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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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09HANOI1318 | Vietnam Postpones Megaports MOU Signing over "Technical [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 11:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KNNP VM |
09HANOI1440 | VIETNAM OK WITH COP 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vietnamese climate change negotiating team is pleased with the results of the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen and will recommend to the Prime Minister that Vietnam officially support the Copenhagen [...] | 2009-12-31 04:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
09HANOI166 | VIETNAM OPENS FIRST REFINERY, ENDS RELIANCE ON IMPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam celebrated the long-awaited opening of its first oil refinery on February 22. The new facility, located in central Quang Ngai Province, in one of Vietnam's poorest regions, ends the country's reliance on imported fuel and will allow Vietnam to curtail fuel imports by 30 pe [...] | 2009-02-25 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SENV ENRG TRGY VM |
09HANOI211 | PLAN TO DEREGULATE VIETNAM'S POWER SECTOR LAGS DESPITE [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) raised retail electricity rates by an average of around 9 percent from March 1 to reflect higher costs of power generation and encourage private investment in Vietnam's underfunded power sector. Vietnam expects electricity demand to rise sharply ove [...] | 2009-03-10 08:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ENRG TRGY VM |
09HANOI251 | INVITING VIETNAM TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) On April 13, PolCouns joined representatives from the Australian, Russian and Japanese Embassies in a rare four-party demarche to urge Vietnam to consider participating in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI). As the senior member of the group, Australian DCM Vanessa W [...] | 2009-03-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ENRG MNUC PREL PGOV IAEA NPT VM |
09HANOI52 | 2008 RECAP OF THE SINO-VIETNAM SOUTH CHINA SEA [...] (C) Summary: Despite final land border demarcation and progress settling the maritime boundary beyond the Gulf of Tonkin, 2008 ended without evident progress in the Sino-Vietnam territorial dispute in the South China Sea. In November, BP gave notice that it would seek to terminate its leases [...] | 2009-01-20 05:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
09HANOI524 | GAZPROM SEEKS TO EXPAND ITS VIETNAM PORTFOLIO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
09HANOI562 | CHEVRON ONE STEP CLOSER TO BEING LARGEST U.S. INVESTOR IN [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chevron and PetroVietnam (PVN) have reached a milestone in long-running negotiations for a $5-billion gas-to-power project. [Ref. A] [...] | 2009-06-18 06:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV VM |
09HANOI640 | EXXON, PETROVIETNAM INK CONTRACT FOR PRODUCTION [...] (C) ExxonMobil (EM) and state-run PetroVietnam (PVN) quietly signed a production sharing contract (PSC) on June 30 for two sets of blocks in the South China Sea that lie well within China,s line of demarcation. The deal makes EM the largest offshore acreage holder in Vietnam, with 14 million [...] | 2009-07-10 02:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PREL VM |
09HANOI670 | VIETNAM FLEXIBLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) will send a high-level delegation to the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. While the GVN plans a flexible approach to the COP, it is somewhat [...] | 2009-07-21 00:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
09HANOI759 | VIETNAM NOT YET READY TO COMPLETE DALAT NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 10 meeting with Ambassador Michalak, Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Van Phong confirmed that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) was not yet ready to sign an agreement with the United States to complete conversion of the Dalat nuclear research reactor and t [...] | 2009-08-12 04:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON VM |
09HANOI76 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY: VIETNAM CONTACTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 10:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA |
09HARARE361 | ZIMBABWE'S ELECTRICAL WOES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Due to a lack of coal, aging equipment, vandalism, and general neglect, Zimbabwe's electrical power grid currently supplies only half of the country's demand. The result is frequent load-shedding (blackouts) with many rural regions without power at all. Although the Zimbabwe Ele [...] | 2009-05-04 14:57:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINT CASC PGOV ZI |
09HARARE967 | ZIMBABWE, LITERALLY IN THE DARK [...] (U) SUMMARY: Zimbabwe produces about half the electricity it needs, resulting in persistent blackouts that constrain industrial output and economic recovery. Zimbabwe's Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) struggles to operate and maintain a decrepit national grid, which due to a chronic lack [...] | 2009-12-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINT CASC PGOV ZI |
09HELSINKI12 | FINLAND: IAEA ANNOUNCEMENT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 09:16:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09HELSINKI151 | FINLAND: MEDVEDEV'S FIRST VISIT A "PROMISING [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Halonen came away very satisfied from Russian President Medvedev's first visit to Finland on April 20-21. Having forged a good relationship with Putin, Halonen seeks a good rapport with his successor, and Medvedev's self-deprecating and modest demeanor went over well w [...] | 2009-04-24 15:43:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ENRG ETRD FI PREL RS |
09HELSINKI211 | FINLAND: PM PUTIN SETS CHILLY TONE WITH PM VANHANEN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian Prime Minister Putin set a chillier tone in his June 3 visit to Finland than did President Medvedev last April. Finnish officials found Putin less cordial and less engaged than Medvedev on the bilateral trade matters that dominate high-level Finnish-Russian meetings. In [...] | 2009-06-05 15:54:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ENRG FI PGOV PREL |
09HELSINKI450 | FINLAND PROPOSES EIGHTY PERCENT EMISSIONS [...] SUMMARY On November 20, the Government of Finland (GOF) presented its Long-term Climate and Energy Policy Report to the diplomatic community. The report - adopted unanimously by Parliament in October 2009 - examines four possible paths Finland could take to achieve an 80 percent reduction in [...] | 2009-12-04 09:24:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELTN ENRG TRGY KGHG FI |
09HELSINKI464 | MORE DELAYS FOR FINLAND'S NEW NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] SUMMARY: As the Government of Finland (GOF) deals with repeated delays in the construction of the fifth nuclear power plant, it also debates the future of nuclear power in Finland. The completion of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor has been delayed to Summer or Autumn 2012. Ministry of Employ [...] | 2009-12-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY ENRG FI |
09HELSINKI62 | FINLAND AND THE MAY 2009 NPT PREPCOM [...] (C) PolChief met on February 10 with Outi Holopainen, the MFA's Director for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, to discuss the Finnish government's (GOF) views on upcoming non-proliferation meetings (REF). Holopainen said that, regarding the NPT review cycle, the GOF had not form [...] | 2009-02-19 13:56:00 | Embassy Helsinki | SECRET | AORC CDG ENRG FI KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL |
09HOCHIMINHCITY670 | SOUTHERN VIETNAM'S DEEPWATER PORT FIRST PHASE UP AND [...] (SBU) Summary: After just five months in operation, the two terminals in Vietnam's southern deepwater port facility at Cai Mep have already begun to shift container traffic away from the overly-congested ports in Ho Chi Minh City. Even more importantly, because the new facilities can handle t [...] | 2009-12-03 14:00:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EIND ECON PGOV ENRG KNNP VM |
09HOCHIMINHCITY674 | LOWER MEKONG INITIATIVE: FORECAST MEKONG IN THE DELTA [...] (U) Summary: One practical byproduct of the Secretary's Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) is the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) effort to help the Mekong countries assess how climate change and human activities impact the Mekong basin. USGS held a Forecast Mekong workshop in Can Tho city Decemb [...] | 2009-12-16 11:26:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ENRG EAGR SOCI PREL PGOV EAID TH VN |
09HONGKONG113 | HK'S POWER SECTOR: EMISSIONS AND FUEL CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Hong Kong,s electrical power providers are on track to meet strict new Hong Kong Government (HKG) air pollution caps, which go into effect on January 1, 2010. The utilities plan to meet the industry-targeted caps by retrofitting pollution control equipment on some coal-fired ge [...] | 2009-01-16 09:59:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET SENV CH HK |
09HONGKONG2167 | MACAU'S NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION BUREAU: GOOD [...] SUMMARY: Macau,s newly established Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) seeks to raise the profile of environmental issues and help Macau market itself to foreign investors and visitors as a "green city." Macau environmental officials have several initiatives to promote environmentally soun [...] | 2009-11-25 06:55:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENIV ENRG PGOV SENV CH MC |
09HONGKONG444 | HK'S ENVIRONMENTAL SECRETARY ON ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hong Kong's Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau told the Consul General on March 5 that despite universal agreement that the full impact of global economic difficulties is yet to come, Hong Kong will not cut back on environmental programs and will continue funding to assist [...] | 2009-03-11 09:36:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV SENV CH HK |
09HONGKONG524 | HONG KONG: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Post concurs that the four Hong Kong assets named in the 2008 Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative (CFDI) list meet the criteria (see below). Post also suggests listing Hong Kong assets separately from Mainland China, given a highly autonomous local governmen [...] | 2009-03-20 06:31:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP PGOV HK |
09HONGKONG977 | CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH HONG KONG CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with CODEL Pelosi May 29, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang stressed the close economic links and shared values between the United States and Hong Kong. He also touted Hong Kong's efforts to address climate and energy issues, including government-to-government cooperat [...] | 2009-05-29 13:44:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SENV ENRG |
09HONGKONG984 | CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: A far-ranging meeting May 29 between CODEL Pelosi and seventeen of Hong Kong's most active (and vocal) legislators covered a range of issues, with pan-democratic legislators calling for U.S. support on human rights in China and Hong Kong's democratic development. Pro-establishment [...] | 2009-06-01 03:31:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ETRD SENV ENRG |
09ISLAMABAD1218 | THIRD RECCA SOLDIFIES GAINS, CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 03:21:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ERTD EAID PHUM PK |
09ISLAMABAD1243 | Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Moves Closer to Reality as the Two [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran and Pakistan intend to sign a Gas Sales Purchase Agreement in Istanbul on June 5, bringing the long-debated pipeline a step closer to reality. Although India has apparently dropped out of the equation, Pakistan and Iran have agreed to a 25-year proposal for the supply of [...] | 2009-06-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETTC ENRG EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IR PK |
09ISLAMABAD1274 | PAKISTAN ECONOMIC REPORT, MAY 7 - MAY 20 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1319 | PAKISTAN SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR FUEL BANK, [...] (C) Summary: PolOff delivered reftel demarche soliciting support for international fuel bank proposals to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 15. Akhtar stated that Pakistan can support the idea of a fuel bank operated by the IAEA, but has r [...] | 2009-06-15 14:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC IAEA ENRG TRGY PK |
09ISLAMABAD1328 | PESHAWAR: NWFP - CAN SWAT'S CROPS BE SAVED? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD1525 | SUPREME COURT WEIGHS IN ON ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, the Supreme Court ordered the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to refrain from enacting the proposed 17.5 percent increase in electricity tariffs until such time as the court is satisfied that the increase is truly necessary. Chief Justice Iftikhar [...] | 2009-07-08 02:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1625 | SUPREME COURT AND GOP CLASH OVER FUEL TAX; GOP WINS FOR NOW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-18 05:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1724 | PAKISTAN'S SUPREME COURT: ONE STEP CLOSER TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a partial reversal of its July 6 ruling ordering the GOP to refrain from raising the electricity tariff, the Supreme Court ruled on July 23 that the National Electric Power Regulatory Agency (NEPRA) could continue to calculate the cost recovery tariff rate for power productio [...] | 2009-07-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD1817 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 29 JULY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD1905 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 12 AUGUST 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2022 | ENCOURAGING GULF INVESTMENT IN KARACHI'S POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC),Pakistan's only private utility, serves 18 million consumers in Karachi, the financial, industrial and commercial hub of Pakistan. Inadequate generation and out-dated transmission infrastructure have contributed to chronic load shedding [...] | 2009-08-25 05:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG AE PK |
09ISLAMABAD2139 | FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S BUDGET WOES, TOKYO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said the GOP had included $2 billion in Tokyo Pledges in its budget but was grappling with a shortfall in actual donor assistance. He asked that the USG provide $650 million in cash through the GOP to cov [...] | 2009-09-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2140 | PM AND FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S TROUBLED [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Prime Minister Gilani and Finance Minister Tarin, NSC Senior Director for International Economics David Lipton said Pakistan needed to take a number of steps in the coming months to put its energy sector on firmer footing: resolve the remaining $3.7 billion " [...] | 2009-09-04 12:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2225 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 05:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2290 | ASSESSMENT OF PRESIDENT ZARDARI'S FIRST YEAR IN [...] (C) Summary: When Asif Ali Zardari took oath as Pakistan's President on September 9, 2008, he inherited a series of intersecting political, economic, and security crises for which the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition government appeared ill-equipped. One year later, Zardari appears [...] | 2009-09-21 13:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ENRG MOPS PK IN AF |
09ISLAMABAD2381 | PAKISTAN RAISES ENERGY TARIFFS IN STEP TO REDUCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP raised electricity tariffs 6 percent, in accordance with its commitments to international financial institutions. However, lower fuel costs and higher hydropower generation simultaneously pushed tariffs down, reducing the immediate impact on consumers, and hence public [...] | 2009-10-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2477 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 23 SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2539 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 7 OCTOBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 12:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2541 | STATUS OF PAKISTAN'S ENERGY SECTOR DEBT HOLDING [...] (SBU) Summary: While the GOP has taken some concrete steps to return the Pakistani energy sector to financial solvency, several key elements remain unresolved. On October 1, the GOP raised tariff rates by 6 percent, the first of three tariff hikes agreed with international financial institutio [...] | 2009-10-20 14:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2628 | PAKISTAN-U.S. ENERGY DIALOGUE POINTS TO LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS FOR THE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Delegations to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue of October 23-24 discussed plans for moving beyond the current difficulties and strategies for addressing longer-term planning. It was clear that Pakistan has made measurable progress in addressing the electricity sector's debt pr [...] | 2009-10-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PREL PGOV PK |
09ISLAMABAD2642 | PM GILANI CONFIDENT GOP WILL OVERCOME ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 24 meeting, David Goldwyn, Secretary's Coordinator for International Energy Affairs (S/CIEA) and head of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue, commended Prime Minister Gilani on Pakistan's sound plan for addressing the country's energy crisis, i [...] | 2009-11-02 03:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ENRG PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2665 | PAKISTAN'S PETROLEUM MINISTRY ON POSSIBILITIES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to its chronic and worsening natural gas shortage, the GOP will "most likely" award contracts to two firms -- 4Gas and a Vitol-FOTCO consortium -- to build floating LNG re-gasification terminals, according to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Special Secret [...] | 2009-11-03 14:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2741 | NEW CEO ON CHANGE IN KESC LEADERSHIP AND FUTURE OF [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate General Karachi-Embassy Islamabad message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) CEO Tabish Gahaur said that KESC had made significant strides in increasing collections and bringing new generation on line since Abraaj Capital took over its ma [...] | 2009-11-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2767 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES,04 NOVEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2786 | PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT RUSSIAN FUEL BANK [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel request for support for the Russian Fuel Bank proposal at the November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board meeting to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director Kamran Akhtar on November 17. Akhtar said that Pakistan believed the Russian proposal [...] | 2009-11-19 08:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER IAEA ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD2847 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 18 NOVEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD2895 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 02 DECEMBER, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 02:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD3042 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 16 DECEMBER, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 02:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD315 | PAKISTAN'S ENERGY CRISIS - IMPROVING, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP is making some headway fulfilling President Zardari's January directive to clear up the "circular" debt situation that is wreaking havoc among power producers, but confidence varies that it will be paid off in its entirety any time soon. Blackouts have been reduced from [...] | 2009-02-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN PK |
09ISLAMABAD353 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES FROM 13 FEBRUARY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 09:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD405 | GETTING THE MOST OUT OF OUR ENERGY DIALOGUE WITH PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Ministry of Water and Power Additional Secretary Zarar Aslam suggested rescheduling the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue during the week of March 15. He requested the USG propose dates via letter to which Aslam would then coordinate a GOP response. Although Asl [...] | 2009-02-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD412 | NEW PRIVATIZATION POLICY APPROVED; GAS FIELD PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 19, the Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCOP) approved a new privatization policy whereby 26 percent and management control of a number of state owned enterprises would be sold. While total privatization is the eventual goal, the GOP intends to proceed in steps [...] | 2009-02-24 13:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD ENRG PK |
09ISLAMABAD443 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES FROM 25 FEBRUARY 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 02:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD561 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, 11 MARCH 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 08:20:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD72 | BOUCHER ENGAGES FARUQUI ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN AND [...] (C) Summary. On January 5, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President of Pakistan, to outline a timeline leading to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan meetings and a donor conference. Faruqui and his adv [...] | 2009-01-13 11:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD781 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC ISSUES, 09 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 12:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISLAMABAD885 | BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 22 APRIL 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 11:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK |
09ISTANBUL132 | TREASURY OFFICIALS VISIT ISTANBUL [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) US Treasury Department officials Joanna Veltri and Jason Weiss had a series of meetings in Istanbul on March 19th & March 20th with financial analysts and private sector representatives. They discussed Turkey's worrisome financing needs, prospects for an IMF agreement and the [...] | 2009-03-31 14:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM TU |
09ISTANBUL133 | PREMIER WATER FORUM UNITES EXPERTS, LOCAL, AND [...] (U) Over 25,000 people, including more that 100 ministers and several heads-of-state, attended the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, March 16-22. The U.S. delegation to the Forum was led by USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and included 70 technical experts from more than 10 U.S. a [...] | 2009-04-01 16:25:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENIV ENRG PHUM PREL SENV TU UNDP UNEF |
09ISTANBUL320 | SESAME SEES ITSELF AS A MODEL CENTER FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fourteenth meeting of the Council of Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) was held in Istanbul in July. The SESAME project is a scientific initiative currently under construction in Jordan that currently fosters positive in [...] | 2009-08-17 05:33:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PRELTBIOBA CY EG ENRG IR IS IZ JO PK |
09ISTANBUL57 | ISTANBUL PREPARES TO GREET THE WORLD AT THE FIFTH [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Over 20,000 people, including many heads of state, are expected to attend the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul on March 16-22. The WWF is the premier international water meeting, held once every three years, and a prime venue to showcase U.S. commitment and [...] | 2009-02-03 13:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ENRG KPAO PGOV TU |
09ISTANBUL63 | CONTINUING U.S. ROLE IN ASSISTING BLACK SEA [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of the ad hoc working group of experts on electrical networks (AHWGEEN) of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) welcomed U.S. assistance in assessing the capability for BSEC nations to engage in regional electricity transmission. On January 29 USAID Senior Energy Ad [...] | 2009-02-10 08:46:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG AJ AM ENIV GG TU |
09ISTANBUL91 | MINISTERS WOO ISTANBUL BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent remarks to the Istanbul business community Foreign Minister Babacan, Energy Minster Guler and State Minister for EU Affairs Bagis underscored the government's adherence to Western political ideals including democracy, human rights and free market principles. The mini [...] | 2009-03-06 05:30:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM TU |
09JAKARTA1012 | INDONESIA NOT READY TO SIGN IRENA AGREEMENT AT THE EGYPT [...] Dadan Kusdiana, Head of Energy for Rural or Suburban Areas at the Directorate General of Electricity, in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, told Embassy on June 15 that Indonesia has not yet made a decision regarding joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and was u [...] | 2009-06-15 10:40:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG KGHG SENV ID |
09JAKARTA1024 | INDONESIA: MESSAGE ON MEF LEADERS MEETING DELIVERED [...] (U) Per reftel request, Post conveyed to Indonesian Presidential Advisor and Spokesman Dino Djalal the importance of the final preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) next week. The Charge d'Affaires (CDA) highlighted that the June 22-23 meeting in Mexico will begin preparing a L [...] | 2009-06-17 09:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG PGOV PREL ID |
09JAKARTA1025 | U.S. COMPANIES FACE OBSTACLES IN ADB GEOTHERMAL TENDERS [...] This is an action request. Please refer to paragraph 7. 2. Asian Development Bank (ADB) geothermal tender specifications prevent meaningful participation by U.S. companies. A U.S. company active in the geothermal products market has brought to Post's attention that a requirement that turbi [...] | 2009-06-17 09:59:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ENRG EAID ID |
09JAKARTA1163 | SCENESETTER FOR EXIM FARRELL VISIT TO INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Indonesia offers an opportunity to improve the competitive position of U.S. companies in this economy, at a time of improving U.S.-Indonesia bilateral relations. The effects of the global financial crisis have been milder in Indonesia than elsewhere, with Indonesi [...] | 2009-07-10 02:34:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EPET ID |
09JAKARTA1348 | DOC CLEAN ENERGY ROUNDTABLE SEEKS RENEWABLE ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES, HIGHLIGHTS OBSTACLES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 11:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EAID EFIN KGHG ID |
09JAKARTA1420 | Views on Environment for POTUS Visit from Indonesia [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 11:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TSPL PREL PGOV ID |
09JAKARTA1421 | Views on Environment for POTUS Visit from Indonesia [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia Presidential Advisor on Environment Emil Salim and Secretary to the Coordinating Minister of Social Welfare Indroyono Soesilo strongly advocate an ambitious agenda for the upcoming POTUS visit, including: -- Fisheries-based food security initiative through establishin [...] | 2009-08-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TSPL PREL PGOV ID |
09JAKARTA1800 | INDONESIA ENACTS A NEW ELECTRICITY LAW [...] Indonesia's Parliament recently passed a new electricity law to increase development of the power sector by allowing local governments to set local tariff rates and establish companies that can compete with PLN, the national power utility, in power generation, transmission, and distribution. Th [...] | 2009-10-29 09:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD ID |
09JAKARTA1801 | DAS YOSHIDA VISIT TO INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Department of Energy DAS Phyllis Yoshida met recently with Indonesian officials to discuss the timing of the next round of the Energy Policy Dialogue, and seek further engagement with the Indonesian government. Former Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro supported a near time fr [...] | 2009-10-29 09:10:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EINV ID |
09JAKARTA1882 | ENHANCING US-INDONESIA PARTNERSHIP THROUGH SCIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Post proposes a long-term science engagement strategy based upon three pillars: 1) upgrading Indonesia's science capacity through joint research that will provide ongoing mentoring relationships and connections to the U.S. science community; 2) assisting the recognition and dev [...] | 2009-11-13 09:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TBIO SCUL SENV ENRG PGOV ID |
09JAKARTA1901 | INDONESIA'S 100-DAY PLAN: 15 PRIORITY PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has identified 15 priority programs for his second administration in the government's 100-day plan. The heated dispute between Indonesia's police, Attorney General's Office and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prompted the pre [...] | 2009-11-17 11:00:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG KCOR PREL PTER SENV |
09JAKARTA1941 | EXIM OFFICIALS SEEK OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) During a recent visit to Indonesia, Member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank Diane Farrell and Vice President Ray Ellis met with bank executives to explore the possibility of establishing a credit facility. ExIm also met U.S. and Indonesian business executives Indo [...] | 2009-11-25 07:58:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET EINV ID |
09JAKARTA33 | INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2008 [...] On November 24, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Freddy Numberi inaugurated a new marine conservation area (MCA) in Kaimana, West Papua Province. Members of the local community, who contributed their indigenous land rights to the new 600,000-hectare MCA, are working collaboratively wi [...] | 2009-01-09 04:51:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID |
09JAKARTA399 | EMBASSY JAKARTA PROPOSAL FOR SCIENCE FELLOWS [...] (U) Embassy Jakarta is interested in the Embassy Science Fellow Program (ESFP) and requests Department assistance in identifying up to two interested candidates focused on marine and fisheries issues, with specific interest in the Coral Triangle Initiative, and climate change. These fellows wo [...] | 2009-03-06 09:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID |
09JAKARTA540 | INDONESIA WELCOMES LAUNCH OF MAJOR ECONOMIES FORUM [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. Indonesian Minister of Environment Rachmat Witoelar confirmed that he would represent President Yudhoyono at the April 27-28 Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting in Washington, D.C. During a meeting with Ambassador Hume on March 25, Witoelar [...] | 2009-03-25 09:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG PREL ID |
09JAKARTA556 | INDONESIA'S STIMULUS PACKAGE - LITTLE FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Indonesia's fiscal stimulus has little focus on green investment. The package, equal to IDR 73.3 trillion (about USD 6.3 billion at current exchange rate of IDR 11,500/USD) or about 1.4 percent of GDP, relies primarily on tax measures with approximately IDR 17.1 trillion in new spending [...] | 2009-03-27 09:42:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG SENV ID |
09JAKARTA635 | U.S.-Indonesia: Potential Partners on Climate Change [...] During an April 6 meeting with Ambassador Hume, Dr. Emil Salim, Indonesia's elder environmental statesman, urged that the United States and Indonesia strive for an agreement on climate change adaptation -- during Obama's potential November visit to Indonesia. This bilateral cooperation could l [...] | 2009-04-07 10:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG TBIO TSPL PREL ID |
09JAKARTA765 | The EPA in Indonesia: Growing Partnership Opportunities [...] (U) Summary: A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) visit to Indonesia has highlighted clear opportunities for environmental cooperation. Indonesian officials appreciated USEPA reengagement, and are eager to participate in the Methane-to-Markets program. The Indonesian Steerin [...] | 2009-04-30 10:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG PREL ID |
09JAKARTA797 | EXXON MOBIL, HESS AND MARATHON AMONG WINNERS OF 11 OIL AND [...] (U) Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources announced on April 29 that it had awarded eleven of fifteen new oil and gas blocks offered for exploration in the Second Phase of its 2008 Direct Offer Tender. Winners for the exploration contracts included Hess, Marathon and Esso Explor [...] | 2009-05-06 10:29:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD EINV ID |
09JEDDAH62 | CONGEN HEARS PITCH FOR GREATER US INVESTMENT: [...] (SBU) Summary. During a January 28 all-day visit to the Red Sea coastal city of Yanbu, ConGen Jeddah delegation (CG, ECON, FCS, PD) were warmly welcomed by local business and government leaders who encouraged us to carry the message to American industry that Yanbu is open for business where U. [...] | 2009-02-11 07:22:00 | Consulate Jeddah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ENRG EPET EINV EWWT SA |
09KABUL1088 | AFGHANISTAN: GOVERNMENT AND DONOR COORDINATED EFFORTS BRING [...] (U) Summary. Continued progress in the building and rehabilitation of Afghanistan's energy transmission and distribution infrastructure will soon result in additional power reaching Kabul. The North East Power System (NEPS) will handle the additional import of Uzbek power after a joint governm [...] | 2009-04-29 13:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV |
09KABUL136 | ANNOUNCING RATIFICATION OF THE U.S.-IAEA [...] (U) PolMilOffs met with Dr. Davood Moradian, senior policy advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on January 18, 2009 to convey, inter alia, the news that the President recently signed the instrument of ratification for the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol (reftel). 2. (U) Moradian welcom [...] | 2009-01-20 02:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KTIA AORC IAEA ENRG PREL TRGY |
09KABUL1787 | Baghlan Industry and Energy Sector Poised For Expansion [...] (SBU) Summary: Baghlan Province is well positioned to take advantage of its energy production and industrial potential, though some of its business leaders seem overly ambitious. With its intact hydropower plants and location along one of Afghanistan's primary electrical backbones, Baghlan alm [...] | 2009-07-09 00:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ENRG AF |
09KABUL1788 | Baghlan Industry and Energy Sector Poised For Expansion [...] (SBU) Summary: Baghlan Province is well positioned to take advantage of its energy production and industrial potential, though some of its business leaders seem overly ambitious. With its intact hydropower plants and location along one of Afghanistan's primary electrical backbones, Baghlan alm [...] | 2009-07-09 00:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AF ECON ENRG |
09KABUL2076 | AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION TRUST FUND: [...] On July 20, 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the donors reached agreement on the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust FundQs (ARTF) Incentive Program for FY 1388 (March 20, 2009 - March 19, 2010),which is intended to support needed economic policy reforms and fundi [...] | 2009-07-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON AF FAS |
09KABUL2128 | STRENGTHENING THE GOVERNMENT TWO DROPS AT A TIME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON EAID AF PREL KDRL |
09KABUL2363 | GHANI, ABDULLAH DEBATE ECONOMY--WITHOUT KARZAI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a televised August 10th debate in front of a live audience, presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah highlighted agriculture and natural resources as the keys to Afghanistan's economic future. Both candidates sketched their visions for increasing e [...] | 2009-08-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD PINR |
09KABUL253 | DONORS CONSIDER AFGHAN COMMERCE MINISTER'S AID REQUEST [...] (SBU) Summary. Afghan Commerce Minister Shahrani January 27 briefed donor reps on his policy vision and requests for assistance. Shahrani said his highest priorities are trade facilitation, corporatizing the state-owned fuel importer FLGE, building capacity in his ministry, including a new Po [...] | 2009-02-03 13:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD EINV ECON ENRG EFIN AF |
09KABUL2670 | President Karzai Inaugurates USAID-funded Kabul Diesel [...] (U) President Karzai and Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan presided over the inauguration of the first phase of Kabul's USAID-financed 105 Megawatt (MW) diesel-fired power plant near Kabul on August 5. President Karzai thanked Ambassador Eikenberry, USAID Director Frej, and the U.S. people [...] | 2009-09-02 14:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG ECON SENV EINV PREL AF |
09KABUL2688 | Afghan Government's High Hopes for Hydropower [...] (SBU) Summary: At the August 5 inauguration of a USAID-funded diesel power plant in Kabul, President Karzai and Minister of Energy and Water Ismail Khan focused on large-scale water projects as the key to Afghanistan's energy future. To implement its national hydropower strategy, AfghanistanQ [...] | 2009-09-05 05:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID PREL SENV AF |
09KABUL2852 | Delayed Commercialization of Electric Utility [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) delays are threatening completion of the much-needed commercialization of the electricity utility DABM (Da Afghanistan Breshna Mosesa). The utility subsidizes electricity prices for all customers and supplies electricity to numerous non-pa [...] | 2009-09-19 13:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG ECON SENV EINV AF |
09KABUL2933 | AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS TRANSBOUNDARY WATER [...] (C) Summary: After years of official reluctance to negotiate with its neighbors on transboundary water issues, Afghan government officials received the go-ahead from President Karzai to discuss capacity building for government negotiators. Before donors begin large-scale irrigation, drinking [...] | 2009-09-21 15:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EAID SENV ECON PREL AF |
09KABUL3035 | BAMYAN GOVERNOR WORRIED ABOUT POST-ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In early September meetings with PRT Bamyan,s DOS rep, the Governor of Bamyan Province Habiba Sarobi confided that she is &very worried8 about Afghanistan's post-election stability, indicating that trouble could come &from the North.8 She lamented President Karzai,s decision to [...] | 2009-09-29 15:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EMIN ENRG AF |
09KABUL3101 | Security and Social Issues at Aynak Copper Mine [...] (C) Summary: Problems are delaying progress on the massive Chinese Aynak copper mine project, Afghanistan?s single largest foreign investment to date totaling almost USD 3 billion in infrastructural investment. While the mine has twice the police force of the rest of Logar province and benefits fro [...] | 2009-10-05 13:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ENRG PREL SENV AF |
09KABUL3186 | Progress in Electricity Sector Commercialization [...] (SBU) Summary: In a very positive development, the Ministers of Energy and Water, Economy, Finance, and Urban Development, accompanied by Ambassador Wayne and USAID Director Frej, held a signing ceremony on September 30, 2009 to liquidate the state-run power utility Da Afghanistan Breshna Mose [...] | 2009-10-10 06:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG EINV PGOV AF |
09KABUL3189 | AFGHANISTAN'S ECONOMIC LINKS TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan relies on Iran for about 15% of its electric power and 6% of its manufactured goods and food imports, according to official statistics. NATO forces also ship goods to Afghanistan via Iran as alternatives to Pakistani border crossings. Most of this merchandise and en [...] | 2009-10-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ENRG PREL AF |
09KABUL3278 | Embassy Outreach to Minister Khan of Energy and Water [...] Meeting with Afghan Water and Energy Minister Mohammed Ismail Khan October 13, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, highlighted two new initiatives. (Discussions of politics reported setpel.) The first was USAID's recent launch of a four-yea [...] | 2009-10-15 09:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAID PGOV AF |
09KABUL3458 | KAJAKI DAM: MORE ENERGY AWAITS ENHANCED SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 15:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | EAID EFIN ENRG KPWR PGOV AF |
09KABUL3464 | GE Advocacy Request: Afghan Bidding Process Suspended [...] Responding to a request from the Department of Commerce's Trade Advocacy Center, Embassy Kabul has confirmed the bona fides of two international firms. The companies, ANHAM LLC and AIP LLC, have formed a joint venture to sub-contract a $10.9 million generator set to General Electric's Marine a [...] | 2009-10-29 07:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ENRG EFIN AF |
09KABUL3472 | KAJAKI DAM: MORE ENERGY AWAITS ENHANCED SECURITY [...] (S/REL ISAF, AFG) SUMMARY: The Kajaki Power Dam project in Northern Helmand -- a signature U.S. development program in pre-war Afghanistan undergoing rehabilitation for several years -- could generate sufficient electricity to benefit 330,000 residents of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Compl [...] | 2009-10-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | EAID EFIN ENRG KPWR PGOV AF |
09KABUL3574 | Chinese Firm Again Frontrunner for Major Afghan Mining [...] (C) Summary: China Metallurgical Group (MCC),the Chinese state-owned firm operating the Aynak copper mine, is a leading bidder for the multi-billion dollar Hajigak iron ore mine in Bamyan. If MCC wins the contract, it will have the two largest foreign investments in Afghanistan as well as be runni [...] | 2009-11-07 12:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ENRG PREL SENV AF |
09KABUL3639 | Trans-boundary Water Issues: The Way Forward in Afghanistan [...] (C) Summary: As senior Afghan officials continue calling publicly for large dam and hydropower projects, Afghanistan's downstream neighbors -- Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- are watching carefully, concerned that Afghan actions could affect their water inflow and economic sta [...] | 2009-11-12 04:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG SENV EINV EAID PREL AF |
09KABUL3659 | Kajaki Dam Turns on the Lights in Afghanistan's South [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite security issues that continue to affect the Kajaki dam project, USAID recently completed refurbishing a second hydroelectric turbine at the dam in Helmand province. This turbine, together with another rebuilt by USAID in September 2005, has boosted the power generation [...] | 2009-11-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG ECON SENV AF |
09KABUL3743 | Afghan Clean Energy and Water Supply Programs: Meeting [...] Summary: This message summarizes two new USAID programs addressing critical energy and water needs that will rely on Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) officers to identify and prioritize specific projects in the field. These two programs are flexible, responding to on-the-ground, demand-dr [...] | 2009-11-22 08:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG SENV AF |
09KABUL3792 | Kunar's Timber Industry and Smuggling: Solutions Await a [...] (SBU) Summary: With some of the most dangerous pockets of insurgency in Afghanistan, Kunar province sits on the country's eastern border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Rampant timber smuggling has long undermined faith in the government and supported local insurge [...] | 2009-11-28 06:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG SENV ETRD EMIN EAGR EINV PREL AF |
09KABUL3804 | Commerce Minister Shahrani, Ambassador Wayne and Director [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EINV EFIN ENRG ECON ETRD EAID AF FAS EAGR |
09KABUL64 | NEW AFGHAN COMMERCE MINISTER TAKES THE HELM [...] (SBU) Seven days into his new job, Minister of Commerce and Industries (MOCI) Wahidullah Shahrani January 6 described to the Ambassador an ambitious, market-oriented work program. Shahrani said he will limit MOCI to policy and regulatory work, continue efforts to enact pending commercial laws, [...] | 2009-01-12 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG WTO AF PK |
09KABUL782 | Are the Chinese Reliable Partners for Afghan [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: In recent discussions with Emboffs, Afghan and Chinese officials and international partners in Kabul appear optimistic that the Chinese government and Chinese state-owned companies working in Afghanistan will fulfill important Chinese commitments to Afghan recons [...] | 2009-03-30 11:42:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID ECPS ELTN SENV PHSA ENRG ETRD AF CN |
09KABUL793 | AFGHANISTAN Q MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE SHARES [...] DCM and USAID Deputy Mission Director met with the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) Muhammad Asif Rahimi on March 19, 2009 to discuss the recent USG strategic review and the increased emphasis on agriculture. The DCM highlighted the increased role for agriculture in o [...] | 2009-03-31 07:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON EAID AF FAS |
09KABUL932 | DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW, UN SRSG DISCUSS DONOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 4, 2009, the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Jacob Lew and delegation met with Ambassador Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan (SRSG),United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA). The discussion [...] | 2009-04-15 05:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON EAID AF FAS |
09KAMPALA1025 | NNSA ASSISTING UGANDA IN BUILDING RADIOLOGICAL [...] (U) Summary: An August 24-26 visit from U.S. officials from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the latest step in a joint U.S.-Ugandan response to the theft of radiological material from a storage area at Mulago Hospital in Kampala in 2007. The objective of this effort is t [...] | 2009-09-10 07:12:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET PARM TRGY UG |
09KAMPALA1158 | UGANDA: 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Country: Uganda 2. Current AGOA Status: Eligible 3. Country Background Summary: After two decades of broad-based economic growth and political stability, Uganda is now confronting a range of economic and governance challenges as it tries to sustain and deepen economic growth and deve [...] | 2009-10-07 09:19:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD EINV PHUM PGOV AGOA KCOR |
09KAMPALA1217 | UGANDA: GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 05:53:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | SZ KNNP ENRG PREL UG |
09KAMPALA1356 | UGANDA: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS ACCOMPANY ARRIVAL [...] (C) Summary: ExxonMobil interest in Tullow Oil's Ugandan operations, and Italian oil giant ENI's attempt to purchase Heritage Oil's local holdings, mark a clear shift from exploration to the beginnings of production. The remote location of Uganda's oil wells, the difficult chemistry of the oil with [...] | 2009-12-03 06:13:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET ECON EINV ENRG KCOR UG |
09KAMPALA366 | UGANDA OIL: PLANS TAKING SHAPE, BUT PUBLIC REMAINS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is proceeding with plans to develop its oil industry, with recent discoveries showing ever-larger recoverable reserves. The public remains largely ignorant of the government's intentions, however, spurring widespread suspicion that officials are seeking to structure the [...] | 2009-04-08 11:55:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EAID ECON KCOR PGOV UG |
09KARACHI139 | SINDH - PAKISTAN INNAUGURATES FIRST WIND FARM [...] (SBU) On April 19, Prime Minister Gilani officially inaugurated the Zorlu Wind Power Project, Pakistan's first wind farm. Located in Jhimpir, Sindh this commercial project is currently capable of generating 4.8 megawatts (MW) of power, but is expected to generate 300 MW by the end of 2010. [...] | 2009-04-24 04:48:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV PGOV ECON PK |
09KARACHI21 | SINDH - ABRAJJ DELAYS INVESTMENT IN KESC UPGRADES [...] Summary: Dubai-based Abrajj group, the new owner of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) (ref E),has yet to carry through on its promise to invest up to USD 350 million to upgrade the power company's crumbling distribution and generation systems, leading many to speculate about the seriousne [...] | 2009-01-21 01:12:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN PK |
09KARACHI211 | KARACHI - ONGOING POWER OUTAGES LEAD TO CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Electricity supply, a perpetual problem in Karachi, deteriorated further as demand increased in the summer heat of May. Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) resorts to load shedding and several major interruptions to the power supply have caused protests in the city and serio [...] | 2009-07-02 10:38:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ENRG ECON PK |
09KARACHI342 | BALOCHISTAN - MEETING WITH COAL MINE OWNERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 16 meeting in Quetta, mine owners said coal mines are the province's largest employer, with 100-250 thousand employees. Owners described the difficulty in finding markets for their ore, attracting investment, and operating in areas of lawlessness where violence and [...] | 2009-11-03 12:07:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG ECON PK |
09KARACHI49 | SINDH - IRAN OFFERS PAKISTAN ELECTRICITY, [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 meeting co-sponsored by the Pak Iran Friendship society in Karachi, the Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan claimed that his country has offered 1,135MW of energy to Pakistan, an offer he said that could double. He said that poor transmission infrastructure in Ba [...] | 2009-02-11 11:53:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV IR PK |
09KARACHI53 | SINDH - UNRESOLVED DEBT ISSUE COULD SHORT-CIRCUIT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting Karachi Electrical Supply Company (KESC) Managing Director Naveed Ismail told the CG that the Dubai-based Abrajj Group may not finalize the purchase of KESC unless the Government of Pakistan (GOP) assumes a debt that could run as high as $1.06 billion to t [...] | 2009-02-12 07:27:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN EINV PK |
09KATHMANDU129 | NEPAL: BOUCHER STRESSES U.S. INTEREST IN [...] (C) During his February 11-12 visit to Kathmandu, Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher emphasized to members of the Government of Nepal that the United States was interested in strengthening Nepal's democracy, in promoting the country's economic development and in seeing an end to violence. Pr [...] | 2009-02-19 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ENVR ENRG EINV ETRD MARR |
09KATHMANDU158 | SEVERE POWER CRISIS IN NEPAL LIKELY TO BE LONG LASTING [...] (U) Dry winter weather has triggered extreme outages in hydropower-dependent Nepal, and a top official in the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) recently warned that the current 14-hour daily power cuts are likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The country?s large energy deficit ? peak [...] | 2009-02-27 09:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECIN ECON EINV PGOV SENV AMGT ABLD ABUD AFIN |
09KATHMANDU161 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE MONTH OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the month of February 2009, including the following: -- Remittance Growth Through December, Expected To Fall In 2009 -- Government Revenues Increase -- Government Spending Down -- Inflation Remains High -- Trad [...] | 2009-03-02 08:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV NP |
09KATHMANDU246 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT - NEPAL [...] (U//FOUO) Post judges that Nepal has no critical infrastructure or key resources, as defined by reftel, whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, or national and homeland security of the United States. POWELL [...] | 2009-03-24 09:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP NP |
09KATHMANDU25 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE MONTH OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the month of December 2008, including the following: -- Inflation Up -- Trade Up, Revenue Up -- Electricity Crisis Deepens -- Tourism Figures Up -- Petroleum Products Fall -- Remittances Expected To Fall -- Head [...] | 2009-01-08 04:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB ENRG PGOV NP |
09KATHMANDU367 | SAARC SECRETARIAT TO PARTICIPATE IN ISLAMABAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 04:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR EAID BEXP KPWR AF EUN NP |
09KATHMANDU410 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the months of March and April 2009, including the following: -- Foreign Direct Investment Plunges -- Government Revenue Grows Faster Than Expenditures -- Exports Rise, But Imports Rise Faster -- Electricity Crisis A [...] | 2009-05-14 07:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV NP |
09KATHMANDU473 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the month of May 2009, including the following: -- Food Crisis Leaves Millions Hungry -- Electricity Supply Improves, But Not for All -- Bank Lending Growth Rate Slows -- Declining Number of Workers Going Overseas [...] | 2009-06-08 00:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV NP |
09KATHMANDU542 | NEPAL VAGUE ON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] (SBU) On June 22, Madan Bhattarai, Joint Secretary for UN and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Emboff that the Government of Nepal has a "tricky" decision to make regarding the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) going into the preparatory meeting [...] | 2009-06-23 09:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV NP |
09KATHMANDU739 | NEPAL: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy Kathmandu for the month of July 2009, including the following: -- FY 2009/10 Budget Nearly 34 Percent Larger -- Economic Survey Shows Declining Performance -- UN Says Hunger in Some Areas 'Extremely Alarming' -- Growth in Overs [...] | 2009-08-10 04:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV NP |
09KHARTOUM1045 | DAM CONSTRUCTION THREATENS TO DISPLACE TENS OF THOUSANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction to raise the Roseries Dam in Blue Nile State by ten meters threatens to displace between 21,000 and 73,000 people in Blue Nile State, according to Oxford University researcher Harry Verhoeven. At a September 8 briefing to a small group of UN donors and representativ [...] | 2009-09-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ENRG SENV SMIG SU |
09KHARTOUM1195 | Sudan: AEC October 2009 Wealth Sharing Working Group Holds [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Charge' D'Affaires Robert Whitehead, as coordinator of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG),chaired a meeting with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP),Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and representatives of donor nat [...] | 2009-10-23 12:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EPET ENRG SU |
09KHARTOUM1343 | World Bank Economist: Water Security an Issue for Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: World Bank Economist Mosllem Alamir predicted that water resources in post-2011 Sudan could lead to conflict and economic crisis if the parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) do not make decisions now about allocation or cooperation on the use of Nile waters. Increas [...] | 2009-12-01 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON EIND ENRG SENV EWWT SU |
09KHARTOUM231 | DECEMBER OIL REVENUES PLUNGE ON FALLING PRICES; [...] (C) Summary: On February 15 the Joint Committee on Oil Accounts announced that GOS oil revenues for December totaled $274.38 million, down from $347.79 million in November and $608.76 million in October as the global financial crisis sent oil prices plummeting. The price of the heavily acidic [...] | 2009-02-22 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON EFIN ENRG KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM287 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT FOR SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP SU |
09KHARTOUM330 | TWO REPORTS ANALYZE SOUTH SUDAN'S BUDGET CRISIS [...] This is an action request - see para. 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to two independent analyses, the GoSS can expect to receive no more than 3/4, and possibly as little as 1/2, of the Sudanese Pounds (SDG) 3.658 billion revenues anticipated in its 2009 budget. Transfers from the Govern [...] | 2009-03-11 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EAID PREL PGOV SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM727 | RISING OIL PRICES, REPAID ARREARS PROVIDE GOSS TEMPORARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With world oil prices on the rebound and arrears in revenue-transfers from Khartoum reduced, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) revenues are gradually reaching levels projected in its 2009 budget, after an extremely lean first quarter. GoSS spending priorities are salary [...] | 2009-06-07 04:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EAID PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC |
09KHARTOUM763 | OIL: DAR BLEND GETS SWEETER, MORE ABUNDANT WHILE NILE BLEND [...] (SBU) Summary: GOS oil revenues for the month of April totalled $158.76 million, up from $157.26 million in March, according to figures released last week by the Ministry of Finance and National Economy. Though prices and production both rose in April, the resulting revenue increase was curbe [...] | 2009-06-18 10:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM983 | GOSS FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS, NEEDS FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Special Envoy Scott Gration, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GOSS) Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, David Deng Athorbei expressed serious concerns regarding Southern Sudan's immediate financial challenges. Painting a grim picture of the South's on [...] | 2009-08-26 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PINR KDEM MOPS ECON EFIN ENRG |
09KIGALI355 | RWANDA: DEMARCHES ON SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 15:44:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAGR ENRG SENV PHUM RW |
09KIGALI531 | RWANDA PUSHING FOR "CLEAN AND GREEN" ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Rwanda (GOR) is pressing forward with development of diversified renewable energy sources to satisfy the majority of its power generation needs by 2012. Methane gas from Lake Kivu, hydroelectric and geothermal power will provide the bulk of its "on the grid" el [...] | 2009-08-27 05:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD RW |
09KIGALI536 | RWANDA, CONGO SOLICIT FUNDING FOR JOINT ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The energy ministers from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met in Rwanda on August 17 to review and solicit donor support for a potential joint Rwandan-Congolese energy project. This project is a tangible outcome of the groundbreaking August 6 Kagame-Kabila m [...] | 2009-08-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN EAID ENRG RW CG |
09KIGALI740 | RWANDA APPROVES BIOFUELS PROJECT [...] (U) The Government of Rwanda (GOR) on October 28 approved a U.S.private sector-sponsored $40 million biofuels project in eastern Rwanda. American-owned Eco-Fuel Global and British-owned Eco-Fuel Positive will jointly develop 10,000 hectares of marginal land for production of jatropha and buil [...] | 2009-11-09 06:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ENRG ECON EAGR RW |
09KINGSTON1034 | JAMAICA: NOVEMBER ECONOMIC REVIEW, DROUGHT A RISING CONCERN [...] (U) Drought conditions continue to hamper business in the Kingston area as water levels reach critical stages from a lack of rain; -- Entrepreneur and Recording Industry legend Chris Blackwell has failed in his efforts to bring a Grameen Bank style micro-lending operation to the island; [...] | 2009-12-02 17:55:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PINR SENV SOCI TRSY |
09KINGSTON1040 | Jamaica Outlines Position For Copenhagen Climate Change [...] (SBU) As the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) prepares to attend the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, they are also finalizing the Second National Communication (SNC) on the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) as required by treaty signatories. The GOJ reports their [...] | 2009-12-02 20:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV UNEP ENRG EINV PREL PINR SOCI KGHG XL JM |
09KINGSTON1050 | JAMAICA SINKS FURTHER INTO RECESSION [...] (SBU) The Jamaican economy sank deeper into recession during the July to September time frame, chalking up the seventh consecutive quarter of economic contraction. Real GDP declined by 3.1 percent on the back of continuing declines in the goods producing sectors, and bauxite/alumina in particu [...] | 2009-12-07 15:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PINR SOCI TRSY OPIC |
09KINGSTON1140 | Jamaica: Threats of Protests Against "Wicked" Tax Hike [...] (SBU) Sweeping tax increases and further progress on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Standby Agreement were the subjects of two significant speeches by Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding and Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, in a special Parliamentary session held on [...] | 2009-12-21 16:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV EAIR PREL PINR SOCI TRSY |
09KINGSTON121 | JAMAICA: OLINT'S BOSS ARRESTED IN TURKS AND CAICOS [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of investigations, David Smith, head of the alternative investment scheme OLINT, has been arrested by the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) police. Charged on eight different counts, he has been released on USD 1 million bail and is expected to return to court in Augu [...] | 2009-02-17 16:49:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR IADB IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON122 | JAMAICA INKS DEAL WITH CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Jamaica continues to be a beneficiary of Chinese generosity, with the country receiving over USD 118 million in loans and grants. Under the agreements signed between Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Vice-President of China, Xi Jinping, who is on an official visit, Jamaica will r [...] | 2009-02-17 19:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAID IADB IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON123 | JAMAICA: OLINT?S BOSS ARRESTED IN TURKS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of investigations, David Smith, head of the alternative investment scheme OLINT, has been arrested by the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) police. Charged on eight different counts, he has been released on USD 1 million bail and is expected to return to court in Aug [...] | 2009-02-17 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR IADB |
09KINGSTON167 | JAMAICA: 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS (SOA) [...] The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has high expectations for the 2009 SOA to be held April 17-19 in Port-of-Spain. Post is implementing a number of public diplomacy outreach initiatives, and the SOA has begun to receive attention in the local media. End Summary. Foreign Minister's Expectations [...] | 2009-03-04 16:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL KPAO KSUM JM XL |
09KINGSTON184 | JAMAICA: CODEL ENGEL DISCUSSES ECONOMY, ENERGY, AND [...] (U) From February 20-22, a CODEL led by WHA sub-committee Chair Eliot Engel was in Kingston, Jamaica, meeting with government officials and civil society representatives to discuss energy, environmental, and law enforcement cooperation issues. In addition to Chair Engel, the CODEL included R [...] | 2009-03-11 17:59:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ENRG ASEC JM XL |
09KINGSTON223 | JAMAICA: BUSINESS LEADERS DISCUSS WEAKENED STATE OF [...] (SBU) On March 18, Charge James Heg hosted a group of Jamaican business leaders at a lunch to discuss the state of the local economy. The discussions also covered the political dynamics following the decision by the Jamaican Supreme Court on the dual citizenship case. The business leaders wer [...] | 2009-03-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD TRYS ENRG SOCI EFIN EINV EAIR IADB IBRD |
09KINGSTON245 | JAMAICA: TWIN DEFICITS AND A USD 1 BILLION [...] (C) Jamaica is facing a classic twin deficit problem, with both fiscal and balance of payments deficits rising quickly. The 2008-09 National budget will face a deficit of six percent of GDP, according to Finance Minister Audley Shaw. World Bank Country Representative Badrul Haque estimates that [...] | 2009-03-27 14:14:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG SOCI EFIN EINV ETRD IADB IBRD TRYS |
09KINGSTON248 | JAMAICA: PROMINENT FIGURES ADVOCATE CARIBBEAN AGENDA FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL IBRD IDB CDB TRSY |
09KINGSTON269 | JAMAICA: MARCH ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- Representatives from the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank conducted a site visit with Emboffs to a USD 225 million wharf redevelopment project to bring Genesis-class cruise ships to the city of Falmouth; -- U.S. Treasury provided technical assistance to help the Governmen [...] | 2009-04-07 14:07:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV ETRD TRSY OPIC OAS IBRD XL JM |
09KINGSTON294 | JAMAICA: PRIME MINISTER GOLDING SHUFFLES CABINET [...] (SBU) At the Prime Minister's request, Trevor MacMillan, Derrick Smith and Clive Mullings all resigned their cabinet positions Security, Telecommunications, and Energy respectively, on April 6. MacMillan, Smith and Mullings were replaced by three Ministers without portfolio already within the [...] | 2009-04-15 16:33:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EPET KCOR KCRM JM XL |
09KINGSTON295 | JAMAICA: CARICOM Multilat at FIFTH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 16:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV JM XL |
09KINGSTON302 | JAMAICA: TOURISM SECTOR TRENDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Emboffs met with Minister of Tourism Edmond Bartlett on March 31 to discuss trends in the sector, including security precautions in response to rising crime, the future of tourism competition from Cuba, and the issue of airlift in light of Air Jamaica?s upcoming divestiture. In [...] | 2009-04-20 19:57:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EAIR SOCI ETRD ASEC SNAR KCRM |
09KINGSTON306 | FEW OPTIONS FOR CASH STRAPPED JAMAICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the Bruce Golding-led administration reaches the 18 month mark; the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) faces difficult decisions on the eve of its second budget presentation. Still suffering the effects of the global economic meltdown and frozen credit markets, the GOJ has been for [...] | 2009-04-22 20:22:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR IADB IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON315 | JAMAICA: BUDGET PLAN AND GAS TAX UNVEILED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw presented a plan to Parliament on April 23 to bridge a USD 204.5 million gap in the national budget. During the speech attended by emboffs, Shaw announced a further USD 90 million increase in the new Budget - from JD 547.7 [...] | 2009-04-24 18:39:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ENRG PGOV SENV EAIR SOCI ASEC ETRD TRSY |
09KINGSTON325 | JAMAICA: APRIL ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- Sporadic roadblocks, with some violent incidents emerged to protest a recent US 10 cent per liter gas tax, but appear to have passed for now. -- Rising aluminum inventories and a 58 percent global price decline since July, 2008 are putting a strain on Jamaica's already weaken [...] | 2009-04-29 15:21:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EAIR EMIN ASEC SOCI ETRD TRSY OPIC |
09KINGSTON361 | JAMAICA: PM GOLDING'S 2009-10 BUDGET PRESENTATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Responding to criticism from the opposing People's National Party (PNP),Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding defended his proposed national budget before Members of Parliament on May 5. During the speech attended by emboffs, Golding detailed the dire economic reality facing the Gov [...] | 2009-05-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EAIR EMIN ASEC SOCI ETRD TRSY OPIC |
09KINGSTON387 | JAMAICA: PUBLIC OUTREACH BY ENERGY SECURITY EXPERT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Jerome Ringo, research scholar at Yale University and president of the Apollo Alliance, a broad coalition of major U.S. environmental organizations, visited Jamaica from May 13 to 15. The visit was organized by the U.S. Mission and included several speaking engagements, radio inte [...] | 2009-05-18 20:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EMIN ASEC KPAO SOCI ETRD TRSY OPIC |
09KINGSTON388 | JAMAICA: PUBLIC OUTREACH BY ENERGY SECURITY EXPERT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Jerome Ringo, research scholar at Yale University and president of the Apollo Alliance, a broad coalition of major U.S. environmental organizations, visited Jamaica from May 13 to 15. The visit was organized by the U.S. Mission and included several speaking engagements, radio inte [...] | 2009-05-18 20:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EMIN ASEC KPAO SOCI ETRD TRSY OPIC |
09KINGSTON405 | JAMAICA IN ECONOMIC SURVIVAL MODE [...] (SBU) Jamaica's gargantuan debt, falling external earnings, and fiscal imbalance have placed it in a precarious position. Harsh global conditions have rendered the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) medium-term macroeconomic framework useless, and have forced an increase in the stock of debt to aug [...] | 2009-05-22 11:46:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD ECIN EAIR IADB IBRD |
09KINGSTON427 | JAMAICA: POWER GENERATION, CAN YOU SPARE 200 MEGAWATTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jamaica relies on imports of petroleum products to fuel fully 95 percent of its power generation. The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) spent nearly USD 3.4 billion in 2008 for imported fuel, a sum greater than total exports and up from USD 2.2 billion in 2007. Fluctuating fuel prices an [...] | 2009-05-26 17:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EMIN ASEC SOCI ETRD TRSY OPIC OAS |
09KINGSTON445 | JAMAICA: MAY ECONOMIC REVIEW 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- Plans for large-scale casinos face delays from tightened credit markets and a slow legislative process. -- Ministry of Energy will rewrite its 2006 National Energy Policy to reflect changes needed in the sector with an eye to reducing dependence on oil imports. -- The sugar [...] | 2009-06-04 11:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EFIN EAIR EMIN ASEC SOCI ETRD TRSY |
09KINGSTON45 | JAMAICA: UPDATE AND ADDITIONAL REPORTING ON [...] (SBU) The global financial crisis has begun to impact Jamaica, with economic growth for July to September 2008 falling by 0.2 percent -- the second consecutive quarter of decline. Continued stagnation in the real sectors was again responsible for the downturn. The economy is bound to fall dee [...] | 2009-01-20 16:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR SOCI IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON466 | JAMAICA: RESPONSE TO ENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) In response to reftel, Post has confirmed the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) will send Marcia Forbes, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Kathryn Phipps, Chairperson of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, to participate in the June 15-16 Lima event. GOJ participants are aware [...] | 2009-06-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG KGHG ENVT EAGR SENV SOCI ETRD KSUM XL JM |
09KINGSTON508 | JAMAICAN-TRINIDADIAN-TRADE: FIRE SALES, FAILED DEALS AND DETAINED PATTIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 15:00:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EMIN ENRG ETRD JM OPIC PGOV PREL TRSY XL |
09KINGSTON509 | JAMAICAN-TRINIDADIAN-TRADE: FIRE SALES, FAILED DEALS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Trade relations between the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GOTT) heated up again in May after Trinidad detained a container of Jamaican meat patties for several weeks before releasing them on June 1. An ensuing media debate subsequently brok [...] | 2009-06-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV EFIN EMIN SOCI TRSY OPIC XL |
09KINGSTON517 | JAMAICA: JUNE ECONOMIC REVIEW AND A RETURN TO THE IMF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- The international rating agency Standard and Poor's (S and P) maintained Jamaica's long-term foreign and local currency debt rating at B- and its short-term debt rating at C. -- The Falmouth Port tourism and cruise facility redevelopment project has been delayed several month [...] | 2009-07-01 14:47:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EFIN EAIR EMIN ASEC SOCI ETRD TRSY |
09KINGSTON536 | JAMAICA RESPONSE: U.S. BIENNAL CARIBBEAN BASIN INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Despite enjoying some of the most generous preferential trading arrangements and being located next to the largest market in the world, Jamaica's export history continues to be less than impressive. During the last decade, exports grew on average by 11.7 percent per annum, from a low bas [...] | 2009-07-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OTRA TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD IBRD IMF XL JM |
09KINGSTON537 | JAMAICA RESPONSE: U.S. BIENNAL CARIBBEAN BASIN [...] (SBU) Despite enjoying some of the most generous preferential trading arrangements and being located next to the largest market in the world, Jamaica's export history continues to be less than impressive. During the last decade, exports grew on average by 11.7 percent per annum, from a low bas [...] | 2009-07-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OTRA TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD IBRD |
09KINGSTON551 | JAMAICA: IMF NEGOTIATIONS IGNITE DEBATE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS. A Government of Jamaican (GOJ) delegation led by Don Wehby, Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance, visited Washington the week of July 6 to intensify negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The GOJ's failure to reach most of its ec [...] | 2009-07-17 16:52:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL IADB |
09KINGSTON581 | JAMAICA ON VERGE OF IMF STAND-BY AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After months of negotiations, the Government of Jamaican (GOJ) is on the brink of signing a Stand-by Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This disclosure was confirmed by lead IMF representative, Trevor Alleyne, at a meeting with the donor community held at Post [...] | 2009-08-03 19:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL SOCI ASEC IADB |
09KINGSTON601 | JAMAICA: RUMBLINGS OF KEY PERSONNEL CHANGES IN [...] (C) The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP)-led government is undergoing a second major reshuffle of portfolios for the year. Key Minister of Finance advisors Don Wehby and Dennis Chung have returned to the private sector. Chris Zacca, President of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ),[...] | 2009-08-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRAD EFIN ENRG PINR PREL PGOV SOCI IADB |
09KINGSTON613 | JAMAICA: MONETARY GAINS, FISCAL PAIN, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a series of austere monetary measures, led by record high interest rates, the foreign exchange market has been showing signs of stability, reflected in the marginal depreciation of the Jamaican dollar during the June quarter. The stock of Net International Reserves (NIR) [...] | 2009-08-18 18:52:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL IADB |
09KINGSTON614 | JAMAICA: MONETARY GAINS, FISCAL PAIN, AND DOWNGRADES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a series of austere monetary measures, led by record high interest rates, the foreign exchange market has been showing signs of stability, reflected in the marginal depreciation of the Jamaican dollar during the June quarter. The stock of Net International Reserves (NIR) a [...] | 2009-08-18 19:01:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL IADB IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON622 | JAMAICA/VENEZUELA: ENERGY AND PETROCARIBE, WHERE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS: Jamaica continues to suffer under the global economic recession, but the island has been hit harder than other nations because of its high energy costs and reliance on petroleum for electricity. The lack of viable short-term solutions, and increasing dependence on the [...] | 2009-08-21 12:36:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRAD EFIN ENRG PINR PREL PGOV JM XL |
09KINGSTON626 | JAMAICA ENERGY MINISTRY: PLANNING AND CHANGING, AGAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Marcia Forbes, the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Energy, resigned on August 20 after serving only four months. She became PS when Minister James Robertson took over the portfolio in April from then-Minister Clive Mullings (reftel A). The PS position has yet to be [...] | 2009-08-24 18:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ENV ECON ETRD EIND EMIN PINR IADB IBRD |
09KINGSTON634 | JAMAICA: A SERIOUS LAG EFFECT FOR POST RECESSION [...] (C) Despite signs of stability in the Jamaican dollar and moderating inflation, the island nation is still far from seeing post-recession green shoots. Even when an economic recovery takes hold in the United States, it will do little to pull Jamaica out of its ongoing economic malaise. Major [...] | 2009-08-25 18:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRAD EFIN ENRG EIND PREL PGOV PIND TRYS |
09KINGSTON661 | JAMAICA: GOJ VIEWS ON THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REVIEW [...] (SBU) Although Jamaica does not manufacture or export weapons of mass destruction (WMD),the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) is active in international disarmament fora and is proud of its leadership role in establishing Latin America and the Caribbean as the first nuclear weapon-free zone in the w [...] | 2009-09-01 12:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV UNGA JM XL |
09KINGSTON709 | JAMAICA: PM ATTEMPTS TO RECAPTURE POLITICAL MOMENTUM, GOJ [...] (SBU) In a much-anticipated pre-dawn address to Parliament, Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding called for a "paradigm shift" in the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s civil service and government finances. Confronting a moribund economy, unsustainable budget deficits, and a resurgent opposition Peop [...] | 2009-10-01 17:52:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ASEC SOCI ECON EFIN IMF IBRD ENRG EINV |
09KINGSTON770 | JAMAICA: OPERATION OF THE CARIBBEAN BASIN ECONOMIC RECOVERY [...] Jamaica is a signatory to the WTO Agreement and has generally demonstrated a commitment to undertaking its obligations. While the Golding administration, reeling under the effects of the global economic crisis, has championed the need for the country to replace particularly agricultural import [...] | 2009-09-30 14:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL IADB IBRD IMF TRGY |
09KINGSTON782 | JAMAICA: SEPTEMBER 2009 ECONOMIC UPDATE [...] (U) David Smith, the head of failed foreign-exchange trading club Olint TCI, has found himself on the wrong side of the law in the Turks and Caicos Islands for the second time this year. The Olint boss and his wife have been slapped with several additional charges including money laundering and [...] | 2009-10-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EAIR EAGR ECIN EFIN EIND ELAB EMIN ENRG |
09KINGSTON886 | JAMAICA: PROPOSED AGREEMENT FOR ASSISTANCE RELATED TO [...] (SBU) Per reftel, EmbOff delivered diplomatic note and text of proposed Jamaica reply note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT)'s USA Desk Officer, Ms. Lisa Bryan-Smart, on the morning of October 22. Post will fax copies to Washington per reftel para. 7, and will report [...] | 2009-10-23 16:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETTC KNNP PARM PREL DOE JM XL |
09KINGSTON892 | JAMAICA: SUCCESSFUL CARIBBEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY FORUM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Jamaica hosted a successful Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) which included a U.S. Government (USG) delegation, consisting of officials from the Departments of State and Energy and the Overseas Private Investment Cooperation (OPIC). The forum, held in Montego Bay from Octobe [...] | 2009-10-23 19:06:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV EMIN SOCI ETRD TRSY DOE OPIC OAS IBRD |
09KINGSTON91 | JAMAICA: JANUARY ECONOMIC REVIEW - HARDSHIP CONTINUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- Jamaica's loss making national airline will begin an aggressive restructuring exercise next month in preparation for divestment later this year. -- The Jamaican Parliament has approved a four percent increase in the national budget to USD 6 billion. -- Finance Minister [...] | 2009-02-02 19:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TRYS ENRG EFIN EINV ETRD EAIR IADB IBRD IMF |
09KINGSTON922 | JAMAICA: OCTOBER ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 15:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN ETRD EAIR ENRG PREL XL JM |
09KINGSTON97 | JAMAICA: ENERGY SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 13:53:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV EFIN EINV ETRD TRYS IADB IBRD PGOV |
09KINSHASA143 | DRC RESPONSE: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (SBU) Post sent reftel questions in advance to Alice Kimpembe Bamba, Head of the MFA's International Organizations Directorate. PolCouns followed up with Kimpembe on February 10. Kimpembe confided that the GDRC, while supporting the overarching goals of the NPT, did not actively participate [...] | 2009-02-12 08:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09KOLKATA127 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: SIKKIM DEMOCRATIC FRONT LIKELY TO RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) appears likely to continue its 15 year rule of the small mountainous Northeast Indian state strategically wedged in between Nepal, China (Tibet) and Bhutan. While it may not match the 2004 absolute sweep, it appears that it will retain its one L [...] | 2009-05-15 11:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG ELTN EFIN EAIR IN NP BT CH |
09KOLKATA143 | ABUNDANT COAL AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC POTENTIAL IN EASTERN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern India offers immense potential for the development of the power sector due to abundant coal deposits and large hydro-electric potential. Public and private sector firms are focused primarily on increasing coal-based thermal power generation, despite the sensitivities an [...] | 2009-05-29 11:41:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN ELTN IN BT |
09KOLKATA255 | CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABLE KOLKATA LOOKS TO INDIAN AND US [...] (U) Summary: The eastern Indian city of Kolkata is one of the world's most vulnerable cities due to coastal flooding and the effects of climate change. While the West Bengal state government has set up a state-level Climate Committee and secretariat to formulate and implement adaptation strate [...] | 2009-09-17 11:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON IN |
09KOLKATA278 | COAL INDIA SEEKS GREATER COMMERCIAL TIES WITH U.S. FIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Coal India, one of India's largest state owned enterprises and also one of the world's largest coal mining companies, is cash rich and expansion hungry. The Chairman of Coal India is driven by the fundamental belief that coal, which is the source for 65% of India's energy produc [...] | 2009-10-22 04:42:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN SENV INV ENRG BEXP IN |
09KOLKATA291 | U.S. RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY LIGHTS INDIA'S VILLAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2007 Husk Power Systems (HPS) has lit remote, un-electrified villages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. HPS uses widely-available rice husk to generate and sell electricity to rural villagers, who would otherwise be without power. A privately-held U.S. renewab [...] | 2009-10-30 04:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN |
09KOLKATA322 | MAJORITY OF INDIA'S NON-ELECTRIFIED VILLAGES IN EASTERN [...] (U) More than a quarter of India's villages remain without electricity and sixty percent of these are in the five eastern states of Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. In 2005 the GoI launched an improved rural electrification program, but progress continues to be hampered by secu [...] | 2009-12-02 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN |
09KOLKATA335 | CLIMATE CHANGE HERE AND NOW FOR SUNDERBANS: NGO'S ADAPTATION [...] (U) Summary: The famed Sunderbans, a deltaic region in the Bay of Bengal with more than one hundred islands and four million people, is one of India's most vulnerable areas to rising sea levels and extreme climatic events. On one of the islands, Mousuni, public and private actors have foc [...] | 2009-12-23 12:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG IN BG |
09KOLKATA62 | COAL INDIA: GROWTH THROUGH LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Led by a dynamic chairman, Coal India Limited (CIL),the world's largest coal producing company, is focused on growing its operations through more efficient mining operations, greater utilization of outsourcing and initiating overseas acquisitions. CIL has recognized the importa [...] | 2009-03-09 13:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV ENRG BEXP SOCI IN |
09KOLONIA130 | FSM ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The FSM National Government, through the offices of Research and Development, submitted a national Draft Energy Policy to each state on July 21. By Mid-September a number of the agencies and personnel responsible for implementation still had not seen the draft plan. Although [...] | 2009-10-06 04:44:00 | Embassy Kolonia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV FM |
09KOLONIA137 | YAP STATE ATTEMPTS AT IMPLEMENTING ENERGY PLAN AHEAD OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Yap State Legislators are hoping that the FSM National Government can provide a unified front to obtain international funding to meet the FSM's energy needs. Current funding from donor nations is greatly appreciated, but the project implementation process remains difficult. E [...] | 2009-10-30 01:06:00 | Embassy Kolonia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL FM |
09KRAKOW14 | POLISH ROAD NETWORK EMERGING FROM DECADES OF CRIPPLING [...] (U) Summary: Government and private sector analysts now hold that, after two decades of failed policies and mismanagement, the Tusk administration is making real progress towards developing a modern highway network, overcoming a major stumbling block which stunts investment and hinders Poland f [...] | 2009-03-23 13:47:00 | Consulate Krakow | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ELTN ELAB ENRG SENV |
09KUALALUMPUR125 | MALAYSIA ON NPT ISSUES [...] (U) Acting Political Counselor met with Mr. Shazryll Zahiran, Principal Assistant Secretary in the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Division, on February 20 to discuss the current Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review cycle. No Changes Foreseen, But A Co [...] | 2009-02-20 10:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC UNGA |
09KUALALUMPUR13 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S.-IAEA ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 03:48:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09KUALALUMPUR420 | ENERGY AND GREEN TECHNOLOGY IN MALAYSIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: LOO Took Gee, Deputy Secretary-General for Energy at the newly established Ministry of Energy, Green Technology, and Water (MEGTW),does not foresee any major shifts in Malaysia's energy sector even as electricity demand is expected to double by 2030. Malaysia will continue to [...] | 2009-05-29 08:54:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV MY |
09KUALALUMPUR484 | CHARGE REVIEWS MULTILATERAL PRIORITIES WITH MFA [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Acting Secretary General Zainol Abidin and the Charge held a broad-ranging discussion of multilateral political and security issues on June 9. Zainol noted Prime Minister Najib's directive to build stronger, more substantive ties with Washington. The Charge pressed Zain [...] | 2009-06-16 03:48:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG MARR KNNP IAEA ASEAN IR MY |
09KUALALUMPUR489 | MALAYSIA'S INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR CONFERENCE AND [...] (SBU) The Nuklear Malaysia (Note: formerly known as the Malaysian Institute of Nuclear Technology or MINT. End note.),the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI),the Malaysian Nuklear Society, and the Malaysian Radiation Protection Association are hosting the International Nu [...] | 2009-06-17 09:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IR KNNP MY |
09KUALALUMPUR5 | Malaysia Aims to Complete Nuclear Energy Policy by 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Malaysia (GOM) plans to finalize a nuclear energy policy and enact legislation in 2009. The government also intends to establish a nuclear energy regulatory agency and increase public and political support for civilian nuclear energy as a renewable energy sourc [...] | 2009-01-06 07:17:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO |
09KUALALUMPUR64 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) CONTACTS [...] Post is pleased to provide the following points of contact in Malaysia related to NPT issues (reftel). The Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, which is part of the MFA's Multilateral Department, has the leading role for NPT issues. The MFA's key points of [...] | 2009-02-03 09:36:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PGOV AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC UNGA |
09KUALALUMPUR954 | MALAYSIA WILL SUPPORT ANGARSK RESERVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 09:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY MY |
09KUALALUMPUR982 | MALAYSIA: MFA INFORMED ON MALAYSIAN CORPORATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 23:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC KNNP MY |
09KUWAIT1037 | ODD BEDFELLOWS: OIL RICH KUWAIT SEEKS ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GCC nations have the highest per capita energy consumption rates in the world, leaving some Kuwaitis in search of more efficient energy sources or renewable ones to decrease its reliance on domestic crude oil. Although Kuwait has the fifth largest proven oil reserves in the wo [...] | 2009-10-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV KU |
09KUWAIT1117 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (U) Ambassador and Mission Kuwait warmly welcome the December 5-6 visit of Deputy Secretary of Energy Poneman to Kuwait. The Bilateral Relationship -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Kuwait remains a key bilateral ally for the U.S. and has been critical in supporting OIF and OEF, both w [...] | 2009-11-25 11:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG SENV KU |
09KUWAIT1139 | KUWAIT'S RESPONSE TO DRAFT CEIP MOU [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Econcouns met with Kuwait National Security Bureau Director of International Relations Sheikh Fawaz Al-Sabah on December 3 to discuss the draft CEIP MOU. Sheikh Fawaz handed Econcouns English and Arabic draft copies of the MOU with [...] | 2009-12-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PTER KCIP ECON KU |
09KUWAIT1151 | KUWAITIS TALK IRAN, IRAN, AND ENERGY WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: On December 6, Kuwait's Prime Minister made a strong plea to visiting DoE DepSec Poneman to avoid any military option against Iran, noting that Kuwait would be one of the first countries affected by any attack. The FM meanwhile noted that only a unified front by the P-5 and other [...] | 2009-12-10 08:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG SENV IR IZ KU |
09KUWAIT184 | KUWAIT'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS FOCUSED ON REGIONAL [...] (SBU) EconOffs delivered ref A demarche to the Acting Director-General of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR),Dr. Mohammad Salman, on March 2. As far as he is aware, the GOK is not/not represented at the March 2-6 IAEA BOG meeting, as the Kuwaiti IAEA lead is traveling with t [...] | 2009-03-03 11:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP SENV GCC KU |
09KUWAIT302 | KUWAITI OIL MINISTER ON KDOW, FOURTH REFINERY, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Caretaker Oil Minister Shaykh Ahmed Al-Sabah told Ambassador that Kuwait's oil sector development plans (including the Al-Zour (fourth) refinery) would go ahead. He welcomed Dow's interest in continuing a partnership, though he cautioned that the K-Dow Joint Venture was "dead. [...] | 2009-03-25 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV KU |
09KUWAIT32 | KUWAIT NSB RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO ENERGY [...] (C) Kuwait National Security Bureau(NSB) Vice President Shaykh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al Sabah told Econoffs on January 12 that Kuwait remained very interested in signing an MOU establishing a joint working group to improve protection of Kuwait's energy infrastructure. Thamer said the agree [...] | 2009-01-13 11:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ENRG ASEC PGOV PINS PREL ECON KCIP KU |
09KUWAIT323 | COMMS/ELECTRICITY/WATER MINISTER ON POWER [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Communications, Electricity and Water, Nabil Khalaf Saeed Bin Salama, provided frank insight to Ambassador March 31 in a wide-ranging discussion. Topics covered include: --The Amir mandated the Minister with ensuring 24/7 power in Kuwait this summer, yet within day [...] | 2009-04-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV SENV ECON PGOV IZ KU |
09KUWAIT338 | KUWAITI OIL MARKET UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has announced plans to invest USD 82 billion over the next five years, split roughly evenly between the upstream and downstream sector in support of its long range development plans to increase crude oil production capacity to 4 million barrels per da [...] | 2009-04-07 15:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV KU |
09KUWAIT37 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. RATIFICATION OF THE IAEA [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on Jan. 13 to Khaled Al-Maqamis, Director of the Department of Follow-up and Coordination at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Maqamis noted Kuwait had the Additional Protocol in force but had no other substantive response. ****************************** [...] | 2009-01-14 14:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | IAEA ENRG PREL AORC TRGY KNNP KTIA KU |
09KUWAIT400 | SECURITY, BILATERAL ISSUES HINDER KUWAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. Kuwait has been a historical gateway to Iraq, but thus far only a few Kuwaiti business people have taken advantage of the country's location to pursue opportunities in post-Saddam Iraq. The largest deal to date was telecommunications company Zain,s USD 1.2 billion purchase of I [...] | 2009-04-26 06:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN EINV ENRG IZ KU |
09KUWAIT438 | KUWAIT'S PETROCHEMICAL EXPANSION PLANS AND DOW [...] (U) Contains business proprietary information. 2. (C) Summary: Senior Kuwaiti officials have stressed that they view Dow as a strategic partner, but also that reviving the K-Dow joint venture is not possible in the current economic and political climate. The Petrochemical Industries Corpo [...] | 2009-04-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV KU |
09KUWAIT541 | KUWAIT DELIVERS ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE MOU [...] (C) On May 28, Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered to Post Kuwait's response to the proposed Memorandum of Understanding regarding establishment of a joint working group to improve protection of Kuwait's energy infrastructure, which it had received from the USG in early January. The MOU con [...] | 2009-05-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER ENRG ASEC PGOV PINS PREL ECON KCIP KU |
09KUWAIT57 | K-DOW AFTERMATH: LITIGATION LOOMS; HINTS OF HOPE [...] (C) Summary: In the two weeks since the demise of the K-Dow joint venture between Dow Chemical and Kuwait's Petroleum Industries Company(PIC),the project remains a lead item in local news reports including those covering recent intense parliamentary debate on the issue. Although PIC official [...] | 2009-01-22 11:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EINV EIND EPET ENRG PREL PGOV KU |
09KUWAIT578 | KUWAIT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS STILL PRELIMINARY [...] (SBU) On June 4, Econcouns used the fact sheet on the U.S.-UAE Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (123 Agreement) to discuss Kuwait's plans for peaceful nuclear energy with Dr. Nader Al-Awadhi, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Deputy Director General for Information and Kuwait's Nat [...] | 2009-06-09 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP SENV PREL KU |
09KUWAIT615 | KUWAIT WELCOMES US POSITION ON THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) EconCouns discussed U.S. views on the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) separately with Kuwait Institute Deputy Director General Dr. Mohammed Salman and with Rashid Al-Saleh of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Both welcomed the news that the USG was seriousl [...] | 2009-06-22 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV KU |
09KUWAIT624 | KUWAITI VIEWS ON CRITICAL ENERGY MOU [...] (C) Summary and Key Points -- The NSB is happy with USG-GoK cooperation thus far and believes that it is in both countries' best interest to continue it. -- The NSB would be happy to sign the amended MOU. -- Kuwait is willing to cover expenses for USG personnel visiting Kuwait under the [...] | 2009-06-24 13:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ENRG PREL PINS KCIP ECON KU |
09KUWAIT643 | KUWAIT-FRANCE NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde visited Kuwait June 20-21 for the twelfth meeting of the Kuwait-France Joint Economic Committee. Local media and wires played up French-Kuwaiti nuclear cooperation both from her talks with the Amir and from the concurrent visit by represe [...] | 2009-06-29 06:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL EINV ETRD ECON ECIP ENRG KU FR |
09KUWAIT646 | KUWAIT ENERGY CEO ON IRAQI AND KUWAITI HYDROCARBON [...] (C) Summary: On June 25, Kuwait Energy CEO Sara Akbar briefed Ambassador on the difficulties her company faced in its efforts to develop the Siba field in Iraq. She implied that Iraqi interest in renegotiating its maritime boundary with Kuwait stemmed in part from the Iraqi discovery of an of [...] | 2009-06-29 13:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL IZ UP KU |
09KUWAIT647 | KUWAIT MOVING FORWARD -- SLOWLY -- WITH NUCLEAR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) On June 24, Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin, the head of the secretariat for Kuwait's National Committee for Using Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes -- "informally" -- briefed Econcouns on progress in Kuwait's efforts to assess and imple [...] | 2009-06-29 14:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP SENV PREL KU |
09KUWAIT687 | KUWAIT AIMS FOR ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY BY 2012 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOK seeks to end perennial electricity shortfalls by summer 2012 through the construction of two (long-planned) power plants, the 2,000 MW Subiya power plant and the 4,800 MW As-Zour North power plant. U.S. firm General Electric is involved in two of three consortia being c [...] | 2009-07-09 11:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV KU |
09KUWAIT722 | NEW UTILITIES MINISTER PLEDGES TO END ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) During an introductory meeting with Ambassador, Kuwait's new Minister for Electricity and Water, Dr. Bader Shebib Al-Shuraiaan, stated that he intended to move forward with several long stalled, critical power projects, declaring: "My priority is to get everything going." He asserted th [...] | 2009-07-20 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV KU |
09KUWAIT756 | A WALTZ WITH SHAYKH AHMED: OIL/INFO MINISTER LETS [...] (C) Summary: The dual-hatted Kuwaiti Oil/Information Minister Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told the Ambassador July 27 that Kuwait wants to obtain international expertise in developing its oil projects, mentioning that ExxonMobil is likely to oversee production in the Burgan oil fie [...] | 2009-07-30 15:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EINV KWIR EPET KU IZ |
09KUWAIT823 | KUWAIT AVOIDS MAJOR BLACK OUTS BUT SEES EVER [...] (SBU) Summary: While Kuwait has avoided electricity shortages so far this summer, marginal excess capacity is very limited and increasing demand makes launching two long-planned power projects imperative. Movement forward towards awarding one of these, the two gigawatt (GW) Subiya power plant [...] | 2009-08-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV KU |
09KUWAIT831 | KUWAIT OIL PRODUCTION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with CDA and Econcouns, two senior Kuwaiti oil officials asserted that Kuwait could sustainably produce 3 million barrels per day of crude oil, but acknowledged that exceeding that level without international assistance would be difficult. The Amir's oil advi [...] | 2009-08-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV KU |
09KUWAIT847 | THIRD TIME THE CHARM? GE ONE STEP CLOSER TO 2 [...] (SBU) After intensive high-level Embassy advocacy, led by Ambassador and including the FCS and Economic sections, it appears as if General Electric's efforts to win the approximately $2.4 billion Subiya power plant project will be successful. On August 17, Kuwait's Central Tender Committee se [...] | 2009-08-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EPET KU |
09KUWAIT911 | GE WINS 2 GIGAWATT POWER DEAL [...] (U) On September 14, Kuwait's Minister for Electricity and Water, Dr. Bader Shebib Al-Shuraiaan called Ambassador to say that Kuwait had signed with a GE-led consortium to build the $2.4 billion Subiya power plant project. Separately, GE's Dubai based representative contacted the mission to pa [...] | 2009-09-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EPET KU |
09KUWAIT915 | KUWAIT CONTINUING TO MOVE FORWARD ON CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary and Key Points: -- Kuwait continues to take action to improve oil facility security with the assistance of European and U.S. consultants. -- The Oil Sector Services Company (OSSC) has approximately 1,300 security personnel, almost all Kuwaitis and is putting together an 80-team [...] | 2009-09-15 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ENRG PREL PINS KCIP ECON KU |
09KUWAIT967 | KUWAIT NEEDS THE IOCS [...] (SBU) Kuwaiti Minister of Oil Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah briefed Ambassador on Kuwait's oil expansion plans during the opening of the 3rd International Energy and Petrochemical Exhibition. He told the Ambassador -- and the press -- that Kuwait needed to bring in International Oil Companies (IOCs) [...] | 2009-10-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG KU |
09KYIV1 | RUSSIA CUTS OFF GAS TO UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Naftohaz officials confirmed that supplies of Russian gas had decreased substantially on January 1. The cutoff came despite Ukraine's insistence that it had paid more than $2 billion of its gas debt. In a joint statement, President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minis [...] | 2009-01-01 17:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP |
09KYIV1024 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Your June 19-20 visit to Ukraine comes in the midst of a severe economic crisis and an increasingly tense political environment ahead of presidential elections in 2010. The gas supply and transit contracts signed by Naftohaz and Gazprom in January 2009 increased transparency so [...] | 2009-06-12 16:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP |
09KYIV107 | UKRAINE: GAS SUPPLIES RESUME, BUT QUESTIONS ON GAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL UP |
09KYIV1092 | UKRAINE: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR DISCUSSES GAS [...] (C) Summary. During a June 19-20 visit to Kyiv, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Richard Morningstar urged senior Ukrainian officials to begin reforms in the energy sector in order to build confidence with both European and Russian partners. In meetings with PM Tymoshenko, Energy [...] | 2009-06-30 08:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP |
09KYIV117 | UKRAINE: DETAILS AND QUESTIONS ON GAS DEAL STILL [...] (C) Summary. As natural gas supplies reach normal levels in Ukraine and other countries in Europe, more details on the gas deal have been released by the Prime Minister, the President, the Minister of Energy, various members of the Presidential Secretariat and Naftohaz officials. At present, [...] | 2009-01-21 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL UP |
09KYIV134 | UKRAINE: MORE ANSWERS TO GAS DEAL UNKNOWNS [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainian daily Ukrainska Pravda posted on January 22 what it claimed to be a copy of the gas supply contract signed by Ukraine and Russia on January 19. Because the gas supply contract was supposed to remain confidential neither our Ukrainian nor Russian governmental contacts co [...] | 2009-01-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL UP |
09KYIV1472 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ FOREIGN DEBT LIKELY TO BE [...] (C) Summary. Naftohaz's $500 million Eurobond, due September 30, will likely be restructured into a new $1.75 billion bond instrument backed by a sovereign guarantee. The new instrument would also incorporate $1.25 billion in bilateral debt that Naftohaz owes to four foreign banks that come [...] | 2009-08-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL EREL EPET ECON ENRG UA |
09KYIV1487 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO PLEDGES NO GAS PRICE HIKE [...] (SBU) Summary. At a road opening event in Western Ukraine on August 25, Prime Minister Tymoshenko stated that gas prices would not increase for the population this year. Tymoshenko's statement appears to contradict her earlier commitments to international donors to raise gas prices for househ [...] | 2009-08-31 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EFIN ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA |
09KYIV1518 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO PROMISES A "GAS CHRISTMAS" [...] (SBU) Following talks with Russian Prime Minister Putin in Poland on September 1 (Ref A),Prime Minister Tymoshenko stated that Ukraine would not experience a gas crisis this January. Tymoshenko also stated that the gas transit fee charged to Russia's Gazprom would increase in 2010, contradict [...] | 2009-09-04 15:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA |
09KYIV1656 | UKRAINE: NO EXPECTATIONS FOR A GAS PRICE INCREASE [...] (C) Summary. Despite apparent renewed pledges from Prime Minister Tymoshenko to the IMF that a 20 percent gas price increase for households would take place on October 15, the message from our Ukrainian interlocutors is that a gas price increase will not happen. Vitaliy Hayduk, head of Tymos [...] | 2009-09-29 08:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EFIN ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA |
09KYIV1761 | U.S.-UKRAINE ENERGY SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine welcomes the opportunity to discuss a broad range of energy-related issues with Ambassador Morningstar and DOE co-hosts at the upcoming Energy Security Working Group meeting, tentatively scheduled for October 28. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large for Ener [...] | 2009-10-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EREL PINR UA |
09KYIV1780 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ REFORMS UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary. In meetings with Naftohaz Chairman Oleh Dubyna and PM Tymoshenko Energy Advisor Vitaliy Hayduk in late September both stated that the structural reform of the gas sector was unlikely, even unnecessary. Dubyna stated that he would not support the unbundling of Ukraine's gas tra [...] | 2009-10-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON EFIN ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA |
09KYIV1828 | UKRAINE: MINISTRY OF FUEL AND ENERGY ON ENERGY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy Sergiy Pavlusha confirmed that Ukraine was planning to send an interagency delegation, including representatives from state-owned energy companies Naftohaz and Energoatom, to the schedule [...] | 2009-10-20 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EREL PREL PGOV UP |
09KYIV1837 | UKRAINE: DIVERSIFYING THE NUCLEAR POWER SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's energy dependence on Russia is not limited to gas. Russia provides 100% of Ukraine's nuclear fuel and stores 60% of its spent fuel, while Ukraine's nuclear sector generates approximately half of the country's electricity. U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) assistance to [...] | 2009-10-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EREL PREL PGOV UP |
09KYIV1981 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ OPTIONS FOR GAS PAYMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is expected to need about $1 billion to cover gas purchased from Russia in November and December. Prime Minister Tymoshenko has called on President Yushchenko to allow the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to make its foreign currency reserves available for the gas payments. [...] | 2009-11-13 11:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA RU |
09KYIV1991 | LUKASHENKO VISIT TO UKRAINE [...] (C... C O N F I D E N T I A L KYIV 001991 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/11/2019 TAGS: PREL PBTS ENRG BO UP Â [...] | 2009-11-13 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ENRG BO UP |
09KYIV204 | UKRAINE'S CASE THAT IT DID NOT IMPEDE GAS SUPPLIES [...] (C) Summary and comment. A week after gas supplies have resumed to Ukraine and countries westward, the question of whether Ukraine or Russia is responsible for stopping supplies is still being raised. A close look at developments in the first week of January, however, shows that Russia was t [...] | 2009-01-30 08:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL UP |
09KYIV2044 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - ELICITING SUPPORT FOR THE [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A points November 16 to the MFA's Directorate for Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation, and followed up with ref B points on November 23 to Viktor Shkuro in the MFA's Department of Economic Cooperation. Shkuro explained that several MFA departments, as well [...] | 2009-11-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC IAEA ENRG TRGY UP RS |
09KYIV208 | UKRAINE-RUSSIA: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE GAS CRISIS REF: KYIV 204 Classified By: Ambassador William Taylor. Reasons: 1.4 (b,d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET PGOV PINR UP RU EU |
09KYIV2219 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ SEES PAYMENT DIFFICULTIES [...] (C) Summary. Naftohaz Chairman Oleh Dubyna told the Ambassador on December 24 that without IMF funds, Naftohaz will have difficulty making the January 11 payment for December gas purchases. Dubyna appealed for the Ambassador to ask the IMF to instruct Ukraine's National Bank to issue $2 bill [...] | 2009-12-29 13:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EREL PGOV UA RU |
09KYIV226 | NPT POINTS OF CONTACT [...] (U) In response to reftel action request number three, the Embassy's main point of contact for Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)-related issues is Political Officer Lauren Catipon (telephone: 011-38-044-490-4114). Back-up is Political Officer Mark Wood (telephone 011-38-044-490-4501). Th [...] | 2009-02-02 15:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UP |
09KYIV228 | TYMOSHENKO ASKS FOR USG ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary and action request: Prime Minister Tymoshenko during a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador asked for both economic and political support as she grapples with Ukraine,s current crisis. She asked specifically for: 1) a USG bilateral budget support loan to help Ukraine address [...] | 2009-02-02 16:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG EU PGOV PREL PU UP |
09KYIV312 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): BACKGROUND [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche February 11 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation NPT officer Maryna Yermakova, welcomed Ukraine's feedback, and left reftel points as a nonpaper. Yermakova thanked us for our early work leading t [...] | 2009-02-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM NPT PREL IAEA UP |
09KYIV40 | NO GAS YET, GOU SAYS IT GETS SHORT END OF MONITORING DEAL [...] (SBU) Early on January 11 the GOU signed the three-party agreement with the EU and Russia that should lead to a resumption of Russian gas deliveries to the EU. The thin document specifies that experts from the three sides will monitor the transit gas pipeline in both Russia and Ukraine. As of [...] | 2009-01-11 16:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP |
09KYIV419 | UKRAINE: RAID ON NAFTOHAZ LATEST TWIST IN [...] (C) Summary. On March 4, forces from the Ukrainian National Security Service (SBU),which falls under the authority of President Victor Yushchenko, raided Naftohaz headquarters to seize documents related to the transfer of 11 billion cubic meters (bcm) of stored RosUkrEnergo (RUE) gas to Naft [...] | 2009-03-05 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN EPET PGOV PINR PREL UP RS |
09KYIV421 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ PAYS GAZPROM AND AVOIDS A NEW CONFLICT, [...] (SBU) On March 5 Naftohaz paid Gazprom in full for gas delivered in February. The payment of $360 million averted a possible repeat of the recent gas crisis after Russia had threatened to cut off deliveries if Naftohaz failed to pay by the March 7 deadline. Naftohaz paid despite its worsening [...] | 2009-03-06 11:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET PGOV PINR PREL RS UP |
09KYIV427 | UKRAINE: FIRTASH RETURNS TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainian oligarch and RosUkrEnergo (RUE) co-owner Dmytro Firtash asked again to see the Ambassador on March 3 to discuss the conclusion of the recent gas crisis, the state of RUE following the crisis, and his views on the political landscape ahead of the January 2010 presidential [...] | 2009-03-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV EPET PINR PREL RS UP |
09KYIV503 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT: UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Embassy Reviewed the S/CT request regarding critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR). Embassy's assessment is that CI/KR in Ukraine, if destroyed, disrupted or exploited, would not likely have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States, and therefore does not meet [...] | 2009-03-20 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL PTER UP |
09KYIV599 | EC OPTIMISTIC ON UKRAINIAN GAS PIPELINE COMMITMENTS [...] (SBU) On March 31 European Commission External Relations (RELEX) Energy Counselor Faouzin Bensarsa told us that President Yushchenko and PM Tymoshenko remain on message following the March 23 investment conference on Ukraine's gas transit system (reftel). Bensara, who was in Kyiv to discuss th [...] | 2009-04-06 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET PGOV PINR PREL RS UP EUN |
09KYIV955 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ'S FINANCIAL HOUSE OF CARDS [...] (SBU) Naftohaz's ability to pay its gas bill has become a monthly guessing game since the January 2009 gas crisis. While Ukraine has managed to pay its gas bill for the first four months of the year, it will face increasing difficulties to do so through the summer as it pumps gas into undergrou [...] | 2009-06-03 15:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP |
09LAGOS103 | NIGERIA TO DEREGULATE DOWNSTREAM, END GASOLINE [...] (C) Summary: On February 26 Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Odein Ajumogobia announced at a conference on Nigeria's oil and gas sector that the GON plans to fully deregulate its downstream petroleum sector and end retail prices caps on gasoline and household kerosene. The Minister [...] | 2009-03-05 07:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV EINV ELAB NI |
09LAGOS106 | NIGERIA: WARRI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLAMES FEDERAL [...] (U) Summary: The President of the Warri Chamber of Commerce, Edema Abrakata, told Pol-Econ Chief, PolOff and Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) representatives in Warri, Delta State, on February 5 that the current crisis in the Niger Delta was the result of neglect by the Federal Government [...] | 2009-03-05 13:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EIND ENRG NI |
09LAGOS116 | NIGERIA: GAZPROM ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR JOINT VENTURE [...] (C) Summary: Vladimir Ilyanin, Managing Director of GAZPROM Nigeria, told an audience at a major Nigerian oil conference in Abuja on February 25 that his company is close to signing a USD 2.5 billion oil and gas exploration deal with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Described as [...] | 2009-03-12 15:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL NI |
09LAGOS155 | NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES OIL COMPANIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador and Lagos Consul General attended a dinner hosted by the Regional Vice President for Shell Africa, Ann Pickard on February 26. The dinner brought together the managing directors and senior executives from Chevron, Total, Schlumberger, Halliburton and ExxonMobil. The [...] | 2009-03-27 08:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS177 | NIGERIA: LPG MARKET STILL DORMANT DESPITE HUGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Organizers and participants in the All-Africa Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) conference held in Lagos 30-31 March said Nigeria has made little progress in introducing LPG into the domestic market since the last meeting in 2006. Despite producing 2,000,000 metric tons per year, d [...] | 2009-04-08 05:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EPET ECON EINV NI |
09LAGOS178 | NIGERIA: OIL EXEC SAYS POOR HEALTH HAS SIDELINED [...] (C) Summary: On 06 April, Akin Odumakinde, Managing Director of the large Nigerian petroleum engineering service firm DeltaAfrik said he has seen some recent improvement in getting large contracts approved by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),a process that had stalled over [...] | 2009-04-08 12:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS183 | NIGERIA: LPG EXEC DESCRIBES KEROSENE SMUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: During an April 6 conversation about the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market in Nigeria, the managing director of a large Nigerian LPG company said downstream petroleum distributors are exploiting Nigeria's kerosene subsidy by arbitraging the price difference between household ke [...] | 2009-04-09 15:25:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EAIR PGOV NI |
09LAGOS23 | NIGERIA: EXXON CONTRACTED SUPPLY BOATS ATTACKED [...] (SBU) Summary: In two separate incidents on January 12 armed men boarded oil rig supply vessels contracted to support ExxonMobil's operations near offshore Akwa Ibom State. In one incident crew members were roughed up and personal effects stolen. The attackers were unable to gain access to [...] | 2009-01-15 10:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PINS PGOV NI |
09LAGOS24 | NIGERIA: ELECTRICITY REGULATOR DEVELOPING POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 17, the head on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC),Dr. Ransome Owan said that NERC is developing a memorandum of understanding for use by state governments and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to permit states to keep some of the power [...] | 2009-01-16 08:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV EFIN PGOV NI |
09LAGOS262 | NIGERIA: POSSIBLE ATTACK ON CHEVRON FLOWSTATION [...] (C) Chevron Nigeria's Government and Community Affairs Manager, Femi Odumabo, confirmed that Chevron's Utonana flowstation in Delta State was closed because of a fire caused by an explosion near the facility on June 9. The company has publicly acknowledged a fire at the flowstation, but not t [...] | 2009-06-11 16:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS271 | NIGERIA: CHINESE OIL FIRM BUYS ADDAX PETROLEUM [...] (SBU) Chinese oil company Sinopec has agreed to purchase Addax Petroleum for $7.2 billion. The deal was announced on June 24 after several weeks of press and industry speculation that Addax was seeking a buyer. Contacts at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation confirmed that Sinopec an [...] | 2009-06-29 15:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL NI |
09LAGOS281 | NIGERIA: KEY CHEVRON FLOWSTATION ATTACKED; OIL [...] (C) Chevron's Okan flowstation located 7 miles offshore of Delta State was attacked on the evening of July 5. Okan is a key node in Chevron's near offshore oilfields, connecting those fields to the Escravos export terminal onshore as well as connecting the Escravos terminal to the offshore exp [...] | 2009-07-07 12:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS287 | NIGERIAN OIL PRODUCTION: HOW BAD IS BAD? [...] (C/NF) Summary: Press reports and rumors abound that due to recent militant attacks in Delta State, Nigeria's oil production has fallen to 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) and maybe lower, down from recent production levels that hovered between 1.8 million and 2 million bpd. After reviewin [...] | 2009-07-09 13:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS311 | NIGERIA: CHEVRON EXEC SAYS GON WARNED OF ATTACK IN [...] (C) Summary: Chevron Nigeria's government and corporate affairs manager Femi Odumabo told Energyoff on July 16 that traditional rulers and local residents from kingdoms in Delta State had warned Chevron, the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS),and military's Joint Task Force (JTF),that Tom [...] | 2009-07-21 13:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC NI |
09LAGOS317 | NIGERIA; MEND REPEATS THREATS TO LAGOS FACILITIES [...] (SBU) On July 22, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta spokesman "Jomo Gbomo" stated in an on-line interview that MEND would resume its campaign against oil facilities if the GON tried to repair damaged pipelines or failed to meet the groups demands. In the interview, the Nigeria [...] | 2009-07-24 14:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS MOPS ENRG NI |
09LAGOS33 | NIGERIA: NEW STATE OIL CHIEF APPOINTED IN SURPRISE [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise announcement on January 13, Mohammed Barkindo replaced Abubakar Yar'Adua as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Barkindo is a close associate and protg of recently appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources Rilwanu Lukma [...] | 2009-01-26 09:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS373 | NIGERIA: CHINA AND INDIA VIE FOR IOC LEASES [...] (U) China has made a bid for 23 offshore oil leases in the Niger Delta, according to a September 29 press report. The blocks "bid" on by the Chinese are currently held by the International Oil Companies (IOCs) and some of the blocks are producing oil. China has reportedly bid up to USD 50 bil [...] | 2009-10-03 13:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG NI PREL |
09LAGOS377 | NIGERIAN GREEN GOVERNORS SIGN CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Governors Babtunde Fashola and Emmanuel Uduaghan of Lagos and Delta states, respectively, have agreed with global counterparts to work together to promote clean transportation, support national climate change legislation, include forests in climate policy development, and recognize the ro [...] | 2009-10-06 18:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV ENRG PREL PGOV NI |
09LAGOS39 | NIGERIA: AES, GON IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: International arbitration over a tax exemption dispute between U.S.-based AES Corporation and the Government of Nigeria is ongoing with hearings scheduled for the end of 2009 and settlement expected in early 2010. AES has drawn USD 40 million under the GON's USD 60 million lette [...] | 2009-01-28 11:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV EFIN PGOV NI |
09LAGOS397 | NIGERIAN POWER PROJECTS SHOW PROMISE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Various types of electrical power projects that derive power from coal, gas and even waste sludge are appearing in Nigeria. However, regulations make it difficult to finance such projects, and the diesel generator cartel presents a formidable obstacle to true change. END SUMMAR [...] | 2009-10-23 07:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV NI |
09LAGOS408 | (C) CHEVRON MD DISCUSSES THE STATUS OF THE [...] (C) Chevron MD in Nigeria told Lagos officers that the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill represents "democracy" for more players but doubts it will lead to "good governance." He sees the bill becoming law this year. Key concerns for Chevron are ensuring "contract sanctity" and managing the se [...] | 2009-11-02 14:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ETRD PGOV NI |
09LAGOS444 | (C) EXXONMOBIL MD MORE HOPEFUL ON PETROLEUM BILL [...] (C) ExxonMobil Nigeria Managing Director (MD) met with the Ambassador on November 9 to discuss the status of the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and touch on other sectoral developments. The MD is "cautiously optimistic" for a better bill, given that Nigeria's President and Vice Presi [...] | 2009-11-20 14:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ETRD PGOV NI |
09LAGOS53 | NIGERIA: ELECTRICITY EXEC SEES NO LARGE INCREASE [...] (SBU) Summary: The former country manager for GE Nigeria expects that due to a lack of domestic natural gas, Nigeria will see no significant increase in power generation in 2009. In a January 27 conversation, Ade Audifferen said the GON is focusing on transmission projects in the 2009 budget, [...] | 2009-02-05 07:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL NI |
09LAGOS65 | NIGERIA: QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT OF SOUTHERN POWER [...] (U) To better understand the myriad of rumored, proposed, planned, and current power projects in southern Nigeria, Post has compiled a list of known independent power projects (IPPs) in the South-South, South-East, and South-West and their status of as 1 February 2009. A list of GON-financed [...] | 2009-02-11 12:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON EINV PGOV NI |
09LAGOS70 | NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS KOREAN COMPANY OIL BLOCKS [...] (C) Summary: The GON announced on January 20 that it will revoke exploration rights to two deep water oil blocks awarded to a South Korean consortium led by the Korean National Oil Company (KNOC). The Korean group has threatened legal and diplomatic action. The blocks were awarded in 2005 a [...] | 2009-02-13 06:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL KS NI |
09LAGOS72 | PETROBRAS EXEC SAYS NIGERIA PRODUCING BELOW ITS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 06:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL BR NI |
09LAGOS85 | PETROBRAS EXEC SAYS NIGERIA PRODUCING BELOW ITS [...] (C) Summary: The head of Petrobras Nigeria said on February 9 that Nigeria is producing 80,000 barrels of oil per day less than its current OPEC quota. He expected the Total-led Akpo project, in which Petrobras has a 40 percent stake, to come on stream before April 1. Once Akpo comes on str [...] | 2009-02-25 15:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL BR NI |
09LAHORE164 | POWER IN PUNJAB: LIMITED OPTIONS FOR ADDING SUPPLY, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Punjab provincial government is increasingly concerned about persistent rolling blackouts, but has few options to respond to the electricity crisis. In a July 28 meeting with A/PO, son of the Chief Minister and Member of the Provincial Assembly, Hamza Sharif, acknowledged t [...] | 2009-08-08 10:24:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ECIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
09LAPAZ1233 | BOLIVIA: BRAZIL'S LULA BACKS MORALES FOR [...] (C) Summary: At an open-air event August 22 in one of Bolivia's principal coca-growing regions, Brazilian President Lula da Silva delivered a public endorsement of Bolivian President Evo Morales, reflecting Brazil's conclusion that Morales' re-election is all but inevitable. Lula and Morales [...] | 2009-08-26 21:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD ENRG PINR BR BL |
09LAPAZ127 | BOLIVIAN GAS: LOWER SALES MAY HURT MORALES [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Evo Morales called in favors the first weeks of January, after Brazil announced it would cut its demand for natural gas by one-third (a potential loss of $600 million for Bolivia in the first four months of 2009). Morales sent delegations to both Brazil and Argentina in a [...] | 2009-01-28 19:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR |
09LAPAZ382 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW PROGRAM 2009 BOLIVIA [...] The La Paz Prefecture (state government) in Bolivia has been dramatically impacted by the effects of climate change. The La Paz prefect (governor) is anxious to investigate the causes of these problems, work towards finding solutions, and integrate best practices into his water projects. In th [...] | 2009-03-11 18:53:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER |
09LAPAZ412 | BOLIVIAN CORRUPTION: MORE SCANDALS LIKELY [...] (C) As the Bolivian state extends its participation in the economy well beyond its capacity, corruption scandals are likely to surface across any number of the poorly managed and highly politicized state enterprises. The state hydrocarbon company (YPFB) is far and away the largest of these c [...] | 2009-03-17 18:16:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR |
09LAPAZ472 | GAS SCANDAL TOUCHES TARIJA AND SQUEEZES OPPOSITION [...] (C) As corruption scandals swirl around President Morales and his administration, corruption may also provide a mechanism for a power-grab in the southern, gas-producing state of Tarija. Ironically, the same company, Catler-Uniservice, that was presumably making the payoff to Santos Ramirez [...] | 2009-03-27 12:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR |
09LAPAZ522 | BOLIVIAN GAS: ACTIVITY RETURNS TO THE GAS FIELDS [...] (C) Despite the controversy surrounding Santos Ramirez's tenure as head of Bolivia's state hydrocarbon company (YPFB),he was able to clarify partially the operating environment for the major players in the Bolivian gas sector. As a result, activity has returned to many fields. That said, [...] | 2009-04-06 15:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR |
09LAPAZ586 | BOLIVIA: ENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE [...] (U) Econoff spoke with both General Director of Multilateral Affairs in the Foreign Ministry Cecilia Chacon and General Director on Climate Change Issues Jaime Villanueva on April 15. Chacon will attend the Summit of the Americas (SOA) as the Multilateral Representative. Villanueva has previou [...] | 2009-04-15 22:21:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KSUM ECON ENRG SENV BL KGHG |
09LAPAZ968 | BOLIVIAN GAS: PURGATORY [...] (C) Over the past three years investments in the Bolivian gas fields have been minimal; this is changing, as companies have begun to make significant investments to guarantee enough gas for both domestic demand and exports to Brazil (with any excess going to Argentina). Moments of optimism [...] | 2009-06-30 14:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR |
09LIBREVILLE504 | GABON: U.S. OIL COMPANY SELLS ASSETS DUE TO OIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 09:07:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EIND TPHY GB |
09LIBREVILLE506 | GABON: U.S. OIL COMPANY SELLS ASSETS DUE TO OIL [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S.-owned Marathon Oil sold its permits and holdings in Gabon to a French company, but will continue to monitor its exploration of offshore blocks from Houston. This move effectively discontinues Marathon's active operations on-the-ground. Another U.S. company, Vaalco, remai [...] | 2009-11-17 12:45:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EIND TPHY GB |
09LILONGWE268 | MALAWI MCC CONCEPT PAPERS GENERATE PRIVATE SECTOR [...] Summary: Malawi's recently submitted proposals for a potential Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact generated considerable private sector interest at a May 7 forum. The forum included a presentation on the concept papers recently submitted by the MCA-Malawi Core Team (MCA-M). Malawi i [...] | 2009-05-19 09:35:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG ELTN MCC MI |
09LILONGWE552 | MALAWI URANIUM EXPORTS BEGIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Australian mining firm Paladin Africa made its first shipment of yellowcake from the firm's northern Malawi mine in September. Paladin ships its uranium overland through Malawi, Zambia and Namibia to the Atlantic Port of Walvis Bay. Paladin sells on one-year contracts, with [...] | 2009-10-08 07:04:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON ELTN ENRG KNNP MI |
09LILONGWE688 | MALAWI RE-EXAMINES ELECTRICITY CONNECTION WITH [...] (SBU) Malawi's Parliament deferred approval of a proposed connection of the national electrical grid to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). An already approved World Bank loan to finance the infrastructure is due to expire on December 31, 2009. Lack of reliable electrical power has been [...] | 2009-12-21 13:12:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG PREL MI |
09LIMA1794 | PERU UNFAMILIAR WITH ANGARSK NUCLEAR FUEL BANK PROPOSAL BUT [...] (SBU) Econoffs met on November 20 with Minister Counselor Vitaliano Gallardo and First Secretary Juan Pablo GUERRERO Espinoza of the International Security and Disarmament Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to call for IAEA board member support for the Angarsk fuel bank proposal. Both o [...] | 2009-11-20 23:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY PE |
09LIMA1934 | PERU PROPOSING 47 PERCENT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS AND [...] (SBU) The Ambassador delivered reftel A points to Minister of Environment Antonio BRACK Egg, who will lead the Peru delegation to Copenhagen (COP 15). Brack already seemed to be familiar with the USG position, and was supportive. 2. (SBU) Brack informed the Ambassador that Peru will [...] | 2009-12-10 21:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL KGHG PE |
09LIMA324 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT: PERU [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, post determines that the only infrastructure or resources in Peru that may qualify as critical foreign dependencies are some of Peru's key mines. Peru is among the top five producers in the world of silver, copper, zinc, tin, lead, molybdenum, and gold. According [...] | 2009-03-11 20:13:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KCIP EMIN PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG PE |
09LISBON138 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 PORTUGAL [...] Embassy Lisbon requests Science Fellows for 2009/2010 to expand the Embassy's contacts with Portuguese counterparts and develop relationships and collaboration with research institutions. While all applications are welcome, Post is particularly seeking specialists in renewable energy sources, [...] | 2009-03-06 16:26:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER PGOV |
09LISBON30 | PORTUGAL INFORMED OF U.S. RATIFICATION OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 15:44:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KTIA AORC IAEA ENRG PREL TRGY PO |
09LISBON316 | PORTUGAL ON U.S. JOINING THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV PREL PO |
09LISBON32 | PORTUGAL SUPPORTS THE INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE [...] (U) Portugal plans to sign on as a founding member of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at its launch in Bonn on January 26 and 27. Portugal's delegation will include Jose Manuel Perdigoto, head of the Directorate of Energy and Geology (DGEG),DGEG deputy Bento Morais Sarmento [...] | 2009-01-15 16:59:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG SENV ENRG PGOV EUN GM PO |
09LISBON396 | U.S. SIGNS THE INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 07:32:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV PO |
09LISBON428 | PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON RECENT CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS [...] (C/NF) Portuguese Ministry of Environment climate change contacts Nuno Lacasta and Fausto Brito e Abreu welcome increased U.S. engagement in climate change talks and stress the urgent need for an agreement at Copenhagen in December 2009. The two accept that a prospective agreement, which th [...] | 2009-08-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG KGCC SENV PREL PO |
09LISBON602 | PORTUGAL ON U.S. EMISSIONS PROPOSAL, COPENHAGEN [...] (C/NF) Poleconoff met with Fausto Brito e Abreu of the Portuguese Ministry of Environment on November 26, following President Obama's announcement of U.S. emissions reductions targets the U.S. will offer at Copenhagen. Brito e Abreu described the U.S. targets as "minimal," as they are based o [...] | 2009-12-02 11:42:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG KGCC SENV PREL PO |
09LISBON77 | PORTUGUAL: CONTACTS FOR NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 11:28:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL IAEA PO |
09LISBON90 | PORTUGAL BACKS IRENA, IBERIA LNG AND RENEWABLES [...] (C/NF) Portugal views the recent meeting of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as a success and hopes the US and other large nations will join the new body. In the wake of last month's European natural gas supply disruptions the GOP continues to promote the Iberian peninsula a [...] | 2009-02-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG KGHG TRGY PO |
09LJUBLJANA10 | SLOVENE PM ADAMANT THAT CROATIA MUST COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Borut Pahor told the Ambassador January 8 that Slovenia would block Croatia's EU accession negotiations again in February if Zagreb does not demonstrate the will to resolve the issue of the allegedly prejudicial documents submitted by Croatia as part of the accessi [...] | 2009-01-09 17:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG NATO EUN HR SI |
09LJUBLJANA16 | DAS GARBER CEMENTS TIES WITH NEW SLOVENIAN [...] (C) During a visit to Ljubljana on January 14, visiting EUR DAS Judy Garber assured Slovenian officials that the USG would continue to pursue a strong transatlantic partnership. She noted that the U.S. had coordinated closely with its G-20 partners to respond to the global financial crisis and [...] | 2009-01-20 09:09:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PGOV ECON ENRG SI |
09LJUBLJANA171 | SLOVENIA NOT ATTENDING IRENA IN CAIRO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 06:19:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV SI |
09LJUBLJANA181 | SLOVENIAN ECONOMY KEEPS ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER, BUT [...] (SBU) Slovenia,s economy continues to be in a slump, but leaders disagree about just how bad the economy is. Prime Minister Pahor was quoted in an newspaper interview on June 27 saying: "the global economic crisis will be longer and deeper than originally expected. We're witnessing the bigge [...] | 2009-07-06 05:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG ETTC SI |
09LJUBLJANA226 | SLOVENIA HOSTS DISCUSSION OF REGIONAL ENERGY [...] (U) Janez Kopac, director for energy in Slovenia's Ministry of Economy, hosted on May 14 embassy and business representatives from Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Austria, and Hungary to discuss possible energy projects in the region. The European Commission (EC) also participated, and U.S. emboff o [...] | 2009-07-31 06:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC ECON EUN SI |
09LJUBLJANA237 | SLOVENIA: SECOND NUCLEAR PLANT MAY BE DELAYED [...] (SBU) During the Charge d'Affaire's (CDA) July 23 visit to Krsko, the site of Slovenia's only nuclear power plant, which it shares with Croatia, Post learned of changes to the Slovenian energy industry that may postpone the timeline for a second nuclear power plant in Slovenia. This was disap [...] | 2009-08-03 15:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP EINV SI |
09LJUBLJANA238 | SLOVENIA: READY TO ALLOW TRANSIT OF SERB NUCLEAR [...] (C) On July 22nd Post accompanied officials from Department of Energy (DoE),International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),and Vinca Nuclear Institute (VNI) in Belgrade, Serbia to the initial discussions with officials from the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior regarding transport of nuclear mat [...] | 2009-08-03 15:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP SI |
09LJUBLJANA249 | SLOVENIA: STRONG GOS SUPPORT FOR U.S. FIRM ASPECT [...] (SBU) Aspect Energy, an American clean energy company, wants to do business in Slovenia exploring for natural gas in the northeastern part of the country. The Government of Slovenia recognizes that a discovery of natural gas will benefit Slovenia greatly by strengthening its energy security a [...] | 2009-08-14 09:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV SI |
09LJUBLJANA3 | GAZPROM HALTS DELIVERIES, BUT SLOVENES REMAIN [...] (C) Gazprom completely closed down gas supplies to Slovenia at midnight on January 6, saying deliveries will not resume for at least 24 hours. Slovenia receives about 55% of its gas from Russia. The country has reserves for 30 to 45 days stored in Austria, but Government officials are concer [...] | 2009-01-07 19:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV SI |
09LJUBLJANA301 | SLOVENIA: U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAM A [...] (SBU) On September 25, Pol/Econ Chief met Andrej Kranjc, Head of the Climate Protection Department in the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning to present reftel talking points. Kranjc acknowledged that the U.S. program represented a significant change from that of the previous U.S. [...] | 2009-09-25 15:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY |
09LJUBLJANA303 | RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] On September 22, Emboff met with Mr. Hinko Solinc, head of the Department of Efficient Energy Use and Use of Renewable Energy Sources within the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment. Slovenia is highly committed to renewable energy. Its target is for 25% of its energy consumption to come from [...] | 2009-09-29 08:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON SI |
09LJUBLJANA68 | ECON MINISTER TALKS ABOUT FINANCIAL CRISIS, U.S. [...] (C) CDA discussed with Slovenian Minister of Economy Matej Lahovnik on March 11 the Global Economic Crisis, Slovenia's economic position, and opportunities for U.S. investments in Slovenia. CDA urged Slovenia, as part of the EU, to address the financial vulnerabilities in Central and Eastern Eu [...] | 2009-03-13 17:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PINR PREL SI |
09LONDON1371 | UK SUPPORTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR FUEL BANK [...] (C/NF) In response to reftel demarche, Jon Knight (strictly protect) at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Emboffs on June 9 the UK Government supports discussing the nuclear fuel bank concept at the June 15-18, 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors m [...] | 2009-06-10 16:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA UK |
09LONDON139 | USG AND MEXICAN DELEGATIONS DISCUSS AREAS FOR [...] (C) Summary. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Kupfer and Mexican Deputy Secretary of Energy Mario Gabriel and their accompanying delegations discussed reforms in Mexico's oil sector, areas of potential collaboration, and progress on renewable energy strategies on December 19 on the mar [...] | 2009-01-20 16:25:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV UK |
09LONDON1429 | UK PLANS TO JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE [...] (C/NF) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Officials Terry Carrington and John Hoskyns told ESTHOff on June 12 the UK plans to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA),but has not yet announced this intention publicly. Carrington elab [...] | 2009-06-17 13:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG KGHG SENV UK |
09LONDON1514 | UK RAMPING UP ON NUCLEAR POWER, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C/NF) Summary. HMG is making steady progress in launching its ambitious plan to build eleven new nuclear power plants between 2018-2025. The UK will need to address several challenges, including workforce issues, nuclear waste, planning procedures, reactor design, and site assessment proced [...] | 2009-06-30 11:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG TRGY SENV KNNP UK |
09LONDON1605 | EMBASSY LONDON AND THE "NEXT BIG THING" ON CLEAN [...] (U) Summary: Embassy London will propose septel a major U.S./UK initiative to accelerate technical progress on climate change and clean energy technologies. We will outline a strategy to quickly build on U.S./UK cooperation to achieve economically viable technical solutions in the near to m [...] | 2009-07-10 12:54:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ENRG KGHG KPAO SENV UK |
09LONDON1761 | THE ROAD TO 2010: HMG'S STRATEGY FOR THE NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. On July 16, the Cabinet Office released a 52-page document entitled "The Road to 2010 - Addressing the Nuclear Question in the Twenty First Century," which charts the UK's road map to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in April-May 2010. The document (f [...] | 2009-07-31 14:46:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC ENRG IR KNNP MNUC MOPS PARM PGOV PREL |
09LONDON202 | UK EXPECTATIONS FOR JANUARY GAERC: GAZA AND [...] (C) Summary. The UK expects next steps in bolstering the peace in Gaza and how to strengthen EU energy security to dominate the January 26-27 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) Meeting, according to Paul Williams, the Foreign Office EU Correspondent, who spoke with Poloff [...] | 2009-01-23 12:01:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV EUN AF ZI BO UK |
09LONDON217 | AGREEMENT TO LAUNCH THE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. Energy Ministers (or representatives) from major energy consuming countries (G8, Brazil, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, and Mexico),along with the European Union (EU) and International Energy Agency (IEA) agreed on December 18, 2008 to launch the [...] | 2009-01-26 12:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV PREL UK |
09LONDON219 | ITALY PRESENTS ENERGY PRIORITIES FOR ITS G8 [...] (SBU) On the margins of the UK-hosted December Energy Ministerial, on December 18, the Government of Italy discussed with other G8 governments its energy policy priorities for its upcoming 2009 G8 Presidency. Sergio Garriba, Advisor to the Minister of Economic Development, outlined the main t [...] | 2009-01-26 14:19:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV UK |
09LONDON2230 | CASPIAN ENERGY: UK TELLS AMB MORNINGSTAR THEY ARE [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ambassador Richard Morningstar, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy, and UK government and private officials agreed on the need for continued engagement with Caspian governments on energy issues, while encouraging Europe to increase both its outreach to the region and intern [...] | 2009-09-28 11:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON UK |
09LONDON227 | DECEMBER ENERGY MINISTERIAL IN LONDON [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministers and high-ranking officials from 27 countries, leading international energy and financial institutions, pledged to work together to reduce oil price volatility, at the HMG-hosted London Energy Meeting on December 19 in London. Participants agreed that the recent pric [...] | 2009-01-26 17:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV UK |
09LONDON229 | BRITISH LONG VIEW ON CASPIAN GAS: BALL IS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary: HMG officials are working with Brussels and other Member States to leverage the Ukraine-Russian gas crisis into an ambitious program to address Europe's deficient internal energy market. While the UK is hopeful of success in the March European Council - which will focus in par [...] | 2009-01-26 18:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET UK |
09LONDON2492 | CONSERVATIVE PARTY PLANS TO ABOLISH THE UK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 12:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG UK |
09LONDON2616 | UK-HOSTED P5 CONFERENCE ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 17:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC PGOV PREL MNUC IAEA NPT UNGA ENRG |
09LONDON2617 | UK-HOSTED P5 CONFERENCE ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 17:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC PGOV PREL MNUC IAEA NPT UNGA ENRG |
09LONDON2622 | UK-HOSTED P5 CONFERENCE ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING [...] (SBU/NF) Summary and Introduction: The United Kingdom (UK) hosted a conference of P5 states on 3-4 September 2009 to discuss confidence building measures (CBMs) on nuclear disarmament and associated non-proliferation issues. The conference originated in a proposal made by then Defence Secre [...] | 2009-11-20 17:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC PGOV PREL MNUC IAEA NPT UNGA ENRG |
09LONDON2635 | (C/NF) UK SUPPORTS U.S.-PROPOSED THIRD SUBSIDIARY BODY AT 2010 NPT REVCON REF: SECSTATE 119753 [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UK can support "from top to bottom" the U.S. proposal for the re-establishment of a subsidiary body to deal with Article X at the 2010 NPT Review Conference. According to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),France and Germany also support the creation of such a subsidiar [...] | 2009-11-24 14:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA CDG NPT |
09LONDON268 | UK STRESSES FUNDING FOR ADAPTATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary. UK Minister of Climate Change Joan Ruddock (Department of Energy and Climate Change) has called for the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to make as a priority increased funding for adaptation and deforestation to help developing countries address climate chan [...] | 2009-01-29 17:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV KGHG UK |
09LONDON32 | UK UNDECIDED ON JOINING THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK is still undecided whether it will join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) but expects to make a decision by January 12. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC),Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO),and HM Treasury are the three decision-makers, but [...] | 2009-01-06 12:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SENV KGHG ENRG PGOV EUN UK |
09LONDON422 | UK SEEKS INPUT ON RESULTS FOR MULTILATERAL FUEL [...] (U) This is an action request for the State Department. Please see para 3. 2. (C/NF) Summary. Two officials from the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) shared on February 12 with Emboffs the HMG's status in planning a Multilateral Fuel Assurances Conference on March 17-18 in London, echoin [...] | 2009-02-18 12:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG ETTC IAEA KNNP TRGY UK |
09LONDON433 | HMG AWAITS WORD FROM QSCOW AND BEIJING ON PLANNED [...] (C) Summary. The UK continues planning to host a two day conference in September 2009 titled "P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) Towards Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament." According to HMG officials, neither Russia nor China have endorsed the proposed conference. Foreign [...] | 2009-02-19 11:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV QEL UNGA UK |
09LONDON444 | "LIFTING THE NUCLEAR SHADOW:" HMG WANTS TO [...] (C/NF) Summary. In the lead up to the April-May 2010 NPT Review Conference (RevCon),HMG will seek to cooperate closely with the U.S. at both the policy and experts level and will welcome United States leadership to reinvigorate the NPT (ref A). HMG seeks a reenergized and reinforced global [...] | 2009-02-19 16:25:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IR UK |
09LONDON540 | NUCLEAR FUELS: HMG SEEKS INPUT ON THEMES, [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C/NF) Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials highlighted the overall goal of building multilateral trust and cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy in a February 26 planning meeting for the UK March 17-18 Nuclear Fuels Conferen [...] | 2009-03-02 10:31:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG TRGY KNNP UK |
09LONDON584 | UK RECEPTIVE TO DEMARCHE CONCERNING IRANIAN [...] (S) Our (USG) demarche contains "a persuasive message" to share with Namibia and HMG "should be willing" to remind the Namibian government and Rio Tinto about UNSCR 1737 prohibitions on the sale or transfer of uranium to Iran, Simon Mustard, the Head of Regional Issues in the Foreign and Commo [...] | 2009-03-05 17:18:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EMIN ENRG ETTC IR KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY UK WA |
09LONDON707 | PM BROWN PRESSES FOR SAFE NUCLEAR POWER, COMPLIANT [...] (C/NF) Summary. PM Brown affirmed in his March 17 International Nuclear Fuels Conference keynote speech the UK's commitment to a reduction in its nuclear arsenal, eventual global nuclear disarmament, and the use of nuclear power to meet its energy security needs. PM Brown said Iran could be [...] | 2009-03-23 10:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC ENRG KNNP TRGY IAEA IR UK |
09LONDON785 | UK: INFO ON GREEN INVESTMENTS [...] SUMMARY: The UK has announced it will spend $760 million (535 million BPS) over two fiscal years (2008/9, 2009/10) on environmental aspects of a financial stimulus package. This is 18% of their complete fiscal stimulus package. Additional UK green stimulus measures will not be known until the [...] | 2009-03-31 11:28:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN SENV ENRG KGHG UK |
09LONDON993 | UK REBUFFS ARGENTINE CLAIM TO SEABED RIGHTS AROUND [...] (SBU) Summary. HMG will contest Argentina's claim for sovereign rights (including oil and mineral rights) to seabed surrounding Britain's South Atlantic Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands. Great Britain will submit its own claim for seabed rights for its South Atlantic te [...] | 2009-04-27 17:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EMIN ECON PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AR |
09LUANDA11 | ANGOLA HAS NO CIVIL NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (U) This cable is in response to Department requests for information on in-country developments regarding civil nuclear energy in reftel. 2. (U) SUMMARY and COMMENT: Angola has no existing civil nuclear industry, but GRA officials have stated a desire to pursue nuclear energy for power gene [...] | 2009-01-08 15:54:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED | AO BEXP BTIO EMIN ENIV ENRG PGOV PREL |
09LUSAKA103 | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY -- Inflation Declines Slightly -- Zambian Government (GRZ) Shuts Down Chinese Coal Mine -- Luanshya Copper Mines Investors Suspend Zambia Operations -- Zambia-China Economic Sub-Zone Launched in Lusaka -- Competition in Banking Sector Intensifies -- Patriotic Front Expels "Rebel" [...] | 2009-02-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EMIN ENRG EINV ECON PGOV ZA |
09LUSAKA29 | ZAMBIA DECEMBER 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Continues to Rise -- GRZ Sells Subsidized Maize -- Mining Operations Scale Back -- Financial Markets Continue Decline -- COMESA Customs Union Delayed Inflation Continues to Rise 2. According to the Central Statistical Office (CSO),year-on-year inflation rate rose [...] | 2009-01-15 06:21:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EMIN ENRG EINV ECON ZA |
09LUSAKA312 | NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR CONFERENCE: WILL COMMITMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Following a tripartite summit in October 2008, and as part of a pilot Aid for Trade initiative, three regional economic communities (RECs) - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA),East African Community (EAC),and Southern African Development Community (SADC) - [...] | 2009-05-07 13:43:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ELTN ENRG ETRD WTO XA ZA |
09LUSAKA338 | ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY -- Zambia's Inflation Rate Rises -- Chinese Mining Firm Takes Over Operations At Luanshya -- Zambian Airways Debt Position Before It Went Insolvent -- Counterfeit U.S. Dollars Hit the Zambian Market -- Mines Retrench More workers -- GRZ To Issue Oil Exploration Licenses -- Zambia Cel [...] | 2009-05-19 07:27:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETRD EMIN EINV ELAB ECON ZA |
09LUSAKA493 | ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY -- June Inflation Rate Declines Marginally -- GRZ Invites Bids For Oil and Gas Exploration -- Munali Nickel Mine Resumes Operations -- Zambezi Airlines Acquires Two Boeing Aircraft -- Horticultural Sector Performance Falls -- GRZ Reviews First National Development Plan June Inflati [...] | 2009-07-14 12:46:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD EMIN EINV ELAB ECON ZA |
09LUSAKA614 | AUGUST ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY -- August Inflation Increases, Trade Surplus Continues to Rise -- South African Dairy Company Invests In Zambia -- GRZ To Single-Source Indeni Strategic Partner -- NFCA to Invest in Luanshya Copper Mines Infrastructure -- Chinese Food Imports Destroyed At Chirundu Border Post August [...] | 2009-09-02 05:04:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETRD EMIN EINV ELAB ECON ZA |
09LUSAKA799 | OCTOBER ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY -- October Inflation Rate Continues To Decline -- Eight Firms Interested in Gas Fields In Zambia -- China's Chambishi Copper Smelter Commissioned -- Acute Fuel Shortages Disrupt production -- GRZ Announces Sale Of Zamtel Shares October Inflation Rate Continues To Decline  [...] | 2009-11-16 06:38:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETRD EMIN EINV ELAB ECON ZA |
09LUXEMBOURG304 | LUXEMBOURG: DISGRUNTLED WORKERS DISRUPT PARLIAMENT [...] SUMMARY Disgruntled laborers in Luxembourg's gas and electricity sector deliberately sabotaged the city's power sources on October 14-15, disrupting a session of Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies (National Parliament). The employees responsible appear to have been acting in response to legis [...] | 2009-10-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ENRG PGOV SOCI LU |
09MADRID1015 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, OCTOBER 5-16 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-16 14:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND ENRG SP |
09MADRID1061 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, OCTOBER 26-30 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG KGHG SP |
09MADRID1115 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, NOVEMBER 16-20 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 16:22:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN EIND EINV ENRG KIPR PGOV SP |
09MADRID1136 | SPAIN INTENDS TO CO-SPONSOR IAEA RESOLUTION ON [...] (SBU) POLOFF on November 25 delivered REF demarche to Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament within the MFA's DG for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism, who stated that Spain intends to co-sponsor Russia's resolution on the establishment of a nuclear fuel reserve a [...] | 2009-11-27 07:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SP |
09MADRID1155 | ISA: REPORTED REPSOL (SPAIN) VENTURES IN IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 18:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG EPET ETTC IR SP |
09MADRID1165 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EINV SP |
09MADRID1196 | SPAIN: MFA SHARES VIEWS ON RUN-UP TO NPT REVCON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a candid bilateral meeting on preparations for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon),Spanish MFA non-proliferation officials appeared well disposed to cooperate with the USG regarding the RevCon and explicitly asked how Spain, as rotating EU Pr [...] | 2009-12-18 11:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL IAEA |
09MADRID1210 | SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S MADRID ENERGY SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 16:08:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG EU RU SP UK |
09MADRID1214 | SPAIN ECONOMIC ROUNDUP, DEC. 7-24 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-24 11:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG SP |
09MADRID1367 | MADRID ECONOMIC BIWEEKLY, DEC 22-JAN 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-02 12:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG KGHG KIPR SP |
09MADRID14 | MADRID ECONOMIC BIWEEKLY, DEC 22-JAN 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG KGHG KIPR SP |
09MADRID171 | GOS SEEKS TO PROMOTE ELECTRIC VEHICLES, WOULD WELCOME USG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 17:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG PREL SENV SP |
09MADRID172 | GOS SEEKS TO PROMOTE ELECTRIC VEHICLES, WOULD WELCOME USG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 17:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG PREL SENV SP |
09MADRID179 | SPAIN PROVIDES ITS VIEWS, PRIORITIES ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Carlos Torres, MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, on February 13 replied to Post's faxed list of questions from Reftel A, paragraph 8, with more than two typed pages of answers. He noted that the GOS answers had been cleared by MFA Special [...] | 2009-02-20 07:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MADRID220 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, FEB. 23-27 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-28 15:08:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN EIND EINV ENRG ETRD SP |
09MADRID26 | SPAIN: MFA INFORMED OF RATIFICATION OF U.S.-IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-12 09:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09MADRID266 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MARCH 9-14 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-13 23:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ENRG EPET SP |
09MADRID29 | SPAIN: MFA EXPLAINS ITS STANCE ON DRAFT PARAGRAPH [...] (C) POLOFF met on January 8 with Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the MFA,s DG for Strategic Affairs & Terrorism. Torres raised the issue of Spain's ongoing reservations about revisions to the Nuclear Supplier Group's (NSG's) Guidelines for Transfers of Enri [...] | 2009-01-12 11:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PARM SP TRGY ENRG ETTC FR |
09MADRID434 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, APRIL 27-30 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 06:39:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG SP |
09MADRID446 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 2-8 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 15:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG SP |
09MADRID469 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 11-14 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG KIPR SP |
09MADRID542 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 25-JUNE 5 [...] (U) The Venezuelan government agreed May 22 to pay Banco Santander $1.05 billion (755 million euros) for the Santander-owned Banco de Venezuela. The price is 110 million euros less than the amount Santander had sought from the GOV, which was the same as the price it had agreed upon last year [...] | 2009-06-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG PBTS SP PREL |
09MADRID571 | ZAPATERO FACES CONTROVERSIAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO SP |
09MADRID58 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JAN. 12-17 [...] (U) On January 16, the GOS announced revised projections for 2009 that included a 15.9 percent average unemployment rate and a GDP contraction of 1.6 percent. The projection for the GOS budget deficit in 2009 is 5.8 percent, almost double the EU Maastricht limit. According to Second Vice Pre [...] | 2009-01-16 16:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND ENRG SP |
09MADRID583 | IRENA - SPAIN SUPPORTS UAE BID FOR HQ, SEEKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 07:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO SP |
09MADRID591 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JUNE 15-19 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 16:25:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ENRG SP |
09MADRID615 | SPAIN: MFA POC DOWNBEAT ON ODDS OF SUPPORTING IAEA [...] (C) Post's primary MFA contact on non-proliferation issues has sounded a pessimistic note on the likelihood that Spain will support a significant real increase in the IAEA regular budget for 2010-2011, as proposed in Reftel. All of Post's MFA non-proliferation contacts undertook extensive fore [...] | 2009-06-26 17:32:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP PREL UN SP |
09MADRID659 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JUNE 29-JULY 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 17:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB ENRG KFLU SP |
09MADRID688 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JULY 6-10 [...] (U) The IMF predicted on Wednesday that Spain,s economy will shrink 4% this year, a significant downward assessment from the previous forecast of -3%. The IMF also lowered its 2010 growth forecast for Spain to -.08%, making Spain the only country to have its 2010 forecast revised downward. T [...] | 2009-07-10 12:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EWWT SP |
09MADRID79 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JAN 19-23 [...] (U) Fourth quarter 2008 unemployment rose 2.6 points to 13.9 percent, the highest rate since 2000. The number of unemployed increased by 609,100 from the previous quarter and now is over 3.2 million. The 13.9 percent fourth quarter rate is a steep increase from the 8.6 percent rate from a yea [...] | 2009-01-23 16:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG ETRD SP |
09MADRID825 | SPAIN: POC'S IN MFA ON ARMS CONTROL AND [...] (SBU) As requested in Reftel, the following is a list of points of contact in the Spanish MFA on arms control and non-proliferation issues: Angel Lossada Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (the de facto Deputy Foreign Minister) Carmen Bujan Director General for Strat [...] | 2009-08-14 16:53:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MADRID901 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, AUG 31-SEPT 4 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-05 10:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB ENRG SP |
09MADRID902 | SPAIN'S ARMS CONTROL AND NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Zapatero publicly has pledged that the Obama Administration can count on the "full support" of Spain on arms control and non-proliferation policy. Spain is strongly committed to these goals and is active in multiple fora on these issues. During Spain's EU Presidency in [...] | 2009-09-08 05:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MADRID913 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, SEPT. 7-11 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-12 09:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ELAB ENRG KGHG SP |
09MADRID936 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 14-18 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 16:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ELAB ENRG EPET KIPR SP |
09MADRID957 | GOS SEEKS COMPARABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Post delivered reftel demarche on climate change to Deputy General Director for Mitigation and Technologies Eduardo Gonzalez and Senior Advisor for Mitigation and Technologies Sara Aagesen in the Ministry of the Environment, Rural, and Marine Affairs on September 22. They are pl [...] | 2009-09-25 12:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN SP |
09MADRID969 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 21-25 [...] The grant program has replaced earlier tax incentives for wind farms and covers 30% of the qualifying costs of investments. (ABC, 9/23; Treasury statement, 9/22; Iberdrola statement, 9/23) Santander's Brazilian Subsidiary Plans Big Share Offering 6.(U) The Brazilian subsidiary of Banco S [...] | 2009-09-28 06:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB ENRG SP |
09MADRID98 | SPAIN TAKING STEPS TO SAFEGUARD NUCLEAR MATERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cognizant of the threat posed to its nuclear industry by terrorists and determined to counter a spate of bad publicity from recent accidents at its nuclear facilities, the GOS is taking steps to ensure the security of its nuclear facilities. This cable provides a backdrop of past terro [...] | 2009-01-29 11:39:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR KNNP MNUC PARM SP PINS PTER KGIC ENRG |
09MADRID984 | SPAIN'S NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT SHERPA TRAVELS TO [...] (C) President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has named Deputy Foreign Minister Angel Lossada (Ref A) as Spain's Sherpa to the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) that President Obama will host in the Washington DC area during April 12-13, 2010 (Refs B-D). On October 8 Lossada will attend separate mee [...] | 2009-10-08 06:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PTER KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SP |
09MAJURO20 | ENERGY WOES IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS [...] SUMMARY: The immediate outlook for energy issues in the RMI remains gloomy. The status quo is fundamentally unsustainable, and thus far the political will to correct the problem has not been found. The energy problems act as a severe damper on any attempts to promote economic development [...] | 2009-03-13 02:38:00 | Embassy Majuro | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG PGOV RM |
09MALABO27 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA RAW, PAPER 4: THE BUSINESS OF CORRUPTION [...] (U) Triggered by changes underway in Washington D.C., upcoming personnel rotations in Embassy Malabo and animated by the recent attack on the capital, this is the fourth in a series of cables intended to update our perspective on Equatorial Guinea, and to provide a ground-level view of one of t [...] | 2009-03-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Malabo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV EPET ENRG KCOR PINR |
09MALABO47 | REPORTS OF DEATH OF EITI IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA GREATLY [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see para 13 below 2. (SBU) On May 19, we met with Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Coordinator (and Vice Minister of Economy) Francesca Tatchoup to discuss the state of play. From her perspective things are gener [...] | 2009-05-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Malabo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG KCOR EK PGOV PINR |
09MALABO48 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA RAW, PAPER 6: REFINING OUR APPROACH [...] (U) Triggered by changes underway in Washington D.C., upcoming personnel rotations in Embassy Malabo and animated by the recent attack on the capital, this is the final in a series of cables intended to update our perspective on Equatorial Guinea, and to provide a ground-level view of one of th [...] | 2009-05-21 17:29:00 | Embassy Malabo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PHSA ENRG EPET EK KCOR ECON SOCI |
09MANAGUA1009 | EL NINO EFFECT HURTING NICARAGUAN ECONOMY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-14 16:02:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAGR ETRD EINV USTR NU |
09MANAGUA1105 | NICARAGUA INTERESTED IN ATTENDING ENERGY AND CLIMATE MINISTERIAL OF THE AMERICAS [...] (SBU) On November 19, Econoffs met with Emilio Rappaccioli, Nicaragua's Minister of Energy and Mines (MEM),and delivered an invitation to attend the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas, April 15-16, 2010, in Washington, D.C. (Ref A). The Minister expressed interest in attending; h [...] | 2009-11-25 14:21:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV ECON NU EAGR KGHG KSUM |
09MANAGUA166 | NICARAGUA: CENTRAL AMERICA,S LARGEST WIND ENERGY PROJECT SET TO BEGIN OPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 6, Ambassador Callahan accompanied officials from the American-Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and the Federation of Nicaraguan Business Associations (COSEP) to visit the Amayo wind power project, which is expected to begin supplying the Nicaraguan electricity [...] | 2009-02-12 18:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV ECON SENV NU |
09MANAGUA284 | NICARAGUA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Embassy Managua reports three international submarine fiber optic telecommunication cables, two in the Caribbean and one in the Pacific, parallel to Nicaragua's coasts and within the country's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. They are the Americas Region Caribbea [...] | 2009-03-17 17:46:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG |
09MANAGUA404 | NICARAGUA: UNRESPONSIVE ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE AMERICAS [...] Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Relations (MINREX) desk officer for the Americas, Renee Morales. Morales promised to pass the information to her superiors, but gave no feedback on the substance of the proposed partnership. She was unaware of the final [...] | 2009-04-17 21:48:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV KSUM NU |
09MANAGUA889 | NICARAGUA - FEEDBACK ON ECPA AND RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] (U) Summary: Econoffs met recently with Vice Minister of Energy and Mines Lorena Lanza to encourage Nicaraguan participation in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) and to solicit feedback on the Americas Energy and Climate Symposium in Lima. Lanza generally agreed with U [...] | 2009-09-08 20:47:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ECON NU |
09MANAGUA947 | NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT CANCELS U.S. WIND ENERGY PROJECT [...] (C) On August 27, the Ministry of Energy and Mining (MEM) revoked the provisional license it issued to U.S. - Guatemalan - Nicaragua consortium AMAYO for the installation of wind turbines near the Costa Rican border. MEM announced that it had revoked the license because the consortium had beg [...] | 2009-09-29 19:07:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON NU |
09MANAMA101 | BAHRAIN: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 12:50:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP BA |
09MANAMA435 | BAHRAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON PEACE PROCESS, IRAQ, AND IRAN REF: MANAMA 409 Classified By: Ambassador Adam Ereli for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 14:50:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL ENRG IS IR RU BA |
09MANAMA52 | BAHRAIN: PROGRESS ON COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 13:26:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG PGOV BA |
09MANAMA642 | GENERAL PETRAEUS WITH KING HAMAD: IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an hour-long meeting on November 1 with CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus, Bahrain's King Hamad said Arab states need to do more to engage Iraq, discussed Afghanistan and the positive role India could play, urged action to stop Iran's nuclear program, and reviewed regional pla [...] | 2009-11-04 06:44:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR ENRG BA AF IZ IR NATO |
09MANAMA647 | GOB SEEKS USG GUIDANCE ON DEVELOPING NUCLEAR POWER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 13:39:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ETRD KNNP BA |
09MANAMA702 | BAHRAINI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON NUCLEAR ENERGY, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP MARR BA |
09MANAMA730 | KING HAMAD'S DOMESTIC AGENDA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ENRG KNNP KDEM BA |
09MANILA1283 | USG-PHILIPPINES RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERSHIPS [...] Summary: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) both assist the Philippines in renewable, clean, and efficient energy projects. USG agencies are also facilitating regional conferences on climate change and clean energy. USAID and t [...] | 2009-06-16 22:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TRGY TSPL ECIN ECON APECO ENRG EAID PGOV RP |
09MANILA154 | Philippine Nuclear Plans [...] Summary: The Philippines is considering rehabilitating a never-used nuclear plant built in the 1980s, and recently entered into an agreement with the Korean Electric Power Corporation to study the feasibility of operating that plant. End summary. 2. Westinghouse completed a nuclear power [...] | 2009-01-25 23:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO RP |
09MANILA1728 | PHILIPPINES LOOKS AHEAD TO CHAIRING NPT REVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Responding to recently-heightened U.S. emphasis on nonproliferation issues, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed to the Ambassador his nation's keen anticipation of chairing the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to be held in New York next May, and [...] | 2009-08-14 10:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MANILA214 | Geek Swaps Benefit U.S. and Philippines [...] Summary: U.S. agencies and private institutions have active science partnerships in the Philippines that build goodwill and capacity in both nations and add to global knowledge. The synergy that results from USG active engagement in science in the Philippines is beneficial to the work of USG [...] | 2009-02-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TSPL SENV ENRG TRGY TSPA EAGR RP |
09MANILA379 | PHILIPPINES WEIGHS STANCE ON NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Post discussed reftel points with Director Leah Ruiz of the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),detailing U.S. priorities for the NPT Preparatory Committee meeting in May and underscoring U.S. concerns that certain [...] | 2009-02-20 08:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MANILA66 | PHILIPPINES WELCOMES RATIFICATION OF THE U.S.-IAEA [...] (SBU) In a discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director Leah Ruiz of the Office of United Nations & Other International Organizations (UNIO) on January 9, Post conveyed reftel points and inquired into the status of the Philippine government's plans on bringing its Additional P [...] | 2009-01-13 00:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IAEA ENRG PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM MNUC |
09MANILA965 | EMBASSY MANILA'S ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH [...] SUMMARY: Mission Manila engaged in vigorous outreach efforts on an array of environmental issues during April 2009. Ambassador led the way with two provincial trips in April with an environmental focus and events in Manila on Earth Day, April 22. In addition, Embassy invited American scientis [...] | 2009-05-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV ENRG TRGY TSPA EAGR RP |
09MAPUTO340 | MOZAMBIQUE EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Maputo requests an Embassy Science Fellow to work with the Government of Mozambique (GRM),to prepare a report on the status of agricultural business and processes in Mozambique and an implementation plan for advancement of agriculture in Mozambique. END SUMMARY 2. Emb [...] | 2009-03-06 09:45:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA MZ |
09MAPUTO498 | INDIA-MOZAMBIQUE RELATIONS FOCUS ON ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February, Foreign Minister Baloi visited New Delhi to sign a bilateral investment agreement with India, and in April, the Mozambican Tax Authority and its Indian counterpart initialed a draft double taxation agreement. These Government-to-Government meetings mark the most rec [...] | 2009-04-21 11:12:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD EINV MZ IN |
09MASERU361 | LESOTHO: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Per reftel's request, post submits the following information for the annual AGOA eligibility review. 2. Country: Lesotho Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: The Kingdom of Lesotho is a landlocked Southern African nation with a population of approximately [...] | 2009-10-09 09:16:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM LT |
09MATAMOROS172 | THE WINDS OF (ENERGY) CHANGE ARE BLOWING IN NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: The state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico has several wind energy projects under development with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC). The inaugural project, Los Vergeles, will be the first wind energy project in Mexico to supply public sector energy needs, wi [...] | 2009-11-13 22:20:00 | Consulate Matamoros | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV MX |
09MBABANE273 | SWAZILAND 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Country Background Summary: Swaziland is a small, land-locked country with one of the most limited economies in southern Africa. Its predominately young and rural population is beset by many challenges; foremost among them are widespread poverty and unemployment, along with one of the highest [...] | 2009-10-13 04:30:00 | Embassy Mbabane | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM WZ |
09MELBOURNE104 | U.S. BUSINESSES ON AUSTRALIAN ETS AND THE ECONOMY [...] (C/NF) A number of executives from U.S. companies are concerned that murky details in Australia's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme may lead to unintended consequences. These executives told similar stories of cutting staff and tightening belts in 2009, but are increasingly optimisti [...] | 2009-09-10 05:54:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG ETRD EIND AS |
09MELBOURNE17 | Cool Weather Eases Heat Threat in Victoria & South [...] (SBU) Cooler temperatures in Victoria have eased the burden of last week's heat wave (reftel). Though damage has been substantial, brushfires have been brought largely under control and the state's emergency response services are holding up well in the face of increased human health demands. [...] | 2009-02-02 05:44:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ENRG AS |
09MELBOURNE20 | Catastrophic Fires Claim 130+ Lives in Victoria [...] (SBU) Brush fires ignited by record temperatures on February 7 are being labeled as the "worst natural disaster in Australian history." At least 130 people have been killed, over 750 homes have been destroyed, and nearly one million acres have burned. Officials expect these numbers to jump sh [...] | 2009-02-09 05:07:00 | Consulate Melbourne | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ENRG CASC AS |
09MELBOURNE46 | EXPANSION OF WORLD,S LARGEST URANIUM MINE TO [...] (C) Despite turmoil in the global commodities market, BHP Billiton is proceeding with plans, albeit at a reduced pace, to expand its Olympic Dam facilities into what will become the largest uranium mine in the world. Lower copper prices have forced BHP to shelve several capital investment prog [...] | 2009-04-07 02:09:00 | Consulate Melbourne | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ECON ENRG ETRD AS |
09MEXICO1076 | US - MEXICO DISCUSS GOM PROPOSAL TO NEGOTIATE [...] (SBU) Summary: US and Mexican officials held the third in a series of formal consultations under Articles 4 and 5 of the Western Gap treaty and regarding transboundary oil and gas reservoirs more generally March 31 in New Orleans. For the US side, the primary objective of the discussion was [...] | 2009-04-15 18:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1145 | Mexico Economic Weekly - April 20 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-04-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1306 | Mexico Economic Weekly - May 12 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-05-12 19:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1428 | Mexico Economic Weekly - May 22 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-05-23 18:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1591 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 5 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-08 13:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1631 | MEXICO ON INCREASE IN IAEA BUDGET [...] Poloff conveyed points June 10 advocating an increase in the budget of the International Atomic Energy Agency (reftel) to Julian Juarez Cadenas, the Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Juarez said that Mexico, as a member [...] | 2009-06-10 23:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP PREL UN MX |
09MEXICO1669 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 12 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-12 22:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO1862 | Mexico Economic Weekly - June 26 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-06-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO195 | Mexico Economic Weekly - January 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements individual reporting from the Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-01-23 23:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2038 | Mexico Economic Weekly - July 10 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Joe Salazar (salazarje3@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-07-13 19:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2179 | Mexico Economic Weekly - July 24 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Joe Salazar (salazarje3@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-07-24 21:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2440 | SECRETARY KESSEL AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BILATERAL ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual August 13 that Mexico is eager to continue working with the US on carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency, standards, a bilateral market for renewable energy, and gas flaring. Kessel emphasized the need for an acti [...] | 2009-08-17 22:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2442 | MEXICAN AND POST CONTACTS FOR NPT-RELATED ISSUES [...] (SBU) According to Julian Juarez Cadenas, Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE),the following Government of Mexico officials are responsible for arms control and disarmament issues: SRE: -- Amb. Juan Manuel Gomez Robl [...] | 2009-08-17 22:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO2445 | TRANSBOUNDARY RESERVOIRS - A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual August 13 that the Mexican proposal to negotiate a bilateral treaty on trans-boundary reservoirs provides a window of opportunity for the US and Mexico to engage constructively on the sensitive topic of oil production. N [...] | 2009-08-17 23:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2519 | Mexico Economic Weekly - August 21 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-08-26 02:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2601 | Mexico Economic Weekly - August 21 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-08-31 23:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2616 | MEXICO READY TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretariat officials told State/WHA's visiting Director for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination that Mexico supports the Economic and Climate Change Partnership (ECPA). The GOM wants to highlight an ongoing initiative to promote North American standards for househol [...] | 2009-09-02 17:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO262 | Mexico Economic Weekly - January 30 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements individual reporting from the Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-01-29 20:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2666 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 4 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-09-08 23:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2677 | MEXICO ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (U) Poloff discussed Government of Mexico (GOM) views on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT),negotiation of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT),and U.S.-Russian arms control efforts (ref. A) with Julian Juarez Cadenas, Deputy Direct [...] | 2009-09-09 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO2709 | GOM PROPOSES 2010 ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 8, the GOM submitted its 2010 budget and fiscal reform proposals to Congress following weeks of market speculation about what the GOM would propose. The speculation follows looming risk of Mexico's possible credit downgrade. Plunging revenues (due to falling oil p [...] | 2009-09-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2711 | FINANCE SECRETARY BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON 2010 BUDGET [...] (U) This is an action request for Treasury. See Para 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens briefed Ambassador on Mexico's 2010 budget, submitted September 8 to Mexico's Congress. . In facing what Carstens described as the "double shock" of the cyclical recession as well a [...] | 2009-09-15 22:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2738 | GOM LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL OIL REFINERY PROJECT [...] Summary: President Calderon announced August 2009 that state-owned oil company PEMEX selected Tula, Hidalgo as the site of its new "bicentennial" refinery, a state governed by the PRI opposition party. His statement brings to end a fierce eighteen-month battle between various Mexican states [...] | 2009-09-18 22:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2746 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 18 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-09-18 22:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2784 | Mexico Economic Weekly - September 25 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-09-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2832 | THE GOM'S 2010 REVENUE PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Fiscal reform has become a critical element in addressing the GOM's 2010 budget shortfall, resulting from plunging revenues (due to falling oil production/prices and economic recession),and public expenditure that grew in tandem with skyrocketing oil prices from 2002-08 (see re [...] | 2009-09-30 15:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO2865 | TENSIONS BETWEEN GOM AND ELECTRICITY UNION ESCALATE [...] (C) Martin Esparza, leader of the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME),the radical union that runs state owned electricity company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC),threatened together with other unions to take a series of actions if the GOM does not recognize Esparza as legitimate leader [...] | 2009-10-03 01:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB ENRG MX PGOV |
09MEXICO2885 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 02 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-10-05 22:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO299 | COOPERATION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY - AN OPENING TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Efforts to deepen US-Mexican collaboration on energy issues has been constrained in recent years by Mexico's sensitivity about foreign involvement in the hydrocarbons sector. Since the Calderon Administration's energy reform bill was approved in October 2008 and oil prices have [...] | 2009-02-05 13:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2995 | CHICONTEPEC - WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MEXICAN HYDROCARBONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Juan Carlos Zepeda, head of Mexico's newly created National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH),said that the press misquoted him last week as ordering PEMEX to stop drilling in Chicontepec. However, Zepeda is clearly unhappy with Pemex's current production policy in Chicontepec an [...] | 2009-10-16 22:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO2996 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 16 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-16 22:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO30 | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the global financial crisis has weakened MexicoQs economy, most analysts do not fear a repeat of the 1995 peso collapse. Financial conditions in Mexico Q most notably the absence of a large foreign debt Q have improved measurably over the financial situation existing [...] | 2009-01-07 19:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3010 | 2010 GOM BUDGET: OPPOSITION REJECTS AND BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Facing an October 20 deadline to approve the GOM's 2010 proposed revenue bill, PRI leaders, governors, and lawmakers met on October 12 to coordinate a consensus on the budget. According to local press reports, PRI lawmakers revealed that they will reject the GOM's 2% anti-pover [...] | 2009-10-19 18:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO3053 | TREASURY A/S COHEN AND GOM OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (U) Summary. On October 1, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC) David S. Cohen met with Government of Mexico (GOM) officials in Mexico City, Mexico to discuss the collaboration between the GOM and U.S. Treasury on joint efforts to target the finances [...] | 2009-10-23 17:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV |
09MEXICO3090 | MEXICAN VIEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 21 tour d'horizon of the climate change negotiations from the Mexican perspective, Mexican Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, Special Negotiator for Climate Change at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) called the US-Mexico climate change relationship 'frank, [...] | 2009-10-27 22:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG KGHG SENV MX |
09MEXICO3094 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-27 23:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3098 | US - MEXICO REVIEW SEISMIC; DISCUSS GOM PROPOSAL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: US and Mexican officials held the fourth in a series of formal consultations under Articles 4 and 5 of the Western Gap Treaty October 19 in Villahermosa, Mexico. In reviewing Mexican seismic data, USDEL found promising structures on the Mexican side of the boundary as well as p [...] | 2009-10-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3110 | SENATE TAKES UP 2010, WITH SENATORS DIVIDED OVER PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. As rating companies quietly consider downgrading Mexican debt, the Senate has now noisily taken up the Revenue Bill that the Chamber of Deputies amended and approved October 20. The Chamber had watered down the GOM's original proposal of modifying tax rates and tax laws design [...] | 2009-10-29 00:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3120 | Mexico Economic Weekly - October 30 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-10-30 17:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3186 | Mexico Economic Weekly - November 6 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-11-09 22:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3205 | CONGRESS APPROVES MOST 2010 REVENUE LEGISLATION [...] Summary. Legislators watered down the original GOM revenue and tax proposals (see reftel),eliminating some key elements of the original package, but maintaining an increase in value added taxes (IVA) and income tax rates. Finance Secretary Carstens said the package will help revive the econo [...] | 2009-11-10 23:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3222 | SECRETARY KESSEL DISCUSSES BILATERAL ENERGY COOPERATON; [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel told Ambassador Pascual November 5 that she was pleased with progress made at the October 19 trans-boundary energy reservoir meeting in Villahermosa and welcomed news that the USG seeks to extend the moratorium in the Western Gap. Kessel welcom [...] | 2009-11-12 22:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO33 | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the global financial crisis has weakened MexicoQs economy, most analysts do not fear a repeat of the 1995 peso collapse. Financial conditions in Mexico Q most notably the absence of a large foreign debt Q have improved measurably over the financial situation existing [...] | 2009-01-07 19:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO3311 | Mexico Economic Weekly - November 20 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-11-23 18:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3382 | CONGRESS APPROVES 2010 SPENDING LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 17, the Mexican Congress approved the 2010 budget, voting 437-25 to pass the spending bill, which includes MX$3.18 trillion (US$244 billion) in outlays. The budget for 2010 implies a deficit of 0.75% of GDP excluding debt from state oil monopoly Pemex, but with Pe [...] | 2009-12-01 20:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3418 | Mexico Economic Weekly - December 4 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-12-04 20:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO3486 | BANK GOVERNOR APPOINTMENT SPARKS CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] Summary. (U) On December 9, President Calderon nominated Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens as the country's new central bank governor (Banxico). Carstens, whose nomination still needs to be ratified by the Senate, will replace Guillermo Ortiz who finishes his second six-year term at the end [...] | 2009-12-11 13:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO42 | MEXICAN OIL PRODUCTION DECLINING - IMPLICATIONS FOR MEXICO, [...] (SBU) Summary: As the largest source of export earnings and contributor of over one third of budget revenues, the oil sector is a critical component of the Mexican economy. Due to the decline of Mexico's largest oil field and underinvestment in new exploration and exploitation, Mexican crude [...] | 2009-01-08 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV MX |
09MEXICO45 | CALDERON ANNOUNCES MORE MEASURES TO STIMULATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Calderon announced on January 7 a new set of measures to help offset the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and stimulate the economy. "The National Accord in Favor of the Families' Economy and Employment" is the third economic program announced by the [...] | 2009-01-08 22:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO544 | STANFORD FRAUD CASE SHAKES MEXICAN INVESTORS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican investors' confidence has been shaken once again by the financial scandal surrounding billionaire Robert Allen Stanford, this time affecting more Mexicans than the earlier Madoff case. Stanford Financial Group's Mexican subsidiary, Stanford Fondos S.A. de C.V., has repo [...] | 2009-02-25 22:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX |
09MEXICO582 | Mexico Economic Weekly - February 27 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-02-27 19:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO635 | TRANSBOUNDARY RESERVOIRS -- WHAT IS MOTIVATING [...] (SBU) Summary: For political, economic and strategic reasons, Mexico is ratcheting up efforts to engage the USG on a possible treaty governing transboundary reservoirs. We expect that this topic will be raised by the GOM to senior levels of the administration in an effort to create momentum. [...] | 2009-03-03 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV MX |
09MEXICO671 | CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY - POSSIBLE INITIATIVES WITH [...] Summary and Introduction: The GOM is interested in working more closely with the USG on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change. Post believes the Mexican position offers a significant opportunity to develop closer ties in a priority area for both countries and is exploring sev [...] | 2009-03-06 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO724 | MEXICO'S VIEWS ON THE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (U) Deputy PolCouns met with Julian Juarez Cardenas, the Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Ministry, to solicit Mexico's views on the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Juarez remarked that this was the first time in his experience that a USG of [...] | 2009-03-10 23:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MEXICO771 | Mexico Economic Weekly - March 13 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-03-13 23:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MEXICO973 | Mexico Economic Weekly - April 3 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Jonathan Austin (austinjt@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. [...] | 2009-04-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
09MINSK22 | BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 16, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Independent Newspaper Denied Print, Distribution, then Fined (para. 2) - Grodno Activists Detained and Searched (para. 3) - Brest Activists Detained (para. 4) - Local [...] | 2009-01-16 17:21:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MINSK255 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 31, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Police Disperse Independence Proclamation Rallies (para. 2) - Independent Journalist Warned (para. 3) - Independent Magazine Denied Distribution (para. 4) - Party of Wo [...] | 2009-07-31 13:38:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MINSK27 | BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 23, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------------ - Opposition Youth's Draft Order Suspended (para. 2) - Opposition Denied Venues (para. 3) - Demonstration Dispersed, Opposition Youth Leader Detained (para. 4) - Pr [...] | 2009-01-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO |
09MONROVIA725 | LIBERIA: BUCHANAN RENEWABLES DEAL STALLS OVER PRICE DISPUTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Liberia may back out of a power purchase agreement with Buchanan Renewables (BR),after a consortium of donors warned the President that unduly high tariffs could threaten the financial solvency of the Liberian Electricity Corporation (LEC) and deter small busi [...] | 2009-10-05 09:39:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG EAGR LI |
09MONROVIA82 | LIBERIA: GOL SIGNS CONTRACT POWER PLANT FUELED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian firm Buchanan Renewables (Monrovia) Power, Inc. (BRP) signed January 21 a concession agreement with the Government of Liberia (GOL) and a power purchase agreement with the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) for the construction of a 35-megawatt power plant to provide [...] | 2009-01-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV ETRD OPIC LI |
09MONROVIA894 | FATE OF BUCHANAN RENEWABLES REMAINS UNCERTAIN AS GOL WAVERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While President Sirleaf feels tremendous political pressure to expand electric services in Monrovia, fulfilling public promises to secure 10 megawatts of power in the capital by the end of 2010, her energy advisors have been unable to proffer the definitive guidance that would e [...] | 2009-12-11 11:25:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EGAR ENRG LI |
09MONTERREY175 | BORDER STATES CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP AND MEXICO'S CLIMATE [...] Summary. The Mexican state and federal governments reaffirmed their commitment to combating climate change at the Border States Climate Change Workshop held April 22-23 in Monterrey, Mexico. The conference, sponsored by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC),was the first ever [...] | 2009-05-14 15:52:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX |
09MONTERREY29 | ENERGY COUNCIL VISIT PROMOTES COOPERATION ON ENERGY ISSUES [...] (U) The U.S. Energy Council came to Monterrey on January 21 to meet private sector contacts and Nuevo Leon state officials to promote information sharing on energy issues ranging from alternative energy, ways to increase energy production and global warming. The Energy Council is a non- [...] | 2009-01-23 22:04:00 | Consulate Monterrey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX |
09MONTEVIDEO104 | URUGUAY PROPOSES NEXT STEPS FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY [...] SUMMARY. Emboffs discussed the current state of Uruguay's energy sector and potential next steps within the framework of the U.S.-Uruguay alternative energy MOU in a meeting with the Uruguayan National Directorate of Energy and Nuclear Technology (DNENT) February 18. Uruguay seeks to reduce [...] | 2009-02-20 15:56:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG PREL SENV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO138 | URUGUAY: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (S) Consultations with relevant Embassy sections led to the determination that Uruguay possesses no/no critical infrastructure so vital to the U.S. that its incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on U.S. security, national economic security, national public health or sa [...] | 2009-03-10 15:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP UY |
09MONTEVIDEO210 | URUGUAY IS ENERGIZED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ENERGY [...] Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Industry and Energy Officials welcomed reftel points previewing President Obama,s invitation to join an Economic and Climate Partnership of the Americas. Econoff met with the Director General for International Economic Affairs at the MFA, Ambassador Ricardo Na [...] | 2009-04-16 16:09:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG KSUM SENV KGHG UY |
09MONTEVIDEO32 | MONTEVIDEO PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY SPEAKER ON [...] Summary: Post has prepared a proposal for the organization of a biofuels speaker program in Uruguay in FY2009. Given Uruguay's interest in energy diversification and our recent bilateral alternative energy MOU, post believes this funding possibility could spur development of Uruguay's biofu [...] | 2009-01-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO ENRG EAGR ECON PGOV KPAO ETRD UR |
09MONTEVIDEO334 | GOU TO ATTEND IRENA - POLICY NOT YET DEFINED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV UY |
09MONTEVIDEO616 | Biofuels Visit Trip Report - Richard Simmons [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 16:10:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON UY |
09MONTEVIDEO625 | GOU LEANING TOWARD SUPPORT FOR THE ANGARSK RESERVE [...] (SBU) The GOU has not finalized its position on the Russian proposal to establish a nuclear fuel bank at Angarsk, but is leaning toward supporting the Angarsk reserve. In response to reftel points, the MFA Acting Director of International Affairs Gustavo Somma told emboff on November 20 that [...] | 2009-11-20 16:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY RS UY |
09MONTEVIDEO9 | URUGUAYAN NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS NOT DEFINITIVE [...] Uruguay is increasingly interested in diversifying its energy sector, potentially including the use of nuclear power. Currently, the implementation of such a program is prohibited by law, but President Tabare Vazquez authorized feasibility research of a civil nuclear program and its implication [...] | 2009-01-12 19:36:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO UY |
09MOSCOW105 | GOR MOTIVATIONS IN THE GAS CRISIS LIKELY PRECLUDE EARLY RESOLUTION REF: MOSCOW 36 Classified By: CDA Eric S. Rubin for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UK |
09MOSCOW1053 | MEDVEDEV MEETS ALIYEV: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: During President Aliyev's April 17-18 visit to Moscow, Medvedev touted Russia's "mandate" in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict via presidential-level meetings, while Aliyev stuck to support for the Minsk Group process. Russia supported Aliyev's proposal for determining th [...] | 2009-04-23 15:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS AJ AM |
09MOSCOW1077 | RUSSIAN MFA ON UKRAINE, MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin rejected Ukrainian President Yushchenko's call for a "reset" in relations as gimmickry, noting a continued negative trajectory. While Putin and Tymoshenko will discuss USD 5 billion in Russian credits during their A [...] | 2009-04-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP MD |
09MOSCOW1120 | RUSSIAN ENERGY CHARTER PROPOSAL: NO RESPONSE [...] (C) President Medvedev issued on April 21 a "Conceptual Approach to the New Legal Framework for Energy Cooperation," putting down on paper the GOR's ideas for, in effect, a new global Energy Charter Treaty, replacing the existing European Energy Charter Treaty (ECT),which Russia has signed, bu [...] | 2009-04-30 13:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1122 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARTICIPATION IN THE ISLAMABAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 13:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL AF RS |
09MOSCOW1146 | RUSSIA AND BULGARIA INITIAL SOUTH STREAM [...] (SBU) Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding initialed an agreement on South Stream during the April 29 visit of PM Stanishev to Moscow, but the two sides are reportedly still working on the details of the agreement. PMs Stanishev and Putin publicly hinted at some of the tensions over South Str [...] | 2009-05-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS BU |
09MOSCOW1148 | RUSSIA-UKRAINE: "COMPLICATED" ENERGY TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin repeatedly described Tymoshenko's April 29 energy talks with Putin as "complicated." In one-on-one, small group, and the plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation, it was decided that Ga [...] | 2009-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EFIN RS UP |
09MOSCOW1273 | ITALIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (C-RE8-02675) [...] (S/NF) Economic ties, especially long-term gas contracts, are a pillar of Russia-Italy relations and affect Italy's policies toward Russia. Italian gas company ENI and Russian Gazprom have supply commitments in place until 2035, as well as a joint-construction agreement for the South Stream pipelin [...] | 2009-05-20 05:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET IT RS |
09MOSCOW1283 | GAZPROM SIGNS SLEW OF DEALS ON SOUTH STREAM; [...] (C) On May 15, Gazprom signed separate agreements on South Stream with Italy's ENI, Bulgarian Energy Holding, Greece's DESFA, and Serbia's Srbijagas. The most significant of the agreements was an "addendum" to an existing MOU between Gazprom and ENI, calling for capacity expansion from 31 bil [...] | 2009-05-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW13 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-08 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW1332 | NORWEGIAN PM STOLTENBERG'S MEETINGS WITH MEDVEDEV [...] (C) On May 19, Norwegian PM Stoltenberg met separately with Putin and Medvedev for "friendly talks." The discussions focused on cooperation on the Far North and energy, but were not detailed. To the Norwegian delegation's surprise, neither Putin nor Medvedev raised contentious issues like N [...] | 2009-05-22 12:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EINV NO RS |
09MOSCOW1346 | RUSSIA AND THE ARCTIC: POLICY AND COMPETING VOICES [...] (C) In March, Medvedev approved Russia's long-delayed Arctic policy. It defined the region as Russia's strategic energy reserve, called for its promotion as a transportation corridor, and sought to balance cooperation with the country's security needs. The policy itself reflects competing [...] | 2009-05-26 11:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG SENV RS |
09MOSCOW1373 | IZHORA STEEL WORKS NEEDS INVESTMENT TO REALIZE RUSSIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Izhora Steel Works currently is Russia's only producer of nuclear power plant equipment sets for Russia's 1000 megawatt pressurized light water reactors (VVER). Although Izhora claims it can meet current plans for domestic and international nuclear construction, it needs a [...] | 2009-05-28 09:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL ENRG PGOV SENV RS |
09MOSCOW1388 | WITH BP'S ACQUIESCENCE, RUSSIAN PARTNER TAKES OVER [...] (C) TNK-BP announced on May 27 that its board had appointed Mikhail Fridman, the senior partner in the AAR consortium that owns 50 percent of TNK-BP, as the company's new interim CEO. The company also announced the board had appointed Russian executives Pavel Skitovich and Maxim Barsky to sen [...] | 2009-05-28 14:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1397 | RUSSIA AND POLAND SEEK TO INTENSIFY RELATIONS [...] (C) The Russian MFA called Polish FM Sikorski's May 5-6 visit to Moscow a success for "intensifying relations." The MFA and Polish diplomats tell us that they have expanded track two mechanisms in an effort to keep contentious issues from derailing high-level talks. The GOR expressed its pr [...] | 2009-05-29 11:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS |
09MOSCOW1424 | LATEST RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT, LIKE ITS IMMEDIATE [...] (C) The May 21-22 Russia-EU Summit, held in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East (RFE),resulted in no breakthroughs on major energy, political and trade issues. Press reports focused on continuing "tensions" over energy, a topic dominated by Russia's push for the EU to finance Ukraine's gas ne [...] | 2009-06-01 11:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS EU |
09MOSCOW1449 | RUSSIA'S ROSATOM AND ENVIRONMENTAL/NUCLEAR WATCHDOG GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Forum-Dialogue on "Nuclear Power, Society and Safety" held April 21 and 22 hosted by Rosatom State Corporation in Saint Petersburg featured Rosatom Director General Kiriyenko's affirmation the current Federal Targeted Plan (FTP) will continue as planned, but [...] | 2009-06-03 08:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL MNUC ENRG KRAD SENV PGOV KDEM RS |
09MOSCOW1451 | WEATHERFORD TO BUY TNK-BP SERVICES UNIT FOR $450 [...] (C) American (but Swiss-registered) oil field services company Weatherford agreed on May 29 to buy TNK-BP's oil field services (OFS) enterprises in a deal worth approximately $450 million. It is one of the largest foreign investments in Russia in recent years and certainly the largest since R [...] | 2009-06-03 09:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1452 | PUTIN WARNS EU OF "PROBLEM" IF UKRAINE UNABLE TO [...] (C/NF) In a May 29 entry on his website, PM Putin warned the EU "of a potential problem," should Ukraine fail to meet its June 7 payment deadline for May gas deliveries. Without offering specific outcomes, the PM expressed concern about Ukraine's ability to pay and explained why various option [...] | 2009-06-03 09:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1506 | INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR FUEL BANK - RUSSIA STILL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 13:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA RS |
09MOSCOW1520 | ELECTRICITY SECTOR REFORM: STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) The strains of the economic crisis are increasing pressure on the GOR to slow down electricity sector reform. Consumers are concerned about the speed of price reform and generating companies (gencos) are reluctant to modernize generating capacity. The GOR's signals about its intentions ar [...] | 2009-06-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ENRG RS |
09MOSCOW153 | GAS CRISIS RESOLUTION LEAVES ROOM FOR FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. Confirming press reports, Gazprom told us January 21 that supplies to Europe and Ukraine had been restored "in full." An EU representative told us January 22 that monitors have confirmed flows are "on track" and have reported no problems. As has been widely reported, the gas fl [...] | 2009-01-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP |
09MOSCOW1530 | NORD STREAM CEO SAYS PIPELINE WILL BE COMPLETED BY OCTOBER 2011 -- IF IT STARTS ON TIME Classified By: Ambassador John R. Beyrle for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 13:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS GM |
09MOSCOW1542 | FM STEINMEIER URGES RUSSIA TO SEIZE THIS HISTORIC [...] (C) On a June 10 visit to Moscow, German FM Steinmeier met separately with President Medvedev, PM Putin, and FM Lavrov. According to the German embassy, the visit bolstered the strategic partnership, with Steinmeier using the opportunity to press Russia on nuclear disarmament negotiations wit [...] | 2009-06-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG GM RS |
09MOSCOW1561 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Moscow warmly welcomes your visit to Russia, which provides an opportunity for us to engage with the highest levels of the Russian government on energy issues, an opportunity that has until recently been largely absent in the relationship. The "reset" of relations and in particular [...] | 2009-06-15 10:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1608 | RUSSIA UNDECIDED ON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV RS |
09MOSCOW1609 | DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Poneman and DOE Moscow representatives met with Russian Federation Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss future cooperation in areas of mutual interest to include energy and climate change. During the ninety-minute meeting, Shmatk [...] | 2009-06-19 05:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PREL PTER RS |
09MOSCOW1611 | DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. DOE Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman met with Russian Federation Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss nonproliferation Presidential Summit deliverables, including the Joint Statement on Nuclear Security, the Protocol to amend the Plutonium Ma [...] | 2009-06-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS PARM ENRG |
09MOSCOW1612 | DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary of Energy Poneman and Ambassador Beyrle met with Russian Federation Minister of Education and Science (MES) Andrey Fursenko on June 10, 2009, in Moscow to discuss future DOE-MES cooperation in energy efficiency, carbon capture and sequestration, and nanotech [...] | 2009-06-19 06:23:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PREL PTER SENV TSPL TNGD KGHG EAID |
09MOSCOW1616 | DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, Ambassador Beyrle, and Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Jim Timbie met with Rosatom Director General Sergey Kiriyenko and his Deputy Nikolai Spasskiy on June 9, 2009 in Moscow to develop a p [...] | 2009-06-19 09:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL KTIA IR RS ENRG |
09MOSCOW1658 | VISIT OF SE MORNINGSTAR: RUSSIA RECEPTIVE TO [...] (C) In June 17-18 meetings with visiting Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Morningstar, Russian interlocutors welcomed greater cooperation and dialogue with the U.S., including on two-way investment and global strategic issues such as the future of LNG, pipelines, and energy diplomacy. SE Mor [...] | 2009-06-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1763 | MEDVEDEV IN BAKU: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of President Medvedev's visit to Baku June 29, Russia is optimistic that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be resolved in the near future. To effect that, Moscow plans no actions outside of the Minsk Group Process, which is organizing a meeting between the Armenian [...] | 2009-07-08 12:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS AZ |
09MOSCOW1794 | RUSSIAN MFA DOWNPLAYS DISCORD WITH UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. The MFA downplayed press speculation that Russia stood to benefit from the de-sovereignization of Ukraine, but said Russia would continue to protest against attempts to "ukrainize" Crimea. While several recent accords showed that Russia-Ukraine relations remained fruitful on the [...] | 2009-07-13 13:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW1811 | NEW BP RUSSIA CEO SAYS TNK-BP DOING "EXTREMELY [...] (C) New BP Russia President Jeremy Huck told the Ambassador in a July 13 meeting that his first priority is to maintain and protect BP's investment in TNK-BP. Huck said TNK-BP continues to perform "extremely well" and that despite some tensions, relations with AAR (its Russian partners in TNK [...] | 2009-07-15 07:21:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW1964 | SAKHALIN OIL AND GAS -- "NOBODY GETS HURT" [...] (SBU) Embassy officers traveled to Sakhalin Island July 21-24 to gain a better understanding of the region's oil and gas operations. The two main hydrocarbon-producing projects in the region, Sakhalin 1 and 2, account for only a small fraction of Russian oil and gas production but are signifi [...] | 2009-07-31 11:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW199 | TRANSNEFT HEAD TELLS AMBASSADOR COMPANY BUILDING [...] (SBU) Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev told the Ambassador January 27 the company is moving forward on its various major pipeline projects as "they are needed to handle new oil supplies" and "because the government has directed them." Tokarev said the company is getting the funding it need [...] | 2009-01-29 08:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW20 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-09 06:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW2015 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN PROPOSAL FOR ANGARSK [...] (C) On August 5, Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Robert Einhorn delivered reftel demarche to MFA DVBR Deputy Director Oleg Rozhkov and Ambassador at Large and IAEA Governor Grigoriy Berdennikov, who expressed appreciation and stated that our demarche showed that the U.S. [...] | 2009-08-07 07:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ENRG KNNP RS TRGY IAEA |
09MOSCOW2121 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) POCS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW2138 | CONOCOPHILLIPS COMMENTS ON RUSSIA-VENEZUELA OIL [...] (C) A senior ConocoPhillips executive (protect) told us on July 20 that the JV set up between a consortium of Russian companies (state-owned Gazprom and Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP, and Surgutneftegaz) and Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA, is unlikely to yield the results Russian and Venezu [...] | 2009-08-20 12:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS VE |
09MOSCOW2187 | RUSSIA ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA, MOD, and RosAtom are the GOR entities most heavily involved with nonproliferation issues, including the NPT. The MFA leads the interagency process, with the Prime Minister's office issuing the final orders (with little Kremlin involvement). Russia works most cl [...] | 2009-08-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW2240 | PUTIN TO VISIT GDANSK TO MARK 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (C) PM Putin will attend the commemoration of the outbreak of World War II in Gdansk, Poland on September 1. During a meeting with PM Tusk, the sides are expected to sign agreements on cultural exchanges, transit of the Kaliningrad Bay, and the transfer of Polish HEU to Russia for reprocessin [...] | 2009-08-28 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS |
09MOSCOW2277 | GAZPROM SAYS PUTIN-TYMOSHENKO "AGREEMENT" JUST [...] (SBU) According to press reports quoting unnamed sources, PM Putin and Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko reached an agreement in their meeting in Poland that Russia would allow Ukraine to buy less gas than it has contracted in exchange for lower transit fees and contracts for Russian nuclear energy comp [...] | 2009-09-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2347 | RUSSIA: GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT INVITATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 10:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KACT ENRG MNUC PARM RS |
09MOSCOW2353 | TNK-BP COO SAYS COMPANY'S FUTURE IS BRIGHT; MODERNIZING RUSSIA'S OIL SECTOR WILL TAKE TIME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2368 | EDF TO JOIN SOUTH STREAM? [...] (C/NF) French Embassy Energy Attache Vincent Pringault (protect) confirmed to us on September 15 that Electricite de France (EDF) is negotiating to participate in the South Stream gas pipeline project. Pringault told us that the deal, reported the same morning by Russian daily Kommersant, had [...] | 2009-09-15 13:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2412 | INCORPORATING UKRAINE INTO U.S.-RUSSIA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is shaping up as a key challenge in U.S.-Russian relations. The risk of serious trouble remains as long as the two governments are at loggerheads, and as long as Russian leaders engage in periodic bouts of historical propaganda aimed at undermining Ukraine's claim to na [...] | 2009-09-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PNAT PBTS ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW2448 | PUTIN'S YAMAL MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL ENERGY [...] (C) Lack of GOR coordination with Gazprom reportedly preceded PM Putin's September 25 meeting in Yamal with executives from eleven global energy giants. Press reports, industry newsletters and postings on the PM's website provide only general information on the meeting's outcomes without stat [...] | 2009-09-25 12:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2499 | DOE PDAS ELKIND'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) DOE Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Jonathan Elkind, visited Moscow September 21-22 to meet with his counterparts at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Energy, Science and Education, Economic Development and Natural Resources. As Coordinator for [...] | 2009-10-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2509 | PUTIN'S YAMAL MEETING OFFERS FEW DETAILS FOR IOCS, [...] (C) According to representatives of international oil companies (IOCs) that attended a meeting with PM Putin to discuss potential development of the gas resources of the Yamal Peninsula (reftel),the event was little more than a "road show." Our contacts said neither Putin nor anyone else fro [...] | 2009-10-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2510 | INVITATION DELIVERED TO GOR FOR OCTOBER 14 P-5 [...] (SBU) On October 1, we informed the MFA North America Department and DVBR section about reftel invitation to a luncheon hosted by Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Susan Burk. The GOR had no official response at this time. Beyrle [...] | 2009-10-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG PGOV PREL PARM ENRG KNNP MNUC UNGA |
09MOSCOW2524 | YAKUNIN CONSULTANT SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR NORTHERN [...] (C) We recently met with Consuelo de Haviland (aka Dussya Kostolevskaya),at the introduction of the French Embassy in Moscow. She presented herself as a consultant to Vladimir Yakunin, general director of Russian Railways (RZhD),and RZhD's representative in France. Her purpose in meeting wi [...] | 2009-10-05 10:01:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND EINV ENRG PINR RS |
09MOSCOW2528 | GAZPROM'S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, PART ONE [...] (U) This is the first of a two-part report on the new economic realities facing Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas sector giant. ------- summary ------- 2. (SBU) Far from reaching its ambitions of becoming "the most valuable company in the world," Gazprom's fortunes have reversed dramatically in [...] | 2009-10-06 11:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2541 | GAZPROM'S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE PART TWO; COMEBACK UNLIKELY [...] (U) This is part two of a two-part cable on the new economic realities facing Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas sector giant. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Gazprom faces many external and internal constraints to renewed growth, following a dismal year in which all main indicators of its perform [...] | 2009-10-07 13:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2608 | SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) In separate meetings with Ambassador Morningstar, representatives from TNK-BP, Rosneft, and the MFA independently indicated that the recent financial crisis has opened up opportunities for greater foreign participation in Russia's hydrocarbon sector. Each noted the impact of lower Europea [...] | 2009-10-20 05:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2624 | RUSSIA-CHINA GAS DEAL UNLIKELY TO RESULT IN [...] (C) A gas "deal" signed during PM Putin's recent trip to China is very unlikely to result in significant gas flows from Russia to China anytime soon. Obstacles to Russian gas deliveries include a lack of transportation infrastructure, a lack of agreement on the price of gas, and a lack of dev [...] | 2009-10-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS CH |
09MOSCOW266 | (C) EXXONMOBIL TELLS AMBASSADOR POLITICS HOLDING [...] (C) ExxonMobil Russia President Stephen Terni (protect) and ExxonMobil's Sakhalin 1 project manager Zeljko Runje (protect) told the Ambassador on January 31 that GOR refusal to approve project budgets has halted development of new Sakhalin 1 fields. Runje said Deputy Energy Minister Stanislav [...] | 2009-02-03 14:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2715 | PUTIN'S SOUTH STREAM WISHES UNLIKELY TO COME TRUE [...] (C) PM Putin stated during a meeting with Italian PM Berlusconi that the proposed South Stream gas pipeline could be completed before the proposed Nord Stream gas pipeline. His statement followed agreement by Turkey to allow South Stream feasibility studies in its Black Sea waters, and agreeme [...] | 2009-11-02 15:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2721 | UKRAINIAN FM URGES MOSCOW TO TALK TO YUSHCHENKO [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Poroshenko urged Russia to resume contact with Ukraine at the presidential level, although both sides agreed there was no need for a "reset" in relations. Economic cooperation dominated the brief meeting, while pundits dis [...] | 2009-11-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW2765 | DESPITE USD 6 BILLION 2Q09 PROFITS, GAZPROM FACES [...] (C) Gazprom announced a doubling of its profits in the second quarter of 2009 following anemic first quarter earnings. However, falling demand as well as rising operational costs and debt pose longer-term challenges to the company's competitiveness. Experts warn that more efficient companies [...] | 2009-11-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2784 | "NO TANGIBLE RESULTS" ON SOUTH STREAM DURING [...] (SBU) Following Prime Minister Putin's meeting with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, media reports cited Austrian "backing" of the proposed South Stream gas pipeline project. As is often the case, however, the reports appear to have been overblown. The visit did not produce any f [...] | 2009-11-13 10:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS AU |
09MOSCOW28 | TALKS RESUME ON GAS IMPASSE; STILL NO AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) Gazprom's Aleksei Miller and Naftohaz's Oleh Dubyna met January 9 Sochi and will continue talks in Moscow January 10 (with participation of EC reps) on steps to resume Russian gas deliveries to Europe. The Russian and Ukrainian sides have agreed in principle to establishing a multilateral [...] | 2009-01-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2821 | RUSSIANS APPRECIATIVE OF USG SUPPORT FOR ANGARSK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY RS |
09MOSCOW2834 | RUSSIA MAINTAINS POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE AT EU SUMMIT, [...] (C) Swedish diplomats in Moscow concluded that EU-Russia relations were "stuck on the major issues" at the November 18 EU-Russia Summit in Stockholm (ref A). However, they and European Commission (EC) contacts welcomed "surprise" positive GOR pronouncements on climate change and WTO accession [...] | 2009-11-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS SW EUN |
09MOSCOW2865 | SELECTION OF NEW TNK-BP CEO ALLOWS COMPANY TO [...] (SBU) TNK-BP confirmed on November 19th the long-rumored selection of Maxim Barskiy as its next CEO. The 35-year old Barskiy will take the reins at the oil giant beginning in 2011. Barskiy, who was proposed by BP's Russian partners (AAR),beat out Pavel Skitovich, the candidate proposed by [...] | 2009-11-23 15:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2874 | PUTIN-TYMOSHENKO GAS AGREEMENT SHOULD HELP PREVENT [...] (C) PM Putin said in a joint November 20 press conference with PM Tymoshenko in Ukraine that Russia will not penalize Ukraine for having taken less gas than contracted. He also confirmed that Gazprom and Ukraine will sign new contracts for 2010 that will call for lower Ukrainian purchase volum [...] | 2009-11-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP |
09MOSCOW2875 | RUSSIA: APPRECIATIVE OF U.S. SUPPORT SEEKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC IAEA ENRG TRGY RS |
09MOSCOW2904 | FULL GAS PRICE LIBERALIZATION UNLIKELY ANYTIME [...] (C) In 2006, the GOR planned a series of tariff increases to raise domestic natural gas prices for industrial consumers to "market levels" -- that is, European prices minus taxes and transport -- by 2011. However, full liberalization by 2011 appears to be off the table, with the Ministry of E [...] | 2009-11-30 10:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2912 | Russia Adopts Law on Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | RS EAID ECON ENRG KGHG OTRA PARM PGOV SENV TSPL |
09MOSCOW2945 | YUKOS DECISION COULD BE MAJOR IRRITANT FOR YEARS [...] (SBU) The November 30 decision by a tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague that Russia is bound by the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was a major blow to the GOR. According to representatives of the plaintiffs in the case, led by former Yukos shareholders now known as GML Li [...] | 2009-12-04 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW2947 | PUTIN WAXES ELOQUENT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) In his annual live Q&A session with the nation, Prime Minister Putin spent longer on economic and socio-economic issues (65 minutes) than on any other topic. He praised the government,s efficiency during the crisis, comparing it favorably with the 1998 crisis. He echoed President Mede [...] | 2009-12-04 17:11:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG RS |
09MOSCOW3002 | RESPONSE TO IRAN SANCTIONS ACT INQUIRY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, we notified MFA Head of U.S.-Russia Bilateral Desk Alexander Zakharov of our inquiry regarding the ISA. Zakharov said he would pass on the information to his superiors but otherwise did not provide any substantive reaction. ------- GAZPROM ------- 2. (SBU) Per reftel [...] | 2009-12-11 15:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL ETTC RS IR |
09MOSCOW3049 | MFA SAYS RUSSIA-TURKMENISTAN RELATIONS STRONG; GAS [...] (C) Summary. The MFA continues to emphasize Russia's stable political relations and growing economic and cultural ties with Turkmenistan, despite the recent impasse over gas shipments. Eager to maintain influence in the region despite Gazprom's gas glut, President Medvedev has agreed with T [...] | 2009-12-18 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG TX RS |
09MOSCOW3051 | U/S HORMATS'S MEETING WITH GAZPROM [...] (C) Gazprom's Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev told U/S Hormats that he welcomes better relations with the U.S. and that Gazprom seeks to expand its presence in North America. He blamed last year's gas crisis on President Yushchenko and claimed Russia does not want to politicize the gas trade. He conf [...] | 2009-12-18 15:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW3052 | ENERGY MINISTER WELCOMES ENERGY COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) Minister of Energy Shmatko and Transneft President Tokarev met with Ambassador Beyrle on December 16 to discuss prospects for the Bilateral Presidential Commission's (BPC) Energy working group, particularly opportunities for information exchange and technology transfer on energy efficiency [...] | 2009-12-18 15:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW3093 | NONPAPER DELIVERED: U.S. APPROACH TO 2010 NPT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM ENRG PREL IAEA NPT MNUC KTBT RS |
09MOSCOW3094 | NONPAPER ON DISSUADING ABUSE OF NPT WITHDRAWAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW3095 | POINTS DELIVERED: PBLICIZING THE U.S. RECORD OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG ENRG KNNP |
09MOSCOW3096 | POINTS DELIVERED: SUBSIDIARY BODIES AT THE 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09MOSCOW355 | DFM GRUSHKO ON GEORGIA, ENERGY SECURITY, AND [...] (C) In a wide-ranging meeting February 10, Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko told the Ambassador the GOR had concluded that the only way to guarantee security in Georgia was through the presence of Russian troops. He said a renewed OSCE mandate would have to take into account South Ossetian vi [...] | 2009-02-13 08:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS PREL ENRG EU GG RS |
09MOSCOW36 | RUSSIA-EU GAS UPDATE -- UKRAINE TO "DETACH" [...] (SBU) The EC Delegation in Moscow and Gazprom told us independently on January 12 that they expect a new trilateral agreement (refs A, B, C),without the supplemental "declaration" attached by Ukraine, to be signed as early as the end of the day. Once signed and once monitors are in place, Ru [...] | 2009-01-12 12:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UK |
09MOSCOW367 | GAZPROM FACING TOUGH FINANCIAL TIMES AHEAD [...] (SBU) Gazprom's financial outlook for 2009 is increasingly bleak. The company's revenues from exports to Europe are set to decline dramatically as gas prices to Europe, which lag oil prices by about six months, head to one-third their peak price. Unfortunately for Gazprom -- and the GOR, whic [...] | 2009-02-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW397 | CASTRO VISITS MOSCOW TO REJUVENATE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Cuban President Raul Castro visited Moscow from January 28 to February 4 in an effort to boost trade ties and rejuvenate relations with Russia. Despite some exercises in Communist-era nostalgia, experts were quick to downplay any anti-U.S. angle to the trip. Medvedev and Castr [...] | 2009-02-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS EAID ETRD EPET EINV ENRG RS XM |
09MOSCOW403 | CEO MILLER TELLS AMBASSADOR GAZPROM HAS NO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; ACCUSES UKRAINE OF "THEFT" WHILE DENYING ANY REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE TO GAZPROM [...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller acknowledged the difficult economic environment but said his company thought the downturn would last no more than six months and had no intention of altering its long-term plans, including the building of the Nord Stream an [...] | 2009-02-18 14:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW419 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT BACKGROUND INFO AND RUSSIAN POC [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18 we delivered ref A demarche to MFA DVBR Division Head and NPT point of contact Aleksey Karpov, who said the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was a major priority for the GOR and Russia wanted to see it strengthened. For the current review cycle, he said Russia wou [...] | 2009-02-19 14:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA |
09MOSCOW423 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT BACKGROUND INFO AND RUSSIAN POC [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18 we delivered ref A demarche to MFA DVBR Division Head and NPT point of contact Aleksey Karpov, who said the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was a major priority for the GOR and Russia wanted to see it strengthened. For the current review cycle, he said Russia wou [...] | 2009-02-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA |
09MOSCOW424 | EXXONMOBIL DESCRIBES CONTINUED IMPASSE ON SAKHALIN [...] (C) Zeljko Runje, ExxonMobil Russia VP in charge of Sakhalin 1, told us on February 18 that the company has begun layoffs at the Sakhalin 1 project due to the absence of an approved budget for new field development (reftel). He stated the company had no role in recent press stories reporting [...] | 2009-02-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW471 | RUSSIA RESPONSE ON EXTENSION OF RER AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 13, representatives of the MFA, Rosatom, and Russia's Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) told Embassy EST and DOE representatives that Russia is willing to sign an extension of the Agreement on Cooperation in Research on Radiation Effects (RER). However, most of the am [...] | 2009-02-26 13:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP KSCA KTIA OTRA PARM TRGY EAID RS |
09MOSCOW502 | SUBJECT: DVORKOVICH AND A CRISIS OF "PLANETRAY [...] (C) In a February 27 meeting with the Ambassador, President Medvedev's Economic Assistant, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, said he predicts the downturn in Russia will be deeper and longer than the GOR had originally thought. He said the GOR would cover a large deficit this year out of the Reserve Fund b [...] | 2009-03-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW528 | RUSSIA/CHINA OIL DEAL: CLEAR AS MUD [...] (C) Following months of negotiations, Russian and Chinese state-owned corporations recently concluded a $25 billion loans-for-oil deal. The China Development Bank will provide Rosneft with $15 billion and Transneft with $10 billion at a relatively low interest rate, while the two Russian compa [...] | 2009-03-04 13:45:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW561 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 (RUSSIA) [...] (U) Subject of Proposal and General Information: Embassy EST section greatly appreciates the opportunity to request a 2009 science follow, ideally from either NIST or NSF, specializing in the field of nanotechnology who can work with the Russian government, Russian scientists and educators, a [...] | 2009-03-06 15:05:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TSPL TBIO TNGD ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA RS |
09MOSCOW683 | RUSSIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 09:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC ENRG RS |
09MOSCOW755 | GOR BLASTS EU/UKRAINE DECLARATION ON GAS [...] (C) The GOR blasted the March 23 joint EU-Ukraine declaration on the modernization of Ukraine's gas infrastructure, angry that Russia was "excluded" from the declaration and the process producing it. As a result, President Medvedev cancelled intergovernmental talks with Ukraine planned for ne [...] | 2009-03-26 15:50:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP |
09MOSCOW834 | RUSSIA-TURKEY IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: NO ZERO-SUM [...] (C) Summary: Russia has shown little concern about Turkey's recent diplomatic push in the South Caucasus, including the GOT's rapprochement with Armenia, offer to help resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and proposal for a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform. Russian officials to [...] | 2009-04-02 09:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG RS TU AJ AM |
09MOSCOW842 | Engaging Russia on Climate Change - Untapped Opportunities [...] In response to State, USAID, and DOE discussions over the future direction of the Global Climate Change (GCC) and Clean Energy Initiative programs in the Europe and Eurasia region, Post's Assistance Coordination Working Group has reviewed potential approaches to engage Russia. As the country w [...] | 2009-04-02 12:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG KGHG KSCA OSCI RS SENV TSPL |
09MOSCOW850 | MOSCOW REACTS POSITIVELY TO OBAMA-MEDVEDEV MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. Moscow reacted positively to the first meeting of President Obama and President Medvedev in London on April 1. While cautioning that issues such as missile defense and NATO enlargement remained divisive, most officials and press commentators noted a new, "positive spirit," and [...] | 2009-04-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC PARM ENRG NPT RS |
09MOSCOW851 | RUSSIA'S ATOMSTROYEXPORT CANNOT FULFILL EXISTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian policymakers are relying on Russia's competitive advantage in civilian nuclear power to help it diversify its natural resources-based economy. Atomstroyexport, Russia's international nuclear power plant constructor is diligently pursuing construction contracts for 11 n [...] | 2009-04-03 04:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP BTIO ETRD ETTC ENRG TRGY PREL ECON RS |
09MOSCOW853 | RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS SECTOR RETRENCHES [...] (SBU) Russian oil and gas companies are cutting back on capital expenditures and trimming costs where possible as they try to ride out the financial crisis and adjust to lower oil prices. Even state-owned Gazprom and Rosneft, despite having held to earlier investment plans through the end of [...] | 2009-04-03 08:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW854 | LONG-FEARED GAS CRUNCH GIVES WAY TO GAS GLUT [...] (SBU) The long-feared Russian "gas crunch" -- an inability to meet domestic and export gas commitments (ref C) -- has given way to a veritable "gas glut" as European and domestic gas demand plummets. As a consequence of the sharp recession in Russia, domestic demand over the next several years [...] | 2009-04-03 10:14:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW889 | RUSSIA-UKRAINE: HIGH-LEVEL BARBS, LOW-LEVEL [...] (C) Summary: Russia has continued its high-level criticism of the EU-Ukraine gas pipeline modernization agreement, as evidenced in Prime Minister Putin's April 6 Duma address and FM Lavrov's Rossiskaya Gazeta interview from the same day. However, businesslike discussions of bilateral issues [...] | 2009-04-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
09MOSCOW907 | (C) EXXONMOBIL CREDITS "RESET" WITH PASSAGE OF [...] (C) Zeljko Runje, ExxonMobil's local Vice President in charge of Sakhalin 1, confirmed to us April 9 that the project's budget, after months of delays (reftels),has been approved by the GOR. According to Runje, field development that had been put on hold would be resumed and that about 2000 [...] | 2009-04-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MOSCOW938 | RUSSIAN INTEREST IN SUDAN, AND AFRICA, DRIVEN BY [...] (C) Summary: Russian interest in Sudan is driven by a desire to access the country's natural resources, according to Russian analysts who are skeptical of Moscow's intention of being drawn into the difficult negotiations that will be necessary to reach a settlement between the Sudanese factio [...] | 2009-04-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EMIN ENRG CG SU RS |
09MOSCOW947 | SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL AIDE ON ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES, [...] (C) In an April 10 meeting with Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and the Ambassador, President Medvedev's Economic Assistant, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, defended the GOR's anti-crisis measures. Support for the banking system, especially in dealing with non-performing loans, was a GOR priority. High [...] | 2009-04-14 10:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL RS |
09MOSCOW970 | CONOCOPHILLIPS CEO BEING WOOED BY SECHIN, GAZPROM [...] (C) In an April 14 meeting with the Ambassador, ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Jim Mulva (strictly protect) said his company's alliance with Lukoil is going well and that ConocoPhillips is likely to join Lukoil in bidding on the West Qurna field in Iraq. He said ConocoPhillips is interested [...] | 2009-04-16 08:26:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS |
09MOSCOW971 | GAZPROM ON TURKMENISTAN PIPELINE EXPLOSION: [...] (C) On April 13, Gazprom Director of Foreign Relations Ivan Zolotov told us that Gazprom did nothing unusual that could have resulted in the gas pipeline explosion in Turkmenistan. He dismissed Turkmen accusations to the contrary, and said Gazprom had given Turkmenistan sufficient notice of r [...] | 2009-04-16 08:29:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
09MUMBAI170 | MUMBAI MASALA: CORPORATE BONDS, SOLAR ENERGY, AND RETAIL [...] (U) Table of Contents: - Capital Market Regulator talks about the Corporate Bond Market and the Financial Crisis - Ispat Energy Plans 500 MW Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy Project in Gujarat - Wal-Mart Expands its Indian Footprint while Other Big Retailers Pause to Regroup [...] | 2009-04-24 12:39:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG IN |
09MUMBAI195 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: WILL POWER SECTOR POLITICS IN MAHARASHTRA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-15 12:04:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EPET PGOV IN |
09MUMBAI273 | MUMBAI ECONOMISTS DISCUSS NEXT STEPS NECESSARY TO COUNTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, a group of leading economists in Mumbai discussed possible economic reforms by the newly-elected Congress-led government. All economists agreed that the mood in the Indian economy is currently buoyant and confidence ruled. Nevertheless, they cautioned that timely g [...] | 2009-06-30 06:11:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EAGR IN |
09MUMBAI320 | SPECIAL ENVOY STERN HEARS THAT INDIAN INDUSTRY IS READY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern met with several leading private Indian businessmen to ascertain their views on mitigating climate change. He found that India's private sector is actively engaged in clean technology investment, particularly for renewable energy. [...] | 2009-08-05 07:38:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY ETRD IN |
09MUMBAI341 | INDIA'S SECRETARY FOR ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENDS NUCLEAR FUEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-21 09:51:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP EINV EFIN ECON PREL IN |
09MUMBAI415 | ARE CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE U.S. IN [...] Summary: As efforts to introduce clean and renewable energy in India grow, energy entrepreneurs hope that a mix of government policies, international technology transfers, and better access to financing will spur the development of a competitive clean energy industry. Many Indian companies ha [...] | 2009-10-30 09:19:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EPET ETRD ETTC IN |
09MUMBAI43 | MUMBAI MASALA: CONSUL GENERAL VISITS KUTCH, MUNDRA SEZ AND [...] (U) On a recent trip to Gujarat, the Consul General inaugurated a medical camp near Bhuj, in the remote desert region of Kutch. This is the 35th consecutive year that the month-long camp has served the needs of local inhabitants, in one of the most remote parts of the state. The camp is sta [...] | 2009-01-27 08:29:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TSPL ECON IN |
09MUMBAI439 | PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS IN INDIA BELIEVE BETTER TIMES AHEAD [...] SUMMARY: Fund managers at private equity (PE) firms are expressing renewed confidence in high-growth opportunities in India, after a long hiatus. While the market for private equity dried up from a high of $17.3 billion in FY2007 to $3 billion in year-to-date FY2009, PE investors report that [...] | 2009-11-19 09:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG ELTN IN |
09MUMBAI444 | GOLDEN" MAHARASHTRA'S ECONOMY IS STILL INDIA'S BIGGEST, BUT [...] (U) Summary: The state of Maharashtra has historically been the seat of economic and financial power in India. State government officials, members of the business community, and investors told Congenoffs that Maharashtra's historical status as the top investment destination is also driven by [...] | 2009-11-25 12:14:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB ENRG ETRD IN |
09MUMBAI450 | KAKODKAR RETIRES, BARC'S BANERJEE NEW HEAD OF INDIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 30, Anil Kakodkar, the guardian of India's nuclear energy program and one of the chief negotiators of the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, retired after over 45 years with India's civil and military nuclear energy programs. His successor, Srikumar B [...] | 2009-12-03 05:33:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN ENRG TRGY BEXP EINV ECON PREL |
09MUMBAI479 | INDIAN NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS REPROCESSING AND [...] (U) Summary: The U.S.-India Business Council's delegation of U.S. commercial nuclear energy vendors engaged with the Indian nuclear energy establishment in Mumbai to discuss the role of U.S. companies in augmenting India's nuclear energy capacity. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the go [...] | 2009-12-17 07:41:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG KNNP ETRD IN |
09MUNICH162 | Northern African Solar Energy: A Silver Bullet Against the [...] (U) SUMMARY: Major European investors led by Germany are in the preliminary stages of developing "Desertec," a 400 billion euro renewable energy project with the potential to supply 15 percent of Europe's power needs by 2050. The group electrified renewable energy proponents with the announc [...] | 2009-07-02 07:51:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL SENV EU GM XF |
09MUSCAT45 | OMANI OIL & GAS MINISTER: HIGHER VOLUMES, LOWER PRICES IN [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador January 17, Minister of Oil and Gas Mohammed bin Hamad al-Rumhi: -- reported that oil production would edge past 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2009, thanks largely to significant volume increases from the Occidental Petroleum-operated al-Mukhaizna [...] | 2009-01-19 10:01:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL IR MU |
09MUSCAT53 | MORE SPENDING AND RECORD DEFICIT IN OMAN'S 2009 BUDGET [...] (C) Despite a slowing economy, Oman's 2009 budget forecasts increased government revenues and spending. It also features a record high deficit of over USD 2 billion that could increase if the projected annual average sales prices for Omani crude oil fails to reach the USD 45/barrel target. Cu [...] | 2009-01-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD MU |
09MUSCAT575 | OMAN AND PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Oman News Agency reported June 2, that Oman and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The MoU was signed by the Deputy Director of the Rosatom Nuclear energy State Co-operation Commission Nikolai Spassky a [...] | 2009-06-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TSPL MU |
09MUSCAT649 | FOLLOW-UP AND ACTION REQUEST OMAN NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM [...] (C) The ChargC) and Economic-Commercial Officer met with the Chief of Oman's Office of Peaceful Nuclear Technology to discuss Oman's plans with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and potential areas for cooperation with the United States. Oman is very interested in pursuing academ [...] | 2009-06-22 11:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL ENRG TSPL MU |
09MUSCAT851 | OMAN, INC.: BUSINESS OLIGARCHS AND GOVERNMENT IN OMAN'S [...] (C) Oman's business landscape remains dominated by a handful of local families who work either in tandem with, or in the shadow of, government-run enterprises. As the Sultanate's economy diversifies away from petroleum into fields such as industrial production and tourism, these families have [...] | 2009-08-16 11:37:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ENRG ETRD PINR MU |
09MUSCAT937 | RECALL 09 MUSCAT 937 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 08:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EPET MU |
09MUSCAT939 | RECALL 09 MUSCAT 939 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 12:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EPET MU |
09MUSCAT949 | U.S. LAW FIRM TO ADVISE ON SOLAR PROJECT FEASIBILITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-11 03:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EPET MU |
09NAIROBI1200 | GOVERNMENT OF KENYA SUPPORTS ETHIOPIA'S GIBE III [...] (SBU) Summary: According to John Rao Nyaoro, the director of the Bureau of Water Resources in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kenya is convinced that Ethiopia's proposed Gibe III hydroelectric run-of-the-river project on the lower Omo River will not harm Lake Turkana and may, in fact, e [...] | 2009-06-15 11:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PBTS EINV SOCI ECON KE |
09NAIROBI1268 | KENYA, IRENA, AND CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVES [...] Per reftels, post informed Kenyan Ministry of Energy Senior Deputy Secretary for Administration Paul Ngatia on June 24 that the United States welcomes the formation of the International Renewal Energy Agency (IRENA) and is considering signing the IRENA Statute at the June 28-30 consultative me [...] | 2009-06-24 14:00:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV ECON ETRD EFIN KE |
09NAIROBI2007 | KENYA: SEPTEMBER ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] KENYA BUREAU OF STANDARDS CHIEF SACKED; POTENTIAL POSITIVE STEP 2. GDP GROWTH BELOW TARGET, GOK MULLS IMF PROGRAM REQUEST, AND FOOD/ENERGY PRICES SET TO RISE 3. AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR AGRICULTURAL REFORM IN FACE OF RECURRING DROUGHT 4. TURKANA WIND PROJECT PROMISES NEW ENERGY CAPACITY [...] | 2009-09-23 14:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ELAB ECPS EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PINR KCOR |
09NAIROBI2184 | KENYA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2010 [...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Country: Kenya 3. Current Status: Eligible 4. Country Background Summary: The population of Kenya is 38.6 million (mid 2008 estimate),estimated 2008 GDP is $30.4 billion, and per capita income is $770. An estimated 54% of the [...] | 2009-10-16 08:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB AGOA PGOV PREL |
09NAIROBI2260 | KENYA: OCTOBER ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] IMF FORECASTS CY2009 2.7% ECONOMIC GROWTH 2. TOURISM SHOWS SIGNS OF RECOVERY 3. WILDLIFE THREATENED BY DROUGHT AND INCREASED POACHING 4. CORRUPTION SURFACES AT THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Â [...] | 2009-10-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ELAB ECPS EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PINR KCOR |
09NAIROBI2408 | KENYA: CHINA DRILLING FOR OIL IN ISIOLO [...] (SBU) Summary: The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is drilling for oil in the Isiolo region of Kenya. Kenya won't realistically know until January 2010 if they have struck a commercially viable deposit. To date, oil exploration in Kenya has been unsuccessful. Kenya has no o [...] | 2009-11-25 11:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG SENV KE |
09NAIROBI279 | KOFI ANNAN PRESS STATEMENT ON PARLIAMENT'S FAILURE [...] Kenya's Parliament on February 12 rejected a constitutional amendment to establish a Special Tribunal to try perpetrators, organizers, and financiers of the post- election violence that occurred in the wake of Kenya's botched 2007 general elections (Septel). Creation of a Special Tribunal wa [...] | 2009-02-13 09:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG SENV SOCI KE |
09NAIROBI342 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS KENYA [...] (U) Iranian President Ahmadinejad arrives in Kenya on February 24th at the head of a delegation of over 100 government officials and private businessmen. Ahmadinejad's visit follows a flurry of reciprocal visits between high level Kenyan officials and their Iranian counterparts over the past [...] | 2009-02-23 13:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IR KE PINR PREL EINV |
09NAIROBI455 | Embassy Science Fellows Program 2009 (Kenya) [...] Embassy Nairobi requests a Science Fellow from USGS, NOAA, USDA, or other appropriate agency to provide technical assistance to Kenya's Ministry for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands in land use planning for Kenya's Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs). Timing for the Fellowsh [...] | 2009-03-06 09:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA KE |
09NAIROBI553 | IRAN TRADE MISSION TO KENYA STRICTLY BUSINESS; AHMADINEJAD [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Division director Ken Vitisia, the recent visit of Iranian President Mahjmoud Ahmadinejad, accompanied by 200 businessmen and Iranian government officials, among them Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki, was principally a tr [...] | 2009-03-19 08:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EPET PREL ENRG ECON EINV PINR IR KE |
09NASSAU135 | BAHAMAS UPDATE ON LNG PIPELINE PROJECT [...] (C) Charge Zuniga-Brown met with AES representatives Brian Chatlosh and Neil Watlington on March 4 to discuss the proposed LNG pipeline project from the island of Ocean Cay to southern Florida. The proposed project has been in negotiation between AES and the Government of the Commonwealth of [...] | 2009-03-05 19:44:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG BF |
09NASSAU147 | ISLAND SCHOOL FOCUSES GCOB ON ENERGY, FOOD, ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A U.S. privately sponsored secondary school specializing in environmental and marine studies celebrated ten year's of conservation and education in The Bahamas in February. The school is an open-air laboratory for practical renewable energy, sustainable food production, and marin [...] | 2009-03-10 21:11:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EFIS PGOV CASC KPAO BF |
09NASSAU226 | BAHAMAS DELEGATION FOR THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 19:34:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM PGOV |
09NASSAU525 | MEGAPORTS TABLETOP EXERCISE SET FOR APRIL 2010 [...] (SBU) August 19, representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) met with GCOB officials in Nassau to discuss plans for a joint Megaports Table Top Exercise (TTX) in FY 2010. The GCOB agreed to schedule the TTX for mid-April 2010 in either Nassa [...] | 2009-09-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ENRG ETRD KNNP PARM BF |
09NDJAMENA104 | MINOR GOC CABINET RESHUFFLE SETS STAGE FOR PM TO [...] (SBU) President Deby and his PM affected a relatively minor shuffle to the cabinet 3/23, which left unchanged the leadership in all critical "power" ministries, including Defense, Foreign Affairs, Interior, Infrastructure, Education, Finance, Justice and others. All four of the former opposit [...] | 2009-03-25 12:09:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG AU CD |
09NDJAMENA284 | CHAD'S ELECTRICITY: MORE GENERATION BY 2011, AWAITING [...] (SBU) Yaccoub Brahim Djouma, Director General of the national electric company, had little relief to offer for the weeks-long power outages that were commonplace in the capital, counting on replacement parts and cooler temperatures, in a meeting with emboffs July 6. He outlined a long-term p [...] | 2009-07-13 15:35:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV ENRG PREF CD |
09NEWDELHI100 | INDIAN SCIENCE AT A CROSSROADS: THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the Indian National Science Academy's (INSA) 75th anniversary celebration, presenters raved over India's extraordinary accomplishments in science and technology at the same time they lamented India's lost scientific prowess, lack of diversity, and failure to keep up with the [...] | 2009-01-16 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV SCUL TSPL PREL ENRG IN |
09NEWDELHI104 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of January 12-16, 2009, including the following: -- Trade Roundtable with Canada, EU, NZ, Australia -- Update on the Pension Sector -- FDI Slows in November -- Aviation Industry Likely to Fare Better in 20 [...] | 2009-01-16 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1048 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 18-22, 2009, including the following: -- Ministry of Finance Reorganization -- Insurance Bill Passage Likely in Winter Parliament -- CCI Goes Live -- India Notifies Initiation of Safeguard Duty Inve [...] | 2009-05-22 10:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET |
09NEWDELHI1096 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 26-29, 2009, including the following: -- Indian Telecom Major Bharti Airtel and MTN of South Africa Back in Merger Negotiations -- Government Aims to Present Budget by Early July -- Bharti Wal-Mart t [...] | 2009-05-29 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1129 | CHARGE MEETS NEW INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER; [...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 courtesy call by the Charge, newly appointed External Affairs Minister Krishna said he welcomed enhancement of the bilateral dialogue. In a prior meeting with Foreign Secretary Menon, the Charge flagged the need to move forward on "legacy" issues in the run-up to ne [...] | 2009-06-02 14:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ENRG CE IN |
09NEWDELHI1162 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 1-5, 2009, including the following: -- GDP Growth of 6.7% Surprises on the Upside -- Infrastructure Sector Recovers Somewhat in April -- Some Signs of Expanding Manufacturing Sector -- FY 2009-10 Be [...] | 2009-06-05 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1209 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS MEETS INDIAN PRIME MINISTER SINGH [...] (C) Summary: In a June 11 meeting, Prime Minister Singh assured Under Secretary Burns of his strong personal commitment to strengthening further India's ties to the United States. Singh welcomed the development of a road map that would provide structure to the strategic partnership and produce [...] | 2009-06-11 17:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PARM MASS PTER ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1211 | FS MENON AND U/S BURNS DISCUSS NEW STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Secretary Menon and visiting Under Secretary for Political Affairs Bill Burns discussed a new architecture for the Strategic Dialogue and a variety of bilateral and regional issues during several meetings June 10. Remarking on the substantial overlap in thinking on how t [...] | 2009-06-11 17:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI1212 | UNDERSECRETARY BURNS AND FOREIGN MINISTER KRISHNA [...] (SBU) Summary. In his first meeting with Minister for External Affairs S.M. Krishna, visiting Under Secretary for Political Affairs Bill Burns outlined opportunities to expand the bilateral relationship as it enters the next phase. Foreign Secretary Menon and Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Mee [...] | 2009-06-11 17:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI1222 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 8-12, 2009, including the following: -- MOF Preparing for Budget Session -- Indian Commerce Minister Meets with USTR, Others on WTO -- Tax Concessions Proposed for Broadcast & Film Industry -- Will [...] | 2009-06-12 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1224 | ADVANI PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR U.S.-INDIA RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 11 meeting with Under Secretary Burns, India's Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani pledged common cause with the new Congress-led government, particularly on the principal foreign policy issues of Afghanistan and Pakistan and on a strengthened relationship with the Un [...] | 2009-06-12 14:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENRG PAK IN |
09NEWDELHI1284 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 15-19, 2009, including the following: -- Inflation Hits Negative Territory -- India Imposes Restrictions on Chinese Mobiles, Extends Tight Norms on Toys and Dairy -- Panel Advises Increase in Supp [...] | 2009-06-19 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1300 | INDIA JUSTIFIES DISSENT ON NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon explained to the Charge d'Affaires June 22 India's rationale for failing to support International Nuclear Fuel Bank proposals at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting in Vienna June 15-16 (ref A). According to media re [...] | 2009-06-23 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI1330 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 22-26, 2009, including the following: -- India To Be Fastest Growing Economy in 2010 -- India Signals Openness to Re-Start Doha Round Negotiations -- GOI Announces New PPP Norms -- GOI Announces [...] | 2009-06-26 13:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1333 | MEA KRISHNA HONORS BHUTAN WITH FIRST VISIT ABROAD [...] (U) Summary. India's newly-appointed Minister for External Affairs S.M. Krishna visited Bhutan June 18-20, marking his first trip abroad after assuming power. Krishna met with the current and former kings, Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley, and other officials to reaffirm the close relationship b [...] | 2009-06-26 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM IN BT INR ENRG EAID ELTN |
09NEWDELHI1379 | NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 29 TO [...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 29-July 2, 2009, including the following: -- World Bank: Don't Require Deep Emission Cuts from India -- India Against International Climate Change Monitoring, Carbon Tax -- [...] | 2009-07-02 13:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN |
09NEWDELHI1392 | INDIA'S ECONOMIC SURVEY FOCUSES ON GROWTH AND FISCAL [...] (U) Summary: The Economic Survey for India's Fiscal Year (IFY) 2008-09 (4/1/2008 to 3/31/2009) presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in India's Parliament on July 2 paints a resilient picture of the Indian economy. The Survey sees a 'U shaped' recovery for growth in IFY 2009-10 (4/1/2 [...] | 2009-07-06 13:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1433 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 6-10, 2009, including the following: -- Sharma Sees Recovery Signs in Exports -- Update on India's Balance of Payments -- Price Rise for Petrol and Diesel -- Lower House of Parliament Passes Railwa [...] | 2009-07-10 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1464 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary: Mission India warmly welcomes you to India. This is an opportune moment in the relationship between the world's largest democracies. The Congress Party's strong showing in the April elections allowed formation of a new and strong Indian government--freed from the constrain [...] | 2009-07-15 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | EAGR EAID ECIN EFIN EINT EINV ENRG ETRD ETTC |
09NEWDELHI1489 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 13-17, 2009, including the following: -- Informal WTO Talks to be Held in September -- EGoM to Help Steer the Long Delayed 3G Spectrum Auction -- Adequacy of India's Foreign Exchange Reserves -- [...] | 2009-07-20 07:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI150 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of January 20-23, 2009, including the following: -- Montek Ahluwalia on 2009: "Brace Yourselves" -- Canadian FIPA/BIT Still Being Scrubbed -- GOI May Relax SEZ Norms Due to Low Export Demand -- Tourism in [...] | 2009-01-23 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI152 | CIVIL NUCLEAR TRADE MISSION REVEALS IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) This is an action request; please see paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. A trade mission co-led by the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) and Nuclear Energy Institute explored opportunities for civil nuclear cooperation in meetings with senior political and technical officials in New De [...] | 2009-01-23 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI1535 | A/S BLAKE DISCUSSES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DIALOGS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Robert Blake met with Indian Joint Secretary (AMS) Gaitri Kumar July 21 and outlined next steps in the new Strategic Dialogue. They agreed that Counter Terrorism was an immediate focus and that Home Minister Chidambaram should visit Washington as soon as p [...] | 2009-07-24 08:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ECON ENRG SOCI IN |
09NEWDELHI1544 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 20-24, 2009, including the following: -- GOI Releases Online Customs and Tariff Database -- Report on Benefits to India of Increasing FDI in Higher Ed -- Minister Sharma on Retail Growth and Agricul [...] | 2009-07-24 14:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1608 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 27-31, 2009, including the following: -- Tax Breaks Clear the Way for Oil and Gas Auction -- Passing of FY 2010 Budget Trumps Economic Reforms -- India Plans September WTO Mini-Ministerial to Reener [...] | 2009-07-31 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN EINV ENRG EPET ETRD BEXP KIPR IN CN |
09NEWDELHI1637 | SPECIAL ENVOY STERN ENGAGES INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGO [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern held a series of meetings July 20-21 in New Delhi with Government of India officials and NGO representatives to discuss the upcoming Copenhagen Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC as well as potential areas for U.S. - India bila [...] | 2009-08-04 11:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI1649 | U.S.-INDIAN RELATIONS: NEXT STEPS IN THE STRATEGIC [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Following on the August 5 Interagency Policy Committee meeting to discuss the Strategic Dialogue, Mission offers its views on next steps in the run up to the Prime Minister's November visit. We spell out dialogue goals, describe ways to move forward, flag pitfalls and propose po [...] | 2009-08-06 15:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS ENRG EFIN CVIS AMGT IN |
09NEWDELHI1657 | NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 27 TO AUGUST 07, [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 27 to August 07, 2009, including the following: -- Environment Minister Opposes Mining Project -- Arunachal Pradesh Civil Rights Group Opposes Hydro Power Projects -- National Dis [...] | 2009-08-07 14:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN |
09NEWDELHI1677 | NSA NARAYANAN ON CIV-NUKE IMPLEMENTATION, CT/INTEL [...] (C) Summary: Indian NSA M.K. Narayanan stressed a desire to work closely to develop a ambitious agenda for PM Singh's November visit to Washington and flagged his decisive role in pushing through End-Use Monitoring Agreement (EUM) and directing Indian foreign policy, during an August 10 introducto [...] | 2009-08-11 13:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI1707 | FOREIGN SECRETARY RAO UPBEAT AND EXPANSIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Foreign Secretary Rao August 12, Ambassador Roemer stressed the importance of the Strategic Dialogue and of implementing the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, as well as bringing to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumb [...] | 2009-08-13 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI173 | FRANCE NEEDS CIVIL NUCLEAR LIABILITY CONVENTION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The French public multinational civil nuclear firm Areva shares many of the same requirements for doing business in India as U.S. private sector firms, including a civil nuclear liability regime consistent with the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage and [...] | 2009-01-28 14:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY PREL PARM TSPL KNNP EINV BEXP KIPR |
09NEWDELHI1766 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 17-21, 2009, including the following: -- Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Reconstituted -- Dr. Subir Gokran Likely to be Next RBI Deputy Governor -- Ministry of Finance Releases Direct T [...] | 2009-08-21 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ECIN ECPS EINT EAGR EFIN EINV ENRG EPET |
09NEWDELHI1806 | FOREIGN MINISTRY PROPOSES MOU ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Roemer pressed External Affairs Minister Krishna August 28 to complete the outstanding civil nuclear cooperation implementation items prior to Prime Minister Singh's November 24 visit to Washington. Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar [...] | 2009-08-28 15:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN |
09NEWDELHI1808 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 24-28, 2009, including the following: -- India Announces Foreign Trade Policy for 2009-2014 -- ICRIER Seminar On Express Delivery Issues -- Washington Apples Bring Bonanza to Indian Importers -- [...] | 2009-08-31 02:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI1833 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR REJECTS FURTHER NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In several media interviews August 29-30, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan defended India's 1998 nuclear tests against claims by a former defense scientist that its hydrogen bomb was a "fizzle" and that India should therefore refuse to sign the CTBT until its thermonuclea [...] | 2009-09-02 07:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI1856 | NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 31, [...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 31 - September 04, 2009, including the following: -- Minister of Environment and Forests Ramesh visits China -- Valmiki Tiger Reserve Bounces Back -- Ministry of Human Reso [...] | 2009-09-04 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN |
09NEWDELHI1858 | INDIA POSITIVE ON STRATEGIC SECURITY DIALOGUE, DUG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian MEA Acting Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Gill agreed in principle to holding the senior-level Strategic Security Dialogue in Washington in early October. He gave an informal, positive response to the proposed agenda and will provide further fee [...] | 2009-09-04 14:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP ENRG IN |
09NEWDELHI1861 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 31 - September 4, 2009, including the following: -- India Hosts WTO Mini-Ministerial to Re-energize Doha -- India's Own Trade Continues to Plunge -- More Investment Options for Foreign Venture Cap [...] | 2009-09-08 03:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI190 | REPUBLIC DAY GUEST OF HONOR: KAZAKHSTAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to India as chief guest at the 2009 Republic Day celebration resulted in the signature of five substantive agreements, including an MoU on civilian nuclear cooperation. Nazarbayev did not create the media splash other Republic Day [...] | 2009-01-30 10:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG TRGY PHUM PINR KDEM KZ IN |
09NEWDELHI1903 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 8-11, 2009, including the following: -- Possible Warming of India-Pakistan Bilateral Trade Ties -- India's First Annual Foreign Trade Barriers Report -- Jet Airways Pilots Strike - An End in Si [...] | 2009-09-14 02:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI192 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of January 27-30, 2009, including the following: -- Govt, Central Bank Lower GDP Projections -- Study Projects $6-10 billion for India from EU FTA -- Study Projects Continued Growth in Higher-Income Househo [...] | 2009-01-30 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI1944 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 14-17, 2009, including the following: -- Financial Sector Reforms Still In Play -- Invest India to Boost Foreign Investment -- DOT to Allow Remote Access Monitoring Financial Sector Reform [...] | 2009-09-17 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI1952 | NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER [...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 14 to September 18, 2009, including the following: -- India Plans to Reduce Emissions through Legislation -- India Starts to Get Serious About Environmental Protection - [...] | 2009-09-18 11:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO TSPA ENRG ECON SOCI IN |
09NEWDELHI1999 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-25 13:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI2013 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 21-24, 2009, including the following: -- AIG Downsizing In India -- Slow Going for Financial Sector Reform -- India Retains U.S. FAA Category 1 Status -- World Bank Approves $4.3 billion Loans [...] | 2009-09-29 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI2037 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 29-October 1, 2009, including the following: -- Foreign Equity Investment Passes $10 Billion Mark -- FIPB Approves 13 Proposals in September 2009 -- Air India Strike Ends -- India's Small but [...] | 2009-10-01 14:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR |
09NEWDELHI2039 | INDIA: PAKISTAN MUST DEMONSTRATE IT IS SERIOUS [...] (S) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary Y.K. Sinha (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran Division) told us India is open to continuing a "general dialogue" with Islamabad but resumption of the Composite Dialogue (CD) and real progress in improving bilateral ties is not possible until Islama [...] | 2009-10-01 15:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL EAGR ENRG PARM SENV PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2084 | PM SINGH TELLS AMBASSADOR HE'S BULLISH ON GREEN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Ambassador on October 8 that he was looking forward to his November state visit to Washington. In a conversation on the margins of the annual Air Force Day reception, Singh stressed his strong interest in the U.S. and India working togethe [...] | 2009-10-09 12:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL SENV ENRG ETRD IN |
09NEWDELHI2087 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 2-8, 2009, including the following: -- Reserve Bank of India Warns Banks of Real Estate Risks -- Bombay Stock Exchange Rises on Improved Data, FII Inflows -- 3G Auction Delayed -- Telecom Expert [...] | 2009-10-09 13:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR IN |
09NEWDELHI2120 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 9-15, 2009, including the following: -- No End in Sight for Strengthening Rupee -- Industrial Production Points to Recovery No End in Sight for Strengthening Rupee ---------------------------- [...] | 2009-10-16 12:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR IN |
09NEWDELHI2141 | NSA NARAYANAN REVIEWS PREPARATIONS FOR PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 16, National Security Advisor Narayanan previewed with Under Secretary Burns preparations for Prime Minister Singh's official state visit to Washington November 24. They agreed in principle to work toward deliverables from each of the five pillars of the Strategic Dia [...] | 2009-10-21 14:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP ENRG TSPA TSPL ADPM AMGT KREC |
09NEWDELHI2164 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 16-22, 2009, including the following: -- India to Launch Satellites to Monitor Climate Change -- New Secretaries for Space and Atomic Energy -- India's Outward FDI Declines, while FDI Inflows still Ro [...] | 2009-10-23 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR TSPA |
09NEWDELHI2209 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 23-29, 2009, including the following: -- Central Bureau of Investigation Raids Department of Telecom Offices -- The RBI Takes A Bow -- Economic Advisory Council Expects Better Days Ahead [...] | 2009-10-30 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR TSPA |
09NEWDELHI2235 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S TAUSCHER AND THE STRATEGIC [...] (C) Under Secretary Tauscher: Mission India warmly welcomes you to New Delhi for the launch of the Strategic Security Dialogue. The Indian Government is focused on using the Strategic Dialogue process launched during Secretary Clinton's July visit as a mechanism to explore ways to broaden an [...] | 2009-11-05 14:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2245 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of November 2-6, 2009, including the following: -- No Major Changes Yet to Monetary Policy -- Insurance Sector Growing -- Alok Nigam: New Joint Secretary of Financial Services -- Tarun Das Retires No Ma [...] | 2009-11-06 12:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR TSPA |
09NEWDELHI2280 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of November 9-13, 2009, including the following: -- Buzz Misleads on WTO Government Procurement Agreement -- RBI Audits Could Lead to Further Opening of the Banking Sector -- Corporate Profits Up, Sales Not [...] | 2009-11-13 09:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI230 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 2-6, 2009, including the following: -- India Largest Recipient of Worker Remittances -- Government Anticipates 1.5 million Job-loss by March Due to Global Downturn -- India's FY2008 Investment [...] | 2009-02-06 10:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI2310 | UNDER SECRETARY TAUSCHER MEETS INDIAN SPECIAL [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Tauscher reviewed the next steps in U.S. nonproliferation efforts in a November 12 meeting with Indian Special Envoy Saran. Saran expressed support for President Obama's vision of a nuclear weapons free world and said India wanted to work with the U.S. on a for [...] | 2009-11-17 07:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG KNNP IN |
09NEWDELHI2319 | U/S TAUSCHER AND INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSS NON-PRO AND [...] (C) Summary: In a November 12 meeting with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher reviewed the status of USG efforts regarding START, CTBT, and the FMCT. Narayanan expressed great interest in USG efforts to refu [...] | 2009-11-17 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2334 | Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...] | 2009-11-19 06:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI2335 | Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...] | 2009-11-19 06:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI2350 | New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of November 16-20, 2009, including the following: -- India Ready for FATF Evaluation -- Disinvestment Gets a Push -- Commerce Minister Plans to Double India's Share in Global Trade Within the Next Five Yea [...] | 2009-11-20 11:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP TRGY TINT BG NP |
09NEWDELHI2357 | INDIA PROVIDES PART 810 ASSURANCES ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) conveyed by diplomatic note November 20 a document entitled "Assurances by the Government of India to the Government of the United States on Nuclear Technology Transfers" in reply to reftel demarches. These "Part 810" assurances constituted a key r [...] | 2009-11-20 14:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ENRG IN |
09NEWDELHI2398 | U/S TAUSCHER ENGAGES FS RAO IN STRATEGIC SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Delegations led by Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao exchanged views on the full spectrum of nonproliferation and disarmament issues in the first meeting of the Strategic Security Dialogue (SSD) November 12-13 [...] | 2009-11-27 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2399 | INDIA UNLIKELY TO MEET $500 BILLION INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING [...] (SBU) Summary. Both Government of India (GOI) officials and private sector experts expect the GOI to fall far short of its plan to spend $500 billion on infrastructure between 2007 and 2012. Public-private partnerships have become an acceptable format for such projects but the private sector r [...] | 2009-11-27 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG ELTN EWWT IN |
09NEWDELHI2441 | INDIAN DELEGATION HEADS TO COPENHAGEN WITH SOFT WORDS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Armed with the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Action Plan, India's delegation to COP-15 is planning a highly legalistic defense of the G-77 and the entitlement of developing countries to financial flows from the developed world. U.S. negotiators should expect more nit- [...] | 2009-12-04 11:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI2516 | NSA NARAYANAN ON CIVIL NUCLEAR IMPLEMENTATION AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Roemer pressed National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan in a telephone call December 16 for progress on civil nuclear implementation, assurances about the protection of sensitive information, and a commitment not to seek extradition in the Headley case. Narayanan remai [...] | 2009-12-17 13:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK IN |
09NEWDELHI2550 | ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DEFENDS COPENHAGEN ACCORD; LOCAL NGOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh claimed victory for India's Copenhagen negotiating team in a parliamentary session December 22. Ramesh used his response to opposition attacks to sensitize the nation to the idea India needs to realize its responsibilities as a [...] | 2009-12-22 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI267 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES MENON TO IMPLEMENT CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Highlighting U.S. industry concerns about the slow pace of civil nuclear cooperation and stressing the opportunities it holds for U.S. commerce and job creation, Ambassador Mulford pressed Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon February 11 for swifter action on implementation. Menon reit [...] | 2009-02-12 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI270 | CLIMATE POSITIONS HARDEN AT 2009 DELHI SUSTAINABLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, held February 5 - 7, 2009, focused solely on climate change and the road to the December 2009 UNFCCC climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark. DSDS 2009 attracted fewer current heads of state than in 2008 but more big names including [...] | 2009-02-12 13:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI280 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 9-13, 2009, including the following: -- India Modifies FDI Procedures -- Inflation Continues to Fall -- December Industrial Output Falls -- Interim Railway Budget Announced -- FII Holdings Fal [...] | 2009-02-13 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI29 | MUKHERJEE SHARES CONCERN ABOUT SPECIAL ENVOY IN AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL [...] (S) SUMMARY. In Ambassador Mulford's January 7 farewell call on External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Minister said he understood the seriousness of the error in releasing sensitive intelligence from the Mumbai terrorism investigations and pledged that the Ministry would not further diss [...] | 2009-01-07 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG |
09NEWDELHI324 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 17-20, 2009, including the following: -- Inflation Declines to 14-Month Low -- India-ASEAN FTA Authorization May Be Postponed -- State-owned Banks to Be Recapitalized -- GOI Extends Duty Credit [...] | 2009-02-20 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI368 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- UPA Government's Last Relief Package to Exporters -- UPA Sneaks in Another Last Minute Vote Sweetener -- Government Attempts Clarification of FDI Policy [...] | 2009-02-27 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI370 | INDIA-IAEA: SHARED CONCERN ON IRAN-SYRIA REPORT, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ministry of External Affairs Director for Disarmament and International Security Affairs Gaddam Dharmendra shared February 28 India's perspective on Iran-Syria and India's Additional Protocal, two items on the agenda of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Govern [...] | 2009-02-27 14:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SYR TRGY IN PINS ENRG |
09NEWDELHI435 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 2-6, 2009, including the following: -- India Continues to Slow Down -- Inflation Declines to 7-Year Low; RBI Moves -- FDI Clarifications Just Cloud the Issue -- FATF Gives Go Ahead for India Mutual [...] | 2009-03-06 09:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI44 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of January 5-9, 2009, including the following: -- India's Exports Continue to Fall in December -- Export Tax Makes Indian Basmati Rice Expensive -- Government Hopeful on Insurance Sector Bills -- GOI Manda [...] | 2009-01-09 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI453 | OES ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY HARNISH ENGAGES GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oceans, Environment and Sciences Bureau (OES) OES Acting Assistant Secretary Reno Harnish lead a multi-stakeholder delegation to New Delhi to engage GOI ministries on the lessons learned from the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) in order to suppor [...] | 2009-03-11 06:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG PREL TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG BEXP IN |
09NEWDELHI471 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 9-13, 2009, including the following: -- Industrial Index Declines Again -- Foreign Direct Investment High Through December -- Inflation Continues To Soften -- Characteristics of Service Sector Ent [...] | 2009-03-13 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI532 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 16-20, 2009, including the following: -- Inflation Falls to a Historic Low -- Foreign Direct Investments High Through January -- India Discusses Free Trade Pact with Chile -- New Pension Scheme fo [...] | 2009-03-20 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI557 | INDIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP |
09NEWDELHI576 | INDIA'S ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGES LACK A GREEN FOCUS [...] This cable is in response to Ref A seeking information regarding green investments in India's economic stimulus packages. On December 7, 2008, the Government of India announced a fiscal stimulus package of approximately 4 billion USD (Ref B). This was followed-up on January 2, 2009 with a GO [...] | 2009-03-26 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIN ENRG KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI596 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- Much Ado: Tata Nano Finally Launched -- Infosys Postpones Hiring; IBM Plans to Shift Jobs to India -- Wind-power Producers in Tamil Nadu Can Charge More -- [...] | 2009-03-27 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI663 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 30-April 3, 2009, including the following: -- Update on India's External Sector -- Indian Carriers Cancel Aircraft Orders -- Boeing Opens Research and Technology Center -- Bihar Govt Official Comm [...] | 2009-04-03 10:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI770 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 13-17, 2009, including the following: -- India Misses Export Target -- Inflation Declines, Food Still Expensive -- Domestic Steel Users Oppose Antidumping Duty -- Company Expects Approval of Firs [...] | 2009-04-17 12:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI782 | PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAN, AFGHANISTAN WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 17 meeting with Codel Berman, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh endorsed the Obama Administration's outreach to Iran, saying that a comprehensive dialogue will be more effective in changing Tehran's behavior than international sanctions. He urged the U.S. to stay the cou [...] | 2009-04-21 06:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PARM TRGY KNNP EAGR ENRG EINV ETRD |
09NEWDELHI796 | U.S.-INDIAN RELATIONS: CLEARING THE BRUSH [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) In advance of the April 24 Interagency Meeting to discuss India policy, Mission offers its views on the next steps that should be taken to move the relationship forward in the near term. We are focused on high priority items whose resolution will lay the groundwork for a stronge [...] | 2009-04-22 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS ENRG EFIN CVIS AMGT IN |
09NEWDELHI8 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009, including the following: -- Trade Figures Decline for Second Consecutive Month -- 3G Telecom Spectrum Auction Postponed -- Most Indian Carriers Cut Domestic Fares - [...] | 2009-01-02 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI802 | GOING GREEN AND SAVING MILLIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL [...] SUMMARY: Embassy New Delhi has achieved significant success in energy efficiency and environmental sustainability through a focused "going green" effort. Embassy New Delhi has been a pioneer in rainwater harvesting, solar technology, and energy conservation. Post has realized more than half [...] | 2009-04-22 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG TRGY ECON KGHG IN |
09NEWDELHI804 | CODEL BERMAN DISCUSSES BILATERAL, REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. In an April 17 meeting between Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and a U.S. congressional delegation led by Representative Howard Berman, the two sides discussed regional issues, including the new U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, terrorism, and Iran, as well as bilat [...] | 2009-04-22 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KGHG SENV IN |
09NEWDELHI805 | INDIA'S VIEWS ON NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Indian officials and media have welcomed the new U.S. administration,s positions on non-proliferation issues, reciprocating by signaling a willingness to join with us in several areas to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The Prime Minister,s Special Envoy Shyam Sa [...] | 2009-04-22 14:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI826 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 20-24, 2009, including the following: -- India's Outward FDI Plans Up, But Actual Flows Down -- RBI Cuts Interest Rates In Its Monetary Policy -- ......And Lowers Growth Estimates -- Retail Food I [...] | 2009-04-24 14:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI872 | INDIAN ECONOMY SHOWING SIGNS OF RECOVERY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Indian economy is showing some signs of recovery from the current slowdown, with many analysts predicting that the downward cycle is expected to bottom out in the second half of FY 2009-10 (October-April). The core sector (including power, cement, and steel) and automobiles [...] | 2009-05-01 11:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI878 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 27 to May 1, 2009, including the following: -- India Signals Plans to Purchase IMF Bonds -- Slowdown in Mergers and Acquisitions -- Regulator Issues Notices to 12 Accounting Firms -- India Conside [...] | 2009-05-01 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI924 | INDIA-IAEA: NEXT DIRECTOR GENERAL, SAFEGUARDS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. India will wait until the last moment to decide which candidate to support as the new IAEA Director General, according to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA) Gaddam Dharmendra. Dharmendra believed that Sout [...] | 2009-05-07 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP AORC ETTC IAEA ENRG TRGY |
09NEWDELHI925 | INDIA AND NONPROLIFERATION: REACTION TO CALL FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Indian media commentators have expressed concern with Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller's May 5 opening statement at the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Revi [...] | 2009-05-07 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN |
09NEWDELHI937 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 4-8, 2009, including the following: -- Indian IT Industry Reactions to U.S. Tax Plan -- Indo-Pak Border Trade Increases to About $80M -- New Chief of National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) [...] | 2009-05-08 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI968 | CHARGE'S CALL ON LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION L.K. [...] (SBU) Summary: Looking relaxed and confident, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani told Charge that there would be continuity and strength in U.S.-India relations should a BJP-led government emerge after the national parliamentary elections currently underway. H [...] | 2009-05-13 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KGHG SENV IN |
09NEWDELHI991 | NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 11-15, 2009, including the following: -- Exports Continue Contraction -- March Industry Growth Down -- But Manufacturing Sector Showing Revival Signs -- Consumer Inflation Shows Some Abatement -- SE [...] | 2009-05-15 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NEWDELHI994 | INDIA'S NEW PENSION SCHEME AN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP IN [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) opened the "New Pension Scheme" (NPS) to all Indians between the ages of 18-55, including private sector companies, self-employed professionals and informal sector low wage workers, on May 1, 2009. The NPS had pr [...] | 2009-05-15 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD |
09NIAMEY371 | NIGER'S EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE: SLOW [...] SUMMARY: Niger was admitted as an EITI candidate country in September 2007, but has yet to publish a public accounting of government revenues from mining and other extractive industries. Niger's EITI Coordinator expresses confidence that an initial reconciliation will be published in June base [...] | 2009-05-21 11:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ENRG EMIN EPET PGOV PREL NG |
09NIAMEY508 | URANIUM MINING IN NIGER: EXPLODING PRODUCTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 4, President Mamadou Tandja laid the foundation stone of a massive new uranium mining complex at Imouraren, Niger. The project will be developed by AREVA, the French nuclear giant, which is majority owned by the Government of France. Imouraren will be the second largest [...] | 2009-07-07 12:13:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ECON EINV ENRG KCOR KNNP SENV NG |
09NICOSIA179 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (U) This telegram contains Embassy Nicosia's assessment of critical infrastructure and key resources on Cyprus which, if destroyed, disrupted, or exploited, might have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States. Embassy responses are keyed to Reftel. 2. (SBU) Reftel Para 13: [...] | 2009-03-12 09:42:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV EFIN ENRG KCIP CY |
09NICOSIA376 | CYPRUS SUPPORTS U.S. GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, on June 12 Post Econ Officer spoke with Solon Kassinis, Director of Energy, at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism regarding the USG'S intention to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Kassinis welcomed the news that the USG was consider [...] | 2009-06-12 08:12:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV CY |
09NICOSIA488 | CYPRUS: REGIONAL BENEFITS FROM NATURAL GAS IN THE [...] (C) Summary. Houston-based Noble Energy will conduct seismic exploration in its offshore Cypriot and Israeli blocs beginning the end of September and expect to finish about two months later. We anticipate the Turkish Cypriots will object to the exploration activity, arguing that offshore assets bel [...] | 2009-07-29 09:33:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ENRG EPET CY |
09NICOSIA649 | CYPRUS: CLIMATE CHANGE DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF EU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 13:28:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN CY |
09NOUAKCHOTT608 | VENEZUELA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO CONSTRUCT AN OIL [...] (U) In a statement released by the Venezuelan Ministry of Information and covered widely in the Mauritanian press, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela reached an agreement with the GIRM to build a refinery in Mauritania capable of processing 30,000 to 40,000 barrels of cr [...] | 2009-09-21 09:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ENRG EIND PREL MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT658 | MAURITANIA'S 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM MR |
09OSAKAKOBE102 | Kyocera Solar - Kyoto's Tech Edge [...] (SBU) Summary: Kyocera, manufacturer of solar panels with among the highest efficiency for converting sunlight into electricity, believes that new incentives for solar power by the Japanese government will boost the company's domestic sales. Until recently, Kyocera has focused on installing [...] | 2009-06-25 02:09:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG ECON JA |
09OSAKAKOBE24 | Japanese Solar Powers Pin Hopes on Obama "Green [...] (U) Executives from the solar power divisions at Sharp Corporation and Sanyo Electric Company have told us that they plan to accelerate U.S. bound solar technology investments, tie-ups with U.S. firms, and sales under a presumed Obama administration policy emphasizing alternative energy and e [...] | 2009-01-28 00:56:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG JA |
09OSAKAKOBE34 | Kaneka Seeks FIT to be Tied to Green New Deal [...] (SBU) Summary: Kaneka Corporation, a leading innovator in thin-film solar cell production remains focused on the European market and has no immediate plans to make green energy investments in the United States. While its much larger Japanese solar rivals such as Sharp and Panasonic/Sanyo are [...] | 2009-02-17 02:22:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG JA |
09OSAKAKOBE37 | Paradigm Shift: Kansai Enterprises Contemplate a [...] (SBU) Summary: "Paradigm shift" was the catchphrase of choice during the annual meeting of Kansai area economic groups, global companies, high tech firms, and other major enterprises. With major stakes in manufacturing for export, many participants bemoaned the gloomy prospects for dealing w [...] | 2009-02-25 22:37:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ENRG PGOV JA |
09OSAKAKOBE38 | Smart Ideas from Smart People: Kansai Japanese [...] (SBU) Summary: Many people in the Kansai region of Japan not only wish the Obama administration well but have provided practical suggestions to help restore health to America and the global economy as a whole. These suggestions -- many based on Japanese best practices -- include: strengtheni [...] | 2009-02-26 03:15:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL JA |
09OSAKAKOBE76 | GS Yuasa: Economic Downturn Assault on Lithium [...] (SBU) Summary: Tucked into a corner of Japan's cultural center of Kyoto is GS Yuasa Corporation (GSYC),a cutting edge producer of new greener battery technologies for use in hybrid and electric vehicles. GSYC's research ventures and projects with widely known companies such as Honda, Mitsubi [...] | 2009-05-07 02:37:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG ECON JA |
09OSAKAKOBE84 | Kansai Wind Power: A Breath of Fresh Innovation [...] (SBU) Summary: Unlike the GOJ's recently announced feed-in-tariff (FIT) policy favoring solar power (reftel) and aggressive goals to raise Japan's solar power production capacity forty-fold by 2030, Japanese officials have established much more modest goals for increasing wind power productio [...] | 2009-05-14 04:03:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG ECON JA |
09OSAKAKOBE92 | Sharp Doubles Down, Heavily Invests in Solar [...] (SBU) Summary: In follow up to a meeting earlier this year (Ref A),we toured Sharp Corporation's state-of-the- art 160mw capacity photovoltaic (PV) plant in Katsuragi, Nara with Embassy's Energy Attach and discussed with senior executives from Sharp's Solar Group, the company's short and mid [...] | 2009-05-27 03:21:00 | Consulate Osaka Kobe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ENRG ECON JA |
09OSLO342 | NORWAY, NEW ENERGY: CHASING WINDMILLS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 11, the Embassy co-hosted the seminar "New Energy Opportunities: Reality or Smoke and Mirrors?" Event partners were the Norwegian Venture Capital Association and Norway's largest bank, DnB NOR. The seminar gathered senior GON officials, including the Deputy Petroleum M [...] | 2009-05-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV SENV NO |
09OSLO392 | NORWAY AND IRENA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 14:28:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KGHG SENV NO |
09OSLO407 | NORWEGIAN ENERGY: AND A-ROUND WE GO! [...] (C) Summary. US hydrocarbon giants were largely pleased with the GON's 20th licensing round results. These rounds involve opportunities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The 20th round drew record numbers of participants. Critics assert that an increased number of small to mid-sized [...] | 2009-06-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV SENV NO |
09OSLO507 | KEY NORWEGIAN NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT DECISIONMAKERS [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Poloff had extensive discussions August 14 with Knut Langeland, Norwegian Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, results of which will be reported in full in a classified septel. This cable reports only on the "key government personne [...] | 2009-08-14 15:21:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09OSLO511 | NORWAY'S NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION NARRATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel A, poloff held extensive discussions on August 14 with Knut Langeland, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs. Langeland spelled out Norway's position on nonproliferation and disarmament issues in response to our pro [...] | 2009-08-17 16:01:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09OSLO513 | NORWAY COUNSELS THE NEED TO PROMOTE THE IAEA [...] (C) Summary: In discussions about the Nuclear Fuel Bank with Norway's Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs, the official emphasized the hesitance of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries and offered his counsel that Fuel Bank supporters such as the U.S. and Norway must present the proposal "attra [...] | 2009-08-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG UEU KNNP IAEA KU NO AE SW |
09OSLO574 | COMMERCE DESK OFFICER FOLLOWS UP INFORMAL COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Commerce Nordic/Baltic desk officer Jennifer Derstine met with industry and GON representatives on a range of issues covered in the bilateral Informal Commercial Exchange (ICE) framework during her September 7 to 9 visit to Oslo. There has been limited progress on some element [...] | 2009-09-18 12:39:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP KIPR ETRD EINV EPET ENRG NO |
09OSLO750 | Ambassador Discusses Energy Secretary Visit, Offshore Oil [...] (U) In an introductory call with Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen on November 25, the Ambassador discussed Energy Secretary Chu's planned upcoming visit and development of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Poleconoff, FCS Chief, and Economic Specialist accompanied the Amb [...] | 2009-12-04 08:07:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET OVIP PREL NO |
09OSLO753 | Statoil's Investment in Iranian Oil and Gas [...] (SBU) In a December 3 meeting with Oslo-based Statoil executives Gunnar Myrvang and Gunnar Heiberg, Poleconoff delivered ref A points, stressing USG concerns on investment in Iran's energy industry and requesting information on specific Statoil activities in Iran described ref B. This cable i [...] | 2009-12-04 15:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ETTC ECON PREL IR NO |
09OSLO791 | Statoil Chief Discusses Global Investments with [...] (SBU) Summary: Statoil Chief Executive Officer Helge Lund provided the Ambassador with an overview of the company's investments in the United States, Russia, Iraq, Iran and Norway in a meeting on December 18. He stressed Statoil's transparency with the USG with respect to past investments in [...] | 2009-12-28 12:01:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ETTC PREL IR NO RU |
09OTTAWA147 | CANADIAN NPT PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: Canada wants the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2009 PrepCom and 2010 RevCon to advance NPT legitimacy by making concrete progress towards a consensus document that confirms the treaty's three pillars -- disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful uses -- and acknowledge [...] | 2009-02-27 13:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC ENRG UNGA IAEA CA |
09OTTAWA155 | CANADA: GRINIUS TO HEAD DELEGATIONS TO NPT, CNS [...] (U) In response to reftels, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-proliferation Karen Garner confirmed to pol/miloff on March 2 that PermRep in Geneva Marius Grinius will lead the Canadian delegation to the May 2009 Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT [...] | 2009-03-02 20:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC ENRG IAEA CA |
09OTTAWA246 | Canada's Green Investments in its Stimulus Package [...] Begin Summary: Canada's federal budget for FY 2009 (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) introduced on January 29, 2009 announced approximately C$3.64 billion dollars (USD$2.97 billion at current exchange rates) for "Green Spending"; the Budget was passed on March 12, 2009. The federal budget for F [...] | 2009-03-26 18:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ENRG CA KGHG SENV |
09OTTAWA441 | CANADA OPPOSES INCREASE IN IAEA BUDGET [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for International Nuclear Cooperation Shawn Caza and Senior Policy Officer Ryan Hewer told polmil officer on June 5 that current Canadian policy called for zero nominal growth in t [...] | 2009-06-09 17:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL ENRG IAEA AORC KNNP UN CA |
09OTTAWA628 | CANADIAN POINTS OF CONTACT FOR NUCLEAR [...] (U) In response to reftel request, the following are Embassy and Canadian government points of contact for nuclear non-proliferation issues: Jeremy Brenner First Secretary and Political-Military Officer U.S. Embassy Ottawa P.O. Box 5000, MS - 12 Ogdensburg, NY 13669 tel: 613-688-5241 e [...] | 2009-08-14 17:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP ENRG UNGA NPT IAEA PGOV CDG CA |
09OTTAWA771 | S/CIEA Goldwyn visit to Ottawa - Energy security, [...] (U) Summary: S/CIEA David Goldwyn's September 17-18 trip to Ottawa was immensely successful and has continued to reap positive engagement from Canadian interlocutors. Goldwyn's message of Canada as a pillar of U.S. energy security was embraced by the Government of Canada and by a Canadian pub [...] | 2009-10-02 21:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV CA |
09OTTAWA828 | HydroQu??bec to acquire most of the assets of NB Power [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 29 the Quebec and New Brunswick (NB) provincial governments announced that HydroQu????bec intends to purchase the assets of New Brunswick Power (NB Power). The deal is attractive to HydroQu????bec becaus [...] | 2009-10-29 20:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV SENV PGOV CA |
09OTTAWA874 | Ottawa: Ambassador Jacobson and Environment Minister [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 22:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA |
09PANAMA122 | PANAMA: REFINERY ON HOLD DUE TO WORLD ECONOMIC [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive proprietary business information concerning on-going negotiations. Please handle accordingly. SUMMARY 2. (C) Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) representatives privately informed the Ambassador their firms are putting on hold (not cance [...] | 2009-02-10 18:33:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON EIND EPET PM |
09PANAMA309 | SICA MULTILAT [...] (U) GOP Protocol Director Ambassador Flavio Mendez has confirmed acceptance of President Obama's invitation to attend the Sunday, April 19, 2009 SICA Multilateral. President Martin Torrijos and Vice-President Samuel Lewis Navarro will participate in the 8am meeting. STEPHENSON [...] | 2009-04-16 20:56:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM |
09PANAMA657 | AES CONCERNED ABOUT GOP ACTIONS ON PANAMA'S [...] (SBU) AES representatives informed the DCM that they are concerned that the Martinelli Administration may jeopardize their $856 million dollar investment in Panama by unilaterally changing the contracted price of water for hydroelectric generation plants owned by AES and others. The Martinell [...] | 2009-08-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PM EINV PGOV |
09PARAMARIBO178 | SURINAME WILL NOT ATTEND THE LIMA ENERGY AND [...] (U) In response to RefTel A, Post reports that unfortunately no one from the Government of Suriname plans to attend the June 2009 Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas in Lima. Tom Kartoebi, Head of the Americas Division at Suriname,s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolEconPD Assis [...] | 2009-06-15 18:31:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ENRG KSUM SENV ENVT KGHG NS |
09PARAMARIBO187 | SURINAME INTERESTED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY, BUT NOT [...] (SBU) Per reftel, PolEconPDOff asked Mr. Tom Kartoebi, the Head of the Americas Division at Suriname,s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whether the Government of Suriname (GOS) is interested in joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Mr. Kartoebi said that he has not heard of [...] | 2009-06-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG NS SENV KGHG |
09PARAMARIBO396 | Demarche Delivered: Energy and Climate Partnership of the [...] (SBU) On November 17, EconOff conveyed the points in Ref. A to Tom Kartoebi, Acting Head of the Americas Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When asked for what potential activities may interest the Government of Suriname (GOS),Kartoebi did not have any explicit suggestions other tha [...] | 2009-11-24 19:15:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ENRG SENV KGHG KSUM NS |
09PARIS1183 | FRANCE AND THE NPT: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the run-up to the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT RevCon),France will continue to be a critical P3 ally while on certain issues also maintaining tactics or positions different from our own. Post deals extensively with the GOF on nuclear iss [...] | 2009-08-28 16:45:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS1293 | FRANCE LOOKS FORWARD TO P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NPT [...] (SBU) France looks forward to the P3 consultations on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) on October 9, confirmed MFA NPT officer Celine Jurgensen September 22. Jurgensen said the French delegation was yet to be confirmed, but would probably [...] | 2009-09-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS1409 | French have no response to US Proposal to Change GNEP into [...] (U) The French accepted without substantive response our non-paper on the U.S. proposal to change the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) into the International Nuclear Energy Framework (INEF). Both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Division, and the Ministr [...] | 2009-10-19 15:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP IAEA FR |
09PARIS1438 | FRENCH ACTIVITIES IN THE GULF [...] (C) The French Presidency's Counselor for North Africa and the Middle East, Nicolas Galey, discussed French activities in the Arabian Gulf with PolMinCouns and poloff on October 22. Galey said President Sarkozy will visit Saudi Arabia November 17 to 19 to highlight the importance of this bil [...] | 2009-10-26 17:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PINS PREL SA KU AEC FR |
09PARIS1447 | POLAND DELEGATION PARLAYS MDEP MEETING TO [...] The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Multinational Design Evaluation Program (MDEP) held a conference in Paris, France on September 10 and 11. MDEP core members had decided to expand their reach and organize a formal exchange with national regulators from MDEP non-member countries, industry repres [...] | 2009-10-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG OTRA TRGY TECH OECD FR SP IO |
09PARIS1520 | France and Brazil Join Forces for "Bold and Audacious" [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Saturday, November 14, French President Sarkozy and Brazilian President Lula da Silva held a press conference in Paris to announce an agreement on a "Common Position on Climate Change," guided by the principles of fairness and equity. At the press conference, President Sarkozy [...] | 2009-11-16 17:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG FR |
09PARIS1545 | More on France - Brazil Climate Pact [...] (SBU) Gwenaelle Huet, Chief of staff to Brice Lalonde, French Ambassador for climate change negotiations, commented to ESTH Counselor November 19 on the "Common Position" announced by Presidents Sarkozy and Lula da Silva last week. She said that that Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo thin [...] | 2009-11-20 13:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG FR |
09PARIS1565 | FRANCE: TOTAL SA LEADS THE NORTH CASPIAN OPERATING COMPANY [...] (C) Summary. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) will oversee planning and development of Kazakhstan's rich North Caspian petroleum resources, but the seven NCOC partner companies are on their own to get the crude to the market. NCOC faces numerous challenges: a harsh climate, sensit [...] | 2009-11-24 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG BEXP FR KZ ETRD PREL |
09PARIS1566 | FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON SUBSIDIARY [...] (C) MFA NPT Officer Celine Jurgensen said November 24 that France entirely shares the U.S. position detailed in reftel on subsidiary bodies at the 2Q0 NPT Review Conference (RevCon). Stressing the need to ensure states withdrawing from the NPT remain accountable for any violations committed w [...] | 2009-11-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS1611 | Scenesetter for EEB A/S Jose Fernandez [...] (SBU) Mission France warmly welcomes your visit on December 7-8. You will arrive half way through President Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term, a period marked by strong coordination between the U.S. and France on key strategic issues. The financial crisis and subsequent G20 response, as well [...] | 2009-12-03 07:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EAGR PREL SENV FR |
09PARIS1671 | FRANCE: TOTAL'S INVESTMENTS IN IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Total SA stresses that its activities in Iran consist of safeguarding the company's remaining property interests. Total is recouping funds, in the form of reimbursements, from years-old investments in the development of Iran's oil and gas blocks. During a November 16 conversatio [...] | 2009-12-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR FR |
09PARIS1679 | Scenesetter: Special Envoy Morningstar Visit to Paris [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris warmly welcomes your visit on December 14-16. France is a strategic partner on global energy issues, both in its own right, and as a policy leader within the EU. France has a long-standing and statist policy of pursing energy independence. It currently meets 50 percent of [...] | 2009-12-10 15:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PREL FR |
09PARIS1716 | FRANCE QUERIES ON IRANIAN INVESTMENTS [...] (C) Summary. French MFA official note increased activity in Iran's energy sector by Chinese and Indian companies but no new investments by French industrial firms. The MFA confirms that it has contacted Sofregaz, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian company Maire Technimont, to discourage [...] | 2009-12-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETTC ECON ENRG IR FR |
09PARIS1744 | FRANCE: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS [...] (C/NF) Summary. French officials and industry leaders support diversifying energy supply/routes in Central Asia, market competition, an Azerbaijan-Turkey agreement for gas supply and transit issues. GDF-Suez joined Nord Stream and is interested in Nabucco and the Shtokman project. Total SA e [...] | 2009-12-23 10:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ZK ZJ RS FR ECON |
09PARIS235 | OECD REPORTING: REPORT OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY [...] (U) This is an information cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Workshop on the Security of Supply of Medical Isotopes convened in Paris on January 29-30, 2009 and was well attended by representatives of government, industry, the health industry, intergo [...] | 2009-02-13 14:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA OECD UNVIE |
09PARIS260 | FRENCH FEEDBACK ON NPT GOALS [...] (C) Summary. On February 18, MFA desk officer for nuclear nonproliferation Celine Jurgensen said France's goal for the third Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom is concrete progress in all three pillars of the nonproliferation regime, looking ahead to the 2010 Review Conference. A [...] | 2009-02-20 13:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS290 | FRANCE: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] Embassy Paris notes no significant developments since last year with respect to GOF actions to protect critical infrastructure. After mission-wide consultation, Embassy Paris did not identify any physical infrastructure or resources in France whose loss would immediately affect the security, [...] | 2009-02-27 16:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PINS ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP FR |
09PARIS291 | FRANCE: CONCERN OVER USG FUNDING FOR ITER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France strongly supports the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) "clean" nuclear fusion based project that if successfully developed would produce much electricity with little radioactive waste. In addition to providing the ITER site, France has allocated [...] | 2009-02-27 17:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG ITER FR |
09PARIS304 | FRANCE ON ENERGY SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. French energy security policy centers on energy independence, security of supply through diversification, affordable but competitive energy prices via vertically-integrated utility companies, and low-carbon economic growth. French activism in pushing its civilian nuclear know- [...] | 2009-03-02 16:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV PREL FR |
09PARIS330 | The Standing Group for Global Energy Dialogue, February [...] Summary: The International Energy Agency's Standing Group for Global Energy Dialogue (SGD) met February 25-26 in Paris to discuss to review a range of outreach work to non-IEA countries, to discuss the activities of other energy organizations, and to discuss next steps for the IEA. Topics in [...] | 2009-03-06 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET IEA OECD |
09PARIS35 | BIGOT IS THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF FRENCH ATOMIC ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 7, 2009, Bernard Bigot was appointed Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA),succeeding Alain Bugat. Since 2003 Bigot has been the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy at the CEA, where he was responsible for the quality of scientific research. As chai [...] | 2009-01-12 07:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG SENV FR |
09PARIS39 | FRENCH ENVIRONMENT OFFICIALS SEEK EARLY MEETING WITH OBAMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Several French environment officials have underscored France's desire be a trailblazer on global environment and expressed the GOF's wish to meet the Obama Administration climate officials as soon as possible to discuss climate negotiations in preparation for the December 2009 Co [...] | 2009-01-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TRGY ENRG EU FR |
09PARIS5 | FRENCH WELCOME IAEA ADDDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09PARIS520 | GREEN INVESTMENTS IN FRENCH STIMULUS [...] Summary: "Green" investments, as defined reftel, account for roughly 3.5 Q 4.0 billion euros of the 26 billion euro French economic stimulus package passed in February 2009. Funds for public rail, energy generation, alternative energy investments, nuclear power, energy distribution and tra [...] | 2009-04-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV EFIN KGHG FR |
09PARIS747 | IAEA Budget Demarche - French will consider [...] (U) On June 5 ESTH Counselor delivered the demarche to Martin Briens, Ministry of Foreign Affairs DAS-equivalent for disarmament and non-proliferation, and Olivier Caron, French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA) Director for International Affairs, who is also the French Governor to the IAEA. Mr. Caro [...] | 2009-06-05 16:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ENRG IAEA KNNP PREL FR |
09PARIS805 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. VIEWS ON THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) On June 15 Mr. Sylvain Fourriere, Director of Energy Issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Global Public Goods, told ESTH Counselor that France welcomes the US Government interest in joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). While normally the French de [...] | 2009-06-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG FR |
09PARIS898 | BUY AMERICAN BLOCKS BELL LABS [...] (SBU) Alcatel-Lucent Board Chairman Philippe Camus told EMIN recently that Alcatel-Lucent and its Bell Labs research subsidiary had been blocked by from submitting proposals to be funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act by the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. We [...] | 2009-07-01 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON ETRD EIND PREL FR |
09PARIS906 | GNEP - France Hosts Successful Third Reliable [...] (U) The third meeting of the Reliable Nuclear Fuel Services Working Group (RNFSWG) of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) was held in Cherbourg, France on March 20. Twenty participants from ten countries and two international organizations attended this meeting, which was dedicated to [...] | 2009-07-02 16:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG KNNP IAEA FR |
09PARIS984 | IRENA DIRECTOR GENERAL PELOSSE WELCOMES [...] (SBU) On July 20, Helene Pelosse, the Interim Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) told ESTH Counselor that she welcomes the U.S. signing of the IRENA Statute and looks forward to working together with the U.S. Government. 2. (SBU) Pelosse welcomes reftel's [...] | 2009-07-21 15:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV FR |
09PERTH38 | HUGE GORGON GAS DEAL WITH CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Western Australia's massive Gorgon Gas project took a big step forward August 18 with partner ExxonMobil's announcement of a projected A$50 billion (US$40 billion) liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with PetroChina. Touted as the largest energy deal in Australian history and spot [...] | 2009-08-19 08:51:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON AS CH |
09PERTH39 | GORGON GAS PROJECT GETS FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL GO AHEAD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Australian Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett granted conditional environmental approval August 26 for the proposed A$50 billion (US$40 billion) three-train Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) Project in Western Australia (WA). The approval comes with 28 conditions to mitiga [...] | 2009-08-26 08:22:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV SENV AS |
09PERTH40 | INFRASTRUCTURE KEY FOR AUSTRALIAN LNG PROJECTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Australia's conventional liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is set to take a significant step forward over the next 18 months when a third LNG project, Woodside's Pluto, becomes operational and the massive Gorgon Gas project in Western Australia (WA) receives the widely-anticipat [...] | 2009-08-27 05:05:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV EPET AS |
09PERTH42 | GORGON LNG PARTNERS FINALIZE $37- BILLION INVESTMENT [...] Summary: The Gorgon Liquefied Natural Gas Project received the official go-ahead September 14 at a high-profile signing ceremony in Perth. Partners Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell announced their expected final investment decision for the estimated A$43 billion (US$37 billion) project. Federa [...] | 2009-09-14 08:37:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV SENV AS |
09PERTH51 | KIMBERLEY GAS SPLITS INDIGENOUS GROUPS [...] (U) Summary: Indigenous communities in Western Australia's northeast Kimberley region stand to gain significant socio-economic benefits from an estimated A$60 billion (US$54 billion) worth of natural gas projects under consideration for the area. Regional Indigenous leaders told us they are [...] | 2009-11-06 06:54:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV SENV AS |
09PERTH54 | AUSTRALIA: WHEATSTONE GAS AND EQUITY TO JAPAN [...] SUMMARY: Less than a week after breaking ground on the US$37 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, U.S. oil and gas company Chevron announced a cornerstone gas and equity agreement with Japan for its majority-owned Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia. The estimated A$90 [...] | 2009-12-10 05:16:00 | Consulate Perth | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV ENRG AS |
09PESHAWAR133 | NWFP: CAN SWAT'S CROPS BE SAVED? [...] (SBU) Pakistan will suffer a 35 percent crop loss in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) this year, and up to a 70 percent crop loss in the conflict-hit areas of Malakand Division, according to the NWFP provincial government and local economists. These Consulate contacts conclude that it is [...] | 2009-06-17 04:41:00 | Consulate Peshawar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ENRG EFIN PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR8 | ENERGY CRISIS IN NWFP; REGIONAL ECONOMY AT A "STAND-STILL [...] (C) The economy of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) is at a "stand-still," according to Sharafat Ali Mubarak, president of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). Citing up to 20 hours per day of electrical loadshedding and drastic shortages of natural gas, Mubara [...] | 2009-01-13 12:22:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK ECON ENRG |
09PHNOMPENH101 | DPM SOK AN IS FIRM BUT PATIENT ON THAI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an initial courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Sok An February 12, the Ambassador emphasized the U.S. commitment to a re-invigorated and growing relationship with Cambodia and support for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Sok An outlined mixed developments in negotiations with the [...] | 2009-02-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KJUS KTIA EPET PINR SCUL TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH123 | CAMBODIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) Post has reviewed the criteria set forth in reftel, and reports that there are no critical infrastructure nor key resources within Cambodia whose loss could critically impact either directly or indirectly the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the U [...] | 2009-02-24 01:14:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP CB |
09PHNOMPENH157 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 - CAMBODIA [...] In response to Reftel, Embassy Phnom Penh would like to submit a request for an Embassy Science Fellow to help the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) develop standard practices for evaluating environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for large-scale infrastructure projects. The Fellow would wor [...] | 2009-03-11 02:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA CB |
09PHNOMPENH202 | ARF WORKSHOP RAISES DEBATE ON WHETHER CLIMATE CHANGE IS A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The traditional climate change debate between developed and developing countries emerged during an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) seminar on "International Security Implications of Climate-Related Events and Trends", hosted by the European Union (EU) and Royal Government of Cambodia [...] | 2009-03-27 05:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ARF ASEAN ENRG EAID EIND CB |
09PHNOMPENH283 | CLIMATE CHANGE RISING ON THE RGC'S RADAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Climate change is a relatively new issue in Cambodia, but it is increasingly gaining the attention and concern of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC). As a Least Developed Country (LDC),Cambodia stands to lose much if the predicted effects of climate change come true. The [...] | 2009-05-04 09:08:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB |
09PHNOMPENH474 | DRAGON ASIA SUMMIT ENCOURAGES SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. More than 130 scientists, educators, activists, and policymakers from the U.S. and around Southeast Asia discussed river basin management and climate change at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sponsored Delta Research and Global Observation Network (DRAGON) Asia Sum [...] | 2009-07-13 01:03:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB |
09PHNOMPENH813 | RGC GEARS UP FOR COPENHAGEN WITH NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Over the course of a two-day conference, technical and policy experts educated Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials on the threat of climate change and began formulating the country's official position for the December UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCC) 15th Confere [...] | 2009-10-30 08:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB |
09PODGORICA63 | MONTENEGRO'S LARGEST EXPORTER CONTINUES TO FLOUNDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Podgorica's aluminum plant, KAP, has been struggling since at least mid-2008 to survive the impact of ongoing economic crisis. The low trading price of aluminum and expensive production inputs, particularly electricity, have resulted in daily losses of up to 200,000 Euros. KAP [...] | 2009-03-16 19:08:00 | Embassy Podgorica | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPRV ENRG EINV ECON MW |
09PORTAUPRINCE134 | HAITI MONTHLY -*JANUARY 2009 [...] (U) This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Foreign Economic Assistance --------------------------- 2. (U) Association of Caribbean States. Haiti hosted the Council of Ministers of the Association of Caribbean St [...] | 2009-02-10 12:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE22 | HAITI: DEMARCHE ON RATIFICATION OF U.S.-IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-08 19:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PARM IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA |
09PORTAUPRINCE370 | HAITI ECONOMIC MONTHLY UPDATE FOR MARCH 2009 [...] (U) Summary: This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) Joint Bilateral Commission between DR and Haiti. Haiti and the Dominican Republic re-established a joint Dominican/Haitian Commission on March 5, 2009, in [...] | 2009-04-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE498 | HAITI ECONOMIC MONTHLY UPDATE FOR APRIL 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) IMF FORECASTS SLOWDOWN: The IMF forecasts a slight slowdown in Haiti's economic growth to 1 percent in 2009, but predicts the growth will strengthen in 20 [...] | 2009-05-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE533 | HAITI ECONOMIC MONTHLY UPDATE FOR MAY 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) REMITTANCES CONTINUE SLOWDOWN. April remittances amounted to USD 81.8 million, down 16 percent compared to March. Year-to-date remittances total USD 590 [...] | 2009-06-05 16:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE548 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR MAY 30 TO JUNE 5, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) FIRE CREATES ELECTRICAL SHORTAGE. A fire severely damaged the EDH substation in the Delmas section of Port-au-Prince. Eight major electrical circuits in t [...] | 2009-06-10 12:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE564 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR JUNE 6 TO JUNE 12, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) PRIVATIZATION OF TELECO. The Haitian Central Bank (BRH) published a Memorandum of Understanding inviting private enterprises to bid on modernizing Teleco, [...] | 2009-06-15 18:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE591 | HAITI PLEASED WITH PETROCARIBE AND SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sixth PetroCaribe Summit in St. Kitts on June 12 congratulated Haiti as the ''best payer'' out of 13 countries, having paid approximately USD 220 million to Venezuela. GOH sources confirm that Venezuela announced plans to finance and construct an oil refinery in Haiti proje [...] | 2009-06-19 19:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON POL EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE644 | CHIEF OF STAFF MILLS MEETS WITH GOH MINISTERS AND [...] (U) Summary. The Secretary's Counselor and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, along with staff aide Meghann Curtis, assessed Haiti's development and reconstruction needs in a visit July 6-7 that included a tour of a USAID-funded IOM projects outside Port-au-Prince, and meetings with the Prime Minister, [...] | 2009-07-16 14:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ENRG ECON EFIN HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE646 | HAITI ECONOMIC UPDATE FOR JULY 1 TO JULY 10, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) The Minister of Finance announced a price increase for 91 and 95 octane gasoline. The price of gasoline 91 rose 18 percent from HTG 163 to HTG 192 (USD 3.98 to US [...] | 2009-07-16 19:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE754 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR AUGUST 3 TO AUGUST 7, [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) Compassion-Haiti, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Haiti, presented the keys for 30 houses (worth USD 350,000) to the mayor of Cabaret. The houses [...] | 2009-08-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE758 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR AUGUST 10 TO AUGUST 14, [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Call to Action -------------- 2. (U) The Second Congress of the Haitian Diaspora met in Miami on August 6 through 9. GoH Prime Minister Michele Pierre Louis and forme [...] | 2009-08-26 18:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE770 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR AUGUST 24 TO AUGUST 28, [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Minimum Wage ------------ 2. (U) The Minimum Wage compromise suggested by President Preval (HTG 125, about USD 3.00, per day for workers in the apparel assembly sector [...] | 2009-09-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE818 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 7 TO SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Budget ------ 2. (U) The lower house of the Haitian parliament voted in the FY10 budget with numerous changes on September 9 (septel). 3. (U) The European U [...] | 2009-09-21 12:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE839 | HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 14 TO SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Debt Reduction -------------- 2. (U) On Friday, September 18, Ambassador Kenneth Merten and GOH Finance Minister Daniel Dorsainvil signed a U.S.-Haiti Bilateral [...] | 2009-09-28 14:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
09PORTLOUIS63 | NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN MAURITIUS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 12:32:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG MP |
09PORTLOUIS67 | NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN SEYCHELLES [...] (C) Seychelles is a small, developing island nation without significant mineral or other natural wealth. Post does not believe Seychelles possesses critical infrastructure or key resources the loss of which would have a critical impact on the public health, economic security, or national secur [...] | 2009-02-24 09:44:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG SY |
09PORTOFSPAIN197 | CODEL Engel meets LAC leaders at Fifth Summit of the [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a Congressional delegation to the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago April 17-19, 2009. The delegation consisted of Representative Connie Ma [...] | 2009-04-30 22:03:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG MARR SNAR TD |
09PORTOFSPAIN430 | SETTLEMENT OFFER ON GTL DISPUTE IN TRINIDAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The commercial dispute continues between U.S.-based fuel processing company World GTL (WGTL) and Trinidad and Tobago's national oil company Petrotrin (ref). In recent weeks, the CDA has urged the GOTT to be flexible and consider a commercial settlement during separate conversat [...] | 2009-11-03 18:20:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON KIDE TRGY BTIO PGOV TD |
09PRAGUE102 | URANIUM RENAISSANCE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-20 16:00:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO RU EZ |
09PRAGUE153 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S PRAGUE VISIT [...] (C) Summary/overview: We warmly welcome your visit to Prague. Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, ten years after joining NATO, and five years after joining the European Union, your visit during the Czech Republic,s EU presidency symbolizes this country's remarkable journey from communis [...] | 2009-03-19 12:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP OBAMA PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EUN MARR SENV |
09PRAGUE157 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT: CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (S) Post recommends the following additions to the list of critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) for the Czech Republic. -- Baxter International pharmaceutical plant at Bohumil. This is one of the few plants in the world that produces an avian influenza (H5N1) vaccine. Baxter i [...] | 2009-03-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP EZ |
09PRAGUE271 | MAY 8 EU SOUTHERN CORRIDOR -- NEW SILK ROAD SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: At the May 8 EU Southern Corridor ) New Silk Road Summit in Prague, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Egypt, and the EU signed a political declaration that, among other things, underscores the EU and Turkey's intent to sign the Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) "in Turkey by [...] | 2009-05-20 09:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PREL PGOV EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE300 | CZECH RESPONSE: U.S. POSITION ON IRAN AS A SOURCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche May 28 to MFA Energy Envoy Vaclav Bartuska and MFA North and East Europe Director Daniel Kostoval. Kostoval reported that since the Nabucco pipeline would not flow through the Czech Republic, the Czechs were not directly involved in negotiating the Nabucco In [...] | 2009-06-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE344 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON US MOVE TO [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to Czech Environment Ministry International Organizations Unit Head Iveta Spaltova and Industry Ministry IRENA Desk Officer Alice Trombikova on June 16 and 18 respectively, Both expected that the Czechs would join IRENA soon. The Czechs, however, were still [...] | 2009-06-19 13:03:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV EZ |
09PRAGUE475 | OPEN LETTER REACTION PART II: CZECH POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czechs have a multi-faceted relationship with Russia which varies according to the issue, as well as the fora involved (whether NATO, the EU, or on a bilateral basis). As the July 16 open letter to President Obama from Central European leaders illustrates, many in this reg [...] | 2009-08-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL ENRG EPET EUN EZ RU |
09PRAGUE477 | CZECH REPUBLIC NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION CONTACT [...] (U) Amembassy Prague POCs for nuclear nonproliferation issues are Political Officer Christopher D. Doehle (Tel: 420 257 022 432; Mobile: 420 602 576 873; Fax: 420 257 022 808; E-mail: doehlecd@state.gov) and Political Officer Dan Gelman (Tel: 420 257 022 316; Mobile: 420 602 324 273; Fax: 420 2 [...] | 2009-08-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PRAGUE572 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON CLIMATE [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on September 25 to Environment Ministry Department of Climate Change Director Pavel Zamyslicky. Zamyslicky said he is pleased that the U.S. is taking strides to combat climate change outside of the Waxman-Markey bill, which he fears will not sufficiently pro [...] | 2009-09-25 15:04:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE585 | CZECH REPUBLIC: OPIC-SUPPORTED GLOBAL RENEWABLE [...] Post is not aware of any disparaging or derogatory information with respect to the prospective fund manager, US Renewables Group, LLC. Post supports OPIC's proposed investment in the USRG Emerging market Fund ("the fund"). 2. The Fund's objective's are consistent with the Czech Republic's [...] | 2009-10-01 15:54:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE592 | GOING GREEN IN THE GOLDEN CITY: EMBASSY PRAGUE PROMOTES [...] Summary: Embassy Prague works diligently to improve understanding of U.S. environmental policies and accomplishments, promote environmentally-responsible behavior, strengthen ties between Czechs and Americans in this field, and create eco-friendly economic opportunities. Management has impleme [...] | 2009-10-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON ENRG EUN KGHG KPAO OEXC PREL SENV SW EZ |
09PRAGUE705 | RECOMMENDATION TO PURSUE NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY [...] (SBU) Summary: In his October 21 letter to Czech PM Fischer, Energy Secretary Chu wrote that he "would welcome discussion on a bilateral technology agreement that would promote cooperation in nuclear energy research and development in areas such as next generation design." The Government of [...] | 2009-12-04 10:21:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG BTIO PREL TNGD BEXP EZ |
09PRAIA194 | 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FOR CAPE VERDE [...] SUMMARY: In response to reftel request, post provides the following information on Cape Verde's AGOA Eligibility Report. The full text will also be sent in Word format by e-mail. END SUMMARY --------------------------------------------- ----------------- TPSC SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGOA IMPLE [...] | 2009-10-15 17:00:00 | Embassy Praia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR ENRG PHUM XY CV |
09PRETORIA1017 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-05-20 08:29:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA103 | SAG APPROVES RETURN OF U.S.-ORIGIN SPENT FUEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-21 06:23:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL BEXP IAEA SF |
09PRETORIA1046 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MAY 22, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 21 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Moody's Upbeat on South Africa's Growth after 'Brief' Recession - Strong Vote of Confidence as Largest South African Bond is Snapped [...] | 2009-05-22 11:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1139 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JUNE 5, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 22 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Zuma Lays Out Ambitious Program - Recession Adds More Strain to Motor Industry - Mboweni in Bid to Talk Down Currency - South Africa Re [...] | 2009-06-05 15:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1145 | FREE STATE STRUGGLES WITH GOLD GEOLOGY AND ILLEGAL MINERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Gold-mining in the Free State Province is emblematic of broad challenges in profitably mining gold in South Africa. Controlling costs, managing labor, assuring safety and power, and exploiting remaining low-grade deposits are difficulties that have caused South Africa's product [...] | 2009-06-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ELAB ENRG KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA1192 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JUNE 12, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 23 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South Africa's Reserves Rise - No Tax Money to Bail Out Firms - Minister Confident South Africa Will Weather Recession - Indian Auto Ma [...] | 2009-06-15 08:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1247 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JUNE 19, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 24 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Weak Exports Put Pressure on Current Account Deficit - Consumers Avoid Spending - Employment Outlook Still Weak - Zuma and Manuel Scold [...] | 2009-06-19 14:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1259 | THE STATUS OF SOUTH AFRICA'S MEGA-HYDROCARBON PROJECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Africa is aiming at a number of mega-hydrocarbon projects, highlighted at a recent oil and gas conference. U.S. firm Forest Oil is very close to gaining its long-awaited production license for an offshore gas field in the Western Cape, which could alleviate regional power [...] | 2009-06-23 11:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV SENV SF |
09PRETORIA1261 | Westinghouse China Manager Promotes Technology Transfer and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge hosted a luncheon on June 17 for Westinghouse where the company's Technology Transfer and Localization Director for its China project show-cased Westinghouse's track record for technology transfer localization, and punctuality for its nuclear power plants under constru [...] | 2009-06-23 11:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV EIND ETRD SF CH |
09PRETORIA1343 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JULY 2, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 26 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Deficit Yawns Wider as Spending Accelerates and Revenues Decrease - Credit Growth Slows - Consumer Confidence Surprises - Moody's Says [...] | 2009-07-02 15:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA136 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 23, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 4 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manuel: First Wave of Unemployment Being Seen in Africa - Retail Nosedive Raises Clamor for Big Rate Cut - Tata Increases Stake in Neotel [...] | 2009-01-23 11:13:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1429 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-07-15 06:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA1463 | SOUTH AFRICA RECEIVES AN A-CATEGORY CURRENCY RATING FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-20 14:50:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA1499 | GILL MARCUS APPOINTED SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR [...] Summary. South African President Jacob Zuma announced the appointment of ABSA Group Non-Executive Chairperson Gill Marcus as South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor on July 19, 2009. Born in 1949 to African National Congress (ANC) activist parents, Marcus went into exile in 1970 and joined [...] | 2009-07-24 15:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA1500 | QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: The global economy remained firmly in the grips of a recession in the first quarter of 2009, causing South Africa to record its first recession in 18 years. Declining export demand and lusterless prices of most export commodities acted as powerful brakes on South Africa's growth. [...] | 2009-07-24 15:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA1573 | SAG CONFIRMS TRANSFERRED NUCLEAR MATERIAL SUBJECT [...] The South African Government (SAG) Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DICO) confirmed that two shipments of U.S. obligated nuclear material transferred from EURATOM will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, responding [...] | 2009-08-03 15:41:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP KSCA SF |
09PRETORIA159 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-01-27 09:50:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA1615 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-08-07 14:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA1697 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ADVISOR ROBERT J. [...] (SBU) Ambassador Gips warmly welcomes your visit to South Africa. The Mission stands ready to do everything it can to help make your trip a success. The Control Officers for the visit are Acting Political Counselor Madeline Seidenstricker and Energy Officer David Young, who can be reached at [...] | 2009-08-24 08:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IAEA KNNP ENRG SF |
09PRETORIA1707 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-08-24 14:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA173 | NRC DISCUSSES 2007 PELINDABA SECURITY INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: South African officials attribute the November 2007 Pelindaba break-in to criminal - rather than terrorist - intent. The police have not arrested the culprits. Officials stress that facilities containing nuclear materials were not threatened or impacted by the attack. Official [...] | 2009-01-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL BEXP IAEA SF |
09PRETORIA1761 | SOUTH AFRICA TAKING STEPS TO BOOST RENEWABLE ENERGY; MAJOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Participants at a recent conference on climate change and development in Pretoria reviewed the status of renewable energy in South Africa, including regulatory and market barriers to development of the renewables sector. Industry insiders were skeptical that the government's t [...] | 2009-09-01 09:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD SENV SF |
09PRETORIA1762 | SOUTH AFRICA TAKING STEPS TO BOOST [...] (SBU) Summary. Participants at a recent conference on climate change and development in Pretoria reviewed the status of renewable energy in South Africa, including regulatory and market barriers to development of the renewables sector. Industry insiders were skeptical that the government's [...] | 2009-09-01 09:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD SENV SF |
09PRETORIA178 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 30, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 5 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Big Rate Cut Expected as Inflation Plummets - South Africa's Leading Indicator Confirms Dismal Growth Outlook - Sharp Rise in Company [...] | 2009-01-30 08:44:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA179 | ESKOM BENEFITS FROM A REPRIEVE OF REDUCED DEMAND WHILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The economic downturn has given state power utility Eskom a reprieve of reduced demand, but the supply and margin remain vulnerable. Eskom has managed to avoid controversial load-shedding since April 2008. Chief Nuclear Officer Clive Le Roux briefed NRC Commissioner Peter Lyon [...] | 2009-01-30 08:50:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV EINV EIND KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA1808 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 4, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 34 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Consumers in Debt Trouble - Outlook for Vehicle Sales Brightens - National Broadband Policy Expected "Shortly" - Governme [...] | 2009-09-04 14:19:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA1823 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS -- LAUNCHING A LISTENING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SF |
09PRETORIA1914 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-09-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA1981 | QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: The South African economy recorded negative real growth in the second quarter of 2009, the third successive quarterly contraction. Some 475,000 jobs were lost in the first half of 2009. The trade data continued to reflect depressed global as well as domestic demand conditions. The [...] | 2009-10-01 14:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA2 | SOUTH AFRICA: AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES [...] (C) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Director for Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation confirmed that Pretoria will respond mid-January to the U.S. criteria-based proposal for enhancing control over transfers of enrichment and reprocessing equipment and technology. DFA [...] | 2009-01-02 09:05:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGV |
09PRETORIA2091 | AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] In response to Ref A, post provides the following input for the AGOA eligibility review. -------------------------- Country Background Summary -------------------------- 2. The population of South Africa was 49.3 million in mid-2009. In 2008, South African Gross National Income (GNI) [...] | 2009-10-14 12:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM SF |
09PRETORIA215 | NRC STEPS UP COOPERATION WITH SOUTH AFRICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Peter Lyons used a January 18-24 familiarization visit to South Africa to visit the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) testing facilities and discuss its status; augment cooperation with its counterpart the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR),an [...] | 2009-02-04 14:18:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV BEXP KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA2166 | Electricity - Economy's Driver or Achilles Heel? [...] (SBU) South African power utility Eskom is struggling belatedly to increase capacity to meet demand, while working to engage the private sector, secure financing, and correct its pricing to reflect market realities. The utility suffered an electricity supply emergency, resulting in rolling bl [...] | 2009-10-23 14:22:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD ECON SENV SF |
09PRETORIA2170 | SOUTH AFRICAN VIEWS ON CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Per action request in Ref A, post requested a meeting with South African climate negotiators, but was told they are not available until November. In the meanwhile, this cable lays out context for South Africa's negotiating positions to date, based on Septemb [...] | 2009-10-26 07:37:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG SF |
09PRETORIA2180 | Climate Change - South African Views Post-Bangkok [...] (SBU) In an October 23 meeting with Emboffs, South African climate change negotiator Joanne Yawitch argued for: (1) Negotiating "within the framework that exists" rather than "reopening the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change"; (2) Committing major public funds for mitigation and adaptat [...] | 2009-10-26 15:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG SF |
09PRETORIA2240 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-11-03 13:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA228 | NRC VISITS ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI GOLD AND URANIUM MINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NRC Commissioner Peter Lyons visited AngloGold Ashanti's Moab Khotsong gold and uranium mine west of Johannesburg on January 22. The mine boasts the world's deepest single-lift shaft at 3,106 meters. Moab Khotsong has been mining deep-level, moderate-grade gold and uranium dep [...] | 2009-02-05 15:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV EINV EIND KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA2315 | Eskom Leadership Crisis Exacerbates Capacity Challenges [...] (SBU) South African power utility Eskom is in crisis with recent resignations of Board Chair Godsell and CEO Maroga, just as the company and its shareholder, the South African Government, grapple with financing for huge capital investments needed to meet electricity demand and avoid brown-outs [...] | 2009-11-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD ECON SENV PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA233 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 6, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 6 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Reserve Bank Cuts Interest Rate - South African Notes Pare Gains as Inflation Measure Changes - Trade Deficit Revised Lower - January [...] | 2009-02-06 10:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA238 | SAG READY TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (SBU) South Africa is ready to sign the Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Development of Nuclear Energy. The SAG would like to sign this agreement at the Ministerial level and implement it as a "living" and broad agreement. The SAG will follow the USG lead on whether it is signed by th [...] | 2009-02-06 15:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL BEXP IAEA SF |
09PRETORIA2393 | SOUTH AFRICA: NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - SEEKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 17:19:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG SF |
09PRETORIA2395 | AMBASSADOR JENKINS DISCUSSES MOLYDENUM-99 WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins met with Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (NECSA) Chief Executive Officer Rob Adam on November 10. They discussed the Nuclear Security Summit, the bilateral agreement on cooperation in nuclear energy R&D, and cooperation on production of medi [...] | 2009-11-24 06:24:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL MNUC KNNP EMIN ETRD TRGY TBIO SF |
09PRETORIA241 | SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK CUTS INTEREST RATE BY ONE [...] (U) Summary. The South African Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has reduced the key policy interest rate, the repo rate, by 100 basis points to 10.5 percent. The rate cut was made possible by declining domestic inflation, which the MPC expects to fall within the target range of [...] | 2009-02-09 09:13:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA2435 | AMBASSADOR JENKINS DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins called on South African Department of Energy Acting Chief: Nuclear, Ditebogo Kgomo, on November 9. They discussed the Nuclear Security Summit and the bilateral agreement on cooperation in nuclear energy R&D. Kgomo said the SADOE ha [...] | 2009-11-25 13:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL EPET EMIN MNUC KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA2474 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-12-02 13:21:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA2498 | ESKOM REDUCES TARIFF HIKE REQUEST, LOOKS FOR PRIVATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: State power utility Eskom backtracked on its controversial 45 percent tariff hikes for each of three years, at the last moment revising its application to the regulator down to 35 percent per year. At the same time it announced a number of new strategic initiatives, a desire fo [...] | 2009-12-04 14:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD ECON SENV PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA2506 | WWF HOSTS NEW ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ROUDTABLE DISCUSSIONS IN [...] (U) The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in South Africa hosted a one-day "National Roundtable on New Electricity Supply" on November 18 in Johannesburg. The meeting was a follow up to calls from various stakeholders in the energy sector who attended the National Climate Change Summit in March [...] | 2009-12-07 14:06:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EPET SOCI ETRD SF |
09PRETORIA2590 | SAG EAGER TO DEVELOP STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and Action Request: The SAG is eager to develop a Strategic Dialogue led by the Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister. The idea would be to use existing and prospective working groups and the existing Annual Bilateral Forum, which would produce a summary document to info [...] | 2009-12-17 10:34:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENRG KNNP ETRD SENV SF |
09PRETORIA2663 | SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. APPROACH TO 2010 NPT REVCON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-28 10:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ENRG PREL IAEA NPT MNUC KTBT PAS SF |
09PRETORIA2686 | SOUTH AFRICA: KUDOS FOR U.S. COOPERATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 13:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC ENRG KNNP MNUC |
09PRETORIA294 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 13, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 7 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Budget 2009 - Finance Minister Cushions the Blow - Factories Put in Worst Performance in a Decade - Trade Conditions Survey Shows Cautiou [...] | 2009-02-13 13:48:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA309 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-02-19 13:24:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA323 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 13, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 8 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Retail Sales Growth Remains Negative - Rand Vulnerable to Higher Risk Aversion - Special Duty on Textiles Considered - SAA Tells Governm [...] | 2009-02-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA357 | SOUTH AFRICA AGREES TO MEGAPORTS INITIATIVE WITH CAVEATS [...] (SBU) Summary. Post delivered Megaports Initiative talking points (Reftel A) to South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials. SARS officials agreed to proceed with the Megaports initiative, given cabinet approval, but requested additional information before finalizing approval for a consulta [...] | 2009-02-25 06:23:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ENRG ETTC EWWT PINS SF |
09PRETORIA375 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS PUSHES SOUTH AFRICA INTO BUDGET [...] Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced in his 2009 budget speech that the FY 2010 budget deficit would be 3.9 percent of GDP. To finance the deficit, government debt will increase from 22.6 percent of GDP in FY 2009 to 25.6 percent of GDP in FY 2010. South Africa's short-term econo [...] | 2009-02-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA377 | SAG CONVEYS READINESS TO SIGN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT IN WRITING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SAG sent a diplomatic note (see full text below) conveying its readiness to sign the bilateral Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Development of Nuclear Energy, as promised in a February 20 conference call. The SAG conveyed that it must sign the Agreement at the level [...] | 2009-02-27 13:32:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV EINV EIND KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA378 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 27, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 9 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Q4 GDP Down 1.8% - U.S. Trade with South Africa - Government and Auto Industry Officials to Discuss Loan Package - Task Team Recommen [...] | 2009-02-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA38 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 9, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 2 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Optimistic Outlook with Rates, Inflation Easing - Rand at Mercy of Global Forces - Permission to Raise Prices a Relief to Pharmaceutic [...] | 2009-01-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA393 | AFRICAN MINING INDABA WATCHING GLOBAL MARKETS WITH GROWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 14th African Mining Indaba took place in Cape Town February 9-12 under the cloud of an unprecedented global commodity downturn and economic malaise, in great contrast to last year's celebration of the commodity boom (Ref E). Last year's worry of regional power shortages has [...] | 2009-03-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EPET SENV BEXP EINV SF |
09PRETORIA4 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 1 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Growth in Credit Slows - COSATU Slammed on Labor Plans - South Africa's Trade Gap Swells - Vodacom Ponders Launching Mobile Money Servic [...] | 2009-01-02 10:18:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA436 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 6, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 10 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Government Still Sees Growth in 2009 - Job Growth Data Sparks Disbelief - South Africa's House Prices Still Falling - New Vehicle Sales [...] | 2009-03-06 10:56:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA449 | SOUTH AFRICA'S GDP CONTRACTS AFTER FORTY QUARTERS OF [...] Summary. South Africa's real GDP contracted by a seasonally adjusted and annualized rate of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. This was the first quarterly contraction since the third quarter of 1998. Growth was pulled down by weakness in the manufacturing; electricity, water and ga [...] | 2009-03-09 13:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA478 | SOUTH AFRICAN MINING EXECUTIVES DISCUSS GLOBAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A group of South African mining executives expressed concern about the effects of the global commodity downturn on the mining sector and associated social transformation in South Africa. They highlighted a number of challenges of doing mining business in South Africa, many dir [...] | 2009-03-12 09:44:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG EINV ETRD EPET KHIV ZI SF |
09PRETORIA487 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 6, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 11 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Business Confidence Hits 10-Year Low on Slowdown - State 'Will Not Give Up' on Car Industry - South Africa Needs a Homegrown Response to [...] | 2009-03-13 09:28:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA510 | SOUTH AFRICAN COAL IS KING - AND WILL REMAIN SO [...] (SBU) Summary: South Africa is unique in its dependence on coal. The country is dependent on coal for over 90 percent of its electricity, almost 25 percent of its gasoline and diesel fuels, 90 percent of its iron and steel reduction, and large volumes of foreign exchange from exports. The go [...] | 2009-03-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD SENV SF |
09PRETORIA533 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 20, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 12 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manufacturing Production Has Steepest Fall in Almost Two Decades - Gold Production Declines Sharply - Retail Sales Grow - Moody's to Re [...] | 2009-03-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA595 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 27, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 13 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - SARB Cuts Interest Rates - Current Account Deficit Lowest in Almost Three Years - Slowdown 'May Bring Manufacturing Sector to its Knees' [...] | 2009-03-27 10:41:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA596 | South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...] | 2009-03-27 11:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF |
09PRETORIA600 | SOUTH AFRICA'S GREEN INVESTMENTS IN STIMULUS [...] (sbu) SUMMARY: This cable responds to reftel request for information on South African green investments in economic stimulus packages in preparation for the G-20 meeting. South Africa relies on coal for over 90 percent of its power generation. It aspires to commit to carbon emission reducti [...] | 2009-03-27 14:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET EMIN EINV SENV KGHG SF |
09PRETORIA628 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW PROGRAM 2009 SOUTH AFRICA [...] (U) Post submits two proposals for Science Fellows. Proposal One requests a Science Fellow for May 2009. Proposal Two requests three dimensional modeling of the world's largest repository of the platium-group elements in the Bushveld complex. --------------------------------------------- -- [...] | 2009-03-31 07:01:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER |
09PRETORIA658 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 3, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 14 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manufacturing Activity Slumps to Record Low - Vehicle Sales, Exports Continue to Plummet - South Africa Must Try to Save 'Distressed' Se [...] | 2009-04-03 10:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA707 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 9, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 15 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Recession Rules Out Post-Election Policy Shift; Mboweni and Manuel Agree on Rate Cuts - Significant Rise in Reserves - Treasury Wil [...] | 2009-04-09 12:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA708 | QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: South Africa did not escape the negative consequences of the international financial turmoil, despite the fact that its domestic financial institutions had virtually no direct exposure to the troubled assets that were central to the deterioration of credit markets. Deteriorating [...] | 2009-04-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA71 | QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: The deterioration in the global economic landscape affected South Africa's third quarter 2008 economic performance. Weaker international demand, falling commodity prices, and the tight domestic economic environment resulted in the lowest quarterly real GDP growth in ten years. Une [...] | 2009-01-14 15:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF |
09PRETORIA742 | China Sustains Interest in African Minerals and Energy [...] (SBU) Summary. The African Mining Indaba in Cape Town February 9-12 provided verve for discussion on China's interest in African resources (Reftel). The consensus view was that China is taking a long-term perspective on its resource investments in Africa, but driving harder bargains in the gl [...] | 2009-04-16 07:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EPET ENRG EINV ETRD SF CH |
09PRETORIA810 | South Africa makes slow progress on renewable energy, but [...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa is a coal-based economy and little attention to date has been given by the government and the private sector to the country's significant renewable energy potential. Even the minimal target set for renewable energy in the country's energy mix by 2013 is likely to be [...] | 2009-04-23 10:30:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD SENV SF |
09PRETORIA831 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 17, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 17 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Business Index Shows Light at End of Tunnel - Empowerment Fund Changes Strategy to Help Smaller Firms - Telkom and AT&T Launch Strategic [...] | 2009-04-24 14:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA875 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 30, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 18 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Reserve Bank Cuts Repo Rate - Company Failures Rise - Finance Minister Will Have Role in Next ANC Government - South Afri [...] | 2009-04-30 14:16:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA88 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 16, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 3 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Economy to "Feel Pressure" - Manufacturing Output, Business Confidence Dive - South Africa's House Prices Fall - Stadiums [...] | 2009-01-16 12:08:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV |
09PRETORIA941 | WESTINGHOUSE PERSEVERES FOR NEW NUCLEAR BUILD IN [...] (C) Westinghouse Regional Vice-President - South Africa Rita Bowser told Economic Counselor that Westinghouse remained cautiously optimistic about winning a contract for building new nuclear power stations in South Africa. The Westinghouse rep believes that the key period to influence the pr [...] | 2009-05-08 16:01:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EMIN EINV ETRD BEXP KNNP SF |
09PRETORIA993 | SOUTH AFRICA SPLITS ITS MINING AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The South African government announced the long-anticipated split of the Ministry of Minerals and Energy into two separate ministries to aim for greater focus on these key sectors. Industry is cautiously open-minded about the new appointments. Minister of Mining Susan Shabangu [...] | 2009-05-15 12:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ENRG EPET EFIN PGOV SENV SF |
09PRISTINA404 | KOSOVO: URGENT DECISIONS NEEDED IN NKPP PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In July 2009, the Government of Kosovo (GOK) publicly announced its decision to move forward with the World Bank-funded New Kosovo Power Project (NKPP). The announcement, made in close consultation with key international donors, was long-awaited. After years of delay, it appea [...] | 2009-09-15 15:28:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID ECON EFIN ETRD ETTC PREL KV |
09PRISTINA465 | KOSOVO: WEATHER AND TECHNICAL PROBLEMS CAUSE POWER OUTAGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 18, increased demand for electricity due to unseasonably cold weather and technical problems threatened to cause catastrophic failure to the Valac electrical sub-station and distribution lines in northern Kosovo. This prompted the Kosovo Electricity Company (KEK) to c [...] | 2009-10-22 10:28:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA471 | KOSOVO: KEK READY TO SUPPLY POWER TO NORTH, WAITING FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a nine-day outage due to weather and line maintenance (Reftel),the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) is prepared to reestablish electrical power supply to northern Kosovo without insisting on collecting for energy use at this time. In an attempt to meet the power needs [...] | 2009-10-28 16:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA481 | KOSOVO: LACK OF MOVEMENT BY BELGRADE ON ENERGY IN NORTHERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than a week ago, the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) finished repairs on two power lines that supply electricity to northern Kosovo, and informed the Valac sub-station operators that it is ready to restore power disconnected on October 18 for technical reasons. At the same [...] | 2009-11-04 07:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA482 | KOSOVO: BELGRADE REFUSES TO DISCUSS KEK SUB-CONTRACT [...] (SBU) On November 4, two KEK advisors met with Serbian Deputy Minister for Kosovo Dragan Petkovic and Ministry of Energy State Secretary Nikola Rajakovic in North Mitrovica. According to our contacts, the Serbian officials were not prepared to talk seriously about a commercial sub-contract for [...] | 2009-11-04 16:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA522 | KOSOVO: NEW KOSOVO POWER PLANT REIGNITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After several months of delay and intensive background work in Washington, Brussels and Pristina, the long-overdue restructuring of Kosovo's energy sector appears to be reinvigorated thanks to two recent decisions. On November 13, the Government of Kosovo (GOK) finalized a cont [...] | 2009-11-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA524 | KOSOVO - KFOR MOVES ON POWER STATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unannounced deployment on November 23, KFOR, along with EULEX, sent forces to establish a dual security perimeter around the Valac electrical substation in northern Kosovo. The Valac substation, currently controlled by Serbian Power Company (EPS) employees, has been the focu [...] | 2009-11-24 15:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG MARR ECON EAID PTER KV YI |
09PRISTINA541 | KOSOVO: SERBIA ATTEMPTS TO HIJACK ELECTRICAL SERVICE AREA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A dispute between Serbia and Kosovo over control of the Valac substation and electricity distribution in the northern part of Kosovo has escalated, with Serbian state-owned firms unilaterally declaring new "service territories" covering Kosovo's northern municipalities. This re [...] | 2009-12-08 16:20:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA558 | KOSOVO: DEBUNKING MYTHS ON NORTH KOSOVO POWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent discussions on electricity in the North of Kosovo have become clouded by the introduction of arguments in defense of Serbia's control of the Valac substation, in favor of the start of political negotiations on electricity, and/or for the introduction of a second (Serbian) [...] | 2009-12-17 17:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09PRISTINA578 | KOSOVO: ELECTRICITY IN THE NORTH-ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) employees were only partially successful in conducting a December 24 visit to read meters at three substations in the northern part of Kosovo. The limited success of these visits was marred, however, by the Serbian state electrical conglomerate EP [...] | 2009-12-29 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV KV SR |
09QUITO1 | ANOTHER U.S. ARBITRATION RESOLVED: GOE PAYS DUKE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE paid U.S. firm Duke Energy $10.7 million in settlement of an ICSID arbitral award December 16, resolving the company's long standing dispute over improper fines levied against its Ecuadorian subsidiary by the state electricity company. Duke Energy is evaluating whether [...] | 2009-01-05 21:00:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON EC |
09QUITO1015 | Ecuador's Position Towards the upcoming Copenhagen Climate [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecuadorian Government will continue to support G-77 positions related to climate change at the upcoming COP-15 in Copenhagen. According to Ambassador Federico Meneses, Director General for the Environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador has placed adaptation [...] | 2009-12-02 21:51:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG ECON EC |
09QUITO1057 | Power Blackouts Continue in Ecuador [...] (SBU) Having failed to end energy blackouts by Ecuadorian President Correa's arbitrary deadline of December 15, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Resources Esteban Albornoz resigned December 16 and was replaced by Miguel Calahorrano. In the face of continuing energy shortages, President Cor [...] | 2009-12-23 22:12:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EPET ENRG ECON EC |
09QUITO1080 | NOBLE ENERGY FEARS DISPUTE WITH GOE [...] (SBU) Summary. Noble Energy, the last U.S. company operating in the oil and gas sector in Ecuador, fears the GoE may soon initiate a process to terminate the contract of one of its subsidiaries, claiming breach of contract. Noble has 100% ownership of a fully-integrated gas-to-power proje [...] | 2009-10-30 18:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG ECON EC |
09QUITO1110 | GOE STRUGGLING IN FACE OF ENERGY CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. Shrinking reservoirs caused by a delay in the start of seasonal rains have reduced output of Ecuador's hydroelectric plants, causing a severe electrical power shortage and prompting the government to ration electricity usage throughout the country. The government is negotiat [...] | 2009-11-13 21:09:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV EC |
09QUITO117 | ANALYSTS OFFER DIVERGENT VIEWS ON POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The diversity of the Ecuadorian political debate was on display during a breakfast with WHA/AND Director Whitaker. Some analysts saw President Correa staking out the electoral center amidst waning voter interest, while another participant highlighted what he considered successfu [...] | 2009-02-17 16:35:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG EC CO IR |
09QUITO13 | GOE TALKS OF TERMINATING FRENCH, ITALIAN OIL CONTRACTS [...] (C) Summary: Ecuador's Petroleum Minister announced January 8 that the GOE would terminate oil contracts with two European oil companies, Perenco (French) and AGIP (Italian),in order to comply with an OPEC-mandated production cut. Minister Palacios justified terminating the contracts becaus [...] | 2009-01-13 19:00:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON EC |
09QUITO136 | ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE - U.S. RATIFICATION OF [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel points to the MFA Multilateral Affairs Directorate on January 20 and followed up with Multilateral Affairs Director General Lourdes Puma on February 13. Puma noted that the GOE supports the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as well as the [...] | 2009-02-21 00:39:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09QUITO173 | GOE PRESSURES FRENCH, SPANISH OIL COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: In another move to pressure foreign oil companies to sign new contracts, on February 21 the GOE told French Perenco and Spanish Repsol that they had 72 hours to pay monies owed under Ecuador's windfall petroleum revenue sharing law or their oil shipments could be withheld by the [...] | 2009-03-10 19:26:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON EC |
09QUITO178 | HIGH-LEVEL CHINESE VISIT HIGHLIGHTS CLOSER TIES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met privately with Chinese Ambassador Cai Runguo on February 27 to discuss the February 13 visit by Vice Prime Minister Hui Liangyu in Ecuador, as well as the Ecuador-China relationship more generally. Ambassador Cai downplayed the importance of the visit, and was [...] | 2009-03-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV EAID ETRD ENRG SMIG CVIS EC CH |
09QUITO191 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel request for information on critical foreign infrastructure and resource dependencies. In the Embassy's view, Ecuador does not have critical infrastructure or key resources comparable to those listed in reftel. Ecuador produces petroleum, and its trans-Andean [...] | 2009-03-18 15:24:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP |
09QUITO196 | ANOTHER U.S. OIL COMPANY LEAVES ECUADOR [...] (U) On March 12, as planned, Spanish oil company Repsol signed a new oil contract with the Government of Ecuador (details of the agreement can be found in reftel A). The same day, it bought out U.S. minority partner Murphy Oil's share of the petroleum consortium. On March 13, Murphy announce [...] | 2009-03-18 21:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON EC |
09QUITO22 | U.S. MACHALA POWER REACHES AGREEMENT WITH GOE ON INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary. U.S. electricity generator Machala Power signed an agreement with the GOE December 19 to drop its arbitration claim in exchange for payment of approximately $70 million to cover past due GOE debts (payment and termination of the arbitration claim are still pending). The company [...] | 2009-01-15 16:59:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON EC |
09QUITO261 | ECUADOR'S PARTICIPATION IN MULTILATERAL MEETINGS [...] (SBU) MFA Multilateral Affairs' Alternate Coordinator of Summits Marjorie Ulloa confirmed on April 15 that Foreign Minister Fander Falconi will attend the April 18 UNASUR meeting as the "Plus One" with President Rafael Correa (Ref A). 2. (SBU) Ulloa also noted that Coordinating Minister of [...] | 2009-04-16 16:51:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG AMGT APER KSUM |
09QUITO332 | GOE PAYS U.S. ELECTRICITY FIRM MACHALA POWER, RESOLVES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE paid $60 million in March and April 2009 in settlement of an investment dispute with U.S. electricity company Machala Power, following an agreement between the two parties in December 2008. Machala Power has withdrawn its international arbitration claim and continues t [...] | 2009-05-08 12:46:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG EINV EC |
09QUITO488 | ECUADOR RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR FUEL BANK DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche seeking support for the creation of an international nuclear fuel bank, Econoff met with Under Secretary for Nuclear Control, Investigation, and Applications, Geovanna Lucio, on June 11. Lucio noted that she supported the establishment of a nuclear fuel ba [...] | 2009-06-19 14:59:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA |
09QUITO515 | CORREA REPLACES PETROLEUM MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: On June 8, President Correa replaced his Minister of Petroleum and Mines in a surprise appointment. New Minister Germanico Pinto is a former Constitutional Assembly member with a teaching background and little experience in the sector, but is strongly aligned with Correa's ideol [...] | 2009-06-26 17:19:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON EC |
09QUITO644 | ECUADOR SEIZED FRENCH OIL COMPANY'S FIELDS ON THREAT TO HALT [...] (C) Summary: Ecuador seized French oil company Perenco's oil fields after the company threatened to halt output amid a tax dispute and oil embargo. Perenco's senior executive and spokesman for Latin America confirmed the assets expropriation, and said that Perenco would file another case with t [...] | 2009-07-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON EC |
09QUITO812 | RECALL 09 QUITO 812 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 20:24:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EINV EFIN ENRG EC |
09QUITO820 | ECUADOR SELLS FUTURE OIL PRODUCTION TO PETROCHINA TO [...] (SBU) The Government of Ecuador (GoE) is increasingly looking to China as a source of financing to help alleviate fiscal pressures. The prime example of this is Ecuadorian state-run oil firm PetroEcuador's recent agreement to sell future oil production to China's state-owned oil company PetroCh [...] | 2009-09-04 21:42:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV EFIN ENRG EC |
09RABAT127 | MOROCCANS PREPARING FOR NNSA SEMINAR ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) Boujemaa Zenzouni, Chief of Cooperation of Morocco's Centre National de l'Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucleaires (CNESTEN),confirmed to EconOff that CNESTEN is well advanced in its planning to co-host, with DOE/NNSA, the planned March 30- April 2 seminar on "Human Resources [...] | 2009-02-10 16:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA AORC MO |