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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03BRUSSELS5525 |
U.S.-EU COTER CONSULTATIONS ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] The U.S. and EU COTER held their quarterly counterterrorism coordination meeting on December 3. The U.S. was represented by S/CT,s Senior Advisor for Multilateral Affairs, Chris Ensley, DOJ senior counsel Mark Richards, Econoff Kim Gagne and NAS Frank Kerber. The EU COTER delegation was cha [...] |
2003-12-08 10:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TS AG MO SR BK AL MK EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03OTTAWA1169 |
CANADIAN CONCERNS ABOUT EUROPEAN DEFENSE SUMMIT, [...] (C) Canada shares our strong concerns about the April 29 "European Defense Summit" (ref. A), and is pleased that we are making U.S. views clear to Europe. Lisa Helfand, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Defense and Security Relations, said the GoC considers the Summit very unhelpful both for [...] |
2003-04-25 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO EU MK CA NATO |
| 03ROME1053 |
GOI PUSHES STRONGLY FOR EU ASSUMPTION OF ALLIED [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN A MEETING BETWEEN DIRECTOR GENERAL GIANCARLO ARAGONA AND THE DCM, ARAGONA QUESTIONED CONTINUED DELAYS IN THE EU'S ASSUMPTION OF OPERATION ALLIED HARMONY FROM NATO AND MINIMIZED THE WORK NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE BERLIN PLUS PROCESS. DCM MADE CLEAR THE U.S. HAS NO OBJECTION T [...] |
2003-03-13 19:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EU MARR MK PREL NATO EUN |
| 03ROME931 |
GOI DISAPPOINTED WITH DELAY IN EU TAKEOVER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 5, ITALIAN MFA DEPUTY HEAD OF MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS CLAUDIO BISOGNIERO EXPRESSED SURPRISE TO POLMIN AT THE US INTERVENTION (REF A) DURING THAT MORNING'S NAC IN BRUSSELS DEALING WITH THE EU'S PROPOSED TAKEOVER OF OPERATION ALLIED HARMONY. RATHER THAN FULLY CONCURRING WIT [...] |
2003-03-06 17:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EU MARR MK PREL NATO EUN |
| 03ZAGREB1031 |
CROATIA DECIDES TO ACCEPT UNFROZEN FUNDS "WITHOUT [...] (C) AT A CLOSED SESSION ON MAY 8, THE CROATIAN CABINET FORMALLY DECIDED TO ACCEPT FUNDS FROZEN IN THE U.S. UNDER MILOSEVIC-ERA SANCTIONS. ON MAY 7 WE MET WITH MFA SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR ANDREJA METELKO- ZGOMBIC AND AMERICA'S DESK DIRECTOR MIROSLAV KOVACIC TO PRESS FOR CROATIAN ACCEPTANCE. THI [...] |
2003-05-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECON MK SR BK SI MW HR |
| 03ZAGREB1796 |
CROATIA OPPOSES TIRANA'S ADRIATIC CHARTER MOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: CROATIA IS OPPOSED TO SIGNING THE ALBANIAN-PROPOSED MOU (REFTEL) ON IMPLEMENTING THE ADRIATIC CHARTER IN ITS PRESENT FORM. MFA AND MOD INTERLOCUTORS ASKED FOR U.S. VIEWS ON THE DRAFT MOU BEFORE CROATIA TAKES A FIRM POSITION, BUT THEIR INITIAL READ OF THE MOU IS THAT IT GOES BEYO [...] |
2003-08-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AL MK HR NATO |
| 03ZAGREB450 |
UNBLOCKING SFRY ASSETS: GETTING HOLD HARMLESS LOOKS REMOTE [...] (C) THE RACAN GOVERNMENT IS DIGGING IN ITS HEELS ON THE SUCCESSION AGREEMENT, AND MAY WELL IGNORE OUR REQUEST FOR A HOLD HARMLESS BEFORE THE USG UNBLOCKS DISPUTED NBY ASSETS THIS SPRING. THAT IS THE INDICATION WE RECEIVED IN SEPARATE MEETINGS WITH THE GOC'S REPRESENTATIVE ON THE FINANCIAL C [...] |
2003-02-28 09:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MK SR HR BK SI MW |
| 03ZAGREB523 |
"ADRIATIC 3" FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING, DUBROVNIK, [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ALBANIAN, CROATIAN AND MACEDONIAN FOREIGN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ZAGREB 00523 01 OF 02 111302Z MINISTERS MET BRIEFLY IN DUBROVNIK MARCH 7 TO CONFIRM THE "ADRIATIC CHARTER" DRAFT TEXT (ALREADY WITH DEPARTMENT), ISSUE A DECLARATION AND GIVE THE I [...] |
2003-03-11 12:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HR AL MK IZ NATO |
| 03ZAGREB578 |
UNBLOCKING SFRY ASSETS: PICULA SAYS GOC STILL [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR DELIVERED DEMARCHE (REF A) CONCERNING USG PLANS TO UNBLOCK SFRY ASSETS TO FOREIGN MINISTER PICULA MARCH 14. PICULA WAS NON-COMMITTAL, BUT AGAIN POINTED TO THE DIFFICULTY OF PROVIDING A HOLD HARMLESS IN THE ABSENCE OF A RATIFIED SUCCESSION AGREEMENT. AS HE HAS IN PREVIOUS [...] |
2003-03-14 16:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MK SR BK SI MW HR |
| 03ZAGREB755 |
UNBLOCKING SFRY ASSETS: CROATIA MAINTAINS HARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: FOR CROATIA, UNRAVELING THE LIABILITIES AND ASSETS OF THE SUCCESSOR STATES OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CONTINUES TO HINGE ON SECURING A RATIFIED AGREEMENT ON SUCCESSION ISSUES (ASI). ON APRIL 4, ZDRAVKO ROGIC, SENIOR CROATIAN REPRESENTATIVE ON THE SUCCESSOR STATES' FINANCE COMMITT [...] |
2003-04-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MK SR BK SI MW HR RU |
| 03ZAGREB950 |
CROATIA WILL NOT ACCEPT TRANSFER OF NBY FUNDS [...] (C) ON APRIL 29, WE MET WITH MIROSLAV KOVACIC, HEAD OF THE AMERICAS DEPARTMENT AT THE MFA, AT HIS REQUEST. KOVACIC SAID THE MINISTRY HAD HEARD FROM THE CROATIAN NATIONAL BANK (CNB) THAT IT HAD BEEN REQUESTED TO ACCEPT A TRANSFER OF $54.6 MILLION AS CROATIA'S PART OF UNFROZEN NBY ASSETS IN THE [...] |
2003-04-29 15:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN SI BK MK SR HK |
| 04ANKARA2181 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOT CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-15 12:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AL BK BU GR HR KSEI MD MK PREL RO SR TU EUN |
| 04ANKARA794 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE III -- TURKEY [...] No summary [...] |
2004-02-10 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | BK CY EFIN ETTC GM HR HU MK MOPS PREL SL SZ TU KAWC YI |
| 04ROME2452 |
ALBANIANS MAKING THE ROUNDS ON ISTANBUL SUMMIT [...] (C) ACTING ON INSTRUCTIONS, ALBANIAN EMBASSY DCM SAKO MIROSH CONTINUED HIS GOVERNMENT'S PUSH (REFTEL) FOR A FORWARD LEANING STATEMENT AT THE ISTANBUL SUMMIT, WHICH WOULD EXTEND ALBANIA, CROATIA AND MACEDONIA "THE MEMBERSHIP INVITATION IN THE NEXT ENLARGEMENT SUMMIT." SAKO PRESENTED TO A/POLMIN [...] |
2004-06-24 07:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AL HR MK IT NATO |
| 04THEHAGUE1657 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE IV: THE NETHERLANDS [...] (S) PolOffs and Deputy Legal Counselor made ref A demarche to MFA Western Balkans Director Klaas van der Tempel on June 30. Van der Tempel said the GONL supported OHR's work against such individuals. Concerning freezing the assets of the individuals named in ref A, van der Tempel said that [...] |
2004-07-01 08:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC BK MK HR GM CY HU SL SZ YI NL ICTY NK |
| 04THEHAGUE382 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE III: THE NETHERLANDS [...] (S) EmbOffs delivered reftel demarche to Dutch Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs respectively on February 9 and 10. Dutch MFA Western Balkans Chief Klaas van der Tempel expressed support for the action, noting the GONL had been active last year in arguing for EU visa restrictions on [...] |
2004-02-13 15:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC BK MK HR GM CY HU SL SZ YI NL ICTY NK |
| 05ATHENS2663 |
MACEDONIA NAME: GOG REJECTS LATEST NIMETZ PROPOSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing its long-standing opposition to a dual-name solution, the GoG clearly rejected the latest proposal from UN Envoy Matthew Nimetz, leaving prospects for a solution dim before the EC's November 9 avis on Macedonia's EU application. At an October 11 meeting with Ambassador, [...] |
2005-10-11 16:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MK GR AMB MACEDONIA |
| 05ATHENS459 |
MTAG 03-03: GOG CONSIDERING REEXPORT OF MILLING [...] (S) On February 9, Econcouns was summoned by the head of MoD's Wassenar Expert Group, Col. Ioannis Anastasakis, to discuss possible return of a Mikrosam CNC milling machine (reftels) to Macedonia. (Per reftels, the Greek company, Baksevanidis, acquired two milling machines from the Macedonian [...] |
2005-02-15 12:46:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PARM MCAP ETTC MK GR |
| 05ATHENS554 |
AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 24 CALL ON DFM VALYNAKIS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 25 introductory meeting with Ambassador, DFM Valynakis said Greece "meant business" in finding a solution to the Macedonia name issue. However, Greek redlines were that the term "Republika Makedonija" had to be modified by a third word and had to remain in Slavic. [...] |
2005-02-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR MK TU AMB |
| 05ATHENS838 |
MACEDONIA NAME ISSUE: MFA SAYS MACEDONIA NEEDS TO [...] (C) Poloff contacted Vassilis Costis, deputy head of the MFA's Balkan Directorate, on March 24 for an update on Greek-Macedonian relations. Costis made the following points: -- Greece had seen a "very negative, intransigent" stance on the part of Macedonia in the aftermath of the USG decis [...] |
2005-03-24 14:37:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK GR MACEDONIA |
| 05BRUSSELS1550 |
GREECE PUSHING MACEDONIA NAME ISSUE WITHIN THE EU [...] (C) The Council Secretariat's Macedonia desk and a Dutch diplomat who works on Balkan issues tell us the Greeks are pressing to get the EU to pressure Macedonia on its on-going name dispute. Next Monday's (April 25) General Affairs and External Relations Council is due to issue Conclusions on [...] |
2005-04-20 09:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BRUSSELS2822 |
DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO'S MEETINGS WITH EU OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. According to EU Council and Commission officials, there can be no "shortcut" to EU membership for the countries of the Western Balkans, although their European perspective remains the long-term goal. Kai Eide is "gloomy" and disappointed with what he has seen of the standards impl [...] |
2005-07-26 15:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AL BK MK SR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BUCHAREST1426 |
ROMANIA NOMINATIONS - ILEA ROSWELL - ADVANCED [...] U.S. Embassy Bucharest provides the following nominations for ILEA Roswell Session 36. 2. Full Name: Chief Commissioner DAN Calin Vicentiu, Position/Institution: Chief of Department, Financial Investigations, Economic-Financial Directorate, Bucharest Police, DOB: June 27, 1959, POB: Bucha [...] |
2005-06-23 13:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR ASEC RO MD MK |
| 05BUCHAREST748 |
SECI CENTER AND BRUSSELS: A VIEW FROM THE OTHER [...] SECI Center DoS Coordinator traveled to Brussels and met with EU officials concerning SECI initiatives and EU plans to become more involved with the Center. Though EU officials were very interested in the current work of SECI, they were reluctant to commit any resources despite the reality th [...] |
2005-03-24 14:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL ECON EU GR TU SR HU SL BK MK BU HR RO |
| 05BUCHAREST946 |
SECI UPDATE MARCH 2005 [...] SECI Center's governing body, the Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC), met on 18 March 2005 in Bucharest for their semi-annual meeting. The agenda of the meeting included the approval of the SECI Center's near-term strategy, election of a General Director, as well as other issues concerning the [...] |
2005-04-15 13:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL ECON EU GR TU HU BK MK BU HR RO SECI |
| 05DUBLIN1360 |
PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: IRELAND UNEASY ON MACEDONIA, [...] (C) Summary: On November 3, Post delivered ref A and B demarches to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent. Kelly noted the EU's challenge in playing tough with Syria without derailing EuroMed diplomacy and the Barcelona Anniversary Summit. He said that Ireland was n [...] |
2005-11-04 15:40:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KPAL SY YI EAGR MK ETRD BO EI EUN |
| 05HELSINKI1170 |
FINNISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER GAERC [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered reftel demarche to EU Correspondent Jarno Syrjala, who highlighted the Balkans, ICTY cooperation, Syria, Iran and the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) among Finnish priorities for the November GAERC. 2. (SBU) BALKANS: Syrjala anticipated (correctly) that former Mar [...] |
2005-11-02 13:29:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID BO KPAL IZ SY YI EAGR MK ETRD FI EUN EU GAERC |
| 05PARIS7521 |
FRENCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE FOR EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor met November 3 with MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy CFSP unit deputy director Pascal Le Deunff to receive an informed French reaction to ref A and B demarches for the November 7 meeting of EU foreign ministers. The points were also shared with [...] |
2005-11-03 17:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EAID BO KPAL IZ SY YI EAGR MK ETRD EUN |
| 05PARIS8240 |
FRENCH REMAIN UNDECIDED ON MACEDONIA'S EU CANDIDACY [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel B points with MFA DAS-equivalent for External Community Relations Caroline Ferrari. Ferrari said that the GOF has not yet decided if it will support the granting of candidate status to Macedonia as recommended on November 9 by the Commission. Ferrari said that the [...] |
2005-12-05 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GM FR MK DA EUN |
| 05VIENNA1895 |
AFGHANISTAN: AUSTRIA SENDING UP TO 100 SOLDIERS [...] (SBU) On June 7, the Austrian Council of Ministers (cabinet) unanimously approved the deployment of up to 100 Austrian soldiers to Afghanistan in August - October 2005. Parliament's standing committee will have to give final approval to the deployment mandate, possibly as early as June 10. [...] |
2005-04-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPKO AF AU BK SR MK NATO EUN |
| 05VIENNA1966 |
AFGHANISTAN: PARLIAMENT APPROVES DEPLOYMENT OF [...] (SBU) On June 10, Parliament's standing committee (Hauptausschuss) unanimously approved the cabinet's decision (ref a) to send up to 100 Austrian soldiers to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan for a period of three months, until October 31, 2005. The Austrian soldiers will join the German PRT i [...] |
2005-04-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPKO AF AU BK SR MK NATO EUN |
| 05VIENNA2670 |
AUSTRIA HOSTS 4TH INFORMAL BALKANS SUMMIT [...] Summary: The Austrian Government and the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe hosted leaders from six southeastern European countries from 2-3 August for the 4th informal "Balkans Summit." Participants discussed the region's expectations for EU membership, establishing a common [...] |
2005-08-09 09:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN AL BK HR MK RO SR AU EUN |
| 05VILNIUS1153 |
(S) MTAG 03-03: GOL CONFIRMS END-USE OF MACEDONIAN [...] (S) Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament Division, informed us that the GOL's interagency import control board approved the application of the Kaunas-based British company Jurby Watertech to import a "MAW 20 MS3" filament winding machine (ref A). [...] |
2005-10-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MK LH |
| 05ZAGREB429 |
ICTY PREDICTS NO PROBLEMS IN BOSKOSKI TRANSFER [...] (C) Thomas Osorio, head of the ICTY Liaison Office in Zagreb, told PolOff March 16 the court expects no problems with the transfer of Ljube Boskoski, former Macedonian Minister of Interior, from detention in Croatia to The Hague. The GoC's Office for ICTY Cooperation confirmed for Post that t [...] |
2005-03-17 16:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC MK HR |
| 05ZAGREB475 |
BOSKOSKI TRANSFERRED TO THE HAGUE [...] (U) Croatian authorities today transferred Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljubo Boskoski to the custody of the ICTY in The Hague. Croatian authorities had been holding Boskoski in a Pula prison since August of 2004 on charges stemming from the murder of seven Pakistanis in Macedonia in [...] |
2005-03-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL MK HR |
| 06ATHENS1366 |
COPELOUZOS GROUP CHAIRMAN BRIEFS ON ENERGY PLANS [...] (C) Summary. Copelouzos Group Chairman Dimitris Copelouzos briefed the Ambassador April 27 on his proposal to build a "West Macedonia Branch" of the Turkish-Greece-Italy (TGI) gas interconnector. AccordinQto Copelouzos, whose firm is closely linked with Gazprom, this could supply natural g [...] |
2006-05-26 08:27:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG GR AL MK |
| 06ATHENS1375 |
HELLENIC AID DIRECTOR CONFIRMS DISBURSEMENT OF [...] (SBU) Hellenic Aid (HA) Director General Panayotis Goumas informed Economic Counselor May 25 that HA had disbursed 200,000 Euro as the GoG's first annual contribution to the Transnational Action against Child Trafficking (TACT) program in Albania. Goumas said that he believed the funds were [...] |
2006-05-26 14:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM GR AL RO MK BU SR |
| 06BAGHDAD1181 |
COALITION PARTICIPATION IN IRAQ PRTS [...] (U) Please see para 4 for an ACTION REQUEST. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Five of the eight planned U.S.-led Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) have been staffed and have received initial training: three are fully operational, one is at initial operational capability (IOC) and expected to achieve [...] |
2006-04-11 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL IZ AS JA PL KS ES MD LO MK |
| 06EFTOSKOPJE206 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF US NATO [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as the government and opposition are gearing up for this summer's parliamentary election, the actual date of which has yet to be determined. Amid the clamor of mutual recrimination and mudslinging of the "pre-campaign," which already is underway, your visit is an excell [...] |
2006-03-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 06EFTOSKOPJE971 |
MACEDONIA WILL PUBLICLY OPPOSE NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN PARM KNNP MK |
| 06HELSINKI1042 |
OCTOBER GAERC - FINNISH PRESIDENCY VIEWS [...] (U) PolChief met with Finnish EU Correspondent Jarno Syrjala Oct. 12 to discuss the October GAERC. Syrjala welcomed our demarche points and offered the following: SUDAN ----- 2. (SBU) Syrjala highlighted the increasing urgency that the EU feels regarding the need for a transition from an [...] |
2006-10-12 12:21:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE |
| 06HELSINKI936 |
SEPTEMBER GAERC - FINNISH PRESIDENCY VIEWS [...] (U) PolChief, EU Unit Chief and visiting Finland Deskoff delivered subject demarche to Finnish EU Correspondent Jarno Syrjala Sept. 13. Syrjala welcomed our input and offered the following notable responses: 2. (C) SUDAN/DARFUR: Syrjala expressed pessimism regarding the situation on the gr [...] |
2006-09-14 05:03:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE |
| 06MADRID2624 |
SPAIN: IN ADVANCE OF OCT. 16 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez-Arias on October 13 to discuss Spain's position in advance of the October 16 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias indicated that Spain was in complete agreement on most topics with the United States, but he singled out Kosovo [...] |
2006-10-17 07:22:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE IR IZ UP |
| 06PARIS6788 |
PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE TO FRANCE: POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We shared all ref A points October 11 with MFA DAS-equivalent for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet, Balkans points with DAS-equivalent for the Balkans Edouard Beslay, and Middle East points with DAS-equivalent for Lebanon/MEPP Herve Besancenot and DAS-equivalent for Iran Franck Gellet. 2. (C) Ba [...] |
2006-10-13 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EU PGOV KPAL UNAUS YI SR BO MK SU |
| 06PRAGUE1387 |
CZECHS AGREE KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs strongly agree Kosovo is not a precedent for frozen conflicts, but are concerned that Russia and some EU member states already view Kosovo (and even Montenegro) that way. For this reason, drafting an UNSC resolution on Kosovo's final status may be tricky: the language c [...] |
2006-11-08 13:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AL BH GG MK PBTS RO SR UP EZ |
| 06PRISTINA472 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MARTIN MORELL [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Martin Morell to visit Pristina June 12-16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to evaluate technical assistance projects in the telecom sector. Point of contact is Economics Officer Shante Moore, who can be reached at: office 381-38- [...] |
2006-05-31 10:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA USTA YI SB MW MK BU |
| 06PRISTINA856 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EUR/SCE DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Office of South Central Europe Affairs Director Christopher Hoh to visit Pristina October 14 - October 16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with post and host country officials. Point of contact will be Political O [...] |
2006-10-11 14:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA MK AL SR |
| 06SKOPJE1017 |
MACEDONIA: EUR/SCE DIRECTOR HOH'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary. In his October 17 meetings with GOM officials and opposition party leaders, EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh noted the need for improved inter-ethnic dialogue and continued implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, a vigorous and non-partisan fight against crime and corruption, [...] |
2006-10-24 05:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE1029 |
MACEDONIA INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN FUTURE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-27 02:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE1030 |
MACEDONIA LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-27 02:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS MK |
| 06SKOPJE1032 |
MACEDONIA LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-27 02:17:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER MK |
| 06SKOPJE1037 |
MACEDONIA: EUR DAS DICARLO'S OCT 23-24 MEETINGS [...] (SBU) During meetings with high-level GOM officials in Skopje October 23-24, EUR DAS DiCarlo underscored the need for the government to build consensus with the opposition to gain buy-in for key legislative and reform initiatives, for redoubled efforts to implement the reforms required for NATO [...] |
2006-10-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE105 |
MACEDONIA & NATO MEMBERSHIP: DEFENSE REFORMS ON [...] (C/REL NATO) SUMMARY: Macedonia is in its 7th MAP cycle and has made significant progress in meeting its defense reform goals, but still falls short in terms of meeting political and economic MAP criteria. To be considered a strong candidate for NATO membership by mid-2007, with a view to rece [...] |
2006-02-02 07:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR MASS MK |
| 06SKOPJE1056 |
MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS AT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-04 12:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE1057 |
MACEDONIA WILL FOLLOW EU POSITION ON CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-04 12:10:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU MK |
| 06SKOPJE1058 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-04 12:10:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ODIP ILC UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE1059 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. EFFORTS TO FULLY IMPLEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-04 12:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS MK |
| 06SKOPJE1078 |
MACEDONIA: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ELECT NEW PARTY [...] (C) During a November 5 party congress that lasted into the early hours of the following day, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) delegates elected by a landslide former Deputy Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska as the new party president. The delegates chose as the party's secretary g [...] |
2006-11-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1090 |
(CORRECTED COPY) MACEDONIA: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ELECT [...] (C) During a November 5 party congress that lasted into the early hours of the following day, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) delegates elected by a landslide former Deputy Prime Minister Radmila Sekerinska as the new party president. The delegates chose as the party's secretary g [...] |
2006-11-14 16:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1095 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC,s assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new government,s man [...] |
2006-11-16 12:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1096 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC's assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new governmentQs mandat [...] |
2006-11-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1097 |
MACEDONIA: REDUCING ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on filling ISAF force shortfalls and reducing caveats to MFA State Counselor Milan Spiridonovski on November 16. Acting DATT delivered the same points to MOD Elenovski on November 14. Both interlocutors informed us that the GOM intends to remove before t [...] |
2006-11-17 06:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL MK AG |
| 06SKOPJE1100 |
MACEDONIA: RULE OF LAW VICTORIES -- WIRETAP LAW [...] (U) Macedonia recently scored two major victories in strenghtening rule of law and fighting organized crime. On November 15, after months of preparatory work by the former and current governments, and heated parliamentary and public debate, the parliament passed the Law on Monitoring Communic [...] |
2006-11-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SMIG MK |
| 06SKOPJE1102 |
MACEDONIA OPPOSES BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM BO MK |
| 06SKOPJE1112 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT ELIMINATES MOST CAVEATS ON [...] (SBU) The GOM approved in a closed government session on November 22 the elimination of five of seven caveats currently in force for Macedonian troops supporting ISAF operations in Afghanistan (reftel) and Macedonian soldiers serving in Iraq. Of the two remaining caveats, one prohibits Macedon [...] |
2006-11-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS NATO PREL MK AG |
| 06SKOPJE1117 |
MACEDONIA: GOM FACING POTENTIAL POLITICAL FALLOUT [...] (SBU) Macedonia,s new government faces several critical challenges in the electricity market. In the short-term, the supply of available electricity may not be sufficient to meet demand this winter. In addition, the newly privatized electricity distribution company is beginning to enforce p [...] |
2006-11-27 16:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV EAID MK |
| 06SKOPJE1120 |
MACEDONIA: US-EU EFFORT BRINGS PARTIES TOGETHER [...] (C) After weeks of U.S. and EU coaxing, the leaders of the four main parties in Macedonia met on November 27 for their first substantive talks on legislative and policy priorities since the new government took office in late August. The party leaders outlined some of their key priorities and [...] |
2006-11-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE1139 |
MACEDONIA WELCOMES NATO SUMMIT STATEMENT, [...] (SBU) In a telcon November 30, MFA State Secretary Igor Ilievski told P/E Chief the GOM was delighted with the NATO Summit statement at Riga announcing, inter alia, the Alliance's intent to "extend further invitations to those countries who meet NATO's performance based standards..." The gover [...] |
2006-12-01 16:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 06SKOPJE1144 |
MACEDONIA: RENEWED ACTIVITY IN 45 MILLION EURO [...] (SBU) On November 15, Macedonia's special Organized Crime prosecutor issued detention requests for former Export Import Bank Director Metodija Smilenski, and former National Bank of Macedonia (NBM) Governor Ljube Trpeski. They are accused of defrauding the NBM of over 45 million Euros in 2004. [...] |
2006-12-05 07:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1157 |
MACEDONIA: SUSTAINING POST-RIGA MOMENTUM ON NATO [...] (SBU) We are taking advantage of the positive post-Riga Summit mood here to press the GOM to step up NATO MAP-related reform implementation. Macedonia is making progress in some areas -- working on constructive government-opposition dialogue, promoting economic growth, and strengthening rule [...] |
2006-12-08 15:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM NATO MK |
| 06SKOPJE1164 |
MACEDONIA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO WASHINGTON, [...] (SBU) The Macedonian government has nominated Zoran Jolevski, a close associate of late President Trajkovski's and a longtime USAID local Chief of Party (COP), as Macedonia's next Ambassador to the United States. Never strongly identified with any single political party, Jolevski nevertheless [...] |
2006-12-13 07:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE1165 |
MACEDONIA: SUSTAINING POST-RIGA MOMENTUM ON NATO [...] (SBU) We are taking advantage of the positive post-Riga Summit mood here to press the GOM to step up NATO MAP-related reform implementation. Macedonia is making progress in some areas -- working on constructive government-opposition dialogue, promoting economic growth, and strengthening rule [...] |
2006-12-13 09:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM NATO MK |
| 06SKOPJE1174 |
MACEDONIA: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK -- [...] (SBU) Leaders of Macedonia's four main parties (government and opposition) met December 13 behind closed doors, with U.S. and EU facilitation, in their second meeting to discuss how to move forward on Macedonia's main Euro-Atlantic integration reforms (reftel). Three of the four parties reach [...] |
2006-12-18 13:13:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE118 |
MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON ELECTIONS, NATO [...] (C/NF) PM Buckovski told the Ambassador February 1 that parliamentary elections likely will be held in late June/early July, and that he expects the opposition to use rough campaign and electoral tactics in trying to replace his government. On Macedonia's NATO accession prospects, he agreed th [...] |
2006-02-06 18:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MK |
| 06SKOPJE147 |
MACEDONIA'S ISLAMIC COMMUNITY ELECTS MODERATE [...] (C) Members of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM) elected moderate Skopje Imam Taxhedin Bislimi as Skopje's new Mufti on February 7, ousting Salafi-backed former Mufti Zenun Berisha in an impromptu election attended by EU Monitoring Mission and OSCE representatives. The February 7 sessio [...] |
2006-02-14 17:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF MK |
| 06SKOPJE148 |
(CORRECTED COPY) MACEDONIA'S ISLAMIC COMMUNITY [...] (C) Members of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM) elected moderate Skopje Imam Taxhedin Bislimi as Skopje's new Mufti on February 7, ousting Salafi-backed former Mufti Zenun Berisha in an impromptu election attended by EU Monitoring Mission and OSCE representatives. The February 7 sessio [...] |
2006-02-15 07:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF MK |
| 06SKOPJE152 |
MACEDONIA: FURTHER REACTION TO GOVERNMENT REQUEST [...] (C) Summary: Although ethnic Albanian parties have publicly objected to the Macedonian government's decision to "continue preparations" for the return of four unindicted war crimes cases to domestic jurisdiction (reftel), key leaders in coalition partner DUI privately tell us the party did not [...] |
2006-02-15 15:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ICTY MK |
| 06SKOPJE234 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH VISIT [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as the government and opposition are gearing up for this summer's parliamentary election, the actual date of which has yet to be determined. Amid the clamor of mutual recrimination and mudslinging of the "pre-campaign," which already is underway, your visit is an excell [...] |
2006-03-10 14:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP OREP AMGT ASEC MK |
| 06SKOPJE251 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT FOCUSED ON GAMEPLAN FOR NATO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During her March 7-8 visit to Skopje with a U.S. interagency delegation, USNATO Ambassador Nuland told Macedonian government and opposition interlocutors that free and fair parliamentary elections would be one key to keeping NATO's door open in 2008. She urged them to continue [...] |
2006-03-14 16:13:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO MK |
| 06SKOPJE255 |
MACEDONIA: STRONG BUT MEASURED REACTION TO [...] (U) Macedonian government reaction to Albanian FM Mustafaj's March 13 statement on Albanian Alsat TV that Albania could not guarantee inviolability of borders with Kosovo or Macedonia "if division of Kosovo takes place" (reftel) has been strong but measured. MFA State Counselor Milan Spiridon [...] |
2006-03-16 17:40:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AL MK |
| 06SKOPJE257 |
EMBASSY SKOPJE TIME CHANGE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS [...] The Republic of Macedonia will change from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time on Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 0100 GMT, 0200 local time. 2. The Republic of Macedonia's time will advance by one hour and will become GMT plus 2. MILOVANOVIC [...] |
2006-03-17 07:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA AMGT KRIM MK |
| 06SKOPJE289 |
MACEDONIA CHURCH DISPUTE: MOC PATRIARCH DECRIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) has reacted strongly to recent revelations that the Serbian government funds an affiliate of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in Macedonia, calling that support an intrusion into Macedonia's domestic affairs. The MOC also has opposed intern [...] |
2006-03-30 07:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KIRF MK |
| 06SKOPJE294 |
MACEDONIA: CAMPAIGN RHETORIC HEATS UP AS SUMMER [...] (SBU) With parliamentary elections possible as soon as late June, political parties are fueling increasingly heated pre-campaign rhetoric with personal attacks and mudslinging. Although the parties publicly deny it, there are numerous behind-the-scenes discussions ongoing about possible post-e [...] |
2006-03-31 14:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE310 |
SEN. VOINOVICH DISCUSSES NATO, KOSOVO NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with senior Macedonian officials on March 25, Sen. George Voinovich encouraged Macedonia to make further progress on NATO-related reforms, discussed Kosovo final status issues, and thanked Macedonia for its military support of coalition operations in Iraq and Afghani [...] |
2006-04-05 07:20:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE329 |
MACEDONIA WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT USG POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-11 16:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE330 |
MACEDONIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO IRAQ EFFORT [...] (U) Deputy Senior Advisor on Iraq Robert Deutsch and his State and DoD team visited Skopje April 5-6 to thank GOM officials and parliamentarians for Macedonia's support for international efforts in Iraq, and to discuss developments in Iraq. (NOTE: Macedonia currently has 40 troops deployed to [...] |
2006-04-11 16:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MK IZ |
| 06SKOPJE373 |
U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE WISNER'S KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) During April 13 discussions in Skopje with U.S. Special Representative on Kosovo Talks Frank Wisner, Macedonian leaders focused on the unresolved issue of the delineated but not yet demarcated Kosovo-Macedonia border as the only open issue between Skopje and Pristina, and said they would t [...] |
2006-04-20 10:01:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KS |
| 06SKOPJE38 |
MACEDONIA'S SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT NOMINATED AS [...] (SBU) The GOM has nominated Speaker of Parliament Ljupco Jordanovski as Macedonia's next ambassador to the United States. A long-time parliamentarian, Jordanovski is meticulous, hard-working, and a consensus builder. He is widely-respected as an administrator and has presided over an ambitio [...] |
2006-01-17 08:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE383 |
U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE WISNER'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) During a tete-a-tete meeting April 13 in Skopje, President Crvenkovski gave Amb. Wisner his assessment of Serbian President Tadic as "pragmatic" in dealing with Kosovo status issues, while characterizing Serbian PM Kostunica as unlikely to compromise and more likely to walk out of the stat [...] |
2006-04-21 16:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KS MK |
| 06SKOPJE413 |
MACEDONIA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-04 17:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE419 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON THE ICRC THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-05 11:24:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREF PREL ICRC SZ MK |
| 06SKOPJE420 |
MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SET FOR JULY 5, [...] (C) SUMMARY. With parliamentary elections scheduled for July 5, governing and opposition parties are building their campaign platforms around common themes of economic development, NATO and EU integration, and education. Despite their stated intent to run issues-based campaigns, however, the [...] |
2006-05-05 11:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE451 |
MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADERS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) During separate meetings May 4, the Ambassador told DUI and DPA leaders Ali Ahmeti and Arben Xhaferi, respectively, to refrain from importing K-Albanian "muscle" to assist them during upcoming parliamentary elections. She reiterated the USG position on Macedonia-Kosovo border demarcation [...] |
2006-05-12 06:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE457 |
MACEDONIA: FURTHER PROGRESS ON NATO MAP-RELATED [...] (U) The Macedonian Parliament recently adopted several judicial and defense reforms that demonstrate further progress in meeting Macedonia's NATO MAP requirements. On May 5, the parliament amended the Law on Defense, formally ending conscription. The amended law will make the Army of the Rep [...] |
2006-05-15 15:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE484 |
MACEDONIA: CAVEATS FOR TROOPS SERVING WITH ISAF [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on ISAF caveats to MFA State Counselor Milan Spirodonovski and to NATO Head of Sector Marjan PopAngelov on May 16. DATT delivered the same points to CHOD MG Stojanovski on May 15. Our interlocutors assured us that Macedonia would maintain its policy of [...] |
2006-05-19 14:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO AF MK |
| 06SKOPJE497 |
MACEDONIA: POLITICAL LEADERS EXPECT INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Initial Macedonian reaction to the May 21 Montenegro referendum on independence has been generally positive, with most interlocutors welcoming the development as contributing to bolstering regional stability. It is encouraging that harder-line eAlbanian parties, such as opposi [...] |
2006-05-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE500 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON MANAS AIRFIELD [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-24 13:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | KG MARR MOPS PREL AF MK |
| 06SKOPJE507 |
MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-25 05:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ MK |
| 06SKOPJE516 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM (NAM MINISTERIAL) [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-30 05:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE517 |
MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS GIVE POLICE A VOTE OF [...] (U) Three ethnic Albanian youths were killed and six were injured after a drive-by shooting at an internet cafe in the Skopje municipality of Cair late May 18. A Ministry of Interior (MOI) spokesman told the local press on May 22 the police suspect an inter-family blood feud was the motive for [...] |
2006-05-30 05:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC MK |
| 06SKOPJE531 |
MACEDONIA WELCOMES U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (Mitreva was en route from the Netherlands to Macedonia on May 31, and therefore was unavailable for a meeting that day.) Mitreva welcomed the Secretary's statement and said she would issue a public statement of support. Mitreva emphasized the GOM's continued support for U.S. and EU-3 effo [...] |
2006-06-01 16:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE537 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE U.N. [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-05 14:01:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM US UNHRC MK |
| 06SKOPJE578 |
MACEDONIA'S DEPUTY FM TO ATTEND PSI HIGH-LEVEL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-15 07:19:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP PARM MK |
| 06SKOPJE580 |
MACEDONIA PASSES CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PARM PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE593 |
MACEDONIA RESPONDS TO MDA DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-21 08:06:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC IS SZ MK |
| 06SKOPJE594 |
MACEDONIA: WITH US-EU PRODDING, ETHNIC ALBANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador and EU Special Representative (EUSR) Fouere convoked the leaders of ethnic Albanian parties DUI and DPA for a meeting June 20 to express grave concerns over recent violent incidents related to the campaign for upcoming parliamentary elections July 5. They noted that [...] |
2006-06-21 11:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE596 |
MACEDONIA: AS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The 20-day official campaign season for Macedonia's July 5 parliamentary elections began June 15, with a total of 31 parties competing in the country's six electoral districts. The parliament on June 12 amended the criminal code to stiffen penalties for violations of the electo [...] |
2006-06-22 14:19:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE598 |
MACEDONIAN MOI: "POLICE NOT INVOLVED IN [...] (C) The Ambassador and post's DOJ ICITAP representative met with Minister of Interior Mihajlovski on June 22 to discuss the recent campaign-related incidents and accusations by political party leaders that the police have been involved in or have provoked the incidents (reftel). The Ambassador [...] |
2006-06-23 09:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE613 |
MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR AND PRIME MINISTER ON NEXT [...] (C) During a June 26 meeting, the Ambassador shared with PM Buckovski her concerns over recent campaign-related violent incidents, mostly involving supporters of ethnic Albanian rival parties DUI and DPA (refs A and B). She outlined steps the U.S. Embassy would take over the next several days [...] |
2006-06-28 07:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE614 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM AND LIFTING THE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-29 02:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC EU EUN PREL UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE620 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-29 09:55:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | WTRO ETRD ECON MK |
| 06SKOPJE625 |
MACEDONIA: ELECTION CAMPAIGN CALMS; AMBASSADOR [...] (C) An unspoken agreement to cool things down has taken hold in Macedonia after a handful of campaign-related incidents, some of them violent and most of them between competing ethnic Albania parties DUI and DPA, occurred at the beginning of the official parliamentary elections campaign on Jun [...] |
2006-06-30 13:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE631 |
MACEDONIA: CAMPAIGN CALM EXTENDS THROUGH THE [...] (C) Continuing a recent campaign-period trend (reftel), the July 1-2 weekend remained calm in Macedonia with only two minor campaign-related incidents reported (neither of which was substantiated.) The MOI took action against perpetrators of campaign-related incidents, and eAlbanian parties DU [...] |
2006-07-03 16:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE640 |
MACEDONIA VOTES: OPPOSITION WINS IN GENERALLY CALM [...] (SBU) The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party emerged as the clear winner in Macedonia's July 5 parliamentary elections, with the ethnic Albanian DUI party (governing coalition) consolidating its lead over rival eAlbanian opposition party DPA. The elections were considered to have "largely met intern [...] |
2006-07-06 15:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE648 |
MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT'S ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador July 6, President Crvenkovski characterized the recent parliamentary election process as "good," and asked for continued support from the Ambassador during the process of the formation of the new government. Analyzing electoral results, Crvenkovski said ci [...] |
2006-07-07 13:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE649 |
MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT'S ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador July 6, President Crvenkovski characterized the recent parliamentary election process as "good," and asked for continued support from the Ambassador during the process of the formation of the new government. Analyzing electoral results, Crvenkovski said ci [...] |
2006-07-07 13:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE662 |
MACEDONIA: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-13 06:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL PARM KN MK |
| 06SKOPJE668 |
MACEDONIA: MAJOR TIP TRIAL REFLECTS SOLID [...] (U) Macedonia's largest-ever trial for trafficking in persons continued on July 6 with the testimony of the star witness for the prosecution. The witness, who initially was charged as a co-conspirator in the case, reached an immunity deal with the prosecution in exchange for his testimony aga [...] |
2006-07-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM SMIG MK |
| 06SKOPJE669 |
MACEDONIA: VMRO-DPMNE LEADER BEGINS BUILDING A [...] (C) Recent Macedonian parliamentary election winner (reftel) and VMRO-DPMNE leader Gruevski is engaged in trying to build a broad-based inter-ethnic governing coalition to help ensure stability as he pursues an economic reform agenda and continued implementation of NATO and EU integration refo [...] |
2006-07-14 12:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE696 |
MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RE-RUN OUTCOME [...] (SBU) Parliamentary election re-runs in 29 polling stations (representing less than one percent of Macedonia's 3,000 polling stations) generally were well conducted, although international monitors noted some serious irregularities in some stations. The voting gave one additional MP seat to r [...] |
2006-07-20 15:41:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE734 |
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT WELCOMES GPOI PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-04 10:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR MASS MK |
| 06SKOPJE754 |
MACEDONIA: URGENT DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points, resolution text, and the Secretary's statement to MFA State Counselor Milan Spirodonovski on August 12. Spirodonovski welcomed the information and expects full support from the GOM for this initiative. 2. (C) Spirodonovski informed Poloff that GOM repr [...] |
2006-08-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE MK |
| 06SKOPJE779 |
MACEDONIA: YOUNG TECHNOCRATS DOMINATE NEW [...] (SBU/NF) Prime Minister-designate Gruevski's proposed cabinet lineup, which the parliament is likely to approve on August 25, is comprised of mostly young technocrats without extensive bureaucratic experience. That bodes well for a fresh start, with Gruevski likely to exercise greater control [...] |
2006-08-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE816 |
MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Parliament easily confirmed on August 26 the new government and work program of VMRO-DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization -- Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) leader and now Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Gruevski's work program focuses on economic develop [...] |
2006-08-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE837 |
MACEDONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER-DESIGNATE ON KOSOVO [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on Kosovo status negotiations to Foreign Minister-designate Antonijo Milososki on August 23. (NOTE: Milososki and his fellow cabinet members were confirmed in office following a parliamentary vote on August 26). Milososki agreed strongly with the point o [...] |
2006-09-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK KS |
| 06SKOPJE848 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS IMPROVED SERBIA-ICTY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-07 14:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SRYI AA MK |
| 06SKOPJE851 |
MACEDONIA: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON DETAINEES IN THE [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on President Bush's September 6 speech on detainees in the war on terror to MFA State Counselor Milan Spiridonovski on September 7. Spiridonovski appreciated the briefing and said he understood the need to ensure vital security information was quickly ob [...] |
2006-09-11 05:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE863 |
MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on the upcoming Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial to MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva on September 12. Geleva said a GOM representative will attend this year's CD Ministerial at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), but did not [...] |
2006-09-13 09:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR MK |
| 06SKOPJE865 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-13 10:41:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER USUN LE SY EU MK |
| 06SKOPJE880 |
MACEDONIA: GOM LEADERSHIP ON NATO MEMBERSHIP, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate calls on PM Gruevski and FM Milososki September 15, the Ambassador urged the GOM to move quickly to implement NATO membership reforms, show concrete anti-corruption results, and restart political dialogue with the ethnic Albanian opposition. She restated the USG posit [...] |
2006-09-18 13:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE885 |
MACEDONIA REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE FOR MANPADS [...] (U) Please see guidance request in para 4. 2. (C) Following EmbOff and DAO discussions with MFA and MOD contacts over the past several months, and after lengthy delays due to national elections and the formation of a new government, the MOD on September 12 sent an official letter of request [...] |
2006-09-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR MK |
| 06SKOPJE887 |
MACEDONIA NOMINATES FORMER FM SRDJAN KERIM FOR [...] (U) MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva confirmed on September 16 press reports that the GOM has nominated former Foreign Minister and former Macedonian PermRep to the UN Srdjan Kerim for the 2007 UNGA Presidency. Kerim currently is the general director of the local med [...] |
2006-09-20 01:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE888 |
MACEDONIA: A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH ADRIATIC [...] (SBU) Although you will be meeting with the A-3 foreign ministers as a group on the margins of the UNGA in New York on September 22, we believe you can reinforce some key themes we have been underlining with the newly-elected GOM should you have an opportunity for a brief pull-aside with newly [...] |
2006-09-20 14:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR UNGA MK |
| 06SKOPJE898 |
MACEDONIA: POLITICS TRUMPS FAITH -- ELECTION OF [...] (SBU) Self-proclaimed moderate Islamic cleric Sulejman Rexhepi was elected Reis-ul-Ulema (head) of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM) on September 20. The election itself was uneventful, but the electoral process was marred by the political intervention of ethnic Albanian governing coal [...] |
2006-09-25 12:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE900 |
MACEDONIA: SUCCESSFUL CONVICTION IN ORGANIZED [...] (U) On September 14, a Macedonian court convicted four defendants from an international organized crime ring on drug smuggling charges. The trial was presided over by a chamber of five judges, including two professional judges, one of whom is the chief presiding judge, and three "lay judges," [...] |
2006-09-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MK |
| 06SKOPJE913 |
MACEDONIAN MFA STATE SECRETARY WILL PARTICIPATE IN [...] (U) P/E Chief delivered reftel invitation to participate in the October 3-5 CENTCOM-sponsored Iraq Coalition Conference in Warsaw to MFA State Secretary Igor Ilievski on September 21. Ilievski confirmed on September 26 that he would attend the Conference, together with Brigadier General Zoran [...] |
2006-09-27 14:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MK IZ |
| 06SKOPJE944 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS US POSITION ON POSSIBLE NORTH [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-05 14:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP MK |
| 06SKOPJE953 |
MACEDONIA: POLICE LAW IMPASSE:GOM-OPPOSITION TALKS [...] (C) The parliamentary impasse between the VMRO-DPMNE-led government and ethnic Albanian opposition party DUI over the draft police law continues, with DUI insisting that it will not respect the police law unless it is passed with a qualified (Badinter) majority. PM Gruevski and DUI President [...] |
2006-10-06 13:39:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV MK |
| 06SKOPJE973 |
MACEDONIA LEANS TOWARD EU POSITION ON DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-16 06:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN MK |
| 06SKOPJE980 |
MACEDONIA: OPPOSITION SDSM LEADER AXED IN [...] (SBU) SDSM President and former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski lost an October 7 intra-party confidence vote, setting the stage for rival Radmila Sekerinska, an SDSM vice president, to run for the party presidency at the SDSM's extraordinary congress on November 5. Buckovski was ousted due to [...] |
2006-10-17 08:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MK |
| 06SKOPJE983 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS DICARLO'S VISITTO SKOPJE, [...] (U) Your visit comes at the right time, two months into the new VMRO-DPMNE-led government of PM Gruevski, to deliver the following core messages to the government and opposition: Government: --Need broad consultations and consensus-building with DUI and opposition parties on key legislatio [...] |
2006-10-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 06TALLINN1008 |
ESTONIA: BRIEFING ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-13 12:16:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | AL BH GG MK MACEDONIA PBTS RO SR UP EN |
| 06TIRANA540 |
ALBANIA REACTS POSITIVELY TO MONTENEGRO'S VOTE FOR [...] (SBU) GoA officials were quick to comment positively -- and to key their comments on Euro-Atlantic integration prospects -- regarding the results of Montenegro's Referendum on Independence after initial results were announced early on May 22. President Moisiu called Montenegrin President Vuj [...] |
2006-05-24 04:36:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MK SZ AL |
| 06USNATO603 |
NATO'S POSITIVE REACTION TO MACEDONIA'S ANNUAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The NATO Senior Political Committee/Reinforced (SPC/R) met with a Macedonian (MK) delegation on October 6 to discuss the way ahead for Macedonia's eighth Membership Action Plan (MAP) cycle. The Macedonian delegation presented details of their Annual National Program (ANP) for [...] |
2006-10-13 13:16:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO PARM PGOV PREL MK |
| 06USUNNEWYORK925 |
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidacy to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given [...] |
2006-05-05 14:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN MK |
| 06VIENNA205 |
MTAG 03-03: LICENSE REVIEW FOR MACEDONIAN EXPORT [...] (S) On December 22, we met with Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Export-Import Control Division, to request verification that the Austrian firm Geislinger GmbH was the end-user for the export of a filament winding machine from the Macedonian firm Mikrosam. Krehlik told Econ U [...] |
2006-01-24 12:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE MK AU |
| 06VIENNA206 |
MTAG 03-03: LICENSE REVIEW FOR MACEDONIAN EXPORT (S) [...] (S) On December 22, we met with Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Export-Import Control Division, to request verification that the Austrian firm Geislinger GmbH was the end-user for the export of a filament winding machine from the Macedonian firm Mikrosam. Krehlik told Econ [...] |
2006-01-24 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE MK AU |
| 07ANKARA1219 |
TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, March & April 2007 [...] Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) General Yasar Buyukanit gave his annual speech to the War College in Istanbul on March 16. In contrast to previous years, the speech was closed to the press, but was subsequently leaked to the media. In the speech, Buyukanit refrained from comment abou [...] |
2007-05-21 10:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL FR AJ PK KS MK YI GM BU AL IT SI |
| 07ANKARA1620 |
TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, May 2007 [...] The 8th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF - the biennial Turkish defense fair) was held on May 22-25 in Ankara. 494 companies (333 foreign and 161 Turkish firms) from 48 countries participated in the fair, including 42 American companies. Many high level officials from different count [...] |
2007-06-25 13:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL GG MK BK AF GR EG AJ QA BA SA LE |
| 07ATHENS1594 |
GREECE IS PREPARED TO VETO MACEDONIA NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: With elections widely expected in late September, GOG officials and undeclared political candidates are raising the bar for Macedonia's NATO entry. Distancing themselves from the 1995 Interim Accord, Greece sees the 2008 NATO decision on enlargement as powerful leverage to forc [...] |
2007-08-08 14:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS1659 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: ND INSIDER SAYS KARAMANLIS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Former FM Petros Molyviatis -- who remains closer to PM Karamanlis than his successor, current FM Dora Bakoyiannis, told Charge August 16 that Karmanlis recognized the diplomatic cost of vetoing Macedonia's NATO membership without resolution of the name issue first. [...] |
2007-08-20 14:59:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS1826 |
PM KARAMANLIS RAISES THE MACEDONIA STAKES AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the September 6 pre-election TV debate -- and in a September 7 press conference -- PM Karamanlis publicly took a hard line on the Macedonia name issue, threatening to veto Macedonia's NATO (and EU) accession unless the issue was resolved first. With unofficial polls sho [...] |
2007-09-11 15:00:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS1891 |
GREECE-MACEDONIA: FM BAKOYIANNIS MEETINGS IN NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In their September 19 meeting, Charge and MFA SYG Agathocles focused on the Macedonia name issue. Charge noted that, when it came to Macedonia, FM Bakoyiannis would need to demonstrate that the GOG had a strategy to achieve progress (rather than simply ask for help [...] |
2007-09-19 16:08:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2029 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: NIMETZ' REMARKS ON ALEXANDER THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-11 12:25:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2068 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO FM [...] (C) Greek focus on the Macedonia name issue continued on October 16 when FM Dora Bakoyannis briefed the Cabinet on developments. In her comments after the meeting, FM Bakoyannis again stressed the importance of finding a mutually acceptable name that is &composite and distinct,8 distinguishi [...] |
2007-10-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR PGOV PREL MK |
| 07ATHENS2089 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: MANAGING A NATO INVITATION [...] (C) Before April, 2008, NATO will take decisions on enlargement; Macedonia's candidacy is complicated by its long-standing difference with Greece over Macedonia's name. We see no possibility of arriving at an agreed, final resolution of the name issue between the two parties prior to the Apri [...] |
2007-10-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2103 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: MACEDONIAN ATHLETES DEPART FROM [...] (U) This message has been cleared with Embassy Skopje. 2. (SBU) Emboff met October 23 with Greek MFA Macedonia Desk Officer Nicholas Plexidas to follow-up ref and press reports that the Macedonian 133-member team of youth athletes had walked out on October 20 from the week-long "Southeaste [...] |
2007-10-24 10:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
| 07ATHENS2117 |
MACEDONIA'S AMBASSADOR CONVINCED GREECE WILL VETO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting, Macedonia's Ambassador to Greece, Blagoj Handziski, told Charge that he was now convinced Greece would make a name change a precondition for Macedonia's NATO entry. Handziski emphasized that NO Macedonian government could accept that. The only solutio [...] |
2007-10-26 07:59:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2177 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: WHAT'S IN A NAME? (OR IN THIS [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Skopje. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) On November 2, GOG aircraft carrying CHOD Grapsas to Belgrade diverted in flight to avoid overflying Macedonia, due to concerns with the flight designator code assigned by Macedonian authorities. The [...] |
2007-11-08 06:36:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
| 07ATHENS2199 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: MFA FINDS NIMETZ PROPOSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 9 meeting with MFA Secretary General Agathocles, Charge summarized Ambassador Nuland's message to the GOM: time was short if it planned to meet NATO standards. Nuland had also urged the GOM to participate fully in the Nimetz negotiations (and stop negotiating via [...] |
2007-11-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2245 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER TELLS PARLIAMENT [...] On November 16, PM Karamanlis told the Greek Parliament that Macedonia's "access to Euro-Atlantic organizations" depends upon a "definitive and mutually acceptable solution" on the name issue. Meanwhile, FM Bakoyannis publicly repeated the point that "good neighborly relations" requires a "m [...] |
2007-11-19 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MK GR |
| 07ATHENS2288 |
MACEDONIA NAME DISPUTE AND NATO ACCESSION: GREEK [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On November 29, Charge delivered ref A points to MFA SecGen Agathocles. Agathocles's response was frank: in his view, the U.S. failed to appreciate Greece's concerns. The GOG was not bluffing; the name issue must be resolved before the 2008 Bucharest Summit, or the [...] |
2007-11-29 15:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK NATO |
| 07ATHENS2305 |
FM BAKOYANNIS FOCUSED ON KOSOVO, MACEDONIA IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite visits this week by Egyptian President Mubarak, Turkish FM Babacan, and UN mediator Nimetz, FM Bakoyannis focused on two main issues in her December 3 introductory meeting with Ambassador Speckhard: Kosovo and Macedonia. On Kosovo, she "unofficially" urged delaying a s [...] |
2007-12-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS2321 |
GREECE/MACEDONIA: GREEKS WELCOME ACCELERATED [...] (C) The Greek MFA has welcomed UN Mediator Nimetz' acceleration of talks. However, the Greeks are skeptical of Nimetz' most recent proposal and deeply suspicious of Skopje's intentions. The Greeks have agreed to Nimetz' suggestion that the next round be in Skopje, followed by a round in Ath [...] |
2007-12-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 07ATHENS649 |
DIMITRIOS COPELOUZOS AND THE COPELOUZOS GROUP: [...] (C) SUMMARY. Dimitrios Copelouzos, the founding Chairman and Managing Director of the Copelouzos Group, has evolved into a key player in the regional energy market and is currently participating in a number of significant energy transportation projects including the Burgas-Alexandroupoli pip [...] |
2007-03-29 13:36:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON AL BU ENRG GR MK RS |
| 07ATHENS996 |
GREEK CONCERNS ABOUT ATTENDING GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings on May 16 with MFA Secretary General Charalambos Rocanas and the Director of the SIPDIS D1 Directorate for the United Nations and International Organizations Ambassador Fotis Xydas, DCM heard Greek concerns about attending the Global Initiative (GI) to Comb [...] |
2007-05-17 10:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR MK |
| 07BEIJING4642 |
SUBJECT: JULY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY [...] Key points at the July 12 MFA Press Conference were: -- The MFA announced the meeting between the Six-Party Heads of Delegation July 18-19 in Beijing. -- The spokesman has noticed reports of a campaign to expel foreign missionaries, consulted relevant departments in China and found that no [...] |
2007-07-12 10:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KS KN BM NG IS JO EG MK RS TX |
| 07FREETOWN65 |
SIERRA LEONE: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL [...] (S) Embassy Freetown concurs with reftel FY07 program proposal "Improvements and Theater Maritime Safety and Security Information System Network" for $12.51M. HULL [...] |
2007-01-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Freetown | SECRET | AL MK UP SL |
| 07HONGKONG1510 |
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: MACAU'S PRESSING NEED FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: As Macau's economy booms, local authorities confront the dual challenges of modernizing the territory's infrastructure, while ameliorating the adverse effects of this rapid development. Macau,s air quality is worsening due to manufacturing in Guangdong province, emissions from [...] |
2007-06-05 09:40:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | CH HK MK SENV PGOV ENRG |
| 07PARIS1592 |
FRANCE WANTS TO PLAY MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN GLOBAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: After welcoming reftel demarche, MFA nuclear non-proliferation expert, Delphine Hournau, requested Washington's views on a larger role for the GOF in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. France is particu [...] |
2007-04-19 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KGIC PARM PREL AM CB MK RO FR |
| 07PRISTINA122 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KYLE CUNNINGHAM - COCHRAN [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kyle Cunningham to visit Pristina February 28 - March 1, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to interview Cochran candidates. Control Officer for this visit will be Commercial Assistant, Fatmir Morina, who can be reached at: office 381 [...] |
2007-02-20 10:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AL BK BU EAGR HR MK OTRA RO SR TU |
| 07PRISTINA65 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SAMUEL LAEUCHLI [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to USOSCE Political Counselor Samuel Laeuchli to visit Pristina on January 30 and 31, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to consult with U.S. Office and visits to OSCE field missions. Control officer will be Political Officer AJ Rei-Per [...] |
2007-01-24 13:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA APER ASEC OSCE AMGT BK MK SR |
| 07PRISTINA72 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GARY D. ROBBINS [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/RPM Director Gary D. Robbins to visit Pristina on January 30 and 31, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to consult with U.S. Office and visits to OSCE field missions. Control officer will be Political Officer AJ Rei-Perrine, who [...] |
2007-01-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | MK OTRA PREL |
| 07SKOPJE102 |
MACEDONIA'S OPPOSITION: DISENGAGEMENT AND DISARRAY [...] (C) Frustrated over the lack of a genuine political dialogue with the government, Macedonia's main eAlbanian opposition party DUI is boycotting the Parliament and considering cutting ties between the municipalities it controls and the central government. DUI leaders cite a list of demands, inc [...] |
2007-02-02 16:55:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE106 |
MACEDONIA: POSITIVE REACTION TO KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) The GOM, public, and media response to UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's Kosovo status proposal has been uniformly positive. Government leaders are especially pleased with the proposal's language addressing the issue of demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border. They are concerned, however, n [...] |
2007-02-05 15:23:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KS |
| 07SKOPJE120 |
MACEDONIA: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON ICTY RETURN OF [...] (C) Deputy PM Konevska agreed with the Ambassador during a February 7 meeting that the Macedonian judicial and political system is not yet ready to accept the return of four unindicted ICTY cases involving eAlbanians linked to the two main eAlbanian political parties here. Reminded that time i [...] |
2007-02-09 15:13:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK |
| 07SKOPJE129 |
MACEDONIA ON HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-13 13:32:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAL KWBG PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE134 |
MACEDONIA: DPA LEADERS ON DIALOGUE, KOSOVO STATUS, [...] (C) In a February 9 meeting with leaders of eAlbanian governing coalition member DPA, the Ambassador pressed for a revitalized government-opposition dialogue, warned DPA against attempts to destroy eAlbanian opposition party DUI, and asked for full support for the Kosovo status process. She wa [...] |
2007-02-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS MK |
| 07SKOPJE137 |
MACEDONIA: NEW PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) During a February 9 courtesy call with the Ambassador, newly appointed Chief Public Prosecutor Shvrgovski said his number one priority is combating organized crime in Macedonia. Shvrgovski, a former Deputy Public Prosecutor, was appointed by the Macedonian parliament on January 24. He [...] |
2007-02-16 12:30:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
| 07SKOPJE16 |
MACEDONIA: FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] This is Embassy Skopje's response to reftel regarding the five most influential women in Macedonia. PolOff Mariana Neisuler is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues. Tel: 389 2 3116 180 ext. 2111 Fax: 389 2 3133 601 Mobile: 389 70 306 024 Email: NeisulerML@state.gov [...] |
2007-01-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE162 |
MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE PRIME [...] (C) During a meeting with Prime Minister Gruevski on February 21, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding political dialogue, education issues, and the rule of law in Macedonia (reftels). Pledging U.S. support for Macedonia's NATO membership aspirations, the Ambassador stressed that ther [...] |
2007-02-23 15:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE175 |
MACEDONIA: REQUEST FOR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR [...] (U) See action request in para 5. 2. (U) Post received a diplomatic note from the Macedonian MFA on February 16 conveying a request from the defense attorney for former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski in his ICTY case in The Hague. She requests Embassy assistance in providing [...] |
2007-02-28 11:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE189 |
MACEDONIA: SDSM PARTY CONGRESS SHOWCASES NEW [...] (SBU) On February 24, Macedonia's biggest opposition party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), held its 7th congress in Skopje under the slogan "Trust, Unity and Success." Although barely mentioned in the next day's papers, the congress showed the new and more polished face of a p [...] |
2007-03-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE190 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR A/S FRIED'S MARCH [...] (U) This message supplements, and is complementary to, the briefing materials already provided to EUR/SCE for your visit to Skopje. NATO MESSAGE SINKING IN, DIALOGUE MOVES AHEAD 2. (C) With your visit an action-forcing event, GOM officials this week are taking some of the steps we have be [...] |
2007-03-05 15:23:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE195 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. EFFORTS TO ENSURE IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP IR MK |
| 07SKOPJE203 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION REVIVE [...] (C) PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition leader Ali Ahmeti and their negotiating teams met March 7 to revive long-dormant political talks on moving ahead on key NATO and EU membership-related reforms, including implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The two sides reached agreement o [...] |
2007-03-09 09:47:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE209 |
MACEDONIA: EUR A/S FRIED'S TALKS WITH GOM & [...] (C) During March 8 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, A/S Fried urged (and easily obtained) continued support for the Ahtisaari status proposal and asked his interlocutors to consider publicly supporting a Kosovo UNSCR as a means to bolster security in Macedonia and the region [...] |
2007-03-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE21 |
MACEDONIA: DRUG BUST NETS NEARLY 500 KGS OF [...] (SBU) Macedonia's biggest-ever drug bust, on January 7 at the Kosovo-Macedonia border, which netted more than 486 kilos of cocaine reportedly headed for Greece, is a good example of effective regional cooperation in a counter-narcotics operation. Separately, a counter-narcotics trial in Skopj [...] |
2007-01-12 06:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PREL MK KS |
| 07SKOPJE22 |
MACEDONIA: KONDOVO GANG LEADER CONVICTED, REMAINS [...] (SBU) Gang leader Agim Krasniqi and two of his associates have been sentenced to prison terms for their involvement in the attempted kidnapping and wounding of a rival ethnic Albanian gang member in October 2003. Krasniqi and one associate were tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia and r [...] |
2007-01-12 09:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE235 |
MACEDONIA TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA MK |
| 07SKOPJE250 |
MACEDONIA TO SUPPORT GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE251 |
MACEDONIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ZI MK |
| 07SKOPJE255 |
MACEDONIA AND UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN IR IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC MK |
| 07SKOPJE256 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON RELEASE OF [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-29 15:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PTER AF IT MK |
| 07SKOPJE257 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL KILLION'S [...] (SBU) Welcome to Macedonia! Your visit to Skopje will give you the chance to hear the Macedonian perspective on Kosovo, to share your findings with high-level government and ethnic Albanian political leaders, and to deliver some important messages to the Macedonian government (GOM) on steps t [...] |
2007-03-30 12:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE27 |
BUNGLED MACEDONIAN ARMS SHIPMENT TO BULGARIA: [...] (C) Macedonian police intercepted and halted a shipment of military weapons bound for Bulgaria on December 14, claiming that the trucks lacked the proper paperwork and the required police escort. The shipment of machine guns and mortars was the last of four shipments of excess weapons the M [...] |
2007-01-12 16:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KOMC MASS PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE270 |
MACEDONIA: POLITICAL DIALOGUE CONTINUES -- HARD [...] (C) Since the revival of political talks between the government and eAlbanian opposition party DUI on March 7, several working-level meetings between the two sides, monitored by the U.S. and EUSR, have produced an agreed list of some 38 laws that will be subject to the Badinter principle (doub [...] |
2007-04-06 10:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE283 |
MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES PRIME MINISTER FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador met with PM Gruevski April 11 to press him for greater flexibility in meeting eAlbanian opposition DUI's demands in exchange for DUI's commitment to end its boycott of Parliament. Gruevski asserted he had already conceded much of what DUI wanted in terms of a list of laws r [...] |
2007-04-16 06:48:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MK SY |
| 07SKOPJE290 |
MACEDONIA: CONTROVERSIAL ORTHODOX CHURCH FIGURE TO [...] (U) Zoran Vraniskovski, the defrocked Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) bishop recognized by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) as Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid, likely will be released from prison on May 1, after serving nine months of a one-year sentence for an embezzlement conviction (reftel). Vr [...] |
2007-04-17 08:49:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF MK |
| 07SKOPJE292 |
MACEDONIA: REPRESENTATION AT THE MEETING OF THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IQ MK |
| 07SKOPJE294 |
MACEDONIA: STAFFDEL KILLION'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Staffdel Killion met with senior Macedonian government (GOM) officials and with representatives of the two major eAlbanian parties (opposition DUI and governing DPA) during a visit to Skopje April 4. Both government and opposition interlocutors expressed support for the Ahtisaari plan o [...] |
2007-04-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MK PGOV PINR PREL |
| 07SKOPJE295 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS ROSEMARY [...] (SBU) Welcome back to Skopje! Your visit allows us to reinforce messages to both government and opposition delivered during recent stops in Skopje by A/S Fried, DASD Fata, and Staffdel Killion. Those messages are: --Continue political dialogue to achieve concrete results and end DUI's boyco [...] |
2007-04-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE296 |
MACEDONIA: GLASS HALF FULL -- FORGING AHEAD ON [...] (C) Following high-level leadership discussions April 13 and 16, PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition DUI leader Ahmeti reached a compromise on a key DUI demand to reconstitute the Parliamentary Inter-ethnic Relations Committee. They did not reach agreement on a list of laws that would requir [...] |
2007-04-18 16:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE299 |
MACEDONIA: TIP SOLICITATION FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY07 [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, we recommend for funding the following two anti-TIP projects for G/TIP-managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE funds, as described in paragraphs 2 and 3. Post believes both proposals address G/TIP criteria for projects that focus on strengthening rule of law and the criminal [...] |
2007-04-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MK |
| 07SKOPJE30 |
MACEDONIA: PEACEFUL LOCAL BY-ELECTIONS IN SARAJ [...] (SBU) Local by-elections in the predominantly eAlbanian municipality of Saraj on January 14 were generally peaceful, confounding predictions by some local analysts of a violent contest between rival eAlbanian parties DPA and DUI. Along with a number of international community (IC) pre-election [...] |
2007-01-16 11:23:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE32 |
MACEDONIA: REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE FOR MANPADS [...] (SBU) Embassy Skopje requests USG assistance for MANPADS destruction in Macedonia, as first described in reftel. The request is for a USG training team to visit Macedonia for 8 (eight) days, including travel time to/from Macedonia, to train and assist Macedonian authorities in destroying 156 [...] |
2007-01-16 16:21:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MARR MK |
| 07SKOPJE321 |
MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES DUI'S AHMETI TO MOVE [...] (C) During an April 20 meeting at the Embassy, the Ambassador pressed DUI (eAlbanian opposition) leader Ahmeti to demonstrate greater flexibility in hammering out a compromise with the government on key DUI concerns that would end that party's parliamentary boycott. She warned Ahmeti that, if [...] |
2007-04-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE334 |
MACEDONIA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT PSI EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-27 08:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PAARM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE335 |
MACEDONIA WILL MAINTAIN TROOP SUPPORT FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV IQ MK |
| 07SKOPJE336 |
MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO MEETINGS WITH GOM AND [...] (C) During April 23 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, DAS DiCarlo emphasized the need for the GOM to move forward on NATO-related reforms as time is running out for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership in 2008. Of utmost importance is resolving the ongoing politica [...] |
2007-04-27 14:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE350 |
MACEDONIA: TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE351 |
MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA FOR THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-10 11:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC MK |
| 07SKOPJE365 |
MACEDONIA: POLICE LAUNCH ANTI-TIP RAIDS IN WESTERN [...] (U) Four recent government (GOM) anti-TIP raids in western Macedonia in April and May highlight the GOM's increased anti-TIP efforts at the operational level. Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials acknowledge the initial raid was flawed, but have since provided better victim protection and evi [...] |
2007-05-14 11:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
| 07SKOPJE38 |
MACEDONIA ON NEW IRAQ STRATEGY -- WILL STAY THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ MK |
| 07SKOPJE387 |
MACEDONIA: DIALOGUE -- LIGHT AT THE END OF THE [...] (C) The political dialogue process between governing VMRO-DPMNE and major eAlbanian opposition DUI appears to be coming to closure, with a possible compromise on the main agenda items DUI had proposed when the talks were revived in early March. Following intensive Embassy and EUSR pressure on [...] |
2007-05-17 07:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE39 |
MACEDONIA: MANAGING POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM THE [...] (C) The ICTY's impending return to Macedonian jurisdiction of four unindicted cases which deal with acts allegedly committed by ethnic Albanians (eAlbanians) during the 2001 conflict will raise political tensions here. The ethnic Albanian opposition party DUI will argue, possibly with some ju [...] |
2007-01-17 14:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK |
| 07SKOPJE391 |
MACEDONIA WILL SUBMIT 'NIL FORM' FOR HCOC ANNUAL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE MK |
| 07SKOPJE392 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC MK |
| 07SKOPJE394 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT SUCCESSFULLY WOOS SMALL [...] (U) In a long-anticipated about-face, the small ethnic Albanian opposition Party for Democratic Prosperity (PDP) joined the government on May 18. Although PDP holds three MP seats, only MP Abdulhadi Vejseli, the party president, left the opposition coalition with ethnic Albanian majority oppo [...] |
2007-05-21 10:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE397 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION REACH [...] (SBU) After several months of political talks (reftel), governing VMRO-DPMNE and eAlbanian opposition DUI have reached agreement on the text of a draft proposal that addresses DUI's key policy concerns and would end that party's parliamentary boycott. DUI President Ahmeti wants the agreement [...] |
2007-05-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE404 |
MACEDONIA: BUILDING TIES WITH KOSOVO [...] (SBU) During his May 17 visit to Pristina, PM Gruevski reiterated Macedonia's support for the Ahtisaari plan and for a UNSCR that would allow for implementation of that plan. Gruevski had constructive talks with Kosovo PM Ceku and other Kosovar officials on demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia [...] |
2007-05-22 12:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE411 |
MACEDONIA LIKELY TO OPPOSE DRAFT OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-23 17:03:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE412 |
MACEDONIAN ISLAMIC LEADERS ON WAHHABISM, [...] (SBU) Key Islamic leaders in Macedonia report a slight decline in the influence of Wahhabists in their muftiates. The leaders are focused on denationalization of land that formerly belonged to them, and blame their current financial challenges on the slow pace of denationalization. Sustained [...] |
2007-05-23 17:08:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF MK |
| 07SKOPJE415 |
MACEDONIA: POLICE RAID IN TANUSEVCI -- NO REPEAT [...] (SBU) Early in the morning of May 23, Macedonian police raided several houses in the rural village of Tanusevci, north of Skopje on the Kosovo-Macedonia border, in an operation aimed at uncovering an illegal arms cache. The raid netted only a few rifles but briefly revived ghosts from Macedo [...] |
2007-05-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE416 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR POTUS LUNCH WITH A-3 [...] (C) Now in his ninth month in office, Prime Minister Gruevski will arrive in Tirana hoping for an encouraging message on NATO membership and looking for U.S. recognition of Macedonia's GWOT efforts and its constructive stance on Kosovo. It would be useful for him to hear a strong message on t [...] |
2007-05-25 15:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE418 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CONCLUDE [...] (C) Governing VMRO-DPMNE and eAlbanian main opposition party DUI concluded a U.S.-EU-brokered political agreement on May 29 that addresses DUI's key policy concerns and paves the way for that party's return to Parliament May 30. Governing coalition partner DPA, angered over DUI's inflated clai [...] |
2007-05-29 14:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE434 |
MACEDONIA: REGIONAL OPERATION DISRUPTS ELABORATE [...] (SBU) The conclusion of the regional anti-trafficking "Operation Danube" led to the arrest of 19 Macedonian citizens on TIP-related charges on May 29. Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials credit good regional cooperation and the use of special investigative measures for the success of the ope [...] |
2007-06-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
| 07SKOPJE449 |
MACEDONIA: THE NAME ISSUE AND NATO MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Strict adherence to the 1995 Interim Agreement (IA) between Greece and Macedonia should remain central to preventing the name dispute from blocking Macedonia's membership in NATO, once it has met membership standards. A Greek threat to veto Macedonia's membership in NATO, or to withhold p [...] |
2007-06-06 13:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
| 07SKOPJE454 |
MACEDONIA: ALBANIAN FM BASHA'S JUNE 1 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) During his first official visit to Skopje June 1, Albanian Foreign Minister Basha and FM Milososki discussed their hopes for a positive US signal on NATO membership for Adriatic Charter aspirants during President Bush's upcoming visit to Tirana. They considered stronger cooperation on EU [...] |
2007-06-07 14:47:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AL MK |
| 07SKOPJE456 |
MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI SURVIVES NO CONFIDENCE [...] (C) The government survived a no-confidence vote June 7 tabled by the opposition SDSM party to protest PM Gruevski's alleged feuding with coalition partners and "failure to advance judicial reforms." While the high-stakes no-confidence gamble was playing out, Gruevski also faced the threat of [...] |
2007-06-08 12:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE465 |
MACEDONIAN MILITARY ASSUMES CONTROL OF KFOR [...] (U) On June 7, the NATO HQs in Skopje formally returned all operational control of Camp Able Sentry (CAS) to the Macedonian military, in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Defense, the CHOD, the Ambassador, and the NATO HQ Senior Military Commander. The handover took place after nearly th [...] |
2007-06-12 12:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KS MK |
| 07SKOPJE476 |
MACEDONIA: SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS ON JUDICIAL [...] (SBU) Since independence in 1991, Macedonia has demonstrated slow but steady progress on judicial reforms. In Freedom House's "Judicial Framework and Independence Ratings for 2006," Macedonia currently ranks number two in the region, behind only NATO and EU member Bulgaria, and well ahead of t [...] |
2007-06-19 08:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE483 |
MACEDONIA: GOM PLEDGES CONTINUED FOCUS ON NATO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A points on NATO enlargement and required reform steps to Deputy FM Petrov and National NATO Coordinator Dimitrov on June 19. In response, Petrov reiterated the GOM's commitment to focusing on NATO reforms, but noted challenges the government faces in passing [...] |
2007-06-20 17:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE492 |
MACEDONIA: PROGRESS PROSECUTING CORRUPTION CASES [...] (SBU) In recent months, Macedonia's justice system has convicted defendants on corruption-related charges in four separate, unrelated court cases. Several former government officials were among those convicted. Encouragingly, the courts demonstrated improved efficiency in these cases (in par [...] |
2007-06-22 11:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR KCRM KJUS PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE498 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EAPC SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Macedonia's leaders are hoping to showcase the country's organizational and logistics capabilities in hosting the EAPC summit, which will be set amidst the impressive natural beauty of Lake Ohrid. They have heard and understood our message on the steps they need to take to strengthen th [...] |
2007-06-25 13:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE50 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS KOSOVO STATUS TIMELINE [...] (C) In a January 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Milososki confirmed the GOM's support for Ahtisaari's Kosovo final status timeline (reftel), and agreed on the importance of close coordination between the U.S., the EU and the UN on the matter. The Ambassador assured Milososki [...] |
2007-01-19 15:48:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE508 |
MACEDONIA: EASTERN BORDER REGION'S ECONOMIC WOES [...] (SBU) In the last several years, economically depressed rural eastern Macedonia has become Macedonia's main source of internal victims of trafficking-in-persons (TIP), a trend that is driven largely by the dire economic circumstances there. The January 2007 introduction of a visa requirement [...] |
2007-06-26 13:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE533 |
MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR NULAND URGES PRESIDENT AND [...] (U) During separate meetings with President Crvenkovski and PM Gruevski on the margins of the NATO EAPC Security Forum in Ohrid June 29, Ambassador Nuland urged the GOM to maintain steady progress toward meeting NATO standards in the crucial months leading up to NATO's Bucharest Summit in April [...] |
2007-07-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE539 |
MACEDONIA: ADRIATIC CHARTER & NEW PFP MEMBERS [...] (SBU) During an Adriatic Charter (Albania, Croatia, Macedonia) Partnership Commission in Ohrid June 28, USNATO Ambassador Nuland urged the A-3 aspirant countries to: accelerate progress on NATO reforms, demonstrate and describe their readiness for membership in demarches to other NATO Allies, [...] |
2007-07-06 13:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK CR AL |
| 07SKOPJE550 |
MACEDONIA SUCCESSFULLY HOSTS EAPC SECURITY FORUM [...] (U) The GOM hosted NATO's second Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum in Ohrid June 28-29. A total of 500 individual participants from 48 EAPC nations took part in the forum; 16 countries were represented at the ministerial level. USNATO Ambassador Nuland led the U.S. del [...] |
2007-07-10 09:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE559 |
MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR DAS BUTLER AND DASD [...] (SBU) Macedonia is a small but effective contributor to global peace operations. The Army of the Republic of Macedonia (ARM) currently contributes 40 troops to international operations in Iraq; 130 troops to NATO's ISAF mission in Afghanistan; 20 troops to the EUFOR mission in Bosnia-Herzegov [...] |
2007-07-11 16:41:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE567 |
MACEDONIA: IMPLEMENTING THE MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Implementation of the May 29 agreement between governing VMRO-DPMNE and opposition DUI (reftels) began July 9 with the first meeting of separate working groups on a draft law on the use of languages, and on a package of social benefits for victims of the 2001 conflict. Consistent USG p [...] |
2007-07-12 15:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO PINR MK |
| 07SKOPJE57 |
MACEDONIA: STATUS OF SECTION 1206 PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-23 11:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE579 |
MACEDONIA: MIXED PROGRESS ON THE ANTI-TIP FRONT [...] (SBU) Recent anti-TIP raids, TIP convictions, and the arrest of a fugitive convicted of trafficking indicate the Macedonian government is sustaining its anti-TIP efforts, which intensified in the first quarter of 2007 (reftel). Despite that progress, the police need to redouble and refocus ef [...] |
2007-07-18 11:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
| 07SKOPJE601 |
MACEDONIA COMMITTED TO STAYING THE COURSE IN IRAQ [...] (U) NEA DAS Butler, together with OSD and JCS representatives, was in Skopje July 15-16 to thank the GOM for its troop contributions to missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. DATT and POLOFF (notetaker) accompanied the delegation. DAS Butler thanked GOM officials for their strong support for coal [...] |
2007-07-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE611 |
MACEDONIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] (U) I am declaring a disaster in Macedonia for the loss of property, loss of livelihoods, and actual and potential loss of life caused by heat wave-related wildfires currently raging throughout Macedonia, and am requesting USD 50,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. The Governmen [...] |
2007-07-25 16:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI EAID PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE612 |
MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNESCO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNESCO MK |
| 07SKOPJE615 |
MACEDONIA: COURT NETS "BIG FISH" CORRUPTION CASE [...] (SBU) The July 18 conviction and sentencing to four years in prison for former Export Import Bank director Metodija Smilenski demonstrates that the Macedonian judicial system is capable of swift, efficient, and non-partisan action. One of Macedonia's "big fish" corruption case defendants, Smi [...] |
2007-07-26 15:59:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR MK |
| 07SKOPJE616 |
MACEDONIA: MTAG: MIKROSAM EXPORTS OF FILAMENT [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points on Mikrosam's export of filament winding machines to MinEcon State Counselor for Trade Krum Efremov on July 25. Efremov was pleased to hear that the USG had no objections to the GOM issuing [...] |
2007-07-26 16:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL CH MK |
| 07SKOPJE62 |
MACEDONIA WILL ATTEND JANUARY 26 NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. (SBU) Drawing on reftel, P/E Chief delivered points on U.S. objectives for the January 26 NATO Informal Foreign Ministerial to MFA State Secretary Igor Ilievski on January 18. PEChief conveyed USG gratitude for Macedonia's troop co [...] |
2007-01-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO MK |
| 07SKOPJE629 |
MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON WAY AHEAD FOR NATO [...] (C) During a July 31 tete-a-tete lunch, PM Gruevski outlined what he considers to be the remaining tasks for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership: implement the May 29 VMRO-DUI agreement, fully constitute the State Judicial Council, and pass a liberal religious freedom law. He also s [...] |
2007-08-01 16:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MK |
| 07SKOPJE633 |
MACEDONIA: STRIPPED OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY, [...] (SBU) In a dramatic midnight session August 1, the Parliamentary Committee on Immunity revoked the parliamentary immunity of former Prime Minister and current opposition SDSM MP Vlado Buckovski. After being stripped of his immunity, Buckovski appeared in front of an investigative judge on Au [...] |
2007-08-03 14:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
| 07SKOPJE667 |
MACEDONIA: MTAG ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK PROVIDED TO [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL CH MK |
| 07SKOPJE682 |
MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT US CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel diplomatic note and CV for Ms. Felice Gaer to MFA Head of Sector Multilateral Relations Goran Stevcevski on August 10. Stevcevski said the GOM will support the re-election of Ms. Gaer to the UN Committee Against Torture. MILOVANOVIC [...] |
2007-08-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE695 |
MACEDONIA: A/S O'BRIEN VISIT HIGHLIGHTS TERRORISM [...] (SBU) During his June 11-12 visit, A/S Patrick O'Brien encouraged Macedonian government officials to continue strengthening the country's counter-terrorism financing and anti-money laundering law, as well as those institutions responsible for implementation of the law. O'Brien applauded the [...] |
2007-08-22 08:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN PTER EFIN PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE698 |
MACEDONIA: GOM SUSPECTS ESCAPED KOSOVO CRIMINALS [...] (S) On August 23, Macedonian Ministry of Interior (MOI) Director of Public Security, Ljupco Todorovski, told us that according to GOM intelligence sources, at least two of the criminals who escaped from a Kosovo prison (ref) are in Macedonia near the border with Kosovo. He also said the esca [...] |
2007-08-23 17:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | SECRET | PGOV KCRM PINR PTER ASEC KV MK |
| 07SKOPJE699 |
MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS EX-PM'S IMMUNITY [...] (SBU) On August 20, the Macedonian Parliament voted to revoke the immunity of former Prime Minister and current opposition MP Vlado Buckovski. Buckovski is being investigated by the Macedonian authorities for alleged irregularities in procurement while he was Minister of Defense in 2001 (Ref [...] |
2007-08-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR MK |
| 07SKOPJE709 |
MACEDONIA: MOVING TOWARD EARLY ELECTIONS? [...] (C) According to a high-ranking MFA contact, PM Gruevski increasingly favors calling early general elections to capitalize on his high poll ratings and to end intra-coalition squabbling he believes is hobbling his economic development agenda. Gruevski believes he could work more efficiently w [...] |
2007-08-30 16:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE712 |
MACEDONIA: MOI CONSIDERS PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) The GOM is actively considering a non-violent approach to resolving the current standoff with former ethnic Albanian MP Xhezair Shaqiri, who is holed up in the village of Tanusevci on the Macedonia-Kosovo border (reftel) to avoid arrest on kidnapping charges. The approach includes offering [...] |
2007-08-31 15:36:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK KV |
| 07SKOPJE719 |
MACEDONIA: EARLY ELECTIONS NIPPED IN THE BUD? [...] (C) The prospect of early elections in Macedonia probably has receded following a joint U.S.-EU demarche September 4 to relay points to Prime Minister Gruevski's cabinet on the potential risks to the country's Euro-Atlantic aspirations of such action. However, the early elections option could [...] |
2007-09-05 16:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE72 |
MACEDONIA: SUMMARY OF DECEMBER PSI OEG MEETING [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE730 |
MACEDONIAN: ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES WOULD ALLOW [...] (SBU) Following more than six months of talks between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and a group of MPs from the smaller ethnic minority communities (Turks, Serbs, Bosniacs, Roma, Vlachs), the government announced on August 27 that it would seek to amend the electoral code to guarantee ten new [...] |
2007-09-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE732 |
MACEDONIA: UNGA HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (U) As requested in reftel on planned high-level attendance at the 62nd UN General Assembly, please find below planned GOM attendance. A. Head of State, President Branko Crvenkovski, will attend UNGA. -- Branko Crvenkovski, President -- Arrival September 22, 2007; departure September 2 [...] |
2007-09-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE735 |
MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT PULLS TEXTBOOK DEEMED [...] (SBU) On September 7, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced it would withdraw from circulation a high school history textbook deemed offensive to Muslims because it included a portrait of the Prophet Mohamed, which is forbidden under Islam. According to the MOE, the textbook, used by 9th [...] |
2007-09-10 16:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 07SKOPJE736 |
MACEDONIA: POLICE CHIEF KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH [...] (SBU) A local police station chief was killed, and two of his colleagues wounded, in a September 10 firefight with an ethnic Albanian fugitive and his accomplices near the village of Vaksince, near the Kosovo border. It is not clear whether the fugitive and his accomplices ambushed the polic [...] |
2007-09-11 06:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MK PGOV PREL KV |
| 07SKOPJE737 |
MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR STANDING [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-11 08:35:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC MK |
| 07SKOPJE738 |
MACEDONIAN FIRST LADY WILL NOT ATTEND LUNCHEON ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-11 11:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA MK |
| 07SKOPJE739 |
MACEDONIA: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE VOICES" IN MUSLIM [...] (SBU) CONTEXT: In Macedonia, there is a rough correlation between religion and ethnicity; most ethnic Albanians, who comprise 25 percent of the total population, are Muslim, as are most Roma and ethnic Turks. There are also smaller populations of ethnic Macedonian Muslims. Macedonia's Muslim [...] |
2007-09-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA: STIFF TIP SENTENCES AND ANOTHER [...] (SBU) On September 7, a Skopje Court handed down trafficking-in-persons (TIP) sentences of between two and nine years in prison to 18 defendants in the "Operation Danube" trial (ref A) and ordered forfeiture of the defendants' assets involved. Two days later, the police conducted an anti-TI [...] |
2007-09-11 14:00:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MK |
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MACEDONIA: MFA IS ALIGNED WITH USG THINKING ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK KV |
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MACEDONIA: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) USG efforts in Macedonia to protect and promote human rights focus on strengthening rule of law, decreasing political influence on and corruption in the security forces and judiciary, and capacity building to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society. 2. (U) Embassy officials [...] |
2007-09-13 14:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA SUPPORTS FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-27 02:45:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP MK |
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MACEDONIA: NEW DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, [...] (SBU) On September 11, President Crvenkovski appointed Viktor Dimovski, who had been serving until then as Macedonia's Ambassador in Belgrade, to be the director of the Macedonian Intelligence Agency (MIA). Dimovski replaced Kire Naumov, who resigned, "due to personal reasons," at the end o [...] |
2007-09-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
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MACEDONIA: KICK-STARTING MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Governing VMRO and ethnic opposition DUI have made slight progress toward implementing their five-point May 29 agreement (ref A), with tentative steps toward codifying a list of 46 laws that would require a qualified (Badinter) majority, and the government having approved a draft law on co [...] |
2007-09-17 15:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA: PROPOSED ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES STUCK [...] (C) The GOM faces determined political resistance to its proposed electoral code amendments, which would guarantee an additional 10 seats for smaller ethnic minorities and three seats for the diaspora (ref A). The government proposal also has come under critical international scrutiny over the [...] |
2007-09-18 07:15:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON COHABITATION CHALLENGES [...] (C) President Crvenkovski outlined for the Ambassador on September 19 his proposal for working with Prime Minister Gruevski to improve cohabitation and to resolve the issue of composing the State Judicial Council (SJC), a key NATO membership-related task. Gruevski's initial crude rebuff of th [...] |
2007-09-20 07:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK KV |
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MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON NAME ISSUE, KOSOVO, [...] (C) During a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador to discuss cohabitation challenges (ref A), President Crvenkovski expressed concern that Macedonia might be pushed to the wall in its name dispute with Greece before the 2008 NATO Summit, underscored that there is no difference between Skop [...] |
2007-09-20 15:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR MK KV |
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MACEDONIA SUPPORTS U.S. PRIORITIES FOR 62ND UNGA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA MK |
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MACEDONIA CONSIDERS SYMBOLIC CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-24 09:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSCE LE PTER MK |
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MACEDONIA: MFA ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-24 09:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV MK |
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MACEDONIA: DEADLOCK ON STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL [...] (C) On September 20, PM Gruevski and President Crvenkovski met to follow up on the President's initiative to improve cohabitation and break the deadlock on the State Judicial Council (SJC) and the appointment of Macedonian ambassadors. Later that day, the President, with the Prime Minister's [...] |
2007-09-24 16:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT BRAWL MARS RESOLUTION OF [...] (SBU) A brawl in parliament between MPs of ethnic Albanian DPA (governing coalition partner) and DUI (opposition) on September 25 overshadowed DUI's agreement to support a proposal (reftel) to break a long-standing deadlock on composition of the State Judicial Council (SJC), a key Macedonian j [...] |
2007-09-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MK |
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AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES INVESTMENT BARRIERS AND [...] (SBU) During a September 25 meeting with Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Zoran Stavreski, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding three outstanding investment issues: questions surrounding the GOM's decision on a recent power plant privatization, steps the GOM should take to ensure the p [...] |
2007-09-28 12:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON ENRG PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-02 14:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UNAUS PHUM KWMN SOCI MK |
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MACEDONIA: GOM POSITIVELY CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) Following up on DASD Cagan's September 28 meetings in Skopje with MOD Elenovski and CHOD Stojanovski to request an additional Macedonian platoon for operations in Iraq (septel), P/E Chief conveyed Cagan's points in separate meetings with MFA State Counselor for Bilateral Relations with N [...] |
2007-10-09 08:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MASS MK PGOV PREL |
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MACEDONIA: TENSIONS EBB AFTER PARLIAMENTARY BRAWL, [...] (SBU) A week after the September 25 brawl in Parliament between ethnic Albanian MPs (ref A), tensions have ebbed and the government on October 4 succeeded in corralling the votes of the smaller ethnic minority parties to elect four of the remaining five members of the 15-member State Judicial [...] |
2007-10-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MK |
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MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO FOCUSES ON NATO REFORMS, [...] (C) In meetings with government leaders in Skopje October 9-10, DAS DiCarlo told her interlocutors that time is running out for Macedonia to show more concrete progress on reforms required for NATO membership, including enhanced political dialogue, improved President-PM cohabitation, and imple [...] |
2007-10-18 16:28:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MK GR |
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MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO'S OCTOBER 10 MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) During a meeting with DAS DiCarlo in Skopje on October 10, opposition DUI President Ahmeti said implementation of the May 29 Agreement was moving too slowly, and that he would ask governing VMRO for a deadline for concrete results from ongoing working group discussions. He was non-commi [...] |
2007-10-18 16:30:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
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MACEDONIA: NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) After consulting with members of the country team, Post has identified Xhane Kreshova (Dzane Kresova) as this year's Woman of Courage. Ms. Kreshova has been notified of her nomination. BIO DATA 2. (U) Name of the nominee: Xhane Kreshova In passport: Dzane Kresova Job title/associ [...] |
2007-10-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM MK |
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MACEDONIA: MANAGING THE NAME ISSUE AND A NATO [...] (C) Embassy Athens presents a clear assessment of the name issue and Macedonia's NATO membership prospects (ref A). We share Athens, preference for preparing joint recommendations to Washington, but in this case our two Missions differ substantially in their assumptions, analysis, recommendati [...] |
2007-10-22 16:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK GR |
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