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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07ALGIERS892 | LAWYERS' SIT-IN PAYS OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After organizing a 400-lawyer sit-in at the National Courts on June 18, the Algerian National Bar Association (BNA) was able to secure a meeting with the justice ministry to air its grievances. On June 20, BNA President Abdelmajid Sellini met with the ministry's secretary genera [...] | 2007-06-25 09:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV AG |
07ALGIERS912 | HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS AND GOA DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, four prominent human rights lawyers and Messaoud Boufercha, Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),discussed legal issues and opportunities for increased bilateral cooperation. Lawyers, who were coincidentally i [...] | 2007-06-28 09:45:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS913 | MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, LAWYERS AND OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings June 9-10 with DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles, Algerian media, government and political party representatives and members of the legal community gave their views on press freedom and Algeria's defamation laws. Journalists and lawyers said freedom of expression in Al [...] | 2007-06-28 09:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS929 | MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COUNTERS EXTREMISM [...] (C) Algeria's Religious Affairs ministry has mounted a campaign to reign in extremist imams. The campaign promotes a unified, anti-violence version of Islam and will result in important staffing changes in schools and mosques. On June 23, Minister of Religious Affairs M. Boualem Ghoulamallah [...] | 2007-07-02 06:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KISL SCUL SOCI AG |
07ALGIERS931 | CONTINUING TO ENGAGE NGOS AND MFA ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, we are continuing to engage NGOs and the Algerian government on TIP. The GOA feels it has been unfairly lumped into Tier 3 status with countries whose TIP problem it considers to be more severe. The GOA in [...] | 2007-07-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG |
07ALGIERS944 | RIOTS BREAK OUT IN ORAN AND BOUSSAADA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Riots erupted in recent days in two parts of Algeria for two very different reasons. In response to the downgrading of a local soccer team, two days of riots broke out in the desert city of Boussaada. Four days of rioting broke out in the westerm port city of Oran after the GOA [...] | 2007-07-02 16:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AG |
07ALGIERS958 | TO BE ALGERIAN AND GAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles 333 and 338 of Algeria's penal code criminalize public homosexual behavior and there is no specific legal protection of homosexuals in the country. In a July 2 meeting held at the headquarters of Algerian NGO AIDS Algerie, five young members of Algeria's male homosexual [...] | 2007-07-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI SCUL AG |
07ALGIERS992 | JUST PASSING THROUGH? NIGERIA, ALGERIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Nigerian diplomat in Algiers confirms that Nigerians are being trafficked through Algeria, with Europe their expected final destination. The diplomat says that traffickers in Nigeria convince fellow citizens to make the journey, luring them with promises of a brighter future in [...] | 2007-07-10 16:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF SMIG AG |
07AMMAN1005 | NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER,S MEETINGS [...] (C) In separate meetings in Amman with the Jordanian Foreign Minister and the Amman-based Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, DAS Butler discussed perceptions of the Iraqi government, the Baghdad Security Plan, the International Compact for Iraq, and displaced Iraqis. [...] | 2007-03-06 06:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF JO IZ |
07AMMAN1056 | WOULD-BE POTUS ASSASSINS [...] (SBU) Jordanian dailies carried more reports March 8 on the opening of state security court (SSC) proceedings against three men accused of a number of security offenses, including plotting to assassinate President Bush during his visit to Jordan in late November 2006. The three are Nidal Moman [...] | 2007-03-08 11:37:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PHUM DA JO |
07AMMAN1064 | SCENESETTER FOR PRM A/S SAUERBREY'S MARCH 13-16 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Amman welcomes your visit, and looks forward to building upon your discussions with key Jordanian officials and Ambassador Hale in recent days in Washington to advance our dialogue with the GOJ on the needs of Iraqis in Jordan, as well as the other refugee issues of mutual [...] | 2007-03-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREG PGOV PHUM SY IZ JO |
07AMMAN1186 | INDEPENDENT TV IN JORDAN SLOW TO LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ATV, JORDAN'S FIRST INDEPENDENT TELEVISION BROADCAST CHANNEL, HAS YET TO GO ON THE AIR MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER ITS INITIAL LAUNCH DATE WAS ANNOUNCED. WHILE ATV NEWS AND PROGRAMMING STAFF CONTINUE TO CONDUCT REAL-TIME PRACTICE PROGRAMS FOR THEIR EVENTUAL DEBUT ON THE AIR, STATION [...] | 2007-03-15 12:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JO KPAO PHUM KMDR |
07AMMAN1253 | ZIMBABWE DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 07:37:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNHCR ZI JO |
07AMMAN1277 | A/S SAUERBREY DISCUSSES IRAQIS WITH GOJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) Ellen Sauerbrey and Ambassador met March 14 with Bassem Awadallah, Director of King Abdullah's Office, and the head of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) Muhammad Al Dahabi together to discuss the issue of Ir [...] | 2007-03-21 06:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PGOV PHUM SY IZ JO |
07AMMAN1380 | A/S SAUERBREY'S MEETINGS WITH UN AND NGO OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Ellen Sauerbrey visited Jordan March 13-16 on the final leg of a regional tour focused on ensuring that displaced Iraqis receive effective protection and assistance, including expanded resettlement. Her meetings wit [...] | 2007-03-28 13:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PREL PTER PGOV PHUM SY IZ JO |
07AMMAN1801 | STATE SECURITY COURT UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) sentenced Ziad al-Karbouli and three others to death and handed down prison sentences in three other terrorism-related cases, while Jordan's Court of Cassation upheld the SSC's death penalty verdict for would-be suicide bomber Sajida Rishawi. Meanw [...] | 2007-04-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PHUM ASEC IZ SY JO |
07AMMAN1962 | FORMER DEPUTY JAILED FOR INSULTING THE STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Former MP Dr. Ahmed Oweidi al-Abbadi published an open letter vilifying the GoJ and accusing the royal family of corruption. Al-Abbadi was detained on May 2 for 15 days while he is investigated. The case was filed by Minister of Interior Eid al-Fayez in his personal capacity b [...] | 2007-05-07 14:50:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM JO |
07AMMAN1963 | THREE PROPOSALS FOR PROGRAMS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-07 15:03:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KCRM PREL SMIG JO |
07AMMAN1998 | AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT ON UNHRC ELECTION: JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC JO |
07AMMAN222 | TERRORISM TRIALS UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: JORDAN'S STATE SECURITY COURT (SSC) SENTENCED ROMAN AMPHITHEATER SHOOTER NABIL JAAOURA TO DEATH AND HANDED DOWN PRISON SENTENCES IN TWO OTHER TERRORISM-RELATED CASES. THE COURT CONTINUED PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THREE HAMAS MILITANTS WHO PLANNED ATTACKS IN JORDAN, AND ZIYAD KARBOULI, AN IRA [...] | 2007-01-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PHUM ASEC IZ SY JO |
07AMMAN2537 | GOJ BRIEFED ON 2007 TIP REPORT; PLANS CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Acting PolCouns briefed Thamer Adwan, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office, and separately Dr. Waleed Al-Saadi, Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister on Human Rights, on the Jordan portion of Trafficking in Persons report on June 12. They agreed to review the report and pr [...] | 2007-06-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN ELAB PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO KCRM JO |
07AMMAN2605 | JORDANIAN MEDIA PROFESSIONALS SAY NEW LAW POSITIVE BUT NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's Parliament passed a new law in April giving citizens the right to access information held by government bodies. The law is currently pending endorsement by King Abdullah. The law's supporters point to the mass enfranchisement of a new democratic right, while detractors [...] | 2007-06-18 12:12:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | JO KPAO PHUM KMDR KMPI |
07AMMAN2757 | GOJ PUBLICLY RESPONDS TO 2007 TIP REPORT; PLANS TO [...] (U) Jordanian Minister of Labor Basim Al-Salim downplayed the recently released Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report in an interview with Jordanian daily Al-Ghad published June 21. He did not deny the report's contents, but said the ministry "previously addressed" many issues raised in the repor [...] | 2007-06-26 13:15:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO JO |
07AMMAN2908 | OUTREACH TO JORDANIAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS [...] (SBU) Seven Jordanian activists representing human rights and civil society organizations gathered at the Ambassador's residence on June 3 for a discussion with the Ambassador, USAID Mission Director and Embassy officers. Copies of the President's June 5 Prague speech were distributed. The A [...] | 2007-07-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM KMPI PHUM JO |
07AMMAN2964 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 10 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ is still planning for an Iraq Neighbors conference on refugee issues July 22, although concerns about Syrian and Iranian participation seem to be slowing the decision-making. Meanwhile, the GOJ is working to clarify its policy on enrollment of Iraqi children in schools, [...] | 2007-07-10 10:12:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3183 | RED CROSS / RED CRESCENT STANDING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-29 12:20:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC JO |
07AMMAN319 | GOJ REQUESTS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Embassy received a diplomatic note from MFA dated January 17, in response to the U.S. proposal for a written framework agreement for the transfer to Jordan of detainees from Guantanamo (ref A). The Jordanian note requests "the names of the fourteen detainees who are expected to be trans [...] | 2007-01-23 15:03:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PHUM JO |
07AMMAN3351 | CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE DEMARCHE DELIVERED; [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on August 7 to Khalid Takhayneh, Head of the MFA's Disarmament Section. Takhayneh expressed familiarity with the United Nations Committee Against Torture (Committee) and stated that he would be the Government of Jordan's nominee to the committee. He accept [...] | 2007-08-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07AMMAN3369 | GOJ RAPIDLY PREPARING SCHOOLS FOR IRAQI STUDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Education (MoE) sent a letter to all public school principals on August 6 instructing them to allow Iraqi students to register in public and private schools regardless of residence status for the 2007-08 school term. Major Jordanian daily newspapers prominently r [...] | 2007-08-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3545 | UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - AUGUST 22 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minster Khatib confirmed that the Governments of Iraq and Jordan agreed in principle to implement a process for issuing visas to Iraqis seeking to enter Jordan. Jordanian schools began on August 19, though with far fewer Iraqis then expected. USAID, UNICEF, UNHCR and [...] | 2007-08-22 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO |
07AMMAN3598 | JORDANIAN PRISONERS INJURE THEMSELVES PRIOR TO [...] (U) According to Jordanian media reports, during an August 26 visit by a Human Rights Watch (HRW) delegation to Swaqa correctional facility, approximately 100 prisoners injured themselves. A Public Security Directorate (PSD) spokesperson said that prisoners used ceramic and wood objects broken [...] | 2007-08-27 14:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM JO |
07AMMAN3902 | ENCOURGING JORDANIAN PARTICIPATION IN COUNCIL OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV JO |
07AMMAN3917 | JORDAN APPEARS OPEN TO BACKING U.S. UNCAT NOMINEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHRC JO |
07AMMAN4045 | JORDANIAN COMMENTS ON RAPE AS POLICY RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Foreign Ministry's International Organizations Chief Ayman al-Aamiry and his deputy Hussam al-Husseini on September 27. Aamiry predicted the resolution would garner wide backing, though neither made an explicit commitment to support it. Both noted [...] | 2007-10-01 10:57:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI JO |
07AMMAN4158 | FORMER MP ABBADI SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS FOR [...] (U) On October 9, Jordan's State Security Court sentenced former MP Ahmed Oweidi Al-Abbadi to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of 30 JD (USD 42) for undermining the country's reputation. Abbadi has been in custody for five months, since his publication (purportedly; see paragraph 3) of a [...] | 2007-10-10 13:50:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM JO |
07AMMAN4324 | NOMINATION FROM EMBASSY AMMAN FOR THE 2008 SECRETARY'S [...] (U) Embassy Amman is pleased to nominate Jordanian attorney Reem Abu Hassan for the Secretary of State's 2008 Award for International Women of Courage. Ms. Abu Hassan has used her legal expertise to champion equal rights and legal protection for Jordanian and Arab women as well as children, [...] | 2007-10-25 04:05:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM JO |
07AMMAN4380 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON CUBA EMBARGO: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 12:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD PHUM UNGA UN CU JO |
07AMMAN4395 | JORDANIAN COMMENTS ON REVISED RAPE AS POLICY [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche (Ref A) to the Foreign Ministry's International Organizations Deputy Director, Hussam al-Husseini, on October 30. Husseini said he had yet to be briefed on the initial intra-GOJ consultations on the original text, but would follow up with his colleagues and consu [...] | 2007-10-31 08:52:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA JO |
07AMMAN4439 | EMBASSY WELCOMES VISIT OF MG STONE TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Embassy Amman welcomes the upcoming visit to Jordan of Multi-national Force Iraq (MNF-I) Deputy Commanding General for Detainee Operations MG Stone (ref A). Post strongly supports MNF-I's efforts to rehabilitate young Iraqis detained for insurgent activities. 2. (C) As noted ref B and [...] | 2007-11-01 15:40:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IZ JO |
07AMMAN4463 | JORDANIAN NATIONALS FROM GTMO TRANSFERRED TO GOJ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PHUM PTER KAWC JO |
07AMMAN448 | ALLEGATIONS THAT GOJ TORTURES, AND RUNS SECRET [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN RAPPORTEUR MANFRED NOWAK AGAIN PUBLICLY ACCUSED THE GOJ OF TORTURING. HIS REPORT MAY ALSO INCLUDE CHARGES THAT THE GOJ COLLABORATES WITH THE USG IN RUNNING SECRET PRISONS. MEANWHILE, A MAN ON TRIAL FOR PLOTTING TO SIPDIS KILL AMERICANS ACCUSED JORDAN,S INTELLIGENCE SERVICE [...] | 2007-02-02 11:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UN JO |
07AMMAN5051 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO JORDAN ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA JO |
07AMMAN542 | FIRST GOVERNMENT SHELTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE [...] SUMMARY: Queen Rania inaugurated a shelter for victims of domestic abuse in Amman, to be run by the Ministry of Social Development. The shelter provides emergency housing for abused women over fourteen years of age and their young children. The shelter is the first government-run facility of [...] | 2007-02-06 15:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID KWMN JO |
07AMMAN720 | UN RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE RELEASES REPORT [...] (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) publicly released February 11 Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak's report on torture in Jordan. Based on interviews with current detainees and observations of detention centers, Nowak alleged in his report that Jordan's General Intelligence [...] | 2007-02-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PTER UN JO |
07AMMAN968 | JORDAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SEVENTH ANNUAL [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is political officer Miriam Schwedt, phone number 202-536-4173, ext. 6597 or 962-6-590-6597, fax number 962-6-592-0159. Officer spent approximately 48 hours preparing the report. Political Analyst Manal Hashweh spent 16 hours preparing the [...] | 2007-03-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JO |
07ANILA1702 | PHILIPPINE POICE, MILITARY CONTINUE EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Policecontinue to file new cases against suspects in ulawful killings, leading already to several arrets and ongoing prosecutions, in addition to four arlier convictions. The Armed Forces launched twodozen inquiries into alleged involvement by miliary personnel in some cases [...] | 2007-05-24 08:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RP |
07ANKARA100 | NEW KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ADOPTS PROGRESSIVE BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 10:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA105 | ISPARTA: SMELLING THE ROSES WHILE WAITING FOR PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Isparta, five hours southwest of Ankara, is a central Anatolian city of 150,000, aptly nicknamed "The Land of Roses" owing to its production of sixty percent of the world's rose oil. A candidate for the GOT's expanded regional investment incentives program, Isparta was ultima [...] | 2007-01-19 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU |
07ANKARA1053 | TURKISH POLITICAL TURMOIL: VIEWS FROM THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 16:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1094 | TURKEY: INTELLECTUALS TAKE A STAND AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and COMMENT. Two hundred five Turkish writers, artists, journalists, and human rights lawyers attached their names to a strongly worded condemnation of military interference in the political process. The statement is a leftist interpretation of the military's April 27 e-memoran [...] | 2007-05-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TU |
07ANKARA1101 | UNHRC - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 08:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO SI TU |
07ANKARA1104 | TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' VIEWS ON ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 11:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1111 | UNHRC ELECTION: TURKISH MFA SIGNALS INTENT TO VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC TU BO BK SI |
07ANKARA112 | TURKEY: ACROSS THE BOARD, OFFICIALS CHARACTERIZE [...] (SBU) GOT officials and Turkish politicians across the political spectrum moved quickly to condemn the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink (reftel). PM Erdogan conducted a live press conference within 90 minutes of the attack, while President Seze [...] | 2007-01-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV TU |
07ANKARA1131 | TURKEY REACTS MORE IN SORROW THAN ANGER TO [...] (C) We discussed the Armenian government's refusal to allow a team of Turkish OSCE election observers into the country with MFA Acting Deputy Director General Suleyman Gokce on several occasions this week, most recently on May 10. Gokce emphasized that Turkey had good intentions in sending o [...] | 2007-05-11 12:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM |
07ANKARA1151 | UNHRC - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 08:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO SI TU |
07ANKARA1181 | UNHRC ELECTION: MFA UNDERSECRETARY SIGNALS TURKEY [...] (C) Ambassador raised the UN Human Rights Council election issue (ref a) during a May 15 meeting covering various topics with MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan. Ambassador noted that the candidacies of Slovenia and Bosnia should simplify Turkey's decision on whom to vote for and reitera [...] | 2007-05-17 07:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC TU BO BK SI |
07ANKARA1191 | TURKEY: KURDISH ACTIVIST ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary and comment: A long-time Kurdish activist offered us a window into her tense, confused post-April 27 world. We have no way to judge the validity of her observations, but she conveyed a greater level of concern than usual. She described an unusually heavy military presence in Hak [...] | 2007-05-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM TU |
07ANKARA1198 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY'S NEW STRATEGY TO ENTER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1250 | GOT ON IRANIAN ASYLUM SEEKER PEJMAN: UNLIKELY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE IR TU |
07ANKARA1288 | TURKEY: ALEVI GROUPS WEIGHING ELECTION OPTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1416 | TURKEY: MURDERS OF CHRISTIANS IN MALATYA: [...] (C) Summary. Malatya residents are still trying to make sense of the brutal April 18 slaying of three Christians by a group of young men. The prosecutor told us he has not yet found any evidence that the killers were acting with outside support or inspiration, though some believe dark forces [...] | 2007-06-07 05:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV TU |
07ANKARA1433 | ICRC SEEKS TO ESTABLISH ROLE IN TURKEY AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: ICRC is working to establish a permanent presence in Turkey and to bring the Turkish Red Crescent into conformity with Geneva standards, according to the ICRC's new Turkey representative. ICRC also hopes to be able to establish contact with PKK detainees and to use Turkey as a co [...] | 2007-06-07 10:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM TU IZ |
07ANKARA144 | DINK ASSASSINATION LEADS TO NATIONAL SOUL-SEARCHING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE AM TU |
07ANKARA1476 | TURKEY: MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on June 11 to MFA Head of Department for South Asia Ahmet Yoruk and South Asia Desk Officer Ilhan Sener. MFA was familiar with the cases of Dr. Esfandiari and of Robert Levinson. Yoruk said he understood the importance of this issue to the United States and re [...] | 2007-06-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IR TU |
07ANKARA1524 | TURKEY EXPANDS POLICE AUTHORITY [...] (U) Summary. President Sezer approved on June 13 amendments to Turkey's police power law that expand authority to stop and search, fingerprint and photograph and use force. Human rights lawyers, NGO's and intellectuals are concerned the amendments will unduly augment police authority. In a [...] | 2007-06-15 09:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TBIO TU |
07ANKARA1528 | TURKEY: SENIOR OFFICIALS APPROACHED FOR HELP WITH [...] (C) After an initial approach at working levels regarding the issue of missing/detained Amcits in Iran (ref b),we have used more senior-level meetings to elicit Turkish assistance. In addition to the points in ref a, we have noted Turkey,s helpful role when UK service personnel were detained [...] | 2007-06-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PHUM PREL IR TU |
07ANKARA1555 | SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL LAMENTS MILITARY'S "CONTROL" [...] (C) Summary: A senior MFA official who works on Iraqi issues (not the same official cited reftel) lamented to us June 15 that the military is using the PKK issue to direct both Turkey's Iraq policy and the domestic political situation. He believes the usual balance between civilian and milita [...] | 2007-06-18 14:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER TU IZ IR |
07ANKARA1591 | NATIONALIST GROUP REQUESTS PROSECUTION OF KRG [...] (C) Summary: A nationalist group in Diyarbakir has filed a petition with the provincial prosecutor's office requesting that charges be brought against KRG President Barzani and members of his family. The petition accuses the Barzanis of providing support and safe-haven for PKK terrorists in Ir [...] | 2007-06-21 14:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA1685 | TURKEY'S BSEC BILATERALS: ARMENIA, GREECE, GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey held 38 bilaterals on the margins of the 15th Black Sea Economic Cooperation Commission (BSEC) June 25 summit (SEPTEL) in Istanbul. Key among those were FM Gul's meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and PM Erdogan's meetings with Greek PM Karamanlis, and Georgi [...] | 2007-06-29 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG GR TU |
07ANKARA173 | DINK KILLING BRINGS DARK SIDE OF TRABZON INTO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1741 | TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKEY MEDEVACS INJURED FROM TUZ [...] (SBU) Action request at para 4. 2. (SBU) The Foreign Ministry's Iraq office expressed to us their appreciation for USG assistance in facilitating the dispatch of two Turkish military medevac aircraft to Kirkuk on July 8 to pick up 21 Iraqis severely injured in the July 7 bombing in Tuz Kor [...] | 2007-07-09 09:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL MARR PHUM IZ TU |
07ANKARA1769 | ONE MAN'S VOICE - YUSUF ALATAS, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a recent conversation, Yusuf Alatas, a long-time Embassy contact, independent thinker and outgoing president of Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD),was pessimistic about the current political situation and enormously skeptical as to whether the pro-Kurdish Dem [...] | 2007-07-11 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER TU |
07ANKARA1822 | TURKEY: ALEVI GROUPS DEEM CHP "LEAST BAD" OPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 08:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1835 | TURKEY: IDEPENDENT CANDIDATE BASKIN ORAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 05:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1843 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR URGES GOT ACTION ON ARTICLE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 11:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1860 | ECONOMIC INSECURITY IN TURKISH BLACK SEA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite its reputation as a nationalist hotbed, Trabzon is a lively, cosmopolitan city, influenced by growing trade and tourist relations with the former Soviet Union. The charm and prosperity of its downtown mask significant underemployment and a growing concern about the re [...] | 2007-07-20 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EIND SOCI TU |
07ANKARA1891 | TURKEY: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul July 20. Kul expressed the GOT's appreciation for the careful approach adopted by the United States towards Azerbaijan, and pledged to convey our points to his principals and to the Turkish Embassy in Baku. 2. [...] | 2007-07-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE PHUM AJ TU |
07ANKARA1893 | TURKEY: FUNDING REQUESTED FOR ANTI-TIP INITIATIVES [...] (SBU) Post requests Department and USAID consider funding anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) initiatives in Turkey to support Turkey,s efforts to qualify as a Tier I TIP country (see paras. 3 - 6). U.S. resources and/or expertise in the areas cited in the 2007 TIP Report can improve Turkey,s [...] | 2007-07-25 07:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN EAID ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU |
07ANKARA1899 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST ELECTION RESULTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 06:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1907 | TURKEY: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION AT UNESCO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO SI TU |
07ANKARA1908 | TURKEY: IOM DG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 12:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC UNESCO |
07ANKARA192 | TOP FIVE INFLUENTIAL TURKISH WOMEN [...] (U) The top five influential women in Turkey are: -- GULER SABANCI, Sabanci Holding CEO. Sabanci Center 4, Levent, 34330 Istanbul, Turkey. Tel: 90 212 281-6516/281-1091; Fax: 90 212 281-2553 -- FEYHAN KALPAKLIOGLU, Yasar Holding CEO. Sehit Fethi Bey Caddesi, No. 120, 35210 Izmir, Turkey. [...] | 2007-01-31 06:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL TU |
07ANKARA1921 | TURKEY: OFFICIALS HOPEFUL NEW GOVERNMENT WILL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 06:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA1927 | TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME [...] (C) We have been contacted informally by MNF-I representatives with a request to press the Government of Turkey to accept MEK (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) Iranians currently located in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. UNHCR officials have also told us that their representatives in Jordan have received similar qu [...] | 2007-07-27 12:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA193 | ANKARA'S LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING PROCEDURES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 07:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AADP MARR MASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL EU TU |
07ANKARA2038 | TURKEY: KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ENTERS PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2061 | TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2062 | CODEL SHAYS: GOT UNDERSCORES SUPPORT FOR MALIKI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rep. Chris Shays told Turkish officials on August 8 that a reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq is inevitable, predicting that it would take place gradually. The Turks stressed that Iraq's disintegration would de-stabilize the region for decades. They called PM Maliki's August 7-8 An [...] | 2007-08-13 13:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM OREP AM IZ TU |
07ANKARA2124 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CONVENTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-17 07:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA TU |
07ANKARA2150 | TURKEY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE INVESTIGATES CRACKDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 15:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2154 | TIP: TURKEY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON 2007 TIP [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent us a diplomatic note on August 13 about the Netherlands country narrative in the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which contains a reference to Turkish men being trafficked to the Netherlands for purposes of forced labor. (See paragraph 2 fo [...] | 2007-08-21 08:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PREL PHUM NL TU |
07ANKARA2174 | TURKEY: ALEVIS CELEBRATE CULTURE, CALL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 08:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2193 | TURKEY SHOCKED BY ADL REVERSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Anti-Defamation League's reversal in describing the events of 1915 as genocide has shocked Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the ADL statement and rejected ADL National Director Foxman's concern that passage of an Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) [...] | 2007-08-24 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM IS TU |
07ANKARA2195 | TURKEY: PRUDENTIAL REVOCATION - OSMAN BAYDEMIR [...] (C) Post was informed via reftel of the prudential revocation of Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir's visa based on his membership in the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). In our subsequent dialogue with Department, we were told the basis for this revocation was another agency's judgm [...] | 2007-08-24 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CVIS PGOV PTER TU |
07ANKARA2258 | PRM A/S SAUERBREY VISIT TO TURKEY: CONTINUED QUICK [...] Summary: In an August 22-24 visit to Turkey, PRM Bureau Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey expressed thanks to Government of Turkey SIPDIS counterparts for their cooperation in issuing exit permission to in-country Iraqi refugees being resettled to the United States, and requested that this [...] | 2007-09-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF TU IZ |
07ANKARA2269 | TURKEY: KURDISH MAYOR'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2333 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL OFFICER KATHRYN LURIE [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DRL Officer Kathryn Lurie. Geoffrey Odlum will be your Control Officer for Istanbul. He can be reached at: Office: 011-90-212-335-6492; Home: 011-90-212-351-7752; Cellular: 011-90-533-385-1273. Jeff Collins will be your Control [...] | 2007-09-13 12:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PHUM TU |
07ANKARA2335 | PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007 UNGA: [...] (U) Turkey just emerged with strengthened democratic credentials from a turbulent five-month period that tested its democracy. The result is a government with a new popular mandate, a parliament representative of 85 percent of the voters, and a new President who is likely to take an active fo [...] | 2007-09-13 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2384 | IBRAHIM PARLAK DEMARCHE REACTION: "OUR LAWS [...] We delivered reftel demarche urging issuance of a travel document enabling Ibrahim Parlak's return to Turkey. Akil Oktem, head of the Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was familiar with the case. He said the GOT has no travel document akin to the U.S. parole [...] | 2007-09-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU |
07ANKARA2412 | TURKEY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2414 | TURKEY: HEADSCARF BAN DOMINATES INITIAL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary and comment. The debate over the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) proposed revisions to Turkey's 25-year old constitution is turning increasingly shrill, with particular focus on whether to lift the headscarf ban for university students. The party's delay in releasing [...] | 2007-09-26 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
07ANKARA2468 | TURKEY: POLITICAL REFORMS STALLED AS GOT FOCUSES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2475 | ANKARA NOMINATION: 2008 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) Personal Information: Full legal name of nominee - Rojbin Tugan Job title/Association - Lawyer Date of Birth - May 30, 1971 Country of Birth - Turkey Citizenship - Turkish Republic Address - Bulak Mahallesi, Cumhuriyet Cad., Tugan Apt. 3rd Floor, Hakkari Telephone - +90 (0438) 211-6963 [...] | 2007-10-05 06:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO TU |
07ANKARA2483 | Turks worried about cholera outbreak want to provide [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. ----------------------------------- GOT Concerned about Outbreak Spread ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) On October 1, we met with Ministry of Health Department Head for Communicable Diseases Dr. Mehmet Ali Torunoglu to discus [...] | 2007-10-05 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL TU IZ |
07ANKARA2484 | TURKEY'S NEW SPEAKER: PLEASE, NO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (SBU) During Ambassador's October 4 courtesy call, Koksal Toptan, the new speaker of Turkey's parliament, stressed his commitment to US-Turkey ties. Turkey was working well with the US on Iraq, including through the Neighbors process, and was strongly committed to Iraq's territorial and polit [...] | 2007-10-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU US |
07ANKARA2502 | TURKEY: DELEGATIONS INVESTIGATE ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Following a September 29 attack on a minibus in southeastern Turkey that resulted in the deaths of 12 Turkish citizens, several delegations traveled to the site to investigate. As Turkish casualties mount in a series of attacks, mine explosions, and bombings from Sirnak to Izmir, [...] | 2007-10-09 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2512 | TURKEY'S TIP SHELTERS FACING CRITICAL BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Budgetary short-falls threaten the continued operation of Turkey's two dedicated anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) shelters. While the Istanbul shelter is at least secure through the end of 2007, Ankara shelter administrators have told us that they have had to divert resource [...] | 2007-10-11 07:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AFIN ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU |
07ANKARA2533 | TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: GROWING VIOLENCE THREATENS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 13:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA258 | INROADS SLOW FOR LIBERTARIAN THINK TANK IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Association for Liberal Thinking (ALT),is an Ankara-based think tank established in 1994 to promote classical liberal (i.e. libertarian) thought in Turkey. In an effort to maintain autonomy, ALT has no direct links to any political party or movement, receives minimal fundi [...] | 2007-02-07 08:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM KPAO SOCI TU |
07ANKARA2589 | TURKEY: URGING PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY TO CONDMEN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2595 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY SAYS CROSS-BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2605 | TURKEY: PUBLIC ATTACKS ON DTP OFFICES FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2627 | TURKEY: EU HARMONIZATION PROCESS OVERSHADOWED BY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2630 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH LEADER AHMET TURK DEFENSIVE IN MEETING WITH EU AMBASSADORS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2713 | TURKEY: THE KURDISH DTP PARTY'S SQUANDERED [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: Despite having 20 of its representatives in parliament, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) has entirely sidelined itself during Turkey's confrontation with Iraq over the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The DTP erred [...] | 2007-11-05 11:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2731 | TURKEY'S NATIONALISTIC JUDICIARY AN OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) Summary: A diverse array of legal experts agree the judiciary (judges and prosecutors) has been a major force in Turkey's failure to fully implement legal reforms related to its EU harmonization effort. Contacts from academia, private practice, government, and civil society told us that, [...] | 2007-11-07 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2753 | TURKEY'S PLANS FOR COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (U) We delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Department Head Hasan Ulusoy on November 6, 2007. Ulusoy reported that Mr. Yalcin Kaya Erensoy, Turkey's Ambassador to Senegal, will represent Turkey at the November 14-17 Mali Ministerial. 2. (U) Ulusoy told us the [...] | 2007-11-09 16:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA TU |
07ANKARA2754 | TURKEY: 2006 DOMESTIC REPORT ON COMBATING HUMAN [...] (SBU) The GOT recently issued its 2006 Report on Combating Human Trafficking in Turkey. The report provides an overview of Turkey's anti-TIP legal framework, international cooperation mechanisms, TIP prevention and victim protection measures, and supporting 2006 statistical data. The report [...] | 2007-11-09 16:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SMIG KCRM KWMN TU |
07ANKARA2762 | TURKEY: EU PROGRESS REPORT BRINGS NO SURPRISES [...] (C) Summary: The EU's annual progress report on Turkey, released November 6, went largely unnoticed here as the public and media remained focused on the latest PKK terrorist crisis. The GOT was pleased to see a "balanced" report, according to MFA and its EU Secretariat officials. Human righ [...] | 2007-11-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2774 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY ELECTS HARDLINER AS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) members elected Nurettin Demirtas, 34, as party chairman and adopted the concept of "democratic autonomy" during a November 8 extraordinary convention in Ankara. Several Kurdish contacts believe the elevation of Demirtas, a h [...] | 2007-11-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA278 | TURKEY'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DEBATE HEATS UP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2807 | TURKEY: PROSECUTOR OPENS CLOSURE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's top prosecutor filed an indictment with the Constitutional Court on November 16 to close down the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) for alleged ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The indictment calls for a ban against DTP participat [...] | 2007-11-20 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2814 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA PHUM PREL UN TU |
07ANKARA2819 | TURKEY: DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on November 21 to MFA Latin America Head of Department Ece Ozturk Cil. Cil assured us that U.S. concerns in Latin America are strongly taken into account in Turkey's Latin America policies, given her department's location in the MFA Americas Directorate and Tur [...] | 2007-11-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE TU WHA |
07ANKARA2836 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ELECTION FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PREL PHUM TU |
07ANKARA2837 | TURKEY: MALATYA MURDER TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY AMID [...] (C) Summary: The high-profile trial of seven men accused of the April murder of three Christian bookstore workers in the southeastern city of Malatya began on November 23. Five defendants face multiple life sentences for murder and terrorist acts; two others are charged with assisting in the [...] | 2007-11-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA286 | ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION: TURKS PREDICT DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Contacts from across the Turkish political spectrum are deeply alarmed at the prospect that a Congressional Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) is likely to pass for the first time this year. All predict a harsh reaction, especially from the public, in this already politically-cha [...] | 2007-02-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM US |
07ANKARA2879 | POLL OPENS DOOR INTO TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary. A clear majority of residents polled in 14 southeastern Turkish provinces said they would prefer to live in Turkey even if an independent Kurdish state were founded in northern Iraq. The Turkish polling company Metropoll claimed its November survey of 1,079 people is the first [...] | 2007-12-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2886 | TURKEY: GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHONS CLAIM ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary: Turkish government policies are slowly suffocating the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP),according to representatives of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a U.S.-based group of Greek Orthodox laymen. In November 29 meetings, the delegation told Turkish officials crawling re [...] | 2007-12-04 08:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2893 | TURKEY: RELIEF ON THE WAY FOR ANKARA TIP SHELTER [...] (SBU) The Ankara TIP shelter, operated by the Foundation for Women's Solidarity (FWS),remains open despite a three-month funding short-fall. FWS could not pay salaries in September, October, or November 2007. The Canadian International Development Agency has responded positively to the IOM [...] | 2007-12-04 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AFIN ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI TU |
07ANKARA2905 | TURKEY: ADANA GOVERNOR REVEALS HIS SUSPICIONS [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: At an opening ceremony of the Adana chapter of the EU-supported Civil Society Development Center (STGM),Adana Governor Ilhan Atis verbally attacked the coordinator, questioned European motives (and competence),and insisted civil soci [...] | 2007-12-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM TU |
07ANKARA2944 | TURKEY: GUL'S APPOINTMENT TO HIGHER EDUCATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 09:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2958 | TURKEY: NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS LAW IRKS SECULAR [...] (C) Summary: President Gul's midnight signing of a new law governing the selection process for prosecutors and judges brought sharp criticism from a legal establishment that sees the move as a challenge to its independence by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The truth is more [...] | 2007-12-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2965 | TURKEY: UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Turkey continues its efforts to eliminate all forms of child labor, increasing access to basic and vocational education to improve the prospects of children currently working, and withdrawing them from employment while they are children. Post provides new information below in response to the [...] | 2007-12-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI TU |
07ANKARA2994 | TURKEY: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES VOICE OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's traditional religious minority communities -- Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Jewish Community -- recently have criticized elements of a draft Foundations Law, vetoed in 2006 by then-President Sezer, that Parliament is expected to take up in early 2008 [...] | 2007-12-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA2998 | TURKEY: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES VOICE OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's traditional religious minority communities -- Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Jewish Community -- recently have criticized elements of a draft Foundations Law, vetoed in 2006 by then-President Sezer, that Parliament is expected to take up in early 2008 [...] | 2007-12-18 10:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3009 | TURKEY TO FOLLOW-UP AGAINST WITH IRANIANS ON [...] (S) GOT officials have said they will again follow-up with Government of Iran authorities to press for information related to the disappearance of Robert Levinson. MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Babur Hizlan told us December 18 that he will ask the Turkish embassy in Tehran to cont [...] | 2007-12-19 09:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | CASC PREL PHUM TU IR |
07ANKARA3010 | TURKEY: CATHOLIC PRIEST STABBED IN IZMIR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Police detained a 19-year old Turkish man shortly after he stabbed Italian Priest Adiano Franchini inside Izmir's St. Antoine Church on Sunday, December 16. Franchini, who survived the attack and is recovering well, said he would not press charges against the attacke [...] | 2007-12-19 09:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3016 | TURKEY: RULING AKP TACKLES A TABOO -- IMPROVING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3044 | TURKEY PREPARING TO REVIVE EU REFORMS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary and comment: The EU's December 19 decision to open negotiations with Turkey on two new policy chapters appears to have calmed GOT officials infuriated by French President Sarkozy's maneuvering to have the terms "accession" and "membership" removed from the GAERC's December 10 stat [...] | 2007-12-28 08:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA3051 | TURKEY: BATMAN SEES LOCAL POLITICAL TENSIONS RISING [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Two prominent Batman Bar Association leaders in southeast Turkey told us during a recent visit that local political tensions between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) have inc [...] | 2007-12-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA311 | MIDNIGHT EXPRESS IT'S NOT: MODEL TURKISH PRISON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA318 | Nomination for Woman of Courage Award - Nebahat Akkoc, [...] (U) The following is Mission Turkey's nomination for the Secretary's "Woman of Courage" awards. SIPDIS 2. (U) Nominee: Nebahat Akkoc, President and founder of KA-MER (Women's Center),Turkey. Age: 54. Contact addresses: Ali Emiri 4. Sk. Diskale Apt No:2/4 Yenisehir, Diyarbakir, Turkey; [...] | 2007-02-14 16:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO TU |
07ANKARA404 | TURKISH PROFESSOR RECEIVES MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 17:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA423 | TURKEY: STAFFDEL TILLEMANN DISCUSSES ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-27 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE AM TU |
07ANKARA430 | ANKARA'S MAMAK DISTRICT: VOICES OF ANKARA'S HAVE NOTS [...] (SBU) Summary. A visit to one of Ankara's oldest squatter settlements provided insight into the multiple challenges Turkey faces in dealing with its endemic squatter housing problem, which is linked to persistent regional income disparities and the country's deep urban and rural poverty. Res [...] | 2007-02-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU |
07ANKARA458 | TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 3 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Cathy Westley, telephone number 90-312-455-5555 X 2513, fax number 90-312-468-4775. Westley (FS-03) spent [...] | 2007-03-01 09:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
07ANKARA459 | TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: INVESTIGATION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 2 of 3 (septels). -------------------------------------------- Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers ------------------------------------------ [...] | 2007-03-01 09:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
07ANKARA460 | TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROTECTION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 3 of 3 (septels). ------------------------------------ Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------------ A. (U) The GOT [...] | 2007-03-01 09:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
07ANKARA462 | TURKEY'S OWN "24" -- "VALLEY OF THE WOLVES" [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA468 | HOPE FOR OUTREACH TO ARMENIA FADES [...] (C) Summary: Even as concern over a U.S. Congressional Armenian genocide resolution mounts, Turks from across the spectrum caution that in this election year Turkey will not/cannot make a dramatic gesture to Armenia. End summary. 2. (C) The hot-button issue of a possible Armenian genocide [...] | 2007-03-01 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM AJ |
07ANKARA470 | TURKEY: HAK-PAR POLITICIANS CONVICTED FOR USING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-02 07:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA478 | TURKISH MFA COMPLAINT ABOUT SENATE RESOLUTION ON [...] (c) Turkish MFA U/S Apakan called in Ambassador March 2 regarding the Senate draft resolution on the Hrant Dink assassination that has been introduced by Sen. Biden. 2. (c) Reading from a Washington embassy report, Apakan noted that S-Res 65 is listed publicly on the SFRC agenda for March [...] | 2007-03-02 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TU |
07ANKARA480 | TURKEY: GREEK MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN RIGHTS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey believes Greece's efforts to address the concerns of the ethnic Turkish minority population of Western Thrace fall short. While noting that the GOG had made a start, MFA officials indicate they await final Greek action on the proposed legislation and other details before [...] | 2007-03-02 18:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM GR TU |
07ANKARA516 | TURKEY: DISPLACED VILLAGERS CRITICIZE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 13:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA542 | TURKISH COURT BLOCKS ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECPS OSCE TU |
07ANKARA559 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY HOLDS CONVENTION AMID [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA574 | TENSION ESCALATING IN RUN-UP TO NEVRUZ HOLIDAY IN [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: The judicial offensive against several DTP politicians and growing militant activity by PKK supporters raise the possibility that this year's Nevruz (March 21) holiday could be particularly violent, according to many of our contacts in t [...] | 2007-03-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA584 | TURKEY: GOT POSITIVELY INCLINED TO US REQUEST FOR [...] SUMMARY: Turkish government officials are likely to make a positive decision in response to the USG request to resettle Iraqi refugees currently located in Turkey. They expressed some initial hesitation, primarily because they fear an increased influx of refugees from Iraq and elsewhere in t [...] | 2007-03-14 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM TU IZ |
07ANKARA592 | TURKEY'S INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY; INCREASED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR OSCE TU |
07ANKARA642 | TURKISH GOVERNMENT MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AKDAMAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA653 | TURKEY: FESTIVE NEVRUZ CELEBRATIONS PASS WITHOUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA658 | TURKEY: WILL GO WITH THE EU FLOW ON ZIMBABWE, BUT [...] (C) We delivered ref a points March 19 to MFA Africa Department Head Raif Karaca. Karaca asked for time to discuss the issue internally and came back to us March 21. Karaca noted that Turkey, as an EU accession candidate country, associates itself routinely with EU statements on Zimbabwe and [...] | 2007-03-22 16:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ZI TU |
07ANKARA687 | GOT CONSIDERING SENDING SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE TO [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will likely send a senior MFA official to Armenian PM Margarian's March 28 funeral, MFA Deputy Undersecretary Cevikoz told the Charge. Given that the Akdamar Church opening ceremony is the following day, Cevikoz will push for the GOT to allow a direct Yerevan-Van flight to [...] | 2007-03-26 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TU AM |
07ANKARA699 | TURKEY CONTINUING EU REFORMS DESPITE SETBACK [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 06:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA700 | TURKEY: VERDICT IN CLOSELY WATCHED TORTURE TRIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 06:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA709 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC TU |
07ANKARA747 | TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA78 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT DEVELOPS 2007 EU ROADMAP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-17 09:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA859 | TURKISH MFA APPRECIATES EFFORTS TO AVERT GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting with Ambassador, MFA U/S (D equivalent) Ertugrul Apakan expressed appreciation for US Administration efforts to avert a congressional Armenian genocide resolution and asked about language of the Presidential proclamation that would be issued on the occasion [...] | 2007-04-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
07ANKARA933 | AFTERMATH: TRIPLE-MURDER OF CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-19 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA965 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP EXPECTS ELECTORAL SUCCESS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA971 | TURKEY ANNOUNCES 7-YEAR EU REFORM PLAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANKARA995 | ANKARA-BASED KURDISH RADIO STATION FACES RISING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
07ANTANANARIVO1016 | Embassy's Third Annual Iftar Reception [...] The Ambassador and DCM hosted September 25 the Embassy's third annual Iftar reception in Antananarivo. Friends and contacts from Madagascar's diverse Muslim communities attended - Khoja, Sunni, Bohra, and Ismailis -- again expressing their appreciation for our hospitality. Interestingly, Mad [...] | 2007-10-05 03:19:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO102 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN MADAGASCAR AND COMOROS [...] Per reftel, the following is Post's recommendation of the five most influential women in Madagascar and The Union of the Comoros. Post officer following women's issues in both countries is Silvana Rodriguez. She can be reached at (261) 20 22 21257, Ext 2409 or by email at RodriguezSD@state.gov [...] | 2007-02-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL PINR MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1056 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SAMBI, "I WILL END ANJOUAN CRISIS OR [...] (U) This message includes an Action Request, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Celebrating the end of Ramadan October 13, Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Sambi made a public declaration that he would resolve the ongoing Anjouan crisis or resign. Reflecting on public opinion that he had accomplished [...] | 2007-10-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1083 | TALKS BETWEEN COMORAN ISLAND LEADERS SEW CONFUSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Grand Comore Island President Mohamed Abdouloihab's unannounced October 19 visit to Anjouan has Union Government officials irate and the international community confused. Anjouan authorities reportedly hope Abdouloihab's visit will be perceived as the first step toward official [...] | 2007-10-22 13:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1099 | MADAGASCAR NOMINATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] Per reftel, Post nominates the following two candidates from Madagascar for the International Women of Courage Award. 2. Dr. Mathilde Rabary is the National President of the non-governmental organization (NGO) "S.O.S. to Human Rights Victims," Coordinator of the Mifohaza Center, and a form [...] | 2007-10-26 08:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL KPAO MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1114 | DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN MORONI DISCUSSES CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The diplomatic corps in Moroni and Government of the Union of the Comoros were surprised by Grande Comore island president Abdouloihab's visit to Anjouan. The international community, led by the African Union (AU),is working to apply sanctions and encourage the Union Governm [...] | 2007-11-02 10:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1137 | PRESIDENT EMPOWERS WOMEN, WARNS SEX TOURISTS [...] SUMMARY: October was a groundbreaking month for women in Madagascar. Following the designation of the first ever female Minister of Defense (REF A),President Ravalomanana kicked off the opening conference of the Presidential Initiative on Women and Leadership with a sweeping speech calling [...] | 2007-11-08 09:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI SCUL PINR PGOV MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1147 | COMOROS SANCTIONS UNDERWAY, BACAR NOT BACKING DOWN [...] (U) African Union (AU) sanctions, including a travel ban and the freezing of assets, against 145 persons on the island of Anjouan (ref) are underway in the Union of the Comoros. With contradicting dates in media reports, the AU confirmed sanctions started on October 20 and will run out 45 day [...] | 2007-11-09 08:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1171 | UNION PLEDGES NO ACTION AGAINST ANJOUAN BEFORE [...] (C) The people of the Union of the Comoros are on "standby" as the standoff with Anjouan continues. Union Government officials are committed to cooperating with the African Union (AU) to give sanctions against Anjouan (which will run out on November 24) a chance to work, but they will not wai [...] | 2007-11-16 08:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO1216 | WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE: MADAGASCAR AND [...] Post provides below updated information on the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros, keyed to questions in reftel, as available and appropriate. 2. Madagascar -------------- The Government of Madagascar continues to be a regional leader in combating chi [...] | 2007-12-03 13:49:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PREL MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO161 | TACKLING SEX TOURISM IN NOSY BE, ROUND TWO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy staff traveled to Nosy Be, an island off Madagascar's northwest coast notorious for its growing sex tourism, and Diego Suarez, a nearby port on the mainland, to follow up on Embassy Antananarivo's 2005 report on the nature of sex tourism and trafficking in persons (TIP) al [...] | 2007-02-16 10:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA |
07ANTANANARIVO180 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM TO BE HELD APRIL 4 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has announced a Constitutional Referendum to be held April 4, 2007. A hastily-convened committee is considering over 200 possible changes, and will soon make recommendations to the Council of Ministers, who will then decide which changes shoul [...] | 2007-02-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO221 | MADAGASCAR 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Madagascar is not a country of origin, transit or destination for internationally trafficked men and women. During the year, there were reports of trafficking within the country's borders. Madagascar has a confirmed child sex tourism problem. The domestic legal framework, cultural [...] | 2007-03-06 14:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID |
07ANTANANARIVO225 | COMOROS 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) The Embassy Point of Contact for TIP is Political Officer Silvana Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez can be reached via email at RodriguezSD [at] state.gov, via telephone at 261.20.22.212.57, or via facsimile at 261.20.22.251.71. POLOFF Rodriguez spent approximately 1 hour preparing this report. [...] | 2007-03-07 11:48:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID CN |
07ANTANANARIVO232 | GOM PROPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Madagascar (GOM) has publicly proposed a number of constitutional changes to be voted on in a referendum April 4, with the stated goal of driving forward the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP),its signature development program (REF A). Changes include eliminating the [...] | 2007-03-09 06:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO236 | AMERICAN WEEK IN MAHAJANGA IS A HIT [...] SUMMARY: From February 27 - March 1, 40 Mission personnel and numerous partners hosted American Week in Mahajanga, a city on Madagascar's northwestern coast with a sizeable Muslim population. Well over 5,000 local citizens visited our exhibit booths, attended an Embassy-sponsored basketball to [...] | 2007-03-09 10:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KMCA KPAO EAID PHUM PINR AMGT ASOC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO238 | AMBASSDOR'S MEETINGS WITH MAHAJANGA BUSINESS LEADERS [...] During American Week in Mahajanga (reftel),the Ambassador met with business and Muslim leaders to discuss the overall business climate and to listen to their concerns. Prevailing sentiment among business leaders was generally negative. They voiced complaints about the poor state of the Port [...] | 2007-03-09 13:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PGOV PHUM PREL KISL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO277 | ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE PENDING MARCH 21 [...] Ambassador McGee is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Marcel Ranjeva on March 20, at which time he will raise the demarche on Zimbabwe per reftel. Post will report on the Government of Madagascar's response immediately following the meeting. McGEE [...] | 2007-03-20 10:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ZI MA |
07ANTANANARIVO288 | DEMARCHE: MADAGASCAR RESPONSE ON ZIMBABWE VIOLENCE [...] (S) Ambassador delivered REF B demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcel Ranjeva the evening of March 21 on the sideline of a dinner in honor of the departing UNDP Resident Representative. After listening carefully to demarche points, Ranjeva replied that as a SADC Member, Madagascar can [...] | 2007-03-22 13:38:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | PREL PHUM ZI MA |
07ANTANANARIVO301 | MIXED REACTIONS TO PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: With only eight days to go, Madagascar's upcoming constitutional referendum has failed to garner the same amount of enthusiasm seen in the recent presidential election. The average citizen has little understanding of the proposed amendments and public reactions have been mixed wi [...] | 2007-03-27 13:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO304 | Sambi Announces New Cabinet, Island Election Dates [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Sambi expanded his cabinet by adding four new Ministers and shrinking the massive portfolios of his existing team. None of the Ministers in place since 2006 was removed. The electoral commission also announced the Island President elections will be held June 10, with r [...] | 2007-03-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO325 | TURNOUT FOR REFERENDUM LOW BUT PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Anecdotal and radio reports from around the country reflect a peaceful day at the polls for Madagascar's constitutional referendum with no security incidents. Voter turnout seems to be considerably lower than for the recent presidential election due to apathy that the constitut [...] | 2007-04-04 13:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO352 | RESULTS NEARLY COMPLETE, REFERENDUM VICTORIOUS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Waiting on results from only 27 of the country's 17,000-plus polling stations, Madagascar's constitutional referendum passed with a 75.37 percent approval rate and a 43.7 percent voter turnout. The usual criticism from the opposition post-referendum will likely fall on deaf ears [...] | 2007-04-12 13:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO393 | AF/E Director Reddick in Antananarivo [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Madagascar April 15-18, East Africa Bureau (AF/E) Director Reddick paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister to discuss the April 4 referendum and ongoing disaster response. In meetings with the Red Cross and the Presidency, Director Reddick explored possible solutions to M [...] | 2007-04-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO399 | DELEGATION HOLDS BILATERAL TALKS WITH COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer's suggestion to President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi on the sidelines of UNGA last September (REF B),a U.S. delegation led by Director of the Office of East African Affairs Eunice Reddick held the first ever bilateral discussions wi [...] | 2007-04-24 11:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO402 | MADAGASCAR TIP PROPOSALS FOR 2007 ESF AND INCLE FUNDS [...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Antananarivo is providing the following four proposals for 2007 ESF and INCLE funds for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) projects. The full text of the proposals, budgets and resumes are being forwarded via email to the appropriate G/TIP POC as requested. Post POC for all [...] | 2007-04-24 13:21:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MA |
07ANTANANARIVO409 | Coastal City Boils Over Electricity Outages [...] (SBU) Public discontent over electricity outages boiled over April 26 as thousands of protestors set fire to a public building in the southern coastal city of Tulear. According to sources in the gendarmerie, members of the mob also kidnapped the regional director of the Penitentiary Administr [...] | 2007-04-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO414 | TULEAR RIOTS CONTINUE, OTHER CITIES ON LOW SIMMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of unrest in Tamatave, political opposition groups are trying to take advantage of a string of student-initiated protests over poor university conditions and black-outs in a number of coastal cities -- particularly Tulear (REF A) -- to further their anti-referendum age [...] | 2007-04-27 10:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO417 | Opposition Leaders Arrested; Merina Flee Tulear [...] (SBU) Police in Tulear arrested four opposition leaders for allegedly leading the demonstrations which turned violent in the city April 27 (reftel): Senator Robert Razaka; National Assembly Deputy Dimby Benaria; Luc Vital, Chairman of the Tulear Communal Council; and Tsimarivo Railala. The [...] | 2007-04-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC MA |
07ANTANANARIVO435 | COASTAL UNREST CONTINUES IN MADAGASCAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Public demonstrations in Madagascar against blackouts and poor study conditions (reftels) have expanded to include political opposition grievances. Protests seem to be spreading to different coastal cities and even potentially Antananarivo. After several days of protests with li [...] | 2007-05-04 09:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA |
07ANTANANARIVO442 | Anjouan's Bacar Clings To Power [...] (SBU) Press reports that (former) Anjouan Island "governor" Bacar has accepted the Constitutional Court's decision for him to step down remain unconfirmed. Post Comoros Liaison indicates that Bacar stated he would resign - on the condition that he, not Union President Sambi, name the interim [...] | 2007-05-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO452 | COMOROS AWAITS SAMBI'S REACTION TO BACAR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union's (AU) special envoy to the Comoros Jose Francisco Madeira returned May 8 from a second mission to Anjouan, bringing back with him approximately 15 Union government officials and soldiers who had been held hostage by "President" Bacar's forces. Bacar told Made [...] | 2007-05-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO454 | AU BROKERS SHAKY ACCORD IN THE COMOROS [...] (SBU) In a deal signed late May 11 between Union of the Comoros Vice President Ikililou, African Union (AU) Envoy Madeira, Arab League Envoy Husni, and deposed Anjouan Island "president" Bacar, the defiant Bacar finally agreed to step down as ordered by the Constitutional Court (reftels). The [...] | 2007-05-14 13:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO477 | COMORAN 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 13:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM XA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO523 | NORWAY-FUNDED CORRUPTION EXPERT ADVISES MALAGASY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fredrik Galtung of the organization "tiri: Making Integrity Work" provided donors and anti-corruption officials a briefing May 25 following extensive consultations in Madagascar. He identified judicial reform as the top priority for any substantial improvement on transparency a [...] | 2007-05-31 12:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ETRD PREL ECON NO MA |
07ANTANANARIVO557 | LABOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RESCUED IN DIEGO SUAREZ [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Antananarivo's reporting on trafficking in persons (TIP) has tended to focus on the conspicuous sex trafficking of minors in tourism hotspots along Madagascar's coast, namely on the island of Nosy Be (reftel). While the same kind of sexual exploitation exists in the northern [...] | 2007-06-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA |
07ANTANANARIVO566 | ANJOUAN'S BACAR MOVES TO DERAIL COMOROS VOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence broke out again on the Comoran island of Anjouan June 5 as island strongman Mohamed Bacar continued his pattern of extralegal efforts to cling to power. Bacar, who stepped aside as island president to run for reelection (Reftels),appears to have no intention of losing [...] | 2007-06-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO567 | COMOROS' SAMBI POSTPONES ANJOUAN'S ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi postponed Anjouan's island election to June 17, contrary to international pressure. Deposed Anjouan island president Bacar continues his "end-game" threatening to hold elections anyway. Votes in Grand Comore and Moheli will go [...] | 2007-06-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO573 | TWO-THIRDS OF COMOROS ISLAND ELECTIONS SUCCESSFUL [...] (U) This is an Action Request - see para 6. 2. (SBU) The people of Grand Comore and Moheli in the Union of the Comoros went to the polls June 10 to elect new island "presidents" (governors). The pro-Sambi candidate Abduloihabi (known as "Albino") leads in Grand Comore, followed by a chari [...] | 2007-06-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO580 | STUDENTS BURN MADAGASCAR CAMPUS AMPHITHEATRE [...] (U) Police contacts report that an unknown number of students set fire to the amphitheatre on the campus at the University in Fianarantsoa, in south-central Madagascar, early June 13. The entire building and an adjoining registrar's office, where many students' files are stored, burned to the [...] | 2007-06-13 09:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO583 | AU CHALLENGES ANJOUAN'S BACAR IN COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union insists deposed island president Mohamed Bacar must allow island elections on Anjouan June 17; however, it cannot so far enforce compliance. The renegade Bacar is reportedly fortifying his position on the island against possible attack. (Note: No AmCits are [...] | 2007-06-13 12:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO585 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in Paragraph Two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support for a military effort to restore democracy to the island of Anjouan. Sambi describes the repeated efforts - by his government as we [...] | 2007-06-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO595 | COMOROS ELECTION POSTPONED AS BACAR SEIZES POWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shortly after inaugurating himself "President" of Anjouan on the morning of June 14, Colonel Mohamed Bacar resumed his position at the presidential palace. A high-level Comoran delegation will arrive in Addis Ababa June 14 to lobby the African Union (AU) to hold an extraordinar [...] | 2007-06-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO60 | U.S. DELEGATION CONGRATULATES MADAGASCAR'S PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Presidential Delegation led by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns attended the inauguration of President Marc Ravalomanana's second term and held a number of meetings on the sidelines. Applauding Ravalomanana's progressive leadership style, the delegation extended its congra [...] | 2007-01-22 14:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO608 | COMOROS AWAITS AU DECISION ON MILITARY OPTIONS [...] (U) With "President" Bacar of Anjouan refusing to hold new island presidential elections sanctioned by the international community, South Africa is reportedly organizing an urgent meeting of regional foreign ministries and an official from the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council June [...] | 2007-06-18 13:27:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO615 | AFRICAN UNION CHALLENGES BACAR IN THE COMOROS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An African Union (AU) ultimatum and ministerial delegation to the Union of the Comoros is applying pressure on renegade Anjouan island "President" Mohamed Bacar. All three islands of the Union are calm, awaiting Bacar's response to the AU. Rumors abound from Anjouan that Bacar [...] | 2007-06-21 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO623 | ICRC NOTES MINOR IMPROVEMENT IN MADAGASCAR PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Of 80 countries in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) monitors prison conditions; Madagascar continues to stand among the worst. An ICRC representative met with Embassy staff to note that while there have been positive trends over the past year in the Gov [...] | 2007-06-22 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL MA |
07ANTANANARIVO636 | COMOROS ELECTIONS: TWO OUT OF THREE SUCCEED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Island elections in Grande Comore and Moheli successfully completed their second rounds June 24. Embassy observers found the election in Grande Comore to be transparent and well-organized. Tensions are high between the Union government, African Union (AU),and other internatio [...] | 2007-06-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO642 | COMORAN PRESIDENT SEEKS U.S. POLITICAL SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a letter to President Bush (full translation in paragraph two),Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of the Union of the Comoros, seeks U.S. support urging an African Union (AU) decision to take robust action against Comoran warlord Mohamed Bacar. Sambi expresses his disappointmen [...] | 2007-06-29 11:26:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO681 | COMORANS HOLD BREATH WAITING FOR ANJOUAN ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Delegates of the Government of the Union of the Comoros as well as those sent by renegade Anjouan Island warlord Mohamed Bacar met under African Union auspices July 8 and 9 in Pretoria to seek a solution to their inter-island impasse. Rather than holding a negotiation between [...] | 2007-07-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR ASEC AU CN |
07ANTANANARIVO723 | PROSPECTS AND PROSTITUTION IN MINING BOOM TOWN [...] SUMMARY: As Qit Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ramps up its mining activities in southeastern Madagascar, the former "ghost town" of Fort Dauphin is rapidly changing. Embassy staff consulted local officials and NGOs to assess the potential for human trafficking. While it is clear "trafficking in p [...] | 2007-07-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB EAID MA |
07ANTANANARIVO758 | MADAGASCAR M.P. ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] (SBU) Roger Zara, a former deputy from the island of Nosy Be who represented President Marc Ravalomanana's Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM) party in the recently dissolved National Assembly (ref A),was arrested July 27 on corruption-related charges. He was reportedly summoned to the tribunal, accus [...] | 2007-07-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM PHUM MA |
07ANTANANARIVO778 | MALAGASY SURPRISED BY TIP CONDITIONS IN SOUTH [...] SUMMARY: In a July 25 meeting of the Human Rights Working Group, Embassy Antananarivo teamed up with multiple NGOs to present the issue of trafficking in persons (TIP) in the different regions of Madagascar. The fact that Malagasy participants were shocked to find out certain widespread pract [...] | 2007-08-02 10:37:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA |
07ANTANANARIVO779 | BACAR'S DEFIANCE LEAVES AU FEW OPTIONS IN THE COMOROS [...] (U) Little has changed in the Union of the Comoros in recent days (reftels). African Union (AU) Envoy Francisco Madeira again threatened Anjouan island renegade, Mohamed Bacar, and again offered an ultimatum. In a press statement July 28, Madeira said, "Bacar's boat is sinking and anyone lef [...] | 2007-08-02 12:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO815 | COMORAN PRESIDENT CONSIDERING MILITARY OPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi wants the AU to take control of Anjouan by force to allow free elections there, and he believes this could be done without bloodshed. However, he will not wait indefinitely and has a plan for Union forces to take Anjouan - which he [...] | 2007-08-16 13:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU EAID PHUM PINR ASEC MOPS CN |
07ANTANANARIVO816 | CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IN COMOROS ATTACKED [...] In what appears to be a religiously motivated attack, unknown actors set off a petrol-bomb in a dispensary run by the Catholic relief agency Caritas in the village of Mbeni on the northeastern side of Grande Comore late August 12. No one was injured, but material damages included four burne [...] | 2007-08-20 05:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC SCUL CASC CN |
07ANTANANARIVO823 | MORE COMORANS DROWN ON FAILED CROSSING TO MAYOTTE [...] (U) Seventeen illegal immigrants reportedly drowned August 13 when their boat capsized while trying to evade the French Coast Guard as they tried to cross from the Union of the Comoros island of Anjouan to the nearby French territory of Mayotte. At least 30 people have died trying to make this [...] | 2007-08-20 05:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CN |
07ANTANANARIVO895 | FRAUDULENT "BAHAMAS" RECRUITER CONS MALAGASY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A scam promising jobs in the Bahamas took in reportedly thousands of Malagasy job seekers before the Government of Madagascar (GOM) exposed the fraud. Gateway Global Consultants, posing as recruiters for West Palm Textiles and Apparel, took USD 50 fees for a promise of possible e [...] | 2007-09-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB ETRD PREL MA BF |
07ANTANANARIVO919 | ANTANANARIVO'S INPUT TO THE PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to respond to Reftel with the following brief summary of Post's programs and activities to promote human rights and protect human rights defenders. END SUMMARY. Promoting Human Rights and Protecting Human Rights Defenders - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...] | 2007-09-12 10:53:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MA CN |
07ANTANANARIVO933 | AU SANCTIONS NEXT IN THE COMOROS IMPASSE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the Union of the Comoros (GOC) is expecting the African Union (AU) to apply concrete measures against rebel Anjouan warlord Col. Mohamed Bacar when its Foreign Ministers meet September 18 in Cape Town. Privately, we have heard the next step is likely to be sanct [...] | 2007-09-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS CN AU MO |
07ANTANANARIVO935 | COMOROS: PRESIDENT APPEALS TO U.S. WHILE HOPING [...] (C) Summary: With virtually his whole country's progress and prospects held hostage over the continuing impasse in Anjouan (reftel),Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi nonetheless projected an air of friendly calm in his first meeting with Ambassador Marquardt on September [...] | 2007-09-18 09:36:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS CN AU MO |
07ANTANANARIVO998 | LUKEWARM COMORAN REACTION TO LATEST AU MEETING [...] (U) Six "concerned" African Foreign Ministers met in Cape Town September 18 to discuss the ongoing de facto secession in Anjouan, Union of the Comoros. This Ministerial Council adopted the recommendations of an experts group that met in Addis Ababa September 4. While the declaration calls fo [...] | 2007-10-01 03:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM CN |
07ASHGABAT1003 | TURKMENISTAN: MEETING WITH INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Sensitive byt unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Deirector Shirin Ahmedova told poloff September 21 that the new Human Rights Commission has plans to cooperate closely with the UN and EU. The Commission also wants to devel [...] | 2007-09-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1030 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV PROMISES RELEASE OF [...] (C) During a September 24 debrief of UK Minister of Energy Malcolm Wick's 19-20 visit that focused primarily on oil and gas issues (septel),UK Ambassador Peter Butcher reported Wicks raised political development and human rights in meetings with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Deputy [...] | 2007-09-25 10:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1035 | TURKMENISTAN: CONDITIONS IN OWADAN PRISON [...] (C) A longtime Embassy contact, whose brother was imprisoned for the 2002 attack on the presidential motorcade, spoke recently with one of the 11 individuals granted clemency in August. (NOTE: The contact did not specify which one. END NOTE.) This person told our contact that rumors she ha [...] | 2007-09-26 12:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS TX |
07ASHGABAT1036 | TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIAN BAZAAR BURNS, BUT NO TAPE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An early morning fire on September 24 destroyed temporary kiosks as well as badly damaging two permanent retail areas of Ashgabat's Russian Bazaar in the center of downtown. Although there is no information rega [...] | 2007-09-26 13:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT1040 | TURKMENISTAN: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN GROUP IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post confirmed today that the evangelical Christian Source of Life Church in Turkmenabat was successfully registered on the 24th of September, after two years of process. The preacher, Jabar Aliyev, received news of it fro [...] | 2007-09-27 10:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1048 | TUKRMNEISTAN: AHAL PROVINCE OFFICIALS SHOW REMARKABLE NEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a distinctive change over previous visits to Ahal in post's provincial reporting program, PAO was warmly welcomed and treated to a new level of hospitality and openness, particularly by a high-ranking alumnus of t [...] | 2007-09-28 12:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1053 | TURKMENISTAN PRESIDENT PLEASED WITH NEW YORK TRIP; [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Foreign Minister Meredov, President Berdimuhamedov left New York with a strongly positive reaction to his bilateral, business, and UN meetings. Meredov said the president asked him to thank the United States for its high level of professionalism in organization and [...] | 2007-10-01 07:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET SCUL KPAO KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1075 | "NIGHT OF OMNIPOTENCE" AMNESTY LIST INCLUDES SOME [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On October 1, the state-run newspaper, "Neutral Turkmenistan," published the list of prisoners to be pardoned on October 9, in honor of the Night of Omnipotence. Some 8,837 names appeared, along with brief details about whe [...] | 2007-10-05 05:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1078 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE SEES IMPROVEMENT IN HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: OSCE sees an improvement in human rights, in the attitude of the government toward human rights, and in the ability of the OSCE Ashgabat Center to do business, since Berdimuhamedov came to power in early 2007. For [...] | 2007-10-05 11:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1079 | TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN EXPERTS PRESS LEGAL REFORM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A German academic delegation from the German Association for Technical Cooperation visited Ashgabat the week of October 1 to hold a roundtable with a number of Turkmenistan's ministries and government agencies dir [...] | 2007-10-05 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1081 | TURKMENISTAN: HIGH-PROFILE AND IRF-CONCERN NAMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Post has learned that several additional names of interest were on the list of those to be amnestied on October 9. A source at the Turkish embassy confirmed that it was notified that six Turkish citizens were on the list [...] | 2007-10-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1082 | DEMARCHE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE AS AN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1084 | DEMARCHE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE AS AN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 06:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1085 | YOUR VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) Erica: We look forward to your visit and want to ensure it will contribute to building our new bilateral relationship with Turkmenistan. In the nine months since the death of former President Niyazov, the new government has taken deliberate steps to move the country back toward the main [...] | 2007-10-09 07:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1089 | TURKMENISTAN'S BALKAN PROVINCE: ALUMNI KEEPING THE FLAME [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Meetings with FLEX alumni during a recent trip to Balkan province demonstrated the considerable thirst for greater exposure to the world beyond Turkmenistan's borders. Emboff also met a blind pastor of a still-un [...] | 2007-10-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1093 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV ASKS DRL TO POSTPONE [...] (C) During the course of other business on October 10, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov asked Charge if the DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles delegation couldn't please postpone its visit to Ashgabat planned for October 25. 2. (C) Looking pained, Meredov said, "I realize we did [...] | 2007-10-10 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1094 | TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER RELIGIOUS GROUP TO BE [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Timur Muradov, the pastor of the "Word of Life" Church, a small unregistered evangelical Christian group based in Turkmenbashy, called the Embassy October 10 to report that the Council on Religious Affairs Deputy Chairman, Nur [...] | 2007-10-10 10:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1097 | TURKMENISTAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH PLANS PUSH FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Vatican representative will come to Ashgabat on December 11 or 12 to formally request that the Turkmenistan government register the Roman Catholic Church. The requirement that the head of a religious organization be a Turkmenistan citizen still remains a major impediment to reg [...] | 2007-10-10 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1098 | UNITED NATIONS REVIEWS RECENT GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 8 donor meeting organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),Turkmenistan Resident Representative Richard Young provided an update on recent United Nations' activity, and outlined the [...] | 2007-10-11 04:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1102 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes you to Turkmenistan. You are coming to Turkmenistan in the early months of an expanding dialogue between Turkmenistan and the international community in general, and the OSCE and the Unite [...] | 2007-10-11 11:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1103 | TURKMENISTAN: CORRECTION TO LIST OF THOSE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post has learned from OSCE human dimension officer Benjamin Moreau that Turkmenistan's former Ambassador to the OSCE Batyr Berdiev was not/not listed among the almost 9,000 names of those amnestied on Tuesday (reftel). [...] | 2007-10-11 11:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1106 | EU SOLANA'S TURKMENISTAN VISIT: INTENSIFYING [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Ambassador Christian Lechervy briefed the non-EU diplomatic corps October 12 (the EU ambassadors' briefing was October 11) on the October 9 Ashgabat visit by European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. The United States, Ukrai [...] | 2007-10-15 05:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV EPET SNAR EU IR AF RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1117 | TURKMENISTAN COTTON HARVEST - AN EXPERIMENT IN CAPITALISM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to one of Turkmenistan's top producing cotton regions, EmbOff learned that the country is likely to be facing dramatically low cotton yields this year. Surprisingly, the government is turning [...] | 2007-10-16 06:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAGR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1119 | TURKMENISTAN: LIFE FOR JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post met with the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Turkmenistan and with one member who is currently serving a suspended sentence after refusing compulsory military service. The conversation with these individuals underscored the fact that little has yet changed in how the [...] | 2007-10-16 11:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1128 | TURKMENISTAN: COTTON INDUSTRY STILL TROUBLED [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Visits to the regions revealed that although President Berdimuhamedov can continue to rely on the cotton industry to bring in revenue, the sector needs reform and modernization. One positive change this year is [...] | 2007-10-18 14:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON EIND TX |
07ASHGABAT1130 | TURKEMNISTAN ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE ON HUMAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Chairman Shirin Ahmedova told USAID Regional Democracy and Governance Office Director Kim Delaney October 18 that the Institute is on the hook to President Berdimuhamedov to [...] | 2007-10-19 06:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1143 | TURKMENISTAN: IRC ASHGABAT REQUESTS DEPARTMENT APPROVAL TO [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. The Information Resource Center in Ashgabat (IRC Ashgabat),part of Embassy Ashgabat's Public Affairs Section, would like to extend its Internet access service via wireless internet service (WIFI) to its patrons. The availability of the Intern [...] | 2007-10-23 09:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC ANET PGOV PHUM EAGR KPAO SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1144 | TURKMENISTAN: IRC ASHGABAT REQUESTS DEPARTMENT APPROVAL TO [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. The Information Resource Center in Ashgabat (IRC Ashgabat),part of Embassy Ashgabat's Public Affairs Section, would like to extend its Internet access service via wireless internet service (WIFI) to its patrons. The availability of the Intern [...] | 2007-10-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC ANET PGOV PHUM EAGR KPAO SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1151 | REQUEST FOR SUPPORT OF THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 13:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN TX |
07ASHGABAT1156 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 24, the Director of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights Under the President of Turkmenistan, Shirin Ahmedova, proposed that the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) jointly organize [...] | 2007-10-26 06:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1162 | DEMARCHE ON THE CUBA'S RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 10:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT1164 | TURKMENISTAN'S 16TH INDEPENDENCE DAY: THE PAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rather than simply a family picnic in the park to watch fireworks, Independence Day in Turkmenistan was really Independence Week (and more) -- an elaborate, undeniably expensive, and highly choreographed series of events calculated to extol Turkmenistani contemporary sovereignty [...] | 2007-10-29 08:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EPET SOCI EU RS TX |
07ASHGABAT1165 | TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1168 | ACTION REQUEST: VETTING FOR GOTX CENTRAL ASIAN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph four. 2. (U) Post has been asked to conduct a human rights review for the following nominees attending the US government-funded Central Asian Parliamentarians Seminar IV, scheduled for 13-15 November in Berlin, Germany: Last name: AT [...] | 2007-10-31 08:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1180 | TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT1182 | AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TURKMEN PROMOTE COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The California-based Christian evangelical group "Friends of the Turkmen" has spent a dozen years slowly building relations with Turkmenistan government officials. Although they have contacts with small Protestant congregations in the country, their focus is more on education and [...] | 2007-11-01 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1188 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW EMPHASIS ON IMPROVING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The President of Turkmenistan told State media and cultural officials that they must improve their profession. The President emphasized the need for developing creativity, learning from contemporary world practices [...] | 2007-11-05 04:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1196 | ALBUQUERQUE-ASHGABAT SISTER CITY PROGRAM ILLUSTRATES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Representatives of Albuquerque's Sister City Foundation found their visit to be productive, and more significantly a major step forward in their relationship with the Ashgabat Mayor's office. The delegation attended multiple Independence Day events and conducted successful outre [...] | 2007-11-06 05:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT1202 | TURKMENISTAN'S 2007 HRR TO UNDERGO LOCAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 11:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO APER TX |
07ASHGABAT1204 | TURKMENISTAN: IN-PRISON DEATHS OF "SPECIAL [...] (C) An embassy FSN (please protect) reported that she received a letter during the weekend of November 3 from her brother, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for his alleged participation in the November 2002 attack against former President Saparmyrat Niyazov's motorcade. (NOTE: The F [...] | 2007-11-06 12:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1220 | DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 07:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON OSCE TX |
07ASHGABAT1227 | TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV IN BRUSSELS: A BRIEF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov's November 5-7 visit to Brussels seemed to reinforce that Turkmenistan is following its own path and, as yet, has little interest in the kinds of outward-looking compromises that could mak [...] | 2007-11-13 04:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EINV EPET SCUL EU TX |
07ASHGABAT124 | Turkmenistan Reportedly Bans Travel on Russian Passports by [...] (SBU) The Government of Turkmenistan has reportedly issued instructions to border guards not/not to accept Russian passports as a basis for travel abroad by citizens who until now were able to do so on the basis of their no-longer-recognized dual citizenship. END SUMMARY. Dual Nationals Be [...] | 2007-01-26 13:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS RU TX |
07ASHGABAT1243 | TURKMENISTAN: MARY PASTOR DENIED EXIT [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The pastor of a small evangelical congregation in Mary province, Ilmurad Nurlyyev, told poloff November 16 that the Turkmenistan government prevented him from exiting the country. Nurlyyev, who heads a Turkmen Baptist C [...] | 2007-11-16 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1247 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS ON FOUR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 03:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA TX |
07ASHGABAT1249 | DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 09:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON OSCE TX |
07ASHGABAT1293 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN OF DRL [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Rights and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles to Turkmenistan. Your visit will help to reinforce the U.S. government's message as it has [...] | 2007-11-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT1305 | EBRD DELEGATION CONSIDERS GREATER ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A high-level EBRD delegation visited Turkmenistan to evaluate if there has been progress on reforms since President Berdimuhamedov took office in February. Delegation members wanted, in particular, to evaluate the status of human rights in Turkmenistan. In the next five to s [...] | 2007-11-30 12:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1336 | TURKMENISTAN'S PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COUNCIL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Amid very light turnout, Turkmenistan's citizens voted for members of their provincial people's councils December 9. The Central Election Commission provided its typical overexaggerated estimates, claiming by th [...] | 2007-12-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT1339 | TURKMENISTAN'S COUNCIL ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met December 7 with the Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs, Charygeldi Seryayev to discuss religious freedom issues. Seryayev emphasized the there is inter-confessional harmon [...] | 2007-12-11 11:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI TX |
07ASHGABAT1350 | TURKMENISTAN MOJ OFFICIALS INTRIGUED BUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 7, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles and other delegation members met with Ministry of Justice (MOJ) officials to discuss registration of religious groups and NGOS as well as various [...] | 2007-12-14 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF EAID TX |
07ASHGABAT1367 | TURKMENISTAN: NO PROGRESS ON REGISTRATION DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY: No progress was made on registration of the Roman Catholic Church during the recent visit of two Vatican officials to Turkmenistan. Only one of the sought after meetings with Turkmen officials took place. The Minister of Justice, during that meeting, affirmed that there is no wa [...] | 2007-12-17 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT1369 | TURKMENISTAN: CEC CHAIRMAN MORE THE PROBLEM THAN THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting with DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, Turkmenistan's Central Election Commission chairman declared Turkmenistan a democratic nation for the past 5,000 years and needs little in the way of reform. The cha [...] | 2007-12-18 05:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT137 | EUR/ACE COORDINATOR ADAMS MEETS WITH [...] (C) Turkmenistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov on January 31 provided EUR/ACE Adams a well-targetted series of requests for expanded cooperation in the fields of education, health, economic reforms and security. Meredov acknowledged Adams's caveat that the U.S. Congress was un [...] | 2007-02-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR OSCE PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT1371 | TURKMENISTAN: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON EU ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge met with French Ambassador Christian Lechervy December 18 for a read-out of European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel's December 10-11 visit to Ashgabat for the opening of the UN Preventive Diplomacy Center. As the contact representative for t [...] | 2007-12-18 10:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET KDEM EU FR TX |
07ASHGABAT1377 | TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER FREEDOM-OF-MOVEMENT CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The sister of a Turkmen exile opposition leader is being barred from leaving Turkmenistan and pressured to relinquish her Turkmen citizenship. Authorities barred her from boarding an aircraft bound for Moscow on November 24, and seem bent on convincing her to leave the country [...] | 2007-12-19 09:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT1387 | TURKMENISTAN'S GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES NEW LAWS ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet 2. (U) Turkmenistan's official Russian-language government newspaper, "Neutralnyy Turkmenistan," published two new laws on December 19 and 20: the 26-article "Law of Turkmenistan on State Guarantees of Equal Rights of Women" and the [...] | 2007-12-20 12:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN TX |
07ASHGABAT140 | TURKMENISTAN APPARENTLY MOVES TO RELEASE EX-OIL [...] (C) According to the usually well-informed Turkish Ambassador, the Government of Turkmenistan is taking steps to release former Oil and Gas Deputy Chairman Yolly Gurbanmyradov, who has been in prison since October 2005 on charges of embezzlement and corruption. The ambassador also said the m [...] | 2007-02-05 14:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM PIA PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT1400 | TURKMENISTAN'S NEW WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's new laws on women's rights and trafficking-in-persons, published on December 19 and 20 (reftel),demonstrate a noteworthy desire to address these two problem issues, according to two locally based foreign legal experts. Nonetheless, the two laws contain some subs [...] | 2007-12-28 10:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG SOCI KWMN TX |
07ASHGABAT144 | Turkmenistan: Security Cooperation Has a Bright Future [...] (SBU) During two law enforcement/security meetings with four different ministries, the U.S. government assistance delegation visiting Turkmenistan January 31-February 2 were provided positive assessments of current United States - Turkmenistan cooperation in the law enforcement and security sph [...] | 2007-02-06 08:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT146 | Mejlis Speaker Nurberdiyeva Meeting with Adams Del: [...] (SBU) During a January 31 meeting with EUR/ACE Coordinator Tom Adams, USAID Assistant Administrator Doug Menarchik and USAID Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor Eric Rudenshiould, the new Speaker of Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament),Akja Nurberdiyeva, signaled cautious interest in cooper [...] | 2007-02-06 12:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT164 | Balkan Province Election Commission: Voter Education [...] (SBU) Poloff met with a by now familiar, enthusiastic, Balkan Welayat (region) election commission in the regional capital, Balkanabat, on January 31. There was ample evidence that the commission was working to make the local presidential election process open and available to all eligible vot [...] | 2007-02-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT167 | Adams Delegation in Dashoguz Province: Also Optimistic [...] (SBU) Discussion of future assistance needs and hopes -- a welcome replacement to rote glorification of Niyazov and the Ruhnama -- dominated an intensive visit to Dashoguz on February 2 by members of the U.S. interagency assistance delegation led by EUR/ACE Coordinator Tom Adams. In meeting a [...] | 2007-02-08 14:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT169 | Turkmenistan's Very Public Drug Burn [...] (SBU) The media, the diplomatic corps and Turkmenistan's State Counternarcotics Commission at the Cabinet of Ministers witnessed the incineration of 562 kilograms of narcotics, primarily seized along the border with Afghanistan from December 2006 through early February, on February 7. This, th [...] | 2007-02-09 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT174 | Elections, Activists and Faith in Dashoguz [...] (SBU) During a recent pre-election trip to Dashoguz Welayat (Province),local election officials were friendly but constrained, given the (unexpected) presence of Central Election Commission Chairman, Myrat Garryev. They maintained to the A/DCM that Turkmenistan's February 11 presidential ele [...] | 2007-02-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT175 | EUR/ACE Adams' Visit: Turkmenistan's Newest [...] (SBU) U.S. government security assistance delegates visiting Turkmenistan January 31-February 2 met with law-enforcement donor-community members from several international organizations and diplomatic missions for a discussion that quickly focused on border-security issues, specifically border- [...] | 2007-02-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM SNAR KIPR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT178 | TURKMENISTAN'S ECONOMIC PRISONERS MOVED TO [...] (C) According to a local embassy employee, whose brother was among them, 15 high-profile prisoners accused of economic crimes have been moved from the notorious Owadandepe Prison to the more humane Bayramagly prison outside of Mary City. Among those moved were former Minister of Water Managem [...] | 2007-02-09 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT184 | TURKMENISTAN ELECTION DAY: HOPEFUL EXPECTANCY AMID [...] (SBU) Turkmenistan's election-day proceedings were smooth, relaxed and imbued with genuine, unusual popular enthusiasm over the day's proceedings. The already-broadcast official turnout figure of 98.25% is not credible, but should not wreck appreciation of the day's upside: Ashgabat long-tim [...] | 2007-02-12 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR TX US |
07ASHGABAT19 | SCENESETTER FOR SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM'S JANUARY 10-13 [...] (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes DAS Feigenbaum and looks forward to a productive stay. Your visit, the second by a high-ranking State Department official since President Niyazov's death, will provide an opportunity to stress to Turkmenistan's top leadership that the United States looks [...] | 2007-01-05 12:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM TX US |
07ASHGABAT199 | A/S BOUCHER DICUSSES DEMOCRACY AND OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) During their 45 minute introductory meeting, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, looking relaxed and confident, told South Central Asia Assistant Secretary Boucher that he: SIPDIS -- was elected democratically, though he acknowledged Turkmenistan's electoral system n [...] | 2007-02-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT204 | MFA MEREDOV TELLS BOUCHER TURKMENISTAN EAGER FOR [...] (C) Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov accepted Assistant Secretary Boucher's proposal to send U.S. experts in five SIPDIS areas -- education and health; economic reform, business development and agriculture; energy; political development and human rights; security -- to Turkmenistan over the [...] | 2007-02-16 14:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT21 | Turkmenistan's Presidential Candidates Raise Hopes With [...] (U) All channels of Turkmenistan State television were tuned to the first campaign meeting of two presidential hopefuls on the night of January 3, 2007, at a townhall-style gathering held at the Mekan Palace in Ashgabat. The Ashgabat-based candidates, Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Indust [...] | 2007-01-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT214 | Turkmenistan's Second President, Gurbanguly [...] (SBU) Interim President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov was installed as Turkmenistan's second president on February 14, after national election results were announced during a one-hour live broadcast meeting of the national People's Council. According to Central Election Commission Chairman Myrat [...] | 2007-02-20 13:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT217 | Turkmenistan Releases 2007 Drug Seizure Statistics [...] (SBU) Post received 2006 drug-seizure statistics from the Government of Turkmenistan via diplomatic note on February 9. The government has passed seizure statistics to post intermittently during the past two years, and post has also received data via the Ashgabat office of the [...] | 2007-02-21 11:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT22 | Turkmenistan's Presidential Candidates Raise Hopes With [...] (U) All channels of Turkmenistan State television were tuned to the first campaign meeting of two presidential hopefuls on the night of January 3, 2007, at a townhall-style gathering held at the Mekan Palace in Ashgabat. The Ashgabat-based candidates, Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Indust [...] | 2007-01-08 04:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT261 | MEREDOV: TURKMENISTAN READY TO EXPLORE PIPELINE [...] (C) During a March 5 meeting with SCA PDAS Steven Mann, Turkmenistan Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman/Minister Rashit Meredov stated that Turkmenistan was reexamining its gas pipeline options and was ready to move forward with new gas relationships. He and Mann agreed to hold expert-level bil [...] | 2007-03-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT322 | TURKMENISTAN FM REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO THE "NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 27, First Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Meredov touched on recent regional visitors, emphasized Turkmenistan's adherence to non-proliferation regimes and desire to work more closely with the OSCE, and signaled concrete interest in working with the UN on religious [...] | 2007-03-28 09:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM TX IR AZ KZ GG UN |
07ASHGABAT348 | Moderate Changes Mark Turkmenistan's Agricultural People's [...] (U) President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Saparmyrat Niyazov, with his unanimous election as Chairman of the national People's Council (Halk Maslahaty) during an extraordinary March 30 session. This was followed by a unanimous decisi [...] | 2007-04-05 12:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR KDEM TX |
07ASHGABAT349 | Turkmenistan HRR 2006 Delivered to Turkmenistan Government, [...] (U) Embassy passed the Report on Human Rights Practices, including the preface, the introduction and the chapter on Turkmenistan, via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Embassy delivered the English version of the report to the Government of Turkmenistan on March 8, while the [...] | 2007-04-05 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT371 | RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV PROMISES [...] (SBU) During an April 5 meeting in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan,s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov and Russia,s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expanded the traditional Russian-Turkmenistani state dialog, touching on economic cooperation, but focusing a majority of the time on "humanitarion," [...] | 2007-04-12 14:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV PHUM PREL RS TX |
07ASHGABAT44 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) During a three and a half hour meeting, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov on January 10 told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that Turkmenistan was willing to consider improving bilateral relations on a range of issues from human rights to trade to security. Meredov welcomed F [...] | 2007-01-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE MARR TX US |
07ASHGABAT454 | PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV TELLS UN HIGH [...] (SBU) UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Louise Arbour characterized her first meeting with Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov on May 3 as "extremely cordial and positive," though she told the Charge later that she had "received the run-around" on a number of issues, including freedom [...] | 2007-05-04 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV TX UN |
07ASHGABAT459 | Turkmenistan and Afghanistan Twice Talk on the Border, with [...] (SBU) Embassy staff met with border and counternarcotics officials from Turkmenistan and Afghanistan during a first ever multilateral meeting with U.S. Embassy Kabul representatives at the Aquina border crossing checkpoint in Afghanistan on April 9. The following week, embassy staff participat [...] | 2007-05-07 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR PINR KIPR PREL AF TX |
07ASHGABAT46 | Turkmenistan Customs Seeks Increased Cooperation [...] (SBU) Deputy Chief of Customs Amanmamet Muhammetgulyev told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum during an unexpected sit-down meeting at the Altyn Asyr Customs Training Center on January 10 that Customs has benefited from USG cooperation and looked forward to enhancing this relation [...] | 2007-01-16 03:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR TX |
07ASHGABAT484 | Turkmenistan SHRD 2006 Delivered to Turkmenistan [...] (U) Embassy passed the report entitled "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2006" (SHRD),including the preface, the introductQ and the chapter on Turkmenistan, via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post requested that the ministry forward copies of the re [...] | 2007-05-14 09:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT520 | TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) A representative of Turkmenistan's Ministry of National Security (MNB) contacted polmiloff on May 22 to forward to Charge the ministry's decision to abolish the "black list" of citizens prevented from leaving Turkmenistan. During a follow-up conversation on May 23, the MNB contact said t [...] | 2007-05-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL TX US |
07ASHGABAT548 | SCA/CEN OFFICE DIRECTOR SPRATLEN WARNS [...] (C) During an 80-minute May 11 meeting SCA/CEN Office Director Pamela Spratlen urged Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hagyev to improve freedom of movement from Turkmenistan or face withdrawal of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment waiver. Hagyev tried to justify his country's travel policy using legalis [...] | 2007-06-01 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV TX US |
07ASHGABAT551 | TURKMENISTAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (C) Deputy Chairman for Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov, in a separate May 31 meeting, told SCA PDAS Mann that Turkmenistan had removed a few names from its travel "blacklist" and that Turkmenistan was re-examining the law on migration to see whether the law could be "eased" to better accommod [...] | 2007-06-01 14:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PHUM EPET ENRG TX US |
07ASHGABAT61 | TURKMENISTAN'S NURMAMMEDOV RELEASED DECEMBER 30 [...] (C) RFE/RL Ashgabat reporter Halmurad Gylchdurdiyev told poloffs on January 17 that Nurberdy Nurmammedov, a dissident figure from the late 1990s who still resides in Ashgabat and had been rumored for that reason to be a possible presidential candidate of the exiled Turkmenistan opposition, wa [...] | 2007-01-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT618 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV TELLS SCA [...] (C) During a cordial 80-minute meeting on June 25, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that Turkmenistan was committed to expanded cooperation with the United States. He stated that a Trans-Caspian pipeline (TCP) remained on [...] | 2007-06-26 14:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG ECON ETRD TX AF US |
07ASHGABAT619 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum's two and a half hour meeting with Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman Rashit Meredov covered a wide range of issues in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere. At times, Meredov added humor to the discussion. Meredov responded favorably to the invit [...] | 2007-06-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC ENRG AF TX |
07ASHGABAT663 | EXTREME MAKEOVER IN TURKMENISTAN -- PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) The village of Babarap, located in Ahal Province, has been undergoing a massive transformation since early this year, when native son Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov assumed Turkmenistan's presidency. Streets and sidewalks are being paved; electricity lines strung; and sewer and water systems [...] | 2007-07-05 13:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT664 | OF CLOISTERS AND CONSTRUCTION, CHAPELS AND [...] (SBU) Late last year, the "Chronicles of Turkmenistan," a government opposition web site, reported that construction of a women's convent under Nikolsky Church in Ashgabat had halted in the face of Turkmenistani government threats. The web site, created by the independent "Turkmen Initiative [...] | 2007-07-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT682 | INL'S Rule-of-Law Conference Shows Need and Desire for [...] (U) A June 4-6 U.S.-sponsored "Cooperation to Promote Rule-of-Law" conference allowed approximately 30 Turkmenistan law enforcement and justice officials to compare and contrast Turkmenistan's criminal justice system with those of the United States and Russia. The U.S. Department of Justice's [...] | 2007-07-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SNAR |
07ASHGABAT695 | TURKMENISTAN MEDIA REACTION IN APRIL-MAY [...] (U) Media reaction to post events in April and May were overall very accurate and positive to major visitors and events, but the state media continued to ignore smaller security and cultural programs. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann (Ref D) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of S [...] | 2007-07-13 10:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT698 | YKLYMOVA TO LEAVE TURKMENISTAN AFTER MORE THAN [...] (C) Confirming host government reports that she has been removed from the & black list,8 Maral Yklymova, daughter of suspected coup plotter Parahat Yklymov, received her passport from the Mary City authorities on April 23. Since then she has tested her freedom with frequent trips to Ashgaba [...] | 2007-07-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT701 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the July 13 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhamedov announced an important decision to recognize foreign educational degrees and appointed a new, possibly more dynamic and open Deputy Chair o [...] | 2007-07-17 09:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT707 | TURKMENISTAN: MORE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the July 13 Cabinet of Ministers meeting, President Berdimuhamedov announced an important decision to recognize foreign educational degrees and appointed a new, possibly more dynamic and open Deputy Chair o [...] | 2007-07-17 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT711 | PRESIDENT OFFERS UP NEW REFORMS DURING HALF-YEAR [...] (SBU) A July 13 meeting of Turkmenistan's Cabinet of Ministers, a half-year review of government activities, delivered major personnel overhauls and a series of significant new initiatives, many of which Turkmenistan's citizens will welcome. In the meeting, President Berdimuhamedov not only [...] | 2007-07-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EFIN EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT716 | STATE MEDIA GIVES UNSOLICITED, POSITIVE COVERAGE OF PDAS [...] (U) State media provided positive but limited coverage of Principal Deputy Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs meetings on July 12. International media borrowed text straight from state coverage or paraphrased its content. The oddity of the coverage is that it appeared bef [...] | 2007-07-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT717 | JUNE EDUCATION FAIRS DRAW THE BRAVE AND MOTIVATED -- [...] (SBU) Throughout June post co-sponsored a series of successful education fairs in Ashgabat and with each region's American Corners. The fairs, organized principally by implementing partner, American Councils (ACCELS),were successful despite almost no support, but also with no interference, f [...] | 2007-07-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMDR KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT728 | TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: MYRADOV AVERS AMU DARYA BASIN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At an hour-long meeting on July 12 with Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Bayrammyrat Myradov, SCA Principal Deputy Secretary Steven R. Mann, EUR DA [...] | 2007-07-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET EINV RS CH AZ TX |
07ASHGABAT731 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN OF [...] (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to Turkmenistan as the first-ever U.S. delegation here to focus solely on religious freedom. Your visit will help to reinforce the U.S. government's message as it has sought to "turn a new page" in [...] | 2007-07-23 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
07ASHGABAT759 | TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES USCIRF VISIT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Charge met with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Foreign Minister, Rashit Meredov, on July 27. Citing Secretary Rice that we have turned a new page in U.S.-Turkmenistan relations, Charge noted Turkmenistan's [...] | 2007-07-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT773 | TURKMENISTAN: ENCOURAGING NEWS ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In following up on a Human Rights Watch HRW list of individuals previously banned from traveling outside of Turkmenistan, the embassy has learned that most, but still not all, of these individuals either have been allowed to travel abroad, or have been told that they may travel i [...] | 2007-08-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT778 | UNDERSTANDING TURKMENISTAN: DESCENT INTO FANTASY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) This is a two-part series. This first part reviews the Niyazov era and how he dragged his country into international disrepute. The second part suggests policy directions for Washington to consider, and reviews current con [...] | 2007-08-06 06:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV KDEM RS TX |
07ASHGABAT779 | UNDERSTANDING TURKMENISTAN: ASCENT INTO REALITY [...] (U) This is a two-part series. The first part reviewed the Niyazov era and how he dragged his country into international disrepute. This second part suggests policy directions for Washington to consider, and reviews current constraints that will make Turkmenistan's recovery a long-term proc [...] | 2007-08-06 06:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV KDEM RS TX |
07ASHGABAT78 | Government of Turkmenistan Files Multiple Charges against [...] (SBU) The Government of Turkmenistan responded quickly to Embassy request for information on the arrest of Environmental Rights Activist Andrey Zatoka by a dipnote cataloguing a number of charges ranging from public disorder, to illegal possession of a poisonous snake, a wide variety of weapons [...] | 2007-01-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS TX |
07ASHGABAT827 | TURKMENISTAN: CLEMENCY FOR 11 PRISONERS, [...] (C) At a one-on-one August 9 meeting (other business reported septel),Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov told Charge in strict confidence President Berdimuhamedov had just hours earlier signed an order of clemency for 11 prisoners who had been convict [...] | 2007-08-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT831 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CLARIFICATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 9 Cabinet of Ministers session, a frustrated President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov lashed out against the lack of transparency and clarity in Turkmenistan's system of ministry funds -- the funds (often supplemented by fees, bribes and other sources of income) cont [...] | 2007-08-10 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN PHUM TX |
07ASHGABAT84 | Russian Ambassador on NGO Activist Zatoka [...] (SBU) Russian Ambassador Igor Blatov told the Charge on January 19 that the Russian Embassy had been involved with the Zatoka case for "many days" and that he had met Foreign Minister Meredov on the issue. According to Blatov: -- Local law does not recognize dual citizenship. The governmen [...] | 2007-01-19 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS RU TX |
07ASHGABAT845 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT TO USCIRF: "DID I PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USCIRC meeting with President Berdimuhamedov was an honest give and take. The president told the delegation, "Take your time to meet whomever you want in Turkmenistan. Learn all you can. You'll probably fi [...] | 2007-08-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT851 | STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT USAID DELEGATION VISIT ON ECONOMIC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media provided positive and broad coverage at an unprecedented level for Deputy Assistant Administrator for USAID Drew Luten's visit to Turkmenistan, July 22-28, as the head of a delegation discussing economic [...] | 2007-08-20 12:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ECON SCUL KPAO OIIP TX |
07ASHGABAT860 | TURKMENISTAN: USCIRF MEETS THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation's meeting with the Ministry of Education (MOE) was polite and lively, yet not particularly conclusive. Although Minister Muhammetgeldi Anna [...] | 2007-08-22 06:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KIRF KISL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT861 | FM MEREDOV: TURKMENISTAN WANTS BROADEST POSSIBLE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a positive meeting with EEB Assistant Secretary Daniel Sullivan, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov said SIPDIS Turkmenistan wanted concrete cooperation with the United States on the widest possible range of i [...] | 2007-08-22 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG TX |
07ASHGABAT862 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY THERE'S HOPE, PART 2 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Lidiya Kerimi of the President's Institute of Democracy and Human Rights and editor of the Institute's journal, came to the Embassy's public Information Resource Center (IRC) on August 21. She inquisitively asked for help f [...] | 2007-08-22 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT863 | MEREDOV DESCRIBES TURKMENISTAN'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] USCIRF Chairman Michael Cromartie kicked off the session by asking Meredov about the right of Muslim citizens to go on the Hajj, given recent reports that some applicants are refused exit visas. Meredov responded that there are no restrictions for those seeking to go, especially if they have [...] | 2007-08-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT873 | TURKMENISTAN: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has decided at the highest level it wants to cooperate with the United States on economic reform and energy policy. We need to take advantage of this historic opportunity with a tiger-team response. If we can be nimble enough to be successful, we will have three o [...] | 2007-08-23 10:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID EPET KDEM KIRF IR |
07ASHGABAT878 | TURKMENISTAN: USCIRF AT THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE: RUHNAMA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Ministry of Culture and TV/Radio Broadcasting, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation received a warm reception and more disjointed answers regarding the Ruhnama (the late [...] | 2007-08-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KIRF KISL KPAO TX |
07ASHGABAT885 | TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CREATES NEW HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An August 24 session of Turkmenistan's Cabinet of Ministers became a vehicle for President Berdimuhamedov to announce that he was establishing an interagency "Human Rights Commission" to coordinate work designed t [...] | 2007-08-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV TX |
07ASHGABAT897 | USCIRF IN TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT SIGNALS DESIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An August 19-25 visit by a delegation of commissioners and staffers from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) demonstrated that Turkmenistan is starting a transition that could lead to substantially improved religious tolerance. Given unprecedented ac [...] | 2007-08-29 09:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT903 | TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS TELL HELSINKI COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 12-15 visit, a delegation of Helsinki Committee staffers saw evidence that Turkmenistan is beginning a slow and uneven, but undeniable, process of transition. In probably their best meeting, Turkmenistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev offered a compellin [...] | 2007-08-31 08:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EPET ECON TX |
07ASHGABAT907 | NEW PRESIDENT'S RECORD ON FIRINGS AND ARRESTS MAY [...] SUMMARY: Analytic commentary on Eurasian news and Turkmen opposition websites recently declared President Berdimuhamedov's leadership to be largely a mirror image of Niyazov's, and characterized the record of government dismissals and arrests since February as a "purge" of potential threats. [...] | 2007-08-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR TX |
07ASHGABAT930 | TURKMENISTAN: SCENE-SETTER FOR TREASURY VISIT, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes you to Turkmenistan. You are coming to Turkmenistan in the early months of a bilateral dialogue directed toward encouraging Turkmenistan to make the economic and finance reforms that will [...] | 2007-09-06 12:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN ENRG PHUM KIRF PGOV EPET TX |
07ASHGABAT943 | DEMARCHE ON FELICE GAER'S CANDIDACY FOR THE COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 03:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA UNHCR TX |
07ASHGABAT959 | DEMARCHE ON OSCE HUMAN DIMENSIONS MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM OSCE TX |
07ASHGABAT977 | TURKMENISTAN: RUHNAMA GOING, GOING, BUT NOT YET [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Since Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov's inauguration in February, there has been a gradual diminution of the cult surrounding the Ruhnama. References to and articles on former President Niyazov's book in the [...] | 2007-09-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT992 | TURKMENISTAN: SECOND DEMARCHE REQUEST - UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHCR TX |
07ASMARA135 | MAKING AN ERITREAN BORG: POLITICAL RE-EDUCATION [...] (U) The sole political party of Eritrea, the Peoples' Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),is harkening back to the days of Megistu and mandatory Marxist-Leninist education training. With the blessing of the Government of Eritrea (GSE),they have implemented political training for all gove [...] | 2007-02-09 06:14:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO SOCI ER |
07ASMARA146 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UPDATE: HARRASMENT, ARRESTS & [...] (U) Summary: The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) continues to persecute religious groups and detain individual church members. During the month of January, GSE officials confiscated the vestments of the deposed Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, who has been under house arr [...] | 2007-02-13 10:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI ER |
07ASMARA151 | DEATH OF ERITREAN JOURNALIST REMAINS UNCONFIRMED [...] (C) On February 8, 2007 Reporters sans Frontieres(RSF) issued a press release claiming Fessehaye "Joshua" Yohannes, an Eritrean journalist detained in September 2001 died in detention on January 11, 2007. According the RSF report, the Government of Eritrea was detaining him along with others [...] | 2007-02-13 13:02:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO SOCI ER |
07ASMARA16 | WFP EXPATRIATE ILLEGALLY DETAINED BY UNIDENTIFIED [...] (C) Summary: On December 17, a Belgian national working for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) was threatened and arrested by unidentified GSE authorities while taking photographs of street scenes in downtown Asmara. He was detained at a police station overnight before being released the foll [...] | 2007-01-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA28 | GOING, GOING, NEARLY GONE: HUMAN RIGHTS & CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: Eritrea, once praised by many for its freedoms and possibilities, has abandoned the path of human rights and instead become one of the most restrictive and controlling societies in the world. The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) operates with a callous indifference to [...] | 2007-01-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO |
07ASMARA306 | ERITREA: AGOA RESPONSE [...] Post point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Holly Holzer, Tel: 291-1-12-00-04, Fax: 291-1275-84, Email holzerhc@state.gov. 2. Post's response is keyed to headers in Reftel. 3. Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Trade Barriers: One of the world's poorest countries, Eritrea maintains [...] | 2007-03-16 08:56:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PHUM ER |
07ASMARA338 | TROUBLED TIMES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) The Catholic Church continues to endure harassment and pressure from the Government of Eritrea (GSE) as the GSE insists that priests and seminarians participate in military training. In a meeting with Emboff on March 26, the Catholic Bishop of Asmara, Menghesteab Tesfamarian (protect) said [...] | 2007-03-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF ER |
07ASMARA346 | EU-ERITREA COURTSHIP?: MEANINGFUL CHANGE SHOULD BE [...] (C) Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has recently personified (at least for him) reasonableness and cooperation in meetings with the EU representatives and UN Special Envoy for Darfur Jan Eliasson. Simultaneously, however, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) continues to excoriate [...] | 2007-04-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ER SO SU UK EU |
07ASMARA36 | TIME TO SPEAK UP: A NEW STRATEGY FOR ERITREA [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The serious abuses of human rights fo which the Government of Eritrea is responsible and its continued rejection of even the most fundamental democratic principles in governance remain serious problems and a major impediment to improvemen of bilateral ties. (refte [...] | 2007-01-11 13:57:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNSC ECON EAID SOCI KIRF KPAO ER |
07ASMARA421 | GSE ARRESTS PRESBYTERIANS FOLLOWING WORSHIP SERVICE [...] (C) Following worship services on Sunday, April 29, officials from the Government of Eritrea's (GSE) national security office appeared at the unregistered Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Asmara and arrested nearly 80 individuals, including two American citizen missionaries. Co [...] | 2007-05-03 13:31:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA444 | ERITREA BANS FGM [...] With a prevalence rate of 89%, the Government of Eritrea (GSE) took a significant step and in March 2007 banned female genital mutilation (FGM). In Proclamation 158/2007, the GSE noted that FGM violates women's basic human rights and endangers the health of women, and with one sentence abolish [...] | 2007-05-09 13:08:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN SOCI ER |
07ASMARA445 | JAILS IN ASMARA: A RECENT ACCOUNT [...] (C) Summary: Recent experiences of individuals detained in an Asmara police station shed new light on both the conditions and the operations of jails at police stations. The benign neglect of the jail guards prove a stark contrast to the horrific accommodations described by individuals incarce [...] | 2007-05-10 13:16:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ER |
07ASMARA452 | RUMORS OF MUSLIM PERSECUTION AND DISAPPEARANCES [...] (C/NF) Over the past several months, Poloff has heard rumors of the arrest and disappearance of Muslims in the lowlands of Eritrea. According to several individuals, GSE security forces appear at the homes of Muslims in the lowland areas of the Northern and Southern Red Sea zobas (regions) an [...] | 2007-05-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA463 | INDEPENDENCE DAY DOES NOT MEAN FREEDOM IN ERITREA [...] In the days leading up to Eritrean Independence day on May 24, the Government of Eritrea flexes its muscles and shows again to the people of Eritrea how Eritrean independence does not equal freedom. The streets of Asmara are flooded with soldiers, in small and large groups. Placed at intervals [...] | 2007-05-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA464 | INDEPENDENCE DAY DOES NOT MEAN FREEDOM IN ERITREA [...] In the days leading up to Eritrean Independence day on May 24, the Government of Eritrea flexes its muscles and shows again to the people of Eritrea how Eritrean independence does not equal freedom. The streets of Asmara are flooded with soldiers, in small and large groups. Placed at intervals [...] | 2007-05-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ER |
07ASMARA490 | ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONSECRATES NEW PATRIARCH [...] On Sunday May 27, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewhado Church consecrated Abune Dioskoros in Asmara as the church's fourth patriarch. Present at the ceremony were representatives from the Evangelical Lutheran church and the Eritrean mufti, and representatives of the Government of the State of Eritrea [...] | 2007-06-05 10:17:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA540 | PRESBYTERIANS RELEASED, TELL A STRANGE TALE [...] (C) Summary: During the week of May 28, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) released on bail the last seven church members of the Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian church. The members had been detained since their arrest on April 29 (reftel). During a meeting with Poloff on June [...] | 2007-06-25 07:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGO ER |
07ASMARA620 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO GSE VIEWS ON [...] (U) In an interview posted on www.shaebia.org on July 9, Yemane Ghebremeskel, Director of the Office of President, offered the position of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) on a wide range of topics -- from religious freedom and human rights to international relations and Somalia. ( [...] | 2007-07-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF ER |
07ASMARA634 | DEADLY FORCE POLICY FOR ERITREANS ATTEMPTING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Source reported to RSO that a local party representative for the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ),in a monthly meeting with PFDJ party members, stated that the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE),had instituted a shoot-to-kill policy for a [...] | 2007-07-26 13:41:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC ER |
07ASMARA699 | GSE STILL THREATENING CATHOLIC CHURCH'S AUTONOMY [...] (C) The Catholic Church continues to endure harassment and pressure from the Government of Eritrea (GSE) as the GSE threatens to repossess Church property used for social and educational programs and insist that priests and seminarians participate in military training. In an August 14 meeting, [...] | 2007-08-24 08:39:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA700 | BRITISH COUNCIL EMPLOYEE RELEASED [...] (C) On August 1, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) released a foreign national employee of the British Council detained since July 27. The GSE arrested the employee under the guise of national security after a visiting British diplomat was seen on the roof of the British Council co [...] | 2007-08-27 05:41:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KREC ASEC ER |
07ASMARA748 | IMPRISONED CHRISTIAN DIES IN DETENTION [...] (C) Following up on reports from various human rights websites, post has confirmed the death of Nigisti Haile at the Wi'a Military Training Center, located south of the city of Massawa. Emboff spoke with a family member on September 18. Her family member confirmed that an official from the [...] | 2007-09-21 05:18:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF ER |
07ASMARA800 | LGF MEMBER ARRESTED DURING ORTHODOX SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A local guard force (LGF) employee and a priest were picked up by the Eritrean Intelligence Service (ANS) during an Eritrean Orthodox church service on 10/07/07. The priest was released the same day but the LGF employee continues to be held in jail incommunicado. While the Gove [...] | 2007-10-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF ASEC PGOV SOCI ER |
07ASMARA849 | AFP REPORTER "FROZEN" FOR MENTIONING GSE [...] (C) Days after Reporters without Borders (RSF) declared Eritrea the worst country in the world for press freedom, the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) "froze" Agence France-Presse (AFP) stringer and British Citizen Peter Martell, forbidding him from filing stories from Eritrea. Initial [...] | 2007-10-26 08:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO ASEC ER |
07ASMARA857 | RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION CONTINUES: OVER 45 ERITREANS [...] (C) In an October 29 meeting with Poloff, Reverend Zecharias Abraham(strictly protect) relayed the story of an attempted escape by Mussie Issa, founder of the evangelical group, Youth for Christ, and the subsequent arrests of 45 of his supporters. According to Rev. Zecharias, officials from t [...] | 2007-10-31 12:53:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF ER |
07ASMARA871 | GSE ORDERS CATHOLIC CHURCH FOREIGN STAFF TO LEAVE [...] (C) On October 31, the Immigration Office of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) delivered a letter to the Catholic Secretariat of Eritrea, informing them that the office would no longer extend the residency and work permits of foreign sisters and priests working in Eritrea under expi [...] | 2007-11-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KIRF PHUM ER |
07ASMARA902 | RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION VICTIM STILL HARASSED BY GSE [...] (C) An Embassy locally employed staff member (LES) continues to be harassed by officials of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE),following his July arrest on religious grounds and release a month later. A member of the unregistered Full Gospel Pentecostal Church, the GSE informed the [...] | 2007-11-27 04:20:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF ER |
07ASMARA930 | UNMEE MILITARY COMMANDER REPORTS LOWERED TENSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMEE Force Commander Major General Taisir, just back from a two-week visit to the field, reports Eritrean troops are reinforcing defensive positions. He said the near-starvation rations of the conscripted troops have stunted Eritrean military capability. General Taisir said P [...] | 2007-12-10 12:06:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS KPKO ER |
07ASMARA950 | AFP Reporter Ordered to Leave Eritrea [...] (SBU) On December 11, AFP stringer and British national Peter Martell was ordered to appear at the office of Eritrean Minister of Information Ali Abdu to discuss his reporting activities in Eritrea. Mr. Abdu objected to an article Mr. Martell filed on November 22 entitled, "Looming Threat of R [...] | 2007-12-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PGOV ECPS ER |
07ASTANA1033 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MARCH - APRIL 2007 [...] (U) The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Aftermath of the Conflict in Kazatkom ------------------------------------- 2. (U) F [...] | 2007-04-20 11:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1115 | KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SOLICITATION FOR [...] Summary: In response to the Solicitation for Proposals by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (G/TIP),Embassy Astana has reviewed and vetted three proposals addressing human trafficking in Kazakhstan. Post has selected one proposal for review and would welcome the opportunity to dis [...] | 2007-04-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG |
07ASTANA1129 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, APRIL 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Journalist Still Missing ------------------------ 2. Journalist Oralgaysha Zhabagtaykyzy [...] | 2007-04-27 10:32:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA1145 | KAZAKHSTAN - ASTANA MEDIA NOTES FOR APRIL [...] (U) Summary: The Mazhilis has accepted for consideration a draft law on mass media. The draft was developed by the Congress of Journalists, chaired by presidential daughter and Mazhilis representative Dariga Nazarbayeva, in collaboration with media advocacy NGOs, the National Association of Br [...] | 2007-05-02 00:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1147 | KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS DONOR COORDINATION [...] Summary: On April 24, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement office (INL) hosted the inaugural Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Donor Coordination Meeting in Astana. Participating organizations are listed in para. 12. INL Astana, as TIP Coordinating Office in the Emfaswy, invkted intern [...] | 2007-05-02 00:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL |
07ASTANA1192 | KAZAKHSTAN: INTERIM RESPONSE ON ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (C) In response to Ref A instructions, post notified Ualikhan Saginkhanov of the MFA's Consular Department on April 5 that the final Kazakhstani detainee at Guantanamo, Abdulrakhim Kerimbakiyev, would soon be considered by an Administrative Review Board for release, transfer, or continued dete [...] | 2007-05-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PTER KZ |
07ASTANA1246 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, APRIL - MAY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. President Meets with Moderate Opposition Leaders ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-05-10 01:13:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA1261 | KAZAKHSTAN UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 06:00:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHCR KZ |
07ASTANA1304 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV TO ANNOUNCE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev will present a package of proposed constitutional amendments to a joint session of parliament on May 16. The draft amendments would transfer certain presidential powers to the parliament, change the method of electing the parliament, change the role of part [...] | 2007-05-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1323 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV FAST-TRACKS CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev presented a package of proposed constitutional amendments to a joint session of parliament on May 16, and instructed parliament to pass them this week. The proposed constitutional amendments retain significant power in the presidency, but increase the size [...] | 2007-05-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1336 | KAZAKHSTAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief and Gennadiy Spiglazov of the Russian Embassy conveyed reftel points and agenda to Yerkin Akhinzhanov, head of the MFA's European Cooperation Department, on May 17. 2. (SBU) Akhinzhanov said that Kazakhstan was working to put together a diverse delegation for the OSCE conf [...] | 2007-05-18 00:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1357 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PACKAGE APPROVED WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament voted on May 18 to approve President Nazarbayev's package of constitutional amendments designed to increase the size and authority of the parliament, as well as to introduce other changes aimed at democratic reform. In a surprise move, a small group of parliamentaria [...] | 2007-05-18 10:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1371 | KAZAKHSTAN: FUTURE OF HARE KRISHNA COMMUNE REMAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Various government officials have assured the Hare Krishnas that their ongoing property dispute with local officials will be resolved fairly and peacefully, through negotiations. Although there is hope that an acceptable resolution will be found, so far the Hare Krishnas report [...] | 2007-05-21 11:09:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1415 | KAZAKHSTAN: RAKHAT ALIYEV,S THIRD STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: In a bizarre turn of events, presidential son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev appears to have finally exhausted President Nazarbayev's patience with a series of rash public statements accusing Kazakhstani officials of criminal activity and criticizing the recent package of constitutional am [...] | 2007-05-25 05:12:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1466 | KAZAKHSTAN: AUTHORITIES PURSUE RAKHAT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the May 23 announcement of a criminal investigation involving presidential son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstani authorities have moved quickly to curtail Aliyev's ability to maneuver and to influence public opinion. President Nazarbayev fired Aliyev from his ambas [...] | 2007-05-30 00:16:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1528 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MAY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Opposition Challenges Formation of Election Commissions ------------------------------------ [...] | 2007-06-05 06:02:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA1558 | KAZAKHSTANI OPPOSITION SHARPLY CRITICAL OF POLITICAL REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: After initially welcoming the reform proposals outlined in President Nazarbayev's May 16 speech, the Kazakhstani opposition movement has become sharply critical of the measures after analyzing the actual text of the constitutional amendments. The last-minute inclusion of a provi [...] | 2007-06-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1644 | KAZAKHSTAN: TREATMENT OF RETURNED GUANTANAMO [...] (S) Post has no reason to believe that the three Kazakhstanis returned from Guantanamo Bay have been mistreated by Kazakhstani authorities. Based on the GOK's overall record of excellent counterterrorism cooperation, we judge that the GOK is capable of receiving the final detainee if he is a [...] | 2007-06-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PTER KAWC PHUM PREL PINR KZ |
07ASTANA1666 | KAZAKHSTAN: TIP REPORT GARNERS LITTLE ATTENTION BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, drawing on points provided in reftel, Charge delivered the TIP report demarche announcing Kazakhstan's Tier II Watch List ranking to Ministry of Justice Office Director Azimova, receiving a muted response in return. Charge provided a copy of the Kazakhstan TIP repor [...] | 2007-06-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRIM KZ |
07ASTANA1705 | KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOLISHES HARE KRISHNA HOMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Early on May 15, Karasai district officials demolished an additional 12 homes at the Hare Krishna commune outside of Almaty. As they did during the November 2006 demolitions, the police forced residents out of their homes while crews threw their possessions outside and demolishe [...] | 2007-06-19 09:51:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1716 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT DISSOLVES MAZHILIS, CALLS ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: On June 18, the parliament passed a number of legislative amendments to implement the recent changes to Kazakhstan's constitution. Most of the legislative changes are identical to the recent constitutional changes, though the new law on elections sets forth the election process i [...] | 2007-06-21 00:04:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA1722 | CORRECTED COPY: KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOLISHES [...] (SBU) Summary: Early on June 15, Karasai district officials demolished an additional 12 homes at the Hare Krishna commune outside of Almaty. As they did during the November 2006 demolitions, the police forced residents out of their homes while crews threw their possessions outside and demolish [...] | 2007-06-21 08:50:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA1848 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: While some in the government seek to dampen expectations about the opposition's performance in upcoming parliamentary elections, the opposition itself is uniting and preparing to run an active campaign highlighting social justice issues and the presidential Nur Otan party's Achill [...] | 2007-07-09 00:09:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA204 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, JANUARY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Young Opposition Activists Jailed for Embezzlement ----------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-01-24 04:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA2098 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, JULY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Government Reshuffle Expected after Elections ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-08-03 08:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA2113 | KAZAKHSTAN: G/TIP ACTION PLAN SEEN AS A (MOSTLY) GOOD [...] (SBU) On July 26 INL Officer delivered the TIP Action Plan demarche providing recommendations for increasing Kazakhstan's conviction and sentencing of traffickers, and improving assistance to victims to Ministry of Justice Office Director Elvira Abilkhasimovna Azimova. INL Officer provided a [...] | 2007-08-05 11:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRIM KZ |
07ASTANA2192 | KAZAKHSTANI MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS MAY-JULY 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary of media developments: --As reported in local media, Bulat Utermuratov, head of management affairs in Kazakhstan's presidential administration, and Armanzhan Baitasov, Channel 31 president, each plan to sell 25 percent of Channel 31, Kazakhstan's most objective television station [...] | 2007-08-12 23:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2222 | CAMPAIGNING IN NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN OBLAST: WHERE ART THOU, [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern Kazakhstan Oblast (NKO) presents an interesting, albeit somewhat extreme, microcosm of Kazakhstan's campaign for upcoming Mazhilis [lower house of Parliament] and regional legislative elections. The oblast, which has the distinction of having been the strongest support [...] | 2007-08-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA223 | JURY TRIAL SYSTEM DEBUTS IN KAZAKHSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: As of January 1, criminal defendants in Kazakhstan charged with aggravated murder have the right to request a jury trial. Under the system developed by Kazakhstani authorities, two judges, including the judge presiding at trial, participate on the jury along with nine lay jurors [...] | 2007-01-26 01:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA229 | KAZAKHSTAN: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, post submits the following names of the five most influential women in Kazakhstan: NAME: Dariga Nazarbayeva TITLE: Member of the Mazhilis; Deputy Chairperson of the Otan Party; Leader of the Congress of Journalists. ORGANIZATION: Mazhilis (lower house [...] | 2007-01-27 05:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2312 | KAZAKHSTAN AGREES TO CONSIDER GAER CANDIDACY FOR COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 09:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA KZ |
07ASTANA232 | KAZAKHSTAN: NO RESPITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST HARE KRISHNA [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the negative publicity and diplomatic pressure Kazakhstan received after authorities executed a surprise demolition of Hare Krishna homes in November 2006, local government officials have not relented in their campaign to confiscate the Hare Krishna properties. In addit [...] | 2007-01-27 05:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2541 | KAZAKHSTAN READY TO DEFEND RECORD AT OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 12, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Yerkin Akhinzhanov, director of the European Cooperation Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Akhinzhanov was joined by several members of Kazakhstan's delegation to the forthcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation [...] | 2007-09-14 08:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL OSCE KZ |
07ASTANA2718 | KAZAKHSTAN: CONFUSION SURROUNDS TREASON INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 24, Committee for National Security (KNB) agents raided the headquarters of the Grace Presbyterian Church in Karaganda, a Grace Church in Ust Kamenogorsk, and several church-owned private homes in Karaganda, seizing documents and computers and questioning church officia [...] | 2007-09-28 10:15:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2786 | KAZAKHSTAN AGREES TO REVIEW DRAFT RESOLUTION ON CONDEMNING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM KWMN SOCI KZ |
07ASTANA2807 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT ADVANCES QUESTIONABLE MEDIA REFORM [...] (U) Summary: On October 1, Adil Soz and several other media watchdog groups circulated copies of draft amendments to Kazakhstan's law concerning defamation in the media, as well as an open letter to Parliament criticizing the draft. Among other things, the proposed legislation removes imprison [...] | 2007-10-12 12:35:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA2935 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION WEBSITES BLOCKED [...] (U) On October 24, Tamara Kaleyeva of the media watchdog group Adil Soz and web publishers Yuriy Mizinov and Sergey Duvanov held a press conference in Almaty to criticize the blockage within Kazakhstan of four independent/opposition-oriented websites. According to the press conference organizer [...] | 2007-10-28 07:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA295 | KAZAKHSTAN MEDIA NEWS [...] (U) "Kazakhstan Media News" is a reporting series tracking events and developments affecting Kazakhstan's media. DRAFT LAW ON REGISTERING PRINT HOUSES RAISES CONCERN 2. (U) In December the Ministry of Information submitted to the Mazhilis, Kazakhstan's lower house of parliament, a draft [...] | 2007-02-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA2958 | KAZAKHSTAN WILL SUPPORT CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 03:31:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD UNGA PHUM UN KZ |
07ASTANA3011 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOVERNMENT CONTINUES CRACKDOWN AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstani law enforcement initiated a harassment campaign last week against four opposition newspapers that recently published stories about Rakhat Aliyev that included transcripts of recordings of embarrassing telephone conversations among high-level government officials. F [...] | 2007-11-06 02:12:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA309 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, FEBRUARY 2, 2007 [...] (U) The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. "Shanyrak District Defenders" Stand Trial ----------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-02-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KZ |
07ASTANA3162 | KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR 2007 [...] Post is pleased that Kazakhstan has made significant progress in addressing key deficiencies highlighted in June 2007 TIP report and is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel A. All responses are keyed to reftel A. 2. PARA 6A (a): Three corrupt anti-TIP police o [...] | 2007-11-20 11:58:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3172 | KAZAKHSTAN CONSIDERING ITS COMMITTEE ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-23 07:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA KZ |
07ASTANA3188 | KAZAKHSTAN"S APPROACH TO OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 21 to Chingiz Kaskeyev, Head of the MFA's OSCE Division. Kaskeyev called U.S. aims for the OSCE Ministerial praiseworthy and said that some of the areas highlighted by Poloff, such as enhanced engagement with Afghanistan, counterterrorism, and [...] | 2007-11-27 05:13:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM KZ |
07ASTANA3207 | ADDITION TO KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR [...] The following is an addition to the TIP Interim Assessment Report (reftel B). The information was received from the GOK after the submission of retel B and is in response to reftel A. 2. Victims of trafficking are protected under a GOK law on the protection of participants of the criminal p [...] | 2007-11-28 09:23:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3256 | KAZAKHSTAN: UPDATE OF INFORMATION ON THE WORST FORMS OF [...] Summary: In accordance with reftel A, this telegram provides updated information on Kazakhstan's compliance with international norms on the prevention of the worst forms of child labor. The cable updates reftels B, C, and D. This information is provided to assist in the determination of Kaza [...] | 2007-12-03 11:54:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID KZ |
07ASTANA3303 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 7, 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. ----------------------------- --------------------------------- Kazakh Nationalists Are Agai [...] | 2007-12-12 11:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA3308 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 11 to Zhan Kystaubayev, head of the international affairs department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs consular section. 2. (C) Kystaubayev reported that the Government of Kazakhstan has not changed its position on the issue of Kazakhstan [...] | 2007-12-12 12:04:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | AF KZ PHUM PINR PTER |
07ASTANA3313 | KAZAKHSTAN TAKES STEPS TOWARDS RATIFICATION OF SLAVERY AND [...] Kazakhstan has taken another step towards ratification of the Slavery Convention, Protocol of Changes and Amendments to the Slavery Convention, and the Additional Protocol on Slavery Abolishment (Slavery Convention). 2. The Slavery Convention was approved by the Mazhilis (the lower chamber [...] | 2007-12-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ |
07ASTANA3350 | NAZARBAYEV'S INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS [...] President Nazarbayev delivered his annual Independence Day address on December 14. His remarks largely focused on Kazakhstan's economic achievements and the government's successes in the socio-economic sphere, especially regarding health care, education, and pensions and other forms of socio- [...] | 2007-12-21 02:24:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PHUM OSCE SOCI OEXC KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA3368 | SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: BECOMING A LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary. Young, U.S.-educated and fed up with local corruption, Viktor Frolov wants to enter politics and change the way things are done in his native Petropavlovsk (capital of Northern Kazakhstan oblast). Frolov told Econoff that, despite being defeated in his first campaign for the Pet [...] | 2007-12-27 03:10:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KDEM KZ OSCE PGOV PHUM |
07ASTANA367 | KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS ANTI-TIP TRAINING COURSE FOR LAW [...] Summary. The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office, in cooperation with International Organization for Migration (IOM),conducted a four day training course for law enforcement, Border Guards, the Procuracy, and the Judiciary on prevention of trafficking in human beings and [...] | 2007-02-12 04:28:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PINS PGOV PHUM KCRM KZ |
07ASTANA48 | KAZAKHSTAN CONTEMPLATES DEMOCRATIC REFORM [...] (C) Summary: There is widespread expectation in Kazakhstan that President Nazarbayev will announce a package of democratic reform proposals early in the new year. The timing and content of the initiative is not yet known, and some are skeptical that the proposals will represent fundamental c [...] | 2007-01-08 12:31:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA515 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMOCRATIZATION COMMISSION COMPLETES ITS WORK [...] (SBU) Summary: During the final meeting of Kazakhstan's Democratization Commission on February 19, President Nursultan Nazarbayev accepted many of the democratic reform proposals put forward by the Commission's five working groups and announced the formation of a new working group designed to m [...] | 2007-02-26 01:19:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA522 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, FEBRUARY 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Trial of True Ak Zhol Leader Bulat Abilov ----------------------------------------- 2. O [...] | 2007-02-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA594 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRESIDENT DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 28, President Nursultan Nazarbayev delivered his annual state of the nation address before a joint session of parliament. The address, entitled "New Kazakhstan in the New World," was intended primarily for domestic consumption, with a heavy focus on modernizing socia [...] | 2007-03-06 09:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA605 | KAZAKHSTAN: BOUCHER DISCUSSES POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstani opposition leaders told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher that President Nazarbayev,s recent statements regarding political reform do not reflect actual political will for change. They see the proposals as an effort to create the [...] | 2007-03-07 05:18:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA613 | KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexu [...] | 2007-03-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
07ASTANA614 | KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people traffQked for the purposes of forced labor and sexua [...] | 2007-03-07 12:06:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
07ASTANA618 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-12 01:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA652 | KAZAKHSTANI JOURNALISTS DEMAND RESIGNATION OF INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A dispute between Kazakhstani journalists and Minister of Information Yermukhamet Yertysbayev boiled over the week of March 5 when prominent media advocates demanded the minister's resignation for his adversarial attitude toward the media. On March 2, as TV cameras rolled, Yer [...] | 2007-03-13 10:44:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA654 | CORRECTED COPY: KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-14 03:38:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA692 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-19 03:55:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA693 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-19 03:57:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA723 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO RELIGION LAW SPARK CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Religious Issues Committee (RIC) of the Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that it is drafting amendments to "modernize" and "update" Kazakhstan's law on religion. According to a draft of the amendments circulating among the human rights community, the new amendments [...] | 2007-03-20 02:43:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA741 | KAZAKHSTAN: "OPERATION RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM" NETS BAPTISTS, [...] (U) Summary: From February 12-21, law enforcement services in the Northern Kazakhstan Oblast conducted a preventative sweep entitled "Operation Religious Extremism," purportedly as part of a CIS-wide program to combat terrorism and violent extremism. Authorities detained the leaders of eight Ch [...] | 2007-03-26 00:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA834 | KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MARCH 2007 [...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Chechen-Kazakh Conflict in Kazatkom Village ------------------------------------------- [...] | 2007-04-03 02:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
07ASTANA86 | KAZAKHSTAN: KARIM MASIMOV NAMED NEXT PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev named Karim Masimov Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister on January 10, replacing Daniyal Akhmetov. Masimov's nomination was approved by a joint session of Parliament the same day. Once Masimov is officially appointed to the position, he will have 10 days to r [...] | 2007-01-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KZ |
07ASTANA87 | KAZAKHSTAN: KARIM MASIMOV NAMED NEXT PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: President Nazarbayev named Karim Masimov Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister on January 10, replacing Daniyal Akhmetov. Masimov's nomination was approved by a joint session of Parliament the same day. Once Masimov is officially appointed to the position, he will have 10 days to r [...] | 2007-01-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KZ |
07ASTANA918 | UPDATE ON KAZAKHSTANI JOURNALISTS CONFLICT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The rapid escalation of the conflict between Era TV and Information Minister Yermukhamet Yertysbayev in early March was just as rapidly defused by mid-month. Yertysbayev apologized March 14 "to all" whom he "might have offended" during a live television program. After Yertysba [...] | 2007-04-11 00:36:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
07ASTANA924 | KAZAKHSTAN: SPANISH FM MORATINOS SEES HOPE FOR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) OSCE Chairman-in-Office Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos wrapped up his two-day visit to Kazakhstan with a briefing on April 11 for the press and diplomatic corps. Echoing the April 10 OSCE press release, Moratinos said that it was vital for Kazakhstan to make concrete progress [...] | 2007-04-12 00:49:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KZ |
07ASUNCION101 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 3 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Pucheta New Supreme Court Chief Justice -- Senator Morinigo in Intensive Care; Driver Dead -- Senate Approves Peacekeepers for Cyprus -- Paraguay Second-Least Competitive Country in Americas -- IPR Unit Attacked in Press PUCHETA NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE 2. (C) S [...] | 2007-02-09 18:24:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV MCAP MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION1020 | PARAGUAY: UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) Post reports the following information per reftel on the worst forms of child labor in Paraguay. 2. (SBU) Laws and regulations proscribing the worst forms of child labor: A) What laws have been promulgated on child labor? Are there exceptions to the minimum age law? -- The 1993 L [...] | 2007-12-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ETRD PHUM SOCI PA |
07ASUNCION119 | PARAGUAY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE NOMINATION [...] (U) Post nominates Senator Ana Maria Mendoza de Acha, the 2nd Vice President of the Paraguayan Senate. Acha has championed women,s issues, human rights, trafficking in persons, education and prison reform since she entered the Congress in 2003. Acha is a member of the center-right Patria Que [...] | 2007-02-14 20:32:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO |
07ASUNCION128 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 10 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Prostitutes Detained in Spain -- Stroessner Era PNP Commissioner Sentenced -- Poor Conditions in Tacumbu for Prisoners -- Dengue Fever Update PARAGUAYAN PROSTITUTES DETAINED IN SPAIN 2. (U) Spanish authorites raided a brothel in Cuenca, Spain, February 3 and [...] | 2007-02-20 19:34:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PA |
07ASUNCION140 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Airborne Brigade (BAT) 2. First Air Brigade (1BDA) 3. Army Special Forces (TEE) 4. Marine Infantry Command (COMIM) 5. Presidential Escort Regiment (REP) 6. National Antinarcotics Secretariat (SENAD) 7. Logistics Command (CDO LOG) 8. National Police Special Operations Force (FOPE) 9. [...] | 2007-02-22 15:07:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION146 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 17 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Conviction Against Gonzalez Maachi Overturned -- Supreme Court Rules Congress Not To Oversee Dam Funds -- CAPSTONE Class in Paraguay -- Ambassador Visits Cooperatives -- MCC Brings Investors to Paraguay -- Fostering Competitiveness CONVICTION AGAINST GONZALEZ MAACHI OVERT [...] | 2007-02-26 17:02:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION158 | PARAGUAY: THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) This cable responds to the detailed questions regarding Anti-Trafficking in Persons efforts for Paraguay. OVERVIEW A. Paraguay is a source country for trafficked women and children, many of whom are smuggled across Paraguay's borders into the neighboring countries of Argentina, Boli [...] | 2007-03-02 18:15:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PA |
07ASUNCION159 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 24 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Soto Moves On Military Transformation -- Animal Health Service Goes To Paris -- Ycua Bolanos Fire Case to be Retried -- MCA Legislative Component Suspended SOTO MOVES ON MILITARY TRANSFORMATION 2. (C) General Bernardino Soto Estigarribia, the Commander of the Armed For [...] | 2007-03-02 19:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION18 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE DECEMBER [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Engineering Know How -- Threshold Program, First Ever Inter-Institutional Agreement -- Cuban National Arrives Safely in Miami -- First Class Graduation -- Paraguay Attracting Investment PARAGUAYAN ENGINEERING KNOW HOW 2. (U) An Anatov 124-100, the largest [...] | 2007-01-11 22:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAIR KCRM KMCA CU PA |
07ASUNCION182 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Airborne Brigade (BAT) 2. First Air Brigade (1BDA) 3. Army Special Forces (TEE) 4. Marine Infantry Command (COMIM) 5. Presidential Escort Regiment (REP) 6. National Antinarcotics Secretariat (SENAD) 7. Logistics Command (CDO LOG) 8. National Police Special Operations Force (FOPE) 9. [...] | 2007-03-08 12:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION184 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR THE MCC [...] (U) In support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID),Post is requesting human rights vetting, in accordance with the Leahy Amendment, of the personnel listed below that will be participating in the MCC Threshold Country Program. Post has no credible information of human righ [...] | 2007-03-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION193 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 3 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: Action Request, see para 2. -- POTUS and the Mayor -- Barakat Kidnapped -- Better Health with Better Information -- Journalist Attacked by Log Traffickers -- Afro-Paraguayans Release Report POTUS AND THE MAYOR 2. (U) POTUS, March 5 speech on the Americas was widely cover [...] | 2007-03-09 16:35:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PA |
07ASUNCION202 | URGENT - REQUEST FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 10 and 11. 2. (U) President Duarte, under law 3159 and Presidential Decree 9056, declared the dengue fever situation a national emergency February 27. In what is the country,s worst outbreak in seven years, more than 19,189 cases have been confirmed [...] | 2007-03-13 22:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION207 | ADDITIONAL DENGUE-RELATED ITEMS REQUESTED [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 2. 2. (U) The Paraguayan National Emergency Secretariat has requested additional USG assistance in acquiring the following items for their dengue emergency: Qty. Item A. 50,000 - Eppendorf-type micro tubes made of high transparency propyl [...] | 2007-03-14 22:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION241 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 10 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Colorado Internal Battle Boils Over -- Supreme Court Justices Violate Ethics -- FARC linked to Cubas Case -- SENAD Burns 256 Kilos of Cocaine -- Treasury Notes Auctioned -- Soto Gets Fourth Star COLORADO INTERNAL BATTLE BOILS OVER 2. (C) Juan Facetti, Senior Advisor [...] | 2007-03-23 18:59:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PA |
07ASUNCION261 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 24 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Ethics Tribunal Earns Credibility -- SEN Gets Korea Donation; Poll Says 300k Dengue Cases -- Police and Protesters Clash; 40 Reported Injured -- Vice President looks at USAID Health program ETHICS TRIBUNAL EARNS CREDIBILITY 2. (C) Esteban Armando Kriskovich, Director [...] | 2007-03-30 18:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION298 | PARAGUAY: URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-10 21:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION318 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MARCH 31 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Ambassador Inaugurates Anti-Drug Out Post -- Ambassador Donates Trucks to Customs -- Japanese Nationals Kidnapped -- Cabral Returns -- TIP: Lebanese-Paraguayan Accused of Trafficking AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES ANTI-DRUG OUTPOST 2. (U) The Ambassador inaugurated April 11 th [...] | 2007-04-17 19:25:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN SMIG PA |
07ASUNCION336 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Asuncion Councilman Seeks USG Support, Gets Earful -- Paraguay, Venezuela Sign Energy Agreement -- NWC Students Visit Paraguay -- IOM Reports 495 Paraguayan Prostitutes in EU, Argentina ASUNCION COUNCILMAN SEEKS USG SUPPORT, GETS EARFUL 2. (C) Asuncion Councilman Gera [...] | 2007-04-23 20:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN |
07ASUNCION383 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 20 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- President Postpones Spain Trip -- Government Monopoly Cripples Internet -- Deputies Pass Penal Code Reform -- Ycau Bolanos Case Can't Seat Judge Panel -- Journalists Protest Inaction on Cases PRESIDENT POSTPONES SPAIN TRIP 2. (C) President Duarte postponed his trip to [...] | 2007-05-08 22:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AID ECON PA |
07ASUNCION386 | PARAGUAY ON BELARUS AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: [...] (C) POL staff delivered reftel points to Ana Maria Baiardi, the MFA's Director General of Multilateral Policy, and Terumi Matsuo, the MFA's Director for International Organizations. Baiardi conveyed that Paraguay shared our concerns regarding Belarus and had no intention of supporting Belarus [...] | 2007-05-10 21:47:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC PA |
07ASUNCION389 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 5-11, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- CDA Meets the Israeli Ambassador -- TSJE Credibility Low; Infighting Continues -- New Customs Unit Seizes Contraband -- Indigenous Get Help from Itaipu CDA MEETS THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR 2. (C) The CDA received Israeli Ambassador to Paraguay (resident in Argentina) Raf [...] | 2007-05-11 17:15:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA AR VE |
07ASUNCION4 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR THE MCC [...] Jose Felix Alcaraz Rios 11/20/1967 Capiata 2. Pablo Fredy Ortiz Gonzalez 06/30/1970 Ita 3. Salvador Ramon Rodriquez 09/04/1971 Aregua 4. Jorge Ramon Estigarribia Ibarra 03/29/1972 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-01-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION403 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 12-18, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Building a Transparent Court -- Paraguay Attracting Call Centers -- Health Ministry Milk Program Under Scrutiny -- New Judges (Again) for Ycua Bolanos Panel -- MCC Director Visits Paraguay MCC DIRECTOR VISITS PARAGUAY 2. (U) MCC Threshold Programs Director Maria Longi [...] | 2007-05-18 16:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PA |
07ASUNCION435 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 19-25, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- San Pedro; Concepcion Welcome Ambassador -- Paraguay free of Foot and Mouth Disease with vaccination -- IPR Customs Conference held in Asuncion -- Senate Annuls Land Grab -- SOCSOUTH Commander Visits Paraguay -- PolOff Tours Chaco SAN PEDRO; CONCEPCION WELCOME AMBASSADOR [...] | 2007-05-25 20:03:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION440 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR USAID [...] Valdez Ayala, Luis Antonio 04/06/1969 Asuncion 2. Acosta David, Elena Ramona 08/18/1982 San Lorenzo 3. Vera Barrientos, Olivorio 05/11/1962 Caazapa 4. Barrios Suarez, Carlos Manuel 02/05/1977 Asuncion 5. Medina Gimenez, Francisco Daniel 07/26/1971 Pirayu 6. Gimenez Maciel, Pedro Hilar [...] | 2007-05-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL AID PA |
07ASUNCION441 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Ramirez Alfonso, Amado Pablo 06/30/1970 Caacupe 2. Solabarrrieta Ruiz Diaz, Vanderley 05/31/1973 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-05-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION451 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 26 - [...] SUMMARY: -- TIP Consultant Quits Amid Threats -- Second Peacekeeping Force Deploys -- Director of Intellectual Property Leaving Post -- Civil Society Input for MCA -- Supporting Transparency in Local Leadership -- Support for Ethics Code Grows -- Court Backs Tax Compliance TIP CONSULT [...] | 2007-06-04 15:40:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN KCRM PA MASS MOPS |
07ASUNCION456 | JournalistsQ Union Backs Down on Backing Chavez [...] Responding to a fierce backlash over its defense of Chavez decision not to renew RCTVQs license, the SPP reversed course on the communiqu issued May 29th (reftel). The majority of SPP members voted 6/1 to issue a new communiqu that rejects Qthe attack on press freedom. 2. The new communiqu [...] | 2007-06-05 12:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL PA |
07ASUNCION476 | PARAGUAY REPSONSE ON DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING IRAN [...] (C) A/DCM conveyed concerns 6/5 over increasing ties between Iran and Venezuela to the MFA,s U/S for Bilateral Affairs Ceferino Valdez. Valdez took copious notes and inquired whether the Secretary would be raising this issue when she meets with FM Ramirez on 6/14. Valdez also described Para [...] | 2007-06-07 12:18:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE PA |
07ASUNCION479 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION481 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 2-8, [...] SUMMARY -- Central Bank Regulates Street Money Changers -- Tax Collection Climbs -- USAID Launches Land Use Plan CENTRAL BANK REGULATES STREET MONEY CHANGERS 2. (U) The Central Bank granted permits to about 200 street money changers and is expected to grant 200 more permits by mid-Jun [...] | 2007-06-11 17:17:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION500 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 9-15, [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- Wasmosy Case Nearing Acquittal -- Proposed Reorganization of the Air Force -- Banana Blockade -- Tigo Widens Coverage -- TFCA Group Has First Meeting WASMOSY CASE NEARING AN ACQUITTAL 2. (U) Former President Juan Carlos Wasmosy may soon be acquitted of his 2002 fraud [...] | 2007-06-15 20:44:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AID ECON PA |
07ASUNCION538 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 16-22, [...] SUMMARY -- Striking Uranium -- Child's Name: Unknown -- Cargill Investment Worth Beans -- INL Funds Fight for IPR -- Drug Addiction Doubles STRIKING URANIUM 2. (U) Alexander Hirtz of Transandes Paraguay SA announced that the Canadian company has confirmed the existence of uranium in [...] | 2007-06-28 17:04:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION547 | TAX AUTHORITY VICE MINISTER NEUFELD REPLACED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Minister of Taxation Andreas Neufeld Toews, who heads Paraguay's Tax Administration, resigned June 28 and will be replaced by Maria Gloria Paez, a close advisor to Neufeld who is expected to maintain the Administration's policies and maintain progress on the MCC Threshold Prog [...] | 2007-06-29 16:28:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION552 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JUNE 23-29, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- A Dissident Divide -- Election Turned Congressional Smackdown -- GOP Forgets Their Fogeys A DISSIDENT DIVIDE 2. (U) Alfredo "Goli" Stroessner announced June 27 that The Peace and Progress Movement (MPP) would withdraw its support for presidential hopeful Vice President [...] | 2007-07-03 20:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION56 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN PARAGUAY [...] Name: Mara Evangelista Troche de Gallegos, goes by Evanhy Gallegos Title: Mayor of Asuncion Address: Municipalidad de Asuncin - Primer Piso, Bloque A Mcal. Lpez 5556 y Capitn Villamayor Asuncion, Paraguay Phone: 595-21-613-673 2. Name: Alicia Beatriz Puche [...] | 2007-01-26 16:36:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION560 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION561 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] Marcos Manuel Miranda Caceres 18OCT1962 Asuncion CASON [...] | 2007-07-06 12:20:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION570 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ILEA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 20:38:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION574 | DUARTE UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Shortly after President Nicanor DUARTE Frutos took office in 2003, he forged an accord with the opposition centered on promoting reform and combating corruption. His embrace of sound macroeconomic policies brought Paraguay back from the brink of bankruptcy; his promise of reform [...] | 2007-07-11 13:06:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PA VZ |
07ASUNCION578 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ILEA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-11 20:01:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION595 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JULY 4-13, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Supreme Court Power: Terrorism Dealt a Blow -- Two New Ministers -- New Senate Leadership -- Call on New Congress Leaders -- Got Justice? Prosecutors Taken Off Case -- Whistleblower System: Public Officials Beware! -- Going the Last Mile -- Viva the Environment! -- Custom [...] | 2007-07-19 18:16:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION616 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST OFFICE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 12:10:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION62 | PARAGUAY: URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR [...] Vicente Gonzalez Medina 22 JAN 1958 Carapegua CASON [...] | 2007-01-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV AID PA |
07ASUNCION632 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JULY 14-27, [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Yeehah! Prosecutors Praised -- Utave: Too Little, Too Late -- SENAD In Action -- United Nations Funds Family Health --------------------------- YEEHAH! PROSECUTORS PRAISED --------------------------- 2. (U) Ambassador Cason held a "white hat" ceremony on July 20 appl [...] | 2007-08-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION643 | PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR ODC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-06 19:33:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA |
07ASUNCION687 | DUARTE TAKES ON THE CHURCH [...] (SBU) President Duarte, who has been actively campaigning for Colorado Party presidential pre-candidate Blanca Ovelar, has extended his verbal attacks on resigned Catholic bishop (and front-runner) Fernando Lugo to the Catholic Church as a whole. On August 12, Duarte implicitly jabbed Lugo whe [...] | 2007-08-17 19:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION819 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hundreds of indigenous persons earned land concessions from the government August 3 and September 24 after commandeering Asuncion's two most popular parks, the latest in a series of indigenous efforts to promote land rights and resource preservation. Indigenous groups comprise a [...] | 2007-10-03 16:18:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM IAHRC PA |
07ASUNCION82 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE JANUARY , [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Dengue Fever Update -- MCA Helps Establish Customs Cooperation -- Senator Against Venezuelan Mercosur Membership DENGUE FEVER UPDATE 2. (U) Paraguay now has some 1,800 cases of Dengue fever, including 12 of the deadly hemorrhagic type, since early January. The outbrea [...] | 2007-02-02 14:21:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ASUNCION876 | PARAGUAY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE NOMINATION [...] (U) Post nominates Ms. Cynthia Bendlin, Consultant to the International Organization for Migration (IOM),to serve as our nominee for the 2008 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Ms. Bendlin's personal information requested in reftel is as follows: -- Full legal name of no [...] | 2007-10-18 18:56:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM PA |
07ASUNCION90 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 3 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Dengue Fever Update -- MCA Helps Establish Customs Cooperation -- Senator Against Venezuelan Mercosur Membership DENGUE FEVER UPDATE 2. (U) Paraguay now has some 1,800 cases of Dengue fever, including 12 of the deadly hemorrhagic type, since early January. The outbrea [...] | 2007-02-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PA |
07ATHENS1021 | GREECE REQUESTS U.S. INTERVENTION IN JERUSALEM [...] (U) This is an action request for Department. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, MFA Secretary General Charalambos Rocanas requested U.S. assistance in defusing the leadership crisis in the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church following the May 12 decision of the Jo [...] | 2007-05-21 04:59:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PHUM KRIF PREL GR |
07ATHENS1022 | GREECE REQUESTS U.S. INTERVENTION IN JERUSALEM [...] (U) This is an action request for Department. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, MFA Secretary General Charalambos Rocanas requested U.S. assistance in defusing the leadership crisis in the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church following the May 12 decision of the Jo [...] | 2007-05-21 04:59:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | GR KIRF PHUM PREL |
07ATHENS1087 | GREEK VIEWS ON BEST APPROACH TO SYRIA [...] (C) On May 24, A/Polcouns delivered ref a demarche on Syria's sham presidential referendum to Deputy Director of the Greek MFA A-6 Division for Middle East Affairs Giorgos Ayfantis. Ayfantis promised to inform his superiors of the U.S. position, though he said Greece took another view of the [...] | 2007-05-24 15:00:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN GR KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY |
07ATHENS1249 | AMCITS IN IRAN: GREEKS SUPPORT EU APPROACH [...] (SBU) On June 12, DepPolcouns delivered reftel demarche on the treatment of Amcits in Iran to MFA A6 Directorate for Arab and Middle East Countries First Counsellor Ioannis Pediotis. Pediotis promised to look into the possibility of Greece's making an approach to the Iranians. 2. (SBU) On [...] | 2007-06-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN GR |
07ATHENS1384 | GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S DISAPPOINTMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 14:09:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EUN UNHCR GR |
07ATHENS1528 | GREECE: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Visiting Greece Desk Officer, Ilan Goodman, delivered reftel points to MFA South Caucusus Desk Officer Stella Bezirtzoglou. Bezirtzoglou thanked the U.S. for its attention to this issue, noting the GOG concurred it is a growing problem. She questioned why the Aliyev government, which she [...] | 2007-07-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE PHUM AJ GR |
07ATHENS1557 | CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE ELECTION: GREECE OFFERS [...] (SBU) PolOff and visiting DeskOff delivered reftel dipnote, points, and CV of Felice Gaer to MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations Deputy Head Ambassador Alexandros Rallis. Rallis said he would forward the materials to the FM's Cabinet and to the Greek mission in Geneva with the [...] | 2007-08-03 14:18:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA GR |
07ATHENS1740 | TRAVEL BAN ON SYRIAN ACTIVIST RIAD SEIF [...] (C) Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Vassilis Papaioannou, Director of the MFA's Middle East Department. Papaioannou was aware of the difficulties faced by Riad Seif, whom he had met during an earlier posting. Papaioannou believed that Greece's voice carried more weight as p [...] | 2007-08-31 12:49:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN JA KDEM PHUM SA SY GR |
07ATHENS1823 | GREEK FM BAKOYANNIS TO ATTEND WOMEN LEADERS' [...] (U) On September 11, MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations deputy chief Ambassador Alexandros Rallis informed us that Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyannis would attend the Women Leaders' Working Group hosted by Secretary Rice on September 28. FM Bakoyannis speaks flu [...] | 2007-09-11 14:20:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM PREL KWMN GR |
07ATHENS1840 | GREECE'S INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Defense and promotion of human rights and of those engaged in the cause of advancing human rights is one of our top Mission Strategic Goals. Embassy Athens regularly engages with defenders of freedom, meeting with NGO leaders in local clinics, shelters, and day cay centers; attending cr [...] | 2007-09-13 13:08:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GR |
07ATHENS186 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN GREECE: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT [...] In response to reftel action request, post has identified the following top five most influential women in Greece in order of importance, starting with most important person based on USG interests: -- Theodora (Dora) Bakoyiannis, Her Excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Ministry of F [...] | 2007-01-26 15:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWNM PHUM EUN |
07ATHENS1889 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] (SBU) On September 18, DepPolCouns and PolOff delivered reftel points on U.S. priorities for the Community of Democracies meeting on the margins of the UNGA on October 1 to Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, deputy head, MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations. 2. (SBU) Rallis was una [...] | 2007-09-19 14:53:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV |
07ATHENS1899 | GREECE WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On September 20, DepPolCouns and PolOff delivered ref a demarche encouraging Greece to vote in favor of U.S. candidate Felice Gaer in the UN Committee Against Torture elections to Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, deputy head, MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations. 2. (SBU) R [...] | 2007-09-20 14:12:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GR |
07ATHENS192 | CORRECTED COPY: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN GREECE: [...] In response to reftel action request, post has identified the following top five most influential women in Greece in order of importance, starting with most important person based on USG interests: -- Theodora (Dora) Bakoyiannis, Her Excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Ministry of F [...] | 2007-01-29 07:51:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWNM PHUM EUN |
07ATHENS1922 | EMBASSY ATHENS HOSTS RAMADAN IFTAR [...] Charge hosted Embassy Athens?s annual Ramadan Iftar on September 19. Some 50 Arab and Muslim Ambassadors, Greek Orthodox church officials, Muslim community representatives, academics, selected journalists, and other post human rights contacts attended. Father Thomas Synodinos, the senio [...] | 2007-09-25 06:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KISL KPAO OIIP GR |
07ATHENS2065 | GREECE TO SUPPORT UNGA RESOLUTION AGAINST RAPE AS [...] (SBU) On September 28, DepPolCouns and PolOff discussed the reftel points for the U.S. draft resolution "Condemning the Use of Rape as an Instrument of State Policy" with Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, deputy head, MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations. 2. (SBU) On October 17, [...] | 2007-10-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GR KWMN PHUM SOCI UNGA |
07ATHENS2113 | GREEK VIEWS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) On October 18, PolOff delivered reftel points on U.S. positions on UNGA Third Committee resolutions to Ambassador Georgios Dimitriadis, deputy head of the MFA D4 Directorate for Human Rights Issues. 2. (SBU) On October 25, DepPolCouns discussed the issues further with Dimitriadis His [...] | 2007-10-25 12:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA GR |
07ATHENS2133 | GREECE STICKS TO EU LINE ON CUBA [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered ref a and b points on, respectively, human rights actionQ embargo resolution toRallis, deputy directorate for International OQatzourou, European corre0 Directorate for the Ehd Security, and Chricounsellor of the MFA A8 Latin America Directorate. On the UN embargo r [...] | 2007-10-30 12:05:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU UNGA GR PREL |
07ATHENS2149 | GREEK ROMA: ILLEGAL CAMPS SQUALID -- BUT [...] (C) Roma in Greece -- both citizens and illegal migrants -- face increasing efforts by Greek authorities and businesses to evict them from squalid squatter camps around the country. Most Greeks have little sympathy for what they see either as a "lifestyle choice" or an intractable, unsolvab [...] | 2007-11-01 14:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV GR |
07ATHENS2176 | OSCE/RUSSIA: POINTS DELIVERED ON ODIHR OBSERVATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-07 15:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM RS GR |
07ATHENS2226 | G/TIP MESSAGE: MORE WORK NEEDED IN GREECE [...] (C) In a series of meetings in late October with MFA, MOJ, police contacts and NGOs, G/TIP and EUR/PGI representatives discussed the GOG's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The Greeks pushed hard for Greece's inclusion in Tier One in the 2008 TIP Report. U.S. representatives ac [...] | 2007-11-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
07ATHENS2234 | GREECE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) On November 16, Poloff delivered reftel points on democracy in Venezuela to Counselor Maria Alerta, D4 Directorate on Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) Alerta agreed that the proposed constitutional amendments of the GoV would create problems. She also noted that the [...] | 2007-11-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EUN VE GR |
07ATHENS2256 | OSCE MINISTERIAL - GREECE FOCUSED ON CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) PolMil Chief met with MFA OSCE Department Head Nicolas Patakias 11/20 to review priorities for the November 29 - 30 OSCE Ministerial. Patakias thanked us for the reftel points noting that he had drawn "very extensively" from them in drafting briefing material for FM Bakoyiannis. 2. ( [...] | 2007-11-21 10:30:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE KCFE PREL PGOV PHUM GR |
07ATHENS2296 | GREK POLICE OPERATION "NEW LIFE" NETS MAJOR EURO [...] In another success story for Greek anti-trafficking efforts, Greek Police on November 28 arrested members of a major European trafficking network in an operation code-named "New Life." Police Major George Vanikiotis, Head of the Athens Anti-Trafficking Unit, told Embassy that his unit moved a [...] | 2007-11-30 12:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV GR |
07ATHENS2317 | GREECE WILL SUPPORT UNGA COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PLENARY [...] (SBU) On December 6, DepPolCouns discussed reftel points regarding UNGA votes on country-specific resolutions with MFA D1 International Organizations Deputy Director Ambassador Alexandros Rallis. DepPolCouns expressed appreciation to Greece for its recent votes on the DPRK, Burma, Belarus, and [...] | 2007-12-06 14:58:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL GR UNGA |
07ATHENS2324 | GREECE/TURKEY: BABACAN VISIT "CAUTIOUSLY POSITIVE" [...] (C) GOG officials positively portrayed Turkish FM Babacan's December 3 - 5 visit to Athens as an "important step forward." Although there was no movement "on the core issues," Babacan and FM Bakoyannis announced additional confidence building measures (CBMs) that would require greater mil-to [...] | 2007-12-07 16:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PTER CY GR TU |
07ATHENS2380 | GREECE: TIP ACTION GUIDE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On December 19, DCM delivered reftel Action Guide to Combat TIP to Aristedes Agathocles, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Agathocles informed DCM that he was now the Coordinator of the Inter-Ministerial Group dealing with TIP issues for the GoG. DCM advised Agatholc [...] | 2007-12-19 15:00:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG GR |
07ATHENS343 | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD: ATHENS' [...] Embassy Athens nominates Prof. Eleftheria A. Bernidaki-Aldous for the Secretary's International Women of Courage award for 2007. Per instructions from reftel, our justification along with her biographic and contact details are as follows: NAME: ELEFTHERIA A. BERNIDAKI-ALDOUS TITLE: Member [...] | 2007-02-15 17:13:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO |
07ATHENS413 | ANTI-TIP IN GREECE: NGO & GOG ASSESSMENT OF [...] (U) In a series of meetings February 9-13 with visiting Cyprus/Greece/Turkey Desk Officer and Embassy PolOff, MFA officials repeatedly underscored their appreciation for U.S. cooperation in the battle against the "deplorable crime" of trafficking in persons (TIP). Officials stressed Greece's [...] | 2007-02-26 08:25:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL ELAB GR |
07ATHENS462 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-GREEK ECCC MEETING MARCH 12 [...] SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Athens warmly welcomes DAS Bryza, USDOC DAS Dyck and AID DAA Mefford's March 12 visit to participate in the 2007 meeting of the U.S.-Greek Economic and Commercial Cooperation Commission (ECCC). The visit offers an opportunity to strengthen our "strategic partnership," [...] | 2007-03-05 09:30:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ENRG ECON GR |
07ATHENS501 | GREECE PART 3: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007 [...] (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Investigation and Prosecution"Section . This is the third of four cables. 2. (SBU) INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS: ------------------------------------ [...] | 2007-03-09 09:13:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR |
07ATHENS502 | GREECE PART 2: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007 [...] (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Prevention" Section. This is the second of four cables. 2. (SBU) PREVENTION: ----------- -- A. Does the government acknowledge that trafficking is a problem in tha [...] | 2007-03-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR |
07ATHENS503 | GREECE PART 1: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007 [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Overview" Section. This is the first of four cables. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Greece continues to [...] | 2007-03-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR |
07ATHENS504 | GREECE PART 4: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 09:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR |
07ATHENS509 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORTING ASEAN EFFORTS TO [...] (SBU) PolOff raised reftel points with Greek MFA Deputy Director (International Organizations) Ambassador Alexander Rallis. Rallis promised to communicate the points in advance of the March 14-15 conference to FM Bakoyannis, MFA Secretary General Rocanas, Political Division Director Vassilopou [...] | 2007-03-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM BM EUN GR |
07ATHENS579 | GREECE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ZI GR |
07ATHENS616 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel request for Greek assistance in detainee resettlement to Foreign Minister Bakoyannis March 26. Bakoyannis, who had just returned from a visit to the U.S., responded that she would discuss our request with PM Karamanlis. She promised a more comprehensive resp [...] | 2007-03-26 08:37:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC GR |
07ATHENS638 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: In a March 27 meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Secretary General Rocanas stated that FM Bakoyannis wanted to respond helpfully to the U.S. request for Guantanamo detainee resettlement. However, there were a number of questions the GOG needed to have answered [...] | 2007-03-28 11:33:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC GR |
07ATHENS644 | SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 1-2 CODEL HOYER VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome CODEL Hoyer's April 1-2 visit to Athens. We are delighted you will have an opportunity during this stopover to glimpse post-Olympics Athens and learn about our strategic partnership with Greece. Foreign Minister Bakoyiannis -- who has just returned from a v [...] | 2007-03-28 15:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON CVIS GR |
07ATHENS647 | GREECE: REACTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) Following the pattern of recent years, the release of the Human Rights Report in Greece was generally reported with straightforward analysis of the issues. For the most part, newspapers avoided the hyperbolic tones that are often the watermark of Greek journalism - especially on any matt [...] | 2007-03-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR |
07ATHENS903 | ACES VETTING REQUEST (PANAGIOTOPOULOS, [...] (SBU) This ACES vetting request is for a FOAA-funded course sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and scheduled for June 5-25, 2007. This is the 85th International Narcotics Enforcement Management Seminar (INEMS),and will be held in the Tampa/Clearwater, Florida area. Co- [...] | 2007-05-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP MASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL GR |
07ATHENS977 | ACES VETTING REQUEST (POGA, MARIA) [...] (SBU) This ACES vetting request is for a FOAA-funded course sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and scheduled for June 5-25, 2007. This is the 85th International Narcotics Enforcement Management Seminar (INEMS),and will be held in the Tampa/Clearwater, Florida area. Co- [...] | 2007-05-16 04:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS KSEP PHUM PINR PINS PREL GR |
07BAGHDAD1 | JAM INFLUENCE IN MOJ/IRAQI CORRECTIONS SERVICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has enjoyed a reputation for running safe and humane prisons, Embassy officers have catalogued a number of recent incidents that indicate increased influence and infiltration of Jaysh-al-Mahdi (JAM) elements within the MOJ, specifically in th [...] | 2007-01-01 06:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD1037 | WAFIDAIN ARABS TO BE BLOCKED FROM VOTING IN [...] SUMMARY (C) Concern that the Article 140 Commission's Wafidain relocation program would be involuntary has lessened, but there are new concerns that Wafidain Arabs in Kirkuk may be blocked from voting in the Article 140 referendum. Although proponents of such a plan interpret Article 140 and [...] | 2007-03-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF IZ |
07BAGHDAD1038 | IRAQI KURDISTAN VICE-PRESIDENT ON KIRKUK AND [...] (C) On March 13, Regional Coordinator and RRT Off met with Kosrat Rasoul at his highly secured hilltop residence in Sulaimaniyah. Rasoul is Vice-President of the Kurdistan Region and one of the highest ranking Politburo members in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. In response to our q [...] | 2007-03-26 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1039 | PUK REFORMIST LEADER IN IRAQI KURDISTAN CRITICIZES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prominent Kurdish politician, Nashirwan Mustafa, co-founder of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Politburo and Peshmerga expressed to RRT Off his support for a strong Iraqi central government, modernization of the Peshmerga and an independent media and think tank to addr [...] | 2007-03-26 10:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1068 | IRAQI PALESTINIANS COMPLAIN OF PERSECUTION, [...] (C) Summary: Palestinians in Iraq continue to fear and experience persecution on account of their nationality. A police raid in a Palestinian compound on March 14 resulted in the death of a Palestinian guard, possibly the death of a Palestinian detainee, and allegations of abuse and torture b [...] | 2007-03-27 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KPAL KDEM YE IZ |
07BAGHDAD1158 | COR SPEAKER MASHHADANI: THE U.S. MUST BE IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their March 25 meeting, new USCENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon told Iraqi Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani that security in Iraq must improve rapidly if Iraq hopes to retain U.S. domestic support. Mashadani acknowledged the need for increased political efforts, but [...] | 2007-04-04 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1159 | USCENTCOM COMMANDER TELLS MOI THAT SECURITY MUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, Admiral William J. Fallon, the Commander of USCENTCOM, stressed that Iraq's security must improve rapidly for continued U.S. political support. Minister Bolani responded that the initial results of Operation Fardh al- [...] | 2007-04-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1183 | WASAN MEDIA AND CHALDEAN DETAINEES POSSIBLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 5 human rights inspection at a Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facility, PolOff located and identified eleven journalists from the Wasan Media Company, whose arrest has been the subject of intense scrutiny by international media organizations, and four Chal [...] | 2007-04-05 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM OPRC PGOV KDEM KPAS ECPS IZ JO |
07BAGHDAD1190 | CHALDEAN CHURCH OFFICIAL CONVEYS DECISION ON MNF-I [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 5, Bishop Shlemoon Wardoni, the Vice Patriarch of the Chaldean Church conveyed the Church's decision to PolOff that the Coalition Forces must vacate the Combat Outpost currently located at the Chaldean Seminary in Baghdad's Doura district. Coalition Forces and the outpos [...] | 2007-04-06 18:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PGOV IZ VT |
07BAGHDAD1213 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON DEATH PENALTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Upon returning to Iraq after a three week trip abroad, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim on March 27 clarified to PolOff her announcement of GOI's intention to eliminate the death penalty (made during a March 14 UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva). She said she believe [...] | 2007-04-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWAC IZ |
07BAGHDAD1244 | CREATION OF SUPREME POLITICAL COUNCIL OF KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) Recent Kurdish media reports have announced the creation of the "Supreme Political Council of Kurdistan," under the auspices of KRG President Massoud Barzani and including representatives of a wide range of KRG political parties and ethnic groups. These media reports, however, contained [...] | 2007-04-10 12:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD1333 | LOCAL KURDISH LEADER DISCUSSES KURDS IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Sadoon Shafi, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) office in Baghdad, discussed with Poloff April 5 the plight of Kurds living in Baghdad, saying that they find it very difficult to get contracts or find jobs. At the same time, he thought prospects were good for the PUK [...] | 2007-04-18 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1362 | PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Salah ad Din provincial leadership, including the former Baathist Deputy Governor, has stated its support for the draft debaathification reform law, as agreed upon by President Talabani and Prime Minister al Maliki (reftel). [...] | 2007-04-21 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1377 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INTERIOR MINISTRY; DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior (MoI) Human Rights Director Mazen Kamel Al-Qoraishy (strictly protect) on March 27 complained that he receives little support within his ministry in addressing serious human rights problems in MOI detention facilities. He also reported an assassination attem [...] | 2007-04-23 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1378 | DETAINEES REPORT TORTURE BY NATIONAL POLICE AND [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On April 5, six Iraqi detainees held at two Iraqi detention facilities located adjacent to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Justice in Khadimiya provided personal accounts of torture and beatings by National Police (NP) and Iraqi Army (IA) forces to PolOff during an unannounced huma [...] | 2007-04-23 09:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM MOPS MARR PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1425 | BAGHDAD CHRISTIANS SAY INSURGENTS DISPLACING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During separate meetings with PolOff, three Christian contacts since April 16 have verified April 17 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) on-line news reports that Sunni insurgents have begun a new campaign to displace Christian residents of Baghdad's Doura district. Having a [...] | 2007-04-26 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM MOPS KIRF PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1434 | PM OFFICE BLAMES UNAMI STAFFER FOR BIASED HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki's staff has expressed concerns to post about what it characterizes as "inaccuracies and misrepresentations" in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) human rights report released April 24. UNAMI did not consult substantially with the GOI in [...] | 2007-04-27 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1483 | MINISTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS EMPLOYEE REPORTS TORTURE, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On April 22, Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) employee Amar Sabrih (strictly protect) told PolOff Iraqi police tortured him and nine other detainees at a Baghdad police station near the Khadra area of Baghdad (Mahalla 639) during March 21 to 25. According to Sabrih, they conce [...] | 2007-05-02 07:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1582 | MAY 11 IRAQ-EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE [...] Summary: The principal purpose of the May 11, 2007, Executive Steering Committee meeting was to obtain the Committee,s assessment of the effectiveness of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) to date. Prime Minister Maliki asked the Committee members whether the public felt that improvements are b [...] | 2007-05-14 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS IZ PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD1584 | MINDEF AGREES TO DETENTION REFORM AS POPULATION [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: At the urging of MNSTC-I Commanding General Lieutenant General Dempsey, Minister of Defense Abd al-Qadir agreed on May 6 to address the abuse and substandard detention conditions discovered recently by an MOD-led inspection team visit to the Baghdad military intelligen [...] | 2007-05-14 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PHUM PGOV PTER MARR PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1606 | DHI QAR: FIGHTING BETWEEN JAM AND IRAQI SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar cable. 2. (C/REL MNC-I) Summary: This is a situation report on fighting in Dhi Qar Province between the Jaish Al-Mahdi (JAM) Militia, the Iraqi Police (IP) and Iraqi Army (IA)(hereinafter referred to collectively as the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)) and elements of [...] | 2007-05-16 16:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PHUM PGOV PTER MARR PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1607 | CHALDEAN PATRIARCH AGREES TO EXTEND COMBAT OUTPOST [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a May 14 meeting with MNF-I and Embassy representatives, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly and Vice Patriarch Bishop Shlemoon Wardoni requested that Coalition Forces (CF) continue to maintain Combat Outpost (COP) Amanche at the Chaldean Church's Babel College of Philos [...] | 2007-05-17 02:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IZ VT |
07BAGHDAD1625 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for trainin [...] | 2007-05-20 05:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1630 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Departments assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-05-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1680 | MAY 11 IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On May 18 Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki chaired the weekly Iraq-Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) meeting to discuss progress of supporting committees and their achievements over the last week in implementing Fardh Al-Qanoon (FAQ) initiatives and requirements. This week's [...] | 2007-05-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1712 | STATUS OF WOMEN IN SADR CITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Sadr City District Advisory Council Members Suaad Allami and Hayder S. Zedan told EPRToffs May 22 that educational and employment opportunities for women in Sadr City have diminished significantly since 2003, due to religious doctrine, security concerns and infrastructure problem [...] | 2007-05-23 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1742 | STRATEGIC SECURITY DIALOGUE LAUNCHED WITH ISCI [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: On May 20, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told Deputy Chief of Mission Speckhard that the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (ISCI) looked forward to developing a "special" security partnership with the United States. Abdel Mehdi recommended advancing the relationship by f [...] | 2007-05-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PHUM MARR PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1774 | 25MAY07 IRAQI EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTE MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On May 25 Deputy Prime Minister Zoubai chaired the weekly Iraq-Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) meeting to discuss progress of supporting committees and their achievements over the last week in implementing Fardh Al-Qanoon (FAQ) initiatives and requirements. The meeting for [...] | 2007-05-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD1802 | REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON FURTHER UNAMI DRAWDOWN [...] (C) This is an Action Request. See paras 6 and 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In late May 2007 Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced wihin his organization the draw down of international UNAMI staff in Ba [...] | 2007-05-30 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM KDEM IO UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1915 | NATIONAL POLICE DETAINED FOR SUNNI MOSQUE BOMBING [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY. On June 9, Iraqi Security Forces detained two National Police commanders for possible involvement in the June 8 bombing that damaged the Sunni Al Fattah Pasha mosque in Baghdad,s Al Bayya neighborhood. The bombing follows two recent high profile cases of sectarian atta [...] | 2007-06-10 15:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PHUM PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1974 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 13 meeting with PolOff, Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim reported that the Council of Ministers (CoM) on June 12 decided that Iraq should maintain both a Human Rights Commission, which is constitutionally mandated, and a Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR). The minis [...] | 2007-06-15 17:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2010 | PROTESTANT CHURCH LEADERS SAY CHRISTIANS NEED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pastor Estawri Haritounian and Pastor Bardilyan Yousif Aziz Hanna, representing the National Protestant Evangelical Church in Iraq, informed PolOff on May 10 that due to increased targeting of Christians in Iraq, they were seeking protection and resettlement for members of their [...] | 2007-06-18 16:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL KDEM KIRF IZ |
07BAGHDAD2012 | SUNNI POLITICIANS SEEK COR INSPECTIONS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The cross-sectarian Human Rights Committee of the Council of Representatives (CoR) has repeatedly voiced, especially through its Sunni representatives, a desire to conduct independent detention center inspections. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim confirmed to PolOff June 13 [...] | 2007-06-18 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2027 | DEPUTY SECRETARY ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: At a luncheon hosted by the Deputy Chief of Mission, the Deputy Secretary emphasized the importance of provincial elections and constitutional review to advance national reconciliation. Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives (CoR) Sheikh Khalid Al-Attiya (Shia - United [...] | 2007-06-19 19:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL |
07BAGHDAD2048 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Departments assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-06-21 09:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2082 | ACTION REQUEST: POLICY GUIDANCE FOR MEK [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: This is a request for policy guidance. Please see para 12. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: In the past week, the Prime Minister has insisted in separate meetings with the Ambassador and the Political Counselor that all Mujahedin e-Khalq active and former members must leave Ir [...] | 2007-06-25 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PHUM PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD218 | MIXED SUNNI/SHIA BAGHDAD SUBURB TROUBLED BY JAM [...] (C) Summary. Leading Mada'in resident Kamel al-Samaraii (Sunni Arab) told EmbOffs January 10 that anti-Sunni police aggression was causing large numbers of Mada'in youth to join the insurgency. He alleged that the patrolling MoI forces are infiltrated by Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia members [...] | 2007-01-20 17:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD2208 | EXTENDING SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN CONCERN REFUGEE [...] (C) Post recommends extending "Priority Two" (P2, groups of special humanitarian concern) refugee processing category to all non-Muslim religious minorities from Iraq. Post assessment, supported by reftels, is that members of religious minorities in Iraq are particularly vulnerable to seriou [...] | 2007-07-04 04:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PHUM PREF PREL |
07BAGHDAD2228 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Departments assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-07-05 10:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2255 | KHADHAMIYA WOMEN'S PRISON: NO SIGNS OF ABUSE, BUT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On July 3, PolOff and representatives from the Department of Justice's (DOJ) International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) found no evidence of torture or rape during an unannounced visit to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Khadhamiya Women's Prison. I [...] | 2007-07-08 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR KJUS KWMN IZ IS |
07BAGHDAD2286 | SUNNIS NOT DELAYING REFORMS, VP HASHIMI TELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told Senators McCain and Graham that Sunnis are marginalized in the Iraqi government and are increasingly questioning the benefits of political participation. Sunnis are now actively engaged in eliminating al-Qa'ida, yet 95% of detainees in Iraq a [...] | 2007-07-10 21:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD2298 | MAJORITY GOVERNMENT NEEDED, PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: An obdurate Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Senators McCain and Graham on July 3 that the national unity government was to blame for delays in passing much needed reform legislation and called for a majority government instead. He complained that his government partners were [...] | 2007-07-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KCRM KDEM PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD2361 | SUNNI INDEPENDENT MP CLAIMS IRAN BEHIND ALL EVLI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Sunni Arab parliamentarian Mithal Alusi told Poloff on July 14 that in his view, Iran was funding all sides in the Iraq conflict, saying a premature U.S. withdrawal will mean the U.S. will have to fight Iran in Bahrain. He alleged that Saudi Arabia and Iran were behin [...] | 2007-07-16 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2371 | SOME BAHA'I RECEIVE IDENTITY CARDS, MOST MUST [...] (C) Summary: On July 12, President of the Bahai National Spiritual Assembly in Iraq, Abdul Razaq Abaychi and assembly- member Sermid Moqbel said that since May 15, the Iraqi government has issued national identification cards or "jensiyya" to four members of the Baha'i faith. The jensiyya ca [...] | 2007-07-16 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ |
07BAGHDAD2396 | NINEWA: CPI HARD AT WORK AND AFTER PC CHAIR [...] (SBU) PRT Team Leader Knight and other PRT representatives met the Director of the Commission for Public Integrity (CPI) for Northern Iraq and Judge Mohammad Najim (responsible for pursuing CPI cases) on 10 July for a wide-ranging technical discussion of CPI organization and operations. The [...] | 2007-07-18 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2398 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER SAYS DETAINEE ABUSE RISING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 14, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim repeated to PolCouns anecdotes of torture cases that Sunni Vice President (VP) Dr. Tareq al-Hashimi, during a July 8 conversation with Ambassador Crocker, had credited her with reporting to him. She noted that the volume of detain [...] | 2007-07-18 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD244 | IRAQ'S COR PASSES ELECTORAL COMMISSION LAW AND [...] (C) On January 23 the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the law establishing the Independent Higher Election Commission (IHEC) and voted to extend the current CoR session until February 10 to give them extra time to consider the 2007 budget, the state of emergency, and the law of gover [...] | 2007-01-23 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2465 | VP HASHIMI DOWN BUT NOT YET OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 22, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi discounted the need for a senior leadership meeting to iron out political differences on benchmark legislation, saying the political leaders can resolve all issues within 5-6 days using their advisors. He tasked the Secretary General of [...] | 2007-07-25 17:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM MOPS PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD2473 | NINEWA: CHRISTIAN PC MEMBER ARRESTED IN CPI SWEEP [...] (C) Prominent Christian politician and provincial council (PC) member Gevara Zia Youkhana (Assyrian Democratic Movement - ADM) was arrested July 18 by the Iraqi Police (IP) in conjunction with a Commission for Public Integrity (CPI) investigation into misuse of public funds charges. ADM chai [...] | 2007-07-26 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2495 | ASSESSING TAWAFUQ'S THREAT [...] (C) Summary: Tawafuq,s threat to quit the government in seven days has created a political crisis at the very moment when we need the CoR and the Iraqi leadership focused on addressing benchmarks. Though Tawafuq has previously backed down from such threats at the last minute, it would be unwis [...] | 2007-07-27 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2503 | DEPUTY PM ZOWBAIE'S HUMAN RIGHTS STAFF AND TAWAFUQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 23, Sunni Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Salaam Zowbaie's human rights officers Shakur Farhan and Ahmed Faze outlined two distinct sets of Sunni concerns with Iraqi and Coalition detention centers, noting they both hold majority Sunni detainee populations. Farhan and Faze com [...] | 2007-07-29 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2513 | NINEWA'S HERKI KURDS - THIS PROVINCE'S LARGEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurds of the Herki tribe, notorious in Iraq for their role as collaborators with Saddam Hussein, are the largest unresolved IDP issue in the northern province of Ninewa. They face threats from the Kurdish political establishment, which has not forgotten their actions under [...] | 2007-07-30 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV MARR EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD2545 | IMPLICATIONS OF A SUNNI WALKOUT [...] (C) Summary: The Sunni Tawafuq party announced on July 25 that its six ministers would resign in seven days if their demands were not met (reftel B). The resignation of Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi might soon follow. Although the Sunnis insist they are not abandoning the political process [...] | 2007-07-31 17:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2579 | SUNNI HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DEPUTY VISITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee Deputy Dr. Harith Al-Ubaidy (Tawafuq) told PolOff on July 31 he noted better conditions during his July 26 visit to the Khadimiya 2nd National Police (NP) Division detention center at Forward Operating Base JUSTICE (also kno [...] | 2007-08-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2586 | HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DETENTION ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee Deputy Harith al-Ubaidy (Tawafuq),and committee members Hanin al-Qeddo (Eitilaf) and Shatha al-Ebousy (Tawafuq) told PolOff separately in July that Prime Minister (PM) Maliki, in a July 23 meeting with the committee, said t [...] | 2007-08-04 07:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2608 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER'S [...] (S) SUMMARY: During an August 2 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, USAID Mission Director Bambi Arellano, and Rule of Law (RoL) Coordinator Jim Santelle, Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim discussed the following subjects: -- problems within the Iraqi detention system (including alleged disappea [...] | 2007-08-06 11:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KJUS MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL |
07BAGHDAD2613 | SUNNIS ARE AMERICA'S FRIENDS, SAYS HARD-LINER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni hard-liners Khalaf Allyan and Adan Dulaymi told Ambassador Crocker that it was up to the U.S. to fix Iraq's problems by forcing the Shi'a and Kurds to accept their reconciliation demands, some of which were based on an unsubstantiated view of Iraqi reality (e.g., Sunnis outnu [...] | 2007-08-07 02:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD2629 | ALLAWI'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW MINISTERS: LOTS OF [...] (C) Summary: On August 5, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim from Ayad Allawi's Iraqiyya list informed emboffs that Allawi ordered his ministers to suspend participation in Ministerial cabinet meetings. This would impact four Iraqiyya Ministers ) Salim, Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (Minister of [...] | 2007-08-07 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2639 | BAGHDAD: YAWNING GAP BETWEEN IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three prominent Baghdad-based members of the Council of Representatives (CoR) report that they have no impact on the most important issues facing their neighborhoods, including the provision of security and essential services. Aliah Al-Ubeidi (Iraqiyya - mixed-sect, secular),H [...] | 2007-08-08 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2665 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S AUGUST 7 MEETING WITH HUMAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: During an August 7 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim sought his advice on how to respond to Iraqiyya bloc leader Ayad Allawi's order for Iraqiyya ministers to resign from the Maliki government. Minister Wijdan said that she does not want to resign [...] | 2007-08-10 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD2682 | THE NINE JEWS OF BAGHDAD [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: One of Baghdad's last remaining Jews, Khalida Kouada Liahu Moualim, described to poloff August 11 the continuing hardships faced by Iraq's now tiny Jewish community. She said that she is one of only nine Jews still living in Baghdad, and that she believes Jews do not live any [...] | 2007-08-13 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KIRF PREF PGOV IS NL UK IZ |
07BAGHDAD2687 | BAGHDAD'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM -- OVERTAXED AND [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Judicial investigators and investigative judges, and personnel at the Iraqi Bar Association (IBA),the Iraqi Jurists Union (IJU),local police stations, and provincial courthouses consistently tell the PRT Baghdad Rule (ROL) of La [...] | 2007-08-13 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD269 | IRAQ: NSA RUBAIE LAYS OUT NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S/REL GBR, AUS) Summary: DCM assisted Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwafak Al-Rubaie in laying out the organizational structure necessary to implement the Joint Transition Strategy. Rubaie reported that PM Maliki had not allowed two Sadrist ministers, Minister of Health and Minister of T [...] | 2007-01-26 03:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD2691 | NINEWA PROVINCE: HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS [...] (C) The Ninewa (Mosul) PRT Rule of Law section recently met with several key human rights organizations in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa. In an encouraging sign, there is a surprising amount of human rights activity in the province -- given the inherent security risks in Iraq today -- [...] | 2007-08-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2697 | PLANNING FOR KADHIMIYA PILGRIMAGE SHOWS INCREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The absence of sectarian violence at the August 9 annual pilgrimage to the tomb of the 7th Imam Musa Kadhim in the Kadhimiya neighborhood of Baghdad provided evidence of increased coordination capacity of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),compared to last year, in which some 20 pil [...] | 2007-08-14 02:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PTER PHUM MOPS PREL PINR PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD2713 | NINEWA: GETTING HAJJ FLIGHTS OFF THE GROUND AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Salih and Acting Minister of Transportation verbally committed to ensuring that this year's Hajj flights will leave from Mosul Airport during an August 1 meeting with Ninewa Governor Kashmoula, senior Ministers and Provincial Director Generals (reftel). Thi [...] | 2007-08-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAIR ECON KISL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2714 | NINEWA: SUNNI ARAB IIP WORKERS SEE MULTI-ETHNIC [...] (C) On the margins of a lively and productive August 12 meeting with Sunni Arab women,s organizations (septel) at the Ninewa provincial headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),the party,s working level staff unofficially described the party,s priorities and philosophy. In an informal d [...] | 2007-08-15 12:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2723 | NINEWA: BOMBINGS ROCK YEZIDI COMMUNITY; ONLY [...] (C) Summary. According to the best local estimates, four near-simultaneous VBIEDs August 14 killed at least 200, wounded at least 300 and destroyed dozens of structures in the Yezidi villages of Qahtaniya and Al Jazeera in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa. 4/1 Brigade Combat Team Comman [...] | 2007-08-15 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINR PTER ASEC PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2730 | NINEWA: TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS AND NON-SUNNI [...] (C) Summary: Although Mosul University in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa has operated nearly continuously since 2003, the triple threats of terrorist infiltration, criminal activity and a gutting of the non-Sunni student population and professoriate threaten the institution. During an [...] | 2007-08-16 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV SCUL KPAO PINR PHUM EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD2759 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-08-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2761 | VP HASHIMI AND POLCOUNS DISCUSS LEADERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 16 meeting with PolCouns, Sunni Vice President (VP) Tariq al-Hashimi said that he was ready to participate in the upcoming three-plus-one-plus-one leadership conference, regardless of whether a four-party bloc consisting of the PUK, KDP, Dawa, and ISCI forms in the [...] | 2007-08-19 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2762 | DEPUTY SRSG SCHULENBURG WARNS DCM OF THE UNAMI [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) second quarter human rights report will be as "shocking and heavy handed" as the first quarter report, said Acting Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Michael Schulenburg (protect) in an August 17 meeting wi [...] | 2007-08-19 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD2782 | NINEWA: CHRISTIANS RELATIVELY SECURE IN BARTALLAH [...] (C) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Leader Hyland and other PRT members, along with the 4-1 Brigade Combat Team Chaplain, August 18 visited Bartallah, a majority Christian town in the northern Iraqi province of Ninewa, part of the historic Iraqi Christian heartland. Local Christian polit [...] | 2007-08-20 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PINR PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2817 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER VISITS RULE OF LAW COMPLEX [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights (MOHR) Wijdan Salim stressed on August 13 that the jurisdiction of judges at the Rule of Law Complex (ROLC) in Baghdad's Rusafa district should be expanded to include processing of all detainees held onsite at the Rusafa detention center to prevent indefi [...] | 2007-08-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2827 | ARTICLE 140: NINEWA FACES SERIOUS DOWNSIDE RISKS [...] (S/NF) Ninewa borders the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and has a substantial Kurdish population. Because of a Sunni Arab boycott of provincial elections in 2005, the Kurdish Alliance (KDP/PUK combined list) has complete control over provincial government with a three quarters majority in [...] | 2007-08-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KDEM PREL MARR PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2834 | BAGHDAD: MILITANTS TAKE OVER WHERE GOVERNMENT FAILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Militant groups in Baghdad employ a complex mixture of violent and non-violent tactics to win control of the political prerogatives usually reserved for civilian governance institutions, including the delivery of essential services, the distribution of city resources, the collecti [...] | 2007-08-23 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR PREF PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2835 | BAGHDAD: SEVEN TACTICS MILITANTS USE TO SEIZE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Extra-legal governance institutions created by Shia and Sunni militants repeatedly use the same tactics to seize and maintain control of Baghdad's neighborhoods. In almost all areas of the city, militants initially found a role and a purpose in forcibly displacing people from the [...] | 2007-08-24 11:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREF PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2854 | VP HASHIMI'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR AND TASK FORCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Sheikh Omar Jabouri, Vice President (VP) Tariq al-Hashimi's human rights advisor, proposed August 14 that tribal sheikhs should act as guarantors for the release of Coalition detainees. In his conversation with Task Force 134 (TF-134) Commanding General Major General (MG) Douglas [...] | 2007-08-26 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM MOPS PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2859 | UNAMI DSRSG SCHULENBURG SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) second quarter human rights report has been sent to New York for clearance, said Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) and Charge d'Affaires Michael SIPDIS Schulenburg in an August 23 meeting with the Ambassad [...] | 2007-08-26 10:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UN IZ |
07BAGHDAD286 | BAGHDAD SUNNI NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS COMPLAIN ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Three neighborhood council members representing the Sunni-dominant Doura sub-district in South Baghdad told Emboffs January 24 that Ministry of Interior abuse against residents was a common occurrence and included alleged torture, extortion, and killings. Representatives Hashim M [...] | 2007-01-28 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2860 | NINEWA: PRT SUPPORTS FARMERS' ASSOCIATION IN [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa is supporting the formation of grassroots farmers' organizations in the religiously and ethnically diverse towns of Bartallah & Al Qosh in northeastern Ninewa P [...] | 2007-08-26 10:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR PHUM PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD288 | JUDICIAL EFFECTIVENESS RETURNS TO NINEWA [...] (C) Major Crimes Court (MCC) judges TDY from MCC-Baghdad have begun trials of insurgent cases in Ninewa Province. This visiting judges program was proposed and facilitated by our PRT in partnership with our Coalition maneuver commands, the Chief of Police and Governor of Ninewa Province, and [...] | 2007-01-28 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2888 | THEFT, EXTORTION, KIDNAPPING -- HOW BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PINR PREF PTER PHUM ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD2899 | CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN THE KURDISH REGION [...] SUMMARY: Over the past two weeks there has been a rise in illnesses with diarrhea and vomiting in Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk. The Kurdistan regional Minister of Health estimates that there are a total of 4,000 new cases since the middle of August. Of these cases, 70 have been confirmed as cholera [...] | 2007-08-29 13:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2922 | DCM'S AUGUST 28 MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim told the DCM on August 28 that she will remain in the Maliki government as an independent, despite Iraqiyya bloc leader Ayad Allawi's reported plan to return to Baghdad. The Minister noted she has not yet received a pre-publication copy of th [...] | 2007-08-31 12:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF KJUS IZ |
07BAGHDAD2927 | SULAIMANIYAH: YOUTH GROUPS STIFFLED BY PUK [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-01 12:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2928 | RRT ERBIL: PUK POLITBURO MEMBERS ON KIRKUK AND USG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are committed to completing the provisions of Article 140 which addresses the status of the city of Kirkuk. They will not negotiate on changing the 2007 deadline for Article 140 implementation but hinted that they will allow for [...] | 2007-09-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2933 | WHERE IS BAGHDAD HEADED? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad at the end of the summer of 2007 remains a divided city. Since January, the troop surge has helped to create islands of safety and contributed to a reduction in sectarian violence in some areas. However, militant leaders and their cadres who profit from conflict have la [...] | 2007-09-02 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PREF PTER PHUM ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD2979 | NINEWA: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TAKING THE FIRST [...] (SBU) The chairman and two other representatives from the Human Rights Committee (HRC) of the Ninewa Provincial Council, northern Iraq, told the Rule of Law Section of the Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in August that the committee was committed to protecting the dignity and human [...] | 2007-09-05 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2981 | NINEWA: SUNNI WOMEN'S GROUPS ACTIVE AND READY TO [...] (SBU) Women's group leaders associated with the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),a Sunni Arab political party, in Ninewa Province told the PRT August 12 that they were dedicated to making Mosul, Iraq,s second-largest city, a better place to live for women and children. This cable outlines the activ [...] | 2007-09-05 14:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN SOCI KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2996 | IRAQI REFUGEE PROCESSING: CAN WE SPEED IT UP? [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. has provided substantial assistance to Iraq's two million refugees, over USD 120 million in FY-07, which is considerably more than all other donors combined. Assistance also involves resettling some refugees; over 10,000 UNHCR referrals are pending. The process typicall [...] | 2007-09-07 02:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL SY JO IZ |
07BAGHDAD3007 | CORRECTED COPY--SULAIMANIYAH: YOUTH GROUPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Youth groups in Sulaimaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan, complain of wide-spread political party interference in the leadership and day to day operations of their activities. They expected greater freedom after 2003 but are still unable to act independently or discuss reform pr [...] | 2007-09-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3011 | BAGHDAD EPRT: PALESTINIANS SEEK SERVICES, [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During an August 20 meeting with Baghdad E-PRT and 2BCT/2ID, Palestinians from the Beladiat neighborhood of Baghdad's 9 Nissan district raised several concerns: poor basic services, insecurity, and the status of detainees. [...] | 2007-09-09 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM ECON PTER SOCI SCUL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3061 | GOI RELUCTANTLY AGREEING TO POSTPONE EXECUTION OF [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings on September 10, Charge conveyed to the PM's Chief of Staff, Tariq Abdullah, and to President Talabani the need to delay action on executing Ali Hassan Al Majid ("Chemical Ali"),Sultan Hashim, and Hussain Rashid Muhammed -- all sentenced to death in the Anfal [...] | 2007-09-11 17:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3062 | CDA AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DISCUSS SULTAN [...] (S) Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim told CDA Butenis and PolCouns September 8 that there would be significant public outrage if Sultan Hashim, formerly Saddam Hussein's Minister of Defense, were executed -- especially without the approval of the Presidency Council. The Iraqi people, she no [...] | 2007-09-11 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PINS PREL PGOV KJUS KAWC IZ |
07BAGHDAD3063 | SEPTEMBER 9 MCNS MEETING -- MALIKI URGES COALITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki strongly urged Coalition Forces (CF) and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to use restraint and proportional force when searching for rank-and-file militia members and insurgents. He deplored the death of innocent civilians killed during a recent CF operation and [...] | 2007-09-12 02:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3078 | INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs),Iraq now ranks third in the world among countries with IDP populations, behind only Sudan and Colombia. Such large-scale displacement in Iraq is producing potentially permanent social and religious segregation. Coordination r [...] | 2007-09-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | UN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3082 | PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007 UNGA [...] As requested in reftel, Post is submitting input for the President's September 25 Human Rights Roundtable at 2007 UNGA. --------------- POST ACTIVITIES --------------- 2. Post supports human rights development in Iraq by maintaining dialogues with key Iraqi officials on human rights [...] | 2007-09-12 17:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3115 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informati [...] | 2007-09-16 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3134 | SEPTEMBER 16 MCNS -- REINSTITUTING CENTRALIZED [...] (S) SUMMARY: The September 16 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) was dominated by discussions about partially reinstituting centralized governmental control over provincial security organizations and increasing governmental control over disparate security units like Facility Prot [...] | 2007-09-17 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3215 | SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES: EMPLOYEES RESURRECT ANBAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Just outside the Anbar town of Faris, the employees of a state-owned (SOE) steel plant stepped up after the 2003 Gulf War and, completely on their own, kept the shop running. Today, against the odds, they continue to produce an array of high-quality steel products and may so [...] | 2007-09-24 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3222 | VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI TOUR D'HORIZON WITH THE [...] (C) During a September 23 meeting, the Ambassador and Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al Hashimi discussed detainee issues, political developments, pending executions, recent violence in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad, Hashimi's draft "Social Contract," and Mosul Province. Hashimi was please [...] | 2007-09-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3237 | JUVENILE JUSTICE IN BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Baghdad Rule of Law (ROL) Team meetings with Juvenile Police, Juvenile Judges and Investigators, Rehabilitation School personnel, the High Juridicial Council (HJC),and officials in the Mini [...] | 2007-09-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3264 | SEPTEMBER 25 MCNS FOCUSES ON BASRAH SECURITY, [...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih led focused discussions at the September 25 Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) on Basrah security issues, the cholera outbreak, national reconciliation, and a proposed intelligence exchange on al-Qaeda operations with Algeria and Mo [...] | 2007-09-30 02:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD327 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: ZEYAD TARIQ KADHEM [...] (SBU) Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally employed staff from the Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Al-Hillah to the US refugee admissions program (USRAP). Below is biographic information of the principal applicant and dependents, a description of the persecution claim an [...] | 2007-01-30 18:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD329 | REGIONAL COORDINATOR MEETS WITH SULAIMANIYAH [...] (U) This is an Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a January 7 meeting between Regional Coordinator and Sulaimaniyah provincial officials, Sulaimaniyah Deputy Governor Jutiar Noori Abdulla told us that the provincial government plans to end fuel [...] | 2007-01-31 11:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3314 | SEPTEMBER 30 MCNS CONSIDERS BASRAH COMMANDER [...] (S) SUMMARY: The September 30 Ministerial Council on National Security was dominated by discussion on the future of the Basrah military commander, General Mohan, who was appointed to a three-month term. Many Iraqi government ministers, the U.S. and UK Ambassadors, and MNF-I Commanding General [...] | 2007-10-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3320 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-06 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3353 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3354 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3417 | OCTOBER 7 MCNS: MALIKI CALLS FOR RESTRAINED USE OF [...] (S) PM Maliki opened the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) with a call for U.S. forces to exercise restraint when engaged in military operations; General Petraeus vigorously defended the actions of U.S. forces and said that GoI is being unduly influenced by militia and terrorist [...] | 2007-10-13 06:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD3480 | INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS READY FOR MORE ACTIVE ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a wide-ranging discussion with the Ambassador, senior representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq described plans for increasing in-country presence based on their assessment of improved security. The ICRC Head of Delegation to Iraq (HOD- [...] | 2007-10-21 03:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3481 | IRAQ-IRAN RESUMING BORDER NEGOTIATIONS [...] (S) At the Deputy Ministerial Council for National Security (DMCNS) on October 8, Deputy FonMin Abbawi reported that Iraq would resume border negotiations with Iran in November. Abbawi said he hoped the outcome would be a clearly-defined demarcation of the border based on previously negotiated [...] | 2007-10-21 03:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PBTS PGOV PHUM PTER IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3488 | PRT NINEWA: KURDISH ENCROACHMENT: TRYING TO CHANGE [...] (C/REL ACGU) Western Ninewa is one of the key disputed areas in the Article 140 debate. Recent Kurdish actions there, such as a KDP chief's order to remove 113 Arab families who have moved to the area since 2004, and the Ninewa Provincial Council's decision to move the Qahtaniya subdistrict [...] | 2007-10-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD350 | PM MEDIA ADVISOR TALKS ABOUT TV STATION SHUTDOWNS, [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting Janaury 29, the Prime Minister's advisor on Media Affairs Yasseen Majid told Emboffs that the Prime Minister's Office had not been involved in the decision to close down al Sharqiya TV station in Baghdad (ref),saying instead that the decision had been taken solely by [...] | 2007-02-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD351 | DISPLACEMENTS IN THE RASHEED DISTRICT OF BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Neighborhood leaders from two areas of the Rasheed district of Baghdad report that internally displaced persons (IDPs) are both departing and settling in their neighborhoods due to sectarian violence or threats of violence and that [...] | 2007-02-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PTER |
07BAGHDAD3521 | OCTOBER 21 MCNS: AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR GOI ACTION [...] (S) PM Maliki opened the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) with a call for Coalition Forces to exercise restraint in military operations to avoid civilian casualties, noting that the Council of Representatives (COR) was questioning the sovereignty and purpose of the government. [...] | 2007-10-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3539 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-10-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3550 | WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT IDPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | UN EAID PREF PHUM PREL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3578 | NINEWA: TURKISH-IRAQI BORDER CRISIS HAS LITTLE [...] (C) Our political interlocutors in Ninewa told PRT that the current crisis along the Turkish-Iraqi border has had little impact so far on this northern province. Leaders of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) told the P [...] | 2007-10-29 02:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3579 | NINEWA: NON-TRADITIONAL IDPS PULLED FROM MANY [...] (C) Management of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is a significant issue facing Ninewa, which contains the second largest IDP population in Iraq. There is one formal camp and a few concentrated settlements; however, the majority of IDPs are spread throughout the ethnic communities in this [...] | 2007-10-29 02:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PREL MARR EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD3585 | RECRUITMENT OF IRAQI TEACHERS IN JORDAN FOR MNF-I [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Deputy Multi-national Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commanding General for Detainee Operations MG Douglas Stone told the Ambassador on October 11 that he plans to travel to Jordan in the near future to recruit Iraqi teachers for positions in [...] | 2007-10-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IZ JO |
07BAGHDAD3590 | SAMARRA MOSQUE RECONSTRUCTION: PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (S) Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Issues, Engineer Haq al Hakim, told poloffs and UNAMI staff during an October 24 meeting that the assessment phase of the Samarra Mosque reconstruction project in Salah ad Din Province is set to commence soon, pending finalization of [...] | 2007-10-29 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ECON PHUM IZ TU |
07BAGHDAD3591 | HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Human Rights Committee is seeking the Presidency Council's support for its draft of the High Commission for Human Rights (HCHR) law, which CoR Deputy Speaker Khalid al-Attiyah (Eitilaf) blocked from moving forward during its second reading (Oc [...] | 2007-10-29 09:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3597 | MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...] | 2007-10-30 02:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3601 | MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...] | 2007-10-30 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD3611 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DEFLECTS PRESSURE TO BACK [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolOff October 28 she has deflected multiple requests by Iranian-linked officials to guarantee the release of Ministry of Interior (MoI) Colonel (COL) Thamir Mohammad (Isma'il) Sinah Al-Husayni, in Coalition custody since his arrest on [...] | 2007-10-31 05:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINS PINR IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD365 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER COMPLAINS ABOUT IRAQI [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting January 29, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikha'il Salim told PolOff that she was disturbed by what she perceived to be a lack of action on the part of GOI to address overcrowding and detainee abuse issues, particularly in the face of a potential influx of detainees [...] | 2007-02-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3674 | PRT NINEWA: LOCAL FARMERS LAUNCH MULTISECTARIAN, [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) In a region of eastern Ninewa, northern Iraq, more often known for confrontation and competition over scarce land resources, six Al Hamdaniya District farmers - with strong PRT Ninewa support (see reftel) - established Oc [...] | 2007-11-06 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON IZ PGOV PHUM |
07BAGHDAD3684 | DIYALA PRT: IDPS CONTINUE TO FACE [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Management challenges continue to constrain the Diyala provincial government's capacity to address issues confronting the estimated 52,000 internally displace persons (IDPs) currently living in Diyala. Housing, [...] | 2007-11-06 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3694 | MALIKI ADVISOR SAYS CHRISTIAN LEADERS ACCEPT PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to PM's advisor George Bakoos, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly on October 27 accepted assistance to the Iraqi Christian community that Maliki had offered when they met three months earlier. Bakoos said the offer consisted of hiring Christian security personnel th [...] | 2007-11-08 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IZ VT |
07BAGHDAD3703 | NINE IRANIAN DETAINEES RELEASED NOVEMBER 9 [...] (SBU) BAGHDAD ) Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) released nine Iranian detainees at approximately 0900 (local) Friday, November 9 to the custody of the Government of Iraq (GOI). Two of the nine were part of the five suspected Qods force members detained January 11 by Coalition Forces in Erbi [...] | 2007-11-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3726 | DIYALA PRT: EDUCATION SYSTEM UPDATE [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (U) The education system in Diyala continues to face severe challenges. Pre-OIF infrastructure shortcomings combined with the effects of recent kinetic activity in the province and general neglect have left only a skeleton of a [...] | 2007-11-13 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD3727 | DIYALA PRT: COMPENSATION PAYMENTS-STILL WAITING [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (U) In August 2007, as operation Arrowhead Ripper came to a close in Diyala, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Salah visited the province. After surveying the damage he promised that USD 50 million would be made available to r [...] | 2007-11-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3748 | ICRC REVERSES PLANS TO OPEN PERMANENT MISSION IN [...] (C) Summary: ICRC representatives from Amman and Geneva told Pol-Mil Minister Counselor (PMMC) Ries that ICRC had decided not to establish a permanent presence in Baghdad at this time. ICRC Near East and North Africa Director Beatrice Megevand-Roggo said that, after a security review, the Gen [...] | 2007-11-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF SOCI ICRC IZ |
07BAGHDAD3754 | MOI HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTOR ON FOLLOW-UP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior (MoI) Human Rights Director Mazen Kamel Al-Qoraishy on November 5 described measures he took to follow-up on a severely burned detainee and a juvenile that were found during a Coalition-supported, bilateral inspection of the MoI Criminal Investigations Direct [...] | 2007-11-15 02:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV KJUS KWMN IZ |
07BAGHDAD3772 | MALIKI PLANS GENERAL AMNESTY; BASRA PIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: At the November 11 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) meeting, PM Maliki stated his intention to proclaim a general amnesty; Ambassador Crocker responded that this was a bold move that the U.S. supported and could work with the GoI on the details. Maliki also pushed [...] | 2007-11-16 04:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
07BAGHDAD3838 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-11-25 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3839 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-11-25 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD386 | CHALABI OUTLINES HIS POPULAR COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Chalabi is moving forward on the political mobilization component of the new Baghdad Security Plan, although he suggested he is having some difficulty achieving full Sunni participation and has asked for Embassy assistance. His plan consists of creating tiered committees [...] | 2007-02-06 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3887 | TRANSMITTAL OF LETTER FROM PM NOURI AL-MALIKI TO [...] (U) Post received a letter addressed to POTUS from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (PM) addressed on November 28, 2007. Scanned copies of the original document and the translation to English have been emailed to the NSC and NEA/I. The following is Post's translation of the Arabic tex [...] | 2007-11-29 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3901 | NINEWA: VICE GOVERNOR HINTS AT KURDISH FLEXIBILITY [...] (C/REL ACGU) Ninewa's influential Vice Governor, who is also the provincial Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) head, told PRT Leader November 11 in the presence of a visiting reporter that he recognized the importance of being practical in making compromises in resolving disputed areas under Arti [...] | 2007-11-30 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3955 | SUNNI LEADER ADNAN DULAYMI'S SECURITY DETAIL UNDER [...] (S) Sunni Tawafuq bloc leader Adnan Dulaymi continues to protest his innocence following discovery of evidence linking his security staff to terrorist activities during a November 29 joint Iraqi-MNF/I raid on his Baghdad offices. As a result of that raid, approximately 35 members of his secur [...] | 2007-12-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD3964 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-12-06 11:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3965 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post request the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory informa [...] | 2007-12-06 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MOPS PINS PHUM PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4115 | NINEWA: KURDS AND ARABS A LONG WAY FROM DIALOGUE [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: In a series of meetings on Article 140 with many influential Ninewa political figures on December 10-11, Special Advisor David Pearce heard unanimous support for continued USG engagement on the issue but agreement on little else. While Kurds favored implementation of wha [...] | 2007-12-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4127 | SAMARRA MOSQUE RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN MID-JANUARY [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister on Reconstruction Haq al-Hakim told EmbOffs, MNF-I representatives, and UNAMI representative on December 12 that the GOI planned to start reconstruction of the Shia Golden Mosque in Samarra on January 15. According to al-Hakim, PM Maliki has [...] | 2007-12-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD415 | VIOLENCE IN BAGHDAD'S AMEL NEIGHBORHOOD: SUNNI AND [...] (C) Summary. Sunni residents of the Baghdad area of al Amel told EmbOffs that Sunnis in their neighborhood continued be tortured, killed and forcibly displaced by Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia members. They claimed that the operations had been so severe that the neighborhood had lost most of i [...] | 2007-02-07 17:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD4156 | NINEWA: KDP VICE GOVERNOR VISITS PROMINENT SHAMMAR [...] (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Ninewa Vice Governor and provincial Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) leader Khasro Goran fielded complaints December 17 from local tribal leaders in a rare visit to prominent Shammar sheikh Abdullah Al Yawr's house. The Shammar, a politically and economically powerful Arab [...] | 2007-12-22 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4158 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-23 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD416 | DIYALA PERSPECTIVE: SUNNI COR MEMBER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Salim al-Jeboori (Sunni, IIP from Diyala) described a grim situation in Diyala province during a February 6 meeting with poloffs. The ethnically-diverse province adjacent to Baghdad is plagued by terrorists, Sunni insurgents, Shia militias, [...] | 2007-02-07 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD4174 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD4175 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Iraqi Security Forces who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no derogatory information. [...] | 2007-12-24 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD42 | MOI BOLANI SLOW TO DEVELOP REFORM PLAN [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY. PM Maliki is frustrated by the lack of progress by Minister of Interior (MOI) Jawad al-Bolani and National Security Advisor Muwafak al-Rubaie to develop a plan for comprehensive MOI reform as was ordered by Maliki at the October 22 meeting of the Ministerial Committee [...] | 2007-01-07 05:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD4200 | NINEWA: "HEDBA GATHERING" BLOC OFFERS SUNNI ARABS [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2.. (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Summary: Atheel al Najaifi, a top official in the secular nationalist Ninewa political bloc the Hedba Gathering, detailed the bloc,s strategy and agenda in several conversations with PRT. Al Najaifi, [...] | 2007-12-29 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4204 | PRT KIRKUK: 13-POINT AGREEMENT ENDS ARAB BOYCOTT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) and the Arab Bloc of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) on 2 December agreed on a resolution ending the Arab bloc,s year long boycott. The thirteen-point agreement was the result of a PRT initiative to bring the blocs together during countless [...] | 2007-12-30 06:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD4223 | PRT KIRKUK: ORDER TO HASTEN RETURN OF PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Article 140 committee in October approved Order #6 to return land in parts of Kirkuk to its mostly Turcoman original owners. The decision potentially relieves the backlogged Commission for the Resolution of Real Property Disputes (CRRPD) of nearly a third of its caseload, [...] | 2007-12-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD501 | IRAQ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHHADANI'S MELTDOWN [...] (S//REL UK, AUS) SUMMARY: A February 10th working dinner, intended to facilitate intra-Sunni dialogue, devolved into a shouting match between Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammed al-Ubadyi and Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, with the Speaker storming ou [...] | 2007-02-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD546 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN -- VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad residents have expressed cautious optimism about the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) to poloffs, PRT Baghdad officers, and other embassy staff in recent days. Overall, their comments hit two major themes: (1) that residents are pinning their hopes on this plan, and (2) t [...] | 2007-02-15 19:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD570 | NINEWA: KURD-ON-YEZIDI VIOLENCE IN AYN SIFNI [...] (C) An 'honor killing' of a presumably unfaithful Kurdish wife after her travel with Yezidi companions employed as local police led to anti-Yezidi violence by Kurds in Ayn Sifni, the major town of Ninewa's Shikhan District. Damage from the violence was narrowly targeted and relatively limit [...] | 2007-02-19 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS IZ |
07BAGHDAD585 | BSP POPULAR COMMITTEE MOBILIZATION EFFORT'S ROCKY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The popular mobilization strand of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) is off to a rocky start. In a February 14 meeting with provincial and local government leaders, tribal sheikhs, religious leaders, and Embassy staff, committee co-chairs Ahmed Chalabi and Naseer Al-Ani struggl [...] | 2007-02-19 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD621 | MINISTRY OF DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION (MODM) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sheikh Abdullah Fadil, head of the MODM,s Kirkuk Office, says his primary responsibilities include care of returning and new internally displaced people (IDPS),and of stateless persons. He currently is focused on assisting arriving IDPs from central and southern Iraq. His o [...] | 2007-02-20 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD630 | REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REFERRAL: TAMADHUR KADHIM [...] (SBU) Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following Iraqi with substantial ties to the USG to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Tamadhur Kadhim Hammad DOB: February 3, 1956 POB: Baghdad, Iraq Passport Number: G 1100832 Gender: Female Mari [...] | 2007-02-21 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD640 | POSSIBILITY OF A NEEDED SAFE HAVEN FOR PALESTINIANS [...] (C) Summary: Security and living conditions at the Baladiat housing complex for Palestinians in Baghdad remain poor. Residents of the 864-apartment compound report that Jaysh al-Mahdi militias continue to attack and assault them. The apartments are overcrowded, even if they are sparsely fur [...] | 2007-02-22 08:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD660 | IRAQ:BSP PROGRESSING, HYDROCARBON LAW COMPROMISES, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a February 20 meeting with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Minister of Oil Husayn Shahristani, all agreed that necessary compromises to the draft Hydrocarbon Law are almost complete and that it will be pres [...] | 2007-02-22 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD680 | POPULAR COMMITTEES MEETING PARTICIPANTS DISMAYED [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Chalabi frustrated community and tribal leaders who attended a February 21 meeting to discuss the "popular committees" for the Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) when he announced that he had named "liaison officers" to represent each of the ten security areas of Baghdad. Meeting [...] | 2007-02-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD688 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR TELLS CODEL MEEHAN SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, CODEL Meehan stressed that a speedy and permanent reduction in Baghdad violence is central to rebuilding U.S. domestic support for efforts in Iraq. Minister Bolani agreed, adding that he is confident that the re [...] | 2007-02-25 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS IZ |
07BAGHDAD693 | FORMATION OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newscaster and political activist Farhad Sangawi told RRT Offs on February 10 that he is forming a liberal-democratic party in Sulaimaniyah Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Sangawi does not constitute at this stage a threat to the dominance of the Patriotic Union of Kurd [...] | 2007-02-25 14:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD694 | FEBRUARY CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: RRT Offs attended the First Development Conference of Sulaimaniyah Province on February 5-6 under the theme: Decision-making, Responsibility, Transparency, and Honesty. Numerous committees were formed from members of the provincial government, the local population, and non-gov [...] | 2007-02-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CONEAZ IZ |
07BAGHDAD741 | CODEL DICKS PRESSES IRAQI LEADERS ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 23 Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammad al-Ubaydi met CODEL Dicks, which expressed the importance of quickly improving Iraq's security situation. Minister Abdul Qader agreed, asserting that the revised Baghdad Security Plan has already succeeded in significantly re [...] | 2007-02-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD753 | DCM METS WITH PM CHIEF OF STAFF ON NEIGHBORS [...] (S) On February 27, Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Speckhard met with Tariq Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss ideas for the upcoming Neighbor's Conference that Iraq will host in March. Abdullah said Maliki's government was pleased by the Council of Mi [...] | 2007-03-01 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM PHUM PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ |
07BAGHDAD767 | BAHA'I REPORT SUPPORT ON IDENTITY CARDS, PUSH-BACK [...] (C) Summary: President of the Baha'i National Spiritual Advisory Group in Iraq, Abdul Razaq Abaychi, updated PolOffs on February 25 on the status of a Saddam-era regulation that leaves the Baha'i without identification to register in schools, obtain passports, or even get married legally. Aba [...] | 2007-03-03 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD781 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN: MORE VIEWS FROM THE STREET [...] (C) Summary. Baghdad local leaders and average citizens continue to tell post that security on the streets remains better than before implementation of the new Baghdad Security Plan (BSP). However, some report that confidence was shaken by a series of car bombs and the resurgence of some str [...] | 2007-03-04 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD81 | LOCAL BAGHDAD RECONCILIATION EFFORTS GO BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local Baghdad contacts engaged in neighborhood-level reconciliation efforts suggest an approach based on tribal customs and religious leaders to resolve sectarian conflicts. The U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) coordinates an ongoing series of briefings with Baghdad residents for [...] | 2007-01-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD819 | DPM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR COMPLAINS ABOUT PRISONS [...] (S) Summary. Shakir Farhan, Human Rights Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Salaam Zowbaie, expressed concern to PolOff in February conversations about Jaysh al-Mahdi militia infiltration of the Ministry of Justice prison system. He said the Director General of Prisons Juma'a Hussein (ref) asso [...] | 2007-03-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KDEM PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD820 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS POLCOUNS SHE LACKS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told PolCouns March 3 that she was dissatisfied with the Ministry's lack of authority to address human rights abuses. Referring to a February 21 detention facility inspection, the Minister explained that her team had the ability to identify t [...] | 2007-03-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD866 | HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTRY COMPLAINS OF LOW DONOR [...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) senior officials complained to PolOffs March 6 that they had yet to see substantive assistance from international donors, despite efforts by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to coordinate such assistance. At the heart of the ministry's e [...] | 2007-03-12 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD880 | DEMARCHE TO KRG ON PALESTINIAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) At march 7 meeting with KRG Interior Minister Karim Sinjari, Regional Coordinator Yellin per reftel made the following points re Palestinian refugees: -- The Palestinian refugee population in Iraq has been singled out for persecution by armed, violent elements in Iraqi society. -- T [...] | 2007-03-13 05:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM KPAL IZ |
07BAGHDAD881 | MANDAEAN MINORITY INCREASINGLY TARGETED, SEEK AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of Iraq's Sabian Mandaean religious minority on March 7 reported an increase in violent attacks and discrimination against their community over the past year. They told post that top spiritual leader Shaykh Sattar Jabbar al-Helo had fled to Syria after surviving [...] | 2007-03-13 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD937 | US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL FOR LOCALLY [...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally employed staff to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): Name: Everest Albarazanchi (A.k.A. Everest Kareem Mohammad Amin) DOB: November 27, 1974 (Iraqi Passport states in error November 1 [...] | 2007-03-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PHUM PREF |
07BAGHDAD975 | MSNSA WAELI PUSHES TO ESTABLISH MINISTRY OF [...] (C REL AUS UK) SUMMARY: Charge Speckhard met with Shirwan Waeli, Minister of State for National Security, to express our concerns over the draft Ministry of National Security Law (MNSL) currently stalled in the Council of Representatives. Waeli asserted that the law is critical to establishing [...] | 2007-03-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD978 | ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY WANTS HOMELAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: IPAO recently met with three members of the Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP),to discuss the Party's program, especially their proposal for an Assyrian Homeland in Ninewa Province. One APP rep said the Party differs in "all subjects" from the larger Assyrian Democratic Movement ( [...] | 2007-03-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD988 | DIYALA PRT: DIYALA PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT TACKLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Largely due to the security situation, Diyala province has not received its Public Distribution System (PDS) food shipment from the Ministry of Trade (MoT) since September 2006. This has been a major contributor to the public perception that the provincial (and national) gover [...] | 2007-03-21 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD995 | U.S. SOLDIERS AND IRAQI POLICE ON THE BEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with both U.S. military and Iraqi police at a Baghdad police station indicate that Iraqi security forces, with coalition assistance, are progressing and growing in confidence despite inadequate facilities, poor logistical systems, and insufficient arms. Despite these [...] | 2007-03-22 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KJUS MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PTER |
07BAKU1008 | AZERBAIJAN: CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE DEMARCHE [...] On August 3, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Human Rights Attache Hamid Nasibov. Poloff left the points in reftel paragraph ten as a non-paper, along with Ms. Felice Gaer's CV. While Nasibov had no comment, he promised to pass the non-papers to his superi [...] | 2007-08-10 12:24:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA AJ |
07BAKU1009 | FARHAD ALIYEV TRIAL UPDATE [...] (SBU) The trial of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev and 18 co-defendants on charges of corruption and embezzlement continues to progress slowly in the Court of Grave Crimes in Baku. Per reftel, the trial began on May 15 and the proceedings have now lasted more than 60 da [...] | 2007-08-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL |
07BAKU102 | AMBASSADOR RAISES POL-MIL CONSULTATIONS, HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov reviewed a range of bilateral issues on January 18. The Ambassador and Mammadyarov agreed on the need to make our annual political-military consultations more fruitful, suggesting that the next round could be held in the spr [...] | 2007-01-23 10:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS PHUM AMGT ABLD AJ |
07BAKU1029 | AZERBAIJANI BAPTIST PASTOR IMPRISONED [...] (SBU) Emboff met with Baku-based Baptist leader Ilya Zenchenko on August 14 to learn more about the recently concluded trial of Baptist Pastor Zaur Balaev. Per reftel, Balaev, a pastor in the northwestern village of Aliabad, was arrested on May 20. Balaev was charged with using violence ag [...] | 2007-08-17 12:02:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
07BAKU1037 | VISIT TO ONE OF AZERBAIJAN'S MOST NOTORIOUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An OSCE-led delegation visited Gobustan Prison One - notorious for abuses, mysterious deaths, and restive inmates -- to assess conditions and meet with prisoners. The delegation met with Elchin Amiraslanov, Arif Kazimov, and Safa Poladov, three individuals determined to be pol [...] | 2007-08-20 09:59:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI AJ |
07BAKU1043 | ISLAM IN AZERBAIJAN: A LOOK AT SHIA VILLAGES ON [...] (C) Summary: An August 17 trip to several conservative villages on the Absheron Peninsula revealed small, insular communities with conservative social and religious traditions, and a strong skepticism of the GOAJ-controlled Caucasus Muslim Board. The communities, religious practices -- like [...] | 2007-08-21 12:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU106 | A/S LOWENKRON'S LUNCH WITH RELIGIOUS ANALYSTS [...] (C) Summary: At a December 19 lunch hosted by A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, independent religious analysts argued that several foreign Islamic ideas and practices -- specifically from Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia -- are influencing the traditionally tolerant variant of Islam within Azer [...] | 2007-01-24 07:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU1067 | AZERBAIJANI ISLAMIC STRUCTURE'S [...] (C) Summary: The Caucasus Muslim Board (CMB) -- the official GOAJ establishment for administering Islam -- is a legacy from the Czarist and Soviet approach to religion, and is responsible for the education and placement of imams throughout Azerbaijan. The CMB -- and its leader, Sheikh Alla [...] | 2007-08-24 04:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1069 | AZERBAIJANI ISLAMIC STRUCTURE'S LAGGING LEGITIMACY [...] (C) Summary: The Caucasus Muslim Board (CMB) -- the official GOAJ establishment for administering Islam -- is a legacy from the Czarist and Soviet approach to religion, and is responsible for the education and placement of imams throughout Azerbaijan. The CMB -- and its leader, Sheikh Alla [...] | 2007-08-24 04:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1071 | FORMER MINISTER FARHAD ALIYEV'S CORRUPTION TRIAL [...] (SBU) Fifteen weeks after its May 15 opening session, the trial of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev continues, with no end in sight. Aliyev and 18 co-defendants, including his brother, former AzPetrol Head Rafig Aliyev, stand trial on charges of corruption and embezzlemen [...] | 2007-08-24 12:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1084 | CIVIL SOCIETY SKITTISH ABOUT GOVERNMENT PLANS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev's July 27 decree outlining the GOAJ's new concept on NGOs, including a provision for future state funding for NGOs, triggered an immediate, negative reaction from key civil society activists. Supporters of the new plan claim that state funding will relieve NGOs f [...] | 2007-08-28 13:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1093 | FARHAD AND RAFIG ALIYEV ATTEMPT TO DISMISS THEIR [...] (C) In an August 28 trial session, former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev and his brother, former AzPetrol Head Rafig Aliyev, announced their intention to dismiss their defense attorneys. According to the Aliyev brothers, the courts' actions have made it impossible for their de [...] | 2007-08-31 04:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1112 | BAKU AIRPORT SECURITY OFFICIALS ARRESTED ON TIP [...] (SBU) On September 6, police arrested Head of Baku Airport Security Emil Suleymanov and an unconfirmed number of other airport officials on charges of facilitating trafficking in persons. According to press reports, an anonymous source said that Suleymanov helped traffickers transport victims [...] | 2007-09-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KCRM KWMN AJ |
07BAKU1140 | COE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER THOMAS HAMMARBERG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 3-7 trip to Baku, the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg met with a wide range of GOAJ officials, NGO activists, high-profile prisoners, and representatives of international organizations. Hammarberg told the Ambassador that the Co [...] | 2007-09-17 09:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1141 | AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES AHAMDINEJAD [...] (C) Summary. During a September 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov said Iran increasingly supports Iraq's territorial integrity, but President Ahmadinejad will not change his position on Iran's nuclear program. During President Ahmadinejad's August visit to Baku, t [...] | 2007-09-14 08:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PHUM KDEM KNNC MARR IR AJ |
07BAKU1143 | BAKU HOSTS IRAQI TURKOMEN CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) A delegation of Iraqi Turkomen came to Baku September 4-5 to raise awareness about the plight of Turkomen in Iraq. The delegation met with Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov, Presidential Foreign Policy Aide Novruz Mammadov, opposition party representatives, and other Azerbaijani [...] | 2007-09-14 08:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS AJ IZ |
07BAKU1148 | AZERBAIJAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL OFFICER [...] Embassy Baku warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DRL Iran desk officer Kate Lurie to travel to Baku September 25-27 to participate in Iran-related meetings with embassy and government officials. Control officer will be Political Officer Rebecca Naslund. Ms. Naslund can be reache [...] | 2007-09-19 06:05:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PHUM UK TR IR AJ |
07BAKU1151 | CONVICTED MP HUSSEIN ABDULLAYEV SHARES HIS SIDE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Member of Parliament (MP) Hussein Abdullayev -- arrested and convicted following a March 16 scuffle with fellow MP Fazail Aghamaly - shared his side of the story in a September 12 meeting. Abdullayev believes he was set up, arguing that Aghamaly initiated the fight after [...] | 2007-09-19 07:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM INR AJ |
07BAKU1165 | FARHAD ALIYEV'S TRIAL BEGINS WRAPPING UP; [...] (U) Only a handful of trial sessions have been held since our last update (ref) in the case of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev, who stands trial with 17 other defendants, including his brother, former AzPetrol head Rafig Aliyev. The defense has begun its rebuttal, and se [...] | 2007-09-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1175 | SECOND UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE DEMARCHE [...] (U) On September 21, Pol/Econ Chief delivered the second UN Committee Against Torture demarche per ref a to Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev. She left the points from ref b as a nonpaper, along with Ms. Gaer's CV. Mammadguliyev had no substantive comment on the demarche, but promi [...] | 2007-09-24 12:34:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AJ |
07BAKU119 | AZERBAIJAN: WEBSITE DETAINEE RELEASED AFTER YOUTH [...] (SBU) Police arrested and briefly detained Bakhtiyar Hajiyev January 13 after Hajiyev had set up a website (www.susmayaq.biz) on January 9 that enabled citizens to sign a web-based petition objecting to the GOAJ's recent price hike (ref a). In a January 18 meeting with poloff, Hajiyev reported [...] | 2007-01-25 09:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1211 | DEPUTY FM ON TURKMENISTAN, IRAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister (responsible for bilateral relations) Khalaf Khalafov provided a readout on recent talks between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, urging the U.S. to do more to persuade the Government of Turkmenistan why the trans-Cas [...] | 2007-10-03 12:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PHUM KDEM KNNC IR AJ |
07BAKU1212 | JOURNALIST BEATEN AND OPPOSITIONIST COMMITTED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the exclave of Nakhchivan, between September 22 and 23, Yeni Musavat newspaper correspondent Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev was reportedly detained and beaten by Nakhchivan Ministry of National Security (MNS) officials. On September 20, Alasgar Ismayilov, a Popular Front Party (PFP) m [...] | 2007-10-03 14:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AJ |
07BAKU1230 | COORDINATING OUR DEMOCRACY MESSAGE IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: On October 5, the Ambassador convened a group of like-minded ambassadors to discuss coordination of our democracy strategies in the run-up to Azerbaijan's 2008 presidential election. The EU will issue its first progress report on Azerbaijan's EU Action Plan in April 2008, and th [...] | 2007-10-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
07BAKU1244 | RECENT STEPS HIGHLIGHT GOAJ'S ATTEMPT TO CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: In September, two television programs about Islam were canceled or temporarily suspended, reportedly in response to GOAJ pressure. In an unrelated incident, the rector of the Azerbaijani Teachers' Institute in September sought to keep veiled female students from attending classe [...] | 2007-10-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL AJ |
07BAKU125 | GOAJ APPROVES OPPOSITION MUSAVAT PARTY REQUEST TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 24, the Baku Mayor's Office granted permission to the opposition Musavat Party to hold a January 28 rally protesting recent price increases. This decision marks the first official approval of any protest or rally since the November 26, 2005 violent break-up of a peacefu [...] | 2007-01-25 14:06:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM CASC ASEC AJ |
07BAKU1250 | AZERBAIJAN: INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST BEATEN WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the course of covering a forced eviction on September 28, journalist Suheyla Gambarova reportedly was beaten by Ministry of Justice court bailiffs, and was hospitalized and diagnosed with hemorrhaging of the brain, a broken nose and short-term memory loss. In an October 4 hos [...] | 2007-10-18 08:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1251 | ALASGAR ISMAYILOV RECOUNTS DETENTION, FORCED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 10, 71-year old Popular Front Party activist Alasgar Ismayilov recounted the details of his September 20 detention and forced commitment to a mental institution. Ismayilov said he was detained by police after refusing to sign a statement declaring that Nakhchivani aut [...] | 2007-10-18 08:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1255 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH COMMITTEE TO DEFEND [...] (C) Summary: During an October 11 meeting, Jamil Hasanli, Head of the Committee to Defend Farhad Aliyev's Rights, told the Ambassador that the former Minister had been arrested on coup-plotting charges in October 2005 as part of a Russian intelligence effort to sway public opinion in the run-up [...] | 2007-10-18 13:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1264 | AZERBAIJAN'S NOMINATION FOR THE 2008 SECRETARY'S [...] (U) We are pleased to nominate Fatima Aghamirzayeva to be considered for the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage (ref). In Azerbaijan, very few women are active in business or politics; however, Ms. Aghamirzayeva has been a trailblazer in both areas. As a young wido [...] | 2007-10-19 12:17:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1272 | EMBASSY BAKU EXPANDS MUSLIM OUTREACH THROUGH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy this year made a concerted effort to expand our outreach to Azerbaijani Muslims during Ramazan, as part of our broader, long-term effort to engage with local believers. Azerbaijan - a non-Arab, majority Muslim country with a strong secular tradition, a tradition of [...] | 2007-10-23 03:55:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KPAO SCUL AJ |
07BAKU1275 | ACTION REQUEST: PRESS GUIDANCE ON THE FARHAD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) As the trial of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev wraps up (ref a),the need for definitive press guidance on his case has resurfaced. The Prosecutor has asked that Aliyev be sentenced to 11 years in pris [...] | 2007-10-23 12:46:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1276 | AZERBAIJANI PROTESTANTS SAY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with three local Protestant pastors on October 18 to hear their views on religious freedom. The pastors agreed that while religious freedom generally has increased since 1991, conditions have become worse for evangelical Christians in the last several years. [...] | 2007-10-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
07BAKU1284 | EU REPRESENTATIVE PETER SEMNEBY COMMENTS ON HIS [...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative Peter Semneby reviewed his October 18 meeting with President Aliyev with the Ambassador on the same day. Aliyev told Semneby there was no agreement at the Caspian Heads of State meeting in Tehran. During the Caspian Summit, Turkmen President Berdimuha [...] | 2007-10-25 12:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM ENRG IR AM AJ |
07BAKU1285 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS BRIEF AMBASSADOR ON PACE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 13:26:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1290 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) On October 24, emboffs delivered reftel points on U.S. priority resolutions in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee to the Azerbaijani MFA's International Security Affairs Department (responsible for UN issues) and the MFA's Americas Desk. MFA International Security Affairs Departmen [...] | 2007-10-26 08:52:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN AJ |
07BAKU1306 | JOURNALIST EYNULLA FATULLAYEV CONVICTED OF [...] (SBU) On October 30, already-jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev was sentenced to eight years and six months' imprisonment on charges of supporting terrorism, inciting ethnic and religious hatred, and tax evasion (articles 214.1, 283.2.2, and 213.2.2 of the criminal code); he was also fined 2 [...] | 2007-10-31 12:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1309 | IRAN AND ARMENIA PURSUE STRONGER TRADE TIES, WHILE [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Yerevan. 2. (C) Summary: During an October 1-5 visit to Armenia, Baku-based Iran Watcher met with foreign policy analysts, religious leaders, academics, and bankers to further explore Iranian-Armenian relations. Armenian analysts believe Iran' [...] | 2007-11-01 07:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IR AJ AM |
07BAKU1310 | EX-MINISTER FARHAD ALIYEV SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS [...] (U) On October 31, former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on charges of misappropriation, embezzlement, illegal entrepreneurship, smuggling, tax evasion, abuse of power, accepting bribery, and forgery (articles 179.3.1, 179.3.2, 192.2.1, [...] | 2007-11-01 11:09:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU1311 | SCENESETTER FOR EUR A/S FRIED'S NOVEMBER 3-5 VISIT [...] (S) Summary: Dan, your visit could not come at a better time. With the ongoing security threat to the Embassy, your visit will underscore that we continue to engage actively, and at high levels. In the first place, it will be important to reinforce with this government that Azerbaijan's co [...] | 2007-11-01 13:07:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG PINR PBTS IR RU AJ |
07BAKU1318 | AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON [...] (C) Summary: During an October 26 meeting with Azerbaijani Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mammadov, the Ambassador had a frank and productive discussion with Mammadov about the state of the U.S.-Azerbaijani bilateral relationship. While Mammadov said that issues such as democrat [...] | 2007-11-02 06:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1320 | AZERBAIJAN'S "NEW" PARLIAMENT SETTLES INTO ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's "new" Parliament, which was elected in November 2005, began its fourth session on October  [...] | 2007-11-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
07BAKU1353 | EDITOR OF ONE OF AZERBAIJAN'S LEAST REPUTABLE [...] (SBU) On November 6, Editor-In-Chief of Ideal newspaper Nazim Guliyev was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment on libel charges. Ideal newspaper is known as one of Azerbaijan's least reputable newspapers, as Guliyev is widely believed to accept bribes to slander opposition figures, other jour [...] | 2007-11-09 12:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1354 | A/S FRIED'S DINNER WITH AZERBAIJANI RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: At a November 4 dinner in honor of visiting EUR A/S Fried, leading religious analysts agreed that religiosity was on the rise in Azerbaijan, but disagreed on whether radicalism was also on the rise. Those who argued that radicalism was on the rise attributed it to a mix of fore [...] | 2007-11-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU1355 | NGO AND POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS SHARE CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his November 4 meetings with NGO and political party leaders, EUR A/S Fried noted the importance of a strong Azerbaijan with strong democratic institutions. Although it is not always popular with the GOAJ, he said that Azerbaijan's democratic development would remain a prio [...] | 2007-11-13 09:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1356 | AZERBAIJAN: EUR A/S FRIED REVIEWS DEMOCRACY AND [...] (C) Summary: EUR A/S Fried and the Ambassador reviewed democracy and human right issues with Foreign Minister Mammadyarov in a November 5 meeting, as part of our ongoing high-level dialogue (ref a). Fried emphasized that free and fair presidential elections in 2008 would strengthen Azerbaij [...] | 2007-11-13 09:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF PBTS AM AJ |
07BAKU1358 | EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORMS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 5 meeting with Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried raised the importance of further developing Azerbaijan's institution building, ensuring transparent and free presidential elections in 2008, and supporting a free press. [...] | 2007-11-13 10:50:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PHUM ECON AJ |
07BAKU1359 | AZADLIG NEWSPAPER EDITOR ARRESTED, SENTENCED TO [...] (SBU) On November 10, Editor-In-Chief of Azadlig newspaper Ganimat Zahid was arrested on charges of hooliganism and inflicting minor bodily harm. The charges were based on a complaint filed by a private citizen, alleging that Zahid had struck him during a November 7 altercation. Prior to his [...] | 2007-11-13 12:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1361 | EUR A/S FRIED REVIEWS DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: uring a November 5 meeting with visiting EUR A/SDaniel Fried, Minister of Internal Affairs RamilUsubov said that the Ministry planned to continue to support the democratic reforms and western direction of President Ilham Aliyev. He noted that various democratic and human rights re [...] | 2007-11-14 09:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1388 | THE VANISHING AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The Azerbaijani Opposition has been in a steady decline since the 2005 parliamentary elections, beleaguered by government pressure and its own chronic disunity. According to a 2006 IFES public opinion poll, support for the traditional opposition parties has dropped to five perc [...] | 2007-11-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PGOV PHUM |
07BAKU1394 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 04:19:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN BL AJ |
07BAKU1398 | APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RULING ON AZADLIG EDITOR'S [...] (SBU) On November 22, the Court of Appeals upheld the Yasamal District Court's November 11 ruling stipulating that Azadlig newspaper Editor-In-Chief Ganimat Zahid would remain in pre-trial detention for two months. Zahid was arrested on November 10 on charges of hooliganism and inflicting mino [...] | 2007-11-23 09:35:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1404 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMOCRACY MESSAGE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 7 visit to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan, the Ambassador delivered a strong message on the importance of democratic development to Azerbaijan's future. She met with Nakhchivan Prime Minister Alovsat Bakhshiyev, and visited several Nakhchivani historic [...] | 2007-11-26 09:38:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PBTS EAID AR AJ |
07BAKU1406 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH YOUTH MOVEMENT LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8, the Ambassador met with leaders of Azerbaijan's main youth movements. She noted the important role youth can play in Azerbaijan's democratic development. Representatives of the opposition movements expressed frustration that their activities are limited by pressu [...] | 2007-11-26 12:50:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1412 | JEWISH LEADER CONFIRMS CEMETERY DESTRUCTION NOT TARGETED [...] (U) Since August, the Azerbaijani press has carried periodic reports on the Baku municipality's plans to destroy a cemetery in the city's Narimanov district, as part of a new road construction project. The GOAJ is engaged in a massive road and infrastructure construction effort, and has been [...] | 2007-11-28 08:27:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF AJ |
07BAKU1418 | EFFORTS TO UNIFY WORLD AZERBAIJANIS CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) President Ghulamriza Sabri-Tabrizi and Guney Azerbaijan Television (GunAz TV) Director Ahmad Obali reported that efforts to unify disparate WAC factions were underway, with Demokratik Dunya Azerbaijan Kongresi or DDAK (the North America-based fa [...] | 2007-11-29 10:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM IR AJ |
07BAKU143 | EUROPEAN COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (U) On January 11, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the GOAJ to pay Acting Chair of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu USD 15,275 in damages and court expenses for mistreating Jalaloglu while he was in police custody in 2003, and for failing to properly investiga [...] | 2007-01-30 10:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1435 | TWO HIGH-PROFILE DEATH CASES AT MOJ MEDICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI AJ |
07BAKU1445 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE WOMEN'S BAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 20 lunch with the board of the Women's Bar Association, the Ambassador noted that women have much to contribute to Azerbaijan, particularly in democracy and human rights promotion. The board members briefed the Ambassador on their work, highlighting the fact that al [...] | 2007-12-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1446 | AMBASSADOR REVIEWS RANGE OF PARLIAMENTARY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of Parliament Ogtay Asadov said that USAID's Parliamentary Assistance Project has so far been successful. The Ambassador urged Parliament to move quickly on draft new laws on money laundering and anti-terrorist finance, which [...] | 2007-12-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PBTS AJ |
07BAKU1454 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA FOURTH COMMITTEE VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 09:16:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS AJ |
07BAKU1457 | NAKHCHIVAN RFE/RL CORRESPONDENT SENTENCED TO THREE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 6. 2. (SBU) On December 6, Nakhchivan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent Ilgar Nasibov was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on libel charges. The circumstances of the lawsuit remain unclear. According to information received [...] | 2007-12-07 10:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1463 | BAKU POLICE BREAK-UP SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WORSHIP [...] (SBU) According to Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Ivan Zavrichko, five to six police officers broke up a gathering of approximately twenty Seventh Day Adventists on December 8. Zavrichko said the group was conducting a religious service in a personal apartment near the Gara Garayev metro statio [...] | 2007-12-11 06:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF AJ |
07BAKU1470 | NAKHCHIVANI JOURNALIST RELEASED AFTER APPELLATE [...] (C) According to Nakhchivan-based human rights activists and press accounts, on December 10 at approximately 1820, Nakhchivan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent Ilgar Nasibov was released from prison, following the Nakhchivan Court of Appeals' decision to overturn the district court [...] | 2007-12-11 13:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1476 | BAKU AUTHORITIES REIN IN NAKHCHIVAN THUGS: THE [...] (C) Summary: On December 11, RFE/RL correspondent Ilgar Nasibov detailed the confusing sequence of arrests, convictions, searches and detentions surrounding his convictions on criminal defamation charges. It appears that direct intervention from Baku prompted the Nakhchivani authorities to o [...] | 2007-12-12 13:46:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1482 | PROMINENT JOURNALISTS CONTINUE HUNGER STRIKE TO [...] (SBU) On December 13, Poloff visited the Yeni Musavat newspaper office, where a number of prominent editors and journalists have been staging a hunger strike to draw attention to the case of detained opposition Azadliq newspaper Editor-In-Chief Ganimat Zahid. Hunger strikers include Yeni Musa [...] | 2007-12-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1484 | AMBASSADOR MARKS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the Ambassador hosted a tea for the journalists who have been subjected to acts of physical violence during the past two years. She noted U.S. concern with Azerbaijan's deteriorating media situation, particularly with cases of hara [...] | 2007-12-13 14:00:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU1490 | SCA PDAS MANN AND FM MAMMADYAROV DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with the Ambassador and PDAS Steven Mann, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov was downbeat on prospects for Turkmenistan moving quickly to send Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan or to resolve the Caspian delimitation issue. Mammadyarov said he was encourag [...] | 2007-12-17 04:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG TX AJ PHUM |
07BAKU1498 | PLANS FOR A "DEMOCRACY COUNCIL" OF NGOS BEGIN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly a year after human rights activist Arzu Abdullayeva shared initial plans to create a coalition of democracy-focused NGOs with then-DRL A/S Lowenkron, she has begun to take actions to make the "Democracy Council" a reality. However, rather than the coordination mechanism b [...] | 2007-12-17 14:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1514 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MEDIA SITUATION, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 14 meeting the Ambassador and Human Rights Ombudswoman Elmira Suleymanova discussed Azerbaijan's tense media environment. The Ombudswoman said that she has appealed to President Aliyev to review the imprisoned journalists' cases to determine if they had actuall [...] | 2007-12-19 12:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU1530 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI MFA ON COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 12:58:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA AJ |
07BAKU194 | AZERBAIJAN: OPPOSITION AND RULING PARTY INCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the December 2006 visit of Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry SIPDIS Lowenkron, the opposition and ruling party leaders agreed that they were prepared to engage in a new political dialogue focused on implementation of Azerbaijan's internationa [...] | 2007-02-13 14:23:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
07BAKU199 | AZERBAIJAN'S NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY OF [...] (U) We are pleased to nominate Novella Jafarova to be considered for the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage (per reftel). Ms. Jafarova is a leading human rights activist with a nationwide network of women's advocacy centers, who has shown exceptional courage and lead [...] | 2007-02-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO AJ |
07BAKU204 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ORTIZ'S FEBRUARY 18-19 VISIT [...] (SBU) President Aliyev's April 28, 2006 meeting with President Bush laid the foundation for advancing U.S. interests through a strengthened bilateral relationship, and the relationship has never been stronger. As you know, Azerbaijan is a key partner to the U.S. because of its geopolitical sit [...] | 2007-02-14 14:21:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU221 | AZERBAIJAN: OPPOSITION MUSAVAT PARTY HOLDS SECOND [...] (SBU) On February 18, the opposition Musavat Party staged its second sanctioned protest against the Tariff Council's January decision to raise utilities prices. In spite of the 32 degrees Fahrenheit weather - which, due to snow and severe winds felt much colder - between 250 and 300 protesters [...] | 2007-02-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU236 | AZERBAIJANI NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER: FARHAD [...] (C) During a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador and C/SIMO, GOAJ Minister of National Security Mahmudov provided a status report on the investigation of the March 2, 2005 murder of journalist Elmar Huseynov. The Minister noted that initially the Prosecutor General's office, the Ministry of [...] | 2007-02-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU252 | \\CORRECTED COPY - TAG ORDER\\ PART I OF II: AZERBAIJAN [...] (U) As per reftel, paragraph 3 below begins Embassy Baku's submission on status of action the GOAJ has taken to combat human trafficking. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) In preparing this report, the Embassy has undertaken extensive contacts with international organizatio [...] | 2007-03-01 11:19:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG AJ |
07BAKU254 | PART II OF II: AZERBAIJAN 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 11:41:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB AJ |
07BAKU273 | AZERBAIJAN: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ACTION REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In a February 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Chairperson of Azerbaijan's State Committee for Family, Women and Children's Issues, Hijran Huseynova, thanked the USG for her recent successful trip to the U.S. She applauded the USG's emphasis on promo [...] | 2007-03-06 12:14:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KDEM AJ |
07BAKU285 | AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 13:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC AJ |
07BAKU298 | AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPLIT, KICKED OUT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After weeks of mudslinging in the press, the long-troubled Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) has functionally split into two parties: one headed by exiled Chair Rasul Guliyev, the other by Acting Chair and party founder Sardar Jalaloglu. The split will likely become official in th [...] | 2007-03-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR AJ |
07BAKU299 | AZERBAIJANI NGO LEADER PLANS DEMOCRACY COUNCIL TO [...] (C) Prominent NGO leader and human rights activist Arzu Abdullayeva told Poloff March 6 that she has organized a new Democracy Council for the purpose of engaging the GOAJ in a constructive dialogue on democracy and human rights (reftel). Following up on her comments to the Ambassador in Decemb [...] | 2007-03-13 06:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU300 | EX-HEALTH MINISTER'S TRIAL RIFE WITH ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The trial of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten other former Health Ministry officials began February 15 in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. Insanov was arrested, along with several other GOAJ officials, in October 2005 on charges of corruption and of fomenting a coup. In F [...] | 2007-03-13 13:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU308 | UPDATE ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR A/S [...] (C) In preparation for the inaugural session of the US-Azerbaijan dialogue on democracy and human rights, we provide below an update on developments in Azerbaijan since your December meetings in Baku. Septel will provide the strategic context of the intensified democracy dialogue and detail sp [...] | 2007-03-14 15:00:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU309 | KEY MP ANALYZES AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Chair of Parliament's International Relations Commission Samad Seyidov discussed Azerbaijan's role in the Council of Europe and in GUAM. He outlined growing Russian influence in Azerbaijan, and expressed frustration over Russian pressure o [...] | 2007-03-15 06:06:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM AJ |
07BAKU312 | SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S MARCH 21 [...] (C) As President Aliyev frequently notes in public and private meetings with Western officials, Azerbaijan is committed to Western values and has set itself the goal of developing as a market-based democracy, rooted in Euroatlantic structures. Aliyev and other senior Azerbaijani officials are [...] | 2007-03-16 04:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU327 | INDEPENDENT MP POSSIBLY ARRESTED, STRIPPED OF IMMUNITY [...] (U) A March 16 parliamentary session on Prime Minister Rasizade's annual report on the government's performance was disrupted by a scuffle between MPs that resulted in the apparent March 19 arrest of independent MP Hussein Abdullayev. During the March 16 session, Abdullayev harshly criticized [...] | 2007-03-19 13:07:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KJUS PINR AJ |
07BAKU329 | OPPOSTION MUSAVAT PARTY HOLDS THIRD, PEACEFUL PROTEST OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 18, the opposition Musavat party held a third, sanctioned protest against the January price increases. Approximately 800 people turned out for the peaceful protest, calling on the GOAJ to lower prices and provide a better life for Azerbaijani citizens. Turnout generally [...] | 2007-03-19 13:12:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KDEM PHUM PREL CASC AJ |
07BAKU334 | AZERBAIJAN: MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2006 [...] Summary: The Azerbaijan Country Report of the annual Human Rights Report was criticized by GOAJ officials, even as it was welcomed by independent human rights activists and political commentators. The Ambassador used a televised speech at a local university to draw attention to the report and [...] | 2007-03-23 05:18:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO OPRC PBTS AJ |
07BAKU337 | INDEPENDENT MP SENTENCED ON CHARGES OF BATTERY AND [...] (C) On March 19, independent Member of Parliament (MP) Hussein Abdullayev was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Abdullayev was arrested after disrupting Parliament's March 19 session, during which he aggressively criticized the Prime Minister's annual report on the GOAJ's performance. When [...] | 2007-03-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR AJ |
07BAKU369 | AZERBAIJAN NOTIFIED ON ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-03 12:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER PHUM AJ |
07BAKU37 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV, DRL A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 18-19 visit to Azerbaijan, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron secured President Aliyev's agreement to launch an intensified bilateral dialogue on the development of democracy in Azerbaijan in sessions to be held at [...] | 2007-01-09 11:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS ENRG RU IR AJ |
07BAKU379 | AZERBAIJAN: WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND [...] Per reftel requests, throughout March the Embassy concentrated programming on women's empowerment issues. In formal and informal settings, the Ambassador, Emboffs, and American visitors to Azerbaijan noted Women's History Month and International Women's Day, emphasizing that women's participat [...] | 2007-04-06 02:33:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO OIIP IWI AJ |
07BAKU38 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV, A/S LOWENKRON AGREE TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron on December 18 that the US and Azerbaijan need a "permanent dialogue, every two months," in which we can address openly and frankly issues related to Azerbaijan's democratic developmen [...] | 2007-01-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ETRD ECON IR RU AJ |
07BAKU400 | REP. HOEKSTRA'S APRIL 3 MEETING WITH PARLIAMENT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 3 meeting with Representative Hoekstra, the Azerbaijani Parliamentary leadership expressed its desire to build relationships with the U.S. Congress. Speaker Ogtay Asadov noted particular concern that Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act remains on the books, and that [...] | 2007-04-10 11:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS ENRG PHUM KDEM AM AJ |
07BAKU410 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In an April 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov clarified recent press rumors that Iran closed the border with Azerbaijan in early April, explaining that Iranian passport machines had malfunctioned and caused a brief delay for those crossing the border. Th [...] | 2007-04-11 10:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG EPET AMGT ABLD CASC AJ |
07BAKU411 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES RUSSIA, IRAN, ISLAM, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with Representative Hoekstra and the Ambassador, President Ilham Aliyev provided a tour d'horizon of Azerbaijan's foreign policy, regional geopolitics, energy policy and domestic development. Aliyev argued that Azerbaijan was unique, bordered by its former co [...] | 2007-04-11 11:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET KDEM PHUM ABLD AMGT CASC |
07BAKU430 | UPDATE ON DETAINED MP HUSSEIN ABDULLAYEV [...] (C) Separate conversations with the OSCE Baku Legal Advisor, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, and human rights activist Elchin Behbudov revealed additional details concerning the March 19 arrest and detention of independent Member of Parliament (MP) Hussein Abdullayev. (Abdullayev w [...] | 2007-04-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU439 | UN SECGEN REPRESENTATIVE UPBEAT ON GOAJ'S [...] (C) Summary: On April 5, UN Secretary General Representative Walter Kalin briefed the diplomatic corps at the end of his fact-finding mission on IDP conditions in Azerbaijan. Kalin was impressed by the GOAJ's efforts to address its IDP problem, especially its construction of suitable permane [...] | 2007-04-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM EAID AJ |
07BAKU445 | AZERBAIJAN DEPORTS IRANIAN ETHNIC AZERI ACTIVIST - [...] (SBU) According to Baku's APA News Agency, Iranian ethnic Azeri activist Javad Musavi was deported to Iran by officials of the Azerbaijani State Migration Service on April 12. According to media reports, Musavi applied for political asylum in Azerbaijan after fleeing Iran in January 2006, but [...] | 2007-04-17 10:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IR AJ |
07BAKU449 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: During an April 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev said that President Aliyev was very interested in the upcoming bilateral security consultations; Mehdiyev also expressed his strong support for the talks and promised to urge the Minister o [...] | 2007-04-17 14:12:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR MARR MASS PTER AJ |
07BAKU456 | AZERBAIJAN/OSCE: POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS AND MPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 28-30 visit to Baku, USOSCE Ambassador Finley met separately with a group of foreign policy Members of Parliament (MPs),female MPs, and political party leaders. The foreign policy MPs expressed a range of views about the level of democracy in Azerbaijan and agreed [...] | 2007-04-18 13:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KWMN AJ |
07BAKU458 | AZERBAIJAN/OSCE: FM MAMMADYAROV DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 28 meeting with visiting USOSCE Ambassador Finley, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov was upbeat about his recent visit to Washington but thought critics should acknowledge more Azerbaijan's steady democratic progress. Mammadyarov said political dialogue between oppositi [...] | 2007-04-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM KDEM KCOR AM IR AJ |
07BAKU459 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES AZERBAIJAN'S RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 29 meeting with visiting USOSCE Ambassador Julie Finley, President Aliyev praised Foreign Minister Mammadyarov's recent trip to Washington, and said that the signing of the energy MOU signified a "new stage" in the bilateral relationship. He expressed satisfaction with [...] | 2007-04-18 14:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM ENRG EPET RS KZ AJ |
07BAKU468 | PRESIDENTIAL PARDON DECREE INCLUDES YOUTH ACTIVIST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-19 12:05:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS AJ |
07BAKU47 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EU ACTION PLAN WITH PETER [...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative Peter Semneby told the Ambassador on December 15 that he was in Baku to take stock of the EU's relationship with Azerbaijan, support the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) peace process, and express concern over recent media and human rights problems. The Ambassador [...] | 2007-01-10 14:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM PHUM EAID ENRG AJ |
07BAKU471 | FORMER MINISTER FARHAD ALIYEV'S TRIAL SET FOR MAY [...] (C) Elton Guliyev, the principal defense lawyer for detained former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev, reports that the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has set May 15, 2007 as the preliminary hearing date for Aliyev's long awaited trial. Aliyev's 18-month pretrial detention is set to e [...] | 2007-04-19 14:12:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU472 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY VIEWS ON FARHAD ALIYEV AND [...] (C) At an April 19 meeting with key diplomatic missions (UK, Norway, France, OSCE, UN, Council of Europe, and US),Polec Counselor raised the question of press statements/public reactions to the expected April 20 verdict in the trial of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and the upcoming May 1 [...] | 2007-04-19 14:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU479 | AZERBAIJAN'S PROPOSALSFOR TIP SOLICITATION FOR [...] Per retel, we are pleased to submit five proposals for consideration for the G/TIP-Managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE funds. The Embassy's TIP team - comprised of Poloff, Resident Legal Advisor, Senior Law Enforcement Advisor, and Pol FSN - reviewed all received proposals, and determined these to be [...] | 2007-04-20 13:23:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AJ |
07BAKU486 | AZERBAIJAN STRONGLY PROTESTS CHANGED USG [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOAJ on April 20 reacted harshly to the USG's recently published revisions to the language in the 2006 Human Rights report on Armenia, pointing to new wording that "Armenian forces occupy large portions of Azerbaijani territory adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh," as a weakenin [...] | 2007-04-21 15:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ MARR PHUM |
07BAKU494 | CHANGED US WORDING ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT [...] (U) This is an action request; see paras 5-7. 2. (C) For senior Azerbaijani officials -- and particularly President Aliyev -- the USG's decision to change the language on Nagorno-Karabakh in the 2006 Armenia Human Rights Report after publication, coupled with press reports that we did so i [...] | 2007-04-23 15:57:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PINR MARR MOPS AJ |
07BAKU497 | FORMER HEALTH MINISTER ALI INSANOV SENTENCED TO 11 [...] (SBU) On April 20, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes found former GOAJ Health Minister Ali Insanov guilty of public corruption and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. In addition to Insanov, ten other defendants - all former Ministry of Health officials - were convicted and sent to prison on cha [...] | 2007-04-24 10:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU499 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER URGES US STATEMENT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 conversation with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov repeated the GOAJ's request for a "very clear indication that the US recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the Republic of Azerbaijan." Azimov argued that such a statement reflects long-standing US [...] | 2007-04-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM AM AJ |
07BAKU500 | INDEPENDENT EDITOR EYNULLA FATULLAYEV SENTENCED TO [...] (SBU) On April 20, Eynulla Fatullayev, Editor in Chief of the independent Russian-language Realny Azerbaijan newspaper (the highest circulated newsmagazine in the country) and the Azerbaijani-language Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper, was arrested and sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment on libel [...] | 2007-04-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PBTS AM AJ |
07BAKU504 | AZERBAIJANI BACKLASH AGAINST US WORDING ON [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 12-14. 2. (C) Summary: Post-publication revisions to Nagorno-Karabakh language in the 2006 Armenia Human Rights Report continue to ignite strong, negative reaction from the Azerbaijani Government and public. We are beginning to see a broader-bas [...] | 2007-04-24 13:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PINR MARR MOPS AJ |
07BAKU514 | AZERBAIJANI GOVERNMENT WELCOMES RETURN TO ORIGINAL [...] (U) This is an action message; see para 6. 2. (C) Per ref instructions, the Ambassador spoke to President Aliyev on the morning of April 26 and informed him that the Department had restored the original NK text in the 2006 Armenia Human Rights Report. The Ambassador underscored our great [...] | 2007-04-26 13:00:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS AM AJ |
07BAKU519 | GOAJ ISSUES SIX-YEAR LICENSES FOR ANS TV AND RADIO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU524 | REQUEST FOR AZERBAIJAN-SPECIFIC STATEMENT FOR PRESS [...] (U) This is an action request; see paras 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) Over the last year, media freedom in Azerbaijan has deteriorated significantly, with physical attacks on several journalists, numerous criminal libel cases launched against independent and opposition journalists, government pressur [...] | 2007-04-30 10:29:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AJ |
07BAKU557 | INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS CONVICTED FOR INCITING [...] (SBU) On May 4, the Sabail District Court convicted two journalists from the independent Sanat newspaper on charges of inciting religious hatred. Rafig Taghi, the author of a controversial article questioning the effects of Islamic influence in Azerbaijan, received a sentence of three years' i [...] | 2007-05-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KISL AJ |
07BAKU568 | AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT OF UNHRC ELECTION [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarches on Belarus and the UN Human Rights Council in separate May 10 conversations with President Aliyev's Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev and Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mammadov, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev. (Foreign Minist [...] | 2007-05-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC AJ |
07BAKU578 | AZERBAIJAN: PRO-OPPOSITION PARTIES HOLD SMALL, [...] (SBU) On May 12, several small pro-opposition parties staged a peaceful, sanctioned protest over social issues such as recent price increases, salaries, and pensions; they also called upon the GOAJ to disclose more information to the public about the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations. This [...] | 2007-05-14 12:37:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PBTS CASC IR AJ |
07BAKU581 | FARAH PANDITH'S MEETINGS WITH AZERBAIJANI ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani religious officials emphasized Azerbaijan's history of religious tolerance and interconfessional cooperation in April 25 meetings with EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith. Dr. Haji Sabir Hassanli, the rector of Baku Islamic University, said the university has approxima [...] | 2007-05-15 03:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL AJ |
07BAKU585 | FARAH PANDITH'S MEETINGS WITH AZERBAIJANI ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: During a late April trip, EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith met with several Azerbaijani Islamic communities in diverse regions of Azerbaijan. Mirpasha Bayramov -- the leader of the Binagadi religious community of Baku -- provided Pandith with background on his community, which p [...] | 2007-05-15 12:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU590 | EX-MINISTER FARHAD ALIYEV'S TRIAL BEGINS; [...] (U) On May 15, the trial of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev - along with 18 other defendants, including Aliyev's brother, former AzPetrol Oil Company President Rafig Aliyev - began at the Court of Grave Crimes. Aliyev was among several high-profile GOAJ officials arrested [...] | 2007-05-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU595 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CAUTIONING AZERBAIJAN AGAINST [...] (C) As reported ref a, the Ambassador delivered ref b demarche cautioning Azerbaijan against closer relations with Belarus in separate May 10 conversations with President Aliyev's Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, who said he would inform President Aliyev, and Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mamma [...] | 2007-05-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ECON BO RU AJ |
07BAKU60 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, EDITORS SHARE DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19, several prominent human rights activists shared their views on democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan with visiting DRL A/S Lowenkron. The Assistant Secretary outlined the three key areas of democracy - electoral democracy, governance, and civil society - and exp [...] | 2007-01-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU601 | AZERBAIJAN'S MEDIA CRACKDOWN CONTINUES: TWO MORE [...] (C) On May 16, two journalists from the opposition Mukhalifet newspaper, Editor-In-Chief Rovshan Kebirli and correspondent Yashar Agazadeh, were sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment each on criminal libel charges. The lawsuit was filed by the President's uncle - and Member of Parliament - Jala [...] | 2007-05-17 13:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU616 | AZERBAIJAN'S LEADING NEWSPAPER BARRED FROM OFFICE, [...] (U) On May 20, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) - citing structural deficiencies with the building - shut down the offices of Realny Azerbaijan and Gundelik Azerbaijan newspapers. (NOTE: Realny Azerbaijan is the country's highest-circulation newsmagazine.) Although the p [...] | 2007-05-21 13:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU62 | AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PARTY STILL UNABLE TO [...] (U) At the request of Popular Front Party (PFP) Deputy Chairman Fuad Mustafayev, on January 10 Poloff visited the offices to which the PFP was assigned following the party's November 25, 2006 eviction from 33 Khagani Street. The PFP's assigned new office space is the second floor of an annex to [...] | 2007-01-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU63 | POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS AGREE TO CONDUCT DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: During a lively December 19 dinner discussion with visiting DRL A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, ruling and opposition party leaders agreed to conduct a political dialogue based on the GOAJ's commitments to the OSCE and the Council of Europe. In agreeing to the dialogue, oppos [...] | 2007-01-15 07:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU636 | DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES [...] (C) Over the last week, the Embassy has been actively engaged in advocacy on both media freedom and access to the Farhad Aliyev trial (reftel). Charge used the occasion of a May 23 meeting with visiting senior US officials (septel) to raise our media concerns with President Aliyev. Charge to [...] | 2007-05-24 14:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AJ |
07BAKU64 | DEPUTY PROSECUTOR GENERAL UPDATES ON FARHAD [...] (C) In a January 11 meeting with Poloff, GOAJ First Deputy Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov provided an update on the investigation into the alleged October 2005 coup plot involving former ministers Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov and other former GOAJ officials. Usubov said that ten persons re [...] | 2007-01-29 04:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AJ |
07BAKU66 | AZERBAIJAN'S YOUTH MOVEMENTS: A BREAKDOWN OF KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's youth movements are often overlooked when examining the overall political situation - both by the GOAJ and by the international community. However, youth can play a quite critical role in democratic development, and with 65 percent of the population under the age of 3 [...] | 2007-01-29 08:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM SOCI AJ |
07BAKU664 | FARHAD ALIYEV TRIAL UPDATE: SUBSTANTIVE HEARING [...] (SBU) The substantive hearing of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev's trial began today, May 30. As in each session of the preliminary hearing, with the exception of two OSCE trial monitoring project staff members, all international observers and most journalists were barre [...] | 2007-05-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU67 | FIRST SANCTIONED OPPOSITION PROTEST SINCE NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) On January 28, the opposition Musavat Party held a peaceful, sanctioned protest, in response to the Tariff Council's decision to raise utilities prices. This was the first sanctioned protest since police violently dispersed a peaceful, sanctioned opposition rally on November 26, 2005 (se [...] | 2007-01-29 10:43:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM CASC ASEC AJ |
07BAKU673 | OVER 1,000 ETHNIC AZERIS REPORTEDLY ARRESTED IN [...] (SBU) Baku media outlets report that over 1,000 ethnic Azeris have been arrested in connection with demonstrations commemorating the one-year anniversary of large-scale ethnic Azeri protests which took place in northwestern Iran on 22 May 2006. According to these reports, largely peaceful de [...] | 2007-05-31 12:36:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IR AJ |
07BAKU7 | AZERBAIJANI POLICE RAID JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) According to UK Charge Colin Wells and UK Emboff Chris Gotch (strictly protect),GOAJ Interior Ministry police raided a gathering of over a hundred Jehovah's Witnesses taking place December 24, 2006 at a private home in Baku. Police briefly detained and released the overwhelming majority o [...] | 2007-01-03 13:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU700 | JOSEPH WOOD'S MEETING WITH ISLAMIC ANALYSTS [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs Joseph Wood and the Ambassador met with local Islamic analysts on May 30. The analysts agreed that Islamic observance is growing in Azerbaijan, particularly among the youth. The growth of Islam is in part a na [...] | 2007-06-06 11:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL AJ |
07BAKU711 | REGIONAL ISLAMIC SNAPSHOTS: ZAQATALA [...] (C) Summary: During a trip to Zaqatala, Qax, and Balakan, Emboffs visited several Islamic shrines, a dozen mosques, and an Islamic University to deepen our understanding of Islamic observance in northern Azerbaijan. Northern Azerbaijan is heavily Sunni, with a strong Sufi influence and a tra [...] | 2007-06-07 12:39:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL RU AJ |
07BAKU725 | A SNAPSHOT OF BAKU'S IDP COMMUNITIES [...] (SBU) Over the next few months, the Embassy plans to take a closer at Azerbaijan's internally displaced persons (IDP) population, estimated at roughly 675,000 persons. The GOAJ has pledged to close all existing tent camps by the end of 2007, but hundreds of thousands of IDPs still live in very [...] | 2007-06-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PBTS PHUM PGOV EAID AM AJ |
07BAKU748 | CRITICISM OF CAUCASUS MUSLIM BOARD'S HANDLING OF [...] (SBU) Prominent human rights activist Elchin Behbutov and two of his friends -- Bayram Sadikov, Hafiz Osman -- recently shared with us their views on the Hajj. The three had traveled together to Mecca, Saudi Arabia between December 21, 2006 and January 18, 2007 in order to participate in the m [...] | 2007-06-15 08:12:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KCOR AJ |
07BAKU758 | "FRIENDS OF AZERBAIJAN" DEMARCHE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: The "Friends of Azerbaijan," an informal grouping of like-minded OSCE member states, the OSCE and the Council of Europe (COE),demarched Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev on media issues June 14. Reaffirming Azerbaijan's commitment to democracy, Mehdiyev said the unres [...] | 2007-06-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PTER IR AJ |
07BAKU760 | FOREIGN MINISTER MAMMADYAROV ON ENERGY AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov said he recently sent a letter to Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to push for a transit agreement, suggesting an agreement was possible within one month. Mammadyarov said SOCAR will negotiate the a [...] | 2007-06-19 05:01:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PHUM AJ |
07BAKU79 | DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S DECEMBER 19 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a December 19 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev assured DRL A/S Lowenkron that "in line with President Aliyev's recommendation," independent ANS TV will participate in the tender for its frequency and "its activities will be fully restored." Mehdiyev bla [...] | 2007-01-18 10:50:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR RU AJ |
07BAKU794 | PROTESTANTS COMPLAIN OF RELIGIOUS HARASSMENT [...] (C) Summary: Police in the small northwestern village of Aliabad detained and arrested Baptist Pastor Zaur Balaev on May 20. Representatives from the local Baptist community claim authorities violated their religious freedoms and that they are being singled out for persecution. The State C [...] | 2007-06-25 12:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF AJ |
07BAKU804 | GOAJ SHARES DOCUMENT ALLEGING IRANIAN PLOT IN [...] (C) During a June 14 meeting with the "Friends of Azerbaijan" on media freedom, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev gave the Ambassador a Farsi-language document that he said indicated that Iranian security forces had instructed Iranian religious groups to use the media to foment disse [...] | 2007-06-26 10:42:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM IR AJ |
07BAKU805 | AZERBAIJAN: RULING PARTY TAKES FIRST STEPS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 21, the Yeni Azerbaijan Party hosted a conference entitled "Media and Society." It was well-attended by representatives of all major media outlets and Members of Parliament, and speakers conveyed a wide range of views. Separately on June 21, in a meeting with the DCM, P [...] | 2007-06-27 07:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU811 | AZERBAIJAN: POLICE USE INAPPROPRIATE FORCE TO [...] (SBU) On June 14, Baku police used an inappropriate level of force to disperse a group of approximately 25 journalists, who had staged an unsanctioned protest at a downtown Baku park. The journalists, who were reacting to the deteriorating media situation, had announced to the press that they [...] | 2007-06-27 11:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU812 | AZERBAIJAN: 2007 TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On June 20, Poloff delivered the 2007 TIP Report to Fakhraddin Ismayilov and Gulnara Asgarova, Human Rights Attaches for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Per reftel instructions, she highlighted U.S. concerns regarding Azerbaijan's efforts to combat trafficking in persons, particularly [...] | 2007-06-27 11:07:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU828 | FARHAD ALIYEV'S TRIAL QUIETLY PROCEEDS [...] (C) Since the May 30 start of former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev's substantive hearing, the trial has been proceeding quietly (literally, as the lack of microphones and the whirring of several air conditioners in the long, narrow courtroom prevent observers from hearing most [...] | 2007-06-29 12:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
07BAKU833 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TIP, MEDIA CRACKDOWN, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov, the Ambassador delivered the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report, highlighting areas identified in the report as needing greater GOAJ action. The Minister was receptive to most suggestions, and agreed to continu [...] | 2007-07-03 05:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU851 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES JUDICIAL REFORM, TRIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 2 meeting with Minister of Justice Fikret Mammadov, the Ambassador noted that continued judicial reform and strengthened rule of law are key to Azerbaijan's long-term stability. Mammadov plans to build more courthouses and hire more judges. He anticipated a July appoi [...] | 2007-07-09 10:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU857 | GOAJ AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AGREE ON STEPS TO [...] (C) Summary: Following Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev's commitment to launch an informal working group on media freedom (ref),Presidential Political Advisor Ali Hasanov met July 3 with representatives of the OSCE, COE and like-minded diplomatic missions to develop recommendations to improve A [...] | 2007-07-10 06:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU861 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GOAJ HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 2 call on GOAJ Human Rights Ombudswoman Elmira Suleymanova, the Ambassador conveyed the Embassy's suggestions on the GOAJ's human rights action plan, urging the GOAJ to create issue-specific working groups and adopt concrete, measurable goals. Suleymanova said she [...] | 2007-07-10 07:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
07BAKU862 | KEY MPS DISCUSS AZERBAIJAN'S FUTURE, BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 3 meeting with Representative Tierney, Chair of Parliament's International Relations Commission Samad Seyidov and Members of Parliament Asim Mollazade and Nasib Nasibli noted that Azerbaijan has chosen western orientation, explaining that this is difficult under increas [...] | 2007-07-10 07:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IR AJ |
07BAKU880 | WORLD AZERBAIJANIS CONGRESS ELECTS A NEW LEADER [...] (C) Summary: The World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) held its ninth international conference in Cologne, Germany July 6-8. With over two hundred participants representing Azeri communities in Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia in attendance, members exchanged ideas and discussed new strat [...] | 2007-07-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM IR AJ |
07BAKU904 | IMPRISONED NEWSPAPER EDITOR FACES ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) On July 4, the Ministry of National Security (MNS) brought two new criminal charges against imprisoned journalist Eynulla Fatullayev for a Realny Azerbaijan article titled, "The Aliyevs Go to War." The MNS charged Fatullayev with inciting national, ethnic, and religious hatred (article [...] | 2007-07-18 09:00:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL OSAC IR AJ |
07BAKU926 | AZERBAIJAN'S MEDIA ON THE ROPES [...] (C) Summary: This year's attacks on and imprisonment of several more journalists, a growing backlog of defamation cases, and continuing financial difficulties at most of the pro-opposition and independent newspapers have deservedly given the GOAJ a black eye on media freedom. Several opposi [...] | 2007-07-24 11:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL AJ |
07BAKU938 | AZERBAIJAN: EU, US, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: At a July 20 dinner hosted by the Ambassador, local Azerbaijani human rights activists, EU senior officials Peter Semneby and Riina Kionka, and local diplomatic representatives discussed media freedom and other human rights issues in Azerbaijan. While seven prominent journalists [...] | 2007-07-26 06:01:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AJ |
07BAKU94 | AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PARTY GRANTED ACCESS TO [...] (SBU) Nearly two months after being evicted from its downtown office space, the opposition Popular Front Party (PFP) was granted full access to its belongings January 19. During the November 25 eviction, the GOAJ had removed PFP's belongings from the 33 Khagani location, leaving them at a dist [...] | 2007-01-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
07BAKU95 | AZERBAIJAN: KIDNAPPING AND EXTORTION GANG LEADER [...] (U) In a January 19 verdict, former Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Criminal Investigation Division Haji Mammadov was sentenced to life in prison. Nine members of Mammadov's 26-member murder, kidnapping and extortion gang also received life sentences. One of the accused, the owner of [...] | 2007-01-19 14:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI KCOR KCRM KJUS AJ |
07BAKU953 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV: ON JAILED JOURNALISTS, "I WANT [...] (C) Summary: In a spirited July 27 exchange with President Aliyev, Ambassador Derse laid out the international community's serious concerns on defamation suits, jailed journalists, and the lack of government investigation of violence against journalists. On the jailed journalists, the Presi [...] | 2007-07-27 13:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG IR MARR PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
07BAKU956 | IRAN DEMOCRACY SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM [...] (C) Embassy Baku welcomes the Iran Democracy Small Grants Program and looks forward to participating in the pilot phase of the program (reftel). Working in close coordination with the Embassy's Public Diplomacy and Political/Economic sections, Embassy Iran Watcher will be responsible for con [...] | 2007-07-30 06:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PHUM PREL IR AJ |
07BAMAKO1196 | SITUATION OF CONGOLESE REFUGEES IN BAMAKO [...] Mamadou Sidibe, the acting director of the United Nations High Commission for Refugee's (UNHCR) office in Mali, told the Embassy on October 10 that UNHCR was unable to provide further assistance to the 27 Congolese refugees now in Bamako, effectively abandoning the Congolese to their fate on [...] | 2007-10-18 12:36:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM ML |
07BAMAKO1223 | "WAHHABIS" AND ISLAM IN MALI [...] Summary: Some external observers have become increasingly concerned over a segment of Malian Muslims frequently described as "Wahhabi" (ref A),fearing that those so labeled are likely to advance a radical agenda. This concern stems from confusion, rooted in expedient if inaccurate labels d [...] | 2007-10-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL EAID SOCI PHUM IFR PTER PINR PGOV ML |
07BAMAKO1254 | MALIAN SOLDIERS KILL TUAREG GENDARME IN GAO [...] On October 17 Assaleh ag Mohamed, an ethnic Tuareg and former rebel who was integrated into the Malian gendarmarie in 1996, was killed by members of the Malian regular army in Gao. Unofficial sources in Gao report that the killing occurred in a garage area within the confines of a Malian mi [...] | 2007-10-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ASEC PINS ML |
07BAMAKO1255 | MALIAN SOLDIERS KILL TUAREG GENDARME IN GAO [...] On October 17 Assaleh ag Mohamed, an ethnic Tuareg and former rebel who was integrated into the Malian gendarmarie in 1996, was killed by members of the Malian regular army in Gao. Unofficial sources in Gao report that the killing occurred in a garage area within the confines of a Malian mi [...] | 2007-10-25 14:14:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ASEC PINS ML |
07BAMAKO1261 | DEMARCHE ON CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR IAAC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:53:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN ML |
07BAMAKO1262 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:54:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN ML |
07BAMAKO1263 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:55:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA ML |
07BAMAKO1264 | DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:56:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU ML |
07BAMAKO1274 | UNHCR REFUSES TO CLARIFY ITS ROLE OR MAKE [...] The Embassy contacted UNHCR/Mali's Director Adama Kouyate on October 29 to inquire about the status of humanitarian assistance supposedly earmarked by UNHCR's Geneva headquarters for the 27 Congolese refugees now in Bamako (ref A). Director Kouyate claimed he was unaware of UNHCR Geneva's de [...] | 2007-10-29 17:12:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM ML |
07BAMAKO1279 | MALI PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 15:54:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL AORC UNGA |
07BAMAKO1316 | MALI BLOCKS TAIWAN PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador had several conversations with officials at the Foreign Ministry about Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) participation in the NGO portion of the Bamako Community of Democracies ministerial. In a November 2 discussion, Dr. Oumar Makalou the coordinator of the civil society [...] | 2007-11-07 10:28:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TW ML |
07BAMAKO1321 | FOR WHOM THE WHISTLE BLOWS: AN OFFICE DU NIGER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 07:32:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCOR EAGR PGOV KDEM ML |
07BAMAKO1336 | MUSLIM LEADERS CHALLENGE ATT OVER DEATH PENALTY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 15:42:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SOCI PHUM KWMN PINR ML |
07BAMAKO1347 | TRANSLATION REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 10:45:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ML |
07BAMAKO1357 | POLICE TEAR GAS ISLAMIC GROUP IN BAMAKO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 16:23:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PHUM PINR PGOV ML |
07BAMAKO675 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 07:46:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA ML |
07BAMAKO717 | CHILD TRAFFICKERS AWAITING COURT DECISION [...] Alleged Ivoirian child traffickers Bernard Assouman Yao and Simon Djehi Bi Ta remain in custody in Sikasso following their arrest in March 2007 for allegedly attempting to traffic 46 young men from Cote d'Ivoire to Europe. If convicted, they will be the first traffickers punished under Mali [...] | 2007-07-03 13:08:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ML |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN105 | BRUNEI LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - MORE SMALL STEPS [...] (C) Brunei took another small step forward on the path to more representative government when the State Legislative Council (LegCo) convened for its third session March 6-11. Repeating last year's move toward greater fiscal transparency (ref A),the appointed and indirectly-elected members of t [...] | 2007-03-20 09:24:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN109 | BRUNEI POLITICAL PARTIES: AND THEN THERE WERE TWO [...] (C) The PAKAR Political party, one of just three in Brunei, was declared dead by police on March 19. Foul play is not suspected, as intra-party personality conflicts led to PAKAR's untimely demise. Brunei's other two parties, the NDP and PPKB, are active, and in NDP's case, growing in member [...] | 2007-03-23 08:37:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN14 | BRUNEI WELCOMES INFO ON UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (SBU) DCM delivered demarche reftels on January 11 to Florence Chong, Assistant Director of the UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Chong welcomed U.S. transparency in providing the draft text and background information. 2. (SBU) Chong stated that ASEAN would need [...] | 2007-01-12 06:22:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV UNSC BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN149 | BRUNEI MAY HAVE FLEXIBILITY TO DROP SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) As discussed Ref C, Brunei is still likely to support Belarus in at least the first round of UNHRC voting. At this late stage, drawing on Ref C paragraph 3 points, USUN may still be able to help move Brunei to abstain on Belarus in subsequent rounds now that we understand Bosnia has announ [...] | 2007-05-18 04:34:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN16 | NEW ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY TO EMPHASIZE MODERATE [...] The Sultan of Brunei has announced establishment of an Islamic university which will educate Muslim students from across Southeast Asia in mainstream Islamic doctrine. Brunei's government will fund scholarships for nine prospective Filipino Islamic clerics in the new university's first enteri [...] | 2007-01-17 03:40:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN205 | BRUNEI RELEASES FIVE ISA DETAINEES [...] The Government of Brunei (GOB) has announced release of five detainees held without public trial on counterfeiting charges since February 2004 under provisions of the Internal Security Act (ISA). Detentions under the ISA are usually for two-year renewable periods, but in this case the release [...] | 2007-07-17 09:05:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN279 | BRUNEI POLITICAL PARTIES CALL FOR RIGHTS EDUCATION BEFORE [...] (SBU) In an effort to raise the level of political maturity in Brunei, the country's two active political parties recently held events designed to educate the public on political rights currently available to Brunei citizens. Party leaders expressed concern that some GOB officials still see th [...] | 2007-09-18 05:44:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN288 | BRUNEI SUPPORTS UNPRECEDENTED ASEAN ACTION TO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche separately to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MoFAT) Permanent Secretaries Dato Shofry Ghafor and Pengiran Dato Osman Patra SIPDIS on October 2. Both indicated that Brunei fully supported the ASEAN position on Burma, noting that ASEAN had [...] | 2007-10-03 07:20:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN293 | BRUNEI RELEASES ISD DETAINEE; CONDITIONS DETAILED [...] (C) On September 28, the Internal Security Department (ISD) released the last of four persons detained for selling and leaking state secrets, bringing the total still held by the ISD under the Internal Security Act (ISA) down to five persons. A former detainee told us that conditions of deten [...] | 2007-10-05 00:08:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN319 | BRUNEI LIKELY TO REPEAT LAST YEARS' VOTES ON UNGA [...] (SBU) DCM delivered ref A demarche on October 24 to Florence Chong, Assistant Director for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Chong replied that Brunei would likely take positions on single country resolutions similar to last year (see also ref B),when Brunei [...] | 2007-10-24 07:12:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PHUM PREL UN BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN321 | BRUNEI LIKELY TO SUPPORT CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Florence Chong, Assistant Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MoFAT) on October 25. Chong responded that Brunei was opposed to sanctions in principle and had supported the Cuba resolution last year. DCM p [...] | 2007-10-26 07:24:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA ETRD PHUM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN322 | BRUNEI FAVORS UN LEAD ON BURMA [...] (C) The GoB believes that the efforts of UN Special Representative Gambari are and should continue to be central to the international community's attempt to bring Burma toward dialogue and national reconciliation. China's leverage is probably overrated, in the GoB view. While the Bruneians b [...] | 2007-10-26 07:40:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN329 | A GLIMPSE OF BRUNEI STYLE DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 28, DCM and Pol/Mil Assistant observed the election for the Village Chief of Kampong Lumapas. Voters approved by a vote of 226 to 20 the single candidate placed on the ballot after official screening. GoB officials were disappointed at the low turnout, but noted than [...] | 2007-11-02 05:04:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN332 | AND THEN THERE WAS ONE: BRUNEI SUSPENDS POLITICAL [...] (C) In mid September, the GoB suspended one of Brunei's two remaining political parties, the PPKB for failing to file annual reports with the Registrar of Societies (ROS). PPKB President Abdul Latiff Chuchu readily admits his predecessor failed to file the mandatory reports, but asserts that t [...] | 2007-11-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN51 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN BRUNEI: HOW ST. ANDREW GOT [...] (C) The Anglican Parish of St. Andrew,s has finally received a permit to resume rebuilding its church in Bandar Seri Begawan, the first major construction project on a non-Muslim house of worship to be approved in Brunei in decades. This follows several months in which the congregation was i [...] | 2007-02-09 08:26:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN87 | BRUNEI TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Please find below Post's report in preparation for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Please note paragraph numbering is keyed to reftel questions: -------- OVERVIEW -------- A. Brunei is not a major destination for trafficked persons, nor is it a source or transit country. [...] | 2007-03-09 06:43:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF BX |
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN90 | BRUNEI WANTS SOLID UN BURMA REPLACEMENT FOR GAMBARI [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points to Florence Chong, Assistant Director for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) on March 7. Chong said that the GoB had welcomed UN U/S Gambari's efforts in Burma and hoped that the gap between Gambari and his replacement [...] | 2007-03-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM BX |
07BANGKOK1034 | THAI RAK THAI LEADER DEFIES RESTRICTIONS ON PARTY [...] (C) Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party Leader Chaturon Chaiseng defied the government's ban on political party activities by holding public gatherings in Thailand's Northeast February 18-19. It is unclear whether he will face sanctions as a result. His activities come as Council for National Security [...] | 2007-02-21 10:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1036 | THAT WAS FAST: SOMKID RESIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After less than a week, former Thaksin economic czar Somkid has resigned from his post in the current government. Somkid had volunteered to assist the Surayud administration and help stem the loss of international confidence by explaining the "sufficiency economy" policies adop [...] | 2007-02-21 23:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1047 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Pitch JINDAWONG, Counter Terrorist Operations Center, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible [...] | 2007-02-22 03:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1048 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj.Gen. Songsak SAHASOMCHOKE, Counter Terrorist Operations Center, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no [...] | 2007-02-22 03:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1049 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wing Commander Virush PEAMHOG, Chief of Civil Case Section (Judge Advocate) Royal Thai Air Force who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. [...] | 2007-02-22 03:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1050 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wing Commander Supot MITYODWONG, Chief of Education Section (Judge Advocate),Directorate of Administration, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected [...] | 2007-02-22 03:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1051 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Squadron Leader Yingyos YORDSAWAI, Legal Officer (Judge Advocate) of Directorate of Civil Engineering, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to att [...] | 2007-02-22 03:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1052 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wijittra SOOKLERT, Legal Officer of the Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credi [...] | 2007-02-22 04:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK110 | CONSTITUTION ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT FORESEES FAST [...] (U) Thailand's Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) convened for the first time on January 8. This meeting marked the beginning of a 180-day time frame provided by the interim constitution. The CDA thus has until July 7 to complete "drafting and consideration" of a new constitution. The gove [...] | 2007-01-08 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1106 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) (Agency/Office) has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above- [...] | 2007-02-23 08:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK111 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CNS SECRETARY GENERAL ON [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with General Winai Phattiyakul, Secretary General of the Council for National Security (CNS),SIPDIS at a gathering in honor of Privy Councilor Siddhi Saveysila on January 7. Pulling Winai aside, the Ambassador conveyed increasing concern over the persistence of mar [...] | 2007-01-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC TH |
07BANGKOK113 | UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA: THAIS CONSIDERING DRAFT [...] (C) Responding to reftel instructions, the Ambassador on January 8 called MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn and requested that the RTG express support for the draft UNSC resolution on Burma to UNSC member states. Krit replied that he had read the draft resolution, which we had f [...] | 2007-01-09 00:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM TH |
07BANGKOK1151 | READOUT: SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOCIAL ISSUES [...] (C) In a February 12-13 visit to Bangkok, Special Representative for Social Issues, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees, raised concern about refugees and respect for human rights with Thai MFA officials. The MFA Director General for American Affairs called Burma "Thailand's Mexico" in response to [...] | 2007-02-26 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM CH TH |
07BANGKOK1152 | READOUT: SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOCIAL ISSUES [...] (C) In a February 12-13 visit to Bangkok, Special Representative for Social Issues, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees raised concern about Burma's human rights record with the Prime Minister's Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs, Ambassador Surapong Jayanama. Surapong offered a frank a [...] | 2007-02-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM TH |
07BANGKOK1187 | AMBASSADOR AND CNS GENERAL WINAI DISCUSS POLITICAL [...] (C) The Ambassador cautioned the Council for National Security (CNS) against responding harshly to political activities by the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party leader. In a February 26 lunch with CNS Secretary General Winai Phattiyakul, the Ambassador also expressed USG interest in the CNS lifting r [...] | 2007-02-27 10:26:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KDEM ASEC TH |
07BANGKOK1188 | CONSTITUTION DRAFTER REPORTS PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first draft of the constitution should be ready for review by government agencies by mid April, according to Constitution Drafting Committee deputy Chair Charan Pakditanakul. EAP/MLS Director Rapson underscored the USG's interest in Thailand's quick return to full democracy [...] | 2007-02-27 11:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1209 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PRIDIYATHORN RESIGNS [...] (U) On February 28, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula resigned his positions in government effective March 1. The reasons he gave for his resignation were: - Unhappiness with the criticism leveled at him by the head of the Manager Media group, Sondhi Limthongkul [...] | 2007-02-28 23:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK1239 | REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR LIU BAOSHUN AND WIFE GAO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Post is referring Chinese citizens, Mr. Liu Baoshun and his wife Gao Jinying, for resettlement to the United States through the Department's Refugee Resettlement Program. Biographical information follows: Name: Liu Baoshu D/POB: Februa [...] | 2007-03-01 08:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM TH BMGT |
07BANGKOK1249 | THAI RAK THAI LEADER ADDRESSES THREAT OF [...] (C) Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party Leader Chaturon Chaiseng said the authorities' decision to prosecute him for political activities was unwarranted and generated extra publicity for his views. In remarks before a packed house at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on February 28, Chaturon [...] | 2007-03-01 11:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK133 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) Jusmag Thai has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-ment [...] | 2007-01-09 06:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK134 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-ment [...] | 2007-01-09 06:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1391 | RTG VIEWS ON NEXT STEPS ON BURMA [...] (C) Ambassador raised reftel points with outgoing MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn, who offered no substantive response. However, in meetings at the working level, MFA Director of East Asian Division II Kallayana Vipattipumiprates suggested former President of the Philippines [...] | 2007-03-08 10:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM TH |
07BANGKOK1399 | THAILAND'S NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with visiting Regional Finatt and Econoff, Dr. Chalongphob Sussangkarn, President of economic think-tank Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) and newly appointed Minister of Finance, said that his priorities in office would be to strengthen the monetary a [...] | 2007-03-09 02:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK1492 | THAKSIN REPORTEDLY BIDING HIS TIME [...] (C) Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has canceled some media interviews and wants to lower his profile, according to Noppadol Pattama, Thaksin's lawyer and spokesman. Noppadol told us Thaksin wanted to signal his commitment to quit politics, in order to boost the chances that he and [...] | 2007-03-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TH |
07BANGKOK1520 | SOMKID PLANS OWN POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 14 Econoff met with Somkid Jatusripitak, Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy during the Thaksin regime and, for five days, the current government's spokesman on "sufficiency economy" questions. In a wide-ranging discussion, Somkid expressed full confidence that electio [...] | 2007-03-14 09:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK1538 | THAI RAK THAI LEADER WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE [...] (C) Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party Leader Chaturon Chaiseng fears the coup leaders will not allow a free election if that would result in a TRT victory. In a March 13 meeting at the Ambassador's residence, Chaturon said the Army's own polling showed high popular support for TRT; TRT's continuing p [...] | 2007-03-15 04:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TH |
07BANGKOK1553 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-ment [...] | 2007-03-15 08:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1575 | VISIT OF SENK SENIOR ADVISOR CHRISTIAN WHITON [...] (C) Summary. Christian Whiton, Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea (SENK),explained to Thai government and UNHCR officials the objectives the SENK was pursuing related to refugees, North Korean human rights, and political change in North Korea. He expressed a [...] | 2007-03-16 03:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM TH KS KN |
07BANGKOK1586 | IF THAI POLITICIANS WERE EXPIRED FOODS... [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a candid meeting, civil activist Rosana Tositurakul likened Thai politicians to "products with a short shelf life" when exposed to the culture of corruption. She urged the international community to focus on counter-corruption and transparency measures in Thailand instead of [...] | 2007-03-16 07:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1587 | OUTSPOKEN ACADEMIC ON ANTI-COUP PROTESTS [...] (C) Outspoken academic Giles Ungpakorn told us he suspected many anti-coup activist groups had ties to the Thai Rak Thai party, while independent intellectuals and civil society groups were not significantly energized against the government. Although Ungpakorn has vocally criticized the coup [...] | 2007-03-16 07:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1588 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Pongsiri PURGCHAIPAEW, Judge Advocate General, Ministry of Defense, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possess [...] | 2007-03-16 07:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1589 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) DAO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below who has been selected to attend the following course(s). Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of hu [...] | 2007-03-16 07:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1597 | CONSTITUTION: DEBATE HEATS UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to many contacts, there is a real danger that the constitution will not pass the required referendum, but a good draft still has a pretty good chanc of success. This week, debate focused on a possible provision to allow a "non-elected PM," an idea which seems to be pop [...] | 2007-03-16 09:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1630 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON FORMER PM BANHARN SILAPA-ARCHA [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Banharn Silapa-Archa told the Ambassador that the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) had lost most of its influence, and fair elections would show a sharp decline in support for TRT. Banharn foresaw moderate growth for his own Chart Thai Party. He staunchly opposed a propose [...] | 2007-03-19 09:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1652 | RTG RESPONSE TO BUILDING SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Tomwit Jarnson, Director of the Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He expressed RTG concerns with the ongoing situation in Zimbabwe, but said no official statement had been issued at this point. Jarnson said he would discuss possible support [...] | 2007-03-20 09:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ZI TH |
07BANGKOK1658 | THAILAND'S REPORT CARD, SIX MONTHS POST-COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a TV broadcast on March 20, RTG agencies and the coup council gave their assessments of their progress since the September 19 coup d'etat. Representatives of the Council for National Security and several government agencies assured the public that they supported democracy, th [...] | 2007-03-20 10:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1695 | THAI ECONOMIC FORECASTS REVISED DOWNWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials (including newly appointed Finance Minister Chalungphob) and private sector analysts expressed deep concerns about the economy in meetings with visiting US Treasury officials. Growth forecasts for 2007 have recently been revised downward - from 4.5 to 5 perc [...] | 2007-03-22 05:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK1702 | PROSPECTS FOR THAILAND'S 2007 ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials (including newly appointed Finance Minister Chalungphob) and private sector analysts expressed deep concerns about the economy in meetings with visiting US Treasury officials. Growth forecasts for 2007 have recently been revised downward - from 4.5 to 5 perc [...] | 2007-03-22 07:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK1715 | THAI PM SURAYUD ON RESTORING CIVIL LIBERTIES [...] (C) Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told the Ambassador the RTG would lift restrictions on political party activity in April, after the completion of the first draft of the Constitution -- but we are not convinced the RTG will follow through. In a March 22 phone call, Surayud said the RTG wo [...] | 2007-03-22 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM ECON EINV KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1752 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ASEAN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Members of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) met with Ambassador Boyce to exchange views on Burma. Indonesian parliamentarian Djoko Susilo noted the Indonesian legislature was pressing its Foreign Ministry to take a stronger line on Burma, and he welcomed the U.S. Emba [...] | 2007-03-23 09:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KDEM BM TH |
07BANGKOK179 | PRIME MINISTER SURAYUD DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) Prime Minister Surayud told the Ambassador he remained committed to lifting martial law in the near future. However, technical issues had delayed the issuance of a royal command that would rescind martial law in a majority of Thailand's provinces. The Ambassador reiterated strong USG inte [...] | 2007-01-10 11:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ECON EINV MOPS ASEC |
07BANGKOK1845 | GENERAL SONTHI ASKS FOR EMERGENCY POWERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Coup council head General Sonthi has said publicly that he has requested emergency powers to preserve security in Bangkok. The military is concerned that anti-government demonstrations, spearheaded by Thaksin loyalists, could snowball and provoke "chaos." Prime Minister Surayu [...] | 2007-03-28 12:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1859 | EMBASSY REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR ZAW THAN HTIKE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (SBU) Embassy is referring Burmese citizen, Mr. Zaw Than Htike, for resettlement to the United States through the Department's Refugee Resettlement Program. Biographical information follows: Name: Zaw Than Htike DOB: November 11, 1975 Nati [...] | 2007-03-29 08:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM TH BMGT |
07BANGKOK1869 | OUR LATEST CHALLENGE: INTRODUCTION OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge urged the foreign minister and the coup council Secretary-General not to invoke emergency rule in Bangkok. GEN Winai explained that the government needed the additional measures, which fell short of reinstituting martial law, to prevent further destabilizing efforts from [...] | 2007-03-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1875 | WILL HE OR WON'T HE?: BACKGROUND TO DEBATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY and INTRODUCTION: According to breaking news reports, Prime Minister Surayud announced this evening that he would not agree to institute emergency measures in Bangkok in advance of a demonstration to be held tomorrow. The PM was responding to a request from GEN Sonthi, head of t [...] | 2007-03-29 23:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1891 | PRM DAS RYAN'S MARCH 23-26 VISIT TO THAILAND [...] (C) Summary. During a March 23-26 visit, RTG officials told PRM DAS Kelly Ryan that the Lao Hmong issue, including the group in detention in Nong Khai, was deadlocked. The issue was complicated by a number of factors, and the RTG needed additional time to talk with the Lao government. The T [...] | 2007-03-30 08:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL TH LA BM |
07BANGKOK1894 | PRM DAS RYAN VISIT TO THAILAND: NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) Summary. During a March 23-26 visit to Bangkok, PRM Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan observed extremely overcrowded conditions for North Koreans in the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center (IDC). She interviewed restless North Korean refugees who have expressed interest in [...] | 2007-03-30 08:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL TH KN KS |
07BANGKOK1899 | PRIME MINISTER REAFFIRMS ELECTION TIMETABLE [...] (U) Prime Minister Surayud yesterday reaffirmed the government's commitment to hold elections before the end of the year. He told the press on March 29 that the cabinet had agreed the elections should be held on December 16 or 23, with the referendum on the constitution in September. 2. (C [...] | 2007-03-30 10:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK1957 | RTG APPROACH TO DRAFTING THE ASEAN CHARTER [...] (C) The RTG will not support a change from consensus-based decision-making in ASEAN, and the Thais have demonstrated little interest in creating ASEAN mechanisms for sanctioning member states. As the RTG participates in deliberations on the ASEAN Charter, the legislature has solicited views [...] | 2007-04-04 05:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SENV ASEAN XC BMGT TH |
07BANGKOK1976 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LTC Sadet ARKAJAG, Royal Thai Army, Special Warfare Command, DPOB: Aug. 14, 1969, Nakkornratchasima, TH, who has been selected to attend course(s) liste [...] | 2007-04-05 02:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK1991 | BURMESE EXILE COMMUNITY AGREES ON UNITY IN [...] (C) A group of 60 Burmese exile community leaders recently attended a Strategy Coordinating Committee (SCC) meeting in the border area to hash out a consolidated approach toward supporting the pro-democracy movement in Burma. Informally shooting down an idea to form a unity government, some [...] | 2007-04-05 06:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM TH |
07BANGKOK2017 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-ment [...] | 2007-04-05 10:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK2031 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-ment [...] | 2007-04-09 03:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK2037 | TH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 05:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK2045 | THAI HEALTH MINISTER TO VISIT WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Summary. The proposed visit of Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla to Washington provides the USG the opportunity to engage with perhaps the most high profile member of the current Thai cabinet in terms of driving his agenda forward. As judged by recent polls, he is clearly the most popul [...] | 2007-04-09 09:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK2047 | Internet Censorship and YouTube [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) has blocked the popular website YouTube.com because of video clips mocking the Thai King. In the past two weeks, Thailand has also blocked a pro-Thaksin website and has asked at least one major site to take down a po [...] | 2007-04-09 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OIIP PHUM TH |
07BANGKOK2053 | BAHT APPRECIATION, CAPITAL CONTROLS AND EXCHANGE RATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-10 00:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
07BANGKOK2073 | COMMITTEE SHAPING DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (C) The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) met on April 10 to adopt a position on some controversial provisions proposed for a draft version of the constitution. The most controversial proposal would allow persons other than elected legislators to become Prime Minister; this idea faces wid [...] | 2007-04-10 10:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM TH |
07BANGKOK2074 | THAILAND VS. YOUTUBE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the name of national security and preventing lese majeste, the interim Thai government began in the past few weeks to block several pro-Thaksin and/or anti-coup websites. But what began as a simple ban on a few sites has now turned into a confrontation between the Thai govern [...] | 2007-04-10 23:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO TH |
07BANGKOK2137 | RTG MFA REACTION TO SKIRMISHES ON THE THAI-BURMA [...] (C) On April 12, MFA Director of the East Asian Division II Kallayana Vipattipumiprates said the Thai were closely monitoring recent skirmishes on the border between the Karen National Union (KNU),the collective forces of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC),the Democratic Karen Bu [...] | 2007-04-12 09:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF MOPS PHUM BH TH |