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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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07BEIRUT16 | FINANCE MINISTER AZOUR'S WISHFUL THINKING FOR [...] (S) In a January 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Finance Jihad Azour was less alarmist than Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh (reftel) regarding Lebanon's financial situation in 2007. But, like Salameh, Azour counted on a successful Paris III conference as the essential element i [...] | 2007-01-03 15:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | ECON EFIN EAID PREL LE |
07BEIRUT1600 | LEBANON: PM SINIORA COMMENTS ON THE ELECTIONS, [...] (C) During a October 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Siniora expressed his dismay at some March 14 allies' willingness to give in so quickly to demands from the March 8 opposition that a consensus candidate for president be chosen. Siniora also stated his firm objection to a co [...] | 2007-10-12 07:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IS LE PGOV PREL SY |
07BEIRUT1604 | LEBANON: LEBANESE RESIDENTS NEAR NAHR-AL BARID [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Emboffs met with mayors of municipalities located near the Nahr-Al Barid Palestinian refugee camp (NAB) during a trip to Tripoli October 9. The mayors praised the USG for its assistance to the local areas that were negatively affected by the 15-week battle at the camp, ad [...] | 2007-10-14 10:43:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
07BEIRUT1633 | LEBANON: ON BORDER PROJECT, GERMANS LOOKING AHEAD [...] (C) A businessman whose firm is the logistical consultant for the German Northern Border Pilot Project (NBPP) told Poloff in an October 17 meeting that the NBPP continued to face serious delays and would not be fully operational by mid-February, rather than the target December 1 final deadline [...] | 2007-10-18 14:52:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PG PGOV PREL SY |
07BEIRUT166 | LEBANON: RIAD SALAMEH: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OR [...] (C) Ministers Haddad and Azour shared with Ambassador some insight into the Central Bank (CBL) and its governor Riad Salameh, but stopped short of accusing him outright of malfeasance. However, they referred to the GOL/banking relationship as a "mess" and indicated that there are people who [...] | 2007-01-31 16:44:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT1725 | LEBANON WILL NOT ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE CENTRAL [...] (C) No one from the Lebanese Government will attend the upcoming meeting of the Arab League boycott in Damascus, Minister of Economy and Trade Sami Haddad told Ambassador and Econoff on November 1, 2007. During the meeting, he called the GOL's Israeli Boycott Office in his Ministry to verify [...] | 2007-11-05 04:52:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | AL ECON ETRD IS KBCT LE PREL SY |
07BEIRUT1797 | LEBANON: FATF IRAN STATEMENT DEMARCHE -- NO SUBSTANTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 14:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC ECON PTER LE |
07BEIRUT181 | LEBANON: PARIS III RESULTS PHENOMENAL, BUT LOTS [...] (C) Ministers Jihad Azour and Sami Haddad, clearly excited by the successful outcome of the Paris III Donor's Conference, want to make sure that the money pledged will be tied to reforms and spent with discipline. Chatting about the event, they are ready to tackle banking reform and to take [...] | 2007-02-02 16:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV LE |
07BEIRUT1828 | LEBANON: RECONSTRUCTION LAGS IN THE SOUTH [...] (SBU) Alaa Abu Hommeen of the Lebanon Transparency Association (LTA) said in a November 13 meeting with PolOff that while reconstruction efforts in the south are visible, they are continuing to move at a slow rate due to corruption and a lack of transparency. Hommeen said that the primary obs [...] | 2007-11-21 16:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL UNDP LE |
07BEIRUT192 | LEBANON: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR AGGRESSIVELY [...] (C) The Ambassador and Econoff met with Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh on February 1. Salameh was quick to emphasize his essential role in planning Paris III and in taking action to decrease the national debt now that Paris III is over. He expressed dismay at the smaller-than-e [...] | 2007-02-05 16:09:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT1944 | LEBANON: NGO HEAD SAYS HIZBALLAH FAVORS SHIA IN [...] (SBU) Dr. Abbas Yaghi, a Shia local community leader from the north Bekaa region and Shia rival of Hizballah, described to Emboffs what he sees as Hizballah's favoritism towards the Shia in south Lebanon, to the detriment to those Shia living in the north Bekaa. Yaghi noted the vast difference [...] | 2007-12-11 15:37:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON LE PGOV PREL SY |
07BEIRUT1997 | LEBANON: HIZBALLAH'S ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (C) Embassy contacts argue that Hizballah has no economic program because its goals are predominantly military and political. The group has, however, over the past fifteen years been forced to respond to domestic policy issues; since it joined goverment two years ago it has been forced to co [...] | 2007-12-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KISL ECON EFIN PGOV LE |
07BEIRUT2008 | LEBANON: HOW TO HELP LEBANON FINANCIALLY NOW [...] (C) According to Finance Minister Jihad Azour, Lebanon's deficit situation is under control because tax revenues are up, but that the GOL faces problems paying its foreign currency debt in the first quarter of 2008. Contriubuting to Lebanon's first quarter debt crunch are the problems of red [...] | 2007-12-31 16:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV LE PGOV PREL PTER |
07BEIRUT228 | LEBANON: TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 16:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | ECON EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT252 | LEBANON: BANKS COMMISSIONER WORRIED ABOUT BANKS, [...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with the DCM and visiting NEA/ELA Office Director, the head of Lebanon's Banking Control Commission, Walid Alameddine, expressed concern about the effect of the summer war on banking sector stability. Alameddine believes the GOL should not expect a large contribut [...] | 2007-02-15 16:03:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PTER ECON EFIN LE |
07BEIRUT253 | LEBANON: CITIBANK LEBANON DIRECTOR ANXIOUS FOR [...] (U) This message may contain proprietary information. Please protect accordingly. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In a February 13 meeting with the DCM and NEA/ELA Office Director, Citibank Lebanon's Director Walter Siouffi appeared shaken by the morning's bus bombings in Bikfaya, and viewe [...] | 2007-02-15 16:16:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL KCRM PTER LE |
07BEIRUT284 | LEBANON: SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER OF ECONOMY AND [...] (C) One month after Lebanon held a successful Paris III donor conference, Minister of Economy and Trade (MOET) Sami Haddad heads to Washington from February 25-28. Haddad is a pro-reform, nationalist technocrat seeking change and a broader leadership role, but he has no independent political [...] | 2007-02-22 17:09:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT352 | LEBANON: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CAMPAIGNS FOR THE [...] (C) Lebanon's Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, in late February for the first time publicly expressed his interest in the Presidency. Salameh has issued veiled criticism of the GOL economic reform program, demonstrating his differing policy priorities and personal views from the current l [...] | 2007-03-07 16:18:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT387 | LEBANON: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DESCRIBES [...] (C) Negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an Emergency Post Conflict Agreement (EPCA) are proceeding, but some of the IMF's conditions are unacceptable, Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Salameh told the Ambassador and Econoff in mid-March. Several of the IMF's conditions [...] | 2007-03-14 14:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SY LE |
07BEIRUT403 | LEBANON: FINANCE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT GOL [...] (C) Finance Minister Jihad Azour reported to us that none of the money pledged at Paris III has yet arrived, and Lebanon's short term financial situation is difficult but still manageable. The real problem is that continued political uncertainty is derailing Lebanon's anticipated cycle of ec [...] | 2007-03-16 15:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT407 | LEBANON: HADDAD UPBEAT ON WTO ACCESSION, [...] (C) Following his recent Washington trip, Economy Minister Haddad expressed regret that he had not seen more members of Congress, but he was optimistic about the aid promised at the Paris III donor conference. He understands USG wishes about debt reduction, and expects to discuss this again [...] | 2007-03-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD LE |
07BEIRUT408 | LEBANON: BANKS COMMISSIONER FRUSTRATED WITH GOL [...] (C) Banking Control Commissioner Walid Alameddine in early March expressed his concern that the GOL is not doing enough to promote financial stability. He argued that Lebanon urgently needs a more proactive government, and argued that that if the present stalemate is allowed to continue, fin [...] | 2007-03-19 16:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EFIN LE |
07BEIRUT42 | SINIORA PINS GOL SURVIVAL ON GENEROUS PARIS III [...] (S) In a 90-minute meeting with the Ambassador on 1/8, PM Fouad Siniora -- in crisis mode and interrupted frequently by security officers working to counter Tuesday's anticipated opposition escalation -- said that Lebanon's political and financial stability depends on a successful Paris III [...] | 2007-01-08 17:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL EFIN EAID ECON LE |
07BEIRUT514 | LEBANON: GOL REACTION TO USG PROPOSAL FOR CASH [...] (C) The GOL has reviewed U.S. proposals for conditionality on the USD 250 million cash transfer discussed at the Paris III Donors' Conference for Lebanon. The GOL response does not contain any surprises, and has the Lebanese most concerned about an increase in the gasoline tax. Arab donors h [...] | 2007-04-13 13:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN LE |
07BEIRUT610 | LEBANON: SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION NOTIFICATION [...] (SBU) In accordance with reftel, emboff delivered talking points regarding Lebanon's continued designation as a Priority Watch List country to appropriate officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economy and Trade. Lama Oueijan, Senior Advisor to Minister of Economy [...] | 2007-04-30 15:21:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD LE PGOV PREL |
07BEIRUT618 | LEBANON: MINISTRY OF FINANCE STAFF REVIEWS [...] (SBU) In separate meetings with Ministry of Finance staff, the common view of their recent meetings in Washington was positive. While MOF Director General Alain Bifani gave a sharp, insightful readout of the meetings, his working level finance team were already focused on the next event, a E [...] | 2007-05-02 13:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN LE PGOV PREL SY |
07BEIRUT624 | LEBANON: HIGHER COUNCIL FOR PRIVATIZATION SYG [...] (SBU) SYG Ziad Hayek does not believe early progress will be made in the privatization of Lebanon's mobile sector. There are "technical" solutions, but according to Hayek, PM Siniora has said he would prefer a new law. Privatization of the telecommunications fixed sector is also delayed, pri [...] | 2007-05-03 09:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ECPS ENIV LE PGOV PREL SY |
07BEIRUT777 | LEBANON: ECONOMY MINISTER REVIEWS WTO MEETINGS [...] (C) Minister of Economy and Trade (MOET) Sami Haddad expressed frustration that, in his view, U.S. trade negotiators asked more of Lebanon than they have asked of other recent WTO members. He argued that any message of strong American political support to the besieged GOL is not trickling dow [...] | 2007-06-01 11:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT789 | LEBANON: ECONOMY MINISTERS UPBEAT ON FINANCES, [...] (C) Ministers Azour and Haddad met the Ambassador on June 1 ahead of a ministerial meeting scheduled to give political affirmation to the LAF's military operations in Nahr al-Barid. Haddad described his determination to use economic policy to address extremism. Azour reassured us that the GO [...] | 2007-06-04 08:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BELGRADE1018 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ENERGY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Ambassador Polt met with new Minister of Energy Aleksandar Popovic on July 11 to review his plans for addressing Serbia's energy security. The minister, a vice president in Prime Minister Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS),said Serbia has no alternative to sourcing gas from th [...] | 2007-07-19 06:58:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SR |
07BELGRADE1061 | SERBIAN GOVERNMENT SPENDING RAISES MEDIUM TERM RISK [...] (U) Adoption of the 2007 budget on June 23, along with issuance of a memorandum of economic policies for 2008-2010, makes it clear that fiscal tightening will take place, at best, only in the medium term. The GOS outlook assumes a further increase in wages, which will fuel the growing trade a [...] | 2007-07-27 12:32:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE1065 | VISAS DONKEY CORRUPTION 212 (F) SRM (MISKOVIC, Miroslav) [...] (s) Summary: Miroslav Miskovic, dpob: 5 July 1945, Serbia, is the richest man in Serbia and, according to the most recent Forbes ranking, one of the richest in the world, with over $1 billion in wealth. He dominates banking, insurance, and consumer goods in Serbia after obtaining massive we [...] | 2007-07-27 15:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | SECRET | CVIS KCOR KCRM ASEC PGOV PREL ECON KFRD SR |
07BELGRADE1144 | PRIVATIZATION COMPLETION STRATEGY IN SERBIA [...] Mladjan Dinkic, Minister for Economy and Regional Development, and Vesna Dzinic, new director of the Agency for Privatization, on July 18 presented their strategy for completing privatization of socially-owned companies in Serbia. The current law on privatization required that privatization i [...] | 2007-08-14 11:21:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE1323 | ECONOMIC TRAIN NOT (YET) DERAILED BY KOSOVO [...] (U) During introductory meetings with Serbian government leaders and the U.S. business community the Ambassador heard positive messages that economic reform activity is moving forward. Despite the fact that economic issues are pushed off the front page by Kosovo, there are areas of progress a [...] | 2007-09-28 12:06:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV KIDE KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE133 | UPDATE ON ENERGY ISSUES FROM SERBIA [...] (SBU)Several major energy issues are still on the front burner as Serbia's democratic parties work to assemble a new government. Srbijagas's general director recently announced that Gazprom is likely to be Srbijagas's strategic partner in providing natural gas for the underground storage facil [...] | 2007-01-29 15:19:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV EIND SR |
07BELGRADE1376 | ENERGY MINISTER POPOVIC TELLS AMBASSADOR SERBIA NEEDS MORE [...] (U) Serbian Energy Minister Popovic told the Ambassador on October 4 that Serbia's single source of gas from Hungary, and domestic electricity production could not meet peak demand during winter cold snaps. Popovic compared Serbia's energy relationship with Russia as "business, not friends." [...] | 2007-10-10 07:34:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SR |
07BELGRADE1384 | SERBIA: CORRUPTION ARRESTS TARGET FORMER GENEX EXECS [...] Police arrested five former Genex (one of the biggest companies in the former Yugoslvia) executives, and a former Privatization Agency official on October 3. The group is suspected of conspiring to sell Genex land holdings without a public tender and abusing their positions. The police inves [...] | 2007-10-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN SR |
07BELGRADE1396 | C MARKET - TYPICAL TYCOON PRIVATIZATION [...] Rival Serbian Tycoons Beko and Miskovic, agreed in August 2005, reportedly at Prime Minister Kostunica's initiative, to jointly take over C-Market, the largest retail chain in Serbia. The agreement was used to chase out other bidders via back-room advice, an official ruling of the Securities [...] | 2007-10-12 10:56:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV SR MW |
07BELGRADE1433 | GAZPROM IN SERBIA - BUYING UP THE WORKS? [...] (U) Russia's Gazprom is making a push to control Serbia's key energy companies and infrastructure. During an October 9 visit, Gazprom CEO, Alexei Miller linked three major energy projects in Serbia -- a new gas pipeline, a gas storage facility and perhaps a deal involving 51% ownership of the [...] | 2007-10-22 07:21:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SR |
07BELGRADE1473 | SERBIA: THE COST OF KOSOVO [...] Serbian government spending in Kosovo in support of Kosovo-Serbs is substantial, but not unsustainable. There are several avenues through which money is flowing from Serbia to Kosovo. Serbia services foreign debt attributable to Kosovo, NIP expenditures, and direct and indirect budget expend [...] | 2007-10-30 13:00:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV SR |
07BELGRADE1514 | SERBIA-$520 MILLION BANKRUPTCY AUCTION [...] On October 29 Verano Motors bought bankrupt department store chain "Robne Kuce Beograd" for $520 million in the fifth largest privatization deal in Serbia. Verano's offer prevailed over nine other bidders including two U.S. investment firms and well-known Serbian business tycoons. The purch [...] | 2007-11-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV SR |
07BELGRADE1545 | SERBIA: ECONOMIC NUMBERS POINT TO RISKS AHEAD [...] According to third quarter data for 2007, industrial production in Serbia continues steady growth of 5% annually, GDP growth of 7% is expected, strong export expansion continues, while import growth slowed slightly. The growing current account deficit as a result of the trade deficit and cre [...] | 2007-11-15 08:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV SR |
07BELGRADE1559 | HEPATITIS A OUTBREAK IN NIS CITY [...] Over 550 cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in and around Nis, Serbia's third largest city, this year. As the number of cases has grown, local press reports have focused on the continued spread of the outbreak. Males between the ages 20-50 make up the majority of those infected. The go [...] | 2007-11-19 06:34:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON CASC SOCI SR |
07BELGRADE1595 | SERBIA: 2008 BUDGET SENT TO PARLIAMENT [...] On November 12, the Serbian Government adopted a 2008 budget with a 9.9% increase over 2007, with revenues of $12.02 billion, expenditures of $12.3 billion and deficit of $280 million. The consolidated fiscal deficit is projected to improve in 2008 to 0.6% of GDP, mostly by keeping increases [...] | 2007-11-27 16:56:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV SR |
07BELGRADE1615 | SERBIA: DYNAMIC MAYOR OUTLINES A VISION FOR A BETTER [...] During a visit to Indjija, a small city located 45 minutes from Belgrade the Ambassador had an opportunity to see first hand a dynamic local Mayor's success in attracting investment and building a foundation for economic prosperity. Mayor Jesic is a young, energetic leader who is working to b [...] | 2007-12-04 08:53:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV SR |
07BELGRADE1640 | SERBIA: THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT [...] Reftel requested post input for Serbia, as a recipient of trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, on efforts to combat child labor. Serbia is upholding its international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. END SUMMARY. INCIDENCE AND N [...] | 2007-12-10 15:49:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM SOCI SR MW |
07BELGRADE1700 | SERBIA PACKAGES ENERGY DEAL FOR RUSSIA [...] (U) In the wake of a December 11 press conference to propose a bilateral energy agreement between Russia and Serbia, Embassy interlocutors confirm that support in the Serbian government to sell state oil company NIS to Gazprom has gained momentum. Embassy contacts point to government approval [...] | 2007-12-20 06:20:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SR |
07BELGRADE1704 | SERBIA: ELECTRICITY AND KOSOVO [...] (U) Recent discussions with the head of a large electricity trading firm and others indicate Serbia does not plan to break electricity connections with Kosovo. Serbia, however, remains firm in only dealing with UNMIK on Kosovo energy issues, and has moved away from electricity "donation" to se [...] | 2007-12-20 13:11:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SR |
07BELGRADE1736 | PUBLIC DEBATE ON THE RESTITUTION LAW [...] Serbia is the only country in Europe without a restitution law. A restitution law is a prerequisite for EU membership, but more importantly, it is vital to attracting badly needed foreign direct investment, establishing the right to private property, and revitalizing Serbia's market economy. [...] | 2007-12-28 09:08:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIDE KPRV CASC SR |
07BELGRADE255 | CEFTA - RATIFICATION LIKELY AS GOVERNMENT PREPARES NEW [...] (SBU) Following the initialing of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in December, the Government of Serbia (GOS) is still in negotiations with various parties to minimize the adverse impact CEFTA will have on the domestic tobacco industry. Officials told econoffs that Serbia wil [...] | 2007-02-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL HR SR |
07BELGRADE266 | KOSOVO'S FINAL STATUS BURDENS ECONOMIC TIES [...] (U) This is a joint cable from USOP and Embassy Belgrade. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Belgrade econ chief and Pristina econ officer made the rounds of UNMIK and PISG economic agencies to identify some of the economic issues that are factors in current and future relations between Kosovo and [...] | 2007-02-27 11:20:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG ECON SR YI |
07BELGRADE303 | EDUCATION MAFIA ARRESTED ON BRIBERY CHARGES [...] (U) Serbian police have arrested 18 people, including 12 university teachers, in an ongoing investigation of rampant corruption at the Law Faculty of Kragujevac University. The arrests, all occurring since February 20, include Assistant Minister of Education Emilija Stankovic, Sveta Puric, rec [...] | 2007-03-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCRM KCOR PREL SR |
07BELGRADE307 | SERBIA'S IPR ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS IMPROVE IN 2006 [...] The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA),in its yearly Special 301 submission to USTR, elected not to recommend that Serbia be placed on the Special 301 Watch list. Embassy supports this decision. Serbian authorities responsible for intellectual property rights (IPR) enforce [...] | 2007-03-07 13:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL SR KIPR |
07BELGRADE441 | NEW TOBACCO STRATEGY ADOPTED [...] (u) The Government of Serbia (GoS) adopted an action plan for tobacco production and trade on March 22 in order to smooth its relationship with the cigarette industry and at the same time permit ratification of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). The new strategy has been nego [...] | 2007-04-03 07:28:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL HR SR |
07BELGRADE599 | UPDATE ON ENERGY ISSUES FROM SERBIA [...] (U) Summary. State-owned gas monopoly Srbijagas has managed to improve its financial outlook via an intergovernmental agreement that uses old Yugoslavia clearing debt to pay gas arrears to Gazprom of USD 188.2 million, debt accumulated from 1994 to 2000. However, the company still has a debt [...] | 2007-05-07 06:38:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV EIND SR |
07BELGRADE605 | RESPONSE TO OSCE PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] (U) After consulting with local OSCE officials in Belgrade, and internally with relevant Mission agencies, post recommends the following projects for funding. The projects selected represent a number of mission and OSCE priorities including democratization, counter-terrorism and the resolut [...] | 2007-05-07 16:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL |
07BELGRADE737 | AMBASSADOR'S 5/24 MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (c)SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR MET WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DJELIC ON MAY 24 TO REVIEW HIS PLANS FOR CARRYING OUT THE NEW GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM. UPBEAT AND ENERGETIC - TO THE POINT OF BEING COCKY - DJELIC EMPHASIZED THAT HE WOULD INVEST HEAVILY IN BUILDING GOOD RELATIONS WITH DIFFERENT PA [...] | 2007-05-25 16:17:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV SR |
07BELGRADE774 | PROPERTY RESTITUTION: SERBIAN GOVERNMENT DRAFT [...] On May 10, the outgoing Serbian government approved a draft law that would restitute property seized by wartime Nazi occupation forces and Tito's subsequent communist regime. The law, if approved by the new government and adopted by the parliament, would establish a legal procedure for estab [...] | 2007-06-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIDE KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE775 | SERBIA BROADBAND OPERATING IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) Only five years after the Southeastern Europe Equity Fund invested USD 10 million in this cable television and broadband start-up, Serbia Broadband (SBB) has become a significant market player in Serbia. Its successful growth places it squarely as a threat to state-owned Telekom Srbija. O [...] | 2007-06-01 16:15:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN BTIO PGOV KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE810 | NEW SERBIAN FINANCE MINISTER PROMISES RESPONSIBLE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with new Finance Minister Mirko Cvetkovic for the first time on June 5 to discuss the economic agenda for the new government. Cvetkovic said that he aims to uphold the Ministry's role in safeguarding a stable macroeconomic environment, including a return to convention [...] | 2007-06-08 10:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV KIDE SR |
07BELGRADE885 | MPA WITHDRAWS FUNDING FOR ANTI-PIRACY ASSOCIATION IN [...] The Anti-Piracy Association of Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist in Serbia on March 15, 2007, after a November 2006 decision of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) to withdraw its annual funding to the local association as of January. The MPA cited re-focusing resources on a smaller num [...] | 2007-06-21 12:34:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL SR KIPR |
07BELGRADE894 | REVISED BUDGET SEEN AS EXPANSIONARY [...] (u) Serbia's new government on June 14 presented a 2007 budget proposal that would continue expansionary fiscal policy with an expenditure increase of 27.4 percent and a projected deficit of 0.6 percent of GDP. A chorus of criticism, from economists, the central bank, and the IMF, greeted the [...] | 2007-06-25 06:33:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE895 | REVISED BUDGET SEEN AS EXPANSIONARY [...] (u) Serbia's new government on June 14 presented a 2007 budget proposal that would continue expansionary fiscal policy with an expenditure increase of 27.4 percent and a projected deficit of 0.6 percent of GDP. A chorus of criticism, from economists, the central bank, and the IMF, greeted the [...] | 2007-06-25 06:33:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE907 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ECONOMY MINISTER [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with new Minister of Economy Mladjan Dinkic for the first time on June 20 to review the economic agenda for the new government. Dinkic, leader of the G17 party, said that he personally favors a partition of Kosovo but said that preserving momentum on Euro-Atlantic rela [...] | 2007-06-25 14:14:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV KIDE KPRV SR |
07BELGRADE914 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ECONOMY MINISTER [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with new Minister of Economy Mladjan Dinkic for the first time on June 20 to review the economic agenda for the new government. Dinkic, leader of the G17 party, said that he personally favors a partition of Kosovo but said that preserving momentum on Euro-Atlantic rel [...] | 2007-06-26 08:02:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV KIDE KPRV SR |
07BELMOPAN121 | BELIZE: SUCCESS OF SUPERBOND EXCHANGE OFFER DAMPENS RUMOR [...] Summary: On January 31, the Government of Belize announced a USD 565 million bond exchange offer (ref A) that has given the government relief from sovereign debt default and has dampened rumors of early general elections. The new 2007/2008 budget is expected on March 2 and will be the first t [...] | 2007-02-21 18:08:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL SOCI BH |
07BELMOPAN13 | BELIZE - TIC FOLLOW UP [...] Per reftel, Post contacted the Belize Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Directorate of Foreign Trade, and the Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO) to inform them of the proposed DVCs and to confirm the existence of DVC capabilities in country. Although Post has received no formal [...] | 2007-01-11 12:10:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BH |
07BELMOPAN131 | BELIZE: FORMER AMBASSADOR CAUGHT SMUGGLING CASH [...] (U) A former Belizean Ambassador to Guatemala is facing accusations of using his diplomatic credentials to facilitate international money laundering after he was caught trying to enter Panama with a huge amount of undeclared U.S. cash. Moises Cal had also served in the Foreign Ministry as Am [...] | 2007-02-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL ECON BH |
07BELMOPAN184 | BELIZE LABOR UNION PROTEST FIZZLES [...] Labor unionists staged a protest on March 16 in front of the National Assembly building while parliament was in session debating the government's FY 2007/2008 budget. 2. The National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) organized the demonstration in opposition to the budget and to protest the Min [...] | 2007-03-16 22:38:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PREL PGOV ECON ASEC BH |
07BELMOPAN287 | BELIZE: OPPOSITION LEADER DISCUSSES THE WAY AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition leader Dean Barrow told us that he expects victory in the upcoming election but is taking nothing for granted. Government corruption and a "reform agenda" will be his main issues in the campaign. He foresees good relations with the U.S., believes momentum is buildin [...] | 2007-04-30 22:43:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON BH |
07BELMOPAN313 | FUEL SECTOR COMPETITION IN BELIZE [...] (SBU) Summary. With the recent discovery of oil in Belize and the anticipated delivery of PetroCaribe fuel, a privately-owned marine terminal has recently constructed in the south of Belize. Esso, the sole importer of fuel in Belize, believes that up to forty percent of its future imports may [...] | 2007-05-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ETRD EINV ECON EFIN PREL BH |
07BELMOPAN330 | BELIZE: GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF PRIVATE DEBT [...] Summary: Belizean Prime MinisterQs signing of an unlimited guarantee for a multi-million dollar loan to a privately-run hospital has led several cabinet ministers to question his judgment and the Leader of the Opposition to call for his resignation. Four cabinet ministers have publicly stated [...] | 2007-05-11 12:38:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON SOCI BH |
07BELMOPAN453 | 2007 USITC BIENNIAL CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE INVESTMENT [...] As in past years, post relied upon information from the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service (BELTRAIDE) - GOB's lead agency in attracting foreign investment to Belize - to obtain answers to questions raised in reftel. 2. The Fiscal Incentive Act is one of the most well-known in [...] | 2007-07-16 21:01:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON BH |
07BELMOPAN495 | CHAVEZ HAS FRIENDS IN BELIZE [...] (SBU) Summary. Since November 2006 Venezuela has given the Belizean government a US$5 million grant, US$50 million in loans, and US$1.6 million for road construction. Several sources have confirmed that recently an additional US$10 million grant has been promised. The government appears to b [...] | 2007-08-06 22:17:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID BH VE |
07BELMOPAN5 | BELIZE: PM MUSA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2007 [...] (U) In his New Year's Message, published in the December 31 edition of The Reporter (one of Belize's weekly newspapers),Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Said Musa was optimistic about the country's future - particularly in the areas of the economy and the border dispute with Guatemala. [...] | 2007-01-04 19:49:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN BH |
07BELMOPAN621 | BELIZE - DEMARCHE DELIVERED WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS [...] Per reftel, on October 19, 2007, Post delivered demarche to Ayesha Borland of the Belize Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. 2. Post will forward any substantive response from the Government of Belize. DIETER [...] | 2007-10-22 22:07:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO BH |
07BELMOPAN624 | (C) CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS IN THE BELIZE OIL SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Several U.S. firms have complained to the Embassy that bribes are determining which companies are being awarded oil exploration contracts in Belize. One company claims to have recorded several government ministers soliciting bribes. The opposition party has taken the informat [...] | 2007-10-23 20:53:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG KCOR BH |
07BELMOPAN650 | BELIZE INPUT TO CARIBBEAN BASIN RECOVERY ACT REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 20:42:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON BH |
07BELMOPAN713 | (C) BELIZE OIL: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS REACH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Two U.S. energy firms have complained to the Embassy that bribes determine who receives oil exploration contracts in Belize. One company official who claims to have actually paid a bribe and has electronically recorded numerous conversations, alleges that the Prime Minister's d [...] | 2007-12-13 20:42:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG EPET SOCI BH |
07BELMOPAN94 | BELIZE: FINANCING SCANDAL HEARINGS RESUME [...] Summary. On January 25, the long-awaited hearings into the financial dealings of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) finally resumed - minus Commission Chairman David Price, who died in December. Testimony from a DFC secretary, the finance manager, and the current Governor of the Beliz [...] | 2007-02-12 18:48:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BH |
07BELMOPAN97 | BELIZE: FORENSIC AUDIT UNCOVERS "POSSIBLE ILLEGALITIES" IN [...] (SBU) The draft report of a forensic auditor's review of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) - released on February 1 - revealed conflicts of interest, procedural irregularities, and possible illegalities. Mark Hulse, a chartered accountant, appeared before the DFC Commission of Inquiry [...] | 2007-02-12 20:14:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BH |
07BERLIN1007 | SCENESETTER FOR G-8 AFRICA PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. Chancellor Merkel will open the Eighth Africa Partnership Forum (APF) in Berlin immediately following the G-8 Finance MinistersQ Meeting in Potsdam May 19-20 and the German-World Bank Forum on May 21. Hosted by the German Development Minister, the APF will set out the key co [...] | 2007-05-18 09:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD PREL GM |
07BERLIN1071 | CHANCELLOR MERKEL PREVIEWS G-8 SUMMIT [...] Summary: German Chancellor Merkel emphasized climate change, hedge funds, Africa, and closer cooperation with emerging economies as core themes for the June 6-8 G-8 Summit in her remarks before the Bundestag May 24. Merkel acknowledged the debate on climate change is contentious, but argued d [...] | 2007-05-25 15:25:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD SENV ENRG PREL PGOV PL EU GM |
07BERLIN1104 | German Government Welcomes Zoellick [...] Germany welcomed President Bush's May 30 nomination of Robert Zoellick to be President of the World Bank. On behalf of Chancellor Merkel (CDU),Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul (SPD),praised the choice and described Zoellick as a "good candidate who w [...] | 2007-06-01 14:01:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD PREL GM |
07BERLIN115 | FOOD SECURITY/HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS COOPERATION [...] SUMMARY. On January 18, USEU Development Counselor and Embassy Berlin Econoff discussed opportunities for cooperation on development assistance with German officials in light of Germany's concurrent EU/G-8 presidencies. Development Ministry interlocutors expressed interest in U.S. proposals [...] | 2007-01-21 10:45:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON GM |
07BERLIN1425 | GERMANY'S AMBITION TO JOIN THE LUNAR-PROBING CLUB [...] (SBU) Summary: Conversations with German officials concerning Germany's plan to launch an unmanned lunar mission by 2013 indicate that, although enthusiasm is high in the German Aerospace Center (DLR),the government needs to be convinced of the value of this unilateral mission. The chairman [...] | 2007-07-19 16:34:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL TNGD ETTC ECON GM |
07BERLIN1450 | TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS AGAINST IRAN WITH GERMAN OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 08:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN GM IR PARM PREL |
07BERLIN1503 | GERMANY - PRELIMINARY VIEWS ON U.S.-RUSSIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) MFA Deputy Office Director for Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation Dietrich Becker told Global Affairs officer July 31 Germany is interested in learning more about U.S. and Russian plans to follow up on the July 3 Declaration on Nucl [...] | 2007-08-02 15:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ENRG ECON PGOV GM |
07BERLIN1561 | LABOR SHOWDOWN AT DEUTSCHE BAHN: MORE [...] SUMMARY. The anticipated train strike in Germany may have a long-lasting impact on labor relations in this country, as it pits longstanding constitutional rights to strike against the judiciaryQs authority to defend the national economic interest, and could ultimately delay the governmentQs [...] | 2007-08-15 15:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GM |
07BERLIN1621 | GERMAN CABINET RETREAT FOCUSES ON CLIMATE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged from the August 23-24 Federal Cabinet retreat with consensus among the parties in her Grand Coalition Government on a 50-point program designed to sustain Germany's economic upturn. No signs of coalition cracks appeared. The program inc [...] | 2007-08-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SENV ENRG EFIN PREL ELAB GM |
07BERLIN1640 | GERMANY - FOLLOWING UP ON PROPOSED OPEN-ENDED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 15:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN ECON ETRD MNUC PARM IR GM |
07BERLIN1699 | DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY: CHANCELLERYQS [...] Summary: Germany, like many industrialized nations, faces the enormous twin challenge of remaining competitive in a global economy while coping with the social and economic impact of demographic change. German policy makers confront a sobering demographic trend: the population of Germany i [...] | 2007-09-10 05:46:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GM |
07BERLIN1706 | DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY: CHANCELLERY'S [...] Summary: Germany, like many industrialized nations, faces the enormous twin challenge of remaining competitive in a global economy while coping with the social and economic impact of demographic change. German policy makers confront a sobering demographic trend: the population of Germany i [...] | 2007-09-10 13:21:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GM |
07BERLIN1746 | THE GERMAN SUBPRIME BANKING CRISIS: [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. subprime crisis continues to produce anxiety in Germany?s banking sector, but the exposure of German banks remains unclear. After the bailout of a second state-run bank, SachsenLB, in mid-August, pressure for a consolidation of Germany?s fragmented financial landscape [...] | 2007-09-14 15:52:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SENV ENRG EFIN ELAB PREL |
07BERLIN1785 | ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATIONS OF COATED FREE SHEET PAPER [...] Summary: This is in response to Reftel on subject of the USITC antidumping investigation of coated free sheet paper from China, Indonesia and Korea. 2. Industry-wide data, as available for coated free sheet paper: Production quantity, metric tons (value million USD*) 2004 1,838,615 [...] | 2007-09-21 05:35:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV SENV ENRG EFIN PREL GM |
07BERLIN1909 | U/S JEFFERY DISCUSSES IRAN SANCTIONS, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: German Government officials in the Chancellery and MFA expressed to visiting Undersecretary Reuben Jeffery their preference for multilateral sanctions designed to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear weapons program. While willing to consider EU autonomous sanctions in the e [...] | 2007-10-19 10:24:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KNNP EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL SENV GM |
07BERLIN1910 | U/S JEFFERY DISCUSSES IRAN SANCTIONS, ENERGY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 10:24:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KNNP EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL SENV GM |
07BERLIN1964 | GERMANY EXPECTED TO PRESENT HEALTH SYSTEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, EconOff met with Dr. Walter Werner, Head of the Trade Policy, Services and Intellectual Property Division at the Ministry of Economics on reftel points. Werner said Germany will avoid any discussion of Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRI [...] | 2007-10-26 17:34:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR WTRO WHO |
07BERLIN1977 | THE SPD RALLIES AROUND BECK AND LOOKS TOWARD 2009 [...] (C) Summary: The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) October 26-28 convention gave a much-needed boost to party chairman Kurt Beck, who emerged as the SPD's undisputed candidate for chancellor in 2009. The SPD focused squarely on a domestic agenda that should not directly affect our ability to wo [...] | 2007-10-30 11:26:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AF IR GM |
07BERLIN2004 | THE WRONG SIGNAL AT THE WRONG TIME: [...] (SBU) Summary. No tectonic shift in German economic policy came out of the SPD convention, perhaps, but the SPD's labor reforms could mark the beginning of a rollback in Schroeder's "Agenda 2010" reforms, a source at the Labor Ministry told the Embassy. The resolution to block privatization [...] | 2007-11-02 06:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GM |
07BERLIN2014 | LABOR REFORMS IN GERMANY: A THREAT TO [...] In the last few weeks, much has been written about the SPD's new program to roll back labor reforms in Germany, with the "Financial Times" characterizing them as a German retreat from economic reform. Whether the Beck proposals or a government counter-proposal can be contained as a piece-me [...] | 2007-11-02 16:43:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN PREL PGOV GM |
07BERLIN2027 | IRAN/FATF - GERMAN FINANCIAL REGULATORS URGE BANKS [...] (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered reftel demarche November 5 to German Finance Ministry Financial Crimes Desk Officer Kristina Wogatzki and MFA International Financial Policy Desk Officer Claudia Schuett. According to Wogatzki, the German Financial Monitoring Association (BaFin) distribu [...] | 2007-11-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM PREL MNUC KNNP PTER PGOV ECON IR GM |
07BERLIN2028 | IRAN/FATF - GERMAN FINANCIAL REGULATORS URGE BANKS [...] (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered reftel demarche November 5 to German Finance Ministry Financial Crimes Desk Officer Kristina Wogatzki and MFA International Financial Policy Desk Officer Claudia Schuett. According to Wogatzki, the German Financial Monitoring Association (BaFin) distribu [...] | 2007-11-06 17:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM PREL MNUC KNNP PTER PGOV ECON IR GM |
07BERLIN2083 | IRAN/GERMANY - MINISTRIES FOLLOWING CHANCELLOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: German Government officials in the MFA, Economics Ministry, and Finance Ministry have taken note of Chancellor Merkel's strong public statements in support of a third UNSCR resolution and renewed efforts to encourage German business to cut or curtail ties with Iran following last [...] | 2007-11-16 17:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN KNNP MNUC ETRD PGOV IR GM |
07BERLIN2140 | GERMAN VIEWS ON ADDITIONAL EU DESIGNATIONS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: German Government officials are still deliberating at a very senior level how they will proceed on the UK and French proposal to add Banks Melli and Saderat and the Ex-Im Bank of Iran to the April 2007 EU list of designated individuals/entities. German officials regard the UN pa [...] | 2007-11-30 09:13:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN ETRD ECON PREL IR EU GM |
07BERLIN215 | JOINT COORDINATION AND MONITORING BOARD: ENHANCED [...] At the high-level session of the Afghanistan Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) in Berlin January 30-31, donor Government representatives and Afghan partners renewed their commitment to realize the political vision outlined in the January 2006 Afghanistan Compact. In the opening [...] | 2007-02-02 15:32:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PGOV ENRG AF |
07BERLIN2159 | GERMANY/IRAN - U/S JEFFERY DISCUSSES ADDITIONAL EU [...] (S) SUMMARY: Undersecretary Reuben Jeffery met with German Economics Ministry State Secretary Bernd Pfaffenbach in Berlin December 3 to request German support for additional EU autonomous measures against Iran in advance of a third UN Security Council resolution. Pfaffenbach reported that Ch [...] | 2007-12-04 11:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN ETRD ECON PREL IR EU GM |
07BERLIN2173 | IRAN - ECONOMICS MINISTRY AND MFA SUPPORT THIRD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior officials in the German Economics Ministry and in the MFA's Economic Policy Division insist Germany remains committed to a "strong, robust" third UNSCR on Iran. If there is no resolution or a watered-down resolution, Germany is prepared to support autonomous EU measures t [...] | 2007-12-06 07:50:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN ETRD ECON PREL IR EU GM |
07BERLIN218 | GERMANY'S BEST PRACTICES FOR ENHANCING STEEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Germany's steel industry benefits from both national and EU programs to enhance the competitiveness of its steel industry. According to Dr. Dirk Grabowski, Office Director for the Steel and Defense Industries at the Ministry of Economics and Technology, the nation's steel indust [...] | 2007-02-02 17:12:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD OTRA FR GR IT JA KSAC EUN |
07BERLIN2192 | IRAN - GERMAN FINANCE MINISTRY SUPPORTS THIRD [...] (S) SUMMARY: Post-NIE, the German Finance Ministry agrees with the Chancellery, MFA, and Economics Ministry assessment that Iran's enrichment- and missile-related activities continue to pose a threat. The Finance Ministry supports work toward a strong third UNSCR but also remains sympathetic [...] | 2007-12-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN ETRD ECON PREL IR EU GM |
07BERLIN2193 | GERMANY "OUT OF THE GAME" ON INTERNET GAMBLING [...] (SBU) Summary: Germany leans toward favoring a negotiated settlement between the European Commission and the United States on internet gambling to avoid arbitration in the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, Ministry of Economics officials say Germany will not pressure other Member St [...] | 2007-12-12 17:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO GM |
07BERLIN271 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) Summary -- Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt discussed TFTP/SWIFT, terrorist financing, the importance of open investment policies, and the Chancellor's transatlantic economic initiative in a meeting February 8 with Jens Weidmann, Director General in the Chancellery for Economic and Finan [...] | 2007-02-11 16:42:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PTER GM |
07BERLIN371 | MISSION GERMANY SUBMISSION FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Mission Germany recommends that Germany receive the same treatment in the 2007 301 Report as it received in 2006 and not be listed in the priority watch list category. The situation facing American pharmaceutical companies in Germany has not appreciably deteriorated during th [...] | 2007-02-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR GM |
07BERLIN38 | GASTRIGHT DELEGATION DISCUSSIONS IN BERLIN ON [...] (C) (Summary) In an productive and timely visit, South and Central Asian Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary John Gastright, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Tom Schweich, USAID Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Mark Ward, and J [...] | 2007-01-09 09:41:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL SNAR PTER PNAT PGOV EAID ECON ECIN |
07BERLIN408 | AFGHANISTAN: GERMANY INCREASES DEVELOPMENT AID 25% [...] (SBU) Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul announced on February 27 that Germany would immediately increase reconstruction support by EUR 20 million, bringing Germany's overall bilateral Afghanistan development aid to EUR 100 million annually. The German money will target primary [...] | 2007-02-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON GM AF |
07BERLIN447 | MERKEL GIVES PREVIEW OF PRIORITY ISSUES FOR MARCH [...] Summary: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who currently holds the presidency of the European Council, addressed the German Bundestag on March 1 in a policy speech about her priorities for the March 8-9 EU Council Meeting in Brussels. Major themes are the promotion of economic growth, a succes [...] | 2007-03-05 17:26:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EU GM |
07BERLIN45 | GERMANY TAKES RUSSIAN - BELARUS OIL DISPUTE IN [...] (U) German reaction to the cutoff of Russian oil via the Druzhba Pipeline has been relatively muted. Economics Minister Michael Glos stated there was no cause for alarm as Germany has sufficient reserves to cover any shortages. That said, Glos demanded that "the pipeline be reopened as soon [...] | 2007-01-09 16:55:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM |
07BERLIN46 | GERMANY REVISITS ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES IN LIGHT [...] Summary. The arrest of a former top Siemens board member brings to six those detained in a scandal drawing attention to German corporate governance. The Siemens case is the latest of a number of corporate scandals that include a Volkswagen prostitution and embezzlement ring and German activi [...] | 2007-01-09 17:14:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD GM KCRM OECD |
07BERLIN470 | CHANCELLERY AND MFA OFFICIALS PREVIEW MARCH 8-9 EU [...] (SBU) Summary: German officials remain optimistic about the prospects for a successful March 8-9 EU Council summit, despite media reports about failure to achieve consensus on binding targets for renewable energies. In accordance with Chancellor Merkel's desire to focus on specific goals and [...] | 2007-03-07 17:18:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD SENV PREL ENRG GM |
07BERLIN515 | IRAQ COMPACT UN MEETING: GERMAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref demarche to the Chancellery and MFA to urge senior German participation. The German government's initial plan was to have an ambassador-level official from its UN Mission represent Germany at the event. Embassy has reclamaed the German government at senior le [...] | 2007-03-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ GM |
07BERLIN520 | GERMAN PRESIDENCY SEES CLIMATE/ENERGY AND PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Chancellor Merkel has identified energy/climate change and progress on an EU constitution as her top priorities for the remainder of Germany's EU presidency, according to officials in the Chancellery and MFA. The German government believes the EU's consensus position has laid th [...] | 2007-03-14 16:08:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD SENV ENRG PREL PGOV PL EU GM |
07BERLIN532 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Your return to Berlin comes at a point in the German EU and G-8 presidencies when German policy makers and top officials across the government are evaluating progress and looking to make needed midpoint course corrections for the final sprint to the June G-8 summit and the con [...] | 2007-03-16 14:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN ETRD ETTC GM |
07BERLIN547 | DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY MEETS WITH TOP [...] (C) Summary -- Meeting separately with Head of the Federal Chancellery/Minister without Portfolio Thomas de Maiziere and with Chancellery Director General for Economics Jens Weidmann March 19, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt discussed Chancellor Merkel's transatlantic economic initiative, i [...] | 2007-03-20 11:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL ETTC GM IR IZ |
07BERLIN619 | BERLIN: COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Semmel, Foreign Affairs Officer David L. Evans, Senior Policy Advisor Gerald Stacy, and William F. Menold, Jr., to participate in the Global Partnership Working Group and Nonproliferation Directors [...] | 2007-03-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT OTRA ASEC PARM PREL GM |
07BERLIN72 | GERMAN CABINET DISCUSSES FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: In a joint meeting on foreign affairs between German cabinet ministers and their EU Commission counterparts January 9 in Berlin, EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson was reportedly upbeat about prospects for moving forward on Doha. Participants from both sides agreed UN Special Envoy [...] | 2007-01-11 18:05:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PGOV GM EU |
07BERLIN768 | GERMANY AGREES TO CBP IMMIGRATION ADVISORY PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. German Interior Ministry Director for Air, Sea, and Rail Security Dieter Romann told CBP Representative (Frankfurt) and Global Affairs Officer March 29 that Germany agrees to the U.S. proposal to post four CBP officers at Frankfurt Airport as part of the Immigration Advisory Pro [...] | 2007-04-13 18:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR KHLS AMGT APER PTER CVIS ECON PREL CMGT |
07BERLIN833 | G-8 LABOR MINISTERIAL: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] Welcome in advance to Germany and to this year's meeting of G-8 labor ministers, hosted by Germany's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs May 6-8 in Dresden, the capital of the eastern state of Saxony. Like the other states of the former German Democratic Republic, Saxony still lags behind th [...] | 2007-04-24 16:54:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL GM |
07BERLIN884 | SNAPSHOT OF GERMAN ECONOMY ? RECOVERY IN [...] Summary: The German economy is expected to grow 2.4% in 2007 according to the spring consensus forecast of Germany?s six leading economic institutes. After half a decade of below-average economic performance, Germany has finally caught up with the general growth trend in the Euro zone, ove [...] | 2007-05-02 15:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB PREL GM |
07BISHKEK1087 | RISING BREAD PRICES SPUR KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT ACTION [...] (C) Summary: Amidst a 20-40% increase in bread prices due in part to a three-fold increase in the price of imported Kazakh wheat, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Atambayev and other senior officials have criticized bakers for raising bread prices. However, PM Atambeyev's government has moved beyond p [...] | 2007-08-29 14:31:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR SOCI KG |
07BISHKEK113 | EMBASSY BISHKEK BFIF PROPOSALS [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Bishkek hereby submits two proposals for the use of Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) resources in 2007. Details of the two proposals are outlined below. 2. The first proposal is entitled "Outreach to Kyrgyz Businessmen." Justification: Embassy [...] | 2007-02-02 08:57:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO ECON EINV ETRD KG |
07BISHKEK1148 | KYRGYZ RECEIVE OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION POINTS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered revised reftel points September 14 to Nuran Niyazaliyev, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of International Organizations and Security Affairs. Niyazaliyev listened with interest, but noted that the Kyrgyz government might not send a delegation to the Warsaw Human [...] | 2007-09-14 11:52:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ECON OSCE KG |
07BISHKEK1155 | "MAXIMIZING" BUSINESS IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: A prominent ex-pat businessman, Giorgio Fiacconi, has reportedly been forced to sell his Kyrgyz Credit Bank (KCB) to a close business associate of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's son, Maxim. The associate, Latvian businessman Valery Belokon, has also acquired the failed "I [...] | 2007-09-18 09:09:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV KCOR ECON EINV PINR KG |
07BISHKEK1173 | KYRGYZ FEEL INFLATIONARY AND FINANCIAL PRESSURES [...] (SBU) Summary: With "official" monthly food price inflation of 2.3%, hoarding and rapid price inflation are affecting an increasing array of foodstuffs in Kyrgyz markets. Meanwhile, the Kyrgyz Central Bank has pumped the equivalent of over $150 million into the local currency market to curb [...] | 2007-09-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI KG |
07BISHKEK1178 | U.S. BUSINESS SEMINAR DRAWS KYRGYZ ENTREPRENEURS [...] (U) Summary: The Embassy-hosted "Doing Business with the USA" seminar attracted approximately 220 people for a discussion on developing business relations with U.S. firms and ways to compete for U.S. government contracts at Manas air base and in Afghanistan. More than 90% of the companies we [...] | 2007-09-25 04:57:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KG |
07BISHKEK1183 | FY07 BFIF REPORTING FROM EMBASSY BISHKEK [...] Per reftel A request, Embassy Bishkek hereby submits the following report regarding the use of Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) resources in 2007 in the Kyrgyz Republic. 2. The total amount of BFIF support provided for use by Embassy Bishkek was $3,100.00. The total amount spe [...] | 2007-09-25 12:47:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO ECON ETRD EINV AFIN ADPM KG |
07BISHKEK1354 | KYRGYZ REJECT PRESSURE ON UKRAINE WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Summary: A Kyrgyz MFA official asked visiting SCA Senior Advisor Robert Deutsch November 8 to relay Bishkek's readiness for "constructive" talks with Kyiv over Ukraine's WTO accession to Washington, but argued against continued "politicization" and "third party political pressure" with res [...] | 2007-11-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO PREL KTIA ECON KG |
07BISHKEK1363 | FATF IRAN STATEMENT DELIVERED TO KYRGYZ [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points and guidance on November 6 to Ulan Danikeev, First Deputy Chairman of the Financial Intelligence Service of the Kyrgyz Republic. Although Kyrgyzstan is not a member of FATF, Danikeev welcomed the information about the FATF statement. Danikeev said [...] | 2007-11-15 08:25:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC ECON KG |
07BISHKEK1367 | KYRGYZ FEEDBACK ON PAST AND FUTURE TIFA MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: A Kyrgyz MFA official pledged to begin preparations within the Kyrgyz government for next summer's U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement meeting. While endorsing greater private sector activity under TIFA, he lamented that Kyrgyz firms were not prepared to [...] | 2007-11-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL KG |
07BISHKEK1395 | KYRGYZ ELECTRICITY AND NATURAL GAS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: While Kyrgyz Energy Minister Chudinov and other officials embrace Kyrgyz electricity exports to South Asia under the CASAREM umbrella, supply issues, particularly involving Tajikistan, color the discussion of how much electricity may be available for export. Other Kyrgyz offici [...] | 2007-11-26 11:08:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL KG |
07BISHKEK143 | IMF/WB "NOT OPTIMISTIC" AS KYRGYZ HIPC DECISION [...] (C) Summary: World Bank and IMF representatives in Kyrgyzstan have requested that Kyrgyz authorities recommit, in writing, to the December HIPC agreement by late February or risk the loss of all debt relief envisioned under HIPC. PM Isabekov's "step by step" parliamentary strategy on HIPC, de [...] | 2007-02-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KG |
07BISHKEK1461 | ELECTION EVE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN KYRGYZSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Amidst the political wrangling preceding the December 16 Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, there have been significant economic and financial developments in the Kyrgyz Republic during the past year. Despite strong economic growth in 2007, increasing inflation and the falling v [...] | 2007-12-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI KG |
07BISHKEK155 | THE GLITTER OF KYRGYZ GOLD TAXES CANADIAN MINE [...] (C) Summary: The Canadian-run Kumtor gold mine in eastern Kyrgyzstan, which generates 4-6% of Kyrgyz GDP, is expected to double its 2006 production of 303,000 ounces by 2008. Despite the rosy projections, Kumtor Operating Company (KOC) President Andrew Lewis told Embassy that a less friendly [...] | 2007-02-09 12:14:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ECON EINV KG |
07BISHKEK194 | KYRGYZ REJECT HIPC, SEEK ALTERNATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Reversing its initial decision in December, the Kyrgyz government and President Bakiyev February 20 rejected participation in the HIPC debt relief initiative. President Bakiyev subsequently tasked the government with finding alternative ways to pay off Kyrgyzstan's $2 billion for [...] | 2007-02-21 12:12:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KG |
07BISHKEK210 | KYRGYZ DOWNPLAY EXPECTED IMPACT OF NEW RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: With an estimated 500,000 Kyrgyz working in Russia, sending back an estimated half billion dollars a year in remittances, Russia's new restrictions on foreign labor and outdoor markets (Ref A) have prompted concern here about a possible sudden return of labor migrants and reductio [...] | 2007-02-28 08:52:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SOCI KG |
07BISHKEK216 | ROADS, MINES AND IRANIANS SURFACE AT KYRGYZ [...] (C) Summary: Recently appointed Issyk Kul Governor Kydykbek Isayev presided over an investment conference which focused particular attention on mineral deposits in the eastern Sary Jazz region. The conference also touted development opportunities in tourism, agriculture and energy -- as well [...] | 2007-02-28 11:39:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ELTN IR KG |
07BISHKEK240 | FM KARABAYEV URGES FASTER RESOLUTION OF BASE ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a March 5 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Karabayev urged the U.S. to move forward to solve base issues, such as the December shooting incident and the September collision. Karabayev seemed interested in assisting the U.S. in countering the negative publicity and [...] | 2007-03-07 08:44:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD PHUM KG |
07BISHKEK26 | EMBASSY BISHKEK RESPONSE TO TOBACCO ACTIVITY [...] Post has searched available records dating back to January 2004 for any tobacco-related documentation described in reftel. Post located one item, described in paragraph 2. 2. On October 13, 2005, the Ambassador sent a letter to the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, reg [...] | 2007-01-18 04:36:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ATRD ECON KG |
07BISHKEK316 | GOING FOR THE KYRGYZ GOLD -- WILL USENOV TAKE THE [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy Prime Minister Usenov has continued to consolidate control over Kyrgyz economic and business activity since the new cabinet was named in February. He led the (successful) campaign against the HIPC initiative, and he has advocated ousting the IMF and the World Bank a [...] | 2007-03-23 10:36:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON EFIN PREL KG |
07BISHKEK373 | BAKIYEV-DOLE: POSITIVE MEETING ON RELATIONSHIIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 4, Senator Robert Dole held a positive meeting with President Bakiyev and Foreign Minister Karabayev. Bakiyev said that he understands the importance of the Manas Air Base, but the outstanding questions, such as compensation, the September collision, the December 6 sh [...] | 2007-04-05 10:47:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MARR KG |
07BISHKEK391 | KUMTOR RAISES THE STAKES IN KYRGYZ GOLD DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: Kumtor Operating Company (KOC),the Canadian operator of the Kumtor gold mine, is holding open the possibility of fresh negotiations with the Atambayev-led government, following the government's rejection of a deal KOC negotiated with former First Deputy Prime Minister Usenov th [...] | 2007-04-10 13:57:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV PREL KG |
07BISHKEK479 | SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETING WITH KYYRGYZ ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. In an April 19 meeting with SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum, recently-nominated Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Islan Ryskulov said he sought improved dialogue and cooperation with the United States. He asked for assistance moving forward on U.S. funding for the Kyrgyz Threshold C [...] | 2007-04-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KG |
07BISHKEK490 | DAS FEIGENBAUM AND FM KARABAYEV LAY GROUNDWORK FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his April 15-19 visit to Bishkek, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum met twice, over five hours, with Foreign Minister Ednan Karabayev for open and wide-ranging discussions. While many other meetings during the visit were dominated by the fast-changing domestic political situation, [...] | 2007-04-27 06:20:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR AF KG |
07BISHKEK526 | EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA [...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...] | 2007-05-08 11:55:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL |
07BISHKEK527 | EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA [...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...] | 2007-05-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL |
07BISHKEK609 | KYRGYZ EXPRESS INTEREST IN FIBER OPTICS CONFERENCE [...] Kyrgyz Minister of Transport and Communications Sulaimanov, Kyrgyz Telecom President Mambetaliev and "Government Communications" State Company Director Beyshekenov all expressed interest in reftel's proposed fiber optics conference. We have also received positive feedback from the Communicat [...] | 2007-05-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EFIN ECPS EINV ETRD EAID KG |
07BISHKEK631 | KYRGYZSTAN PASSES 2007 BUDGET [...] (U) Summary: On May 2, President Bakiyev signed Kyrgyzstan's 2007 budget. The 2007 budget projects a 12% increase in expenditures over the 2006 budget, with expenditures reaching $842 million. The government plans to cover the projected $105 million deficit by issuing treasury bills and se [...] | 2007-05-29 11:55:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KG |
07BISHKEK724 | CORRUPTION, ENERGY AND RULE OF LAW HEADLINE KYRGYZ [...] (SBU) Summary: President Bakiyev and Prime Minister Atambayev emphasized the rule of law, the battle against corruption and enhancing the business environment in a day-long discussion of the Kyrgyz Country Development Strategy (CDS) with the international donor community May 31. Bakiyev also [...] | 2007-06-14 03:36:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PREL PHUM KG |
07BISHKEK80 | HIPC INITIATIVE VICTIM OF KYRGYZ PM SHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary: In response to President Bakiyev's January 26 nomination of a new prime ministerial candidate to replace him, Acting Prime Minister Felix Kulov "revoked" his name from the letter committing Kyrgyzstan to the HIPC initiative. The IMF is still hopeful that the agreement can be salv [...] | 2007-01-26 13:34:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KG |
07BISHKEK832 | KYRGYZ REFORMS: UNDER THE RADAR, BUT HAVING AN [...] (C) Summary: Against a backdrop of domestic political wrangling, changes in government personnel, and heated debate over the presence of the Manas Airbase, important reforms are beginning to reshape Kyrgyzstan's economy, business environment, criminal justice system, and media. While these [...] | 2007-06-27 03:31:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR KMCA KG |
07BISHKEK834 | KYRGYZ ATTENDANCE AT TIFA MEETING [...] (U) The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry notified the Embassy June 26 by diplomatic note that Ambassador Jeenbek Kulubayev, Director of the Foreign Ministry's International Economic Cooperation Department, will represent Kyrgyzstan at the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA [...] | 2007-06-27 07:17:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL KG |
07BISHKEK949 | GAUGING INFLUENCE IN THE KYRGYZ CENTRAL BANK [...] (C) Summary: While Kyrgyz Central Bank Chairman Marat Alapayev maintains a low profile, Parliament Speaker (and former Central Bank chief) Marat Sultanov has recently backed three allies for positions on the Central Bank's nine-member Board of Governors. Four other Central Bank governors, r [...] | 2007-07-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL ECON PINR KG |
07BISHKEK966 | SURGE IN ELECTRICITY POWER PLAYS IN KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) Summary: With President Bakiyev expected to sign legislation opening the unfinished Kambarata hydroelectric stations to foreign investment soon, Minister of Energy Chudinov is seeking outside advice in implementing new legislation and related reforms in the electricity sector. U.S. firm [...] | 2007-07-27 07:11:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL KG |
07BISHKEK984 | VIEWS FROM BISHKEK ON UKRAINIAN-KYRGYZ WTO TALKS [...] (C) Summary: A Ukrainian memorandum proposing $14 million in humanitarian and technical assistance to cover an outstanding $27 million Ukrainian debt to Kyrgyzstan may not unlock obstacles preventing the conclusion of bilateral negotiations relating to Ukraine's WTO accession. The Ukrainian [...] | 2007-08-03 07:54:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO PREL KTIA ECON KG |
07BOGOTA1088 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BAYH [...] (SBU) Post welcomes CODEL Bayh to Colombia. President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in May, 2006; he is the first president to be re-elected to a second, consecutive term in over 100 years. We expect close bilateral relations between the United States and Colombia to continue in his second ter [...] | 2007-02-14 19:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOC ECON CO |
07BOGOTA1400 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCGOVERN [...] (SBU) Post welcomes CODEL McGovern to Colombia. With U.S. help, President Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. In January, the GOC presented a Plan Colombia consolidation phase strategy, with a heightened emphasis on social development. USAID programs aim [...] | 2007-02-28 21:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOC ECON CO |
07BOGOTA1407 | COLOMBIA AND PANAMA: DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Tensions increased between Colombia and Panama after President Uribe announced he would place greater customs restrictions on goods originating from Panama's Colon Free Trade Zone. Panama claims these restrictions would violate a customs agreement signed by the two countries in October 20 [...] | 2007-03-01 11:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECIN ECON PGOV PREL PTER SNAR CO PA VENZ |
07BOGOTA1472 | SCENESETTER CHECKLIST FOR VISIT OF PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (C) Your visit highlights the strength of our bilateral ties, and comes at a critical time for President Uribe. Seven months into his second term, Uribe is looking for a firm U.S. commitment to sustain high aid levels--as well as U.S. congressional approval of our bilateral Free Trade Agreeme [...] | 2007-03-05 22:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SNAR ECON ETRD PHUM KCRM CO |
07BOGOTA1516 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY U.S. TRADE [...] (SBU) Post welcomes DUSTR Veroneau to Colombia. With U.S. help, President Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. The economy is growing, the investment climate is strong, and there is both anticipation and nervousness over the fate of the U.S.-Colombia Trade [...] | 2007-03-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL CO |
07BOGOTA2274 | PALM OIL CREATES OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR [...] Colombia is increasing production and export of African palm oil as a sustainable alternative to coca. There are a small number of high-profile accusations that palm oil producers, possibly in concert with paramilitaries, illegally seized land from Afro-Colombian communities for palm cultiva [...] | 2007-04-04 22:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PGOV PTER SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA2533 | AFRO-COLOMBIANS STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL IDENTITY [...] A century-and-a-half of state neglect has marginalized the majority of Afro-Colombians and created substantial deficits in income, health and education. Sometimes called an "invisible minority," only in recent years has the government acknowledged Afro-Colombians as a distinct ethnic group e [...] | 2007-04-17 19:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PGOV ECON CO |
07BOGOTA2835 | FOREIGN MINISTER ARAUJO MEETING WITH WHA PDAS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo told WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro the GOC considered the bilateral Free Trade Agreement to be the "economic arm of Plan Colombia," whose ratification was key for Colombia to continue its success in fighting terrorism, reducing violence, and addressing social p [...] | 2007-04-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PHUM PTER CO |
07BOGOTA2929 | SCENESETTER CHECKLIST FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) Your visit follows President Uribe's May 2-4 visit to Washington. Uribe fears unsubstantiated claims in the Colombian Congress that he and his family are tied to the paramilitaries are undermining prospects in the U.S. Congress for continued high aid levels and ratification of the bilate [...] | 2007-05-02 12:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR MARR PTER ECON ETRD KCRM |
07BOGOTA2995 | SPILT MILK: FARC ATTACKS AGAINST NESTLE [...] (C) FARC attacks on Swiss multinational Nestle's dairy operations in Caqueta threaten the livelihoods of thousands of families. In January-February 2007, the FARC bombed Nestle plants and trucks in Caqueta, disrupting the most important legal sector in the department's economy. Nestle turned d [...] | 2007-05-02 22:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA32 | STRUGGLE OVER LAND CONTINUES TO FUEL COLOMBIAN [...] (U) Rural land development is a source of conflict in Colombia; repeated land reform efforts have been unsuccessful. A proposed new law aimed at facilitating rural development and promoting land distribution has led to complaints by human rights groups that it could legalize illegal land se [...] | 2007-01-04 18:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON CO |
07BOGOTA3635 | COLOMBIA'S STRENGTHENING PESO -- THE PRICE OF [...] (C) Summary. The Colombian Peso has been among the fastest appreciating currencies in the world thanks to strong economic prospects and improved security conditions. Political pressure from the export sector led the Central Bank to intervene heavily on the foreign exchange market during the f [...] | 2007-05-18 22:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN CO |
07BOGOTA3855 | CURVARADO AND JIGUAMIANDO: A TALE OF TWO [...] (C) Conflict between paramilitary and FARC forces displaced the Afro-Colombian communities of Curvarado and Jiguamiando in 1997. Between 2001-2002, after the GOC designated 100,000 hectares in the area as Afro-Colombian "communal territories," community members returned. They found their l [...] | 2007-05-30 22:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON CO |
07BOGOTA418 | COLOMBIA SEEKING THE LEAD ON REGIONAL [...] (U) After sharp reductions in kidnapping and homicide rates in Colombia, the GoC is seeking to position itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT) efforts in the region. Colombia signed a bi-national agreement with Paraguay to provide training and technical assistance in crime scene and kidna [...] | 2007-01-19 20:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV PREL PTER SNAR ASEC CO MX PA |
07BOGOTA4742 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GATES [...] (C) Your visit follows President Uribe's May and June visits to Washington. Uribe fears unsubstantiated claims that he and his family were tied to the paramilitaries are undermining prospects in the U.S. Congress for continued high aid levels and ratification of the bilateral Free Trade Agre [...] | 2007-06-29 22:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR MARR PTER ECON ETRD KCRM |
07BOGOTA4786 | CONGRESS DELIVERS RESULTS DESPITE PARA-POLITICAL [...] Summary. The Colombian Congress passed the GOC's top legislative priorities during its February-June session, despite the distraction of the para-political scandal. President Uribe's governing coalition lacks discipline and programmatic coherence, but was able to unite on votes that mattered, [...] | 2007-07-05 17:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREF PREL PTER PINR CO |
07BOGOTA4798 | HOW EX-PARAMILITARIES FINANCED THEMSELVES THROUGH [...] (C) Colombia's decentralization in the 1990s made local governments a tempting target for paramilitary infiltration. The paramilitary demobilization, confessions through the Justice and Peace process, and a renewed GOC security presence in former-para regions have exposed numerous cases of p [...] | 2007-07-05 20:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON CO |
07BOGOTA4825 | PDAS FARRAR MEETS COLOMBIAN LAND OFFICIALS [...] (C) DRL PDAS Jonathan Farrar met with officials of Colombia's rural land development agency (INCODER) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MinAg) in a June 24-29 visit. INCODER and MinAg officials described provisions in the new rural development law that protect the right [...] | 2007-07-06 13:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON CO |
07BOGOTA494 | PRESIDENT URIBE AND CONGRESS: A MIXED RECORD IN [...] (C) Summary: Despite the U Party and coalition difficulties (ref A),a flurry of end of year Congressional activity resulted in the adoption of five significant reform measures supported by President Uribe: bankruptcy reform, new health care subsidies for the poor, partial privatization of E [...] | 2007-01-24 11:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREF PREL PINR CO |
07BOGOTA5444 | CONGRESS PASSES RURAL DEVELOPMENT LAW WITH [...] (C) On June 15, Colombia's congress passed a rural development law to increase rural productivity, harmonize existing laws, and reform INCODER, Colombia's rural land development agency. Concerns of human rights, Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups were addressed in the bill, and INCODER wi [...] | 2007-07-26 21:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA5488 | HOW COLOMBIA'S ILLEGAL ARMED GROUPS FINANCED [...] (C) The FARC, ELN and former AUC partially financed their criminal activities through "vacunas," extortion payments levied on businesses and households. Some large companies paid millions of dollars for "protection," while individual households might pay USD two to five per month. Armed gro [...] | 2007-07-27 21:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA5651 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY USTR JOHN [...] (SBU) Post welcomes Deputy USTR John Veroneau to Colombia. With U.S. help, President Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. The economy is growing, the investment climate is strong, and there is both anticipation and nervousness over the fate of the U.S.-Col [...] | 2007-08-02 20:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CO |
07BOGOTA6105 | DUSTR VERONEAU DISCUSSES TRADE, LABOR VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary. During his August 7-11 visit to Colombia, DUSTR John Veroneau discussed U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) prospects and labor violence with Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata and Attorney General Mario Iguaran. Veroneau briefed the officials on the state of play i [...] | 2007-08-20 22:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV CO |
07BOGOTA6200 | VISIT OF HDAC COMMITTEE, AUGUST 27-31, 2007 [...] (SBU) Colombia's congress passed President Uribe,s top legislative priorities in its latest session, and its members look forward to developing institutional ties with the U.S. Congress. Security has markedly improved with successful military efforts to re-take areas controlled by the Revolut [...] | 2007-08-23 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM ECON ETRD OVIP OTRA PGOV PREL CO |
07BOGOTA6535 | GOC CONSULTATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS AND [...] The GOC must consult with indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups about actions that affect them pursuant to international treaties, the Colombian Constitution, laws, and court decisions. The GOC conducts 50-75 consultations per year, 80 percent with indigenous groups and 20 percent with Afro-C [...] | 2007-09-07 19:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA6862 | COLOMBIA AUCTIONS NINE OFFSHORE BLOCKS ON [...] (U) On September 18, Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) successfully auctioned nine exploration blocks totaling $50 million. The nine blocks represent part of 13 oil and gas blocks off the coast of Atlantico, Bolivar, Magdalena, and La Guajira departments offered in ANH's 2007 Cari [...] | 2007-09-19 20:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON EINV CO |
07BOGOTA6898 | WHO IGWG ANTI-IP PROPOSALS AT AMERICAS [...] On September 6 Econoff raised reftel issue with Colombian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) North America Desk Coordinator Patricia Cortes and delivered non-paper. Cortes said she would distribute non-paper to appropriate GOC agencies. On September 17, Cortes told us the Ministry of Soci [...] | 2007-09-21 16:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR CO |
07BOGOTA6957 | OPIC CEO MOSBACHER HIGHLIGHTS U.S.-COLOMBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In September 10-11 meetings with government and private sector representatives, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Robert Mosbacher, Jr. highlighted the potential for increased U.S. investment in Colombia and the range of OPIC services a [...] | 2007-09-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG OPIC CO |
07BOGOTA6966 | AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 21 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) The Ambassador briefed President Uribe on the latest developments on the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA),urged the GOC to coordinate closely with the USG on the efforts of Senator Cordoba and President Chavez to achieve a humanitarian exchange with the FARC, and outlined likely shift [...] | 2007-09-25 17:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER CO |
07BOGOTA7088 | ECOPETROL PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION RESOUNDING SUCCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 25, Colombia's state-owned hydrocarbons company Ecopetrol completed the first round of its partial privatization, successfully selling a 10.1 percent stake to a mix of Colombian companies and private citizens. The offering, which raised USD 3.3 billion in new funds f [...] | 2007-10-02 14:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV EFIN CO |
07BOGOTA7110 | FLUSH WITH CASH--COLOMBIA'S RISING INFLOW OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Colombia's international reserves have topped USD 20 billion for the first time ever. Rising exports, foreign direct investment, and remittances, as well as increased international borrowing, have infused Colombia's financial system with dollars and solidified its debt-service ca [...] | 2007-10-03 17:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD SNAR KCRM CO |
07BOGOTA7171 | CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: With funding from the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs (EEB),Embassy Bogota hosted the visit of Conservation International Senior Research Scientist Timothy J. Killeen to Colombia September 26-28 to speak about the sustainable development of biofuels. As part of the t [...] | 2007-10-04 15:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON KPAO OIIP SENV CO |
07BOGOTA720 | LATIN PACIFIC ECONOMIC MINISTERS INTERESTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Colombia hosted the "Latin American Pacific Basin Initiative Forum" January 29-30 in Cali, with participants from 9 of the 11 Latin American Pacific coast countries. The largely symbolic meeting was intended to galvanize trade and investment among the Latin Pacific countries, [...] | 2007-02-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD APECO CO |
07BOGOTA7225 | COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA BORDER BLOCKED OVER TOLL DISPUTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Twice since August, Venezuelan government-supported protesters have closed cross-border traffic at the Colombian city of Cucuta, which depends on USD 10 million a day in trade with Venezuela. The protesters, who object to a new Colombian-imposed toll, turned violent on October [...] | 2007-10-05 20:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ECIN CO |
07BOGOTA7234 | AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 1 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated to Foreign Minister Araujo on October 1 our commitment to obtaining U.S. congressional approval of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and said we will need continued GOC support for the congressional delegations that will likely visit Colombia in the coming [...] | 2007-10-06 00:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER UNSC VZ CO |
07BOGOTA7239 | AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 1 CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Zuluaga reiterated to the Ambassador, on October 1, GOC support for Treasury Secretary Paulson's informal consultative process with like-minded Latin American finance ministers. He concurred with the Ambassador's suggestion that our governments pursue an expan [...] | 2007-10-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL VZ PE CO |
07BOGOTA7265 | WORLD BANK BOOSTS COLOMBIA'S "DOING BUSINESS" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the World Bank's "Doing Business 2008" report released September 27, companies are finding it easier to do business in Colombia. In comparison to last year, Colombia improved 13 positions to 66th out of 178 countries ranked. The World Bank identified Colombia as t [...] | 2007-10-09 21:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP ETRD EFIN CO |
07BOGOTA7423 | ECOPETROL OUTLINES ITS APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 10, Jose Rafael Unda, Ecopetrol's Director for Social Responsibility, confirmed his company's incorporation of the Voluntary Principles (VPs) into its human rights policies. Unda said Ecopetrol added Spanish translations of the text of the Voluntary Principles to its [...] | 2007-10-16 23:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG EPET PHUM ETRD CO |
07BOGOTA7481 | AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 11 MEETING WITH [...] (C) In an October 11 meeting, the Ambassador and Vice-President Santos reviewed prospects for U.S. approval of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA),agreed on the need to work closely to deflect efforts by President Chavez and the FARC to make the USG and GOC look intransigent in humanita [...] | 2007-10-19 14:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER VZ CO |
07BOGOTA7718 | SECRETARY GUTIERREZ AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVES' [...] (SBU) In an October 13 breakfast meeting with Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and an accompanying congressional SIPDIS delegation, President Uribe thanked the group for U.S. support and urged them to support the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). He said the FTA will complement Plan Colomb [...] | 2007-10-26 22:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KJUS OVIP PGOV PHUM PTER EC |
07BOGOTA7772 | COLOMBIA'S 2008 BUDGET INCREASES SOCIAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 16, Colombia's Congress approved the 2008 national budget with a 9 percent spending increase over the 2007 budget. Despite the increase, the GOC expects to come in below its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent of GDP while raising the primary surplus above 1 percent [...] | 2007-10-31 20:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV CO |
07BOGOTA7842 | COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FY08 MCC SCORECARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC CO |
07BOGOTA7875 | COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 13:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ECON PARM PREL MNUC CO |
07BOGOTA7982 | WTO DEMARCHE REQUEST - GOC UNLIKELY TO RAISE ISSUE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON CO |
07BOGOTA7990 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD'S OCTOBER 25-26 VISIT TO [...] The Ambassador visited Cartagena, capital of the Department of Bolivar for meetings with government, private sector, educational and religious leaders. His interlocutors underscored that improved security had opened the door for economic growth and expressed interest in deepening the U.S.-Co [...] | 2007-11-08 18:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID PGOV ASEC CO |
07BOGOTA7998 | USTR SCHWAB-LED CODEL DISCUSSES COLOMBIA TRADE [...] (U) Sunday, November 3, 2007; 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab Acting Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner Ambassador William R. Brownfield Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Rep. John Ta [...] | 2007-11-08 21:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL ECON OVIP USTR USDA CO |
07BOGOTA8002 | COLOMBIA-CANADA TRADE AGREEMENT CLOSING FAST [...] (U) Colombia and Canada are racing quickly to conclude their free trade talks by the end of November 2007. In preparation for the scheduled final round at the end of November in Lima, mini-rounds are taking place all over the Western Hemisphere, including the services group meeting in Bogota, [...] | 2007-11-09 11:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON CO |
07BOGOTA8092 | COLOMBIA BIOFUELS UPDATE: PROMISE DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opening of Colombia's first biodiesel plant, establishment of a biodiesel free trade zone, and increasing blending mandates reinforce the GOC's commitment to adopt biofuels to diversify energy supplies and promote rural job creation. However, while growers expand palm oil c [...] | 2007-11-15 22:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ECON EAID PGOV CO |
07BOGOTA8200 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SENATE MAJORITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 21:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD ECON CO |
07BOGOTA8255 | IMPROVING SECURITY AND STRONG ECONOMY BOOST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Strong economic growth and record levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) are bolstering Colombian bank balance sheets as well as foreign financial institutions' interest in investing in the sector. Following a period of consolidation, three Colombian-owned banking groups have [...] | 2007-11-27 15:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CO |
07BOGOTA8273 | COLOMBIA'S SMALL FARMERS--COOPERATION AND CREDIT [...] Historically large agricultural producers in Colombia have benefited from government largesse to the exclusion of small farmers. Despite government institutions intended to help them get loans, small farmers often must turn to the informal lending system where they pay interest rates in exce [...] | 2007-11-28 17:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID CO |
07BOGOTA8455 | AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 28 MEETING WITH GOVERNOR [...] (C) Governor Angelino Garzon told the Ambassador the GOC's suspension of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba's and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' efforts to promote a humanitarian accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) stemmed from their mercurial approaches, the GOC's f [...] | 2007-12-11 13:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER ELAB ECON VE CO |
07BOGOTA8534 | COLOMBIAN FLOWER INDUSTRY MAKES SOCIAL AS WELL AS [...] Colombia's flower industry contributes USD 1 billion to the economy and directly employs 100,000 workers, the majority of them female heads-of-households. The industry spends millions on social programs for its workers and has developed a certification program that has dramatically improved [...] | 2007-12-14 21:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ELAB ETRD SENV EAID CO |
07BOGOTA8574 | GOC SETS UP COMMISSION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF [...] On October 29, 2007, President Uribe issued a decree creating the Commission for the Advancement of Afro-Colombians which will identify barriers to Afro-Colombian socio-economic advancement and make recommendations on ways to overcome them. Vice President Santos will chair the commission, an [...] | 2007-12-18 17:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA8592 | U.S.-COLOMBIA FLIGHTS TAKEOFF [...] SUMMARY: A new aviation agreement between the USG and the GOC unleashed a flood of interest by U.S. and Colombian carriers. The agreement should increase flights between the two countries by at least 50 percent. U.S. carriers with established flights to Colombia want to expand the number of [...] | 2007-12-19 16:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EINV CO |
07BOGOTA8640 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD,S DECEMBER 13 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador visited Barranquilla, capital of Atlantico Department on December 13 for meetings with Governor Carlos Rodado, ranking regional military Commander Colonel Carlos Bueno, and public outreach audiences. Rodado expressed his support for the U.S.-Colombian Trade Pro [...] | 2007-12-21 21:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV MARR CO |
07BOGOTA8651 | COUNSELOR COHEN'S DECEMBER 20 MEETING WITH [...] (C) President Uribe told Counselor Eliot Cohen on December 20 of his growing concern over Venezuelan President Chavez and suggested that the USG and GOC hold "strategic consultations" on Venezuela. Uribe said the GOC's immediate priorities remain U.S. congressional approval of the Colombia T [...] | 2007-12-21 22:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER ECON CO VZ |
07BOGOTA8658 | BOGOTA AIR QUALITY AMONG WORST IN LATIN AMERICA [...] SUMMARY: Bogota's seven million plus inhabitants breathe some of the worst air in the region. Air quality falls below safe levels over 95 percent of the time. Low-quality fuel, poor driving practices, and urban deforestation are largely to blame. GOC officials expect an agreement to improv [...] | 2007-12-26 21:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN EPET SENV SOCI ENRG CO |
07BOGOTA8692 | EMBASSY PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPONSORS CONFERENCE ON [...] Embassy Public Affairs sponsored the 12th Houston Series seminar with a focus on "Social Justice: Reducing Poverty, Building the Economy and Peace." 110 leaders and officials from the private sector, academia, government and NGOs participated in the three-day conference held in Cartagena fr [...] | 2007-12-28 20:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV ASEC KPAO OIIP CO |
07BOGOTA8697 | COLOMBIA'S NATIONAL INDIGENOUS GROUPS CONGRESS [...] Summary: The National Organization for the Indigenous in Colombia (ONIC) held its Seventh Congress December 9-14, declaring unity among all indigenous groups in South America and calling for protection of indigenous communities and their way of life. Complaints ran high against private inves [...] | 2007-12-31 15:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CO |
07BOGOTA900 | URIBE COMMITTED TO POVERTY REDUCTION BUT SUCCESS [...] Colombia's poverty rate of 49 percent -- which reaches almost 70 percent in rural areas -- exacerbates the urban-rural divide and feeds social conflict. President Uribe has boosted social spending, and improved economic growth and targeted social programs have cut poverty rates. Still, Uribe [...] | 2007-02-07 23:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL ECON CO PHUM PREF |
07BRASIIA1568 | Key Brazilin Senator Voices Concern over Venezuelan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunchAmbassador Sobel gave on August 8 as part of a boader outreach to Brazilian senators (septel),the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Natonal Defense Committee, Heraclito Fortes, expresed concerns about threats to democracy from Venezela and Bolivia. A [...] | 2007-08-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BR XR |
07BRASILIA103 | BRAZIL: OPIC SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENT FUND [...] Post supports OPIC's planned investment in Paladin Realty LP Fund, which will assist in the development of affordable and middle-income housing in Brazil (reftel). Recent changes to Brazilian legislation have encouraged substantial growth in the real estate and construction sector. These cha [...] | 2007-01-19 16:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1105 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement training. The proposal is for a grant of $43,900 to provide a two-day high-level workshop for law enforcement officials (Federal Police, Customs, Highway Patrol) and [...] | 2007-06-15 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1130 | AMEMBASSY BRASILIA NOMINATES RURALFONE FOR THE SECRETARY'S [...] (U) Based upon its outstanding program aimed at using technology and resources to assist communities located in Brazil's remote, underprivileged areas, the Ambassador nominates the U.S. company Ruralfone, Inc. for the Secretary of State's 2007 Award For Corporate Excellence For the Small to Med [...] | 2007-06-18 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP ELAB ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA1131 | AMEMBASSY BRASILIA NOMINATES FORD AND MICROSOFT BRAZIL FOR [...] (U) Based upon their leadership and commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR),Ambassador Sobel nominates the U.S. multinational companies Ford and Microsoft Brazil, as representatives of the 50 U.S. multinational companies that support the U.S. Embassy Brazil CSR Initiative, for th [...] | 2007-06-18 17:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP ELAB ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA1185 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 96 [...] The following is the ninety-sixth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2007-06-22 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1242 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 9-11 VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and Brazil share the basic goals of fostering hemispheric stability, promoting democracy, achieving a mutually satisfactory conclusion to the Doha round of WTO negotiations, preventing terrorist and drug transit activity and strengthening international non-proliferation [...] | 2007-07-02 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | ECON PGOV EFIN BR |
07BRASILIA1249 | BRAZIL: 2006 GSP ANNUAL REVIEW DEMARCHE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points to Peter Fox, MRE Deputy Director of the Division of Market Access, on July 3, 2007. Fox also served on the recent GOB Doha Round negotiating team. Sobel [...] | 2007-07-03 15:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ELAB PREL BR |
07BRASILIA132 | RUSSIA DOWNPLAYS MILITARY SALES IN BRAZIL BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with his Russian counterpart, Ambassador Vladimir L. Tyurdenev, on January 12, 2007 at the Russian Embassy. Tyurdenev spoke candidly about bilateral relations, trade, Russian hopes to furnish equipment and exprtise to the potential regional gas pipeline proect, [...] | 2007-01-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG BR RU |
07BRASILIA1334 | BRAZIL: U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: During their July 11 Brasilia meeting, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson and Brazilian Finance Minister Mantega discussed recent Brazilian economic performance, recent U.S. economic performance and the importance of promoting reform at the International Monetary Fund - including th [...] | 2007-07-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1335 | BRAZIL: U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson Meeting with [...] (SBU) In a July 11 meeting with Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo, U .S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson outlined the focus of his visit to Brazil: (1) increasing private sector infrastructure finance; (2) facilitating the development of small and medium-sized enterprise development through inc [...] | 2007-07-16 14:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1336 | BRAZIL: July 11, 2007, meeting between U.S. Treasury [...] (SBU) Summary: In their July 11 Brasilia meeting, Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles told Secretary Paulson that Brazil appears to have overcome the extreme economic and financial volatility it experienced in the past, and that Brazil's medium-term growth and inflation outlook is positi [...] | 2007-07-16 14:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1368 | BRAZIL: U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Amorim emphasized to Secretary Paulson in their July 11 Brasilia meeting the significance Brazil places on regional infrastructure integration. Paulson noted the importance of bringing in the World Bank to this discussion. On trade, Amorim stated that even thou [...] | 2007-07-20 09:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA1425 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY [...] Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil was the site of a weeklong conference of 250 community forest entrepreneurs and policy makers from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, July 15-23, 2007. Participants debated the challenges confronted by inhabitants of tropical forests on three continents: la [...] | 2007-07-26 18:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1431 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] Embassy is resending this as an amendment to reftel F to incorporate suggestions made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 2. SUMMARY: In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement traini [...] | 2007-07-26 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1463 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 98 [...] The following is the ninety-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2007-08-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1466 | BRAZIL: SUBMISSION FOR INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Per instructions in reftel, US Embassy Brasilia is aware of one (1) claim of US persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Brazil (GOB). Claim 1 ------- a. Claimants A and B b. 1999 c. Claimants A and B, along with a Brazilian partner, through a joint [...] | 2007-08-02 11:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE ENRG CASC ECON OPIC PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA149 | BRAZIL: LULA'S SECOND TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoB announced on January 22 a series of measures, the Program to Accelerate Growth (PAC),meant to enliven Brazil's current lackadaisical economic growth rates. The measures, a combination of targeted tax breaks and new public spending, along with the recycling of a few exist [...] | 2007-01-26 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD PREL EINV BR |
07BRASILIA1498 | THE SOYBEAN MORATORIUM, ONE YEAR LATER [...] (U) Summary: On July 24, 2007, NGOs involved in the pact for sustainable soy in the Amazon - the soy moratorium - such as Greenpeace and The Nature Conservancy, met in Sao Paulo with representatives of the soybean industry and large-scale European consumers to evaluate the results of the one ye [...] | 2007-08-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO PGOV ECON XR BR |
07BRASILIA1555 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DUE [...] (SBU) The below answers are in response to the request for information in ref C: A) Could there possibly be any downside or embarrassment caused by the selection of your post's nominee? --Post has no knowledge of any downside or embarrassment that would result from the selection of its no [...] | 2007-08-13 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV BR |
07BRASILIA1568 | Key Brazilin Senator Voices Concern over Venezuelan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunchAmbassador Sobel gave on August 8 as part of a boader outreach to Brazilian senators (septel),the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Natonal Defense Committee, Heraclito Fortes, expresed concerns about threats to democracy from Venezela and Bolivia. A [...] | 2007-08-14 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BR XR |
07BRASILIA1581 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF U/S REUBEN JEFFERY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a June setback to the Doha Round discussions, in which talks between the U.S., the EU, Brazil, and India stalled over disagreements concerning tariff cuts for goods and services and over agricultural subsidies. The Brazilian delegation, led by F [...] | 2007-08-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1585 | BRAZIL TO HOST MINISTERIAL MEETING ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry briefed representatives of embassies about its "Ministerial Meeting on International Governance for Sustainable Development," which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, September 3-4. The For [...] | 2007-08-17 10:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV UN EAGR ECON KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA1620 | BRAZIL: OCR DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On August 23, EmbOffs delivered the demarche points in reftel to Otavio Brandelli, Director of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations and Ana Soares, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Anti-Piracy Council, Ministry of Justice. The meet [...] | 2007-08-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON ADCO BR |
07BRASILIA1648 | BRAZIL: GOB THREAT TO SUSPEND IPR OF US CITIZENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Division of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of External Relations told EconOff on August 27 that the media exaggerated some elements of an August 24 report announcing GoB plans to "cross-retaliate" over a WTO finding against U.S. cotto [...] | 2007-08-29 18:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1774 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 99 [...] The following is the ninety-nine in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views express [...] | 2007-09-17 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1784 | MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On September 18, the Embassy's Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with Paulo Chiarelli, acting Director of the Ministry of Exterior Relations' (MRE) Division of Environme [...] | 2007-09-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV KGHG ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA1803 | EPA TRAININGS STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: Using funds from OES, three trainings on environmental law enforcement were carried out by EPA experts in August 2007 in Medellin (Colombia),Lima (Peru),and Georgetown (Guyana). With support from the Regional Environmental HUB Office, ECON Offices in each respective country, and [...] | 2007-09-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA1813 | BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETINGS WITH GoB [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and delegation met with Acting Minister of Mines and Energy, Nelson Hubner; Vice President Jose Alencar; and senior Ministry of Finance officials during his August 20 visit to Brasilia. Hubner said he saw an immediate need to showcase a biofuels p [...] | 2007-09-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENGR ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA SENV BR |
07BRASILIA1819 | BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY LEADS ECONOMIC DISCUSSION [...] (U) Summary: Following up on a March conversation between the Secretary and Foreign Minister Amorim, Under Secretary Jeffery, SIPDIS along with Ambassador Sobel and State Department officers, in an August 20 discussed with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto [...] | 2007-09-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA1826 | BRAZIL: FIRST MEETING OF USG-GOB BIOFUELS STEERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III, Ambassador Sobel and delegation participated in the first USG-GOB Biofuels Steering Committee meeting on August 20, 2007. Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) Under Secretary Everton Vargas led t [...] | 2007-09-25 09:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA1870 | AMB. GROSS LEADS INTERAGENCY DELEGATION TO BRAZIL FOR [...] Summary: Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy (EEB/CIP) led a senior-level U.S. delegation to Brazil for meetings with the Brazilian Ministry of Communications and the telecommunications regulator, the National Telecommunications Ag [...] | 2007-10-01 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS TINT TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA1897 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF NEC DIRECTOR AL HUBBARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of an August visit to Brazil by State Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III. During his visit, the Under Secretary's discussions with GOB officials included biofuels and infrastructure (REFTELS A, B,C). A [...] | 2007-10-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV BR |
07BRASILIA195 | EU TO APPROACH BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT ON TAXATION OF [...] (U) Action Request - paragraph 2. 2. (U) Summary and Action request. On January 31, EU Econ/Commercial Counselor Fabian Delcros approached Commercial Attache with respect to problems that EU cosmetics companies were experiencing regarding alleged discriminatory taxation upon their expo [...] | 2007-02-01 19:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BEXP ECON BR |
07BRASILIA1990 | Ambassador Sobel Visits Chamber of Deputies Foreign [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with members of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee on October 2 for a wide-ranging discussion that included the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, Burma, Cuba, Darfur, Iran, Haiti, tourism, and other topics. Members expressed intere [...] | 2007-10-16 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2038 | BRAZIL: POST OCR FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends retaining Brazil on the Watch List based on its continued strong overall anti-piracy enforcement efforts and in light of some continuing problem areas. The value of pirated and contraband items seized by Receita Federal in the first six months of 2007 was over [...] | 2007-10-26 18:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2064 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and BNDES Luciano Galvao Coutinho [...] (U) When NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Dan Price and Ambassador Sobel met with BNDES President Luciano Galvao Coutinho on October 11 in Brasila, Galvao began by providing brief historical background about BNDES. BNDES was established in 1952 to promote the expansion of capital-intensive indust [...] | 2007-10-30 19:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2066 | BRAZIL: DOC Secretary Gutierrez and MDIC Jorge meeting [...] (U) SUMMARY: Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge met October 10 in Brasilia to discuss the CEO Forum, trade and investment challenges in Brazil, and specific trade problems encountered by American firms. The meeting was c [...] | 2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2067 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez with Casa Civil [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The meeting between Casa Civil Dilma Rousseff, MDIC Secretary Jorge, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, NEC Director Hubbard, DPA/DNSA Price and Ambassador Sobel focused primarily on Doha. Both sides agreed we must seize the moment to come to closure on a Doha agreement. The del [...] | 2007-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2068 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-30 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2069 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-31 09:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2082 | USG-GOB COMMERCIAL DIALOGUE: CONTINUING A STRONG FORWARD [...] Summary: The reporting session of the third meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue, an hour-long event held October 10, 2007 in Brasilia, Brazil, was a positive and productive example of current USG-GOB bilateral cooperation. Visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez and [...] | 2007-11-01 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EINV ENRG TSPL TBIO TPHY TRGY TNGD PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA2087 | BRAZIL: CEO Forum recommendations report to USG and [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Brazilian and American CEOs participating in the CEO Forum reported their recommendations to President Lula's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (MDIC) Miguel Jorge, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and National Economic Council Direc [...] | 2007-11-05 17:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2090 | BRAZIL: NEC Hubbard and DOC Gutierrez Roundtable with [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an October 11 roundtable with Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and National Economic Council Director Hubbard on the margins of the CEO Forum and Commercial Dialogue, the governors of Bahia (Jacque Wagner),Rio Grande do Sul (Yeda Crusius),and Santa Catarina (Luis Henrique Silveir [...] | 2007-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA2120 | BRAZIL: ICAO DEMARCHE ON MONTREAL CONVENTION AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Monday, November 5 to Alexandre de Lima in the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Affairs (DSF) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE),as a follow-up on the demarche points sent to him on October 30. De Lima, who will [...] | 2007-11-09 09:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2124 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: ANAC PRESIDENT RESIGNS; THREE DIRECTORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's civil aviation agency (ANAC)'s Director-President Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi formally submitted his resignation to President Lula the afternoon of October 31. The same day, the "Diario Oficial da Uniao," the GOB's Federal Register equivalent, announced the confi [...] | 2007-11-09 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
07BRASILIA2131 | BRAZIL: COMMANDER OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. During his visit to Brazil October 1-5, LTG Robert Van Antwerp, Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),and his delegation met on October 3 with civilian Brazilian counterpart [...] | 2007-11-10 18:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA ECON EINV BR |
07BRASILIA2140 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SOBEL DISCUSSES UPCOMING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Sobel and Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs (MRE) Under Secretary Roberto Azevedo met on November 9 at the MRE to discuss the upcoming State-MRE Economic Dialogue scheduled for December. During the meeting, Azevedo said the only deliverable he expected from the [...] | 2007-11-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA BR |
07BRASILIA2147 | KEY SENATOR SAYS CLIMATE IS RIGHT FOR BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Aloizio Mercadante, chairman of the Senate Economic Affairs Committee, told Ambassador Sobel on October 18 that the bilateral relationship is at a very favorable point and the bilateral agenda must be resumed without delay so as to expand economic relations. He predicted the [...] | 2007-11-16 12:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2160 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 27-28 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2161 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 26-30 1 VISIT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2162 | SCENESETTER FOR THE NOVEMBER 25-DECEMBER 1 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's democratic institutions are generally strong and stable, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular because of his orthodox economic policies and expanded social programs. Export-led economic growth has been the norm in the recent past, while Brazil has [...] | 2007-11-21 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2171 | BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel request, and pursuant to request for extension to Oct. 19 response date, Post submits the following information regarding the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and liquid biofuels in Brazil, including research and reports available, [...] | 2007-11-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON PGOV OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA2174 | BRAZIL: HEAD OF FTA UNIT DISCUSSES CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with Evandro Didonet, Director of the Department of International Negotiations at Itamaraty, Didonet reviewed the status of ongoing Mercosul FTA negotiations, including Israel, GCC, India, EU and the preferential agreement with SACU. Brazil does not negotiate F [...] | 2007-11-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2176 | BRAZIL: ACTING MINES AND ENERGY MINISTER HUBNER [...] (U) In a meeting with EconCouns, Acting Minister of Mines and Energy Jose Hubner Moreira described his agency's role in energy supply contracting, discussed mining concession processes, and touched on the challenges of environmental legislation and working with the states at the federal level. [...] | 2007-11-23 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ENIV BR |
07BRASILIA2184 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 102 [...] The following is the one hundred second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] | 2007-11-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2188 | BRAZIL: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] On November 19, 2007 Econoff met with an advisor to the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF) in Brasilia. COAF has actively worked with Customs to discourage illegal transportation of funds domestically and internationally. Brazilian regulations allow up to Reais $10,000 (approx [...] | 2007-11-27 11:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EEB INL ECON KTFN PTER EETC PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2193 | Brazil: Draft National Trade Estimate [...] (U) Per reftel, set forth in paragraph 2 below is the text of post's draft of the National Trade Estimate. Post notes a new industrial policy is expected to be announced before the holidays, which may affect the subsidiaries and investment sections. 2. (SBU) Begin Text. TRADE SUMMARY [...] | 2007-11-27 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EFIN ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2206 | BRAZIL:INVESTMENT AND SERVICES DIRECTOR COSTA [...] (U) Ronaldo Costa Filho, division head for Services and Investment, discussed bilateral and intra-Mercosul investment negotiations, as well as WTO services negotiations in a recent meeting with EconCouns. CAMEX (External Trade Chamber) has recently approved a new BIT parameters proposal intende [...] | 2007-11-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2215 | BRAZIL:DEPUTY PALOCCI ECONOMICS MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met November 20 with Antonio Palocci, an influential pro-business Federal Deputy (PT, Workers Party, from Sao Paulo) and former Finance Minister. Deputy Palocci was enthusiastic about a possible US-Brazil regional infrastructure initiative and suggested specific p [...] | 2007-12-03 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2234 | BRAZIL:ITAMARATY TRADE A/S - ECONOMIC DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Carlos Marcio Cozendey, director of the MRE Economic Department (A/S equivalent) has the lead on the Economic Dialogue and provided feedback on the December 13 agenda in a recent meeting with EconCouns. (See ref B for expanded Brazilian feedback on details of the dialogue). Cozende [...] | 2007-12-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA2236 | BRAZIL: INFORMATION ON TEXTILES AND APPAREL [...] (U) Post sends this cable in response to information requested in reftel. 2. (U) Total 2006 industrial production in Brazil was approximately USD 284 billion. Through June, 2007 (latest available figures),total industrial production increased 6.7% over the same period in 2006. 3. [...] | 2007-12-06 15:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX BR |
07BRASILIA2242 | SCENESETTER FOR THE ECONOMIC DIALOGUE VISIT OF WHA A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit for the economic dialogue will expand and develop economic cooperation themes discussed during the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben SIPDIS Jeffery's August visit (REFTELS A, B, C). We hope to use the dialogue to focus on areas wh [...] | 2007-12-07 21:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL SENV BR |
07BRASILIA2243 | BRAZIL: INTEGRATION A/S CARDOSO ON MERCOSUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MRE A/S for Integration Afonso Cardoso stressed the political importance of Mercosul for Brazil as a unifying force for economic development in a recent meeting with EconCouns. Cardoso underlined his views on Mercosul's strengths, highlighted recent integration decisions he felt [...] | 2007-12-07 21:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR |
07BRASILIA2263 | UNCTAD SEEKS MORE ACTIVE ROLE WITH BIOFUELS: CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. UNCTAD, together with the Government of Brazil (GoB),held a conference on biofuels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 4-5 as a pre-event to the twelfth session of the United Nations [...] | 2007-12-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY UN UNCTAD KGHG ECON SENV ENRG KSCA BR |
07BRASILIA2309 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: POSSIBLE INCREASED FREQUENCIES, ROUTES FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador Sobel spoke again on December 19 with recently confirmed new National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) Director-President Solange Vieira, who will now be responsible for air services negotiations with the United States. The Ambassador also met separately on the same day with Mini [...] | 2007-12-20 09:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
07BRASILIA2321 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 104 [...] The following is the one-hundred-fourth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views [...] | 2007-12-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA2326 | BRAZIL: FTC CHAIRMAN MEETINGS IN BRASILIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Deborah Majoras met in Brasilia with Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Administrative Council for Consumer Defense (CADE) officials. Majoras discussed deepening the cooperation between the FTC and the MoJ on consumer protecti [...] | 2007-12-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN BR |
07BRASILIA249 | BRAZIL: Copyright Scenesetter: Piracy Enforcement Efforts [...] Post sends this telegram in advance of A/USTR Espinel's visit to Brazil the week of February 26. Our Special 301 reporting cable, which (inter alia) will include industry views and a look at the patent/trademark situation, will follow septel. 2. (SBU) Summary: The December "Report on Acti [...] | 2007-02-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA266 | Request for training, PE 142 Resource Economics [...] This cable is in response to reftel from January 18, 2007. The Regional Environmental Affairs Officer (Hub) for South America is requesting inclusion in PE 142, Resource Economics, to take place in Washington, DC and Denver, Colorado from July 9-13. 2. As South American Hub officer, this [...] | 2007-02-14 19:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI ECON BR |
07BRASILIA282 | BRAZIL TO PAY MORE FOR BOLIVIAN GAS [...] (SBU) An agreement reached February 15 between Brazil and Bolivia created a formula that could oblige the parastatal Brazilian energy company, Petrobras, to pay up to four percent more each year for the Bolivian natural gas that primarily supplies the state of Sao Paulo. The increase--althoug [...] | 2007-02-16 15:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON BR BL |
07BRASILIA289 | BRAZIL: USDOT/FHWA/AASHTO AND MINISTRY OF [...] (U) Summary: On February 13, EconOff attended a digital videoconference (DVC) between representatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO),and their Brazilian co [...] | 2007-02-16 18:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN ECON BEXP OTRA BR |
07BRASILIA290 | AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] | 2007-02-16 18:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA294 | BRAZIL: Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: In 2006, Brazil continued to make significant progress in improving protection of copyrights and intellectual property. The potential for compulsory licensing - a key area of [...] | 2007-02-16 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA297 | AMBASSADOR LOBBIES MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Feburary 13, Ambassador Sobel, EconCouns and Civair Officer met with Minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia Neto, and National Civil Aviation Agency Director-President, Milton Sergio Silveira Zuanazzi, to discuss flight frequency issues and tourism development in Brazil [...] | 2007-02-18 18:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA298 | Brazil: US Mission's 4th Quarter 2006 Corporate Social [...] Summary. (U) Since October 2006, when Ambassador launched the US Embassy's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, USAID, FCS, Embassy and Consulate Sao Paulo have worked exhaustively with our 31 corporate partners (firms such as Microsoft, GE, IBM, and GM) to follow-up on this issue [...] | 2007-02-18 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SENV BR |
07BRASILIA315 | ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] | 2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA316 | ETHANOL IN THE RAINFOREST: GLOBAL COMMODITIES AND HIGHWAY [...] Summary: USAID Mission officers and the Regional Environmental Affairs Officer visited the Southwest Amazon February 4-10, 2007 (en route to the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative meeting in Yucay, Peru) on a 550- kilometer road trip connecting Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre, with [...] | 2007-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID TBIO SNAR ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA319 | BRAZIL: WTO Taft Goods Demarche Response [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points in to Peter Fox, GOB Deputy Director of Division of Market Access at the MFA. Fox, who will leave for the Geneva talks on 24 February, said that he had read in full the USG position on the issue and, after discussions both internally and externally with pri [...] | 2007-02-23 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA32 | BRAZIL'S NEW SMALL BUSINESS LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Lula signed legislation on December 14, 2006 that expanded the scope and coverage of previous efforts to simplify the taxation system as applied to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Brazil. When it comes into full effect in July 2007, the new law, known as "Supersim [...] | 2007-01-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN SOCI BR |
07BRASILIA373 | US-BRAZIL S&T MINISTERIAL COMMISSION JOINT STATEMENT [...] On February 27, 2007, U.S. Ambassador Clifford Sobel and Brazil's Deputy Science and Technology Minister, Luis Fernandes, signed the joint statement resulting from the July 21, 2006, U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting on S&T Cooperation. The ceremony, held in Brazil's Foreign Ministry, was w [...] | 2007-03-02 16:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO TPHY EAGR ECON TRGY TSPL BR |
07BRASILIA376 | Brazil: Silicon Metal Statistics [...] (U) Note: Since there is no central repository in Brazil for retention of data on this industry, Post has not been able to obtain information in all categories requested for the period covering January 1999 - September 2002. In several other categories requested in reftel, information was co [...] | 2007-03-02 17:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA396 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS PRIOR [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, the Ambassador met (separately) with three influential GOB policymakers: Minister of Justice Marcio Thomaz Bastos, MFA U/S for Political Affairs Everton Vieira Vargas, and Lula Private Secretary Gilberto Carvalho. The wide-ranging discussion touched upon a numb [...] | 2007-03-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PTER OVIP SENV PGOV EAGR BR |
07BRASILIA452 | BRAZIL: LULA'S MEETING WITH GOVERNORS PRODUCES LITTLE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: President Lula held a meeting with the governors of Brazil's 26 states and the federal district on March 6, in part to lay the foundation for cooperation with the governors on some of the sensitive fiscal federalism issues that, in an ideal world, Lula would address over the cou [...] | 2007-03-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
07BRASILIA459 | REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES [...] (SBU) In a March 13 meeting, Charge and Acting DCM presented to the head of the Brazil Foreign Ministry's NAMA office (Carlos Henrique Abreu e Silva) reftel demarche points. Abreu e Silva noted that he was already aware of the issue - probably because the EU had previously presented him with [...] | 2007-03-16 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA487 | BRAZIL: Hot Rolled Paper Dumping Case [...] Post received a letter from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the Embassy that it has accepted an anti-dumping petition on exports to Brazil of hot rolled base paper for siliconization originating from the U.S. Original will be [...] | 2007-03-22 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BR |
07BRASILIA510 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 91 [...] The following is the ninety-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2007-03-26 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA554 | BRAZIL: MFA DISCUSSES UPCOMING LULA CAMP DAVID VISIT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)'s Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Everton Vieira Vargas, met with the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, and the Charge d'Affaires of Haiti on March 29. DCM and EconOff were also invited to attend. Per reftel, the [...] | 2007-03-29 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENIV ENRG DR ES HA SC |
07BRASILIA572 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR SEEKS IN-COUNTRY FAA PRESENCE TO FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy enthusiastically endorses the concept of posting an FAA attache in Brazil to provide for a regional FAA presence in South America. Bilaterally, such a presence would allow FAA and Mission Brazil to work together to assist the Brazilians in dealing with their air traffi [...] | 2007-04-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA580 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 92 [...] The following is the ninety-second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2007-04-03 15:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA60 | BRAZIL: FISCAL PACKAGE CLAIMS FIRST BUREAUCRATIC VICTIM [...] (SBU) Summary: The fiscal battle over President Lula's planned package of economic measures -- which the GoB is now referring to prosaically as a "package to accelerate growth" (PTAG) -- has claimed its first bureaucratic victim. Finance Ministry Treasury Secretary Carlos Kawall (under-secreta [...] | 2007-01-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA600 | BRAZIL: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS STRIKE, MAY BE PROSECUTED [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, between 120 and 200 air traffic controllers (ATCers) initiated the strike that they had been obliquely threatening for months, marking another tense chapter in Brazil's civil aviation history. Due to the military's control of the ATC system, this action was consid [...] | 2007-04-05 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV OTRA ECON BR |
07BRASILIA661 | BRAZIL: SUBCABINET LEVEL ECONOMIC TEAM CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: With the make-up of President Lula's second-term cabinet now finally finalized (ref B),attention has shifted to some of the second tier positions in government. The Central Bank announced on April 11 that it was asking Lula to nominate Mario Gomes Toros, a former Vice Presiden [...] | 2007-04-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BR |
07BRASILIA680 | BRAZIL: MOJ OFFICIALS SUPPORT NEW PRIVATE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Newly appointed Minister of Justice Tarso Genro joined Vice Minister of Justice Luiz Paulo Barreto in expressing support to representatives of the Motion Picture Association (MPA),the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Rio De Janeiro based Association o [...] | 2007-04-17 18:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA71 | BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING [...] On December 12-14, an OES-sponsored workshop with the slogan "Catch Fish Not Birds" brought together 50 experts from across the world to take a look at the potential to reduce seabird bycatch throughout the South American long-line fishery via the adoption of mitigation measures in South Americ [...] | 2007-01-12 18:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA755 | NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS DELEGATION VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: From April 11-13, FIESP (the Sao Paulo State Industrial Federation) hosted visits to Sao Paulo and Brasilia by a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) delegation led by Governor John Engler, the organization's president. The meetings, which came on the heels of USTR Susan [...] | 2007-04-27 20:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA759 | BRAZIL: MANAUS MEETINGS, MEANDERINGS AND MUSINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: As Virtual Presence Post Officer, Econoff visited Manaus, State of Amazonas from April 16-19 for public outreach and economic-related meetings. While there, she visited the U.S. Consular Agent in Manaus, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-Amazonas, and the bi-national center, Institu [...] | 2007-04-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO OIIP CVIS PGOV SENV BR |
07BRASILIA769 | BRAZIL: SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On April 30, EconOff presented demarche points in reftel to Joao Storti and Renato Pinheiro of the Ministry of External Relations' Intellectual Property Rights Division and to Andre Barcellos, Executive Secretary of the National Council Against Piracy (CNCP). 2. (SBU) The GOB offici [...] | 2007-04-30 22:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BR |
07BRASILIA787 | BRAZIL: MERCK REPORTS IMMINENT COMPULSORY LICENSING [...] (SBU) Merck representatives have told EmbOffs that the GOB informed their company on May 3 that it would initiate a compulsory licensing order for Merck's HIV drug Stocrin (Efavirenz) as early as May 3 or the morning of May 4. According to Merck officials, the GOB communicated that any additio [...] | 2007-05-03 21:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA791 | BRAZIL: U.S. WTO Proposal Demarche Response [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 14:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRASILIA793 | BRAZIL: WTO ARTICLE XXI DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche points to Ronaldo Costa Filho, Chief of the Division of Services, Investments and Financial Issues at the Ministry of External Relations. Costa Filho did not know of any GOB interest in requesting compensatory adjustment at this point. Sobel [...] | 2007-05-04 16:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO BR |
07BRASILIA82 | MERCOSUL RIO DE JANEIRO SUMMIT: WHITHER MERCOSUL? [...] (SBU) Summary: Mercosul members are facing more than the usual number of institutional challenges as they prepare for the bloc's biannual summit, to take place January 18-19 in Rio de Janeiro. In an implied slap at Mercosul dispute resolution mechanisms, Argentina recently requested WTO consul [...] | 2007-01-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL ECIN EFIN BR |
07BRASILIA921 | "OPERATION NAVALHA": EMERGING POLITICAL SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A large-scale Federal Police investigation has surfaced a major political corruption scandal involving bribes a construction firm allegedly paid to politicians to guarantee lucrative contracts. The scandal has reached the Cabinet and at least six ministries may be involved. S [...] | 2007-05-23 13:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
07BRASILIA944 | BRAZIL: Corruption, Public Apathy, Lack of Resources [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 10, Federal Police stationed in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco told EmbOff that public apathy, corruption among state officials, and limited resources have undercut their efforts to stem the flow of pirated goods in the region. Despite a directive from the state's [...] | 2007-05-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA956 | BRAZIL - SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Brazil has a close relationship with Cuba and the GoB does not publicly criticize the Castro regime's human rights policies. During the last six months, President Lula and Cuban President Fidel Castro have sparred publicly over Brazil's ethanol policy. Castro echoed Venezuelan President C [...] | 2007-05-25 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ECON ETRD BR CU |
07BRASILIA958 | BRAZIL: NEXT STEPS ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, in a joint "NAFTA" approach to the Ministry of External Relations, the Econ Counselors from the U.S. and Canadian Embassies, along with the Commercial Counselor from the Mexican Embassy, met with Evandro Didonet, the Ministry's recently-appointed Chief of its Intern [...] | 2007-05-26 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRASILIA96 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 87 [...] The following is the eighty-seventh in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views ex [...] | 2007-01-18 16:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
07BRASILIA990 | FEAR OF CHINA CONSTRAINS BRAZIL'S STANCE ON THE DOHA [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian industry leaders and GOB officials have repeatedly underlined that concern about the impact of Chinese imports on domestic manufacturers is a root cause behind their unwillingness to agree to the non-agricultural tariff cuts proposed by both the USG and the EU. Brazil [...] | 2007-05-31 18:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO BR |
07BRATISLAVA116 | SLOVAK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ON FIVE-DAY STRIKE [...] (U) Summary. Slovakia's Air Traffic Control employees went on strike February 22, shutting down all international flights over Slovak airspace, including US military flights. The strike has resulted in significant costs to the US military due to re-routing. Slovak domestic air travel continu [...] | 2007-02-26 16:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV LO |
07BRATISLAVA12 | DRUZHBA: SLOVAK PIPELINE EXPERIENCES TECHNICAL [...] (C) Transpetrol Board member Jan Kridla (please protect) informed Econoff that Slovakia had experienced "technical difficulties" relating to the flow of oil for a couple of hours on Sunday evening. Volumes remain lower than normal today (1/8),but supply continues to flow. Kridla noted, howe [...] | 2007-01-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV LO RS |
07BRATISLAVA134 | PM FICO SHARES THOUGHTS ON DOMESTIC AND [...] (C) The Ambassador and PM Fico discussed Kosovo (reftel) and other issues over breakfast March 2. Following are some observations and highlights from the meeting. The Prime Minister/Party Leader ------------------------------- 2. (C) Fico was a few minutes late to the breakfast and explai [...] | 2007-03-02 16:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON LO |
07BRATISLAVA144 | SLOVAKIA'S 2006 GDP GROWTH AT 8.3 PERCENT SECOND HIGHEST IN [...] SUMMARY: Slovakia's economy continues full steam ahead, posting 9.6 percent growth in the fourth quarter of 2006, and a year-ending GDP growth of 8.3 percent in real prices for 2006. GDP growth was driven mainly by net exports, including roll-out production of automotive companies, machinery a [...] | 2007-03-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
07BRATISLAVA165 | Slovak Currency Continues Unprecedented Rise After Rate [...] SUMMARY: At the request of the Slovak government the European Union lifted the Slovak koruna's central parity rate 8.5 percent to 35.44 against the Euro from March 19. The koruna is allowed to trade 15 percent above or below the rate under conditions Slovakia must meet before it can join the 1 [...] | 2007-03-20 15:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
07BRATISLAVA173 | PATENT PROTECTION THREATENED BY PROPOSAL IN [...] Summary and Action Recommendation - An amendment designed to overturn pharmaceutical patent legislation approved last Spring passed the first reading in the Slovak Parliament on March 20. The measure, introduced by an MP with significant generic pharmaceutical business interests, will be revie [...] | 2007-03-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON LO |
07BRATISLAVA183 | SLOVAKIA FEELING PRESSURE TO FINALIZE A DEAL ON [...] (C) Summary - Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek met 3/23 with representatives from Yukos International, one of two Yukos Dutch subsidiaries with a legal claim to the 49 percent stake in the Transpetrol oil pipeline, for the first time in almost eight months. With Slovak veto authority over any [...] | 2007-03-26 12:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO |
07BRATISLAVA196 | SLOVAK PM'S VISIT TO ISRAEL DECLARED A SUCCESS BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico traveled with Minister of Defense Frantisek Kasicky and a business delegation to Israel March 18-21. Fico met with Israeli leaders, including PM Olmert and the foreign and defense ministers. He did not meet with Palestinian officials. The pr [...] | 2007-03-30 15:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PARM IS LO |
07BRATISLAVA208 | Slovak Labor Woes - Not Enough Workers! [...] (U) Summary: Slovakia's strong economic growth in recent years, fueled by FDI, has significantly reduced unemployment. In a picture common to the region, Roma, long-term unemployed, and older low-skilled workers are the remaining hard-to-erase pockets of high unemployment. Labor mobility has [...] | 2007-04-04 15:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EINV ECIN SOCI SCUL LO |
07BRATISLAVA269 | PM FICO IN MOSCOW ON KOSOVO, MD AND ENERGY [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: PM Robert Fico's May 4 visit to Moscow touched on issues of the day including Kosovo final status, missile defense, energy security, and trade. Fico had meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and opened a Slovak-Russian business foru [...] | 2007-05-07 14:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG SR SU RU YI LO |
07BRATISLAVA308 | SLOVAKIA PURSUING A TRANSPETROL DEAL WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary - Minister Jahnatek followed up the May 4 Putin/Fico meeting (Ref A) with detailed discussions with Russian-controlled Yukos Finance (YF) and Gazpromneft on the eventual sale of the 49 percent stake plus management control in the Slovak oil pipeline Transpetrol. In return for agre [...] | 2007-05-22 13:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU |
07BRATISLAVA385 | SLOVAK ECONOMY CONTINUES TO GROW RAPIDLY, BUT SLOWER THAN [...] Summary: The Slovak economy continues to grow at a fast rate, reaching 8.9 percent real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2007, but did not attain the double-digit heights predicted by many economic analysts. Real wage growth increased 4.5 percent, which is higher than in the first quarter of [...] | 2007-06-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
07BRATISLAVA40 | SLOVAKS LOOK TO RUSSIA FOR TRANSPETROL SOLUTION, [...] (C) Summary - In stark contrast to the strong concerns about Russia's reliability as an energy partner expressed this past week throughout Central Europe, Slovak Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek believes the Russian-Belarus spat illustrates the need to strengthen ties with Moscow. Jahnatek ha [...] | 2007-01-19 16:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RS |
07BRATISLAVA420 | YUKOS FINANCE AUCTION SHIFTS DYNAMICS OVER [...] (C) Summary - Yukos Oil Receiver Eduard Rebgun announced July 13 that Russian-controlled Yukos Finance (YF) will be auctioned off on August 15 in Moscow at a starting price of approximately USD 300 Million. The announcement followed one day after a Dutch court overturned an appeal by Rebgun th [...] | 2007-07-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU |
07BRATISLAVA453 | SLOVAKS RECONSIDERING TRANSPETROL OPTIONS [...] (C) Summary - Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek maintained the status quo at the July 31 Transpetrol Annual General Assembly (AGA) by removing any discussion of personnel changes to the Transpetrol Board and Supervisory Board from the agenda. In conversations with Yukos International (YI) rep [...] | 2007-08-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU |
07BRATISLAVA462 | TARGET TOMANOVA [...] Summary. Opposition parties are preparing to introduce a motion in Parliament in early September to call for the dismissal of Minister of Labor Viera Tomanova, citing corruption and incompetence. Tomanova is the most visible symbol of social democratic/left-wing economic policymaking within [...] | 2007-08-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV ELAB EFIN EIND LO |
07BRATISLAVA49 | SLOVAKIA DECIDES TO SUE EC OVER CO2 PLAN [...] (U) In its January 24 cabinet meeting, the Government of Slovakia decided to sue the European Commission to overturn its proposed 2008-2012 plan on CO2 emissions, which adversely affect operations of the large US Steel factory in Kosice (see reftel for background on case). The Ministry of Just [...] | 2007-01-24 15:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EU PREL PGOV ENRG LO |
07BRATISLAVA499 | STRONG MACRO PERFORMANCE KEEPS SLOVAKIA ON TRACK FOR EURO [...] SUMMARY: Slovakia's Statistical Office recently reported that the Slovak economy grew 9.4 percent in the second quarter of 2007. The swift economic growth was reflected also in higher salaries and lower unemployment. The average real wage increased 4.1 percent to 19,600 SKK (USD 795) in the s [...] | 2007-09-07 11:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
07BRATISLAVA539 | NEW SOCIAL INSURANCE LAW: TEMPEST IN A TEA CUP, [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 24, Vladimir Meciar (HZDS) reached an agreement with Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer) to support an amended social insurance proposal that will be submitted (and passed) by Parliament this fall. The final compromise will raise payroll taxes for upper-income earner [...] | 2007-10-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN LO PGOV |
07BRATISLAVA540 | SMER: NOT A SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer party has introduced a range of measures this year to reduce public input into government decision making processes and otherwise curb the rights of individuals within society. Though Smer labels itself as a social democratic party, its civic go [...] | 2007-10-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SENV LO |
07BRATISLAVA542 | PROSPECTS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY IN SLOVAKIA IMPROVING [...] Summary. On September 14, the Embassy funded and co-hosted the conference "Biotechnology and its Prospects for Biofuels," in cooperation with Slovakia's leading farm association. The conference, held in the spa town of Piestany, was attended by approximately 160 participants, predominantly f [...] | 2007-10-01 08:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ETRD TBIO LO |
07BRATISLAVA561 | SOLVING TRANSPETROL WITHOUT THE RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary - The August 15 sale of Yukos Finance to an American investment group, Monte Valle, has reduced Russia's role in the future of the Transpetrol oil pipeline, leaving the Slovak government without its preferred partner. Economy Minister Jahnatek remains confident that any future buye [...] | 2007-10-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU |
07BRATISLAVA593 | FICO AND HIS COALITION PARTNERS: THE SHARK AND THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer) and junior coalition partner HZDS continue to argue publicly over nearly every issue in parliament, including the recently passed health insurance, social insurance/pension, and mining reform laws. HZDS threatened to vote with the opposition on [...] | 2007-10-31 17:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ELAB LO |
07BRATISLAVA601 | SLOVAKS COMMITTED TO EURO ADOPTION IF EU WILL HAVE [...] (U) Summary - With the steadfast backing of Prime Minister Fico, Slovakia is now meeting the Maastricht economic criteria with the goal of adopting the Euro in January 2009. The concern now turns to the sustainability of the criteria, both in advance of the EU decision and after 2009. The str [...] | 2007-11-06 11:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN LO |
07BRATISLAVA614 | HZDS: STILL CORRUPT, BUT MECIAR WEAKER [...] (SBU) Summary. In the latest manifestation of tension within this odd governing coalition, Branislav Briza (HZDS),Director of the Ministry of Agriculture land distribution fund, resigned on November 15 under pressure from Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer). Two days earlier, Fico demanded th [...] | 2007-11-15 17:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV EAGR ECON LO |
07BRATISLAVA631 | TRANSPETROL NEGOTIATIONS OFF TO SLOW START [...] (C) Summary - As a result of the October 31 Dutch Court decision that returned control of Yukos Finance (YF) to the Khodorkovsky-appointed directors Dave Godfrey and Bruce Misamore, YF and Slovak government officials have restarted negotiations that were halted in 2006. The court decision will [...] | 2007-11-30 07:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL LO RS |
07BRATISLAVA64 | SLOVAKIA BIOTECH OUTREACH STRATEGY PROPOSAL [...] US Embassy Bratislava proposes two core projects to promote friendly biotechnology public policy and increased usage of GM seeds by Slovak farmers. The first project, to be held in April, focuses on strengthening GM-friendly elements in Slovakia and providing a space in which they can share t [...] | 2007-02-01 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO LO |
07BRATISLAVA95 | GOS DRAFTS LABOR CODE PROPOSAL; FOREIGN INVESTORS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOS has prepared a draft labor code proposal, which it hopes to finalize and introduce in Parliament next month. The proposal contains numerous pro-worker changes that domestic and foreign investors will fight strenuously. While priorities different among employers, Americ [...] | 2007-02-15 12:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV LO |
07BRAZZAVILLE368 | BRAZZA IN BRIEF SEPTEMBER 7 2007 [...] (U) Frederic Bintsamou, also known as Pastor N'Tumi, announced he will arrive in Brazzaville on September 10th to take his appointed position as a Presidential Adviser on promoting peace in the aftermath of the civil war. Ntumi was appointed by President Sassou-Nguesso in May 2007 to appease t [...] | 2007-09-07 17:54:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE393 | BRAZZA IN BRIEF SEPTEMBER 24 2007 [...] (U) RSG Global Coffey Mining, a London-South African-Australian mining consulting agency will coordinate and direct the 5,000-meter drilling for iron ore in the Zenaga region of RoC, the first phase of which is scheduled to be completed by December 2007. In the short time since the license was [...] | 2007-09-28 12:36:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL MARR CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE403 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF, OCTOBER 5, 2007 [...] (U) Post celebrated the completion of a high school renovation by the U.S. Navy Seabees Detachment from Sigonella, Sicily. After thanking the Seabees, the Ambassador pointed out that this was the first cooperative effort between members of the U.S. and Congolese Armed Forces and that their suc [...] | 2007-10-05 14:07:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE406 | BRAZZA IN BRIEF FOR OCTOBER 5, 2007 [...] (U) Post celebrated the completion of a high school renovation by the U.S. Navy Seabees Detachment from Sigonella, Sicily. After thanking the Seabees, the Ambassador pointed out that this was the first cooperative effort between members of the U.S. and Congolese Armed Forces and that their suc [...] | 2007-10-05 17:05:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM SCUL MARR CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE416 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF OCTOBER 12 2007 [...] (U) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil , will arrive in Brazzaville October 15 for one day meeting with GRoC to discuss bilateral agreements and participate in the RoC launch of a campaign to provide immunizations for measles and distribution of bednets for children aged 5 years [...] | 2007-10-12 17:10:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECON SCUL MARR CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE430 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF FOR OCTOBER 26, 2007 [...] (U) President Denis Sassou-Nguesso will deliver 'a message on the state of the nation' to Parliament on October 27, 2007. 2. (U) "A Dream Come True Thanks to Sassou" banners flew over the city of Pointe Noire as President Sassou-Nguesso inaugurated the construction of a major roadway to link [...] | 2007-10-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL MARR ECON ECIN EAID |
07BRAZZAVILLE439 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF, 2 NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (U) The Renaissance Man: President Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaimed in his state of the nation address that the Republic of Congo (RoC) is now in a full renaissance mode. Addressing Parliament on October 27, the President stated "The renaissance of the Congo is a visible, concrete and tangible a [...] | 2007-11-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR PGOV EAID PINR PHUM SCUL MARR ECON CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE449 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - NOVEMBER 16, 2007 [...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified Post. 2. Representatives of the London Club (LC) announced on November 15 that an agreement has been signed between the Republic of Congo (RoC) and the LC to forgive 77 percent of the US$643.6 million debt owed to LC creditors. Government bonds will be [...] | 2007-11-16 11:39:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV ELTN EAID PHUM ENRG CF |
07BRAZZAVILLE455 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - NOVEMBER 23, 2007 [...] EmbBrazzaville is an unclassified Post. 2. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso attended the official launch of the multi-national military maneuvers called Barh El Gazel being conducted as part of the peacekeeping operations under the auspices Economic Community of States Central Africa (ECCAS). [...] | 2007-11-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID ENRG CF |
07BRIDGETOWN1036 | FY 07 BFIF PROGRAM -- END OF FISCAL YEAR REPORTING [...] Per reftel request, the following is a report on U.S. Embassy Bridgetown's participants in the FY 07 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) program. Financial Accounting and Reporting ---------------------------------- BFIF Fund Cite: MO: 1970113-1005-700126-050500-2251-2589 Approp [...] | 2007-08-17 18:06:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN BEXP BTIO ECON EINV ETRD ADPM |
07BRIDGETOWN1203 | DOMINICA AFTER DEAN -- VENEZUELA WILL HELP US [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dominica has been promised assistance from Venezuela to improve infrastructure, particularly roads and retaining walls, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean from August 16-17. These pledges far outstrip the modest assistance the USG has been able to provide to date, giving Hugo [...] | 2007-09-14 19:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL VE DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1213 | REGIONAL AIRLINE COMPETITION AND THE AMERICAN [...] (U) The Government of St. Lucia recently granted American Eagle fifth freedom rights to operate flights between St. Lucia and Barbados beginning on September 5 and future service between St. Lucia and Trinidad. The announcement created significant division between the LIAT shareholder governm [...] | 2007-09-17 21:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ELAB PREL PGOV CASC ASEC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1256 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) During her September 19-21 visit to St. Kitts and Nevis to celebrate that nation's National Day, the Ambassador raised biofuels and the Angelus expropriation case with Prime Minister Denzil Douglas and Foreign Minister Timothy Harris. The Ambassador also used the trip to draw public attenti [...] | 2007-09-27 12:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV PREL CVIS XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1336 | USPTO GIPA Enforcement Program for Prosecutors Demarche [...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #0983, Barbados #0984, Dominica #0985, St. Kitts #0986, St. Lucia #0987, St. Vincent #0988) on October 10, 2007. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. OURISMAN [...] | 2007-10-17 14:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD AORC ASEC KIPR OTRA XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1351 | BARBADOS WORKER'S UNION DISPUTE WITH ADM BARBADOS [...] Sir Roy Trotman, General Secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union, sent the following letter to Laboff on Friday, October 19. Begin text: Dear Mr. Aller I am aware that part of your duties is to say (sic) on top of US business relations with the people of Barbados generally and particu [...] | 2007-10-23 16:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1377 | ST. VINCENT PM USES INDEPENDENCE DAY TO "PASS OUT [...] (SBU) During Ambassador Ourisman's October 26-28 visit to St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to celebrate that nation's Independence Day, the Ambassador attended Independence Day activities and spoke to Prime Minister Gonsalves on issues ranging from Cuba to foreign investment in the Grenadi [...] | 2007-10-31 15:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS ECON EFIN PGOV PREL XL EINV |
07BRIDGETOWN1387 | ST. VINCENT: SPLINTERS OF AN OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: In several meetings with leaders of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) opposition New Democratic Party (NDP),and in consultations with the party's sympathizers as well as Unity Labor Party (ULP) and former-ULP members, Embassy Bridgetown learned of growing discontent with [...] | 2007-11-01 21:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB KCRM PGOV PINR PREL |
07BRIDGETOWN1406 | BIGEST POLUTRY PRODUCER IN BARBADOS LOOKING AT [...] Summary: POl/ECON Deputy was contacted by the GM of Chickmont Foods, Barbados who was interested in finding out how to export chickens to the US market. POL/ECON Deputy met with the GM, Geoffry Goddard, to explore their plans and learn more about the poultry industry in Barbados. Mr. Goddard [...] | 2007-11-07 18:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1410 | ST. KITTS ATTRACTING INVESTMENTS GALORE [...] (U) During a recent visit to New York, St. Christopher (Kitts) and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas reiterated his nation's commitment to foreign investment and announced plans for additional high-end resorts to invest in St. Kitts. The government's apparent success in attracting well-known [...] | 2007-11-08 19:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV PREL CVIS XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1415 | THE GRENADINES: THE INCREDIBLE DISAPPEARING RESORT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Bridgetown recently learned that the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSVG) has repossessed land on Union Island that is owned by a long-term American investor in the Grenadines. Ambassador Ourisman raised this possible expropriation with Prime Minister Ralph [...] | 2007-11-09 17:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CACM CDB CVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KCRM |
07BRIDGETOWN1473 | CARICOM WANTS OPEN SKIES [...] (U) Policy-makers within CARICOM's civil aviation cluster expressed enthusiasm for an Open Skies Agreement with the United States. The addition of new airlines and routes in the region, combined with unimpressive growth in the tourism sector has set the stage for discussions on a regional avi [...] | 2007-12-03 21:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON FAA XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1561 | PETROCARIBE #34: EC LEADERS FLOCK TO PETROCARIBE [...] (U) Summary: Eastern Caribbean Heads of State departed for the Fourth Petrocaribe Summit on Friday, December 21st in Cienfuegos, Cuba. The summit comes among praises from leaders in St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who have benefited from the Petrocaribe program. The pa [...] | 2007-12-21 19:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR XL CU |
07BRIDGETOWN161 | BARBADOS: SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP ON HIV/AIDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 29-30, the U.S. Department of Labor-International Labor Organization's HIV/AIDS Workplace Program hosted a sustainability workshop, which focused on developing a strategy for carrying forward the Program's mission after the Program officially concludes in December [...] | 2007-02-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BB ECON ELAB KHIV PGOV PREL SOCI XL |
07BRIDGETOWN189 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH PM [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 introductory meeting with Ambassador Mary Ourisman, Barbados' Prime Minister Owen Arthur assured the United States of his commitment to continue building a strong and warm bilateral relationship. PM Arthur and Ambassador Ourisman discussed trade, disaster risk man [...] | 2007-02-12 19:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC SNAR ECON ETRD BB JM XL |
07BRIDGETOWN194 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO GRENADA [...] (U) Summary: On January 17-19, 2007, Ambassador Ourisman visited Grenada to present her credentials. She conducted an initial round of meetings with Grenadian officials including the Prime Minister and the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, [...] | 2007-02-12 21:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON EAID CMGT GJ XL |
07BRIDGETOWN287 | CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK STAFFING DATA [...] This cable responds to Ref C. 2. Because the United States is not a member of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB),Post had difficulty obtaining detailed staffing data for the organization (Ref A). The CDB finally sent the information, which Post forwarded via e-mail on March 1 to Lynette [...] | 2007-03-06 18:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER ECON EAID XL |
07BRIDGETOWN299 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO ST. [...] (C) Summary: On February 25-27, 2007, Ambassador Ourisman visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines to present her credentials. Meetings with the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Opposition Leader focused on Venezuelan assistance, Article 98, narcotics trafficking and Cricket World Cup. T [...] | 2007-03-08 21:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON EAID CMGT EAIR SNAR |
07BRIDGETOWN353 | PETROCARIBE #33: CHAVEZ TIES WORRY ST. VINCENT [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with St. Vincent and the Grenadines' (SVG) private sector representatives reveal widespread anxiety over the Vincentian government's growing ties with Venezuela, especially the close relationship between Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and Venezuelan P [...] | 2007-03-21 18:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR XL |
07BRIDGETOWN368 | BARBADOS BUDGET: TAX CUTS, CHEAP HOUSING, LAND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Last week's budget presentation by Barbados' Prime Minister Owen Arthur and opposition leader David Thompson's response were greeted with much anticipation. The charged atmosphere was mainly due to the political context in which the two speeches and the ensuing debate took place, [...] | 2007-03-26 15:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EFIN EIND ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL |
07BRIDGETOWN385 | ST. KITTS TO PARTICIPATE IN BIOFUELS INITIATIVE [...] Per reftel instructions, talking points on proposed Biofuels Assistance were delivered to St. Kitts and Nevis' MFA Permanent Secretary Theresa Nisbett via fax and telephone conversation on March 29, 2007. Brazilian Ambassador Orlando Galveas Oliveira joined Ambassador Ourisman in delivering t [...] | 2007-04-03 17:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG SC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN405 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL,S VISIT TO THE EASTERN [...] I look forward to welcoming Chairman Engel and his delegation to the Eastern Caribbean on April 13-16. In anticipation of our meetings with Grenada's Prime Minister Mitchell and Vincentian Prime Minister Gonsalves, I would like to offer the following background on the region and key U.S. pol [...] | 2007-04-05 20:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP ECON PREL PGOV PBTS PINR VC GJ XL |
07BRIDGETOWN451 | DISAPPOINTING CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 [...] (C) Summary: Four years ago, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) signed an agreement to host the world's third largest sporting competition, the Cricket World Cup (CWC),from February to April, 2007. Caribbean governments have reportedly spent over USD 500 million on preparations for what they [...] | 2007-04-16 13:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ASEC EAIR ETRD PGOV PINR PREL CASC BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN470 | BARBADOS CENTRAL BANK: OPPORTUNITIES AND [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) Senior Director for Research, Dr. Daniel Boamah, is projecting solid growth for Barbados' economy in 2007 and no serious impact from the disappointing Cricket World Cup. The CBB plans to announce that it has revised its economic growth projections [...] | 2007-04-20 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN475 | NOTIFICATION OF TIEA INVALIDITY DELIVERED TO ST. [...] (SBU) Per refs A and B, Ambassador and DCM warned PM John Compton in separate meetings in February that St. Lucia was at risk of losing its "convention benefit" under U.S. tax law. 2. (U) On April 16, 2007, post notified the government of St. Lucia formally via Diplomatic Note #0302 of th [...] | 2007-04-23 19:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN51 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA CABINET CHANGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 31, Prime Minister Spencer announced several changes (listed below) in his cabinet. Although some of the rearrangement of duties seems quite practical, others appear to have been made in reaction to accusations of corruption. Two significant adjustments are the shift [...] | 2007-01-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG XL |
07BRIDGETOWN526 | BARBADOS SENDS MESSAGE ON AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT [...] This message is an action request. Please see para 2. 2. On May 3, 2007, post received Diplomatic Note No. IR/200783 from the Government of Barbados requesting air transport rights in the United States on behalf of Air Jamaica. Please see full text of the Diplomatic Note in para 3. Po [...] | 2007-05-04 20:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PREL XL |
07BRIDGETOWN581 | PRIME MINISTER MITCHELL RESHUFFLES GRENADA CABINET [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a May 6 New National Party (NNP) rally, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell announced a change in several cabinet portfolios, including the creation of a new ministry, effective May 15. He did not call parliamentary elections, as had been widely expected. His decision caught the [...] | 2007-05-11 18:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB GJ PGOV PREL |
07BRIDGETOWN582 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON WTO ARTICLE XXI PROCEDURE [...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Note 0415 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Barbados, on May 8, 2007. The original Diplomatic Note was also mailed on this date. 2. Post will report any responses. OURISMAN [...] | 2007-05-11 18:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON WTRO PREL BB |
07BRIDGETOWN617 | MITCHELL'S PLANS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF GRENADA [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the May 6 New National Party (NNP) rally, Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell announced a cabinet reshuffle (reftel) and laid out plans to control rising prices, provide assistance for poor Grenadians, and conclude negotiations in the near term on salary increases for pub [...] | 2007-05-16 21:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV GJ |
07BRIDGETOWN632 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S MEETING WITH BARBADOS AG [...] (C) Summary: In a May 11 introductory meeting with Ambassador Mary Ourisman, Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall thanked the United States for its assistance during Cricket World Cup and looked forward to further cooperation in the areas of security and law enforcement. He also requeste [...] | 2007-05-18 19:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC CASC SNAR ECON ETRD BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN641 | CRICKET WORLD CUP MAY DELIVER LONG TERM SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: While the Cricket World Cup (CWC) has been an economic disappointment for the region (ref A),it has generated changes and reforms in the CARICOM security infrastructure that may yield lasting benefits for the region. The United States contributed to the region's CWC preparatio [...] | 2007-05-21 12:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ASEC EAIR ETRD PGOV PINR PREL CASC BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN642 | GRENADA LABOR ISSUES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Technical and Allied Workers Union (TAWU),Grenada's most radical and active union, continues to challenge the government with mini-strikes and threats of broader strike action. Concerned about persistent high unemployment, Prime Minister Mitchell's government has so far [...] | 2007-05-21 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV GJ |
07BRIDGETOWN701 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT [...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #0506, Barbados #0507, Dominica #0508, St. Kitts #0509, St. Lucia #0510, St. Vincent #0512) on June 1, 2007. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. 2. Post will report an [...] | 2007-06-01 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN XL |
07BRIDGETOWN711 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S MEETING WITH BARBADOS DPM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 30 introductory meeting with Ambassador Mary Ourisman, Barbados' Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, Mia Mottley, thanked the United States for its assistance during Cricket World Cup and looked forward to further cooperation in the a [...] | 2007-06-05 17:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | BB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR PREL XL |
07BRIDGETOWN717 | DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to six countries in the Eastern Caribbean. Officials of all six countries expressed concern about the growing ties between Venezuela and Iran, but as is typical for the Eastern Caribbean, they refused to commit to speaking out or taking action in international [...] | 2007-06-06 13:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR XL |
07BRIDGETOWN760 | DAS DUDDY AND ST. VINCENT PM GONSALVES DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy met with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on June 11 in preparation for the Conference on the Caribbean to be held in Washington later this month. Specifically, DAS Duddy and PM Gonsalves focused on the Confe [...] | 2007-06-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EINV ECON AORC OVIP KSUM PINR |
07BRIDGETOWN821 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ICAO ASSEMBLY: ENVIRONMENTAL [...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #0578, Barbados #0579, Dominica #0580, St. Kitts #0581, St. Lucia #0582, St. Vincent #0583) on June 22, 2007. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. 2. Post will report a [...] | 2007-06-25 13:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD SENV ECON XL |
07BRIDGETOWN902 | ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES EXTENDS SUPPORT FOR [...] The following message was received on July 12, 2007. Begin text: Note No. 444/2007 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Trade of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America and with reference to the latter's Diploma [...] | 2007-07-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD SENV ECON SC |
07BRUSSELS1037 | EU FOLLOW THROUGH ON UNSCR 1737 AND AUTONOMOUS [...] (S) On March 21, EU Member State experts on the Middle East and non-proliferation reached agreement on a list of Iranian entities and individuals the EU will likely designate for travel and visa bans under the EU's new Common Policy on Restrictive Measures Against Iran. The experts' recommend [...] | 2007-03-27 16:02:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN ETRD EUN IR PARM PREL |
07BRUSSELS1087 | BARRIERS TO INTEGRATION: BELGIAN MUSLIMS FACE MULTIPLE CHALLENGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: More than half of Belgium's immigrants from Morocco and Turkey (nearly all of whom are Muslim) live below the Belgian poverty line, defined as 777 euros (approximately $1,000) or less, per household, per month. This finding is from "Poverty in the Migrant Population," the first pa [...] | 2007-03-30 10:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI SMIG ECON KISL KPAO BE |
07BRUSSELS1233 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: April 11, 2007 [...] (U) American package delivery firm Federal Express was named ?Best Employer? in Belgium for 2007 in March. FedEx's over 800 employees in Belgium lauded the company?s attention to developing the talent of its workers. Employees also expressed appreciation for the company?s ethnic diversity ? [...] | 2007-04-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINT EINV SENV BE |
07BRUSSELS124 | BELGIAN PM PLANNING TO ANNOUNCE FURTHER SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GOB officials have stated that Belgium will be represented at the January 25 Lebanon Donors' Conference in Paris by Prime Minister Verhofstadt and Minister of Cooperation and Development Armand De Decker. Although GOB officials confirm that Belgium plans to announce further sup [...] | 2007-01-16 17:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN LE BE |
07BRUSSELS1253 | SERBIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY GENERAL OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The transition of the Stability Pact (SP) regional cooperation agenda to regional ownership (refs) hit a bump with the April 11 Serbian withdrawal of the nomination of Goran Svilanovic, former Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister and Stability Pact Working Table I (Democracy) chai [...] | 2007-04-13 16:21:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI TU |
07BRUSSELS1380 | SCENE-SETTER FOR U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (C/NF) Summary: The April 30th U.S.-EU Summit should ratify an important economic package with positive messages for our improved economic and political relationship. This is Chancellor Merkel's Summit, and EU officials coming to Washington will be conscious that they are playing more of a s [...] | 2007-04-24 14:21:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON ENRG EU PGOV |
07BRUSSELS1421 | TREASURY DISCUSSIONS WITH EU ON SWIFT NARROW KEY [...] 1. (C/NF) Summary and comment. On April 25, FinCEN Director James Freis, Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security at the European Commission, Jonathan Faull, and Berthold Leber, Deputy Director General at the German Ministry of Finance, continued discussions to resolve EU concern [...] | 2007-04-27 10:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN KTFN PTER EUN |
07BRUSSELS1456 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LANGE AND EU OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 10:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID TBIO SOCI |
07BRUSSELS1459 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LANGE AND EU OFFICIALS [...] (U) Summary. In his first official visit to Brussels since taking on his position in 2006, Ambassador John Lange, Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, met with the European Commission on April 26th as part of the run-up to the next meeting of the International Partnership [...] | 2007-05-02 11:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID TBIO SOCI |
07BRUSSELS1843 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: June 5, 2007 [...] (U) On May 22, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt detailed his strategy to improve Belgium's investment climate over the past eight years, and his plans for the coming years in a talk to AmCham members. In addition to prudent macroeconomic fiscal management (balanced budgets, paying down the fed [...] | 2007-06-05 15:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINT EINV SENV BE |
07BRUSSELS1892 | Belgian Regions and Federal Taxes - Paying [...] (SBU) Summary. The "good news" story of Belgian federal fiscal management is less lustrous than it appears. Ongoing devolution of responsibilities from the federal to the regional level since 1993 has created growing pressure by the regions for more revenue to perform their tasks, but taxing [...] | 2007-06-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV BE |
07BRUSSELS2164 | BELGIAN ECONOMIC STEWPOT: June 25, 2007 [...] (U) Belgium's macro-economic outlook is quite favorable, according to projections released by the Belgian National Bank (central bank). The BNB revised the 2007 GDP growth estimate upward from 2.1 to 2.5 percent, compared with 3.0 percent growth reached in 2006. BNB forecasts 2008 GDP growth [...] | 2007-07-03 12:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINT EINV SENV BE |
07BRUSSELS243 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH FERRERO-WALDNER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 08:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ |
07BRUSSELS2608 | ECONOMIC GROWTH OF BELGIUM'S WALLOON REGION [...] (U) Summary. One of the issues Belgian politicians are grappling with as they form a new government is how to craft economic policies given the differences between the economies of Wallonia and Flanders. As Wallonia's top investor, the United States has an interest in the overall economic hea [...] | 2007-08-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB BE |
07BRUSSELS263 | ON TAP: BELGIAN BEER BREWS BIG BUSINESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Long before it was selected as the capital for the European Union in 1958, Belgium was a capital of beer. The rich variety of choices (115 breweries produce nearly 500 different beers) makes Belgium a prime destination for beer enthusiasts. The world's biggest brewer is Belgian, [...] | 2007-01-26 10:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB BE |
07BRUSSELS3020 | DAS KRAMER, AMB STEWART AND THE EU DISCUSSES NEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 13:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
07BRUSSELS3021 | "THIS IS NOT A CRISIS" -- PREMATURE PREDICTIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgium recently passed an important milestone -- 100 days under a caretaker administration while the politicians try to form a government that can command a majority in parliament. This situation has precipitated an unwelcome (for the Belgians at least) deluge of speculation [...] | 2007-09-28 13:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON BE |
07BRUSSELS3039 | CORRECTED COPY: DAS KRAMER, AMB STEWART AND THE EU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 15:20:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
07BRUSSELS3046 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU MOVING AHEAD ON PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, USEU delivered the Black Sea Strategy demarche to Janos Herman, Principal Advisor for Regional Cooperation, DG RELEX on September 27. Herman agreed that the U.S. regional strategy complemented the EU's new "Black Sea Synergy" initiative approved by EU Foreign Mi [...] | 2007-10-02 11:38:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU |
07BRUSSELS3155 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS BARROSO [...] (SBU) Summary. Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Ambassador Gray held a warm meeting with Antonio Jose Cabral, Senior Advisor to European Commission President Barroso, on October 12, 2007. Kimmitt and Cabral discussed progress on preparations for the first U.S.-EU TEC meeting Nove [...] | 2007-10-16 13:52:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD ECON EUN |
07BRUSSELS318 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH HIGH REP SOLANA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 15:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ NK |
07BRUSSELS3241 | FTC CHAIRMAN MAJORAS REVIEWS MICROSOFT CASE IMPACTS WITH [...] SUMMARY. FTC Chairman Majoras and Ambassador Gray reviewed U.S. and EU competition developments with nine prominent Brussels attorneys on Oct. 19. The group focused on the EU victory in its antitrust case against Microsoft, but also covered pending EU cases against other tech firms. Majoras [...] | 2007-10-26 09:52:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN KIPR ECPS EINT ETRD EINV ECON EUN |
07BRUSSELS3268 | USITC INFO REQUEST ON BIO-BASED CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [...] Summary. In response to reftel USITC request, Post submits the following overview of activities related to bio-based chemicals and liquid biofuels. The European Union has a broad array of programs and organizations dealing with the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and [...] | 2007-10-31 14:05:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EU |
07BRUSSELS3391 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSES SWEEPING TELECOM REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. The European Commission adopted proposals on November 13, 2007 for a major reform, the so-called E-Communications Framework Review, of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framework. The Commission's goals with the package include promoting competition within [...] | 2007-11-27 09:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN EINV EINT ETRD ECON EUN |
07BRUSSELS3421 | FRANCE ANTICIPATES USING GALILEO FOR MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: French officials in Brussels disclosed that the French military will look to use Galileo in the future. Using their interpretation of the existing European Space Policy, they explained that the legal framework is permissive of certain military uses of space assets, and t [...] | 2007-11-29 16:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ESA TSPA TSPL |
07BRUSSELS3487 | BRUSSELS BILAT BREW: December 12, 2007 [...] (U) A study published in October by the Vienna University of Technology ranked Ghent (16) and Brugge (20) as two among the top 20 of European 'Smart Cities'. The survey ranked medium-sized (100,000-500,000 inhabitants) cities in Europe, using a system that evaluated the economy, people, govern [...] | 2007-12-12 07:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINT EINV SENV BE CH |
07BRUSSELS3509 | U.S.-EU INFORMATION SOCIETY DIALOGUE REINFORCES ICT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. and EU public and private officials held warm talks December 3-4 on information and communication technology developments and policy cooperation. At this year's Information Society Dialogue on December 4, the U.S. and EU discussed broadband growth, political debates over t [...] | 2007-12-14 14:07:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN EINV EINT ETRD ECON EUN |
07BRUSSELS373 | CREATING THE REGIONAL COOPERATION COUNCIL: FIRST [...] (SBU) Representatives of key donor governments and of SEECP countries met in Brussels on January 23 and 24 to begin the process of establishing a Regional Cooperation Council and secretariat as a regional cooperation vehicle to replace the Stability Pact by early 2008. Discussions were produ [...] | 2007-02-02 16:03:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW |
07BRUSSELS51 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: JANUARY 8, 2007 [...] (U) Both foreign and domestic investment in Belgium rose strongly in 2006. Preliminary data show that domestic investment in fixed capital in Belgium rose 3.2 percent in 2006, after declining marginally in each of the past five years. Surveyed industrial firms expected final 2006 data would [...] | 2007-01-09 17:33:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EIND SOCI BE |
07BRUSSELS76 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE ON LEBANON DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On January 10, Econoff drew on ref A points to urge strong Belgian participation in the Lebanon Donors' Conference, speaking with the following from the Ministry of Cooperation and Development: Pierre Vaesen, Chief of Staff; Michel Lastschenko, Advisor; and Jonathan Biermann, Advisor. S [...] | 2007-01-10 17:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN LE BE |
07BRUSSELS822 | EU DEBATES NEXT STEPS ON GEORGIA [...] (C) On March 6, the European Council's Political and Security Committee (PSC) debated the recommendations of a joint Commission/Council Expert Team to Georgia led by EU Special Representative to the Caucasus Peter Semneby. Nordic, Central and East European Member States strongly supported the [...] | 2007-03-12 17:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID GG EUN |
07BRUSSELS860 | BELGIAN RESPONSE TO OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Embassy presented US-EU Open Skies Demarche (Refs A and B) to Belgian Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The following message was received from the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 13: Thank you for your demarche of March 9 in which you request th [...] | 2007-03-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EU KPAO BE |
07BRUSSELS941 | Last Belgian Budget Check Before Elections - Much [...] (U) Summary. The much-heralded special Council of Ministers retreat in Leuven yielded little more than a cursory budget scrubbing and a few symbolic initiatives designed to garner votes in the June 10 elections. The earlier-agreed "green" revenue enhancement measure to tax packaging was down [...] | 2007-03-22 15:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAIR SENV KCRM BE |
07BRUSSELS945 | EU ADDRESSES AGING CHALLENGES [...] EU ministers for Employment and Social Affairs at their February 22 Council meeting (reftel B) recognized the contribution of older people to economic growth, employment and social development. They backed the German Presidency's initiative underlining the importance of family-friendly polici [...] | 2007-03-23 06:02:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SOCI ECON TBIO EUN |
07BRUSSELS982 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: March 20, 2007 [...] Pension Funds Basing in Belgium 2. Court Supports Residents' Rights 3. Belgium: A Kyoto Progress Report 4. US Company Cited as "Climate Saver" 5. Belgium: Less Than a Good European 6. Belgian Chocolate a Controlled Name? 7. Brussels Casino A Winner 8. The Grinch Who Stole Carnival [...] | 2007-03-23 17:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR EIND SENV BE |
07BUCHAREST1272 | ROMANIAN CENTRAL BANK HIKES INTEREST RATES IN FACE OF [...] (SBU) Faced with growing inflationary pressures in the economy, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) raised its benchmark interest rate a half point, from 7.0% to 7.5%, at its October 31 Board of Directors meeting. The hike marked a reversal of the looser monetary policy BNR had pursued since th [...] | 2007-11-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST212 | AMBASSADOR’S MEETING WITH TRANSPORTATION MINISTER REGARDING BECHTEL HIGHWAY CONTRACT: SAME OPERA, DIFFERENT SINGERS [...] (C) Summary: Bechtel's efforts to build a highway in Romania are still plagued by Romanian government obstructionism and inability (or unwillingness) to understand the basics of the contract. The Ambassador's most recent meeting with the Minister of Transportation revealed that some of the Romanian [...] | 2007-02-26 13:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENIV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST216 | ROMANIA: INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy contacted GOR officials in the Ministries of Environment and Health as well as representatives of NGOs, and found them somewhat unprepared to discuss the questions of Romanian indoor air pollution (IAP). The issue is just beginning to appear on Romania's agenda due in l [...] | 2007-02-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID OECD RO |
07BUCHAREST36 | ROMANIA'S BANKING SYSTEM: CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Western banks play a dominant role in Romania's growing economy, controlling slightly over 83 percent of the country's banking system. This situation, coupled with tight regulation and close supervision by the Romanian Central Bank (BNR),leaves Romania with relatively few wor [...] | 2007-01-10 07:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EIND RO |
07BUCHAREST61 | DEMARCHE TO ROMANIA ON BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Elena Bistiu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office of Community Law on January 16 to deliver reftel demarche. Bistiu agreed that Romania was being treated differently by the Commission regarding its bilateral treaties, and was well aware of existing bilateral FCNs a [...] | 2007-01-19 08:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON RO |
07BUCHAREST655 | ROMANIA'S DRAFT ENERGY STRATEGY - A MIXED BAG [...] (C) The Ministry of Economy and Finance released a draft of the national energy strategy for public comment on May 18. The draft strategy outlines the GOR's priorities in developing its energy profile (e.g. nuclear, thermal, hydro, renewable),privatizing remaining state-owned energy assets, [...] | 2007-06-04 15:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV RO |
07BUCHAREST789 | RESTITUTION AND THE PROPERTY FUND: ENVOY CHRISTIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Christian Kennedy discussed Holocaust education and property restitution with Romanian officials on June 6-8. The minority Liberal government on June 28 forced through an emergency ordinance that should enable the Property Fund to start the p [...] | 2007-07-09 09:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL EINV ECON RO |
07BUCHAREST846 | PSD: INTERNECENE TENSIONS ERUPT ON THE EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. Vasile Dancu, a PSD Vice President and senior party strategist, has tendered his resignation from the party leadership. Dancu,s departure follows a month of rising factional strife within the PSD, a struggle that came to a head over Bucharest leader Marian Vanghelie,s proposals to [...] | 2007-07-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RO |
07BUCHAREST897 | MONEY AND POLITICS: WHO REALLY OWNS ROMANIA? [...] (C) Summary. Romania's transition from communism and the ensuing privatization of state enterprises hugely benefited a small group of individuals with connections to the immediate post-Communist regime and/or the ubiquitous Securitate. Some of these individuals leveraged information and relati [...] | 2007-08-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON RO SOCI |
07BUDAPEST100 | SPRING TRAINING: POLITICAL SEASON BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary: With Parliament preparing to reconvene and both Prime Minister Gyurcsany and FIDESZ leader Orban planning to give major addresses in the coming weeks, the political season is set to resume. Despite Orban's long absence (or perhaps because of it) FIDESZ has been making the most n [...] | 2007-01-23 16:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM |
07BUDAPEST1097 | NEVER A BOAST OR A BRAG: WHAT WE (OVER)HEARD AT [...] (SBU) Post's commitment to active but non-partisan outreach was rewarded with a stellar turn-out by contacts across the political spectrum at the Fourth of July reception. 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany attended his first July 4th reception as PM, the latest signal of his desire to aff [...] | 2007-07-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1140 | HUNGARY MUST FIND ITS VOICE: ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (S) Summary: In an extensive one-on-one conversation with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried July 10, Prime Minister Gyurcsany recognized the strategic challenge posed by Russia, reaffirmed his commitment to playing a more active role to promote a common EU policy on Russia and energy security, and [...] | 2007-07-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG RU HU |
07BUDAPEST1214 | WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED: CABINET MINISTER KISS [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Kiss met with Ambassador Foley and DCM July 25 to review the state of playing on the government's reform agenda. Kiss embraced the challenge of improving dialogue on the issues, professing confidence in the recent coalition agreement and downplaying friction both [...] | 2007-07-27 09:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1298 | KOKA ON REFORM, RUSSIA, AND VISION FR FUTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON HU EU RU |
07BUDAPEST1341 | FROM SIMONYI TO SOMOGYI: CHANGES AT THE HUNGARIAN [...] (U) In a brief meeting with Ambassador Foley August 15, Hungarian Ambassador-designate Ferenc Somogyi outlined his priorities for his upcoming tour. Visa Waiver: A Milestone ) Not a Finish Line 2. (C) Welcoming recent progress on the Visa Waiver front, Somogyi accentuated the positive w [...] | 2007-08-16 09:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ENRG ECON |
07BUDAPEST135 | BEST SERVED COLD: ORBAN ON REFORM, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: As guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Ambassador Foley January 30, a charming and measured FIDESZ President Viktor Orban criticized the Gyurcsany government's implementation of its austerity package, questioned its commitment to reform, and called for EU action on energy secur [...] | 2007-02-01 13:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM |
07BUDAPEST1350 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN POLICY DRIFTING TO THE EAST [...] SUMMARY: In over a month since PM Gyurcsany's pledge to demonstrate his commitment to the Transatlantic relationship, the GoH's actions continue to give us cause for concern regarding a drift to the east in its policy. Gyurcsany's recent travel to Russia and Ukraine -- in both cases featurin [...] | 2007-08-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | ENRG ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST136 | PRT TRAINING ON TIME AND ON TARGET [...] (SBU) Nearly 50 Hungarian military and law enforcement officers, diplomats, and development experts attended a seminar on PRT operations January 22 - 23. The seminar, consisting of a detailed overview for senior officials in Budapest January 22 and an in-depth, interactive session at a Hunga [...] | 2007-02-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID ECON |
07BUDAPEST1468 | WAKE ME WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS: PARLIAMENT RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: The running debate over the Magyar Garda has generated more heat than light as Parliament prepares to return to session September 10 (ref a). This issue remains a potential flashpoint, but members on both sides of the aisle are pledging cooperation on key issues even as they expe [...] | 2007-09-09 08:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST155 | PAPER TIGER: GYURCSANY'S TREATISE ON REFORM [...] (U) As Hungary prepares for Parliament's opening session February 12, Prime Minister Gyurcsany released a 5-page supplement in the publication Nepszabadsag outlining the rationale behind his reforms. That outline was itself based on a dense 23-page document entitled "Facing the Facts: on mist [...] | 2007-02-06 12:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1579 | THE RESIDUE OF DESIGN: FOREIGN VISITS, MUTED [...] (C) Confronting a week fraught with political risks during the anniversary of last year's demonstrations, the Gyurcsany government has rebounded strongly. 2. (C) This week's demonstrations have been non-violent, with attendance dwindling with each passing day. Demonstrators themselves hav [...] | 2007-09-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1582 | ALL THE PRIME MINISTER'S MEN: WHO'S WHERE ON [...] (SBU) As reform continues to dominate the political landscape, clearer divisions are emerging within the governing coalition and among the party leaders. 2. (C) Within the government, Prime Minister Gyurcsany remains most visibly associated with the package of reforms that commonly bear h [...] | 2007-09-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST163 | THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF: OPPOSITION MP'S "CIVIL [...] (C) Opposition leader Viktor Orban lead approximately 100 MPs from his own FIDESZ party and their Christian Democrat (KDNP) coalition partner in an attempt to dismantle a security fence around the Parliament building February 2. Proceeding en masse from an opposition caucus, the MPs succeeded in di [...] | 2007-02-08 07:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU KDEM ASEC |
07BUDAPEST1818 | STRESS FRACTURES: MP'S CROSS PARTY LINES ... AND [...] (SBU) A rare breakdown in party discipline occurred during Parliament's session on November 5, when MPs from the governing MSzP broke ranks to oppose a measure proposed by the Gyurcsany government regarding the imposition of property taxes. Making matters even stranger, opposition MPs rushed [...] | 2007-11-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1889 | KOKA: TRAVELS SHOW NABUCCO POSSIBLE; LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Fresh from a trip to Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, Economic Minister Janos Koka stressed the need to kick-start work on Nabucco, reviewed his plans to meet with European Energy Commissioner Piebalgs in Brussels on Thursday, November 29, and underscored the urgent need fo [...] | 2007-11-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HU EU |
07BUDAPEST1950 | PAINTING HUNGARY BY NUMBERS: THE REALITY AND THE [...] (C) Summary: Center-left think-tank DEMOS, &Hungary,s Strategic Audit 20078 casts light on the dark picture of Hungary,s broad social and political trends. In compiling data from a broad range of sources, DEMOS has confirmed that there is more than just a grain of truth to the stereotype of [...] | 2007-12-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1956 | ANOTHER FINE MESS: LOOKING BACK ON 2007; FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's December recess will bring to a close a fractious fall and a frustrating year. 2007 has seenmore motion than forward movement. The embattled Gyurcsany government has been able to take the initiative only episodically, but the opposition has been unable to force them [...] | 2007-12-14 14:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST199 | LET THE GAMES BEGIN: PARLIAMENT RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: Parliament returned for its first session of 2007 on February 12. Although the formal docket called for discussion of issues ranging from the Riga Summit to the confirmation of Constitutional Court judges, the event was dominated by Prime Minister Gyurcsany's opening address and [...] | 2007-02-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST32 | HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES US-EU PASSENGER [...] (U) On December 22, the Hungarian Parliament formally ratified a government act operationalizing the US-EU Agreement on Passenger Data Sharing, thus formalizing its prevous agreement to implement the accord in practice. 2. (C) The text of the government act was modified slightly from its [...] | 2007-01-10 11:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST389 | THE QUEST FOR THE CENTER: THE MDF SETS ITS SIGHTS [...] (C) The opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) reelected party leader Dr. Ibolya David in a well-organized event March 11. Receiving over 80% of the vote for her fifth term - but not the three-year mandate she had reportedly sought - David set the party's goal as 10% of the vote in the [...] | 2007-03-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST417 | THIS OLD HOUSE: NEW CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SIMOR ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly-appointed Governor Andras Simor met with Ambassador Foley March 19 to discuss his priorities for the Central Bank (MNB). He believes the economy is stable and the Bank sound, noting his intention to focus primarily on improving communication with the government, the oppo [...] | 2007-03-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST521 | PROTESTING TOO MUCH?: PM GYURCSANY ON ENERGY [...] (C) Prime Minister Gyurcsany showed a rare display of temper - but no substantive surprises - in discussing energy security and missile defense with Ambassador Foley April 5. ENERGY SECURITY: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS 2. (S) Ambassador Foley reviewed the questions and concerns rai [...] | 2007-04-05 14:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST532 | BETTER THAN (CONSERVATIVELY) EXPECTED: FINANCE [...] (C) A relaxed and upbeat Finance Minister Veres told Ambassador Foley April 4 that deficit reduction efforts are exceeding the GoH's conservative projections, with the GoH lowering the 2006 budget deficit to 9.2% of GDP rather than the anticipated 10.1%. He noted that the GoH was cautiously [...] | 2007-04-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST570 | FROM VICTIMHOOD TO VULNERABILITY: GYURCSANY'S [...] (C) Prime Minister Gyurcsany met with Ambassador Foley for a one-on-one discussion April 16 to follow up on their recent exchange re energy security. 2. (S) Gyurcsany noted that he had been personally upset by the previous discussion and by the continuing focus on energy security in the p [...] | 2007-04-17 07:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PREL ECON ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST632 | COVERING THE WATERFRONT: NATIONAL BANK CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian Central Bank (MNB) Chairman Andras Simor shared his views on Hungary's economic trends and their political impact with G-8 Ambassadors April 17. He expressed particular concern re Hungary's lagging growth rate, the continuing challenge of reforming attitudes as well as [...] | 2007-04-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST69 | COLD COMFORT: POLITICAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) The shut-off of the oil pipeline from Russia and renewed sparring between the Gyurcsany government and the opposition have placed Hungary's ambivalent relationship with Moscow at center stage as the government returns from its holiday break. "THE MERRIEST BARRACKS IN GAZPROM" 2. (U [...] | 2007-01-17 14:23:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU HU PGOV ECON |
07BUDAPEST70 | MFA ON CUBA, AFGHANISTAN, AND RUSSIAN OIL CUT-OFF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Foley met with MFA State Secretary Varkonyi January 11 to review the state of play on SIPDIS key issues following her return from the EUR Chiefs of Mission Conference. Varkonyi outlined GoH initiatives to promote a democratic transition in Cuba, including the addit [...] | 2007-01-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM ECON |
07BUDAPEST71 | MFA ON CUBA, AFGHANISTAN, AND RUSSIAN OIL CUT-OFF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Foley met with MFA State Secretary Varkonyi January 11 to review the state of play on SIPDIS key issues following her return from the EUR Chiefs of Mission Conference. Varkonyi outlined GoH initiatives to promote a democratic transition in Cuba, including the addit [...] | 2007-01-17 15:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM ECON |
07BUDAPEST732 | CENTRIFUGAL FORCE: STRAIN WITHIN THE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Surveying the current state of play within the governing coalition, outgoing SZDSZ party president Gabor Kuncze told Ambassador Foley that there is perceptible distance - and potential conflict - between Prime Minister Gyurcsany and newly-elected SZDSZ leader Janos Koka. Kuncze [...] | 2007-05-10 11:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST736 | HUNGARY: DEAL NEEDED ON OECD ENLARGEMENT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON OECD EUN HU |
07BUDAPEST788 | KOKA IN COMMAND: ECONOMY MINISTER OUTLINES REFORM [...] (C) A confident and conversant Economy Minister and SZDSZ party president Janos Koka outlined his views on the GoH's reform agenda and reviewed the SZDSZ party's prospects in a meeting with Ambassador Foley May 15. Koka cast his efforts to "rebuild the SZDSZ nation-wide" as a means to "comple [...] | 2007-05-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG |
07BUDAPEST823 | FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM: FIDESZ PARTY CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ president Viktor Orban was reelected by an overwhelming margin at a May 19 - 20 party convention where sweeping invective against the Gyurcsany government competed with substantive policy discussion. The party worked hard - and in large part successfully - to place itself [...] | 2007-05-22 14:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST844 | DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel remarks in separate meetings with MFA Iran Desk Officer Istvan Nyitrai and MFA Traveling Ambassador for the Andean Region Pal Varga-Koritar. While remarking that the current state of relations with Iran and Venezuela is "troubling," Mr. Nyitrai believes the sign [...] | 2007-05-25 08:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER |
07BUENOSAIRES1004 | ARGENTINA IN PLAY: RE-ENGAGING ON ECONOMIC AND [...] (C) We need to re-engage with Argentina on broad economic policy and debt management issues. This re-engagement should be both with GoA officials and with this nation's vibrant and diverse civil society and media. In the big picture, Argentina is in play. We should not abandon the field to th [...] | 2007-05-22 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1008 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER DISCUSSES GOA ECONOMIC [...] (C) During a March 16 meeting with Federal Reserve Governor Kroszner and Ambassador Wayne, GoA Economy Minister Miceli outlined the GoA's incipient effort to implement medium/long term economic planning, now that the financial crisis and default are five years in the past. She described the G [...] | 2007-05-23 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1030 | ARGENTINE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SUPPORTS TIP AND [...] (C) On May 22, Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Speaker of the House Alberto Balestrini and Vice President of the House Patricia Vaca Narvaja. They underscored the importance of the bilateral relationship and continued cooperation in providing security to Argentines and Americans alike i [...] | 2007-05-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PRGOV ECON ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN ASEC |
07BUENOSAIRES1043 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 14 - [...] Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 14 - 18, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to b [...] | 2007-05-24 19:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1046 | ARGENTINA: CIVAIR TURBULENCE ON THE GROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentina has been seized recently with media stories alleging unsafe skies and a "broken" civil aviation regime, with some analysts and pilot and controller groups weighing in to support this charge. What began with a March 1 electrical storm that knocked out the primary radar se [...] | 2007-05-24 21:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1058 | NEW GOA INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCY TO FOCUS ON HIGH TECH [...] (SBU) Beatriz Nofal, head of the GoA's recently established investment promotion agency, Prosper-Ar, will focus her organization's efforts on attracting investment in the high tech and creative content sectors. In a May 18 meeting with Ambassador, Nofal said she would also like to be become in [...] | 2007-05-29 20:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON KIPR PREL OECD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1070 | ARGENTINA'S AIRPORTS OPERATOR ON HIGH AIRPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met on May 18 with Ernesto Gutierrez, President of Aeropuertos Argentinas AA000 (AA2000),the private company that holds the 30-year concession to run 32 major Argentine airports. Gutierrez is a leading Argentine businessman, with extensive contacts and experience in [...] | 2007-05-31 13:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAIR BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1080 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER IN ARGENTINA; HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Fed Governor Kroszner highlighted globalization's impact on international capital flows and yield curves in speeches and roundtable meetings with central bank, government, and private sector representatives during his May 15-16 visit to Buenos Aires. Issues raised during roundtables inclu [...] | 2007-06-01 20:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1082 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 21 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 21 - 31, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2007-06-01 20:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1083 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT TELLS FED GOV [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank President Redrado assured Fed Governor Kroszner and Ambassador that the GoA would make it through October elections without a sharp increase in inflation. However, he said post-election adjustments were needed to bring the inflation rate down and ensure a soft landi [...] | 2007-06-01 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1086 | WORLD BANK DEMARCHE DELIVERED; ARGENTINA SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding Mr. Zoellick's candidacy and qualifications for the position of World Bank President in writing on May 30 to Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Central Bank President Martin Redrado. Charge subsequently reiterated points and urged GoA support [...] | 2007-06-04 16:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IBRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1127 | Managed Mercosur Auto Trade [...] (U) Argentina's auto sector is roaring ahead, and 2007 is well on track to be the best in its history. The auto industry is a crucial pillar of the Argentine economy, bringing good jobs, technology transfer and innovation. Given the auto industry's importance and political sensitivity, the GO [...] | 2007-06-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD AR BR VE |
07BUENOSAIRES1128 | 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (U) The following report outlines new and ongoing investment disputes between the GOA and US investors, following an action request cable (Ref A),and updating Post's 2004 Investment Disputes Report (Ref B),and its subsequent 2005 and 2006 updates (Refs C and D). There were no new disputes f [...] | 2007-06-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV KIDE PREL OPIC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1180 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 4-12, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to [...] | 2007-06-15 17:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES119 | ARGENTINA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 [...] This cable transmits the text of the Argentina Investment Climate Statement for 2007 OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Argentina remains open to foreign investment. Four consecutive years of real GDP growth over 8 percent have attracted considerable U.S. and other international investor int [...] | 2007-01-24 13:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV OPIC USTR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1244 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JUNE 25 MEETING WITH FORMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 25, Ambassador Wayne called on former President Raul Alfonsin to discuss Alfonsin's views on the current political panorama in Argentina. Alfonsin frankly shared his view that current economic policies are not sustainable and that Argentina is likely to see economic [...] | 2007-06-26 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1262 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 12-27, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov t [...] | 2007-06-28 18:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1278 | Repsol-YPF Plans Minority Sale to Local Argentine [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to press and local sources, Spanish oil and gas giant Repsol-YPF is negotiating to sell a 45% stake in its Argentine subsidiary YPF. Plans call for 25% of Repsol- YPF's shares to be bought by Argentine businessman/banker Enrique Eskenazi, who has ties to President Kirc [...] | 2007-07-02 12:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD ENRG AR VZ SP |
07BUENOSAIRES1287 | ICAO ASSEMBLY DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-03 09:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAIR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1301 | ECONOMY MINISTER DECLINES INVITE TO URUGUAY [...] (C) Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Ambassador discussed on July 3 the Minister's invitation to participate in upcoming meetings in Uruguay with Treasury Secretary Paulson and other Ministers from the region. Although Miceli expressed interest, her staff confirmed on July 5 that the Minist [...] | 2007-07-05 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1313 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 28 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 28 - July 5, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2007-07-06 20:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1315 | U.S., Argentina Sign Milestone Aviation Accord [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 3, in a public and widely-publicized ceremony, the Ambassador and Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana signed an aviation accord that significantly expands air service between our two countries, and contains an important and modernized security chapter. The accord was hailed [...] | 2007-07-06 20:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR EINV ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1347 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JULY 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period July 6 - 13, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2007-07-13 19:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1352 | (C) GOA FOILS ETON PARK INVESTMENT BID: CORRUPTION [...] (C) Major U.S. investment fund Eton Park's two year effort to buy a minority stake in Argentina's regulated electricity transmission grid from Brazil's Petrobras offers a snapshot of GoA machinations to favor local -- and presumably more easily controlled -- capital investment in strategic [...] | 2007-07-15 22:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG BEXP VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1360 | ECONOMY MINISTER MICELI RESIGNS, REPLACED BY [...] (SBU) GoA Economy Minister Felisa Miceli, dogged by scandal following the discovery of over $60,000 in cash in her office, has resigned. Chief of Cabinet Minsiter Alberto Fernandez announced Miceli's subordinate, Secretary of Industry and Trade Migueil Peirano, will be named to replace her fo [...] | 2007-07-16 22:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1363 | GOA MOVEMENT ON DOHA UNLIKELY PENDING ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The EU Mission in Argentina sees little potential before October presidential elections for the GoA to support a Doha deal that cuts NAMA tariffs. Post shares that view. The GoA trade negotiator says Argentina counseled Brazil and India to walk out of the Potsdam G-4 meeting; that Argen [...] | 2007-07-17 13:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL EU AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1369 | APACHE ENERGY EXPANDS ARGENTINE HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND [...] (SBU) Apache Energy is expanding exploration and development activities in Argentina's southern most Tierra del Fuego province, with $100 million invested in new production in 2006 and an additional $150 million budgeted in 2007. This expansion comes despite shrinking profit margins caused by [...] | 2007-07-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES139 | ECONOMIC MINISTER ON MERCOSUR SUMMIT AND [...] (C) During a January 24 meeting focused primarily on Paris Club issues (septel),Economic Minister Miceli told the Ambassador that the recent Mercosur summit in Rio had its tense moments, but had finished with the clear understanding that Mercosur priorities can not be subordinated to the inte [...] | 2007-01-25 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ENRG EINV EMIN ETRD BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES140 | ARGENTINA STRIKES DEBT DEAL WITH SPAIN, CONTINUES [...] (C) Economic Minister Felisa Miceli and new Finance Secretary Sergio Chodos forcefully argued the GoA case for a SIPDIS Paris Club restructuring deal during a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador. Miceli said the GoA and Spain had completed a separate deal on the repayment of Argentina's [...] | 2007-01-25 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1414 | ARGENTINA: FIRST LADY LAUNCHES CANDIDACY FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner officially launched her candidacy for president of Argentina at a ceremony in her home town on July 19. Fernandez's speech outlined three "pillars" that have served as the foundations of her husband President Nestor Kirc [...] | 2007-07-20 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1415 | ARGENTINE ENERGY SHORTAGE - A CRISIS FORETOLD [...] (SBU) A combination of an unusually cold winter, unseasonably low water levels at hydro-electric facilities, and a 5-year post-crisis legacy of under-investment in basic electricity and natural gas infrastructure has resulted in significant energy shortages in Argentina. The consequence: Ove [...] | 2007-07-20 21:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV EPET ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1422 | AMBASSADOR TOURS KRAFT FOODS ARGENTINA AND ARGENTINE FOOD [...] (SBU) Ambassador visited the Kraft Foods Argentina plant in General Pacheco, Kraft's second largest cookie plant in the world. Kraft highlighted their strong commitment to their Corporate Social Responsibility Programs. They also discussed the direct role that the union plays in their operatio [...] | 2007-07-23 17:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR OCRA OFSO OCBD OSTA OAO ONA OTP ECON BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1456 | PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO ON ENERGY CRISIS AND [...] (SBU) Argentina will successfully weather current and future energy shortages, according to Planning Minister De Vido, via a combination of short term fixes (including imports of Brazilian electricity and GoA subsidies for the import of diesel fuel for generators),plans for a post-election nat [...] | 2007-07-27 19:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG EPET EAIR BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1459 | US FIRMS AND LABOR MINISTER TOMADA DISCUSS CSR AND [...] (C) Summary. On July 24, Ambassador Wayne hosted a roundtable meeting with Labor Minister Carlos Tomada and representatives from U.S. companies to discuss the Labor Ministry's initiative to promote formal employment and decent jobs as well as U.S. companies' corporate social responsibility [...] | 2007-07-27 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES148 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Secretary General of the Presidency (President Nestor SIPDIS Kirchner's chief of staff) Oscar Parrilli. Parrilli said that the GOA is committed to serving as a positive example of democracy in the region and tries to demonstrate democr [...] | 2007-01-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1496 | NEW ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER PEIRANO: [...] (C) New Economy and Production Minister Miguel Peirano was elevated from his Secretary of Industry and Trade and Small Business post in the same Ministry to replace Felisa Miceli on July 17. Miceli had resigned abruptly after a scandal involving the discovery of $100,000 in cash in her office [...] | 2007-08-01 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1514 | PRESIDENT CHAVEZ'S AUGUST 6 VISIT TO ARGENTINA: BONDS, [...] (SBU) President Chavez arrives in Buenos Aires August 6 for a meeting with President Kirchner en route to Bolivia. The agenda will be principally economic: the issuance of a third tranche of the joint GoA/GoV "Bono del Sur" valued at up to US$1 billion will be announced. Other likely announc [...] | 2007-08-03 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1517 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CALLS ARGENTINE ECONOMIC [...] (C) The GoA's "fiscal policies are not sustainable past this year," Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado (PROTECT) told Ambassador during their July 31 meeting. He warned of increasing problems if Argentina maintained its domestic demand-driven growth policies (he noted the BCRA estim [...] | 2007-08-03 20:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1545 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT FAILS CREDIBILITY TEST ON [...] (SBU) On August 6, the Argentine statistical agency, INDEC, reported monthly inflation of 0.5%, once again below even the lowest private sector estimates, indicating continued GoA manipulation of the data. This dashed market hopes that new Economy Minister Miguel Peirano (reftel) would use th [...] | 2007-08-08 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1557 | Argentina Response to Airline Crew Tax Proposal [...] (U) Summary: On June 11, Post delivered via diplomatic note the reftel message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the possibility of the GOA signing a multilateral Convention on Reciprocal Tax Exemption of Airline Crews. In response, on July 20, the MFA sent a diplomatic note proposi [...] | 2007-08-10 08:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON KTIA EINV ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1558 | ARGENTINA ON DOHA AGRICULTURE MODALITIES AND NAMA LINKAGE [...] (SBU) The GoA believes the latest Doha Agriculture Modalities draft is moving in the right direction and notes common ground with the paper's domestic support, market access, and export competition language. Trade policy makers here appreciate that the USG is now "listening closely" to GoA Doh [...] | 2007-08-10 09:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1586 | COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE: GOA CHARM OFFENSIVE [...] (SBU) The GoA used this year's Council of the Americas conference in End Summary ------------------------------ The GoA: Upbeat and On-Message ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) On August 7, key GoA Ministers and Cristina Kirchner addressed Planning Minister Julio de Vido, Finance M [...] | 2007-08-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1591 | COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE: GOA CHARM [...] (SBU) The GoA used this year's Council of the Americas conference in Buenos Aires both to claim economic success and to stress its interest in U.S. investment. The high profile GoA presence, and particularly presidential candidate Cristiana Kirchner's wrap-up speech, have been widely seen as [...] | 2007-08-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1593 | COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE: GOA CHARM [...] (SBU) The GoA used this year's Council of the Americas conference in Buenos Aires both to claim economic success and to stress its interest in U.S. investment. The high profile GoA presence, and particularly presidential candidate Cristiana Kirchner's wrap-up speech, have been widely seen as [...] | 2007-08-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1628 | NEW PROTECTIONIST NON-TARIFF BARRIERS TARGET [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 09:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1629 | FAA'S FILIPPATOS DISCUSSSES ARGENTINA AVIATION TRANSITION, [...] (SBU) The August 13 visit to Argentina of FAA Assistant Administrator for International Aviation James Filippatos and Acting Western Hemisphere Director Cecilia Capestany reinforced close ties with senior-level GOA aviation officials. FAA officials also met with U.S. carriers operating here. [...] | 2007-08-21 12:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON KTIA EINV ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1648 | ARGENTINA: NON-TARIFF TRADE BARRIERS NOT YET OFFICIAL, BUT [...] (SBU) President Kirchner's announcement late last week of non-tariff measures aimed at curbing Asian imports is affecting U.S. companies. Argentine customs has held up many Asian import shipments, including those from U.S. high technology companies Dell and Honeywell, pending clarification of [...] | 2007-08-23 09:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AR CH HK IN ID KN KS MY PK RP SN |
07BUENOSAIRES1673 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETS CRISTINA'S RUNNING MATE, WITNESSES THE BOOM IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 18:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON PGOV PREL SOCI |
07BUENOSAIRES1689 | ARGENTINA: STARTING AN IMPORT SAFETY DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GoA officials confirmed, in response to Ref A questions, that import safety issues are a concern, but to date they have taken only limited measures to increase safety inspections. The GoA announced on August 17, 2007 new measures to restrict imports from 13 Asian countries (Ref B [...] | 2007-08-27 15:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1707 | ARGENTINA-URUGUAY PULP MILL DISPUTE: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Relations between Argentina and Uruguay have deteriorated since early 2006 over the construction of the $1.2 billion Finnish-built "Botnia" pulp mill, now nearing completion on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River. Some Argentine residents across the river from the pulp mill [...] | 2007-08-29 19:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EINV PREL SOCI UY AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1708 | ARGENTINA: CHINESE REACTION TO NON-TARIFF BARRIERS [...] (SBU) Ten days after President Kirchner announced the imposition of non-tariff barriers on burgeoning Asian imports, local media has reported that China struck back with retaliatory phytosanitary inspections of Argentine soy shipments, though two grain trading company reps say the inspections o [...] | 2007-08-29 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EAGR ECON AR CH HK IN ID KN KS MY PK |
07BUENOSAIRES1718 | ARGENTINA: OECD NATIONAL CONTACT POINT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 8, Argentina MFA official Ambassador Enrique Julio De La Torre briefed Economic Counselor and Investment Officer on recent GOA efforts involving its National Contact Point (NCP) office. The GoA's NCP seeks to raise awareness of the Organization for Economic Cooperation [...] | 2007-08-30 13:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV OECD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1720 | WORKSHOP HOSTED BY EMBASSY ADVANCES MUTUAL INTERESTS OF [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires hosted a successful workshop, led by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (DOJ/OPDAT),to facilitate the drafting by Argentine government officials from eight separate GoA entities and private sector re [...] | 2007-08-30 15:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1726 | ARGENTINA: ENERGY SECRETARY CAMERON ON U.S. BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Energy Secretary Daniel Cameron, a leading candidate to replace Planning Minister De Vido in a likely Cristina Kirchner administration, told Ambassador the Planning Ministry will be re-engineered to better administer its Energy, Transportation, Communications, Mining and Public Works resp [...] | 2007-08-30 17:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1730 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Election season is in full gear now that there are less than 60 days to presidential elections on October 28. The opposition further damaged its image this week when the highly-publicized effort to join the candidacies of center-left leader Elisa Carrio and center-right lead [...] | 2007-08-31 11:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1736 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL AUDITOR GENERAL AND UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE [...] Summary: The President of the National Auditing Office (AGN),Ambassador Leandro Despouy, recently discussed the AGN's broad government oversight role and his responsibilities as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. He described his impressions of the state of h [...] | 2007-08-31 16:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL SENV KCOR KPAO AR EAID |
07BUENOSAIRES1745 | NEW ECONOMY MINISTER ON PARIS CLUB, DOHA TALKS, [...] (C) New Economy Minister Miguel Peirano emphasized to the Ambassador his interest in resolving the Paris Club impasse, supported Canada's IMF reform proposals, agreed to deal with disputes involving U.S. interests, and affirmed Argentina's commitment to broad trade liberalization in an August 2 [...] | 2007-08-31 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1747 | White House Science Official Richard Russell Meets [...] Ambassador Richard Russell, United States Representative to the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference, and concurrently Deputy Director for Technology of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President, visited Argentina on August 27 and 28. Ambas [...] | 2007-09-04 08:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL ECPS ITU OVIP TSPL TINT AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1760 | AMBASSADOR AND SECRETARY OF TOURISM REVIEW [...] (U) Ambassador Wayne met with Secretary of Tourism Enrique Meyer to discuss ways to encourage and support the growing tourism between the U.S. and Argentina. He also advocated on behalf of Sheraton Hotels/Starwood, which was caught up in a dispute between two factions of the taxi drivers union [...] | 2007-09-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1761 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY ASSISTS U.S. CHEMICAL FIRMS AND [...] (U) In July 2007, the Embassy learned that Argentine chemical and petrochemical unions had called strikes in Zarate/Campana region, paralyzing production in that sector, which features four U.S. companies. One of those firms, Monsanto, initially requested no Embassy involvement, as they hoped [...] | 2007-09-06 13:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EAGR ECON BEXP ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1769 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER PRESIDES OVER SIGNING OF CSR [...] On September 4, Ambassador Wayne attended the signing ceremony of the "Formal Employment and Corporate Social Responsibility Commitment Agreement" between the Ministry of Labor and approximately 100 leading firms in Argentina. The ceremony took place at the Casa Rosada and featured President [...] | 2007-09-06 15:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1776 | ARGENTINE-URUGUAYAN PULP MILL DISPUTE: FINNISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Finnish Embassy believes that despite the bilateral frictions that the Argentina-Uruguay pulp mill dispute has created, the mill project will open as scheduled in October with a minimal possibility of violence. The Embassy discounts as spurious Argentine environmental ac [...] | 2007-09-06 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV SENV PREL SOCI FI UY AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1781 | ICAO Demarche on U.S. Candidacy Delivered [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ICAO PREL ECON AORC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1785 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS AGREE TO [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on supporting plans to clear Liberia's IMF arrears to new Economy Ministry Chief of Advisors Javier Alvaredo and new Undersecretary of Finance Juan Carlos Barboza on September 5. Econoff also outlined issue in general terms over the telephone to Secretary [...] | 2007-09-07 15:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1795 | ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH IRS AND [...] This is an Action Request for the Department of Treasury/IRS. See paragraphs 2 and 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority, AFIP, wants to negotiate a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the IRS. Responding to earlier U.S. Treasury guidance that [...] | 2007-09-10 12:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1800 | ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY ON CSI, 9/11 ACT, MEGAPORT, AND [...] (SBU) The Argentine customs and revenue authority, AFIP, is pleased with the development of its Container Security Initiative (CSI) pilot program and hopes to expand pre-clearance cargo examinations to two additional port terminals in the Buenos Aires region. With this expansion, AFIP's Direct [...] | 2007-09-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIPR KTFN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1809 | IMF CANDIDATE STRAUSS-KAHN LOBBIES FOR ARGENTINE [...] (C) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France's candidate for Managing Director of the IMF, capped a four-country tour through Latin America with two days of meetings in Buenos Aires. French Embassy officials called the meetings with GoA officials "surprisingly cordial," particularly with President Kirc [...] | 2007-09-11 17:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1819 | ARGENTINA: PAMPA HOLDINGS BETS ON GOVERNMENT PROMISE TO [...] (SBU) Pampa Holdings, one of Argentina's largest investment funds with a market capitalization of over $760 million, is aggressively expanding its participation in Argentina's electricity generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. Pampa principal Carlos Mindlin described his investme [...] | 2007-09-12 16:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1845 | ICAO Demarche on Budget Delivered, Government of Argentina [...] Civair Officer delivered reftel U.S. ICAO budget position to Messrs. Marcelo Cesa, Alejandro Casiro, and Martin Romero in the Government of Argentina (GOA) Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to these officials, the GOA has not yet formulated its position with respect to this issue. 2. [...] | 2007-09-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ICAO PREL ECON AORC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1858 | ARGENTINA: NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE TO WIPO DG [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered ref A demarche September 13 to the MFA's Emiliano Waiselfisz, Direction of Multilateral Economic Negotiations (DIREM),and the MFA's Martin Romero, Direction of International Relations (DIOIN). Waiselfisz said any decision on action would be made by his superiors, but n [...] | 2007-09-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1862 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ticket slates for the national elections on October 28 are now final. First Lady and presidential front-runner Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is still leading the polls with a comfortable lead over the next-closest candidate and stands to benefit from her husband's increased [...] | 2007-09-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1877 | ARGENTINE AMCHAM'S ANNUAL IPR CONFERENCE MAKES A SPLASH [...] (SBU) The American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina hosted a successful intellectual property rights conference on September 11, with international participation and significant press coverage. Government officials from Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and the U.S. spoke about their national programs [...] | 2007-09-20 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1890 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 5-14, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be in [...] | 2007-09-21 14:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1892 | ARGENTINA: FRUSTRATED EXXON-MOBIL PUTS ASSETS IN [...] (C) After 96 years in Argentina, Exxon-Mobil is shopping its refining and retail assets. Company officials call this part of a region-wide "internal valuation exercise" that follows Exxon's recent decision to exit the Venezuelan market. It also reflects growing company frustration with a com [...] | 2007-09-21 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EPET ENRG ECON VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1920 | ARGENTINA: EX-VEEP ALVAREZ ON MERCOSUR, VENEZUELA, AND [...] (SBU) Former De La Rua Administration Vice President "Chacho" Alvarez, currently serving as the President of Mercosur's Permanent Representatives Commission, sees Mercosur's current expansion agenda as a political effort to contain and manage Venezuela (protect). A Venezuela within Mercosur an [...] | 2007-09-25 15:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PINR VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1947 | ARGENTINA'S INVESTMENT PITCH MARRED BY POOR GRADES ON [...] (U) Summary: During President and Mrs. Kirchner's New York business-focused visit (reftel),two highly respected and widely read international business reports released their annual surveys - and Argentina came up wanting. Transparency International's "Corruption Perceptions Index 2007" (CPI) [...] | 2007-09-28 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1952 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator and Victory Front (FPV) presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner continued her foreign-policy based campaign with a trip to New York City, where she pitched Argentina to Wall Street investors. Back home, she launched an interactive website aimed at attra [...] | 2007-09-28 19:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1964 | ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF [...] (C) GoA Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne briefed the Ambassador September 26 on his draft proposal to reform the federal criminal justice system (other discussion topics reported Ref A and septel). The reforms, based on the recommendations of a Special Commission, aim to alter the rules of e [...] | 2007-10-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR KJUS KCRM EAID KCOR PHUM |
07BUENOSAIRES1980 | ARGENTINE PUNDITS: RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE KEY [...] (C) Summary. A group of top political and economic analysts maintain that the main challenges facing Argentina's next administration are restoring confidence in public institutions; reining in inflation and labor demands for higher wages; and improving juridical certainty to attract greater [...] | 2007-10-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KLAB KCOR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1995 | ELECTION-YEAR SPENDING EXTRAVAGANZA UNDERMINES [...] (SBU) Argentine President Kirchner's election-year spending spree has exceeded expectations and led to deteriorating fiscal accounts in 2007. Through July 2007, expenditures increased almost 50% year-over-year, a result of large increases in pension payments, subsidies, wages, and capital spe [...] | 2007-10-05 18:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1997 | ARGENTINA DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 18:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS CITEL XK XL XM ECON ITU AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2021 | ARGENTINA: GOA PR OFFENSIVE ON INFATION [...] (C) Inflation has become a polarizing campaign issue in the Argentine presidential campaign, with controversy surrounding its real rate of increase, underlying causes, and the methodologies used by the GOA. Many Argentine economists have developed their own "true" inflation indicators and, in [...] | 2007-10-10 18:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2032 | "Brinks Job" Theft at Argentina Airport: Another Black Eye [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 4 United Airlines flight from Washington to Buenos Aires was the scene of a highly publicized theft of $80,000 in cash, stolen within a U.S.-based Brinks container, part of a larger U.S. Federal Reserve Bank transfer to the Central Bank of Argentina. Government of A [...] | 2007-10-11 16:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV ECON EFIN KCOR ICAO AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2044 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 17 - October 5, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...] | 2007-10-12 18:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2059 | REDUCED EXPECTATIONS: ARGENTINA SEEKS LOW PROFILE [...] (C) The GoA delegation to the annual IMF/World Bank meetings, led by Economy Minister Miguel Peirano and Central Bank President Martin Redrado, will arrive in Washington under instructions from President Kirchner not to say or do anything controversial, given the proximity of Argentina's Octob [...] | 2007-10-17 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2080 | WORLD BANK LOOKS TO INCREASE FOOTPRINT IN [...] (C) New World Bank Country Director Pedro Alba told Ambassador that he will wait to see what reforms the next Argentine government implements before deciding whether to develop a new country assistance strategy (CAS) or just issue a progress report on the current CAS. The existing CAS is focu [...] | 2007-10-22 19:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2087 | Argentina: Opposition Candidates' Economic Platforms [...] (SBU) Substantive policy debate about clouds gathering on Argentina's economic horizon has been largely absent from the presidential election campaign here. An exception has been high-profile sniping by principal opposition candidates Roberto Lavagna and Elisa Carrio at GoA mis-steps in its al [...] | 2007-10-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2110 | Argentina: Economic Challenges Facing the Incoming [...] (SBU) The inauguration of a new Argentine president in December 2007 will coincide with the conclusion of the Argentine economy's fifth (2003-2007) consecutive year of 8-9% real growth, and record levels of exports, foreign reserves, and formal employment. Argentina also enjoys solid, if declin [...] | 2007-10-25 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EINV ETRD EFIN ENRG PGOV |
07BUENOSAIRES2112 | ARGENTINA'S INFLATION DEBATE CONTINUES; ADOPTING U.S. CPI [...] (SBU) Amidst continuing accusations of GoA manipulation of inflation statistics, presidential candidate Cristina de Kirchner defended current statistics but said the government is studying adopting a new method of measuring inflation, "possibly the method of the United States." She reiterated [...] | 2007-10-25 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2114 | TOURISM SECRETARY PROVIDES OVERVIEW OF TOURISM PROSPECTS [...] As a follow-up to our July 29 meeting with Secretary of Tourism, Enrique Meyer, the Ambassador hosted a meeting with the Secretary and all relevant Agency section heads. Secretary Meyer explained that the United States was a priority market for the Argentine tourism industry and provided a det [...] | 2007-10-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP OTRA ATRN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2119 | ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES TIP, MONEY [...] (C) Introduction: This cable covers and provides updates on issues that Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne and the Ambassador discussed during their recent meeting (reftels). They include: 1) status of Trafficking in Persons legislation and Justice Ministry efforts to push for its passage; 2) [...] | 2007-10-26 16:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KTFN SNAR KJUS KCRM PHUM KWNM |
07BUENOSAIRES2138 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS SEE [...] (C) Economy Minister Peirano told Ambassador he will hold off discussing bilateral or multilateral issues until the dust settles from the October 28 elections. He called his participation in the IMF/World Bank meetings a success, and he expects improved cooperation and coordination with those [...] | 2007-10-30 09:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2139 | NEAR-COMPLETE ELECTION RESULTS CONFIRM IMPRESSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: As of October 29, with ballots from approximately 96.5% of the voting stations tallied, Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) maintains an insurmountable lead in the presidential race with 44.91% of the total vote. Second-place finisher, center-left candi [...] | 2007-10-30 09:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2142 | STATUS OF POST ADVOCACY FOR HUMAN [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs have devoted major resources to raise and investigate the human rights (and anti-Semitism) case of Argentine citizen Eduardo Saiegh (victim in 1980 of kidnapping, torture, and expropriation -- Reftels). The Ambassador has raised the case at high levels, and Econ/Pol [...] | 2007-10-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2206 | DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: CRISTINA'S NEW CABINET [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced a new cabinet November 14 that will look very much like her husband's. The early announcement was sparked by infighting among cabinet factions. The limited changes suggest strongly that any evolution in policies und [...] | 2007-11-14 21:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV MARR PINR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2212 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT PUSHES GOA DOHA NEGOTIATORS [...] (C) On November 12, Ambassador urged Argentine Central Bank President Martin Redrado to engage within the GoA to moderate Argentina's "rejectionist" position in Doha Round talks. Redrado confided that he had already intervened on the subject with the Foreign Minister and GoA trade negotiators [...] | 2007-11-15 08:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2214 | Ambassador Attends Post-Election Business Conference, [...] (SBU) During Argentina's major private sector conference, November 7-8, former Brazilian President Cardozo subtly warned about the need to control inflation, and Argentine business leaders discussed privately with the Ambassador whether president-elect Christina Fernandez de Kirchner will carry [...] | 2007-11-15 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EINV ENRG BEXP PREL OTRA TPHY TSPA SCUL |
07BUENOSAIRES2216 | IDB PRESIDENT MORENO OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO THE [...] (C) IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno urged the Kirchners to rebuild their relationship with the USG during his November 5-6 visit to Buenos Aires. Moreno relayed this to Ambassador November 6, noting that President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) seemed to understand that USG supp [...] | 2007-11-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID AR |
07BUENOSAIRES222 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JANUARY 31 MEETING WITH CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 31, Ambassador Wayne called on Chief of Cabinet Alberto Fernandez. Ambassador Wayne talked through four areas for more work: cooperation on security issues (narcotics trafficking, counterterrorism); support for democracy; creating a more inviting investment climate an [...] | 2007-02-05 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2223 | PULP MILL DISPUTE: GUARDEDLY HOPEFUL THAT [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. Concerns over the pulp mill dispute have calmed down in Buenos Aires, despite the sharp words and protests generated last weekend when Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez gave the order to commence operations November 9 at the pulp mill in Fray Bentos, western Urug [...] | 2007-11-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC FI UY AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2225 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT ON PARIS CLUB, ICSID [...] (C) During a November 11 meeting, Ambassador urged Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado(protect strictly) to use his considerable influence to steer the debate within the GoA on developing a workable Paris Club proposal and on paying ICSID arbitral awards. Discussions on Argentina's po [...] | 2007-11-16 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2231 | Argentina: Mendoza Governor-elect and Ambassador discuss [...] (SBU) Mendoza Province Governor-elect Celso Jaque said his main challenge as governor will be to improve provincial security and to upgrade education infrastructure and standards. In a cordial November 8 meeting with Ambassador, Jaque also acknowledged poor prison conditions in his province, w [...] | 2007-11-19 11:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GTIP SNAR TSPL SOCI ECON ENRG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2241 | ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY'S ABAD ON CRISTINA GOVERNMENT, TAX [...] (SBU) Alberto Abad, head of Argentina's customs and revenue authority, AFIP, sees key economic challenges facing the incoming Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration as re-inserting Argentina into global capital markets, dealing with inflation, reducing the heavy burden of state sub [...] | 2007-11-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ETRD ECON KTFN |
07BUENOSAIRES2251 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 1 - 16, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be i [...] | 2007-11-21 19:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2263 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT GIVES REVEALING INTERVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Notoriously inaccessible to the media, Argentina's president-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) gave a lengthy interview to left-of-center, pro-government and often anti-U.S. daily "Pagina 12." The broad range of topics included her political attitudes; [...] | 2007-11-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON KPAO AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2267 | Argentina: Kirchners Appoint Loyalists to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the Ministers set, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner (NK),are now filling key Congressional slots with loyalists. Sources close to the Kirchners have publicly revealed that Senate President Pro-Tempore Jose Pampuro, Se [...] | 2007-11-29 11:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2271 | Argentina's New Economy Minister Faces Daunting Policy [...] (SBU) Incoming Economy Minister Martin Lousteau will replace Miguel Peirano following the December 10 inauguration of President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK). The new Minister is a well-regarded 36-year old banker whose poise, intelligence and discretion reportedly caught CFK's ey [...] | 2007-11-30 07:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PINR |
07BUENOSAIRES2279 | FLORIDA GOVERNOR MEETS VP DURING QUICK VISIT TO ARGENTINA [...] Florida Governor Charlie Crist made a short visit to Argentina on November 8 during a swing through South America. His delegation included his Chief of Staff, George Lemieux; the Vice Chairman of Enterprise Florida, Tom Kunz (CEO of Suntrust Bank Florida); the CEO of Enterprise Florida, John [...] | 2007-12-03 09:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OVIP PREL BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2291 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SAIEGH CASE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On November 29, the Ambassador met with Secretary for Human Rights Eduardo Luis Duhalde to raise the SIPDIS case of Argentine citizen Eduardo Saeigh, a Jewish Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and dispossessed of a bank he owned during Argentina's 1976-83 [...] | 2007-12-04 19:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2292 | INCOMING ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER PRIORITIZES [...] (C) Incoming GOA Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, in a December 3 meeting with Ambassador, said his initial priorities will be to resolve the longstanding Paris Club impasse and to take concrete steps to improve Argentina's investment climate to attract needed FDI. Lousteau introduced Hugo S [...] | 2007-12-04 20:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON EFIN ETRD |
07BUENOSAIRES2312 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 19 - December 3, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...] | 2007-12-07 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2313 | Argentina Imposes New Mining Export Tax [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOA has imposed a comprehensive 5-10% tax on mineral exports as one of a number of recent measures designed to boost Argentina's primary fiscal surplus. The measure represents a significant departure from Argentina's 1993-era mining law, which includes provisions for royalt [...] | 2007-12-10 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV ENRG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2317 | BANCO DEL SUR LAUNCHED IN BUENOS AIRES DECEMBER 9 [...] (C) As his last official act in office, President Nestor Kirchner hosted five other South American Presidents for the December 9 signing of the "Founding Act of the Bank of the South" (Banco del Sur). In their public remarks, the Presidents and President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner e [...] | 2007-12-10 18:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR BL BR CO EC PA UY VE |
07BUENOSAIRES232 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE VISITS CORDOBA, ARGENTINA'S [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Ambassador Wayne used a two-day trip to Cordoba, widely considered Argentina's second city, to build ties with provincial administrators, U.S. companies operating locally, cu [...] | 2007-02-06 18:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BESP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2327 | ARGENTINA: HIGHLIGHTS OF INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY THE NEW [...] Summary and Introduction: At her December 10 swearing-in, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) thanked her husband/predecessor for getting Argentina back on its feet after the devastating 2001-02 crisis. She vowed to deepen his center-left economic programs to create jobs and reduc [...] | 2007-12-12 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2345 | ARGENTINE FUROR CONTINUES OVER U.S. ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) The GOA has repeatedly suspended Ministerial-level contacts and has cut off some law enforcement contacts with the USG in wake of the continuing furor (ref a) over DOJ allegations that $800,000 intercepted August 4 by Argentine officials was a BRV cash contribution for Cristina Kirchner's (CFK) [...] | 2007-12-14 19:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR CJAN ECON ASEC KJUS VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2352 | Argentina: Debt and Investment Issues Discussed with Labor [...] (SBU) Secretary of Labor Chao, in a December 12 meeting with incoming Finance Secretary Hugo Secondini and Argentina's proposed new Ambassador to the U.S. Hector Timerman, emphasized the importance of addressing Paris Club arrears as a first step in regularizing Argentina's access to internatio [...] | 2007-12-18 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN BEXP OVIP VE |
07BUENOSAIRES2353 | Argentina: Secretary of Labor Chao Talks Investment Climate [...] (SBU) Secretary of Labor Chao met December 10 with representatives of Citibank, IBM, and Wal-Mart, all major U.S. service sector employers in Argentina. Company reps highlighted their profitable operations here, praised the caliber of Argentina's labor pool, and agreed that rapid expansion of [...] | 2007-12-18 13:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN BEXP OVIP |
07BUENOSAIRES2354 | ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR THE U.S. ITC REPORT ON [...] In response to Ref A, Post has compiled the following information on government policies in Argentina as they relate to the biofuels industry. Additional information is available in Ref C, which provided a response to a related request for information on industrial biotechnology (Ref B). Arge [...] | 2007-12-18 14:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OTRA |
07BUENOSAIRES2371 | Argentine Social Pacts: GoA Move to Expand Price/Wage [...] (SBU) The GoA is proposing negotiation of trilateral government, industry, and labor "Social Pacts" in ten key industry and service sectors to address public concern with rising inflation and provide a stable platform for needed new investment. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) ha [...] | 2007-12-20 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL ELAB EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2390 | Argentina: GoA Extends Airport Concession Contract, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 7, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, in one of his final moves before leaving office, approved a modification of the GOA concession contract with Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (AA2000),the company that operates the 33 major airports in Argentina. The AA2000 concessio [...] | 2007-12-27 18:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES242 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, COVERING [...] Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 16 -- February 2, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2007-02-07 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES245 | PLANNING MINISTER PROMISES TO ADDRESS US AVIATION COMPANIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wayne hosted a civil aviation roundtable luncheon on January 31 for top Government of Argentina (GOA) officials, and representatives from the six U.S. air carriers operating in Argentina. Participants discussed the March 2007 USG-GOA aviation liberalization talks to [...] | 2007-02-08 14:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AR ECON PGOV |
07BUENOSAIRES247 | ARGENTINA: IF THE FACTS DON,T FIT, PURGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Perceived heavy handed government intervention in the economy took on a more serious turn with last week's firing of the chief officer responsible for inflation data at the GoA's statistical agency (INDEC),an institution long admired for its independence and integrity. The media [...] | 2007-02-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES311 | PRESIDENT KIRCHNER'S FEB 21 VISIT TO VENEZUELA: ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) President Kirchner travels February 21 to Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela with an agenda that is principally economic: He will seek to confirm GoV assistance in placing up to $2 billion in new Argentine sovereign debt; finalize $135 million GoV rescue funding for SanCor, an emblematic Argentine d [...] | 2007-02-16 16:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
07BUENOSAIRES335 | ARGENTINA'S 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) In 2006, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Proposed legislative a [...] | 2007-02-21 16:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES360 | ARGENTINE PERSPECTIVE ON KIRCHNER'S VENEZUELA VISIT [...] (SBU) Deliverables from President Kirchner's February 21-22 visit to Venezuela included $750 million in bond financing, a $135 million rescue package for emblematic Argentine dairy cooperative SanCor, a raft of largely symbolic bilateral MOUs that included creation of a regional development ban [...] | 2007-02-23 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES376 | (C) U.S.- ARGENTINE RELATIONS: DR. JEKYL AND MR. [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner is trying to stake out a position for himself close to Chavez yet still working well with the U.S. on issues important to Argentina. With domestic political advantage and 2007 elections in mind, we expect Kirchner to continue the balanc [...] | 2007-02-27 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES383 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER TALKS PARIS CLUB, [...] (C) Economy Minister Felisa Miceli asked for U.S. assistance to resolve Argentina's arrears situation with Paris Club creditors during a February 9 meeting with Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon. Miceli explained that Argentina's lack of an IMF agreement blocked its access to a normal Paris Clu [...] | 2007-02-28 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES402 | U/S BURNS AND FM TAIANA DISCUSS REGIONAL STABILITY [...] (C) U.S. Participants: Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicolas Burns Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon Ambassador Early Anthony Wayne DCM Mike Matera William McIlhenny, Member, Policy Planning Council (S/P) Heide Bronke, P Special Assistant D [...] | 2007-03-01 21:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR CU HA VZ BZ |
07BUENOSAIRES411 | ARGENTINA: FEBRUARY 9 BURNS/SHANNON MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-02 21:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER AA ASEC ETRD IAEA CU HA |
07BUENOSAIRES413 | (C) KIRCHNER STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: A [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what amounts to an annual state of the union address, President Kirchner opened the GOA Congress's 2007 session on March 1 with a two hour, 15-minute speech, touting his administration's economic achievements, its "regained" political independence, and taking shots at the usua [...] | 2007-03-02 22:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES414 | AMBASSADORIAL TRAVELS IN PATAGONIA -- MAJOR US [...] (SBU) The fast-growing provinces that make up Argentine Patagonia are hungry for investment, particularly in energy and tourism, and they are eager to attract U.S. investors, tourists, and airlines. This according to the Governors of Argentina's three southernmost provinces -- Chubut, Santa C [...] | 2007-03-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON EINV PREL SENV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES44 | Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly, December 26, 2006, [...] Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review, covering the period December 26, 2006, through January 5, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landberg [...] | 2007-01-10 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD |
07BUENOSAIRES489 | CHAVEZ' ECONOMIC DELIVERABLES TO ARGENTINA -- [...] (SBU) Presidents Kirchner and Chavez oversaw the signing of a number of bilateral economic accords and commercial agreements during Chavez' March 9 visit to Argentina (reftels). This was the "substantive" side of Chavez' visit to Buenos Aries and the focus for the GoA. The two Presidents agr [...] | 2007-03-14 18:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ENRG EAGR ETRD AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES503 | G-8 AMBASSADORS WANT TO HANG TOUGH ON PARIS CLUB [...] (C) The German Embassy hosted a March 13 meeting of Ambassadors representing Argentina's top ten Paris Club creditors. Spain justified its bilateral treatment of its 2001 loan to Argentina, but promised solidarity on other bilateral debt. Participants generally agreed that: 1) an IMF comfort [...] | 2007-03-15 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES505 | PARIS CLUB STILL IN THE NEWS IN ARGENTINA, AND GOA [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke March 14 with Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez to clarify Fernandez' statement to the press that Argentina was "very close" to concluding a Paris Club deal. The Ambassador noted that negotiations were stalled and big differences remained over the role of the IMF. Fern [...] | 2007-03-15 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES518 | GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA CREATES NEW CIVIL AVIATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Last night, President Kirchner, in a dramatic gesture, announced his signing of a decree creating a new National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC),which will eventually take civil aviation control from the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Planning's Secretary of Transp [...] | 2007-03-16 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES54 | ARGENTINA'S RIO MERCOSUR SUMMIT PRIORITIES [...] (C) President Chavez's inaugural comments and nationalization of key industries have cast a shadow on Argentina's participation in the upcoming January 18-19 Mercosur Summit in Rio. Key GoA officials have commented that "Venezuela is not the model" for Argentina or for Mercosur. Venezuela's [...] | 2007-01-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES540 | U.S. INVESTORS ON ARGENTINA: BOOM CONTINUING BUT [...] (SBU) U.S. executives predicted Argentina's economic boom would continue through 2007 and 2008, during the Ambassador's March 7 lunch for Hector Morales, USED to the IDB. Representatives of major U.S. financial, energy, and agroindustrial companies operating in Argentina agreed that the growth [...] | 2007-03-21 17:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
07BUENOSAIRES549 | IDB's ARGENTINA STRATEGY [...] (SBU) With $8 billion in approved credits, Argentina is the IDB's single largest creditor. IDB Argentine Country Director Daniel Oliveira told the Ambassador during a March 20 meeting that this Argentine portfolio concentration will likely increase in the short term given Argentina's temporari [...] | 2007-03-21 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES55 | ARGENTINA'S RIO MERCOSUR SUMMIT PRIORITIES [...] (C) President Chavez's inaugural comments and nationalization of key industries have cast a shadow on Argentina's participation in the upcoming January 18-19 Mercosur Summit in Rio. Key GoA officials have commented that "Venezuela is not the model" for Argentina or for Mercosur. Venezuela's [...] | 2007-01-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES56 | ARGENTINA'S POST-CRISIS TRADE BOOM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Since the economic crisis of 2001/2, Argentine trade has grown quickly, and much more so than the economy overall. Total two-way trade has risen 85.0% since 2003. Argentina's leading trade partner remains Brazil, followed by the EU as a whole, and bilaterally by the U.S. and Ch [...] | 2007-01-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES618 | CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE [...] This is an Action Request -- See Paras 2, 4, 8 and 17. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. Argentina is a Latin American leader in Conta [...] | 2007-03-30 20:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES619 | CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE [...] This is an Action Request for the Departments of Energy (Paras. 2, 8) and Treasury (Paras. 4, 17). ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. A [...] | 2007-03-30 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES621 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER SEES WAY AHEAD ON [...] (C) Summary: "Let's put recent events behind us and move forward on our positive agenda" Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana told Ambassador Wayne March 29, offering no rebuttal to the Ambassador's conveyance of Washington's serious displeasure with the GoA decision to allow Chavez's March 9 anti-US [...] | 2007-03-30 20:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MARR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES634 | AMBASSADOR'S IT SECTOR ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted an information technology (IT) roundtable for Argentine country managers of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Intel, Avaya, Dell, AMD, and Cisco. [...] | 2007-04-04 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS AR |
07BUENOSAIRES639 | AMBASSADOR'S IT SECTOR ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution --------- Summary --------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted an information technology (IT) roundtable for the Argentine country managers of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Intel, Avaya, Dell, AMD, a [...] | 2007-04-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS AR |
07BUENOSAIRES642 | ARGENTINE FINANCE SECRETARY CHODOS ON MEETINGS [...] (C) GoA Finance Secretary Sergio Chodos and Finance Undersecretary Alejandra Scharf discussed with Econoffs on March 27 their impressions of Chodos' March 18 bilat in Guatemala with U.S. Treasury officials. Chodos expressed Economic Minister Felisa Miceli's interest in meeting with Treasury S [...] | 2007-04-05 15:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES65 | ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS LEGACY: FIRST IN ICSID [...] (SBU) Now, five years after Argentina,s December 2001 economic implosion and the largest sovereign default in world history, considerable attention remains focused on over $20 billion in outstanding claims by holders of defaulted Argentine bonds. Less well appreciated is the over $13 billion [...] | 2007-01-12 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EFIN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES66 | Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review, covering the period January 8 - 12, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2007-01-16 19:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ELAB ENRG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES675 | SPANISH AMBASSADOR ESTRELLA ON REPSOL, RADARS AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Ambassador met April 4 with Spanish Ambassador to Argentina Estrella (protect). Estrella had recently been the target of false leaks to the daily paper Clarin which alleged that President Kirchner h [...] | 2007-04-10 19:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR SP KSTC KFPC |
07BUENOSAIRES680 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS BILAT WITH [...] (C) On April 9, Economy Minister Felisa Miceli requested Ambassador's support in arranging a bilat with Treasury Secretary Paulson during upcoming IMF/World Bank meetings to SIPDIS discuss Paris Club and other bilateral economic issues. While still rejecting any IMF role, Miceli and Finance [...] | 2007-04-10 21:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES70 | FM TAIANA AND PLANNING MINISTER DEVIDO ON MERCOSUR [...] (C) Summary. Planning Minister and influential presidential advisor Julio De Vido told Ambassador January 15 that Bolivia's membership application is the most important item for the January 19 Mercosur Summit in Rio, but that Brazil-Argentine relations will dominate substantive economic dia [...] | 2007-01-17 12:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EINV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES727 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR IBM CEO, AND VISITS [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution ---------- Summary ---------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted a roundtable discussion on April 3 for IBM CEO Sam Palmisano who traveled to Argentina to visit the company's rapidly growing subsidiary, which is expandi [...] | 2007-04-13 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES750 | AMBASSADOR'S ROUNDTABLE WITH U.S. PHARMACEUTICALS [...] (U) The following cable contains business-confidential information and should not be distributed via internet. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted a roundtable for U.S.-based pharmaceutical firms doing business in Argentina, including Pfizer; Merck, Sharp & Dohme; Bristol [...] | 2007-04-18 20:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES791 | FOREIGN BANKS SEE STRONG GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] (SBU) Representatives of foreign banks operating in Argentina praised the GoA's prudent fiscal policy, predicted at least two more years of high growth, and discounted the possibility of an external shock-led crisis anytime soon, during an April 10 lunch for the Ambassador hosted by the Argent [...] | 2007-04-23 21:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES792 | AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (U) The following cable contains business-confidential information and should not be distributed via internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Association of Argentine Businessmen (AEA) Directors, a who's who of Argentina's business elite, are generally upbeat on Argentina's medium ter [...] | 2007-04-24 10:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES801 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT ARGUES CASE FOR [...] (C) During an April 18 meeting to discuss the May 15 visit of Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner to Argentina, Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado asked for Ambassador's help in explaining to Washington that the Argentine economy is still going through a post-crisis transition [...] | 2007-04-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES831 | Argentina's Auto Industry Roars Ahead; Ford and GM leaders [...] (U) Argentina's auto industry is in full throttle. In 2006, it enjoyed its best year since 1998 - for production, new and used car sales, exports and imports - and all categories registered strong increases from 2005. With investments in 2007-2008 totaling at least $720 million, the future lo [...] | 2007-04-27 19:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD AR BZ VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES844 | SKANSKA GAS PIPELINE SCANDAL ROCKS KIRCHNER [...] (C) A blossoming corruption scandal is coming closer to linking kickbacks from contractors on a natural gas pipeline expansion public works project to senior GoA Planning Ministry and energy regulatory officials. Multiple judicial investigations and relentless media and opposition party atte [...] | 2007-04-30 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV ECON ENRG PREL SW AR |
07BUENOSAIRES85 | EMBASSY ADVOCACY WITH MINISTER DE VIDO ON BEHALF OF U.S. [...] As part of ongoing Embassy efforts to advocate on behalf of U.S. companies in Argentina, the Ambassador asked Planning Minister De Vido to participate in investor roundtables for U.S. electricity/gas and civil aviation sector players. Ambassador also noted (1) Turner Broadcasting's recent $23 [...] | 2007-01-18 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
07BUENOSAIRES861 | EMBASSY 2007 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY OUTREACH [...] (SBU) For World Intellectual Property Day, Embassy Buenos Aires used editorials and a press event to bring the problem of piracy to the Argentines' attention. On April 26, prominent editorials appeared in two morning papers and that afternoon, in an event that received broad press coverage, th [...] | 2007-05-03 11:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON KPAS AR |
07BUENOSAIRES927 | POST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) On April 30, USTR announced that Argentina would remain on the Special 301 Priority Watch List for the thirteenth year in a row (Ref A). Intellectual property (IP) protection is significantly lacking in Argentina: Piracy rates of music CDs and movies are above South American averages and [...] | 2007-05-11 19:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES935 | Ambassador in Mendoza Province - Students and Youth, [...] (U) In an active and well-publicized May 3-4 visit to the central-western province of Mendoza, the Ambassador held a successful youth outreach event at the Mendoza Binational Center, where he awarded scholarships to students to study English; met with Mendoza Governor, and possibly future vice [...] | 2007-05-14 08:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG BEXP PREL OTRA TPHY TSPA SCUL OIIP |
07BUENOSAIRES95 | SCENESETTER: USTR AMBASSADOR VERONEAU'S JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires warmly welcomes your January 26 visit to meet with the Ministers of Economy and Foreign Affairs and with members of the U.S. business community. Your arrival, immediately following your FTA consultations in Chile and your TIFA signing in Uruguay, will spark considera [...] | 2007-01-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR AR EFIN OECD |
07BUENOSAIRES958 | ARGENTINE VICE PRESIDENT SCIOLI ON U.S. RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and DCM had a very productive three-hour discussion with Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli. Scioli said he foresaw a natural partnership between Argentina, Latin America and the United States in the economic development and integration of the hemisphere and base [...] | 2007-05-15 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES978 | SKANSKA SCANDAL TAKES DOWN FIRST TWO OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Skanska-gate has its first two official victims. On May 16, Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez announced the firing of the President of ENARGAS (the GoA's natural gas regulatory authority) and the Manager of Nacion Fideicomisos (the public trust established to structure pri [...] | 2007-05-17 21:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV ENRG PREL ECON SW AR |
07BUJUMBURA211 | WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WOLFOWITZ VISITS BURUNDI [...] (U) Summary. During a March visit to Burundi, the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz discussed with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza the World Bank's proposed $130 million poverty-reduction grant and stressed the need for increased support to the private sector. Mr. Wolfowitz exp [...] | 2007-03-23 10:24:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON EAID BY |
07BUJUMBURA307 | BURUNDI HOSTS THE RELAUNCH OF THE ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: Representatives from the Great Lakes member states of Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo convened in Bujumbura on April 16 to open dialogue for the Economic Community of the Great Lakes States (CEPGL). The CEPGL is relaunched after 13 years of inactivity [...] | 2007-04-25 12:41:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA37 | NEW BURUNDIAN CABINET APPOINTMENTS [...] Burundian President Nkurunziza on January 23 announced the following Cabinet appointments: -- Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Breeding: Jean de Dieu Mutabazi -- Minister of Commerce and Industry: Donatien Nijimbere -- Minister of Planning, Development and National Reconstruction: [...] | 2007-02-03 11:41:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR ECON BY |
07BUJUMBURA467 | BURUNDI HOSTS TANZANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete made his first state visit to Burundi June 19-21 in answer to President Nkurunziza's November 2006 visit to Tanzania. Kikwete's visit immediately followed talks in Dar-Es-Salaam between President Nkurunziza and FNL leader Agathon Rwasa. Tanzania [...] | 2007-06-25 15:27:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PHUM PINR PREF PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA474 | SOLICITING BURUNDI'S SUPPORT FOR ICAO ASSEMBLY [...] (U) DCM on June 26 delivered reftel demarches soliciting Burundian support for U.S. positions in the upcoming ICAO General Assembly in Montreal to the Burundian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for International Organizations, Ambassador Adolphe Nahayo. Ambassador Nahayo did not offer for [...] | 2007-06-26 15:24:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD BY |
07BUJUMBURA714 | IMF GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BURUNDI 2008 BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) representative to Burundi called a meeting of the principal donor representatives to review the progress the Government of Burundi (GOB) is making in terms of meeting conditional provisions of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. The ag [...] | 2007-10-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PARM PREL PGOV BY |
07CAIRO1125 | EGYPTIANS REVIEWING DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff and Treasury Attach made reftel demarche to Amal Mourad, Foreign Ministry Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, on April 16. Mourad was well-briefed on the issue of Iraqi debt and knew Finance Minister Boutros-Ghali had discussed the issue with Iraqi authorities and Treasury [...] | 2007-04-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EG IZ |
07CAIRO1204 | EGYPT PLEASED WITH MALIKI VISIT, MUBARAK EXPRESSES [...] (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is in Egypt April 22-24 to meet the Egyptian leadership and to begin the process of normalizing strained relations, overcoming mutual suspicions, discussing commercial opportunities, and preparing for upcoming international meetings on Iraq. Maliki has [...] | 2007-04-23 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS ECON EFIN EG IZ |
07CAIRO1258 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO SHARM EL [...] (C) PM Maliki,s April 22-24 visit to Cairo marked an important warming in Egyptian-Iraqi relations, despite deep and lingering mutual suspicions. Mubarak, PM Nazif, and other officials warmly received Maliki, reassured him of Egypt's support, and set a positive tone for the May 3-4 discussion [...] | 2007-04-29 16:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON IZ EG |
07CAIRO1279 | DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF RESPONDS TO [...] (C) The Ambassador had the opportunity on April 30 to discuss with Arab League Secretary General Moussa a recent Congressional Resolution on Darfur that explicitly criticizes the Arab League over the conflict there. Moussa conveyed that he was personally affronted by the resolution, and said [...] | 2007-05-02 09:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON UNSC MOPS EG SU |
07CAIRO1283 | EGYPT LABOR UPDATE: GOE SHUTS DOWN LABOR NGO, [...] (SBU) The GOE's closure of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS),combined with recent public statements, may indicate its tolerance of ongoing wildcat strikes is eroding. Some public sector brickworks employees, dairy workers, textile workers, and garbage men are currently [...] | 2007-05-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1338 | ROSY REPORTS OF NEW INVESTMENT IN EGYPTIAN TEXTILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent press report of new Jordanian investment in the Egyptian textile industry is indicative of a trend of increasing FDI in Egypt and expansion of the textile industry in particular, as foreign investors eye the rapidly expanding Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) program for [...] | 2007-05-07 13:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CH JO EG TU |
07CAIRO1366 | EGYPT EXPECTS NO ACTION AGAINST USG ON GATS [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Waleed El Nozahay, head of the WTO department in the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry, on May 10. El Nozahay said that he was familiar with the issue and that he did not expect the GOE to pursue a claim under Article XXI of the General Agreem [...] | 2007-05-10 10:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO EG |
07CAIRO1382 | ROSY REPORTS OF NEW INVESTMENT IN EGYPTIAN TEXTILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent press report of new Jordanian investment in the Egyptian textile industry is indicative of a trend of increasing FDI in Egypt and expansion of the textile industry in particular, a foreign investors eye the rapidly expanding Quaified Industrial Zone (QIZ) program for du [...] | 2007-05-10 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CH JO EG TU |
07CAIRO1407 | EU-EGYPTIAN TRADE REGIME COULD CREATE HURDLES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trade between Egypt and the European Union has increased dramatically during the last three years, thanks in part to lower trade barriers under Egypt's Association Agreement with the EU. However, US-Egyptian trade has also expanded during that time and continues to grow robustl [...] | 2007-05-13 14:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EG |
07CAIRO1419 | GOVERNOR PLANS FOR A CLEANER, GREENER CAIRO [...] (U) Cairo Governor Abdel-Azim Wazir presented his vision for grappling with Cairo's burgeoning population, congested traffic, and environmental degradation in an April 30 meeting with former Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner and Management Counselor. Wazir's vision will be codified in a plan [...] | 2007-05-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECON SOCI EG |
07CAIRO1448 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY PROMOTE [...] Summary. Government of Egypt and civil society representatives hosted two successful events in recognition of the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week, April 23-29. Several hundred participants attended events at the World Health Organization's regional office on April 22, and an ex [...] | 2007-05-17 09:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN AID UNGA WHO EG |
07CAIRO1462 | EGYPT BUYS KAZAKH WHEAT TO CUT LOSSES ON SENSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent Egyptian trade mission to Kazakhstan was aimed in part at securing low-cost Kazakh wheat for Egypt's highly subsidized bread. Egyptian imports of higher-quality U.S. wheat have declined in recent years as the GOE sought to reduce its losses on "baladi" bread, the sine [...] | 2007-05-20 03:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR PINR EG |
07CAIRO1488 | EGYPTIANS DISMISS IDEA TO OPEN IRANIAN-EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: Amid continuing press speculation about a warming in Iranian-Egyptian relations, Egyptian trade and diplomatic officials dismiss the likelihood of the establishment of an Iranian-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce. A senior MFA official told PolCons separately that the only person who [...] | 2007-05-21 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EG IR |
07CAIRO1531 | EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER HINTS AT BROADER POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a pointed and wide-ranging speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Rachid called for reform of Egyptian education, infrastructure, energy policy, and other areas far removed from his trade portfolio. The ambitious speech encoura [...] | 2007-05-24 06:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PINR PREL EG |
07CAIRO154 | EGYPT: 19TH HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASE SHOWS NO [...] (SBU) Scientists at NAMRU-3 reported to Emboff on January 21 that the H5N1 avian influenza virus responsible for the death of an Egyptian woman on January 19 does not contain the genetic mutation (N294S) that shows resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). (Note: On January 16, alarm bells sounded [...] | 2007-01-22 05:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL WHO EG |
07CAIRO1542 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE [...] (SBU) Representative Price, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Egypt. You are scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Speaker of the People's Assembly Ahmed Fathy Sorour and other parliamentarians. You will also mee [...] | 2007-05-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAL IAEA EG IZ SO SU |
07CAIRO1595 | LABOR STRIKES: GOE APPROACH UNSUCCESSFUL IN [...] (SBU) Unsanctioned industrial actions continue to spread throughout Egypt. The GOE thus far has chosen to deal with the various strikes on a case-by-case basis rather than pursuing a broader labor dialogue, a tactic that has been successful in conciliating some striking workers, but cannot add [...] | 2007-05-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1722 | EGYPT'S EXPECTED CHANGES IN EXPORT SUPPORT [...] (U) During a meeting on May 23 with key economic advisors and export industry leaders, Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid announced he will consider reorganizing the Export Support Fund, according to press accounts. The Export Support Fund is designed to increase the quantity and qua [...] | 2007-06-07 11:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EG |
07CAIRO1737 | EGYPTIANS WELCOME PALESTINIAN TRADE, GAZA EXPORT [...] SUMMARY: (C) EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE-SECTOR CONTACTS SAY THEY WELCOME INCREASED TRADE WITH PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING A TRADE CORRIDOR FOR GAZA EXPORTS THROUGH EGYPT. MERCHANTS IN THE NORTH SINAI CAPITAL OF EL-ARISH ARE ALREADY DOING SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS WITH PALESTINIANS WHO MANAGE TO P [...] | 2007-06-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO1738 | UPDATE ON CUSTOMS ISSUES AT RAFAH BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met on May 31 with Egyptian officials at the Rafah border. The officials indicated that the border opens only infrequently, taxing border staff's ability to process the large number of travelers attempting to cross during these short openings. Gazans who cross during [...] | 2007-06-07 15:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO175 | RAFAH BORDER GATES RE-OPEN TEMPORARILY; EGYPT MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts at the Egypt/Gaza border confirmed on January 23 that both the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah and the Palestinian border terminal opened on January 22 for civilian crossings, and would remain open on January 23. The contacts said that approximately 1,600 Palestinians [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAID KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO176 | LEBANON, PARIS III CONFERENCE: EGYPTIAN [...] (C) MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, Amal Mourad, told poloff on January 22 that Egyptian Finance Minister Yousef Boutros-Ghali would lead Egypt's delegation to the upcoming Paris III conference on Lebanon, departing Cairo on January 24 and returning on January 26. Boutros-Ghal [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EG LE |
07CAIRO1825 | EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS QUESTION QIZ PROGRAM [...] (U) More than 140 members of Egypt's People's Assembly recently petitioned the government to reevaluate the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement, according to June 8 press accounts. The parliamentarians requested an analysis of the economic performance of the agreement since 2004, when [...] | 2007-06-14 11:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IS EG |
07CAIRO1828 | NOMINATION OF HP EGYPT FOR SECRETARY'S CORPORATE [...] HP Egypt is actively addressing the pre-eminent economic problems in Egypt, both through its business practices and direct support to build the skills of the Egyptian workforce, thereby contributing to Egypt's sustainable economic development. HP Egypt not only provides funds to directly ass [...] | 2007-06-14 12:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON EINV ELAB ETRD EAID EG |
07CAIRO1831 | ITALY AND EGYPT RENEW DEBT SWAP AGREEMENT [...] On June 3, 2007, Egypt and Italy renewed their "Debt for Development Swap" agreement which converts bilateral debt owed to Italy into Egyptian pounds to be used for development projects. The program, inaugurated in 2001, cancels Official Development Assistance (ODA) bilateral debt in exchange [...] | 2007-06-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON POL AID EG |
07CAIRO1834 | NEGATIVE MEDIA SURROUNDS U.S. WHEAT SHIPMENT [...] (U) On May 27, 2007, the vessel Fu Zhou Hai arrived at Damietta Port in Egypt carrying 62,010.19 metric tons of U.S. soft red winter wheat. The cargo was inspected by Egyptian Quarantine authorities, and live insects were found, indicating possible irregularities in the fumigation procedures [...] | 2007-06-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG |
07CAIRO1877 | EGYPT LABOR: STRIKES ONGOING, GOE REFUTES ILO [...] (SBU) Although no broad-based alternative worker movement has yet to coalesce, the Kefaya movement's actions in solidarity with striking textile workers in Mansoura could hint at future coordination. Strong GOE rebukes greeted the release of an ILO report that cited employment discrimination [...] | 2007-06-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1888 | FITCH UPGRADES EGYPT'S CREDIT RATING [...] (U) In a press release issued June 18, Fitch Ratings upgraded Egypt's Long-term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) Outlook from Stable to Positive, but maintained the overall rating of "BB+." Fitch also maintained the Long-term Local Currency IDR at "BBB" with a Stable Outlook, the [...] | 2007-06-20 12:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO1890 | REMITTANCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF MIGRATION [...] (U) Remittances constitute the third largest source of hard currency income in Egypt, after Suez Canal revenues and tourism receipts. Most remittances come from the U.S., but in the last few years, a growing percentage has come from workers in Gulf countries. Workers in Gulf countries tend t [...] | 2007-06-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO1932 | FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORM: AUDITING ISSUES [...] (SBU) The GOE's progress on meeting the remaining benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU, signed in 2005, has been slow. Four hundred and twenty-five million dollars is tied to completion of benchmarks to improve the transparency and soundness of the banking system. To determine if these be [...] | 2007-06-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
07CAIRO1988 | EGYPT: MORE CORRUPTION CHARGES, AD HOC RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: A recent report of a Shura Council member arrested for smuggling, corruption accusations in the People's Assembly by a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) legislator against businessmen affiliated with the National Democratic Party (NDP),and suspicions about the bidding process for a govern [...] | 2007-07-01 11:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR PINR EG |
07CAIRO2015 | AMBASSADOR URGES GOE TO PROVIDE DEBT RELIEF FOR [...] (C) Meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Ambassador urged the GOE to restart negotiations to provide debt relief for Iraq and move toward fulfilling its commitment under the International Compact on Iraq (ref A). 2. (C) Nazif responded that the GOE is still considering the iss [...] | 2007-07-02 10:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL IZ EG |
07CAIRO2111 | RUMORS CONTINUE ABOUT SHIPMENT OF U.S. WHEAT [...] (U) The Egyptian media reported on June 28 that the Ministry of Trade and Industry had received a "refund" of the cost of a 62,000 ton shipment of U.S. wheat that was denied entry into Egypt by the Egyptian Quarantine Authority because of alleged insect infestation (reftel). The report quoted [...] | 2007-07-10 03:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG |
07CAIRO2148 | MB PLATFORM CALLS FOR "MIXED" PUBLIC-PRIVATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) In preparation for the Shura Council elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) issued a platform that included an extensive economic component. The document, our first in-depth look at the MB's economic views, criticizes capitalism and free markets in general, particularly the GOE's econom [...] | 2007-07-11 10:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO2167 | 2007/2008 BUDGET APPROVED [...] (U) The Egyptian budget covering fiscal year 2007/2008 (July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008) was recently approved and the preliminary results from the just-ended fiscal year were released as well. Revenue collection remained robust (although not as strong as last year) and growth of expenditures tapere [...] | 2007-07-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2174 | EGYPT: EDUCATION REFORM LAW PASSES, AMIDST PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 21, President Mubarak signed the "Teacher's Cadre" education law establishing a new system for hiring, training, and promoting teachers. The change is aimed at reforming Egypt's broken education system, where teachers are poorly paid and trained and not promoted accordi [...] | 2007-07-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMPI KISL KPAO ECON EG |
07CAIRO2175 | FINANCIAL SECTOR: INSURANCE SECTOR UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Egyptian Insurance Holding Company will move ahead to privatize the insurance sector by combining the main public companies into one large "champion" company that will be privatized in phases. The GOE will continue to own a real estate insurance company, a "national" company that wi [...] | 2007-07-12 14:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2188 | IN SURPRISE MOVE, GOE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO SELL BANQUE DU [...] (SBU) On July 8, Egypt's Central Bank announced that it would sell the publicly-owned Banque du Caire, the third largest bank in the country. The announcement caught many off guard, as the GOE had previously indicated it would not privatize any other public banks after last year's sale of Ban [...] | 2007-07-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
07CAIRO2190 | GOE'S NATIONAL POPULATION COUNCIL REORGANIZED WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOE recently announced the reorganization of Egypt's National Population Council (NPC) to coordinate GOE-led family planning and population assistance activities. NPC programming has stagnated in past years as a result of weakened authority, inefficient bureaucracy, and a de [...] | 2007-07-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SOCI PGOV KWMN EG |
07CAIRO22 | EGYPT: UPDATE ON RECENT HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES [...] (SBU) Summary. Scientists at NAMRU-3 conducted a detailed examination of the H5N1 avian influenza virus responsible for the deaths of three family members in late December in the Gharbiya governorate (ref A). Early results show that the virus has undergone mutations and acquired some chara [...] | 2007-01-04 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG |
07CAIRO2202 | IRAQI CENTRAL BANKERS RECEIVE TRAINING IN CAIRO [...] (U) During the week of July 15-20 the IMF is providing training to 25 officials from the Iraqi Central Bank at the offices of the Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI),the Central Bank of Egypt's primary banking training facility. The training is part of the IMF response to U.N. Security Council R [...] | 2007-07-17 14:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2280 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 31 VISIT OF SECRETARIES [...] (C) The Egyptians welcome the joint visit of the Secretaries of State and Defense as a clear signal of mutual SIPDIS recognition of shared strategic interests, despite recent highly publicized bilateral tensions. President Mubarak and ministers Aboul Gheit, Tantawi, and Soliman, expect the [...] | 2007-07-24 17:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | ECON EFIN KPAL MARR PGOV PREL SU EG IS IZ IR |
07CAIRO2290 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) The Ambassador, A/USAID Director John Groarke, USAID Strategy, Coordination and Support Director Steffi Meyer and econoff met with Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga on July 19 to discuss ESF. Aboul Naga noted that if ESF levels decline to $150-200 million annually be [...] | 2007-07-25 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EG |
07CAIRO2307 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES SALE OF BANQUE DU CAIRE [...] (SBU) The Economic Committee of the People's Assembly approved the Central Bank's plan to sell the state-owned Banque du Caire, despite strong criticism from opposition parties. Criticism focused on a perceived lack of transparency, as CBE had previously stated it would not sell any public ba [...] | 2007-07-26 16:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
07CAIRO233 | KEFAYA DEMONSTRATES AGAINST RISING INFLATION [...] (U) Opposition movement "Kefaya" held a demonstration on January 18, the 30th anniversary of the 1977 Bread Intifada, to protest increases in prices of basic commodities and express solidarity with workers from the Nile Delta towns of Helwan and Mahalla, who went on strike in December over pro [...] | 2007-01-28 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2438 | SOLICITATION FOR OVERSEAS FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS [...] FULL NAME AND TITLE 2. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER 3. PHONE NUMBER AND SUPERVISOR 4. CURRENT POST OF DUTY 5. FAX NUMBER IF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT PROGRAM COORDINATOR, SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT DENNIS LINDSEY BY FIREBIRD (DENNIS LINDSEY) OR TELEPHONE AT 703-632 [...] | 2007-08-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS KDEM EFIN ECON ASEC AMGT OTRA EG |
07CAIRO2440 | EGYPT: GROWING ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian-Chinese relations have expanded over the last several years, primarily in the economic realm. Egypt is courting Chinese trade and investment but is wary that China could undercut Egypt in low-cost, labor-intensive sectors, complicating Egyptian efforts to combat persistent [...] | 2007-08-07 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV ECON CH EG |
07CAIRO2470 | EGYPT TO AMEND ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW, EXPAND SCOPE [...] (U) Recent press reports indicate that the GOE is planning to amend the 2002 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law to re-enforce the authority of the Central Bank's Money Laundering Combating Unit (MLCU) to handling economic and financial crimes connected to terrorist finance or threatening the nati [...] | 2007-08-12 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PTER EG |
07CAIRO2474 | 2007 527 REPORT FOR EGYPT [...] a. Claimant A b. 2001 c. In June 2001, the Alexandria Governorate took approximately 6,000 square meters from Claimant A's land (on which a factory had been built) to widen the adjoining highway. The Governorate's ensuing construction work also damaged a wall and some property. As [...] | 2007-08-12 05:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV KIDE EG |
07CAIRO2552 | WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION TO BANQUE DU CAIRE SALE [...] (U) Recent press reports claimed that the GOE had postponed indefinitely the selection of a sale advisor for Banque du Caire, due to public opposition to the sale. Central Bank officials denied these reports, and indicated that an advisor would be selected by the end of the month. Opposition [...] | 2007-08-16 12:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
07CAIRO2575 | BOEING SCORES SUCCESS IN EGYPT AIR LONG-HAUL [...] (SBU) Continuing the augmentation and upgrading of its long-haul fleet, Egypt Air has agreed to lease six Boeing 777-300R aircraft, with the possibility of a direct purchase or lease of two more. The decision follows shortly after the airline concluded an agreement with Airbus to lease two A33 [...] | 2007-08-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL EG |
07CAIRO2576 | BOEING SCORES SUCCESS IN EGYPT AIR LONG-HAUL [...] (SBU) Continuing the augmentation and upgrading of its long-haul fleet, Egypt Air has agreed to lease six Boeing 777-300R aircraft, with the possibility of a direct purchase or lease of two more. The decision follows shortly after the airline concluded an agreement with Airbus to lease two A33 [...] | 2007-08-19 14:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL EG |
07CAIRO2588 | WHEAT SHORTAGE? [...] (U) Shortfalls in wheat and flour have lead to rising prices and fears of a bread shortage in the coming weeks leading up to Ramadan. Media reports claim wheat reserves will not last through August, but GOE officials counter that supplies are sufficient to last until January 2008. Minister o [...] | 2007-08-20 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2620 | EGYPT: FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) After several months of waiting for the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to provide draft terms of reference (TORs) for international audit firms' work in the state-owned banks, we now have bilaterally-agreed TORs and the auditors can get down to business. This ends the worrisome delay in the [...] | 2007-08-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO2670 | EGYPTIANS REACT SHARPLY TO ESF REDUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Egyptian's strong reaction to diminished ESF levels reflects concern about political play on the new Israeli military assistance package. They are now trying for face-saving consultations. Ambassador Nabil Fahmy has been instructed to bring new ideas in de [...] | 2007-08-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL EAID ECON PGOV EG IS |
07CAIRO2692 | INVESTMENT MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RENEGOTIATING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GOE experts on bilateral investment treaties (BIT) are currently analyzing a USG proposal to update the US-Egypt BIT and plan to be ready for a technical discussion during a visit to Washington in late October, Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin told visiting USTR Director [...] | 2007-08-30 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EG |
07CAIRO2725 | SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN EGYPT: ELITES TAKING A TURN FOR [...] (C) Summary: An increased Islamic consciousness, a marked phenomenon for the past two decades among the lower and mid-echelons of Egyptian society, now appears to be on the rise among the country's upper class as well. This cable explores the burgeoning piety of Egypt's well-heeled, as seen [...] | 2007-09-06 13:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KISL SOCI ECON KWMN EG |
07CAIRO2726 | ECONOMIC REFORMS SHOWING RESULTS, BUT SLOWING [...] (U) Summary and introduction: Since 2004, the Nazif government has cut tariffs and tax rates, fixed the current exchange system and eliminated the black market, rationalized fiscal cash managements with its Single Treasury Account, partially privatized and recapitalized the banking sector, [...] | 2007-09-06 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2735 | EGYPTIAN HEALTH OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL ON IPR [...] (SBU) Summary: GOE health officials and advisors view many of the action items in the Special 301 Initiative for Egypt as "TRIPS plus," exceeding Egypt's obligations under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property agreement, and therefore feel no obligation to implement them, health [...] | 2007-09-06 15:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
07CAIRO2787 | MINISTER OF TRADE RACHID ON QIZ, WHEAT AND [...] (C) In a September 13 meeting with Ambassador, Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid confirmed reports we have heard from the Israeli embassy here that Egypt and Israel have agreed to reduce the required Israeli content in Egyptian exports from the QIZs from 11.7 to 10.5 perc [...] | 2007-09-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EG |
07CAIRO2805 | IRAQIS IN EGYPT FACE CHALLENGES OBTAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqis in Egypt are finding it difficult to obtain education, health services and job opportunities. More established Iraqi residents are depleting their savings, and newer arrivals are less wealthy than their predecessors. Although the GOE is publicly committed to providing ed [...] | 2007-09-17 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM PREF EG IZ |
07CAIRO2836 | SINAI: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Emboffs visited El Arish, capital of North Sinai governorate, September 12, to discuss economic development with local business leaders. Members of the North Sinai Businessmen's Association (NSBA) and the Al-Fawakhreya Association for Economic Development told Emboffs that the local eco [...] | 2007-09-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO2839 | Thirst on the Nile [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Although significant progress has been made in improving infrastructure for potable water and sanitation, including $3.3 billion in USAID assistance since 1977, poor maintenance due to poor management practices, combined with population pressures, mean that many [...] | 2007-09-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ECON PGOV SOCI EG |
07CAIRO2846 | OIL DISCOVERY IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (SBU) Egypt's Petroleum Minister is hailing a crude oil discovery in Upper Egypt as a potential economic savior for the region, but some industry experts, citing questions over recoverable reserves, quality, and local refining capability, have their doubts. Their skepticism meshes with broader [...] | 2007-09-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PINR EG |
07CAIRO2868 | IMF BULLISH ON EGYPT: ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The IMF recently concluded its annual Article IV visit to Egypt, issuing a preliminary report lauding the success of Egypt's macroeconomic reform. The report cited strong economic growth and a decline in unemployment as signs of the program's success. Inflation is a concern, but the spi [...] | 2007-09-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2872 | World Bank mulls timing and content of its next financial [...] (U) Summary: The World Bank continues to prepare its next large financial sector loan to Egypt, but is slowing presentation to the World Bank Board somewhat, pending resolution of the Banque du Caire privatization, among other conditions. World Bank staff senses some reform hesitation at the C [...] | 2007-09-24 07:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
07CAIRO2887 | LABOR UNREST RETURNS TO NILE DELTA [...] (SBU) Up to 24,000 workers at one of Egypt's largest public textile factories, Ghazl el Mehalla, have been on strike since September 23 demanding unpaid bonuses, pay increases, and changes in company and factory union leadership. The GOE has deemed the strike illegal although security interfe [...] | 2007-09-25 09:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PINR EG |
07CAIRO2889 | TRADE MINISTER'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid, a leader of the cabinet's economic reformers, has been hesitant this year to confront bureaucratic opposition to key reform priorities. At the same time, he has laid out a bold public vision for the future of economic reform in Egypt [...] | 2007-09-25 09:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD EAGR PINR PREL IS EG |
07CAIRO2903 | EGYPTIAN TEXTILE PRODUCTION INCREASING DESPITE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite increasing competition from China, the Egyptian textile and apparel industry is growing robustly thanks to Egypt's preferential trade agreements with Europe, the United States, and Turkey, as well as rising costs among its regional competitors. This message responds to Re [...] | 2007-09-26 12:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX EG |
07CAIRO2904 | DELTA AIRLINES TO ANNOUNCE NEW YORK-CAIRO NON-STOP [...] Cairo General Manager for Delta Air Lines Karim Nabhan told us that Delta plans to announce on September 26 the establishment of non-stop New York-Cairo-New York service beginning on June 4, 2008. The flight will operate 5 times per week (SU,M,TU,W,F from JFK and M,TU,W,TH,SA from Cairo) and [...] | 2007-09-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD ECON PREL EG |
07CAIRO2968 | NEW U.S.-EGYPT ESF CASH TRANSFER AGREEMENT: U.S. [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. and Egypt recently signed a new Grant Agreement totaling $400 million in ESF funds over the next three years. The funds will be disbursed directly to the GOE upon completion of mutually-agreed reforms in the areas of education, health and private sector development. Si [...] | 2007-10-04 11:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EG |
07CAIRO2983 | LABOR UNREST IN NILE DELTA SUBSIDES AFTER DEMANDS [...] (U) Striking workers at Egypt,s largest public-sector textile factory resumed work October 1, after successfully extracting concessions from GOE representatives. Over 24,000 workers from the Ghazl el Mehalla factory in the Nile delta city of Mehalla el Kubra walked off the job on September 23 [...] | 2007-10-08 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PINR EG |
07CAIRO3021 | RAMADAN HIGHLIGHTS EGYPTIANS' INFLATION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Egypt's overall inflation rate declined over the summer from a peak of 12% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March 2007, but ticked up again with the start of Ramadan in September. Some of the increase is attributable to new Consumer Price Index (CPI) methodology introduced at the beginning of Se [...] | 2007-10-11 09:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO3022 | EGYPT AND ISRAEL REQUEST USG TO EXPAND QIZ TO [...] (U) The GOE and Government of Israel are jointly requesting that USTR expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement to cover several cities in Upper Egypt. In a letter to USTR Schwab dated October 9, GOE Trade Minister Rachid Rachid and Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor El [...] | 2007-10-11 09:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL IS EG |
07CAIRO3023 | EGYPT AND ISRAEL AGREE TO LOWER ISRAELI QIZ [...] (U) The GOE and Government of Israel agreed on October 9 to reduce the required level of Israeli content in Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) exports to the United States. The agreement to lower the content requirement from 11.7 percent to 10.5 percent came in response to long-standing compla [...] | 2007-10-11 09:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL IS EG |
07CAIRO3097 | ANTI-COMPETITIVE FINDING TESTS EGYPT'S REGULATORY REGIME [...] (U) Summary: The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) recently released a report alleging anti-competitive collusion among 12 Egyptian cement producers. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) referred the companies to the Public Prosecutor for prosecution under Egypt's competition law. I [...] | 2007-10-22 07:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO313 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CLAIMS ARRESTS HURTING ECONOMY [...] (U) Recent postings on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) website (www.ikhwanweb.com) claim that the arrest of 29 prominent MB-affiliated businessmen (reftels) has negatively impacted Egypt's economy. The articles allege the arrests and subsequent freezing of assets of the MB-affiliated businessmen [...] | 2007-02-05 13:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KISL PGOV EG |
07CAIRO3219 | EYGPT'S ECONOMIC REFORMS DISCUSSED WITH THE AMBASSADOR [...] (U) The Ambassador hosted an economic roundtable on October 30 which included the IMF and World Bank representatives, as well as banking and private sector leaders. While noting the generally positive economic reforms to date, the group focused on many of Egypt's development challenges, includ [...] | 2007-11-07 12:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO3228 | THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: The November 3-6 General Conference of Egypt's ruling party held few surprises, with the main news of the event being a change to the party's mechanism for selecting a presidential candidate: a 45-member committee was formed, from among whose ranks will be chosen the National Dem [...] | 2007-11-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ENRG PINR EG |
07CAIRO3247 | EGYPT: AMBASSADOR GROSS DISCUSSES ICT [...] (U) Summary: In his November 3 ) 6 visit to Cairo, Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, congratulated Egyptian information and communications technology (ICT) officials and business leaders on the progress in the Egyptian ICT market [...] | 2007-11-14 09:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV EG |
07CAIRO3257 | Egypt: Inflation Update [...] (U) Inflation dropped to 7.5% year-on-year (y/y) in October, down from 9.3% y/y in September. The CBE maintained interest rates unchanged at a November 1 meeting, but indicated that inflation could reach the upper limit of CBE's "comfort zone." This is the first public sign of a move toward [...] | 2007-11-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO3297 | EGYPTIAN HEALTH, TRADE OFFICIALS ENGAGE USTR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOE is anxious to deepen engagement with the USG on concerns about Intellectual Property Rights protection, officials from the ministries of health, trade, culture, and telecommunications told USTR's Jennifer Groves during a visit to Cairo on Nov. 12 to discuss USTR's Special [...] | 2007-11-20 14:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
07CAIRO3305 | EGYPT, ISRAEL JOINTLY PRESS FOR QIZ EXPANSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian and Israeli trade negotiators and industrialists sought USG approval of their joint proposal to expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) into Upper Egypt during the quarterly meeting of the QIZ joint committee Nov. 18 in Cairo. The committee also sought clarification o [...] | 2007-11-21 11:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX EG IS |
07CAIRO3365 | FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER UPDATE [...] (SBU) Since the Financial Sector (FS) MOU cash transfer's first disbursement of $275 million in January 2007, the GOE has met several additional benchmarks. Pending conclusion of ongoing financial analysis of banking sector performance, up to $275 million could be disbursed in 2008, bringing [...] | 2007-11-29 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON EG |
07CAIRO3366 | EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Fayza Aboul Naga, Minister of International Cooperation to discuss the future of U.S. assistance. USAID Director Hilda Arellano also attended. Aboul Naga said the GOE wants to move toward a "sustainable and predictable" partnership based on "t [...] | 2007-11-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG |
07CAIRO3367 | EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON A BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Minister of Investment Mohieldin to discuss next steps on updating the U.S.-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). Mohieldin was positive about the U.S. white paper and said his staff would have a reply soon. He does not foresee problems wi [...] | 2007-11-29 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG |
07CAIRO3390 | SINAI SMUGGLING INCENTIVES INCREASE UNDER STIFLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pent-up economic pressure for trade with the Palestinians is fueling smuggling between North Sinai and Gaza, residents and officials in the governorate told us on a visit to El-Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed Nov. 28-29. END SUMMARY. ------------------------------------ Hard Times, U [...] | 2007-12-03 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PTER PINR PREL KPAL KWBG EG IS XF |
07CAIRO3416 | CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT'S NEW BOARD OF GOVERNORS [...] (U) On November 29, President Mubarak issued a presidential decree renewing Farouk El Okdah for 4 years as Governor of the Central Bank. Mubarak also issued a decree renewing Tarek Amer as the first Deputy Governor and appointing Tarek Kandil as the second Deputy Governor, both for 4 year ter [...] | 2007-12-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EG |
07CAIRO3421 | UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO EGYPTIAN MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD UNCITRAL UN EG |
07CAIRO3424 | EGYPT TO BUY IRANIAN WHEAT TO REDUCE COSTS OF [...] (SBU) Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid agreed to purchase 200,000 tons of reduced-price Iranian wheat last week during a visit to Cairo by Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Ali-Akbar Mehrabian, according to Egyptian trade officials. However, Egyptian agricultural inspectors [...] | 2007-12-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EG IR |
07CAIRO3470 | Lafarge takes a chunk of Egyptian cement [...] (U) Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) signed an agreement December 10 to sell its Cement Group to France's Lafarge for 8.8 billion ($12.9 billion). Lafarge will also assume $2 billion of OCI's debt, bringing the total value of the agreement to $14.9 billion. Orascom Cement, with 10 plant [...] | 2007-12-12 16:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO3500 | CONSUMER PROTECTION IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) Egypt's Consumer Protection Law came into effect in November 2006, providing consumers with new legal protections and businesses with new obligations. The law also created a Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) authorized to investigate complaints and mediate between consumers and businesse [...] | 2007-12-17 09:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
07CAIRO3541 | Central Bank Governor Commits to Completing Financial [...] (SBU) On December 17, the Ambassador and Econoffs met with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Farouk El Okdah and the two Deputy Governors, Tarek Amer and Tarek Kandil, to cover a wide variety of end-of year issues. The Ambassador began by congratulating the Governor and Deputy Governor Amer [...] | 2007-12-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON EG |
07CAIRO356 | WILDCAT STRIKES HIT EGYTPIAN TEXTILE FACTORIES [...] (SBU) Thousands of textile workers have initiated wildcat strikes throughout Egypt's industrial heartland in recent weeks, demanding the same concessions exacted by striking workers at Egypt's largest public sector textile factory last December (reftel). Strikes have also taken place in the t [...] | 2007-02-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EG |
07CAIRO361 | CENTRAL BANK MAINTAINS INTEREST RATES DESPITE RISING [...] (U) Overall inflation in the Egyptian economy reached 12% year-on-year (y-o-y) in December 2006, with the greatest increase in food and energy prices. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) met February 1 and decided to maintain interest rates at their current [...] | 2007-02-08 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EG |
07CAIRO378 | GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL VISITS EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL VISITED CAIRO FEBRUARY 3 - 4 TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL ISSUES AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS. ACCORDING TO A GERMAN EMBASSY CONTACT, MERKEL AND EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK AGREED ON THE NEED FOR A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT. ON THE ECONOMY, [...] | 2007-02-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MEPN ETRD EG GE |
07CAIRO379 | SCENESETTER FOR INTERAGENCY AVIAN INFLUENZA TEAM, [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes the visit of Ambassador John Lange and the interagency avian influenza team. We are looking forward exchanging ideas on local avian influenza challenges, potential areas of enhanced cooperation, and developing a more cohesive interagency strategy. ----- [...] | 2007-02-12 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR TBIO KFLU AMED EAID EG |
07CAIRO394 | POOR EGYPTIANS YET TO FEEL BENEFITS FROM ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Chronic low wages and lack of opportunity has lowered working-class Egyptians' motivation to work and contributed to discontent with the government's economic policies. Despite impressive macroeconomic improvements since the Nazif administration began its economic reform progr [...] | 2007-02-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EG |
07CAIRO404 | FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU: NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Now that the first disbursement of $275 million for completion of some of the benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU has been made, we are considering next steps and a tentative timeline for verification of the remaining benchmarks. Five hundred and twenty-five million dollars in ESF ar [...] | 2007-02-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO469 | EGYPT CONSIDERING UTILITY OF IGAD SUMMIT ON [...] (C) EGYPT IS AWARE OF PLANS BY KENYA, AS CHAIR OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR DEVELOPMENT (IGAD),TO HOST A SUMMIT IN COMING WEEKS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SUDAN'S COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (CPA). THE GOE IS CONSIDERING A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT PROPOSAL, BUT [...] | 2007-02-20 17:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EG SU |
07CAIRO478 | 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW FOR EGYPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Cairo recommends that USTR move Egypt from the Special 301 Priority Watch List to the Watch List in recognition of improvements in Egypt's regime for protecting Intellectual Property Rights in 2005 and 2006, and to encourage further progress. During the last two years, [...] | 2007-02-22 04:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
07CAIRO511 | EGYPT: ANTI-COMPETITIVE TELECOMUNICATIONS PRACTICES [...] (SBU) Summary: For over a year, Egyptian telecommunication regulators have promised to offer new licenses for international connectivity, in accordance with commitments undertaken when Egypt joined the World Trade Organization (WTO),but have yet to do so. The GOE may be delaying in order to [...] | 2007-02-26 07:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD USTR EG |
07CAIRO539 | EGYPT RAIL: U.S. COMPANIES SWEEP LOCOMOTIVE TENDER [...] (SBU) U.S. companies General Electric (GE) and Electromotive Diesel (EMD) recently beat out Chinese competition, with each company selling forty new locomotives to Egyptian National Railways (ENR) as part of Egypt's multi-billion dollar transport infrastructure development plan. The GE portio [...] | 2007-02-28 07:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECON PREL EG QA |
07CAIRO542 | GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD: EGYPT DEAL UNLIKELY [...] (C) As a prelude to his meeting with NEA A/S Welch in Washington on February 27, British Gas (BG) Head of International Government and Public Affairs provided Econoff with an update on the current status of BG's efforts to develop the Gaza Marine offshore gas field. The update was a follow-up [...] | 2007-02-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON KPAL EG IS GZ |
07CAIRO553 | NO EGYPTIAN REPRESENTATIVE TO MARCH 6 ITA MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 12:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO EG |
07CAIRO579 | (C) ROMANIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS EGYPT NUCLEAR [...] (C) Romanian President Basescu visited Egypt February 21-22 and met privately with President Mubarak, Prime Minister Nazif, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, Egyptian economic ministers, local business leaders, and others. Basescu reportedly offered Egypt access to Romania's nuclear [...] | 2007-03-05 10:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KNNC EG RO |
07CAIRO620 | INTERAGENCY DELEGATION ENGAGES WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John Lange and an interagency delegation of USG officials from DOS, USAID, HHS, USDA, DHS and DOD met with senior Egyptian government officials, toured laboratory facilities, and visited poultry farms from February 19-21. [...] | 2007-03-07 14:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL WHO EG |
07CAIRO673 | GOE IMPOSES EXPORT FEES ON STEEL AND CEMENT [...] (SBU) Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid recently imposed export fees on cement and steel, carrying out earlier threats of harsh measures if industry did not observe voluntary domestic price caps. Rachid also told the press that the GOE will eliminate energy subsidies for industry within fi [...] | 2007-03-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EG |
07CAIRO678 | EGYPTIAN ECONOMIC REFORMERS ENCOURAGE FURTHER IPR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FOLLOWING ON POST'S RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE EGYPT FROM THE SPECIAL 301 PRIORITY WATCH LIST TO THE WATCH LIST (REFTELS),WE HAVE INITIATED A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS WITH THE GOE AND BUSINESS GROUPS AS PART OF OUR ON-GOING ADVOCACY FOR IPR PROTECTION I [...] | 2007-03-12 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
07CAIRO709 | ECONOMIC REFORM SNAPSHOT: NEW BLOOD AT [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of recent meetings at the General Authority for Road, Bridges, and Land Transportation (GARBLT) illustrates how private sector experience is transforming the way business is done at the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). Shedding normal bureaucratic inertia, [...] | 2007-03-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECON PGOV EG |
07CAIRO710 | ECONOMIC REFORM SNAPSHOT: NEW BLOOD AT [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of recent meetings at the General Authority for Road, Bridges, and Land Transportation (GARBLT) illustrates how private sector experience is transforming the way business is done at the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). Shedding normal bureaucratic inertia, [...] | 2007-03-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECON PGOV EG |
07CAIRO718 | NEW EU-EGYPT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On March 6 the EU and Egypt signed a new bilateral assistance agreement worth 500 million over the next four years. The agreement includes cash transfers and funds to implement projects in a number of areas, under the rubric of a bilateral "Action Plan." Technical sub-committees of EU a [...] | 2007-03-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PHUM KDEM EG EU |
07CAIRO721 | LABOR ANXIETY MAY OPEN DOOR TO UNION [...] (C) The anxious state of organized labor in Egypt over privatization, economic reform, and global trends may present opportunities for engaging the GOE on democratization and worker rights. Sensing this, the International Labor Organization (ILO) is advancing a proposal to promote democratiza [...] | 2007-03-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO778 | EGYPT AVIAN FLU UPDATE: 26TH HUMAN CASE [...] (U) Ministry of Health and Population officials (MOHP) confirmed the 26th case of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a two-year old boy on March 19, and the 25th case on March 14 in a ten-year old girl, both from the Aswan governorate. Their families raise backyard poultry. Thirteen of the twenty-six [...] | 2007-03-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU KSTH TBIO ECON PREL EG |
07CAIRO829 | QUARTERLY ECONOMIC REPORT [...] In this edition: - Strong macroeconomic indicators - Unemployment, inflation remain high - The government introduces a new five year plan - Ministry of Finance announces bad-debt repayment plan - State-owned banks merge - Wages stagnate... - ...and consumer confidence dips - Capital Market [...] | 2007-03-22 10:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT EG |
07CALGARY14 | WHTI IN ALBERTA AND SASKATACHEWAN: ALMOST FULL COMPLIANCE ON [...] The four airports in Calgary's consular district with direct flights to the US--Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, and Saskatoon--reported no problems on the first day of WHTI implementation. No passengers were turned away from any of the four airports for lack of a passport. Almost every passenger a [...] | 2007-01-23 19:21:00 | Consulate Calgary | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHLS EAIR ASEC CPAS CA |
07CANBERRA1697 | RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd announced his 20-member Cabinet November 29. It is a talented line-up that strikes a balance between different regions and the Labor Party's left and right-wing factions. Rudd honored his undertaking to retain his core economic team - Julia Gilla [...] | 2007-11-29 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ECON ETRD AS |
07CANBERRA1721 | CSIRO'S PERSPECTIVE ON WIRELESS PATENT LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) ongoing defense in U.S. courts of its wireless patent against alleged infringers is unusual but not unprecedented. CSIRO is open to negotiating a settlement of its case. The $4/unit royalty that CSIRO has [...] | 2007-12-05 05:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR AS |
07CAPETOWN100 | SOUTH AFRICA PLANS AIRPORT EXPANSION FOR 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary. Airport Companies South Africa (ACSA) will expand airport capacity by 40% over the next five years to meet rising demand and accommodate 2010 Soccer World Cup passengers. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Embassy transportation officer attending the annual Board of Airlines Representat [...] | 2007-04-02 12:26:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EINV KHLS SF |
07CAPETOWN253 | CHINESE TEXTILE QUOTA A BUST? [...] (U) Summary. South Africa's two-year "emergency" quota on Chinese textile and clothing imports was implemented in January 2007 to fend off a flood of inexpensive, low-quality Chinese imports that had battered the local clothing and textile industry (reftel). According to import data, indust [...] | 2007-10-03 14:37:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD CN SF |
07CAPETOWN45 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF TRANSPORT TO [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador called on the Minister of Transport in Cape Town on February 8 to discuss the status of the FAA's technical assistance program to the South African Civil Aviation Authority. The Ambassador asked for the Minister's assistance in obtaining passage of the necessary l [...] | 2007-02-21 10:02:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ELTN SF |
07CAPETOWN99 | CAPE TOWN PORT FACES LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. Multiple uses, lack of responsiveness to customers, windy weather, a land-locked location and poor planning create logistical challenges for South Africa's Port of Cape Town. Port productivity is below international standards and ships face excessive waits for port access. Th [...] | 2007-04-02 12:22:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN ETRD KHLS SF |
07CARACAS1003 | VULNERABILITIES OF THE VENEZUELAN ECONOMY [...] Summary: (C) Although Venezuela has a strong external position, we continue to maintain that the economy is very vulnerable in the next 12-30 months due to increasing economic distortions (caused by increasing statist/retrograde economic policies) that will eventually lead to an economic/finan [...] | 2007-05-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN |
07CARACAS102 | CONOCOPHILLIPS' CUBAN CONCERNS [...] (U) Action Requested: Please see Paragraph 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Petroleum Attache (Petatt) met with ConocoPhillips (CP) executives at their request to discuss a recent visit by a Cuban delegation to the Petrozuata strategic association. CP is concerned that PDVSA will try to use Petrozuata [...] | 2007-01-17 21:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ETTC ECON CU VE |
07CARACAS1030 | FAJA NEGOTIATIONS: NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV and international oil companies (IOCs) have not started negotiations to migrate the four Faja strategic associations despite the rapidly approaching June 26 deadline. ExxonMobil (XM)(strictly protect throughout) will send the BRV and PDVSA a red-lined draft contract. Howe [...] | 2007-05-25 20:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ASEC VE |
07CARACAS1031 | POVERTY AND JOBLESSNESS IN THE BRV [...] (SBU) BRV data indicates that poverty and unemployment are lower today than they were in 1999 when Chavez came to power. The oil windfall and attendant massive government expenditures and transfers makes this a plausible contention. However, the BRV's National Statistics Institute (INE) seems [...] | 2007-05-25 20:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1053 | BILKING THE BRV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela's currency control regime and fixed exchange rate, administered by CADIVI, have become huge wealth generators for Venezuelans and foreigners playing the unregulated parallel market. As has been the case with previous currency control regimes in Venezuela, the current sy [...] | 2007-05-30 18:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS109 | CHAVEZ GOVERNMENT SEEKING BROAD LEGISLATIVE POWERS [...] (C) Summary. Per President Chavez' request at his January 10 inauguration (Reftel),the National Assembly is already preparing an enabling law that would give Chavez legal authority to issue executive decrees in ten substantive areas over the next 18 months. Chavez would assume broad powers [...] | 2007-01-18 16:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON VE |
07CARACAS112 | STATOIL'S OPTIMISM FADES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1138 | GO ON, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Economic and political uncertainty have convinced many Venezuelans to move assets abroad. While Venezuela has long been a source of capital flight, in recent years Venezuelans have begun to move not only liquid assets out of the country, but also to "de-capitalize" their busine [...] | 2007-06-11 21:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1157 | EXXONMOBIL AND CONOCOPHILLIPS DISCUSS FAJA [...] (C) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil (XM) and ConocoPhillips (CP) in a series of meetings on June 12 stated the June 26 deadline for negotiations on migrating the four Faja strategic associations as well as the profit sharing agreement projects to PDVSA-controlled joint ventures appear to be firm. Compani [...] | 2007-06-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1197 | CNPC: DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ IN THE PAPERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) executives stated recent press reports of the formation of a new joint venture are exaggerated. The executives stated negotiations over the migration of Sinovensa, the entity that produced Orimulsion, to a PDVSA-controlled joint [...] | 2007-06-18 14:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON CH VE |
07CARACAS1228 | S/C MCCARTHY'S MEETINGS WITH ECONOMIC PLAYERS [...] (SBU) Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy met with local economists, businessmen, consultants, and bankers during her June 12-15 visit to Venezuela. While the economists agreed that mounting problems in the Venezuelan economy, including deficit spending and a lack of fiscal con [...] | 2007-06-20 20:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1241 | CONOCOPHILLIPS CLOSE TO EXITING VENEZUELA [...] (S) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) has been unable to reach agreement with the BRV on the terms for migrating its share of two strategic associations (Petrozuata and Hamaca) and a profit sharing agreement (Corocoro) to a PDVSA-controlled joint venture. Principal sticking points are compensation [...] | 2007-06-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1255 | BORROWING FROM PETER TO PAY PAUL [...] (SBU) Banks have increased loan portfolios by over 54 percent in real terms in the past year and the financial sector is riding this wave of credit to record profits. Fed by excess liquidity and exchange controls that prevent money from leaving Venezuela, Venezuelans are racing to invest in n [...] | 2007-06-25 13:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1281 | EXXONMOBIL AND CONOCOPHILLIPS EXIT VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV held a signing ceremony on June 26 to convert the remaining private sector oil projects into PDVSA-controlled joint ventures. Representatives from Chevron, Total, Statoil, BP, ENI, Inelectra and Sinopec signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) for their respective invest [...] | 2007-06-26 20:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1314 | CHEVRON, EXXON, AND CNPC COMMENT ON RECENT EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron claims the final deal to migrate the Hamaca strategic association to a joint venture was a good one from its perspective. The project's area was not reduced and Chevron personnel will occupy key posts in the new joint venture. In addition, all investment decisions require [...] | 2007-07-02 11:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1318 | BUY HIGH AND SELL HIGHER: REAL ESTATE IN THE [...] (SBU) Real estate prices are skyrocketing in Venezuela as the oil boom fuels an ever-increasing number of people chasing an increasingly limited supply of properties. Sales are up 30 percent so far in 2007, after growing 80 percent in 2006 and 60 percent in 2005. Venezuela continues to suffer [...] | 2007-07-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS132 | MEETING WITH ELECTRICIDAD DE CARACAS ON [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: EconCouns met with Electricidad de Caracas (82 pct owned by AES a U.S. company) President Nebreda January 16 regarding BRV intentions to nationalize the electricity sector (refs). Nebreda said that AES always considered nationalization in their scenario planning, but the ann [...] | 2007-01-22 19:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS134 | ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF CHAVEZ' ENABLING LAW: [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly unanimously passed preliminary approval of the Ley Habilitante ("Enabling Law") during a special emergency session on January 18. When fully approved, probably on January 24, the Enabling Law will permit Chavez to control the economic pulse of the country. [...] | 2007-01-22 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV VE |
07CARACAS135 | CHAVEZ TO U.S.: "GO TO HELL" [...] (C) Summary. An extremely confident President Chavez resumed his weekly "Alo Presidente" television broadcast January 21 after a four-month campaign/inauguration hiatus. During the nearly six-hour broadcast, Chavez lashed out against a USG expression of concern about a pending Enabling Law, a [...] | 2007-01-22 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1365 | A PEAK INSIDE CITGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Citgo representative stated the sale of two asphalt refineries has been delayed due to concerns over supply contracts. Citgo president Alejandro Granado has adopted an extravagant lifestyle and is not accessible to employees. Citgo executives focus on the company's fuel o [...] | 2007-07-09 19:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1382 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL TRIP TO MARACAIBO [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador traveled to Maracaibo, Zulia state June 26-27 to meet with local leaders, visit social programs, and meet with the press during his farewell visit. He called on San Francisco Mayor Saady Bijani and President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference Monsignor Ubaldo Sa [...] | 2007-07-11 14:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VE |
07CARACAS1393 | FURTHER DETAILS ON THE FAJA MIGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA has done a better than expected job running the Cerro Negro upgrader. However, it has requested BP supply additional personnel. BP is happy with the governance terms it received. The remaining international oil companies (IOCs) may still have the right to go to arbitratio [...] | 2007-07-12 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1416 | MACROECONOMIC UPDATE JULY 2007 [...] Overview 2. Economic growth 3. Unemployment 4. International reserves 5. Money supply M2 6. Exchange rates, Central Bank liquidations, and Venezuelan basket average oil prices 7. Consumer price index 8. Balance of payments 9. Merchandise trade balance 10. F [...] | 2007-07-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1434 | OIL TRADING: SKELETONS IN PDVSA'S CLOSET [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior PDVSA executive who was forced into retirement in March 2007 stated PDVSA exports 38 million barrels of oil per month excluding crude from the former Faja strategic associations. President Chavez ordered PDVSA to stop exporting to the United States before the November el [...] | 2007-07-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1449 | POLITICS AND TAXES [...] (SBU) The BRV's tax authority, SENIAT is taking the lead role in going after many of Chavez' political and economic opponents while at the same time taking positive steps to cut down on tax evasion and improve the government's tax base. The SENIAT Superintendent, Jose Vielma Mora has become mor [...] | 2007-07-20 20:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1466 | PDVSA'S "IMPORTANT OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Luis Vierma, PDVSA's Vice President for Exploration and Production, testified before the Comptroller Committee of the National Assembly on July 18 that PDVSA was facing an "important operational emergency" due to the failure of two bid rounds for drilling rigs. PDVSA's rig count [...] | 2007-07-23 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1467 | THE OIL SECTOR AND THE PUBLIC BIDDING LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Service companies have long complained that the Public Bidding Law has greatly decreased the effeciency of PDVSA's operations. A legal expert describes the law as "sub-standard" and politicized. Private sector partners in joint venture companies have argued the law does not appl [...] | 2007-07-23 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1481 | CONOCOPHILLIPS DISCUSSES ITS NEXT MOVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) has presented a proposal to the BRV setting out what it considers to be fair compensation for its expropriated assets. Energy Vice Minister Bernard Mommer stood up CP executives as well as Chinese Petroleum Corporation executives in Houston last week. CP want [...] | 2007-07-26 20:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS149 | CHAVEZ' NEW CABINET: BIOS ON ECONOMIC MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Hugo Chavez swore in new cabinet ministers on January 8 for six key economic portfolios: the Ministry of Finance (Reftel A),a newly-formed Ministry of Telecommunications, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the [...] | 2007-01-23 19:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1544 | A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: NOTHING'S CHANGED, [...] (C) In analyzing Venezuela's history of boom and bust cycles, a series of patterns emerge that offer predictive value for the end of the current cycle. Links between oil prices, government spending, inflation, and devaluation are clearly evident over the past 35 years as oil booms have led to [...] | 2007-08-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EPET VE |
07CARACAS157 | OIL COMPANIES WEIGH THEIR OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All six international oil companies (IOCs) with stakes in the four strategic associations met with the BRV last week and received a written proposal regarding the transition to PDVSA controlled joint ventures. The BRV is expected to give companies its estimates on the value of t [...] | 2007-01-24 13:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1577 | CHEVRON DISCUSSES JOINT VENTURES' STRUCTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Due to concerns over Washington's understanding of its Venezuelan investments and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Chevron met with Post on August 7 to discuss the nature of its Venezuelan investments. Chevron's two joint ventures are equity companies that are subject to Venezue [...] | 2007-08-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1613 | SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER: VENEZUELA'S BRAIN DRAIN [...] (SBU) BRV radicalization in recent months and decreasing economic and physical security continue to push more Venezuelans to consider leaving their country (reftel A). Recent nationwide polls parallel informal surveys and anecdotal evidence which show that an increasing number of Venezuelans a [...] | 2007-08-14 15:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CVIS CASC SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1622 | PDVSA: NEW LIFE IN THE EMBERS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The president of the Petroleum Chamber of Venezuela believes significant new investments will occur in the Faja in the near future beginning with de-bottlenecking projects in the existing upgraders. Leading candidates for new projects in the Faja are Petrobras, Shell, and the Chi [...] | 2007-08-14 20:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1628 | LABORING UNDER CHAVEZ' ECONOMIC PLANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2005 the BRV has tightened the noose around the Venezuelan private sector by steadily approving rigorous labor laws, including the Organic Law on Prevention, Work Conditions, and Work Environment (Lopcymat),a laundry list of nearly impossible to fulfill labor regulations. [...] | 2007-08-15 22:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV EINV VE |
07CARACAS1638 | BLAME IT ON THE VOLATILITY OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the afternoon of August 16 Finance Minister Cabezas announced that the BRV would cancel its USD 1.5 billion "bonos del sur" bond issuance. According to Cabezas, the volatility of international markets made the issuance untimely. Section contacts considered the bonds a marg [...] | 2007-08-17 11:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1655 | SINCOR'S ROCKY TRANSITION TO PETROCEDENO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Strategic association Sincor's transition to Petrocedeno, a PDVSA-controlled joint venture, has been fraught with labor problems. Labor union members have blocked the road to the upgrader 33 days so far this year. Approximately 100 employees have quit their jobs. A work plan is [...] | 2007-08-20 20:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1664 | SERVICE COMPANIES DISCUSS CURRENT OPERATING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Service companies report an increase in the number of signed contracts with PDVSA. The increase is despite the fact that service company bids frequently include substantial premiums. However, PDVSA's ability to implement new projects appears to be quite limited. At this point, [...] | 2007-08-21 13:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1670 | MONETARY CONVERSION: READY OR NOT HERE IT COMES [...] (SBU) The BRV is charging ahead with its project to introduce the new "Bolivar Fuerte," or Strong Bolivar currency on January 1, 2008. With a little over four months before the conversion, and only one month before companies must express prices in both old and new currencies, businesses are b [...] | 2007-08-22 17:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1672 | CONOCOPHILLIPS UPDATE: STILL FAR APART [...] (C) Econ Counselor and Petroleum Attache met with ConocoPhillips (CP) Latin America President Roy Lyons (strictly protect throughout) and Government Affairs Manager Alex Martinez (strictly protect throughout) on August 22 to discuss the current status of CP's negotiations on compensation for e [...] | 2007-08-22 19:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1679 | BRV'S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC CREDIT -- A SMOOTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econoffs met with the Director of Public Credit, Luis Davila on August 21. During a frank discussion of the BRV's financial policies and activities in the capital markets, Davila painted a rosy picture. The BRV did not expect to issue any foreign debt this year and debt should s [...] | 2007-08-23 15:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS173 | VENEZUELA -- INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT (PART [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN KTDB STR OPIC VE |
07CARACAS174 | VENEZUELA -- INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT (PART [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN KTDB STR OPIC VE |
07CARACAS1755 | DEFORESTATION IN VENEZUELA: MISSION TREE OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Chavez' pro-environment rhetoric and support for replanting thousands of trees through his Mission Tree ("Mision Arbol"),deforestation rates have not abated. Lack of transparency and enforcement of environmental laws have undermined BRV progress, and Venezuela now find [...] | 2007-09-05 18:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1765 | BP: STABILITY BEGINS TO EMERGE FROM CHAOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cerro Negro's acreage has been reduced from 290 square kilometers to 210 and BP paid the BRV 50 million USD in notes as part of the reduction. Cerro Negro operations are running in a surprisingly smooth manner and PDVSA is not moving senior managers around as much as it did befor [...] | 2007-09-06 20:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1773 | SCENESETTER FOR WHA/AND CHACON VISIT - SEPT 12-14 [...] (C) Embassy welcomes the September 12-14 visit of WHA/AND Director Arnold Chacon. Your visit comes on the heels of Ambassador Duddy's arrival at post on August 29 and after the June 11-15 visit of Special Coordinator for Venezuela McCarthy. Since winning re-election in December 2006, Preside [...] | 2007-09-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON VE |
07CARACAS1808 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CONOCOPHILLIPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) and the BRV's positions on the valuation of CP's expropriated assets differ by a factor of six or seven to one. PDVSA continues to honor two long-term supply contracts that supply CP refineries in the U.S. CP believes an arbitration case would take five to se [...] | 2007-09-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1812 | EXXONMOBIL FILES FOR ARBITRATION [...] (C) David Perez (strictly protect throughout),the remaining ExxonMobil (XM) executive in Venezuela, met with the Ambassador on September 12 (ref. A) to inform him that XM filed for arbitration on September 6 with the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). XM file [...] | 2007-09-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1819 | PDVSA REVENUES UP, PROFITS DOWN FOR 2006 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PDVSA reported 2006 gross revenues of 99.3 billion USD, a 19.7% increase over 2005, and net profits of 5.5 billion USD, a decline of 16%. The principal reason for the decline in net profits was an almost 100% increase in social development expenditures. Administrative expenses [...] | 2007-09-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1822 | STATOIL: A GOOD DEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 16:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS183 | BRV BEGINS TO REAP WHAT IT HAS SOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA reportedly told tax authorities in August 2006 that it was unable to pay its royalties and taxes due to cash flow problems stemming from social development expenditures. President Chavez' recent statements regarding an increase in gasoline prices appear to stem from PDVSA's [...] | 2007-01-26 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1831 | WE AREN'T MAKING THIS UP: THE BRV'S BIZARRE POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last month the BRV has proposed an amalgamation of ambitious socialist and populist projects that further expand the role of the state in society and seemingly defy common sense. President Chavez has announced his intention to construct socialist cities and islands, re [...] | 2007-09-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1942 | BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AMORIM REAFFIRMS GOB [...] (SBU) According to local media, on September 29, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim met with President Chavez and Foreign Minister Maduro in Caracas to discuss, inter alia, Venezuela's Mercosur accession, the status of the South American gas pipeline project, and bilateral cooperation in [...] | 2007-10-01 18:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV KIPR VE |
07CARACAS1948 | SERVICE COMPANIES FACE USG IRANIAN AND CUBAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baker Hughes (BH) has three contracts with PDVSA in various stages of execution that they believe appear to violate USG Iranian and Cuban sanctions legislation. According to BH, other U.S. service companies have similar contracts that raise the same issues. BH will meet with PDVS [...] | 2007-10-02 16:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON PREL KFPC ETTC CU IR VE |
07CARACAS1977 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHEVRON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron remains optimistic on Venezuela and believes that the Chavez administration has begun to realize that it cannot divorce Venezuela from the United States. Chinese oil company CNPC has approached Chevron about signing a cooperation agreement for projects in Venezuela. Chevro [...] | 2007-10-09 11:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2000 | MITSUBISHI HOPES TO CLOSE MAJOR REFINERY DEAL BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Mitsubishi trading company hopes to complete a USD 3 billion financing deal for a deep conversion project at the Puerto La Cruz refinery by year-end. The Itochu trading company is working on a similar deal for the El Palito refinery. JBIC's participation in the projects and [...] | 2007-10-11 18:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON JA CH VE |
07CARACAS2013 | THE BRV'S PROPOSED ECONOMIC CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Chavez' proposed economic changes to the constitution included in his reform package (Reftel A) are breathtaking in both scope and ambition. The draft proposals give Chavez, inter alia, the broad constitutional authority to consolidate his vision of a socialist model [...] | 2007-10-16 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2050 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM - GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. [...] (C) Late on Friday October 12 the Venezuelan National Assembly's Mixed Commission on Constitutional Reform announced the addition of 25 amendments to the constitution, on top of the 33 proposed by President Chavez on August 15 (Ref A). While a few of the changes are fairly innocuous, many wil [...] | 2007-10-19 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIPR PHUM KDEM ECON VE |
07CARACAS2056 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES CHINESE APPROVAL OF STRATEGIC [...] On October 21, 2007 President Chavez announced Chinese approval of a USD six billion Strategic Fund between China and Venezuela (BRV). During a phone call from Miraflores Palace, 21 October, 2007, to aspirants to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the State of Anzoategui Chave [...] | 2007-10-22 21:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON VE |
07CARACAS2074 | AGRICULTURE EXPERTS PREDICT CORN, WHEAT, AND MILK [...] (SBU) Summary: Milk, white corn and wheat which make up Venezuela's three most consumed products (milk, pre-cooked corn meal, and pasta),are all facing worsening or impending shortages. Global price increases combined with local price controls have led to the current milk shortage and an eme [...] | 2007-10-25 19:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ALOW VE |
07CARACAS2084 | PARALLEL DOLLAR RATE CONTINUES RAPID CLIMB [...] (C) The parallel rate for dollars has jumped sharply in recent months, increasing 65 percent in the last six months from 3,700 bolivares (Bs)/USD on April 26 to 6,180 Bs/USD on October 26. Reasons for the increase include increasing liquidity and general unease about the constitutional reform [...] | 2007-10-26 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2103 | CONOCOPHILLIPS HEADS TO ARBITRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) Chairman, President and CEO James Mulva told the Ambassador on October 30 that CP will file an arbitration claim with ICSID against the BRV. Negotiations regarding compensation have proved unsuccessful to date but CP still holds out hope that the BRV may eventu [...] | 2007-10-31 13:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2104 | LUKOIL DEEPLY PESSIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior Lukoil executive, Lukoil is highly pessimistic about investment opportunities in Venezuela. The Russian company is particularly concerned about constitutional reforms such as the definition of private property and the six hour workday. In addition, the comp [...] | 2007-10-31 13:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2128 | PETROCEDINO'S COMPLICATED BIRTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The creation of Petrocedino, the joint venture formed from the former Sincor strategic association, poses a variety of challenges for its private sector participants. The new company will extract and upgrade extra-heavy crude oil in the Faja region. Venezuelan state oil company [...] | 2007-11-05 16:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ELAB VE |
07CARACAS2130 | NEW TAX ON FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS IMPLEMENTED WITH [...] Summary: (C) On November 1 the BRV imposed a 1.5 percent tax on institutional financial transactions through December 31, 2008. The BRV's unveiling of this tax was particularly clumsy, as the government had to modify its original decree to prevent the collapse of key financial transactions [...] | 2007-11-05 17:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2140 | FEDECAMARAS SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Fedecamaras, Venezuela's premier umbrella business association, has added its voice to those opposed to Chavez' proposed constitutional reforms. During a meeting on November 2, Jose Manuel Gonzalez, President of Fedecamaras, handed the Ambassador a paper discussing Fedecamaras' positio [...] | 2007-11-06 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2143 | INCREASES OF FOOD PRICES AND SUBSIDIES IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuela continues to face shortages in milk and wheat products. The BRV has taken steps to subsidize powdered milk imports and has directed that wheat products be made with a combination of wheat and other cereal grains to increase quantities. The BRV also established a produ [...] | 2007-11-06 21:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE |
07CARACAS2144 | AMBASSADOR DUDDY'S VISITS VALENCIA TO PROMOTE THE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Duddy's visit to the industrial city of Valencia on October 31 to November 1, 2007 included meetings with the three largest American auto manufacturers in Venezuela, American owned agricultural feed conglomerate Protinal, three of the largest industrial and commercial chambers [...] | 2007-11-06 22:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS216 | ROBIN HOOD WAS A SOCIALIST [...] (SBU) During the past two weeks Chavez and other BRV officials have proposed a dizzying array of tax increases, all of which Chavez will have the ability to impose through decrees sanctioned by the new "enabling" law. These proposals maintain the trend of growing the tax burden on individuals [...] | 2007-02-01 13:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
07CARACAS217 | INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION VS. THE BRV [...] (C) Summary: International arbitration will become increasingly important to foreign investors as Chavez moves forward with his selective nationalizations and disputes over "prompt, adequate, and effective compensation" arise. Foreign investors have three options to avail themselves of arbitr [...] | 2007-02-01 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS218 | CONOCOPHILLIPS MEETS WITH ENERGY VICE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) executives met with Energy (MEP) Vice Minister Bernard Mommer on January 31 to discuss the shipment of Cuban oil to the Petrozuata upgrader and the migration of the Petrozuata and Hamaca strategic associations to PDVSA controlled joint ventures. Mommer stated [...] | 2007-02-01 15:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2181 | THE BRV PUTS THE BRAKES ON CAR IMPORTS [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the BRV issued a resolution requiring all auto importers to obtain a license from the Ministry of Popular Power for Light Industry and Commerce (MILCO) for vehicle imports. The resolution also stipulates that all imported and locally assembled vehicles must run on [...] | 2007-11-14 19:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD VE |
07CARACAS2186 | BRV BOND OFFERINGS TARGET PARALLEL DOLLAR MARKET [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of People's Power for Finance (MPPF) recently announced a new series of dollar and bolivar-denominated debt issuances for the coming five months. The BRV's stated reason for these issuances was to optimize its debt profile and cover upcoming amortizations. Local an [...] | 2007-11-15 17:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2188 | FINANCE MINISTER ACCUSES FEDECAMARAS OF SUBVERSION [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas went on the offensive November 14 and publicly accused FEDECAMARAS,the country's largest umbrella business organization, of "subversion" for its opposition to the BRV's cons [...] | 2007-11-15 19:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS219 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HANDS CHAVEZ BROAD LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) gave final approval January 31 to an omnibus Enabling Law that provides President Chavez with broad authority to issue executive decrees over the next 18 months in eleven areas, including energy. President Chavez is expected to promulgate the measure wi [...] | 2007-02-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM VE |
07CARACAS2203 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON [...] (C) Emboffs delivered Ref A demarche on the recent Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decisions concerning Iran to Yaneth Arocha, Director of the MFA's Office of North American Affairs, and, separately, to Francisco Canela, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UNIF) at the Superintend [...] | 2007-11-19 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2207 | CHINA LOANS VENEZUELA USD FOUR BILLION TO BE [...] (U) SUMMARY: BRV President Hugo Chavez and PRC Vice Minister of the National Committee and Reform Zhang Xiaoqiamg presided over a televised signing ceremony for energy, financial and technology agreements on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at the presidential palace. The main agreement established [...] | 2007-11-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET CH VE |
07CARACAS2221 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SHELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shell Venezuela President Sean Rooney paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador November 21 to discuss the current operating environment in Venezuela. In contacts with Shell, Energy Ministry and PDVSA working level contacts have significantly increased proposals for new projects and [...] | 2007-11-23 19:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2243 | CHEVRON'S NEXT MOVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV has approached Chevron with a proposal to significantly increase production at the former Ameriven strategic association. Petrochina has also offered to partner with Chevron in a Faja project. Chevron is not in a hurry to make additional investments in Venezuela. Labor [...] | 2007-11-27 20:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON CH VE |
07CARACAS2260 | STOCK EXCHANGE STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCE AS STATE [...] (C) Summary: The Caracas Stock Exchange (BVC) has fallen 37 percent this year in the face of nationalizations and the advance of Chavez' socialist economic agenda. BVC management is turning to the BRV to breathe life back into the exchange, asking that the BRV sell some shares in nationalized [...] | 2007-11-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2301 | EMBASSY CARACAS: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] Name and contact information for Embassy Caracas' Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO are below. TFCO Andrew N. Bowen Economic Counselor 58-212-907-8412 bowenan@state.gov bowenan@state.sgov.gov Deputy TFCO David Galbraith Economic Officer 58-212-907-8406 [...] | 2007-12-07 20:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETTC PTER KTFN VE |
07CARACAS2330 | PRESSURE MOUNTS ON VENEZUELA'S EXCHANGE CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: The BRV's exchange control system appears to be coming under increasing pressure, as a persistent and large gap between the official and parallel exchange rates makes acquiring dollars at the official rate the best business in town. Contacts note that CADIVI is falling further b [...] | 2007-12-12 14:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2346 | PDVSA CASH FLOW PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Multiple oil sector contacts have stated that PDVSA is not paying service companies and has told a number of them that they will not be paid until mid-January or even February. A local analyst also stated that PDVSA had not paid the missions prior to the December 2 constitutional [...] | 2007-12-14 16:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS235 | CHAVEZ'S SELF-CORONATION; GOES AFTER ELECTRICITY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez promulgated the omnibus Enabling Law February 1, an instrument that gives him effectively unlimited power to rule by decree in eleven vaguely-defined areas for the next eighteen months. He then engaged in a rambling four-hour follow-on press conference in whic [...] | 2007-02-02 21:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2362 | WISHING AWAY THE PARALLEL RATE: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) The National Assembly on December 13 approved a law revising the 2005 law on illicit foreign currency transactions. The new law, which will go into effect pending presidential approval and publication in the Official Gazette, continues to allow the bond transactions on which the parallel [...] | 2007-12-18 15:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2363 | LULA: TOUCH AND GO IN CARACAS TO DISCUSS TRADE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazilian President Lula Da Silva, accompanied by approximately 130 Brazilian business leaders paid a five-hour visit to Caracas on December 13, and met with President Chavez and other senior BRV officials. Nine agreements were signed in the areas of health, agriculture, energy, [...] | 2007-12-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENRG EINV VE BR |
07CARACAS2380 | NEW BOLIVAR, SAME OLD ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: The BRV is finalizing plans to change the denomination of its currency. Beginning January 1, 2008, one new bolivar (known during the transition period as the bolivar fuerte, or "strong" bolivar) will be worth 1000 old bolivars. Venezuela's Central Bank has provided what appears [...] | 2007-12-20 19:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2381 | FOOD VULNERABILITIES: BRV POLICY RESPONSES CRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Thanks to growing demand, inflation, strict price controls and other retrograde BRV economic policies, rolling shortages of basic food staples persist. To try to cope the BRV has rolled out massive open-air markets known as MegaMercals (frequented primarily by poor Venezuelans),[...] | 2007-12-20 19:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR VE |
07CARACAS2396 | ASSEMBLY APPROVES 2007-2013 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL [...] (SBU) On December 13 the National Assembly approved the BRV's "Guidelines for the 2007-2013 Economic and Social Development Plan for the Nation." The two page introduction of the 51 page document outlines President Chavez' vision to further develop "21st Century Socialism." Themes include " [...] | 2007-12-26 20:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV VE |
07CARACAS241 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Japanese Ambassador Matsui, at Matsui's request, on February 2 to discuss the current investment environment in Venezuela. Matsui was clearly concerned about the Japan Bank for International Cooperation's (JBIC) one billion USD loan to PDVSA. Matsui opin [...] | 2007-02-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS291 | OUT OF THE GATE INFLATION SURGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Inflation grew 2 percent in January 2007, the second highest monthly rate in more than a decade. Prices for foodstuffs (food and non-alcoholic beverages) grew even faster at around 4 percent, and have risen 31.1 percent for the 12 months ending in January. BRV officials announce [...] | 2007-02-09 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON VE |
07CARACAS302 | AES AND BRV REACH AGREEMENT ON ELECTRICIDAD DE [...] (C) Summary: AES Corporation and the BRV have reached a deal for the sale of Electricidad de Caracas (EDC),Venezuela's largest private energy company. The BRV will pay AES 739 million U.S. dollars for its 82.14 percent interest in EDC and will buyout minority shareholders at the same price [...] | 2007-02-12 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV VE |
07CARACAS305 | A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econoffs met with the BNP Paribas Representative to discuss the recent announcement of a USD 1 billion revolving credit facility arranged by BNP for PDVSA. The Minister of Finance recently announced plans for up to a USD 3.5 billion PDVSA bond issue, and PDVSA has also arranged fo [...] | 2007-02-13 13:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EPET ENRG EFIN VE |
07CARACAS306 | CHAVEZ PREPARING MAJOR CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez intends to make profound "socialist" changes to the 1999 Constitution via a constitutional "reform" process this year. Chavez says this effort will "complement" the executive decree-laws that he can issue over the next 18 months courtesy of the Enabling Law (Ref [...] | 2007-02-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EINV ECON ENRG VE |
07CARACAS321 | VERIZON AGREES TO SELL CANTV SHARES TO THE BRV [...] (SBU) Four days after AES agreed to sell the BRV its interest in EDC (Reftel A),the BRV and Verizon announced February 12 that they had struck a deal for the sale of Verizon's 28.51 percent controlling interest in CANTV. Verizon will be paid USD 572 million for its shares and has indicated t [...] | 2007-02-14 15:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS ENRG PGOV VE |
07CARACAS33 | CHANGE IS IN THE AIR IN ECONOMIC MINISTRIES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rodrigo Cabezas, Chairman of the National Assembly's Finance Committee, will be Venezuela's next Finance Minister, replacing current Finance Minister Nelson Merentes. The change is part of a larger re-shuffling of positions by Chavez and will likely be followed by more announce [...] | 2007-01-05 18:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN VE |
07CARACAS332 | AFTER THE FIRST PASS, BRV GOES ON ATTACK AGAINST [...] (SBU) At a press conference on February 11, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez, Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas, and Minister of Light Industries and Commerce (MILCO) Maria Cristina Iglesias announced details of the BRV's anti-inflation pact. Plans include eliminating the Value Added Tax (IVA) o [...] | 2007-02-15 17:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS336 | CHAVEZ: DEATH TO THE U.S. "EMPIRE" [...] (SBU) Summary: President Chavez lashed out (again) at the United States on February 14 and threatened to nationalize supermarkets not abiding by government price controls. Responding to Under Secretary Burns' comments last week on U.S. foreign oil dependence, Chavez downplayed the importanc [...] | 2007-02-15 22:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ENRG VE |
07CARACAS358 | CHAVEZ TO LOWER VAT, "STRENGTHEN" CURRENCY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, Chavez announced a two stage reduction of the value added sales tax (VAT),which will reduce the tax from 14 percent to 9 percent by July 2007. He also presented a plan for "monetary reform," removing three zeroes places from the bolivar by 2008, to create th [...] | 2007-02-16 21:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV VE |
07CARACAS359 | SHELL'S OIL SECTOR OUTLOOK: WAIT AND SEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shell has been monitoring the strategic association migration negotiations closely and will base future investment decisions on their outcomes. It believes the strategic association partners' decision not to engage the BRV and offer opening negotiating positions was a grave erro [...] | 2007-02-16 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS38 | CNPC'S VENEZUELAN WOES [...] (C) SUMMARY: CNPC executives stated Sinovensa, the joint venture between PDVSA and CNPC that produces Orimulsion, no longer produces the product on orders of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MEP). CNPC views the situation as an expropriation and has reserved its rights to arbitration. T [...] | 2007-01-08 14:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS387 | CHAVEZ WELCOMES KIRCHNER TO VENEZUELA'S OIL BELT: [...] (SBU) Summary: During a 24 hour trip to Venezuela's Faja oil belt, February 21-22, Presidents Kirchner and Chavez announced a new USD 1.5 billion joint "Bond of the South" offering, and the creation of the "Bank of the South" within 120 days. The two presidents also inaugurated Argentina's ( [...] | 2007-02-23 22:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV |
07CARACAS404 | CHAVEZ' FIRST DECREE UNDER THE ENABLING LAW: [...] (SBU) Summary: The decree-law against speculation and hoarding, the first executive decree introduced by Chavez under the Enabling Law, was published, as amended, in Venezuela's Official Gazette on February 21. This measure criminalizes the hoarding and price speculation of food products sub [...] | 2007-02-26 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS411 | OIL NATIONALIZATION DECREE RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez stated on February 26 that the oil nationalization decree required the four strategic associations, the three profit sharing agreements, the Chinese Orimulsion company Orifuels Sinoven S.A. and any other companies "that carry out commercial activities in the Faja [...] | 2007-02-27 16:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS426 | BRV PUBLISHES OIL NATIONALIZATION DECREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The oil nationalization decree, which was published on February 26 but publicly available on February 27, requires the four strategic associations, the three profit sharing agreements, the Chinese Orimulsion company Orifuels Sinoven S.A. and any related entities "that carry out c [...] | 2007-03-01 16:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS434 | CODEL JACKSON LEE VISITS CARACAS [...] (SBU) Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee visited Caracas February 19-22. During her visit, she met with representatives of civil society, visited an Embassy supported orphanage, met with union leaders, U.S. businesses, U.S. oil company executives, representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Nation [...] | 2007-03-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON VE |
07CARACAS448 | INSIGHT INTO 3.5 BILLION USD JAPANESE LOAN TO PDVSA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Marubeni Corporation, and the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) announced the closing of an agreement with PDVSA on February 23 for 3.5 billion USD, 15 year loan facilities in exchange for contracts that gave both companies rights to negotiate and [...] | 2007-03-02 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS470 | FOOD SECURITY IN THE BRV: MERCAL'S WOES [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Mercal, the BRV's subsidized food distribution network, is plagued with corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement. Shortages in basic staples have developed in large part because Mercal has fallen 2-3 months behind in imports. Once the poster child of the BRV's mis [...] | 2007-03-05 18:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS472 | STATOIL: VERY ANNOYED VIKINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Statoil, the three key issues in the strategic association migrations are compensation, governance, and taxes. Statoil believes it has six months to negotiate the terms of the migration. Financing arrangements will not be a serious issue. Senior BRV energy official [...] | 2007-03-05 20:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS493 | BONOS DEL SUR: ROUND 2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Venezuela will issue another round of the "Bonos del Sur" on March 8 worth USD 1.5 billion. Preliminary reports indicate that the issuance is more than nine times oversubscribed. Demand for these Venezuelan-Argentinian bonds is well ahead of supply, as the Argentinian half offe [...] | 2007-03-07 16:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS504 | EXXONMOBIL: OUT BY JULY 1? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil (XM) appears to be edging closer to going to arbitration with the BRV over the migration of the Cerro Negro strategic association. However, it still holds out hope that it will be able to sell its stake in the association. XM does not expect to be in Venezuela by July [...] | 2007-03-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS511 | MITSUBISHI GOES AFTER MAJOR REFINERY DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Mitsubishi trading company is putting together a USD 1.795 billion financing deal tied to the deep conversion project at the Puerto La Cruz refinery. The company believes the deal will come to fruition in one to two years. Mitsubishi also is involved in the shipment of base [...] | 2007-03-08 20:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON JA VE |
07CARACAS512 | PDVSA AND MPPEP ANNOUNCE 2006 RESULTS: BEWARE THE [...] (SBU) Minister for People's Power of Energy and Petroleum (MPPEP) and PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez presented a consolidated financial report on their 2006 results on March 4. The end of year report details PDSVA's activities this past year, including much of its social participation. Accor [...] | 2007-03-08 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV VE |
07CARACAS526 | CUBAN OIL CONCERNS RESURFACE [...] (U) Action Requested. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A senior PDVSA official indicated that the Petrozuata upgrader, which is operated by ConocoPhillips, would be required to process non-Venezuelan crude in the near future. It is not clear where the crude would come from, but [...] | 2007-03-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS528 | BP: TRYING TO KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The USD 250 million in crude that BP and Total received for the Jusepin field was based on capital recovery rather than book or market value. The deadline for negotiations on the strategic associations appears to be June 26 instead of May 1. BP is concerned about support service [...] | 2007-03-09 17:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS531 | VENEZUELA'S BRAIN DRAIN: SEARCHING FOR A PLAN B, [...] (SBU) Over the last two months, President Chavez has heralded a "deepening of the Bolivarian Revolution" with a series of actions, including nationalization of key industries, new threats to foreign investors, aggressive attacks on private industry, and granting himself the power to legislate [...] | 2007-03-09 20:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CASC ECON SOCI VE |
07CARACAS554 | THE FIFTH MOTOR OF THE REVOLUTION SHIFTS INTO [...] (U) Summary: On February 28, Minister of Popular Power for Participation and Social Development David Velazquez and other senior BRV officials announced the BRV's intention to form 32,000 new communal councils (Consejos Comunales) during a crowded inaugural kick-off in Caracas. These new coun [...] | 2007-03-14 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS564 | NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO LOCAL TAX LAW PURSUANT [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) Ambassador Brownfield received a letter on March 9 from the Superintendent of Customs and Taxation (SENIAT) informing Post of partial reforms to Venezuelan income tax law in 2006 and 2007. SENIAT delivered this letter pursuant [...] | 2007-03-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON VE |
07CARACAS568 | A STRONG BOLIVAR FOR A STRONG BOLIVARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Central Bank plans to introduce a new currency in Venezuela on January 1, 2008. The new currency, to be called the "Bolivar Fuerte" (or Strong Bolivar),and will have the same value as the current Bolivar, minus three zeros. Prices are supposed to be quoted in the new curr [...] | 2007-03-15 16:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS574 | CHAVEZ SHADOWS POTUS TOUR, PROMISING AID AND LATIN [...] (SBU) Summary: During Chavez' March 9-13 "shadow tour" of President Bush's Latin American trip, he continued to aggressively push forward his own brand of dollar diplomacy and the "Bolivarian alternative" of regional financing and integration to counter USG initiatives in the region. Chavez [...] | 2007-03-16 12:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINT VE |
07CARACAS59 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES PLANS TO NATIONALIZE STRATEGIC [...] (SBU) President Chavez took the opportunity during the swearing-in ceremony for new ministers on January 8 to announce plans to "nationalize telecommunications and strategic areas such as water, (and) electrical energy." He added, "all that was privatized, nationalize them" and specifically s [...] | 2007-01-09 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV EPET EINV VE |
07CARACAS597 | CHAVEZ' ETHANOL HYPOCRISY [...] (SBU) Summary: Subsequent to the ethanol cooperation agreement President Bush signed with Brazil on March 9, Chavez has labeled ethanol as "immoral," accusing the United States of turning "food into fuel." The BRV's reaction is indicative of its hypocrisy. It has actively pursued a domestic [...] | 2007-03-20 21:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENIV ENRG PREL VE CU |
07CARACAS610 | VENEZUELA SIGNS TREATY WITH TNT ON SHARED GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Chavez and Trinidad and Tobago (TNT) Prime Minister Patrick Manning signed an accord to unify the reserves of two offshore gas fields on March 20. The accord is the first unitization agreement signed in the Western Hemisphere. The agreement will permit both countries [...] | 2007-03-22 17:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS657 | CHAVEZ USHERS IN NEW WAVE OF LAND EXPROPRIATIONS [...] (U) Summary: During his weekly television program "Alo Presidente" on March 25, Chavez announced the expropriation of 16 estates totaling 330,796 hectares (800,000 acres) of "idle land" in seven Venezuelan states. He added that the armed forces would confiscate and help run an additional 13 [...] | 2007-03-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS659 | BRV DRAMATICALLY REDUCES EXXONMOBIL'S OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV dramatically reduced ExxonMobil's (XM) options in the strategic association migration negotiations by ruling out the sale of XM's stake in Cerro Negro to third parties. The BRV also stated that the only Citgo/PDVSA asset that could be used to compensate XM is the Chalmet [...] | 2007-03-29 18:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS66 | BRV CONTINUES PRESSURING OIL COMPANIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV ordered strategic associations to cut production in order to meet OPEC cuts. The order violates the associations' contracts. Continued rhetoric about nationalization raises questions about the development of the Faja. END SUMMARY. ----------------------- ADDING INSU [...] | 2007-01-11 19:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS666 | SERVICE COMPANIES: THE NOOSE BEGINS TO TIGHTEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA is considering the formation of one or more service companies that will compete directly with the private sector. In addition to this threat, service companies still face payment delays and a myriad of administrative hurdles in dealing with PDVSA. As a result, private sec [...] | 2007-03-30 17:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS669 | CHINESE POLITBURO COMES TO TOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: During Chinese Politburo Member Li Changchun's visit to Caracas March 25-27, Venezuela and China signed six new cooperative agreements in the petroleum sector and reaffirmed a USD 6 billion joint development fund. Chavez assured China that Venezuela would be a trustworthy oil s [...] | 2007-03-30 20:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENIV ENRG EPET PGOV VE CH |
07CARACAS700 | CNPC'S TAKE ON RECENT BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CNPC was guardedly optimistic about the recent signing of bilateral petroleum agreements between China and Venezuela (Reftel A). CNPC believes the BRV is still open to foreign investment in the hydrocarbon sector. However, the company is frustrated with negotations to migrate Si [...] | 2007-04-04 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS710 | MORE BRV POLICY CONTRADICTIONS: IPR "REFORM" AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuela's withdrawal from the Andean Community (CAN) in April 2006 has created legal uncertainty as to both the present and future legal framework of IPR. Venezuela must now deal with an awkward reality of three concurrent IPR regimes - vestiges of the CAN, outdated domestic [...] | 2007-04-10 16:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR OTRA VE |
07CARACAS718 | EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE [...] (SBU) The BRV is spending more money than ever before on the back of historically high oil prices. Despite these high oil prices, PDVSA appears to have cash flow problems stemming from its role as the BRV's cash cow. Official production figures exceed most analyst estimates, and PDVSA's abili [...] | 2007-04-11 16:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EPET EINV ENRG VE |
07CARACAS721 | CONOCOPHILLIPS HANGS TOUGH FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva told Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez that CP will turn over operational control of the Petrozuata and Hamaca strategic associations as well as the Corocoro project in the Gulf of Paria on May 1. CP will not contin [...] | 2007-04-11 20:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS733 | ENERGY MINISTER RAMIREZ' MAY 3 SPEECH IN HOUSTON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez is scheduled to give a major speech on May 3 at the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. The speech will occur two days after PDVSA assumes operational control of the four strat [...] | 2007-04-12 21:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS781 | THE FIRST SOUTH AMERICAN ENERGY SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez described the First South American Energy Summit (Summit),which was held on Margarita Island on April 17, as a "perfect summit." Chavez ducked a fight with Brazil over ethanol and used the event to showcase his vision of South American integration -- effectively [...] | 2007-04-18 23:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE |
07CARACAS825 | OIL COMPANIES SIGN "MOU'S" TRANSFERRING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten foreign oil companies signed documents on April 25 transferring operational control of their respective projects to PDVSA or one of its affiliates. Chevron and ExxonMobil broadly differ in their interpretations of the nature of the documents. The documents do not deal with a [...] | 2007-04-26 20:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS83 | BRV RAISES STAKES IN THE FAJA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez announced at a press conference on January 15 that the BRV would enact a law that "nationalized" the four strategic associations in the Faja. Ramirez's comments appeared to confuse the concepts of "control" and "nationalization" to take advantage o [...] | 2007-01-16 15:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS833 | CHEVRON PROVIDES MORE DETAILS ON MOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron believes production at the Hamaca strategic association will decline 30% due to morale issues related to uncertainty among employees. Chevron expects the BRV to adopt a more private sector friendly hydrocarbons policy by 2009 due to production declines and fiscal pressure [...] | 2007-04-27 18:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS84 | CANTV'S PRESIDENT DISCUSSES NATIONALIZATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Econoffs met with CANTV President Gustavo Roosen and senior staff on January 11 to get their take on Chavez, plans to nationalize the Venezuelan telecommunications giant, of which Verizon owns 28.5 percent. Roosen noted that Chavez surprised everyone with the timing of his annou [...] | 2007-01-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS ENRG PGOV VE |
07CARACAS9 | ENDING 2006 ON A HIGH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Caracas Stock Exchange (BVC) is set to end 2006 at a record high (up 155 pct) as investors constrained by currency controls and sitting on piles of cash continue to seek out means to boost returns. As 2006 drew to a close, the BVC's high demonstrates the bubble mentality t [...] | 2007-01-03 15:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS959 | AN ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT: THE CRACKS ARE SHOWING [...] (SBU) Inflation continues to rise despite government efforts to talk it down, and the government's tools to drain liquidity are increasingly ineffective. Foreign exchange reserves have fallen by 33.5 percent this year. Government spending continues apace, with the BRV running a large, though [...] | 2007-05-11 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SOCI VE |
07CARACAS967 | UPDATE ON THE FAJA STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION MIGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: International oil companies (IOCs) believe PDVSA's assumption of operational control on May 1 went relatively smoothly. IOCs stated production numbers are holding stable, but the companies believe PDVSA will begin having problems operating the upgraders by the end of the year. A [...] | 2007-05-15 13:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ELAB VE |
07CARACAS988 | VENEZUELAN PRODUCTION AND OPERATING TRENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Private sector contacts place overall Venezuelan production at 2.1 to 2.3 million barrels a day, down from previous estimates of 2.4 to 2.6. The BRV has lifted OPEC production cuts on the four Faja strategic associations. PDVSA has been unable to find additional drilling rigs d [...] | 2007-05-18 20:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CASABLANCA10 | WOMEN'S NGO SAYS LAW CHANGED, NOT PRACTICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Volunteers and staff members of the NGO Union for Women's Action say that while Morocco's new Family Code has brought some change, its laws are not followed consistently in practice. Reasons cited include the inclination of some judges to ignore new statutes, the unwillingness of [...] | 2007-01-10 14:23:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV PREL MO |
07CASABLANCA102 | PROS AND CONS OF INVESTING IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Morocco is an increasingly attractive investment destination, as evidenced by the on-going series of events in Casablanca and other cities to discuss opportunities for potential investors. Many factors make Morocco a good place for Americans to invest, including the FTA, flexib [...] | 2007-06-07 09:15:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA117 | ELECTIONS WILL NOT AFFECT MOROCCAN ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In general, Casablancans feel that Morocco's political parties lack well-defined economic platforms as they go into the final three months before the September parliamentary election. This is due in part to the fact that many parties are old and have no tradition of presenting e [...] | 2007-06-22 16:38:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA118 | ALGERIA WEEK IN CASABLANCA PROMOTES ECONOMIC EXCHANGE, HOPE [...] (SBU) Summary: June 26 to July 1 marks Algeria Week in Casablanca, where Algeria is staging a week-long exhibition to promote business and investment opportunities between Morocco and Algeria. While the attendance of key royal family members and senior GOM officials at a lavish kick-off event [...] | 2007-06-29 15:03:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN KDEM AG MO |
07CASABLANCA130 | MOROCCO CAUTIOUSLY INTRODUCES ALTERNATIVE BANKING PRODUCTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Morocco's Central Bank and the Professional Group of Moroccan Banks (GPBM) have moved cautiously in recent months to introduce shariah-compliant financial instruments in Morocco. Banks have been authorized to issue a limited number of Islamic products, but are only allowed to r [...] | 2007-07-11 15:02:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA169 | FTA BENEFITS A MIRAGE SAYS MOROCCAN CEO [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Saad Bendidi, Chairman and CEO of palace-controlled conglomerate ONA, the Morocco-U.S. FTA is not significant. This is in part because Morocco produces little to allow it to take advantage of such bilateral agreements. In addition, the U.S. market's complexity make [...] | 2007-08-15 09:49:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFTA EFIN ETRD ECIN BEXP MO |
07CASABLANCA192 | CASABLANCA PORT'S CONGESTION CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. Explanations abound for the Port of Casablanca's congestion crisis, which has emerged over the last month as a major threat to Moroccan exports. Government and port officials suggest that an increase in imports and an overabundance of containers left in storage have precipitat [...] | 2007-09-22 10:47:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT MO |
07CASABLANCA195 | DEMYSTIFY THE MOROCCO-U.S. FTA TO PROMOTE IT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Morocco-U.S. FTA has brought many successful results, but Moroccan and American companies continue to seek ways to better understand and take advantage of it. While many Moroccans remain uncertain of how and if they can benefit from the FTA, many Americans remain unaware of [...] | 2007-10-03 16:43:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN MO |
07CASABLANCA198 | CASABLANCANS' ANGER OVER PRICE INCREASES HAS DISSIPATED, NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: Anger over price increases in Morocco is not a new phenomenon and can be explained in part by factors such as Ramadan speculation and lack of government planning. At the same time, many Casablancans contend that the problem is worse than in years past. Not only did price increa [...] | 2007-10-11 17:14:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA208 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:20:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA209 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:22:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA210 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:25:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA211 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Casablanca's business community finds the selection of the government's new ministers encouraging on the whole. Many were particularly pleased with the new Finance Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, who has a solid reputation as a capable practician. Despite finding many ministers [...] | 2007-10-27 13:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA24 | NGO ON APPEARANCE VERSUS REALITY IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The president of the Moroccan Association of Youth Against AIDS (A.M.J.C.S.) shared his perspective on the political and economic context in which Moroccan NGOs operate. His candid comments about government efforts to appear socially responsive, the disconnect between economic g [...] | 2007-02-01 17:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV PREL MO |
07CASABLANCA37 | CREATING JOBS OR JUST SKEPTICISM IN MOROCCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Moukawalati, the GOM's job creation initiative, offers young entrepreneurs loans, guidance and training to start their own businesses, with the ultimate goal of lowering unemployment. The program has been slow to get off the ground since its launch nearly seven months ago. This [...] | 2007-02-27 17:27:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA57 | GENUINE EFFORTS TO CURB COUNTERFEIT IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Difficulties encountered over the past year by the Consumer and Brand Protection Group (CBPG),a working group formed by several multi-national consumer goods companies to address the prevalence of counterfeit merchandise in Morocco, highlights the challenge of practically implemen [...] | 2007-03-20 14:19:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA66 | BANK CEO SAYS OPTIMISM JUSTIFIED IN MOROCCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: When it comes to Morocco, optimism characterizes the view of Othman Benjelloun, chairman and CEO of BMCE Bank. He attributes Morocco's positive environment to a healthy banking sector, a cooperative-minded Central Bank, and a booming economy. BMCE itself is doing well, and will soo [...] | 2007-04-04 18:11:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA71 | SECOND TRANSPORT STRIKE HAS MOROCCANS ON EDGE [...] (SBU) Summary: As Morocco enters the fourth day of its second transportation strike in less then a month, the country's citizens, economy, and government are paying a significant and growing price. The strike, initiated by a group of 46 taxi drivers unions and associations, was initially to l [...] | 2007-04-06 18:55:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON ETRD MO |
07CHENGDU12 | AIDS IN TIBETAN AREAS OF SICHUAN PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent conference on "Social Changes and Development in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan Areas," a researcher from the Sichuan Provincial Ethnic Research Institute said the HIV/AIDS situation in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province has grown more seriou [...] | 2007-01-11 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAID ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU124 | CHINA'S YUNNAN PROVINCE BUILDS OUT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Yunnan officials in southwest China see construction of new road, river, and rail links with neighboring ASEAN countries as the key to ending their mountainous and landlocked province's long history of isolation and stimulating economic growth. While provincial authorities disag [...] | 2007-05-15 04:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU129 | CHONGQING SCHOLARS DISCUSS CITY'S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. In a day of meetings with Chongqing academics, Embassy Beijing Econ M/C and Congenoff heard about some of the city's most pressing issues: the aftereffects of Three Gorges Dam construction, industrial reform, the plight of farmers and migrant workers. In addition, the city serv [...] | 2007-05-18 10:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU13 | HOW "HARMONIOUS" ARE SICHUAN'S TIBETAN AREAS? [...] (C) Summary: Social unrest in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province was serious in the first half of 2006, according to an ethnic Tibetan researcher from the Tibet Study Institute of Sichuan University. Ten "mass incidents" involving over 800 people principally stemmed from conflicts in caterpill [...] | 2007-01-11 07:59:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU14 | ON THE ROAD THROUGH SICHUAN'S ABA PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary. During a recent unofficial visit by Congenoff to Sichuan's Aba Prefecture (an ethnic Tibetan area),head monks at two temples complained of heavy-handed oversight by the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB),and police and military presences were heavy. Although the prefecture seat of [...] | 2007-01-11 08:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM SCUL SENV CH |
07CHENGDU140 | NOMADIC RESETTLEMENT AND THE NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local Animal Husbandry Bureau officials in Hongyuan County of western Sichuan Province's Aba (Tibetan: Ngaba) Prefecture, the central government has invested 30 million RMB (USD 3.9 million) to implement the "New Socialist Countryside" and facilitate the transitio [...] | 2007-06-04 08:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU143 | SICHUAN RESEARCHER ON CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan Province, the third largest in China, ranks only tenth in terms of economic development, according to Wang Xiaogang (strictly protect),Deputy Director of the Sichuan Development Research Institute. While the purpose of "Scientific Development" is to bridge the gap betwe [...] | 2007-06-05 07:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU144 | YUNNAN EARTHQUAKE -- TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS [...] (U) On June 3, Southwest China's Yunnan Province experienced an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. The quake hit Pu'er City, close to Yunnan's southern border with Burma, killing at least three, injuring 313, and leaving more than 180,000 people displaced, according to Chinese off [...] | 2007-06-05 09:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CASC CH |
07CHENGDU152 | LOCAL ISSUES DRIVE DISTURBANCES IN SOUTHWEST CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Early summer has seen the occurrence of several public disturbances in southwest China. Efforts by authorities to crack down on illegal vendors brought many people onto the streets in Chongqing, and a similar case in Chengdu resulted in the severe beating of a bystander. Although [...] | 2007-06-15 03:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU157 | CONVERSATIONS IN NORTHERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: Consulate Chengdu recently accompanied the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on a project monitoring trip to some of the highest and most remote areas of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). The TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) said it valued U.S. NGO pr [...] | 2007-06-25 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU158 | SOCIAL DISTURBANCES FLARE UP IN TIBETAN AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks there have been three separate social disturbances in Tibetan areas inside and outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Accounts of the incidents were originally reported in the international press. Recently, Post was able to confirm and learn more details [...] | 2007-06-25 09:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU182 | TWO MORE MASS INCIDENTS IN CHONGQING [...] (C) Summary. Coming hard on the heels of a spate of recent "mass incidents," (reftel),two more demonstrations in Chongqing appear to have involved thousands of people. One was sparked by the unsolved murder of a middle school student, the other by land takings for industrial development. In [...] | 2007-07-13 08:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU195 | TIBETAN LOCAL PARTY SECRETARY SACKED AFTER OUTBREAK OF [...] (C) According to Consulate contacts, west Sichuan Ganzi Prefecture Party Secretary Dorje Rabten was removed from his post following a violent clash on July 13 between two neighboring Tibetan townships (Sumdo and Danba) over caterpillar fungus harvesting rights. The contacts confirmed a July 18 [...] | 2007-07-24 05:40:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU206 | VIOLENCE FLARES ANOTHER YEAR AT LOCAL TIBETAN FESTIVAL [...] (C) Summary. Protests and arrests again marked the opening of a popular festival in Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture, with tensions between ethnic Tibetans and Han Chinese reportedly high. Travelers, local contacts, and the media also report sporadic violent incidents in other ar [...] | 2007-08-03 06:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU230 | SOUTHWEST CHINA'S TIBETAN AREAS - SIMMERING TENSIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan and Yunnan are under increased security pressure from government authorities in the wake of demonstrations in the town of Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture that were set off by the arrest of a man calling for the return of the Dalai Lama [...] | 2007-09-06 09:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU231 | POLITICAL CONTROL INCREASING IN SICHUAN'S GANZI PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary: Local sources indicate that officials in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are implementing new measures directed at affirming the loyalty of government and religious figures in the prefecture following the "August 1 Litang Incident" (reftel). End summary. 2. (C) [...] | 2007-09-07 08:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU236 | HIV/AIDS AND POLITICAL CONTROLS IN ONE OF TIBET'S MOST [...] (C) Summary: While optimistic their outreach efforts can have a positive impact, Swiss Red Cross representatives in China's Tibetan prefecture of Shigatse believe that a continued overall lack of education and awareness about HIV/AIDS, the spread of prostitution in the wake of increased number [...] | 2007-09-25 08:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | KHIV PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07CHENGDU243 | EVEREST AND BEYOND -- A RARE GLIMPSE INTO WESTERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: The remote western areas of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region are a mixture of active military facilities, sensitive religious sites, and vulnerable archeological ruins. The Everest Base Camp, at which a People's Armed Police station was recently added, has become a rather squalid [...] | 2007-10-09 04:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON CH |
07CHENGDU255 | FARMLAND TO FOREST IN SICHUAN: TIME FOR REEVALUATION? [...] (C) Summary. With an uneasy eye on the province's grain supply, Sichuan authorities are taking another look at the province's "Farmland to Forest Conversion" (tui geng huan lin, or FFC) program, originally implemented in 1999. Although authorities claim that the program has brought substantia [...] | 2007-10-25 09:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EAGR PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU269 | ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL STRESSES ON THE RISE IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: The Three Gorges Reservoir area of Chongqing may be under increasing environmental and social strains. Local authorities are devoting increased attention to the problems of landslides and erosion in resettled areas and recently formed a "specialized research group" to study "geol [...] | 2007-11-26 09:14:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU290 | ALONG THE CHINA-BURMA BORDER: WWII, DRUGS, HIV, AND JADE [...] (C) Summary: Common ethnic linkages, villages that hug or even straddle the border, a visa-free regime for local residents, spotty security controls, and corruption appear to facilitate a wide-open atmosphere in areas along China's border with Burma. One stretch of road outside the Chinese po [...] | 2007-12-12 09:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV SOCI SNAR CH |
07CHENGDU292 | HUKOU REFORM IN YUNNAN: BIG TALK, LITTLE ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Southwest China's Yunnan Province recently announced it would soon abolish the distinction between urban and rural household registrations (hukou),which if true might lead to dramatic changes in the province's migration patterns. However, financial requirements (announced with [...] | 2007-12-14 09:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU297 | A PRC SCHOLAR LOOKS AT LHASA'S FLOATING POPULATION [...] (C) Summary: The July 2006 opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway greatly boosted access to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) for both tourists and migrant workers, accelerating economic growth and ethnic Han immigration to the TAR. Sichuan University Tibetology Department PhD student Bao Do [...] | 2007-12-20 02:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU298 | THE TAR'S FLOATING POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad has accelerated the outsider-driven development of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Numerous official, academic, and other sources indicate that during at its peak the floating population is at least half of Lhasa's permanent reside [...] | 2007-12-20 03:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU30 | SOUTHWEST CHINA LEADERSHIP CHANGES FROM THE "PRINCELING" [...] (C) Summary: Discussing the prospects of key local government leaders, a well-connected Congen contact suggested it is possible Chengdu Party Secretary Li Chuncheng's promotion hopes could be somewhat dented due to real estate-related corruption in the city. New Sichuan Party Secretary Du Qin [...] | 2007-01-31 08:22:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR CH |
07CHENGDU33 | ORANGE GROVES AND CORRUPTION ALONG THE YANGTZE [...] (U) This cable contains business sensitive information - please protect accordingly. 2. (C) Summary. During a recent visit by Consul General and Congenoff to Chongqing's Zhongxian County, U.S. investors in a citrus cultivation project described the many trials and tribulations of trying to [...] | 2007-02-01 09:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR PGOV SENV CH |
07CHENGDU35 | CHONGQING ATTORNEY'S FIGHT FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent discussion with us on the challenges he faces trying to advocate for the rights of migrant workers, former People's Liberation Army soldier and Chongqing attorney Zhou Litai stressed that economic and political realities are putting the viability of his law firm [...] | 2007-02-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU36 | CHONGQING STRUGGLES WITH RURAL POVERTY, RESETTLEMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary. While Chongqing officials praise their own response to last summer's drought -- the worst in the region in over a century -- and speak optimistically of development prospects, necessary funding for water conservation, education, and health care may be lacking. The city of Fulin [...] | 2007-02-03 10:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU74 | WATER AND LAND USE IN SOUTHEASTERN YUNNAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although southeastern Yunnan boasts good soils, warm growing seasons, and adequate rainfall, its geology makes agriculture difficult in many areas. Land use patterns show a predominance of Han people in well-watered areas, with minorities tending to farm highland regions with l [...] | 2007-03-20 10:30:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU83 | TIBET FEELING THE IMPACT OF RAILROAD LINK FROM QINGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is already feeling the impact of the Qinghai-Tibet rail link that opened in July. Inland Chinese laborers, military personnel and tourists bunk side-by-side on the train as they take advantage of rail travel at a fraction of the cost of air [...] | 2007-03-28 00:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV ELTN EMIN EPET PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU88 | SED ENVOY HOLMER SEES WESTERN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-05 06:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN KIPR PGOV SENV CH |
07CHENGDU89 | INDICATIONS OF SOCIAL TENSIONS IN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: During a recent reporting trip to the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Consulate contacts detailed several examples of religious, inter-ethnic, and Tibetan/Han business disputes. While reports of conflicts between government officials and religious believers receive more international [...] | 2007-04-06 06:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU90 | TAR OFFICIALS TOUT BENEFITS OF NOMAD RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS [...] Summary: According to government officials in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),policies to resettle Tibetan nomads and pastoralists are not only good for the grassland, but are also good for the people because they improve living conditions and access to education and health care. In the [...] | 2007-04-06 06:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU91 | VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESETTLED [...] (C) Summary: In the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),local Poverty Alleviation, Animal Husbandry and Labor Bureaus are responsible for carrying out the job skills and vocational training programs that complement nomadic and pastoral resettlement policies. Officials acknowledge that changing [...] | 2007-04-06 08:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENNAI100 | BANGALORE CALM AFTER CAUVERY RIVER WATER VERDICT [...] (SBU) Summary: Bangalore remained calm on February 6 following an interstate river water tribunal verdict on February 5 over a long-simmering dispute involving the sharing of water that flows through the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Perceived injustice in Karnataka sparked impro [...] | 2007-02-06 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWWT ASEC CASC SOCI KCRM ECON IN |
07CHENNAI187 | INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] | 2007-03-10 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
07CHENNAI214 | CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] | 2007-03-20 11:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
07CHENNAI223 | CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] | 2007-03-22 08:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
07CHENNAI224 | INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] | 2007-03-22 08:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
07CHENNAI244 | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS USED TO DEVELOP TAMIL NADU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Deficit budgets and demands for more projects in Tamil Nadu have resulted in a tight funding climate for infrastructure projects. The state government has used public-private partnerships, in the form of dedicated companies known as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs),to finance much [...] | 2007-03-29 10:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV IN |
07CHENNAI289 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: TAMIL NADU'S MANUFACTURING BOOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recently announced proposed projects - an almost $1 billion automobile joint venture between India's Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, and Renault and a $30 million dollar investment by Dell - highlight Tamil Nadu's continued growth as a manufacturing hub. While Tamil Nadu also [...] | 2007-04-17 10:44:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI317 | LABOR SHORTAGES EMERGE IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: Five years of rapid economic growth in south India has increased the demand for skilled labor. Businesses are aggressively recruiting talent from elite schools, at the same time training up recruits from lower ranked institutions in an effort to get them ready to contribute. But the [...] | 2007-05-02 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI353 | ECONOMIC GROWTH DRIVES THE STORY IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: During a May 14-15 visit to Chennai, Charge d'Affaires Geoffrey R. Pyatt surveyed the dynamic economic climate in south India. Mr. Pyatt visited Ford India's manufacturing facility outside of Chennai, Cognizant Technology Solutions' campus in Chennai's IT corridor, and had lunch wit [...] | 2007-05-17 09:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV CVIS CMGT IN |
07CHENNAI398 | ANDHRA PRADESH SOFTWARE EXPORTS SOAR; NAIDU FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's information technology sector continues to boom, with software exports from the state increasing by almost 50% last year. Despite the growth in IT, politicians of all stripes, including the state's influential former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, are worri [...] | 2007-06-07 11:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI411 | HYDERABAD, LIKE BANGALORE, EXPANDS JURISDICTION TO MANAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh recently announced a plan to expand the limits of the state's capital Hyderabad with eye towards improving management of the city's rapid development. The primary purpose of the project, known as Greater Hyderabad, is to mitigate uneven infrastructure development by [...] | 2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI43 | TAMIL NADU RICE FARMERS DISRUPT GM CROP TRIALS [...] Summary: Farmers in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu destroyed a trial crop of genetically modified rice grown from seeds provided by Mahyco, Monsanto's Indian affiliate, on November 12. Local farmers allege the trial did not meet Indian bio-safety standards and said they feared possible "con [...] | 2007-01-18 05:07:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD ECIN TBIO IN |
07CHENNAI512 | KERALA PLANS LAW TO CURB CORPORATE RETAIL GIANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's leftist government is drafting a law to curb the entry of large corporations, whether multinational or Indian, into the retail sector. The state's Finance Minister says the law will regulate, not ban, the entry of corporations into the retail sector. Although media con [...] | 2007-08-14 11:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI518 | CODEL ENSIGN EXPERIENCES SOUTH INDIA'S HIGH-TECH SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator John Ensign (R-NV) made his first visit to Bangalore August 5-8 to see South India's info-tech boomtown firsthand. He met with top executives from several companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),Infosys, General Electric (GE),Brickwork, Texas Instruments [...] | 2007-08-22 06:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ECON EINV PGOV PREL SCUL CVIS IN |
07CHENNAI54 | CODEL SPECTER IN SOUTH INDIA: COMMUNISTS, COMPUTERS AND [...] (U) Summary: During a December 17-22 visit to the south Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) viewed first-hand India's high-tech and business boom, met with judicial officials and journalists, and experienced traditional culture and politics, the latter [...] | 2007-01-22 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON SCUL IN |
07CHENNAI569 | BELLWETHER PROJECT: ANDHRA PRADESH: ECONOMY BOOMING BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The economy of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh continues to boom. But despite strong economic growth led by the IT and pharmaceutical industries centered in the state's capital Hyderabad, the agricultural sector continues to lag and unemployment remains high. The r [...] | 2007-09-14 05:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PINR PHUM PTER KISL IN |
07CHENNAI593 | KERALA COMMUNISTS WORRY ABOUT COST OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has long been known for achieving a high level of social development despite poor economic growth and low incomes. Kerala's approach, known as the "Kerala model" of development, focuses on government spending on education and health care. [...] | 2007-09-21 06:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI606 | G/TIP VISITS RESCUED BONDED LABORERS IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Department's office charged with combating human trafficking visited South India to hear first-hand accounts from victims of bonded labor and to witness government and NGO programs designed to help them. He also spoke with Karnataka's Chief Secretary, who do [...] | 2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI611 | TENSIONS RISE IN BANGALORE AS HANDOVER DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Summary: The south Indian state of Karnataka (and its capital, Bangalore) appears set for several months of political turmoil, which may help Congress gain more than a dozen seats if national parliamentary elections are held in 2008. The ruling BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition is crum [...] | 2007-09-28 09:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
07CHENNAI620 | TURMOIL IN KARNATAKA AS GOVERNING COALITION TEETERS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Buoyed by unexpected success in the South Indian state of Karnataka's September 28 local elections, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular) party refused to hand over the position of Chief Minister (CM) on October 3 to its BJP coalition partner as required in their coalition agreement. [...] | 2007-10-05 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
07CHENNAI640 | CORRUPTION PLAGUES ANDHRA PRADESH'S BIG TICKET SPENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress party has been spending billions of dollars on social programs targeted at the "common man." The spending programs, though politically popular, have led to much talk that Chief Minister YSR Reddy's government is engaged in corruption beyond the [...] | 2007-10-22 11:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
07CHENNAI689 | BETRAYAL ENDS THE BJP'S WEEK-LONG REIGN IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: The BJP's first, brief taste of power in South India ended on November 19 when Karnataka's Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa resigned his position after a mere seven days in office. He submitted his resignation when it became clear that his government would fail to win its initial [...] | 2007-11-20 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
07CHENNAI694 | TAMIL NADU GARMENT INDUSTRY (MOSTLY) CHILD LABOR FREE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. In the span of just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. With a rapid growth creating a de [...] | 2007-11-28 11:31:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
07CHENNAI696 | TIRUPUR GARMENT INDUSTRY: EXPORT SUCCESS STORY ANXIOUS [...] SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. Over just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. The town's knitwear industry provides more than [...] | 2007-11-30 06:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |