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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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08KHARTOUM1033 | UNMIS REGIONAL COORDINATOR ON THE SITUATION IN ABYEI, UNMIS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 9 meeting with Consul General Juba, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan David Gressley described UNMIS support for restoring security to Abyei and the conditions that must be met before the UN will aid in the return of IDPs to the town. He also reviewed the p [...] | 2008-07-10 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1038 | CHADIAN REBELS SEEK NEGOTIATIONS WHILE WAITING FOR [...] (C) Chadian rebels are allegedly as strong and united as ever, but don't plan a major strike on Ndjamena until the next dry season, according to UFDD spokesman Mukhtar Yaya. In a meeting with polchief July 9 in Khartoum, Yaya claimed the UFDD is in control of two small towns in the northeast of [...] | 2008-07-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1039 | PREVENTING A DOWNWARD SPIRAL: NCP LEADER ON A [...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with Sudanese Presidential Advisor and NCP Parliamentary majority leader Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani July 10 to discuss the discomfiting possibility that a strong GOS response to ICC indictments will put CPA implementations on hold and affect US-Sudanese relations r [...] | 2008-07-10 15:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1043 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1044 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1045 | MFA OFFICIALLY WARNS OF "DISASTROUS, SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge to warn of "serious and disastrous consequences" if President Al-Bashir is indicted by the International Criminal Court. The Under-Secretary reiterated past requests (reftels) that the US use its influence to rein in ICC prosecutor Mo [...] | 2008-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1049 | EMBASSY KHARTOUM PREPARATIONS IN ADVANCE OF ANTICIPATED ICC [...] (SBU) One day before the anticipated announcement by the ICC of indictments against senior Sudanese regime officials, Khartoum remains calm but the city is rife with rumors and speculation about what will happen and how the regime and other political forces in the country will react to the indi [...] | 2008-07-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1051 | SPLM/GOSS PLOT AND PLAN FOR WORST-CASE GNU [...] (C) SUMMARY: The specter of an ICC indictment of President Bashir seems to have sent SPLM leadership circles in Juba into overdrive, spinning predictions of, and planning for, unrest and government reprisals. According to SPLM contacts, National Intelligence Security Services Chief Salah Ghosh [...] | 2008-07-13 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1052 | UN PREPARES FOR THE WORST IN DARFUR [...] (S/NF) The UN is preparing for the worst in Darfur and has drawn up evacuation plans for all of UNAMID, should that be required based on the actions Khartoum takes in response to the ICC indictments. Special assistants to JSR Adada and SRSG Qazi told polchief July 12 that JSR Adada and FC Agwa [...] | 2008-07-13 14:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1057 | SPLM - APRIL SHOWERS BRING JULY RESHUFFLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministerial absenteeism rates have soared in Juba as talk of a comprehensive reshuffle of SPLM ministers and commissioners in both Khartoum and Juba gains increasing credibility. Reportedly, presumptive candidate lists were frozen in mid-June as Vice President Riek Machar object [...] | 2008-07-14 10:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1059 | KIIR URGES BASHIR NOT TO OVERREACT FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: First Vice President Kiir and others have urged President Bashir to react calmly to the announcement of ICC indictments July 14, in hopes that the CPA and peace efforts in Darfur remain on track. Kiir is concerned at the prospect of a weakened GNU Presidency and notes that extremi [...] | 2008-07-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM106 | HAC PROMISES TO COOPERATE ON DAI ISSUE [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez met January 24 with Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Haroun Ron and Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Hassabo Abdel Rahman for the second time this week to attempt to resolve the issue of USAID-funded transition partner Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI). Post is concerne [...] | 2008-01-25 08:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1060 | NHIAL DENG NHIAL: SPLM POSITION REMAINS WAIT AND [...] (C) CG officers met with SPLM National Liberation Council member and ex-Regional Cooperation Minister Nhial Deng Nhial July 13 to hear his perspective on SPLM preparations in response of an ICC indictment against President Bashir. Nhial had extensive one-on-one discussions with Kiir over the w [...] | 2008-07-14 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1061 | AFTER BASHIR INDICTMENT, SUDAN TAKES THE HIGH ROAD [...] (SBU) End summary: While keeping a steady drumbeat of negative media coverage, numerous but small and peace demonstrations, and slightly heightened security measures, the Khartoum regime reacted in a measured and careful way on July 14 to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's announcement that h [...] | 2008-07-15 07:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1065 | DISAPPOINTED GNU INTENDS TO ENGAGE WITH ICC, WANTS [...] (C) Summary: The NCP plans to work with the SPLM to confront the ICC on legal grounds while simultaneously announcing a political initiative to solve the Darfur crisis, possibly naming FVP Salva Kiir to a committee that will develop and pursue the strategy. President Bashir is also sending FM [...] | 2008-07-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1067 | JEM AND SLA/U SHOW INCREASED COOPERATION IN GENEVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Europe-based representatives of SLA/Unity and JEM met in Geneva last week at meetings hosted by the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue ostensibly to discuss greater security for humanitarian operations in Darfur, but the workshop served as a springboard for mutual recognition and s [...] | 2008-07-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM107 | DDDC CONSULTATIONS ONGOING, BUT UNCOORDINATED [...] (SBU) Meeting with poloffs on January 23, Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation (DDDC) chair Abdul Mohamed painted a somber picture of the clumsy integration of UNAMID, the DDDC and the Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). According to Mohamed, no communications or administrative structure ha [...] | 2008-01-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1071 | UN DDR PROGRAM CITES POSSIBLE OBSTACLES [...] (SBU) Program Manager of the UN Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (IDDR) program Basil Massey told poloff on July 9 that signing of the June 25 UN-GOS IDDR agreement in Geneva (ref A) capped a six-month long effort to move the DDR program forward. Massey said that at the [...] | 2008-07-16 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1072 | UNAMID RECEIVES "FULL COOPERATION" FROM GOS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMID Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada told CDA Fernandez that the GOS has been providing and pledged to continue to provide full cooperation on UNAMID deployment, despite the recent ICC indictment of President Bashir. With regard to the July 8 attack on UNAMID forces i [...] | 2008-07-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1074 | MAHDI PROPOSES "THIRD WAY" WITH PRESIDENT BASHIR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CDA Fernandez met with Umma Party leader Sadiq al Mahdi July 16, only two hours before the two-time former Prime Minister was to meet with Sudanese President Bashir Mahdi said he is pushing the President and the NCP to moderate their response to the ICC indictments, and to u [...] | 2008-07-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1076 | UNAMID PEACEKEEPER KILLED BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS IN WEST [...] (SBU) The joint African Union-United Nations force in Darfur (UNAMID) reported that one of its peacekeepers was killed at approximately 1600 on July 16 in the remote area of Forobaranga in West Darfur, near the Chadian border. UNAMID has yet to release an official report, but UN Department of S [...] | 2008-07-17 08:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1081 | GOSS MINISTER BENJAMIN ON ABYEI AND THE ICC [...] (SBU) Summary: GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation Barnabas Benjamin indicated he is hopeful that GOSS President Salva Kiir will successfully negotiate with VP Taha July 17 a solution to the Administrator and Deputy Administrator for Abyei. As Kiir himself told the CDA, he hoped to get an a [...] | 2008-07-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1085 | REMAINDER OF CHINESE ENGINEERING CONTINGENT ARRIVES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Completing a slow process which began in mid-November 2007, the remainder of the 315-troop Chinese engineering unit arrived as anticipated on July 17 for their deployment in Nyala. The Chinese Embassy reported that UNAMID continues to experience logistical problems in delivering [...] | 2008-07-18 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1088 | NCP SENSITIVE ABOUT IMAGE PROBLEM, EAGER TO ENGAGE [...] (C) Summary: Just a few days prior to the announcement of the ICC indictment against President Bashir, on July 11 CDA and polchief met with senior NCP officials at the party headquarters in Khartoum to sound them out on possible solutions to Darfur and their impressions of relations with the U [...] | 2008-07-20 07:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1090 | SUDANESE HARDLINER: "WE NEED AMERICA'S HELP IN UN [...] (C) Summary: National Congress Party (NCP) hardliner Ali Karti said that Sudan feels let down by the United States not taking steps to prevent an ICC announcement of war crimes against President Al-Bashir, but seeks urgent American engagement on Darfur. Sudan is willing to entertain "any con [...] | 2008-07-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1092 | ICC INDICTMENT CHANGES THE DYNAMIC IN DARFUR; [...] (C) Since Abuja and the signing of the still-born DPA in 2006, Darfur experts have been puzzling for two years on how to change the dynamic in Darfur in order to enable a political process to gain traction. There was hope following UNSCR 1769 that deployment of UNAMID would improve the securi [...] | 2008-07-21 07:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1093 | DARFUR REBEL MOVEMENTS HINT AT COOPERATION WHILE MINNAWI [...] (SBU) Summary: Confidants of Minni Minawi report he has no immediate plans to return soon from Darfur. Meanwhile political representatives of JEM, SLA/MM, SLA/U and SLA/AW all hint at a new, grass-roots political initiative among Darfur rebel groups. JEM reports cooperation with SLA/AW, SLA/Un [...] | 2008-07-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1098 | ARAB LEAGUE NEGOTIATES FOUR-POINT PLAN WITH GOS ON [...] (C) In response to the ICC indictment of President Bashir, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa negotiated a four-point plan with GOS officials July 21 in Khartoum, according to AU Ambassador to Sudan Dr. Salah Halima and UNMIS polchief Muin Shreim. Halima told polchief and Shreim he is "o [...] | 2008-07-22 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1099 | SUDAN "FORMALLY ACCEPTS THAI AND NEPALESE UNITS," [...] (SBU) UN DSRSG for Humanitarian Affairs Amira Haqq and the entire UN agency team provided donor principals a comprehensive review on July 22 of the UN civilian presence on the ground in Darfur in the wake of their decision to go to Phase IV operations and draw down staff numbers as a precautio [...] | 2008-07-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM110 | GOS SQUEEZE ON NON-SIGNATORIES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the December 30 arrest of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representative GEN Mohamed Bashir in El Fasher, the Government of Sudan (GoS) finally released Bashir but has ordered all non-signatory representatives to the ceasefire commission to leave El Fasher. As the [...] | 2008-01-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM1103 | UN PROPOSES TO TRAIN AND EQUIP ABYEI BASED JOINT INTEGRATED [...] (SBU) UNMIS Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup told poloff July 14 that the UN has proposed a Joint Integrated Police Unit (JIPU) Rapid Deployment Package (RDP) to jointly train the anticipated 1,000-troop JIPU in Abyei. He said that that the $835,000 RDP, if funded and implemented, would quickly [...] | 2008-07-23 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1107 | PRESIDENT BASHIR ADDRESSES EL FASHER [...] (SBU) For the first time in over a year, President Bashir traveled to Darfur and delivered a speech in El Fasher July 23, declaring the government's commitment to peace and economic development in Darfur. Addressing a crowd of thousands at an event with a heavy security presence, Bashir acknowl [...] | 2008-07-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1109 | PROMINENT RIGHTS LAWYER PREDICTS BASHIR WILL GIVE UP HAROUN [...] (SBU) Summary: At the urging of the Arab League, the GOS has backed off from grand demonstrations and alarming public statements regarding the recent ICC indictment, according to famed Sudanese human rights lawyer and MP Salih Mahmoud Osman. Osman predicts that the GOS intends to surrender Ahm [...] | 2008-07-24 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM111 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT: SOME PROGRESS BUT WELL BEHIND SCHEDULE [...] (SBU) Egyptian political officer Tamer Azzam told poloff January 24 that Egyptian troops for three separate UNAMID deployments are poised to arrive in February and should complete their deployment by the end of April. Azzam said that the Egyptian contingent's equipment had arrived at Port Suda [...] | 2008-01-25 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1110 | RESPONSE TO UNCLASS STATE 43120, INFORMATION ON FORCED AND [...] (U) As requested under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, Section 105, post has no reason to believe that goods produced in Sudan are produced with forced or child labor in violation of international standards. While child labor is rife in Sudan, high unemployment m [...] | 2008-07-24 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1117 | PRESIDENT BASHIR DANCES THROUGH DARFUR TO A [...] (SBU) Summary: President Al-Bashir used a whirlwind visit to the capitals of Darfur's three states July 23-24 to highlight a total rejection of possible ICC indictments against him. He also offered his most inclusive and personal vision ever of a peaceful and united Darfur while freely admitti [...] | 2008-07-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1118 | RESPONSE CABLE: DEMARCHE TO GOSS ON SPLM PARTY [...] (C) CG Juba spoke with SPLM SG Pagan Amum regarding the proposed SPLM party leadership strategy session in Washington the week of August 18. Amum plans to present two proposals to SPLM Chairman Kiir and told us he should have a decision by the week of July 27. The first proposal would be for [...] | 2008-07-27 13:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1119 | SPLA PURCHASES RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS AND BEGINS PILOT [...] (SBU) The newly-established Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Air Force is awaiting the delivery of ten Mi-17 helicopters that are being manufactured by the Russian Kazan Helicopter Plant. In preparation of this equipment's arrival, SPLA troops are undergoing air maintenance, repair, and fl [...] | 2008-07-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM112 | DARFUR: THE PEACE PROCESS ON THE EVE OF THE AU [...] (C) Fifteen months after the Addis Ababa agreement of November 2006, the Darfur peace process has not advanced. Disarray within and among the rebel movements has confounded UN and AU mediators, alleviated any pressure on Khartoum to make political concessions, and stalled negotiations. No via [...] | 2008-01-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1120 | SPLM VICE CHAIRMAN MALIK AGAR ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 26 meeting with ConGen Juba, Blue Nile State Governor and Vice Chairman of the SPLM Malik Agar said that the SPLM will contest the 2009 elections from top to bottom, and that party support to GOSS President Kiir is "solid." End summary. 2. (SBU) Meeting on the margin [...] | 2008-07-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1121 | UNMIS REGIONAL COORDINATOR ON THE SITUATION IN ABYEI AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 25 meeting with ConGen Juba, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan David Gressley reported that over a thousand SAF have now withdrawn from Abyei, leaving only approximately 100 in Abyei town who are expected to leave on the 26th or 27th of July. Gressley plann [...] | 2008-07-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1122 | SPLM SG OPTMISTIC ON ELECTION COMMISSION CREATION [...] (SBU) SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum told ConGen Juba July 23 that he was confident the National Elections Commission (NEC) would be established and operable before the end of August. The National Congress Party has already finalized its list of candidates, and allowed three names to be dis [...] | 2008-07-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1123 | MICHAEL MAKUEI AND THE SPLM ETHNIC BALANCING ACT [...] (SBU) Beyond the increasingly standard array of agenda items linked to the SPLM/NCP relationship and the CPA's implementation, this weekend's SPLM Political Bureau meeting, the party's first since the National Convention, will focus mainly on neutralizing the constant threat to Southern stabili [...] | 2008-07-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1124 | DESERT ARAB SHEIKH COMPLAINS OF GOS INDIFFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: A North Kordofan desert Arab sheikh told poloff that Darfur insecurity has changed the way camels from the region are transported to Libya - by truck to avoid raids by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and take advantage of empty trucks returning to Libya. He criticized JEM [...] | 2008-07-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1126 | GOSS MINISTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS ON ICC, ELECTIONS, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-27 14:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1128 | PLANNING FOR A U.S. TRADE DELEGATION TO SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ETRD PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1129 | SPLM FORGES A STRATEGY ON ICC AND DARFUR [...] (C) In advance of the SPLM Political Bureau meeting in Juba July 26 and 27, CDA, DCM, and polchief met with SPLM D/SG Yasir Arman in Khartoum July 25. Arman said the Political Bureau would finalize a plan on Darfur that he and fellow SPLM Darfur Task Force leader Abdelaziz Helou had already d [...] | 2008-07-28 14:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1130 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: ATTACK ON SLM/MM, URF DISSOLUTION, AND JEM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 28, Minni Minnawi and two other SLM/MM leaders confirmed reports that a Government of Sudan (GoS) security force attacked and killed four SLM policemen on July 26 in North Darfur. SLM/MM leaders described the event as an "intentional attack" on their movement coinciding [...] | 2008-07-29 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1131 | NCP STRATEGIST ON THE REGIME'S PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: CDA and DCM met on July 27 with Dr. Sayed el Khatib, director of Khartoum's Center for Strategic Studies, the National Congress Party's (NCP) think-tank. Khatib, who played a key role in the NCP,s negotiation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with the Sudan People,s [...] | 2008-07-29 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1134 | SPLM POLITICAL BUREAU CONSIDERS ELECTIONS AND ICC [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last three days ConGen Juba has held separate discussions with four members of the SPLM Political Bureau (PB) that met in Juba over the July 26 and 27 weekend and two other senior members of the GOSS. Despite press reports that GOSS President Salva Kiir has announced th [...] | 2008-07-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1137 | UNAMID'S REPORTED FAILURE TO MOVE 3000 CONTAINERS [...] (SBU) UNAMID has over 3000 containers in Port Sudan and El Obeid, Kordofan waiting for transportation to Nyala, Darfur, according to a UNAMID administrative officer. At least half of these are in El Obeid. According to the officer and to other sources in the NGO and diplomatic community in Kh [...] | 2008-07-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM114 | NCP NAMES A NEW BUREAU OF STATISTICS CHIEF THREE MONTHS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-27 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1140 | FM DENG ALOR ON ICC AND ABYEI INTRIGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 07:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1149 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID and Egyptian embassy sources told us that half of the anticipated 335 Egyptian engineers arrived July 24 and fully expect the remainder within the coming month. In addition, Egyptian advance teams arrived to prepare for the arrival of the 850-troop Egyptian infantry battal [...] | 2008-07-31 14:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1151 | CODEL PAYNE VISIT TO SUDAN (AUG 9-11) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Due to the August 8-15 visit to Sudan of Presidential Envoy to Sudan Richard Williamson, Post regrets that it will be unable to fully support the visit by CoDel Payne to Southern Sudan during reftel timeframe. Unfortunately, the proposed August 9-11 dates for CoDel Payne to US [...] | 2008-08-01 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1157 | EU SPECIAL ENVOY SEES OPPORTUNITY IN KHARTOUM'S [...] (C) The European Union's Special Envoy for Sudan, Torben Brylle, sees both opportunity and peril in what he described as "Khartoum's new flexibility" in the wake of an announcement by ICC Prosecutor Ocampo about indicting President Al-Bashir for war crimes. In a meeting with Charge Fernandez [...] | 2008-08-03 07:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1158 | UMMA PARLIAMENTARIAN TURABI URGES SAF-US DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 29 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Umma Party Parliamentarian Mudawi al Turabi claimed to have Presidential approval to initiate discussions for cooperation on civil affairs between the Sudeanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the U.S. Defense Department, including engineering proj [...] | 2008-08-03 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1164 | SUDAN COMPLAINS ABOUT USUN VOTE, COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry called in Charge Fernandez to formally complain about remarks made at USUN on July 31 which seem to imply that the United States is supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) bringing war crimes and genocide charges against President Al-Bashir. [...] | 2008-08-03 12:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1172 | ABYEI "BREAKTHROUGH" UNRAVELS THREE DAYS AFTER [...] (C) FM Deng Alor explained to CDA Fernandez late on August 3 that a potential Abyei "breakthrough" aimed at providing an interim administration for the troubled region had unraveled only 72 hours after he had informed us of the details (reftel a). Alor and National Congress Party (NCP) lead ne [...] | 2008-08-04 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1174 | MSF Evacuates Staff in North Darfur Following Attacks on [...] (U) On August 1, the humanitarian organization Mdecins Sans Frontihres (MSF) announced that it had suspended activities and evacuated staff from Tawila and Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur, following violent attacks on MSF compounds. In two separate but similar attacks, groups of armed men enter [...] | 2008-08-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PHUM AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM118 | MFA WARNS CDA OF POSSIBLE HARSH COUNTERMEASURES ON EMBASSY [...] (SBU) A grim-faced Americas Department Office Director Abdel Basit Sanusi called CDA Fernandez in on January 26 to warn of the possibility of a series of Sudanese counter-measures against the US Embassy (and the CDA) in response to what the Sudanese see as a series of recent provocations by the [...] | 2008-01-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1182 | SPLM LEADERS SEE "GOLDEN OPPORUNITY" TO DEAL ON ICC [...] (C) Summary: SPLM leaders meeting in Khartoum on August 4 outlined a possible way forward on the disputed region of Abyei. They also pressed the US to see the potential ICC indictment of President Al-Bashir as "an opportunity for engagement, not isolation" with Khartoum and outlined what they [...] | 2008-08-05 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1184 | BASHIR OFFERS FEW DETAILS ON DARFUR INITIATIVE TO JEM AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite showing a renewed interest in Darfur, Sudanese President Bashir has so far offered few concrete or specific ideas for solving the region's problems, say contacts from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM). [...] | 2008-08-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1186 | AU URGES INCREASED GOS COOPERATION ON DARFUR, SUSPENSION OF [...] (SBU) The head of the AU Liaison Office in Khartoum, Ambassador Mahmoud Kane, told poloff on August 5 that AU Commission Chairman Ping's August 3 visit to Sudan was part of the AU's continuing efforts to urge Sudan's cooperation on Darfur issues. Seeking to downplay the significance of the eve [...] | 2008-08-06 04:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM12 | AIR OPERATIONS UNDER UNAMID SUFFER TRANSITION PAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN has agreed to allow Canadian-financed helicopter contractor Skylink to provide air support to UNAMID until March 31, 2008. However, in a change from AMIS operations, the UN prohibits UN personnel to use Skylink aircraft resulting in large numbers of UN personnel waiting f [...] | 2008-01-04 10:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1200 | THE RISING COST OF LIVING IN KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Summary: An informal survey conducted by Embassy staff showed that the cost of living in Khartoum has increased drastically over the past several months. While Sudan is certainly not immune to international commodity pricing pressures, the high cost of food staples has been compounded by [...] | 2008-08-07 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1201 | FUR LEADERS CLEAVE TO SPLM, OUTLINE PRIORITIES [...] (C) CDA Fernandez met on August 7 with traditional Fur tribal leaders from Nyala in South Darfur, Ahmed Rajal (Maqdoum of the Fur) and Suleiman Ishaq just returning from an SPLM-organized conference in Juba of Sudan's marginalized people (including Darfuris, Easterners like the Beja, and Nubia [...] | 2008-08-07 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1203 | FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR URGES P-3 ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor requested an urgent meeting with CDA Fernandez August 6 to brief him on the latest developments on the ICC and Abyei. On the ICC, the SPLM has urged President Bashir to "engage with the ICC now" as well as with the P-3 in order to seek a possible deal on deferring th [...] | 2008-08-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1205 | NEWSPAPER HOSTS AN ICC DEBATE: SAME STUFF, DIFFERENT WAY [...] (U) On August 6, the Khartoum-based Sudan Vision newspaper hosted an event regarding the recent actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) entitled "Ocampo's Allegations: International Justice or Colonial Agendas." While the event seemed to promise a forum that would explore multiple pe [...] | 2008-08-08 10:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO KPAO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1208 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH GOSS PRESIDENT SALVA [...] (C) Summary: The formation of the Abyei Interim Administration and the deployment of police to Abyei may allow IDPs to begin to return to the troubled region, once the Chief Administrator indicates that the time is right, GOSS President Salva Kiir told visiting Special Envoy Williamson August [...] | 2008-08-11 06:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1209 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH DAVID GRESSLY, UNMIS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On August 9, Special Envoy Williamson met with David Gressly, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan, to discuss the situation in Abyei and the ICC indictment. During the meeting in Khartoum, Gressly cited recent successes in the political situation throughout Sudan. However, he e [...] | 2008-08-11 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM121 | EL FASHER IDP REP ON HILAL APPOINTMENT AND UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 27 meeting with FieldOff, a representative of Abu Shouk internally displaced persons (IDP) camp gave a local perspective on latest Darfur events, including the appointment of former janjaweed militia leader Sheikh Musa Hilal to the post of Advisor to the Minister of [...] | 2008-01-28 11:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1210 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH DARFURI CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 10, Special Envoy Williamson held two separate meetings with Darfuri civil society leaders to discuss the peace process in Darfur, humanitarian concerns and insecurity in the region. The leaders painted a dire picture of the situation on the ground, underscored by rampa [...] | 2008-08-11 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1211 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH SLM/MM LEADERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 9, senior leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) told Special Envoy Williamson that the Darfur Peace Agreement remains in a state of neglect. SLM/MM leaders also criticized UNAMID, President Bashir's vague Darfur initiative, and the show of [...] | 2008-08-11 09:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1212 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM ENVOY ANDERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During Special Envoy Richard Williamson's August 9 meeting in Khartoum with Norwegian Petroleum Envoy Anders Hannevik, Williamson advocated NCP-SPLM negotiations on sharing petroleum revenues and on determining the North-South border in advance of the 2011 Referendum in which So [...] | 2008-08-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1213 | LRA LEADER KONY CONTACTS CHISSANO [...] (SBU) According to United Nations Mission In Sudan (UNMIS),a representative of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony has been in telephone contact with United Nations Special Envoy Joaquim Chissano and allegedly communicated that Kony will sign a peace agreement on August 15, 2008 at [...] | 2008-08-11 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1214 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH UMMA LEADER SADIQ AL [...] (C) Umma party leader and two-time former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi invited the SE Williamson delegation to dinner at his home in Omdurman on August 9. Al Mahdi called the ICC indictment of President Bashir a "god-send" and expressed hope that the GOS response to the indictment will help [...] | 2008-08-12 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1215 | SE WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO ABYEI AND AGOK [...] (C) Summary: SE Williamson visited Abyei and Agok on August 10. UNMIS security, civil affairs, and force protection officers based at UNMIS headquarters in Abyei town who were present during the heavy fighting in mid-May provided an account of events. They suggested that more troops and armo [...] | 2008-08-12 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1219 | ICC INDICTMENTS: THE TIMING IS ALL WRONG SAY SUDANESE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Sudan awaits a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on whether to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Bashir, Sudanese scholars and African diplomats in Khartoum we have spoken with predictably believe that while atrocities have been committed in Darfu [...] | 2008-08-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1223 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 12, senior UNAMID officials briefed SE Williamson at UNAMID headquarters in El-Fasher. Officials complained of growing insecurity, significant and ongoing delays in deployment, and an ambitious (and most likely unrealistic) plan to make up for lost time. SE Williamso [...] | 2008-08-13 09:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1225 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 12 White House Special Envoy for Sudan (SE) Richard Williamson met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail. He was accompanied by the CDA, State/L Christine Sanford, SE Staff Assistants and Poloff (notetaker.) SE Williamson began the meeting by expressing app [...] | 2008-08-14 07:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1230 | JEM ACKNOWLEDGES ATTACK ON UNAMID HELICOPTER BUT SHIFTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 11, JEM fighters on Jebel Moon fired on a UNAMID helicopter which they thought was a GoS aircraft. JEM later released a press statement acknowledging its error, but both in this statement and in a contact with the field commander responsible for the unit, JEM attempte [...] | 2008-08-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1232 | WHERE OIL AND DARFUR INTERSECT - FIGHTING REPORTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following reports of fighting in North Darfur, SLA/AW Commander Suleiman Marajan told poloff via satellite phone on August 14 that there was significant fighting between his forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces on August 10 and 11 near Wadi Atrun, an area Marajan claimed oil exp [...] | 2008-08-14 14:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1236 | UNAMID PLANS TO ELIMINATE CONTAINER BACKLOG [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID estimates that it requires significantly enhanced cargo-transport capacity if it is to deploy planned, additional military and police personnel before the end of the year. UNAMID's ambitious goals, including additional cargo aircraft and material handling equipment, appe [...] | 2008-08-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1238 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: On 14 August Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson met with Dr. Awad Ahmed Aljaz, the Minister of Finance and close confidante of President Bashir. Aljaz dismissed SE Williamson,s concerns about oil revenue sharing as unfounded and asserted that all the real problems in Sudan [...] | 2008-08-15 12:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1239 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH EU AMBASSADORS [...] (C) Summary: On August 13 SE Williamson met with EU Ambassadors in Khartoum, at their request, to brief them on his latest visit to Sudan. Recounting details of his trip to Abyei, SE Williamson noted that he was encouraged by progress there, adding that a political solution there represented th [...] | 2008-08-15 12:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1240 | DARFURI LAWYERS DISMISSIVE OF NEW DARFUR CHIEF PROSECUTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On 13 August Poloff met with Faroug Adam, a member of the Darfuri Bar Association to discuss the appointment of Nimer Ibrahim Mohamed as the Chief Prosecutor of war crimes in Darfur. Adam noted that the absence of war crimes and genocide from Sudan's legal code, along with Moham [...] | 2008-08-15 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1241 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: SE Williamson and Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie agreed to consider a resumption in bilateral discussions, possibly with a "re-calibrated" focus. Williamson stated several times during the meeting that President Bush's primary concern in Sudan is humanitarian, stating that " [...] | 2008-08-15 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1258 | SLA/UNITY: WE WILL SUBMIT TO ICC IF INDICTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 18, leaders of SLA/Unity pledged their cooperation with the International Criminal Court, even if the ICC issues indictments against them or their SLA/Unity brethren. SLA/Unity leaders also separately told poloff via satphones that they support Luis Moreno Ocampo's req [...] | 2008-08-19 07:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1270 | UNAMID NIGHT FLIGHT CLARIFICATION [...] (U) On August 17, the Sudan Tribune online reported that the GoS has permitted UNAMID to conduct night flights in Darfur. The article reports that "eight months after the start of the hybrid mission, the Sudanese government agreed to allow the AU-UN peacekeeping force to fly at night, the head [...] | 2008-08-20 05:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1272 | BEJA CONGRESS DISSIDENTS SLAM BEJA LEADERSHIP, [...] (C) Summary: On August 18 poloff met with two individuals claiming to be part of a Port Sudan-based dissident faction of the Beja Congress that had opposed the signing of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA). They characterized the ESPA as a sham agreement that served only to improve relat [...] | 2008-08-20 08:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1276 | WHILE DARFUR PLANS ABOUND, FOCUS SHOULD BE HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last month, many politicians, opposition political parties, and civil society representatives have announced their proposals for ending the crisis in Darfur (see para 10 for a list of many of these initiatives). On August 19, three different groups and individuals (t [...] | 2008-08-21 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1278 | EASTERN FRONT: AMNA DIRAR DISCUSSES LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: On August 20 polchief and poloff met with Dr. Amna Dirar, Presidential Advisor and Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Front. Dirar stated that she and other members of the Eastern Front had voted to suspend Chairman Musa Mohamed Ahmed because his decision to organize a conference for t [...] | 2008-08-21 13:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM128 | FREED DUP LEADER ALI HASSANEIN: DEMOCRATIZATION AT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with CDA Fernandez on January 24 for the first time since his New Year's Eve release from prison, fiesty Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Secretary-General Ali Mahmoud Hassanein called for a SIPDIS democratic process in Sudan in which political parties abandon th [...] | 2008-01-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU AU PGOV UN |
08KHARTOUM1280 | LONDON-BASED HUMAN RIGHTS NGO CORRUPT, CO-OPTED BY NCP SAY [...] (U) Summary: Human rights advocates and Khartoum-based lawyers have revealed that Sudan's highest-profile international NGO, London-based Sudanese Organization Against Torture (SOAT),has stopped transferring grant funds to its Sudan-based representative organizations. Accusing SOAT of falling [...] | 2008-08-22 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1282 | EASTERN FRONT CHAIRMAN MUSA MOHAMED AHMED URGES [...] (C) Summary: On August 21 polchief and poloff met with Assistant to the President and Eastern Front Chairman Musa Mohamed Ahmed. Ahmed praised the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) for returning peace to the East, and noted that good progress was being made overcoming obstacles to its full [...] | 2008-08-22 11:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1283 | SPLM CONCERNED ABOUT BASHIR'S RHETORIC, REPORT [...] (C) During a meeting with A/CDA Asquino and polchief May 20, GNU State Ministers of Agriculture and Justice expressed their concerns about recent statements by President Bashir during his visit to Turkey. Specifically, they are concerned about Bashir's threat that he would expel UN peacekeeper [...] | 2008-08-22 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1284 | DEFENSE LAWYERS, UNMIS SRSG AND OTHERS CRITICIZE GOS TRIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese courts have sentenced fifty people to death for participation in the May 10 JEM attacks. Defense lawyers criticized the proceedings as flawed and unconstitutional, and UNMIS SRSG Ashraf Qazi issued a statement questioning the constitutionality of the courts and proceedin [...] | 2008-08-22 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1288 | JUBA JOURNALISTS DISCUSS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: At ConGen Juba's monthly journalism club gathering 16 media representatives related their pessimism regarding the readiness of civil society to support the highly complex elections in 2009, but agreed that even if the outcome is flawed, the creation of a democratic state is an ev [...] | 2008-08-25 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM129 | SPLM FORGES A STRATEGY ON ICC AND DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 14:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1293 | ABYEI JOINT SECURITY UNITS SEVERELY HAMPERED BY EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to offers by donor countries to contribute to the newly-formed JIU and JIPU in Abyei, UNMIS has proposed a partnership package, including a donor trust fund, to facilitate donations. However, lack of will and both UN and Sudanese bureaucracy threaten to prevent the [...] | 2008-08-25 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1294 | ABYEI JOINT SECURITY UNITS SEVERELY HAMPERED BY EQUIPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to offers by donor countries to contribute to the newly-formed JIU and JIPU in Abyei, UNMIS has proposed a partnership package, including a donor trust fund, to facilitate donations. However, lack of will and both UN and Sudanese bureaucracy threaten to prevent the [...] | 2008-08-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1296 | DDR PROGRESSES: CHANTING HAKAMA WOMEN URGE THEIR MEN TO [...] (U) On August 20, Emboffs traveled to the South Kordofan village of Lagawa, to attend a ceremony sponsored by the UN Demobilization, Disarmament and Re-integration (DDR) Unit, celebrating the final performance of the Lagawa "Hakamat" and the distribution of goats to its members. 2. (U) Th [...] | 2008-08-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1297 | GOSS VP MACAHR CONTINUED OBJECT OF SUSPICION BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar is the object of continued reports by SPLA intelligence sources accusing him of conspiracies to undermine GOSS President Salva Kiir and assume leadership of Southern Sudan. This deep level of distrust of one of the [...] | 2008-08-26 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1298 | NCP EAGER FOR CONTINUED BILATERAL TALKS, FLEXIBLE [...] (C) During meetings with A/CDA Asquino and polchief August 25, two senior NCP regime insiders expressed a strong desire to resume bilateral discussions with the US. MFA U/S (and senior NCP official) Mutriff Siddiq told us that while the NCP would like another round of bilateral talks soon, th [...] | 2008-08-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1300 | UPDATE ON FIGHTING IN KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: On August 25, USAID staff received reports of fighting and casualties in Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, South Darfur (REFTEL). UNAMID stated that armed IDPs had set up human shields and fired first on GOS forces assembled outside the camp, and UNAMID managed [...] | 2008-08-26 15:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1302 | RIZEIGAT, MISSERIYA TRIBAL FIGHTING IN SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting that began on August 20 between Misseriya and Rizeigat herders resulted in the deaths of more than 60 people in South Darfur. Misseriya elder Kamil Nimir downplayed the violence, characterizing it as a dispute over access to water that spiraled out of control due to th [...] | 2008-08-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1303 | KALMA IDP CAMP UPDATE [...] (SBU) UNAMID sources confirmed that 33 IDPs were killed on August 25, with 31 buried inside the camp following the fighting, and two dying at the hospital in Nyala. The embassy received an unconfirmed report from Fur tribal leaders that of the 33 dead, 11 women were killed, two of whom were pr [...] | 2008-08-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1311 | KALMA CAMP UPDATE, AUGUST 28 [...] (SBU) As photos circulated on the internet of Kalma IDPs burying their dead from the August 25 violence, political actors in Darfur remain uncertain on how to deal with the events that left 32 IDPs dead, and up to 17 police officers injured. Ali Mahmoud, Wali of South Darfur, was vocal in his d [...] | 2008-08-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1312 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 26 and 27, six senior leaders of UNAMID separately discussed UNAMID deployment issues with poloffs. Most officials dismissed 80% deployment by December 31 as unrealistic, but predicted this goal may be reached by March 2009 if UNAMID completes upgrades to Darfur's air [...] | 2008-08-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1315 | KALMA CAMP UPDATE, AUGUST 29 [...] (SBU) UNDSS Chief for South Darfur Abdalla Janakat provided additional details on the August 25 attack by GOS police forces on Kalma Camp. He told poloff in Nyala August 28 that 60 GoS vehicles surrounded the camp on the morning of the August 25 attack. He said IDPs likely had intelligence o [...] | 2008-08-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM132 | SOUTHERN NCP REP: "WE DO NOT WANT TO BE USED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jock Dei Deng, Southerner and NCP representative in the GoSS, warned that the 2009 elections will stir up violence and may splinter the South. He said that the North will use this opportunity to prevent or delay the 2011 referendum. He expressed concern that the NCP may use its [...] | 2008-01-29 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPKO PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1323 | GOVERNANCE CAPACITY IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) was created with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2005. No government of its kind existed before it in Southern Sudan -- the earlier Executive Council that resulted from the 1972 Addis Ababa Accords did not have anyw [...] | 2008-09-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1327 | GOSS VICE PRESIDENT MACHAR ON ELECTIONS AND ICC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar maintains that the SPLM has committed itself to elections at all costs, and that the party has refused to allow itself to be held hostage by declining implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The VP claim [...] | 2008-09-01 13:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF DPKO SOCI UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1328 | INTERNATIONAL NGOS IN DARFUR FACE "SHRINKING HUMNATITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior UN humanitarian officials report that, despite improved cooperation with the Khartoum Government, international NGOs (INGOs) in Darfur are facing increased scrutiny and harassment from state authorities, possibly in connection with ICC prosecutor Ocampo's request that [...] | 2008-09-01 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ASEC AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1329 | REGIME INSIDER ACKNOWLEDGES KALMA CAMP MASSACRE, [...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez called on MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq September 1 to discuss the Kalma Camp attack. CDA Fernandez told Siddiq that events in Kalma camp in South Darfur constituted a massacre of civilians, including many women and children, and urged the GOS to bring the perpet [...] | 2008-09-01 14:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAID KPKO PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1331 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1332 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1333 | MORE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM DARFUR STATE POSITIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 18 SPLM officials formally withdrew from their posts in the state governments of North, South, and West Darfur in protest over the August 25 Kalma attack. Other opposition groups including SLM/MM may also withdraw, as Minni Minnawi vowed on August 30 that he will aut [...] | 2008-09-02 04:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1334 | FUR TRADITIONAL LEADER INCENSED BY KALMA VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) On September 1, Charge d'Affaires Fernandez met with the Fur "Maqdoom" of South Darfur Ahmed Adam Rijal, to convey his private condolences to the Fur leader following the killings of at least 33 IDPs at Kalma camp on August 24. Visibly upset, the Maqdoom recounted that this tragedy is p [...] | 2008-09-02 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1336 | MACHAR EXPECTS SEPTEMBER 6 MEETING WITH LRA [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 28 meeting with ConGen Juba, GOSS Vice President Riek Machar expressed his confidence that LRA Leader Joseph Kony would meet him in Rikwangba on September 6 to discuss the Juba Peace Agreement. Machar thought it possible Kony would sign the agreement on that day, al [...] | 2008-09-02 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1337 | MORE DETAILS COMING OUT ABOUT KALMA CAMP ATTACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As access improves to Kalma camp, GoS officials, and the Nyala hospital, more details are filtering out about what happened in the August 25 attack. The primary emergency care doctor at Nyala told poloff on August 30 that the injuries sustained by the IDPs were "massive" and i [...] | 2008-09-02 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1343 | RIZEIGAT ARAB LEADER PROPOSES GRASSROOTS CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez called on prominent Rizeigat Arab and civil society leader Dr. Waleed Madibbo Mousa September 2 to discuss the latest developments in Darfur. Madibbo stated that the NCP regime is incapable of solving the Darfur crisis, which is increasingly threatening to destabiliz [...] | 2008-09-03 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1344 | SPLM FRUSTRATION GROWS OVER DEMARCATING SUDAN'S NORTH-SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bashir's August 27 public comments have put the North-South border demarcation issue at the center of the latest SPLM/NCP political impasse. Senior SPLM officials involved in the NCP/SPLM Executive-Committee talks are concerned that border demarcation could spark unint [...] | 2008-09-03 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS PGOV KDEM MARR ASEC UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1345 | UMMA HOPES FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH THE SPLM [...] (SBU) According to Dr. Balgees Badri, a Sudanese scholar and a powerful National Umma Party female figure, the elections will play out in one of two ways: (1) the National Congress Party (NCP) of President Bashir delays elections until 2010, at which point the SPLM is only interested in the re [...] | 2008-09-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1346 | AEC PLENARY SESSION OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 35th plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) was held at AEC headquarters in Khartoum on September 2, 2008. Most of the session was devoted to lengthy reports on the current situation in South Kordofan, and preparations for national elections in 200 [...] | 2008-09-04 05:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1352 | TURF WARS - RIVAL GOS FORCES CREATE A CHAOTIC AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rivalry and competition between government security agencies, paramilitary units, and proxy forces have led to a chaotic, violent, and militarized environment in Darfur, according to multiple and varied sources in North and South Darfur. These contacts (from UNAMID, DPA signato [...] | 2008-09-04 09:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1353 | "WE'VE DONE ENOUGH FOR ICC DEFERRAL," CLAIMS [...] (C) CDA Fernandez met with Minister of Federal Rule Abdel Rahman Saeed on September 3. Saeed is an interesting figure in Sudanese politics. A career military man, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) in 1989 when his subordinate, General (now Marshal) Omar Al-Bashir led a [...] | 2008-09-04 10:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1360 | DARFUR ARAB REBEL LEADER STILL VOWS HE'S RETURNING [...] (C) On September 3, Arab-rebel leader Anwar Khatir told poloff that "within days" he would return to Darfur to resume his activities. (Note: Khatir has been described by leading Darfur experts such as Julie Flint as "Darfur's emerging Arab leader." After the GoS jailed and tortured him and [...] | 2008-09-05 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1361 | BASSOLE: SUDAN SHOULD NOW MAKE THE FIRST MOVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 4, the UN/AU's Chief Mediator to Darfur, Djibril Bassole told CDA Fernandez that the Government of Sudan (GoS) should take the first step to solve the Darfur crisis. According to Bassole, a positive unilateral move by the government on any number of security and hu [...] | 2008-09-05 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1363 | UK CONSULTANTS ON DDR: MISTRUST AND INAEDQUATE CAPACITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two weeks, a team of UK-funded consultants assessed UN, GNU, and GoSS capacity to carry out a mammoth disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program planned to commence in January 2009. They found that while the GoS has sufficient capacity to start [...] | 2008-09-07 06:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1365 | FUR SHURA COUNCIL MEETING WITH CDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 4, leaders of the Fur Shura Council (FSC) told CDA Fernandez that they are suspicious of any NCP-led investigation into the Kalma camp attack. CDA Fernandez expressed his condolences for those killed in the Kalma camp attack, while FSC representatives emphasized th [...] | 2008-09-07 09:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1366 | HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 6 and 7, multiple UNAMID, rebel, and civil society leaders separately contacted poloffs and reported intense fighting between rebel and GoS forces near Birmaza, North Darfur. (Note: According to UN maps, Birmaza is located approximately 50 kilometers north of Kutum [...] | 2008-09-07 10:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1367 | BEJA CONGRESS LEADERS SEEK HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 4, Beja Congress Executive Committee members requested USG capacity building and media training support as their organization transitions from an armed opposition movement to a civil political party. They echoed reports of impending famine in the East in the near f [...] | 2008-09-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EAGR KDEM AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM137 | UNMIS ON SAF AND SPLA REDEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Joint Operations Center (JOC) officer Major Ashe Brunton told poloff January 29 that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have largely complied with the troop redeployments outlined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) (apart from the oil fields) but [...] | 2008-01-30 11:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1370 | ICC ACTION, SUDAN'S ELECTORAL COMMISSION, AND SOUTH SUDAN [...] (SBU) According to GNU Parliamentary Affairs Minister Joseph Okel, the NCP is doing little to stave off an impending ICC indictment of President Bashir and lamented that the 25 August Kalma IDP camp incident has moved the GoS further away from securing an Article 16 suspension from the UNSC. O [...] | 2008-09-08 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1371 | MINNAWI: GOS OPERATIONS IN NORTH DARFUR ARE A [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 7, SLM Chairman and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi told poloff that he considers GoS military operations in North Darfur to be a declaration of war. Minnawi specifically cited combined SAF, Arab militia, and janjaweed deployment surrounding SLM/MM cont [...] | 2008-09-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1372 | GOS MAKES A DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION: PERSUADING THE [...] (C) On 7 September, Charge Fernandez met with GNU presidential advisor and NCP insider Mustafa Osman Ismail. Armed with the message that the GoS can and should do something fast, serious, and concrete on Darfur to prove that it is serious about engagement with the West, Ismail met the CDA with [...] | 2008-09-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1374 | BASHIR TELLS FM "I HAVE DECIDED TO FIGHT ICC TO [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese President Al-Bashir told FM Alor on September 8 that he intends to confront rather than challenge the international community on the International Criminal Court (ICC). He also expressed displeasure with Alor and decided that VP Taha should make his case at UNGA. Deng Alor [...] | 2008-09-08 16:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1376 | GOS CLAIMS IT ACTED IN NORTH DARFUR TO SECURE HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) According to MFA Under Secretary Mutriff Siddiq, who holds the MFA's Darfur portfolio, the September 6 and 7 fighting between GoS and rebel forces in North Darfur was a direct result of UNAMID and WFP's requests for the GoS to clear feeder roads of bandits in the area of Birmaza. Accordi [...] | 2008-09-09 04:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM138 | DPKO GUEHENNO's VISIT TO KHARTOUM AND ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOS successfully avoided senior-level meetings with DPKO U/S Guehenno during his visit to Sudan and continues to drag its feet on finalizing a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and other UNAMID-related issues. The AU Summit in Addis Ababa provides a good opportunity to press [...] | 2008-01-30 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1383 | PARADOXICAL DARFUR COMPENSATION CHAIRMAN WILL RETURN TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 4 meeting with poloffs, TDRA Compensation Committee Chairman Abulgasim Ahmed Abulgasim said that the many Darfur initiatives and proposals (including his own plan recently rejected by the NCP,) are unable to fundamentally change Darfur (reftel). In a remarkable tur [...] | 2008-09-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PINR EFIN MOPS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1385 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION TAKING SHAPE, SLOWLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elements of the new Abyei Administration, notably on the security side, are taking shape, but Abyei Roadmap implementation remains constrained by the lack of a functioning civil administration. The local government should begin receiving oil revenues (calculated by the Finance [...] | 2008-09-11 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1386 | United Nations Africa Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Deployment [...] (SBU) Summary: Self-sufficiency is a key component for Troop-Contributing Country (TCC) deployment success as 3,900 UNAMID-shepherded containers continue to be held up in Port Sudan and El Obeid by both internal factors and by the regime. An emphasis on local procurement could decrease expense [...] | 2008-09-11 14:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1387 | NYALA AND KALMA CAMP UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Fernandez traveled to Nyala on September 9-10 to meet with officials from the GOS and UNAMID, IDP leaders and humanitarian actors in the wake of the killing of dozens of IDPs in Kalma camp by GOS forces. The unrepentant Wali of South Darfur heaped scorn on the residents of Ka [...] | 2008-09-11 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1388 | FORMER DARFUR CEASEFIRE REPS AFRAID FOR LIVES AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Claiming that the International Criminal Court is using information they collected in their previous duties, ex-representatives of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) fear GoS reprisal, including detention, unexplained disappearances, and targeted assassinations. Contacts alleged th [...] | 2008-09-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1389 | CHADIAN REBELS CLOSE TO SELECTING SINGLE LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9, UFDD/F spokesman Mouktar ben Yahya told poloff that the leaders of five Chadian rebel movements are currently meeting in Sudan and will choose a single leader of an allied force this week. Yahya vowed that without progress in the peace process, the rebels would s [...] | 2008-09-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM139 | EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE IN UN [...] (SBU) The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) mandates that all civilian employees, military personnel, and UN Volunteers undergo training to recognize, report and prevent sexual exploitation and abuse. According to the UNMIS Chief of Conduct and Discipline Aster Zaoude, all personnel must undergo prev [...] | 2008-01-30 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1391 | JANJAWEED DOMINATE NORTH DARFUR PUNITIVE CAMPAIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Janjaweed and Arab militias have dominated the Birmaza and Deisa attacks in North Darfur, according to multiple contacts. One advisor to infamous janjaweed leader Musa Hilal told locally employed staff that SAF directed Arab militias to intentionally target Zaghawa strongholds i [...] | 2008-09-12 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1393 | MY MY, IS THAT AN OCAMPO YOU'RE WEARING? [...] SUMMARY: The latest fashion craze for Sudanese women is a toup (traditional Sudanese sari-like dress) named after International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. The "Ocampo" toup is a glittering, sequin-heavy design of chiffon. Its title continues a trend of naming clothing [...] | 2008-09-14 09:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM14 | MURDER OF SLA/MINAWI CEASEFIRE COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the same day that JEM representative to the Ceasefire Commission GEN Mohammed Basher was arrested along with five other JEM members, an SLA/Minawi representative was killed in Mellit (North Darfur) along with his nephew, who worked for PAE. These two events demonstrate the cha [...] | 2008-01-06 04:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD |
08KHARTOUM1405 | "FM ALOR WARNS OF POSSIBLE, UNSPECIFIED "SUDANESE [...] (C) Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor told CDA Fernandez on September 15 that, despite his warning last week that Sudan intends to defy the ICC (reftel),the National Congress Party (NCP) of President Bashir is coyly keeping all its options open. Alor said that he had learned that an expensi [...] | 2008-09-15 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1406 | SLM/MM ON EAST JEBEL MARRA FIGHTING AND ZAMZAM INCURSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 15, three senior leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) in North Darfur told poloff that SLM/MM "routed" GoS forces in East Jebel Marra on September 14 following combat on September 13 in the same region. SLM/MM leaders also gave a detail [...] | 2008-09-16 06:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1410 | MEDIA REACTION: THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WILL SAVE BASHIR? [...] (U) SUMMARY: An article published by Alex Duval in the September 14 edition of The Guardian (UK) entitled "British efforts to block the ICC indictment of President Al-Bashir" has emboldened the state-influenced press of Khartoum. The article made front-page news September 15 and 16, with a n [...] | 2008-09-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1411 | MEDIA REACTION: THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WILL SAVE BASHIR? [...] (U) SUMMARY: An article published by Alex Duval in the September 14 edition of The Guardian (UK) entitled "British efforts to block the ICC indictment of President Al-Bashir" has emboldened the state-influenced press of Khartoum. The article made front-page news September 15 and 16, with a n [...] | 2008-09-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1417 | SUDANESE INTEL CHIEF WORRIED ABOUT ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: The GOS will be hard-pressed to control the actions of Islamic radicals in Sudan if the ICC issues an arrest warrant against President Bashir, NISS Chief Salah Ghosh told CDA Fernandez September 17. Ghosh clarified that he did not tell French Presidential Advisor Bruno Joubert th [...] | 2008-09-18 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1422 | "THIS TIME, THEY'RE SERIOUS?" - SUDAN MAKES UP [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of his departure for UNGA, Sudanese VP Ali Osman Taha hammered out a reconciliation with disgruntled Darfur rebel leader Minni Minnawi, promising full compliance of the semi-moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement and an end to recent fighting and bombing in Darfur. Taha a [...] | 2008-09-20 09:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1427 | THE NUBA MOUNTAINS: WHERE INSECURITY AND INTEGRATION ARE A [...] (SBU) Poloffs traveled to Kadugli, Southern Kordofan, the heart of the Nuba Mountains, on 13-16 September. Southern Kordofan state, which shares its own CPA protocol with Blue Nile State, faces a number of unique challenges, one being the integration of formerly-controlled SPLA areas into the [...] | 2008-09-21 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM143 | FESTIVE IGHQ HANDOVER SENDS CLEAR WARNING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: At the handover of a US-built military facility for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in Juba, GOSS President Salva Kiir warned of rising tensions related to border disputes, military incursions from the north and other failed commitments to the CPA by the National Congr [...] | 2008-01-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1433 | NCP TIMELINE AND AGENDA FOR SUDAN PEOPLE'S [...] (C) Summary: Within the next two to three weeks, the Sudanese regime will organize a conference on Darfur to seek consensus on its much-touted, but ill-defined, "Sudan People's Initiative," intended to bring peace to the troubled region, NCP Politburo chief Mandour al Mahdi and former South Da [...] | 2008-09-22 12:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1434 | OVERVIEW OF DARFUR REBEL POSITIONS, RELATIVE STRENGTH, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two recent visits to El-Fasher and Nyala, UN security provided an overview of Darfur rebel group's positions, relative strength, and potential for coordination. Sources stated that areas of control are fluid and prone to change, especially following GoS operations in North D [...] | 2008-09-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1435 | LACK OF PEACE DIVIDENDS IN SOUTHERN KORDOFAN LEAVES THE [...] (SBU) During a meeting with poloff in Kadugli on 14 September, Deputy Governor of Southern Kordofan Daniel Kodi (SPLM) expressed frustration with what he perceived as a lack of peace dividends from the CPA and the neglect of Nuban interests by the GoSS and the GNU. Kodi explained the challeng [...] | 2008-09-22 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1438 | WHERE ARE DARFUR'S HIJACKED CARS AND TRUCKS? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's hijacking is a complex phenomenon, according to UNAMID, INGOs, and local contacts based in El-Fasher and Nyala. Most sources placed the majority of the blame on many different rebel movements, with one contact describing a transportation chain through SLM/MM and SLA/Un [...] | 2008-09-23 05:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1439 | CDA DISCUSSES SECURITY FOR HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WFP Deputy Regional Representative Monika Midel emphatically denied that the WFP had sought GoS military action in North Darfur to provide security for humanitarian operations there. She confirmed the existence of black markets in Chad and Darfur where hijacked humanitarian s [...] | 2008-09-23 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM1440 | UN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMINING PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Mine Action Office (UNMAO) and its contractors expect a 90 per cent success rate in clearing mines and unexploded ordinance (UXOs) in Sudan prior to a mid-2011 program handover to national authorities. Even with the current optimism, UNMAO doesn't realisticall [...] | 2008-09-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KHDP KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1445 | UPDATE ON TAHA-MINNAWI AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 23, Muhammad Tijani, a senior SLM/MM leader and Minnawi confidant, told poloff that "so far" he is satisfied with the GoS's response to the September 19 agreement between Vice President Taha and SLM Chairman Minni Minnawi in El-Fasher (ref A). Muhammad Tijani stat [...] | 2008-09-24 05:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1449 | TDRA OFFICIALS FEAR ZAGHAWA DOMINANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 23, the leaders of both the Compensation and Land Commissions in the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) told poloff that they fear the Zaghawa tribe's dominance in Darfur and the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM). Head of the Land Commi [...] | 2008-09-25 06:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM145 | MALLOCH BROWN ADVOCATES INCENTIVES TIED TO [...] (C) Summary: UK Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN Lord Mark Malloch Brown told CDA Fernandez January 30 that the UK would like to offer the Government of Sudan a package of incentives tied to milestones on peace in Darfur and CPA implementation, accompanied by a clear message of consequence [...] | 2008-01-31 07:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1450 | IFTAR WITH THE "JANJAWEED" [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise meeting, notorious janjaweed leader Musa Hilal told CDA that he was duped by Khartoum in his actions during the worst years of 2003-2005 in Darfur, he regrets his past, and has apologized in several tribal venues to Darfur's African tribes. He blamed Darfur's "excesse [...] | 2008-09-25 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1451 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID officials still believe that sixty-percent deployment is possible by the end of 2008, and eighty-percent is achievable by the end of March 2009. However, for this to happen, all former AMIS battalions must rotate at full strength and several new battalions have to be will [...] | 2008-09-26 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1457 | GOS REINFORCES TROOPS AND MILITIA IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: The GOS has "heavily reinforced" its positions, troops, and militias in Darfur in recent weeks, according to UNAMID's Joint Mission Analysis Center (JMAC) section chief Colonel Serge Kuhn (French). JMAC also reported that SLM/AW and SLA/U are coordinating and defending each other [...] | 2008-09-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1458 | DARFUR'S PROLIFERATING PEACE PROPOSALS - FORM IN [...] (C) Summary: Since the ICC crisis broke, the number of peace proposals and initiatives for solving Darfur have increased as the regime searches for a way out at minimal cost to itself. Observers and participants say that these proposals are long on rhetoric and, so far, short on substance. The [...] | 2008-09-28 14:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1468 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 28 meeting with poloff, UNAMID officials reiterated the belief that 60% deployment is possible by the end of 2008. Road and rail transport of COE remains ongoing, but the lack of an air bridge and adequate air assets remain a significant obstacles to accelerated de [...] | 2008-10-03 09:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1469 | GOSS CONTEMPLATES RANSOM PAYMENT FOR TANKS [...] (C) Government of Southern Sudan Minister for Internal Affairs Paul Mayom Akec told CG Juba October 1 that the Government of Southern Sudan was preparing to pay a ransom to the Somali pirates holding the SPLA,s long-awaited arms shipment ) should there be a drop in price. &We are scraping the [...] | 2008-10-03 11:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO MOPS PGOV PREL PTER UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1483 | 9/29 HELICOPTER CRASH - NO EVIDENCE OF SMALL WEAPONS FIRE [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with UNAMID Public Information Director Kamal Saiki on October 5 regarding the September 29 crash of a UNAMID-contracted helicopter, which resulted in the deaths of three Russians and 1 Sudanese. Saiki said that UNAMID has received no indication that the Mi-8 helicopter, con [...] | 2008-10-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1487 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: SPLM MINISTER RECOUNTS AMBUSH IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM South Darfur Agriculture Minister Omer Abdel Rahman Adam survived a harrowing ambush attempt, but refused to speculate on the perpetrators. The incident has ignited outrage in Darfur and as well as Juba, where Salva Kiir has ordered the formation of an investigative committe [...] | 2008-10-06 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1488 | UN ANNOUNCES TWO DEMINING CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Mine Action Office (UNMAO) announced plans to roll out two multi-year training programs to build the capacity of local demining organizations that will assume overall program responsibility from UNMAO mid-2011. The Planning and Monitoring Project will emphasiz [...] | 2008-10-06 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1490 | NCP/SPLM DISCUSSIONS ON DARFUR AND ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The NCP and SPLM have been negotiating over the past few days on electoral issues as well as a package of concessions that the GNU could offer on Darfur as part of the Sudan People,s Initiative, NCP insider Yehia Bebiker told polchief October 6. Bebiker accompanied Vice President Taha t [...] | 2008-10-07 10:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1499 | AEC PLENARY ADDRESSES DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's (AEC) monthly plenary session focused on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR). A/CDA Asquino attended the meeting for the U.S. Prior to a lengthy presentation by an UNMIS DDR expert, AEC Chairman Derek Plu [...] | 2008-10-09 10:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM15 | SPLM APPOINTS CHAIRMAN IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Amidst ongoing border clashes in the Abyei region, the SPLM has appointed Edward Lino as "SPLM Chairman in Abyei area." In his capacity as Chairman of the SPLM, First Vice President of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir issued an "SPLM Chairman's Decree" o [...] | 2008-01-06 04:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1500 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SLM/MINNAWI REPRESENTATIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 8, SLM/Minnawi leaders in Khartoum told Special Envoy Williamson that they remain optimistic about the September 19 agreement between Vice President Ali Osman Taha and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi. SLM representatives emphasized, however, that this agr [...] | 2008-10-09 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1504 | CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES MAY MISS THE BOAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Darfurian civil society groups are separately working to combine existing civil society proposals with the hope of developing a unified, comprehensive view of Darfurians on how to resolve the crisis in their region, although neither anticipates its work will be complete befo [...] | 2008-10-09 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1506 | SOUTH DARFUR MINISTER RECOUNTS AMBUSH ATTEMPT; EXPRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, Omer Abdel Rahman Adam recounted details of the September 30 attack on his vehicle that resulted in the death of his bodyguard. Although reluctant to directly accuse any particular individual or agency, Adam asserted that the attack was a targeted assassination at [...] | 2008-10-10 11:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1507 | OCTOBER 6 ATTACK ON UNAMID CONVOY [...] (SBU) The UNAMID Public Information Office in El Fasher and the UN Department of Security Services (UNDSS) Khartoum, confirmed that on October 6 at 17:00 local time, a UNAMID joint military police security convoy was ambushed by an undetermined number of armed men while on patrol near the town [...] | 2008-10-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1509 | SE WILLIAMSON URGES BASSOLE TO BE PROACTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: SE Williamson strongly urged Djibril Bassole to embrace his role as Chief Mediator and become proactive in engaging with key decision-makers in both the NCP and rebel movements, during a meeting in Khartoum October 8. He noted the likelihood for progress in Qatar is small and ask [...] | 2008-10-13 05:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM151 | MFA SAYS APPROVAL FOR WILLIAMSON VISIT REFERRED TO [...] (C) The question of whether or not to approve the visit of newly-appointed Special Envoy Ambassador Richard Williamson has been referred to the Presidency, according to MFA Americas Director Ambassador Abdel Al-Sanosi. Al-Sanosi told CDA January 31 that "the feeling here is very negative" abou [...] | 2008-01-31 15:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1510 | SE WILLIAMSON TELLS KHARTOUM TO MAKE A RADICAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOS must make a radical adjustment in its approach to Darfur, SE Williamson told regime officials in Khartoum. Peace conferences and theatrics are fine, but what is urgently required is a deal with keys rebels, and implementation of that deal. Williamson blasted the NCP for [...] | 2008-10-13 07:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1512 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETINGS WITH SOUTHERN SUDANESE [...] (C) US Special Envoy to Sudan Ambassador Richard Williamson visited the southern Sudanese towns of Rumbek and Juba on 7 October to meet with Government of National Unity (GNU) First Vice President and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the Sudan Liberation Peopl [...] | 2008-10-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV UNSC KPKO AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1514 | SE WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH AEC CHAIR PLUMBLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AEC Chair Plumbly told Special Envoy Richard Williamson on October 8 that while the two parties to the CPA have not precisely met deadlines for implementation, they are progressing and have addressed difficult issues with a modicum of cooperation. Having recently returned from tw [...] | 2008-10-13 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1518 | DETENTION OF YOUNG WOMEN IN JUBA FOR WEARING TROUSERS [...] SUMMARY: On October 5, 2008 28 women were arrested and detained by Southern Sudan Police Services (SSPS) officers for wearing short skirts or trousers. The arrests were made under the authority of a Public Order issued by the Juba County Commissioner Albert Pitia Redantore on October 2, 2008. [...] | 2008-10-14 04:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1521 | SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE SET TO START OCTOBER 16, [...] (C) The Sudan People's Initiative is scheduled to begin October 16 in Khartoum with speeches by President Bashir and other officials including First Vice President Salva Kiir, who has decided to attend, but will deliver a "tough message" on Darfur. Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader and Da [...] | 2008-10-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1523 | TURABI LOVES THE ICC, HATES NCP'S DARFUR PLANS [...] SUMMARY: On October 14, Hassan al-Turabi held a press conference at the Popular Congress Party (PCP)'s Khartoum headquarters and formally announced that the PCP will boycott participation in th Sudan People's Initiative plan for peace in Darfur. END SUMMARY. 2. With his characteristic zeal, [...] | 2008-10-15 08:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1524 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings from October 11-15, UNAMID officials expressed concern over slow progress on airport upgrades, UNAMID's lack of air assets, and the weak security posture of many of UNAMID's bases. Chief of Staff Almstrom and J5 Colonel Stafford both stated that their focus of late [...] | 2008-10-15 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1528 | MINNAWI ON HIS RETURN TO KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 15, Minnawi met poloff in El-Fasher stating that he will travel to Khartoum for the start of the Sudan People's Initiative, but that he will spend less than 24 hours in the capital and only "inject my own views on the process and the DPA and then return to the field." [...] | 2008-10-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1532 | SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE: NO SUBSTANCE YET [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Initiative commenced in Khartoum October 16 with a show of solidarity among Sudan's current and former leaders; two former Sudanese heads of state (Suwar al Dahab and Sadiq al Mahdi) joined President Bashir on the dais along with FVP and GOSS President Salva Ki [...] | 2008-10-17 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1533 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH UNAMID SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to UNAMID Joint Special Representative Adada, relations with the GoS, narrowly-defined, have turned the corner and UNAMID deployment is accelerating, with 14,000 peacekeepers expected to be on the ground by year,s end. He agreed that harassment of humanitarian NGOs in [...] | 2008-10-17 12:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1538 | REPORTS OF ARREST OF WAR CRIMES SUSPECT GREATLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite ongoing high profile pronouncements regarding the alleged arrest of notorious janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb, little actual proof has emerged that Kushayb is in GOS custody. Meeting with polchief, (SPLM) State Minister of Justice Wek Kuol said he had heard Kushayb [...] | 2008-10-19 07:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM154 | NCP MAY SEEK TO DEFER 2009 NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NCP-aligned politician Dr. Mudawi El-Turabi indicated that the Khartoum regime may seek national consensus to defer the 2009 elections and hold them at a later date. The NCP's argument would be that Darfur, the South and The Three Areas are too unstable for elections to take pla [...] | 2008-02-01 09:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1545 | A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NEW SLM FIGHTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 16, a new fighter for the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) described his daily life in the field to poloff. The contact described dire conditions for SLM/MM troops, where fighters are expected to buy their own uniforms (often from UNAMID troops,) m [...] | 2008-10-20 05:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1549 | SUDAN PEOPLES' INITIATIVE - DAY TWO [...] (C) Summary: Embassy attendance at day two of the ongoing and unprecedented dialogue by a wide range of Sudanese stakeholders, as part of President Bashir's Sudan Peoples' Initiative (SPI),revealed a credible process covering the right issues and incorporating a wide range of voices, includin [...] | 2008-10-20 06:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM155 | WHERE THE CENSUS MEETS DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN is deeply concerned about the GNU's ability to conduct a census in Darfur. Rebel groups and IDPs are resisting the census due to a deep distrust of the government in Khartoum and a lack of understanding about the census. Moreover, the Presidency has yet to officially rec [...] | 2008-02-01 10:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1550 | KIDNAPPING OF CHINESE OIL WORKERS IN SOUTH KORDOFAN [...] (SBU) A political officer at the Chinese Embassy in Khartoum confirmed to poloff on October 20 that nine (9) Greater Nile Petroleum Workers were kidnapped on October 18 at approximately noon by "an unknown armed group" in South Kordofan State. The Chinese official could not confirm the involve [...] | 2008-10-20 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1551 | GOS SEEMS TO BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH DARFUR, [...] (C) Summary: Influential regime insider and presidential advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail told CDA Fernandez that the GoS has recalibrated its focus from frantically searching for ways to avoid an ICC indictment of GNU President Al-Bashir to finding a solution to the Darfur crisis. Ismail stated [...] | 2008-10-20 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1556 | NCP CONTINUES CHARM OFFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary: The NCP is willing to negotiate directly with key rebels in advance of peace talks in Doha, expects that UN/AU Chief Mediator Bassole will direct the talks, and will sweeten the pot by releasing some Darfuri prisoners, but is not quite ready to release the JEM rebels who attacked t [...] | 2008-10-21 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1557 | TWO YEARS LATER, ESPA STILL FAILS TO PRODUCE CHANGE ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13-16, poloff traveled to Kassala and Port Sudan to discuss implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) with local government officials, UN representatives and members of the Beja Congress in a visit tightly controlled by local authorities. While a handf [...] | 2008-10-21 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1558 | CHADIAN REBEL REVEALS GOS SUPPORT, RELATIVE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On October 20, Abaker Tolli, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative told poloffs that Sudanese Intelligence summoned the leadership of all major Chadian rebel movements to Khartoum, threatening that the rebels must choose a single leader or the GoS will stop their material support [...] | 2008-10-21 13:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1559 | "THEY WANT TO CANCEL SOMETHING CALLED THE DPA" [...] (C) Summary: Minni Minnawi reported that since returning to Khartoum he has seen no progress on VP Taha's September 2008 commitments to implement the Darfur Peace Agreement's (DPA),and cast the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) as a distraction from the NCP's unfulfilled commitments on the DPA. [...] | 2008-10-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1567 | HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (U) Summary: On October 21, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the Facilitation of Humanitarian Activities in Darfur met at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in Khartoum. The meeting was attended by U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez [...] | 2008-10-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1568 | EASTERN OPPOSITION PARTIES UNPREPARED FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13-16, poloff traveled to Kassala and Port Sudan to discuss implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (Ref A) and the outlook for elections in the East. Representatives of the Eastern Front, which has weakened steadily since the signing of the ESPA, told polo [...] | 2008-10-22 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1569 | UN/AU OBSERVATIONS AT THE SUDAN PEOPLE'S [...] (C) Summary: Discussions at the Sudan People's Initiative in Kenana were reportedly open, constructive, and sometimes combative, with rifts between NCP officials on display for all to see, JMST Chief of Staff Yasir Sabra told polchief October 21. Presidential Assistant Nafie ali Nafie took a [...] | 2008-10-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1572 | MINNAWI LAMENTS NCP "BROKEN PROMISES," BUT WILL [...] (C) Senior Advisor to the President and SLM leader Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez on October 22 that the NCP is, not surprisingly, breaking their word to him given at a September 19 El Fasher meeting between him and VP Ali Osman Taha (reftel e). Minnawi spoke to Charge after a late night mee [...] | 2008-10-23 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1574 | PROUD CHADIAN REBEL CHIEF BOASTS OF INFLUENCE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 23, the leader of UFCD Adouma Hassaballah Djadalrab, told poloffs that the leadership of five Chadian rebel movements are currently in Khartoum working towards unification and the selection of a single leader. Hassaballah denied Khartoum's involvement in this meeting [...] | 2008-10-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1577 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite minor setbacks, UNAMID deployment appears to be on track; end of year deployment goals should be met. As of October 22, UNAMID had received more than 50 percent of expected Darfur staffing with a combined total of 13,700 UNAMID military, police and civilian staff. Depl [...] | 2008-10-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1579 | MEDIA REACTION: ICC AND UN PEACEKEEPING IN CAHOOTS [...] (SBU) Summary: This week the pro-government Khartoum newspaper Al-Rai al-Aam printed front-page headlines claiming proof of collusion between International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Miguel Moreno Ocampo and the UN. Citing three-year old reports and statements made in press interviews, th [...] | 2008-10-24 12:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM158 | CHAD-SUDAN BORDER INCIDENTS; HUMANITARIAN AID DISRUPTED [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Chadian military bombing along the West Darfur border, Sudan has escalated its military response in the area and the Sudanese Minister of Defense visited El Geneina with senior SAF officers January 28. Humanitarian operations outside El Geneina have been interrupt [...] | 2008-02-03 04:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1580 | MINNAWI KICKS OUT DETRACTOR FROM SLM/MM AND JUSTIFIES HIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 24, SLM/MM chairman Minni Minnawi presided over a party meeting announcing that the membership of its Secretary General Mustafa Tirab has been suspended. Effective immediately, Ali Hussein Dausa will replace Tirab, who has long been accused of working for the NCP. Pri [...] | 2008-10-26 07:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1582 | MACHAR PROPOSES TO WAIT OUT LRA'S KONY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 22 meeting with ConGen Juba, GOSS Vice President Riek Machar said that The Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony had stopped communicating with him, and that he would not try to talk to him again until Kony reached out to him. Machar said he believes Kony is ru [...] | 2008-10-27 10:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1584 | U/S KENNEDY MEETING WITH MFA U/S MUTRIF SIDDIQ [...] (C) Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy met October 26 with MFA Undersecretary Mutrif Siddiq. U/S Kennedy thanked Siddiq for his assistance in clearing the NEC containers, and for expediting the issuance of non-diplomatic license plates for US Embassy vehicles following the assassin [...] | 2008-10-28 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1585 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION OFF TO A SLOW START DUE TO FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Knee-deep in protocols and barely-functional joint military and police units, the beleaguered town of Abyei has yet to see any of the US$48 million promised to it annually. The Abyei Interim Administrator expects his staff to arrive eager to volunteer their services (without pa [...] | 2008-10-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1586 | WEST DARFUR GOVERNOR:THE FUR TRIBE IS FIGHTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, former Darfur rebel and current Governor of West Darfur Abulgasim Imam told CDA Fernandez that the Fur tribe is defending itself against three hostile groups, the Government of Sudan, Arab militias, and the Zaghawa tribe. Imam acknowledged the failure of both the [...] | 2008-10-28 08:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1588 | CHD HOPES TO REDUCE HIJACKINGS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD) is on track to restart negotiations to improve humanitarian security by focusing on measures against vehicle hijackings. Dennis McNamara told donors in Khartoum October 23 that CHD representatives intend to travel to Darf [...] | 2008-10-28 09:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1589 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: QATAR AND SUDAN PEOPLE'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27 and 28, CDA Fernandez and polchief met with leaders from the Joint Mediation Support Team, National Congress Party, and other political parties to discuss the Sudan People's Initiative and potential negotiations in Qatar on Darfur. Contacts expressed conflicting m [...] | 2008-10-28 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM159 | NCP OPEN TO ARBITRATION ON ABYEI [...] (SBU) During a meeting with CDA Fernandez January 31, NCP strategist and Director of the Strategic Studies Institute Dr. Sayed Al-Kkateeb said the NCP may be open to arbitration on Abyei. However, he said the NCP may not be open to a high-level meeting in Washington to inaugurate an Abyei initi [...] | 2008-02-03 04:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1591 | SUDAN'S "FREEDOM BELLS" MUFFLED BY GOS ON ALL FRONTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities are limiting the reach of Khartoum's newest Arabic-language daily, the independent but SPLM-leaning Ajras al-Hurriya ("Freedom Bells"),through a daily regimen of heavy censorship, excessive taxation and limited distribution. The paper's Nyala correspondent, [...] | 2008-10-29 08:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1593 | CHADIAN REBELS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR A LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Abaker Tollimi, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative and second in command to Mahamat Nouri confirmed that the Chadian rebel leadership is under tremendous pressure from the Government of Sudan to unite, but internal division, personal ambition and a struggle for [...] | 2008-10-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1594 | GOS BLOCKS U.S. TRIP TO DARFUR AND FLIRTS WITH A [...] (SBU) On September 29, the Sudanese MFA finally informed CDA Fernandez that the GoS would not allow an embassy trip to Nyala and a joint UNAMID-USG trip to East Jebel Marra, Darfur scheduled for September 30. This denial came after a week of submitting three dipnotes, high-level discussions b [...] | 2008-10-30 05:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1597 | SUDAN WILL PROPOSE "REAL DARFUR CEASE-FIRE," [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Government has approved in principle, for the first time, US Embassy travel to rebel-held Jebel Marra. The GOS also will control the Sudan-Chad border between now and January and will not allow Chadian rebel attacks on Chad during that period. The Khartoum regime hop [...] | 2008-10-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1602 | SPI WILL BE ONE OF MANY FAILED PEACE INITIATIVES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 29, veteran Darfur administrator and member of the Sudan People's Initiative, Tayyeb Muktar, told CDA Fernandez that the Sudan People's Initiative will likely become just one of many failed Darfur peace initiatives. Muktar also asserted that the once peaceful Fur tri [...] | 2008-10-31 10:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1604 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID will reach its target of sixty percent deployment by the end of the year, but only by temporarily positioning new troop arrivals in the transit camps within the super camps, rather than at their intended final destinations. The offer to provide US airlift for contingent- [...] | 2008-11-02 05:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1607 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS UPDATE - BASSOLE AND GOQ APPEAR MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole urged Qatar to focus first on the necessary preparations for negotiations and not on unrealistic dates for negotiations, according to senior representatives from the AU/UN's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). JMST contacts emphasized that the fo [...] | 2008-11-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1612 | NO PROGRESS IN DPA IMPLEMENTATION IN LAST TWO WEEKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Contacts from the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi told poloffs November 2 that there has been no progress in implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in the last two weeks, and limited overall progress since the September 19 deal between Minnawi and Vice Pre [...] | 2008-11-03 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1613 | JEM SENIOR LEADERSHIP ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of JEM senior leadership told poloff in meetings in London on October 28-29 that JEM remains open to negotiations. However, they noted JEM is withholding judgment on the Qatar Initiative until it obtains more information about its nature and scope. While predictably skept [...] | 2008-11-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1614 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE, OCTOBER 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: With Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) making significant advances in North Darfur, UN security officers based in El Fasher report that humanitarian security has increased slightly in the last month despite last week's killing of a South African UNAMID soldier. There is currently no i [...] | 2008-11-04 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1616 | CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...] | 2008-11-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1617 | CHADIAN REBELS: SELECTING A LEADER, MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 2, UFDD-F leader Abdoulwahid Aboud Makaye told poloffs that Chadian rebel leadership meeting in Khartoum will soon choose a leader by consensus, random selection, or a complicated multi-staged election. According to Aboud, the Chadian opposition does not fear the Gov [...] | 2008-11-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1622 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5-6, Commander Victor Luis Hernandez, FPU Advisor/Coordinator for UNAMID, Hugo Wyers, FPU coordinator, Sector North, and Ian Divers, UNAMID Logistics Officer told Poloff that UNAMID is optimistic it will make its desired goal of 60 percent boots-on-the-ground by Decem [...] | 2008-11-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1625 | FURTHER INFORMATION ON MURDER OF CHINESE OIL [...] (C) Summary: According to the head of Sudan's Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID),the murder of five Chinese oil workers in western Kordofan was apparently triggered when the kidnappers spotted a GOS helicopter tracking their movements and panicked. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Ibrahim [...] | 2008-11-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO UNSC AU SU CH |
08KHARTOUM1627 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Pro-government and independent press here featured front-page photos of the president-elect and reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs'(MFA) statement congratulating the United States on Senator Obama's election, with Foreign Minister (FM) Deng Alor hoping for "positive contrib [...] | 2008-11-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC MCAP KPAO SU |
08KHARTOUM1629 | Media Reaction: Sudanese Journalists Strike Against [...] U) SUMMARY: Sudanese dailies Ajras Al Hurriya and Rai Al Shaab, in a show of solidarity with 46 modern-minded "democratic" columnists, took up a protest on November 4 against increasing censorship by state security organs, which have censored the editorial content of the publications. The dail [...] | 2008-11-08 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC MCAP KPAO OIIP SU |
08KHARTOUM1633 | CHADIAN REBELS: RFC'S ERDIMI SAYS IT IS HIS TURN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings on November 6 and 7, Timan Erdimi and his Secretary General of the Rally for the Forces of Change (RFC),Mahamat Hanno, both forcefully argued that Erdimi is the best leader for the Chadian rebels. Erdimi bashed rival UFDD leader Mahamat Nouri, and said [...] | 2008-11-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM1634 | BASHIR LASHES OUT AGAINST WEST IN GEDARIF RALLY [...] (SBU) In a November 6 rally in Gedarif State, President Bashir lashed out against the West and accused it of trying to "destroy" Sudan, according to Sudanese media reports. "Money and power are not in the hands of the U.S, Britain and France," the President was quoted as saying. Using an insult [...] | 2008-11-10 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1639 | FUR SHURA COUNCIL CALLS FOR IDP SELF-DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 9, leaders of the Fur Shura Council (FSC) told CDA Fernandez that Darfur's IDPs need community police units consisting of IDPs themselves. These FSC representatives also criticized the Sudan People's Initiative, called for one region for all of Darfur, urged US even [...] | 2008-11-10 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM164 | UMMA SEEKS TO REPAIR ITS PERCEIVED IMAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Umma party members are concerned that the USG has a "distorted perception" of their party and they are eager to set this image straight. Additionally, they call for USG support for a multi-opposition party dialogue on critical issues such as Darfur and the CPA. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2008-02-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1640 | SALAH GHOSH TO ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH KEY DARFUR [...] (C) National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Chief Salah Ghosh told UN/AU Darfur Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole that he will begin to meet quietly with key Darfur rebels in advance of peace talks in Doha, according to Bassole's senior staff. The first meeting will be with JEM's Khali [...] | 2008-11-10 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1645 | SLM/MM SECRETARY GENERAL ON SPI, QATAR, AND PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 9, Ali Hussein Dausa, the new Secretary General of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM,) told CDA Fernandez of his recent efforts to improve and re-organize the movement. Dausa shared his skepticism about the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and th [...] | 2008-11-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1646 | URF SEEKS GREATER INPUT IN PEACE PROCESS; EXPLORES [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 29 meeting, United Resistance Front (URF) political commissar Tadjadine Niam told poloff that the Darfur peace process will never gain traction if the international community keeps ignoring the rebel movements. Niam decried the lack of consultation with rebels [...] | 2008-11-10 17:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1649 | SLM/MM AND NCP CLOSER TO AGREEMENT ON DPA FUNDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11 and 12, senior SLM/Minnawi (SLM/MM) and NCP officials separately told CDA Fernandez and poloffs that both parties are closer to agreement on outstanding DPA financial issues, though each party provided a different portrayal of the specific deal. Atta Al-Manan, a [...] | 2008-11-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1651 | BASHIR PROMISES CEASE-FIRE, DISARMAMENT, COMPENSATION, [...] (SBU) Summary: At the closing ceremony of the Sudan People's Initiative in Khartoum November 12, President Basher stole the show from the actual SPI document itself by unilaterally promising an "immediate and unconditional" cease-fire, disarmament of militias, compensation for IDPs on an indivi [...] | 2008-11-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1653 | CHINESE EMBASSY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chinese Embassy official who oversaw negotiations for the release of the kidnapped oil workers in South Kordofan told poloff that he had daily contact with the kidnappers and was prepared to pay a ransom, until negotiations were abruptly curtailed by the deaths of five of the [...] | 2008-11-13 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1654 | PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S VISIT TO KHARTOUM AND JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Egyptian emboff told poloffs on November 12. that during President Hosni Mubarak's November 10 visit to Khartoum, he offered to invite Khalil Ibrahim to Cairo in an attempt to persuade the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to commit to peace talks in Qatar This offer ha [...] | 2008-11-13 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1657 | DENG ALOR ON NCP INTRIGUE, EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor said Egyptian President Mubarak, worried about Sudanese instability, delivered a grim message to President Bashir on November 10 counseling full and rapid compliance with ICC and Darfur issues. Both the Egyptians and Alor see increasing signs of an i [...] | 2008-11-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1658 | DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION: THE WAY [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Chief told CDA Fernandez that the program will begin in Blue Nile state but will be postponed from 2008 to 2009. Both agreed that Blue Nile is the best location to begin, and further agreed that the interna [...] | 2008-11-13 15:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1661 | TDRA COMMISSIONERS AWKWARDLY PLEASED BY SPI AND BASHIR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Land and Compensation Commissioners of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) separately told poloff on November 13 that they were both pleasantly surprised by the results of the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and President Bashir's speech at the initiative's clo [...] | 2008-11-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1662 | IRC AT WITS' END AT REGIME ATTRITION TACTICS [...] (SBU) Summary: While presenting a surface image of humanitarian cooperation, Sudanese authorities have succeeded in constraining IRC operations in Darfur to the point that the organization is tentative about its future in Sudan, IRC staff told CDA. With stay permits granted for only one quarte [...] | 2008-11-14 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1669 | THE CEASEFIRE THAT NEVER WAS - AERIAL BOMBING REPORTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Multiple contacts from different rebel movements claimed that the Government of Sudan (GoS) bombed areas of North Darfur from November 12-14. UN sources told poloffs that the reports appear credible, though UNAMID has not yet independently verified these claims. If true, thes [...] | 2008-11-16 12:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1670 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff spoke with Commander Victor Luis Hernandez, FPU Advisor/Coordinator for UNAMID, and Col. Nody Stafford, Chief of Military Plans for UNAMID, November 12-13 to discuss UNAMID deployment issues. UNAMID and contingent-owned equipment continues to flow into Darfur, but additio [...] | 2008-11-16 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1672 | DARFUR'S REBELS REJECT THE SPI AND BASHIR'S PROMISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the November 12 closing session of the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI),Darfur non-signatory rebels uniformly rejected President Omar Al-Bashir's announcement of a unilateral ceasefire and his proposed development package for Darfur. SLA/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) and SLA/Un [...] | 2008-11-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1675 | UPDATE ON POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM JEM ATTACK [...] (SBU) Summary: While 42 detainees who participated in the May 10 attack of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Omdurman wait to see if their death sentences will be commuted, authorities are trying 87 more individuals in five special anti-terrorism courts. Lawyers and UNMIS Human Rights [...] | 2008-11-17 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1676 | JOURNALISTS ORGANIZE CENSORSHIP PROTEST, KHARTOUM HAMMERS [...] SUMMARY: On November 17, Sudanese authorities arrested more than 60 protesters (many of them local journalists) outside parliament in Khartoum. The demonstrators were rallying against the systematic censorship that forces papers to consult with government security personnel on the content of [...] | 2008-11-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1678 | SPLM ADVISES THE USG TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE GOS [...] (C) Summary. Secretary General of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) Pagan Amum told CDA Fernandez on November 13 that it is important for the USG to maintain pressure on the Government of Sudan (GoS) if the GoS is to move from the announcement of concessions on Darfur to implement [...] | 2008-11-17 14:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1680 | A/S FRAZER'S MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT TAHA [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Vice President Ali Osman Taha November 3 in Khartoum, A/S Jendayi Frazer recognized progress in the deployment of UNAMID, but urged that there be a substantive basis for negotiations as a result of the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI),implementation of the re [...] | 2008-11-18 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1682 | A/S FRAZER'S MEETINGS WITH NCP OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a round-table meeting followed by a dinner at the CDA's residence, several leading members of the National Congress Party told A/S Frazer that the GNU has made significant progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and pointed to Abyei as the only par [...] | 2008-11-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1683 | A/S FRAZER'S MEETING WITH TOP SPLM OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Top Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials Secretary General Pagan Amum and Deputy Secretary Yasir Arman told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on 3 November that they had just returned from a productive visit to Ndjamena to meet with Chadian Presi [...] | 2008-11-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC SOCI KPKO KDEM AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM1689 | LOOKING PAST THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) has not lived up to its expectations by a long shot. Despite the latest 11th hour push to implement the agreement, the DPA is so far behind schedule that it may be impossible to revive fully. The DPA has not brought security to Darfur, lead [...] | 2008-11-20 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM169 | SPLM'S DEMOCRACY AND DARFUR PLANS TAKE SHAPE [...] (C) Summary: SPLM leader Yassir Arman reports that the party has received a greenlight from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to intensify its efforts to secure peace in Darfur and improve relations with the United States. He outlined an ambitious program of SPLM political mobilization [...] | 2008-02-04 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1690 | LOOKING PAST THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) has not lived up to its expectations by a long shot. Despite the latest 11th hour push to implement the agreement, the DPA is so far behind schedule that it may be impossible to revive fully. The DPA has not brought security to Darfur, lead [...] | 2008-11-21 06:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1691 | UPSURGE IN FIGHTING IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (C) Rebel, UNAMID and NGO contacts confirmed fighting in and around Helif, North Darfur between November 18 and 20. SLA/AW commander Suleiman Marajane told emboffs that on November 20 his forces attacked a SAF position in Helif at 7:00 am. (Note: Helif was previously under the control of SLA/ [...] | 2008-11-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1693 | WAU: ALL QUIET IN THE HINTERLANDS, BUT IN NEED OF MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: The capital of Western Bahr al-Ghazal state in South Sudan, Wau is both secure and eager for international assistance. Operating in an ad hoc manner, local police have managed to control tribal conflict and keep down petty crime, but local government incompetence has hindered wo [...] | 2008-11-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1694 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT AND PEACE PROCESS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: UNAMID will meet sixty-percent deployment by the end of 2008, but will not have increased its operational capacity even with the additional troops, until they can be deployed to the field. Eighty-percent deployment by March 31 is not possible, and UNAMID has backed away from prese [...] | 2008-11-23 12:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1697 | MFA U/S MUTRIFF SIDDIQ WELCOMES US-LED CEASEFIRE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 23 meeting with CDA Fernandez, MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq welcomed a USG offer to lead efforts to form an interim cease-fire monitoring mechanism for Darfur until UNAMID is prepared to take on the task, but cautioned that the GOS would need time to study both [...] | 2008-11-24 06:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1698 | SUDANESE INTELLIGENCE CHIEF CALLS IDEA OF A US-LED [...] (C) CDA Fernandez met with Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Chief Salah Ghosh on 23 November to discuss the idea of a US-led independent Darfur Cease-fire Monitoring Team in response to Ghosh's past request for assistance in instituting a cease-fire monitoring mechanis [...] | 2008-11-24 06:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1702 | OIL EXECUTIVES DOUBT MINISTER'S CLAIM OF 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings from November 18-20, oil industry executives told econoff they were doubtful that Sudan could boost oil production from 500,000 to 600,000 barrels per day in 2009, as claimed recently by Minister of Energy and Mining Zubeir Al Hassan. While increasing production in [...] | 2008-11-24 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN ASEC KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1704 | PCP LEADER TURABI SAYS SUDAN REQUIRES A NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Popular Congress Party (PCP)leader Hassan Turabi dismissed the Sudan People,s Initiative (SPI) as lacking any real substance. Turabi argued that Darfur can only be resolved by a truly national forum in which all parties are equally represented and that addresses national issues [...] | 2008-11-24 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UNSC SU QA |
08KHARTOUM1707 | SLM/MM ATTACKS LIKELY PROVOKED GOS BOMBING IN SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 23-24, members of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) ruefully acknowledged that their movement attacked a GoS force on November 19. These sources claimed that the GoS then bombed SLM/MM positions on November 22, destroying stolen SLM/MM assets. U [...] | 2008-11-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1708 | SUPPORTING CIVILIAN SECURITY AND RULE OF LAW IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the major portion of the INL bilateral program gets underway in Southern Sudan, the INL officer has made several significant observations over the last two months (outlined in this cable) which will result in adjustments to the INL program. The current fragile condition of th [...] | 2008-11-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1709 | DEATH SENTENCE APPEALS REFUSED IN FLAWED TRIAL FOR MURDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Nine defendants convicted of murdering a Sudanese journalist in 2006 retain one final appeal before they face execution, according to UNMIS Human Rights and the defendants' lawyer, Kamal Omer. The murder of Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed resulted in a politically-driven investigati [...] | 2008-11-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1711 | GOS LEADERS TO CONSIDER US-LED DARFUR CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) On November 25, CDA Fernandez met with key Government of Sudan (GoS) regime strategist and de-facto regime shadow Foreign Minister, Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail, in order to inform him the idea of a US-led independent Darfur Cease-Fire Monitoring Team (ref d). CDA Fernandez t [...] | 2008-11-25 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1713 | FUR MP PESSIMISTIC ABOUT BASHIR'S PROMISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 22, Abulgasim Seifeldin, an influential SPLM Member of Parliament from South Darfur, told CDA Fernandez that he is very pessimistic about the Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) and President Bashir's promises made at the closing ceremony of the SPI. Seifeldin also plead [...] | 2008-11-26 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1716 | GOSS RENEGOTIATES DDR AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a letter to the UN dated November 16, GOSS Vice President Riek Machar withdrew GOSS agreement to a Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration program it had previously signed with the UN last June in Geneva. Southern Sudan DDR Commission Chairperson William Deng Deng, in a [...] | 2008-11-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1717 | ARTICLES 17 AND 19 OF THE ROME STATUTE: SUDAN'S LEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Articles 17 and 19 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) provide room for Sudan to head off impending ICC trials of Sudanese nationals by conducting its own investigations and prosecutions, but legal experts doubt that Sudan possesses adequate laws and an [...] | 2008-11-26 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM172 | THE NORTH FEIGNS CENSUS READINESS; CLAIMS DAFURIANS WILL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Under the authority of new Director Yassin El-Hag Abdeen, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) claims that the North is completely prepared for the April census. The director, an NCP member with no professional background in the field, rejects any suggestion that there are censu [...] | 2008-02-05 06:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1722 | FRUSTRATED MINNAWI TO PREP FOR "WAR OR PEACE" [...] (C) Summary: A deeply frustrated and worried Minni Minnawi warned on November 28 that the ruling National Congress Party's (NCP) ongoing game of obfuscation and delay will drive him eventually back to the field with his fighters and "eventually under the flag of self-determination for Darfur." [...] | 2008-11-30 07:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1724 | UNAMID SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ADADA MILDLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA Fernandez briefed UNAMID Joint Special Representative Adada on the proposed U.S.-led Darfur-ceasefire monitoring mission on November 26 (reftel a). While Adada appeared mildly receptive to the idea initially, he urged that the U.S. work to get rebel movements to the negotia [...] | 2008-11-30 08:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1726 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT IN GREATER DETAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID climbed to 50.3 percent of its authorized total force strength last week and expects to reach its goal of 60 percent by end of the year, as reported in Ref A. Most troop-contributing countries (TCCs) anticipated to arrive in the coming months have not provided load lists [...] | 2008-12-01 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1730 | NCP CONTEMPLATES PRESUMED ICC INDICTMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Recent contacts with ruling National Congress Party (NCP) officials reveal that they have resigned themselves to the reality that an arrest warrant against President Bashir is likely, and they discount overreactions by the regime ("we're not going to commit suicide") but they expr [...] | 2008-12-02 05:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1734 | DEWAAL ON "SUDAN'S POLITICAL MARKET" AT A DDDC BRIEFING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A December 1 Darfur Darfur Dialogue and Consultation (DDDC) briefing focused on the analysis of Sudan scholar Alex DeWaal. DeWaal gave a lengthy, slick presentation asserting that the Sudanese political system is a "market" characterized by a system of patronage, the "buy-out" [...] | 2008-12-02 09:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1735 | NEWSPAPER CENSORSHIP IN KHARTOUM - A CASE STUDY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of the year, censorship of Khartoum-based newspapers has increased dramatically. Below is the account of Suleiman Al-Amin, a popular columnist with "Al-Sudani," a publication that has seen its share of harassment and censorship recently. Al-Amin described [...] | 2008-12-02 10:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1737 | DARFUR CEASEFIRE PLANS HAVE UNAMID FEELING THE HEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 2, Acting UNAMID Political Chief and head of the DDDC Abdul Mohammed and Sudan Scholar Alex DeWaal told CDA Fernandez that UNAMID has been frantically trying to throw together a proposal for a ceasefire commission in the last week. Mohammed promised to deliver UNAMI [...] | 2008-12-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1738 | FREED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DESCRIBES 'GHOST [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 1 human rights activist Osman Hummida (protect) described to CDA Fernandez the four days of grueling interrogation, physical abuse and psychological torture that he was subjected to at the hands of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). From November 2 [...] | 2008-12-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1744 | UMMA PARTY LEADER TRYING TO STEER SUDAN AWAY FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Umma Party Leader Sadiq al-Mahdi believes Sudan confronts a choice between "hard and soft landings" as pressure grows on the ruling NCP from various quarters. Al-Mahdi said that Umma is attempting to engage moderates within both the NCP and the opposition to steer Suda [...] | 2008-12-03 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID SOCI KDEM AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM1745 | SOUTH DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between rebel and government forces in South Darfur had been largely absent for several months until the November 19 SLA/MM and SLA/U attack on a central police convoy and subsequent government bombings, sources told poloffs during a trip to Nyala November 24-26. Meanwh [...] | 2008-12-03 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1751 | "DIVIDING DARFUR'S ARABS FROM GOS WILL DRIVE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3, Darfur Arab rebel leader Anwar Khater told CDA Fernandez that Darfur's Arabs have been marginalized, exploited by the Government of Sudan (GoS),and misrepresented by the international press. Khater emphatically stated that with support, Darfur's Arabs are ready [...] | 2008-12-04 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1754 | RESPECTED CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER FEARS NCP REVERSION TO [...] (SBU) Summary: NCP members accepted numerous recommendations from civil society leaders at the Sudan People's Initiative, including the formation of a consultative Presidential Council, but have shown no interest in actually carrying them out, the SPI drafting chairman, Khartoum University Prof [...] | 2008-12-04 14:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1755 | MACHAR PERSISTS IN EFFORTS TO FIND PEACE WITH THE LRA [...] (U) This is an action request for AF/SPG, please see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: Despite the latest failure of LRA leader Joseph Kony to sign the Juba Peace Accord, Chief LRA Peace Negotiator and Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riak Machar persists in his belief that it is [...] | 2008-12-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1758 | SOUTHERN KORDOFAN: MISSERIYA MIGRATION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) The seasonal migration of the Misseriya Arabs and their cattle through Abyei to South Sudan has begun and is proceeding smoothly, Deputy Nazir of the Misseriya Sadig Babo Nimr told CDA Fernandez December 2. Nimr also reported that the Interim Administration is doing well and that the Mi [...] | 2008-12-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1764 | DECEMBER 7 DARFUR UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last push before the long Eid Al-Adha holiday (December 8-12),Darfur rebels, signatories to the DPA, and regional players all shared their views regarding the peace process, the potential for a ceasefire or monitoring mechanism for violence in Darfur, and the lack of DPA [...] | 2008-12-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1771 | NEW JEM VIDEOS INTENDED TO DOCUMENT ITS STRENGTH AFTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) recently released three videos documenting a parade of several hundred armed men riding in more than 80 military vehicles. Although the date of the footage cannot be authoritatively determined, the speeches and audio on the tape reference [...] | 2008-12-11 15:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PROP MCAP ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1775 | SLM/MM REQUESTS VISIT TO U.S., MEDICAL TREATMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On December 11, SLM/Minnawi (SLM/MM) leaders in Khartoum visited CDA Fernandez requesting U.S. support for a visit to Washington, medical treatment for Minni Minnawi, and discrete funding for a leadership or party conferen [...] | 2008-12-13 09:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ASEC KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1777 | PLOTTING FOR BASHIR EXIT INTENSIFIES [...] (C) Summary: According to senior SPLM officials, Sudan's NCP is trying to broker a quick and graceful removal of President Al-Bashir within the next few months, with the President going into exile in Saudi Arabia. Discussions on a transition, which should take place before an ICC arrest warran [...] | 2008-12-13 14:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM179 | TFCD01: SUDANESE DYNAMICS AS CHAD SITUATION UNFOLDS [...] (C) Reiterating its support for the government of Chadian President Idris Deby, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Khalil Ibrahim has vowed to "repel any attack" by Khartoum-backed Chadian rebel movements, JEM representatives told Field Poloff on February 4. While refusing to discl [...] | 2008-02-05 11:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD LY |
08KHARTOUM1790 | SENATE STAFFDEL'S MEETING WITH MFA U/S MUTRIFF [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Abyei is under control following intervention by a GNU (NCP/SPLM) delegation to the town on December 13, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told a visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staffdel December 14. However, the regime remains concerned about a possible JEM incu [...] | 2008-12-15 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1793 | JEM SPOKESMAN SAYS RUMORS OF ATTACK ARE GOS "SMOKESCREEN" [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 11-12, UNAMID sources told poloff they had received unconfirmed reports from the GOS that a large column of JEM vehicles had been observed crossing Chad border into Sudan. However, they were unclear whether this alleged mobilization signified preparation for new attac [...] | 2008-12-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM180 | NCP CLAIMS SPLM OBSTRUCTION OF ELECTIONS LAW [...] (SBU) The SPLM is employing a strategy to delay passage of the elections law, claimed NCP political executive committee negotiator Dirdeiry Ahmed Mohammed. During a meeting with polchief February 4, Dirdeiry claimed the SPLM agreed months ago to a 60/40 direct vs. proportional voting system in [...] | 2008-02-05 16:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1810 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In discussions on December 14-15, UNAMID officials told poloff that the mission is still on target to meet its goal of 60 percent deployment by the end of December 2008. They also remain hopeful that 80 percent deployment is possible by March 2009, though it appears that this tar [...] | 2008-12-17 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1817 | CONTINUED REPORTS OF REGIME LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM leaderhip continues to report that the NCP is considering replacing President Bashir with a suitable military figure with Islamist credentials, and that Bashir would be content to leave power and live in exile in Saudi Arabia. The SPLM believes that the leading candidate [...] | 2008-12-18 11:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1818 | WILL UNAMID REACH SIXTY-PERCENT BY DECEMBER 31? [...] (SBU) An Reuters article picked up by international media on December 17 reported that UNAMID will fail to meet its target deployment goal of sixty-percent by the end of 2008. UNAMID refuted this and told Embassy Khartoum on December 18 that UNAMID fully anticipates meeting or surpassing the 6 [...] | 2008-12-18 15:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1819 | MINAWI CONTEMPLATES VISIT TO WASHINGTON: ASKS FOR [...] (C) During a meeting with a visiting Senate Staffdel December 16, SLM leader, DPA signatory and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minawi said he is considering a visit to Washington "soon after the New Year." Minawi asked for guidance on what dates would be best and asked which officials he [...] | 2008-12-18 16:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1820 | WILL UNAMID REACH SIXTY-PERCENT BY DECEMBER 31? [...] (SBU) An Reuters article picked up by international media on December 17 reported that UNAMID will fail to meet its target deployment goal of sixty-percent by the end of 2008. UNAMID refuted this and told Embassy Khartoum on December 18 that UNAMID fully anticipates meeting or surpassing the 6 [...] | 2008-12-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1825 | CHADIAN REBELS - LEADERSHIP, GOS INFLUENCE, AND [...] (C) The following is a response to SECSTATE 129300. CHADIAN OPPOSITION: SUSTAINABLE COALITION OR FLAWED? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (C) "IS THE FINAL LEADERSHIP BODY OF THE UNITED CHADIAN REBEL FRONT (THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENTS, PARLIAMENT, MINISTERS) [...] | 2008-12-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1829 | DARFUR REBEL UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's rebels remain fundamentally divided according to what their leaders told poloff during a December 14-18 visit to Ndjamena, Chad. The rebel leaders claim that JEM, while rich in vehicles and equipment, lacks fighters and the popular support of the people of Darfur. A [...] | 2008-12-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD SU |
08KHARTOUM1838 | MINNAWI REFUSES TO ACCOMPANY BASHIR TO EL FASHER [...] (C) Summary: In a December 22 meeting with poloffs, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minnawi stated that he has refused to accompany President Bashir to Darfur on December 23 because the Presidency has not acceded to his demands for a defined role in the visit and the chance to speak at [...] | 2008-12-23 18:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM184 | UNAMID SOFA: AGREED BUT NOT YET SIGNED [...] (SBU) The UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Government of Sudan have finalized language for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),Joint Special Representative (JSR) Rodolphe Adada's Special Assistant, Rana Taha, told Poloff on February 6. Adada and Foreign Minister Deng Alor were schedu [...] | 2008-02-06 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1840 | SENATE STAFFDEL VISIT TO JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with a Senate staff delegation from December 17-19, senior SPLM officials urged deeper USG strategic coordination with their own party, as well as proactive engagement with the NCP, to produce a favorable outcome should there be an arrest warrant issued by the ICC ag [...] | 2008-12-28 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU EAID |
08KHARTOUM1841 | MFA PLEDGES SUPPORT TO US CEASEFIRE MECHANISM, [...] (C) A/CDA Asquino provided additional information on December 23 to MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq regarding the US proposal to support a ceasefire monitoring mechanism within UNAMID, as requested in reftel. Siddiq reported that his government had made a decision to accept the US proposal to support t [...] | 2008-12-28 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM1842 | MINOR DEMONSTRATIONS AT EMBASSY KHARTOUM RELATED TO ISRAELI [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 27-28, several waves of demonstrators gathered outside the Embassy Khartoum Chancery to exhibit solidarity with the cause of Palestinians following Israeli air strikes in Gaza. The demonstrations remained peaceful but were marked by anti-American slogans including "Do [...] | 2008-12-28 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM1848 | MINNAWI'S POSITION ON THE DPA EVOLVES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 28 meeting with poloffs, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Arko Minnawi stated that he has chosen not to travel to Washington in January because he anticipates significant political and/or military developments in Sudan and Darfur in the coming weeks. He acknow [...] | 2008-12-29 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM192 | UN JOINT MEDIATION SUPPORT TEAM STILL GROPING TO FIND A WAY [...] (SBU) UN JMST member Hideo Ikebe opined that neither Darfur's rebel groups nor the GoS are willing to seriously engage in a peace process, and organizational and leadership deficiencies within the UN's structures in Sudan continue to hamper its effectiveness. Without a long-term, clearly-articu [...] | 2008-02-07 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM194 | CHADIAN EMBASSY IN KHARTOUM REPORTS FRESH TROOPS AND [...] (SBU) On February 7, Embassy Khartoum received a letter from the Chadian Embassy claiming that the Sudanese government had dispatched forty-eight armed vehicles carrying Chadian rebels and members of the Sudanese Armed Forces across the border into Chad. The convoy is said to have left at five [...] | 2008-02-07 12:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM199 | PARTICIPATION IN CENSUS MONITORING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM2 | AMIS TRANSFERS AUTHORITY TO UNAMID [...] (U) Under clear blue sunny skies with drums beating and bugles blowing, Joint Special Representative (JSR) Rodolphe Adada presided over the transfer of authority from AMIS to UNAMID at 1200 on December 31, 2007, at UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur. The Wali (Governor) of North Da [...] | 2008-01-02 07:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM204 | UNHCR HIGHLIGHTS PLIGHT OF "PROTRACTED" REFUGEES IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Assistant Secretary General for Protection Erika Feller told the diplomatic community on February 7 that the purpose of her visit to eastern Sudan was to highlight the problem of "protracted" refugees. The Geneva-based Feller [...] | 2008-02-10 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM217 | UNMIS CIVPOL POLICE COMMISSIONER VITTRUP ON POLICING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: UNMIS Police Commissioner Vittrup told poloff January 31 that the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Civilian Police Unit wants to address the current lack of southern Sudanese police capacity by improving the quality and quantity of police training. He said civilian police can play a v [...] | 2008-02-12 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM219 | WEST DARFUR: JEM VOWS TO PROTECT ITS AREAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader told FieldOff on February 10 that the Government of Sudan (GoS) had miscalculated in its February 8-9 attacks on the JEM-controlled West Darfur towns of Silea, Sirba and Abu Siruj. &JEM will come back to defend its areas,8 he vowed, [...] | 2008-02-12 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM225 | UNAMID STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT: SIGNED AND SEALED, BUT [...] (SBU) UNAMID and GoS officials finally signed a Status of Forces Agreement on February 9 in Khartoum. The SOFA is comprehensive in scope and contains all of the core provisions sought by the UN, including full freedom of movement, unimpeded use of communications, expedited procedures (visas, p [...] | 2008-02-14 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM226 | SPLM AND NCP STUCK ON DRAFT ELECTORAL BILL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The NCP continues to suggest that the SPLM is not keen on holding national elections due to the SPLM's potential loss of power in the GoSS. The SPLM says it supports a 50 (direct)/50 (proportional) electoral system in order to allow leaders from smaller communities a chance to gov [...] | 2008-02-14 07:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM231 | CENSUS: HOME-STRETCH LOOKING BETTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bashir issued a February 11 presidential decree reiterating that Sudan's inaugural nation-wide census will be conducted April 15-30. The following day's meeting of the Census Technical Working Group (TWG) left donors, the CBS, and the Southern Sudan Commission for the [...] | 2008-02-14 15:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM239 | MORE BLUSTER FROM PARTY LEADER NAFIE [...] (C) Addressing a massive rally February 18 in Sodiri, on the Kordofan/Darfur border, Presidential Advisor and National Congress Party leader Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie lashed out at the US administration and said that Secretary Rice should "lick her elbow" (do the impossible) if she believes that Suda [...] | 2008-02-19 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU PGOV UN |
08KHARTOUM241 | PRESIDENT BASHIR RESHUFFLES CABINET: ALI MARDI OUT, AL-JAZ [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 14, President Bashir shifted more than a quarter of ministerial positions in the cabinet of the Government of National Unity (GNU). In particular, local observers believe that Awad Al-Jaz' shift from Energy to Finance Ministry will strengthen both his own influence [...] | 2008-02-19 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM246 | UNAMID COMMANDER: BUILDING UP WHAT WE HAVE SHOULD [...] (C) Summary: UNAMID Force Commander believes that the international community's efforts would be better spent beefing up existing units, in terms of personnel, transport and logistics, already on the ground in Darfur rather than focusing on units still not accepted by the Sudanese Government t [...] | 2008-02-20 12:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM25 | ELECTORAL LAW MAY NOT BE ENACTED UNTIL APRIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The draft electoral law for 2009 national and state elections is still being debated in the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC). Although the current session of the National Assembly has been extended through 16 January, the Assembly will be tied up with other busi [...] | 2008-01-08 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM251 | UNAMID: "BALL IS IN OUR COURT" [...] (SBU) Summary: Fifty days after transition, UNAMID top officials briefed the diplomatic community on progress and challenges. UN/AU Special Representative Adada noted that a political solution is needed to resolve the Darfur situation and, while UNAMID is not a panacea, the changing political [...] | 2008-02-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM256 | ABYEI TENSIONS RISE WHILE COMPROMISE IS SOUGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a Misseriya SPLM MP the threat of ethnic conflict in Sudan's Abyei region has subsided, but a key GoSS Minister paints a much darker picture. On February 18, Mohammed Gour dismissed self-proclaimed "governor" al-Ansari as a tool of the NISS with no significant foll [...] | 2008-02-21 16:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM26 | SPLA AND SAF TROOP WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) Chief Operations Officer Colonel Ajay Sah at the UN Mission In Sudan (UNMIS) told poloff January 3 that as of January 2, no Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) units have redeployed and none of the 3,600 SAF troops show signs imminent movement either. He said that some of the 50,000 Sudan People [...] | 2008-01-08 06:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM266 | MFA CAUTIONED,"NEED TO ADVERT WEST DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: CDA urged the Sudanese Foreign Ministry to take immediate action to prevent a burgeoning humanitarian crisis in West Darfur which is developing as a result of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) Darfur rebels supported by Chad. [...] | 2008-02-24 08:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM27 | SPLM INSIDER SAMSON KWAJE ON CENSUS, CABINET RESHUFFLE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Consul General and visiting polchief met with Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Agriculture Minister Samson Kwaje January 7. Kwaje is considered a close advisor of GoSS President and GNU First Vice President Salva Kiir (background and bio notes are included at the end of this [...] | 2008-01-08 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM274 | UNAMID UNWILLING TO STOP WEST DARFUR CONFLICT BUT WILLING [...] (SBU) Summary: The UNAMID military component continues to monitor, despite limited access and visibility, recent fighting in West Darfur and movements of SAF troop concentrations in the region. The military Chief of Staff expects an escalation in hostilities in West Darfur, with operations pos [...] | 2008-02-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM276 | PAGAN AMUN TO S/E WILLIAMSON: "IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. GNU Minister for Cabinet Affairs and SPLM leader Pagan Amun warned S/E Williamson that if Abyei is not solved, Sudan could return to war. He described the NCP's non-implementation of the Abyei Protocol as the most "serious and challenging" remaining obstacle to the North-South pea [...] | 2008-02-26 15:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM277 | S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SUDAN'S FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a February 25 meeting with S/E Williamson, Foreign Minister Deng Alor said Sudan is ready for a dialogue and hopes the U.S. can assist it in reaching a number of mutual objectives; including implementing CPA, ending the Darfur conflict, and normalizing Sudan,s relations with [...] | 2008-02-26 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU |
08KHARTOUM278 | S/E WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, S/E Williamson told Presidential Advisor Nafie that any chance to move beyond U.S. and Sudan mutual distrust will come from committing to a matrix of specific and verifiable actions that both sides can take and for which each can hold the other accountable. He p [...] | 2008-02-26 17:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU |
08KHARTOUM279 | SE WILLIAMSON TO GHOSH: IMPROVED RELATIONS MEANS [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Williamson warned NISS Director Salah Ghosh that while the U.S. is willing to explore options towards improving relations if there is demonstrable change for the better in Darfur, such a possibility could be doomed before it starts if Sudan continues to allow violenc [...] | 2008-02-26 18:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL PTER UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM284 | MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: CG Christopher Datta met with Minister of Information and Broadcasting Gabriel Chang on the morning of February 25 to discuss the developing media in South Sudan. Starting with almost nothing, Chang outlined an ambitious agenda for the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to reach [...] | 2008-02-27 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM295 | "PANICKY" MUSA HILAL MAKING NEW OVERTURES TO THE [...] (C) In recent weeks, janjaweed leader and newly-appointed special advisor Musa Hilal has made both direct and indirect overtures to the Embassy in Khartoum. In mid-February, PolFSN was summoned to Hilal's Khartoum residence by one of Hilal's relatives for an impromptu meeting with the notorious [...] | 2008-02-29 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU AU UN |
08KHARTOUM296 | POTENTIAL ABYEI BORDER MOVES NORTH WITH SOME MAJOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 15:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM298 | Abyei Conflict Contained for Now, But Problem Unresolved [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLM-appointed Abyei administrator Edward Lino says that conflict in Abyei has been "contained," in what he calls a defeat for NCP hardliners. The NCP and SPLM, however, appear to have been unable to conclude an agreement on joint administration. According to Foreign Minister [...] | 2008-03-02 05:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM299 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY VISITS DARFUR, PRESSES FOR [...] (C) U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Richard Williamson met with UNAMID political and military leadership in El Fasher to emphasize the importance that President Bush places on resolving the crisis in Darfur and the administration's willingness to commit significant additional financial and pol [...] | 2008-03-02 09:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM300 | SE WILLIAMSON TO PRESIDENT AL-BASHIR: WE DON'T [...] (C) Summary: In a positive, hour-long meeting with the Sudanese President, SE Richard Williamson clearly and concisely outlined American concerns on Darfur, CPA, Sudanese adventurism in Chad, and other bilateral issues while describing a possible way forward in improving relations based on spe [...] | 2008-03-02 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM31 | BANK OF SUDAN ANNOUNCES CONVERSION TO EURO CITING U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) announced on January 7 that it converted its reserves to the euro and other currencies, and that it will no longer use the U.S. dollar for financial transactions. The CBOS named U.S. sanctions as one of the primary reasons for this change. Leadin [...] | 2008-01-09 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFQ EAID SOCI AU UNSC SU ECON KPKO |
08KHARTOUM318 | "DARFUR PARTNERS GROUP" DISCUSS SUDAN CONSORTIUM, [...] (C) At a recent meeting of the Darfur Partners Group in Khartoum, Western Ambassadors discussed the possibility of adding sessions on Darfur and the Sudan-Chad conflict to the agenda for the Sudan Consortium tentatively scheduled for April in Paris. The UN/AU mediation team provided an update [...] | 2008-03-04 05:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KPKO UN AU SU CD FR |
08KHARTOUM319 | HOW TO RESTRUCTURE A CEASEFIRE COMMISSION WITHOUT AN [...] (SBU) This cable provides an update on the most recent activities of the UNAMID Ceasefire Commission (CFC),impediments to its functioning and an analysis of measures the CFC Secretariat can take now to enhance its effectiveness if and when a genuine ceasefire takes hold in Darfur. The USG sho [...] | 2008-03-04 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM320 | OCHA TO SE WILLIAMSON: "CIVILIANS PAID PRICE FOR [...] (C) On February 29, UN OCHA (Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Sudan Office Director Mike McDonagh (protect) provided SE Williamson with a graphic but balanced account of the violence that occurred in West Darfur in February 2008. In a discussion informed by his recent two fir [...] | 2008-03-04 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM323 | SIGNATORY AND NON-SIGNATORY REPS SIT TOGETHER WITH UNAMID [...] (SBU) UNAMID convened a meeting of Ceasefire Commission stakeholders - including UN civilian political representation and both DPA signatories and non-signatories - to provide an overview of CFC efforts and solicit the input of factions regarding their concerns and grievances. The CFC explaine [...] | 2008-03-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM33 | SUDAN ARMY ATTACKS UNAMID CONVOY [...] (SBU) On January 8, UNAMID claimed that Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attacked a UNAMID 29-truck convoy on January 7 at approximately 2200 near Tine, West Darfur located 125 kilometers north of Geneina. UNAMID spokesmen Nourreddine Mezni told poloff on January 9 that Joint Special Representative [...] | 2008-01-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM333 | UNMAMID CIVIL AFFAIRS ATTEMPTING TO LAY GRASSROOTS [...] (SBU) UNAMID Head of Civil Affairs provided an overview of incipient efforts to strengthen civil society in North Darfur and its influence in an eventual peace process. UNAMID will hold a broad civil society workshop on land issues in mid-March, the first in a series that will focus on various [...] | 2008-03-06 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM345 | A SNAPSHOT OF SOUTH SUDAN'S CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Southern Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission will roll out its inaugural anti-corruption strategy with USG assistance in late March, 18 months after the Commission's establishment. Anecdotal evidence suggests that GOSS corruption will continue to seriously embarrass the SPLM as [...] | 2008-03-10 07:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM346 | AS UN REACHES JEBEL MOON, SPLINTER EMERGES WITHIN JEM [...] (SBU) After an earlier dispute between the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) over access to Jebel Moon, West Darfur, a UN team reached the area for a brief yet inconclusive visit to assess the humanitarian situation. UN sources report that the [...] | 2008-03-10 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM35 | SUDAN-CHAD TENSIONS FLARE [...] (SBU) Media and the UN reported that Chadian air force planes attacked Chadian rebel camps in Sudan near the villages of Goker and Wadi Radi 35 kilometers south of Geneina in West Darfur state on January 7. This follows Chadian President Deby's statement January 5 that Chad will pursue Chadi [...] | 2008-01-10 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM351 | FRANCE, EUFOR ISSUE CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ON FALLEN [...] (SBU) The European Union repatriated the body ofQoldier from the EU peacekeeping force in Chad, EUFOR, on March 7, as French President Sarkozy and EUFOR commander Patrick Nash issued conflicting statements on the events leading to the soldier's death. While Nash apologized to Sudan for his pea [...] | 2008-03-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC AU SU CD EU |
08KHARTOUM354 | SUDAN CONSORTIUM PLANNING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Deputy SRSG Amira Haq and World Bank Country Manager Asif Faiz asked CDA Fernandez March 9 for U.S. assistance with the agenda and venue of the Sudan Consortium, due to take place in Paris May 6-8. According to Haq these [...] | 2008-03-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM357 | LIBYA OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS TO RESOLVE DARFUR, CHAD [...] (SBU) The Libyan Government remains open to U.S. ideas for advancing the Darfur peace process and resolving the Sudan-Chad conflict, Libyan Consul General in El Fasher Naji Yousef told Poloff on March 10, 2008. While Tripoli continues to try to broker a peace settlement between the Darfur rebe [...] | 2008-03-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU LY CD |
08KHARTOUM358 | UNAMID FORCE COMMANDER ENGAGES WITH SLA-UNITYUNAMID UNABLE [...] (SBU) As part of his ongoing efforts to engage with all Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory factions, AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai traveled March 9 to Al Hosh (N 15 degrees 02'21.9", E 024 degrees 47'56.1"),North Darfur to hold introducto [...] | 2008-03-11 07:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM368 | ABEL ALIER SUSPICIOUS OF NORTHERN POLITICIANS, BUT ALSO [...] (SBU) Too many agreements have been dishonored, and northern political parties are eager to open the CPA and block agreement on Abyei, according to former Vice President and current co-chairman of the National Constitutional Review Commission Abel Alier. CDA Fernandez met with the elder states [...] | 2008-03-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM383 | LAND TENSIONS THREATEN SOUTHERN STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Conflict in Sudan has been fueled in many cases by competition over land and other natural resources. Currently, there are no consistent land policies and laws to govern how land is to be allocated and used in Southern Sudan. The control of land is linked to historical "injustic [...] | 2008-03-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM385 | NEW CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE BREWING IN WEST DARFUR [...] (C) A new attempt to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby's government is brewing in West Darfur, UN officials, humanitarian workers, and Chadian rebel commanders told Poloffs in El Geneina between March 11 and 13. Though predictions on the start date for the next attempt to topple Deby's [...] | 2008-03-16 10:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD FR |
08KHARTOUM386 | DESPITE DAKAR ACCORD, SPLM AND SLM BRACE FOR [...] (C) Recounting his efforts to press a diffident President Bashir to support the recent Dakar accord with Chad--including a mechanism to monitor violations--Foreign Minister Deng Alor remains concerned that Khartoum will continue to pursue regime change in N'djamena, he told Senior Assistant to [...] | 2008-03-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD UG |
08KHARTOUM39 | LOOKING AHEAD ON THE SUDAN AEC [...] (C) Norway's Ambassador to Khartoum, in his capacity as Interim AEC (Assessment and Evaluation Commission) Chairman called AEC working group chairs (US, UK, Norway, Italy, Netherlands) together to survey the way ahead for the Commission over the next few months. UK Ambassador reported on the [...] | 2008-01-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM390 | NCP LEADER TOES THE PARTY LINE [...] (SBU) On Sunday, March 16, CDA Fernandez met with Retired Maj. Gen. Al Fatih Abdoun (and former Governor of Khartoum) in his Khartoum home. Known as a flexible and moderate leader, Abdoun assisted in creating the military support that brought President Al- Bashir to power in his 1989 coup. Abdo [...] | 2008-03-16 15:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM397 | CHAD: RFC'S ERDIMI PLANS LAND GRAB WHILE OTHER [...] (C) As other Chadian rebel factions conspire to topple President Idriss Deby, RFC leader Timan Erdimi plans to "occupy" as much territory as possible and then negotiate with a transitional government to achieve his political objectives, he told Poloff in Khartoum on March 15. Explaining that r [...] | 2008-03-17 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD FR |
08KHARTOUM400 | SPLA - DEFENSE WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) At the beginning of last week, President Salva Kiir finally signed the Defense White Paper (DWP). At this point the DWP has been reviewed and approved by the SPLA military leadership, the GOSS Defense Council, the GOSS Council of Ministers (cabinet equivalent) and the President. The Pre [...] | 2008-03-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM408 | UNAMID ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN WEST [...] (C) Instability is still prevalent in the corridor north of El Geneina, where fighting over the last month displaced thousands and has left the civilians who remain in the area vulnerable to looting and violence at the hands of Arab militias, the Sudanese military, and the Central Reserve Poli [...] | 2008-03-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM41 | AL-SAMANI: NEW EMBASSY COMPOUND POLITICAL ISSUE, NOT SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a sometimes tense meting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Greenfield-Thomas on January 12, State Minister for Foreign Affairs al-Samani al-Wasila maintained that construction on the new embassy compound (NEC) had been blocked in response to political, bila [...] | 2008-01-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU PGOV UN |
08KHARTOUM410 | THERE ARE NEITHER MODERATES NOR HARDLINERS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The NCP regime is unified and well organized despite its corruption, and the popular characterizations of regime "hardliners" versus "moderates" are overplayed, according to opposition observers who have known individuals in the NCP regime for decades. These opposition members als [...] | 2008-03-18 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM418 | UFDD/F CALLS ON WEST TO SPONSOR DIALOGUE WITH DEBY [...] (C) The Union des Forces de la Democratie et du Development/Fondamentale (UFDD/F) wants Western governments to sponsor a dialogue between the opposition and the regime of Chadian President Idriss Deby, the movement's commissar for political affairs, Mukhtar Yaya, told Poloff in Khartoum on Mar [...] | 2008-03-19 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM42 | FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR: NEW MARCHING ORDERS FROM [...] (C) Summary: In a January 12 meeting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the newly sworn in Foreign Minister (FM) Deng Alor said President Bashir had personally tasked him with taking the lead in improving bilateral relations between Sudan and the United S [...] | 2008-01-13 16:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU UN PGOV |
08KHARTOUM420 | DONORS MEET WITH SRSG QAZI IN PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to donor's concerns about UN slowness on the Sudanese 2009 elections, SRSG Ashraf Qazi and the Electoral Donors met Tuesday, March 18, to share dates, assumptions and concerns. SRSG Qazi recognized that, as UNMIS works to build Sudan's electoral capacities, key legisl [...] | 2008-03-21 08:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM422 | USG STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS OF THE SUDANESE CENSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: As long feared by the international community, multiple problems with conducting the census across the South and in Darfur have surfaced in recent weeks, leading to the risk of a serious undercount in these areas and a widespread perception that the census will be inaccurate. N [...] | 2008-03-21 08:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM425 | BASHIR TELLS ADVISOR THAT THE DAKAR AGREEMENT IS [...] (C) Senior Presidential Advisor Minni Minawi told poloff March 22 that President Bashir had rejected Minawi's proposal to travel to Ndjamena in order to encourage negotiations between President Deby and Chadian rebel Timane Erdimi. Minawi had hoped that his own direct appeals to President Deby [...] | 2008-03-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM427 | USG ELECTIONS STRATEGY IN SUDAN [...] (C) Free and fair elections in Sudan are a top foreign policy objective for the USG, and it is therefore critical early on to define a policy framework and begin planning in earnest now for the 2009 Sudanese elections. Despite the constant demands for our attention from Darfur and the North-S [...] | 2008-03-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM429 | LRA PEACE TALKS TO RESUME IN JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Peace talks between the LRA and Government of Uganda will resume in Juba on Monday, March 24. Lead negotiator Riek Machar expects a final implementation agreement to be initialed no later than March 25, and he hopes for a final signing ceremony in Juba on Friday, April 4. End [...] | 2008-03-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU UG SU |
08KHARTOUM434 | UNAMID IS ITS OWN WORST ENEMY ON DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For at least the second time in four months, UNAMID leadership in El Fasher has attempted to use logistical considerations as an excuse for delaying deployment of the peacekeeping force in Darfur. The latest attempt, articulated by the Chief of Planning, was in direct response t [...] | 2008-03-24 05:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM437 | UNAMID FORCE COMMANDER'S VISION OF DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A March 24 conversation with UNAMID Force Commander (FC) Martin Luther Agwai revealed the depth of the chasm between the vision on the ground in El Fasher and at UN Headquarters in New York of UNAMID's short-term deployment plan. Like other UNAMID officials (reftel),the FC cit [...] | 2008-03-25 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM438 | UNAMID - A VIEW FROM RURAL NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March 24 visit by emboffs to UNAMID camps in Sector North revealed that UNAMID troops can make a difference on the ground as local populations trust UNAMID with their security concerns. Nonetheless, discussions with UNAMID contacts in Um Kadada and Shangil Tobai also reveale [...] | 2008-03-25 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM448 | ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST LAM AKOL DEBUNKED [...] (SBU) An accidental encounter between cattle-rustlers and a motorcade convoy belonging to former Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol has sparked a press battle of conspiracy theories and alleged assassination plots. Media spin to date has cleaved along "true SPLM" and "former SPLM" lines, wit [...] | 2008-03-26 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM452 | JEM'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR ON THE CENSUS, PEACE PROCESS, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Chief Negotiator, Ahmed Tougod, told emboff by satellite phone on March 26 that JEM rejects the upcoming census, the AU-UN's approach to the peace process, and bilateral negotiations with the Government of Sudan (GoS). To [...] | 2008-03-27 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM453 | REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: JMST [...] (C) Poloffs met March 25 with the UN Joint Mediation Support Team's (JMST) newly-appointed Chief of Staff Yasir Sabra to discuss the stalled Darfur peace process and JMST plans to restructure its operations and pursue modest "confidence building measures" with the parties in advance of a more [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM454 | UNAMID TRIES HARDER WHILE DARFURIS FUME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: March 25 visits to two UNAMID camps in Darfur revealed that UNAMID troops, while bringing much needed relative security to their immediate areas of control, currently lack the troops and equipment to be in some of the most operationally-important areas. The visits also reveale [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM463 | NORTH DARFUR'S ARABS: PLAYING THE VICTIM, WANTING A SEAT AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 27, Darfur's northern Arab tribal leaders told emboff that they are victims that should be included in any negotiations on Darfur's future. In separate meetings the week of March 23, UN staff, local NGOS, and leaders from other ethnic groups emphasized that many of D [...] | 2008-03-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM464 | NORTH DARFUR'S ECONOMY - UNAMID GIVES A BOOST TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary General of North Darfur's Chamber of Commerce, Rashid Mekki, told econoff on March 26 that the presence of UNAMID has given a small boost to the region's struggling economy, particularly the construction, real-estate (with land prices increasing twenty times in f [...] | 2008-03-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO ECON AU EFIN SU |
08KHARTOUM466 | AEC TO URGE SPECIAL SESSION ON ABYEI [...] (C) Newly installed Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) chairman Sir Derek Plumbly met with AEC working group chairs (UK, Norwegian, Italian and Dutch Ambassadors plus CDA Fernandez) on March 30 to discuss a more aggressive AEC stance on political issues and to outline a common agenda fo [...] | 2008-03-31 07:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM469 | JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR JEM IN JEBEL MOUN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 28 and 29, representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) claimed it was business as usual for them in their struggle against the Government of Sudan (GoS) and in their "dedicated quest" toward negotiations. Political leadershi [...] | 2008-03-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM471 | CHINESE ENGINEERS WAIT FOR THEIR MATERIALS; LACK OF WATER [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt will accept deployment of its infantry battalion in the hopes that its second battalion might be accepted at a later date. UN contractors are refusing to transport Chinese prefabricated housing units to the Nyala super-camp because UN payment offered for transport is too l [...] | 2008-03-31 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM474 | NAFIE COMPLAINS OF PERCEPTION PROBLEM IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Darfur is better than what is being reported, Presidential Advisor and NCP leader Nafie Ali Nafie told CDA Fernandez during a meeting March 31. Nafie blamed international NGOs for distorting the image of what is happening in Darfur said that if the international c [...] | 2008-04-01 05:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM476 | SPLM EL FASHER REPS GIVE MIXED VIEWS ON DARFUR REBEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 30 and 31, El Fasher representatives of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) gave mixed messages on prospects for unifying Darfur rebels in an as-yet undated second round of talks in Juba. One group, chaired by an Acting Secretary [...] | 2008-04-01 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM477 | DARFUR IDPs PROTEST CENSUS IN ABU SHOUK CAMP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Multiples sources confirmed to emboffs that internally displaced persons in Abu Shouk camp near El-Fasher, North Darfur organized a protest on March 31 in opposition to the upcoming Sudanese census. Although protests are common in Darfur's many IDP camps, this is the first prot [...] | 2008-04-01 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM48 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On Friday, January 11, CG Datta paid a courtesy call on George Justin Achor, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs. Their one-hour discussion covered a wide range of topics, including the upcoming CPA celebrations in Wau, the LRA, the state of the CPA, the need [...] | 2008-01-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM480 | SUDANESE DEFENSE MINISTER: WE WANT A BETTER [...] (C) Summary: In a surprising conversation after a two year boycott, Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Hussein told CDA Fernandez that Sudan was strongly in favor of a better relationship with the United States. He gingerly accepted that "mistakes were made" in Darfur, called for greater Am [...] | 2008-04-01 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM482 | SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...] | 2008-04-01 16:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL EAID AU SU |
08KHARTOUM484 | SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...] | 2008-04-02 05:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL EAID AU SU |
08KHARTOUM485 | JMST'S SAM IBOK ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1 AU Chief Mediator of UNAMID,S JMST San Ibok briefed senior UNAMID representatives on the Darfur peace process as part of the two-day "UNAMID Brainstorming on DPA." Ibok highlighted that of the five major rebel movements, only two (SLA-Unity and the URF) have indic [...] | 2008-04-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM486 | UNAMID LEADERSHIP DEBATES DARFUR SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In one of the most inconclusive sessions of the two-day internal UNAMID brainstorming session on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and Related Issues, UNAMID leadership on March 31 made myriad excuses for UNAMID,s performance to date without highlighting any relative successes o [...] | 2008-04-02 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD PGOV |
08KHARTOUM5 | JEM REPRESENTATIVES ARRESTED IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 30 Government of Sudan (GoS) security forces surrounded a house full of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) members in El Fasher and arrested six JEM members, including the JEM Ceasefire Commission (CFC) representative GEN Mohammed Basher Mohammed. The United Nations [...] | 2008-01-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD |
08KHARTOUM502 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT LIMITATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID Chief of Planning informed FieldOff on April 2 that "there will be no new infantry battalions coming in this year to UNAMID" beyond those that are currently planned. Instead, he stated UNAMID would be prepared to receive the Egyptian and Ethiopian battalions and the enabli [...] | 2008-04-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM503 | GOS FLEXES ITS MUSCLE IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last two weeks, there are indications that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is flexing its muscle in Darfur. Signs of this include: three firefights between Arab militias/janjaweed and SLM-Minnawi members in the center of El-Fasher; several Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) p [...] | 2008-04-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM506 | LITTLE PROGRESS ON DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (C) Summary: State Minister of International Cooperation (and SPLM member) Elias Wakoson told CDA Fernandez that Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) efforts have fallen short due to the availability of arms and the lack of dispute resolution alternatives. He said the lack of D [...] | 2008-04-04 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM517 | UNMIS DDR PROGRAM TO REQUEST FUNDING AT SUDAN CONSORTIUM IN [...] (SBU) At a meeting of the AEC Security working group April 2 UNMIS DDR Chief Adrian Verheul described plans for an April 9 high-level roundtable meeting in Khartoum of UN officials, donors and GOS officials to develop comprehensive DDR program. Verheul plans to follow this up with a request fo [...] | 2008-04-06 07:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM52 | FINANCE MINISTER REFUSES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS [...] (C) Summary: GOS Finance Minister Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan told visiting PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield that he will not authorize the release of the containers for the New Embassy Compound unless the Embassy pays the customs duties and demurrage fees, due to the deteriorating relationship between [...] | 2008-01-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM529 | FM ALOR WARNS "THIS WEEK COULD BE DECISIVE" ON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor warned that April 2 discussions on Abyei between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) regressed and the next meeting on April 9 could be decisive. He also warned of SPLM plans to aggressively challenge Northern [...] | 2008-04-07 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM53 | DSRSG ZERIHOUN ON ABYEI, DARFUR POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (SBU) Meeting with DCM Powers and SPG Director Lauren Landis on January 13, the UN's Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General Taye Zerihoun urged all parties to maintain focus SIPDIS on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as it enters the third year of its six year transit [...] | 2008-01-15 12:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM536 | AHMED HAROUN, DENG ALOR, AND PAGAN AMUN NEGOTIATE [...] (C) CDA Fernandez and polchief entered Cabinet Minister Pagan Amun's office April 6 and encountered not only Amun, but also Foreign Minister Deng Alor and State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and ICC indictee Ahmed Haroun huddled over a map of the oil-rich contested Abyei region. Alor and [...] | 2008-04-07 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM537 | FORMER DARFUR GOVERNOR ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Former defense minister and former governor of North Darfur Ibrahim Suleiman Hassan told poloff that now is the time to push for peace in Darfur. Hassan believes peace is achievable if the U.S. pushes Sudan to reach deals with the Darfur rebels and Chad. He also said the U.S. s [...] | 2008-04-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM538 | GOS BORDER INTELLIGENCE FORCE SPARKS GUNFIRE IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) On April 6 at approximately 1330, United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in El Fasher, North Darfur, warned that "groups of combatants from the GoS Military Camp intend to cause problems in the market area, due to unsatisfactory welfare conditions." A group of Border I [...] | 2008-04-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM541 | "EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF" - A NYALA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Discussions with United Nations and local representatives in Nyala, South Darfur, reveal a complex picture of security in this Darfur state, where attacks against humanitarians, intertribal fighting and banditry constitute the main threats to stability. END SUMMARY. TARGETED [...] | 2008-04-08 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO KSEC SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM542 | SPLA DEFENSE WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-awaited SPLA Defense White Paper provides a concise overview of SPLA's mission and objectives, while highlighting capacity issues and a framework to tackle them. The challenge will be in its implementation - the document codifies the military's weaknesses that require s [...] | 2008-04-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM549 | POSSIBLE SPLM-RIZEIGAT ALLIANCE IN SOUTH DARFUR? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings in Nyala with emboffs on November 7, multiple political leaders reported that the Arab (Baggara) Rizeigat tribe had created an alliance with the SPLM. However, on November 7, the Nazir of the Rizeigat denied any association with the SPLM, scoffing at the idea and [...] | 2008-04-10 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM555 | ABDUCTEE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Meeting with Poloff on April 8, UNICEF Child Protection Officer Viktor Nylund described the recent activities of the Committee on the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC) as "limited" and "disorganized." Formed in 1999 within the Government of Sudan's (GoS) Ministry of J [...] | 2008-04-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM556 | SPLM ROLLS OUT BROAD DARFUR PLAN AND REQUESTS DONOR FUNDS [...] (SBU) The SPLM has developed a multi-track plan to effect resolution of the Darfur crisis. Though lacking in operational detail, the plan includes having SPLM representatives visit rebel groups and civil society in all three Darfur states, working with the NCP to develop a GNU approach to the [...] | 2008-04-10 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM557 | UPDATE ON NORTH DARFUR SECURITY SITUATION [...] (SBU) Following the shooting in El Fasher's market April 6 perpetrated by Arab janjaweed militia (reftel),armed militia members re-entered the market later that same day and engaged GoS forces there while attempting to loot the Bank of Khartoum. Shots were heard again between 0030-0100 April [...] | 2008-04-10 13:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
08KHARTOUM559 | SUDANESE LEADERS COMPLAIN ABOUT FOREIGN INFLUENCE [...] (SBU) Speaking at a March 31 to April 1 workshop "Foreign Presence and its impact on National Sudanese Security" organized by the National Assembly Committee on security and Defense, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Chief Salah Abdullah Muhammad, aka Salah Ghosh, called on the [...] | 2008-04-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM563 | FM DENG ALOR ON ROME, ABYEI, AND "COLD" RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Sudan is likely to make some concessions on UNAMID deployment at the bilateral talks in Rome, such as agreement on the Thai and Nepalese troop contributions, FM Deng Alor advised CDA Fernandez in a meeting April 10. However Alor cautioned that the ruling National Congress Party (N [...] | 2008-04-11 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM564 | MINAWI ON DIVIDED CHADIAN SUPPORT FOR REBELS, [...] (C) In a wide-ranging conversation on April 12, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi discussed the emergence of two competing streams of Chadian support for Darfur's rebel movements--one led by Dausa Deby and focused on recruiting SLM fighters to augment the URF--and another led by I [...] | 2008-04-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM566 | SURPRISE CENSUS DELAY BY SPLM EXPOSES INTERNAL FISSURES [...] (SBU) Just one day after GoSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit publicly supported the upcoming national census and urged all Southern Sudanese to participate in it, the GoSS Council of Ministers, led by Kiir, voted to unilaterally "postpone" the census in Southern Sudan. GoSS officials cited a la [...] | 2008-04-14 04:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM567 | URF ANNOUNCES FINAL CONSOLIDATION [...] (SBU) Four months after the close of SPLM-hosted Darfur movement consolidation talks in Juba, the United Resistance Front (URF) has announced its final consolidation. The coalition represents five factions that includes Massaleit and Arab representatives but is dominated by Zaghawa JEM/Collect [...] | 2008-04-14 05:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PREL PGOV SOCI EAID SU AU |
08KHARTOUM568 | WE NEED A CEASEFIRE COMMISSION, SAYS FRUSTRATED DPA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 9, three members of SLM-Free Will (SLM-FW) informed emboffs about recent Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) bombings in their areas of control in North Darfur, emphasizing that there is no mechanism for them to report these incidents, since the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) remains [...] | 2008-04-14 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM570 | UNAMID POLICE DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) UNAMID Acting Chief of Police Administration Ralf Gehling told poloff April 8 that the second 140-officer UNAMID Formed Police Unit (FPU),from Nepal, is poised to deploy in late April. The Nepalese FPU, the third non-African UNAMID unit after the Chinese engineers and the Bangladeshi F [...] | 2008-04-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM573 | JANE HOLL LUTE PREVIEWS MESSAGE TO UNSC ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations outgoing Under-Secretary-General in the Department of Field Support (DFS) Jane Holl Lute said that the only way for the UN to deploy the bulk of UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) forces in 2008 was with the parallel provision of enabling assets, a point [...] | 2008-04-14 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM574 | RARE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOS, SLA/ABDULWAHID AS FIGHTING [...] (SBU) In a departure from the unofficial ceasefire between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Abdulwahid, three separate confrontations have erupted between their forces in recent days. The first two rebel attacks occurred in East Jebel Marra on April 9 and 11 and [...] | 2008-04-14 10:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM576 | CHAD: UFDD, FSR'S DIFFERING VIEWS ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) This message includes an action request. Please see para. 7. --------------------------------------------- ---------- UFDD: Negotiations with Political Opposition, Observers --------------------------------------------- ---------- 2. (C) In separate conversations, representatives fro [...] | 2008-04-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU CD SU LY |
08KHARTOUM584 | SPLM DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL OPENS DARFUR OFFICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SPLM Deputy Secretary General Yassir Arman announced the establishment of a SPLM political office for North Darfur on April 12. Local government leaders, including the Wali of North Darfur, opposition parties' representatives, NCP members, and rebel groups such as JEM/Peace Wing [...] | 2008-04-15 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM591 | UNFPA FIELD OFFICER OPTIMISTIC ON CENSUS [...] (SBU) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Head of Office in Darfur Dr. Ezizgeldi Hellenov told poloff on April 15 that UNFPA will do its best to conduct the census in Darfur. He said that the one-week delay in conducting the census has left his field offices with two problems: first, making sure questi [...] | 2008-04-16 07:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM598 | ROME BILATERAL MEETING TRUMPETED IN PRO-REGIME KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Khartoum pro-regime daily Akhbar al Youm headlined April 17 on page one the Sudan-US talks in Rome, prominently announcing "details of the talks on Sudanese-US relations on their first day." The article states that "today the two sides will conclude important talks for developing bilatera [...] | 2008-04-17 09:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM6 | INCOMING FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR WANTS TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. CDA Powers met with newly sworn-in Foreign Minister Deng Alor on January 2 who said that he wanted to improve Sudanese-U.S. relations. Deng offered GoS assurances to work together in the investigation of the killing of the U.S. diplomat and his Sudanese driver. Also with the aim [...] | 2008-01-02 16:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM603 | SPLM REPS IN NORTH DARFUR: WE DON'T BELIEVE THE CENSUS WILL [...] (SBU) Speaking at the newly-opened North Darfur SPLM office, nearly a dozen SPLM reps told poloff on April 15 that Darfurians don't support the census because it will not benefit the people of Darfur. The SPLM reps said that the SPLM will not support a census that enables the NCP to manipulate [...] | 2008-04-18 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM604 | WHEN THE THIRST FOR POWER TRUMPS CPA COMMITMENTS [...] (SBU) The GoSS' reluctance to carry out the census in the South (and its latest statement that it reserves the right to dispute the census results) indicates that it is fearful that the actual size of the population in the South and NCP manipulation of the census process will result in less tha [...] | 2008-04-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM605 | CDA MEETS WITH FORMER PRESIDENT MIRGHANI [...] (U) On 17 April, CDA Fernandez met with former Sudanese President (1986-89) and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Ahmed Al-Mirghani, brother of DUP leader Mohamed Othman Al-Mirghani who remains in self-imposed exile in Cairo. Ahmed Al-Mirghani stated that the DUP (Mirghani faction) is kee [...] | 2008-04-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM607 | STUDENTS COMPLAIN OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON POLITICAL [...] This is an action cable, please see para 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings with university leaders the week of April 13, SPLM-affiliated students and members of the Darfur Students Union complained of discriminatory support for students based on party affiliation and geography. [...] | 2008-04-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM610 | UNAMID OFFICER ARRESTED IN NYALA FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the April 13 arrest without warrant of a UNAMID staff officer for alleged sexual misconduct, and subsequent reports that the South Darfur Wali banned UNAMID soldiers from downtown Nyala, UNAMID tempered its reaction to this apparent SOFA violation to emphasize that [...] | 2008-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM611 | STUDENTS COMPLAIN OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON POLITICAL [...] This is an action cable, please see para 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings with university leaders the week of April 13, SPLM-affiliated students and members of the Darfur Students Union complained of discriminatory support for students based on party affiliation and geography. [...] | 2008-04-20 15:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM614 | JMST BRIEFING FOCUSES ON SECURITY AND CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an April 19 briefing to Khartoum's Ambassadors, Salim Ahmed Salim and Jan Eliasson (the African Union and United Nations Special Envoys for Darfur) stated that their most recent visit to Sudan focused on security concerns. According to Salim and Eliasson, consultations wit [...] | 2008-04-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM616 | ROME TALKS - INITIAL NCP PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) "The Rome talks were useful and even though we didn't get much out of them, we're looking at the bigger picture," NCP negotiator Yahia Bebiker, who was present in Rome, told CDA Fernandez April 21. Bebiker said the NCP viewed the talks as a "good start" as long as the two sides begin to c [...] | 2008-04-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM62 | UNAMID CIVILIAN RECRUITMENT PROCEEDS SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Deputy Director of the UNAMID Recruitment Office Haris Pajtic told poloff January 9 that civilian recruitment for the 5,500 civilian UNAMID positions is underway but admitted that serious obstacles remain. He said that his 12-person office expects to have recruited 50 percent of the posi [...] | 2008-01-17 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM623 | GOSS GIVES JUBA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On the afternoon of April 21 the GOSS assembled the Diplomatic and NGO community for a briefing on what steps it is taking to combat the recent rash of armed robberies targeting foreigners and NGOs in Juba. Actions to be taken include putting more police out on the streets, star [...] | 2008-04-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CASC SU |
08KHARTOUM626 | UN STAFFER'S PROPOSAL ON DARFUR NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) On April 22, Gerry McHugh, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson's chief strategist, told poloffs that the Darfur peace process needs strong U.S. leadership, not more large, multi-lateral meetings. McHugh offered a number of uncharacteristic UN ideas including: 1) Any deal will be brokered behind the [...] | 2008-04-23 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM627 | UNAMID LIQUIDATION TEAM ARRIVES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID has assigned a team of liquidation specialists to identify AMIS assets for disposal either to the UN or to the AU. The team said it can transfer European-donated AMIS assets by June but was not able to specify a similar date for USG assets since they were inventoried and [...] | 2008-04-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM63 | PRESIDENCY TO NAME ADMINISTRATORS FOR ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Presidency may name an interim administration for Abyei soon despite the fact that borders have yet to be defined, according to NCP negotiator Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed. Dirdeiry boasted that the SPLM-NCP relationship has "never been better" following the SPLM's rejoining of th [...] | 2008-01-17 06:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM637 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ISMAIL ON ROME, CHAD/JEM, AND [...] (C) Summary: Sudan decided to keep its high-level delegation in Rome - despite the majority of the US delegation being "comprised of low-level officials", to demonstrate its seriousness - said Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail. Ismail suggested that the second round of talks should o [...] | 2008-04-24 11:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM64 | CLASHES CONTINUE IN WEST DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy clashes in West Darfur continued January 13 - 15, with confirmed GOS aerial attacks on JEM rebel positions. There were also additional reports of Chadian aerial incursions into Sudan. End summary. 2. (SBU) During discussions with poloff January 15, UNAMID contacts confi [...] | 2008-01-17 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KSEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM642 | UNAMID PUBLIC INFORMATION STRATEGY IN DISARRAY, ACCORDING [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with representatives from Albany Associates, a communications firm that has been hired by DFID to support UNAMID. Albany, which has an interest in getting its contract extended, warned that UNAMID is in disarray and has no communications strategy. The Albany r [...] | 2008-04-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM643 | GOSS VP MACHAR ON THE LRA AND THE SPLM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Riek Machar met with Consul General Datta on the morning of April 23 and engaged in a wide ranging discussion that covered fading hopes for a peace agreement with the LRA and the future of the SPLM and the South. Machar [...] | 2008-04-25 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM644 | JANJAWEED FIGHTING CONTINUES INSIDE EL FASHER [...] (SBU) In yet another example of the clashes between Government of Sudan (GoS) military forces and unruly janjaweed elements that have been plaguing El Fasher for almost one month, on April 21 at approximately 2300 a truck of GoS Special Forces officers was stopped at a checkpoint in east El Fas [...] | 2008-04-25 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
08KHARTOUM650 | TCCS FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE UNAMID PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander (FC) Agwai compromised on his number one deployment priority while in Addis Ababa, according to UNAMID's Chief of Planning. As he did with the Egyptians in Um Kadada (ref A),Agwai agreed to let the Ethiopi [...] | 2008-04-29 09:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD ET SU |
08KHARTOUM663 | EGYPT PLANS TO NOMINATE REPLACEMENT FOR UNAMID CHIEF OF [...] (SBU) Egyptian Pol/Mil Officer Tamer Azzam told poloff on April 29 that Egypt plans to nominate an Egyptian BG to replace BG Patrick Davidson-Houston as UNAMID Chief of Staff. He said that Egypt hopes to have their nominee in place as early as May 18, pending approval by the UN. 2. (SBU) S [...] | 2008-05-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM666 | CHAD: ERDIMI BLAMES STALLED TALKS ON CHAD, LIBYA [...] (C) RFC leader Timan Erdimi says that the talks in Tripoli between his movement and Chadian representatives have stalled because of Deby's lack of sincerity to participate in real political dialogue and Libya's pro-Deby bias. Though some RFC representatives remain in Libya to signify Erdimi's [...] | 2008-05-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU CD LY |
08KHARTOUM668 | SUDAN RELEASES NEC CONTAINERS, APPROVES ARMING [...] (C) The GOS has begun releasing long-delayed NEC containers and also approved the US Embassy's request to arm its local guard force, as long as the guards "remain inside Embassy premises," MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq told CDA Fernandez and polchief April 30 (first containers with in Embassy hands on [...] | 2008-05-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM669 | MANSOUR KHALID ON SPLM PREPARATIONS FOR PARTY [...] (C) Everything is on track for the SPLM convention to go forward May 10, GOS Presidential Advisor and prominent SPLM northerner Dr. Mansour Khalid told CDA and polchief April 29. Khalid expects full support for Salva Kiir as Chairman of the party as "no one would dare stand against him." Khal [...] | 2008-05-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM672 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-04 04:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM68 | AMIS "LIQUIDATION TEAMS" TO REDISTRIBUTE UNAMID ASSETS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph ten. 2. (SBU) Summary. The African Union (AU) plans to form Liquidation Teams to inventory and redistribute equipment, possibly including USG assets already transferred to UNAMID. Until the inventory, AMIS refuses to permit UNAMID pers [...] | 2008-01-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM680 | SOUTH DARFUR FIGHTING TAKES NEW TURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A traditional rivalry between two clans in South Darfur erupted in Sheiria, South Darfur, on April 30, with the introduction of mortars into fighting between the sides in an IDP camp. UNAMID leadership acknowledges this is the first time it has heard of use of this type of weapo [...] | 2008-05-05 07:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM683 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM69 | UNAMID OFFICIAL SAYS GOS NEITHER HELPING NOR HARMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a January 15 conversation with FieldOff, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Chief of Integrated Support Services (CISS) did not paint a picture of outright Government of Sudan (GoS) obstructionism to UNAMID deployment. Instead, the CISS reported that the G [...] | 2008-01-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM691 | GOS BOMBINGS IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The last week of April and first week of May witnessed a spate of Government of Sudan (GoS) bombings in remote parts of North Darfur against rebel positions. Civilians have been the primary victims, sounding alarm bells for the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNA [...] | 2008-05-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM7 | INCOMING FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR WANTS TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. CDA Powers met with newly sworn-in Foreign Minister Deng Alor on January 2 who said that he wanted to improve Sudanese-U.S. relations. Deng offered GoS assurances to work together in the investigation of the killing of the U.S. diplomat and his Sudanese driver. Also with the aim [...] | 2008-01-02 16:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM70 | UNMIS DEPUTY RESIDENT SEES PROBLEMS AHEAD IN [...] (U) This is an action cable, please see para 5. 2. (C) Summary: UNMIS Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan David Gressly worries that poor governance and corruption risk derailing the potentially bright future of South Sudan while budget shortfalls could lead to pro [...] | 2008-01-18 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM716 | JEM REBELS ATTACK OMDURMAN, ALMOST REACH KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) JEM rebels attacked the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman May 10 and advanced within sight of one of the bridges leading to Khartoum. Although Sudanese Government forces prevented the rebels from crossing the Nile into the capital, JEM claims that it will launch another attack on the [...] | 2008-05-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM718 | NCP "AFRAID OF ITSELF" IN JEM INCURSION INTRIGUE [...] (SBU) The day of the JEM attack on Omdurman May 10, on the margins of party discussions in preparation for the second SPLM General Conference, CDA Fernandez caught up with party leaders to discuss fears and intrigue in Khartoum caused by reports of the (then rumored) attack by the Justice and E [...] | 2008-05-12 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM719 | UNAMID POLICE LACK CRITICAL RESOUCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID civilian police (CIVPOL) leadership have identified deficiencies in their programs such as the need for a greater police presence in IDP camps, additional female officers from Police Contributing Countries (PCC),and additional senior police officers with more experience. [...] | 2008-05-12 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM72 | SPLM - "WE WILL NEVER COALESCE WITH THE NCP" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are still several issues being negotiated regarding the electoral law at the level of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC): how women will be elected, the make-up of the mixed electoral system, and how to manage the registration and voting process for Sudane [...] | 2008-01-18 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM721 | SPLA COS ON INTRA-SPLM TENSIONS AND RELATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez and Acting CG met with SPLA Chief of Staff LTG Oyai Deng Ajak on May 9. They discussed recent Misseriya/SPLA tensions within Sudan's oil-field region along the 1956 border, SPLA difficulties integrating a sometimes fickle Misseriya force, and Unity's State Governor Taban De [...] | 2008-05-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM722 | RESPONDING MORE EFFECTIVELY ON SOFA VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Responding to reports of GOS aerial bombardments in North Darfur (ref A),the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) opened investigations into the attacks on Um Sidir, Shegag Karo and Ein Bissaro. Although these investigations are ongoing, initial reports confirm that the attacks did occur [...] | 2008-05-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU SU ASEC CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM725 | UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Following the bold JEM raid on Omdurman May 10, the situation in Khartoum appears to have normalized as of May 13. There were numerous military police check points in downtown Khartoum May 11 and 12 in neighborhoods with sensitive government buildings and major roads and arteries. The Go [...] | 2008-05-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU AMGT ASEC CASC |
08KHARTOUM727 | SUDANESE MFA BRIEFS KHARTOUM DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 at 11:00 A.M. (local time) Mutriff Sadiq, the Undersecretary at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a Sudanese Army General, briefed Khartoum's Ambassadors on the Justice and Equality Movement's attack on Omdurman, across the Nile from the Sudanese c [...] | 2008-05-13 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM729 | SPLM'S SHIFTING RESPONSE TO JEM ATTACK [...] (SBU) The SPLM's reaction to the May 10 JEM attack on Omdurman has shifted from private glee to deep concern. Any admiration for JEM's ability to achieve what eluded the SPLA during 21 years of war with Northern Sudan Party has been muted by fears of a National Congress Party (NCP) backlash ag [...] | 2008-05-13 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM732 | MAY 14 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND [...] (SBU) There are reports of continued, sporadic firing in Omdurman during the night of May 13-14 and the Nile bridge connecting Omdurman with Khartoum-proper was closed briefly, but Khartoum remains generally calm four days after the May 10 JEM raid. Armed police and SAF continue to patrol the [...] | 2008-05-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD AMGT ASEC CASC |
08KHARTOUM734 | SUDAN'S MESSAGE TO U.S., FOLLOWING [...] (C) CDA Fernandez met Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Othman Ismail on May 14 at NCP HQ shortly after Ismail received his diplomatic marching orders from President Al-Bashir (Note: Sudan's Foreign Minister, Deng Alor, belongs to the SPLM and Ismail is Al-Bashir's and the ruling National Congr [...] | 2008-05-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM736 | MOVEMENTS EXPECT GOS RETALIATION IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Darfur representatives of Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/MM) expect Government of Sudan (GoS) to retaliate against Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) positions in Darfur for JEM having exposed the GoS' military weakness, particularly by allegedly killing officers at the [...] | 2008-05-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM74 | ISMAIL: CHADIAN MILITARY ESCALATION RISKS PUSHING [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail warned of growing Sudanese exasperation at what they see as Chadian military escalation on the Darfur border. He also expressed Sudanese frustration at obstacles to Sudanese diplomats performing their work in the U.S. and warned of possible counte [...] | 2008-01-20 10:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL AU UN CD SU |
08KHARTOUM741 | SPLM PROPOSES FM ALOR VISIT PARIS TO DISCUSS JEM/CHAD, SPLA [...] (SBU) GNU Foreign Minister Deng Alor told poloffs in Juba May 14 that President Bashir may send him to Paris possibly as soon as next week to discuss Chad and its support for JEM with the French. Alor asked poloffs to "pass this information to your people in Khartoum and Washington." FM Alor [...] | 2008-05-15 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM749 | TAWILA INCIDENT AS UNAMID TEST CASE IN PROTECTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence in Tawila, North Darfur on May 12, threatens to create a humanitarian crisis if left unchecked and unaddressed by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). An interagency UNAMID team plans to travel to the region on May 15 to do an assessment and to m [...] | 2008-05-16 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM75 | SPLM HOLDS FOUR-DAY CPA CELEBRATION IN WAU [...] (SBU) The GoSS pulled out all the stops to hold its own celebrations of the third anniversary of the signing of the CPA, with a four-day celebration in the southern city of Wau from January 13 to 16 that included cultural events, speeches, sports competitions and parades. By holding the celebr [...] | 2008-01-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM764 | MINAWI SAYS KHALIL IBRAHIM STRONGER AFTER OMDURMAN [...] (C) Summary: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim is stronger as a result of the attack on Omdurman, despite the short-term loss of fighters and vehicles, according to SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi. Minawi believes an attack on Chad is imminent, despite comments from other [...] | 2008-05-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM77 | HILAL APPOINTMENT AIMED AT KEEPING RESTLESS ARAB [...] (C) Summary: During their meeting January 20, CDA Fernandez told Presidential Advisor and NCP moderate Ghazi Salahudin that the GOS has a short window of opportunity to demonstrate that it is not the obstacle to peace in Darfur. Fernandez suggested a basket of initiatives that could break the [...] | 2008-01-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM778 | GOS WILL NEGOTIATE WITH CHAD, SEEK TO ISOLATE AND [...] (C) Sudan will not support Chadian rebels in another bid to unseat President Deby, but rather will seek multilateral sanctions against Khalil Ibrahim and JEM and will participate in the African Union mediation between Sudan and Chad, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told CDA May 20. Siddiq said that to t [...] | 2008-05-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM779 | JEM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After days of relative silence, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim contacted FieldOff to accept the Special Envoy's proposal for a meeting in Ndjamena May 29. Khalil made clear that "Darfur is not the goal," but that regime change in Khartoum remains not [...] | 2008-05-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM78 | DARFUR RIZEIGAT LEADER FEARS BEING PULLED INTO THE [...] (C) Over lunch with emboffs January 16, NGO activist and leading Rizeigat figure Waleed Madibbo expressed his frustration with the Wali of South Darfur over his refusal to allow a planned reconciliation conference to go forward. The conference, which Madibbo had previewed with CDA Fernandez la [...] | 2008-01-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF SU AU UN |
08KHARTOUM788 | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOLLOWING REBEL ACTION IN KHARTOUM [...] (U) Summary: Following last week's armed engagements in Omdurman between JEM and the GOS forces, Sudanese authorities have begun a widespread campaign of random arrests, detainee torture and newspaper censorship. While many have been released, 150 individuals remain under arrest, and one newsp [...] | 2008-05-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM789 | WFP REPORTS THAT DARFUR CONVOYS ARE MOVING [...] (SBU) WFP food convoys to Darfur are now moving in greater numbers thanks to a new contract signed with the trucking companies, WFP Representative Kenro Oshidari told polchief May 21. The contract increases substantially the rate provided to the companies, and imposes a penalty for non-deliver [...] | 2008-05-21 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM80 | EL FASHER ARABS DEFENSIVE ABOUT MUSA HILAL APPOINTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with FieldOff, representatives of two Arab tribes in El Fasher were defensive about President Bashir's appointment of former janjaweed militia leader Sheikh Musa Hilal to the post of Advisor to the Minister of Federal Rule. The Arab reps dismissed the pos [...] | 2008-01-21 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM840 | UNAMID CHIEF OF STAFF LEAVES MISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After months of uncertainty about his possible PNG-ing, UNAMID Chief of Staff Patrick Davidson-Houston left the Mission on May 27, lamenting that he "left much undone." The majority of UNAMID officials acknowledge that Davidson-Houston's departure is a blow to the Mission, and no [...] | 2008-06-05 09:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU ER ET UNSC |
08KHARTOUM85 | AT LONG LAST CHINESE AND BANGLADESHI UNITS DEPLOY [...] (SBU) Despite a 24-hour delay from their projected January 20 deployment date, the Chinese engineering unit and the Bangladeshi-formed police unit (FPU) of the United Nations Heavy Support Package (HSP) of assistance to the African Union Mission in the Sudan finally left their base in Nyala to [...] | 2008-01-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM871 | AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SPQL ENVOY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 1 meeting Special Envoys Williamson and Eliasson compared notes on current circumstances complicating the path to peace in Darfur. Eliasson highlighted regional aspects of the Darfur crisis, namely the need for the P5 to facilitate normalization of Chad-Sudan relation [...] | 2008-06-11 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM872 | WHEN ONE UNAMID DEPLOYMENT DOOR OPENS, ANOTHER CLOSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deployment "progress" made during the June 5 United Nations Security Council visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, appears to be illusory, according to United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander GEN Agwai. While the Government of Sudan promised to allow Thai and [...] | 2008-06-11 10:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU ET SU |
08KHARTOUM878 | MIXED REVIEWS FROM EL FASHER ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY'S VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Reviews are mixed in parts of Darfur about Special Envoy Williamson's June 3 suspension of bilateral talks with the Government of Sudan (GoS). However, most people tend to agree that the GoS will use this action as a pretext for further disingenuous behavior in its dealings with [...] | 2008-06-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM883 | SPECIAL ENVOY ATTEMPTS TO BRIDGE UNAMID DISCONNECT WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Special Envoy and UNAMID Force Commander aired shared frustrations in a May 31 meeting over the disconnect between UNAMID in Darfur and UN Headquarters in New York, a disconnect which led the Force Commander to declare that UNAMID had actually regressed in the five months si [...] | 2008-06-15 05:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC |
08KHARTOUM89 | SAF AND SPLA DECLARE EACH OTHER'S REDEPLOYMENTS INCOMPLETE [...] (SBU) Two weeks after the January 9 deadline for troop redeployment, and despite high-profile media announcements by both armies that they had redeployed their troops, now both the SAF and the SPLA have begun accusing each other of not fully withdrawing. One of the National Congress Party's mos [...] | 2008-01-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM894 | RULING PARTY STILL POSITIVE ON US-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (C) MFA U/S and National Congress Party (NCP) insider Mutriff Siddiq told CDA Fernandez June 15 that Sudan remains positive about the prospects for improved US-Sudan relations despite SE Williamson's departure from Khartoum without reaching an agreement. Siddiq said the GOS plans to follow th [...] | 2008-06-15 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM896 | SURGE IN REBEL ACTIVITY IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Daily Government of Sudan helicopter gunship overflights of El Fasher, rebel movements from Tine to Tawilla, and a sharp increase in banditry - particularly against international non-governmental organizations, all highlight a recent increase in rebel activity in Darfur. Such ac [...] | 2008-06-16 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU CD SU |
08KHARTOUM898 | ABYEI ACCORD MAY BE AN NCP TRAP, SAYS FORMER SUDANESE FM [...] (SBU) Summary: Lam Akol told CDA Fernandez that the SPLM views the June 8 Abyei agreement as success, but the choice to refer the border demarcation to international arbitration could help the NCP delay a decision until after the 2011 referendum. A prolonged arbitration process serves the NCP w [...] | 2008-06-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM90 | SUDAN: NARROW WINDOW FOR ACHIEVING U.S. OBJECTIVES [...] (C) After seven years of intense diplomatic focus, U.S. efforts to secure a peaceful, stable, and transformed Sudan have accomplished much - ended the bloodiest and longest running civil war on the continent, saved several million Darfuri Sudanese who rely on US humanitarian assistance, pushed [...] | 2008-01-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO PTER UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM91 | HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS MINISTER REQUESTS TRANSITION FROM [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez paid a courtesy call January 21 on the newly-appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Haroun Ron. Minister Ron is a respected and loyal member of the SPLM who assumed this post when the SPLM allowed its ministers back into the government earlier this month. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2008-01-23 04:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM911 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT GETS A LIFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Just when it seemed like those in charge of UNAMID deployment were all out for summer break and all meaningful work would accordingly have to wait until fall, the contingent-owned equipment for the Chinese engineers in Nyala reached its destination at long last, allowing for arri [...] | 2008-06-19 11:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM913 | ABYEI UPDATE JUNE 19 [...] (U) SPLA and SAF contingents that will form the basis of the new JIU battalion in Abyei began to arrive in Abyei June 19, according to UNMIS. 310 SPLA troops arrived overland from Wau June 19, while the 200 SAF arrived overland from Muglad with an additional 100 due to arrive later the same da [...] | 2008-06-19 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM916 | A GUIDE TO THE FORMAL POLITICAL PARTY LANDSCAPE IN DARFUR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Although the two CPA signatories - the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) - form the basis of the Government of National Unity (GNU) and control most aspects of political life in Sudan (with the NCP controlling the North and the SPLM [...] | 2008-06-20 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM918 | 39 DARFURIS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH MAY 10 ATTACKS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities formally charged 39 detainees in connection with the May 10 JEM attacks on the capital, although many more Darfuris remain in custody or are unaccounted-for. Khartoum-based Darfuri civil society groups have received significant moral support from political pa [...] | 2008-06-20 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM922 | SPLA ACCUSED OF TOTURING SUSPECTS WHILE SPLA [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLA military police have been accused of torturing employees of a U.S. company operating in Juba, Sudan. Two of these individuals were reportedly subject to psychological abuse as well as beatings and sodomy. In an unrelated incident, a counter-intelligence officer was arreste [...] | 2008-06-22 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM924 | JEM-CHAD UPDATE FROM DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group has been active over the past week in Darfur, as well as in eastern Chad supporting the GOC. The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has attempted to confirm reports of cross-border military movements between [...] | 2008-06-22 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM926 | SPLA CASH-STRAPPED, POUND FOOLISH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 07:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM928 | ABYEI: CPA PARTIES AGREE TO THE HAGUE PERMANENT COURT OF [...] (SBU) As announced widely in the press, the SPLM and the NCP agreed in Juba June 21 that the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague will serve as the arbitration mechanism to resolve the permanent borders of the Abyei region. GNU Second Vice President Taha traveled to Juba June 19 and 20 [...] | 2008-06-23 10:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM93 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: SUDAN ATTENDENCE [...] (SBU) (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed post that Foreign Minister Deng Alor will attend the AU Summit, most likely on January 28 and 29. Though he has not yet requested a meeting, post suggests that A/S Frazer meet with FM Deng Alor, who was just sworn in as Foreign Minister e [...] | 2008-01-23 07:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSUM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU XA |
08KHARTOUM936 | EMBASSY KHARTOUM RESPONSE ON ABYEI NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This message responds to reftel request for post views on next steps to support implementation of the Abyei Roadmap. Responses are keyed to the questions posed in para. 12 of reftel. Provision of U.S. Legal Advisor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) Post strongly supports the pr [...] | 2008-06-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM94 | GNU STATE MINISTER DECLARES RE-ESTABLISHED SPLM-NCP [...] (SBU) On 22 January, CDA Fernandez called on newly appointed Minister of State for the Presidency, Joseph Lual. Minister Lual, an SPLM member from the Dinka tribe and former state administrator for Bahr el Ghazal, was brought into the government when the SPLM ended its boycott of the GNU earli [...] | 2008-01-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM941 | ABYEI, SUDAN ON KNIFE'S EDGE, WARNS FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor described ongoing tensions on the June 8 Abyei road map while noting some progress in implementing its milestones. Back from a just concluded visit to several European capitals, he summarized increasing European pressure, especially from France, on the need for Sudane [...] | 2008-06-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM943 | GOSS MINISTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS DENG ON ABYEI AND [...] (SBU) Summary: GOSS Minister for Presidential Affairs discussed Abyei and elections the afternoon of June 24. While recognizing the risks of arbitration as called for in the new Abyei roadmap signed on June 8, the SPLM sees it as the only way to bring pressure on the NCP to agree on a final Aby [...] | 2008-06-25 12:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM949 | WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MINNI MINAWI (THE VIEW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As reported in reftel, the location of Senior Presidential Assistant, SLM leader, and DPA signatory Minni Minawi has been the source of much speculation throughout Sudan over the past week. Other Darfur rebel factions confirm he crossed the border to Chad, where he had meetings [...] | 2008-06-26 06:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM95 | UN, AU ENVOYS PROVIDE UPDATE ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Briefing the Khartoum diplomatic corps on January 18, UN Special Envoy for Darfur Jan Eliasson and AU Special Envoy for Darfur Salim Ahmed Salim said that increased tensions between Sudan and Chad posed the greatest risk to the political process at present. They remarked that without an [...] | 2008-01-23 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM954 | CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER PAGAN AMUM SAYS HE WILL [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Secretary General and current GNU Minister of Cabinet Affairs Pagan Amum told CDA June 25 that he will leave his post as Cabinet Minister "within two weeks." Lam Akol is the candidate most likely to replace him, according to Amum, for lack of other good options in the SPLM. [...] | 2008-06-27 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM957 | "PRECARIOUS" DARFUR HUNGER GAP CALLS FOR URGENT US [...] (SBU) This is an action message. See para 5-6. 2. (SBU) On June 22 the United Nations country team in Sudan issued a statement on the increasingly precarious "hunger gap" this year in Darfur. The rainy season between May and October is always the toughest time of the year but this year it h [...] | 2008-06-29 08:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM962 | UNMIS SENDS DETAILED ABYEI REPORT TO SYG AND DPKO [...] (C) According to senior staff at the embattled peacekeeping mission, UNMIS sent a comprehensive report with recommendations to SYG Ban and DPKO Guehenno June 26 regarding the mid-May fighting in Abyei and the UNMIS response to it. UNMIS reportedly "did not pull any punches" and expects that t [...] | 2008-06-29 12:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM965 | DARFUR: PAE WILL STOP WORK JULY 14, BUT A 45-60 DAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting PAE President John Moore, resident Project Director Bruce Smart, and Support Manager Claire Sanford told CDA Fernandez June 29 that PAE will stop work on all projects July 14 ("the date for no more shovels in the ground") but that UNAMID and PAE have discussed a 45- to 6 [...] | 2008-07-01 05:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM966 | DISSECTING UNSCR 1769 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As renewal of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 (2007) approaches on July 31, it is time to take stock of what this resolution has accomplished during the first year of its existence, and more critically what it has failed to do. Identifying its shortcomings, howeve [...] | 2008-07-01 05:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM971 | DEFENSE WHITE PAPER ENERGIZES SPLA BUDGET PROCESS, [...] (SBU) This is an action cable, please see paras 10-11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly,s (SSLA) long-expected, but very public, endorsement of the SPLA,s Defense White Paper (DWP) has had immediate impact on SPLA/SAF relations and the SPLA,s 2009 budge [...] | 2008-07-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM982 | APOCALYPSE SOON: SUDANESE PONDER POSSIBLE NEW ICC [...] (C) Summary: NCP officials are quietly warning the international community that cooperation on a variety of priority issues, from UNAMID implementation to CPA follow through and Sudan's slow move to democracy could be jeopardized by "politically motivated" indictments of the ICC of Sudanese o [...] | 2008-07-04 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM986 | UNAMID ON PAE DEPARTURE [...] (SBU) New Deputy Director of the UNAMID Liaison office in Khartoum Aziz "Peter" Iskandar discussed UNAMID deployment issues with poloffs on July 1. Iskandar, a career UN administrator, arrived in Khartoum in early June to work in UNAMID's Khartoum-based liaison office. The small office on the [...] | 2008-07-04 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM987 | UN-IDDR CONSIDERS ASSISTANCE TO CONTROVERSIAL SPLA [...] (SBU) Summary: UN-Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Chief Adrian Verheul said that the UN is considering offering assistance to the SPLA's civilian disarmament efforts as an incentive for them to use less force in their program. He said that the UN plans to issue a [...] | 2008-07-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM99 | SUDANESE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS ON ELECTIONS SHOWS HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Co-chairs of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) Abel Alier and Abdulla Idris confirmed that the National Assembly will hold a special session before April to review and ratify the electoral law. Alier and Idris explained that the draft law calls for free and unim [...] | 2008-01-24 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM992 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tensions are mounting throughout Darfur, particularly in North Darfur, where a heightened Government of Sudan (GoS) military presence and tightening GoS restrictions on movement of all parties seem to signal a reassertion of GoS control over the state, possibly in response to reb [...] | 2008-07-06 06:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM996 | SUDAN NEEDS AMERICAN HELP - ON MINNAWI AND ICC - [...] (C) Summary: Sudan wants US help in bringing former rebel leader and current Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi back from Darfur where he is encamped with his fighters and proposes a trilateral (NCP, Minnawi, US) discussion on implementing the moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). Su [...] | 2008-07-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM997 | SLOW, INCREMENTAL PROGRESS IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: The CPA parties met in Juba the weekend of July 4/5 to address remaining questions on the Abyei roadmap, including the arbitration mechanism and the interim administration. An additional document on the arbitration will likely be presented to the GNU Presidency this week, to whi [...] | 2008-07-06 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KINSHASA211 | Demarche delivered in Kinshasa - UN Commission on Narcotic [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche February 29 to Ambassador Oscar Matondo, Director for International Organizations at the Congolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. Matondo identified Minister Counselor Nduku of its UN mission as Congolese representative to the March 10-14 meeting of the UN [...] | 2008-03-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR AU UN CG |
08KINSHASA254 | CEEAC summit condemns attempts to overthrow Chadian [...] A special two-day summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) in Kinshasa March 10-11 condemned armed attempts to destabilize the Chadian government and reiterated its support for the government and people of Chad. The summit, organized by the DRC as holder of the CEEAC' [...] | 2008-03-14 06:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AO AU BY CD CG CM CT GB EK TP SU |
08KINSHASA258 | GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 12TH MEETING OF JMG TASK [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 7 meeting of the Nairobi process Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force went smoothly and professionally. Discussion of the minutes of the previous meeting took only about 20 minutes. Congo noted it had launched its FDLR "sensibilization" campaign March 1. FDLR lead [...] | 2008-03-15 18:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO CG RW EUN SF AU UN |
08KINSHASA883 | Kabila rejects AU plea from Jean Ping [...] (SBU) African Union Commission Chair Jean Ping made a lightning trip to Kinshasa October 10-12 in an effort to defuse tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda over fighting in the eastern DRC. Ping met with P-3 plus 2 ambassadors, SRSG Alan Doss, EU representatives, Se [...] | 2008-10-14 15:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO AU CG |
08LILONGWE710 | MALAWI: SUPPORTIVE OF UN SOMALIA FORCE BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met with principal secretaries at the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss reftel points regarding Somalia. PS Livuza from the MFA indicated that Malawi would support a resolution authorizing a UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia as [...] | 2008-12-12 08:54:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SO MI |
08LONDON1710 | CODEL HASTINGS - JUNE 27 - JULY 8, 2008 [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to CODEL Hastings to visit London June 27-28, 2008. 2. Visit Officer will be Jim Donegan who can be reached at work 44-20-7894-0114, fax 44-20-7894-0117, home 44-20-7259-6066, mobile phone 44-7801-670-694. If calling from within the UK r [...] | 2008-06-26 15:08:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU FR GM IT JP KZ PK UK |
08LONDON2185 | UK RESPONSE TO MTCR SMALL GROUP PROPOSAL: AGREEMENT "IN PRINCIPLE" BUT SOME QUESTIONS REF: STATE 85940 [...] (U) This is an action request for State ISN/MTR. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. Although the UK supports "in principle" the U.S. proposal for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach to non-MTCR countries, HMG has posed several questions regarding the implementation and potentia [...] | 2008-08-22 16:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK |
08LUSAKA486 | ZAMBIA: NEXT STEPS ON ZIMBABWE CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. President Mwanawasa remains committed to addressing the crisis in Zimbabwe, but lacks wide support from other SADC leaders. He has expressed an intent to send a small delegation of SADC leaders to meet with Mugabe as well as an interest in helping mediate a solution involving a [...] | 2008-05-02 12:16:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SADC AU ZI ZA |
08MEXICO624 | DEMARCHE: USG PRIORITIES FOR THE UPCOMING [...] Political counselor spoke with Guillermo Hernandez Salmeron, Deputy Director General for Global Affairs at SRE, and David Najera, Coordinator for Special Affairs in the North America Division, to note USG concerns with Mexican plans to table a resolution on small arms trafficking at the upco [...] | 2008-03-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AU MX SNAR |
08MONTEVIDEO112 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: USG PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR AU UN UY |
08MOSCOW797 | TRANSFER OF HEU SAMPLE TO RUSSIA [...] (S) On March 24, we delivered to MFA reftel paper on logistics surrounding the transfer from the U.S. to Russia of the ten-gram HEU sample seized in Georgia in 2006. Mikhail Kondratenkov of the MFA Security and Disarmament told us he found it "a very interesting document." He expressed reli [...] | 2008-03-24 12:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | KNNP ASEC ENRG PTER MNUC AU GG RS |
08MOSCOW867 | GOR NOTIFIED OF MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF MISSILE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 06:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL TW CH JA RU FR AU KS UK |
08NAIROBI232 | PRESIDENT YUSUF'S CONCERN OVER RIYALE'S U.S. VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abullahi Yusuf dispatched an envoy from London to express his strong concern to Ambassador Ranneberger and Special Envoy Yates over the visit of Somaliland President Riyale to Washington. Yusuf considers the visit's timin [...] | 2008-01-22 15:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | AU PREL PGOV SO |
08NDJAMENA117 | HAVING DEFENDED DEBY, JEM/CL MOVES TO SOLIDIFY NEW UMBRELLA [...] (SBU) Summary. JEM/Collective Leadership fought on behalf of President Deby's government during the February rebel offensive in order to prevent Sudan from using Deby's collapse to "finish off" the Darfur conflict, JEM/CL Chairman Bahar Idriss Abu Gharda told Poloffs on March 25. Abu Gharda cl [...] | 2008-03-27 12:31:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA122 | JAMOUS: DEBY STRONG, ABDELWAHID AL NUR WEAK, AND DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Due to recent defections within two of the major Chadian opposition movements, President Idriss Deby's Government "faces no major danger" in the next year, SLA/Unity leader Suleiman Jamous told Poloffs on March 25. He nonetheless warned that Deby's overthrow at the instigation o [...] | 2008-03-28 12:44:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA124 | AMB BRIEFS U.S. DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO DEBY ADVISOR; [...] (SBU) This message is an action request. See para. 5. 2. (SBU) Implementation of the Dakar agreement has not advanced and Khartoum continues to instigate violence in both Chad and Sudan, Presidential Advisor on International Affairs Yousef Abba Saleh told Ambassador Nigro on March 28, 2008. [...] | 2008-03-31 07:06:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA126 | CHADIAN INSIDER CONFIRMS RIFT WITH JEM, UNITY [...] (C) A rift has emerged between the Chadian Government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),a businessman with close ties to President Deby and a prominent SLA/Unity commander, told Poloff. Verifying previous reports that SLA/Unity's leadership has ceased its infighting and coalesced a [...] | 2008-03-31 17:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | SECRET | PREL PGOV UN AU CD |
08NDJAMENA127 | DAUSA DEBY IMPLIES MORE DIRECT CHADIAN ROLE IN [...] (C) The international community is ill-suited to mediate the Darfur conflict without the assistance of the Chadian Government, Dausa Deby, the influential half brother of President Idriss Deby and long-time interlocutor with Darfur's rebel movements, told Poloff. Recalling Chad's success in b [...] | 2008-04-01 09:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA134 | JEM DEVELOPS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT FOR TALKS AS UN/AU [...] (SBU) Viewing the UN/AU mediation for Darfur as "paralyzed," JEM is crafting a "framework agreement" that outlines its conditions for adherence to a cessation of hostilities and participation in negotiations with the Sudanese Government. If Sudan then rejects negotiations, JEM will return to a [...] | 2008-04-03 09:25:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA136 | UMMA PARTY ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE CHAD, SUDAN [...] (SBU) Ahead of Sadiq al Mahdi's upcoming visit to Chad, Sudan's opposition Umma Party is attempting to broker an agreement between Sudan and Chad for both governments to cease their support for rebel groups. A member of Al Mahdi's advance party confirmed rumors that Umma is in "serious talks" [...] | 2008-04-03 17:53:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA478 | BRIEFING THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION [...] (C) Summary. I advised the visiting African Union mission members whose mandate is to find ways to reduce tension between Chad and Sudan that the prospects for improved relations between the two capitals were marginal, probably only cosmetic, pending the outcome of projected fighting with rebe [...] | 2008-10-15 14:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF AU CD SU |
08NDJAMENA517 | CHADIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES COMPLAIN GOC NOT [...] (SBU) The main association of Chadian opposition parties, the CPDC, complained to the Ambassador that the GoC is not implementing the August 13 Accord (the electoral reform agreement signed in August 2007) in good faith, and that therefore credible elections could not be held in 2009. They m [...] | 2008-11-07 11:29:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF EU FR AU UN CD |
08NDJAMENA524 | EU READOUT OF FIRST DAY OF DAKAR ACCORD TECHNICAL TALKS IN [...] (SBU) The EU Special Envoy for Sudan and Eastern Chad, AMB Torben Brylle, gave us NOV 13 a readout on the first day of the technical military experts talks that took place on NOV 12. We inform addressees of its content in paras 2-5, below. 2. (SBU) The NOV 12 meeting was cut short and s [...] | 2008-11-13 10:23:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LY SU KPKO UN AU EU CD |
08NDJAMENA532 | CONTACT GROUP MTG IN NDJAMENA MAINTAINS DAKAR [...] (C) The November 15 Meeting of the Contact Group for implementation of the Dakar Accord achieved its core objectives of furthering confidence-building between Chad and Sudan, and maintaining the CG's deliberate progress toward a border monitoring and observation mission. On the ground there wa [...] | 2008-11-17 14:15:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PKO UNAUS AU SU LY CD |
08NDJAMENA582 | JEM "FOREIGN SECRETARY" COMMENTS ON ACTIVITIES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 14, the Justice and Equality Movement's "Foreign Secretary" Bushara Suliman Nour, based in Ndjamena, labeled recent JEM military movements in Darfur as "routine" and "strictly within our areas," but later asserted that JEM could easily attack and control all three st [...] | 2008-12-16 12:04:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM MARR KPKO PINR PGOV AU UN SU |
08NOUAKCHOTT758 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI RELEASED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE [...] (C) According to President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, eight military vehicles arrived at President Abdallahi's house in Lemden at 01:00 local on December 21 with troops demanding that President Abdallahi be woken immediately. While still in his bedclothes, the P [...] | 2008-12-21 11:43:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
08PANAMA340 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 19:58:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNCSD XA ZI AU PM |
08PARIS1709 | DEMARCHE ON SNIPER RIFLES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR PARM PREL MASS ETTC FGM AU IR |
08PARIS431 | DEATH OF EUFOR SOLDIER IN SUDAN: FRENCH [...] (C) Romain Serman, AF-advisor at the French Presidency, briefed acting AF-watcher and UK Embassy Paris AF-watcher Lucy Joyce on March 10 concerning Chad/Sudan/EUFOR. Septels will report other parts of the briefing. Serman provided a detailed account of the death of the EUFOR solider in Suda [...] | 2008-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC AU SU CD EU FR |
08PARIS819 | ZIMBABWE AT THE UN: FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT NOT [...] (C) French MFA IO and AF desk officers (Franck Paris, Isabelle de Boisgelin) said on April 28, in response to reftel demarche, that France very much supported the idea of a formal UNSC session on Zimbabwe but said they were not sure that there would be Council agreement to hold one or that it [...] | 2008-04-28 15:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XA AU ZI FR |
08PARTO7 | (U) Secretary Rice's participation in the June [...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) June 27, 2008; Kyoto, Japan. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Schieffer U/S Bill Burns A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. William Fraser D [...] | 2008-02-28 19:12:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL EAID MOPS JA AU |
08PRETORIA2621 | SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS MAURITANIA'S ELECTED [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, 2008 Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) North Africa division Chief Director Ambassador Ebrahim Saley, Director Ambassador Delarey Van Tonder and Deputy Director Lara Swart told Poloff that South Africa recognizes and supports democratically elected President Sidi [...] | 2008-12-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU |
08PRETORIA2691 | FOLLOW-UP ON AFRICAN UNION SOMALIA FORCE [...] (SBU) On December 9, poloff met with Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Chief Director of East Africa division Graham Maitland to discuss the USG's willingness to provide logistical, training and equipment support to military units that are committed by South Africa to deploy to the African U [...] | 2008-12-10 17:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL SO AU ZU SF |
08PRETORIA2718 | MAURITANIAN DELEGATION IN SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, 2008 Deputy Chief of Mission Helen La Lime met with the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) delegation from Mauritania led by National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir. Boulkheir explained the urgent need for action against the military junta [...] | 2008-12-17 10:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU SF |
08PRETORIA548 | SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS FINAL PEACE EFFORT IN COMOROS [...] (C) South Africa is involved in "one final effort" to resolve the Anjouan issue peacefully, according to Department of Foreign Affairs Chief Director Graham Maitland. Maitland confirmed to PolOff March 14 that South Africa had received a letter from Anjouan's Colonel Bacar promising to hold e [...] | 2008-03-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU SF CN FR |
08PRETORIA983 | PEER REVIEW MAKING LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ross Herbert met with PolOffs to discuss his new book, "The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM): Lessons from the Pioneers," which examines APRM's pitfalls and yet to be unleashed potential, nearly six years after its formal adoption. The APRM's intent of fostering good gover [...] | 2008-05-09 08:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM AU SF |
08RABAT190 | MOROCCO SUPPORTIVE OF USG PRIORITIES FOR UPCOMING [...] On February 29th, POLOFF provided Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Principal UN Offices Redouane Houssaini with small briefing, accompanied by a diplomatic note, on US priorities at the upcoming UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs being held March 10-14. 2. Mr. Houssaini thanked [...] | 2008-02-29 18:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR AU UN |
08RABAT56 | READOUT OF JOINT DEMARCHE WITH RUSSIA TO MOROCCO [...] (C) On January 18, Polcouns and Russian Embassy Minister Counselor Mikhail Golovanov delivered ref joint demarche to Moroccan MFA Head of United Nations Division Azzedine Farhane regarding our request to have Morocco invite several countries as observers to Global Initiative for Combating Nucl [...] | 2008-01-18 20:08:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KGIC PARMS PREL AU MO |
08RABAT85 | MOROCCO INVITES OBSERVERS TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR [...] (U) Summary and Action Request: The Moroccan MFA has agreed to invite observers to the Global Initiative for Combating Nuclear Terrorism Conference (reftel) and has begun to send out invitations. Embassy recommends Department to encourage info addressees from invitee countries to follow-up, [...] | 2008-01-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARMS PREL AU MO |
08REYKJAVIK199 | Iceland's Bid for the UN Security Council [...] (C/NF) Summary: Iceland's bid for one of two available WEOG seats on the UN Security Council in 2009-10 is rapidly drawing to a close. The campaign, hamstrung by a slow start and tepid support at home, has found its legs over the last year under the enthusiastic direction of Foreign Minister [...] | 2008-09-12 16:57:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC UN AU TU IC |
08ROME545 | RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 11:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XA ZI AU IT |
08SANJOSE337 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] (U) On April 29, we delivered reftel demarches to Adriana Murillo, Head of the UN Security Council Team, and Deyanira Ramirez, UN General Assembly Desk Officer, at the MFA. Poloff also presented the talking points that the US plans to raise with the SYG and UNDP. 2. (C) The two officials st [...] | 2008-04-30 21:17:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XA ZI AU CS |
08SANTIAGO667 | CHILE WORKING TO BUILD AGREEMENT ON INDIA-IAEA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Dennis Biggs, Foreign Ministry Deputy Director of the Office of Special Policies, on July 15. Biggs said Chile will support the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement. 2. (C) Biggs gave Poloff an update the morning of July 17. He said Amb. Milenko Skonic, [...] | 2008-07-17 18:56:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC IN CI PK SZ AU |
08SEOUL1033 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 1: POST- [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and EO System Co. Ltd. by email and phone. Due to resource constraints, a site visit was not conducted. 2. DAPA's International Cooperation Division Export-Import Control Officer Ms. Lee Yoem-kyong confirmed [...] | 2008-05-21 03:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1056 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) and Kyongju Aerospace Electrical Systems (KAES) by email and phone. Due to resource constraints, a site visit was not conducted. 2. Mr. Kim Ki-Sang, Warrant Officer at ROKAF Logistics Command confirmed to Post that Kyo [...] | 2008-05-23 04:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1209 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE- [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA),Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA),Sewoon Technology Co. and an additional contractor - UBY, by e-mail and phone. Due to resource constraints, a site visit was not conducted. 2. Ms. LEE Yeom-kyong, DAPA's Expo [...] | 2008-06-17 06:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL13 | RESPONSE BLUE LANTERN: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Republic of Korean Air Force (ROKAF) by phone. On December 18, 2007 ROFAK confirmed to Post that it had received P/N 822-1182-002 Transceiver on October 10, 2006 and believed it had also received P/N 622-8112-003HF-9030 Transceiver from Rockwell Collins through I [...] | 2008-01-03 02:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL14 | RESPONSE BLUE LANTERN: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Republic of Korean Air Force (ROKAF) by phone. On December 18, 2007 ROFAK confirmed to Post that it had received P/N 822-1182-002 Transceiver on October 10, 2006 and believed it had also received P/N 622-8112-003HF-9030 Transceiver from Rockwell Collins through I [...] | 2008-01-03 02:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1477 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-SHIPMENT END-USE [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Kyongju Aerospace Electrical Systems (KAES - a DAPA-registered official supplier of defense items) by e-mail and phone. (See reftel B for background information regarding KAES.) Due to resource constraints, [...] | 2008-07-25 04:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1558 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the Agency for Defense Development (DDA) by phone. 2. Major KWON Yong-ho in DAPA's Offset Trade Team confirmed to post that the order in question is a supplementary shipment executed by Boeing under offse [...] | 2008-08-07 07:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1568 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT [...] Per Reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Dreamtech Technology by phone, email and facsimile. An on-site visit was not possible due to time and resource constraints. 2. Assistant Director CHUNG Jong-wook of DAPA's Aircraft Contract Team confirmed [...] | 2008-08-08 04:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1835 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE [...] Per reftel, Post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Hanwha International Corporation by email and phone. Due to resource constraints, a site visit was not conducted. 2. Major Seong-mok LEE with the Gun and Ammunition Contract Team at DAPA verified to Pos [...] | 2008-09-17 03:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL1980 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] Per reftel, Post contacted Yeonhab Precision and the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) by email And phone. A site visit was not possible due to resource constraints. 2. Mr. Lee Kwan-young at Yeonhab Precision informed Post that the company was established in 1980. The fi [...] | 2008-10-08 05:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL287 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK [...] Per reftel, post coordinated with the Joint U.S. Military Affairs Group (JUSMAG) regarding pre-license application 05-050082328. JUSMAG contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) by phone and fax. 2. On February 5, 2008 Mr. Jin Won Gyoon, of the International Contrac [...] | 2008-02-13 03:08:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL341 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 LICENSE 05-050050727 [...] Per reftel, Econoff and staff from the Joint U.S. Military Affairs Group (JUSMAG) contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA),the Republic of Korea's Air Force (ROKAF),Cosco Technology and Bluenier (formally Hass International) by phone and fax. Due to resource constrain [...] | 2008-02-21 02:36:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL342 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 LICENSE 05-0055232 [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) by phone and fax. 2. On January 30, 2008, Major Kim Jung Min, responsible for Basic Ordering Agreements on the DAPA Contracts Team, and Mr. Son Young Baek, President of First Trading (an agent of the AVL Intern [...] | 2008-02-21 02:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL583 | SEOUL RESPONSE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 LICENSE [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) by email, phone and fax. 2. Following several communications in March, DAPA Helicopter Project Team Major Nam Ki-jin confirmed that the 6th Group of the Materials Ma [...] | 2008-03-24 07:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL594 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 PRELICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and LIG NEX 1 by email, phone and fax. 2. On March 21, 2008 Navy Commander Hokun, Yoo of the PKX-A Team at DAPA confirmed by e-mail that DAPA ordered the items listed in DTC Case No. 050090721. The items will [...] | 2008-03-25 07:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL702 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 END-USE CHECK: [...] Per reftel, post contacted the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA),Agency of Defense Development (ADD),and LIG NEX 1 by email, phone and fax. 2. All of our contacts (LTC Hwang Young Joo, M-SAM Program Manager, DAPA; Dr. Kim Il Suk, M-SAM Program Development, ADD; Mr. Choi [...] | 2008-04-08 01:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08SEOUL974 | FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE RE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 LICENSE [...] Per reftel, the ROK Air Force?s (ROKAF) Logistics Command Inspector Bae Kang- ho confirmed receipt of the Attitude Director Indicator (ADI) parts referenced below for the F-4. The ADI parts were delivered to the ROKAF on April 8, 2008. Quantity/Commodity (1) 4 P/N:138947-01 NSN: 66 [...] | 2008-05-13 07:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC KOMC KS |
08STATE106288 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Request Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Machine Tools" in paragraph 3 below and the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Technical Outreach" in paragraph 4 below t [...] | 2008-10-03 20:54:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC PREL PARM KSCA FR AU |
08STATE109919 | Second Meeting of the GNEP Reliable Nuclear Fuel Services [...] Summary. The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Working Group on Reliable Nuclear Fuel Services held its second meeting September 3 - 4 2008 in Vienna Austria. The Group decided to establish two sub-groups, one on fact-finding and a second on the back end of the fuel cycle. The Fact Fin [...] | 2008-10-14 21:08:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY AU |
08STATE1400 | FOLLOW-UP: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL THREE [...] According to our records, we have not yet received a response to subject Blue Lantern request regarding the export of infrared view spare parts to Germany. This request was sent over 45 days ago. We request an update from Posts regarding the status of this case. If Posts have already respond [...] | 2008-01-07 14:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AU ETTC GM KOMC |
08STATE29096 | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS OF UNSCR 1803 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, imposing further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to comply [...] | 2008-03-20 14:42:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | AS AU BA BR CA CH ECON EFIN EG ETRD EUN FR GM GR |
08STATE66284 | SUDAN - ABYEI MEETING IN LONDON AND NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. Background - Convening of International Partners ------------- 2. (U) Michael O'Neill, Special Envoy to Sudan for the United Kingdom, convened a gathering of capital-based representatives on Friday, June 13 to discuss the current si [...] | 2008-06-19 20:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KPKO PGOV PREL SOCI UNSC AU SU |
08STATE67437 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...] | 2008-06-23 21:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA AU FR GM JA UK |
08STATE74921 | (U) Secretary Rice's participation in the June [...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) June 27, 2008; Kyoto, Japan. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Schieffer U/S Bill Burns A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. William Fraser DCO [...] | 2008-07-12 14:15:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL EAID MOPS JA AU |
08STATE80034 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...] | 2008-07-24 20:17:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK |
08STATE85940 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Per Ref C, the U.S. circulated to MTCR small group members in June a suggested proposal on Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach t [...] | 2008-08-11 16:53:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK |
08STATE96555 | TTWG -- SNIPER RIFLES OFFERED TO IRAN'S MINISTRY [...] This is an Action Request - Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Summary: We have information that in mid-May 2008 the Iranian Ministry of Defense was offered 40 German-made Unique Alpine sniper rifles and associated equipment by the French company TAC International. We believe that the rifles w [...] | 2008-09-09 21:54:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC GM FR AU IR |
08THEHAGUE342 | NETHERLANDS/EU: SELLING THE EU TO EUROPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 15, Austrian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Hans Winkler and Dutch Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans discussed promoting the EU. Addressing an audience of approximately thirty diplomats at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations (Clingenda [...] | 2008-04-18 11:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPRC PINR EU NL AU |
08THEHAGUE559 | NETHERLANDS/ZIMBABWE: DUTCH PM, FM CALLS TO MBEKI, [...] (C) Summary: On June 26, Dutch MFA Zimbabwe desk officer Melle Leemstra gave poloff a summary of June 25 calls between FM Verhagen and Mr. Tsvangirai, and between PM Balkenende and President Thabo Mbeki. Tsvangirai wants greater AU engagement in resolving the situation and proposes a ceremoni [...] | 2008-06-30 07:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EU AU ZI NL |
08TOKYO1587 | U/S BURNS PARTICIPATES IN TRILAT SOM IN TOKYO [...] (C) Summary. The political directors from the United States, Japan, and Australia met for more than two and a half hours in Tokyo on June 9 for a Senior Officials Meeting of the Trilateral Security Dialogue (TSD SOM). The principals included Under Secretary Burns, Deputy Foreign Minister Sas [...] | 2008-06-10 08:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID MOPS JA AU |
08TOKYO3507 | PART 1 OF 2 -- DEC 18 JAPAN-AUSTRALIA FOREIGN [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Ministry of Defense (MOD) officials provided Embassy Tokyo generally positive assessments of the second Japan-Australia foreign affairs and defense 2-plus-2 ministerial held December 18 in Tokyo. Discussions on bilateral information sharing and a po [...] | 2008-12-28 23:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON AU JA |
08TOKYO3527 | PART 2 OF 2 -- DEC 18 JAPAN-AUSTRALIA FOREIGN [...] Both defense authorities share the intention to conduct the following joint defense activities. (a) High Level Exchange i. Hold annual bilateral Defense Ministerial meeting. ii. Hold regular visits between the Vice-Minister of Defense of the MOD and the Secretary of the ADOD; between t [...] | 2008-12-30 05:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON AU JA |
08TOKYO976 | MOFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES G-8 PREPS, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Ministry Senior Foreign Policy Coordinator Takehiro Funkoshi told visiting EAP/J Director that the four major political issues facing the upcoming G-8 summit will be Afghanistan, climate change, Tibet, and G-8 expansion. Japan plans to step up its engagement with Afghani [...] | 2008-04-09 09:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF AU KS CH TT JA |
08TRIPOLI14 | QADHAFI TELLS MUBARAK HE "MAY" SEEK TO ATTEND UNSC IN NEW YORK TRIPOLI 00000014 001.2 OF 002 CLASSIFIED BY: John T. Godfrey, A/DCM, Embassy Tripoli, Dept of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP UN PHUM AU SU EG LY |
08TRIPOLI597 | EUROPEAN OIL COMPANIES EXTEND CONTRACTS IN LIBYA [...] (SBU) Summary: Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has signed extensions for a pair of exploration and production sharing agreements (EPSAs) with Spain's Repsol, France's Total, Austria's OMV, and Norway's Saga Petroleum, continuing its policy of redefining old contracts under the new EPSA I [...] | 2008-07-23 18:06:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EPET NO SP FR AU LY |
08TRIPOLI680 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE’S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 18:11:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | OVIP PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KDEM PTER KISL AU SU |
08TRIPOLI871 | LIBYA'S TRI-LATERAL DIPLOMACY AND A PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (C) Summary. Both the GOL and Darfur rebel groups resident in Tripoli are busy crafting agreements with their respective interlocutors regarding efforts in Darfur. In late October, Libya chaired a "Tripartite Committee" meeting, brokering an agreement between Chad and Sudan that called for an [...] | 2008-11-07 11:22:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD AU SU LY |
08TRIPOLI918 | LIBYA: WE ARE AN EFFECTIVE MEDIATOR FOR SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: Libyan officials were evasive on whether the GOL had agreed to offer financial support to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) - they suggested that Libya would not be in a position to deny "humanitarian assistance" to its "Somali brothers" - during the recent visit to [...] | 2008-11-26 15:44:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SO DJ LY |
08TUNIS227 | AUSTRIAN NATIONALS REPORTEDLY TAKEN HOSTAGE BY [...] (C) Summary: Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed via a statement posted on the Internet that it has taken hostage two Austrian tourists who were traveling in the southern Tunisian desert. An official source cited by the Tunisia Africa Press Agency confirmed that t [...] | 2008-03-11 10:24:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PREL CASC AU TS |
08UNVIEVIENNA513 | UNCITRAL WORKING GROUP REVISES MODEL LAW ON PROCUREMENT [...] (U) The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group I (Procurement) met in Vienna September 8-12, 2008 to discuss proposed reforms to the UNCITRAL model procurement law. For the past several years, the Working Group on Procurement has been engaged in an effor [...] | 2008-09-18 11:06:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AORC EAID EINV ETRD KCRM KUNR UNCITRAL AU UN |
08UNVIEVIENNA523 | VIENNA'S FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN ON COMPACT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 11:48:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AS AU CA EAID FR IT KCRM NL NO PREL |
08UNVIEVIENNA532 | IMPROVING FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE AT UNODC [...] (U) The open ended Finance and Governance Working Group (FinGov) of the UNODC will have its first meeting on October 7. This meeting is intended for member states to submit their position papers, which the chair (Namibia and Sweden) will use for developing a single paper that will be circulat [...] | 2008-09-29 10:18:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM UN AU |
08UNVIEVIENNA533 | WORKING GROUP REFORMS UNICTRAL MODEL ARBITRATION LAW [...] (U) The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group II on Arbitration met September 15-19, 2008 in Vienna to continue discussing proposed reforms to the UNCITRAL model arbitration law. The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules are considered one of the most successful U [...] | 2008-09-30 13:26:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AORC EAID EINV ETRD KCRM KUNR UNCITRAL AU UN |
08UNVIEVIENNA557 | UNODC FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE WORKING GROUP MEETING, OCTOBER [...] (SBU) At the first meeting of UNODC's Finance and Governance Working Group (FinGov) on October 7, delegations presented their position papers. The Secretariat distributed a paper on defining "core" activities, which the G-77 considered unsatisfactory. The G-77 and EU agreed on creating a for [...] | 2008-10-15 10:24:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM UN AU |
08UNVIEVIENNA558 | UNODC FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE WORKING GROUP MEETING, OCTOBER [...] (SBU) At the first meeting of UNODC's Finance and Governance Working Group (FinGov) on October 7, delegations presented their position papers. The Secretariat distributed a paper on defining "core" activities, which the G-77 considered unsatisfactory. The G-77 and EU agreed on creating a for [...] | 2008-10-15 10:47:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM UN AU |
08UNVIEVIENNA596 | UNCITRAL: SECURED TRANSACTIONS WORKING GROUP ADDRESSES [...] (U) UNCITRAL Working Group VI (Secured Transactions) at its 2008 session in Vienna, October 20-24, continued its work on the preparation of an annex to the 2007 UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (hereafter "the Guide") on security rights in intellectual property (IP). The Un [...] | 2008-11-13 09:06:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AORC EAID EINV ETRD KCRM KUNR UNCITRAL AU UN |
08UNVIEVIENNA602 | IAEA/UNCOPUOUS: FIFTH JOINT EXPERTS GROUP MEETING ON THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UNCOPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC)/IAEA Joint Expert Group (JEG) met in Vienna during the week of 20 October 2008 to review comments from IAEA Member States to the revised draft Safety Framework for Nuclear Power Source (NPS) Applications in Outer Space. J [...] | 2008-11-14 15:48:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA UNGA UNPUOS AORC ENRG TRGY KNNP OTRA AU |
08UNVIEVIENNA627 | IIASA Council Selects New Deputy Director and Chairman [...] The IIASA Council held its annual meeting on November 17-18 in Laxenburg, where it made some personnel decisions triggered by the selection of American Detlof von Winterfeldt as IIASA's ninth director, effective January 1, 2009. The Council, which consists of representatives of the 18 Nationa [...] | 2008-11-28 16:39:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA NAS AORC PGOV AU |
08UNVIEVIENNA650 | UNODC PROJECT PROVIDES VEHICLE FOR PROMOTING LAW [...] Piracy has been a growing topic of discussion within the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and among member states involved in that organization. Many major donor countries which received a December 5 briefing on potential UNODC activities in this field believe there is an appropriate and [...] | 2008-12-11 13:32:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | UN AU KCRM UNODC RUEHZO UK TZ DJ YM SO KE |
08UNVIEVIENNA659 | UNODC PROJECT PROVIDES VEHICLE FOR PROMOTING LAW [...] Piracy has been a growing topic of discussion within the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and among member states involved in that organization. Many major donor countries which received a December 5 briefing on potential UNODC activities in this field believe there is an appropriate a [...] | 2008-12-18 15:12:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM UNODC UN AU UK TZ DJ YM SO KE |
08UNVIEVIENNA668 | UNCAC WORKING GROUP MEETINGS: REVIEWING IMPLEMENTATION [...] SUMMARY: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted two intergovernmental expert working group meetings during the week of December 15 to promote implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). During the meeting of the Review of Implementation Working Group on December 15 [...] | 2008-12-23 15:56:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KCOR UNODC UN AU |
08USUNNEWYORK920 | INCOMING AUSTRIAN UN PERMREP ON PLANS FOR A [...] (C) Summary: Incoming Austrian PermRep Mayr-Harting made his case to Ambassador Wolff for Austria to win one of the Security Council seats up for vote October 17. Mayr-Harting's arguments ranged from Austria's recent successful EU Presidency to being perceived as "harmless" by the internatio [...] | 2008-10-09 22:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA USUN UNSC UNMIK SR KV AU |
08VIENNA1005 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES REDUCES SERVICE TO U.S., SEARCH FOR [...] Austrian Airlines' (AUA) will stop service to Chicago, reduce frequencies of flights to New York, Washington and other long-haul and Western European destinations, and increase the fuel surcharge. The GoA collapse puts AUA's search for a strategic partner on hold. The delay in the privatizatio [...] | 2008-07-16 10:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1018 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON THE JULY 22-23 GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN IR SO CD ZI AU |
08VIENNA1036 | DHS-EUROPEAN COMMISSION MEETING IN VIENNA ON [...] (C) DHS A/S for Policy Stewart Baker and European Commission (EC) Justice DG Jonathan Faull, meeting in Vienna July 17, agreed on various steps to advance further U.S.-EU (and U.S.-EU member state) negotiations on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) MoU and related data exchange agreements. Faull be [...] | 2008-07-23 08:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KCRM PTER EUN AU |
08VIENNA1037 | AUSTRIA: KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THE FARC [...] (C) Econ/Pol Counselor delivered reftel message to Austrian MFA Americas Director Isabel Rauscher July 22. Rauscher reported that Austria's July 3 statement welcoming the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and the other hostages had included the following call for the FARC to release all hostage [...] | 2008-07-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR AF AU |
08VIENNA1044 | PIPELINE UPDATE: NABUCCO TROUBLES WITH TURKEY; OMV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nabucco pipeline consortium lead OMV continues to struggle with Turkish government demands which have delayed the project's launch for over a year. OMV reps repeated their hope for USG facilitation in future Iraqi gas supplies to Europe (ACTION REQUEST in para 7). OMV reps say [...] | 2008-07-24 08:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ETTC EPET AU IR IZ AJ |
08VIENNA1056 | July 27 South East Europe Conference in Salzburg [...] On the margins of the opening of the renowned Salzburg cultural festival, Chancellor Gusenbauer will gather 8 South East European Prime Ministers in Salzburg on July 27 for a conference on stability in the region. Represented at this annual conference will be Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-H [...] | 2008-07-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PRE AU |
08VIENNA1057 | AUSTRIAN MFA ON RELATIONS WITH SYRIA: "CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Austria acknowledges the problems of dealing with Syria and the lack of concrete progress in the European dialogue with Damascus thus far. Nonetheless, Vienna sees multiple potential dangers to the broader Middle East should Syria be isolated. Austria does and will continue to m [...] | 2008-07-25 14:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EUN AU |
08VIENNA1058 | U/S BURNS DISCUSSES INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Austrian FM Plassnik and State Secretary Winkler told U/S Burns in Vienna July 18 that they were encouraged that Burns would attend the July 19 meeting in Geneva with Javier Solana, other members of the P-5 1, and Iran. They also said they were pleased by press reports indicating [...] | 2008-07-25 14:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ETTC PARM PINR KNNP PHUM IR AU |
08VIENNA1059 | AUSTRIA: CYBERCRIME CONVENTION RATIFICATION; [...] (U) Summary. Austrian plans to seek ratification of the Cybercrime Convention in the second half of 2008 have been delayed by the collapse of the government and call for early election. Ratification is now likely in the first half of 2009. Austria would welcome bilateral consultations on th [...] | 2008-07-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA106 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 24, 2008 [...] Austria's Economics Minister Martin Bartenstein from the OeVP says he is committed to clearly defined climate protection goals. However, he told Austrian radio, he is opposed to the climate guidelines put forward by Brussels, which call for the share of renewable energies to be increased to 34 [...] | 2008-01-24 13:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1095 | AUSTRIANS PROMOTE JOINT STATEMENT OF CONCERN AT [...] (C) Pushed by long-standing principle and short-term political calculations, Austria, with Norwegian support, is seeking support from "like-minded" states to agree to a statement of concerns about the terms of the IAEA Safeguards Agreement to be approved August 1. The Austrians do not believe [...] | 2008-07-31 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP AU |
08VIENNA1099 | Austrian Elections: "Italianization" Ahead? [...] Less than two months before the September 28 national parliamentary elections, two smaller parties, in addition to the five parliamentary parties, are also entering the race, with some chance of passing the 4% hurdle to enter parliament. The "List Fritz Dinkhauser" is a spinoff from the conser [...] | 2008-08-01 08:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AU PGOV |
08VIENNA110 | AUSTRIAN REACTIONS TO EU COMMISSION'S CLIMATE PLAN [...] The EU Commission's Climate Change Package has elicited mostly negative reactions from the Austrian Government and, especially, Austrian industry. The plan foresees a reduction in Austria's CO2 emissions by 16% in 2020 from a 2005 base. There has been particular criticism of the Commission's [...] | 2008-01-24 17:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EIND ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1106 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTER OPPOSES BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter (OVP) has reiterated her skeptical views on agreements that would involve bilateral data sharing between the U.S. and Austria. In an interview with the provincial daily "Salzburger Nachrichten" published August 1, Fekter stressed that Austria would not ne [...] | 2008-08-01 13:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1120 | Austria's Financial Market Supervision Reform [...] SUMMARY: On January 1, 2008, a reform of Financial Market Supervision took effect in Austria. A reaction to several banking scandals, the reform gives the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) sole responsibility for on-site inspection of banks and data analysis while all other functions remain with [...] | 2008-08-05 12:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1132 | CLIMATE CHANGE: AUSTRIA TO SUPPORT USG NOMINATION FOR IPCC WG II CO-CHAIR [...] (SBU) Austria intends to support the U.S. nomination of Dr. Christopher Field. 2. (SBU) Embassy rep delivered reftel demarche to the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs on August 1, which recently held a coordination meeting on IPCC with the Austrian Ministry for Agri [...] | 2008-08-07 10:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AU KGHG KSCA SENV |
08VIENNA1133 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FOR [...] (C) Acting Econ/Pol Couns discussed reftel points August 6 with Thomas Schnoll, MFA Unit Chief for Southeast Europe. Acting Econ/Pol Couns stressed that it would be unwise to lift the travel restrictions on the Karadzic family until more is known about the family's possible links to the suppor [...] | 2008-08-07 10:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KAWC ICTY BK EU AU |
08VIENNA1136 | AUSTRIANS INFORMED OF NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 14:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD BM AU |
08VIENNA1145 | AUSTRIA: SPO ELECTS FAYMANN AS PARTY LEADER [...] (C) Summary: SPO delegates on July 8 elected Infrastructure Minister Werner Faymann as their new party leader during a convention in Linz. Faymann, who was named acting party chairman in June, will be the SPO's top candidate in the September 28 national elections. In his convention speech, F [...] | 2008-08-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1146 | AUSTRIAN YOUTUBE GENERATION VIEWS NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] Young voters will provide a critical boost for smaller parties such as the Greens, the Liberal Forum, and, to a lesser extent, the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) in Austria's September 28 national elections. The two governing parties, the Social Democrats (SPO) and the conservative People's Par [...] | 2008-08-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1156 | OMV Abandons MOL Bid, Mulls Next Steps [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austria's flagship energy concern OMV is abandoning a takeover bid for Hungarian counterpart MOL but will retain a sizable stake for now. OMV posted record first-half earnings and a positive outlook. While the bid was unlikely to succeed -- given the opposition of MOL and conce [...] | 2008-08-12 12:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON AU HU |
08VIENNA1162 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIANS PRIOR TO EU GAERC ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Charge and Polchief discussed reftel points August 12 with Ralph Scheide, Acting MFA Poldir. Charge emphasized that the U.S. and EU should deliver a strong, consistent message regarding the Georgia conflict. The U.S. and EU needed to make it clear that they support Georgia's sovereignty [...] | 2008-08-12 16:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG AU |
08VIENNA1176 | AUSTRIANS REMAIN UNDECIDED ON NSG DRAFT EXCEPTION [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed reftel A points August 13 with Johannes Kyrle, MFA SecGen. He emphasized that the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Initiative is of vital importance to the USG, and to the global non-proliferation regime. He stressed that the NSG needs to act quickly in order for the Ini [...] | 2008-08-14 06:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AORC AU |
08VIENNA1194 | OMV says Demand Strong for Nabucco Gas Pipeline [...] (U) Nabucco consortium lead OMV has released a survey of large gas customers showing prospective demand approximately double the pipeline's technical capacity of 31 bcm per day. Nabucco chairman Reinhard Mitschek cited the "100% overbooking ... from day one" as "evidence for the need to build [...] | 2008-08-19 15:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET AU |
08VIENNA1216 | RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: AUSTRIA SHARPLY CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Austrian FonMin Plassnik has delivered a sharply worded statement on Russia's invasion of Georgia, concluding that "business as usual" was not an option. The MFA official responsible for the Caucasus, however, was unsure of what that meant in practice and indicated that the MFA [...] | 2008-08-22 08:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR RU GG EUN AU |
08VIENNA122 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 25, 2008 [...] Right-wing opposition party BZOe leader Peter Westenthaler has called for an end to immigration to Austria. He made an exception, though, for needed skilled workers, who should be allowed into Austria as holders of "green-card"-type permits similar to those used in the USA and Canada. Westentha [...] | 2008-01-25 12:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1225 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON POSSIBLE RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed ref A points August 25 with MFA State Secretary Winkler, just minutes after the Duma vote in favor of recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Speaking on the margins of the Alpbach Forum in Tirol Province, the Ambassador urged the GOA to express its objections t [...] | 2008-08-25 14:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS GG AU |
08VIENNA1229 | FM PLASSNIK'S ATTENDANCE AT SECRETARY'S WOMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 09:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMM UNGA AU |
08VIENNA1240 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH [...] (C) Acting Econ/Pol Couns discussed reftel A points August 28 with Franz-Josef Kuglitsch, MFA director for the South Caucasus and Southeast Europe. Kuglitsch acknowledged that he was "shocked" by the Russian decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia. MFA officials had been convinced th [...] | 2008-08-28 10:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU AU |
08VIENNA1242 | AUSTRIA TO SEEK EU CONSENSUS ON KOSOVO ICJ [...] (C) Acting Econ/Pol Couns discussed reftel points August 28 with Franz-Josef Kuglitsch, MFA director for Southeast Europe. Kuglitsch said the GOA holds conflicting views regarding Serbia's proposal to refer the lawfulness of Kosovo's independence declaration to the International Court of Just [...] | 2008-08-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AU |
08VIENNA1247 | EMBASSY ACTION TO BLOCK AUSTRIA-RUSSIA GAS [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Embassy has learned that an Austrian Economics Ministry delegation is likely to travel to Moscow on Sept. 8 for negotiations on an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) on Austrian participation in the South Stream gas pipeline project. Embassy believes this step [...] | 2008-08-29 15:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG RU GG AU |
08VIENNA1259 | AUSTRIA UNLIKELY TO CANCEL SOUTH STREAM PIPELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Austrian government representatives admit the timing is poor but appear unlikely to cancel or postpone official talks in Moscow next week on participation in the South Stream gas pipeline. Only the addition of significant pressure from EU partners is likely to move the GOA from i [...] | 2008-09-02 15:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG AU RU GG |
08VIENNA1260 | AUSTRIA: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post submitted information on USG designations of an additional 5 Iranian entities and individuals under E.O. 13382 to Elisabeth Ottawa, Terrorism Financing Coordinator in the Financial Markets Directorate of the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Post also sent reftel information to [...] | 2008-09-03 06:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR AU |
08VIENNA1263 | AUSTRIA POSTPONES SOUTH STREAM TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG AU RU GG |
08VIENNA1264 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU AU |
08VIENNA1272 | GEORGIA: AUSTRIA TO SEND FIRST OF UP TO 5 OSCE MILITARY [...] (u) Austria plans to send "up to five" military observers to Georgia within the framework of the OSCE mission, Austrian officials said in Vienna September 2. According to Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (SPO),Austria will dispatch one military observer as soon as possible to Georgia. Darabos [...] | 2008-09-05 07:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OSCE GG AU |
08VIENNA1287 | Red Ink Permeates Austrian Campaign, Marking Break with [...] SUMMARY: Economists are concerned about pre-election spending proposals which combined with a proposed tax cut could drive up Austria's budget deficit from near balance to 2.5% of GDP (near the Maastricht limit). Parliament might even enact large spending increases before the September 28 ele [...] | 2008-09-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
08VIENNA1294 | SAGGING CONSERVATIVES SEEK TO RALLY FORCES; SOCIAL [...] (U) Summary. Now trailing the Social Democrats (SPO) in the polls, conservative OVP leadership and cadres rallied Sept. 5 in Austria's second city, Graz, to launch formally the final phase of the election campaign. OVP leader Wilhelm Molterer told the faithful the party had to work harder and [...] | 2008-09-09 08:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1304 | AVIAN FLU CONFERENCE IN EGYPT: AUSTRIA PLANNING TO ATTEND, [...] Hubert Hrabcik, General Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Family and Youth Affairs (Assistant Secretary level) told Emboff he had registered for the Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in October in Egypt and intended to represent the GoA in Sharm el Sheik [...] | 2008-09-10 10:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL AU |
08VIENNA1344 | OMV TO DOUBLE GAS STORAGE CAPACITY IN AUSTRIA [...] On September 10, Austrian oil and gas company OMV announced its intention to double its gas storage capacity in Austria from 1.8 bcm to almost 4 bcm. OMV currently operates three smaller gas reservoirs in the east of Austria; the construction of a large fourth one near Gaenserndorf (east of [...] | 2008-09-12 13:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PGOV EPET AU |
08VIENNA1346 | AUSTRIAN FM DISCUSSES GEORGIA IN MOSCOW [...] (U) Summary: The Georgia crisis dominated FM Plassnik's September 8-9 official visit to Moscow. Plassnik emphasized to Russian FM Lavrov that the GOA and EU view the mediation process as a step toward the goal of restoring Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and would continue to [...] | 2008-09-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG AU |
08VIENNA1348 | AUSTRIA TO MISS KYOTO CLIMATE TARGETS, PROMPTING CALLS FOR [...] SUMMARY: Austria will miss its Kyoto Protocol greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal by a wide margin again this year -- about a third -- according to a recent study. Austria stabilized emissions at 91.1 million tons CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2006, but committed to emit only 68.8 mil [...] | 2008-09-15 10:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG PREL EIND ECON AU |
08VIENNA1351 | IRAN URGES OMV TO CONCLUDE GAS DEALS [...] (U) On the margins of a recent OPEC meeting, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari publicly urged Austrian oil/gas company OMV to finalize an energy deal. In an exclusive interview September 12 with Austrian daily Wiener Zeitung (note: an Austrian government-owned newspaper),Nozari urged O [...] | 2008-09-15 14:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ENRG ETRD EINV PREL IR AU |
08VIENNA1358 | WORLD WATER CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS CLIMATE CHANGE [...] SUMMARY: From September 7 to 11, Vienna hosted the World Water Congress / trade show highlighting the impact of climate change on water issues. Organized by the International Water Association (IWA),the event brought together around 3,000 experts from science / technology, water policy, water [...] | 2008-09-16 14:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID ENRG AU |
08VIENNA1359 | AUSTRIAN COURT ACTS TO UNFREEZE ABU NIDAL ASSETS [...] In late August, a Vienna court ruled that the GOA should unfreeze about USD 8 million from a bank account belonging to the Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist group. The public prosecutor has appealed the verdict and the case is now pending at the Supreme Court for a final judgment. The case ill [...] | 2008-09-17 06:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1361 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 07:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UN AU |
08VIENNA1362 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY RECOMMENDS DELAY IN [...] (C) Summary. The Austrian MoI believes for several reasons that U.S.-Austrian talks on the VWP MOU HSPD-6 and a Preum-like agreement should be postponed until after the formation of a new Austrian government -- unlikely before January 2009. U.S.-Austrian talks could be held in February, but [...] | 2008-09-17 08:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER CVIS PREL AU |
08VIENNA1372 | BIDDERS FOR AUSTRIAN AIRLINES SHOW CARDS [...] SUMMARY: The privatization tender for Austrian Airlines (AUA),which closed September 12, now has a shortlist: Lufthansa, KLM/Air France and the Russian S7 (Air China, Aeroflot, British Airways and Turkish Airlines are out). S7 is making a major effort -- in particularly by promising to keep [...] | 2008-09-18 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1373 | DEMARCHE ON SNIPER RIFLES DELIVERED [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Helmut Krehlik, head of the Export/Import Control division at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Krehlik replied that he heard of the concerns weeks earlier through intel channels but viewed it as -- impossible that Austrian authorities would have appro [...] | 2008-09-18 14:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC FGM AU IR |
08VIENNA1391 | AUSTRIA FAVORS FRENCH PROPOSAL ON BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY [...] Embassy reps discussed biofuels sustainability with biofuels experts Sonja Schantl and Heinz Bach in the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment, Forestry and Water Management (who have the lead on Austria's biofuels position within the EU). Our interlocutors told us that ecological and social s [...] | 2008-09-22 11:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN AU |
08VIENNA1392 | AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS: SPO SEIZES AGENDA WITH NEW SPENDING, [...] Summary: In the run-up to the September 28 national elections, the SPO has seized the agenda by moving forward with a package of inflation relief measures. The SPO managed to form a series of ad hoc alliances in order to schedule the measures for a vote. The effort has sparked speculation abo [...] | 2008-09-22 11:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1400 | GC VOTE ON MESA SEAT AT IAEA BOG; AUSTRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA PARM MNUC AU |
08VIENNA1407 | GOA SEES GROWING THREAT FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM [...] (U) Austria's anti-terrorism experts see a rising threat of Islamic terrorism in the country. A report presented by Interior Minister Maria Fekter (OVP) September 18 noted "growing radicalization" among second and third generation Muslims in Austria and warns against "sleepers" trained in Arab [...] | 2008-09-24 06:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA141 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 29, 2008 [...] A recent Gallup poll shows that the People's Party (OeVP) has jumped ahead of the Social Democrats (SPOe) in public opinion. The poll gives the OeVP 36 percent, an increase of one percentage point since the last poll, and the SPOe is at 33 percent, a decrease of one percentage point. The Greens [...] | 2008-01-29 15:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1414 | TREASURY U-S LEVEY TALKS IRAN WITH AUSTRIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY. On September 10, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey met Austrian financial regulators and representatives of the Raiffeisen and Bank Austria-Creditanstalt groups to warn of the continued risks of doing business with Iranian entities. Austrian regulators were receptive but quest [...] | 2008-09-24 14:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | ECON EFIN IR AU |
08VIENNA1416 | AUSTRIAN ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA [...] (U) Polchief discussed reftel points September 25 with Stefan Weidinger, MFA unit chief for Development Cooperation in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. Weidinger noted that the Southern Caucasus, including Georgia, is one of the MFA's seven priority regions for assistance worldwide. He said [...] | 2008-09-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUMEM PREL GG RS AU |
08VIENNA1418 | AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW GRAND COALITION, RETURN [...] (C) Summary: The outcome of Austria's September 28 election for a new parliament will only set the framework for coalition talks, possibly lasting months, from which a range of outcomes are possible. Foreign policy has received scant attention during the campaign. The result of the vote is u [...] | 2008-09-25 14:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA142 | NABUCCO: OMV STILL CONFIDENT DESPITE SOUTH STREAM [...] (C) Reinhard Mitschek, Managing Director of Nabucco, told Emboffs on January 25 that the project remains on track despite the Russian campaign to present South Stream as an alternative. One of the reasons Russia is flouting South Stream, according to Mitschek, is to improve Gazprom's negotia [...] | 2008-01-29 15:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV PREL IR AU |
08VIENNA145 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 30, 2008 [...] Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider (BZOe) has said that he sees no legal obstacles to a provincial referendum on the new EU Reform Treaty in the wake of his party's collection of 15,000 signatures in support of such a move. Haider claims that ratification of the Treaty would affect the province i [...] | 2008-01-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1454 | Austria Restricts Short Selling, But No Ban; [...] SUMMARY: On September 22, Austria's Financial Market Supervision (FMA) restricted short-selling by defining stricter parameters for market manipulation and insider trading. Regulators are unhappy that they cannot ban short sales outright since a legislative motion approved by the outgoing [...] | 2008-09-29 14:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1455 | AUSTRIAN ELECTION: FAR RIGHT SEES STRONG GAINS; SPO PLACES [...] (SBU) Summary: Austria's ruling coalition parties -- the Social Democrats (SPO) and the conservative People's Party (OVP) - suffered historic losses while still finishing first and second in the September 28 parliamentary election. The big winners were the far right, the populist Freedom Party [...] | 2008-09-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1466 | SOLICITING POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO KOSOVO DEBT RELIEF [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post submitted information on USG request for financial assistance for the Kosovo Debt Relief Trust Fund to Johann Kinast, Head of the Export Guarantees and Debt Rescheduling Unit in the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Post also sent reftel information to Thomas Schnoell, MFA Unit [...] | 2008-10-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EINV PREL EU KV AU |
08VIENNA1484 | SOBER OUTLOOK FOR AUSTRIA'S ECONOMY IN 2009 [...] SUMMARY: Austria's economy started to weaken in the second quarter in reaction to the international downturn, now reinforced by the current financial crisis. Austria's two leading economic institutes downgraded their 2008 GDP growth forecasts to 2.0%. Austria's economy is still driven by expo [...] | 2008-10-03 14:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
08VIENNA1501 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 06:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AU |
08VIENNA1506 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED OF KUMPF REMOVAL; [...] (U) Summary. State and DHS/ICE representatives from Embassy met 10/7 with Austrian Foreign, Justice and Interior Ministry officials to request Austria accept the return of Josias Kumpf under the terms of the 1988 U.S.-Austria Joint Statement. The Austrians agreed on the applicability of the [...] | 2008-10-08 12:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS PREL AU |
08VIENNA1507 | AUSTRIA EXPECTS TO SUPPORT U.S. COMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 09:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM CDG PREL UNGA AU |
08VIENNA1508 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 13 GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PGOV PHUM PREL BO GG RS UZ ZI AU |
08VIENNA1519 | AUSTRIA BEGINS POST-ELECTION COALITION TALKS [...] (U) Summary: President Fischer on October 8 authorized SPO Chairman Werner Faymann to try to form a government, in recognition of the SPO's first-place finish in the September 28 parliamentary elections. Faymann, and Fischer, continue to favor a renewed SPO-OVP "grand coalition." OVP Chairman [...] | 2008-10-10 14:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1521 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED OF KUMPF REMOVAL; [...] (U) Summary. State and DHS/ICE representatives from Embassy met 10/7 with Austrian Foreign, Justice and Interior Ministry officials to request Austria accept the return of Josias Kumpf under the terms of the 1988 U.S.-Austria Joint Statement. The Austrians agreed on the applicability of the [...] | 2008-10-14 09:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS PREL AU |
08VIENNA1522 | IMPACT OF HAIDER DEATH ON AUSTRIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary: The death of Joerg Haider, charismatic leader of Austria's far-right "Future Alliance" (BZO) appears, to most commentators, to have clarified the political landscape and made a grand coalition of Social Democrats (SPO) and Conservatives even more probable and perhaps inevitable. C [...] | 2008-10-14 13:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1523 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO NPT TECHNICAL WORKSHOP FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 14:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EG ENRG IS KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA AU |
08VIENNA1524 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 14:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY OTRA KNNP IAEA AORC AU |
08VIENNA1534 | Austrian Euro 100 billion package for banks [...] Summary: In accordance with the October 12 EU agreement, the GoA proposed a Euro 100 billion ($135 billion) "rescue package" for Austrian banks on October 13. The Government Council (cabinet) approved the corresponding legislative proposal on October 14. The plan includes Euro 85 billion ($ [...] | 2008-10-15 14:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1544 | AUSTRIA: SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUSTAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 10:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATEU MOPS MARR AF AU |
08VIENNA1545 | AUSTRIA: PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO DETAINEE DISCUSSED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 10:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1550 | Weak Competition Fuels High Energy Prices In [...] SUMMARY: Energy prices in Austria Q as in most EU countries Q have soared even more than food prices. As of August 31, energy prices for households were up 14% year-on-year and gasoline cost 15% more (diesel almost 30% more) while the overall inflation rate in this period was 3.7%. Natural [...] | 2008-10-20 10:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1557 | Assaults against Turkish institutions [...] Summary. Over the past days, Turkish institutions in Austria have been the subject of several assaults which are suspected to have been committed by Kurds protesting alleged mistreatment of former PKK leader Abdullah Oecalan who is imprisoned in Turkey. End Summary. 2. In the city of Salz [...] | 2008-10-21 14:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV TU AU |
08VIENNA157 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO AUSTRIA OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 13:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AU |
08VIENNA1571 | Austria Enacts Bank Rescue Package; Consortium [...] SUMMARY: On October 21, the Austrian Parliament unanimously approved an EUR 100 billion ($130 billion) rescue package, with modest changes to the draft announced last week (reftel). The GoA will guarantee up to EUR 75 billion ($97 billion) in loans (down from EUR 85 billion),will set aside E [...] | 2008-10-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1572 | Austria Enacts Bank Rescue Package; Consortium [...] SUMMARY: On October 21, the Austrian Parliament unanimously approved an EUR 100 billion ($130 billion) rescue package, with modest changes to the draft announced last week (reftel). The GoA will guarantee up to EUR 75 billion ($97 billion) in loans (down from EUR 85 billion),will set aside E [...] | 2008-10-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA158 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 31, 2008 [...] The Austrian SPOe-OeVP coalition government's performance continues to be marked by massive tensions and quarrels between the two parties, Austrian media report. SPOe Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer accused his junior coalition partner, the OeVP, of "trying to make the Social Democrats look bad, w [...] | 2008-01-31 13:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1580 | CITIBANK AUSTRIA INDICATES INTEREST IN NABUCCO [...] (C) Two Vienna-based officers of Citibank called on Econ/Pol Counselor, FCS Counselor, and Economic Unit chief October 21 to discuss USG attitudes toward the Nabucco project. The two reported that Citibank had been approached over a year before by representatives of the Nabucco consortium abo [...] | 2008-10-28 10:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD ECIN PREL AU |
08VIENNA1593 | UPDATE ON GOA REVIEW OF CASE OF JOSIAS KUMPF [...] (U) Econ/Pol Counselor delivered points provided in Ref B on the status of Josias Kumpf to Austrian MFA Deputy Political Director Helmut Tichy on 10/29. Tichy welcomed the information, and confirmed that, while not germane to the GoA's decision on Kumpf's return under the terms of the 1988 U. [...] | 2008-10-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS PREL AU |
08VIENNA1601 | Two Austrian Banks Tap Rescue Funds [...] SUMMARY: Erste Bank, Austria's second largest banking group, will receive an EUR 2.7 billion GoA capital injection under Austria's EUR 100 billion bank rescue package. Erste Bank, which just reported its best ever nine-month result, says it will use GoA funds to push its Tier 1 capital rati [...] | 2008-10-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1606 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES? PRIVATIZATION IN TROUBLE [...] Summary: The GoA?s plans for selling AUA by the end of October failed because of the miserable handling of the privatization process, which was aggravated by the financial crisis and the stock market problems, which alone should have triggered calling off or postponing the sale. On October [...] | 2008-10-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1614 | IRANIAN EX-PRESIDENT KHATAMI DISCUSSES NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Former Iranian President Khatami discussed Iran's nuclear program, the upcoming Iranian elections, and human rights in Iran with GOA leaders during an October 25-27 visit to Vienna. Khatami told President Fischer that Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology for civilian [...] | 2008-11-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IAEA ENRG MNUC PARM IR AU |
08VIENNA1615 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON GAERC, GYMNICH AGENDAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN RS IS AF SY IR AU |
08VIENNA1618 | AUSTRIA: 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] (U) Austria is primarily a transit country for illicit drugs; it is not a drug producing country. Experts see no change in the usual strategies of illegal trade of narcotic substances in 2008, except for precursor substances, where since 2007 Austria has begun to serve as a depot country for in [...] | 2008-11-03 15:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SNAR AU |
08VIENNA1619 | Kommunalkredit To Be Nationalized; More [...] SUMMARY: The GoA will take over 99.78% of the troubled Austrian bank Kommunalkredit (which provides state/municipal financing) in an 11th-hour move to rescue the bank. Other large Austrian banks and insurance companies appear better off, but rumors are that most will eventually make use of [...] | 2008-11-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1620 | GOA UNWILLING TO ACCEPT PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1623 | AUSTRIA: 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) Austria is primarily a transit country for illicit drugs; it is not a drug producing country. Experts see no change in the usual strategies of illegal trade of narcotic substances in 2008, except for precursor substances, where since 2007 Austria has begun to serve as a depot country for i [...] | 2008-11-04 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SNAR AU |
08VIENNA1643 | IRAN/AUSTRIA: LEVERAGING FATF STATEMENT [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador Girard-diCarlo, accompanied by DCM, delivered Ref A demarche on November 4 to Ministry of Finance State Secretary Christoph Matznetter, and on November 5 to MFA Secretary General Johannes Kyrle. The demarche captured our interlocutors, attention. Matznetter committed [...] | 2008-11-06 16:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KNNP PARM PREL AU |
08VIENNA1646 | "ELECTION 2008" PROGRAMS DIVERTED ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE [...] (U) Summary: The 2008 presidential election proved to be an excellent and sustained opportunity for PAS Vienna to reach and influence audiences across Austria. Recognizing keen interest in this year's historic election, post utilized the full range of public diplomacy vehicles - speakers, vid [...] | 2008-11-07 14:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AGS KPAO IIP ECA AU |
08VIENNA1648 | AUSTRIA ON BOSNIA [...] (C) Summary. Austria recognizes the deteriorating political situation in Bosnia, but believes that to redress the situation, Bosnian leaders must take on real political responsibility, which requires terminating the OHR and a transition to the EUSR. The 2010 elections appear to set the outer [...] | 2008-11-10 15:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU BK AU |
08VIENNA165 | EMBASSY REQUESTS FM PLASSNIK CANCEL SYRIA VISIT [...] (C) In response to REF request, Econ/Pol Counselor and PolChief called 2/1 on Austrian MFA Deputy Director for ME Affairs, Christoph Meran, to raise USG concerns about FM Plassnik,s planned Feb. 7-9 visit to Damascus. The visit is prt of a larger ME tour, including Lebanon, Israel,and Palesti [...] | 2008-02-01 17:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MEPP SY AU |
08VIENNA1658 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR AUSTRIA [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. In order to comply with Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Embassy Vienna forwards the following MOD names for HR vetting. They have been selected to participate in the "Fourth Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference" on November 17-20 [...] | 2008-11-12 13:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AU MARR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
08VIENNA1663 | GOA DENIES RANSOM PAID FOR HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] (U) Summary: Top GOA officials have denied media speculation that Austria had paid up to 5 million euros for the release of two hostages held by an al Qaeda affiliate in Mali since February 2008. According to some reports, a charity fund run by a son of Libyan leader Gaddafi paid the ransom. [...] | 2008-11-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1664 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA AU |
08VIENNA1665 | Austrian Government Establishes Bank Rescue [...] SUMMARY: The GoA has established a bank rescue holding company, known by its acronym as FIMBAG, to administer the EUR 15 billion from the bank rescue package available for GoA equity injections for banks and insurance companies. Its first acquisition was Kommunalkredit, which the GoA nation [...] | 2008-11-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1670 | AUSTRIA: COALITION TALKS PROGRESS, NEW GRAND [...] (U) Summary: Negotiators for the Social Democratic Party (SPO) and PeopleQs Party (OVP) have made substantial progress in talks aimed at forming a new QGrand CoalitionQ government. The two parties, which also share power in the outgoing government, have reached agreement on issues including t [...] | 2008-11-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1672 | Austrian Airlines To Go to Lufthansa [...] SUMMARY: Austrian Airlines will be sold to Lufthansa -- officially the only remaining bidder -- but its is unclear whether the EU will approve a GOA EUR 500 million state subsidy as part of the sale. The bid process evinced a strong preference for Lufthansa stemming from the carriers' alread [...] | 2008-11-14 15:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1673 | OMV SHOWS OPTIMISM ON NABUCCO, UNDERSTANDING ON [...] (C) In a brief aside at a November 12 event, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer told the Ambassador the company has become guardedly optimistic on Nabucco and that it understands the USG position on energy deals with Iran in the current environment. 2. (C) Regarding the planned Nabucco gas pipe [...] | 2008-11-14 16:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ETTC EPET AU |
08VIENNA1674 | AMBASSADOR'S OPEN LETTER TO ORF-TV PROTESTING [...] This afternoon, Embassy delivered the following letter to the head of Austria's public broadcaster, ORF. After delivery, we released the text publicly. The letter protests ORF-TV's failure to condemn racist statements made against President-elect Obama and American society during a nation-w [...] | 2008-11-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1696 | AUSTRIA: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] (C) Polchief discussed reftel points November 20 with Andreas Melan, MFA Unit Chief for Latin America and the Caribbean. Melan said he had just received notice that the French EU Presidency has decided to instruct EU troika ambassadors in La Paz to demarche the Bolivian Government on their co [...] | 2008-11-21 07:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR BL AU |
08VIENNA1697 | AUSTRIAN VIEW OF NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Polchief discussed reftel points November 20 with Andreas Melan, MFA Unit Chief for Latin America and the Caribbean. Melan agreed that the Nicaraguan municipal elections did not meet international standards. He said the declining democratic standards in Nicaragua have been an increasing [...] | 2008-11-21 07:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NU AU |
08VIENNA170 | SUPPORT LEBANON: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Charge delivered ref A demarche to Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting on the margins of a previously-scheduled February 4 luncheon at the DCM Residence. Mayr-Harting had no immediate response on most elements of the USG approach. In the context of FonMin Plassnik's ongoi [...] | 2008-02-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LE SY AU |
08VIENNA1710 | Turkmeni Visit Promotes Energy Agenda [...] SUMMARY: The recent visit by Turkmeni President Berdymuchammedow has boosted Austria's efforts to promote a "Southern Corridor" to access Caspian Basin gas and oil, overshadowing human rights issues. END SUMMARY. Berdymuchammedow and Co. Take Vienna by Storm ------------------------------- [...] | 2008-11-21 15:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON AU TX |
08VIENNA1717 | IRAN/FATF: FOLLOW-UP WITH GOA AND RAIFFEISEN BANK [...] (S) SUMMARY. Embassy followed up again with GOA and Raiffeisen officials to press for strong implementation of FATF Iran recommendations. GOA reps say Austria already implements virtually all of the measures in Ref A demarche. Raiffeisen gave us recent data they believe support their asse [...] | 2008-11-24 12:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | ECON EFIN IR AU |
08VIENNA1721 | AUSTRIA: SPO, OVP AGREE ON NEW GRAND COALITION [...] (U) The Social Democrat Party (SPO) and the conservative People's Party (OVP) reached agreement November 23 on a new "grand coalition," two months after parliamentary elections that marked the end of the outgoing SPO-OVP government. The new government should be sworn in next week; December 2 i [...] | 2008-11-24 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1731 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: FM SPINDELEGGER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Michael Spindelegger, of the conservative People's Party (OVP),who has been named Foreign Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Spindelegger was born in the city of Moedling south of Vienna on December 21, 1959. He obtained a la [...] | 2008-11-25 13:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1733 | Austria-Russia Economic Ties Deepening [...] (U) SUMMARY: Austria's commercial ties with Russia, which date to the Soviet era, have grown significantly since 2000. Despite a brief dip in 2007, imports from Russia (dominated by energy) are rising again. In recent years, Austrian firms (especially banks) have expanded aggressively into [...] | 2008-11-26 07:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON ENRG PREL RS AU |
08VIENNA1735 | FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY OUTLINE OF THE NEW [...] (U) The November 23 coalition agreement between Austria's Social Democrats and Conservatives includes brief (less than 10 percent of the total text) sections on foreign and defense policy. These for the most part affirm in broad terms existing policy -- specifics are given only in areas where [...] | 2008-11-26 09:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1740 | BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY: AUSTRIA COMMITTED TO [...] Post shared ref A guidance points with relevant leadership in the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (sections dealing with transportation concepts and fuels, EU coordination, climate change) and the Ministry of Economy and Labor (MinEcon). We followed up with MinAg fuels exper [...] | 2008-11-26 15:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN AU |
08VIENNA1749 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR AUSTRIAN TO ATTEND ILE [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. In order to comply with the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Embassy Vienna forwards the following MOD name for HR vetting. He has been selected to participate in the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) training given in Leavenworth [...] | 2008-12-01 11:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AU MARR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
08VIENNA175 | AUSTRIA ON IRAN SANCTIONS; OMV; INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (C) Summary. At a Feb. 4 lunch with USUNVIE Amb. Schulte and Embassy Vienna Charge Kilner, MFA PolDir Thomas Mayr-Harting and Chancellery Foreign Policy Advisor Bernhard Wrabetz detailed GoA objections to sanctions against Iran outside the UNSC framework. Austria's concerns rest on a commitm [...] | 2008-02-05 14:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG IR EPET AU ETTC |
08VIENNA1751 | Austrian Government Bank Rescue - Update [...] SUMMARY: As expected, more large Austrian banks (Raiffeisen Zentralbank, Volksbank, and Hypo Alpe Adria) have applied for GoA equity injections; no insurer has showed interest so far. Volksbanken AG, after its Kommunalkredit flop and other write-offs, will likely show a loss for 2008. Hyp [...] | 2008-12-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1752 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: INTERIOR MINISTER FEKTER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Maria Fekter, of the conservative People's Party (OVP),who has been named Interior Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience 2. (U) Fekter is a hold-over from the previous SPO-OVP cabinet, which she joined only a few months before its demise. She was bo [...] | 2008-12-01 15:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
08VIENNA1766 | Austria Suspends Investigations Against Palestinian [...] In late November, the Vienna public prosecutor suspended criminal investigations against representatives of the Palestinian Association in Austria, an organization on OFAC's SDN (Specially Designated Nationals) list. The public prosecutor was unable to establish proof of terrorism financing o [...] | 2008-12-02 13:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA1772 | NEW AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE; PROSPECTS [...] (U) Austria's new "Grand Coalition" government of Social Democrats (SPO) and Conservatives (OVP) took office the morning of Dec. 2. While opinion polls show broad public support for the new government, media commentary is divided and includes much criticism of the lack of substance in the coa [...] | 2008-12-02 14:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA1773 | Austrian Airlines Teetering, GoA Extends [...] Austrian Airlines (AUA) faces a worsened cash crunch and will receive state help even before its pending sale to Lufthansa. AUA now faces charges of mismanagement and withholding material information -- on top of its disputed privatization tender. 2. On November 28, news broke that AUA's 2 [...] | 2008-12-02 15:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA1781 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: CHANCELLOR FAYMANN [...] (U) The following is a profile of Werner Faymann, leader of Austria's Social Democratic Party (SPO),who has been named Chancellor in the new GOA government. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Faymann, who served as Minister for Transportation and Technology in the short-lived Gusenbauer cabin [...] | 2008-12-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
08VIENNA1783 | OPEC LEADERSHIP PROPOSES CLOSER U.S. TIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Codel Bennett (including Senators Bennett, Cochran, and Voinovich) met November 14 with OPEC Secretary General El-Badri, who expressed a strong desire for closer ties with the U.S. along the lines of OPEC's regular contact with Russia and the EU. El-Badri complained that OPEC [...] | 2008-12-03 15:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET AU |
08VIENNA1784 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Polchief discussed reftel points December 3 with Ulrike Butschek, Counselor at the Austrian mission to the OSCE. Butschek said the GOA shares the USG's goals concerning a ministerial declaration, and agrees that a weak declaration would be worse than none. She said she is not optimistic [...] | 2008-12-03 15:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU AU |
08VIENNA1786 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE DECEMBER GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 07:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN CG TU AU |
08VIENNA1788 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: JUSTICE MINISTER BANDION-ORTNER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Claudia Bandion-Ortner, who has been named Justice Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Bandion-Ortner was born November 30, 1966 in Graz/Styria. She grew up in the town of Tamsweg in Salzburg Province, where she was an honors st [...] | 2008-12-04 10:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER AU |
08VIENNA1789 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: VICE CHANCELLOR/FINANCE MINISTER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Josef Proell, head of the conservative People's Party (OVP),who has been named Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Proell, who served as Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Environment in the Guse [...] | 2008-12-04 13:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1793 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: LABOR MINISTER RUDOLF HUNDSTORFER [...] (U) The following is a profile of Rudolf Hundstorfer, of the Social Democratic Party (SPO),who has been named Labor Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Hundstorfer was born September 19, 1951 in Vienna. He began his working life as a clerk with the City of Vienn [...] | 2008-12-05 12:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN AU |
08VIENNA1795 | GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD [...] Embassy reps shared ref discussion points with relevant stakeholders in the Austrian MFA (Ministry of European and International Affairs) and Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. We followed up with Manfred Schnitzer from the MFA Development Assistance / Program Planning unit, who has th [...] | 2008-12-05 14:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON AU |
08VIENNA1796 | FRENCH CONSIDERING RENEWED APPROACH TO AUSTRIA ON [...] (C) Summary. Incoming French Embassy DCM reported Dec. 5 that France is considering a joint approach together with the UK, Germany, and perhaps the U.S., to Austria on several aspects of Austrian-Iranian relations: possible gas activities, to include the Nabucco pipeline, lack of support for [...] | 2008-12-05 15:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR FR AU |
08VIENNA1799 | AUSTRIAN VIEW OF BURMA SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (U) Polchief discussed reftel points December 5 with Bernhard Zimburg, MFA Director for East Asia and the Pacific, and his deputy, Bruno Bilek. Polchief also provided a copy of reftel OFAC paper. Zimburg and Bilek said they were not aware of the latest efforts to revise the EU targets list fo [...] | 2008-12-09 09:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM EU AU |
08VIENNA1802 | AUSTRIA: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON MUSLIM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR KISL KPLS AU |
08VIENNA1808 | AUSTRIA ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR ENR TRANSFER [...] (C) Austrian MFA Non-Proliferation Director Alexander Marschik and IAEA Unit Head Andreas Launer reported Dec. 10 that, though the MFA supports the unbracketed text of the proposed revised text for NSG Guidelines paras 6 and 7, the Austrian Economics Ministry and, especially, the Environment M [...] | 2008-12-11 07:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY AU |
08VIENNA1819 | ENERGY SECURITY WEIGHING HEAVIER IN AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Energy security has arrived on the agenda of Austrian policymakers. Whereas energy policy was heretofore dominated by issues like renewables/biofuels, climate change, and a vociferous anti-nuclear stance, now diversifying and securing energy supply take equal priority (even as [...] | 2008-12-11 12:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PGOV SENV AU IR |
08VIENNA182 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 05, 2008 [...] The opposition parties are having a field day with the coalition government over its decision to participate in the EU's EUFOR peacekeeping mission in African Chad and its dispatch of an advance team of 15 soldiers to the country last week, just before a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena ov [...] | 2008-02-06 08:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1821 | AMENDED LACEY ACT Q GOA QUESTIONS WTO COMPLIANCE [...] Embassy provided reftel information to contacts in the Ministry of Economy and Labor (MoEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. On December 10, Post received a written GOA reply -- on behalf of new Economics Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner and cleared with all relevant GOA agenci [...] | 2008-12-11 12:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SENV EAGR BTIO AU |
08VIENNA1832 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE [...] (U) The following is a profile of Nikolaus ("Niki") Berlakovich of the conservative People's Party (OVP),who has been named Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management (also termed the "Life Ministry") in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Ber [...] | 2008-12-12 16:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SENV AU |
08VIENNA1833 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: ECONOMICS MINISTER [...] (U) The following is a profile of new GoA Economics Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner, a member of the conservative People's Party (OVP). Experience ---------- 2. (U) This is the first ministerial appointment for Mitterlehner, sworn in December 2 as Austria's new Economics Minister (his [...] | 2008-12-12 16:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV PREL ECON ENRG AU |
08VIENNA1834 | IEA BUDGET: AUSTRIA FAVORS ZRG, OPPOSES REFORMING [...] SUMMARY: Austria will support a zero real growth (ZRG) IEA budget that maintains existing activities; failing consensus, it sees zero nominal growth (ZNG) as a fall-back but will not/not accept scale of contribution reform. The GOA has no political appetite for more concessions o large contr [...] | 2008-12-14 06:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG IEA AU |
08VIENNA1835 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTER OUTLINES IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (U) Summary: Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter outlined her views on immigration and integration in a December 4 speech in which she proposed that Austria develop a balanced policy avoiding the extremes of assimilation and multiculturalism. She said Austria would participate in an EU-wid [...] | 2008-12-15 07:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
08VIENNA1844 | OMV says TGI, Not Turkey, Is Chief Worry For [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The head of OMV's gas business, Werner Auli, told us December 11 that TGI, not Turkey, has become the main obstacle to moving ahead with the Nabucco gas pipeline. Expressing confidence that a deal with Turkey would be forthcoming, Auli fretted that "if Azerbaijan sells its gas [...] | 2008-12-16 08:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET PREL AU RU IR TU IT |
08VIENNA1845 | AUSTRIA: EU "BLUE CARD" FACES HURDLES [...] (U) Summary: The EU in October passed the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, which would establish a "Blue Card" allowing skilled workers to fill jobs in the EU states, while also requiring EU members to provide development assistance to source countries of illegal migration to Europe. T [...] | 2008-12-16 08:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM AU |
08VIENNA1846 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SYRIA'S [...] (C) Polchief discussed reftel points December 15 with Andreas Launer, MFA Unit Chief for IAEA, CTBTO Prep Com, and NPT. Luaner said the GOA shares the USG's concerns regarding possible safeguards violations by Syria, and would like to see these concerns addressed before Syria benefits from any [...] | 2008-12-16 10:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA SY TRGY AU |
08VIENNA1848 | Banking in Central/Eastern Europe: Austrians [...] SUMMARY. The financial crisis has triggered concerns about Austrian banks' huge exposure -- over EUR 250 billion -- to markets in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). Austrian banks (and the GOA) argue they can manage the increased risks, beca [...] | 2008-12-16 16:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AU XH |
08VIENNA1851 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER LE SY UNSC EUN AU |
08VIENNA1852 | Banking in Central/Eastern Europe: Austrians [...] SUMMARY. The financial crisis has triggered concerns about Austrian banks' huge exposure -- over EUR 250 billion -- to markets in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). Austrian banks (and the GOA) argue they can manage the increased risks, beca [...] | 2008-12-17 08:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AU XH |
08VIENNA1856 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: HEALTH MINISTER ALOIS [...] (U) The following is a biographic profile of new Minister for Health Affairs Alois Stoeger of the Social Democratic Party (SPO). Career ------ 2. (U) A political newcomer, Stoeger came of age through unions and in running the Upper Austria State Health Insurance fund. His only prior po [...] | 2008-12-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV TBIO AU |
08VIENNA1861 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: DEFENSE MINISTER DARABOS [...] (U) The following is a profile of Norbert Darabos, of the Social Democratic Party (SPO),who has been named Defense Minister in the new GOA cabinet. Experience ---------- 2. (U) Darabos is a holdover from the short-lived cabinet of former Chancellor Gusenbauer. He was sworn in December [...] | 2008-12-18 07:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AU |
08VIENNA1866 | DOMESTIC SECURITY POLICY OUTLINE OF THE NEW [...] Following is a summary of the key elements from the November 23 coalition agreement between Austria's governing parties -- the Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party -- on domestic security and counterterrorism: Organized Crime --------------- 2. The agreement calls for an [...] | 2008-12-18 13:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC AU |
08VIENNA1869 | AUSTRIA'S NEW CABINET: MINISTER FOR [...] The following is a profile of new Minister for Transportation, Innovation and Technology Doris Bures, A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPO). Experience ---------- 2. This is the second ministerial appointment for Bures, sworn in December 2 as Austria's new transport/technology [...] | 2008-12-19 13:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV PREL ECON ECPS EAIR ELTN AU |
08VIENNA1875 | AUSTRIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Per reftel, Post is submitting the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Austria. Embassy POC for this report is Political Unit Chief Phil Kaplan, office phone: 43-1-31339-2114; email: kaplanpw@state.gov. General Assessment ------------------ 2. According to Austria's Bureau for the Prot [...] | 2008-12-22 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM KHLS EFIN KPAO AU |
08VIENNA1878 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY ON NEGOTIATING [...] (C) Summary. Resolution of outstanding data protection issues -- whether with the EU or on a bilateral basis -- remains key to concluding U.S.-Austria VWP-related HSPD-6 and PCSC agreements, according to Austrian Interior Ministry Bilateral and Multilateral Affairs Director Kurt Hager (strict [...] | 2008-12-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KJUS PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA1883 | OMV, RWE Announce Trans-Caspian Pipeline Joint [...] On December 22, Austrian oil and gas company OMV announced it will set up a joint venture with German RWE to study "pipeline solutions" for exploiting the rich natural gas resources from the Eastern side of the Caspian Sea to Europe. The planned "Caspian Energy Company" will have it headquar [...] | 2008-12-23 15:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PGOV EPET AU |
08VIENNA1885 | AUSTRIA: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post submitted information on USG designations of ASSA Corporation and ASSA Co. Ltd to Elisabeth Ottawa, Terrorism Financing Coordinator in the Financial Markets Directorate of the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Post also sent reftel information to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the MoF [...] | 2008-12-23 15:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN PARM IR AU |
08VIENNA1889 | Economic Outlook for Austria - 2009 To Be [...] SUMMAARY: Austria's economy began to weaken in the second quarter in reaction to the world downturn and is now in recession. The two leading Austrian economic institutes downgraded their GDP growth estimates for 2008 to 1.8%; 2009 is expected to be the first full- year recession since 1981 [...] | 2008-12-24 09:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EUN AU |
08VIENNA1890 | AUSTRIAN POSITION ON ASSISTANCE TO NICARAGUA [...] Polchief discussed reftel points December 23 with Andreas Melan, MFA Unit Chief for Latin America and the Caribbean. Melan agreed that the Nicaraguan elections had fallen far short of international standards. He said EU states have agreed to re-orient aid, both EU and bilateral, for Nicaragua [...] | 2008-12-24 09:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL NU AU |
08VIENNA1893 | AUSTRIA: SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, DCM, Econ/Pol Counselor, DATT and Polchief discussed reftel demarche with GOA officials across the government, as well as with the German Ambassador to Austria during a series of meetings December 17 to 23. Austrian officials said the MFA and Defense Ministry would rev [...] | 2008-12-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AU |
08VIENNA20 | NIAG 209: EFFORTS BY PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 16:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL AU PK |
08VIENNA202 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 08, 2008 [...] In the controversy over allegations regarding a potential OeVP cover-up of shortfalls in the search for kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch, which may have prevented an earlier rescue of the girl, OeVP Secretary General Hannes Missethon told Austrian radio that late Interior Minister Liese Prokop ( [...] | 2008-02-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA207 | AUSTRIA: U.S. CONCERNS ON OSLO CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 14:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MOPS AU |
08VIENNA209 | OMV TO CONTINUE OIL EXPLORATION IN NORTHERN IRAQ [...] (C) Austria's OMV will not discontinue its cooperation with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) despite the Government of Iraq's recent decision to impose an oil embargo on OMV. OMV maintains its decision to sign production sharing agreements with the KRG is in line with the Iraqi Constitu [...] | 2008-02-12 15:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV AU IZ |
08VIENNA21 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 16:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SHUM AU PK |
08VIENNA210 | AUSTRIA: KOSOVO RECOGNITION, STEERING GROUP, OSCE [...] (U) Econ/Pol Couns met 2/12 with MFA Acting Southeast Europe Department Director Thomas Schnoell to review Austrian plans for recognition of Kosovo membership in the Kosovo ISG, and related issues. Austrian Recognition -------------------- 2. (C) Schnoell reported that recognition involv [...] | 2008-02-12 15:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK YI AU EU OSCE |
08VIENNA211 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON EU REGULATORY COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On February 11, post sent reftel points to the Ministries of Agriculture, Economics, and Health. We followed up with Ingrid Frasl from the Ministry of Economics' Multilateral Trade Policy Unit, underscoring that it was important for Austria to allow the EU's biotechnology system now in [...] | 2008-02-12 16:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD TBIO AU |
08VIENNA212 | AUSTRIA: U.S. CONCERNS ON OSLO CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 07:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MOPS AU |
08VIENNA217 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES RESUMES FLIGHTS TO IRAQ [...] Austrian Airlines (AUA) announced February 13 that it would resume regularly scheduled service to the northern Iraqi city of Erbil starting April 2. AUA had suspended its flights to Erbil in August 2007, following an incident in which a Swedish commercial aircraft reportedly came under rocket [...] | 2008-02-14 14:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON AU IZ |
08VIENNA22 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: SUPPORTING ASPIRATIONS OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 17:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY AU |
08VIENNA220 | CORRUPTION CHARGES STRAIN AUSTRIA'S VOLATILE COALITION [...] (SBU) Austria's volatile coalition of Social Democrats (SPO) and Conservatives (OVP) has plunged into another crisis of confidence following corruption charges by a fired top police official against senior aides of former OVP interior ministers. While the public prosecutor is looking into alle [...] | 2008-02-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA228 | AUSTRIA: KOSOVO RECOGNITION, EU DEPLOYMENT [...] (U) Charge delivered reftel message to MFA Deputy PolDir Ralph Scheide on 2/19. Scheide, noting that FonMin Plassnik had already announced Austria's intention to recognize Kosovo, reported that the formal process of recognition would begin with the Feb. 20 cabinet meeting and be concluded wit [...] | 2008-02-19 13:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EU AU KV UNMIK |
08VIENNA23 | AUSTRIA'S 2008/2009 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK - GROWTH SLOWING, BUT [...] Austria's leading economic institutes - the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) -- have announced that in 2007 Austria's GDP grew at a rate of 3.3-3.4%. However, with a slowdown in the fourth quarter and with slower global growth on the [...] | 2008-01-04 18:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
08VIENNA237 | AUSTRIA: SPECIAL 301 INPUT ON PHARMA SUBMISSION [...] (U) This message provides post's response to reftel request for input to the annual Special 301 review. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Organization (PhRMA) has requested that the USG place Austria, as well as several other EU member states and Norway, on the Watch Li [...] | 2008-02-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR AU |
08VIENNA242 | OMV: GAZPROM HOLDS SHARES IN GAS TRADING PLATFORM; NO [...] Charge and Emboffs met 2/19 with Werner Auli, board member of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV, and with Gottfried Steiner, head of the gas section's International Affairs unit, to inquire the latest developments in OMV's relations with Gazprom. Auli reconfirmed that Gazprom acquired a 50 [...] | 2008-02-21 10:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV EPET AU |
08VIENNA261 | IEA: AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON CHINA, INDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 15:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG IEA AU |
08VIENNA267 | WIREC 2008 - AUSTRIAN DELEGATION AND PLEDGE INFO [...] On February 21, EmbOff contacted Elfriede More from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, to discuss the Austrian delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC),March 4-6, 2008. More, who is Austria's inter-ministerial coordinator for WIREC, confirmed t [...] | 2008-02-26 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET SENV EAID SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA AU |
08VIENNA268 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE [...] (C) EconUnit Chief delivered reftel points on February 25 to Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economics' Import and Export Control Division. Krehlik agreed to take an active part in both the discussion on Russia's export control regime and on Iranian efforts to procure technology and [...] | 2008-02-26 13:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC CBW IR RS AU |
08VIENNA286 | AUSTRIA EXPECTS NO MATERIAL EU RESPONSE TO IAEA [...] (U) Econ/Pol Counselor met 2/28 with MFA Acting Disarmament Director Benedict and IAEA Office Director Launer to discuss the follow-up to the Feb. 22 and 25 briefings on Iran-IAEA developments. Launer agreed with the U.S. assessment that Iran's stance is not credible and that further action i [...] | 2008-02-29 09:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA AU |
08VIENNA296 | TAIWAN IN THE OECD: AUSTRIA FAVORS U.S. POSITION [...] (C) Econ/Pol Couns met 2/29 with MFA Asia Department Director Zimburg to deliver reftel demarche. Zimburg reported that Austria's basic position on Taiwanese participation in international organizations was in favor of "pragmatic" engagement. Thus, Austria would tend to oppose proposals that [...] | 2008-02-29 15:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OECD ECON CMGT TW AU |
08VIENNA304 | AUSTRIA ON COMMISSIONER'S CUBA VISIT [...] (C) MFA America's Department Director Isabel Rauscher confirmed to E/P Counselor 3/3 that EU Development Commissioner Michel's visit to Cuba March 6-7 will go ahead. She said that all member states had supported proceeding with the visit. 2. (C) E/P Counselor expressed concern at the decisi [...] | 2008-03-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN PU AU |
08VIENNA305 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 03, 2008 [...] ... headlines one Austrian daily newspaper, summing up the media's assessment of the current mood in the SPOe-OeVP government. There is new cause for conflict, adding to the two parties' recent disputes ranging from tax reform to the allegations of abuse of office in the OeVP-led Interior Minis [...] | 2008-03-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA311 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 04, 2008 [...] The two governing parties, the OeVP and the SPOe, are in free fall in the wake of new allegations of political scandals and continued failure to agree on important issues, the most recent polls have revealed. The latest Gallup poll gives the OeVP 31 percent and the SPOe 29 percent of support. S [...] | 2008-03-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA316 | AUSTRIA: GOA VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE GAERC [...] (U) Polchief discussed reftel points March 5 with Klaus Famira, MFA European correspondent. Famira said he did not believe Lebanon, Syria, or Afghanistan would be discussed at the March 10-11 GAERC, unless one of the participants wants to report on a recent visit to the region. Discussion on [...] | 2008-03-05 16:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN ZL PK ZI IR GG IS SY LE AU |
08VIENNA317 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 04, 2008 [...] Austrian President Heinz Fischer has called on the SPOe-OeVP coalition to "live up to the expectations" people "have placed in it." His comments came in response to the ongoing dispute between the two government parties, which he, too, was "quite aware of," Fischer stressed. A government was "n [...] | 2008-03-06 07:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA320 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 06, 2008 [...] The trial of two people on charges connected with terrorism threats will continue at a Vienna court today. Prosecutors are planning to show a video clip which one of the defendants, Mohamed M., allegedly took part in producing. The video was released on the internet last March and threatened at [...] | 2008-03-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA335 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 07, 2008 [...] The parliamentary investigating committee created earlier this month to look into allegations of abuse of office in the Interior Ministry will meet for the first time today. At the inquiry's inaugural session, members will vote on a chairperson - a position sought by both the Freedom Party (FPO [...] | 2008-03-07 14:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA340 | OVP TRIUMPHS, SPO FALTERS IN LOWER AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS [...] In Lower Austria's March 9 provincial elections (reftel),the center-right OVP, led by the popular Governor Erwin Proell, marginally enhanced its absolute majority in the province, while the center-left SPO, OVP's coalition partner at the national level, suffered major losses. The far-right FP [...] | 2008-03-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA349 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 11, 2008 [...] All Austrian media report that President Heinz Fischer invited the leaders of the government coalition, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (SPOe) and Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer (OeVP),to talks at the Hofburg yesterday, in an attempt to resolve the current political deadlock. Details of the mee [...] | 2008-03-11 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA362 | AUSTRIA UNCERTAINTY EMERGING ON POST-BALI NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) In March 10-12 discussions with Emboffs, lead GoA ministries and the Chancery stated unequivocally that there were no plans for the March 13-14 European Council to call on other developed nations to commit to 25-40% cuts in emissions. The main focus of the climate change discussion at t [...] | 2008-03-13 07:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EUN AU |
08VIENNA363 | AUSTRIA: UNCERTAINTY EMERGING ON POST-BALI NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) In March 10-12 discussions with Emboffs, lead GoA ministries and the Chancery stated unequivocally that there were no plans for the March 13-14 European Council to call on other developed nations to commit to 25-40% cuts in emissions. The main focus of the climate change discussion at t [...] | 2008-03-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EUN AU |
08VIENNA367 | Prison Sentences for Two Islamists [...] The Vienna criminal court on March 12 sentenced Egyptian-born Mohamed Mahmoud to four years in prison and his wife, Mona S., to 22 months on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and coercion of the government. The couple had produced an internet video threatening the Austrian and [...] | 2008-03-13 10:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA370 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 13, 2008 [...] Mohamed M. and Mona S., an Austrian Muslim couple accused of involvement in the production and posting on the internet of a video message threatening attacks against Austria, have been found guilty of membership of a terrorist organization, namely al Qaeda. A Vienna court sentenced Mohamed M. l [...] | 2008-03-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA383 | Austria Confronts its Nazi Past [...] The Austrian government, media, and cultural institutions, as well as the general public, commemorated the 70th anniversary of Austria's "Anschluss" with Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938 with various events, ranging from a special session of parliament to a "night of silence" on Vienna's Heldenp [...] | 2008-03-14 13:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM AU |
08VIENNA395 | SAUDI INVESTOR OBTAINS 20% SHARE IN AUSTRIAN AIRLINES [...] Saudi investor Sheik Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, who obtained Austrian citizenship in 2007, will obtain a 20% share in Austria's national carrier, Austrian Airlines (AUA). The Euro 150 million ($225 million) equity increase will help AUA purchase new aircraft and expand its Middle East network [...] | 2008-03-18 07:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AU |
08VIENNA404 | AUSTRIA: EARLY ELECTIONS COULD BE HELD IN FALL AT THE [...] Summary: Chancellor Gusenbauer (SPO) and Vice Chancellor Molterer (OVP) met March 19 in an effort to resolve the political stalemate between the two governing coalition partners. The party leaders agreed to continue the talks after Easter. The meeting came amid speculation on the possibility [...] | 2008-03-19 15:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA411 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S JEFFERY'S VISIT TO VIENNA [...] (SBU) Your visit to Vienna comes as Russia presses ahead with a regional campaign to promote the South Stream pipeline as a rival to the OMV-led Nabucco project. While some analysts claim that Nabucco is now "dead," OMV remains committed to starting operations by 2012. Your meetings with OM [...] | 2008-03-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL EPET ECON AU |
08VIENNA424 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 26, 2008 [...] Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer of the Social Democrats has received general approval from the SPOe party executive of his compromise position on tax reform at a special meeting on Tuesday. Gusenbauer said following the meeting that although he had not succeeded in bringing forward from 2010 to 20 [...] | 2008-03-26 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA439 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 16:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ETTC AU |
08VIENNA440 | IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL USE ITEM PROVISION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 16:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP NSG MNUC IR AU |
08VIENNA455 | AUSTRIAN INTEREST IN THE MANPADS THREAT REDUCTION [...] EconPoloff delivered reftel demarch March 26 to Alexander Marschik, MFA director for Disarmament, Arms Control, and non-Proliferation, regarding the MANPADS Threat Reduction Initiative. 2. Marschik thanked us for informing the MFA of the appointment of Ambassador Bloomfield as Special Env [...] | 2008-04-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM AU |
08VIENNA463 | AUSTRIA NOT INCLINED TO BE HELPFUL ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. In a disappointing meeting, MFA Director for the East and Southeast Europe indicated that Austria was not inclined to engage directly or through Brussels in active diplomacy in support of the U.S. in Belarus. Noting that Austria had no Embassy in Minsk and arguing that U.S. polic [...] | 2008-04-04 07:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BO AU |
08VIENNA493 | VIENNA COURT SEES NO TERRORISM PLOT AGAINST US EMBASSY [...] (U) Summary: A Vienna court on April 8 cleared a 42-year-old Bosnian defendant of charges of plotting a bomb attack against the U.S. Embassy in Vienna in October 2007. The court sentenced him to 15 months in jail for illegal possession of explosives, document forgery, and slander. Explaining [...] | 2008-04-09 13:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER AU |
08VIENNA498 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 10, 2008 [...] The Austrian Parliament ratified the EU Reform Treaty on Wednesday after a heated and at times emotional debate. Along with the coalition partners OeVP and SPOe, the opposition Greens also supported the Treaty. The two other opposition parties, the FPOe and the BZOe, vehemently opposed ratifica [...] | 2008-04-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA502 | AUSTRIA RATIFIES EU REFORM TREATY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 16:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EU AU |
08VIENNA506 | AUSTRIAN ALQAEDA HOSTAGES: GAO TURNS TO MUSLIM LEADERS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER AU |
08VIENNA507 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 11, 2008 [...] Fears that Austria would receive a flood of asylum seekers after the enlargement of Europe's Schengen Zone appear to have been unfounded. The Interior Ministry in Vienna says there have been fewer applications for asylum in the three months since the borders opened in January 2008 than in the s [...] | 2008-04-11 15:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA513 | AUSTRIA'S GROWTH SLOWING AS CONCERN ABOUT INTERNATIONAL [...] Based on continuing uncertainty in international financial markets, Austria's two leading economic institutes have recently slightly reduced GDP growth forecasts for 2008 to 2.1%. Exports will remain the driving force behind growth, as consumer spending remains sluggish. Projections for 2009 [...] | 2008-04-14 15:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
08VIENNA518 | U/S JEFFERY DISCUSSES ENERGY SECURITY WITH OMV AND [...] (C) During a March 27 meeting with U/S Jeffery, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer pointed to Turkey as the critical piece for the Nabucco pipeline's success. Ruttenstorfer hopes that Turkey will sign an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA),which EU Nabucco Coordinator is negotiating, by September [...] | 2008-04-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EPET SENV PGOV AU |
08VIENNA520 | EMBASSYENGAGES GREENPEACE ON GMOS [...] Emboffs and AgCounselor met on April 10 with reenpeace representatives to respond to a letter,which the organization had addressed to the Chare regarding the U.S.-EU WTO biotech dispute. Twomain points emerged from the meeting: Greenpeace amitted they must focus more on the environmentalaspect [...] | 2008-04-15 10:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON SENV KSCA PGOV AU |
08VIENNA522 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 14, 2008 [...] A preliminary report of the Austrian Court of Audit sees considerable shortcomings in the climate policy during the past few years. Austria emits about one third more CO2 than allowed and the tendency is growing. Only half-hearted measures were taken in the sectors of transportation, industry a [...] | 2008-04-15 14:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA527 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 16, 2008 [...] The parliamentary committee, which investigates charges of corruption against the Ministry of the Interior, has now issued a summons against Minister G|nther Platter to account for holding back files and documents that are needed to assess the charges. The minister had done so with reference to [...] | 2008-04-16 12:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA531 | AUSTRIA'S ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) Austrian exports to Iran declined by 7.2% in 2007, following a drop of 21.7% in 2006. However, Iranian exports to Austria - 80% of which was energy -- Austria jumped 57.1% in 2007. Overall trade remained a very small part (.24%) of Austria's total trade, although Iran is still an import [...] | 2008-04-17 09:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IR AU |
08VIENNA532 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 17, 2008 [...] There is no end to the price surge that shocks Austrian consumers: According to the latest statistics, the costs of living went up by 3.5 percent in March - more than in January or February. This price increase was especially noticeable in the costs for food products, gasoline, housing, and en [...] | 2008-04-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA548 | AUSTRIAN SECURITY POLICY: MINISTER [...] (C) Driven by a desire to win domestic political standing and to keep Austria engaged in the development of European security structures (other than NATO proper),Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos has both supported and compelled a re-orientation of his Ministry's mission, according to [...] | 2008-04-21 11:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PARM PGOV AU |
08VIENNA567 | AUSTRIA: POSITIVE TOWARD U.S. NPT PAPERS [...] Econ/Pol Counselor met April 24 with MFA Disarmament Director Alexander Marschik, who will lead the Austrian delegation for the first week of the Prepcom, to discuss reftel papers. (Marschik's deputy, Andreas Launder, will take over during the second week.) Marschik said he expected Austria [...] | 2008-04-24 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP ENRG NPT IAEA AU |
08VIENNA568 | AUSTRIA: NEXT STEPS ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) Austrian MFA Disarmament Director Alexander Marschik outlined the status and next steps in the Oslo Process to ban cluster munitions in a conversation with Econ/Pol Counselor April 24. Marschik averred that the outlook for the Oslo process was good. He noted that 39 African states had sig [...] | 2008-04-24 14:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS PREL AU |
08VIENNA576 | PROGRAM PROPOSALS FOR 2008 ESFP [...] Embassy Vienna would welcome participation in the Embassy Science Fellows Program (ESFP). Post envisions two potential programs: 1) a climate change-related research program; or 2) a program focused on environmental regulatory policy. 2. Overview of Climate Change Program --------------- [...] | 2008-04-25 14:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TSPL SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER AU |
08VIENNA585 | 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES - AUSTRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 13:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV AU |
08VIENNA587 | AUSTRIA: LATEST NPT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 09:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP ENRG IAEA NPT AU |
08VIENNA589 | U.S.-AUSTRIAN AGREEMENT ON PROTECTION OF [...] This message contains action requests in paras 9 and 10. 2. Summary. Incidents of unauthorized Austrian release of USG classified information over the past year point to the need for U.S.-Austrian agreement on measures to protect such information. Austria's Information Security Law, passed [...] | 2008-05-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA602 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: TURKEY CHANGE OF STATUS AT THE EBRD - [...] (U) Summary. The Austrian Ministry of Finance (MoF) is unlikely to support the proposed U.S. approach linking Turkey's application for change membership status to a six-month strategic review of the EBRD's mandate. End Summary. 2. (U) Post conveyed reftel demarche on May 5 to Leander Tre [...] | 2008-05-06 08:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECIN EFIN ETRD EUN AU |
08VIENNA61 | 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR AUSTRIA [...] Following is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for Austria, keyed to reftel instructions: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- AUSTRIA -------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ With the European Union's (EU) enlargements in May 2004 and January 2007, Aus [...] | 2008-01-15 15:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR AU |
08VIENNA612 | AUSTRIA: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND DISSIDENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL AU |
08VIENNA621 | AUSTRIA: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY [...] Austrian consumers have been hard hit by surging food prices, which rose by 8.4% in March 2008 over the previous year. For 2008, food prices are predicted to increase by 7%. Economists do not expect significant changes in the structure of Austria's agricultural sector, nor in the demand and [...] | 2008-05-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA634 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 07, 2008 [...] Austrian Airlines (AUA) and the Oesterreichische Industrie Holding AG (OeIAG) are desperately trying to get Sheikh Mohammed Bin Issa Al Jaber back on board, after the Saudi businessman said he would pull out of a deal to purchase a 20 percent stake in AUA. The results of an emergency meeting to [...] | 2008-05-07 14:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA635 | AUSTRIA FULLY SUPPORTS USG ON WIPO DG ELECTION [...] On May 7, emboffs delivered reftel talking points to Robert Ullrich, Head of the Patent Office's Legal Department, a part of the Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology. Ullrich will represent Austria at the WIPO Coordination Committee May 13-14. We also conveyed the USG positi [...] | 2008-05-07 15:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC WIPO KIPR ETRD PREL AU |
08VIENNA638 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 08, 2008 [...] Negotiations continue between Austrian Airlines (AUA) and Saudi businessman Sheikh Mohammed Bin Issa Al Jaber on a potential 150-million-Euro investment in the airline. There is still no agreement on whether Al Jaber, who has accused AUA of having been misled about its financial viability, will [...] | 2008-05-08 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA640 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL AU |
08VIENNA644 | U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 11:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR AU |
08VIENNA667 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 15:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PTER PINR EFIN PREL AU |
08VIENNA67 | AUSTRIA-AFRICA COOPERATION: FOREIGN MINISTER SKETCHES [...] (SBU) Speaking to African Ambassadors in Vienna January 14, FM Plassnik introduced her country as "Africa's European Partner," signaling that Austria was strongly committed to the EU's effort to develop "close and fair cooperation with Africa." Building on the new EU-Africa strategy introduced [...] | 2008-01-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV AU |
08VIENNA673 | THE AUSTRIAN NATIONAL BANK'S NEW GOVERNING BOARD [...] The GoA recently announced the members of the new Governing Board for the Austrian National Bank (ANB). Ewald Nowotny, CEO of BAWAG P.S.K. Bank, will be the new Governor. Vice-Governor Wolfgang Duchatczek and Director Peter Zoellner were reappointed to the board, and Andreas Ittner will be t [...] | 2008-05-16 13:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV EUN AU |
08VIENNA675 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES CONSIDERING OPTIONS AFTER SAUDI INVESTOR [...] Saudi investor Sheik Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber has backed out of plans to acquire a 20% share in Austrian Airlines (AUA) through an investment of Euro 150 million ($225 million). Al Jaber claimed that AUA management had misled him about the financial stability of the airline, pointing to the [...] | 2008-05-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA676 | AUSTRIA ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS: POLITICAL DRIVE FOR [...] (C) Summary. Despite serious concerns about interoperability in the armed services, Austria's Defense and Foreign Ministers are pushing for a robust, though not absolute, ban on cluster munitions. To achieve this, the MFA is prepared to discuss compromise definitions of CW and clarification [...] | 2008-05-16 16:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS PREL NATO UN AU |
08VIENNA682 | TIROLEAN ELECTION COULD RESHAPE NATIONAL [...] (U) Summary. The June 8 state elections in Tirol could lead to federal Interior Minister Platter, an excellent USG interlocutor on counter-terrorism, departing Vienna to become governor of his home state. However, the outcome of the election is unclear because of the impact of a popular forme [...] | 2008-05-19 08:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AU |
08VIENNA698 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 15:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY KNNP PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC AU IR |
08VIENNA70 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR CHAD MISSION SOLID [...] (C) A series of conversations with Austrian Foreign Ministry and Social Democratic party leaders have confirmed solid Austrian support for the EU's Chad Mission, despite a continuing campaign by opposition parties and Austria's most prominent newspaper against the deployment. MFA Security Pol [...] | 2008-01-16 14:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN MARR PREF CD AU |
08VIENNA708 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON THE GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 16:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU KV AU |
08VIENNA709 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE ON GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] Embassy shared reftels Aides Memoire with high level contacts in the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, Health, Economics and Labor, and European and International Affairs, following up with Friedrich Huemer, Head of the Department for International Trade at Agriculture. He said that [...] | 2008-05-23 09:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO AU |
08VIENNA71 | CHANCELLOR SEEKS TO RALLY TROOPS WITH ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) To respond to criticism from within the party that the Social Democrats (SPO) had let the People's Party dominate Grand Coalition policy during the government's first year, the SPO organized a New Year's rally for party leaders and activists on Jan. 15. After an unintentionally comic openi [...] | 2008-01-16 14:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AU |
08VIENNA713 | AUSTRIA: REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT SUSPENSION [...] (U) To date, the only known Austrian foreign investment in Cuba is a Havana brewery (Salm Brau),established in 2003. Any investment of 100,000 Euros or more must be included in the statistics of the Austrian National Bank; the bank's records to not indicate any new investments in Cuba. Since [...] | 2008-05-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU AU |
08VIENNA721 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 27, 2008 [...] According to a new opinion poll, there is little public support for the strike Austrian doctors have threatened to hold in June. Three quarters of Austrians believe a doctors' strike is not justified, and most say they believe the doctors' real concern in the matter is their own financial posit [...] | 2008-05-27 15:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA726 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 28, 2008 [...] The Austrian government, under pressure to act against rising fuel prices, has said it will respond by introducing a series of countermeasures. Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer (OeVP) told ORF radio this morning that both commuter and mileage allowances will be raised "cons [...] | 2008-05-28 13:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA73 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION TO AUSTRIA OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 15:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC AU |
08VIENNA734 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 29, 2008 [...] The coalition government's controversial healthcare reform is encountering resistance not only from doctors and the Austrian Medical Association, but also from Parliament. The three parliamentary presidents have dismissed the SPOe-OeVP cabinet's wish to have the reform law passed before Parliam [...] | 2008-05-29 14:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA735 | AUSTRIAN HOSTAGE SITUATION [...] (C) Johann Sattler, Political Affairs Advisor to Austrian MFA Secretary General Kyrle, reported May 29 that the Ministry saw no certain early prospect for the release of the two Austrian citizens held by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since February 2008. Sattler said ongoing negotiat [...] | 2008-05-29 14:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV AU |
08VIENNA741 | CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: AUSTRIA FAVORS U.S. CANDIDATE, BUT WILL [...] Post discussed reftel demarche on May 29 with Erhard Hoebaus, Head of the Department for Nutrition and Quality Assurance in the Ministry of Agriculture. Hoebaus, who is the Austrian POC for Codex Alimentarius, will represent the GoA at the 31st session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. D [...] | 2008-05-30 15:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO AU |
08VIENNA746 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 30, 2008 [...] The coalition partners SPOe and OeVP on Thursday agreed on changes to the state pension system following weeks of negotiations. A regulation will be extended until 2013 allowing persons to retire early, who have contributed to the pension scheme for long years, but have not yet reached the offi [...] | 2008-06-02 10:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
08VIENNA752 | SARKOZY IN VIENNA: IRAN, SYRIA, ENERGY, AND [...] (C) Summary. French President Sarkozy made little progress in efforts to persuade Austria to accept autonomous EU sanctions on Iran; was briefed on Austrian plans for their June 23 conference on reconstruction of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, discussed European energy strategy in gene [...] | 2008-06-02 14:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU AU |
08VIENNA76 | Bomb Incident at Embassy: Trial on February 21 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 11:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA763 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AUSTRIA PRE-NOTIFIED FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL AU |
08VIENNA764 | AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES NABUCCO, ILISU, [...] (C) Summary: Austrian President Fischer discussed the Nabucco pipeline, the Ilisu dam project, counterterrorism, and Turkey's EU candidacy during a May 19-22 visit to Turkey, according to Turkish Embassy and Austrian MFA readouts. Fischer pressed Turkish President Gul and PM Erdogan on the nee [...] | 2008-06-05 07:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU EU ENRG EPET AU |
08VIENNA797 | OMV UNDER PRESSURE TO CONCLUDE SOUTH PARS DEAL [...] (C) Thomas Mayr-Harting, the MFA's Political Director, told EUR DAS Bryza and Charge on June 2 that OMV is under intense pressure from Iran to conclude its South Pars deal "in the next 4-5 months." Mayr-Harting said that the GoA would continue to advise OMV to go slow, but, if other European [...] | 2008-06-10 10:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL EPET EINV AU IR |
08VIENNA798 | CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN INTERIOR MINISTERS [...] (U) Classified by: Dean Yap, Econ/Pol Counselor, Department of State. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This message contains an Embassy recommendation and action request in para 8. 3. (C) Summary. Interior Ministers of 14 central and southeastern European states will gather in Vienna Ju [...] | 2008-06-10 10:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA799 | OMV UNDER PRESSURE TO CONCLUDE SOUTH PARS DEAL [...] (C) Thomas Mayr-Harting, the MFA's Political Director, told EUR DAS Bryza and Charge on June 2 that OMV is under intense pressure from Iran to conclude its South Pars deal "in the next 4-5 months." Mayr-Harting said that the GoA would continue to advise OMV to go slow, but, if other European [...] | 2008-06-10 10:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL EPET EINV AU IR |
08VIENNA800 | OMV UNDER PRESSURE TO CONCLUDE SOUTH PARS DEAL [...] (C) Thomas Mayr-Harting, the MFA's Political Director, told EUR DAS Bryza and Charge on June 2 that OMV is under intense pressure from Iran to conclude its South Pars deal "in the next 4-5 months." Mayr-Harting said that the GoA would continue to advise OMV to go slow, but, if other European [...] | 2008-06-10 10:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL EPET EINV AU IR |
08VIENNA802 | OMV WILL LIKELY SIGN UP TO SOUTH STREAM [...] (C) Minister of Economics Martin Bartenstein has confirmed Russian press reports that OMV is considering joining the South Stream project. Russian media is speculating that an intergovernmental agreement could be concluded "before the end of the European Cup soccer championships" on June 29. [...] | 2008-06-10 12:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV PREL AU |
08VIENNA810 | NABUCCO: MOVING FORWARD ON VARIOUS FRONTS DESPITE [...] (C) In a June 2 meeting with EUR DAS Bryza and Charge, OMV Gas CEO Werner Auli and Nabucco Managing Director Reinhard Mitschek sounded optimistic about the project's progress despite a number of major issues that needed to be solved. Nabucco hopes an end-of-June meeting in Den Haag will prod [...] | 2008-06-11 08:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EPET EINV AU |
08VIENNA83 | SENATOR SPECTER CHALLENGES AUSTRIA ON IRAN [...] (C)Summary: In a sometimes confrontational meeting with Senator Arlen Specter, senior Austrian MFA officials emphasized that the UN must remain the focal point of diplomacy vis-a-vis Iran and that an international consensus involving both Russia and China was imperative. Maintaining ties with [...] | 2008-01-18 11:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM ETRD OREP AU IR |
08VIENNA843 | Austria: SPO Re-Structures in Response Internal Troubles [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-17 14:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA87 | FRENCH EMBASSY ON EU-3 SANCTIONS INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary. According to the French Embassy in Vienna, the EU-3 expect some progress on adding names of Iranian entities and individuals to existing sanctions lists. The French willl enlist German help in persuading the Austrians to accept the addition of Bank Melli to the existing sanction [...] | 2008-01-18 15:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EU AU |
08VIENNA871 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES LOOKING FOR STRATEGIC PARTNER [...] Austrian Airlines (AUA) is now officially considering a strategic partnership in an effort to shore up its worsening financial position. This turnaround stems from the decision by Saudi investor Sheik Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber to back out of his planned investment in AUA. Lufthansa and Aerof [...] | 2008-06-20 10:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PGOV AU |
08VIENNA879 | AUSTRIA SEEKS U.S. SPEAKER FOR CONFERENCE ON [...] Summary: The Austrian Red Cross (OeRK) and the Austrian MFA (BMeiA) are presenting a conference about human rights issues called "A legal black hole? The War on Terror, human rights, and international humanitarian law." This one-day conference will take place on Sept. 15th, 2008, and includes [...] | 2008-06-20 16:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL AU |
08VIENNA926 | Austria: Interior Minister-Designate Maria Fekter [...] The conservative OVP Executive Board decided June 27 to replace outgoing Interior Minister Guenter Platter with Federal Ombudswoman Maria Fekter. Platter will become governor of Tyrol province. Fekter will be sworn in July 8. Fekter Bio ---------- 2. Maria Fekter was born in February 1956 [...] | 2008-06-27 15:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM AU |
08VIENNA939 | AUSTRIA: IAEA INSPECTION IN SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 14:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL AU |
08VIENNA942 | AUSTRIA'S LEADING PARTY FAVORS EU REFERENDA, PUTS [...] (U) Summary: The SPO, beset by declining public support and internal squabbles, shocked the Austrian political world June 26 when Chancellor Gusenbauer and acting SPO Chairman Werner Faymann sent a letter to the mass tabloid Kronen Zeitung announcing that henceforth the party will favor nation [...] | 2008-07-02 07:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU AU |
08VIENNA953 | AUSTRIAN INTERIOR AND FOREIGN MINISTRIES ON VISA [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met June 26 and July 3 with Austrian Interior and Foreign Ministry officials to discuss the proposed U.S.-Austria VWP MoU and related agreements. The Interior Ministry welcomed the idea of a MoU as clarifying the extent of U.S.-Austria cooperation and facilitating their [...] | 2008-07-03 14:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER KCRM PREL EUN AU |
08VIENNA954 | INFLATION AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS DAMPEN [...] Austria's economy is starting to feel the impact of the international financial crisis and the high inflation resulting from continued raw materials and energy price hikes. Due to a still strong first quarter performance, Austria's two leading economic institutes recently upgraded GDP growth [...] | 2008-07-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
08VIENNA956 | HUGE INVESTMENT BY AUSTRIAN ENERGY FIRM "VERBUND" IN [...] On July 1st, Verbund, the largest Austrian electricity provider, working in a 50/50 consortium with the Turkish company Sabanci, won the bidding in tenders to privatize the state-owned Turkish electricity provider "Baskent EDAS," paying $1.2 billion for the company. One day later, Verbund los [...] | 2008-07-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET AU |
08VIENNA965 | Government Collapses; Austria to Vote in September [...] The Social Democrat Party (SPO) and the Conservative People's Party (OVP) decided July 7 to terminate their coalition and schedule early elections in September. 2. OVP chairman Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer announced at a press conference at 10:00 the morning of July 7 that the OVP could [...] | 2008-07-07 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA969 | FOOD PRICES - BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR AUSTRIAN CONSUMER [...] Food prices are a continued concern in Austria and will remain high on the agenda of Austria's new government, to be elected in September 2008. The May 2008 inflation rate of 3.7% was the highest monthly rate in fifteen years, food price inflation was 7.2%. Food prices (excluding VAT) in Aus [...] | 2008-07-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AU |
08VIENNA982 | VWP MOU AND RELATED AGREEMENTS: AUSTRIAN INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary. In a July 9 meeting with Emboffs, MoI Bi- and Multilateral Affairs Director Kurt Hager (protect) indicated he will seek Minister Fekter's approval for interagency consultations on negotiation of the HSPD-6 and Pruem-like agreements between the U.S. and Austria. However, the conc [...] | 2008-07-09 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER KCRM PREL EUN AU |
08VIENNA984 | SPO LETTER ON EU POLICY SHIFT SPOTLIGHTS TABLOID'S [...] (U) Summary: When Austrian Chancellor Gusenbauer and SPO party leader Werner Faymann chose to announce their party's new policy on EU referenda in a June 26 letter to the mass tabloid Kronen Zeitung, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the collapse of the government, the move highli [...] | 2008-07-10 07:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
08VIENNA991 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) - AUSTRIAN [...] (SBU) Austria supports most U.S. positions in reftel. 2. (SBU) Embassy rep delivered reftel demarche to the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs on June 26 and subsequently mailed a copy of the demarche to the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology. [...] | 2008-07-10 15:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO AU |
09ABUJA1613 | NIGERIA: ECOWAS PRESIDENT "EXTREMELY CONCERNED" BY [...] (U) POLCOUNS, accompanied by POLOFFS, delivered demarche on Guinean elections (REFTEL) to Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) President Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas during an introductory call on August 28. POLCOUNS urged ECOWAS support for free, fair, and transparent elections with [...] | 2009-09-01 08:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV NI |
09ABUJA1800 | NIGERIA: ECOWAS CONDEMNS GUINEA VIOLENCE, WILL [...] (C) Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) President Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas told Ambassador, while in transit at Frankfurt Airport, that ECOWAS had issued a declaration September 29 condemning the junta's violent repression of a peaceful rally the day before at Conakry stadium. [...] | 2009-09-29 17:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV NI |
09ACCRA712 | GADDAFI CANCELS VISIT TO GHANA [...] SUMMARY: (U) An international conference of West African traditional rulers scheduled to be held in Ghana was abruptly canceled three days before Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was scheduled to be crowned "king of kings" at the event. Reasons for the cancellation are not clear, but press specul [...] | 2009-07-28 09:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AU PGOV XA XY XF LY GH |
09ADDISABABA108 | USAU: AU PARTNERS DISCUSS SUPPORT FOR AMISOM, [...] (U) As reported in reftel, the AU invited the US, EU, UK, and others to a meeting on January 17 in Addis Ababa to discuss their respective abilities to commit financial and logistical support to AMISOM and to a joint security force composed of Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Alliance [...] | 2009-01-16 14:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO AU |
09ADDISABABA110 | USAU: UN ASSESSMENT TEAM BRIEFS AU PARTNERS ON [...] (U) This cable contains an action request in paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: The United Nations Technical Assessment Team (TAM) met with the USAU, EUAU, and the Italian Ambassadors in Addis Ababa the morning of January 16. The team,s focus is on providing a short-term logistics package to su [...] | 2009-01-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO AU |
09ADDISABABA1242 | USAU: COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR AU -- UPDATE [...] The Command, Control, and Communications Information System Project (C3IS) is progressing steadily. Since the last update (ref B),the project has been presented to the African Union Ministers of Defense and Chiefs of Defense on May 11-15 in Addis Ababa. The project was approved by the Minis [...] | 2009-05-27 07:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MCAP SO AU |
09ADDISABABA1334 | AU PANEL OF THE WISE REPORTS ON ELECTION-RELATED [...] The African Union's Panel of the Wise has completed a report examining election-related disputes and violent conflict that often characterize electoral processes in Africa. One of the report's major recommendations is to strengthen Africa's capacities at the national, regional and continental [...] | 2009-06-09 07:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM EAID AU |
09ADDISABABA140 | TWO YEARS ON: STRUCTURING USAU TO MEET THE [...] SUMMARY: The United States Mission to the African Union (USAU) has the opportunity to play a much more influential role in the deliberations and actions of the African Union (AU) in 2009 and beyond than it has had since its establishment as an observer mission in 2006. Both the AU Commission [...] | 2009-01-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER AU EAID PGOV PREL |
09ADDISABABA142 | USAU: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON ETHIOPIA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 10:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA143 | USAU: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON CHAIRMAN PING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 17 the Ambassador paid a farewell call on African Union Chairman, Jean Ping. In a wide-ranging conversation the Chairman confided he anticipates the January AU Summit will be difficult. While cautiously optimistic about the progress being made on peacekeeping in So [...] | 2009-01-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA154 | USAU: SUPPORT FOR AMISOM FORTHCOMING [...] (U) Summary: At a meeting on January 17 at the African Union (AU),the U.S., EU, and other international partners voiced their support for AMISOM as well as for the joint Transitional Federal Government/Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (TFG/ARS) forces. The AU and its partners also e [...] | 2009-01-20 15:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN SO AU |
09ADDISABABA1607 | USAU: ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON'S CALL ON AU [...] (U) Summary: After meeting African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping on the margins of the AU Summit in Sirte several days earlier (SEPTEL),A/S Carson called on Deputy Chairperson Erastus Mwencha in Addis Ababa on July 6. Their discussion covered a range of issues, including structural [...] | 2009-07-08 07:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA1662 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT WRAP-UP: QADHAFI PULLS IT [...] (C) Summary: The African Union (AU) Summit in Sirte, Libya, resulted in a strong call by member states for the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea for its support of al-Shabaab forces who are threatening the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of President Sheikh S [...] | 2009-07-15 06:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR AU |
09ADDISABABA1745 | MADAGASCAR POLITICAL RIVALS AGREE TO MEET IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The second International Contact Group meeting on Madagascar hosted by the African Union (AU) July 22 condemned the violence occurring in Madagascar, called on all parties to refrain from extremism, expressed concern about arbitrary arrests, welcomed the appointment of former M [...] | 2009-07-23 06:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MA AU |
09ADDISABABA1746 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE WITH [...] (C) The African Union will continue to try to persuade Nigerien President Tandja to drop the August 4 referendum, but a senior official with the continental organization concedes that Tandja's stubborn refusal to step down at the end of his mandate in December may lead to a grave situation in [...] | 2009-07-23 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NG AU |
09ADDISABABA1747 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL WITH AFRICAN UNION [...] (C) During Ambassador Yamamoto's farewell call with African Union Chairperson Jean Ping on July 22, they discussed the desirability of commencing a U.S./AU political dialogue patterned after the consultations the AU has with the European Union. Starting with his attendance at the UNGA this fa [...] | 2009-07-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AU |
09ADDISABABA1864 | AFRICAN UNION REQUESTS BODYGUARD TRAINING FOR [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) The African Union Commission (AUC) has formally requested USG assistance in providing bodyguard training for a select number of Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) security forces and AMISOM troops. The AUC furth [...] | 2009-08-04 08:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SO AU |
09ADDISABABA1866 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT ON RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS IN [...] (U) The African Union (AU) will hold a Special Session of the Assembly of the Union (heads of state) in Tripoli, Libya, on August 31. According to AU Commission officials, the Special Session will be devoted to the consideration and resolution of conflicts in Africa, and specifically those in [...] | 2009-08-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC AU |
09ADDISABABA1911 | AFRICAN UNION WANTS TO COMBAT DRUG TRAFFIC [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request. See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) The African Union Commission wants to be a partner with the United States and others who are fighting the drug traffic that originates in South America, transits West Africa, and ends up on the streets of Europe. The AU [...] | 2009-08-06 13:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR XR AU |
09ADDISABABA2017 | CHARGE CALLS ON AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION CHAIR PING [...] (SBU) In his first visit to the African Union as CDA for the bilateral mission and USAU, Ambassador Meece met with AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping and reaffirmed USG interest in deepening ties with the continental organization. U.S. interest in Africa is growing, the CDA told Ping, citing [...] | 2009-08-19 13:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA2061 | USAFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: During their August 20 meeting at African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, USAFRICOM Commander General William E. (Kip) Ward and African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping discussed U.S./Africa cooperation in combating narco-trafficking through Africa, as well as ongoing USG [...] | 2009-08-25 05:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MASS SNAR KCRM PINR AU |
09ADDISABABA2071 | USAU: NEW AMISOM FORCE COMMANDER REQUESTS USG [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request. See para 12. 2. (C) Summary: The new AMISOM Force Commander, Major General Nathan Mugisha, took advantage of the presence of AFRICOM senior leadership in Addis Ababa on August 20 to request patrol craft, radar, US training in maritime interdictio [...] | 2009-08-26 06:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2117 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE - AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION [...] (U) The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on August 27. We will send hard copies via diplomatic pouch. We request that the letter and its contents be brought to the President' [...] | 2009-09-01 11:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2118 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE - AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION [...] (U) The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on August 27. We will send hard copies via diplomatic pouch. We request that the letter and its contents be brought to the President' [...] | 2009-09-01 11:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2120 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE - AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION [...] (U) The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on August 27. We will send hard copies via diplomatic pouch. We request that the letter and its contents be brought to the President' [...] | 2009-09-01 12:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2121 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE - AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION [...] (U) The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on August 27. We will send hard copies via diplomatic pouch. We request that the letter and its contents be brought to the President' [...] | 2009-09-01 13:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2122 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE - AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION [...] (U) The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on August 27. We will send hard copies via diplomatic pouch. We request that the letter and its contents be brought to the President' [...] | 2009-09-01 13:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2163 | USAU: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND CAPACITY [...] (C/NF) Summary. A long-awaited European Commission (EC) financial audit of the African Union Commission's (AUC) bookkeeping department turned up alarming findings and threatens existing EU-AU partnership efforts. While the auditors found no evidence of fraud, financial irregularities of at l [...] | 2009-09-04 08:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2261 | STRENGTHENING THE AU'S COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE [...] Summary: USAU held its second C3IS workshop on September 9-11 to continue the U.S. commitment to the African Union (AU) to assist in establishing a communications architecture for the African Standby Force (ASF). The meeting brought together civilian and military communication experts from t [...] | 2009-09-18 04:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MCAP AU SO |
09ADDISABABA2294 | AU DONOR SUPPORT GROUP PLANS NOVEMBER 2009 MEETING [...] (U) This Message contains an action request in para 9. 2. (U) Summary: Members of the AUC, UNECA and donor countries met on September 17 to discuss an up-coming Donor Support Group meeting scheduled for the week of November 30. The meeting will give high-level policymakers from donor countr [...] | 2009-09-23 06:49:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID AU |
09ADDISABABA2323 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION UNDETERRED BY ATTACK ON AMISOM [...] (U) The African Union Commission's Acting Head of the Peace and Security Department, El-Ghassim Wane, told international partners on September 25 that the African Union is keen to get the remaining three AMISOM battalions into Somalia by the end of the year, although he acknowledged that could [...] | 2009-09-29 05:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS SO AU |
09ADDISABABA2423 | USAU: AFRICAN LABOR AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS LEADERS [...] (U) On October 1, U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Michael Battle, A/DCM, and PolOff attended the Seventh Ordinary Session of the African Union Labor and Social Affairs Commission held at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa. The conference theme was "Impact of the Global Crisis [...] | 2009-10-09 07:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB ECON AU |
09ADDISABABA2427 | USAU: DARFUR PANEL HANDS OVER REPORT TO AU CHAIR [...] (U) Summary: The African Union (AU) High-Level Panel on Darfur handed over its report to AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping on October 8. Ping promptly announced that he would deliver the report to the AU Peace and Security Council (head of state level) at a late October meeting in Abuja to [...] | 2009-10-09 09:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM UNSC SU AU |
09ADDISABABA2494 | USAU AMBASSADOR AND AU'S PEACE AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In their first meeting, USAU Ambassador Battle and AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra reviewed political crises on the African continent and each pledged to reinforce cooperation in the peace and security arena, including in the emerging counternarcotics effort. [...] | 2009-10-20 08:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA2495 | USAU: AU DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON AND USAU AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In their first official meeting, USAU Ambassador Battle and AU Commission Deputy Chairperson Erastus Mwencha affirmed the need to broaden and deepen the U.S./AU partnership that began when the AU emerged seven years ago. Specifically, the AU leadership is seeking a strategic di [...] | 2009-10-20 09:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA2539 | LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS ON NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FROM [...] The United Mission to the African Union (USAU) has received the following letter addressed from the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping to President Obama on October 26. Original follows by pouch. BEGIN TEXT: Mr. President, I was very pleased to learn that you had been awarded the Nobel [...] | 2009-10-27 07:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2545 | AU ECONOMIC COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES AFRICAN [...] (U) On October 20, USAU Ambassador Michael Battle met with Dr. Maxwell Mkwezalamba, the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Economic Affairs. Mkwezalamba began by explaining that the Economic Affairs Commission is organized into three divisions: (1) Economic and Policy Research; (2) Economic [...] | 2009-10-27 13:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2641 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION CHAIRPERSON DISCUSSES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-06 06:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2642 | USAU: SYNOPSIS OF AMISOM CONSULTATIVE MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November Consultative Meeting of AMISOM stakeholders reveals a precarious security situation and danger in continuing status quo support to both AMISOM and the TFG. While all stakeholders agree that AMISOM must not fail, few donors are willing to provide sufficiently flexible [...] | 2009-11-06 07:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | IO PGOV PREL SO AU |
09ADDISABABA2644 | USAU: UNECA EXECUTIVE SECRETARY DISCUSSES DONOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAU Ambassador Battle and Under Secretary General Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA),affirmed the partnership between the USG and the UN system in support of African development priorities. Janneh shared information about two [...] | 2009-11-06 12:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IO PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA266 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH AU [...] (C) Summary: At a January 31 meeting on the margins of the African Union Summit, African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping and Acting A/S for African Affairs Phillip Carter exchanged views about the major political crises in Africa. They agreed that the international community must remai [...] | 2009-02-02 17:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU XA SU CD |
09ADDISABABA267 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Acting USAID Assistant Administrator Earl Gast, and Sudan Programs Group Director Timothy Shortley, met February 1 with Sudanese Presidential Advisers Nafie Ali Nafie and Mustafa Ismael and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor [...] | 2009-02-02 17:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU XA SU CD |
09ADDISABABA269 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Begin Summary: The Ambassador, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, Acting USAID Assistant Administrator Earl Gast, and Sudan Programs Group Timothy Shortley met with Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor January 31 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Deng described a L [...] | 2009-02-02 17:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU |
09ADDISABABA270 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy and UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Eastern Congo Alan Doss January 31 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Carter brought Le [...] | 2009-02-02 18:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU XA SU SO CG RW |
09ADDISABABA274 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with UN/AU Joint Darfur Mediator Djibril Bassole on the margins of the AU Summit. Carter thanked Bassole for his efforts thus far. Bassole predicted that if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese Pr [...] | 2009-02-03 09:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU AU CD |
09ADDISABABA276 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH AU [...] (C) Summary: On January 30, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with African Union Deputy Commissioner Erastus Mwencha. Mwencha expressed enthusiasm for the incoming Obama Administration and sketched ambitious plans for the AU Commission, while Carter encouraged his interlocutor [...] | 2009-02-03 11:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU SU CD |
09ADDISABABA277 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH CHINESE [...] (C) Summary: On January 30, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister for Africa Zhai Jun on the margins of the AU Summit. Zhai was chiefly interested in trying to talk the United States out of its stated opposition to a UN Security Council Articl [...] | 2009-02-03 11:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU CH |
09ADDISABABA2773 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION TO NAME NEW SPECIAL [...] (U) This message is from USAU Ambassador Battle. 2. (C) The African Union (AU) will soon announce the appointment of Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra as the Special Representative of the Commission Chairperson (SRCC) for Somalia, replacing Ambassador Nicolas Bwakira. Diarra, a long-time [...] | 2009-11-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SO AU |
09ADDISABABA2808 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - THEME AND SCHEDULE OF [...] The African Union (AU) has announced that the theme of the 2010 AU Summit will be "Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development." 2. The schedule of meetings is as follows: a) Permanent Representative Committee of Ambassadors (PRC): 25- [...] | 2009-11-25 14:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2872 | NOMINATION FOR THE 2010 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] The United States Mission to the African Union (USAU) wishes to nominate Sergeant Angela Nyakeyo for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Sergeant Nyakeyo is serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),a critical mission that is trying to restore peace a [...] | 2009-12-07 14:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KWMN PHUM AU |
09ADDISABABA2895 | USAU MEETING WITH SOUTH SUDAN'S REPRESENTATIVE IN [...] (SBU) On December 8 USAU Ambassador Battle and the U.S. Charge to Ethiopia Mushingi attended a lunch hosted by the French Ambassador to the African Union and Ethiopia, Ambassador Jean-Christophe Belliard, and attended by Ambassadors from the AU Partner Nations and the Sudan Head of Mission fo [...] | 2009-12-09 09:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU SO ER AU |
09ADDISABABA2902 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION, UNECA HOLD PARTNERS DIALOGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: From December 1-2, the AU and UNECA hosted a Partners Dialogue in Addis Ababa, bringing together 15 donor nations and other entities to discuss how to create a more strategic and equitable partnership between the AU/ECA and donors. Key themes that emerged included: the need for a [...] | 2009-12-10 10:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU |
09ADDISABABA2911 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION OPPOSES DADIS' RETURN TO GUINEA [...] (C) On December 10, USAU Ambassador Battle discussed with the African Union Commission Chairperson's Chief of Staff, Ambassador John Shinkayie, the future status of Guinean coup leader Dadis Camara as well as the planned International Contact Group meeting on Guinea. Ambassador Shinkayie state [...] | 2009-12-10 13:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA2912 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION PUSHING FOR SOLUTION IN [...] (SBU) In a December 10 meeting at AU headquarters, Ambassador John Shinkayie, the Chief of Staff of the AU Commission Chairperson, told USAU Ambassador Battle that the African Union is establishing an office in Antananarivo to help coordinate the transition period per the Maputo Agreement. Th [...] | 2009-12-10 14:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA294 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH ECOWAS [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Chair Mohamed Chambas February 2 on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter thanked ECOWAS for its principled stand against the coup in Guinea and the two discussed el [...] | 2009-02-04 15:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GN AU |
09ADDISABABA2944 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION CONTEMPLATING SUMMIT OF ALL [...] The African Union is contemplating a summit in early 2010 that would assemble all of Sudan's political leadership ahead of the 2010 elections. AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra raised this possibility during a meeting of the African Union Partners Group on Peace and Secur [...] | 2009-12-16 08:54:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SU AU |
09ADDISABABA2945 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION LEADERSHIP AT STAKE DURING [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request in para 8. 2. (C) Summary: With the African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa less than six weeks away, speculation about which African head of state will be elected Chairperson of the AU Assembly for 2010 is in full gear. For the AU Commission le [...] | 2009-12-16 10:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR AU |
09ADDISABABA2946 | USAU: AMISOM MEETING UNDERSCORES FRUSTRATION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a December 14 meeting at the AU, AMISOM stakeholders and partners expressed their frustration with the ongoing danger in Somalia and discussed how to improve the situation. Many underscored the need to enhance the TFG and its security forces, as well as the need for partners [...] | 2009-12-16 14:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2952 | USAU: AU COMMISSIONER LAMAMRA DISCUSSES GUINEA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for African Affairs Karl Wycoff met with the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ramtane Lamamra, on November 20 in Addis Ababa to address a range of issues. On the topic of Guinea, Lamamra said that while the AU had discussed [...] | 2009-12-17 08:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2959 | USAU: AMISOM EXPERTS MEET FOLLOWING AUC MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a December 15 meeting of experts focusing on Somalia, the Force Commander advocated for an increase in AMISOM's troop strength in order to help the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) stabilize Mogadishu, as well as an internatQally supported program to encourage defection [...] | 2009-12-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AU MASS PREL SO |
09ADDISABABA2963 | USAU: AFRICA ECONOMIC CONFERENCE REITERATES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted the Africa Economic Conference (AEC) in November at UNECA headquarters in Addis Ababa. Conference participants, including African leadership, expressed unanimous support for pan-African i [...] | 2009-12-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA2981 | USAU: TUNISIAN AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS KEY ISSUES FOR [...] (C) In a December 22 meeting with USAU Ambassador Michael Battle, incoming African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) Chair, Tunisian Ambassador Hatem Atallah, discussed the key issues that he anticipated would dominate his chairmanship and the upcoming Heads of State Summit in January. B [...] | 2009-12-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | AU PGOV PREL |
09ADDISABABA317 | AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met Vittorio Scelzo, head of the International Department of the Community of Sant'Egidio (CSE),and Kpakile Felemou, head of the CSE in Guinea, on the margins of the African Union (AU) Summit on 1 February. Discussions focused on S [...] | 2009-02-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU GN AU |
09ADDISABABA318 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Mauritania's National Assembly President Messaoud Ould Boulkheir on February 1 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Boulkheir thanked the USG for its unwavering support of the legitimately elected government of Presi [...] | 2009-02-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU MR |
09ADDISABABA319 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Sudan Programs Group Director Tim Shortley, met February 2 with Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Mahamat Faki on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter asked Foreign Minister Faki and the Government of Chad (GoC) to [...] | 2009-02-05 15:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU XA SU CD |
09ADDISABABA320 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEETS [...] (U) Action for Embassy Antananarivo -- see paragraph 5. 2. (C) On February 2 AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met Malagasy Foreign Minister Marcel Ranjeva on the margins of the African Union (AU) summit. The discussion focused exclusively on the crisis arising from the conf [...] | 2009-02-05 15:49:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MA AU |
09ADDISABABA321 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH EU [...] (C) Begin Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Ambassador Yamamoto and Sudan Programs Groups Director Timothy Shortley met with EU Special Envoy Torben Brylle January 31, on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Carter discussed the potential impact of the [...] | 2009-02-05 15:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU CD |
09ADDISABABA322 | AU SUMMIT -- ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEETS UK [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 1 Acting Assistant Secretary Carter met U.K. Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, Lord Mark Malloch Brown, on the margins of the African Union Summit. They discussed Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe and the situation in the Congo. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) U.K [...] | 2009-02-05 16:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SO SU ZI CG XA |
09ADDISABABA326 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe on February 1 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. They discussed a range of topics including the Secretary's call to Nigerian President Yar'Adua, Nigerian troop contribution [...] | 2009-02-06 05:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SO NI AU |
09ADDISABABA327 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Chair Mohamed Chambas February 2 on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter thanked ECOWAS for its principled stand against the coup in Guinea and the two discussed e [...] | 2009-02-06 05:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GV EK ECOWAS AU |
09ADDISABABA332 | USAU: PEACE AND SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para. 6. 2. (U) Summary: At its February 5 meeting, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council decided to impose targeted sanctions on the Mauritanian junta that overthrew democratically elected President Abdallahi six months ago. The [...] | 2009-02-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR AU |
09ADDISABABA354 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary met with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs AF A/S-Equivalent Stephane Gompertz, Presidential Advisor for African Affairs Remi Marechaux, and Ambassador Jean-Christophe Belliard February 2 on the margins of the African Union Summit. On Sudan, the Fr [...] | 2009-02-09 16:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR XA AU |
09ADDISABABA355 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (U) Action request for Embassy Cairo -- see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met February 2 with Egyptian Assistant Minister for Africa Mona Omar Atteya on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter asked Atteya to pressure Sudan to pause [...] | 2009-02-09 16:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU EG AU CD XA |
09ADDISABABA356 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Acting USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa Earl Gast, met with European Commission Director General for Development Stefano Manservisi on February 1 on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter sought EU support [...] | 2009-02-09 16:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU XA AU |
09ADDISABABA357 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 2, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met South African Foreign Minister Dlamini Dlamini-zuma on the margins of the African Union Summit. Their discussion focused primarily on the situation in Zimbabwe and touched on Sudan and Congo. Dlamini-zuma made tw [...] | 2009-02-09 17:06:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XA AU |
09ADDISABABA373 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: On February 2, on the margins of the African Union Summit, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met Rwanda's Foreign Minister, Rosemary Museminali, to discuss the Rwandan role in stabilizing Eastern Congo. They recognized the need for a delicate balance in managing the [...] | 2009-02-10 17:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW CG AU |
09ADDISABABA465 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION TO REVIEW AMISOM MANDATE IN [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of a double suicide bombing against an AMISOM base in Mogadishu, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council has ordered an "urgent reassessment" of AMISOM's mandate. The Council also appealed to the UN to accelerate implementation of a support package for AMISO [...] | 2009-02-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO AU BY SO UG |
09ADDISABABA49 | USAU: AU'S URGENT REQUEST TO EQUIP AMISOM, SOMALI [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request in paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary: The African Union is asking the international community, principally the US, EU, and UK, to commit immediate financia and logistical support not only to AMISOM, but also to a 10,000 strong joint security force compose [...] | 2009-01-12 12:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USUN AU |
09ADDISABABA598 | USAU: AU SOMALIA ENVOY BWAKIRA ON AMISOM SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: The AU's Special Representative for Somalia, Ambassador Nicolas Bwakira, told USAU on March 12 that Troop Contributing Countries and the African Union Commission are readying to make a strong pitch for stronger equipment and logistical support for AMISOM troops. They deem that in [...] | 2009-03-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU SO |
09ADDISABABA732 | USAU: AFRICA COMMAND DEPUTY MEETS ETHIOPIAN PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mary Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities (DCMA) at Africa Command, met on March 25 with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Their discussions covered a range of security issues including Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, as well as the command's fledgling m [...] | 2009-03-30 08:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
09ADDISABABA734 | USAU: AFRICA COMMAND DEPUTY MEETS WITH AU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 09:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XA AU |
09ADDISABABA735 | USAU: AFRICA COMMAND DEPUTY MEETS WITH AU PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mary Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities at AFRICOM, met on March 25 with African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra at AU headquarters. Their discussion centered on the political and security situation in Somalia as well [...] | 2009-03-30 09:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU XA |
09ADDISABABA753 | USAU: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON LOOKING FOR CHAMPION [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) discussed ref A points with African Union PermReps from Burkina-Faso and Uganda. Both reacted very favorably to the suggestion that one or both of their countries propose to the UNSC a UN Presidential Statement (PRST) on coups in Africa. Burkin [...] | 2009-04-02 05:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU LY MR UG |
09ADDISABABA76 | USAU: US INTERESTS AT STAKE AT ADDIS AU SUMMIT, [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union Summit in Addis Ababa from January 26 through February 3 presents an opportunity to advance US interests Q or see them take significant steps backward. The crises in Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania, Guinea, and Eastern Congo will all likely be items of d [...] | 2009-01-14 12:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
09ADDISABABA83 | USAU: AU'S URGENT REQUEST TO EQUIP AMISOM, SOMALI [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request in paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary: The African Union is asking the international community, principally the US, EU, and UK, to commit immediate financial and logistical support not only to AMISOM, but also to a 10,000 strong joint security force compo [...] | 2009-01-14 14:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USUN AU |
09ANTANANARIVO304 | MADAGASCAR INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP: PREPARING [...] (C) Later this week in Addis, the AU will convene and chair the first meeting of the Madagascar International Contact Group (MICG). While the meeting may primarily provide a procedural and ceremonial launch of the new MICG, it is also an opportunity to lay down some important markers about USG [...] | 2009-04-27 10:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MA UN AU |
09ANTANANARIVO336 | MADAGASCAR: PROGRESS TOWARD AN AGREEMENT, AS [...] (C) Summary: President Wade of Senegal has entered the fray in Madagascar, inviting the "four protagonists" -- TGV, Ravalomanana, Ratsikaka, and Zafy -- to Dakar this week to reach and sign a political agreement on the way forward to elections. The reaction here, among both the Malagasy th [...] | 2009-05-11 07:43:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA UN AU |
09ANTANANARIVO359 | MADAGASCAR: EU DIALOGUE AND TGV'S COMING TRAVELS [...] (C) The May 19 Madagascar-EU "Political Dialogue" appears to have helped sober up the HAT and its President about the possible realities that lie ahead for them. The EU, led competently by Czech Ambassador Petr Kopriva, promised that the "120 day clock" for article 96 consultations is about [...] | 2009-05-20 12:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MA UN EU AU |
09ASHGABAT1445 | TURKMENISTAN: AUSTRIAN ENERGY GIANT OMV HOPES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. OMV, Austria's largest oil-producing, refining and gas company, recently increased its efforts to promote the Nabucco pipeline and strike an energy deal with the Turkmen government. Like many large energy companies, OMV's current plans focus on the lucrative, proven, onshore gas [...] | 2009-11-10 13:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ECON PGOV EINV BTIO AU TX |
09ASMARA213 | ISAIAS SPURNS QADHAFI'S AU INVITATION [...] (C) Qadhafi sent a special envoy to Asmara to issue a personal invitation to Isaias to attend the African Union summit in Sirte, the Libyan charge d'affaires told the ambassador July 1. "The special envoy emphasized that the Sirte summit would provide Eritrea an opportunity to make its case a [...] | 2009-07-02 11:10:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER LY AU |
09ASTANA1444 | KAZAKHSTAN: SAUDABAYEV ON NUCLEAR SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 27 meeting, State Secretary Kanat Saudabayev told the Ambassador: -- President Nazarbayev still wants an Oval Office meeting when he travels to Washington next spring for the Nuclear Security Summit and is willing to be flexible about the timing; -- Kazakhs [...] | 2009-08-27 10:59:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KNNP KDEM OSCE AU KZ |
09BAKU625 | SOCAR RESTRUCTURING: BACK IN THE USSR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In July, President Ilham Aliyev issued and signed several decrees affecting the oil and gas industry, primarily expanding the role and power of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). A July 1 decree placed the state gas company, Azerigaz, under SOCAR's control, with the s [...] | 2009-08-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PREL AU AJ |
09BEIJING1536 | FRANCE-CHINA TENSION OVER DALAI LAMA, AFRICA ASSISTANCE, [...] (SBU) Economic Counselor Josselin Kalifa and Financial Counselor Pierre Mongrue from the French Embassy in Beijing told Econoffs June 5 that Sino-French relations are on the mend following several months during which China gave France the cold shoulder as punishment for President Sarkozy's Dece [...] | 2009-06-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU CH |
09BEIJING913 | NORTH AFRICAN DIPLOMATS ANGRY ABOUT "CHINA INC." [...] (C) SUMMARY: North African diplomats based in Beijing told EconOff that China's relations with the region are under stress caused by explosive growth in China's exports to the region. China's trade with the five countries in the region grew by 590 percent from 2001 to 2007. North African cou [...] | 2009-04-07 06:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV EAID PREL CH AU |
09BEIJING955 | CHINA'S COMFORT LEVEL WITH OTHER AFRICA DONORS [...] (SBU) China says it will keep expanding its aid to Africa, and though it is hard to measure, its aid level seems to be significant and growing. Beijing continues to proclaim that its aid has no political conditions attached, an implicit rebuke to Western donors. However, China's premier has [...] | 2009-04-10 00:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV PREL EFIN CH UK AU SENV |
09BELGRADE645 | SERBIA: REGIONAL SUMMIT TRUMPETS CQERATION BUT YIELDS [...] (C) Serbia hosted over a dozen Central European presidents at a June 19-21 summit focusing on regional cooperation in the realms of energy, economics and European integration. Though hailed as a success for Serbia's regional policy, the summit yielded little beyond symbolism and rhetoric. T [...] | 2009-07-07 09:21:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AL AU BK BU EZ HR IT KV LO MD MK MW PL |
09BERLIN1070 | US 2009 MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS DELIVERED TO GERMANY [...] (C) On September 1, EconOff delivered ref A non-paper to MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Nancy Reck, regarding US "small group" proposals for the 2009 MTCR Plenary in Rio de Janeiro. Reck thanked the USG for the non-paper and said she would deliver it to the appropriate authorities [...] | 2009-09-03 13:05:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR JA UK GM |
09BUJUMBURA508 | AFTERMATH OF SOMALIA DEATHS: BURUNDI WILL STAY IN [...] (C) Summary. With all attention in Bujumbura centered on the funerals of the twelve soldiers killed in Somalia September 17, the event has generated discussion about whether Burundi should remain in AMISOM. At this time, the answer here is yes. Most calls are for an expansion of AMISOM's ma [...] | 2009-09-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MOPS AU BY SO |
09CAIRO1429 | U.S. BROKERS IRENA HEADQUARTERS AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS --The United States signed the Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) during a ceremony at the second Preparatory Commission in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, June 29. By the end of the conference, 136 States had joined the Preparatory Commission of [...] | 2009-07-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV PGOV PREL EG GM AU TC |
09CAIRO1431 | U.S. BROKERS IRENA HEADQUARTERS AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS --The United States signed the Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) during a ceremony at the second Preparatory Commission in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, June 29. By the end of the conference, 136 States had joined the Preparatory Commission of [...] | 2009-07-26 13:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV PGOV PREL EG GM AU TC |
09CANBERRA564 | AUSTRALIA HAS RECEIVED ITS PORTION OF THE 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 07:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AU |
09DJIBOUTI1147 | DJIBOUTI: FOREIGN MINISTER ON POSSIBLE AMISOM DEPLOYMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO AU DJ SO |
09DJIBOUTI1219 | DJIBOUTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND ERITREA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Meeting with visiting U.S. Africa Command's Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Affairs (AFRICOM DCMA),Foreign Minister Youssouf hailed U.S. engagement in Djibouti and cited combating terrorism and piracy as "common interests" of the United States and Djibouti. He noted D [...] | 2009-10-20 07:23:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MASS PREL DJ SO UG AU UNSC |
09DJIBOUTI37 | DJIBOUTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ADVOCATES QUICK PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sharing views he said he had conveyed to Djiboutian President Guelleh in a recent "brainstorming session," Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) must be pushed to name new parliamentarians in time to elect a new President o [...] | 2009-01-15 11:16:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS SO DJ AU |
09DJIBOUTI743 | DJIBOUTI FONMIN URGES REVISED AMISOM MANDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-20 09:15:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPKO MASS DJ KE SO AU |
09DJIBOUTI751 | DJIBOUTI FORMIN TO HEAD AU DELEGATION [...] (SBU) On June 20, Djiboutian ForMin Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told Ambassador that he would lead Djibouti's delegation to the African Union (AU) Summit in Sirte, Libya, and that President Ismail Omar Guelleh would not/not be attending the AU Summit. 2. (SBU) Post recommends that AF [...] | 2009-06-21 13:55:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AORC AU DJ |
09DJIBOUTI915 | DJIBOUTI: FONMIN ON SOMALIA DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 11:06:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS MOPS MASS DJ ER XW SO AU |
09DJIBOUTI919 | SOMALIA: TFG FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON MILITARY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's ongoing effort to train nearly 500 troops for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is "critical" for achieving the TFG's aim of training up to 3,000 recruits to form a new Somali army, according to Somali TFG Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, who hope [...] | 2009-07-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS KPKO AU SO DJ ER ET XA |
09DOHA358 | DOHA DARFUR TALKS SITREP THREE (E6 MEETING) [...] (U) Each representative gave an opening statement during a plenary meeting open to the press. Highlights of the statements follow. Qatar ----- 2. (U) Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (and GOQ Sudan lead) Ahmed Al-Mahmoud opened the public session by thanking the E6 represen [...] | 2009-05-31 09:24:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SU CD QA UK RS FR CH EUN UN AU |