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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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08BEIJING3728 | CHINESE SEARCH ENGINES CENSOR FOR CASH? [...] (C) One consequence of the ongoing milk safety scandal in China has been the revelation that PRC search engines apparently regularly accept money from corporate clients to suppress negative news in online search results. Baidu, by far China's most popular search engine, has been criticized ov [...] | 2008-09-25 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI CH |
08BEIJING3729 | SEPTEMBER 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHAVEZ VISIT, MILK [...] Key points at the September 25 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China did not discuss military cooperation with President Chavez during his recent visit, despite claims by Chavez that such cooperation was discussed. The two sides signed energy and trade agreements during the visit. [...] | 2008-09-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ENRG EAGR PHUM TSPA CH VE KN JP |
08BEIJING3730 | HUMAN RIGHTS: NYT'S ZHAO YAN RELEASED AFTER [...] (C) Well-known New York Times researcher and PRC citizen Zhao Yan (protect) told PolOff September 22 that he had been detained for questioning in Beijing by Guangxi provincial security officials September 10-12 over his connection to several Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region residents who had t [...] | 2008-09-25 11:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
08BEIJING3756 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: SMALL ARMS [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates, from the Chinese Tianjin Municipal Police, who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. (SBU) Name [...] | 2008-09-26 08:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL CH |
08BEIJING3759 | AFM LIU EXPRESSES CHINA'S "FIRM OPPOSITION" TO [...] (C) In a September 26 meeting called by the Chinese, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi expressed China's "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to President Bush's September 23 telephone call to the Dalai Lama and the inclusion of Dalai Lama representative Lodi Gyari and Democracy Mov [...] | 2008-09-26 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TW CH |
08BEIJING3779 | IMPLEMENTING CHINA'S ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT [...] (C) As part of its effort to combat trafficking in persons (TIP),China is working to implement its National Plan of Action (NPA) issued by the State Council on December 13, 2007. Both the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Civil Affairs are coordinating a national plan to combat [...] | 2008-09-29 07:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP PGOV KWMN PREL KCOR KCRM KFRD KJUS |
08BEIJING3780 | CHINA CONSIDERS ACCESSION TO UN PALERMO PROTOCOL [...] (C) China is seriously considering acceding to the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official. China will hold a symposium October 23-24, co-hosted by the UN Inter-Agency Project on Hum [...] | 2008-09-29 07:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP KHUM KWMN KCRM CH |
08BEIJING3836 | October 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS SALES, SIX-PARTY [...] Key points at the October 7 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- The United States' arms sale to Taiwan has "contaminated the atmosphere" of U.S.-China relations, "gravely jeopardized China's security" and "created obstacles to exchanges and cooperation" with the United States. --"The Si [...] | 2008-10-07 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR PHUM PTER CH KN JP KS TW |
08BEIJING3874 | October 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS SALES, FINANCIAL [...] Key points at the October 7 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China hopes that the two U.S. presidential candidates will understand the importance of properly handling the Taiwan issue, adhere to the "One China" policy, abide by the three Sino-U.S. Joint Communiques, and oppose Taiwan in [...] | 2008-10-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR EFIN PHUM PTER CH KN JP KS TW |
08BEIJING3875 | CORRECTED COPY: October 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS [...] Key points at the October 9 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China hopes that the two U.S. presidential candidates will understand the importance of properly handling the Taiwan issue, adhere to the "One China" policy, abide by the three Sino-U.S. Joint Communiques and oppose Taiwan ind [...] | 2008-10-09 11:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR EFIN PHUM PTER CH KN JP KS TW |
08BEIJING3911 | October 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: President Zadari's Visit, [...] Key points at the October 14 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China welcomes Pakistani President Zadari and looks forward to "in-depth discussions" and the signing of several "deals." -- China regains control of half of Heixiazi Island from Russia. -- China will "communicate and c [...] | 2008-10-14 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PINR CH KN KS EC CS PK HK MC |
08BEIJING3934 | BEIJING OLYMPICS: AMCIT DETENTIONS/DEPORTATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During the period August 6-24, 2008, Chinese authorities detained 44 Amcits. Thirty-four were detained while staging or planning to stage Tibet-related demonstrations; four Christian activists were detained while protesting Chinese policies on abortion and religious freedom. [...] | 2008-10-16 02:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CJAN KOLY PHUM PREL CH |
08BEIJING3948 | NPC VICE CHAIR CHEN ZHILI MEETS WITH SENATOR HAGEL [...] (C) National People's Congress Standing Committee Vice Chairperson Chen Zhili told Senator Chuck Hagel October 13 that China hopes Congress will act to cancel the recently-announced U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. The Chinese people see a contradiction between PRC efforts to help the United States [...] | 2008-10-16 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MASS ECON SCUL SOCI CH TW GG |
08BEIJING3966 | TIBETAN UNREST AFTERMATH: SECURITY POSTURE STILL [...] (C) During an unofficial visit to Tibetan areas in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces in September, EmbOffs witnessed wide variation in conditions at Tibetan monasteries six months after the outbreak of major unrest in March 2008. At one end of the spectrum was Lucang (Lutsang) Monastery in Guinan ( [...] | 2008-10-17 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
08BEIJING4006 | October 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TERRORIST LIST, NUCLEAR [...] Key points at the October 21 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China hopes that "relevant countries will work with China to bring eight terrorists to justice." -- China's cooperation with Pakistan on civilian nuclear energy is "subject to International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA [...] | 2008-10-21 23:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PTER PK IN SU XG |
08BEIJING4020 | SALE OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE EXPANDING IN CHINA, [...] (C) The sale of Christian literature by private firms in China continues to expand, and rapidly so, according to Embassy contacts in the religious literature industry. Despite having first appeared only in 2002, Christian-themed bookstores now number 100 to 200 nationwide; one distributor has [...] | 2008-10-22 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BEIJING4022 | HUMAN RIGHTS: EMBASSY URGES CHINA TO RELEASE ZHANG [...] (C) The U.S. Government is deeply concerned about reports that PRC authorities have detained prominent house church Pastor Zhang Mingxuan (aka "Pastor Bike"),and beaten and harassed his family members, PolOff told MFA Human Rights official Zhu Yanwei on October 22, urging Zhang's immediate re [...] | 2008-10-22 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4030 | SWISS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR IN NORTH KOREA [...] (C) North Korea recently concluded its first population census in fifteen years, with technical guidance and support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and financial assistance from the ROK and Swiss Governments, according to a Swiss contact familiar with the project. Our contact [...] | 2008-10-23 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAID KN CH |
08BEIJING4061 | HUMAN RIGHTS: AMBASSADOR URGES CHINA TO RELEASE [...] (C) The U.S. Government is deeply concerned about reports that PRC authorities detained China House Church Alliance President Pastor Zhang Mingxuan (aka "Pastor Bike") and prevented one of Pastor Zhang's sons from receiving medical treatment after severely beating him and harassing Pastor Zhan [...] | 2008-10-27 10:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4063 | CHINESE URGED TO MAKE PROGRESS IN TIBET TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In an October 27 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, the Ambassador urged China to make concrete progress in its upcoming talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama. VFM He responded with standard points that the Dalai Lama's side must stop inciting violence, end supp [...] | 2008-10-27 12:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH IN |
08BEIJING4075 | 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE NOMINATION: ZENG JINYAN [...] Embassy Beijing is pleased to nominate rights activist Zeng Jinyan for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. An inspiration to many within her own country and throughout the world, Zeng represents not just courageous women activists, but all those who strive for justic [...] | 2008-10-28 22:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KPAO CH |
08BEIJING4078 | OCTOBER 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SUDAN HOSTAGE CRISIS, SYRIA [...] Key points at the October 28 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China condemns the killing of five kidnapped Chinese citizens in a rescue attempt by the Sudanese government. -- China "opposes any deed which harms another country's sovereignty and territorial integrity," said the spoke [...] | 2008-10-28 22:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PTER ECON EFIN SU SY KN |
08BEIJING4092 | TIBETAN MONKS DEFIANT AT LABRANG MONASTERY, [...] (C) Ethnic Tibetans in Xiahe (Sangchu),Gansu Province, told EmbOffs September 25 that authorities there continue to be on "high alert" against renewed unrest. Though, unlike in March, Xiahe is now readily accessible by car, foreigners are still not allowed to stay overnight. Han Chinese tour [...] | 2008-10-29 10:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH |
08BEIJING4096 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR PRC CANDIDATES FOR ILEA [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following Chinese candidates from the Wuhan Municipal Police nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok. Pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Post has no derogatory information on these candidates. 2. (SBU) Na [...] | 2008-10-30 02:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH CH |
08BEIJING4101 | 10/30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SUDAN HOSTAGE CRISIS, FINANCIAL [...] Key points at the October 30 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- In the case of kidnapped Chinese workers in Sudan, four of whom were killed October 27, a Chinese delegation will urge the Sudanese Government to "spare no effort to rescue the missing workers, bring the criminals to justic [...] | 2008-10-30 08:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM MNUC ECON EFIN KN KS SU |
08BEIJING411 | CHINA WILL CONSIDER OUR REQUEST TO PRESS FOR AN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH CD SU |
08BEIJING4126 | RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PLEASED BY HU JIA'S SAKHAROV [...] (C) Following the October 23 announcement that prominent Chinese rights activist Hu Jia won the European Parliament's 2008 Sakharov Human Rights Prize (reftel),Hu's wife and fellow activist Zeng Jinyan (protect) told PolOff November 1 that she is "very happy" about the award, calling it "an a [...] | 2008-11-04 11:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
08BEIJING413 | SARA MINISTER APOLOGIZES FOR CRITICAL IRAQ [...] (C) State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) Minister Ye Xiaowen twice apologized for a February 1, 2007 People's Daily website article, "Bush Should Reflect Deeply," in which he criticized the President's handling of the Iraq war. Minister Ye told the Ambassador that the Communist P [...] | 2008-02-04 12:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4155 | 11/6 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. ELECTION/WHITE HOUSE [...] Key points at the November 6 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China's leaders have congratulated President-elect Obama on his victory and China will work to help ensure smooth bilateral relations during the transition to the next administration. -- Taiwan is the most sensitive of th [...] | 2008-11-06 23:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN PHUM KIPR KS KN BM RU BG IN |
08BEIJING416 | CHINA WILL CONSIDER OUR REQUEST TO PRESS FOR AN [...] (C) At the end of a February 4 meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi on Taiwan (septel),the Ambassador drew upon reftel points to urge the PRC to press the Sudanese Government to end its support of rebel groups in neighboring Chad. AFM Liu responded that the PRC Government takes t [...] | 2008-02-04 23:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH CD SU |
08BEIJING4163 | CHINA ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE IRAN, BURMA AND DPRK [...] (C) PolOff on November 7 delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun ref A points urging China to support or at least to abstain on UNGA Third Committee resolutions on Iran, Burma and the DPRK. PolOff stressed that [...] | 2008-11-07 08:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CH |
08BEIJING4168 | TIBET TALKS CONCLUDE; OBSERVERS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) The most recent round of talks between representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Communist Party's United Front Work Department (UFWD) ended on November 5, with Embassy contacts unanimously predicting the discussions will fail to achieve measurable progress. The precise content of this lat [...] | 2008-11-07 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH IN |
08BEIJING4193 | OVER 800 CHINESE SEE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION AT ELECTION EVENT [...] Summary: Embassy Beijing's U.S. Election Watch Event provided a variety of educational activities for over 800 Chinese students, academics, government employees, media representatives and business leaders. Guests stayed for hours, and emotions ran high as our Chinese guests contemplated the l [...] | 2008-11-12 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP PHUM CH |
08BEIJING4196 | TIBET: DCM URGES CHINESE FLEXIBILITY [...] (C) The United States is concerned by the lack of progress in talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and Chinese authorities and urges China to take a more flexible approach to achieve concrete results, DCM told United Front Work Department (UFWD) Vice Minister Si Ta on November 12. S [...] | 2008-11-12 10:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH IN |
08BEIJING4230 | CHINA MAKES PERMANENT THE LIMITED, [...] (C) Foreign correspondent and Chinese media contacts praised the October 17 announcement that the temporary, Olympics-related, relaxed rules governing foreign journalists were made permanent, though several interlocutors noted China remains a difficult place to work for reporters of all nation [...] | 2008-11-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PROP KOLY CH |
08BEIJING4231 | TIBET COMMUNIST PARTY FOUNDER DECRIES REJECTION OF [...] (C) Phuntsok Wangyal (protect),the founder of the Tibetan Communist Party, decried the lack of progress in talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the Dalai Lama in a November 7 meeting with PolOff. The Chinese government, he argued, should not be so quick to denounce Tibetan proposals [...] | 2008-11-14 10:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH IN |
08BEIJING4240 | CHINA TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 2009 [...] (U) China has made progress since April 2008 in combating human trafficking. The implementation of the National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children (2008-2012),led by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in coordination with 28 other agencies, underscores Chi [...] | 2008-11-17 07:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
08BEIJING4261 | PRC: DEMARCHE ON BURMESE JUNTA'S CRACKDOWN [...] (C) On November 18, PolOff delivered reftel points to MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma Desk Officer Wang Hongsun. Poloff made the point that China should use its influence with the Burmese regime to achieve results on the release of political prisoners and progress towards a meaningful dialo [...] | 2008-11-19 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CH BM |
08BEIJING4279 | TIBET: PARAMILITARY PRESENCE IN LHASA NOTED BY [...] (C) A Japanese diplomat who visited Lhasa October 30-November 4 reported that People's Armed Police (PAP) troops continue to patrol the Tibetan quarter of the city, with rooftop lookouts posted around the Jokhang Temple. The diplomat also saw PAP troops inside the Potala Palace. In Lhasa for [...] | 2008-11-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH JP |
08BEIJING4280 | NOVEMBER 20 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: FOOD SAFETY, SED, TAIWAN, [...] Key points at the November 20 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- China has "already established" a "full export inspection system," and products found to be below standard will not be exported. -- China hopes that the two sides will continue to "show mutual respect, accommodate each oth [...] | 2008-11-20 23:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM TW CH RS PE |
08BEIJING4292 | SUSPENSION OF "PRO-CHINA" REPORTER AT GERMAN [...] (C) The suspension of a Chinese journalist from the German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle, allegedly for making public statements in defense of PRC policies, has been covered extensively by the Chinese official media amid charges of Western "hypocrisy" regarding press freedom (refs A, B). L [...] | 2008-11-21 11:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PHUM PGOV PREL CH GM |
08BEIJING4326 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR PRC ATTENDEES AT [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Chinese Defense Attache's Office in Washington, D.C., who have been nominated by the U.S. Special Operations Command for participation in the Sovereign Challenge Conference, pursuant to the Leahy Amend [...] | 2008-11-25 10:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM CH |
08BEIJING4347 | Strengthening China's Anti-trafficking Legal Framework [...] (SBU) Participants from the Chinese Government and key non-governmental agencies agreed at a recent symposium that China must improve its efforts to combat human trafficking. Attendees discussed in detail whether China's existing laws could be modified to address trafficking better. Despite s [...] | 2008-11-26 07:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM KJUS CH |
08BEIJING4352 | BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON HUMAN [...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing November 14, German Ambassador Michael Schaeffer reported that Germany's recently restarted human rights dialogue with China was constructive and included a visit to minority villages in Yunnan Province. The Germans have held a series o [...] | 2008-11-26 11:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON SENV CH FR JA GM |
08BEIJING4354 | CHINA DISMISSES TIBET EXILE CONFERENCE, CONTACTS [...] (C) Following last week's Tibet exiles conference in Dharamsala, Han Chinese contacts provided PolOffs with a pessimistic perspective on the environment for China's talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives, observing that Tibet is "not a priority" for Beijing and noting that the PRC has suc [...] | 2008-11-26 11:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH IN |
08BEIJING4429 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: POST BLAST [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Tianjin and Hubei Public Security Bureaus, who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these [...] | 2008-12-04 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM CH |
08BEIJING4453 | U/S JEFFERY AND SCIO AGREE TO FUTURE [...] (SBU) Under Secretary of State Reuben Jeffery, III met with State Council Information Office Vice Minister Cai Mingzhao on December 3 to discuss China's Internet administration and information access policies. The two hailed the success of industry cooperation in the U.S.-China Internet Summi [...] | 2008-12-05 08:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL KIPR ECON CH |
08BEIJING4493 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DINNER: "08 CHARTER" SIGNATORIES [...] (C) To commemorate Human Rights Day and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),the Charge hosted a December 9 dinner for four leading Chinese human rights lawyers and activists. Two of the guests were signatories to the "08 Charter," a manifesto calling for [...] | 2008-12-10 11:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4500 | LOCAL CADRE VOICES FRUSTRATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 06:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH |
08BEIJING4501 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DINNER, PART TWO: ACTIVISTS [...] (C) At a December 9 dinner in commemoration of Human Rights Day and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),four leading Chinese human rights lawyers and activists discussed China's human rights situation, identifying the lack of an independent judiciary, the [...] | 2008-12-11 07:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF PINR CH |
08BEIJING4509 | DECEMBER 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, TORTURE IN [...] Key points at the December 11 MFA press briefing: -- The Six-Party Talks Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting is still ongoing, as the parties are "discussing and deciding" formalities in bilateral sessions as well as plenary sessions. -- China has "taken note" of a recent Free Tibet report cl [...] | 2008-12-11 23:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM ECON EFIN EAIR CH FR PL JA KS |
08BEIJING4522 | CHINESE BLOGGERS COMPLAIN ABOUT CENSORSHIP, [...] (C) Government control and censorship of the Internet are the key problems facing Chinese netizens, according to participants at the fourth annual China Blogger Conference held in Guangzhou November 15-16. Conference attendees complained of officials paying bloggers to post pro- government op [...] | 2008-12-12 08:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CH |
08BEIJING4554 | HUMAN RIGHTS: PASTOR ZHANG MINGXUAN'S NOVEMBER 28 [...] (C) The head of the Chinese House Church Alliance (CHCA),Pastor Zhang Mingxuan, told PolOff that authorities in his hometown of Nanyang City, Henan Province, detained him for several hours on November 28 for questioning and to inform him that CHCA had been "abolished." Zhang said he did not [...] | 2008-12-16 11:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4555 | DECEMBER 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, DETENTION [...] Key points at the December 16 MFA press briefing: -- China believes the Six-Party Talks is a "process," with the major task being implementing the second phase of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a "comprehensive manner." All six parties "agreed verification was necessary," but th [...] | 2008-12-16 23:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM ECON EFIN EAIR CH FR PL JA KS |
08BEIJING4589 | CHINA: ACTION AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE [...] (U) Experts and international organizations claim violence against women in China is a growing problem, and that society often considers it a private, family matter rather than a human rights issue. To address the problem, the Chinese Government is using a range of legal tools, as well as publ [...] | 2008-12-18 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM CH |
08BEIJING4592 | DECEMBER 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SOMALI PIRACY, HU JIA, 30TH [...] Key points at the December 18 MFA press briefing: -- China has begun preparations to send naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden. -- China "expresses sincere thanks" to the Malaysian Government for its assistance in the rescue of the Chinese ship captured by pirates on December 17. -- China [...] | 2008-12-18 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EWWT CH MY XG |
08BEIJING4593 | XINJIANG'S PARAMILITARY AGRICULTURALISTS: A VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Xinjiang Construction and Production Corps (XJCPC) is a massive industrial and agricultural conglomerate operation in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The XJCPC, divided into state-run farming and industrial units, employs over 10 percent of Xinjiang's populat [...] | 2008-12-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF ECON EAGR CH |
08BEIJING4630 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Guangzhou Anti-Smuggling Bureau, who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individuals [...] | 2008-12-22 11:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SNAR CH |
08BEIJING4644 | REFORM JOURNAL RESISTS PRESSURE TO FIRE CHIEF; HU [...] (C) Party propaganda authorities have asked the president of a controversial pro-reform journal to step down, according to Embassy contacts and Western media, allegedly over recent articles about Zhao Ziyang, the late former Party chief who was ousted in the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen prot [...] | 2008-12-23 09:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
08BEIJING4646 | A LIVING BUDDHA SPEAKS: LIFE DIFFICULT AFTER LHASA [...] (C) Life remains very difficult for Tibetans even as the March unrest fades into memory, according to a living Buddha at Lucang Monastery in Guinan, Qinghai Province (strictly protect). Although PRC authorities accused 128 Lucang monks of taking part in the March unrest, this living Buddha re [...] | 2008-12-23 10:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING4670 | LIU XIAOBO'S WIFE COMPLAINS HUSBAND HELD [...] (C) Liu Xia (protect),wife of detained rights activist Liu Xiaobo who was a key drafter of the "Charter 08" document calling for sweeping reforms in China (ref A),told PolOff December 23 that PRC authorities are detaining her husband "illegally" and that she has no channel for communicating [...] | 2008-12-24 08:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL CH |
08BEIJING4684 | REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidate from the State Forestry Administration, Department of Forest Police, who has been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory infor [...] | 2008-12-29 06:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM CH |
08BEIJING4687 | AMBASSADOR-AFM LIU MEETING ON GUANTANAMO UIGHURS, [...] (C) China is "gravely concerned" by statements that the United States is considering transferring PRC citizen Uighurs detained at Guantanamo to a third country rather than repatriating them to China, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told the Ambassador December 29. The Uighur detainees are [...] | 2008-12-29 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER CH TW |
08BEIJING4697 | CHINA: YUNNAN PROVINCE LEADS THE WAY IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Yunnan Province in 2005 was one of the first regions in China to formulate its own action plan to combat trafficking in persons (TIP),thereby attracting international organizations early on and helping establish itself as a forerunner for anti-TIP programs around the country. Save the Ch [...] | 2008-12-31 03:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
08BEIJING522 | February 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SPACE WEAPONS BAN, SPY [...] Key points at the February 14, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- China believes its joint proposal for a space weapons ban is in the interests of the international community. -- U.S. allegations of spying are "groundless" and China is "tired" of such "fabrications." -- China regrets Steve [...] | 2008-02-14 23:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA IN RS SU SR |
08BEIJING546 | MFA: BURMESE AGREE TO MARCH VISIT FOR GAMBARI; [...] (C) The Burmese Government has agreed to receive UN Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari during the first week of March, MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Yang Yanyi told PolMinCouns she was instructed to "informally inform" us February 15. China has "worked on" the Burmese Government "t [...] | 2008-02-15 10:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH BM |
08BEIJING581 | FEBRUARY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE, [...] Key points at the February 19, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- China does not support the declaration of independence made by Kosovo. -- China hopes enhanced cooperation on the DPRK nuclear issue will produce results. -- The Burma issue will be solved by the people of Burma and their g [...] | 2008-02-20 00:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR BM |
08BEIJING602 | GAMBARI CONFIRMS MARCH VISIT TO BURMA; ASKS USG [...] (C) Summary: Drawing from Ref A talking points, the Ambassador encouraged UN Special Envoy Gambari February 19 to push for more concrete progress in Burma. Gambari confirmed that he will return to Burma "in the first week of March," though the Burmese Government has not yet confirmed the date [...] | 2008-02-20 07:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH BM |
08BEIJING605 | GAMBARI CONFIRMS MARCH VISIT TO BURMA; ASKS USG [...] (C) Summary: Drawing from Ref A talking points, the Ambassador encouraged UN Special Envoy Gambari February 19 to push for more concrete progress in Burma. Gambari confirmed that he will return to Burma "in the first week of March," though the Burmese Government has not yet confirmed the date [...] | 2008-02-20 08:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH BM |
08BEIJING608 | BLOGPOWER: CHINA'S GOVERNMENT FEELS PRESSURE FROM [...] (C) In 2007 Chinese bloggers grew increasingly bold in questioning government authority, according to several Post sources in media and academia. Censors, our contacts tell us, simply cannot keep up with China's rapidly growing blogger community, which now numbers 17 million. For example, wh [...] | 2008-02-20 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL PROP SOCI EINT CH |
08BEIJING634 | FEBRUARY 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. SATELLITE, SIX-PARTY [...] Key points at the February 21, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- China continues to watch closely the destruction of an errant U.S. satellite. -- China acknowledges "difficulties" in the Six-Party Talks, but believes all parties have the political will to honor their commitments. -- Chin [...] | 2008-02-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR BM |
08BEIJING635 | GOC OFFICIALS, LEGAL EXPERTS DISCUSS PRISON [...] (C) The Ambassador hosted China Prison Society (CPS) Vice President and retired Ministry of Justice (MOJ) official Shen Bailu, MOJ Foreign Affairs Director General Guo Jian'an and a number of Chinese legal experts for lunch on February 21. Shen said that China attaches great importance to "cor [...] | 2008-02-21 12:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CH |
08BEIJING686 | FEBRUARY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY RICE VISIT, [...] Key points at the February 26, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- The spokesman reported that both Secretary Rice and FM Yang stressed the importance of the consensus President Bush and President Hu had reached on the bilateral relationship. -- Yang stressed to Secretary Rice that Taiwan is C [...] | 2008-02-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR BM |
08BEIJING69 | HUMAN RIGHTS: EMBASSY RAISES CONCERNS OVER GUO [...] (C) Poloff on January 4 expressed to MFA IO Human Rights official Xu Jing the Embassy's concerns over the reported mistreatment of jailed activist Guo Feixiong, who purportedly was beaten by a fellow inmate on December 18 and is currently staging a hunger strike (reftel). Poloff stated that Gu [...] | 2008-01-07 10:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CH |
08BEIJING717 | HUMAN RIGHTS: MFA VIEWS ON RESUMING HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) MFA IO Human Rights Division Deputy Director Zhao Xing told PolOffs February 28 that he was pleased by prospects to resume formal human rights dialogue. China proposes holding the next dialogue meeting in Beijing, at the DRL A/S and IO DG level, which Zhao said follows the pattern set befo [...] | 2008-02-28 11:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
08BEIJING718 | FEBRUARY 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UK FOREIGN SECRETARY'S [...] Key points at the February 28, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- Sinopec's role in the Yadavaran oil field in Iran is "a business act." -- Although "there are some problems" in moving the Six-Party Talks forward, all parties are optimistic and have expressed a willingness to honor their com [...] | 2008-02-28 12:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR BM |
08BEIJING745 | CORRECTED COPY (PARA 1 and 3)FEBRUARY 28 MFA PRESS [...] Key points at the February 28, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- CNOOC's role in developing an Iranian gas field is "a business act." -- Although "there are some problems" in moving the Six-Party Talks forward, all parties are optimistic and have expressed a willingness to honor their commi [...] | 2008-02-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR BM |
08BEIJING758 | CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) POLOFF ON FEBRUARY 29 DELIVERED TO MFA REFTEL POINTS ON THE MALDIVES' RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE PROPOSED AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL'S 7TH SESSION IN MARCH. MFA INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS DIVISION DEPUTY DIRECTOR ZHAO XING [...] | 2008-03-03 08:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KGHG PGOV PREL UNHRC MV CH |
08BEIJING766 | UK FM MILIBAND IN CHINA: RESPONSIBLE SOVEREIGNTY [...] (C) During his February 24-29 visit to China, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for a greater PRC role in nonproliferation, free trade, climate change, the Darfur crisis and development issues. The UK and China institutionalized an agenda for cooperation in a new Commission task [...] | 2008-03-03 12:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UK CH BM SU TW |
08BEIJING809 | PREMIER'S NPC REPORT PLEDGES MORE REFORM, TACKLES [...] (C) The State Council's annual "Government Work Report," read by Premier Wen Jiabao at the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on March 5, reviewed China's major hot-button economic, administrative and social issues and provided general policy priorities to tackle them. Th [...] | 2008-03-05 13:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON KCUL PHUM CH |
08BEIJING824 | March 6 MFA Press Briefing: Upcoming Taiwan Election, Hu's [...] Key points at the March 6 MFA Press Briefing: -- The upcoming election in Taiwan is an election of a local leader. -- President Hu's visit to Japan is still under active discussion. -- Relevant Chinese authorities have taken every measure necessary to carry out a "serious and responsible [...] | 2008-03-06 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER TBIO CH TW JA |
08BEIJING843 | DEMARCHE ON GAMBARI VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) PolOffs on March 7 discussed with MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun and Asian Affairs Department Counselor Yang Jian reftel points (delivered to MFA March 6) urging China to press the Burmese regime to cooperate with UN Speci [...] | 2008-03-07 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC CH BM |
08BEIJING845 | PRC SPECIAL ENVOY LIU GUIJIN ON CHINESE POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Solving the situation in Darfur requires pressure from the international community on both the Government of Sudan and rebel forces, Chinese Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin said in a March 7 briefing for diplomats and the press on his February 21-March 6 trip to the UK, Fra [...] | 2008-03-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH |
08BEIJING892 | March 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG TERRORISM, SAFETY AND [...] Key points at the March 11, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing were: -- China continues to investigate the suspicious liquid found on a flight from Xinjiang to Beijing and rejects attempts to link terrorism to a single religion or ethnic group. -- China is working to ensure safe air quality [...] | 2008-03-11 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR |
08BEIJING91 | CHINA WILLING TO ASSIST GAMBARI BUT REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: China remains willing to assist UN Special Advisor Gambari in his efforts to return to Burma but opposed to addressing Burma in the UN Security Council, MFA Asia Department Counselor Yang Jian told PolOff January 8. Commenting on our points addressing MFA's December 29 "unofficia [...] | 2008-01-08 09:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH BM |
08BEIJING912 | PRC/SUDAN: MORE FROM SPECIAL ENVOY LIU GUIJIN ON [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan is ready to engage with rebel groups at any time, and Western nations should pressure rebel groups to participate fully in the peace process, Chinese Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin told Beijing-based diplomats March 12. Press reporting on the Governm [...] | 2008-03-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK |
08BEIJING915 | PRC/SUDAN: MORE FROM SPECIAL ENVOY LIU GUIJIN ON [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan is ready to engage with rebel groups at any time, and Western nations should pressure rebel groups to participate fully in the peace process, Chinese Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin told Beijing-based diplomats March 12. Press reporting on the Governm [...] | 2008-03-12 22:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK |
08BEIJING92 | January 8 MFA Press Briefing: India PM visit, A/S Hill [...] Key points at the January 8 MFA Press Briefing: -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao during his January 14-15 visit to China. -- EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill will meet with VFM Wu Dawei during [...] | 2008-01-08 11:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH |
08BEIJING929 | March 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET PROTESTS, [...] Key points at the March 13, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing were: -- In recent days a few monks in Lhasa have made "a disturbance" and tried to sow political unrest. China resolutely opposes the attempts of the "Dalai group" to split China and, thanks to efforts by the local government, "t [...] | 2008-03-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE |
08BEIJING931 | MARCH 12 CPPCC OLYMPIC PRESS BRIEFING: PROTESTS, [...] (U) Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),the largely ceremonial advisory body that is currently in session in Beijing, held a press conference March 12 to discuss preparations for the August Olympic Games. CPPCC members present included Beijing Vice Mayor [...] | 2008-03-13 11:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KOLY ASEC PHUM CH |
08BEIJING964 | REFERENDUM IN BURMA DEMARCHE [...] (C) PolOff on March 14 conveyed to MFA reftel points urging China to make clear to the Burmese regime that the planned May referendum on the regime's draft constitution should adhere to internationally accepted standards for free and fair elections and referenda. MFA International Organizatio [...] | 2008-03-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM CH |
08BEIJING972 | CORRECTED COPY: March 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET [...] Key points at the March 13, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing wee: -- In recent days a few monks in Lhasa have made "a disturbance" and tried to sow political unrest. China resolutely opposes the attempts of the "Dalai group" to split China and, thanks to efforts by the local government, "th [...] | 2008-03-14 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE |
08BEIJING973 | AMBASSADOR EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT VIOLENCE IN [...] (C) In a March 14 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, the Ambassador expressed concern about unconfirmed but numerous reports of violence in Lhasa, Tibet (septel),including shootings, or at least gunshots. He urged the PRC Government to exercise restraint in dealing with the situ [...] | 2008-03-14 11:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH |
08BEIJING975 | REPORTS OF VIOLENCE, RIOTING IN LHASA, TIBET [...] (C) ConGen Chengdu and Embassy Beijing have received numerous accounts of serious violence and rioting in Lhasa March 14. The Ambassador raised USG concerns over these reports with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui on March 14 and urged the Government to exercise restraint (reftel). Riots re [...] | 2008-03-14 12:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NP IN CH |
08BEIJING980 | TIBET: MARCH 15 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN LHASA [...] (C) The situation in Lhasa, Tibet on March 15 remains fluid, with reports that the city had calmed after a night of explosions and gunfire later giving way to reports of increased violence and the arrival of more military (or possibly paramilitary) personnel during the afternoon. The U.S. Mis [...] | 2008-03-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING981 | TIBET: MFA TELLS AMBASSADOR PROTESTERS ARE [...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi provided a propaganda-heavy description of the current unrest in Lhasa to the Ambassador the evening of March 15. Liu described incidents of "beating, burning and looting" and said the unrest was the coordinated effort of the "Dalai Lama clique" aimed [...] | 2008-03-15 16:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING982 | TIBET: CHINESE OFFICIAL SCHOLAR CONTACTS EMBASSY [...] (C) A scholar at an official Chinese think tank requested an urgent meeting with PolOff the evening of March 15 to gauge foreign reaction to the events in Lhasa. The order to do so, our contact said, had come from the "very top" of the Chinese political system and reflects the "great concern" [...] | 2008-03-15 16:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
08BEIJING983 | ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF RISING TENSIONS, VIOLENCE IN [...] (C) ConGen Chengdu continues to receive reports from sources on the ground in Lhasa indicating rising tensions, increasing violence and the presence of tanks as nightfall descends on the city. The city has apparently been sealed off. Meanwhile, sources say protests in Gansu Province have tur [...] | 2008-03-15 17:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH |
08BEIJING999 | TIBET: MARCH 17 UPDATE ON PROTESTS [...] (C) This cable draws heavily on sources and information obtained by officers and staff at Consulate General Chengdu, and has been coordinated with the Consul General in Chengdu. Summary ------- 2. (S) Summary: Contacts of Embassy Beijing and ConGen Chengdu report that the situation in Lh [...] | 2008-03-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF ASEC CH |
08BEIRUT1173 | LEBANON: TIME IS RIGHT FOR ACTION ON DETAINEES IN [...] (C) Following Israel's July 16 release of Lebanese prisoners including Samir Kantar, the issue of Lebanese detainees (also referred to as "enforced disappearances") in Syria has risen to the forefront in Lebanon. President Sleiman told visiting MNF-I Commander General David Petraeus on August [...] | 2008-08-11 08:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR AI UNSC SY LE |
08BEIRUT1300 | LEBANON: MFA PROVIDES LITLE COMMENT TO UNGA, ARAB [...] C) Poloff delivered points on Kosovo, the Arab League Ministerial, and the UN Third Committee on Human Rights to Oussama Khachab, Head of the Americas Desk at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 4. Khachab said he would relay the points to other offices within the Foreign Mi [...] | 2008-09-04 15:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM UNGA UN LE SY IS IZ KV |
08BEIRUT1311 | LEBANON: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR [...] (SBU) Ambassador, PolOff, ConChief, ConOff, and the Department of Homeland Security circuit-ride team leader met with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative Stphane Jaquemet and UNHCR Senior Protection Officers, Ayaki Ito and Anna Leer on September 4. The UNHCR represen [...] | 2008-09-05 15:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PTER UNSC IQ LE |
08BEIRUT1316 | LEBANON: PRESIDENT ASKS UNDP TO HELP WITH NATIONAL [...] (C) In a September 2 meeting with the Ambassador, UN Development Program Resident Representative Marta Ruedas reported that President Sleiman had recently approached the UN for technical assistance in setting up President Sleiman's Baabda Palace office and the National Dialogue. Ruedas said c [...] | 2008-09-08 12:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL PTER PHUM KDEM LE |
08BEIRUT1326 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA GEARING UP FOR 2009 [...] (C) Lokman Slim, an independent Shia organizer and Director of NGO Hayya Bina, told the Ambassador on September 5 that the March 14 coalition needs to take the independent Shia portfolio more seriously. Slim surmised that Shia independents could have a real possibility of winning parliamentar [...] | 2008-09-09 16:39:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM EAID LE IZ SY |
08BEIRUT1387 | LEBANON: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Oussama Khachab, Head of the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khachab had no substantive response, but said that he would pass the message along to Foreign Affairs Minister Fawzi Salloukh and the GOL,s UN PermRep. In addition, Khach [...] | 2008-09-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA |
08BEIRUT1430 | LEBANON: DEMARCHE DELIVERED, NO SUBSTANTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 13:03:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM PGOG PHUM UNGA CDG LE IS SY |
08BEIRUT1530 | LEBANON: NOMINEE FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] Embassy Beirut nominates Ms. Maya Mansour, an attorney and human rights activist, for the 2009 International Women of Courage Award. 2. Ms. Mansour is a partner at the Public Interest Advocacy Center, PINACLE, and is a member of the Institute of Human Rights at the Beirut Bar Association. S [...] | 2008-10-25 02:40:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO LE |
08BEIRUT1612 | LEBANON: RECOMMENDATION ON INTERNATIONAL ELECTION [...] (C) After consulting with Lebanese governmental contacts, local NGOs and international donors, Embassy Beirut recommends that USAID provide funding to support an international observation team through the National Democratic Institute (NDI). With extensive experience in Lebanon working with d [...] | 2008-11-10 16:15:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF OVIP ASEC SY LE |
08BEIRUT1642 | LEBANON: GOL WILL NOT OPPOSE IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) The Lebanese MFA responded on November 17 to the reftel demarche PolOff delivered on November 12 on the UN General Assembly Third Committee human rights resolutions. Oussama Khachab, Head of the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after consulting with the Lebanese Mission to [...] | 2008-11-17 16:09:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LE |
08BEIRUT167 | LEBANON: MARCH 14: HIGH HOPES FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) March 14 leaders have stepped up their own lobbying efforts recently to convince key countries to contribute to the Special Tribunal, reportedly securing commitments from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, and Russia. Many view the Tribunal as the primary -- if not only -- vehicle for ending [...] | 2008-02-04 15:18:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM SY LE |
08BEIRUT1774 | LEBANON: DEMARCHE REQUEST UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Oussama Khachab, Head of the Americas Desk at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 19. Khachab displayed interest in the subject. He noted there could be many more qualified candidates than Hosni and suggested a former Lebanese Minister [...] | 2008-12-22 04:51:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | CDG IS LE PARM PGOV PHUM PREL SY UNGA |
08BEIRUT1805 | LEBANON: GOL WILL ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE MEETING ON [...] (C) On December 30, Embassy officers delivered reftel demarche to Nazem Khoury, advisor to President Sleiman, and Oussama Khachab, Director of the Americas desk at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khoury and Khachab, respectively, called the situation in Gaza "unacceptable" and "very [...] | 2008-12-30 16:34:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG MOPS IS LE |
08BEIRUT205 | LEBANON: MARCH 14 ORGANIZING BETTER; ESTABLISHES [...] (C) At long last, the March 14 pro-government coalition has set up a secretariat for internal coordination to develop strategies to boost public (both domestic and international) support and create a unified public relations message. March 14 leaders already have begun an intensive diplomatic [...] | 2008-02-11 12:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT215 | LEBANON: HARIRI URGES STRONGER U.S. PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Increased pressure on Syria was the dominant theme of the Ambassador's first meeting with majority leader Saad Hariri. The opposition, supported by Syria and Iran, was pursuing a long-term strategy to gradually take over the country, he claimed. Bilateral and international assistance was [...] | 2008-02-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT255 | LEBANON: GEAGEA PLEASED WITH 2/14 RALLY, PLEADS [...] (C) In his first meeting with Charge Sison, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, pleased with the results of the February 14 rally, said he believed the March 14 bloc had proven it is a popular movement able to rally its supporters and speak with a unified voice. He predicted that the Arab Le [...] | 2008-02-15 18:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT260 | LEBANON: HARIRI PROVIDES ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 05:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT264 | LEBANON: HARIRI PROVIDES ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE ON [...] (S/NF) In the course of a February 11 meeting with the Charge (Ref A),majority leader Saad Hariri and advisor Ghattas Khoury provided anecdotal information regarding alleged financial transactions of Rami Maklouf and Syrian Directory of Military Intelligence Asef Shawket. They alleged that M [...] | 2008-02-19 12:31:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT267 | LEBANON: LAWYERS FOR FOUR DETAINED GENERALS SEEK [...] (C ) DCM met on February 15 with two lawyers representing Jamil Sayed, the former head of Lebanon's General Security, who has been in detention for nearly three years after being arrested on suspicion of involvement in the car bomb assassination of former PM Rafiq Hariri in February, 2005. Thr [...] | 2008-02-19 15:16:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER LE SY |
08BEIRUT270 | LEBANON: FRENCH AND VATICAN AMBASSADORS [...] (C) In separate introductory meetings with Charge Sison, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Papal Nuncio Luigi Gatti and French Charge d'Affaires Andre Parant expressed similar views on Lebanon's ongoing political impasse, including the role of regional actors, Lebanon's Christians, the Special T [...] | 2008-02-19 16:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PHUM PINR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT340 | LEBANON: CHARGE VISITS SAFE HOUSE FOR TRAFFICKING [...] (U) On March 4, the Charge visited the G/TIP-funded Safe House operated by Caritas in partnership with the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). The residents, all women, told stories of abuse and exploitation, while at the same time displaying the strength and courage to leave [...] | 2008-03-05 15:49:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG SOCI CE CF ET LE MA NP |
08BEIRUT349 | LEBANON: PRM A/S WITTEN REVIEWS IRAQI REFUGEE [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri conveyed his concerns to visiting Acting A/S for Population, Refugees and Migration Samuel Witten about the complex situation of Iraqi refugees residing in Lebanon. He admitted that some in the Lebanese public are suffering from "paranoia," and he is co [...] | 2008-03-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG LE |
08BEIRUT359 | LEBANON: ADVANCING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY REPORT [...] (SBU) Lebanon's democratic traditions go back at least to its initial elections in 1854, under Ottoman Empire rule. The key landmarks in Lebanon's democratic history are the 1924 Constitution, the National Pact of 1940, and the 1989 Ta'if Accord. Throughout Lebanon's history democratic initi [...] | 2008-03-10 15:33:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BEIRUT424 | LEBANON: IRAQI REFUGEES RECEIVE BADLY NEEDED USG [...] (SBU) The topic of USG assistance to the Iraqi refugee community arose in Poloff's March 18 meeting with Catholic Relief Service's (CRS) Country Director Melinda Burell. Burell said CRS, in conjunction with its local partner Caritas Lebanon, was working with Iraqi refugees by providing medica [...] | 2008-03-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG LE IZ |
08BEIRUT46 | LEBANON: ACTING FM MITRI ON IRAQI REFUGEES, [...] (C) DCM and Poloff met Acting FM Mitri to deliver U.S. demarches on Iraqi refugees (ref a) and fundraising for the Special Tribunal (ref b) and discuss the January 5-6 Arab League meeting in Cairo which he attended. Regarding the status of Iraqis detained in Lebanese jails, Mitri said the GOL [...] | 2008-01-11 16:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ LE PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08BEIRUT520 | LEBANON: ON CIVIL WAR ANNIVERSARY, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) April 13 marked the 33rd anniversary of the outbreak of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war and a number of civil society organizations marked the occasion with public events. Commemorative events have been held in the past, but this year's events are drawing more participants and public a [...] | 2008-04-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM PGOV SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT541 | LEBANON: BERRI, OTHER POLITICIANS STUCK IN PAST [...] (C) According to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elias Audi, the current political stalemate will be difficult to resolve because the roots of the discourse go back to the 1975-1990 civil war and can not easily be forgotten. He put the blame on the "politicians" thinking of their fiefdoms first, rat [...] | 2008-04-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IS LE |
08BEIRUT547 | LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER TELLS WELCH BELLEMARE [...] (C) Justice Minister Charles Rizk told visiting NEA Assistant David Welch on April 18 that the judiciary, unlike the other branches of the Lebanese government, was still functioning, and that the creation of the Special Tribunal had played a significant role. However, the Tribunal needed to s [...] | 2008-04-22 14:00:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT548 | LEBANON: WITH WELCH, JUMBLATT AND COMPANY DISCUSS [...] (C) U.S. support for Lebanon, the April 22 Friends of Lebanon ministerial, the Special Tribunal, concerns about renewed regional conflict, the upcoming U.S. presidential election, and March 14's next steps dominated NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch's discussion with key March 14 leaders at [...] | 2008-04-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT553 | LEBANON: FORMER PM STRESSES JOB CREATION TO [...] (C) Charge Sison discussed ways to develop the northern region of Akkar with former PM Najib Mikati as a means to counter Sunni extremism in the area. Mikati argued for legitimizing the existence of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon via identification and work permits as a means to rid Lebanon [...] | 2008-04-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KPAL PTER IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT561 | LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER AGAIN PUSHES FOR [...] (C) Justice Minister Charles Rizk reiterated his urgent appeal for UNIIIC Commissioner Daniel Bellemare to assume his role as Prosecutor, clarifying that he was not calling for "dual-hatting." Citing recent intimidation aimed against one of the Lebanese judges working with UNIIIC, Rizk stresse [...] | 2008-04-23 16:15:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT570 | LEBANON: NEW THINK TANK AIMED AT LINKING [...] (C) Prominent Shia attorney (and Hariri lawyer) Mohamad Matar is establishing a new think tank aimed at linking disparate independent Shia groups in Lebanon and securing more political representation in a system in which Hizballah has a monopoly on the Shia representation. Matar believes Hizb [...] | 2008-04-24 16:12:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR IR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT573 | LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI RETURNS TO LEBANON INTENT ON [...] (S) Back at last from Saudi Arabia, majority leader Saad Hariri appears to have taken up the reins in preparing March 14's coordinated response to Speaker Berri's proposal for a new National Dialogue. Noting that March 14's acceptance will be conditioned on the election of a president on May 1 [...] | 2008-04-28 14:39:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT578 | LEBANON: BERRI REJECTS SAAD'S OVERTURES [...] (C) Speaker Berri rebuffed March 14 leader Saad Hariri's attempt to respond to his call for National Dialogue, referring him instead to Free Patriotic Movement Michel Aoun as the opposition's negotiator. March 14 quickly condemned Berri's move as evidence the opposition is not serious about e [...] | 2008-04-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT608 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA FIGURES PROMOTE WAYS TO [...] (C) Sayyed Ali al-Amin, Shia mufti of Tyre, remains highly critical of Hizballah, listing examples of its widespread control over state institutions and the media. He said the best way to counter Hizballah is through empowering moderate Shia clerics and through the provision of basic services, [...] | 2008-05-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SY LE |
08BEIRUT665 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA CLERIC SAYS HIZBALLAH'S [...] (C) Despite the current violence, moderate Shia cleric Sheikh Mohammad Ali Al-Hajj (Para 17 for bio) traveled to the Embassy on May 12 to keep his previously scheduled appointment with the Charge to discuss the independent Shia movement in Lebanon. Al-Hajj criticized the timing of the Cabinet [...] | 2008-05-12 20:12:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SCUL LE |
08BEIRUT697 | LEBANON: AOUN WILL GO TO DOHA; INSISTS ON [...] (C) Free Patriotic Movement leader General Michel Aoun confirmed he will attend the May 16 National Dialogue meeting in Doha, although he expressed his discontent with having all 14 political leaders attend the Dialogue. Aoun argued that a national unity government would restore calm to the co [...] | 2008-05-15 19:35:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT704 | LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI: LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR DOHA, [...] (C) Future Movement leader Saad Hariri confirmed the death of top Hizballah military leader General Abu al-Fadl in a May 15 meeting with the Charge. Political leaders were preparing to meet in Doha on May 16 to relaunch the National Dialogue, though both enthusiasm and expectations for the tal [...] | 2008-05-15 22:25:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KJUS MASS IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT710 | LEBANON: KEY INDEPENDENT SHIA CLERIC "FIRED" FROM [...] (C) In what may seen as a difficult blow to the independent Shia movement, Lebanon's Higher Shia Council (HSC) decided to replace Sayyed Ali Al-Amine, the Mufti of South Lebanon and a vocal critic of Hizballah (Ref A),with Sheikh Hassan Abdullah, a member of Speaker Berri's Amal party. Al-Am [...] | 2008-05-16 17:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PINR PHUM SCUL LE |
08BEIRUT733 | LEBANON: AGREEMENT REACHED IN DOHA [...] (C) At 0230 local time, Lebanese political leaders participating in the National Dialogue in Doha presided by Qatari PM and FM Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim and the Arab League reached a compromise on the distribution of the 19 parliamentarian seats in Beirut, paving the way for a full-fledged agree [...] | 2008-05-21 11:32:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM LE |
08BEIRUT750 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA SAY DOHA HAS A DOWNSIDE [...] (C) Shortly after returning from their protracted visit to Washington, three members of the independent Shia delegation organized by Lokman Slim told the Charge that the Doha agreement has serious, negative, and long-term consequences for the independent Shia movement. According to Slim, the [...] | 2008-05-22 18:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PINR PHUM SCUL LE |
08BEIRUT787 | LEBANON: PATRIARCH SFEIR SEES SLEIMAN'S ELECTION [...] (C) After returning from three weeks overseas, during which Lebanon weathered dramatic events of Hizballah-led fighters in the streets of west Beirut and the election of Michel Sleiman as President, Patriarch Sfeir seemed cautiously upbeat about the political outlook in Lebanon. Sfeir believes [...] | 2008-05-28 16:35:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM LE |
08BEIRUT821 | LEBANON: ISRAELITE COMMUNAL COUNCIL BOARD OBTAINS GOL'S [...] (U) On May 15, the Israelite Communal Council obtained the Ministry of Interior's (MOI) official recognition of its newly elected board. The Board was elected on February 28 for a six-year term, but the MOI had delayed giving the Council its validation. Due to the difficulties in obtaining th [...] | 2008-06-02 18:00:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF LE |
08BEIRUT889 | LEBANON: ELECTORAL REFORM NEEDED NOW, POLITICIANS [...] (U) Lebanese politicians and civil society representatives came together for the first time to discuss their support for electoral reform in Lebanon at a June 11 conference cosponsored by the GOL and UNDP. Caretaker Justice Minister Charles Rizk read remarks from President Michel Sleiman, in [...] | 2008-06-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM LE PGOV PHUM |
08BEIRUT907 | LEBANON: U.S. NGOS READY TO ASSIST LEBANON WITH [...] (C) In a June 17 meeting with the Charge, Embassy Beirut's U.S.-based civil society partners on electoral reform presented their plans on their activities leading up to the 2009 parliamentary elections. They will divide the work among them to cover tasks such as providing technical assistanc [...] | 2008-06-18 17:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM LE PGOV PHUM |
08BEIRUT908 | LEBANON: POTENTIAL SHIA CABINET MEMBER STRESSES [...] (C) Respected Shia leader Ibrahim Shamseddine, rumored to be a possible March 14 candidate for a position in the next cabinet, stressed his political independence in a June 17 meeting with the Charge. Shamseddine welcomed the Secretary's statement stressing the need to resolve Sheba'a Farms, [...] | 2008-06-18 19:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PINR IR AR SY IS LE |
08BEIRUT918 | LEBANON: DEPOSED TYRE SHIA MUFTI PROPOSES FORMING [...] (C) On June 19, Charge and visiting S/P advisor met deposed Shia Mufti of Tyre Sayyed Ali al-Amin, who remains in Beirut after Hizballah drove him out of his position during the May clashes. Al-Amin described the lack of support from Iraqi Shia, whom he describes as afraid to confront Iranian [...] | 2008-06-20 18:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER EAID PINR IQ IR LE |
08BEIRUT919 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA FIGURES DISCUSS HOW TO [...] (C) On June 19, the Charge and visiting S/P staff member Jared Cohen met with a series of independent Shia, including activist Lokman Slim, journalist Ali Alamine, and political figure Ahmad Assad (ref A covers June 19 meeting with deposed Shia Mutfi at Tyre Syed Ali al-Amine). Slim proposed [...] | 2008-06-20 19:07:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PINR EAID LE IQ IR SY |
08BEIRUT929 | LEBANON: FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR SWANEE HUNT ENCOURAGES [...] (SBU) In a visit to Beirut, former U.S. Ambassador and Harvard University John F. Kennedy school professor, Swane Hunt, met with a cross-section of talented andsuccessful Lebanese women active in business, civil society and politics. Although she recognized the importance of the current role [...] | 2008-06-25 14:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI LE |
08BEIRUT952 | LEBANON: SENIOR COORDINATOR FOLEY HEARS OF [...] (C) In a June 26 visit to Beirut, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues James Foley learned from the head of the agency responsible for immigration control, Surete Generale Director Wafiq Jezzini, that the Surete Generale has suspended its practice of detaining Iraqi refugees living in L [...] | 2008-07-01 09:56:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PTER IQ LE |
08BEIRUT984 | LEBANON: ELECTORAL REFORM--WHAT'S FEASIBLE BY 2009? [...] (U) UN and EU electoral assessment teams held a meeting for the donor community on June 27. The UN team argued that only "feasible" reforms should be promoted for the time being, and the rest should wait until the 2013 elections. According to Craig Jenness, a UN electoral assistance expert, [...] | 2008-07-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PHUM UNSC LE |
08BELGRADE1009 | SERBIA: IRF RELEASE PROMPTS COMPARISON, CRITICISM [...] (SBU) The release of the 2008 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report (reftel) drew a strong response from the Serbian Ministry of Religion and in the press. While expressing dissatisfaction regarding the report's conclusions about the discriminatory nature of the Serbian religion law, c [...] | 2008-09-26 15:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF SR KV |
08BELGRADE104 | THE SANDZAK: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS A "REHEARSAL" FOR LOCAL [...] (SBU) For leaders of Southwestern Serbia's predominantly Muslim Sandzak region, the results of the presidential election suggest that May's local elections will bring a new, more democratic local government. On January 20, local voters largely ignored Novi Pazar Mayor Suleman Ugljanin's endor [...] | 2008-01-28 17:14:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SR KV BK |
08BELGRADE1123 | SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PREPARES FOR ELECTION AS PATRIARCH [...] (SBU) Following its October 24 meeting, the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) announced that 94-year old Patriarch Pavle had submitted a request to relinquish his duties. If, as anticipated, the Holy Assembly of Bishops accepts the request at its upcoming meeting on November 11, [...] | 2008-10-29 15:28:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV |
08BELGRADE1167 | SERBIA TRADES ICJ REFERRAL FOR IRAN NAM VOTE [...] (SBU) During a November 7 meeting, MFA Assistant Minister Feodor Starcevic, Director General for Multilateral Relations, confirmed to us that Serbia will abstain from the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee vote on the Iran no-action motion (NAM)(reftel). Starcevic stated bluntly that [...] | 2008-11-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELGRADE1168 | SERBIA RESPONSE TO TIP ACTION GUIDE [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Serbian MFA North American desk officer Srdjan Miljkovic on November 12. Miljkovic will forward the action guide to the Ministries of Social Welfare, Interior, and Justice. 2. Miljkovic requested that we provide samples of anti-TIP training material for Se [...] | 2008-11-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG SR |
08BELGRADE1186 | SERBIA: FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS IT WILL ABSTAIN ON IRAN [...] (SBU) During a November 17 meeting in Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic confirmed to visiting EUR/SCE Deputy Assistant Secretary Stuart Jones that Serbia would abstain from the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee vote on the Iran no-action motion (NAM)(reftels). Jeremic [...] | 2008-11-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELGRADE1217 | SERBIA: HOLY ASSEMBLY RETAINS PATRIARCH PAVLE [...] (SBU) The annual fall session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops (Sabor) of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) ended with a whimper on November 15. Although the Sabor reportedly discussed the life, organization, and mission of the Church, it failed to resolve decisively the most pressing issues. [...] | 2008-11-26 14:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV |
08BELGRADE150 | BELGRADE HOPES FOR SLOW CHANGE IN KOSOVO STATUS [...] (SBU) Kosovo Ministry officials told visiting State and Defense Department representatives on January 30 that only a compromise on Kosovo final status would lead to a durable solution. Assistant Kosovo Ministers urged "incremental" changes in Kosovo and said a "surge to independence" would de [...] | 2008-02-08 09:10:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE165 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: [...] (SBU) On February 6 the Ambassador met with UNHCR Representative in Serbia Lennart Kotsalainen to discuss UNHCR humanitarian response and preparedness in case of population movements from Kosovo into Serbia. Kotsalainen said that signals from Kosovo thus far have been good. He added that the [...] | 2008-02-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM KV SR |
08BELGRADE167 | TRIAL of ALLEGED MUSLIM EXTREMISTS IN SERBIA [...] (SBU) The trial of 14 Muslims from Serbia's Sandzak region on charges of terrorism and related charges began on January 14. According to the indictment, the group was planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy and other sites in Belgrade and Novi Pazar, as well as the murder of an Islamic religious l [...] | 2008-02-13 06:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF ASEC PTER SR US |
08BELGRADE171 | SERBIA ON THE EVE OF KOSOVO'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Serbia's leaders and activists are preparing for Kosovo's imminent declaration of independence and the European Union's decision to deploy a mission to Kosovo. Ruling parties plan to convene parliament to oppose both moves, while nationalist groups have announced protests calling an EU [...] | 2008-02-14 06:15:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE18 | NEXT STEPS IN SOUTHERN SERBIA IN 2008 [...] The Serbian government's Coordinating Body for Southern Serbia (CB) will unveil in early 2008 its engagement and investment strategy for the next two years for the ethnic Albanian-majority Presevo Valley. While serious obstacles remain in the way of a normalized relation between Belgrade and [...] | 2008-01-04 11:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE190 | SOUTHERN SERBIA CALM IN THE WAKE OF KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] Southern Serbia's Presevo Valley remained calm during and after Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17. GOS officials, security forces, and local leaders of constructively engaged with the area's ethnic Albanian-majority to prevent unrest. While the possibility remains that prot [...] | 2008-02-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE21 | SERBIA: UNHCR FINALIZES KOSOVO CONTINGENCY PLANNING WHILE [...] (SBU) In the lead-up to Kosovo final status UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has finalized preparations on its contingency planning related to possible population displacements within and out of Kosovo. UNHCR assumes final status will involve a form of supervised independence for Kos [...] | 2008-01-04 17:12:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM KV SR |
08BELGRADE222 | ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING REPORT IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR [...] OVERVIEW ----------- A. Serbia is a country of origin, transit, and a destination for internationally trafficked men, women, and children. The Agency for the Coordination of Protection of Victims of Trafficking recorded 60 TIP victims. Of these, there were 51 females and 9 males; 26 [...] | 2008-03-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF PREL PGOV ELAB SR |
08BELGRADE224 | ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING REPORT IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR [...] OVERVIEW ----------- A. Serbia is a country of origin, transit, and a destination for internationally trafficked men, women, and children. The Agency for the Coordination of Protection of Victims of Trafficking recorded 60 TIP victims. Of these, there were 51 females and 9 males; 26 [...] | 2008-03-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF PREL PGOV ELAB SR |
08BELGRADE225 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (SBU) On March 6, Refcord met with UNHCR Serbia Representative Lennart Kotsalainen and deputies Angelita Cecere (Senior Program Officer) and John Young (Senior Protection Officer) to review core UNHCR activities in the coming months. Kotsalainen said there had been no population movements into [...] | 2008-03-11 15:51:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE232 | SERBIA: DRASKOVIC TO FORM ELECTION COALITION WITH DS [...] (SBU) Former Foreign Minister and leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, told the Ambassador March 12 that he intended to join a coalition with the Democratic Party for the May elections. Draskovic encouraged Washington and Pristina to accept Kosovo Serbs participation in the M [...] | 2008-03-13 16:20:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE263 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (SBU) On March 14, refcord attended a Danish Refugee Council (DRC) an internally displaced persons (IDP) coordination session in Belgrade. DRC, in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regularly meets with IDP representatives across Serbia, usually ahead [...] | 2008-03-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE264 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (SBU) On March 14, refcord attended a Danish Refugee Council (DRC) an internally displaced persons (IDP) coordination session in Belgrade. DRC, in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regularly meets with IDP representatives across Serbia, usually ahead [...] | 2008-03-19 12:07:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE266 | VETTING FOR CIVIL MILITARY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (CMEP) [...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for CMEP Balkans IPC for 2008 Exercise scheduled from 1-3 April 2008 at Skopje, Macedonia; for SEESIM 08 MPC scheduled from 7-12 April 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria; for MEDCEUR 08 Exercise FPC scheduled from 10-15 March 2008 in Split, C [...] | 2008-03-19 15:12:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KCRM SR |
08BELGRADE273 | SERBIA: KOSTUNICA'S CAMPAIGN: ALL KOSOVO, ALL THE TIME [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia will try to keep national attention on Kosovo, rather than European integration, as part of its electoral strategy for Serbia's May 11 elections. The DSS campaign will seize on and prolong stories of unrest in Kosovo, such as the Mar [...] | 2008-03-21 14:27:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE274 | VETTING FOR GCMC COURSE COMBATING TERRORISM LANGUAGE PROGRAM [...] The following candidate from Montenegro is presented as a nominee for CTLP + PTSS 8-5 courses scheduled from 14 April - 27 June 2008 at Garmisch, Germany. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to the Leahy Amendment/Human Rights Vetting, this individual has been cleared by all releva [...] | 2008-03-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | SR PHUM PREL KCRM |
08BELGRADE275 | SERBIA: TADIC'S DS FORMS ELECTION COALITION WITHOUT LDP; [...] (SBU) In advance of Serbia's parliamentary elections, scheduled May 11, the Democratic Party has formed a pro EU coalition. Pollsters believe the Liberal Democratic Party may not cross the five percent threshold on election day, while the Socialists may play kingmaker in any new government. [...] | 2008-03-21 15:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SR |
08BELGRADE279 | SERBIA: LORD, HOW THIS SANDZAK IS GIVEN TO LYING [...] (SBU) The ethnically-Muslim region of Sandzak remains a tense volatile area, prone to sporadic violence as a result of a feud between two rival Islamic associations. The May 11 parliamentary and local elections in Sandzak provide both an opportunity to vote out a particularly distasteful loca [...] | 2008-03-24 17:09:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE283 | VETTING FOR IMET COURSE [...] The following candidates from Montenegro are presented as nominees for IMET COURSE -- Army WARRIOR LEADER COURSE scheduled for 18 MAY 2008 to 18 JUNE 2008 at 7th Army NCO Academy at Grafenwoehr, Germany. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to the Leahy Amendment/Human Rights Vettin [...] | 2008-03-25 11:18:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SR |
08BELGRADE284 | VETTING FOR IMET COURSE [...] The following candidate from Montenegro is presented as a nominee for IMET COURSE -- BASIC OFFICER LEADER II scheduled for 04 APRIL 2008 to 22 MAY 2008 at Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to the Leahy Amendment/Human Rights Vetting, this i [...] | 2008-03-25 11:20:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM SR |
08BELGRADE294 | SERBIA: VOJVODINA POLITICS -- POOR MAN'S ENTERTAINMENT [...] (SBU) Two of Vojvodina's most influential political leaders portrayed their political ideology as flexible in their efforts to secure the most votes and their own political futures. Novi Sad mayor and candidate Maja Gojkovic affirmed she is no longer a Radical party member and expressed her f [...] | 2008-03-25 16:50:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE297 | SERBIA: SAMARDZIC'S PROPOSAL TO UN: IT'S ALL DOMESTIC PARTY [...] (SBU) Making full use of the ambiguity surrounding a caretaker regime, Prime Minister Kostunica empowered his Kosovo Minister and chief advisor Slobodan Samardzic to offer an interim agreement with UNMIK. President Tadic's party has complained that its government ministers were not given a cha [...] | 2008-03-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE299 | SERBIA: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BISHOP IRINEJ ON KOSOVO AND [...] (SBU) Novi Sad Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) said although the Church disagreed with U.S. policy on Kosovo, he renounced recent violence and said the Church should continue dialogue with the diplomatic community. Irinej did not feel Kosovo independence was a utopia and w [...] | 2008-03-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF SR |
08BELGRADE309 | SERBIA: PARTIES' IDEOLOGIES GIVE WAY TO "MATHEMATICAL [...] (SBU) Leaders of Prime Minister Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia and failed presidential candidate Nikolic's Radicals are openly discussing a likely post election coalition. President Tadic's Democratic Party has apparently seeks to keep all post election options open, though increasingl [...] | 2008-03-31 10:12:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE322 | SERBIA: UN OFFICE BELGRADE SEEKING NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) The United Nations Office in Belgrade is assessing the Government of Serbia's willingness to negotiate with the UN on breaking the impasse on Kosovo. UNOB Head Richard Wilcox told the Ambassador that if the GOS is willing, UNHQ would try to negotiate a solution by the end of April, but [...] | 2008-04-02 08:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MW PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE324 | SERBIA: DELIBERATIONS ON SERBIAN ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Serbia's caretaker government will meet for the first time to discuss on April 3 how to hold May 11 local and parliamentary elections in Kosovo. No decision is expected. Parties have not yet reached agreement on technical details but Serbian officials generally support holding both nati [...] | 2008-04-02 15:56:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE325 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (SBU) On March 27, refcord met with UNHCR Serbia Senior Program Coordinator Angelita Cecere to discuss country operations planning. Cecere told refcord UNHCR Serbia submitted a two year budget (2008-2009) plan in March 2007 and this year planned only a few revisions to the original submission [...] | 2008-04-02 16:13:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE334 | SERBIA: GOVERNMENT AGREES TO HOLD MAY ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Serbia's government agreed on April 3 to hold upcoming parliamentary and local elections in Kosovo. The government will now contact UNMIK to discuss the arrangements for the elections, which would be carried out by Serbia's Election Commission. End Summary. Elections Will Be Held [...] | 2008-04-04 11:24:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE340 | VETTING FOR IMET COURSE [...] The following candidate from Serbia is presented as a nominee for IMET COURSE -- Basic Non Commissioned Officer Course scheduled for 14 APR 2008 to 04 MAY 2008 at Ohio Army National Guard. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to the Leahy Amendment/Human Rights Vetting, this individ [...] | 2008-04-07 09:00:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM SR |
08BELGRADE357 | SERBIA: DOMESTIC CONDEMNATION OF HARADINAJ VERDICT; APPEAL [...] (SBU) Serbia's coalition and opposition parties universally condemned the April 3 decision by The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),finding former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The political partie [...] | 2008-04-09 13:14:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE367 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: APRIL [...] (SBU) On April 10, refcord met with European Commission Delegation to Serbia's First Counselor and Head of Operations Ferenc Simon to discuss the 2007 and 2008 Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) support for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The EC announced on April [...] | 2008-04-11 15:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE372 | SOUTHERN SERBIA COPES WITH NEW POLITICAL REALITIES [...] (SBU) In addition to the ongoing challenge of its integration with the rest of Serbia, the ethnically-mixed Presevo Valley is struggling with the impact of Kosovo independence on links across the new border. Politically, ethnic Albanian leaders are still divided between two camps: pro-integrat [...] | 2008-04-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE396 | SERBIA: SOCIALISTS EAGER TO DEAL [...] (SBU) Serbia's Socialist Party appears to have enough support to win seats in the May 2008 parliamentary elections, and may even increase their parliamentary presence for the first time since the ouster from power of former party chairman and convicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. Party of [...] | 2008-04-18 15:09:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE397 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: APRIL [...] (SBU) On April 11, refcoord participated in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) bi-monthly Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) working group featuring the Kosovo Ministry's Coordination Center President Vuko Antonijevic. Participants included a number of IDP associations [...] | 2008-04-18 15:52:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE412 | SERBIA: ICTY PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR ARREST OF REMAINING [...] (SBU) The Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz urged Serbian authorities to increase cooperation with the Court and, in particular, to arrest the four remaining Serb fugitives. Serbian officials used Brammertz's first visit to Belgrade to underscore their anger with the Tribunal's [...] | 2008-04-22 14:42:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SR |
08BELGRADE418 | SERBIA: TO BRUSSELS OR MOSCOW? SAA AND GAZPROM DEAL [...] (SBU) Serbia's leaders and media have seized on two pending agreements, the EU Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and a bilateral energy deal with Russia, as symbols of the struggle between political allies turned adversaries to chart the country's direction. President Boris Tadic l [...] | 2008-04-23 15:57:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON ENRG SR |
08BELGRADE426 | SERBIA GETS SAA, DEMOCRATS WIN BACK INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) A late-breaking decision by the EU to sign the SAA with Serbia boosts President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party coalition in advance of May 11 elections. Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic plans to travel to Luxembourg to sign today (April 29). Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic benefits po [...] | 2008-04-29 13:47:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE428 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT APRIL [...] (SBU) Budget woes were a principal concern of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Deputy Director for Europe Udo Janz in a April 23 meeting with refcoord to discuss UNHCR next steps in the Balkans. Janz said that the falling dollar had resulted in a $14-million loss for UNHC [...] | 2008-04-30 09:24:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PHUM PREL SR KV PREF |
08BELGRADE429 | SERBIA: ALBANIANS ON NATIONAL BALLOT [...] Ethnic Albanian parties from southern Serbia gathered enough signatures to put them on Serbia's May 11 parliamentary ballot. Albanian participation had been at risk after the Serbian authorities increased the number of signatures necessary for minority party registration from 3,000 to 10,000. [...] | 2008-04-30 12:03:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE450 | SERBIA: DEMOCRATS AND RADICALS STILL NECK AND NECK [...] (SBU) Serbia's radical and democratic parties are still running neck-and-neck toward the May 11 parliamentary elections. Despite tabloid press reports showing the democratic coalition with a small lead over the Radicals, more accurate polling data shows the Radicals maintaining its slight le [...] | 2008-05-07 08:53:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE452 | SERBIA: IF THE RADICALS WIN [...] (SBU) A victory of the war crimes indictee Vojislav Seselj-led Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in the May 11 parliamentary elections would bring to power a leadership with no international experience and little common ground on the U.S. or EU priorities for democratic and economic development in [...] | 2008-05-07 13:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TAGS |
08BELGRADE474 | SERBIAN ELECTIONS: DEMOCRATS TAKE PLURALITIES IN MOST [...] (SBU) In Serbia's May 11 local elections President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party-led "For a European Serbia" coalition won a plurality of seats in Belgrade and in 13 of Serbia's 21 other cities. Similar to parliamentary elections, the Democratic Party's (DS) and its partners' performance ove [...] | 2008-05-14 04:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SR |
08BELGRADE482 | SITREP BOSNIA FROM BELGRADE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) On April 21 and 22, Belgrade based Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Balkans traveled to Bosnia to meet with local officials and to discuss concerns facing displaced persons and returnees. Durable solutions for refugees and displaced persons and sustainability of return continue to b [...] | 2008-05-15 06:41:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM BK |
08BELGRADE485 | SOUTHERN SERBIA: ALBANIANS RETURN TO PARLIAMENT, MODERATES [...] (U) Albanians in Southern Serbia's Presevo Valley voted in record numbers on May 11 to return one representative to Serbia's national parliament. In local elections, moderate Serb and Albanian parties made gains against their more radical opponents in Bujanovac and Presevo. With no outright m [...] | 2008-05-15 15:17:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE495 | EMBASSY BELGRADE OUTREACH TO ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 14:59:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SR |
08BELGRADE496 | SERBIA'S SANDZAK: DESPITE PRO-DEMOCRATIC ELECTION RESULTS, [...] (SBU) Democratic forces in the Bosniak majority city of Novi Pazar won more votes than the party of strong arm Mayor Sulejman Ugljanin in May 11th's local election. Despite his second place finish, Ugljanin may still be able to maintain power with the help of a local Serb coalition and his pa [...] | 2008-05-19 15:28:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MW KV SR |
08BELGRADE50 | SERBIAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS [...] (SBU) Upcoming Serbian presidential elections pit the incumbent President Boris Tadic against Radical Party Tomislav Nikolic in a race that Tadic will likely win in the second round of voting. The Radicals are running an effective campaign, however, presenting a kinder, gentler message that m [...] | 2008-01-11 15:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE514 | SERBIA: RESPONSE ON CUBAN SOLIDARITY DAY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 12:00:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU SR |
08BELGRADE515 | SERBIA: RESPONSE ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PETITION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 12:02:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL SR |
08BELGRADE516 | SERBIA: RESPONSE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHCR SR |
08BELGRADE517 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MAY 15 [...] (SBU) Budget and staffing cuts for 2009 continue to afflict The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Serbia. Representative Lennart Kotsalainen told refcoord May 15 he had reluctantly agreed to cut six local positions and one international post, per UNHCR Geneva instructio [...] | 2008-05-27 14:10:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE53 | Serbia's Kosovo Minister Pledges No Violence and No [...] (SBU) Serbia's Kosovo Minister Samardzic told UK, US, French, German and Italian COMs on January 11 that Serbia was committed both to no-violence and no-recognition of Kosovo. In response to a UK-headed "Quint" demarche, Samardzic said EU and U.S. policy toward Serbia was stuck in a Milosevic [...] | 2008-01-11 17:47:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM KV SR |
08BELGRADE534 | SERBIA: APPLICATION FOR FY 2008 PRM JULIA V. TAFT FUND TO [...] (U) Embassy Belgrade proposes granting $20,000 of the FY 2008 PRM Julia V. Taft Fund for Refugees to the Kucevo Home for Elderly in eastern Serbia to install an elevator. The project fills a critical assistance gap in Serbia and will enable an appropriate facility to shelter an additional 30 [...] | 2008-06-02 08:27:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM SR |
08BELGRADE569 | SERBIA: POSITIVE RESPONSE TO TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) We presented the Combating Trafficking in Persons report on Serbia to Srdjan Milkovic, North Americas Division Chief at the Foreign Ministry, on June 4. Miljkovic praised other recent human rights-related reports from the Department for their accuracy and said he was eager to read the fu [...] | 2008-06-09 18:53:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SR |
08BELGRADE574 | SOUTH SERBIA: BOMB BLAST IN BUJANOVAC [...] (SBU) A late night bomb blast on June 6 at Police Headquarters in the multi-ethnic town of Bujanovac in southern Serbia destroyed a police vehicle but resulted in no fatalities. Police are closely holding information on the incident as they try to gather information on motives and perpetrators [...] | 2008-06-10 18:51:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ASEC SR |
08BELGRADE577 | SERBIA: WAR CRIMES FUGITIVE ZUPLJANIN ARRESTED [...] (SBU) Serbian authorities arrested Stojan Zupljanin, one of four remaining ICTY fugitives (PIFWC),on June 11 in a Belgrade suburb. His arrest was based on a tip from Serbian Intelligence Services (BIA) and carried out by officers of the Special War Crimes Prosecutors Office with participation [...] | 2008-06-12 08:33:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SR KV |
08BELGRADE587 | SERBS WILL ANSWER UN SYG BAN'S LETTER WITH A "SOFT NO" ON [...] (SBU) President Tadic will likely respond on June 15 with a "soft no" to UN SYG Ban's letter on UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo) reconfiguration. Prime Minister Kostunica has already responded publicly, calling the Ban proposal unacceptable for Serbia. Kosovo Minister Samardzic publicly said UN [...] | 2008-06-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SR KV |
08BELGRADE591 | SERBIA - KOSOVO MINISTRY WAITING CONSTITUTION AND [...] (SBU) As Kosovo prepares to enact its new constitution on June 15, Serbia's Ministry for Kosovo is cautiously watching, but not actively planning any major response to the event, and is expecting that little on the ground will change in the near term. Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardzic will [...] | 2008-06-13 18:01:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE600 | SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - TIME TO DEFINE ITS FUTURE? [...] (SBU) The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) is going through a turbulent period. The recent session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops revealed the divide within the church on a range of religious and political issues. With a technical authority taking over the functions of the Patriarch, none of t [...] | 2008-06-17 16:37:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SR |
08BELGRADE602 | SERBIA: INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request for input, post suggests the following areas of concern that the U.S. delegation to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) might wish to raise: -- The remaining three fugitive war crimes suspects under indictment by the International Criminal Tri [...] | 2008-06-17 16:56:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM OSCE KDEM PREL SR |
08BELGRADE603 | SERBIA: PRIME MINISTER LOSES BID (FOR NOW) TO HAVE [...] (SBU) In contrast to President Tadic's "soft no" to UNSYG Ban's letter on UNMIK reconfiguration, Prime Minister Kostunica and his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) sought a special session of Serbia's new parliament to declare Kosovo's new constitution illegal and reject the EU's plan to send a [...] | 2008-06-18 08:26:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SR KV |
08BELGRADE61 | SERBIA ADOPTS KOSOVO ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) The Serbian Government on January 14 adopted a plan of official responses to a declaration of Kosovo independence. The government will not release the document to the public and no specifics of the plan are yet clear. Serbian officials, including the Foreign Minister, told us the plan [...] | 2008-01-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE617 | SERBIA: SUPREME COURT VERDICT IN 1999 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT [...] (SBU) The Serbian Supreme Court handed down verdicts on June 19 against 10 individuals, including the Milosevic regime's secret police commander and state security chief, for the 1999 attempted assassination of Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) head Vuk Draskovic and the murder of four of his asso [...] | 2008-06-23 08:25:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SR |
08BELGRADE62 | SERBIA ADOPTS KOSOVO ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) The Serbian Government on January 14 adopted a plan of official responses to a declaration of Kosovo independence. The government will not release the document to the public and no specifics of the plan are yet clear. Serbian officials, including the Foreign Minister, told us the plan [...] | 2008-01-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KBTS KPAO SR MW KV |
08BELGRADE630 | PRM TRIP REPORT: CROATIA'S PROGRESS ON REFUGEE RETURN, [...] (SBU) Belgrade-based Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Balkans traveled to Croatia, June 10-13, to assess the status of refugee returns and to discuss concerns of displaced persons and returnees. Meetings with representatives of the Government of Croatia, the United Nations High Commission [...] | 2008-06-24 17:48:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM HR REFUGEES |
08BELGRADE637 | SERBIA: FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-26 15:56:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM SOCI SR MW |
08BELGRADE662 | SERBIA: TRIAL OF ALLEGED MUSLIM TERRORISTS CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Serbia's first domestic terrorism trial, in which the defendants are accused of planning attacks in Belgrade on sites including the U.S. Embassy, continues to work its way slowly through the judicial system. The case crept forward during two recent trial sessions and is scheduled to res [...] | 2008-07-03 10:39:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL KV SR |
08BELGRADE70 | SERBIA: UNHCR REFINES CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR POPULATION [...] (SBU) The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Belgrade continues contingency planning and preparations for possible population displacements from Kosovo into Serbia, in consultation with Serbian Government, NGOs, and donors. UNHCR officials told emboff that, while the g [...] | 2008-01-18 06:05:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM KV SR |
08BELGRADE755 | SERBIA: OSCE HDIM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Per Ref A instructions, Poloff on July 25 delivered the demarche on the upcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) to Marina Ivanovic of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for Human Rights. 2. Poloff provided Ivanovic with a modified copy of the points concerning S [...] | 2008-07-25 19:17:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM SR |
08BELGRADE800 | SOUTHERN SERBIA: HIGH EXPECTATIONS, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES [...] (SBU) By not including Serbs in local governments, Southern Serbia's ethnic Albanian political leaders missed an opportunity to exercise political inclusiveness and set a course for stability in the multi-ethnic, economically depressed, politically volatile region. In Bujanovac and Presevo mun [...] | 2008-08-07 08:54:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SR |
08BELGRADE875 | SERBIA: KOSOVO MINISTRY MEETS WITH UNMIK REP, SERBIAN [...] (SBU) Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic and UNMIK Deputy Head Nicholas Haysom on August 25 discussed the return of ethnic Serbs to judicial bodies in northern Kosovo and to the Kosovo Police Service (KPS),the third UNMIK-GOS meeting in the past six weeks. Bogdanovic reiterated tra [...] | 2008-08-28 05:25:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SR KV |
08BELGRADE904 | SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DISPUTE ECHOES DESCENT OF [...] (SBU) In the wake of Serbia's presidential, parliamentary, and local elections, wherein nationalist politics experienced a marked loss in popular support, the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) also is undergoing internal debate over its future orientation. Long-simmering disputes and tensions with [...] | 2008-09-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV |
08BELGRADE960 | SERBIA STILL DEFINING THIRD COMMITTEE POSITIONS [...] (SBU) During a September 12 meeting, Acting Head of the MFA Directorate for Human Rights Valentina Kravljanac told us that her government has yet to elaborate its stance on the issues that will be discussed at the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee session (reftel). Kravljanac said t [...] | 2008-09-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELMOPAN147 | BELIZE - EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (U) Responses are keyed to the checklist (paras 27-32) in reftel A. 2. (SBU) Overview of Belize's Activities to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons A. Belize is a transit and destination country for internationally trafficked men, women, and children. Trafficking occurs within the cou [...] | 2008-03-13 20:18:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BH |
08BELMOPAN148 | BELIZE - EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 20:18:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BH |
08BELMOPAN149 | BELIZE - EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 20:18:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BH |
08BELMOPAN223 | BELIZE DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 17:48:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ES EUN PHUM BH |
08BELMOPAN253 | BELIZE -- DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE [...] Embassy has attempted to place an op-ed with major media outlets in Belize. At this time we have not received a commitment to publish. 2. We have posted information on the Day of Solidarity on the Embassy website along with a link to solidaridadcuba.org. 3. On May 21 Embassy staff ar [...] | 2008-05-20 15:29:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PREL KPAO SOCI CU BH |
08BELMOPAN263 | BELIZE -- DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE [...] Embassy Belmopan distributed op-ed to major media outlets in Belize. Belize newspapers are published weekly and no confirmation of publication was received. 2. Information on the Day of Solidarity was posted on the Embassy website along with a link to solidaridadcuba.org. 3. Embassy [...] | 2008-05-22 20:08:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PREL KPAO SOCI CU BH |
08BELMOPAN400 | BELIZE RESPONSE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ayesha Borland, Desk Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff expressed the U.S. commitment to protect human rights and urged the GOB to take a stand against all no-action motions. Ms. Borland responded that Belize has in the past supported a [...] | 2008-09-12 21:01:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN BH |
08BERLIN113 | GERMANY IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Acting Head of the European Correspondent Office Thomas Schieb on January 25. Schieb noted that the Western Balkans, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan/Dafur/Chad, and Kenya were currently on the GAERC agenda. -------------- [...] | 2008-01-25 17:34:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KVIR IR IZ IS SU |
08BERLIN1130 | TFGG01: MERKEL "WILL TALK TOUGH" IN SOCHI; [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS |
08BERLIN1155 | GERMANY TO DOUBLE GEORGIAN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The German Foreign Office announced August 19 that Germany would increase its humanitarian assistance to Georgia from 1 million to 2 million euros. POLOFF spoke on August 20 with Georgia Desk Officer Gosse at the MFA for more detail on the additional one million euros. Gosse confirmed tha [...] | 2008-08-21 05:30:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1173 | GERMANY: HUMANITARIAN AID LIMITED BY RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF met August 21 with Deputy Head of the Task Force for Humanitarian Aid and Mine Action Oliver Owcza and Desk Officer Miriam Lenz to discuss the findings of the delegation to Georgia August 20 and 21 (Ref A). Owcza and Lenz charged that the Russians had interfered with the d [...] | 2008-08-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1175 | GERMANY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier August 20 welcomed the release of Belarusian political prisoners Andrey Kim and Syarhey Parsyukevich and noted that Belarus had taken an important step towards improving relations with the EU. PolOffs met with MFA desk officer for Belarus, [...] | 2008-08-22 15:36:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | GM PREL PHUM RU GG PGOV BO |
08BERLIN1176 | GERMANY CAREFULLY WATCHING RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Summary: PolOff met with MFA Division Head for Russia and Ukraine Ernst Reichel to discuss the Russian troop withdrawal from Georgia on August 22. Reichel emphasized that Russia's actions over the next day are vital for mitigating damage to its relations and reputation. Although confusi [...] | 2008-08-22 16:38:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1187 | GERMANY REACTS STRONGLY TO RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: German officials reacted strongly to Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia August 26. See para 7 for the full text of a German government statement on the matter. During a visit to Estonia today, Chancellor Merkel said the recognition was "absolutely unacceptable" [...] | 2008-08-26 16:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1227 | GERMANY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POSITIONS ON UNGA THIRD [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Deputy Head of the Human Rights Department Martin Huth September 4 and spoke with Chancellery Advisor on Global Issues, the United Nations and Human Rights Edgar Gansen on September 5 on reftel points. Both expressed strong support for the U.S. positions on no-action mo [...] | 2008-09-05 14:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GM |
08BERLIN1259 | GERMAN VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 EU GAERC FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany expects the EU Council on September 15 to agree on creating a small "coordination cell" in Brussels to help coordinate the existing anti-piracy contributions of EU members and prepare the way for a possible future ESDP mission off the coast of Somalia. The Council is also [...] | 2008-09-12 14:51:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PHUM PGOV GM ZL ZI SO SR BO |
08BERLIN1261 | GERMANY/GEORGIA: STATUS OF EU OBSERVER MISSION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The German government is using numerous bilateral and multilateral tools to assist Georgia in its recovery from the recent war with Russia. Germany strongly supports the EU observer mission in Georgia and seems determined to meet the October 1 deployment deadline. Chancellor Merk [...] | 2008-09-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1273 | GERMANY: NO PLANS FOR FORMAL REJECTION OF RUSSIAN [...] (U) POLOFF delivered reftel points to Head of the Russia and Ukraine Division Ernst Reichel September 14. 2. (C) While agreeing that the Russian claim was unfounded, Reichel said the GOG viewed it as unnecessary to issue a formal statement. At this time, Germany also has no intention of pu [...] | 2008-09-16 14:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM GG RS GM XG XH |
08BERLIN1286 | GERMANY: MOVING FORWARD WITH EU OBSERVER MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany plans to have 18 of the 40 observers it has pledged for the EU observer mission on the ground in Georgia early next week, with the additional 22 on standby should the EU need them. Contacts at MFA and the German Government Center for International Peace Operations (Zentru [...] | 2008-09-18 15:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EUN |
08BERLIN1318 | GERMANY LOOKING FOR SMALL STEP FORWARD IN BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA and Chancellery contacts appeared in agreement regarding Belarus and expected the EU to ease restrictions following the Belarussian parliamentary elections on September 28. The GOG hopes that the elections will reflect "an improvement over last time," which in conjunction wi [...] | 2008-09-24 11:57:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | GM PREL PHUM RU GG PGOV BO |
08BERLIN1407 | GERMANY: UNCERTAIN ABOUT AID PACKAGE AND MIXED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Office Director for South Caucasus and Central Asia Maria Gosse on October 14, who stressed that Germany plans on delivering an aid package for Georgia and the region, but is unlikely to provide direct budget support. Gosse also shared [...] | 2008-10-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1408 | (S/NF) GERMANY NONCOMMITTAL ON PALESTINIAN [...] (S/NF) DCM raised October 15 with German NSA Christoph Heusgen the possibility of Germany resettling the Palestinian Guantanamo detainee described in Ref (A). Heusgen was noncommittal; he did not rule it out but suggested that other countries (he mentioned Spain) might be more appropriate. [...] | 2008-10-17 15:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO GM |
08BERLIN1436 | GERMANY: OPEN TO GREATER COOPERATION WITH THE U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Officials at the German Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) told visiting S/CRS Deputy Coordinator Larry Sampler October 16 that they would welcome greater cooperation with S/CRS and invited the U.S. to send one or more representatives to a December 11-12 internatio [...] | 2008-10-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM PREF UNDP UN |
08BERLIN1480 | HR VETTING FOR SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE [...] (U) This cable responds to ref e-mail request to conduct human rights vetting, as required by the Leahy Amendment, for German military representatives who plan to attend the Sovereign Challenge Conference from November 17-20, 2008 at Hurbult Field, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. 2. (U) The POL [...] | 2008-10-31 10:39:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GM |
08BERLIN1511 | MERKEL IN CHINA SEEKS RESOLVE IN HANDING FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Much of Chancellor Merkel's October 23-25 visit to Beijing to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) focused on the financial crisis, according to Chancellery advisors Ludger Siemes (Bilateral Relations to the Near and Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America) and Petra Sigmu [...] | 2008-11-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON CH GM IN PK |
08BERLIN1530 | GERMANY LOBBYING AGAINST IRAN NO-ACTION MOTION [...] (C) Deputy Head of the Human Rights Division of the MFA Martin Huth told Poloff November 10 that the MFA had tasked its embassies in Madagascar and India November 7 to demarche their respective host governments to vote against the no-action motion on Iran (per reftel). Huth told Poloff in a f [...] | 2008-11-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM GM |
08BERLIN1547 | GERMANY SUPPORTS U.S. GOALS FOR NOVEMBER 19 AFGHAN [...] (SBU) Post delivered ref A talking points regarding the November 19 international conference on Afghan refugees in Kabul to MFA Office Director for Afghanistan Affairs Director Ruediger Koenig on November 14. Koenig noted that Germany took the conference very seriously, although nobody from B [...] | 2008-11-17 10:48:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM AF PK IR GM |
08BERLIN1554 | GERMANY: EXPECTATIONS LOW FOR NOVEMBER 19 GENEVA [...] (C)SUMMARY. Contacts at the MFA and the Chancellery remain hopeful that the Geneva Talks will succeed in bringing all parties--especially Abkhazia and South Ossetia--to the table on November 19. Poloffs met with Chancellery Desk Officer for South Caucasus and Central Asia Agapi Nehring, who [...] | 2008-11-18 09:47:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM NATO EUN |
08BERLIN1555 | IRAN: GERMAN OFFICIALS SHARE VIEWS ON SANCTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA/IR Office Director Todd Schwartz discussed a range of Iran-related issues with representatives of the Chancellery, MFA, and Ministry of Economics during November 12 meetings. Emphasizing their belief that sanctions are working, all three agencies repeated Germany's long-st [...] | 2008-11-18 11:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KNNP KDEM GM IR IZ |
08BERLIN1567 | GERMANY SUPPORTS EU'S DOUBLE-EDGED APPROACH TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany appears satisfied with how the EU-Russia Summit unfolded in Nice on November 14, according to contacts in the Chancellery and MFA. Germany was eager to restart Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) negotiations, but supports launching an Eastern Partnership with c [...] | 2008-11-21 09:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM NATO EUN |
08BERLIN240 | GERMANY/TIP - MINISTRIES WELCOME ACTION GUIDE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government officials from key federal ministries welcomed the recommendations in G/TIP's "Action Guide to Combat Trafficking in Persons" for Germany. They highlighted a series of steps taken in 2007, including finalization of the second Federal Action Plan to Combat Violence a [...] | 2008-02-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV PREL |
08BERLIN256 | GERMANY - 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following is Mission Germany's submission for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The entire report should be treated as sensitive but unclassified. Mission point of contact is Craig Conway SIPDIS (email: conwaycm@state.gov; tel: 49-30-8305-2127). 2. (SBU) [...] | 2008-03-03 08:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV GM |
08BERLIN273 | GERMANY BACKS MALDIVES DRAFT RESOLUTION, [...] (SBU) On February 28, ECONOFF delivered reftel points to Karsten Sach, Deputy Director General for International Cooperation at the Environment Ministry. Sach is also Germany's lead climate negotiator. Sach passed our request to both Christian Lindemann and Marcus Schroeder, who handle inter [...] | 2008-03-04 17:08:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | KGHG MV PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC |
08BERLIN295 | GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE AND BUNDESTAG MEMBER ON CUBA [...] (C) Summary: German Foreign Office Latin America Commissioner Gerhard Schroembgens underscored German support for the EU's dual-track approach to Cuba and told us that Germany has called on EU Development Commissioner Michel to meet with opposition and civil society figures while in Havana. [...] | 2008-03-07 16:51:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EUN CU GM |
08BERLIN322 | IRAN: BUNDESTAG PASSES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR FREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6, the German Bundestag passed a unanimous resolution on the upcoming Iranian parliamentary elections, calling for a free and fair campaign and free and democratic elections. Speakers from Germany's four main political parties underscored the deteriorating Iranian huma [...] | 2008-03-13 16:23:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM IR GM |
08BERLIN323 | IRAN: MFA ON MAJLES ELECTION STATEMENT, [...] (C) PolOff (Iran-watcher) shared reftel talking points and the draft USG statement on the March 14 Iranian parliamentary election with MFA Iran Desk Officer Deike Potzel on March 12. Potzel recommended that the statement should frame the Iranian election in terms of international standards, [...] | 2008-03-13 16:23:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IR GM |
08BERLIN365 | GERMANY'S REACTION TO UNREST IN TIBET [...] (C) On March 18, PolOff with Thomas Gerberich, the lead China desk officer at the German MFA, to discuss the latest developments in Tibet and the German response to the situation. Although German officials have said they oppose boycotting the Olympics to protest the Chinese government's heav [...] | 2008-03-20 16:57:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CH GM |
08BERLIN386 | EMBASSY BERLIN RESPONSE TO FY 2008 PEDOPHILIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Per reftel request, Embassy Berlin has found no evidence that would suggest that United Nations Volunteers (UNV) or its affiliate organizations have ties to groups that support pedophilia. Per UNV representatives, the organization does not grant official status, accreditation, [...] | 2008-03-28 14:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID PHUM SOCI GM |
08BERLIN399 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: URGING FASTER PROCESSING OF [...] (C) Poloff met March 12 with the head of the German Finance Ministry's Nazi-era restitution section, Dr. Hermann-Josef Rodenbach, to deliver reftel points. Dr. Rodenbach welcomed USG efforts to encourage the Finance Ministry to move faster on processing restitution claims stemming from the Na [...] | 2008-03-31 12:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNAR PHUM GM |
08BERLIN421 | GERMANY INCREASES CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSIST IRAQI [...] (C) PolOff delivered Ref A points to Iraq Unit head Dr. Ruediger Lotz and desk officer Thomas Lenferding on March 31. Dr. Lotz expressed appreciation for the information and noted that in the coming days, a number of announcements regarding assistance for Iraqi refugees would be made. Lotz a [...] | 2008-04-03 12:49:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IQ GM |
08BERLIN424 | GERMANY - STATE/TREASURY DELEGATION DISCUSSES BURMA AND IRAN SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 11:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | BM EFIN ETTC GM IR KNNP PARM PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BERLIN427 | GERMANY WALKS TIGHTROPE BETWEEN CHINA AND THE [...] (SBU) German Chancellor Merkel and the interior and foreign ministries have ruled out a boycott of the Olympics, but government reactions, along with that of the public, continue to be critical of China. Government statements and an April 3 special session of the German parliament on China's [...] | 2008-04-04 14:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CH GM |
08BERLIN500 | CHANCELLERY WEIGHS IN FAVORABLY ON SPEED OF [...] (C) On April 17, Embassy Poloffs met with the Chancellery Budgetary Policy Chief Ludger Schlief to discuss facilitating property restitution to Nazi-era victims (see reftels). Schlief acknowledged that the Finance Ministry was not making adequate progress on the processing of restitution claims [...] | 2008-04-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNAR PHUM KIRF GM |
08BERLIN507 | GERMANY CONSIDERS OPENING DOORS TO IRAQI CHRISTIAN [...] (C) In the past several weeks, German politicians have begun a serious debate to allow up to 30,000 Iraqi Christian or other religious minorities to resettle in Germany, with German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (CDU) pressing the hardest for swift action. On April 17, 2008, the state [...] | 2008-04-23 08:54:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | GM MARR MOPS NATO PREL IQ EUN PHUM PREF |
08BERLIN52 | EMBASSY BERLIN'S ENGAGEMENT WITH DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Embassy Berlin has carried out a variety of Freedom Agenda-related activities over the last year, focusing on Cuba and the Middle East. 2. (C) CUBA: On December 12, 2007, Ambassador Timken gave a laudatory speech on the occasion of awarding the 2007 "Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal" t [...] | 2008-01-11 17:23:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GM IR SY CU |
08BERLIN582 | MISSION GERMANY PLANS OUTREACH ON DAY OF [...] (U) In response to reftels, Mission Germany plans to raise the plight of political prisoners in Cuba through a number of initiatives on May 21, the recently-announced Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People. In addition to ongoing outreach to parliamentarians, Foreign Ministry and Chanceller [...] | 2008-05-05 14:47:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU GM |
08BERLIN629 | MERKEL'S LATIN AMERICA TRIP HIGHLIGHTS DIVIDE...OR [...] (C) Summary: Chancellor Merkel's four-country tour of Latin America got unexpected media attention after Hugo Chavez compared the Chancellor's CDU to the Nazi party. Reflecting their differences in other areas, the CDU and Social Democratic Party (SPD) are promoting different approaches to Lat [...] | 2008-05-13 18:44:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CU XM GM |
08BERLIN658 | CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY: MISSION GERMANY ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Per reftel B, Mission Germany plans to issue an Op-Ed under the Ambassador's by-line in recognition of the Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People on May 21. The Op-Ed will appear in a national daily newspaper, The Tagesspiegel. We are working with the Chancellor's office and the Foreign [...] | 2008-05-19 16:33:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU GM |
08BERLIN729 | GERMANY REACTION MIXED ON U.S. PROPOSALS FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Pol-Mil/External Unit Chief met June 3 with Weert Boerner, desk officer in the MFA North American Office, to press for adding explicit references to Cuba, Venezuela, the FARC, the U.S.-Columbia FTA and missile defense to the 2008 U.S.-EU Summit Declaration now under negotiation. [...] | 2008-06-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL PHUM GM |
08BERLIN750 | TIP REPORT DELIVERED TO KEY GERMAN MINISTRIES [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR G/TIP. PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. (U) On June 4, Global Affairs Officer and Embassy Legal Advisor delivered ref A points informing regarding the TIP Report's release and Germany's tier ranking to key officials in the German MFA, Family Ministry, In [...] | 2008-06-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV PREL |
08BERLIN789 | GERMAN VIEWS ON JUNE 16-17 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pol-mil/external chief met with MFA Deputy European Correspondent Thomas Schieb June 13 to discuss ref A points on key issues to be discussed at the June 16-17 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Schieb noted that the agenda of this GAERC is even fuller than no [...] | 2008-06-16 07:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV PHUM ZL ZK IR CU GM |
08BERLIN890 | PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE EVENT: GERMAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs desk officer for UN Human Rights and International Protection of Human Rights Sarah Bernardy told Poloff July 7 that, in response to reftel points, the MFA could not support a prisoners of conscience public affairs event at the UN without first having more de [...] | 2008-07-08 09:46:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL KDEM |
08BERLIN916 | GERMAN RESPONSE TO 2008 TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) On July 1, Emboffs met for a roundtable discussion of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with key German officials from the MFA, as well as the Family, Labor and Justice ministries. While the report was well received, a Family Ministry official expressed regret that more atte [...] | 2008-07-11 15:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PGOV |
08BERN122 | TIP - SWITZERLAND: ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Bern | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SZ |
08BERN179 | TIP - SWITZERLAND: Supplement [...] (U) The Federal Office of Police has adjusted its organization and hired new staff to step up the fight against trafficking in persons and child sexual abuse. At the operational level, the former investigative unit "Pedophilia-Human Trafficking-Migrant Smuggling" in July 2007 was split up int [...] | 2008-04-17 14:56:00 | Embassy Bern | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB SZ |
08BERN273 | CUBA: WHA DAS MADISON'S APRIL 10 CONSULTATIONS [...] (S) Summary: DAS Madison expressed appreciation for Switzerland's engagement as Protecting Power on behalf of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana (USINT). Ambassador Yvonne Baumann, Head of the MFA's Americas Division, said that this role was "an honor and a priority" for the Swiss government [...] | 2008-06-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Bern | SECRET | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM CU SZ |
08BERN323 | SWISS NOT SURPRISED, BUT REGRET USG POSITION ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message June 18 to Ralf Heckner, Head of the MFA's Human Rights Policy Section. In an expansive and collegial manner, Heckner responded that the USG's decision no longer to participate in UNHRC sessions or activities did not come as a surprise, as it was apparent l [...] | 2008-07-07 18:22:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SZ |
08BERN467 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: SWISS RESPONSE TO USG'S [...] (C) Summary: Switzerland agrees with the USG's view on no-action motions, and is likely to support country-specific resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK. Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) contacts expressed some surprise at the USG's approach on Belarus, and said they would seek i [...] | 2008-09-16 11:22:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN SZ |
08BERN610 | SWISS RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING HELSINKI OSCE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the message in reftel to Lukas Rosenkranz, Head of the OSCE Office within the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EDA),on December 1. The reftel talking points largely were familiar to Rosenkranz, who noted that he had heard the same issues raised by the USG through his [...] | 2008-12-02 13:11:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SZ |
08BERN612 | BILATERAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH SWITZERLAND AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 14:39:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PHUM EFIN SZ |
08BERN94 | SWISS EXPRESS SIMILAR VIEWS ON CUBA [...] (C) We delivered the message in reftel A to Urs Hammer, Deputy Director of the MFA Americas Division, and to Werner Thut, MFA Regional Coordinator for Canada, Mexico, and the Northern Caribbean. Hammer said that Switzerland's policy was "similar to, if not the same as" that of the USG, in ass [...] | 2008-02-25 16:38:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EU CU SZ |
08BISHKEK1082 | EMBASSY BISHKEK NOMINATION FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S [...] (SBU) Gazbubu Babayarova serves as a Research Associate and Bride Kidnapping Project Coordinator within Social Research Center (SRC) at the American University in Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A former victim of bride kidnapping or "ala kachuu", Babayarova has spent the last four years [...] | 2008-10-27 11:35:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM KG |
08BISHKEK1116 | OSCE BRIEFS BISHKEK AMBASSADORS; PROMISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andrew Tesoriere, chief of the Bishkek OSCE Center, convened an October 15 meeting of OSCE member state Ambassadors to outline OSCE goals and programs, which he claimed arose from Kyrgyz requests. Key among these activities is OSCE's ongoing police reform program, where cooper [...] | 2008-11-03 10:55:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KG OSCE |
08BISHKEK1117 | Christian Missionary Foundation Opens New American [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mercy Christian Foundation, a legally registered Christian organization active in the northern Kyrgyz city of Tokmok, has partnered with some of the original founders of the American University of Central Asia and has opened an American Professional Institute in the city. W [...] | 2008-11-04 03:07:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PHUM KPAO KG |
08BISHKEK113 | KYRGYZ OPPOSITION, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary: Kyrgyz opposition leaders continue to express differing opinions on how best to oppose what they see as the increasing authoritarianism of the Bakiyev government. Former MP and Ata Meken party leader Omurbek Tekebayev said he would focus on party building; public protests would [...] | 2008-01-31 11:18:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK1279 | KYRGYZ OPPOSITION MEMBERS ARRESTED FOR PETITIONING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 07:38:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | KG PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BISHKEK151 | Kyrgyzstan Proposals for Trafficking in Persons [...] Per reftel instructions, Post solicited anti-trafficking in persons project proposals from local organizations. Post received three proposals. Per reftel instructions, the complete project proposals have been forwarded via e-mail to G/TIP. 2. Post has reviewed the following project prop [...] | 2008-02-12 10:33:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KG |
08BISHKEK173 | OPPOSITION: GRIM OUTLOOK FOR KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) Summary: Kyrgyz opposition figures continue to express a grim outlook for the country's immediate future. Former MP Azimbek Beknazarov sees revolution the only way forward. He claims to have support for his "revolutionary committee" and thinks there could be demonstrations in the spring. [...] | 2008-02-19 10:26:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK187 | KYRGYZ NGO LEADERS: PRESSURE, BUT OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings over the past month, NGO and youth leaders described a civil society that is reeling from relentless government pressure and intimidation. They agreed that the Bakiyev government has effectively consolidated political power through the falsified parliamen [...] | 2008-02-25 10:08:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KG |
08BISHKEK211 | KYRGYZSTAN 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (SBU) Following is Embassy Bishkek's 2008 Trafficking in Persons report. The report follows the response format outlined in reftel. U.S. Embassy Bishkek trafficking point of contact: Valerie J. Chittenden, Consul Tel: (996-312) 551-241 x 4441 Fax: (996-312) 551-264 Email: ChittendenVJ@stat [...] | 2008-02-29 11:38:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC KG |
08BISHKEK223 | KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT SEEKS INFORMATION ON KYRGYZ [...] (SBU) This cable contains an action request in para 4. 2. (C) During a meeting with the Ambassador February 6, Justice Minister Marat Kaiypov asked if the USG could confirm whether any Kyrgyz citizens are currently being held in U.S. military detention facilities, such as Guantanamo. Kaiypo [...] | 2008-03-05 11:24:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR PTER KG |
08BISHKEK295 | KYRGYZSTAN'S "PUBLIC PARLIAMENT": DISTRACTION OR [...] (C) Summary: In defiant response to the December parliamentary elections, Kyrgyz opposition and civil society groups have established a "public parliament," with the stated purpose of discussing alternative views on issues of "social concern." With two public meetings to date, the public par [...] | 2008-03-27 10:42:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK312 | NEW KYRGYZ OMBUDSMAN SETS THE RIGHT TONE ON HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met March 28 with newly appointed Ombudsman Tursunbek Akun. They discussed a number of human rights issues, including bride kidnapping, public demonstration restrictions, and a proposed religion law that, if enacted, could limit the number of legally registered re [...] | 2008-04-02 03:38:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK317 | BRIDE KIDNAPPING: A GROWING PROBLEM IN KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador gathered influential NGO leaders, government officials, and members of parliament to discuss the best course of action to put an end to the practice of bride kidnapping. Local media and NGOs report that bride kidnapping, though illegal, is on the rise in Kyrgyzsta [...] | 2008-04-02 11:35:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KG |
08BISHKEK35 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO KYRGYZ MFA SUPPORTING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 08:18:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA KG |
08BISHKEK358 | KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADERS PREVIEW KURULTAI [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leaders Jekshenkulov and Sariyev outlined separately for Charge the agenda and possible outcome of the April 12 "kurultai," or people's assembly. Both predicted a quiet event, with a peaceful discussion of Kyrgyzstan's current political and economic dilemmas. The kur [...] | 2008-04-11 02:34:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK373 | KYRGYZ OPPOSITION KURULTAI CALLS FOR UNITY, CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The April 12 kurultai, or "people's gathering," delivered few surprises, as presentations focused on the government's "poor" performance since the March 2005 "revolution." Issues of concern included rising unemployment, the "illegal" October 2007 constitutional referendum and D [...] | 2008-04-15 10:20:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KG |
08BISHKEK392 | Kyrgyz Women Debate Merits of Legalized Prostitution [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Women's Political Discussion Club, which wields increasing influence in Kyrgyz politics, held a heated discussion on prostitution in Kyrgyzstan and plans to raise the issue in Parliament. Widely reported as an effort to "legalize" prostitution, it is, in fact, an effort to ra [...] | 2008-04-22 05:51:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PREF KG |
08BISHKEK405 | KYRGYZ POSITIVE ON BAKIYEV-NAZARBAYEV SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: President Bakiyev's April 17-18 visit with Kazakh President Nazarbayev yielded what the Kyrgyz have called "successful" results: a renewal of wheat exports to Kyrgyzstan; resolution of Kyrgyz-Kazakh border demarcation issues; plans for energy sector cooperation; a bilateral visa- [...] | 2008-04-25 09:31:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK432 | KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL PARTY EXUDES CONFIDENCE, AS [...] (C) Summary: The pro-presidential Ak Jol party's April 29 party conference emphasized party discipline and active participation from its members. According to a Kyrgyz White House insider, President Bakiyev is growing increasingly confident of his control of the Kyrgyz political scene. The [...] | 2008-05-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK442 | BAKIYEV PROVIDES GLOWING ASSESSMENT OF KYRGYZ [...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph seven. 2. (C) Summary: President Bakiyev's Constitution Day speech May 5 celebrated the accomplishments of last October's revisions to the frequently amended 1993 constitution. Bakiyev pointed to increased political stability and attention to hum [...] | 2008-05-08 10:13:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK504 | KYRGYZ RETURN ASYLUM SEEKER TO UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR confirmed that Kyrgyz authorities extradited Erkin Halikov, an Uzbek citizen, back to Uzbekistan on May 14 at the request of the Uzbek government. Halikov, who was in prison in Kyrgyzstan, had sought asylum seeker status, but Kyrgyz officials refused to register him, saying [...] | 2008-05-19 10:50:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KG |
08BISHKEK597 | KYRGYZ POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLINED FOR VISITING [...] (C) Summary: During meetings with a visiting INR analyst, opposition members, journalists, and former government officials presented a negative assessment of Kyrgyzstan's democratic development. Interlocutors highlighted the increasing control of President Bakiyev and his family over politic [...] | 2008-06-11 11:20:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK602 | KYRGYZSTAN: RESPONSE TO SYSTEMIC FORCED OR [...] In response to reftel request, Post met with local non-governmental organizations, the local UNICEF and International Labor Organization (ILO) offices, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and trade unions to seek information concerning forced labor and/or exploitative child la [...] | 2008-06-12 09:19:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KG |
08BISHKEK604 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KYRGYZ EXTRADITION OF UZBEK [...] (C) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche on June 11 to Askhat Ryskuklov, Counselor in the Western Countries Department of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A/DCM expressed serious concern over the May 14 extradition to Uzbekistan of Erkin Holikov, an Uzbek asylum seeker who was in prison in [...] | 2008-06-12 10:06:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KG |
08BISHKEK63 | MFA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR KYRGYZSTAN'S MEMBERSHIP [...] (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note from the Kyrgyz MFA January 14 seeking an agreement of reciprocal support, whereby Kyrgyzstan would support Pierre-Richard Prosper for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination "on the understanding that the Government of the United Stat [...] | 2008-01-17 11:14:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA KG |
08BISHKEK669 | KYRGYZ AUTHORITIES RAID NORWEGIAN HELSINKI [...] (SBU) On June 9, Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) officers conducted a raid on the Bishkek office of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC). The MVD questioned head of the office, Ivar Dale, about the organization's activities in Kyrgyzstan and threatened to deport him. (Note: The NH [...] | 2008-06-27 05:21:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KG |
08BISHKEK676 | SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CRITICAL ON POLITICAL CLIMATE [...] (C) Summary: In a farewell meeting with Ambassador June 26, ex-Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party (SDPK) leader Almaz Atambayev and SDPK MPs Bakyt Beshimov and Roza Otunbayeva offered a negative assessment of Kyrgyzstan's economic and political climate and were particularly critical o [...] | 2008-06-30 12:23:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK71 | KYRGYZ OPPOSITION HOLDS JOINT MEETING; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Several Kyrgyz opposition parties and civil society groups held a joint meeting January 14 under the "For Justice" banner. Ex-Foreign Minister Jekshenkulov moderated the discussion, and various speakers sharply criticized the government for the conduct of the December parliamenta [...] | 2008-01-18 12:18:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KG |
08BISHKEK932 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE POINTS DELIVERED TO KYRGYZSTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 11:07:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM UN KG |
08BISHKEK94 | Kyrgyzstan Hosts TIP Roundtable for CIS Countries [...] (U) Summary: On December 13-14, 2007, the Kyrgyz State Committee on Migration and Employment with the OSCE hosted a regional round table entitled "Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in Central Asia: State Policies, Dynamics and Ways Forward." Participants included representatives from both N [...] | 2008-01-29 09:34:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SMIG KWMN PGOV PREL PHUM KG XH ZK ZJ |
08BISHKEK953 | OSH TRIP: AMBASSADOR VISITS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's visit to the Russian Orthodox Church in Osh, Father Victor Reemghen spoke of the church's relationship with the local administration, the hierarchical structure of the church, and the stability of the parish community. One of ten Russian Orthodox churches [...] | 2008-09-19 10:21:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KG |
08BOGOTA1001 | URIBE'S 84 PERCENT APPROVAL RATING SPURS [...] (U) A Gallup poll taken March 4-6, shows President Uribe with an all-time high 84 percent approval rating. Only 13 percent disapproved of his performance, the lowest figure since 2002. The poll was taken prior to the Rio Group meeting in Santo Domingo, and pollster Jorge Londono said the Rio [...] | 2008-03-14 16:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER DR EC VZ CO |
08BOGOTA1053 | UNHCHR ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CITE PROGRESS, [...] Summary: The United Nations High Commissioner for High Rights in Colombia's (UNHCHR) 2007 report on Colombia,s human rights situation cites progress, while recognizing that challenges remain. The report highlights human rights violations stemming from Colombia's armed conflict, including F [...] | 2008-03-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1056 | QUARTERLY HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATIONS FOCUS ON [...] Summary: At the suggestion of the Colombian Commission of Jurists, Post's quarterly consultations with human rights groups focused on alleged extrajudicial executions (EJEs) by security forces. Citing a report released last October by a coalition of human rights groups, the participants said [...] | 2008-03-18 16:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1059 | FARC-ELN ABUSES CREATE HUMANITARIAN NEED IN ARAUCA [...] In the first weeks of 2008, fighting between the FARC and ELN led to the displacement of over 4000 people in Arauca department. The FARC is trying to wrest oil-rich areas from the ELN, using selective assassinations and displacement. Meanwhile, the ELN pressured fleeing residents to stay. Int [...] | 2008-03-18 20:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1072 | SUPREME COURT REOPENS 1987 MURDER CASE AGAINST [...] Summary: On March 6, the Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation of a retired general and two officers for the 1987 massacre of 19 businessmen in Magdalena. New testimony from demobilized paramilitaries in the Justice and Peace process, as well as a ruling by the Inter-Ameri [...] | 2008-03-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1095 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD'S MARCH 18 MEETING WITH [...] (U) The Ambassador emphasized the important role human rights workers in a democratic society to Gloria Florez, the Executive Director of the Association for Alternative Social Policy (MINGA) in a March 18 meeting. MINGA officials expressed appreciation for the Ambassador's visit to demonstr [...] | 2008-03-19 22:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO ELAB |
08BOGOTA1145 | (C) COLOMBIA'S STRATEGY TO EXPLOIT INFO FROM FARC [...] (C) Defense Minister Santos and Vice Minister of Defense (VMOD) Jaramillo told the Ambassador the GOC plans to selectively leak information from FARC computers connecting Presidents Chavez and Correa and their Governments to the FARC over the next 4-6 weeks, as INTERPOL completes its verificat [...] | 2008-03-27 22:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PHUM MOPS VZ EC CO |
08BOGOTA1178 | URIBE OFFERS THE FARC NEW HOSTAGE EXCHANGE PROPOSAL [...] (C) The GOC offered on March 27, to release an unspecified number of prisoners requested by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),even those accused of serious crimes, if the FARC released its hostages--starting with Ingrid Betancourt. Reports that Betancourt remains gravely ill [...] | 2008-03-28 23:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREF PREL PHUM CASC VZ CO |
08BOGOTA1223 | GOC OK'S FRENCH MEDICAL MISSION FOR INGRID--AWAITS \ [...] (C) President Uribe approved a request from French \ President Sarkozy to deploy a medical "humanitarian mission" \ to Colombia to save FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Uribe \ did not provide details, but said the GOC would halt military \ operations once the French provided the coordinates for th [...] | 2008-04-02 21:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PREF PHUM CASC MOPS FR CO |
08BOGOTA126 | A/S FARRAR'S VISIT TO CHOCO RAISES CONCERNS ON [...] On November 28, 2007, DRL Acting A/S Jonathan Farrar visited Quibdo, Choco to discuss Afro-Colombian land and social issues. Choco Governor Julio Ibarguen said weak infrastructure, poor nutrition, and underdevelopment foster violence and displacement in Choco, especially in Afro-Colombian com [...] | 2008-01-10 18:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO SOCI |
08BOGOTA1267 | FRENCH HOSTAGE MISSION ON HOLD DUE TO FARC \ [...] (C) FARC spokesman Rodrigo Granda issued a statement on \ April 3 dashing hopes the FARC would release hostage Ingrid \ Betancourt. XXXXXXXXXXXX told us there \ was "no possibility" the French medical mission in Bogota \ would succeed in reaching Betancourt. He added that \ President Uribe had i [...] | 2008-04-04 22:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PREF PHUM CASC FR SP CO |
08BOGOTA1282 | NEW ARRESTS IN 2005 SAN JOSE DE APARTADO MASSACRE [...] On March 14, the Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) ordered the capture of 15 members of the Velez Battalion of the Army's 17th Brigade in connection to the February 21, 2005 massacre of eight people, including three children, connected to the San Jose de Apartado peace community. Thirteen [...] | 2008-04-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA129 | ICRC RECOVERS FARC HOSTAGES CLARA ROJAS AND [...] (U) Summary. At 1100 EST on January 10, an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission recovered FARC-held hostages Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo in a remote area approximately 120 miles southeast of San Jose de Guaviare. Two Venezuelan helicopters -- flying under IC [...] | 2008-01-10 18:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PREF VZ CO |
08BOGOTA1304 | NEW ARRESTS IN PARA-POLITICAL SCANDAL GENERATE [...] (U) Three additional members of Congress, including a former Senate president, were arrested for alleged ties to paramilitaries, bringing to 28 the total of members jailed in the scandal. Twenty-six others remain under investigation. Key members of the GOC coalition are among those detained. [...] | 2008-04-08 17:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1418 | POLO SENATOR PETRO ON CHAVEZ, AN URIBE THIRD TERM, [...] (C) Polo Party Senator Gustavo Petro speculated that Venezuelan President Chavez -- fearing what might be in the Raul Reyes' computers -- appears to be rethinking his involvement in humanitarian negotiations or unilateral liberation of FARC-held hostages. Petro claimed President Uribe will de [...] | 2008-04-16 18:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER VZ CO |
08BOGOTA1427 | AFRO-COLOMBIAN REPORT FOCUSES ON DISPLACEMENT [...] AFRODES, an Afro-Colombian human rights group that focuses on displacement issues, released a report on April 4 focusing on exclusion of Afro-Colombians from GOC land development plans. AFRODES claimed the GOC has a "deliberate and planned strategy to drive the communities out of their ancestr [...] | 2008-04-16 22:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1517 | URIBE-SUPREME COURT TENSIONS RISE OVER [...] (C) Preliminary investigations by the Supreme Court of Senate President Nancy Patricia Gutierrez and U Party President Senator Carlos Garcia for alleged paramilitary ties led President Uribe to call on April 17 for "objectivity" in the Court. Uribe voiced "total support" for the judiciary, b [...] | 2008-04-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PREF PREL PTER CO |
08BOGOTA1535 | URIBE REBUTS QUESTIONABLE ARO MASSACRE TESTIMONY [...] President Alvaro Uribe told the media on April 23 that testimony by convicted criminal Francisco Villalba that Uribe was involved in the 1997 paramilitary El Aro massacre was not credible and invented to obtain judicial benefits. On October 22, 1997, 15 people in Ituango, Antioquia were massa [...] | 2008-04-24 19:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PHUM PTER CO |
08BOGOTA1568 | PARA-POLITICAL SCANDAL COMPLICATES POLITICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 22:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1570 | AFRO-COLOMBIAN COMMISSION TO BEGIN WORK ON MAY 21 [...] The GOC will announce the official launch of work by the Commission for Advancement of Afro-Colombians on Afro-Colombian Day, May 21. Commission Executive Director Oscar Gamboa said the launch was delayed due to the perception of some Afro-Colombian communities that they did not have adequate [...] | 2008-04-29 14:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI ECON CO |
08BOGOTA1571 | PRESIDENT URIBE SIGNS ADMINISTRATIVE REPARATIONS [...] President Uribe signed a decree April 22 to provide administrative reparations to victims of paramilitaries and FARC/ELN under the Justice and Peace Law (JPL) as well as housing benefits to 450,000 displaced families. To date, over 120,000 victims have registered under the JPL; victims who ha [...] | 2008-04-29 16:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CO |
08BOGOTA1593 | ARRESTS IN URABA TACKLE FORMER PARAMILITARIES BUT [...] (C) The Colombian National Police (CNP) recently arrested a local Mayor--as well as a key businessman--for alleged paramilitary ties, but violence continues to plague the Uraba region in the northern part of Antioquia (reftel). Local San Jose de Apartado community leader Cesar Jaramillo fled U [...] | 2008-04-30 19:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1611 | AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD'S VISIT TO MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Ambassador traveled on April 15 to Medellin to open a three-day workshop on protecting cultural patrimony from looting and illicit trafficking, pay an office call on the Mayor of Medellin, speak with Martin Luther King (MLK) Fellows at a Binational Center, address the status [...] | 2008-05-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PHUM EINV ETRD PTER PREL ECON SOCI CO |
08BOGOTA164 | GOC CAPTURES ELN COMMANDER "PABLITO" [...] (C) Colombian authorities captured Carlos Marin Guarin (aka "Pablito") a commander of the country's second largest terrorist group, the National Liberation Army (ELN),on January 7. Defense Minister Santos said Pablito was the key figure in the ELN's military structure, adding that his captur [...] | 2008-01-11 21:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PTER PREL PREF PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1656 | THREATS TO PRIESTS IN SOUTHERN BOLIVAR [...] (U) Three Catholic priests and ten lay workers in Southern Bolivar said they were thV8=Q'yZth links to narcotraffickers Victor and Miguel Mejia (LosMellizos). The priests believe they were targeted due to their alternative development, human rights, and social organization programs which antago [...] | 2008-05-06 16:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM PREL CO |
08BOGOTA1697 | ARREST OF COLONEL HERNAN MEJIA CONTINUES [...] Colonel Hernan Mejia, former commander of the La Popa Battalion, was arrested on May 6 on charges of criminal conspiracy for colluding with paramilitary leader Rodrigo Tovar Pupo (Jorge 40) and committing murder. Mejia surrendered to authorities and publicly denied the charges. The Prosecutor [...] | 2008-05-08 16:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA1705 | EX-CONGRESSWOMAN ACCUSES GOC OF BRIBERY IN URIBE'S [...] (C) Former Representative Yidis Medina plead guilty to charges that the GOC bribed her to approve the constitutional change that allowed President Uribe's first reelection. She accused Social Protection Minister Palacio, Prosecutor General Iguaran, and former Interior Minister Pretelt of prov [...] | 2008-05-08 22:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1714 | GOC CLARIFIES PLAN TO USE RAUL REYES COMPUTER [...] (C) Defense Minister Santos told the Ambassador on May 5 that the GOC appreciated U.S. efforts to safeguard information in the Raul Reyes computers. He said V/MOD Jaramillio is managing the GOC strategy to release the Reyes data, and is privately briefing select governments on the files. Onc [...] | 2008-05-09 18:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA1715 | BRAZIL PUSHES SOUTH AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim briefed Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos on April 28 on the GOB proposal to create a South American Security Council and pushed hard for the GOC to sign up. Santos told us the GOC fears the initiative may duplicate UN and OAS efforts, suspects Ve [...] | 2008-05-09 18:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MOPS PTER PHUM BR CO |
08BOGOTA172 | ICRC/WFP ASSESSMENT OF IDP CONDITIONS AND AID [...] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation and the World Food Program (WFP) mission released a study of the humanitarian response to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia. The two-year study, conducted in eight municipalities with the highest IDP populations, cite [...] | 2008-01-14 13:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL ICRC CO |
08BOGOTA1722 | CONGRESSWOMAN GUILTY OF TAKING BRIBES IN 2004 [...] (U) The Supreme Court accepted former Congresswoman Yidis Medina's guilty plea on bribery charges related to her 2004 vote to change the Constitution to allow President Uribe's 2006 reelection. She faces a minimum of two years in prison. The Court also sent its case files to the Prosecutor Gen [...] | 2008-05-12 22:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM PGOV CO |
08BOGOTA1764 | COLOMBIA EXTRADITES 14 EX-PARA LEADERS TO THE U.S. [...] (U) The GOC extradited 14 ex-paramilitary leaders, including Salvatore Mancuso, Diego Murillo, and Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, on May 13 to the United States to face narcotrafficking and money laundering charges. President Uribe said he extradited the fourteen due to due to their continued involvemen [...] | 2008-05-13 22:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA177 | SCENESETTER FOR ONDCP DIRECTOR AND CONGRESSIONAL [...] (U) Post welcomes the January 18-20 visit of Office of National Drug Control Policy Director John P. Walters and accompanying CODEL. Your delegation will visit a Colombia in the midst of a dramatic transformation, one in which U.S. assistance is playing a powerful role. The Colombia of 2008 [...] | 2008-01-14 19:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SNAR MARR KCRM PTER EAID ETRD ECON |
08BOGOTA1920 | UNHCR AND GOC AGRICULTURE MINISTER SIGN IDP LAND [...] The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed an agreement on April 7 with the GOC's Agriculture Ministry to implement joint projects to protect and restore land rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs). UNHCR believes the new accord complements previous agreements to a [...] | 2008-05-21 22:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PREL CO |
08BOGOTA1951 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL MAKES PROGRESS ON SAN JOSE DE [...] (U) On May 17, local media reported that Army Captain Guillermo Gordillo of the 17th Brigade had confessed to participating in the February 21, 2005 murder of eight civilians near San Jose de Apartado. Gordillo claimed that the Brigade's commander and other senior officers "must have known" a [...] | 2008-05-23 23:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA2013 | MAPP/OAS NOTES GOC PROGRESS IN COMBATING NEW [...] (C) The draft MAPP/OAS (OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process) eleventh quarterly report cites recent GOC progress in combating emerging criminal groups, but notes that narcotrafficking profits enable these groups to adapt and recruit even under sustained military pressure. MAPP/OAS Chi [...] | 2008-06-02 14:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM PREL CO |
08BOGOTA2034 | MAPP/OAS HIGHLIGHTS PROGRESS/CHALLENGES IN [...] (SBU) The MAPP/OAS (OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process) eleventh draft report favorably evaluates the GOC reintegration program for demobilized paramilitaries as well as heightened GOC attention to victims, citing greater psychosocial assistance to the former paramilitaries, expansio [...] | 2008-06-03 23:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | CO PHUM PGOV KJUS PREL |
08BOGOTA2166 | AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 11 MEETING WITH HOSTAGES AND [...] (C) Free Country Foundation (Pais Libre) Executive Director Olga Lucia Golez Cardona told the Ambassador on June 11 her human rights group seeks more resources and support for kidnapped victims and their families. She voiced concern that the extradition of former United Self-Defense Forces of [...] | 2008-06-16 23:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PREF PHUM CASC FR CU CO VZ |
08BOGOTA2178 | URIBE THIRD TERM ISSUE DOMINATES REFORM EFFORT, [...] (C) Key presidential advisors told us President Uribe has not decided whether to seek a third term, but agreed he would have to make his intentions clear in the second half of 2008. Several GOC coalition and opposition leaders plan to run in 2010, including Cambio Radical leader German Vargas [...] | 2008-06-17 19:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA2215 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO BARRANQUILLA, JUNE 7, 2008 [...] (U) Ambassador visited Barranquilla, Atlantico Department, on June 7 to receive a major food donation funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and destined for the World Food Program (WFP). Barranquilla Mayor Alejandro Char, Atlantico Governor Eduardo Verano, a [...] | 2008-06-19 22:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR KCOM KAID EC CO |
08BOGOTA2293 | FARC INTENTIONS ON HUMANITARIAN EXCHANGE REMAIN \ [...] (C) On June 21-22 the FARC released proof of life videos \ for two Colombian hostages, and the media reported renewed \ French contacts with the FARC Secretariat--a claim discounted \ by the French Embassy in Bogota. XXXXXXXXXXXX \ told us the GOC received a message from a reliable contact \ who c [...] | 2008-06-24 22:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA2295 | FARC DESERTIONS ON THE RISE; LEGAL HURDLES FOR [...] (C) The Ministry of Defense's $21 million budget for humanitarian aid, rewards, and public outreach continue to promote FARC desertions. FARC desertions hit a record 2480 in 2007, and 1278 have deserted through May 2008. Still, Colombia's constitutional prohibition against granting amnesty [...] | 2008-06-25 12:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO PREL FR PTER MARR |
08BOGOTA2318 | COLOMBIA-ECUADOR RELATIONS: ONE STEP BACK [...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe, angry over critical statements from Presidents Rafael Correa and Daniel Ortega, announced on June 23 that the GOC would delay the previously agreed-on resumption of diplomatic relations with Ecuador. The GOE responded by suspending indefinitely the renewal of bilate [...] | 2008-06-25 23:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER CO |
08BOGOTA2319 | MAPP/OAS IN VALLEDUPAR: PROGRESS BUT A WEAK [...] (U) During a June 19 visit to Valledupar organized by the MAPP/OAS (Organization of American States' Mission to Support the Peace Process),security forces and local officials described an improved security environment overall, but noted concerns over continued threats by the FARC and criminal [...] | 2008-06-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA2328 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO META, JUNE 12, 2008 [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador traveled on June 12 to the historically conflict-plagued Department of Meta to meet with local political, security, and civil society representatives and highlight USG efforts to assist the GOC in consolidating security gains made in territory previously occupied by th [...] | 2008-06-26 20:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR KCOM KAID EC ECON EPET EAID |
08BOGOTA2373 | URIBE CALLS FOR NEW ELECTIONS AFTER COURT [...] (SBU) President Uribe addressed the nation at midnight on June 27, calling for the "repetition of the 2006 presidential elections." His speech was prompted by the Supreme Court's request--in its ruling sentencing former Congresswoman Yidis Medina to 47 months of house arrest for selling her vo [...] | 2008-06-27 23:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA2386 | HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP STUDY SHOWS DOWNWARD TREND IN [...] (C) A June 9 report released by the well-known Colombian think tank/human rights group Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP) showed a marked fall in alleged extrajudicial killings in the latter part of 2007. CINEP director Mauricio Garcia Duran told us it is too early to determine [...] | 2008-07-01 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA2387 | POLO PARTY: FAR LEFT CONSOLIDATES POWER [...] (C) The opposition Polo Democratico Party is becoming increasingly dominated by the far-left, with Party moderates such as former Bogota May LuchoGarzon distancing themselves from the group. The Party's decision to fire moderate Secretary General Daniel Garcia Pena ahead of a critical Party C [...] | 2008-07-01 21:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA2403 | COLOMBIAN MILITARY RESCUES AMERICAN HOSTAGES, [...] Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos announced on July 2 that the Colombian military had rescued American hostages Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell, along with Ingrid Betancourt and eleven members of the Colombian security forces, from the FARC. Military intelligence rescue [...] | 2008-07-03 00:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL PREF PHUM FR CO |
08BOGOTA2404 | COLOMBIAN MILITARY RESCUES AMERICAN HOSTAGES AND [...] Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos announced on July 2 that the Colombian military had rescued American hostages Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell, along with Ingrid Betancourt and eleven members of the Colombian security forces, from the FARC. Military intelligence rescue [...] | 2008-07-03 00:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL PREF PHUM FR CO |
08BOGOTA2406 | COLOMBIAN MILITARY RESCUES AMERICAN HOSTAGES, [...] Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos announced on July 2 that the Colombian military had rescued American hostages Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell, along with Ingrid Betancourt and eleven members of the Colombian security forces, from the FARC. Military intelligence rescue [...] | 2008-07-03 11:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL PREF PHUM CU FR VZ CO |
08BOGOTA2425 | COLOMBIA TOUTS HEROIC RESCUE SUCCESS OF HOSTAGES [...] President Uribe touted the successful July 2 military rescue mission of the three Americans, Ingrid Betancourt, and eleven members of the Colombia security forces. He called on the FARC to release the remaining hostages and seek peace. The operation - planned for months - incurred no casualtie [...] | 2008-07-03 23:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL PREF PHUM FR CO SP |
08BOGOTA243 | GOC REACTS TO CHAVEZ "AGGRESSION TOWARDS COLOMBIA" [...] The GOC issued a formal communique on January 16 demanding that Venezuelan President Chavez "cease his aggression against Colombia." Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo, who was held hostage by the FARC for nearly six years, read the communique, which was prompted by Chavez' comments accusing th [...] | 2008-01-17 22:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PINR PHUM PREL PREF CO VZ |
08BOGOTA2434 | PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS EVENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 20:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KDEM |
08BOGOTA244 | COLOMBIA MAKES MAJOR ADVANCES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] In 2007, Colombia made significant progress in implementing the Justice and Peace Law (JPL),exposing and punishing politicians tied to paramilitaries, and resolving longstanding human rights cases. Twenty-five paramilitary leaders remained in jail. JPL testimony helped clarify 3000 crimes, in [...] | 2008-01-17 22:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA2506 | GOC ANNOUNCES END OF MEDIATORS, SEEKS DIRECT \ [...] (C) Summary: On July 8, President Uribe formally \ notified the European Ambassadors that he was terminating \ European facilitation efforts with the FARC, emphasizing that \ the decision reflected GOC concerns with facilitators Jean \ Pierre Gontard and Noel Saez rather than \ government-to-gove [...] | 2008-07-11 22:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO PTER PREL PREF FR SP SZ |
08BOGOTA2535 | URIBE'S POPULARITY AT ALL TIME HIGH AS [...] (C) After the successful July 2 rescue of 15 hostages from the FARC, President Uribe's approval rating reached a record 85 percent. Seventy-four percent of Colombians approved of a third Uribe term. The Constitutional Court rejected the Supreme Court's request that it review the legality of t [...] | 2008-07-14 17:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA2578 | GOC REACHES OUT TO FARC, BUT WILL CONTINUE [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Restrepo told us the GOC has reached out to establish direct contact with the FARC, but does not feel any pressure to move quickly on a peace process. The GOC believes Cano is isolated from other Secretariat members, and will continue military efforts to kill or capture him. [...] | 2008-07-16 20:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA259 | FARC - WITH CHAVEZ GUIDANCE - CHANGES TACTICS BUT [...] (C) The FARC continues to push its historic goals--belligerent status, removal from international terrorism lists, and GOC acceptance of a demilitarized zone (despeje)--but seems to have adopted more flexible tactics. Abandoning its previous isolation, over a five-month period the FARC has re [...] | 2008-01-18 23:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PREF VZ CO |
08BOGOTA2597 | SCENESETTER: VISIT OF POLICY PLANNING DIRECTOR, [...] (U) Your visit comes as Colombia celebrates major victories in its fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),continued strong economic growth, and an expansion of democratic governance. Increased security has led to an economic boom that has reduced poverty by 20 perce [...] | 2008-07-17 22:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS PREL CO |
08BOGOTA260 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JANUARY 24-25 VISIT OF [...] (U) Your visit is well timed. Colombia is in the midst of a dramatic transformation, one in which U.S. assistance is playing a powerful role. The Colombia of 2008 is safer, economically stronger, better governed and more democratic than it has been in decades. Murder rates have declined over [...] | 2008-01-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SNAR ETRD PHUM VZ CO |
08BOGOTA2647 | COLOMBIAN MARCHES HIGHLIGHT FARC'S ISOLATION, PUT [...] (C) Summary: The participation of millions of Colombians in anti-kidnapping and anti-FARC marches on July 20 showed the FARC's isolation and led to calls from across Colombia's political spectrum for the group to start peace talks with the GOC. In his remarks at the opening of Congress, Pres [...] | 2008-07-24 13:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA267 | PRESIDENT URIBE'S NEXT STEPS ON HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 20:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PREL VZ VT FR SP SZ CO |
08BOGOTA2782 | JULY HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: NATIONAL MURDER RATES [...] GOC statistics show 8030 homicides occurred nationwide from January to June, down from 8903 during the same period in 2007. Kidnappings fell from 281 during the first semester of 2007 to 242 during the same period in 2008. The National Unionist College reports 32 union members have been kille [...] | 2008-07-31 16:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KJUS PGOV PHUM ELAB SMIG CO |
08BOGOTA2855 | U.S.-COLOMBIA LAUNCHES STRATEGIC POLICY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: On July 23, Dr. David F. Gordon, the State Department's Director of the Office of Policy Planning (S/P),led the first Policy Planning talks with the GOC. The talks were carried out under the March 2007 U.S.-Colombian strategic framework agreement. The meetings in Bogota with FM [...] | 2008-08-04 18:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO PINS SOCI SNAR PTER ETRD |
08BOGOTA2892 | S/P DIRECTOR GORDON DISCUSSES COLOMBIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga told Director of Policy Planning Dr. David Gordon on July 23 that the long-term outlook for the Colombian economy remains strong despite turmoil in international markets, rising inflation, and appreciation of the peso. He pointed to energy, [...] | 2008-08-06 15:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO ECIN ECON |
08BOGOTA3006 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT LIMITS DISCRETIONARY [...] (U) On August 11, the Constitutional Court announced a ruling limiting the Ministry of Defense's (MOD) discretional authority to dismiss police and military personnel without cause. In its ruling on the case of a career navy infantry officer fired after nine years of service, the court ordere [...] | 2008-08-15 16:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3007 | NO END IN SIGHT TO URIBE-SUPREME COURT POWER [...] (C) President Uribe used a statement by Senator Nancy Patricia Gutierrez accusing Auxiliary Supreme Court Magistrate Ivan Velasquez of irregularities in his para-political investigations, to slam the Supreme Court for "judicialclientalism" and nepotism. Uribe urged Congress to proceed with ju [...] | 2008-08-15 17:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3070 | ARMY CAPTAIN IMPLICATES GENERAL FANDINO IN SAN [...] General Hector Fandino, former commander of the 17th Brigade, was implicated by jailed Captain Guillermo Gordillo in a cover-up of the February 2005 massacre of eight people, including three children, near San Jose de Apartado. Gordillo has pled guilty and asked for witness protection for hims [...] | 2008-08-19 21:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3079 | NO PROGRESS IN GOC PEACE OVERTURES TO FARC AND ELN [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told us the GOC continues efforts to contact FARC leader Alfonso Cano to start peace talks, but has made no progress. Restrepo's contact with the group communicated with lower-level FARC, but has not obtained a meeting with the FARC leader. Restrepo [...] | 2008-08-20 18:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3094 | DRL A/S KRAMER VISIT FOCUSES ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On August 20-21, DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer visited Colombia to focus on human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, internally displaced persons (IDPs),and dialogue between civil society and the GOC. Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos [...] | 2008-08-25 19:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA310 | ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVES' [...] (SBU) President Uribe told ONDCP Director Walters and five U.S. Congressmen in a 19 January meeting that his Democratic Security policy enjoyed bipartisan support, noting that its economic and social goals had predated the campaign for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Uribe said the GOC had increa [...] | 2008-01-24 23:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL PTER VZ VT FR SP SZ CO |
08BOGOTA3133 | GOC DIALOGUE WITH MEDIO MAGDALENA COMMUNITY [...] (U) The GOC continues dialogue with human rights, civic and Catholic Church leaders in the Medio Magdalena region through the Inter-sectorial Commission for Life (CIV),a public forum created in 2003 to promote communications between the GOC and human rights groups in the highly polarized, vi [...] | 2008-08-26 12:54:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SOCI CO |
08BOGOTA3181 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO CAUCA, JULY 30, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador traveled on July 30 to the Department of Cauca to meet with local political, security, and civil society representatives, as well as to visit USAID sponsored sites in and around Popayan, Cauca. During his visit he emphasized the U.S.-Colombia partnership in matters [...] | 2008-08-27 23:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PHUM EINV ETRD PTER PREL ECON CO |
08BOGOTA3182 | MEDELLIN SCANDAL GENERATES POLITICAL FALLOUT [...] (C) Summary: The dismissal of Guillermo Valencia Cossio, former head of the Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) in Medellin, for criminal ties also led to the resignations of former Medellin Colombian National Police (CNP) Commander Marco Pedreros and Medellin "South American Games" orga [...] | 2008-08-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL PTER PHUM SNAR CO |
08BOGOTA3193 | URIBE-SUPREME COURT TENSIONS ESCALATE [...] (C) President Uribe intensified his offensive against the Supreme Court the week of August 24 after the revelation that senior GOC officials met three times at the presidential place with emissaries of extradited former paramilitary leader Diego Murillo Bejarano (Don Berna). The two allegedly [...] | 2008-08-28 16:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3277 | DRL A/S KRAMER VISIT FOCUSES ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On August 20-21, DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer visited Colombia to focus on human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, internally displaced persons (IDPs),and dialogue between civil society and the GOC. Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos [...] | 2008-09-03 20:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3278 | SHOW OF RESILIENCE LIKELY BEHIND RECENT FARC [...] (C) Summary: Colombian officials accused the FARC of carrying out several deadly bombings in Cali, Bogota and in Antioquia province. These attacks were likely designed to demonstrate the terrorist group's continued resilience after a string of high profile, tactical GOC victories. President [...] | 2008-09-03 20:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3279 | AUGUST HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (C) The UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) office in Medellin praised the GOC's commitment to end extrajudicial killings, but said it remains a problem on the ground. The Defense Ministry committee set up to address such killings reported 112 alleged victims in 2007, but human rig [...] | 2008-09-03 20:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3304 | ICC PROSECUTOR MORENO'S VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (C) Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC),visited Colombia August 25-27 to review progress on the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against humanity. Moreno questioned whether the GOC's extradition of 15 former paramilitary leaders to the U [...] | 2008-09-04 20:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3338 | URIBE KEEPS THEM GUESSING ON POSSIBLE THIRD TERM [...] (C) President Uribe has not yet announced whether he will seek a Constitutional amendment that would allow a possible third Uribe term, but he repeated on September 3 that "it is not good to perpetuate yourself in power." Presidential Advisors Jose Obdulio Gaviria and Mario Eastman told us Uri [...] | 2008-09-05 21:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3342 | COLOMBIA MAKES PROGRESS IN FIGHT AGAINST IMPUNITY [...] (U) The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) and Colombian National Police (CNP) recently made several high-profile arrests of military and police officials linked to human rights abuses and other crimes. The Fiscalia detained highly decorated, former Army General Rito Alejo del Rio after [...] | 2008-09-08 16:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA335 | UNHCR COACHES COLMIL IN PROTECTING CIVILIANS [...] The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is offering nationwide workshops with Colombian military and police to reinforce awareness of their duty to protect civilians and and avert displacement. The seminars present core principles of humanitarian law, followed by discussion [...] | 2008-01-28 16:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PHUM MARR CO PREF |
08BOGOTA3359 | UNITED NATIONS WEIGHS IN ON URIBE-SUPREME COURT [...] (C) UN rapporteur for Judicial Independence Leandro Despouy used his participation in a judicial conference in Cartagena organized by Colombia's judiciary to voice concern over tensions between President Uribe and the Supreme Court. At the conference, Supreme Court President Ricaurte complained [...] | 2008-09-09 20:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3473 | HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CONCERNED ABOUT ALLEGED MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS LINKING IT TO THE FARC AND ELN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 22:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | CO KJUS PHUM PREL PTER |
08BOGOTA3494 | CORDOBA AND SUCRE SHOW PROGRESS, THREATS POSED BY [...] (C) Local officials in Sucre noted improved security and less violence due to the paramilitary demobilization, but remain concerned about the threats posed by new criminal groups and narcotraffickers. Demobilized paramilitaries face high unemployment and recruitment pressure from new criminal [...] | 2008-09-17 21:40:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3506 | COLOMBIA'S DISPLACEMENT PARADOX [...] (U) Despite significant security, economic, and political gains in Colombia since 2002, new displacements continue at high levels. The GOC registered more than 321,000 new displacements in 2007, and nearly 160,000 have registered in the first seven months of 2008. International organizations [...] | 2008-09-18 23:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL CO |
08BOGOTA3521 | (C) GOC SEEKS TO "NORMALIZE" RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Bermudez announced that he would meet with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Maduro in mid-October to discuss trade and a full range of bilateral issues. Vice FM Reyes told us the GOC wants to use the meeting to "normalize" relations through existing bi-national forums to addres [...] | 2008-09-19 20:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO VE EC |
08BOGOTA3537 | URIBE CONTINUES TO KEEP ALL OPTIONS OPEN ON [...] (C) President Uribe continues to keep all options open on a possible third presidential term. He urged Congress to shelve the proposal for a constitutional change to allow a third term after it was presented on September 10, but congressional leaders said Congress is legally required to consi [...] | 2008-09-22 19:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3580 | QUARTERLY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION CONSULTATION [...] Summary: Post's quarterly human rights consultations focused on new criminal groups and so-called paramilitary structures. Many participants asserted that the armed criminal groups which continue to operate in many areas represent a continuation of the former paramilitary blocks. Others cont [...] | 2008-09-23 22:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3584 | FARC UNIVERSITY RECRUITMENT EFFORTS UNDER [...] (C) Summary: Colombian officials are investigating reports that the FARC is stepping up recruitment efforts at Colombian universities. The controversy was sparked by leftist Senator Piedad Cordoba's address to Bogota university students on September 4, in which she urged them to rise up agai [...] | 2008-09-24 15:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3625 | UNHCHR INTERNAL REPORT ON EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (C) The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) and the Defense Ministry (MOD) are investigating the deaths of 19 young men who disappeared from Soacha earlier this year and were later declared killed in combat by the military in northeast Colombia. Human rights groups said several of the dece [...] | 2008-09-29 22:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3653 | SUPREME COURT RULES EX-MEMBERS OF CONGRESS REMAIN [...] (C) Colombia's Supreme Court opted on September 18 not to expand its powers to investigate members of Congress suspected of paramiliatary ties to include ex-legislators. Under current rules, the Court prosecutes and tries sitting senators and representatives; the Prosecutor General's Office (F [...] | 2008-10-02 17:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3686 | SPECIAL PROSECUTOR'S TEAM TO INVESTIGATE SOACHA [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Francisco Santos announced on September 30 the creation of a special Prosecutor General (Fiscalia) team to investigate the deaths of 19 men reported killed in combat by the Army only days after they went missing in Soacha. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos also [...] | 2008-10-07 13:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3710 | SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 14-16 VISIT TO COLOMBIA OF [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as Colombians watch with great interest the U.S. presidential campaign, and speculate on what the outcome of the campaign might mean for U.S.-Colombia relations--especially prospects for Congressional passage of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Act (CTPA). As a bridge [...] | 2008-10-08 22:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PTER ETRD SNAR CO |
08BOGOTA3718 | URIBE-SUPREME COURT FEUD SPAWNS FEARS OF [...] (U) The conflict between President Uribe and the Supreme Court spilled into the judiciary after the Superior Judicial Council (CSJ)--one of Colombia's four top courts--ordered the Supreme Court to delete all references to Social Protection Minister Diego Palacio from its ruling accepting the g [...] | 2008-10-09 20:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3724 | EXHUMATION OF SUCRE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING VICTIMS [...] (C) On October 5th, we accompanied UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) Representative Javier Hernandez, Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) Human Rights Unit director Sandra Castro, and MAPP/OAS regional officials to the exhumation and re-burial of 8 of the 11 youths from Sucre w [...] | 2008-10-09 20:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3744 | EXHUMATION OF SUCRE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING VICTIMS [...] (C) On October 5th, we accompanied UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) Representative Javier Hernandez, Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) Human Rights Unit director Sandra Castro, and MAPP/OAS regional officials to the exhumation and re-burial of 8 of the 11 youths from Sucre w [...] | 2008-10-10 16:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3747 | UNDERSECRETARY GLASSMAN'S OCTOBER 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe told Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman on October 1 that he appreciated President Bush's efforts to obtain congressional passage of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) but voiced concerns over the impact of the [...] | 2008-10-14 13:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CO ECON PREL PTER EC BL VE ETRD |
08BOGOTA3759 | SEPTEMBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] The Prosecutor General's office (Fiscalia) voiced concern over attempts to kill and intimidate witnesses in the case against Colonel Hernan Mejia, and has taken actions to protect remaining witnesses. The Fiscalia ordered the arrest of three Colonels and a police Captain for their alleged in [...] | 2008-10-14 22:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA376 | WORLDWIDE MARCHES AGAINST THE FARC PLANNED FOR [...] (U) Summary: A non-partisan Colombian student group is organizing marches against kidnapping and the FARC in 148 cities around the world on February 4. The students are using the web-site Facebook to organize the events, and the initiative enjoys widespread popular support, Still, the oppos [...] | 2008-01-30 22:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER CO |
08BOGOTA377 | COLOMBIAN MOD CODIFIES HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES [...] The Ministry of Defense (MOD) released a comprehensive policy document outlining the Colombian military's Human Rights (HR) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) doctrine. The policy stresses that prudent use of force earns the armed forces legitimacy with the public, conferring tactical [...] | 2008-01-31 11:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PHUM PREL PTER CO |
08BOGOTA3794 | INDIGENOUS PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT [...] (U) Two days of protests by indigenous groups in Valle de Cauca and Cauca led to violent clashes between security forces and protesters, leaving at least 150 injured and one dead. The protests, organized by the National Organization of Indigenous in Colombia (ONIC),were prompted by indigenou [...] | 2008-10-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3795 | NO MOVEMENT IN SIGHT ON PEACE TALKS WITH FARC AND [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Restrepo told us there will likely be no movement on peace talks with the FARC until the first half of 2009 at the earliest, adding that talks with the ELN also remain "highly doubtful." FARC leader Alfonso Cano is focused on consolidating internal control of the group, [...] | 2008-10-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3826 | NOMINATION FOR IQBAL MASIH AWARD FOR ELIMINATION [...] Embassy Bogota would like to nominate the Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOFECAR) for the Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor. Information requested in reftel is listed below. 2. Nomination information: a) Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOF [...] | 2008-10-21 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP CO |
08BOGOTA3829 | CAUCA INDIGENOUS PROTESTS EXPANDING TO NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: On October 20, the National Organization of Indigenous in Colombia (ONIC) announced plans for over 12,000 indigenous to participate in an eight day march from Popayan to Cali. The march follows a week of indigenous protests in Cauca over human rights and land. The indigenous say t [...] | 2008-10-21 20:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS PTER PREL SOCI CO |
08BOGOTA3856 | NARCOTRAFFICKERS BEHIND "AUTODEFENSAS GAITANISTAS" [...] (C) The recent appearance of pamphlets ordering work stoppages in Antioquia, Cordoba, Sucre, La Guajira, Cesar and Santander departments--allegedly from a group calling itself the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC)--has stirred popular concerns about a revival of paramilitarism. No re [...] | 2008-10-22 20:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3888 | DAS DIRECTOR RESIGNS OVER OPPOSITION SPYING SCANDAL [...] (C) Maria del Pilar Hurtado, director of Colombia's Administrative Department of Security (DAS),resigned on October 22 after opposition Senator Gustavo Petro publicly revealed internal DAS documents that tasked officials to gather intelligence on Petro and on his party, the Polo Democratico [...] | 2008-10-24 19:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3896 | U/S BURNS OCT 14-16 VISIT TO COLOMBIA: GOC LOOKS [...] (U) Under Secretary Bill Burns met with President Uribe and Foreign Minister Bermudez during his October 14-16 visit to Colombia. President Uribe underscored the importance to Colombia of the Colombia Free Trade Promotion Act (CTPA) and continued USG support in its fight against the Revolution [...] | 2008-10-27 16:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA3909 | BOGOTA NOMINATES INGRID BETANCOURT FOR THE 2009 [...] Embassy Bogota nominates Ingrid Betancourt for the 2009 Secretary's Award for Women of Courage. 2. Below are the requested details (see reftel) for the nomination: Full Legal Name of Nominee: Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio Job Title/Association: Activist Date of Birth: 25 December 1961 Count [...] | 2008-10-27 20:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR FR CO |
08BOGOTA3920 | DISMISSAL OF TWO COLONELS AND LT COLONEL TIED TO [...] (C) On October 24, Army Commander General Mario Montoya removed two colonels and a lieutenant colonel from their commands due to their roles in the alleged extrajudicial killings of eleven men from Soacha. Montoya publicly said the three officers were removed due to "serious indications that [...] | 2008-10-28 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3925 | THREATS FROM DON MARIO PROMPT SECURITY BOOST IN [...] (C) Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos announced on October 25 that the GOC will boost its security presence in the Uraba region of Antioquia after threats by the so-called Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC)--a front organization for major narcotrafficker Daniel Rendon--led to a wides [...] | 2008-10-28 19:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3951 | HOSTAGE ESCAPE CONTINUES FARC'S WORST YEAR EVER [...] Former congressman Oscar Lizcano, held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for eight years, escaped from a FARC camp along with one of his captors and turned himself into an Army checkpoint in San Jose del Palmar (Choco) on October 26. President Uribe and Defense Minister Sa [...] | 2008-10-29 17:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3953 | GOC SKEPTICAL OF FARC WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE [...] (U) The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) issued a letter, dated October 16, saying the group is willing to talk about a political solution to Colombia's conflict as well as a humanitarian release of its hostages. The communique, released publicly on October 28, responds to a Sept [...] | 2008-10-29 19:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3959 | GOC FIRES 27 MILITARY OFFICIALS FOR LINKS TO [...] (C) President Uribe announced the dismissal of 27 military officers--including two division and three brigade commanders--for their roles in the disappearance and subsequent murders of young men from Soacha and Antioquia. Uribe said a special ministerial commission found that commanders' neg [...] | 2008-10-29 23:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA3982 | PEACE LABS: THE BOTTOM-UP APPROACH TO GOVERNANCE, [...] (U) The European Commission (EC),along with the GOC Accion Social's Peace and Development Program (PDP),helped found and support three "Peace Laboratories" in six different regions. The "Peace Laboratories" focus on three key areas: supporting human rights and local peace initiatives, stre [...] | 2008-10-31 21:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO |
08BOGOTA4011 | MINISTRY OF DEFENSE COMMISSION FINDS ARMY [...] (C) Vice Minister of Defense (MOD) Sergio Jaramillo briefed the Ambassador on the results of the special military Commission that reviewed the recent Soacha and eastern Antioquia killing. He said the Commission's finding showed a mix of corruption, inadequate intelligence and operational pro [...] | 2008-11-05 20:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4012 | OCTOBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (U) Murders in Medellin through September 30 this year increased 35.6% over the comparable period last year. President Uribe met with the indigenous from Cauca in La Maria reserve on November 2, stating he would consider removing the military presence in La Maria reserve if the indigenous agr [...] | 2008-11-05 20:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4028 | COLOMBIAN MILITARY COMMANDER MONTOYA RESIGNS, [...] (S) Colombian Army Commanding General Mario Montoya Uribe resigned his post on November 4. Montoya stepped down less than a week after President Alvaro Uribe's dismissal of 27 military officers for their roles in the disappearance and subsequent murders of young men from Soacha and Antioquia. [...] | 2008-11-06 18:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4066 | PRESIDENT URIBE ANNOUNCES NEW MILITARY HUMAN [...] (U) On November 6, President Uribe announced that the Colombian military would designate a special official in every division, brigade, battalion, and police command to receive public complaints of possible human rights abuses by the security forces. The officials will provide publicized wee [...] | 2008-11-10 20:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4092 | SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 20-22 VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as Colombians watch with great interest the results of the U.S. presidential election, and speculate on the impact on U.S.-Colombia relations--especially prospects for Congressional passage of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Act (CTPA). The Government of Colombia (GOC [...] | 2008-11-13 16:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM MARR MASS CO |
08BOGOTA4120 | POST DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] On November 13, we delivered all points in reftel to Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs Adriana Mejia-Hernandez. Mejia reiterated that the GOC understands the USG position. She confirmed the Canadians had also pressed the GOC to support the Iran resolution. Mejia said the GOC is currently [...] | 2008-11-13 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4165 | GOC LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On November 17, President Alvaro Uribe presided over the first, public forum on human rights abuses against the security forces. Military and police commanders were instructed to report human rights complaints as well as the status of each case. Uribe also ordered them to forward all com [...] | 2008-11-19 00:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MOPS KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4179 | CODEL MEEKS FOCUSES ON AFRO-COLOMBIAN ISSUES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) traveled to Bogota, Cali, and Guapi, Colombia November 6-10. During meetings with President Uribe and other public and private sector leaders, Congressman Meeks emphasized that the Obama administration would continue to embrace Colombia as a [...] | 2008-11-19 20:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EAID PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4194 | COLOMBIA TO OPPOSE IRAN NO ACTION MOTION ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) On November 12 and 13, Post delivered all points in reftel to Director of U.S. and Canadian Affairs Patricia Cortes and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Adriana Mejia, urging a review of previous GOC policy to abstain on no action motions. Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Adriana Meji [...] | 2008-11-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4215 | SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 8-9 VISIT TO COLOMBIA OF [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as Colombians watch with great interest the transition period to President-elect Barack Obama, and speculate on what the outcome might mean for U.S.-Colombia relations--especially prospects for Congressional passage of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Act (CTPA). The [...] | 2008-11-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PTER ETRD SNAR CO |
08BOGOTA4231 | NARINO--PROGRESS ON SECURITY AND ALTERNATIVE [...] (C) The poor, coca-growing department of Narino--which borders Ecuador along the Pacific coast--has seen significant security gains against the FARC, ELN, and new illegal armed groups since 2006. Governor Navarro Wolff and local security officials told us the illegal armed groups have been pus [...] | 2008-11-25 19:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO SNAR |
08BOGOTA4261 | URIBE THIRD TERM SETBACK: 2010 REELECTION REJECTED [...] (U) The First Commission of the Colombian House of Representatives rejected in a razor thin vote on November 26, a proposal to change the constitution to allow President Uribe to run for a third term in 2010. The Commission later approved language that would allow Uribe to seek reelection in [...] | 2008-11-26 22:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4262 | COLOMBIANS MARCH - IN SMALLER NUMBERS - AGAINST [...] (U) Several thousand Colombians marched through the country's major cities on November 28th to demand the FARC and other illegal armed groups release the hostages they still hold before Christmas. The disappointing turnout was significantly smaller than the millions who demonstrated to releas [...] | 2008-11-28 21:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4305 | HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CONDITION TALKS ON IMPROVED [...] (C) Interior and Justice Minister Fabio Valencia met November 10 with civil society, the international community, and Defense Ministry representatives to discuss the GOC's protection program for human rights defenders. Human rights groups challenged the GOC's commitment to protect their work [...] | 2008-12-02 14:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CO |
08BOGOTA4307 | COLOMBIA CONFLICT UPDATE FOR JULY-AUGUST, 2008 [...] (S) The success of operation "Jaque" on July 2 and the blows delivered to the FARC Secretariat over the past six months left the terrorist organization weakened and demoralized, resulting in record numbers of desertions. Still, the FARC continued to maintain between 8,000 and 12,000 fighters, [...] | 2008-12-02 14:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM MASS MARR CO |
08BOGOTA4310 | MAPP/OAS COMMENDS PEACE PROCESS, HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) The MAPP/OAS (OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process) twelfth draft report commends GOC progress made under the peace process, including increased victim participation, expanded services for ex-combatants, and advances in investigations of paramilitary crimes. The report recommend [...] | 2008-12-02 19:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4323 | MAPP/OAS RESTRUCTURING, CLOSING OFFICES IN [...] (C) Summary: OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process (MAPP/OAS) Director Sergio Caramagna briefed the international community on MAPP'S plans to restructure its operations, including dismissing 20 officials, naming a new director, and combining several regional offices. MAPP will conti [...] | 2008-12-03 21:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO AORC |
08BOGOTA4338 | PEACE PROSPECTS WITH FARC REMAIN BLEAK [...] (C) GOC Peace Commissioner Restrepo told us the FARC has not responded to GOC outreach efforts. He thinks the FARC may make a gesture to influence Colombia's 2010 presidential elections, as well as overtures to Venezuela and other Latin countries, but only if it first scores a military success [...] | 2008-12-05 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4342 | NOVEMBER HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) MAPP/OAS Chief Sergio Caramanga said he considered President Uribe's appointment of General Gonzalez Pena as new Army commander a "mistake" due to human rights concerns. MOD officials said Minister Santos' 15 point plan would strengthen the Inspector General (IG) system and revise milita [...] | 2008-12-05 22:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4353 | COLOMBIAN PALM: RURAL SAVIOR OR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Driven by strong international demand for palm oil, improving security in rural areas, government support for viable alternatives to coca, and domestic demand for palm oil-derived biodiesel, Colombia's palm industry has expanded 70 percent since 2003. As a result, it now ranks a [...] | 2008-12-09 18:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV ENRG ECON PGOV PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4371 | URIBE WARNS AGAINST FARC AND ELN PEACE "TRAP" [...] (SBU) President Uribe publicly warned on December 6 that talk of new hostage releases and a humanitarian accord is a "trap" laid by the FARC with the support of an unnamed Colombian political leader. The latter is a reference to Senator Piedad Cordoba, who is leading a group of "intellectuals [...] | 2008-12-10 20:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4430 | EMERGING CRIMINAL GROUPS: POLITICAL THREAT WITHOUT [...] (C) Emerging criminal groups (ECGs) persist despite recent GOC successes, with narcotrafficking profits and continuing weak state presence in some areas enabling them to bribe local officials and recruit new members to replace those killed or captured by security forces. The ECGs are largely [...] | 2008-12-16 17:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
08BOGOTA4442 | TIERRALTA TRIP HIGHLIGHTS CORDOBA SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (C) An international delegation--including representatives from the OAS Mission in Support of the Peace Process (MAPP/OAS),the U.S. and Canadian Embassies, and Lutheran World Relief--met with community leaders and victims in southern Cordoda, departmental police and military commanders, and [...] | 2008-12-16 21:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4462 | LAND ISSUES REMAIN CONTENTIOUS IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Summary: The land issue is central to almost all aspects of consolidation and post-conflict reconstruction in Colombia. Not only is it of concern for victims and those displaced by the conflict, but boosting agricultural productivity is also a GOC priority. After over 50 years of conflic [...] | 2008-12-17 19:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SOCI CO |
08BOGOTA4485 | INVESTIGATION INTO MILITARY KILLING OF EDWIN [...] (C) Summary. Vice Defense Minister Jaramillo told us the killing of Edwin Legarda--husband of indigenous activist Aida Quilcue--appeared to have been a mistaken military ambush based on bad intelligence intended to target arms traffickers. President Uribe repeatedly expressed his condolences [...] | 2008-12-18 20:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4486 | BONA FIDE ASYLUM CLAIM EXEMPTION TO 9B [...] (SBU/N) Colombian national listed below applied for an immigrant visa at Embassy Bogota on 20-OCT-2008. However, on his last trip to the United States, the subject stayedover five years from Sep. 2002 until February 2008, even though he was only authorized to stay for six months. During the [...] | 2008-12-18 22:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM |
08BOGOTA4487 | BONA FIDE ASYLUM CLAIM EXCEPTION TO 9B [...] (SBU/N) Colombian nationals listed below applied for an immigrant visa at Embassy Bogota on 01-OCT-2008. However, on their last trip to the United States, the subjects stayed for over seven years from Jan. 2001 until June 2008, even though they were only authorized to stay for six months on a [...] | 2008-12-18 22:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM |
08BOGOTA4547 | QUARTERLY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION CONSULTATIONS [...] Summary. Post's quarterly consultations with human rights groups focused on recent violence against indigenous communities and extrajudicial killings. Participants highlighted the recent killing of Edwin Legarda--husband of Cauca indigenous leader Aida Quilcue--by military forces as evidenc [...] | 2008-12-23 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA4588 | URIBE REJECTS INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) The FARC announced on December 21 their intention to release six hostages to a group of Colombian "intellectuals" led by Piedad Cordoba, and reiterated its demand for a demilitarized zone. Cordoba said President Chavez should participate in the process, but President Uribe quickly rejecte [...] | 2008-12-24 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA4615 | GOC OFFERS JUSTICE AND PEACE BENEFITS TO FORMER [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Restrepo announced on December 30 that the GOC would offer Justice and Peace Law (JPL) benefits, including possible reduced sentences, to 120 jailed members of the FARC in exchange for criminal confessions and written pledges to lay down their arms. "Martin Sombra," the [...] | 2008-12-30 22:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
08BOGOTA470 | MILLIONS OF COLOMBIANS MARCH AGAINST THE FARC [...] On February 4, millions of Colombians in Bogota and dozens of other cities marched against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and kidnapping. As many as two million marched in Bogota, in what leading daily "El Tiempo" described as the largest demonstration in Colombian history [...] | 2008-02-05 23:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA501 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: COLOMBIA, [...] Embassy Bogota's update of worst forms of child labor information request follows. 2. LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROSCRIBING THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INDICATORS: -What laws have been promulgated on child labor, such as minimum age(s) for employment or hazardous forms of work? Are there [...] | 2008-02-08 00:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PHUM CA CO |
08BOGOTA528 | APPELLATE COURT ELECTS NEW JUDGE FOR LABOR [...] SUMMARY. In late December, 2007, the six-month term for Colombia's three specially appointed judges handling cases of violence against unionists ended. As part of its normal selection process, magistrates of the Appellate Court for Bogota voted to reappoint Elsa Rivera de Jimenez and Maria [...] | 2008-02-11 17:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
08BOGOTA555 | G/TIP PROPOSAL TO HELP ENSURE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE [...] As requested reftels, post provides the following information on a proposal by the International Organization for Migration to help ensure the safety of trafficking victims and the prosecution and conviction of traffickers. 2. A. Name of Applicant: International Organization for Migrati [...] | 2008-02-12 20:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG CO |
08BOGOTA590 | POLO REMAINS DIVIDED - WEAKENING PROSPECTS FOR 2010 [...] (C) Summary: The leftist Polo Democratico Alternativo Party (Polo)'s poor performance in last October's local elections--as well as its ambiguous stance toward the FARC--have exacerbated tensions between its pragmatic, social democratic wing and unreconstructed, orthodox communist elements. [...] | 2008-02-14 18:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER CO VZ |
08BOGOTA595 | GOC CONSIDERS WAYS TO REVIVE ELN TALKS [...] (C) Summary. GOC Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told us the National Liberation Army (ELN) remains wedded to Venezuelan President Chavez and has expressed no interest in resuming peace talks. Still, Restrepo said the GOC would like to revive negotiations on the basis of previous GOC [...] | 2008-02-14 21:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL PTER KAID CO |
08BOGOTA618 | TRIP TO CURVARADO HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY CONCERNS; [...] (C) Local members of the Afro-Colombian communities of Jiguamiando and Curvarado complained about GOC delays in returning their land, lack of security and GOC financial support, and perceived military bias in favor of African palm companies. Local leader Enrique Petro told us the palm firms c [...] | 2008-02-20 15:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS MARR PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
08BOGOTA624 | COURT FINDS COLONEL GUILTY OF JAMUNDI KILLINGS [...] Summary: On February 18, the Trial Court of Cali found Colombian military Colonel Byron Carvajal and fourteen members of his platoon guilty of "aggravated homicide" for the May 22, 2006 massacre of ten members of an elite anti-narcotics police unit and an informant in Jamundi (Valle del Cauca [...] | 2008-02-20 21:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS MARR CO |
08BOGOTA644 | COLOMBIA DENIES MEDEVAC REQUEST [...] (C) On February 12, Post delivered all points in reftel to MFA Director for U.S. and Canadian Affairs Patricia Cortes, who confirmed that the GOC's decision was with Vice Foreign Minister Camilo Reyes. Post followed up on three occasions to encourage the GOC to accept the U.S. request. On Feb [...] | 2008-02-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL SMIG CO |
08BOGOTA645 | FARC AND NARCOTRAFFICKERS CONTINUE TO PLAGUE URABA [...] (C) Members of the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community (PC) told us February 5 that paramilitary groups, in collusion with the military and police, continue to threaten and kill community members. The military denied the allegations, stating their focus is combating the increased FARC and na [...] | 2008-02-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS MARR PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
08BOGOTA683 | GOC TO FACILITATE NEW FARC HOSTAGE RELEASE, [...] (C) President Uribe said the GOC will facilitate the possible release of four more political hostages held by the FARC, including allowing Venezuelan helicopters to use San Jose de Guaviare airport. Peace Commissioner Restrepo told us the February 21 meeting with Uribe and French FM Kouchner [...] | 2008-02-25 21:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER PHUM OAS BR CU FR PM SP SZ |
08BOGOTA687 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO PUTUMAYO HIGHLIGHTS USG [...] (SBU) Ambassador Brownfield visited Villa Garzon, Putumayo on February 8, to inaugurate a major road pavement project and survey a water treatment project funded by USAID. Local officials touted the road as an important step to reducing Putumayo's isolation, improving security, and promoting [...] | 2008-02-25 22:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SNAR KCOM KAID EC CO |
08BOGOTA695 | COLOMBIA'S PRO-TPA UNIONS TO FORM THEIR OWN LABOR [...] SUMMARY. On February 14, representatives from over 60 unions who support the U.S - Colombia Trade Promotion Act (TPA) proposed forming a new labor group (central) as an alternative to the three main labor confederations that oppose the TPA. The 60 unions -- which represent more than 45,000 w [...] | 2008-02-26 17:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA794 | POPULAR WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION MEMBERS ALLEGE [...] (SBU) Polcouns visited a Popular Women's Organization (OFP) office in Barrancabermeja and also made remarks at the inauguration of a new OFP office in Bucaramanga on February 13. Members of the group told Polcouns about the threats against their group by so-called "paramilitaries" and other [...] | 2008-03-03 19:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER OAS CO |
08BOGOTA800 | COLOMBIAN FORCES KILL FARC'S KEY LEADER, SPURRING \ [...] (U) Summary: The GOC announced March 1 that its military \ forces killed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) \ Secretariat member Raul Reyes in a cross-border operation in \ \ SIPDIS \ Ecuador. Reyes' death shattered the FARC's myth of \ invincibility, and boosted popular support for Pr [...] | 2008-03-04 00:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL PTER CASC SP PM FR VZ SZ CO |
08BOGOTA856 | BOGOTA'S NOMINEE FOR TRAINING ON FORCED LABOR AND [...] Post nominates Labor and Human Rights Officer Kelly A. Hapka (Kelly H. Carrillo on the e-mail system). 2. Mrs. Hapka-Carrrillo is expected to depart post on July 2009. 3. Colombia is a high priority country with critical labor and human rights issues. The labor officer in Colombia is [...] | 2008-03-06 15:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM |
08BOGOTA919 | MARCH 7 UPDATE ON COLOMBIA'S DISPUTE WITH ECUADOR, [...] (C) The flow of goods and people into Venezuela along the Colombian border was further restricted on March 7, but passage of food and perishables continued. The Colombia-Ecuador border remained open. The Ambassador reiterated to Acting Foreign Minister Mejia and Defense Minister Santos the USG [...] | 2008-03-08 00:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER VZ SP FR SZ EC CO |
08BOGOTA921 | MILITARY JUSTICE OFFSITE YIELDS PROGRESS [...] At an offsite conference in Paipa organized and funded primarily by SOUTHCOM with USAID and DOJ support, senior Ministry of Defense and Prosecutor General's office officials made progress in addressing extrajudicial killings by military personnel. Participants discussed their interpretations [...] | 2008-03-08 16:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS CO |
08BOGOTA940 | COLOMBIA'S EIGHT ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Scott Fagan, phone number (57-1) 383-2122, fax number (57-1) 315-2163. Officer spent 48 hours preparing the report. 2. (U) Responses below are to questions in paragraphs 27-30 of reftel. ------- SUMMARY --- [...] | 2008-03-10 22:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO |
08BOGOTA989 | ELN LEADERSHIP SPLIT BRINGS PROPOSAL FOR MINI [...] (C) ELN spokesman Francisco Galan is frustrated with the group's dithering on GOC peace proposals, and is considering splitting from the group. He is seeking a meeting with President Uribe to gain the president's approval of a plan to pursue regional peace initiatives with ELN fronts in Narin [...] | 2008-03-13 19:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA996 | MARCH 13 UPDATE: COLOMBIA DISPUTE WITH ECUADOR [...] (C) The GOC used a March 10-12 visit to Colombia by OAS SYG Insulza and the OAS Commission examining the March 1 GOC attack against the FARC in Ecuador to provide a "frank and detailed" briefing on the attack. Presidential advisor Jorge Eastman told us Insulza seemed impressed by the GOC's br [...] | 2008-03-13 22:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER OAS VZ SP FR SZ EC |
08BRASILIA1003 | BRAZIL,S HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY: FOLLOWING THE [...] (SBU) Bolstered by economic success, the GOB demands equal footing with all nations, especially when it comes to foreign policy, and its human rights policy is no exception. Brazil's Constitution mandates that the second prevailing principle of its international relations is human rights. Even [...] | 2008-07-24 16:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1120 | CONTROVERSY OVER BRAZIL,S AMNESTY LAW INFLAMES OLD [...] (U) On August 31, Brazilian Justice Mininster Tarso Genro called for prosecution of members of the Brazilian military involved with violations of human rights, including torture, during Brazil,s 1964-85 military government. This would call for a revision of the 1979 law on amnesty which hal [...] | 2008-08-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR MARR PGOV PHUM |
08BRASILIA1225 | BRAZIL: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) Summary. Brazil will continue to prefer addressing human rights issues in the UN Human Rights Council, continues to oppose country-specific resolutions, will support the EU's Religious Tolerance resolution in lieu of a Defamation of Religion resolution, and did not give a response on no [...] | 2008-09-12 20:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08BRASILIA1486 | BRAZIL WILL OPEN AN EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG [...] (C) Summary. Brazil will open an embassy in Pyongyang next year, and has already selected an experienced diplomat as ambassador, an Itamaraty official told poloff on November 4. Downplaying the opening's significance, the diplomat said the timing was "spontaneous" but fulfills a long-standi [...] | 2008-11-14 18:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PARM PHUM BR KN ZO |
08BRASILIA1497 | BRAZIL: THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 20:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
08BRASILIA1636 | BAHIA SUMMITS, PART 1: BRAZIL HOSTS FOUR REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a two-day period, December 16-17, Brazil hosted a series of four summit meetings at the seaside resort of Costa do Sauipe, Bahia, involving the heads of state or high-level government officials of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries: The Common Market of the South [...] | 2008-12-20 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KSUM ECON OAS XL XM BR |
08BRASILIA271 | BRAZIL EXPECTS TO SIGN JOINT ACTION PLAN AGAINST [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Although the new Racial Equality Minister Edson Santos was just confirmed on February 20, President Lula's administration is working hard to have the bilateral Joint Action Plan against Racism signed durin [...] | 2008-02-28 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA33 | BRAZIL GRAPPLES WITH RACISM AND RACIAL QUOTAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloffs recently met with University of Brasilia (UnB) President Timothy Mulholland, an expert on Brazil,s university quota systems to discuss self-imposed quotas and the proposed Racial Equality Statue. Racism in Brazil is a difficult topic to address largely as a result of a [...] | 2008-01-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA540 | BRAZIL "MONITORS" ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's surprising decision to participate in monitoring Zimbabwe's elections was not what it initially appeared. Although Brazil was among those countries invited to serve as an observer, it was the participation of a federal deputy as an observer on behalf of an NGO that fo [...] | 2008-04-23 12:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PHUM PREL AF |
08BRASILIA554 | DEMARCHE: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 17:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
08BRASILIA640 | DOROTHY STANG'S KILLER'S FREED ON APPEAL -- TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, also known as Bida, was acquitted by a jury of the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun and naturalized Brazilian citizen, on May 6, almost exactly a year after his initial conviction. On May 15, 2007, Moura, a Brazilian rancher, was sentenced to [...] | 2008-05-12 15:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PREL PHUM |
08BRASILIA707 | BRAZILIAN GENERAL BREAKS RANKS ON INDIGENOUS [...] (C) Brazilian Army General Augusto Heleno, military commander of the Amazon region, spoke out on April 16 against the GOB's indigenous policy calling it "chaotic," specifically in reference to a traditionally indigenous area in northern Roraima state planned to become a protected reserve. Thi [...] | 2008-05-20 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PHUM PREL PGOV |
08BRASILIA760 | BRAZIL: MEETING WITH SENATE PEDOPHILIA [...] Summary. Ambassador, Resident Legal Adviser, DHS/ICE Attache, and Poloff met on May 13 with the Chairman of the Brazilian Senate's Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) into Pedophilia and two law enforcement officials to discuss U.S. laws to protect children, prosecute sex offenders, and [...] | 2008-06-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT SOCI TINT KCRM KJUS PHUM BR |
08BRATISLAVA109 | GOS ROLLS OUT ROMA STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Slovakia has new EU-provided funding and increased staff in the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dusan Caplovic (Smer) to dramatically upgrade programs that address the needs of the Roma community. Roma activists and other observers are very skeptical, however [...] | 2008-03-11 10:38:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA11 | SLOVAKIA WILL VOTE FOR PROSPER [...] Peter Kormuth, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed to Poloff on January 9 that Slovakia will vote for Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. candidate for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Janua [...] | 2008-01-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA LO |
08BRATISLAVA125 | SLOVAKIA HAS NO REASON NOT TO BE TOUGH ON BURMA [...] (U) Poloff delivered Reftel message to Drahomir Stos, Head of the Asia Unit at Slovakia's MFA, on March 18. Stos agreed with the U.S. message in its entirety and said Slovakia will absolutely lend its support, both publicly and privately, to UN Special Advisor Gambari. 2. (C) Stos explained [...] | 2008-03-20 09:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA127 | COALITION ALTERS PRESS LAW DRAFT, BUT NOT ENOUGH [...] (SBU) In advance of next week's parliamentary session, the governing coalition quietly introduced in the Culture and Media Committee on March 18 an amended version of its draft press law. The new version, introduced by Smer MP Jan Podmanicky, addresses one of the two major deficiencies identif [...] | 2008-03-20 16:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA129 | COALITION ALTERS PRESS LAW DRAFT, BUT NOT ENOUGH [...] (SBU) In advance of next week's parliamentary session, the governing coalition quietly introduced in the Culture and Media Committee on March 18 an amended version of its draft press law. The new version, introduced by Smer MP Jan Podmanicky, addresses one of the two major deficiencies identif [...] | 2008-03-20 16:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA136 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BELARUS [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Miro Jenca, Foreign Minister Kubis's Chef du Cabinet, on March 28. Pol/Econ Chief had discussed the demarche with Acting Director of the Office for Balkans and the CIS, Eva Ponomarenkova on March 26. Jenca described the GOB's recentt behavior as very dis [...] | 2008-03-28 15:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO BO EU |
08BRATISLAVA137 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S MARCH 27 LUNCHEON WITH PRIME [...] (U) This message contains an action request; please see para 7. 2.(C) Summary: In a cordial and collegial, hour-long conversation (entirely in Slovak) over lunch, Ambassador Obsitnik and Prime Minister Fico discussed domestic politics, VWP, the NATO Summit and Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, the [...] | 2008-03-28 15:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS KVIR PHUM AF LO |
08BRATISLAVA138 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST TO RESETTLE CUBAN MIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Acting Director of the MFA Americas Office Tomas Bican on March 10. Bican undertook to coordinate with the Ministry of Interior and informed Embassy on March 28 that the preliminary reaction from the MOI was "mainly positive," and "open" to th [...] | 2008-03-28 15:46:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CU LO SMIG |
08BRATISLAVA148 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR NATO SUMMIT SUCCESS, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Obsitnik met on March 31 to discuss U.S. priorities for the NATO Summit and to register his concern regarding an interview Prime Minister Fico gave to Czech television on March 30 in which he stated that the Slovak "government" was opposed to missile defense and that [...] | 2008-04-02 10:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO LO AF PHUM |
08BRATISLAVA163 | SLOVAKIA PREPARED TO RESETTLE EIGHT CUBAN MIGRANTS [...] (C) The Director of Slovakia's Ministry of Interior (MOI) Office of Migration, Bernard Priecel, confirmed to Poloff on April 7 that Slovakia will take steps within the next month to resettle eight Cuban refugees currently living at Guantanamo. The GOS accepts USG offers to provide for transpo [...] | 2008-04-10 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SMIG PHUM CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA164 | FICO GETS HIS PRESS LAW AND LISBON TREATY TOO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Slovak Parliament passed the ruling coalition's media law bill April 9; the bill will now be submitted to President Gasparovic for signing. The controversial "right to reply" remains largely unchanged despite indications over the past week from the coalition and the opposi [...] | 2008-04-10 17:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA17 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points to Ambassador Marian Tomasik, Director of the Asia, Africa and Middle East Directorate at the MFA on January 8. Tomasik agreed fully on the need to shine the light on the Syrian regime's human rights violations and thought that the GOS would be able to say so [...] | 2008-01-10 16:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO SY |
08BRATISLAVA18 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points to Ambassador Marian Tomasik, Director of the Asia, Africa and Middle East Directorate at the MFA on January 8. Tomasik agreed fully on the need to shine the light on the Syrian regime's human rights violations and thought that the GOS would be able to say so [...] | 2008-01-10 16:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO SY |
08BRATISLAVA206 | SLOVAKIA WILL WEIGH POST-REFERENDUM STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Drahomir Stos at MFA's Territorial Department for Asia and Oceania on May 2. Stos said Slovakia didn't plan to release a statement before the Burmese Constitutional referendum, but actively supported the April 29 GAERC conclusions on Burma. Citing Slovakia' [...] | 2008-05-05 14:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA207 | MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE [...] Post discussed the May 21 "Day of Solidarity with Cuba" with contacts from the Slovak Government, Parliament and NGOs. Laszlo Nagy, Chairman of Parliament's Committee for human rights, minorities and the status of women, will consider making a statement in Parliament, or proposing a political [...] | 2008-05-05 14:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA208 | SLOVAKIA'S UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to Denisa Frelichova at MFA's UN and International Organizations Department on May 2. Frelichova was familiar with U.S. concerns related to the UNHRC, which U.S. PermRep Khalizad shared with MFA State Secretary Diana Strofova during meetings in New York the we [...] | 2008-05-06 08:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC LO |
08BRATISLAVA213 | SLOVAK ASSISTANCE TO BURMA [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief and Economic Officer conveyed reftel points to the MFA's Office of Economic Cooperation and to the Office for Asia and Oceania. Due to a Slovak holiday, we were unable to get substantive responses to our demarche. As reported ref b, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced [...] | 2008-05-09 15:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID LO BM |
08BRATISLAVA220 | SUPPORTING ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DISSIDENTS [...] Post proactively initiates, encourages and supports outreach to activists for democracy and dissidents in un-free nations. In the past year, Post worked with several indigenous and international NGOs to provide training, resources and moral support to civil society organizations in Belarus, Af [...] | 2008-05-14 14:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA239 | USING SLOVAKIA'S ELECTION TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Slovakia's election on May 21 to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is seen here as a significant step in the country's effort to carve out a bigger space for itself in the international arena. Following its successful tenure on the UN Security Council (2006-7),the HRC bid was the logical [...] | 2008-05-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA240 | GAERC MEETING: SLOVAKIA HOPES TO BECOME "LEADER ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on May 22. In preparing for the upcoming GAERC, FM Kubis is, according to Otruba, putting the greatest effort into a speech on his recent trip to Afghanistan (Ref B). Otruba speculated that the Foreign Minister wants [...] | 2008-05-23 10:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL IR IZ IS SY LE SO AF |
08BRATISLAVA244 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BURMA CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA252 | POST PROMOTES HIRING ROMA TO ADDRESS SLOVAK LABOR SHORTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recognizing that Slovakia's impressive economic growth and low unemployment means that labor is becoming scarcer and more expensive, the Embassy partnered with U.S. Steel Kosice and the American Chamber of Commerce to hold a May 20 conference in Presov on hiring the long-term une [...] | 2008-05-30 12:27:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA269 | SLOVAKIA CONCERNED ABOUT CYCLONE NARGIS RELIEF [...] (U) Poloff conveyed reftel points to Branislav Lysak, the MFA official charged with East Asian countries in the Asia and Oceania Division. Lysak shares U.S. concerns regarding the restrictions on international relief efforts and forced relocations of storm victions to cyclone-affected areas. [...] | 2008-06-06 14:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA275 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THE U.S. AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief conveyed reftel points to Veronika Lombardini, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Office on June 10. Lombardini did not appear surprised by the news, saying that she understood U.S. objections to various trends and developments within the Council. That said, Lombardini [...] | 2008-06-11 16:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA28 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S COURTESY CALL ON INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Obsitnik and Interior Minister Robert Kalinak discussed the Visa Waiver Program, border security, fighting extremism, and controversial pending NGO legislation in a 90-minute conversation January 17 -- including a 20 minute one-on-one. Minister Kalinak welcomed plans fo [...] | 2008-01-23 16:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM LO CVIS |
08BRATISLAVA281 | JUNE GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS LIFTING SANCTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on June 12. Otruba predicted the GAERC will drop Restrictive Measures against Cuba, but also will send a strong pro-democracy message. Slovakia supports this stance, with the proviso that there be an annual [...] | 2008-06-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA282 | SLOVAKIA INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. Slovakia is a functioning Parliamentary democracy and market economy that, for the most part, has done very well implementing its OSCE commitments to human rights and fundamental freedoms. In recent years Slovakia has become an advocate for human rights and fundamental freedoms [...] | 2008-06-13 14:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM OSCE KDEM PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA284 | SLOVAK ATTENDANCE AT JUNE 23 CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Desk Officer for Lebanon, Syria and Israel, Beata Urbanova. According to Urbanova, MFA Deputy Minister Diana Strofova will represent Slovakia at the June 23 Conference. Urbanova also confirmed that the GOS is considering a pledge, but said t [...] | 2008-06-13 15:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PGOV PREL LO LE UNRWA |
08BRATISLAVA314 | SLOVAKIA WILL ONLY ONLY SUPPORT PRISONERS OF [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Veronika Lombardini, Director of MFA's Department for Human Rights and the Council of Europe. Lombardini said the EU will discuss support for a prisoners of conscience public affairs event again at a meeting on July 8, but that Slovakia will not support [...] | 2008-07-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL KDEM LO |
08BRATISLAVA336 | GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITIONS ON UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on July 18. Otruba will include U.S. non-papers in the briefing materials acting FM Diana Strofova receives ahead of the July 22-23 GAERC meeting(FM Kubis will be on vacation at the time of the GAERC). 2. (SBU) [...] | 2008-07-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV IR SO SU CD ZI UP LO |
08BRATISLAVA339 | PM FICO EQUATES KARADZIC ARREST WITH NEED TO [...] (SBU) While the Slovak MFA issued a predictably positive statement welcoming the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, PM Fico expressed a different personal opinion in a comment during a July 22 press conference. The MFA issued the following statement: "The Ministry of Foreig [...] | 2008-07-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KAWC LO |
08BRATISLAVA34 | GAERC RESPONSE [...] (U) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Alexander Micovcin on January 25. Slovakia's delegation will be led by MFA State Secretary Olga Algayerova, as Minister Jan Kubis will be hosting a visit by the UN Secretary General. 2. (SBU) Micovcin predicted that an EU Peacekee [...] | 2008-01-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KVIR IR IS SU LO |
08BRATISLAVA350 | MFA OFFICIALS CAUTIOUS ON CUBA, SEEKING WAYS TO [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief reviewed reftel points with Dusan Kristofik, Director of the MFA'S America's division, on July 30. Kristofik pointed out that Slovakia covers Colombia and Venezuela from its embassy in Brasilia, so it tries to take advantage of contacts in multilateral settings to reinforce [...] | 2008-07-31 17:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER LO CU EU |
08BRATISLAVA36 | SLOVAKIA WOULD SUPPORT TOUGHER SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Alexander Micovcin on January 25. Micovcin took detailed notes and promised to share and discuss the points with his colleagues. Micovcin confirmed Slovakia's willingness in principle to support additional, targeted sanctions against [...] | 2008-01-25 15:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA382 | TFGG01: SLOVAKIA WILL URGE RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA384 | TFGG01: FM KUBIS: SLOVAK GOVERNMENT NOW UNITED ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA40 | OPPOSITION APPEARS TO HAVE HELD UP LISBON TREATY [...] (C) Slovakia's parliament -- despite PM Fico's urging -- postponed the planned January 30 vote on ratification of the EU Lisbon Treaty 30 due to the opposition's insistence that the government withdraw its draft press law. Parliament postponed further consideration until January 31, and may h [...] | 2008-01-30 16:47:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA42 | FICO TO EU: WE'LL RATIFY LISBON TREATY [...] (C) Prime Minister Fico met with EU ambassadors on January 30 to calm their fears about Lisbon Treaty ratification hours after the PM postponed the ratification vote in parliament due to opposition demands that Fico withdraw his controversial new press law draft as a precondition for its suppo [...] | 2008-01-31 16:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA456 | SLOVAKIA: TIP TRAINING UNDERWAY [...] Summary: As part of its 2008-2010 National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons, the Government of Slovakia, in cooperation with the NGO community, developed an extensive training program for NGO workers, law enforcement officials, religious workers, and community social workers. The [...] | 2008-10-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC |
08BRATISLAVA467 | SLOVAK GAERC POSITIONS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Albin Otruba, European Correspondent at the Slovak MFA, on October 9. Slovak views on Zimbabwe, Belarus and Georgia are all nearly aligned with U.S. views. Slovakia will support lifting visa restrictions and the Arms Embargo against Uzbekistan. Otruba ex [...] | 2008-10-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZI GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA491 | NEGATIVE RESPONSE FROM GOS TO DETAINEE REQUEST [...] (C) Ambassador Obsitnik broached reftel request in a one-on-one meeting with Interior Minister Robert Kalinak on October 24. Kalinak noted that Slovakia had recently agreed to a U.S. request to grant asylum to 8 Cuban migrants, but responded that the case of the Palestinian detainee was "too [...] | 2008-10-28 15:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | SECRET | PREL PHUM LO PA |
08BRATISLAVA507 | SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN TENSIONS RISK DAMAGING [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Only two months after Prime Ministers Fico and Gyurscany dined together in Brussels, Slovak-Hungarian relations have reached a new low in the post-Meciar period. Actions by Slovak riot police against unruly Hungarian fans at a November 1 soccer match and subseque [...] | 2008-11-04 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO HU |
08BRATISLAVA524 | HEDVIGA MALINOVA CASE UPDATE: DEEP QUESTIONS REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: We recently visited the law offices of Roman Kvasnica (please protect),a respected Slovak lawyer who is currently representing Hedviga Malinova, an ethnic-Hungarian Slovak who claims to have been attacked in what she initially believed to be an ethnically-motivated hate crime in [...] | 2008-11-13 14:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | SECRET | PREL PHUM KCRM LO |
08BRATISLAVA549 | SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN RELATIONS: LOTS OF MEETINGS, [...] (C) Summary. Charge and Pol/Econ Chief met on November 19 with the special advisor to Prime Minister Fico and Foreign Minister Kubis for Slovak-Hungarian relations, former Foreign Minister Pavol Hamzik. Hamzik stated that nationalist leader Jan Slota is "damaging Slovak foreign policy and Slo [...] | 2008-11-21 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO HU |
08BRATISLAVA593 | PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC RETURNS TEXTBOOK LAW TO [...] (C) During a December 18 meeting with President Gasparovic, Ambassador raised Slovak-Hungarian relations and Slovak engagement in Afghanistan. Ambassador urged President Gasparovic to sign the compromise "textbook" law, which calls for the inclusion of both Hungarian and Slovak place names in [...] | 2008-12-19 14:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA602 | PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC RETURNS TEXTBOOK LAW TO [...] (C) During a December 18 meeting with President Gasparovic, Ambassador raised Slovak-Hungarian relations and Slovak engagement in Afghanistan. Ambassador urged President Gasparovic to sign the compromise "textbook" law, which calls for the inclusion of both Hungarian and Slovak place names in [...] | 2008-12-30 09:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA64 | SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL FOR PROJECT IN ANTI-TIP: MANAGED BY [...] Post submits the following project proposal received from the Slovak Office of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). ----------------------- Identifying Information ----------------------- 2. Project proposal information is as follows: Name of Organization: United Nat [...] | 2008-02-13 16:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KRCM PHUM PREL SMIG LO |
08BRATISLAVA89 | GOVERNMENT BACKS AWAY FROM PROBLEMATIC NGO LAW [...] (SBU) In a February 27 meeting with NGO leaders, Interior Minister Kalinak acknowledged that the government's draft law on NGOs was flawed and tasked NGO lawyers to produce a mututally satisfactory draft within two weeks. The NGOs plan to draft an amendment to the existing 1990 law that would [...] | 2008-02-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA9 | DRAFT LAW ON NGOS DEEMED SIGNIFICANT THREAT BY [...] (C) Slovakia's NGO community has launched a full-scale campaign seeking the withdrawal of a sweeping new draft Ministry of Interior law strictly regulating NGOs. According to leading NGO representatives, one of the most damaging aspects of the draft text, published December 11, is a requireme [...] | 2008-01-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA93 | SLOVAKIA ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY ---------------------------- A. Slovakia is steadily moving forward in its fight against TIP. In addition to allocating a substantial increase in anti-TIP funding (by multiplying it fourfold, from USD 91,000 to USD 364,000) the Government of Slovakia (GOS) has increased bot [...] | 2008-03-03 16:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC |
08BRAZZAVILLE196 | BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - JULY 25, 2008 [...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified post. 2. Kouilou region asks for forgiveness: A delegation of government leaders who represent the Pointe Noire-Kouilou area in their legislative duties, led by the Minister of Hydrocarbons Taty Loutard, presented themselves to President Denis Sasso [...] | 2008-07-25 16:59:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON PGOV CF |
08BRAZZAVILLE239 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE RESPONSE TO UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES [...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified post. 2. Charge met with Ambassador Giselle Ngondo, Ambassadeur Itinerant, special adviser to the Republic of Congo (RoC) Minister of Foreign Affairs Basile Ikouebe for the UNGA delegation. Charge emphasized the U.S. commitment to promote human rights [...] | 2008-09-05 13:40:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN |
08BRIDGETOWN120 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. LUCIA [...] (U) As requested (ref A),below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Lucia for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for internationa [...] | 2008-02-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG PREF ST XL |
08BRIDGETOWN121 | TIP SUBMISSION - DOMINICA [...] (U) As requested (ref A),below are Post's responses to questions regarding Dominica for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for international [...] | 2008-02-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG PREF DO XL |
08BRIDGETOWN125 | SNAPSHOT: ISLAM IN NEVIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following-up on contacts made at the Embassy's inaugural Iftar, PolOff met with the leader of the Nevis Muslim Association, as well as with leaders from the local university's Muslim Association. While both groups are small, they are well-integrated into the tiny island comm [...] | 2008-02-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PREL PHUM XL SC |
08BRIDGETOWN130 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for [...] | 2008-03-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC XL SC |
08BRIDGETOWN132 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or desti [...] | 2008-03-03 16:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN134 | ST. VINCENT: MAN ACQUITTED OF KILLING PM'S PRESS [...] (U) Summary: In a year of sensational crime stories, St. Vincent witnessed its most sensational trial fall apart this week, as the man accused with the 2006 murder of the Prime Minister's press secretary was acquitted of the charges. The presiding judge had earlier ruled that an oral confessio [...] | 2008-03-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SOCI PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN137 | MALDIVES CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEMARCHE [...] Per reftel instructions, demarches on the Maldive's resolution on climate change and human rights were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua and Barbuda #0170, Barbados #0171, Dominica #0172, St. Christopher and Nevis #0173, St. Lucia #0174, St. Vincent [...] | 2008-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG MV PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC |
08BRIDGETOWN162 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked m [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN163 | TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, o [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN220 | ST. VINCENT: PM'S (FIRST) RAPE CASE HIJACKED BY [...] (C) Summary: The judge reviewing the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP's) February decision to "discontinue" the rape case against Prime Minister Gonsalves has ruled that the DPP acted properly and within the parameters of the law. The lawyers for the accuser have appealed the case, and ha [...] | 2008-04-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL ASEC XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN229 | ST. VINCENT RULE OF LAW SLUMPING, ECONOMY GRINDING [...] (C) Summary: On the heels of the much-publicized rape case against the Prime Minister which was discontinued by the prosecution (Ref A),rule of law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been given a public black eye. With the murder rate among the highest in the world, meanwhile, crime is pe [...] | 2008-04-03 19:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SNAR PREL PHUM ASEC XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN298 | SENIOR ROUNDTABLE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Per reftel instructions, demarches on the Senior Roundtable for Women's Justice were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua and Barbuda #0419, Barbados #0420, Dominica #0421, St. Christopher and Nevis #0422, St. Lucia #0423, St. Vincent and the Grenadine [...] | 2008-05-06 19:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM KPAO PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN310 | UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Per reftel instructions, demarches on the UNSC Resolution on Somali Piracy were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua and Barbuda #0455, Barbados #0456, Dominica #0457, St. Christopher and Nevis #0458, St. Lucia #0459, St. Vincent and the Grenadines #04 [...] | 2008-05-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XL |
08BRIDGETOWN311 | U.S.-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DECLARATION DEMARCHE [...] Per reftel instructions, demarches on the U.S.-EU Prisoners of Conscience Declaration were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua and Barbuda #0461, Barbados #0462, Dominica #0463, St. Christopher and Nevis #0464, St. Lucia #0465, St. Vincent and the Gre [...] | 2008-05-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN36 | TEMPERS, CARS SET ABLAZE BY ST. KITTS ELECTORAL [...] (U) Summary: Following the passing of electoral reform law in December 2007 in St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis, tempers have flared as the opposition has raised objections to the ruling Labour party's implementation of re-registration rules. In what has devolved into a vicious battle in [...] | 2008-01-16 21:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI EAID SC XL |
08BRIDGETOWN58 | ST. VINCENT POLICE OFFICER ALLEGES RAPE BY PRIME [...] (U) This cable is an action request; please see Para 5. 2. (C) Summary: On January 30, 2008 a prominent lawyer and key Embassy contact called PolOff to request help with a legal case in which a St. Vincent police officer alleges that SVG Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves raped her. The contact [...] | 2008-01-31 20:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN584 | RAPE VICTIM DROPS CASE; GONSALVES SET FOR [...] (C) Alleged rape victim and police constable Michelle Andrews, who filed rape charges against Prime Minister Gonsalves in January, replaced her lawyers and discontinued all legal proceedings against the Prime Minister in a snap decision that caught her previous legal counsel completely by surp [...] | 2008-09-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN586 | (S) BRIDGETOWN GUIDANCE RELATED TO RESETTLEMENT [...] (S) In response to reftel guidance request, in the event that the government of St. Lucia could be persuaded to accept GTMO Uighurs, Embassy Bridgetown recommends proposing to the GOSL a set of technical assistance activities totaling $10.5 million as outlined below. We note, however, that e [...] | 2008-09-26 20:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | SECRET | PHUM PTER PREL PINR |
08BRIDGETOWN617 | SHIPMENT OF HUMANITARIAN GOODS UNDER THE DENTON [...] (U) Post has a good working relationship with the Good News Project staff in their Wisconsin headquarters and on the ground in the Eastern Caribbean. Recent Denton Program humanitarian shipments to Dominica and St. Lucia were handled very well by the local consignee, working closely with the [...] | 2008-10-10 13:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MASS PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN62 | "ALBA" GAINS MOMENTUM IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the participation of three Eastern Caribbean heads of government at the sixth Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) summit in Caracas in late January 2008, the organization's influence in the region is making headlines and appears to be picking up steam. Domin [...] | 2008-02-01 17:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR XL VE |
08BRIDGETOWN636 | ST. LUCIA NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Sister Anthonia David, St. Lucia, for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for 2009 (biodata at end of cable). A highly qualified registered nurse and administrator of the Holly Family Children's Home, she has become a leading advocate for deve [...] | 2008-10-24 15:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN637 | DOMINICA NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Angelica Pierre-Louis, of Dominica, for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for 2009 (biodata at end of cable). The president of the Dominica National Council of Women, she has become a leading advocate for developing infrastructure in Dominica [...] | 2008-10-24 15:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN638 | BARBADOS NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Mary Thompson, RN, of Barbados, for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for 2009 (biodata at end of cable). A highly qualified registered nurse and president of the Business and Professional Women's Club, Mary Thompson has become a leading adv [...] | 2008-10-24 15:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN641 | ST. VINCENT NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Nicole O.M. Sylvester, lawyer and human rights activist from St. Vincent, for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for 2009 (biodata at end of cable). Nicole is an accomplished lawyer and president of the St. Vincent Human Rights Association. I [...] | 2008-10-24 16:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN643 | GRENADA NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Dr. Beverly Theresa Nelson-La Qua, of Grenada, for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for 2009 (biodata at end of cable). Dr. Nelson is unique in Grenada for recognizing an unfilled need and then volunteering her time to find a solution. She [...] | 2008-10-27 18:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN704 | ST LUCIA CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST FREDERICK HEADS [...] (SBU) The long-running saga of the Minister Richard Frederick's corruption case appears headed towards a final resolution. Frederick lost his action for dismissal of charges against him relating to evasion of taxes for the importation of a vehicle, and the case is finally headed to trial. I [...] | 2008-12-02 20:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OECS POL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN706 | ST LUCIA CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST FREDERICK HEADS [...] (SBU) The long-running saga of the Minister Richard Frederick's corruption case appears headed towards a final resolution. Frederick lost his action for dismissal of charges against him relating to evasion of taxes for the importation of a vehicle, and the case is finally headed to trial. I [...] | 2008-12-03 17:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | OECS POL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN751 | SECURITY, ECONOMY, HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (C) In her farewell call on St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, the Ambassador highlighted successes in building cooperation between our countries during her tenure and expressed her hope for continued close cooperation in the future. The Ambassador cited ongoing cooperation o [...] | 2008-12-30 18:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV MASS PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN78 | ST. VINCENT: RAPE CHARGES AGAINST PM GONSALVES [...] (U) This cable is an action request; please see Para 8. 2. (C) On February 4, 2008 the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines "discontinued" the criminal rape case filed against St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. The case was earl [...] | 2008-02-06 20:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN89 | DOMINICANS CONCERNED ABOUT ALBA [...] (U) SUMMARY: While the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GOCD) defends its decision to join Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA),many sectors in Dominican society are concerned about the long-term consequences of this agreement. The decision to halt progres [...] | 2008-02-13 20:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR VE DO XL |
08BRUSSELS1008 | EU POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON IRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Work continues in Brussels to push forward UNSCR 1803 implementation, but doubts remain about whether it will be possible to act at France's first GAERC session (July 22-23). EU Political Director Cooper requested additional information from Treasury about shifting flows of [...] | 2008-07-02 15:45:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ETTC KNNP MNUC EFIN PGOV PHUM IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1021 | EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: MEDVEDEV GETS A GOOD REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 15:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG ETRD ETTC EINV ECON PBTS EUN |
08BRUSSELS1055 | FRIENDS OF BELARUS: ELECTIONS AND KOZULIN [...] (C) Summary. On July 3, EUR A/S Daniel Fried participated in an informal gathering of the informal Friends of Belarus contact group to encourage continued Transatlantic policy cooperation. The meeting was convened by the Lithuanian Political Director on the margins of the U.S.-EU Political [...] | 2008-07-14 08:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM KDEM EUN BO |
08BRUSSELS137 | IRAN'S JALILI GETS TOUGH RECEPTION FROM EU [...] (C) During a January 23 visit to Brussels, Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator met with mixed success at the EU. He achieved the desired form and access, including prestigious meetings with top officials as well as high profile press coverage. On substance, however, Jalili made no [...] | 2008-01-25 16:23:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP PHUM IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1412 | UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaking both as the Human Rights person at the Belgian MFA and as a participant in the EU Working Group on Human Rights meeting of September 4-5, Francine Chainye told Poloff Judith Heimann: --There were no surprises in our demarche talking points (reftel) except for Belarus (see [...] | 2008-09-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EU BE |
08BRUSSELS1419 | FORTHCOMING EU FONMIN MEETING (GAERC) SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) On September 12, MFA Director for EU External Affairs Filip David told Poloff Heimann the following: 2. (C) Zimbabwe David said that the COREPER (i.e., EU Permreps)-drafted conclusions of the forthcoming GAERC included extending the EU sanctions beyond what they are now -- though Davi [...] | 2008-09-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL ZI SO TU YI RS BE PGOV ZL |
08BRUSSELS1468 | IRAN SANCTIONS: U/S LEVEY MEETINGS WITH EU [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: On September 8 and 9, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey met with EU and Member State officials to take stock of U.S.-EU cooperation regarding Iran's illicit proliferation activities. U/S Levey underscored the effectiveness o [...] | 2008-09-23 10:45:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP KTFN PTER PHUM PINR IR |
08BRUSSELS1501 | INGUSH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEEK ATTENTION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, Poloff met with two Ingush human rights activists, Ibragim Muharbekovich Lianov and Alik Osdoev. They described human rights violations in Ingushetia since 1992. They said that Russia intends to abolish the Republic of Ingushetia and merge it with Chechnya in O [...] | 2008-09-26 14:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RU BE GG |
08BRUSSELS158 | BELGIAN INTERIOR MINISTER EXPECTED TO HEAD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 16:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PREF SMIG BE |
08BRUSSELS1639 | CHINA: HU JIA RECEIVES THE EU'S SAKHAROV HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: In a move sure to anger China, the European Parliament (EP) voted to award its annual Sakharov Human Rights Prize to prominent Chinese activist Hu Jia on October 23. Commission sources report they have been besieged by Chinese demarches calling on them to distance the Commission [...] | 2008-10-23 16:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUN CH |
08BRUSSELS1641 | A/S FRIED MEETING WITH EU DIRECTOR GENERAL ROBERT [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: A/S Fried used his October 22 meeting with EU Director General Robert Cooper to press for the EU to keep pressure on the Russians to comply with their obligations under the cease fire. While Cooper indicated that he believed the EU would unfreeze its discussions with the R [...] | 2008-10-24 09:53:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EUN PHUM |
08BRUSSELS1661 | EU-CUBA DIALOGUE FOCUSED ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (C) Summary: EU officials spoke positively about the renewal of the EU-Cuba dialogue at foreign minister level on October 16 and the re-launching of development cooperation on October 24. On October 16, FMs Kouchner, Schwartzenberg, and Commissioner Michel discussed the human rights situatio [...] | 2008-10-28 15:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU ENRG ETRD EINV KDEM EUN XL EAID |
08BRUSSELS1669 | SOLANA'S MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR PROVIDES READ-OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: Christian Jouret, Middle East Advisor to EU/HR Javier Solana, provided Deputy Political M-C with an extensive read-out of Solana's recent trip to Syria, indicating Solana's continued wariness of Syrian President Assad, while noting some desire by the French, in particular, to m [...] | 2008-10-29 15:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL SY |
08BRUSSELS1682 | BURMA: EU ADDITIONAL VIEWS ON BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND [...] (C) Per REF A instructions, Poloff reviewed U.S. position on the Global Fund in Burma with Andreas List, Burma Desk Officer at DG External Relations. Drawing upon REFTEL points, Poloff stressed the importance of obtaining a commitment from the Burmee Government up front in the Global Fund ap [...] | 2008-10-31 11:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KHIV PREL PHUM SOCI ETRD BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1715 | IRAN: EU SEEKS TO BOLSTER PUBLIC DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent conversations with European Commission, Council, and Member State representatives indicate that while the will exists to expand their current Iran-related public diplomacy programming, a number of factors are slowing the EU's ability to implement such programs. The absenc [...] | 2008-11-10 06:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV SCUL IR KDEM KPAO OEXC OIIP |
08BRUSSELS1742 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU OPEN TO U.S. APPROACH FOR [...] (SBU) The European Union is broadly in agreement with U.S. goals for the November 19 International Conference on the Return and Reintegration of Afghan Refugees, according to two officials at the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) to whom RefCoord delivered reftel message Novemb [...] | 2008-11-14 17:12:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS1749 | BELGIUM AND THE CONGO PART TROIS: MFA CONTACTS [...] (C) Summary: PolEconCouns and Poloff joined MFA Congo Contacts for a wide ranging discussion on Belgium's latest efforts to end the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our contacts said Foreign Minister De Gucht would fly to New York November 25 and 26 to attempt to bolster the MO [...] | 2008-11-18 18:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1787 | FLEMISH INTERIOR MINISTER'S REFUSAL TO CONFIRM [...] Summary: The Flemish Interior Minister's second refusal to confirm in office three francophone mayors who had violated Belgian language laws has put the just-relaunched institutional talks on structure of the Belgian state into question. Dismayed francophone politicians have asked the Flemi [...] | 2008-11-25 18:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BE |
08BRUSSELS180 | VISIT OF S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON TO BRUSSELS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson visited Brussels January 8 and 9 to discuss war crimes issues with EU and Belgian officials. Discussions focused on current operations of war crimes tribunals, judicial development programs in Rwanda, and the general fut [...] | 2008-02-05 09:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUM |
08BRUSSELS1826 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HELSINKI OSCE [...] (U) Emboff delivered reftel points on the upcoming Helsinki OSCE Ministerial on December 1 to Mr. Thierry Vuylsteke, the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Director of its OSCE Department. 2. (C) Vuylsteke, who has followed OSCE issues since 2001 and will be part of Belgium's approximately 15 [...] | 2008-12-03 13:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU BE |
08BRUSSELS185 | CONDEMNING ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF SYRIAN [...] The following statement was issued by the EU Presidency on February 4, the same day as reftel. 2. Begin text: Recalling the Presidency Statement of 27 September 2007 and the Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union of 31 December 2007, the European Union condemns th [...] | 2008-02-05 17:16:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KMPI XF SY EUN |
08BRUSSELS1865 | POSSIBLE EU ELECTION MONITORING IN AFRICA FOR 2009 [...] (C) On December 1, European Commission official Stefano Gatto (protect) of DG RELEX shared the following list of African countries, in priority order, whose national elections the European Union is likely to observe during 2009. The EU observes elections in areas where the Organization for [...] | 2008-12-10 17:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN XA |
08BRUSSELS1887 | BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER REMAINS OPTIMISTIC ON EU [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian MFA was optimistic the morning of December 12 that the EU would deploy an ESDP mission in Congo eventually, despite continued opposition from key member states. The MOD was less optimistic after French President Sarkozy's statement late afternoon that Europe cannot be [...] | 2008-12-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1891 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 14:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT SO BE |
08BRUSSELS214 | IRAN: EU AGREES TO EXPAND ASSET FREEZE AND TRAVEL [...] (C/NF) At a February 6 meeting in Brussels, an EU working party prepared a list of 19 entities and 15 individuals to be subject to travel bans and asset freezes under the EU's Common Policy on Restrictive Measures Against Iran (2007/140/CFSP). According to a Council Secretariat contact, EU c [...] | 2008-02-07 18:06:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ETTC KNNP PHUM IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS317 | DAS BRYZA AND EU OFFICIALS AGREE: PROGRESS ON [...] (C) EU officials and DAS Bryza agreed that the UN should take advantage of the opportunity a new Cypriot president offered to energize negotiations on Cyprus. EU accession negotiations on Turkey will continue its moderate pace under the Slovene and French presidencies, with two or even three [...] | 2008-02-29 13:35:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN CY TU |
08BRUSSELS361 | EU OFFICIALS DISCUSS BURMA WITH PDAS DAVIES [...] (C) Summary. In an exchange with a group of Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors and member state representatives on the margins of U.S.-EU expert level discussions on Asia (reftel),EAP PDAS Glyn Davies discussed the U.S. position on Burma and encouraged further UN action and ad [...] | 2008-03-10 09:58:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM ETTC EUN BM |
08BRUSSELS39 | EU DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON SUDAN JOINT MILITARY UNITS [...] (SBU) Contacts at the European Commission and Council Secretariat were receptive in principle to requests to help SIPDIS Sudan establish military Joint Integrated Units (JIU),but said no internal EU discussions have yet taken place on the issue. Poloff delivered reftel points Jan. 10 to An [...] | 2008-01-10 15:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU EUN |
08BRUSSELS397 | EU TREATY OF LISBON: CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS [...] With the Treaty of Lisbon (targeted for entry into force in 2009) the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights -- first proclaimed in 2000 as a political declaration Q- will become binding and acquire the same legal value as the Treaties without altering the Union's powers. The UK and Poland secured [...] | 2008-03-17 16:53:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EUN ELAB PHUM |
08BRUSSELS410 | DAS KRAMER AND AMB STEWART DISCUSS BELARUS WITH EU [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 17:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS411 | EU: COMMISSION TO DELAY MINSK OPENING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 11:37:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS425 | DEMARCHE ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BM BE |
08BRUSSELS445 | EU RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON BURMA REFERENDUM, [...] (C) Summary: The Council Secretariat's Burma officer has said that the EU will continue its calls for minority group participation in Burma's political process and will reiterate its support for Gambari and the UN's Good Offices. Internally, the debate over the EU's common position on Burma h [...] | 2008-03-25 17:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EFIN EUN BM |
08BRUSSELS451 | EU NOT REVEALING ITS HAND YET ON 08 FUNDING FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID EUN |
08BRUSSELS458 | BELARUS: EU TRENDING TOWARD ENGAGEMENT WITH REGIME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-27 15:10:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ETTC OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS462 | U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON UNITED NATIONS ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: IO PDAS James Warlick met with representatives of the European Union to discuss possible areas of U.S.-EU cooperation in the United Nations system. PDAS Warlick emphasized that the U.S. is committed to participation in multilateral fora and is determined to finds ways to make [...] | 2008-03-28 14:02:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM EUN |
08BRUSSELS501 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BO PHUM PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS532 | BELGIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSIST IRAQI REFUGEES -- [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points April 8 to Jan Meuleman, Attach, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, Special Programs in the Belgian Ministry for Cooperation and Development. Meuleman thinks Belgium intends to again contribute money to UNHCR this year, but said budget disc [...] | 2008-04-09 05:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EAID IZ SY BE |
08BRUSSELS682 | DEMARCHE ON BURMA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 16:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PHUM PREL BM BE |
08BRUSSELS690 | EMBASSY BRUSSELS OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (U) Over the past year, the Embassy has promoted the President's Freedom Agenda in numerous ways. Post regularly works with the Belgian government to support democracy-promotion initiatives, for example, the transnational network to advance the rights of women from Belgium, Morocco, Turkey a [...] | 2008-05-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS709 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIUM:FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM BE |
08BRUSSELS819 | BELGIUM DIPLOMATS IN DISARRAY OVER CONGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diplomatic relations between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at a low point as Congolese officials reacted negatively to recent public comments Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht made regarding poor governance, lack of transparency, corruption and [...] | 2008-05-30 15:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM DRC CH BE |
08BRUSSELS828 | BELGIUM: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] Article 22b of the Belgian Constitution states that "each child has the right to the respect of its moral, physical, mental and sexual integrity." In 1992, the Belgian Parliament adopted legislation imposing a total ban on child labor. The legislation was put into effect through the Royal D [...] | 2008-06-02 12:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI BE |
08BRUSSELS871 | BELGIANS DISAPPOINTED AT USG DECISION TO NO LONGER [...] (SBU) PolOff met June 9 with Francine Chainaye, MFA Director for Human Rights Affairs, to discuss points in reftel. Chainaye said the Belgians know the problem and understand our discouragement with the Council, but she said "this is bad news" and asked how we expect the Council to improve [...] | 2008-06-09 15:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM BE |
08BRUSSELS897 | BELGIUM SUPPORTS AND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points June 12 to Hendrik Van de Velde, MFA Middle East Peace Process office. Van de Velde said Belgium is very supportive of the efforts for the Berlin Conference goals and they intend to pledge 100,000 to 200,000 Euros at the conference. He said Belgium also s [...] | 2008-06-13 07:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS BE |
08BRUSSELS904 | EU STILL CONSIDERING BURMA SANCTIONS OPTIONS [...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: A Commission sanctions staffer confirmed sanctions reform should not factor into Burma discussions at the June 16 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). However, a June 18 meeting of the EU Council's Working Party on Asia and Oceania (COASI),including c [...] | 2008-06-13 15:58:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PHUM PREL KDEM EUN BM AORC UNSC FR |
08BRUSSELS945 | GUANTANAMO DETAINEES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR A SPECIAL [...] (C/NOFORN) Belgian Senator and OSCE Parliamentary Representative on Guantanamo Anne-Marie Lizin engaged in an open and frank discussion June 12 with Ambassador Fox on her trip to Guantanamo Detention Facility and what to do about the remaining detainees there. She provided an advance copy o [...] | 2008-06-20 11:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDRG PHUM PTER OSCE PREL MOPS PINS BE |
08BRUSSELS975 | EU ON GITMO DETAINEES [...] (C/NF) On June 26, 2008, Deputy Minister Counselor for Political Affairs and PolOff met with Riina Kionka, Personal Representative for Human Rights for HR Javier Solana. She confirmed she had raised the issue of Guantanamo Bay detainee re-settlement with HR Solana earlier this year. Noting that [...] | 2008-06-26 16:36:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PDRG PHUM PREL SMIT PTER EUN |
08BUCHAREST100 | ROMANIA ON BOARD WITH LEBANON DEMARCHE; ON SYRIA [...] (C) POLOFF delivered ref b demarche (and note verbale) on February 6 to MFA Director for Middle East and Africa Mihail Dobre. Dobre said Romania was "on board" with the U.S. points in support of Lebanon. He added that although it was too early to give a figure for Romania's financial support [...] | 2008-02-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY RO |
08BUCHAREST163 | ROMANIA WILL ALLOW MALDIVES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 15:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KGHG MV PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC |
08BUCHAREST178 | QROMANIAQS EIGHTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB EAID KCRM KWMN KFRD |
08BUCHAREST183 | ROMANIA'S EIGHTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims ) primar [...] | 2008-03-10 13:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08BUCHAREST263 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR G/TIP VISIT OF [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Eleanor Gaetan, Senior Coordinator for Public Affairs for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP). The purpose of Mrs. Gaetan,s visit is to speak at a conference on human trafficking, hosted by the Ratiu foundation Romania. 2. [...] | 2008-04-08 10:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST404 | AFTER ACTION: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN [...] (U) The prominent news daily "Romania Libera" (circulation 316,000) May 21 carried op-ed under the Ambassador's by-line expressing solidarity with the people of Cuba. The commentary recalled similar regimes in the former communist states of Eastern Europe that were now defunct, and highlighte [...] | 2008-05-23 09:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU RO |
08BUCHAREST435 | ROMANIA: U.S.-EU SUMMIT DECLARATION'S FOCUS ON [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Reftel points on May 30 to MFA Director General for European Affairs Stefan Tinca and Director for U.S. and Canada Eugen Mihut. Tinca said that the next MFA coordination meeting would be held June 3, and he did not see any problems with supporting the U.S. on its Latin Am [...] | 2008-06-02 14:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PHUM CU RO |
08BUCHAREST471 | ROMANIA ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE U.S. [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel points on June 10 to MFA Director for Human Rights Razvan Rotundu. Rotundu was well aware from reporting by Romania's representatives in Geneva of the U.S. decision to cease its observer status, and said that he was sympathetic with the U.S. points. He pointed out [...] | 2008-06-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST475 | ROMANIA ON BERLIN CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on June 13 to MFA Director General for Political Affairs Stefan Tinca. Tinca reported that Foreign Minister Comanescu would be attending the Berlin Conference. However, he added that Romania would be more focused on identifying possible project areas among [...] | 2008-06-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN RO |
08BUCHAREST725 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 12:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV |
08BUCHAREST726 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
08BUCHAREST727 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: GAERC TALKING POINTS AND [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper on September 10 to Daniel Ionita, Director for Security Policy, and Cosmin Onisii, Director of the U.S. and Canada Division, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. 2. (C) Commenting on the September 5-6 Foreign Ministers' Mee [...] | 2008-09-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV |
08BUCHAREST851 | JEWISH CEMETERY DESECRATION: A PROFESSIONAL JOB? [...] (SBU) On October 22, vandals destroyed 131 graves in Bucharest's main Jewish cemetery. The desecration was a brazen and systematic attack targeting the most valuable and elaborate tombstones in the graveyard, with damages estimated at one million dollars. The Romanian Prime Minister and Minist [...] | 2008-10-31 15:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST90 | SPLITTING THE ETHNIC HUNGARIAN VOTE: COURT [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 29, after four years of delays, the Bucharest Court registered a new political party representing ethnic Hungarians, the Hungarian Civic Party (PCM). The new party aims to provide an alternative to Romania's Democratic Alliance of Ethnic Hungarians (UDMR),seen by so [...] | 2008-02-01 16:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM SCUL RO |
08BUCHAREST97 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES LUSTRATION LAW [...] (C) Summary. The process of lustrating communist-era collaborators received an unexpected blow January 31 when the Constitutional Court ruled that the law establishing the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) is unconstitutional. The CNSAS had been a controversial body [...] | 2008-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RO |
08BUDAPEST1026 | HUNGARY TO SUPPORT CUBA CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] (C) In an October 29 meeting, MFA America's Directorate Head Szilveszter Bus told DCM that Hungary has reached an agreement with Cuba to support each other's candidates for the UN Human Rights Council. Bus stated he was instructed by the Foreign Minister to convey the information for the sake [...] | 2008-10-30 15:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC CU HU |
08BUDAPEST1049 | HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO DIALOGUE ON PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER HU |
08BUDAPEST1209 | MAGYAR GARDA - THE LONG-AWAITED COURT RULING [...] Summary. The Budapest Municipal Court ruled December 16 to disband the Magyar Garda Association. The Association will appeal the ruling. However, the Magyar Garda Movement, not a legal entity under the law, remains in place with potential anti-Roma demonstrations likely down the road. End [...] | 2008-12-18 13:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
08BUDAPEST1216 | HUNGARIAN/SLOVAKIAN RELATIONS - A LONG AND WINDING [...] (U) Summary. This is joint Embassy Budapest-Embassy Bratislava cable. Despite several, recent high-level meetings between Hungarian and Slovak officials, significant challenges remain to address minority-rights issues and extremism on both sides of the border. Following an impromptu Novemb [...] | 2008-12-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU |
08BUDAPEST342 | GROWING HUNGARIAN HORDE FROM THE RIGHT - MAGYAR [...] Repeating their late October 2007 public ceremony (ref A),the far-right, para-military Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard) initiated 600 new members at Budapest's Heroes' Square on March 29. As the colonnaded statues of the most important historical Hungarian figures over the past 1000 years gaze [...] | 2008-04-01 14:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST391 | TWENTY QUESTIONS: FIDESZ TURNS 20 [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ celebrates its twentieth anniversary in a position of unprecedented popularity, having channeled broad public discontent with the Gyurcsany government's policies to build an imposing lead in opinion polls. A movement long before it became a political party, FIDESZ's iden [...] | 2008-04-17 07:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREV KDEM PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST468 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON BURMA'S UPCOMING REFERENDUM [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel with the MFA Asia/Pacific Department Head Gyula Petho on May 6. Petho acknowledged and expressed agreement with reftel's concerns about referendum's legitimacy, drawing reference to both the EU and UNSC statements on the issue. He believes the referendum will proc [...] | 2008-05-07 06:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST504 | HUNGARY WILL ATTEND THE BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 09:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST513 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE MAY 26-27 FOREIGN [...] (U) See guidance request at paragraph three. 2. (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief, Andras Dekany, discussed reftel agenda with PolOff on the upcoming GAERC meeting May 26-27, and provided the following comments: - Belarus and Iran: they will not be discussion topics. - Ira [...] | 2008-05-23 14:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST514 | HUNGARY IN LISTENING MODE AT BURMA CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 14:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST528 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. LATIN AMERICA AND MISSILE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 14:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST602 | HUNGARY WILL ATTEND THE JUNE 24 BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 07:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST603 | HUNGARY WILL ATTEND JUNE 23 VIENNA CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 07:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST604 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON U.S. DECISION CONCERNING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 07:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST663 | COCKTAILS FOR THE ROMA - MOLOTOV STYLE [...] Summary: Recent Molotov cocktail attacks on Roma houses in the village of Patka highlight a growing trend of open confrontation between Roma and non-Roma Hungarian citizens in various locales. Village officials and the local "Civil Guard" group face racism claims in their effort to maintain la [...] | 2008-07-02 05:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
08BUDAPEST673 | MAGYAR GARDA - TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS? [...] Summary: The Budapest Municipal Court held the third round of hearings concerning the Budapest Prosecutor's civil suit against the far-right Jobbik Party's Magyar Garda on June 30. The hearing attracted numerous onlookers, both for and against declaring the organization unlawful. Conducted [...] | 2008-07-07 10:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
08BUDAPEST680 | COUNTER-DEMONSTRATORS CLASH WITH POLICE AT GAY [...] Anti-gay protesters violently disrupted Budapest's annual Gay Pride Day Parade on Saturday, July 5, resulting in thirteen damaged police vehicles, the hospitalization of fourteen unidentified persons and the detention of 58 protesters. The clashes were a disappointment but not a surprise give [...] | 2008-07-08 07:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL HU ASEC |
08BUDAPEST694 | HUNGARIAN PARTICIPATION IN PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] (SBU) Recently appointed MFA Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights Istvan Lakatos received text of reftel request on July 2 and discussed the issue with PolOff on July 10. Lakatos stated that Hungary would participate in the prisoners of conscience public affairs event on July 24 but could not [...] | 2008-07-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST763 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NATO MEMBERS AND ASPIRING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 15:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL PHUM PTER HU |
08BUDAPEST814 | ANTI-ROMA INCIDENTS CONTINUE THROUGH THE SUMMER [...] (C) Summary. New Molotov cocktail attacks against Roma families and an anti-Roma cartoon in a satirical publication are two of the latest examples of an escalating trend of anti-Roma activities which, although carried out by only a small fraction of the population, have not triggered strong p [...] | 2008-08-13 09:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST821 | TFGG01: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSI... [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ref points were delivered on 14 August to GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretaries Dr. Jeno Faller and Vilmos Hamikus. Charge also delivered ref points to Ambassador Karoly Banai, Chief Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to t [...] | 2008-08-14 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST837 | TFGG01 HUNGARY - WHERE THEY STAND ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite similarities to the 1956 Soviet invasion, the Hungarian Government has been reluctant to go further in its criticism of Russia than the EU-NATO consensus statements supporting Georgia. With the Prime Minister notably silent on the issue, President Solyom finally stepped f [...] | 2008-08-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST879 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON UPCOMING SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed reftels with PolOff on September 4 and provided the following comments on GYMNICH agenda items: 2. (SBU) Georgia: - Hungary supports an ESDP mission to Georgia and expects a decision at the September 15 GAERC. The mis [...] | 2008-09-05 11:43:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM HU EUN GG |
08BUDAPEST888 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD [...] (C) MFA UN International Organization Department Desk Officer Krisztina Kovacs discussed Reftel with PolOff on September 4. Kovacs expressed Hungary's general support for the U.S. agenda and said that Hungary expects to be more actively engaged during the 2008 session. This increased involve [...] | 2008-09-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN HU |
08BUDAPEST902 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed reftels with PolOff on September 12, and provided the following comments concerning the agenda items: 2. (SBU) Zimbabwe - We are awaiting a clearer picture of the apparent agreement reached this w [...] | 2008-09-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV HU GG RS |
08BUDAPEST916 | HUNGARY'S VIEW ON REBUTTING RUSSIA'S CLAIMS [...] (SBU) MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department Head Vilmos Hamikus discussed reftel with PolOff on September 17. Hamikus commented that Hungary would most likely work within the EU framework rather than making an individual statement on Russia's genocide claim. He noted that the September [...] | 2008-09-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM HU RS GG |
08BUDAPEST933 | BUDAPEST DEMONSTRATIONS - LESS VIOLENCE, BUT [...] Summary. In a day of Budapest demonstrations September 20, approximately 4,000 supporters of the government's newly-organized Magyar Charta (Hungarian Charter) and 1,000 Roma peacefully carried their message of tolerance and inclusion through the streets of the Capital, culminating in a ral [...] | 2008-09-23 16:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI HU |
08BUENOSAIRES1012 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT REPLACES AG SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA appointed Carlos Cheppi as the new Secretary of Agriculture on July 23. Secretary Cheppi replaces Javier de Urquiza in a widely expected change following the defeat in the Senate of the variable export tax proposal of the government. The new Agricultural Secretary is a [...] | 2008-07-24 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1039 | ARGENTINA: COURT CONVICTS EX-ARMY CHIEF FOR DIRTY WAR [...] (U) On July 24, 81 year-old Luciano Benjamin Menendez, an Argentine ex-army General, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four left-wing activists. Menendez must serve a life sentence in prison since a 2007 law was passed stating that all military offi [...] | 2008-07-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1041 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TIP [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 19, Ambassador Wayne hosted a TIP roundtable in honor of Ambassador-at-large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Mark Lagon to discuss Argentina's efforts in the fight against TIP. Participants included working-level GOA officials, NGOs, and a representati [...] | 2008-07-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG SNAR KJUS KCRM KWMN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1045 | ARGENTINA: CLARIN GROUP SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) ACCORDING TO ARGENTINE MEDIA REPORTS, THE GOA INTENDS TO SEND ITS PROPOSALS FOR REFORMING PRINT, RADIO, TV AND CABLE MEDIA TO CONGRESS IN AUGUST. MANY IN THE MEDIA REMAIN CONCERNED ABOUT THE BILL, BUT FEW, IF ANY, MORE THAN THE CLARIN MEDIA GROUP, ITS REPORTED TARGET. CLARIN GROUP EXECUT [...] | 2008-07-29 11:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO ECON PREL PHUM KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1052 | ARGENTINA: WHA A/S SHANNON AND AMBASSADOR WAYNE [...] (SBU) Summary: WHA A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Chief Justice Lorenzetti on July 11 to discuss bilateral cooperation in the area of judicial reform. Lorenzetti praised the Argentine Supreme Court's close cooperation with the Embassy and the U.S. Supreme Court, citing a [...] | 2008-07-31 12:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1055 | U.S.-Argentine Bilateral Consultations Promote S&T, [...] (SBU) USG-GOA bilateral consultations took place on July 10-11 and covered a range of topics including bilateral relations, human rights, science and technology, education and culture, cooperation on global issues, regional economic issues, and issues of hemispheric interest. Four non-binding [...] | 2008-07-31 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SENV MARR TSPA SCUL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1115 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER INSIDER CARLOS ZANNINI ON THE [...] (C) Summary. "We must abandon pre-conceived notions about each other...and work to identify new areas of cooperation," President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) Legal and Technical Secretary Carlos Zannini told Ambassador Wayne and Carl Meacham, Senior Professional Staff Member of th [...] | 2008-08-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EINV EFIN PHUM PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1172 | ARGENTINE FARMERS RENEW PROTESTS AND THREATEN TO STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On Monday, August 18, the farm sector staged roadside demonstrations against unresolved GOA agriculture policies for the first time since the rejection of variable export taxes (Resolution 125) by the Argentine Congress one month ago. Farmers have threatened to go on strike by t [...] | 2008-08-19 23:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1221 | A/S SHANNON'S AUGUST 27 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a frank and friendly fifty-minute conversation, President Fernandez de Kirchner shared her views with A/S Shannon on Paraguay and Bolivia. She said she would work to support President Lugo and agreed to work quietly with us on Bolivia. She shared plans for her travel to NYC [...] | 2008-09-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL PA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1239 | ARGENTINA ENDS ITS MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Senate on August 6 completed the legislative journey for a law abolishing the Argentine military justice system, a change pressed forward by Minister of Defense Garre. The step fulfills a promise Argentina made to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and res [...] | 2008-09-05 14:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MARR PGOV PREL KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1249 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES DIALOGUE ON PRIORITIES FOR UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff raised ref A points with Minister Silvia Fernandez, Director for the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on September 5. No-action motions ----------------- Poloff thanked the GOA for voting against all no-action motions and voting for country-specific resolutions against [...] | 2008-09-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES126 | REQUEST FOR DEPT GUIDANCE ON EDUARDO SAIEGH CASE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador has raised with cabinet-level GOA officials the case of Mr. Eduardo Saiegh, an Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and dispossessed of a bank he owned during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictat [...] | 2008-02-04 10:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1288 | UNRESOLVED REGULATIONS STILL STIFLE ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: GoA changes to the export registration process during the agricultural conflict have given its independent Agricultural Control Office (ONCCA) broad authority and control over commodity exports. Time limits for loading commodities and a law that retroactively establishes export [...] | 2008-09-16 12:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1305 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR, DEFENSE MINISTER WORK THE DETAILS OF MIL-MIL COOPERATION DESPITE RISING BILATERAL TENSIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1314 | ARGENTINA: ARMY CHIEF BENDINI, A KIRCHNER ALLY, [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa announced late on September 18 that General Bendini, Army Chief of Staff for the past five years, had resigned. The resignation and its acceptance by the President followed by only hours the decision of a Federal Appeals Court in Comodoro Ri [...] | 2008-09-19 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM MARR KCOR SNAR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1333 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S TOUGH UNGA SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner used her September 23 speech to the UNGA to appeal to a number of domestic constituencies, encapsulating a number of Kirchner governance themes and putting them in the context of a multilateralist, anti-neo-liberal framework. The speech, [...] | 2008-09-24 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PHUM PREL PTER IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1347 | ARGENTINA SUPPORTS COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES BUT ASKS FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff raised reftel points with Soledad Capone in the Argentine MFA's Office of International Organizations. Capone indicated that Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti is currently scheduled to participate in the September 26 Community of Democracies (CD) meeting. She explained that [...] | 2008-09-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1350 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 16:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1355 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL ASEC KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM PE AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1363 | ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR DECLARES SIX-DAY STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: In the wake of the agricultural sector's Mesa de Enlace coordinating committee ("Liaison Board") failure to reach agreement with the GOA on key issues during a meeting with Secretary of Agriculture Cheppi last week, farm leaders announced a six-day strike that will begin this Frid [...] | 2008-10-02 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1370 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 16:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1410 | ARGENTINA: SIX-DAY AGRICULTURAL STRIKE ENDS WITH LITTLE [...] (U) Summary: Without the fanfare of previous strikes, the agricultural sector ended its latest strike against GOA agricultural policies on Wednesday, October 8 - at least for now. Compared to other agricultural protests in the previous seven months, this strike was a non-event, as it attracte [...] | 2008-10-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1421 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1440 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1456 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S TOUGH UNGA SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner used her September 23 speech to the UNGA to appeal to a number of domestic constituencies, encapsulating a number of Kirchner governance themes and putting them in the context of a multilateralist, anti-neo-liberal framework. The speech, [...] | 2008-10-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PHUM PREL PTER IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1461 | ARGENTINA RECEIVES IRAN'S NOTIFICATION THAT IT WILL NOT [...] (U) The Argentine Foreign Ministry received October 22 Iran's formal rejection of its extradition requests for eight Iranian individuals, including ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, wanted for trial in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that kill [...] | 2008-10-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV ASEC IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1476 | ARGENTINA: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (U) Summary. Argentina has a long history of courageous women leaders who have worked tirelessly to protect fundamental human rights, educate a new generation of citizens growing up in an era of democracy, and combat drug and human trafficking. This year's nominee, Nelida Borquez, is cast fr [...] | 2008-10-27 20:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1478 | GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA THINKING OUT LOUD ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Five Argentine Cabinet Ministers joined a host of other public and private figures October 9 to launch a two-day workshop on Argentine narcotics policies, offering the first serious public dialogue on decriminalization of consumption since President Fernandez de Kirchner mooted t [...] | 2008-10-27 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV EFIN KJUS PHUM SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1485 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1486 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES152 | ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR SEEKS CLOSER U.S. TIES [...] (U) Summary: Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque called on the Ambassador February 6, seeking increased contact and opportunities for cooperation with the Embassy and U.S. agencies on such issues as public security, counternarcotics, and public administration. Public security is a top concern for Mend [...] | 2008-02-08 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS SNAR PHUM ASEC KPAO MASS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1523 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 10:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1524 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES154 | ARGENTINA: REITERATION OF REQUEST FOR SAIEGH [...] (SBU) The Ambassador has a February 13 meeting scheduled with Argentine Minister of the Economy Martin Lousteau. This would be an excellent opportunity for the Ambassador to resume his efforts on behalf of Mr. Eduardo Saiegh, the Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, torturGKQLQoQ). In [...] | 2008-02-11 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1551 | ARGENTINA WEIGHS IN WITH URUGUAY AND BRAZIL ON [...] (C) Poloff raised ref A points with Counselor Silvia Cao, of the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on November 10. Cao indicated that she would pass to her superiors our request to weigh in with GRULAC members on the no-action motions as well as the underlying resolutions condemning the [...] | 2008-11-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AR BZ UY CO |
08BUENOSAIRES1553 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1592 | ARGENTINA: 2008 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Per Reftel instructions, below is post,s interim assessment of Argentina,s progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Our response is keyed to points found in reftel. A) IMPLEMENTING THE RECENTLY ENACTED FEDERAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS OR [...] | 2008-11-23 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1633 | Argentine National Prayer Breakfast [...] (U) Argentina's small but growing Evangelical community held its annual prayer breakfast on November 27 with the participation of Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos and four national deputies of the center-right PRO party, led by Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri, and a range of civic leaders [...] | 2008-12-01 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1664 | ARGENTINA: FORMOSA GOVERNOR CONCERNED ABOUT BORDER WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Peronist Gildo Insfran, Governor of Argentina's northeastern province of Formosa, discussed with Ambassador Wayne on November 20 his views regarding economic development, renewable energy, the challenges of cross-border security, and the status of Formosa's indigenous population [...] | 2008-12-05 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SNAR PHUM AR PA |
08BUENOSAIRES1669 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 16:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1681 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT REPRISES HER CRITIQUE OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indulged in an increasingly familiar critique of the international system during a two-day visit to Russia December 9-10, taking jabs implicitly at the U.S. and blaming "unilateralism" for economic and security hardships in the wor [...] | 2008-12-11 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM ECON EAGR RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1705 | Human Rights Day Message Reaches Millions of Argentines [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Buenos Aires used the observance of Human Rights Day on December 10 to reach tens of thousands of Argentines on the importance of respecting human rights both here in Argentina and throughout the world. Post co-hosted a human rights recognition ceremony with the GOA's Na [...] | 2008-12-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1706 | Argentina: Former President Nestor Kirchner Criticizes a [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner attacked Vice President Julio Cobos, the opposition, the United States, and the press in remarks to party faithful December 16. Kirchner accused Cobos of intentionally trying to hinder Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration and [...] | 2008-12-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR SNAR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES171 | EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP MANAGED FY 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary and Background: Among Embassy Buenos Aires's top priorities in strengthening Argentina's anti-trafficking efforts include strengthening law enforcement and judicial capacity to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases. The Argentine government, in conjunction with the [...] | 2008-02-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1717 | ARGENTINA'S HOPES TO OVERCOME URUGUAY'S OBJECTIONS [...] (SBU) The Argentine press on December 17 focused on the failure by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to achieve what had previously been described by Administration sources to the press (and to the Embassy) as her top priority for the December 16-17 regional summit meetings in Brazil: t [...] | 2008-12-19 09:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV ECON PHUM CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1718 | ARGENTINA ACCEPTS INVITATION TO ILEA TIP TRAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL ASEC KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM |
08BUENOSAIRES1726 | Argentina: Presidential Declaration of Argentina, Brazil [...] Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timerman gave the Ambassador December 17 an unsigned copy of a joint declaration that he said was signed by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez i [...] | 2008-12-19 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL BR VE AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1753 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1754 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1755 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1756 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 14:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES176 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Introduction: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina February 20-23. The Government of Argentina is billing your visit as a major indicator of U.S. goodwill, firming up the recent "rapprochement" that ended seven weeks of discord. With the new admin [...] | 2008-02-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES225 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER ENGAGES CONSTRUCTIVELY WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) engaged enthusiastically for an hour in her office February 21 with visiting U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY),chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hem [...] | 2008-02-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PTER KIRF PHUM KV IR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES226 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA MEETS WITH CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Codel Engel enjoyed a warm meeting with Argentine FM Taiana on February 21. Meeting participants discussed Argentina's economic recovery and political progress, the bilateral relationship, and regional and world issues. The codel conveyed concern about Iranian [...] | 2008-02-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP EFIN KDEM PHUM PBTS KV IR VZ BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES229 | CODEL ENGEL PRESSES ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER ON [...] (C) During a February 21 meeting with new Argentine Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, Representatives Engel (D-NY),Green (D-TX),Hinchey (D-NY),Weller (R-IL),and Foxx (R-NC)) pressed Lousteau to provide GoA positions on three issues of increasing importance to Congress: 1) prospects of nego [...] | 2008-02-25 18:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES24 | ARGENTINA "FAVORABLY INCLINED" TO VOTE FOR US CERD [...] (U) Per reftel, post sent the Argentine MFA a diplomatic note requesting for GOA support for Pierre-Richard Prosper's candidacy for the UN Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (CERD). Poloff followed up with Martin Romero, MFA Secretary in the International Organizations Directorate [...] | 2008-01-04 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES249 | ARGENTINA: NGO PARTICIPATION IN UNHRC REVIEW MIXED [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instructions, poloff contacted two leading human rights organizations (HROs) in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano, (Citizen Power) and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS),to see if they participated in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review for Argentina. [...] | 2008-02-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES279 | POST NOMINATES HEIDI GOMEZ FOR TRAINING ON FORCED [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Buenos Aires nominates Heidi Gomez for training on forced labor and child labor in Washington April 9-11. She is an economic-coned officer currently serving in post's Political section. Her current areas of responsibility cover labor, human rights, trafficking [...] | 2008-03-04 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES307 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Richard Shelby and members of his delegation to travel to Argentina for the period March 23-26, 2008. The purpose of the visit is to have bilateral discussions with senior Argentine government officials on a range of financial, ec [...] | 2008-03-10 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES310 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKS USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns met with former Argentine Supreme Court Justice Antonio Boggiano, who is seeking USG intervention with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) to accelerate the handling of his case. Boggiano submitted his case to the IAHRC 16 months ago, and his petition was issued [...] | 2008-03-11 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KJUS IAHRC OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES318 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your March 23-26 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already strong and positive bilateral relationship with the three-month-old administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Current significant areas of mut [...] | 2008-03-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES352 | EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES SUPPORTS U.S. NGO PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP [...] (SBU) Summary and Background: Post is pleased to recommend three proposals for G/TIP's "International Collaborative Partnerships to Combat Trafficking" from U.S. NGOs interested in working with local partners to fight trafficking in persons in Argentina. Embassy-Buenos Aires's top priorities i [...] | 2008-03-18 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES359 | ARGENTINA: WORKING WITH TIP ACTIVIST SUSANA TRIMARCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wayne and other Embassy officials recently met with trafficking in persons (TIP) activist Susana Trimarco. During the meeting, Trimarco was informed that the U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command had approved a $2500 grant to assist her anti-TIP Foundation' [...] | 2008-03-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES389 | ARGENTINA: NGO "QUIENES SOMOS?" FIGHTS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne recently met with representatives from the NGO "Quienes Somos?" ("Who are We?"),an organization that promotes legislation against child trafficking for illegal adoptions and lobbies the Argentine government (GOA) to assist in their efforts to uncover their t [...] | 2008-03-28 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES398 | ARGENTINA: NO DIALOGUE, MORE ROADBLOCKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's farm sector decided late March 28 to continue its strike (now in its third week) following the failure of initial discussions with the GOA to make any headway on the sector's main demand of suspending increased agricultural export taxes for 90 days. The rural sector [...] | 2008-04-01 00:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES426 | ARGENTINA - U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IOM LOBBIES GOA OFFICIALS FOR SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting Ambassador William Swing met with Argentine Minister of Interior Florencio Anibal Randazzo and then followed up with the MFA's Director General for Multilateral Affairs Raul Ricardes on March 31 to discuss his candidacy for Director General of the International Organi [...] | 2008-04-04 19:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL PREF SMIG KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES438 | ARGENTINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST NEW TIP [...] (U) Summary: A small group of anti-trafficking and feminist organizations gathered outside Argentina's Congress on April 3 to protest anti-TIP legislation currently under consideration by the Chamber of Deputies. According to NGOs, the draft bill falls short of Argentina's international obli [...] | 2008-04-08 19:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES441 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S APRIL 10-11 VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 23:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SNAR |
08BUENOSAIRES465 | ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PASSES NEW TIP LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine Chamber of Deputies passed a bill on April 9 that, for the first time, defines trafficking in persons as a federal crime. While the new legislation represents a step in the right direction, it has generated controversy among feminist and human rights organizations [...] | 2008-04-10 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES471 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TIP AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 7, the Ambassador met with Argentina's National Ombudsman Dr. Eduardo Mondino. The Ombudsman spoke at length about the independence of his office, which he said has occasionally incurred the rancor of both Kirchner Administrations. His portfolio includes the protection [...] | 2008-04-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES476 | ARGENTINA: MAGDALENA FAILLACE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY OF [...] Embassy received from the Argentine MFA a diplomatic note soliciting USG support for Ambassador Magdalena Faillace as a candidate for President of the Inter-American Commission for Women (CIM). Elections will take place during the CIM's Ordinary Assembly of Delegates this November. 2. Si [...] | 2008-04-14 19:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KWMN PHUM IACW OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES486 | REPORT CRITICIZES MEDIA COVERAGE OF ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A report released by the University of Buenos Aires's School of Social Sciences on April 5 sharply criticizes the Argentine media's coverage of the recent agricultural crisis in Argentina. The timing of the report's release, however, raised serious concerns, as it coincided wit [...] | 2008-04-15 18:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES493 | ARGENTINA OFFICIALS EAGER TO STRENGTHEN ANTI-TIP [...] (C) On April 10, Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez informed visiting WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and Ambassador Wayne that he was very pleased with the April 9 Congressional passage of anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation. He indicated that he was eager to begin w [...] | 2008-04-16 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES500 | A CONSERVATIVE MEGACONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN LEFT-LEANING [...] (U) Summary. Argentine think tank the Liberty Foundation celebrated its twentieth anniversary March 26-28 with an international seminar drawing over 300 participants from around the region and Spain. Participants included noted author Mario Vargas Llosa as well as five ex-Presidents of Lati [...] | 2008-04-18 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR ECON PHUM KJUS XM VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES501 | ARGENTINA: ANALYSIS OF TIP LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. Local NGOs and the Argentine government's National Institute for Anti-Discrimination (INADI) and the National Ombudsman's Office have criticized the anti-TIP legislation passed on April 9. Their concern is that adult trafficking victims will have to prove that they did not cons [...] | 2008-04-18 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES504 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OVERRULES CONGRESS AND REINSTATES [...] (U) Summary: The Argentine Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the Congress acted illegally when it refused to seat Luis Patti, the former mayor of Escobar who is accused of committing human rights violations as a police officer during the 1976-83 military dictatorship. The decision opened the way f [...] | 2008-04-18 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES515 | ARGENTINA URGES SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY TO UN [...] (C) The Argentine MFA convoked all resident Ambassadors April 17 to solicit support for Argentina's candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council in the May 16 vote. The meeting followed up on the MFA's January Diplomatic Note announcing the candidacy, which was forwarded via e-mail to WHA/BSC in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES516 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKING USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns tracked down former Argentine Supreme Court President Antonio Boggiano in Rome and delivered telephonically all of the points provided ref A. Polcouns noted the U.S. strongly supports the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the strong sense of integrity and in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS PHUM KDEM IACHR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES540 | ARGENTINA POISED FOR RESUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (C) Summary: The 30-day truce called by Argentine farmers in their conflict with the GOA may come to an end without a negotiated solution to address the agricultural sector's grievances. Agricultural sector contacts tell us that lack of progress in the negotiations is bringing Argentina close [...] | 2008-04-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR EIND ETRD ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES566 | ARGENTINA TENTATIVELY SUPPORTS U.S.- EU [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 22:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES575 | ARGENTINA HIGH-LEVEL MEETING AGENDA [...] (SBU) Following up on WHA A/S Shannon's April 10-11 meetings with Argentine FM Taiana and their agreement in principle to hold in June in Buenos Aires a meeting under the auspices of the Special Process of Regular High-Level Bilateral Consultations, emboffs met with MFA officials April 17 to de [...] | 2008-05-02 17:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM ETRD SENV SCUL PTER SNAR KJUS XM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES577 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Argentina (GOA) has responded to rising international prices by increasing efforts to divorce domestic food prices from international prices. The general policy of the government is to maintain low domestic prices and increase tax revenues by taxing agricult [...] | 2008-05-02 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES587 | MEDIA GROUPS CONCERNED AS ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PUSHES NEW BROADCAST LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES589 | ARGENTINA: A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: April 11 A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wayne agreed with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana and his team to revive and modify a mechanism for bilateral dialogue. The approved concept sets out two additional bilateral meetings under the 1997 "Framework of Understanding between [...] | 2008-05-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EINV PTER TSPL ETRD SNAR SCUL |
08BUENOSAIRES597 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Buenos Aires will seek to place in local media an op-ed being drafted in the Department and will use its Strategic Distribution Initiative (SDI) to circulate background materials on Cuba to approximately 3,500 local contacts. 2. (SBU) Post contacted a local NGO, the [...] | 2008-05-06 21:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES598 | ARGENTINA CONFIRMS CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On May 6, Polcouns delivered ref A demarche to Martin Romero in the Argentine MFA's Directorate for International Organizations (DIOIN). Polcouns expressed U.S. concern about the performance of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),including its tendency to focus on Israel while simultan [...] | 2008-05-06 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES615 | FARM STRIKE RESUMES IN ARGENTINA [...] (U) Farm groups announced late on May 7 that they will resume the farm strike due to the GoA's refusal to discuss making any changes to the variable export tax regime. The farm groups will continue protests for the next 8 days (through May 15),when they will meet again to discuss their next [...] | 2008-05-08 18:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES636 | FOLLOWING UP WITH ARGENTINA ON U.S.-EU DECLARATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke May 9 and May 13 with Argentine MFA U/S for Multilateral Policy Raul Ricardes to urge Argentine co-sponsorship of the U.S.-EU declaration on prisoners of conscience. Ricardes asked who else was sponsoring. Per ref (A),the Ambassador noted there were 44 co-sponsors [...] | 2008-05-13 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES641 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ARGENTINA SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of May 7, Argentine Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez told visiting ICE Assistant Secretary Myers and Ambassador Wayne that he was serious about implementing Argentina's new federal law against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and is very open to work [...] | 2008-05-14 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES663 | ARGENTINA'S NEW PAPER "CRITICA" UNDER GOVERNMENT [...] (C) JORGE LANATA, ONE OF ARGENTINA'S MOST ACCOMPLISHED JOURNALISTS, CALLED ON AMBASSADOR WAYNE MAY 15 TO ASK FOR SUPPORT AS HIS RECENTLY LAUNCHED PAPER, "CRITICA," IS BEING SUBJECTED TO A GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN TO CUT OFF FINANCIAL BACKING AND IN OTHER WAYS COMPLICATE OPERATIONS UNLESS IT MODERAT [...] | 2008-05-16 22:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO OPRC KMDR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES665 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE EXTENDED SIX MORE DAYS [...] (U) The farm groups leading the Argentine agricultural strike announced on May 15 that the strike will continue, despite a call for further dialogue from President Cristina Kirchner. The farm groups will meet again on May 21 to review the situation and decide whether to continue the strike. T [...] | 2008-05-19 10:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES686 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) Under heavy fire from other sectors and political supporters in provincial governments, Argentina's major farm groups announced May 19 that they are again suspending their ten-week strike in order to hold discussions with the GoA. This latest suspension of the on-again, off-again strike [...] | 2008-05-20 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES701 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires placed in newspaper-of-record "La Nacion" on May 21 an op-ed written by Cuban independent journalist Jorge Olivera-Castillo. 2. (SBU) Also per ref A, post sought to contact Dr. Roberto Quinones, the son of Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina who, since 1994, has been [...] | 2008-05-22 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EU CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES708 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD (BUENOS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already positive bilateral relationsh [...] | 2008-05-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES711 | ARGENTINE FARM TALKS FALTER (AGAIN) - ALL EYES ON COMPETING [...] (SBU) The first meeting between the GoA and leaders of the major farm groups following suspension of the on-again, off-again farm strike on May 21 quickly broke down after the GoA negotiators reportedly refused to address the controversial variable export tax until after the large demonstration [...] | 2008-05-23 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES714 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVIST [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador met with Laura Alonso, Executive Director for Argentine NGO "Citizen Power" (Poder Ciudadano-PC) and discussed its ongoing efforts to promote government accountability and transparency at the federal and local levels. Alonso explained PC's on-going efforts to inv [...] | 2008-05-23 21:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCOR PHUM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES733 | ARGENTINE FARMERS RESUME STRIKE - GRAINS AND BEEF TARGETED [...] (SBU) Argentine farm groups are back on strike, at least until June 2, and will block marketing of grains and oilseeds for exports, as well as sales of cattle for slaughter. The farm groups have called for protestors on the highways to allow free movement of all other transport, although there [...] | 2008-05-28 22:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES736 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON [...] POST WARMLY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP),AND BARBARA FLECK, G/TIP REPORTS AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICER, WHO WILL TRAVEL TO ARGENTINA FROM JUNE 18-21, 2008. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO OBTAIN AN UPDATE ON TIP I [...] | 2008-05-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PHUM SMIG UY AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES748 | ARGENTINA'S JUDICIAL BRANCH INCREASINGLY SUBJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is cementing control over the judicial branch by legislating discretion and political criteria into judicial processes. New legislation approved on May 21 increases executive branch influence over the filling of vacant judgeships, and a [...] | 2008-05-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES766 | ARGENTINE FARMERS' STRIKE CONTINUES FOR ANOTHER WEEK [...] (SBU) The leadership of Argentina's four main agricultural organizations decided late on June 2 to prolong their third strike against the GOA for another full week, at least until Monday, June 9. The farmer groups will continue the boycott on grain sales and embargo of grain exports, includin [...] | 2008-06-03 20:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES775 | ARGENTINA DISAPPOINTED WITH TIP REPORT, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Per refs A and B, the Ambassador met June 3 with Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez to share an embargoed copy of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Minister Fernandez thanked the Ambassador for sharing the report, and immediately launched into a discuss [...] | 2008-06-04 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES786 | ARGENTINA: FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN GARMENT INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on interviews with GOA officials, International Labor Organization representatives, and union and NGO leaders, as well as a review of media articles, some companies in Argentina's apparel industry appear to use forced and child labor in their production chain. It is diffi [...] | 2008-06-06 20:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES791 | LA NACION TO AMBASSADOR WAYNE: MORE MEDIA PRESSURE [...] (C) Julio and Fernan Saguier, owner-editors of La Nacion, the most influential paper among Argentina's business and educated elite, met with Ambassador Wayne to express concerns that media pressure from the GOA is bad and growing worse. They argued that that former president Nestor Kirchner is [...] | 2008-06-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES797 | ARGENTINA ANNOUNCES SOCIAL INVESTMENTS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA announced June 9 that it will direct the marginal proceeds from its March 11 increase in soy export taxes to health (60%),housing (20%) and rural roads (20%). Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) followed the announcement with a 25-minute speech arg [...] | 2008-06-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN EAGR PHUM EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES800 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINE OPPOSITION SENATOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met June 6 with Argentine Senator Maria Eugenia Estenssoro, prominent leader of the opposition Civic Coalition (CC). Estenssoro offered her critical view of how the GOA was managing the ongoing agricultural strike. In connection with congressional consideration [...] | 2008-06-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES810 | ARGENTINA'S REACTION TO USG DISENGAGEMENT AT THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Poloff delivered ref A points on June 10 to MFA Director for Human Rights Minister Silvia Fernandez. She expressed "shock" and "disappointment" at the USG's decision to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),especially [...] | 2008-06-12 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM UNHRC UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES817 | ARGENTINA SEEKING USG SUPPORT FOR THE CANDIDACY OF SALVIOLI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 21:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV UNHCR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES822 | Argentina: Important Issues at Stake in Proposed New Media [...] (SBU) Summary: Gabriel Mariotto, Director of Argentina's FCC equivalent agency COMFER, will be in Washington on June 19-20 to meet with FCC officials, Congressional leaders, and media associations. The Government of Argentina is in the final stages of drafting an ambitious new federal broadca [...] | 2008-06-17 16:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL ECPS KPAO OVIP KMDR PHUM TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES829 | ROUND 4 - ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Argentina experienced an intense 3-day weekend of protests and counter demonstrations after the government sent federal highway and border police (gendarmerie) to clear a roadblock in Gualeguaychu on June 14, on the main highway to Brazil and Uruguay, and temporarily arrested prominent fa [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES837 | ARGENTINA PROPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS COOPERATION [...] This is an action request. Please see para 8 for request. 2. Summary. Ambassador Wayne recently met with National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (INADI) President Maria Jose Lubertino to explore opportunities for cooperation in the realm of advancing civil right [...] | 2008-06-18 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES860 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED, GRAIN TRADE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Agricultural producers formally suspended the farm strike, and trucks carrying grains, oilseeds, and cattle started to arrive at processing plants and export terminals over the weekend. Producers and truckers have lifted most of the roadblocks around the country and, unlike the [...] | 2008-06-23 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES910 | ARGENTINE CONGRESS DEBATES AG EXPORT TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirchner government's majority in the Argentine Congress appears to be fracturing over the GOA's request for approval of the variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The GOA continues to insist that the Congress approve the export tax regime currently in place wit [...] | 2008-07-01 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES911 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR PRESENTS [...] (C) Summary. "The United States wants to be Argentina's partner in fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),not a judge", visiting Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Mark P. Lagon told Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez durin [...] | 2008-07-01 23:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES920 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR PRESENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 19, Ambassador Wayne and visiting Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Mark P. Lagon called on Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to discuss Argentina's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Drawing from the T [...] | 2008-07-02 17:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES931 | ARGENTINA: HIGHLIGHTS OF JULY 1-2 MERCOSUR SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Mercosur and associated member country presidents meeting at the July 1-2 Mercosur summit in Tucuman, Argentina, strongly condemned the EU's toughened immigration policies and declared their intention to fight their enforcement. President Cristina Fernandez de [...] | 2008-07-03 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES932 | ARGENTINE REACTION TO RESCUE OF FARC HOSTAGES IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed the news of the July 2 rescue of 15 FARC hostages. Although her initial public reaction July 2 stopped short of praising Uribe for the GOC's successful operation, the following day the GOA announced she had called U [...] | 2008-07-03 21:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES943 | ARGENTINE AG EXPORT TAX APPROVED BY LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: By a vote of 129 to 122, the Fernandez de Kirchner government on July 5 won a closely fought battle in the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) of the Congress to approve the controversial variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The legislative battle now shifts to the [...] | 2008-07-08 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES968 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN RAISES SAIEGH [...] (C) Summary. On July 2, visiting Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Dr. Gregg Rickman met with Eduardo Saiegh, an Argentine Jew who gave up his bank under duress, after being kidnapped and tortured for a week by the military dictatorship in 1980. Saiegh reviewed the p [...] | 2008-07-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES973 | ARGENTINA: FARMERS AND GOA LAUNCH MASSIVE RALLIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine farmers and pro-government forces staged massive rallies in Buenos Aires on July 15 seeking to influence the Senate vote on the controversial export tax regime (reftel) scheduled for the following day, July 16. The farmers' protest drew a crowd of 225,000 to 250,000 [...] | 2008-07-16 23:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES980 | ARGENTINA: VP COBOS VOTES AGAINST KIRCHNERS IN AG [...] (C) Summary: After 18 hours of debate, Argentine VP Cobos broke a 36-36 tie in the Senate with his vote against the government's bill sanctioning the increase in agricultural export duties it had unilaterally announced March 11. The agricultural sector welcomed the news, although the congres [...] | 2008-07-18 09:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES990 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY PAYS HOMAGE TO AMIA [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 3, Dr. Gregg Rickman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, visited the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters to pay homage to the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack. He then met with the Executive Boards of both the AMIA and the Del [...] | 2008-07-18 21:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF PTER KJUS FBI AR IR VE |
08BUJUMBURA177 | EX-PARTY STRONGMAN RADJABU GETS 13 YEAR SENTENCE [...] (U) In an April 3 decision, the Supreme Court sentenced former party president of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) Hussein Radjabu to 13 years in prison for intent to disrupt state security through armed rebellion and in [...] | 2008-04-04 12:52:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA585 | UNGA IRAN RESOLUTION: BURUNDI AGAINST NO-ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 15:02:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN IR BY |
08CAIRO1010 | AYMAN NOUR UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's lawyer and wife, we were told that, despite recent press reports indicating a deterioration in Nour's health, his health condition is "stable." Nour's wife asked that the USG continue to advocate for Nour's relea [...] | 2008-05-19 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO102 | EGYPTIAN COPTIC ACTIVISTS EXPLAIN PROBLEMS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM EG |
08CAIRO103 | GOE FRUSTRATED BY GAZA ESCALATION [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts expressed concern on January 22 over the current Gaza crisis. They tell us that the recent Israeli closures, and subsequent pressure at Rafah crossing, has put the GOE in a very difficult position, facing criticism both at home and from Arab states. [...] | 2008-01-22 16:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO1047 | SISYPHUS ON THE HILL: THE OPPOSITION PARTIES OF [...] (C) Summary: Officially, there are 23 opposition parties registered in Egypt. Most of these are either one-man operations with no meaningful support, or government-controlled showpieces unrecognizable as "opposition" (one opposition candidate endorsed President Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presid [...] | 2008-05-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO1050 | EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF CULTURE'S ANTI-ISRAELI REMARKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF UNESCO EG IS |
08CAIRO107 | UPROAR OVER EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior GOE officials have loudly protested the European Parliament's (EP) January 17 passage of a resolution sharply critical of Egypt's human rights record. Among other things, the resolution calls for the immediate release of imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader and presiden [...] | 2008-01-23 10:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EU EUN EG |
08CAIRO1111 | UPPER EGYPT SECTARIAN STRIFE APPEARS UNRELATED TO CAIRO [...] (U) Summary: Tensions between Coptic and Muslim residents of the Upper Egyptian village of Malawi continue to simmer after a land dispute between a monastery and its neighbors turned violent on May 31, leading to fears of sectarian strife during the June 4 celebrations of the Virgin Mary Moulid [...] | 2008-06-02 09:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PHUM KIRF EG |
08CAIRO1129 | EGYPTIAN COURT UPHOLDS HIV SENTENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV UN EG |
08CAIRO1138 | NEXT STEPS ON D&G AND FUNDING FOR CIVIL COMPANIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 29 letter, MIC Minister Aboulnaga has complained a second time about USAID direct funding for civil companies under its D&G program (see para 7 for full text). In response, we propose canceling the 2004 agreement governing the D&G Direct Grants program on the grounds th [...] | 2008-06-05 09:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | EAID PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1149 | DEMARCHE REGARDING EGYPTIAN BLOGGERS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-08 07:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KMPI EG |
08CAIRO1175 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN FREEDOM HOUSE [...] (C) On June 2, the Ambassador met with nine Egyptian journalists and activists who recently returned to Egypt from the U.S. where they participated in Freedom House's New Generation of Advocates Fellowship program. Meeting participants included: Shaima Aboul Kheir (Journalist, Al Dustour n [...] | 2008-06-09 08:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KMPI KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1177 | PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE OVER FLOUR SUBSIDIES [...] (U) Summary: The northern Egyptian coastal town of Burg al-Burullus was the site of a large June 7 impromptu protest against the provincial governor's recent decision to halt the distribution of subsidized flour in favor of subsidized bread distribution. Police sent to disperse the demonstrato [...] | 2008-06-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EG |
08CAIRO1192 | EGYPT CRIMINALIZES TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND FGM [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 7, Egypt's upper house of parliament approved amendments to Egypt's Child Protection Law that criminalize and stipulate severe punishments for trafficking of children and for female genital mutilation (FGM). The new legislation represents Egypt's first legal framework to [...] | 2008-06-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN EG |
08CAIRO1193 | MORE SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (SBU) Summary: The killing of a young Copt on June 6 sparked a demonstration of a few hundred Christians in the town of Dafesh, which lies 140 kilometers from the site of last week's altercations between Copts and Muslims over the Abu Sana monastery (reftel). Church sources have been quick to [...] | 2008-06-10 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PHUM KIRF EG |
08CAIRO1197 | FM ABOUL GHEIT PLANNING TO ATTEND BERLIN [...] DCM delivered points in reftel demarche June 11 to MFA Senior Cabinet Advisor Hossam Zaki. Zaki took the points, and said that FM Aboul Gheit is planning to lead the Egyptian delegation to the Berlin Conference on June 24. 2. We are following up with Arab League regarding its delegation an [...] | 2008-06-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM |
08CAIRO1203 | EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE JUNE 23 CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) We delivered points in reftel June 9 to Ayman Zeineldeen, Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs. Zeineldeen confirmed that Egypt would attend the June 23rd conference in Vienna on reconstruction of Lebanon's Nahr al-Barid refugee camp. In a June 11 meeting, MFA Senior Advisor Hossa [...] | 2008-06-11 13:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA EG |
08CAIRO1228 | MUFTI'S VIEWS ON RECENT SECTARIAN INCIDENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-15 11:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KIRF PHUM KISL EG |
08CAIRO1240 | ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA TO ATTEND JUNE 24 BERLIN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 07:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM EG |
08CAIRO1258 | EGYPT'S APPROACH ON ERITREAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS [...] (U) This is an action cable. For action requested, see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: On June 18, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit USG concern over continuing reports that Egypt is deporting Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections to Eritrea. Aboul Gh [...] | 2008-06-18 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EG ER |
08CAIRO1290 | EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE UPDATE - JUNE 23 VIENNA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-22 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM |
08CAIRO1316 | EGYPT: HEADING OFF FUTURE FORCIBLE RETURNS OF [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 2 and 3 for action requested. 2. (C) It is too soon to tell if Egypt's recent forced repatriation of Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections (ref B) is a one-time occurrence or portends a full-scale reversal of Egypt's so-far gen [...] | 2008-06-25 11:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1322 | EGYPT: LIMITED UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREAN ASYLUM [...] (C) On June 23, we again pressed MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty for the GOE to cease forced repatriations of Eritrean asylum seekers and to allow UNHCR complete access to those held in Egyptian custody. El Maaty, uncomfortable and defensive, stressed that most of the [...] | 2008-06-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1388 | EGYPT: STILL INCOMPLETE UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREANS [...] (SBU) On July 1, the Ambassador told Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim that the USG is concerned that the GOE was still not providing the UNHCR complete access to Eritrean asylum seekers in Egyptian custody. UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative for Protection Katharina Lumpp had confirmed [...] | 2008-07-02 12:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1414 | EGYPT: CONSIDERING NAVAL SUPPORT TO WFP FOR HORN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EAID EG |
08CAIRO1416 | CODEL ACKERMAN MEETINGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 meetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Director Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODEL Ackerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Palestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goals for building upon the current "calming period"),Egypt's region [...] | 2008-07-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS |
08CAIRO1425 | EMBASSY CAIRO PLANS FOR FY 2008 D&G SPENDING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Working in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to reform and openness, our strategy is to exploit opportunities to promote political reform and human rights, both in partnership with civil society and where possible with reform elements within G [...] | 2008-07-08 09:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB EG |
08CAIRO1483 | SUDAN: ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPT ON ICC INDICTMENTS [...] (C) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 15 that Secretary General (SYG) Amre Moussa had come to a "mutual understanding" with United Nations (UN) SYG Ban Ki-Moon and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Jean Ping in Paris July 14 regarding the I [...] | 2008-07-15 12:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO1527 | CLOSED LABOR NGO RE-OPENS [...] (SBU) After a year-long legal battle, the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS),a labor rights group, has re-opened. The group's offices were closed by State Security officers in April 2007, after the Ministry of Social Solidarity accused the organization of inciting nationwide [...] | 2008-07-17 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1528 | GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE ON JULY 19 MINISTERIAL ON [...] (SBU) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 17 that the Arab League would try to tread a "middle road" in its upcoming July 19 ministerial on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's recommendation to indict Sudanese President Bashir, but tha [...] | 2008-07-17 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO1560 | PARLIAMENTARY MINISTER DETAILS COMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 20 meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Mufeed Shehab detailed for the Ambassador priority legislation that will come before Egypt's parliament when the new legislative session opens in mid-November. According to Shehab, Egypt's delayed anti-ter [...] | 2008-07-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1565 | AYMAN NOUR NOT RELEASED ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY [...] (C) In a customary gesture of mercy, on July 23 (a national holiday which celebrates the anniversary of Egypt's 1952 revolution),President Hosni Mubarak granted amnesty to 1,587 prisoners who had served over half of their sentences. Former opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour, who has [...] | 2008-07-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1566 | EGYPT: REACTION TO TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION [...] (SBU) On July 22 we delivered reftel trafficking-in-persons (TIP) action plan to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd, emphasizing that the GOE needs to make measurable progress in victim protection and in prosecutions of, and a comprehensive legal framework to prosecu [...] | 2008-07-24 12:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWMN KCRM PHUM SMIG EG |
08CAIRO157 | COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court ruled in two cases brought by members of Egypt's small Baha'i religious community that the government may issue official identification documents without listing the holder's religion on the document. (Note: Under current practice, the gove [...] | 2008-01-29 15:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1581 | EGYPT ARRESTS FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 08:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO16 | AYMAN NOUR UPDATE AND LETTER TO POTUS [...] (C) Summary: In a December 30 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, told us that Nour's health is currently "ok" and that he hopes to be released in one of the traditional holiday amnesties granted by President Hosni Mubarak [...] | 2008-01-03 11:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1608 | WOMEN'S ISSUES COORDINATOR VISITS EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 07:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1629 | BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI ON HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 11:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG |
08CAIRO1637 | CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, Senator Kerry and the Ambassador discussed regional developments with President Hosni Mubarak, including Zimbabwe, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel-Palestine. Mubarak said that Egypt was working to find a solution in Sudan, but preferred to do so "quietly." Mubarak warned [...] | 2008-07-31 10:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL PHUM AU EG IR IS SU |
08CAIRO1647 | DARFUR REBELS IN EGYPT ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary: Since the GOE expelled prominent representatives of the relatively active and well-organized Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) after the JEM attack on Khartoum in May 2008, the Darfur rebels remaining in Cairo seem a less active bunch. The most prominent remaining group seems t [...] | 2008-07-31 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO1679 | EGYPT RELEASES FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1711 | EGYPTIAN MONASTERY CLASH: RESOLUTION EXPECTED SOON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL EG |
08CAIRO1716 | SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL ON ZIMBABWE AND EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 meeting with Hatem Seif al Nasser, Assistant Foreign Minister for American Affairs, the Ambassador pressed the GOE to play a constructive role with Zimbabwe, to help ensure that March 29 election results are respected. A wide-ranging discussion on Egyptian internal p [...] | 2008-08-07 11:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM ZI EG |
08CAIRO1833 | DELIVERY OF RESPONSE TO ARAB LEAGUE "SOLUTION [...] (SBU) We conveyed the U.S. position on the Arab League's solution package to Samir Hosni, Director of the Arab League's African Affairs Office on August 7 (ref A). We also encouraged the Arab League to press the Government of Sudan to take positive, concrete steps to improve the situation in [...] | 2008-08-20 10:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU AL EUN |
08CAIRO1889 | PROMINENT REFORMIST JUDGE PLANS TO LEAVE EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Reformist Court of Cassation justice Hisham Bastawisi plans to leave Egypt in early September and spend approximately two years working as a legal advisor in Kuwait. Bastawisi is Egypt's most prominent advocate for increased judicial independence, whose leadership of the Judges Clu [...] | 2008-08-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KJUS EG |
08CAIRO2001 | EDITOR OF UNLICENSED PAPER RECEIVES ONE YEAR [...] (C) On September 10, a court sentenced Ahmed Bakr Selim, editor of the largely unknown newspaper "Al Qahira Al Yoym" ("Cairo Today") to one year in prison for publishing and distributing the paper without a license. According to Egyptian state media, the court granted Selim bail on $1,850 pen [...] | 2008-09-14 06:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO202 | MFA ON LEBANON SUPPORT, IRAN RELATIONS [...] (C) We delivered demarche on Lebanon (reftel a) and note verbale to MFA Cabinet advisors Hossam Zaki and Nazih Neggary on January 4. They told us the GOE fully supports Lebanon and an immediate presidential election. They said that the GOE agrees that the tribunal needs to be supported, and t [...] | 2008-02-05 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN EINV SY LE IR EG |
08CAIRO203 | EGYPTIAN DELEGATION TO THE VIENNA FORUM TO FIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG EG |
08CAIRO2037 | EGYPT ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) We met on September 14 with Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd to urge the Egyptians to support U.S. human rights priorities at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (reftel). While Aboulmagd did not address the substance of the countr [...] | 2008-09-16 12:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF KISL UN OIC EG |
08CAIRO204 | EGYPT: CHAD SITUATION "COMPLICATED," WILL CONSIDER [...] (C) We asked MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid for the GoE to demarche the Sudanese government to cease its support Chadian rebels on February 6. Per reftel demarche, we stressed that the Sudanese were providing more support to Chadian rebels than before, inflaming an alre [...] | 2008-02-06 09:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU |
08CAIRO2053 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ASYLUM SEEKERS IN EGYPT [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. We delivered the demarche on asylum seekers in Egypt to Tarek el-Maaty, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Refugees (reftel A). El Maaty stated that the GOE regrets the deaths of those on the border, bu [...] | 2008-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IS ER EG |
08CAIRO2072 | REPORT ON EGYPTIAN DISSIDENT'S HEALTH APPARENTLY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2078 | NDI MAKING PROGRESS WITH LOW-PROFILE APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: National Democratic Institute (NDI) resident representative Lila Jaafar told us September 16 that in spite of NDI's lack of official registration, the organization provided training and publications to local NGOs over the past year by adopting a low-profile posture and informing [...] | 2008-09-22 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG |
08CAIRO2098 | NAZIF AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF ESF, PLEDGEST CONTINUED REFORM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2122 | APPEALS COURT CONVICTS AND SENTENCES INDEPENDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2135 | EGYPT REACTS TO 2008 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2152 | MUBARAK COMMUTES SENTENCE OF INDEPENDENT EDITOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 13:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2177 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON POTUS LUNCH AND MUTED GOE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS IO EG |
08CAIRO2198 | COURT FINES JOURNALISTS FOR INSULTING AL-AZHAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 16:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2199 | DECISION IN FOUR EDITORS' APPEAL EXPECTED DECEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2205 | INVITATION TO MRS. BUSH FROM EGYPTIAN MFA AND THE [...] This is an action request; please see para 2. 2. Post received para 3 letter October 9th via dipnote. We respectfully request that the Department pass the invitation to the Office of the First Lady. 3. The text of the invitation reads as follows (informal Embassy translation). Original [...] | 2008-10-16 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI |
08CAIRO2209 | EGYPTIAN COPTIC PRIEST JAILED IN LEGAL DISPUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF EG |
08CAIRO2251 | A FIRST IN EGYPT: COURT SENTENCES SEXUAL ASSAULT [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 21, for the first time in Egyptian history, a Cairo court heard a sexual assault case, and sentenced truck driver Sherif Gomaa Gibrial to three years in prison for groping 27-year-old female film director Noha Rushdie in June 2008. Rushdie told us that the [...] | 2008-10-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2260 | NEW NGO FORMED TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Ihab Youssef, Secretary-General of the new NGO "Police and People for Egypt," told us October 16 that he recently founded the NGO to improve relations between the police and the public following recurring incidents of police brutality and torture. The NGO, establ [...] | 2008-10-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2262 | NOMINATION OF NEHAD ABOUL KOMSAN FOR THE 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Nehad Aboul Komsan, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Women of Courage Award, deserves USG commendation for her tireless campaigning on behalf of women's rights in Egypt in an often hostile public environment. Aboul Komsan's efforts as Chair of the Boar [...] | 2008-10-27 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO KWMN EG |
08CAIRO2264 | ARAB LEAGUE HAPPY WITH "QATARI INITIATIVE," EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League Advisor told us that the Government of Sudan (GOS) supports the Qatari initiative as a way to end the crisis in Darfur, and sees it as an accompaniment to the recently announced Sudan People's Initiative. However, Sudanese oppositionists in Cairo said Darfuri lead [...] | 2008-10-28 11:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PHUM KPKO SU QA EG |
08CAIRO2266 | THE VIEW FROM THE AHWA: THE TALK OF TOWN IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite ubiquitous complaining about life's difficulties, and justified laments about pervasive corruption and the widely loathed Mubarak government, the denizens of Cairo's famed coffeehouses seem satisfied merely to grouse about their grievances, with no thought of taking any [...] | 2008-10-28 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM SOCI SCUL PGOV ECON PHUM KISL EG |
08CAIRO2280 | COURT FINES MEDIA COMPANY FOLLOWING BROADCAST OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 26, a court fined the owner of the Cairo News Company (CNC) media transmission firm 150,000 Egyptian pounds (about USD 27,000) and confiscated some of its equipment for operating without licenses. The GOE had shut CNC down shortly after the company provided [...] | 2008-10-30 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2297 | ACTIVISTS PRESENT DIFFERING VIEWS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting NEA PDAS Jeffrey Feltman met October 26 with political activists to discuss the current state of reform in Egypt, and opportunities for the U.S. to promote democracy. The activists mostly agreed that the current climate in Egypt is disappointing, citing income dispariti [...] | 2008-11-02 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2339 | OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY HEADQUARTERS TORCHED [...] (C) Summary: What had been a legal dispute between rival factions of opposition Al Ghad ("Tomorrow") party founded by imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour, turned violent when supporters of a pro-government wing of the party marched on the party's headquarters, controlled by Nour supporter [...] | 2008-11-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO234 | CHAD: EGYPTIAN LEADERS SAY CHAD, SUDAN EQUALLY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-10 07:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU |
08CAIRO2341 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PASSING THE RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IR BM KN EG |
08CAIRO2349 | EGYPT'S BAHA'I: FAVORABLE RULINGS BUT NO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2350 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TORCHING OF OPPOSITION AL-GHAD [...] (C) On November 12, we demarched MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd on the November 6 torching of Al-Ghad party headquarters (ref A). We expressed particular concern that the headquarters of an opposition party was destroyed, and that according to some reports, the [...] | 2008-11-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2371 | REQUESTING DEPARTMENT ASSISTANCE TO RESTORE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Prominent Egyptian blogger, human rights activist and winner of the 2007 Knight-Ridder International Journalism Award, Wael Abbas, contacted us November 17 to report that YouTube removed from his website two videos exposing police a [...] | 2008-11-18 10:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2382 | EGYPT'S SECOND EVER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE: ONE-YEAR [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 17, in Egypt's second ever sexual assault case, a Cairo court convicted and sentenced a 19 year-old man to one year in prison on charges of sexual assault for the highly publicized October 2 attempted rape and groping of three women in front of a large cro [...] | 2008-11-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2384 | EGYPT'S VIEWS ON BORDER SHOOTINGS AND REFUGEE [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Egyptian MFA's Refugee Office, Tarek el-Maaty, told us on November 13 that he was frustrated with a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report condemning Egypt for the shooting of migrants on the Egypt-Israel border. He blamed the U.S. and Israel for asking Egypt to secu [...] | 2008-11-19 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER SO EG |
08CAIRO2402 | NO EVIDENCE OF UP-FRONT RESIGNATIONS IN EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: Despite concerns expressed by international workers' rights organizations that factories in Egypt's Special Export Zones (SEZ) require workers to submit undated resignations as a pre-condition of employment, NGOs report that this practice is not prevalent in Egypt's Qualifying [...] | 2008-11-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM ETRD EG IS |
08CAIRO2405 | AFTER A THAW, DECREASING GOE TOLERANCE FOR PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary and comment: The consensus among observers of press freedom in Egypt is that following a high-water mark for openness in 2005, the GOE has been tightening its grip on the press, particularly over the past year through court cases, detentions and the revocation of licenses. With sever [...] | 2008-11-24 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2420 | OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY VP PROVIDES ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 16, Al-Ghad party Vice-President Wael Nawara described for visiting NEA/ELA Office Director Nicole Shampaine the November 6 torching of the party's headquarters in greater detail than his initial account (ref B). Nawara displayed newspaper photos that sho [...] | 2008-11-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2428 | SECTARIAN ATTACK ON CHURCH NEAR CAIRO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2429 | EGYPT PREPARES FOR GAZAN HAJJ PILGRIMS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy told us November 26 that the Egyptians are preparing for approximately 3200 Hajj pilgrims to transit Egypt from Gaza en route Saudi Arabia. This is an increase of approximately 1000 from last year. Leithy said that GOE policy is [...] | 2008-11-26 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO2430 | ANGER BOILS OVER IN ASWAN [...] (U) On November 22, police in the Upper Egypt city of Aswan shot and killed Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek at his home while searching for a suspected drug dealer. According to press reports, police officials said Razek fired at officers who then shot and killed him. In a November 25 public stateme [...] | 2008-11-26 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2431 | APRIL 6 ACTIVIST DESCRIBES GOE HARASSMENT, [...] (S) Summary and comment: "Youth Movement for Change" activist Ahmed Saleh, who advocates replacing the current Egyptian regime with a parliamentary democracy, called on us November 25. He described the harassment he and his colleagues face from Egyptian State Security as a "siege" that compe [...] | 2008-11-26 15:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO244 | EGYPTIAN HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 10, Egypt's Supreme Court of Administrative Justice ruled in a case brought by Christian "re-converts" that the government must issue identification documents listing their religion as Christianity. The ruling reversed an April 2007 decision by the Cairo Court of A [...] | 2008-02-10 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2452 | JOURNALISTS FACE TRIAL FOR VIOLATING GAG ORDER ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Two editors and three journalists from independent newspapers are expected to go on trial December 4 for violating a November 16 gag order on publishing details of the current public court case against regime insider Hisham Talaat Mustafa for allegedly ordering the mu [...] | 2008-12-02 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2454 | GOE PREVENTS ACTIVIST FROM TRAVELING TO THE YOUTH [...] (C) On December 2, Egyptian State Security briefly detained Al-Ghad opposition party member and activist Ahmed Nassar at the Cairo airport before releasing him, and specifically banned him from traveling to the December 3-5 Alliance for Youth Movements Summit in New York. Nassar told us that [...] | 2008-12-02 16:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO2462 | GOE APPARENTLY ALLOWS SECOND ACTIVIST TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: April 6 Movement activist Ahmed Saleh (reftels) told us the morning of December 3 that GOE security officials allowed him to proceed to his Egypt Air flight to New York after they briefly pulled him out of the departure lounge to hold his passport and search his bags. [...] | 2008-12-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO2478 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR'S REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Saad Al Attar, UNHCR's Regional Representative in Cairo on November 25. Al Attar told the Ambassador about UNHCR's challenges to meet its responsibilities given a lack of funding, the situation of Iraqi refugees in Egypt, and UNHCR's dealings with the Gove [...] | 2008-12-04 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER IZ EG |
08CAIRO2484 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings at the Egyptian People's Assembly with parliamentary speaker Fathi Surour and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Mustafa el Fekki, the parliamentarians previewed Egypt's legislative priorities for the new parliamentary session (which began mid-November),[...] | 2008-12-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PTER KDEM IZ EG |
08CAIRO2485 | SCENESETTER FOR US-EGYPT MCC [...] (S/NF) Summary: This year's U.S. - Egypt Military Cooperation Committee (MCC),being held in Washington December 16 - 17, will be an opportunity to confirm the mutual benefits of our bilateral security relationship and engage the GOE on transforming our relationship to counter current threats [...] | 2008-12-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL MASS MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2491 | ANTI-CORRUPTION NGO FILES THREE LAWSUITS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment: Engi El-Haddad, Director of the Egyptian Accountability Center (EAC),an NGO that focuses on fighting corruption, told us December 11 that her organization has filed three lawsuits against the government to coincide with United Nations Anti-Corruption Day on December [...] | 2008-12-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2515 | COPTS ON SECTARIAN STRIFE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 06:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV ECON KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2525 | EGYPT TAKING STEPS TO ADDRESS AND COMBAT HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, visited Egypt on November 14-17 and met with numerous Egyptian government officials, UN organizations, representatives, and NGO leaders involved in combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP [...] | 2008-12-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB PREL |
08CAIRO2527 | EGYPTIAN STATE SECURITY COURT CONVICTS MAHALLA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM ELAB EG |
08CAIRO2528 | NO EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE USE OR ABUSE OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) In recent visits to Egyptian factories participating in the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) program, we saw no evidence of the extensive or abusive use of foreign workers. On November 19, we visited two large QIZ factories located in the Tenth of Ramadan Special Economic Zone (SEZ); t [...] | 2008-12-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL PGOV EG IS JO |
08CAIRO2542 | ACTIVISTS CRITICIZE THE GOE, CALL FOR NEW U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, civil society activists and a political oppositionist discussed with Codel Dorgan Egypt's current political and economic problems, and the future of U.S. policy toward Egypt. Former independent parliamentarian Anwar Essmat El-Sadat asserted that U.S. aid to the GO [...] | 2008-12-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO256 | EGYPTIAN COURT RULES AGAINST CONVERT [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court denied the petition of Mohamed Hegazy, a Muslim-born convert to Christianity, to change the religious affiliation on his national identification card from Islam to Christianity. While Hegazy has the right to appeal the decision, he will prob [...] | 2008-02-11 16:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2562 | UPDATE ON BABY TRAFFICKING NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable updates ref (A) which reported ongoing investigation into child trafficking in Egypt. Another Egyptian doctor and couple have been arrested by Egyptian State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) for their involvement in the baby trafficking network uncovered by th [...] | 2008-12-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD KPAO EG AESC CASC CMGT CVIS KIRF KOCI PHUM SMIG |
08CAIRO2572 | APRIL 6 ACTIVIST ON HIS U.S. VISIT AND REGIME [...] (C) Summary and comment: On December 23, April 6 activist XXXXXXXXXXXX expressed satisfaction with his participation in the December 3-5 "Alliance of Youth Movements Summit," and with his subsequent meetings with USG officials, on Capitol Hill, and with think tanks. He described how State Se [...] | 2008-12-30 09:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2578 | CODEL HASTINGS' CAIRO MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: In December 6 meetings, senior Egyptian government officials told Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) that the incoming U.S. administration should focus on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process "from day one." FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit told Hastings that the Barcelona Process has been completely dis [...] | 2008-12-30 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS OSCE PHUM KCRM OREP EUN PREF |
08CAIRO2583 | EMBASSY TRYING TQLT EGYPTIAN REFOULEMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo is engaging with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Egyptian State Security (SSIS),and UNHCR to halt the Government of Egypt's (GOE) forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants. On December 23, the Ambassador asked the MFA to give UNHCR access to the Eritr [...] | 2008-12-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ER EG |
08CAIRO270 | CAIRO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FY 2008 TIP SOLICITATION [...] We have reviewed three anti trafficking-in-persons project proposals in response to reftel request for our recommendations for FY 2008 INCLE and ESF appropriations. Summary evaluations are below. We have forwarded full proposals to G/TIP and NEA POCs per reftel instructions. 2. We endor [...] | 2008-02-12 13:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG EG |
08CAIRO281 | EGYPT DENIES REFOULEMENT OF SUDANESE RETURNED FROM [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty told us on February 12 that in late December 2007, Egypt had released the group of 48 African migrants that Israel had returned to Egypt in August 2007 after they illegally crossed the Sinai border into Israel, and that none [...] | 2008-02-13 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU |
08CAIRO31 | EGYPT'S COURTS CONTINUE TO CONVICT POLICE IN ABUSE [...] (U) On January 4, an Alexandria court reportedly convicted a police major and two junior policemen of abusing a detainee in April 2007. The major reportedly ordered his men to beat the detainee and then force him to appear publicly in women's clothes. The court sentenced the major to five y [...] | 2008-01-08 15:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO346 | NOUR'S ASSETS REPORTEDLY TO BE TURNED OVER TO [...] (SBU) Egypt's Political Parties Committee (PPC),chaired by ruling party head and Shoura Council speaker Safwat El Sherif, on February 19 reportedly issued a decision turning various assets of Ayman Nour (the imprisoned former presidential candidate and leader of the opposition Ghad party) ove [...] | 2008-02-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO354 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...] | 2008-02-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO359 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...] | 2008-02-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO38 | EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTRY RAISES DETENTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER CVIS EG |
08CAIRO390 | SUDAN: NEW ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY DESCRIBES HIS MANDATE [...] (C) Summary: Recently-appointed Arab League Special Envoy for Sudan Salah Halima told us February 26 that his primary mission is to focus on humanitarian assistance and development in Darfur. Halima advised the USG to "respect Sudanese sovereignty," in order to improve the USG-GOS relationsh [...] | 2008-02-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO397 | IMPACT OF ARAB LEAGUE MEDIA PROJECT UNCLEAR, BUT [...] (C) Summary. It is unclear how the Arab League "Media Project," adopted February 11 at a conference of Arab League Information Ministers, will affect media in Egypt and the region, but it could serve as a basis for governments, including the GOE, to impose media restrictions. An Arab League [...] | 2008-02-27 16:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO408 | EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...] | 2008-02-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG |
08CAIRO410 | EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...] | 2008-02-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG |
08CAIRO411 | SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON ASKS EGYPT TO PRESS SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: Meeting on February 24, Special Envoy to Sudan Richard Williamson asked Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to press the GOS to drop its obstruction to UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) deployment. Aboul Gheit said that the GOE shares the USG's interest in stabilizing Darf [...] | 2008-03-02 07:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO448 | MASS ARRESTS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS IN [...] (SBU) In the lead-up to Egypt's April 8 local council elections (reftel),dozens of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) activists are being arrested daily. An estimated 420-500 MB members have been detained in the past four weeks alone, mainly from cities across Egypt's Nile Delta, where popular support [...] | 2008-03-06 10:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO450 | AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO AMBASSADOR: I WANT AN [...] (C) Summary: In a verbose six-page handwritten Arabic letter to the Ambassador, delivered to the Embassy late on March 3, imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour makes clear his preference that, "if there has been no specific and serious talk" from the GOE about his being released, t [...] | 2008-03-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO464 | EGYPT BANS DEMONSTRATIONS IN MOSQUES AND CHURCHES [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 22, Egypt's lower house of Parliament, the Peoples' Assembly, passed a law banning demonstrations "inside or around places of worship." Although the law prohibits demonstrations in both churches and mosques, the law appears specifically to target the Muslim Brotherh [...] | 2008-03-09 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF KISL KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO479 | EGYPT: AFRICAN MIGRANTS TO ISRAEL CONTINUE, [...] (C) Summary: Egypt faces a continuing problem with African migrants attempting to migrate illegally to Israel. Since the beginning of 2008, Eritreans, always a component of the equation, have been making the attempt in greater numbers. Sudanese continue to represent the bulk of migrants, enc [...] | 2008-03-10 14:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PHUM PREL EG ER IR SU |
08CAIRO480 | COURTROOM ENCOUNTER WITH AYMAN NOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a chance encounter on the sidelines of a March 10 court hearing, poloff had a brief conversation with jailed former opposition leader Ayman Nour. Nour, looking pale but generally healthy, said he was "extremely grateful" for all of the USG's efforts on his behalf: "I cannot [...] | 2008-03-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO489 | CONVERSATION WITH MFA ON RECENT DETENTIONS OF MB [...] (C) DCM raised the recent arrests of approximately 450-700 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliated Egyptians with MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs Hatem Saif el Nasser on March 11. During a courtesy call for visiting NEA PDAS Jeff Feltman, we told Nasser that the timing of the arrests, [...] | 2008-03-12 08:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO494 | EGYPTIAN ASPIRATIONS FOR PRESIDENCY OF THE HUMAN [...] (C) DCM (joined by visiting NEA PDAS Feltman) raised reftel points with MFA Assistant Minister Hatem Seif al Nasser on March 11 (Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit was on travel). Nasser confirmed that the Egyptians were interested in the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council, but had no detail [...] | 2008-03-12 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EG |
08CAIRO495 | LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: ARRESTS CONTINUE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In the lead-up to Egypt's April 8 local council elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) campaign workers and candidates continue to be arrested daily. An estimated 400-700 MB members have been detained in the past five weeks. On March 10, the MB announced that it had aimed [...] | 2008-03-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL EG |
08CAIRO500 | FOREIGN FIGHTERS DISCUSSION: EGYPT'S INTERIOR [...] (S) Summary: Dell Dailey, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, accompanied by the Ambassador, met on February 25 with Egypt's Minister of Interior Habib El Adly. Dailey briefed Adly on the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and asked Egypt to press for Syrian cooperation in closing [...] | 2008-03-13 10:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM EAIR SY EG |
08CAIRO53 | EGYPT'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL ORDERS RELEASE IN [...] (SBU) According to her lawyer, Egypt's Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the release on January 13 of Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, who was convicted of fraud on November 21, 2007, in connection with her father's brief conversion in the early 1960s from Christianity to Islam (ref A). Ibrahim, [...] | 2008-01-13 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO534 | EGYPTIAN MFA RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND [...] (SBU) We met on March 12 with Wael Aboul Magd, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Affairs, and delivered a copy of the 2007 Human Rights Report for Egypt. He had not yet seen the report. He told us he will review the report and get back to us with informal comments, which he s [...] | 2008-03-17 16:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG |
08CAIRO567 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON U.S. VISIT, AYMAN NOUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of the Egyptian People's Assembly, Ahmed Fathi Surour, highlighted his satisfaction with his early March visit to Washington. He complained about Congressional focus on imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and deta [...] | 2008-03-23 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO595 | EGYPTIAN COURT CONVICTS EDITOR BUT SUSPENDS JAIL [...] (SBU) On March 26, a Cairo court convicted Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent newspaper Al-Dustour, of spreading false information in connection with the newspaper's August 2007 publication of stories reporting rumors then circulating that President Mubarak was in poor health. The cou [...] | 2008-03-26 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO621 | EGYPTIANS GLOOMY AND RESTIVE BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rising food prices, long bread lines, working-class economic woes and a daily dose of bad news are contributing to a sense among Egyptians that their country is in trouble. Whether they blame their government, the United States or even at times themselves, Egyptians are unhappy [...] | 2008-03-31 08:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECON KDEM MARR PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
08CAIRO677 | LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: RULING PARTY DOMINATES [...] (C) Summary: We do not expect any surprises from Egypt's April 8 local elections. Due to the government's widespread blocking of oppositionists from registering as candidates, only a total of 962 opposition candidates, including just 20 from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),have made it onto the [...] | 2008-04-03 16:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO697 | DAY OF PROTESTS LARGELY QUIET, BUT VIOLENT CLASH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO699 | EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES NO APPEAL IN [...] (C) According to media reports, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced that the government will not appeal the January 24 Cairo Administrative Court ruling granting three members of Egypt's Baha,i minority the right to obtain government identification documents (ref B). According to th [...] | 2008-04-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF EG |
08CAIRO7 | EGYPTIAN COURT REJECTS LEGAL ATTACK ON BLOGS [...] (U) On December 29, the Cairo Administrative Judicial Court dismissed a lawsuit aimed at shutting down 51 websites belonging to Egyptian human rights organizations, opposition groups and individual bloggers. As a legal basis for its ruling, the Cairo court cited Article 19 of the Universal D [...] | 2008-01-02 16:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO715 | SECOND NIGHT OF VIOLENT CLASHES IN NILE DELTA TOWN [...] (SBU) Violent clashes between police and protestors reignited April 7 on the streets of the Nile Delta textile mill town of Mehalla el Kubra. The flashpoint of the protests centered on the Mehalla police station, where protesters gathered to demand the release of those detained the previous d [...] | 2008-04-08 17:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO724 | NILE DELTA TOWN LARGELY CALM APRIL 8-9; PM [...] (SBU) Even after the parade of Egyptian cabinet ministers and attendant security had long returned to Cairo, the streets of Mehalla el Kubra remained relatively calm the evening of April 8 and early April 9. Earlier on April 8, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif joined the three ministers of Manpower [...] | 2008-04-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO730 | EGYPT: LEADING KEFAYA ACTIVIST DETAINED [...] (SBU) On the evening of April 9, Egyptian police detained George Ishaaq, a founder and leading member of the opposition "Kefaya" (Enough) movement (also known as the "Egyptian Movement for Change"),and are currently holding him in the Tagammu al Khamis State Security Prosecutor's facility. No [...] | 2008-04-10 11:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR EG |
08CAIRO739 | EGYPT'S HIV ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS [...] (U) According to media reports, on April 9 five HIV positive Egyptian men were convicted of "the habitual practice of debauchery" andsentenced to three years in prison. The debauchey charges stem from alleged homosexual conduct. awyers for the men intend to appeal the conviction but are not op [...] | 2008-04-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV EG |
08CAIRO783 | MAHALLA RIOTS: ISOLATED INCIDENT OR TIP OF AN [...] (C) Summary: Egyptians are uneasy about the April 6 and 7 anti-government riots in Mahalla, which featured thousands of unemployed youth battling riot police in the streets of the Nile Delta mill-town (refs B-D). The violent demonstrations followed on an opposition-organized general strike on A [...] | 2008-04-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO785 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MILITARY TRIBUNAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the latest installment of the GOE's ongoing crackdown against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB),the military tribunal against forty MB members issued verdicts on April 15, nearly one year after the trial started in April 2007. Fifteen defendants were acquitted, but the ot [...] | 2008-04-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG |
08CAIRO786 | EGYPT BALANCING EMPLOYMENT, ILLEGAL MIGRATION WITH WORKERS [...] (U) This is a joint US Embassy Cairo-US Embassy Tripoli message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptians have long sought economic betterment by working - usually illegally - in Libya. Although constantly changing Libyan labor restrictions resulted in the return of some Egyptian workers to Egypt in [...] | 2008-04-16 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ECON EG LY |
08CAIRO792 | INTERIOR MINISTER ON MAHALLA RIOTS, DETENTIONS OF [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 farewell call with Interior Minister Habib El Adly, the Ambassador raised USG concern about the recent detentions of opposition activists, as well as the tough sentences handed down that day against 25 senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by a military trib [...] | 2008-04-17 10:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG |
08CAIRO839 | EMBASSY CAIRO SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM AMGT EG IZ |
08CAIRO843 | EGYPT'S MFA ON APRIL 6 DETAINEES, BAHA'IS, CT LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG |
08CAIRO860 | DARFUR: EGYPT URGES RE-ENGAGEMENT, INCLUSIVITY ON [...] (SBU) The GOE seeks to re-invigorate the idea that UN and AU Darfur envoys Jan Elaisson and Selim Ahmed Selim engage in "shuttle diplomacy" between the rebel groups and GOS to bring them to a comprehensive political solution, MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us on Apr [...] | 2008-04-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO862 | FACEBOOK ACTIVIST RELEASED [...] (SBU) Israa Abdel Fattah, a young Ghad party member detained since April 6 for allegedly inciting a general strike on the same day, was released the evening of April 23. Abdel Fattah was reportedly ordered released on April 14 by the Public Prosecutor, but was kept in "protective custody" by [...] | 2008-04-24 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO886 | EGYPT "DISAPPOINTED" WITH INTERIM TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) On April 23, Amira Fahmy of the MFA Human Rights office told us that the GOE was "disappointed" that the interim Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Egypt states that Egypt has only made "minimal progress" on combating TIP during the reporting period. Fahmy said that the National Coord [...] | 2008-04-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO913 | EGYPTIAN COURT DISMISSES LAWSUITS AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO920 | NAZIF DISCUSSES D&G FUNDING, REFORM IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador made an introductor call on Prime Minister Nazif on April 29, accompanied by econ counselor (notetaker). The two discussed the need to continue an economic dialogue, as well as continued US support for democracy in Egypt, Egyptian political reform, US funding for ci [...] | 2008-05-05 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KIPR KDEM EG |
08CAIRO941 | OUTREACH TO EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Embassy Cairo continues to actively support and promote the President's Freedom Agenda. We are in close contact with the wide range of Egypt's political oppositionists, democracy and human rights activists, and journalists from independent and opposition newspapers, as well as bloggers wh [...] | 2008-05-07 08:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO965 | ADDRESSING AFRICAN MIGRANTS/REFUGEES AND KILLINGS [...] (C) Summary: GOE interlocutors provide a varied and contradictory explanation of when force can be used against migrants seeking to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel, but all say that GOE security personnel use deadly force due to the difficulty of distinguishing between migrants and ter [...] | 2008-05-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER IS SU |
08CAIRO968 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON COUNTER-TERROR LAW, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 7 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Interior Minister Habib Al Adly offered no indication as to whether the Egyptian government will enact new counter-terror legislation by May 31, or instead simply re-extend the existing Emergency Law, in force since 1981. Adly i [...] | 2008-05-12 12:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER PGOV PREF EG |
08CAIRO976 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON AYMAN NOUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 introductory call with the Ambassador, Speaker of the People's Assembly Fathi Surour complained about imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's "continuous criticism" of the Egyptian government, alleging that it did not allow for the "correct atmosphere" to be [...] | 2008-05-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO982 | CHANGE IN EMBASSY CAIRO SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 12:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM AMGT EG IZ |
08CANBERRA1064 | GOA UPDATES SANCTIONS LIST FOR INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced October 22 that Australia had added new members of the Burmese regime who are subject to government of Australia (GOA) financial sanctions, bringing the total to 463. (Note. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) signaled to post in Jul [...] | 2008-10-23 06:41:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM AS |
08CANBERRA1107 | AUSTRALIA 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] Embassy Canberra is pleased to nominate June Oscar for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. In response to hard-hitting reports of abuse in Aboriginal communities in Australia, Ms. Oscar successfully campaigned for a controversial six-month ban on take-away alcohol [...] | 2008-10-31 07:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO AS |
08CANBERRA1138 | DEMARCHE - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE RETURN [...] (U) Jon Merrill, Director of the Afghanistan section at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) told PolOff November 12 that Australia stands shoulder to shoulder with USG on the International Conference on the Return and Reintegration of Afghan Refugees. He said that Australia is [...] | 2008-11-12 05:57:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF |
08CANBERRA1141 | INTERVENTION REVIEW FUELS POLITICAL AND SOCIAL [...] (U) Summary: Sixteen months after the Australian government mounted a controversial intervention in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to combat reported widespread sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, a review panel has concluded that the emergency remains acute and has endors [...] | 2008-11-13 05:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | AS PGOV PHUM SOCI |
08CANBERRA126 | RUDD SAYS "SORRY" TO INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The House of Representatives passed a motion February 13 apologizing for the treatment of indigenous Australians, particularly the "Stolen Generations" - which refers to the Aboriginal children who were taken from their families by white Australia between 1910 and 1970. Prime Mi [...] | 2008-02-13 22:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA1307 | BILL OF RIGHTS FOR AUSTRALIA? [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Government announced it would establish a consultation process on how best to protect and promote human rights in Australia. A committee will canvass public opinion on whether human rights need any addition [...] | 2008-12-22 06:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA1326 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO BURMESE AND DONOR CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS |
08CANBERRA240 | SUPPLEMENTAL TIP QUESTIONAIRE RESPONSE - AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) Below are supplemental responses to the questions posed in ref A, which were initially answered in ref B. The answers correspond to the question numbers in ref A. PART I: OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING B. Sex Trafficking Arrests ----------------------- On Ma [...] | 2008-03-12 07:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC AS |
08CANBERRA276 | ASIA PACIFIC DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP: AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Poloff met with Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Andrew Goledzinowski March 20 to deliver the non-paper and points in Ref A. Goledzinowski, who will shortly transfer to New York to take up his new posting as Deputy Permrep, was joined by Evan Gallagher, Secretary-Genera [...] | 2008-03-20 05:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA298 | INTERIM AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS ON THE ASIA PACIFIC [...] (U) This message contains an action request - please see para 6 below. 2. (SBU) On March 26, poloff spoke with Evan Gallagher of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) International Organizations Branch, who has been designated the action officer of the Asia Pacific Democracy [...] | 2008-03-27 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA416 | TORCH RELAY PROCEEDS WITH LITTLE INCIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Rudd, GOA officials and Chinese Embassy diplomats here are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the Olympic torch relay ended late April 24 morning with no major incidents, despite the presence of thousands of pro-China and pro-Tibet protesters. Two Chines [...] | 2008-04-24 07:37:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CH AS |
08CANBERRA423 | AUSTRALIA TO PARTICIPATE IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) Poloff met April 28 with Evan Gallagher and Nicole Forrester of the International Organizations Branch, and Berenice Owens-Jones of the United States Political and Strategic Section, of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to present USG responses to the questions posed by [...] | 2008-04-28 07:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM AS |
08CANBERRA443 | AUSTRALIA ASSAILS BURMA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (U) This message contains an action request -- please see para 4 below. 2. (U) In a May 1 media statement, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith charged that Burma,s "deeply flawed" constitution was only intended to entrench the military,s grip on power. He criticized the constitution as having b [...] | 2008-05-01 07:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AS BM |
08CANBERRA461 | RUDD ANGERS LEFT ON GAY MARRIAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd government, exercising the Federal Government's power to override territory laws, has forced the left-leaning Australian Labor Party (ALP) government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to abandon plans to allow "civil unions" for same-sex couples. The Rudd govern [...] | 2008-05-07 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA462 | AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES AID PACKAGE FOR BURMA [...] (U) Foreign Minister Smith announced May 7 that Australia would provide AUD 3 million (USD 2.84 million) in humanitarian aid to Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis. The package includes up to AUD 1 million (USD 0.94 million) for Australian NGOs with capacity on the ground to provide immediate e [...] | 2008-05-07 08:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID CASC PHUM PGOV BM AS |
08CANBERRA508 | MARKING MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN [...] (SBU) Further to Ref E, and as requested Ref A, U.S. Mission Australia has developed additional activities to help mark May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, as outlined in para 2, below. (We assume Ref B notification of a possible call by Deputy Assistant to the President Julie C [...] | 2008-05-19 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO CU AS |
08CANBERRA535 | AUSTRALIA: REPORT ON MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY [...] (U) As requested Ref B, post hereby furnishes the following report on activities undertaken by the U.S. Mission to observe May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People. 2. (SBU) Parliamentary Outreach: Michael Danby, a prominent Member of Parliament, distributed the following statement [...] | 2008-05-22 07:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO CU AS |
08CANBERRA542 | HIGH COURT HEARS CASE ON SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 the High Court of Australia heard an appeal of a brothel owner who was convicted for enslaving five Thai prostitutes who had incurred a debt of A$45,000 when they were recruited to work in a brothel in Melbourne. The brothel had been raided in 2003 and the owner, Wei Tang [...] | 2008-05-27 04:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN AS |
08CANBERRA570 | AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL WILL ATTEND APDP LAUNCH [...] (C) Poloff spoke on June 3 to Evan Gallagher, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) action officer on the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP),regarding reftel request for participants for a meeting and election-observation mission in Ulaanbaatar. Gallagher said that DFAT would [...] | 2008-06-03 07:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA579 | AUSTRALIAN FUNDING FOR UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action request - please see para 4 below. 2. (U) Poloff conveyed reftel request for the GOA to submit its letter of commitment for its planned contribution to the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistant to Evan Gallagher, International Organizations Branch, Department of Foreig [...] | 2008-06-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA644 | FORMER HOWARD MINISTER ON RUDD, POLITICS, AND [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Former Howard Government Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough, who has just been elected president of the Liberal Party in Queensland, told the Ambassador June 25 that complaints of overcentralization in the Prime Minister's office reflected the natural tendency of fellow Que [...] | 2008-06-26 07:36:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA674 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Polcouns and poloff delivered reftel demarche to Craig Chittick, Assistant Secretary, United States Branch, of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Chittick said the decision of the Australian Government - taken by the Cabinet after advice from all relevant government agenci [...] | 2008-07-03 05:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KDRG PHUM PINR PTER AS |
08CANBERRA683 | AUSTRALIA ACTIVE SUPPORTER OF CCW CLUSTER [...] (C/NF) Australia's commitment to the CCW negotiations on cluster munitions was reaffirmed in a July 7 meeting with Dr. Ada Cheung, Director, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Dr. Cheung indicated that GOA officials met recently with repre [...] | 2008-07-07 07:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL PHUM MOPS AS |
08CANBERRA71 | AUSTRALIA: DEMARCHE ON ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 07:00:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA720 | PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS EVENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 05:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KDEM AS |
08CANBERRA755 | CHINESE DISSIDENT CHEN ZIMING CALLS ON DCM [...] (C/NF) During a call on the DCM on July 23, Chinese dissident Chen Ziming said that while the economic situation of ordinary Chinese is improving, the democratic rights situation is not. Chen, who has been visiting Australia for the past two weeks and has spent a week in New Zealand, noted [...] | 2008-07-25 06:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AS CH PHUM PINR PREL |
08CANBERRA921 | AUSTRALIA ON REBUTTING RUSSIAN MISSTATEMENTS ON [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Annabel Anderson, Assistant Secretary for Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on September 16. 2. (SBU) In a preliminary response, Anderson said the U.S. position on Russia's claims about Georgia tracked pe [...] | 2008-09-16 07:40:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RS GG AS |
08CAPETOWN251 | CAMPAIGN FINANCE: VIEW FROM THE WESTERN CAPE [...] (C) Summary: South African political parties are in full fundraising mode as next year's national election nears, and Western Cape campaign finance watchers and insiders see little change from past elections, at least for established parties. The ruling African National Congress (ANC),already [...] | 2008-12-22 13:25:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | SF PGOV PHUM ECON |
08CARACAS1060 | INTERNATIONAL PRESSURES MOUNTS ON BRV TO DECIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is growing increasingly defensive as international bodies are calling for it to rule on the constitutionality of disqualifying 272 candidates from running for public office in the November state and local elections. The Inter-American Co [...] | 2008-07-31 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1095 | SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS COMPTROLLER'S INELIGIBLES [...] (C) Summary. The Supreme Court ruled August 5 that the Comptroller may declare persons ineligible to run for office based on administrative sanctions. The ruling essentially ends the opposition's effort to obtain collective judicial relief from a government measure that disproportionately af [...] | 2008-08-06 22:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS VE |
08CARACAS1114 | INELIGIBLE LIST AND ENABLING LAW FALLOUT INCREASING [...] (C) Summary. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Comptroller's ineligible list and President Chavez's July 31 issuance of 26 far-reaching decree-laws are generating growing international and domestic opposition. In an August 8 briefing, Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez urged local diplomats [...] | 2008-08-08 22:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1272 | OPPOSITION UNITES BEHIND CARACAS MAYORAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties named Alianza Bravo Pueblo (ABP) leader Antonio Ledezma September 9 their consensus candidate for the Caracas mayorship. Ledezma also picked up the personal endorsement of Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez, who had led early polls in the same race, but whom the Comp [...] | 2008-09-12 13:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1312 | BRV EXPELS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of September 18, the BRV expelled Jose Miguel Vivanco, the Americas Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW),on the grounds of allegedly involving himself illegally in the internal affairs of Venezuela, attacking its democratic institutions, and violating the Venez [...] | 2008-09-19 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
08CARACAS1374 | CHURCH CALLS FOR CLEAN ELECTIONS; CLASHES WITH BRV [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church is increasingly taking an active role in defense of democracy and human rights. In a September 24 press conference, Catholic Church leaders publicly urged all political actors to avoid any actions that might allow for the postponement of the November 23 state a [...] | 2008-09-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF VT VE |
08CARACAS1381 | NOVEMBER STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS: WHAT'S AT STAKE [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan voters are slated to elect 22 governors, state legislative assemblies, and 328 mayors on November 23. These state and local elections will be a key indicator of the future of Venezuela's fragile democracy, and the Embassy is actively promoting free and fair elections [...] | 2008-09-30 20:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1383 | IMMIGRATION, DISIP OFFICIALS STEP-UP HARASSMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is stepping up its harassment of outspoken as well as perceived critics of the regime. In September, four persons reported being pressured by immigration and intelligence police (DISIP) officials at the Caracas airport to surrender thei [...] | 2008-09-30 22:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1404 | ZULIA STUDENT LEADER MURDERED IN HAIL OF BULLETS [...] (C) Unknown gunmen shot and killed Julian Soto, a 31-year old undergraduate and president of the Federation of University Centers (FCU) for the autonomous University of Zulia (LUZ) on October 1 as he drove to lunch. The University Centers are influential student bodies in Venezuela's five au [...] | 2008-10-03 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1413 | GENERAL ARRESTED IN ANOTHER ALLEGED COUP PLOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mario Isea, president of the National Assembly special committee investigating the attempt to overthrow/assassinate President Hugo Chavez, announced the arrest of Air Force Inspector General Jose Felix Caraballo Gomez on September 26. The arrest is based on a tape recording bet [...] | 2008-10-03 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1422 | GENERAL BADUEL ARRESTED [...] (SBU) Agents of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM),on October 3 unceremoniously pulled former Defense Minister General Raul Baduel off of the city streets of Maracay. General Ernesto Cedeno of the Judge Advocate General told the press that Baduel had to account for 31 billion Bs [...] | 2008-10-07 22:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS146 | CHAVEZ MARKS ANNIVERSARIES WITH THREATS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez delivered combative televised speeches February 2 and 4 to commemorate his ninth anniversary in the presidency and the sixteenth anniversary of his unsuccessful coup. On February 2, Chavez accused Colombia of preparing a conflict with Venezuela, adding that the [...] | 2008-02-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CO VE |
08CARACAS1497 | VENEZUELA (OVER)REACTS TO EP CRITICISM, BLAMES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) strongly rejected the October 23 passage of an European Parliament (EP) resolution condemning political rights abuses in the country. Both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Assembly accused the United St [...] | 2008-10-25 14:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1559 | GBRV IMPEDES VISIT OF LECH WALESA [...] (C) Summary. The GBRV discouraged the visit of Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland Lech Walesa to Venezuela on November 2, citing security concerns. Walesa, a prominent pro-democracy figure, has at times been critical of President Chavez. The government reportedly notifie [...] | 2008-11-10 14:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PL EZ VE |
08CARACAS1676 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RELEASES FLIMSY REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) released a report calling on the Attorney General's Office (AG) to investigate retired military personnel, independent media owners, and businessmen for their supposed involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate President Chavez. It accused the USG of pr [...] | 2008-12-05 20:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
08CARACAS172 | BRV WARNS GLOBOVISION OF POSSIBLE SANCTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) harassment of Globovision, Venezuela's only independent all-news television network, is intensifying. The BRV appears to be laying the groundwork for the network's possible closure in the near future. Citing "public pressure," the BR [...] | 2008-02-12 23:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
08CARACAS1738 | SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST NEW TRIBES MISSION [...] (SBU) The Supreme Court of Venezuela ruled November 4 that the rights of the New Tribes Mission (NTM) had not been violated when it was required in 2005 to remove its personnel from all indigenous areas in the country. Over the past three years the NTM had argued before the court that they had [...] | 2008-12-18 15:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
08CARACAS1783 | CHAVEZ LASHES OUT AT CARDINAL FOR CRITICIZING [...] (C) Summary: President Hugo Chavez reacted harshly to Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa's December 25 criticism of a proposed constitutional amendment that would eliminate presidential term limits. Phoning in to a state media talk show on December 26, Chavez called Cardinal Urosa "immoral" and [...] | 2008-12-29 20:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM VT VE |
08CARACAS18 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES HE WILL SLOW DOWN THE REVOLUTION [...] (C) Summary. During his January 6 "Alo, Presidente" broadcast, President Chavez said he plans to apply the brakes to his Bolivarian revolution after the defeat of his proposed changes to the 1999 Constitution. He and his new cabinet will not change ideology, but will "review, rectify, and re [...] | 2008-01-07 21:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
08CARACAS213 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PODEMOS LEADERS - FEB 19 [...] (C) Summary. Podemos leaders told the Ambassador February 19 that their break with President Chavez is permanent. They now believe Chavez has abandoned principle in favor of perpetuating himself in power. They hope to make political gains by focusing on pressing national issues and capitali [...] | 2008-02-20 19:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER ENGR CO VE |
08CARACAS223 | EMERGING STUDENT LEADERS OUTLINE FUTURE STRATEGIES [...] (C) Summary. USAID Officer met February 9 with a dozen up-and-coming student leaders from western Venezuela. The students, primarily from the Law School Students' Association (Fedeve),were in the university town of Merida to prepare strategies for upcoming student elections. They were also [...] | 2008-02-21 15:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PHUM VE |
08CARACAS238 | CHAVEZ: THE BEST PRESS IS A STATE-CONTROLLED PRESS [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez forced national electronic media February 21 to carry a 3-hour diatribe against the media and the "lies" they purvey, adding fuel to concerns that he is setting the stage to curtail what little free press remains in Venezuela. The ostensible reason for Chavez' speec [...] | 2008-02-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
08CARACAS267 | GOVERNMENT MAY MAKE 400 INELIGIBLE FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Venezuelan Comptroller's Office provided the National Electoral Commission (CNE) February 25 with a list of 400 Venezuelans that it has sanctioned and believes to be ineligible to run for elected office. There is a disagreement within the CNE whether these persons are automa [...] | 2008-02-28 19:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
08CARACAS273 | CHAVISTAS TAKE OVER CARACAS ARCHBISHOP'S RESIDENCE [...] (C) Summary. Hard-line Chavistas temporarily occupied the Archbishop's Residence in Caracas on February 27. They held a press conference on the premises to denounce Catholic Church leaders and the Papal Nuncio for hindering the revolution as well as to express support for the deceased bomber [...] | 2008-02-28 22:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KREL PHUM VE |