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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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08ASHGABAT1153 | TURKMENISTAN: REASONS FOR HYDROCARBON SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A week after President Berdimuhamedov's August 27 decision to shake up Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon leadership, there continues to be much speculation about his reasons for making the changes. All post's sources agree that there are no indications that the Executive Director of t [...] | 2008-09-03 13:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET PINR TX |
08ASHGABAT1154 | TURKMENISTAN: DURDYMURADOV RESUMES TEACHING, [...] (C) Poloff spoke to Sazak Durdymuradov by phone to get an update on his situation. Durdymuradov, the RFE/RL correspondent detained in a psychiatric facility for two weeks last June (Ref A),said that he had resumed his teaching job at a school in Baharly when schools re-opened this week. H [...] | 2008-09-03 13:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT1155 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV EMPHASIZES TURKMENISTAN'S [...] (C) During a September 3 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol (septel),President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, emphasizing the country's neutral position on the conflict in Georgia, said Turkmenistan will not support Georgia, Russia, or South Ossetia. He said it is always tragi [...] | 2008-09-03 17:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1156 | TURKMENISTAN: REASONS FOR HYDROCARBON SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A week after President Berdimuhamedov's August 27 decision to shake up Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon leadership, there continues to be much speculation about his reasons for making the changes. All post's sources agree that there are no indications that the Executive Director of t [...] | 2008-09-03 17:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET PINR TX |
08ASHGABAT1157 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV SAYS NO DELIMITATION, [...] (C) During a wide-ranging meeting September 3 with Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol (septel),President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said Turkmenistan has no problem with a trans-Caspian pipeline, but the need for delimitation is standing in the way. If delimitation is not solved, how can [...] | 2008-09-03 17:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1158 | DAS KROL DISCUSSES TURKMENISTAN/CENTRAL ASIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 2 lunch with members of Ashgabat's foreign diplomatic corps, Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol raised regional issues of direct concern to the United States and western governments. There was much discussion the situation in Turkmenistan and the region, es [...] | 2008-09-03 17:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT116 | TURMENISTAN'S CONSTRUCTION MINISTRY SHOWS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January 7 meeting at Turkmenistan's Ministry of Construction and Construction Materials Industry, officials representing all departments expressed enthusiasm about learning from the U.S. experience, espe [...] | 2008-01-23 10:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EIND SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1167 | FINAL TURKMENISTAN CONSTITUTION LIKELY TO CONTAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Director Shirin Akhmedova recently told UNDP's senior representative that the government is seriously considering recommendations the international community passed it on August 20 and may well accept most of them. With acceptance of ma [...] | 2008-09-04 16:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT1168 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN ENERGY COMPANIES PRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the summer, some foreign oil and gas companies, hoping to make progress on proposals they submitted to the government months ago, were in a "wait and see" mode, after Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon officials gave them subtle hints that responses could be forthcoming or policie [...] | 2008-09-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1169 | TURKMENISTAN: EXXONMOBIL STILL TESTING THE WATERS [...] (C) During a September 2 meeting, a visiting ExxonMobil representative told the A/DCM that his company is continuing to test the waters with the Government of Turkmenistan. The company is continuing to meet with hydrocarbon officials -- most recently with TurkmenGaz on September 1 and 2 -- in [...] | 2008-09-04 16:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1170 | CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In response to the 2003 Law on NGO Registration, which required all existing NGOs to re-register, USAID changed the focus of its civil society development program to work more closely with communities. This grass-ro [...] | 2008-09-05 04:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1172 | DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF EGYPT'S MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 06:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1173 | TURKMENISTAN: NGO ROUNDTABLE REVEALS CONTINUED OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol's meeting with NGO representatives revealed continued concerns about registration and government attitudes towards civil society activity. Most groups expressed hope that N [...] | 2008-09-05 07:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1175 | TURKMENISTAN: DAS KROL MEETING WITH EDUCATION LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a pleasant, introductory meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol, Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Education, Health, Science, Sports, and Tourism Hydyr Saparlyev desc [...] | 2008-09-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1176 | TURKEMINSTAN: DAS KROL MEETS WITH MEJLIS SPEAKER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 3 meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for South Central Asia (SCA) George Krol, Mejlis (Parliament) Speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva repeatedly lauded President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov' [...] | 2008-09-05 08:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1179 | EU/TURKMENISTAN: SEEKING TO ENGAGE DESPITE HUMAN [...] (SBU) During a September 3 courtesy call, the European Commission's Regional Political Affairs Adviser for Central Asian Countries, Alessandro Liamine, told the A/DCM that the European Commission is determined to move its relationship with Turkmenistan ahead. Although a number of EU countries [...] | 2008-09-05 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EU TX |
08ASHGABAT1181 | TURKMENISTAN: LOTUS ENERJI OFFICIALS SAY AUDIT [...] (C) Officials of the Turkish energy company Lotus Enerji told Charge September 5 that an audit done by the seismic imaging company WesternGeco confirms large gas deposits in South Yoloten. Although an audit by Gaffney-Kline, which is due to be made public in late September, is necessary in or [...] | 2008-09-06 09:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1182 | DEMARCHE ON THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 07:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1186 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a friendly meeting lasting almost two hours September 3 with Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov: -- stressed the importance of the bilateral relationship, including commercial ties and cooperation. -- encouraged U.S. companies to [...] | 2008-09-09 05:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON EPET ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1187 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV DISCUSSES BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a two-hour meeting on September 2 and a three-hour private lunch on September 4 that included Charge, Deputy Chairman/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov expressed appreciation for cooperation with the United States and dialogue with the embassy. He underscored Turkmenistan's [...] | 2008-09-09 06:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1189 | TURKMENISTAN: AN IRANIAN-AMERICAN BAHAI AT HOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Emboff's recent conversation with an elderly Iranian-American Bahai religious worker in Ashgabat revealed a refreshing exception to the problems faced by minority religious groups in Turkmenistan, including registered organizations. The fact that this Bahai community elder is a [...] | 2008-09-09 09:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1190 | UK CHARGE D'AFFAIRES BAFFLED BY TURKMEN OFFICIALS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UK Charge d'Affaires in Ashgabat is puzzled by the reluctance of Turkmen government officials to contact or meet with him or members of the Embassy staff. In a meeting with emboff, he said that they avoid official meetings or briefings, and rarely attend social events when [...] | 2008-09-09 09:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1192 | TURKMENISTAN: AMBASSADOR KROL MEETS WITH DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 4, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Shirin Akhmedova, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) and one the most reform-minded high-ranking Turkmenistan government officials. Akhmedova affirmed President [...] | 2008-09-09 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1194 | AIR NAVIGATION FEES REMOVED FROM BILL FOR U.S. MILITARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives of Ashgabat Airport have presented a newly reworked bill for use by air crews using airport services in Ashgabat. The new bill does not reflect a charge for Air Navigation fees. This is a solution [...] | 2008-09-09 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS TX |
08ASHGABAT1197 | TURKMENISTAN: UN RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the conclusion of her week-long mission to Turkmenistan, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief told Charge that she has seen major improvements since 2007 in the country's attitude towards religious freedoms, but is still very concerned about the treatment [...] | 2008-09-10 16:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID SOCI KIRF TX |
08ASHGABAT120 | TURKMENISTAN: AUTHORITIES BACK OFF HARASSSMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Working conditions for RFE/RL reporters took a dive in December and January as Turkmen authorities stepped up their efforts to stop RFE's radio reporting that has focused on the country's economic and institution [...] | 2008-01-23 12:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1205 | TURKEMNISTAN: HUNGARY'S NABUCCO AMBASSADOR INVITES [...] (C) Hungary's Ambassador at Large for the Nabucco Pipeline Project Mihaly Bayer met September 10 with Charge. He was in Ashgabat to deliver an invitation to President Berdimuhamedov to attend a Nabucco Summit in Hungary January 26-27, 2009. Bayer had just come from Baku where he had delivered [...] | 2008-09-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET RU TX |
08ASHGABAT1206 | TURKMENISTAN: ABA-CEELI WILL TRY A NEW APPROACH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) ABA-CEELI Country Director told Charge September 11 that he plans to refocus the group's activities in Turkmenistan. However, he has heard indirectly from a number of sources that the Turkmenistan government wants to work w [...] | 2008-09-11 11:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1214 | TURKMENISTAN ANNOUNCES NEW CURRENCY DENOMINATION PLAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. Summary: A new currency denomination plan to take effect in the new year creates a new manat equal in value to 5000 of the manats currently in circulation. Approximately 3 of the new manats will equal one USD, as opposed to the cu [...] | 2008-09-15 04:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT1218 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy [...] | 2008-09-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT122 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CREATES NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) During a January 18 meeting of Turkmenistan's National Security Council, President Berdimuhamedov signed a decree establishing a new State Agency for Combating Narcotics. The president said that he had made this decision "t [...] | 2008-01-24 09:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT1227 | TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL APPROVES USAID ACCOUNTING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to a June 2 diplomatic note from USAID to the Supreme Council of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed on September 4 the "Turkmen Side's consent to implementation of the Cert [...] | 2008-09-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT123 | TURKMENISTAN: PREPARING TO CARRY OUT AUDIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) A January 23 article in "Neutralniyy Turkmenistan," "Turkmenistan's Colossal Petroleum Reserves to Be Confirmed by Independent Experts," indicated that the state firm, Turkmengeology, will shortly begin an assessment of real [...] | 2008-01-24 10:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1230 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy s [...] | 2008-09-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1231 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy s [...] | 2008-09-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1232 | VETTING REQUEST FOR NATO-RUSSIA COUNTER NARCOTICS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) Post has been asked to conduct a human rights review for the following 72 nominees for the NATO-Russia Counternarcotics Training program taking place in Ashgabat from September 15-26. The DEA will be conducting the second w [...] | 2008-09-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT1233 | TURKMENISTAN: GRAY/MANN VISIT EXTENDS ACCURATE STATE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following DAS Krol's successful visit and media coverage (reftel),state media favorably covered Energy Envoys C. Boyden Gray and Steven Mann's September 7-8 visit to Turkmenistan, their meeting with President Gurb [...] | 2008-09-16 11:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1237 | TURKMENISTAN: AUSTRIAN ENERGY COMPANY OMV SMELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Austrian energy company OMV has been having trouble communicating its development ideas to government officials in Ashgabat, and its regional representative believes that the Russian military actions in Georgia may be causing some hand wringing at the highest levels. A key [...] | 2008-09-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX AU |
08ASHGABAT1240 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV RESTATES THE FAMILIAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting September 8 which lasted more than 2 1/2 hours, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told Special Envoy for European Energy C. Boyden Gray and U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Affairs Steve Mann that an audit by the British company Gaffney-Kline, due to be rele [...] | 2008-09-17 10:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1247 | TURKMENISTAN: HYDROCARBONS OFFICIALS RESTATE [...] (C) During a September 18 meeting with Charge, the AmCit country manager for Chevron's Turkmenistan office said a number of Turkmenistan hydrocarbons officials reiterated to him the national preference for Turkmen companies (TurkmenNeft and TurkmenGas) to do the onshore work. September 12-18, [...] | 2008-09-18 13:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1249 | EBRD ENDEAVORS TO INCREASE ITS BUSINESS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Resident Office Head Neil McKain (please strictly protect throughout) is working hard to increase EBRD's operational effectiveness in Turkmenistan, by concluding deals and actively seeking cooperation with other donors. EB [...] | 2008-09-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON AORC TX |
08ASHGABAT125 | SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE FROM TURKMENISTAN ON HOSTING 2008 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 23 responded by diplomatic note to reftel demarche on preparing for the 2008 Central Asia TIFA meeting, stating that Turkmenistan "suggests holding the United States-Cen [...] | 2008-01-25 02:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL TX XD |
08ASHGABAT1250 | TURKMENISTAN: UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY CENTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The September 12-13 shootout has captured the attention of UN representatives and staff at the UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy, as the Center continues to seek to define its role and activities in the region. [...] | 2008-09-19 05:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF TX UN |
08ASHGABAT1252 | TURKMENISTAN: NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS USAID EDUCATION SUCCESS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An article published on September 4 in Turkmenistan's leading daily (official) newspaper, "Neutral Turkmenistan," touted the achievements of teachers in Lebap province's School 11. The article stated that the scho [...] | 2008-09-22 08:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1253 | TURKMENISTAN: ECONOMIC POLICY PROJECT MOVES FORWARD ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 27-28, the Chief of Party for USAID's Economic Reforms to Enhance Competitiveness (EREC) program met with the director of the Institute for Strategic Planning and Economic Development (ISPED) and the Chai [...] | 2008-09-22 08:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT1255 | TURKMENISTAN: PAKISTANI DCM SEES MUCH ROOM FOR [...] (C) A Pakistani diplomat told Emboff in a recent conversation that Turkmenistan, with its poor investment climate, is doing itself a real disservice. In a conversation with Emboff on September 18, Deputy Head of Mission Ali Araim said that he hoped that the government of Turkmenistan will com [...] | 2008-09-23 03:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PK TX |
08ASHGABAT1256 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE COUNTER NARCOTICS HEAD SAYS [...] (C) State Counter-narcotics Service Chairman Murat Islamov asked DATT and Office of Military Cooperation Chief for U.S. assistance in helping his Service to develop a special forces capability to counter armed drug traffickers. He asked specifically for special forces or counter-terrorism trai [...] | 2008-09-23 11:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS SOCI SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT1257 | KYRGYZ ENERGY MINISTER DISCUSSES PURCHASING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov and Kyrgyz Minister of Industry, Energy, and Fuel Resources Saparbek Balkibekov discussed in meetings in Ashgabat on September 17 Kyrgyzstan's need to purchase electricity for the upcoming winter and interest in purchasing petrochemical products in the f [...] | 2008-09-23 12:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND ENRG EPET ETRD KG UZ TI TX |
08ASHGABAT1258 | TURKMENISTAN: PAKISTANI DIPLOMAT SHARES HIS VIEWS [...] (C) In a recent conversation with emboff, a senior Pakistan Embassy diplomat described his country as having had an "up and down" relationship with Iran for the last 20 years. He called Iranians "difficult people", and said Pakistan's relations with them were at a low during the years prior [...] | 2008-09-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IR PK TX |
08ASHGABAT127 | TURKMENISTAN'S PROJECT RUNWAY: MINISTRY OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) When one thinks of haute couture and super models, one normally does not think of Central Asia. Nevertheless, on January 18, Turkmenistan's Ministry of Textile Industry and the Chinese Embassy teamed up on a fashion show [...] | 2008-01-25 04:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EIND ETRD SCUL SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1271 | TURKMENISTAN: SOURCE SAYS THAT DSL WILL COST $500 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmen officials announced at the opening of the Turkmentel communications trade show on September 24 that Turkmenistan would offer DSL service starting in October. According to a fellow diplomat's source at the Ministry of Communication, DSL service will cost $500 per month, [...] | 2008-09-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND TINT TX |
08ASHGABAT1272 | TURKMENISTAN: MFA OFFICIAL ON TURKMEN LIFE AND [...] (C) In a conversation with emboff during an Iftar event that Charg hosted on September 25, the MFA's Chief of Protocol described what he called the "unique" character of the Turkmen as compared to other peoples in the region. He said that unlike the Azerbaijanis, for example, whom he said wer [...] | 2008-09-25 14:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1287 | TURKMENISTAN: UN CENTER FOR PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca believes that water issues will be less of a problem overall in Central Asia during the upcoming winter than it was for last winter. The international community is preparing to help Kyrgyzstan, which is likely to fa [...] | 2008-09-27 08:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT1292 | TURKMENISTAN: UNHCR HELPS REVISE LAW ON REFUGEES, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) office in Turkmenistan helps integrate a large group of former refugees and works with a much smaller group of current refugees. The UNHCR representative said the numbe [...] | 2008-09-29 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT1295 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE COUNTER-NARCOTICS DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) DEA Special Agent William Gustafson, one of three officers comprising DEA's Tajikistan Country Office, visited Ashgabat September 5-9 to meet with representatives of Turkmenistan's new State Counter Narcotics Service [...] | 2008-09-29 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PINR PREL SNAR SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1296 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 13:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM CDG PREL UNGA TX |
08ASHGABAT130 | TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over dinner on January 9, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa told Ashgabat-based law enforcement donor community members that his meeting with President Berdim [...] | 2008-01-26 06:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1305 | TURKMENISTAN: TURKMEN AIRLINES CHAIRMAN [...] (C) The September 26 Neytralniy Turkmenistan" newspaper reported that the Chairman of Turkmen Airlines, Gurbanyaz Tirkishov, was severely reprimanded in a presidential decree for shortcomings regarding the training of technical-engineering personnel on servicing modern aircraft and for the un [...] | 2008-09-30 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1306 | TURKMENISTAN: CONOCOPHILLIPS' PSA AWAITING OK OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lukoil's country director for Turkmenistan is frustrated by the continued delay in signing the PSA that they and operations partner ConocoPhillips negotiated in July. Both companies now must wait for new State Agency Director Kakayev to approve the agreement, and then work out mo [...] | 2008-09-30 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1324 | TURKMENISTAN: TAGIYEV SAYS GAFFNEY-KLINE AUDIT [...] (C) Wintershall manager Kal Sandhu told Charge October 3 that Deputy Chairman for Oil and Gas Tachberdi Tagiyev had recently told him that the just completed Gaffney-Kline audit shows that Turkmenistan has 24 trillion cubic meters in gas reserves in South Yoloten, Osman, and Yashlar fields. Ta [...] | 2008-10-04 07:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1325 | TURKMENISTAN: CONOCOPHILLIPS REP COMMENTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips' External Affairs Director told emboffs that she believes the State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbons is in disarray as it plans for major reorganization and fresh staffing under Director Kakayev's supervision. Kakayev himself is experiencing a l [...] | 2008-10-07 09:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1326 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 10:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM CDG PREL UNGA TX |
08ASHGABAT1329 | TURKMENISTAN: RELATIONS WITH GERMAN COMPANIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit Germany November 13-16 for meetings with German officials and with German business executives, including with BASF/Wintershall, the largest German investor in Turkmenistan. According to Wintershall's resident manager, the Turkmen app [...] | 2008-10-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL ECON EPET ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1330 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER STRESSES [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In his September 29 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Paul Dyck, Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev summarized measures taken by the Turkmenistan government to improve its trade relations [...] | 2008-10-08 07:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1331 | TURKMENAIR CHAIRMAN TO COMMERCE DAS DYCK: WE,LL [...] (SBU) During his September 29-30 visit to Turkmenistan, Commerce Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Paul Dyck met with the Chairman of the National Civil Aviation Service Gurbanyaz Tirkishov to discuss Boeing,s activities in Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan Airlines, fleet is almost exclusively [...] | 2008-10-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR EINV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1332 | TURKMENAIR CHAIRMAN TO COMMERCE DAS DYCK: WE,LL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) During his September 29-30 visit to Turkmenistan, Commerce Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Paul Dyck met with the Chairman of the National Civil Aviation Service Gurbanyaz Tirkishov to discuss Boeing,s activities in T [...] | 2008-10-08 07:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1333 | TURKMENISTAN: COMMERCE DAS DYCK TELLS MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations told visiting Department of Commerce DAS Paul Dyck September 29 that he hopes that increased U.S.-Turkmenistan trade relations will move the U.S. up from Turkmenistan's 16th place trading partner to "the top ten or b [...] | 2008-10-08 07:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1334 | TURKMENISTAN: KAKAYEV REPEATS "NO FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Department of Commerce officials, State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbons Director Kakayev reinforced previous government statements that Turkmenistan will develop its own onshore hydrocarbon resources. Kakayev said only President Berdimuhamed [...] | 2008-10-08 07:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1335 | TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRIES OF ECONOMY AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on September 30, the Minister of Economy and Development and the Minister of Agriculture told U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe and Eurasia Paul Dyck that Turkmenistan ap [...] | 2008-10-08 07:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1336 | DONORS AGREE THAT TURKMENISTAN WILL CONTINUE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Various donors from the international community gathered on September 29 to discuss the state of Turkmenistan's reforms with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe and Eurasia Paul Dyck and U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Director [...] | 2008-10-08 08:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN ETRD EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1341 | TURKMENISTAN: LOCAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY COMPLAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The director of the only private Turkmen construction company has complained about nonpayment for its renovation of office space, allegedly at the behest of a U.S. energy firm. The energy firm, Midland Oil and Gas, is actually a UK entity with U.S.-based management. The work, p [...] | 2008-10-09 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV ENGR EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1344 | TURKMENISTAN: MIDLAND OIL AND GAS PURSUING SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The local agent for Midland Oil and Gas ("Midland"),a UK entity based in New York, said Midland is close to concluding an agreement to provide drilling rigs worth USD 400 million to Turkmen Oil. The company is also looking for an operating partner to develop three offshore bloc [...] | 2008-10-09 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1345 | TURKMENISTAN AND IRAN: FLOATING PRICE GAS DEAL [...] (C) A Turkish diplomat confirmed to us today that notwithstanding earlier press reports to the contrary, no deal has been reached whereby Iran would purchase gas from Turkmenistan according to a floating price formula beginning next year. The diplomat, Hakan Chengiz (please protect),told embo [...] | 2008-10-10 03:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1346 | SCHOLASTIC BOOKS DISCOVERS THE COMPLEXITIES OF [...] (C) The Amcit International Business Development Manager of U.S. children's book publisher Scholastic, Inc. participated in Turkmenistan's Third Annual International Publishing Fair as an invited guest of the State Publishing Service, October 7-10. Scholastic was the sole U.S. publisher repr [...] | 2008-10-10 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD SCUL TX |
08ASHGABAT1348 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 10:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN UNGA KV TX |
08ASHGABAT1349 | TURKMENISTAN: PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN'S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by a large delegation, paid a short official visit to Ashgabat last week that focused on business investment in Turkmenistan. During the trip, he met with President Berdimuhamedov, Turkmen officials and Turkish citizens resi [...] | 2008-10-10 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD TU TX |
08ASHGABAT1351 | TURKMENISTAN'S SABIT ALUMNI ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Alumni of the Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program said at a reception held during the visit of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe and Eurasia Paul Dyck on September 29 that they [...] | 2008-10-11 08:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1352 | TURKMENISTAN: DONORS DISCUSS POSSIBILITIES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) resident representative, donor country diplomats said that there is more discussion about developing the private sector in Turkmenistan than ever before. Some were doubtful, however, t [...] | 2008-10-11 08:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EINV EPET AORC TX |
08ASHGABAT1355 | TURKMENISTAN: IRAN 3, U.S. 0, SPORTSMANSHIP [...] Embassy Ashgabat played the Iranian Embassy team on October 11 in a 30-minute soccer match during the first round of a diplomatic tournament organized by the Embassy of Kazakhstan. Team U.S.A. was made up of the DATT, RSO, GUNNY and 2 MSG, CAO, and a Nevada National Guard representative. We n [...] | 2008-10-14 08:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1358 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW MINISTER OF OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) The October 14 issue of Neytralniy Turkmenistan contained an order appointing 35 year-old Annaguly Redjebovich Deryayev Minister of Oil and Gas Industry and Resources. Deryayev was born in 1973 in Ekerem in Balkan province. He graduated from the Turkmenistan Polytechnical Institute i [...] | 2008-10-15 09:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1359 | TURKMENSITAN'S RESPONSE TO LONDON PLENARY SESSION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the following diplomatic note, dated September 29, 2008, addressed to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of countries-participants of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Begin Text: [...] | 2008-10-15 09:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ECON KNNC TX |
08ASHGABAT1361 | TURKMENISTAN: UNODC INTRODUCES ON-LINE [...] At its quarterly Law Enforcement Donor Coordination Meeting on October 13, UNODC Ashgabat introduced the agency's new internet-based ADAM (Automated Donor Assistance Mechanism) website to participants. Members of UNODC's Turkmenistan collective will now be able to access current information ab [...] | 2008-10-15 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR KCRM TX |
08ASHGABAT1374 | TURKMENISTAN: UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY CENTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN's Preventive Diplomacy Center in Ashgabat hosted the Central Asian deputy foreign ministers in a one-day forum to discuss regional challenges that include water, energy and Afghanistan, and to negotiate the e [...] | 2008-10-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SNAR UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1375 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW BOARD OF TRADE OPENS [...] (SBU) As part of the numerous new building openings in the run-up to Turkmenistan's independence day holiday, on October 20 the new building that houses the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, as well as the Board of Trade, opened. This Board of Trade is different from others or [...] | 2008-10-20 13:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1378 | TURKMENISTAN: AFGHANS AND TURKMEN HOLD [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UNODC hosted a cross-border meeting between Afghan and Turkmen officials on October 17 at the border town of Serhetabat. Counter narcotics, migration, customs and other officials from both countries were in attend [...] | 2008-10-20 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT1384 | TURKMENISTAN: USAID/IREX OPENS EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On October 15, USAID and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) formally opened a Center for Interactive Multimedia Learning at Turkmenistan's Supreme Council on Science and Technology (SCST). The cen [...] | 2008-10-21 10:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT1387 | TURKMENISTAN: ENTREPRENEUR DOES NOT FORSEE A [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with econoff, a local entrepreneur who currently represents various American firms explained how he got his start through purchasing used equipment in Dubai. He set up a Dubai company in order to get around Turkmenistan's restrictive laws and local banking problems [...] | 2008-10-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1388 | TEN THOUSAND TONS OF U.S. CHICKEN IMPORTED INTO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On August 19, the embassy,s economic officer received an urgent phone call from Chief of the International Economic Relations Department of the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations Wepa Garryev, with a request t [...] | 2008-10-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1390 | TURKMENISTAN: CONOCOPHILLIPS SENSES ITS PROSPECTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Stonewalling by the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, combined with reports of Turkmenistan government negotiations with BP, have made ConocoPhillips concerned that its prospects for Block 21 are slipping away. Moreover, despite repeated overtures by [...] | 2008-10-22 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1399 | EXPAT SOURCES SAY THAT ITERA GAVE TURKMENISTAN A [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to expatriate sources in Ashgabat, a yacht that recently set sail on the Caspian Sea -- reportedly worth 60 million euros -- is actually a gift from Russian company Itera. Itera is working on signing a deal jointly with Russian state-owned companies Rosneft and Zarubezhneft a [...] | 2008-10-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EPET EINV ETRD EWWT SCUL RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1406 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW YEAR [...] (SBU) President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's December 28 New Year party provided a glimpse of his government at work -- and at play. The Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting organized it as a dinner-cabaret (to be televised later) in the south wing of the central Exhibition Palace. Guests in [...] | 2008-01-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1410 | DELAY OF TURKMEN-AFGHAN POWER LINE PROJECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to various sources in Ashgabat, the delay in concluding an agreement to build a Turkmen-Afghan power line is the result of complications on the Afghan side. While the Turkmen reportedly remain prepared to finance and build their portion of the project, the Afghans' ina [...] | 2008-10-24 12:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EAID PREL AF TX |
08ASHGABAT1417 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: OIL MINISTER VISITS ASHGABAT; [...] (SBU) According to the October 28th edition of the Russian-language Neytralniy Turkmenistan" and Iranian press reports, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari attended the Independence Day festivities in Ashgabat on October 27 and met with President Berdimuhamedov to discuss bilateral energy coope [...] | 2008-10-29 12:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PINR PREL IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1419 | TURKMENISTAN: DONORS TACKLE COORDINATION IN ACCOUNTING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On October 18, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) organized a donor coordination meeting to discuss current and potential cooperation in support of Turkmenistan's eventual transition to International Fina [...] | 2008-10-30 03:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT1420 | TURKMENISTAN: HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO TEHERAN ON [...] (C) Summary: The Hungarian ambassador to Iran and Turkmenistan, based in Teheran, spoke at length with the Charge earlier October 28, giving a read-out on Iran's worsening economic situation, the upcoming Iranian and U.S. presidential elections, views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and Ira [...] | 2008-10-30 06:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1421 | TURKMENISTAN/ROMANIA: RELATIONS ARE GOOD, BUT NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Romanian Charge, relations between his country and Turkmenistan are fairly good. Nevertheless, there are several areas of concern, including Turkmenistan's request that Romania convince EU member states not to be so critical of Turkmenistan's human rights record. [...] | 2008-10-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT1422 | TURKMENISTAN: GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS RUSSIA IS [...] (C) Georgian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexi Petriashvili (please protect) told econoff on October 29 that he is running for a position on the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ),and that he is leaving for New York to campaign for the position on November [...] | 2008-10-30 15:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG UN AORC RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1424 | TURKMENISTAN: UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY CENTER HEAD [...] (C) UN Preventive Diplomacy Center head Miroslav Jenca briefed us on his most recent consultations in the region, including his trips to Tashkent and Dushanbe. He said the Uzbeks raised their 6 plus 3 proposal on Afghanistan with him. The Uzbeks strongly advocated for the involvement of the [...] | 2008-10-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1425 | TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON OFFER OF TRAINING [...] (C) The Chevron Amcit country manager told Charge October 30 that the company's proposals to provide training to Turkmen officials may be starting to bear some fruit. In early October, he sent a letter to State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Director Yagshygeldi Ka [...] | 2008-10-31 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1426 | TURKMENISTAN: MURADOV'S RESIGNATION IN SEPTEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A longtime expat advisor, resident in Ashgabat, shared his views about recent developments, Turkmen bureaucracy and obstacles to reform. He mentioned that the former State Hydrocarbon Agency chairman resigned in order to avoid being fired for disloyalty, having been seen as "too [...] | 2008-11-01 07:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT143 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT USCENTCOM ADMIRAL [...] (U) On January 25, the government-run website "Turkmenistan Golden Age" (www.turkmenistan.gov.tm) (Turkmen, Russian and English) reported on Admiral Fallon's arrival in Turkmenistan, giving accurate details about his planned meetings in the country. Similar reports appeared on the same day on [...] | 2008-01-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO MARR OIIP TX |
08ASHGABAT1431 | TURKMENISTAN: EXXONMOBIL STILL CASTING ABOUT FOR [...] (C) On November 3, ExxonMobil Caspian Area Manager Rob Young and Regional Upstream Coordinator David Rekhviashvili met with the Charge to discuss ExxonMobil's interest in doing an onshore project in Turkmenistan. Young said they were here to make a proposal to the Turkmenistan government to d [...] | 2008-11-03 12:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PGOV ENRG EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT1432 | TURKMENISTAN'S CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As a longtime Turkmenistan expatriate resident recently observed, Turkey's arrangements with Turkmenistan let them get away with a lot, but Turkish companies -- particularly construction companies -- are also vulnerable to arrest, deportation, and other unpleasantries when thi [...] | 2008-11-03 14:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND KCOR TX TU RS |
08ASHGABAT1443 | TURKMENISTAN: OBSTACLES APLENTY FOR TAPI PIPELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Progress on the Asian Development Bank's ("ADB") proposed gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to India is beset by challenges as the proposed project enters its sixth year. Working group meetings to finalize key agreements have been repeatedly postponed. From the Turkmen side, auth [...] | 2008-11-05 11:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET PREL ADB ZK XD TX |
08ASHGABAT1454 | TURKMENISTAN: PAKISTANI DIPLOMAT SKEPTICAL ON IPI PIPELINE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 03:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET IR PGOV PINR PK PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT146 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: LOGISTICS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER EWWT TX |
08ASHGABAT1463 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV SON-IN-LAW TO HEAD [...] (C) President Berdimuhamedov's son-in-law, Yhlasgeldi Amanov (DPOB: Ashgabat, July 19, 1983),is currently living in London and setting up an overseas office of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, according to UK embassy sources. At first, the British were unawar [...] | 2008-11-06 11:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1466 | TURKMENISTAN POSSIBLY AFFECTED BY RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to a local expat source, Turkmenistan is feeling the effects of Russia's economic problems. Most significant would be decreased revenue from Turkmenistan's gas exports. Turkmenistan has also seriously overcommitted itself on future gas exports, including to Russia [...] | 2008-11-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1467 | TURKMENISTAN: EBRD NOTES PROGRESS ON REFORMS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The local European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ("EBRD") office head (please protect) said that he is encouraged by what appears to be some loosening of government control in the financial sector, both in areas such as loan policy as well as interactions with intern [...] | 2008-11-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EIND AORC TX |
08ASHGABAT1468 | TURKMENISTAN/CHINA: BILATERAL RELATIONS ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recently arrived Chinese ambassador Wu Hongbin describes bilateral relations as positive because of mutual respect and understanding between the two nations. He underscored that China's chief interest in Turkmenistan is energy and that his country's pipeline project serves as a c [...] | 2008-11-07 03:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT1475 | TURKMEN STATE TV COVERAGE OF ELECTION RECEPTION [...] (C) Although a TV crew from the state-controlled "Watan" TV channel eagerly attended and filmed parts of post's election reception on November 5 (reftel),coverage of the event was entirely absent from that evening,s broadcast, which was instead filled with typical, boring state media stories. [...] | 2008-11-07 11:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1476 | TURKMENISTAN: UNEVEN MEDIA COVERAGE OF EMBASSY EVENTS IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Coverage of Embassy events by state-controlled media was uneven during this two-month period. A state media journalist's questions at a press conference for a visiting commerce delegation in September were an une [...] | 2008-11-07 11:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1480 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the area of military cooperation. Your visit to Turkmenistan follows Department of Comme [...] | 2008-11-10 11:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET SNAR SOCI MARR TX |
08ASHGABAT1481 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTRY OF ENERGY ADMITS DELAYS DUE TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's Deputy Minister of Energy and Industry (MOEI) Yarmuhammet Orazgulyev told USAID on November 6 that the Ministry's specialists are struggling with the financial calculations to determine repayment ti [...] | 2008-11-10 11:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX |
08ASHGABAT1482 | MESSAGE FROM TURKMEN PRESIDENT TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (U) Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has sent a letter to President Bush. Post will forward the original via diplomatic pouch and fax. An informal translation in English is provided in paragraph 2 below. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Ashgabat, November 10, 2008 His Excellency P [...] | 2008-11-10 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1483 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN COUNTRY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] The EXBS Advisor is responsible for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The Advisor has been unable to travel to Uzbekistan since July because of visa and passport problems. The Advisor received a new three-month visa for Uzbekistan, effective November 27, 2008. The Advisor will be TDY to Uzbekist [...] | 2008-11-12 02:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT1484 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan during the 13th Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Conference as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue concerning the further d [...] | 2008-11-12 06:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT1485 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post delivered demarche talking points regarding UNGA Third Committee voting on human rights resolutions on Iran, DPRK, and Burma via diplomatic note to the MFA on November 10. Any substantive response will be forwarded [...] | 2008-11-12 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT1486 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) During a meeting with a visiting Emerson College professor of Political Communication, Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) Director Shirin Akhmedova said IDHR informally plays the role of ombudsman for citizens w [...] | 2008-11-13 04:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1488 | TURKMENISTAN: OVERVIEW OF USG BORDER SECURITY ASSISTANCE [...] The following report about USG border security assistance to Turkmenistan is post's response to reftel request by the Export Control and Related Border Security Interagency Working Group (IWG) for Central Asia to compile an overview of all of nonproliferation, law enforcement, counter-narcotic [...] | 2008-11-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT1489 | GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKMENISTAN LOSES BID FOR [...] (C) Georgian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexi Petriashvili (please protect) told econoff on November 11 that his bid for a position on the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) (reftel) was unsuccessful: the Russian candidate won. He said that most countrie [...] | 2008-11-13 14:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AORC TX |
08ASHGABAT1493 | EFFECTS OF WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan is unlikely to be strongly affected by the international economic crisis, because its banking sector is so cut off from the rest of the world's banking system and because the country has no debt. However, local economists predict for the first time that Turkmenist [...] | 2008-11-14 13:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECON SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT1494 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP STORY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An October 31 Russian press article re-ignited a controversy that has been brewing in recent months about dual citizens' inability to obtain the new, high-tech Turkmen travel passport that the government began issuing in July. Two days later, the Turkmen MFA fired back an angr [...] | 2008-11-17 02:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1500 | TURKMENISTAN: MARATHON WILLING TO BE PATIENT, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. During the upcoming international oil and gas conference, Marathon executives are looking for substantive engagement with GOTX officials about the company's proposed integrated gas-to-fuels project. Since the signing of a confidentiality agreement and presentations about the pro [...] | 2008-11-18 11:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EIND PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1509 | TURKMENISTAN: CATHOLIC PRIESTS' VILLAGE VISITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Father Andrzej Madej, Charg at the Vatican Embassy and head of the local unregistered parish that operates under the auspices of the Embassy, asked a group of missionary friends in the U.S., Germany, and Slovakia to assist him during the absence of his assistant priest. The Amc [...] | 2008-11-21 13:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL SOCI KIRF TX |
08ASHGABAT1510 | 63RD UNGA: DEMARCHE TO INCREASE PLENARY SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-21 13:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL UNGA TX |
08ASHGABAT1511 | TURKMENISTAN: UNODC COUNTER-NARCOTICS TRAINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent conversation with emboff, UNODC Turkmenistan's National Projects Officer gave a read-out on the agency's latest counter narcotics training course in Ashgabat. The participants were officials from several Turkmen government agencies involved in counter-narcotics efforts [...] | 2008-11-21 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1512 | TURKMEN PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV: "WE'LL DO IT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov, accompanied by Foreign Minister Meredov, received U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Issues, Ambassador Mann, accompanied by Charge Miles, for an hour and a half conversation touching on Berdimuhamedov,s just concluded trip to Korea, Germany a [...] | 2008-11-21 13:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1514 | 63RD UNGA: DEMARCHE TO INCREASE PLENARY SUPPORT OF U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL UNGA TX |
08ASHGABAT152 | TURKMENISTAN: MEETING WITH MEJLIS CHAIR A LESSON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial meeting with a recent visitor, the Chair of Turkmenistan's Mejlis presented a rosy picture of life in Turkmenistan for women, claiming that no challenges currently exist for them that require future [...] | 2008-01-31 10:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KWMN TX |
08ASHGABAT1522 | TURKMEN FOREIGN MINISTER: MORE OF THE SAME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 12:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT153 | TURKMENISTAN: "WARMING OF A PRODUCTIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: "Neytralniy Turkmenistan," the official Russian-language government newspaper, published an article summarizing Senator Richard Lugar's Janury 24 letter to President Berdimuhamedov. The article mentioned Lugar's [...] | 2008-01-31 10:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID EAGR EPET KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1531 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER HAJIYEV [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1533 | VISIT OF TRANSCOM COMMANDER GENERAL MCNABB TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Duncan McNabb, the commander of Transportation Command, visited Ashgabat November 20. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the proposed Northern Distribution Network (also known as NGLOC). As a result of the late arrival and Turkmen schedule changes, most of the pl [...] | 2008-11-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS TX |
08ASHGABAT1534 | TURKMENISTAN: DESPITE DISAPPROVAL BY SOME [...] (C) Econoff visited the American Corner in the provincial capital of Mary on November 13 to find out the status of U.S. exchange programs. Mary American Corner Regional Representative Albina Burashnikova said that local education authorities still discouraged teachers from coming to the Amer [...] | 2008-11-26 10:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT154 | TURKMENISTAN: USCENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL [...] (SBU) PARTICIPANTS: UNITED STATES: USCENTCOM Commander William J. Fallon USCENTCOM PolAd Henry Ensher Embassy Ashgabat Defense Attache LTC James Zink Charge d'affaires (note-taker) TURKMENISTAN: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov [...] | 2008-01-31 10:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID EPET SNAR SCUL KPAO AJ |
08ASHGABAT1542 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV VISIT TO GERMANY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) President Berdimuhamedov led a large delegation to Germany on November 13 for a three-day visit. According to German Deputy Chief of Mission Silke Hahn, it was not an official, state visit for Berdimuhamedov, because the [...] | 2008-11-28 09:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EINV ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT1544 | AMBASSADOR MANN: A WELCOME FIGURE IN TURKMEN STATE MEDIA - [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media widely reported on U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Steven Mann's November 20 meeting with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The same day, media sources accurately carried [...] | 2008-11-28 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1547 | TURKMENISTAN: LIVELY DEBATE AT ROUNDTABLE ON IMPROVING NGO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 17-18, USAID's partner International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan (IDHR) organized a roundtable on Impr [...] | 2008-12-01 12:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1548 | TURKMENISTAN: PRE-ELECTION VISIT TO ABADAN REVEALS LITTLE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent trip to Abadan city, just west of Ashgabat, PAO met with local officials to discuss preparations for upcoming parliamentary elections. PAO heard mostly standard Turkmen government replies about aspe [...] | 2008-12-02 03:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO OIIP TX |
08ASHGABAT155 | TURKMENISTAN: USCENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USCENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon, discussed with Defense Minister General Agageldi Mammetgeldiyev and State Border Service Chief General-Major Bayram Alovov Turkmenistan's security situation, ongoing military reforms, and regional issues during separate meetings o [...] | 2008-01-31 10:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR MASS SNAR IR AF RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1550 | TURKMEN FOREIGN MINISTER: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary. On November 21, Foreign Minister Meredov received U.S Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann, accompanied by Charge Richard Miles, for an hour-long conversation which was very similar in content to Ambassador Mann's conversation on November 20 with Pres [...] | 2008-12-02 07:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1551 | CHARGE RAISES NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK (NDN) [...] (C) Summary: Charge Miles raised the issue of the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) with Turkmen Foreign Minister Meredov. Meredov listened carefully to Charge,s points but then re-played the well-known Turkmen (negative) position on the issue. Charge emphasized that the issue was impo [...] | 2008-12-02 12:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1552 | FM MEREDOV PROVIDES OVERVIEW OF U.S.- TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent call by Charge d'Affaires Richard Miles on Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, the Minister provided his perspective on U.S.-Turkmenistan relations and areas for expanded engagement. Addressing the political, economic and cultural spheres, Meredov outlin [...] | 2008-12-03 07:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AJ TU TX |
08ASHGABAT1556 | IRAN: HUNGARIAN DIPLOMAT TALKS OF LIFE IN THE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with emboffs, a Hungarian diplomat posted in Tehran described what it is like to live and work in the Islamic Republic. He confirmed that Iran's economy is in very bad shape, and that people are becoming more and more critical of the government's ineptitude. Iranians [...] | 2008-12-03 10:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1558 | COUNTERNARCOTICS DONORS EXCHANGE VIEWS ON PATH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At a November 25 Mini Dublin Group meeting hosted by the Italians, donors discussed the need to continue offering practical counternarcotics training and the importance of encouraging Turkmen-Afghan cross-border [...] | 2008-12-03 11:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SNAR TX AF |
08ASHGABAT1559 | TURKMENISTAN: IRANIAN TRADE SHOW IN ASHGABAT [...] (U) Several dozen Iranian companies exhibited their products at a large trade show in Ashgabat from November 28-30. The wide range of goods on display included Iran Khodro/Peugeot automobiles, farm equipment, foodstuffs, applicances, cosmetics, and construction materials. The booths covered a [...] | 2008-12-03 12:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL IR TX |
08ASHGABAT1560 | TURKMENISTAN: SERAHS CANDIDATES/OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: On November 25, poloff visited the town of Serahs, located in Ahal Welayat (province) on the Iranian border, and met with local officials and two candidates in the upcoming Mejlis elections. Both candidates for the 32nd electoral district seat appeared genuinely motivated by a de [...] | 2008-12-03 12:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX IR |
08ASHGABAT1577 | TURKMENISTAN: SNAPSHOT OF LIFE IN SERAHS [...] (SBU) Poloff visited the town of Serahs in late November to meet with local officials and candidates for the upcoming Mejlis (legislative) elections (reftel). Serahs, located on what was formerly the Great Silk Road between the ancient cities of Nishapur and Merv, sits on the Iranian border. [...] | 2008-12-05 04:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PHUM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1586 | INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PLANS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: After the November 17-18 USAID- supported roundtable on Improving Turkmenistan's Legislation on Public Organizations (reftel),the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan (IDHR [...] | 2008-12-08 09:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1588 | TURKMENISTAN OIL AND GAS EXHIBITION: LARGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent international oil and gas exhibition in Ashgabat attracted participation from a wide-range of foreign companies looking for opportunities in Turkmenistan. Government officials repeated their willingness to work with foreign partners. However, the gap between Turkmen [...] | 2008-12-08 12:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON ETRD PREL PGOV IR TX |
08ASHGABAT159 | TURKMENISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MOVING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The commission responsible for ensuring that Turkmenistan meets its international human rights obligations (reftel) has constructed a game plan for revising or drafting needed legislation within the timeline to [...] | 2008-02-01 09:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT1598 | TURKMENISTAN: READOUT ON TRILATERAL SUMMIT FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Turkish DCM, the November 29 trilateral summit between the Turkmen, Turkish and Azeri presidents covered a range of issues, with no particular breakthroughs. On energy, the Turkish president urged the Turkmen to develop a gas export route to the West, a suggesti [...] | 2008-12-09 10:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EPET TU AZ TX |
08ASHGABAT161 | TURKMENISTAN: EXPLORING POTENTIAL FOR U.S.-TURKISH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Charge and DCM hosted Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil and DCM Tolgu Orkun on February 1 to discuss U.S.-Turkish assistance cooperation in 2008 in Turkmenistan, as per reftel instructions. We had provided a summary of reftel t [...] | 2008-02-01 11:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT1610 | TURKMENISTAN: NOVEMBER MEDIA REACTION - LESS GENEROUS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media carried a number of favorable stories on several Embassy events or visitors. Other events were covered but never carried, or were misleading in their final versions. There appears to be a negative trend [...] | 2008-12-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1613 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UN HARMONIZATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 08:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA TX |
08ASHGABAT1615 | TURKMENISTAN: GRANTEE RELOCATES TO FIND MORE RECEPTIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 25, PAO visited an active grantee that runs an after school educational center and has found far better tolerance and cooperation with local authorities after recently moving the center to a different t [...] | 2008-12-18 10:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT1616 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT IFES PRE-ELECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media and some international news agencies highlighted U.S. International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) early December visit to Turkmenistan. Although this was a visit that post did [...] | 2008-12-18 10:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1619 | TURKMENISTAN: HUNGARIAN ENVOY VISITS TO PROMOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungary's special envoy for Nabucco was in Turkmenistan December 16-17 to promote Turkmen participation at the January Nabucco summit in Budapest. Hungary's proactiveness on Nabucco results from its desire to reduce its energy dependence on Russia. He highlighted the summit's pl [...] | 2008-12-18 11:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PGOV PREL HU TX |
08ASHGABAT162 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHT VISIT BY U.S. COORDINATOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media highlighted U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Steven Mann's January 29 visit to Turkmenistan. Mann's meeting with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received wide state media coverage. Some international media sources char [...] | 2008-02-01 15:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1633 | TURKMENISTAN: SUPPORT FOR THE EDUCATION SECTOR CHALLENGING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 3-6, USAID's newly appointed Regional Education Development Specialist Garth Willis visited Ashgabat to meet with Turkmen education officials, international organizations and past program beneficiaries. [...] | 2008-12-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT164 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV TELLS MANN, "WE [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov told Ambassador Mann on January 29 he -- wants a Trans-Caspian Pipeline with Azerbaijan but wants to "start small" and needs a legal basis for it to protect him from Russia and Iran; -- needs a legal structure to allow Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan jo [...] | 2008-02-04 05:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET TU RS IR KZ AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT1642 | TURKMENISTAN'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS OFFICIALS SHOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) contractor and information and communications technology senior sector expert, Diane Landau, discussed a USTDA-sponsored study tour to the United States for Turkmen officials that will take place in the spring for representatives from [...] | 2008-12-30 07:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND SCUL TINT TX |
08ASHGABAT1643 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR PROVIDES OVERVIEW OF RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with the Charge, the Russian Ambassador discussed Russian activity in Turkmenistan. Russian oil and gas firms are pursuing production projects, with two firms close to finalizing agreements. The Ambassador appeared well informed about the Chinese gas pipeline [...] | 2008-12-30 07:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON RU TX |
08ASHGABAT1644 | LOCAL GAZPROM OFFICIAL DISCUSSES FIRM'S PROSPECTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite ongoing discussion of an expanded Caspian gas pipeline to Russia, a local Gazprom official recently suggested that the project's prospects might be dimmed by the current financial crisis. Both political and commercial factors would influence an ultimate decision. Agreeme [...] | 2008-12-30 07:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EIND PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT1648 | TURKMENISTAN: USDA ENGLISH PROGRAM OPENS DOORS AT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rector of Turkmenistan's Agriculture University and the head of International Relations at the Ministry of Agriculture said they welcome additional USDA support for English classes and that they are willing to [...] | 2008-12-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT165 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV DESCRIBES TO AMB. MANN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 29 meeting with U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy AmbassadorSteven Mann, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov said Turkmenistan wants to find the legal basis for joint development with Azerbaijan of the disputed [...] | 2008-02-04 05:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT166 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY CHAIRMAN TAGIYEV -- THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for hydrocarbon issues, Tachberdi Tagiyev, told U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann things are going well for Turkmenistan. The country is discovering promising new hydro [...] | 2008-02-04 05:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT167 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE HYDROCARBON AGENCY STILL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, Executive Director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Byrammurat Muradov told U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann his agency is very close to reaching an agreement with ConocoPhillips on two offshor [...] | 2008-02-04 06:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT169 | TURKMENISTAN: MIDLAND OIL SEEKS HYDROCARBON DEAL [...] (C) The Chairman of the Board and President of the U.S.-based Midland Oil and Gas Company Robert Murphy visited Ashgabat January 29-February 2 with a delegation of consortium members to see whether he could work out a hydrocarbon deal. Murphy met on January 30 with President Berdimuhamedov, [...] | 2008-02-04 10:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT170 | IRAN'S NATURAL GAS WOES [...] (C) Iran has no gas to sell to customers and carries on gas negotiations with various countries in an attempt to show it is not isolated, Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil told the Charge during a February 1 lunch. In a discussion that covered a number of Caspian and Central Asian energy issues [...] | 2008-02-04 11:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET IR TU TX |
08ASHGABAT171 | TURKMENISTAN: SELF-FINANCING TURKMEN ABLE TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post attempted to verify a December 2007 Forum18 news article (reported in ref by Turkmen opposition website "Gundogar") about the restrictions the government allegedly imposed on those wishing to go on the Hajj [...] | 2008-02-04 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF KISL SA TX |
08ASHGABAT173 | TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINE STUMBLES AS IT SEEKS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ukraine's representation in Turkmenistan is continuing to have a difficult time reviving its bilateral diplomatic and business relationship. Ukrainian diplomats are showing deep interest in the frequent arriva [...] | 2008-02-05 07:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET UP CH IR TX |
08ASHGABAT174 | TURKMENISTAN: "ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES" NETWORKING EVENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Nearly 60 alumni from throughout Turkmenistan and representing nearly all U.S.-sponsored educational and professional exchange programs, including Future Leaders Exchange program (FLEX),UGRAD, Muskie, AUCA, and others, gathere [...] | 2008-02-05 08:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID KPAO KDEM SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT177 | TURKMENISTAN: "ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES" NETWORKING EVENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Nearly 60 alumni from throughout Turkmenistan and representing nearly all U.S.-sponsored educational and professional exchange programs, including Future Leaders Exchange program (FLEX),UGRAD, Muskie, AUCA, and others, gathere [...] | 2008-02-05 10:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID KPAO KDEM SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT179 | TURKMENISTAN: WORLD BANK OUTLINES RE-ENGAGMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the last week in January, a World Bank visiting delegation met with government officials and resident donor nation representatives to discuss re-engagement with Turkmenistan. The Government of Turkmenistan's [...] | 2008-02-05 10:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT186 | TURKMENISTAN: MIDLAND OIL MOVES FORWARD [...] (C) Chairman of the Board and President of the U.S.-based Midland Oil and Gas Company Robert Murphy telephoned the Charge on February 6 to provide a rushed brief on the results of his consortium delegation's visit to Ashgabat that began on January 29 (reftel). He said his overall consortium [...] | 2008-02-06 10:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV ETRD EIND KS TX |
08ASHGABAT190 | TURKMENISTAN: UPDATE ON ADB'S PLANS FOR A [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Ayna Kekilova, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) liaison officer in Turkmenistan, told EmbOff February 6 that the ADB partners in the proposed Trans-Afghan pipeline (TAPI) project are proceeding with the work for the proj [...] | 2008-02-06 12:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT196 | TURKMENISTAN: CHALLENGES ABOUND ON ROAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent visit by a World Bank delegation focused on education provided the delegation with an opportunity to learn more about the challenges and changes to Turkmenistan's education system. Donors told the delegation that a bureaucracy, more used to hunkering down than innovation [...] | 2008-02-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT199 | TURKMENISTAN EMERGING AS PRAGMATIC REGIONAL PLAYER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The delivery of a significant amount of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and enhanced provision of electricity to Tajikistan, combined with intensified economic cooperation and diplomatic activity in the region, [...] | 2008-02-08 09:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IR AF UZ TI TX |
08ASHGABAT2 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW YEAR [...] (SBU) President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's December 28 New Year party provided a glimpse of his government at work -- and at play. The Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting organized it as a dinner-cabaret (to be televised later) in the south wing of the central Exhibition Palace. Guests in [...] | 2008-01-02 09:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT203 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW SPEECH WRITER [...] (C) During a February 6 meeting, Ministry of Culture International Relations Department Head Gulmurad Myradov (strictly protect) revealed to EmbOff he has been writing some of President's Berdimuhamedov recent speeches, including the "Cultural Revival" and "New Ideology" policy addresses. In [...] | 2008-02-08 11:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT204 | TURKMENISTAN: DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: A symbol of Turkmenistan's new commitment to combating narcotics trafficking, the State Agency for Combating Narcotics that President Berdimuhamedov established January 18, will have nearly 700 employees and will function much as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) doe [...] | 2008-02-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT206 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 7, USAID Country Representative met with the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights to discuss areas of potential cooperation outlined in the letter received from the Ministry of Forei [...] | 2008-02-11 03:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT210 | TURKMENISTAN: SOME TURKISH VIEWS ON TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) On February 1, Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil met with the Charge to discuss regional energy issues (reftels). He said it is important to explain to Turkmenistan that allowing major Western companies to work in the Caspian and onshore would promote the country's economic and political ind [...] | 2008-02-11 08:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TU AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT211 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER DENIES NATURAL-GAS [...] (C) Charge met at OOB February 11 with Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to deliver talking points in para seven below as a non-paper. Meredov closely read the points and then commented, "You should not believe every rumor you hear." Charge assured Meredov his evidence was documentary and exte [...] | 2008-02-11 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EU RS HU TX |
08ASHGABAT212 | PRIORITY LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 13:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN UNMIK TX |
08ASHGABAT214 | TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIAN EMBASSY "SOFT POWER" FALLS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The Russian Embassy opened an exhibit at the National Art Museum on February 11 -- photographs of Turkmenistan taken by Russian Embassy diplomats. In his opening speech, Russian Ambassador Igor Blatov noted the exhibit co [...] | 2008-02-12 05:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SCUL KPAO RS TX |
08ASHGABAT217 | DOING BUSINESS IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A resident American businessman explained how he is able to navigate the local business culture, where paying bribes and corruption are endemic. The only way he is able to avoid paying bribes and still do business is to work with another foreign company (usually Turkish) as lead o [...] | 2008-02-12 08:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KCOR TX |
08ASHGABAT219 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S FIRST YEAR IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his first year in office, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has delivered more change than most here expected or even thought was realistically possible for immediate post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. Spurred by a wish to make Turkmenistan a respected member [...] | 2008-02-12 10:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SNAR SOCI KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT223 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV ONE YEAR ON: LET'S [...] (C) When "The Eternally Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi" Niyazov died on December 21, 2006, U.S. foreign policy took the opportunity to approach Turkmenistan's soon-to-be new president, offering to "turn the page" in our bilateral relations. To the extent Turkmenistan was ready to engage with [...] | 2008-02-12 10:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT224 | TURKMENISTAN-TO-HUNGARY NATURAL GAS: ALMOST A [...] (S) On February 12, Charge met with Polish Ambassador Maciej Lang and, separately, EU-TACIS Adviser Michael Wilson (strictly protect both throughout). Wilson was the initial source of the documentary evidence that negotiations are far advanced for Hungarian company Millander International Ltd [...] | 2008-02-12 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET HU RS TX |
08ASHGABAT227 | U.S. CONCERNS ON OSLO PROCESS TO BAN CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT228 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY ASHGABAT SHOULD HOST THE 2008 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) In response to Ref A. request asking embassies in Central Asia to poll host governments about where to hold the 2008 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan both expresse [...] | 2008-02-13 09:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD TX |
08ASHGABAT232 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S. HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION RATIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KOCI CASC TX |
08ASHGABAT237 | TURKMENISTAN: UNDP HELPING PREPARE REPORT FOR UN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UNDP is working with Turkmenistan's Human Rights Commission to formulate a plan to complete two key UN reports Turkmenistan agreed to submit by the end of 2008. The more significant report, which Turkmenistan [...] | 2008-02-14 09:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT238 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE THAN 1200 PARDONED FOR FLAG DAY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The government published the list of prisoners to be freed under a pardon that President Berdimuhamedov announced on February 13. He said that 1,269 prisoners would be released in honor of Flag Day, which is February 19. [...] | 2008-02-14 11:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT248 | TURKMENISTAN: VISIT LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR UPCOMING USAID [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30-31, Almaty-based USAID/CAR Senior Economist Michael Boyd met with several new economic institutions in Turkmenistan to discuss potential cooperation with USAID's upcoming Enhancing Reforms for Econom [...] | 2008-02-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT249 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION CRITICIZES FLEX [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Education (MOE) alleged, via diplomatic note and in a meeting with PAO, that the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program for high school students was not being properly supervised by ACCELS. MOE [...] | 2008-02-20 03:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT251 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION CRITICIZES FLEX [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Education (MOE) alleged, via diplomatic note and in a meeting with PAO, that the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program for high school students was not being properly supervised by ACCELS. MOE [...] | 2008-02-20 09:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT254 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY BURIED HILL FOR SERDAR? WHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Canadian petroleum company Buried Hill signed a contract in December 2007 to work Caspian Block III -- a key area disputed by Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan -- but the deal was not announced until after a February 12 meeting between the company's CEO, Roger Haines, board member form [...] | 2008-02-20 10:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT259 | TURKMENISTAN PROVIDES MORE HUMANITARIAN AID, THIS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following on its decision to send aid to Afghanistan (reftel),Turkmenistan donated fuel as humanitarian assistanceto Tajikistan on February 13, publicly demonstrating the strong bilateral ties it shares with it [...] | 2008-02-21 08:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TI TX |
08ASHGABAT264 | TURKMENISTAN'S PARLIAMENT RATIFIES MONTREAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament) on January 22 adopted a resolution on Turkmenistan's accession to the Montreal Protocol, apparently so that the Ministry of Nature Protection will be eligible for additional dono [...] | 2008-02-22 05:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV TSPL KTIA TX |
08ASHGABAT266 | TURKMENISTAN: AGREEMENT REACHED ON PROCEDURES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) MFA and Embassy officials agreed February 21 on a procedure for expeditiously approving landing clearances for civilian emergency medical flights contracted by the Embassy. This new procedure, which entails faxing the reque [...] | 2008-02-22 07:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAIR MARR AMED TX |
08ASHGABAT268 | TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION OF U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is an action request: see para four. 3. (SBU) Embassy's Defense Attache delivered reftel notification to Turkmenistan's First Deputy Defense Minister, Colonel Atabayev, on February 22, 2008. Atabayev said he had s [...] | 2008-02-22 10:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PNAT TSPA TX |
08ASHGABAT269 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE CONSIDERING GREATER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation from OSCE's Conflict Prevention Center headed by Senior Board Advisor Henry Bolton told the Embassy on February 13 that, as a result of the Russian Federation's concern over the volume of opiate impo [...] | 2008-02-22 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SNAR SMIG OSCE TX |
08ASHGABAT27 | TURKMENISTAN: NGO FORUM "EARLY HOLIDAY PRESENT" FOR CIVIL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On December 24, USAID implementing partner International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) organized a roundtable on NGOs' Participation in the National Reforms that attracted over 50 representatives from governme [...] | 2008-01-07 12:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT270 | TURKMENISTAN: NEWSPAPER FEATURES ARTICLE ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On February 23, "Zaman," a Turkmen-language newspaper, featured a half-page, above-the-fold article with color photos, entitled "Kosovo - New Independent State." "Zaman" borrows some of its content from its "Zaman" parent co [...] | 2008-02-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT271 | TURKMENISTAN: NATO CIVIL EMERGENCY PLANNING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Two officials from NATO's Civil Emergency Planning Operations Division, Division Head Carsten Fausboll and Staff Officer Evert Somer, briefed representatives from NATO embassies on February 18 on their meeting with Deputy D [...] | 2008-02-25 08:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MARR NATO TX |
08ASHGABAT278 | TURKMENISTAN: MIDLAND OIL FRUSTRATED [...] (C) Charge met February 27 with Chairman of the Board and President of the U.S.-based Midland Oil and Gas Company Robert Murphy. When they first met on February 1, and again when Murphy provided an update on February 6, he was confident Midland was in pre-qualification status for five major [...] | 2008-02-27 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EPET SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT279 | TURKMENISTAN: COCKROACH OR NOT - OPPOSITION DISCREDITS [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: "Kronika Turkmenistana," an opposition website based in Bulgaria, recently carried an unlikely story that Turkmenistan TV's "Watan" newscast showed a cockroach walking across the news desk, which led to the firi [...] | 2008-02-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PROP PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT280 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV PRIORITIZES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov was in Moscow February 22 for the CIS Informal Summit, where Putin said goodbye, the Turkmen president defined neutrality, and they both watered and nourished the Russian-Turkmen economi [...] | 2008-02-27 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET ETRD RS TX |
08ASHGABAT285 | TURKMENISTAN: CITIZENS FEELING IMPACT OF INCREASED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Almost immediately following the eightfold increase in gasoline costs on February 11, meat and dairy product prices -- already increasing because of livestock losses due to the cold weather -- spiked by 20-50%. For now, the government is trying to stabilize meat prices by enfo [...] | 2008-02-28 14:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT286 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTER OF OIL AND GAS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting with U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein, Minister of Oil and Gas Baymurad Hojamuhamedov enthusiastically welcomed possible USTDA assistance. He expressed parti [...] | 2008-02-29 05:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT29 | TALKING POINTS REGARDING RESOLUTION OF KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PGOV YI TX |
08ASHGABAT290 | TURKMENISTAN: EVIDENCE OF DISCONTENT IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During an EmbOff's trip to Turkmenbashy February 17-19, an ethnic Dagestani Turkmen citizen driver effusively disclosed -- with little prodding -- his thoughts on the gas price hike, Avaza, and Turkmenistan's econ [...] | 2008-03-01 07:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EIND ELAB SCUL SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT291 | TURKMENISTAN: PETRONAS PLANNING FOR EXPANDED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-01 08:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT295 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV LAYS DOWN MARKERS TO [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a February 28 meeting in Ashgabat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann: -- He rejects the concept of Gazprom as monopolist; it's Turkmenistan's key economic partner; -- He is strongly irked at Azerb [...] | 2008-03-03 06:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON EPET UP TU RS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT3 | ICITAP EXPOSES TURKMENISTAN'S LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: For the first time, law-enforcement officers from all five of Turkmenistan's provinces plus Ashgabat gathered for a Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) tra [...] | 2008-01-02 11:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KJUS KCRM TX |
08ASHGABAT300 | TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINIAN INDUSTRIALIST MENDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: With a series of diplomatic and commercial forays in January and February, the Ukrainian government appeared to be aggressively working to resolve contractual issues that have stalled its relations with Turkmen [...] | 2008-03-04 11:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV UP TX |
08ASHGABAT303 | TURKMENISTAN: USTDA EXPLORES OPPORTUNITIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an effort to explore the potential for using U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) programs to promote U.S. equipment manufacturer sales to Turkmenistan, a USTDA delegation met with Turkmen Motor Roads Stat [...] | 2008-03-05 11:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAGR ECON EIND ELTN IR TX |
08ASHGABAT306 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE OIC DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 05:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT307 | TURKMENISTAN'S HYDROCARBONS: FLOUNDERING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During back-to-back meetings on Feburary 29 with U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann, Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman for Oil and Gas Tachberdi Tagiyev, and Executive Director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources By [...] | 2008-03-06 06:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT308 | TURKMENISTAN: 2008 FISCAL TRANSPARENCY REPORT [...] 1) Information on country whose central government receives foreign assistance from the United States: Turkmenistan. The death of former President-for-Life Saparmyrat Niyazov on December 21, 2006, offered a new opportunity to engage the Government of Turkmenistan on a number of issue [...] | 2008-03-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ECON PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT309 | TURKMENISTAN: PROGRESS TOWARD CURRENCY RATE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) It appears that Turkmen government officials have decided to slow down progress toward the planned 2009 unification of the country's dual exchange rate. Resident Deutsche Bank Head told UK Charge that he had been informed [...] | 2008-03-06 10:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT311 | DESIGNATION OF FOUR ABU GHADIYAH NETWORK MEMBERS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 11:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT317 | TURKMENISTAN CONSIDERS NATIONAL ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At a World Bank-sponsored anti-money laundering workshop, international and regional experts focused on the need for innovation, information technology, annual reviews, and international contact networks in discu [...] | 2008-03-07 10:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN EAID SNAR RS TX |
08ASHGABAT325 | TURKMENISTAN: PSI FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: OFFICIAL INVITATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 11:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP KSTC TX |
08ASHGABAT326 | TURKMENISTAN: FIRST PHASE OF USTDA TRAINING A [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Two officials from Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, including the deputy and another high-ranking official, were extremely enthusiastic about the just-completed first phase of USTDA [...] | 2008-03-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EPET EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT327 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT VISITS SOUTH YOLOTEN AND OSMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 4 President Berdimuhamedov visited the South Yoloten and Osman onshore oil and gas fields. According to Turkmenistan media reports, the field has a potential of 3 trillion cubic meters of gas. The timin [...] | 2008-03-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EPET PGOV TX |
08ASHGABAT328 | TURKMENISTAN: LACKING DIPLOMATIC STATUS, EUROPA HOUSE NOT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 9, the European Union is scheduled to officially open a "Europa House" to support its programs and projects in Turkmenistan. Due to European Commission member states' concerns about Turkmenistan's human r [...] | 2008-03-12 03:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EU TX |
08ASHGABAT329 | TURKMENISTAN: LEGAL DATABASE PROJECT STOKES COMPETITION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Internal competition to compile a legal database seems to have broken out among several government entities, spurred probably by a desire to get credit for fulfilling a high government priority and at least in par [...] | 2008-03-12 03:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT330 | TURKMENISTAN: POSITIVE START TO THE U.S.-TURKISH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID Country Representative met on March 11 with Turkish International Development Agency (TIKA) Coordinator in Turkmenistan and the Turkish Embassy in Ashgabat's Deputy Chief of Mission to explore and identify p [...] | 2008-03-12 03:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TU TX |
08ASHGABAT331 | TURKMENISTAN: COOPERATION WITH INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Over the past two weeks, USAID Country Representative has met with the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights to finalize areas of cooperation that were discussed in previous meetings. USAID noted [...] | 2008-03-12 05:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT332 | TURKMENISTAN: POTENTIAL OF THE PETROCHEMICALS INDUSTRY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has decided to enter the petrochemical sector by building a new refinery and oil and gas cracker at a Soviet-era, white-elephant refinery in eastern Turkmenistan that never did reach its full producti [...] | 2008-03-12 06:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT334 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV BONDS WITH KARIMOV [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to official press reports, President Berdimuhamedov's official visit to Uzbekistan was a foreign policy success, during which he established a positive working relationship with President Karimov. The [...] | 2008-03-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD TX UZ |
08ASHGABAT336 | TURKMENISTAN: FALSE STORY ON IRC FURTHER REDUCES OPPO [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian-language opposition website that originated the now infamous cockroach-results-in-mass-firings story (reftel),"Kronika Turkmenistana," has now featured the Embassy's Information Resource Center (IRC [...] | 2008-03-12 12:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PROP KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT34 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS DETAILED [...] (S) SUMMARY: Charge met for an hour January 8 with Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov (other issues reported septel). Meredov dismissed his notetaker and said he wanted to have a totally frank conversation. He intimated relations with Azerbaijan -- including the issue of bilateral Caspian del [...] | 2008-01-08 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET AZ TX |
08ASHGABAT346 | EU AND TURKMENISTAN MAKING PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The European Union (EU) is negotiating an energy cooperation memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Turkmenistan that would, among other things, set the stage for promoting alternative gas transportation routes that would avoid Russia. The latest draft which the European Commis [...] | 2008-03-17 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG EU TX |
08ASHGABAT347 | TURKMENISTAN'S NEW STATE COUNTERNARCOTICS SERVICE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: While wearing his colonel uniform -- and a new patch from the newly-formed State Counternarcotics Service, which he heads -- Murad Islamov said in a meeting with Embassy representatives on March 11 that the United [...] | 2008-03-17 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT35 | TURKMENISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER LISTS POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met for an hour January 8 with Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov to press outstanding issues, to deliver new demarches, and to elicit a preview of Turkmenistan's foreign policy priorities for the new year (another issue reported septel). Meredov reaffirmed President Berdim [...] | 2008-01-08 12:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ETRD KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT351 | EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP (EPG) OF THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 06:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM TX |
08ASHGABAT352 | TURKMENISTAN RESPONDS TO QUERY ON HAGUE CODE OF [...] Turkmenistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 17 under cover of a diplomatic note forwarded a letter from Minister of Defense Agageldi Mammetgeldiyev responding to Ref A request urging the Government of Turkmenistan to submit its Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferati [...] | 2008-03-18 09:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC ETTC TX |
08ASHGABAT354 | TURKMENISTAN: NEIGHBORS APPEAR TO COOPERATE AT [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: At an OSCE conference on maritime security and environmental cooperation, participants attended presentations on ecological, transit, and trafficking/smuggling issues. The EU said that its "Special Strategy for Centra [...] | 2008-03-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS EWWT SENV TX |
08ASHGABAT355 | TURKMENISTAN: POSITIVE TRENDS IN STATE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU). SUMMARY: State Media's coverage of Embassy events and visitors has become almost routine with levels of propaganda or pro-regime "spin" dropping slowly over the last year. Recent coverage is evidence of this continuing trend [...] | 2008-03-18 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT358 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE "YIKES MOMENTS" AT THE [...] (C) On March 19, Hydrocarbon State Agency Director Muradov -- admitted the Government of Turkmenistan will not meet the final deadline to submit names for the next USTDA training in the United States; -- said he wants to find an international law firm or oil and gas consultancy that will [...] | 2008-03-19 10:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT361 | TURKMENISTAN: COUNTERNARCOTICS COORDINATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Executive Secretary of the State Counternarcotics Coordinating Commission Babaniyaz Chariyev told the embassy's INLOff and INL Assistant on the fringes of the World Bank Anti-Money Laundering workshop (reftel) that he would [...] | 2008-03-20 11:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT363 | TURKMENISTAN: TAKING STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our new relationship with Turkmenistan is now over a year old, and it's time to take stock. After several score U.S. delegations, including a number of very high-level visits, we have a better view of the contour of the relationship and the personalities of the leaders. In gen [...] | 2008-03-24 05:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS TX |
08ASHGABAT367 | TURKMENISTAN: ITALIAN ENVOY ADMITS ENI IN HOT [...] (U) Senistive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Italian MFA Coordinator and Special Envoy for Central Asia Paolo Serpi met March 20 with the Charge to discuss Serpi's most recent visit. He said he had come to Ashgabat to sign an agreement on cooperation between the two [...] | 2008-03-24 12:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT371 | NON-PAPER ON IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL-USE ITEM PROVISION OF UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 08:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM MNUC PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT373 | TURKMENISTAN: AMCIT EVANGELICAL GROUP BRINGS [...] (C) The AmCit Evangelical group, Friends of the Turkmen, has returned to Ashgabat for its semi-annual visit. This time the group included one of the officials from the International Foundation, the DC-area organization that does the administrative work for the 2009 National Prayer Breakfast [...] | 2008-03-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KIRF TX |
08ASHGABAT375 | TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER VIEW INTO THE KALEIDOSCOPE [...] (S) SUMMARY: According to a nearly two-decade Western observer and insider, -- Foreign Minister Meredov's role has become more complicated because he has made some powerful enemies in the past year, and because Berdimuhamedov allegedly relies on him now less for advice because he feels mor [...] | 2008-03-25 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR RS EU TX |
08ASHGABAT38 | TURKMENISTAN: UPDATE ON OIL AND GASS DEVELOPMENTS SINCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. CASPIAN LITTORAL PIPELINE: FINANCIAL DETAILS STILL UNCLEAR 2. (SBU) On December 20, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia signed an agreement to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian coast line. However, none of the three [...] | 2008-01-08 17:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT382 | TURKMENISTAN: NO VIRUSES (OR COCKROACHES) - POST CORRECTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Public Affairs Section has begun a productive dialog with the Turkmen opposition website that carried inaccurate information (Ref A) about post's Information Resource Center (IRC). This website also originated [...] | 2008-03-27 09:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT383 | TURKMENISTAN: WESTERN CULTURE RETURNS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: To enforce his vision of "positive neutrality" in Turkmenistan and the uniqueness of Turkmen culture, former President Niyazov severely limited public expression of international culture, including the Russian (Sov [...] | 2008-03-27 09:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT384 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MANPADS THREAT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-27 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM TX |
08ASHGABAT388 | TURKMENISTAN/TURKEY: ENERGY WAS THE KEY ISSUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil told the Charge on March 28, -- the key issue discussed during President Berdimuhamedov's March 24-25 visit to Turkey was energy, both with President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan; -- Berdimuhamedov is prepared to sell to Turkey up to 20 bcm/y [...] | 2008-03-28 10:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TU TX |
08ASHGABAT389 | TURKMENISTAN: CARICC OFFICIALS URGE DEA PRESENCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: March 26 meetings with Turkmenistani counter-narcotics officials went very well, the Acting Director of the newly established (counter-narcotics) Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center (CARICC) [...] | 2008-03-28 11:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR UNAUS RS KZ TX |
08ASHGABAT39 | TURKMENISTAN: USAID MISSION DIRECTOR VISITS DASHOGUZ [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: During his December 17 meeting with USAID Regional Mission Director Bill Frej, a warm and cordial Dashoguz First Deputy Governor Atajykov thanked Frej for USAID's support for private enterprise in Dashoguz province a [...] | 2008-01-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT396 | TURKMENISTAN: GOOD TONE IN MEETING WITH EDUCATION [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge's March 25 meeting with Minster of Education Muhammetgeldi Annaamanov, although cordial and cooperative in tone, did not result in any breakthroughs for education cooperation. Although there was ampl [...] | 2008-03-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT398 | SENIOR ROUNDTABLE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 08:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWIM KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT40 | TURKMENISTAN: USAID MISSION DIRECTOR VISITS MARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On December 15, USAID/CAR Regional Mission Director Bill Frej met with recently appointed Mary Provincial Governor Kakageldi Gurbanov and visited a local farmers' organization that has partnered with several USAID pr [...] | 2008-01-09 11:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT401 | TURKMENISTAN: MFA PROTESTS IRANIAN ACCUSATION OF [...] (U) According to press reports, the Iranian press attache in Dushanbe announced on March 26 the arrival of 28 tanker trucks of fuel oil and diesel fuel as part of a larger tranche of humanitarian aid Iran was delivering to Tajikistan, which had been sent during the winter to help the Tajiks [...] | 2008-03-31 10:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IR TI TX |
08ASHGABAT403 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV, BRIEFLY, TERSELY [...] SBU) Charge met with Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov for a half hour on March 31. Several issues are reported separately. THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP 2. (C) Noting this was the first opportunity they had to speak since Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann vi [...] | 2008-03-31 10:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT405 | TURKMENISTAN: EXXONMOBIL MOVING SLOWLY [...] (C) On March 28, ExxonMobil Caspian Area Manager Robert Young told the Charge that ExxonMobil is "struggling" to see whether there are any big, tough, challenging hydrocarbon production projects -- the type of project ExxonMobil does best -- in Turkmenistan. Things are going slowly, because [...] | 2008-04-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT406 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV, LESS BRIEF, LESS [...] (C) In an April 1 follow-up to their March 31 meeting (ref),Charge found a significantly relaxed Foreign Minister Meredov. Though he had promised only 10 minutes, the meeting extended to 45 minutes. 2. (SBU) Meredov confirmed Turkmenistan would participate in the Summer 2008 TIFA meetin [...] | 2008-04-01 10:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KPAO KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT407 | TURKMENISTAN: MSG DETACHMENT: REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See para six below. 2. (S) On March 20, Embassy Ashgabat received a diplomatic note of the same date concerning defensive weapons possessed by the Marine Security Guard detachment. The diplomatic note makes the following key points (see para eight below f [...] | 2008-04-01 10:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC TX |
08ASHGABAT409 | TURKEMNISTAN: ILKINJILER FARMERS ASSOCIATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ilkinjiler Farmer's Association is an organization for farmers engaged in private farming. Ilkinjiler managers -- all three alumni of the Cochran Farmer-to-Farmer Program -- told EmbOff March 27 that they are seeing some improvement in their relationship with the governmen [...] | 2008-04-02 05:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAGR TX |
08ASHGABAT411 | TURKMENISTAN: MARY CITY TEACHERS CONTINUE TO [...] (C) During a visit to the American Corner in the provincial city of Mary on March 26, American Corner Director Albina Burashnikova told EmbOff that she thinks that the governor's office is behind school directors warning teachers that visiting the American Corner could put their jobs in jeopa [...] | 2008-04-02 09:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT412 | TURKMENISTAN'S GAS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION FAILS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting on President Berdimuhamedov's instruction to have more exhibitions, Turkmenistani state petroleum agencies decided to hold three separate events in 2008 -- on gas, on oil, and one comprehensive exhibition an [...] | 2008-04-02 09:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT414 | INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON AFGANISTAN: PARIS, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT415 | TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON GETTING A HEARING [...] (C) Chevron's Turkmenistan Country Manager, Doug Uchikura, told EmbOff April 2 that, following his March 11 submission of a detailed bid to drillQlow the salt in the Amu Darya basin (reftel),he had a "very positive" one-on-one meeting with the Executive Director of the State Agency for Manag [...] | 2008-04-03 08:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT417 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: EU TROIKA, LONDON CONFERENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: As evidenced by the cancelled energy session during the upcoming EU Troika Central Asian Ministerial in Ashgabat (ref A),Turkmenistan is increasingly skittish, even secretive, about discussing Caspian energy issues where it cannot strictly control the agenda and content of the [...] | 2008-04-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET EU RS IR AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT422 | TURKMENISTAN: TNK-BP'S NEGOTIATIONS MOVING SLOWLY [...] (C) During an April 2 meeting with Charge, TNK-BP Vice President for International Affairs Shawn McCormick (former U.S. National Security Council staffer) and Country Manager Oleg Lonovenko reported their company set up its office in Ashgabat in September 2007, separate from the office that BP [...] | 2008-04-03 12:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT423 | IRAN: IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL BAN AND TRAVEL VIGILANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 13:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP MNUC UNSC IR TX |
08ASHGABAT426 | TURKMENISTAN: NOT INTENDING TO SEND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PARM MCAP TX |
08ASHGABAT435 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV MAKES THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov's trip to Bucharest April 2-3 for the NATO summit appears to have been a success, both in terms of promoting Turkmenistan's image as an engaged player on the world stage, and in confirmi [...] | 2008-04-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MARR NATO TX |
08ASHGABAT436 | TURKMENISTAN: GTZ REENERGIZES COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly six years, during which its active operations in Turkmenistan were suspended, the German Technical Cooperation agency (GTZ) has returned and will provide assistance on amending current legislation as well as on new draft laws. The first laws to be tackled include th [...] | 2008-04-08 09:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM GE TX |
08ASHGABAT438 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT BUSH-BERDIMUHAMEDOV [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media prominently highlighted the April 3 meeting between President Bush and Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the NATO Summit in Bucharest to demonstrate Turkmenistan's growing internation [...] | 2008-04-08 12:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT439 | TURKMENISTAN: INDIA SEEKING TO REINVIGORATE ITS [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: India and Turkmenistan took yet another step toward reenergizing their bilateral relationship with the April 4-6 visit of India's Vice President Hamid Ansari to Turkmenistan. During the visit, Turkmenistan's P [...] | 2008-04-09 06:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET IN TX |
08ASHGABAT44 | TURKMENISTAN: PETRONAS SEEKS OPTIONS TO EXPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the Malaysia-based hydrocarbon company Petronas continues to move forward with plans to begin producing natural gas in Turkmenistan's Livonov block, it still has not reached any final conclusions about how to transport that gas to market, according to the company's country [...] | 2008-01-10 05:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AZ TX |
08ASHGABAT440 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA COVER U.S. EXCHANGE PROGRAMS, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Recent state media coverage of Embassy-sponsored events or programs continues to improve with relatively better coverage of U.S. Government programs and activities in Turkmenistan with slightly better success than b [...] | 2008-04-09 09:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT452 | TURKMENISTAN: MEETING DIRECTLY WITH MINISTER OF EDUCATION [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a follow-up to Charge's recent meeting with the Minister of Education (Ref. A),PAO gave a tailored presentation on U.S. Government-funded programs that send Turkmen students to two American-style universitie [...] | 2008-04-11 06:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT453 | TURKMENISTAN: FOR CHEVRON, IT'S NOW A MATTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Chevron's country manager, Chevron's April 5 presentation to officials from Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon sector (reftel) went smoothly, but Turkmenistan is still unwilling to come to the table to negotiate the company's bid to work onshore sub-salt gas fields. While [...] | 2008-04-11 06:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT454 | TURKMENISTAN: IRANIAN AMBASSADOR ALLEGES U.S. [...] (C) During an April 10 reception hosted by the Baku-based Ambassador of Switzerland, Alain Guidetti, who had just presented his credentials to the Government of Turkmenistan, Charge found himself in a group conversation with the Ambassadors of Georgia, the United Kingdom, Tajikistan, and Iran [...] | 2008-04-11 07:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET IR RS TX |
08ASHGABAT455 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR U/S REUBEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue on energy and economic reform issues. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly [...] | 2008-04-11 12:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT456 | TURKMENISTAN: UNDP PULLS PLUG ON TURKMEN TRIP TO [...] (C) UNDP Deputy Resident Representative Inita Paulovica told EmbOff April 10 that UNDP had canceled a planned trip to Geneva for two Turkmen officials to observe the first Universal Periodic Review (reftel). The two had intended to use the trip to help Turkmenistan prepare its own document [...] | 2008-04-11 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID UN TX |
08ASHGABAT457 | TURKMENISTAN: THE FIELD OF POTENTIAL FOREIGN OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With two exceptions, Turkmenistan's record of dealing with foreign petroleum companies remains sharply bifurcated between the second-tier companies present in Turkmenistan since former President Niyazov's time and the others that are standing in line to complete new agreements n [...] | 2008-04-11 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV EINV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT458 | TURKMENISTAN: OMV REP ASSERTS NABUCCO IS THE EC [...] (SBU) Charge met April 11 with Baku-based Austrian Energy firm OMV Caspian Region Country Manager Wolfgang Sporrer who also introduced himself as the Nabucco representative for Turkmenistan. He was in Ashgabat for the April 9-10 EU Troika Central Asian Ministerial, and for the next-day Turkm [...] | 2008-04-14 04:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EU AU RS IR TX |
08ASHGABAT468 | TURKMENISTAN: AMCIT GROUP FREELANCES ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Members of the AmCit group, Friends of the Turkmen, were recently in Turkmenistan to meet with Turkmen officials and offer assistance (Ref. A). The group met with officials at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health, E [...] | 2008-04-14 12:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT469 | TURKMEN-AFGHAN ENERGY DIALOGUE - PROTOCOL A BREAKTHOUGH ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Following intensive meetings on April 8-9, officials from Turkmenistan's Ministry of Energy and Industry (MOEI) and Afghanistan's Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) signed a landmark agreement to supply additional 3 [...] | 2008-04-15 10:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ENRG AF TX |
08ASHGABAT47 | PREPARING FOR THE 2008 CENTRAL ASIA TIFA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 10:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BTIO PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT472 | EC TROIKA IN TURKMENISTAN: THE HEADLINE WAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 9-10 EU Troika-Central Asia Ministerial added to Turkmenistan's international and regional credentials. The media headline from the event was Turkmenistan guarantees at least 10 bcm/y natural gas for Europe/Nabucco, although it took a while for media commentators to r [...] | 2008-04-15 11:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID EPET KG KZ TI TX UZ EU |
08ASHGABAT473 | BAHRAIN ENDORSES GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 12:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER DTRA KGIC KNNP BA TX |
08ASHGABAT474 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT TRIES TO KICK-START [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 14 held a marathon cabinet meeting at which he announced a number of new initiatives in the economic/financial, media, and construction sectors directed toward accelerating reform. Most significantly, he ordered a one-year process [...] | 2008-04-15 12:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN SCUL TX |
08ASHGABAT477 | DATE AND MEETING DETAILS FOR A GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT478 | TURKMENISTAN: MFA RESPONDS AFFIRMATIVELY TO PSI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-16 08:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KNNP KSTC PARM TX |
08ASHGABAT481 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE NATIONAL MINORITIES EXPERT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An OSCE expert on national minorities was in Ashgabat April 16 to try to initiate a dialogue with Turkmen officials on minority education. The government appears to have given the OSCE the cold shoulder on this [...] | 2008-04-17 05:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL OSCE TX |
08ASHGABAT482 | TURKMENISTAN/EU TROIKA-CENTRAL ASIA: BEHIND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Briefing on the April 9-10 EU Troika-Central Asia Ministerial in Ashgabat, French Ambassador Christian Lechervy (strictly protect throughout) -- lamented the region's lack of cohesion and common interests, as well as Kazakhstan's "arrogance"; -- criticized EU Commissioner fo [...] | 2008-04-17 08:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PHUM PINR EPET RS FR IR ZK TX |
08ASHGABAT483 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S. COMPANY TO ERECT WORLD'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan is home to the world's biggest carpet -- a fact certified by the Guinness Book of World Records and not particularly surprising given the world renown of Turkmen carpets. Soon, [...] | 2008-04-17 09:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SCUL TU AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT488 | TECHNOCRATS AND GENERALISTS IN TURKMENISTAN'S PETROLEUM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As Turkmenistan reforms its oil and gas industry, two principally different development strategies exist among the country's hydrocarbon leadership. One school of thought -- the technocrats -- places primary empha [...] | 2008-04-17 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EPET SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT49 | TURKMENISTAN: HYDROCARBON AGENCY'S MURADOV [...] (U) See action request in para 11. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a January 10 meeting, the Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, Byrammurat Muradov, told the Charge that press reports that each of the three countries involved in const [...] | 2008-01-10 12:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET RS KZ TX |
08ASHGABAT497 | TURKMENISTAN: NEXT STEPS IN U.S.-TURKISH DIALOGUE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following working-level meetings with counterparts at the Turkish International Development Agency (TIKA),USAID requested meetings on April 16-17 with two Deputy Ministers of Health and Medical Industry to identif [...] | 2008-04-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT498 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY HOLDS CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On April 3-4, USAID partner International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) co-organized a seminar on international legislation governing public organizations with Turkmenistan's Institute for Democracy and Human [...] | 2008-04-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT499 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY SEES ICNL AND USAID [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following an April 4 conference on NGO legislation jointly hosted by the International Center for Not-for-profit-Law (ICNL) and Turkmenistan's Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR),the Institute's direc [...] | 2008-04-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM KIRF TX |
08ASHGABAT503 | DISCOURAGING RUSSIA FROM UPGRADING RELATIONS WITH ABKHAZIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 12:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GG RS TX |
08ASHGABAT506 | URGING TURKMENISTAN TO SUPPORT U.S. PROPOSAL FOR A REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GG RS TX |
08ASHGABAT508 | TURKMENISTAN'S SUPREME AUDIT CHAMBER: CHARGED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's GAO-like Supreme Auditing Chamber was created in August 2007 to oversee use of the country's resources. A meeting on April 14 revealed that Chamber employees are interested in how their counterparts [...] | 2008-04-23 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT509 | IRANIAN DIPLOMAT PUBLICLY HARANGUES TURKMENISTAN FOR POOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 22 Trade Facilitation workshop held in Ashgabat for Central Asian agencies involved in border control and trade, an Iranian diplomat made a 5-minute harangue criticizing the Government of Turkmenis [...] | 2008-04-24 03:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD SNAR IR TX |
08ASHGABAT511 | TURKMENISTAN: U/S JEFFERY'S APRIL 21 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Reuben Jeffery visited Ashgabat on April 21. The overall tone of the visit was decidedly positive, even though several of the meetings were head-bangingly Soviet. Alt [...] | 2008-04-24 05:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT513 | TURKMENISTAN: TURKISH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Selakhattin Yetim (please strictly protect throughout),Deputy General Director of the third-largest Turkish construction company in Turkmenistan, Sehil Inshaat, said that President Berdimuhamedov was justified in his comments criticizing the work of some Turkish construction co [...] | 2008-04-24 13:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT519 | NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) PREPARATORY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 08:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NPT TX |
08ASHGABAT520 | TURKMENISTAN: UPDATED SCHEDULE OF FLIGHT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 10:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PARM PREL KNNP KN SY |
08ASHGABAT523 | TURKMENISTAN: CURRENCY DEVALUATION -- A WORK IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 19 and April 24, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan significantly changed the manat-dollar exchange rate twice, reducing the value of the dollar by 33 percent. On April 14 the president made a vague statement that made many think that the exchange rates would be unified [...] | 2008-04-25 13:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT524 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA UNSURE HOW TO MEET THE [...] (C) President Berdimuhamedov gave state media a May deadline to make significant improvements in the quality of its broadcasting. Despite the president's calls for creativity and higher quality news and programming, it appears state media is not able at this stage to meet these demands. In [...] | 2008-04-28 04:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT526 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA COVERAGE OF UNDER SECRETARY REUBEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: International and domestic state media accurately covered Under Secretary of State Reuben Jeffery's April 21-22 visit to Turkmenistan. The accurate state media coverage reflects the Turkmen government's continued c [...] | 2008-04-28 06:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT527 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT TO VISIT BAKU, SEEK [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov has asked the United States to play a watchful and helpful role as he negotiates with Azerbaijan's President Aliyev to establish a bilateral Caspian Sea commercial venture that would allow Turkmenistan's natural gas to flow Westward to Europe, bypassing [...] | 2008-04-28 08:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT529 | AFTER THREATS TO CANCEL, TURKMENISTAN HOSTS REGIONAL TRADE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) neglected to follow up appropriately during the process of organizing the EU-UNDP Border Management and Drug Actions Programs in Central Asia (BOMCA/CADAP) workshop [...] | 2008-04-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD SNAR IR TX |
08ASHGABAT530 | TURKMENISTAN: ENGINEER AT CATERPILLAR [...] (S) A Russian citizen engineer, who worked for Zeppelin, the company that represents Caterpillar in Turkmenistan, was convicted of child pornography and deported on April 23, according to German Ambassador Hans Mondorf and EU-TACIS Advisor Michael Wilson. When the engineer was first arrested [...] | 2008-04-28 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL ECON ETRD SOCI KCRM TX |
08ASHGABAT531 | TURKMENISTAN: PARLIAMENT REQUESTS INPUT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from USAID's local governance implementing partners met with the Parliament and the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights on April 23-24 to discuss potential areas for cooperation. In a signific [...] | 2008-04-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT533 | USAID ECONOMIC GROWTH PROGRAMS WARMLY RECEIVED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: April 16-22, a delegation led by USAID/CAR Economic Growth Office Director met with major Turkmen counterparts to discuss the status of USAID's Economic Growth programs in Turkmenistan. The Ministry of Energy and [...] | 2008-04-29 03:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON ENRG TX |
08ASHGABAT534 | TURKMENISTAN SIGNALS DESIRE TO MATCH OTHER CENTRAL ASIAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In response to a presentation by USAID on April 22, the Deputy Chairwoman of the Supreme Council on Science and Technology (SCST) voiced support for offical approval for the USAID-developed accounting training and pr [...] | 2008-04-29 05:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT536 | TURKMENISTAN'S ETREK DISTRICT: WAITING FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Burdened by an isolated location, poor roads and years of neglect from the center, Turkmenistan's Etrek District, located in western Turkmenistan on the border with Iran, has experienced little economic developmen [...] | 2008-04-29 09:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR SNAR PBTS PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT537 | TURKMENISTAN: BP INTERESTED IN OPENING AN OFFICE, [...] (C) BP President for Business Development in Russia and Central Asia John-Paul Stalder told the Charge April 28 that BP is moving forward with plans to open an office in Ashgabat. The registration process will take 3-6 months, and BP foresees that the toughest problem will be finding appropr [...] | 2008-04-29 11:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT538 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV VISIT TO KABUL A [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's president arrived April 28 for a one-day visit in Kabul. Although the two presidents see opportunities in an expanded relationship, the projects they are most interested in will require further c [...] | 2008-04-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL ECON ENRG EPET AF TX |
08ASHGABAT551 | AT LONG LAST, A UNIFIED EXCHANGE RATE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 1, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan announced a unified exchange rate of 14,250 manat per $1. The final impact of the four-month process for unifying the dual exchange rate is yet unclear. Immediately evident is the fact that the arbitrary devaluation of the dollar ha [...] | 2008-05-01 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EIND ETRD EPET SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT552 | PAYMENT OF AIR NAVIGATION AND OTHER FEES BY U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. See para. 6. (C) SUMMARY: The Turkmenistan government informed us that it will stop charging air navigation fees to USG aircraft, as long as the Turkmenistan National Civil Aviation Service (Turkmenhowayollary - THY) continues to receive the same amount of i [...] | 2008-05-01 14:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR MARR MCAP MOPS US TX |
08ASHGABAT554 | U.S. DEMARCHE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 07:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA TX |
08ASHGABAT564 | INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS' CONFERENCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 29, USAID organized a conference on the Introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Turkmenistan as part of its cooperative agreement with the United Nations Development Program ( [...] | 2008-05-05 11:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT565 | TURKMENISTAN: RESPONSE ON OUTREACH TO ACTIVISTS AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan is a tightly-controlled dictatorship where citizens are not permitted to engage in direct human rights advocacy work. There are no international human rights organizations present, including from United Natio [...] | 2008-05-05 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF TX |
08ASHGABAT568 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: NATURAL GAS "AGREEMENT" LEAVES [...] (C) Although Iran and Turkmenistan agreed April 25 to resume delivery of Turkmenistan's natural gas to Iran, they are still negotiating both the price and volume of natural gas deliveries, the Iranian ambassador told Poland's Ambassador Marciej Lang during a May 5 diplomatic event. The two s [...] | 2008-05-05 12:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT572 | TURKMENISTAN: CADDO EXPLORATION LOOKS TO LONG TERM [...] (C) Houston-based Caddo Exploration is looking at becoming involved in Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon production, according to the company's president, Neel Duncan. Although Caddo is "willing to drill almost anywhere" in the short-term, the company really wants to become involved in on-shore pro [...] | 2008-05-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT574 | TURKMENISTAN DEVALUES THE EURO [...] (C) Europa House Coordinator Emilio Valli told EmbOffs May 4 that Turkmenistan has recently devalued the euro 30% in relation to the Turkmenistan manat. He explained this was done in order to prevent people from further profiting on a difference between the European and Turkmenistan euro/dolla [...] | 2008-05-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT58 | TURKMENISTAN: SENATOR LUGAR RAISES RFE/RL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On January 11, just before the arrival of SFRC Minority Chairman Senator Richard Lugar, Post received e-mail documentation of harassment by Turkmen authorities of three Turkmenistan citizens who report for RFE/RL. Post pre [...] | 2008-01-14 10:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT588 | TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON WANTS TO RACHET UP LEVEL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recognizing that the competition for on-shore contracts for drilling in the Amu Darya basin in eastern Turkmenistan is increasing, Chevron is focusing on bringing Turkmen officials to the negotiation table soonest. After Deputy Premier for Oil and Gas Tagiyev and Executive Direc [...] | 2008-05-07 10:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG EPET TX CH |
08ASHGABAT589 | TURKMENISTAN: LARGEST TURKISH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY [...] (C) During a routine meeting on May 5 with the Planning Manager of the Turkish construction company, Polimeks (reftel),EconOff coincidentally met the Business Development Manager of the newly created Polimeks Energy Corporation, Deniz Tura. Tura said that Polimeks Energy is interested in fo [...] | 2008-05-07 10:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL TU TX |
08ASHGABAT590 | CHEVRON READY TO INVEST IN SOCIAL PROJECTS (INCLUDING AT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On May 1, Chevron Nebitgaz (Turkmenistan) President told USAID Representative that Chevron is willing to invest in social development projects prior to signing a contract in Turkmenistan in order to demonstrate its l [...] | 2008-05-07 11:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON ENRG EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT600 | TURKMENISTAN: NORWAY'S STATOILHYDRO OFFERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Like many other foreign oil companies, Norway's Statoilhydro is looking for a formula that will allow it to get a contract to drill for natural gas in Turkmenistan's on-shore fields, the company's Vice President for Caspian Operations, Kristian Hausken, told EmbOff May 8. Hauske [...] | 2008-05-08 15:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET NO TX |
08ASHGABAT606 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT EXHIBITION SHOWCASES CHANGING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's first ever International Exhibition and Conference of Education, Science, Sports and Tourism in the Epoch of Great Revival took place in Ashgabat May 1-3. The exhibition provided additional hope that [...] | 2008-05-13 03:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT61 | STATE AGENCY'S MURADOV TELLS SENATOR LUGAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, Bayrammurat Muradov, told Senator Richard Lugar on January 11 Turkmenistan needs energy revenue to fund its development, and increasing foreign direct investment in Turkmenistan's [...] | 2008-01-14 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT615 | TURKMENISTAN: IMF ACCEPTS "NEW DAWN" IN RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On May 8, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Division Chief (Middle East and Central Asia) Peter Winglee briefed representatives of international organizations on the delegation's recently concluded mission. [...] | 2008-05-14 09:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT62 | TURKMENISTAN: SFRC MINORITY CHAIRMAN SENATOR [...] (C) PARTICIPANTS: UNITED STATES: Senator Richard Lugar Kenneth A. Meyers III, Republican Senior Professional Staff Charge d'affaires (note-taker) TURKMENISTAN: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Foreign Affairs [...] | 2008-01-14 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR EPET EU AZ GG RS TX |
08ASHGABAT626 | TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON UPDATE [...] (C) During a May 14 briefing to update the Charge on the current state of play of Chevron's bid to produce deep sub-salt natural gas in Turkmenistan's Amu Darya basin, Chevron Country Manager Doug Uchikura repeated most of the information contained Ref A. However, he added that Chevron is dr [...] | 2008-05-15 10:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT63 | TURKMENISTAN: SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGE IN NEWS MEDIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January 10 meeting with a Public Affairs Section (PAS) assistant, a Ministry of Culture official expressed a desire for greater reform of state news media and increased support for more exchanges with the Un [...] | 2008-01-14 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SCUL KDEM KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT647 | TURKMENISTAN: DONORS COMPARE NOTES ON HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from several Western embassies and international organizations met May 16 at the British embassy to compare notes on current and planned projects that focus on human rights and the rule of law. [...] | 2008-05-20 07:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT648 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 11:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER KGIC PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT65 | TURKMENISTAN: SENATOR RICHARD LUGAR AND FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: SUMMARY: During a positive and businesslike meeting on January 12, Foreign Minister Meredov told Senator Lugar Turkmenistan -- has designed its new foreign policy to further expand and deepen relations in the world, focuses on improving regional relations (especially with Uzb [...] | 2008-01-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAID EPET AF AZ UZ TX |
08ASHGABAT653 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the areas of education and the human dimension. President Bush met briefly with Preside [...] | 2008-05-21 09:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SCUL SOCI SNAR KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT656 | SUCCESS OF TURKMEN PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov was in Baku May 19 and 20 for the first visit by a Turkmen president to Azerbaijan in 12 years, and appears to have closed the door on seven years of sour diplomatic relations between th [...] | 2008-05-22 12:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET ETRD RS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT66 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS VISIT OF SENATOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On January 11, the Russian-language, government-operated website "Turkmenistan Golden Age" reported on Senator Lugar's arrival in Turkmenistan, giving accurate details on his planned schedule. Similar reports on the same day [...] | 2008-01-15 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR EPET KPAO OIIP TX |
08ASHGABAT666 | TURKMEN-AZERI JOINT CASPIAN EXPLOITATION: A WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a readout of President Berdimuhamedov's May 19-20 visit to Baku, Hydrocarbon State Agency Director Muradov said: -- the will exists in both Ashgabat and Baku for trans-Caspian transportation of Turkmenistan's natural gas through Azerbaijan to Europe, and for a bi-nation [...] | 2008-05-27 09:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT667 | TURKMENISTAN-EU ENERGY MOU MIGHT OPEN NEW DOORS [...] (C) During his early-November 2007 visit to Brussels, President Berdimuhamedov agreed that Turkmenistan and the European Union would draw up and sign an energy memorandum of understanding (MOU). The original intention was that Deputy Prime Minister for Oil and Gas Tachberdi Tagiyev would retu [...] | 2008-05-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EU TX |
08ASHGABAT668 | TURKMENISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) As instructed reftel, Charge delivered on May 27 to Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov the English original and Russian translation of the non-paper, "Steps for Further Democratic Reform and Human Rights Protection," noting SCA Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher coul [...] | 2008-05-27 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT669 | TURKMENISTAN: DELL INC. TAKES ANOTHER LOOK; SEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dell Inc. Regional Manager for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (except Russia and Ukraine) from Dell Inc. visited Ashgabat to investigate reshaping their business in Turkmenistan. Dell has been active in Turkmenistan since 2006, mostly selling workstations to t [...] | 2008-05-27 12:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD TINT KZ RS UP TX |
08ASHGABAT670 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY SPECIAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue on energy. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 3 [...] | 2008-05-27 12:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT671 | TURKMENISTAN CONTINUES TO SHUCK VESTIGES OF NIYAZOV'S [...] (U) In response to April 23 instructions from President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament) on May 24 adopted a resolution that returns the names of the months of the year to their Russian (international) names and the names of the days of the week to their traditiona [...] | 2008-05-27 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT677 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV DAZED AND CONFUSED [...] (S) During the second half of their nearly two-hour meeting on May 28, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov asked all the participants in his meeting to step out so that he could brief SCA Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher on his May 9-10 visit to Baku and his talks with President Ilham Aliy [...] | 2008-05-29 07:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT680 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV PLIES AND A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher: -- Turkmenistan is committed to funding and building two new power stations to provide electricity to Afghanistan, and strongly supports the Trans-Afghani [...] | 2008-05-29 10:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET KEDM AF TX |
08ASHGABAT681 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER TO BOUCHER: [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a May 28 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Turkmenistan's Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov welcomed broader cooperation in the education sector, especially in exchange programs. He did not rule out [...] | 2008-05-29 11:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EPET SCUL AF TX |
08ASHGABAT683 | TURKMENISTAN ANNOUNCES AMENDMENTS TO BUSINESS [...] (U) Official Russian-language government newspaper, "Neytralniy Turkmenistan," published on May 12 amendments to the "Law on Licensing Businesses," originally published on June 14, 1999. Several days later, an article entitled "Your license" explained that substantive changes were made to Ar [...] | 2008-05-29 11:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT684 | TURKMENISTAN: TAKING ITS TIME TO OPEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the Government of Turkmenistan up to now has pursued a policy of banning foreign companies from its gas fields onshore (foreign companies are working the Caspian oilfields),Turkmenistan may be reconsidering this policy. At the heart of this new thinking is a need to [...] | 2008-05-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT685 | TURKMENISTAN: UNODC HOSTS QUARTERLY LAW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The local UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized a Law Enforcement Donors Coordination meeting on May 22, where representatives from several Western embassies and international organizations met to discuss [...] | 2008-05-29 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT690 | JUNE 16-18 TIFA MEETINGS - DRAFT AGENDA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 04:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN ETRD TI TX |
08ASHGABAT696 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC TX |
08ASHGABAT697 | TURKMENISTAN'S PETROLEUM LAW UNDER REVISION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon agencies are working on changes to the country's Petroleum Law. One set of changes would seek to address major complaints by subcontractors in the hydrocarbon sector, exempting them from paying value-added and many other taxes, and making it easier fo [...] | 2008-05-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT699 | TURKMENISTAN BANK COUNCIL APPROVES NEXT STEPS TOWARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 24, Turkmenistan's Council of Bank Directors met to discuss the banking sector's transition to International Financial Reporting Standards. Representatives of leading banks in Turkmenistan, including those [...] | 2008-06-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT7 | TURKMENISTAN PLAYING HARDBALL WITH IRAN OVER GAS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Now that Turkmenistan has reached agreement with the China National Petroleum Company and Gazprom on new prices for its natural gas, Turkmenistan has turned its focus to Iran, to which it sells approximately 8 billion cubic m [...] | 2008-01-03 11:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT707 | TURKMENISTAN: SENATOR LUGAR'S LETTER TO PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 11:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT710 | TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL APPROVES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 26, Turkmenistan's Supreme Council on Science and Technology formally approved a proposal from the International Research and Exchanges Board to develop the use of technology for education, science, and rese [...] | 2008-06-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT711 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: ENCOURAGING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 12:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT712 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF NAVCENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the area of security cooperation. Your second visit to Turkmenistan follows Assist [...] | 2008-06-04 04:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET MARR SCUL SNAR SOCI KDEM |
08ASHGABAT718 | TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL AND STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Boucher's May 27-30 visit to Turkmenistan received wide media coverage. International media gave positive coverage to Boucher's statements on both economic and human rights issues. State media focused on his remarks of economic progress and U.S. assistance to [...] | 2008-06-05 12:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT722 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER OPEN-MINDED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly two-hour meeting on June 4 with U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov: -- praised U.S.-Turkmenistan energy cooperation; -- expressed cautious interest in an idea that could by-pass the cur [...] | 2008-06-06 08:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT728 | TURKMENISTAN: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES [...] (U) a. Claimant A b. 2004: c. Claimant A concluded a contract on purchasing 3,000 tons of K-354 type carbon black at a price of $320.00 per ton with the State Concern "Turkmen Fertilizers and Chemistry" in November 2004. During 2005, the selling organization failed to deliver t [...] | 2008-06-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BTIO ENRG EINV CASC OPIC TX |
08ASHGABAT732 | TURKMENISTAN: EBRD DIRECTOR DETAILS MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 4 lunch with visiting European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Central Asia Director, Masaru Honma, and new EBRD Resident Representative, Neil McKain, told USAID that as a result of a recent bre [...] | 2008-06-09 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AMGT ECON EFIN EAID TX |
08ASHGABAT734 | TURKMENISTAN: SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY HEARS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Both Deputy Prime Minister for Oil and Gas Tagiyev and Hydrocarbon State Agency Director Muradov told U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray on June 5 Turkmenistan welcomes investment by U.S. companies and promotes multiple export routes, including Westward across [...] | 2008-06-09 07:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT740 | TURKMENISTAN: EXXONMOBIL INCHING FORWARD [...] (C) ExxonMobil's Caspian Manager Rob YOung (please protect) told the Charge June 6 that his company is still hoping to get a contract to work in Turkmenistan's onshore gas fields, but has not yet submitted a bid. ExxonMobil wants to get a better sense of what the Government of Turkmenistan w [...] | 2008-06-10 10:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT741 | TURKMENISTAN: MARATHON CLOSE TO SIGNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Marathon International Petroleum Limited is very close to signing a confidentiality agreement that would allow it to carry out a definitional study for a project that would, if allowed to go forward, involve construction of an onshore gas extraction rig, a gas processing facility [...] | 2008-06-10 10:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT742 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET OPERATIVES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 02:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC |
08ASHGABAT743 | TURKMENISTAN: MIROSLAV JENCA ARRIVES TO HEAD UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador Miroslav Jenca arrived June 9 in Ashgabat to head the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia. He describes his role as "diplomat" rather than "project officer." In their initial meeting, Foreign Min [...] | 2008-06-11 08:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN TX |
08ASHGABAT744 | TURKMENISTAN'S OIL EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE: A LESS THAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. SUMMARY. (SBU) On June 6-7, the Government of Turkmenistan held the Exploration of Oil Fields, Oil Production, Refining, and Petrochemicals Exhibition and International Conference. This was the second of three separate events Tu [...] | 2008-06-11 09:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT745 | TURKMENISTAN: TREASURY DELEGATION ENCOUNTERS A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of four U.S. Department of the Treasury assistance advisors representing public finance and management, economic policy, and banking visited Ashgabat June 2-6 to evaluate possible areas of technical cooperation with Turkmenistan. The delegation met with various governm [...] | 2008-06-11 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT746 | TURKMENISTAN: DELIVERY OF RESPONSE TO MSG SPE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC TX |
08ASHGABAT748 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV FOLLOWS HIS OWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the June 6 CIS Summit in St. Petersburg, President Berdimuhamedov reaffirmed Turkmenistan's neutrality and held bilateral meetings. While expressing support for the relatively new goal of expanding economic ties among the CIS states, he again reminded attendees and observer [...] | 2008-06-12 06:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV KCIS RS UP TX |
08ASHGABAT75 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: NOW THE IRANIANS ARE BLAMING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) As Turkmenistan's gas pipelines to Iran remain shut off for the second week, both sides have dug in their heels in the natural gas war that began just after the new year. However, Iran continues to rachet up the stakes. Acco [...] | 2008-01-15 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT751 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 06:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QA TX |
08ASHGABAT754 | TURKMENISTAN REGISTERS FIRST NGO SINCE 2005 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On June 3, 2008, Turkmenistan's Ministry of Justice registered the Ak-Bugday Gardeners' Association as a public association. Post believes this is the first non-governmental organization (NGO) registered by the Min [...] | 2008-06-13 09:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT757 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 11:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT758 | TURKMENISTAN OFFERS NAVCENT COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense Mammetgeldiyev told NAVCENT Commander Vice Admiral Cosgriff on June 12: -- Turkmenistan is keenly aware of the Afghan narcotics problem and offers the United States full cooperation; -- precursor chemicals for heroin processing need closer attention; - [...] | 2008-06-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL PARM MARR SNAR KCRM IR AF TX |
08ASHGABAT762 | TURKMENISTAN: LUKOIL PARTNERSHIP BECOMES A DRAG [...] (S) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips, bidding with its partner Lukoil on production sharing agreements (PSAs) for Turkmenistan's offshore Blocks 19, 20 and 21, is very close to resolving all outstanding issues in its negotiations with the Government of Turkmenistan and has even accepted a non-standa [...] | 2008-06-16 12:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET RU TX |
08ASHGABAT765 | TURKMENISTAN: ICITAP TRAINING SUCCESSFUL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A June 2-13 Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) course for Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) investigators and forensic experts went very well, with another crop of very motivated and hard-working Turkmen investigato [...] | 2008-06-16 12:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR KCRM TX |
08ASHGABAT77 | CENTRAL ASIAN NORTH-SOUTH RAILWAY LINE: A LOT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. GREAT HOPES RESTING ON NORTH-SOUTH LINE 2. (SBU) Head of the Ministry of Railway Transportation International Affairs Department Annamurat Horantsanliyev met january 7 with EconOff to discuss the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran Nort [...] | 2008-01-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ELTN IR KZ TX |
08ASHGABAT771 | TURKMENISTAN: AUSTRIA'S OMV JUMPS INTO THE ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 17 meeting, Austrian oil company OMV's Country Manager for the Caspian Region, Wolfgang Sporrer, told the Charge that his company will propose two separate gas deals to Turkmenistan: a simple gas-at-the-border purchase (OMV is willing to build the pipeline to tra [...] | 2008-06-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET AJ RU AU TX |
08ASHGABAT778 | TURKMENISTAN: HUNGARY'S NABUCCO AMBASSADOR MAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungary's new Ambassador-at-Large for the Nabucco Pipeline Project, Mihaly Bayer, told the Charge June 18 that, though Nabucco has "full European Union (EU) backing," less-than-united support from individual capitals and a multiplicity of interests at play in Brussels are slowin [...] | 2008-06-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EU HU TX |
08ASHGABAT779 | TURKMENISTAN WORLD BANK OFFICIAL MAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 18 meeting, The World Bank's de facto Turkmenistan office head made recommendations of interlocutors and potential project areas for the Enforcement Team from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance, including in assisting ministries to [...] | 2008-06-19 10:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT787 | TURKMEN OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN USDA EXCHANGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Department of Agriculture Program Officer Amy Freitas met on June 9-10 with representatives of the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, and Niyazov Agriculture University to discuss possible implementation of a U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored faculty exc [...] | 2008-06-20 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAGR EAID SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT789 | TURKMENISTAN: POST INPUT TO OSCE PRE-HDIM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel request, post provides the following input for the pre-HDIM demarche to the Turkmen government: BEGIN DEMARCHE TEXT: 3. (SBU) The Government of the United Sta [...] | 2008-06-23 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TX |
08ASHGABAT793 | TURKMENISTAN SENDS FIRST PARTICIPANT TO CDC'S FIELD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: After rejecting repeated invitations for participants since 2004, Turkmenistan sent its first-ever epidemiologist to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's (CDC) USAID-funded Field Epidemiology Training [...] | 2008-06-25 08:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI CDC TX |
08ASHGABAT794 | TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYERS "WAIT AND SEE" TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Local employees for foreign companies and organizations working in Turkmenistan, most of who are paid in dollars, effectively lost 40% value of their salaries since Turkmenistan's government started unifying the dua [...] | 2008-06-25 11:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AMGT APER ABUD TX |
08ASHGABAT798 | TURKMENISTAN: DIPLOMATIC CORPS WITNESSES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a public relations move, not coincidentally taking place during the visit to Turkmenistan of a European Union human rights delegation, the Government of Turkmenistan on June 25 invited members of the diplomati [...] | 2008-06-26 12:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT80 | TURKMENISTAN: APPOINTMENT OF NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the January 11 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhamedov named Deputy Minister of Culture Gulmyrat Myradov the new Minister of Culture and TV/Radio Broadcasting. Myradov is a career civil serva [...] | 2008-01-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KPAO OIIP TX |
08ASHGABAT801 | TURKMENISTAN: ENGAGE, ENGAGE, ENGAGE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the fundamentals of U.S. policy in Central Asia have remained consistent and on-target: to advocate political and economic reform as the keystone of America's strategic interests. After [...] | 2008-06-27 04:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS CH TX |
08ASHGABAT802 | TURKMENISTAN: EXCHANGE RATE DEPRECIATION ALLOWS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 25, Turkmenistan's Parliament passed an adjusted State Budget for the 2008 financial year. The revision took place due to the appreciation of the manat against the U.S. dollar -- the currency of Turkmenistan [...] | 2008-06-27 05:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT803 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY THINGS DON'T WORK WELL [...] (C) Charge met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs America's Director Serdar Bashimov the evening of June 26 after Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Mererdov once again abruptly cancelled a meeting on three urgent matters because, as very frequently happens, he was summoned to the Pr [...] | 2008-06-27 06:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT808 | TURKMENISTAN: RFE/RL NEWS COLLECTION PRACTICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Turkmenistan-based RFE/RL reporter told Poloff on June 26 that a June 23 RFE/RL story that he was uncertain where the report that hundreds of families were being forcibly resettled -- possibly due to their ethnicity -- to frontier outposts in an effort to populate new territor [...] | 2008-06-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT809 | TERRORISM FINANCE: INFORMATION ON U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 12:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC UNSC TX |
08ASHGABAT811 | TURKMENISTAN: CHARGE TO FM MEREDOV: RELEASE [...] (C) When Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov called him in June 30 on other business, Charge took the opportunity to raise the issue of detained Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Sazak Durdymuradov, and passed to the minister a copy of the Department's June 27 press statement. 2. (C [...] | 2008-06-30 08:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT812 | TURKMENISTAN: CABINET OF MINISTERS AGAIN PUSHES EDUCATION [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an extended meeting on June 23, the Cabinet of Ministers discussed, at length, education reform, including planned increases for matriculation into higher education and vocational schools and state support of [...] | 2008-06-30 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT813 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 04:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP JO IN TX |
08ASHGABAT814 | TURKMENISTAN: RFE/RL REPORTER'S SON AT WITS' END [...] (C) Turkmenabat-based Turkmen Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Osmanguly Halliyev and his son, Umid, told EmbOff during a June 30 meeting that Umid, who has been studying Arabic at the Institute of Foreign Languages, had just been expelled from the school. The Institute's ac [...] | 2008-07-01 06:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL TX |
08ASHGABAT817 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV ON AZERBAIJAN: [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a surprising display of pique and frustration, Berdimuhamedov let loose to the Charge against Azerbaijan's President Aliyev, implying that the brief standoff in April between Azeri border patrol boats and a Turkmen vessel in the mid-Caspian disputed Serdar/Kyapaz block (ref A [...] | 2008-07-01 07:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT819 | TURKMENISTAN: CURRENT STATE OF RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov took office in February 2007, Turkmenistan's relations with Russia have been gradually expanding, especially the economic relationship. However, contrary to Russian press reports, the degree to which the Turkmen government has been ente [...] | 2008-07-02 05:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EPET MARR RS TX |
08ASHGABAT820 | TURKMENISTAN: EMBASSY REJECTS MFA "CORRECTION" [...] (C) SUMMARY: In responding to the Embassy's demarche on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Sazak Durdymuradov, First Deputy Foreign Ministery Wepa Hajiyev characterized the case as an internal affair about student-teacher ethics and professional responsibilities. The Charge rejected [...] | 2008-07-02 09:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT821 | TURKMENISTAN'S STATE COUNTERNARCOTICS AGENCY ASKS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The chief of Turkmenistan's DEA-like State Counternarcotics Service (SCNS),Murad Islamov, said in a June 24 meeting that he is eager to accept technical assistance from the United States and that "we need a fo [...] | 2008-07-02 10:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT822 | TURKMENISTAN'S TELEPHONY SYSTEM APPEARS TO IMPROVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) For the first time since August 2006, Post has been able to complete successfully a monthly emergency telephone system test. This change indicates a basic improvement in Turkmenistan's international dialing capabilities an [...] | 2008-07-02 10:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECPS TX |
08ASHGABAT825 | DEMARCHE CONVEYING INFORMATION FROM THE MEETING ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 06:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP KSTC TX |
08ASHGABAT826 | TURKMENISTAN: RFE/RL CONTRIBUTOR DURDYMURADOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 4, a half hour before he was to leave for the airport to greet Russian Federation President Dmitriy Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov urgently called in the Charge. Meredov conveyed the official position of his government that detained Radi [...] | 2008-07-07 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT827 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES REJECT [...] (C) Local OSCE Human Dimension Officer Benjamin Moreau told PolOff June 25 that OSCE had recently held a meeting with Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Director Shirin Akhmedova and other government officials to discuss Turkmenistan,s view of the draft election law assessment that th [...] | 2008-07-07 06:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE TX |
08ASHGABAT829 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING CHANGES TO [...] (C) British Petroleum (BP) is continuing its efforts to register a new office in Ashgabat -- although very slowly, the company's Country Manager for Turkmenistan told EmbOff during a July 3 meeting. For the time being, the country manager is continuing to commute between his home in Baku and [...] | 2008-07-07 09:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT830 | TURKMENISTAN: GAZPROM CEO LEAVES ASHGABAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a last-minute effort to reach at least a general agreement with the Government of Turkmenistan on 2009 gas prices and volumes before Russian President Medvedev's July 4 visit, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller met with President Berdimuhamedov on July 1 -- but to no avail. Turkmenis [...] | 2008-07-07 11:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET RS TX |
08ASHGABAT849 | TURKMENISTAN: CHALIK ENERJI DELINQUENT ON [...] (C) Almost 18 months ago, Turkmenistan had a major blowout in its South Yoloten gas field in an exploratory drilling operation operated by Turkish company Chalik Enerji. After weeks of trying to handle the blowout, Chalik Enerji signed a contract on an emergency basis with U.S. company Cudd [...] | 2008-07-08 06:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON TU TX |
08ASHGABAT850 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AGENCY'S MURADOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge paid a farewell call on Executive Director of the Hydrocarbon State Agnecy Bayrammurad Muradov on July 7. Muradov (almost) confirmed that Turkmenistan is seriously reconsidering its past hard-line policy of no Western energy majors working onshore other than in service-c [...] | 2008-07-08 08:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET RS KZ AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT851 | TURKMENISTAN: DASHOGUZ FARMER EXPERIMENTS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a creative marketing approach, IPC Group has been placing free loaner agricultural equipment in farms managed by an influential farmer, Sadulla Rozmetov, in Dashoguz Province for the last 18 months. While working with private influencers like Rozmetov is good for business, [...] | 2008-07-08 08:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAGR EAID SOCI TX |
08ASHGABAT855 | TURKMENISTAN: UNODC'S CASPIAN SEA INITIATIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The First Caspian Sea Initiative meeting, held in Ashgabat on June 24-26, gave Caspian littoral states a good opportunity to discuss the counternarcotics challenges their countries face. While the attendance of a [...] | 2008-07-09 10:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR IR TX |
08ASHGABAT856 | TURKMENISTAN: BTRP-CTR-GPP DISCUSS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On 16-17 June, Turkmenistan,s Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Health and Medical Industry (MOHMI) received introductory presentations from a U.S./Canadian delegation on the Department of Defense,s Biologica [...] | 2008-07-09 12:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MASS TX |
08ASHGABAT861 | TURKMENISTAN/RUSSIA: MEDVEDEV VISIT NUDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's July 4-5 visit to Ashgabat might have succeeded in modestly advancing the new president's personal relationship with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, but did not lead to any major breakthroughs. The two sides signed a seri [...] | 2008-07-09 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EPET MARR RU TX |
08ASHGABAT863 | TURKMENISTAN: 2008 TIFA MEETING: FEEDBACK ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 04:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT864 | TURKMENISTAN: CONTRARY TO REPORTS, RELEASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 9 meeting with EmbOff, recently released RFE/RL contributor Sazak Durdymuradov appeared to be healthy and relaxed. Durdymuradov said that he had not been physcially or mentally tortured or mistreated in any way, but confirmed that doctors in the psychiatric facili [...] | 2008-07-10 11:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT869 | TURKMENISTAN PASSES NEW LAW ON LICENSING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Less than two months after amending Turkmenistan's licensing law, President Berdimuhamedov on July 8 signed a newly redrafted licensing law. The new version of the law reduces the list of licensed activities and cl [...] | 2008-07-11 05:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT871 | TURKMENISTAN/HUNGARY: PM GYURCSANY PUSHES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian ambassador Gyorgy Busztin, resident in Tehran, told Charge and DCM July 10 that Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's eight hours with President Berdimuhamedov on July 9 was dominated by a single issue: the Nabucco pipeline. While Busztin indicated that Berdimu [...] | 2008-07-11 07:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET HU TX |
08ASHGABAT873 | TURKMENISTAN: DESPITE PRESS REPORT, KOREANS NOT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) The Turkmenistan.ru website reported that South Korean Minister of Knowledge Economy, Lee Youn-ho, had told President Berdimuhamedov during a July 6 meeting in Astana that the Republic of Korea is setting up a special consort [...] | 2008-07-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT880 | TURKMENISTAN: UN CENTER FOR PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy, which opened in fall 2007, has started its work. Center officials have traveled to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, meeting with high-level officials and getting thei [...] | 2008-07-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MARR UN TX |
08ASHGABAT881 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW CUSTOMS CHAIRMAN SEES NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: State Customs Service Chairman Yaylym Berdiyev expressed his gratitude for U.S. assistance and eagerly discussed with emboffs his ideas for future cooperation. His first priority is to review all training progra [...] | 2008-07-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR TX |
08ASHGABAT884 | TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: DETAIL FROM OIL COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The country manager for German oil company Wintershall told us that the early-April standoff between two Azeri border guard gunboats and an international oil company involved Petronas, in block I, rather than Buried Hill in block III, a block that contains a boundary under disput [...] | 2008-07-14 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET MOPS AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT885 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE TRAINING EXPOSES TURKMEN [...] (C) An OSCE-sponsored team made up of a prosecutor from the Republic of Georgia and a judge from the UK recently spent two weeks in Turkmenistan giving seminars on British jurisprudence. The British judge told emboff July 11 that they had held sessions in Turkmenbashy, Turkmenabat, Mary, and [...] | 2008-07-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS TX |
08ASHGABAT886 | TURKMENISTAN: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a U.S. information technology expert who has been in Turkmenistan for about one year, the business environment has become more obstructionist. Over the past year, in order to clear deals between his company and Turkmen state agencies, he has encountered increasing [...] | 2008-07-15 06:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT890 | TURKMENISTAN: EBRD LIKELY TO EMPHASIZE INVESTMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Country Representative Neil McKain told emboffs that he expected new EBRD Head Thomas Mirow to emphasize investment in Central Asia as well as the Caucasus, Turkey, a [...] | 2008-07-15 11:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT893 | TURKMENISTAN: IT'S ALL IN THE (BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov has a large extended family, with four children and five sisters. Like many of his counterparts elsewhere in the region, he apparently is pursuing a policy of favoring family members and relatives. Over the last year, he has appointed re [...] | 2008-07-15 13:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT894 | TURKMENISTAN: HYDROCARBON TOUR D'HORIZON WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 11 tour d'horizon meeting, German oil company Wintershall's country manager told emboff that Wintershall is beginning exploratory drilling the week of July 14 in the southern part of block 11. In an effort to promote rapid exploration of Block III, for which Canadi [...] | 2008-07-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT896 | TURKMENISTAN/AIR NAV FEES: DFM PROMISES TO SPEED [...] (C) On July 15, Charge met with DFM Wepa Hajiyev to discuss a variety of issues, including air navigation fees (reftel). Charge informed Hajiyev that DATT had contacted Turkmenistan Aviation (THY) officials, as MFA officials had suggested, in order to meet on the issue. However, THY Deputy [...] | 2008-07-16 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR MARR MCAP MOPS TX |
08ASHGABAT9 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN OF [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes the visit to Turkmenistan of Senator Richard G. Lugar, Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Your visit will advance our bilateral dialogue on energy issues, while rein [...] | 2008-01-04 07:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EPET SCUL OREP TX |
08ASHGABAT900 | TURKMENISTAN: PLANS TO COOPERATE WITH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USAID-funded Quality Learning Project (QLP) started in October 2007, with implementing partners Creative Associates International, Inc. and Abt Associates. The goal of the project is to improve student educati [...] | 2008-07-17 07:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT901 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 16 meeting with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, Dan Stein, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hajiyev acknowledged that Turkmenistan must upgrade the knowledge of its petrochemical specialists. He also welcom [...] | 2008-07-17 09:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EPET TINT TX AZ |
08ASHGABAT903 | TURKMENISTAN: PETRONAS NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION TO [...] (C) During a July 15 meeting, Malaysian petroleum firm Petronas general manager in Turkmenistan Mohammed Ridzan Mohammed Sharif told emboff that his company is now planning on producing only 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year in Turkmenistan's block I (Livanov). (NOTE: This stat [...] | 2008-07-17 10:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT912 | TURKMENISTAN: MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK CONFIRMS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On July 08,2008, USAID/CAR Regional Mission Director Bill Frej met with the Chairman of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, Guvanch Geoklenov, to announce USAID's plan to extend the Accounting/CIPA program in Turkmenistan f [...] | 2008-07-17 12:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT915 | TURKMENISTAN: MINISTER OF COMMUNCIATIONS WELCOMES [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a July 17 meeting with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, Dan Stein, Minister of Communications Hojagurbanov acknowledged Turkmenistan's need to stren [...] | 2008-07-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECPS EIND AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT917 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AGENCY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 16 meeting, the Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, Bayrammurat Muradov, told U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Manager for Europe and Eurasia Dan Stein that the State Agency was please [...] | 2008-07-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT921 | TURKMENISTAN: USTDA FINDS SUPREME COUNCIL ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a July 17 meeting with U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Dan Stein, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology Akjeren Allanurova disc [...] | 2008-07-21 05:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EIND TRGY TX |
08ASHGABAT923 | TURKMENISTAN: POST RESPONSE TO CUSTOMS CHAIRMAN [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At a meeting on May 12 at the Department of State (Ref. A),the former Chairman of Turkmenistan's State Customs Service raised some concerns regarding discrepancies in Department of Defense Counternarcotics support at [...] | 2008-07-21 07:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MASS TX |
08ASHGABAT925 | TURKMENISTAN: DELUGE OF ACCURATE STATE MEDIA COVERAGE OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the 46 day period between June 1 and July 16, 2008, there were no less than 27 stories - all favorable -- broadcast or printed in Turkmenistan's state news media on the U.S. Embassy, its visitors, or progra [...] | 2008-07-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT926 | TURKMENISTAN: OIL AND GAS MINISTER EAGER FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During meetings on July 16, Turkmenistan's Minister of Oil and Gas, Baymurat Hojamuhammedov, offered U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein and Department of Energy Director for Rus [...] | 2008-07-21 12:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT927 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE CONFERENCE ON LEGAL AND REGULATORY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 06:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL TX |
08ASHGABAT93 | SCENESETTER FOR CDR, USCENTCOM VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your second visit to Turkmenistan follows the visits in mid-January of Senator Lugar to Ashgabat and of the Turkmenistani Defense Minister and Border Service Chief to NAVCENT HQ in Bahrain. This visit will help continue the ongoing, bilateral dialogue on security issues, while [...] | 2008-01-18 03:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR EPET ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT931 | TURKMENISTAN: AGREEMENT REACHED WITH IRAN ON GAS [...] (C) Turkmenistan and Iran have reached an agreement on gas. According to Turkish Ambassador Huseyin Bichkali, who was informed by the Iranian ambassador, Turkmenistan and Iran have agreed that Iran will pay $175 per tcm for a five-year period. Bichkali said the accord was reached several we [...] | 2008-07-23 08:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET IR TX |
08ASHGABAT954 | (S) TURKMENISTAN INFORMED OF FLIGHT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 11:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC TX |
08ASHGABAT956 | OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT957 | TURKMENISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 16-18, 2008, the Joint Working Group of the Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water and the Turkmenistan Minister of Energy and Industry met in Ashgabat to discuss technical details of the construction o [...] | 2008-07-24 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT958 | TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: GAC MARINE OFFERS DETAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The country manager of GAC Marine, the company that was providing towing services for the rig intercepted by Azeri border guard vessels on April 11 told A/DCM on July 24 that the rig and vessels were at no time anywhere close to the median line that Azerbaijan claims at its bord [...] | 2008-07-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT959 | TURKMENISTAN'S BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LEADERS OFFER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the chairman of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, Turkmenistan's president is serious about promoting entrepreneurism. To that end, the government has instituted financial incentives tha [...] | 2008-07-24 14:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EIND ECON TX |
08ASHGABAT961 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE DETAILS ON 2007-2008 FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Freedom of travel issues in Turkmenistan were the focus of a July 22 RFE/RL article that put post local employee Jennet Gylychdurdiyeva, who has a health condition that cannot be treated in Ashgabat, in the spotlight. Gylychdurdiyeva, the daughter of RFE/RL senior reporter Hal [...] | 2008-07-25 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
08ASHGABAT964 | TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: SUMMER OF DISCONTENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: While commercial contacts between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan apparently have continued to expand, the two countries' budding political dialogue by all accounts has taken a nosedive. While not solely responsible for the cooling of efforts to find a political resolution of the [...] | 2008-07-25 14:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT965 | DELOITTE TAX LLP IN PROCESS OF REGISTERING IN [...] (C) U.S. Department of the Treasury officials Alan Robidoux, Regional Tax Administration Advisor, and William Remington, Associate Director for Tax Policy and Tax Administration, met with Ovez Agayev and Jennet Karlyeva of Deloitte Tax LLP on July 25. Agayev is a Muskie program alumnus and g [...] | 2008-07-28 08:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT966 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY SEES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting tax specialists from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance were impressed with the organized operations of the Main State Tax Service and do not believe that the Service needs Treasury assistance at this time. To keep a foot in the door [...] | 2008-07-28 08:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT972 | TURKMENISTAN VOWS NOT TO BLOCK HDIM AGENDA [...] (SBU) On July 28, MFA Americas Department Director Serdar Bashimov met with Charge to deliver Turkmenistan's reply to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting demarche contained Ref. A. He made the following points: -- Turkmenistan appreciates the language noting positive developments in [...] | 2008-07-28 12:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE TX |
08ASHGABAT973 | TURKMENISTAN: BURIED HILL SAYS IT IS UNFAZED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Canadian oil firm Buried Hill, which has a contract from the Government of Turkmenistan to develop hydrocarbons in the Serdar/Kyapaz field in block III, is moving forward very slowly in its plans. It concluded 2-D seismic imaging in February, and hopes to drill three explorator [...] | 2008-07-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET AJ TX |
08ASHGABAT975 | MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN ENDORSE GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT976 | MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN ENDORSE GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 07:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP TX |
08ASHGABAT978 | INFORMATION ON DESIGNATION OF AL-QUAIDA-AFFILIATED TERROR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 09:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL AG TX |
08ASHGABAT98 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY SHOULD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to strong encouragement from the West and international financial institutions, the Government of Turkmenistan is finally beginning to pursue a much-needed course of economic and financial reform. Pre [...] | 2008-01-18 11:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EINV TX |
08ASHGABAT981 | TURKMENISTAN: AT FRONT END OF PREPARATION TO MEET [...] (U) SUMMARY: A U.S. Department of Treasury team focusing on assessing Turkmenistan's anti-money laundering law enforcement capacity met with relevant state financial, legal, and legislative entities, as well as two of the three foreign banks currently operating here. Turkmenistan's banks a [...] | 2008-07-29 12:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN TX |
08ASHGABAT982 | TURKMENISTAN: NATIONAL LIBRARY DIRECTOR WANTS REAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A meeting with the new National Library director revealed new opportunities for deeper cooperation and engagement. While the Library falls under the normally cooperative Ministry of Culture, the new director's frankness and leadership style were a refreshing contrast to what we [...] | 2008-07-30 07:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
08ASHGABAT99 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On January 16, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a positive reply to USAID's October 29 proposal for cooperation with the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. Areas for cooperation included information e [...] | 2008-01-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
08ASHGABAT996 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE AGENCY HEAD TELLS CHEVRON IT [...] (C) During a brief July 31 meeting, Chevron's AMCIT country manager told emboff that he had a very positive July 30 meeting with the Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, Bayrammurat Muradov. This was the second meeting between the [...] | 2008-07-31 12:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
08ASHGABAT997 | TURKMENISTAN: GAZPROM REACHES AGREEMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite much hype in the Russian media that Gazprom has locked in its monopoly on Turkmenistan's gas, it appears that, during a July 25 visit to Turkmenistan, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reportedly reached agreement only on a pricing formula for Turkmenistan's natural gas exports i [...] | 2008-07-31 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET RU CH TX |
08ASMARA143 | CARE INTERNATIONAL WILL CLOSE ERITREAN OPERATIONS [...] (U) On March 3, CARE International Country Director Dr. Claudia Futterknecht informed the Eritrean Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare (MLHW) that CARE would cease Eritrean operations in three months. CARE provided a letter to the MLHW stating that its decision to close the office was based o [...] | 2008-03-18 13:57:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV ECON ER |
08ASMARA155 | ARS ON AL-SHABAAB, SOMALI RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: Senior members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) warned the ambassador March 19 that the unpopular Ethiopian "occupation" of Somalia is causing Somalis to hail al-Shabaab gunmen as heroes and freedom fighters. The ARS members stressed that al-Shabaab's value [...] | 2008-03-24 12:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER SO ER |
08ASMARA160 | CHINESE REPORTEDLY FUNDING CHADIAN OPPOSITION [...] (C) On March 13, DCM met with Amar Najm Eddine al-Jak (Amar),a Khartoum spokesman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),who had been spirited from Sudan to Asmara by the SPLM after being arrested and tortured by Sudanese National Security services (reftel). In the meeting, Am [...] | 2008-03-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU CD CH ER |
08ASMARA164 | Egypt Contemplates Deporting 400 Eritreans [...] (SBU) Ambassador met March 24 with Egyptian Ambassador Ihab Hamouda to discuss the presence of illegal Eritrean immigrants in Egypt, of which Ihab claims there are more than 400. Ihab said the government of Egypt and the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs are discussing a procedure for retu [...] | 2008-03-26 12:53:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL SMIG EG IS ER |
08ASMARA18 | UNMEE FUEL UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: UNMEE Force Commander Major General Mohammad Taisir (protect) estimates UNMEE can continue operations at the current reduced levels until January 31. After that UNMEE would have to dip into its strategic fuel reserve, which Taisir said is only sufficient to move UNMEE's troops ba [...] | 2008-01-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PBTS PREL MOPS ASEC ER ET XW |
08ASMARA19 | ERITREAN REPATRIATIONS AND IDP RESETTLEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea ICRC Head of Delegation Catherine Deman (strictly protect) told the ambassador January 4 that her organization in the past twelve months has assisted in reducing the number of Eritrean internally displaced persons (IDP) from 30,000 to 5,000 and that in December around 40 [...] | 2008-01-14 08:48:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EAID PREL ICRC ER ET XW |
08ASMARA198 | RARE INSIGHTS FROM PFDJ INSIDER [...] (C) Summary: Hagos Ghebrehiwot gave subtle signals to the ambassador that the Eritreans were ready to work with, rather than against, the United States on bilateral and regional interests. Considered to be strictly the bagman and CEO of party-run enterprises, Hagos displayed surprising poli [...] | 2008-04-04 08:45:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ER |
08ASMARA2 | LIBYANS IN ERITREA [...] (C) We're Number One ------------------------ Libya has recently increased by 400% its diplomatic presence in Eritrea (up from 7 to 28 diplomats),making the Libyan Arab Brotherhood Bureau the largest diplomatic mission in Asmara, surpassing in size even the embassy of the former colonial p [...] | 2008-01-02 06:07:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LY ER |
08ASMARA20 | SUSPICIOUS NASAIR [...] (C) An Asmara-based European ambassador told the ambassador January 11 that Nasair, a relatively new and shadowy airline based in Massawa, Eritrea, is owned and controlled by Sudanese intelligence. Nasair, which operates scheduled flights to Kenya, Sudan, Chad, and UAE, is a registered Eritre [...] | 2008-01-14 10:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PTER PREL ER SU XW |
08ASMARA220 | ARS DIVIDED ON COOPERATING WITH UNITED STATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the March 31-April 4 meeting of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) leaders in Nairobi with Embassy officials (reftel),the ARS leaders have made a concerted effort to align the Asmara-based membership towards a cooperative stance with the United States. [...] | 2008-04-22 08:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINR ER SO |
08ASMARA223 | MFA ASSERTS GSE WILLINGNESS FOR REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador and Director of East African Affairs James Knight met on April 17 with Eritrea's Acting Foreign Minister, Fessehazion Petros, to discuss bilateral relations and regional dynamics. Knight emphasized the need for Eritrea to lift restrictions on Embassy Asmara and stressed the i [...] | 2008-04-23 05:51:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KREC ER ET |
08ASMARA227 | DJIBOUTI AMBASSADOR ON BORDER TENSION [...] (C) Somalia and the Eritrea)Djibouti Border: --------------------------------------------- --- "The Somali problem is not foreign to the border issue," claims Djibouti's ambassador to Eritrea. Ambassador Ahmed Issa Gabobeh, the dean of Asmara's diplomatic corps, warned against applying rat [...] | 2008-04-23 13:08:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ER DJ |
08ASMARA228 | PFDJ VOICES OPINIONS ON BORDER AND SOMALIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Director of East African Affairs James Knight met on April 18 with Yemane Ghebreab, head of Political Affairs for the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),Eritrea's ruling (and sole) political party. Yemane reiterated the two main points made in Knigh [...] | 2008-04-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KREC ER ET SO |
08ASMARA233 | ASMARA DAO NEARS APRIL 30 DEADLINE [...] Embassy Asmara has informed Eritrea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in person and in writing that, absent a positive indication by April 30 that Eritrea wishes to maintain a military-to-military relationship, Post will begin the definitive suspension of its Defense Attache's Office. Should the [...] | 2008-04-24 12:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR AMGT ER |
08ASMARA240 | RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ERITREA [...] (SBU) CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN ERITREA --------------------------------------- The relationship between the Government of China (GOC) and the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) is strong. President Isaias visited President Hu during the China-Africa Summit in November 2006. During a Ja [...] | 2008-05-02 09:52:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EMIN PREL ER |
08ASMARA247 | ERITREA PLANS TO SEEK FULL MEMBERSHIP IN ARAB [...] (C) Eritrea plans to seek full membership in the Arab League and to sponsor a "new generation of opposition" in Darfur, according to an Asmara-based Egyptian diplomat. 2. (C) On May 2, Egyptian Political Chief Hassam Abdallah Nooreldin (Hassam) briefed DCM on a meeting several days prior be [...] | 2008-05-06 14:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SU ER |
08ASMARA248 | ERITREA - MAJOR AUSTRALIAN GOLD STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia's Sub-Sahara Resources exploration company reports it has discovered a deposit of 1.04 million ounces of gold in north-central Eritrea worth one billion dollars at today's prices (about equal to Eritrea's GDP). This gold deposit is similar in size to the Vancouver-ba [...] | 2008-05-07 09:00:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ECON PGOV PINS PREL ER |
08ASMARA249 | ARS READY TO TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leadership of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) is committed to UN-brokered discussions with representatives of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) scheduled to commence May 10 in Djibouti. Their willingness to enter into these talks should not be mis [...] | 2008-05-07 14:17:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER SO DJ |
08ASMARA252 | SANU RESOURCES' MINING PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Sanu Resources exploration company reported successful drilling results indicating large deposits of copper and zinc near Nevsun's Bisha Mining Project (reftel A). Only a small amount of gold was also discovered at this site, but Sanu anticipates "finding more gold ne [...] | 2008-05-09 08:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ECON PGOV PINR PREL ER |
08ASMARA253 | NEW GSE MACHINATIONS WITH DARFUR OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary. Eritrea is seeking to create a "new generation of opposition" in Darfur, according to an Asmara-based Egyptian diplomat. His assertion was supported by a Sudanese Embassy officer in a subsequent meeting, who viewed the latest GSE initiative with indifference. End Summary. ER [...] | 2008-05-09 09:46:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SU ER |
08ASMARA254 | ERITREA PESSIMISTIC ON SUDAN'S CPA [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea's point man on Sudan, Abdella Jabir, believes "the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) will not succeed because the SPLM's leadership is weak." He revealed that Eritrea has 40 monitors on the Chad-Sudan border and commented that Libya is "unreliable" as its priorities shift [...] | 2008-05-12 14:49:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER SU SO |
08ASMARA26 | TWO UNMEE DRIVERS CONSCRIPTED INTO EDF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 13:36:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPKO ASEC ER |
08ASMARA264 | ERITREA AND SAUDI ARABIA MEND TIES, A BIT [...] (C) ERITREA SEEKS REGIONAL COOPERATION: President Isaias' April 27 long-sought audience with King Abdullah began with an Eritrean request for close cooperation on Somalia, Sudan-Chad, and Darfur, according to the Saudi ambassador in Asmara, Nasser M. Al-Reshaidan. Expressing disappointment w [...] | 2008-05-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ER SA |
08ASMARA269 | SHEIKH AWEYS: LIVE FROM ASMARA [...] (SBU) Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys led a televised press conference with Al-Jazeera in Asmara on May 15. In the conference, Aweys condemned the members of the Asmara-based Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) who traveled to Djibouti for UN-brokered discussions with Somali's Transitio [...] | 2008-05-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR SO ER |
08ASMARA27 | CODEL PAYNE MEETS SOMALI ARS REPRESENTATIVES [...] (U) Summary. On January 4 CODEL Payne met with five representatives of the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS) at the Intercontinental Hotel in Asmara. ARS members stated their views of U.S. policies in the Horn of Africa, the reasons for and consequences of the Ethiopian invasion [...] | 2008-01-17 08:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL PTER ER SO |
08ASMARA275 | ISAIAS VISITS IRAN; GARNERS ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) President Isaias Afwerki's May 19-20 state visit to Tehran and meetings with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have received front page coverage in the Eritrean government-controlled media. President Isaias' visit included an interview with Iran's Press TV, the ful [...] | 2008-05-22 14:07:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IR ER |
08ASMARA277 | DETAINED EGYPTIAN SAILORS RETURN HOME [...] (C) On May 21, Egyptian DCM Hassam Abdallah Nooreldin told Poloff that the 40 Egyptian sailors, who were arrested in spring 2007 and detained for a year in the port city of Massawa by the Eritrean government, have finally been released and returned to Egypt. The sailors were never charged wit [...] | 2008-05-23 06:55:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CASC EG ER |
08ASMARA29 | ASMARA - UNMEE COMBATING SEA AND TIP [...] (U) Per Reftel A, the following is Post's Sexual Expolitation and Abuse (SEA) and Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report. 2. (SBU) There continue to be very few reported cases of either SEA or TIP involving UN Peacekeeping Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE) personnel in Eritrea. The Chie [...] | 2008-01-17 13:26:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL ER |
08ASMARA290 | GSE ACTIVELY SEEKS TO DIVIDE ARS [...] (C) Summary: A Finnish Parliamentarian who recently travelled from meetings with Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) members in Djibouti to meet with ARS members in Asmara emphasized that both sides expressed their desire to reunite. However, Asmara members have been discouraged f [...] | 2008-05-29 14:17:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO ER |
08ASMARA300 | ERITREA - NO FUEL BY JULY? [...] (C/NF) Summary: Eritrea has fuel reserves of only one month, and poor prospects for purchasing more, according to Total's Managing Director in Eritrea. Eritrea's Kuwaiti suppliers reportedly have not been paid since December 2007, and will not supply more fuel until the government makes paym [...] | 2008-06-04 18:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG PINR ASEC ER |
08ASMARA309 | ARS REJECTIONISTS TO RALLY IN ASMARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) who reject the June 9 reconciliation agreement with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) reportedly will hold a conference in Asmara on June 15 in an attempt to unseat Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as ARS leader - t [...] | 2008-06-11 09:29:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO ER |
08ASMARA311 | BORDER CLASH - MUM'S THE WORD IN ASMARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Eritrean government, party, media, and military officials are maintaining complete silence on the June 10-11 border clashes with Djibouti. No Eritrean media outlets have reported the incidents and the citizenry of Asmara are going about their daily routines in grim normalcy. Th [...] | 2008-06-11 13:28:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS ER DJ |
08ASMARA314 | SUDAN TO PROVIDE FUEL TO ERITREA [...] (C) Sudan will provide fuel-starved Eritrea with substantial quantities of refined product "probably within the next two weeks," according to Sudan's ambassador in Asmara, Salah El-Hassen. 2. (C) El-Hassen commented June 11 to the ambassador that Sudanese refineries at Port Sudan and near [...] | 2008-06-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL ER SU |
08ASMARA315 | ISAIAS HOLDS A GRUDGE [...] (C) WHY ERITREA IS BEING SO STUBBORN: In mid-April, just as the tension on the Eritrea-Djibouti border was first rising, President Isaias telephoned President Guelleh and suggested that the two of them work together to resolve the issue, according to Yemane Ghebreab, the Eritrean ruling party [...] | 2008-06-12 15:15:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER DJ SO SU |
08ASMARA324 | EGYPT'S ERITREAN DEPORTEES LAND IN MASSAWA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy inquiries regarding Egypt's deportation of Eritreans were met with deception, lack of knowledge, and surprising openness from different sources. A well-placed Embassy source informed Emboffs of Egypt Air's deportation flights to Massawa, a location more concealed for Eg [...] | 2008-06-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SU EG ER |
08ASMARA328 | ERITREA GARNERS MORE MONEY FROM THE EC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 15, President Isaias Afwerki met with Louis Michel, European Commission (EC) Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, to discuss plans for further development aid to Eritrea. Michel reportedly broached several topics of humanitarian and diplomatic concern with a [...] | 2008-06-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PREL PHUM ER DJ |
08ASMARA33 | WHAT,S ERITREA UP TO IN SUDAN? [...] (C) Summary: Finnish MP and former EC Special Envoy for Sudan Pekka Havisto told the ambassador January 18 that Eritrea is working to help fulfill the "Garang Dream" in Sudan, wherein marginalized people in the South, East, and in Darfur cooperate to counterbalance the National Congress Party [...] | 2008-01-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER SU |
08ASMARA332 | MEETING WITH ERITREAN SOLDIERS IN ASSAB [...] (S/NF) RSO source relayed the following second-hand information provided by a member of the Eritrean National Security Agency. According to source, an unidentified group of Eritrean military colonels and one general went to Assab from 06/20-21/08 to meet with a group of approximately 200 Erit [...] | 2008-06-24 11:47:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PGOV ASEC ER |
08ASMARA334 | OLF CLAIMS TO BE FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF),Daawud Ibsa, believes his organization's support among Ethiopia's largest ethnic group bodes well for the OLF's chances in the event of fair elections in Ethiopia. He complained to the ambassador June 19 that PM Meles has failed [...] | 2008-06-24 14:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL PGOV KDEM ER ET |
08ASMARA339 | UPDATE ON UNMEE OPERATIONS IN ASMARA [...] (C) UNMEE Deputy Chief Security Officer (DCSO) provided RSO and UK Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) with an update June 30 on UNMEE operations in Eritrea. UNMEE has ceased operations in Assab and UNMEE flights are no longer stopping there to refuel. After an approximately two-month wait, the Eri [...] | 2008-06-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS KPKO PREL PGOV ASEC ER |
08ASMARA348 | A RARE, CIVIL CT RESPONSE FROM ERITREA [...] (SBU) Like NASA firing blind probes into Deep Space, Embassy Asmara dutifully transmits counter-terrorism designations and related demarches to the government of Eritrea. It has been several years since Post has received even acknowledgement, let alone a response, from our non-communicative h [...] | 2008-07-10 12:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL ER |
08ASMARA361 | PEACEBUILDING WORKSHOPS GAINING MOMENTUM [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Peacebuilding Center for the Horn of Africa (PCHA) hosted its third Embassy-sponsored workshop for eastern Sudanese participants during the week of June 21-27. The week-long workshop included lively presentations, discussions, simulations, and lectures. The most recent worksh [...] | 2008-07-21 07:58:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI SU ER |
08ASMARA362 | ERITREA TEMPORARILY AVOIDS FUEL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea managed to avoid an electricity supply disaster in June by finding a new supplier of generator lubricant. An unknown supplier is sending a barge to restock Eritrea's depleted automotive and aviation fuel supplies. Embassy Asmara will receive its diesel fuel the week of [...] | 2008-07-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG PINR ASEC ER |
08ASMARA366 | ASMARA,S UNFAIR EGYPTIAN TRADE FAIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: An Egyptian trade fair in Asmara concluded July 18, after a week-long shopping frenzy generated by Eritreans restricted by their tyrannical government from traveling abroad or buying almost anything in Eritrea. The regime extracted a high price from Egypt for agreeing to allow t [...] | 2008-07-22 12:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ERTD PREL PGOV EG ER |
08ASMARA368 | ARS HARDLINERS SELECT SHEIKH AWEYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation for Somalia (ARS) who oppose the June 9 Djibouti reconciliation accords met in Asmara July 3 - 22. Claiming to represent the ARS Central Committee, the militant ARS faction selected Sheikh Aweys as its leader, purported to have expell [...] | 2008-07-23 13:46:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER SO |
08ASMARA370 | VIEWS OF AN ERITREAN OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The two senior Eritrean opposition figures in Asmara are both wealthy businessmen, one of whom is a prominent ex-fighter and the husband of a cabinet minister. Both are sympathetic to the Addis Ababa-based Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA). In their view, the regime is unit [...] | 2008-07-24 11:55:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL ER |
08ASMARA375 | BIO INFORMATION OF SIX SOMALI HARDLINERS [...] (C) The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) hardline faction in Asmara, now led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, sent a six-person delegation to Yemen from July 3 to July 18 to purportedly foster dialogue and reconciliation between the Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Sharif faction and the Aweys [...] | 2008-07-28 14:16:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PREL SO ER |
08ASMARA384 | JEM IN ERTIREA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) maintains a liaison office in Asmara headed by Osman Wash, JEM's Secretary for Justice and Legal Affairs. A number of JEM "former fighters" also reside in Eritrea. JEM is reportedly seeking to persuade Eritrea to host a Sudanese all- [...] | 2008-08-05 11:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS ER SU |
08ASMARA385 | CHINESE MOVE INTO ERITREA'S MINING SECTOR [...] SUMMARY: Two Chinese mining companies have received exploration licenses from the government of Eritrea in the past eight months. One of these license areas is situated in the former Temporary Security Zone from which Eritrea forced UNMEE peacekeepers in February. Three Chinese companies ar [...] | 2008-08-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EMIN ECON PREL ER CH |
08ASMARA386 | DUTCH INTERCHURCH AID DEPARTS ERITREA AFTER 30 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ER |
08ASMARA387 | DUTCH INTERCHURCH AID DEPARTS ERITREA AFTER 30 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ER |
08ASMARA388 | DUTCH INTERCHURCH AID DEPARTS ERITREA AFTER 30 [...] (C) John Veron, Director of the Dutch InterChurch Aid (DIA) office in Eritrea, informed the ambassador August 4 that DIA will be departing Eritrea in the next three months after a presence of nearly 30 years, reducing the number of NGOs in Eritrea to seven. While the official memo sent to the [...] | 2008-08-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ER |
08ASMARA39 | CONDITIONS IN TRACK B PRISON [...] (C) An UNMEE official informed Poloff of the conditions in Track B, an underground prison located on the former site of Kagnew Station. The official said an Eritrean UNMEE staff member was summarily arrested in November 2007 for not possessing his demobilization card, which is proof of comple [...] | 2008-01-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR ER |
08ASMARA390 | DUTCH INTERCHURCH AID DEPARTS ERITREA AFTER 30 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ER |
08ASMARA392 | DUTCH INTERCHURCH AID DEPARTS ERITREA AFTER 30 [...] (C) John Veron, Director of the Dutch InterChurch Aid (DIA) office in Eritrea, informed the ambassador August 4 that DIA will be departing Eritrea in the next three months after a presence of nearly 30 years, reducing the number of NGOs in Eritrea to seven. While the official memo sent to the [...] | 2008-08-08 10:06:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ER |
08ASMARA394 | GSE CONFISCATES AMCIT PASSPORT AND $9,000 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 4, an American citizen reported that the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) confiscated from him $8,550 of undeclared funds and $700 of declared funds at the Asmara airport. Officials later informed the AmCit that one of his $100 bills was counterfeit; they then c [...] | 2008-08-08 10:40:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CPAS PREL PGOV ER |
08ASMARA4 | ERITREAN CASUALTY FIGURES FROM DECEMBER 26 BORDER [...] (C) On December 28 an Embassy source spoke with a mid-level member of Eritrea's National Security Agency (ANS) about the December 26 border clash between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces. The ANS officer said that Eritrean military casualties from the clash were 5 dead and 24 captured. There w [...] | 2008-01-04 07:43:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PBTS ER ET |
08ASMARA408 | ARS HARD-LINER ADMITS DISSENTION IN RANKS [...] (C) PolOff met on August 12 with Mahad Yusuf, Inspector General and Central Committee member of the hard-line branch of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS). Yusuf explained that the hard-liners have now consolidated their beliefs into two quarreling ideologies: patriotic and Is [...] | 2008-08-15 07:39:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SO ER |
08ASMARA413 | EGYPT NO LONGER A "SISTER" TO ERITREA [...] (C) An Egyptian diplomat admitted to PolOff that diplomatic relations between Eritrean and Egypt have become strained over recent months. In addition to having to endure the restrictive in-country travel policies (requiring all foreign diplomats to request in-country travel 10 days in advance [...] | 2008-08-20 11:40:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG ER |
08ASMARA426 | MFA HAS NO FORMAL OPINION ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 11:17:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG RS ER |
08ASMARA429 | NGO STAFF TAKEN AT GUNPOINT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) soldiers invaded NGO compounds August 14, rounding up local employees (reftel). Though most employees were later returned, the GSE took several to the Wi'a military prison camp. Employees of diplomatic missions were not affected, althou [...] | 2008-08-28 07:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ER |
08ASMARA43 | MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN ASSAB REGION [...] (S/NF) RSO Source stated he met with a friend who is a soldier stationed in the port city of Assab and in Asmara on leave. He stated the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) recently received 110 new tanks that are deployed along the border regions near Assab (NFI). 2. (S/NF) The soldier stated M [...] | 2008-01-31 07:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PGOV PREL PINR ER |
08ASMARA430 | GSE CLAMPS DOWN ON VOA [...] (C) The international supervisor for Voice of America's (VOA) Horn of Africa broadcasting, confided that the Asmara stringer, Ms. Senait Habtu (protect),has been forced to discontinue reporting. According to VOA, Minister of Information Ali Abdu warned her to stop reporting for VOA. The gove [...] | 2008-08-28 08:02:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROP PGOV ER |
08ASMARA440 | ERITREA UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV ER |
08ASMARA452 | ARS HARD-LINERS FINALIZE A NEW IDENTITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) hard-liners are in the process of finalizing their split from the ARS leadership now based in Djibouti. The hard-liners have drawn up plans to transform their organization into the Movement for the Establishment of the Third Republ [...] | 2008-09-16 08:28:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO ER |
08ASMARA454 | ISAIAS ADDRESSES DAKAR AGREEMENT CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: President Isaias made a two-hour appearance on September 12 at the fifth meeting of the Dakar Agreement Contact Group. Appearing physically fit and mentally sharp, Isaias delivered in good English a constructive speech supportive of the Contact Group's efforts to reconcile Ch [...] | 2008-09-16 09:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ER |
08ASMARA457 | FIFTH SUDAN-CHAD CONTACT GROUP MEETING: EDGING [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the September 12 ministerial-level portion of the fifth Sudan-Chad Contact Group (CG) meeting, the foreign ministers of Sudan and Chad had agreed to re-open their respective embassies and exchange ambassadors. However, Chad's commitment to this course of action seemed weak. Th [...] | 2008-09-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD SU ER |
08ASMARA491 | U.S. AF.I.A COMMAND UPD T - OCTOBER 1 UNIFIED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 13:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL |
08ASMARA494 | A SORDID TALE OF UNMEE CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: A well-placed UNMEE contact recounted a long and twisted tale of personal empire building and corruption during UNMEE's presence in Eritrea. High-ranking UNMEE officials enhanced their careers at the expense of the mission and personally profited from their positions. The cont [...] | 2008-10-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ER |
08ASMARA506 | AFRICA UNION PULLS OUT OF ERITREA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 07:41:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ER |
08ASMARA519 | WORLD BANK SUSPENDS ERITREA DISBURSEMENTS [...] (C) DEADLINE MISSED, CASH-FLOW HALTED ----------------------------------------- As the cash-strapped government of Eritrea missed yet another World Bank repayment deadline, the World Bank Country Director (please protect) told Emboffs October 24 that the Bank, in accordance with policy and r [...] | 2008-10-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL EAID PGOV ER |
08ASMARA526 | ERITREAN AMBASSADOR IN KENYA COMPLICIT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Eritrean Orthodox Bishop Hadgu Gebrehimanot (protect) gave visiting Embassy Asmara PolOff a detailed description of his harassment and assault by Eritrean embassy officials in Nairobi, including reported threats from Eritrean Ambassador Saleh Umar. According to Bishop Hagd [...] | 2008-10-30 11:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PREL PROP PHUM PGOV KE ER |
08ASMARA527 | GSE ABUSE EXTENDS BEYOND ERITREAN BORDERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) maintains a tight watch over its diaspora community, using its embassies as information-gathering hubs and its employees as agents of harassment. Eritrean refugees in Nairobi detailed a well-oiled system of monitoring and harassment or [...] | 2008-10-30 11:23:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PREL PHUM PGOV KE ER |
08ASMARA530 | EU DIPLOMATS CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY, EVACUATION, [...] (C) RSO briefed European Union member country diplomats on a broad range of security issue, particularly the security situation in Eritrea. RSO expressed concern over the potential food crisis in Eritrea, the continued increase in crime associated with high unemployment, the increasing lack [...] | 2008-11-03 13:05:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL ER |
08ASMARA532 | ERITREA: A WEAK PARTNER FOR SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (C) Summary. Despite goodwill on both sides, strong political and economic ties between southern Sudan and Eritrea have been slow to develop, according to the Government of Southern Sudan's liaison mission chief in Asmara, Phillip Natana. Although Darfur is an issue where the GSE could pote [...] | 2008-11-04 13:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU ER |
08ASMARA535 | DARFUR REBEL GROUPS FIND ASMARA INHOSPITABLE [...] (C) In a meeting November 3, Abdul Beghi, a political officer with the Revolutionary Democratic Forces Front (RDFF),admitted to the shrinking presence of Darfur groups and their high-level representatives in Asmara, echoing the observations of the Government of Southern Sudan liaison officer [...] | 2008-11-05 12:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU ER |
08ASMARA536 | DEMOCRACY OUTREACH REACHES ENTHUSIASTIC ERITREANS [...] (U) Embassy Asmara hosted a successful election watch on the morning of November 5. Despite the 6:00am starting time, the event drew attendees eager to witness the U.S. election results televised live from three different networks. Open both by invitation and to the general public, the event [...] | 2008-11-05 12:37:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL ER |
08ASMARA537 | JEM OFFICIAL ON REGIONAL DYNAMICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Osman A. Wash, JEM's Asmara-based Secretary for Legal Affairs, averred that disgruntled pro-government gunmen were behind the recent kidnapping of Chinese oil workers in Southern Kordofan. He detailed Eritrean support for the JEM in Eritrea, was dubious about the Qatari initiati [...] | 2008-11-06 05:21:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS SU ER |
08ASMARA546 | ARREST, INTERROGATION, AND TORTURE OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On XXXXXXXXXXXX was released after five months in jail. XXXXXXXXXXXX emotionally recounted his experience to the RSO, including his interrogation, deplorable prison conditions, beatings, and witnessing the torture of other prisoners being held at the XXXXXXXXXXXX facility. XXXX [...] | 2008-11-12 11:46:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC ER PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF |
08ASMARA552 | ROUTINE AMERICAN CITIZEN SERVICES SUSPENDED [...] Asmara's consular section suspended providing routine American citizen services on November 17 due to the Eritrean government's detention of 26 of the Embassy's diplomatic pouches since September 13. Until the pouches are released, the consular section will not provide passport, CRBA, notary [...] | 2008-11-17 07:11:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | CACS CMGT PREL ER |
08ASMARA563 | POSSIBLE IRANIAN SUBMARINE IN ASSAB [...] (S/NF) An Iranian submarine was reportedly sighted in the port city of Assab on 11/24/08. A reliable embassy source obtained this information on 11/25/08 from a contact who belongs to an unknown Eritrean Army intelligence unit based in Assab. The contact said the submarine visit is widely k [...] | 2008-11-26 09:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PGOV PREL ASEC ER IR |
08ASMARA565 | REGIONAL MEETING ON FOOD SHORTAGES AND CRIME IN [...] (C) During a community meeting with regional administrators in the village of Adi Segodo (located approximately 3 miles NW of Asmara) on 11/23/08, local residents asked the administrator for increased rations, stating the 10 kilos of sorghum per month was not enough to feed their families. A [...] | 2008-12-01 09:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ER PGOV PHUM PREL |
08ASMARA569 | PRIVATE SAUDIS PROVIDE MOST ARS FUNDING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS ASEC SO ER |
08ASMARA587 | DEMARCHE ON COOPERATION ON COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Post has not received a response to demarche (ref) requesting Eritrea's cooperation on counter-terrorism issues. 2. (S) At Yemane Ghebreab's request, the ambassador and A/DCM met with him at the headquarters of the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice December 11. The ambassador stat [...] | 2008-12-11 12:34:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | ER PREL PTER |
08ASMARA592 | SLM/UNITY OFFICIAL ON DARFUR DYNAMICS [...] (C) DARFUR FRACTIONALIZATION: Darfur rebel leader Sharif Harir, SLM/Unity's chief of Foreign Relations, claims his organization has surpassed JEM in terms of size and clout to become the largest of the many Darfuri rebel groups. Meeting with Emboffs at the Peacebuilding Center for the Horn of [...] | 2008-12-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS SU ER |
08ASMARA593 | ARS HARD-LINERS SKEPTICAL OF ETHIOPIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (SBU) In a series of two December 9 press releases, The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) hard-liners in Asmara bitterly criticized the Djibouti Agreement and Ethiopian plans to withdraw from Somalia. The ARS dissidents voiced doubt concerning Ethiopian withdrawal intentions and [...] | 2008-12-15 11:15:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS SO ER |
08ASMARA598 | NGO SURVIVAL IN ERITREA [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met with three of the more prominent NGOs left in Eritrea to discuss operational hardships. The NGOs (Lutheran World Federation, LWF; Catholic Relief Services, CRS; and Oxfam) each described a tightening of restrictive measures making it next to impossible to operate. The [...] | 2008-12-17 12:51:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PGOV PREL ER |
08ASMARA609 | SHEIK HASSAN DAHIR AWEYS' OPTIONS LIMITED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well-placed Somali contact said UN-imposed travel restictions on Sheik Aweys limit his ability to play a role in Somali national reconciliation, and non-Islamist hardline ARS members believe Aweys is the key to peace in Somalia and neutralizing al-Shabaab. The Eritrean governme [...] | 2008-12-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS ASEC SO ER |
08ASMARA79 | WORLD BANK: PROGRAMS IN ERITREA [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with visiting World Bank Economist Tracy Lane and Eritrean World Bank Country Director Chris Lovelace on February 14 to discuss FY2008 and proposed FY2009-2010 projects in Eritrea. Lane discussed two repeat projects, time tables, and costs, as well as the Bank's str [...] | 2008-02-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ER |
08ASMARA86 | UNMEE "REGROUPING" [...] (SBU) UNMEE Force Commander General Taisir told the ambassador February 20 that the movement to consolidate UNMEE forces in Asmara and Assab was underway and was generally "OK, except in some areas." 2. (SBU) He said 200 of the 500 Jordanians were back in Asmara and he expected the other 30 [...] | 2008-02-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PBTS MOPS PREL ER |
08ASMARA89 | ERITREAN MFA ON UNMEE, COUNTER-TERRORISM, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fessehazion Petros, the second-ranking official in Eritrea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with the ambassador for ninety minutes February 21 and discussed UNMEE, regional dynamics, counter-terrorism, Kosovo, and bilateral issues. He reiterated a litany of perceived slights t [...] | 2008-02-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PTER ER |
08ASMARA90 | REPORTED GSE REACTIONS TO UNMEE CRISIS [...] (S/NF) RSO met with Source February 20 who relayed second-hand information from the MFA's Americas desk officer. Source has provided reliable informaton to RSO in the past. 2. (S/NF) The MFA desk officer told Source many GSE ministers and high-ranking civil servants are upset with President [...] | 2008-02-22 08:12:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO ASEC PINR ER |
08ASMARA92 | ERITREA'S DIESEL SITUATION: SHORTAGE OR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Claims by the Government of the State of Eritrea(GSE) since December that UNMEE's fuel crisis results from its own shortage of supply, raises the question "What is the situation with Eritrea's fuel supply?" Diesel fuel stocks in Eritrea have decreased over the past few years fo [...] | 2008-02-22 08:35:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO ECON EPET PGOV PREL ER |
08ASTANA1004 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COOPERATION [...] (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points thanking Kazakhstan for its cooperation regarding an Air Koryo flight of proliferation concern to MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kaliyev on May 29. Kaliyev was appreciative, and remarked that this is the type of cooperation clearly envisioned by [...] | 2008-05-29 07:14:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC KZ KN |
08ASTANA1005 | KAZAKHSTAN LEANS TOWARD AMB. SWING AS IOM DG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-29 07:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL SMIG AORC KZ |
08ASTANA1016 | KAZAKHSTAN: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DELIVERED ON [...] (S) Per ref A, Pol-Econ Chief delivered additional information on the IAEA BOG MESA seat to MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kalivey on May 30. Kaliyev appreciated the additional information, and said he had already sent a memo on the issue to Deputy Foreign Minister Sarybai. He promised [...] | 2008-05-30 11:44:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | KNNP IAEA ENRG PREL AORC KZ |
08ASTANA1021 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (MAY [...] Kazakhstan will conduct an operational-tactical exercise "Atom-Antiterror- 2008" in Almaty on June 6 under the auspices of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. This exercise is targeted to improve interaction between state bodies in order to prevent and localize a possible terror [...] | 2008-06-02 09:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1022 | CODEL RAHALL DISCUSSES ENERGY, SECURITY, DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: Codel Rahall traveled to Astana on May 28 for meetings with President Nazarbayev, Prime Minister Masimov, Foreign Minister Tazhin, State Secretary Saudabayev, and members of both houses of Parliament. The delegation's Kazakhstani interlocutors praised U.S. - Kazakhstan relations. [...] | 2008-06-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1027 | KAZAKHSTAN WILL ATTEND FOURTH MEETING OF GLOBAL [...] Sergey Savelyev, Head of the MFA's International Security Section, told Poloff on June 3 that Kazakhstan will attend the fourth meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Kazakhstan's delegation will be led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nurlan Danenov. Savelyev will also part [...] | 2008-06-03 11:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1072 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MAY 27 - JUNE 6, 2008 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Hunger Strike Against Property Seizures --------------------------------------- 2. On [...] | 2008-06-09 13:01:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1076 | KAZAKHSTAN STILL CONSIDERING IAEA BOG SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 06:58:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | KNNP IAEA PREL AORC KZ |
08ASTANA1121 | TIMUR KULIBAYEV VISITS THE EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Timur Kulibayev, Chairman of KazEnergy Association and son-in-law of President Nazarbayev, met with the Ambassador on June 12 and toured the Embassy. During his conversation with the Ambassador, Kulibayev discussed changes at KazMunayGas, described relations with Russia as improvin [...] | 2008-06-16 11:39:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA1147 | KAZAKHSTAN - EMBASSY INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN [...] (U) This cable constitutes post's input on Kazakhstan democracy and human rights concerns for demarches in preparation of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). Democracy and Political Rights ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) When Kazakkhstan was selected as 2010 O [...] | 2008-06-18 06:29:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM OSCE KDEM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1158 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTINGS'S VISIT TO KAZAKHSTAN FOR [...] (SBU) Your visit to Kazakhstan for the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly comes at a particularly opportune time. With its recent selection as 2010 OSCE chairman and thriving energy sector, Kazakhstan is showing increasing confidence on the international stage. The country is r [...] | 2008-06-20 05:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OSCE OVIP OTRA KZ |
08ASTANA1194 | KAZAKHSTAN - PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV DISCUSSES MADRID [...] (U) President Nazarbayev touched on Kazakhstan's Madrid commitments on democratic reform at the conclusion of his June 29 speech to the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which is being held in Astana from June 29 to July 2. This is the first time that Nazarbayev has publicly [...] | 2008-06-30 11:12:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM OSCE PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1202 | KAZAKHSTAN - NOMINEES FOR THE MAKTOUM FOUNDATION [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post would like to submit the following Kazakhstani entrepreneurs as possible participants in the Maktoum Foundation Entrepreneurs Conference in Dubai. Please note that the nominees are all ethnic Kazakhs, which means we believe they are all Muslims by ancestry, but we do not [...] | 2008-07-02 01:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON KZ |
08ASTANA1209 | KASHAGAN UPDATE: GOK CONFIRMS DELAY OF COMMERCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 05:29:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA1210 | ASSET STRUCTURE OF KAZAKHSTAN'S NATIONAL OIL AND GAS [...] (U) KazMunayGas (KMG),Kazakhstan's state-owned oil and gas company, is a vertically integrated company holding 25 subsidiaries in oil and gas exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, and sales. KMG produces 16% of Kazakhstan's oil output, transports 65% of its oil, and manages 10 [...] | 2008-07-03 05:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA1211 | SUBJECT: KAZAKHSTAN - ASIA SOCIETY CONFERENCE [...] (U) The Asia Society's Second Kazakhstan International Business Conference was held June 12-14 in Astana. The event brought together businessmen from Kazakhstan and abroad, government officials, diplomats, and academics to discuss obstacles to and opportunities for economic development in Kaz [...] | 2008-07-03 06:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV KZ |
08ASTANA1212 | KAZAKHSTAN: AZERBAIJAN STILL SLOW TO COOPERATE ON [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan has still not approved a Heads of Agreement on trans-Caspian transportation despite assurances to Kazakhstan that they would approve the agreement by June 15. Azerbaijan is also encouraging Kazakhstan to use the Baku - Novorossiysk pipeline and downplaying Baku - Supsa [...] | 2008-07-03 08:44:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA1222 | KAZAKHSTAN - CODEL HASTINGS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) President Nazarbayev told CODEL Hastings on June 29 that Kazakhstan is committed to deepening its cooperation with the U.S. He explained that Kazakhstan's crude production would increase significantly in the coming years, and that transport remains the big issue to resolve. Nazarbayev rem [...] | 2008-07-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON EPET KZ |
08ASTANA1223 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO [...] (C) As the Ambassador was unable to arrange a meeting with Foreign Minister Tazhin, Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on Kosovo independence to MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kaliyev on July 3. Kaliyev indicated that Kazakhstan's position on Kosovo remained unchanged. He also dou [...] | 2008-07-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO KV KZ |
08ASTANA1225 | KAZAKHSTAN - ROUND TABLE ON POLITICAL PARTY LEGISLATION [...] Summary: On July 1, the NDI and IRI organized a round-table on Kazakhstan's political party law which also included broader discussion of Kazakhstan's Madrid commitments. All the major parties were represented, including the ruling Nur Otan party. Several participants presented concrete propo [...] | 2008-07-09 07:43:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1236 | KAZAKHSTAN - ALMATY NOTES, JUNE 23 - JULY 4, 2008 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Opposition Parties Propose Legislation -------------------------------------- 2. On Ju [...] | 2008-07-10 02:41:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1246 | KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES FROM [...] The following is a summary of human trafficking cases reported in local newspapers from February to June 2008. --------------------------- UZBEKISTANIS IN KAZAKHSTAN --------------------------- 2. March 14, Interfax: Uzbekistani and Kazakhstani police jointly dismantled an organized smu [...] | 2008-07-11 03:34:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KCRM PREL UZ KZ |
08ASTANA1263 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (JUNE [...] On June 23, 2008, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),in cooperation with the Kazakhstan Customs Control Committee, commissioned the first eight sites outfitted with radiation detection equipment completed under a joint project. The radiation detection s [...] | 2008-07-15 02:23:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1271 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY BOYDEN GRAY'S JULY 22-23 [...] (SBU) Your visit to Astana will acquaint you more intimately with the dynamic developments in Kazakhstan's energy sector. U.S. and Kazakhstani strategic interests are essentially aligned regarding Kazakhstan's vast energy resources. The Kazakhstanis agree with us that U.S. and Western compani [...] | 2008-07-16 04:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1279 | KAZAKHSTAN - ASTANA CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY IN GRAND [...] (SBU) Astana celebrated its 10th anniversary as Kazakhstan's capital on July 6. The jubilee consisted of a week of events, ranging from monument dedications and gala concerts to an official anniversary ceremony attended by nine foreign heads of state, including Russian President Medvedev. The [...] | 2008-07-17 01:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PREL ECON KZ |
08ASTANA128 | KAZAKHSTAN CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR TIFA, REQUESTS [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered Ambassador Donnelly's letter to Vice Industry and Trade Minister Aitzhanova(Reftel A) on January 15 via Damigul Kabieyeva, Head of the Ministry's WTO accession department. Econoff simultaneously delivered TIFA demarche points (Reftel B) to Kabiyeva and her deputy, Saad [...] | 2008-01-28 08:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL AF KG TI TX UZ |
08ASTANA1283 | KAZAKHSTAN STILL MULLING IAEA MESA SEAT [...] (S) On July 17, DCM delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral Affairs Nurlan Danenov and Director of Multilateral Affairs Office Balibai Sadikov. He stressed the high-level of commitment by the USG to this issue and our willingness to engage at the highest levels, if [...] | 2008-07-18 02:46:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL KNNP IAEA AORC SY KZ |
08ASTANA1286 | KAZAKHSTAN SHARES INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC KN KZ |
08ASTANA1288 | USOSCE DCM SCOTT DISCUSSES MADRID COMMITMENTS [...] SUMMARY: During his June 26-30 trip to Kazakhstan, USOSCE DCM Kyle Scott met with government officials and opposition and civil society leaders to discuss Kazakhstan's Madrid commitments. In meetings held after President Nazarbayev's June 29 speech, government officials strove to reassure DCM [...] | 2008-07-18 11:44:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PREL ECON KZ |
08ASTANA1321 | KAZAKHSTAN - LAUNCH OF THE PUBLIC PRIVATE ECONOMIC [...] (U) Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud and Commerce DAS Paul Dyck joined Kazakhstani Prime Minister Masimov and a delegation of U.S. and Kazakhstani public and private sector officials to launch the U.S.-Kazakhstan Public-Private Economic Partnership Initia [...] | 2008-07-23 01:47:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID PREL PGOV KZ |
08ASTANA1327 | KAZAKHSTAN - DISCUSSIONS WITH GOK ON CO-FINANCING HEALTH [...] (U) Summary: The DCM and USAID held a productive meeting with Minister of Health Dernovoi on July 15 to discuss a new joint strategy in the health sector, the "Partnership for Health Development" (PHD). The proposal would combine USG assistance funds with matching funds from the GOK to suppor [...] | 2008-07-23 11:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA133 | 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - KAZAKHSTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 02:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON EINV PREL OPIC KTDB USTR |
08ASTANA1341 | KAZAKHSTAN: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 11:08:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA1342 | (S) KAZAKHSTAN DENIES DPPK OVERFLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 11:56:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1343 | U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT DISCUSSES CLIMATE CHANGE WITH [...] As part of its U.S. speaker program, U.S. Embassy Astana sponsored the July 7-12 visit to Kazakhstan of environmental law expert Dr. John Dernbach in order to familiarize Kazakhstani audiences with the concepts of sustainable economic growth and the importance of energy conservation in mitigat [...] | 2008-07-25 01:47:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI PREL ENRG KZ |
08ASTANA1348 | (S) KAZAKHSTAN: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON DPRK - [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 09:32:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1355 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL REID'S AUGUST 7-8 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Your visit to Kazakhstan comes at a particularly opportune time. With its recent selection as 2010 OSCE chairman and thriving energy sector, Kazakhstan is showing increasing confidence on the international stage. The country is rightly proud of its achievements: a booming economy, larg [...] | 2008-07-28 04:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PGOV ECON OVIP OTRA KZ |
08ASTANA1360 | KAZAKHSTAN - EURASIAN ENERGY COORDINATOR MANN [...] (C) Samruk Deputy Chairman Kairgeldy Kabyldin told visiting Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator Steven Mann on July 24 that the international oil and gas companies have insisted on ownership stakes in the pipeline portion of the Kazakhstan-Caspian Transportation System (KCTS) -- i.e., the pi [...] | 2008-07-28 08:51:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PGOV EINV KZ AJ TX GG |
08ASTANA1368 | KAZAKHSTAN - ASTANA CONFERENCE DISCUSSES SULFUR STORAGE, [...] (U) The Kazakhstan-Canada Business Association (KCBA),in partnership with Canada's Alberta Sulfur Research Ltd. organized the First International Conference on Sulfur Reutilization and Sustainable Development in Astana on July 9. Representatives of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources [...] | 2008-07-30 10:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET SENV PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1375 | KAZAKHSTAN - GOVERNMENT TAKING FURTHER MEASURES [...] (C) A Wall Street Journal article in which Rakhat Aliyev made new charges of corruption against President Nazarbayev and his family appears to have provoked the government to strike back with an anti-Aliyev media campaign and a threat of new charges against him. Some of Aliyev's allegations to [...] | 2008-07-31 12:20:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM ECON KZ |
08ASTANA1381 | KAZAKHSTAN - SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY DISCUSSES ENERGY [...] (C) During July 22 meetings, Kazakhstani government officials expressed optimism to visiting Special Envoy Boyden Gray regarding the restructuring of Kashagan. They explained that Kazakhstan was moving forward with Azerbaijan and the companies on the Kazakhstan-Caspian Transportation System ( [...] | 2008-08-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1382 | KAZAKHSTAN - SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY DISCUSSES ENERGY [...] (C) During July 22 meetings, Kazakhstani government officials expressed optimism to visiting Special Envoy Boyden Gray regarding the restructuring of Kashagan. They explained that Kazakhstan was moving forward with Azerbaijan and the companies on the Kazakhstan-Caspian Transportation System ( [...] | 2008-08-04 02:11:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1411 | KAZAKHSTAN: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE TO 63RD UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 10:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA KZ |
08ASTANA1440 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (JULY [...] On July 28, 2008, Kazakhstani Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Bozhko participated in a six day working visit to the United States at the invitation of the Arizona National Guard. He is studying the U.S. system of emergency response measures and risk management techniques. On July 31, [...] | 2008-08-08 11:39:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA146 | 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - KAZAKHSTAN [...] The following information is provided in response to reftel request. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Kazakhstan has made significant progress toward creating a market economy since its independence in 1991. The European Union in 2000 and the U.S. Department of [...] | 2008-01-29 09:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON EINV PREL OPIC KTDB USTR |
08ASTANA1499 | KAZAKHSTAN - DAS KROL DISCUSSES IAEA BOG, MADRID [...] (C) In a July 22 meeting in Astana, SCA DAS George Krol stressed to DFM Kairat Sarybai the urgency of Kazakhstan's moving forward on its candidacy for the MESA seat on the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG). Sarybai said he has heard from Vienna that most of the Arab members of the MESA group have [...] | 2008-08-12 06:47:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA EAID PGOV KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA1500 | KAZAKHSTAN ASKS FOR GREATER USG ASSISTANCE ON GI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) On August 12, we met with Sergey Saveliyev, MFA's Deputy Director of International Security Department, to discuss the upcoming seminar on battling nuclear terrorism organized under the auspices of Global Initiative. The semin [...] | 2008-08-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1510 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AUGUST SCO [...] (C) The Ambassador raised reftel demarche points on the August SCO Summit with Foreign Minister Tazhin on August 5, stressing that the U.S. hoped that the SCO would not admit Iran to SCO membership or adopt any statement critical of the U.S. presence at Manas air base. While not responding di [...] | 2008-08-13 11:33:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AFIN KZ |
08ASTANA1512 | KAZAKHSTAN -- CODEL REID MEETS WITH PM MASIMOV, [...] (C) CODEL Reid met with Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Masimov on August 7 to discuss several aspects of the U.S. - Kazakhstan relationship. Masimov opened the meeting by highlighting Kazakhstan's progress on democratic and economic liberalization since independence. He thanked U.S. companies fo [...] | 2008-08-14 08:58:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL OVIP PARM PHUM ETRD OREP KZ |
08ASTANA1519 | KAZAKHSTAN SEES SEVERAL ISSUES WITH NUCLEAR [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on the latest developments regarding the U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative to Sergei Saveliyev, the MFA's Director of International Organizations and International Security, on August 15. Saveliyev told us that as far as he knew, the GOK's Vienna mission had [...] | 2008-08-15 11:39:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC IN KZ |
08ASTANA1525 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING SUICIDE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 08:57:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR KDRG PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1531 | KAZAKHSTAN TO LIFT WHEAT EXPORT BAN [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Masimov announced at an August 16 meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture that Kazakhstan would lift its ban on wheat exports, effective September 1. This move was long anticipated. Our government interlocutors had previously emphasized to us on several occasions that the [...] | 2008-08-19 11:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV PREL EAID KZ |
08ASTANA1558 | TFGG01: KAZAKHSTAN CAUTIOUS ON GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Kazakhstan will likely continue its cautious approach toward the Georgian-Russian conflict to preserve its equities with both countries. Nevertheless, the Kazakhstanis appear genuinely concerned about the long-term implications of Russia's actions for other CIS states. While Kazakhstan is [...] | 2008-08-21 07:11:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KZ GG RS |
08ASTANA1562 | KAZAKHSTAN'S GERMAN MINORITY IS MORE THAN JUST A SHOWPIECE [...] (SBU) Although their community shrank dramatically in the 1990s, ethnic Germans remain one of the largest and best organized minority groups in Kazakhstan. The German government provides the German minority significant resources to strengthen its minority Association, improve its economic pros [...] | 2008-08-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL ECON KZ |
08ASTANA1567 | KAZAKHSTAN AGREES TO JOINT DEMARCHE ON [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Fairzarkhman Kasenov, Advisor at the MFA's International Cooperation Department. Kasenov gladly welcomed the USG proposal to pass the invitation for the upcoming GI exercise via a joint demarche [...] | 2008-08-25 10:47:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KGIT KGIC KZ |
08ASTANA1574 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER SEMBINOV [...] (C) In an August 22 meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission and visiting Marshall Center Director Dr. John Rose, Deputy Defense Minister Lt Gen Bulat Sembinov expressed an interest in discussing further mil-mil cooperation with the U.S. and NATO. He explained that while there were elements i [...] | 2008-08-27 02:08:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS KZ |
08ASTANA1608 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN [...] (C) The Deputy Chief of Mission delivered ref A demarche on Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to DFM Kairat Sarybay on August 27. The DCM also raised the Kazakhstan-specific points from ref B, and noted that Kazakhstan was in a unique position of influence because of its good [...] | 2008-08-27 07:39:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG KZ |
08ASTANA1647 | KAZAKHSTAN - NAZARBAYEV DISCUSSES RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (U) Summary: In a September 2 speech to Parliament, President Nazarbayev called for negotiations on the Georgia conflict based on Sarkozy's six points and fundamental principals of international law. He publicly discussed Kazakhstan's Madrid commitments for just the second time, promising th [...] | 2008-09-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON KZ GG RS |
08ASTANA1648 | (S) KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK FLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 11:01:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC AF CH KG KZ TI TX UZ |
08ASTANA1649 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PREVENTING [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and non-paper on preventing Iran's acquisition of new supplies of uranium on September 2 to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of Multilateral Cooperation. Savelyev expressed the Government of Kazakhstan's continuing support for strong no [...] | 2008-09-03 11:18:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP IR MNUC KZ PREL |
08ASTANA1655 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, AUGUST 18 - 29, 2008 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Nurlan Alimbekov Released ------------------------- 2. On July 31, a Shimkent court issu [...] | 2008-09-04 01:39:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KZ |
08ASTANA1662 | KAZAKHSTAN DECLINES OFFER OF JOINT DEMARCHE ON GI [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points on the USG offer to do a joint demarche encouraging participation in Kazakhstan's upcoming Global Initiative event to Sergey Saveliyev, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of Multilateral Cooperation, on September 2. Saveliyev thanked the USG for its willi [...] | 2008-09-04 11:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KZ KNNP PARM PREL PTER |
08ASTANA1669 | KAZAKHSTAN - FAA DISCUSSES CIVIL AVIATION ISSUES WITH [...] (SBU) Brian Staurseth, Moscow-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Senior Representative for the CIS, visited Astana from August 25-28, 2008 for meetings with Mukhit Kubayev, Chairman of the Civil Aviation Committee; Marat Dautaliyev, Deputy Director General of KazAeroNavigatsiya; Johar [...] | 2008-09-05 06:21:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1671 | KAZAKHSTAN - COMMON WORLD FORUM DRAFT COMMUNIQUE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador participated in the Common World Forum senior officials meeting (SOM),which was held in Astana during August 28-29. The majority of European countries were represented by their embassies in Kazakhstan and most of the Muslim countries by senior-level MFA officia [...] | 2008-09-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KISL KZ |
08ASTANA1697 | KAZAKHSTANI LEADERSHIP PROMISES BOUCHER FOLLOW [...] (C) Prime Minister Masimov and Foreign Minister Tazhin, citing President Nazarbayev's public commitment, told Assistant Secretary Boucher on September 2 that Kazakhstan would follow through on its Madrid commitments on democratic reform. Masimov looked forward to next steps on the Public-Priv [...] | 2008-09-08 07:59:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM OSCE ECON KZ |
08ASTANA1710 | KAZAKHSTAN - LETTERS DELIVERED REQUESTING [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the Ambassador on September 8 hand-delivered a letter requesting $13 million in additional Kazakhstani financial support for the BN-350 spent fuel disposition program to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev. Mynbayev promised to review the letter carefull [...] | 2008-09-10 06:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC ENRG PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1723 | KAZAKHSTAN UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO ICJ REFERRAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on Serbia's proposed referral of Kosovo independence to the ICJ to Zhanar Kulzhanova, Counselor in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Kulzhanova told us that the GOK has not yet developed a position on the issue. She reminded us that Kazakhstan [...] | 2008-09-11 07:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KV KZ |
08ASTANA1726 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA THIRD [...] (C) We delivered ref A/ref B points on UNGA Third Committee human rights priorities to Zhanar Kulzhanova, Counselor in the MFA's International Organizations Department, on September 10. Kulzhanova agreed that the growing use of "no action motions" in the Third Committee was an issue. She m [...] | 2008-09-11 08:50:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN KZ |
08ASTANA1774 | KAZAKHSTANIS TELL NATO THEY WANT TO ENHANCE [...] (C) NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero held meetings in Astana on September 11 with Defense Minister Akhmetov, Foreign Minister Tazhin, Security Council Secretary Suleymenov, and officials from the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In a readout he gave to resident NATO-country a [...] | 2008-09-15 11:22:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO KZ |
08ASTANA1798 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, SEPTEMBER 2 - 12, 2008 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Unique Protest -------------- 2. The Talmas youth movement, a group of young activists, [...] | 2008-09-16 09:54:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1805 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (AUGUST [...] On August 7, 2008, a U.S. Senate delegation lead by Nevada Senator (and Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid visited Kazakhstan as part of a multi-country trip. Other senators making the trip included Jeff Bingaman (D-NM),Bill Nelson (D-FL),Johnny Isakson (R-GA),and Bob Menendez (D-NJ). 2 [...] | 2008-09-17 08:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA1807 | KAZAKHSTAN - POLL INDICATES PUBLIC SYMPATHIES ARE WITH [...] (U) Summary: The results of an opinion poll indicate that the Kazakhstani public has largely adopted the South Ossetian and Russian viewpoint with respect to the conflict in Georgia. Overall, 40.2 percent of poll respondents sympathized most with the South Ossetians, compared to just 2.7 perc [...] | 2008-09-17 11:20:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR SOCI KZ GG RS |
08ASTANA1808 | KAZAKHSTAN - WHEAT EXPORTS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IN [...] (C) According to the Egyptian Embassy, Kazakhstani wheat exports to Egypt are an important issue in Kazakhstan-Egypt bilateral relations and were a main topic of discussion for the August 29 visit to Astana of Egyptian Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid. Egypt is interested in [...] | 2008-09-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR PTER KZ EG |
08ASTANA1867 | KAZAKHSTAN HOLDS "DESIGN BASIS THREAT" GLOBAL [...] (C) Participants from eight countries and various Kazakhstani government bodies and organizations attended Kazakhstan's second Global Initiative (GI) exercise of 2008 during September 10-13. The event, which took place at facilities of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, was dedi [...] | 2008-09-25 02:03:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL KZ |
08ASTANA1944 | KAZAKHSTAN: DECISION NOT TO BUILD POTI GRAIN [...] (U) In contradiction to earlier Kazakhstani government claims, it now appears that Kazakhstan's decision not to build a grain terminal at Georgia's Poti port was actually a commercial one that had no connection to the recent Georgia conflict, according to several sources. 2. (C) Prime Minis [...] | 2008-10-01 11:15:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR EINV RS GG KZ |
08ASTANA1974 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONOCOPHILLIPS SIGNS MAJOR OFFSHORE DEAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 5, ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva signed a memorandum of understanding with Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company, KazMunaiGas (KMG),and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala for the exploration and development of th [...] | 2008-10-06 11:02:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET EINV RS TX KZ |
08ASTANA1976 | KAZAKHSTAN: NO CLEAR EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN PRESSURE TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Georgian media have alleged that a Kazakhstani grain shipment to Georgia was delayed because of Russian pressure. We spoke to several sources in Kazakhstan and could find no clear evidence that this was the ca [...] | 2008-10-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON GG RS KZ |
08ASTANA2008 | KAZAKHSTAN: KAZMUNAIGAS PRESIDENT DISCUSSES GEORGIA, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: KazMunaiGas (KMG) President Kairgeldy Kabyldin informed Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator Ambassador Steve Mann on October 6 that Kazakhstan remains committed to its strategic investments in Georgia. Kabyldin r [...] | 2008-10-08 11:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET EINV GG KZ |
08ASTANA2036 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV SIGNS DECREE ON CTR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Sarybay called in the Ambassador on October 15 to inform him that President Nazarbayev had signed a decree on the amended Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Umbrella Agreement under which the Kazakhs [...] | 2008-10-15 12:06:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MNUC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2042 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALLS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Chinese Ambassador Cheng Guoping on October 14 and joined Russian Ambassador Mikhail Nikolayevich Bocharnikov for lunch at his Embassy on October 15. Although both were rather formal on first meeting, Ambassador Cheng seemed the somewhat less guarded. Both [...] | 2008-10-16 06:01:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS CH KZ |
08ASTANA206 | OIL COMPANIES AND AMBASSADORS DISCUSS OIL AND GAS [...] (C) Foreign oil company representatives told visiting Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator Ambassador Mann on January 25 that much remains to be worked out in finalizing the details of the new Kashagan agreement, including the role of KazMunaiGaz (KMG). The EC head of delegation to Kazakhsta [...] | 2008-02-04 08:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA2079 | KAZAKHSTAN: SENIOR COUNTER-NARCOTICS OFFICIAL DISCUSSES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Embassy's Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) and the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office (INL) met with Colonel Nygmedzhan Saparov, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Combating Drug Traffic [...] | 2008-10-20 11:03:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2080 | KAZAKHSTAN: FM TAZHIN THANKS AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 17 meeting, Foreign Minister Tazhin thanked U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Khalilzad for his attendance at the Common World ministerial. Tazhin told Khalilzad that he expected Kazakhstan to finalize an agreement with NATO on land transit of supplies for [...] | 2008-10-20 11:31:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EINV KISL KDEM AF KZ |
08ASTANA2092 | KAZAKHSTAN: COMMON WORLD FORUM MINISTERIAL BRINGS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad led the U.S. delegation to the October 17 Common World Forum ministerial meeting in Astana. Aimed at promoting understanding between the Muslim world and the [...] | 2008-10-22 10:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL KIRF KZ |
08ASTANA2101 | KAZAKHSTAN: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2008 KAZAKHSTAN [...] SUMMARY: The 16th annual Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (KIOGE) was held during October 7-10 in Almaty. The exhibition featured more than 550 companies from 30 countries and was visited by more than 15,000 oil and gas industry professionals. The conference in [...] | 2008-10-23 08:34:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EPET EINV RS GG KZ |
08ASTANA2119 | KAZAKHSTAN: CHIEF OF FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT LAYS OUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On October 1, the Minister of Finance appointed Mussiraly Utebayev to head the Committee on Financial Monitoring, which is Kazakhstan's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Representatives of the Embassy's Office of I [...] | 2008-10-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EFIN SNAR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2147 | KAZAKHSTAN: FM TAZHIN REAFFIRMS MADRID [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Tazhin: -- reaffirmed Kazakhstan's commitment to fulfilling its Madrid commitments; -- made a case for building a more mature bilateral relationship by noting his government's desire to be released from the [...] | 2008-10-30 11:02:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD KDEM KNNP IZ AF KZ |
08ASTANA2156 | CENTRAL ASIAN LEADERS REACH AGREEMENT ON WATER AND ENERGY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The presidents of the five Central Asian states overcame their disagreements and signed an agreement in Bishkek on October 10 to share water and energy resources this winter. One expert sees Gazprom's influence beh [...] | 2008-10-31 09:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV TX TI KG UZ KZ |
08ASTANA2160 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DISCOURAGING [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and non-paper on discouraging participation in Iran,s November 30 "First International Conference on Nuclear Power Plants, Environmental and Sustainable Development" on October 31 to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the MFA,s Department of Multilateral Coope [...] | 2008-10-31 11:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC TRGY KNNP IR KZ |
08ASTANA2161 | KAZAKHSTAN PROVIDES UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION [...] (SBU) On October 21, we delivered reftel points requesting updated Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism contact information for Kazakhstan to Fairzarkhman Kasenov, Counselor in the MFA,s Department of Multilateral Cooperation. Kasenov expressed the Government of Kazakhstan,s continu [...] | 2008-10-31 12:01:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER MCAP KGIC KZ |
08ASTANA2162 | KAZAKHSTAN: AUSTRIA ASKS WHERE IS RAKHAT ALIYEV [...] (C) During a pull-aside at a commercial-diplomatic event in Astana on October 31, Austrian Ambassador Ursula Fahringer asked if the United States has any current information on the whereabouts of the former Kazakhstani Ambassador to Austria and President Nazarbayev's ex-son-in-law, Rakhat Aliy [...] | 2008-11-03 03:33:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KCRM AU KZ |
08ASTANA2163 | KAZAKHSTAN: SOUTH KOREAN AMBASSADOR ON ECONOMIC, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The South Korean Ambassador in Astana said Seoul -- is considering an economic summit for South Asia as a way to raise its profile in the region; -- would be willing to play a greater "quiet diplomacy" role in promoting democracy; -- considered creating a South and Centra [...] | 2008-11-03 05:03:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KDEM RS KS KZ |
08ASTANA2165 | KAZAKHSTANI DELEGATION STUDIES ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF [...] SUMMARY: In an effort to improve Kazakhstan's ability to protect victims of trafficking in persons, INL sent a Kazakhstani interagency delegation to Rome to study the work of the Italian government and Italian NGOs. The delegation -- representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Internal Affa [...] | 2008-11-03 08:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR KCRM IT KZ |
08ASTANA2166 | KAZAKHSTAN: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CORKER'S NOVEMBER 13-14 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Kazakhstan will be most useful to reinforce the importance we place on the U.S.-Kazakhstan strategic partnership. Both Secretary of State Rice and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad visited Astana in October. With its selection as 2010 OSCE ch [...] | 2008-11-03 09:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EPET OREP KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2168 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DESIGNATION OF [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and non-paper on designating additional Iranian entities and individuals under Executive Order 13382 on November 3 to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the MFA,s Department of Multilateral Cooperation. Savelyev promised to pass our non-paper to appropriate a [...] | 2008-11-03 16:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL EFIN MNUC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2179 | KAZAKHSTAN: ECONOMIC CRISIS AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a meeting of SCO heads of government in Astana on October 30. All four SCO observer states, as well as Afghanistan, also sent high-level representatives to the event. The SCO heads of government called for greater coordination in [...] | 2008-11-04 11:46:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET AF KZ |
08ASTANA2181 | KAZAKHSTAN: EXBS ADVISOR'S REPORTING CABLE [...] On September 22-23, the EXBS Advisor to Kazakhstan traveled to Washington, DC, for consultations with personnel from the Department of State's Office of Export Control Cooperation, the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Cooperative Threat Reduction Policy and Defense Threat Reduction Agency, [...] | 2008-11-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC MNUC KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2190 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT [...] Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a congratulatory letter to President-elect Obama. Post believes that the original is being delivered through the Kazakhstani Embassy in Washington. Post has obtained a copy of letter, which we have translated from Kazakh to English. The tr [...] | 2008-11-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP KZ |
08ASTANA2194 | KAZAKHSTAN: INFORMATION AND CULTURE MINISTER SAYS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 5 meeting, the Ambassador stressed to Information and Culture Minister Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed the importance of Kazakhstan's follow through on its Madrid commitments on democratic reform. Kul-Mukh [...] | 2008-11-07 06:22:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL KDEM KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2225 | KAZAKHSTAN: PUSH ON RENEWABLE ENERGY, KYOTO PROTOCOL IS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A Presidential Administration official told us on October 31 that a draft law on renewable energy currently in Parliament is expected to be passed before the end of the year. The Ministry of Energy will create a ne [...] | 2008-11-10 02:14:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG EINV SENV KZ |
08ASTANA2231 | KAZAKHSTAN: WHAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAN ACCOMPLISH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan's Capital Partners develops luxury projects in Almaty, Astana, Moscow, and Istanbul, including for J.W. Marriott and its related Ritz-Carlton brand. In Almaty, Capital Partners is developing for Marrio [...] | 2008-11-10 11:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EINV KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2244 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON UNGA [...] (C) The Ambasassador delivered reftel demarche encouraging support for UNGA Third Committee human rights resolutions on Iran, North Korea, and Burma to Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Sarybay on November 12. The Ambassador requested that Kazakhstan once again support the North Korea and Burma [...] | 2008-11-12 11:42:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA2245 | KAZAKHSTAN: AUSTRIANS PURPORTEDLY PREPARING TO [...] (S) On November 11, Canadian Embassy Political Counselor Dierdrah Kelley confirmed for us rumors that Austrian Embassy DCM Peter Hoehlmuller and his family had departed Kazakhstan several days previously on short notice and might not be returning to the country. Kelley, who is close to Hoehl [...] | 2008-11-12 12:06:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM AU KZ |
08ASTANA2249 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION POLITICIANS PESSIMISTIC ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with leaders of four key opposition parties in Almaty on November 6. They told him that while they expect "great change" from the new U.S. Administration, they do not foresee any drastic shifts [...] | 2008-11-13 11:19:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO RS KZ |
08ASTANA225 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOK AND KMG DISCUSS KASHAGAN, OIL AND [...] (C) Senior Kazakhstani officials and KazMunaiGaz (KMG) executives told visiting Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator Ambassador Mann on January 25 that they welcomed the Administration's decision to reestablish the energy coordinator's office. They explained that the GOK pressed to renegotia [...] | 2008-02-04 13:35:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA2250 | KAZAKHSTAN HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRIMARY [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Kazakhstan recently hosted nearly 500 participants from 65 countries, including 11 health ministers, at the International Primary Health Care Conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata declaration on primary health care. Dr. Margaret Chan, Directo [...] | 2008-11-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI KG TI TX UZ KZ |
08ASTANA2252 | KAZAKHSTAN: ATYRAU AKIM EAGER FOR UNBIASED NEWS, ANXIOUS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 11, the Ambassador held his first meeting with Atyrau oblast governor (Akim) Bergey Ryskaliyev, a 41-year old former oil company director appointed in October 2006. Ryskaliyev greeted the Ambassador wa [...] | 2008-11-14 07:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV SOCI KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2255 | KAZAKHSTAN: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR SAYS ELITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Israeli Ambassador in Astana asserts many in the elite are dissatisfied about President Nazarbayev,s alleged isolation and lack of a plan of succession. The Israeli Embassy,s main functional interest is trade, with &modest military sales8 that include unmanned aerial vehicl [...] | 2008-11-14 09:59:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD MASS KIRF UZ TI IS KZ |
08ASTANA2262 | KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL MEDIA FINALLY REPORT RETURN OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Kazakhstani media did not report the return to Kazakhstan of Guantanamo detainee Dolkun Kerimbakiyev until one week after his arrival. The government made no announcement about the return. Several media outle [...] | 2008-11-17 10:29:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR PHUM KDRG KAWC KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2263 | KAZAKHSTAN: BOLASHAK PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR CLAIMS INTEREST [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13, CAO met with Aida Sagintayeva, president of the Center for International Programs, which is responsible for administering Kazakhstan's "Bolashak" program, through which the government funds up to 3, [...] | 2008-11-17 11:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SCUL SOCI KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2266 | KAZAKHSTAN: KAZMUNAIGAS AND SOCAR SIGN AGREEMENT ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 14, the state oil companies of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan signed an agreement outlining the basic principles for implementation of a trans-Caspian oil transportation system. The agreement defines the r [...] | 2008-11-18 10:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV SOCI KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2267 | KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER TAZHIN BRIEFED ON [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on U.S. policy on Afghan reconciliation to Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin on November 18, stressing that reconciliation comes with strict conditions that insurgents must lay down their arms, return to normal life, recognize the democratically elected [...] | 2008-11-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF KZ |
08ASTANA2276 | KAZAKHSTAN: KAZMUNAIGAS FIRST VP IDENOV ON SWAPS WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 19, KazMunaiGas (KMG) First Vice President Maksat Idenov briefed the Ambassador on KMG's trans-Caspian oil transportation agreement with the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR),indica [...] | 2008-11-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV SOCI KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2277 | KAZAKHSTAN: TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Transport and Communications Serik Akhmetov told the Ambassador on November 19 that Kazakhstan aims to improve its transport infrastructure and develop itself as a transit corridor. The capacity of th [...] | 2008-11-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAIR ELTN EINV MARR AF KZ |
08ASTANA2291 | KAZAKHSTAN: KULIBAYEV ON THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 20, Timur Kulibayev, newly-appointed Deputy Chairman of the Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund, gave the Ambassador his assessment of the domestic impact of the global financial crisis and an update o [...] | 2008-11-21 10:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR EPET EINV SOCI KPAO RS IR AJ |
08ASTANA2294 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PSI OPERATIONAL [...] (SBU) On November 21, we delivered reftel points and non-paper on the results of the proliferation security initiative,s operational experts group September 2008 meeting to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Multilateral Cooperation. Savelyev pr [...] | 2008-11-24 05:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2297 | KAZAKHSTAN: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE REQUESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador called on Minister of Defense Akhmetov and, separately, Deputy Minister of Defense General Sembinov on November 19. The two meetings illustrate the generally sound U.S.-Kazakhstan military relationship, but they also illustrate Kazakhstan's multi-vector foreign [...] | 2008-11-24 08:19:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AF KZ |
08ASTANA2316 | ENCOURAGING KAZAKHSTAN TO MEET ITS BN-350 SPENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph nine. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: In the 1997 agreement, &Implementing Arrangements between the Department of Energy of the United States of America and the Ministry of Sciences ) [...] | 2008-11-24 10:18:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PREL ENRG MNUC KNNP TRGY UK KZ |
08ASTANA2318 | PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV CALLS FOR GREATER INTERNATIONAL ROLE, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In his speech to Kazakhstan's top diplomats on November 19, President Nazarbayev asked the MFA to develop a new foreign policy concept that underscores Kazakhstan's growing role on the global scene. He n [...] | 2008-11-24 10:54:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM OSCE KZ |
08ASTANA2320 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT MOVES SWIFTLY TO STABILIZE BANKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is the first in a three-part series analyzing Kazakhstan's response to the global financial crisis. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 13, President Nazarbayev announced a series of sweeping measures to be enacted by the G [...] | 2008-11-24 11:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN KZ |
08ASTANA2321 | KAZAKHSTAN PURSUES ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 6, DCM and poloff met with a newly created national corporation to discuss business promotion and public-private partnerships in Kazakhstan,s Mangystau oblast. The Chairman of the Mangystau and Atyrau [...] | 2008-11-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV KZ |
08ASTANA2338 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT MOVES SWIFTLY TO STABILIZE BANKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is the second in a three-part series analyzing Kazakhstan's response to the global financial crisis. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 13, President Nazarbayev announced a series of sweeping measures to be enacted by the [...] | 2008-11-25 10:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN KZ |
08ASTANA2345 | KAZAKHSTAN'S MAEC-KAZATOMPROM FACES FUNDING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 5, DCM and poloff visited Mangystau Atomic Energy Complex (MAEC),a subsidiary of Kazatomprom, to attend the construction completion ceremony of the U.S.-funded Sodium Processing Facility on the terri [...] | 2008-11-25 10:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG KNNP TX KZ |
08ASTANA2346 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION HEAD MUSIN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 24, the Ambassador met Aslan Musin, Head of the Presidential Administration, to discuss Kazakhstan's broad goals as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE and the package of legislative amendments currently be [...] | 2008-11-25 10:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM ECON EFIN EINV SOCI KNNP KDEM KPAO |
08ASTANA2350 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPORTUNITY IN MANGYSTAU OBLAST [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Chief of Mission and poloff visited the port-city of Aktau, the capital of Mangystau oblast, during November 5-6. In addition to attending the construction completion ceremony of the U.S.-funded Sodium Pr [...] | 2008-11-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EPET KPAO KDEM AE |
08ASTANA2351 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT MOVES SWIFTLY TO STABILIZE BANKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 13, 2008, President Nazarbayev announced a series of sweeping measures to be enacted by the Government of Kazakhstan in response to the global financial crisis. Established to ensure the stability of K [...] | 2008-11-26 02:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN KZ |
08ASTANA2352 | KAZAKHSTAN: BORDER SECURITY ASSISTANCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. The fundamental strategic aim of the U.S. Mission is a stable, secure, democratic and prosperous Kazakhstan. The strategic partnership between the United States and Kazakhstan for border security is based on our common security interests including bolstering Central Asian sovere [...] | 2008-11-26 02:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC MNUC SNAR KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2353 | KAZAKHSTAN: TWO FRONTS IN "THE WAR OF IDEAS" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Kazakhstan is facing a "War of Ideas" on two separate fronts. As a Muslim-majority country, Kazakhstan is susceptible to religious extremism from its neighbors to the south. As a former Soviet and largely Ru [...] | 2008-11-26 02:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KISL KPAO ZK RS KZ |
08ASTANA2361 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, NOVEMBER 10 - NOVEMBER 21, 2008 [...] (U) NOTE: The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. END NOTE. NUR OTAN REACHES OUT TO NGOS 2. (U) On November 12, the new deput [...] | 2008-11-26 09:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2364 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CHINA'S WIDE-RANGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 25, China's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Guoping Cheng called on the Ambassador to brief him on Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's visit to Kazakhstan for the October 29 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) ministerial meeting in Astana, and Cheng's views on the role [...] | 2008-11-26 11:51:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV CH RS TX UZ KZ |
08ASTANA2365 | KAZAKHSTAN: SENATE CHAIRMAN OFFERS TO CONSULT WITH THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 26, Ambassador Hoagland met with Senate Chairman Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev. Tokayev told the Ambassador that the Senate's priorities are to pass a package of "Madrid" amendments now making their way throug [...] | 2008-11-26 12:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2372 | KAZAKHSTAN: MFA SEEKS HIGH PROFILE VISIT TO SIGNAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 25, 2008, Econoff met with the Head of the Americas Department at the MFA, Talgat Kaliyev, to deliver a demarche on the proposed development of a Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food (GPAF). Af [...] | 2008-11-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN KZ |
08ASTANA2375 | KAZAKHSTAN: CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs Alik Shpekbayev has been appointed to a position in the presidential administration. Shpekbayev was one of post's closest interlocutors in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) [...] | 2008-12-01 02:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2380 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2008-2009 INCSR REPORT, PART 1 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to reftel, please find below Part 1 of the 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) for Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is still affected by the expansion of international drug trafficking [...] | 2008-12-02 01:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
08ASTANA2383 | KAZAKHSTAN'S ASYLUM SEEKER DEPARTS VOLUNTARILY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: On December 1, Ramazan Yesergepov, Editor-in-Chief of the Alma-Ata Info, a small weekly opposition newspaper with a circulation of approximately 8,000 copies, requested political asylum and refused to leave the U [...] | 2008-12-03 02:03:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS KDEM KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA2384 | KAZAKHSTAN OFFERS TRANSCOM "AGREEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to Astana on November 21, TRANSCOM CDR General Duncan McNabb and his delegation received general agreement from the Government of Kazakhstan for its territory to be used for a non-lethal Northern Distribution Network (NDN). The Deputy Secretary of the president [...] | 2008-12-03 06:30:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AF GM KZ |
08ASTANA2388 | KAZAKHSTAN: RELIGION LAW PASSES PARLIAMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 26, Kazakhstan's parliament adopted the amendments to the religion law, and the legislation is now before President Nazarbayev for signature. While the draft is a marked improvement over the origina [...] | 2008-12-03 10:59:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2391 | GE REGIONAL CEO DISCUSSES TRADE AND INVESTMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 26, DCM and energyoff met Ron Pollett, President and CEO of General Electric (GE) Russia/CIS, who said that GE will break ground in 2009 on a locomotive production facility in Astana. Konstantin Nazar [...] | 2008-12-03 13:25:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EIND ENRG ETRD BEXP BTIO KZ |
08ASTANA2398 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION PARTIES CRITICIZE MADRID LAWS, BUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) This is the first in a series of cables analyzing reactions to Kazakhstan's Madrid legislation. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 19, a group of Western diplomats met with leading opposition parties to gather their reactio [...] | 2008-12-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2399 | KAZAKHSTAN: CIVIL SOCIETY PESSIMISTIC ON MADRID LAWS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) This is the second in a series of cables analyzing reactions to Kazakhstan's Madrid legislation. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 19, several leading NGOs shared their views on the draft laws on political parties, electio [...] | 2008-12-04 12:00:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA240 | KAZAKHSTAN: HCOC "INREACH" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 06:50:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
08ASTANA2403 | KAZAKHSTAN: EXBS ADVISOR'S REPORTING CABLE (NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) From November 10-14, the ninth session of the Kazakhstan-Russian demarcation commission took place in Almaty. Discussed at this session was the determination of locations for the installation of border markers. The 6,846 kilometer border between Kazakhstan and Russia is the longest co [...] | 2008-12-05 09:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC MNUC KNNP KSTC KZ |
08ASTANA2404 | HIV OUTBREAKS AMONG CHILDREN HIGHLIGHT NEED FOR REFORM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent outbreaks of HIV and AIDS among children in three countries of Central Asia point to dangerous and unnecessary medical procedures being performed throughout the region. A recent assessment conducted by USA [...] | 2008-12-05 10:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI KG TI TX UZ KZ |
08ASTANA2405 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and non-paper on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism,s Model Guidelines Document for Nuclear Detection Architecture on December 2 to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the MFA,s Department of Multilateral Cooperation. Savelyev said he would repo [...] | 2008-12-05 11:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KZ |
08ASTANA2407 | KAZAKHSTAN: WAS THAT AN INSULT? OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Charge d'Affaires met with Yermurat Bapi, Editor-in-Chief of Taszhargan newspaper. Taszhargan is a weekly opposition paper printed in Russian and Kazakh with a total circulation of 72,000. Bapi re [...] | 2008-12-05 11:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA242 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE ON REQUEST FOR MORE NSG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 13:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP MNUC PREL KZ |
08ASTANA2437 | KAZAKHSTAN: UN TRANSBOUNDARY WATER CONFERENCE DISCUSSES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Trans-boundary Water Conference took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on November 17-18. The key element of the Conference was the presentation of a water management project developed by the German Agency for Te [...] | 2008-12-09 11:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV ENRG KZ |
08ASTANA2445 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR IDRISOV ON RAKHAT ALIYEV, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met Kazakhstan's Ambassador Erlan Idrisov for lunch at the Georgetown Club in Washington on December 5. They discussed -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev's exiled ex-son-in-law and how he is an irritant in the U.S.-Kazakhstan bilateral relationship; -- presid [...] | 2008-12-10 11:00:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI KDEM RS KZ |
08ASTANA2450 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION HEAD [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Administration head Aslan Musin called in the Ambassador on December 10 to discuss Rakhat Aliyev, expressing concerns about international press reporting on the Aliyev case and explaining he had information that Aliyev might be seeking American citizenship or U.S. polit [...] | 2008-12-11 11:24:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KDEM KIRF KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA2457 | KAZAKHSTAN: FOLLOW-UP ON RAKHAT ALIYEV, PEACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Foreign Policy Adviser Yerzhan Kazykhanov on December 12 on three current issues: the impact of exiled former son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev on the bilateral relationship, the need to move rapidly on TRANSCOM's Northern Distributio [...] | 2008-12-12 09:18:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL CASC MARR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2471 | KAZAKHSTAN: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Charge d'Affaires met with Talmas movement leader Aynur Kurmanov. Kurmanov discussed the impact of the current financial crisis and the creation of a "new poor class" from members of the middle cla [...] | 2008-12-18 16:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2480 | KAZAKHSTANI DELEGATION STUDIES U.S. 911 EMERGENCY SYSTEMS [...] SUMMARY. As part of an effort to enhance cooperation between the Crime Statistics and Special Records Committee of Kazakhstan's Procurator General's Office (PGO) and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS),the Embassy's INL Office organized and co-funded the U.S. visit of two PGO represen [...] | 2008-12-19 02:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2522 | KAZAKHSTAN: CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER ZHOVTIS: "I'D RATHER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 18 meeting in Almaty with the Ambassador, Kazakhstan International Human Rights Bureau Director Yevgeniy Zhovtis offered his views on democracy, human rights, and the political situation in Kazakh [...] | 2008-12-22 08:48:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM OSCE KZ |
08ASTANA2530 | KAZAKHSTAN: FIRST INTERNATIONAL BIOTECH CONFERENCE HELD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The First International Conference "Astana Biotech 2008" took place on December 12-13, at the National Center for Biotechnology in Astana, Kazakhstan. Its stated goal was to develop further Kazakhstan's overall sci [...] | 2008-12-22 10:42:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV EIND TBIO KZ |
08ASTANA2534 | KAZAKHSTAN: NSDP LEADER TUYAKBAY - AN HONORABLE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 18 meeting with the Ambassador in Almaty, the chair of the National Social Democratic Party (NSDP) Zharmakhan Tuyakbay argued that Kazakhstan's democratic hopes were dashed in mid-1990s when Presi [...] | 2008-12-23 03:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2538 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan continued to combat domestic terrorism and extremism aggressively and took tangible steps to continue cooperation and information-sharing with the United States and international organizations. Kazakhstan a [...] | 2008-12-23 09:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR ASEC KZ |
08ASTANA2545 | KAZAKHSTAN'S DUVANOV: "YOU'RE LOSING THE INFORMATION WAR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Independent journalist Sergei Duvanov judges: -- the United States is losing the information war with Russia in Kazakhstan because we are doing little effective to provide an alternative to Russia's massive domi [...] | 2008-12-24 02:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PROP SOCI KDEM RS KZ |
08ASTANA2546 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, DECEMBER 9 - 19 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. CITY AKIM RECEIVES OPPOSITION LEADER ABILOV 2. The Almaty akim (mayor) Akhmetzhan Yesim [...] | 2008-12-24 05:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2551 | KAZAKHSTAN HANDS OVER NON-PAPER AND COURT DOSSIER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A government of Kazakhstan non-paper alleges that President Nursultan Nazarbayev's exiled ex-son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev has hired U.S. public relations firms to build the case that he is a political dissident standing up to a tyrannical and corrupt Nazarbayev, with the ultimate go [...] | 2008-12-24 10:29:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA2553 | KAZAKHSTAN LIKELY TO APPROVE TRANSCOM'S NORTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kazahkstan is close to making a positive decision to participate in TRANSCOM'S Northern Distribution Network. On December 26, Security Council Secretary Kairbek Suleymenov said he would instruct his staff immediately to draft a decision memo for President Nursultan Nazarbayev. [...] | 2008-12-29 04:27:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR KZ |
08ASTANA2566 | KAZAKHSTAN: MFA RESHUFFLES SENIOR DIPLOMATS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. MFA RESHUFFLE 2. (SBU) On December 29, Kairat Sarybay, until December 26 the Deputy Foreign Minister, was appointed senior foreign policy advisor to President Nazarbayev, succeeding Yerzhan Kazykhanov, who was named Kazakhstan's [...] | 2008-12-30 10:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR OFDP KZ |
08ASTANA2567 | KAZAKHSTAN: WATER RESOURCE COMMITTEE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministry of Agriculture Water Resource Committee Deputy Chairman Amirkhan Kenshimov highlighted the recent political agreement by the five Central Asian presidents on water use and energy delivery for the winter of [...] | 2008-12-30 10:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG SENV KZ |
08ASTANA2574 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON END-USE, [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and non-paper on the end-use, retransfer and security assurances applicable to articles and services provided pursuant to section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2006, as modified and extended, and pursuant to the Global P [...] | 2008-12-30 11:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS KTIA KZ |
08ASTANA2576 | KAZAKHSTAN: DINNER WITH STATE SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan's self-described Number Two and President Nazarbayev's confidante, State Secretary Kanat Saudabayev, told the Ambassador on December 29: -- Kazakhstan would give TRANSCOM a positive reply to the U.S. request to include Kazakhstan as an essential link in the Northern [...] | 2008-12-31 05:53:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON MARR RS KZ |
08ASTANA2577 | KAZAKHSTAN: ASTANA-BASED AMBASSADORS AGREE: "DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) This is the third in a series of cables analyzing reactions to Kazakhstan's OSCE Madrid-commitment legislation (reftels A and B). 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 30, the Ambassador hosted a working lunch for ambassadors [...] | 2008-12-31 08:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA2583 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE FIFTH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In conjunction with the Ambassador from the Netherlands and a representative from the Embassy of the Russian Federation, PolOff delivered reftel A points on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism's upco [...] | 2008-12-31 09:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC KZ |
08ASTANA280 | NAZARBAYEV'S STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH FOCUSES ON [...] (U) President Nazarbayev's 2009 state of the nation address focused largely on the economy, as well as on government social programs. He only touched briefly on foreign policy, highlighting Kazakhstan's selection as OSCE chairman for 2010. He said little about democratic reforms. End Summary [...] | 2008-02-08 02:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET KZ |
08ASTANA281 | SCENESETTER FOR SCA ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Your trip to Kazakhstan follows January visits from Senator Lugar, Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Coordinator Mann, and Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Central Asia Shivers. The steady traffic of high-level visitors to and from Kazakhstan (Prime Minister M [...] | 2008-02-08 02:29:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET KZ |
08ASTANA284 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (JANUARY [...] Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, Republican leader of the Foreign Relations Committee, visited Kazakhstan on January 10-11, 2008, to discuss energy cooperation, as well as Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program implementation. Subsequent to this trip, Senator Lugar introduced legislatio [...] | 2008-02-08 02:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA305 | KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SOLICITATION FOR [...] Summary: In response to the Solicitation for Proposals by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (G/TIP),Post has reviewed, vetted, and selected five proposals addressing human trafficking in Kazakhstan. Post would welcome the opportunity to discuss and supply additional information co [...] | 2008-02-12 01:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG |
08ASTANA338 | CHEVRON INCIDENT REFLECTS CHANGING DYNAMICS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 11:18:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET PINR KZ |
08ASTANA341 | KAZAKHSTANI LEADERSHIP DISCUSSES ECONOMIC ISSUES, [...] (C) Prime Minister Masimov told Assistant Secretary Boucher during a February 11 meeting that he was seeking to implement further structural economic reforms in Kazakhstan, including tax reform. The government would also be focusing greater attention on developing human capital. Masimov stre [...] | 2008-02-19 03:52:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PREL WTO KZ |
08ASTANA342 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV DISCUSSES [...] (S) President Nazarbayev thanked Assistant Secretary Boucher for U.S. support for Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship bid during a February 11 meeting. (Septel provides details of their discussion of the commitments on democratic reform that Kazakhstan made at the OSCE Madrid ministerial.) Nazarba [...] | 2008-02-19 03:53:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL OSCE ECON EPET KZ |
08ASTANA352 | KAZAKHSTAN: TYPHOON COUNTER-NARCOTICS OPERATION [...] Summary: Law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, with the assistance of Afghanistan, broke up one of the largest Central Asian trafficking organizations. As a result of the multi-stage operation "Typhoon" conducted over the past three years, law enforcement [...] | 2008-02-20 03:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
08ASTANA354 | DESPITE OBSTACLES, KAZAKHSTAN MAINTAINS [...] (C) Summary: KazMunayGas, (KMG) Executive Director for Oil Transportation Arman Darbayev expects the Parliament to soon ratify the Azerbaijan ) Kazakhstan Inter-governmental Agreement on Trans-Caspian transport. KMG is establishing a sister company focused on Trans-Caspian transport issues. [...] | 2008-02-20 10:56:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET PINR KZ |
08ASTANA355 | KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CASES IN JANUARY [...] Summary: The following is a summary of media reports on human trafficking cases from local newspapers in January 2008. End summary. -------------------- SEXUAL EXPLOITATION -------------------- 2. The January 12 edition of Express-K and January 17 edition of Yuridicheskaya Gazeta pub [...] | 2008-02-21 04:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KCRM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA357 | KAZAKHSTAN: KNB INTENSIFIES INVESTIGATION OF GRACE [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, Committee for National Security (KNB) agents raided yet another Grace Presbyterian Church, this time in Almaty. The raid is the latest step in an ongoing KNB investigation of the denomination, which began with August 2007 raids on two churches and several church-re [...] | 2008-02-21 09:14:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM KZ |
08ASTANA358 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRUG AND CRIME REPORT FOR 2007 [...] According to the Statistics Committee of the Procurator General's Office, 10,502 drug-related crimes were committed during 2007. The number of individuals that committed these crimes decreased 1.2% to 8,147. Drug seizures in 2007 decreased 6.2% from the previous year. Total seizures in 2007 w [...] | 2008-02-21 09:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA362 | KAZAKHSTAN: 2007 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] In 2007, Post provided equipment to GOK institutions throughout Kazakhstan. These include the Statistics Committee of the Procurator General's Office, the Ministry of the Interior's Committee on Combating Narcotics, the Legal Institute of the Ministry of the Interior, Border Guard Service of [...] | 2008-02-22 09:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCOR KCRM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA363 | CORRUPTION CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) On February 18 Kazakhstan's financial police brought criminal charges against a group of officials at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR). The officials, who have not yet been publicly identified, were charged with misfeasance and corruption. According to a press release [...] | 2008-02-22 10:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA366 | KAZAKHSTAN: USE OF MOBILE GROUPS ON THE BORDER [...] Summary: The Kazakhstani Border Guard Service (BGS) is interested in establishing mobile border guard groups to combat both trafficking and corruption. End Summary. 2. On November 29, Lieutenant-General Nikolai Rybalkin, Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federal Secu [...] | 2008-02-22 13:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
08ASTANA371 | KAZAKHSTAN: ADVANCING THE U.S. POSITION FOR CHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 09:22:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL CU KZ |
08ASTANA392 | SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (S) Summary: Kazakhstani officials have stated consistently that Kazakhstani troops will stay in Iraq the duration of coalition engagement. The absence of Chapter VII UNSCR authority will not affect Kazakhstan's Iraq strategy. Kazakhstan's committment in Iraq is based on political considerati [...] | 2008-02-28 06:34:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS IZ KZ |
08ASTANA4 | PRESIDENTIAL VISIT SIGNALS HEIGHTENED TURKISH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA40 | CPC PIPELINE EXPANSION MOVES FORWARD, BUT [...] Summary: (C) During his December 20 visit to Moscow, President Nazarbayev announced that Russia and Kazakhstan have agreed in principle to increase the capacity of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline. Arman Darbayev, KazMunayGas Executive Director for Oil Transportation, later told [...] | 2008-01-09 11:59:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA405 | KAZAKHSTAN SEARCHES FOR NEW ENERGY SECTOR MODEL [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstani officials have made a series of announcements since the beginning of 2008 indicating that Kazakhstan intends to take a tougher stance with foreign energy investors. Prime Minister Masimov has banned new production-sharing agreements, called for a new tax code for natu [...] | 2008-02-29 11:48:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL KZ |
08ASTANA411 | KAZAKHSTAN: UPSURGE IN NEGATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Several media outlets in the last month have published or broadcast stories critical of religious groups not traditional to Kazakhstan, such as evangelical Protestant Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, and Hare Krishnas, depicting them as dangerous sects harmful to [...] | 2008-03-03 11:21:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KIRF KZ |
08ASTANA415 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CANDIDACY OF WILLIAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 11:23:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL SMIG KZ |
08ASTANA437 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (FEBRUARY [...] U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Kazakhstan from February 9-11, 2008. On February 11, 2008, Assistant Secretary Boucher met with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and discussed Kazakhstan's 2010 OSCE chairmanship, energy issues, and re [...] | 2008-03-07 03:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA473 | KAZAKHSTAN: ASSESSMENT TRIP [...] Summary: From February 25 through 27, Post assessed the premises of the Border Guard Service in two cities for the establishment of a new classroom. The Border Guard Divisions on the Kazakhstani-Russian border discussed additional needs with the representatives of the Embassy and the Interna [...] | 2008-03-11 01:47:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
08ASTANA480 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESSURE BUILDING FOR NEW OIL EXPORT [...] (C) Summary: On February 27, ExxonMobil Kazakhstan General Manager Steven Rose gave the Ambassador a detailed overview of ExxonMobil's presentation to Kazakhstan on the Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System (KCTS). ExxonMobil is attempting to be the Kashagan consortium's lead voice in KCT [...] | 2008-03-11 09:37:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA497 | KAZAKHSTAN PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR DUSHANBE TIFA MEETING, [...] (SBU) Damigul Kabiyeva, Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's WTO Accession Department, told econoff on March 11 that while Kazakhstan has no preference as to the location of 2008 TIFA Council Meeting, the GOK welcomes Tajikistan's invitation to host the event in Dushanbe in early June, [...] | 2008-03-13 00:44:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA50 | KAZAKHSTAN: PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstan is home to the world's largest Russian language Christian satellite television network and a steadily growing, openly evangelical Pentecostal church, surprising facts considering the negative attention the country sometimes receives for its treatment of groups that are [...] | 2008-01-11 11:20:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KZ PGOV PHUM PREL |
08ASTANA522 | YUSHCHENKO'S VISIT TO KAZAKHSTAN PAYS NO IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Summary: Presidents Yushchenko and Nazarbayev both described Kazakhstan - Ukraine relations as excellent during Yushchenko's March 5-6 visit to Kazakhstan. No agreements were reached, however, on energy cooperation. Instead, President Nazarbayev publicly pronounced that Kazakhstan will n [...] | 2008-03-17 08:35:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA54 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (DECEMBER 2007) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-11 12:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA56 | HIGH-LEVEL KASHAGAN TALKS SCHEDULED IN ASTANA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Further Kashagan negotiations are scheduled for January 13 in Astana. CEOs from all consortium members (except Total) expected to participate. Kashagan was a topic of discussion during Senator Richard Lugar's January 10-11 visit to Astana, with Ministry of Energy and Natural Re [...] | 2008-01-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA609 | KAZAKHSTAN - WORLD TB DAY ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: Per reftel, to mark World TB Day, USAID and its partner organizations, in collaboration with the National TB Center and the Almaty City and Oblast Health Departments, are planning a range of activities in Kazakhstan. These activities include announcement of a pilot project on treatmen [...] | 2008-03-20 11:54:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL KPAO KZ |
08ASTANA611 | KAZAKHSTAN - SHYMKENT IS YOUNG, MUSLIM, AND GROWING FAST [...] (SBU) South Kazakhstan oblast and its capital, Shymkent, are experiencing rapid population growth due to high birth rates, an influx of ethnic Kazakhs from abroad, and labor migration from Uzbekistan. While local officials claim local media is largely independent, civil society representatives [...] | 2008-03-21 05:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF PREL KZ |
08ASTANA614 | KAZAKHSTAN - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) EST Officer's January 20 - February 19 TDY visit to Kazakhstan provided a timely opportunity to discuss the Kazakhstani government's science and technology (S&T) infrastructure, particularly in light of continued negotiations on a bilateral Science and Technology Agreement. Kazakhstani o [...] | 2008-03-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL PREL PGOV KSCA KZ |
08ASTANA615 | KAZAKHSTAN - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - BIOTECH AND [...] EST Officer's January 20 - February 19 TDY visit to Kazakhstan provided a timely opportunity to discuss the Kazakhstani government's Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure, particularly in light of continued negotiations on a bilateral Science and Technology Agreement. This cable focuses [...] | 2008-03-21 11:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL EAGR KSCA PREL PGOV KZ |
08ASTANA616 | KAZAKHSTAN - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY [...] (U) EST officer's January 20 - February 19 TDY visit to Kazakhstan provided a timely opportunity to discuss the Kazakhstani government's science and technology (S&T) infrastructure, particularly in light of continued negotiations on a bilateral Science and Technology Agreement. This cable focu [...] | 2008-03-21 11:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL EAGR KSCA PREL PGOV KZ |
08ASTANA617 | KAZAKHSTAN - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - ADDITIONAL AREAS FOR [...] EST officer's January 20 - February 19 TDY visit to Kazakhstan provided a timely opportunity to discuss the Kazakhstani government's Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure, particularly in light of continued negotiations on a bilateral Science and Technology Agreement. This is one of a s [...] | 2008-03-21 12:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL KSCA PREL PGOV KZ |
08ASTANA620 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MARCH 10 - MARCH 23, 2008 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. - NGO's Criticize Fight Against Extremism and Terrorism - No Alliance with Aliyev - Complai [...] | 2008-03-25 08:20:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA64 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROGRESS ON PFP TRAINING CENTER, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstan appears poised to move forward on opening up a Partnership for Peace (PfP) training center, as it had promised to do by the end of 2008. However, concerns remain about progress in Kazakhstan's cooperation with NATO. End Summary. 2. (C) Tugay Tuncer, Astana-based NA [...] | 2008-01-14 10:19:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | KZ NATO PREL |
08ASTANA65 | KAZAKHSTAN: CHEVRON FACES THE SQUEEZE AT TENGHIZ [...] (C) Summary: Chevron executives Guy Hollingsworth and James Johnson told the Ambassador on January 11 that Chevron is facing "sanctity of contract" issues at its two most significant fields in Kazakhstan, Tenghiz and Karachaganak. Earlier in the day, the two had warned Prime Minister Masimov [...] | 2008-01-14 10:54:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL KZ |
08ASTANA66 | SENATOR LUGAR MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: During his January 9-11 visit to Astana Senator Richard Lugar discussed energy, non-proliferation, regional security, and economic cooperation issues in a series of meetings with high-ranking officials. Kazakhstani officials praised Senator Lugar for his long support of Kazakhsta [...] | 2008-01-14 11:34:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ENRG KZ |
08ASTANA665 | KAZAKHSTAN: RECORD DRUG SEIZURE ON BORDER [...] Summary: On the morning of March 27, the Customs Service of Kazakhstan seized 537 kilos of heroin, the largest single seizure ever recorded in the country. This single seizure is also larger than the total amount of heroin seized in Kazakhstan last year. The drugs were seized at the Kairak [...] | 2008-04-02 04:47:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
08ASTANA672 | KAZAKHSTAN - CSTO COUNTER-NARCOTICS MEETING [...] Summary: On March 27, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan (MVD) held a meeting in Astana of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Bodies on Combating Illegal Drugs Trafficking (CCBCD) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The participants discussed th [...] | 2008-04-03 11:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM KZ |
08ASTANA691 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (MARCH [...] President Bush nominated Richard E. Hoagland to be U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Mr. Hoagland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, currently serves as Charge d' Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan. Prior to this, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan. Earlier in his [...] | 2008-04-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA701 | KAZAKHSTAN - IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] Summary: In response to reftel, CDC representatives met with the Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station (RSES) to discuss implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR) in Kazakhstan. RSES is the point of contact on IHR implementation in Kazakhstan. RSES will coordinate wit [...] | 2008-04-10 07:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL WHO KZ |
08ASTANA729 | WITH IGA ON TRANS-CASPIAN OIL TRANSPORT RATIFIED, [...] (C) Summary: On March 26, Kazakhstan's Parliament ratified an intergovernmental agreement with Azerbaijan on trans-Caspian oil transportation. According to the Kazakhstanis, Azerbaijan appears "not in a hurry" in trans-Caspian talks and, sensing Kazakhstan's vulnerabilities, is driving a hard [...] | 2008-04-15 08:31:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA754 | TURMOIL AT KMG - FIRST VP IDENOV MAY BE OUT THE [...] (C) KazMunaiGas (KMG) First Vice President Maksat Idenov called the Ambassador from Dubai on April 14 and told him that he is on the verge of leaving KMG. According to Idenov, KMG President Uzakbay Karabalin met earlier that day with President Nazarbayev to complain about Idenov's activities a [...] | 2008-04-15 11:50:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA767 | KAZAKHSTAN: NEW LEGISLATION THREATENS RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On April 2, a group of parliamentarians introduced draft amendments to Kazakhstan's laws governing religious organizations. Among other things, the amendments would require all religious groups in the country to re-register under more restrictive procedures; limit the activities of smal [...] | 2008-04-18 11:52:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KDEM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA768 | KAZAKHSTAN AND INDIA SEEK TO REVIVE BILATERAL TIES [...] (C) Bilateral relations between Kazakhstan and India started off strongly following Kazakhstani independence, but the momentum has slowed since then. Both sides appear to be interested in reviving ties, and President Nazarbayev is expected to visit to India in November -- his first trip ther [...] | 2008-04-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD KZ IN |
08ASTANA778 | KAZAKHSTAN - POST ENDORSES FY2008 SECTION 1206 [...] (SBU) Post fully endorses the FY2008 proposal for Section 1206 funding for Kazakhstan that was submitted by CENTCOM. The funding is aimed at providing Kazakhstan with the capability to conduct counterterrorist operations, deploy forces, and react to threats in the northern Caspian Sea, which [...] | 2008-04-21 09:02:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL KZ |
08ASTANA779 | GOK INCREASES PRESSURE ON TENGHIZCHEVROIL OVER [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstani authorities continue to closely scrutinize TenghizChevroil (TCO),which has already paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines in recent years. Consortium representatives describe a working environment made difficult by government harassment and constant requests fo [...] | 2008-04-21 11:52:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KZ |
08ASTANA795 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TURKEY'S CHANGE [...] (SBU) On April 24, Poloff delivered reftel demarche points on Turkey's EBRD status to MFA Multilateral Economic and Humanitarian Cooperation Department head Mursulnaby Tuyakbayev. He was not aware of Turkey's request, and thanked poloff for bringing this proposal to their attention in advance [...] | 2008-04-24 11:08:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KZ |
08ASTANA797 | (S) KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UPDATED [...] (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche regarding the latest schedule of a North Korean flight of proliferation concern to MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kaliyev on April 25. Kaliyev said he would immediately relay the information to the appropriate Kazakhstani government agencies. [...] | 2008-04-25 06:07:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | KNNP PREL PARM KZ KN SY IR |
08ASTANA798 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DISCOURAGING [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on discouraging Russia from upgrading relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia to MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kaliyev on April 25. Kaliyev promised to relay the substance to his MFA superiors. He reminded Pol-Econ Chief that Kazakhstan ha [...] | 2008-04-25 06:32:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS KZ |
08ASTANA823 | KAZAKHSTAN: ADDITIONS TO 2007 INL END USE MONITORING [...] In response to Reftel A, Post is providing additional information on equipment provided to the GOK. 2. Computers at the Financial Police Academy. INL provided 25 computers to the Financial Police Academy in Astana. End-use monitoring was conducted during training at the Academy in Novemb [...] | 2008-04-25 09:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCOR KCRM PREL KZ |
08ASTANA827 | KAZAKHSTAN - ARREST OF UZBEK CITIZEN CONNECTED TO [...] (C) On April 25, Pol-Econ chief raised with MFA Americas Department head Talgat Kaliyev media reports that on April 20, Kazakhstani law enforcement authorities in Almaty had arrested Uzbek citizen Rafik Rakhmonov on various counts of participating in the 2005 Andijan events. A UNHCR spokesper [...] | 2008-04-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL KZ UZ |
08ASTANA848 | KAZAKHSTAN - UPDATE ON AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE PLANS [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief met on April 29 with MFA Asian Cooperation Department Advisor Yerzhan Kalekenov to discuss Kazakhstan's assistance plans for Afghanistan and its participation in the upcoming Afghanistan support conference in Paris. 2. (SBU) As previously reported, Kazakhstan allocated [...] | 2008-04-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV KZ AF |
08ASTANA849 | KAZAKHSTAN DENIES OVERFLIGHT TO FLIGHT OF [...] (S) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisor for International Security Faizrakhmam Kassanov told Poloff on April 29 that Kazakhstan denied overflight to the North Korean airliner subject of reftel C. According to Kassanov, North Korea presented the Government of Kazakhstan a diplomatic note reque [...] | 2008-04-29 12:20:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | KNNP PREL KZ KN SY IR |
08ASTANA858 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPARATORY COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 08:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA KZ |
08ASTANA867 | KAZAKHSTAN: OUTREACH ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, there are no high profile dissidents from un-free nations living in exile or seeking asylum in Kazakhstan. 2. (SBU) In the course of my work, I do, however, regularly meet with leading Kazakhstani democracy and human rights activists, including Yevgeniy Zhovtis, [...] | 2008-05-06 03:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF PREL KZ |
08ASTANA870 | KAZAKHSTAN - ALL IS CALM IN ALMATY OBLAST, AND THAT'S HOW [...] (SBU) All is calm in Almaty Oblast and its capital, Taldykorgan, and residents are enjoying a steadily improving quality of life, at least according to oblast officials. The urban population is growing, though the oblast remains largely rural and agricultural. Taldykorgan itself has experience [...] | 2008-05-06 07:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF PREL KZ |
08ASTANA871 | AKTAU: A CENTRAL HUB FOR THE CASPIAN REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Aktau, situated on the Caspian coast and the capital of Mangystau Oblast, is poised to become Kazakhstan's next boomtown. With four major ports in operation or under construction and improving road and rail infrastructure in Mangystau Oblast, Aktau is perfectly situated to beco [...] | 2008-05-06 09:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ EPET |
08ASTANA888 | EXBS KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE (APRIL [...] Gulnara Abildaeva, Program Coordinator/Manager for the EXBS program in Kazakhstan has been named the "Astana Foreign Service National (FSN) of the Year for 2008". This award is given in recognition of the high standards of performance and value to the U.S. Government through special contribut [...] | 2008-05-08 11:46:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ |
08ASTANA905 | KAZAKHSTAN: KMG EXPERT DISCUSSES CPC EXPANSION, [...] (C) Summary: KazMunaiGas' Executive Director for Oil Transportation Arman Darbayev believes that Russia has, for the first time, created a framework that may make CPC expansion possible. He disputes reports, however, that expansion will be directly linked to Kazakhstan's supplying oil to the [...] | 2008-05-13 10:44:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG EPET KZ |
08ASTANA970 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL RAHALL'S MAY 25-27 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Kazakhstan comes at a particularly opportune time. With its thriving energy sector and recent selection as 2010 chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),Kazakhstan is showing increasing confidence on the international stage. The [...] | 2008-05-22 06:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EPET OVIP OTRA KZ |
08ASTANA988 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAEA BOARD OF [...] (S) Per reftel demarche, the Ambassador discussed Kazakhstan's putting itself forward as a candidate for the IAEA BOG's MESA seat with Industry and Trade Minister Vladimir Shkolnik on May 26. Shnolnik was supportive of the idea in principle, and suggested the USG follow-up with the MFA. Pol- [...] | 2008-05-27 07:10:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | IAEA KNNP PREL AORC KZ SY |
08ASTANA992 | KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Stockholm International Compact with Iraq (ICI) ministerial meeting to MFA Americas Desk head Talgat Kaliyev on May 20, and discussed the issue a second time with Kaliyev on May 27. Kaliyev assured Pol-Econ Chief on May 27 that Kazakhstan [...] | 2008-05-27 09:22:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL IZ KZ |
08ASUNCION102 | YELLOW FEVER UPDATE [...] As of February 15, there are 46 reported cases of yellow fever in Paraguay. Twenty-six are live cases; only five cases have been confirmed to date. The first case of yellow fever surfaced January 15 in San Estanislao, San Pedro Department. A team of experts dispatched to the region found fiv [...] | 2008-02-15 21:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL AEMR CASC MASS SOCI TBIO AFSN PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION103 | YELLOW FEVER UPDATE [...] As of February 15, there are 46 reported cases of yellow fever in Paraguay. Twenty-six are live cases; only five cases have been confirmed to date. The first case of yellow fever surfaced January 15 in San Estanislao, San Pedro Department. A team of experts dispatched to the region found [...] | 2008-02-15 21:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL AEMR CASC MASS SOCI TBIO AFSN PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION107 | YELLOW FEVER UPDATE [...] (SBU) Paraguay now has seven confirmed cases of yellow fever. Of 66 additional suspected cases, 25 have been ruled out; seven resulted in deaths. The GOP had 800,000 vaccines available last week, and an additional 750,000 will be arriving in country shortly from Peru and PAHO. The USD 50,00 [...] | 2008-02-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL AEMR CASC MASS SOCI TBIO AFSN PGOV |
08ASUNCION115 | COURT APPROVES PRESIDENT'S SENATE CANDIDACY [...] (U) Paraguay's Electoral Court upheld President Nicanor Duarte Frutos, Senate candidacy February 12. The decision rejected challenges by both National Solidarity Party president Carlos Filizzola February 4 and Beloved Fatherland presidential candidate Pedro Fadul February 5. The opposition [...] | 2008-02-25 11:12:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION127 | COLORADO CASTIGLIONI: "I WAS ROBBED" [...] (C) Former Colorado presidential candidate and dissident Luis Castiglioni personally confirmed to Ambassador February 25 reports that President Duarte and "oficialista" candidate Blanca Ovelar stole the Colorado primary. Castiglioni said it became clear that Ovelar's faction was stealing the [...] | 2008-02-27 14:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION131 | PRESIDENT INVESTIGATED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (U) Prosecutors in Paraguay's financial crimes specialized unit launched an investigation February 28 against President Nicanor Duarte Frutos on suspicion of violating Paraguay's anti-money laundering statutes. The unit's lead prosecutor, Carlos Arregui, appointed two prosecutors, Rene Ferna [...] | 2008-02-29 10:26:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION132 | PRESIDENT INVESTIGATED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (U) Prosecutors in Paraguay's financial crimes specialized unit launched an investigation February 28 against President Nicanor Duarte Frutos on suspicion of violating Paraguay's anti-money laundering statutes. The unit's lead prosecutor, Carlos Arregui, appointed two prosecutors, Rene Ferna [...] | 2008-02-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION135 | AMBASSADOR AND FADUL: ON THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) Beloved Fatherland Party (PQ) presidential candidate Pedro Fadul told Ambassador February 26 that the more Paraguayans turn out to vote, the greater the chance an opposition party will win the April 20 national elections. Fadul said one of the PQ's biggest challenges is a lack of funding, [...] | 2008-03-03 18:53:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION140 | PARAGUAYAN RESPONSE TO DEATH OF FARC COMMANDER [...] (SBU) President Nicanor Duarte Frutos condemned March 4 Colombia's actions in killing FARC Commander Raul Reyes, stating that Paraguay condemned Colombia's "external agression" and reaffirmed "the sovereignty of nations" such as Ecuador. A confidential message from the Paraguayan government [...] | 2008-03-06 10:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CO ER PA |
08ASUNCION148 | "GOT VIAGRA?" PARAGUAY RISES TO THE OCCASION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of legal and illegal maneuvering, one of the largest cases of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violations prosecuted in Paraguay concluded March 6 with the destruction of the seized shipment of counterfeited medicines. With a combined local market value [...] | 2008-03-11 19:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ECPS PREL PA |
08ASUNCION163 | LUGO'S AMCHAM SPEECH LACKS SUBSTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC) presidential candidate Fernando Lugo outlined his six-point plan for governing to the Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce March 11. Three goals were economic -- agrarian reform, "economic growth with social equity," and "emergency" job creat [...] | 2008-03-14 12:29:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION172 | CATHOLIC CLERGY SPEAK OUT BEFORE ELECTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Eight Catholic clergy members comprising the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference (CEP) issued a joint manifesto March 14 outlining their political positions in the run up to the April 20 national elections. They expressed opposition to electoral fraud, political patronage, vote bu [...] | 2008-03-19 11:45:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL PA |
08ASUNCION178 | BLANCA OVELAR'S VISION FOR PARAGUAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Colorado Party standard-bearer told Ambassador March 18 she will seek to broaden and deepen relations with the United States should she win Paraguay's April 20 presidential elections. She spoke of the need to reform the state, fight corruption, increase citizen participation in [...] | 2008-03-19 21:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PA |
08ASUNCION192 | PARAGUAY FAVORABLY DISPOSED TO IOM CANDIDATE SWING [...] (SBU) Ambassador William Swing met March 27 (ref A) with Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez Lezcano, Vice Minister Carlos Antonio Rivas, and other members of the Foreign Ministry to discuss his candidacy for Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Although the [...] | 2008-03-31 11:11:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREF PREL PGOV SMIG EUN PA |
08ASUNCION195 | THREE WEEKS 'TIL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Please see Action Requests contained in paragraph 18. 2. (C) With three weeks remaining before the April 20 national elections, Colorado Party candidate Blanca Ovelar represents the status quo and the continuation of 61 years of uninterrupted Colorado rule. Patriotic Alliance for Chang [...] | 2008-03-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC ECON SNAR PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION196 | CRAWLING CRABS TO FLYING GEESE: OVELAR'S ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Colorado presidential candidate Blanca Ovelar presented February 28 her economic platform to the American-Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM). Ovelar's main themes were building an economic agenda based on active collaboration between civil society, the public, and private se [...] | 2008-03-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION198 | COLORADO SENATOR IMPLORES THE US TO "DO MORE" [...] (C) Multiple-term Colorado Senator (and brother of former Foreign Minister Leila Rachid) Bader Rachid told Pol/Econ Chief and RLA March 26 that the United States is "failing" in its approach to Latin America and Paraguay and that it should "do more" in the region. He argued that the United Sta [...] | 2008-04-01 11:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PGOV PA XM |
08ASUNCION199 | FADUL IMPRESSES AMCHAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pedro Fadul, presidential candidate for the Beloved Fatherland (PQ) Party, told the Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce March 18 that although business and government should work together to promote economic and social development, the private sector should be the economy,s dr [...] | 2008-04-01 11:54:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION228 | PARAGUAY-VENEZUELA ENERGY AGREEMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Paraguay signed April 1 in Caracas a food-for-oil Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Venezuela. The MOU includes Paraguay's agro technology transfers to Venezuela, and an option for Venezuelan public and private investment in the sector. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Maduro wi [...] | 2008-04-09 22:08:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PA VZ |
08ASUNCION230 | SENAD UNDER POLITICAL FIRE [...] (SBU) Leading daily ABC Color ran a series of articles from August to December 2007 alleging administrative irregularities within Paraguay's Anti-Narcotics Secretariat (SENAD). Two former SENAD administrators (Brunilda Salomon and Federico Cabral) were alleged to be involved in administrative [...] | 2008-04-11 11:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PA |
08ASUNCION233 | UN CONFIRMS PARAGUAY TOP POT PRODUCER IN SOUTH [...] (U) The United Nation's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB, or JIFE in Spanish) declared Paraguay the top South American producer of marijuana in its 2007 report, published March 5. The report (available on www.incb.org website) noted that Paraguay now is by far the region's primary [...] | 2008-04-11 17:39:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION234 | ELECTION CAMPAIGNS REACH FEVERED PITCH [...] (C) With the April 20 elections just one week away, Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC) presidential candidate Fernando Lugo continues to lead the race by a small margin. Although Lugo may have a narrow lead, most analysts believe the Colorado Party can make up 7-8 points on election day via [...] | 2008-04-14 13:59:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ECON SNAR PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION238 | AND THE WINNER IS.... TOO CLOSE TO CALL WITH ONE [...] (C) Two new polls released April 11 show divergent results just one week before Paraguay's April 20 national elections. A major poll conducted by COIN for leading daily Ultima Hora shows a virtual three-way tie for president, with Fernando Lugo at 34.5 percent, Lino Oviedo with 28.9 percent, [...] | 2008-04-14 22:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION239 | A PRIMER ON GENERAL OVIEDO [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Union of Ethical Citizens (UNACE) presidential candidate Lino Oviedo, one of the top three contenders for the presidency in the April 20 national elections, has a long (and somewhat dark) history in Paraguayan politics. This message is intended to provide a chronological [...] | 2008-04-15 16:58:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION245 | OVIEDO PITCHES FREE MARKET AND DEMOCRATIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Coup-plotting general turned presidential candidate Lino Oviedo told U.S. business representatives March 27 that his plan for governing is based on economic development, decentralized government, and reform. Oviedo said he will privatize corrupt and inefficient government-owned enterpri [...] | 2008-04-16 14:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION248 | ROUNDING UP VENEZUELANS, ECUADORIANS AND THE LIKE [...] (SBU) President Duarte denounced April 15 the presence in Paraguay of Venezuelan and Ecuadorian "experts in social agitation" passing themselves off as elections observers. He accused citizens of Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela of placing "explosives" in community radio stations in San Pedro. T [...] | 2008-04-16 18:44:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL PINS XM PA |
08ASUNCION256 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEFINE THEIR FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay's four major presidential candidates express interest in expanding and strengthening regional relations. They offer differing views on engaging or disengaging with hemispheric actors, including the United States and Venezuela. Fernando Lugo and Blanca Ovelar express i [...] | 2008-04-18 11:59:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC ECON SNAR PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION259 | OAS AND IFES KEEPING PRESSURE ON ELECTORAL COURT [...] (C) The National Electoral Court (TSJE) is ready for Paraguay's April 20 elections. The Organization of American States (OAS) and IFES electoral missions report that the TSJE accepted and has acted on all ten of the political opposition's recommendations regarding the electoral process. The [...] | 2008-04-18 17:46:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION261 | THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OVIEDO BUT WERE [...] (C) A review of much Embassy reporting since the early 1990's reveals a fairly consistent description of General Lino Oviedo's dominant personality traits: a strong, messianic leader with great ambition and perhaps some mental instability, undemocratic and violent tendencies, and a knack for d [...] | 2008-04-18 20:31:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PINR PREL SNAR PINS PGOV PA XM |
08ASUNCION263 | LUGO LANDSLIDE FOR CHANGE IN PARAGUAY [...] SUMMARY: Former bishop Fernando Lugo is Paraguay's president-elect. Despite high tensions, the elections were seemingly fraud free with record turnout. With all exit polls indicating a clear win for Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC) candidate Lugo, confirmed by official quick count resul [...] | 2008-04-21 02:56:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION267 | PARAGUAY ELECTION DAY MEDIA PLAY [...] (U) "Lugo Overpowers the Colorado Party," shouts almost identical Monday morning headlines in two of the three national dailies, while circulation-leader ABC Color uses its entire front-page for an editorial entitled "The people defeat those who humiliated them, impoverished them and betrayed [...] | 2008-04-21 21:52:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL CI AR BR PA UY |
08ASUNCION268 | PRELIMINARY RESULTS - SENATE AND GUBERNATORIAL [...] (U) As of April 21, the preliminary results for the Paraguayan Senate show the Colorado Party maintaining its current total of 16 out of 45 possible senators. The Liberal Party (PLRA),part of Fernando Lugo's Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC),is projected to win 13 senators; other members [...] | 2008-04-22 12:18:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION273 | ARCHBISHOP CUQUEJO ON LUGO AND THE ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asuncion's Archbishop Cuquejo told Pol/Econ Chief April 23 he believes the Catholic Church will neither ex-communicate president-elect Fernando Lugo nor accept his resignation from the clergy, but would deal with Lugo as Paraguay's president. He said the Colorado Party's April 20 [...] | 2008-04-24 00:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION275 | AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH LUGO AS [...] (C) Ambassador reviewed U.S. assistance in his April 24 meeting with President-elect Fernando Lugo, their first since Paraguay's April 20 national elections. Ambassador opened by mentioning President Bush's April 24 congratulatory telephone call to Lugo; a beaming Lugo said they had a "nice ch [...] | 2008-04-25 12:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MARR CVIS PA |
08ASUNCION314 | PARAGUAYAN RESERVATIONS REGARDING SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (C) The Paraguayan government gave its initial, albeit qualified, support for the creation of the South American Defense Council during a May 6 visit by Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim. Military sources told DATT May 6 that Paraguay has reservations about the Defense Council, and spe [...] | 2008-05-12 21:48:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS PA |
08ASUNCION32 | COLORADOS CAN'T COME TO TERMS [...] (SBU) With the results of the December 16 Colorado Party presidential primary still pending, the ruling party's internal conflict between supporters of Luis Castiglioni and President Duarte's hand-picked successor, Blanca Ovelar, is intensifying. Both sides continue to claim victory, although [...] | 2008-01-15 18:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION333 | A TEST OF LUGO'S LEADERSHIP: LAND INVASIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the weeks since the April 20 national elections, landless peasant groups have invaded properties in the northeastern part of the country. The San Pedro Department, where President-elect Fernando Lugo served as bishop, is at the center of the issue with about 730 families inv [...] | 2008-05-21 21:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN PREL PA |
08ASUNCION353 | IT'S OFFICIAL: PARAGUAY'S ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Paraguay's National Elections Tribunal released official election results May 24 and declared Fernando Lugo president-elect with 40.8 percent of the vote (reftel). Final results indicated that the current political opposition (including Liberals, National Union of Ethical Citize [...] | 2008-05-30 15:55:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION358 | PRESIDENT-ELECT FERNANDO LUGO: A PROFILE [...] (S) President-elect Fernando Lugo will need to rely on his diverse background to govern Paraguay and hold together the varied interests in his political coalition. Lugo comes from a family of long-time Colorado dissidents, particularly vocal during the Stroessner years. After distinguished national [...] | 2008-06-02 15:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR PA XM |
08ASUNCION360 | VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT FEDERICO FRANCO: A PROFILE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 18:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION37 | COLORADO DEMONSTRATION PLANNED FOR JANUARY 18 [...] (C) Colorado Party presidential pre-candidate Luis Castiglioni announced his supporters will hold a "massive" demonstration late January 18 in support of electoral justice. In light of President Duarte's January 15 maneuvers to maintain control of the National Electoral Court (TSJE) by remov [...] | 2008-01-17 16:58:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION373 | RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) This cable responds to questions regarding implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act and the relationship between the Cuban and Paraguayan governments (ref A). 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cub [...] | 2008-06-04 21:47:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL KDEM CVIS PHUM PREF CU PA |
08ASUNCION376 | INVITATION TO ATTEND LUGO INAUGURATION CEREMONY, [...] (U) Post received official invitation 456/08 from Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez Lezcano addressed to Secretary Rice inviting President Bush to attend the inauguration of president-elect Fernando Lugo August 14-15. 2. (U) Post's English translation of the original Spanish invitation is a [...] | 2008-06-09 21:53:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OVIP PA |
08ASUNCION394 | PARAGUAY WILL ACCEPT CUBAN MIGRANT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche June 9 to the Foreign Ministry's Director General of Consular Affairs Felipe Robertti and Passports and Consular Services Director Raul Montiel Gasto. Robertti, who also serves as president of the National Commission for Refugees, affirmed that the Para [...] | 2008-06-17 13:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV SMIG CU PA |
08ASUNCION42 | WHA DAS MCMULLEN VISITS PARAGUAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his January 9-11, 2008 visit to Asuncion, WHA DAS Chris McMullen co-led the USG delegation to the Three-Plus-One meeting (septel),and also conducted separate meetings with the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry, Brazilian diplomatic representatives, and business sector leaders. [...] | 2008-01-18 13:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION425 | PARAGUAYAN SENATE OVERRULES PRESIDENT ON PENAL CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paraguay's Senate overruled President Duarte's partial veto of the revised penal code June 25 and passed it into law, ending the penal code's 15-month journey through the legislative process. Final passage is a success for Paraguay, but it still has much to do to reform its le [...] | 2008-06-26 22:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KCRM PREL PGOV ECON PA |
08ASUNCION43 | AN ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF DUARTE'S TENURE [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Duarte,s 2003-2007 economic performance yielded mixed results. Macroeconomic stability was achieved but a rigid expenditure structure, a visible bias to support current expenses instead of public investments, and a political rather than an economic spending rationale un [...] | 2008-01-18 13:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION45 | GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PLAY MUSICAL CHAIRS BEFORE [...] (C) President Duarte named Senator Roberto Gonzalez January 17 to head the Ministry of Public Works and Communications. Gonzalez, who has been serving as presidential hopeful Blanca Ovelar's campaign manager, replaced Rogelio Benitez, who resigned to run for a senate seat on Ovelar's ticket [...] | 2008-01-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION470 | PARAGUAY GOING GLOBAL WITH PEACEKEEPING UNIT [...] (C) The 175-member Paraguayan United Nations Peace Keeping Operations Multi-Role Engineer Company -- Paraguay's first unit dedicated to global peacekeeping under its own command -- celebrated its official dedication June 6. Once it deploys in the second half of 2008, the unit will join 1,662 [...] | 2008-07-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION476 | PARAGUAYANS OUTRAGED AT EU IMMIGRATION ACCORD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies and Foreign Ministry declared the European Union Parliament's new immigration accord a violation of human rights. The Foreign Ministry's Special Affairs Minister Victor Hugo Pena said June 25 that the Paraguayan government considers the EU acc [...] | 2008-07-09 21:41:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN OAS PREL SMIG PA |
08ASUNCION48 | COLORADOS' ELECTION TRIBUNAL DECLARES OVELAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Colorado Party has declared President Duarte's chosen successor, Blanca Ovelar, as the party's candidate for April's presidential elections. Former Vice President Castiglioni, however, has legally appealed to block Ovelar's formal insciption as the Colorado candidate, claimin [...] | 2008-01-22 18:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION507 | STARTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT WITH THE LUGO GOVERNMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: To jump start a cordial relationship with the newly elected Paraguayan government, the Embassy arranged a one-week, abridged version of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to Washington the week of June 16 for five senior officials of the incoming Lugo administrati [...] | 2008-07-23 20:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FAGR SENV PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL PA |
08ASUNCION508 | STARTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT WITH THE LUGO GOVERNMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: To jump start a cordial relationship with the newly elected Paraguayan government, the Embassy arranged a one-week, abridged version of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to Washington the week of June 16 for five senior officials of the incoming Lugo administrati [...] | 2008-07-23 20:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FAGR SENV PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL PA |
08ASUNCION512 | LUGO'S SURPRISE VISIT TO NICARAGUA [...] (C) President-elect Fernando Lugo made a surprise visit to Nicaragua July 18 to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. Lugo joined Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, and Aleida March, the widow of Erne [...] | 2008-07-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION516 | FOREIGN MINISTER NOMINATION IGNITES CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request in paragraph 5. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) President-elect Fernando Lugo's decision to designate Paraguayan Ambassador to Lebanon Alejandro Hamed Franco as his foreign minister July 23 ignited a domestic political controversy. In 2007 [...] | 2008-07-29 13:08:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | PGOV PREL CVIS PA |
08ASUNCION535 | SCENE-SETTER FOR LUGO INAUGURATION [...] (C) Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and members of the U.S. delegation attending the August 15 inauguration of President Fernando Lugo. The Lugo administration represents the first interruption in Colorado Party rule in 61 years. Your visit provides an o [...] | 2008-08-01 18:01:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV SNAR PA |
08ASUNCION538 | POPE GRANTS LUGO WAIVER TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Vatican issued a decree July 30 announcing that Pope Benedict XVI granted President-elect Fernando Lugo a special waiver dispensing him of his clerical duties -- the first of its kind in Catholic history. Lugo advisors told Acting DCM that Lugo's biggest worry for months had [...] | 2008-08-04 16:41:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION545 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL DINNER WITH LUGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and A/DCM met with President-elect Fernando Lugo and Foreign Minister-designate Alejandro Hamed Franco August 1, Ambassador Cason's last night in Paraguay before departing post August 2. While Hamed said very little, Lugo's demeanor was warm and engaging. Ambassador a [...] | 2008-08-05 22:10:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION575 | SEC. GUTIERREZ ASSURES LUGO OF US FRIENDSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: President-elect Lugo received Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez and the U.S. delegation to his inauguration August 14, one day before taking his oath as president. Lugo told Secretary Gutierrez that he was pleased with U.S. cooperation and assistance. Gutierrez stressed that despit [...] | 2008-08-19 21:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION583 | SEC GUTIERREZ LUNCH WITH LUGO'S ECONOMIC TEAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ayalde hosted a lunch for Secretary Gutierrez and the U.S. delegation to Lugo's inauguration and Lugo's economic team August 14. Finance Minster Borda outlined an expansive agenda of economic policy priorities: pro-growth macro-economic policies; public sector reform to [...] | 2008-08-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL ECON ETRD PGOV EIND PA |
08ASUNCION584 | SEC GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH US COMPANIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. companies operating in Paraguay met with Secretary Gutierrez and the U.S. delegation for President Lugo's inauguration at the Chamber of Commerce August 14. The companies indicated that insecurities in the judicial system undermine Paraguay's capacity to attract foreign inv [...] | 2008-08-22 18:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN PGOV EIND ECON EINV ETRD PREL PA |
08ASUNCION590 | CHAVEZ BREAKS ALL THE RULES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan President Chavez attempted to steal President Lugo's limelight on and around his August 15 inauguration, but most of his efforts backfired, making him the object of widespread criticism in the Paraguayan press. Chavez did, however, get a good amount of "face time" with [...] | 2008-08-25 22:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION592 | LUGO STEERS MODERATE COURSE IN INAUGURATION SPEECH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After taking his oath with an emphatic "I swear," President Fernando Lugo delineated his ideals for Paraguay in an emotive inauguration speech, some of which he delivered in Guarani. Lugo marked a strong affinity with the left as he emphasized the cause of the poor and the indig [...] | 2008-08-26 12:50:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PA |
08ASUNCION606 | LUGO AND HAMED FRIENDLY WITH A/S SHANNON BUT LIGHT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his August 28 meeting with President Lugo, Assistant Secretary Shannon reinforced Secretary Gutierrez' message to Lugo about U.S. interests in strengthening commercial ties, and also expressed support for Lugo's social agenda. Above all else, Lugo said he wants to strengthen P [...] | 2008-08-29 18:30:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL SNAR PA |
08ASUNCION624 | LUGO FOCUSES ON COUNTERNARCOTICS, MICROENTERPRISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lugo expressed interest in closer counternarcotics cooperation with the United States and requested U.S. assistance with microenterprise development during a Friday, August 29 dinner with the Ambassador. Lugo made clear that he does not trust some of his closest advisors [...] | 2008-09-05 18:58:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PGOV ECON PA |
08ASUNCION641 | UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PARAGUAY [...] (U) The primary contacts for Embassy Asuncion are as follows: -- Embassy Asuncion Telephone number (Post 1): dialing from US: 011 595 21 213-715 x2210, dialing within Asuncion: 213-715 x2210, dialing within Paraguay: 021 213-715 x2210; -- Ambassador Liliana Ayalde: 011 595 21 213-715 x2 [...] | 2008-09-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION643 | 63RD UNGA LIST OF ATTENDEES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 17:52:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA PA |
08ASUNCION646 | A/S SHANNON'S VISIT TO PARAGUAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: WHA Assistant Secretary Shannon visited Paraguay August 28-29 to meet President Lugo (reftel) and -- as he articulated to Paraguay's press -- to discuss ways the United States and Paraguay can work together to combat corruption, strengthen democratic institutions, improve health c [...] | 2008-09-15 13:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION657 | RSO MEETING WITH NEW COMANDANTE OF POLICE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On September 11, RSO met with the new Comandante of the Paraguayan National Police (PNP),Federico Acuna Araujo. Araujo reaffirmed his commitment to supporting the US Embassy's security needs and thanked the RSO for the large number of training opportunities the Embassy provides [...] | 2008-09-17 21:12:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION660 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMBASSADORS IN BOLIVIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 22:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC BL PA |
08ASUNCION661 | XXXXXXXXXXXX CONCERNED ABOUT REGIONAL POLITICS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: XXXXXXXXXXXX sought an unofficial meeting with Emboffs September 13 to discuss the Bolivian crisis and regional spillover. XXXXXXXXXXXX said Venezuela has a presence in virtually all of Bolivia's military bases, and that Venezuela's center of operations is in San Andita. The Ve [...] | 2008-09-22 18:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV SNAR MARR ECON PREL MASS PA BL |
08ASUNCION665 | INSIDE SCOOP ON REGIONAL POLITICS AND UNASUR [...] (C) Chilean Ambassador Fabio Vio Ugarte told Ambassador September 17 that he met privately with Chilean President Bachelet when he returned to Santiago for a COM meeting to prepare for the UNASUR Summit. To his surprise, she firmly stated her dislike for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Howev [...] | 2008-09-25 20:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PA |
08ASUNCION672 | LUGO'S FIRST MAJOR ATTACK ON CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The new Paraguayan government scored its first major victory against corruption in September. Prosecutors and police conducted a mega-operation which uncovered the existence of the infamous "black suitcases" containing bribery monies. For years, the Paraguayan press has report [...] | 2008-10-01 20:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PA |
08ASUNCION691 | TRADE-TALK: PARAGUAY'S OPPOSITION IN THE WTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new Paraguayan Government of Fernando Lugo is soon to decide whether to lift Paraguay's three-year old opposition in the WTO to U.S. requests for waivers for AGOA, CBERA, and ATPA trade preference programs. Commerce Minister clearly wants to reverse Paraguay's position. Howev [...] | 2008-10-09 18:56:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EIND ECON EINV ETRD PREL PA |
08ASUNCION696 | SCENE-SETTER FOR BUSH-LUGO MEETING: PARAGUAY [...] (C) President Fernando Lugo's administration represents the first break in Colorado Party's 61-year stranglehold on power; as such, it is shaking the foundations of Paraguayan society. President Bush's October 27 meeting with President Lugo offers the United States an opportunity to reaffirm it [...] | 2008-10-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV SNAR PA |
08ASUNCION7 | LIBERAL PARTY POLITICS [...] (C) Hermes "Rambo" Saguier (protect),an opposition Liberal Party leader and one of presidential hopeful Fernando Lugo's advisors, told Pol/Econ Chief December 28 that the Liberal Party will not likely announce its December 9 primary results (designating Lugo's running mate) before early Febru [...] | 2008-01-03 12:40:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION702 | EPHEDRINE KING ARRESTED IN PARAGUAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paraguay's anti narcotics agency (SENAD) arrested October 3 Mexican nationals, including an alleged leader of the Sinaloa Mexican drug cartel for ephedrine trafficking. Paraguayan authorities report a new trend in ephedrine trafficking from South America to Mexico and the United [...] | 2008-10-15 20:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRIM PREL PA |
08ASUNCION720 | VENEZUELANS PERFORMING EYE SURGERIES AND MORE [...] (SBU) Venezuela's ""Miracle Mission"" Program has sent several thousand Paraguayans abroad for free eye surgeries and ""leadership"" training in Cuba and Venezuela. The last Paraguayan government signed an agreement with Venezuela in April 2006 to launch the program, and the Lugo administration e [...] | 2008-10-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PROP PGOV SOCI CU VZ PA |
08ASUNCION721 | NEGATIVE PUBLIC REACTION TO PARAGUAY-VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay and Venezuela signed 13 agreements August 16 which attempt to establish the framework for extensive Venezuelan activity in Paraguay. Constitutionally, Congress is required to authorize agreements with a foreign government, and reproached the Executive for not submitting [...] | 2008-10-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PA |
08ASUNCION722 | TENSIONS WITH BRAZIL INCREASE OVER LAND AND [...] (C) Paraguay's bilateral relations with Brazil soured in October over Brazilian military exercises on the Paraguayan border and an increase in invasions of land owned by Brazilian-Paraguayans. Although Brazil informed Paraguay of its plans to conduct military exercises, Paraguayan officials c [...] | 2008-10-24 18:41:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PINS PGOV PREL PA BR AR ES |
08ASUNCION729 | INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD NOMINEE: [...] (U) Post nominates Paraguayan anti-corruption prosecutor Ms. Rocio Vallejo as our nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Ms. Vallejo's personal information requested in reftel is as follows: -- Full legal name of nominee: Hilda Maria del Rocio Vallejo Av [...] | 2008-10-28 18:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM PA |
08ASUNCION740 | PARAGUAY AND TAIWAN MAINTAIN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS [...] (C) Paraguay's new Lugo government redefined Paraguay's relationship with the Republic of China (Taiwan) when it announced August 31 that it would no longer actively support Taiwan's interests in the United Nations. Taiwan reacted by hinting September 11 that it might cut off financial aid to [...] | 2008-11-03 19:09:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PA CH TW |
08ASUNCION747 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL TO PARAGUAY [...] (C) Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes Codel Engel November 11-13. President Fernando Lugo's administration represents the first break in the Colorado Party's 61-year streak in power; as such, it is shaking the foundations of Paraguayan society. Just on the heels of President Lugo's October 27 [...] | 2008-11-04 12:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV SNAR PA |
08ASUNCION781 | OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Per reftel the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion is transmitting the text of President Lugo's congratulatory message to President-elect Obama. (BEGIN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION) Republic of Paraguay Fernando Lugo Mendez President of the Republic of Paraguay Asuncion, November 5, 2008 Mr. Presi [...] | 2008-11-20 13:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP PA |
08ASUNCION785 | D/USTR VERONEAU REASSURES LUGO OF US TRADE INTERESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau met with President Lugo early November 20 to reinforce President Bush's interest in strengthening trade relations with Paraguay. Lugo said international solidarity is key to Paraguay's development, and asserted that Paraguay needs fa [...] | 2008-11-20 20:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD PA |
08ASUNCION79 | THREATS TO DISQUALIFY LUGO [...] (U) The Colorado Party's focus -- and with it the media spotlight -- has shifted from its disputed primary elections to confronting presidential hopeful and resigned Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo following the January 20 announcement that presidential candidate Blanca Ovelar had been declared [...] | 2008-02-06 19:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION791 | CODEL ENGEL VISITS PARAGUAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congressman Engel (D-NY) led an eight-member, bipartisan delegation to Paraguay November 11-13 to strengthen commercial ties and affirm U.S. interest in Paraguay. Senate President Gonzalez Quintana opened the delegation's November 11 meeting with the Paraguayan Congress by affir [...] | 2008-11-25 11:48:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP ETRD PREL ECON PA |
08ASUNCION814 | PARAGUAY SHAKES UP SECURITY FORCES LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lugo administration in late November appointed new leadership in the Military Forces and the National Police in the biggest change in Paraguay's security apparatus in decades. By retiring many scores of security officials and promoting a new cadre of leaders, the Lugo adm [...] | 2008-12-09 13:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MARR PINS PGOV PREL PA |
08ASUNCION815 | LUGO'S FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE [...] (SBU) President Fernando Lugo publicly reviewed November 25 his administration's progress in its first 100 days. Lugo emphasized a frontal fight against corruption and said he is trying to impose a new style of government, while humbly assuming responsibility for his errors to date as presiden [...] | 2008-12-09 15:39:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PA |
08ASUNCION843 | RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) This cable responds to questions regarding implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act and the relationship between the Cuban and Paraguayan governments (ref A and B). 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights i [...] | 2008-12-17 19:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL KDEM CVIS PHUM PREF CU PA |
08ASUNCION847 | PARAGUAY'S THRESHOLD PROGRAM WORKING TO FORMALIZE [...] (U) Ambassador and Paraguayan Minister of Industry and Commerce Martin Heisecke visited December 10 manufacturers in Ciudad del Este (CDE) supported by USAID's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Program. Ambassador and Heisecke visited Qin Yi America and Cortinerias del Paragua [...] | 2008-12-19 16:45:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON PA |
08ASUNCION869 | AG SECTOR UNCERTAINTY BREEDS PESSIMISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Major Paraguayan soy producers are skeptical of President Lugo's economic plans, particularly agriculture policy. Recent declines of 30 to 40 percent in commodity prices are a serious but manageable concern. The government's intention to tax production, however, generates a strong [...] | 2008-12-29 21:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EIND ECON EINV ETRD PREL PA |
08ASUNCION92 | HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW - MCC THRESHOLD COUNTRY PROGRAM [...] In support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID),post is requesting human rights vetting, in accordance with the Leahy Amendment, of the personnel listed below that will be participating in the MCC Threshold Country Program as customs enforcement officers for a period of at l [...] | 2008-02-12 17:01:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL AID PA |
08ASUNCION97 | PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY08 ESF AND INCLE FUNDS [...] (U) Embassy Asuncion submits the following anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) proposal for FY 2008 ESF and INCLE funding (reftel). This proposal details the second phase of an IOM project funded by G/TIP in 2006 and completed in July 2007. Cynthia Bendlin, WHA winner of the 2008 Secretary's [...] | 2008-02-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG BR AR PA |
08ASUNCION99 | AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH CANDIDATE LUGO [...] (C) In his first meeting with bishop-turned-presidential front-runner Fernando Lugo, Ambassador delivered a strong message that the United States wants good relations with whomever becomes Paraguay's next president, and we have numerous opportunities to work together toward common interests. [...] | 2008-02-14 15:05:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PGOV PA |
08ATHENS1009 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: GRUEVSKI LETTER ON MINORITIES [...] (U) This message has been cleared with Embassy Skopje. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Greece reacted negatively to a July 14 letter from Macedonian PM Gruevski to PM Karamanlis requesting that Greece address issues related to property restitution and citizenship of ethnic Macedonians [...] | 2008-07-15 13:42:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MK GR |
08ATHENS1015 | GREECE: EXPANDED NATO TRAINING MSSION-IRAQ PAPERS [...] (C) On 11 July, A/Pol Counselor and Poloff delivered ref A points on NTM-I to Ambassador Heracles Asteriades, Director of the MFA D-2 Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and the Western European Union (WEU). A/Pol Counselor emphasized that now that the NAC had taken a decision to [...] | 2008-07-16 09:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR IZ MARR PGOV PREL NATO |
08ATHENS1018 | GREEK MFA ON JULY 22-23 GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) On 15 July, PolOfficer and PolAssistant delivered ref A points and discussed issues likely to be addressed at the July 22-23 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC) with MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katsourou. She responded with the following points: -- Iran: Katsourou said Greec [...] | 2008-07-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGKV PREL EU GR PHUM IR SO SU CD ZI UP |
08ATHENS1023 | SCENE SETTER FOR ATHENS GREECE (U) [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Athens, we look forward to your important visit which comes at an important time in the U.S.-Greece bilateral relationship. Since your visit last July, ADM Fitzgerald (2-3 April),Lt Gen McFann (2 July),and LTG Eikenberry (3 July) visited Athens and met with key Greek m [...] | 2008-07-17 08:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS NATO TU MK GR |
08ATHENS1027 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: KARAMANLIS RESPONDS TO GRUEVSKI [...] (U) Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis has responded in a July 18 public letter (full text in para 4) to the July 14 letter from Macedonian Prime Minister Gruevski (ref A) in which Gruevski asks that Greece address issues related to property restitution and citizenship of ethnic Macedonians who [...] | 2008-07-18 14:49:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
08ATHENS1028 | SOMALI PIRACY: GREEK SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 15:42:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL SOCI XA XW GR |
08ATHENS1030 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: FURTHER PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Embassy Skopje has provided useful ideas on steps the U.S. might take to advance the name negotiations. In that spirit we want to offer Embassy Athens' thoughts on where the Greeks currently are on this issue, and what it might take for them to conclude a deal. We believe the Greeks are [...] | 2008-07-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
08ATHENS1034 | KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE FARC POINTS DELIVERED [...] (C) A/Pol Counselor met July 21 with Christos Maniakis Grivas, Deputy Director of the MFA A-8 Department for Latin America and the Caribbean, to make reftel points on keeping the pressure on the FARC. Maniakis Grivas listened carefully and said that he would ensure that the MFA Political Dire [...] | 2008-07-21 15:24:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL COL VE HR EU PTER AF SNAR PGOV GR |
08ATHENS1043 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S JULY 27 - 29 [...] (C) Welcome to Athens. I am pleased that you are coming and the Embassy stands ready to make your visit a success. Your visit is opportune, as the Greeks are thinking carefully about Iran. On the one hand, those handling non-proliferation matters largely share international community concern [...] | 2008-07-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP IAEA GR |
08ATHENS1053 | GREECE WELCOMES KARADZIC ARREST [...] (SBU) GOG officials, including FM Bakoyannis, and the main opposition party have welcomed Serbia's arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and have emphasized that this action further opens Serbia's path to Europe. The only discordant note was sounded by Greece's Communist Party [...] | 2008-07-23 14:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BK SR GR |
08ATHENS1070 | GREECE/SYRIA: GREEK VIEWS ON DEALING WITH THE SARG [...] (C) A/Pol Counselor delivered ref A points on the Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) on 7/24 to George Ayfandis, acting Director of the MFA A-6 Directorate for Arab Countries and the Middle East. Ayfandis said that Greece shared U.S. concerns about the SARG, highlighting, in particular, S [...] | 2008-07-25 13:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EU RS TU NO SW |
08ATHENS1073 | GREECE/AFGHANISTAN: STILL CONSIDERING A POSSIBLE [...] (C) Ambassador Heracles Asteriades, Director of the MFA D-2 Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and the Western European Union (WEU),told A/Pol Counselor and Poloff that Greece continues to evaluate the U.S. request that it lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanista [...] | 2008-07-25 14:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS NATO GR |
08ATHENS1088 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: GREEK HIGH-LEVEL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 08:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA GR |
08ATHENS1109 | UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Greg Schulte visited Athens on July 28 to discuss Iran-related developments at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),and the broad two-track approach to negotiations with Iran and [...] | 2008-08-01 13:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP IAEA GR |
08ATHENS1114 | GREECE: JULY 08 TIP UPDATE [...] This is Embassy Athens' second regular update on Greece's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). RATIFICATION OF GREECE-ALBANIA AGREEMENT ----------------------------------------- 2. The Greek Parliament ratified on July 31, 2008 a bilateral Greece-Albania agreement on child repa [...] | 2008-08-01 14:50:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN GR |
08ATHENS1120 | NEW GREEK DOMESTIC TERROR GROUP EMERGES [...] (SBU) Greek anti-terrorist investigators believe that a new terrorist group has emerged following bombing incidents on June 24 and July 28. In the first incident, a small explosion was set off outside an officAthens suburb of MarouQwQ In both incidents, "died improvised devic verified manner [...] | 2008-08-04 16:18:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER GR |
08ATHENS1122 | VISA WAIVER: GREEK FM BAKOYANNIS PRESSES FOR [...] (C) In separate conversations with Ambassador, FM Bakoyannis and her Chef de Cabinet Ambassador Halistanis pressed for the U.S. response to the Greek comments on the Visa Waiver (VWP) MOU draft from March and closely linked Greek signature and ratification of the HSPD-6 text on terrorist data [...] | 2008-08-05 09:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PTER GR |
08ATHENS1132 | URGING THE EU TO MAINTAIN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on maintaining travel restrictions on the Karadzic family to Antonia Katzourou, European Correspondent for the MFA A11 Directorate that deals with EU Common and Foreign Security Policy and to Asterios Tsiourvas, MFA Desk Officer for Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro. [...] | 2008-08-07 05:44:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GR |
08ATHENS114 | GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On January 24, Acting Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche points to Director of the D1 Directorate for International Organizations, Ambassador Alexandros Rallis. Rllis stated that he had already sent our previously faxed points to the Greek mission in Geneva and had also forward [...] | 2008-01-24 14:40:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GR IS |
08ATHENS1143 | PERSONAL FROM AMBASSADOR SPECKHARD: RETAIN TERROR [...] (U) Personal from Ambassador Speckhard to S/CT Dell Dailey. 2. (S) BEGIN TEXT OF MESSAGE: Dell: I understand that the Greek terrorist group November 17 (N17) is being considered for removal from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list. I believe N17 may still retain the intent to eng [...] | 2008-08-08 13:01:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS1149 | NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (C) On August 8, PolAssistant delivered reftel points on the New Burma sanctions to MFA Deputy Director of the A10 Directorate for Asia and Oceania Antoula Balanou. In an August 11 follow-up, Balanou mentioned that the most recent GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers had not addressed the i [...] | 2008-08-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD BMGT GR |
08ATHENS115 | GREEK VIEWS ON ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ISSUES [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Department. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) DepPolCouns and PolOff discussed ref a points on Israeli-Palestinian issues with MFA A6 Middle East Directorate deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis. On the demarche overall, Ayfantis complemented the author for a [...] | 2008-01-25 08:23:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID OPRC KPAL IS GR |
08ATHENS1152 | GEORGIA CRISIS: GREEKS SCRAMBLING TO FORMULATE [...] (C) Charge delivere U.S. position on a Qdemning Russian militar Constantinos Bitsios, @M Karamanlis, and to Ha FM Bakoyannis. Bitsiososition had not yet be(###) need for calm in deliberations. Lalacos likewise demurred from providing a Greek position, noting that FM Bakoyannis would enunciate [...] | 2008-08-11 14:24:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT KFLO GR |
08ATHENS1156 | TFGG01: GREEKS WILL FOLLOW FRENCH LEAD ON GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOG has still not announced an official position on the crisis in Georgia, probably due to its concerns about alienating either the Russians or Georgians, with both of whom Greece maintains close ties. But our conversations with MFA and other high-placed interlocutors indicate Gree [...] | 2008-08-12 15:26:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG GR |
08ATHENS1165 | NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP DRAFT EXCEPTION FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) Embassy political section coordinated this demarche with UK embassy political counselor, Lisa Whanstall. On 12 August, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, Director D1 Directorate of UN and International Affairs. On 13 August A/Polcouns discussed the issue [...] | 2008-08-14 11:56:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC AORC GR |
08ATHENS1183 | TFGG1: GREEK FM ON GEORGIA CRISIS, OSCE MONITORS [...] (C) Following the August 19 NATO Special Ministerial to address the on-going crisis in Georgia (reftel),Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis issued a statement, which contained both favorable and unfavorable elements in terms of U.S. policy and generally adhered to the positions of the "old Europe" NATO [...] | 2008-08-20 15:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG GR |
08ATHENS1188 | TFGG01: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: ATHENS DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek MFA and MOD officials are saying the right things on Greece's support for Georgia's territorial integrity and the early withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia. At the same time, a team of Russian defense industry experts is scheduled to visit Athens next week to discuss [...] | 2008-08-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET//NOFORN | GR PGOV PREL MARR RU GG |
08ATHENS1202 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] On 19 August, Poloff delivred reftel points to Loukas Tsokos, First Secretary MFA D1 Directorate of UN and International Organizations. On August 26, A/Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Tho [...] | 2008-08-26 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN GR IR KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL |
08ATHENS1203 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR LAGON'S SEPTEMBER 1-3 [...] (C) Welcome to Athens. Your visit is an excellent opportunity to press Greece to show progress on TIP issues if it wishes to avoid a Tier-Two Watch-List rating. Your visit comes at a particularly delicate moment in U.S.-Greece relations. A NATO ally and EU member, Greece has been helpful in [...] | 2008-08-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | GR PGOV PHUM PREL |
08ATHENS1204 | GREEK POLICE DISMANTLE UKRAINIAN TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Greek Anti-Trafficking police dismantled a trafficking network that forced Ukrainian women into prostitution. Police arrested five Ukrainians and one Uzbek on charges of human trafficking, abduction, use of false documents, and laundering of proceeds from criminal activities. 2. (U) Fol [...] | 2008-08-26 15:38:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | GR KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL |
08ATHENS1205 | ADDITIONAL REASONS NOT TO REMOVE 17N FROM FTO LIST [...] (S) Embassy Athens remains strongly opposed to the removal of the Greek terrorist organization 17 November (17N) from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. We offer the following new factual elements to supplement information provided in refs A, B, and C. 2. (S/NF) There are, as w [...] | 2008-08-26 16:07:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC KCRM KJUS GR |
08ATHENS1216 | TFGG01: GREECE'S BUSINESS-AS-USUAL WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite strong statements at NATO and the EU by FM Bakoyannis supporting Georgian territorial integrity and condemning Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, the GOG at the same time is moving ahead with several "business-as-usual" events with Ru [...] | 2008-08-28 17:51:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG GR RS |
08ATHENS123 | GREEK MFA ON IRAN ISSUES [...] (S) On January 24, DepPolCouns met with MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis to discuss various Iran issues, including a readout of the Iranian DFM Bagheri's January 14 visit to Athens, Greece's overall posture towards Iran, and Iran's role in Iraq. DFM Vali [...] | 2008-01-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | MOPS PARM PREL PGOV CASC KDEM IR IZ GR |
08ATHENS1236 | POINTS ON AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY EXPANSION DELIVERED [...] On September 3, A/Pol Counselor delivered reftel non-paper on the Afghan Governemnt's proposal to expand the Afghan National Army to Ambassador Alexios Christopoulos, Director of the MFA A10 Directorate for Asia and Oceania. Christopoulos noted that Greece is not a member of the Joint Coordin [...] | 2008-09-03 08:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GR AF |
08ATHENS1243 | GREECE/EU: GYMNICH POINTS DELIVERED [...] (C) On September 2, A/Political Counselor delivered ref A points on Georgia and EU/Russia relations in advance of the September 5-6 Gymnich, and ref B points on other issues on the Gymnich agenda to MFA European correspondent Antonia Katzoulou. Katzoulou had the following observations: -- [...] | 2008-09-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU GG GR RU |
08ATHENS1249 | GREECE SUPPORTS U.S. UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE [...] On August 27, Poloff delivered reftel points to Loukas Tsokos, First Secretary MFA D1 Directorate of UN and International Organizations. Tsokos said Greece would support the resolution at the upcoming 63rd UNGA, just as they had supported it in 2005. SPECKHARD [...] | 2008-09-04 13:48:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | GR PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
08ATHENS1261 | GREEKS UNCERTAIN ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) A/Political Counselor raised reftel points on a possible UNGA resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kosovo's declaration of independence with Ambassador Eleftherios Angelopoulos, Director of the MFA A3 Directorate for Southeastern Europ [...] | 2008-09-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV SR GR |
08ATHENS127 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: GREEK NEGOTIATOR NOT OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met January 24 with Ambassador Adamintos Vasilakis for a readout of the January 21 Ohrid negotiations on the Macedonian name issue, chaired by Matthew Nimetz. Vasilakis said that the opening remarks by FM Milososki contained some of the same "unhelpful" statements he s [...] | 2008-01-28 14:44:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
08ATHENS1270 | GREECE CLAIMS TURKEY DUMPED ILLEGAL ALIENS IN [...] (C) Greece has demarched Turkey following news reports that the Greek Coast Guard filmed the Turkish Coast Guard dumping illegal aliens off a ship into Greek territorial waters in the Aegean Sea. A Greek MFA official told us that the evidence of the alien dumping is strong and that it is not [...] | 2008-09-08 14:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS TU GR |
08ATHENS1272 | GREECE: ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009) [...] (SBU) On August 26, Charge, A/Polcouns, and PolAssistant delivered the TIP Action Guide to Minister of Justice Hatzigakis and SecGen of the Justice Ministry Gletsos. On August 28, Charge and Poloff delivered the guide to MFA General Secretary Agathocles. In these meetings, the Charge outlin [...] | 2008-09-09 09:07:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GR PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN KTIP |
08ATHENS128 | GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRIVATE-SECTOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 15:35:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PTER KGIC GR |
08ATHENS1287 | GREEK VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered ref A and C points on the September 15-16 meeting of EU foreign ministers (GAERC) to MFA European Correspondent Ant/nia Katzourou and took the oppo2tunity 4o ask for a readout of the September 5-6 G9mnich meeting. On the latter, Katzourou said 3he had ngt gotten a de [...] | 2008-09-10 11:23:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM GR RS SU ZI YI EUN |
08ATHENS1290 | GREECE/CYPRUS: GOG SUPPORTS UN PROCESS BUT WORRIED [...] (C) PM Karamanlis and FM Bakoyannis are pleased with the momentum on Cyprus, sending positive signals about the September 3 start of UN-brokered talks. Cyprus has been center stage in Athens with visits from UN Special Envoy Downer and Cypriot Foreign Minister Kyprianou. PM Karamanlis and F [...] | 2008-09-10 14:50:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR CY UN |
08ATHENS1291 | MONASTERY LAND DEAL BUFFETS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The senior prosecutor of the Greek Supreme Court, George Sanidas, has ordered an inquiry into a 2007 land swap between the Vatopaidion monastery and the state. Opposition parties have seized on the issue, alleging the state traded some prime facilities built for the 2004 Athen [...] | 2008-09-10 15:03:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS1294 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL GRAPSAS' VISIT TO D.C. [...] (C) The visit of General Demetrius Grapsas, Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, to Washington is an important opportunity to recognize Greece's support of multiple U.S. Navy and Air Force operations in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, including Iraq through ove [...] | 2008-09-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | GR PGOV PREL |
08ATHENS1296 | FM BAKOYANNIS ACCEPTS INVITATION TO TRANSATLANTIC [...] (U) Post has delivered reftel invitation to the September 24 TransAtlantic luncheon to Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis. Bakoyannis has confirmed her participation in the luncheon. SPECKHARD [...] | 2008-09-12 08:02:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UNGA EUN NATO PREL GR |
08ATHENS1298 | GREECE: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on September 9 to Loukas Tsokos, First Secretary at the MFA D1 Directorate of UN and International Organizations. The D1 office received the points but had no substantive comment and passed them to the D2 Directorate of Human Rights. Post will report any f [...] | 2008-09-12 11:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR PGOV PREL PHUM |
08ATHENS1299 | GOG TO EMB SKOPJE DCM: POSITION FIRM BUT READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece is prepared to make a deal on the name dispute with Macedonia "tomorrow," senior Greek officials told visiting Embassy Skopje DCM Navratil in meetings August 22 in Athens, but Greece's position on a composite name and its universal international usage -- "ergo omnes" -- rema [...] | 2008-09-12 12:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR MK |
08ATHENS13 | GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PAKISTAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On December 31, 2007, poloff delivered reftel points to Ambassador Alexios Christopoulos, Director of the A10 Directorate for Asia and Oceania. 2. (SBU) On January 3, poloff spoke with Ms. Vassiliki Bafi, attache to Ambassador Christopoulos, who advised that Greece "shares the same vi [...] | 2008-01-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER GR |
08ATHENS1301 | GREECE/NATO: NO SUBSTANTIVE REPLY ON ISAF OPLAN TO [...] (C) Upon receipt of reftel, we engaged with GOG interlocutors to press Greece to be supportive of an amendment to the ISAF OPLAN to authorize ISAF forces to interdict narcotics production and trafficking facilities where such action would offer a direct military advantage. On August 12, Polof [...] | 2008-09-12 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL SNAR GR |
08ATHENS1302 | AMID ALLEGATIONS, MINISTER OF MERCHANT MARINE [...] (U) Minister of Merchant Marine and Island Policy George Voulgarakis resigned as Minister on September 12 amid various allegations linking him to scandal, including his wife's ties to a controversial government/church land swap and his involvement in the creation of an off-shore company that [...] | 2008-09-12 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS1303 | GREECE/IRAN: AMBASSADOR WARNS MFA SECGEN TO CANCEL [...] (S) At a September 9 dinner hosted by the Turkish Ambassador, MFA Secretary General Agathocles told Ambassador Speckhard he was planning a trip to Teheran in the near future. Ambassador warned him to cancel the visit, given UN and EU sanctions against Iran and the current state of Iran's rela [...] | 2008-09-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | GR IR PGOV PREL |
08ATHENS1304 | ADDITIONAL GAERC GEORGIA POINTS PASSED TO GREEKS [...] (SBU) DepPolCouns passed additional GAERC Georgia points (ref A) to Greek MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katzourou. Katzourou provided no new feedback beyond her earlier remarks on the September GAERC (ref D). SPECKHARD [...] | 2008-09-14 12:17:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EUN GR RS GG |
08ATHENS1326 | FM BAKOYANNIS PLEDGES ENGAGEMENT ON NIMETZ [...] (S) To help lay the groundwork for New York meetings on the Macedonia name issue, on September 16 Ambassador Speckhard spoke with Foreign Minister Bakoyannis to urge her not to reject the most recent Nimetz proposal, to engage constructively in negotiating textual changes Greece may need to be [...] | 2008-09-18 07:25:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL GR MK |
08ATHENS1327 | GREECE UNDECIDED ON UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (U) On September 11, Poloff delivered reftel on requesting support for UNAIDS Executive Director candidate Michel Sidibe to George Panagiotidis, Embassy Attach of the MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations. Panagiotidis thanked us for the information and said it would be reviewed [...] | 2008-09-18 07:25:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | GR PGOV PREL UNGA EAID KHIV |
08ATHENS1334 | GREECE/UNGA: MFA GRATEFUL FOR POINTS ON COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered ref A points on U.S. priorities for the Community of Democracies at the UNGA to MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations head Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, who would be accompanying FM Bakoyannis to the UNGA. Rallis later told us he had passed the points to Fo [...] | 2008-09-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GR PHUM UNGA KDEM |
08ATHENS1335 | OLYMPIC AIRLINES EMPLOYEES DISRUPT ATHENS AIRPORT [...] (SBU) Athens International Airport flight operations were briefly disrupted September 18 when members of Olympic Airlines' machinists and ground support union staged a sit- in on the tarmac of one of the airport's two main runways. The unionists were protesting EU approval of a decision by th [...] | 2008-09-19 11:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ELAB EAIR KCRM GR |
08ATHENS1336 | APPROACHING GREECE ON REBUTTING RUSSIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) DCM discussed ref A points on rebutting Russia's claims against Georgia with the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor Constantinos Bitsios. She noted the speciousness of the Russian claims of genocide, the lack of supporting evidence from international NGOs, and our request for Greece to u [...] | 2008-09-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM GR GG RS |
08ATHENS1338 | GREEK REPLY ON ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA: WE PLAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | GR KMCA EAID EFIN PREL |
08ATHENS1346 | MFA SECRETARY GENERAL: NO TO IRAN AND SYRIA ON [...] (S) MFA Secretary General Agathocles told DCM on 9/19 that Greece opposes the possible election of Syria or Iran to the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG). He said that there is a "common view" within the EU that they should not be elected; however, many in the EU consider Afghanistan "not ready" [...] | 2008-09-22 11:29:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL IAEA PARM MNUC SR KV AF SY IR GR |
08ATHENS1347 | GREECE/IRAN: FM BAKOYANNIS INSTRUCTS THAT ADVISORY [...] (S) DepPolCouns discussed ref A points on Greek interactions with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) with MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis. He later informed us that FM Bakoyannis had agreed to the requests and that an advisory would be [...] | 2008-09-22 11:33:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | GR IS ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD PARM PREL KNNP EUN |
08ATHENS1348 | GREECE/NATO: POINTS DELIVERED ON "NO BUSINESS AS [...] (C) On 22 September, Poloff delivered ref points on "no business as usual" in NATO-Russia relations to Andreas Kintis, NATO desk officer in the MFA's D2 Directorate for NATO and Western European Union (WEU) Affairs. Kintis said he would forward the information to his superiors and to the Gr [...] | 2008-09-22 13:40:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PGOV PREL GR GG RS |
08ATHENS1349 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. AMBASSADORS IN BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BL VE GR |
08ATHENS1351 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: GREECE IS READY TO RESPOND [...] (SBU) Summary: EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Pierroutsakos, Chairman of the Hellenic Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (HCDCP) and to Sotiris Tsiodras, an expert on infectious diseases at the Greek Ministry of Health (MOH). Both officials outlined a clear and articulat [...] | 2008-09-23 15:21:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL GR |
08ATHENS1356 | GREECE/NATO: DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO [...] (C) On September 19, Poloff delivered reftel points requesting for additional support to the NATO Training mission-Iraq to Andreas Kintis, NATO desk officer in the MFA's D2 Directorate for NATO and Western European Union (WEU) Affairs. Kintis said he would forward the information to his su [...] | 2008-09-24 13:53:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR PGOV PREL MARR NATO IZ |
08ATHENS1360 | GREECE AND IPR - VISIT BY USDOC [...] (SBU) The GoG and Greek industry IPR representatives painted a complex picture of GoG progress on IPR, illustrating mild improvements, following Greece's listing on the 2008 Special 301 Watch List. During the September 8-10 visit of Department of Commerce Hilleary Smith, government representa [...] | 2008-09-25 04:12:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR GR PREL |
08ATHENS1362 | GREECE: UN MINORITIES EXPERT REFUTES ERRONEOUS IMPRESSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an August 16 visit to Greece at the invitation of the GOG, UN Minorities expert Gay McDougall examined Greek legislation, policies, and practices related to minority rights and highlighted challenges and good practices. McDougall refuted erroneous claims in the Greek pres [...] | 2008-09-25 11:06:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL GR MK |
08ATHENS1380 | TOUGH TIMES FOR PM KARAMANLIS [...] (C) Recent weeks have not been kind to PM Karamanlis. His ruling New Democracy (ND) party is now polling lower than major opposition party PASOK. His razor-thin two-vote majority in Parliament has been further reduced to a one-vote majority, following a September 30 expulsion from the ruling [...] | 2008-09-30 17:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR |
08ATHENS1383 | AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY: SOLICITING GREEK [...] (C) On September 23, Ambassador Speckhard raised with MFA Secretary General Agathocles reftel request for Greece to contribute USD 30 million per year from 2010 to 2014 in additional funding for sustainment of the expanded Afghan National Army. Agathocles responded that Greece placed a high p [...] | 2008-10-01 10:21:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AF |
08ATHENS1396 | U.S. MESSAGE CLEAR AS GREECE'S ANSWER TO "60 MINUTES" [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: Greece's elite, progressive SKAI TV devoted the September 29 season premiere of its popular "60 Minutes"-style investigative show "Neoi Fakkeloi" (The New Files, or Folders) to the Georgia-Russia crisis, featuring an interview conducted on location in Tbilisi wit [...] | 2008-10-02 14:08:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO SOCI MOPS GR RU GE |
08ATHENS1399 | GREEK PM STAYS THE COURSE DESPITE OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) Buffeted by scandals and allegations of financial mismanagement, as well as dissent within his own New Democracy party (ref A),PM Karamanlis called an emergency cabinet meeting on October 2 to reassert his authority and strengthen resolve to continue forward with the government's reform [...] | 2008-10-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON GR |
08ATHENS1400 | GREECE/NATO: GREECE WITHDRAWS FROM NATO AEGEAN [...] (C) Greece informed NATO military authorities October 6 that it has withdrawn from a NATO table top exercise ("Noble Aspect 08") on the Aegean. Greece sought to include "tracks" of a civilian aircraft overflying Agios Efstratios island (reftel) - an island that Turkey maintains is "demilitari [...] | 2008-10-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO PGOV PREL TU GR |
08ATHENS1405 | GREECE/KOSOVO: SEEKING EU CONSENSUS TO ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) On October 6, Ambassador Speckhard raised with Ambassador Constantinos Halistanis, FM Bakoyannis' Chief of Staff, reftel points on the Kosovo ICJ resolution at the UNGA. The Ambassador highlighted the potentially harmful effects of referring Kosovo's independence to the ICJ, as it could [...] | 2008-10-07 15:22:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV SR GR |
08ATHENS1408 | NEW DEMOCRACY MAJORITY UP SLIGHTLY WITH RETURN OF PRODIGAL [...] (SBU) Stavros Dailakis, the New Democracy deputy expelled from the parliamentary caucus for criticizing PM Karamanlis's personal aides on October 2 (reftels),has been reinstated by the PM. As a result, the GoG again has a majority of 152 seats in the 300-member Parliament. Dailakis had earl [...] | 2008-10-08 12:34:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER GR |
08ATHENS1427 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: FM BAKOYANNIS POSITIVE ON NIMETZ [...] (C) In a 10/9 conversation with Ambassador Speckhard, FM Bakoyannis said Greece considered UN mediator Nimetz' latest proposal to be a "good basis," but with some remaining areas for refinement - particularly stronger provisions on bilateral usage of the new name. Bakoyannis laid out the GOG [...] | 2008-10-10 11:15:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS MK GR |
08ATHENS1432 | GREEK VIEWS ON OCTOBER GAERC ISSUES [...] (SBU) DepPolCouns and visiting EUR/SE Desk Officer Goodman delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katzourou. Her responses below are keyed to the main issue topics of the demarche: -- ZIMBABWE: Katzourou did not expect a long discussion. Conclusions had already been f [...] | 2008-10-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN PHUM GR |
08ATHENS1433 | GREECE/UNGA: DELIVERY OF FIRST (DISARMAMENT) [...] (U) On October 9, Poloff delivered reftelQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ issues at UNGA First (Disarmament) CommitteeQ!QQ Q$ Q!Q Q Q e MFA D2 Directorate f/Q NQO and the Western European Union (WEU). Poloff also delivered demarche to Evaghelia Kamariotou, Attache at the MFA D1 Directorate for UN and Internat [...] | 2008-10-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | GR MNUC PARM PREL UNGA |
08ATHENS1437 | GREECE/IRAN: GOG IMPLEMENTING 1835 AND IRISL [...] (S) DepPolCouns and visiting EUR/SE Desk Officer Goodman discussed ref A and B demarches on UNSC 1835 and the designation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) with MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Issues deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis. Ayfantis stated categorically that Gree [...] | 2008-10-14 14:10:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | MNUC PARM KNNP IR GR PREL |
08ATHENS1445 | 101ST U.S.-GREEK JOINT COMMISSION: MEETING SUMMARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On September 29, DCM led USG delegation to the 101st meeting of the U.S. and Greek Joint Commission. The commission focuses on bilateral political-military issues, particularly the relationship between Souda Bay Naval Support Activity (NSA) and the Government of Gre [...] | 2008-10-16 13:08:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL GR |
08ATHENS1452 | GREECE: ADVANCING THE U.S. AGENDA ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) The October 23 - 24 meeting of the High Level Consultative Commission (HLCC - a policy-level bilateral on political-military issues mandated by the U.S./Greece treaty that establishes basing rights in Greece) is an important opportunity to advance our agenda on Afghanistan. We recommend [...] | 2008-10-17 09:34:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL MASS MOPS MARR GR |
08ATHENS1455 | MFA SECGEN ON IRAN, VISA WAIVER, GTMO DETAINEE, [...] (S) SUMMARY: In an October 16 meeting, DCM raised with MFA Secretary General Agathocles a range of topical issues, including: 1) Greece's status in the Visa Waiver process and our intention to move ahead (Agathocles was pleased to hear the news but cautioned that certain legal issues remained t [...] | 2008-10-17 16:03:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | MOPS GR IR PHUM CVIS KCRM PREL |
08ATHENS1456 | GREECE AND IPR -- VISIT BY USTR [...] (SBU) During the visit of Leslie Yang (USTR's Director for Europe),Government of Greece (GoG) officials outlined current and planned efforts to improve IPR protection and enforcement. Yang also met with Greek industry representatives including: Business Software Alliance (BSA),the Associat [...] | 2008-10-17 16:25:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR GR PREL |
08ATHENS1457 | DAS GRAFFY MEETS WITH GREEK PARLIAMENTARIANS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 8, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Public Diplomacy for Europe and EurAsia Colleen Graffy met with several Members of Parliament (MP) from the Greek Special Standing Committee on Protection of the Environment. The discussion focused largely on managing carbon [...] | 2008-10-20 06:35:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY PREL PGOV OSCE AF GR |
08ATHENS1463 | GREEK GOVERNMENT'S PLANS FOR OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, the Embassy raised reftel A points regarding the October 22 Georgia Donors' Conference with the MFA and the head of Hellenic Aid. Both indicated that while additional funding may potentially be forthcoming, the GoG does not appear prepared to make a pledge durin [...] | 2008-10-21 12:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KMCA KCRS EAID EFIN PREL GR |
08ATHENS1470 | GREECE MTCR DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 14:01:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MTCRE PARM KSCA TSPA ETTC GR |
08ATHENS1473 | GREECE: IRAN'S UPCOMING NUCLEAR CONFERENCE [...] (U) On October 23, DepPolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming nuclear conference in Iran to Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, Director of the MFA D1 Department United Nations and International Organizations Affairs, and Loukas Tsokos, D1 First Secretary. Tsokos said D [...] | 2008-10-24 08:38:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GR MNUC PGOV PREL TRGY IR |
08ATHENS1476 | VATOPAIDION SCANDAL CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM IN GREEK [...] (C) On October 23, one of Prime Minister Karamanlis's closest aides, Minister of State and GoG spokesman Theodoris Roussopoulos, resigned in connection with the Vatopaidion real estate scandal -- the second minister to do since September. Roussopoulos is expected to remain in his seat in Parl [...] | 2008-10-27 07:07:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS148 | GREECE/TURKEY: MFA TERMS KARAMANLIS VISIT [...] (C) MFA officials termed PM Karamanlis' January 23 - 25 trip to Turkey "positive but not concrete." They were pleased by statements by PM Erdogan that "could be seen as positive openings" on the status of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, on the Aegean "casus belli," and on broader Ae [...] | 2008-01-31 14:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM SOCI TU GR |
08ATHENS1490 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL- [...] (U) On October 30, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the [...] | 2008-10-30 17:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC GR |
08ATHENS1491 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] (U) On October 30, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the [...] | 2008-10-30 17:36:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | IR KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN |
08ATHENS1495 | GREEK VIEWS ON NOVEMBER GAERC ISSUES [...] (S) DepPolCouns and PolOff delivered ref A points to MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katzourou and her future successor Niki Kamba. Her responses below are keyed to the main issue topics of the demarche: -- RUSSIA: Katzourou noted that the Medvedev Security Treaty Proposal had not been di [...] | 2008-10-31 13:01:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD GR EUN |
08ATHENS1498 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: FM BAKOYANNIS BRIEFS PARLIAMENT [...] (C) FM Bakoyannis told the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs October 29 that Greece will work from the most recent Nimetz proposal as a basis, but that certain (unspecified) changes are required. She asserted that Greece seeks a new, compound name with a geographic quali [...] | 2008-10-31 13:58:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
08ATHENS1512 | GREECE WORRIED ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS IN BOSNIA [...] (C) A/Political Counselor met 11/4 with Dimitris Tsoungas, Deputy Director of the MFA A3 Balkans Directorate, to follow-up on ref A points on engaging the EU on Bosnia. The points had previously been delivered to Tsoungas and the MFA's EU Correspondent to inform Greek preparations for the EU [...] | 2008-11-04 13:24:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR BK EU |
08ATHENS1517 | GREECE/RUSSIA: KEEPING THE GOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PGOV ENRG RS IR NATO PREL CY IT TU OSCE GR |
08ATHENS152 | NO INVITATION FOR MACEDONIAN CHURCH LEADERS TO [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Skopje. 2. (C) After news emerged Wednesday that leaders of the Macedonian Orthodox Church intended to attend the funeral liturgy of Greek Archbishop Christodoulos in Athens on Thursday, Greek Church authorities declared that the Macedonians were [...] | 2008-02-01 15:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KIRF MK GR |
08ATHENS1524 | GREECE: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRIME [...] Greek Prime Minister Konstandinos Karamanlis has sent a congratulatory letter to President-elect Obama. We understand that the original is being delivered through the Greek Embassy in Washington. However, the Prime Minister's office has provided us with a courtesy copy, which is provided in [...] | 2008-11-07 05:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ODPC OVIP GR |
08ATHENS1525 | GREECE: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRIME [...] Greek Prime Minister Konstandinos Karamanlis has sent a congratulatory letter to Vice President-elect Biden. We understand that the original is being delivered through the Greek Embassy in Washington. However, the Prime Minister's office has provided us with a courtesy copy, which is provid [...] | 2008-11-07 05:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ODPC OVIP GR |
08ATHENS1526 | GREECE: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT [...] Greek President Karolos Papoulias has sent a congratulatory letter to President-elect Obama. We understand that the original is being delivered through the Greek Embassy in Washington. However, the President's office has provided us with a courtesy copy of the English translation, which is [...] | 2008-11-07 05:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ODPC OVIP GR |
08ATHENS153 | RULING PARTY MAJORITY RAZOR THIN FOLLOWING MP [...] (SBU) On January 31, the ruling New Democracy party's already-thin majority was shaved further (152 to 151 seats of 300) when ND MP Kostas Koukodimos announced he was leaving the party following allegations of corruption in connection with the parties to the overheated Zachopoulos scandal (refs [...] | 2008-02-01 16:46:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS1534 | GREEKS GET RUSSIA MESSAGE IN TIME FOR GAERC [...] (SBU) On November 8, DepPolCouns discussed reftel GAERC points on dealing with Russia with Haris Lalacos, head of the MFA A11 Directorate for the EU CFSP. Lalacos was grateful to receive the information over the weekend because he was departing along with the rest of FM Bakoyannis' party on S [...] | 2008-11-10 12:01:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PGOV PREL RS GR |
08ATHENS1539 | GEORGIAN FM VISIT TO ATHENS: GREEK, GEORGIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During her November 6-7 visit to Athens, Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili discussed with FM Bakoyannis and other Greek interlocutors problems with the OSCE observer mission in Georgia, the recent donors' conferences, the plight of IDPs, the Geneva talks, energy pipelines, and domestic i [...] | 2008-11-10 15:41:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE GR RS GG |
08ATHENS1541 | GREECE: AMBASSADOR RAISES MLAT, TIP, IPR WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador Speckhard raised with Georgios Panagiotopoulos, President and Justice of the Greek Council of State (an equivalent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court),several legal issues: 1) the need for Greece to move expeditiously in ratifying the U [...] | 2008-11-12 07:47:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM GR |
08ATHENS1542 | GREECE ON EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR KDEM GR XM BL |
08ATHENS1559 | GREEKS TO VOTE EU LINE ON IRAN RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) DepPolCouns discussed reftel points with MFA D4 Directorate for Human Rights head Ilias Fotopoulos. Fotopoulos believed Greece would vote against a no-action motion and in favor of the resolution condemning the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran. He said, however, that consul [...] | 2008-11-14 14:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GR IR |
08ATHENS1561 | GREECE: 2008-2009 INCSR PART I [...] (U) The full text of the draft 2008-2009 INCSR Part I for Greece follows: Greece[DVM1] 2008-2009 INCSR Part I: Drugs and Chemical Control I. Summary Greece is a "gateway" country in the transit of illicit drugs and contraband. Although not a major transit country for drugs headed f [...] | 2008-11-17 05:56:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL GR |
08ATHENS1562 | GREEK MFA STATEMENT CONDEMNS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (SBU) On November 15, the Greek MFA issued a statement regarding the 25th anniversary of creating the "TRNC" in 1983. The statement reiterated Greece's position that this was "a provocative illegal action in violation of the fundamental rules and principles of international law" and stressed [...] | 2008-11-18 06:13:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CY TU GR |
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