 2007. Singapore's online business directory, Biznet, lists the company's principal office [...] | 2007-08-29 06:34:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET PGOV PREL SN AJ KZ TU TX |
07SINGAPORE1601 | SINGAPORE TO AMEND STRATEGIC GOODS ACT [...] (U) The GOS introduced the Strategic Goods Control Bill in Parliament on August 27. If passed, the Bill would amend the Strategic Goods Control Act to include dual-use goods and technologies. The Bill also introduces amendments regulating strategic goods that transit Singapore and the broker [...] | 2007-08-29 09:53:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PGOV PREL KNNP SN |
07SINGAPORE1611 | SINGAPORE SUGGESTS CHANGES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 10:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KTIA ETRD CWC |
07SINGAPORE1612 | GOS LETTER TO DHS REGARDING NEW CARGO SCANNING LEGISLATION [...] (U) Transportation Minister Raymond Lim recently sent the letter in paragraph 2 to Secretary Chertoff highlighting Singapore's concerns about our new cargo scanning legislation. Per State 119837, we will report other local reactions septel. 2. (SBU) Begin text of letter: MINISTER FOR T [...] | 2007-08-31 00:20:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHSA ETRD EWWT SN |
07SINGAPORE1637 | ASEAN CHARTER ON TRACK, SINGAPORE MFA TELLS EAP [...] (C) Summary: The ASEAN Charter should be ready for leaders to sign at the group's November Summit in Singapore, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Scot Marciel and the Ambassador August 25. Kausikan offered a downbeat assessment of developments in Indonesia, Malaysi [...] | 2007-09-04 08:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER ETRD EFIN SN |
07SINGAPORE1638 | SINGAPORE CONFIDENT ASEAN CHARTER WILL ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: The ASEAN Charter is close to completion and should be ready for ASEAN leaders to sign at the November Summit in Singapore, MFA told us August 31. After the November Summit, Singapore will use its position as ASEAN Chairman to push for "transitional arrangements" to move ASEAN fr [...] | 2007-09-04 08:38:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON PGOV SN |
07SINGAPORE1668 | COALITION FORCES ESSENTIAL TO IRAQ'S REBUILDING, [...] (U) A premature withdrawal of Coalition forces from Iraq would harm the situation in Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Ministry Deputy Minister for Policy Planning, Labeed Majeed ABBAWI told a Singapore audience on September 6 at a forum on Iraq's foreign policy. A major goal for the GOI is to convince its [...] | 2007-09-07 07:26:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI ECON ETRD PGOV PTER IR XF IZ SN |
07SINGAPORE1673 | FOLLOW-UP ON INVITATION TO THE LUNCHEON ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 08:22:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA SN |
07SINGAPORE175 | (S) GOS STILL PURSUING SOKKIA AND MACHINE TOOL [...] (S) Econoff on January 23 delivered ref A talking points and ref B non-paper to Yvonne Ow, Assistant Director, International Organizations, MFA. Ow thanked us for the additional information about the computer numerically controlled machine tools and the Iran, North Korea, Syria Nonproliferat [...] | 2007-01-25 08:55:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL SN IR KN |
07SINGAPORE1760 | FIRM FINED FOR ATTEMPTED TRANSHIPMENT OF [...] (SBU) A Singapore court fined local freight forwarder World Freight S$22,000 (US$14,600) on September 17 for attempting to transship controlled items to Iran, according to press reports. This is the first legal action Singapore has taken since it announced in September 2006 plans to expand i [...] | 2007-09-21 10:06:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MTCRE SZ SN |
07SINGAPORE1781 | GOS DISCUSSES REGIONAL, DOMESTIC ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary: A U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) delegation, joined by the Ambassador, had separate meetings with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Minister of National Development Mah Bow Tan, and Minister of Defense Teo Chee Hean on September 20 and 21. Singa [...] | 2007-09-26 09:31:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD PREL ECON SN |
07SINGAPORE1795 | SINGAPORE ISSUES STRONGER STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] (SBU) One day after we urged the Singapore MFA to do more on Burma (reftel),the DCM had the opportunity to ask Southeast Asia Director (D-G equivalent) Peter Tan for the GOS' latest thinking on the evolving situation. Tan said that in light of reports that the government crackdown had result [...] | 2007-09-27 09:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SG ASEAN BM |
07SINGAPORE1797 | (S) PAKISTAN MISSILE PROGRAM PROCUREMENT POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 04:44:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA PK GM NL SN |
07SINGAPORE1811 | SINGAPORE PESSIMISTIC ON DEFENSE PACT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Singapore is pessimistic over prospects for Indonesian ratification of the Defence Cooperation Agreement and the Extradition Treaty the two nations signed in April, MFA Southeast Asia Directorate Director Peter Tan told us during a September 27 meeting with the DCM. Tan charact [...] | 2007-09-28 11:04:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV ID SN |
07SINGAPORE1812 | SINGAPORE MEDIA COMES DOWN HARD ON BURMESE JUNTA; [...] Summary: Singapore's government-controlled press has been uncharacteristically critical of the Burmese regime, with a Straits Times editorial calling on it to "manage -- with as much decency and dispatch as it can muster -- its own demise." Meanwhile, the MFA issued another press statement, [...] | 2007-09-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ASEAN BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1822 | BURMA: SINGAPORE TOLERATES AN "ILLEGAL" [...] (C) Summary: A crowd of 150 Burmese nationals gathered outside the Embassy of Burma on September 30 to protest the regime's crackdown in Rangoon, according to local press reports. The Singapore police advised the protesters that it was an illegal public assembly and told them to disperse, but [...] | 2007-10-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1851 | BURMA: LEADING ACADEMIC CALLS FOR ASEAN TO SUSPEND [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should suspend Burma's membership in the organization, one of Singapore's leading academic and establishment figures argued in an October 4 op-ed piece in the government-linked Straits Times Newspaper. Think tank director and former Ambassador Barry Desker said Burma has be [...] | 2007-10-04 09:52:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1852 | BURMA: PM'S AIDE PROVIDES GAMBARI READOUT, VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Lee's Principal Private Secretary Lawrence Wong provided Charge a readout October 4 SIPDIS of UN Special Advisor Gambari's Burma mission that tracked closely with what our UK colleagues heard from Gambari October 3: Gambari had delivered the international commu [...] | 2007-10-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ASEAN BU SN |
07SINGAPORE187 | (S) GOS REQUESTS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MACHINE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) MFA Assistant Director ONG Soo Chuan on January 26 contacted Econoff to relay follow-up questions related to the information we provided the GOS on January 23 (reftels). Ong reported that GOS technical agencies had asked for mo [...] | 2007-01-26 10:14:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1870 | BURMA: SINGAPORE RULING PARTY MP WANTS TOUGHER [...] (C) ASEAN needs to move beyond statements and take action against the regime in Burma, Singapore ruling party MP Charles Chong told us October 5. Chong, who is a leader of the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC),said ASEAN should consider either suspending Burma from the organiz [...] | 2007-10-09 09:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1871 | (S) M/V GANT STAR: OFFER OF ASSISTANCE DELIVERED [...] (S) We delivered information listed Ref A on October 9 to Tan York Chor, Director of MFA's International Organization's office. Tan thanked us for the offer of assistance and zeroed in on the question of evidentiary requirements. The case at hand would present no problem as long as the GOS [...] | 2007-10-09 10:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETRD ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL SN IR |
07SINGAPORE1880 | SINGAPORE MOVES FROM OBSERVER TO MEMBER OF UNESCO [...] (U) Singapore rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) October 8, after pulling out of the organization 22 years ago. Singapore became a full member of UNESCO in 1965 but withdrew from the group in 1985 citing unfair dues calculations and unhappines [...] | 2007-10-10 09:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI CUL UNPAR UNESCO |
07SINGAPORE1881 | SINGAPORE RESPONSE TO MNF-I COALITION CONFERENCE [...] (U) We delivered reftel invitation for Government of Singapore representatives to attend the upcoming MultiNational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) Coalition Conference in Bahrain to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs October 5. The MFA advised today that a representative of the Ministry of Defense will at [...] | 2007-10-10 10:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MARR MOPS OTRA PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1889 | SINGAPORE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHIEF CHEE ARRESTED FOR [...] (SBU) While the Government of Singapore (GOS) usually does not allow unauthorized public demonstrations, they have shown unusual flexibility toward public displays of solidarity with the Burmese people since the regime's violent crackdown (reftel A). That tolerance evidently does not extend [...] | 2007-10-11 09:07:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1890 | BURMA-SINGAPORE TRADE AND INVESTMENT -- MORE THAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: For Burma, Singapore is a major trading partner and source of investment and foreign exchange. Two-way trade in goods is declining, but Singapore remains an important investor in Burma for tourism, airlines, food processing, and infrastructure. Asia World, one of Burma's larges [...] | 2007-10-11 10:56:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV ETTC PREL ASEAN EFIN BU SN |
07SINGAPORE1893 | DEMARCHE: URGING ASEAN LEADERSHIP ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan and delivered reftel message urging ASEAN leadership on Burma and suggesting that ASEAN consider appointing a high-level envoy to Burma. Kausikan agreed that ASEAN should continue to press Burma for meaningful change and suppo [...] | 2007-10-12 11:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE1906 | SINGAPORE TO SUPPORT UNESCO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 10:06:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI UNESCO SN |
07SINGAPORE1911 | ASEAN ENVOY CONCEPT -- SINGAPORE PREFERS TO KEEP [...] (C) MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan called DCM in to the MFA October 18 to provide a formal response to Ref A request for views on the possibility of ASEAN's designating a high-level envoy to Burma. Kausikan said that, as promised, Singapore had carefully considered the idea. The [...] | 2007-10-18 11:02:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE1919 | SINGAPORE TO SUPPORT USG ELECTION TO UNESCO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 03:44:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI UNESCO SN |
07SINGAPORE1931 | MFA ON SUSPENDING BURMA AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: It would be surprising if ASEAN leaders decided to suspend Burma, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador on October 15, given that "some of their hands are not too clean." Kausikan characterized China's "charm offensive" in So [...] | 2007-10-19 08:39:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SENV BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1932 | LEE KUAN YEW ON BURMA'S "STUPID" GENERALS AND THE [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should not have admitted Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into the organization in the 1990's, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told visiting EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador October 16. Expressing his scorn for Burma's leaders, MM Lee called them "dense" and "stupid." A [...] | 2007-10-19 08:41:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON CH TW BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1946 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-SINGAPORE ENVIRONMENTAL MOI [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 30 biennial review in Singapore of the Memorandum of Intent on Cooperation in Environmental Matters offers a good opportunity to move forward our bilateral engagement on the environment under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The timing is ideal: Sing [...] | 2007-10-23 08:26:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD ECON PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1948 | GOS CANDIDATE FOR ICAO AIR NAVIGATION COMMISSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (U) Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following diplomatic note concerning its candidate for the Air Navigation Commission of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). We will send an electronic version o [...] | 2007-10-23 09:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ICAO EAIR AORC PREL CA SN |
07SINGAPORE1960 | GOS RE-ELECTION TO IMO COUNCIL: SECOND REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following diplomatic note concerning its candidacy for re-election to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Note: This is the second diplomatic note w [...] | 2007-10-25 01:47:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IMO PREL EWWT AORC UK SN |
07SINGAPORE1980 | PRESSING GOS ON BURMA'S PARTICIPATION AT ASEAN AND [...] (C) Summary: The DCM met with MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho to express serious concern over Singapore's invitation to new Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein to attend the ASEAN Summit in Singapore in November and to urge Singapore not to go back to business as usual with the Burmese regime. [...] | 2007-10-30 07:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM SN |
07SINGAPORE1983 | GAMBARI READY TO GO TO BURMA; SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador sought a detailed readout of UN Special Advisor Gambari's regional consultations on Burma on October 30 and pressed him to work for specific modalities and outcomes during his early November visit to Burma. Gambari said his consultations had helped "bridge the gap" [...] | 2007-10-30 10:12:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE1989 | 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I - Drug and Chemical Control. Part II will be submitted septel. 2. (SBU) Begin text. I. Summary The Government of Singapore (GOS) enforces stringent counternar [...] | 2007-10-31 07:43:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR ECON ETRD PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE1996 | GOS VIEWS ON CHINA'S POLICY GOALS AND ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore expects a high degree of continuity in China's domestic and foreign policy, Security and Intelligence Division (SID) Director BG Chee Wee Kiong told visiting EAP DAS Thomas Christensen October 15. China's main priority is ensuring a stable international environment so it [...] | 2007-11-01 09:18:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SN |
07SINGAPORE1998 | (S) M/V GANT STAR: GOS RELEASES CHEMICALS TO [...] (S) Singapore has released to the Chinese shipper the sodium perchlorate originally destined for Iran that Singapore had seized earlier this year, according to Tan York Chor, Director of MFA's International Organizations Directorate. Tan called E/P Chief and Econoff into MFA late in the afte [...] | 2007-11-01 11:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETRD ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL SN IR |
07SINGAPORE2005 | SINGAPORE TO SUPPORT ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Singapore will support the decision by INTERPOL's Executive Committee to issue Red Notices for five current and former Iranian officials and one Lebanese national at the INTERPOL General Assembly Meeting in Morocco on November 5-8, MFA International Organization Directorate Deputy Directo [...] | 2007-11-02 08:57:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR SN |
07SINGAPORE2008 | (S) SHIPPING INFORMATION FOR RETURNED SODIUM [...] (S) Per reftel, MFA provided us November 2 with the following information via e-mail regarding the release of the seized sodium perchlorate to the Chinese shipper. Released to: Genesis Forwarding Services (Far East) Pte Ltd Vessel name: Nordwoge Carrier: Wan Hai Lines International Pte Lt [...] | 2007-11-02 09:49:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETRD ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL SN IR |
07SINGAPORE2011 | BURMA: S LETTER DELIVERED; GOS DISAPPOINTED BY UN [...] (SBU) E/P Chief delivered the Secretary's letter to Foreign Minister Yeo (Ref A) to MFA Southeast Asia Directorate Deputy Director Pong Kok Tian November 5. Pong noted that FM Yeo is currently in Jakarta, that Thursday, November 8, is a local holiday, and that FM Yeo plans to travel to New De [...] | 2007-11-05 10:06:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM SN |
07SINGAPORE2035 | COMMEMORATING THE GREAT WHITE FLEET [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-13 06:04:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO MARR MASS SN |
07SINGAPORE2046 | USG AND GOS CONCLUDE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Regional environmental initiatives, "green" technologies, and reducing air and water pollution were high on the list of future activities discussed during a biennial review of the U.S. - Singapore Free Trade Agreement's Memorandum of Intent (MOI) for Cooperation on Environment [...] | 2007-11-15 02:26:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD ECON PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE2052 | ASEAN SUMMITS: KEEP YOUR EXPECTATIONS LOW [...] (C) Summary: Singapore-based ASEAN watchers predicted a disappointed public reaction to the ASEAN Summit to be held here November 18-21. Government sources and a leaked draft indicate that the new ASEAN Charter will not include significant compliance or disciplinary measures as many had hop [...] | 2007-11-16 01:23:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE2073 | SINGAPORE LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 08:33:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA SN |
07SINGAPORE2075 | BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT MEETINGS KICK OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: The ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, hosted by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC),was held in Singapore November 16-18 as the curtain raiser for a cycle of ASEAN-related summit meetings that will continue through November 22 (see official summit program, par [...] | 2007-11-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETRD EINV ECON ASEAN SN BM |
07SINGAPORE2081 | SINGAPORE NOT LOOKING TO UNDERMINE UN PROCUREMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 06:03:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UN UNGA SN |
07SINGAPORE2084 | SCENESETTER FOR PM A-A/S MULL'S VISIT TO SINGAPORE [...] (C) Embassy Singapore looks forward to your December 3 visit. Your meetings with senior Singapore government officials offer an excellent opportunity to: -- express thanks for GOS support in Iraq and Afghanistan; -- highlight our close security relationship and the importance of interoperab [...] | 2007-11-20 09:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD ETTC BM SN |
07SINGAPORE2085 | ASEAN LEADERS SIGN CHARTER [...] (U) Summary: Following is the text, as issued by the Singapore MFA, of the ASEAN Charter signed by ASEAN leaders in Singapore on November 20. The Charter identifies "democracy," "the rule of law," and "human rights" as principles of ASEAN, in addition to familiar ASEAN principles like "sover [...] | 2007-11-20 11:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SN ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE2086 | BURMA: DIVIDED ASEAN CANCELS GAMBARI SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN leaders canceled a planned briefing of the East Asia Summit (EAS) by UN Special Advisor Gambari after Burma strenuously objected during a contentious working dinner involving the leaders at the ASEAN Summit November 19. An MFA source told us Burma's representatives had earl [...] | 2007-11-20 11:48:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE2092 | ASEAN SIGNS CHARTER AND ECONOMIC BLUEPRINT, ISSUES [...] (U) While controversy over Burma dominated headlines as leaders concluded the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore November 20 (ref A),member-countries and many regional observers preferred to focus on what they saw as a potential turning point in ASEAN's forty year history. The leaders signed two [...] | 2007-11-21 11:26:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETRD EINV ECON SENV ASEAN SN |
07SINGAPORE2093 | BURMA: ASEAN'S GAMBARI CANCELLATION SPARKS SMALL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ASEAN's ambivalent handling of the Burma issue during its ongoing cycle of ASEAN-related summits appears to have been met with mixed feelings among Burmese nationals and their sympathizers living in Singapore. The announcement that ASEAN had canceled UN Special Advisor Ibrahim [...] | 2007-11-21 12:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEAN BU SN |
07SINGAPORE2112 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' DECEMBER [...] (C) My team at Embassy Singapore and I greatly look forward to your December 2-3 visit. While the United States and Singapore are not allies, we enjoy a close military and economic relationship based on overlapping strategic views and substantial trade and investment ties. Singapore is a kee [...] | 2007-11-27 09:47:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON BM SN |
07SINGAPORE2115 | BURMESE REGIME'S MANEUVERS AT ASEAN SUMMIT REMOVED [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime's maneuvers at the ASEAN-related meetings in Singapore, especially the regime's reversing course and preventing UN Special Advisor Gambari from briefing the East Asia Summit, removed Burma's "ASEAN cover," Singapore Prime Minister Lee's Principal Private Secre [...] | 2007-11-28 07:07:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SN BM ASEAN |
07SINGAPORE2128 | (S)PAKISTAN MISSILE PROCUREMENT: ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 09:55:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA PK SN |
07SINGAPORE2148 | ENGAGING SINGAPORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN RUN-UP TO [...] (SBU) Singapore officials have welcomed ref A points and other information we have provided as part of our engagement with Singapore in the run-up to the UN Climate Conference in Bali this month. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Principal Private Secretary (PPS) Lawrence Wong confirmed to the [...] | 2007-12-05 01:43:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG ECON ETRD PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE2156 | SINGAPORE MFA BRIEFING ON ASEAN-RELATED MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA ASEAN Directorate Director Jacky Foo said the Government of Singapore sees two major accomplishments coming out of the ASEAN Summit. First, there was robust discussion of the Burma issue and consensus that the issue must not be allowed to block ASEAN integration. Second, t [...] | 2007-12-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEAN SN BM |
07SINGAPORE2170 | A-A/S MULL DISCUSSES REGIONAL POL-MIL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN is pushing forward with regional integration and becoming a more rules-based organization, MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho told Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull on December 3. Ho expressed optimism about Vietnam's rapidly growing economy [...] | 2007-12-10 07:21:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PHUM PGOV SN |
07SINGAPORE2184 | U/S BURNS' 12/3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE PM LEE [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns urged in a December 3 meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that Singapore and ASEAN do more to put pressure on the Burmese regime to engage in genuine dialogue. PM Lee said ASEAN would do its part, but claimed the real leverage lay with Ch [...] | 2007-12-12 05:21:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SN BM CH IN AF JA |
07SINGAPORE2190 | U/S BURNS' DEC. 3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE FM YEO [...] (C) Summary: Singapore and ASEAN should step up the pressure on the Burmese regime, U/S Burns told Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo on December 3. FM Yeo said ASEAN would stand aside on the Burma issue now that Burma had made it clear through its actions at the ASEAN Summit that it woul [...] | 2007-12-12 10:19:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | BM PREL ASEAN SN XF |
07SINGAPORE2191 | BURMA: U/S BURNS STRESSES NEED FOR CONTINUED ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Nicholas Burns, accompanied by the Ambassador, urged ASEAN to find a way to step up pressure on Burma during a meeting with MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho December 3. Ho said that Burma had SIPDIS rejected an ASEAN role during the November 19-22 summits in S [...] | 2007-12-13 04:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | BM PGOV PHUM PREL ASEAN SN |
07SINGAPORE2194 | AMBASSADOR'S CHINA-FOCUSED ROUNDTABLE WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador joined academics from the East Asian Institute (EAI) in a roundtable discussion of China's relationship with Singapore and ASEAN. EAI researchers noted that a Singapore-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be particularly helpful for Singapore's services sector, [...] | 2007-12-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD MARR PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON ASEAN CH |
07SINGAPORE224 | (S) GOS RELEASES PRECISION LATHES TO SHIPPER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S/NF) Post was informed at approximately 1:00 pm on January 31 that the GOS had released to the original shipping company (Evergreen) two containers detained at USG request on or around December 16, 2006 (ref C). The containers w [...] | 2007-01-31 11:04:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC SN KN MY |
07SINGAPORE2244 | SINGAPORE "POSTPONES" GAY RIGHTS AFTER LIVELY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 04:15:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI SN |
07SINGAPORE2254 | NO BREAKTHROUGH IN 2007 FOR GAY RIGHTS IN [...] (C) Summary: 2007 turned out not to be the breakthrough year for gay rights in Singapore that advocates had hoped it would be. After an extended and spirited public debate fueled by founding father Lee Kuan Yew (LKY),Singapore retained a statute (Section 377A) banning sex between men. A se [...] | 2007-12-28 01:49:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI SN |
07SINGAPORE227 | (S) GOS QUESTIONS USG MOTIVES IN LINKING LATHES TO [...] (S/NF) Tan Yee Woan, Director of MFA's International Organizations Directorate, on February 1 requested a meeting with E/P Counselor to provide an update on the status of the precision lathes shipment (ref A). Tan began by saying that it was a USG suggestion that the shipment might violate UN [...] | 2007-02-01 11:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC SN MY KN |
07SINGAPORE23 | MFA PROVIDES BLOCKED SHIPMENTS UPDATES [...] (SBU) Michelle Teo-Jacob, Assistant Director of MFA's International Organizations Directorate, on January 3 provided us updates on three outstanding export control and nonproliferation cases. She presented us with two non-papers, reproduced in paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (S) Teo-Jacob began wit [...] | 2007-01-03 10:43:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL KNNP SN |
07SINGAPORE27 | SINGAPORE ANNOUNCES UNSCR 1718 SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-04 08:46:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD KFPC KNNP PARM PREL SN KN |
07SINGAPORE285 | TEMASEK CEO HO CHING SURVEYS THE REGION [...] (C) Summary. Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching (also wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong) told Ambassador David Gross that she was pessimistic about ASEAN's future. Thailand's interim government was obsessed with "everything Thaksin" and, having come up short on evidence to implicate the for [...] | 2007-02-09 09:18:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ECPS EINV EFIN PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE302 | SINGAPORE STILL LOOKING FOR A MORE EFFECTIVE JAPAN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials have long believed that Japan should do more to capitalize on its significant aid, trade and investment in the countries of Southeast Asia, noting that China garners more attention with much less effort. Singapore and Japan enjoy close economic and political t [...] | 2007-02-13 03:35:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON JA PGOV PREL SN ETRD MARR |
07SINGAPORE314 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND TALKING POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Econoff on February 13 delivered Ref A talking points and Ref B additional technical data to Yeen Teck HOE, MFA International Organizations Directorate Desk Officer. Hoe said he would pass the additional data to Singapore's technical agencies and inform his colleagues about our request t [...] | 2007-02-14 02:10:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC MCTRE ETTC SN KN |
07SINGAPORE318 | DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) In conjunction with the Russian Federation's Deputy Chief of Mission, Igor Evdokimov, Econoff described the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) and delivered Ref A documents on February 13 to Vanessa Chan, MFA International Organizations Deputy Director. Chan expressed [...] | 2007-02-14 04:33:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIT KNNP ETTC PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE394 | BURLESQUE AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LATER, SINGAPORE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Singapore (GOS) is attempting to steer the economy to become more knowledge-based and entrepreneurial to counter the competitive challenges China, India and other lower-cost exporters pose. Characteristically, the GOS is taking the lead, putting schemes in pla [...] | 2007-02-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD SN |
07SINGAPORE480 | DEMARCHE ON INTERPOL'S AMIA PROPOSAL DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 06:33:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | IR AR PGOV PREL FBI PTER KJUS ASEC KTFN KISL |
07SINGAPORE585 | DPM WONG RESPONDS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs WONG Kan Seng told the Ambassador on March 23 that he planned to discuss recent law enforcement cooperation developments during his upcoming visit to Washington. He acknowledged that much effort was required to conclude a Mutu [...] | 2007-03-23 08:46:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC SNAR KTFN KCRM PREL PTER ECON SN |
07SINGAPORE587 | SM GOH'S VISIT TO IRAN AND SINGAPORE'S COOL [...] (C) Summary: Singapore's relations with Iran remain cool, despite Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's visit to Iran this month and the city-state's broader effort over the last three years to expand its links with the Middle East. In 2004, Singapore had Iran in its sights as a potential economic [...] | 2007-03-23 10:12:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON PGOV EPET SN IR |
07SINGAPORE70 | GENERAL THAN SHWE STILL IN SINGAPORE FOR "PRIVATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 09:32:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SN BM |
07SINGAPORE803 | (S) GOS RELEASES DETAINED STEEL PLATES TO SHIPPER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET//NOFORN | CH ETTC IR KN KNNP MTCRE PARM PK PREL SN |
07SINGAPORE81 | SINGAPORE NONCOMMITTAL ON UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (SBU) On January 11, DCM pressed MFA Deputy Secretary Andrew Tan for Singapore and ASEAN to support the UN Security Council resolution on Burma (Ref A). Tan said he was leaving on January 12 for the ASEAN Summit in Cebu and would convey our message to MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho, who was [...] | 2007-01-11 10:28:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV BM UNSC SN |
07SINGAPORE812 | STEEL PLATES: GOS UPDATES SHIPPING INFORMATION [...] (SBU) MFA on April 25 informed us of changes to the shipping information provided reftel. 2. (S) The new information is: Vessel name: Feng Yun He Permit no.: XO7D100116 House B/L: E2007/04/43611 Voyage: 118E ETD Singapore: 26 April 2007 ETA Shanghai: 09 May 2007 HERBOLD [...] | 2007-04-25 08:04:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL ETTC MCTRE IR CN SN |
07SINGAPORE852 | M/V GANT STAR: SODIUM PERCHLORATE QUESTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR SN |
07SINGAPORE995 | GOS PROVIDES SOKKIA, EPNO/DAINAN, NAVID'S [...] (U) A Senior Assistant Director of MFA's International Organizations Directorate presented us with the following non-paper on May 23. The non-paper provides GOS follow-up to export control cases involving three Singapore companies: Sokkia Singapore, Epno Far East/Dainan Tech, and Navid's Com [...] | 2007-05-24 01:54:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC SN IR |
07SKOPJE106 | MACEDONIA: POSITIVE REACTION TO KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) The GOM, public, and media response to UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's Kosovo status proposal has been uniformly positive. Government leaders are especially pleased with the proposal's language addressing the issue of demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border. They are concerned, however, n [...] | 2007-02-05 15:23:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KS |
07SKOPJE120 | MACEDONIA: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON ICTY RETURN OF [...] (C) Deputy PM Konevska agreed with the Ambassador during a February 7 meeting that the Macedonian judicial and political system is not yet ready to accept the return of four unindicted ICTY cases involving eAlbanians linked to the two main eAlbanian political parties here. Reminded that time i [...] | 2007-02-09 15:13:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK |
07SKOPJE129 | MACEDONIA ON HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 13:32:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAL KWBG PREL MK |
07SKOPJE134 | MACEDONIA: DPA LEADERS ON DIALOGUE, KOSOVO STATUS, [...] (C) In a February 9 meeting with leaders of eAlbanian governing coalition member DPA, the Ambassador pressed for a revitalized government-opposition dialogue, warned DPA against attempts to destroy eAlbanian opposition party DUI, and asked for full support for the Kosovo status process. She wa [...] | 2007-02-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS MK |
07SKOPJE135 | MACEDONIAN NOMINEES FOR MARCH CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 10:17:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PROP PTER PINS EAID NATEU MARR MOPS KISL |
07SKOPJE137 | MACEDONIA: NEW PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) During a February 9 courtesy call with the Ambassador, newly appointed Chief Public Prosecutor Shvrgovski said his number one priority is combating organized crime in Macedonia. Shvrgovski, a former Deputy Public Prosecutor, was appointed by the Macedonian parliament on January 24. He [...] | 2007-02-16 12:30:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
07SKOPJE16 | MACEDONIA: FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] This is Embassy Skopje's response to reftel regarding the five most influential women in Macedonia. PolOff Mariana Neisuler is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues. Tel: 389 2 3116 180 ext. 2111 Fax: 389 2 3133 601 Mobile: 389 70 306 024 Email: NeisulerML@state.gov [...] | 2007-01-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE162 | MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE PRIME [...] (C) During a meeting with Prime Minister Gruevski on February 21, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding political dialogue, education issues, and the rule of law in Macedonia (reftels). Pledging U.S. support for Macedonia's NATO membership aspirations, the Ambassador stressed that ther [...] | 2007-02-23 15:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE175 | MACEDONIA: REQUEST FOR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR [...] (U) See action request in para 5. 2. (U) Post received a diplomatic note from the Macedonian MFA on February 16 conveying a request from the defense attorney for former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski in his ICTY case in The Hague. She requests Embassy assistance in providing [...] | 2007-02-28 11:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE189 | MACEDONIA: SDSM PARTY CONGRESS SHOWCASES NEW [...] (SBU) On February 24, Macedonia's biggest opposition party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM),held its 7th congress in Skopje under the slogan "Trust, Unity and Success." Although barely mentioned in the next day's papers, the congress showed the new and more polished face of a p [...] | 2007-03-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE190 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR A/S FRIED'S MARCH [...] (U) This message supplements, and is complementary to, the briefing materials already provided to EUR/SCE for your visit to Skopje. NATO MESSAGE SINKING IN, DIALOGUE MOVES AHEAD 2. (C) With your visit an action-forcing event, GOM officials this week are taking some of the steps we have be [...] | 2007-03-05 15:23:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE203 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION REVIVE [...] (C) PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition leader Ali Ahmeti and their negotiating teams met March 7 to revive long-dormant political talks on moving ahead on key NATO and EU membership-related reforms, including implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The two sides reached agreement o [...] | 2007-03-09 09:47:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE209 | MACEDONIA: EUR A/S FRIED'S TALKS WITH GOM & [...] (C) During March 8 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, A/S Fried urged (and easily obtained) continued support for the Ahtisaari status proposal and asked his interlocutors to consider publicly supporting a Kosovo UNSCR as a means to bolster security in Macedonia and the region [...] | 2007-03-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE21 | MACEDONIA: DRUG BUST NETS NEARLY 500 KGS OF [...] (SBU) Macedonia's biggest-ever drug bust, on January 7 at the Kosovo-Macedonia border, which netted more than 486 kilos of cocaine reportedly headed for Greece, is a good example of effective regional cooperation in a counter-narcotics operation. Separately, a counter-narcotics trial in Skopj [...] | 2007-01-12 06:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PREL MK KS |
07SKOPJE22 | MACEDONIA: KONDOVO GANG LEADER CONVICTED, REMAINS [...] (SBU) Gang leader Agim Krasniqi and two of his associates have been sentenced to prison terms for their involvement in the attempted kidnapping and wounding of a rival ethnic Albanian gang member in October 2003. Krasniqi and one associate were tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia and r [...] | 2007-01-12 09:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE235 | MACEDONIA TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE250 | MACEDONIA TO SUPPORT GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE251 | MACEDONIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ZI MK |
07SKOPJE257 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL KILLION'S [...] (SBU) Welcome to Macedonia! Your visit to Skopje will give you the chance to hear the Macedonian perspective on Kosovo, to share your findings with high-level government and ethnic Albanian political leaders, and to deliver some important messages to the Macedonian government (GOM) on steps t [...] | 2007-03-30 12:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE27 | BUNGLED MACEDONIAN ARMS SHIPMENT TO BULGARIA: [...] (C) Macedonian police intercepted and halted a shipment of military weapons bound for Bulgaria on December 14, claiming that the trucks lacked the proper paperwork and the required police escort. The shipment of machine guns and mortars was the last of four shipments of excess weapons the M [...] | 2007-01-12 16:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KOMC MASS PREL MK |
07SKOPJE270 | MACEDONIA: POLITICAL DIALOGUE CONTINUES -- HARD [...] (C) Since the revival of political talks between the government and eAlbanian opposition party DUI on March 7, several working-level meetings between the two sides, monitored by the U.S. and EUSR, have produced an agreed list of some 38 laws that will be subject to the Badinter principle (doub [...] | 2007-04-06 10:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE282 | MACEDONIA: OSCE PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR FY 2007 [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, we recommend for funding the following three priority rule of law/police training projects proposed by the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission Skopje: -- Study Visit for Judges to the ICTY Project Number: 2600360 XB-SKP-HD-ICTY-07 Budget: Euros 26,215 Justific [...] | 2007-04-14 10:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL |
07SKOPJE283 | MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES PRIME MINISTER FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador met with PM Gruevski April 11 to press him for greater flexibility in meeting eAlbanian opposition DUI's demands in exchange for DUI's commitment to end its boycott of Parliament. Gruevski asserted he had already conceded much of what DUI wanted in terms of a list of laws r [...] | 2007-04-16 06:48:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MK SY |
07SKOPJE290 | MACEDONIA: CONTROVERSIAL ORTHODOX CHURCH FIGURE TO [...] (U) Zoran Vraniskovski, the defrocked Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) bishop recognized by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) as Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid, likely will be released from prison on May 1, after serving nine months of a one-year sentence for an embezzlement conviction (reftel). Vr [...] | 2007-04-17 08:49:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF MK |
07SKOPJE292 | MACEDONIA: REPRESENTATION AT THE MEETING OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IQ MK |
07SKOPJE294 | MACEDONIA: STAFFDEL KILLION'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Staffdel Killion met with senior Macedonian government (GOM) officials and with representatives of the two major eAlbanian parties (opposition DUI and governing DPA) during a visit to Skopje April 4. Both government and opposition interlocutors expressed support for the Ahtisaari plan o [...] | 2007-04-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MK PGOV PINR PREL |
07SKOPJE295 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS ROSEMARY [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Skopje! Your visit allows us to reinforce messages to both government and opposition delivered during recent stops in Skopje by A/S Fried, DASD Fata, and Staffdel Killion. Those messages are: --Continue political dialogue to achieve concrete results and end DUI's boyco [...] | 2007-04-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE296 | MACEDONIA: GLASS HALF FULL -- FORGING AHEAD ON [...] (C) Following high-level leadership discussions April 13 and 16, PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition DUI leader Ahmeti reached a compromise on a key DUI demand to reconstitute the Parliamentary Inter-ethnic Relations Committee. They did not reach agreement on a list of laws that would requir [...] | 2007-04-18 16:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE299 | MACEDONIA: TIP SOLICITATION FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY07 [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, we recommend for funding the following two anti-TIP projects for G/TIP-managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE funds, as described in paragraphs 2 and 3. Post believes both proposals address G/TIP criteria for projects that focus on strengthening rule of law and the criminal [...] | 2007-04-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MK |
07SKOPJE32 | MACEDONIA: REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE FOR MANPADS [...] (SBU) Embassy Skopje requests USG assistance for MANPADS destruction in Macedonia, as first described in reftel. The request is for a USG training team to visit Macedonia for 8 (eight) days, including travel time to/from Macedonia, to train and assist Macedonian authorities in destroying 156 [...] | 2007-01-16 16:21:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MARR MK |
07SKOPJE333 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS US PLANS FOR SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 08:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
07SKOPJE334 | MACEDONIA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT PSI EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 08:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PAARM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE335 | MACEDONIA WILL MAINTAIN TROOP SUPPORT FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV IQ MK |
07SKOPJE336 | MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO MEETINGS WITH GOM AND [...] (C) During April 23 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, DAS DiCarlo emphasized the need for the GOM to move forward on NATO-related reforms as time is running out for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership in 2008. Of utmost importance is resolving the ongoing politica [...] | 2007-04-27 14:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
07SKOPJE350 | MACEDONIA: TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE351 | MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 11:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC MK |
07SKOPJE365 | MACEDONIA: POLICE LAUNCH ANTI-TIP RAIDS IN WESTERN [...] (U) Four recent government (GOM) anti-TIP raids in western Macedonia in April and May highlight the GOM's increased anti-TIP efforts at the operational level. Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials acknowledge the initial raid was flawed, but have since provided better victim protection and evi [...] | 2007-05-14 11:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE38 | MACEDONIA ON NEW IRAQ STRATEGY -- WILL STAY THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ MK |
07SKOPJE387 | MACEDONIA: DIALOGUE -- LIGHT AT THE END OF THE [...] (C) The political dialogue process between governing VMRO-DPMNE and major eAlbanian opposition DUI appears to be coming to closure, with a possible compromise on the main agenda items DUI had proposed when the talks were revived in early March. Following intensive Embassy and EUSR pressure on [...] | 2007-05-17 07:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE39 | MACEDONIA: MANAGING POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM THE [...] (C) The ICTY's impending return to Macedonian jurisdiction of four unindicted cases which deal with acts allegedly committed by ethnic Albanians (eAlbanians) during the 2001 conflict will raise political tensions here. The ethnic Albanian opposition party DUI will argue, possibly with some ju [...] | 2007-01-17 14:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK |
07SKOPJE391 | MACEDONIA WILL SUBMIT 'NIL FORM' FOR HCOC ANNUAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE MK |
07SKOPJE397 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION REACH [...] (SBU) After several months of political talks (reftel),governing VMRO-DPMNE and eAlbanian opposition DUI have reached agreement on the text of a draft proposal that addresses DUI's key policy concerns and would end that party's parliamentary boycott. DUI President Ahmeti wants the agreement [...] | 2007-05-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE404 | MACEDONIA: BUILDING TIES WITH KOSOVO [...] (SBU) During his May 17 visit to Pristina, PM Gruevski reiterated Macedonia's support for the Ahtisaari plan and for a UNSCR that would allow for implementation of that plan. Gruevski had constructive talks with Kosovo PM Ceku and other Kosovar officials on demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia [...] | 2007-05-22 12:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE411 | MACEDONIA LIKELY TO OPPOSE DRAFT OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 17:03:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE415 | MACEDONIA: POLICE RAID IN TANUSEVCI -- NO REPEAT [...] (SBU) Early in the morning of May 23, Macedonian police raided several houses in the rural village of Tanusevci, north of Skopje on the Kosovo-Macedonia border, in an operation aimed at uncovering an illegal arms cache. The raid netted only a few rifles but briefly revived ghosts from Macedo [...] | 2007-05-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE416 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR POTUS LUNCH WITH A-3 [...] (C) Now in his ninth month in office, Prime Minister Gruevski will arrive in Tirana hoping for an encouraging message on NATO membership and looking for U.S. recognition of Macedonia's GWOT efforts and its constructive stance on Kosovo. It would be useful for him to hear a strong message on t [...] | 2007-05-25 15:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE418 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CONCLUDE [...] (C) Governing VMRO-DPMNE and eAlbanian main opposition party DUI concluded a U.S.-EU-brokered political agreement on May 29 that addresses DUI's key policy concerns and paves the way for that party's return to Parliament May 30. Governing coalition partner DPA, angered over DUI's inflated clai [...] | 2007-05-29 14:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE434 | MACEDONIA: REGIONAL OPERATION DISRUPTS ELABORATE [...] (SBU) The conclusion of the regional anti-trafficking "Operation Danube" led to the arrest of 19 Macedonian citizens on TIP-related charges on May 29. Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials credit good regional cooperation and the use of special investigative measures for the success of the ope [...] | 2007-06-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE449 | MACEDONIA: THE NAME ISSUE AND NATO MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Strict adherence to the 1995 Interim Agreement (IA) between Greece and Macedonia should remain central to preventing the name dispute from blocking Macedonia's membership in NATO, once it has met membership standards. A Greek threat to veto Macedonia's membership in NATO, or to withhold p [...] | 2007-06-06 13:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
07SKOPJE454 | MACEDONIA: ALBANIAN FM BASHA'S JUNE 1 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) During his first official visit to Skopje June 1, Albanian Foreign Minister Basha and FM Milososki discussed their hopes for a positive US signal on NATO membership for Adriatic Charter aspirants during President Bush's upcoming visit to Tirana. They considered stronger cooperation on EU [...] | 2007-06-07 14:47:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AL MK |
07SKOPJE465 | MACEDONIAN MILITARY ASSUMES CONTROL OF KFOR [...] (U) On June 7, the NATO HQs in Skopje formally returned all operational control of Camp Able Sentry (CAS) to the Macedonian military, in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Defense, the CHOD, the Ambassador, and the NATO HQ Senior Military Commander. The handover took place after nearly th [...] | 2007-06-12 12:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS MK |
07SKOPJE476 | MACEDONIA: SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS ON JUDICIAL [...] (SBU) Since independence in 1991, Macedonia has demonstrated slow but steady progress on judicial reforms. In Freedom House's "Judicial Framework and Independence Ratings for 2006," Macedonia currently ranks number two in the region, behind only NATO and EU member Bulgaria, and well ahead of t [...] | 2007-06-19 08:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE483 | MACEDONIA: GOM PLEDGES CONTINUED FOCUS ON NATO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A points on NATO enlargement and required reform steps to Deputy FM Petrov and National NATO Coordinator Dimitrov on June 19. In response, Petrov reiterated the GOM's commitment to focusing on NATO reforms, but noted challenges the government faces in passing [...] | 2007-06-20 17:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO MK |
07SKOPJE498 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EAPC SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Macedonia's leaders are hoping to showcase the country's organizational and logistics capabilities in hosting the EAPC summit, which will be set amidst the impressive natural beauty of Lake Ohrid. They have heard and understood our message on the steps they need to take to strengthen th [...] | 2007-06-25 13:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE50 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS KOSOVO STATUS TIMELINE [...] (C) In a January 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Milososki confirmed the GOM's support for Ahtisaari's Kosovo final status timeline (reftel),and agreed on the importance of close coordination between the U.S., the EU and the UN on the matter. The Ambassador assured Milososki [...] | 2007-01-19 15:48:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE508 | MACEDONIA: EASTERN BORDER REGION'S ECONOMIC WOES [...] (SBU) In the last several years, economically depressed rural eastern Macedonia has become Macedonia's main source of internal victims of trafficking-in-persons (TIP),a trend that is driven largely by the dire economic circumstances there. The January 2007 introduction of a visa requirement [...] | 2007-06-26 13:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE533 | MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR NULAND URGES PRESIDENT AND [...] (U) During separate meetings with President Crvenkovski and PM Gruevski on the margins of the NATO EAPC Security Forum in Ohrid June 29, Ambassador Nuland urged the GOM to maintain steady progress toward meeting NATO standards in the crucial months leading up to NATO's Bucharest Summit in April [...] | 2007-07-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE539 | MACEDONIA: ADRIATIC CHARTER & NEW PFP MEMBERS [...] (SBU) During an Adriatic Charter (Albania, Croatia, Macedonia) Partnership Commission in Ohrid June 28, USNATO Ambassador Nuland urged the A-3 aspirant countries to: accelerate progress on NATO reforms, demonstrate and describe their readiness for membership in demarches to other NATO Allies, [...] | 2007-07-06 13:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK CR AL |
07SKOPJE550 | MACEDONIA SUCCESSFULLY HOSTS EAPC SECURITY FORUM [...] (U) The GOM hosted NATO's second Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum in Ohrid June 28-29. A total of 500 individual participants from 48 EAPC nations took part in the forum; 16 countries were represented at the ministerial level. USNATO Ambassador Nuland led the U.S. del [...] | 2007-07-10 09:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
07SKOPJE559 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR DAS BUTLER AND DASD [...] (SBU) Macedonia is a small but effective contributor to global peace operations. The Army of the Republic of Macedonia (ARM) currently contributes 40 troops to international operations in Iraq; 130 troops to NATO's ISAF mission in Afghanistan; 20 troops to the EUFOR mission in Bosnia-Herzegov [...] | 2007-07-11 16:41:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
07SKOPJE567 | MACEDONIA: IMPLEMENTING THE MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Implementation of the May 29 agreement between governing VMRO-DPMNE and opposition DUI (reftels) began July 9 with the first meeting of separate working groups on a draft law on the use of languages, and on a package of social benefits for victims of the 2001 conflict. Consistent USG p [...] | 2007-07-12 15:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO PINR MK |
07SKOPJE57 | MACEDONIA: STATUS OF SECTION 1206 PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 11:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL MK |
07SKOPJE579 | MACEDONIA: MIXED PROGRESS ON THE ANTI-TIP FRONT [...] (SBU) Recent anti-TIP raids, TIP convictions, and the arrest of a fugitive convicted of trafficking indicate the Macedonian government is sustaining its anti-TIP efforts, which intensified in the first quarter of 2007 (reftel). Despite that progress, the police need to redouble and refocus ef [...] | 2007-07-18 11:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE601 | MACEDONIA COMMITTED TO STAYING THE COURSE IN IRAQ [...] (U) NEA DAS Butler, together with OSD and JCS representatives, was in Skopje July 15-16 to thank the GOM for its troop contributions to missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. DATT and POLOFF (notetaker) accompanied the delegation. DAS Butler thanked GOM officials for their strong support for coal [...] | 2007-07-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE611 | MACEDONIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] (U) I am declaring a disaster in Macedonia for the loss of property, loss of livelihoods, and actual and potential loss of life caused by heat wave-related wildfires currently raging throughout Macedonia, and am requesting USD 50,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. The Governmen [...] | 2007-07-25 16:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI EAID PREL MK |
07SKOPJE612 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNESCO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNESCO MK |
07SKOPJE616 | MACEDONIA: MTAG: MIKROSAM EXPORTS OF FILAMENT [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points on Mikrosam's export of filament winding machines to MinEcon State Counselor for Trade Krum Efremov on July 25. Efremov was pleased to hear that the USG had no objections to the GOM issuing [...] | 2007-07-26 16:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL CH MK |
07SKOPJE62 | MACEDONIA WILL ATTEND JANUARY 26 NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. (SBU) Drawing on reftel, P/E Chief delivered points on U.S. objectives for the January 26 NATO Informal Foreign Ministerial to MFA State Secretary Igor Ilievski on January 18. PEChief conveyed USG gratitude for Macedonia's troop co [...] | 2007-01-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO MK |
07SKOPJE629 | MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON WAY AHEAD FOR NATO [...] (C) During a July 31 tete-a-tete lunch, PM Gruevski outlined what he considers to be the remaining tasks for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership: implement the May 29 VMRO-DUI agreement, fully constitute the State Judicial Council, and pass a liberal religious freedom law. He also s [...] | 2007-08-01 16:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MK |
07SKOPJE633 | MACEDONIA: STRIPPED OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY, [...] (SBU) In a dramatic midnight session August 1, the Parliamentary Committee on Immunity revoked the parliamentary immunity of former Prime Minister and current opposition SDSM MP Vlado Buckovski. After being stripped of his immunity, Buckovski appeared in front of an investigative judge on Au [...] | 2007-08-03 14:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE667 | MACEDONIA: MTAG ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK PROVIDED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL CH MK |
07SKOPJE682 | MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT US CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel diplomatic note and CV for Ms. Felice Gaer to MFA Head of Sector Multilateral Relations Goran Stevcevski on August 10. Stevcevski said the GOM will support the re-election of Ms. Gaer to the UN Committee Against Torture. MILOVANOVIC [...] | 2007-08-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE695 | MACEDONIA: A/S O'BRIEN VISIT HIGHLIGHTS TERRORISM [...] (SBU) During his June 11-12 visit, A/S Patrick O'Brien encouraged Macedonian government officials to continue strengthening the country's counter-terrorism financing and anti-money laundering law, as well as those institutions responsible for implementation of the law. O'Brien applauded the [...] | 2007-08-22 08:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN PTER EFIN PREL MK |
07SKOPJE699 | MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS EX-PM'S IMMUNITY [...] (SBU) On August 20, the Macedonian Parliament voted to revoke the immunity of former Prime Minister and current opposition MP Vlado Buckovski. Buckovski is being investigated by the Macedonian authorities for alleged irregularities in procurement while he was Minister of Defense in 2001 (Ref [...] | 2007-08-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR MK |
07SKOPJE709 | MACEDONIA: MOVING TOWARD EARLY ELECTIONS? [...] (C) According to a high-ranking MFA contact, PM Gruevski increasingly favors calling early general elections to capitalize on his high poll ratings and to end intra-coalition squabbling he believes is hobbling his economic development agenda. Gruevski believes he could work more efficiently w [...] | 2007-08-30 16:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE712 | MACEDONIA: MOI CONSIDERS PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) The GOM is actively considering a non-violent approach to resolving the current standoff with former ethnic Albanian MP Xhezair Shaqiri, who is holed up in the village of Tanusevci on the Macedonia-Kosovo border (reftel) to avoid arrest on kidnapping charges. The approach includes offering [...] | 2007-08-31 15:36:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK KV |
07SKOPJE719 | MACEDONIA: EARLY ELECTIONS NIPPED IN THE BUD? [...] (C) The prospect of early elections in Macedonia probably has receded following a joint U.S.-EU demarche September 4 to relay points to Prime Minister Gruevski's cabinet on the potential risks to the country's Euro-Atlantic aspirations of such action. However, the early elections option could [...] | 2007-09-05 16:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE72 | MACEDONIA: SUMMARY OF DECEMBER PSI OEG MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE730 | MACEDONIAN: ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES WOULD ALLOW [...] (SBU) Following more than six months of talks between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and a group of MPs from the smaller ethnic minority communities (Turks, Serbs, Bosniacs, Roma, Vlachs),the government announced on August 27 that it would seek to amend the electoral code to guarantee ten new [...] | 2007-09-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE732 | MACEDONIA: UNGA HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (U) As requested in reftel on planned high-level attendance at the 62nd UN General Assembly, please find below planned GOM attendance. A. Head of State, President Branko Crvenkovski, will attend UNGA. -- Branko Crvenkovski, President -- Arrival September 22, 2007; departure September 2 [...] | 2007-09-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE735 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT PULLS TEXTBOOK DEEMED [...] (SBU) On September 7, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced it would withdraw from circulation a high school history textbook deemed offensive to Muslims because it included a portrait of the Prophet Mohamed, which is forbidden under Islam. According to the MOE, the textbook, used by 9th [...] | 2007-09-10 16:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE736 | MACEDONIA: POLICE CHIEF KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH [...] (SBU) A local police station chief was killed, and two of his colleagues wounded, in a September 10 firefight with an ethnic Albanian fugitive and his accomplices near the village of Vaksince, near the Kosovo border. It is not clear whether the fugitive and his accomplices ambushed the polic [...] | 2007-09-11 06:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MK PGOV PREL KV |
07SKOPJE737 | MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR STANDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 08:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC MK |
07SKOPJE738 | MACEDONIAN FIRST LADY WILL NOT ATTEND LUNCHEON ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 11:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE739 | MACEDONIA: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE VOICES" IN MUSLIM [...] (SBU) CONTEXT: In Macedonia, there is a rough correlation between religion and ethnicity; most ethnic Albanians, who comprise 25 percent of the total population, are Muslim, as are most Roma and ethnic Turks. There are also smaller populations of ethnic Macedonian Muslims. Macedonia's Muslim [...] | 2007-09-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE740 | MACEDONIA: STIFF TIP SENTENCES AND ANOTHER [...] (SBU) On September 7, a Skopje Court handed down trafficking-in-persons (TIP) sentences of between two and nine years in prison to 18 defendants in the "Operation Danube" trial (ref A) and ordered forfeiture of the defendants' assets involved. Two days later, the police conducted an anti-TI [...] | 2007-09-11 14:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE744 | MACEDONIA: MFA IS ALIGNED WITH USG THINKING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK KV |
07SKOPJE748 | MACEDONIA: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) USG efforts in Macedonia to protect and promote human rights focus on strengthening rule of law, decreasing political influence on and corruption in the security forces and judiciary, and capacity building to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society. 2. (U) Embassy officials [...] | 2007-09-13 14:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MK |
07SKOPJE753 | MACEDONIA: NEW DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, [...] (SBU) On September 11, President Crvenkovski appointed Viktor Dimovski, who had been serving until then as Macedonia's Ambassador in Belgrade, to be the director of the Macedonian Intelligence Agency (MIA). Dimovski replaced Kire Naumov, who resigned, "due to personal reasons," at the end o [...] | 2007-09-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
07SKOPJE758 | MACEDONIA: KICK-STARTING MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Governing VMRO and ethnic opposition DUI have made slight progress toward implementing their five-point May 29 agreement (ref A),with tentative steps toward codifying a list of 46 laws that would require a qualified (Badinter) majority, and the government having approved a draft law on co [...] | 2007-09-17 15:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE760 | MACEDONIA: PROPOSED ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES STUCK [...] (C) The GOM faces determined political resistance to its proposed electoral code amendments, which would guarantee an additional 10 seats for smaller ethnic minorities and three seats for the diaspora (ref A). The government proposal also has come under critical international scrutiny over the [...] | 2007-09-18 07:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE766 | MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON COHABITATION CHALLENGES [...] (C) President Crvenkovski outlined for the Ambassador on September 19 his proposal for working with Prime Minister Gruevski to improve cohabitation and to resolve the issue of composing the State Judicial Council (SJC),a key NATO membership-related task. Gruevski's initial crude rebuff of th [...] | 2007-09-20 07:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KV |
07SKOPJE767 | MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON NAME ISSUE, KOSOVO, [...] (C) During a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador to discuss cohabitation challenges (ref A),President Crvenkovski expressed concern that Macedonia might be pushed to the wall in its name dispute with Greece before the 2008 NATO Summit, underscored that there is no difference between Skop [...] | 2007-09-20 15:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR MK KV |
07SKOPJE779 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. PRIORITIES FOR 62ND UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE781 | MACEDONIA: MFA ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-24 09:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE786 | MACEDONIA: DEADLOCK ON STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL [...] (C) On September 20, PM Gruevski and President Crvenkovski met to follow up on the President's initiative to improve cohabitation and break the deadlock on the State Judicial Council (SJC) and the appointment of Macedonian ambassadors. Later that day, the President, with the Prime Minister's [...] | 2007-09-24 16:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE792 | MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT BRAWL MARS RESOLUTION OF [...] (SBU) A brawl in parliament between MPs of ethnic Albanian DPA (governing coalition partner) and DUI (opposition) on September 25 overshadowed DUI's agreement to support a proposal (reftel) to break a long-standing deadlock on composition of the State Judicial Council (SJC),a key Macedonian j [...] | 2007-09-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE797 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES INVESTMENT BARRIERS AND [...] (SBU) During a September 25 meeting with Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Zoran Stavreski, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding three outstanding investment issues: questions surrounding the GOM's decision on a recent power plant privatization, steps the GOM should take to ensure the p [...] | 2007-09-28 12:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON ENRG PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE812 | MACEDONIA: GOM POSITIVELY CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) Following up on DASD Cagan's September 28 meetings in Skopje with MOD Elenovski and CHOD Stojanovski to request an additional Macedonian platoon for operations in Iraq (septel),P/E Chief conveyed Cagan's points in separate meetings with MFA State Counselor for Bilateral Relations with N [...] | 2007-10-09 08:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MASS MK PGOV PREL |
07SKOPJE815 | MACEDONIA: TENSIONS EBB AFTER PARLIAMENTARY BRAWL, [...] (SBU) A week after the September 25 brawl in Parliament between ethnic Albanian MPs (ref A),tensions have ebbed and the government on October 4 succeeded in corralling the votes of the smaller ethnic minority parties to elect four of the remaining five members of the 15-member State Judicial [...] | 2007-10-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE841 | MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO FOCUSES ON NATO REFORMS, [...] (C) In meetings with government leaders in Skopje October 9-10, DAS DiCarlo told her interlocutors that time is running out for Macedonia to show more concrete progress on reforms required for NATO membership, including enhanced political dialogue, improved President-PM cohabitation, and imple [...] | 2007-10-18 16:28:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
07SKOPJE842 | MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO'S OCTOBER 10 MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) During a meeting with DAS DiCarlo in Skopje on October 10, opposition DUI President Ahmeti said implementation of the May 29 Agreement was moving too slowly, and that he would ask governing VMRO for a deadline for concrete results from ongoing working group discussions. He was non-commi [...] | 2007-10-18 16:30:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE845 | MACEDONIA: NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) After consulting with members of the country team, Post has identified Xhane Kreshova (Dzane Kresova) as this year's Woman of Courage. Ms. Kreshova has been notified of her nomination. BIO DATA 2. (U) Name of the nominee: Xhane Kreshova In passport: Dzane Kresova Job title/associ [...] | 2007-10-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE853 | MACEDONIA: MANAGING THE NAME ISSUE AND A NATO [...] (C) Embassy Athens presents a clear assessment of the name issue and Macedonia's NATO membership prospects (ref A). We share Athens, preference for preparing joint recommendations to Washington, but in this case our two Missions differ substantially in their assumptions, analysis, recommendati [...] | 2007-10-22 16:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
07SKOPJE864 | SHOTS FIRED AT POLICE IN NORTHERN MACEDONIA ALMOST [...] (SBU) The shots fired on October 24 at a three person Macedonian border police patrol near the town of Kodra Fura sparked media speculation that the incident was a politically motivated attack by ethnic Albanians. Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials told us, and OSCE monitors confirmed, howe [...] | 2007-10-26 15:19:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE866 | MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 14:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE867 | MACEDONIA AIMS TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE IN NAME TALKS AT [...] (C) The GOM will propose, at the November 1 meeting in New York to discuss the name issue with Greek counterparts and with UN Special Envoy Nimetz, four steps that it believes would help reduce bilateral tensions and help prepare the ground for more fruitful efforts to resolve the name dispute. [...] | 2007-10-30 16:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE872 | MACEDONIA: RAISING THE RED FLAG? ALBANIANS REACT [...] (SBU) Ethnic Albanian parties have reacted with a firestorm of criticism of the Constitutional Court's October 24 decision annulling some provisions of the 2005 Law on Flags and Symbols, the final legislative piece of the Framework Agreement (FWA) which allowed eAlbanian-dominated municipaliti [...] | 2007-11-02 11:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL MK |
07SKOPJE875 | MACEDONIA: IMPLEMENTATION OF MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Over the last four months, governing VMRO and opposition DUI have been willing, but unyielding, participants in the implementation of the US-EU-brokered five-point May 29 agreement (ref A). There is still hope for the successful near-term re-composition of the committee on inter-ethnic [...] | 2007-11-02 16:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE876 | MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI BRIEFS NATO AND EU HEADS OF [...] (U) The following is a summary of the main points Prime Minister Gruevski made at a meeting with the diplomatic corps on the evening of November 1: 2. (U) Dialogue with opposition: two recent meetings with SDSM, and one with DUI, have nearly finalized agreement on the Parliamentary ruleboo [...] | 2007-11-02 16:39:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE879 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR US INTERAGENCY NATO MAP [...] (SBU/NF) When you step off the plane in Skopje on November 7, PM Gruevski will have just taken a beating from Brussels, having received the EU's annual progress report on November 6. The report will criticize the lack of political consensus here, slow progress on EU-related reforms, and the l [...] | 2007-11-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE880 | MACEDONIA: UNANIMOUS "NO" TO NIMETZ PROPOSAL ON [...] (C) The GOM, with opposition support, has unanimously rejected the point in the November 1 Nimetz proposal on the name that would allow Macedonia to keep its constitutional name but would require it to agree to a modified name for international usage. There is consensus as well between the Pr [...] | 2007-11-06 11:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
07SKOPJE886 | MACEDONIA SCRAPS ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION AND [...] (C) The GOM announced on October 31 that it had canceled the "Negotino" power plant privatization, and would instead keep the plant state owned. This decision ended any possibility that the GOM would award the privatization and investment contract to the U.S. - Greek joint venture, SENCAP, t [...] | 2007-11-07 15:21:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE887 | MACEDONIA: MAJOR POLICE ACTION AGAINST CRIMINAL [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Interior (MOI) informed us today that a police operation began early this morning against a group of 30-40 armed ethnic Albanian criminals who have been holed up outside of the northwest village of Brodec near the Kosovo border since July. The group includes escapees from [...] | 2007-11-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCRM PTER ASEC MK |
07SKOPJE888 | MACEDONIAN FIRM APPLIES TO EXPORT MTCR-CONTROLLED [...] (S) The GOM received an application from the Macedonian firm, Mikrosam, to export an MTCR-controlled filament winding machine to a Chinese company, and has requested our opinion on the potential export. On November 7, Ministry of Economy State Counselor for Trade, Krum Efremov, told econoff [...] | 2007-11-07 17:20:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC MK |
07SKOPJE891 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILL'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Skopje! When you arrive, political leaders here will be mulling over the tough message USNATO Ambassador Nuland delivered November 8 during a USG interagency visit to Skopje. Nuland told the government and opposition that Macedonia needs to demonstrate its readiness for [...] | 2007-11-09 16:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SKOPJE892 | MACEDONIA: CALM AFTER THE STORM -- POLICE [...] (SBU) A major police action against a group of ethnic Albanian criminals in a village in northwest Macedonia (reftel) concluded November 8, with six criminals killed and more than a dozen arrested. The operation appeared to have been conducted properly, with mixed ethnic patrols conducting th [...] | 2007-11-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM PTER ASEC MK KS |
07SKOPJE896 | MACEDONIA'S NATO BID: "SPRINT TO THE FINISH LINE" [...] (SBU) On November 8, USNATO Ambassador Nuland and a U.S. interagency team told Macedonia's top officials, MPs, and opposition leaders that Macedonia must accelerate reform efforts in the next three months or risk not receiving a membership invitation at the 2008 NATO summit. In addition to co [...] | 2007-11-14 17:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE899 | MACEDONIA: POLICE ACADEMY DIRECTOR RESIGNS - [...] (C) Macedonian Police Academy Director Slagana Taseva resigned from her position on November 2, citing a disagreement with the government over its recent move to bring the academy under the oversight of the Ministry of Interior (a government move the international community unanimously support [...] | 2007-11-15 16:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC MK |
07SKOPJE913 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 14:55:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KITA PHUM PREL UN MK |
07SKOPJE917 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE919 | MACEDONIA'S NATO BID: KEEPING SKOPJE FOCUSED ON [...] (C) During a round of meetings November 19-20, the Ambassador pressed all major political party leaders to take real action to quickly implement reforms needed to strengthen Macedonia's NATO bid. Opposition leaders cited the negative atmosphere in parliament as a hindrance to political consen [...] | 2007-11-27 07:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE922 | MACEDONIA: U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 10:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV MK IZ |
07SKOPJE923 | MACEDONIA: LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 10:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA MK SI |
07SKOPJE932 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL SLOAT [...] (SBU) Welcome to Skopje! You will arrive shortly after key USG, NATO, and EU officials have called on the political parties, the government, and members of parliament to put aside their partisan differences, engage in constructive dialogue, and rollup their sleeves. We have reiterated a consi [...] | 2007-11-28 16:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV MK |
07SKOPJE933 | MACEDONIA ON NAME ISSUE DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On November 29 DCM delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Petrov and MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Geleva. Stating that he saw "nothing new" about the U.S. position of neutrality in the name dispute, Petrov was relieved to get DCM's assurances that the points [...] | 2007-11-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR NATO PREL GR MK |
07SKOPJE938 | MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT APPROVES DOUBLING OF TROOPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS MASS MK IZ |
07SKOPJE941 | MACEDONIA: POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH ON NATO TASKS [...] (SBU) During a quadripartite meeting on November 30, government and opposition leaders reached agreement on several key agenda items relevant for NATO membership. On December 3, the parties followed through in the Parliament, passing in quick order the Law on the Parliamentary Inter-ethnic Re [...] | 2007-12-04 09:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
07SKOPJE946 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT COMMITTED TO NIMETZ PROCESS [...] (C) The GOM's meeting with UN Special Envoy Nimetz on December 3 was positive, with the Macedonian team proposing substantive changes to the latter's framework proposal (ref A) and underscoring its commitment to remaining engaged in the Nimetz process. The GOM made it clear to Nimetz, and in [...] | 2007-12-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
07SKOPJE950 | MACEDONIA: CONTINUED MOMENTUM ON MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) A little more than six months after concluding the US/EU-brokered five-point May 29 agreement (ref A),governing VMRO and opposition DUI finally are taking concrete steps toward implementing it. On December 3, Parliament adopted the legislative proposals included in the agreement (ref B [...] | 2007-12-06 10:32:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
07SKOPJE953 | MACEDONIA-KOSOVO BORDER DEMARCATION: GOOD FENCES [...] (C) Macedonia will recognize and support Kosovo independence provided two critical conditions are met in any final status arrangement: 1.) demarcation of the Macedonia-Kosovo border proceeds as set forth in the 2001 Belgrade-Skopje agreement and reaffirmed by the UNSC, and 2.) no division, add [...] | 2007-12-07 13:19:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KV |
07SKOPJE960 | MACEDONIA: FM MILOSOSKI'S DECEMBER 12-13 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) FM Milososoki's visit is a timely opportunity to reinforce the need for continued progress on meeting NATO membership criteria, including government-opposition dialogue, combating corruption, and strengthening rule of law. It is also the right time to tell Milososki that Macedonia needs [...] | 2007-12-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK KV |
07SKOPJE970 | MACEDONIA: RELIGION LAW MEETS INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) The Macedonian parliament adopted a new Law on Religious Communities and Groups in September that significantly strengthens religious freedom provisions, generally meets OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission standards, and supports Macedonia's NATO membership bid. Due to take effect in May 2 [...] | 2007-12-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF MK |
07SKOPJE973 | MACEDONIA ON KOSOVO STATUS: FOCUS ON DEMARCATION [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered ref A points on Kosovo status to President Crvenkovski's Chief of Staff, Natasha Savova, and to MFA State Counselor Vasko Grkov in separate meetings on December 13. Savova reiterated the GOM's insistence that there be no territorial division of Kosovo, and stressed th [...] | 2007-12-14 07:43:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO YI KV MK |
07SKOPJE974 | MACEDONIA: RENEWED COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING TIP [...] (SBU) In 2007 the Government of Macedonia (GOM) has shown a concerted effort to make fighting human trafficking (TIP) a high priority. The National Commission on Combating TIP (NC) has adopted Post's seven priority recommendations to combat/prevent TIP in Macedonia, and the Minister of Interio [...] | 2007-12-14 15:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
07SKOPJE976 | MACEDONIA: IRAQ UNSCR TEXT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 14:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC IZ MARR MK |
07SKOPJE977 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON DURBAN REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 15:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE985 | MACEDONIA: PLANNING FOR KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) Macedonian government officials, party representatives, and think-tankers believe independence within the Ahtisaari framework is the only option for Kosovo status. They believe recognition of an independent Kosovo should also lead to the technical demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia borde [...] | 2007-12-19 13:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KV MK |
07SKOPJE986 | MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI ON THE NAME ISSUE [...] (C) President Crvenkovski is firm in preferring the October 2005 Nimetz proposal over Nimetz's November 2007 framework as a foundation for resolving the name dispute with Athens. He believes Macedonia will meet NATO membership criteria, and that the strategic imperative of shoring up regional [...] | 2007-12-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KV GR |
07SKOPJE987 | MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI ON THE NAME ISSUE AND [...] (C) PM Gruevski is interested in reaching out to Athens for direct talks on the name dispute. He is under pressure from the German Chancellor to find a solution to the dispute before the NATO summit in April. The Ambassador has reiterated to Gruevski our support for the 1995 Interim Accord, [...] | 2007-12-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
07SKOPJE991 | MACEDONIA: CONTINUED ANTI-TIP MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) A week after the Minister of Interior (MOI) agreed to adopt our seven priority recommendations for combating/preventing trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in Macedonia (ref A),we are seeing continued positive momentum in government anti-TIP efforts. According to the latest MOI statistics, th [...] | 2007-12-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
07SOFIA1029 | BULGARIA: SUBTLE SHIFT IN STANCE ON MACEDONIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria has subtly shifted policy toward Macedonia, tacitly linking Sofia's support for Skopje's Euro-Atlantic integration with Macedonia's conduct of "good neighborly relations." Both government officials and NGO experts recognize that Macedonia's EU and NATO accession is stro [...] | 2007-08-23 13:04:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BU |
07SOFIA1045 | BULGARIA NAMES CAREER DIPLOMAT AS AMBASSADOR TO UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Parvanov appointed career diplomat Raiko Raichev (also spelled Raychev) as Bulgaria's new permanent representative to the United Nations. Raichev, 52, currently serves as Chief of Staff to Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin. A non-controversial figure, Raichev has held se [...] | 2007-08-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BU |
07SOFIA105 | BULGARIA: DEMARCHE ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO BU |
07SOFIA1068 | DEMARCHING EU ON HUMAN RIGHTS THEMATIC RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) PolOffs presented reftel demarche to the Director of the United Nations and Global Issues Directorate, Emil Savov Yalnazov. The Director of the Directorate for Human Rights, Andrei Tehov, who is tasked to lead this issue, was traveling. Poloff provided non-paper to his staff member, [...] | 2007-09-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EU PGOV PREL |
07SOFIA1075 | (S) BULGARIA ANXIOUS TO OPEN EMBASSY IN IRAQ, BUT [...] (S) Summary: MFA Director Petko Doykov and Valery Rachev, the Bulgarian Ambassador to Iraq, stressed that Bulgaria is eager to open an embassy in Baghdad, but remains unable to reach agreement with the Iraqi government on a suitable location. They expressed frustration with the Iraqi bureau [...] | 2007-09-05 15:40:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PREL PGOV BU IZ |
07SOFIA1076 | GYMNICH DEMARCHE: BULGARIANS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Poloffs presented reftel demarche and non paper to Head of MFA office for EU affairs Sergey Tassev on September 4. Tassev said that Minister for European Affairs Grancharova would lead the Bulgarian delegation, as FM Kalfin would be in Central Asia at the time of the meeting. 2. (SB [...] | 2007-09-05 16:39:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PGOV PREL |
07SOFIA1095 | IDENTIFYING CREDIBLE VOICES IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES [...] (S) SUMMARY. In response to reftel, Post submits Chief Mufti Mustafa Alish Hadji, recognized spiritual leader of the Bulgarian Muslim community, as a credible voice for this exercise. We continue to research potential candidates to supplement this submission. Hadji is a moderate; has a gen [...] | 2007-09-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL BG |
07SOFIA1119 | FM KALFIN ON ENERGY ISSUES, KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 13 Foreign Minister Kalfin discussed energy issues with Amb Beyrle on the heels of his recent trip to Central Asia. On the Burgas-Alexandropolous pipeline (BAP),Kalfin said a coordinated effort by the other players, and inclusion of additional shareholders such as [...] | 2007-09-17 16:12:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | BU ECON ENRG KZ LY PGOV PREL RS TX AZ |
07SOFIA1122 | SHIP DEAL WITH FRANCE TO DERAIL BULGARIAN MILITARY [...] (S) Summary: Several Bulgarian defense officials expressed concern over a plan, currently in its final stages, to purchase four Corvette class ships from France at a cost of over one billion dollars. Such a large expenditure for ships that do not fill an operational need would, according to [...] | 2007-09-18 13:53:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | MARR PREL BU |
07SOFIA1136 | ICAO ASSEMBLY: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR IACO PGOV PREL |
07SOFIA114 | BULGARIA LEANS FORWARD ON AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin told the Ambassador January 25 that Bulgaria had lifted its caveat regarding night operations in Afghanistan, and that there was political will to lift at least some caveats pending receipt of additional training and equipment. The government expects parl [...] | 2007-01-25 14:42:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO MARR CVIS IZ AF SR BU |
07SOFIA115 | LEADERSHIP CHANGES IMPROVE BULGARIAN INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria made a surprise, but largely positive change at the top of a key security service on January 11, replacing the country's counterintelligence chief, National Security Service (NSS) chief Ivan Chobanov, with long time NSS Deputy Head Ivan Drashkov. As attention centered o [...] | 2007-01-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL BU |
07SOFIA1152 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-24 10:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV |
07SOFIA1154 | URGENT LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - INTERNATIONAL [...] This is an action request: As required by the Leahy Amendment, we request that the Department perform a human rights review of the Bulgarian individuals proposed for participation in the Office of Defense Cooperation's International Military Education and Training (IMET) Program to be held f [...] | 2007-09-24 13:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MASS PM EU BU |
07SOFIA1155 | BULGARIA NAMES DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER ENVOY TO EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov has appointed Deputy Minister of Interior Boyko Kotzev as Bulgaria's new permanent representative to the EU, a position viewed as one of the country's most important diplomatic post abroad. Kotzev, 51, is a career diplomat with twenty years of experience who ha [...] | 2007-09-24 14:31:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | BU EUN PGOV PREL |
07SOFIA1181 | DEMARCHE ON BLACK SEA STRAGEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU |
07SOFIA1182 | GOB VIGILANT ON PKK IN EUROPE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 14:42:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU BU |
07SOFIA1183 | BULGARIANS NERVOUS OVER KOSOVO UDI [...] (C) Summary: Our recent high-level contacts with Bulgarian leaders on Kosovo reveal increased nervousness over a likely UDI in December, some softening of opposition to partition, and a clear reluctance to be in the early group of European states that would recognize Kosovo post-UDI. Bulgar [...] | 2007-10-02 15:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KV SR BG |
07SOFIA1185 | SEECP FOREIGN MINISTERS: REGIONAL COOPERATION AND [...] (SBU) Meeting on September 14, SEECP Foreign Ministers and UNMIK/SRSG renewed their commitment to an operational regional cooperation agenda, building on the future Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and its secretariat in Sarajevo. There was a familiar discussion of Kosovo, with the group ag [...] | 2007-10-03 06:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI TU |
07SOFIA1189 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC |
07SOFIA12 | BULGARIA READY TO EXTEND IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) In a January 5 meeting, Ministry of Defense International Cooperation Director Yordan Bozhilov officially informed Charge and Defense Attache of Bulgaria's readiness to extend for an additional year its mission at Camp Ashraf - [...] | 2007-01-05 09:52:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR MOPS IZ BU |
07SOFIA1223 | BULGARIA REQUESTS US SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY FOR [...] Post received on October 10, 2007 a Diplomatic Note Dated October, 8, 2007 from the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting the U. S. Government's support for Bulgaria's candidacy for the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO),in Category C, at the elections to be h [...] | 2007-10-12 13:16:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PHSA PREL TSPL BU |
07SOFIA1227 | GAERC DEMARCHE: BULGARIA AGREES WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA head of office for EU affairs Sergey Tassev on October 10. Tassev said there were "no disagreements" with the US positions in the non-paper. Kosovo and Libya were the most important issues for Bulgaria. There were rumors that there was a new U.S. [...] | 2007-10-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RS LY IR SY LE BG |
07SOFIA1233 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. CONCERNS ON SOFTENING EU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PREL UZ XG ZK |
07SOFIA125 | BULGARIA: PRESIDENT PARVANOV IN STRONG POSITION AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov, Bulgaria's first post-communist president to win re-election, begins his second term in office as the dominant actor on the Bulgarian political stage, despite his relatively limited constitutional powers. His behind-the-scenes influence over the current govern [...] | 2007-01-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ BU |
07SOFIA1257 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 11:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07SOFIA1258 | UN THIRD COMMITTEE: BULGARIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of the Department for UN and Global Issues, Kamen Velichkov on October 22. He said he could not confirm final positions, but anticipated that the GOB would support the Belarus resolution, the elections resolution, [...] | 2007-10-24 11:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN |
07SOFIA1260 | NOMINATION FOR ANASTASIA GEORGIEVA MOSER AS A [...] (U) Post nominates Anastasia Georgieva Moser for the 2008 Secretary of State's Annual Award for International Woman of SIPDIS Courage (IWOC) for her personal sacrifices to advance the democratic process in Bulgaria. Moser emigrated to the U.S. in 1962 to be reunited her father, Georgi M. Di [...] | 2007-10-24 15:06:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM |
07SOFIA1264 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER DEMARCHE ON BURMESE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 14:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL MASS PM EU BU |
07SOFIA1265 | BULGARIA STRONGLY SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MASS PM EU BU |
07SOFIA1266 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. POSITION ON CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 14:12:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MASS PM EU BU |
07SOFIA1267 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 14:13:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL MASS PM EU BU |
07SOFIA1270 | ARGENTINE EMBASSY SOFIA UNSURE OF RED NOTICE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | IR PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV BU |
07SOFIA1271 | STRATEGY TO SHAPE BULGARIA'S MILITARY MODERNIZATION [...] (S) Summary: A recent Council of Minister's decision to revise Bulgaria's "Plan 2015" military modernization roadmap represents an important opportunity for the United States to influence the development of Bulgarian military capabilities over the medium and long-term. Our primary goal is increase [...] | 2007-10-29 14:24:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BU |
07SOFIA1275 | BULGARIA TO SUPPORT WALKER CANDIDACY, IF US SUPPORTS BULGARIAN CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 15:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07SOFIA1284 | BULGARIA: INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] (U) This cable provides information on Bulgarian Government practices on information collection, screening, and sharing. Responses correspond to questions listed in REF A. WATCHLISTING 2. (SBU) According to our contacts at the Financial Intelligence Agency and other Bulgarian gover [...] | 2007-11-01 15:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KVPR PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS BU |
07SOFIA1285 | BULGARIA STRONGLY CONDEMNS PKK USE OF VIOLENCE. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 15:20:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN BU |
07SOFIA1292 | BULGARIA PREPARING PRIORITIES FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA |
07SOFIA1301 | FATF/IRAN STATEMENT: FULL BULGARIAN SUPPORT ON [...] (C) Econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to Dr. Vasil Kirov, Director of the Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) on 02 November. Appropriately, Dr. Kirov, is also the current Chairman of MONEYVAL, one of the leading "FATF-style" Regional Bodies (FSRB). Dr. Kirov was fully suppo [...] | 2007-11-09 15:03:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KNNP IR BU |
07SOFIA1316 | FOREIGN, DEFENSE AND DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 09:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN BG |
07SOFIA1317 | FOREIGN, DEFENSE AND DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 09:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN BG |
07SOFIA1324 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 14:30:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07SOFIA1333 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 12:03:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS |
07SOFIA1340 | BULGARIAN ENGINEERS TO IRAQ DELAYED UNTIL NEW UNSCR [...] (S) SUMMARY. Deputy Defense Minister Yankulova informed DCM Karagiannis that approval for the deployment of 40 military engineers to Iraq is contingent on passage of a new UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) on Iraq. Yankulova cited this as the "formal" reason approval of the deployment [...] | 2007-11-30 15:33:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BU |
07SOFIA1342 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 18:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ BG |
07SOFIA1356 | BULGARIA TO ATTEND UNGA PLENARY VOTES ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07SOFIA1357 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON THE PARIS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07SOFIA1358 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON LEBANESE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07SOFIA1359 | BULGARIA WILL TRY TO ALIGN ITSELF WITH EU VIEWS AT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07SOFIA1371 | BULGARIA EXTENDS IRAQ MISSION; 20 MORE TROOPS FOR [...] (C) Summary. The Bulgarian Council of Ministers voted December 12 to extend the Bulgarian mission in Iraq until April 1, 2009 and to send an additional 20 soldiers to Afghanistan to strengthen its contingent currently guarding the perimeter at Kandahar Airfield. The deployment of two milit [...] | 2007-12-13 14:28:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BU |
07SOFIA1382 | AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETINGS IN SOFIA ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On December 6 Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks Frank Wisner briefed Foreign Minister Kalfin and, in a separate meeting, members of parliament on the outcome of the Troika negotiations and next steps on Kosovo. Wisner told the Bulgarians that although the Troik [...] | 2007-12-18 05:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV UN EU RU BU |
07SOFIA1384 | BULGARIA ON KOSOVO: CONCERNED, ACTIVELY ENGAGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria, concerned about the fallout from Kosovo independence, is working actively in the region to maintain (or build) EU unity on Kosovo and advocating the Ahtisaari plan with the Serbs. Following his visit to Belgrade December 17-18, FM Kalfin will attend a trilateral meet [...] | 2007-12-18 15:52:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BU |
07SOFIA1396 | SUBJECT: BULGARIA: FACING RESURGENT RUSSIAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Bulgaria is bracing for the January 17-18 visit of the Russian President, fully expecting Putin will bring some deliverables, but many more demandables. Together with a few cultural sweeteners, the Russians will push a hard line on Kosovo; missile defense, CFE, and U.S. temp [...] | 2007-12-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG PGOV PREL BU |
07SOFIA1397 | YOUR MEETING WITH BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kalfin comes to Washington as Bulgaria's coalition government faces some key foreign and security policy decisions, including Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan deployments, and Russian energy deals. President Putin will visit Sofia on January 17-18 to kick off the "Year of Russi [...] | 2007-12-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG MOPS MARR RU KV AF IZ BU |
07SOFIA1398 | CORRECTED COPY: SERBS TO BULGARIA: "DON'T [...] (C) On December 21 MFA West Balkans Director Tulechki briefed us on Bulgaria's recent Kosovo moves, starting with FM Kalfin's visit to Belgrade early the week of December 17. Kalfin met Tadic, Jeremic, Vice PM Jelic, but not any hardliners. The Serbs at first asked Bulgaria not to recognize [...] | 2007-12-21 15:28:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KV SR BU |
07SOFIA149 | BULGARIA: GOVT APPROVES IRAQ EXTENSION [...] (SBU) In a February 2 meeting with the DCM, MFA NATO and International Security Director Petio Petev officially informed us of the government's February 1 decision to extend Bulgaria's mission at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. He delivered a diplomatic note, the operative paragraphs of which read: "T [...] | 2007-02-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV IZ BU |
07SOFIA160 | BULGARIA: NEXT STEPS WITH ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel A demarche on February 7 to Zlatin Krystev of the MFA NATO Directorate and Anri Georgiev of the MoD International Cooperation directorate. As reported in reftel B, Bulgaria has announced deployment of an additional mechanized infantry company to Afghanistan and has lift [...] | 2007-02-07 11:51:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF BU |
07SOFIA163 | BULGARIA: NOMINEES FOR MARCH 26-27 INSURGENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINS PROP KISL MARR MOPS EAID NATO |
07SOFIA166 | BULGARIA: EU MISSIONS PONDER ANTI-OC TRAINING CENTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reftel B, Post expressed its strong support for establishment of a South Eastern European Regional Organized Crime Training Center (SEEROCTC) at the Bulgarian Police Academy. Post has subsequently met with representatives from four Embassies -- UK, Netherlands, Spain and Ger [...] | 2007-02-08 12:38:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASCH PREL KCRM KJUS BU |
07SOFIA172 | BULGARIA READY TO HELP AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahtisaari deputy Albert Rohan asked Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kalfin February 7 to try to convince Bucharest to be more supportive of Ahtisaari's plan. In a subsequent conversation, Prime Minister Stanishev's Foreign Policy Advisor flagged for us the issue of the Kosovo-Macedoni [...] | 2007-02-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI BG |
07SOFIA177 | UNDER PRESSURE FROM RUSSIA ON ARMS LICENSES, [...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY: Russia has recently turned up the heat on Bulgaria in the long-running dispute over "licenses" for Soviet-designed small arms and light weapons. The GoB believes that Russia's claims are unfounded, but remains sen [...] | 2007-02-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM ETTC RS BU |
07SOFIA185 | BULGARIA: NO PROGRAMS IN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 13:43:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL IR BU |
07SOFIA187 | BULGARIA SEEKS US VOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME [...] Post received a Diplomatic Note from the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notifying the U.S. government, that Bulgaria will seek a seat in the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The IMO Council will be holding elections at their assembly scheduled to take place in [...] | 2007-02-13 13:48:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PHSA PREL TSPL BU |
07SOFIA188 | BULGARIA AMENDS EXPORT CONTROL LAW, FOR BETTER AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: A new export control law passed by the Bulgarian parliament will rework Bulgaria's export control regime, with important implications for U.S. counterproliferation interests. Prompted by the need to incorporate the EU common policy on arms brokering and peer review recommendation [...] | 2007-02-13 13:58:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC BU |
07SOFIA190 | BULGARIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS TO "HELP" WITH SYRIA [...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Zlatin Trapkov recently invited us to discuss U.S. policy in Iraq generally and toward Syria's role specifically. Trapkov said he had been asked by the President to convey the message that Bulgaria was willin [...] | 2007-02-14 07:41:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PREL PINR SY BU |
07SOFIA204 | BULGARIA: MOD CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL AFGHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 15 meeting, MoD Defense Policy Director Col. Ivan Milanov gave a readout of Bulgaria's discussions at the Seville Ministerial and outlined Bulgaria's plans for future deployments to Afghanistan. In addition to Bulgaria's previously announced commitment to deploy a m [...] | 2007-02-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MOPS MARR AF BU |
07SOFIA214 | ENGAGING THE BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT ON IRAN AND [...] (SBU) Post has actively engaged a variety of Bulgarian Government officials on Iran and the impact of UNSCR 1737. On 13 February, the Bulgarian MFA's expert on Iran, Oleg Doychinov, told us that in December 2006 the MFA alerted all relevant agencies about the provisions associated with UNSCR 1 [...] | 2007-02-16 13:07:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETTC KNNP IR BU PARM |
07SOFIA218 | BULGARIA SEEKS GUIDANCE ON HOSTING NEXT V-10 [...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Foreign Minister Kalfin informally offered on January 25 to host a meeting of Vilnius-10 countries in Sofia (reftel). The MFA remains interested in hosting the event, but is reluctant formally to accept or discuss dates while [...] | 2007-02-16 14:15:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN NATO XH BU |
07SOFIA224 | BULGARIA: MFA TAKES HARD LINE ON BLACK SEA HARMONY [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a February 14 meeting, MFA Regional Security chief (and resident Black Sea expert) Dimitar Dimitrov briefed us on the GoB's emerging Black Sea strategy. He expressed hardening resistance to Bulgarian membership in Operation Black Sea Harmony (OBSH),and allowed poloff to revie [...] | 2007-02-20 10:39:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS TU BU |
07SOFIA232 | BULGARIAN NURSES: GETTING BACK TO EFFECTIVE [...] (C) WE APPRECIATE REFTEL UPDATE ON THE QADHAFI FOUNDATION LETTER AND THE STATE OF PLAY IN TRIPOLI. IT COMES AS THE GOB CONCLUDES TWO DAYS OF HIGH-LEVEL IN-HOUSE DISCUSSIONS ON THE NURSES ISSUE, IN ADVANCE OF THE EU WORKING GROUP ON FEBRUARY 22 AND AMBASSADOR BEYRLE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PARVANOV [...] | 2007-02-21 12:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LY BU |
07SOFIA251 | BULGARIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 12:49:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BU |
07SOFIA252 | CONTROVERSIAL ECONOMY/ENERGY MINISTER GOES TO THE [...] (S) Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov heads to Washington and several other U.S. cities on February 27 for an eleven-day road trip to drum up investor interest in Bulgaria. His meetings at State, Commerce, Energy and USTR will give us an opportunity to press for stron [...] | 2007-02-26 15:12:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | ENRG ECON PREL OVIP BU |
07SOFIA255 | KOSOVO: BULGARIANS ENCOURAGED BY MODERATE RHETORIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov told the Ambassador that on his one-day visit to Serbia February 21 he found the Serbs to be much less hardline in their rhetoric in private. His overarching message to Belgrade's leaders was that the Ahtisaari plan is a good proposal and a "necessary basis for [...] | 2007-02-27 13:25:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SR BU |
07SOFIA26 | BULGARIA: PATIENCE WEARS THIN ON LIBYA MEDICS CASE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: AS BULGARIA BEGINS THE NEW YEAR, PUBLIC RANCOR IS STEADILY BUILDING OVER LIBYA'S DECEMBER 19 CONFIRMATION OF DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES. AFTER A HOLIDAY SEASON MARKED BY HIGH-PROFILE EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT [...] | 2007-01-08 14:41:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PREL PHUM LY BU |
07SOFIA268 | BULGARIA: VIEWS ON MARITIME SECURITY IN WAKE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Harry Ulrich (Commander of US Naval Forces Europe and Allied Joint Forces Command Naples) visited Bulgaria 21-23 February 2007, meeting with President Georgi Parvanov, Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov, Deputy PM and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ivaylo Kalfin, as well as [...] | 2007-02-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS TU BU |
07SOFIA28 | BULGARIA: FM KALFIN TO ATTEND NATO MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-09 11:35:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO OPDC AF YI BU |
07SOFIA303 | NARCOTICS REPORT GRABS BULGARIA'S ATTENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) received unprecedented media coverage in Bulgaria. Overall coverage was factual and positive, concentrating on links between the OC-controlled drug trade and government corruption, and quoting Ambassador Beyrle e [...] | 2007-03-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR OPRC PGOV PREL BU |
07SOFIA307 | NO BULGARIAN INFORMATION ON ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) On 19 February, Post delivered ref A information on the additional designations of Iranian entities under E.O. 13382 to Dr. Vasil Kirov, Director of the Bulgarian Financial Agency (FIA). Dr. Kirov is Post's main point of contact for addressing the financial and banking aspects of money [...] | 2007-03-08 09:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KN PARM BU IR |
07SOFIA324 | BULGARIAN NURSES IN LIBYA: GOB UNSURE WHO IS IN [...] (C) MFA MIDDLE EAST DIRECTOR PETKO DOYKOV TOLD US MARCH 7 THAT THE GOB BELIEVES LIBYAN MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS ABDELATI OBIDI HAS BEEN AT LEAST TEMPORARILY SIDELINED IN DISCUSSIONS OVER THE FATE OF THE FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES IMPRISONED SINCE 1999. THIS, COMBINED WITH THE PERCE [...] | 2007-03-09 15:03:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN LY BU |
07SOFIA344 | BULGARIA: DIP NOTE ON IRAQ EXTENSION [...] This is an action request -- please see paragraph 2. 2. On March 7, we received a diplomatic note from the MFA notifying us of the National Assembly's ratification of Bulgaria's decision to extend its military mission in Camp Ashraf. We would appreciate Department assistance in providing [...] | 2007-03-14 11:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ BU |
07SOFIA345 | BULGARIA: HAJIEV'S EXTRADITION BACK IN THE COURTS [...] Summary: Annadurdy Hajiev, an accused embezzler and critic of Turkmenistan's human rights record, was re-arrested on February 20 on what seems to be an old Turkmenistan INTERPOL notice. A Bulgarian court denied the same request for extradition in 2003 because it judged the charge to be politi [...] | 2007-03-14 13:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV TX BU |
07SOFIA361 | BULGARIA HOLDS THE LINE ON ARMS LICENSES [...] (C/NF) On March 16 DCM discussed the state of BG-RU negotiations on the arms licensing issue with Valentin Radomirski, chief foreign policy advisor to PM Stanishev. Reftel A points were delivered to MFA, MOD, and Ministry of Economy and Energy on March 1 and had been previously conveyed to Rad [...] | 2007-03-16 13:08:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL ETTC RS BU |
07SOFIA366 | BULGARIA: GOVT VOTES TO TRIPLE DEPLOYMENT IN [...] (SBU) In a decision discussed on March 14 and signed on March 16, the Council of Ministers formally approved two separate deployments in support of NATO operations in Afghanistan. This decision is binding and does not require parliamentary approval. The first deployment will consist of 120 s [...] | 2007-03-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF BU |
07SOFIA372 | BULGARIA ON CFE TRANSFERS - CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 13:47:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO KCFE BU |
07SOFIA377 | BULGARIA: MISSILE DEFENSE PD STRATEGY [...] (U) Per Ref A request, Post has designated DCM Alexander Karagiannis as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (U) During the Sofia visit of Admiral Harry Ulrich, CINCUSNAVEUR, the Admiral briefed the Sofia and Varna press corps in appearances on February 2 [...] | 2007-03-21 13:25:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KPAO PL EZ RU BU |
07SOFIA400 | BULGARIA CONTINUES TO BACK AHTISAARI, URGES [...] (C) SUMMARY. FM Kalfin told the Ambassador March 26 that "independence is the only option" for Kosovo and undertook to work toward an EU consensus in support of Ahtisaari's proposals. In meetings with Serb and Kosovar leaders the week of March 19, PM Stanishev preached realism and patience, [...] | 2007-03-27 15:03:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK YI SR BU |
07SOFIA424 | BULGARIA IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 AND TARGETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR BU |
07SOFIA436 | BULGARIA NOTIFIED OF U.S. DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-05 16:32:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR BU |
07SOFIA456 | BULGARIA: HAJIEV NOT LIKELYTO BE EXTRADITED SOON [...] (SBU) On April 10, we delivered reftl points to the Head of International Cooperatio Department at the Ministry of Justice, Georgi Rpchev. Rupchev was not familiar with the detailsof Hajiev's extradition case, but said that Turkensitan's spotty humn rights record justified our concerns. Wh [...] | 2007-04-11 16:35:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF TX BU |
07SOFIA461 | BULGARIA: SUPPORT BUILDS FOR ANTI-OC TRAINING CENTER [...] (SBU) Since reftel C, we have continued to solicit support from EU member-states for the establishment of South Eastern European Regional Organized Crime Training Center (SEEROCTC). The UK Embassy committed concrete resources to the center, and the German and Spanish Embassies are looking for [...] | 2007-04-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASCH PREL KCRM KJUS BU |
07SOFIA473 | BULGARIA IN THE EU: STILL FINDING ITS WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria's recent accession to the EU has fueled speculation over what sort of member it will be--passive or active--and what priorities it will have in the Union. Many observers expect Bulgaria to continue its pre-accession approach of being cautious, flexible and non-confrontat [...] | 2007-04-13 14:56:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL BU |
07SOFIA474 | BULGARIA NON-COMMITTAL ON GITMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 16:57:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC BU |
07SOFIA492 | PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-17 15:57:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL BU |
07SOFIA499 | PDAS VOLKER'S MEETINGS WITH BULGARIAN PM STANISHEV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with PDAS Volker on April 11, PM Stanishev and FM Kalfin strongly endorsed supervised independence for Kosovo and pressed the need for a Security Council resolution. Both ministers also engaged on Black Sea issues, with Kalfin arguing for a stronger NATO pres [...] | 2007-04-20 14:31:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO ENRG SR YI EU BU |
07SOFIA500 | PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 14:35:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL BU |
07SOFIA505 | PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a V-10 meeting with EUR PDAS Kurt Volker, allies were in agreement on key issues, including NATO enlargement, the Kosovo Status process, missile defense, and energy security. All believed strongly about the need for further NATO enlargement and insisted that it be based on rea [...] | 2007-04-23 16:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL BU |
07SOFIA51 | BULGARIA CONSULTS ON ARMS TRANSFER TO COLOMBIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C/NF) Bulgarian government representatives have asked for our help in determining the bona fides of a proposed sale to the Colombian armed forces that is currently before Bulgaria's Export Control Commission for export license appr [...] | 2007-01-12 08:15:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM ETTC CO BU |
07SOFIA56 | BULGARIAN PM SUPPORTS IRAQ STRATEGY, PLANS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Stanishev told Ambassador Beyrle January 12 that Iraq is at a crucial crossroads and "no one wants to see the U.S. fail." He said his government would begin formal discussions next week aimed at extending for another year the mandate of the Bulgarian forces deploye [...] | 2007-01-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ BU |
07SOFIA588 | BULGARIA: ARMS CONTROL UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 14:00:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC CBW EU BU |
07SOFIA589 | UNHRC: BULGARIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR SLOVENIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BU |
07SOFIA590 | YOUR JUNE 10-11VISIT TO SOFIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP BU |
07SOFIA598 | BULGARIA READY TO NEGOTIATE EXTRADITION AND MLAT [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) On May 3, we delivered reftel points to Georgi Rupchev, Head of International Cooperation Directorate at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),and, separately, to Ivan Dantchev, MFA's Acting Head of America's Directorate. MOJ's [...] | 2007-05-16 12:57:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CJAN BU |
07SOFIA611 | PUTIN PUSHES RUSSIA-TO-BULGARIA UNDERSEA GAS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EUN RU BU |
07SOFIA619 | BULGARIAN PRIME MINISTER GETS A COLD SHOWER FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Putin told Bulgarian Prime Minister Stanishev May 8 that the proposed U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic are part of a "unified, strategic offensive system." Russia will not support the Ahtisaari plan because it will leave the Serbs feeling agg [...] | 2007-05-18 15:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN MARR YI RS LY BU |
07SOFIA620 | BULGARIA: DRAFT WMD AGREEMENT DELIVERED [...] This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. We delivered reftel draft to MFA International Security Director Petio Petev and Deputy Interior Minister Boiko Kotsev on May 18. Both stated their support in principle for the agreement and undertook to review the draft quickly. Pete [...] | 2007-05-18 15:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM EUN BU |
07SOFIA682 | BULGARIA ON RUSSIAN CFE CONCERNS [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Gergana Velichkova, the MFA's acting director of OSCE and Regional Security Affairs. Velichkova thanked us for reftel responses to Russian concerns; she enthusiastically agreed with our points. Noting that Bulgaria is specifically mentioned in two of the s [...] | 2007-06-05 14:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO KCFE BU |
07SOFIA695 | BULGARIA BACKS U.S. APPROACH TO CFE EXTRAORDINARY [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points on June 6 to Gergana Velichkova, the MFA's Acting Director of OSCE and Regional Security Affairs and Col. Stefan Yanev, Director of Defense Policy at the MOD. Both remarked that U.S. views on the upcoming conference were almost identical to those of the GoB an [...] | 2007-06-06 14:43:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO KCFE BU |
07SOFIA718 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH FM KALFIN: IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin thanked the Deputy Secretary for President Bush's public and private assurances of support for the release of the five Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in Libya. He also asked for the opportunity to consult with the USG in advance of any travel by the Secretar [...] | 2007-06-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EFIN NATO LY IZ BU |
07SOFIA72 | BULGARIAN NURSES IN LIBYA: GOB REASSURED, AGREES [...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S., UK, EU, AND BULGARIAN REPRESENTATIVES AGREED IN SOFIA JANUARY 16 THAT CONTINUED PRIVATE TALKS WITH LIBYAN MFA DIRECTOR OBEIDI OFFERED THE BEST HOPE FOR GAINING THE RELEASE OF THE FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES AND ONE PALESTINIAN DOCTOR JAILED IN LIBYA SINCE 1999 FOR ALLEGEDLY SPREAD [...] | 2007-01-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN LY BU |
07SOFIA735 | BULGARIA EXPRESSES CONCERN TO IRAN ON [...] (C) On June 14 POL/ECON Officer delivered reftel points on detained/missing American citizens in Iran to Oleg Doychinov, Iran Desk Officer from MFA's Asia Directorate. Doychinov was sympathetic and said he would convey Bulgarian and USG concern for the American citizens to his Iranian counterp [...] | 2007-06-15 12:51:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL EUN KDEM IR BU |
07SOFIA743 | BULGARIA: EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES GEORGIA, KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Valentin Radomirski, Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Stanishev, described to EUR A/S Dan Fried on June 11 Russian pressure tactics regarding Bulgarian relations with Georgia, especially regarding export of small arms and munitions to Georgia. Tbilisi's larger than normal [...] | 2007-06-19 07:24:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO GG BU |
07SOFIA807 | BULGARIA/EU: EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S CRITICISM NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Commission's (EC) June 27 monitoring report, the first since Bulgaria joined the EU in January, criticized Bulgaria's progress on fighting organized crime and corruption, but stopped short of imposing safeguard clauses. While acknowledging Bulgaria's progress, the EC [...] | 2007-07-02 08:06:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BU |
07SOFIA817 | BULGARIA: SOFIA MAYOR STILL TRYING TO BE ALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Sofia Mayor and GERB leader Boyko Borissov recounted his recent trip to the United States, dismissing the story that GERB mischaracterized A/S Dan Fried's "support" for the party as a provocation from hostile media. He met with both Int [...] | 2007-07-03 11:19:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR BU |
07SOFIA827 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON FOREIGN [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche to Petko Doykov, Director of the MFA's Middle East directorate, on July 5. Tailoring the demarche to Bulgaria's circumstances, we urged in particular that the GOB approach Syria and insist that it stop the flow of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria. Doyk [...] | 2007-07-05 14:30:00 | Embassy Sofia | SECRET | PREL PTER SY IZ BU |
07SOFIA834 | BULGARIAN NURSES IN LIBYA: MFA PESSIMISTIC ON EVE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARA 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER FAIM CHAUSHEV TOLD US JULY 9 THAT HE NOW EXPECTS A SIGNIFICANT DELAY BETWEEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEK OF THE LIBYAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION TO UPHOLD THE DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST THE BULGARIAN NURSES [...] | 2007-07-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO LY BU |
07SOFIA846 | BULGARIA REACTS WITH RESTRAINT TO LIBYAN DEATH SENTENCES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgarian officials reacted with restraint to the Libyan Supreme Court decision to uphold the death sentences of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. Both the President and the Prime Minister noted that the [...] | 2007-07-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LY BU |
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