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00HELSINKI2613	FINNISH PRESIDENT HALONEN'S JUNE 7 [...] (C) FINNISH PRESIDENT TARJA HALONEN TRAVELED TO MOSCOW JUNE 7 FOR THE FINLAND-RUSSIA SUMMIT AND HER FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO PROVIDE THE LEADERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIZE EACH OTHER UP. OVERALL THE FINNS WERE IMPRESSED WITH PUTIN'S GRAS [...]	2000-06-12 13:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FI EUN RU

00TASHKENT4223	KARIMOV URGES CLOSER COOPERATION WITH U.S., COMMITS TO FRANK AIRING OF DIFFERENCES [...] (c) summary: on November 1, the ambassador presented credentials to president Karimov. This was followed by a spirited discussion of about one hour during which Karimov argued for deeper cooperation with the u.s., charged Russia with maneuvering to restore hegemony in central Asia, and outlined the [...]	2000-11-02 11:55:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER RU AF UZ
01VATICAN2955	VATICAN VERBATIM [...] THE MAY 26 - JUNE 01 EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VATICAN CITY. CONTENTS: - POPE SENDS ENVOYS TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINIAN TERRITORY - CONSISTORY: OUTREACH TO THE ORTHODOX? - VATICAN CALLS NUTRITION AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHT - POPE'S UKRAINE TRIP NOT A THREAT SAYS VATICAN FM - POPE W [...]	2001-06-01 14:43:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM EAGR IS AM KZ BU UP GT MEPP RU
02KATHMANDU2502	NEPAL: MILITARY AID RUNS AGROUND ON THE SHOALS OF [...] (C) Summary: Delivery of M16A2 rifles for the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA),already two months later than scheduled, was delayed again on December 24 when the Government of India (GOI) denied overflight permission for the transport plane. The delay makes the US arms shipment the third in a string [...]	2002-12-31 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	IN NP PGOV PTER RU
02VATICAN2239	VATICAN MFA TICKED OFF AT RUSSIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: VATICAN MFA RUSSIA DIRECTOR TRICARICO IS UNHAPPY AND AGITATED ABOUT THE GOR REFUSAL OF VISAS TO CATHOLIC CLERGY, ESPECIALLY TO BISHOP MAZUR. HE BELIEVES THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE GOR MUST HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE NEW CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATICA 0223 [...]	2002-05-08 14:30:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF VT RU VTPREL
02VATICAN2291	RUSSIANS IN ROME SAY ORTHODOX/VATICAN TENSIONS ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS, DCM MET SEPARATELY WITH FATHER MARCEL GUARNIZO, PRESIDENT OF THE AID TO THE CHURCH IN RUSSIA, FATHER FILIPP OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN ROME, AND DIMITRI SHTODIN, DCM AT THE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATIC [...]	2002-05-10 14:42:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IT VT RU
02VATICAN3492	VATICAN CONCERNED BY DRAFT RUSSIAN VISA RULES [...] (C) SUMMARY: VATICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIGLIORE TOLD DCM JULY 12 THAT A NEW RUSSIAN DRAFT LAW ON RELIGIOUS WORKER VISAS COULD HAVE A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THE CHURCH'S ABILITY TO OPERATE IN RUSSIA. FOR EXAMPLE, MIGLIORE INDICATED THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S OPERATIONS IN IRKUTSK WOULD [...]	2002-07-15 12:48:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM VT RU
02VATICAN3527	VATICAN KEEPING "DOORS OPEN" TO RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (C) SUMMARY: CARDINAL WALTER KASPER, THE VATICAN OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY (INCLUDING THE DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH) SAID THAT THE HOLY CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATICA 03527 01 OF 02 170549Z SEE'S ATTEMPTS AT DIALOGUE WITH THE RUSSIAN [...]	2002-07-17 05:52:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF VT RU VTPREL
03RANGOON147	RUSSIAN MIGS AND REACTORS [...] (C) Summary: Russia now has the only bilateral military and technical cooperation agreement with Burma, according to a Rangoon-based Russian diplomat. A draft agreement for the sale of a 10 megawatt research reactor was approved by the Russian government last year and is now under study by the [...]	2003-02-04 08:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM MARR BM IAEA BNUC RU
03THEHAGUE2508	RUSSIAN DEPUTY FM TRUBNIKOV ON MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: At a September 30 bilateral meeting in The Hague, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Trubnikov told EUR/SNEC Ambassador Perina that he would soon be calling the Deputy Secretary with specific ideas on how the U.S. and Russia can cooperate on Moldova. Trubnikov claimed that he [...]	2003-10-02 11:11:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD PARM NL RU OSCE EUN
03THEHAGUE2573	MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS BRIEF CIO DE HOOP SCHEFFER, [...] (C) Summary: In Paris October 2, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs held separate discussions with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, urging the two sides to quickly arrange meetings between the two presidents and announcing their desire to visit the region soon after the Azeri elections. [...]	2003-10-07 15:08:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ PARM NL RU OSCE EUN
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
04BRASILIA2890	BRAZIL: PUTIN PAYS A CALL [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: During his November 22 visit to Brazil, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed Brazil's bid for a permanent UNSC seat and received from Brazilian President Lula reciprocal support for Russia's accession to the WTO. However, neither side achieved its princi [...]	2004-11-24 12:11:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR TSPL ETRD EAGR BR UNSC RU
04BRATISLAVA787	GOS SEEKS REVISED BIDS IN ELECTRICITY TENDER AS [...] Summary. The GOS asked the three contenders in the privatization of a 66 percent share in the country's largest electricity producer, Slovenske Elektrarne (SE),to improve their bids. According to unofficial sources, Italian Enel offered the highest bid, followed by the Czech CEZ and Russia [...]	2004-08-24 11:46:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG LO RU
04BRUSSELS1162	U.S.-EU DISCUSS RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At U.S.-EU COEST consultations on March 16, EUR DAS Steven Pifer and EU interlocutors agreed that Russian progress on democracy and human rights and cooperation with the U.S. and EU in the former Soviet space were central to building a better strategic relationship with Russia. E [...]	2004-03-19 09:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP BO MD EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1337	EU SUMMIT: FOREIGN POLICY TOPICS [...] (SBU) The EU's March 25-26 Summit ran quickly through a series of foreign policy issues during dinner on March 25, followed up by a lunch discussion on Cyprus March 26 that lasted less than one hour. The final Conclusions (available on at ue.eu.int/latest news) consisted of language largely r [...]	2004-03-26 17:53:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZL CY IS IZ IV EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2102	EU FMS' MEETING: KEY AGENDA ITEMS AND DEMARCHE [...] (C) The EU FMs' General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting on May 17-18 will devote much of its time to Intergovernmental Conference (ICG) debates on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty. Ministers (with their Defense colleagues also participating) will also focus on ESDP is [...]	2004-05-14 15:47:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4183	U.S.-EU OSCE CONSULTS FOCUS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The September 21 U.S.-EU OSCE consultations focused largely on Russian intransigence toward outside influence in its "near abroad." Both sides agreed that the CIS Astana Declaration is an attempt to undercut the OSCE role in human rights and democratization. Similarly, the EU re [...]	2004-09-30 09:30:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
04CARACAS3434	A VIEW OF VENEZUELAN ARMS PURCHASES FROM RUSSIA [...] (C) According to Jose Rafael Gomez, a former Presidential staffer who participated in Vice President Rangel's recent trip to Moscow, the Venezuelan-Russian deal for MI-17 helicopters is not yet final because of financial issues, and might go forward initially at least with a limited number. [...]	2004-11-05 21:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETRD VE RU
04DJIBOUTI523	ENHANCING WORLDWIDE COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION [...] (C) Ambassador met April 7 at the Russian Embassy with Russia's Ambassador to Djibouti Alexandre Bregadze to note Deputy Minister Trubnikov's meeting with Deputy Secretary Armitage and to discuss the advancement of U.S.-Russian common interests in prosecuting the global war on terrorism. (see [...]	2004-04-11 07:23:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET	PREL PTER ASEC PINR DJ RU
04HELSINKI1360	ASSISTANT SECRETARY RADEMAKER'S CONVERSATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: On October 7 Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC Special Advisor Paul Janiczek, en route back to Washington from a visit to Moscow (reftel),stopped in Helsinki for consultations with the Finnish government. In separate meetings with the Ministry of For [...]	2004-10-19 13:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MCAP PINS KHDP FI UNGA RU
04HELSINKI1482	FINNISH PM VANHANEN TELLS VISITING EUR A/S JONES, [...] (C) In a November 9 meeting with Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen, visiting EUR A/S Jones reassured the Prime Minister of the importance the Bush Administration places on the transatlantic relationship, citing the President's references to outreach to Europe and the importance of both the EU and NA [...]	2004-11-19 08:16:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC ETRD EU PHUM PREL SMIG AF IZ TU FI RU
04HELSINKI1571	NATO AMBASSADOR BURNS' VISIT TO HELSINKI [...] (U) U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns visited Helsinki November 29-30. Following remarks given to the Atlantic Council of Finland at a seminar on NATO and small nations, Ambassador Burns participated in meetings with Minister of Defense Seppo Kaariainen and MFA Under Secretary for Pol [...]	2004-12-16 12:06:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR AF IZ FI NATO RU
04KUWAIT1213	(SBU) CT COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA [...] (S) Ref A requested posts to report on steps to improve US-Russian counter-terrorism (CT) coordination and communication in the field. We had already included the Russian Embassy in the G-8 CTAG meeting we hosted February 7 (ref B),and we will continue to do so. Russia has no declared intel [...]	2004-04-12 13:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PTER PREL ASEC EAIR PGOV RU
04LJUBLJANA1107	SLOVENIA: FOMIN RUPEL AND USOSCE AMB MINIKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 10 December meeting with COM and USOSCE Ambassador Stephan Minikes, FoMin Rupel set out Slovenian priorities for its OSCE CiO year, indicating a special interest in dealing with issues in Southeastern Europe. Discussion focused on Ukraine and on the need to engage the Russ [...]	2004-12-14 07:27:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SI OSCE RU
04MADRID2005	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR TDY: FS-01 LAURA [...] Laura Lochman, FS-01, 170-54-6808, requests country clearance to travel to Moscow for a TDY assignment as a Russian language student. Ms. Lochman is scheduled to arrive Moscow at 13:00, August 29, 2004, on Aeroflot 318 from Washington Dulles. Her TDY will last until completion of her Russian [...]	2004-06-01 05:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP RU
04MAPUTO565	COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (S-N/F) Summary: Reftel provided Post opportunity to finalize previous discussions with the Russian Embassy to develop a cooperative relationship between ORCA and Russian counterparts in the counterterrorism area. We envision participation by multiple Mission elements including ORCA, Econ/Pol, [...]	2004-04-27 06:14:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PREL MZ RU
04ROME2853	RUSSIA/ITALY: LAVROV REASSURES FRATTINI ON UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their July 15 meeting in Rome, FM Frattini and Russian FM Lavrov reviewed preparations for the annual Russia-Italy Summit, which will take place in Moscow "sometime in November." Frattini underlined Russia's need to "adopt western standards" concerning business regulations [...]	2004-07-22 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IT UNGA RU
04THEHAGUE1271	DUTCH MFA ON RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN PSI CORE [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-26 13:58:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC OPDC PARM PREL NL RU
04THEHAGUE2723	NETHERLANDS/EU/RUSSIA: SLOUCHING TOWARD THE SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Dutch EU Presidency, the October 19 EU-Russia troika made only limited progress toward finalizing agreements in the four "common spaces" preparation for the November 11 EU-Russia summit. Outstanding differences remain in the areas of external security (where the R [...]	2004-10-21 14:37:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PGOV ECON NL RU
04THEHAGUE3094	RUSSIA/UKRAINE/EU - ANGRY PUTIN, FIRM EU AGREE AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the Russia-EU Summit in The Hague November 24, an "angry, aggressive" President Putin demanded Ukrainian law should dictated the outcome and rejected EU interest in finding a political solution as unwarranted and unnecessary. Drawing on OSCE election monitoring conclusions, [...]	2004-11-26 14:07:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR UP NL EUN RU
04YEREVAN1651	CENTRAL BANK, MINISTRIES SCRAMBLE TO KEEP THE [...] (SBU) As the Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) Chairman Tigran Sargsyan left for his summer holiday July 19, a sharp and unexpected appreciation of the Armenian Dram (AMD) against the dollar and euro caused uncertainty and suspicion in Armenia's currency markets. With rare volatility, the dram [...]	2004-07-26 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN AM RU
04YEREVAN1662	ARMENIA TRIES TO SQUEEZE VALUE FROM DIAMONDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) While constituting only 5 percent of GDP, Armenia's rapidly expanding diamond cutting industry attracts both strong domestic attention and significant foreign investment. Precious and simple to [...]	2004-07-28 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV EIND AM RU
04YEREVAN349	ARMENIA: DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH [...] Armenia's 2003 economic performance exceeded all predictions; despite the rounds of elections and political tremors during the year, the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 13.9 percent, a record high since 1991 independence. Construction (mostly donor financed) and industry contribute [...]	2004-02-12 13:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EFIN EAID EAIR AM RU
05ANKARA6310	TURKEY-ISRAEL: NORTH-SOUTH ENERGY AND WATER LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey and Israel announced ambitious plans for energy and water links, building on earlier announcements from both countries with Russia. This North- South energy corridor is intended to complement, not compete with, the East-West Energy Corridor. For Turkey, it is important [...]	2005-10-18 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV TU IS RU
05ANKARA6769	TURKEY'S SAMSUN-CEYHAN OIL PIPELINE - BIG STEP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's long-standing preference for Samsun-Ceyhan as a Bosphorus bypass oil pipeline has moved a big step closer to fruition with the announcement that Italian oil firm ENI will collaborate with Turkish firm Calik Enerji to develop the project. While still far from a done d [...]	2005-11-17 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV TU RU BTC
05ANKARA7078	TURKEY-RUSSIA-ITALY: BLUE STREAM FANFARE AND ADO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite Turkey's hopes to spin the official opening of the Blue Stream natural gas pipeline (under the Black Sea from Russia; constructed by Italian firm ENI) into tangible support for other energy corridor/hub dreams, the leaders departed Turkey without further concrete commit [...]	2005-12-02 08:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU IT RU
05BERN2360	ADAMOV: SWISS COURT REJECTS U.S. REQUEST: ORDERS [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-29 12:04:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM CJAN PREL ENRG SZ RU
05BRATISLAVA79	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 02, 2005 [...] (SBU) Adolfo Franco, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID and David Mutchler, Cuba Senior Advisor, met with Slovak NGO and governmental representatives January 14 on Cuba issues. Franco said the highlight was his meeting with Speaker of Parliament Pavol Hruso [...]	2005-02-02 12:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM CU LO RU
05BRATISLAVA831	EUR PDAS KURT VOLKER'S MEETING WITH V-10 POLDIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 8 meeting with V-10 PolDirs, visiting EUR PDAS Kurt Volker heard frank and honest opinions -- and some colorful discussion -- about the current status of the transatlantic partnership. The PolDirs, who noted that such a meeting could never have been pulled to [...]	2005-10-08 20:42:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU IZ BO LO NATO RU
05BRUSSELS1147	RESULTS OF MARCH 16 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (SBU) In addition to postponing Croatia's accession talks (septel),EU FMs at the March 16 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) also noted positive developments in the Middle East and issued conclusions on Lebanon calling for Syria to withdraw all troops and intelligence servi [...]	2005-03-18 16:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD LE IR SU ES IN RU ICC EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1226	U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes, EU officials said: --in light of growing Russian intransigence on democracy issues, the EU is preparing a strategy on how to respond to the Russian challenge in OSCE; --Russia is blocking democracy promotion in the Counc [...]	2005-03-24 07:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1641	APRIL 25 GAERC: EU FMS DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) EU FMs' April 25 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting went much as expected (REF A),with discussion moving briskly through the day's agenda prior to FMs leaving to attend the signing ceremony for the EU Accession Treaty of Romania and Bulgaria (REF B). The EU [...]	2005-04-26 15:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID LE IZ IS ZF ZI RU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS541	FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on February 7 to key Solana adviser Kees van Rij (protect),Head of the EU Council Secretariat Policy Unit Task Force on the Caucasus, and Mario SIPDIS Mariani (protect),OSCE desk officer in the External Relations Directorate-General of the European Comm [...]	2005-02-07 13:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS
05BUCHAREST938	ROMANIA SATISFIED WITH BLACKSEAFOR OUTCOME [...] (C) Summary. Romania is satisfied with the results of the recent BLACKSEAFOR meeting, which includes an agreement allowing Black Sea states to work with non-BLACKSEAFOR states and organizations in the region, and activates the BLACKSEAFOR mission control structure for a period of one year, al [...]	2005-04-15 11:32:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PARM TU RS GG IP RO NATO RU
05HELSINKI906	FINLAND: SUPPORTING TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) The Government of Finland supports Turkish accession to the EU and the start of accession talks in October. Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari chaired the EU Independent Commission on Turkey exploring the question of Turkish membership; the Commission published its report earlier [...]	2005-08-16 12:06:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU FI RU EUN
05LJUBLJANA152	KOSOVO/WESTERN BALKANS, CROATIA'S EU ACCESSION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR/NCE Director Janet Garvey held a series of meetings in Ljubljana 4 March with key Slovenian interlocuters. Issues raised included: -- Slovenia's interest in working toward a final agreement on Kosovo this year; -- the priority Slovenia places on its relationships with its [...]	2005-03-08 04:12:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SI HR OSCE KO RU
05MANAMA1673	EUR A/S FRIED,S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Meeting Held on November 11, 2005, 18:30, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manama, Bahrain 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. A/S Dan Fried Leslie Tsou (TDY Notetaker) Russia Deputy FM Saltanov Andrei Kondakov, Economic Cooperation Director Oleg Ozerov, Middle East and North Africa Dep [...]	2005-11-14 10:59:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI BA RU
05PARIS1086	OECD/NEA MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT [...] A meeting of the Contributing Parties was held at OECD Headquarters prior to the full Committee meeting chaired by Patrick Reyners, Head of Legal Affairs, NEA. Swedish Committee representative Nystrom, was re- elected as the Committee co-chairperson representing the donor Parties. All Parties [...]	2005-02-22 08:35:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA TRGY FR TECH RU
05PARIS1510	FRENCH DISCUSS OSCE ISSUES WITH RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT [...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting March 7 with Alexander Grushko, Director of the Russian MFA's European Cooperation Department, A/S-equivalent for Security Affairs Philippe Carre told POL M/C he believed the Russians may understand they had gone too far in their efforts to diminish the OSCE, a [...]	2005-03-08 13:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PGOVE RU OSCE
05PARIS1528	MFA SAYS FRANCE-GERMANY-RUSSIA-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) During a March 8 meeting with Jean-Francois Terral, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space and the Balkans, POL M/C raised news of a March 18 meeting in Paris of the French, German, Russian and Spanish leaders. Terral said the meeting should be viewed in the context of [...]	2005-03-08 18:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU
05PARIS1573	(C) MFA OFFICIAL RETHINKS PUTIN'S ABILITIES, URGES [...] (C) Summary and comment: Jean-Francois Terral, A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space, and the Balkans, discussed a full range of related issues March 8 with POL M/C, with a particular focus on Russia and Kosovo. On Russia, Terral appeared more positive than expected on relations w [...]	2005-03-09 17:01:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PGOV FR YI RU
05PARIS1880	FRENCH RESPONSE ON ICJ NOMINATION [...] We delivered to the MFA's International Organizations directorate March 10 a diplomatic note in support of Judge Buergenthal's nomination, together with the judge's curriculum vitae. Poloff met March 21 with MFA IO advisor Didier Gonzalez, congratulating the GoF on the appointment to the ICJ [...]	2005-03-21 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CH UK NL FR UNSC UNGA RU
05PARIS579	FRENCH "EXPLAIN AND REASSURE" ON TRIP TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Barnier and Defense Minister Alliot-Marie visited Russia January 20-21 for bi-annual security consultations with their counterparts. The consultations drew higher-than-expected visibility from the French press, although an MFA contact told us that the meetings fo [...]	2005-01-31 15:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU
05PARIS6125	EUR A/S FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 1 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1, EUR A/S Daniel Fried met separately with French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, A/S-equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre, and Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. They discussed Iran, NATO, the EU, Russia, [...]	2005-09-09 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UP FR NATO EUN RU
05PARIS6486	MFA DISCUSSES COORDINATING ASSISTANCE ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez_, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, welcomed reftel demarche on promoting democratic and election reforms in Belarus, although she wondered how effective external broadcasts would be given the technical difficulties of transmitting ra [...]	2005-09-22 16:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PREL BO FR RU
05PARIS890	U.S.-RUSSIAN DISCUSSION OF U.S.-PROPOSED DRAFT [...] (S) SUMMARY. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and National Nuclear Security Administrator Linton Brooks held fruitful meetings with Director of the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy (Rosatom) Alexandr Rumyantsev to discuss a possible U.S.-Russian joint statement on counter terrorism and preve [...]	2005-02-14 06:12:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ENRG PTER KNNP RU
05PRAGUE1004	CZECHS REPORT RUSSIAN PROTEST OVER DONATION TO [...] (U) Action request: see para 4. 2. (C) Czech MOD Director of Security Policy Borkovec told DATT on July 1 that the Russians had formally protested the planned Czech donation of small arms and grenades to the EUCOM-led Georgia Security and Stability Operations. The Russian MOD on June 30 c [...]	2005-07-01 14:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MOPS PREL EZ GG RU
05PRAGUE1297	CZECH REPUBLIC: NO CODESHARING WITH THE RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-07 05:53:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EZ RU
05ROME4155	WITH A WARY EYE ON RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy's Productive Activities Minister says Italy and the EU are too dependent on Russian energy, and that truly developed countries should be self-sufficient in energy. Italy is actively pursuing alternative energy sources, such as biomass fuel, hydrogen energy, and solar p [...]	2005-12-27 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PREL KDEM SA IR IS IT IQ RU
05SOFIA2025	BULGARIA'S "ATAKA" PARTY BECOMING INCREASINGLY ANTI- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The rhetoric of the extreme nationalist party Ataka has become increasingly anti-American in recent weeks, with much of the party's wrath focused on proposed joint military facilities and Bulgaria's participation in the Iraq coalition. Neither high-profile infighting in Ataka' [...]	2005-12-09 14:34:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PINR SOCI BU RU
05SOFIA2063	RUSSIA PLAYING ENERGY HARDBALL WITH BULGARIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Stanishev's Foreign Policy Advisor, Valentin Radomirski, told the Ambassador December 12 that a Gazprom representative gave Stanishev "an ultimatum" to either renegotiate the current agreement on the purchase of natural gas or face a cutoff. In face-to-face meeti [...]	2005-12-15 15:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG MARR BU RU
05SOFIA2123	BULGARIA: BASING PROSPECTS ON TRACK DESPITE PUBLIC [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-30 10:31:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL KPAO BU RU
05STATE176974	TALABANI DISCUSSES RUSSIA, IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQI [...] (U) September 14, 6:00 P.M., New York, UNGA 2. (U) Participants: USG --- NEA A/S C. David Welch NEA PDAS Elizabeth L. Cheney Prem Kumar (NEA/I/POL notetaker) Iraq ---- President Jalal Talabani Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari President,s Chief of Staff Kameron Karadaghi U.S [...]	2005-09-23 21:19:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PGOV PREL UN IZ RU SY
05TASHKENT3414	RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN TAKE OVER GULNORA'S NIGHTCLUBS [...] (C) First Daughter Gulnora Karimova has recently spun off management of her main Tashkent nightclub complex to a group of Russian businessmen. The complex includes Basha Nightclub (now renamed "Club"),Fashion Bar and Prestige Cinema. Gulnora does not, however, seem to have given up control of [...]	2005-12-27 11:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PREL RU UZ
05TBILISI3171	VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] In response to inquiries from the Department regarding Georgian complaints of misconduct by Russian peacekeeping forces in South Ossetia, post has compiled the following list of incidents and infractions as reported by the GOG. -- September 20, 2005: Military parade in Tskhinvali. -- V [...]	2005-12-05 11:50:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GG RU
05TEGUCIGALPA786	HONDURAN FM ON UNCHR RESOLUTIONS: YES VOTE ON CUBA, ABSTENTION PLANNED ON BELARUS BUT AMB URGES YES VOTE [...] (C) Ambassador met the morning of April 13, on the margins of a G-17 meeting, with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro to verify the GOH's planned vote in favor of the UNCHR Cuba resolution. President Maduro confirmed that the GOH would vote in favor of the Cuba resolution. 2. (C) PolOff the [...]	2005-04-13 22:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM HO BO UNHRC CHR RU
05THEHAGUE3306	NETHERLANDS/RUSSIA: DUTCH SHARE U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) The Dutch share U.S. concern about the draft NGO law before the Russian Duma and have taken steps similar to those put forward reftel. On December 9, Joris Geeven (Senior Policy Officer, Human Rights Division, MFA) told poloff in response to reftel demarche that the Dutch formally expresse [...]	2005-12-12 14:39:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RU NL
05VATICAN400	ORTHODOX AND CATHOLICS PURSUE CULTURAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Holy See officials have told us recently they are encouraged by "small signs" of progress in Orthodo 2.(SBU) Holy See Country Director for Russia Monsignor Julio Murat told us that he has seen an increasing openness on the part of some Orthodox to the Vatican in recent months on cultura [...]	2005-02-07 08:09:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI VT RU
05VATICAN530	VATICAN POSITIVE ON RUSSIA TRIP [...] (C) Holy See FM Lajolo told the Ambassador November 3 that his recent trip to Russia had been a useful step forward for Vatican relations with Russia and the Orthodox Church (ROC). Lajolo said he raised with Russian FM Lavrov the Holy See's perception that Russia was captive to the Orthodox C [...]	2005-11-08 16:52:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF VT RU
05VIENNA3142	ALPBACH POLITICAL FORUM: EU UNABLE TO PROJECT [...] SUMMARY: The EU, a self-conscious "soft power," is unable or unwilling to use the potential for political clout that stems from its economic might. At the same time, EU membership holds considerable attraction for countries in the Western Balkans and beyond, and is an important inc [...]	2005-09-21 15:06:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECIN ELAB TU SR AU EUN RU CZ
05VILNIUS993	SU-27: THREE ACTION REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request for Washington agencies -- see paras 6, 8 and 12 -- and USNATO -- see para 12. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Several loose ends remain from last Friday's crash of a Russian Su-27 (ref a) in Lithuania. Senior Lithuanian officials believe that inconsistencies in Russian [...]	2005-09-21 13:08:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH NATO RU
05YEREVAN1020	SENATOR HAGEL'S VISIT TO YEREVAN [...] (SBU) In a brief stop as part of a larger trip to the region, Senator Chuck Hagel, along with EUCOM Deputy Commander Charles Wald and other DOD personnel, visited Yerevan June 2-3. During his visit the Senator discussed regional stability, military cooperation as well as progress on economic [...]	2005-06-10 03:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM AM AJ GG RU
05YEREVAN1039	ARMENIA'S ENERGY FUTURE: STAYING NUCLEAR? [...] (C) In preparation for a June 22, 2005 donor conference on the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) decommissioning and replacement alternatives, Ministry of Energy officials outlined for us Armenia's long-term energy strategy. They made three main points: -- There is no economic alternative [...]	2005-06-15 13:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EAID AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1055	IRANIAN-ARMENIAN CROSS BORDER TRADE AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) In a lead up to the Iranian presidential elections, the government of Iran (GOI) has made some efforts to increase trade with Armenia. This included hosting 60 owners of small- to medium-sized Armenian businesses for a conference in Tabriz, agreeing to open an Armenian consulate in Tabriz [...]	2005-06-16 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1058	RUSSIAN ARMS TRANSFER FROM GEORGIA TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Armenian officials have confirmed news reports that the transfer of materiel from Russian military bases in Georgia to a Russian military base in Armenia is already underway. According to Russian DCM Igor Gromyko, the transfer will not violate the conditions of the Conventional Forces in [...]	2005-06-17 02:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL PBTS AM GG RU
05YEREVAN1095	ARMENIA CHOOSING BETWEEN IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN ROLE [...] (C) As work begins on the first 42 km segment of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, Armenia is engaged in shuttle negotiations with both the Russian and Iranian governments about financing and, ultimately, control of the onward portions of the gas pipeline through Armenian territory. Deputy Minist [...]	2005-06-23 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1234	RUSSIAN ENERGY GIANT RAO-UES BUYS ARMENIAN [...] (C) Russian energy giant RAO-UES has reportedly taken over Armenia's electricity distribution company, Electricity Networks of Armenia (ElNetArm),without formally seeking approval, as required by law, from Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) or Ministry of Energy. Despite [...]	2005-07-12 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON AM GG RU
05YEREVAN1562	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM ADDRESSING THE THREAT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On August 23, Ambassador delivered reftel points to Haik Melik Darbinyan, First Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Vladimir Davidiants, Chief of Public Health and Sanitation, and Liana Torosyan, Ministry of Health Coordinat [...]	2005-08-26 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI GA AM KSTH WHO RU AZ
05YEREVAN1576	KOCHARIAN-SAAKASHVILI "UNOFFICIAL MEETINGS" [...] (SBU) On August 21, Armenian President Robert Kocharian hosted Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at his summer residence on Lake Sevan for what Armenian press characterized as an "informal" visit. Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian and his Georgian counterpart Irakly Okruashvili a [...]	2005-08-30 12:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON GG AM RU
05YEREVAN1725	GOAM FORMALLY ACCEPTS SALE OF NATIONAL ELECTRICAL [...] (C) On September 23, Armenian Minister of Energy Armen Movsisian announced that the GOAM has consented to the formal sale of the national power grid Electricity Networks of Armenia (ENA) to Interenergo B.V., a subsidiary of Russian energy giant RAO-UES. According to news reports, the GOAM con [...]	2005-09-26 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON GG AM RU
05YEREVAN1961	GOAM HAS NO MANDATE TO RESOLVE N-K, ARMENIAN CIVIL [...] (C) During an October 18 breakfast with EUR A/S Fried and Ambassadors Mann and Evans, representatives of Armenian civil society were extremely skeptical about the implementation of a Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) peace agreement. While there was some divergence of opinion, the majority of the repres [...]	2005-11-04 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM RU
05YEREVAN2129	ARMENIA HOPES FOR A DEAL ON GAZPROM'S THREATENED [...] (C) Despite Gazprom's recent announcement that, as of January 1, 2006, it plans to double the price of natural gas exports to Armenia, the GOAM appears to be holding out hope that it will be able to negotiate a deal to minimize the impact of and/or delay the price increase. According to press [...]	2005-12-08 15:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN287	RUSSIAN FM LAVROV: ARMENIA'S PLACE IS BY RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Armenia and Russia are "old friends, reliable allies and strategic partners" declared Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on February 17. The GOAM and Russia broke no new ground during the FM's high-profile visit to Yerevan February 16-17, but used the occasion to cement their existing strong relati [...]	2005-02-18 10:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AJ AM RU
05YEREVAN348	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: VISIT OF RUSSIAN [...] Although Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's 22-hour visit to Yerevan February 16-17 was standard fare, it generated intense press interest. Oppositionist media used the FM's presence to decry Armenia's dependence on Russia, while official and pro-government press praised Armenia's close ties w [...]	2005-03-01 09:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL RU
05YEREVAN391	ARMENIA LOOKING TO IRAN TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON [...] (C) In a February 25 meeting, Armenia's Minister of Energy, Armen Movsesian, told us that Armenia's energy market was too dependent on Russia, especially for the supply of gas, and that Gazprom has proved an unreliable source in the past. Armenia's number one energy priority is to complete [...]	2005-03-04 04:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN500	PUTIN'S UPCOMING VISIT TO ARMENIA: CEMENTING TIES [...] (C) Russian president Vladimir Putin will visit Yerevan March 24 to 25 on what the Russian Embassy describes as a "working visit." He will make only a few stops during his roughly 24-hour visit, and Russian diplomats told us to expect "no surprises." While the visit may be routine from Mosco [...]	2005-03-21 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN532	GOAM DEFERS TO PUTIN COMMENTS ON KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) The GOAM offered limited public reaction to the unrest in Kyrgyzstan, due to the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin which has dominated both headlines and GOAM attention. During a March 25 press conference, President Robert Kocharian deferred outright to Putin on the Kyrgyzstan issue [...]	2005-03-25 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OPDC KG AM RU
05YEREVAN575	PUTIN VISIT DEMONSTRATES KOCHARIAN'S TIGHT HOLD ON [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian's spin doctors continue to portray the March 24-25 visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most important official visit for the GOAM in recent memory. One week after Putin's whirlwind stop, however, GOAM contacts outside Kocharian's inner circle are ha [...]	2005-04-01 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN585	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: KYRGYZSTAN [...] Colored by Russian President Putin's concurrent visit (March 24-25),public comments in Armenia about the situation in Kyrgyzstan reject speculation that a similar situation exists in Armenia. Some politicians chalked up the change in Bishkek to "Western interference." Even the opposition, [...]	2005-04-04 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OPRC PREL KG AM RU
05YEREVAN637	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON RUSSIAN INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During his last press conference before the end of his posting, April 8, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Anatoliy Dryukov cited the large influx of Russian capital [...]	2005-04-12 04:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL AM RU
05YEREVAN846	RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON ARMENIAN BORDER [...] (C) A Russian Border Guard (RBG) official posted in Armenia contends that the border with Turkey is porous and that locals easily cross at will. On the margins of a routine meeting to discuss consular fraud prevention, he told us he was concerned about the possibility of corruption at the air [...]	2005-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	KFRD PGOV ASEC TU AM RU
05YEREVAN989	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO CODEL HAGEL [...] SUMMARY: On June 3, Senator Hagel led a delegation to Armenia which met with President Robert Kocharian and Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan, and which reviewed Armenia's peacekeeping battalion. Following these meetings, Senator Hagel held a press conference with more than 20 media outlets. [...]	2005-06-07 08:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KCFE OPRC PREL KPAO ZJ AM RU
06ALMATY2155	ACCESS INDUSTRIES CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES KAZAKHSTAN [...] (C) Summary: Access Industries Chairman Len Blavatnik discussed his company's Kazakhstan investments with the Ambassador on June 8. While Access is quietly offering its only Kazakhstani power plant for sale, it is simultaneously trying to buy into the Ekibastuz Gres II plant, as part of what [...]	2006-06-19 11:37:00	US Office Almaty	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL RU
06ALMATY2156	KAZAKHSTAN: EXXONMOBIL EXECS DISCUSS CPC, KASHAGAN [...] (C) Summary: ExxonMobil executives briefed the Ambassador on the company's Kazakhstani interests on June 8. Country Manager David Willis told the Ambassador that the apparent Putin-Nazarbayev political breakthrough on the issue of Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) expansion in April had not [...]	2006-06-19 11:39:00	US Office Almaty	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL RU
06AMMAN5486	TFLE01: GOJ BACKS U.S. EFFORTS WHILE SEEKING TO [...] ( C ) Summary: The GOJ wants to work with the U.S. toward a long-term improvement in southern Lebanon, but is under strong public pressure, from all sectors of society, to call publicly for an immediate ceasefire. End summary. Attacks in Arab Media Sting --------------------------- 2. (SBU) News [...]	2006-07-20 14:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE IS RU JO
06ANKARA1010	TURKEY,S MINISTER CALLS TCP DRIVING FORCE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT Energy Minister Guler appealed February 27 to Ambassador for USG support on the Trans-Caspian Pipeline fQ natural gas from Turkmenistan and Samsun-Ceyhan Bosphorus bypass oil pipeline. He welcomed cooperation with the U.S. on approaching Turkmenistan to advance TCP, as an al [...]	2006-03-01 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU IZ RU IR TX
06ANKARA1043	TURKEY TO CONSIDER CFE FLANK ENTITLEMENT REQUEST [...] (S) Per reftel, we approached the MFA on Feb. 28 and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) on Mar. 1 with our request for Turkey to consider a transfer of some of its unused CFE ground equipment entitlements to the US to allow the rotational training of US forces in Romania and Bulgaria. MFA Deputy [...]	2006-03-02 10:30:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	NATO PREL MARR KCFE PARM TU GR RO NO BU RU
06ANKARA1400	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its first meeting of 2006 on February 23. Turkey-Iran relations, February 4 IAEA decision on Iran's nuclear program, and Turkey's foreign assistance policy topped the agenda. Turkish media coverage of the meeting was wider than other months. The [...]	2006-03-16 09:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU

06ANKARA1468	SCENESETTER FOR THE 23-26 MARCH VISIT OF CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your March 23-26 visit comes at a time when progress has been made in improving the character of US-Turkish relations that frayed badly in 2003-2005. Senior level dialogue, including on the military-to-military side, has resumed; Turkey has downplayed its whining about the PDD and [...]	2006-03-21 08:27:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA2044	TURKEY: GAS AND THE GREAT RACE TO EUROPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In April 4-6 meetings in Ankara, senior Turkish officials agreed with EUR DAS Bryza on the need for rapid cooperation to facilitate export of Azerbaijani gas to Greece and Italy via a "Southern Corridor" stretching from the Caspian Sea through the South Caucasus and Turkey. A [...]	2006-04-14 12:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL TU AZ GG RU IZ IR
06ANKARA2083	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, March 2006 [...] Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) General Hilmi Ozkok gave his annual speech to the Istanbul War Academy on March 16. He noted the importance of a cohesive domestic government in the international place of a country; underlined the importance of a sound security strategy based on a st [...]	2006-04-17 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA2741	RUSSIA-TURKEY RELATIONS: KEEPING THE EAST-WEST [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has worked to improve relations with Moscow, a process fueled by booming trade centered on energy, tourism, and construction. The GOT sees engagement of Russia as part of a wider policy of seeking good relat [...]	2006-05-15 11:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET TU RU
06ANKARA3093	DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE TU
06ANKARA319	TURKEY NATURAL GAS CRISIS WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) On January 21, Iran cut its daily natural gas shipment to Turkey from almost 30 million cubic meters to 5- 10 million cm (some daily fluctuation). Coming on the heels of the Russian-Ukraine gas face-off, the current gas crisis in Georgia, and cold weather and concerns in Europe, the cut [...]	2006-01-27 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ETRD TU RU
06ANKARA331	SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT GENERAL HAGEE [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA413	TURKEY: EAST-WEST ENERGY CORRIDOR WAY FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent energy issues involving Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia have focused attention on regional transit projects via Turkey for Caspian and Middle East gas going to Southeast and Central European markets. Turkish Energy Minister Guler,s upcoming visit (REF C) to Washington offers [...]	2006-02-02 15:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU IZ RU IR
06ANKARA4145	POSITIVE TURKISH RESPONSE TO US-RUSSIAN GLOBAL [...] The Turkish Foreign Ministry made the following public announcement on July 17 in reaction to the joint U.S. - Russia Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism announced on July 15 (reftels). The MFA provided this to us in the form of a diplomatic note as well. Informal Embassy translati [...]	2006-07-17 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP IAEA RU TU
06ANKARA4241	TURKEY: ENERGY MINISTER ON CASPIAN GAS TO EUROPE [...] (C) Summary. Meeting on the margins of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline inauguration ceremonies in Istanbul on July 12, Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell and Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler reviewed Turkish-U.S. cooperation in helping Europe diversify its natural gas supplies as well [...]	2006-07-21 07:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL TU AZ GG RU
06ANKARA4728	TURKEY AND MAKING PROGRESS ON THE SOUTHERN GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In August 8 meetings in Ankara with State Department (S/P) energy advisor Steve Hellman on southern energy corridor issues, Turkish officials made clear that they were not insisting on a role for Turkey as market &consolidator8 that would buy natural gas produced in Azerbaijan fo [...]	2006-08-14 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU AZ GR RU
06ANKARA4935	TURKEY AND SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR - NUDGING JELLO [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told Ambassador August 23 that he would welcome U.S. help in facilitating meetings aimed at gaining a common, clear, commercially viable way forward on the southern gas corridor to Europe. He obsessed about the undesirability of a simple, ope [...]	2006-08-25 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GR AZ IR RU
06ANKARA5000	TURKEY: DUELING REFINERIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least three separate refinery projects in Turkey have recently been announced, emblematic of Turkey's energy hub vision and growing regional importance, as well as the progress if has made in its investment environment and economic growth. It is not clear if GOT will use st [...]	2006-08-29 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV EPET BEXP TU RU
06ANKARA5332	TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER PROMISES ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 10 meeting, DAS Matt Bryza and Energy Minister Hilmi Guler agreed to the following action steps to advance the southern gas corridor across Turkey to Europe: - Guler committed to quickly seek a bilateral meeting with Azeri Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov to di [...]	2006-09-14 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GR AZ IR RU
06ANKARA544	TURKEY SAYS IT PLANS TO CUT STRAITS OIL TRAFFIC IN [...] (sbu) SUMMARY: With oil transit traffic in the congested Turkish Straits continuing to grow, the Straits are regarded by some as nearing their capacity for maximum safe throughput. Yet, despite the commercial arguments, regional governments and oil companies have not been able to come to a [...]	2006-02-08 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU RU
06ANKARA5611	TURKEY: PUSHING EU ON SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (SBU) Summary: An Embassy-organized luncheon on September 22 brought together local EU diplomats and Turkish Foreign Ministry officials to highlight Turkey's key role in European and global energy security. MFA Energy DDG Mithat Rende called for greater engagement and visible support from t [...]	2006-09-26 11:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EINV TU RU IR
06ANKARA5745	TURKEY'S BOTAS WORRIED ABOUT SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 2 meeting, BOTAS officials expressed strong support for the southern gas corridor, but voiced concerns about developable reserves in Azerbaijan, pressure from Russia on Azerbaijan and Georgia, and how Iran's significant reserves fit into pipeline possibilities. BO [...]	2006-10-03 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EINV PREL TU GG AZ RU
06ANKARA623	DEFENSE PROCUREMENT ISSUES DOMINATE AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Air Forces (TUAF) Commander Comert, launched his initial meeting Feb. 1 with the Ambassador by laying out a series of defense equipment issues currently frustrating TUAF training and programs. Ambassador countered with USG and US industry concerns that strict Terms and C [...]	2006-02-13 06:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV TU RU IR
06ANKARA65	TURKEY WORRIES ABOUT RELIANCE ON RUSSIA NATURAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkey did not experience any recent reduction in supplies from Russia via Ukraine, but relying on Russia for 65% of its natural gas -- more than most EU countries -- Turkey watched the Russia-Ukraine gas face-off with great concern. According to Turkey's pipeline company BO [...]	2006-01-05 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ETRD TU RU
06ANKARA6530	TURKEY AGREES WITH UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: Turkey agrees with a unified approach to the conflicts in Georgia and Moldova, strongly supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of both countries, and sees no recourse except to encourage more dialogue with separatists in each case. The Turks are skeptical that a mini [...]	2006-11-29 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU TU
06BAGHDAD3329	AMBASSADOR AND TALABANI DISCUSS DEFUSING FLAG [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with President Jalal Talabani on September 5-6, the Ambassador expressed his disappointment with the timing of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani's September 1 statement on using the 1958 Iraqi flag within the KRG until a new flag had been dete [...]	2006-09-07 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY RU TU IZ
06BAKU1010	EUR DAS MATT BRYZA AND TURKISH ENERGY ENVOY MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUR DAS Matthew J. Bryza and Turkish MFA Special Energy Envoy Ambassador Mithat Balkan met with Elshad Nasirov, Vice President (marketing) of Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) on June 7 to discuss development of a new "Southern Corridor" to help Europe diversify gas supplies [...]	2006-07-12 13:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET EFIN PREL KZ RU TR
06BAKU1011	A NEW ENERGY AGENDA: EUR DAS MATT BRYZA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 6, EUR DAS Matthew Bryza and Turkish Energy Envoy Ambassador Mithat Balkan met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to discuss a new partnership on energy issues, particularly on bringing Azerbaijani gas to Europe. Foreign Minister Mammadyarov said that Az [...]	2006-07-12 13:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL AJ KZ RU TR
06BAKU1012	EUR DAS MATT BRYZA AND TURKISH ENERGY ENVOY MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUR DAS Matthew J. Bryza and Turkish Special Energy Envoy Ambassador Mithat Balkan met with Rovnag Abdullayev, President of Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) on June 7 to discuss the southern gas corridor proposal. Abdullayev said Azerbaijan is grateful for U.S. support over [...]	2006-07-12 13:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET EFIN AJ KZ RU TR
06BAKU1042	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her July 11 introductory meeting with Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov, Ambassador Derse raised the importance of WTO accession, the GOAJ's transparency and anticorruption efforts and the importance of non-oil sector development and effective management of oil revenues. She [...]	2006-07-17 12:41:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EPET PREL AJ IR RU
06BAKU1144	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH STATE BORDER SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 18 meeting with the Ambassador, State Border Services (SBS) Commander Guliyev described regional conflict as the main source of tensions along Azerbaijan,s land borders and said narcotics trafficking and illegal migration are also a problem. He highlighted the USG-SB [...]	2006-08-03 07:12:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EAID RU IR AJ KZ TX
06BAKU1147	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL AT NATIONAL BANK OF [...] SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's July 28 introductory call on National Baku of Azerbaijan (NBA) President Elman Rustamov, Rustamov said Azerbaijan's year-to-date growth hovered around 40%, while inflation over the last six months was nearly six percent. Rustamov reviewed the progress that A [...]	2006-08-03 10:15:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EPRT PREL AJ IR RU
06BAKU1176	AZERBAIJAN: RAISING THE ECONOMIC DIALOGUE AND PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 12. 2. (C) It is strongly in the U.S. interest of securing Azerbaijan as a reliable regional and global partner on critical U.S. interests, including security, energy and human rights, to support economic reform as an essential part of our broad [...]	2006-08-10 07:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EAID AJ IR RU
06BAKU1193	BP AND STATOIL UPDATE EUR DAS BRYZA ON CASPIAN GAS [...] (C) In an August 1 meeting, executives from BP and Statoil briefed EUR DAS Bryza on current prospects for increasing Caspian gas exports to European markets. BP and Statoil reported that delays in completion of the Turkish segment of the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) will force diversion of [...]	2006-08-11 13:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL PINR RU GG AJ
06BAKU1211	AIOC PRESIDENT BRIEFS ON SHAH DENIZ AND BTC [...] (C) SUMMARY: AIOC President Woodward briefed U.S. and UK emboffs August 15 on Shah Deniz and BTC operations. Woodward noted that Shah Deniz first gas could be delayed until October, with a official celebrations possible November 9-10 in Baku. The GOAJ, according to Woodward, is still interes [...]	2006-08-17 04:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL IR AJ KZ RU
06BAKU1247	CHAIRMAN LUGAR AND ENERGY EXECUTIVES DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chairman Lugar held a breakfast roundtable with international energy executives August 21 to discuss Azerbaijan's growing role as an international energy provider, the challenges facing the country as oil revenues increase and the GOAJ grapples with sustainable development. The ex [...]	2006-08-22 12:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET ENRG AJ IR RU KZ
06BAKU1295	AID COUNTRY COORDINATOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL AT [...] (SBU) USAID COUNTRY COORDINATOR PAID AN INTRODUCTORY CALL ON THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE STATE OIL FUND (SOFAZ),SHAHMAR MOVSUMOV, AUGUST 7. MOVSUMOV OUTLINED THE PLANNED INTERNAL REORGANIZATION OF SOFAZ BASED ON A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WOULD BE COMPLETED BY MID-FALL. HE ALSO DISCUSSED THE [...]	2006-08-31 12:05:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EPET PREL AJ IR RU
06BAKU1398	PRESIDENT ALIYEV TELLS GENERAL WARD THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 20 meeting with the Ambassador and Deputy EUCOM Commander General Ward, President Aliyev said that Azerbaijan wants to "increase and deepen" its relationship with the United States. He argued that US and Azerbaijani regional interests and goals "coincide," and [...]	2006-09-25 09:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO ENRG KDEM IR RU AJ
06BAKU1407	FM MAMMADYAROV DISCUSSES STRONG U.S.-AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 21 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Deputy EUCOM Commander General Ward, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov discussed the strength of U.S.-Azerbaijan relations and the Government of Azerbaijan's steady progress on democratic reform. Mammadyarov praised [...]	2006-09-26 12:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO ENRG KDEM IR RU AJ
06BAKU1432	DEFENSE MINISTER ABIYEV DISCUSSES CASPIAN SEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 21 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting EUCOM Deputy Commander General William "Kip" Ward, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Sabir Abiyev expressed concern that Russia and Iran are building up their naval forces in the Caspian Sea. Abiyev complained about I [...]	2006-10-03 05:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER AJ PBTS IR RU
06BAKU1472	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ENERGY AND GAS TO EUROPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Bryza and Ambassador Derse met with Azerbaijani Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov October 2 to discuss Azerbaijan's expanding role as an international energy supplier and to press Minister Sharifov to begin discussions with the Government of [...]	2006-10-11 04:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PREL AJ RU IR TU
06BAKU1480	LACK OF OSCE LEADERSHIP UNDERCUTS DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) With Presidential elections looming in 2008, we cannot afford to continue with weak OSCE leadership in Azerbaijan. The OSCE can and should provide coordination and leadership to the international community's efforts to promote democracy, rule of law, and respect for human rights in Azerb [...]	2006-10-11 13:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RU AJ
06BAKU154	AZERBAIJAN: MINISTRIES OF CULTURE AND SPORTS, YOUTH, [...] (U) On January 30, President Aliyev issued a decree to establish two new ministries out of two established ministries. The Ministry of Sports, Youth, and Tourism has now become simply the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The Ministry of Culture is now the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT). [...]	2006-02-02 14:27:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SCUL KPAO RU AJ
06BAKU157	RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IVANOV'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During a January 24-26 visit to Azerbaijan, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov made a highly publicized offer to sell arms to Azerbaijan, a move President Aliyev interpreted as indicative of a sea-change in Russia's relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia. Recounting his discu [...]	2006-02-03 09:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR RU AR AJ
06BAKU1582	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES U.S.-AJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 27 meeting with a visiting German Marshall Fund delegation that included six Congressional staff, President Aliyev applauded U.S.-Azerbaijani relations as "developing very successfully" across many areas, and "entering a new phase." Underscoring that Azerbaijan is a [...]	2006-10-31 13:13:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS ETRD ECON GG RU IR AJ
06BAKU1622	AZERBAIJAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPT EXPECTED TO [...] SUMMARY: At a November 3 meeting, the UK representative of International Advisors Working Group (IAWG),retired UK General Sir Garry Johnson said that Azerbaijan's National Security Concept (NSC) will likely be finished and approved by the end of 2006. Johnson reported that his role as advi [...]	2006-11-08 07:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS RU IR AJ
06BAKU1661	BP AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT SAYS AZERBAIJAN MOVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 10 Azerbaijan International Oil Company briefing, outgoing BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told the Ambassador that according to SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev, Turkey had not agreed to forego its contracted for 2007 Shah Deniz gas deliveries as a way of helping [...]	2006-11-15 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ PGOV PREL EPET ENRG RU
06BAKU1807	BP AND GOAJ CONFIRM DEAL REACHED ON SHAH DENIZ GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to BP Azerbaijan President Bill Schrader, during a December 9 meeting with SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev, SOCAR officially informed BP as the Shah Deniz Operator that that the Energy Ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia had agreed to redistribute Turkey's 200 [...]	2006-12-11 15:12:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RU GG TU AJ
06BAKU234	AZERBAIJANI FM MEETS WITH CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met February 13 with leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Mammadyarov characterized Azerbaijan's relations with the United States as a "strategic partnership" and said that Azerbaijan wants [...]	2006-02-15 13:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AM ENRG IR IS KZ PREL RU
06BAKU240	RUSSIA CONVENES G-8 MEETING ON COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S/NF) Summary: While participants at a Russian-chaired G-8 meeting on counter-terrorism issues agreed that Azerbaijan was a strong partner in the global war on terrorism, the meeting rapidly devolved into a discussion on Azerbaijan's reform record. Western countries argued that greater ref [...]	2006-02-16 07:42:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV KISL RU AJ
06BAKU327	BEYOND BTC - AZERBAIJAN SEEKS FURTHER ROLE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Azerbaijan's MFA, in cooperation with State Oil Company SOCAR, sponsored a "High-Level Meeting on the Issues of Energy Security of Europe" on February 24. Representatives of several European countries, the European Commission, and Iran attended. Although the subject matter was no [...]	2006-03-01 13:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AJ KZ GG TR RU IR
06BAKU369	SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S MARCH 13-14 TRIP TO [...] (S) Summary: We warmly welcome your March 13-14 visit and view it as much-needed opportunity to engage the highest levels of the GOAJ. Azerbaijan could play a critical role in advancing U.S. interests in energy security and a useful one in the resolution of the nuclear threat posed by Iran. [...]	2006-03-07 13:38:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL PGOV ENRG MARR KDEM PHUM IR RU AM AJ
06BAKU450	AZERBAIJAN ENERGY OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Representatives from energy sector companies operating in Azerbaijan discussed the Barmek crisis, Caucasus gas needs, changes in pipeline security agencies, trans-Caspian oil transport and offshore gas development at the Ambassador,s March Energy Forum. Participants reported tha [...]	2006-03-23 10:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON ENRG AJ RU KZ
06BAKU605	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's April 18 farewell call, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev pledged that the May 13 parliamentary rerun elections would be transparent and free. To that end, Mehdiyev said he had warned the ExComs in regions where rerun elections will take place tha [...]	2006-04-19 13:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS KDEM AM RU AJ
06BAKU660	EU SPECIAL REP SEMNEBY ON EU SOUTH CAUCASUS POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR Senior Advisor Steven Mann met with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby (Sweden) on April 22. Semneby provided a readout of his recent conversation with Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov, outlined the EU process for committing peacekeepers, [...]	2006-05-01 12:24:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL PREF PBTS PNAT AJ GG RU MD
06BAKU736	EXPORTING GAS: EB/CBA SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge and EB/CBA Special Representative Frank Mermoud met May 5 with Elshad Nasirov, Vice President of Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR). Nasirov argued that Kazakhstan is unhappy with Gazprom and is looking at alternate methods to get its gas to world markets. Nasirov o [...]	2006-05-19 06:06:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AJ KZ RU TR
06BAKU741	PORTAL MONITOR TRAINING, CALIBRATION AND MAINTENANCE - [...] SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) and the IAEA have provided, and continue to provide, radiation detection equipment and training to two different agencies within the Government of Azerbaijan resulting in a fragmented approach to the detection of radioactive material transiting the bord [...]	2006-05-19 13:01:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PBTS PREL KSTC KNNP RU AJ
06BAKU989	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her July 7 introductory meeting with Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev, Ambassador Derse raised the importance of WTO membership, development of the non-oil sector, energy security and development of the banking sector. Babayev noted that he was not satisfied with [...]	2006-07-10 16:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EPET AJ IR RU ABLD
06BAKU996	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the Ambassador's introductory calls, executives from BP and other international energy companies operating in Azerbaijan painted a complex picture of fragmented leadership within Azerbaijan's energy sector, indecision within the GOAJ over whether to move forward on new energy p [...]	2006-07-11 12:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET ENRG PREL PINR RU AJ
06BEIJING18752	MFA VIEWS ON SHOOTING OF JAPANESE FISHERMAN, RIVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE SHOOTING OF A JAPANESE FISHERMAN IN DISPUTED WATERS BY A RUSSIAN COASTAL PATROL BOAT REFLECTS LONG-STANDING TENSIONS, INCLUDING RUSSIAN FRUSTRATION AT THE QUALITY AND SPEED OF JAPANESE FISHING BOATS, ACCORDING TO A CHINESE DIPLOMAT EXPERIENCED IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST. THE MF [...]	2006-09-06 22:44:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG SENV RU JA CH
06BEIJING21219	DPRK NUCLEAR TEST THREAT: ROK, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-07 09:27:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PREL MNUC KN CH KS JA RU
06BEIJING21220	DPRK NUCLEAR TEST THREAT: VIEWS OF CHINESE [...] (S) Chinese academic and media observers are concerned about North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test and generally believe the DPRK will actually carry out its threat to test at some point. Some observers expressed skepticism that a test would come soon. The official China Daily ran o [...]	2006-10-07 11:22:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PREL MNUC CH KN KS JA RU
06BEIJING21224	REPORTED DPRK NUCLEAR TEST: RARE MFA ""STATEMENT"" [...] (S) The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a rare official ""statement"" (text at para 11) on October 9 condemning the reported DPRK nuclear test that day. China had only issued four previous MFA statements of this kind in the last decade and a half. Chinese contacts we spoke with expressed sur [...]	2006-10-09 11:50:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PREL MNUC CH KN JA KS RU
06BEIJING21227	REPORTED DPRK NUCLEAR TEST: REACTION OF BEIJING [...] (C) Officials from the Japanese, ROK, Russian, French and British Embassies in Beijing were in contact with Chinese officials October 9 about the reported DPRK nuclear test and said their capitals had made or would make statements condemning the DPRK action. The Japanese geological service re [...]	2006-10-09 12:31:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC MNUC PINR KN CH JN KS RU
06BEIJING24718	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL TO HEAD [...] (C) Although it has yet to receive a formal invitation for the second meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, China tentatively believes that Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Zhang Yan will head China's delegation to the Ankara meeting, MFA Arms Control De [...]	2006-12-21 08:38:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
06BEIJING9666	PRC/RUSSIA: BRIEFING ON RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held very productive bilateral talks with China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Russian Senior Counselor Evgueny Tomikhin told the A/DCM in a May 18 meeting. On May 16, Lavrov was received by President Hu Jintao and held extensive talks with [...]	2006-05-19 08:56:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU CH IR
06BERLIN1132	GERMANY'S GAS IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA: BACKGROUND TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Energy issues will feature in Chancellor Merkel's agenda for April 26-27 talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Siberia. Recent EU-Gazprom exchanges and German media have played up the emotional side of Russian gas deliveries to the EU. Economics Minister Glos and an al [...]	2006-04-27 05:00:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV PREL PGOV GM RU EUN
06BERLIN3354	DAS KRAMER'S VISIT TO BERLIN, NOVEMBER 17 [...] (C) (Summary) National Security Advisor Christoph Heusgen, MFA Political Director Michael Schaefer, and other senior German officials discussed Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus in meetings with DAS Kramer who visited Berlin on November 17. Schaefer and Heusgen argued that we s [...]	2006-11-22 16:16:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN GM RU UP MD GG
06BISHKEK867	SUPREME COURT DENIES ASYLUM TO FINAL UZBEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of a lower court to deny refugee status to the last of the remaining four Uzbek refugees who have been in detention since summer 2005. The court decision brings to an end the asylum seekers' lengthy legal battle to remain in Kyr [...]	2006-06-13 09:55:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM UZ RU KG
06BRATISLAVA301	LAVROV VISIT REINVIGORATED BILATERAL TALKS ON [...] (C) Summary: The working visit of Russian FM Lavrov to Slovakia focused on renewing dialogue on economic and energy issues. Lavrov expressed the Russian desire to continue supplying oil, gas, and nuclear materials for Slovakia's energy needs. On Belarus, Slovak FM Kukan reportedly was forcef [...]	2006-04-13 14:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON BO RU LO
06BRUSSELS3668	A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 20, 2006 MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR A/S Fried met Belgian FM and OSCE CiO De Gucht in Brussels on October 20. Fried and De Gucht agreed that the U.S., EU, and OSCE needed to press Russia on treatment of ethnic Georgians in Russia. De Gucht repeatedly stressed the importance of having the Secretary attend the [...]	2006-10-27 15:23:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINS OSCE GG RU BE
06CAIRO6593	MUBARAK'S VISIT TO RUSSIA AND CHINA: DIVERSIFYING [...] (C) With media attention focused on Mubarak's upcoming visit to Russia (Nov 1-4) and China (Nov 6-9),speculation is rife as to why he is going, and what message he is sending. While Egypt has solid reasons for expanding cooperation with both countries; the fact that Mubarak is throwing his we [...]	2006-10-30 10:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EG RU CH KNNP
06CAIRO6867	SENIOR-LEVEL RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TRAVEL TO MIDDLE [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 14:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL KDEM EG RU
06CAIRO7009	MUBARAK'S CHINA VISIT STRENGTHENS ECONOMIC, TRADE [...] (C SUMMARY: Egyptian President Mubarak and a delegation including most of his economic ministers visited Moscow and Beijing in early November. While the visit played in the press as a rebuke to the US, the delegation did conduct some real business while visiting both countries, China in pa [...]	2006-11-29 15:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EFIN MNUC EPET AA CH RU EG
06DUBLIN609	IRELAND SUPPORTS A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 10:21:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV OSCE RU GG EI
06DUSHANBE1178	RUSSIAN BUSINESSES IN TAJIKISTAN: "WE HAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE [...] (C) According to Vasiliy Beldugin, the Russian Embassy's Economic Counselor in Dushanbe, Russian companies experience the same problems with corruption and bureaucracy that frustrate other foreign investors. "Some people assume that because of the strategic partnership, Russian companies coul [...]	2006-06-26 06:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV EAID PREL TI RU
06HANOI453	RUSSIA AND VIETNAM KEEP UP THE ILLUSION OF A [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Ephimovich Fradkov was Vietnam's first high-ranking foreign visitor since Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. The February 16-17 visit was the third by a Russian Prime Minister to Vietnam since 1997. The primary purposes of this visit were to strengthe [...]	2006-02-24 10:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RU VM
06HELSINKI1058	PUTIN AT THE OCT. 20 EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 20 EU Heads of State or Government Informals will feature two main components: (1) the informal EU leaders' sessions, where principals will discuss migration, Darfur, innovation and energy; and (2) a dinner with Russian President Putin, which will focus on energy issue [...]	2006-10-17 13:30:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ENRG ETRD PGOV EUN MOPS FI RU SU
06HELSINKI1093	PUTIN IN LAHTI: MAKING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING [...] (U) Summary: Russian President Vladimir Putin was the guest of honor at a dinner following the EU Heads of State or Government summit in Lahti on October 20. The leaders were also joined by Finnish President Halonen who has faced criticism for inviting Putin at all. Prime Minister Vanhanen t [...]	2006-10-30 06:40:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM FI MOPS ENRG ETRD EUN RU
06HELSINKI1112	EU-RUSSIA JHA PERMANENT PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL READOUT [...] The EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council on Justice and Home Affairs met in Helsinki on 30 October. The Finnish Minister of Justice Luhtanen and Minister of the Interior Rajamaki represented the Presidency, German Minister of Justice Zypries and Minister of the Interior Schauble represented [...]	2006-11-01 06:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KJUS PHUM PTER EUN FI RU
06HELSINKI1131	EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF on 6 November met with Finnish MFA Counselor for Russia Paivi Laine to discuss the Nov. 3 EU-Russia foreign affairs PPC and preparations for the EU-Russia summit on 24 November. The PPC had "gone well" and Northern Dimension preparations are "on track"; however, the Presi [...]	2006-11-07 09:07:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV ETRD ENRG PL FI RU
06HELSINKI1148	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM VANHANEN [...] (C) Ambassador Ware met with Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen Nov.8. Fresh from having recently hosted the EU-Ukraine Summit and the EU Heads of State/Government informals in Lahti (which included dinner with Russian President Putin),Vanhanen provided additional insights on Putin's Russia; ener [...]	2006-11-09 14:41:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ENRG EUN FI RU UP
06HELSINKI1173	DAS KRAMER AND FINNISH DG ESKELINEN DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer on 15 November met with Finnish Director General Eskelinen and other foreign ministry staff to discuss U.S. consultations around the G-8 Political Directors' meeting in Moscow and Finnish preparations for the upcoming EU-Russia summit on 24 [...]	2006-11-21 14:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU FI EUN BO MD PL UP
06HELSINKI1193	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) On 29 November, DCM delivered demarche to Finnish Foreign Ministry Political Director Pilvi-Sisko Vierros Villeneuve. Vierros Villeneuve welcomed US points on Georgia and agreed that maintaining US-EU unity is crucial. 2. (C) On Moldova, Vierros Villeneuve also fully agreed on the ne [...]	2006-11-30 13:08:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU
06HELSINKI1197	EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: FM TUOMIOJA'S SIDEBARS WITH [...] (C) On 29 November, DCM met with Finnish MFA Political Director Pilvi-Sisko Vierros Villeneuve and discussed FM Erkki Tuomioja's recent consultations with Georgian FM Gela Bezhuashvili and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov on the margins of the 24 November EU-Russia summit. Though Tuomioja's initial g [...]	2006-12-01 12:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU GG FI
06HELSINKI1248	FINLAND: NATO DEBATE HEATS UP [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 2007 parliamentary election campaign is about to kick off and NATO is emerging as a key theme, just as it did in the January 2006 presidential elections -- and despite the efforts of several prominent politicians to muzzle public debate on this sensitive topic. This ca [...]	2006-12-19 13:12:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR EUN RU FI
06HELSINKI566	ENERGY DIVERSITY IN FINLAND AND WHAT IT CAN OFFER [...] (SBU) Summary: Finland has the EU's longest border with Russia and the two maintain a complex and long-standing energy relationship. While energy security is a concern for every country, Finland's somewhat unique position makes it very unlikely to suffer disruptions to its Russia- sourced ene [...]	2006-06-16 14:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EPET FI RU
06HELSINKI567	FINNISH NUCLEAR SAFETY [...] (SBU) On June 1, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja told Ambassador Ware that Finland is willing to provide nuclear safety technology and assistance as part of the package of incentives the U.S., the EU3 and Russia intend to offer Iran to defuse the current standoff over Iran's weapon's p [...]	2006-06-16 14:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY PARM PREL KNNP FI RU
06HELSINKI903	GYMNICH [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers held informal consultations in Finland Sept. 1-2, focusing on the Middle East, Iran and Russia. In response to a press report that alleged an EU Presidency call for increased contacts with Hamas, Finnish FM Tuomioja and others made several very strong state [...]	2006-09-08 06:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM FI IR IS RU EU
06ISTANBUL1341	BTC PRE-INAUGURATION MEETINGS IN ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Deputy Secretary Sell and senior U.S. officials met with high-level delegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Kazakhstan in Istanbul on July 12 to discuss issues related to the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline on the eve of its inauguration. Deputy Secretary Sell and [...]	2006-07-26 13:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PREL AJ GG KZ RU TU
06KABUL1715	RUSSIANS CONVENE G-8 TO DISCUSS TERRORISM; CHARGE [...] (C) Russian Ambassador Kabulov called a meeting of G-8 chiefs of mission and other interested parties on April 11 to discuss the issue of countering terrorism in Afghanistan through ideological means. The meeting followed a February 2006 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting in Mosco [...]	2006-04-17 05:28:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF RU
06KABUL5239	HIPC DATA REQUEST TO RUSSIA AND OTHER CREDITORS [...] This is an Action Message. Please refer to Para 6. 2. The debt management unit within the Ministry of Finance is currently gathering detailed debt data from all of Afghanistan's bilateral creditors in order to assemble the necessary information to qualify Afghanistan under the Heavily Indeb [...]	2006-10-29 03:22:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AF RU
06KIEV1136	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO ON ELECTIONS, COALITIONS [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, President Yushchenko expressed confidence that problems in staffing polling stations would be fixed in time for the March 26 elections, but said that he would not sign a Rada-passed bill allowing citizens to be added to the voter list on ele [...]	2006-03-24 07:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU
06KIEV1177	UKRAINE: POST-ELECTION DAY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ballot counting for the March 26 national parliamentary vote (ref B) proceeded without significant incident throughout the night and into the morning of 27 March, with official results slowly coming in through the day and approaching the exit polling results by the national con [...]	2006-03-27 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RU
06KIEV1194	UKRAINE: RADA ELECTION TALLY AT 83 PERCENT; KIEV [...] (C) Summary: Official results continued to come in slowly but steadily through the day March 28, with relative percentages holding steady at Yanukovych 30, Tymoshenko 22 and Our Ukraine 15. Most parties have not voiced any significant complaints about the election, but Tymoshenko's bloc cont [...]	2006-03-28 16:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RU
06KIEV1243	UKRAINE: ELECTION RESULTS OVER 97 PERCENT; PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: With over 97 percent of the national parliamentary vote tallied by 6 pm March 29, opposition Party of Regions continued to lead with 31.8 percent of the vote, followed by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) at 22.4 percent, and President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine at 14.1 percent. Five [...]	2006-03-29 15:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU
06KYIV4489	UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...]	2006-12-07 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP
06KYIV4660	UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...]	2006-12-27 16:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UP
06LJUBLJANA221	SLOVENIA STRENGTHENS ECONOMIC TIES WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary Slovenia has long prided itself on its unique relationship with Russia, which lacks most of the political baggage collected by its eastern neighbors during years of Communist repression. While the GOS's policy declaration at the beginning of its mandate in late 2004 specifically [...]	2006-04-12 00:53:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON RU SI
06LJUBLJANA567	PETROL DOES DEAL WITH LUKOIL AND HARRAH'S SHOULD [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-01 15:11:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG PINR RU SI
06LONDON8097	(C) OSCE MINISTERIAL: UK EXPECTS RUSSIAN [...] (C) Charge met November 24 with Stephen Pattison, International Security Director in the FCO, to discuss prospects for taking a unified approach to the Georgia/Moldova conflicts at the December 4-5 OSCE ministerial meetings in Brussels (reftel). Mr. Pattison did not expect the OSCE to reach [...]	2006-11-24 18:21:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU UK GG MD UP
06LONDON8249	POLONIUM SITREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post provided reftel A information on polonium-210 to HMG to assist in its investigation and public response. UK health authorities continue to contact those individuals who may have stayed in rooms at the Millennium Hotel that tested positive for radiation; CA/OCS continues to [...]	2006-12-07 17:17:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC PTER RU UK
06MANILA4855	PHILIPPINE PLANS FOR ASEAN SUMMITS IN CEBU [...] (C) Summary. The Philippines plans to make a new counterterrorism convention and recommendations on an ASEAN Charter the highlights of the December 11 ASEAN Summit. The subsequent ASEAN 3 Summit and East Asia Summit will probably break no new ground and will not include new participants, [...]	2006-11-30 07:25:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN PTER ASEAN XE RU CH JA KN KS RP
06MOSCOW12914	RUSSIA: KIRIYENKO REVIEWS TEHRAN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Rosatom Director Kiriyenko provided his impressions from his recent trip to Tehran. He said Foreign Minister Mottaki had been full of bluster, claiming to be unafraid of sanctions and unconcerned about the United States. Mottaki had [...]	2006-12-13 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ETRD RU IR UN AORC
06MOSCOW312	TWO FOREIGN AID NGOS REPORTEDLY BANNED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian press reported January 16 that an Ingush court had banned two international NGOs working in the North Caucasus and was also considering banning a USG-funded American NGO. The basis of the court's ruling is unclear, and it appears none of the three NGOs was aware that a b [...]	2006-01-17 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL EAID RU

06MOSCOW4799	RUSSIA SUPPORTS THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) On May 3 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Department Acting Director Vladimir Tarabrin. Tarabrin said the GOR continues to support the Third Additional Protocol and will support the statutory amendments to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at the conference in Geneva [...]	2006-05-04 14:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL ICRC RU
06NICOSIA791	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message to Vasos Chamberlain, who handles Russian and Eastern European issues in the MFA's Division of bilateral affairs. Chamberlain said that Cyprus supported the EU's efforts to find a peaceful solution in South Ossetia, and he agreed to pass the points to his [...]	2006-05-26 12:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV CY
06OSLO1350	EB A/S SULLIVAN MEETS NORWEGIAN DEPUTY FM [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Dan Sullivan met October 20 on the margins of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Conference with Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Liv Monica Stubholt to discuss EITI and a range of international and bilateral [...]	2006-11-02 12:58:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EMIN EPET ENRG ETTC EINV IZ IR RU NO
06OSLO1498	NORWAY UNVEILS HIGH NORTH STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMRY: Norway's recently unveiled High North stratgy combines domestic and regional policies to promote economic and social development in the region improve scientific understanding of the BarentsSea, and bolster economic and social ties with Rssia -- including a proposal to establi [...]	2006-12-13 15:27:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV ENRG EIND RU NO
06OSLO352	NORWAY DESK OFFICER VISITS OSLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 9 and 10, Norwegian desk officer Ray Dalland visited Oslo and held meetings with officials at the Norwegian Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. Lack of significant progress in Norway's border delineation dispute with Russia in the High North, and the impact on [...]	2006-03-22 11:39:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENGR RU NO
06OSLO668	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-23 15:33:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG NO
06OTTAWA3458	CANADA SUPPORTS UNIFIED APPROACH TO GEORGIA AND [...] (U) Urgent action request. Please see para four (4). 2. (SBU) We conveyed reftel demarche on November 22 to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Political Director Colleen Swords, and on November 24 to OSCE Desk Officer Neil Brennan. Canada is in strong agreement [...]	2006-11-24 20:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU CA
06PARIS2252	A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NATO AND FORMER SOVIET SPACE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/S Fried met with French MFA officials to discuss NATO partnerships, Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus, Russia and Darfur. Fried pressed French officials to remain open to offering Georgia a NATO Membership Action Plan, and noted that French and U.S. analy [...]	2006-04-06 10:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU BE MO
06PARIS2450	FRENCH IN AGREEMENT ON BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: DAS Kramer met April 11 with interlocutors from the MFA and Treasury to discuss next steps on Belarus. The French agreed on the utility and necessity of targeted financial sanctions against key members of the Belarusian regime and believed that the EU would come to consensus on th [...]	2006-04-13 13:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR BO RU
06PARIS3453	FRENCH SHARE USG CONCERNS ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (C) On May 22, poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian activities in South Ossetia to Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, and Marie Dumoulin, Georgia desk officer. Dumoulin said on May 23 that France shares our "preoccupation" with Russian int [...]	2006-05-23 10:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV FR
06PARIS4214	FRANCE AND NATO ID FOR GEORGIA - IT'S ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) 1. Summary: A French decision on Georgia's candidacy for NATO Intensified Dialogue is under review, according to Presidency and MFA officials, and President Chirac will have the final say. Based on conversations with an Elysee contact, France continues to view Georgia's future through the [...]	2006-06-19 16:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR FR NATO RU
06PARIS6836	POLISH AMBASSADOR ON RUSSIA AND FRENCH/EU TIMIDITY [...] (C) Summary: In an October 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Polish Ambassador to France Jan Tombinski expressed concern about the increasing concentration of power in the Kremlin and criticized President Chirac for French reluctance to confront the Russians over their increasingly negative p [...]	2006-10-17 11:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR RU EU GG MD
06PARIS7770	A/S FRIED AND MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and MFA Political Director Araud on December 6 discussed whether Russia would wield a veto at the UNSC to thwart Kosovar independence. Araud called for a resolution that would facilitate a Russian abstention. A/S Fried agreed, but insisted there must be a common diplomat [...]	2006-12-12 17:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RU TU SR FR
06PRAGUE12	CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. Czech FM Cyril Svoboda visited Moscow December 20 for meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow. The two agreed that Russian President Putin may visit Prague in the spring, but only if the Czechs agree (under pressure) to sign IPR license agreements for Soviet-era military technolo [...]	2006-01-04 17:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM MARR RU PL EZ
06PRAGUE1267	CZECHS ON OCTOBER 12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the October 12 GAERC, the EU will focus on the Middle East, the Russia-Georgia conflict, the Balkans, Sudan, and North Korea. On the Middle East, the EU will likely support sanctions for Iran, support President Abbas in Palestine, and address the security situation in Lebanon. T [...]	2006-10-12 16:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN EUN SR LE IS KPAL RU EZ
06PRAGUE1448	CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. APPROACH TO GEORGIA/MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) The Czech delegation to the upcoming OSCE Ministerial in Brussels on December 4-5 will support the U.S. position on the resolution of conflicts in Georgia and Moldova. MFA Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe Department Martina Tauberova told Poloff on November 24 that Czech FM Alexandr [...]	2006-11-29 14:05:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO MOPS GG RU EZ
06PRAGUE602	CZECHS VIEW RUSSIAN ACTIONS IN SOUTH OSSETIA WITH [...] (C) Poloff May 31 delivered reftel demarche on Russian action in South Ossetia to Vaclav Balek, Deputy Director of the MFA Security Policy Division. Balek replied that the Czechs had drawn similar conclusions. According to Balek, the EU is currently discussing how to address its approach, perh [...]	2006-06-02 13:39:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EZ GG RU
06RABAT1706	PUTIN VISIT ACCENTUATES BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian President Putin's 18-hour visit to Morocco September 6-7 emphasized economic and commercial ties between the two countries, with the signature of cooperation agreements in fields ranging from fisheries to tourism, culture, and communications. Putin was accompanied by 50 [...]	2006-09-13 17:26:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON RU MO
06RIGA577	NAZERBAYEV'S VISIT TO LATVIA [...] (C) Summary: The visit to Latvia by Kazakh President Nazerbayev was mainly focused on building economic ties between the two countries. The Kazakhs already have a heavy investment in a grain port in Latvia and would like to use the oil terminal at Ventspils to ship their oil. The two countri [...]	2006-07-21 08:44:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ECON OSCE RU KZ LG
06RIGA656	RUSSIA URGES ROBUST OSCE OBERSERVATION OF OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: An ODIHR election assessment team visited Latvia August 3-4 to assess the overall state of Latvia's election system prior to October parliamentary elections in order to make recommendations on an OSCE election observation mission. As part of this assessment, the team met with re [...]	2006-08-18 04:20:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE RU LG
06RIGA698	LATVIAN VIEWS ON POSSIBILITY OF EU/RUSSIA [...] (C) In a meeting with pol/econ chief August 28 on other issues, Latvian MFA PolDir Ilgvars Klava raised the topic of ongoing discussions in the EU on potential joint peacekeeping efforts with Russia. According to Klava, this topic would be discussed at the September 1 - 2 Gymnich. Klava said [...]	2006-08-31 06:15:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EUN RU LG
06RIGA699	BORIS YELTSIN'S VISIT TO LATVIA [...] (C) Summary: Boris Yeltsin's visit to Latvia to mark 15 years since the restoration of independence is viewed by GOL officials as another positive sign in relations with Moscow. Originally a private visit, both Latvian and Russian sources agree that it was upgraded at the request of President P [...]	2006-08-31 10:39:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU LG
06RIGA820	LATVIA AND RUSSIA TO SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENTS [...] (C/NF) Summary: Latvian Economics Minister Stokenbergs will travel to Moscow October 13 to sign bilateral agreements on economic cooperation and establishing an intergovernmental commission to manage the bilateral relationship. The signing of these agreements represents the end of several mont [...]	2006-10-10 07:18:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON GE RU LG
06RIGA832	LATVIAN VIEWS ON GAERC - FOCUSED ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel demarche to Veronika Erte, A/S-level official responsible for EU issues at the MFA, on October 12. The GOL adopted its GAERC positions in cabinet on October 10. Latvia will be represented at the GAERC by its Ambassador to the EU. 2. (C) Georgia - Althou [...]	2006-10-12 14:04:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EUN GG RU LE LG
06RIGA836	SECRETARY CHAO'S MEETINGS WITH GOL OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao's visit to Latvia provided an opportunity to discuss economic growth and job creation, relations with Russia and the recent Latvian elections with senior governmental officials. All interlocutors noted the challenge for Latvia of the out migra [...]	2006-10-13 14:10:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ELAB ECON MARR CVIS OVIP CHAO ELAINE RU
06RIGA847	LATVIAN MFA ON BELARUS AND GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Belarus has dropped the charges against the Latvian diplomat accused in July of distribution of pornography and transferred the evidence to Latvia under the bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty. While this should allow some stabilization in the bilateral relationship, includ [...]	2006-10-17 11:09:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BO GG RU LG
06ROME1005	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CASPIAN BASIN NATURAL GAS [...] (U) Summary: In March 17 meetings, GOI officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Productive Activities, and the Prime Minister's office concurred with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza's assessment of the risk to Italian and European energy security of Gazprom's dominance of natural gas shipments t [...]	2006-04-04 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EPET RU IR QA IT
06ROME1954	ITALIANS EXPRESS INTEREST IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (C) On July 7 DCM and Russian Charge d'Affairs Andrey Maslov delivered reftel points to Deputy Director General for Political Affairs Giacomo San Felice, G8 Director Giampaolo Cantini, and Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Filippo Formica of the Italian MFA. San Fel [...]	2006-07-07 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP RU IT
06ROME2257	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA [...] (U) Summary. Italy and Russia are major trading partners, with the bulk of trade comprised of natural gas exports from Russia to Italy. While the GOI has expressed concern over Italy's dependence on Russian natural gas, Italy has not yet aggressively pursued alternative sources of energy. [...]	2006-08-10 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD RU IT
06ROME3006	GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY COMPLAINS OF [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Georgian Ambassador to Italy, Zaal Gogsadze, told poloff that he has been unable to get the GOI to focus on the tensions building in Georgia. Gogsadze stated that the GOI has become fixated on the Putin-inspired idea that Georgia is pushing for an armed confrontation. Whi [...]	2006-11-02 08:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
06ROME3170	ITALY CONCERNED RUSSIA WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) The DCM and poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Political Director Terzi and OSCE Office Director Brunella Borzi on November 22. Terzi expressed a desire for consensus on the best text possible but voiced concern regarding probable Russian objections to tough language, especially parts [...]	2006-11-24 12:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU IT
06ROME324	GOI CLARIFIES SCAJOLA REMARKS ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. During a February 1 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Gabriele Checchia backed away from MPA Minister Claudia Scajola's statement that Ukraine is "taking" Russian gas meant for Italy, and said Italy will support Ukrainian [...]	2006-02-03 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON IT UP RU
06ROME3379	ITALIAN ENERGY SUPPLIES PROJECTED TO BE ADEQUATE [...] (U) Summary. Italian officials are optimistic Italy will not experience a repeat of last winter's energy shortages. Energy analysts point to a mild winter, gas reserves higher than last year, and Italy's increased ability to switch natural gas-fired power plants to oil. Looking past Italy's [...]	2006-12-27 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON RU IT
06ROME450	FINI-LAVROV MEETING: RUSSIA CAN PLAY A ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary. Antonio Cascio, an official in the Russia/Central Asian Department of the Italian MFA, told poloff that during a visit to Rome on February 7, Russian FM Lavrov told Italian FM Fini that Russia can play an important and constructive role in the Middle East. Lavrov told Fini the I [...]	2006-02-14 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU IT
06ROME933	ITALIANS TO DAS BRYZA: RUSSIA NOT READY FOR [...] (C) Summary. On March 17, DAS Bryza met with Deputy Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi Francesco Talo and MFA Director General Giulio Terzi to discuss Caucasus security issues and Russian Australia Group (AG) membership. Bryza told his interlocutors that the USG believed that Russian member [...]	2006-03-27 12:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM NATO IT RU GG UP
06SANTIAGO2140	CHILE EXPLAINS COUNTER-TERRORISM EFFORTS TO G-8 [...] (SBU) Summary. In a local G-8 CTAG meeting, the chiefs of Chile's National Intelligence Agency and the Director of intelligence for the National Investigative Police agreed Chile must seek to disrupt any activity that could benefit terrorists. They said they had no conclusive evidence of a te [...]	2006-10-12 20:50:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV SNAR EFIN RU CI
06SOFIA1481	BULGARIA FAVORS RUSSIAN BID TO BUILD BELENE NPP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador Oct. 19, Energy/Economy Minister Rumen Ovcharov confirmed press reports that Bulgaria has decided in favor of the Russian/European consortium for construction of a new nuclear plant at Belene. Ovcharov acknowledged a link between the Belene decis [...]	2006-10-24 12:18:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL RU GR BU
06SOFIA1542	BULGARIA/GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA, FM KALFIN PREVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. By hosting the Friends of Georgia on November 9, Bulgaria seeks to send a message of support to the GoG while at the same time urging the Georgians to "stop giving Russia excuses to crack down." Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kalfin and EUR DAS Bryza agreed that both objectives would [...]	2006-11-08 14:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE GG RU BU
06SOFIA1554	BULGARIA, TURKEY AND GREECE WANT MORE U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political and energy leaders from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey told EUR DAS Bryza on November 3 that the U.S should play a stronger role in ensuring diversity of energy supply - particularly gas - in the region. Bryza stressed the need for countries in the region to work together [...]	2006-11-09 15:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV RU BU
06SOFIA1560	B-A OIL PIPELINE: SIGNS OF PROGRESS; BULGARIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY Greek and Bulgarian officials described to EUR DAS Matt Bryza progress on the Burgas-Alexandropoulis (B-A) oil pipeline during his November 3 visit to Sofia. The Greek consortium plans to transfer most of its shares to international private sector participants, including Chevron, [...]	2006-11-14 10:04:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV RU BU
06SOFIA1677	MOSCOW TIGHTENS SCREWS AS BULGARIA PREPARES FOR EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his first official visit to Moscow, Foreign Minister Kalfin discussed several unresolved bilateral issues, including arm sales to Georgia, the production and sale of weapons under outdated Soviet licenses, and efforts to trim Bulgaria's ballooning trade deficit with Russia [...]	2006-12-18 14:30:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD RU BU
06SOFIA1696	BULGARIA LOCKS IN NEW DEAL WITH GAZPROM UNTIL 2030 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria signed December 18 a deal with Russian gas giant Gazprom, guaranteeing Russian natural gas deliveries and transit until 2030. Insiders tell us the price of gas will gradually rise 40 percent by 2012 - largely due to the termination of the agreement to barter gas in lieu [...]	2006-12-21 13:41:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON RU BU
06SOFIA190	BELENE NUCLEAR PLANT: KEY TO DIVERSIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU requirement that Bulgaria close Kozloduy Nuclear reactors 3 and 4 by the end of the year as part of the accession process, combined with increased international gas and oil prices and pressure by Russia's Gazprom to renegotiate gas delivery contracts, has focused the GOB [...]	2006-02-03 11:58:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETRD TRGY EINV EPET PREL SENV RU BU
06SOFIA310	BULGARIAN ENERGY MINISTER'S MEETINGS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov called his January 31 - February 1 meetings with Russian energy officials constructive and productive, in contrast to the bad taste left by Gazprom's heavy-handed approach to PM Stanishev in Sofia last December (Ref A.) Bulgaria and Russ [...]	2006-03-02 10:27:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL RU BU
06SOFIA394	BULGARIA: PRIME MINISTER ON BASING [...] (S) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev told Ambassador on March 15 that Bulgaria remains committed to a successful conclusion of the basing negotiations, although additional consultations between the ruling coalition's party leaders are necessary. Following these consultations, accordi [...]	2006-03-16 13:56:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	MARR PGOV PREL KPAO RU BU
06SOFIA661	BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALISTS REAPING WHAT THEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist party Ataka is reeling from self-inflicted wounds just one year after its founding. A recent scandal steming from the erratic behavior of several Ataka members following a highway accident has contributed to a sharp decline in the party's support and led [...]	2006-05-10 11:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PINR SOCI RU BU
06TALLINN1067	ESTONIA: UNIFIED APPROACH TO GEORGIA/MOLDOVA [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 11:53:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS EU NATO OSCE MO GG RU EN
06TALLINN922	DAS PEKALA VISITS ESTONIA, OCTOBER 3-4 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Estonian government and political leaders told visiting EUR DAS Pekala October 3-4 that the GOE is committed to extending the mandate of Estonia's troops in Iraq but that upcoming parliamentary elections will complicate the debate in parliament. They also expressed deep concern ov [...]	2006-10-11 13:50:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL CVIS IZ AF EN RU
06TASHKENT694	CULTURAL DELEGATION HEADED TO RUSSIA EXCLUDES [...] (C) According to a source in the parliament, an Uzbek cultural delegation will travel to Saint Petersburg from April 17-22 to participate in the Forum of Art and Science Intellectuals of the CIS countries. The delegation was invited by the rector of Moscow State University, actor Kyril Lavrov [...]	2006-04-07 14:18:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI SCUL PGOV PREL RU UZ
06TBILISI3046	GOG NEEDS STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (C) Summary: On November 7-8, PolEcon Chief and Poloff traveled to the multi-ethnic region of Samstkhe-Javakheti to meet with newly-elected local officials, NGO leaders, media representatives, and university students. The purpose of the visit was to reinforce the USG's commitment to increased [...]	2006-11-20 13:08:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU
06TELAVIV4897	FORMER PM BARAK DISCUSSES REGIONAL CHALLENGES WITH [...] (C) Summary: Senators John McCain (AZ),Joe Lieberman (CT),Susan Collins (ME) and John Thune (SD),as well as Representative Mark Kirk (IL) met with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak on December 17 to discuss developments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. Ba [...]	2006-12-21 09:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPAL IZ IR US RU CH IN
06THEHAGUE1168	NETHERLANDS/RUSSIA/GEORGIA: RESPONSE ON RUSSIAN [...] (C) Polmiloff discussed reftel points with MFA Deputy Head for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Thymen Kouwenaar on May 22 and 23. Kouwenaar appreciated the points, and was not aware of new Russian initiatives aimed to link South Ossetia and Russia through a "single information space," a gas p [...]	2006-05-24 07:19:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV NL
06THEHAGUE2597	NETHERLANDS/BALKENENDE: PM OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a December 12 meeting with Ambassador Arnall, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Pieter Balkenende expressed satisfaction with his party's strong performance in the November elections, and predicted a centrist-coalition government could be in place by February. According to Balkenende, th [...]	2006-12-13 09:48:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON IR RU NL
06TOKYO5488	JAPAN QUESTIONS RUSSIAN MOTIVES REGARDING [...] (C) Summary. MOFA and Russian Embassy officials provided alternative interpretations of Russia's July 18 decision to revoke approval of a key environmental study on the Sakhalin-2 energy project, which has effectively stopped progress on the joint venture. Russia's motives for rescinding the [...]	2006-09-22 10:34:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG RU JA
06TOKYO5490	JAPAN QUESTIONS RUSSIAN MOTIVES REGARDING [...] (C) Summary. MOFA and Russian Embassy officials provided alternative interpretations of Russia's July 18 decision to revoke approval of a key environmental study on the Sakhalin-2 energy project, which has effectively stopped progress on the joint venture. Russia's motives for rescinding the [...]	2006-09-24 22:40:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG RU JA
06TOKYO5791	JAPAN AND RUSSIA TO RE-START FISHNG TALKS [...] (C) MOFA Russia Division Principal Deputy Director Kazuhiko Nakamura confirmed October 4 Japanese media reports that Russia and Japan will soon restart discussions on a fishing safety agreement for ships operating in waters near the disputed Northern Territories. According to Nakamura, the ta [...]	2006-10-04 08:00:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV JA RU
06TOKYO5792	JAPAN AND RUSSIA TO RE-START FISHNG TALKS [...] (C) MOFA Russia Division Principal Deputy Director Kazuhiko Nakamura confirmed October 4 Japanese media reports that Russia and Japan will soon restart discussions on a fishing safety agreement for ships operating in waters near the disputed Northern Territories. According to Nakamura, the ta [...]	2006-10-04 08:00:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV JA RU
06TOKYO6163	SAKHALIN 2 PARTNER CONFIDENT PROJECT WILL NOT BE [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Japanese Ambassador to Russia Takehiro Togo, currently senior counselor at Mitsui and Co., which is part of the Sakhalin 2 consortium, told Econoff on October 17 that the Russian government had no desire to pull the plug on the Sakhalin 2 project despite environmental co [...]	2006-10-23 09:12:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG PREL JA RU
06TOKYO6785	RUSSIA OIL SEMINAR REVEALS DIFFERING VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Two Russian guest panelists at a November 9 seminar on Russian energy strategy in Tokyo displayed starkly different views on Moscow's energy policy. An executive of the energy company Rosneft strenuously defended the Russian government and its environmental policies, particul [...]	2006-11-30 08:09:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG JA RU
06TOKYO7099	SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM DISCUSSES CHINESE AND RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. On December 7, on the margins of a U.S.-Japan Dialogue on Central Asia, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum assessed the challenges presented by Russian and Chinese policies in the region with MOFA European Affairs Bureau Russia Division Director Kuninori Matsuda. Feigenbaum stressed that a [...]	2006-12-21 08:38:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH RU ZK JA
06TOKYO7111	MITSUI VIEWS POSITIVELY THE TRANSFER OF SAKHALIN 2 [...] (SBU) Mitsui & Co., one of two Japanese shareholders in Russia's problem-plagued Sakhalin 2 project, continues to insist that the now concluded deal to transfer a majority share in the project to Russia's Gazprom is a positive move (reftels). Mitsui & Co. Energy Business Unit's Planning Dep [...]	2006-12-22 04:39:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON JA RU
06TOKYO7113	MITSUI VIEWS POSITIVELY THE [...] (SBU) Mitsui & Co., one of two Japanese shareholders in Russia's problem-plagued Sakhalin 2 project, continues to insist that the now concluded deal to transfer a majority share in the project to Russia's Gazprom is a positive move (reftels). Mitsui & Co. Energy Business Unit's Planning Dep [...]	2006-12-22 04:46:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON JA RU
06TOKYO7164	U.S.-JAPAN CENTRAL ASIA DIALOGUE: PART TWO, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Evan Feigenbaum and a team of State and USAID officials continued their full-day U.S.-Japan consultations on Central Asia with interagency meetings on foreign assistance and project finance. MOFA International Coop [...]	2006-12-28 01:56:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH RU ZK JA
06TUNIS845	RUSSO-TUNISIAN BUSINESS COUNCIL CREATED [...] (SBU) Russian (and local) media reported March 27 on the establishment of a Russo-Tunisian Business Council during a Tunisian delegation's visit March 23-26 that included Tunisian Minister of Tourism Tijani Haddad. The council's creation was described as part of a broader Russian push to rein [...]	2006-04-10 11:27:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PREL ENRG RU TS
06ULAANBAATAR433	MONGOLIA ENERGY UPDATE: OIL IMPORTS RISE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mongolia is entirely dependent on imported oil, importing 574,300 tons in 2005, principally from Russia (80%),Kazakhstan, and China. Mongolia exported its domestic production in 2005 of 25,000 tons to China, according to the Vice Chairman of the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Au [...]	2006-06-07 02:33:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL ELTRN MG RU CH
06ULAANBAATAR450	Foreign Policy Advisor on Shanghai Cooperation [...] (SBU) Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Tsogtbaatar, on his own initiative, met with DCM and SIPDIS Ppoloff to brief on Mongolia's position at the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Shanghai. Tsogtbaatar said President Enkhbayar would depart on June 14 for the [...]	2006-06-13 06:16:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MG UZ CH RU IR
06ULAANBAATAR652	Mongolians Rebuff Russian Commercial Bear Hug [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia apparently completely rebuffed Russian Premier Fradkov's demands in early July for priority access for Russian firms to Mongolia's natural assets, based on details that have emerged over the last month. In return for preferential treatment, the Russians had promised t [...]	2006-08-29 03:52:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EINV ETRD EMIN MG RU
06USNATO643	NATO ECONOMICS COMMITTEE: "HEADS" AND "SECURITY & [...] (C) Summary: The NATO "Heads of Economic Intelligence" was convened by Defense & Economic Security Director Patrick Hardouin who reviewed the Committee's program over the past year. He then turned to the issue of the UK,s decision not to support the Committee's work in future and how to better [...]	2006-10-27 13:06:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET NATO PGOV RU UP
06VIENNA141	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM SCHUESSEL [...] (C) Summary. During his first meeting in Vienna with Ambassador McCaw, Austrian Chancellor Schuessel confirmed full EU support for a unified front toward Iran and expressed a strong desire to work with the United States in the Balkans. The Chancellor saw the Russian-Ukraine gas agreement as [...]	2006-01-18 07:23:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU AU IR RU
06VIENNA142	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FM PLASSNIK [...] (C) Summary. During a cordial and lively first meeting with Ambassador McCaw, Foreign Minister Plassnik expressed her desire to continue the improved tenor of transatlantic relations during the Austrian EU Presidency. She pledged solidarity on Iran and Afghanistan, and agreed that the EU ne [...]	2006-01-18 07:23:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU AU IR AF RU
06VIENNA3268	AUSTRIA ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL LINKS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on November 8 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian MFA's A/S-level Director for Eastern Europe and Russia. DAS-level Russia/Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus Director Josef Litschauer also participated. 2. (C) Porias said the EU had made clear to Kyiv that it is i [...]	2006-11-08 11:23:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN EUN RU MD UP AU
06VIENNA3401	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel points on November 22 to Thomas Mayr-Harting, the Austrian MFA's Political Director. Charge met with Mayr-Harting on November 24 to discuss the issue. Austrian OSCE Political Affairs Director Christophe Ceska, Eastern Europe Director (DAS-equivalent) Josef Litschau [...]	2006-11-24 14:19:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU AU
06VILNIUS618	TWO RUSSIAN OIL SUPPLIERS CANCEL JULY CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: RosNeft and Vitol have cancelled their crude shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) for July, leaving the refinery with only half of the crude it expected to process this month. The shortfall will affect Latvia and Estonia as well as Lithuania. MN, which curre [...]	2006-07-03 13:46:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	PREL EPET ECON LH RU VE
06VILNIUS645	LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-placed GOL officials told us July 10 that Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) was on the brink of signing a contract with TNK-BP to bring a shipment of crude from Primorsk via tanker to MN's Baltic Sea terminal. MN's general manager (protect) says that MN is still [...]	2006-07-11 13:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL ECON LH RU
06VILNIUS698	RUSSIA DENIES VISAS TO LITHUANIAN STUDENTS WISHING TO HONOR [...] (SBU) The Russian Embassy in Vilnius denied visas on July 21 to members of a local youth organization that planned to visit the Siberian graves of Soviet-era Lithuanian deportees. The Council of Lithuanian Youth Organizations (LiJOT) planned the expedition to the Krasnoyarsk region, where Sovi [...]	2006-07-27 11:15:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM LH RU
06VILNIUS711	REFINERY'S PROBLEMS UNLIKELY TO CAUSE ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The problems Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) is facing in obtaining crude supplies are unlikely to cause a major economic crisis here, according to several public and private sector officials and analysts. Although the refinery is Lithuania's largest economic entity [...]	2006-08-01 14:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL LH RU
06WARSAW176	U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE III: EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable covers the SD sessions on East [...]	2006-02-03 15:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL UP BO RU
06WARSAW329	YASTRZHEMBSKY VISIT HAILED AS SIGNALING WARMING IN [...] (C) Summary: Polish officials told us they hope the January 20 visit to Poland by Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, will signal the end of the "mini cold war" between Russia and Poland. Yastrzhembsky discussed a potential meeting between Putin and Polish [...]	2006-02-27 15:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL RU
06YEREVAN1268	GEORGIA ARRESTS ARMENIANS FOR CROSSING SEPARATIST [...] (C) Since early August, numerous Armenian citizens have been arrested in Georgia for transiting the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia without Georgian permission, which is illegal under Georgian law. Armenian media claim that 100 have been arrested. Armenian diplomats have co [...]	2006-09-13 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM GG RU
06YEREVAN1388	GUAM ALLIES GANG UP ON RUSSIA DURING THINKTANK [...] (U) A Russian analyst who spouted anti-Western rhetoric at a local thinktank seminar this week in Yerevan found himself outnumbered when panelists from Georgia (including a former foreign minister),Ukraine and Azerbaijan ganged up on him during their speeches and particularly during the quest [...]	2006-10-05 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UK GG RU AZ AM
06YEREVAN1396	ARMENIANS WORRIED ABOUT EFFECTS OF GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Public statements from Armenian officials are generally calm and balanced, but acknowledge the effects on Armenia of the Russian blockade of Georgia. Privately, officials are more concerned, and more of them blame Georgia than Russia. PM Markarian told visiting DAS Matt Bryza on October [...]	2006-10-06 10:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
06YEREVAN1603	RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT WARNS ARMENIA AGAINST "ELECTION [...] (C) A Russian diplomat delivered a strong anti-Western message at the Wilton Park Conference in Yerevan November 7. While discussing Russia's foreign policy vis a vis each of the South Caucasus countries, he praised Azerbaijani "independence," blasted Georgian nationalism, and warned Armenia a [...]	2006-11-14 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RU AM
06YEREVAN432	EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES N-K, ENERGY SECURITY AND [...] (C) During an informal dinner March 15 with a group of Armenian political leaders, visiting EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried underlined the USG's policy that strong democracies were better equipped to solve the region's most pressing problems, especially the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and [...]	2006-03-27 09:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IR AM RU
06YEREVAN938	MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES GOAM-GOG BORDER [...] (C) The Georgian and Armenian governments have delimited between 100 and 110 kilometers of the border between the two countries, and the entire project should be completed by year's end, according to the director of the MFA's Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Department. Though the sta [...]	2006-07-13 11:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
07AMMAN701	FURTHER RESPONSE FROM GOJ ON UNSCR 1727, IRAN AND [...] (C) Elaborating on the GOJ's response (ref a) to ref B demarche, Bassem Awadallah, the director of the King's office, told Ambassador February 14 that the King made it "quite clear" to visiting Russian President Putin that Iran was a threat to the region and not to be trusted. Putin reportedl [...]	2007-02-14 13:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR RU JO
07ANKARA1092	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL NELSON/LOTT (MAY 25 - [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Nelson/Lott. Chris Friefeld, Political Officer, is your Control Officer for Istanbul and Izmir. He can be reached at: Office 011-90-212-335-9288; Home: 011-90-212-351-0511; Cellular: 011-90-532-601-7779. Chris Krafft, Pol [...]	2007-05-09 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU RU EI
07ANKARA1598	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH MFA CAUCASUS DG UMAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Matt Bryza met in Ankara on June 14 with MFA Director General for Caucasus and Central Asia Resit Uman and MFA Director General for Policy Planning Altay Cengizer. DAS Bryza shared his views on the previous week's disappointing meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents on [...]	2007-06-22 07:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV NATO OSCE AJ AM GG RU TU ZJ
07ANKARA403	RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) Ambassador raised ref a points February 22 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary (U/S-equivalent) Haydar Berk, stressing unacceptable Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic even though Russia knows missile defenses based in those countries pose no threat to the Russian strategic arsenal. [...]	2007-02-23 16:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU
07ANKARA522	RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Acting DDG Serhan Yigit told us March 7 that Turkey had decided against making any public statement concerning Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic as we had urged MFA officials to do on February 22 and 23 (ref a). 2. (C) Yigit told us the MFA is concerned t [...]	2007-03-08 09:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU
07ASHGABAT124	Turkmenistan Reportedly Bans Travel on Russian Passports by [...] (SBU) The Government of Turkmenistan has reportedly issued instructions to border guards not/not to accept Russian passports as a basis for travel abroad by citizens who until now were able to do so on the basis of their no-longer-recognized dual citizenship. END SUMMARY. Dual Nationals Be [...]	2007-01-26 13:37:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINS RU TX
07ASHGABAT1297	TURKMENISTAN/RUSSIA: BERDIMUHAMEDOV AGREES TO NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a hardcore blitz campaign by Russia and Gazprom, headed by Russia's Prime Minister Victor Zubkov and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, President Berdimuhamedov agreed on November 23 to move up the timeline for construction of a Caspian littoral pipeline to Russia, and to sign a [...]	2007-11-28 14:05:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ETRD RU TX
07ASHGABAT1376	TURKMENISTAN/RUSSIA: PRESIDENTS PUTIN AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) According to Turkmenistan's state media, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Russia's President Putin agreed during a December 18 telephone call to sign the tripartite agreement on construction of a new Ca [...]	2007-12-19 09:24:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EPET RU TX
07ASHGABAT55	Gazprom's Turkmenistan Contract Secure [...] (SBU) A December 12 visit to Turkmenistan by Gazprom Board Member Valeriy Golubev, a December 21 conversation with the local Gazprom representative, and statements by Turkmenistan's Acting President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Niyazov's death, confirm [...]	2007-01-16 13:33:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PGOV RU TX
07ASHGABAT729	TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE GAZPROMISTAN" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lively exchange of views between USDEL and First Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Jeparov, the U.S. side championed multiple export routes for Turkmenistan,s hydrocarbon resources, explained the economi [...]	2007-07-23 12:02:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV TX RU
07ASHGABAT84	Russian Ambassador on NGO Activist Zatoka [...] (SBU) Russian Ambassador Igor Blatov told the Charge on January 19 that the Russian Embassy had been involved with the Zatoka case for "many days" and that he had met Foreign Minister Meredov on the issue. According to Blatov: -- Local law does not recognize dual citizenship. The governmen [...]	2007-01-19 12:53:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINS RU TX
07ATHENS1039	GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO UNSC ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 14, Charge delivered reftel demarche on Kosovo UNSC action to Constantine Bitsios, Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor, and on May 16 to Ambassador Fotis Xydas, MFA Director of the D1 Directorate for the United Nations and International Organisations. Bitsios sought furth [...]	2007-05-22 07:44:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GR RU
07ATHENS2171	GREECE AND RUSSIA: THE GROWING TIES -- THAT BIND? [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, economic, political, religious, and cultural ties between Greece and Russia have deepened and broadened. Increased economic cooperation -- particularly in the energy field -- has been the most conspicuous area of growth, but [...]	2007-11-06 15:03:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GR
07BAKU1010	AZERBAIJANI OFFICIALS GRATEFUL FOR US TRANSPARENCY [...] (C) Summary: In response to EUR DAS Bryza and Charge's delivery of reftel B demarche points, Azerbaijani officials have said that they welcome the exchange of information, and support continued U.S.-Russian consultations on President Putin's missile defense proposals. The Azerbaijani Govern [...]	2007-08-10 12:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR RU IR AJ
07BAKU1062	PRESIDENT ALIYEV REVIEWS REGIONAL ENERGY WITH EEB [...] (C) Summary: In an August 15 meeting with visiting EEB A/S Sullivan and the Ambassador, President Aliyev affirmed his support for U.S. energy security goals and said continued bilateral cooperation was essential. Characterizing his recent trip to Kazakhstan as "successful," Aliyev said the [...]	2007-08-23 10:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ECON RU TU TX KZ AJ
07BAKU1311	SCENESETTER FOR EUR A/S FRIED'S NOVEMBER 3-5 VISIT [...] (S) Summary: Dan, your visit could not come at a better time. With the ongoing security threat to the Embassy, your visit will underscore that we continue to engage actively, and at high levels. In the first place, it will be important to reinforce with this government that Azerbaijan's co [...]	2007-11-01 13:07:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG PINR PBTS IR RU AJ

07BAKU1511	AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTER ABIYEV PROVIDES [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Safar Abiyev on November 12 told the Ambassador that he stood up for Georgia during a recent CIS Defense Ministers meeting, which was considering the leadership of the CIS peacekeeping unit in Abkhazia. Abiyev said during Russian Defense Minister Serdykov's visit [...]	2007-12-19 05:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS RU AJ
07BAKU155	SCENESETTER FOR A/S SULLIVAN'S FEBRUARY 7 ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S-Azerbaijani Energy dialogue comes at a crucial time in the development of Azerbaijan's energy sector, when production from major oil and gas projects has either started or will start soon, and when Azerbaijan needs to make strategic decisions that will affect both the fut [...]	2007-02-01 15:06:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL ECON ETRD RU TU AJ
07BAKU219	AZERBAIJAN'S EVOLVING APPROCAH TO RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Since November 2006, the GOAJ has veered from its traditional practice of not publicly acknowledging tensions in its relations with Russia. President Aliyev and other GOAJ officials have publicly criticized Russia's behavior in gas negotiations and taken swipes at the viability [...]	2007-02-20 09:41:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ RU
07BAKU228	AZERBAIJAN: READOUT ON MID-FEBRUARY NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a readout provided to resident NATO Ambassadors of a visit to Azerbaijan by representatives of the NATO international staff for the week of February 12, 2007, their outlook for Azerbaijan was much more positive than previously. This would be reflected in their assess [...]	2007-02-21 15:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER AJ PBTS IR RU
07BAKU249	DEFENSE MINISTER ABIYEV DISCUSSES IRANIAN-RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador and a State-DOD delegation headed by Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Peter Rodman, SIPDIS Azerbaijani Minister of Defense General Safar Abiyev expressed concern that Russia and Iran were increasing thei [...]	2007-03-01 04:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER AJ PBTS IR RU
07BAKU256	PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON TRANS-CAPSIAN AND EUROPEAN GAS [...] (C) Summary: During a February 6 meeting with the US delegation to the Economic Partnership Commission (septel),President Aliyev outlined the changing regional energy picture. Touting Azerbaijan's refusal to bow to Russian gas policies as "an example for the region" and an act that "destroy [...]	2007-03-01 15:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RU TU TX AJ
07BAKU280	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIEV ASKS FOR MORE SIGNS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 12 meeting with Assistant Secretary Of Defense for International Security A/S Rodman, SIPDIS President Aliyev said the regional situation was "developing very rapidly," and called for "more public signs" from the USG of the strengthened bilateral relationship, as [...]	2007-03-07 12:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ RU IR PINR MARR ENRG
07BAKU37	PRESIDENT ALIYEV, DRL A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 18-19 visit to Azerbaijan, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron secured President Aliyev's agreement to launch an intensified bilateral dialogue on the development of democracy in Azerbaijan in sessions to be held at [...]	2007-01-09 11:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS ENRG RU IR AJ
07BAKU38	PRESIDENT ALIYEV, A/S LOWENKRON AGREE TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron on December 18 that the US and Azerbaijan need a "permanent dialogue, every two months," in which we can address openly and frankly issues related to Azerbaijan's democratic developmen [...]	2007-01-09 12:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ETRD ECON IR RU AJ
07BAKU489	RUSSIAN BANKING GIANT EYES AZERBAIJAN'S BANKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's second largest state-owned bank, Vneshtorgbank (VTB),is reportedly interested in purchasing 50 percent of Azerbaijan's stated-owned Kapital Bank. Kapital Bank is currently the second largest bank in Azerbaijan with USD 186 million in assets. VTB has been keen to enter t [...]	2007-04-23 11:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET AJ RU
07BAKU595	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CAUTIONING AZERBAIJAN AGAINST [...] (C) As reported ref a, the Ambassador delivered ref b demarche cautioning Azerbaijan against closer relations with Belarus in separate May 10 conversations with President Aliyev's Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, who said he would inform President Aliyev, and Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mamma [...]	2007-05-16 13:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ECON BO RU AJ
07BAKU61	SHAH DENIZ WELL TO RESUME PRODUCTION, AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 15 BP plans to resume production at the first Shah Deniz well, where production has been ceased since mid-December due to a leak, although a BP executive questioned whether Shah Deniz production could play a significant role in meeting regional winter gas needs. Once S [...]	2007-01-12 15:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV IR RU TU AJ
07BAKU647	PRESIDENT ALIYEV APPROVES AZERBAIJAN'S NATIONAL [...] President Ilham Aliyev approved Azerbaijan's "National Security Concept" (NSC) on May 23, 2007 via a presidential directive. The full text of the NSC appeared in many Azerbaijani newspapers. The translated text of the directive is provided below: BEGIN TRANSLATION ABOUT THE APPROVAL O [...]	2007-05-25 13:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS RU IR AJ
07BAKU689	PRESIDENT ALIYEV REVIEWS ENERGY AND REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a May 29 meeting with visiting OVP Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Joseph Wood and the Ambassador, President Aliyev reviewed prospects for new southern corridor energy initiatives. Urging the U.S. to support new Turkmen President Burdimuhamedov, Aliyev said Az [...]	2007-06-01 14:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MASS PBTS KDEM IR RU AJ
07BAKU711	REGIONAL ISLAMIC SNAPSHOTS: ZAQATALA [...] (C) Summary: During a trip to Zaqatala, Qax, and Balakan, Emboffs visited several Islamic shrines, a dozen mosques, and an Islamic University to deepen our understanding of Islamic observance in northern Azerbaijan. Northern Azerbaijan is heavily Sunni, with a strong Sufi influence and a tra [...]	2007-06-07 12:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL RU AJ
07BAKU718	AZERBAIJANIS SURPRISED BY PUTIN'S OFFER TO SHARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement proposing joint U.S.-Russian use of Azerbaijan's Gabala radar station provoked a surprised but largely positive reaction among Azerbaijani politicians and analysts. All contacts with whom we spoke believed that cooperation between the [...]	2007-06-08 11:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS PINS RU IR AJ
07BAKU719	IRAN REPORTEDLY NOT CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE JOINT [...] (U) In a June 8 press statement, Iranian Embassy press spokesman in Baku Majid Feyzullahi said that Tehran does not have any concerns about Russia's proposal to make its Qabala radar station available for joint use with the U.S. Feyzullahi added that "we have no concerns because the issue is [...]	2007-06-08 11:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR RU AJ
07BAKU720	AZERBAIJAN: RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT SAYS PUTIN INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 8, Russian Embassy DCM Oleg Krokhin said that President Putin's proposal of U.S.-Russian cooperation at the Gabala radar station was discussed "one to two months ago" between Azerbaijan and Russia "at high levels," and had been "thoroughly worked out" beforehand. Krokhin [...]	2007-06-08 11:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MNUC OPRC PARM AJ RU
07BAKU721	PRESIDENT ALIYEV CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR THE GABALA [...] (C) Summary: After briefing President Aliyev on his June 8 meeting with the Charge d'Affaires, Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mammadov informed us that "in principle, all is good." President Aliyev told Mammadov that if the process of discussing Putin's proposal to bring the Gab [...]	2007-06-08 11:54:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MNUC OPRC PARM RU IR AJ
07BAKU722	MISSILE DEFENSE: BACKGROUNDER ON THE GABALA RADAR [...] (C) The Gabala radar station (also known as the Lyaki large phased-array radar) was originally part of the USSR's broader ballistic missile defense architecture; specifically, it was one of nine major radar stations erected on Soviet territory to detect and track the launch of ballistic missi [...]	2007-06-08 12:20:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR AJ RU IR
07BAKU728	AZERBAIJANI-RUSSIAN COORDINATION ON PUTIN'S GABALA [...] (C) Summary: The GOAJ publicly and privately has admitted that it had discussions with Moscow regarding potential U.S. - Russian use of the Gabala radar station before Putin made his June 7 announcement on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, but the precise nature of this dialogue [...]	2007-06-11 12:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AJ RU
07BAKU79	DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S DECEMBER 19 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a December 19 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev assured DRL A/S Lowenkron that "in line with President Aliyev's recommendation," independent ANS TV will participate in the tender for its frequency and "its activities will be fully restored." Mehdiyev bla [...]	2007-01-18 10:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR RU AJ
07BAKU806	AZERBAIJANI PUBLIC FOCUSED ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF [...] (U) Russian President Putin's proposal on the joint usage of the Gabala radar station has triggered extensive press reports on the long-dormant issue of the station's negative impact on the environment and health. Minister of Health Oktay Shiraliyev has been quoted as saying that the station [...]	2007-06-27 07:34:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MNUC OPRC PARM SENV RU AJ
07BAKU822	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL TIERNEY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) President Aliyev's April 28, 2006 meeting with President Bush laid the foundation for advancing U.S. interests through a strengthened bilateral relationship. Azerbaijan is a key partner to the U.S. because of its geopolitical situation, its status as a secular, democratizing, Muslim coun [...]	2007-06-29 09:55:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG PBTS IR RU AJ
07BAKU836	AZERBAIJANI READOUT ON SURPRISE TRACK II DIPLOMATIC [...] (U) On June 28, Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatian and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu visited the region of Nagorno Karabakh, accompanied by representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectual elite. While there, Smbatian and Bulbuloglu reportedly met wit [...]	2007-07-03 08:46:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PGOV AM RU AJ
07BAKU837	REACTION TO SURPRISE TRACK II DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO NK [...] (U) On June 28, Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatian and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu visited the region of Nagorno Karabakh, accompanied by representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectual elite. While there, Smbatian and Bulbuloglu reportedly met wit [...]	2007-07-03 08:50:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PGOV AM RU AJ
07BAKU841	AZERBAIJANI CONSIDERING CFE MORATORIUM [...] (C) Summary. Recent events indicate that the GOAJ is considering suspending its implementation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told Charge D'Affairs on July 5 that the GOAJ would seriously consider freezing implementation of the t [...]	2007-07-05 12:14:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PBTS PGOV PREL KCFE RU AM AJ
07BAKU847	LATVIAN PLANS TO OFFER AZERBAIJAN ASSISTANCE ON [...] (C) Poloff met with Latvian Ambassador to Baku Mikhails Popkovs on July 5, 2007, at Popkovs request. Popkovs told poloff that as a NATO ally, and given the high-profile nature of issues surrounding missile defense and the Gabala station, that Latvia wished to inform the U.S. Embassy Baku that [...]	2007-07-06 06:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AJ RU LV
07BAKU849	SENIOR AZERBAIJANI OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO WELCOME [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev continues to send the message that he is waiting for the U.S. and Russia to come to a decision regarding the Gabala radar facility after both sides conclude their missile defense consultations. While other GOAJ officials reiterated this message, some -- includi [...]	2007-07-06 12:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV MARR MNUC OPRC RU AJ
07BAKU858	CODEL TIERNEY'S JULY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a relaxed July 3 meeting with Representative John Tierney, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said he recognized the importance of improving Azerbaijan's image in the U.S. Congress and, as President Aliyev did in an earlier meeting with the CODEL, requested additional visits b [...]	2007-07-10 06:13:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ECON AJ IR RU
07BAKU903	AZERBAIJAN IN WAIT AND SEE MODE REGARDING RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Local media reaction to Russia's announcement to suspend participation in the CFE Treaty has been largely muted, with most of the media organizations adopting a cautious approach to the development. Local political commentators are still digesting this development as well. Ini [...]	2007-07-18 06:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PGOV PREL KCFE RU AM AJ
07BAKU907	FOLLOW-UP ON LATVIAN PLANS TO OFFER AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 11:51:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AJ RU LV
07BEIJING1679	PRC-RUSSIA: SNAPSHOT OF RELATIONS AS HU JINTAO [...] (C) Hu Jintao will visit Moscow later this month at a time when many Chinese analysts believe the China-Russia relationship is at an all-time high, according to a leading Chinese academic on Russia. Hu's visit will kick off the Year of China in Russia and will serve as an opportunity for him [...]	2007-03-14 03:35:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG MARR RU CH
07BEIJING1688	INVITATION TO FBI-SPONSORED GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-14 07:06:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
07BEIJING1885	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: CHINESE QUESTIONS ON EXPANSION, [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request at para. 2. 2. (SBU) China is pleased to see expansion of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and particularly welcomes the announcement that Ukraine has joined the Initiative, MFA Arms Control Department official Yu Dunhai told [...]	2007-03-20 10:53:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KJUS RU CH
07BEIJING1895	BISHKEK IN AUGUST: SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-21 04:21:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KG ZK RU CH
07BEIJING2152	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: DEMARCHES ON EXPANSION, ANSWERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 07:16:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KJUS RU CH
07BEIJING2907	U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW [...] (SBU) In response to questions posed by a United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) delegation led by USCC Chair Carolyn Bartholomew, scholars from the MFA-affiliated Chinese Institute for International Studies (CIIS) noted that China-Russia relations are enjoying the [...]	2007-04-30 10:54:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IAEA CH IR RU
07BEIJING3274	OBSERVERS MAY BE INVITED TO SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] (C) Observers from the defense attache corps in Moscow, including from the United States, will probably be invited to observe this summer's "Peace Mission 2007" military exercise conducted by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Russia, MFA Director General for Eurasia Chen Guoping to [...]	2007-05-16 07:57:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU ZK CH
07BEIJING459	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: CHINA RESPONSE ON PLAN OF WORK [...] (C) China has no current plans to host activities to implement the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism but will actively participate in activities hosted by others, MFA Arms Control Department official Yang Yi told poloff. China has a generally positive attitude about the activities, [...]	2007-01-19 09:04:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
07BEIJING4926	PDAS STEPHENS' DISCUSSIONS ON NEAPSM WITH [...] (C) Summary: China sees a Northeast Asia peace and security mechanism (NEAPSM) as the "logical outcome" of Six-Party Talks, Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told EAP PDAS Stephens July 26. AFM Cui finds U.S. thinking on core principles for the regional peace mechanism to be "useful" bu [...]	2007-07-28 07:44:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH JA KN KS RU
07BEIJING6976	CHINA/RUSSIA/INDIA: PRC TALKS UP TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministers from China, Russia and India met in Harbin October 24 for the seventh in their series of trilateral meetings. The role of the UN in the Asia-Pacific region was a key issue in talks, as well as climate change, counter-terrorism and scientific and academic exchan [...]	2007-11-05 10:43:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PBTS CH IN RU
07BEIJING7363	U.S.-CHINA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: REGIONAL [...] (C) During the U.S.-China Policy Planning dialogue in Beijing in November, both sides agreed that the Six-Party Talks and APEC represent important parts of the existing East Asian regional architecture, and China and the United States have common interests in those institutions. The post-Six- [...]	2007-12-05 11:35:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EAID APEC SENV KN JP RU TW CH
07BEIJING7449	DECEMBER 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SINOPEC IRAN DEAL, [...] Key points at the regular December 11 MFA Press Briefing: --Sinopec's Iran deal is a "business action" conducted on bases of equality and mutual benefit. The Chinese government does not need to comment on such a commercial deal. --Chen Shui-bian's UN referendum "seriously threatens peac [...]	2007-12-12 04:11:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD IR JA RU KN KS VM
07BEIJING958	GLOBAL INITIATIVE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CHINA [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 05:23:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
07BELGRADE534	LAVROV'S VISIT TO BELGRADE SHOWCASES HARDENING STANCE [...] (u) Russian FM Lavrov's visit was widely covered in local press, which focused on his meetings with Tadic and Kostunica. His statements to press following the meetings reiterated Russia's commitment to continued negotiations and respect for implementation of UNSCR 1244 - the provisions of wh [...]	2007-04-20 16:32:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS UNSC PREL KPAO RU SR
07BERLIN1216	GERMAN VIEWS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) (Summary) We have had several opportunities over the past few days to take soundings from German officials and interlocutors outside government on how they view the way forward in Kosovo. As expected, they are preoccupied with maintaining EU unity and full of legalistic anxieties about t [...]	2007-06-18 12:24:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK RU YI GM
07BERLIN2034	GRAND COALITION OPPOSES EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. The German reaction to the European Commission's unbundling directives for the European energy market has been overwhelmingly negative. The Grand Coalition is displaying rare unanimity on this issue and is backed by Germany's major energy companies. The Economic Ministry, resp [...]	2007-11-07 13:45:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EINV ETRD PGOV EU RU GM
07BERLIN2071	GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS TO BLOCK RUSSIAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On the basis of information presented to the German Government by the Portuguese Embassy in Berlin, the German Government has taken initial steps to block a shipment of Russian rockets and related materials bound for Venezuela's Defense Ministry. The shipment was scheduled to [...]	2007-11-15 13:54:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM ETTC TSPA MARR MASS PGOV RU VE GM
07BRASILIA132	RUSSIA DOWNPLAYS MILITARY SALES IN BRAZIL BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with his Russian counterpart, Ambassador Vladimir L. Tyurdenev, on January 12, 2007 at the Russian Embassy. Tyurdenev spoke candidly about bilateral relations, trade, Russian hopes to furnish equipment and exprtise to the potential regional gas pipeline proect, [...]	2007-01-25 13:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG BR RU
07BRATISLAVA162	KOSOVO: FICO REASSURES DIPLOMATS; MPS WORK ON A [...] (C) Summary: PM Fico reassured EU ambassadors March 16 that Slovakia would support the consensus EU position on Kosovo, including in the UNSC. Nonetheless, political parties continue discussions on a parliamentary resolution expressing objections to the Ahtisaari plan and Kosovo independence, [...]	2007-03-19 17:07:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI KOC RU LO
07BRATISLAVA263	PM FICO DISCUSSES SUDAN, KOSOVO, ENERGY AND MD [...] (C) Summary. During a May 3 breakfast, PM Robert Fico assured Slovakia will vote with the EU on Kosovo in the UNSC; reiterated his personal opposition to U.S. Missile Defense plans and advocated more dialogue with Russia and within the EU; reacted favorably to the possibility of sending militar [...]	2007-05-03 14:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR SU RU LO
07BRATISLAVA269	PM FICO IN MOSCOW ON KOSOVO, MD AND ENERGY [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: PM Robert Fico's May 4 visit to Moscow touched on issues of the day including Kosovo final status, missile defense, energy security, and trade. Fico had meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and opened a Slovak-Russian business foru [...]	2007-05-07 14:43:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG SR SU RU YI LO
07BRATISLAVA275	FM KUBIS ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, SERBIA, MISSILE [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: In a frank, productive 90-minute conversation May 9, FM Jan Kubis told the Ambassador that: --Slovakia is still with the EU on voting for a Kosovo resolution. Slovakia would like to finesse the language of the UNSCR to avoid direct endorsement for the Ahtisaari plan [...]	2007-05-10 15:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ENRG CVIS KO YI RU LO
07BRATISLAVA306	FORMER PM DZURINDA ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, SLOVAK [...] (C) Summary. Former PM Mikulas Dzurinda discussed Russia, Kosovo and domestic politics in an informal meeting with Ambassador on May 19. Dzurinda said he will continue to criticize PM Fico for his Russophile leanings, but acknowledged the Slovak public is not bothered. He decisively dismissed [...]	2007-05-22 12:22:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI KO RU UNSC PHUM LO
07BRATISLAVA308	SLOVAKIA PURSUING A TRANSPETROL DEAL WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary - Minister Jahnatek followed up the May 4 Putin/Fico meeting (Ref A) with detailed discussions with Russian-controlled Yukos Finance (YF) and Gazpromneft on the eventual sale of the 49 percent stake plus management control in the Slovak oil pipeline Transpetrol. In return for agre [...]	2007-05-22 13:32:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU
07BRATISLAVA368	FM KUBIS ON KOSOVO, MD AND ISAF [...] (C) Summary/introduction: In a frank, productive 60-minute conversation June 20, FM Jan Kubis told the Ambassador: - Slovakia must have a UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) in order to recognize Kosovo, but allowed that a mission under the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) might [...]	2007-06-20 13:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS YI KO RU UNSC PHUM LO
07BRATISLAVA417	PM FICO AND PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC ON AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C)Summary. Paragraphs 4-12 contain notes from the Ambassador,s July 19 Meeting with PM Robert Fico. Paragraphs 13-19 contain notes from the Ambassador's July 18 meeting with President Gasparovic. SUMMARY OF THE MEETING WITH PM FICO ----------------------------------- 2. (C) The Ambassador [...]	2007-07-20 15:32:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS YI KO RU UNSC PHUM LO
07BRATISLAVA420	YUKOS FINANCE AUCTION SHIFTS DYNAMICS OVER [...] (C) Summary - Yukos Oil Receiver Eduard Rebgun announced July 13 that Russian-controlled Yukos Finance (YF) will be auctioned off on August 15 in Moscow at a starting price of approximately USD 300 Million. The announcement followed one day after a Dutch court overturned an appeal by Rebgun th [...]	2007-07-23 15:19:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU
07BRATISLAVA425	FM KUBIS ON KOSOVO, CFE, AFGHANISTAN, UNGA [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Vallee met with Foreign Minister Jan Kubis on July 25 to discuss a wide range of topics. Highlights include the following: - FM Kubis believes that, given the failure to pass a UNSC resolution on Kosovo, the EU can develop a common position on Kosovo within the 120-d [...]	2007-07-25 15:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MOPS RU KO LO
07BRATISLAVA453	SLOVAKS RECONSIDERING TRANSPETROL OPTIONS [...] (C) Summary - Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek maintained the status quo at the July 31 Transpetrol Annual General Assembly (AGA) by removing any discussion of personnel changes to the Transpetrol Board and Supervisory Board from the agenda. In conversations with Yukos International (YI) rep [...]	2007-08-09 14:07:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU
07BRATISLAVA527	FM KUBIS ON KOSOVO, MISSILE DEFENSE, CFE, AND [...] (C) Summary. During a cordial one-hour meeting on September 18, Ambassador Vallee and Foreign Minister Kubis discussed Kosovo, CFE, Missile Defense, and Afghanistan. FM Kubis noted that he had begun to advocate in EU circles the idea of decoupling the results of the Troika process on Kosovo [...]	2007-09-18 15:51:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CVIS KOC YI RU LO
07BRATISLAVA561	SOLVING TRANSPETROL WITHOUT THE RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary - The August 15 sale of Yukos Finance to an American investment group, Monte Valle, has reduced Russia's role in the future of the Transpetrol oil pipeline, leaving the Slovak government without its preferred partner. Economy Minister Jahnatek remains confident that any future buye [...]	2007-10-10 13:41:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU
07BRATISLAVA616	SLOVAKIA: DEFENSE MINISTER KASICKY -- OUT OF STEP [...] (U) This is an Action Cable. See para 7. 2. (C) Summary. During a breakfast meeting with the Ambassador on November 9, Minister of Defense Frantisek Kasicky reviewed the state-of-play on preparations for new Slovak contributions to ISAF and elaborated the Slovak position on Missile Defense [...]	2007-11-16 08:43:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PARM LO RU
07BRUSSELS2667	U.S.- EUROPEAN UNION - RUSSIA TRILATERAL [...] (U) A meeting of the United States - European Union (EU) - Russia Trilateral High Level Working Group on terrorism convened June 22 in fulfillment of a commitment made at the U.S.- EU - Russia Trilateral Ministerial Meeting in Berlin on April 4. Participants expressed support for the work of t [...]	2007-08-22 15:54:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KCRM PREL SNAR EU RU UN
07BRUSSELS2687	PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY: GIVE US TIME ON KOSOVO, [...] (C) Portuguese Political and Security (PSC) Ambassador Pais told Charge August 23 that the EU will only address recognition and next steps on Kosovo as the December 10 report deadline moves closer. Pais floated a "hot house" Dayton-like conference as a possible way to pressure the Kosovars a [...]	2007-08-24 12:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO EUN KV RU TU
07BRUSSELS785	VERHOFSTADT STUMPS FOR RUSSIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Verhofstadt met with Russian President Putin and leading private sector energy figures March 1-2. The trip focussed chiefly on economic issues: building ties in energy and diamond markets, promoting bilateral investment, and facilitating contact between the two coun [...]	2007-03-08 16:56:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV ENRG EMIN BE RU
07BUCHAREST628	RFG: MFA SEEKS WASHINGTON VISIT TO DISCUSS CFE [...] (SBU) This is a request for guidance; see para 4. 2. (C) State Secretary for European Affairs Adrian Vierita on May 29 told Charge that he would like to visit Washington the week of June 4 to consult on the upcoming CFE Extraordinary Conference. Vierita said the request for consultations [...]	2007-05-30 14:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP RU RO
07BUCHAREST656	CFE: ROMANIA'S VIEWS ON JUNE 12 EXTRAORDINARY [...] (C) Polmiloff discussed contents of ref a on June 1 with HLTF Rep and Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and Combating Terrorism, Mihaela Vasiu and with CFE action officer Dana Marca, and followed up on June 4 after they had an opportunity to consult with GOR inter-agency contacts. [...]	2007-06-04 16:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PREL PARM OSCE RU RO
07BUDAPEST1140	HUNGARY MUST FIND ITS VOICE: ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (S) Summary: In an extensive one-on-one conversation with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried July 10, Prime Minister Gyurcsany recognized the strategic challenge posed by Russia, reaffirmed his commitment to playing a more active role to promote a common EU policy on Russia and energy security, and [...]	2007-07-13 13:22:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PREL ECON ENRG RU HU
07BUDAPEST1190	"AND PUTIN SMILED": HUNGARIAN READ-OUT ON THE [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Gyurcsany's Foreign and Security Policy Advisor, Karoly Banai, briefed Ambassador Foley on the July 19 Finno-Ugric Summit in Saransk, Russia, privately acknowledging the negative optics of the event but making every effort to downplay the discussion of political is [...]	2007-07-24 08:23:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PREL ENRG KDEM PHUM RU HU
07BUDAPEST1298	KOKA ON REFORM, RUSSIA, AND VISION FR FUTURE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 12:47:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON HU EU RU
07BUDAPEST1877	TRIANGULATION UNDER FIRE: A STEP BACK TOWARD THE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10 for action request. 2. (C) A number of recent steps indicate continued efforts by the GoH to chart a course between Washington and Moscow. These latest steps include moves back toward the East in what will likely be a continuing series of [...]	2007-11-21 15:54:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU HU
07BUDAPEST1879	TRIANGULATION UNDER FIRE: A STEP BACK TOWARD THE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10 for action request. 2. (C) A number of recent steps indicate continued efforts by the GoH to chart a course between Washington and Moscow. These latest steps include moves back toward the East in what will likely be a continuing series of [...]	2007-11-23 08:46:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PREL PGOV ENRG RU HU
07BUDAPEST69	COLD COMFORT: POLITICAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) The shut-off of the oil pipeline from Russia and renewed sparring between the Gyurcsany government and the opposition have placed Hungary's ambivalent relationship with Moscow at center stage as the government returns from its holiday break. "THE MERRIEST BARRACKS IN GAZPROM" 2. (U [...]	2007-01-17 14:23:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU HU PGOV ECON
07BUDAPEST883	RUSSIA'S HUNGARIAN OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6 for guidance request. 2. (C) In a May 25 interview with the Hungarian publication Magyar Hirlap May 25, former Russian PM and current Chamber of Trade and Industry President Yevgevni Primakov disavowed any Russian intention to interfere in [...]	2007-06-01 08:54:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU HU
07BUDAPEST986	OPENING DOORS AND OPENING EYES: PM GYURCSANY ON [...] (S) Summary: PM Gyurcsany and his wife, Dr. Klara Dobrev, joined Ambassador Foley for lunch June 17. Discussion focused on Russia policy, with a tense, reticent and often defensive Gyurcsany expressing his desire "not to get caught in the middle" of the declining US-Russia relationship. He [...]	2007-06-18 12:18:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR RU HU ENRG
07DOHA168	PUTIN VISITS DOHA BUT NO TANGIBLE RESULTS [...] (C) Summary. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with the Qatari Amir in Doha February 12. The two agreed on the need for a Middle East peace conference, the date and locale of which was undefined. The two also agreed on holding discussions on an OPEC-like organization for gas producers at th [...]	2007-02-14 14:45:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EPET UNSC RU IR QA
07DOHA385	GAS EXPORTING COUNTRIES FORUM: NO GAS CARTEL [...] (U) Summary. Ministers at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF),representing the world,s top gas producers, rejected the idea of forming an OPEC-style gas cartel. The decision came after member countries, which together hold more than 70 per cent of natural gas reserves, discussed a propos [...]	2007-04-10 13:56:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV RU IR QA
07GEORGETOWN502	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (U) DCM delivered demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper on May 18. Ambassador Harper noted that Guyana has long been sensitized to the fight against terrorism as Guyana was itself victim of two terrorist attacks: the 1976 bombing [...]	2007-05-18 18:12:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PARM RU GY
07HELSINKI187	FINLAND: MISSILE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OUTREACH [...] (C) The public reaction in Finland to US missile defense plans in Eastern Europe and Russian misrepresentations of them have been largely muted. Several editorials and comments from leading politicians appeared in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Munich speech, but very few of these directl [...]	2007-03-15 16:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU FI
07ISTANBUL565	BSEC 15TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT: A PROTOCOL TRIUMPH [...] (SBU) Summary: The BSEC 15th anniversary summit held in Istanbul on June 25 proved that Turkey could deliver a high level protocol event, including participation by eleven of the twelve BSEC member heads of state or government. Armenia, the only hold out, was represented by Foreign Minister O [...]	2007-07-02 08:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECIN ENRG TU RU EU
07JAKARTA1187	UNSC: DISCUSSION WITH INDONESIA ON MINURSO, KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary. On April 27, an Indonesian Department Foreign Affairs official indicated that the GOI was undecided about whether to support the Friends of the Western Sahara draft resolution on the MINURSO mandate (reftel),but said that as a matter of principle it was unlikely to do so in the [...]	2007-04-27 09:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK RU YI MO WI ID
07JAKARTA380	DEMARCHE REGARDING MINUSTAH RENEWAL DELIVERED [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Ramadansyah Hasan in the Directorate for International Security and Disarmament at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs. We did so in the absence of our usual contact for UN Haiti issues. Ramadansyah, whom we were meeting concerning UN Iran issues, soug [...]	2007-02-12 08:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPKO HA CH FR SA RU PE ID
07KABUL1167	FM SPANTA'S SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR ON IRAN [...] (C) Afghanistan is acutely aware of U.S. concerns over Iran's nuclear program and will study U.S. non-paper and UNSCR 1747. Foreign Minister Spanta's Senior Policy Advisor, Davood Moradian, expressed to Embassy April 4 concerns over the formation of both the National Unity Council and Nationa [...]	2007-04-09 14:58:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC MARR PGOV PREL PTER AF IR RU
07KABUL672	RUSSIAN FM SAYS NATO MUST LEAVE AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Drawing on Cold War rhetoric, Russian FM Lavrov told FM Spanta on February 23 that NATO must leave Afghanistan as it was an enduring presence against Russia (according to Spanta's debrief). The GOR is also worried about Iran's nuclear program and does not trust its regional intentions. [...]	2007-03-01 07:12:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NATO RU IR AF
07KYIV223	UKRAINE: TARASYUK RESIGNS AS FOREIGN MINISTER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Borys Tarasyuk ended two months of uncertainty and political confrontation over his lame-duck tenure as Ukraine's Foreign Minister by offering his resignation to President Yushchenko January 30, after a district court deferred a decision on his legal challenge to the Rada's Dec [...]	2007-01-31 16:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UP
07LISBON2806	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT AND KOSOVO [...] (C) In a one-on-one farewell lunch with the Prime Minister's senior diplomatic advisor, Jorge Roza de Oliveira, at the residence on October 31, the Ambassador asked whether Portugal was pleased with the recent EU-Russia summit (reftels). Roza de Oliveira said yes, Portugal's goal was to ensur [...]	2007-11-05 15:33:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR RU PO ZI
07LISBON3193	PORTUGAL SIGNS ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to diversify the country's energy supply, Portugal's national energy firms, Galp Energia and Energias de Portugal, recently signed several agreements for procurement and joint exploration projects with the national oil and gas companies of Venezuela, Libya and Algeria [...]	2007-12-20 14:47:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PO RU VE AG LY AO
07LJUBLJANA255	PDAS VOLKER ENCOURAGES SLOVENES TO KEEP TRANS [...] (C) In meetings April 10 with Government of Slovenia officials, EUR PDAS Kurt Volker reinforced the importance of maintaining a strong trans-Atlantic dialogue during Slovenia's EU Presidency. Discussions at the MFA focused on the Western Balkans including an idea suggested by MFA Security Poli [...]	2007-04-20 10:54:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IR RU SI
07LUXEMBOURG110	LUXEMBOURG PRESSED TO REIN IN ITS FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Following up to ref A, Embassy translated and sent to EUR/UBI the text of a statement by Foreign Minister Asselborn made March 13 before the Chamber of Deputies explaining his public comments crticizing the planned European missile defense system (MDS)(ref B). Embassy believes that the st [...]	2007-03-15 16:34:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL NATO MARR PL EZ RU LU
07LUXEMBOURG204	PUTIN VISITS JUNCKER LOOKING FOR FRIENDS IN OLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a one-day, first-ever state visit by a Russian or Soviet leader to Luxembourg on 24 May. The visit encompassed several dimensions but focused heavily on EU-Russia relations with the majority of the 9-hour visit being taken up by meeti [...]	2007-05-25 19:48:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV LU EU NATO RU
07LUXEMBOURG222	LUXEMBOURG TO CHAIR EXTRAORDINARY CFE TREATY [...] (C) Pol/Econ officer discussed points contained reftel as well as the point-by-point response to Russian concerns with the Luxembourg MFA. The MFA was particularly appreciative of the information as Luxembourg was notified last week by the Netherlands that Luxembourg would be chairing this ex [...]	2007-06-05 15:55:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL LU RU
07MADRID667	SPAIN: MOD POLICY DG ON NCIS/OSI, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOD Director General for Policy Major General Benito Raggio told PolCouns on March 26 that he is glad to see a positive conclusion to negotiations over regulations for the activities in Spain of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and USAF Office of Special Investigati [...]	2007-04-11 12:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP RU YI
07MADRID979	SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER SP RU
07MANILA105	PHILIPPINES WELCOMES ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS ANEW [...] (C) In a discussion with Charge on January 8, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reiterated the Philippine Government's determination to host successful ASEAN-related summits, including the East Asia Summit, in Cebu January 13-15 following their postponement from the original December dates d [...]	2007-01-10 09:33:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN PTER ASEAN RU XE CH JA KN KS BM
07MOSCOW2633	RUSSIAN POSITION ON EU AS OBSERVER IN GLOBAL [...] (U) On June 4 we contacted Amelia Siderova, in the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),and asked her to clarify (REFTEL) Russia's position on the potential participation of the European Union in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). Siderova resp [...]	2007-06-04 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC KNNP PREL RU
07MOSCOW4315	MFA ON "SIGNIFICANT" SHIFT IN RUSSIA-BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Newly installed MFA Belarus Section Chief Nikita Matkovskiy told us that since Russia began to "put in order" its relations with Belarus in 2006, Russia has observed "serious but necessary" changes in the behavior of the Lukashenko regime. Matkovskiy underscored Russia's determi [...]	2007-09-04 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MNUC BO RU
07MOSCOW4413	RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN RELATIONS: INCHING TOWARD NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary. The MFA and Estonian Embassy suggest that Russia-Estonia relations are slowly returning to normal, despite lingering GOR ill will and unhelpful political rhetoric in both countries. Although no high-level visits are on the horizon, the two countries are closely coordinating on m [...]	2007-09-07 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EN RU
07MOSCOW4540	RUSSIA: FINMIN KUDRIN CONFIDENT ABOUT STAYING ON, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Kudrin expressed confidence that he would remain in office despite the recent change in Prime Ministers. Kudrin's self-assurance seemed to have been boosted by his meeting a little earlier on September 14 with Chief [...]	2007-09-15 07:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV RU

07MOSCOW475	ITALY: PRODI AND PUTIN TALK AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Italian Prime Minister Prodi stopped in Sochi January 23 to discuss Afghanistan and Kosovo, bilateral trade and the Russian president's March visit to Italy. On Afghanistan, Putin was critical of President Karzai's contacts with "moderate" Taliban members. Putin voiced concerns [...]	2007-02-05 13:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU IT AF
07MOSCOW4897	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: IRAN, MD, CFE, ARMS [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak staked out familiar positions on missile defense, arguing that U.S. insistence on radar and interceptor facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland meant the 2 2 delegations would "talk past each other" and accusing the U [...]	2007-10-05 09:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM EAID MASS ETTC RU SY IR IZ
07MOSCOW509	RUSSIAN ENERGY: CHEVRON AND CPC - LOOKING AT [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, Chevron's Russia chief, Ian MacDonald, contacted us to talk about CPC expansion and the recently-inked Gazpromneft deal. (This discussion follows up on previous meetings with MacDonald with Mark Woloshyn, who Chevron has hired to shepherd along the Bosphorus bypass [...]	2007-02-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU
07MOSCOW5224	BOSNIA: MOSCOW EVALUATES THE SITUATION DIFFERENTLY [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 29 meeting to MFA Third European Department Counselor Ivan Gorbunov, who told us that the U.S. and GOR evaluated the situation differently in Bosnia, but had the same overall goal -- peace and stability for the region (septel reports on the Ambassado [...]	2007-10-31 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK RU
07MOSCOW5790	RUSSIA UNLIKELY TO BACK DOWN ON BRITISH COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: UK diplomats do not expect the GOR to back down from its threat to close two British Council centers on January 1, with the latest salvo from the MFA making the "tactical mistake" of linking Russian actions to the July measures taken by the UK in response to the Russian failure [...]	2007-12-12 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL RU UK
07MOSCOW707	RUSSIA: OVERSIGHT AGENCY HEAD TAKES STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 14 discussion with the Ambassador, Rostekhnadzor Director Pulikovskiy said Russia will focus on training and safety when it expands its nuclear energy network. No one wants to repeat the "bitter experience" of Chornobyl, he said. He looks forward to a product [...]	2007-02-16 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ETRD PARM RU KS KN
07NICOSIA1002	FM LAVROV DELIVERS SUPPORT FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Cypriot opinion leaders characterized Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's December 9-10 visit to the island as "Russia Riding to the Rescue." Lavrov's timing was impeccable, and seemingly too providential (for the G/C cause) to be coincidental. He arrived shortly before two [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY RU SE
07OTTAWA145	USITC Antidumping Investigation on remand of silicon metal [...] Summary: Our investigation reveals that the only producer in Canada of the product in question is Becancour Silicon, to which ITC has already presented a detailed questionnaire. Post compiled some trade data. However, free publicly available trade data is available from the national statistic [...]	2007-01-26 20:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD OTRA ASEC ECON CA RU
07PARIS1034	EMBASSY PARIS PRESS OUTREACH ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris reached key media audiences March 16 with an exclusive print interview for DOD U/S for Policy, Ambassador Eric Edelman, as well as a press roundtable featuring U/S Edelman and Missile Defense Agency Director LTG Henry Obering. French press coverage on the USG's missile defe [...]	2007-03-16 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KPAO MNUC MARR IR FR RU
07PARIS1723	FRANCE SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON CFE AND PUTIN'S APRIL [...] (C) On April 30th, we raised reftel demarche on Russia and its CFE obligations with Arnaud Roux, MFA action officer responsible for CFE. Roux observed that France shared our concern with respect to Russian intentions, especially if Russia is looking to abandon its commitment to the CFE regime [...]	2007-04-30 16:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE PARM NATO RU FR
07PARIS3808	A/S FRIED CFE TALKS WITH RUSSIA IN FRANCE [...] (C) Summary. EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried and an interagency team met with Russian DFM Kislyak September 11 in Paris to discuss next steps on the U.S. parallel actions plan for ending the current deadlock on fulfillment of Istanbul commitments by Russia and ratification of Adapted CFE by [...]	2007-09-13 14:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR NATO KFCE FR GG RU MD
07PARIS3964	USD/P EDELMAN DISCUSSES IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, MISSILE [...] (U) Please see paragraphs 4 and 7 for requested Washington follow-up actions. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On September 18, USD/P Eric Edelman and State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen met with French Political Director Gerard Araud to discuss Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Missile Defense, CFE and Kosovo [...]	2007-09-21 12:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP FR RU SR IZ IR AF
07PARIS4439	U/S BURNS DISCUSSES KOSOVO, AFGHANISTAN, GEORGIA, [...] (C) Summary. In an October 30 working dinner with MFA Political Director Gerard Araud, U/S Burns urged the European community to respect the "firm" deadline of December 10 to conclude final status negotiations on Kosovo and pushed for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Georgia. Araud hoped t [...]	2007-11-07 15:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS NATO AZ FR SR GG RU BM IN IR
07PARIS4522	USD/P EDELMAN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 9, USD/P Eric Edelman met with senior GOF officials to discuss Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, missile defense, Russia, NATO and ESDP, and Georgia. There are internal discussions about future French contributions to Afghanistan, but there is no consensus yet on fielding [...]	2007-11-19 09:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MCAP AF IR RU PK GG FR
07PARIS4529	USD(P) EDELMAN MEETING WITH FRENCH DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 9, USD(P) Eric Edelman met with French Defense Minister Herv Morin in Paris as a follow-up to Secretary Of Defense Gates, 25 October meeting with Morin at the NATO Informal Defense Ministerials. Edelman provided Morin information on the Iranian ballistic missile thr [...]	2007-11-19 16:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MCAP AF IR RU PK GG FR
07PARIS4683	USD/P EDELMAN AND COUNSELOR COHEN DISCUSS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (USD/P) Eric Edelman and State Department Counselor (C) Eliot Cohen discussed the U.S. desire to develop a three- to five-year strategic vision for the Alliance in Afghanistan with senior French officials on December 5 in Paris. The French were [...]	2007-12-11 10:28:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR MCAP AF IR RU PK GG FR
07PARIS4750	FRENCH PRESIDENCY STRATEGIC ADVISER RICHIER [...] (C) We passed reftel points to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States Franck Gellet on December 13. PolMinCouns and poloff also passed these points on December 13 to French Presidency strategic affairs adviser Francois Richier. Richier commented that the points were [...]	2007-12-20 16:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNUP FR IR EU RU CH
07PARIS542	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMABT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche about plans for outreach regarding the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Arms Control Department official Philippe Errera on February 9. Russian interlocutors were unavailable to deliver the demarche jointly. GoF officials provided no res [...]	2007-02-09 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
07PRAGUE1073	CZECH REPUBLIC SIGNS NUCLEAR FUEL REPATRIATION [...] Ambassador Graber and Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Martin Riman signed the "Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Countering the Proliferation of Nuclear Materials and Technologies" (a.k.a. nuclear fuel repatriation agreement) on September 17 at the Ministry of Industry and T [...]	2007-09-18 10:41:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EZ PREL RU
07PRAGUE289	U.S. AND RUSSIANS JOINTLY DEMARCHE CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (C) On March 16, DCM and Russian DCM Oleg Lushnikov presented the points outlined in reftel to Jan Kara, director of the United Nations Department of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kara was very receptive to the message, and responded that he was "nearly 100 percent sure" the Czechs w [...]	2007-03-19 14:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PREL PINS PARM PGOV EZ RU
07PRAGUE313	CZECH AMBASSADOR FOR ENERGY SECURITY'S TRIP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This is Vaclav Bartuska's first trip to the U.S. in his capacity as Czech Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security. He was appointed to this position last winter because the MFA saw the need for closer scrutiny and high level interagency coordination to develop a coher [...]	2007-03-23 14:27:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV CZ RU
07PRAGUE398	RUSSIAN DEPUTY FM TELLS THE CZECHS THAT MISSILE [...] (C) Summary: Russian DFM Kislyak, visiting Prague on March 11-12 for meetings with FM Schwarzenberg, DFM Pojar and the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, asserted that the planned missile defense sites in the Czech Republic and Poland are a step in a larger effort by the U.S. to develop a [...]	2007-04-13 16:11:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR RU EZ
07PRAGUE420	MISSILE DEFENSE: SCENESETTER FOR MDA DIRECTOR [...] (C/NF) General Obering, your visit to the Czech Republic comes at a crucial time during the Czech national debate on participation in missile defense with the United States. The enthusiastic support of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's right-of-center ODS party has gotten us this far, but your [...]	2007-04-18 14:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MASS MARR EZ RU
07PRAGUE472	ACTION REQUEST: CZECH REPUBLIC ENDORSES STATEMENT [...] This is an action request. 2. On April 27, The Embassy received diplomatic note 113582/2007-OSN saying the Czech Republic endorses the principles of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and supports the objectives of the Initiative. A copy of the diplomatic note has been faxe [...]	2007-05-02 12:34:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PREL PINS PARM PGOV EZ RU
07PRAGUE486	CZECH-RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL MEETINGS CORDIAL; NO [...] (C) Summary. The visit of President Klaus with President Putin in Moscow was cordial and productive. Although press reports focused on the missile defense aspect of the visit, only about 10 per cent of the discussions in meetings concerned the issue. President Putin, who has been passionate in [...]	2007-05-03 13:30:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR EZ RU
07PRAGUE497	CZECH PRESIDENT: PUTIN SERIOUS ABOUT MISSILE [...] (C) Czech President Vaclav Klaus asked to see Ambassador on May 7 to brief on his April 26-29 state visit to Moscow, and specifically his discussions with President Putin on missile defense (MD). Klaus said he found Putin to be more strident than he had expected on the issue, adding that he " [...]	2007-05-07 15:01:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU EZ
07PRAGUE644	CZECHS AGREE WITH U.S. APPROACH TO CFE [...] (C) Poloff delivered the authorized portions of Ref A demarche on June 6 to Veronika Smigolova, MFA Director for Security Policy. Smigolova, who will lead the Czech delegation to the June 12-15 CFE Extraordinary Conference, shared her fear that Allies could be faced with Russian tactics design [...]	2007-06-06 11:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL EZ RU
07PRAGUE978	CZECH REPUBLIC REJECTS SURPRISE RUSSIAN NOMINATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Russia's surprise nomination of former Czech central bank governor and former Prime Minister Josef Tosovsky as IMF Managing Director has received much attention in Czech media, mostly in the form of negative and cynical commentary about Tosovsky's checkered past and [...]	2007-08-27 05:40:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV RU EZ
07REYKJAVIK247	ICELAND: EXERCISE NORTHERN VIKING, [...] (C) Summary: Exercise NORTHERN VIKING 2007, held August 14-15, was the first defense exercise conducted under our commitments set out in the bilateral Joint Understanding of October 2006. The successful exercise brought new positive attention to the U.S. defense commitment to Iceland as [...]	2007-08-27 17:38:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL MARR PGOV RU IC
07RIYADH318	UNOFFICIAL SAUDI REACTION TO PUTIN VISIT: CLEARLY [...] (U) Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded on February 12 a two-day visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- the first ever by a Russian head of state. Described by some analysts as an "historic visit," Putin was accompanied by a delegation that included approximately 60 businessmen. The [...]	2007-02-16 13:45:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON EPET RU SA
07ROME188	PUTIN-PRODI MEETING FOCUSES ON BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Italian PM Prodi's January 23 dinner with Russian President Putin focused largely on bilateral trade issues. According to the MFA Russian Desk, Putin will visit Italy in mid-March for a bilateral visit to Rome and the Vatican and then to Bari for an summit focused primarily on trade, telec [...]	2007-01-26 16:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV RU SR YI IT
07ROME535	PRODI/PUTIN - ITALIANS CLAIM "FULL HARMONY" WITH [...] (C) Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Italy on March 13 and 14 for his fourth bilateral with PM Prodi in ten months. Putin and Prodi met for three-hours over dinner March 13, and traveled to the Adriatic port city of Bari along with several ministers for a largely economic summit March [...]	2007-03-16 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EUN UNSC RU IT
07ROME563	ITALY-RUSSIA COMMERCIAL TIES DEEPEN ON MARGINS OF [...] (U) Summary. Russian and Italian companies signed a number of agreements on the margins of the March 14 bilateral meeting between PM Prodi and Russian President Putin. The agreements, concentrated in the areas of energy and transportation, provide "proof of the strategic partnership between [...]	2007-03-21 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ENRG RU IT
07SOFIA1288	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS SOUTH STREAM POINTS [...] (C) Summary. In response to ref A points on South Stream, Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov told Ambassador October 31 that he welcomed and valued the U.S. appraisal of the project. He expressed concern that if Bulgaria did not go forward with South Stream, Romania, T [...]	2007-11-02 09:47:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EU PGOV RU BG
07SOFIA1325	BULGARIA MOVES FORWARD ON SOUTH STREAM AND [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Bulgaria signed a declaration with Russia on the proposed South Stream gas pipeline in Moscow November 8. As expected, the document is a general one-page political statement that leaves details about ownership of the pipeline to a later intergovernmental agree [...]	2007-11-21 13:47:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EU PGOV RU BG
07SOFIA1382	AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETINGS IN SOFIA ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On December 6 Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks Frank Wisner briefed Foreign Minister Kalfin and, in a separate meeting, members of parliament on the outcome of the Troika negotiations and next steps on Kosovo. Wisner told the Bulgarians that although the Troik [...]	2007-12-18 05:11:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV UN EU RU BU
07SOFIA1397	YOUR MEETING WITH BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kalfin comes to Washington as Bulgaria's coalition government faces some key foreign and security policy decisions, including Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan deployments, and Russian energy deals. President Putin will visit Sofia on January 17-18 to kick off the "Year of Russi [...]	2007-12-21 13:46:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MOPS MARR RU KV AF IZ BU
07SOFIA150	B-A PIPELINE CLOSE TO FIRST DOWN; INDECISION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY Bulgaria, Russia and Greece plan to sign a broad intergovernmental agreement (IGA) giving the go ahead to the Burgas-Alexandropoulis (B-A) oil pipeline on February 7 or 8 in Burgas. Several key issues -- equity stakes, operation of the pipeline, and a final decision on control of [...]	2007-02-02 15:21:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON GR RU BU
07SOFIA377	BULGARIA: MISSILE DEFENSE PD STRATEGY [...] (U) Per Ref A request, Post has designated DCM Alexander Karagiannis as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (U) During the Sofia visit of Admiral Harry Ulrich, CINCUSNAVEUR, the Admiral briefed the Sofia and Varna press corps in appearances on February 2 [...]	2007-03-21 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPAO PL EZ RU BU
07SOFIA611	PUTIN PUSHES RUSSIA-TO-BULGARIA UNDERSEA GAS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-17 13:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL EUN RU BU
07SOFIA949	OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S.-BULGARIAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary. New Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov recently told the Ambassador that he welcomes a partnership with the U.S. government on energy and will also work to eliminate obstacles to U.S. investments in Bulgaria. A newcomer facing a steep learning curve on energy, Dimitrov is [...]	2007-08-07 12:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV RU BU
07SOFIA951	PIPELINE EXPLOSION CUTS GAS TO GREECE [...] (U) Summary: A strong explosion disrupted a section of the pipeline used for transiting Russian natural gas to Greece on the morning of August 6. No one was injured in the blast. Officials quickly ruled out terrorism, blaming instead a landslide caused by recent heavy rains. Bulgargaz offic [...]	2007-08-07 13:16:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON RU BU
07STATE138761	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 25 MEETING [...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried Notetaker Aaron Jensen Romania --------- Foreign Minister Adrian Mihai Cioroianu U.N. Permanent Representative Mihnea Motoc Charge Daniela Gitman Political Director Stefan Tinca Chief of Cabinet Gabriel Sopanda 2. [...]	2007-10-02 17:57:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ENRG HU SR MD RU MK AL PL RO
07STATE150674	SECRETARY'S 10/29 MEETING WITH SPANISH FM [...] (U) October 29, 2007, 10:00 a.m., Secretary's Office 2. (U) Participants: United States The Secretary EUR A/S Daniel Fried PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft EUR Elaine Samson (Notetaker) Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos Ambassador Carlos Westendorp Chief of Staf [...]	2007-10-30 22:29:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE KCFE SP KV RU KZ MD
07STATE64167	DEMARCHE ON NEXT STEPS ON ABKHAZIA [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: This is an action request. Embassy is requested to deliver the points in para 2 at the appropriate level to Deputy FM Karasin and report on any response. The points are intended as the basis for discussion of how Russia and the U.S. can cooperate in advancing the implem [...]	2007-05-11 00:32:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RU GG
07TALLINN165	ESTONIA: MISSLE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND [...] (U) As requested Ref A, Post has designated Acting DCM Eric Johnson as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (C) As reported Ref B, Estonia agrees with the USG position on the Russian response to U.S. missile defense plans. We do not expect any wavering o [...]	2007-03-13 09:07:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU EN
07TALLINN2	ESTONIA: FM PAET VISITS GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary. During his visit to Georgia December 18-19, Georgian Officials told Foreign Minister Urmas Paet that: -- they hope for a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) already in 2007; -- they intend to extend economic and political reforms and substantially increase investment in educa [...]	2007-01-03 09:14:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EU NATO OSCE GG RU EN
07TALLINN310	ESTONIA: GOE OFFICIALS ON THE BRONZE SOLDIER, [...] (C) Summary: During a series of courtesy calls May 7-9, senior GOE officials expressed appreciation for strong U.S. support after the attack on Estonian's Embassy in Moscow. Prime Minister Ansip noted Estonia did not want to create problems for its allies, but emphasized that Russia's actions [...]	2007-05-11 14:36:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU EN
07TALLINN352	Estonian Policy Makers Discuss Energy Options [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent roundtable discussion on the future of Estonian energy policy, key players in Estonian government, industry and academia renewed calls to increase Estonia's energy efficiency and its use of renewable energy sources, and to lessen the its energy dependence on Russia. [...]	2007-05-30 14:21:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL RU EN
07TALLINN5	ESTONIA: PRESIDENT AND PM DISCUSS RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-03 15:54:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EU RU EN
07TALLINN520	THE ESTONIA-RUSSIA BORDER: MANY ROADS TO GRIDLOCK [...] (U) Summary: Extended delays in recent months for truckers waiting to transport goods from northeastern Estonia into Russia have raised many questions about possible causes, especially in the wake of Bronze Soldier- related transit disruptions since April. It is unclear whether politics or si [...]	2007-08-13 12:39:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RU ECON EN
07TALLINN588	LEADING ESTONIAN MP DISCUSSES RUSSIA [...] (SBU) During a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Marko Mihkelson, head of the Parliament's EU Affairs Committee, highlighted as important issues: regional security and stability issues, Russia and President Vladimir Putin's political future, and Russia's re-tooling of history. He also emph [...]	2007-09-07 13:20:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR RU GG EN
07TALLINN594	ESTONIAN RABBI DOWNPLAYS REPORTS OF ANTI- [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting with Poloffs, Rabbi E. Shmuel Kot said anti-Semitism is not a serious concern for Estonia's small Jewish Community. Kot also emphasized his efforts to remain outside of local politics and outlined the religious, social and educational opportunities offe [...]	2007-09-10 14:15:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV RU EN
07TASHKENT1662	GM-DAT, UZDAEWOO IN JOINT VENTURE TALKS; CHEVROLET [...] (C) Summary: GM-DAT, a Korean-based GM subsidiary, is in talks on the establishment of a joint venture (JV) with UzDaewoo. GM-DAT intends to sign the formal contract with President Karimov in October and then publicly announce the JV. GM-DAT views the JV as a long-term investment in which it [...]	2007-09-19 10:17:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND ELTN RU UZ
07TASHKENT265	COSCOM SUSPENSION ENDS, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: Majority U.S.-owned cellular provider COSCOM returned to service at the end of a 10-day suspension. However, the company has only limited service, as crucial connections to the national cellular network remain severed. Important disputes with the state telecom agency remain unreso [...]	2007-02-16 06:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECPS RU UZ
07TASHKENT278	COSCOM SUSPENSION ENDS, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: Majority U.S.-owned cellular provider COSCOM returned to service at the end of a 10-day suspension. However, the company has only limited service, as crucial connections to the national cellular network remain severed. Important disputes with the state telecom agency remain unreso [...]	2007-02-17 03:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECPS RU UZ
07TASHKENT769	SCANDINAVIAN-TURKISH FIRM MAY BUY COSCOM AND [...] (C) Summary: Scandinavian-Turkish joint venture Fintur Holdings may win the Uzbek government's approval to purchase U.S.-based MCT Corporation, the parent of telecom provider COSCOM. COSCOM's General Manager believes that Fintur has made the right approach to the Uzbeks, including lobbying Pr [...]	2007-04-13 10:42:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECPS PGOV RU TU UZ
07TBILISI1101	SPEAKER BURJANADZE ON OPPOSITION, CONFLICTS, AND [...] (C) Summary: During a May 10 meeting with Ambassador, Speaker Burjanadze said she was frustrated by opposition New Rights party MP David Gamkrelidze's decision to withdraw from an inter-faction parliamentary group established to draft a new law on property rights. Burjanadze said Gamkrelidze [...]	2007-05-11 13:01:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU
07TBILISI1279	PARLIAMENTARIANS OUTLINE GEORGIA'S REFORMS, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President Joseph Wood, key ruling party and opposition parliamentarians outlined planned internal reforms and weighed the challenges ahead. While citing strong progress, MPs admitted more work needs to be done in [...]	2007-06-01 04:23:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG GG RU
07TBILISI1386	LITTLE PROGRESS RESULTS FROM MAY 31 GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-11 13:46:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD USTR WTO GG RU
07TBILISI1418	DEMARCHE BY FRIENDS OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL TO [...] (C) Summary. The Friends of the Secretary General (FSG) delivered a demarche, as agreed in capitals, to the Georgian Government on June 4 and to the Abkhaz de facto authorities in Sukhumi on June 8. The demarche pressed both sides to calm tensions, re-engage in dialog, implement confidence b [...]	2007-06-13 13:21:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS KPKO UNSC RU GG
07TBILISI1595	MORE TIME NEEDED TO REOPEN GEORGIA-RUSSIA AIR LINKS [...] Georgian Airways announced on July 1 that it is about to start periodic charter flights to Moscow, beginning July 3. The company's press release indicated that this is a temporary arrangement between the company and Russia's transport administration, facilitated by Georgia's Orthodox Church Pa [...]	2007-07-03 14:46:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PGOV PREL GG RU
07TBILISI1604	ABKHAZIA: GENEVA-STYLE MEETING IN BONN: SMALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 27 and 28, representatives of the Friends of the UN Secretary General (FSG),together with the UN, met the Georgian and Abkhaz sides for a Geneva-style meeting in Bonn. Most significantly, the sides agreed to resume Quadripartite meetings on law enforcement cooperation i [...]	2007-07-06 11:36:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS KPKO UNSC GG RU
07TBILISI1976	DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: On July 27, EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with influential majority Members of Parliament. Saakashvili insider Giga Bokeria complained that the recent UN report on the situation in Abkhazia was unbalanced. Bryza argued that the UNOMIG Joint Fact Finding Group (JFFG) report made a stron [...]	2007-08-08 13:02:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
07TBILISI1979	DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH OPPOSITION MP'S [...] (C) Summary: On July 27, EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with leading opposition Members of Parliament. Their most urgent concern was elections, and they raised the issues of the fairness of the majoritarian system and composition of the Central Election Commission (CEC) (reftel A). Although they als [...]	2007-08-08 13:15:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
07TBILISI2030	DEPUTY SPEAKER MACHAVARIANI DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During a July 24 meeting with Poloff, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mikheil Machavariani, discussed the upcoming 2008 elections. He said that he will be the campaign chairman for the ruling National Movement (UNM) party and lead its nationwide campaign. He advised that the major [...]	2007-08-13 14:11:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG RU
07TBILISI2498	PM NOGHAIDELI TALKS TOUGH ABOUT BP AND AZERI GAS [...] (C) On October 4, the Ambassador met with Georgian Prime Minister Noghaideli. Noghaideli told the Ambassador that shortly before he went to Baku on September 27-28 for a meeting of the Georgian-Azerbaijani Economic Commission, he received word from the Azerbaijanis that there would be no chan [...]	2007-10-05 09:37:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET GG AJ RU AR
07TBILISI2657	GEORGIA'S NEW ENERGY MINISTER OUTLINES 2007-08 [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Georgia's new Minister of Energy, Aleksandr Khetaguri, on October 18. Khetaguri outlined increasing hydroelectric production in Georgia that has enabled Georgia to export significant amounts of power to Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan in 2007, as well as supp [...]	2007-10-26 07:26:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL GG RU AJ
07TBILISI2774	TBILISI PROTESTS: SITREP 3 [...] President Saakashvili addressed the Georgian nation live on television at approximately 1900 on November 7. Meanwhile, demonstrators clashed in the streets with police after being dispersed from the Rike area on the other side of the Mtkvari River from Parliament. The demonstrators had retrea [...]	2007-11-07 17:18:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC GG RU
07TBILISI2813	EUR DAS BRYZA'S NOVEMBER 13 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting EUR DAS Matt Bryza conveyed to Georgian President Micheil Saakashvili the Secretary's firm message that the state of emergency in SIPDIS Georgia must be lifted and that all TV broadcasts, especially Imedi's, must be resumed if the GOG is to restore fait [...]	2007-11-14 14:33:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR GG RU
07TBILISI2944	DAS BRYZA'S NOVEMBER 11 AND 14 MEETINGS WITH IMEDI [...] (C) (Summary) During his visit to Tbilisi DAS Bryza held three meetings with the management and journalists of Imedi television. On November 11, Lewis Robertson, CEO Newscorp Caucasus and Imedi General Manager; Bidzina Baratashvili, Imedi General Director; and Irakli Rukhadze, Manager of Self [...]	2007-11-21 11:30:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAO ASEC GG RU
07TBILISI3098	GEORGIANS ADVANCE PROPOSAL TO SOLVE WTO BORDER [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, Econoff met with Tamar Kovziridze, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Georgia's lead negotiator on WTO issues. Kovziridze shared the text of a proposal by the Georgian government for solution of the impasse over border crossings that is the basis of a dis [...]	2007-12-14 12:06:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL WTO USTR GG RU
07TBILISI3146	GEORGIA: NOT QUITE THERE ON ENERGY INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Georgia should be able to meet at least 3.5 million of its total 7 million cubic meter per day natural gas needs from Azerbaijan, in the early part of 2008. The rest will have to be purchased from Gazprom. The 2008 Gazprom price is expected to be higher than 2006, but not to do [...]	2007-12-21 10:01:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL GG AJ RU TU
07TBILISI387	SAAKASHVILI DISMISSES ANTI-NATO DEBATE AND [...] (U) At a February 23 news conference, President Saakashvili dismissed as "foolish" the recent public debate over whether Georgia's NATO aspirations will prevent it from restoring territorial integrity over the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The debate began on February 16, [...]	2007-02-27 06:40:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU
07TBILISI431	GOG CONTINUES ITS ANTI-TIP PUBLIC OUTREACH [...] (U) On February 27, Poloff participated in a GOG sponsored presentation on anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) at the University of Foreign Languages -- the second event held in Tbilisi this month. The presentation included a showing of the Frontline documentary titled "Sex-Slave" to an audie [...]	2007-03-05 05:32:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL GG RU
07TBILISI711	EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed the recent attack on Georgian government buildings in Kodori and rising tensions in the Gali region, and their relationship to the debate over the next UNOMIG mandate renewal in the U [...]	2007-04-02 10:21:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN
07TBILISI725	EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 11:35:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN
07TELAVIV3516	ISN PDAS MCNERNEY'S DISCUSSION ON PSI AND UNFC [...] (C) During an October 24 meeting with an Israeli inter-agency team at the Foreign Ministry that focused mainly on the Iranian nuclear threat, ISN PDAS Patricia McNerney and her delegation also exchanged views on the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and various resolutions in the UN Firs [...]	2007-12-13 16:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP UNSC UNFC EG RU IS
07TELAVIV553	IRAN: U/S JOSEPH'S JANUARY 30 DINNER WITH ISRAEL [...] (S) During his January 30 - February 2 visit to Israel, Under Secretary Robert Joseph participated in talks with Israeli representatives from the MFA, MOD, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) and affiliated research centers, IDF intelligence, and the Mossad. Discussions focused on the thr [...]	2007-02-22 06:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP MNUC PTER IR RU IS
07TELAVIV554	IRAN: UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH'S DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (S) During his January 30 - February 2 visit to Israel, Under Secretary Robert Joseph participated in talks with Israeli representatives from the MFA, MOD, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) and affiliated research centers, IDF intelligence (IDI),and the Mossad. Discussions focused on t [...]	2007-02-22 06:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP MNUC PTER IR RU IS
07TELAVIV555	IRAN-IAEA: UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH'S DISCUSSIONS [...] (S) During his January 30 - February 2 visit to Israel, Under Secretary Robert Joseph participated in talks with Israeli representatives from the MFA, MOD, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) and affiliated research centers, IDF intelligence (IDI),and the Mossad. Discussions focused on t [...]	2007-02-22 06:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UNSC PTER IR RU IS
07TELAVIV556	IRAN-RUSSIA: UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPHâ€™S DISCUSSIONS [...] (S) During his January 30 - February 2 visit to Israel, Under Secretary Robert Joseph participated in talks with Israeli representatives from the MFA, MOD, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) and affiliated research centers, IDF intelligence (IDI),and the Mossad. Discussions focused on the thr [...]	2007-02-22 06:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP MNUC PTER IR RU IS
07TELAVIV557	IRAN-UNSC: UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH'S DISCUSSIONS WITH ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 07:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	IR IS KNNP MNUC PREL PTER RU UNSC
07TELAVIV689	IRAN: ISRAELI ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ON UNSCR [...] (S) Responding to the points in reftels, Merav Zafary and Gil Reich from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) told poloff February 28 that they were timely -- coming in advance of the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) meeting set for March 5 -- and hopefully will encourage other countries to [...]	2007-03-02 13:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL MNUC KNNP UNSC SY RU IR IS
07THEHAGUE1642	NETHERLANDS/EU: KOSOVO IS TOP PRIORITY FOR GYMNICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 5, 2007, POLOFF delivered reftel points to Desiree Kopmels, EU correspondent for the Dutch MFA. In discussions the next day, Ms. Kopmels emphasized that the Netherlands would push for the EU to send a united message to Belgrade and Pristina: 'get to a solution.' K [...]	2007-09-06 14:35:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU NL RU YI KV
07THEHAGUE1991	NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: PM BALKENENDE HOPEFUL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende is cautiously optimistic that the Cabinet can reach agreement before the end of the month to extend the Dutch troop deployment in Uruzgan for at least another 18 months. Serious questions remain, however, on the length, financing, and composition o [...]	2007-11-15 12:05:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON PINR IR RU NL
07THEHAGUE1992	NETHERLANDS/RUSSIA: BALKENENDE MIXES BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his November 5-8 visit to Moscow, Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende engaged Russian President Putin on tough issues such as Kosovo, Iran, and human rights in addition to announcing a major multi-billion dollar gas pipeline deal (reported septels). Balkenende believes that strong e [...]	2007-11-15 12:06:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON PINR IR RU KO NL
07THEHAGUE1994	NETHERLANDS/RUSSIA: MINISTER TIMMERMANS REGRETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 9, Ambassador met with Dutch MFA Minister for European Affairs Timmermans to discuss Russia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, French President Sarkozy, Timmermans, upcoming trips to the United States, and plans to commemorate 400 years of American-Dutch relations. Although Timmermans o [...]	2007-11-15 12:07:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EU RU KV YI
07TOKYO1025	ANRE PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS DIRECTOR GIVES [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting on March 2 Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka expressed only partial satisfaction with discussions between Japan and Russia that took place in late February. He appreciated assurances from Russian P [...]	2007-03-09 08:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON JA CH RU
07TOKYO1267	RUSSIA AND JAPAN SEEK TO ADVANCE ECONOMIC TIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's February visit to Japan included visits with Japan's top leaders and centered on economic issues, especially trade. Japanese officials noted a new openness in their Russian counterparts and speculated that Prime Minister Putin's re [...]	2007-03-22 06:54:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON JA RU
07TOKYO163	JAPAN OFFERS FAVORABLE ASSESSMENT OF SAKHALIN 2 [...] (C) Summary. The Kremlin,s aggressive move to increase Gazprom,s stake in the Sakhalin 2 project was largely driven by Russian domestic political considerations, MOFA Russian Division officials told poloffs recently. Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) worsened things when it committed a &big blunder8 and [...]	2007-01-15 22:36:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET RU JA
07TOKYO2287	JAPAN-RUSSIA VICE MINISTER TALKS: NO PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary. The May 17 Japan-Russia Vice Ministerial talks addressed a range of topics, but focused on preparations for the PM Abe-President Putin meeting on the margins of the G-8, MOFA and Russian Embassy contacts tell Embassy Tokyo political officer. Japan asked for clarification on repo [...]	2007-05-22 07:50:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA RU
07TOKYO2690	ABE-PUTIN G-8 SUMMIT: RUSSIA AGREES TO [...] (C) Summary. During their June 7 summit, PM Abe and President Putin agreed not to shelve the Northern Territories issue, and Putin promised to instruct his deputies to ""accelerate"" the negotiations, according to MOFA Russian Division Director Muto. On North Korea, Putin expressed frustrati [...]	2007-06-14 08:12:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET JA RU
07TOKYO4661	PM FUKUDA PLANS NO SHIFT IN JAPAN POLICY ON [...] (C) Summary. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will not alter Tokyo's policy approach to Russia or the Northern Territories, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials tell Embassy Tokyo. Russian Embassy representatives add that Moscow plans to continue its "two-track" approach toward Tokyo: 1) [...]	2007-10-04 07:30:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG JA RU
07TOKYO478	ANRE'S HOSAKA DISCUSSES RUSSIA, CHINA ENERGY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. Agency of Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka accompanied ANRE Director General Harufumi Mochizuki on a visit to Moscow the week of January 29 to talk to Gazprom about Japanese companies aiding the construction of a gas in [...]	2007-02-01 23:25:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON JA CH RU
07TOKYO5019	RUSSIAN FM LAVROV MEETING WITH JAPAN FM KOMURA: [...] (C) Summary. Tokyo and Moscow made no progress toward resolving the Northern Territories issue during Russian FM Sergei Lavrov's October 23 visit to Japan, MOFA officials told Embassy Tokyo on October 25. Lavrov expressed concern about U.S.-Japan missile defense cooperation and BMD deployment [...]	2007-10-26 08:49:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG JA RU
07TOKYO697	VFM YACHI ATTENDS FIRST JAPAN-RUSSIA STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary. Russian officials told VFM Yachi during his January 23-25 Moscow visit that Russia has no intention of "controlling" or "monopolizing" Central Asia, but said that Moscow should be "an important interlocutor" on issues affecting the region, according to MOFA Russia Division Direct [...]	2007-02-17 03:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET JA RU
07ULAANBAATAR294	Impasse with Russia Over Joint Venture Railroad Head Leaves [...] (U) On April 11-13, a meeting of the joint Russian-Mongolian Railroad Authority board failed to select a new Chairman. The post has been vacant since early October 2006, when Russian Chairman Vasile Magdei and his Mongolian deputy (both reportedly inebriated) accidentally died of carbon monoxi [...]	2007-05-21 05:45:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ELTN EINV ETRD EAID MG RU
07ULAANBAATAR339	DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS IRAQ ROTATION DECISION TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 12 call on Defense Minister Sonompil, the Ambassador emphasized that there is great interest in Washington in Mongolia's formal approval of the 8th rotation of troops to Iraq. Minister of Defense Sonompil responded that the Mongolian National Security Council (NS [...]	2007-06-13 08:22:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL CH RU
07ULAANBAATAR642	Snapshot of Mongolia's North Central Selenge Province [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia's central northern Selenge aimag (province) hopes to develop mining, agricultural production and tourism. Selenge has generally good relations with its Russian neighbor, but the Russians remain bureaucratic and uncooperative in facilitating border crossing. During the [...]	2007-11-13 08:28:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN ETRD PREL SOCI MG RU CM

07USEUBRUSSELS3227	RUSSIAN ARMS TRANSFERS TO IRAN AND SYRIA: EU [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 16:30:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET	PARM ETTC PREL IR IZ RU SY EUN
07USNATO109	NSA HADLEY TALKS TO NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley discussed a wide range of strategic issues with NATO Allies on February 21, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, new U.S. efforts to revive the Middle East peace process, and relations with Russia. Mr. Hadley's visit comes as Europe [...]	2007-02-22 13:59:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL WEU RU
07USNATO110	NSA HADLEY'S 21 FEBRUARY DISCUSSION WITH NATO SYG [...] (C) SUMMARY: De Hoop Scheffer described European weakness as playing out in Allies, approaches to Afghanistan (lack of unity of purpose),Russia (desire not to rock the boat),and missile defense (ditto). Mr. Hadley pressed the SYG to have ISAF do more on counternarcotics, and an augmented [...]	2007-02-22 15:05:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU NATO
07USNATO136	MISSILE DEFENSE: ANSWERS PROVIDED TO RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable provides answers to 11 written questions on U.S. Missile Defense (MD) plans, drafted by the Russian Mission to NATO, which were answered by Lt Gen Obering, Director, Missile Defense Agency, at a NATO-Russia Council meeting on February 28, 2007. While the Russian que [...]	2007-03-02 15:54:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO PREL RU
07USNATO140	NATO-RUSSIA: ALLIES STILL GRAPPLING WITH MEANING [...] (S/NF) Allied PermReps and the Russian Ambassador sought to clear the air from the Munich Conference in the Feb. 28 NATO-Russia Council (NRC). The Russian delegation has stated repeatedly that Putin's speech in Munich gives us a road-map for future frank discussions at the NRC. Poland, UK, an [...]	2007-03-02 18:18:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	NATO PREL RU
07USNATO151	RFG ON MISSILE DEFENSE: NATO SCHEDULES [...] (C) At the NATO PermReps March 6 luncheon, PermReps agreed to a U.S. proposal to hold two meetings on April 19 on Missile Defense, reinforced by experts from capitals. The first meeting would be in NAC/Reinforced (NAC/R) format and a second in NATO-Russia Council/Reinforced (NRC/R) format to [...]	2007-03-07 18:17:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL RU
07USNATO264	NATO-RUSSIA: MISSILE DEFENSE DEBATE PLAYING OUT AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 20th meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) reinforced with missile defense (MD) experts demonstrated again the U.S. commitment to transparency with our NATO allies and with Russia on our MD plans, while the Russians focused on trying to paint the U.S. proposed system [...]	2007-04-23 16:57:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL RU
07USNATO265	MISSILE DEFENSE: A/S ROOD CONSULTS WITH CZECH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the April 19 meetings at NATO HQ on Missile Defense (reftels),Assistant Secretary Rood briefed his Czech, Polish, French and German counterparts on his April 17 meetings in Moscow and the U.S. offer of Cooperation across the full spectrum of missile defense act [...]	2007-04-23 17:11:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL CZ PL RU
07USNATO279	NATO-RUSSIA: MISSILE DEFENSE DEBATE PLAYING OUT AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 19th meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) reinforced with missile defense (MD) experts demonstrated again the U.S. commitment to transparency with our NATO allies and with Russia on our MD plans, while the Russians focused on trying to paint the U.S. proposed system [...]	2007-05-02 08:36:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL RU
07USNATO372	U.S. PRESENTS MOLDOVA PKF ALTERNATIVES TO ALLIES [...] (C) Summary: On 8 June, DAS Kramer presented to Allies the U.S. proposal on internationalizing the peacekeeping force in Moldova (REF A-C). Allies appeared interested in the proposal and engaged with a number of questions about how the force would be implemented. Following the meeting, an [...]	2007-06-15 08:16:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS RU MD
07USNATO430	NRC: RUSSIA DISCOUNTS IRANIAN THREAT AND OFFERS [...] (S) Summary: In the July 25 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) meeting, Russian MFA Director of Disarmament Antonov and LTG Buzinskiy gave lengthy presentations on Russia's offer to the United States on missile defense (MD) cooperation in a transparent attempt to drive wedges within the Alliance. The [...]	2007-07-26 15:05:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	NATO PREL MARR RU
07USNATO433	NRC/CFE: RUSSIA WANTS COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 15:59:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM PREL MARR KCFE RU
07USNATO446	ALLIES APPRECIATE DAS KRAMER'S BRIEFING ON [...] (C) Summary: Allies praised DAS David Kramer's briefing to Allies on the US/Russia experts' talks in Washington (July 30-31) on missile defense (MD) and CFE. Allies expect US leadership in these negotiations with Russia, and greatly appreciate our efforts to brief and consult with them. Krame [...]	2007-08-06 14:54:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR KCFE RU
07USNATO495	ALLIES EMBRACE A/S ROOD READOUT OF US-RUSSIA MD [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-12 12:29:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PREL NATO PINR KACT RU
07USNATO533	RUSSIAN MILITARY DOCTRINE VIEWS NATO AS A [...] (C) This is an Action Request: please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: After delivering a lackluster briefing on Russian military reforms, Russian Senior Military Representative Kuznetsov demonstrated previously unseen frankness in responding to Allies' questions in the September 29 NATO-R [...]	2007-09-28 15:11:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR KCFE RU
07USNATO536	MISSILE DEFENSE: 9/25 EXECUTIVE WORKING GROUP- [...] (S) Summary: In the September 25 Executive Working Group- Reinforced (EWG-R) meeting, the NATO International Staff agreed to prepare a draft report in response to the Riga missile defense tasking for the October 24-25 NATO Defense Ministerial. The U.S. informed Allies that it is seeking a po [...]	2007-10-01 16:43:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	NATO PREL MARR KCFE RU
07USNATO544	RUSSIANS PUT THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) In a brief October 1 letter (emailed to EUR/PRM),Russian Senior Military Representative Valentin Kuznetsov informed the NATO International Staff (IS) that Russian MOD representatives will not take part in the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Theater Missile Defense (TMD) Computer Assisted Exer [...]	2007-10-04 17:15:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR RU
07USNATO577	NRC: RUSSIANS ILL-PREPARED TO RESPOND TO US 2+2 [...] (C/NF) Summary: In the October 17 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) reinforced meeting on missile defense, Under Secretary of Defense Edelman, EUR Assistant Secretary of State Fried, and Missile Defense Agency Director LTG Obering offered our vision for a joint U.S./NATO/Russia regional missile defens [...]	2007-10-24 15:09:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL MARR RU
07USNATO609	ACTION REQUEST: FUNDING TO CONTINUE NATO-RUSSIA [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: See paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Russia, Allies, contributing partners, and recipient countries enthusiastically support the continuation of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) 2006-07 pilot project to train counter-narcotics officials in Central Asia and Afghanistan in 200 [...]	2007-11-19 12:36:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR RU
07USNATO630	NRC: RUSSIA AND ALLIES WORLDS APART ON BOSNIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 28 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) discussion of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the head of the Russian MFA,s Third European Department, Vadim Gorelov, appeared as a surprise guest speaker and accused High Representative Lajcak of "misusing" the Bonn powers to fu [...]	2007-12-06 15:08:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR RU
07USOSCE382	IF KOSOVO DECLARES INDEPENDENCE UNILATERALLY, WHAT [...] (C) The likelihood that the OSCE will have to close its mission to Kosovo is increasing. In the event of a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI),Russia and Serbia have threatened to force closure of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK),and they could easily do so. Under such circumsta [...]	2007-10-15 08:19:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PGOV UNMIK KV UNSC SR YI RU
07VIENNA1275	PUTIN TO VISIT VIENNA MAY 23 [...] (C) The Austrian MFA's Assistant Secretary-level Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Hannes Porias, told us the Austrians intended to "send messages" on a range of important issues during Russian President Vladimir Putin's May 23-24 bilateral visit to Vienna. 2. (C) Porias said the s [...]	2007-05-15 09:35:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU AU
07VILNIUS142	RUSSIA: LITHUANIA'S FAVORITE ANXIETY [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's relationship with Russia continues to affect Lithuania's foreign policy and much of its domestic politics. Fifteen years after independence, Lithuania is still a teenager, struggling -- sometimes rashly -- to demonstrate its independence. Nevertheless, most Lithuani [...]	2007-02-28 10:26:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH RU EUN
07VLADIVOSTOK113	REVERSING VLADIVOSTOK'S WATER QUALITY DECLINE [...] (U) Summary. A recent conference in Vladivostok highlighted the seriousness of pollution in the waters off the city's picturesque coastline. Untreated sewage, a lack of pollution controls, and unchecked dumping not only threaten the region's unique wildlife but also its human inhabitants. Th [...]	2007-10-09 03:51:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON PGOV RU
07VLADIVOSTOK125	AMUR LEOPARD: WORLD'S RAREST BIG CAT AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (U) Summary: On November 8, 2007 the Consulate helped organize and host a film and lecture dedicated to the plight of the Amur leopard, the world's rarest big cat. The event took place at Vladivostok's Arsenyev Museum. The film, roughly translated as "Forsaken Challenge," noted that one of [...]	2007-11-16 03:51:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON RU
07VLADIVOSTOK127	GOVERNMENT TO VLADIVOSTOK: HAVE WE GOT A BRIDGE FOR YOU... [...] (SBU) Summary. A major component of the federal government's program to prepare Vladivostok to host the 2012 APEC summit is construction of a bridge to Russkiy Island, the probable location of the APEC Summit. At a recent public hearing, government officials and bridge designers reviewed te [...]	2007-11-21 07:57:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON RU
07VLADIVOSTOK135	VISALESS IN SEATTLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Vladivostok Consul General Tom Armbruster's trip to Seattle last week provided a chance to encourage American companies to take advantage of an improved business climate and new opportunities in the Russian Far East. Seattle is already deeply involved in Russia through trade, [...]	2007-12-11 04:16:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON RU
07WARSAW2369	RUSSIA LIFTS BAN ON POLISH MEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish and Russian Ministers of Agriculture have announced that next week the two-year old Russian ban on imports of fresh meat from Poland will be lifted, removing a major trade irritant. Thanks to strong demand, trade levels should quickly rebound. The Russian embargo on [...]	2007-12-13 14:44:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON PREL PL RU
07WARSAW593	POLAND: POC FOR MISSILE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY [...] Embassy Warsaw POC for overall Missile Defense issues is Political External Chief David Morris, (48)(22)504-2657 or IVG 8-628-2657, e-mail MorrisDT@state.gov. POC for Public Diplomacy efforts is Information Officer Andrew Schilling, (48)(22)504-2331 or IVG 8-628-2331, e-mail SchillingAJ@state [...]	2007-03-12 16:08:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU
07YEREVAN1015	ARMENIA DISMAYED BY RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian strategists are unanimously chagrined by Russia's plan to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, believing that a functioning CFE is very much in Armenia's national interests to restrain a regional arms race. FM Oskanian and MFA experts tell us t [...]	2007-08-09 12:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AM RU
07YEREVAN782	FM OSKANIAN ON PUTIN'S GABALA STATION MISSILE [...] (U) Several Armenian media outlets quoted Foreign Minister Oskanian's comments on the Gabala idea during his interview on Kentron television. Oskanian commented that he saw no physical danger to Armenia from the proposed project, noting that the facility would only be a radar station, not an [...]	2007-06-15 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KMDR AM AJ RU
07ZAGREB791	MEETING WITH OSCE CIO PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR [...] (C) Former Croatian FM Miomir Zuzul told the Ambassador on August 25 that his recent visit to Georgia and Moscow had convinced him that it was a Russian missile that was involved in the August 6 incident he had been asked to investigate by the OSCE Chairman in Office. Particularly after visiti [...]	2007-08-27 14:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS OSCE GG RU HR
08ABUDHABI977	UAE COMMENTS ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) The Charge presented reftel points condemning Russia's recognition of the two breakaway republics to Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan August 27. Al-Haidan, the most senior MFA official on duty this week, agreed that Russia was erroneously comparing the situat [...]	2008-08-28 10:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AU
08ABUJA1716	NIGERIA: DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON REJECTING RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-28 17:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV RS GG RU NI
08AMMAN2484	KING'S RUSSIA VISIT AIMS TO BOLSTER TIES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: King Abdullah, accompanied by Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, has just wrapped up an August 21-24 trip to Russia, where he met with both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to discuss a range of bilateral and Middle Eastern issues. Coming on [...]	2008-08-25 15:18:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU JO
08AMMAN2567	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Ref A demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ayman Al-Aamiry on September 2. Aamiry called the issue a "tough one" for Jordan, pointing to the impression of a double standard on the issue in light of Kosovo. While asserting tha [...]	2008-09-03 13:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU JO
08ANKARA1101	TURKEY ADVOCATES PATIENCE ON CIS PEACEKEEPERS IN [...] (C) The Turkish MFA has not yet been briefed by Georgia on any decision to call for the replacement of Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia (ref A),but is aware of the proposal from contacts in other capitals, according to MFA South Caucasus Head of Department Firat Sunel. Sunel believes the pr [...]	2008-06-13 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU TU
08ANKARA1269	TURKEY/RUSSIA: LAVROV VISIT HEAVY ON GOOD WILL, [...] (C) Summary: Russian FM Lavrov visited Ankara July 1 to continue ongoing efforts to increase bilateral dialogue. As during FM Babacan's February trip to Moscow, the conversation focused primarily on economic relations. The two leaders reaffirmed mutual views on Iran, Iraq, the Black Sea, and [...]	2008-07-15 11:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU TU
08ANKARA1426	TURKEY: NAC STATEMENT ON GEORGIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO KCFE PARM GG RU TU
08ANKARA1513	TFGG01: TURKEY'S CAUCASUS STABILITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT continues to roll out its "Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform" concept, with PM Erdogan visiting Baku August 20. Based on contacts with MFA officials, the concept, stemming from a 2000 proposal from then-President Demirel, is still being refined. MFA contacts h [...]	2008-08-21 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM AJ GG RU TU
08ANKARA1553	TURKEY SUPPORTS GEORGIA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to MFA South Caucasus Department Head Firat Sunel, urging a clear statement rejecting Russia's recognition of Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. Sunel noted the August 26 MFA statement (see paragraph 6),calling it a short but clear message of concern, and [...]	2008-08-27 16:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU TU
08ANKARA1576	TURKEY: GEORGIAN FM URGES GLOBAL SOLUTIONS IN [...] (C) Georgian DCM Irakli Koplatadze on September 1 gave DCM a readout of the August 31 meeting between Turkish FM Babacan and Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili in Istanbul. Babacan, said Koplatadze, began the meeting by expressing "deep concern" for Russian actions and strong Turkish support for the [...]	2008-09-02 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU TU
08ANKARA1584	TURKISH MFA ON LAVROV TALKS, BURNS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Apakan briefed Ambassador September 2 regarding FM Babacan's talks with Russian FM Lavrov the same day in Istanbul. Babacan reportedly emphasized that Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia contradicts international law; associated Turkey with the st [...]	2008-09-03 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU TU
08ANKARA1602	BABACAN/LAVROV IN ISTANBUL: "FRIENDS CAN DISAGREE" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey underscored its support for Georgia's territorial integrity during FM Babacan's September 2 meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Istanbul, MFA DDG for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Murat Burhan told us September 4. However, Lavrov called the decision to recognize Abkh [...]	2008-09-05 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU TU
08ANKARA1611	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL MEETS U/S BURNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a September 5 meeting with Under Secretary Burns, Turkish President Gul said his trip to Yerevan the next day is intended to lay the foundation for progress in bilateral relations. He spoke at length about his private "blunt" discussions with Iranian President Ahmadinejad [...]	2008-09-09 09:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1627	U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...]	2008-09-10 16:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1628	U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...]	2008-09-10 22:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1635	TURKISH CAUCASIANS' INFLUENCE ON REGIONAL POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The conflict in Georgia has mobilized a large portion of Turkey's ethnic Caucasian community to lobby Ankara to join Moscow in recognizing Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. As during the Chechen wars of the 1990s, ethnic Caucasian groups will force the GOT to w [...]	2008-09-11 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU TU
08ANKARA1792	DRUNKEN PASSENGER DISRUPTS TURKISH AIR FLIGHT, BUT [...] (U) Turkish and international media reported October 15 that a Turkish Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey to St Petersburg, Russia had been hijacked during flight. Subsequent press reports said the hijacker had been subdued and that the flight was continuing on to St Petersburg. Still later [...]	2008-10-16 04:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR TU RU
08ANKARA1854	TURKEY: A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a three-hour meeting October 21 with EUR A/S Fried, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan said that Turkey: -- hopes to wrap up an agreement with Armenia before the end of the year; -- wants both the U.S. and EU to join the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform in its se [...]	2008-10-24 07:29:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1902	SCENESETTER FOR THE WASHINGTON VISIT OF TURKISH [...] (C) Admiral Atac's visit will permit us to further cement strong bilateral military ties through the service with which we have perhaps the strongest bond. This visit will allow Atac to raise the most pressing issues for the Turkish Navy today: -- U.S. naval presence in the Black Sea in re [...]	2008-11-03 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS IZ RU TU
08ANKARA2085	TURKEY: MFA ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 11:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU
08ANKARA290	TURKEY PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVAR INDEPENDENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT will recognize an independent Kosovo soon after the Quint and the U.S. GOT officials remain uncertain whether Kosovars will declare independence over the weekend, or merely announce a date on which they will proclaim their independence. Regardless, they are expecting an [...]	2008-02-15 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU RU GG YI AA
08ANKARA393	TURKEY-RUSSIA RELATIONS REMAIN ON TRACK DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The atmosphere was surprisingly positive during Turkish FM Babacan's February 19-20 visit to Moscow, MFA Russia and Eastern Europe Department Head Meltem Buyukkarakas told us February 26. Trade and investment continue to drive relations, though the Turks are dissatisfied with a [...]	2008-02-28 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU TU
08ANKARA453	TURKEY/NABUCCO: DAS BRYZA URGES COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Nabucco pipeline is economically feasible as Russia can supply the gas for South Stream only from Turkmenistan, with Nabucco enjoying a forty percent advantage over South Stream in terms of the cost of shipping Caspian gas to Austria, DAS Matt Bryza told FM Babacan March 3. [...]	2008-03-07 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET AJ IQ RU TX TU
08ASHGABAT1105	TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT - SHAPING [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 14:08:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU GG TX
08ASHGABAT1132	TALKING POINTS REJECTING RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 12:39:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL GG RU TX
08ASHGABAT1205	TURKEMNISTAN: HUNGARY'S NABUCCO AMBASSADOR INVITES [...] (C) Hungary's Ambassador at Large for the Nabucco Pipeline Project Mihaly Bayer met September 10 with Charge. He was in Ashgabat to deliver an invitation to President Berdimuhamedov to attend a Nabucco Summit in Hungary January 26-27, 2009. Bayer had just come from Baku where he had delivered [...]	2008-09-11 10:00:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EPET RU TX
08ASHGABAT1487	TURKMENISTAN: MORE HURDLES IN A CHALLENGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A resident IFI representative recently shared reasons for construction delays at some sites in Ashgabat: credit problems and a breakdown in the cement supply chain. According to this source, a Turkish industrial magnate active in Turkmenistan has said the Turkmen are consistent [...]	2008-11-13 12:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EFIN ETRD RU TX TU UP UZ AORC
08ASHGABAT1643	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR PROVIDES OVERVIEW OF RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with the Charge, the Russian Ambassador discussed Russian activity in Turkmenistan. Russian oil and gas firms are pursuing production projects, with two firms close to finalizing agreements. The Ambassador appeared well informed about the Chinese gas pipeline [...]	2008-12-30 07:55:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ECON RU TX
08ASHGABAT762	TURKMENISTAN: LUKOIL PARTNERSHIP BECOMES A DRAG [...] (S) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips, bidding with its partner Lukoil on production sharing agreements (PSAs) for Turkmenistan's offshore Blocks 19, 20 and 21, is very close to resolving all outstanding issues in its negotiations with the Government of Turkmenistan and has even accepted a non-standa [...]	2008-06-16 12:06:00	Embassy Ashgabat	SECRET	PGOV PREL EPET RU TX
08ASHGABAT771	TURKMENISTAN: AUSTRIA'S OMV JUMPS INTO THE ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 17 meeting, Austrian oil company OMV's Country Manager for the Caspian Region, Wolfgang Sporrer, told the Charge that his company will propose two separate gas deals to Turkmenistan: a simple gas-at-the-border purchase (OMV is willing to build the pipeline to tra [...]	2008-06-17 13:14:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET AJ RU AU TX
08ASHGABAT861	TURKMENISTAN/RUSSIA: MEDVEDEV VISIT NUDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's July 4-5 visit to Ashgabat might have succeeded in modestly advancing the new president's personal relationship with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, but did not lead to any major breakthroughs. The two sides signed a seri [...]	2008-07-09 12:19:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET MARR RU TX
08ASHGABAT997	TURKMENISTAN: GAZPROM REACHES AGREEMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite much hype in the Russian media that Gazprom has locked in its monopoly on Turkmenistan's gas, it appears that, during a July 25 visit to Turkmenistan, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reportedly reached agreement only on a pricing formula for Turkmenistan's natural gas exports i [...]	2008-07-31 12:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET RU CH TX
08ATHENS1188	TFGG01: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: ATHENS DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek MFA and MOD officials are saying the right things on Greece's support for Georgia's territorial integrity and the early withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia. At the same time, a team of Russian defense industry experts is scheduled to visit Athens next week to discuss [...]	2008-08-22 16:55:00	Embassy Athens	SECRET//NOFORN	GR PGOV PREL MARR RU GG
08ATHENS1243	GREECE/EU: GYMNICH POINTS DELIVERED [...] (C) On September 2, A/Political Counselor delivered ref A points on Georgia and EU/Russia relations in advance of the September 5-6 Gymnich, and ref B points on other issues on the Gymnich agenda to MFA European correspondent Antonia Katzoulou. Katzoulou had the following observations: -- [...]	2008-09-03 15:28:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU GG GR RU
08ATHENS1396	U.S. MESSAGE CLEAR AS GREECE'S ANSWER TO "60 MINUTES" [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: Greece's elite, progressive SKAI TV devoted the September 29 season premiere of its popular "60 Minutes"-style investigative show "Neoi Fakkeloi" (The New Files, or Folders) to the Georgia-Russia crisis, featuring an interview conducted on location in Tbilisi wit [...]	2008-10-02 14:08:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO SOCI MOPS GR RU GE
08ATHENS1660	END-OF-FIRE SEASON UPDATE IN GREECE: SIGNIFICANT [...] (SBU) Summary: Greece had a low-intensity fire season in 2008 with one major fire in July on the island of Rhodes that destroyed 13,000 hectares of land. Fires reappeared in early December, hitting Rhodes again and burning over 3,700 hectares of land. The GoG continues to lack coordination i [...]	2008-12-11 15:42:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PREL SENV SOCI GR RU
08ATHENS217	GREEK MFA ON RUSSIA/ABKHAZIA AND GREECE/RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek MFA Russian affairs directorate chief Ambassador Tsamados said Greece had seen little evidence indicating Russia was serious about recognizing Abkhazia as independent and had no interest in altering Soviet-era borders. The GOG was not pleased by Putin's recent comments comp [...]	2008-02-15 16:52:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	GR PGOV PREL GG RU KNAR
08BAGHDAD2804	ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT UNSCR FOR TERRORIST [...] (C) Per Reftel A instructions, Econoff met August 31 with MFA Deputy IO Director Mohammed al-Humaimidi to urge the GOI to accept a different formulation of preamble Paragraph 10 of subject draft UNSC resolution, and to seek GOI agreement on the list of seven names provided by the USG for inclu [...]	2008-09-01 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08BAGHDAD806	DFM ABBAWI ON BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP, THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a March 16 call on Pol-Mil M/C, Iraqi DFM Labeed Abbawi discussed preparations for the next Border Security Working Group in Damascus and Iraqi participation in the Arab League Summit. PM Maliki would lead Iraq's delegation to the latter in what Abbawi attempted to portray as [...]	2008-03-17 14:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PREL PTER EG IR IZ LE RU SY
08BAKU1018	HAIDAR ALIYEV'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISOR ON IRAN [...] (S) During a wide-ranging tour d'horizon with Embassy Iran watcher, former President Haidar Aliyev's chief foreign relations advisor, and regionally prominent international affairs commentator, Vafa Guluzadeh provided recommendations for USG Iran strategy and discussed Iran's economic "Achille [...]	2008-10-24 08:57:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL ECON PGOV IR RU AJ
08BAKU1069	IRAN-AZERBAIJAN SNAPSHOT AND OVERVIEW [...] This cable provides a general unclassified snapshot of Iranian political, economic, and commercial activities in Azerbaijan, outlining apparent evolving Iranian regional priorities and recent and pending developments in bilateral political and economic relations. Many issues noted in the cab [...]	2008-11-07 13:31:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG ECON RU IR AZ
08BAKU1098	SECRETARY BODMAN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary. Secretary Bodman, accompanied by Ambassador and DAS Matthew Bryza, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on November 12 in Baku before the opening of the Baku Energy Summit. During or in the weeks following the Summit, Azerbaijan intends to sign a memorandum of intent with Turke [...]	2008-11-18 03:37:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	AJ AM PREL PGOV RU TU TX
08BAKU1125	AZERBAIJAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HOSTS GEORGIA [...] (C) Poloff met with prominent Azerbaijan Human Rights activist Novella Jafaroglu (aka Novella Jafarova) about preparations for the upcoming (partially USG-funded) regional meeting she is co-sponsoring in Istanbul. Jafaroglu has an international reputation as a women,s rights and human rights [...]	2008-11-26 07:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AM GG RU AJ
08BAKU146	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO [...] (C) DCM delivered ref a points regarding possible Russian recognition of Abkhazia in a February 15 meeting with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalaf Khalafov. Noting that Georgia is a neighbor with whom the GOAJ maintains close cooperation on a number of areas of mutual, strategic inter [...]	2008-02-15 13:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS GG RU YI AJ
08BAKU211	UPDATE ON U.S. MISSLE DEFENSE TALKS WITH RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 12:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS NATO AJ RU
08BAKU348	AZERBAIJAN PLANS A MAJOR OVERHAUL OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Azerbaijan plans a five-year, USD 1.5 billion overhaul of the state railway system, expected to be launched by the end of the year. The plan envisions a major reorganization of the railway agency, as well as new construction, reconstruction, and procurement effo [...]	2008-04-10 06:50:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELTN BEXP BTIO IR RU AJ
08BAKU42	CONGRESSMAN WEXLER REVIEWS REGIONAL, DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 meeting with Congressman Wexler, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov provided an overview of Azerbaijan's relations with Iran and Russia, suggesting that Azerbaijan would be willing to play a mediating role between the U.S. and Iran. In separate January 9 me [...]	2008-01-16 13:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IR RU AJ
08BAKU624	AZERBAIJAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA IN THE LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make his first state visit to Baku on July 3-4, following on the heels of recent stops in Azerbaijan from the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin, and Speaker of the Lower House of the Duma Boris G [...]	2008-07-02 04:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ
08BAKU646	RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV DISCUSSES ENERGY AND NK [...] (C) Summary: During his July 3-4 visit to Baku, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed energy and Nagorno-Karabakh with President Aliyev. Despite the usual public rhetoric of friendly relations, public statements from the leaders and press reporting indicate that no substantive agreement [...]	2008-07-07 13:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV ENRG RU AJ
08BAKU675	PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV'S VISIT MEANT TO TELL [...] (C) Summary: According to the Russian Ambassador to Baku Vasily Istratov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Baku had one major purpose: to convey the message to the GOAJ that "Azerbaijan matters" to Russia. Defining the new relationships as "same book, different page," Istratov c [...]	2008-07-11 15:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ
08BAKU790	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT: I DIDNâ€™T STAND BEHIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, President Aliyev told visiting British Petroleum CEO Inglis that Azerbaijan is taking quiet steps to support Georgia, although Aliyev himself did not publicly support the Georgian President. For example, Azerbaijanis are repairing a critical rail bridge destroyed by the R [...]	2008-08-22 04:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD PREL AJ RU TR
08BAKU821	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR FEARS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev's International Relations Advisor sees Russian actions in Georgia as "the beginning of a new era," with Azerbaijan's energy export routes, and consequently, the country's independence and sovereignty, ultimately at risk. Russia's acts were premeditated, with a g [...]	2008-09-02 10:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KPKO MARR AJ GG RU
08BAMAKO758	MALI ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) Dueling Demarches: Charge called on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Lamine Keita August 29 to discuss reftel demarche urging that Mali join in rejecting Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Ambassador Keita pointed to a paper on his coffee table, and said it [...]	2008-09-02 07:34:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU KV
08BANGKOK2536	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: THAIS POSITIVE ON HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director for Central and Eastern Europe Pachuen Phornmongkol on August 22. Pachuen said that the MFA and RTG had not formed a position on the Russia-Georgia conflict. She reacted positively to points about facilitating humanitarian assistance to Georgia [...]	2008-08-25 10:15:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC GG RU MARR
08BANGKOK2545	RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: THAIS NONCOMMITTAL [...] (SBU) We conveyed ref A points on Russia's position on South Ossetia and Abkhazia to MFA Director for Central and Eastern Europe Pachuen Phornmongkol on August 26, following up the previous demarche (ref B). Pachuen assured us that the RTG viewpoint on the conflict would be in line with past [...]	2008-08-26 10:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC GG RU MARR TH
08BANGKOK2554	RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: [...] (SBU) We discussed ref A points on Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia with MFA Director for Central and Eastern Europe Pachuen Phornmongkol on August 27, following up on the previous demarche on August 26 (ref B). Pachuen reiterated that Thailand was not a stakeholder in the co [...]	2008-08-27 09:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RU TH
08BEIJING3318	ABKHAZIA AND OSSETIA: CHINA WILL NEITHER RECOGNIZE [...] (C) China will not recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but will not publicly reject Russia's recognition of the two breakaway regions, a Chinese MFA official indicated August 27. China will continue to urge Russia, including in private discussions at the Shanghai Coopera [...]	2008-08-27 10:27:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR GG RU CH
08BEIJING3337	POSSIBLE UNSC EMERGENCY SESSION ON GEORGIA AND [...] (SBU) PolMinCouns on August 28 delivered to MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General Li Junhua ref A points on rejecting Russia's recognition of Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence and ref B points on opposing Abkhazian and South Ossetian participation in UN Sec [...]	2008-08-28 09:34:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR GG RU CH
08BEIJING3342	AUGUST 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Six-Party Talks, [...] Key points at the August 28 MFA Press Briefing: -- China calls on parties to "stay patient," to "show wisdom and flexibility" and to try to "meet each other halfway" to overcome present difficulties in the North Korean denuclearization process. -- China is concerned by the latest developmen [...]	2008-08-28 22:56:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY MNUC PARM UNGA EINV CH TW RU
08BEIJING3655	CHINA URGED TO OPPOSE ABKHAZIAN AND SOUTH OSSETIAN [...] (SBU) PolMinCouns on September 22 conveyed to MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General Li Junhua reftel points urging China to oppose the participation of separatist leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in UN Security Council discussions. Li made no substantive resp [...]	2008-09-22 09:55:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC CH RU GG
08BEIJING3703	MFA AND RUSSIAN EMBASSY PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 25 BRIC [...] (C) At least three Foreign Ministers from Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRIC" nations) will meet September 25 on the margins of the UN General Assembly (UNGA),according to a Chinese MFA official. Items for discussion will include international development cooperation and the Millenniu [...]	2008-09-24 10:44:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON SENV ENRG CH RU BR IN
08BEIJING4145	ASEM IN CHINA: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS, CLIMATE [...] (C) The seventh Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit, in Beijing October 24-25, focused on the current global financial crisis but also covered climate change, Iran, the DPRK and Burma. ASEM leaders reached consensus on increasing regulation and transparency in global financial markets, as well [...]	2008-11-06 06:45:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD GM RU AF KN BM IR CH
08BEIJING4155	11/6 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. ELECTION/WHITE HOUSE [...] Key points at the November 6 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China's leaders have congratulated President-elect Obama on his victory and China will work to help ensure smooth bilateral relations during the transition to the next administration. -- Taiwan is the most sensitive of th [...]	2008-11-06 23:01:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN PHUM KIPR KS KN BM RU BG IN
08BEIRUT1783	LEBANON: HARIRI TELLS DAS HALE RUSSIAN MIGS ARE [...] (C) In a December 17 dinner with visiting NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary David Hale and the Ambassador, Parliamentary Majority Leader Saad Hariri said the Russian deal to provide ten MiG-29 aircraft to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF),provided with no strings attached, threatened Hizballah and [...]	2008-12-23 07:52:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MCAP LE SY RU
08BEIRUT1787	LEBANON: WITH DAS HALE, CHATAH SHARES THOUGHTS ON [...] (C) Joking that, in addition to his continued role as advisor to PM Siniora, he was "moonlighting" at the Ministry of Finance, Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah met with visiting NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) David Hale, Ambassador, visiting NEA Lebanon Desk Officer Matthew Irwin, and acti [...]	2008-12-23 13:14:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN MASS IS LE SA QA RU
08BEIRUT1803	LEBANON: KHAWAJI BRISTLES AT CRITICISM OF RUSSIAN [...] (C) Accepting a last-minute December 18 meeting to discuss Russia's offer of 10 MiG-29 fighter jets, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Jean Kahwaji received visiting NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) David Hale, Ambassador, visiting NEA Lebanon Desk Officer Matthew Irwin, and LTC James [...]	2008-12-30 14:00:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MCAP RU LE
08BELGRADE852	SERBIA ASKS USG UNDERSTANDING FOR SENSITIVITIES ON GEORGIA [...] (U) During an August 21 meeting, MFA Political Director Borislav Stefanovic asked DCM for USG "understanding" for Serbia's specific circumstances vis-a-vis Russia and Georgia (Ref A). DCM Brush stressed that it was important for Serbia to know what the United States was communicating to countr [...]	2008-08-21 15:04:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL RU GG SR
08BELGRADE885	SERBIA UNLIKELY TO RECOGNIZE SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (U) Pol Chief delivered Ref A demarche to Damjan Krnjevic Miskovic, senior advisor to Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, on August 27, emphasizing the unacceptability of Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and its failure to abide by the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Miskovic sa [...]	2008-08-29 08:41:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL RU GG SR

08BELGRADE890	SERBIA: RUSSIAN INVESTMENT - THREAT OR MIRAGE? [...] (U) Russia is the largest exporter to Serbia exporting $2.6 billion in mainly oil and gas in 2007, while Serbia exported only $450 million to Russia. Although Russian trade accounts for 14.3% of Serbia's 2007 total imports, Russian foreign direct investment is low and investors are non-committ [...]	2008-09-02 13:00:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV SR RU MW
08BELMOPAN378	BELIZE DEMARCHES DELIVERED: REJECTING RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 20:48:00	Embassy Belmopan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU BH
08BERLIN1095	TFGG01: GERMANY CITES FRENCH-LED "PROGRESS" [...] (C) Acting DCM delivered reftel points August 11 to Chancellor Merkel's Deputy National Security Advisor Rolf Nikel and to Foreign Office acting Political Director Emily Haber. We also discussed Georgia with Office Directors for NATO and Caucasus affairs. Chancellor Will Go to Sochi August 15 ----- [...]	2008-08-11 15:18:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG
08BERLIN1101	GERMANY'S VIEW OF GEORGIA: FRUSTRATION RISING BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting DCM accompanied by POLOFF delivered REF (A) points to Foreign Office acting Political Director Emily Haber on August 12. Haber expressed the MFA's frustration with Russian actions in Georgia but stressed Germany's decision to wait for a readout from French Foreign Ministe [...]	2008-08-12 12:08:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08BERLIN1175	GERMANY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier August 20 welcomed the release of Belarusian political prisoners Andrey Kim and Syarhey Parsyukevich and noted that Belarus had taken an important step towards improving relations with the EU. PolOffs met with MFA desk officer for Belarus, [...]	2008-08-22 15:36:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM PREL PHUM RU GG PGOV BO
08BERLIN1222	GERMAN VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER 5-6 EU GYMNICH MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post provided talking points from reftels to MFA Deputy European Correspondent Thomas Schieb September 2 and followed up with him September 4 to get Germany's perspective on the Avignon meeting. Schieb indicated there was little daylight between the U.S. and Germany on the way [...]	2008-09-04 15:35:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV GM GG RU
08BERLIN1254	GERMANY WORKING WITHIN EU FOR DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) On 12 September 2008, POLOFFs delivered reftel demarche to Christiane Botschen, Deputy Director for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean at the German Foreign Office. Botschen informed POLOFFs that Germany and the EU shared the same concerns as the United States about Nicaragua's re [...]	2008-09-12 09:56:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL GC NU RU
08BERLIN1318	GERMANY LOOKING FOR SMALL STEP FORWARD IN BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA and Chancellery contacts appeared in agreement regarding Belarus and expected the EU to ease restrictions following the Belarussian parliamentary elections on September 28. The GOG hopes that the elections will reflect "an improvement over last time," which in conjunction wi [...]	2008-09-24 11:57:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM PREL PHUM RU GG PGOV BO
08BERN610	SWISS RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING HELSINKI OSCE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the message in reftel to Lukas Rosenkranz, Head of the OSCE Office within the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EDA),on December 1. The reftel talking points largely were familiar to Rosenkranz, who noted that he had heard the same issues raised by the USG through his [...]	2008-12-02 13:11:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SZ
08BRATISLAVA160	ZUBKOV VISIT HIGHLIGHTS SLOVAKIA'S ECONOMIC TIES [...] (C) Summary - Russian Prime Minister Zubkov's April 3-4 visit to Slovakia primarily focused on strengthening the broader economic and energy relationship, but lacked a big announcement on gas or nuclear cooperation that many had expected. Trade between the two countries has increased considera [...]	2008-04-10 14:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL LO RU
08BRATISLAVA161	UKRAINIANS PRESSING SLOVAKS TO BATCH CASPIAN CRUDE [...] (C) The Ukrainian pipeline operator UkrTransNafta is aggressively pushing a one-day trial to "batch" 40,000 tons of Caspian crude from Brody in Ukraine to the Kralupy refinery in the Czech Republic. The goal, according to Bratislava-based UkrTransNafta representative Mikulas Rakovsky, is to t [...]	2008-04-10 14:19:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET LO RU UP
08BRATISLAVA274	PROGRESS ON TRANSPETROL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Slovak government is moving forward with discussions to buy back the 49 percent stake in the Transpetrol oil pipeline from Netherlands-based Yukos Finance. Both sides have completed valuations and are scheduled to begin pricing negotiations on June 17 in London. A few legal [...]	2008-06-11 14:02:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET LO RU
08BRATISLAVA341	FORMER AMBASSADOR TO U.S. ON SLOVAK PLANS FOR [...] (C) During a cordial one-on-one luncheon July 25 with Ambassador Obsitnik, former Ambassador to the U.S., Rasto Kacer, stated that he had been told by a well-connected source that PM Fico has made a secret deal with Russia to resell a portion of the Transpetrol pipeline after the GOS purchases [...]	2008-07-29 07:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET LO RU
08BRATISLAVA372	TFGG01: SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT STRONG NAC STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador delivered reftel points to Acting Foreign Minister Olga Algayerova on August 11. Algayerova said that Slovakia will "of course" support a strong statement from the NAC, and that she will also support a firm united statement from the EU at the August 13 GAERC meeting. [...]	2008-08-11 15:56:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO PREL RU GG LO
08BRATISLAVA377	SLOVAK MFA EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN REGARDING [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 17:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU LO
08BRATISLAVA393	TFGG01: GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS [...] (SBU) DCM drew on refs A, B, and C in an August 25 discussion with Maria Krasnohorska, MFA Director General for International Organizations and Humanitarian Assistance. Krasnohorska appreciated U.S. communicativeness on the Georgian situation and said the Slovak MFA "reads the situation the sa [...]	2008-08-25 14:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPKO MARR GG RU LO
08BRATISLAVA397	TFGG01: SLOVAKIA REJECTS ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-28 14:32:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PREL MARR GG RU LO
08BRATISLAVA405	SEPTEMBER GYMNICH: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. LINE ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to the MFA's EU Correspondent, Albin Oltruba, and also shared them with the Directors of the Balkan and CIS offices. Oltruba noted that Georgia would be the main focus of the meeting, with continued planning and consultation on the scope and timing [...]	2008-09-04 16:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU LO GG RU
08BRATISLAVA418	SLOVAK CONSULTATIONS WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS: MORE [...] (C) Summary. PM Fico hosted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Secin for an interministerial working lunch on September 10. In a subsequent press conference, Secin and Fico confirmed that the "Slovak-Russian intergovernmental Committee" would henceforth meet quarterly, vice twice yearly, to intensif [...]	2008-09-19 06:52:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO RU LO GA
08BRATISLAVA76	WHERE IS SLOVAKIA ON MISSILE DEFENSE? [...] (U) Slovak Minister of Economy Lubomir Jahnatek, a nominee of the PM's Smer-SD party, expressed concerns about US Missile Defense (MD) plans following a February 19 meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergej Naryshkin in Bratislava. Jahnatek said "Every rational person knows this is a t [...]	2008-02-20 17:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL NATO PARM LO RU
08BRUSSELS1245	TFGG01: GAERC LIKELY TO SUPPORT FRENCH MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Read-outs from back-to-back PSC and COREPER II meetings held August 12 indicate that there may not be formal Conclusions from the GAERC on August 13. Rather, there will likely be a French EU Presidency declaration representing EU consensus for support for its mediation efforts, [...]	2008-08-12 18:05:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU
08BRUSSELS1256	TFGG01: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS SUPPORT FRENCH [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-13 19:34:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN GG RU
08BRUSSELS1260	TFGG01: GEORGIA CRISIS: BELGIUM SEES NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium, as with other EU members, continues to be concerned about the agreement reached between Russia and Georgia. Belgium agrees on the urgency of establishing a mechanism to support international observers in Georgia, with reliance on the OSCE observers already on the grou [...]	2008-08-14 11:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PGOV RU GO PBTS BE
08BRUSSELS1276	TFGG01: AMBASSADOR MEETS EU ENLARGEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-18 18:25:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN GG RU TU YI
08BRUSSELS1278	TFGG01: BELGIUM OFFERS MIL OBSERVERS FOR OSCE'S [...] (C) The military adviser to Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem informed us that the GoB is consulting with OSCE about the latter's efforts to expand its group of military observers in Georgia from the current eight to a possible one hundred and has offered to contribute ten Belgian military of [...]	2008-08-19 11:20:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE MOPS PREF GG RU BE
08BRUSSELS1345	DAS MERKEL DISCUSSES RUSSIA, BELARUS, UKRAINE, [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Merkel discussed Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova with EU officials in Brussels August 24 and 25. EU officials discussed their expectations for an extraordinary European Council meeting on Georgia and Russia September 1. Just back from Mins [...]	2008-08-29 14:16:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN OSCE UK RU BO MD GG
08BRUSSELS1390	FM DE GUCHT ENCOUNTERS RESOLUTE FM LAVROV IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russian FM Lavrov told Belgian FM De Gucht September 3 that OSCE monitors would not be acceptable in South Ossetia, unless South Ossetian de facto president Kokoity approves them, nor would Russian troops be withdrawn from South Ossetia and Abkhazia because those troops are there [...]	2008-09-05 18:18:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE GG RU
08BRUSSELS1431	GAERC OUTLINES EU OBSERVER MISSION AND AID TO [...] (U) Summary: Meeting in Brussels September 15, EU Foreign Ministers formally established an independent civilian monitoring mission of at least 200 in Georgia, to be deployed by October 1. They designated Pierre Morel as EU Special Representative for the crisis in Georgia. Welcoming the the [...]	2008-09-15 18:10:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EUN RU GG SO ZI YI BO
08BRUSSELS1457	FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT'S SENIOR CABINET OFFICER [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 call on Belgian MFA Deputy Head of Cabinet for Bilateral Affairs Thomas Lambert, Poloffs received the Belgian take on reftel demarche, PM Leterme's current trade and investment trip to Sochi, Russia, and the EU's evolving energy policy. The GoB was well aware [...]	2008-09-19 16:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU BL VE BE
08BRUSSELS1501	INGUSH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEEK ATTENTION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, Poloff met with two Ingush human rights activists, Ibragim Muharbekovich Lianov and Alik Osdoev. They described human rights violations in Ingushetia since 1992. They said that Russia intends to abolish the Republic of Ingushetia and merge it with Chechnya in O [...]	2008-09-26 14:37:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RU BE GG
08BRUSSELS1588	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS, MEETING IN LUXEMBOURG, [...] Begin Introduction and Summary: Meeting in Luxembourg October 13, the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) of the 27 EU Foreign Ministers reviewed draft Presidency conclusions for the European Council meeting of EU-27 heads of state/government to take place in Brussels on Oc [...]	2008-10-14 15:18:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EUN GG RU BO UZ CG IR ZI MX MO
08BRUSSELS1663	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO EU ON GEORGIA, ENERGY [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 16:43:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG EFIN MARR RU GG EUN
08BRUSSELS1734	PDAS RIES DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, CONGO, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Marcie Ries met on November 5 with Vincent Mertens de Vilmars, Director for International Relations at the Ministy of Defense of Belgium. Mertens is a close advisor of Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem and a former Ambassador to Russia from B [...]	2008-11-13 17:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BE AF CG GG RU UP
08BRUSSELS1741	EU WILL RESUME TALKS WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel instructions, USEU spoke to French presidency, Council Secretariat, and Commission contacts about how the EU will deal with Russia at the November 10 GAERC and at the November 13-14 EU-Russia summit. All contacts told us that the EU would resume talks with Russia on [...]	2008-11-14 13:56:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD RU GG EUN
08BRUSSELS1746	CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] (C) Summary: On November 12, Congressman Robert Wexler, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, met with Dirk Achtens, Director General for Bilateral Affairs of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vincente Van Assche, Secretary to the Director General. B [...]	2008-11-17 16:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE AF IS RU GG UP
08BRUSSELS1826	BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HELSINKI OSCE [...] (U) Emboff delivered reftel points on the upcoming Helsinki OSCE Ministerial on December 1 to Mr. Thierry Vuylsteke, the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Director of its OSCE Department. 2. (C) Vuylsteke, who has followed OSCE issues since 2001 and will be part of Belgium's approximately 15 [...]	2008-12-03 13:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU BE
08BRUSSELS881	LUNCH SESSION OF TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: At the May 13 U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council meeting in Brussels, principals held a private lunch where they discussed how to combat protectionism, responses to food crises, biotechnology and biofuels, and our respective approaches to Russia. On combating protectionism, p [...]	2008-06-11 13:10:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN EAGR EIND EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD EUN RU
08BUCHAREST639	ROMANIA STATEMENT; NAC POINT DELIVERED [...] (U) The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) met on August 9 to review Romania's position on the events occurring in Georgia. President Basescu presided over the discussion that released the following statement: "The evolution of the frozen conflicts in the Caucasus and Black Sea Bas [...]	2008-08-11 14:04:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG RO
08BUDAPEST107	PM'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON KOSOVO, AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany's Foreign and Security Policy Advisor, Ambassador Karoly Banai, updated Ambassador Foley on Hungary's policy re Kosovo and Azerbaijan in a meeting January 31. KOSOVO: MAKING IT CLEAR TO MOSCOW 2. (C) Banai noted that PM Gyurcsany had called in the Russian [...]	2008-01-31 16:15:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU AZ ECON ENRG HU
08BUDAPEST1078	HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 10-11 FOREIGN [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Head Andras Dekany provided the following comments to PolOff on November 7 for the GAERC meeting scheduled for November 10-11. 2. (C) Russia: The main question is: has Russia miscalculated its strategy on Georgia? There are sig [...]	2008-11-10 12:46:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN RU GG AF HU
08BUDAPEST1157	HUNGARIAN FOCUS AT THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director of the International Organizations and Human Rights Department, Zoltan Pecze, discussed reftel with PolOff on December 2. Pecze stated that Foreign Minister Goncz will directly address the Medvedev Security Treaty proposal during her speech at the December 4-5 Ministe [...]	2008-12-03 13:49:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE RU HU
08BUDAPEST28	HUNGARIAN REQUEST: HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) MFA Security and Non-Proliferation Deputy Head of Department, Gabor Horvath, requested a meeting with PolOff on 7 January to discuss a UNGA First Committee issue related to the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Hor [...]	2008-01-10 10:39:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM PREL UNGA RU HU
08BUDAPEST807	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC [...] (C) Ref talking points were delivered on August 11 to Vilmos Hamikus, Acting State Secretary for Political Affairs at the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hamikus agreed with the main principals of the talking points, namely the need for a cease fire and cessation of hostilities, however he also no [...]	2008-08-11 11:56:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM RU GG HU
08BUDAPEST813	TFGG01: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO HUNGARY REGARDING [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-13 04:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG HU
08BUDAPEST836	HUNGARY: CODEL LUGAR SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Welcome to Budapest. Your visit comes as the Hungarian Government slowly re-engages following the long summer "cucumber season" and offers an excellent opportunity for discussion of Georgia and energy security. While Hungary remains a committed partner in the trans-Atlantic relationsh [...]	2008-08-22 12:31:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON GG RU HU
08BUDAPEST849	HUNGARY WILL NOT RECOGNIZE SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) In discussion of ref A with PolOff on August 27, MFA Russia and Balkans Deputy Department Head Istvan Ijgyarto called attention to Foreign Minister Goncz's comments today that Hungary will not recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. He also provided the official MFA res [...]	2008-08-27 16:09:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU HU
08BUENOSAIRES1444	ARGENTINA: RUSSIAN DELEGATION PROMOTES DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Defense Minister Nilda Garre hosted the Secretary of Russia's National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, on October 15, entertaining Russian proposals for military sales, training, and non-military cooperation including in the field of nuclear energy. Although poten [...]	2008-10-22 14:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV ECON RU AR
08BUENOSAIRES1681	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT REPRISES HER CRITIQUE OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indulged in an increasingly familiar critique of the international system during a two-day visit to Russia December 9-10, taking jabs implicitly at the U.S. and blaming "unilateralism" for economic and security hardships in the wor [...]	2008-12-11 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM ECON EAGR RU AR
08CAIRO1876	FOREIGN MINISTER ON GEORGIA, IRAQ, AND U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Ambassador he had not yet read the report and recommendations of an MFA team that recently traveled to Baghdad to assess security conditions in preparation for the potential return of an Egyptian ambassador. He [...]	2008-08-25 13:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KIRF RU GG IZ EG
08CAIRO1920	EGYPT: NO POSITION YET ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On August 28, ECPO Minister Counselor, together with British and Japanese DCMs (who had received nearly identical instructions),delivered reftel demarche to MFA spokesman and senior cabinet advisor Hossam Zaki. A very sober Zaki listened attentively. He said that Egypt took all issues of [...]	2008-08-28 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG GG RU
08CAIRO721	MUBARAK'S NUCLEAR PROTOCOL WITH RUSSIA: [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the GOE and Egyptian academia have described President Mubarak's late March visit to Russia as "routine," including the Egyptian-Russian nuclear energy protocol signed during the visit. While the nuclear energy protocol and other agreements for Egyptian-Russian cooper [...]	2008-04-09 11:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD KNNP EG RU
08CARACAS1024	CHAVEZ BUYS ARMS AND INVITES RUSSIAN NAVY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Communications Minister Andres Izarra on July 22 denied local media reports that President Hugo Chavez offered to base Russian troops at a military facility in Venezuela and that Chavez' arms deal with Russia has swollen to almost USD 30 billion. [...]	2008-07-23 22:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PGOV PREL RU VE
08CARACAS1263	CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES NAVAL EXERCISE WITH RUSSIA - MAYBE [...] (SBU). President Hugo Chavez hedged regarding a possible joint Naval exercises in November with visiting Russian vessels. During the September 7 episode of his Sunday television show "Alo Presidente," Chavez admitted Venezuela "was not ready" to host a port visit and exercise in September o [...]	2008-09-09 21:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL RU VE
08CARACAS1269	RUSSIAN BOMBERS LAND IN MARACAY [...] (SBU) Two Russian Tu-160 BLACKJACK supersonic bombers arrived in the early afternoon of September 10 at the Libertador airbase in Maracay, Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez revealed the arrival of the aircraft during a nation-wide broadcast inaugurating nine new medical clinics. Chavez was han [...]	2008-09-11 19:30:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PREL RU VE
08CARACAS1677	VENEZUELAN-RUSSIAN EXERCISE WAS NO WORKOUT [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY: Despite the heavy media attention, the Venezuelan-Russian naval exercise was a rudimentary affair, and Russian efforts to down play its importance were very clear. The BRV hoped to use the fact the exercise took place at the same time as a state visit by Russian President M [...]	2008-12-05 21:06:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET//NOFORN	MCAP PGOV PREL RU VE
08CHENNAI378	INVESTMENT IN SOUTH INDIA CONTINUES, AS DO JITTERS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Assistant US Trade Representative Michael Delaney met on November 10 with business leaders from key sectors of South India's economy, urging progress on the WTO Doha Round and assessing how the region's business are weathering the current economic slowdown. While all of Delaney's interloc [...]	2008-11-14 07:45:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV IN RU
08CHISINAU107	MOLDOVANS, RUSSIANS AGREE TO NEUTRALITY LANGUAGE AS BASIS [...] (U) This is an action message. See para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a state of "cautious optimism" about his consultations in Moscow, Presidential Advisor Marc Tkaciuk described the outlines of a three-paragraph agreement on neutrality that Moldovan officials reached with their Russian counterp [...]	2008-02-04 16:15:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RU
08CHISINAU71	SOVA: READY FOR NEXT STEPS AFTER VORONIN'S MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Apparently, no major Transnistria (TN) initiatives flowed from the January 21-22 Putin-Voronin talks in Moscow. Minister Sova recently talked twice with Transnistrian "Foreign Minister" Litskai, who confidentially warned Sova that Smirnov or his inner circle may stage a provocat [...]	2008-01-28 10:58:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OSCE RU UK MD
08CHISINAU883	Moldova Agrees with Non-Recognition of South Ossetia and [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-04 14:15:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU MD
08CHISINAU90	GAZPROM AND MOLDOVAN (TRANSNISTRIAN) GAS DEBTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gazprom continues to press Moldova to repay its debts to Gazprom, which have been mostly accrued by Transnistria (TN). One possible solution, a debt-for-share swap with Gazprom's obtaining more MoldovaGaz shares is gaining momentum. Gazprom remains concerned about property right [...]	2008-01-30 12:44:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PBTS PGOV PREL MD RU
08CHISINAU933	RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV TAKES INITIATIVE BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: While a formal 5-plus-2 meeting is now planned for early October, Russian President Medvedev has been pursuing his own initiatives with both Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov. Medvedev has secured an agreement that left- and right-bank le [...]	2008-09-17 06:12:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU MD
08CHISINAU958	VORONIN-SMIRNOV: THE MEETING THAT DIDN'T [...] (C) Summary: Although a Voronin-Smirnov meeting was scheduled for September 25, on September 24 SmirnovQs press office announced that the meeting would be postponed because the sides could not agree upon a venue. The Transnistrian side attempted to blame the GOM for Chisinau's inflexibility [...]	2008-09-25 14:53:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PINR RU MD
08CHISINAU971	PRESIDENT VORONIN: RELYING ON 5-PLUS-2 TO AVOID RUSSIAN TRAP [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with Ambassador, President Voronin expressed his commitment to solving the Transnistria conflict only in the 5-plus-2 format. He wanted to avoid falling into any Russian "traps" that could appear if he negotiated directly with the Russians. Outside interests [...]	2008-09-30 13:39:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PINR AMGT RU MD
08CONAKRY629	RUSSIAN EMBASSY DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON ABKHAZIA AND [...] (SBU) On October 16, Embassy received a paper from the Russian Embassy in Guinea, entitled "On the Origins of the Situation Around Abkhazia and South Ossetia." The paper is nine pages in length, in English, and provides a chronological history of events dating back to 1810. Post can scan th [...]	2008-10-23 16:02:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO GG RU GV
08COPENHAGEN427	TFGG01: DANES SUPPORT NAC STATEMENT ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 12:41:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EUN RU GG DA
08COPENHAGEN480	DENMARK AT THE SEPTEMBER GAERC [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Danish MFA European Correspondent Asif Amin told us that Denmark's primary focus at the upcoming GAERC remains Georgia. The Danes were generally pleased with EU decisions on Georgia and Russia at the recently-concluded Gymnich, Asif reported, adding that Co [...]	2008-09-11 08:10:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN GG RU DA
08DHAKA905	BANGLADESH KEEPING A "LOW PROFILE" ON THE [...] (SBU) Deputy Pol/Econ Chief August 25 delivered Ref A and B demarches to the Director of the Americas wing at the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Masudur Rahman. Rahman expressed concern about the conflict and the effect it was having on the lives of civilians living in the disp [...]	2008-08-26 10:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO RU GG BG
08DHAKA917	RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (SBU) Deputy Pol/Econ Chief August 28 delivered Ref A demarche to Masudur Rahman, Director of the Americas Wing at Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Rahman said the MFA was still formulating its government's position on these events, which he pledged to share when it was finali [...]	2008-09-01 03:01:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG RU BG
08DOHA74	QATAR REVISITING THE IDEA OF A NATURAL GAS CARTEL? [...] (U) During a January 25 news conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah Al-Attiyah said that gas-producing countries will discuss the idea of forming a "gas OPEC" at the next meeting of the Gas Expor [...]	2008-01-29 10:22:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV RU QA
08DOHA811	QATAR'S ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS POSSIBLE JOINT [...] (C) Drawing on Ref A, Ambassador met November 18 with Minister of Energy and Industry and Qatar Petroleum (QP) Chairman Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah to express strong U.S. concerns about development of a gas cartel and talks on a possible Qatar-Iran-Russia joint venture on LNG. Also attendin [...]	2008-11-18 14:33:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETTC PREL QA IR RU
08DUBLIN487	IRELAND CONDEMNS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH [...] (U) The following statement on Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states was released by Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin on August 26, 2008. Begin Statement --------------- The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheal Martin TD, has condemned today's dec [...]	2008-08-27 12:15:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU EI
08DUSHANBE1108	TAJIKISTAN - REJECTING RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On August 27 Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director of North American and European Affairs (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Khusrav Nosiri. Nosiri could not offer a substantive reply, but said he would try to pass the substance of the demarche to the Minister of Foreign [...]	2008-08-28 05:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU TI
08DUSHANBE1109	TAJIKISTAN - SCO SUMMIT STATEMENT MENTIONS SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit has concluded with bland statements and some confusion about the members' positions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Summit Declaration contradictorily endorsed Russian peacemaking efforts in South Ossetia, and also welcomed the [...]	2008-08-28 11:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU TI
08GENEVA759	RUSSIA BLASTS GEORGIA IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's ambassador used the September 8 opening session of the Human Rights Council to criticize Georgia, which he accused of engaging in genocide. Georgia plans to respond on September 9, but to avoid getting into a retaliatory exchange, including charges and counter-charges, [...]	2008-09-08 16:49:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNHRC GG RU
08GENEVA803	GEORGIA IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: AFTER A [...] (C) SUMMARY: After an initial burst of activity regarding the Georgia crisis in the early days of the UN Human Rights Council's current session, the Council took up the issue again on September 16-17. The plenary discussions featured harsh words from the Russian delegation and a more measured [...]	2008-09-23 15:02:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNHRC GG RU
08HELSINKI186	FINLAND: STUBB RAISES GEORGIA AND US MISSILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finnish FM Stubb and Russian FM held their first official meeting April 25. Their lengthy discussions focused on bilateral issues, the EU-Russia relationship, and the OSCE. Stubb raised UAV incident in Georgia and the Russian Presidential Instructions on South Ossetia and Abkhaz [...]	2008-04-30 12:28:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FI RU
08HELSINKI374	FINNISH COMMENTS ON AUGUST 13 GEORGIA GAERC [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-14 13:47:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GG RU FI
08HELSINKI406	FINLAND: COMMENTS ON GYMNICH SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff delivered points from reftels to Markku Lampinen, Deputy Director Deputy European Correspondent, Unit for European Common Foreign and Security Policy on September 3. Lampinen stated that the extraordinary European Council (EC) meeting on Monday (September 1) left less fo [...]	2008-09-04 13:43:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PREL PGOV GG PHUM RU FI
08HELSINKI67	FINNISH RESPONSE - DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 13:14:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU FI
08ISLAMABAD2870	PAKISTAN: RUSSIA/GEORGIA CONFLICT TOO FAR AWAY [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-29 10:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL RU GG KPKO MARR
08JAKARTA1536	INDONESIAN MILITARY RECEIVES SIX RUSSIAN MI-17 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian military recently received six new lift helicopters from Russia. The helicopters can be used for disaster relief or for military operations. The deal is based on a contract signed in 2005 and uses Indonesian credits from 2003 before U.S. sanctions were lifted. [...]	2008-08-12 09:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EIND ID RU
08KINGSTON741	JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF POINTS RE CONFLICT IN GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 19:29:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL RU GG JM XL
08KINGSTON764	JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE REJECTING RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 13:46:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MARR GG RU JM XL
08KINSHASA721	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 17:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CG GG RU
08KINSHASA724	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 17:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CG GG RU
08KYIV2031	UKRAINE-RUSSIA: BLACK SEA FLEET ISSUES [...] (C) Significant Black Sea Fleet (BSF) basing issues remain unresolved, despite nine years of working group negotiations. Outstanding issues include: rules on deployment in crisis situations, troop movements on Ukrainian territory outside Fleet facilities, inventory and assessment of real prope [...]	2008-10-15 06:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP UP RU
08KYIV2485	CHERNOMYRDIN: UKRAINE MUST PAY GAS DEBTS [...] (C) Viktor Chernomyrdin, in a meeting with the Ambassador, highlighted the importance of Ukraine paying its gas debts. He stressed that Russia was unwilling to subsidize Ukraine, adding: "if you like them, help them." Chernomyrdin is convinced Ukrainian leaders, mired in power struggles, are [...]	2008-12-19 11:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PINR RU UP
08KYIV365	UKRAINE OPPOSES, BUT DOUBTS THAT RUSSIA WILL [...] (C) As requested, PolCouns delivered the demarche contained reftel to Oleksandr Tsvetkov, Acting Director of the MFA's Political Department (with primary responsibility for the Kosovo issue) and Sergiy Kyslytsya, Director of the MFA's UN and Other International Organizations Department on Febr [...]	2008-02-15 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU YI UP
08LISBON1999	TFGG01: PORTUGAL NOT PLANNING TO SUPPORT STRONG NAC STATEMENT REF: STATE 85678 [...] (C) Portugal is concerned about the crisis in Georgia but is not ready to make a statement against Russian actions at this time, according to MFA Director for European Affairs Liliana Mascarenhas Neto. She told us that Portugal would wait to hear the French report at the special GAERC meeting on Au [...]	2008-08-11 18:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE PO RU GG
08LJUBLJANA186	SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY ISSUES STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF [...] (SBU) On April 22, Emboffs delivered reftel points to MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Division, Ambassador Darja Bavdaz Kuret, raising our opposition to the upgrading of Russian relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Bavdaz Kuret said that the Slovenian EU Presidency had i [...]	2008-04-24 14:38:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA359	SLOVENIA ON U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC STATEMENT [...] (C) On August 11, Emboffs met with Marko Purkart, acting head of the MFA's Security Division, to brief him and urge Slovenia's support for a strong NAC statement condemning Russian actions in Georgia. Purkart took our points under consideration and undertook to pass them to Slovenia's Mission [...]	2008-08-11 08:44:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG SI
08LJUBLJANA365	U.S. PROPOSED ELEMENTS FOR EU STATEMENT ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 14:45:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA389	SLOVENIA: EU SPEAKS WITH "ONE VOICE" ON RUSSIA'S [...] (C) On August 28, DCM met with Ambassador Ada Filip-Slivnik, Head of Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to encourage Slovenian opposition to Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (reftel A). She said that she was surprised that Medved [...]	2008-08-29 09:59:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA398	SLOVENIA PREDICTS "DIFFICULT" SEPTEMBER 5-6 GYMNICH [...] (C) On September 4, Emboff delivered the points on Georgia and non-Georgia topics in advance of the September 5-6 Gymnich meeting (refs A and B) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Although Gymnichs are usually relaxed, Arih predicted that this one would be difficult because of Georgia. [...]	2008-09-04 15:26:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV PHUM GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA534	SLOVENIA: HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-28 16:04:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA79	SLOVENIA AGREES THAT KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR [...] (C) On February 14, Emboff delivered reftel points to MFA official Dejan Vladic of the Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, who affirmed that Slovenia completely agrees with the U.S. position that Kosovo independence will not set a precedent for Abkhazia nor any other region. Vladic [...]	2008-02-19 12:30:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU YI SI
08LONDON1302	LEBANON: UK TO ISSUE PUBLIC STATEMENT, WILL [...] (C) HMG in general, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband in particular, are very concerned about the situation in Lebanon, Miliband's Chief of Staff Matthew Gould told us May 9. Miliband is planning to issue a statement the afternoon of May 9 reflecting the points in reftel; he will also cal [...]	2008-05-09 14:17:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CASC LE SY RU TU UK
08LONDON2107	GEORGIA: HMG PREDICTS TOUGH DIPLOMATIC ROAD AHEAD [...] (C/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and South Caucuses Office Director) Louise Savile predicted a tough diplomatic struggle ahead to return the situation in Georgia to the status quo ante August 6. As an example, she cited part of an August 13 telephone exchange between FM Miliband and Russian [...]	2008-08-13 14:00:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV RU GG UK
08LONDON2159	TFGGO1: FM MILIBAND'S AUGUST 27 VISIT TO KYIV DESIGNED TO SHOW UK SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE [...] (C/NF) FM Miliband will travel to Kyiv on August 27 to reinforce support for Ukraine's European and Transatlantic aspirations, and to demonstrate British solidarity with the Ukrainian people during a difficult period, as he did with the Georgians during his August 20 visit to Tbilisi (septel). The [...]	2008-08-20 15:49:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM MOPS GG RU UP UK
08LONDON2171	TFGG01:FM MILIBAND TELLS GEORGIANS UK WILL PROVIDE [...] (C) During his August 19/20 visit to Georgia, FM Miliband pledged to government interlocutors and publicly that the UK will support Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and Transatlantic aspirations, and will work bilaterally and through the EU to address short term humanitarian needs and l [...]	2008-08-21 17:38:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU UK

08LONDON2643	UK/RUSSIA RELATIONS: HARD-HEADED ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. FCO Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Director Michael Davenport told DCM that HMG was conducting "parallel exercises" involving Cabinet, Intelligence and Foreign Office principals, designed to give PM Brown a clearer picture of Russian foreign policy making processes and recommendatio [...]	2008-10-20 15:11:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UK
08LONDON890	TONY BLAIR AND JOHN MCCAIN TALK ABOUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Tony Blair used his meeting with Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham to underscore the "centrality" of Israel/Palestine in bringing stability to the Middle East. Blair said progress could be made by "building from the bottom up," including by developing [...]	2008-03-27 17:28:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR PTER IS RU UK
08LUXEMBOURG217	LUXEMBOURG BRIEFED ON USG PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 14:52:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU CG LU
08MADRID1359	LUKOIL-REPSOL ROLE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) Presidency Secretary-General Bernardino Leon confirmed in a December 22 dinner with the Ambassador that President Zapatero has tasked him with ensuring that Russian (and partly U.S.-owned) oil company Lukoil's pending purchase of a sizable stake in Spain's Repsol takes place on politically acce [...]	2008-12-24 12:20:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET KBIO RU SP
08MADRID176	SPAIN ON RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA, KOSOVO PRECEDENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 17:46:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP GG RU YI
08MADRID885	SPAIN RECEIVES U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC [...] Reftel points are being conveyed to Director General for External Policy and Common Security Carlos Fernandez-Arias, who was enroute to Brussels today. His staff is transmitting to Fernandez-Arias our unclassified nonpaper with key points regarding tomorrow's NAC discussion of events in Geo [...]	2008-08-11 15:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG PREL SP
08MADRID916	RUSSIA - GEORGIA CONFLICT: DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel A points to Deputy FM Angel Lossada's chief of staff as well as Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director Carlos Fernandez-Arias on August 20, stressing support for Georgia's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. As in our continuing demarches, Embassy [...]	2008-08-21 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL RU GG SP
08MADRID929	SPAIN REPSONDS TO POSSIBLE RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On August 25, Polcouns spoke with Juan Sell, Chief of Staff to Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Angel Lossada. Sell said Spain's position was very clear - Spain supported the territorial integrity of Georgia. Likewise, Spain supported the efforts of France as EU President an [...]	2008-08-25 15:25:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL RU GG SP
08MADRID935	SPAIN LAMENTS RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION OF SOUTH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel a to Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director Ricardo Lopez Aranda on August 27. Lopez echoed the official statement released August 26 by Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, expressing Spain's regret at Russia's decision to recognize the independ [...]	2008-08-28 06:25:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG SP
08MANAGUA1124	NICARAGUA RECOGNIZES INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 2, during a late night speech to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Army, President Daniel Ortega declared that Nicaragua would back the Russian government of Vladimir Putin, and recognize the independence of Georgia's separatist enclaves of South Osse [...]	2008-09-04 18:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL RU GG NU
08MANAGUA1138	NICARAGUA FORMALIZES RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (U) On September 5, the Ortega Administration issued Decrees 46 and 47, extending full diplomatic recognition to its "sisters," the Republic of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The decrees recognize the independence of the two "republics," welcomes them into the "community of independent nations of [...]	2008-09-05 22:11:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL RU GG NU
08MANAGUA1153	NICARAGUA DEMARCHE ON RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) On September 8, Ambassador Callahan delivered ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Samuel Santos after informing him that the visit of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez had been cancelled. Ambassador emphasized our surprise at the decision, stressing that recognition validated Russia's mi [...]	2008-09-11 13:02:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL GG NU RU
08MAPUTO1070	RUSSIA AND MOZAMBIQUE: STILL COMRADES? [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a long history of cooperation during the Soviet era, Russia maintains a nominal official presence in Mozambique, with an eye towards natural resource exploration and garnering support for its international policies. The bilateral trade imbalance leans in Mozambique's favor [...]	2008-11-13 09:12:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR EAID RU MZ
08MAPUTO1235	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR OPEN TO COOPERATING ON HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a follow-up to reftel meeting, the Charge met with Russian Ambassador to Mozambique and Swaziland Igor V. Popov on November 25 at the Russian Embassy. The meeting dealt with generalities of our respective bilateral relationships with Mozambique, but also provided an opportu [...]	2008-12-09 17:10:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID RU MZ
08MEXICO2815	MEXICO ON NICARAGUAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-18 21:43:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PREL GG NU RU MX
08MOSCOW1170	RUSSIA: U.K. U/S RICKETT PROPOSES INCREMENTAL [...] (C) According to an April 25 debrief by the U.K. Embassy, the April 23-24 Moscow visit of U.K. Permanent Under Secretary Peter Rickett was "reasonably positive" in SIPDIS beginning the process of reducing tensions in the Russian-U.K. relationship. Rickett's visit built on the exchange of [...]	2008-04-25 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UK
08MOSCOW1598	CTWG BIOTERRORISM TABLETOP EXERCISE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-05 10:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER TBIO RU
08MOSCOW1767	HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: In a recent interview, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin outlined his concerns and views on religious freedom in Russia, including his opposition to mandatory classes on religion in public schools, his liberal stance allowing "non-traditional" religious groups to register as l [...]	2008-06-20 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV RU
08MOSCOW2127	CHAVEZ VISIT TO MOSCOW YIELDS LITTLE BEYOND TALK [...] (C) Summary: Russia's self-professed "multivector diplomacy" and a keen interest in picking Hugo Chavez's pocket resulted in a full program of meetings on July 22 with Medvedev and Putin, flanked by an array of senior Russian officials, even as Russia took steps to lower the profile of the hy [...]	2008-07-24 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS EPET ETRD RU VN
08MOSCOW2779	AUSTRALIA GROUP: U.S. RESPONSE TO NONPAPER PASSED BY FM LAVROV DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-16 08:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CBW ETTC RU
08MOSCOW2895	DEPUTY FONMIN GRUSHKO ON NATO, OSCE MANDATE IN [...] (C) Deputy Fonmin Aleksandr Grushko (whose portfolio includes NATO, OSCE, EU, COE) told the Ambassador that despite tensions, cooperation with NATO in Afghanistan remained strategically important to Russia. Grushko criticized U.S. support for Saakashvili and a MAP for Georgia. He shed no new [...]	2008-09-30 08:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE RU GA
08MOSCOW2970	PUTIN'S PENSION REFORMS: BUSINESS BURDEN OR [...] (C) Prime Minister Putin's recent announcement that social security taxes paid by businesses will increase eight percent over the next two years has alarmed segments of the business community, particularly the cash-starved small and medium sized enterprises. On the other hand, market analysts [...]	2008-10-07 11:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB SOCI RU
08MOSCOW3336	RUSSIA ON PIC AND EULEX [...] (C) Putting down markers on the upcoming Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting in Brussels, Russia's Special Representative on BiH and Kosovo Botsan-Kharchenko told us that Russia will seek a "balanced" statement, but would not insist on a timeline for transition. He called the current [...]	2008-11-18 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BH KV RU
08MOSCOW3346	EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY TREATY: MFA GIVES LIMITED [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 09:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN RU
08MOSCOW520	ENCOURAGING RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Russia is ready to do more to assist in stabilizing and rebuilding Afghanistan - a key area of overlapping Russian, U.S. and NATO interests. Absent concerted U.S. effort, however, Russian attempts to constructively engage with the Karzai government likely will continue to founde [...]	2008-02-26 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL MASS RU AF
08MOSCOW722	RUE HEAD EXEMPLIFIES COMPANY'S LACK OF TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) As we reported in ref A, the latest deal reached by Gazprom and Ukraine's NaftoHaz regarding the turbulent Russia-Ukraine gas trade has left unanswered important questions. One of those is the future of intermediary RosUkrEnergo (RUE). RUE, 50% owned by Gazprom and 50% owned by Ukrainian [...]	2008-03-14 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU
08MOSCOW867	GOR NOTIFIED OF MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-31 06:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL TW CH JA RU FR AU KS UK
08MOSCOW910	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON KOSOVO IN LEAD-UP TO BUCHAREST [...] (C) Summary: MFA Special Envoy for Kosovo Botsan-Kharchenko told us that Putin will reiterate Russian opposition to Kosovo's independence in Bucharest, but the issue is not expected to feature prominently, including during the President's visit April 5-6 visit to Sochi. The GOR will contin [...]	2008-04-02 16:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID RU
08MUSCAT613	OMANI RESPONSE TO RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 13:53:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU GG MU
08NASSAU628	GEORGIA-RUSSIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolChief delivered reftel demarche points rejecting Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to newly-appoined Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary (PS),Dr. Patricia Rodgers, September 2. PS Rodgers made no substantive comments in reply but indicated the GCOB was lik [...]	2008-09-03 18:53:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU BF
08NEWDELHI2373	INDIA NOT TAKING SIDES ON RUSSIA - GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-04 09:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GG RU IN
08NEWDELHI2764	FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV VISIT TO INDIA REAFFIRMS [...] (C) Summary. During his October 20 visit to New Delhi, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: -- brought a message that Russia's relations with India remain a priority for Moscow; -- announced Russia will assist India in building four additional nuclear reactors at the Kudankulam power project; [...]	2008-10-21 13:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PREL RU IN
08NICOSIA131	CYPRUS SUPPORTS GEORGIAN TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-25 14:19:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL GG RU YI CY
08NICOSIA660	CYPRIOTS TORN BETWEEN SUPPORTING RUSSIA, GEORGIA'S [...] (C) In response to Ref A, PolChief on August 12 demarched Cyprus MFA Russia Desk Officer Alkys Ieromonachou and Ministerial Counselor Charis Christodoulidou, emphasizing that the Euro-Atlantic community must act in concert to condemn Russian aggression in Georgia, demand an immediate cease-fi [...]	2008-08-12 13:28:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY RU GG
08NICOSIA697	CYPRUS WORRIED BY RUSSIA'S RECENT RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) Per Ref A, the Ambassador, in his August 28 introductory call on Cypriot MFA Permanent Secretary (D-equivalent) Nicholas Emiliou, condemned Russia's recent aggression in the Caucasus and August 26 recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Further, he raised Washington's hope that Cyprus [...]	2008-08-29 12:04:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY RU GE
08NICOSIA814	CYPRUS SHORES-UP CONFIDENCE IN BANKS, RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Cyprus Stock Exchange has experienced larger losses than most global exchanges, local banks remain solid and confidence in the country's economic future among consumers and businesspeople remains high. This is due to a lack of Cypriot exposure to stock and bonds, f [...]	2008-10-10 13:49:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL RU CY
08NICOSIA874	CYPRUS SHORES-UP CONFIDENCE IN BANKS, RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Cyprus Stock Exchange has experienced larger loses than most global exchanges, local banks remain solid and confidence in the country,s economic future among consumers and businesspeople remains high. This is due to a lack of Cypriot exposure to stock and bonds, fo [...]	2008-11-04 09:56:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL RU CY
08NICOSIA917	CYPRUS: DEFENSE MINISTRY COMPLAINS U.S. BLOCKING [...] (C) The Ambassador on November 14 paid a courtesy call on Minister of Defense Costas Papacostas and MoD Permanent Secretary (Deputy Secretary-equivalent) Petros Kareklas. After initial pleasantries, Papacostas commented on the good bilateral relationship between the US and the Government of C [...]	2008-11-21 08:36:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL CY TU RU
08NICOSIA938	CYPRIOTS SUPPORT DISCUSSION OF RUSSIAN SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of RoC President Demetris Christofias's diplomatic office, Leonidas Pantelides, met the DCM on November 25 to brief on Christofias's November 19-20 trip to Moscow. Pantelides had accompanied Christofias and was privy to discussions on Russia's European security proposa [...]	2008-12-01 14:47:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE CY RU
08OSLO436	CONCERNS ABOUT RUSSIA, WASTE, AND SECURITY DURING [...] (C) Summary: On his recent visit to Norway, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Dale Klein was approached by Russian nuclear regulators extremely concerned about their vanishing authority. Norwegian officials also appear to be frustrated about Russia,s limited cooperation in cleanup [...]	2008-08-05 14:14:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP NRC ENRG DOE TRGY SENV OVIP MX PARM RU
08OSLO452	NORWAY ON NAC STATEMENT ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 15:17:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EUN RU GG NO
08OSLO460	NORWEGIAN DEFENSE VIEWS: A TOUR DE FORCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In conjunction with an August 5-11 congressional staff delegation visit to Norway, State Secretary Espen Barth Eide gave a tour de force presentation on Norwegian defense policy. His presentations covered the High North, Norwegian military strategy, Russia's signaling behavior, a [...]	2008-08-15 13:01:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PBTS MCAP MOPS RU NO
08OSLO479	NORWAY STRONGLY REJECTS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere released an August 26 statement sharply criticizing Russian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Embassy had spoken with Norwegian MFA Assistant Director General Dag Halvorsen, leader of the MFA's Caucaus section on August 25 to explain U.S. obje [...]	2008-08-27 14:49:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GG RU NO
08OTTAWA1064	CANADA SUPPORTS STRONG NAC STATEMENT CONDEMNING [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 16:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS RU GG CA
08OTTAWA1591	CANADA STRONGLY SUPPORTS GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING [...] (SBU) On December 24, Dutch Deputy Head of Mission Erik Boer, Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Dimitri Trasimov, and Deputy Pol/C Kurt van der Walde jointly delivered reftel announcement about the upcoming fifth Global Initiative meeting in The Hague to Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter [...]	2008-12-24 18:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC RU NL CA
08OTTAWA228	CANADA ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Central, East, and South Europe Robert Hage on February 13 expressed appreciation for reftel views on possible Russian recognition of Abkhazia. He expressed mild surprise, however, explaining Canada's own reading [...]	2008-02-13 21:20:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU YI CA
08PARIS114	SARKOZY, KOUCHNER ADVISERS ON NATO, RUSSIA, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16, Joseph Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, met with Philippe Errera, strategic affairs adviser to FM Kouchner, and Francois Richier, strategic affairs adviser to President Sarkozy. Errera and Richier provided their views on [...]	2008-01-23 14:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO FR RU IR GG UP AG
08PARIS1561	WORKING WITH FRANCE TO ADVANCE A SOLUTION TO THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-13 07:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PGOV PREL PBTS EUN FR GE RU GG
08PARIS1587	TFGG01: FRENCH EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Since President Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Kouchner met with Secretary Rice on August 14, President Sarkozy has maintained high-profile efforts to implement the Russia/Georgia six-point cease-fire accord he negotiated in his capacity as EU President -- especially the main p [...]	2008-08-18 18:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1600	TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION [...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]	2008-08-21 10:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1601	TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION [...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]	2008-08-21 10:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1616	TFGG01: FRENCH VIEW OSCE MONITORS IN GEORGIA AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, French Elysee Advisor Boris Boillon and MFA A/S for Eurasia Roland Galharague, who traveled with FM Kouchner to the region, provided us with a consistent interpretation of the arrival of OSCE monitors: the new monitors are responding to the emergency situation; they [...]	2008-08-21 18:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1672	FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR GYMNICH [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, MFA CFSP Deputy Mathieu Carmona shared his expectations for the September 5-6 Gymnich meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, responding to reftel demarches A and B. Carmona advised that Friday's discussion will focus on Transatlantic Relations, with an emphasis on mai [...]	2008-09-05 11:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU FR
08PARIS1696	SARKOZY PLANS ON GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a September 5 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, Francois Richier, the Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, discussed EU plans for the September 8 meeting with Russian President Medvedev (other topics will be reported septel). Present for the Sep [...]	2008-09-09 08:36:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS RU GG FR UN
08PARIS1708	FRENCH READOUT OF EU MISSION TO MOSCOW AND NEXT [...] (C/NF) Summary. On September 10, Political M/C met with Damien Loras, Advisor to President Sarkozy on Russia and the Caucasus, who provided a readout of President Sarkozy,'s September 8 trip to Moscow and the reasoning behind the provisions in the final agreement on Georgia. Despite the dif [...]	2008-09-11 17:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL GG RU FR EU
08PARIS1751	USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, [...] (C) Summary. On September 12, USDP Edelman and Counselor Eliot Cohen met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to discuss Afghanistan, P [...]	2008-09-19 09:17:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS NATO AF PA GG RU FR
08PARIS1785	DEMARCHE TO GOF ON RUSSIAN INITIATIVE TO ALLOW [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-24 15:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC FR RU GG
08PARIS1791	FRANCE JOINS U.S. IN OPPOSING NICARAGUAN [...] (C) The GOF shares USG opposition to Nicaragua's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia according to French MFA desk officer Philippe Garcia de la Rosa who spoke to poloff on September 22. Garcia said the GOF agrees with all points in reftel and further rejects efforts to liken the indepe [...]	2008-09-25 09:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL EUN GG NU RU FR
08PARIS1960	THE POLITICS OF NYET: RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND THE COE [...] (C) Russian intransigence, lack of EU unity for meaningful action, general European desire for dialogue with Moscow at almost any price, and a cautious Council of Europe (COE) Secretariat combine to provide little hope that even minimal COE monitoring of Russia and Georgia will succeed. Incom [...]	2008-10-24 15:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM COE FR GG RU
08PARIS1983	FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT GEORGIA DONORS, [...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian Affairs Alexandre Vulic told us that the Georgia donors conference in Brussels on October 22 served as confirmation that the European Union has addressed the conflict in Georgia from every angle. All pledged money will be controlled by either the E [...]	2008-10-29 18:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR RU GG
08PARIS2079	FRENCH OFFICIALS: NATO UNITY REQUIRES NO DECISION [...] (C/NF) Summary. During PDAS Marcie Ries' meetings on Friday, November 7 with French officials Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Jacques Audibert, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA; all of he [...]	2008-11-10 15:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO FR RU
08PARIS2134	P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT IN PARIS [...] (C) Summary. On November 7, Acting U/S John Rood met in Paris with his French and British counterparts Jacques Audibert and Mariot Leslie, respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament issues. Topics included regional issues (Iran, North Korea, and Syria) [...]	2008-11-21 08:21:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH RU KN SY IR
08PARIS2284	RUSSIA/GEORGIA: FRENCH PRESIDENCY OFFICIAL SEEKS [...] (C) During a December 16 meeting with Pol MC, French Presidency (Elysee) advisor for Russia and the Americas Damien Loras asked for our assistance dealing with Georgia. Per Loras, President Sarkozy used the coming end of the French EU presidency to write to Russian President Medvedev in earl [...]	2008-12-17 17:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MCAP MARR FR GG RU
08PARIS245	P3 MEETING ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (S) Summary. On February 7, Acting U/S John Rood and his delegation met his French and British P3 counterparts, Philippe Carre and Mariot Leslie respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament issues. Unusually, the French were closer to the U.S. than were t [...]	2008-02-12 10:58:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL NATO PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH EG IN RU
08PARIS456	"LUKE-WARM" FRENCH-RUSSIAN MARCH 11 SECURITY [...] (C//NF) In a meeting on March 12, French MFA officials characterized French/Russian March 11 security talks as "luke-warm," and producing almost no results. Alexandre Vulic, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia, told us that the day-long annual talks between foreign and defense ministers, know [...]	2008-03-12 16:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PGOV RU CD SU FR
08PARIS77	USDP EDELMAN AND COUNSELOR COHEN DISCUSS [...] (S) On January 8, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, and Dr. Eliot Cohen, Counselor for the Department of State, met with Philippe Carre, Director of the Strategic Affairs bureau at the French MFA, and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defens [...]	2008-01-14 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR MOPS NATO FR RU CH GG AF IR
08PARIS970	FRANCE/RUSSIA: WHERE IS MEDVEDEV? PUTIN TO VISIT [...] (C) Alexandre Vulic, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia, told us on May 20, that FM Kouchner was en route to Moscow for talks with both President Medvedev and FM Lavrov. Publicly, the focus of the "last-minute" visit is to share EU Presidency priorities with the Russian government and to disc [...]	2008-05-21 10:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU FR
08PARTO91701	SECRETARY RICE'S SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 BREAKFAST WITH [...] (U) Classified by Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) September 5, 2008, 0900, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Thomas Stephenson Assistant Secretary Dan Fried Legal Advisor John Bellinge [...]	2008-09-17 03:34:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV ECON EI KV RU
08PARTO91702	SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PM SOCRATES [...] (U) Classified by Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) September 4, 2008, 1930, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Thomas Stephenson Assistant Secretary Dan Fried Assistant Secretary C. David [...]	2008-09-17 03:45:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV ECON EI KV RU
08PODGORICA141	UNPRECEDENTED INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN MONTENEGRO [...] (U) Summary: Montenegro is entering the largest investment cycle in its history, a cycle that creates serious potential opportunities for U.S. and other Western investors. The GoM plans tenders totaling between 15 and 20 billion euros in infrastructure, tourism, energy, and the privatization o [...]	2008-05-05 09:06:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ECON PREL RU MW
08PORTLOUIS303	GEORGIA: MAURITIUS STILL UNDECIDED [...] (C) On August 28, Polchief delivered ref A points to Ambassador Patrice Cure, head of the Multilateral Division at the Mauritian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cure noted that he is "trying for a position" within the Ministry, in case the support of Mauritian diplomats elsewhere is solicited. " [...]	2008-09-02 10:21:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU MP
08PORTLOUIS308	MAURITIUS TO SUPPORT TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF [...] (SBU) On September 5, Ambassador Cabrera took advantage of a meeting with Mauritian Foreign Secretary Anund Neewoor to raise ref A and other Department provided points on Georgia. Neewoor responded that the GOM official position would be to "support the territorial integrity of Georgia." He ad [...]	2008-09-08 11:37:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU MP
08PRAGUE104	CZECHS CONCUR - ABKHAZIA IS NOT KOSOVO [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 16:45:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL GG RU YI EZ EUN
08PRAGUE208	CZECH REPUBLIC: MISSILE DEFENSE RATIFICATION END [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-28 16:19:00	Embassy Prague	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR PGOV NATO EZ RU PL
08PRAGUE226	RUSSIAN VIEWS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC ON MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-08 14:36:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR PGOV NATO EZ RU
08PRAGUE447	CZECH GOVERNMENT CALM ABOUT SHARP DROP IN RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Czech officials confirmed press reports that Russian crude oil deliveries to the Czech Republic via Druzhba pipeline have dropped sharply since early July for allegedly technical reasons. Czech press speculated that Russia was using oil to retaliate against the Czechs [...]	2008-07-15 09:55:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL RU EZ
08PRAGUE535	TFGGO1: CZECHS ENGAGED ON SITUATION IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs discussed the upcoming August 12 NAC with Czech MFA Director of Security Policy, Veronika Kuchynova-Smigolova, who noted that the Czechs share a similar perspective to the USG and offered her assurance that they want to coordinate closely with us. As noted in Ref B., Czech Fo [...]	2008-08-12 06:34:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PARM KCFE EUN RU GG EZ
08PRAGUE546	CZECHS AGREE TO TALKS WITH RUSSIA ON ELIMINATING [...] (C) Summary: Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Russian crude oil deliveries still have not returned to normal as of August 15, with estimates of the shortfall for August ranging between 10 to nearly 30 percent. Nevertheless, Czech officials continue to downplay the significance of the [...]	2008-08-15 17:19:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU EZ
08PRAGUE547	CZECHS AGREE TO TALKS WITH RUSSIA ON ELIMINATING [...] (C) Summary: Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Russian crude oil deliveries still have not returned to normal as of August 15, with estimates of the shortfall for August ranging between 10 to nearly 30 percent. Nevertheless, Czech officials continue to downplay the significance of the [...]	2008-08-16 15:10:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU EZ
08PRAGUE592	CZECHS SUPPORT GEORGIA AND TAKE TOUGH LINE ON [...] Summary: The GOCR has strongly condemned Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and shares the USG perspective on support for Georgia, especially its territorial integrity. The Czechs have pressed for strong statements in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) and the EU General Affairs [...]	2008-08-29 16:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM KCFE RU GG EZ EUN
08PRAGUE623	THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND A RESURGENT RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-22 15:07:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU EZ
08PRAGUE631	CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SEEKING [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-26 15:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO RU EZ MARR
08PRAGUE667	CZECH REPUBLIC: DAS MERKEL DISCUSSES ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (DAS) David Merkel held day-long discussions October 10 in Prague on relations with Russia, energy security, relations with the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Russia,s relations with NATO. He met with MFA Political Director Martin Po [...]	2008-10-20 15:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ NATO RU
08QUITO880	ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) PolOff delivered points from reftels to MFA Multilateral Affairs Director General Lourdes Puma on September 5. Puma reiterated her regular mantra that the GOE was particularly sensitive to issues of sovereignty. She noted that the GOE would not make a public commitment for or against Ru [...]	2008-09-11 20:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR KPKO GG RU EC
08RABAT786	MOROCCO SUPPORTIVE OF QUICK RESOLUTION TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 16:29:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL RU GG MO
08REYKJAVIK166	NAC STATEMENT ON RUSSIAN ACTIONS IN GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 16:56:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG IC
08REYKJAVIK188	GEORGIA: ICELAND OPPOSES RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF S. OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker previewed reftel demarche in August 25 meetings with the Icelandic Foreign Minister and other senior officials, and embassy followed up on August 27 to reiterate the points. In press comments on August 26, Foreign Minister Gisladottir immediate [...]	2008-08-27 16:03:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF GG RU IC
08REYKJAVIK8	Iceland: Russian activities in region a growing concern [...] (C) Summary: Russian foreign policy continues to irritate and puzzle the Government of Iceland. In the hour-long special on Russia, broadcasted by an Icelandic television channel on January 15, Russian Ambassador Tatarintsev claimed that recent Russian foreign policy moves are tied to Russia' [...]	2008-01-23 14:58:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV RU IC
08RIGA463	TFGG01: LATVIA ON GEORGIA/SOUTH OSSETIA - BLAME RUSSIA [...] (C) On the afternoon of August 8, Charge was summoned to the MFA to meet with State Secretary Normans Penke to discuss developments in Georgia/South Ossetia, where Penke expressed the GOL's great concern about the escalating situation. While he initially described that he had held discussions earli [...]	2008-08-08 14:40:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU LG
08RIGA779	LATVIA SUPPORTS OSCE ADDRESSING GEORGIA INVASION [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 13:37:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU LG
08RIYADH1344	SAUDI MFA ON RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA, ABKHAZIA [...] (C) On August 31, PolOffs delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Talal al-Malki, temporarily covering European issues in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Malki shared that he would seek the counsel of Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal before providing a response. He gave no ini [...]	2008-09-01 14:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	GG PGOV PREL SA RU
08RIYADH1345	SAUDIS CONSIDER KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche (Reftel A) to Ambassador Talal al-Malki, temporarily covering European issues in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Malki responded that he would refer the matter of the proposed Kosovo ICJ resolution to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. [...]	2008-09-02 04:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SA UNGA KV RU
08RIYADH1378	SAUDIS TO VOTE AGAINST UNGA ICJ RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-09 15:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SA UNGA KVIR RU
08ROME1018	TFGG01: ITALIANS NOT LIKELY TO BE HELPFUL ON NAC [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 16:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG IT
08ROME1045	TFGG01: DEBUNKING THE ITALIAN MYTH OF "BALANCE" ON [...] (C/NF) As originally predicted by post in the early days of the Berlusconi government, the GOI's close relationship with Russia could soon become a point of friction in the otherwise very close U.S.-Italy relationship. The GOI leadership, particularly FM Frattini, have gone to great lengths to insi [...]	2008-08-14 14:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
08ROME1046	AMB URGES ITALY TO PUSH FOR RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-14 14:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
08ROME1081	GGTF01: ITALY URGES RUSSIA NOT TO RECOGNIZE SOUTH [...] (C) Marco Clemente, MFA Russia Office Director told Poloff that Italy would "under no circumstances" recognize the independence of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Clemente added that Italy would maintain a common Euro-Atlantic position on the conflict and would continue to support the efforts of th [...]	2008-08-25 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU GG IT
08ROME1092	ITALY DEFENDS GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY [...] DIBBLE [...]	2008-08-27 16:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
08ROME124	AUSTRALIA GROUP: ITALY UNDECIDED ON PLENARY [...] (C) On January 11, Econoff delivered to the Italian MFA reftel points on USG opposition to a proposed informal Australia Group (AG) meeting with Russia to discuss Russian AG membership during the 2008 AG Plenary. Roberto Liotto, the MFA Office-Director level official responsible for AG issue [...]	2008-01-28 15:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL RU IT
08ROME1308	ITALIAN ENERGY ISSUES: SPECIAL ENVOY C. BOYDEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 9 and 10, 2008, Special Envoy C. Boyden Gray visited Rome and met with key energy officials of the Italian Government and private sector. Major points of discussion revealed Italian worry about Caspian gas, namely whether the Turks will agree to let a sufficient amount [...]	2008-10-29 07:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IT RU AZ

08ROME1464	ITALIANS URGE U.S. TO AGREE TO WATERED-DOWN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Elena Basile, MFA OSCE Office Director, on December 2. Basile noted the U.S. position and stated that she had just received instructions to contact post to urge the U.S. to accept softer language for the ministerial declaration to avoid a stalemate with R [...]	2008-12-03 10:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM RU IT
08ROME150	GOI NON-PAPER SETS GOAL OF ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In late December, the GOI provided the Embassy and Department a non-paper on Italian energy/energy security policy in response to questions raised during the December 11, 2007, meeting between President Bush and Italian President Napolitano. The full text is included below. The [...]	2008-02-04 10:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL RU AJ IT
08ROME249	ITALIAN MFA OFFICIAL OUTLINES ITALIAN ENERGY, [...] (C) Summary. During a February 13 meeting with Embassy Officers, Giovanni Manfredi, the Italian MFA official responsible for energy issues, provided a wide-ranging and candid assessment of Italian energy and energy security policy. Manfredi said Italian demand for natural gas will continue t [...]	2008-02-29 12:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG RU IT
08ROME390	ITALIAN ENERGY: EXPERTS UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 28, Ecmin hosted a roundtable discussion with Italian energy experts. The discussion focused on Italian energy security (especially security of Italian natural gas imports),and Italy's energy relationship with Russia. With one exception, the Italian experts did not [...]	2008-03-31 10:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD ENRG EINV EIND ETRN RU IT
08ROME451	ENI: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT GAZPROM'S ITALIAN PARTNER? [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-10 13:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EINV ENRG ETRD IT RU
08ROME525	(C) DELIVERING TOUGH MESSAGES TO ENI CEO PAOLO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his May 5-6 visit to Washington, Post believes it would be helpful to U.S. interests if Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni is told very clearly of serious USG concerns about 1) his company's close collaboration with Russia's Gazprom and 2) his company's continuing involvement in Iran. E [...]	2008-04-24 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IR IT PGOV PREL RU
08SANTIAGO843	CHILE ON THE SIDELINES ON SOUTH OSSETIA/ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Eduardo Schott, MFA Deputy Director for European Affairs, on September 15. Schott reiterated the position he elaborated on August 27--Chile has no plans to recognize either South Ossetia or Abkhazia (Ref B). Schott was unconcerned by Nicaragua's recogni [...]	2008-09-16 17:38:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL GG NU RU KV CI
08SANTODOMINGO1360	REJECTING RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF S. [...] POLCHIEF delivered Reftel talking points on Russian recognition of the breakaway Georgian regions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report any subsequent Dominican response. (U) Please vi [...]	2008-08-28 18:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GG RU DR
08SARAJEVO1114	BOSNIA - RUSSIS WALKS OUT OF PIC AND REFUSES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the June 24-25 Peace Implementation Council (PIC),PIC member states, except Russia, reiterated their commitment to a benchmarks-driven approach to determining OHR's closure date. PIC member states also underscored to Bosnian political leaders that they would consider national [...]	2008-07-09 11:50:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID KJUS KAWC KCRM RU BK
08SARAJEVO194	BOSNIA - LAJCAK RETURNS FROM RUSSIA OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) On February 1, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak met with Sarajevo-based Quint representatives to discuss his January 31 trip to Moscow. Lajcak traveled to Russia, where he met with Deputy Foreign Minister Titov and Political Director Kharchenko, to discuss the upcoming February 26-27 P [...]	2008-02-01 16:08:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK RU EU
08SARAJEVO435	BOSNIA - PEACE IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL DECIDES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 26-27, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) met in Brussels to discuss the future of the Office of the High Representative (OHR). PIC members agreed that the political situation in Bosnia had deteriorated since their October 2007 meeting and expressed concern about [...]	2008-03-06 11:08:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU RU BK
08SARAJEVO757	BOSNIA - NO GOOD OPTIONS ON SREBRENICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Quint Ambassadors met with High Representative Lajcak on April 24 to discuss options for addressing concerns that the October 2008 municipal elections could put Serbs in control of the entire Srebrenica municipal administration. This outcome would likely spark another destabilizi [...]	2008-04-25 11:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC RU BK
08SECTIN01OF02BUDAPEST836	HUNGARY: CODEL LUGAR SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Welcome to Budapest. Your visit comes as the Hungarian Government slowly re-engages following the long summer "cucumber season" and offers an excellent opportunity for discussion of Georgia and energy security. While Hungary remains a committed partner in the trans-Atlantic relationsh [...]	2008-08-22 12:31:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON GG RU HU
08SEOUL1826	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FORMER PRSIDENT ROH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 9 meeting with former President Roh Moo-Hyun at his home in Bongha village, South Gyeongsang Province, Ambassador Vershbow and Roh discussed the accomplishments that took place in the U.S.-ROK bilateral relationship during the last two years of Mr. Roh's term, in [...]	2008-09-16 04:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU KS
08SEOUL1912	ROK PLANS TO UPGRADE RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: MOFAT's European Affairs DG Kim Eun-joong asked for a meeting with POL M/C on September 25 to discuss the status of negotiations with Russia over the joint statement to be announced by Presidents Lee and Medvedev in connection with their summit next week. In particular, DG Kim w [...]	2008-09-26 08:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN RU
08SOFIA550	BULGARIA: NAC STATEMENT ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 15:57:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG BU
08SOFIA552	BULGARIA: ACTIVE ROLE IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy FM Keremedchiev agreed on a firm, united EU message to Russia and said Bulgaria would take an active role in providing and facilitating humanitarian assistance. It declined a Georgian request for military assistance. FM Kalfin will offer use of the port of Burgas as a [...]	2008-08-12 17:06:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG BU
08SOFIA566	TFGG01: BULGARIA STANDS BY GEORGIA; STILL AVOIDS [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Ambassador Ukleba told Ambassador McEldowney that Tbilisi has not accepted a Bulgarian offer to host talks between Russia and Georgia, which Deputy FM Keremedchiev later confirmed. Ukleba stressed that Tbilisi values U.S. support and humanitarian assistance and looks for [...]	2008-08-19 16:29:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS RU GG BU
08SOFIA590	BULGARIA: SEPT 5-6 FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-03 13:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08SOFIA592	BULGARIAN FM: GEORGIA CRISIS STRENGTHENS CASE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kalfin told Ambassador Russia is using the Georgia crisis to create zones of influence throughout the former Soviet republics. This makes it all the more important that both Georgia and Ukraine be offered MAP at the NATO Ministerial in December. He urged continued U.S. inv [...]	2008-09-04 15:32:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU SR BU GG
08STATE105685	(U) ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 26, [...] (U) September 26, 2008; 3:30 p.m.; New York. 2. (C) Participants: U.S. Assistant Secretary Fried Elaine Samson, Spain Desk Officer SPAIN Deputy Foreign Minister Angel Lossada Chief of Staff Juan Sell Belen Alfaro, Spanish Mission to the UN 3. (C) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary F [...]	2008-10-02 20:56:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA SP KV RU GG AF
08STATE108163	INSTRUCTION ON GEORGIA - GUIDANCE ON UNOMIG [...] (SBU) This is an action request: USUN is authorized to respond to comments made to the Security Council during UNOMIG consultations on October 9, 2008 drawing on the guidance below. The Department understands that there will not be debate, statements, or explanations of vote during the UNOM [...]	2008-10-09 02:03:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC GG RU PREL
08STATE125626	DEMARCHE REQUEST ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) This is an action request. The annual OSCE Ministerial will take place in Helsinki 4-5 December. The Secretary will attend a portion of the meeting which forty-nine ministers are expected to attend. Posts are requested to engage host country officials to garner support for U.S. object [...]	2008-11-26 21:31:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU
08STATE21209	GUIDANCE FOR AZERBAIJANI UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (U) This is an action request. See Para. 2. 2. Action request: Department requests that USUN urge Azerbaijan's mission to the UN to work on an UNGA resolution that stresses that Kosovo is not a precedent for Nagarno-Karabakh (NK) or any other conflict. In order to secure U.S. supp [...]	2008-02-29 22:59:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA PREL AM AJ RU GE UP PBTS
08STATE29319	RUSSIAN ENGAGEMENT WITH CENTRAL ASIAN CENTER - [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-20 19:16:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SNAR RU KZ
08STATE42903	GUIDANCE: UNSC EMERGENCY MEETING ON GEORGIA [...] Action request: Department requests that USUN deliver the following statement in para 2 below at the UNSC meeting on Georgia scheduled for Wednesday, April 23. End Action Request. 2. Begin statement: -- Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to welcome Georgian Foreign Minister Bakr [...]	2008-04-23 16:43:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UNSC PREL PBTS GE RU
08STATE49806	DEMARCHE REQUEST: SOLICIT GOI RESPONSE TO DRAFT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 8. ---------- Objectives ---------- 2. (SBU) Post is requested to pursue the following objectives with the GOI: -- Share with the GOI the draft text of a UNSC resolution that imposes targeted sanctions on individuals or entities [...]	2008-05-09 23:59:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08STATE56172	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050104476 for the export of rifles to Russia. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern ch [...]	2008-05-27 13:51:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RU
08STATE57827	GUIDANCE: UNSC SESSION CONCERNING RUSSIAN DOWNING [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during UNSC consultations on Georgia scheduled for May 30. 2. Begin points: -- UNOMIG's report on the downing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Georgian territory offers further troublin [...]	2008-05-30 12:47:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UNSC GE PBTS PREL RU
08STATE57994	GUIDANCE: UNSC SESSION CONCERNING RUSSIAN DOWNING [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during UNSC consultations on Georgia scheduled for May 30. 2. Begin points: -- UNOMIG's report on the downing of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Georgian territory offers evidence of Russi [...]	2008-05-30 15:19:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UNSC GE PBTS PREL RU
08STATE59140	KUDOS FOR DEFT HANDLING OF GEORGIA ISSUES IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-03 00:56:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UN GE RU
08STATE65834	DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONTINUE ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3 and 6. 2. (C) Per Ref A, on May 15, Embassy Baghdad shared with the GOI the draft text of a UNSC resolution (Ref B),which imposes targeted sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in or provide support for acts of violence that thr [...]	2008-06-18 23:12:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08STATE85678	ACTION REQUEST: U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 05:47:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PARM KCFE RU GG
08STATE88216	TFGG01 GEORGIA -- GUIDANCE ON FRENCH DRAFT [...] (U) This is an... C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 088216 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/14/2018 TAGS: UNSC PREL GG RU [...]	2008-08-15 23:41:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL GG RU
08STATE88308	RUSSIA - GEORGIA CONFLICT: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT [...] IN REFERENCE TO RUSSIA'S ACTIONS IN GEORGIA, PRESIDENT BUSH STATED THE FOLLOWING: (QUOTE) "WITH ITS ACTIONS IN RECENT DAYS RUSSIA HAS DAMAGED ITS CREDIBILITY AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE NATIONS OF THE FREE WORLD. BULLYING AND INTIMIDATION ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE WAYS TO CONDUCT FOREIGN POLICY I [...]	2008-08-18 00:17:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR OIIP PBTS PREL RU GG
08STATE90980	GEORGIA: REBUTTING SPURIOUS RUSSIAN CLAIMS [...] (U) This is an action request for all posts, see end of para 2. 2. (C) Reftel lays out Russian efforts to misinterpret the August 12 Georgia ceasefire agreement mediated by French President Sarkozy. Among other things, Russia is claiming that the ceasefire allows for creation of a ?buffer z [...]	2008-08-23 18:03:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO MARR GG RU
08STATE92332	DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONTINUE ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. 2. (C) Per Refs A-D, Embassy Baghdad has shared with the GOI the draft text of a UNSC resolution that imposes targeted sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in or provide support for acts of violence that threaten [...]	2008-08-27 23:57:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK
08STATE93272	APPROACHING THE EU ON NON-GEORGIA TOPICS IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold an informal "Gymnich" meeting in Avignon on September 5-6. We expect the agenda to include: Georgia and EU/Russia relations, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, updating the 2003 EU Security [...]	2008-08-29 21:12:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08STATE94532	OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: KILLING OF JOURNALIST IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-03 21:41:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OSCE PREL PHUM RU
08STATE97109	OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL - STATEMENT ON GEORGIA FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-10 22:58:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	GG RU OSCE PREL
08STOCKHOLM510	EUROPEAN COURT TO REVIEW SWEDEN'S SNOOP LAW; [...] (U) Summary: On July 14, Sweden-based Justice Center (CFR) announced it will refer Sweden's new surveillance law to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Liberal Party parliamentarians have heavily criticized the law's vagueness. Nordic telecommunications businesses are considering movin [...]	2008-07-17 07:24:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINT PTER PINR PGOV RU SW
08STOCKHOLM565	TFGG01: SWEDEN SHARES U.S. POSITION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 14:00:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM571	TFGG001: DEMARCHE DELIVERED--SWEDEN CONDEMNS [...] (C) Summary: A senior Swedish MFA official told poloff the EU is divided into two camps and the French have watered-down the GAERC conclusion. Unless the situation in Georgia worsens, the EU is unlikely to offer a stronger statement until after Sept. 6, when the foreign ministers will meet in [...]	2008-08-15 11:05:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM575	TFGG01: SWEDEN CANCELS JOINT RUSSIAN MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-19 15:36:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM576	TFGG01: SWEDEN PUSHES EU OBSERVERS TO GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-19 16:20:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RU GG SE
08STOCKHOLM579	TTFGG01: SWEDEN TO SEND 2-3 OSCE MIL OBSERVERS TO [...] (SBU) Head of the Eastern European Department, Johan Frisell, told poloff that Sweden agreed to send two to three military observers to the OSCE's 28-observer contingent that will deploy immediately to Georgia. The MFA has asked the Defense Ministry to approve adding eight more military obser [...]	2008-08-20 14:00:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OSCE RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM587	TTFGG01: SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Sweden fully supports the US positions on Georgia, both measures to support the Georgian government and people (see ref b on their military observers and humanitarian aid to date),and measures to review relations with Russia. On the latter, MFA political director Lyrvall outline [...]	2008-08-22 15:22:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM607	SWEDEN ON GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (C) Summary: Swedish MFA Political Director Lyrvall told us September 4 that Sweden will emphasize the "political side" in upcoming donor conferences to highlight the need to demonstrate solidarity with Georgia and restore investor confidence. FM Bildt will work to "send a strong message" to [...]	2008-09-04 15:06:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM801	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 15:24:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SW
08TALLINN134	ESTONIA TO PROPOSE TEXT FOR JOINT EDITORIAL ON [...] (SBU) On April 10, Poloffs meet with Aivo Orav, Director of Political Department, and Anneli Poolakese, Terrorism Desk Officer and Global Initiative (GI) POC at the Estonian MFA, to discuss points provided in reftel A. Orav said that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is pleased with Secretary R [...]	2008-04-14 12:11:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP RU EN
08TALLINN149	ESTONIA PROVIDES DRAFT GLOBAL INITIATIVE JOINT [...] (U) Action request - please see paragraph (3). 2. (SBU) On April 25, Anneli Poolakese, Counter Terrorism Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, provided Poloff the MFA's draft text for the proposed Estonia-U.S.-Russia joint editorial on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) (re [...]	2008-04-25 13:12:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KNP RU EN
08TALLINN259	ESTONIA NAMES NEW AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. On August 1, Simmu Tiik, Estonia's new Ambassador to Russia, will take up his duties in Moscow, replacing Marina Kaljurand. Tiik, a fifteen-year veteran of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is an outgoing (and verbose) personality who has served in several senior positions within [...]	2008-07-29 11:33:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL RU EN
08TALLINN301	ESTONIA: NO DIRECT THREAT FROM RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Harry Lahtein, MFA Division Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Toomas Tirs, the Georgia Desk Officer, told Pol/Econ Chief August 29 that Russian Ambassador Nikolai Uspenski did not directly threaten Estonia during his meeting with Foreign Minister Paet on August 27th (ref C). [...]	2008-08-29 11:03:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU GG EN
08TALLINN303	ESTONIAN PRESIDENT ILVES EMPHASIZES NATO [...] (C) On September 2, Ambassador called on President Toomas Hendrik Ilves to discuss the situation in Georgia. Ambassador was accompanied by DCM and Pol/Econ Chief (notetaker). Sven Jurgenson, Ilves? Foreign Policy Advisor (and a former Ambassador to the United States) and Jana Vanaveski, Head [...]	2008-09-03 06:43:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU GG EN
08TALLINN326	ESTONIA CHARTS LEGAL, MILITARY FUTURE OF CYBER [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of the August cyber attacks against government websites in the Republic of Georgia, Estonia has provided both material and technical assistance to Tbilisi. Lawyers at the Cyber Center of Excellence in Tallinn have produced a legal analysis of the status of cyber [...]	2008-09-22 14:07:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TINT NATO RU GG EN
08TALLINN338	Scenesetter for A/S Fried's Visit to Estonia [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: I am delighted to welcome you to Tallinn and your visit on October 1 could not be better timed. In the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia and sensitivities related to Estonia's own large Russian- speaking minority, the Government of Estonia (GOE) is eager for assurances from [...]	2008-09-25 11:38:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG EN
08TALLINN354	ESTONIA: A/S FRIED VISITS TALLINN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During EUR A/S Dan Fried's October 1 visit to Tallinn, Estonian government and political leaders urged that NATO military commanders update NATO's Article 5 contingency planning in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia. Estonia's President, Prime Minister and Foreign Ministe [...]	2008-10-07 10:30:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS RU GG AJ MD UP EN
08TALLINN377	ESTONIA: DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VWP VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff visited Tallinn October 29-30 to welcome formally Estonia into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP),and to announce that eligible Estonian travelers will be able to commence visa-free travel to the United States on November 17, 2008. Both [...]	2008-10-30 15:00:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL EU RU GG IZ EN
08TALLINN405	SNAPSHOT: GROWING UP RUSSIAN IN ESTONIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-28 11:48:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RU EN
08TALLINN406	SNAPSHOT: GROWING UP RUSSIAN IN ESTONIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Eight years into the Government of Estonia's (GOE) integration policy, integration of the Russian-speaking community remains a challenge for the state, and for Estonian society at large. However, unlike their parents, ethnic Russian youth have lived their whole lives in an ind [...]	2008-11-28 11:48:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RU EN
08TALLINN76	WELCOMING ESTONIA INTO THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph (6). 2. (SBU) On February 21, the Ambassador and Russian Ambassador to Estonia Nikolai Uspensky met with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and the Estonian MFA's Director of Political Department Aivo Orav to officially welcome Estonia as a memb [...]	2008-02-26 13:48:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KNNP RU EN
08TBILISI116	DAS BRYZA'S JANUARY 19 MEETING WITH GEORGIAN PRIME [...] (S) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze, EUR DAS Matthew Bryza said that following Embassy Tbilisi's extensive review, the USG did not agree with opposition claims that massive fraud occurred or skewed the outcome of the January 5 presidential election, [...]	2008-01-24 12:46:00	Embassy Tbilisi	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG KCRM USTR GG RU
08TBILISI123	PM GURGENIDZE SUBMITS NEW CABINET TO PARLIAMENT [...] (U) On January 24, Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze held a press conference and announced President Saakashvili's nominations for his new cabinet of ministers. Gurgenidze submitted the list of nominees to the Georgian Parliament on January 25. Gurgenidze said that the new nominees are inclusiv [...]	2008-01-25 14:45:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR GG RU
08TBILISI1336	SITREP 1: FIGHTING IN SOUTH OSSETIA ESCALATES [...] (C) Begin Summary: Intense fighting began in South Ossetia the evening of August 6 and continued into the daylight hours August 7. Intense fighting broke out west of Tskhinvali at approximiately 1800 in Avnevi and Nuli and continued until 2100, when explosions were noted northeast of Tskhinvali in [...]	2008-08-07 13:26:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1337	SITREP 1: FIGHTING IN SOUTH OSSETIA ESCALATES [...] (C) Begin Summary: Intense fighting began in South Ossetia the evening of August 6 and continued into the daylight hours August 7. Intense fighting broke out west of Tskhinvali at approximiately 1800 in Avnevi and Nuli and continued until 2100, when explosions were noted northeast of Tskhinvali in [...]	2008-08-07 13:27:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1341	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 2: GEORGIA CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: President Saakashvili in an August 8 conversation with the Ambassador, and Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili in a briefing to the diplomatic corps, claimed that Georgia now controlled most of South Ossetia, including Tskhinvali, although fighting was continuing near the northern to [...]	2008-08-08 10:05:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1343	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA--SITREP 3: RUSSIAN BOMBS [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: Multiple bases, airports, and Georgia's port of Poti were all bombed overnight by Russian aircraft, with bombing continuing in the daylight hours of August 9, with bombs hitting civilian targets in the Georgian city of Gori. Reports of casualties continue to come [...]	2008-08-09 07:56:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1348	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 4: GEORGIANS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-09 17:15:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG
08TBILISI1349	GEORGIA: SITREP 5: GEORGIANS NEARLY EXHAUSTED; [...] (C) Begin Summary: FM Tkeshelashvili briefed the diplomatic corps August 10 that Georgia has suffered huge casualties. The FM described the situation as no longer about South Ossetia but rather was Russia aggression against an independent country. She said Russian planes have bombed hospitals in Go [...]	2008-08-10 09:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1355	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA, SITREP 6 [...] (C) Summary and Comment: French FM Kouchner and Finnish FM Stubbs met with President Saakashvili August 11 in Tbilisi to discuss a cease-fire package, with the goal of presenting it to Russian officials in Moscow later the same day. Swedish FM Carl Bildt and EUR DAS Bryza are both expected to arriv [...]	2008-08-11 09:28:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1356	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 7 [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 13:13:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV RU GG
08TBILISI1362	GEORGIA: SITREP 8: RUSSIANS PULL BACK, BUT BOMBING [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 10:11:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1379	GEORGIA: SITREP 10: RUSSIANS ON MOVE, IN GEORGIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-16 15:43:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1380	GEORGIA: SITREP 11: RUSSIANS HOLD IN PLACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: There were few reports of Russian troops movements on August 17, following a day of conflicting reports on the status, location, and direction of Russian forces in Georgia. It is clear that Russian troops control the east-west corridor through Georgia from Poti north and eas [...]	2008-08-17 13:40:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1385	GEORGIA: SITREP 12: WAITING FOR A RUSSIAN PULLOUT [...] (SBU) Summary. As of mid-day August 18, there is no evidence that Russian troops have begun to withdraw from Georgia. The road from Tbilisi to Gori remains closed and travelers are subject to Russian roadblocks. Next international visitor to Tbilisi will be UK Foreign Secretary Miliband o [...]	2008-08-18 10:21:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1386	GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Begin Summary: On August 14, Minister of Defense David Kezerashvili spoke with DAS Bryza, the Ambassador, and DATT about the MOD's current situation following Russia's invasion. Kezerashvili said Georgia's army troops are now at Vaziani and other bases around Tbilisi, trying to regroup. [...]	2008-08-18 13:42:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1387	GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA MEETING WITH MOIA VANO [...] (C) Begin Summary: On August 14, Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) Vano Merabishvili spoke with DAS Bryza and the Ambassador Tefft about the current situation following Russia's invasion, the status of Georgian troops, and how the attacks unfolded. Shota Utiashvili, nominally head of the [...]	2008-08-18 14:36:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GG RU
08TBILISI1391	GEORGIA: SITREP 13 [...] (C) Summary: As of 1600 August 19, there is still no evidence of Russian troops withdrawing from Georgia. Russian checkpoints remain along the main East-West highway on both sides of Gori. Embassy officers who attempted to drive up the road from Tbilisi to Gori were turned back after the [...]	2008-08-19 11:53:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1403	GEORGIA: SITREP 14 - THE WAITING GAME CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Faint and uncertain signs of a Russian withdrawal are reported, but there is as yet no unmistakable sign of a pullback. Russian troops attempted August 19 to oust Georgian soldiers from a base in Western Georgia, to which the Georgians had retreated in conformity with the six-p [...]	2008-08-20 12:25:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON GG RU
08TBILISI1404	THE CASE FOR INTENTIONAL TARGETING OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: After visiting the site of the August 9 and August 12 Russian bombings of the Western Route (Baku-Supsa) pipeline, the Embassy believes a reasonable case can be made that the bombings were intentional. Three lines of craters cross the pipeline, and one missile, reportedly an SS-26 [...]	2008-08-20 14:03:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL MOPS GG RU
08TBILISI1409	GEORGIA: SITREP 15: LITTLE OR NO CHANGE ON THE [...] (U) Summary. Observers are not reporting any real movement to withdraw by Russian troops in Georgia. According to the Georgian press, the Russians say they intend to set up a double line of checkpoints around South Ossetia with a buffer zone in between; however, Gori will not be in that zo [...]	2008-08-21 12:43:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1412	GEORGIA: SITREP 16: LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF A RUSSIAN [...] (U) Summary. As of mid-day, there were no definite sign of a Russian withdrawal from Georgia, but OSCE reported columns of Russian vehicles lining up in Gori and Kashuri on August 21. On the other hand, there also continue to be reports of erecting fortifications and the continued demoliti [...]	2008-08-22 10:18:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1418	GEORGIA: SITREP 17: IT'S ABOUT TIME - BULK OF [...] (U) Summary. Multiple sources confirm Russian troops have withdrawn most troops from undisputed Georgian territory, although some remain near key positions such as Poti, Senaki and Sachkere. The eastern part of the east-west highway is reportedly open, with light civilian traffic underway, [...]	2008-08-23 12:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI143	DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador Tefft met with key leaders of the United National Council of Opposition (UNC). The UNC's main contention was that Mikheil Saakashvili did not receive 50 percent of the vote in the January 5 election. Consequently, they said they a [...]	2008-01-30 14:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08TBILISI1437	GEORGIA: SITREP 18: ALL EYES ON AKHALGORI [...] (C) Summary. The situation remains tense in Akhalgori, with South Ossetian militia in an apparent standoff with Georgian police and interior forces; the Georgian government considers the location a potential flashpoint. The Russian presence in the west continues, maintaining a level of ten [...]	2008-08-25 12:56:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1470	GEORGIA: SITREP 19: RESPONDING TO MEDVEDEV'S [...] (C) Summary. Tbilisi is formulating its official response to Russian President Medvedev's announcement that Russia would recognize the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and per DFM Vashadze, is looking for a strong reaction from the West (more details to be provided septel). [...]	2008-08-26 14:21:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1474	GEORGIA: SITREP 20: RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION SOBERS [...] (C) Summary. President Saakashvili sought to reassure the nation in an upbeat televised speech, but Russia's recognition of the breakaway regions has increased the pressure on the president and the nation. The situation in Akhalgori seems to have been resolved for the moment with Georgian t [...]	2008-08-27 12:34:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1481	CONGRESSMAN SMITH DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS/IDPS [...] (C) Summary. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ - 4) had separate meetings with Patriarch Ilia II, Human Rights Watch (HRW),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to discuss human rights issues and the IDP situation in Georgia the week of August 18. The Patriarch, HRW, and the I [...]	2008-08-29 05:32:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08TBILISI1482	GEORGIA: SITREP 21: PARLIAMENT SAYS ALL RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 28, the Georgian Parliament adopted a resolution that declared Abkhazia and South Ossetia "territories occupied by the Russian Federation"; appeared to nullify the legal basis for any Russian forces, including peacekeepers, to be on Georgian territory; and urged the g [...]	2008-08-29 11:54:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1496	GEORGIA: SITREP 22: HUMAN CHAIN SHOWS GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary. On September 1 as many as 1.5 million Georgians rallied across the country to express national unity and opposition to Russia's actions. The OSCE did not observe any confrontations or movements, but did see the presence of heavy vehicles in an ethnically Georgian village southw [...]	2008-09-02 13:34:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1506	GEORGIA: SITREP 23: DOMESTIC POLITICIANS BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. On September 2 ruling party and opposition politicians met to find a way forward on the domestic political front that will maintain national unity while ensuring the opposition's concerns are not lost. The government sees next steps on the conflicts as the withdrawal of Russian [...]	2008-09-03 11:14:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1513	GEORGIA: SITREP 24: GEORGIANS WELCOME VICE [...] (C) Summary. President Saakashvili warmly welcomed Vice President Cheney to Georgia, with the visit receiving extensive local coverage. The September 3 announcement of a one-billion-dollar U.S. aid package was also well received, with some calling it a Marshall Plan for Georgia. The OSCE w [...]	2008-09-04 13:14:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1514	SENATOR CORKER SURVEYS DAMAGE IN GORI [...] (SBU) Senator Robert Corker (R-TN) traveled to Gori August 30, visiting an IDP center and meeting with various GOG officials to survey damage and assess the impact of the Russian invasion and occupation of Georgia. Governor Lado Vardzelashvili explained that the resettlement of Gori is on s [...]	2008-09-05 05:45:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08TBILISI1522	CLAIMS OF ATROCITIES IN GEORGIA MERIT SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In advance of S/WCI Ambassador Williamson's September 8-11 visit to Georgia, the Embassy has compiled a preliminary list of the many reports we have received of "ethnic cleansing" and accusations of "war crimes" that have taken place in the conflict zones and areas [...]	2008-09-05 14:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KAWC RU GG
08TBILISI1523	GEORGIA: SITREP 25: NO CONFIRMATION OF AN ABKHAZ [...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG has been unable to confirm press reports of a wall planned by Abkhaz "authorities" along the administrative border. The OSCE was finally allowed to patrol north of Russian checkpoints and came within four km of Tskhinvali, but was again refused access to Akhalgori. Polit [...]	2008-09-05 15:04:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1527	GEORGIA: SITREP 26: STORIES ABOUND IN ABKHAZIA, [...] (SBU) Summary. Stories persist of Abkhaz plans to construct a wall along the border, but UNOMIG observers have discovered only limited evidence. Villagers are also reporting rumors of Abkhaz plans for Russian passports, conscription, and compulsory use of the Abkhaz language in schools. Th [...]	2008-09-08 13:17:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1530	GEORGIA: SITREP 27: SARKOZY IN TBILISI, OSCE MAKES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian General Kulakhmetov canceled a September 8 meeting with OSCE to discuss access beyond Russian checkpoints. Opposition leader Shalva Natelashvili called for the resignation of the current Georgian leadership. The two Polish television news crew members detained on Sep [...]	2008-09-09 12:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1550	GEORGIA: SITREP 28: GEORGIAN POLICEMAN KILLED AT [...] (C) Summary. A Georgian police officer was shot while manning his regular post in Karaleti, reportedly by an Ossetian irregular according to the Interior Ministry. Russian vehicles and South Ossetian militias seem to have begun withdrawing from positions inside Georgia proper on a limited ba [...]	2008-09-10 14:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1554	GEORGIA: SITREP 29: UN ASSISTANCE CONVOY GAINS [...] (C) Summary. The UN announced that a humanitarian assistance convoy was allowed to pass the Georgian checkpoint at Karaleti September 11, delivering four tons of assistance to the Georgian village of Patara Garadjivari. Georgia's Reintegration Minister formally announced a freeze on develop [...]	2008-09-11 14:50:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1571	GEORGIA: SITREP 30: OSSETIANS REFUSE ACCESS TO OSCE [...] (C) Summary. Russian forces allowed OSCE monitors past checkpoints outside Akhalgori, but an Ossetian checkpoint did not allow the OSCE into Akhalgori. This raises questions about the prospects for South Ossetian cooperation with OSCE and EU monitors in the future. A special letter has been [...]	2008-09-12 15:44:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG

08TBILISI1572	UNGA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GEORGIAN MFA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on September 9, 2008. Present at the meeting were MFA Head of International Organizations Office Alexander Nalbandov and MFA Head of the Americas Division Levan Nizharadze. 2. (C) After Poloff outlined th [...]	2008-09-13 09:59:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1595	INSIDE GEORGIA'S MINISTRY FOR REINTEGRATION - NO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a September 9 meeting with poloffs, Deputy Minister for Reintegration David Rakviashvili provided both the Ministry's and his own personal insights on Georgia's strategy on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Rakviashvili's comments suggested the government does not yet h [...]	2008-09-16 14:55:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1596	GEORGIA: SITREP 32: RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS [...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG observers reported a Russian propaganda campaign in Abkhazia. OSCE observers said that they have access to the Russian "buffer zone," but still have no access beyond the former administrative border into South Ossetia (with the exception of Mission Head Hakala's Septembe [...]	2008-09-16 15:36:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1602	GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI'S STATE OF THE COUNTRY ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. President Saakashvili's September 16 state of the nation included concessions to the opposition, proposals to check executive power, and measures to increase judicial freedom and open media. Parliamentary opposition members said that most of the proposals were not n [...]	2008-09-17 14:52:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1608	GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT CONFIDENT OF PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] (C) Introduction and Comment: Tbilisi Mayor and Saakashvili insider Gigi Ugulava told the Ambassador that polling data indicates that Saakashvili and his Government enjoy broad public support, but noted that the Government needed to use the next 12-18 months to focus on rehabilitation and reco [...]	2008-09-19 07:03:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1620	GEORGIA: YOUR MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI [...] (C) In your meeting with President Saakashvili on the margins of the UN General Assembly you will find a leader who is newly focused on the concept of strategic patience. He is circling his wagons around several key objectives: reconstruction of damaged infrastructure and Georgia's economy; [...]	2008-09-22 05:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU
08TBILISI1689	RUSSIAN CHECKPOINTS STILL PRESENT, POTENTIALLY [...] (C) Summary and comment. According to the Georgian National Security Council (NSC),13 Russian checkpoints remain on undisputed Georgian territory as of September 23 -- 6 in western Georgia and 7 in the east, outside South Ossetia, along with 1 supply base in the west and 1 communications cen [...]	2008-09-24 14:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR RU GG
08TBILISI1751	GEORGIA: WAR CRIMES ISSUES AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Ambassador-at-Large Clint Williamson visited Georgia September 10-11 to highlight USG concerns over war crimes and ethnic cleansing allegations from the August conflict and to stress the need to hold perpetrators accountable. Williamson frankly told GOG officials t [...]	2008-09-25 14:26:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KAWC RU GG
08TBILISI1793	GEORGIA: VIOLENT INCIDENTS UNDERSCORE FRAGILITY; [...] (C) Summary and comment. Three incidents on September 25 -- a car bombing in Sukhumi that caused damage to buildings, but no injuries, a landmine explosion outside Tskhinvali that killed a 13-year-old boy, and the shooting of a construction worker on the main road between Tbilisi and Gori -- [...]	2008-09-26 14:41:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR RU GG
08TBILISI1810	EU MONITORS ARRIVE IN GEORGIA, PREPARE TO DEPLOY [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. At least 200 monitors will be in Georgia by September 30 and will start work October 1. The headquarters will be in Tbilisi, with satellite offices in Poti (30-40 observers),Zugdidi and Gori (70 monitors each) and a 25-member rapid-reaction force based in Tbilisi. [...]	2008-09-29 15:03:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR RU GG
08TBILISI1834	ARMENIANS IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI EXPRESS SOLIDARITY [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: During the Ambassador's September 10-11 trip to the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, the president's representative to the region and local officials in Akhalkalaki expressed their solidarity with the federal government against Russian aggression. They said there we [...]	2008-10-03 05:23:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1845	GEORGIA NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT ARRIA IN EXCHANGE [...] (S) Summary. Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili told the Ambassador October 3 that Georgia was opposed to inviting de facto Abkhaz and South Ossetian authorities to New York for an Arria-style meeting in exchange for the renewal of UNOMIG. She also asked for United States assistance in convin [...]	2008-10-06 10:11:00	Embassy Tbilisi	SECRET	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI1862	GEORGIA: UPDATE ON THE CURRENT RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Although the Russian Embassy in Georgia officially closed on September 3, 2008, a fairly sizable Russian diplomatic presence remains in Tbilisi. According to press reports, only the Russian consul, two vice-consuls, and a small technical staff have remained behind. There is actually a m [...]	2008-10-07 15:30:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL CVIS RU GG
08TBILISI1868	GEORGIA: RUSSIAN FORCES WITHDRAW [...] (C) Summary and comment. Multiple sources confirm Russian forces withdrew from nearly all remaining posts on undisputed Georgian territory on October 8, two days before the deadline. Russian military and local Georgian officials signed documents transferring the points outside Abkhazia back [...]	2008-10-08 14:42:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI1888	GEORGIA: EU OBSERVER MISSION DISCUSSES POST [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: European Monitoring Mission Head (EUMM) Hansjoerg Haber briefed Ambassadors on October 9 that Russian forces had withdrawn to positions outsid of Georgia proper. Several controversial observation posts remain, with competing claims regarding in which territor [...]	2008-10-10 14:37:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI195	SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Kosovo and the upcoming parliamentary elections will likely dominate your meeting with President Saakashvili at the Wehrkunde conference. Kosovo is nearly certain to be the first issue on Saakashvili's agenda, as he seeks more information about the timing of an independence decl [...]	2008-02-06 13:31:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1982	GEORGIA: A/S FRIED VISITS GORI, CHECKPOINTS [...] (C) Begin Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and the Ambassador visited the Gori Field Office of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM),which conducts patrols to the south and southwest of South Ossetia, October 19. So far, the EUMM has been denied access into South Ossetia [...]	2008-10-24 10:40:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1985	GEORGIA: A/S FRIED MEETS OPPOSITION, BOTH INSIDE [...] (C) Begin Summary: On October 20, Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Ambassador Tefft met with Georgian opposition parliamentarians. The MPs told Fried they were working to help the country through its post-invasion recovery and were pursuing democratic reforms. The group spoke about the A [...]	2008-10-24 12:14:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1987	GEORGIA: IRI NATIONAL VOTER SURVEY: GEORGIANS [...] (C) Summary: The latest USAID-funded International Republican Institute (IRI) poll, based on 1,500 surveys conducted from September 23 to October 1, showed that the August war with Russia dominated the national mood. IRI said the poll showed that Georgians believed that Russian aggression wa [...]	2008-10-24 13:16:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI1988	GEORGIA: LACK OF ACCESS KEEPS HOTSPOTS HOT [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgia has so far avoided major provocations since Russian troops withdrew from most undisputed Georgian territory, but several potential sources of friction remain. Among them are Akhalgori; ongoing tension along the administrative boundaries of South Ossetia and [...]	2008-10-24 15:23:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI2050	GEORGIA: EUMM SEEKS TO FORMALIZE ARRANGEMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) has made some progress in expanding its reach and effectiveness by making initial contact with Russian and South Ossetian authorities, increasing its patrols, and initiating discussions with Georgian authorities on an agreement to pro [...]	2008-11-04 10:20:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI207	SCENESETTER FOR GEO MINDEF DAVIT KEZERASHVILI [...] (C//NF) Summary: Continued U.S. support for Georgia's NATO aspirations and mil-mil cooperation will likely dominate your meeting with Minister of Defense Kezerashvili. The development and reform of the Georgian Armed Forces into a NATO interoperable force is part of the foundation for a Geo [...]	2008-02-08 04:40:00	Embassy Tbilisi	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL RU GG
08TBILISI2071	GEORGIA: LAW ON OCCUPIED TERRITORIES SEEKS TO [...] (C) Summary and comment. The "Law of Georgia on the Occupied Territories" was formally published with President Saakashvili's signature October 30. Georgian parliamentarians and staff described the law as a response to Russian aggression and an effort to prevent degradation of Georgian terri [...]	2008-11-06 13:47:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KBTS RU GG
08TBILISI2118	GEORGIA: EUMM SEEKS CHANGES TO PROPOSED INFO [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: In a November 12 meeting, European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) Head Hansjoerg Haber told the Ambassador he is seeking additional modifications to the proposed Exchange of Information Agreement which is pending signature between the EUMM and the Georgian De [...]	2008-11-13 14:09:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RU GG
08TBILISI2174	GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA, TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two recent encounters with the Abkhaz de facto leadership produced two different perspectives on the current Abkhaz outlook. UN Special Representative Verbeke concluded that the Abkhaz realize they have burned their bridges with most of the international community a [...]	2008-11-21 14:35:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI2190	GEORGIA SIGNS 5 YEAR MOU FOR GAS WITH SOCAR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: After months of discussion, the Georgian government signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SOCAR, the Azerbaijani state oil and gas company, to provide natural gas to Georgia. The agreement will, in principle, take effect on January 1, 2009 follow [...]	2008-11-24 13:55:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU AZ GG
08TBILISI2193	GEORGIA: SHOOTING NEAR PRESIDENTIAL CONVOY [...] (C) Summary and comment. While observing Russian and Ossetian checkpoints on the edge of South Ossetia, Georgian President Saakashvili and Polish President Kaczynski heard gunfire from a seeming short distance away and quickly departed from the area. No one was injured. The motorcade was at [...]	2008-11-24 14:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PL RU GG
08TBILISI2203	GEORGIA: DETAILED ACCOUNT OF SHOOTING NEAR [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. A more comprehensive readout of the November 23 incident at the South Ossetian administrative boundary (see reftel) indicates the motorcade went right up to a combined Russian/Ossetian checkpoint on the administrative boundary of South Ossetia, and the presidents t [...]	2008-11-25 14:45:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MOPS PL RU GG
08TBILISI2213	GEORGIA: DEPUTY FM SAYS OSSETIANS FIRED AT [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria told the diplomatic corps November 26 that South Ossetian de facto spokesperson Irina Gagloyeva noted on the record that Ossetian forces had fired upon the Georgian and Polish Presidents on November 23 (reftel). The interview with Gagloyeva appeared [...]	2008-11-26 14:24:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI2219	GEORGIA: FORMER SAAKASHVILI ALLY ACCUSES TBILISI [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a November 25 appearance before the Parliamentary Commission Investigating the August Conflict, former Georgian Ambassador to Russia Erosi Kitsmarishvili publicly stated his views that Georgia's leaders wanted conflict with Russia and that the United States gave [...]	2008-11-28 14:10:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU
08TBILISI2269	GEORGIA: IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN WITHOUT GOD AND BIBLE [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Orthodox Church is a inherent part of Georgian society and for many, defines what it is to be Georgian. For those who are not ethnic Georgian, this close association threatens disenfranchisement. Most Georgians, even if not fervent parishioners, would not openly [...]	2008-12-08 13:27:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV RU GG
08TBILISI2271	GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA SITUATION UNTENABLE [...] (C) Summary and comment. During December 2-3 meetings in Zugdidi, government officials, EUMM and UNOMIG monitors, and NGO representatives all told the Ambassador that the security situation in and outside Abkhazia is precarious, with frequent violent incidents and provocations. Georgian poli [...]	2008-12-08 13:38:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI2426	GEORGIA: GAS PIPELINE TO TSKHINVALI SERIOUSLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Georgian Oil and Gas Company (GOGC) cannot resume the movement of gas to South Ossetia until unexploded ordnance is cleared and GOGC is given access to repair the gas pipeline which runs from Agara to Tskhinvali and on to Java. GOGC has already repaired all the damage to [...]	2008-12-19 14:19:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL RU GG
08TBILISI2439	GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT ENDORSES INVESTIGATORY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a unanimous vote of 88 to none on December 19, Georgia's Parliament formally endorsed the report and conclusion presented by the ad-hoc Committee to Investigate August Events (ref A). Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze spoke highly of the Committee's work. Opposition Vice- [...]	2008-12-22 14:35:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG
08TBILISI2458	GEORGIA: MILITARY MOVES FROM ABKHAZIA ON THE [...] (C) Summary and comment. The chilly winter air in Georgia is rife with rumors that the Abkhaz and Russians are planning military action in the near future, possibly to annex undisputed Georgian territory north of the Enguri River and establish the river as the "border." Facts on the ground [...]	2008-12-23 12:18:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TBILISI2492	IMPACT OF CLOSING THE OSCE MISSION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. The OSCE Mission to Georgia offers the international community several unique tools in monitoring and facilitating Georgia's democratic, secure and prosperous development. As a monitoring mission, it provides information on the situation on the ground, with a special [...]	2008-12-30 14:28:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS EAID ECON SNAR KBTS RU GG
08TBILISI2495	GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA INCIDENTS: LESS FATAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Although the area around South Ossetia has not seen any conflict-related fatalities since November 17, several recent incidents have caused injuries and shown a brazen attitude by the South Ossetian or Russian perpetrators. Georgian Interior Ministry forces have been the target [...]	2008-12-30 14:56:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG
08TBILISI2498	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) New Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze's first visit to the United States will be an auspicious one, featuring the signing of the US-Georgian Charter on Strategic Partnership. The Georgian government is enthusiastic about the content and timing of the Charter, viewing it as a majo [...]	2008-12-31 10:52:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
08TBILISI277	GEORGIA RESPONDS TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence on February 17, most Georgian leaders, from President Saakashvili to the Patriarch, stated publicly that Kosovo does not constitute a precedent that can be followed by other breakaway regions, including Abkhazia and South [...]	2008-02-19 10:28:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG RU
08TBILISI343	GEORGIA AND RUSSIA CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS TO BREAK [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff met with Deputy Minister of Economic Development Tamara Kovsiridze on February 26. Kovsiridze said an agreement has been reached in principle with the Russians to allow Georgian officials to staff border crossings between Russia and Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhaz [...]	2008-02-29 14:01:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL WTO USTR GG RU
08TBILISI720	GEORGIA FREEZES NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA ON WTO [...] (C) On April 28 the GOG issued a statement to the members of the working party on the accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) wherein it announced that it is temporarily halting its bilateral negotiations with Russia until Russia rescinds the instructions issu [...]	2008-04-30 13:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL WTO USTR GG RU
08TBILISI808	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH GEORGIA MINISTRY OF [...] (C) Summary: EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza met on May 9 in Tbilisi with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) Eka Zguladze and the Head of the MOIA Analytical Department, Shota Utiashvili. On May 12, he met separately with Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili. Bryza [...]	2008-05-16 11:57:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU
08TELAVIV1958	ISRAEL: SEEKING INPUT ON U.S. PLANS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials are seeking input on U.S. plans on the ground in Georgia prior to their interagency examination of a resumption of Israeli military assistance to Georgia. At the same time, Israel is reviewing -- and has approved several -- requests from Tbilisi for military assista [...]	2008-08-27 13:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO RU GG IS
08TELAVIV1959	ISRAEL: SEEKING INPUT ON U.S. PLANS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials are seeking input on U.S. plans on the ground in Georgia prior to their interagency examination of a resumption of Israeli military assistance to Georgia. At the same time, Israel is reviewing -- and has approved several -- requests from Tbilisi for military assista [...]	2008-08-27 13:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO RU GG IS
08TELAVIV2030	MFA DG ABRAMOVICH AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS GEORGIA [...] (S) Summary. The Ambassador and MFA DG Abramovich discussed Georgia September 4. Abramovich said Israel was tracking Western reactions carefully and trying to analyze Russia's objectives. MFA and MOD are reviewing Israeli arms sales to Georgia and he expected approval soon to sell mine cle [...]	2008-09-05 16:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL MASS RU GG IS
08TELAVIV2148	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN: [...] (C) Summary. During a September 15 meeting at the Knesset, Yisrael Beiteinu (YB) Party leader Avigdor Lieberman described to the Ambassador his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other regional issues, his concern over deteriorating U.S.-Russian relations, and his robust political [...]	2008-09-19 15:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IR SY RU IS
08TELAVIV2172	ISRAEL: CAUTIOUS WITH GEORGIA [...] (S) Summary: The GOI is continuing to take a cautious approach in its relations with Georgia. According to MFA Director for Export Controls Roey Gilad, the Israelis continue to review Georgian military assistance requests on a case-by-case basis, and have approved several defensive requests. [...]	2008-09-24 09:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS RU GG IS
08TELAVIV2236	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD DG BUCHRIS: [...] (S) Summary. During a September 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Defense Director General Pinchas Buchris stressed the strategic importance of Israel's relations with the U.S. He said he hoped Iran's nuclear program could be stopped without the use of force, but made clear that Israel wi [...]	2008-09-26 15:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS MASS KPAL LE SY IR RU IS
08TELAVIV2238	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD DG BUCHRIS: [...] (S) Summary. During a September 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Defense Director General Pinchas Buchris stressed the strategic importance of Israel's relations with the U.S. He said he hoped Iran's nuclear program could be stopped without the use of force, but made clear that I [...]	2008-09-29 05:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS MASS KPAL LE SY IR RU IS
08TELAVIV2434	THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH EXPERTS AT THE [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Director Oded Eran and members of the INSS staff October 29. INSS is the premier security studies center, with close links to the Israeli military and intelligence communities. The discussion focused on Isra [...]	2008-11-03 05:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MOPS IR CH RU IS
08TELAVIV2436	THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH EXPERTS AT THE [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Director Oded Eran and members of the INSS staff October 29. INSS is the premier security studies center, with close links to the Israeli military and intelligence communities. The discussion focused on Isra [...]	2008-11-03 07:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MOPS IR CH RU IS
08THEHAGUE141	NETHERLANDS/GEORGIA: RESPONSE ON ABKHAZIA DEMARCHE [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel A points to MFA Deputy Political Director Wim Geerts on February 15. Geerts noted that the GONL was aware of Russian machinations in Georgia. But as long as it was kept to a "war of words," he thought the Russian argument would do more to annoy than actually prove [...]	2008-02-15 12:49:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU YI NL
08THEHAGUE793	NETHERLANDS/NATO/RUSSIA: KEEP COMMUNICATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-24 07:35:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL GG RU NL
08THESSALONIKI63	PM KARAMANLIS: STAY THE COURSE ON REFORMS, NO EARLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In his annual speech on economic policy at the Thessaloniki Trade Fair, PM Karamanlis promised to continue implementing the GoG's reform agenda, despite the global economic crisis and lack of public enthusiasm. Greece needs to reform its ineffective public sector, further reduce [...]	2008-09-10 07:06:00	Consulate Thessaloniki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAIR PREL MK RU GG GR
08TOKYO1221	FUKUDA-PUTIN SUMMIT AVOIDS DISCUSSION OF MISSILE [...] (C) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dimitry Medvedev avoided raising Russian concerns about Japan's ballistic missile defense (BMD) system and United States-Japan BMD cooperation during Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's April 25-26 Moscow Summit. Japanese officials " [...]	2008-05-02 11:50:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM ENRG JA RU
08TOKYO2138	JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER FUKUDA SEES A "MORE [...] (C) In a meeting with the U.S. and Japanese astronauts from NASA's recent Space Station 124 mission, Prime Minister Fukuda, after exchanging pleasantries, brought up Russia. The Prime Minister asked the astronauts about their experience working with Russia, which they replied was very good, n [...]	2008-08-05 05:08:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JA RU
08TOKYO2274	JAPAN ANNOUNCES GEORGIA ASSISTANCE, IS CONSIDERING [...] (C) Summary: Japan will provide USD one million in humanitarian assistance to Georgia, the composition of which will be determined by the content of an upcoming UN appeal. Japan continues to call on Russia to abide by its cease-fire with Georgia and to withdraw from Georgian territory "outside [...]	2008-08-18 08:21:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR GG RU JA
08TOKYO2287	AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA ON AFGHANISTAN, NORTH [...] (S) Japan's failure to extend its Indian Ocean refueling operations in support of OEF would be a shock to the United States and others in the coalition whose forces are in harm's way in Afghanistan, and would marginalize Japan internationally, the Ambassador told Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka [...]	2008-08-19 08:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS PINR ETRD EAID EAGR RU IN GG
08TOKYO2363	GEORGIA: RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION "REGRETTABLE" [...] (C) In discussing reftel points with Embassy Tokyo August 28, MOFA Caucasus Division Director Shigeyuki Shimamori echoed FM Koumura's statement August 27 that Russia's unilateral recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia contravenes international efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conf [...]	2008-08-28 07:46:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG JA
08TOKYO2366	METI EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT DUAL USE LICENSE FOR [...] (S) METI Export Controls Deputy Director Atsushi Tanizawa delivered the following nonpaper in English August 27 and requested any USG response by September 12, the ministry's deadline to approve or deny the license request. Begin Text: We really appreciate your cooperation with us. We ha [...]	2008-08-28 07:59:00	Embassy Tokyo	SECRET	ETTC KOMC RU JA
08TOKYO2439	GEORGIA: JAPANESE COMMUNISTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST [...] (C) The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) is "deeply concerned" by and "rejects" Russia's "hegemonic actions" in Georgia, calls on Russia to pull its troops out of Georgia and demands that Russia withdraw its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, JCP Diet member Akira Kasai told Embassy Toky [...]	2008-09-05 07:54:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU JA
08TOKYO2733	JAPANESE ATTITUDES ON BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese business sentiment toward economic opportunities in Russia remains cautious. Japanese business and government interests note concerns about the risks of doing business in Russia, continued uncertainty following Russia's invasion of Georgia, problems with the transport of [...]	2008-09-30 22:58:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV ENRG PREL RU JA
08TOKYO328	FUKUDA-PUTIN PERSONAL LETTERS AIM TO PUT [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently exchanged personal letters in which both sides agreed to move Tokyo-Moscow relations to a "higher dimension," Foreign Ministry and Russian Embassy contacts tell Embassy Tokyo. Foreign Minister Masahiko Koum [...]	2008-02-07 08:20:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA RU
08TOKYO366	JAPAN PROTESTS INCURSION BY RUSSIAN BOMBER [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura delivered a "severe protest" to Russian authorities over the February 9 incursion by a Russian Tu-95 strategic "Bear" bomber into Japanese airspace, Foreign Ministry officials tell Embassy Tokyo. Tokyo officials provided Moscow with coordinates [...]	2008-02-12 09:08:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA RU
08TOKYO517	JAPAN TO MONITOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Japanese observers will monitor the March 2 Russian presidential election at the invitation of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC),Japanese Foreign Ministry and Russian Embassy diplomats informed Embassy Tokyo on February 27. The three-member delegation, consisting of officials [...]	2008-02-27 05:41:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JA RU
08TOKYO586	INPEX OFFICIAL DISCUSSES AZADEGAN, CHINA SOVEREIGN [...] (C) Press reports regarding Iran's pumping 20,000 barrels per day from the Japanese-invested Azadegan oil fields are misleading, Inpex Investor Relations Group Manager Hiroshi Ikeda told Econoff February 28. Iran is using seven very old wells that have not been well maintained, Ikeda said, and [...]	2008-03-05 09:22:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG JA PREL RU
08TOKYO643	LITTLE CHANGE IN JAPAN-RUSSIA RELATIONS UNDER [...] (C) Japanese Foreign Ministry, Russian Embassy Tokyo, and Japanese academic experts see little chance Russian President-elect Dmitriy Medvedev will make significant changes in Japan-Russia relations. Outgoing President Vladimir Putin's expected central role in conducting international affairs [...]	2008-03-11 23:00:00	Embassy Tokyo	SECRET	PREL PGOV JA RU
08TOKYO712	EMBASSY TOKYO CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY [...] (U) Ambassador Schieffer hosted on March 4 Embassy Tokyo's first-ever event in honor of International Women's Day. More than 180 women, including Japanese Diet members, government officials, academics, members of the press and female diplomats from 25 nations, attended the inaugural event. Gu [...]	2008-03-17 08:30:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL JA CH RU
08TOKYO960	AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) Recent incidents involving U.S. servicemen have highlighted the need for the United States and Japan to make efforts to strengthen grassroots public support for and understanding of our alliance's strategic importance, the Ambassador told VFM Yabunaka on April 8. While VFM Yabunaka agreed [...]	2008-04-08 09:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RU CH JA
08TRIPOLI340	DEBT, NUCLEAR ENERGY, AND GOLF CARTS: PUTIN VISITS LIBYA REF: (A) MOSCOW 1133, (B) TRIPOLI 321, (C) TRIPOLI 297 [...] (C) Summary. After years of preparation, Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by 400 assistants, journalists and business executives in six planes, visited Libya on April 16-17 primarily to secure an agreement on Libya's sizeable Soviet-era debt. Libya and Russia agreed to swap the $4.5 bi [...]	2008-04-24 16:47:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PHUM LY RU
08TRIPOLI374	LIBYA'S NSC SOLICITS U.S. VIEWS ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION & LETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT SALES REF: A) TRIPOLI 340, B) TRIPOLI 372 [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-08 14:11:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ETTC KNNP MASS PINR TRGY LY RU FR
08ULAANBAATAR226	MONGOLIAN MILITARY WELCOMES RUSSIAN HARDWARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest sign of closer relations between Mongolia and Russia, the Mongolian Armed Forces have reorganized their Peace Support Battalion (PSB) structure to reflect the planned arrival, starting in 2009, of at least 40 Russian BRT-80 armored personnel carriers. The diesel-pow [...]	2008-05-19 02:46:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV ECON MG RU
08UNVIEVIENNA662	WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: PLENARY REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The December 2-3 Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary was notable for its smooth pace and lack of controversy. The U.S. was successful in thwarting Russian efforts to use the Plenary as a venue to decry Georgian "aggression." The Plenary adopted the 53 list changes proposed by the Expe [...]	2008-12-19 13:39:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM RU
08USNATO251	JULY EAPC: OSCE BRIEF, UNSCR 1325, DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: During their July 9 meeting, EuroAtlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Ambassadors exchanged views with OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, covering issues such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Georgia. The EAPC also received a briefing on defense education and training fr [...]	2008-07-17 10:03:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO AORC AM AJ RU GG SW FI AF
08USNATO274	NATO PRESS STATEMENT ON EVENTS IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer released a statement on developments in South Ossetia early August 8. Text of the statement follows: "The NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, is seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of South Ossetia [...]	2008-08-08 11:29:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NATO MOPS GG RU
08USNATO276	NATO STRUGGLES TO REACT TO SOUTH OSSETIA FIGHTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the crisis situation in Georgia unfolded on August 8, NATO Allies and the International Staff struggled with how to respond. While the possibility of an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) was briefly discussed, NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer does not supp [...]	2008-08-08 14:16:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR NATO MOPS GG RU
08USNATO293	TFGG01: TEXT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL [...] (U) The North Atlantic Council released the following statement following its August 19 Special Ministerial to address the ongoing crisis in Georgia. Begin text of statement: STATEMENT BY THE NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL AT THE LEVEL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS 19th AUGUST 2008 Â [...]	2008-08-19 16:51:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NATO MOPS GG RU
08USNATO294	TFGG01: TEXT OF THE INITIAL NATO SUPPORT PACKAGE [...] (SBU) The North Atlantic Council (NAC) meeting at ministerial level on August 19 approved the following package of measures in response to the ongoing crisis in Georgia. This constitutes an initial reply to Georgia's August 12 formal request for assistance in eight specific areas (reftel). Th [...]	2008-08-19 16:51:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU
08USNATO307	UKRAINE TO NATO - RUSSIA THREATENS THE REGION [...] (C) Summary: At Kyiv's request the NATO-Ukraine Commission met August 27 to discuss Russia's intervention in Georgia and its implications for regional security. Deputy FM Konstyantyn Yeliseyev delivered a stark analysis of Ukraine's own relationship with Russia, and related Moscow's threats to [...]	2008-08-28 18:01:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU
08USNATO310	UKRAINE TO NATO - RUSSIA THREATENS THE REGION [...] (C) Summary: At Kyiv's request the NATO-Ukraine Commission met August 27 to discuss Russia's intervention in Georgia and its implications for regional security. Deputy FM Konstyantyn Yeliseyev delivered a stark analysis of Ukraine's own relationship with Russia, and related Moscow's threats to [...]	2008-08-29 08:21:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU UP
08USNATO314	RUSSIA THROWS ITS WEIGHT AROUND IN THE EAPC [...] (C) Summary: The EAPCs first meeting after the summer break featured Georgian protests about Russian action and a Russian response made memorable by a claim that, if the Russian response had been proportionate, "Tbilisi would now lie in ruins." Russia announced it has withdrawn from the PfP SOFA. T [...]	2008-09-02 17:12:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU UP SP BO SR
08USNATO352	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL VISIT TO TBILISI [...] (C) Summary: The North Atlantic Council (NAC) visited Georgia September 15-16 to take stock following Russia's invasion of Georgia, to reaffirm support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to strengthen NATO-Georgia relations (including by inaugurating the NATO-Georgia Comm [...]	2008-09-30 17:49:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU
08USNATO41	KREMLIN KEEPS AMB ROGOZIN ON A SHORT LEASH IN HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian nationalist politician-turned-diplomat Dmitri Rogozin launched into a lengthy litany of Russian grievances on missile defense (MD),NATO enlargement, CFE, and Kosovo at his first NATO-Russia Council meeting on January 30, albeit in a more measured tone than in his recent [...]	2008-02-04 11:12:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR RU
08USNATO434	UKRAINIAN FM TO NATO - GIVE US MAP OR RUSSIA WINS [...] (C) Summary: Ukrainian FM Ogryzko briefed the NATO-Ukraine Commission on November 19. He called on Allies to provide the Membership Action Plan (MAP) to his country in order to strengthen the forces of democracy in Ukraine, and dissuade Russia from further destabilizing actions. Some Allied [...]	2008-11-20 18:46:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF RU UP
08USNATO49	NATO-RUSSIA 2008 WORK PROGRAM APPROVED [...] (SBU) NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Perm Reps approved the NRC 2008 Work Program under a brief silence on February 7 and NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer welcomed it during the informal session of NRC Defense Ministers on February 8. Post wishes to express it appreciation to EUR/RPM desk o [...]	2008-02-08 13:26:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO PREL MARR RU
08USNATO91	NRC: RUSSIA CHIDED KFOR AND ISAF WHILE OFFERING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian Ambassador Dmitriy Rogozin accused KFOR of overstepping its bounds in Kosovo and called for impartiality and strict adherence to KFOR's UNSCR 1244 mandate in the February 27 NATO-Russia Council (NRC). Ambassador Nuland, other Allies, and NATO Secretary General (SYG) de Ho [...]	2008-03-10 16:15:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR PTER RU
08USOSCE132	GEORGIA/OSCE/RUSSIA: COMPREHENSIVE OSCE TOOLBOX TO [...] (C) Summary: With the increase in tensions between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia, we understand that Washington is developing new proposals aimed at stabilizing the situation and eventually resolve the conflict (See Ref A). In this context, we believe that the OSCE has a number of tools w [...]	2008-05-16 15:22:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL OSCE GG RU
08USOSCE148	GEORGIA/RUSSIA/OSCE: RUSSIA STONEWALLS AT VIENNA [...] (SBU) Summary: To address tensions between Georgia and Russia, the Finnish CiO convened three back-to-back meetings in Vienna on June 4 at the request of both Georgia and Russia. This was the first ever invocation of the Vienna Document 1999(VD99) Chapter III Risk Reduction mechanism. In a [...]	2008-06-04 15:25:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM OSCE PREL GG RU
08USOSCE156	OSCE FSC/PC: RUSSIA AND GEORGIA AGAIN EXCHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of three Joint FSC-PC meetings held on June 11 in response to requests by Georgia and Russia to further address tensions based on recent events in Abkhazia, both sides traded now familiar accusations on Abkhazia. Russia categorically denied its involvement in the [...]	2008-06-12 09:37:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG GG RU
08USUNNEWYORK721	TOUGH DAY FOR RUSSIA IN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 00:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RU GG UNSC
08USUNNEWYORK757	ABKHAZ/OSSETIAN PARTICIPATION IN UNSC MEETING ON [...] (C) Russian Ambassador Churkin has proposed holding a Security Council session in Europe, as was done years ago by the General Assembly for Yassar Arafat, if the United States refuses to provide visas to representatives of Abkhaz and South Ossetian separatists to appear at a future meeting of [...]	2008-08-21 20:12:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RU GG
08USUNNEWYORK760	TFGG01: RUSSIA TESTS UNSC WATERS ON GEORGIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian PermRep Churkin hastily called for Security Council consultations on Georgia this afternoon during which he announced that he was formally putting Russia's draft resolution before the Council "into blue," a procedural move that would allow but not require a vote on the res [...]	2008-08-22 03:03:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU UNSC
08VATICAN63	RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: HOLY SEE FOCUSED ON CIVILIANS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Holy See is very concerned about the conflict in Georgia, and in particular about the needs of civilians affected by the fighting. The Pope has publicly addressed these concerns in recent statements. The Holy See has not been asked to mediate in the conflict. End summary [...]	2008-08-22 16:24:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF RU GG VT
08VATICAN64	(SBU) HOLY SEE NOT CONSIDERING RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Pol Chief delivered reftel A demarche to Monsignor Julio Murat, Director for the Caucasus at the Holy See Secretariat of State Second Section (MFA equivalent),on August 29. Murat stated that the Holy See is not considering recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 2. (SBU) Comme [...]	2008-08-29 15:44:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF RU GG VT
08VIENNA1162	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIANS PRIOR TO EU GAERC ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Charge and Polchief discussed reftel points August 12 with Ralph Scheide, Acting MFA Poldir. Charge emphasized that the U.S. and EU should deliver a strong, consistent message regarding the Georgia conflict. The U.S. and EU needed to make it clear that they support Georgia's sovereignty [...]	2008-08-12 16:07:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG AU
08VIENNA1216	RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: AUSTRIA SHARPLY CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Austrian FonMin Plassnik has delivered a sharply worded statement on Russia's invasion of Georgia, concluding that "business as usual" was not an option. The MFA official responsible for the Caucasus, however, was unsure of what that meant in practice and indicated that the MFA [...]	2008-08-22 08:36:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU GG EUN AU
08VIENNA1240	AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH [...] (C) Acting Econ/Pol Couns discussed reftel A points August 28 with Franz-Josef Kuglitsch, MFA director for the South Caucasus and Southeast Europe. Kuglitsch acknowledged that he was "shocked" by the Russian decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia. MFA officials had been convinced th [...]	2008-08-28 10:25:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AU
08VIENNA1247	EMBASSY ACTION TO BLOCK AUSTRIA-RUSSIA GAS [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Embassy has learned that an Austrian Economics Ministry delegation is likely to travel to Moscow on Sept. 8 for negotiations on an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) on Austrian participation in the South Stream gas pipeline project. Embassy believes this step [...]	2008-08-29 15:32:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG RU GG AU
08VIENNA1259	AUSTRIA UNLIKELY TO CANCEL SOUTH STREAM PIPELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Austrian government representatives admit the timing is poor but appear unlikely to cancel or postpone official talks in Moscow next week on participation in the South Stream gas pipeline. Only the addition of significant pressure from EU partners is likely to move the GOA from i [...]	2008-09-02 15:57:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG AU RU GG
08VIENNA1263	AUSTRIA POSTPONES SOUTH STREAM TALKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-03 14:52:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG AU RU GG

08VIENNA1264	AUSTRIAN VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-03 14:53:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU AU

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