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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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00KINSHASA8356DHRF FY 2001 FUNDING REQUEST
[...] EMBASSY KINSHASA REQUESTS $131,100 FOR SEVEN SMALL DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND (DHRF) PROJECTS IN FY 2001, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL $15,000 FOR UNIDENTIFIED PROJECTS, BRINGING THE TOTAL REQUEST TO $146,100. THE LUSAKA PEACE PROCESS, INCLUDING PLANS FOR AN INTER-CONGOLESE DIALOGUE, HAVE BEEN UND [...]
2000-12-15 07:28:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM EAID XA CG
00KINSHASA8357DHRF ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT -- FY 2000
[...] THIS IS EMBASSY KINSHASA'S ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT FOR THE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND (DHRF). EMBASSY'S FUNDING REQUEST FOR 2001 PROJECTS FOLLOWS SEPTEL. 2. POST REQUESTS THAT THE DEPARTMENT CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CONGO WHEN EVALUATING RECENT DHRF PROJECTS [...]
2000-12-15 07:29:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM EAID XA CG
00KINSHASA8421FY'01 AFRP: IV NOMINATION - "WOMEN AND THE LAW", MARCH 19 - APRIL 6, 2001
[...] No summary [...]
2000-12-19 15:05:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL XA
01ABUJA1011OBASANJO ON NIGERIA'S ROLE IN AFRICA
[...] (C) Nigeria's President Obasanjo will visit Washington May 10-12, 2001. Over breakfast on May 5, Obasanjo told Ambassador Jeter that he knew he was in many respects representing Africa on the visit. This was a heavy responsibility that he took seriously. Obasanjo commented that he planned [...]
2001-05-07 14:49:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL OVIP NI XA
01ABUJA1264NIGERIAN DEMARCHE ON UNGASS RESOLUTION ON HIV/AIDS
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding Cuba trade embargo language in the HIV/AIDS draft resolution the morning of June 1. Minister-Counsellor Katherine Jackden, UN 2nd Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is handling UNGASS preparations, received the demarche. Ms. Jackden ag [...]
2001-06-01 18:16:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL XA IO TBIO NI UNGA
01ABUJA2404NIGERIA SECURITY AND STABILITY ASSESSMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The likelihood of ethnic or religious unrest in Nigeria in the wake of an eventual U.S. response to the September 11 acts of terror is high. Such unrest would not necessarily be targeted at American individuals or institutions, but American lives and property could be ar risk. [...]
2001-09-21 10:43:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC PTER XA
01ABUJA2421NIGERIA SECURITY AND STABILITY ASSESSMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The likelihood of ethnic or religious unrest in Nigeria in the wake of an eventual U.S. response to the September 11 acts of terror is high. Such unrest would not necessarily be targeted at American individuals or institutions, but American lives and property could be at risk. [...]
2001-09-22 13:52:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC PTER XA
01ABUJA2449AFRICAN MINISTERS DISMAYED BY FORUM POSTPONEMENT
[...] African trade ministers participating in the September 22-23 Organization of African unity (OAU) meeting in Abuja, Nigeria nearly unanimously told the delegation led by Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Africa Rosa Whitaker they wanted the United States to hold the US-Sub-Saharan [...]
2001-09-25 16:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID XA
01ABUJA2687NIGERIA: NSA MOHAMMED EAGER ABOUT SUDAN, PERPLEXED
[...] (C) Summary: During an October 16 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, NSA Aliyu Mohammed stated that Nigeria, actively engaged on Sudan, would host a "3-in-1" conference ultimately bringing together the Southern factions, Northern opposition and Bashir Government negotiators around one conference [...]
2001-10-20 08:21:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU CG XA NI
01ABUJA2759NIGERIA: SPECIAL ADVISOR BUGAJE HOLDS HIGH
[...] (C) Summary: During a brief October 22 meeting, Presidential Special Advisor Usman Bugaje said the November 12-17 conference on Sudan was on track. He described the "3-in-1" conference where the Southern and Northern groups would first meet separately, then join in an all parties session. H [...]
2001-10-29 14:42:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU XA NI IGAD
01BANJUL854GAMBIAN MUSLIMS: MAJORITY IGNORE BIN LADEN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: WITH A FEW NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS, GAMBIAN MUSLIMS (95% OF THE POPULATION) SUPPORT THE U.S. AND ARE UNLIKELY TO HEED THE CALL OF ANTI- AMERICAN ISLAMIC RADICALS. END SUMMARY. 2. (S) THE MEDIA: POST IS NOT AWARE OF ANY MEDIA OUTLETS WITH A RADICAL ISLAMIC EDITORIAL POLICY. THE STAT [...]
2001-10-15 15:04:00Embassy BanjulSECRETPTER PINR XA GA
01LUSAKA2636 (U) OAU SUMMIT ENDS: ESSY SWORN IN AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: THE OAU SUMMIT CLOSED MID-AFTERNOON JULY 11 IN LUSAKA. 41 HEADS OF STATE OR QOVERNMENT ATTENDED; WITHOUT QUESTION, LIBYA'S MOAMMAR QADHAFI WAS THE STAR OF THE SHOW. THE SUMMIT LEADERS ISSUED AN EGREGIOUSLY IMBALANCED DECISION ON LOCKERBIE THAT HAD ORIGINALLY B [...]
2001-07-11 17:45:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL XA IS LY ZI UK
02ABUJA3100NIGERIA: POLITICAL PEER REVIEW ENDORSED AT NEPAD'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted a NEPAD Head of State Implementation Committee (HSIC) meeting November 3. Nigeria's NEPAD coordinator, Ambassador Aluko-Olokun, briefed Abuja-resident G-8 diplomats November 4, that the HSIC endorsed voluntary peer review as "critical [...]
2002-11-14 07:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV XA NI
02ADDISABABA2418(C) COUNTER-TERRORISM: COOPERATING WITH AFRICAN
[...] (C) ACTION REQUEST - SEE PARAGRAPH 4. 2. (C) REF A SOLICITED IDEAS ON HOW TO PROMOTE COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION WITH REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. LAST NOVEMBER, REF B FORWARDED AN INFORMAL PROPOSAL BY OAU ASST. SECGEN FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS SAID DJINNIT TO CONVENE A MEETING OF OFFICIALS FRO [...]
2002-07-12 11:48:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL OAU XA
02AMMAN6073DROC PRESIDENT KABILA'S VISIT TO JORDAN
[...] (S) DROC President Joseph Kabila paid an official visit to Jordan September 16-18. The visit entailed the usual meetings and official functions. Kabila enjoyed a short visit to the seaport of Aqaba as the King,s guest. We saw nothing remarkable to report -- except that Jordan seemed an u [...]
2002-10-20 13:31:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL XA ZF CF JO
02AMMAN6157KING ABDULLAH PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFO ON DROC
[...] (S) During an October 19 dinner with visiting NEA A/S Burns, King Abdullah again raised the September 16-18 visit to Jordan of DROC President Joseph Kabila. The King said "Kabila came to see me mostly about how to create a channel to the British but also to the Americans." The King said he h [...]
2002-10-23 05:10:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL XA ZF XW CF JO SU LY
02STATE218172UN PROGRAMS: WHAT WORKS; WHAT DOESN'T?
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. THE UNITED NATIONS (UN),IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RECENTLY AGREED RESOLUTION (TEXT IN PARAGRAPH 4),WILL ORIENT ITS SUPPORT FOR AFRICA AROUND THE THEMES AND PRIORITIES OF THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD). THE SECRETARY GENER [...]
2002-11-01 16:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID XA UNGA ECON
03ABUJA1339THE ABUJA SULLIVAN SUMMIT WAS A SUCCESS
[...] Summary: The Sixth Leon H. Sullivan Summit, convened July 12-17 in Abuja was momentous and successful. The overarching Summit theme was "Africa: A Continent of Possibilities" and the week lived up to its name. President Bush, the first Republican President to visit Africa, made a historic a [...]
2003-08-07 09:16:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL SOCI EINV XA NI
03ABUJA1516POLITICAL ISLAM: NIGERIA SNAPSHOT
[...] (C) Reftel questions appear to pertain primarily to countries with active Islamist political parties or NGOs, and Nigeria does not fit neatly into these cookie-cutter categories. Nigeria has no national parties or groups that pursue policies consistent with the definition of Political Islam [...]
2003-09-04 14:16:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PHUM XF XA XG NI
03ABUJA746NIGERIA: OVERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the ruling PDP the major victor in the April 19 and April 12 elections. However, echoing reports of several observers, President Obasanjo's political opponents allege massive irregularities. The GON is striking back wit [...]
2003-04-24 17:00:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM PREL NI US EU XA
03ABUJA946 Abuja NePAD Summit and Evian G-8: Africans
[...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's NePAD guru says Africans uneasy about expanding G-8 dialogue to other developing countries and limiting discussion to growth and international cooperation. The Africans also want the G-8 to break market-access "gridlock" in Geneva. Abuja NePAD Summit set for afternoon [...]
2003-05-28 11:58:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN EAID NI XA
03AMMAN4827POLITICAL ISLAM IN JORDAN: OPPOSITION MOSTLY FROM
[...] (C) Political Islam is a mostly moderate force in Jordanian society. By far, the most important Islamic organization in Jordan is the Muslim Brotherhood, and then its political arm, the Islamic Action Front. There are no other Islamic groups in the country that match the MB/IAF in influence a [...]
2003-08-03 14:21:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PHUM XF XA XG
03LAGOS1535 NIGERIA: DELTA KIDNAPPING THREATENS OIL
[...] Summary: A Nigerian white collar worker for Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (subsidiary of Chevron/Texaco) and member of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) was kidnapped outside his home on July 25 by a rogue group of armed Ijaw youths. The kidnapping is the latest in a [...]
2003-07-31 14:50:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EPET ENRG ECON CASC PGOV PINR PINS PTER NI XA XY
03LAGOS1870NIGERIA: USITC STUDY ON U.S. - SUB-SAHARAN
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Nigeria is pleased to provide the following information in response to reftel. -------------------------------------------- DEVELOPMENTS IN NIGERIAN ECONOMIC, TRADE AND INVESTMENT POLICIES -------------------------------------------- 2. (U) In August 2003, the GON un [...]
2003-09-05 16:28:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN NI XA
03ROME5369 ITALY ON EU-AFRICA TROIKA: PEACE AND SECURITY,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE RECENT EU-AFRICA MINISTERIAL TROIKA IDENTIFIED PEACE AND SECURITY AS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY FOR THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, COMMITTED TO THE CREATION OF A PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION FACILITY (PSOF),WELCOMED THE RE-INITIATION OF THE EU-ZIMBABWE DIALOGUE AND COMMITTED BOTH SIDES TO IM [...]
2003-11-26 13:16:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO XA ZI IT EUN
03VATICAN3387ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES JULY 17 VATICAN MEETINGS
[...] (C) VATICAN ACTING FM MONSIGNOR PIETRO PAROLIN TOLD A/S BETH JONES JULY 17 THAT THE HOLY SEE WAS FIRMLY BEHIND THE ROAD MAP, AND HAD APPEALED TO ISRAELI FM SHALOM TO REFRAIN FROM RETALIATION. A/S JONES URGED THE HOLY SEE TO HELP STRENGTHEN ABU MAZEN'S POSITION. THE HOLY SEE REITERATED ITS CO [...]
2003-07-25 11:02:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON TU VT XA RS
04BRUSSELS1274TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA HIGHLIGHT
[...] (U) Summary. Major topics of discussion at the transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR),held March 10 in Brussels, included: support to peacekeeping and conflict prevention activities, including the EU's proposed Africa Peace Facility and U.S. support to ECOWAS through EUCOM; political [...]
2004-03-25 10:54:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2593MANY EU SUMMIT FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
[...] (C) During the EU Summit June 17-18 in Brussels, EU sources tell us EU leaders will approve a range of pre-cooked decisions on a broad range of foreign policy topics so that they can focus on Constitutional Treaty negotiations and top-level appointments (septel). EU leaders are expected to en [...]
2004-06-17 15:52:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID XA XF TU HR RO BG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3989TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA: EU AND U.S.
[...] (U) Summary. The September 8 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (strengthening MONUC, protecting refugees, supporting internal and regional dialogues),Sudan (calibrating pressure on the government, strengthening the AU role, meeting humanita [...]
2004-09-20 09:38:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4602EU INCREASES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR AU MISSION IN
[...] (C) Summary. The European Commission is set to approve 80 million euros from its Africa Peace Facility (APF) to support an expanded deployment of the African Union (AU) mission in Darfur, Sudan. EU financial support for the mission will exceed fifty percent of the total. Although the decis [...]
2004-10-26 05:41:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU SO XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04DJIBOUTI1168Djibouti Speaks Out on Darfur
[...] (U) The state run newspaper, La Nation, yesterday published a story saying that the Republic of Djibouti will support the Government of Sudan until the Darfur crisis is resolved. The story indicated that the Sudan situation is improving and that progress is being made at the Abuja conference. [...]
2004-09-02 08:55:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPRC KMDR KPAO US XA
04DJIBOUTI1222AFRICA PARTNERSHIP FORUM: INVITATION TO IGAD
[...] (U) Ambassador met September 20 with Dr. Attalla Hamad Bashir, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD),to present AF Assistant Secretary Newman's invitation to him to attend the October SIPDIS 3-5 meeting in Washington of the Africa Partnership Forum. D [...]
2004-09-20 13:19:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON OTRA DJ XY ZF ZU XW XA
04KINSHASA1971DEMARCHE TO GDRC ON SADC POSITION ON HUMAN CLONING
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Djoli Eseng Ekeli, Deputy Cabinet Director to FonMin Ramazani, on October 22, 2004. Ekeli indicated that the GDRC maintained its support for the U.S. co-sponsored Costa Rican resolution calling for a convention to ban all human cloning. He explained that [...]
2004-10-22 12:24:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO XA CG UNGA KSCI
04MAPUTO338SYGSR SWING BRIEFS ON CHISSANO MEETING
[...] On March 8, Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador William Swing called on Ambassador to brief on his meeting in Maputo with President Chissano and the current situation of the MONUC in DRC with sixteen months until the planned June 2005 elections. 2. Ambassador Swing told us [...]
2004-03-12 08:56:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS PREF CG XA ZF MZ SF UG BY UN
04PARIS9130FRANCE AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the first of several messages reviewing France's relations with Africa. The southern African region currently attracts less French attention than any other region of Africa. With no francophone countries, and only one country currently engaged in conflict (Angola, at muc [...]
2004-12-27 14:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AO BC LT MI MZ WA SF WZ ZA ZI ZU XA FR
04PARIS9133FRANCE AND EAST AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. France's principal long-term concern in East Africa is the management of its relations with Djibouti where it maintains a large permanent military presence. The crisis in Darfur has prompted a more active French policy with regard to Sudan, but it remains largely a "Chad problem" [...]
2004-12-27 14:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM DJ ER ET KE SO SU TZ UG XW XA FR
04PARIS9145FRANCE AND THE INDIAN OCEAN STATES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The standoff in 2002 between Marc Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka following the disputed election in Madagascar was a serious political crisis for the government of France, exposing divisions between the MFA and the presidency. With the crisis resolved, France's attention to t [...]
2004-12-28 10:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CN MA MP SE XW XA FR
04PARIS9146FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (SOUTH)
[...] (C) SUMMARY. France continues to seek solutions for the crisis in the Great Lakes through policies designed to support DRC President Kabila and the transition process and to block Rwandan interference in Congolese affairs. France's history in the Rwandan genocide complicates their ability to [...]
2004-12-28 10:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM BY CF CG CT EK GB RW TP ZF XA
04PARIS9167FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (NORTH)
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Chad, where France maintains a permanent miltary presence, and the Central African Republic (CAR),where France is supporting military and economic reform are key countries for France's Africa policy. The crisis in Darfur has caused concern in France about additional threats to [...]
2004-12-29 11:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CM CT CH ZF XA FR
04PRETORIA3480USITC STUDY ON U.S.-SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN TRADE AND
[...] This cable responds to Reftel A request for post's input for the fifth annual USITC study on AGOA. A. Major developments in host country economic, trade and/or investment policies, or U.S. policies directly affecting host country --------------------------------------------- --------------- [...]
2004-08-02 07:08:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID XA SF AGOA USTR
04PRETORIA3543USITC STUDY ON U.S.-SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN TRADE AND
[...] This cable provides supplementary information on reftel A that provided post's input for the fifth annual USITC study on AGOA. B. - Developments in major regional groupings (COMESA, EC, ECOWAS, IGAD, SACU, SADC, WAEMU, IOC, and CEMAC) (where applicable) -------------------------------------- [...]
2004-08-04 14:20:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID XA SF AGOA USTR
04PRETORIA4098INPUT FOR AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA
[...] (SBU) South Africa has continued to make progress in establishing a market-based economy, respecting the rule of law, implementing policies to reduce poverty, and combating corruption. There is a strong case to be made that South Africa is meeting the eligibility requirements of the African Gr [...]
2004-09-10 12:07:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL XA SF
04PRETORIA4689 AMBASSADOR MEETS DTI MINISTER ON FTA AND BEE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Frazer discussed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations and raised U.S. concerns about Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) in her meeting with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Minister Mpaphlwa on October 19. She underscored U.S. goals for a comprehensive F [...]
2004-10-25 07:55:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL XA SF
04ROME1340 FAO Twenty-Third Africa Regional Conference
[...] (SBU) Summary: The subject conference was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1 - 5, 2004, and was attended by USDA U/S Eric Bost and staff, by Ambassador Mattie Sharpless, and by Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome DCM Michael Cleverley and Agricultural Minister Counselor. Conference h [...]
2004-04-05 14:35:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KUNR EAID EAGR ETRD KHIV XA FAO
04ROME1781 World Food Program Discussions with Libya on
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-07 05:18:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID ELTN XA CD SU WFP
04ROME2371 Further World Food Program Discussions with
[...] (SBU) WFP received a letter dated June 14 from Mohamed Fakheri El-Kreikshi, Director-General of the Economic Department, regarding the agreement of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with WFP's request for a waiver for all taxes and fees applicable to WFP cargo in transit. Libya's letter seeks confirm [...]
2004-06-18 13:16:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID ELTN XA CD SU WFP
04ROME3862G8 SUMMIT COMMITMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
[...] Summary. USUN-Rome organized a panel discussion entitled, "Planting the Seeds for Africa's Future: G8 Partnerships to Raise Agricultural Productivity Through Capacity Building," on Sept. 21 in the margins of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on World Food Security (CFS). [...]
2004-10-05 15:33:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID AORC ETRD KPAO KSUM XA FAO
04ROME4673USUN-ROME CAPTURES GLOBAL AUDIENCE ON POSITIVE
[...] Summary. Facing off in a world media environment dominated by themes like Iraq and terrorism, USUN-Rome mounted a month-long blitz that promoted a positive American story. The Ambassador's tour through Sudan and Libya, coupled with several local successes in Rome, focused world media attenti [...]
2004-12-09 13:47:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP
04THEHAGUE281DUTCH FM BOT'S VISIT TO THE U.S.
[...] (C) I just spoke with Ben Bot and found him well-prepared for his February 9 visit to Washington. He plans to ask how he personally can contribute to improved transatlantic relations. As he has said in press interviews, other European leaders are counting on him to help mend fences between the Euro [...]
2004-02-04 12:24:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAF EU IZ NL PGOV PREL SNAR TU XA XF XH NATO
04TRIPOLI27(C) BULGARIAN MEDICS UPDATE
[...] (C) Status of Medics: The five Bulgarian medics sentenced to death for infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV-tainted blood in a Benghazi hospital are being kept relatively secluded, the Bulgarian Embassy's Dimitar Dimitrov told us December 7. Dimitrov personally speculates this is becaus [...]
2004-12-13 00:10:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL BU LY XA XF XI
05ACCRA2267GHANA'S AGOA ELIGIBILITY: POST'S SUBMISSION
[...] Mission's submission regarding Ghana's continuing eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act(AGOA) is formatted at requested in ref a. Submission was originally transmitted in ref. b. 2. Begin eligibility paper: TPSC SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGOA IMPLEMENTATION 2005 COUNTRY ELIGIBI [...]
2005-11-04 13:17:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDAGAO ETRD ECON XA GH
05ACCRA2402AVIAN FLU: GHANA'S PLAN OF ACTION
[...] (SBU) The GoG's response to the threat of an Avian Flu outbreak has so far been measured and pro-active. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture are working closely with USAID/Ghana and the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a comprehensive preparedness plan, which includes an assessm [...]
2005-11-23 18:30:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMED CASC CMGT KHIV TBIO XA GH SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX SEC
05ADDISABABA3802AU'S KONARE ON AU ASSEMBLY CHIEF, WASHINGTON
[...] (C) Summary: African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Konare told Charge November 8 that Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso appears to be the most likely successor to Nigerian President Obasanjo to serve as Chairman of the AU Assembly. Konare also said that an AU team had just [...]
2005-11-09 04:55:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL ET XA AF UNION
05ADDISABABA3843AU CONVENING PAN AFRICAN CULTURAL CONGRESS
[...] Summary/Action Request: The African Union (AU) is convening a Pan African Cultural Congress in Nairobi from December 4-9, 2005 to "review and assess the cultural sector in Africa, and consider the stakes, challenges and opportunities" to develop appropriate programs. The USG has been invite [...]
2005-11-14 13:35:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO SCUL XA AF UNION
05ADDISABABA3844ENGAGING THE AU - THOUGHTS AHEAD OF THE AF COM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union (AU) is displaying tremendous political will to address the continent's problems, which differentiates it from the OAU, its defunct predecessor organization. The AU is also serving as the coordinating body for positive change in Africa by playing a more proac [...]
2005-11-14 13:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL XA AF UNION
05ADDISABABA3941DARFUR POLITICAL TALKS: AU PSC DEMANDS SLM/A FOCUS
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to African Union (AU) mediator for the Darfur Political Talks Amb. Sam Ibok, the Seventh Round of talks will resume in Abuja on November 28. On November 22, the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) urged all parties to ensure that the Seventh Round is the "decisive ro [...]
2005-11-23 14:36:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SU XA AF UNION
05ADDISABABA4178EUCOM J5 AND AU DISCUSS MARITIME SECURITY IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union (AU) takes maritime security seriously, AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy Bernard Zoba told EUCOM J5 Maj Gen Scott Gration and Polad Amb. Mary Yates December 16. The AU is adopting a step-by-step approach to ensure member states receive the requir [...]
2005-12-22 08:05:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHSA EWWT PTER AU XA
05ADDISABABA4179AU TELLS EUCOM J5 AFRICAN STANDBY FORCE MOVING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The AU Commission hopes a series of thematic workshops will create enough regional buy-in to enable a harmonized approach to the African Standby Force (ASF),AU Planning Element Chief of Staff BG Hassan told EUCOM J5 Maj Gen Scott Gration and Polad Amb. Yates on December 16. T [...]
2005-12-22 08:07:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KPKO AU XA
05ALGIERS2082GOA RESPONDS TO MOROCCAN ACCUSATIONS ON
[...] (U) In recent days, Algerian media have devoted much coverage to the plight of African migrants attempting to enter the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which are located in northern Morocco. The coverage has focused primarily on the allegedly dire humanitarian situation of the migrant [...]
2005-10-10 15:42:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SMIG AG MO XA
05BAGHDAD4963INFORMATION UPDATE ON ALGERIAN DETAINEE
[...] (SBU) Post passed Embassy Algiers' request for information (see Reftel) to Coalition Forces, and has been informed that Mohmad Ahmed Mohamed Waber (DPOB 27 SEP 1975, Al Shalaf, Algeria) was detained on 21 May 2005 inside a targeted terrorist safe house. Mr. Waber has been referred to the Cen [...]
2005-12-13 03:00:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ AG XA
05BRUSSELS1734TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA
[...] (U) Summary. The April 20 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (ensuring democratic governance, supporting security sector reform and fostering regional stability),Somalia (consolidating the peace process),Sudan (Darfur and North-South); West [...]
2005-05-04 05:12:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4300TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The October 19 transatlantic consultations on Africa included a variety of big picture themes -- the EU strategy for Africa, peacekeeping, development, political Islam and extremism, China in Africa -- as well as discussion about key political issues in the Great Lakes, Uganda, [...]
2005-12-06 11:07:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV PHUM EAID MOPS XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05DJIBOUTI899DJIBOUTIAN HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA
[...] (SBU) Djibouti has confirmed that its delegation to UNGA from September 10-20th will include President Ismail Omar Guelleh, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, and Djiboutian Ambassador to Addis Ababa Ibrahim Mohamed Kamil. Protocol for the Ministry of the Presidency informed Po [...]
2005-09-08 11:08:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA DJ UNGA
05DOHA1131G77 SUMMIT: NEW DEVELOPMENT FUND PROPOSED AT CLOSING
[...] Summary. The G77 South Summit ended June 16 with a proposal for a new development fund to which Qatar would contribute $20 million. Leaders called on developed nations to meet the target of 0.7% of GDP toward overseas assistance. In addition to improved access to markets in developed economies, [...]
2005-06-21 08:15:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL ETRD KDEM XA XB XC XD XE XK XL XM XO QA UN
05DOHA1468OULD AL-TAYA ARRIVES IN DOHA, JOINING OTHER EXILES
[...] (U) Ousted Mauritanian president Maouiya Ould al-Taya arrived in Doha at 8 PM August 22 with his family. According to a local news report, he was also accompanied by the "teacher of his children" and is staying at a luxury hotel. He arrived on a Qatar Airways plane via Cairo. Sources indicate [...]
2005-08-24 13:58:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PTER KISL XA QA
05HARARE182SACC AND IDASA READY TO LAUNCH ZIMABABWE ELECTION
[...] (SBU) One day after the the Governament of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) announcement of March 31 as the date for general Parliamentary elections, a group consisting of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) quitely traveled to Harare to fin [...]
2005-02-04 14:09:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PHUM PGOV AMGT ECON XA AFIN ZI
05HARARE98ZIMBABWE,S AMBASSADOR,S SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROGRAM
[...] (U) Post does not anticipate returning any of its USD 89,100 FY 2004 Self-Help Allowance for re-allocation. Funds were obligated on September 30, 2004 as outlined in paragraphs 3, and 4 below. 2. (U) For FY 2005, post requests Self-Help funding be restored to the FY 2003 level of USD 110,0 [...]
2005-01-19 08:50:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDEAID XA ZI KPRP
05KUWAIT3977POINTS DELIVERED ON PRESIDENT'S G-8 AFRICAN
[...] (U) Begin Summary: On September 4, Econoff delivered reftel points to representatives from the Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Development (a government entity) and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. While neither organization deals strictly in humanitarian projects associated [...]
2005-09-07 12:34:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID EINV ETRD KU XA
05MAPUTO74DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO IAEA SAFEGUARDS
[...] (SBU) On December 30, Emboff delivered demarche and talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Mozambique to adopt the Additional Protocol to the comprehensive standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The MFA official receiving the demarche, Fernando Chomar, a [...]
2005-01-12 15:15:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL AORC XA MZ ASEC IAEA
05NEWDELHI1554US-INDIA PEACEKEEPING JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: At the fourth US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on February 14, IO PDAS Swigert underscored US concerns about sexual exploitation committed within UN peacekeeping ranks and asked India, a main troop contributor, to play a leading role to ensure that the problem is deal [...]
2005-03-01 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO XA IN
05NEWDELHI3878PRIORITIZING INDIA'S ENERGY DIPLOMACY AND
[...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Petroleum Additional Secretary (International Cooperation) Talmiz Ahmad outlined India's priorities for accessing more foreign fuel sources in a May 24 meeting with Charge and Emboffs. While domestic fuel subsidies continue to consume much of his attention, Minister [...]
2005-05-25 10:13:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EPET PK XA ZK ZP IN
05OTTAWA3209CANADIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SINGLE MEMBER
[...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Industry Canada contact Janis Doran, who will be attending the TSAG meeting and who is the GOC ITU expert who has been our primary contact before (see Ottawa 2076). We provided a copy of the talking points to Ms. Doran, who was well-aware of the situation and who has [...]
2005-10-26 20:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS CA AS XA
05OTTAWA537CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning Venezuela's bid to chair the OAS working group on the social charter, to Leonard Beaulne, Deputy Director of the Inter-American Affairs Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on February 18. Beaulne relayed that FAC was also tracking this [...]
2005-02-18 20:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI XA XL XM CA FAC
05PARIS1052PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the January 12-13, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non-Paris Club members Brazil, [...]
2005-02-18 11:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS1065AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. RWANDA 4. SUDAN 5. ZIMBABWE 6. AID TO AFRICA 7. CAMEROON Â [...]
2005-02-18 14:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS1219AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. CENTRAFRIQUE 5. SUDAN Â [...]
2005-02-25 14:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS1413AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. DROC 5. RWANDA 6. BURUNDI 7. SUDAN 8. ZIMBABWE Â [...]
2005-03-04 11:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS1629AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. DROC 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. NIGER 6. CENTRAFRIQUE 7. SUDAN 8. HIV/AIDS Â [...]
2005-03-11 13:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS167PARIS CLUB -- DECEMBER 2004 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the December 14, 2004 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Staff represented the Secretariat since Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin suffered an SIPDIS unexpected medical [...]
2005-01-10 16:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS1830AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. TOGO 4. DJIBOUTI 5. CENTRAFRIQUE 6. DROC 7. MOZAMBIQUE 8. AID TO AFRICA Â [...]
2005-03-18 13:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS2032AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. TOGO 4. NIGER 5. SUDAN 6. SIERRA LEONE Â [...]
2005-03-25 15:25:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS2196AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. RWANDA 4. NIGER 5. SENEGAL 6. ANGOLA 7. ZIMBABWE 8. SUDAN 9. SOUTH AFRICA 10. GABON 11. DROC 12. SOMALIA Â [...]
2005-04-01 14:22:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS2378AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. ANGOLA 4. DJIBOUTI 5. ZIMBABWE 6. SUDAN 7. RWANDA Â [...]
2005-04-08 13:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS2517PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the April 5, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, Isr [...]
2005-04-13 16:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS2579PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON, PART I
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the March 9-10, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, [...]
2005-04-15 11:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS2591AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. EU/AFRICA 4. RWANDA 5. SUDAN 6. CHAD Â [...]
2005-04-15 13:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS2788ACOTA AFRICAN PEACEKEEPING TRAINING TEAM MEETS
[...] SUMMARY: On 18 April 2005, representatives of the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program office met with officials of the French Joint Staff at the Ministry of Defense to exchange views on our respective peacekeeping capacity enhancement efforts in Africa. Th [...]
2005-04-25 17:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS XA FR
05PARIS2931AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. NIGER 5. SOUTH AFRICA 6. SUDAN 7. NIGERIA 8. ABDOU DIOUF 9. AMINATA TRAORE Â [...]
2005-04-29 13:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS3266AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. CENTRAFRIQUE 4. SUDAN 5. ZIMBABWE 6. SOMALIA 7. ANGOLA Â [...]
2005-05-13 10:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS3305PARIS CLUB - MAY 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the May 10, 2005 Paris Club session. Country negotiations will be reported septels. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented SIPDIS the Secretariat. [...]
2005-05-16 10:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS3683AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH 3. CENTRAFRIQUE 4. NIGERIA 5. TOGO 6. COTE D'IVOIRE 7. DROC 8. DJIBOUTI 9. BURUNDI 10. SUDAN 11. ETHIOPIA Â [...]
2005-05-27 11:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS3871AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA DEVELOPMENT 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. SENEGAL 5. TOGO 6. CHAD 7. SUDAN 8. SOUTH AFRICA 9. DROC 10. LIBERIA Â [...]
2005-06-03 15:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4093AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. DROC 4. CHAD 5. SUDAN 6. ETHIOPIA 7. BURUNDI 8. MAURITANIE 9. ZIMBABWE 10. SOUTH AFRICA Â [...]
2005-06-10 15:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4362"JEUNE AFRIQUE" JUNE 19-25 SUPPLEMENT ON
[...] PARIS-BASED INFLUENTIAL PANAFRICAN WEEKLY "JEUNE AFRIQUE- L'INTELLIGENT" DATED JUNE 19-26 HAS A 16-PAGE SUPPLEMENT ON US/AFRICA RELATIONS UNDER GLOBAL TITLE "SHARED INTERESTS". LIST OF ARTICLES FOLLOWS: - "GOOD GUYS" (TITLE IN ENGLISH),EDITORIAL BY MAGAZINE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FRAN [...]
2005-06-21 14:28:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4453AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. SENEGAL 3. CHAD 4. DROC 5. CAMEROON 6. COTE D'IVOIRE 7. RWANDA/BURUNDI 8. NIGER 9. GUINEE BISSAU 10. TOGO 11. SOUTH AFRICA 12. UGANDA Â [...]
2005-06-24 13:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS457PARIS CLUB HOLDS INFO SESSION ON IRAQ DEBT
[...] (SBU) Following up on the November 21 restructuring of Iraqi debt, the Paris Club hosted an informational meeting for non-Paris Club creditors on January 13, explaining how the agreement achieves an 80 percent reduction of debt in three stages as well as the Iraqi obligation to seek comparable [...]
2005-01-26 11:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS4630AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. G8/AFRICA 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. MAURITANIA 5. RWANDA 6. CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE 7. NIGER 8. MALI 9. GABON 10. MADAGASCAR 11. MOZAMBIQUE 12. NIGERIA 13. DROC Â [...]
2005-07-01 13:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4766AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. G8/AFRICA 3. BURUNDI 4. MALI 5. MADAGASCAR 6. MOZAMBIQUE 7. SUDAN 8. COTE D'IVOIRE 9. ANGOLA 10. BURKINA FASO Â [...]
2005-07-08 11:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4901PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the June 15, 2005 Paris Club session. Country negotiations will be reported septels. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. The nex [...]
2005-07-13 17:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS4904AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. G8/AFRICA 3. MALI 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. SENEGAL 6. SUDAN 7. BURKINA FASO 8. CENTRAFRIQUE Â [...]
2005-07-15 09:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS5225AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. SECRETARY RICE IN AFRICA 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. SENEGAL 5. MADAGASCAR 6. SUDAN 7. NIGER 8. SAOTOME 9. TOGO 10. DROC 11. CONGO BRAZZAVILLE 12. ZIMBABWE 13. UGANDA Â [...]
2005-07-29 09:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS5459THE FUTURE OF FRANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France faces several challenges to its traditional leadership role among its former colonies and Africa's other francophone countries. We foresee a gradual decline of French influence in Africa, based on generational change, an increased willingness on the part of Africans to l [...]
2005-08-11 12:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM XA FR
05PARIS5596AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. MAURITANIA 4. NIGER 5. CHAD 6. SENEGAL 6. CONGO BRAZZAVILLE 7. BURUNDI 8. SUDAN 9. GUINEA BISSAU 10. ZIMBABWE 11. BRAIN DRAIN Â [...]
2005-08-19 11:49:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS5783AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. BURUNDI 4. NIGER 5. ANGOLA 6. SUDAN Â [...]
2005-08-26 14:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS5944AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. NIGER 4. RWADA 5. BURUNDI 6. CHAD 7. SUDAN Â [...]
2005-09-01 14:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS6326AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. BURKINA FASO 4. FRANCE/AFRICA 5. RWANDA 6. NIGER 7 SUDAN 8 NIGERIA Â [...]
2005-09-16 13:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS6373PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the September 2005 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed that Iraq's recently announced debt restructuring offer to its private creditors was broadly comparable to the deal it received in the Paris Club last year. Some creditors (Italy, Japan, Italy) suggested that Iraq may not be nego [...]
2005-09-19 15:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS6527AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. GABON 4. SOMALIA 5. NIGERIA 6. SUDAN Â [...]
2005-09-23 14:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS6751AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. PLUMPY NUT 3. NIGER 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. SOMALIA 6. FRANCE/AFRICA 7. SENEGAL 8. TOGO Â [...]
2005-10-03 07:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS6939AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. TV IN AFRICA 3. SUDAN 4. CHAD 5. NIGER 6. GABON 7. DROC 8. MALAWI Â [...]
2005-10-11 07:01:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7062AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. GABON 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. TOGO 6. MALI 7. SOUTH AFRICA Â [...]
2005-10-14 13:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7236AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. NIGER 5. CHAD 6. ZIMBABWE 7. WTO/COTTON Â [...]
2005-10-24 06:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7308PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the October 2005 Paris Club meeting, creditors reached agreement with Nigeria on a comprehensive treatment to eliminate Nigeria's approximate $30 billion debt in exchange for cash payments totaling $12.6 billion ($12.4 billion in the deal itself, and $200 million upfront to meet a prec [...]
2005-10-26 08:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS7873AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. CHAD 4. GABON 5. BURKINA FASO 6. COTE D'IVOIRE 7. ETHIOPIA 8. NIGERIA Â [...]
2005-11-18 15:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7980PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the November 15 Paris Club meeting, the IMF reported that the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with Iraq that will be presented to the IMF Board on December 23 will probably be precautionary. The Secretariat and some creditors complained that a precautionary arrangement belied Iraq's claim [...]
2005-11-23 11:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS8028AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. SUDAN 4. MAURITANIA 5. CHAD 6. GABON 7. RWANDA 8. MALARIA+HIV/AIDS Â [...]
2005-11-25 14:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8202AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. GABON 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. RWANDA 5. AFRICA/FRANCE SUMMIT 6. NIGER 7. HISSENE HABRE 8. UGANDA 9. HIV/AIDS-MALAWI Â [...]
2005-12-02 16:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8280 USUNESCO-UNESCO TO PARTICIPATE IN AFRICAN
[...] (SBU) UNESCO Director General Matsuura, accompanied by the Assistant Directors General for Culture and Education will attend an African Union summit in Khartoum on culture and education in January 23-24. The total UNESCO delegation will number 12-15. In anticipation of the Khartoum meeting, [...]
2005-12-06 17:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYXA UNESCO
05PARIS8368AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA/FRANCE SUMMIT 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. CAMEROON 5. RWANDA 6. GABON 7. ERITREA 8. SOUTH AFRICA 9. SUDAN 10. MALAWI 11. AFRICA'S PRISONS Â [...]
2005-12-09 14:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8513AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTTON 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. DROC 5. RWANDA 6. GABON 7. CHAD 8. NIGER 9. ETHIOPIA/ERITREA 10. SUDAN Â [...]
2005-12-19 08:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8586PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the December 13 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to implement a second 30 percent tranche of debt reduction for Iraq, provided a Stand-By Arrangement is approved by the IMF Executive Board before year-end. The first batch of bilateral agreements implementing the Paris Club debt d [...]
2005-12-21 17:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS8692AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. SENEGAL 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. CHAD/SUDAN 5. DROC 6. RWANDA 7. CAMEROON 8. FRANCE AND AFRICA Â [...]
2005-12-30 10:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PRETORIA2194SOUTH AFRICA: CONFERENCE PROMOTES INVESTING IN
[...] (U) Summary. South African-based Investec Asset Management hosted a May 4th conference in Johannesburg focused on improving the investment climate in South Africa and Africa. About 250 people attended the posh conference which touted such high profile speakers as Cyril Ramaphosa (former ANC [...]
2005-06-03 15:46:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ETRD ECON PREL PINR XA SF
05PRETORIA3001SOUTH AFRICA: HIGH TELECOM PRICES, LITTLE RELIEF
[...] (U) Summary. President Mbeki condemned South Africa's high fixed telephone line prices in his February 2005 State of the Nation address by stating that they cost ten times more than in developed countries. Mbeki's assertion was mainly directed at Telkom, the de facto monopoly for fixed line [...]
2005-07-28 14:47:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT ECPS EINV PREL XA SF
05PRETORIA4109SOUTH AFRICA: POST'S VIEWS ON ANNUAL AGOA
[...] (SBU) Embassy recommends continued AGOA eligibility for South Africa, based on the country's general compliance with the eligibility criteria. South Africa has continued to make progress in deepening its market-based economy, respecting the rule of law, protecting worker rights, implementing [...]
2005-10-07 14:45:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAID ECON EFIN PREL XA SF
05PRETORIA4352SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: REGIONAL ECONOMIC
[...] (U) Summary. In discussing the IMF's first ever Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, IMF officials announced that the outlook for real GDP growth in SSA was good, with 2004 registering 5.3% growth and 2005 and 2006 expected to register growth of 4.6% and 5.3%, respectively. Risin [...]
2005-10-27 15:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ETRD PREL ECON SF XA
05PRETORIA453READOUT OF THE JANUARY 17-18 MEETING OF THE BLAIR
[...] (SBU) Summary. At a January 17-18 meeting in Cape Town, seventeen African ministers of finance grouped with members of the Blair Commission for Africa to consult on the Commission's report due February. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown attended the event as the last stop in a six-day [...]
2005-02-01 17:13:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD EFIN XA SF
05PRETORIA4621SOUTH AFRICA; TELECOM PRICE RELIEF REMAINS OUT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri opened the Department of Communication,s (DOC) Second Colloquium on Telecommunication Prices stating that the Colloquium was needed to lower the cost of doing business in South Africa, to make the country more competitive internat [...]
2005-11-21 14:12:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EINT PREL SF XA
05PRETORIA4757SOUTH AFRICA: SPEECH ON RECLAIMING THE
[...] (U) Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Dr. Rob Davies delivered the following speech entitled: Reclaiming the Development Content of the Doha Development Round. Davies delivered this speech to the National Consultative Conference on the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong on 17 November, 2005. [...]
2005-12-02 15:04:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON SF XA
05ROME2049UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM, ROME-BASED MEDIA REACT
[...] (U) Summary: Outreach to World Food Program, UN diplomats and locally based international and Italian journalists garnered positive reaction to last week's Presidential announcement of an aid package to Africa. In response to Mission efforts to highlight the Administration's initiative, WFP Ex [...]
2005-06-15 15:34:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP
05ROME2543 AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY IN AFRICA:
[...] Summary: USUN-Rome arranged for Dr. Michael Hall, Regional Biotechnology Advisor for USAID's Regional Economic Development Services Office (REDSO) based in Nairobi, Kenya, to meet with representatives at FAO and WFP. Hall also met with an official from the Holy See (to be covered in septel fr [...]
2005-07-29 13:46:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD SENV EAID AORC XA VT FAO WFP
05ROME2679ITALY UNABLE TO INCREASE AFRICA EMERGENCY AID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Italy is unable to increase its emergency humanitarian assistance for Africa due to severe budget difficulties. Italy's overall aid spending levels will likely remain at 0.17 percent of GDP (the same level as 2004) only because of debt relief, particularly for Ethiopia. "Real" [...]
2005-08-11 14:01:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR XA IT FAO
05ROME2787 AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL RETURNS TO ZIMBABWE
[...] SUMMARY: Three years after my 2002 visit (see Ref A),I returned to Zimbabwe August 11-13 and found the country again poised for a food-security crisis. As a result of the Government of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) misguided policies, drought, hyperinflation, and the associated lack of agricultural input [...]
2005-08-23 15:40:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD SENV EAID AORC XA PHUM PREL ECON ASEC SOCI ZU FAO WFP UNDP ZI SF VT
05ROME3107USUN ROME HITS THE GROUND SPRINTING: A LOOK BACK ON OUR
[...] Summary. Confronted by a world media environment that takes daily shots at U.S. foreign policy, USUN Rome pulled no punches during its first year with a Public Diplomacy office. The Ambassador's trips to Africa brought journalists face-to-face with U.S. assistance in action. Combined with creat [...]
2005-09-17 07:43:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF XA FAO WFP
05ROME3638 AFRICA GROUP SEEKS STRONG MANDATE FOR RE-
[...] (SBU) On October 31, Egyptian Ambassador Helmy Bedeir (current chair of the Africa Regional Group in Rome) and Senegalese Ambassador Papa Cheikh Saadibou Fall (representing the nominating country) called on Ambassador Hall in order to seek USG support for the re- election of Dr. Jacques Diou [...]
2005-10-31 14:40:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC EAGR EAID KUNR XA FAO
05THEHAGUE2446THE DUTCH IN AFRICA: SECURITY, AIDS AND WATER
[...] Summary: The Dutch are among the world's most generous aid donors, giving about 0.8 percent of GDP or $4.2 billion in 2004. Roughly half of Dutch aid goes to 18 countries in Africa, making the Netherlands the fourth largest donor of bilateral aid to Africa. Dutch aid to Africa focuses on h [...]
2005-09-08 14:17:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL KHIV NL XA
05THEHAGUE2515STATUS OF BEMBE EXTRADITION
[...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not taken a formal position on the Bembe extradition case but is clearly uncomfortable with several aspects of it. A senior MFA official told Charge September 14 the ministry's role to date has been limited to providing factual information to [...]
2005-09-15 10:10:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL XA AO NL KPAO
05THEHAGUE2556BEMBE EXTRADITION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) Summary: According to Renee Jones-Bos, Director General for Regional and Consular Affairs at the Dutch MFA, the MFA expects to limit its role in the Bembe extradition to responding to specific questions posed by the court during Bembe's September 13 hearing and will not take a political p [...]
2005-09-20 16:44:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKPAO AO NL PBTS XA PREL
05THEHAGUE2693NETHERLANDS/ANGOLA: COURT SEEKS MORE INFORMATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Hague District court adjourned the extradition hearings for Antonio Bento Bembe until November 14 and asked the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to provide additional clarification of the circumstances under which Bembe came to the Hague. If the court finds that the [...]
2005-10-06 10:19:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKPAO PBTS XA PREL AO NL
05THEHAGUE2756SCENESETTER FOR DASD THERSA WHELAN'S VISIT TO THE
[...] Your visit to The Hague comes at a time when the GONL is broadening its already substantial aid to Africa and is boosting its efforts in security assistance and reform. The Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Development are pursuing joint SSR and DDR initiatives in Africa and have cre [...]
2005-10-12 14:39:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL KHIV NL XA
05THEHAGUE2973NETHERLANDS/AFRICA: DASD WHELAN'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 14, DASD for African Affairs Theresa Whelan met with several representatives of the Dutch MFA and MOD. Discussion during the two meetings included GONL and USG involvement in SSR and DDR initiatives in South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC, as well as mutua [...]
2005-11-01 12:49:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP NL XA MASS MARR PGOV
05THEHAGUE3141NETHERLANDS/SOUTH AFRICA: READOUT OF DAVID
[...] (C) Summary: DOD Regional Director for Southern Africa David Radcliffe's November 10 visit to The Hague successfully followed up DASD Whelan's earlier meetings here by capitalizing on renewed Dutch interest in South Africa. Radcliffe's discussions with Dutch MFA and MOD interlocutors spurred [...]
2005-11-22 11:13:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP NL MASS XA
05VIENNA2005AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO CHALLENGE TO DONORS TO FIGHT
[...] Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on June 15 to Johannes Kyrle, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Secretary General (Deputy Secretary equivalent). The Ambassador pointed out the initiative of the President and Prime Minister Blair in pledging significant funds to address African humanitaria [...]
2005-06-15 12:58:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV EAGR PREL XA AU
06ACCRA3005GHANA HOSTS REGIONAL SEMINAR ON UNSCR 1540
[...] SUMMARY: Ghana hosted Africa's first outreach activity on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, the UN Regional Seminar on Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in Africa, in Accra on November 9-10, 2006. Representatives from 23 African countries attended [...]
2006-12-18 17:35:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ETTC PARM PREL PTER AORC XA GH
06ADDISABABA1709 AU COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON PREVIEWS AU SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Streamlining duplication among Africa?s numerous regional economic communities (e.g., SADC, COMESA, IGAD, EAC, WAEMU, CEMAC, ECOWAS, etc.) and establishing a ?United States of Africa? are among the nominal themes of the upcoming African Union Summit to be held in Banjul. More l [...]
2006-06-22 04:39:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SOCI AU SU XA
06ADDISABABA2009AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: HUMAN RIGHTS OUTCOMES
[...] SUMMARY: The African Union Summit met June 21-July 2 in Banjul, The Gambia, with the nominal theme of "Regional Integration and Harmonization of Regional Economic Communities (RECs)." For the United States, as an AU partner (i.e. non-member),most sessions were closed; however, these are the [...]
2006-07-21 08:54:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV AU XA
06ADDISABABA917AU POLITICAL AFFAIRS OBJECTIVES AND INSTITUTIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union's (AU) top priority through 2007 is to push forward the process of institutional transformation to ensure a proactive and effective organization as compared to the OAU, AU Commission Secretary Prof. Johnson recently told a group of AU partners. Political Affai [...]
2006-04-06 12:30:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID XA AU
06ALGIERS496ALGERIA STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AS KEY TO CONTROLLING
[...] Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel presented to journalists March 18 "an African Road Map" for addressing migration issues. He confirmed that further discussions on migration within the African continent and between Europe and Africa would be on the agenda [...]
2006-03-20 17:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS657MEETING OF AU EXPERTS ON MIGRATION HELD IN ALGIERS
[...] Mandated by the January Arab League Summit in Khartoum, the Commission of the African Union (AU) convened a meeting of migration and development experts in Algiers April 3-5. The participants addressed the major themes of security and stability, human rights, development, human resources, the [...]
2006-04-10 16:57:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS727MESSAHEL TELLS AMBASSADOR MIGRATION PRIMARILY AN
[...] (C) In an April 10 meeting with MFA Minister-Delegate Messahel, Ambassador pressed again for an inclusive regional approach to the migration problem that included Morocco and urged Algeria to reconsider participation in the Rabat-hosted conference on migration. Messahel termed the recent AU ex [...]
2006-04-19 13:30:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06AMMAN2322FOREIGN FIGHTER DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Polcouns made Ref A points on foreign fighters in a March 9 meeting with Dimai Haddad, head of Foreign Minister Khatib's private office. Haddad said the GOJ views it as in its own interest to stop any young men, Jordanian or foreign, who fit the foreign fighter profile. He pointed to Jor [...]
2006-03-30 14:40:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL ASEC CG XA XF XG XI JO
06ANKARA1957TURKEY/SUDAN: PM ERDOGAN TO ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT AND
[...] (C) In a first for Turkey, PM Erdogan was invited to address the March 28-29 Arab League Summit in Khartoum on the Alliance of Civilizations. The GOT sees greater cooperation with the AL as a useful tool for helping to mediate regional disputes and increasing trade. Erdogan discussed increase [...]
2006-04-11 07:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF EAID BMENA SU XA XW TU
06BANJUL441VCI BUREAU PDAS FORD COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: VCI Bureau PDAS Christopher Ford accompanied by Maher Tadros, Office of Nuclear Affairs, and Eric Wong, U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, met June 30, 2006 with Egypt's Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Taher Farahat in Banjul on the margins of the Summit of the [...]
2006-07-12 16:35:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL TRGY XA EG
06BEIJING11363FINATT MEETS CHINA EXIM PRESIDENT ON LENDING TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 1, FinAtt David Loevinger met with President Li Ruogu of the China Export-Import Bank (China Exim) to discuss export credit policy and China's lending to heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs),particularly in Africa. FinAtt urged China to seek greater cooperation wi [...]
2006-06-06 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EPET PREL CH SU XA
06BEIJING1665JANUARY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA'S SUPPORT FOR
[...] Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing stated China's concern over current developments in the Iran nuclear crisis to visiting Iranian National Supervisory Council Security Advisor Ali Larijani, MFA Spokesperson Kong Quan said at the regular January 26 MFA Press Briefing. China considers Russia's prop [...]
2006-01-26 11:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CH IR XA
06BERLIN3503S/CRS AMBASSADOR HERBST ENGAGES GERMANY AHEAD OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings December 6, S/CRS Coordinator Ambassador John Herbst pushed German officials to incorporate stability and reconstruction (S/R) programming into their 2007 G-8 and EU presidencies. His interlocutors from the Federal Chancellery and Foreign Ministry sug [...]
2006-12-14 14:20:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KPKO CM GM XA
06BERLIN3551GERMAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES SUPPORT IN DARFUR
[...] (C) A parliamentary debate on the future of German contributions to a peace operation in Darfur shows that there is an emerging - if vague - support for an enhanced operation in Sudan. SPD, Greens and FDP expressed cautious support, depending on the details, of an extended peace support opera [...]
2006-12-20 15:44:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL GM XA SU
06BRUSSELS508EUROPEAN COMMISION AND U.S. WORK TOWARD PROGRESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Jendayi Fraser met in Brussels on January 26 with European Commission (EC) Director General for DG Development Stefano Manservisi to discuss the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Sudan, Chad and the Horn of Africa. Mutual perspectives and targeted assist [...]
2006-02-15 07:30:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS509EUROPEAN COUNCIL AFRICA TASK FORCE COMMITS TO
[...] (C) Vervaeke initiated the discussion by noting the European Union (EU) had received a letter from the UN, requesting EU support for a flexible "rapid reaction" force to assist, if needed, to ensure electoral stability in DRC. Vervaeke indicated the UN request lacked specificity, but that the [...]
2006-02-15 07:33:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06DARESSALAAM3182006 AGOA FORUM PLANNING: TANZANIA UNABLE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-17 08:49:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD XA TZ
06DJIBOUTI300DJIBOUTI'S INPUT FOR 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-08 06:01:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PHUM XA DJ
06GENEVA59736TH UNHCR STANDING COMMITTEE: AFRICA DISCUSSIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Africa Bureau Director Marjon Kamara and Director of Operations for the Sudan Situation Jean-Marie Fakhouri addressed participants in the 36th Meeting of the Standing Committee (SC) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on March 8. Both highlighted the di [...]
2006-03-16 13:07:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL SMIG XA
06HARARE977ZIMBABWE - FY-2006 ESF REQUEST
[...] (SBU) As stated in the Mission Performance Plan, Zimbabwe today is a paradox. On the one hand, President Robert Mugabe and his ruling party have tightened their grip over the country in the past year and have benefited from the split in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). On [...]
2006-08-03 13:04:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AMGT EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL XA ZI
06KIGALI1192Land of a thousand hills is not always a land of a thousand
[...] SUMMARY. Moses Turyazooka is one of the approximately 500,000 Rwandan refugees who grew up in Uganda and returned to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. He is a well-educated and driven entrepreneur who was raised on diaspora ideology - a deep love for the country of Rwanda and a strong desire to [...]
2006-12-14 12:01:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID BTIO EINV EINT XA RW
06KIGALI242RWANDA REPORT FOR 2006 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON
[...] Per reftel, information below provides a summary of each of the requested areas. Market Economy/Economic Reform/Trade Barriers --------------------------------------------- 2. Economic Situation: Rwanda's economy remains largely dependent upon foreign aid, while its population remains [...]
2006-03-13 19:26:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PHUM XA RW
06KIGALI270US AMBASSADOR TO DRC VISITS RWANDA
[...] (C) Summary. US Ambassador Meece visited Rwanda March 2-4. Highlights of the visit included a stop at Mutobo Demobilization Camp; a meeting with National Security Service (NSS) Secretary General Ndahiro; and a meeting with Foreign Minister Murigande and Ambassador Sezibera, Special Envoy for t [...]
2006-03-21 12:09:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RW CG KE XA
06KINSHASA142Nomination for FY06 Edward R. Murrow Program for
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-27 11:53:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL CG XA KPAO
06KINSHASA144CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE: FY-2006 CALL FOR AMBASSADOR'S
[...] Embassy Brazzaville's selection committee has identified six, well-developed programs for funding by the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program in FY-06. The reputation and familiarity of this initiative have increased significantly in recent years as post endeavors to re-establish a full tim [...]
2006-01-27 12:28:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM EAID AMGT CF CG ECON XA AID
06KINSHASA516DRC: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered March 25 reftel a demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just prior to news of Taylor's capture being announced March 29. Djoli said that the DRC has enough problems with armed groups without Charles Taylor being [...]
2006-03-31 11:58:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC LI NI KAWC XA XY CG
06LISBON2269PORTUGAL'S EU PRESIDENCY PLANS; A SHIFT FROM THE
[...] (C) Summary: Portuguese interlocutors relayed their views regarding their government's preparations for the EU presidency. They noted that Germany's policy prescriptions would dominate the agenda through the new coordinated presidencies process, but that Portugal had some opportunities to aff [...]
2006-10-13 07:21:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON XA XF PO
06LONDON5547INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO, or "the Organization") held meetings in London from June 13 through June 23, 2006, consisting of the Technical Co-operation Committee's fifty-sixth session (TCC56) and the Council's ninety-sixth session (C96). Significant agenda items dur [...]
2006-07-28 15:46:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA US UK KE XA
06MAPUTO1229MOZAMBIQUE RESPONSE TO USITC INFORMATION REQUEST
[...] (U) The primary contact at Embassy Maputo for additional information and follow-up is Brooke Williams, Economic/Commercial Officer. She may be reached via email at WilliamsBLATstate.gov or at 258-21-492797, extension 3422. Ms. Williams is happy to conduct additional research and to provide U [...]
2006-09-26 10:33:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ETRD ASEC EK PU SE XA MZ
06MASERU455LESOTHO: OBLIGATION OF FY06 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND
[...] Total FY06 allocation received for Maseru Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) is USD 30,000. USAID legal and accounting offices have reviewed the draft agreements and the USAID accounting office is expected to finalize the obligations upon notification of signing of agreements by post. [...]
2006-09-13 16:19:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID SOCI XA LT
06MASERU491LESOTHO: OBLIGATION OF FY06 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND
[...] Subject grant agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Law Office (632-DHRF-06-001) for the purchase of law books has been cancelled in its entirety in compliance with DHRF requirements as per refs A and B. Amendment No. 1 to effect this change was signed by COM [...]
2006-09-29 14:17:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID SOCI XA LT
06NAIROBI2518 UN WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN
[...] On May 29, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) convened a three-day humanitarian information network workshop in Nairobi focused on Africa-specific concerns. This year's workshop is a continuation of a process begun in 2002. The primary purpose of the Nairobi wo [...]
2006-06-08 11:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI3016 PROCEEDINGS FROM 19TH SEMI-ANNUAL ALNAP
[...] From June 13 to 15, 2006, the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) convened its 19th semi- annual conference. The aim of the meeting was for humanitarian actors to draw out key aspects of learning, accountability, and performance related t [...]
2006-07-11 06:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI3394 REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-04 08:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI3630 REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP
[...] The second stage of implementation of the Crop Crisis Control Project (C3P) was launched with a regional planning workshop in Kigali, Rwanda June 13- 15, 2006. The goal of this activity, supported by the Famine Prevention Fund, is a regionally coordinated response to the catastrophic spread of [...]
2006-08-18 10:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI4685CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
[...] Nairobi Embassy received a fax of the following Diplomatic Note numbered MFA.261/328/301A Dated October 25, 2006 with an invitation to Secretary Rice. 2. Begin Text of Diplomatic Note: MFA.261/328/301A MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Office of the Great Lakes Region, Ministry of Forei [...]
2006-11-02 04:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC AMGT KE XA
06NDJAMENA460CHAD: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (SBU) Emboff met acting MFA Europe-America officer Kama Dounia March 28 to make delivery (orally in French, written in English) of ref demarche urging Chad not to accept Charles Taylor if he attempted to flee to Chad, to cooperate fully with the UN and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and t [...]
2006-03-28 16:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNSC CD LI NI KAWC XA XY
06NIAMEY515NIGER: THE LATEST ON PRIVATIZATION
[...] BEGIN SUMMARY. Econoff Gage met with representatives of the Government of Niger (GON),companies and the World Bank (IBRD) to produce the following status report on privatization in Niger. GON privatization efforts have advanced since 1996, when Niger codified in law the desire to pri [...]
2006-05-23 15:05:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV PGOV KPRV XA NG
06OTTAWA3591CANADA ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FOR OVERSEAS HIV/AIDS
[...] Canada's International Cooperation Minister Josee Verner announced on December 1, World AIDS Day, C$120 million to fight HIV/AIDS overseas. This is over and above what Canada has previously pledged to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The new funding will support glob [...]
2006-12-13 20:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV TBIO EAID CA XA
06PARIS1020AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. CHAD/SUDAN 4. NIGERIA 5. DROC Â [...]
2006-02-17 14:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS107AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. CHAD/SUDAN 4. SIERRA LEONE 5. ZIMBABWE 6. UGANDA 7. RWANDA Â [...]
2006-01-09 08:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS1352AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. DROC 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. SENEGAL 5. BURUNDI 6. MAURITANIA 7. UGANDA 8. KENYA 9. ZIMBABWE 10. NIGERIA Â [...]
2006-03-03 15:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS1497FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO IRAQ ARE A MAJOR FRENCH CONCERN
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Since 2004, French counterterrorism authorities have focused on the threat posed by foreign fighters going to Iraq. For those departing France for Iraq, the GOF fears that they will become hardened and experienced terrorists, and will eventually return to France to plan attack [...]
2006-03-09 09:35:00Embassy ParisSECRETASEC PTER PREL PGOV CG XA XF XG XI FR
06PARIS1550AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA EMIGRATION 3. AFRICA CORRUPTION 4. ALI FARKA TOURE 5. COTE D'IVOIRE 6. SENEGAL 7. BENIN 8. NIGER 9. SUDAN 10. UGANDA 11. SOUTH AFRICA Â [...]
2006-03-10 13:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS1568PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the March 7 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed on an approach for dealing with Angola's arrears to the Club, consistent with US objectives. The Secretariat will call on Angola to resume payments to Paris Club creditors in excess of scheduled debt service, such that arrears are redu [...]
2006-03-13 10:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS1713AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. BENIN 4. CHAD 5. RWANDA 6. NIGER 7. DROC 8. MAURITANIA 9. UGANDA 10. KENYA 11. LIBERIA 12. SUDAN Â [...]
2006-03-17 13:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2259FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL AFRICA ADVISOR OFFERS OVERVIEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor for Africa Jacques Champagne de Labriolle on April 3 provided a broad overview of French Africa policy during a meeting with AF/W Director Phillip Carter. He made the following observations: -- Chad and Cote d'Ivoire were France's main concerns at prese [...]
2006-04-06 12:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XA IV FR
06PARIS2300AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. FAMINE IN AFRICA 3. SENEGAL 4. TAYLOR 5. DROC 6. COTE D'IVOIRE Â [...]
2006-04-07 14:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2362PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the April 5 Paris Club meeting, creditors accepted in principle Algeria's offer to prepay at face value its previously rescheduled Paris Club debt. The US is the third largest creditor with $1.2 billion in claims, just over half of which are pre-payable without penalty. The US stre [...]
2006-04-11 10:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS2633AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. CHAD 3. SENEGAL 4. COTE D'IVOIRE Â [...]
2006-04-21 12:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS267AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. CHINA AND AFRICA 3. AFRICAN MIGRANTS 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. CHAD 6. DROC 7. UGANDA 8. SUDAN 9 NIGERIA Â [...]
2006-01-13 13:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2998AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA/CHINA 3. DARFUR 4. CHAD 5. CAMEROON 6. UGANDA Â [...]
2006-05-05 14:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS3183AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. SUDAN 4. CAMEROON 5. SOMALIA Â [...]
2006-05-15 08:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS3247PARIS CLUB - MAY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DEBT NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (U) At the May 10-12 meeting of the Paris Club, Afghanistan's three creditors, Russia, Germany and the United States, took the first step toward fulfilling their pledges to cancel 100% of Afghanistan's debt by providing assurances of debt relief during the period of Afghanistan's new IMF progra [...]
2006-05-16 15:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS3362 UNESCO: DAKAR OFFICE CHIEF OUTLINES DECENTRALIZATION
[...] Summary and Comment: To explore issues relating to decentralization, Ambassador Oliver and Science Officer met with Lalla Aicha Ben Barka, Director of the UNESCO Office in Dakar and the regional office for Education in Africa (BREDA). Although the UNESCO secretariat often highlights its decen [...]
2006-05-19 08:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID KDEM KSCA SOCI XA SG UNESCO EDU
06PARIS3927AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. CHAD 3. SENEGAL 4. MALI 5. COTE 6. MAURITANIA 7. SOMALIA 8. SUDAN 9. NIGERIA Â [...]
2006-06-12 08:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS416AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. AFRICAN UNION 4. MALI/SOCIAL FORUM 5. DROC 6. LIBERIA 7. SOUTH AFRICA 8. SUDAN Â [...]
2006-01-23 13:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS4253PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON, 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY,
[...] (SBU) At the June 13-16 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors reached a tentative agreement on a deal that will allow Russia to repay its remaining USD 22 billion in previously rescheduled Paris Club debt in August. The deal is still subject to approval by Moscow. Cameroon received a completi [...]
2006-06-21 09:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS456PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the January 18 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to raise Jordan's debt swap ceiling from 30% to 40%. The US and UK were the most vocal advocates, arguing that Jordan was an important ally facing serious economic vulnerabilities despite progress implementing key economic reforms. [...]
2006-01-24 15:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS4967AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. NOTE 3. AFRICA: CULTURE, ART, DIVERSIONS 4. RWANDA 5. AFRICAN CONTINENT 6. WEST AFRICA 7. ANGOLA 8. COTE D'IVOIRE 9. BURKINA FASO Â [...]
2006-07-21 11:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS5024PARIS CLUB - JULY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND AFGHAN DEBT
[...] (SBU) At the July 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed on exceptionally generous debt relief for Afghanistan, which achieved three main objectives: (1) 92% of Afghanistan's debt stock will be canceled immediately; (2) all interest falling due between now and the end of the IMF pr [...]
2006-07-25 12:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS5114AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. NOTE 3. ETHIOPIA 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. BENIN 6. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Â [...]
2006-07-28 08:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS5454AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. NOTE 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. AFRICA: CULTURE, ART, DIVERSIONS 5. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 6. MALI Â [...]
2006-08-11 13:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS566AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. MALI SUMMIT 5. CHAD 6. CONGO 7. DROC 8. KENYA 8. ZIMBABWE Â [...]
2006-01-30 11:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS5733CHINA IN AFRICA: FRENCH ARE WATCHING CLOSELY AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: French observers believe China's growing presence in Africa reflects a strategic decision by the PRC to exploit a resource-rich continent susceptible to an aggressive Chinese approach. French contacts express apprehension at Chinese inroads into areas of Africa onc [...]
2006-08-25 15:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON EAID ETRD CH XA FR
06PARIS6323PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the September 13 meeting of the Paris Club, Xavier Musca, the Chairman of the Paris Club, reported that Angolan Finance Minister de Morais had told him the previous week that Angola is still considering a precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF, with the understanding that th [...]
2006-09-20 15:01:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS6993PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND MALAWI DEBT
[...] (U) At the October 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors canceled 354 million of Malawi's 363 million dollars of Paris Club debt as its completion point treatment under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The US was not a creditor. The Club provided financing assuranc [...]
2006-10-24 14:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS7491PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) At the November 15 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors decided on an initial response to Argentine Finance Secretary MacLaughlin's letter to the Club expressing the GOA's desire to restart a dialogue and normalize relations as soon as possible. Creditors agreed that Paris Club Chairman Mu [...]
2006-11-21 15:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS7835PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the December 12-13 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors provided Haiti a debt restructuring based on its achievement of decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. This agreement consolidates around USD 69 million in debt, and will lead to the immedia [...]
2006-12-19 13:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PRETORIA3422 ENTICED BY AFRICA'S MANIFOLD RICHES, AMERICANS AND CHINESE
[...] (SBU) Summary: About 30 government, academic and business leaders -- including several former senior State Department officials -- held a groundbreaking dialogue to explore how China and the U.S. could work with Africa to spur development on the continent. Discussions centered on energy, trade [...]
2006-08-21 08:34:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID EIND KDEM CH XA SF
06RABAT1427DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE 505 AGREEMENT
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Poloffs met July 27 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim to encourage the Government of Morocco (GOM) to replace its existing 505 agreement with the text of a new [...]
2006-07-27 17:04:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA
06RABAT2183DIPLOMATICNOTE RECEIVED: AMENDING THE 505
[...] (U) Thiscable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post received Diplomatc Note 003685 from the Ministry of Foreign Affais November 28, 2006 in response to reftel A and . The Note was transmited in both Arabic and Eglish. In the following note, the Moroccan [...]
2006-11-29 15:14:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA
06ROME46324TH FAO AFRICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] Summary: The biennial African Regional Conference (ARC) of the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO),held in Bamako, Mali, from January 30 to February 3 highlighted the continent's lack of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals for reducing hunger and poverty, and pr [...]
2006-02-15 14:54:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR XA FAO
06TOKYO711JAPAN'S UNSC REFORM EFFORT LOOSING STEAM?
[...] (C) Summary: Japan's Option C plan "did not fly" with its G3 partners, MOFA's UN Policy Division Director Aikawa told PolOffs February 7. Aikawa did not know how much longer Japan could "paper over" its differences with the G3. Implying that UN Security Council reform may be loosing steam do [...]
2006-02-08 09:08:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC XA JA
06USUNNEWYORK1093UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] SUMMARY: Members of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee communicated May 25 via videoconference with Court Registrar Lovemore Munlo and other Court officials to discuss the proposed $26.8 million budget projected for July 2006-June 2007, progress in the three trials now underw [...]
2006-05-31 18:51:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
06USUNNEWYORK1404GAMBARI, KALOMOH, GUEHENNO, EGELAND ATTEND CORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 20, the Under Secretary-General (U/SYG) for the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, hosted a meeting of members of the Core Group for Northern Uganda, composed of the U.S., UK, Norway, and Netherlands, with Canada also in attendance, to discuss the [...]
2006-07-25 13:30:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIV SU UG UNSC XA XW
06USUNNEWYORK1405GUEHENNO BRIEFS ON COTE D'IVOIRE AND UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 13, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Under-Secretary General (U/SYG) Guehenno briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) on discussions held on July 5 in Cote d'Ivoire between Secretary-General (SYG) Kofi Annan and African leaders regarding the region's peace pro [...]
2006-07-25 15:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IV PGOV UNSC XA KPKO
06USUNNEWYORK514UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] USUN management-reform (M/R) officer joined other Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee members in a formal meeting March 13 to discuss the Committee's upcoming trip to Freetown, the Court's precarious financial future, and the need to prod the Court's judges to increase judicial ef [...]
2006-03-16 14:31:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07ABIDJAN1018COTE D IVOIRE 2007 AGOA ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATION
[...] Below is the text of Post's Eligibility Recommendation Input as emailed to EEB Janet Potash and USTR Connie Hamilton October 2nd: Country: COTE D'IVOIRE Current AGOA Status: Ineligible, Benefits Withdrawn January 1, 2005 Country Background Summary: Cote d'Ivoire's economy has struggled [...]
2007-10-03 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD XA IV
07ABIDJAN234CHINESE INFLUENCE IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AN UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. China plays a passive role in the political scene in Cote d'Ivoire, and typically proffers the rhetoric of non-interference in national affairs with regards to the Ivorian political crisis. China is not a supplier of military hardware or training to either faction. China is [...]
2007-03-02 19:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN XA IV
07ABUJA1258NIGERIAN PARTICIPATION IN AU SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-15 13:40:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDXA KSUM PREL NI
07ACCRA497CHINESE INFLUENCE IN GHANA - AN UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: Chinese involvement in Ghana, dating from the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1960, is strong and growing. After independence, President Kwame Nkrumah sought close ties with China, a relationship that continued throughout the Rawlings years. The bilateral friendship b [...]
2007-03-02 14:39:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALCH ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL XA XE GH
07ADDISABABA40SOMALIA: PM MELES AFFIRMS NEED FOR ETHIOPIAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In a 90-minute meeting on January 4 with A/S Frazer, Prime Minister Meles said that Ethiopia sought to withdraw its forces from Somalia as soon as possible, as their prolonged presence would only serve to make them a target of possible terrorist attacks from remaining CIC fighter [...]
2007-01-08 09:11:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL PTER PGOV MOPS KPKO ET SO XA
07ADDISABABA60SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER APPEALS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 14 meeting with Charge a.i. Wilgus and deputy pol-econ counselor, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale expressed interest in establishing a closer strategic relationship with the United States, and appealed for both humanitarian and military assistance to [...]
2007-01-09 10:42:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER EAID KISL SO ET RW AU XA
07ADDISABABA68SOMALILAND PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS COUNTER-TERRORISM
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In a January 9 meeting with Ambassador, Somaliland President Dahir Rayale Kahin appealed for international recognition and support, highlighting Somaliland's political progress and its commitment to democracy and regional stability. Kahin, accompanied by Finance Minister Hussein [...]
2007-01-09 16:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL PBTS PINR PTER SO ET DJ XA
07ANKARA469TURKEY: RACE FOR UNSC SEAT BRINGS RENEWED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As Turkey gears up its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2009-2010, the GOT is taking a renewed interest in Africa, reflected in part by PM Erdogan's recent visit to Addis Ababa for the African Union Summit. Never a key focus of Turkey's foreign pol [...]
2007-03-01 16:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON AORC UN XA TU
07ANTANANARIVO477COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS HELP TO DISARM MILITIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador McGee met May 19 with Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, high-level Union officials, and island presidential candidates on both Grand Comores and Anjouan to urge all parties to work towards free, fair, transparent, and peaceful elections in the upcomi [...]
2007-05-21 13:41:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM XA CN
07BEIJING1094FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: OECD VISITOR ON CHINA'S LIMITED
[...] (SBU) China has a growing but still limited willingness to discuss its emerging role as a donor, to be transparent about its programs, and to coordinate development assistance issues with other countries, according to Richard Manning, Chair of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC),[...]
2007-02-15 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID CH XA XB XC XD XE XF DAC
07BEIJING1102FEBRUARY 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points made at the February 15 MFA press conference were: -- Six-Party Talks have entered a "substantive stage." The Spokesperson outlined the structure of working groups and called for the United States and DPRK to resolve financial issues. -- China is ready to expand imports from th [...]
2007-02-15 10:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD UNSC CH KN JA IR IN RS XA
07BEIJING1839DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO SANCTIONS DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-19 10:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC CG XA CH
07BEIJING3117MAY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SPECIAL REP FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS; DARFUR; TAINTED PRODUCTS; BUSH-HU; HUANG JU; DALAI LAMA; SED; IPR; VISITS
[...] Key points at the May 10 MFA Press Conference made by MFA Spokeswoman Jiang Yu were: -- Liu Guijin has been appointed to the newly created position of "special representative for African affairs" where he will focus on the Darfur issue. -- China will send a team of 275 engineers to Darfur [...]
2007-05-10 10:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPRE ETRD SU XA XW ZU PM UK NL BE
07BEIJING3261MAY 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TRADE AND SED; SUDAN;
[...] Key points at the May 15 MFA Press Conference were: -- United States-China trade is "win-win," trade frictions are natural given the volume of trade and China has made efforts to revalue the rmb. Such topics will be discussed in the upcoming Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED). -- China pla [...]
2007-05-15 11:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD CH SU JA XA XW VM PM KS KN ZK
07BEIJING3321MAY 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: BDA FUNDS; AFRICA
[...] Key points at the May 17 MFA Press Conference were: -- The MFA has taken note of reports from the DPRK Foreign Ministry that BDA funds are being moved. -- Jiang reiterated that assistance to African nations has "no political strings attached." -- The MFA has taken note of reports that th [...]
2007-05-17 10:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD SU JA XA XW KS KN SO AS UK HR FR
07BEIJING413JANUARY 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: A/S HILL'S DPRK
[...] Key points made at the January 18 MFA press conference were: -- China welcomes the meeting between Assistant Secretary Hill and DPRK nuclear envoy Kim Kye-Gwan in Berlin and supports direct contact between the sides. -- The MFA confirmed A/S Hill's planned visit to Beijing "in the coming [...]
2007-01-18 23:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KIRF CH XA KN JA
07BEIJING499JANUARY 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: ANTI-SATELLITE
[...] Key points made at the January 23 MFA press conference were: -- The MFA Spokesman confirmed the test of an anti- satellite missile earlier this month, said the test did not target any country and reaffirmed that China opposes the weaponization of space and will not participate in a space ar [...]
2007-01-23 11:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KIRF PREF CH KN JA XA LE PK
07BEIJING569PRC/AFRICA: MFA PRESS BRIEFING ON HU JINTAO'S
[...] Key points made by Assistant Foreign Minister Zhai Jun at the January 24 MFA press briefing on President Hu's upcoming visit to Africa were: -- Hu will visit Africa from January 30 to February 10, including stops in Cameroon (Jan. 30-Feb. 1),Liberia (Feb. 1),Sudan (Feb. 2-3),Zambia (Feb. [...]
2007-01-25 10:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV XA SU CH
07BEIJING6159SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: CHINESE AID TO
[...] (C) Summary: China's aid policy toward Zimbabwe has not changed, and the current spate of reports regarding Chinese aid to Zimbabwe are all the result of a misunderstanding, MFA Zimbabwe Desk Officer Wang Xiao told PolOff September 19. The rumors re-ignited following a September 18 press conf [...]
2007-09-19 11:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI XA
07BEIJING7037COUNTERTERRORISM: PRC ADOPTING PRAGMATIC APPROACH
[...] (C) PRC citizens have increasingly been victims of violence overseas in recent years, including murders and kidnappings in Africa and attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Despite evidence that some of these incidents specifically targeted Chinese and clear signs that the PRC is experimenting [...]
2007-11-08 23:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PREL CASC PGOV CH PK XA IZ AF UN
07BEIJING7105S/P GORDON BILAT WITH VFM WANG YI: IRAN, BURMA,
[...] (C) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking with Policy Planning Director David Gordon November 13, stressed the need for the United States and China to continue their policy planning dialogue on long-term strategic issues. S/P Director Gordon emphasized to VFM Wang that the United St [...]
2007-11-14 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS ENRG SENV KNNP ASEAN CH XA BM IR
07BEIJING718JANUARY 30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points made at the January 30 MFA press conference were: -- The third phase of the fifth round of Six-Party Talks will begin on February 8. The Talks will focus on implementation of the Joint Statement and how to promote progress. Progress made will determine the Talks' duration. - [...]
2007-01-30 10:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM TSPA CH KN XA SU TX LO
07BEIJING7364U.S.-CHINA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: AFRICA, ENERGY
[...] (C) During the U.S.-China Policy Planning dialogue in Beijing in November, MFA Director General for Policy Planning Ma Zhaoxu said the United States and China have common concerns on African development issues. He expressed hope for the region and noted the importance of China as a model and [...]
2007-12-05 12:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD EAID APEC SENV CH XA
07BEIJING940FEBRUARY 8 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points made at the February 8 MFA press conference were: -- The Six-Party Talks resumed today with an open- ended schedule. Goals are to implement the Joint Statement and establish a mechanism for further progress. Relevant parties should address financial sanctions issues to allow th [...]
2007-02-08 11:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM MNUC KN JA CH XA
07BERLIN81GERMAN REACTION TO AFRICOM BASING
[...] (C) DCM and Naval Attach presented reftel talking points to MOD and MFA on January 15. MOD Parliamentary State Secretary Christian Schmidt offered preliminary personal SIPDIS views and undertook to provide DCM initial coordinated German government feedback on January 17. Schmidt reacted [...]
2007-01-15 11:43:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL GM XA US
07BRATISLAVA674SLOVAKIA WILL NOT SUPPORT POSTPONING UN BUDGET
[...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Denisa Frelichova at the UN and International Organizations Department at MFA. Frelichova said that postponing final action on the UN budget (option A in reftel) is a "red line" for Slovakia and the EU. She said Slovakia's team in New York has a wide mandate [...]
2007-12-20 15:05:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UNGA XA XD LO
07BRUSSELS2324A/S FRAZER AND EU CONFER ON RANGE OF AFRICAN ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and EU were in general agreement about a broad range of African issues, with the important exceptions of Eritrea and Zimbabwe, when they met June 24 for four hours of troika consultations on African affairs. On Eritrea, the EU favored continued engagement of President Is [...]
2007-07-18 14:40:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID EUN XA
07DARESSALAAM148AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY
[...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT) is committed to all issues regarding good governance and would love to see all nations, not just in Africa but all over the world, independent and led democratically, Nelson J. Lyimo, Acting Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Africa Department, [...]
2007-01-30 14:55:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL XA TZ
07JAKARTA796DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
[...] (U) In a March 21 meeting with Heru Santoso and Dicky Yunus of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs' Human Rights Directorate, we conveyed the names for listing contained reftel. Yunus and Santoso said that this matter was handled by experts at Indonesia's Mission to the U.N. in New [...]
2007-03-21 06:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA CG ID
07LISBON1858U.S.- EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS DISCUSSES KOSOVO,
[...] (SBU) A/S Fried met July 13 in Lisbon with Political Directors (PolDirs) from the 27 EU member states and with the EU Troika political directors. The agenda included Kosovo, Russia, NATO coordination in Afghanistan, conflicts in Africa, institution building in the Palestinian Territories, and [...]
2007-07-18 17:35:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALCVIS MOPS PHUM PREL PO EUN UN XA AF ZL RS
07LISBON2564EU DEFENSE MINISTERS INFORMAL IN PORTUGAL
[...] (C) Summary. High Rep Solana briefed EU Defense Ministers on the first face-to-face Troika-led negotiations between Serbs and Kosovars. Solana's spokesman said the EU would support any necessary action by troops currently stationed in Kosovo to maintain stability. Solana strongly defended th [...]
2007-10-04 10:57:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL MOPS MARR AF XA ZL PO EUN
07LISBON3106EU-AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT SCENESETTER
[...] (U) Summary. More than 100 delegations will be in Lisbon for the EU-African Union Summit December 8-9, representing every state in both organizations, plus a few more. This event will consume nearly 20 percent of Portugal's entire EU Presidency budget. Participants will adopt the Strategic [...]
2007-12-06 17:04:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PO PREL XA EUN
07LISBON3178EU-AFRICA SUMMIT; EPAS, ZIMBABWE, DARFUR
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary. The Portuguese are justly proud of the successful EU-Africa Summit held December 8-9 in Lisbon, even if the self-congratulation is sometimes over the top. Economic partnership agreements that the European mission thought were a done deal were derailed for further study, and [...]
2007-12-18 16:54:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL EAID ETRD PINS MOPS PHUM EUN XA PO
07LISBON644FORMER GOVERNOR BUSH MEETS PORTUGUESE PM, PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, accompanied by Ambassador Hoffman, both President Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Socrates stressed that the U.S.-Portugal relationship transcends party politics, asserting that changes in Portugal,s government do not [...]
2007-03-13 09:52:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA XF PO
07LISBON710ON ZIMBABWE: PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON EU, HRC, AND
[...] (C) Summary: The EU is already discussing action to condemn Zimbabwe in the Human Rights Council, but that action may merely be an EU statement during deliberations. Portugal is actively engaged in negotiations with the African Union on a joint strategy in the lead up to a potential EU-AU sum [...]
2007-03-19 17:01:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN XA PO
07MADRID336SPANISH ASSISTANCE IN AFRICA: NOT THE SAME AS PLAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following on the 2006 conversations and correspondence between Assistant Secretary Frazer and Spanish Director General Alvaro Iranzo, Emboffs met February 20 with Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil, Deputy Director General for Spanish International Cooperation in Africa and Asia, to d [...]
2007-02-23 08:51:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID SP XA
07MADRID425SPAIN: AFRICOM SHOULD ENGAGE AFRICAN UNION
[...] (C) At a meeting on a range of issues with Spanish Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on February 2, the DCM raised the recent announcement of the creation of U.S. Combatant Command Africa (AFRICOM) and told Dezcallar that the U.S. would appreciate Spain's input, advice and [...]
2007-03-06 17:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS SP XA
07MAPUTO138MOZAMBIQUE - AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-30 10:03:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL MZ XA
07MOSCOW5177RUSSIA'S SLOW RETURN TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:
[...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with a visiting INR analyst, Russian experts and MFA officials stressed that Russia is gaining ground slowly in Africa after its post-Cold War retrenchment. Russia is a firmly established player in the mining sector, where its advanced mining technology is [...]
2007-10-26 15:14:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EMIN XA RS
07NAIROBI1077 FEWSNET REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY PRESENTATION
[...] USAID/East Africa Regional Economic Growth and Integration (REGI) and Regional Food for Peace (FFP) Offices have cultivated a productive relationship with the regional FEWSNET Office. In that light, FEWSNET has been holding periodic briefings for USAID's offices (USAID/EA, Kenya, Somalia, Su [...]
2007-03-07 08:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID XA ZI KPRP
07NAIROBI3531COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR
[...] Country Clearance is requested for USAID/OFDA/ECARO Information Technology Specialist, George Ombis to travel to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso during the period o/a September 12 - 23, 2007. 2. The purpose of travel is to attend the Bi- Annual AFRICAGIS conference, the largest Geo- informatio [...]
2007-09-05 14:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA UV XA XY
07PARIS1119PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) The March 14 meeting of the Paris Club reviewed the debt status of 24 countries, taking steps to prepare for debt treatments in the coming months for the Central African Republic (likely in April),the Gambia (in May),Sao Tome and Principe (in May),and Liberia. Creditors confirmed the [...]
2007-03-22 13:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS1742PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND CAR NEGOTIATION
[...] (SBU) At the April 19-20, 2007 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors provided debt relief to the Central African Republic in recognition of its eligibility for the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative and to facilitate the newly signed Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) wit [...]
2007-05-02 16:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS2374PARIS CLUB - MAY 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND PERU AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) At the May 22-24 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed to allow Peru to prepay at face value as much as $2.5 billion in previously rescheduled non-concessional debt in order to support its efforts to implement sound debt management policies. The Secretariat reported on technical [...]
2007-06-05 16:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS2899PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the June 19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed in principle to accept Gabon's offer to buy back its previously rescheduled debt at a discount. Terms will be negotiated at the July meeting. This would be the first time the Paris Club has conducted a standalone mark [...]
2007-07-05 08:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS3209 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND GABON DEBT
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the July 17-18 meetings of the Paris Club, creditors accepted a stand-alone discounted debt buyback offer from Gabon, the first such operation by the Club. While welcoming Gabon's efforts to use USD 500 million in oil revenues toward debt management, the USG lacked legal aut [...]
2007-07-27 15:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS328PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND MACEDONIA &
[...] (SBU) During the January 23-24 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors granted Sierra Leone completion point treatment under the enhanced HIPC initiative, cancelling 100 percent ($363 million) of Sierra Leone's bilateral debt to the Club. The United States wrote off $44 million in USDA concession [...]
2007-01-29 12:22:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS3341FRENCH INTENTIONS FOR AFRICA-RELATED MEETINGS AT
[...] (SBU) MFA AF PDAS Caroline Dumas on August 3 provided the following information on Africa-related meetings the French would like to see held on the margins of this year's UNGA. She provided this information in response to our request for clarification in view of the different signals we had [...]
2007-08-08 12:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA XA FR
07PARIS3994PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's September 12 Tour d'Horizon, creditors welcomed in principle Jordan's proposal to buy back debt and generally supported the Secretariat's assessment of a 6-8 percent market discount. In a significant move, the Secretariat and creditors agreed with the U.S. [...]
2007-09-24 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS4309FRANCE PREPARING TO ANNOUNCE NEW AFRICA POLICY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is planning to announce a major shift in its Africa policy, to be unveiled by President Sarkozy during his scheduled visit to South Africa in February 2008, according to Romain Serman, an AF-advisor at the French Presidency. The change in policy is intended to minimize, [...]
2007-10-18 13:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XA FR
07PARIS4399PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2007 REPORTING CABLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, the Paris Club agreed to accept a buyback of previously rescheduled Jordanian debt at an average discount of 11 percent off face value. This figure is significantly above the 5-7% figure that the Paris Club Secretariat initially estimated to be a fair market disco [...]
2007-10-31 14:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS4622PARIS CLUB - November 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) At the November 14, 2007 Paris Club tour d'horizon, Chairman Musca urged countries to stay on message in their contacts with the government of Argentina - Argentina should clear its arrears. Iraq's recent agreement with Bulgaria was deemed roughly comparable to Iraq's Paris Club agreement, [...]
2007-12-03 15:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS4752FRENCH MFA POSITION ON UN BUDGET FAVORS TARGETED
[...] (C) We carried out reftel demarche on December 20 with MFA IO Desk Officer Olivier Guerot. He said that France, in tandem with the UK and Germany, had been working to identify specific areas where budget savings could be realized and had come up with about USD 200 million that could be saved [...]
2007-12-20 17:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC UNGA XA XD FR
07PARIS847PART I: AFRICA-FRANCE SUMMIT - CEREMONY OVER
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The XXIV Africa-France Summit in Cannes was an anodyne event that took place without pyrotechnics under the banner of "Africa and World Equilibrium." Turn-out, with 34 African heads of state in attendance, was below the peak of the 2003 Paris Summit and failed to matc [...]
2007-03-06 08:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KSUM XA FR
07PARIS848PART II: AFRICA-FRANCE SUMMIT -- THE DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary: President Chirac, on the margins of the XXIV Africa-France Summit in Cannes, facilitated a February 15 Mini-Summit on the regional spillover of the Darfur crisis. Ghana President Kufuor, in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union, presided over the event, which took place in [...]
2007-03-06 08:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KSUM XA SU CD CT FR
07PARIS849PART III: AFRICA-FRANCE SUMMIT - AVOIDING A MUGABE
[...] (C) Summary: For the 2007 Africa-France Summit at Cannes, President Chirac made a watershed policy choice to abide by the EU travel ban and exclude Zimbabwean pariah leader Robert Mugabe. Chirac had invited Mugabe four years earlier to the 2003 Paris Summit, amid concerns about the risk of a b [...]
2007-03-06 09:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KSUM XA ZI FR
07PORTAUPRINCE578OAS ''FRIENDS GROUP'' MEETS RESISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Organization of American States (OAS) Special Representative, Denneth Modeste, said that the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, proposed to re-establish a SIPDIS Group of Friends during his visit to Haiti on March 19. (Note: The OAS convened the Group of Friends in Port- [...]
2007-03-23 18:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV HA XA
07RABAT1229APHSCT TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO MOROCCO
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During her July 6-8 visit to Morocco, Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, met with the chiefs of Morocco's intelligence service, the internal security service, the chief of the national police, the Minister of Interior [...]
2007-07-31 15:36:00Embassy RabatSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL KISL MO IZ XF XA
07RABAT1575MOROCCAN DEMARCHE ON FOURTH COMMITTEE SAHARA
[...] (C) On the afternoon of October 4, Moroccan MFA Secretary-General Omar Hilale summoned chiefs of mission from SIPDIS OAS states resident in Rabat to a demarche anticipating wrangling over the text of a Western Sahara resolution in the UN Fourth Committee, set to begin next week. In addition [...]
2007-10-04 16:34:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL MO XA XF
07RABAT1812AMU SYG INSISTS ECONOMIC COOPERATION KEY TO
[...] (C) Summary: AMU Secretary-General El-Habib Benyahya recently outlined for the Ambassador his view that economic cooperation was the most promising driver for unity and integration in the Maghreb. The agenda for a December 10 economic ministerial in Tripoli would include a draft regional free [...]
2007-12-05 17:23:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECIN ETRD ECON PREL XA
07RABAT1813AMU SYG MOVING TO ENHANCE DIALOGUE WITH U.S.,
[...] (C) Summary: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Secretary-General El-Habib Benyahya was charged by AMU Foreign Ministers with pursuing enhanced dialogue with the U.S. during their November 30 meeting in Rabat, according to both AMU and GOM sources. The preceding week, Benyahya told the Ambassador that [...]
2007-12-05 17:30:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN XA
07RABAT362AMU INCREASING CT FOCUS, ADVANCING TRADE DIALOGUE,
[...] (C) Foreign Ministers from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, and Libya gathered in Rabat February 10-11 for the 26th Ministerial Council meeting of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU). A senior AMU contact told us discussions among the Ministers reflected increased focus in AMU fora on stemming [...]
2007-02-26 09:00:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KISL ETRD MO LY AG TS XA XF
07RABAT528ARAB MAGHREB UNION SYG BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON
[...] (C) Summary: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Secretary-General Habib Ben Yahya told the Ambassador he was promoting technical cooperation and trade among member states to advance regional integration, in a March 2 meeting. "We can't wait for a miracle political solution," he emphasized. Ben Yahya ci [...]
2007-03-23 17:58:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD MO AG LY TS MR XA XF
07ROME1945ITALY PRIVATELY FAVORS ICAO AVIATION EMISSIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Italy (GOI) representatives recently indicated unofficially that Italy would prefer a global aviation emissions solution rather than the EU Commission's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). GOI MFA comments suggest that, with a commitment to global and bindin [...]
2007-09-12 11:52:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR SENV ECON ETRD XA XB XD XF XG XL IT
07ROME2498UN FIFTH COMMITTEE: ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-20 17:22:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALAORC UNGA XA XD IT
07SHANGHAI291CHINA HOSTS AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the African Development Bank (AFDB) 2007 Annual Meetings in Shanghai on May 16 with a speech that stressed China's sincere commitment to helping Africa develop and acknowledged that China needed to further implement its own financial sector reforms [...]
2007-05-16 09:14:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH XA
07SHANGHAI335SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...]
2007-06-01 03:09:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD
07SHANGHAI640VISIT OF AFRICA BUREAU SENIOR ADVISOR, AMBASSADOR RUTH A.
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Shanghai from September 8-14, Ambassador Ruth A. Davis participated in the Vital Voices symposium for Chinese and African women business leaders, met with Chinese Africa experts, visited two Chinese companies investing in Africa and delivered a lecture on U.S.-African policy [...]
2007-09-30 00:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON CH XA
07SOFIA1391BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. OPTIONS FOR UN BUDGET
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-20 13:39:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UNGA XA XD
07STATE145621NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267 OBLIGATIONS:
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVES ---------------------- 2. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was listed in November 2001 pursuant to UNSCR 1267 (Al-Qa'ida/Taliban sanctions) and subsequent resolutions. The 1267 sanctions r [...]
2007-10-17 23:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER UNSC XA ER
07STATE149594GUIDANCE FOR CTC'S FIFTH SPECIAL MEETING IN
[...] The UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) will hold its Fifth Special Meeting with International and Regional Organizations on the Prevention of Terrorist Movement and Effective Border Security on October 29-31 in Nairobi, Kenya. This event will address key issues related to the need to se [...]
2007-10-26 20:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER KE XA
07STATE152814RAISING NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 4 and 5. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVES ---------------------- 2. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was listed in November 2001 pursuant to UNSCR 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions) and subsequent resolutions. The 1267 sanctions regim [...]
2007-11-05 23:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER UNSC XA ER
07STATE154929INSTRUCTION CABLE FOR USUN: CONSULTATIONS ON THE
[...] This is an action cable, see paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during November 13 Security Council consultations on the Great Lakes Region: Begin talking points: -- The United States welcomes the Government of the Democratic Republic of the [...]
2007-11-09 20:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL XA XF XW CG UG BY RW
07STATE163972INSTRUCTIONS- TALKING POINTS FOR U/SYG HOLMES
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the December 6 briefing by U/SYG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Sir John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank Under-Secretary Holmes for [...]
2007-12-05 23:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM XA XW SU
07STATE166907SIERRA LEONE- TALKING POINTS FOR DECEMBER 14
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the December 14 consultations on Sierra Leone. Begin points: -- The United States thanks Executive Representative Victor Angelo for his thorough briefing and for his except [...]
2007-12-14 00:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM XA XY SL
07STATE167346SOMALIA - INSTRUCTIONS FOR DECEMBER 17 DEBATE
[...] This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 2. 2. USUN is requested to draw from the following points for the December 17 debate on Somalia Begin text: -- We thank UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah for his insightful SIPDIS briefing this a [...]
2007-12-14 23:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT XA XW SO
07STATE168497BURUNDI- USUN INSTRUCTION CABLE ON BINUB
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the BINUB resolution scheduled to be adopted by the Council on December 19. Full text of the resolution follows: Begin text: The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions and statements of its [...]
2007-12-19 13:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM XA ZF BY
07STATE169391SIERRA LEONE - VOTING INSTRUCTIONS ON UNIOSIL
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the UNIOSIL extension resolution scheduled for adoption by the Council on December 21. Full text of the resolution follows: The Security Council, Re-affirming its previous Resolutions and the state [...]
2007-12-21 02:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM XA XY SL
07STATE170925DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C/Rel UN) The Department of Justice (DOJ),in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney,s Office for the Western District of Missouri, is conducting a criminal investigation regarding the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and its alleged f [...]
2007-12-28 21:50:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER UNSC XA XD PK
07TAIPEI1154TAIWAN VERSUS CHINA IN AFRICA: DOWN BUT NOT OUT
[...] (C) Summary: Taipei plans to host an Africa Summit this September to shore up bilateral relations with the five African countries that still recognize Taiwan following the losses of Senegal and Chad over the last two years. The summit in part is a response to Beijing's growing influence in [...]
2007-05-23 07:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA TW
07TOKYO2703ICAO ASSEMBLY - SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR KEY U.S.
[...] (U) On June 13, post delivered the points in STATE 77572 to Yoshiyasu Kawaguchi, Deputy Director, Specialized Agencies Division, International Cooperation Bureau, MOFA, and asked for the GOJ's support. Mr. Kawaguchi is not a specialist on these issues, but promised to deliver our request to t [...]
2007-06-15 05:36:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ETRD XA XF XB XG XD XL
07TOKYO391JAPAN LEERY OF TRYING TO INFLUENCE AFRICAN UNION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-29 09:40:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL XA XW SU JA
07TOKYO5643UN BUDGET DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-21 05:10:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UNGA XA XD JA
07TUNIS1261AFDB PRESIDENT AIMS TO REGAIN MEMBER CONFIDENCE
[...] (SBU) In a September 11 meeting with EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka outlined his vision for the AfDB's future, emphasizing the need for greater selectivity and focus in Bank lending as well as strong support for the private sector. Kaberuk [...]
2007-09-18 07:09:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV XA
07USUNNEWYORK21UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] This is a guidance request - see para 7. 2. SUMMARY: In the coming weeks, the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee will convene a series of meetings, including a day-long discussion to be hosted by the UK Mission on January 17, to consider a series of issues that will impact th [...]
2007-01-12 22:47:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK439UNHCHR ARBOUR MAY 31 MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 31, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour met with Ambassador Khalilzad to discuss her recent mission to the Great Lakes region. She noted many ongoing problems, specifically the overall lack of security, violence against women and children, and judicial [...]
2007-06-01 21:57:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDCG KAWC KWMN PHUM PREL XA ZF
07USUNNEWYORK470UNHCHR ARBOUR UNSC BRIEFING ON GREAT LAKES REGION
[...] (U) Summary: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Arbour briefed the UN Security Council on her recent mission to the Great Lakes region. Noting she had addressed the Peacebuilding Commission on Burundi the previous day, Arbour focused her remarks on conditions in the Democratic Republic o [...]
2007-06-12 16:35:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDBY CG KAWC KWMN PHUM PREL RW UG XA ZF ZU
07USUNNEWYORK49UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USUN M/R joined other Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee members (UK, Canada, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) for a day-long meeting convened January 17 at the UK Mission to assess the more than fifty recommendations to improve efficiency of the Special Court [...]
2007-01-24 15:56:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK541UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN
[...] (U) On June 22, Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council in an open session on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. His remarks included first-hand observations from recent field missions to Chad, Darfur, the Central African Republic, norther [...]
2007-07-02 17:04:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF UNSC XA
07USUNNEWYORK607UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...]
2007-07-25 16:21:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK629UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...]
2007-07-31 21:25:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK646UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: COURT PRESIDENT
[...] SUMMARY: Sierra Leone Special Court President Judge George Galaga King told members of the Special Court Management Committee via telephone on August 2 that motions from the defense teams in both the Charles Taylor case and the AFRC appeal seeking additional time to prepare, if approved by th [...]
2007-08-07 19:05:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK744UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN DR
[...] (U) Summary. On September 11, UN Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council in a closed session on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Based on his recent field visit to DRC, Holmes outlined continuing humanitarian [...]
2007-09-12 21:58:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF UNSC CG XA
08ABUJA1236NIGERIA: DELEGATION INFORMATION FOR 11TH AU SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-25 11:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM OVIP PGOV XA NI
08ABUJA2204NIGERIA: BURKINA FASO TSCTP DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche concerning the admission of Burkina Faso to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) to Dr. Olawale Maiyegun, Deputy Director of the Second United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of International Organizatio [...]
2008-11-10 14:19:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER XA XI NI
08ABUJA437NIGERIA: SOMALIA AND PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 16:02:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PGOV PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO NI
08ACCRA1586GHANA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE REGARDING DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 15:03:00Embassy AccraSECRETPARM PREL IR XA GH
08ACCRA561REGIONAL FISHIERIES NEWS
[...] SUMMARY: Chinese industrial fishing practices off the coast of Cameroon are described as destructive and threatening. Ghanaian fishermen allege Chinese commercial trawling methods are damaging the artisanal fishing equipment. China completes site survey in Ghana for potential aquaculture si [...]
2008-04-29 16:42:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV XA CM GH
08ALGIERS1231INCLUSION OF BURKINA FASO IN TSCTP: ALGERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-18 16:58:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER XA XI AG
08AMMAN663DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON POSSIBLE UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-02 12:14:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PREL KCRM UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO JO
08ANKARA1364TURKEY-AFRICA COOPERATION SUMMIT PREPARATIONS ON
[...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz updated the DCM on preparation for the August 18-20 Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit in Istanbul (reftel). 17 heads of state or government have so far confirmed participation and the GOT is expecting more. Zimbabwe has not confirmed President Mugabe's participation, [...]
2008-07-30 06:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA TU
08ANKARA1550TURKEY-AU SUMMIT OVERSHADOWED BY BASHIR'S
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT-hosted Turkey-African Union (AU) Cooperation Summit, August 18-21, rendered no surprises. During the sessions, the GOT focused on developing good will, expanding trade ties, and lobbying for African support of Turkey's UNSC bid. Overall, the GOT was pleased with both atte [...]
2008-08-27 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA TU
08ATHENS1028SOMALI PIRACY: GREEK SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 15:42:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL SOCI XA XW GR
08BAMAKO881BURKINA TSCTP MEMBERSHIP AND LATEST ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:06:00Embassy BamakoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER XA XI ML
08BEIJING2718AMBASSADOR URGES PRC SUPPORT FOR ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi the Ambassador pushed strongly for China to support bringing a resolution on Zimbabwe to a vote in the UN Security Council and to vote for that resolution. AFM Liu said China opposes the draft resolution and claimed that the [...]
2008-07-11 12:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU CH
08BEIJING3285CHINA'S VIEWS ON UN PEACKEEPING OPERATIONS
[...] (C) Over the past 30 years, China has metamorphosed from an open opponent to an active supporter of UN Peacekeeping Operations (PKOs),according to Chinese scholars. China currently deploys roughly 2,000 peacekeepers across ten UN missions. Our scholarly contacts say that PKOs are an easy wa [...]
2008-08-25 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH MARR MOPS PGOV PREL XA
08BELMOPAN423BELIZE RESPONSE: HIJACKING OF BELIZE-FLAGGED CARGO
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 27 to Mr. Oliver del Cid, Deputy Coordinator of the National Security Council Secretariat, Ministry of National Security. Mr. del Cid stated that IMMARBE, the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, was concerned about the welfare of t [...]
2008-09-27 21:17:00Embassy BelmopanSECRETEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG UP BH
08BELMOPAN424BELIZE RESPONSE: HIJACKING OF BELIZE-FLAGGED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-29 16:05:00Embassy BelmopanSECRETEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG UP BH
08BERLIN1204NATO SOFA STATUS FOR NON-DOD USG CIVILIANS AT U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In its most recent correspondence with the Embassy, the German Foreign Office retreats from some of its previous unhelpful positions, but continues to contend that only DOD USG civilian employees or dual-appointed non-DOD USG civi [...]
2008-08-29 12:10:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO AMGT APER GM XA
08BRUSSELS1565EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANNING SOMALIA MARITIME
[...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's Critical Maritime Routes initiative is intended to help improve security along key shipping corridors by providing aid to countries to enhance vessel tracking and information sharing. Initially conceived only for the Malacca Straits, the Commission is [...]
2008-10-09 05:46:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS EWWT XA XF XC AID
08BRUSSELS1566EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANNING SOMALIA MARITIME
[...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's Critical Maritime Routes initiative is intended to help improve security along key shipping corridors by providing aid to countries to enhance vessel tracking and information sharing. Initially conceived only for the Malacca Straits, the Commission is [...]
2008-10-09 05:46:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS EWWT XA XF XC AID
08BRUSSELS1745EU PREPARING FOR PIRACY MISSION, NO PLAN FOR
[...] (C//NF) Summary: The EU expects to launch its first naval operation by mid-December, when it will begin counter-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa. The operation, dubbed Atalanta, will be commanded from an Operational Headquarters at Northwood, UK, with a Force Headquarters afloat. The [...]
2008-11-17 14:05:00USEU BrusselsSECRETEAID EUN EWWT PHSA PREF PREL XA XO XW ZP
08BRUSSELS1865POSSIBLE EU ELECTION MONITORING IN AFRICA FOR 2009
[...] (C) On December 1, European Commission official Stefano Gatto (protect) of DG RELEX shared the following list of African countries, in priority order, whose national elections the European Union is likely to observe during 2009. The EU observes elections in areas where the Organization for [...]
2008-12-10 17:11:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN XA
08BRUSSELS1899EU PONDERS MILITARY OPTIONS FOR DR CONGO
[...] (C//NF) Summary: During the week of December 8, the EU Council Secretariat prepared a list of options for an EU response to UN SG Ban Ki-Moon's request for an EU "bridging force" in the DRC. Foreign ministers discussed these options on December 11 at a dinner on the margins of the European C [...]
2008-12-16 06:11:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL CG XA MOPS EUN
08BRUSSELS1900EU PONDERS MILITARY OPTIONS FOR DR CONGO
[...] (C//NF) Summary: During the week of December 8, the EU Council Secretariat prepared a list of options for an EU response to UN SG Ban Ki-Moon's request for an EU "bridging force" in the DRC. Foreign ministers discussed these options on December 11 at a dinner on the margins of the European C [...]
2008-12-16 06:11:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CG XA MOPS EUN
08BRUSSELS1937EU LAUNCHES ANTI-PIRACY OPERATION DESPITE
[...] (C//NF) Summary: The EU has launched its counter-piracy operation ATALANTA and has begun escorts off the coast of Somalia. USEU contacts suggest the force will comprise four to five ships on station throughout the year, plus three maritime patrol aircraft and supply ship support. While ten [...]
2008-12-22 06:20:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER XA XW SO EUN
08CASABLANCA107CHINA'S GROWING ECONOMIC INFLUENCE IN MOROCCO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Strong bilateral ties between China and Morocco have been bolstered in recent years by state and official visits. Commercial exchanges between the two countries have increased, and Chinese traders have begun to set up shop in Casablanca's largest commercial district. Although b [...]
2008-05-29 16:28:00Consulate CasablancaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV XA CH MO
08CONAKRY154RESPONSE - CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN GUINEA
[...] The below information is in response to reftel request regarding China's engagement in Guinea. ------------- CHINESE FOCUS ------------- 2. China's interest in Guinea is primarily economic with significant investment in the following sectors: energy, mining, agriculture, infrastructu [...]
2008-05-02 11:40:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAGR ECPS EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY XA
08CONAKRY292RFI CORRESPONDENT DISCUSSES GUINEAN MUTINY AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9 PAO met the Radio France International (RFI) correspondent Mouctar Bah over breakfast to talk about some of the recent events in Guinea. Bah talked about the ongoing mutiny and rumors that the Joint Chief of Staff is implicated. He gave his opinion regarding the ap [...]
2008-06-13 12:12:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR OIIP KPAO XA GV
08CONAKRY316GUINEA PARTICIPATION IN AU SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) The Government of Guinea plans to send a delegation of approximately 20 members to the Africa Union Summit in Egypt scheduled to begin June 30. Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Tidiane Souare will lead the delegation. A contact at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) anticipates that several [...]
2008-06-25 09:30:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSUM OVIP XA GV
08COTONOU348KHADAFI MAKES WAVES AT CEN-SAD SUMMIT IN BENIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 12:49:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SENV EAGR PINR XA LY BN
08COTONOU362BENIN DELEGATION TO AU SUMMIT
[...] Post delivered the referenced demarche by Diplomatic Note on June 24, 2008. The Special Adviser on Diplomatic Affairs to the Benin Head of State, Mariam Alhaji Boni Diallo advised Post that President Boni Yayi would lead the Benin delegation to the African Union Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, June [...]
2008-06-28 21:50:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM OVIP XA PGOV PREL BN
08COTONOU54BENIN PARTICIPATION IN AU SUMMIT
[...] Dr. Moussa Okanla, Benin's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and President Boni Yayi will both attend the AU Summit meeting in Addis Ababa. Dr. Okanla will arrive in Addis Abba on or about January 26, 2008 and remain until the summit concludes. President Yayi will arrive on or about January 30 and [...]
2008-01-24 10:16:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDBN KSUM PREL XA
08COTONOU630USITC STUDY ON BENIN: EFFECTS OF INSTRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS
[...] Per reftel, Post provides the following: -- AmEmbassy Cotonou's contact for this subject study (pending the arrival of a Pol/EconOff) is Mr. Marius C. Lotsu, the Economic/Commercial Assistant. His contact details follow: U.S. Embassy; 01B.P. 2012 Cotonou, Benin Rue Caporal Bernard Anani; E-ma [...]
2008-10-03 09:15:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ETRD ASEC EK PU SE XA BN
08DARESSALAAM284CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN TANZANIA
[...] Per ref A, Post submits the following response. Focus areas of Chinese engagement in Tanzania include infrastructure investments and bilateral Tanzania-China business engagements, primarily in the tourism sector (see ref B). Some of the highlights of Chinese investment in Tanzania include: [...]
2008-05-05 08:31:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAGR ECPS EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY XA XE TZ
08DJIBOUTI1035DJIBOUTI -- SUMMARY OF DJIBOUTI PRESS 12/28/08
[...] Djibouti-United States: Barring the Route to the Traffic of Nuclear Materials (La Nation) 2. University of Djibouti: English Books Donation (La Nation) 3. Senator Feingold in Djibouti (La Nation) 4. Diplomatic Ballet in Djibouti (La Nation) Â [...]
2008-12-28 05:07:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR PREL PGOV DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI1042UNHCR DJIBOUTI RECIEVES OFFICIAL VISIT FROM GENEVA
[...] SUMMARY: Mr. Mengesha Kebede, UNHCR's Deputy Director of the Bureau for Africa in Geneva visited Djibouti. He emphasized the need for closer coordination among UN agencies, donors, host governments, and regional actors to prepare for possible large scale migrations resulting from conflict and [...]
2008-12-31 04:16:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF SMIG EAID SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI223DJIBOUTI FACES CONTINUED INFLUX OF SOMALI REFUGEES DESPITE
[...] SUMMARY: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports a continued influx of refugees from south and central Somalia to Djibouti. Meanwhile, UNHCR completed the repatriation of 1,853 Somali refugees to Somaliland. END SUMMARY. REFUGEES FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL SOMALIA --- [...]
2008-03-10 18:11:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI439DJIBOUTI - IMPACT OF SOMALI REFUGEES AND YEMEN-BOUND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the National Office of Assistance to Refugees and Disaster Stricken People (ONARS)--the Government of Djibouti (GoDJ) office in charge of refugee affairs--reported the ongoing arrival of refugees/m [...]
2008-05-07 09:43:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF SMIG EAID SO ET DJ YM XA
08DJIBOUTI442DJIBOUTI - INFLUX OF SOMALI REFUGEES STRAINS RESOURCES AND
[...] SUMMARY: Ethiopia-based Regional Refugee Coordinator (REFCOORD) and Washington-based Refugee Officer Matthew Austin recently visited Djibouti on separate occasions to survey the refugee situation and assess the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) activities. During these visi [...]
2008-05-07 15:39:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID SMIG SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI550DJIBOUTI - SOMALI REFUGEE INFLUX EXACERBATES FOOD
[...] SUMMARY: The unforeseen influx of refugees since November 2007 from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea has strained the capacity of the Government of Djibouti (GoDJ) and the two primary international organizations supporting refugees in Djibouti. World Food Program (WFP) struggles to meet the dema [...]
2008-06-25 09:18:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID EAGR SMIG SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI568DJIBOUTI FACES NEW REFUGEEE INFLUX CHALLENGES
[...] SUMMARY: The Chargee and the Refugee Officer met with representative 2. On June 15, Chargee and the Refugee Officer met with Ann Encontre, R MIGRANTS CAUGHT IN CROSS FIRE ----------------------------- 3. Migrants from Somalia reportedly continue to transit through Djibou FEARED IMPA [...]
2008-06-30 16:14:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF SMIG EAID SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI569DJIBOUTI FACES NEW REFUGEEE INFLUX CHALLENGES
[...] SUMMARY: The Chargee and the Refugee Officer met with representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),and the National Office of Assistance to Refugees and Disaster Stricken People (ONARS) to discuss the challenges Djibouti faces associated with the recent Djibo [...]
2008-07-01 09:40:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF SMIG EAID SO ET DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI687FRAUD SUMMARY - DJIBOUTI
[...] Country Conditions: The Republic of Djibouti is a developing and stable African country in the Horn of Africa. Although exact statistics are unavailable, unemployment is estimated in excess of 50 percent of the working-age population. Over two- thirds of the country's estimated 650,000 reside [...]
2008-08-27 09:18:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC DJ ET ER SO XA
08DJIBOUTI764SCENESETTER: EMBASSY DJIBOUTI WELCOMES BACK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A key regional partner in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti hosts not only the sole U.S. military base in Africa, but also broadcasting facilities used by the Voice of America to reach Muslim audiences, one of USAID's primary global warehouses for pre-positioned emergency food stockpi [...]
2008-09-18 14:48:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MOPS EAID DJ ER SO XA
08DJIBOUTI816SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GENERAL NORTON A.
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A key regional partner in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti hosts not only the sole U.S. military base in Africa, but also broadcasting facilities used by the Voice of America to reach Muslim audiences, one of USAID's primary global warehouses for pre-positioned emergency food stockpil [...]
2008-10-17 16:47:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MOPS EAID DJ ER SO XA
08DJIBOUTI842DJIBOUTI - UNHCR RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM DONORS
[...] SUMMARY: Post awarded a USD 20,000 grant to American-led NGO LIFE International to assist refugees in Djibouti with skills training. The UNHCR mission in Djibouti received donations from donor countries and NGOs during the holy month of Ramadan, and also received non-food items originally inten [...]
2008-10-27 08:08:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI924DP WORLD CEO BULLISH ON DJIBOUTI INVESTMENTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Dubai Ports World (DP World) CEO Mohammad Sharaf outlined DP World's growing investments in Djibouti and throughout the region. Sharaf said that the multimillion-dollar Doraleh Port project was on track to receive its first ships in Decem [...]
2008-11-20 11:54:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EWWT PHSA PREL KCOR DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI950SOMALIA - DJIBOUTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to demarche (ref A),Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf left open the possibility of Djibouti accepting apprehended Somali pirates ("persons under control" or PUCS) for prosecution in national courts, but said he and his staff would need to study the 1988 Convention [...]
2008-11-25 15:37:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL XA XW SO DJ
08DJIBOUTI953DJIBOUTI -- DAILY SUMMARY OF DJIBOUTI PRESS 11/30/08
[...] Djibouti delegation holds talks with President Rayaale, cabinet ministers (Turkish Weekly) 2. Urban farmers exporting fruit, vegetable to Djibouti (Walta Information Center, Ethiopia) 3. Yemen, Djibouti discuss coordinating efforts to combat piracy (Yemen News Agency) 4. Yemeni-Dji [...]
2008-11-30 13:45:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR PREL PGOV DJ XA
08DJIBOUTI992DJIBOUTI -- SUMMARY OF DJIBOUTI PRESS 12/04/08
[...] General Ward of Africom in Djibouti (La Nation) 2. A Donation at the Right Moment (La Nation) ARTICLES: Â [...]
2008-12-10 05:52:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR PREL PGOV DJ XA
08FREETOWN208ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA IN SIERRA LEONE
[...] (U) Please see the following responses, pursuant to reftel A: ---------------------------------- CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN SIERRA LEONE ---------------------------------- 2. (C) As noted in reftel B, the Chinese Government's focus in Sierra Leone is technical assistance in targeted sectors [...]
2008-05-02 12:55:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV EAGR ECPS EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY XA
08GENEVA320RAISING ZIMBABWE IN GENEVA UN INSTITUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is considering ways to further influence the situation in Zimbabwe. Responding to the Ambassador's April 29 demarche, Deputy High Commissioner Kang said the proposal to appoint a special human rights envoy was among se [...]
2008-04-29 16:51:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA ZI AU UNHRC ELAB
08GUANGZHOU307GUANGZHOU GOVERNMENT GRAPPLES WITH "AFRICA TOWN"
[...] (SBU) Summary: The local authorities have responded to the growing numbers and high concentrations of Africans in various Guangzhou neighborhoods by quietly funding research into crime rates, religious practices, and tax payments associated with their activities. It is unclear whether this is [...]
2008-06-03 01:39:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON PREL SOCI XA CH NI ML RW
08HANOI1359DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 09:35:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC PGOV PHSA KCRM SO XA XW VM
08HANOI1363VIETNAM UNDECIDED ON SOMALI PIRACY RESOLUTION,
[...] (C) While not completely satisfied with the current UNSC Resolution on Somali Piracy, Vietnam acknowledges that the version currently "in blue" goes some way to address Vietnam's concerns. In a follow-up to the Ambassador's December 15 conversation with VFM Pham Binh Minh (reftel),in which [...]
2008-12-16 10:30:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW VM
08HANOI808SENIOR VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL SAYS ZIMBABWE SITUATION NO
[...] (SBU) On July 11, the Ambassador met with Vietnamese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh to deliver Ref. A points on the UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe. Minh said he read the U.S.-sponsored draft resolution "carefully." Hanoi has concluded that the situation in Zimbabwe is not a thre [...]
2008-07-11 11:55:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI XA ZU
08HARARE635HARARE POC FOR ANNUAL AGOA ELIGIBILITY EXERCISE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-25 09:52:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDECON XA ZI
08HARARE745HARARE USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
[...] In response to reftel request for contact information for local firms, organizations, academic researchers and individuals who may be helpful in providing information on the effects of infrastructure conditions on Zimbabwe's export competitiveness, Harare provides the following information: [...]
2008-08-28 07:47:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDECON XA ZI
08HARARE784 ZIMBABWE - AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROGRAM FORMAL
[...] Summary: Post has focused funding the following areas based on the current harsh economic and political climate and the HIV/AIDS pandemic: communities, children and orphans, schools, water development projects and income generation. During the election period from mid March for the next thre [...]
2008-09-08 09:36:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KPRP XA ZI
08HARARE903 ZIMBABWE - AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 14:01:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA ZI
08HELSINKI91FINNISH VIEWS ON POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION ON PIRACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 07:34:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PBTS UN UNSC IMO SO XA XW FI
08KAMPALA1431AFRICAN LEADERS LAUNCH CONTINENT'S LARGEST ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: The leaders of 26 African countries agreed in Kampala on October 22 to begin work establishing a new economic community to compete more effectively in the global economy. The joint declaration of the First COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Summit calls for a merger of the three econom [...]
2008-10-24 08:48:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ETRD EINV ECON PGOV XA
08KATHMANDU580NEPAL SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POSITIONS FOR ICAO MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 09:46:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER XA XF XB XG XD XL
08KHARTOUM667RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN SUDAN
[...] (SBU) China's engagement in Sudan centers on the pursuit of its economic interests, particularly oil, and these interests underpin its relationship with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). China's engagement on the political issues related to the conflict in Darfur or tensions between N [...]
2008-05-01 14:59:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR SU CH XA XE
08KHARTOUM93AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: SUDAN ATTENDENCE
[...] (SBU) (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed post that Foreign Minister Deng Alor will attend the AU Summit, most likely on January 28 and 29. Though he has not yet requested a meeting, post suggests that A/S Frazer meet with FM Deng Alor, who was just sworn in as Foreign Minister e [...]
2008-01-23 07:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSUM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU XA
08KINGSTON185JAMAICA: DEMARCHE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY DELIVERED
[...] On February 27, PolOff conveyed reftel talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs, Ambassador Vilma McNish. 2. Post will report any response from the Government of Jamaica. JOHNSON [...]
2008-02-29 12:23:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO JM
08KINSHASA105African Union summit - DRC confirmed
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-31 06:31:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM PREL PGOV XA CG
08KINSHASA1112DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING TERMINATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 17:35:00Embassy KinshasaSECRETPARM PREL CG IR XA
08KINSHASA475DEMARCHE IN KINSHASA - RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 11:09:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL AA UNSC XA ZI MA MP WA MI BC LT
08KINSHASA66 AU JAN 08 SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-23 15:18:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM PREL XA CG
08KYIV1891HIJACKING OF CARGO SHIP FAINA: INITIAL UKRAINIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-27 19:10:00Embassy KyivSECRETEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG BH UP
08LAGOS91NIGERIA: FY07 AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL SELF HELP
[...] (U) The following are answers to questions from Reftel regarding the FY07 Ambassador's Special Self Help program in Nigeria: --Approximately 354,032 people (184,097 women, 169,935 men) have benefited from SSH during this period (October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007) --Approximately 282,60 [...]
2008-03-10 06:34:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON XA NI
08LAGOS98NIGERIA: FY07 AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL
[...] (U) The following are answers to questions from Reftel regarding the FY07 Ambassador's Special Self Help program in Nigeria: --Approximately 354,032 people (184,097 women, 169,935 men) have benefited from SSH during this period (October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007) --Approximately 282,60 [...]
2008-03-13 10:30:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON XA NI
08LILONGWE375MALAWI: AU SUMMIT DELEGATION INFORMATION
[...] (SBU): According to the Malawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malawi's delegation to the AU summit is as follows: Hon. Minister Joyce Banda, MP Mr. M.B. Mbewe - Principal Secretary Mr. Guston Mabvuto - Chief of Protocol Mr. W. Gunda - Deputy Director, Political Affairs Ms. Imfairenga Chalanda [...]
2008-06-26 13:01:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSUM OVIP XA MI
08LILONGWE595AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - MALAWI
[...] Per REFTEL, Embassy Lilongwe submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: MALAWI Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Malawi's current estimated population is about 13 million and GDP at current prices is USD 3.8 [...]
2008-10-07 03:51:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA MI
08LILONGWE596AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - MALAWI
[...] Per REFTEL, Embassy Lilongwe submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: MALAWI Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Malawi's current estimated population is about 13 million and GDP at current prices is USD 3.8 [...]
2008-10-07 03:51:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA MI
08LISBON2698AFRICA COMMAND DCMA COORDINATES WITH PORTUGUESE
[...] (U) Summary: Africa Command DCMA Amb. Yates conducted meetings with civilian interlocutors in Lisbon November 4 to develop potential partnerships, particularly in Lusophone Africa. Representatives from the Ministries of Interior and Justice lauded existing trilateral cooperation with the US i [...]
2008-11-07 16:09:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PGOV PREL XA PO
08LJUBLJANA94SLOVENIA TO DECIDE ON SOMALIA PIRACY AFTER EU PSC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-28 10:34:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO SI
08LONDON1426THE UK AND AFRICA: WHAT THE FCO'S STRATEGY REFRESH
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Following the FCO's recent "strategy refresh" of its priorities, FCO and Africa Directorate leadership have held extensive internal discussions on what the new strategy will mean for Africa. FCO plans to develop a more comprehensive foreign policy for Africa -- not just a deve [...]
2008-05-22 07:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL XA UK
08LONDON1562ZIMBABWE: UK CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN TRUST FUND FOR
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said June 5 the UK plans to contribute GBP 100,000 (approx. 200,000 USD) to the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistance and is likely to finalize the letter of commitment today (June 5). HMG had initially intended to contribute GBP 200,000, but upo [...]
2008-06-05 11:07:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL AA UN XA ZI UK
08LONDON1649AFRICOM: FCO AND DFID INTERESTED BUT IN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and DFID officials report they are in a "wait-and-see" mode on AFRICOM and have allowed the MOD to take the UK Government lead in engaging the USG on AFRICOM. Saying they have been "kept well informed" as USG thinking on AFRICOM develops, MOD officials have said they get th [...]
2008-06-18 15:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MASS KPKO MOPS PINS XA UK
08LONDON2477AFRICA AND UK: NEW FCO AFRICA DIRECTOR ADAM WOOD AND CHANGES TO THE AFRICA DIRECTORATE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-29 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR XA UK
08LONDON2858AFRICA/CHINA: MORE ENGAGEMENT IS A TWO-SIDED COIN
[...] (C//REL TO FIVE EYES) China's increasing engagement with African governments is a two-sided coin. China more readily works on its Africa partners' behalf in the United Nations (sometimes in unhelpful ways for the West),and it also provides significant direct investment and infrastructure cr [...]
2008-11-13 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR EAID XA CA NZ AS CH TW UK
08LONDON3107SOMALIA/PIRACY: UK ON UNSC PIRACY RESOLUTION, CONTACT GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 15:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW UK
08MADRID224SPAIN INTERESTED IN SOMALIA PIRACY UNSCR
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa Antonio Sanchez-Benedito on February 27. Sanchez-Benedito thanked Poloff and expressed Spain's serious interest in a possible UNSCR on Somali piracy for two reasons. First, as a nation particu [...]
2008-02-28 15:38:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL EFIS UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO SP
08MALABO135MALABO DELIVERS MONEY TO BACK SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
[...] (U) Summary: The Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea delivered eight checks to three Ministers to begin eight priority projects to be financed under the Social Development Fund Program of the Government of Equatorial Guinea. Attending the November 17, 2008 event were the Prime Minister, th [...]
2008-11-20 00:29:00Embassy MalaboUNCLASSIFIEDEK XA
08MASERU18LESOTHO: DELEGATION LIST FOR AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT
[...] In response to reftel, Embassy Maseru submits the following list of Lesotho's delegation to the upcoming African Union Summit: -- Prime Minister (PM): Pakalitha Mosisili (head of delegation) -- Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA): Mohlabi Tsekoa -- Prime Minister's wife: 'Mathato Mosisili [...]
2008-01-25 07:51:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM PREL XA LT
08MASERU184LESOTHO: ELEVENTH AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT DELEGATION
[...] In response to REFTEL, Embassy Maseru submits the following information regarding Lesotho's delegation to the 11th African Union Summit from June 30 to July 1, 2008. 2. Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, Head of Government, will lead the GOL delegation. He plans to arrive at Sharm El-Shei [...]
2008-06-24 14:48:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KSUM OVIP XA LT
08MOSCOW2907RUSSIA HAS NO PLANS TO INTERVENE IN HIJACKING OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 11:43:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG BH UP
08MOSCOW3051RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO SOMALI PIRACY REMAINS UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) Contradictory statements to the press by Russian naval officials have further frustrated attempts to understand Russian intentions to respond to the hijacking of the M/V Faina or the larger issue of Somali piracy: 2. (U) ITAR-TASS reported on October 13 that a high-ranking MOD official [...]
2008-10-15 10:30:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO UP RS
08MOSCOW3624DEMARCHE ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY RESOLUTION
[...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche on December 15 to MFA Department of International Organizations Senior Counselor Valentin Berezovskiy, who said that the GOR remained concerned about elements of OP4 of the draft UNSC resolution on Somali piracy, but had yet to determine a final position on the [...]
2008-12-15 11:25:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XA XW RS
08NAIROBI2334NGOs and USG Discuss Civil-Military Relations in the
[...] On July 15, USEmbassy Nairobi jointly with the NGO umbrella organization InterAction and the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa held a one-day conference in Nairobi to discuss the evolving civil-military cooperation framework -- also known as Diplomacy, Development, and Defense (3D) -- in [...]
2008-10-10 12:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDMASS EAID PINS SOCI KE XA
08NIAMEY1081NIGER: BURKINA FASO MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRANS-SAHARA
[...] (C) On November 4, 2008, using reftel talking points, Ambassador Allen raised with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Aichatou Mindaoudou the USG interest in inviting the Government of Burkina Faso to participate in the TSCTP. When asked for the GON's views on the matter and sugg [...]
2008-11-10 11:36:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER NG UV XA XI
08NIAMEY1083NIGER: BURKINA FASO MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRANS-SAHARA
[...] (C) On November 4, 2008, using reftel talking points, Ambassador Allen raised with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Aichatou Mindaoudou the USG interest in inviting the Government of Burkina Faso to participate in the TSCTP. When asked for the GON's views on the matter and sugg [...]
2008-11-10 11:46:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER NG UV XA XI
08NIAMEY534THIRD SPAIN AND AFRICA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE - EMPOWERMENT OF
[...] Summary. The Government of Niger (GON) played host to the 3RD annual Spain and African Women's Conference, held May 12-13, 2008, in Niamey. GON President Mamadou Tandja (the only male speaker),Government of Spain (GOS) Vice President (VP) Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega and GON Foreign Min [...]
2008-05-20 15:13:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWMN ECON EAID SCUL PHUM XA NG SP
08OSLO390NORWAY SUPPORTIVE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) On July 11, 2008, Poloff spoke with Torfinn Stenseth, Assistant Director General of the Section for Global Security Issues and CIS Countries of the MFA, to deliver reftel demarche. Stenseth said that piracy off the coast of Somalia is a serious issue with which the GON is very concerned [...]
2008-07-14 12:32:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYXA KCRM KJUS EWWT PHSA PREL NO
08OTTAWA755G-8 COMMITMENT AND DARFUR KEEPS CANADA FOCUSED ON
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Harper has made Latin America, U.S. relations, Afghanistan, and major emerging markets Canada's prime foreign policy themes, leading to concern that Africa would "fall off the map." Africa nonetheless has maintained its spot on Canada's radar screen, in large meas [...]
2008-06-06 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM EAID XA SU CA CH
08OTTAWA961UNSCR 1816: CANADA DEPLOYS THREE WARSHIPS
[...] (U) Pursuant to UNSCR 1816 (reftel),Canada has announced the deployment of three warships to Somali waters. The deployment will include Task Force 150 flagship the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, the multi-role patrol frigate HMCS Calgary, and the oiler HMCS Protecteur. Visit Canada,s Economy and [...]
2008-07-15 21:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL EWWT KCRM KJUS SO XA XW CA
08OUAGADOUGOU373A VIEW FROM BURKINA: FIRST AFRICA-INDIA SUMMIT REFLECTS
[...] (U) Key Points: -- India hosted the first India-Africa Forum Summit April 8-9 in New Delhi, with 12 African heads of state or government in attendance, including Burkina Faso's Prime Minister. The African leaders represented the African Union (AU) and regional integration bodies or initiati [...]
2008-05-05 07:31:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECIN ETRD EFIN UV XA IN CH
08OUAGADOUGOU623BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED SEEKING SUPPORT FOR UNSC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 12:57:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC ZI XA UV
08PANAMA197PANAMA: SOMALIA AND PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 22:40:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO PM
08PANAMA247PANAMA: GOP INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-27 14:55:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG RS CH XA PM
08PANAMA340PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-29 19:58:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNCSD XA ZI AU PM
08PANAMA563PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR UNSC RESOLUTION ON
[...] (C) "Panama will be with the United States", Panamanian MFA Senior Advisor for UNSC matters Nils Castro reaffirmed to POLCOUNS on July 9th in response to reftel demarche on Zimbabwe. Furthermore, he stated that Panama supported a UNSC Chapter VII Resolution and did not want to debate the "co [...]
2008-07-09 19:03:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08PANAMA569PANAMA: CONFIRMED SUPPORT FOR UNSC RESOLUTION ON
[...] (C) On June 9, Charge d'Affaires spoke with First VP and FM Samuel Lewis. Lewis confirmed that Panama would vote in favor of the UNSC Chapter VII Resolution. MESA [...]
2008-07-11 15:48:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU PM
08PARIS1100FRANCE AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON RWANDAN FDLR
[...] (S) MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on June 9 told AF/C Director Wycoff that France agreed with the USG approach to Rwandan FDLR sanctions as expressed reftel (other aspects of the discussion reported separately). Chevallier said that seven of the eight names on the U.S. list [...]
2008-06-10 12:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA FR
08PARIS1172THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FRENCH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF BELGIUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. agencies, including those involved in international trade agreements, need to keep a careful eye on the efforts of the government of Belgium's French-speaking community to enlist UNESCO -- in an unhelpful way -- in the fight against fly-by-night diploma mills in Africa and [...]
2008-06-23 06:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL ETRD ECA BE XA
08PARIS1201 PARIS CLUB: June 2008 Session, Private Sector Meeting,
[...] Summary: At the Paris Club's June 10-12 session, the tour d'horizon addressed Burundi, Central African Republic, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Sudan and Togo. Germany requested an informal update on Argentina; Russia sought resolution of its promissory note issue. As for methodological iss [...]
2008-06-25 15:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1304ZIMBABWE/UNSCR: FRENCH "REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC" OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 10:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU UK FR
08PARIS1337FRENCH SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1816 (SOMALIA PIRACY)
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, MFA Horn of Africa Desk Officer Thierry Caboche reviewed assistance France has been providing to Africa (refs B-C),particularly France's engagement in naval patrols to counter piracy in the Horn of Africa and its efforts to engage Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sw [...]
2008-07-15 15:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHAS PREL SO XA XW FR
08PARIS1423 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's July 7-8 session, the Vice Chairman briefed creditors on his recent meetings in Kinshasa with the Ministers of Economy and Finance, noting concern that a proposed infrastructure deal involving a DRC sovereign guarantee was at odds with the Paris Club's project [...]
2008-07-24 16:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1501FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART I
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The revised Africa policy President Nicolas Sarkozy announced after taking office in May 2007 is taking shape. This new policy features a reduction and consolidation of France's military presence to align it more closely with Africa's regional structures, more "business-like" rela [...]
2008-08-01 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1568FRANCE’S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART II (FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy has received mixed reviews from Africans uncertain as France moves away from the "France-Afrique" model. Some Africans seem to accept the outlines of the new policy, some have expressed misgivings about replacing the familiar with the unknown, and some have p [...]
2008-08-13 17:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1698FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART III
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy may have its most immediate impact on France's military presence in Africa. The French are planning to consolidate their military presence and want to orient it towards cooperation with Africa's sub-regional groupings (e.g., ECOWAS, SADC, et al.) and awa [...]
2008-09-09 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1872 PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's September 17 session, Club Chairman Musca briefed creditors on recent contacts with the Government of Argentina (GOA),which revealed that Argentina intends to clear arrears excluding late interest and resume debt service on future installments. Creditors in [...]
2008-10-10 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS2004 PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The October 2008 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon included Argentina, Congo-B, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, DRC, Iraq, Liberia, the Seychelles, and Togo. Paris Club Co-Chairman Coeure reported that, in an earlier conversation with the Paris Club Secretariat, Argentine Minister Fernandez had re [...]
2008-10-31 17:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS2056FRENCH VIEWS ON THE NOVEMBER 10 EU GAERC
[...] (SBU) French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona responded on November 7 to reftel points on the upcoming EU GAERC. He began by observing that this one would be the most complicated of the current French presidency, since it would also involve a joint [...]
2008-11-07 17:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EAID XA FR RS LE CG CH IZ BK
08PARIS2108PARIS: SOMALIA PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW FR
08PARIS2344 PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The December 2008 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon included Argentina, Burundi, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Pakistan, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and Togo. Argentine Economy Minister Fernandez had told the Secretariat that repayment was [...]
2008-12-31 08:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS265 PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's January 22-24 session, the U.S. and other creditors signed an accord with Guinea to resume interim debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The Paris Club (PC) also granted The Gambia 100 percent cancellation of its [...]
2008-02-14 09:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON OECD EAID FR XA XB XF XM
08PARIS362FRENCH VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA is generally favorable to the notion of UNSC action on Somalia and piracy (reftel). However, the French would hope that a UNSC mandate would contain specifics setting forth clearly the legal basis of any resulting operation and the responsibilities of, and limita [...]
2008-03-03 06:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO FR
08PARIS574SOMALIA: FRENCH SUPPORT ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS, MAY
[...] (C) France continues to support anti-piracy efforts concerning Somalia, MFA Somalia desk officer Thierry Caboche said on March 27, in response to reftel. He expressed appreciation for reftel's detailed points and for the USG's understanding of France's activities in the region. Caboche sai [...]
2008-03-27 14:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW FR
08PARIS662JAPAN'S GROWING DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan's diplomatic presence in Africa is growing, with new embassies in Mali, Botswana, Malawi, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso in 2008-2009. Hiroki Nakamura, the new Africa-watcher at Japan's embassy in Paris, told us on April 8 that this was an effort to raise Japan's profile i [...]
2008-04-10 08:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC EAID XA JA FR
08PARIS819ZIMBABWE AT THE UN: FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT NOT
[...] (C) French MFA IO and AF desk officers (Franck Paris, Isabelle de Boisgelin) said on April 28, in response to reftel demarche, that France very much supported the idea of a formal UNSC session on Zimbabwe but said they were not sure that there would be Council agreement to hold one or that it [...]
2008-04-28 15:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA AU ZI FR
08PARIS826 PARIS CLUB - PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's April 16-17 session, the U.S. and other creditors signed an accord with Liberia to begin interim debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. During the Tour d'Horizon, France, Germany, and the U.S. reported on recent bi [...]
2008-04-29 07:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS832ZIMBABWE/UNSC: U.S. POSITION CONVEYED TO GOF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-29 12:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC XA ZI FR
08PORTOFSPAIN128T&T ENERGY MINISTER DISCUSSES INFRASTRUCTURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 5 office call, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Energy Minister Conrad Enill welcomed U.S. engagement on energy infrastructure protection and U.S. Embassy suggestions on legislation to improve law enforcement, while also softly echoing past messages that T&T does not want to [...]
2008-03-12 19:23:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON EAGR PREL KCRM VZ XA TD
08RABAT156S/CT AMB. DAILEY AND DAS GRAY DISCUSS REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 8 meeting in Rabat, Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Habib SIPDIS Benyahia told S/CT Amb. Dailey and DAS Gray he was working to address the terror threat by advancing regional cooperation and development in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Be [...]
2008-02-19 18:36:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ECIN MO XA
08RABAT33LIBYAN MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRANS-SAHARA
[...] (C) DCM raised reftel query on the inclusion of Libya in the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) with MFA Director General for Bilateral Affairs (P-equiv) Youssef Amrani, on January 14, and conveyed talking points. DCM stressed the importance of a regional approach to defeat ter [...]
2008-01-14 17:52:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS PREL XA XF MO
08RABAT398EXTREMISM AND TERROR IN MOROCCO PART I: HISTORIC
[...] (C) In Morocco, as in virtually every other country in the Arab-Islamic world, jihadist terrorism has emerged in the past 10 years as a threat to national stability. Morocco has also produced terrorists that have joined the international jihad, conducting violent attacks in Europe or enlisting [...]
2008-05-05 12:16:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL ASEC PINR MO XA XF
08RABAT400EXTREMISM AND TERROR IN MOROCCO PART II: PERCEIVED
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: In today's Morocco, social alienation and perceived injustice are the key factors driving extremism and terror recruitment. Poverty is not the main determinant, although it clearly contributes to social alienation. Many Moroccan terrorists have come from the cou [...]
2008-05-07 10:03:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL ASEC MO XA XF
08RABAT401TANGIER MEETING SEES HIGHEST LEVEL ALGERIAN VISIT
[...] (C) The April 27 North African Political Parties Conference in Tangier, attended by both Moroccan Prime Minister El-Fassi and Algerian Prime Minister Belkhadem was the highest-level contact in years between the feuding North African neighbors. It was hailed as a potential landmark both by Alg [...]
2008-05-07 12:27:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN MO AL XA
08RABAT422EXTREMISM AND TERROR IN MOROCCO PART III: THE GOM
[...] (C) The Moroccan Government has pursued an interdisciplinary counterterrorism strategy incorporating aggressive law enforcement and intelligence operations with "soft" de-radicalization efforts including theological outreach, media engagement, and social development initiatives. Though the ge [...]
2008-05-12 10:06:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL MO XF XA
08RABAT473SENIOR GOM OFFICIAL ON AQIM
[...] (C) Summary: A senior Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs official noted May 13 that the Government of Moroccan perceived the regional terrorist threat as serious but manageable. He described the nature of terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Maghreb, estimating that the [...]
2008-05-21 14:13:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL XA MO
08RABAT512MOROCCAN RELATIONS WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN
[...] (C) Summary: Morocco is very much an African country. Its foreign policy toward Sub-Saharan African countries, like its worldwide foreign policy, is dominated by a single issue: promoting its sovereignty over Western Sahara. The Western Sahara issue, in parallel with the broader rivalry bet [...]
2008-06-03 12:45:00Embassy RabatSECRETPREL EAID PREF KPKO XA MO
08RABAT532NUDGING THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION OUT OF A RUT
[...] (C) Summary: The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU),which links Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya in an effort to promote regional cooperation and economic integration, has to date been a largely stagnant organization with relatively little to show for its 19 years of existence. AMU Sec [...]
2008-06-09 14:48:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ECIN MO XA
08RABAT651MOROCCO IN AFRICA: FM REACHES OUT ON SAHARA
[...] (C) Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Taib Fassi-Fihri's spent early summer lobbying Sub-Saharan African countries, mostly on Western Sahara. From 19 to 23 June, the minister visited four Sub Saharan countries and he worked the corridors of the African Union,s (AU) summit meeting in Sharm [...]
2008-07-14 17:48:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA AG CD CM KE MP MR ML NI SF MO
08ROME288ITALY ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY IN THE UNSC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 13:21:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO IT
08ROME541CSD: ITALIAN HIGH-LEVEL/POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
[...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials told Emboffs that the head of Italy's delegation to the May 5-16 United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD),like that of the U.S., likely will be a senior career official, rather than a high-level or political figure. This is largely due to [...]
2008-04-30 06:45:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALSENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON ZI XA IT
08ROME545RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-30 11:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA ZI AU IT
08SANJOSE184COSTA RICA SUPPORTS RENEWAL OF AMISOM MANDATE
[...] On February 28 we contacted Randolph Coto, Foreign Policy Coordinator of the FMA and shared with him the issues contained in the reftel. 2. Coto indicated the GOCR was well aware of these piracy issues and of the impending end of the current mandate this month. 3. On March 4 we followe [...]
2008-03-07 11:42:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO CS
08SANJOSE259DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SOMALIA - DESIGNATION OF
[...] (S) On April 1 we notified Carlos Cordero Madrigal, Director of Disarmament and Terrorism Section of the MFA of the USG decision to designate Al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. We provided Cordero with the identifiers for Al-Sha [...]
2008-04-04 20:59:00Embassy San JoseSECRETPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG RS CH XA CS
08SANJOSE337DEMARCHES DELIVERED: RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN
[...] (U) On April 29, we delivered reftel demarches to Adriana Murillo, Head of the UN Security Council Team, and Deyanira Ramirez, UN General Assembly Desk Officer, at the MFA. Poloff also presented the talking points that the US plans to raise with the SYG and UNDP. 2. (C) The two officials st [...]
2008-04-30 21:17:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA ZI AU CS
08SANJOSE594MFA ACTION ON UNSC ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 11, after a week of back-and-forthing between San Jose, Washington and New York, the MFA confirmed support of the U.S. draft UNSC Zimbabwe sanctions resolution. However, the MFA said that PermRep Urbina would offer an explanation for the vote -- presumably to signal the [...]
2008-07-11 22:26:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU CS
08SHANGHAI283SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA'S ROLE IN SUDAN, ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai's academic experts on China's foreign policy and African studies view Zimbabwe's crisis as a strictly internal matter that should be resolved through dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties, and they strongly oppose any further sanctions. The academics also be [...]
2008-07-28 08:17:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ETRD PARM PREL XA
08SOFIA133BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 08:45:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO
08STATE101740SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS AND NEGOTIATING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 to affect the changes desired in the French draft resolution on Somalia piracy, in paragraph 3, for the UNSC experts meeting on September 23. 2. Being talking points: -- We would like to thank the French for taking the i [...]
2008-09-23 19:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE103511NOTIFICATION OF AFFECTED STATES: HIJACKING OF BELIZE-FLAGGED
[...] (SBU) This message is NIACT due to potential fast-breaking events, and urgent action is required from action addressees. 2. (U) Classified by Acting DAS James Knight, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 3. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 4-7. OBJECTIVES ---------- 4. (S/Rel to Ukrai [...]
2008-09-27 03:33:00Secretary of StateSECRETEWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG BH UP
08STATE106314GUINEA-BISSAU: TALKING POINTS FOR UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the October 6 UN Security Council Consultations on Guinea-Bissau. Begin points: -- We would like to thank (DPA official) for his briefing on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. -- The United States is pleased by statements fro [...]
2008-10-03 22:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE106405SOMALIA PIRACY: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR FRENCH
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of and co-sponsor the French drafted resolution on Somalia piracy to be adopted in the Security Council early next week. 2. Begin text of resolution: (1) Recalling its resolutions 1814 (2008) and 1816 (2008),(2) Gravely concerned by the recent prol [...]
2008-10-05 17:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE106406SOMALIA PIRACY: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR FRENCH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-05 17:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE106869GUIDANCE FOR PRST ON GUINEA-BISSAU OCTOBER 7
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the PRST on Guinea-Bissau (para 2) October 7 in the UN Security Council Consultations. 2. Begin text of PRST: The Security Council, recalling its previous statements on Guinea-Bissau, and having considered the latest report of the Secretary-General [...]
2008-10-06 23:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE11021TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 4 UNSC CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) Action Request. USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph two below and to introduce the draft press statement in paragraph three below during the February 4 UNSC consultations on the Western Sahara. USUN should seek to keep the UNSC consultations and UNSC press st [...]
2008-02-04 13:40:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM AG MO WI XA XF XI
08STATE111373DEMARCHE: COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. Department requests Post expand discussion with the Government of Kenya (GOK) on deepening cooperation with the United States to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia. Post is request [...]
2008-10-18 23:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL XA XW SO KE
08STATE112515DJIBOUTI: TALKING POINTS FOR OCTOBER 23 BRIEFING
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points and those in reftel for their October 23 briefing on the situation between Djibouti and Eritrea. USUN should seek to speak last so they can adequately determine if the "If Raised" point is needed. Begin points: -- The United States would l [...]
2008-10-22 17:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM DJ ER XA XW
08STATE11495TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 5 SYG BRIEFING ON HIS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following points for the Security Council's February 5 briefing from Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on his recent trip to the AU Summit and Kenya Begin points: -- The United States thanks the Secretary-General for his very informative briefing on his vi [...]
2008-02-04 23:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG KE SO SU XA XW ZF
08STATE119223GUIDANCE FOR PRST ON COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the PRST on Cte d'Ivoire (para 2) on November 7 in the UN Security Council. 2. Begin text of PRST: The Security Council takes note that, as mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General dated 14 October, the peace process has crossed a critical [...]
2008-11-07 21:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PU XA XY
08STATE121430SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE INSTRUCTIONS FOR UK AND
[...] This is an action cable see paragraph 2. 2. Posts are requested to demarche host governments at the appropriate level to relay USG concerns about French and British edits to the draft UN Security Council resolution (UNSCR) on Somalia piracy. Post may draw from the background in paras 4 a [...]
2008-11-15 00:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE122982UNGA RESOLUTION ON COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UN AND
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN General Assembly agenda item 114 (f) "Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries." If the resolution goes to a vote, USUN is instructed to vote yes. End. RICE [...]
2008-11-19 21:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA
08STATE122990WESTERN SAHARA: TALKING POINTS FOR NOVEMBER 18
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points for their November 18 briefing on MINURSO and the Western Sahara. Begin points: -- The United States is concerned by the amount of time that has elapsed since the last round of talks between Morocco and the Polisario. We urge the Secretary [...]
2008-11-19 21:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL WI XA XY
08STATE123072GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the statement in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe November 20. USUN should also address the press after the UNSC briefing to summarize the key points from the U.S. statement. Additionally, USUN should hand t [...]
2008-11-19 23:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08STATE123225SOMALIA: INSTRUCTIONS ON TABLING OUR UNSC
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to deliver the following draft resolution (complete text paragraph 4) to the British and the French Mission in New York immediately. USUN should table the resolution to the Council NLT COB on November 20. 2. Objectives: -- Thank the British [...]
2008-11-20 16:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE123238SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR SOMALIA BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council briefing and consultation on Somalia to be held on November 20. 2. Begin points: -- We would like to thank the (DPA official),(DPKO official),as well as the IMO Secretary-General Mitropoulos [...]
2008-11-20 16:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE124034DEMARCHE: COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. Department requests Post initiate discussion with the Government of Djibouti (GOD) on deepening cooperation with the United States to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia. Post is re [...]
2008-11-22 01:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL XA XW SO DJ
08STATE126579SOMALIA: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of the following UN Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy, to be considered on Tuesday, December 2. 2. Begin text: The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions concerning the situation in Somalia, especially resolution [...]
2008-12-02 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE127068UNSC CONSULTATIONS BY ICC PROSECUTOR ON SUDAN
[...] This is an action request. USUN should make the statement in paragraph 2 during the December 3 UN Security Council consultations by ICC Chief Prosecutor Ocampo. End Action. 2. Begin Statement: I would like to thank ICC Chief Prosecutor Ocampo for his briefing to the UN Security Counc [...]
2008-12-02 23:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA
08STATE129528SOMALIA: INSTRUCTIONS ON TABLING OUR RESOLUTION
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to circulate the draft resolution on Somali piracy (paragraph 3) to our P3 partners upon receipt of this message and report responses to the Department. After having shared the draft with the P3, USUN should table the resolution to the rest of the Council NLT [...]
2008-12-10 00:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE129531GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 11 CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the statement in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Guinea-Bissau December 11. 2. Begin Statement: I would like to thank Under Secretary General Pascoe for briefing the UNSC on the situation in Guinea-Biassau. Toda [...]
2008-12-10 00:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE129935GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 11 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Burundi December 11. 2. Begin points: I would like to thank (the UN Department of Political Affairs) for briefing the Council on the situation in Burundi. The [...]
2008-12-10 21:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
08STATE130459GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 15 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the talking points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe December 15. USUN should also address the press after the UNSC briefing to summarize the key points from the U.S. statement. 2. (U) Begin points: O [...]
2008-12-11 22:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08STATE130489SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130491SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130492SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130496SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE131979GREAT LAKES: TALKING POINTS FOR DECEMBER 17
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the points in para 2 and 3 during the UN Security Council consultations on the Great Lakes December 17. 2. Begin points: -- I would like to thank UN Special Envoy Chissano for his briefing on the state of the Juba Peace Process and the c [...]
2008-12-17 13:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE132962GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 19 UNSC RESOLUTION ON BINUB
[...] This is an action message. USUN is authorized to join consensus on the UN Resolution on BINUB in para 2 below. 2. (U) Begin resolution text: The Security Council, (1) Recalling its resolutions and the statements of its President on Burundi, in particular resolutions 1719 (2006) and [...]
2008-12-19 17:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
08STATE132985UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON ICTR STATUTE
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus December 19 on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below on ICTR statute amendments. 2. Begin Text: The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994, 1165 (1998) of 30 April 1998 [...]
2008-12-19 17:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA
08STATE133189INSTRUCTION: ADOPTION OF UNSC PRST ON THE LRA -
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to be adopted on December 22 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Beg [...]
2008-12-19 23:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE133493U.S. PROPOSAL FOR PIRACY MOU
[...] (U) This an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 3. MOU text is provided SEPCOR. ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Post is requested to demarche host government officials to pursue the following objectives: -- Deliver the proposed Memorandum of Understanding [...]
2008-12-22 17:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR MOPS PHSA PREL SO XA XW
08STATE134960PROGRESS ON U.S. COUNTER-PIRACY AGENDA AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The UN/Kenya International Conference on Piracy around Somalia was held in Nairobi, Kenya on December 10-11, 2008. The U.S. delegation was led by Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Mark Kimmitt, and included representatives from AF, L, Embassy Nairobi' [...]
2008-12-29 23:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL KE SO XA XW
08STATE135268REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON KENYAN SEIZURE OF
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Nairobi. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: According to Ref A, on 12 December 2008 Kenyan Flying Squad officers detained two individuals suspected of smuggling uranium into Kenya from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The men had been [...]
2008-12-30 21:37:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNKNNP MNUC ASEC KCRM PARM KE XA XW
08STATE15551SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...]
2008-02-14 21:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE15620SOMALIA -- TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 15
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during their February 15 consultations on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States continues to have the utmost concern over the ongoing crisis in Somalia. -- The United States is grateful to the AU Mission in Somalia for [...]
2008-02-14 22:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW
08STATE17204SOMALIA -- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON AMISOM RESOLUTION
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the following Security Council Resolution on AMISOM slated to be adopted on February 20: Begin text The Security Council, PP1 Recalling its previous resolutions concerning the situation in Somalia, in particular resolution 733 (1992),resolution [...]
2008-02-20 20:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW
08STATE18211TALKING POINTS FOR U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFING ON KENYA
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the February 25 briefing on Kenya to the Security Council by Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank Under Secretary General Holmes for this briefing today on h [...]
2008-02-22 22:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KE XA XY
08STATE22378SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 5 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following points for the March 5 briefing on Somalia and Kenya: Begin points: ------- Somalia ------- -- We would like to thank the Secretariat for their briefing today on the situation in Somalia and Kenya. -- The United States is deeply concern [...]
2008-03-05 00:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE24749DRC-- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON FDLR RESOLUTION FOR
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 on the draft resolution on the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) Revision 1 (draft text provided in paragraph 4). USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 3 in its efforts to secure the changes [...]
2008-03-10 18:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG XA ZF
08STATE26159DRC-- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON FDLR RESOLUTION
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to join consensus and co-sponsor the resolution (text below) on the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) scheduled for adoption in the Security Council on March 13. Begin text: The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions, in [...]
2008-03-13 01:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG XA ZF
08STATE28385SCENESETTER: 2008 TSCTP CONFERENCE
[...] (U) The 2008 Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) is scheduled for 24-27 March in Garmisch Germany. TSCTP was formed by an interagency Deputies Committee (DC) in SIPDIS 2005 to facilitate a more effective regional response to terrorism and extremism in West and North Africa. TS [...]
2008-03-18 21:46:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER XA XI
08STATE28930SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 20 OPEN DEBATE
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for their March 20 open debate on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank the Secretary General for his thorough March 14 report on the situation in Somalia [...]
2008-03-19 23:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE31432SOMALIA-- DRAFT ELEMENTS FOR POSSIBLE UNSCR ON
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for USUN, Embassy London, Paris, and Panama City. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. USUN is instructed to provide to its British, French and Panamanian counterparts draft elements of a UN Security Council Resolution (paragraph 12) to combat piracy off the Somali [...]
2008-03-26 23:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE32356SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR 03/28 EXPERTS MEETING
[...] This is an action message, see paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points and seek elements in paragraph 3 for a PRST on Somalia in response to the March 14 Secretary General (SYG) report on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States believes the Ma [...]
2008-03-28 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE32527SOMALIA- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 31 ARRIA STYLE
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the March 31 Arria style meeting on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank the UK Permanent Mission for organizing this Arria-style meeting. We wo [...]
2008-03-28 22:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE48119SIERRA LEONE: TALKING POINTS FOR MAY 7 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the May 7 UN Security Council briefing and consultation on Sierra Leone. Begin points: -- The United States commends the work of UNIOSIL and the UN Country Team in Sierra Leone for all the support they have provided to the go [...]
2008-05-06 22:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
08STATE49794SOMALIA--TALKING POINTS FOR MAY 12 BRIEFING BY
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the May 12 UN Security Council briefing on Somalia by Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination Sir John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank U/SYG Holmes for his informativ [...]
2008-05-09 22:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE5835DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING
[...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to help defray travel costs, including per diem, for appropriate member(s) of host country,s official delegation, sub national government representatives, or civil society whose p [...]
2008-01-18 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE5963DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING
[...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to STATE 00005963 002 OF 006 SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING HOST COUNTRY ATTENDANCE AT WASHINGTON INTERNATION help defray travel costs, including per [...]
2008-01-18 19:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE60880USUN PLACE HOLD ON RWANDAN FDLR SUBMISSION AND
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN please see para 2. Embassies Brussels, London, and Paris please see para 3. 2. (S) USUN is requested to place a hold on the names submitted for listing by the Government of Rwanda in S/AC.43/2008/NOTE.13 to the UN Security Council Committee established p [...]
2008-06-05 23:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA
08STATE61888U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE
[...] This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to deliver the letter in para 2 below to the UN Electoral Assistance Division as soon as possible. No original will follow. A follow-up letter will be supplied once the funds can be formally obligated. The follow-up letter will incl [...]
2008-06-09 18:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE62585DJIBOUTI: SEEKING UNSC BRIEFING ON
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Over the last several weeks tensions between Eritrea and Djibouti have risen due to an initial Eritrean military build-up along their shared border and Eritrean military incursions into Djiboutian territory. Djibouti responded with its own military build-up [...]
2008-06-10 21:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETUNSC PREL DJ XA XW
08STATE62605U.S. STATEMENT FOR UNSC INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 below during UNSC informal consultations on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe on June 12. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press after the consultations. 2. Begin talking points: - [...]
2008-06-10 23:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE63188UNSC EMERGENCY SESSION ON DJIBOUTI/ERITREA --
[...] This is an action request. USUN should draw from the talking points in para. 2 below during the June 12 emergency session on Djibouti and Eritrea. USUN is also authorized to join in consensus on a Presidential Statement that contains the elements in para. 3. USUN should refer any further c [...]
2008-06-12 01:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL DJ XA XW
08STATE64671INVITATION TO JUNE 19 ROUNDTABLE ON ZIMBABWE
[...] This is an immediate action request. USUN is requested to immediately pass the invitation in para 2 below to SYG Ban; the invitation in para 3 below to UNSC members; and the invitation in para 4 below to the UN missions of the following African states: Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria [...]
2008-06-16 19:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE65266AWARD LETTER FOR U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN
[...] This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to deliver the award letter in para 2 below to the UN Electoral Assistance Division (EAD) as soon as possible. Original will follow via fax that includes authorizing signature. USUN should advise EAD that the funds will be transferred [...]
2008-06-17 22:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE66362GREAT LAKES: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 19 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to deliver the following points during the June 20 briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for LRA Affected Areas. Begin points: -- I would like to thank the Special Envoy for his briefing on the state of the Juba Peace Process and the current activity o [...]
2008-06-20 00:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE66451GUIDANCE FOR SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON ZIMBABWE
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 below during the UNSC formal meeting on the situation in Zimbabwe. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press after the meeting. 2. Begin talking points: -- We appreciate (Under Secretary Gene [...]
2008-06-20 13:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE67349DJIBOUTI: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 24 UNSC MEETING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for their June 24 formal meeting of the Security Council on Djibouti. Post reports Djiboutian Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita and Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf will be in attendance. Begin points: -- The United [...]
2008-06-23 19:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL DJ ER ET XA XW
08STATE67997GUINEA-BISSAU: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND TALKING
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the Guinea-Bissau PRST (paragraph 3) set for adoption on June 25. USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the Security Council briefing scheduled for the same day. 2. Begin talking points for briefing on Gu [...]
2008-06-25 00:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PGOV SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE68509INSTRUCTION CABLE FOR EXPERTS MEETING ON LRA
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 to the PRST on the Lord's Resistance Army (full text in paragraph 3). USUN is instructed to report back immediately the results of the experts meeting on the issue slated for June 25 at 2pm. USUN is also instruct [...]
2008-06-25 22:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM UG XA XW
08STATE69672UNSC DRAFT PRESS STATEMENT AND RESOLUTION ON
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to share with the British and other missions as appropriate the draft elements of a Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Zimbabwe as outlined in paragraph 3 below. Adoption should be sought as soon as possible. USUN should report back results of [...]
2008-06-27 22:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE72696ZIMBABWE: TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 8 BRIEFING
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to draw on the points in para 2 below during the July 8 UNSC meeting in which D/SYG Migiro and A/SYG Menkerios will provide briefings on the situation in Zimbabwe. If the UNSC votes on the draft resolution during this same meeting, USUN may use these point [...]
2008-07-07 22:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE73077USUN VOTING INSTRUCTION: ZIMBABWE UNSCR
[...] USUN is instructed to table on July 8, for a vote by the Security Council not later than July 9, the draft UNSC resolution (text in paragraph 2),which creates a Zimbabwe sanctions regime. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the draft resolution. 2. BEGIN RESOLUTION The Security Coun [...]
2008-07-08 18:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI XA ZU
08STATE73173URGENT DEMARCHE SEEKING SUPPORT FOR UNSC
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action request: On July 8, the U.S. will table a draft Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe and seek a vote on July 9. The draft resolution condemns the government-sponsored violence that made it impossible to hold free and fair elections in Zimbabwe and imposes an arms [...]
2008-07-09 02:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE74375URGENT DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE NEGOTIATIONS IN SOUTH
[...] (U) Summary and Action request: On July 8, the U.S. tabled a draft Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe. The vote planned for July 9 was postponed for procedural reasons. While not yet scheduled, the vote is likely on the morning of July 11. The Russians and the Chinese continue to oppos [...]
2008-07-10 22:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE75446USUN GUIDANCE: SOMALIA MONITORING GROUP
[...] Somalia UN Mission Charge Idd Mohamed has raised his opposition to the appointment of Matt Bryden as chair of the Monitoring Group for the UNSC Somalia Sanctions Committee multiple times, including by Press Release. U.S. Special Envoy Yates previously spoke with the Somali Transitional Federa [...]
2008-07-14 23:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PHUM PREL SO XA XW UNSC
08STATE76371UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON EXTENSION OF
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below that extends the term of office of ICTR judges. If there are substantial changes to the text of the resolution USUN is requested to seek additional instruction prior to a [...]
2008-07-16 17:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA
08STATE76659USUN TALKING POINTS FOR UNOWA CONSULTATIONS JULY
[...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw on the points below during the July 18 UNSC consultations by the Special Representative of the Secretary General Said Djinnit concerning the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA). End Action Request. 2. Begin points: - The U.S. welco [...]
2008-07-17 00:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA
08STATE7695TALKING POINTS FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA CONSULTATIONS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph 3 below in its January 25 consultations on Ethiopia-Eritrea. 2. OBJECTIVES: USUN should seek to: (1) extend UNMEE's mandate for six months; (2) continue the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ); (3) avoid discussion of the Ethiopia [...]
2008-01-25 00:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL XA XW ET ER
08STATE78372SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 23 CONSULTATIONS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the July 23 UN Security Council consultations on Somalia. Begin points: -- I would like to welcome Somali Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Jama to the Council today (or if the Prime Minister, I would like to welcome back to the C [...]
2008-07-21 23:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE79981SEEKING UN SECRETARIAT BRIEFING ON ZIMBABWE AND
[...] (U) This is an action request, see para 2. Department would like to see Haile Menkerios appointed as the UN,s &Special Envoy8 to the Zimbabwe negotiations or at least continue his work as the Secretary General's envoy on Zimbabwe, and for Menkerios to brief the Council as soon as possible. [...]
2008-07-24 19:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE81148LIBYAN BANK IN BAHRAIN SEEKING NEW RELATIONSHIPS
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Washington has information that Libyan bank Alubaf Arab International Bank EC is seeking new financial relationships with Iranian banks. We are concerned that this could also involve the bank's T [...]
2008-07-28 19:38:00Secretary of StateSECRETKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM XA XF XI TS LY ECON
08STATE81253GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE JULY
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 during the July 29 UNSC consultations on the situation in Zimbabwe and briefing by UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press [...]
2008-07-29 00:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE85170INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should immediately urge African Security Council members' to take the lead in the drafting of a Presidential Statement or Press Statement on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should draw from the following points when recommending text for the statement. [...]
2008-08-08 12:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA XY MR PHUM
08STATE86600MAURITANIA REVISED INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should seek a Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should work with African members of the Council and France drawing from the following points. 2. (U) Begin points: -- The Security Council strongly condemns the Mauritan [...]
2008-08-12 23:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA XY MR PHUM
08STATE89026INSTRUCTION FOR UNSC RENEWAL OF AMISOM MANDATE
[...] This is an action cable. USUN should join consensus on the UNSC resolution renewing AMISOM's mandate (para 2) set for adoption on August 19. USUN should also co-sponsor this resolution. Should the text of the resolution change prior to adoption, Department requests Mission seek further guid [...]
2008-08-19 16:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE90896GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON BURUNDI AUGUST
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Burundi August 26. 2. Begin points: I would like to thank (the UN Department of Political Affairs) for briefing the Council on the situation in Burundi. The US [...]
2008-08-22 23:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
08STATE9421REQUEST FOR EMBASSY TO ENCOURAGE HOST COUNTRY
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 9. --------------- SUMMARY --------------- 2. Summary: This message provides background information on STATE 00009421 002 OF 006 SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EMBASSY TO ENCOURAGE HOST COUNTRY PLEDGE TO ADVANCE THE UPTAKE OF RENEWABLE EN [...]
2008-01-30 14:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE94816SOMALIA: INSTRUCTIONS ON PRST
[...] USUN is authorized to join consensus on the following PRST on Somalia due to be adopted on September 4, 2008. Begin text: The Security Council welcomes the signing of a peace and reconciliation Agreement ("the Djibouti Agreement") between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the [...]
2008-09-04 17:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL SO XA XW
08STATE98072SOMALIA PIRACY: LETTER TO SC RELAYING USG ACTIONS
[...] This is an action request see paragraph 2. 2. Operational paragraph 12 of UNSCR 1816 requests states cooperating with the TFG inform the Security Council within 3 months of the progress of actions undertaken in the exercise of the authority provided in operational paragraph 7 of that resol [...]
2008-09-12 22:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHSA PBTS EWWT XA XW
08STATE99175DJIBOUTI-ERITREA: TALKING POINTS FOR SEPTEMBER 17
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during their September 17 briefing on the Djibouti-Eritrea border situation. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank Mr. Honwana for his briefing today and the members of the Djibouti-Eritrean Fact Finding Missio [...]
2008-09-16 22:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM DJ ER XA XW
08STATE99202GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe September 19. 2. (U) Begin points: I would like to thank Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios for his briefing on the situ [...]
2008-09-17 00:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08THEHAGUE607NETHERLANDS/SOMALIA: IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1816
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 15, Poloffs discussed reftel points with Bob Aal, Dutch MFA Security Policy Department contact for Africa. At the request of the UN, the Dutch protected humanitarian aid convoys to Somalia this spring, but for the moment the Dutch are following the EU lead on responding [...]
2008-07-18 13:05:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL NL SO XA XW
08TOKYO1263DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE VFM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka, at dinner with Deputy Secretary May 8, said Chinese President Hu's visit to Japan was focused on the future of the relationship and that the Chinese had avoided comments about difficult historical issues. Yabunaka expressed strong dissatis [...]
2008-05-09 08:13:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CASC EAID KDEM KOCI KNNP XA AF BM
08TOKYO1598TICAD IV: TOWARDS A VIBRANT AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Japan announced a myriad of commitments to Africa, including that it would double aid to the region by 2012, during the May 28-30 Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Co-sponsored by the GOJ, the World Bank, and the UNDP, the conference brought toget [...]
2008-06-11 08:58:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL JA XA
08TOKYO397LIBYAN ENVOY RECEIVES HIGH-LEVEL RECEPTION IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Fukuda and other high-ranking Japanese officials recently received a Special Envoy from Libyan Leader Muammar Qahdafi, who was sent to seek Tokyo's support for Qahdafi's "African Union Government" plan. The proposal calls for a single government for all of Africa a [...]
2008-02-14 05:26:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL XA LY JA
08TOKYO475ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan is very much looking forward to the Secretary's visit to Asia the week of February 25 and is SIPDIS anticipating fruitful discussions on strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance, MOFA Director General for North American Affairs Nishimiya told EAP Assistant Secretary Christop [...]
2008-02-22 09:09:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID XA XE CH AS KS KN IN JA
08TOKYO585PIRQY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 09:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO JA
08TOKYO974JAPAN SEEKING TO DISCOURAGE MUGABE FROM ATTENDING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-09 08:17:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID XA ZI JA
08TRIPOLI621RESPONSE TO LIBYAN BANKING DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-01 09:24:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR GM XA XF XI TS BA
08USEUBRUSSELS1946EU COUNCIL ASKS FOR INTEL-SHARING ON SOMALIA
[...] (C) On December 22, the USEU Ambassador received a letter dated December 19 from the EU Council Secretariat's Director for Defense Issues, Claude-France Arnould. The letter requests the USG to share intelligence information with the EU in support of the EU-led Operation Atalanta, which is d [...]
2008-12-23 06:11:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER XA XW SO EUN
08USNATO447COMMUNIQUE OF THE DECEMBER 2-3 NATO FOREIGN
[...] (U) The following is part 2 of the Communique from the December 2-3 NATO Foreign Ministers' Meeting: CONTINUE TEXT: 20. We welcome the progress made by Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in their cooperation with the Alliance and the development of ambitious Individual Partnership Ac [...]
2008-12-03 16:43:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDNATO MARR PARM PHSA PTER XG ZM XA XF
08USNATO448COMMUNIQUE OF THE DECEMBER 2-3 NATO FOREIGN
[...] (U) The following communique was approved and released by NATO Foreign Ministers following their December 2-3 meeting: BEGIN TEXT: MEETING OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL AT THE LEVEL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS HELD AT NATO HEADQUARTERS, BRUSSELS, ON 2-3 DECEMBER 2008 FINAL COMMUNIQUE Â [...]
2008-12-03 16:43:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDNATO MARR PARM PHSA PTER XG ZM XA XF
08USNATO456NATO POST-MINISTERIAL COMMUNIQUE READOUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-08 10:04:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MARR ECON PGOV UN XG XA AF GG UP
08USUNNEWYORK106SYG BRIEFS UNSC ON KENYA, SUDAN, CHAD
[...] (C) Summary. Secretary-General Ban briefed the Security Council on February 5 on his recent trip to Africa. Ban reported on the critical nature of the situations in Kenya, Sudan, and Chad, highlighting recent progress in mediations in Kenya and in SOFA discussions with the Government of Sudan, [...]
2008-02-06 15:17:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UNSC CD KE SO SU XA XW ZF
08USUNNEWYORK1129MONUC AT UN: GIVE US CLEAR DIRECTIONS FOR DRC-AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SRSG Alan Doss asked the Security Council on November 26 for clear operational guidelines for MONUC, especially regarding use of force. He also said a temporary stabilization force is sorely needed as we await the additional MONUC troops the Council recently authorized. He sa [...]
2008-12-03 00:02:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO UNSC XA BY CG
08USUNNEWYORK113UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] (U) Mission welcomes the proposed visit on February 07 (reftel) of S/WCI Deputy Director Milbert Shin and S/WCI officer Jason Gorey to accompany USUN/MR representative to meeting of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee. This meeting, to be hosted by the Canadian Mission, as Man [...]
2008-02-07 16:03:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
08USUNNEWYORK1137ICC PROSECUTOR MORENO-OCAMPO BRIEFS UNSC
[...] SUMMARY: In his December 3 briefing to the Security Council (SC),International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo provided a detailed chronology of the three investigations conducted pursuant to UNSCR 1593, which referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC. Ocampo's remarks focu [...]
2008-12-04 23:37:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA
08USUNNEWYORK1148MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/WCI
[...] Mission Clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Milbert Shin, and Foreign Affairs Officer Brendan Doherty to visit USUN on December 11-12. The purpose is to hold meetings on the margins of the ICTY/ICTR briefings to the UN Security Council, [...]
2008-12-08 20:02:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDKAWC KJUS OTRA UNSC XA XH
08USUNNEWYORK1165USUN: COUNCIL RESPONSE TO SOMALIA PIRACY RESOLUTION
[...] (U) This is an urgent action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In response to reftel instructions, USUN circulated our draft resolution on Somalia piracy to the P3 on the evening of December 9 and to the broader Council on December 10. Initial expert-level consultations wer [...]
2008-12-12 00:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XA XW
08USUNNEWYORK1185MONUC AT UN: WE ONLY HAVE PLEDGES FOR HALF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under Secretary-General Le Roy on December 15 told the Security Council that diplomatic efforts are thawing the relationship between the DRC and Rwanda. He said direct talks between the DRC and Nkunda's CNDP stalled, but were set to resume December 17. Le Roy said he had r [...]
2008-12-19 00:26:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO UNSC XA BY CG
08USUNNEWYORK1203CHISSANO TO UN: KONY WON'T GO TO ICC; TO U.S.: TRY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Security Council issued a Presidential Statement on December 22 condemning the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks and LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony's failure to sign the Final Peace Agreement. Special Envoy Chissano told the Council on December 17 that Kony would "rathe [...]
2008-12-23 21:39:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO CG UG SU XA
08USUNNEWYORK132UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: S/WCI Deputy Milbert Shin and USUN/MR represented the U.S. at a February 7 meeting of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee that focused on issues expected to be addressed during the Committee's upcoming February 14-22 trip to The Hague and Freetown. Shin and USUN/ [...]
2008-02-13 16:34:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
08USUNNEWYORK373UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: LEGACY PROJECT
[...] SUMMARY: Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Joe Melrose (Ret.),currently serving as a consultant to the Sierra Leone Special Court on legacy issues, briefed members of the Special Court Management Committee on April 22 regarding possible uses of the Court facilities in Freetown once the [...]
2008-04-24 15:46:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
08USUNNEWYORK44UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: FINANCIAL
[...] SUMMARY: USUN and other members of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee met January 15 to discuss ongoing challenges facing the Court, including uncertainties over the source of adequate voluntary contributions to sustain Court activity throughout 2008 and continued tensions b [...]
2008-01-17 15:03:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
08USUNNEWYORK477U/SYG HOLMES ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED
[...] (SBU) Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council May 27 on the subject of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. In addition to members of the Security Council, 21 other member states participated in the public discussion. Most voiced sup [...]
2008-05-29 23:24:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL SOCI UNSC XA UN PGOV
08USUNNEWYORK70UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: PROSECUTOR RAPP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone Special Court Chief Prosecutor Stephen Rapp (American),in New York for press briefings, meetings with UN officials, and non-Court business, met January 22 with members of the Special Court Management Committee, including USUN. Rapp reported that the prosecution w [...]
2008-01-23 15:07:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
08USUNNEWYORK961UNGA DELEGATES DISCUSS NEPAD AND MALARIA
[...] In plenary session on October 20, The UN General Assembly (UNGA) received the Secretary General's reports on progress toward fulfillment of UNGA Resolution 62/180: 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (A/63/206, A/63/212 and A/63/219). UNGA su [...]
2008-10-22 19:10:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON XA
08WINDHOEK315NAMIBIA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is the AGOA Eligibility Review submission for Namibia. Responses are keyed to paragraph 3 of reftel. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Country: NAMIBIA Current AGOA Status: Eligible 3. (SBU) Country Background Summary: Namibia has a population of approximately 2 [...]
2008-10-06 08:57:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON XA WA
08YAOUNDE1233CAMEROON: DEMARCHE ON DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH IRAN
[...] (S) On December 17, Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on terminating defense cooperation with Iran to Secretary General Sebastien Foumane at the Ministry of External Relations. Secretary General Foumane responded that, to his knowledge, Cameroon did not have any defense cooperation agre [...]
2008-12-22 10:34:00Embassy YaoundeSECRETAF IR PARM PREL XA ISN NEA CM
08ZAGREB231NO RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY, POSSIBLE
[...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 06 March 2008. GOC offered no substantive response. Bradtke [...]
2008-03-07 13:49:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO
08ZAGREB852SOMALI PIRACY: CROATIA STILL REVIEWING PROPOSED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 14:15:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PHSA UNSC MARR EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09ABUJA1399NIGERIA: GTIP HOTLINE DATA
[...] (U) The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic In Persons (NAPTIP) operates eight shelters for victims, each with offices serving administrative and prosecution functions. Each location has a local tip line; calls are toll-free only to Zain subscribers. There is one telephone company [...]
2009-07-30 17:31:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV NI KTIP XA PHUM
09ACCRA1070COUNTER NARCOTICS HEAD DENIES POLITICS AT BOARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) Executive Secretary Yaw Akrasi Sarpong told Poloffs October 5 that while he is a staunch supporter of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC),party politics has no place at the NACOB. Sarpong complained about the lack of effective narcotics enforc [...]
2009-10-08 15:25:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV CVIS XA GH
09ACCRA1122GHANA CONVICTS TRAFFICKER AND ARRESTS OTHERS IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In two recent cases, Ghanaian law enforcement used undercover operations to arrest human traffickers. A man from the Western Region was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to sell his eight year old brother, and a woman from the Ashanti Region is being prosecuted for [...]
2009-10-23 13:12:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PHUM PGOV XA GH
09ACCRA415GHANA SEEKS UNIFIED RESPONSE TO PORT STATES AGREEMENT
[...] Regional Environmental Officer (REO),Econ Chief, and Regional Environmental Program Assistant met with officials from the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Representatives of the GOG included the Director of Fisheries, Mr. Alfred Tetebo, the Deputy Director of Fisheries, Mr. George H [...]
2009-05-07 11:12:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV AORC ETRD XA GH
09ACCRA416GHANA SEEKS UNIFIED RESPONSE TO PORT STATES AGREEMENT
[...] Regional Environmental Officer (REO),Econ Chief, and Regional Environmental Program Assistant met with officials from the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Representatives of the GOG included the Director of Fisheries, Mr. Alfred Tetebo, the Deputy Director of Fisheries, Mr. George H [...]
2009-05-07 14:03:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV AORC ETRD XA GH
09ACCRA523Tackling Illegal Fishing in Ghana
[...] Summary: The Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) Department under the Fisheries Commission is charged with combating illegal, unregulated, and underreported (IUU) fishing. A site visit to the port of Tema highlighted many enforcement challenges facing MCS notably the recent expiration [...]
2009-06-04 16:48:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV XA GH
09ACCRA525GOVERNMENT OF GHANA INCREASES RHETORIC ABOUT CHILD
[...] (U) The GoG has increased its rhetoric about eliminating child prostitution, and the new Chief Executive of Accra (also called the Mayor) has pledged to demolish Soldier Bar, a brothel known to have employed children, within the next two weeks. He sees the issue as part of overall economic and [...]
2009-06-05 10:45:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM SOCI KTIP XA XY NI TO IV GH
09ACCRA553AMBASSADOR TEITELBAUM DISCUSSES US EDUCATIONAL
[...] (U) AmbassadoQTeitelbaum discussed US educational opportunities for Muslim students in an hour long session with the National Chief Imam Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu and 25 Muslim religious and community leaders at the Imam's residence. The Chief Imam, a moderate and long-time friend of the U [...]
2009-06-15 08:11:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC OIIP PGOV PHUM SCUL XA XY GH
09ACCRA574CHILDREN WORKING ON COCOA FARMS IS DEVELOPMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Removing children as workers on Ghanaian cocoa farms encompasses a number of social and economic issues more far ranging than simply that of child labor. While few would disagree with the premise of improving access to basic education, encouraging children to attend school rather [...]
2009-06-19 07:21:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAGR PHUM SOCI XA XY IV GH
09ACCRA580GHANAIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES ETHICS BUT CAUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President John Evans Atta Mills has made restoring trust in the public sector a priority of his new administration. Mills, a former law professor, is thought to be a decent man who "does the right thing". He has consistently said that he will not engage in a political "witch hunt [...]
2009-06-19 11:52:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KCOR XA XY GH
09ACCRA584IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN AND SYRIA DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 09:33:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SYR TRGY XA XY GH
09ACCRA585TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 09:33:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP XA XY GH
09ACCRA609Transboundary Parks and CREMAS: West African Natural
[...] Summary: Kyabobo National Park in the Volta Region of Ghana represents a growing trend in Ghanaian natural resource conservation. Bordering the Kue River with Togo, Kyabobo seeks to form a transboundary national park with the Togolese Fazo-Malfakassa National Park to create wildlife corridor [...]
2009-06-26 12:21:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV XA XY GH
09ACCRA612PARTY POLITICS IN GHANA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ghana is a stable democracy after having completed five presidential elections in the past 17 years, two of which involved a transition of power between parties. Although Ghana has the best record of inter-party transfers in Africa, the peaceful transitions mask an underlying ani [...]
2009-06-29 16:32:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV XA XY GH
09ACCRA619GHANA PRESIDENT LEADS FIGHT AGAINST NARCOTICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President John Evans Atta Mills has made private statements backed with public actions about his intention to reduce Ghana's growing role in the drugs trade. GOG agencies are following his lead and have also made a discernible effort to eliminate drugs in the country. END SUMMARY 2. [...]
2009-06-29 16:57:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR XA XY GH
09ACCRA676DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTING UNSC RES 1874
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-14 14:11:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL ISN IO USUN XA XY GH
09ACCRA692GHANA CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS
[...] (U) On June 22, the Fast Track High Court in Accra sentenced three Chinese nationals to imprisonment with hard labor for trafficking eight Chinese women to Ghana for prostitution. The court found James Xu Jin guilty of recruiting, transporting, and harboring the women who were forced to engag [...]
2009-07-21 10:12:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PHUM XA XY GH
09ACCRA693SOLDIER BAR PARTIALLY DESTROYED
[...] (U) Part of Soldier Bar, a brothel in Accra known to have employed child prostitutes was demolished by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on July 1. The brothel was made famous over a year ago following an undercover report by an investigative journalist who shot secret video footage of gir [...]
2009-07-21 10:14:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PHUM XA XY GH
09ACCRA700GHANA TIGHTENS DEFINITION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) Ghana Parliament passed a bill to amend the definition of trafficking included in the 2005 Human Trafficking Act. The amendment added the phrase "for the purpose of exploitation" to ensure that the Ghanaian definition of human trafficking is in accord with the definition contained in the [...]
2009-07-23 15:06:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP XY XA GH
09ACCRA712GADDAFI CANCELS VISIT TO GHANA
[...] SUMMARY: (U) An international conference of West African traditional rulers scheduled to be held in Ghana was abruptly canceled three days before Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was scheduled to be crowned "king of kings" at the event. Reasons for the cancellation are not clear, but press specul [...]
2009-07-28 09:42:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDAU PGOV XA XY XF LY GH
09ADDISABABA266AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH AU
[...] (C) Summary: At a January 31 meeting on the margins of the African Union Summit, African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping and Acting A/S for African Affairs Phillip Carter exchanged views about the major political crises in Africa. They agreed that the international community must remai [...]
2009-02-02 17:08:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU XA SU CD
09ADDISABABA267AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Acting USAID Assistant Administrator Earl Gast, and Sudan Programs Group Director Timothy Shortley, met February 1 with Sudanese Presidential Advisers Nafie Ali Nafie and Mustafa Ismael and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor [...]
2009-02-02 17:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU XA SU CD
09ADDISABABA270AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy and UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Eastern Congo Alan Doss January 31 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Carter brought Le [...]
2009-02-02 18:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU XA SU SO CG RW
09ADDISABABA319AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Sudan Programs Group Director Tim Shortley, met February 2 with Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Mahamat Faki on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter asked Foreign Minister Faki and the Government of Chad (GoC) to [...]
2009-02-05 15:40:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU XA SU CD
09ADDISABABA322AU SUMMIT -- ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEETS UK
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 1 Acting Assistant Secretary Carter met U.K. Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, Lord Mark Malloch Brown, on the margins of the African Union Summit. They discussed Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe and the situation in the Congo. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) U.K [...]
2009-02-05 16:08:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU SO SU ZI CG XA
09ADDISABABA354AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary met with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs AF A/S-Equivalent Stephane Gompertz, Presidential Advisor for African Affairs Remi Marechaux, and Ambassador Jean-Christophe Belliard February 2 on the margins of the African Union Summit. On Sudan, the Fr [...]
2009-02-09 16:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR XA AU
09ADDISABABA355AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (U) Action request for Embassy Cairo -- see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met February 2 with Egyptian Assistant Minister for Africa Mona Omar Atteya on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter asked Atteya to pressure Sudan to pause [...]
2009-02-09 16:24:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU EG AU CD XA
09ADDISABABA356AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH EU
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter, joined by Acting USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa Earl Gast, met with European Commission Director General for Development Stefano Manservisi on February 1 on the margins of the African Union Summit. Carter sought EU support [...]
2009-02-09 16:40:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU XA AU
09ADDISABABA357AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH SOUTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 2, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met South African Foreign Minister Dlamini Dlamini-zuma on the margins of the African Union Summit. Their discussion focused primarily on the situation in Zimbabwe and touched on Sudan and Congo. Dlamini-zuma made tw [...]
2009-02-09 17:06:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA AU
09ADDISABABA734USAU: AFRICA COMMAND DEPUTY MEETS WITH AU
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-30 09:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL XA AU
09ADDISABABA735USAU: AFRICA COMMAND DEPUTY MEETS WITH AU PEACE
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mary Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities at AFRICOM, met on March 25 with African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra at AU headquarters. Their discussion centered on the political and security situation in Somalia as well [...]
2009-03-30 09:30:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU XA
09ALGIERS845ALGERIA: AFRICAN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY
[...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points September 24 to Hamza Khelif, in the Security and Disarmament Division of the General Directorate of Political Affairs and International Security. Khelif said he would refer this matter to his superiors, but was fairly certain Algeria would participat [...]
2009-09-27 08:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE AG
09ANKARA235SUDAN: TURKEY UNDECIDED ON POTENTIAL ARTICLE 16
[...] (C) Ambassador raised reftel points with MFA U/S Apakan on February 12. Apakan asked what the US would do should the proposed UNSCR come to a vote. Ambassador underscored USG support for the ICC in pursuit of those who have perpetuated war crimes, and reiterated our interest in having this no [...]
2009-02-13 05:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM SU TU XA XW
09ANTANANARIVO150COMOROS AND IRAN: UN SANCTION BREAKING?
[...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of Iranian president Ahmedinejad's February 25 visit to the Comores (ref a),the French Ambassador in Moroni reported to Emboff that the GOC entered into bilateral military agreements with the GOI that may directly violate UNSCR and US laws (ref B). These agree [...]
2009-03-03 15:16:00Embassy AntananarivoSECRETPARM PREL IR CN XA
09ANTANANARIVO223COMOROS DENIES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH IRAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Post's diplomatic note on March 10, the GOC has formally denied any military cooperation with Iran. 2. (C) On March 26, the Comoran Ministry of External Relations and Cooperation faxed a dipnote stating only that "...the government of the Union of Comoros is acti [...]
2009-03-30 14:44:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL IR CN XA
09BEIJING2447AFRICAN EMBASSIES PREVIEW CHINA-AFRICA FORUM ""
[...] (C) Summary. Egyptian and South African diplomats in Beijing believe the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) offers a good platform for cooperation with China, but would be more useful if African countries did a better job of coordinating among themselves. Chinese investments have been [...]
2009-08-26 07:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EAID ECON PREL XA EINV
09BEIJING2491PRC RECEPTIVE TO SIGNING THE NY DECLARATION
[...] (C) Barring unforeseen problems, China will likely sign the Commitment to Best Management Practices to Avoid, Deter or Delay Acts of Piracy (the New York Declaration) during the public ceremony on September 9 before the plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CG [...]
2009-09-01 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM SO XA XW UNSC
09BEIJING3083NOVEMBER 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: OBAMA VISIT, EXCHANGE RATE,
[...] Key points at the November 10 MFA press briefing: -- The visit of U.S. President Obama will have a great influence on the future development of bilateral relations. -- China will follow a proactive and transparent policy to improve the Renminbi (RMB) exchange mechanism and give full play to [...]
2009-11-11 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON PHSA ABUD IN XA TW SY
09BEIJING57DASD SEDNEY'S MEETING WITH COMMUNIST PARTY
[...] (C) Vice Minister of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Department (CCID) Zhang Zhijun told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David Sedney December 18 that China "treasures" its relationship with the United States and considers the U.S.-China relations [...]
2009-01-08 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS CH AF XD SO RS TW KN IZ XA
09BEIJING607FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI HOLDS NPC PRESS CONFERENCE
[...] Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi outlined China's foreign policy priorities in a March 7 press conference held on the margins of the ongoing National People's Congress (NPC). U.S.-China relations are "off to a good start" under the new Obama administration, Yang said, noting there currently is an [...]
2009-03-09 12:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON ETRD EFIN PHUM ENRG CH TW XA RS KN KS
09BERLIN217THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S FEBRUARY 7 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 7 meeting on the margins on the Munich Security Conference, Deputy Secretary Steinberg and German MFA State Secretary Silberberg discussed a wide range of issues, including Afghanistan, Russia, missile defense, Africa, and Iraq. Also participating in the meeting [...]
2009-02-20 20:36:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV NATO AF RU XA IZ UP GG GM
09BRUSSELS1606EU: HELP US REFORM CONGO'S ARMY
[...] (C) On November 23, 2009, Charge received a written request from Javier Solana, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy formally seeking the participation the EU's security sectt U.S. would: foster better-cooral efforts to reform the D inhonn the EU Political a [...]
2009-12-01 05:48:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALEUN MARR PREL PINS MOPS XA PHUM PGOV CG
09BRUSSELS318U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON AFRICA FEBRUARY 27
[...] (C) Summary: Acting AF Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter represented the U.S. at the troika meeting with the EU on Africa issues, held February 27 in Brussels. The agenda included the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan),Zimbabwe, West Africa (Mauritania and Guinea),the Great La [...]
2009-03-06 18:18:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID ETTC XA EUN CH
09BRUSSELS963AFRICAN PEACE FACILITY: AN IMPORTANT BUT LIMITED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The EU's African Peace Facility (APF) has provided over 440 million Euros to African peacekeeping operations and capacity building since its inception in 2004 and will provide 300 million more between 2008 and 2010. A European Development Fund (EDF) instrument administered by [...]
2009-07-13 13:57:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALEUN MARR MOPS PREL XA EAID
09BRUSSELS965EU MILITARY CAPACITY-BUILDING IN AFRICA: EURO
[...] 1. (C) Summary: The EU's capacity-building program to train African civilian and military leaders is struggling to overcome the African Union's absorption capacity and recruitment challenges. The EU effort, named EURO RECAMP, is halfway through a training cycle for the African Union (AU) t [...]
2009-07-13 15:09:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALEUN MARR MOPS PREL XA
09CAIRO1844DEMARCHE GIVEN: PRE-INVITATION TO AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 13:33:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE EG
09CANBERRA835UNGA GOALS AND OBJECTIVES DELIVERED TO GOA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 06:44:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA XA XB XD XF XG XS XM XL
09CANBERRA837UNGA GOALS AND OBJECTIVES DELIVERED TO GOA
[...] (C/NF) PM Rudd wants to ensure the institutionalization of the G-20 leaders meeting and plans to reinforce that message at his UNGA meetings prior to the Pittsburgh Summit. Maclachlan stated that Australia would like to be a "voice" for those who are not members of the G-20 and that Rudd and [...]
2009-09-13 23:31:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNGA XA XB XD XF XG XS XM XL
09CHIANGMAI70GAO TEAM TOLD THAT MOST BURMESE STONES SMUGGLED
[...] (SBU) Most Thai gem traders do not buy from the Burmese Government auction; the number of Burmese rubies sold in Thailand is declining; the highest value Burmese gems are smuggled out of Burma illegally; small Burmese traders and Thai cutting/polishing/finishing operations are suffering the mo [...]
2009-06-03 06:36:00Consulate Chiang MaiUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM CH XA TH
09CONAKRY396JULY 4 SPEECH DECLARES CNDD ILLEGITIMATE, GETS
[...] Summary: On Thursday, July 2, 2009, the U.S. Mission commemorated Independence Day in the Embassy atrium. Among the over 200 guests were representatives of the Government of Guinea, the diplomatic corps, international institutions, civil society, political parties and religious leaders. In a [...]
2009-07-08 17:03:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KPAO XA GV
09CONAKRY403GUINEAN ALERT LIKELY A POLITICAL PLOY
[...] (S) Summary: On Saturday, July 11, RTG national television and radio read a communique from the CNDD stating that the army has been placed on a state of alert. The communique said troops financed by narco-traffickers were amassed along the Guinean borders with Guinea-Bissau, the Cassamance [...]
2009-07-13 14:03:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PBTS PINS PREL KPAO XA GV
09CONAKRY407ERRATIC DADIS PROMISES WATER AND ELECTRICITY FOR
[...] Summary: On July 10 Captain Moussa Dadis Camara convoked the diplomatic corps, members of the Forces Vives, youth associations, political parties and the media for a meeting at the Koloma headquarters of RTG national radio and television. He announced a plan to provide water and electricity [...]
2009-07-14 13:36:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON ENRG KPAO XA GV
09CONAKRY408MANO RIVER UNION SUMMIT CANCELLED, DADIS THREATENS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Captain Moussa Dadis Camara told RTG national television that his July 11 order to place Guinean troops on alert would not derail election preparations. He also threatened to arrest anyone criticizing the communique. The media reacted negatively to the July 11 communique, whil [...]
2009-07-14 17:10:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO XA GV
09DARESSALAAM327SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ISAKSON AND CORKER
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Tanzania comes at a time when the country is gearing up for national elections in 2010, attempting to mitigate the effects of the global economic downturn, and continuing to deepen its relationship with development partners, particularly the United States. The 2010 election [...]
2009-05-21 03:10:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ASEC AMGT AFIN PREL PGOV TZ KE RW SU IT XA
09DJIBOUTI107GODJ AND DP WORLD INAUGURATE NEW $400 MILLION CONTAINER PORT
[...] SUMMARY. President Guelleh and top Dubai Ports World (DP World) dignitaries officially inaugurated Djibouti's new state-of-the-art container port at Doraleh, some 8km outside of Djibouti City, on February 7. This ambitious project, estimated at a total cost near $400 million, aims both to cem [...]
2009-02-11 09:30:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD EINV ECON PREL DJ XA
09DJIBOUTI113DJIBOUTI APPROVES BLACKWATER FOR COMMERCIAL COUNTER-PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. security firm, Blackwater Worldwide (BW),has received permission from the Government of Djibouti to operate an armed ship from the port of Djibouti, to protect commercial shipping from pirates off the coast of Somalia. Blackwater's U.S.-flagged ship is expected to arrive in ear [...]
2009-02-12 16:01:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA MOPS BEXP DJ SO XA
09DJIBOUTI1203DJIBOUTIAN CANDIDACY FOR UNESCO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Djibouti requests USG support for its candidacy for the UNESCO Executive Board. According to UNESCO's website, the election of Members of the Executive Board will occur on October 14, with ballots distributed the evening of October 13. Post strongly recommend [...]
2009-10-13 16:58:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO DJ FR XA
09DJIBOUTI1205DJIBOUTI REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR EASBRIG FTX
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Djibouti recommends provision of GPOI funds, or alternate sources of funding, in response to formal requests from Djibouti's Minister of Defense and chief of general staff, for assistance to support the East Africa Standby Brigade's Field Training Exercise (EASBRIG FTX),s [...]
2009-10-13 18:03:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS MOPS EAID DJ ET KE RW UG BY XA
09DJIBOUTI1252FRAUD SUMMARY - DJIBOUTI
[...] Country Conditions: The Republic of Djibouti is a developing and stable African country in the Horn of Africa. Although exact statistics are unavailable, unemployment is estimated in excess of 50 percent of the working-age population. Over two-thirds of the country's estimated 650,000 residen [...]
2009-10-08 15:32:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC DJ ET ER SO XA
09DJIBOUTI1272CORRECTED COPY - FRAUD SUMMARY - DJIBOUTI
[...] CORRECTED COPY of 09 DJIBOUTI 1252. See paragraph 36 for revised text. 2. Country Conditions: The Republic of Djibouti is a developing and stable African country in the Horn of Africa. Although exact statistics are unavailable, unemployment is estimated in excess of 50 percent of the wor [...]
2009-10-13 11:51:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC DJ ET ER SO XA
09DJIBOUTI156JAPAN SEEKS TO DEPLOY P-3 AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS TO DJIBOUTI FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Mid-February discussions with visiting Japanese officials--from the Diet, MFA, MOD, and Japanese embassies in Addis Ababa and London--suggest that Japan is preparing to deploy two P-3C maritime patrol aircraft and possibly two JMSDF frigates to Djibouti, in order to support intern [...]
2009-03-01 16:58:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA MARR MOPS JA DJ SO XA
09DJIBOUTI191DJIBOUTI: UNHCR UPDATES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REFUGEES FROM
[...] SUMMARY. On February 23, Ann EnContre, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Djibouti, briefed Conoff on recent UNHCR activities, including UNHCR's latest contingency planning for a possible influx to Djibouti of up to 30,000 refugees from bordering countries. [...]
2009-03-17 14:58:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG SO DJ ET ER XA
09DJIBOUTI255JAPANESE TROOPS EN ROUTE TO DJIBOUTI TO COMBAT SOMALI PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In anticipation of signing a SOFA on April 3 with Djibouti's foreign minister, two Japanese destroyers, each with 200-man crews, are expected to arrive in Djibouti in the next ten days to conduct counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia. They will be joined in May by t [...]
2009-03-29 15:08:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA MARR MOPS EWWT JA DJ SO XA
09DJIBOUTI27DJIBOUTI SEEKS TO HOST SOMALI COUNTER-PIRACY
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post forwarded draft agenda and draft communique for January 13-14 Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) to MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Mohamed Ali Hassan on January 8. Ambassador subsequently provided Post's French-language translation (emailed to AF/RSA and PM/PPA) to [...]
2009-01-12 13:01:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALKCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER SO DJ XA
09DJIBOUTI283DJIBOUTI: UNHCR UPDATES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REFUGEES FROM
[...] SUMMARY. On February 23, Ann EnContre, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Djibouti, briefed Conoff on recent UNHCR activities, including UNHCR's latest contingency planning for a possible influx to Djibouti of up to 30,000 refugees from bordering countries [...]
2009-04-06 15:59:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG SO DJ ET ER XA
09DJIBOUTI563DJIBOUTIAN FM REPORTS IGAD SEEKS MORE AGGRESSIVE MANDATE FOR
[...] (S) SUMMARY. According to Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, IGAD Foreign Ministers agree that the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) requires a more robust mandate, with Uganda urging the need to "review the rules of engagement ." Youssouf also highlighted AMISOM's need [...]
2009-05-28 08:31:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRETPREL MOPS MASS KPKO SO ER ET DJ XA
09DJIBOUTI569FRAUD SUMMARY - DJIBOUTI
[...] Country Conditions: The Republic of Djibouti is a developing and stable African country in the Horn of Africa. Although exact statistics are unavailable, unemployment is estimated in excess of 50 percent of the working-age population. Over two-thirds of the country's estimated 650,000 residen [...]
2009-05-28 11:56:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC DJ ET ER SO XA
09DJIBOUTI6SOMALI PIRACY - DJIBOUTI RECOMMENDS USG
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Djiboutian Foreign Minister Youssouf confirmed that the GODJ would participate in the Jan. 13-14 Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) to be held in New York, and strongly urged USG participation in a regional International Maritime Organization (IMO) conference [...]
2009-01-04 14:42:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALKCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER DJ SO XA
09DJIBOUTI919SOMALIA: TFG FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO COMBAT AL-SHABAAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's ongoing effort to train nearly 500 troops for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is "critical" for achieving the TFG's aim of training up to 3,000 recruits to form a new Somali army, according to Somali TFG Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, who hope [...]
2009-07-14 15:18:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS KPKO AU SO DJ ER ET XA
09DJIBOUTI991SCENESETTER FOR AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD'S VISIT TO DJIBOUTI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Djibouti warmly welcomes AFRICOM Commander General Ward and his party to Djibouti. A stable, moderate Muslim ally, Djibouti not only hosts Camp Lemonier -- the only U.S. military base in Africa -- but also key USG broadcasting facilities used by Arabic-language Radio Saw [...]
2009-07-28 17:18:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMASS MOPS PREL KPKO DJ SO ER JA XA
09GENEVA1048 UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 56th Session,
[...] (U) Summary. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 56th Session of its Trade and Development Board (TDB),UNCTAD's governing body, in Geneva from September 14-25, 2009. The meeting focused on LDC's, African economic integration, and the impact of the financi [...]
2009-11-22 11:02:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNCTAD ECON ETRD XA EAID
09GENEVA643 ECOSOC - ONE UN RWANDA WORKING WELL
[...] SUMMARY. In a July 15 special session on the One UN Rwanda program, organized by the UN Chief Executive Board (CEB) Interagency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity during the Operational Activities Segment of the Economic and Social Council meeting in Geneva, the UN Resident Coordinator f [...]
2009-07-31 13:42:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDKUNR UNCTAD XA EAID
09GENEVA674UNCTAD competition program for Africa
[...] ACTION REQUEST: If embassies in Africa believe their host countries could benefit from advice on competition policy, please see para 14. 2. SUMMARY: In response to requests from several African countries, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) launched a new Competition Progr [...]
2009-08-12 14:01:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON UNCTAD UNDP XA COMESA EAC SACU SADC WAEMU
09GENEVA682Burkina Faso Investment Policy Review 2009
[...] SUMMARY: UNCTAD held an Investment Policy Review (IPR) for Burkina Faso on June 23, 2009, attended by about 40 delegates, including a number of LDCs and African delegations. Policy Review Section Chief Chantal Dupasquier recommended that Burkina Faso accelerate legal and fiscal reforms to a [...]
2009-08-17 12:49:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON UNCTAD EAID XA
09GUANGZHOU642Guangzhou Begins Asian Games Campaign to Promote Its
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangzhou held its one-year countdown celebration for the November 2010 16th Asian Games, kicking off an effort to use the Games to advance its image as a modern, cosmopolitan city and a worthy destination for tourists and foreign investment. The countdown ceremony capitalized [...]
2009-11-20 05:17:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI PREL ETRD PGOV SENV CH XA
09GUANGZHOU646American Culture Week A Big Hit at Xiamen University
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ConGen Guangzhou hosted its first ever "American Culture Week" at Xiamen University's School of Humanities from November 9-13. Despite pressure from the University's Foreign Affairs Office to cancel the program, including the Consul General's opening speech highlighting the Pr [...]
2009-11-23 02:24:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI SCUL PREL ETRD PGOV SENV OPRC CH XA
09HANOI191VIETNAM OBJECTS TO BASHIR INDICTMENT, STILL CONSIDERING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-03 09:20:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC PHUM SU XA XW VM
09HARARE416TSVANGIRAI OUTLINES NEXT 100-DAY PLAN
[...] (SBU) On May 13, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai unveiled his plan to guide the Government of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) activities during the next 100 days of the unity government at a conference attended by government officials, legislators, diplomats, civil society, and business leaders. In essence [...]
2009-05-19 14:55:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI ECON XA
09HARARE478ZIMBABWEAN BUSINESS LEADERS SEEK CREDIT NOT
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwean business leaders briefed Congressional delegation Payne on May 31 on challenges facing their respective industries. Commonalities from the presentations included the need for access to international credit lines, improved local governance, and stable delivery of utilities. In [...]
2009-06-09 08:57:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD XA PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE479ZIM AG MINISTER OVERESTIMATES AGRICULTURAL
[...] (SBU) In a meeting with CODEL Payne and Ambassador McGee on May 30, Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made (ZANU-PF) estimated the maize shortfall and level of food insecurity in 2009/10. He conceded the outlook was poor for the winter wheat crop, and made a pitch for credit facilities for smal [...]
2009-06-09 08:58:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON PGOV XA ZI
09KAMPALA1108UGANDA: AFRICA WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY AND SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 10:04:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE UG
09KAMPALA815UGANDA'S ATTENDANCE AT AGOA FORUM
[...] On 14 July, Econoff delivered reftel letter to Uganda's Finance Ministry, Trade and Industry Ministry, and Foreign Ministry regarding the upcoming AGOA Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. The Government of Uganda confirms that Minister of Agriculture Hope Mwesigye, Minister for Trade and Industry Kahind [...]
2009-07-29 12:50:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ETRD ECON XA UG
09LILONGWE554 MALAWI - AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW
[...] Per reftel request, Embassy Lilongwe submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: MALAWI Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Malawi's population is approximately 13 million and GDP at current prices is USD 4.6 bil [...]
2009-10-08 14:02:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON XA MI
09LISBON226PORTUGUESE ON S-FM MEETING, ISAF, AFRICA, AND
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Portuguese MFA Political Director and his advisers met with Ambassador Stephenson April 21 to discuss a range of issues in advance of the Portugal-U.S. Bilateral Commission meeting scheduled for May 4. The Portuguese are pleased to have confirmation for FM Amado's meeting with [...]
2009-04-22 14:09:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR MOPS CVIS XA ZK AF PO
09LISBON495PORTUGAL ON 64TH UNGA GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
[...] (C) Summary: Poleconoff delivered reftel points on September 4 to Goncalo Silvestre of the Portuguese MFA Directorate for International Organizations and discussed the points further on September 11 with Joao Ribeiro de Almeida, Portugal's MFA Director for Common Foreign and Security Policy a [...]
2009-09-11 14:43:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA XA XB XD XF XG XS XM XL PO
09LONDON1370AFRICA'S EMERGING ECONOMIC LIONS: MALLOCH-BROWN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign Office Minister for Africa Lord Mark Malloch-Brown argued in a major June 9 speech that Africa should concentrate on "Africa first" in order to "use the opportunity of the (economic) crisis to speed up the process of regional integration" and give Africa's emerging econo [...]
2009-06-10 10:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PINR ECIN XA UK
09LONDON1886VIEWS ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM LONDON-BASED
[...] (SBU) Summary. London-based bank and development analysts are seeing positive signs emerging in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) economies, after months of negative news, but remain cautious in their near-term outlook for the region. While prospects for the global economy are improving and ther [...]
2009-08-13 16:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN KE LT NI SF UG UK XA ZA
09LONDON205AU SUMMIT: UK PRIORITIES AND PING'S VISIT TO LONDON
[...] (C) Summary. FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown will represent HMG at the January/February AU Summit in Addis Abba. Malloch-Brown has been invited to speak about the London Summit in April. He intends to explain the aims and objectives of the London Financial Summit and to highlight [...]
2009-01-23 13:34:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU XA UK
09LONDON2723AFRICA: NEW AFRICA MINISTER FOCUS ON TRADITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-04 15:32:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR SENV EAID XA EU UK
09LONDON2784LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU TO THE
[...] Embassy London received on December 10 the following letter for the Secretary from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the Chair of The Elders Foundation. The letter is copied to U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Genera [...]
2009-12-11 15:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL PREF OPRC PHUM XA SU UK
09LONDON339AFRICA: U.S. VERSUS UK PRIORITIES, LONDON THINK
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary. During the transition to the Obama Administration, London think tanks have been active in discussing USG and HMG priorities in Africa. Poloff took the opportunity to poll opinions among Africa specialists at Chatham House, RUSI, the Royal Africa Society, Africa Confidential, the C [...]
2009-02-06 16:25:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID MASS KISL ZI SO NI SU SF XA UK
09LONDON435AFRICA: HMG'S PRIORITIES TO DISCUSS WITH THE OBAMA
[...] (C/NF) Summary. UK officials have highlighted Prime Minister Gordon Brown's priorities in Africa and previewed the core messages which the Prime Minister plans to bring to discussions with U.S. officials. Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remain HMG's top p [...]
2009-02-19 13:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID UNSC KPKO PHUM ECON XA SO SU ZI
09LONDON553SUDAN/DARFUR: UK SUPPORTS LOW-KEY RESPONSE TO ICC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-03 09:59:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC PHUM SU XA XW UK
09LONDON636COMMONWEALTH: CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR
[...] (SBU) As the Commonwealth turned 60 in March 2009, Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague outlined the Conservative Party's plan to reinvigorate the Commonwealth in order to promote democracy, foster sound political and financial governance, and open new opportunities in trade and [...]
2009-03-12 13:28:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID SMIG KGHG XA UK
09LONDON694AFRICAN LEADERS CONSULTED IN RUN-UP TO APRIL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown hosted African leaders (listed in para 17) in London at a consultative pre-London Economic Summit meeting on March 16, where African leaders delivered pre-agreed positions and a statement on proposals for the G20 to mitigate the worst effects of the g [...]
2009-03-19 14:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID XA UK
09LUSAKA312NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR CONFERENCE: WILL COMMITMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Following a tripartite summit in October 2008, and as part of a pilot Aid for Trade initiative, three regional economic communities (RECs) - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA),East African Community (EAC),and Southern African Development Community (SADC) - [...]
2009-05-07 13:43:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECIN ELTN ENRG ETRD WTO XA ZA
09LUSAKA426 COMESA LAUNCHES CUSTOMS UNION, PURSUES BROAD AND AMBITIOUS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Leaders from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched a customs union and a regional payment and settlement system during the recent COMESA Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Eight of COMESA's 19 Member States are disposed to join the Customs Union, [...]
2009-06-16 14:27:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECIN ETRD PREL SENV XW XA ZU
09LUSAKA489COMESA LEADERS REFLECT ON REGIONAL ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. During a July 6 meeting with Ambassador Booth, Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya provided some insights on the recently concluded African Union (AU) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) summits. He clarified the AU position on the International Criminal Co [...]
2009-07-13 14:10:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL XA ZU XW
09LUSAKA490COMESA LEADERS DISCUSS U.S.-COMESA TRADE AND
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Booth met with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya on July 6 to discuss the U.S.-COMESA Trade and Investment Framework Agreement Council meeting (scheduled for September 17-18 in Lusaka) and to explore the possibilit [...]
2009-07-13 14:50:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALECIN ETRD EAID SENV TBIO XA ZU XW
09LUSAKA63U.S. SUPPORTS REGIONAL INTEGRATION THROUGH COMESA
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 19, Ambassador presented his credentials in order to be accredited as the U.S. Special Representative to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya expressed appreciation for USG assistance to COMESA integra [...]
2009-01-29 14:52:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN EAID ETRD ECON XA ZI ZA
09MBABANE353AU PEACE AND SECURITY RETREAT ON UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) held a retreat from December 17-19 in Mbabane, Swaziland, and drafted a framework on AU response to unconstitutional change of government. The framework reportedly is proceeding through the AU's cataloguing process before rele [...]
2009-12-28 10:28:00Embassy MbabaneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAU PREL XA GU MA WZ
09MEXICO353THE U.S.-MEXICAN RELATIONSHIP: MEETING CHALLENGES,
[...] (U) Action request for Department -- AF, IO, NEA, SCA. See paras. 2, 3, and 5. 2. (C) Summary. Mexico's successful bid to secure a seat on the UN Security Council (2009-2010) should be viewed through the prism of President Calderon's desire to raise Mexico's international profile. In [...]
2009-02-08 02:38:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM MARR PINS PTER UNSC XA XF MX
09MOSCOW1824RUSSIA'S RETURN TO AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's June trip to Africa marked Russia's attempt to "return" to Africa and increase economic ties after a period of relative inactivity on the continent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Medvedev visited Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia, and Angola June 23-27, a [...]
2009-07-15 11:22:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD EPET EMIN RS XA EG WA NI AO
09MOSCOW1825RUSSIA'S RETURN TO AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's June trip to Africa marked Russia's attempt to "return" to Africa and increase economic ties after a period of relative inactivity on the continent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Medvedev visited Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia, and Angola June 23-27, a [...]
2009-07-15 11:29:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD EPET EMIN RS XA EG WA NI AO
09MOSCOW976RUSSIA SUPPORTS AFRICAN SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN
[...] (C) Summary: African Ambassadors assembled for an April 15 roundtable hosted by the Ambassador argued that despite Russia's limited diplomatic activity in Africa, Moscow's support for the African position in international fora, and African solutions to resolving the region's problems, accorde [...]
2009-04-16 12:23:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON RS XA
09NAIROBI1273INTERNATIONALIZING CAPACITY BUILDING FOR EAST
[...] (SBU) On June 23, the British High Commissioner convened a meeting with Canada, Australia, and the United States to garner support for their efforts to internationalize Kenya's peacekeeping training centers. The British see this step as necessary to maintain the momentum to turn the East Afric [...]
2009-06-25 09:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL XA CA UK AS
09NAIROBI2465 PREPARATIONS FOR AFRICA REGIONAL UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 09:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09NAIROBI2521PREPARATIONS FOR AFRICA REGIONAL UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP ON
[...] This is an action message. Please see paras. 14 and 15. 2. Summary: Officials from the Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) visited Nairobi November 16-19 to perform a site survey in preparation for the Afr [...]
2009-12-21 20:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09NAIROBI450USRAP EXPLORES POSSIBILITY OF INITIATING REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) UNHCR-Djibouti anticipates submitting between 400-450 Priority 1 referrals to the USRAP (US Refugee Admissions Program) should USRAP reinitiate refugee resettlement in Djibouti. Embassy Djibouti, while neutral about USRAP re-initiating resettlement activities, is concerned that USRAP [...]
2009-03-06 07:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYDJ ET PREF PREL SMIG SO XA
09NDJAMENA310CHAD: NO DECISIONS ON AGOA FORUM ATTENDANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-27 15:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON XA PGOV ETRD CD
09NEWDELHI1658New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 3-7, 2009, including the following: -- Exports Decline for 9th Straight Month; Imports Decline More -- Possible Law to Clarify Sector-specific Investment Caps -- India and South Korea Sign Trade A [...]
2009-08-10 02:45:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EFIN EPET ETRD BEXP KIPR IN XB XA
09NIAMEY100NIGER HOSTS INAUGURAL CEN-SAD GAMES (FEBRUARY 4-14, 2009)
[...] Summary. Approximately 3000 young athletes and/or artists from 19 African states basked in the eleven days of sports and cultural diversity competition that unfolded at the inaugural Community of Sahel and Saharan States (CEN-SAD) Games in Niamey. Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja and Prime M [...]
2009-02-19 14:44:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL PREL SOCI XA NG
09NICOSIA130CYPRUS WILL SUPPORT USG, AU STANCE ON MAURITANIA
[...] (C). On February 18, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche concerning USG views on the military junta in Mauritania and the African Union's (AU) recent decision to impose targeted sanctions to Andreas Kouzoupis, in the Cypriot MFA's Department of Middle East and African Affairs. Kouzoupis said th [...]
2009-02-19 12:50:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL XA MR CY
09OSLO311 FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) IN NORWAY
[...] Several cases over the past few months highlight the continuing problem of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) among some immigrant groups in Norway. While the issue has gained public notoriety, the adequacy of the GON FGM response is questioned by some. Particularly at issue are mandated genital [...]
2009-04-22 14:34:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI KFGM KISL KWMN KOCI XA NO
09OUAGADOUGOU92BURKINA FASO ACCEPTS PARTICIPATION IN TSCTP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 13:38:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER XA XI UV
09PARIS1047 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2009 MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the July Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to voluntarily go beyond the terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative to forgive 100 percent of their claims pertaining to Haiti, which reached completion point under the Initiative on June 30. The Club a [...]
2009-08-03 08:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS1340HORN OF AFRICA/PIRACY: FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French will attend the October 6-8 Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) meeting in Brussels but may also want a USG team to visit Paris to discuss Horn of Africa piracy on a broad inter-agency basis. France favors taking action to block ports used by pirates and against [...]
2009-09-30 10:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM PREL SO XA XW FR
09PARIS1387SEPTEMBER 2009 PARIS CLUB MEETING; NEGOTIATION WITH CAR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 15, the Paris Club and the Central African Republic (CAR) negotiated a new debt relief agreement recognizing that country's completion of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Creditors agreed voluntarily to go beyond HIPC terms to forgive [...]
2009-10-14 11:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS284 PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the January 2009 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon, creditors agreed to consider committing up front to a debt reduction for Seychelles, although they agreed that conditions should be stringent. While Haiti's situation was challenging, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believ [...]
2009-02-26 12:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS499 PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The March 10, 2009 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon covered Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR),Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Jamaica, the Seychelles, and Sri Lanka. Creditors provided "financing assurances" f [...]
2009-04-03 16:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS504DRC/ROC/NIGER: FRENCH PRESIDENCY'S READOUT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy's March 26-27 visits to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Republic of Congo (ROC),and Niger were intended to promote democratic principles, shared business interests, and, more generally, Sarkozy's policy of moving away from the "France-Afrique" model of m [...]
2009-04-07 10:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR CG CF NG XA
09PARIS629 PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the January 2009 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon, creditors agreed to consider committing upfront to a debt reduction for Seychelles, although they agreed that conditions should be stringent. While Haiti's situation was challenging, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believe [...]
2009-05-07 07:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS643 PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the April Paris Club meeting, the IMF reported Afghanistan's PRGF was back on track. Some creditors expressed a willingness to extend Afghanistan's debt treatment, but Russia noted some 'technical problems.' The World Bank and the Fund had approved Cote d'Ivoire's decisi [...]
2009-05-12 15:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS715 PARIS CLUB - MAY 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the May 13 Paris Club meeting, creditors were willing to extend Afghanistan's debt treatment, but Russia blocked the move. Paris Club members expressed concerns about Brazil's proposed loan to Argentina's state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas, but agreed to seek more [...]
2009-05-28 14:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS973 PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's June 23 meeting, the U.S. opposed a proposal to give new seniority status to crisis-related bilateral financing. Russia dropped its opposition to extending Afghanistan's Club treatment, clearing the way for continued debt relief as Afghanistan implements its [...]
2009-07-20 10:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PORTAUPRINCE291MARITIME SECURITY AND DOMAIN AWARENESS: REPORTING
[...] (S/NF) Post has reviewed the Directive per ref and submits the following recommendations: Please include Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as a Primary agency for the following directives: - Maritime Environment (1. Seaports; and 3. Vessels) - Maritime Terrorism Threats (3. Criminal and Terror [...]
2009-03-16 15:11:00Embassy Port Au PrinceSECRETPINR KSPR EWWT XA XB XD XF XG XK XL XM AA
09PRAGUE263CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING MAY GAERC
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 14 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the May 18-19 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the EU's Anti-Piracy efforts, Georgia, the EU-Ru [...]
2009-05-15 15:46:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL CE XF ZJ XA
09PRAIA239FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 17:11:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA UNGA CV
09RABAT923SECRETARY'S EID AL ADHA MESSAGE DELIVERED
[...] (U) The Post delivered on November 20 Secretary Clinton's Eid Al Adha greeting to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco Mr. Taieb Fassi Fihri. ***************************************** Visit Embassy Rabat's Classified Website; http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Moro cco ********** [...]
2009-11-24 09:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPCD PREL XA XF MO
09RABAT929CIVIL SOCIETY'S FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PREPARATORY MEETING
[...] (U) Over 150 participants from the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) region attended the Civil Society (CS) preparatory meeting to the Forum for the Future (FFF) led by the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH) and the Italian NGO No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) in Casablanca [...]
2009-11-25 08:35:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM XF XA MA
09RABAT988GUINEA: UPDATE ON DADIS CAMARA'S HEALTH
[...] (S) Summary: In separate meetings on December 16 with the Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri and XXXXXXXXXXXX the Mission learned that the health of wounded Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has improved and that his release from the hospital may be imminent. Fassi Fihr [...]
2009-12-17 18:40:00Embassy RabatSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PREL XA MO
09SANTIAGO540CHILE SUPPORTS EXTENDING SUDAN RAPPORTEUR MANDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 21:20:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL AORC CI SU XA
09SEOUL2016KOREA'S "AFRICA GREEN GROWTH PARTNERSHIP" RAMPS UP
[...] (C) The "Africa Green Growth Partnership," launched by President Lee in November, will double ROK Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Africa by 2012. A key facet of the initiative, which is part of a broader program to expand the ROK's development assistance programming, will be the dis [...]
2009-12-30 02:17:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EINV ETRD SENV XA KS
09SHANGHAI160CHINA AND AFRICA: SHANGHAI VIEWS ON EXPANDING TRADE AND
[...] (C) Summary: During March 2009 meetings with four Shanghai-based Africa scholars, the largest Chinese investor in Africa, and officials from the Egyptian and South African Consulates General in Shanghai, Congenoffs examined the evolving state of China-Africa relations. The upcoming Forum on China-A [...]
2009-04-10 01:32:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EINV CH XA TW
09SKOPJE452MACEDONIA: UNGA GOALS AND OBJECTIVES DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva and Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs Sanja Zografska-Krteska on September 10. Geleva reported that due to budget shortfalls, she, as a MFA's main UNGA subject matter expert, would not be att [...]
2009-09-11 16:23:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNGA XA XB XD XF XG XS XM XL MK
09STATE103665SUDAN ELECTIONS: UNSC DRAFT PRESS STATEMENT
[...] Action Request: Department requests that USUN seek a UN Security Council Press Statement regarding preparations for elections in Sudan at the earliest opportunity. USUN should refer any substantive changes to the draft press statement in paragraph two to the Department prior to adoption. [...]
2009-10-05 23:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE103983SUDAN ELECTIONS: DRAFT UNSC PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
[...] Action Request: Department requests that USUN seek a UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) regarding preparations for elections in Sudan at the earliest opportunity. USUN should refer any substantive changes to the draft PRST in paragraph two to the Department prior to adoption. [...]
2009-10-06 15:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE10420SIERRA LEONE: TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 9 UNSC
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 for the February 9 UN Security Council debate on Sierra Leone. It is separately requested that USUN meet with the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone(UNIPSIL) Executive Representative Michael von Schulenberg (who will [...]
2009-02-04 22:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
09STATE104737SOMALIA: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR OCTOBER 8 BRIEFING
[...] Action Request: USUN should draw from the building blocks in paragraph 2 below in drafting the statement for the UN Security Council briefing on Somalia on October 8, 2009. End action. 2. Begin building blocks: Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to begin by thanking Spec [...]
2009-10-07 22:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE110916U.S.-EGYPTIAN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: NEXT STEPS
[...] (U) Classified by: NEA Acting A/S Ronald Schlicher. E.O. 12958, Reasons: 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY. The structure of the Strategic Dialogue provides a framework within which to highlight and address major areas of bilateral, regional, and multilateral coordination with the Govern [...]
2009-10-27 20:23:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM EG KDEM ECON PARM XA
09STATE110970GUINEA: UNSC ADOPTION OF PRST
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on Guinea to be adopted on October 28 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The Secu [...]
2009-10-27 22:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE113010GUINEA-BISSAU: UNSC CONSULTATIONS NOVEMBER 5
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Guinea-Bissau November 5. 2. Begin points: --Key Objective: Reiterate our position that security sector reform (SSR) and counternarcotics work are paramount to [...]
2009-11-02 23:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE11320SOMALIA: LETTER TO THE SECRETARIAT ON USG EFFORTS
[...] USUN is instructed to deliver the following letter to the Department of Political Affairs in response to their inquiry of January 28 asking for additional information concerning USG anti-piracy activities off the coast of Somalia. The Department understands an earlier letter containing the c [...]
2009-02-06 23:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE114026GUINEA-BISSAU: UNSC PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT FOR
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to join consensus in the Security Council on a Presidential Statement on Guinea-Bissau in paragraph 2. USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the Presidential Statement to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2 [...]
2009-11-05 00:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE115229DRAFT UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON SOMALI
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to share the draft resolution in paragraph 2 with the members of the Security Council, and to report reactions to the Department. End request. 2. Begin text of draft UN Security Council 1846/1851 renewal resolution: -- The Security Council, -- i. R [...]
2009-11-06 22:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE115531VOTE IN THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE GOLDSTONE
[...] This is a demarche request. Action addressees are requested to demarche host governments, drawing from the suggested talking points in paragraph 4. BACKGROUND ---------- 2. In REFTEL the Department requested that posts demarche host governments to encourage votes against the draft resol [...]
2009-11-09 18:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA XF
09STATE116023October 2009 Paris Club Meeting
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the October 2009 Paris Club "Tour d'Horizon," creditors expressed consternation over the $939 million payment made by Congo-Brazzaville to litigating creditors (a.k.a. vulture funds),which violated the GOC's commitment to seek terms from private creditors comparable to i [...]
2009-11-10 19:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB SF FR
09STATE117724SOMALI PIRACY: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR UNSC NOVEMBER
[...] Action Request: USUN should draw from the building blocks in paragraph 2 below in drafting the statement for the UN Security Council open debate on piracy off the coast of Somalia on November 18, 2009. End action. 2. Begin building blocks: Humanitarian -- It is clear that piracy o [...]
2009-11-14 01:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE121333GUIDANCE: ADOPTION OF UNSC RESOLUTION RENEWING
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the U.S. drafted UN Security Council Resolution renewing UNSC resolutions 1846 and 1851 to be adopted on November 30 (para 2). USUN should also seek out co-sponsors for the resolution. USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the Resolution [...]
2009-11-24 23:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM KPIR SO XA XW
09STATE123216GUIDANCE: DECEMBER 3 UNSC DEBATE ON ICTR/ICTY
[...] (U) The Department requests that USUN draw on the points in paragraph 2 for use during the Security Council's December 3 debate on the Completion Strategies for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR). 2. (U) Begin points: -- The United St [...]
2009-12-02 00:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA ZF ZL RW
09STATE123528SUDAN: TALKING POINTS FOR DECEMBER 4 BRIEFING BY
[...] (U) USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points and questions in paragraph three for the December 4 Security Council Briefing by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. The U.S. objective for this briefing is to: (1) emphasize that the Governme [...]
2009-12-02 18:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE125021BURUNDI: GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 10 UNSC
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 3 during the December 10 UN Security Council consultations on the UN Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB). 2. (U) Objectives: Express our support for the ongoing disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration [...]
2009-12-07 18:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE125208UN SECURITY COUNCIL DECEMBER 8 THEMATIC DEBATE ON
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the statement in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council thematic debate on Drug Trafficking in West Africa on December 8. USUN is also instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on Drug Trafficking to be [...]
2009-12-07 23:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR
09STATE127595Paris Club November 2009 Meeting and Negotiations with
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the November 18, 2009, Paris Club "Tour d'Horizon," the IMF requested financing assurances for the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) new IMF program. Canada, troubled by the revocation of a mining license held by a Canadian-led consortium, waited until November 24 to [...]
2009-12-14 16:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XL CN FR
09STATE128278BURUNDI: USUN GUIDANCE FOR ADOPTION OF BINUB
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the Resolution to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. End act [...]
2009-12-16 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE12900SUDAN: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON POTENTIAL ARTICLE 16
[...] (U)Posts are instructed to demarche host countries at an appropriate level regarding the United States Government's strong desire not to see an Article 16 resolution tabled in the Security Council that would defer the probable International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudanese Pre [...]
2009-02-12 01:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE129239SUDAN: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR DECEMBER 21 DEBATE ON
[...] (SBU) USUN may draw from the points and questions in paragraph three for the December 21 Security Council briefing and debate on the Mbeki Report. The U.S. aims to support the objectives of the Mbeki report, but also point out that some of the Mbeki Report's recommendations may not advanc [...]
2009-12-18 02:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE16169ENGAGING WITH LIBYA ON AFRICAN UNION ISSUES
[...] (U) Action requested - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) The Department read with great interest ref A on obstacles to success and opportunities for engagement with Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi in the wake of his election as Chair of the African Union (AU) . While some African heads of state [...]
2009-02-20 23:22:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA AU LY
09STATE19213SUDAN: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON ICC ARREST WARRANT FOR
[...] (SBU) As they deem appropriate and useful, action addressees are instructed to approach host countries at an appropriate level regarding the International Criminal Court's (ICC) likely announcement of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday, March 4. Libya is likel [...]
2009-03-03 00:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE21422SUDAN: TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 6 OCHA
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points for their March 6 briefing in the Security Council by Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes. Begin talking points: -- The United States condemns the decision by the Government of Sudan to expel from its borders [...]
2009-03-06 22:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE22315CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: TALKING POINTS FOR
[...] USUN may draw from the following points for the March 10 Security Council briefing with the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for the Central African Republic (CAR) Francois Fall. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank SRSG Fall for his briefing today [...]
2009-03-10 15:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CA XA ZF
09STATE254OES BUREAU COMMENTS ON ACCRA REO FY 2009 WORKPLAN
[...] Summary: The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) thanks Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Geoffrey Hunt, and program assistant for the REO, Patience Charway, for their participation in the recent digital video conferen [...]
2009-01-02 20:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO EFIS TSPA XA XY ZF GH
09STATE26720SOMALIA: UNSC PRESS STATEMENT
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council press statement on Somalia to be adopted on March 20 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the press statement to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin statement: The mem [...]
2009-03-19 21:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL SO XA XW
09STATE28313SUDAN: MARCH 26 UNSC BRIEFING BY THE AU-UN CHIEF
[...] USUN may draw from the following points for its March 26 briefings by the AU-UN Chief Negotiator for Darfur Djibril Bassole (and UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes.) Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank AU/UN [...]
2009-03-24 23:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE31093MADAGASCAR: UNSC BRIEFING UNDER OTHER MATTERS
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 for the April 2 UNSC briefing under "other matters" on Madagascar. 2. Begin points: -- The United States condemns the process through which Marc Ravalomanana was forced to resign as President of the Republic of Madagascar and Andry Rajoeli [...]
2009-03-31 23:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM XA XY
09STATE32283GUINEA-BISSAU: UNSC CONSULTATIONS APRIL 2
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Guinea-Bissau April 8. 2. Begin Statement: -- First, the United States welcomes the successful transition in Guinea-Bissau to Parliament Speaker Raimundo Pereir [...]
2009-04-02 23:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE3273DJIBOUT-ERITREA: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR FRENCH
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the following French resolution on the Djibouti-Eritrea crisis. Begin text The Security Council Affirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and unity of both Djibouti and Eritrea, and recalling the impor [...]
2009-01-13 16:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL DJ ER ET XA XW
09STATE34127GUINEA-BISSAU: INSTRUCTION FOR ADOPTION OF UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on the Guinea-Bissau to be adopted on April 8 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The Sec [...]
2009-04-07 23:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE3498GREAT LAKES - TALKING POINTS FOR THE JANUARY 15
[...] This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the January 15 UN Security Council (UNSC) consultations with Great Lakes Special Envoy Obasanjo. 2. (U) Begin points: -- We remain seriously concerned about the present situation in eastern Congo, in particula [...]
2009-01-13 22:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE35882TRANS-SAHARA COUNTERTERRORISM PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL
[...] (U) The fifth annual interagency Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) conference will convene on 2-4 June at the State Department's George C. Marshall Center in Washington DC. The conference will include participants from the U.S. Embassies in the ten TSCTP countries and action o [...]
2009-04-11 14:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL PTER XA XI XY
09STATE36865ACTING A/S CARTER BRIEFS EU POLITICAL COUNSELORS
[...] (C) Begin Summary: On April 9 at the invitation of the Czech Political Counselor in his capacity representing the EU Presidency, Acting Assistant Secretary for Africa Phillip Carter urged EU Political Counselors to support USG policy priorities towards Africa. Carter noted that the Administr [...]
2009-04-15 00:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL AU EUN XA
09STATE37561(S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: AFRICAN GREAT
[...] (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on African Great Lakes (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued DOS reporting of biographic information relating to DROC, Burundi, and Rwanda (paragraph 2). A. (S/NF) The NHCD below s [...]
2009-04-16 14:11:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR KSPR ECON KDEM KHIV ZF XA CF RW BY
09STATE380361267/TERRORISM: GUIDANCE REGARDING YEMENI
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Per reftel, Yemeni Perm Rep Abdullah Alsaidi on April 2 told USUN Ambassador DiCarlo that Yemen is prepared to submit a travel ban exemption request to the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions) Committee to [...]
2009-04-16 23:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC XA
09STATE43610GUIDANCE ON RESPONDING TO REPORT OF POTENTIAL
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Addis Ababa. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: Per REF A, on 23 April 2009, Post alerted Washington that it had received an e-mail with photographs indicating a potential incident of illegal nuclear and/or radioactive material smugglin [...]
2009-04-29 20:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR PREL PTER ET XA XW
09STATE43724WESTERN SAHARA: USUN VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND EOV
[...] This is an action request, see paragraph two. 2. ACTION REQUEST: On April 30, 2009, the UN Security Council will vote on a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). USUN is authorized to vote in support of the resolution, included in [...]
2009-04-30 02:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KPKO AG MO WI XA XY
09STATE47188CHAD: TALKING POINTS AND VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR
[...] USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 to the French drafted PRST (paragraph 3) on the Chadian rebel incursion from Sudan into Chad. USUN may delivery the statement in paragraph 4, if the May 8 "emergency session" is open. USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 5, [...]
2009-05-08 17:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU CD XA ZF
09STATE48527SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE CABLE ON UN ASSISTANCE
[...] This is an action request see paragraph 2. 2. ACTION REQUEST: USUN is requested to demarche the UN Secretariat at the appropriate level to obtain the objectives in paragraph 3. USUN may draw from the background listed in paragraph 4-7 to achieve these objectives. USUN should inform the [...]
2009-05-13 00:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XY
09STATE4903USUN TALKING POINTS FOR UNOWA CONSULTATIONS
[...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw on the points below during the January 21 UNSC consultations by the Special Representative of the Secretary General Said Djinnit concerning the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA). End Action Request. 2. Begin points: - The U.S. we [...]
2009-01-16 23:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA
09STATE52639A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR GAVIN
[...] (SBU) On May 19, senior U.S. and UK Africa representatives participated in a secure video teleconference (SVTC) focused on Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. All expressed mutual interest in holding a regular dialogue via SVTC, and agreed to meet during Wood's June 9-10 trip to Washington. U.S. pa [...]
2009-05-22 12:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KE SO UK XA ZI
09STATE529OES BUREAU COMMENTS ON ADDIS ABABA REO FY 2009
[...] Summary: The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) thanks Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Kirsten Bauman, Refugee and Environmental Assistant, Shawna Hirsch, and Regional Environmental Specialist, Moges Worku, for thei [...]
2009-01-05 16:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO EFIS XA XW ET
09STATE52995AFRICA THEMATIC (BIO) WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION
[...] The United States seeks to encourage the Government of Kenya (GoK) to host a regional workshop on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004). The event will be focused on reducing biological threats to enhance regional implementation of UNSCR 1540 and at the same time enhance the [...]
2009-05-22 20:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL PTER XA XI KE
09STATE57091SIERRA LEONE: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 8 UNSC
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para. 2 for the June 8 UN Security Council debate on Sierra Leone. End action request. 2. Begin points: -- The United States thanks the Secretary General for his report and commends UNIPSIL for its continued work to su [...]
2009-06-03 16:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
09STATE57281UNSC CONSULTATION ON ICTR/ICTY -- JUNE 4
[...] (U) The Department requests that USUN draw on the following points for use during the Security Council,s June 4 consultations on the Completion Strategies for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR). Begin Points: 2. (U) The United States [...]
2009-06-03 20:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA ZF ZL RW
09STATE57600BURUNDI: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 9 UNSC DEBATE
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Burundi June 9. End Action Request. 2. Begin Points: -- The United States thanks (the UN Department of Political Affairs) for briefing the Council on the situation in [...]
2009-06-04 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE57905SUDAN: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 5 BRIEFING BY ICC
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points and questions for the June 5 Security Council Briefing by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. -- We would like to thank Chief Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo for his informative briefing today related to Securit [...]
2009-06-04 23:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE58766BURUNDI: UNSC PRESS STATEMENT FOR JUNE 9 UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council press statement on Burundi to be adopted on June 9 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the press statement to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The members of [...]
2009-06-08 17:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE58769BURUNDI: UNSC PRESS STATEMENT FOR JUNE 9 UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council press statement on Burundi to be adopted on June 9 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the press statement to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The members of [...]
2009-06-08 17:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE59128GUINEA-BISSAU: UNSC PRESS STATEMENT FOR JUNE 9
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council press statement on Guinea-Bissau to be adopted on June 9 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the press statement to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The memb [...]
2009-06-09 14:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE62908GUINEA-BISSAU: UNSC CONSULTATIONS JUNE 23
[...] (U)This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Guinea-Bissau June 23. 2. Begin points: -- Thank SRSG Mutaboba for his briefing. -- The United States emphasizes the importance of transparent, free and fai [...]
2009-06-17 23:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE634912009-H1N1 FLU DETECTED AMONG PARTICIPANTS IN
[...] Summary: A group of 335 participants in the Department,s Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program gathered in Washington the week of June 8 for meetings and site visits before returning home. A small number of the returning students have experienced flu-like symptoms and we understand fro [...]
2009-06-18 21:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAPER KFLU KPAO OEXC SCUL XA XD XF ZK
09STATE63544INSTRUCTIONS ON JUNE 22 CONSULTATIONS ON BONUCA
[...] (U) This is an action request: USUN is instructed to draw from talking points in paragraph 2 during June 22 consultations on the UN Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA). End action request. 2. (U) Begin points: -- The United States would like to join the Secretary [...]
2009-06-18 22:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCT PHUM PREL XA ZF UNSC
09STATE64048LRA: TALKING POINTS FOR SPECIAL ENVOY'S
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points for the June 25 briefing by the Special Envoy for the Secretary General to Areas Affected by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA): -- We would like to thank Special Envoy Chissano for his briefing today and for his dedication and efforts to end LRA [...]
2009-06-19 22:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG UG SU XA XW
09STATE66680GUINEA-BISSAU: INSTRUCTION CABLE FOR DRAFT
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the draft resolution on Guinea-Bissau that would establish the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office of Guinea-Bissau, included in its entirety in paragraph 2. If the text should change substantially before the vote, USUN should seek immediate guidance fro [...]
2009-06-26 21:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
09STATE69816SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR UNSC JULY 9 DEBATE
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council's July 9 debate on Somalia. 2. Begin talking points: -- The United States remains committed to: supporting Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in its battle against al-Shabaab and other violent [...]
2009-07-06 23:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE7018SOMALIA: TRANSMITTING PIRACY CONTACT GROUP
[...] USUN is instructed to transmit the attached letter in paragraph 2 announcing the formation of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS)to the Security Council President. USUN should also transmit to the Security Council President the Communiqu (para 3) referenced in the let [...]
2009-01-26 23:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE7024PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE - TALKING POINTS FOR UN
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the points in para 3 during the January 27 informal briefing at the French Mission with United Nations Special Adviser Francis Deng for the Prevention of Genocide. 2. (C) Background: Special Adviser Francis Deng was appointed in May 2007 [...]
2009-01-27 00:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA BY
09STATE71188GUIDANCE ON RESPONDING TO REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Bujumbura. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S//NF) SUMMARY: Regarding the July 2 report of an illicit trafficking incident in the Republic of Burundi (ROB),Post has asked Washington for assistance in identifying potential nuclear material in a canister [...]
2009-07-09 19:10:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNAF ASEC KCRM KNNP PARM PINR PREL PTER BY XA ZF
09STATE73235SIERRA LEONE: TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 16 UNSC
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in para 3 for the July 16 UN Security Council private meeting on the Special Court for Sierra Leone. End action request. 2. Background: Since 2002, the USG has been the largest financial contributor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Including t [...]
2009-07-15 00:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
09STATE75013ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ON RESPONDING TO REQUEST FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Bujumbura. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S//NF) BACKGROUND: Per REF A, Embassy Bujumbura agrees with Washington's assessment of the Burundian canister described in REF C. Although the canister is likely related to previous scams, post believes that [...]
2009-07-17 22:34:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNAF ASEC KCRM KNNP PARM PINR PREL PTER BY XA ZF
09STATE75018DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: TALKING POINTS FOR UNSC
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council's July 21 debate on Djibouti and Eritrea. 2. Begin talking points: -- The U.S. calls on Eritrea and Djibouti to move forward to resolve their border issues peacefully, in accordan [...]
2009-07-17 23:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE78768SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR UNSC JULY 29 BRIEFING
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council's July 29 briefing and consultations on Somalia. 2. Begin talking points: -- Thank you, Mr. President. Let me thank Special Representative Ould-Abdallah for his briefing, and Omaar of Somalia for his inf [...]
2009-07-28 23:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE80210RESPONSE TO OLA REGARDING UN ROLE IN COUNTER
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 with the objective of strongly discouraging UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) proposals regarding the UN role in counter piracy efforts. 2. Begin talking points: -- As reflected in its prior written communications, the United States s [...]
2009-07-31 22:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XY
09STATE84997TALKING POINTS FOR AUGUST 20 CONSULTATIONS ON SYG
[...] USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the August 20 consultations on the SYG Report on Elections in Sudan. 2. Begin talking points: -- We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive and incisive report detailing the preparations for national elect [...]
2009-08-14 17:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW
09STATE86633MESSAGE FROM ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHNNIE CARSON
[...] Events in Africa have kept me on the move since I was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs on May 7. Having just returned to Washington from traveling with Secretary Clinton, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the Africa Bureau team for your work over the past few m [...]
2009-08-19 23:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDXA
09STATE90069SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UN ROLE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 17:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
09STATE90254UNGA 64: GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The upcoming 64th UN General Assembly (UNGA) provides an unparalleled opportunity to build broad-based support for foreign policy priorities that need multilateral action or global implementation to be successful. At the General Assembly, the Administration [...]
2009-08-29 02:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA XA XB XD XF XG XS XM XL
09STATE91990TALKING POINTS FOR THE PITTSBURGH G20 SUMMIT
[...] (U) The following talking points have been developed by the White House for use in explaining the goals and objectives of the upcoming Pittsburgh Summit with host government officials. They should not be left as a non- paper or used outside of official circles. 2.(U) For updated press sta [...]
2009-09-03 17:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KPAO XA XB XD XE XF XG ZK XK
09STATE9388SOMALIA: PRESS STATEMENT ON SELECTING A PRESIDENT
[...] Action Request: Department requests that USUN seek a UN Security Council Press Statement welcoming the election of a new President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia at the earliest opportunity. USUN has the discretion to either circulate the statement in paragraph 2 to the Co [...]
2009-02-03 00:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL SO XA XW
09STATE94943SIERRA LEONE: UNIPSIL MANDATE RENEWAL
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Resolution on Sierra Leone to be adopted on September 15 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the Resolution to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Begin text: The Security [...]
2009-09-11 23:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
09STATE96413PRE-INVITATION TO AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON
[...] This is an action request. All addressees please see para 3; and USUN please see para 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. UNSCR 1540 obligates all UN Member States to develop and maintain "appropriate, effective" measures to improve their indigenous capacities to counter prolifera [...]
2009-09-16 20:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09STOCKHOLM514Media Reaction - Clinton Africa visit
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 09:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM603Media Reaction - President's UN climate speech
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-23 13:08:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG OPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM685OBAMA-REINFELDT DOMINATE HEADLINES IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All major news outlets covered the bilateral meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt on November 2 and focused on the climate change discussion. Outlets relayed Reinfeldt's sentiments on the importance of an agreement at the summit in December with an understa [...]
2009-11-03 13:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM688U.S. EU SUMMIT CONTINUES TO RECEIVE MAJOR MEDIA ATTENTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All major Swedish news outlets covered the U.S.-EU summit on November 3, focusing on the U.S.-EU search for common ground on climate. Outlets conveyed cautions from both sides that there should be no expectation of a binding international climate agreement in Copenhagen. Media fe [...]
2009-11-04 13:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM791COP-15 SUMMIT REPORTING IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The domination of COP-15 in Swedish media was only temporarily broken when General Motors announced the closure of car manufacturer SAAB on December 19. All outlets relayed a sense of disappointment on the outcome of the conference, calling it a 'failure' and delivering a 'weak res [...]
2009-12-22 10:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09TOKYO271JAPAN TO EXPAND EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE RARE METALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOJ is more than doubling its budget for rare metals exploration and acquisition in FY2009. Priorities include remote sensing activities in southern Africa, projects to stockpile and recycle rare metals from used equipment, and research to leverage advances in technology to [...]
2009-02-04 22:46:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ENRG PREL SENV JA XA
09TOKYO538GOJ PLANS FOR TICAD IV FOLLOW-UP CONFERENCE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) call for donor countries and institutions to "not fall behind" in commitments to African development will be a main theme of the Tokyo International Conference for African Development IV (TICAD IV) Ministerial Follow-up Meeting in Gabor [...]
2009-03-11 06:22:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ETRD PREL XA JA
09TUNIS394TUNISIA: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia: A. New Trade Minister B. Tunisia Targets Sub-Saharan Africa for Trade C. Tunisian Auto Parts Industry Rescued by FDI D. Tunisia Tourism Revenue Up Three Percent E. Morocco and Tunisia Plan Direct Currency Ex [...]
2009-06-18 10:33:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ETRD TS XA
09TUNIS713PRE-INVITATION TO AFRICAN BIO-SAFETY WORKSHOP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-29 13:50:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC TS XA
09UNVIEVIENNA153IAEA/TC: REQUEST FOR EXTRABUDGETARY FUNDING FOR AFRA
[...] (U) Mission received a letter from the Permanent Mission of Tanzania on March 6, 2009 requesting USG extrabudgetary funding for seven specific programs under the IAEA's regional technical cooperation (TC) project for Africa, the African Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research Development an [...]
2009-04-08 12:27:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KNNP PREL SOCI TRGY XA
09UNVIEVIENNA551RSA GAME TO PROMOTE SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENTS, LATER; GUMBI
[...] (U) Summary: Mission reached out to South African counterparts upon receipt of reftel and will continue efforts in Vienna to collaborate in recruiting further states to sign and implement Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements with the Additional Protocol or, as appropriate, to modify existing Sm [...]
2009-12-07 15:57:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL TRGY KTIA SF XA IAEA
09USNATO136APRIL 3-4 NATO SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE PART 1 OF 2
[...] (U) The following communique was approved and released by NATO Heads of State and Government following the Summit of April 3-4: BEGIN TEXT: 04 Apr. 2009 Strasbourg / Kehl Summit Declaration Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic C [...]
2009-04-04 15:15:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDNATO MARR PARM PHSA PTER XG ZM XA XF
09USNATO137APRIL 3-4 NATO SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE PART 2 OF 2
[...] (U) The following communique was approved and released by NATO Heads of State and Government following the Summit of April 3-4: BEGIN PART 2 of Text: 38. The security and stability of the Gulf region is significant to the Alliance. We are pleased with the significant progress achieved in [...]
2009-04-04 15:44:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDNATO MARR PARM PHSA PTER XG ZM XA XF
09USNATO145READOUT: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 8,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-09 10:25:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHSA PARM MOPS AF XA RS KN
09USNATO177READOUT: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING MAY 6, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-08 10:02:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHSA PARM MOPS AF XA RS KN
09USNATO202RFG: U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATO COUNTER-PIRACY
[...] (C/NF) This is a request for guidance. See para 6. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY: While the U.S. has been pressing hard for a long-term NATO role in counter-piracy, we have thus far been unable to answer Allied questions about what the U.S. commitment/contribution to such a mission would be. Without [...]
2009-05-20 15:53:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS EWWT ZR SO XA
09USNATO227ACTION REQUEST: NATO COUNTER-PIRACY: FISH OR CUT
[...] (C/NF) This is an Action Request. See para 14. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY: At the strong urging of the United States, NATO is moving forward with planning for a long-term counter-piracy operation. At the same time, Allies--including the U.S.--have been tepid in their willingness to actually contri [...]
2009-06-04 15:21:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS EWWT PBTS ZR SO XA
09USNATO350COUNTER-PIRACY: WORKING WITH SOMALI OFFICIALS;
[...] (C/REL NATO) As reported reftel, NATO has approved the Operational Plan for a long-term counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, to include supporting and contributing to regional capacity building with regional authorities connected with the deterrence and prevention of piracy. While [...]
2009-08-18 05:25:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO351COUNTER-PIRACY: WORKING WITH SOMALI OFFICIALS
[...] (C/REL NATO) As reported reftel, NATO has approved the Operational Plan for a long-term counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, to include supporting and contributing to regional capacity building with regional authorities connected with the deterrence and prevention of piracy. While [...]
2009-08-18 05:25:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO353COUNTER-PIRACY: NATO BEGINS OPERATION OCEAN
[...] (U) On August 17, NATO formally commenced Operation Ocean Shield -- the Alliance's long-term contribution to international efforts to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa. In a statement posted to its website, the Allied Maritime Component Command Headquarters Northwood (MCC Northwood) said t [...]
2009-08-18 14:34:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO354COUNTER-PIRACY: NATO SUCCESSFULLY WORKS WITH THE
[...] (U) Even before the August 17 commencement of Operation Ocean Shield, NATO's recently agreed long-term contribution to international counter-piracy efforts (reftel),NATO's efforts off the Horn of Africa have been yielding positive results. These results are often only possible because of the [...]
2009-08-19 10:49:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO513COUNTER-PIRACY: EXCHANGE OF MARITIME COMMAND FOR
[...] (U) On November 9, Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) took over responsibility for NATO's counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, from Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2). SMNG1 is commanded by Portuguese Rear Admiral Jose Domingos Pereira de Cunha. 2. (U) The four ships cur [...]
2009-11-11 14:48:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS EWWT PBTS PHSA MCAP MARR PREL SO XA XO
09USUNNEWYORK1035OBASANJO ON THE DRC, NIGERIA, AND AFRICAN ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-14 00:40:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC CG RW NI XA
09USUNNEWYORK1059SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR INCREASED COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) UN Department of Political Affairs U/SYG Pascoe briefed the Security Council on November 17 in closed consultations on the UN's efforts to address the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). He said that the UN was improving its inter-mission cooperation and information sharing, and that the UN M [...]
2009-11-20 00:10:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNSC XA CG UG SU CT CD
09USUNNEWYORK1068SOMALIA: FRIENDS GROUP TOLD CREDIBILITY OF UNSC AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah met with the Friends of Somalia on November 20 at the Norwegian Mission. (NOTE: The Friends group includes Belgium, China, Croatia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Finland, Germany, Iceland, I [...]
2009-11-24 15:22:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR UNSC SO ER ET AU XA XW
09USUNNEWYORK1106MEETING OF USUN LEGAL ADVISER WITH ICTR PRESIDENT
[...] (U) SUMMMARY: On Friday, December 4, USUN Legal Adviser Mary McLeod (filling in for Ambassador DiCarlo) met with International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) President Byron. Byron addressed three issues: witness protection, ICTR fugitive Felicien Kabuga, and the deadline for 11bis [...]
2009-12-08 22:53:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KJUS UNSC XA RW
09USUNNEWYORK1119AFTER SUSPENDING MEETING, CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 8 the Credentials Committee met to consider the credentials of delegations to the 64th session of the General Assembly (GA). Members of the Credentials Committee include Brazil, China, Jamaica, the Philippines, United States, the Russian Federation, Spain, Tanzania [...]
2009-12-14 18:16:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA XA
09USUNNEWYORK1121 SYRIA CALLS VOTE IN GA DURING CONFLICT DIAMOND RESOLUTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The General Assembly adopted the conflict diamonds resolution on December 11, amidst rancor and confusion after Syria called a surprise vote on language referring to Israel in the text. The PGA failed to clearly articulate what the vote was about or whether it was procedurally corr [...]
2009-12-15 14:54:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UNGA XA XY
09USUNNEWYORK1157SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES DRUG TRAFFICKING AS A
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN Security Council held an open debate on December 8 to discuss, for the first time, international drug trafficking as a threat to international peace and security with a focus on West Africa. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa highl [...]
2009-12-23 21:53:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC UNCND UNIDCP KTIA KCOR KCRM SNAR XA
09USUNNEWYORK1159MONUC EXTENDED 5 MONTHS; MANDATE CALLS FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Security Council unanimously renewed MONUC's mandate on December 23 for 5 months, with the intention to further extend it an additional 12 months. During Council consultations on December 16, SRSG Doss said the "Kimia II" operations against the FDLR would end in December, an [...]
2009-12-24 17:39:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM XA UNSC CG RW
09USUNNEWYORK157GENERAL COMMITTEE DEFERS CONSIDERATION OF
[...] Summary. The UNGA General Committee met February 18 to consider inscription of two new items on the agenda of the 63rd General Assembly. The Committee decided to inscribe the item on financing activities related to SC resolution 1863 but deferred consideration of the Tanzanian request for a [...]
2009-02-19 14:29:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA XA XG
09USUNNEWYORK191JAPAN WANTS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION IF DPRK
[...] (S) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice shared U.S. concerns regarding a potential DPRK missile launch with Japanese PermRep Takasu on February 26, and asked for Japan's support in publicly calling any launch a violation of SCR 1718. Takasu st [...]
2009-02-27 18:00:00USUN New YorkSECRETPGOV PREL UNSC PINR KN XB SU XA
09USUNNEWYORK202AMBASSADOR RICE AND UN DPKO USG LE ROY DISCUSS
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UN Peacekeeping USG Le Roy told Ambassador Rice on February 26 that India planned to withdraw its troops from MONUC. He asked for U.S. assistance in encouraging DRC President Kabila to support Indian troops, to help ave [...]
2009-03-03 01:22:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN SU XA AF
09USUNNEWYORK366UGANDA MAY TAKE LEAD ON COUP PRST
[...] (C) Summary. USUN delivered reftel demarche to the missions of Libya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and the African Union (AU). Uganda expressed interest in taking the lead in drafting a Council statement on recent coups in Africa, and is currently reaching out to the Libyans and the Burkinabe to ga [...]
2009-04-08 10:07:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC XA UV LY UG
09USUNNEWYORK437AMB. RICE'S LUNCH WITH THE UN SENIOR AFRICANS GROUP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ibrahim Gambari, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, welcomed Amb. Rice as guest of honor at the annual lunch of the UN Senior Africans Group on April 16. Gambari invited Amb. Rice to take advantage of the resources of the group, which brings ambassadors from African missi [...]
2009-04-27 22:58:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNSC XA
09USUNNEWYORK454AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH SOUTH AFRICAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice met with newly appointed South African PermRep Baso Sangqu on April 23. Sangqu hoped to forge greater cooperation on peace and security issues in Africa. He suggested a holistic approach to the crisis in Somalia, which needed to address the root causes of confli [...]
2009-05-04 23:31:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNSC SF SO ZI XA ZU
09USUNNEWYORK455AMBASSADOR RICE'S INITIAL WORKING MEETING WITH THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice on April 23 met with the entire African Union (AU) as part of her pledge to conduct regular meetings with the African Group. The discussion encompassed U.S. priorities, peace and security in Africa, socio-economic issues, UN reform, non-proliferation, and the AU [...]
2009-05-05 09:29:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNSC XA
09USUNNEWYORK488AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH NAMIBIAN PERMREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a May 5 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Namibian PermRep Kaire Mbuende expressed frustration with the constraints of the traditional UN voting block dynamic and suggested that the U.S. and Namibian PermReps work more directly together on key issues. Mbuende confirmed Nami [...]
2009-05-12 14:39:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UNSCS SF SO WA XA ZU
09USUNNEWYORK519AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) (Begin summary) Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo met on Monday, May 18 with International Criminal Court (ICC) President Sang-Hyun Song. They discussed African countries' views of the ICC in light of the indictment of Sudan President Bashir as well as President Song's strong interest in e [...]
2009-05-19 21:11:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KAWC PREL SU XA XW
09USUNNEWYORK539SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: THE
[...] (Begin summary.) On May 19, the Slovenian Permanent Representative, Ambassador Sanja Stiglic, convened a seminar entitled "International Criminal Justice: The Role of the International Criminal Court." International Criminal Court (ICC) President Song, ICC Assembly of State Parties Presiden [...]
2009-05-29 13:08:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KAWC UNSC XA
09USUNNEWYORK552MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/WCI
[...] Mission clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Clint Williamson, Foreign Affairs Officer Brendan Doherty, and Foreign Service Officer Todd Anderson from June 4 - 5 with Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs, Peter Taksoe-Jensen and Croatian Prime Minister I [...]
2009-06-02 19:47:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KJUS OTRA UNSC XA AF EU
09USUNNEWYORK590UNSC: IGAD DELEGATION SHOWS CRACKS IN PUSH FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A delegation from the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) met with Amb. Rice on June 10 to press for UNSC implementation of sanctions against Eritrea as called for by recent communiques of IGAD and the African Union (AU). The delegation, led by Ethiopian State Minis [...]
2009-06-13 00:40:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETTC XA ER SO
09USUNNEWYORK63UN UPDATE: CNDP JOINING DRC ARMY; DRC AND RWANDA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 00:26:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC XA CG RW UG
09USUNNEWYORK652SPECIAL ENVOY OBASANJO SHARES VIEWS ON DRC, SOUTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Obasanjo met with Ambassador Rice on June 29 and the P5 Belgium on June 30. He told Rice that neither Rwanda nor the DRC wanted to shelter former CNDP leader Nkunda. He suggested implementing greater incentives to encourage FDLR combatants [...]
2009-07-07 02:11:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL UNSC RW SU GC XA
09USUNNEWYORK687MONUC AT THE UN: "ZERO TOLERANCE" FOR SEXUAL
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUESTS: PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPHS 11 AND 12. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. MONUC SRSG Doss on July 10 told the Security Council that significant progress was being made on integrating the DRC army (FARDC) and combating the FDLR and LRA rebel groups. He warned of an ongoing humanitarian cris [...]
2009-07-14 18:14:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNSC CG XA ZF RW
09USUNNEWYORK796AMBASSADOR RICE AND SYG BAN DISCUSS GADDAFI VISIT,
[...] (C) Summary: On the margins of a meeting to discuss the Security Council program of work for September, Ambassador Rice asked SYG Ban to help ensure Gaddafi's participation in the Security Council was productive. She also told Ban that the U.S. wanted to see continued UN leadership on donor co [...]
2009-08-27 23:03:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALUN UNGA XD XA
09USUNNEWYORK816SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UN ROLE ON
[...] (U) USUN Poloffs and USUN Deputy Legal Advisor delivered reftel points on June 3 to Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Somalia Chief Walid Musa Abdelkarim and UN Political Affairs Officers G. Justin Jepson and Kiyoshi Matsukawa. 2. (SBU) DPA Somalia Chief Abdelkarim was extremely [...]
2009-09-03 22:54:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SO XA KCRM UNSC PHUM PHSA EWWT
09USUNNEWYORK92AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON BURKINA
[...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice shared U.S. priorities with Burkinabe PermRep Kafando in an initial call and asked for his views on Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Cote d'Ivoire. Rice pressed for support against deferring Sudanese President Ba [...]
2009-02-04 21:54:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC UV XV XA
09VATICAN108EMBASSY VATICAN AIDS CONFERENCE LINKS FAITH-BASED WITH
[...] (U) Embassy Vatican and Caritas Internationalis co-hosted a very successful international conference on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS from October 14 to the 16. The conference also aimed at improving access to testing and treatment for children living with HIV and [...]
2009-10-30 17:17:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI KHIV KIRF ECON EAID KHDP TSPL UN XA VT
09VATICAN38HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR POPE'S FIRST AFRICA TRIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Vatican hopes that the Pope's March 17-23 visit to Cameroon and Angola will solidify the foundations of the Church in a continent where Catholicism is growing rapidly. The trip also comes as an opportunity for the Pope to change the subject, following weeks of controversies [...]
2009-03-13 17:44:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KIRF KECF AID XA AO CM VT
09VIENNA193AUSTRIA OPPOSES AN ARTICLE 16 DEFERRAL WITHOUT
[...] Poloff conveyed the information in ref A to Georg Diwald, MFA Deputy Director of the Department for International Organisations. Diwald told Poloff that, in consideration of Austria's commitment to the rule of law and against impunity, Austria would respect the independence of the Internationa [...]
2009-02-20 15:21:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC SU XA XW AU
09VIENNA251GOA CONTINUES TO OPPOSE ARTICLE 16 DEFERRAL FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-03 13:38:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW AU
09ZAGREB80CROATIA PROBABLY WILL SUPPORT US REGARDING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 09:45:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW HR
10ADDISABABA187AU SUMMIT: AHTISSARI URGES TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION
[...] (U) January 31, 2010, 4:00 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (U) Participants: United States Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson NSC Senior Director Michelle Gavin Ambassador Michael Battle AF Special Assistant Akunna Cook Political Officer Lauren Ladenson AU Desk Officer Ryan Bowles (no [...]
2010-02-03 13:27:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM XA FI
10ADDISABABA188 AU SUMMIT -- LIBERIAN PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIRLEAF UPBEAT
[...] (U) January 30, 2010, 5:25 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (U) Participants: United States Under Secretary Maria Otero Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson NSC Senior Director Michelle Gavin Ambassador Michael Battle Special Advisor Nicole Goldin AU Desk Officer Ryan Bowles (notetaker) [...]
2010-02-03 13:27:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM XA
10ADDISABABA189AU SUMMIT: NIGERIA FM SAYS CONSTITUTION SACRED, WILL SIGN
[...] (U) January 31, 2010, 3:00 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (U) Participants: United States Under Secretary Maria Otero Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson NSC Senior Director Michelle Gavin Ambassador Michael Battle AF Special Assistant Akunna Cook AU Desk Officer Ryan Bowles (notetake [...]
2010-02-03 13:27:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SENV XA
10ADDISABABA191AU SUMMIT: KIKWETE WILLING TO DO MORE ON SOMALIA
[...] (U) February 2, 2010, 5:00 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (U) Participants: United States Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson USAU Ambassador Michael Battle NSC Senior Director Michelle Gavin Special Assistant Akunna Cook AU Desk Officer Ryan Bowles (notetaker) Tanzania President J [...]
2010-02-04 04:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM XA
10ADDISABABA278AU SUMMIT: NEW AU CHAIR MALAWI PLANS FOOD SECURITY PUSH
[...] (U) February 1, 2010, 4:00 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (U) Participants: United States Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson USAU Ambassador Michael Battle Special Assistant Akunna Cook USAU Acting DCM Joel Maybury AU Desk Officer Ryan Bowles (notetaker) Malawi President Bingu wa [...]
2010-02-11 04:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM XA
10ASMARA11AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - ERITREA'S RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 05:40:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA ER
10ASMARA12AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - ERITREA'S RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 05:49:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA ER
10BEIJING13JANUARY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-SINO RELATIONS,
[...] Key points at the January 5 MFA press briefing included: -- On trends in U.S-China relations, the two sides worked from a "comprehensive common ground," believed in the peaceful development of the relationship, and respected the "core interest" of each other. -- The PRC followed the "ethic [...]
2010-01-05 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH NK UK IR VM PG XA
10BEIJING367AFRICAN EMBASSIES SUSPICIOUS OF US-CHINA
[...] (C) African Embassy officials told EmbOffs that many in the African community were uncomfortable with the concept of US-China development cooperation in Africa. China's fast, efficient, "no strings attached" bilateral approach is popular in the region, as is the PRC preference for infrastructure ov [...]
2010-02-11 09:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAID EINV CH XA
10BRUSSELS200EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONSIDERING SUPPORT TO GUINEAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission's Directorate-General for Development is considering providing support to Guinean judicial and security sector reform (JSSR). The Commission's development aid to Guinea has been largely suspended since September, but a Commission delegation will trave [...]
2010-02-22 06:21:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC EUN GV XA XY EAID
10BRUSSELS62DEMARCHE RESPONSE: AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S
[...] The EU delegation will consist of Director General Stefano Manservisi, Joana Cruz, Christopher Camp, and Klaus Rudischhauser. 2. The contact information provided for the meetings is Joana Cruz at 32 498 982 657 and Christopher Camp at 251 911 510 977. 3. The EU delegation will ar [...]
2010-01-20 14:04:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDAORC OVIP PREL XA
10BRUSSELS81EU WELCOMES U.S. INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN DRC
[...] (SBU) On January 20, PolOff conveyed REF A-B points to EU officials in the Crisis Management Planning Directorate (CMPD) and the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability, and on the EU's transatlantic desk. Contacts universally welcomed the news that the U.S. is interested in providing pers [...]
2010-01-22 19:25:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL CG XA ZF EUN
10BRUSSELS88EU APPROVES MILITARY TRAINING MISSION FOR SOMALI
[...] (SBU) On January 25, EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels approved an EU military mission to train Somali National Security Forces in Uganda. French and German contacts tell us the mission will begin in May. Operational level planning will continue under the supervision of EU Political [...]
2010-01-26 13:05:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL SO XA XW UG EUN
10KAMPALA35UGANDA: AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S MEETING REQUEST
[...] (U) President Yoweri Museveni, Defense Minister Crispus Kyonga and Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa will be attending the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not provided exact travel dates for the President or Ministers but has indicated that [...]
2010-01-22 10:09:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP AORC XA UG
10KIGALI51AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - RWANDAN ATTENDANCE
[...] (SBU) President Kagame has accepted A/S Carson's invitation to meet at the AU summit (reftel). Government of Rwanda is still working out details on the trip but has provided post the following information: Composition of delegation - President Paul Kagame, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwab [...]
2010-01-22 14:45:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP AORC XA RW
10KINSHASA15AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - DRC Delegation
[...] (U) Poloff passed information in para 4 of reftel to the GDRC Director of the Bureau of African and Middle-Eastern Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (SBU) Responses to requests for information in para 6 of reftel follow: Composition of delegation - [...]
2010-01-22 13:19:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP AORC XA CG
10LONDON77AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - UK DELEGATION
[...] (SBU) The following delegation will represent the UK Government at the African Union summit: - Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Foreign Office Minister for Africa - Norman Ling, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union (mobile: 251.91.120.3081) - Fiona Robertson, Private Secr [...]
2010-01-14 17:32:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA UK
10NAIROBI165SOMALIA - CHINESE ENGAGEMENT
[...] (U) The following cable provides responses to action request in reftel on Chinese engagement in Somalia. Chinese Engagement in Trade and Investment --------------------------------------------- ----------------- 2. (SBU) The Sino-Somali relationship has remained strong since th [...]
2010-02-12 07:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID XA SO
10PARIS101OECD: OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE U.S. DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: OECD development institutions provide opportunities for harnessing the OECD's unique strengths (donor coordination, peer learning, analysis of market-based best practices, and statistics) in support of U.S. development priorities. As the USG looks for ways to elevate its develop [...]
2010-01-29 16:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN OECD XA XE XF XL XM
10PARIS140OECD COUNCIL AND ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT PARTNERS DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) met in an enlarged session with Enhanced Engagement and Accession Country countries to discuss the development dimension of OECD work on climate change, trade, taxation, and food security. The discus [...]
2010-02-05 15:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN ETRD OECD XA XE XF XL XM
10PARIS142CHINA/AFRICA: FRENCH THINK-TANK DIRECTOR WANTS TO
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: French think-tank director Francois Gere (PROTECT) wants to deliver a "tougher message" to Chinese interlocutors during his regular consultations in Beijing on foreign policy issues. Gere said that Chinese behavior in Africa typifies an increasingly aggressive Chinese pursu [...]
2010-02-05 16:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR CN XA FR
10PARIS188AF DAS PAGE'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS (FEBRUARY 10-11)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AF DAS Susan Page met with French officials at the Presidency, MFA, and MOD during her February 10-11 consultations in Paris. She also met with Angola's Ambassador to France Miguel da Costa. Discussions with the French focused on Zimbabwe (France favored lifting certain sanct [...]
2010-02-18 12:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XA ZI AO SF MA SU NI CG FR
10PARIS49AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: FRENCH WORKING WITH USAU TO
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-14 13:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA FR
10PARIS69MFA OFFICIALS PROVIDE OVERVIEW OF CURRENT AFRICAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF A/S Stephane Gompertz and FM Kouchner's Cabinet AF Advisor Charlotte Montel briefed on a range of African issues in separate January 20 meetings. Both were pleased with recent events in Guinea (the non-return of Dadis and other elements of the Ouagadougou Accord) but cau [...]
2010-01-22 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM XA FR
10PARISFR204 UNESCO-OBIANG PRIZE FOR LIFE SCIENCES
[...] In October 2008, UNESCO's Executive Board approved creation of the UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. The action was controversial. EU members with support from the United States delegation objected to naming a prize after a noted human rights [...]
2010-02-22 10:23:00Mission UNESCOUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC PHUM UNESCO XA EK
10PORTLOUIS42MAURITIUS AND SEYCHELLES: SPECIAL SELF-HELP FUND
[...] (SBU) For the FY 09 Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund, Embassy Port Louis received USD45,000 for Mauritius and USD30,000 for Seychelles. The Special Self-Help Committee selected nine projects for Mauritius and seven for Seychelles to receive funding. In accordance with the Negroponte Risk [...]
2010-02-11 12:44:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYXA EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL MP SE
10PRETORIA147A/S CARSON MEETING REQUEST WITH SOUTH AFRICANS AT
[...] (SBU) PolCouns passed A/S Carson's request for a meeting with President Zuma on the margins of the AU Summit to Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) USA Director on January 15, and included contact information for USAU acting DCM Maybury. DIRCO officials acknowledged [...]
2010-01-22 17:04:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA SF
10STATE13489January 2010 Paris Club Meeting
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the January 2010 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon, creditors discussed Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Cte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dubai/UAE, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea -Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Mauritania, Seychelles a [...]
2010-02-16 17:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB SF FR
10STATE15558UN SECURITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 24 THEMATIC DEBATE
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the statement in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council thematic debate on Drug Trafficking in West Africa on February 24. End action request. 2. Begin Statement: Thank you, Mr. President. The United States would like to thank France for [...]
2010-02-20 00:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR
10STATE16772AU SUMMIT: THANKS FOR OUTSTANDING VISIT SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 23:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER XA
10STATE16781DRUGS AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME:
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on drugs and transnational organized crime. USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. End action request. 2. Begin [...]
2010-02-24 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR
10STATE18090TRAVEL WARNING: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
[...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of traveling to the Central African Republic (CAR),and recommends against all but essential travel outside the capital, Bangui. Travelers in the CAR should exercise extreme caution. This replaces the Travel Warning of August 19, 2009, [...]
2010-02-26 15:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PTER ASEC CT XA ZF
10STATE2053USUN TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 12 UNSC
[...] Objective: Use the briefing to support the UN,s efforts in Guinea. Express support for UNOWA,s engagement in strengthening regional approaches to combating drug trafficking. Urge UNOWA to play a stronger role in coordinating regional approaches to Security Sector Reform (SSR). 2. [...]
2010-01-08 22:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA UNSC PHUM SNAR PU XY
10STATE3353AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S CARSON MEETING REQUESTS
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson will lead the United States delegation to the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January 30-February 2, 2010. Action addressees are requested to inform their host governmen [...]
2010-01-13 16:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA
10STATE4127USUN TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 15 UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to pursue the objectives in paragraph 2 and draw from the points in paragraph 3 during the January 15 Security Council consultations on Burundi listed under &other matters8 and in conversation with the Burundian Permrep. USUN should also support a Security Council Press St [...]
2010-01-15 00:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA BY UNSC
10STATE5218IF-ASKED POINTS ON HELIUM-3 SHORTAGE FOR POSTS IN
[...] (SBU) Due to an enormous increase in demand over the past few years for helium-3 (He-3) in neutron detection (particularly in radiation portal monitors),the USG does not have enough He-3 in stock to meet current demand over the next few years. The USG has made the decision to defer allocatio [...]
2010-01-19 22:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP IAEA XA XB XC XD XF XG XH XL XM
10STATE5431DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UN TRUST FUND SUPPORTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 15:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM KPIR SO XA XW
10STATE7463DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UN TRUST FUND SUPPORTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 21:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM KPIR SO XA XW
10TRIPOLI82LIBYA'S DELEGATION TO THE AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) The General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (MFA-equivalent) informed Post on January 27 that its delegation to the African Union summit to be held beginning January 30 in Addis Ababa would consist of: - Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi, Leader of the Revo [...]
2010-01-31 10:10:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AU KSUM XA LY
10TUNIS22NOBEL LAUREATE JOSEPH STIGLITZ OFFERS GRIM
[...] (SBU) During a visit hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB),2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz gave a speech and met with Tunisian policymakers. He offered a pessimistic view of the prospects for global economic recovery in 2010 and suggested that the global recession may last throug [...]
2010-01-14 08:48:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN XA TS
10TUNIS58FOREIGN MINISTER MORJANE TO HEAD TUNISIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 15:51:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC XA TS
10UNVIEVIENNA38JONATHON LUCAS APPOINTED AS SECRETARY OF INTERNATIONAL
[...] International Narcotics Control Board President Sevil Atasoy announced the appointment of Jonathan Lucas (Seychelles) as Secretary of the INCB and Chief of the INCB Secretariat on February 3. Lucas succeeds Koli Kouame (Ctte d'Ivoire) who retired from the organization on January 31. Prior to h [...]
2010-02-05 14:33:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR APER UN XA
10USUNNEWYORK72NIGERIAN PERM REP OFFERS TO HELP ON SUDAN, IRAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice hosted a lunch for Nigerian PermRep Ogwu and the Nigerian Security Council team on February 1 to enlist support for U.S. priorities. PR Ogwu expressed reservations over a possible Council trip to Khartoum but committed to considering whether it could make the visi [...]
2010-02-09 20:17:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC KPKO XY XA NI IR SU PARM
10YAOUNDE52CAMEROON AND THE AU SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) In a January 21 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi confirmed that he will attend the January 30-February 2 African Union summit in Addis Ababa. Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development Louis Paul Motaze received a special invitation and is also p [...]
2010-01-22 10:56:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC CM OVIP PREL XA
86KAMPALA2314 MUSEVENI AND THE RADICAL MUSLIMS.
[...] CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: UGANDA'S RELATIONS WITH LIBYA CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY. PRESIDENT MUSEVENI HAS MET WITH DELEGATIONS FROM THE PLO AND SAHARAN ARAB DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (SADR); GOU HAS NORMALIZED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE LATTER ORGANIZATIONS. NRM HAS ALSO RESPON [...]
1986-07-16 09:14:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PNAT PTER PGOV EPET PLO UG WI LY IR XA SX
90STATE48186AFRICA IN THE U.S. PRESS - FEBRUARY 13, 1990
[...] No summary [...]
1990-02-14 00:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC XA
93STATE176000 POLITICAL ISLAM IN BLACK AFRICA
[...] THIS CABLE TRANSMITS AN INR MEMO OF JUNE 1 ON "POLITICAL ISLAM IN BLACK AFRICA." THE MEMO IS A SUMMARY OF VIEWS EXPRESSED BY ACADEMICS AT A MAY 7 CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY INR AND, AS SUCH' DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. YOUR COMMENTS ARE WELCOMED. BEGIN SUMMARY [...]
1993-06-10 16:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPINR XA KISL
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