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01ABUJA1376	INTERIM REPORT ON MAP WORKSHOP [...] (U) This is a brief interim report; comprehensive report to follow. ------------- State of play ------------- 2. (U) At the fifth session of the five-nation Steering Committee of the Millennium Partnership for African Recovery Programme (MAP) held at Pretoria in March it was agre [...]	2001-06-15 18:51:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON NI SF AG OAU

02ALGIERS2423	AU COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE RESULTS [...] No summary [...]	2002-09-21 09:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG
02FRANKFURT10187	FOURTH REPORT ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM TRIAL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: This report summarizes the events at the Frankfurt terrorism trial from July to September 2002. Four Algerian and one Moroccan (listed below) are accused of planning an attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market in December 2000 and bomb building materials were found in their F [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
02VATICAN298	VATICAN REPORTS EYES ON GUANTANAMO [...] (C) THE VATICAN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN DESK OFFICER ADVISED POLOFF 1/16 THAT U.S. TREATMENT OF DETAINEES AT THE GUANTANAMO BASE AND ELSEWHERE HAD BECOME A SALIENT QUESTION IN HIS VATICAN MEETINGS, BOTH IN-HOUSE AND WITH FOREIGN DIPLOMATS. IN PARTICULAR, MSGR. LUIS MARIANO DE MONTEMAYOR, [...]	2002-01-18 16:30:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	AG CU MOPS PHUM PREL VT
03BRUSSELS5525	U.S.-EU COTER CONSULTATIONS ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] The U.S. and EU COTER held their quarterly counterterrorism coordination meeting on December 3. The U.S. was represented by S/CT,s Senior Advisor for Multilateral Affairs, Chris Ensley, DOJ senior counsel Mark Richards, Econoff Kim Gagne and NAS Frank Kerber. The EU COTER delegation was cha [...]	2003-12-08 10:25:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER TS AG MO SR BK AL MK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
03FRANKFURT1212	FEDERAL PROSECUTOR NEHM DESCRIBES GERMANY'S COUNTER- [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Consul General on February 3, Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said that bilateral cooperation is good at the working level, despite recent tensions in overall German-American relations. Nehm is confident that the Hamburg trial of Motassadeq will end soon and i [...]	2003-02-07 14:26:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
03FRANKFURT2405	VERDICT IN FRANKFURT TERRORISM TRIAL - WHAT WE [...] (U) Background and summary: This cable is a wrap up of the Frankfurt terrorism trial. It is based on observations by U.S. officials at the trial, but is not to be taken as a verbatim transcript of the proceedings. When the written verdict is published, post will provide it to Department. 2 [...]	2003-03-20 11:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
03ROME1887	ITALY WILL APPROVE CONSENSUAL SRO FOR ALGERIA AND [...] (S) ON APRIL 29, REF A POINTS WERE CONVEYED BY ROME ODC CHIEF TO VCHOD GENERAL CAMPORINI AND, SEPARATELY, BY POLOFF TO MFA ACTING NATO OFFICE DIRECTOR CARLO LO CASCIO. CAMPORINI SAID THAT ITALY WOULD SUPPORT THE FLIGHTS, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER U.S. NON-CLANDESTINE USE OF SIGONELLA, AS LONG AS T [...]	2003-05-02 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR PBTS IT AG ML TS FORCES IN ITALY NATO
03ROME2737	FM FRATTINI'S VISIT TO SIX ARAB COUNTIES PRIOR TO [...] (C) Summary: FM Frattini's pre-EU Presidency visits to Rabat, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Beirut, and Damascus June 4-9 showcased Italy's priority on improving Euro-Med cooperation but otherwise generated no surprises. Frattini introduced Italy's EU Presidency priorities, promoted the roadmap and [...]	2003-06-17 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT AG LY MO SY TS LE EUN
04FRANKFURT1938	German High Court Restricts Police Surveillance [...] SUMMARY: On March 3, the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe sharply restricted application of a 1998 law authorizing the electronic surveillance of private homes for law enforcement purposes. The Court ruled that police eavesdropping in private residences is a violat [...]	2004-03-09 10:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
04MADRID1871	NEA A/S BURNS IN MADRID [...] (C) NEA A/S William Burns paid a five-hour visit to Madrid May 18, meeting with President Zapatero's new National Security Advisor, Carlos Casajuana, and the new Deputy Foreign Minister, Bernardino Leon. The Spanish expressed a desire to work with the US on such issues as encouraging better [...]	2004-05-24 11:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL SP MO AG IZ
04MADRID4080	SPAIN ON POLISARIO RHETORIC, WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary. Spain will convey a message to the Madrid Polisario representative calling on the Polisario to cease threats to resume armed conflict with Morocco. MFA Maghreb Office Director Carlos Fernandez Arias also shared Spain's views on the state of play in Western Morocco, including GOS [...]	2004-10-20 12:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF MO AG SP
04ROME2442	LETTER TO CAROL BELLAMY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, [...] FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A LETTER TO CAROL BELLAMY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNICEF, DATED JUNE 23, 2004, FROM TONY P. HALL, AMBASSADOR, U.S. MISSION TO THE UN AGENCIES, ROME. BEGIN LETTER: "MS. CAROL BELLAMY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNICEF UNICEF HOUSE 3 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA NEW YORK CITY, NEW YO [...]	2004-06-23 11:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC PREF EAGR WI AG WFP UNICEF
04THEHAGUE1845	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): RABTA [...] (SBU) In the aftermath of EC-37, delegation has been working closely with UK, Italy, and Libya, to facilitate and garner support for Libya's proposed change to the Verification Annex of the CWC, to enable the conversion of its former CW production facility at Rabta. In particular the delegati [...]	2004-07-22 14:27:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL AG CM ER UK IT KE MO SF TS YM SU GM FR GR KS CWC
05ALGIERS1003	MORE ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS SENTENCED TO PRISON [...] Fouad Boughanem and Reda Belhadjouja have been found guilty of defamation for an article that appeared in 2003 in Le Soir d'Algerie. Each was sentenced to two months in jail and 250,000DA fine (US$3,427). In addition, the newspaper has been fined 250,000DA (US$3,427). Boughamen is the publ [...]	2005-05-18 16:16:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AG
05ALGIERS1011	POLISARIO "AMBASSADOR" DELIVERS ABDELAZIZ LETTER [...] (C) DCM met with Polisario "Ambassador" to Algiers Mohammed Beissat May 19 at Beissat's request to accept a letter from Polisario Secretary General Abdelaziz to Secretary Rice (original faxed to NEA/MAG) and for a readout SIPDIS on Abdelaziz's May 10-13 visit to the U.S. Abdelaziz's lette [...]	2005-05-20 15:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM OPDC WI MO AG
05ALGIERS1013	AMBASSADOR RAISES EXERCISE-SPECIFIC SOFA WITH [...] (C) During Ambassador's May 21 call on newly appointed Foreign Minister Mohammed Bedjaoui (other issues reported septel),Ambassador noted the June 6-18 Flintlock '05 special forces exercise, adding that the exercise would provide an opportunity to advance counterterrorism capabilities in the [...]	2005-05-21 15:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL AG SOFA
05ALGIERS1016	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador conducted his first official call May 21 on Foreign Minister Mohammed Bedjaoui, who was appointed May 1 in place of former Fonmin Belkhadem (septel reports their discussion of an exercise-specific SOFA). The conversation covered U.S.-Algerian relations and a possible Bedjaoui v [...]	2005-05-22 11:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP ABLD AG IR IS US SOFA
05ALGIERS1027	BOUTEFLIKA MESSAGE TO POLISARIO MENTIONS SUPPORT [...] (U) In a written message to Polisario Secretary General Abdelaziz on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the formation of the Polisario Front and published in the Algerian press May 22, President Bouteflika has raised eyebrows and Moroccan ire by mentioning independence for the Sahrawi pe [...]	2005-05-23 10:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL WI MO AG
05ALGIERS1030	POTENTIAL FOR GREATER U.S. ACTIVITY IN ALGERIA'S [...] (U) The first half of 2005 has witnessed a small boom in U.S. interest in the Algerian domestic energy supply sector, with one U.S. firm, General Electric, pressing for participation in a new power plant and two other firms looking for opportunities in the market. According to GOA officials, [...]	2005-05-23 15:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EPET BEXP AG
05ALGIERS1049	SENHADJI POSITIVELY ASSESSES INAUGURAL JOINT [...] (C) Over May 24 lunch with Ambassador, MOD Secretary General Senhadji expressed great satisfaction with his Washington visit and the inaugural session of the Joint Military Dialogue. He also indicated Algeria would approve a SOFA for the June Flintlock exercises; reaffirmed Algerian interest [...]	2005-05-25 16:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PGOV AG MO WI SOFA
05ALGIERS1050	AMBASSADOR PRESSES BELKHEIR ON DEFAMATION [...] (C) During May 24 meeting with Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir on other issues, Ambassador took the occasion to underscore our serious concerns about the mounting number of Algerian journalists who are either in jail or condemned to prison terms on charges of defamation. (At the time of t [...]	2005-05-25 21:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO AG
05ALGIERS1149	STATUS ON JAIL SENTENCES FOR JOURNALISTS [...] There are currently two Algerian journalists in prison, nine sentenced to prison terms and awaiting appeal, and two on trial for defamation. It is perhaps worth noting that all the defamation cases stem from articles written in 2003 or earlier. TWO JOURNALISTS IN PRISON ---------------- [...]	2005-06-05 16:19:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AG
05ALGIERS1159	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ALGERIAN-MOROCCAN [...] (C) During June 5 meeting on other issues (septel),Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir said both Morocco and Algeria were making efforts to send positive signals to the other, proceeding with plans for Prime Ministers Ouyahia and Jettou to meet in Rabat June 21-22, and hoping to re-energize [...]	2005-06-06 13:43:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1163	GSPC COMMUNIQUE EXTOLS ATTACK IN MAURITANIA, LINKS [...] (C) The Algerian terrorist organization GSPC (Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat) issued a communique dated June 5 in which the GSPC claimed responsibility for the June 4 attack on a Mauritanian military outpost near the Malian border (reftel) in which at least 15 Mauritanian soldiers and [...]	2005-06-07 14:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS ASEC MR AG
05ALGIERS1164	ALGERIAN BANKS WILL FINANCE DESALINIZATION PLANTS [...] (C) Minister of Energy and Mines Khelil made clear in a June 6 meeting with Ambassador that the GOA had given careful consideration to its plans to finance future desalinization plants. While Algerian state banks did not have much experience in project financing, they had to start somewhere. [...]	2005-06-07 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON AG OPIC
05ALGIERS1175	FM BEDJAOUI PROVIDES ORAL SOFA ASSURANCES, [...] (C) FM Bedjaoui told Ambassador June 8 that Algeria could not accept our proposed exchange of notes for a Flintlock exercise SOFA because of domestic legal constraints. However, he repeatedly reaffirmed the importance Algeria attached to these exercises; said Algeria was considering possible a [...]	2005-06-08 15:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV AG SOFA
05ALGIERS1199	POLISARIO SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS THE NON-VIOLENT [...] (SBU) In a departure from recent sabre-rattling rhetoric, Polisario leader Abdelaziz told a press gathering in Algiers June 11 it was the intent of the Sahrawis to use peaceful means in their struggle for self-determination. Blaming the Government of Morocco for the violence of late May, Abde [...]	2005-06-13 09:41:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO PHUM AG WI MO
05ALGIERS1211	SPANISH AMBASSADOR ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Spanish Ambassador Lena called on Ambassador June 13 to offer GOS views on the need to calm tensions in the region and brief on Spanish State Minister for External Relations Leon's June trip to the region. Lena also shared a copy of Spanish FM Moratinos' letter to Algerian FM Bedjaoui. M [...]	2005-06-15 09:43:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1233	NEW PRO-REFORM FINANCE MINISTER MOVING QUICKLY ON [...] Ambassador called on Finance Minister Mourad Medelci to extend congratulations and discuss the Minister's financial and economic vision for the country after his first five weeks in office. Medelci was bullish on the need for reform; announced the imminent privatization of three state-owned b [...]	2005-06-15 18:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV AG
05ALGIERS1242	MORE JOURNALISTS SENTENCED TO PRISON IN NEW "BLACK [...] Three journalists were sentenced June 14 for defamation in separate cases before the local Algiers tribunal. The cartoonist Ali Dilem of Liberte newspaper was sentenced to six months in prison and a DA 250,000 ($3,400) fine, while the journalist Kamel Amarni and the publication director Fouad [...]	2005-06-19 14:22:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV AG
05ALGIERS1243	ALGERIAN RESPONSE TO MOROCCAN STATEMENT CANCELING [...] (C) Initial Algerian government reaction to Morocco's cancellation of the June 21-22 meeting of the Algerian and Moroccan prime ministers in Rabat has taken the form of comments to the press by unidentified "diplomatic sources close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." These sources, whose c [...]	2005-06-19 15:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1251	ALGERIAN CRITICISM OF MOROCCO SHARPENS [...] (C) While there has still been no official public response to Morocco's cancellation of the June 21-22 Prime Ministers' meeting in Rabat, an unidentified diplomatic source, clearly reflecting GOA views, has sharpened Algerian criticism of Morocco's move. The official, whom we believe was Min [...]	2005-06-20 18:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1278	ALGERIA TAKING MORE CONCILIATORY TONE TOWARD [...] (C) Algerian FM Bedjaoui, in the GOA's first public remarks concerning Moroccan-Algerian relations since Morocco's cancellation of the prime ministers' meeting in Rabat, has struck a conciliatory tone. Alongside visiting Dutch FM Bot June 22, Bedjaoui called for "cooling things down" and not [...]	2005-06-26 12:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1287	RISE OF CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY IN ALGERIA [...] (U) While the overall numbers are very modest compared to the still overwhelming Muslim population, Algeria is currently experiencing an unprecedented rise in conversions to Christianity, particularly by the Berber population in the Kabylie region. Driving this trend are several factors, in [...]	2005-06-27 16:18:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KISL PHUM AG
05ALGIERS1289	UTILITY PRICES RISING AS THE GOA BEGINS TO [...] Parliament passed June 16 a revised Water Code allowing public water and sanitation services to take on private partners and to adjust the sliding water tariff schedule, which will likely lead to more price increases. (Minimum per cubic meter water prices for typical consumers already increa [...]	2005-06-27 17:02:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EIND ETRD BEXP AG
05ALGIERS1291	RISE OF CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY IN ALGERIA [...] (SBU) While the overall numbers are very modest compared to the still overwhelming Muslim population, Algeria is currently experiencing an unprecedented rise in conversions to Christianity, particularly by the Berber population in the Kabylie region. Driving this trend are several factors, [...]	2005-06-28 07:57:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KISL PHUM AG
05ALGIERS1302	THE KHALIFA LEGACY: BAD HABITS PERSIST AS ALGERIA [...] (C) At least one bank in Algeria's public-dominated banking industry appears to have retained some of the bad habits that caused the collapse of the entire sector in 2003. Ambassador and Econoff learned May 24 from the president of a large western bank in Algeria that the specialized Algerian [...]	2005-06-28 17:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV AG
05ALGIERS1304	AMARI SAIFI AKA ABDERREZAK AL-PARA SENTENCED IN [...] (U) According to Algerian press reports June 25, 2005, the Algerian militant and former number two of the al-Qaida linked Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC),Amari Saifi aka Abderrazak Al-Para, was sentenced in abstentia to life in prison for organizing a terrorist group and for sp [...]	2005-06-29 12:10:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER AG
05ALGIERS1325	KHELIL SAYS OIL PRICES TO STAY HIGH AS ALGERIA [...] (SBU) Energy Minister Chakib Khelil in recent comments expressed confidence that oil prices would not drop below $50 per barrel, and he did not rule out barrel prices of $80 or even higher, which he said the international economy could withstand. Algeria's windfall oil revenue topped $17 billi [...]	2005-07-01 14:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON AG
05ALGIERS1328	ALGERIA SIGNS ITS FIRST-EVER PROJECT FINANCE DEAL [...] (U) Hamma desalination plant negotiators signed contracts June 25 committing to a loan for the first reverse-osmosis desalination plant in Algeria, one of the largest such plants in the world. OPIC is loaning up to $200 million for the plant, which is expected to be completed in 2007, 24 mont [...]	2005-07-02 08:45:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV SENV AG OPIC
05ALGIERS1358	JULY 3 DISCUSSION OF MOROCCAN-ALGERIAN RELATIONS [...] (C) In an extended exchange July 3 with Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir, Ambassador reviewed reftel talking points, expressing strong U.S. disappointment over recent setbacks in Moroccan-Algerian relations, noting that provocative actions from both sides had contributed to the current seri [...]	2005-07-05 11:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM PGOV AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1366	JUDICIARY REFORM ON THE FRONT BURNER, AND THE [...] (U) Portions of this text are sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. SUMMARY AND COMMENT ------------------- 2. (SBU) A major human rights seminar presently held in Algiers in early July, coming on the heels of a highly publicized visit by Human Rights Watch, has serv [...]	2005-07-06 18:39:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI AG
05ALGIERS1379	PRESIDENT BOUTEFLIKA'S INTERVIEW IN THE TUNISIAN [...] (C) Part of the continuing problem between Morocco and Algeria stems from their habit of protesting their own side's innocence while giving highly colored and exaggerated accounts of the other side's actions and statements. To take but one example, Algerian protestations that Bouteflika's let [...]	2005-07-09 16:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MO AG WI
05ALGIERS1381	BOUTEFLIKA STILL INTERESTED IN POW RELEASE [...] (C) Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir telephoned Ambassador July 9 at the instruction of President Bouteflika to signal the latter's continuing interest in a Lugar mission to secure the release of all Moroccan prisoners held by the Polisario. Specifically, he asked if Washington had reacted [...]	2005-07-09 17:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG WI MO
05ALGIERS1402	BOUTEFLIKA'S STRATEGIC MANEUVERING ON THE [...] (C) President Bouteflika has spoken out twice in the last ten days against the French law passed by the French Parliament in February citing the positive achievements of the French colonial period. Prior to Bouteflika's comments, however, Algerian Foreign Minister Mohamed Bedjaoui spoke of a n [...]	2005-07-12 06:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD FR AG
05ALGIERS1408	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH VISIT [...] (U) In back to back visits, Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent delegations to Algeria, signaling the GOA's greater openness toward international NGOs and open discussion of human rights issues. AI's delegation visited Algeria May 6-25 and HRW's delegation visited J [...]	2005-07-12 11:58:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM AG
05ALGIERS1410	ALGERIAN VIEWS ON LONDON BOMBINGS [...] (C) Algerians, judging from comments made to Embassy staff, press commentaries and other press reporting since the London bombings of July 7, have drawn three main conclusions about these terrorist attacks. First, the bombings should come as no surprise and were a natural consequence of the [...]	2005-07-12 16:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL AG
05ALGIERS1422	BELKHADEM REBUKES FRANCE ON RELATIONS WITH MOROCCO [...] (U) During a visit to Casablanca on July 12, French Foreign Minister Phillipe Douste-Blazy gave an interview to the Moroccan daily Le Matin Du Sahara commenting on the need for resolution of the Western Sahara dispute. Douste-Blazy stated that France, like Spain and its other partners, was [...]	2005-07-14 08:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MO FR AG
05ALGIERS1426	POLISARIO LEADER IS WORKING TO RELEASE MOROCCAN [...] (U) On July 16 Algerian French-language newspapers El Watan, Liberte and Expression, as well as the leading Arabic-language newspaper El Khabar quoted a July 14 article from French newspaper Le Monde stating that Polisario "President" Abdelaziz, on a diplomatic mission to Spain, announced hi [...]	2005-07-16 15:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PBTS AG
05ALGIERS1508	BELKHEIR RAISES MOROCCAN REQUEST TO DESIGNATE [...] (C) During a July 18 meeting with Charge on other issues, Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir raised reports that Morocco has requested the U.S. to designate the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization. Belkheir asserted that an American organization called The Institute for the Preventi [...]	2005-07-18 12:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL WI AG MO
05ALGIERS1525	GSPC ANNOUNCES 'NAMES' OF FIVE MEMBERS KILLED IN [...] The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) issued a communiqu on their website July 15 stating that five GSPC members were killed during the June 4 attack in Mauritania. - Ibrahim Abu Ishak; Ghardaia, Algeria. Ishak also fought in Afghanistan, according to the website. - Yahia; R [...]	2005-07-19 15:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR AG
05ALGIERS1534	ENGAGING ALGERIAN OPINION MAKERS ON TERRORIST [...] (C) As described Ref A, Embassy Algiers actively engages Algerian governmental, political, social, religious, and media figures on a regular basis. As part of our engagement, we actively encourage public denunciations of terrorist violence in general, and of attacks on Iraqi civilians specif [...]	2005-07-20 17:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO KISL PREL PTER AG
05ALGIERS1539	ALGERIAN REACTION TO KIDNAPPING OF ALGERIAN [...] (U) Algerian political parties, including the moderate Islamist MSP party represented in Parliament, joined the government in condemning the July 21 kidnapping of two Algerian diplomats in Baghdad. An MFA source, speaking on background to the media, said the kidnapping "brought about enormou [...]	2005-07-23 16:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG IZ
05ALGIERS1542	(S) BELKHEIR STRESSES NEED FOR MOROCCO TO MOVE ON [...] (C) Charge delivered ref (a) points confirming that the USG has no intention at this time of designating the Polisario as a terrorist organization to Presidential Chief of Staff Larbi Belkheir July 23. Noting that U.S. policy toward the Polisario remained unchanged, Charge also stressed our [...]	2005-07-24 13:56:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PREL WI AG MO
05ALGIERS1550	BOUTEFLIKA CONDEMNS SHARM EL-SHEIKH BOMBINGS [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-25 11:21:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER EG AG
05ALGIERS1554	GSPC STATEMENT OF CONGRATULATIONS ON THE ABDUCTION [...] (U) The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC),an Algerian terrorist group with links to al-Qaida, published July 23 a statement congratulating Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Al-Qaida in Iraq on the recent kidnapping in Iraq of two Algerian diplomats. The text of the statement is as follow [...]	2005-07-26 06:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG IZ
05ALGIERS1560	MINISTER DELEGATE MESSAHEL CONFIRMS ALGERIAN [...] (S) Summary and Comment. Minister of State Abdelkader Messahel confirmed to Charge and UK Ambassador Tesoriere July 26, in a meeting held at our request, that the Algerian Embassy in Baghdad remained open officially. Messahel said there had only been three Algerian diplomatic staff in Baghd [...]	2005-07-26 17:50:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PREL AG IZ
05ALGIERS1571	NEW TRAFFIC PLAN IN ALGIERS CAUSES DISCONTENT, [...] The Ministry of Transportation began enforcing a new traffic plan June 1 in Algiers to reduce daytime traffic congestion throughout the capital. The new measure restricts the movement of trucks of more than 2.5 tons inside the capital to nighttime hours only. Truck drivers, dock workers, and [...]	2005-07-27 16:10:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB EWWT PGOV AG
05ALGIERS1575	ALGERIANS OUTRAGED BY MURDER OF TWO DIPLOMATS IN [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Algerians reacted with shock and outrage to the announcement July 27 by Al-Qaida in Iraq that it had executed the two kidnapped Algerian diplomats, Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi. Within two hours of the posting of the Al-Qaida announcement on a jihadist website [...]	2005-07-28 15:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG IZ
05ALGIERS1590	BOUTEFLIKA CONGRATULATES KING MOHAMMED [...] The Algerian media reported July 31 the text of President Bouteflika's July 30 message to Moroccan King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the Throne Day holiday. Bouteflika expressed "his warmest congratulations and dearest wishes" to the king, praying that God protect him and grant him health a [...]	2005-08-01 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AG MO
05ALGIERS1591	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-ALGERIAN COOPERATION, [...] (C) Ambassador was the first official caller on newly appointed MFA Secretary General Ramdane Lamamra July 31. Lamamra, a former Ambassador to Washington from 1996-99 and to the UN from 1993-96, was recalled from Lisbon last week to replace a colleague (former Secretary General Hocine Meghlao [...]	2005-08-01 17:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD MARR AG MO WI IZ US SOFA
05ALGIERS1593	ALGERIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Air Algerie General Manager Tayeb Benouis has been summoned by the prosecutor in charge of the ongoing Khalifa Airways case. The prosecutor will question Benouis about the relationship between the state airline company and Khalifa Group CEO Abdelmoumen Khalifa. The Khalifa Group and various go [...]	2005-08-02 15:02:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV BEXP PGOV AG
05ALGIERS1604	NEW ALGERIAN MFA SECRETARY GENERAL BIO INFORMATION [...] (C) On July 23, Ambassador Ramdane Lamamra was named as the new MFA Secretary General, replacing Hocine Maghlaoui. Lamamra began his career in 1976 and his notable tours include posts as Algerian Ambassador to the UN, Ambassador to the U.S. and most recently Ambassador to Portugal. Lamamra ap [...]	2005-08-03 16:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR AG
05ALGIERS1606	COMMERCE MINISTER SEEKS CONTINUED US SUPPORT ON [...] (C) In a July 30 courtesy call with Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaaboub, Ambassador delivered USTR talking points (ref) that underscored USG support for Algeria's WTO accession and raised issues for Algeria to address more thoroughly in both bilateral market access and multilateral negotiati [...]	2005-08-06 06:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON AG WTRO USTR WTO
05ALGIERS1619	LIBYAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ALGERIAN STABILITY, [...] (C) Summary. Over lunch at the Residence August 6, newly arrived Libyan Ambassador Abdel Moula El-Ghadbane described to Ambassador and DCM his views on President Bouteflika's role in stabilizing Algeria's internal political situation, as well as his critique of Islamic extremism in Algeria an [...]	2005-08-07 15:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL PGOV AG LY
05ALGIERS1624	ALGERIA 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-08 08:24:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB AG OPIC USTR
05ALGIERS1628	ALGERIAN TERRORISM EXPERT COMMENTS ON MURDER OF [...] (C) Summary. Algerian journalist and terrorism expert Mounir Boudjemaa told DCM August 6 that the GOA had deliberately avoided mobilizing popular support for the release of the two diplomats kidnapped in Baghdad July 21 because the government expected them to be killed. Boudjemaa was uncert [...]	2005-08-08 16:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC MOPS AG IZ
05ALGIERS1652	GOA MOVES TO STOP CORRUPTION [...] (C) A growing realization of the economic and development costs of pervasive corruption in Algeria, coupled with reported pressure from some key senior military figures, is prompting increased government efforts against corruption. Over the past several months, President Bouteflika has made a [...]	2005-08-10 15:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV EPET AG
05ALGIERS1661	ALGERIA'S NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PLAN [...] (C) Algeria is emerging from a decade of terrorist violence and massive bloodshed beginning in the early 1990's and is now looking to take necessary steps to allow the country to heal its wounds. Much like his 1999 platform of Civil Concord, President Bouteflika's 2004 presidential campaign w [...]	2005-08-10 16:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER AG
05ALGIERS1674	UPCOMING SIGNING OF THE U.S.-ALGERIA S&T AGREEMENT [...] Econoff notified MFA Deputy Director of the Americas August 11 of USG agreement to the Algerian proposed changes to the Science and Technology Agreement (preamble paragraph 3) and informed him that we understood U/S for Global Affairs Dobriansky was prepared to come to Algiers for the signing [...]	2005-08-13 18:14:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA TSPL AG US
05ALGIERS1677	EQUIPMENT LICENSES TO ALGERIA SUSPENDED [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-14 09:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC MASS AG US
05ALGIERS1702	HIGHLIGHTS OF BOUTEFLIKA'S NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] In President Bouteflika's address to the nation August 14, he outlined his vision of national reconciliation and announced that the national reconciliation referendum will take place September 29. National reconciliation will, if the referendum passes, halt legal proceedings and commute sente [...]	2005-08-15 18:06:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL AG
05ALGIERS1753	SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES WESTERN SAHARA, [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-19 11:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PBTS WI AG MO
05ALGIERS1765	LUGAR VISIT AFTERMATH [...] (C) Despite some scattered grumbling in the media and elsewhere about U.S. "pressure" and unaddressed humanitarian concerns vis-a-vis the Sahrawis, press coverage of Senator Lugar's humanitarian mission and the unconditional release of all remaining Moroccan prisoners by the Polisario has been [...]	2005-08-21 15:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1766	SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES AND UN [...] (C) During their August 18 meeting, President Bouteflika and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Richard Lugar discussed Morocco and the Western Sahara (ref A),U.S.-Algerian bilateral relations, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, the coup in Mau [...]	2005-08-21 16:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER XF AG UNSC US
05ALGIERS1768	SENATOR LUGAR'S MEETING WITH POLISARIO LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In an August 18 meeting with Senator Lugar, Polisario leader Abdelaziz thanked him, the U.S., and President Bush for their help in releasing to the International Red Cross the final 404 Polisario-held prisoners scheduled to return to their families in Morocco. Abdelaziz hoped th [...]	2005-08-22 05:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PBTS WI AG MO
05ALGIERS1771	RETIRED CHOD COMMENTS ON MOROCCAN BORDER ISSUES [...] (C) At a dinner hosted by the Saudi Defense Attache August 20, DCM was seated facing former Algerian CHOD General Mohammed Lamari, who retired one year ago. The Tunisian and Moroccan attaches were seated at the same table. Lamari began reminiscing about the war of independence from France, [...]	2005-08-22 12:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MOPS AG MO FR
05ALGIERS1810	NATIONAL RECONCILIATION: DO ALGERIANS SUPPORT [...] (C) President Bouteflika is poised to win a strong majority in the September 29 referendum on his proposed Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation. Through a carefully crafted political and media strategy, he has framed the proposal in a way that makes it hard to oppose; orchestrated a [...]	2005-08-27 09:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER AG
05ALGIERS1811	ALGERIAN RESPONSE TO INTERPOL'S REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-27 12:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM TBIO PTER AG
05ALGIERS1836	DESPITE SOME EARLIER CONCERNS, GOA TAKING POSITIVE [...] (C) Ambassador separately called on Minister-Delegate Messahel and Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir August 27 to express appreciation for Algeria's role in the Moroccan POW release, take a temperature reading, and discuss the way ahead. Both men expressed satisfaction over the success of [...]	2005-08-29 10:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AG MO WI
05ALGIERS1853	ALGERIA DECLINES OFFER OF DELEGATION TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by Pol/Econ Chief, called on MFA Americas Director Chikhi August 30 to press the need for SOFA protections for U.S. personnel involved in exercises in Algeria and to seek clarification on the issue of a SOFA team visit in September. Chikhi doggedly adhered to the la [...]	2005-08-31 13:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV AG SOFA
05ALGIERS1861	BLUE LANTERN UPDATE [...] (C) In an August 30 meeting dealing with a number of issues, Ambassador, accompanied by PolEc Chief, raised the suspension of equipment licenses to Algeria under the Blue Lantern program with MFA Director General for the Americas Chikhi. Ambassador said we were perplexed by Algeria's recent [...]	2005-08-31 17:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC MASS AG
05ALGIERS1866	ALGERIAN POLICY ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) In an August 31 meeting with FM Bedjaoui on other issues, Ambassador briefed on U.S. policy approach toward Mauritania Ref A),emphasizing that the United States wanted to see an early return to constitutional order (6-12 months) and to keep the African Union (AU) in the lead as our princi [...]	2005-09-04 13:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PTER MR AG
05ALGIERS1867	UPDATE ON ALGERIANS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE FROM [...] (C) In an August 31 meeting on other issues, Ambassador pressed FM Bedjaoui for an early, favorable response conveying Algeria's readiness to accept the return of Algerian nationals scheduled for release from Guantanamo. Ambassador explained that the Embassy had raised this issue with the Mini [...]	2005-09-04 13:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KAWC AG
05ALGIERS1875	PRESENTATION OF DRAFT IRAQI CONSTITUTION AND [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by Pol/Econ Chief, called on FM Bedjaoui August 31 to deliver reftel demarche urging strong support for the Iraqi people, the democratic process in Iraq, and the October 15 referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution. Ambassador reviewed the talking points in some d [...]	2005-09-06 10:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ AG
05ALGIERS1876	AMBASSADOR RAISES ALGERIAN DEPORTEE ISSUE WITH [...] (C) During an August 31 meeting with FM Bedjaoui on other issues, Ambassador (accompanied by PolEcon Chief) pressed the GOA to communicate quickly its willingness to accept the return of twelve Algerian deportees and issue them travel documents. Ambassador said that we had raised these cases [...]	2005-09-06 10:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KHLS CASC CFED ASEC AG
05ALGIERS1877	ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS GOA READINESS [...] (S) FM Bedjaoui told Ambassador August 31 that political sensitivities over the fact or appearance of a permanent U.S. troop presence or basing arrangements precluded Algeria from agreeing to a public, formal SOFA agreement. That said, Algeria understood the importance and mutual benefit of ou [...]	2005-09-06 10:54:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	MARR PREL PGOV AG SOFA
05ALGIERS1897	UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT [...] (C) Ambassador met with MFA Multilateral Relations Director General Belhimeur September 5 per reftel demarche, underscoring U.S. good faith efforts to reach agreement on a strong, meaningful, and detailed outcome document, urging that the Algerian delegation be instructed to work in the same f [...]	2005-09-07 17:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG
05ALGIERS1910	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR URGES U.S. "GESTURE" [...] (C) Polisario "Ambassador" to Algeria Beissat told DCM September 6 that there was considerable internal criticism of Polisario leader Abdelaziz following the Lugar mission due to the impression that the Polisario had received nothing in return for releasing the Moroccan prisoners. Beissat urg [...]	2005-09-11 11:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM WI MO AG
05ALGIERS1911	POST LUGAR MISSION: ALGERIAN FM BEDJAOUI ON [...] (C) In an August 31 meeting on several topics with FM Bedjaoui, Ambassador reaffirmed President Bush's appreciation for Algeria's help in facilitating the release of the final 404 Moroccan prisoners previously held by the Polisario. Making reference to President Bush's letter to President Bou [...]	2005-09-11 12:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MO AG WI
05ALGIERS1912	CHILD LABOR MANDATORY REPORTING RESPONSE FOR [...] Child labor is not pervasive in Algeria. Most of the instances where it does occur are in the agricultural sector where there is either a shortage of labor, few educational opportunities, or a combination of both. Algeria has established ages for compulsory education (six to sixteen years o [...]	2005-09-11 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD AG
05ALGIERS1914	BELKHEIR ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Ambassador took advantage of a September 10 meeting with Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir on other issues to ask about the September 29 referendum on national peace and reconciliation. Without detectable enthusiasm, Belkheir said the goal of the referendum was to move beyond the diviso [...]	2005-09-12 13:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER AG
05ALGIERS1917	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-12 15:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO AG
05ALGIERS1918	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RESPONDING TO ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche concerning post-Katrina energy supply disruptions, as well as longer term conservation measures, to Minister of Energy and Mines Khelil September 11. Khelil said the shortage of refining capacity was a large contributing factor to current petroleum sh [...]	2005-09-12 16:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET AG
05ALGIERS1920	ALGERIAN FM'S READOUT ON IRANIAN ENVOY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) In an August 31 meeting devoted to a number of issues, FM Bedjaoui gave Ambassador a readout of Iranian envoy Alaadine Broujardi's August 29 meeting with President Bouteflika in Algiers. Bedjaoui, who attended the meeting, said Broujardi had given many facts and arguments to bolster Iran [...]	2005-09-12 16:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER IR AG
05ALGIERS1942	NEW GSPC COMMUNIQUE WARNS OF FAKES [...] (U) The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) issued a statement September 10 warning against faked communiques issued by Abu Turab al-Jaza'iri in the name of the GSPC. The communique said al-Jaza'iri has no direct or indirect connection to the GSPC and that his communiques are not o [...]	2005-09-18 16:05:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL AG
05ALGIERS1952	ALGERIAN EFFORTS AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) In a September 14 meeting with Department of Justice money laundering expert Suzanne Hayden, the head of Algeria's inter-ministerial financial action task force, Mohamed Benamar Aid, briefed on the group's activities since the adoption of new national money-laundering legislation in Februa [...]	2005-09-20 16:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KCRM PREL PTER AG
05ALGIERS1956	ALGERIA TO CONTRIBUTE $5 MILLION TO KATRINA RELIEF [...] (SBU) MFA SYG Lamamra told Ambassador, during telephone discussion of other issues late September 21, that Algeria would shortly be contributing $5 million to the relief funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Lamamra said it was the President's intention to inform the U.S. of this contributio [...]	2005-09-21 16:53:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AG

05ALGIERS1957	DISCUSSION WITH FORMER ALGERIAN PM GHOZALI [...] (C) Over coffee September 13, former Algerian Head of Government Sid Ahmed Ghozali told PolEc Chief that he opposed President Bouteflika's plan for National Reconciliation in its current form because there could be no forgiveness without a sincere effort to establish the truth, and without fo [...]	2005-09-21 17:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AG INRB
05ALGIERS1958	NEWSPAPER EDITOR COMMENTS ON BENCHICHOU CASE, [...] (C) During a September 19 visit to Oran, DCM and PD staff visited the offices of the high-brow, French-language daily Le Quotidien d'Oran. Le Quotidien's editor in chief, Mohammed Abdou Benabou (strictly protect),offered his views on President Bouteflika's efforts to rein-in the independent [...]	2005-09-21 17:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MARR AG
05ALGIERS1971	ALGERIA TO ATTEND RABAT DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE [...] DCM participated in a joint demarche with UK Charge Nick Low and Italian DCM Antonio Bellavia on MFA Director General for the Americas Cherif Chikhi September 26 to encourage high level GOA participation at the October 1-3 BMENA Democracy Assistance Dialogue meeting in Rabat. Chikhi, who will [...]	2005-09-26 16:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PREL KMPI AG
05ALGIERS1973	ALGERIA POISED FOR POSITIVE REFERENDUM VOTE ON [...] (C) In the leadup to the September 29 referendum on President Bouteflika's proposed Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, the GOA has pulled out all the stops to assure a sizable turnout and overwhelming "yes" vote. From Bouteflika on down, the entire senior leadership has barnstormed [...]	2005-09-27 14:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AG
05ALGIERS1975	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN ALGERIA [...] (C) Having defeated an armed Islamic extremist insurgency over the past thirteen years, Algeria has gained considerable experience in combating extremism. Algerian military and political leaders openly admit now that at the time of the army's intervention to prevent the election of an Islamis [...]	2005-09-27 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EAID AG
05ALGIERS2037	ALGERIANS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVE NATIONAL [...] (C) According to the Ministry of Interior, about 97 percent of Algerians who voted September 29 approved President Bouteflika's proposal for national reconciliation. Of eligible voters, nearly 80 percent officially went to the polls nationwide. While officials and citizens alike took for gra [...]	2005-10-03 14:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM AG
05ALGIERS2042	DELIVERY OF PRESIDENT'S LETTER ON WESTERN [...] (C) Responding to delivery of the President's letter, Algerian Presidential Adviser Rahal agreed with the President's message and the desirability of improved Algerian-Moroccan relations but did not demonstrate any flexibility or imagination as to how Algeria might contribute to such a process [...]	2005-10-03 17:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MO WI AG
05ALGIERS2045	ALGERIAN DRAFT RESOLUTION ON WESTERN SAHARA IN [...] DCM represented the Embassy at a meeting October 3 convoked by MFA with the ambassadors of North and South American states. MFA Acting Director General for the Americas Abderrahmane Benmokhtar explained that Algeria is about to introduce a draft resolution on the Western Sahara in the UNGA's [...]	2005-10-04 15:46:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL WI MO AG UNGA
05ALGIERS2047	FRENCH EMBASSY COUNSELOR COMMENTS ON REFERENDUM, [...] (C) At the German national day reception October 3, French Embassy Second Counselor Alexandre Garcia told DCM that the French Embassy was convinced that the official vote participation figures released by Minister of Interior Zerhouni September 30 were fraudulent, at least for the city of Algi [...]	2005-10-04 17:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AG FR
05ALGIERS2048	MFA SECRETARY GENERAL SKEPTICAL ABOUT IMPROVING [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Lamamra, in the context of Ambassador's delivery of the President's September 30 letter urging improved Moroccan-Algerian relations, showed little flexibility vis a vis Morocco, reinforcing our impression that the Algerian leadership has given up hope of any near-term [...]	2005-10-04 17:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MO AG UN
05ALGIERS2055	SKIKDA REFINERY FIRE EXPECTED TO HAVE NO EFFECT ON [...] (U) This cable has been sent sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Algeria's second largest crude oil refinery at Skikda experienced a fire October 4 that burned through the night and into today. Early morning reports to us from local industry officials said the [...]	2005-10-05 14:10:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ETRD EWWT PTER PINR ASEC AG
05ALGIERS2057	AMBASSADOR RAISES GUANTANAMO DETAINEES WITH MFA [...] (C) During an October 3 meeting on other issues, Ambassador and Pol/Econ chief raised with MFA Secretary General Lamamra the U.S. desire to repatriate some Algerian detainees at Guantanamo. Ambassador, noting an earlier conversation with FM Bedjaoui on the same subject (Ref A) and expressing [...]	2005-10-05 14:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KAWC AG
05ALGIERS2058	AMBASSADOR RAISES BLUE LANTERN IMPASSE WITH MFA [...] (S) In an October 4 meeting with MFA Secretary General Lamamra on other issues, Ambassador pushed hard on the Blue Lantern impasse, frankly cautioning that this issue was damaging perceptions of Algeria in Washington and jeopardizing possibilities for increased military cooperation. Ambassado [...]	2005-10-05 14:44:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	ETTC KOMC MASS AG
05ALGIERS2059	UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE BASTAGLI'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) UN Special Representative to the Secretary General for the Western Sahara Francesco Bastagli briefed Ambassador October 1 on his meetings in the region since taking up his new duties. He expressed appreciation for the U.S. contribution to resolving Western Sahara issues; spoke of the nee [...]	2005-10-05 15:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM PTER AG MO WI UN
05ALGIERS2082	GOA RESPONDS TO MOROCCAN ACCUSATIONS ON [...] (U) In recent days, Algerian media have devoted much coverage to the plight of African migrants attempting to enter the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which are located in northern Morocco. The coverage has focused primarily on the allegedly dire humanitarian situation of the migrant [...]	2005-10-10 15:42:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SMIG AG MO XA
05ALGIERS2086	BELKHADEM TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER? [...] (C) According to press reports in recent days, FLN Party Leader and former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem, who is also Minister of State and Bouteflika's Personal Representative, will be named Prime Minister, replacing Ahmed Ouyahia. These rumors have circulated for about a month but a [...]	2005-10-11 09:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
05ALGIERS2114	REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES SOUNDS ALARM ON [...] Portions of this cable are sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) The health condition of Mohamed Benchicou, editor-in-chief of the now-defunct French-language daily Le Matin, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment June 14, 2004 for having illegally transferre [...]	2005-10-16 08:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KMPI AG
05ALGIERS2116	DISCUSSING ZAWAHIRI-ZARQAWI LETTER WITH HIGH [...] (C) Charge took advantage of an October 15 meeting on other issues with the President of the High Islamic Council, Cheikh Bouamrane, to provide him a copy of the Arabic text, downloaded from the DNI website, of Ayman al-Zawahiri's letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Charge stressed that the lett [...]	2005-10-16 10:07:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KISL IZ AG
05ALGIERS2132	MFA RESPONDS SHARPLY TO MOROCCAN ACCUSATIONS OF [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an unusually sharply worded official response October 17 to the October 16 comments of Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou that "strongly condemned Algeria and the Polisario's exploitation of the very complex immigration issue to achieve cheap propaganda [...]	2005-10-18 15:34:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SMIG AG MO
05ALGIERS2138	POLISARIO ASSERTS THREATENING STATEMENT WAS "NOT [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Polisario "Ambassador" Mohammed Beissat October 19, stressing the total inacceptability of threats to American citizens and interests such as those contained in a Polisario press release October 12, and called for the Polisario to issue a statement retract [...]	2005-10-19 15:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PTER AG MO WI
05ALGIERS2145	IMF Recommendations for Algeria [...] Summary: In an October 16 press conference following a two-week visit to Algeria, Mr. Erik De Vrijer, Division Chief for Middle East and Central Asia at the IMF declared that Algeria showed favorable economic development in 2005. De Vrijer highlighted the "significant" structural reforms under [...]	2005-10-22 13:03:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EIND ETRD BEXP AG
05ALGIERS2147	POLISARIO REMOVES OCTOBER 12 PRESS RELEASE AND [...] (C) DCM followed up the evening of October 19 with Polisario "Ambassador" Mohammed Beissat on Beissat's assertion (ref A) that the Polisario's press service, SPS, had not officially released the threatening statement of October 12. DCM noted that the statement continued to appear on the SPS [...]	2005-10-22 13:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG MO WI
05ALGIERS2149	TALKING POINTS DELIVERED ON ADJUSTING FOOD AID FOR [...] PolEc Chief delivered points requested reftel October 22 to UNDP Resident Representative Marc Destanne de Bernis (in the absence of an available UNHCR representative) and to WFP Representative and Country Director Marius de Gaay Fortman. PolEc Chief stressed that we stood behind efforts to pro [...]	2005-10-22 15:13:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM AG WI
05ALGIERS2155	MEETINGS IN ALGIERS ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (S) Ron Miller, Senior Adviser to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, held meetings with officials from the MFA, Ministry of Justice, and Presidency officials October 18 on issues related to the detention and repatriation of detainees held at Guantanamo who claim to be Algerian. Mi [...]	2005-10-23 05:33:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER KAWC PINR PREL AG
05ALGIERS2162	INFORMATION PASSED TO GOA ON TRANSFER AND RELEASE [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by PolEc Chief, delivered reftel talking points October 24 to MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane. Ambassador also passed the proposed diplomatic notes that would be required in advance of the transfer of Algerian detainees from U.S. to Algerian co [...]	2005-10-25 15:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KAWC AG
05ALGIERS2165	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW MFA DIRECTOR [...] (C) During an October 24 courtesy call, Ambassador briefed new MFA Americas Director General Fatiha Selmane on bilateral issues. Selmane, up until a year ago Algeria's ambassador to South Africa, agreed bilateral relations were good and growing; noted our excellent post-9/11 counter-terrorism [...]	2005-10-26 10:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS TSPL EAIR SCUL KMPI AG INRB
05ALGIERS2168	SUBJECT: ALGERIA PREPARED TO COOPERATE ON CHAPTER [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting with the U.S., French, and British ambassadors, FM Bedjaoui confirmed he would participate in the October 31 UNSC ministerial, said he would immediately instruct their New York delegation to engage in resolution consultations later today, and indicated Algeria was [...]	2005-10-26 18:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IO LY SY AG
05ALGIERS2194	DESPITE PROBLEMS, ALGERIAN REFORM PROCESS MOVING [...] (C) Under the leadership of President Bouteflika, Algeria has embarked on a process of serious and sweeping reform. The process has been uneven, to be sure, and Algeria has a long way to go before it achieves real democracy, rule of law, habits of transparency, and open markets. Executive pow [...]	2005-10-30 14:59:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON KWMN AG
05ALGIERS2213	Algeria Economic Highlights: [...] Spanish Group to Build Desalination Plant 2. $15 Billion Trade Balance Surplus 3. New Payment System Combats Money Laundering 4. Draft Law on Nuclear Energy 5. Sonatrach to Supply LNG to U.S. firm Sampra SPANISH GROUP GEIDA SELECTED FOR DESALINATION PLANT --------------------- [...]	2005-10-31 13:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EIND ETRD BEXP AG
05ALGIERS2222	STATUS OF TERRORISM ONE MONTH AFTER PASSAGE OF [...] (C) One month after the favorable September 29 referendum on the Charter for National Peace and National Reconciliation -- which offered a broad but partial amnesty for those involved in the violence of the 1990s -- monthly civilian deaths, military deaths and causalities, and terrorist surren [...]	2005-10-31 15:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER AG
05ALGIERS2225	FORCE STATUS PROTECTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (S) Ambassador delivered to FM Bedjaoui on October 26 Ref A demarche on securing protections for personnel engaged in the U.S.-Algerian military exercise this November, leaving behind proposed draft language for an exchange of diplomatic notes. Ambassador stressed our need for written assuranc [...]	2005-10-31 16:57:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL AG SOFA
05ALGIERS2228	Algeria Economic Highlights [...] Oil Export Revenues expected to hit $40 Billion 2. French Interest in Bank Privatization 3. Booming Mobile Phone Sector 4. Spanish Aquatia Selected for Desalination Plant 5. Algeria Among Least Transparent Countries 6. $51 Billion Foreign Exchange Reserve 7. Algerian Purchasing Power Do [...]	2005-11-02 15:27:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EIND ETRD BEXP AG
05ALGIERS2230	BRIEF DISCUSSION OF BLUE LANTERN WITH SENIOR [...] (C) At President Bouteflika's annual November 1 reception commemorating the declaration of the War of Liberation, Ambassador had an opportunity to raise the Blue Lantern issue with both Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gait-Salah and Ministry of Defense Secretary General Senhadji. With both, Ambass [...]	2005-11-02 15:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC MASS AG
05ALGIERS2245	POTENTIAL NEXT GENERATION ALGERIAN LEADER COMMENTS [...] (C) Arslan Chikhaoui (strictly protect),a private consultant in his late thirties or early forties, has close ties to the Algerian military and intelligence communities, the business world, and the political leadership. A strong advocate of Algerian reform and modernization, Chikhaoui is a t [...]	2005-11-07 12:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN MARR AG
05ALGIERS2247	IRAN RELATED BRIEFING [...] (S) Ambassador called on Energy Minister Chakib Khelil November 7 to deliver reftel talking points and introduce SIMO, who presented a sensitive briefing on Iranian nuclear weaponization efforts. (Reaction to the SIMO brief will be reported in separate channels.) Khelil heads Algeria's interm [...]	2005-11-07 16:17:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL AORC IR EU AG
05ALGIERS2256	POLICE TO LOSE CIVIL SERVICE STATUS AND GAIN [...] (U) Head of the National Police Ali Tounsi announced November 5 the next phase of the National Program for Police Development, which aims at improving the work conditions and overall situation of police. The Program, originally envisioned as necessary to bolstering recruitment, which was in [...]	2005-11-08 15:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC AG
05ALGIERS2264	ALGERIAN MOD AGREES TO COOPERATE ON BLUE LANTERN [...] (SBU) On November 8 the Ministry of National Defense sent DATT a letter whose bottom line, after four paragraphs of venting over the freeze on license authorizations, was that the Ministry has agreed to provide &certifications of receipt for all materials of American origin.8 Prefatory lang [...]	2005-11-09 15:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AG
05ALGIERS2270	ALGERIA CIVAIR -- OPEN SKIES NEGOTIATIONS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-09 15:26:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR KTIA AG
05ALGIERS2272	ALGERIANS RIOT IN FRANCE: A REMINDER OF [...] (C) The ongoing rioting in France, which Algerians have followed on French television, Algerian television, and in their press, has produced a mixture of smugness and concern in Algeria. On the one hand, the leadership is not displeased to show the Algerian youth, who have left in droves foll [...]	2005-11-09 16:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON AG
05ALGIERS2289	FAREWELL LUNCH WITH BELKHEIR ON EVE OF HIS TAKING [...] (C) Over a one-on-one lunch November 6, Ambassador and departing presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir discussed the latter's November 9 departure to Rabat as Algeria' new ambassador, the challenges that awaited, and the personal factors that made him well-suited for the difficult task of build [...]	2005-11-14 13:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MO AG WI
05ALGIERS2292	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ARGUES RUSSIA CAN'T SUPPORT [...] (S) We do not follow Moscow reporting on the Iran nuclear issue but report the following November 7 conversation between Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko and Ambassador in case it sheds additional light on Russian thinking and actions in the leadup to the IAEA board meetings later this mo [...]	2005-11-14 15:37:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PINS PARM MARR MNUC AG
05ALGIERS2293	ALGERIA BANKING SECTOR SUFFERS ANOTHER SETBACK [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Algerian banking system was recently hit by another scandal of fund embezzlement at the state- owned National Bank of Algeria (BNA). This comes at a time when the GoA is making a big push to privatize and reform the banking sector. According to media sources, between 2002 and [...]	2005-11-14 16:09:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ETRD EFIN AG
05ALGIERS2296	BOUTEFLIKA'S MESSAGE TO KING ABDALLAH FOLLOWING [...] Following the bombings in Amman which killed 59 people and wounded 96, President Abelaziz Bouteflika sent a condolence message November 11 on behalf of the Algerian people to King Abdallah II. Bouteflika wrote, "It is with profound sadness and affliction that I have learned about the painful [...]	2005-11-16 06:32:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER AG JO
05ALGIERS2299	NEA/MAG ACTING DIRECTOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) During her familiarization visit to Algeria, NEA/MAG Acting Director Ellen Germain called November 15 on Presidential Counselor for Counter-terrorism issues Rezag Bara. After thanking each other's countries for their cooperation in counter-terrorism efforts, Rezag Bara singled out the Tr [...]	2005-11-16 12:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG
05ALGIERS2309	FOLLOW UP ON ASSURANCES FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-19 14:55:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL AG
05ALGIERS2317	IRAN-RELATED BRIEFING DELIVERED TO MFA SECRETARY [...] (S) AMBASSADOR, ACCOMPANIED BY POLEC CHIEF AND ACTING SIMO, CALLED NOVEMBER 16 ON MFA SECRETARY GENERAL LAMAMRA TO DELIVER REF A TALKING POINTS AND INTRODUCE SENSITIVE SIMO BRIEFING ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONIZATION EFFORTS. AMBASSADOR NOTED THAT DUE TO LAMAMRA'S ABSENCE ABROAD THE PREVIOUS WE [...]	2005-11-20 14:12:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP IR EU AG
05ALGIERS2321	UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE KABYLIE REGION [...] (U) IN APRIL 2001, VIOLENCE ERUPTED IN THE MAINLY BERBER KABYLIE REGIONS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF AN 18-YEAR-OLD BERBER MALE TAKEN INTO POLICE CUSTODY. THE ENSUING CLASHES BETWEEN THE LOCAL KABYLIE POPULATION AND ALGERIAN SECURITY FORCES, WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS THE BERBER OR BLACK SPRING INCIDEN [...]	2005-11-21 07:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
05ALGIERS692	BOUTEFLIKA URGES IRANIAN COOPERATION ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Ambassador took advantage of April 5 meeting on other issues with Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir to inquire about the April 2-4 visit to Algeria of Iranian Defense Minister Shamkhani. Belkheir said the visit was part of a programmed exchange of bilateral visits, reciprocated the v [...]	2005-04-06 15:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP AG IR IAEA
05ALGIERS839	MG SENHADJI SEES JOINT MILITARY DIALOGUE AS STEP [...] (C) MOD Secretary General Senhadji discussed with Ambassador April 25 the upcoming Joint Military Dialogue talks in Washington (May 10-11),expressing appreciation for the excellent program that has been arranged and exchanging views on what to expect from these talks. He agreed with Ambassad [...]	2005-04-26 15:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS AG SOFA
05ALGIERS868	BIOGRAPHY OF MOHAMED BEDJAOUI, MINISTER OF FOREIGN [...] (U) Following is a biographical summary of the Algeria's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Bedjaoui, the former President of the Constitutional Council from May 2002 until the announcement of his new appointment on May 1: Mohamed Bedjaoui was born in Sidi-Bel Abbes (Algeria) on Septem [...]	2005-05-02 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR AG
05ALGIERS877	LONG-AWAITED PARTIAL ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE [...] (U) On May 1, President Bouteflika announced "a partial reshuffle" of the Algerian government. Six ministers changed portfolios; four ministers left the cabinet; and six new ministers were appointed to the GoA. Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia remains as Prime Minister. The Cabinet contains 16 [...]	2005-05-03 11:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR AG
05ALGIERS883	TEMMAR: MUCH WORK REMAINS ON WTO ACCESSION; [...] (C) Ambassador called on Presidential Economic Advisor Temmar April 30 to conduct an informal discussion, based on guidance from USTR, on Algeria's WTO accession progress, as well as to follow up with the status of banking reform, GOA's internal IPR reform, and movement on the east-west highway [...]	2005-05-03 18:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV AORC AG USTR WTRO WTO
05BAGHDAD4963	INFORMATION UPDATE ON ALGERIAN DETAINEE [...] (SBU) Post passed Embassy Algiers' request for information (see Reftel) to Coalition Forces, and has been informed that Mohmad Ahmed Mohamed Waber (DPOB 27 SEP 1975, Al Shalaf, Algeria) was detained on 21 May 2005 inside a targeted terrorist safe house. Mr. Waber has been referred to the Cen [...]	2005-12-13 03:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ AG XA
05CAIRO6270	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COVERAGE LURCHES ALONG: [...] Summary: The media devoted most of its leading coverage to the presidential nomination process. One independent newspaper continued to offer readers in-depth coverage of the candidates, publishing an informal poll on August 9 in which many of those interviewed claimed not to know the candid [...]	2005-08-15 15:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG EG
05CAIRO6508	ELECTIONS IN EGYPT: EGYPTIAN MEDIA THEMES, [...] Commentaries this past week indicate that many educated Egyptians think that the presidential elections next month, even if the results are a foregone conclusion, will be a rehearsal for the parliamentary ones next November and a healthy experience for the body politic. The Ghad Party's sup [...]	2005-08-24 10:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG EG
05MADRID1456	SPAIN'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON USG POSITION ON [...] (C) On April 13, Poloff delivered demarche as per instructions in reftel A to MFA Maghreb office director Carlos Fernandez Arias. Arias said that he was aware that the Department had shared a similar message with the Spanish Embassy in an April 12th meeting. He appreciated the USG's detailed [...]	2005-04-14 15:13:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO WI SP
05PARIS1612	FRENCH RESPONSE TO ALGERIAN UNCHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-10 17:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR AG MO WS UN
05PARIS2468	GOF CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN G8-BMENA LITERACY [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-12 14:32:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KPAO PREL XF KMPI AG FR
05PARIS3414	NO ALGERIAN REQUEST TO FRANCE FOR NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-18 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TRGY AORC ENRG AG FR IAEA
05PARIS3766	MFA ON ALGERIAN RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AND MOROCCO, [...] Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Anne Mohsen, during a recent meeting with us, described French relations with Algeria as unaffected by controversy over the 1945 Setif massacre, with progress on track towards conclusion of a bilateral friendship treaty by year-end. Mohsen suggested [...]	2005-06-01 10:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WS MO TS FR
05PARIS5241	FRENCH MFA UPDATE ON MAGHREB ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting NEA/MAG Acting Director William Jordan, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reported continued difficulties with the Algerian government over a February 2005 French law lauding achievements from the French colonial period, with Algeria [...]	2005-07-29 16:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO TS LY FR
05PARIS6534	UNESCO EXECUTIVE BOARD PX (PROGRAM AND EXTERNAL [...] Summary. The final vote was 54-1 in the UNESCO Executive Board PX Committee for the Canadian-sponsored resolution that paves the way for adoption of the current preliminary draft Cultural Diversity Convention at the October 2005 UNESCO General Conference. In discussions leading up to the [...]	2005-09-23 15:26:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL CJAN ETRD UNESCO CA AF AS ID JA RS EG AG CV
05PARIS8483	GOF CONTINUES TO DECLINE COMMENT ON BOUTEFLIKA'S [...] (C) The GoF continues to stonewall on the health situation of Algerian President Bouteflika, who has been hospitalized in Paris since November 27 (reftels). During a December 13 discussion with poloff, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reiterated he could provide no informatio [...]	2005-12-16 07:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG FR
05QUEBEC46	QUEBEC IMMIGRATION POLICY AT A CROSSROADS? [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-11 20:40:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI SMIG PGOV PREL EFIN ECON CA MO AG TS
05RABAT1162	US-MOROCCAN MILITARY CONSULTATIONS: THE MOROCCANS [...] (C) Summary: The third annual US-Morocco Defense Consultative Committee took place in Rabat on May 18-19, 2005, led on the US side by ASD Peter Rodman and on the Moroccan side by Minister Delegate to the PM in Charge of the Administration of National Defense Mr. Abderrahmane Sbai. During the [...]	2005-06-03 17:27:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG ETRD IZ KPKO MARR MO PGOV PREL PTER SNAR
05RABAT2475	WESTERN SAHARA: GOM DEFENDS ITS ACTIONS [...] (C) Summary: During a December 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy FM Fassi Fihri defended recent Moroccan actions in the Western Sahara, stressing that the GOM was responding appropriately to violent acts by demonstrators. He fended off any suggestion that demonstrators were rounded up me [...]	2005-12-13 10:08:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL
05ROME1174	DRIFTNETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: WORLD [...] (U) This is an action request: please see paragraphs 8 and 9. 2. (SBU) Embassy recently received a letter from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mediterranean Programme Office in Rome that alleged illegal driftnet activity by Morocco, Algeria, France, Italy and Turkey in the Mediterranean hi [...]	2005-04-06 19:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV KSCA ETRD AG FR IT MO TU ICCAT
05SANAA927	DEMARCHE ON G8-BMENA LITERACY WORKSHOP DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-13 11:47:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KPAO PREL XF KMPI AG YM DEMARCHE
05TELAVIV6874	(C) FM SHALOM DISCUSSES SECURITY CONCERNS, [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch on December 8 met with FM Silvan Shalom to discuss regional and Israeli-Palestinian issues. Shalom expressed concern about the security situation, claiming that there had been an increase in infiltrations by terrorists and weapons smuggling sin [...]	2005-12-10 15:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KWBG IS TS EG LE AG JO IR GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TRIPOLI290	THE NORTH AFRICAN BRIGADE OF THE AFRICAN UNION PEACE AND [...] (S) According to press reports, army chiefs of staff from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and "the Western Sahara Republic," announced November 17 the creation of a joint military force. We obtained additional information about the agreement in November 29 meetings with the Egyptian Embassy an [...]	2005-12-01 11:12:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET	MARR PREL EG AG MO TS WI CA LY
06ALGIERS1002	POLISARIO DENIES MOROCCAN ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (U) The Algerian press June 4 ran a statement issued by the Polisario flatly denying Moroccan reports that "pro-Moroccan" demonstrations had been forcibly suppressed in the Tindouf camps (ref B). The Polisario statement included an invitation to the UN High Commission for Human Rights to vis [...]	2006-06-04 14:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM WI AG MO
06ALGIERS1006	ALGERIA NON-COMMITTAL ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Given the absence abroad of Minister Bedjaoui, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on Iran to MFA Americas Director General Selmane May 31, underscoring the major policy importance of the Secretary's announcement and our strong hope that Algeria would publicly support our initiative and [...]	2006-06-04 15:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG IR
06ALGIERS1026	ALGERIA NON-COMMITTAL ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Given the absence abroad of Minister Bedjaoui, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on Iran to MFA Americas Director General Selmane May 31, underscoring the major policy importance of the Secretary's announcement and our strong hope that Algeria would publicly support our initiative and [...]	2006-06-07 07:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG IR
06ALGIERS1075	IMPRISONED ALGERIAN JOURNALIST MOHAMED BENCHICOU [...] Mohamed Benchicou, former publisher of the now defunct French-language daily Le Matin, is set to be released from prison June 14 according to press reports. Benchicou served a two year prison term for illegal transfer of funds related to the operation of his newspaper, though many believe the [...]	2006-06-13 16:46:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AG
06ALGIERS1080	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE REQUEST ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-14 14:06:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AG
06ALGIERS1112	ALGERIA AMBIVALENT AS CHINESE LABOR AND GOODS, NOT [...] Chinese workers, who first flocked to Algeria in the late 1990s to meet the country's steep labor demand for construction projects, today number around eight thousand at any given time. While they are still most prevalent in the construction sector, many moonlight as traders of Chinese wares. [...]	2006-06-19 14:51:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV CH AG
06ALGIERS1120	ICRC PENDING HUMANITARIAN ISSUES IN THE WESTERN [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-20 14:03:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PBTS WI AG MO
06ALGIERS1184	UPTICK IN VIOLENCE IN ALGERIAN COUNTRYSIDE [...] (SBU) Since late April, GSPC terrorists have intensified their attacks against both traditional military and government targets and civilians in areas to the east and west of Algiers. The GSPC has changed tactics and increased the lethality of its attacks. The Algerian Army for its part has [...]	2006-06-27 17:32:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC AG
06ALGIERS1209	BOUTEFLIKA URGES WALIS TO TAKE GREATER STAKE IN [...] In a two-hour televised speech June 25 before Algeria's 48 walis (presidentially-appointed provincial governors),President Bouteflika vociferously criticized his government for allowing red tape, corruption, and nepotism to impede plans to meet the basic needs of its citizens, particularly Al [...]	2006-06-28 17:15:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON AG
06ALGIERS1219	BOUTEFLIKA ON WESTERN SAHARA, RELATIONS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-01 11:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS WI MO AG
06ALGIERS1221	BOUTEFLIKA ON SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) During Adviser to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Fragos Townsend's June 18 meeting with President Bouteflika, Bouteflika said the U.S. and Algerian positions on Iraq overlapped. Algeria recognized the new Iraqi government, backed it, and wanted to assist [...]	2006-07-01 11:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL IZ AG
06ALGIERS1243	MALI PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN ALGIERS JULY 4 [...] (SBU) With considerable fanfare, Foreign Minister Bedjaoui convoked the diplomatic corps and representatives of the Algerian and international media to witness the signing July 4 at the El Mithaq state guest house in Algiers of a peace agreement between the Malian government and the Touareg r [...]	2006-07-06 12:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ML AG
06ALGIERS1249	PRESIDENT BOUTEFLIKA PARDONS JOURNALISTS, SEEKS [...] (U) On the occasion of Algerian National Day (July 5),President Bouteflika announced July 3 the unconditional pardon of all journalists in Algeria convicted of or facing charges of defamation. The announcement followed the "definitive convictions" of several journalists in previous days so [...]	2006-07-09 11:16:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM AG
06ALGIERS1259	FLN PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES WOULD [...] (C) Post received an advance copy of proposed constitutional changes made by Algeria's predominant political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN). The document was recently submitted to President Bouteflika, who announced his intention July 5 to hold a national referendum on proposed ame [...]	2006-07-10 09:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
06ALGIERS1278	ALGERIA REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE IN IMPLEMENTING [...] (C) MFA Director General for African Affairs Chergui briefed Ambassador July 9 on the recent agreement Algeria brokered between Malian authorities and Tuareg rebels in northern Mali (reftels) and asked for a U.S. pledge of financial assistance for the "Forum on Development" created by the agr [...]	2006-07-11 05:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR MARR ML AG LY SU
06ALGIERS1299	DEMARCHE ON ALGERIA'S WTO ACCESSION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Ambassador, accompanied by PolEC Chief, delivered reftel demarche July 11 to MFA Americas Director General Selmane. Reviewing reftel points and leaving a non-paper in French and English at the end of the discussion, Ambassador highlighted strong U.S. support for Algerian WTO accession, [...]	2006-07-15 12:25:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO AG
06ALGIERS1305	ALGERIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN LEBANON [...] (U) In an apparent effort to get out in front of an Algerian public furious over Israeli actions in Lebanon, the GOA adopted an unusually high-profile posture the past few days. The MFA issued a statement July 13 denouncing "the flagrant aggressions" perpetrated by Israeli military forces ag [...]	2006-07-15 15:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IS LE AG
06ALGIERS1308	INTERIOR MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR ALGERIAN [...] (C) True to his hard-liner reputation, Interior Minister Zerhouni told Ambassador during his July 10 farewell call that Algerians supported reform but needed time to absorb and adapt to economic and political change. Forcing the pace could cause problems and set back the entire process. Zerho [...]	2006-07-16 05:43:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1311	MFA JOINS CALL FOR EMERGENCY UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] In conjunction with the meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, MFA issued a statement July 15 calling on the UN Security Council to "hold an emergency meeting to put an end to the criminal Israeli aggressions" and "assure the protection of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples. [...]	2006-07-16 16:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS LE AG
06ALGIERS1315	BOUTEFLIKA MULLS CHANGES TO 2005 HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (SBU) President Bouteflika is reviewing proposed changes to Algeria's 2005 hydrocarbon law, touted at the time as a major step toward greater openness. The proposed changes would slow down current rates of oil and gas exploitation while limiting the expanded role for foreign energy companies e [...]	2006-07-17 12:58:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET TRGY AG
06ALGIERS1331	DEMARCHE ON WTO ACCESSION DELIVERED TO ALGERIAN [...] (SBU) PolEC Chief delivered Ref A demarche July 17 to Ministry of Commerce Director General for Foreign Trade Cherif Zaaf, who serves concurrently as Algeria's WTO coordinator. Ambassador previously delivered the same demarche to MFA Americas Director General Selmane (Ref B). Leaving behind n [...]	2006-07-18 09:59:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO AG
06ALGIERS1360	POLICE BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN ALGIERS; OTHERS [...] (SBU) The Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),a moderate Islamist party belonging to the presidential coalition, attempted to organize a peaceful march July 20 from the First of May shopping area to the UN offices in Algiers to protest Israeli military operations in Lebanon and express sol [...]	2006-07-22 14:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1364	LIBYAN, ALGERIAN MINISTERS OF INTERIOR DISCUSS [...] (SBU) General Salah Rajab El-Mismari, Libyan Secretary General of the Popular Committee and de facto Libyan Minister of the Interior, visited Algiers July 17-19, holding talks on border and security issues with Algerian Minister of the Interior Nouredine Yazid Zerhouni. The official visit, a [...]	2006-07-22 16:38:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS AG LY
06ALGIERS1373	LEBANESE FIGURE VISITS ALGIERS, THANKS GOA FOR ITS [...] (U) Saad Hariri, the leader of the largest political party represented in the Lebanese parliament and son of the slain Lebanese prime minister, visited Algiers July 23. In public remarks reported by the press, he thanked "Algeria, its president and head of government fo their support" and und [...]	2006-07-24 14:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AG IS LE
06ALGIERS1376	ALGERIAN COMMITTEE OF SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT FOR [...] Vice President of the Conseil de la Nation (Senate) Zohra Bitat; Senator Saida Benhabyles; Female Executives NGO President Aicha Kouadri; and General Union of Students President Nabil Yahoui called July 24 on the Charge d'Affaires to present a petition calling on the United States to take ste [...]	2006-07-24 16:24:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LE IS AG
06ALGIERS1401	ABBAS RECEIVED BY PRIME MINISTER IN ALGIERS [...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas followed in the footsteps of Lebanese party leader Saad Hariri (see reftel) and made a stop in Algiers July 26 as part of what Abbas described as a tour of Arab capitals devoted to "bilateral discussions on next steps" to address the situati [...]	2006-07-29 16:22:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LE IS AG
06ALGIERS1403	ALI BELHADJ PROTESTS U.S. ACTIONS IN LEBANON IN [...] (U) In a deliberate challenge to the authority of the GOA, which released him from prison March 6 under the terms of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, co-founder of the now banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) Ali Belhadj demonstrated in front of Embassy Algiers July 31, carr [...]	2006-07-31 16:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC AG
06ALGIERS1414	GOA COORDINATES PUBLIC STATEMENTS FROM RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Religious Affairs over the past couple of weeks has continued to provide imams with points on the ongoing violence in Lebanon from which to draw for Friday sermons (reftel). Imams have confirmed to post that July 28 sermons were required to contain a reference to "the l [...]	2006-08-02 15:02:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER AG
06ALGIERS1418	GOA AND POLISARIO STATEMENTS ON ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (U) President Bouteflika's statement of congratulations to King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the seventh anniversary of the King's enthronement (Ref A) was widely reported in the Algerian press July 30. In his message, Bouteflika reiterated his steadfast determination to work with the Moroccan [...]	2006-08-02 16:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM WI MO AG
06ALGIERS1504	BOUTEFLIKA SENDS BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO KING [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 06:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AG MO

06ALGIERS1514	TO POSTPONE OR NOT TO POSTPONE: AMNESTY DEADLINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian terrorists seeking amnesty under the Peace and National Reconciliation process (reftels) have until August 28 to surrender to the authorities. In mid-August the military and police began ostentatious preparations to conduct what they assert will be a final mopping-up of [...]	2006-08-23 15:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM KISL AG
06ALGIERS1516	PARTIES PREPARE TO RESPOND TO BOUTEFLIKA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the vacationing President Bouteflika ponders what constitutional changes he will propose to voters in the fall, Algerian opposition parties (and the lone Islamist party in the presidential coalition) are preparing their reaction. The opposition Islah Party believes that any [...]	2006-08-23 17:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1518	USG RESPONSE TO IMMINENT FOOD SHORTAGE IN TINDOUF [...] (SBU) Marius Fortman, World Food Program (WFP) Country Director for Algeria, briefed us August 23 on the current state of food stocks for the Sahrawi refugees. Fortman said Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf would run out of food by the end of September absent additional donations. Fortman m [...]	2006-08-26 07:38:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PBTS WFP AG
06ALGIERS1535	AN UNFINISHED JOB: ACCOUNTING FOR THE DISAPPEARED [...] (SBU) As the deadline for terrorists to lay down their arms under the National Charter for Peace and Reconciliation (reftel) arrived August 28, SOS Disparus, an Algerian NGO that advocates on behalf of victims of the civil strife of the 1990s, was still maintaining that the Charter had not gon [...]	2006-08-28 17:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AG
06ALGIERS1545	FLN OFFICIALS STATE THEIR PRIORITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two senior officials in the National Liberation Front (FLN),Algeria's predominant political party, reviewed the party's near-term priorities for us on August 29. Their top goal is implementation of President Bouteflika's Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation. Second is [...]	2006-08-30 14:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1572	FORMER FIS LEADERS QUESTION IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (U) Former Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) leaders Rabeh Kebir and Anwar Haddam and former Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) emir Madani Mezrag gave interviews that appeared August 27 in the Arabic-language daily El Chourouk El Youmi. The interview of Haddam, who currently resides in the U.S., was t [...]	2006-09-06 06:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1595	GROWING ANGST OVER CHANGES TO ALGERIA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algeria country director of a major U.S. oil servicing company (strictly protect) told us September 3 of the growing concerns among expatriate oil servicing companies in Algeria related to the proposed changes to the 2005 hydrocarbon law. Sharing the minutes of a meeting rece [...]	2006-09-06 16:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TRGY AG
06ALGIERS1703	PARLIAMENT SPEAKER PRAISES ONE MEPI PROGRAM, [...] (U) The work of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has provided a valuable model for Algeria as it builds on its democratic foundation, according to Speaker of the National People's Assembly Amar Saadani. Saadani maintained that the apolitical approach of NCSL was an importan [...]	2006-09-21 13:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AG
06ALGIERS1769	FORMER SONATRACH COUNSEL CRITIQUES CHANGES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A former Sonatrach counsel provided us with a detailed briefing on the changes to Algeria's hydrocarbon legislation over the last 20 years and his views on the impact of the recent hydrocarbon amendments. He clarified that while the new amendments obligate the Algerian petrole [...]	2006-10-04 13:11:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV ECON TRGY AG
06ALGIERS1789	JUSTICE MINISTER INDICATES DESIRE TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) Minister of Justice Tayeb Belaiz, in a brief October 7 introductory call by the Ambassador, placed considerable emphasis on concluding a bilateral extradition treaty with the U.S., called it a logical outcome of the joint U.S.-Algeria fight against terrorism, and linked it to mutual legal [...]	2006-10-09 16:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AG
06ALGIERS1816	ALGERIA'S DEMOCRACY REMAINS A WORK IN PROGRESS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political contacts from two moderate Islamist parties believe Algeria's democracy is a work in progress and that civil liberties are overly restricted. Both parties cite difficulty in organizing civic groups as a notable problem. The contacts also believe that the Islamic Salvat [...]	2006-10-15 17:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV KISL AG
06ALGIERS1828	TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT REACHED TO PROMOTE PRIVATE [...] SUMMARY: Tripartite discussions among representatives of Algerian government, labor, and employers have concluded with an unprecedented "pact" to promote economic development and diversification of Algeria's economy while "aiming to guarantee social stability." Parallel negotiations led to [...]	2006-10-17 06:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EINV AG
06ALGIERS1835	MP'S SPECULATE ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM, [...] (C) We met separately October 16 with three respected members of parliament who are also heavyweights in their parties: Nourredine Benbraham (RND),Houria Bouhired (FLN),and Lakhdar Benkhellaf (Islah). Benbraham and Bouhired belong to the two largest parties in the presidential coalition; B [...]	2006-10-17 17:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KDEM AG
06ALGIERS1844	KHELIL ON PROGRESS IN ALGERIAN ENERGY SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Minister of Energy Chakib Khelil gave a public overview October 8 of the Algerian energy and mining sector's successes over the last five years. He probably underestimated the true long-term impact, given the long gestation period of energy exploration projects. According to K [...]	2006-10-18 15:27:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EINV TRGY AG
06ALGIERS1912	BOUTEFLIKA MAKES A SHOW OF FIRING GOVERNOR FOR [...] (U) In an October 28 communique read on national television and covered widely in the press, President Bouteflika fired Djillali Araar, the wali (governor) of El-Tarf province in northeastern Algeria. While the communique did not indicate the reason for Araar's dismissal, he was recently char [...]	2006-10-30 16:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EINV AG
06ALGIERS1961	SKIKDA RAMPING UP REFINING, LNG CAPACITY WITH EYE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Skikda industrial zone, some 300 kilometers east of Algiers, boasts Africa's largest oil refinery and what was the country's second most important LNG terminal until half of it was destroyed in an industrial accident in 2004. Officials of the Algerian pertroleum parastatal S [...]	2006-11-12 06:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV AG
06ALGIERS1978	BOUTEFLIKA'S HEALTH BECOMES THE SUBJECT OF OPEN [...] (C) Summary: President Bouteflika's remark to the media on November 13 that his health has improved has not stopped speculation about his medical situation. Many of our political contacts speculate that the President's physical condition is behind the delay in a referendum on constitutiona [...]	2006-11-15 16:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
06ALGIERS2019	SUB-MEDITERRANEAN GAS DEALS ARE UNDERCURRENT OF [...] (U) Speculation about the details of future energy cooperation between Algeria and Italy swirled in Algerian business circles following the November 14-15 visit to Algiers by Italian Prime Minister Romani Prodi. The state-owned French-language daily El Moudjahid focused on Prodi's discussions [...]	2006-11-21 14:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL EINV IT AG
06ALGIERS2025	POLISARIO PERCEIVES CHANGE IN U.S. POLICY [...] (C) During a November 16-17 orientation visit to Sahrawi refugee camps in the Tindouf region of Algeria, NEA/MAG desk officer and poloff met with Polisario Secretary-General Mohamed Abdelaziz and Polisario Representative to the U.S. Mouloud Said. Abdelaziz provided his version of the history [...]	2006-11-22 11:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PBTS PREF AG
06ALGIERS2047	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT PROMISES INFORMATION ON TIP [...] (C) Ambassador raised in a November 25 meeting with MFA Director General for the Americas Selmane the lack of Algerian responsiveness on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues (reftel) and emphasized our need for maximum information on investigations, prosecutions and penalties for TIP. Ambassad [...]	2006-11-28 14:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG AG
06ALGIERS2050	FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN SAHRAWI REFUGEE CAMPS: A [...] (C) During a November 16-17 trip to the Tindouf region of Algeria, visiting NEA/MAG Algeria desk officer and poloff met with Sahrawi Red Crescent Society (SRCS) President Yahia Bohubaini and with UN World Food Program (WFP) representative Keddi Abdellah to discuss the status of food distributio [...]	2006-11-28 16:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PBTS PREL AG
06ALGIERS2067	SENATE PRESIDENCY THE PRIZE OF UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (U) The Ministry of Interior announced last month that the wilaya councils (roughly equivalent to U.S. state legislatures) will elect 48 senators December 28 to the Conseil de la Nation (the national upper house, usually referred to as the Senate). In addition to these contested seats, Presid [...]	2006-12-05 07:07:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS2071	MFA SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS CREATIVE SOLUTION [...] (C) In a December 4 meeting devoted to several issues, the Ambassador reviewed for MFA Secretary General Ramtane Lamamra U.S. views on the Western Sahara. The Ambassador noted that Washington would look favorably on a serious Moroccan autonomy proposal for the disputed area, provided that it h [...]	2006-12-05 15:07:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM WI MO AG
06ALGIERS2082	INTERNAL CHALLENGES TO BELKHADEM'S FLN LEADERSHIP [...] (C) A number of political party contacts tell us that rivals of Prime Minister Belkhadem are increasingly seeking to thwart his presidential ambitions by painting a picture of a prime minister who is so consumed by in-fighting within his own party that he is unable to govern effectively. Party [...]	2006-12-06 11:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
06ALGIERS2087	HOW FREE IS ALGERIA'S PRINTED PRESS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian government exerts pressure on Algeria's independent printed media with the aim of encouraging self-censorship. Government tactics have included using the state advertising agency to reward or punish papers financially; miring journalists in lengthy legal proceedings [...]	2006-12-09 06:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG
06ALGIERS2108	MFA AFRICAN AFFAIRS DG ON ALGIERS ACCORD [...] (C) In a December 10 discussion prompted by ref A, MFA Director General for African Affairs Smail Chergui told Charge that implementation of the Algiers Accord was moving forward and had not been adversely affected by recent fighting between the Alliance for Democratic Change (ADC) and the Sal [...]	2006-12-11 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS PGOV ML SU AG
06ALGIERS2162	DETAINED JOURNALIST RELEASED, TRIES TO KEEP LOW [...] (SBU) On December 18 Algerian authorities released the director of the low-circulation Arabic-language daily "El Fedjr" following her incarceration December 7 on year-old charges of bouncing a check for USD 21,400 to a government-owned printing company. Hadda Hazzam's lawyer refused to commen [...]	2006-12-19 16:51:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS2189	GOVERNMENT ISLAMIST PARTY SEES CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) Summary: A top official in the moderate Islamist Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) party, a member of the governing coalition, told us Algeria did not yet have the same societal consensus to support WTO accession and other economic reforms aimed at attracting investment as it did on [...]	2006-12-26 16:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETRD KDEM KISL AG
06ALGIERS246	GAS PIPELINE EXPLOSION IN AOMAR [...] (U) Wednesday's edition of "Le Soir d'Algerie" reported that GSPC member Mohamed Keraouni, also known as Emir Kezouit, used a homemade bomb to destroy a portion of the Hassi R'mel-Cap Dijnet gas pipeline on February 6 in Aomar, approximately 100 kilometers southeast of Algiers. The article p [...]	2006-02-12 05:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PTER ENRG AG
06ALGIERS336	MFA ADVISES GIVING HAMAS TIME TO CHANGE, AVOIDING [...] (C) MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher told Ambassador, visiting NEA/MAG Director Jordan, and DCM January 26 that while Algeria agreed with the U.S. that Hamas must change its position on peace with Israel, they disagreed about "imposing sanctions." Bouzaher advised the U.S. and [...]	2006-02-28 12:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KWBG AG
06ALGIERS338	IMPLEMENTING ORDINANCES FOR NATIONAL [...] (SBU) The ordinances implementing the provisions of National Reconciliation as approved by voters in September 2005, made public February 22, are expected to be implemented by presidential decree by the end of the current month. While several organizations representing victims of terrorism cr [...]	2006-02-28 12:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM AG
06ALGIERS339	ALGERIA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR PEACE BUILDING [...] (U) Post received February 26 an English-language diplomatic note announcing Algeria's candidacy for the Peace Building Commission in 2006-07, the text of which follows with Embassy minor grammatical edits. Separately, MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Bouguerra asked Ambassador [...]	2006-02-28 13:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN AG
06ALGIERS340	NEA/MAG DIRECTOR'S DISCUSSION OF SAHRAWI REFUGEES [...] (C) During visiting NEA/MAG Director Jordan's February 26 courtesy call on MFA Multilateral Relations Director General Bouguerra, the latter engaged in spirited discussion of UNHCR's unilateral decision to cut food assistance to Sahrawi refugees and argued that a new census could not be carrie [...]	2006-02-28 14:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM AG WI UN
06ALGIERS341	GOA STATEMENT PRAISES ALGERIAN PUBLIC'S CALM [...] (SBU) The Algerian Council of Ministers issued February 27 a declaration on the Danish cartoon controversy praising the Algerian public's calm reaction and calling for tolerance, mutual understanding, and the avoidance of both violence and provocations. The declaration is a textbook case of [...]	2006-02-28 14:50:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AG
06ALGIERS342	THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SAHRAWI REPUBLIC OBSERVED [...] According to Algerian press reports confirmed by Embassy Rabat (reftels),the Polisario peacefully marked February 27 the 30th anniversary of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Unlike May 2005 statements from Polisario leader Abdelaziz and President Bouteflika, the statements this ye [...]	2006-02-28 15:44:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
06ALGIERS365	UNOFFICIAL, EMBASSY-EDITED TEXT OF IMPLEMENTING [...] The opening chapter lauds the sovereignty of the people who overwhelmingly voted for the Charter and implements the legal provisions of the approved charter in their name. CHAPTER TWO: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------ 2. In brief, this chapter deals with legal proceeding [...]	2006-03-05 08:54:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM AG
06ALGIERS367	TALLY OF ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS IN JAIL [...] (SBU) There are currently three Algerian journalists in prison. Eighteen other journalists have been sentenced to prison terms but are free pending appellate court rulings on their appeals. In prison the longest is Mohamed Benchicou, former publisher of the now-defunct Le Matin newspaper, wh [...]	2006-03-05 09:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AG
06ALGIERS392	FOREIGN MINISTER BEDJAOUI ON POLISARIO-MOROCCO [...] (C) During a March 5 meeting with Ambassador and DCM covering a range of issues, Foreign Minister Bedjaoui raised the Western Sahara, asking Ambassador for U.S. views about Morocco's anticipated autonomy proposal. Ambassador noted that the U.S. has been encouraging Morocco to develop its ide [...]	2006-03-07 13:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS WI AG MO
06ALGIERS399	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, delivered reftel demarche during a March 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Bedjaoui, leaving points in French translation as non-paper. Ambassador stressed that IAEA DG ElBaradei's report had confirmed U.S. concerns; Iran has not taken any of the steps called [...]	2006-03-08 10:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IAEA UNSC IR AG
06ALGIERS401	SCENESETTER FOR A/S WELCH'S VISIT TO ALGIERS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Welch, Embassy Algiers and our Algerian hosts very much look forward to welcoming you to Algiers. President Bouteflika is interested in continuing the dialogue you began in New York last September, and there is indeed much to discuss. Prime Minister Ouyahia and Forei [...]	2006-03-09 18:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER AG
06ALGIERS408	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAMAS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador drew on reftel points on the Israeli-Palestinian situation in a March 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Bedjaoui (discussion of Sudan, Western Sahara, NDI visas reported septel). Ambassador stressed the importance of the international community maintaining a common position towa [...]	2006-03-12 18:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS AG
06ALGIERS409	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SUDAN WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) During a wide-ranging discussion March 5 with Foreign Minister Bedjaoui, Ambassador delivered reftel points for participants in the Arab League preparatory ministerial (discussion of Hamas reported septel). After reviewing points on Iraq and Syria, Ambassador turned to Sudan, noting that [...]	2006-03-12 18:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU AG
06ALGIERS451	PUTIN VISIT RESULTS IN SUBSTANTIAL DEBT [...] (C) Russian President Putin's March 10 visit to Algeria, the first by a Russian president, has produced a substantial debt forgiveness package, some commercial and investment agreements, and talk about a possible energy clearing house deal. But the details of the debt forgiveness package and [...]	2006-03-15 18:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL RS AG
06ALGIERS454	NEA A/S WELCH AND PM OUYAHIA'S DISCUSSION OF WTO [...] (SBU) During a March 14 meeting with Prime Minister Ouyahia on other issues (septel),NEA A/S Welch affirmed U.S. support for Algeria's reform process and WTO accession bid. Ouyahia expressed appreciation for U.S. support of its economic modernization efforts, including U.S. technical support [...]	2006-03-18 06:02:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV AG
06ALGIERS455	BOUTEFLIKA TELLS A/S WELCH KHARTOUM SUMMIT AND [...] (C) During a two-hour meeting March 14 with President Bouteflika, NEA Assistant Secretary Welch raised Hamas, noting that the international community had made clear to Hamas what it needed to do. Arab support for that message, including at the upcoming Khartoum Arab summit, would be critical [...]	2006-03-18 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KPAL AG
06ALGIERS456	DARFUR: BOUTEFLIKA TELLS NEA A/S WELCH ALGERIA [...] (C) Darfur was one of the main subjects covered in a two-hour meeting March 14 between NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and President Bouteflika (other subjects reported septels). A/S Welch stressed President Bush's personal interest in Darfur and U.S. concern at the continued violence an [...]	2006-03-18 08:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU AG
06ALGIERS490	QUESTIONABLE DEATH SPARKS DEMONSTRATIONS IN ZERALDA [...] (U) The questionable death of Faycal Akbichi on March 5 in a police station in Zeralda, a city 30 kilometers west of Algiers, created a furor for local citizens and resulted in 18 injuries, cars and tires burned, and damage to the city hall and a local bank headquarters. The police reacted q [...]	2006-03-19 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM AG
06ALGIERS496	ALGERIA STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AS KEY TO CONTROLLING [...] Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel presented to journalists March 18 "an African Road Map" for addressing migration issues. He confirmed that further discussions on migration within the African continent and between Europe and Africa would be on the agenda [...]	2006-03-20 17:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS498	NEA A/S WELCH'S MARCH 14 DISCUSSION OF WESTERN [...] (C) In his March 14 meeting with NEA A/S David Welch, PM Ouyahia said principles mattered in the world, and Algeria looked to the UN to stick by its principles on the Western Sahara, whose situation was a result of decolonization. Welch said the U.S. did not want to discard the UN process, bu [...]	2006-03-21 07:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS EINV ETRD AG WI
06ALGIERS499	NEA A/S WELCH TELLS MFA SECRETARY GENERAL WE STILL [...] (C) In a March 14 discussion with MFA Secretary General Lamamra on other issues, NEA A/S Welch raised continuing U.S. interest in concluding a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Algeria. Such a step made sense in the context of our growing bilateral cooperation and would enable the further [...]	2006-03-21 07:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL AG
06ALGIERS500	HAMAS, IRAN, LEBANON, SYRIA, AND THE WESTERN [...] (C) Over a March 14 working lunch with MFA Secretary General Lamamra, NEA A/S Welch explained the U.S. view that taking the Iran nuclear issue to the Security Council would strengthen possibilities of resolving the problem through diplomacy; urged Algeria to ensure assistance was channeled to [...]	2006-03-21 07:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PBTS IR WI MO SY LE AG
06ALGIERS501	NEA A/S WELCH'S MARCH 14 DISCUSSION OF HAMAS, [...] (C) In their March 14 meeting, PM Ouyahia and NEA A/S Welch primarily focused on the Palestinian issue and dealings with Hamas. A/S Welch stressed that U.S. assistance to the Palestinians would continue but not through government channels so long as Hamas was in government and failed to reco [...]	2006-03-21 07:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IR IZ IS PA SU AG
06ALGIERS502	NEA A/S WELCH'S MARCH 14 MEETING WITH FM BEDJAOUI [...] (C) In their March 14 meeting, A/S Welch told FM Bedjaoui we would welcome his visiting Washington in April; expressed U.S. concerns about Sudan and urged Arab League support for bringing African Union forces in Darfur under a UN umbrella; and hoped Algeria would press Hamas to recognize Israel [...]	2006-03-21 07:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS PA SU AG
06ALGIERS503	(C) WESTERN SAHARA: BOUTEFLIKA TELLS A/S WELCH [...] (C) President Bouteflika reviewed for NEA A/S Welch March 14 Algeria's views on the Western Sahara. Covering largely familiar ground, Bouteflika stressed that resolving the Western Sahara conflict is the UN's responsibility; that Algeria will never negotiate with Morocco on the Sahrawis' beh [...]	2006-03-21 07:42:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS WI MO AG
06ALGIERS548	NEW ALGERIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL RULES FAVOR [...] (U) President Abdelaziz Bouteflika signed into law February 28 a general statute on military personnel that replaces a previous law dating to 1969. The explanatory preface of the new statute explained that the old law no longer responded to the current military requirements of Algerian socie [...]	2006-03-27 14:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AG
06ALGIERS554	UPDATE ON ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS FIRED/JAILED OVER [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 16:53:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AG
06ALGIERS556	GOA AND POLISARIO REACT TO MOROCCAN KING'S VISIT [...] In reaction to the visit last week of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI to the western side of the berm in the Western Sahara, the GOA and Polisario made public statements. Abdelaziz Belkhadem, former Foreign Minister and currently Minister of State and Personal Representative to President Boutef [...]	2006-03-27 17:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
06ALGIERS565	REALITIES OF RECONCILIATION CHARTER IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Influential segments of the Algerian public, assured by President Bouteflika last fall that voters were not approving a general amnesty for terrorists, are expressing serious reservations on its implementation after seeing prominent terrorists and FIS leaders returned to the streets and ma [...]	2006-03-29 15:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS570	BECHTEL POISED TO PREVAIL IN BID PROCESS FOR [...] (U) This cable contains proprietary information. Please protect accordingly. BIDS UNSEALED IN FULLY TRANSPARENT PROCESS ------------------------------------------- 2. (U) In full view of the Algerian media, public and diplomats representing the home countries of firms bidding to build [...]	2006-03-29 17:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV BEXP ELTN ETRD AG
06ALGIERS576	EL KHABAR JOURNALIST INTERROGATED ABOUT THE [...] (U) Algeria's leading Arabic-language daily, El Khabar, claimed in April 1 that its reporter Mohamed Mourad, the author of two articles published March 27 and 29 on the dissemination of leaflets by the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC),was questioned March 30 at an Algerian police st [...]	2006-04-01 16:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KDEM PHUM AG
06ALGIERS605	ALGERIA ACTIVELY SEEKING TO PREVENT TRAVEL OF [...] (S/NF) The GOA is committed to preventing Algerian would-be foreign fighters from traveling to Iraq and to breaking up networks recruiting foreign fighters of various nationalities. Algeria continues to arrest persons traveling with this intent and has won U.S. Government recognition for bei [...]	2006-04-03 14:54:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV CG IZ AG
06ALGIERS606	NEW ALGERIAN LEGISLATION A STEP BACK FOR RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Algerian parliament quietly passed legislation February 28 that, among other things, confines non-Muslim worship to church buildings approved by the state, imposes penalties for proselytizing, and treats these as criminal rather than civil offenses. The new law, which clearly impact [...]	2006-04-03 15:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PTER AG
06ALGIERS622	ALGERIA REPORTEDLY RE-ARRESTS THREE TERRORISTS [...] (U) The leading Arabic-language daily newspaper El Khabar reported April 4 on its front page the re-arrest of Abdelmadjid Dahoumen, Mourad Yakhlaf, and Adel Boumazber. According to El Khabar, the three individuals were released from prison last month in accordance with the Charter on Peace an [...]	2006-04-04 16:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER PGOV AG
06ALGIERS623	POLISARIO "AMBASSADOR" COMMENTS ON NEGOTIATING [...] (C) Polisario "Ambassador" to Algeria Mohammed Beissat discussed his views on possible negotiations with Morocco over King Mohammed VI's autonomy plan in a prolonged April 1 conversation with DCM and Pol/Econ Chief. Reviewing the history of Polisario-Moroccan direct negotiations since 1979, [...]	2006-04-04 17:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV WI MO AG
06ALGIERS629	NEW LAW DENOTES ALGERIAN PROGRESS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: A new anti-corruption law, which took effect March 8, aims to bring Algeria in line with the U.N. Convention Against Corruption. The law is an important step in establishing an institutional framework to combat corruption and comes at a time the GoA has been actively pursuing cr [...]	2006-04-06 06:58:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV AG
06ALGIERS657	MEETING OF AU EXPERTS ON MIGRATION HELD IN ALGIERS [...] Mandated by the January Arab League Summit in Khartoum, the Commission of the African Union (AU) convened a meeting of migration and development experts in Algiers April 3-5. The participants addressed the major themes of security and stability, human rights, development, human resources, the [...]	2006-04-10 16:57:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS662	RELEASED ISLAMIC LEADER ATTACKS GOA LEGITIMACY, [...] (C) Since his March 6 release from prison pursuant to the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, Ali Belhadj, co-founder of the now banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),has blatantly defied the Charter's ban on those released engaging in political activity. Belhadj's most direct ch [...]	2006-04-12 13:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM AG
06ALGIERS686	ALGERIA NOT FAVORABLE TO PSI [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche April 12 to MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and International Security Briza, seeking support for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and for Algerian attendance at the upcoming PSI high-level meeting scheduled to take place in Poland in June. [...]	2006-04-15 16:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER AG
06ALGIERS694	PRESIDENT BOUTEFLIKA'S PUBLIC CRITICISM OF CABINET [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a 30-stop visit to government-sponsored development projects around Algiers April 8 and 9, President Bouteflika publicly rebuked several of his ministers for Algeria's slow progress in infrastructure development, educational advancement, and openness to foreign investment. [...]	2006-04-16 13:43:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EINV ECON AG
06ALGIERS722	ATTACK ON CUSTOMS OFFICIALS SPARKS MAJOR OFFENSIVE [...] (U) According to an April 10 article in the official French daily El Moudjahid, corroborated by an announcement from the Ministry of the Interior, an orchestrated terrorist attack on Algerian Customs officials by the Group Salafist for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) on April 7 sparked a major off [...]	2006-04-18 16:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AG
06ALGIERS727	MESSAHEL TELLS AMBASSADOR MIGRATION PRIMARILY AN [...] (C) In an April 10 meeting with MFA Minister-Delegate Messahel, Ambassador pressed again for an inclusive regional approach to the migration problem that included Morocco and urged Algeria to reconsider participation in the Rabat-hosted conference on migration. Messahel termed the recent AU ex [...]	2006-04-19 13:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS734	AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION OF NEW RELIGIOUS LAW WITH [...] (SBU) During an April 15 meeting with Religious Affairs Minister Ghlamallah, Ambassador discussed U.S. concerns about Algeria's new law regulating non-Muslim worship, noting that it opened the door to arbitrary interpretations and restrictions, had been adopted without any consultation with a [...]	2006-04-22 06:28:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF KISL AG
06ALGIERS747	EXCHANGE OF HARSH WORDS BETWEEN ALGERIA AND FRANCE [...] (C) Algerian Foreign Minister Bedjaoui's successful April 12-13 visit to Washington, on the heels of what has been widely viewed as the French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's disastrous April 9-10 visit to Algiers, has underscored the dynamic nature of Algeria's growing relationship with the [...]	2006-04-24 09:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG FR
06ALGIERS751	GOA OUTLINES STEPS TAKEN TO IMPLEMENT THE CHARTER [...] (U) The Government of Algeria released April 23 a communique outlining the steps taken by the GOA in implementing the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation. Among the more important points of the communique were: -- Nearly 2200 detainees have been freed, which is almost the total n [...]	2006-04-25 08:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM AG
06ALGIERS757	GOA REJECTS SYG'S REPORT ON WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) MFA Counselor and former UN Ambassador Abdallah Baali convoked Ambassador April 25 to explain Algeria's rejection of the recommendations in the UNSYG's report on the Western Sahara, which Baali claimed "ignored the achievements of the past" by abandoning the Baker Plan and the principle of [...]	2006-04-25 18:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06ALGIERS781	HEAD OF SHELL ALGERIA OFFERS VIEWS ON ALGERIAN [...] Summary: The head of Shell Algeria, Michael Blaha, described to Econoff April 24 his perspective on Sonatrach and the impact of the 2005 hydrocarbon law. Blaha noted the difficulties the Algerians were having in finding experienced workers for Algeria's new energy regulatory agencies that wer [...]	2006-04-29 16:44:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET AG
06ALGIERS817	IRAN OPENS FIRST-ANNUAL TRADE PAVILION IN ALGIERS [...] The Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Mining (CCIMI) opened May 2 its first-annual industrial and technology show in Algiers. The show, entitled IranExpo 2006, comes on the heels of an agreement signed in January 2005 between CCIMI and the Algerian Chamber of Commerce to expand trade [...]	2006-05-06 14:04:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON IR AG
06ALGIERS848	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT HAS "NO PRACTICAL APPLICATION" [...] Algerian law does not contain specific codifications or references to the Arab League Boycott and post is not aware of any GoA communiques on the issue. While the primary boycott is informally recognized by virtue of Algeria's membership in the Arab League and the stigma still attached to doi [...]	2006-05-10 16:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AG
06ALGIERS850	ALGERIAN PRESIDENT PARDONS JOURNALISTS [...] (C) On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, President Bouteflika issued a communique May 2 pardoning Algerian journalists found "definitively" guilty of "insults against civil servants, offense against the President of the Republic, and insults against corporate bodies." The announcement [...]	2006-05-10 18:09:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS851	ALGERIAN PRESIDENT PARDONS JOURNALISTS [...] (C) On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, President Bouteflika issued a communique May 2 pardoning Algerian journalists found "definitively" guilty of "insults against civil servants, offense against the President of the Republic, and insults against corporate bodies." The announcement [...]	2006-05-10 19:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
06ALGIERS854	ALGERIA PLEASED WITH DARFUR AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-14 13:50:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SU AG
06ALGIERS855	ALGERIA PLEASED WITH DARFUR AGREEMENT [...] In a May 7 communique issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Government of Algeria expressed its "satisfaction" with the conclusion of a peace agreement to resolve the Darfur crisis. Algeria "rejoices in this positive development" and wishes that the "parties who are not yet si [...]	2006-05-14 13:56:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SU AG
06ALGIERS887	OPEN SKIES: ALGERIA OFFERS REDUCED WEIGHT ON [...] (SBU) Embassy received May 13 an MFA diplomatic note (Ref B) providing Algeria's response to our Open Skies proposals of March 11 concerning exchange rates, intermodal transport, and transition period start date. The latest proposals (faxed to NEA/MAG) overtake Ref A instructions, which had no [...]	2006-05-17 15:47:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRA EBEXP KTIA ECON AG
06ALGIERS891	VISIT TO ALGERIA OF MAURITANIAN LEADER CONFERS [...] (C) The May 6-7 visit of Mauritanian Military Council President Val to Algeria has given Val a strong seal of regime approval, bilateral ties a boost in a number of areas, and the Algerians an IOU of sorts on issues of concern. We believe the visit falls in the context of Algerian efforts to [...]	2006-05-17 17:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MR
06ALGIERS916	CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN THE AIR [...] (C) Efforts for revising the 1996 Algerian Constitution, are now are now well-advanced, with a series of concrete proposals/options that have been put forward for consideration to the highest levels. Any revision supported by the President will ultimately require a popular referendum or a fav [...]	2006-05-22 17:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS935	IMMINENT CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) A Counselor to the Prime Minister phoned our senior political FSN May 21 and informed her that President Bouteflika had decided not to wait until August to reshuffle ministerial portfolios. (Note: August marks the end of the period under National Peace and Reconciliation during which te [...]	2006-05-23 19:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS950	BOUTEFLIKA CHANGES PRIME MINISTERS, CABINET [...] (U) The Algerian press agency announced at 1800 hours local on May 24 that Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia had submitted his resignation and President Bouteflika had accepted it. This news was followed five minutes later by a second announcement that Bouteflika had appointed Minister of State a [...]	2006-05-25 11:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06ALGIERS953	NO CABINET SHAKEUP AS RESULT OF CHANGE IN PRIME [...] (U) Algerian media announced the evening of May 25 the only change in the cabinet, the appointment of former Presidential counselor Hachemi Djiar as Minister of Communication; other than the replacement of Ahmed Ouyahia as Prime Minister by Abdelaziz Belkhadem, there reportedly will be no fur [...]	2006-05-27 10:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06CAIRO4140	MEDIA CONTROVERSY OVER PROPOSED DRAFT OF NEW [...] (C) Summary: The Cabinet has approved a new Press Law and referred it to the Shura Council. The new draft law would substitute fines for imprisonment for journalists convicted of libel, but preserve jail time as an option for those who publish a newspaper illegally or who cast aspersions on t [...]	2006-07-05 11:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC EG AL AG
06CAIRO4355	MUBARAK INTERVENES: NO JAIL FOR JOURNALISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists expressed relief after President Mubarak,s last-minute intercession with the People,s Assembly on June 11 to strike prison sentences for reporters who expose corruption from proposed legislation. But the amendments to the penal code raise fines for defaming public f [...]	2006-07-13 11:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG EG
06CAIRO4604	EGYPT MEDIA TRENDS FOR JULY 25, 2006 [...] Summary. Today,s Egyptian major developing story in Egyptian media was President Mubarak,s statement before departing for Saudi Arabia during which he declared the current situation in Lebanon as "destructive chaos." Headlines continued to be strongly negative toward perceived US involvem [...]	2006-07-27 12:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PTER UK AG EG AL
06CAIRO4605	EGYPT MEDIA TRENDS FOR JULY 26, 2006 [...] Summary: As we have witnessed repeatedly since the outbreak of the current Israel-Lebanon crisis the Egyptian opposition and independent press demonstrated once again today, through words and photos, strong bias against Secretary Rice and her efforts thus far to achieve a cease-fire. Com [...]	2006-07-27 12:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PTER AG AL EG IZ
06CAIRO4608	Egypt Media trends for July 27, 2006 [...] Summary. The past week internal disagreement over Hezbollah as right or wrong has been replaced by unified calls for an immediate ceasefire. The US has been characterized as frustrating any opportunity to end the days of bloodshed splashed on front pages and captured on Egyptian and regio [...]	2006-07-27 13:53:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG IS SA IR EG
06CARACAS1449	BOLIVARIANS IN THE OLD COUNTRY: CHAVEZ DOES EUROPE [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez conducted an array of state business and outreach to sympathizers during a six-country swing through Europe and North Africa, May 10-18. The trip began with Chavez getting a stern message on human rights from Pope Benedict XVI. In Rome, Chavez met with communist Ita [...]	2006-05-21 19:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE IT IZ AU AG UK VT
06CASABLANCA576	TERRORIST FINANCE: UN 1267 SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (S) Post has discussed reftel internally with relevant Mission elements. Post does not object to the proposed designations of Moroccan nationals Mohammed Moumou and Farid Lamrabet. Post does not anticipate any negative impact of reftel designations in Morocco. Post also believes GOM would [...]	2006-05-26 17:12:00	Consulate Casablanca	SECRET	PREL PTER EFIN KTFN UN IT BE NR AG EG MO
06DUBLIN1416	IRELAND TO CONSIDER EXPANDED ISAF CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) Ireland, a NATO Partnership for Peace member, is committed to maintaining its presence in ISAF (now four officers and three non-commissioned officers in Kabul),but would have to consider contributing additional personnel in the context of constraints on Ireland's current and planned peac [...]	2006-12-15 16:18:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL NATO PINS AG EI
06HELSINKI1158	DELIVERING ON NATO'S PROMISE TO AFGHANISTAN - [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Kimmo Lahdevirta, Director of the Finnish MFA's Office of Security Policy. Lahdevirta expressed appreciation for US efforts to keep partners informed as the Riga NATO Summit approaches, and welcomed the fact that Afghanistan will feature prominentl [...]	2006-11-15 13:57:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AG FI
06MADRID2322	SPAIN: PRESS ON WESTERN SAHARA BUT KEEP MINURSO FOR [...] (S) Spanish MFA DG for Middle East/Africa Alvaro Iranzo welcomed enthusiastically new US engagement on Western Sahara and efforts to break the stalemate by pressing Morocco for a credible autonomy plan and talks with the Polisario, along with urging Algerian support and flexibility (reftel). [...]	2006-09-15 15:00:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL PGOV MO WI AG FR SP
06MADRID3096	SPAIN ON SAHRAWI REFUGEE CENSUS; ALGERIA SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-27 15:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM AG SP
06MADRID780	AMBASSADOR,S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT FELIPE [...] (C) Former Spanish President Felipe Gonzalez told Ambassador Aguirre March 24 that the ETA ceasefire represents the "best chance ever" for ending ETA violence once and for all. Gonzalez, still one of the leading luminaries of the Spanish Socialist Party, but not in the inner circle of current [...]	2006-03-31 10:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SP IR RS WI MO AG AE

06MOSCOW3345	THE RUSSIAN ARMS DEAL WITH ALGERIA: A MODEL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Putin's March 10 visit to Algeria demonstrated that Russia is actively working to expand into new arms markets to sustain the Russian military-industrial complex. Russia reportedly will sell Algeria 70 combat and trainer jet aircraft, 300 T-90S tanks, air defense syste [...]	2006-03-31 10:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR MOPS RS AG
06PARIS1370	NEA/MAG DIRECTOR JORDAN REVIEWS MAGHREB ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: NEA/MAG Director William Jordan's February 27 meetings with MFA counterparts addressed the Western Sahara conflict, Moroccan-Algerian relations, human rights issues in Tunisia, and Libya. On Western Sahara, MFA officials agreed with Jordan on the need for Morocco to be more forw [...]	2006-03-03 19:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AG MO TU WS FR
06PARIS2069	UPDATE/FAREWELL FROM TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE [...] (S) Summary: Jean-Francois Ricard, terrorism investigating judge for 12 years and deputy to renowned investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, is being promoted and transferred to the Ministry of Defense to work as chief magistrate for military penal affairs. Speculation abounds that Ricard is [...]	2006-03-30 13:39:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV FR IZ MO AG TS LY KISL
06PARIS3783	(C) MUSLIM LEADERS IN LYON STRESS UNITY AT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the regional Muslim Council (CRCM) in Rhone-Alpes stressed a message of unity and moderation during a joint meeting with poloff in Lyon May 31. The CRCM leaders, who represent three rival factions within the national French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),stresse [...]	2006-06-06 12:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PINR SOCI MO AG TU FR
06PARIS466	ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR ON FRANCO-ALGERIAN TREATY, [...] (C) During a January 19 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Algerian Ambassador to France Missoum Sbih confirmed that the long-sought Franco-Algerian friendship treaty remains stalled over differences over historical issues, namely how to address French colonization of Algeria. Original [...]	2006-01-24 17:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO FR
06PARIS6073	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INFORMING FRANCE OF OUR [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-11 14:37:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL AG FR MO PGOV WI
06PARIS7108	MFA SEES LITTLE CHANCE OF TALKS BETWEEN POLISARIO [...] (C) Summary: The MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb, Christian Testo, assessed there was little likelihood either Morocco or Algeria would agree to direct Moroccan-Polisario talks in the near future. In Testo's analysis, both Algeria and Tunisia were obsessed with their respective presidential [...]	2006-10-30 11:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG FR MO PGOV
06PARIS7918	FRENCH DOUBT GOA/POLISARIO WILL AGREE TO A REFUGEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Christian Testo, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb on December 28. Testo agreed that resolving the number of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria is "a critical question," but doubted that the Polisario would agree to a census outside the context of a final res [...]	2006-12-28 09:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AG FR PREF PREL
06PRAGUE1423	CZECHS ON NATO IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) DCM raised reftel points with Czech Defense Minister Jiri Sedivy on November 15. Pol-Econ Counselor also discussed November 16 with Director of MFA Security Policy Department. Both stressed Czech commitment to success of Riga summit and success for NATO's mission in Afghanistan. To that [...]	2006-11-16 16:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AG EZ
06RABAT1678	URGING MOROCCO TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THE WESTERN [...] (S) On September 8, Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on the Western Sahara to Taieb Fassi Fihri, Minister-Delegate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff accompanied Ambassador as note taker. Fassi Fihri indicated that he had already spoken with Moroccan Ambassador Mekouar fo [...]	2006-09-08 17:16:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV WI AG PBTS MO
06RABAT2010	(C-NE6-01369) POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" East of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self-d [...]	2006-10-30 11:21:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PINR PGOV MO AG KPKO WI
06RABAT326	WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCO SEEKS US INTERVENTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOM has asked at the highest levels that the U.S. demarche Algeria to help prevent a march of Sahrawi and European civilians across the berm in the Western Sahara, and the heavily land-mined area adjacent to the berm, reportedly planned by the Polisario to occur in conjuncti [...]	2006-02-24 14:53:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL
06RABAT330	DELIVERY OF MESSAGE TO GOM ON TSCTI CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On February 17, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan delivered reftel message on Morocco's inability to participate in a seminar on terrorism in the trans-Sahara region cosponsored by the African Center for Strategic Studies (part of NDU) and the African Union (AU) to MF [...]	2006-02-24 15:34:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG WI AU MO
06RABAT341	WESTERN SAHARA: US INTERVENTIONS CONCERNING [...] (C) Ambassador Thomas T. Riley called Foreign Minister Benaissa to update him on the steps taken by the USG (reftel) regarding a potential Polisario organized march on the berm in the Western Sahara on February 27. The Ambassador informed the Foreign Minister that the Department of State, E [...]	2006-02-24 19:02:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL
06RABAT606	DEMARCHE ON ALGERIAN/MOROCCAN MIGRATION CONFERENCES [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On April 4, DCM met with Ambassador Youssef Amrani, MFA Director-General of Bilateral Relations, to deliver reftel demarche. Amrani's immediate response to the demarche was that the USG's position on the conf [...]	2006-04-05 12:18:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SMIG AG WI MO
06RABAT729	SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: Morocco is engaging in a disingenuous process to delay movement toward a negotiated settlement of the Western Sahara conflict. Its domestic consultations on autonomy for the Western Sahara cannot be taken seriously, and have thus far excluded those who might offer differing p [...]	2006-04-20 18:44:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPKO UNUS MO AG
06ROME1662	AUSTRALIA GROUP: ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN PLENARY [...] (S) A/EcMin delivered reftel talking points to Carlo Tripepi, MFA DAS-equivalent official responsible for Australia Group (AG) issues. Tripepi said that he will attend the Australia Group Plenary in Paris, and that the Italian delegation will come prepared to "speak, hear, and discuss." Tr [...]	2006-06-05 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AG IR IT
06SEOUL1581	DEMARCHE ON AUSTRALIA GROUP PLENARY SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 06:13:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM PREL AG ETTC KS
06SKOPJE1097	MACEDONIA: REDUCING ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on filling ISAF force shortfalls and reducing caveats to MFA State Counselor Milan Spiridonovski on November 16. Acting DATT delivered the same points to MOD Elenovski on November 14. Both interlocutors informed us that the GOM intends to remove before t [...]	2006-11-17 06:50:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS NATO PREL MK AG
06SKOPJE1112	MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT ELIMINATES MOST CAVEATS ON [...] (SBU) The GOM approved in a closed government session on November 22 the elimination of five of seven caveats currently in force for Macedonian troops supporting ISAF operations in Afghanistan (reftel) and Macedonian soldiers serving in Iraq. Of the two remaining caveats, one prohibits Macedon [...]	2006-11-24 13:57:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS NATO PREL MK AG
06TALLINN478	AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-18 14:47:00	Embassy Tallinn	SECRET	PARM PREL AG ETTC EN
06THEHAGUE1043	NETHERLANDS/AUSTRALIA GROUP: RESPONSE ON PLENARY [...] (S) Polmiloff discussed reftel points with MFA Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Affairs Ceta Noland on May 9. Noland said the Dutch plan a presentation on Iran and Syria, but not/not Russia, during the information exchange of the upcoming Australia Group plenary. She explain [...]	2006-05-09 16:47:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PARM PREL AG ETTC NL
06TUNIS2534	HACKERS BREAK THE CODE TO AL-JAZEERA SPORTS CHANNEL [...] According to an As-Sabah Al-Ousboui newspaper article published September 25, 2006, Tunisian hackers have been able to break the encryption code for Al-Jazeera Sports Channel and are now selling bootleg access cards at cut-rate prices. The article tells its readers where they can go to procure [...]	2006-10-11 13:52:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR AG FR MO TC UK TS
06USUNNEWYORK1018	WESTERN SAHARA: AMBASSADOR BOLTON'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 joint call with SRSG for Western Sahara Francesco Bastagli, Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum, noted the Security Council's April rollover of the MINURSO mandate and its failure to take action on the Secretary General's recommendation of direct talks bet [...]	2006-05-18 21:08:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK1440	USUN/NEA MEETING WITH SYG'S PERSONAL ENVOY FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a July 26 meeting at USUN with Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum, NEA/DAS Gordon Gray explained current U.S. thinking on Western Sahara: encouragement of the submission of a robust Moroccan autonomy plan before the October expiration of the MINURSO mandate and [...]	2006-08-01 19:09:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK2073	UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO FOR SIX [...] The Security Council October 31 extended the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to April 30, 2007. UNSCR 1720 (2006),based on a draft text developed and sponsored by Friends of Western Sahara (U.S., UK, France, Russia and [...]	2006-11-01 16:10:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK2095	UNSC MINURSO CONSULTATIONS: ON TRACK FOR SIX-MONTH [...] Summary: DPKO Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi and the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum summarized for the Security Council October 25 the UN's latest assessment of the situation in the Western Sahara. Speaking for the United States, Ambassador Sand [...]	2006-11-02 23:09:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK401	AMBASSADOR BOLTON'S MEETING WITH MOROCCAN PERMREP [...] (SBU) In a brief March 2 courtesy call on Ambassador Bolton, recently arrived Moroccan Perm Rep El Mostafa SAHEL said that Morocco's autonomy proposal for the Western Sahara has been completed and that consultations between the government of Morocco and Moroccan political parties were schedul [...]	2006-03-02 23:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK767	ALGERIANS IN NEW YORK OBJECT TO VAN WALSUM [...] (C) Summary: Algerian PR Youcef Yousfi March 22 conveyed Algeria's objections to Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum's proposal that Algeria participate as a party in negotiations with Morocco on the issue of Western Sahara and to a presumed forthcoming Moroccan autonomy proposa [...]	2006-04-11 20:05:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK794	AMBASSADOR BOLTON PROPOSES TO JUMP START SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. The conflict in Western Sahara remains at a stalemate. From my perspective in New York, a fresh approach to Security Council action on MINURSO's mandate is one available option if we seek to accelerate Moroccan action on autonomy for the Western Sahara. If such an approach fails [...]	2006-04-14 13:54:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06USUNNEWYORK913	UNSC: A/SYG ANNABI AND PERSONAL ENVOY VAN WALSUM [...] Summary: During a private meeting of the Security Council April 25, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Heidi Annabi reported on MINURSO operations, and the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum discussed the Secretary-General's latest r [...]	2006-05-04 13:04:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
06VIENNA3341	AUSTRIA ON NATO/AFGHANISTAN -- CONTINUATION OF [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on November 18 to Thomas Hajnoczi, the Austrian MFA's A/S-level Director for Political-Military Affairs. 2. (C) Hajnoczi said the importance of the NATO mission in Afghanistan was clear. He noted that the Austrian government had announced on N [...]	2006-11-16 10:35:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AG AU
07ALGIERS1	BOUTEFLIKA SAYS HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE [...] (C) In a speech entitled, "Assessments and Perspectives," President Bouteflika December 26 surprised the nation by not outlining his proposed amendments to the constitution which must be adopted by referendum. Nor did he, as some media had speculated, reshuffle his cabinet. Instead, Boutefli [...]	2007-01-03 08:47:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PINR PGOV ECON KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1000	ANSAR AL-ISLAM IN THE MUSLIM SAHARA: NEW TERRORIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Algerian contacts are witholding their final judgment about a new, little-known terrorist group that calls itself Ansar al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara (AIMS). The group publicly professed its allegiance to Algeria's premier terrorist group, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQ [...]	2007-07-12 14:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL PINR AG
07ALGIERS1001	AQIM FUNDING SOURCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to European and Maghreb press reports, criminal activity if the traditional funding source for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). It is widely reported in the Algerian press that AQIM smuggles contraband to and from neighboring countries. In addition, AQIM extort [...]	2007-07-12 14:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC CASC PINR AG
07ALGIERS1016	PERSPECTIVES ON NDI IN ALGERIA [...] (C) In conversations June 9 and 10 with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, a cross-section of Algerian officials and civil society discussed the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and its work in Algeria. Farouk Ksentini, president of the Algerian government's National Commission for the Promotion [...]	2007-07-16 16:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1035	PRICE HIKE FEARS LEAD TO DIESEL SHORTAGES [...] Rumors that private gas distributors would strike in response to an expected cut in state subsidies of diesel prices led to fuel shortages and long lines at filling stations throughout Algiers beginning July 11. Private distributorships have accounted for roughly half of the filling stations [...]	2007-07-21 06:41:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EPET KNRG AG
07ALGIERS1057	LABOR MINISTER'S COMMENTS REVEAL TRUE COST OF LIVING HIKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister of Labor and Social Security Tayeb Louh's July 21 announcement that Algerian purchasing power had increased by 66 percent since 1999 came in sharp contrast to official government figures and public sentiment showing the opposite. In the last year alone, prices [...]	2007-07-24 17:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1078	TO BE ALGERIAN AND IN A WHEELCHAIR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Algerian government does not adequately respond to the needs of the country's 3 million handicapped people, according to the officially recognized Algerian Federation of Wheelchair Associations. The group's president describes Algeria's handicapped as "living in isolation" at [...]	2007-07-29 06:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI AG
07ALGIERS109	OPPOSITION MP DETAILS OBJECTIONS TO ALGERIA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22 Lakhdar Benkhellaf, a senior MP from the moderate Islamist opposition party Islah ("Reform"),outlined for PolEc Chief four technical elements of the Algerian electoral process that his party believes must be changed to bring about transparent, fair elections in Alg [...]	2007-01-30 16:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1096	SONATRACH GOES GLOBAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As speculation mounts regarding the date of the next international licensing round for Algerian exploration blocks, Sonatrach has signaled that either downstream market access or partnership in foreign projects will be a precondition for foreign firms wishing to partake in Algeri [...]	2007-08-01 18:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV ECON PREL AG
07ALGIERS1099	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA, MEDIA AND NGOS ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, we are continuing to engage the Algerian government and the media on TIP. The GOA still maintains that Algeria has been maligned and says that the government is addressing the TIP issue. The differenc [...]	2007-08-04 10:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1114	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA ON LEGAL REFORM AND TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of GOA efforts on legal reform, Justice Minister Belaiz supports ABA's work in Algeria, stressing the need to train judges. Further, the justice and foreign ministries, along with the Ministry of National Solidarity, now appear to be working on TIP-related issues, includ [...]	2007-08-07 11:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN KCRM PREL AG
07ALGIERS1115	LONGSTANDING ACTIVIST'S VIEW ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A societal respect for human rights is lacking in Algeria, according to prominent human rights activist and lawyer Ali Yahia Abdenour. Looking back over decades of his work, he commented that while some progress has been made in comparison to the low point of the 1990s, signific [...]	2007-08-07 12:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1118	AUGUST STARTS OUT BADLY FOR AQIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local newspapers reported August 2 that two Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) figures, Ali Dix and Haroun Ashashi, were killed in an ambush by security forces in the mountains around Djurdjura (Tizi Ouzou province) east of Algiers. Indications are that the two were close to [...]	2007-08-07 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL MOPS KISL AG
07ALGIERS1123	ALGERIA'S FINANCIAL SECTOR EMERGING FROM THE DARK AGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria has billions of dollars in excess liquidity from hydrocarbon sales that its archaic banking system is incapable of absorbing and using to fuel economic growth and reduce unemployment. Unproductive state-run banks dominate the financial landscape despite the arrival on th [...]	2007-08-08 13:34:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1140	AHMADINEJAD VISITS ALGIERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad's August 6-7 visit to Algiers generated significant noise, but apparently little of substance. The press, responding to a pre-visit public relations effort by the Iranian embassy here, obligingly described the Ahmadinejad visit as part the "r [...]	2007-08-13 08:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER OPEC ENRG ETRD KISL KNNP IR AG
07ALGIERS1181	ALGERIA: PROMOTING THE PRESIDENT'S FREEDOM AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Advancing the President's Freedom Agenda has been an ongoing effort by Embassy Algiers since the arrival of the Ambassador in August 2006. The Ambassador and Embassy officers routinely meet with democracy and human rights activists, political parties, journalists, and other me [...]	2007-08-21 14:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPOA PHUM PREL AG
07ALGIERS1182	STEEL STRIKE AVERTED BUT POST-PRIVATIZATION [...] (U) Workers at the Al Hadjar steel plant in the eastern Algerian city of Annaba called off plans for an indefinite strike August 20 after reaching an agreement with the plant's management that forestalled layoffs slated for September. Luxembourg-based Arcelor-Mittal, which owns a controlling i [...]	2007-08-21 16:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND ELAB WTO AG
07ALGIERS129	SKEPTICISM HAILS BEGINNING OF KHALIFA BANK TRIAL [...] (C) Summary: The trial stemming from the collapse of the Khalifa Bank empire started January 8 without the key defendant, bank founder Abdelmoumen Khalifa, who remains in exile in London. Some of Algeria's most powerful ministers and other economic luminaries have been called as witnesses, b [...]	2007-02-04 13:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1323	FFS: THE SECULAR OPPOSITION STIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian media has been buzzing with the return from Switzerland of liberation hero Hocine Ait Ahmed, founder of the opposition Front des Forces Socialistes (FFS),and his alliance with former FLN Secretary General Abdelhamid Mehri and former Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche. [...]	2007-09-17 17:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1326	HOPEFUL WESTERN ALGERIA LOOKS TO THE U.S. [...] SUMMARY: The northwestern Algerian town of Sig and the neighboring city of Mascara are well established migrant-sending communities that produce a disproportionately large number of visa applicants. A strong migration relationship with immigrant communities in the U.S., combined with the lac [...]	2007-09-18 06:57:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SOCI KFRD ASEC CVIS AG
07ALGIERS1330	GOA EAGER BUT CAUTIOUS ON FINANCIAL REFORM [...] SUMMARY: The Algerian Ministry of Finance leadership recognizes it should foster predictability for foreign investors, diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons and reform its financial sector. It is eager for U.S. assistance to meet these goals, but fearful of any sudden shock to its fin [...]	2007-09-18 11:25:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID PREL AG
07ALGIERS1336	ALGERIAN MFA: WE ARE WAITING FOR TOURE TO KEEP [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for African Affairs Chergui told Ambassador on 9/17 that Malian President Toure must pull troops out of Kidal and take steps to start reintegrating Tuareg fighters back into their communities in order to end the fighting in northern Mali. [...]	2007-09-19 08:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	REL MARR AG ML
07ALGIERS1344	ALGIERS IN RAMADAN 2007: RICH BUT NOT HEALTHY [...] (C) Summary: Normally Ramadan is a festive time for Muslim communities but Algiers, at least, is grumpy. There is a prevailing sense that government economic policy is adrift and unable to cope even with relatively simple issues like food supplies. Bigger issues like pervasive unemployment [...]	2007-09-20 10:32:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ECON AG
07ALGIERS1350	ALGIERS: SUMMARY OF RECENT SECURITY INCIDENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since September 19, Algerian security and intelligence services have responded to the planned kidnapping of two French citizens in Algiers and the bombing of a joint French/Italian construction company convoy south of Lahkdaria, approximately 60km from Algiers. The bombing of t [...]	2007-09-24 10:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER OSAC AG
07ALGIERS1352	EVOLVING AQIM TERROR HAS ALGERIANS CONCERNED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings with GOA contacts following a recent bombing uptick in the Kabylie region reveal a government concerned and sober about its ability to keep up with an adaptive and increasingly sophisticated enemy. By reaching out for more technology and information, the GOA has demonstr [...]	2007-09-24 11:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PGOV PINS CASC AG
07ALGIERS1394	DEMARCHE ON UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] Ambassador October 2 asked MFA acting Director General for International Organizations Tafiane for Algerian support for the candidacy of Felice Gaer to the UN Committee Against Torture. Tafiane was uninformed about the upcoming election and said he did not know of any particular candidate who [...]	2007-10-03 15:54:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	AG PHUM AORC UN
07ALGIERS1468	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT SCORE SHORT TERM VICTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian press buzzed the past two days with news of the death of key AQIM emir Sofiane Fassila, proclaiming Fassila's killing at the hands of the security services as a major government victory against terrorism. Fassila was the commander of the most active and organized AQIM [...]	2007-10-10 11:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1471	INVESTING IN ALGERIA NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A soon-to-be-released report by the World Bank uses polling data to rank the main challenges facing the private sector in Algeria. Among the key obstacles detailed in the study were credit access and cost, the role of the informal market, access to land, and taxation. The br [...]	2007-10-10 13:15:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EIND AG
07ALGIERS1472	ALGERIA ANTI-EXTREMIST MESSAGING: BIG GOA ROLE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian communication efforts to counter Al-Qaeda and religious extremism are serious and based on the premise that greater state involvement in religious life will prevent a return to the turmoil of 1990s. GOA messaging tactics are focused primarily through the Ministry of Reli [...]	2007-10-10 13:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PTER PREL AG
07ALGIERS1475	ALGERIA WRITES OFF TEXTILE INDUSTRY [...] SUMMARY: An estimated 95 percent of apparel in Algeria is imported and the remaining few home-grown firms in this sector are nearing extinction in the face of cheaper imports, both legitimate and counterfeit. As Algerians' cost of living rises faster than wages, consumers have flocked to inex [...]	2007-10-10 14:32:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX AG
07ALGIERS1527	LOCAL ELECTIONS 2007: A CONFUSED AND UNEVEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The road to the November 29 elections for Algeria's city councils and provincial (state) legislatures is fraught with confusion, a lack of transparency and allegations of injustice surrounding the candidate lists proposed by the competing parties. Senior political leaders echo th [...]	2007-10-19 12:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1550	ALGERIANS GRUMP AT U.S. DRAFT WESTERN SAHARA TEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian MFA summoned Ambassador on the afternoon of October 23 to receive a blunt message that paragraph 7 of the draft U.S. text on the MINURSO renewal resolution was "unacceptable," "unbalanced," and "unhelpful." Ambassador responded that describing the Moroccan plan as a ser [...]	2007-10-23 17:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG PREL UNSC WI
07ALGIERS1558	ANOTHER ALGERIAN FACES PRISON OVER DEFAMATION [...] (U) According to press reports on October 18, a local journalist for the Arabic paper el-Fadjr in Djelfa, Tallal Dhif, received a six-month prison sentence from a Djelfa court on defamation charges stemming from articles he wrote about corruption in Djelfa in 2004. Algerian press reports note [...]	2007-10-24 18:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1559	LOCAL ELECTIONS 2007: THE HEAVY HAND OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the same time as Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni is making public statements about the government's commitment to a fair and neutral electoral process to urge greater turnout, the role of his ministry in micro-managing slates of candidates from all parties has been significant. [...]	2007-10-25 10:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1560	UPDATED ALGERIA DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Securing a wider democratic opening in Algeria is a challenge. Many Algerian young people call the political leadership the "Jurassics" because so many leaders from the President down are entrenched politicos from the same generation that took over after independence in 1962. We [...]	2007-10-25 11:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KMPI KPAO PGOV PREL AG
07ALGIERS1581	(MICRO)SOFT DIPLOMACY, VERSION 1.0 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paid a brief visit to Algeria in a trip touted as an opportunity for Microsoft to help the GOA expand Algeria's information and communications technology (ICT) sector and enhance its education system. Ballmer said he was inspired by the GOA's commitmen [...]	2007-10-30 06:07:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD KIPR AG
07ALGIERS1585	OPPOSITION PARTY ALLEGES INTIMIDATION, CONTAINMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what he describes as an effort to confine his party's influence to its historical base in the Kabylie region, Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) leader Said Sadi alleged privately to us that RCD activists have been intimidated, kidnapped and, in some cases, tortured. In the [...]	2007-10-30 10:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1599	IRANIAN DESIGNATIONS AND FATF STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 15:26:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC ECON AG
07ALGIERS1617	ALGERIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE IMPLODING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH),the country's best-known independent human rights organization, is in turmoil. Two camps have emerged and are struggling for control, one headed by Hocine Zehouane, LADDH president since 2005, and the other by Ali Yahi [...]	2007-11-05 17:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1618	HATTAB CASE SHOWS RECONCILIATION STILL AN OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hassan Hattab, notorious for helping create the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 1998, has become a symbol of the unresolved debate over national reconciliation in Algeria. Although the details of his situation are shrouded in mystery, a disproportionate amount [...]	2007-11-06 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KISL AG
07ALGIERS1629	OPEN TALK OF BOUTEFLIKA RUNNING FOR A THIRD TERM [...] (C) More Algerian politicos and officials anticipate that the Algerian constitution will be amended to enable President Bouteflika to run for a third term in 2009. Mohamed Afif, a well-connected senior official in the predominant National Liberation Front (FLN) told Ambassador November 5 tha [...]	2007-11-07 09:10:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PGOV PINS AG
07ALGIERS1633	ALGIERS BOOK FAIR: GRAPPLING WITH FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a very visible way, Algeria is wrestling with the parameters of its political space, attempting to find the balance between freedom of expression and protecting against extremist ideology. At this year's annual international book fair in Algiers, the government banned over a [...]	2007-11-07 16:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1634	REDOUBLED EFFORTS TO COMBAT BULK CASH SMUGGLING AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria criminalized bulk cash smuggling in 1996 and maintains strict reporting requirements and a non-convertible currency that limit most Algerians' access to foreign exchange. The value and frequency of smuggled cash interdictions dropped from 2005 to 2006, although this may [...]	2007-11-07 19:57:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER AG
07ALGIERS1638	THE HIGH STAKES OF CITIBANK'S CPA BID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Citibank is the sole American bank bidding on the privatization of the state-owned bank Credit Populaire d'Algerie (CPA). Competition is considered stiffest from the two leading French banks, Societe General and BNP. Citibank may find itself disadvantaged by its recent announc [...]	2007-11-11 11:33:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1648	LATEST AQIM VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS DROUKDAL AND A [...] (C) Summary: Although the latest AQIM web video, "The Battle of Akroun," displays use of some new tactics by the terrorist organization, the underlying message remains the same. Higher-quality video than in previous postings features the late AQIM field commander Sofiane Fassila and AQIM lea [...]	2007-11-12 10:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1658	FLAGSHIP NATIONAL PARTY IN TURMOIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the run-up to the November 29 local elections, the National Liberation Front (FLN) is wrestling with a crisis of leadership and direction, as party national leaders battle for control over local candidate slates. Daily press reports feature repeated calls for Prime Minister Bel [...]	2007-11-14 09:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1662	ELECTION MONITORING COMMISSION AWOL FOR LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign process for the November 29 local elections is well underway in Algeria, but without the official election monitoring commission that has been present in past elections. Newspaper accounts report both coalition and opposition political party discontent with Interior [...]	2007-11-14 14:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1680	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S ALGERIA VISIT [...] (U) Ambasssador Schulte, we are delighted you can visit Algiers this month. Algeria is a committed partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism and the GoA has actively helped shut down ratlines funneling foreign fighters to Iraq. We also have big commercial interests in Algeria's energy sect [...]	2007-11-20 12:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PTER ECON AG
07ALGIERS1694	RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN ALGERIA ON THE RISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian official behavior since 2005, in terms of the country's hydrocarbons law, tax systems, contracting policies and customs enforcement, strongly suggests a growing sentiment of resource nationalism. Government actions indicate a conscious effort to gain greater control of h [...]	2007-11-21 10:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1695	POLITICAL PARTIES CITE PROBLEMS WITH ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign process for the November 29 local elections is in full swing, but the process is not fully transparent. In a series of meetings November 7-14, we met to discuss the election process with representatives of major coalition and opposition political parties, including [...]	2007-11-21 11:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1700	AMBASSADOR PUSHES ON ELECTION IRREGULARITIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: We got mixed reactions from Algerian government interlocutors when the Ambassador raised questions about the transparency of the local election process with the MFA Director General for the Americas and with the (government) human rights commission. The MFA official bristled and [...]	2007-11-21 16:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1704	THE HARRAGA - NOT JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE [...] SUMMARY: Over the past year, the problem of "harraga" -- desperate young Algerians setting out for Spain and Italy on makeshift boats -- has grown notably worse. The phenomenon is no longer limited to underprivileged youth, but now includes older and wealthier individuals otherwise able to s [...]	2007-11-26 08:43:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON SOCI AG
07ALGIERS171	FAMILIES OF ALGIRIA'S DISAPPEARED NOT YET RECONCILED [...] (C) In an animated January 27 meeting, members of the NGO community representing families of the disappeared and victims of terrorism spoke freely with the Ambassador about President Bouteflika's national reconciliation process and Algeria's need for greater political space. Attendees from D [...]	2007-02-07 12:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AG
07ALGIERS1724	ALGERIAN MFA PRAISES NEGROPONTE REMARKS IN MALI, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 12:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG MA PREL PTER
07ALGIERS1727	ALGERIAN LOCAL ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 29: WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local elections will be held in Algeria on November 29, but the big question is whether many Algerians will actually vote. Throughout the campaign season, elections' transparency and fairness have been called into repeated question because of irregularities in the pre-campaign p [...]	2007-11-28 14:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1741	WORLD BANK OFFICE CHIEF LEAVING ALGERIA CITING [...] (C) Summary: The World Bank is withdrawing its resident office director (resrep) here, since the Algerian government appears uninterested in implementing new reform strategies. The resrep, a long-time observer of Algerian economic issues, told the Ambassador November 21, that President Boutef [...]	2007-12-04 11:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IBRD AG
07ALGIERS1742	ALGERIAN MFA HAS NO INITIAL RESPONSE ON IRAN NIE [...] (C) As the two top officials of the Algerian MFA are consumed with the ongoing visit of French President Sarkozy to Algeria, Director General for Multilateral Affairs Bladehane received ref demarche on December 4. Ambassador highlighted that the NIE suggested Iran does respond to internationa [...]	2007-12-04 14:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM AG
07ALGIERS1747	PUSHING ALGERIAN MFA ON RETURN OF GUANTANAMO [...] (S) DCM met December 5 with Seddik Saoudi, Deputy Director in the MFA Consular Affairs division, to discuss the Algerian detainees at Guantanamo. The meeting was offered after we had attempted unsuccessfully for six weeks to meet with Hassane Rabehi, MFA Director General for Consular Affairs a [...]	2007-12-06 10:32:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PREL PHUM PINS KDRG AG
07ALGIERS1748	MAJOR ALGERIAN BANK PRIVATIZATION SUSPENDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the last moment, Algeria suspended indefinitely the privatization of Credit Populaire d'Algerie (CPA),which was to have been the flagship privatization exercise for the Algerian banking sector. Three of the six foreign banks bidding on the Algerian state bank withdrew their [...]	2007-12-06 10:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1749	LOCAL ELECTIONS MARRED BY IRREGULARITIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 29 local elections in Algeria, while publicly hailed by the Ministry of Interior and Prime Minister as a success, were marred by accusations of irregularities, fraud, controlled media access and charges of intimidation of opposition parties. The results were notewort [...]	2007-12-06 11:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1763	ALGIERS MEPI UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: Progress continued slowly but steadily in MEPI programs and initiatives in Algeria during the period of July 1 through October 31. MEPI programs remain a key element of our effort to fulfill the political, economic and education reform goals in our Mission Strategic Plan. During thi [...]	2007-12-09 15:09:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1764	AMBASSADOR SCHULTE DISCUSSES IRAN AND NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian officials told visiting UNVIE Amb. Schulte that they have encouraged Iran to cooperate with the international community regarding its nuclear programs, but they stopped short of agreeing to make a public statement that Iran has violated its commitments under the Non-Prol [...]	2007-12-09 15:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG KNNP PGOV IR AG
07ALGIERS1772	TRANSPORT OFFICIAL OPTIMISTIC ON OPEN SKIES, [...] SUMMARY: Although the main impasse to an Open Skies agreement remains unchanged, the Algerian transport ministry is optimistic about progress in 2008. Meanwhile, despite American firm FSI losing a Boeing 737 flight simulator contract to Canadian firm CAE, Algeria seems committed to continue s [...]	2007-12-11 10:09:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD ECON AG
07ALGIERS1773	GOVERNMENT BLASTS INTERNATIONAL NGOS, DEFENDS [...] (U) The Algerian government used the occasion of World Human Rights Day on December 10 to justify President Bouteflika's National Reconciliation program while slamming international NGOs and domestic opponents for hiding behind victims of government abuses to launch political attacks against t [...]	2007-12-11 10:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AG
07ALGIERS1775	CAR BOMBS IN ALGIERS TARGET U.N. AND SUPREME COURT [...] (U) On December 11, for the first time in exactly eight months, car bombs hit Algiers. The first explosion occurred near the building housing UN offices in the Algiers neighborhood of Hydra, and the second in front of the Algerian Supreme Court building in Ben Aknoun at or around 0945. Each [...]	2007-12-11 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1777	POSITIVE ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of engaging the Algerian government and civil society on TIP, we are seeing evidence of incremental improvement. NGO SOS Femmes en Detresse reports that some illegal immigrants are now receiving medical care, with no harassment from authorities, although it is uncle [...]	2007-12-12 11:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1782	AL-QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) officially claimed responsibility for the December 11 bombings of the UN and Supreme Court buildings in Algiers in a communique posted on its official website titled "Conquest for martyr Sufiane Abi Hydra". One expert on Islamist issues here [...]	2007-12-12 15:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KISL AG
07ALGIERS1783	COMING UP SHORT: ALGERIA'S GLOOMY GAS OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria will likely be unable to meet its natural gas production goals or fulfill its contract supply obligations in the coming years. Expansion of Algeria's gas production has been hampered by delays in high-profile projects like the Medgaz undersea pipeline and the Gassi Touil [...]	2007-12-12 15:09:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG

07ALGIERS1784	ALGERIA: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The absence of reliable statistics makes it difficult to assess the extent of child labor in Algeria, especially the worst forms of child labor. The information provided in this cable is drawn from the Algerian labor code, the Algerian constitution and press reports. Post was un [...]	2007-12-12 15:12:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AG
07ALGIERS1794	POSITIVE JUSTICE MINISTRY FEEDBACK ON MLAT [...] (SBU) In a December 9 meeting Mohamed Amara, Director General of Judicial and Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice, was enthusiastic about the November 19-21 expert-level discussions in Washington on a possible Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) (ref A). DCM delivered the points contai [...]	2007-12-16 10:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA KCRM CJAN AG
07ALGIERS1804	U.S. OIL WONDERS ABOUT ITS FUTURE IN ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several U.S. companies have signaled their growing dissatisfaction with Algeria's oil sector. Windfall profit taxes, burdensome customs fines and practices, hiring difficulties and a general lack of cooperation by the Algerians have caused several large American oil producers [...]	2007-12-19 10:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1806	AN AILING AND FRAGILE ALGERIAN REGIME DRIFTS INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent discussions with former government officials, long-term opposition leaders and journalists paint a picture of an Algerian regime that is fragile in ways it has not been before, plagued by a lack of vision, unprecedented levels of corruption and rumblings of division within [...]	2007-12-19 12:06:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PINS PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1809	AFTER THE LATEST ALGIERS BOMBINGS: THIS WILL BE A [...] (S) SUMMARY: The December 11 bombings in Algiers demonstrate that Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) can adapt its tactics to discredit the Algerian government even if it cannot destabilize the state. Its tactics have evolved and it is more frequently targeting foreigners. AQIM seeks to copy ta [...]	2007-12-20 10:12:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PINS ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1810	WHERE HAVE ALL THE ISLAMISTS GONE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many observers here think Islamist parties suffered a significant defeat in the November 29 local elections (ref A). The moderate Islamist MSP, a member of the presidential coalition, received an official total of just 10.69 percent of the vote, while the opposition Islah party [...]	2007-12-21 10:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL AG
07ALGIERS1823	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] On 23 December 2007 we met with Saadi Saib, Assistant to the Provisioning Manager for Air Algerie, to conduct the post shipment end use check on license 050036215. Saib attended the meeting in place of Mr. Zaoeali, the Provisioning Manager listed as the contact on reftel. While we were not a [...]	2007-12-26 16:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC PM AG
07ALGIERS1825	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT BRISTLES AT WARDEN MESSAGE ... [...] (C) Ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 26 to meet with Fatiha Selmane, Director General of the MFA's Americas Division. Selmane said that she was instructed by her superiors to express Algerian "displeasure" with the latest warden message sent out by the Em [...]	2007-12-26 16:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PTER ASEC PREL AG
07ALGIERS185	MIXED SIGNALS ON RIGHTS OF FAMILIES OF THE [...] (U) In Paris on February 6, Algerian FM Bedjaoui signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which was adopted in December by the UN General Assembly. According to Algerian press reports, one of the aims of the convention is to provide a [...]	2007-02-11 08:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM UNGA AG
07ALGIERS206	COMBINED ELECTIONS AND VOTER TURNOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The heads of two parties in the ruling coalition have publicly opposed Prime Minister Belkhadem's plan to hold simultaneous local and parliamentary elections. One opposition party told us Belkhadem's plan was aimed at maximizing the electoral success of his party, the FLN. No da [...]	2007-02-14 14:42:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS234	"FINAL" ADC AND MALI AGREEMENT SIGNED IN ALGIERS [...] (U) On February 20 in Algiers, the government of Mali and the Democratic Alliance for Change (ADC) signed a "final" agreement on the disarmament and reintegration of the Tuareg rebels in northern Mali. Malian Minister of Territorial Administration Kone Kafougouna and ADC Secretary General Iyad [...]	2007-02-21 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR PINS PGOV ML AG
07ALGIERS247	MAY 17 ELECTION TIMETABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 15 President Bouteflika decreed that national elections will be held May 17 to replace the lower house of parliament, the National Popular Assembly. In doing so, Bouteflika pointedly did not take the public advice of his prime minister and schedule concurrent elections [...]	2007-02-27 09:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS249	ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BEDJAOUI CRITICIZES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Bedjaoui and U/S Hughes agreed February 24 on the need to work in partnership with the U.S. in finding solutions to the problems of the region. While agreeing on the importance of fighting terrorism across borders, Bedjaoui and Hughes parted ways on how best to bring about vi [...]	2007-02-27 10:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS252	NEA/MAG DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH POLISARIO [...] (C) NEA/MAG Director Elizabeth Hopkins, accompanied by DCM and PolEc Chief, met February 24 with Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Mohamed Beissat. Beissat opened by expressing the Polisario's disappointment that it had not see any momentum generated out of its release of Moroccan prisoners as p [...]	2007-02-28 14:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM PREF WI AG
07ALGIERS259	COPS AND ROBBERS: ALGERIA COPES WITH MOUNTING CRIME [...] SUMMARY: The recent robbery of Algiers' consular chief at knifepoint typifies the rising crime rate in Algeria. Aggressive, violent and often armed theft has spiked even as insurgent violence has generally diminished over the last four years. Public perception, media coverage and police admi [...]	2007-03-01 09:53:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER ASEC ECON SOCI CASC AG
07ALGIERS282	LARGEST ALGERIAN OPPOSITION PARTY FACES EXCLUSION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Algerian Ministry of Interior has disqualified the opposition Islamist party Islah ("Reform") from participating in the May 17 parliamentary elections on the ground that its leader was not elected in a recent party congress. Islah, which has the largest number of [...]	2007-03-07 06:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS30	FLN WINS SENATE IN CLOSER-THAN-EXPECTED ELECTION [...] (U) As expected (ref A),the National Liberation Front (FLN) wrested control of the Senate from the RND party in December 28 indirect elections. What was not expected was its slender margin of victory: the FLN took only 28 seats out of a possible 48. Since the majority of eligible electors in [...]	2007-01-09 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS330	OUYAHIA INCREASINGLY SEEN AS BOUTEFLIKA'S LIKELY SUCCESSOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Three reliable observers of Algerian politics have told us recently that Major General Mohamed Mediene, the powerful head of the intelligence and security services, is working to favor former Prime Minister Ouyahia as the eventual successor to President Bouteflika. Their opinions [...]	2007-03-14 08:29:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS331	OUYAHIA INCREASINGLY SEEN AS BOUTEFLIKA'S LIKELY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Three reliable observers of Algerian politics have told us recently that Major General Mohamed Mediene, the powerful head of the intelligence and security services, is working to favor former Prime Minister Ouyahia as the eventual successor to President Bouteflika. Their opinions [...]	2007-03-14 08:39:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS338	MECHANICS OF ELECTIONS: ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT [...] (U) Under the February 28 decree that set in motion the May 17 legislative election process, four Algerian government agencies play some role in the preparations. The Ministry of Finance controls the budget for the elections; the Ministry of Information is responsible for scheduling free media [...]	2007-03-14 11:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS367	RISING WORLD PRICES DRY UP PRIVATE ALGERIAN MILK [...] (U) Recent milk shortages in Algeria are likely to continue in the coming weeks as domestic producers shut down in response to the rising world price of milk powder. The state-run Algerian firm GIPLAIT (Groupe Industriel des Productions Laitieres) controls approximately 38 percent of Algeria' [...]	2007-03-19 15:30:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS410	OPPOSITION PARTIES TAKING DIFFERENT PATHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The four major Algerian opposition parties -- the Socialist Workers' Party, the moderate Islamist Movement for National Reform (Islah),the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD),and the Front of Socialist Forces (FFS) -- are taking very different approaches in the lead up to May [...]	2007-03-27 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS45	SENATE PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED [...] (C) Abdelkader Bensalah was re-elected, 129-0, as the President of the Conseil de la Nation (Senate) on January 12. Bensalah remains first in line to succeed President Bouteflika in the event that he is unable to complete his current term. Bensalah's re-election became a foregone conclusion wh [...]	2007-01-16 17:07:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS46	ALGERIA UNYIELDING ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND [...] (C) A top Algerian MFA official was adamant that the Human Rights Council (HRC) should send a mission composed of ambassadors to study the situation in Darfur during his January 15 meeting with Ambassador. Ambassador reviewed with MFA Director General for International Organizations Bouguerra [...]	2007-01-16 17:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU AG
07ALGIERS465	ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS GUILTY OF DEFAMING QADHAFI [...] (U) Ruling after a rehearing of the case, on April 4 an Algiers court found editor Ali Fodil and reporter Naila Berahal of the Arabic-language daily Echourouk El-Youmi guilty of defaming Libyan President Moammar Qadhafi and gave each a six-month suspended sentence. The court also fined the ne [...]	2007-04-04 17:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG LY
07ALGIERS47	NEA DAS CARPENTER'S REVIEW OF MEPI PROGRAMS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with MFA Director General for the Americas Selmane, NEA DAS Carpenter expressed satisfaction with the interest of various ministries in expanding MEPI programming in Algeria. Selmane undertook to coordinate the prioritization of the various requests and [...]	2007-01-17 07:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM AG
07ALGIERS52	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR HOSTILE TO AUTONOMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario Ambassador Beissat told us January 14 that the Polisario had perceived a marked recent shift in U.S. policy on the Western Sahara. The Polisario now viewed the U.S. as doing France's bidding and supporting the Moroccan position. Beissat insisted that any discussions w [...]	2007-01-17 16:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MO AG WI
07ALGIERS526	ALGERIAN ELECTION PROCESS UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's major political parties, except Islah, have submitted voter lists in all 48 wilayas for the May 17 national parliamentary elections. According to FLN sources, its candidates are older and more conservative than expected, and the number of women figuring on its lists bas [...]	2007-04-17 15:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS568	FM BEDJAOUI CAUTIONS ON CONSULAR WARDEN MESSAGES, [...] (C) In an April 21 meeting with S/WCI Ambassador at Large J. Clint Williamson in which Guantanamo detainee issues were discussed (septel),FM Bedjaoui said the U.S. and Algeria were "in the same boat" with respect to global terrorism and that it was important to work together on Iraq policy an [...]	2007-04-25 10:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC MARR AG
07ALGIERS618	THE RISE OF THE FLN OLD GUARD AND FALL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The old guard of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN),based on a report from a well respected parliamentarian, overruled local FLN officials and stacked FLN party lists with their friends and associates in advance of the May 17 legislative elections. One result is that on [...]	2007-05-03 09:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS619	OFFICIAL ELECTION PERIOD UNDERWAY BUT DOES ANYONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of the May 17 legislative elections, free electronic media access is now available to qualified Algerian political parties and independent candidates, signaling that the official national legislative election has begun. The parties generally express satisfaction with [...]	2007-05-03 11:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS628	FOREIGN COMPANIES LAMENT IMPEDIMENTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of foreign oil companies operating in Algeria are increasingly voicing concern about the ambiguously worded -- and apparently hastily drafted -- amendments to Algeria's hydrocarbon legislation in effect since the beginning of the year. Although Sonatrach has begu [...]	2007-05-07 08:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ECON AG
07ALGIERS637	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR ON TALKS WITH MOROCCO [...] (C) The Polisario was generally satisfied with UNSCR 1754, Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Mohamed Beissat told DCM May 7, but took issue with the resolution's praise for Morocco's "serious and credible" autonomy proposal. Such language would embolden Morocco, Beissat said, to approach the ne [...]	2007-05-08 16:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
07ALGIERS647	BEYOND POLITICAL PARTIES, LITTLE INTEREST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Going into the last week before the May 17 Algerian legislative elections, our sense is that political parties are flailing amidst widespread public disinterest. The head of the national election commission here told a government newspaper on May 9 that his commission is neither [...]	2007-05-10 12:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS652	ALGERIANS OFFER NEARLY ALL ASSURANCES NEEDED FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: In April 21-22 discussions led on the Algerian side by Counselor to the President for Counterterrorism Issues Kamel Rezag Bara, the government of Algeria gave oral assurances to S/WCI Ambassador Williamson and an interagency delegation to establish the terms for the transfer of Al [...]	2007-05-13 09:41:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR KAWC PHUM AG
07ALGIERS66	FRIENDSHIP TREATY WITH FRANCE ON INDEFINITE HOLD [...] (C) French Political Counselor Francois Penguilly told PolEc Chief over lunch January 19 that it was doubtful France and Algeria would agree to sign the long-pending Friendship Treaty between them any time soon. Penguilly said the first obstacle to overcome was the French presidential election [...]	2007-01-23 11:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR AG
07ALGIERS666	ALGERIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN TRAIL: INFORMATION IN [...] (C) Summary: The Algerian legislative election, which will conclude with nationwide voting on May 17, has not been much focused on issues. The two major Algerian political parties, FLN and RND, form a presidential coalition with the Islamist MSP party. All three parties in their campaignin [...]	2007-05-15 12:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON AG
07ALGIERS678	ON THE EVE OF ALGERIA'S ELECTIONS: WILL THEY VOTE? [...] (C) The period of free media access for political parties qualified to participate in the May 17 national parliamentary elections has ended. On the eve of the elections, media reports indicated that two bombs (one carried out by a suicide bomber) exploded in Constantine on May 16, killing on [...]	2007-05-16 16:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS680	GOVERNMENT COALITION PARTIES RETURN IN LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerians went to the polls in low numbers under heavy security Thursday to elect representatives to Algeria's largely powerless 389-seat parliament for five-year terms. The parties of the current government coalition claimed the day, led by President Bouteflika's FLN, the secu [...]	2007-05-19 09:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS708	ENERGY MINISTER UNMOVED BY CRITICISM OF CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil told Ambassador May 19 that the new hydrocarbon amendments were intended to slow oil development to maintain natural resources for future generations while redressing "unfair gains" made by foreign partners on certain contracts. He si [...]	2007-05-23 08:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS710	ENERGY MINISTER DETAILS DIFFICULTIES WITH SPAIN [...] (C) Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil told the Ambassador May 21 about the difficulties Algeria was experiencing with Spain regarding European market access. He described how the Spanish gas authority CNE (Comision Nacional de Energia) had decided to limit the amount of gas Sonatrach [...]	2007-05-23 09:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETRD ECON AG
07ALGIERS716	CONTROVERSY ON VOTE COUNT LINGERS FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Said Bouchair, the president of the independent election commission, and Noureddine Zerhouni, the minister of interior, are engaged in a very public battle on the transparency of the May 17 vote for national parliament. After Zerhouni said Bouchair's letter to President Bouteflika [...]	2007-05-24 11:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS746	SMALL SECULAR OPPOSITION BLOC SAYS 2007 ELECTION [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Reda Malek, now head of the small secular opposition party the National Republican Alliance (ANR) political party, and his director of communications, Lakhdar Neddaf, invited us May 28 to ANR party headquarters for a discussion of the May 17 legislative elections and [...]	2007-05-30 09:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS747	FLN LOYALIST SELECTED AS NEW PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL [...] (U) PM Abdelaziz Belkhadem announced May 28 that the National Liberation Front (FLN),National Rally for Democracy (RND),and Movement for a Society at Peace (MSP) had agreed to support FLN MP-elect Abdelaziz Ziari in the balloting for president of the national assembly. MSP leader Bouguerra [...]	2007-05-30 09:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM INRB AG
07ALGIERS789	ALGERIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER SHARE VIEWS [...] (C) In separate meetings with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) on June 3, Prime Minister Belkhadem and President Bouteflika made remarks on Iran, primarily in the context of Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki's June 2 visit to Algiers. Belkhadem observed with respect to Iranian involvement in Iraq tha [...]	2007-06-05 16:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC IR AG IZ
07ALGIERS790	BOUTEFLIKA ANNOUNCES MINOR CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) President Bouteflika made minor changes to the cabinet on June 4 as a culmination of the May 17 national elections and the May 31 installation of the new parliament. The six ministerial changes did not live up to public speculation about a major reshuffle. As was widely expected by the pr [...]	2007-06-05 16:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM INRB AG
07ALGIERS791	SENATOR NELSON HEARS ALGERIAN VIEWS ON IRAQ AND [...] (C) In separate June 3 meetings with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL),Prime Minister Belkhadem and President Bouteflika reviewed Algerian thinking on Iran (septel),Iraq, and bilateral relations. Belkhadem encouraged Nelson to spread the word that U.S. non-hydrocarbon investment in Algeria was wel [...]	2007-06-05 16:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS829	ALGERIAN NEGOTIATOR SKEPTICAL ABOUT UPCOMING [...] (C) Abdallah Bali, former Algerian ambassador to the UN and now counselor to the Foreign Minister, told Ambassador and visiting NEA DAS Gray on June 10 that he would be part of the Algerian delegation attending the June 18-19 talks on the Western Sahara organized by UN Special Representative Va [...]	2007-06-12 10:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO WS
07ALGIERS842	ALGERIANS CAUTIOUSLY WELCOME AFRICOM BRIEFING [...] (C) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry, accompanied by his delegation, consulted with newly installed Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, Minister Delegate for National Defense Abdelmalek Guenaizia and senior representatives of the foreign and defense ministries and intellige [...]	2007-06-13 10:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL AG
07ALGIERS859	MFA REACTION TO TIP TIER 3 RATING [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche June 16 to MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane, who expressed surprise and discomfort that the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report placed Algeria in Tier 3 status. Selmane complained that Algeria had been pooled with countries that did [...]	2007-06-18 09:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS861	MFA'S BOUGUERRA DISCUSSES HRC BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 9 visiting DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met with the MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Madjid Bouguerra to discuss special procedures used by the Human Rights Council (HRC) to monitor and publicly report on human rights situations. Bouguerra indicated that Alg [...]	2007-06-18 12:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV UNHRC AG
07ALGIERS877	GUANTANAMO DETAINEE RETURN STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) SUMMARY AMD COMMENT: On June 19, Algeria's major newspaper El Watan ran a story about the April 2007 discussions between the U.S. and Algeria that cited alleged American conditions for the release of Guantanamo detainees. The El Watan story also bitterly criticized the U.S. conditions as [...]	2007-06-20 11:19:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PHUM PINR PTER ICRC KAWC AG
07ALGIERS892	LAWYERS' SIT-IN PAYS OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After organizing a 400-lawyer sit-in at the National Courts on June 18, the Algerian National Bar Association (BNA) was able to secure a meeting with the justice ministry to air its grievances. On June 20, BNA President Abdelmajid Sellini met with the ministry's secretary genera [...]	2007-06-25 09:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV AG
07ALGIERS896	AL-QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB IS NOT MUCH UNITED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Algerian contacts who closely follow Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) sense the organization is grappling with ideological splits and command problems in the wake of the spectacular April 11 bombings in Algiers. On June 10, well-connected Echourouk el-Youmi editor Mohammed [...]	2007-06-26 12:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS9	ALGERIA 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-06 15:15:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KPAO AEMR KCRM AG
07ALGIERS904	MOKHTAR BELMOKHTAR AND AQIM: IS ONE-EYE ON HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combats (GSPC) transition to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) aggravated existing leadership splits within the organization (ref). Recent Algerian press reports claimed that GSPC southern region leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was seeking a dea [...]	2007-06-27 10:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS910	ALGERIAN SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL UPBEAT ON WESTERN [...] (C) MFA Secretary General (number two) Lamamra told Ambassador June 27 that he was hopeful the nascent UN-sponsored talks between Morocco and the Polisario might actually lead to real progress. Ambassador underlined that we hoped both Morocco and the Polisario would be realistic in the Augu [...]	2007-06-28 07:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO WI
07ALGIERS912	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS AND GOA DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, four prominent human rights lawyers and Messaoud Boufercha, Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),discussed legal issues and opportunities for increased bilateral cooperation. Lawyers, who were coincidentally i [...]	2007-06-28 09:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI AG
07ALGIERS913	MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, LAWYERS AND OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings June 9-10 with DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles, Algerian media, government and political party representatives and members of the legal community gave their views on press freedom and Algeria's defamation laws. Journalists and lawyers said freedom of expression in Al [...]	2007-06-28 09:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI AG
07ALGIERS929	MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COUNTERS EXTREMISM [...] (C) Algeria's Religious Affairs ministry has mounted a campaign to reign in extremist imams. The campaign promotes a unified, anti-violence version of Islam and will result in important staffing changes in schools and mosques. On June 23, Minister of Religious Affairs M. Boualem Ghoulamallah [...]	2007-07-02 06:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KISL SCUL SOCI AG
07ALGIERS930	ALGERIAN MFA COUNSELOR URGES U.S. WALK FINE LINE [...] (C) Algerian MFA Counselor Baali cautioned that outside pressure on the Polisario to accept even a modified Moroccan autonomy plan would likely lead the Polisario to quit the nascent negotiation process started in New York. Baali, who was part of the Algerian delegation in New York, opined th [...]	2007-07-02 07:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WI
07ALGIERS931	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE NGOS AND MFA ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, we are continuing to engage NGOs and the Algerian government on TIP. The GOA feels it has been unfairly lumped into Tier 3 status with countries whose TIP problem it considers to be more severe. The GOA in [...]	2007-07-02 08:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS944	RIOTS BREAK OUT IN ORAN AND BOUSSAADA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Riots erupted in recent days in two parts of Algeria for two very different reasons. In response to the downgrading of a local soccer team, two days of riots broke out in the desert city of Boussaada. Four days of rioting broke out in the westerm port city of Oran after the GOA [...]	2007-07-02 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AG
07ALGIERS950	AQIM SEEKING RECRUITS IN ALGERIA AND BEYOND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) incorporates several recruiting methods that include imams trawling prisons, upscale internet videos and capitalizing on festering local resentment of America and the West. Over a period of four weeks, AQIM's newly launched website has rece [...]	2007-07-03 10:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS958	TO BE ALGERIAN AND GAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles 333 and 338 of Algeria's penal code criminalize public homosexual behavior and there is no specific legal protection of homosexuals in the country. In a July 2 meeting held at the headquarters of Algerian NGO AIDS Algerie, five young members of Algeria's male homosexual [...]	2007-07-05 13:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI SCUL AG
07ALGIERS966	FORWARD WITH MEPI IN ALGERIA: FEWER BUT DEEPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Middle East Partnership Initiative programming is the best tool we have to undermine support for extremism in Algeria. We reported in ref A the activities and progress we are making on the education, media, political and economic tracks. It is an uneven picture. Understanding [...]	2007-07-07 16:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM KJUS AG
07ALGIERS992	JUST PASSING THROUGH? NIGERIA, ALGERIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Nigerian diplomat in Algiers confirms that Nigerians are being trafficked through Algeria, with Europe their expected final destination. The diplomat says that traffickers in Nigeria convince fellow citizens to make the journey, luring them with promises of a brighter future in [...]	2007-07-10 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF SMIG AG
07ALGIERS997	AQIM WEBSITE UPDATE - SHADOWS OF THE SWORD SERIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 3, AQIM released a new video on its website www.qmaghreb.org. Entitled "Shadows of the Sword, Part II," the video features AQIM leader Abdelmalek Droukdal calling on viewers to repent and support AQIM with money, weapons and by spreading the word. The video shows a Januar [...]	2007-07-11 16:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07BAMAKO1364	ATT: HOSTAGES WILL BE RELEASED IN TWO, THREE OR [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 09:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINR PREL ML AG
07CASABLANCA118	ALGERIA WEEK IN CASABLANCA PROMOTES ECONOMIC EXCHANGE, HOPE [...] (SBU) Summary: June 26 to July 1 marks Algeria Week in Casablanca, where Algeria is staging a week-long exhibition to promote business and investment opportunities between Morocco and Algeria. While the attendance of key royal family members and senior GOM officials at a lavish kick-off event [...]	2007-06-29 15:03:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EFIN KDEM AG MO
07DARESSALAAM892	TANZANIA: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-21 13:36:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	TZ AG AL CD CE CN DJ EG ER ET EZ HE ID
07ISLAMABAD2856	DEPUTY SECRETARY, GEN HYAT, AND GEN UL-HAQ STRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte, Assistant Secretary Boucher, and Charge d,Affaires Bodde met with Vice Chief of Army Staff GEN Ahsan Saleem Hyat and then separately with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN Ehsan ul-Haq on June 16. Both sides emphasized the importance o [...]	2007-06-28 11:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PK MOPS AG
07KINSHASA290	CONGOLESE AND ANGOLAN MINISTERS TO ATTEMPT RESOLUTION TO REMOTE BORDER DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Congolese and Angolan officials plan to meet in Kinshasa this week to discuss a disputed frontier in a remote diamond-bearing area at the intersection of the provinces of Bandundu in the DRC and Lunda Norte in Angola. Angolan troops reportedly entered the area on January 2 [...]	2007-03-13 10:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS AG CG EMIN
07KINSHASA318	CONGO ACKNOWLEDGES DISPUTED BORDER AREA IS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The DRC and Angola commissioned a technical team to clarify their common border following high-level consultations March 13 in Kinshasa. The team is charged with locating the 112 colonial-era border monuments and laying groundwork for joint control of the frontier. The deleg [...]	2007-03-16 09:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS MOPS CG AG
07LISBON3193	PORTUGAL SIGNS ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to diversify the country's energy supply, Portugal's national energy firms, Galp Energia and Energias de Portugal, recently signed several agreements for procurement and joint exploration projects with the national oil and gas companies of Venezuela, Libya and Algeria [...]	2007-12-20 14:47:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PO RU VE AG LY AO
07LUXEMBOURG459	LUXEMBOURG EXTENDS ISAF AND KFOR MANDATES AND WILL [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 11:58:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR PREL NATO EU PINS AG KV LU
07MADRID707	SPANISH POLDIR: MY TRIPS TO KABUL, TEHRAN, HAVANA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish MFA DG for Policy Rafael Dezcallar told DCM on April 17 that his recent trip to Afghanistan left him newly optimistic because NATO-ISAF is on the offensive and Afghan ministers and troops are starting to play a serious role. He said that the GOS will soon begin an initiat [...]	2007-04-18 15:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SP IR AF CU AG MO WI IZ KZ UZ
07MADRID753	SPANISH ENCOURAGE LONGER MINURSO RENEWAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA DAS Gordon Gray discussed the Western Sahara over lunch with a team of high-level MFA officials April 19 in Madrid. Alvaro Iranzo, the Spanish DG for North Africa, told Gray that the Spanish want a UNSCR which impels the two sides to negotiate without preconditions. While favoring [...]	2007-04-26 07:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS SP MO AG WI
07MADRID937	VAN WALSUM IN MADRID MAY 18 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo on May 17. Gomez-Acebo told Poloff that UN Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum had postponed his planned May 16-22 tour of the Maghreb on May 15 and would instead be in Madrid May 18 for a me [...]	2007-05-17 14:55:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO WI SP
07MEXICO3499	POST CONCURRENCE WITH FY07 SECTION 1206 FUNDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-03 18:47:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS AG AL CD CE CN DJ EG ER ET EZ HR ID
07NDJAMENA214	CHAD: FY06 SECTION 1206 - MISI INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The N'djamena country team reviewed the Multi-National Information Sharing Program (MISI) options for Chad based on written and oral presentations from the MISI team. The country team decided that MISI could be beneficial to Chadian security services, primarily as a tool for internet [...]	2007-03-09 17:37:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PARM AG CD MOPS NO SG TS
07OTTAWA2073	NEW CHALLENGES TO CANADA'S AFGHAN DETAINEE POLICY [...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian officials, the government soon will face new legal and political challenges to its practice of conveying detainees to Afghan authorities. Official documents that the Canadian federal court has compelled the government to convey to opponents of the policy w [...]	2007-11-09 22:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM NATO AG CA
07PARIS1137	MFA CRITICAL OF SYG'S WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY VAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE, THE MFA'S CHRISTIAN TESTO (DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR THE MAGHREB) AGREED THAT IT MADE SENSE TO PRESS FOR DIRECT MOROCCAN/POLISARIO TALKS. HE WAS CRITICAL OF PETER VAN WALSUM, THE UN SYG'S PERSONAL ENVOY FOR THE WESTERN SAHARA. TURNING TO UNSC DYNAMICS, HE [...]	2007-03-23 11:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG FR MO PREL SP UK WI UNSC
07PARIS1456	FRENCH PONDER UNSC MOVES ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: FRENCH MFA OFFICIALS ARE SOMEWHAT CONCERNED THAT THE POLISARIO -- IN THE HOPE OF PREEMPTING ANY USG ENDORSEMENT OF THE MOROCCAN AUTONOMY PLAN -- WILL AGREE TO DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH RABAT "WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS," WHILE INSISTING THAT THE MOROCCAN AUTONOMY PLAN CANNOT SERVE AS A [...]	2007-04-11 15:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PGOV PREL UNSC MO AG WI
07PARIS1914	FRENCH POISED TO RAISE CONCERNS WITH VAN WALSUM [...] (C) IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE, THE MFA'S DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR THE MAGHREB, CHRISTIAN TESTO, TOLD US ON MAY 14 THAT FRANCE AND THE U.S. ARE ON "EXACTLY THE SAME WAVELENGTH" WITH REGARD TO UN WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY PETER VAN WALSUM. TESTO NOTED THAT THE FRENCH ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED BY SIG [...]	2007-05-14 11:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PREL PGOV AG MO WI
07PARIS319	PARIS HOSTS INAUGURAL W. MED RSI CONFERENCE [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Stapleton hosted the inaugural Western Mediterranean Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) Conference on December 5-6 in Paris. U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from France, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal and Malta gathered as a first [...]	2007-01-26 16:34:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PGOV ASEC OTRA PTER FR AG LY IT MT SP
07PARIS322	C/T JUDGE ON FRANCE, RWANDA, PAKISTAN, AND HIS [...] (S) SUMMARY: France,s chief counterterrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, told us on January 19 that a recent surge in overall GSPC activities worried French counterterrorism officials, who are convinced there is now a significantly higher threat against France and its interests abroad. Tunisi [...]	2007-01-26 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER PREL INTERPOL KJUS TS AG MO RW
07PARIS3237	FRENCH MFA PUTS SARKOZY'S JULY 10-11 NORTH AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: President Sarkozy's first visit outside Europe July 10-11 to Algeria and Tunisia underscored his determination to proceed with his still vague Mediterranean Union initiative, establish his own relationships with the leaders in those countries, and pave the way for state visits in 20 [...]	2007-07-31 14:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM PTER PBTS ETRD FR AG TU MO
07PARIS4515	FORMER FRENCH COOPERATION MINISTER TO LEAD FRENCH [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 15:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM BMENA FR YE AG
07PARIS4533	FRENCH MFA OVERVIEW OF NORTH AFRICAN ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: We reviewed a number of North African issues with French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau earlier this month. She called President Sarkozy,s state visit to Morocco positive and, despite the failure to sell the Moroccans Rafale fighters, excellent for French comm [...]	2007-11-20 16:11:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD PINR FR MO AG TU LY
07PARIS4619	A "FURIOUS" SARKOZY DECIDES TO PROCEED WITH HIS [...] (U) Just as the French government was on the verge of cancelling President Sarkozy,s state visit to Algeria next week (see refs),Algerian President Bouteflika phoned Sarkozy November 29 to calm things down. He reportedly assured Sarkozy that the minister who was publicly quoted making anti [...]	2007-11-30 17:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR AG
07RABAT1586	MOROCCAN REBUTTAL OF ALGERIAN DRAFT 4TH COMMITTEE [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Omar Hilale convoked Ambassador and counterparts from the Americas again on October 9, to discuss UNGA Fourth Committee consideration of the Western Sahara issue. Hilale called this follow-up to his briefing of October 5 (ref. A),to explain the Moroccan response to [...]	2007-10-09 17:04:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN AG MO
07RABAT1728	WESTERN SAHARA/REFUGEES MOROCCO DROPS UNHCR CBM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Morocco has pulled out of next week's planned UNHCR Confidence-Building seminar. Charge, along with some dozen other COM's, was called in November 9 by MFA Secretary-General Hilale, who said Morocco's decision was SIPDIS based on its belief the seminar, and CBM's in general h [...]	2007-11-09 18:26:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PBTS UNHCR WI AG PREL PGOV MO
07RABAT1729	CORRECTED COPY: WESTERN SAHARA/REFUGEES: MOROCCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Morocco has pulled out of next week's planned UNHCR Confidence-Building seminar. Charge, along with some dozen other COM's, was called in November 9 by MFA Secretary-General Hilale, who said Morocco's decision was SIPDIS based on its belief the seminar, and CBM's in general h [...]	2007-11-09 18:26:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PBTS UNHCR WI AG PREL PGOV MO
07RABAT1807	MOROCCO/SAHARA: COMPLAINTS ABOUT POLISARIO, BUT [...] (C) MFA Director-General Hilale convoked Ambassador Riley and other P-5 Chiefs of Mission December 4 to discuss Sahara. Hilale said the GOM is concerned that the POLISARIO's General Congress will be held this year in Tifarity, on Moroccan-claimed territory but on the POLISARIO-controlled sid [...]	2007-12-04 18:39:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV AG MO WI
07RABAT1861	WESTERN SAHARA CBM UPDATE. [...] (U) UNHCR Sahara program Chief Mazen Abu Shenab briefed the Rabat diplomatic community December 12 on the HCR Confidence Building Measures for Western Sahara and the refugees. Mazen said in CPY 07 HCR had received S2.4 million in pledges for a $3.4 million program, but UNHCR covered the short [...]	2007-12-19 12:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG MO WI PHUM
07RABAT362	AMU INCREASING CT FOCUS, ADVANCING TRADE DIALOGUE, [...] (C) Foreign Ministers from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, and Libya gathered in Rabat February 10-11 for the 26th Ministerial Council meeting of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU). A senior AMU contact told us discussions among the Ministers reflected increased focus in AMU fora on stemming [...]	2007-02-26 09:00:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL ETRD MO LY AG TS XA XF
07RABAT528	ARAB MAGHREB UNION SYG BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Secretary-General Habib Ben Yahya told the Ambassador he was promoting technical cooperation and trade among member states to advance regional integration, in a March 2 meeting. "We can't wait for a miracle political solution," he emphasized. Ben Yahya ci [...]	2007-03-23 17:58:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MO AG LY TS MR XA XF
07RABAT704	ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS GOA MIGHT BE READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian Ambassador Belkheir told Ambassador Riley April 17 that although Algeria was not prepared to listen to the Moroccans about their autonomy proposal, Algiers might accept a delegation from Rabat "after the end of the Security council debate," if it was not to talk about th [...]	2007-04-23 07:24:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL AG WI
07ROME1030	ITALIANS SUPPORT RAPID MOVEMENT ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 10:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG MO WI IT

07STATE126128	PRST ON TERRORIST EVENT IN ALGERIA [...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 2. 2. (U) USUN is instructed to join consensus on the Security Council Presidential Statement on the Terrorist Attacks in Algeria that follows: Begin text The Security Council condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack that occur [...]	2007-09-07 23:02:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UNSC PTER PREL XI AG
07STATE145586	ALGERIA: PUSHING FOR THE RETURN OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (U) This is an action cable; please see paragraph six. 2. (S) Summary: It is extremely unlikely that any third country would agree to accept the transfer of Algerian nationals detained at Guantanamo and to negotiate their return to Algeria, as proposed by the GOA (reftels). The USG, howeve [...]	2007-10-17 21:41:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PTER PREL PHUM PINS AG
07STATE146853	DRAFT MINURSO RESOLUTION FOR 22 OCTOBER FRIENDS [...] USUN is authorized to circulate the text in paragraph three as a draft resolution for the Group of Friends meeting on the 22nd of October 2008. 2. Action Request: USUN is. to report the reactions to this draft resolution by the Group of Friends as well as other interested parties in New Yor [...]	2007-10-19 23:11:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07STATE147948	DRAFT MINURSO RESOLUTION FOR 24 OCTOBER FRIENDS [...] USUN is authorized to circulate the text in paragraph three as a draft resolution for the Group of Friends meeting on the 24th of October 2008. 2. Action Request: USUN is requested to report the reactions to this draft resolution by the Group of Friends as well as other interested partie [...]	2007-10-23 22:43:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07STATE149164	MINURSO CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during the 26 October 2007 UN Security Council consultations on MINURSO. Begin Talking Points: -- We are pleased that Morocco and the Polisario have met for two rounds of negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations [...]	2007-10-25 22:13:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07STATE150711	VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: MINURSO MANDATE RENEWAL [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to vote in favor of and to co-sponsor the MINURSO mandate renewal resolution during UNSC voting on 31 October, 2007. The text of the resolution is listed in paragraph 2. If there are substantive changes to the text, USUN is instructed to consult with [...]	2007-10-31 02:18:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07USEUBRUSSELS90	EU POLITICAL UNIT UNWILLING TO PRESS ALGERIA ON [...] (C) Refugee Officer delivered talking points (Ref A) on Jan. 11 to Manfredo Fanti, Deputy Head of Unit for the Mahgreb at the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations (RELEX),urging the EU to press the Government of Algeria and Polisario to allow UNHCR to conduct a cen [...]	2007-01-11 17:49:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM AG BE
07USUNNEWYORK192	AMBASSADOR SANDERS' MEETING WITH POLISARIO FRONT [...] (C) Summary: In a March 9 meeting he requested with USUN Ambassador Sanders, Polisario Front Secretary-General Mohamed Abdelaziz said he had traveled to the U.S. to reaffirm the Polisario position on the Western Sahara problem in light of the Moroccan announcement of an autonomy proposal and it [...]	2007-03-10 20:59:00	USUN New York	SECRET	PREL UNSC MO AG
07USUNNEWYORK225	WESTERN SAHARA: INVITATIONS DELIVERED TO MOROCCO [...] (C) USUN delivered reftel invitation to the Moroccan Mission to the UN March 19 and are awaiting a response. We were unable to deliver the same invitation to Polisario Front Representative Ahmed Boukhari until March 20 as he would not accept the invitation without permission from Secretary-Ge [...]	2007-03-20 22:23:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC MO AG
07USUNNEWYORK235	POLISARIO RESPONSE TO INVITATION TO U.S. HOSTED [...] (C) On instruction from the Polisario Leadership, Polisaro New York Representative Ahmed Boukhari delivered March 22 the Polisario response (text in para 2) to the March 20 invitation to a U.S.-hosted meeting with Morocco on the Western Sahara. Boukhari's only comment was that the Polisario w [...]	2007-03-23 14:56:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC MO AG
07USUNNEWYORK260	PRESSING POLISARIO TO DROP ITS PRECONDITION FOR [...] (C) Per instructions, Ambassador Sanders March 29 delivered (Ref A) points to Polisario New York representative Ahmed Boukhari encouraging the Polisario to drop its precondition that the Baker Plan be the basis for any discussions held with Morocco. Boukhari said he would forward the message [...]	2007-04-03 14:42:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WI MO
07USUNNEWYORK261	PRESSING POLISARIO TO DROP ITS PRECONDITION FOR [...] (C) Per instructions, Ambassador Sanders March 29 delivered (Ref A) points to Polisario New York representative Ahmed Boukhari encouraging the Polisario to drop its precondition that the Baker Plan be the basis for any discussions held with Morocco. Boukhari said he would forward the message [...]	2007-04-04 14:28:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WI MO
07USUNNEWYORK283	WOLFF-FASSI FIHRI MEETING AND SUBSEQUENT CONTACTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: April 11 was a day of intense activity on the Moroccan Western Sahara initiative. In a meeting with Ambassador Wolff, MFA Minister Delegate Fassi Fihri requested US assistance in helping solidify Moroccan public and political party opinion in support of this initiative by convinc [...]	2007-04-11 22:14:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WS
07USUNNEWYORK311	ALGERIAN PERMREP CONFIRMS POLISARIO ACCEPTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with Ambassador Sanders, Algerian PermRep Yousfi confirmed that the Polisario has agreed to enter into direct negotiations with Morocco provided the invitation to negotiations is couched in the language of paragraph 47 of the Secretary-General's April 13 Rep [...]	2007-04-20 19:39:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG WI MO
07USUNNEWYORK312	UNSC: CONSULTATIONS ON THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] Summary: In an April 20 briefing on the situation in Western Sahara that he shared with Special Representative (SRSG) Julian Harston, Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum reiterated the Secretary-General's call on Morocco and the Polisario Front to engage in "direct negotiations without preconditio [...]	2007-04-23 15:14:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
07USUNNEWYORK339	WESTERN SAHARA: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO [...] The Security Council April 30 adopted a resolution extending the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to October 31, 2007. In addition, the resolution takes note of both Moroccan and Polisario proposals for ending the political [...]	2007-05-01 13:42:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07USUNNEWYORK447	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ALGERIA ON PRESSING [...] (C) Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche June 4 to Algerian PermRep Youcef Yousfi, stressing the importance of maintaining the momentum established by UNSCR 1754, underscoring the expectation that the parties will engage seriously and show flexibility as they work through their differe [...]	2007-06-05 21:32:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF
07USUNNEWYORK448	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MAURITANIA ON PRESSING [...] (C) During a June 4 courtesy by Mauritanian PermRep Mohamed Ould Tolba, Ambassador Khalilzad delivered reftel points, stressing the importance of the Security Council's Western Sahara initiative and inviting Mauritania to encourage the Polisario to participate positively in the June 18-19 talk [...]	2007-06-05 22:35:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF
07USUNNEWYORK459	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO POLISARIO TO COME TO TALKS [...] (C) Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche June 6 to Polisario New York Rep Ahmed Boukhari, stressing the importance of maintaining the momentum established by UNSCR 1754 and underscoring the expectation that the parties will engage seriously and show flexibility as they work through the [...]	2007-06-08 15:57:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF
07USUNNEWYORK512	WAN WALSUM'S PRIVATE READOUT ON JUNE 18-19 WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 20 meeting, Peter Van Walsum, the mediator of the June 18-19 Western Sahara peace negotiations, told USUN and NEA that the talks between Morocco and the Polisario had gone as well as he could have hoped. He said the role of pro-Moroccan Sahrawis in the talks was unhelpfu [...]	2007-06-22 23:57:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL WI AG MO
07USUNNEWYORK513	ALGERIAN READOUT ON JUNE 18-19 WESTERN SAHARA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 20 meeting with USUN and NEA, Algerian negotiators present at the June 18-19 Western Sahara peace talks praised the talks' atmospherics and results, complimented Van Walsum on his handling of the negotiations, and patted themselves on the back for the role that they had [...]	2007-06-22 23:59:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL WI AG MO
07USUNNEWYORK545	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche points July 2 to Polisario New York Rep Ahmed Boukhari urging serious and substantive Polisario engagement in the upcoming August talks with Morocco, underscoring international expectations of real progress between the parties, and notin [...]	2007-07-03 13:35:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC WI AG MO
07USUNNEWYORK568	UNSC: BRIEFING ON WESTERN SAHARA NEGOTIATIONS; [...] Summary: In a July 11 closed briefing to the Security Council, the Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum explained that he had included recommendations in his report that were eventually deleted in order to suggest a way for the parties to move beyond "atmosph [...]	2007-07-12 20:41:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07USUNNEWYORK670	VAN WALSUM'S READOUT OF SECOND ROUND OF WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: In an August 13 meeting with Ambassador Sanders, UN/SYG Personal Envoy Peter Van Walsum said that the second round of Western Sahara negotiations had shown some engagement by the parties on peripheral substantive issues including natural resources and local administration, but t [...]	2007-08-15 14:24:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI
07USUNNEWYORK671	ALGERIAN READOUT ON AUGUST 10-11 WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Sanders, members of the Algerian delegation to the second round of the Manhasset talks between Morocco and the Polisario on Western Sahara expressed lower expectations of the progress of the talks than they had after the initial round. The Algerians s [...]	2007-08-15 14:33:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO
07USUNNEWYORK946	WESTERN SAHARA: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO [...] The Security Council October 31 adopted a resolution extending the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to April 30, 2008. The resolution takes note of the two rounds of negotiations held under the auspices of the Secretary-Ge [...]	2007-11-01 17:58:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO
07USUNNEWYORK985	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S MEETING WITH SYG'S PERSONAL [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad met November 2 with the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter SIPDIS van Walsum, who, following the October 31 renewal of the MINURSO (Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate, was consulting the "parties" (Morocco and the Polisar [...]	2007-11-09 16:51:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
07WARSAW234	POLAND: ENERGY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action cable, see paras 5, 7, 8 2. (C) Summary. The GOP continues to pursue the purchase of Transpetrol assets from Yukos International. The GOP remains concerned that the government of Slovakia will not support a GOP purchase. The GOP started negotiating a contract fo [...]	2007-02-05 07:44:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PO RS UP KZ AG GM
08ABUDHABI528	A/S WELCH WITH UAE FOREIGNMINISTER ABDULLAH [...] (C) Summary: Ina private lunch conversation on April 20 in Abu Dabi, Assistant Secretary for NEA David Welch covered a broad range of issues with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ). Notes follow on Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, nuclear power, IAEA, Iran, Palestine, Pakistan, Algeria [...]	2008-04-28 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL MASS EAID KNNP LE IZ IR AG YM AE
08ALGIERS1003	RESURGENCE OF "ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM" TARGETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Bouteflika's public blaming of foreign investors for Algeria's lagging economy outside of the hydrocarbons sector (ref A),the Algerian government has begun to impose new taxes and restrictions on foreign companies doing business here. Apparently sobered by t [...]	2008-09-16 16:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON AG
08ALGIERS1005	ALGERIA'S PARTICIPATION AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL [...] Per reftel, we are transmitting the list of Algeria's delegation to the 63rd UN General Assembly, which the MFA provided us via diplomatic note on September 17. A. Attendance of the Head of State: No plans to attend as of 09/17/08. B. Attendance of the Head of Government: No plans to at [...]	2008-09-17 17:41:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA AG
08ALGIERS102	FOREIGN COMPANIES WARILY EYE NEW OIL AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian oil parastatal Sonatrach announced belatedly on January 12 that fifteen new exploration blocks would be opened up to bidding by foreign hydrocarbon companies in 2008. Reactions from several U.S. and Italian firms indicate a wariness to pursue new investments given th [...]	2008-01-28 17:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
08ALGIERS1022	GET RICH - BECOME A PARLIAMENTARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A September 17 decision to increase dramatically the salaries of members of both the lower and upper houses of parliament has been greeted by public criticism and newspaper headlines screaming "Shame on You" and "Become an MP and Get Rich". The decision, made through a presidenti [...]	2008-09-24 07:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON AG
08ALGIERS1024	INITIAL ALGERIAN REACTION TO IRFR MOSTLY NEGATIVE [...] (C) We delivered the 2008 International Religious Freedom Country Report (IRFR) on September 23 during a meeting with MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali. Ouali gave no substantive comment on the IRFR, despite numerous critical official statements in the Algerian press in reaction t [...]	2008-09-24 15:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1052	ALGERIAN MFA OFFERS MEASURED CRITICISM OF 2008 IRFR [...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S equivalent) Fatiha Selmane called in the Ambassador on September 28 to deliver an official reaction to the 2008 International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) (ref A). Selmane asserted that the IRFR's conclusions did not match Algerian reality. Sh [...]	2008-09-30 14:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1053	SENATE PRESIDENT ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, THIRD TERM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian Senate president said September 29 that, press reports notwithstanding, there had been no official movement on a constitutional revision paving the way for a third term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Senate President Abdelkader Bensalah [...]	2008-09-30 15:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1067	WATER: SECURITY THAT OIL CANNOT BUY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria faces urgent challenges in managing its water resources and huge opportunities exist for U.S. companies in the sector, Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal told the Ambassador on September 29. Sellal said he was satisfied with equipment, such as pumps, purchase [...]	2008-10-05 14:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1087	INTERIOR MINISTRY SNUFFS EBERT CENTER EVENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the afternoon of October 4, the interior ministry quietly informed the Friedrich Ebert Center in Algiers that the political discussion it had organized for the following morning would not take place and "was not appreciated." The October 5 event, a debate on the 20th anniversa [...]	2008-10-06 15:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1088	GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLES TO REASSURE GHARDAIA FLOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frustration in Ghardaia province following severe October 1 floods led some 5000 people into the streets to protest what they perceived to be the government's sluggish response. The worst flooding the region has seen in over a century took the lives of 33 people, damaged 4000 h [...]	2008-10-06 16:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL AG
08ALGIERS1091	GOA RESPONSE TO U.S. NON-PAPER ON SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 16:01:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM IR AG
08ALGIERS1092	GOA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi was covering the Kosovo portfolio for a colleague who is currently in New York at the UNGA meetings, thus he said he was not able to respond substantively to our reque [...]	2008-10-07 16:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KV AG
08ALGIERS1093	DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi, who usually covers human rights, was covering the sanctions portfolio and much of multilateral affairs for several colleagues who are currently in New York at the UN [...]	2008-10-07 16:46:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	ECON EFIN ETRD PARM KKNP EUN EWWT PREL IR AG
08ALGIERS110	AUTONOMOUS UNIONS AND STUDENTS TEST THE LIMITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thousands of middle and high school students across Algeria took to the streets in a nationwide strike starting on January 15, heeding the call of autonomous unions. The strike resulted in a near complete paralysis of the education system for more than five days across the enti [...]	2008-01-30 14:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KOCI AG
08ALGIERS1108	AIRBUS DETERMINED TO BREAK BOEING IN ALGERIA [...] (U) Airbus has dramatically increased pressure on Algeria to dump Boeing, going so far as to offer to buy Air Algerie's entire Boeing 737 fleet and replace it with Airbus aircraft, simulators and training. As reported in reftel, Airbus has been lobbying Air Algerie intensely for some time, but [...]	2008-10-14 07:01:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR BEXP AG
08ALGIERS111	POLITICAL ELITES LINING UP BEHIND THIRD TERM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the week of January 24, a series of high-profile political leaders came out publicly in support of constitutional change to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a third term. They included key members of the presidential coalition, the speaker of parliament and [...]	2008-01-30 14:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1119	TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN: ALGERIA'S FRANCOPHONE [...] (SBU) Despite the lack of an official announcement by the Algerian government, MFA contacts tell us that President Bouteflika will attend and give a speech at the twelfth Summit of Heads of State of the International Organization of Francophone Countries (OIF). The summit, to be held from Oct [...]	2008-10-15 17:11:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EDU FR AG
08ALGIERS1120	FINANCE MINISTER DETERMINED TO BUILD PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Karim Djoudi told the Ambassador that Algeria's economic situation is generally strong, and that Algeria will weather the current global economic crisis relatively unscathed. Djoudi shared his vision for the Algerian economy, and said that his priority now lie [...]	2008-10-15 17:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV AG
08ALGIERS1121	TRILINGUAL ILLITERATES: ALGERIA'S LANGUAGE CRISIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Decades of government-imposed Arabization have produced an under-40 population that, in the words of frustrated Algerian business leaders, "is not fluent in anything" and therefore handicapped in the job market and more vulnerable to extremist influence. The Algerian school syste [...]	2008-10-16 12:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI EDU AG
08ALGIERS1122	ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE [...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]	2008-10-16 13:10:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1123	ALGERIAN WESTERN SAHARA POSITION UNYIELDING [...] (C) During an October 8 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel (U/S equivalent) asserted that Algeria's position on Western Sahara has not changed since 1965 and that Algeria continued to believe that the principle of se [...]	2008-10-16 13:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS1124	ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE [...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]	2008-10-18 06:18:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1145	FRUSTRATED HARRAGA PARENTS ARRESTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A demonstration outside the Tunisian consulate in Annaba led by parents of youths who disappeared while trying to flee Algeria in boats ("harraga"; reftel) turned violent on October 20. Police arrested 14 of the protesters and charged three with violating the laws controlling pub [...]	2008-10-22 14:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SOCI KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1147	NUCLEAR ENERGY IN ALGERIA: U.S. COOPERATION BEGINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even as countries such as France, Russia, China and Argentina have pursued nuclear cooperation agreements with Algeria, Algerian experts and French diplomats say Algeria is still 20 to 30 years away from developing nuclear power. A team of experts from Lawrence Livermore Nationa [...]	2008-10-22 15:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL IAEA AG
08ALGIERS1148	BLACK MARKET CURRENCY TRADE GAMES GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: While key members of the Algerian government feel immune to the global economic crisis (reftel),Algeria's currency black market is integrated into the world economy in ways the state never has been. On October 13, black market currency traders suspended transactions across the en [...]	2008-10-22 16:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1163	BOUTEFLIKA LAUNCHES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced on October 29 that he will convene a special session of parliament in the coming weeks to effect a partial and limited revision of the Algerian constitution. The changes he outlined would open the way for him to seek a third term as presi [...]	2008-10-29 16:42:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1164	CULTURE MINISTER TOUMI'S 15 MINUTES OF FAME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Culture Minister Khalida Toumi has emerged as the latest face on government efforts to implement conservative social policies and neutralize regime critics. In September, Toumi issued a directive to shut down bars and nightclubs located near cultural monuments in downtown Algiers [...]	2008-10-31 17:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI AG
08ALGIERS1171	EDUCATION MINISTER: GIVE US MORE ENGLISH, MORE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-04 16:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EDU AG
08ALGIERS1172	2009 GOVERNMENT BUDGET PAINTS ROSY PICTURE [...] SUMMARY. The Algerian parliament approved the government's 2009 budget with few amendments. Spending will increase six percent over 2008 levels, and the budget law estimates economic growth of 4.1 percent overall and 6.6 percent outside of the hydrocarbons sector. The budget uses an oil re [...]	2008-11-04 17:34:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1181	ALGERIA REMAINS FIRM ON MAURITANIA, SEES SOME [...] (C) MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane told visiting NEA/MAG Director Stephanie Williams November 3 that Algeria remains firmly opposed to the unconstitutional removal of Mauritanian President Abdallahi from power as a result of the August coup. Magrama [...]	2008-11-05 18:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ML MR AG
08ALGIERS1206	ALGERIA: BUREAUCRACY STIFLES GROWTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Business leaders told Ambassador and visiting NEA/MAG Director that the government bureaucracy continues to stifle the Algerian economy. Contract tenders are slow to develop, forcing the government to accept bidders who promise speed but who often have cost overruns in the end [...]	2008-11-10 18:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON PREL AG
08ALGIERS1208	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATE [...] (C) Algeria's new constitution was ratified in a special November 12 joint session of the Algerian parliament, during which senators and MPs voted overwhelmingly to approve the constitutional amendments proposed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (ref A). After an introduction by Senate Presid [...]	2008-11-12 17:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL AG
08ALGIERS1220	MYSTIC SUFI: BOUTEFLIKA'S ISLAMIC GAMBIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As he did prior to his 2004 reelection, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has begun raising the profile of Algeria's Sufi religious schools -- the zaouias -- both as a tool for political mobilization and to counter Islamic extremism with a moderate, homegrown alternative. Within Isl [...]	2008-11-17 11:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1231	INCLUSION OF BURKINA FASO IN TSCTP: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-18 16:58:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER XA XI AG
08ALGIERS1232	CROSSING THE ALGERIAN BORDER: AVENUES FOR REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Economic integration in the Maghreb is effectively blocked by the physical border closure between Algeria and Morocco. While there may be hope for a "quiet" rapprochement on the Moroccan side (ref A),Algerian policy makers voice such ardent, public distrust of their Moroccan co [...]	2008-11-19 08:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL ENRG ECON AG
08ALGIERS1233	IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 11:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM IR AG
08ALGIERS1241	ALGERIA: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-23 14:01:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY AG
08ALGIERS1248	ALGERIA RESERVED ON IRAN AND SYRIA IAEA REPORTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 08:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY AG
08ALGIERS1254	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURGES AS SOCIETY SIMMERS [...] Even as the constitution was being revised on November 12 to guarantee greater political representation for women, violence against women in Algeria was on the rise. According to Farouk Ksentini, the chairman of the government's National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protectio [...]	2008-11-26 14:08:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PREL AG
08ALGIERS1267	THREE CENTIMETERS TALLER THAN NAPOLEON: BOUTEFLIKA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 16:32:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ELAB SOCI AG
08ALGIERS1269	WESTERN SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sahrawi youth are increasingly frustrated and speak of a return to armed conflict with Morocco, but there is no indication that they are preparing to do so, or that they are indeed capable. During a November 15 visit by poloff and visiting NEA/MAG Algeria desk officer to a Sahraw [...]	2008-12-06 07:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PBTS WI AG
08ALGIERS1270	WESTERM SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-06 07:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PBTS WI AG
08ALGIERS1279	NEW TELECOM MINISTER IDENTIFIES PRIORITIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Post and Telecommunications Hamid Bessalah laid out for us an ambitious internet and telecom agenda that includes requests for U.S. engagement and assistance as well as opportunities for U.S. investment. Bessalah is a first-time minister who assumed his post in the Jun [...]	2008-12-07 07:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL ETRD AG
08ALGIERS1280	CODEL HASTINGS PRESSES ALGERIA ON ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL) urged that Algeria invite international observers for the April 2009 presidential elections. He met with positive but carefully hedged responses from his Algerian government interlocutors. The parliamentarians he met were generally warm to t [...]	2008-12-07 07:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1282	UNDER THE TLEMCEN SUN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A fertile farming region that is home to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and a disproportionate number of his ministers and advisers, the western wilaya (province) of Tlemcen appears at first glance to be a step ahead of other Algerian cities in reviving its economy and education [...]	2008-12-09 12:59:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAGR MO CN AG
08ALGIERS1286	ALGIERS EAC: ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBER 11 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-10 16:22:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
08ALGIERS1288	FLN LEADER SEES MORE REFORM, HOPE FOR CLOSER U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Liberation Front (FLN) Secretary-General (and former Prime Minister) Abdelaziz Belkhadem, now the leader of the alliance pushing for a third term for President Bouteflika, believes there is a hope for closer economic and political relations with the U.S. He told the Amba [...]	2008-12-10 19:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1296	ALGERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ON BOUTEFLIKA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians told Codel Hastings on December 2 that they believed the international community must play a greater role in resolving the Western Sahara question and that a third term for President Bouteflika is necessary for the well-being of Algeria. The Minister of Parliame [...]	2008-12-15 07:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OREP PBTS MO AG
08ALGIERS1306	RIFTS WITHIN THE "POUVOIR" MAKE RARE HEADLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: An extremely rare public and personal exchange between a former president and a retired general has broken the omerta code usually observed by Algeria's ruling elite, exposing divisions within the "Pouvoir" that have persisted since the struggle for independence. The bitter excha [...]	2008-12-18 08:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1307	CENTRAL BANK CHIEF STAYS THE REGULATORY COURSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bank of Algeria Governor Mohamed Laksaci told the Ambassador December 7 that he and his organization are focused almost to a fault on bank regulation rather than on financial system modernization. Laksaci has been with the central bank in various positions since 1990, and remain [...]	2008-12-18 08:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS1314	STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-20 11:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1319	STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) marked its celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by voicing concern that basic freedoms in Algeria were slipping, not improving as Algeria's human rights ombudsman Farouk Ksent [...]	2008-12-20 17:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1320	ALGERIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high profile terrorist attacks throughout the country compared with 2007, although the overall number of attacks did not decline and ongoing low-level terrorist activities continued in the countryside. In the first [...]	2008-12-20 17:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1324	ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelha [...]	2008-12-22 11:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	UNESCO SCUL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1326	ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelh [...]	2008-12-22 16:09:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	UNESCO SCUL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1327	ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT [...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche December 21 to the MFA Director General for Arab Affairs on the eve of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's expected visit. On foreign fighters, DG Abdelhamid Bouzaher said that the flow into Iraq had declined in recent years from a 2003-05 peak. He added [...]	2008-12-22 16:42:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG
08ALGIERS1328	ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 17:04:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG
08ALGIERS1329	POTENTIAL SVBIED ATTACK AGAINST U.S. OR FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian police have provided Embassy with specific and credible information concerning a possible imminent suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) attack against the U.S. or French embassies in Algiers. The EAC convened twice on December 22 to review the [...]	2008-12-22 17:23:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
08ALGIERS133	PROSELYTIZING IN ALGERIA: ONWARD CHRISTIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: From June to December 2007, a steady trickle of reports surfaced in the Algerian press about Christians and alleged Christian proselytizing in Algeria. Since January 2008, the frequency and length of the reports have increased markedly, and parliamentarians from the Islamist pol [...]	2008-02-04 16:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF AG
08ALGIERS1336	TOUGH CROWD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHARDAIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Welcomed by a lively group of 250 students, the Ambassador spoke December 18 at the University of Ghardaia on the importance of youth participation in elections. His remarks were met with critical comments from faculty and students alike regarding U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli [...]	2008-12-28 11:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EDU PGOV PREL IQ AG
08ALGIERS1338	ALGERIAN COMMITMENT TO AMISOM COMES FROM THE TOP [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on December 28 to Kamel Rezag-Bara, Counselor to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for Counter-terrorism. He thanked Rezag-Bara for Algeria's commitment to provide ten aircraft to transport African Union member troops into Somalia, and stressed the urge [...]	2008-12-28 15:01:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPKO SO AG
08ALGIERS1350	ALGERIAN MFA: DANGEROUS SPLIT BETWEEN REGIMES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Secretary General Madjid Bouguerra assured the Ambassador on December 31 that Algeria would continue to play a constructive role in formulating Arab League reactions to the situation in Gaza, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. Bouguerra said that Algerians were shocked and traum [...]	2008-12-31 18:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG
08ALGIERS140	UNIONS PLAN NATIONWIDE PROTEST SURGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's autonomous unions are gearing up for two nationwide strikes in February as they continue to make demands on the state. While the unions largely agree among themselves on the issues underlying the strike calls, there is less agreement on who speaks for whom, with splinte [...]	2008-02-06 17:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AG
08ALGIERS141	SENIOR ALGERIAN MFA OFFICIAL DOWNBEAT ON LEBANON, [...] (C) MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher (A/S equivalent) told Ambassador February 6 that the political situation in Lebanon looked deadlocked and that the Algerian Government was not hopeful that the Arab League would succeed in paving the way for a presidential election. Bouzaher [...]	2008-02-07 08:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM LE AG
08ALGIERS143	STALE BUT NOT YET ROTTED: AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN [...] SUMMARY: Algeria's agriculture sector has been stagnant for years because of a combination of factors that includes decades of Soviet-style government agrarian policies, underdeveloped industrial transportation systems, drought, and terrorist activity that disrupted business and distracted g [...]	2008-02-09 06:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS157	ALGERIAN BUSINESS GROUP LOBBYING FOR MAGHREB [...] (SBU) Summary: The often outspoken head of a prominent Algerian business association told Ambassador January 13 that together with other North African business leaders he is lobbying for the Maghreb governments to take steps promptly to enable Maghreb economic integration. The business leade [...]	2008-02-11 16:22:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL AG MO TS
08ALGIERS168	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT EVOLVING ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: We received an immediate and unusually candid response on trafficking in persons (TIP) from the Algerian foreign ministry after delivering the UN.GIFT demarche (ref A). The MFA indicated that Algeria planned to participate in the forum. In addition, our interlocutor used the me [...]	2008-02-14 16:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF SMIG AG
08ALGIERS169	ALGERIA RESERVED ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We received a noncommittal response from Algerian government interlocutors when the Ambassador raised the issue of recognizing an independent Kosovo. The Algerian government prefers a "go slow" approach, even though a top MFA official readily agreed Kosovo could never be reinteg [...]	2008-02-17 06:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV AG
08ALGIERS182	URGING SUPPORT FOR AMBASSADOR WILLIAM SWING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the MFA February 13, urging Algerian support for Ambassador William Swing's candidacy to be Director General of the International Organization for Migration. He also asked for a GoA contact person with whom Ambassador Swing could discuss his candidacy d [...]	2008-02-19 06:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG AG
08ALGIERS183	ALGERIA RESPONSE ON IRAN THIRD SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for International and Economic Affairs Rachid Bladehane (Assistant Secretary equivalent) on February 16. Ambassador updated Bladehane on U.S. diplomatic efforts on Iran nuclear challenges. Bladehane expressed Government of Algeria [...]	2008-02-19 07:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IR AG
08ALGIERS184	ALGERIA RESPONSE ON 1267 COORDINATION SUBMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-19 07:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC AG

08ALGIERS187	OSLO PROCESS AND BANNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche February 13, highlighting U.S. humanitarian concerns with the use of cluster munitions, and expressing U.S. support for the ongoing negotiations on ths issue within the Convention on Conventional Weapons. We urged Algeria not to adopt any language that would i [...]	2008-02-19 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AG
08ALGIERS190	MICROSOFT'S IPR WOES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 19 meeting, Microsoft Algeria Director General Samir Said outlined Microsoft's priorities for Algeria and underscored the negative impact weak intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is having on Microsoft's financial bottom line and growth potential. Sai [...]	2008-02-19 17:57:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP KIPR ETRD AG
08ALGIERS191	ALGERIA GOES WTO SHOPPING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the February 4 visit of European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to Algiers, EU diplomats told us the Algerians were "forthcoming and eager" on WTO accession, but the Europeans remain skeptical of rapid progress. They felt the Algerians were shopping for the ea [...]	2008-02-20 09:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTO ECON PREL AG
08ALGIERS195	MGKV01: ALGERIA WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Bougerra told the Ambassador February 20 that Algeria would not recognize Kosovo in the foreseeable future at least. In response to ref A points, he said that it appeared to Algiers that UNSCR 1244 was explicit that Kosovo is a part of Serbia unless Serbs and Koso [...]	2008-02-20 15:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNAUS UNMIK YI EU KVIR AG
08ALGIERS197	ANGRY YOUTHS STIR UP SLEEPY SAHARA TOWN [...] (U) Violent protests on February 16 by approximately 100 youths in Timimoun, a sleepy tourist town in the desert of southwest Algeria, raised eyebrows in Algiers, since the majority of socioeconmic protests in Algeria have been confined to the more populous northern strip of the country (refte [...]	2008-02-22 09:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KOCI AG
08ALGIERS198	SCENE SETTER FOR A/S WELCH VISIT TO ALGERIA [...] (C) We and the Algerians are looking forward to your visit next week. There was a prominent article about your visit, generated with help from our PAO, in best-selling el-Khabar newspaper on February 21. You will be visiting just as the government machine is gearing up to amend the Algerian constit [...]	2008-02-22 11:28:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AG
08ALGIERS199	NEW POLISARIO AMBASSADOR IN ALGIERS HEWS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting, new Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Ibrahim Ghali and Polisario Minister-Delegate for African Affairs Mohammed Beissat told us that it was getting more difficult for the Polisario leadership to convince the Sahrawi people to be patient and respect the Man [...]	2008-02-22 11:59:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC PBTS MO WI AG
08ALGIERS205	TIP DVC DEEPENS DIALOGUE [...] (U) A digital video conference on February 19 between Department officials and Algerian counterparts was the latest step in our ongoing engagement with the Algerian government on trafficking in persons. Representing the Algerian government were MFA U.S. desk officer Rachid Ouali, MFA director [...]	2008-02-24 07:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF AG
08ALGIERS208	ALGERIA: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the 2003 enactment of TRIPs-compliant legislation, Algeria has demonstrated it is capable of active and prompt attention to intellectual property rights (IPR) disputes (ref B),but progress has been sporadic and inconsistent rather than systematic. Although some Algerian [...]	2008-02-24 14:21:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR AG
08ALGIERS21	SAHRAWI AMBASSADOR: POLISARIO ENERGIZED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Polisario Ambassador to Algeria, the December 14-20 party congress in Tifariti has provided the Polisario with an injection of energy and confidence moving into the January 8-9 Manhasset negotiations. While the pledge to resume armed struggle against Morocco "has [...]	2008-01-07 14:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC PBTS MO WI AG
08ALGIERS220	ALGERIA FY 08 BFIF PROPOSAL [...] SUMMARY AND JUSTIFICATION: Embassy Algiers submits the following request for FY 08 Business Facilitation Incentive Funds (BFIF) in support of commercial outreach outside of Algiers. The U.S.-Algeria commercial relationship has grown dramatically over the past 3 years -- from USD 11.5 billion [...]	2008-02-27 17:01:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP KIPR ETRD AG
08ALGIERS221	CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Per reftel, Embassy Algiers has identified eleven critical infrastructure/key resource sites that if damaged or destroyed might negatively impact U.S. oil and gas supplies or U.S. military overflight and refueling. Algeria is a major source of oil and natural gas for the United States, se [...]	2008-02-27 17:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PTER PGOV AG
08ALGIERS223	BOUTEFLIKA LOOKS TO THE LEVANT WITH A/S WELCH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a three-hour tour d'horizon with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika provided his candid opinions on a wide range of issues (septel),but spoke at length about the Levant. He revealed his personal views on Syrian interference in Lebanon, the [...]	2008-02-29 10:11:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG
08ALGIERS23	HUGE MOSQUE PROJECT FACES STIFF OPPOSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: For several months, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's vision of building the third largest mosque in the world has divided the government and broader public here, provoking opposition from all sectors of society. Given a potential price tag that runs in excess of USD one billion, [...]	2008-01-09 10:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KISL AG
08ALGIERS24	ALGERIA: PRIVATIZATION (SLOWLY) MOVING AHEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's head of financial reform told Ambassador January 7 that Algeria has not retreated from its plan to privatize the large CPA bank. Rather, the government is waiting for the right market conditions to guarantee maximum value for its flagship parastatal and to ensure a [...]	2008-01-09 12:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV AG
08ALGIERS248	GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...]	2008-03-03 13:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS251	ALGERIAN LEADERSHIP TOWS WESTERN SAHARA LINE WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In February 26 and 27 meetings with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem emphasized their familiar line on self-determination for Western Sahara, as well as the need to find a way out that would allow Algeria [...]	2008-03-03 13:21:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG
08ALGIERS252	BOUTEFLIKA: LIBYA LOOKING TOWARDS U.S. [...] (S) In a February 26 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika SIPDIS stated emphatically that while Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi needs to protect his image with a sometimes defiant public discourse, his mindset is now firmly pro-U.S. Furthermo [...]	2008-03-03 13:23:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG
08ALGIERS253	OFFICIAL INFLATION STATS MASK STUNTED MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although official figures show a relatively modest inflation rate of 3.5 percent, Algerians are complaining loudly about the high and rising cost of living in Algeria. Economists and even Algerian government officials argue that official inflation calculations underestimate what [...]	2008-03-03 13:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAGR AG
08ALGIERS254	ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL: GOT GAS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALGERIAN ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL TOLD OPIC CEO MOSBACHER FEBRUARY 23 THAT ALTHOUGH ALGERIA CAN MEET ITS CURRENT NATURAL GAS CONTRACTS AND INTERNAL CONSUMPTION DEMAND, THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO FIND MORE GAS. IN ORDER TO INCREASE GAS CAPACITY, KHELIL SAID THAT HYDROCARBON PARASTATAL SON [...]	2008-03-03 13:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETRD AG
08ALGIERS255	GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...]	2008-03-03 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS258	OFFICIAL INFLATION STATS MASK STUNTED MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although official figures show a relatively modest inflation rate of 3.5 percent, Algerians are complaining loudly about the high and rising cost of living in Algeria. Economists and even Algerian government officials argue that official inflation calculations underestimate what [...]	2008-03-03 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAGR AG
08ALGIERS259	BOUTEFLIKA: LIBYA LOOKING TOWARDS U.S. [...] (S) In a February 26 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stated emphatically that while Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi needs to protect his image with a sometimes defiant public discourse, his mindset is now firmly pro-U.S. Furthermore, accor [...]	2008-03-03 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG
08ALGIERS261	ALGERIAN LEADERSHIP TOWS WESTERN SAHARA LINE WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In February 26 and 27 meetings with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem emphasized their familiar line on self-determination for Western Sahara, as well as the need to find a way out that would allow Algeria [...]	2008-03-03 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG
08ALGIERS262	ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL: GOT GAS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALGERIAN ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL TOLD OPIC CEO MOSBACHER FEBRUARY 23 THAT ALTHOUGH ALGERIA CAN MEET ITS CURRENT NATURAL GAS CONTRACTS AND INTERNAL CONSUMPTION DEMAND, THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO FIND MORE GAS. IN ORDER TO INCREASE GAS CAPACITY, KHELIL SAID THAT HYDROCARBON PARASTATAL SON [...]	2008-03-03 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETRD AG
08ALGIERS27	THIRD TERM PUSH FOR BOUTEFLIKA STEAMROLLS FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The move to amend the constitution to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for an unprecedented third term in 2009 is now gathering steam. Almost immediately after the November 29 local elections, Prime Minister Belkhadem began painting the elections as a clear popular cal [...]	2008-01-10 11:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS274	MFA OFFICIAL CALLS GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There was more media clamor on March 5 about the Algerian government accusations that the U.S. Embassy and the Ambassador of "interference" in internal Algerian affairs (ref A). Government spokesman Boukerzaza told the press March 4 that there was no diplomatic crisis with the Em [...]	2008-03-05 19:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS28	ALI BENFLIS: BOUTEFLIKA RIVAL STAYING OUT OF SIGHT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ali Benflis, the main challenger to President Bouteflika in the 2004 presidential election, told us that that the Algerian government is gradually throttling democracy and largely failing to address Algeria's other problems. He claimed that changes back and forth on policy iss [...]	2008-01-11 08:35:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PGOV PINR AG
08ALGIERS287	ALGERIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY 2008 [...] This cable summarizes key economic developments in Algeria during February 2008, and includes: -- Motorola to Open Office in Algiers -- Bouteflika-Putin Meetings Stoke Fears of Gas Cartel -- U.S.-financed Desalination Plant Inaugurated in Algiers -- Bahraini Bank to Invest USD 3 billion in [...]	2008-03-10 07:11:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ENRG EPET ETRD AG
08ALGIERS291	APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS PRESS DEFAMATION VERDICT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 4 an appellate court in Jijel upheld a May 27, 2007 verdict against the director of French-language daily El Watan and its lead columnist. The two were convicted of defaming Ahmed Maabed, the wali (governor) of Jijel. They were sentenced to two months in prison and ord [...]	2008-03-10 17:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG
08ALGIERS293	ALGERIAN OFFICIALS PRIVATELY BACKTRACK ON [...] (C) MFA Counselor Ambassador Abdallah Baali (protect) pulled Ambassador aside after a discussion about the Western Sahara (septel) to discuss privately the Algerian government's public criticism of the American Embassy (refs). Baali said he had asked the Director General (roughly equivalent [...]	2008-03-11 12:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AG
08ALGIERS317	DESPERATION FUELS INCREASE IN SUICIDES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Suicide, though a significant sin in Islam, is on the rise in Algeria. Sociologist Nacer Djabi warned that socioeconomic discontent was creating a developing "suicide mentality" in Algeria (reftel) even among young Algerians, and official statistics indicate suicide was an increa [...]	2008-03-17 10:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI ECON AG
08ALGIERS318	AQIM DEMANDS FOR THE RELEASE OF AUSTRIAN HOSTAGES [...] (SBU) On March 13 Al-Qaeda in the Lands of Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a communique on a Jihadi website (www.shmo5alislam.net/vb/) with its conditions for the release of the two Austrian hostages Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber (ref A). AQIM demanded the release of some of its members he [...]	2008-03-17 11:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS319	NEW AIR ALGERIE LEADERSHIP READY FOR BOEING [...] (U) In a March 15 meeting with the Ambassador, new Air Algerie President Abdelwahid Bouabdallah and his assistant Amar Mahiout told us they intended to move quickly to replace part of Air Algerie's mid-range Boeing 737 fleet (ref A). Bouabdallah said that they would be looking for delivery of [...]	2008-03-17 11:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR BEXP AG
08ALGIERS332	WOULD THE REAL AUTONOMOUS UNIONS PLEASE STAND UP? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first two months of 2008 have witnessed a coordinated level of independent labor union activity on a nationwide scale. The strikes of early 2008 appear to have been effective in mobilizing participants across the entire country. The three major nationwide strikes so far this [...]	2008-03-20 09:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI AG
08ALGIERS333	JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER: TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy surrounding Christians and alleged Evangelical Christian proselytizing in Algeria continues (refs A, B). In late February Hugh Johnson, a retired American Methodist minister who has lived and worked in Algeria for 45 years, was suddenly ordered to leave the count [...]	2008-03-20 09:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS334	MFA BLASE ABOUT MEDIA ATTACKS ON EMBASSY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a period of relative calm, government use of the press to attack Embassy activities (refs A and B) heated up again on March 15 when Arabic-language daily El Khabar featured front page headlines proclaiming that the Interior ministry had issued an order forbidding NGOs to meet [...]	2008-03-20 09:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS335	NEW POLISARIO LEADERSHIP DEFIANT, SAHRAWIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12-14 visit to Tindouf by Emboff and visiting PRM officers, Polisario leaders expressed increasing frustration with the Manhasset negotiation process, consistent with recent public statements by Polisario officials in Algiers. Although the Polisario leadership was vagu [...]	2008-03-20 10:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS34	ALGERIAN SKEPTICISM AHEAD OF AFRICOM DVC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite our repeated attempts to explain and clarify U.S. plans for AFRICOM, Algerians remain critical and suspicious. Both journalists and government officials engage in heavy speculation, often making false claims and spouting baseless misinformation about the new U.S. African C [...]	2008-01-13 16:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO MARR AG
08ALGIERS357	DECODING PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS LEAKS ATTACKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The publisher of an Arabic-language daily told the Ambassador on March 24 that the paper's March 22 front page story alleging that the Ambassador had refused to appear at the MFA when convoked by the Foreign Minister was printed as a result of direct pressure from the Prime Minis [...]	2008-03-26 11:01:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS360	ALGERIA'S FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] In response to reftel, Post submits the following: 2. Algeria has made progress since 2003 regarding fiscal transparency. Budget plans are unveiled each autumn for the following calendar year, and the Finance Law is officially published in the journal of record on December 31. A report [...]	2008-03-26 16:07:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL AG
08ALGIERS361	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS NEGATIVELY TO HUMAN [...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane convoked Ambassador on March 26 to relay the GOA's dissatisfaction with the Department's 2007 Human Rights Report on Algeria. She complained that the report depicted the human rights scene in Algeria as "static" when it is, she claimed, [...]	2008-03-27 09:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS37	ALGERIAN MFA WELCOMES LIBYA IN TSCTP [...] (C) MFA Secretary General (number two) Bouguerra and MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for Africa Chergui told Ambassador on January 13 that Algeria would not object to the U.S. including Libyan officials in future TSCTP programming. He opined that Algeria thought integrating Libya more a [...]	2008-01-14 11:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG LY
08ALGIERS384	SCARRED BY SCANDAL AND INEXPERIENCE, CENTRAL BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bank of Algeria, worried that it will be perceived as soft on corruption and banking irregularities, has been carrying out an increasingly aggressive oversight campaign whose intentions may be pure, but whose results have frustrated and suffocated banking reform. Our contacts [...]	2008-04-01 16:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS385	BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR: ALGERIA'S HOUSING CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A housing shortage across Algeria is one of the worst economic problems facing the country. To help ease the shortage, in 2004 President Bouteflika launched an ambitious plan to build more than one million new housing units by the end of 2009. The program has fallen far short [...]	2008-04-02 07:02:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV AG
08ALGIERS388	ACCUSED JOURNALISTS SOBERED BUT UNBOWED BY [...] (C) On March 26 Pol/Econ Chief and PAO visited the Algiers offices of the French-language daily El Watan to discuss the press defamation case against El Watan Director Omar Belhouchet and columnist Chawki Amari (ref A). Editor-in Chief Zine Cherfaoui and Amari told us that the paper was able [...]	2008-04-02 15:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO PGOV AG
08ALGIERS396	HAMAS OFFICIAL ASKS BOUTEFLIKA'S HELP IN RESOLVING [...] (SBU) The Algerian Arabic-language newspaper Ennahar reported April 5 that a representative from the Palestinian Hamas movement in Lebanon, Usama Hamdan, said during an April 4 press conference at the Hamas office in Algiers that he had asked the Algerian authorities to mediate between Hamas an [...]	2008-04-07 13:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG
08ALGIERS420	CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. Our co [...]	2008-04-14 14:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS422	MFA OFFICIAL: SAHEL HEATS UP AS MALI PLAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 13 meeting, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui told Ambassador that Algeria perceives that the security situation in northern Mali and Niger is deteriorating. Chergui said Algeria was frustrated by the "unhelpful" [...]	2008-04-14 17:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG
08ALGIERS427	CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. The Al [...]	2008-04-15 15:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS434	INTERIOR MINISTER CRITICIZES NGOS AS UNHELPFUL [...] (C) Speaking during a parliamentary session held April 9, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni stated that "international NGOs coming to Algeria are neither helping nor building the country." He asked MPs why they would work with such NGOs since they only came to Algeria for money. Zer [...]	2008-04-20 16:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS437	PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE 2009 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is scheduled to hold its next presidential election in April 2009. Parliamentary and local elections in 2007 saw very low turnout and our contacts warn us of broad disinterest in the political system. In order to help avoid radicalization of some elements of the disench [...]	2008-04-21 16:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM AG
08ALGIERS439	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT URGES SIMPLE MINURSO ROLLOVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs abruptly convoked the Ambassador late afternoon on April 21 to discuss Western Sahara. Director General for African Affairs (Assistant Secretary level) Ismail Chergui asked for our help in securing a MINURSO renewal resolution that he called techni [...]	2008-04-22 10:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS448	NEW AQIM VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET [...] (C) SUMMARY: After an absence of more than nine months, the AQIM video series "Shadows of the Sword" has made a return to the jihadi website community. On April 14, AQIM released a new video showing two attacks on Algerian targets in Dellys and Boumerdes (Kabylie region),demonstrating AQIM [...]	2008-04-23 10:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC AG
08ALGIERS449	SECURITY UPDATE: AQIM NOT GETTING STRONGER IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to information collected from press reporting, the number of terrorist attacks remained approximately the same in March 2008 compared to previous months but there appear to have been fewer casualties. The majority of these March attacks have been attributed to Al-Qaeda [...]	2008-04-23 10:27:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	ASEC PTER AG
08ALGIERS458	"YEAR OF THE STRIKE" CONTINUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's autonomous unions staged another nationwide strike from April 13 to 15. Participation rates varied and the country did not grind to a halt. In an unusual development, riot police dispersed demonstrating strikers near the Central Post Office in Algiers. Although the [...]	2008-04-23 11:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI AG
08ALGIERS464	AFRICA UNION CENTER WANTS OUR HELP FOR ITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since early 2008 a number of U.S. official delegations have visited the African Center for the Research and Study of Terrorism (CAERT) in Algiers, all of which have departed leaving the impression that U.S. assistance in the form of training or seminars would be forthcoming. [...]	2008-04-23 16:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC AG
08ALGIERS465	SLIPPING TOWARDS ADDICTION: ALGERIA'S EVOLVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is evolving from primarily a transit point for drugs entering Europe into a destination and producer of drugs. The first few months of 2008 have featured a wave of front-page press reports on domestic drug production, announcing that areas of the southern Sahel region ar [...]	2008-04-24 09:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR EAGR PREL PTER ECON AG
08ALGIERS466	MUSLIM PARTY TRIES NEW APPROACH TO DECRIMINALIZE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),the Muslim Brotherhood party that is one of the members of the ruling coalition in Algeria, proposed in parliament on April 22 to cancel a 2001 law that constitutes the basis for the criminalization of religious and journalistic speech. T [...]	2008-04-24 11:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS481	PACKAGING AND REPACKAGING ALGERIA'S WTO BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's chief WTO negotiators said in press interviews surrounding an Algerian Senate-sponsored conference about Algerian WTO membership negotiations that Algeria's WTO bid was in an "advanced state" and that they are preparing for a new round of talks that they expect to occur [...]	2008-04-28 10:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS483	ALGERIA AND POLISARIO SLAM WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings April 27 and 28, Ambassador and DCM delivered reftel demarche to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Polisario ambassador in Algiers. The two recipients shared the same reaction to the recent statement of UNSG Special Envoy Peter Van Walsum, s [...]	2008-04-28 12:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS490	RIOTING IN WESTERN ALGERIA - THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN [...] (U) Algerian independent newspapers reported on April 28-29 that the city of Chlef, the capital of the province in western Algeria with the same name, suffered from two days of major rioting on April 27-28. According to these press reports, the trial of a community activist who had been fig [...]	2008-04-30 08:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV AG
08ALGIERS491	GOA DENIES REPRESSING CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 29, Ambassador delivered ref a demarche to MFA Director General for American Affairs (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Fatiha Selmane, highlighting specific examples of Christian groups facing GoA obstacles as reported in refs b and c. We also delivered the demarche on Ap [...]	2008-04-30 14:01:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL AG
08ALGIERS492	MORE GOVERNMENT VENOM DIRECTED AT NGOS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Algerian political figures continue to attack foreign NGOs working in Algeria. The April 27 press featured the head of the government's Human Rights Commission blaming Al-Jazeera TV and foreign NGOs for "threatening the country's national reconciliation program." Meanwhile, rh [...]	2008-05-01 06:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS493	IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES: ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria imports much of the food in consumes, up to 50 percent of some commodities, and the prices of many food items are climbing significantly. The government is using subsidies to prevent price increases for a few food staples, like bread, semolina and milk. Because of t [...]	2008-05-03 05:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV PREL AG EAID ETRD
08ALGIERS494	IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES: ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria imports much of the food in consumes, up to 50 percent of some commodities, and the prices of many food items are climbing significantly. The government is using subsidies to prevent price increases for a few food staples, like bread, semolina and milk. Because of t [...]	2008-05-03 05:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV PREL AG EAID ETRD
08ALGIERS501	ALGERIA STILL NONCOMMITTAL ABOUT PASSENGER LIST [...] (S) Ambassador pulled aside Presidency Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Kamel Rezak-Bara during an April 30 reception to remind him that we still await a response to our suggestion that Algeria enable us to screen passenger lists for flights between Damascus and Algiers. Rezak-Bara remembered our [...]	2008-05-04 16:27:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	EAIR PTER AG
08ALGIERS504	FORM OVER FUNCTION: SURVIVING AS A NEWSPAPER IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's second term, many of our press contacts have told us of their concerns that press freedoms and competence are shrinking. At the time of Bouteflika's re-election in 2004, French-language daily Liberte was considered an aggressive re [...]	2008-05-05 10:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS509	THE RETURN OF AHMED OUYAHIA - FUTURE PRESIDENT ? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister and current head of the ruling coalition National Democratic Rally (RND) party, Ahmed Ouyahia has recently been tapped by President Bouteflika to represent him on several high-profile foreign trips and even representing Bouteflika at the party congress of one [...]	2008-05-06 11:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AG
08ALGIERS521	OUTREACH TO ALGERIAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Advancing the President's Freedom Agenda has been an ongoing effort by Embassy Algiers since the arrival of the Ambassador in August 2006. The Ambassador and Embassy officers routinely meet with democracy and human rights activists, political parties, journalists, and other me [...]	2008-05-07 17:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL AG
08ALGIERS522	EMBASSY URGES DECRIMINALIZATION OF PRESS DEFAMATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, the Ambassador gave a major speech urging Algeria to decriminalize press defamation. The message received positive media coverage and was coupled with an emphasis on training to elevate the standards and ethics of responsible jou [...]	2008-05-08 10:09:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO SCUL AG
08ALGIERS523	PROFILES OF ALGERIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS [...] SUMMARY: Since April 11, 2007, eleven suicide bombers have carried out attacks across Algeria. Through press reports, we have been able to piece together biographical vignettes of most of the bombers, which offer an insight into their motivations and socioeconomic circumstances. What stands o [...]	2008-05-08 10:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS524	REQUEST FOR SPECIAL MILAIR MEDEVAC FOR SICK [...] A group of Algerians here in Algiers and in the USA has asked the Embassy for USG help airlifting a small child to the U.S. for medical treatment, and our doing so would be a terrific humanitarian gesture that the Algerian public would deeply appreciate. The two and one-half year old child na [...]	2008-05-09 10:43:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR AG
08ALGIERS537	ALGERIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 2008 [...] The following is a summary of some economic developments in Algeria for April 2008: -- NEW SUBSIDIES TO STABILIZE FOOD PRICES -- NEW PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT OPENS IN ALGERIA -- FOREIGN INSURERS ENTER THE ALGERIAN MARKET -- SONATRACH COMMERCIALIZES GAS SALES TO EUROPE PRICE CHECK: ALGERIA [...]	2008-05-12 10:52:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EPET ETRD AG
08ALGIERS546	ALGERIANS DIGEST SPECIAL 301 REPORT WITH A HINT OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador visited MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S equivalent) Fatiha Selmane on April 29 to deliver reftel demarche and discuss broadly our objections to Algerian treatment of intellectual property issues. Separately, we delivered the same demarche to the Algerian Ministry of [...]	2008-05-13 09:10:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR AG
08ALGIERS551	ALGERIAN MFA PROFESSES SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1803 IRAN [...] In response to ref A demarche, MFA Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs Abdelmalek Bouheddou told us on May 13 that Algeria was committed to playing its part in implementing the sanctions outlined in UNSCR 1803. He stressed that Algeria "takes UN resolutions very seriously" and appreciat [...]	2008-05-13 18:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR AG
08ALGIERS555	ALGERIANS ON MOROCCAN RAPPROCHEMENT EFFORT: CURB [...] (C) SUMMARY: While expressing general support for dialogue and rapprochement in principle, Algerian officials from the Customs service to Prime Minister Belkhadem have voiced frustration at what they perceive as the unilateral and non-consultative manner in which Morocco launched its recent in [...]	2008-05-14 17:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN MO AG
08ALGIERS587	ALGERIA RESPONSE ON LEBANON BUILDING ON ARAB [...] (C) During a May 20 reception, Ambassador collared Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci and relayed reftel demarche message. Ambassador said the U.S. strongly supports the Arab league mediation of the Lebanon crisis and the agreement announced in Beirut on May 15. Medelci said that Alg [...]	2008-05-21 12:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE SY AG
08ALGIERS589	MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...]	2008-05-23 10:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG ML MR NG
08ALGIERS590	MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...]	2008-05-23 10:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AG ML MR NG
08ALGIERS617	CONTAINING POLITICAL ISLAM: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: As its tumultuous three-day party congress drew to a close at the end of April, the (Muslim Brotherhood) Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),one of the three parties in the ruling coalition, re-elected Bouguerra Soltani as its leader after a power struggle between Soltani and hi [...]	2008-05-27 10:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS625	JUDGE DEFERS DECISION IN HIGH-PROFILE RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30 Habiba Kouider, an Algerian who converted to Christianity approximately four years ago, was charged in the western Algerian town of Tiaret with illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. On May 27 the Tiaret court delayed giving a final verdict in the case, choosing [...]	2008-05-30 17:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV AG
08ALGIERS626	OPEC CHIEF OPINES ON FUEL PRICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's Energy Minister and OPEC President Chakib Khelil told us May 28 that the high price of fuel in the United States has less to do with OPEC production caps than with the value of the dollar, oil speculation and refining techniques associated with bio-fuel additives. Kheli [...]	2008-05-30 17:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON ETRD PREL AG
08ALGIERS660	IAEA/IRAN: ALGERIA WANTS TO AVOID THREATS [...] (SBU) On June 4, we delivered demarche (ref A) to Rabah Fasih, Deputy Director for disarmament issues at the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). We had also previously delivered the demarche on June 2 to the North American desk officer, and sent a French version of the non-paper to M [...]	2008-06-04 20:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR AG
08ALGIERS661	MOUNTING SOCIAL DISCONTENT DRIVES LATE MAY STREET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's two biggest cities, Algiers and Oran, suffered prolonged street violence in late May at the hands of angry youths for whom disappointing soccer results were the final straw that pushed them into the streets. Parts of Algiers had to shut down each night May 20-22 due to [...]	2008-06-05 08:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI AG
08ALGIERS662	ALGERIA STILL GUN-SHY ON BANK PRIVATIZATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Algeria's privatization of the bank Credit Populaire d'Algerie (CPA) appears likely to remain on hold for the foreseeable future. According to public statements by the Minister of Finance and our conversation with the President of CPA, the Algerian government continues to view [...]	2008-06-05 08:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON AG
08ALGIERS663	ALGIERS CORE EAC REVIEWS LATEST BOMBINGS AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Core EAC met on June 5, 2008 to discuss the double bombings that occurred on June 4 and to determine what implications, if any, this incident has on the upcoming International Trade Fair being held from June 7-13 at the SAFEX Exhibition Palace in Algiers. Present for the m [...]	2008-06-05 16:23:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	AG ASEC CASC PTER
08ALGIERS680	FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE JUNE 17-19 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 11:29:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR OTRA AG IZ
08ALGIERS682	KING OF RAI LATEST WESTERN SAHARA CASUALTY [...] According to Algerian press reports and an Algerian concert goer in Morocco, Algerian pop star Cheb Khaled, known as the King of Rai music, was briefly assaulted on June 1 by a Moroccan concert audience angry at his known affection for the cause of Western Saharan independence. After a Spanish [...]	2008-06-11 08:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PBTS PREF PREL SCUL KPAO WI MO AG
08ALGIERS683	ALGERIA REACTION TO 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: While official Algerian government reaction to the 2008 TIP report was negative, press coverage was surprisingly light, with much of it critical of Algeria's inability to get itself out of Tier 3 status. The Justice minister and our MFA interlocutor both rejected the report and [...]	2008-06-11 08:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF SMIG AG
08ALGIERS685	AQIM LEADER: DON'T TOUCH OUR WOMEN [...] (SBU) On June 5, Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a communique on a Jihadi website (www.shmo5alislam.net) entitled "in your honor, our sister." The communique, signed by AQIM leader Abdeloudoud Droukdal, referred to a Moroccan woman named "Fatiha" who was allegedly be [...]	2008-06-11 08:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL AG
08ALGIERS689	COMMERCE MINISTER NONCOMMITTAL ON WTO PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a long-awaited meeting on June 8, Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaboub and his lead WTO negotiators offered us little in terms of concrete actions that the Algerians would take to accelerate their bid to join WTO. We received some indications of willingness to adjust Alge [...]	2008-06-12 08:23:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL AG
08ALGIERS690	COMMERCE MINISTER SAYS PRIVATIZATION WILL CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaboub told the Ambassador that Algeria is determined to go forward with the privatization of public enterprises, but admitted that it has more parastatals than interested buyers. Djaboub said he noted a trend over the last decade within the govern [...]	2008-06-13 10:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV AG
08ALGIERS694	MFA ON ASAD'S TRAVELS, LEBANON [...] (C) The Algerian foreign ministry is not aware of any imminent visit to Algeria by Syrian President Bashar al-Asad, according to Counselor Nassima Baghli and North America Director Abdellah Laouari. Laouari told us on June 15 that the MFA was aware of Asad's recent visit to Tripoli, along wit [...]	2008-06-15 16:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE AG
08ALGIERS704	SAHEL SECURITY: MFA SAYS ALGERIA REENGAGING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 18 discussion with a visiting U.S. delegation led by Bureau of African Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui highlighted Algeria's commitment to the Algiers Accords, but onl [...]	2008-06-19 11:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AG ML NG
08ALGIERS721	FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE WINS AT LEAST ONE [...] (C) On June 21, Ambassador met Ambassador Baali, Counselor to Foreign Minister Medelcito discuss the Friends of Iraq conference held in United Arab Emirates on June 17-19. Baali who led the Algerian delegation, said he met with MNFI Commander General Petraeus, Iraqi National Security Adviso [...]	2008-06-23 08:01:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG IZ
08ALGIERS724	FILLON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENT FRANCO-ALGERIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 20-22 visit to Algiers, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed bilateral cooperation agreements with the Algerian government in civilian nuclear energy development, military cooperation and financial cooperation to facilitate French investment in Algeria. Symbo [...]	2008-06-24 07:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MARR FR AG
08ALGIERS728	CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS OUYAHIA BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The AlgeriantopkQ/2QW]Qz&p_QQUQJune 23 a long-rumored cabinet reshuffle that catapulted Ahmed Ouyahia back into the prime minister's chair for the third time. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem was downgraded to minister of state without portfolio, a role unlikely to represent a [...]	2008-06-24 15:42:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV EAIR ECON AG
08ALGIERS733	BOUTEFLIKA ON WESTERN SAHARA: OUR BACKS ARE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-25 17:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MO WI AG
08ALGIERS739	BOUTEFLIKA SAYS HE WANTS BETTER U.S. TIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's farewell call June 24, a reasonably healthy-looking President Abdelaziz Bouteflika wistfully wondered why American relations with Algeria couldn't be more like those the U.S. enjoys with Morocco and Tunisia. The Ambassador noted that as Algeria opened up [...]	2008-06-28 17:35:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PHUM PTER MARR AG

08ALGIERS75	ALGERIANS VIEW POTUS TRIP WITH CAUTION, CYNICISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East attracted considerable if mostly cynical press coverage in Algeria, though the government issued no official statement. In general, press coverage and our MFA contacts indicate that Algerian expectations for the trip were low, speci [...]	2008-01-22 16:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL AG
08ALGIERS750	KEY OFFICIALS SAY CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IS IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Algerian press over the past nine months has regularly trumpeted that constitutional change was coming any day, June 30 conversations with new Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, parliamentary Speaker Abdelaziz Ziari and prominent senators and MPs suggested that the effort [...]	2008-07-02 10:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS76	CHRISTIAN LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT RELIGIOUS CLIMATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: One month after a December 11 suicide bomb destroyed UN offices in Algiers, Christian leaders in the country told us that they had experienced no difficulties directly attributable to the attacks. They did express concern, however, that an intolerant climate against Christians i [...]	2008-01-22 17:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF AG
08ALGIERS762	ALGERIA REMAINS DISTANT ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) In a July 2 meeting with MFA's Director General for European Affairs (A/S equivalent) Mouloud Hamai and Deputy Director for Central Europe and the Balkans Abdelmadjid Amalou, Charge asked whether Algeria's thinking on Kosovo had evolved and urged the Algerians to participate in the July 11 [...]	2008-07-07 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU KPKO KV AG
08ALGIERS77	ALGERIAN SECURITY ROW WITH UN GETS PUBLIC AND NASTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The dispute between the Algerian government and the UN over the investigation of the December 11 bombings has become public and bitter. The Algerians, in public and in private, claim they have been transparent and shared the results of their own investigation, while the senior UN [...]	2008-01-22 18:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER PGOV UN AG
08ALGIERS772	TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE: CODEL GETS RARE MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 30, visiting Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) met with Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, an old ally of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who rarely meets with U.S. officials. The meeting steered clear of hot-button issues but did offer some insight into the way Zerhoun [...]	2008-07-08 15:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS773	ALGERIA FREES UP PUBLIC LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Algeria has moved to free up industrial and commercial property for private development by auctioning parcels of land in the growing community of Blida, near Algiers, a move Industry Minister Abdelhamid Temmar called a "micro-revolution." The newly-formed National Agency for Lan [...]	2008-07-08 15:38:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON AG
08ALGIERS774	ENHANCING ALGERIA'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CAPACITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Algeria's still nascent financial intelligence unit is ready to cooperate on a technical assistance program to be offered through the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) at the U.S. Department of Treasury in the area of anti-money laundering and terrorist finance (AML/TF). Bo [...]	2008-07-08 15:58:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECIN KTFN KCRM KJUS PREL PTER ECON AG
08ALGIERS778	ALGERIA COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PALESTINIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Messaoud Benziad, Deputy Director of MFA's office of Mashreq Affairs. We thanked Benziad for Algeria's support for the Palestinian Authority thus far, noting reftel points that Algeria is one of three Arab League countries that has pledged support this year [...]	2008-07-09 16:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PGOV ECON IS AG
08ALGIERS780	EVANGELICAL CONVERTS RECEIVE FINES, SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two Algerian Christians, Rachid Seghir and Djammal Dahmani, were convicted on July 2 of proselytizing and illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. The Algerian court fined the defendants 100,000 dinars (1,540 USD) and handed out six-month suspended prison sentences. Non-Mus [...]	2008-07-09 17:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF AG
08ALGIERS782	BOUTEFLIKA SEEKS TO RECONCILE THE UNRECONCILED [...] (U) During his July 5 Algerian independence day speech to the military leadership, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika revisited the theme of national reconciliation, calling on Algerians to unite against extremism and "to put down the fire of Fitna." He underscored the need to pursue security and [...]	2008-07-12 06:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM KISL AG
08ALGIERS787	THE HARRAGA: GIVE ME DIGNITY OR GIVE ME DEATH [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the desolate beach of Sidi Salem, in the eastern suburbs of Annaba, a dozen young Algerian males alternate between kicking a soccer ball and working on several small, unmarked wooden boats. Each week, several boats leave from this beach, filled with a cross-section of frustrated you [...]	2008-07-13 07:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SOCI AG
08ALGIERS793	FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LISTING - ARMED [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, according to available information the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) has not been involved in terrorist activity during the period 2003-2008. Algerian sources share GRPO analysis that the GIA no longer has a formal leadership structure; however, they tell us that GIA [...]	2008-07-14 16:59:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL KCRM KJUS AG
08ALGIERS797	ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-15 16:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL ETTC AG
08ALGIERS798	MFA SAYS TRIPARTITE NORTHERN MALI SECURITY TALKS [...] (C) MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for Africa Lounes Magramane told Charge on July 15 that although Algeria and the U.S. were on the same wavelength regarding the establishment of special security units in northern Mali, setting up a tripartite meeting in August involving Mali, Algeria [...]	2008-07-15 16:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ML AG
08ALGIERS800	CODEL MCCOLLUM MEETS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 30 meeting with Codel McCollum, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia proved surprisingly forthcoming about Algeria's past mistakes and his own aggressive anti-Islamist credentials, while professing support for WTO accession and religious freedom within Algeria. His offered some [...]	2008-07-16 14:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS825	ALGERIA ANNOUNCES NEW OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION ROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria announced its long-awaited oil and gas licensing round by inviting pre-qualified companies to an informational session in late July. The list of pre-qualified companies has not been made public, but Energy Minister Khelil told us in May that almost all companies that h [...]	2008-07-23 15:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON AG
08ALGIERS831	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIANS: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-28 06:50:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN PARM IR AG
08ALGIERS837	MERKEL EXPLORES DEEPER ALGERIAN TIES - AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first visit to Algiers July 16-17 in an effort to boost natural gas supplies and promote stronger commercial ties between Germany and Algeria. Following on the heels of the Mediterranean Union Summit in Paris, Merkel's trip was also seen [...]	2008-07-28 16:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ETRD MARR GM AG
08ALGIERS848	BOUTEFLIKA LASHES OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a speech to local officials on July 26, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stunned his audience by admitting that his government's economic policies have failed and blaming that failure on both foreign influence and mismanagement at all levels of government. The president scol [...]	2008-08-02 06:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON SOCI AG
08ALGIERS85	FRENCH AMBASSADOR: BOUTEFLIKA MAY NOT NEED TO [...] (C) French Ambassador Bajolet told the Ambassador on January 23 that he and the French government are worried that Algeria is gradually headed towards more instability, but they do not see an alternative to Bouteflika's remaining in power for a third term beginning in 2009. Bajolet, who served here [...]	2008-01-25 11:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR AG
08ALGIERS865	TEACHERS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN CONTRACT DISPUTE GET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian teachers hired on short-term, renewable contracts are locked in a stand-off with the education ministry over demands for improved compensation and preferred consideration for permanent appointments. The teachers' demands have received steadily increasing attention in the [...]	2008-08-04 16:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI AG
08ALGIERS891	NO BREAK IN THE CLOUDS FOR ALGERIAN OPEN SKIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The chief of staff to the minister of post and telecommunications told Charge on August 9 she would re-examine the legal obstacles to an Open Skies agreement, but she believed that Algerian law would have to be changed to eliminate the fees charged to foreign carriers on intermoda [...]	2008-08-11 16:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR EFIN ECON AG
08ALGIERS892	HOTEL SHOOT-OUT SHOCKS ALGERIAN TOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of communal violence flared up in several regions recently as Algerians entered their August vacation season. In a grisly display of clan justice on August 6, a mob ransacked a private hotel in Sidi Aissa (Msila province),provoking a shooting spree that raged through [...]	2008-08-11 17:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KOCI AG
08ALGIERS904	ALGERIA HAS NO GAS TO SPARE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite speculation in the press and pleas from Moroccan officials regarding new sales of Algerian natural gas to Morocco (ref A),as we have previously reported (refs B, C),Algeria will likely have little or no excess gas export capacity starting in 2009, and might face an expo [...]	2008-08-13 17:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON PREL MO AG
08ALGIERS905	TEACHERS PRESS ON WITH HUNGER STRIKE AS UNION [...] (SBU) Algerian contract teachers on a hunger strike since July 15 (ref) are continuing their efforts to pressure the Ministry of National Education (MNE) into negotiations concerning unpaid salaries, recent lay-offs and appointments in Algeria's career teaching service. Relations between the [...]	2008-08-13 17:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELAB SOCI AG
08ALGIERS906	ALGERIA STANDS QUIETLY BEHIND AU AND ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Charge met with newly appointed MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane on August 13 to deliver reftel demarche and underscore the need for a constitutional resolution to the crisis in Mauritania. Magramane said that Algeria was closely monitoring events i [...]	2008-08-16 06:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MR AG
08ALGIERS913	ALGIERS EAC ON RECENT SUICIDE ATTACKS AND CURRENT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Charge convened a full EAC July 17 to discuss recent Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacks and threat reports. In attendance were RSO, MGT, GRPO, PAO, CONS, DAO, LEGATT, MSG, POLEC, TREASURY and GSO. RSO and GRPO reviewed current AQIM threat reports. RSO provided s [...]	2008-08-17 17:39:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC PTER AG
08ALGIERS916	BOUTEFLIKA CAUTIOUSLY DEFENDS IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 11 speech at an official breakfast in Tehran, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika cautiously affirmed Iran's legal right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program, but urged Iran to continue negotiations with the We [...]	2008-08-19 06:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PINR IR AG
08ALGIERS921	ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...]	2008-08-20 10:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MG AG
08ALGIERS922	ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...]	2008-08-20 11:38:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MG AG
08ALGIERS925	SUICIDE CAR BOMB TARGETS FOREIGN COMPANY BUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Twelve people were killed and at least 31 wounded in twin car bombings in Bouira (75 miles east of Algiers) the morning of August 20. The first bomb, which detonated at approximately 0545 hrs, targeted Bouira's regional military command and injured six soldiers. Minutes later, [...]	2008-08-20 17:30:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC AG
08ALGIERS926	THE TROUBLED MARRIAGE OF BOUTEFLIKA AND OUYAHIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The initial fanfare surrounding the June 23 return of Ahmed Ouyahia to the prime minister's chair has given way to a period of uncertainty and rumored tension between Ouyahia and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The atmosphere has observers suggesting that Ouyahia was not Boutefl [...]	2008-08-21 10:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS930	NEW FINANCE LAW MIXES PROTECTIONISM AND FITFUL [...] SUMMARY: The 2008 supplemental finance law adopted on July 27 raised the per-barrel oil price used to calculate government revenue and included measures to stimulate business growth and develop the country's moribund agricultural sector. At the same time, the law alienated many with a contro [...]	2008-08-23 07:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ETRD AG
08ALGIERS935	POLISARIO COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATE BUT WITHOUT VAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A demarche, Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Ibrahim Ghali told us on August 24 that the Sahrawi leadership is firmly committed to continuing negotiations with Morocco in the near future but only if a new moderator approved by the United Nations Secretary Genera [...]	2008-08-25 10:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS942	ALGERIA UNLIKELY TO FOLLOW RUSSIA ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 11:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS GG AG
08ALGIERS947	WESTERN SAHARA: FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS [...] (C) In their introductory meeting August 28, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci raised the Western Sahara briefly with the Ambassador and flagged it as an issue that the Algerians would be interested to discuss during the Secretary's proposed September 6 visit. Medelci described relations among [...]	2008-08-28 09:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS97	SUPPORT FOR AQIM MAKES ALI BENHADJ ONCE AGAIN A [...] (C) Ali Benhadj, the former leader of the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),has lent his name and support to the recruiting efforts of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Contacts tell us that the government views Benhadj as a threat to its anti-AQIM efforts, but believes putting him [...]	2008-01-28 06:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS KISL AG
08ALGIERS983	REGIONALISM TRIUMPHS OVER LOGIC IN CHOICE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 24 proclamation by Minister of Culture Khalida Toumi that Tlemcen will be the 2011 "Islamic Capital" was met with widespread cynicism, and appeared to continue a trend of western Algerian regionalism trumping common sense. Many were puzzled by the declaration, since al [...]	2008-09-12 10:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL SOCI AG
08ALGIERS984	THE KABYLIE: RELUCTANT REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A string of suicide bombings just east of Algiers (ref A) has brought renewed focus on the Kabylie mountains and the disproportionate amount of terrorist activity occurring there. A fiercely independent center of Berber culture and tradition for centuries, the Kabylie region has [...]	2008-09-12 11:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS990	ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Central European Affairs Abdelmadjid Amalou on September 13 and outlined U.S. concerns about Serbia's proposal to seek an opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Amalou reiterated the GoA's positio [...]	2008-09-14 14:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA KV UN AG
08AMMAN2579	JORDAN'S REACTION TO MAURITANIA COUP LINKED TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-04 13:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	AG EG IS JO KDEM LY MO MR PREL QA SA
08ASHGABAT978	INFORMATION ON DESIGNATION OF AL-QUAIDA-AFFILIATED TERROR [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-29 09:56:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL AG TX
08BAMAKO485	WORKING WITH THE MALIANS ON SAHEL SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 13:03:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	PTER PREL ML AG
08BAMAKO627	TRIPARTITE MEETING ON ALGIERS ACCORD IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 14:38:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AG ML
08BEIJING2525	DRAFT UNSCR TO RENEW MANDATE OF 1267 MONITORING [...] (C) PolOff on June 26 delivered to MFA reftel points seeking China's support for a U.S.-drafted UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) to renew the mandate of the UNSCR 1267 monitoring team. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said [...]	2008-06-26 09:42:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIJING2570	CHINA HOPES FOR UNANIMOUS VOTE ON UNSC 1735 [...] (C) PolOff on June 30 delivered reftel points to MFA asking China to support publicly the follow on resolution to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1735. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said that China and the United State [...]	2008-06-30 08:23:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIRUT959	LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI REFUTES SAUDI ARMING OF [...] (C) Majority leader Saad Hariri reassured the Charge on July 1 that neither his Future Party nor the Saudis are arming the Sunni Salafists, who are fighting the Alawites in northern Lebanon, as has been rumored (Ref A). The fighting in the north could continue for months to obstruct the spring [...]	2008-07-02 12:40:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KPAL SY SA LY AG LE
08BRUSSELS1007	BELGIAN PRESS STATEMENT ON UNSCR 1822 [...] Summary: Below is a press statement circulated by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs supporting the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Belgium chairs the committee overseeing UNSCR 1267. End Summary. BEGIN PRESS STATEMENT Foreign Mi [...]	2008-07-02 14:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG BE
08BRUSSELS610	EU RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU considers the Maghreb an area of high priority due to its proximity, its historic ties to Member States, and the role of Maghreb immigrants in the EU. While the EU shares U.S. concerns on CT issues, its primary focus is promoting trade, development and human rights. In Janu [...]	2008-04-23 05:17:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID AG LY MO MR TS EUN XI
08BRUSSELS991	ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND [...] (C) Charge delivered the requested points to Wilm Geurts of the MFA's UN Directorate on the Security Council. Geurts said that Belgium is very supportive and fully committed. The challenge is to get 1735 fully implemented by member states. 2. (C) Belgium is satisfied with UNSCR 1735 al [...]	2008-06-30 13:53:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG BE
08CAIRO808	U.S.-EGYPT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-20 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV KISL AG MO SO PK AF LY SU
08CASABLANCA207	MOROCCO AND ALGERIA'S QUIET ECONOMIC RAPPROCHEMENT [...] (C) Despite their closed land border, the Moroccan and Algerian economies have become increasingly interconnected in sectors ranging from energy to banking. Revenues for General Electric (GE) Morocco total 250 million USD per year in Algeria; the CEO of the National Office of Phosphates (OCP) [...]	2008-11-04 07:28:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	AG ECIN ECON ENRG MO PGOV PREL
08CHISINAU829	MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE REGARDING THE DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-18 07:18:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC AG MD
08HANOI762	VIETNAM: DEMARCHE TO ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 09:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC VM
08LISBON492	POSSIBLE PORTUGUESE-IRANIAN GAS AGREEMENT ON THE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Luis Amado confirmed during a January 23 press conference that Portugal's largest energy company, Galp Energia, and Iran's National Oil Company, NIOC, are in negotiations over a natural gas exploration and production project in Iran. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and [...]	2008-02-26 17:58:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON TRGY PO IR RS AG
08LONDON1183	WESTERN SAHARA: UK UNDECIDED ABOUT UN STATEMENT [...] (C) The UK has not yet decided whether to make a statement at the April 29 UNSC meeting on the renewal of the mandate for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO),FCO North Africa Team Leader Robert Dixon told us in response to reftel demarche. If the UK does decide to [...]	2008-04-28 13:52:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS UK FR MO AG WI UNSC
08LONDON2101	IRANIAN PUGWASH PARTICIPANTS CLAIM TEHRAN [...] (S) Summary: Iranian government advisers at the most recent "Pugwash" Conference on Iran reportedly argued during the August 2-3 seminar that: -- Iran wants direct flights to the United States addressed before any talks on a U.S. interest section in Tehran; -- sanctions do not affect Iran's le [...]	2008-08-12 18:01:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PINS PREL AG IR IS IZ LE UK
08MADRID485	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON THE WAY FORWARD IN WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Deputy Director General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo shared views on the way forward in Western Sahara on April 28. Gomez-Acebo said that Spain's primary concern is for regional stability through a negotiated solution that leads to a just, lasting outcome. While it appears an [...]	2008-04-29 16:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS MO AG WI UNSC SP
08MADRID561	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON WESTERN SAHARA AND THE MANHASSET [...] (C) Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo received reftel (A) demarche and reiterated Spain's views detailed in reftel (b). Gomez-Acebo agreed that it is important to maintain the primacy of UNSYG Representative for Western Sahara Peter Van Walsum's efforts. [...]	2008-05-21 16:33:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MO AG WI UNSC SP
08MADRID946	SPAIN'S STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) The Spanish MFA issued a communique condemning the coup in Mauritania and calling for the immediate liberation of the President and Prime Minister, along with re-establishing democratic practices, on August 6. 2. (C) August 26, Poloff contacted MFA Deputy Director General for North Af [...]	2008-09-02 06:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AG EG IS LY MO QA SA MR SP
08MANAMA181	BAHRAINI FM ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT AND GCC PLUS 2 MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-19 10:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG SA BA
08MOSCOW705	RUSSIA AND ALGERIA SEEK CLOSER ECONOMIC TIES, [...] (C) Summary: President Bouteflika's February visit to Moscow focused on improving Russian-Algerian economic ties and not on Algerian complaints about the quality of MIG-29s purchased from Russia, according to Russian and Algerian diplomats. Neither side wanted the MIG issue to overshadow oth [...]	2008-03-14 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ETRD MARR AG RS
08NOUAKCHOTT688	NEIGHBORING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 10 Addis Ababa Communique and the transfer of President Abdallahi to Lemden, Charge checked with embassies of Mauritanias neighbors Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal to discuss their views on the situation. As could be predicted, Algeria and Mali line up [...]	2008-11-20 14:22:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG ML MO SG MR
08PARIS114	SARKOZY, KOUCHNER ADVISERS ON NATO, RUSSIA, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16, Joseph Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, met with Philippe Errera, strategic affairs adviser to FM Kouchner, and Francois Richier, strategic affairs adviser to President Sarkozy. Errera and Richier provided their views on [...]	2008-01-23 14:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO FR RU IR GG UP AG
08PARIS1174	NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF WESTERN SAHARA, UNION [...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Western Sahara and the Union for the Mediterranean; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S Davi [...]	2008-06-23 06:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN FR AG LY SY MO
08PARIS1769	FRENCH WARILY BACK CONTINUED UN-LED TALKS ON [...] (C) France supports in principle a continuation of the UN-led talks on Western Sahara but was not prepared to commit to another round until it was clearer how the talks would proceed according to Nathalie Loiseau, PDAS-equivalent in the MFA's NEA who responded to Ref B demarche on September 1 [...]	2008-09-22 14:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV UNSC FR MO AG WI
08PARIS202	FRENCH MFA ON WESTERN SAHARA BEFORE VAN WALSUM'S [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau indicated January 29 that France is increasingly impatient with UN-led talks on Western Sahara and believes the process may even be moving backward. She blamed part of French frustration on UN Personal Envoy Peter van [...]	2008-02-04 16:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG MR WS
08PARIS2023	MEDITERRANEAN UNION MINISTERIAL ENDS UP A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) The Marseille ministerial on the Union for the Mediterranean concluded November 4 amid wrangling over organizational details to include in the final declaration continuing well past the allotted time for the working plenary session. French FM Kouchner and Egyptian FM Abu al-Ghayt, how [...]	2008-11-05 14:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR EG CZ IS AG TU
08PARIS498	MINIMAL FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR FOURTH ROUND OF [...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau told us March 12 that the GOF continued to have extremely low expectations for the fourth round of UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara set for early next week in Manhasset. Indeed, the French are so pessimistic that they hope [...]	2008-03-17 16:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG SA
08PARIS628	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (S) Summary: The French generally reacted favorably to reftel message on Western Sahara in meetings we held with the French Presidency and the MFA April 1 and 2. The key first priority seems to be engaging UNSYG Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum and other key Secretariat officials to encourag [...]	2008-04-04 14:16:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PREF MARR UNSC FR MO AG
08PARIS855	FRENCH EOV ON MINURSO RESOLUTION WILL NOT CALL [...] (C) The French MFA's IO desk officer covering the Western Sahara, Jay Darmadhikhari, informed us April 30 that France would present an explanation of vote following the UNSC's extension of MINURSO. That statement, however, would not echo the USG's contention that the option of an independen [...]	2008-04-30 16:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UNSC FR MO AG WI
08PARIS91	CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE [...] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attach, Paris, France requests the assistance of the Regional Security Office, Algiers, Algeria in obtaining information on Mohamed Farid SI LARBI. SI LARBI is a citizen and national of Algeria who was granted Refugee status and allowed to en [...]	2008-01-17 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PHUM FR AG
08PARIS959	WESTERN SAHARA: FRENCH RECEIVE DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR NORTH AFRICA NATHALIE LOISEAU ON MAY 16 EXPRESSED GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF OUR PROPOSED MESSAGE TO MOROCCO ON FOLLOWING UP UNSCR 1803 ON WESTERN SAHARA. --LIKE US, FRANCE IS WAITING FOR MOROCCO (ALONG WITH POLISARIO AND ALGERIA) TO DECID [...]	2008-05-20 08:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM FR MO AG WI
08RABAT1100	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTINGS [...] (SBU) Representative Hastings, my staff and I warmly welcome your visit. As you are aware, Morocco is a member of the OSCE Mediterranean Partnership and has hosted OSCE meetings in Rabat, but there is potential for more engagement. Morocco has given us exemplary cooperation in the struggle [...]	2008-11-25 14:09:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PGOV PHUM PREL PBTS KDEM AG WI MO
08RABAT1194	MOROCCO: REP. HASTINGS ENGAGES PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Representative Alcee Hastings encouraged members of the Morocco's lower house of parliament to press the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA) to allow greater [...]	2008-12-24 12:59:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OREP PGOV WI AG MO
08RABAT1201	AGADIR PROTEST DEATHS: TRAGIC BUT NOT DELIBERATE [...] (C//NF) Based on information obtained during EmbOff's visit, it appears that a tragic accident, and not a premeditated act, led to the deaths of two Sahrawi (Western Saharan) students during a December 1 protest in the Moroccan city of Agadir. Separate statements from a Sahrawi participant i [...]	2008-12-30 12:26:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS WI AG MO
08RABAT319	UNHCR DEPUTY JOHNSTONE BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Craig Johnstone, at the end of a regional tour, told Ambassador Riley UNHCR can live with the imprecise number for Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf Camps. He said UN agencies get around the dispute by counting both the number of rations (reflecting a [...]	2008-04-14 10:33:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PBTS WI AG MO
08RABAT378	BRIEFING MOROCCO ON THE U.S. VIEW ON THE WAY [...] (C) Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri expressed his country's deep appreciation for support from the Department and Washington generally, when briefed by Ambassador telephonically on our plans for an explanation of vote in New York and of reaching out to the Polisario. 2. (C) Co [...]	2008-04-29 12:17:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS UNSC AG WI MO
08RABAT415	MOROCCO RENEWS AND BROADENS ALGERIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Feeling good about progress in New York, Morocco renewed its call for better relations with Algeria on May 5, broadening its standing appeal to open the closed border in a quest for comprehensive normalization. MFA Chief of Staff Bourita confirmed Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri ca [...]	2008-05-09 12:45:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO
08RABAT417	MOROCCO RENEWS AND BROADENS ALGERIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Feeling good about progress in New York, Morocco renewed its call for better relations with Algeria on May 5, broadening its standing appeal to open the closed border in a quest for comprehensive normalization. MFA Chief of Staff Bourita confirmed Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri ca [...]	2008-05-09 12:45:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO
08RABAT496	ALGERIAN AMBASSDOR BELIEVES MOROCCO,S [...] (C) Summary: During a two-hour exchange the Algerian Ambassador declined to identify what he referred to as many specific issues that prevent good relations between Algeria and Morocco. He opined, however, that the Moroccan proposal to re-open the border was designed to curry favor with the [...]	2008-05-30 13:33:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN PBTS AG MO
08RABAT651	MOROCCO IN AFRICA: FM REACHES OUT ON SAHARA [...] (C) Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Taib Fassi-Fihri's spent early summer lobbying Sub-Saharan African countries, mostly on Western Sahara. From 19 to 23 June, the minister visited four Sub Saharan countries and he worked the corridors of the African Union,s (AU) summit meeting in Sharm [...]	2008-07-14 17:48:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XA AG CD CM KE MP MR ML NI SF MO
08RABAT718	NAM MINISTERIAL: SNOOZING DINOSAUR MUTTERS IN ITS [...] (C/NF) Moroccan MFA Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita (strictly protect) said that Iran "did not get most of what it wanted" on the issue of its nuclear and missile programs during the recent Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial in Tehran. He expressed happiness with the more Morocco-friendly [...]	2008-08-04 11:05:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM KNNP WI ZI AG ZP ZR MO
08RABAT719	NAM MINISTERIAL: SNOOZING DINOSAUR MUTTERS IN ITS [...] (C/NF) Moroccan MFA Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita (strictly protect) said that Iran "did not get most of what it wanted" on the issue of its nuclear and missile programs during the recent Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial in Tehran. He expressed happiness with the more Morocco-friendly [...]	2008-08-04 11:05:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM KNNP WI ZI AG ZP ZR MO
08RABAT739	WESTERN SAHARA: UNHCR MANEUVERING AROUND A [...] (C) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Western Sahara Operations Director Sergio Calle-Noreno (protect) said that he had received an agreement in principle from the Government of Morocco (GOM),the Polisario, and Algeria in May to attend a conference in Geneva in J [...]	2008-08-08 13:55:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PBTS UNHCR PREL KHDP WI AG MO
08RABAT741	CORRECTED: WESTERN SAHARA: UNHCR MANEUVERING [...] (C) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Western Sahara Operations Director Sergio Calle-Noreno (protect) said that he had received an agreement in principle from the Government of Morocco (GOM),the Polisario, and Algeria in May to attend a conference in Geneva in J [...]	2008-08-10 16:31:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PBTS UNHCR PREL KHDP WI AG MO
08RABAT832	MOROCCO FURIOUS WITH UN ON VAN WALSUM REMOVAL, [...] (C) Summary: Moroccan Foreign Ministry Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita told PolCouns September 4 the GOM was deeply unhappy with the UN and its "bad faith" in ending the UNSYG Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter Van Walsum's mandate, and had conveyed this in a letter to the SYG. Bourita felt the [...]	2008-09-05 16:23:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PBTS UNSC AG WI MO
08RABAT833	MOROCCAN MFA ON THE ARAB LEAGUE MEETING AND NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In preparation for the Arab League Ministerial, MFA Director General for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual told us that the League had no mechanism to block attendance by Mauritanian junta representatives. He maintained that democracy continued to function there and that [...]	2008-09-05 16:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PBTS PINS PARM AL AG SY MR MO
08RABAT878	FASSI FIHRI CONVOKES PERM 5 PLUS SPAIN TO COMPLAIN [...] (C) On September 16, Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri convoked the Permanent 5 Ambassadors and Charges, plus the Spanish Ambassador, to bemoan the way in which Peter Van Walsum, the UNSYG's former Personal Envoy for the Western Sahara, was treated by the UN and to press for MINURSO [...]	2008-09-16 17:46:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UN AG WI MO
08RABAT940	MOROCCO: MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES ALGERIA, SAHARA [...] (S) Summary: During an unexpectedly wide-ranging pre-UNGA discussion, MFA International Security Chief Karim Halim (strictly protect) complained about "bumps" in the normally good security cooperation between Morocco and Algeria. Halim griped that the current level of USG military assistance [...]	2008-09-30 17:26:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PBTS MARR NATO AG WI MO
08RABAT983	MOROCCO SEEKS TO BLOCK ALGERIAN-PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Riley, along with all other North and South American Ambassadors, was convoked by the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss the Government of Morocco's (GOM) objection to the latest Algerian-proposed UN resolution on Western Sahara. The MFA urged the [...]	2008-10-14 08:48:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM WI AG UN MO
08RIYADH1150	SAUDI POLICY ON PREVENTING FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. The SAG has long been active in stemming the flow of Saudis attempting to enter Iraq as foreign fighters, and has been highly cooperative in broadly addressing this issue with the USG. END SUMMARY. 2. (S/NF) The SAG shares the overall USG policy objective of establishing a s [...]	2008-07-26 14:39:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	AG EG IZ JO LY MCAP MO MOPS PGOV PINR PREL
08RIYADH1692	SAUDI ARABIA- NEXT STEPS ON CRITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 11:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	AG ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ MARR MCAP MOPS OVP
08RIYADH1699	GEN PETRAEUS IN SAUDI [...] (S) SUMMARY. CENTCOM CG GEN Petraeus met with Saudi Crown Prince and Minister of Defense and Aviation Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Interior Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Asst. Minister of Defense and Aviation Prince Khalid bin Sultan Al Abdulaziz (KBS) to discuss regional [...]	2008-11-15 14:24:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	AG ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ MARR MCAP MOPS OVP
08SARAJEVO1705	BOSNIA - S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S OCTOBER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson visited Sarajevo October 27-29 to discuss the possible transfer to Bosnia of some of the "Algerian 6" (A-6) group of Guantanamo detainees. Williamson met with Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic, Foreign Minister S [...]	2008-11-05 12:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL PTER BK AG
08SARAJEVO1723	BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FM ALKALAJ TO URGE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-07 17:04:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL PTER BK AG
08SARAJEVO1735	BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ALGERIAN 6 WITH PM [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador met separately on November 12 with Prime Minister Spiric and on November 10 with Security Minister Sadovic and Justice Minister Colak to convey points about the possible return to Bosnia of some of the "Algerian 6" Guantanamo detainees (Ref A). The Ambassador stressed t [...]	2008-11-13 09:04:00	Embassy Sarajevo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL PTER BK AG
08SOFIA315	BULGARIA: NO COMMENT ON PLEDGING AT THE PARIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-19 09:54:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV AG BU
08STATE104496	DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (SBU) The United States designated the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and 18 subsidiaries under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass De [...]	2008-09-30 20:49:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	AG AS AJ BE CH CY EG RE GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT

08STATE11021	TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 4 UNSC CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Action Request. USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph two below and to introduce the draft press statement in paragraph three below during the February 4 UNSC consultations on the Western Sahara. USUN should seek to keep the UNSC consultations and UNSC press st [...]	2008-02-04 13:40:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PHUM AG MO WI XA XF XI
08STATE110797	UNGA RESOLUTION ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] USUN is instructed to continue to work with all interested parties to urge them to reach consensus on the Fourth Committee Western Sahara resolution. Mission should support any attempts to postpone voting on the resolution until consensus is reached. 2. If, despite all efforts to postpone [...]	2008-10-17 01:42:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS UNGA WI MO AG
08STATE125123	NEA A/S DAVID WELCH'S NOVEMBER 21 CONVERSATION [...] (C) Summary: A/S Welch welcomed Abdallah Baali as the new Algerian Ambassador November 21. He spoke candidly about the shortcomings of the bilateral relationship, and offered ways that Baali could improve it -- e.g. through increasing the number of Algerians students enrolled in the U.S. and [...]	2008-11-25 22:04:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PBTS PGOV PREL AG IR IS IZ LE MO SY WI
08STATE129720	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on application 050115687 for the export of night vision device (NVD) component parts to Algeria. Post is r [...]	2008-12-10 15:49:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC AG FR
08STATE41408	WESTERN SAHARA CONSULTATIONS, APRIL 21, 2008 [...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to draw upon the following elements during Western Sahara consultations on April 21, 2008. Begin Elements. -We appreciate the Secretary General,s report, and welcome the Personal Envoy,s frank assessment of the situation in Western Sahara. W [...]	2008-04-19 00:02:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS AG MO WI
08STATE53922	U/S JEFFERY AND ITALIAN ENI CEO SCARONI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery met with Italian energy firm Eni's CEO Paolo Scaroni on May 6 in Washington. Scaroni came to Washington seeking U.S. views on Eni's activities in Iran and to discuss its growing relationship with Russia's Gazprom. U/S Jeffery pushed back hard when [...]	2008-05-20 21:05:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETTC EFIN EUN LY AG TU RS IR IT
08STATE66897	SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Drawing on points in paragraph 6, Security Council action addressees are requested to seek host government support at the highest appropriate level for the draft resolution in paragraph 7 below. USUN distributed the text to Security Council delegations on June [...]	2008-06-22 15:41:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE69339	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISL CARGO INSPECTION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, which imposed further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to c [...]	2008-06-27 15:56:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	AG AS AJ BE CH CY EG FR GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT
08STATE69684	ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 6,7 and 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) The follow-on resolution (Septel) to UNSCR 1735 (2006) is intended to guide the work over the next eighteen months of the UN Security Council committee established pursuant to UNSCR 126 [...]	2008-06-27 23:48:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE69956	AUTHORIZATION TO VOTE FOR RESOLUTION TO EXTEND [...] Action request: USUN is authorized to vote in favor of the draft resolution in paragraph 2. 2. Begin draft resolution text. The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 1267 (1999),1333 (2000),1363 (2001),1373 (2001),1390 (2002),1452 (2002),1455 (2003),1526 (2004),1566 (200 [...]	2008-06-30 15:03:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE90852	TRAVEL WARNING - ALGERIA [...] This Travel Warning updates information on the current security situation in Algeria and warns American citizens against travel to the Kabylie region of the country. The threat from terrorism continues to pose a significant security risk. This supersedes the Travel Warning issued on March 26 [...]	2008-08-22 21:03:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PTER ASEC AG
08TRIPOLI204	ENGAGING THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 08:27:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PINS PREL PTER AG LY MO MR TS
08TRIPOLI442	MEETING OF AMU HEADS OF STATE - MINUS ONE - IN TRIPOLI; [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-09 16:34:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LY EG SY MR MO TS AG
08USUNNEWYORK101	WESTERN SAHARA: SECURITY COUNCIL DISAPPOINTED BY [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-04 23:32:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
08USUNNEWYORK1177	UNGA COMMEMORATES UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in New York on December 10. Despite some initial uncertainty about which states would be permitted to speak, the commemoration, which included two panel discussions and [...]	2008-12-17 10:38:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AG MO IS NU UNGA
08USUNNEWYORK38	MANHASSET III: ALGERIAN READOUT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 10 meeting, the Algerian delegation to Manhasset III told NEA/DAS Gordon Gray and NEA/I Chris Ross that the Moroccans had arrived with and had maintained a negative attitude, that positions of both sides had hardened and yet Personal Envoy van Walsum, asserting his au [...]	2008-01-15 21:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI
08USUNNEWYORK418	KUDOS FOR SKILLFUL HANDLING OF THE UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 16:02:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	MO PBTS WI AG UNSC
08USUNNEWYORK451	UN/1267 SANCTIONS: SEEKING GUIDANCE ON ALGERIAN [...] (C) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Algerian PolOff El Hadj Lamine informed USUN on May 14 of Algeria's intention to request the designation four individuals associated with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) for sanctions in the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Committ [...]	2008-05-20 21:55:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC AG
08USUNNEWYORK558	UN PLANS TO LET GO WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY VAN WALSUM [...] (C) UN DPA U/SYG Lynn Pascoe provided Amb Wolff June 24 with an update on the UN approach to the Western Sahara. Pascoe said he had collaborated with the SYG's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Peter Van Walsum, on a memo of options now before SYG Ban. Pascoe said the memo proposed three al [...]	2008-06-24 21:28:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC AG MO WS
08USUNNEWYORK580	ALGERIA COMPLAINS TO UN COMMITTEE OVER AIRPORT [...] This is an action request for the Department - please see paragraph 2. 2. Youcef Yousfi, Algeria's Ambassador to the UN, has written the Chairman of the UN's Committee on Relations with the Host Country to complain that Algerian diplomats accredited to the UN are singled out for additiona [...]	2008-06-30 21:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP PREL AG UN
08WARSAW588	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PLEDGING AT THE PARIS SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 12:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL PL AG
09ALGIERS1002	ALGERIA PROVIDES ITS REASONS FOR SUPPORTING [...] (C) The Ambassador on November 8 reinforced ref A demarche on the Goldstone report with MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher, urging Algerian support to help ensure the follow-up process does not further complicate efforts to move Palestinians and Israelis to negotiated peace. Bouzah [...]	2009-11-09 12:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL IS IZ AG
09ALGIERS1006	SEPTEMBER SUMMARY OF TERRORIST INCIDENTS [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related terrorist activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of September 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should [...]	2009-11-12 08:51:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1007	AUGUST 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of August 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken a [...]	2009-11-12 09:21:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1008	SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH ALGERIA [...] (U) In response to ref A, this message provides information on established security dialogues between the United States and Algeria. 2. (U) Joint Military Dialogue (JMD): The JMD was first held in October 2005 under an informal agreement between the U.S. and Algeria. The second JMD, in No [...]	2009-11-12 14:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR AG
09ALGIERS1009	ALGERIA: JULY - SEPTEMBER SECURITY TRENDS SUMMARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable is the first of a series of quarterly summaries of security trends in Algeria related to terrorism, social unrest and criminal activity. This report refers to trends observed during the period July - September 2009. The information draws on reporting from local pres [...]	2009-11-12 14:18:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PINR PINS ASEC AMGT AG
09ALGIERS1018	ALGERIA: SOCCER VIOLENCE AFTERMATH [...] (SBU) Summary: Unconfirmed reports that Algerian fans were injured and killed in attacks in Cairo November 14 following a soccer match between the two countries' national teams have led to public gatherings and some violence. Embassy has no GOA confirmation of deaths among Algerian fans in Ca [...]	2009-11-17 06:56:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PINS AG EG SU
09ALGIERS1026	ALGERIA'S RESPONSE ON IRAN-BURMA-DPRK RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel B points on the Iran/Burma/DPRK human rights resolutions to MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Salima Abdelhak on November 17. Abdelhak said she had recently returned to Algiers after a four-year posting in Algeria's UN mission [...]	2009-11-17 17:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA AG IR
09ALGIERS1037	ALGIERS-HOSTED CHEMICAL TERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director for Disarmament Hamza Khelil November 19, and left a copy of the reftel proposed agenda. Khelil welcomed the conference as an example of U.S.-Algerian cooperation in disarmament. He gave no definitive answers to reftel proposals b [...]	2009-11-21 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC AG
09ALGIERS104	SPORTS DIPLOMACY IN ALGERIAN PRISONS: AN IV [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ideas gained through the International Visitor (IV) Program are contributing tangibly to Algerian efforts to reduce violence and combat radicalization within the prison system, through sports diplomacy in particular. Some of Algiers' most notorious prisons have been organizing [...]	2009-01-28 18:20:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO AG
09ALGIERS1041	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR SAYS RECENT MOROCCAN RHETORIC [...] (C) Polisario Front "Ambassador" in Algiers on November 17 portrayed the Moroccan government's tougher position on Western Sahara and its mistreatment of Sahrawi rights activists as a provocation designed to undermine UN Special Envoy Christopher Ross' efforts to restart talks, and he stated [...]	2009-11-22 17:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS1043	ALGERIAN RESPONSE TO EL-BARADEI REPORT ON SYRIA [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief on November 19 explained reftel points on the most recent IAEA Director General report on Syria to Hamza Khelif, head of the Sub-Directorate for Disarmament in the MFA's General Directorate for Political and International Security Affairs, and left him a copy of para 6 ref [...]	2009-11-23 12:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNC IAEA SYR AG
09ALGIERS1048	ALGERIA ON IAEA - IRAN NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief on November 19 explained reftel points on the IAEA case against Iran to Hamza Khelif, head of the Sub-Directorate for Disarmament in the Algerian MFA's General Directorate for Political and International Security Affairs. 2. (SBU) Saying he would refer the points to hig [...]	2009-11-25 06:28:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC IAEA IR AG
09ALGIERS1049	TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT: ALGERIA [...] (U) Summary: Algeria does nothing to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba, or to help Cuban civil society. Algeria's commercial relationship with Cuba is focused on health care, pharmaceutical production, and energy. End summary. Democracy, Human Rights, Civil Society ---------------- [...]	2009-11-25 13:11:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PREL CU AG
09ALGIERS106	ABC NEWS STORY BREAKS IN ALGERIA [...] (S/NF) The ABC News story reporting alleged sexual misconduct by the Algiers chief of station first appeared in Algeria the morning of January 29 on the electronic news journal Tout Sur l'Algerie. The story aired late enough in the U.S. on January 28 that it did not appear in the January 29 [...]	2009-01-29 13:02:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1063	POLISARIO ASKS U.S. TO RESPOND TO MOROCCAN [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Poloff travelled on November 21 to Tindouf, Algeria, to meet with senior Polisario Front leaders to discuss the future of UN-led mediation efforts on the Western Sahara conflict and to observe the conditions of life in the Sahrawi refugee camps. Polisario officials reitera [...]	2009-12-01 08:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS1065	ALGERIA: 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Per reftel, we provide the following summary of Algeria's progress in addressing interim assessment requirements in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, as amended. 2. The Algerian parliament enacted new comprehensive anti-TIP legislation in January 2009, criminalizing [...]	2009-12-02 07:44:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AG
09ALGIERS1069	AFRICOM COMMANDER MEETING WITH ALGERIAN [...] (C) Algerian Presidential Counselor for Terrorism Kamel Rezag Bara told AFRICOM Commander General Ward November 26 that Algeria was leading a regional effort with Mali, Mauritania, and Niger against AQIM but that heads of state had yet to set the date for a summit meeting of these countries in [...]	2009-12-02 10:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PINR PGOV PREL AG NG ML MR
09ALGIERS107	ALGERIA SCANDAL: LOCAL REACTIONS, EAC ACTIONS [...] (S/NF) As of Friday afternoon, January 30, there has been effectively no Algerian public reaction to the January 28 ABC News story (reftel). This could change in days to come depending on media coverage and government response. Initial government response, per reftel, has been restrained. We [...]	2009-01-30 17:45:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
09ALGIERS1070	AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Medelci registered AFRICOM General Ward's message that AFRICOM's mission was to reinforce African nations' own security efforts and not establish bases. The minister detailed Algeria's efforts within the African Union and regional partners to promote security and conflict [...]	2009-12-02 10:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MARR MOPS AG NG ML MR
09ALGIERS1071	DRUG TRAFFICKING IN ALGERIA [...] (U) Algeria serves as a transit point for drug trafficking, both for cannabis and cannabis resin from Morocco, and increasingly for South American-origin cocaine and heroin, which both transit Algeria to Europe. Algeria's long, remote and difficult-to-secure borders facilitate the drug trade [...]	2009-12-02 11:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG PGOV PINS SNAR
09ALGIERS1072	ALGERIA AND THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Charge discussed reftel points with Algerian MFA Director General for the Americas, Sabri Boukhadoum on December 1. Charge said we wanted to preview the President's speech because Algeria is a close partner in security matters and in light of Foreign Minister Medelci's upcoming visit to [...]	2009-12-02 16:18:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MARR MOPS AF PK AG
09ALGIERS1076	2010 NTE ON THE ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT - ALGERIA [...] Algeria does not enforce the Arab League Boycott against Israel and purchases some Israeli goods via intermediaries. American firms operating in Algeria report no GOA inquiries related to the boycott. End Summary. Boycott Not Applied ------------------- 2. Algerian law contains no speci [...]	2009-12-03 16:47:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD KBCT AG
09ALGIERS1082	NGOS IN TINDOUF ON HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: DCM on November 21 met with several UN officials working with the Sahrawi refugees near Tindouf, Algeria, to discuss the status of assistance and development programs. The groups included the UN peacekeeping force MINURSO, the World Food Program, and the UN High Commission for [...]	2009-12-07 12:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS1085	ALGERIA CANDIDATES, PD STRATEGY FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] Embassy submits the following candidates for the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit: Issad Rebrab - Conglomerate Magnate ----------------------------------- Rebrab is one of Algeria's industrial titans. Born in 1944 near Tizi Ouzou, the largest city in the Berber area of Northern Alger [...]	2009-12-07 15:06:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL SOCI AG
09ALGIERS1117	POLISARIO RESTRICTS ACTIVITIES SEEN TO THREATEN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts with UNHCR and American NGOs working in the Polisario camps near Tindouf say that individual Sahrawis have been involved in smuggling activities, but the Polisario "government" severely punishes anyone caught trafficking persons or weapons that could aid terrorist [...]	2009-12-16 09:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS113	ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO BREAKING SCANDAL - JANUARY 31, [...] SUMMARY: Press reports of the CIA station chief in Algiers accused of raping two Algerian women, which broke on ABC News on the evening of January 28, were splashed across the front pages of almost every Algerian newspaper on January 31. The extensive reporting was largely a translation of the [...]	2009-02-01 06:43:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PBTS PTER AG
09ALGIERS1141	ALGERIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high-profile terrorist attacks throughout the country, although ongoing low-level terrorist activities, comparable to guerilla insurgency operations, continued in non-urban areas. Previously, the Salafist Group fo [...]	2009-12-23 07:47:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1144	APPROACHING ALGERIA ON DIFFAMATION OF RELIGION [...] Algeria's national identity is derived from secular-nationalist and Islamic traditions. Although a nominally secular state, Algeria is nevertheless politically sensitive to domestic Islamic political currents and sensibilities. It is a strong advocate in the OIC and the Africa Group at the U [...]	2009-12-23 14:40:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KDEM OPDC AG
09ALGIERS1148	ALGERIA'S 2010 DRAFT BUDGET [...] Algeria's 2010 draft budget, approved by the government and parliament, boosts public spending to 1 trillion Algerian dinars (about USD 14.1 billion, at the exchange rate of 71 dinars to USD 1),or to more than 12 percent of GDP. Falling oil prices have depressed revenues and will produce a la [...]	2009-12-28 13:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV AG
09ALGIERS115	ALGIERS SCANDAL UPDATE: REACTIONS CALM AS EAC MEETS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Pearce chaired an EAC meeting on January 31 to review the fallout from the ABC news story related to a former Embassy officer who allegedly drugged and raped two Algerian nationals (reftels). Because of the Algerian weekend, the story did not break in the local pres [...]	2009-02-01 19:00:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
09ALGIERS1157	SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND SIGNIFICANT SECURITY INCIDENTS IN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major terrorist incidents and threats as well as significant security-related incidents (including criminal activities and civil disturbances) for Algeria during the month of October 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news repo [...]	2009-12-29 14:21:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS ASEC AG
09ALGIERS116	ALGERIA MEDIA REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S Al-ARABIYA INTERVIEW: [...] As of Thursday, January 29, President Obama's interview received no front page coverage or commentary in the 70 or so daily Algerian newspapers. Many newspapers did, however, print short, primarily factual articles about the interview on Wednesday, January 28. Most articles were hidden on the [...]	2009-02-02 06:27:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EINO OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL XF AG
09ALGIERS1162	OVER-FLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR AFRICOM EP-3 MISSIONS: [...] (S/NF) OSC Chief delivered reftel request for EP-3 overflight permission to the Algerian Defense Ministry's Office of External Relations and Cooperation (DREC) on December 29. There was no immediate response, but the DREC summoned OSC Chief for a follow-up meeting December 30 to state that (1) no d [...]	2009-12-30 16:33:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR MOPS KCOM AG US
09ALGIERS119	INITIAL SCANDAL REACTIONS RESTRAINED, LONGER-TERM [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Although initial public and government reaction to the ABC News story regarding misconduct by a former Embassy officer (refs A and B) has been polite and restrained, the medium-term impact on our image and public outreach activities may be linked to how the judicial process pl [...]	2009-02-02 18:35:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AG
09ALGIERS12	GAZA: ALGERIAN DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS ON ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian MFA summoned us and other UN Security Council member missions separately on January 4 to deliver a demarche on the Arab League position developed at the December 31 Cairo ministerial, and to lay out the Algerian position on the situation in Gaza. The MFA informed us [...]	2009-01-04 18:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG
09ALGIERS122	PA BUDGET DEMARCHE: ALGERIA PLEDGES SUPPORT [...] (C) In response to reftel, MFA Acting Director of Arab League Affairs Mourad Merhoum told us that Algeria's support for the Palestinian people was a matter of principle, and that Algeria would continue its annual contributions of roughly USD 50 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) throug [...]	2009-02-04 14:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG AG
09ALGIERS144	SECTARIAN VIOLENCE FLARES UP AGAIN IN GHARDAIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: New violent clashes in the town of Berriane (ref A) highlight the ongoing tension between Algeria's Ibadi Muslims (or Kharijites) and the Sunni (Malikite) Muslims of the Ghardaia region. Sectarian clashes broke out last week after Friday prayers and left two people dead and 120 i [...]	2009-02-10 16:59:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS AG
09ALGIERS147	DISILLUSIONED INSIDERS LOOK TO U.S. AS ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian political insiders have praised the Obama administration's message of change and told us that change is on Algeria's political horizon as well, despite the likelihood that Bouteflika will be re-elected to a third term on April 9. In meetings between January 31 and Februar [...]	2009-02-11 18:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AG
09ALGIERS160	ALGERIA'S CIVILIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS [...] (U) This cable provides answers to questions in ref A. 2. OVERVIEW OF CIVILIAN NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM -- (C) Algeria currently operates two nuclear research reactors at Draria and Ain Oussera. We have been told (refs B and C) that Algeria is roughly twenty years from actually operating a [...]	2009-02-16 16:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PREL AG
09ALGIERS164	ALGERIA 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's population of roughly 35 million, its energy wealth, and growing demand for modern infrastructure and consumer products have generated broad interest in this market from companies around the world. But an often difficult business regulatory environment, symbolized by [...]	2009-02-17 07:35:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPOC PGOV USTR AG
09ALGIERS176	ALGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS FOR DUMMIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The deadline for submitting candidate dossiers to the Constitutional Council will pass on February 23 at midnight, marking the first bureaucratic hurdle for presidential hopefuls who want to be included on the April 9 ballot. To qualify, potential candidates must meet basic citiz [...]	2009-02-23 16:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS18	ALGIERS GAZA PROTESTS GAIN MOMENTUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Demonstrations of Algerian popular anger over Israeli actions in Gaza and support for the Palestinian people have increased in the past several days. Since much of the frustration is directed at the Algerian regime for its perceived impotence in the face of the Palestinian crisis [...]	2009-01-05 14:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT KMSG PREL AG
09ALGIERS195	ALGERIA RESERVED ON MARCH 2 IAEA BOARD MEETING [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director of International Security Issues Ali Alaoui on February 25. We underscored USG concerns regarding the IAEA reports on Iran and Syria and urged Algeria to make a strong national statement on both issues at the upcoming Board of Governors [...]	2009-02-25 16:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SYR AG
09ALGIERS196	CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Post does not recommend any modification to the CI/KR list as it relates to Algeria at this time. We note, however, that Algeria and international joint venture partners are constructing two undersea natural gas pipelines to Europe, one of which may be operational in late 2009. Once opera [...]	2009-02-25 17:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP AG
09ALGIERS2	ALGERIA'S SMOKE-AND-MIRRORS DEATH PENALTY DEBATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: 2008 closed with disproportionate media and public attention being paid to the death penalty debate in Algeria -- a debate largely theoretical since no executions have taken place since 1993. Toward the end of the year human rights activists and an opposition party increased thei [...]	2009-01-04 08:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL AG
09ALGIERS221	DEFAMATION CHARGE LANDS NEWSPAPER DIRECTOR IN JAIL [...] (U) The 2005 defamation case of Ouargla-based El Waha newspaper took a sudden turn on March 2 when El Waha director Hadj Daoud Hadjar was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison. From his cell in Chaabet Ennichene prison in Ghardaia, Hadjar will now wait for the local court to make his [...]	2009-03-03 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG
09ALGIERS223	EXPANDING ESTH OPPORTUNITIES IN ALGERIA [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Algerian government ministries would like to engage in greater cooperation with the USG pursuant to our 2006 Science and Technology (ST) Agreement. During a visit of the ESTH Regional Hub Officer, officials at the Min [...]	2009-03-03 17:03:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL SENV EINV PGOV AG
09ALGIERS224	ALGIERS: SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? (SBU) Algeria is a nominally secular state with a 99-percent Muslim population. There are no identifiable ethnic or religious communities that har [...]	2009-03-03 18:18:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER AG
09ALGIERS226	HOW TO GET AN ALGERIAN TO VOTE IN APRIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Achieving a respectable level of voter turnout for the April election appears to be the key government concern for legitimizing the presidential electoral process and delivering Bouteflika a landslide victory. Voter turnout has been in steady decline in recent years as Algerians [...]	2009-03-04 16:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS228	ALGERIA 2009 SPECIAL 301 REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's IPR posture remained generally static in 2008, and took a marked turn for the worse in regard to pharmaceutical market access with the imposition of a ban on imported pharmaceutical products that are produced domestically (ref A). Furthermore, it has become clear that [...]	2009-03-04 17:24:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KPIR AG
09ALGIERS234	ISLAMIST LEADER BEARISH ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ruling coalition Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP) president Aboudjerra Soltani told the Ambassador on March 4 that he was pessimistic regarding an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and did not believe "the opportunity was present" right now. Despite his pessimism and initi [...]	2009-03-10 11:22:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL AG
09ALGIERS235	ALGERIA'S MODERATE ISLAMIST LEADER: A VIEW FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP - Muslim Brotherhood) President Aboudjerra Soltani gave the Ambassador on March 4 Algeria's official Islamist vision of how to increase political participation and create accountability in local government. Soltani said the most critical need w [...]	2009-03-10 11:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PREL AG
09ALGIERS246	MFA COMPLAINS THAT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT DOES NOT [...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S-equivalent) Fatiha Selmane summoned the Charge to the MFA on March 11 to express the Algerian government's "disappointment and unhappiness" with the conclusions of the 2008 Human Rights Report (HRR). Selmane said the report was identical to prior [...]	2009-03-11 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM AG
09ALGIERS247	PROMISES, PROMISES: BOUTEFLIKA BETWEEN CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A week before the official start of the 2009 presidential campaign, President Bouteflika and his government have already chalked up a sizable list of promises and largesse -- a list that exceeds traditional levels of election-year munificence. In addition to a USD 150-million d [...]	2009-03-11 17:09:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI ECON AG
09ALGIERS252	FOR THE DISENCHANTED, A FACEBOOK PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Frustrated by the lack of political space in Algeria's real society, some young Algerians are going online, creating an informal political party and engaging on Facebook with someone they believe to be President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Bouteflika's campaign workers tell us "Facebook [...]	2009-03-14 14:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO SOCI AG
09ALGIERS268	ALGERIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR PA [...] (U) In response to ref A, MFA U.S. desk officer Ali Drouiche confirmed on March 14 that Algeria will provide approximately USD 200 million for reconstruction efforts in Palestinian territories, to be channeled through its membership in the Arab League. As reported in ref B, Algeria has alread [...]	2009-03-18 15:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER EUN AG
09ALGIERS269	ALGERIA OF LIKE MIND ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Arab Maghreb Affairs Ayeche Ouahouah told us on March 18 that Algeria shared the U.S. view on Mauritania, and was confident that the African Union would remain focused on the points contained in reftel demarche. Ouahouah said that Libya's Qadhafi "was playing a rol [...]	2009-03-18 16:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MR AG
09ALGIERS273	FIND A PARTNER: ALGERIA'S NEW INVESTMENT RULES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria has implemented policies that require a majority stake be held by Algerian interests in all new investments in the country, and a minimum 30-percent stake in import businesses. The policies have taken shape through a series of written instructions and guidance sent from [...]	2009-03-21 13:30:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD ECON KPRV EIND AG
09ALGIERS274	ISLAMOFASHION: VEILED BODY, VEILED MIND? [...] SUMMARY: Less than a decade after a bloody civil war fought to keep Islamic extremists at bay, more Algerian women than ever are wearing the hidjab (veil or headscarf). The phenomenon is only partly due to religion, as the hidjab has become both a social trend as well as a tool Algerian women [...]	2009-03-22 12:32:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KISL PGOV AG
09ALGIERS278	BIOLOGY FAVORS BOUTEFLIKA ON ELECTION EVE [...] (S) SUMMARY: General Larbi Belkheir, known for decades as the kingmaker within Algeria's military establishment, is in declining health and has all but formally faded from the political scene. His impending death will accelerate the decline of the army leaders (the "Janvieristes") who led the [...]	2009-03-23 14:11:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR AG
09ALGIERS279	THE PLAYBILL FOR ALGERIA'S ELECTION THEATER [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-23 18:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL AG
09ALGIERS3	GHARDAIA: IDEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL OASIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Proud of its independent spirit and unique heritage, the oasis town of Ghardaia stands at the gateway to the Sahara as a example of what a community whose traditional structures continue to thrive can achieve when left to its own devices. During his November 14-16 visit to the reg [...]	2009-01-04 08:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL KDEM KPAO AG
09ALGIERS30	ALGERIA IMPLEMENTS THREATENED BAN ON PHARMA IMPORTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: With no fanfare or public announcement, the Algerian government has implemented a ban on the importation of a wide range of pharmaceutical products that are also manufactured in Algeria. The ban, which took effect on January 1, is designed to spur the development of the Algerian [...]	2009-01-11 16:44:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS302	E-BARBARY COAST: PROFITS AND PIRACY IN THE [...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria was the second-leading growth market for Microsoft in 2008, and even as the global recession appears to be dampening sales, it might maintain its position relative to other marke [...]	2009-03-29 16:33:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR EINV ECON TSPL AG
09ALGIERS307	VIOLENCE ROCKS TIZI OUZOU ON THE EVE OF [...] (U) Tizi Ouzou was rocked by violence on the eve of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's March 26 campaign swing through the province, but thanks in part to a massive security presence his tour of two major Kabylie cities occurred without incident. Al'Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) launched [...]	2009-03-31 09:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PREL PINS AG
09ALGIERS308	GUANTANAMO: FORMER DETAINEE ALLEGEDLY ENCOURAGED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A letter received by the Embassy on March 25 accuses the spouse of former Algerian Guantanamo detainee Sofiane Abar Houari of encouraging her husband to attack the U.S. Embassy in Algiers. The letter, written in mediocre French, purports to be from a concerned citizen presumably [...]	2009-03-31 09:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL AG
09ALGIERS309	AQIM MEMBER ABOU RIHANA ARRESTED IN ALGIERS [...] (U) The Algerian government has reported the arrest of senior AQIM leader Abou Rihana aka Z. Kamel. Rihana was described as being responsible for preparing the December 2007 suicide vehicle attacks in the capital city of Algiers. He allegedly planned both the United Nations and the Algerian C [...]	2009-03-31 09:30:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER KISL AG
09ALGIERS31	FIS WRITES TO AMBASSADOR AND RAISES STREET PROFILE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ali Benhadj, vice-president and spiritual leader of the disbanded and outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),wrote a letter to the Ambassador in which he advised the United States to revise its support of Israel in the wake of the current situation in Gaza, and in which he decri [...]	2009-01-12 10:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL PTER KDEM AG
09ALGIERS316	ALGERIAN BUSINESS BULLISH ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian business leaders welcome new rules requiring a majority Algerian partner for all foreign investments in the country (ref A). They see the rules not as a retreat from capitalism and economic liberalization, but rather as a new economic model reflecting Algeria's unique hi [...]	2009-04-01 13:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON PGOV AG
09ALGIERS326	ALGERIA ON USG CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-05 15:38:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL AG
09ALGIERS327	ATTACK ON CONVOY CARRYING CHINESE WORKERS [...] On March 29 at approximately 20:00 a group of men presumed to be associated with Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers employed by STIC CARC, a contracting company engaged in the construction of a highway linking the municipalities of El Ajiba and [...]	2009-04-06 08:05:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER PGOV AG
09ALGIERS331	CHASTENED JOURNALISTS ADD TO ELECTION DAY CYNICISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Tunisian journalist and human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine was denied entry at Algiers airport on April 4 after being invited by the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) to participate in a program monitoring the media in the run-up to the April 9 presid [...]	2009-04-06 17:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO PHUM AG
09ALGIERS337	CRITICISM AND APATHY DEFINE PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the eve of Algeria's presidential election, a mood of general apathy and cynicism has descended upon the capital, despite the government's best efforts to stimulate voter turnout on April 9. These efforts have consisted largely of an overwhelming Bouteflika propaganda machine, [...]	2009-04-07 10:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS34	ALGERIA ALLOWS PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS OVER GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Bowing to growing public pressure (ref A),the Algerian government allowed protests in the streets of Algiers and other cities January 9 for the first time since 2001 so Algerians could show public support for the Palestinians in Gaza. Thousands participated in demonstrations ar [...]	2009-01-12 18:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KISL AG
09ALGIERS349	2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] SUMMARY: The absence of reliable statistics makes it difficult to assess the extent of child labor in Algeria, especially the worst forms of child labor. The Algerian government did not update existing legislation concerning child labor during the past year. In January 2009, however, the Alg [...]	2009-04-08 09:40:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AG
09ALGIERS35	BOUTEFLIKA'S ARMY: CIVILIAN CONTROL AT WHAT PRICE? [...] (S) SUMMARY: Since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika famously announced his intention to be "more than three-quarters of a president" following his election in 1999, he has struggled to assert greater control over Algeria's army to avoid becoming yet another leader designated and replaced at will [...]	2009-01-13 07:53:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL PTER MARR KISL AG
09ALGIERS352	ALGERIA'S ECONOMIC LIBERALS FADE TO THE LEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many observers predict that, as the expected winner of the April 9 presidential election, President Bouteflika will reshuffle his cabinet again and either move or remove certain ministers that were associated with the economic liberalization of his first two terms. Bouteflika ra [...]	2009-04-08 16:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON PGOV KPRV AG
09ALGIERS355	AUTHOR OF RECONCILIATION CHARTER SAYS BOUTEFLIKA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's de facto human rights ombudsman, Farouk Ksentini, told the Ambassador during an April 4 meeting that Algeria's relationship with the United States is "essential." The Ambassador raised the need to decriminalize defamation, which was intimidating the press. Ksentini agr [...]	2009-04-08 18:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AG
09ALGIERS356	FM MEDELCI WELCOMES MITCHELL VISIT, SHARES DOHA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci on April 7 welcomed Special Envoy George Mitchell's upcoming visit to Algiers and provided us with a brief read-out of the recent Doha summit. Medelci recalled that he had spoken by telephone with Mitchell and was looking forwar [...]	2009-04-08 18:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL XF AG

09ALGIERS366	CHALLENGES FACING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IN ALGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The foreign assistance environment in Algeria is significantly different than in neighboring lower income countries where governments actively seek an open and transparent donor aid process. Donors from different governments and multilateral agencies do not coordinate their acti [...]	2009-04-13 09:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL EU AG
09ALGIERS370	BOUTEFLIKA REELECTED IN HEAVILY MANAGED CONTEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: To the surprise of noone, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected to a third term on April 9 in a carefully choreographed and heavily controlled election with official results the main opposition leader called "Brezhnevian." Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni annou [...]	2009-04-13 19:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM AG
09ALGIERS381	FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO, WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to the peace process (reftel),Foreign Minister Medelci raised cooperation on Guantanamo detainees, negotiations on Western Sahara and the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir during his April 7 meeting with the Ambassador at MFA. Medelci said Algeria woul [...]	2009-04-18 11:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM ICC SU MO AG
09ALGIERS386	ALGERIA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR 2009 DISARMAMENT [...] (C) MFA Director General for Political Affairs and International Security (A/S level) Boudjemaa Delmi briefed the Ambassador on April 15 on Algeria's effort to reinvigorate the work of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament (CD),for which Algeria holds the 2008-09 presidency. The Ambassador to [...]	2009-04-18 16:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV UNDC AG
09ALGIERS39	WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA AND POLISARIO WELCOME ROSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an official statement reported in the local press on January 12, the MFA welcomed the UN Secretary General's nomination of Ambassador Christopher Ross as Special Representative for the Western Sahara, expressing Algeria's readiness to cooperate with and assist Ross in his ef [...]	2009-01-13 19:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PBTS WI AG
09ALGIERS396	ALGERIA: SITUATION IN MADAGASCAR FROZEN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-21 11:16:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID MA AG
09ALGIERS397	ALGERIA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON MAURITANIA [...] According to acting Director of African Multilateral Affairs Zineddine Birouk, Algeria sees the April 15 resignation of Mauritanian General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as a "positive sign" towards the expected June 6 elections. Birouk told us on April 21 that the Algerian position on Mauritania w [...]	2009-04-21 11:33:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL USAU MR AG
09ALGIERS415	ALGERIA AND MEPI - MOVING FORWARD [...] (U) MEPI remains a valuable tool in Algeria, both to continue existing programming and to focus future programming on new opportunities we identify. In response to refs A and B, this cable outlines what programs work in Algeria, today and tomorrow, and why. MEPI programs support USG goals of [...]	2009-04-26 12:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KMPI PREL KPAO KDEM AG
09ALGIERS421	WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA POSITIVE BUT GUARDED [...] (C) MFA Director-General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the Ambassador on April 25 that Algeria had a very favorable opinion of new UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, and that it found the report of his initial impressions "balanced." However, Magramane also poi [...]	2009-04-27 17:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS428	THE GESTATION OF A NEW ISLAMIST PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what appears to be a government-backed effort to energize an alientated Islamist electorate, the traditional tensions within the Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP - Muslim Brotherhood) have sprouted a new formal political movement, the Movement for Preaching and Change (MPC) [...]	2009-04-29 08:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM AG
09ALGIERS44	ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE: ALGERIA SUPPORTS EGYPT'S [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche January 14 to MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelhamid Bouzaher, who said that Algeria was in accord in principle with our points on Gaza. He said Algeria supported the UNSCR, and absolutely supported Egypt's efforts. But, he said, the sit [...]	2009-01-14 17:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KPAL KWBG MOPS PHUM PREL AL XF AG
09ALGIERS442	WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA OPTIMISTIC, POLISARIO DOUR [...] (C) In response to ref A, MFA Director General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the DCM on May 3 that Algeria's response to the MINURSO rollover resolution had been "measured and positive" and that Algeria supported Ambassador Christopher Ross. The Algerian government issued a stateme [...]	2009-05-04 16:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS443	ALGERIA TO ABSTAIN ON KOSOVO JOINING IMF [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Amar Abba on May 4. Abba reported that Algeria would cast an abstention vote at the IMF by the May 5 deadline. He also implied that Algeria would proba [...]	2009-05-04 16:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV AG
09ALGIERS444	GARDENS IN THE SAHARA: PROPOSAL FOR JULIA TAFT [...] For PRM consideration under the Julia Taft Refugee Fund, Embassy Algiers proposes to fund the development of a demonstration farm and ongoing training program, and to provide 60 Western Sahara refugee families in the Auserd refugee camp with the skills, tools, and supplies needed to grow susta [...]	2009-05-04 17:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF AG
09ALGIERS447	THE RESILIENT CHRISTIANS OF TAMANRASSET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Some 2000 kilometers south of Algiers in the heart of the Sahara, a small group of Catholics continue to hold small, discreet services, despite the restrictions local officials have placed on their activities. Each week, 20-30 Christians attend services in a tiny sand and mud chur [...]	2009-05-06 11:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SOCI PINR KISL AG
09ALGIERS449	ALGERIA ACCEPTABLE AS ELS FOR STS 125 [...] In response to reftel, the Government of Algeria (GOA) has no objection to the use of Tamanrasset Airport as an emergency landing site (ELS) for Space Shuttle launch STS-125. Post likewise has no objection. 2. Contact information for the air traffic control tower (ACTC) at Tamanrasset is [...]	2009-05-06 16:08:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA PREL AG
09ALGIERS45	DEMARCHE ALERTING ARAB CAPITALS ON MOU: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 10:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG IS MARR PREL
09ALGIERS463	GUNS IN THE DESERT: ROOTS OF SAHEL INSTABILITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: The stability of the vast Sahara region of southern Algeria, northern Mali and northern Niger has become a major source of concern to Algerian officials and local leaders we met during a March 23-30 trip to Tamanrasset and Djanet. They tell us a concerted development program and [...]	2009-05-11 08:46:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS ECON ASEC ML NG AG
09ALGIERS464	ALGERIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT SOUTH AFRICAN IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-11 11:03:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KNNP IAEA PREL AG
09ALGIERS465	DISEASE IN THE DESERT: FIGHTING HIV/AIDS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A gradual rise in legal and illegal African migration to southern Algeria over the past 15 years has brought an increase in cases of infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS. The Saharan crossroads of Tamanrasset, which with 130,000 inhabitants is the only city in an area large [...]	2009-05-11 13:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KHIV PGOV PREF AG
09ALGIERS469	PROBLEM CHILD: ALGERIA'S GROWING IMPATIENCE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria has long considered Mali an ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, but is losing patience with its southern neighbor. During the week of April 25, the two major independent French-language dailies in Algiers, Liberte and El Watan, accused Malian President Amado [...]	2009-05-12 15:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR PREL ASEC ML AG
09ALGIERS476	ALGERIA: PROSPECTS FOR REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ [...] (S) In response to reftel, Algeria has been reluctant to re-engage fully with Iraq ever since two of its diplomats were killed there in 2005. We have found that until recently, the Algerians lacked direct and reliable sources of information on political and security developments in Iraq, ofte [...]	2009-05-16 13:51:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PGOV PREL AG
09ALGIERS483	ALGIERS EAC: DETAINEE PHOTOS AND THE SECURITY [...] (S) On May 17, 2009, the acting DCM convened a full EAC to assess the impact on mission and AMCIT security from media attention to unreleased detainee photographs (reftel) as well as to evaluate the security situation in and around the city of Constantine for upcoming Embassy travel and activit [...]	2009-05-18 14:30:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	ASEC PTER CASC AG
09ALGIERS492	DESPERATELY LOOKING NORTH: THE MIGRANTS OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The cities of Tamanrasset and Djanet in the Algerian south have become extended transit hubs for thousands of illegal migrants from sub Saharan Africa who are looking north to seek opportunity. With 130,000 residents, Tamanrasset is the largest population center in southern Alger [...]	2009-05-20 18:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PINR PINS SOCI ML NG AG
09ALGIERS496	GO WEST! AMBASSADOR REACHES OUT BEYOND ALGIERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AND IS INTENDED FOR GOVERNMENT USE ONLY. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ON THE INTERNET. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's recent trip to Oran (Algeria's second largest city) and Tlemcen provided him an excellent platform to highlight existing coo [...]	2009-05-26 13:00:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL PGOV EINV ECON OEXC OIIP SCUL PINR AG
09ALGIERS513	ALGERIA DECLINES AIRLIFT SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on May 31 to Lounes Magramane, MFA Director General for African Affairs. After conferring with decisionmakers, Magramane told the Ambassador on June 2 that Algeria will not transport weapons or ammunition. He noted that Algeria has supported the So [...]	2009-06-02 15:20:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO SO AG
09ALGIERS514	BOUTEFLIKA: SERIOUS WESTERN SAHARA AUTONOMY IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bouteflika told Codel Burr Algeria would consider modifying its position on Western Sahara, and engaging the Sahrawis, if Morocco seriously implemented UN resolutions on self-determination. While Algeria would respect whatever outcome the Saharans chose, including auto [...]	2009-06-03 06:36:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OREP PGOV PINR PTER PINS KNNP AG
09ALGIERS543	ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-08 17:12:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KISL SOCI AG
09ALGIERS553	ALGERIA GRATEFUL FOR U.S. SUPPORT ON 2009 [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; see para 3. 2. (C) The Algerian MFA transmitted a note verbale on June 2 thanking the USG for its support of Algeria's position during the May 29 Conference on Disarmament (CD) vote and providing a copy of the CD's draft decision in English. The MFA's gesture [...]	2009-06-10 15:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV AG
09ALGIERS564	DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE: INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 08:03:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL AG
09ALGIERS611	CODEL SCHIFF ALGERIA SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Embassy Algiers welcomes the visit of Representative Adam Schiff and his delegation on June 30 and July 1. Algeria is an important front in the struggle against violent extremism and against Al-Qa'ida in particular. Our primary goal is to help reduce the threat that violent extremists p [...]	2009-06-22 16:18:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV OREP PHUM PREL PBTS KDEM AG
09ALGIERS615	H1N1 FLU CONFIRMED IN ALGERIA [...] (SBU) The Algerian Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed June 21 the first two cases of H1N1 flu in Algeria. The patients, an Algerian-American and one of her daughters, arrived June 16 on Lufthansa flight LH462 from Miami via Frankfurt. On June 19, the woman developed flu symptoms and went to a [...]	2009-06-23 13:17:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR TBIO AMED EAID KSTH AG
09ALGIERS642	WESTERN SAHARA: BOUTEFLIKA TELLS ROSS THAT ALGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNSYG Personal Envoy Christopher Ross met with President Bouteflika on June 24 to discuss participation in "informal" talks between Morocco and the Polisario regarding the Western Sahara. After his meetings with Bouteflika in Algiers and later with Polisario leaders in Tindouf, R [...]	2009-06-30 07:01:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS66	ISLAMOFEMINISM: FINDING A FEMINIST AUDIENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recent American Bar Association (ABA) seminars on sharia law held in Algiers and Oran featured lectures using the theological tenets of Islam to support arguments in favor of gender equality. The lectures, by Islamic feminist scholar and Richmond University law professor Ha [...]	2009-01-21 16:34:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWMN KISL SOCI SCUL AG
09ALGIERS670	ALGERIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSC 1874 [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-08 17:53:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PARM PREL KNNP AG
09ALGIERS70	ALGERIA: OBAMA IS "AMERICA WE DREAMED ABOUT" [...] (C) SUMMARY: While we expected a mostly positive reaction to President Obama's inauguration in the Algerian press (reftel) and among most Algerians, the Ambassador received a surprisingly strong positive reaction from former prime minister and ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) chairman [...]	2009-01-21 18:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG
09ALGIERS705	MIXED MESSAGES ON ALGERIAN INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Members of CODEL Schiff heard mixed-messages regarding Algeria's investment climate during a visit June 30 and July 1. Government officials at once spoke of their desire to see more US companies investing in Algeria outside of the hydrocarbons sector, while describing new res [...]	2009-07-21 15:09:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET EINV OREP AG
09ALGIERS718	ALGERIA CHANGES WEEKEND TO FRIDAY-SATURDAY [...] Effective August 14, 2009, the weekend in Algeria will change to Friday and Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday. 2. The Algerian Council of Ministers endorsed on July 21, 2009, a draft law to this effect put forth by the Minister of Labor. The law dictates the weekend change in all econo [...]	2009-07-29 16:31:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT OTRA AG
09ALGIERS729	ALGERIANS AND POLISARIO READY FOR VIENNA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Algerians and Polisario are both ready for the informal talks on Western Sahara August 9 in Vienna. In separate meetings August 3, representatives of both the GOA and the Polisario told us they respect the effort of UNSYG Special Envoy Ross and find that his no-agenda approac [...]	2009-08-04 19:16:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PGOV PBTS PREF KPKO AG MO MR
09ALGIERS740	ALGERIA LINKS RANSOM PAYMENTS TO TRANS-SAHARA [...] (S) SUMMARY. Algeria considers the payment of ransom to terrorist organizations a serious problem for security in the Sahel region and will propose an UNGA resolution condemning such payments based on a similar proposal recently acted upon by the African Union (AU). Algeria is not circulati [...]	2009-08-09 07:13:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG PBTS
09ALGIERS764	ALGERIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR UN ACTION TO BAN RANSOM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Algerian Presidential Counter Terrorism Advisor, Kamel Rezag Bara, said August 12 that Algeria sought U.S. support at the UN for an African Union initiative to strengthen the international legal regime against abductions, including a specific ban on ransom payments to terrorist g [...]	2009-08-20 12:39:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV PINR PBTS UNGA AG ML MR NG US
09ALGIERS765	ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS TRANS-SAHARA LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister of State for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel told a visiting Capstone delegation August 14 that trans-Sahara heads of state will meet in Bamako in early October to discuss security cooperation and regional development. Messahel said that Algerian P [...]	2009-08-23 06:43:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER PGOV AG
09ALGIERS768	ALGERIA'S VIEW OF VIENNA TALKS ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Algerian Minstate for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel, Algeria's representative at the Vienna informal talks on the Western Sahara, told us August 14 that the talks were generally civil and constructive, and that the parties to the dispute agreed to further meetings i [...]	2009-08-23 10:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO UN
09ALGIERS779	MEPI ALGERIA SNAPSHOT: PSP ENGLISH TRAINING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We saw the MEPI-funded Partnership Schools Program (PSP) in action recently in the western Algerian city of Sidi Bel Abbes as MEPI implementers provided training to a group of government language inspectors. The progress we saw, along with anecdotal evidence from participants, [...]	2009-08-26 14:27:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMPI PREL KPAO PGOV AG
09ALGIERS781	POLISARIO VIEWS VIENNA AS POSITIVE STEP, BUT NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario "Ambassador" Brahim Ghali praised the positive atmosphere of the Vienna talks and reiterated the Polisario's commitment to continue its cooperation with UNSYG Special Envoy Christopher Ross. Although the talks were a good opportunity for direct dialogue between the part [...]	2009-08-27 17:50:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS818	DEMARCHE U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-13 15:48:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA AG
09ALGIERS819	WIPO ISSUES DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-13 15:49:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR ETRD WIPO AG
09ALGIERS822	MIDDLE EAST ISSUES IN IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE: [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-14 13:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PARM KNNP IAEA PREL IS EG AG
09ALGIERS824	ALGERIA: DEMARCHE ON IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN AND [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief presented reftel demarche September 13 to Hamza Khelif, Deputy Director for Disarmament in the MFA's Office of Security and Disarmament. Khelif noted that as president of the IAEA Board of Governors, Algeria carried a special responsibility to be impartial and listen to all [...]	2009-09-14 16:32:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY AG
09ALGIERS825	ALGERIA ON SAHEL SUMMIT PREP: "THE CHAIN IS NOW [...] (C) Algeria expects a regional heads of state meeting in Bamako on regional security cooperation before the end of the year. MFA Director General for African Affairs Magramane said he expects the summit to result in an action plan to address both joint security operations and development ini [...]	2009-09-14 16:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR PGOV PBTS AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS837	ALGERIAN MUSLIM LEADERS SAY YOUTH INCREASINGLY [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador hosted an iftar for prominent Algerian Muslim scholars September 8. All in the group, who belong to the Algerian religious establishment, felt that while salafist extremism lacked broad appeal in Algeria, the Algerian religious establishment could do better in offe [...]	2009-09-17 15:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG KISL PGOV PREL SCUL US
09ALGIERS838	AMBASSADOR HOSTS IFTAR DINNER FOR ALGERIAN PRESS [...] (C) Human rights lawyers and editors of Algeria's independent French and Arabic language print dailies complained of a continuing oppressive environment for the press over the past year during an iftar hosted by the Ambassador September 15. Government unwillingness to share information with t [...]	2009-09-17 16:46:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL US
09ALGIERS839	ALGERIA TO ENGAGE IRAN ON AMCIT DETAINEES [...] (C) The Algerian MFA says that Algeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs would engage with his Iranian colleague on the margins of UNGA to help obtain the humanitarian release of U.S. citizens detained in Iran. It would also instruct its Ambassador in Geneva to work with the U.S. and Egyptian del [...]	2009-09-17 17:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG CASC IR KNNP MNUC PARM PHUM PTER
09ALGIERS842	ALGERIA: FINANCE LAW HAMPERS FOREIGN INVESTMENT, [...] (SBU) A "complementary finance law" (CFL) adopted by presidential decree on 22 July imposes new restrictions on foreign investment, import companies, and domestic consumer credit. It grew out of government preoccupation with lowering Algeria's growing import bill and more tightly controlling [...]	2009-09-23 07:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EFIN ETRD ECON AG
09ALGIERS845	ALGERIA: AFRICAN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points September 24 to Hamza Khelif, in the Security and Disarmament Division of the General Directorate of Political Affairs and International Security. Khelif said he would refer this matter to his superiors, but was fairly certain Algeria would participat [...]	2009-09-27 08:43:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE AG
09ALGIERS887	ALGERIAN INDUSTRY MINISTER REAFFIRMS INTEREST IN [...] Summary: Minister of Industry told USTR Director Burkhead that Algeria remains interested in acceding to the WTO and engaging with the U.S. in the framework of our bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement. He nevertheless believed the government had to exert more control over impor [...]	2009-10-01 12:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV EFIN ECON AG
09ALGIERS888	ALGERIA: FINANCE MINISTER BACKS ALGERIA'S NEW [...] (C) Minister of Finance Karim Djoudi told USTR Director for the Middle East and Europe Paul Burkhead September 28 that the purpose of Algeria's new rules on imports and foreign investment was to lower imports, tighten control on hard currency outflows, reduce tax fraud, and protect and promote [...]	2009-10-01 13:10:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS889	COMMERCE MINISTER SAYS ALGERIA SERIOUS ABOUT WTO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaaboub told USTR Director for the Middle East and Europe Paul Burkhead on September 28 that WTO accession is still a priority and Algeria looked to the U.S. for support in its efforts to complete negotiations. Djaaboub nevertheless defended new rule [...]	2009-10-01 13:44:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS890	ALGERIA: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DEFENDS DRUG IMPORT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with visiting USTR director Burkhead, Health Ministry Secretary General Chakou defended Algeria's import ban on a number of pharmaceuticals. He said it was necessary to protect and develop Algeria's domestic drug production, and to reduce the rising import costs for [...]	2009-10-03 18:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON AG
09ALGIERS900	ALGERIA: USTR DIRECTOR BURKHEAD TACKLES [...] (C) USTR Director Paul Burkhead told Algerian ministers and senior officials during a September 27-28 visit that the U.S. wants to improve trade and investment ties with Algeria and help Algeria diversify its economy beyond the hydrocarbon sector. GOA officials said Algeria still wants to acce [...]	2009-10-05 15:21:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AG
09ALGIERS903	ALGIERS MEDIA REACTION TO USTR PAUL BURKHEAD'S [...] (U) On September 27-28, Paul Burkhead, Director of European and Middle Eastern Trade Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, visited Algiers to meet with senior officials in the GOA and key private sector stakeholders to explore areas of potential cooperation in international t [...]	2009-10-06 07:33:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AG US KPAO
09ALGIERS904	ALGERIA: RESPONSE TO P5 PLUS ONE TALKS WITH IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-07 09:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MUNC PARM IR AG
09ALGIERS948	ALGERIA SAYS BAMAKO SUMMIT KEY TO REGIONAL [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister Delegate for Defense Guenaizia told visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston October 19 that the Algerian, Mauritanian, Nigerien and Malian chiefs of staff had agreed to set up a regional command for joint counter terrorism [...]	2009-10-25 09:28:00	Embassy Algiers	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS96	U.S. COAST GUARD GIVES ALGERIAN PORTS HIGH MARKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: A delegation of four International Port Security Specialists from the U.S. Coast Guard visited the ports of Arzew and Algiers from January 10-14, marking the second visit by the Coast Guard since the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) [...]	2009-01-27 17:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EWWT AG
09ALGIERS961	ALGERIA: ELECTIONS NOT ENOUGH IN GUINEA [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-27 14:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AG GV
09ALGIERS962	ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for African and Maghreb Affairs Abdelkader Messahel told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston on October 17 that governments in the Sahel region have the resources to combat terrorism and criminal networks and have agreed on the [...]	2009-10-27 17:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS969	ALGERIA'S ATTENDANCE AT THE 2009 G-8 BMENA FORUM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 18:32:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL ECON KPAO KDEM AG
09ALGIERS970	A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH ALGERIAN PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) In an October 21 meeting with NEA A/S Feltman, Prime Minister Ouyahia was broadly receptive to the USG theme of economic and security partnership in the region. He said Algeria wants to adopt a market economy but needs time to strengthen its industry to meet world competition. While urgi [...]	2009-10-29 08:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KWBG KPAL KISR IS IR AG
09ALGIERS973	NEA A/S FELTMAN MEETING WITH ALGERIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) In an October 20 meeting with Algerian FM Medelci, visiting NEA A/S Feltman said we wished to deepen counterterrorism and regional security cooperation with Algeria. Medelci focused on the economy and the Middle East. Algeria was an open economy that needed foreign and U.S. investment, w [...]	2009-11-02 07:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON ETRD KPAL KWBG IS AG
09ALGIERS980	ALGERIA EXBS PROGRAM PLAN [...] Embassy endorses reftel EXBS programs for Algeria. Embassy agrees that the program "Parliamentary Exchange," despite the program title, should target senior interagency Algerian officials from the executive branch, not parliamentary deputies or senators. Algerian legislators exercise virtuall [...]	2009-11-03 17:25:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PARM PREL ISTC AG
09ALGIERS982	ALGERIA'S 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] (U) Algeria is primarily a transit country for drugs, but both domestic production and consumption are rising. Drug seizures increased substantially in 2008 and the first half of 2009. The Government of Algeria (GOA) is committed to addressing the problem and has begun several domestic pro [...]	2009-11-04 06:47:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AG
09ALGIERS983	CTAG MEMBERS DISCUSS REGIONAL CT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Participants at the Italian-hosted Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting of G-8 Embassies in Algiers on October 25 discussed the current status of regional CT cooperation, ongoing Algerian and bilateral CT efforts, and the activities of the African Union Center for the Study and Res [...]	2009-11-04 10:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS988	ALGERIA RESPONSE TO U.S. POINTS ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (C) P/E chief delivered ref A points November 4 to Abdelkedar Hedjazi, Director of the MFA's Office of the Arab Magreb and Arab Maghreb Union, emphasizing in particular the need to avoid UNGA resolutions related to the Goldstone report that could complicate the resumption of Palestinian-Israe [...]	2009-11-04 16:27:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL AG IS UN
09ALGIERS993	UK DEFENSE SECRETARY AINSWORTH VISIT TO ALGERIA, [...] (C) The UK Ambassador in Algiers told us that the UK Secretary of State for Defense, during his October 26-27 visit to Algiers, signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement that establishes a framework for UK training of Algerian military, information exchanges and joint exercises. A heli [...]	2009-11-05 15:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AG UK IR
09ALGIERS998	ALGERIA'S THIRD COMMITTEE RECORD UNLIKELY TO CHANGE [...] We delivered reftel points November 4 to MFA Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance Ahmed Saadi. Saadi said that Algeria, as a matter of principle, did not support country-specific resolutions in the Third Committee. Dialogue and engagement were more effective approache [...]	2009-11-05 17:42:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UN AG
09BERLIN1387	MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST, AFGHANISTAN, U.S.-GERMANY, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-Mideast) Clinton Visit 3. (Afghanistan) Karzai Winner of Elections 4. (U.S.-Germany) Chancellor Merkel to Address Congress 5. (Environment) Climate Change 6. (Iran) Nuclear Conflict 7. (Economic) CIT Collapse 8. (U.S.) Presid [...]	2009-11-03 12:33:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF AG GM KGHG IR EFIN US
09BERLIN1539	MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, CLIMATE OBAMA, RUSSIA, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Afghanistan) Reaction To President Obama's Address 3. (Climate) Copenhagen Summit 4. (U.S.) Obama Administration 5. (Russia) Putin Comments 6. (Economic) WTO Talks Â [...]	2009-12-04 12:47:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO AG KGHG US RS ETRD
09CAIRO2311	ORASCOM TELECOM FACES FINANCIAL CHALLENGES FROM ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACTIONS REF: CAIRO 02261 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Do nald A. Blome [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 14:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV ETRD EG AG
09CANBERRA541	AUSTRALIAN CIVILIANS DEPLOYED BY AUSAID IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Currently, AusAID has six long-term civilian experts in Afghanistan, who are working on a range of educational, health, agricultural, and institutional development activities. Besides these there are seven Australians regularly in the country on short-term assignments. AusAID is [...]	2009-06-09 06:51:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM AS IZ AG PREL
09CASABLANCA10	MOROCCO, INDIA, PHOSPHATES AND BEYOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco exports about 50 percent of its production of phosphoric acid to India, a dual-use item used extensively to produce fertilizer for the country's agricultural sector and a potential source for uranium. The value of Morocco's exports to India totaled USD 1.4 billion in the [...]	2009-01-14 15:03:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	AG AMCHAMS ECON EIND ETRD MNUC MO PGOV PREL
09CASABLANCA181	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 17:17:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA182	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 18:51:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA216	WESTERN SAHARA: CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN-administered Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Western Sahara have thus far fallen short in achieving their underlying political goal of pushing the parties to interact regularly and build a relationship for future negotiations. The CBMs, however, have provided a vit [...]	2009-11-30 10:25:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SMIG PREL PHUM MO AG
09CASABLANCA26	MOROCCO-RUSSIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS: ENERGY, [...] (SBU) Morocco's economic relationship with Russia, initially concentrated almost exclusively in the energy sector, has widened dramatically in recent years. Bilateral trade is flourishing in the agriculture and phosphate sectors, joining longstanding Moroccan reliance on Russia for petroleum [...]	2009-02-12 13:44:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	AG ECON EIND ETRD MO PGOV PREL RS
09CASABLANCA47	MOROCCO/IRAN: THE PHANTOM SHIA MENACE [...] (C) Summary: One of Morocco's top experts on Islam discounted the government of Morocco's (GOM) explanation that the Iranian Shia menace was a proximate cause of the breakdown in relations between the two countries. Whatever Iran's alleged proselytizing activities may have borne, the penetra [...]	2009-03-23 19:46:00	Consulate Casablanca	SECRET	PREL PGOV KISL KTER MO AG IR
09DJIBOUTI1425	DAS WYCOFF DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND ERITREA WITH DJIBOUTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-27 12:42:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET	MOPS MASS PREL PGOV PHSA PTER DJ SO ER AG
09KABUL941	CODEL TSONGAS: MEETING WITH AFGHAN INTERIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 9 meeting with CODEL Tsongas, Interior Minister Atmar praised the U.S. Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) for the training it is providing to the Afghan National Police (ANP) and his ministry, described the training programs in some detail, and [...]	2009-04-15 13:20:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PTER AG
09KINSHASA1096	EMBASSY KINSHASA TEAM VISITS BAS CONGO TO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: An Embassy Kinshasa team comprised of two political officers, a representative of the office of the defense attache, and a USAID/OFDA representative visited the province of Bas-Congo on November 3-4 to look at the humanitarian situation. Angola has expelled approximately 140,00 [...]	2009-12-16 13:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID PREF PGOV KWMN PREL AG CG
09KINSHASA1105	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba on December 17 to discuss MONUC's mandate renewal, fighting in the Dongo area of Equateur Province, and DRC-Angolan relations. Septel reports on discussions regarding finding a site to build a new embassy, as well as GD [...]	2009-12-17 16:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MOPS PHUM PREF CG AG
09MANILA1072	Philippine Response to New Port States Agreement [...] EconOff delivered reftel points to Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs Director Maria Lourdes Salcedo on April 29. Salcedo was receptive to the U.S. position of forging a stand-alone agreement to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and sent an urgent fax to the Philippine [...]	2009-05-19 06:26:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS SENV AORC ETRD FAO MO AG RP
09MOSCOW3007	SRAP HOLBROOKE - MOD DIR GORBUNOV NOV 16 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: SRAP Ambassador Holbrooke met Russian MOD Director for International Cooperation Gorbunov to discuss the U.S. strategic approach in Afghanistan. Holbrooke said security was a precondition for the success of U.S. and international efforts at the reconstruction of Afghanistan and [...]	2009-12-14 14:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MCAP PTER AG RS
09MOSCOW3035	SRAP HOLBROOKE'S STRATEGIC DIALOGUE IN RUSSIA [...] (C) In meetings with Russia's Foreign Ministry and Security Council, SRAP Holbrooke stated that "history and destiny" have given the United States and Russia the common problem of Afghanistan and it is time to use the new relationship between Washington and Moscow to cooperate more closely in [...]	2009-12-18 05:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MCAP PTER AG RS
09NEWDELHI1337	NSA JONES DISCUSSES U.S.-INDIA SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Meeting National Security Advisor James Jones on June 26, Defense Minister A.K. Antony stressed his support for moving beyond minor irritants and to a broad and expanded security relationship between India and the United States. Both Jones and Antony affirmed their commitment to buildi [...]	2009-06-29 05:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PK AG IN
09NOUAKCHOTT24	POLISARIO DISSIDENT VISITS [...] (C) Summary: Sahrawi dissident Mahjoub Saleck of the Khat al-Shahid faction of POLISARIO saw a significant decrease in nationalist fervor among young Sahrawi in his first authorized visit to POLISARIO controlled areas of Western Sahara since 2006. Saleck saw a disturbing focus instead on mak [...]	2009-01-09 15:31:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR WI AG
09NOUAKCHOTT257	MAURITANIA'S NEIGHBORS -- ABDALLAHI LOSING MALIAN [...] (C) Summary: Charge did the rounds April 5 of neighboring country embassies to check on evolving views following the failed Qadhafi mediation. Morocco and Algeria remain fixed on two sides of the fence -- Morocco urging acceptance of the status quo based on stability concerns (and discounti [...]	2009-04-08 16:53:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV USAU AG ML MO SG MR
09NOUAKCHOTT657	A PESSIMISTIC ALGERIAN OUTLOOK ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) Departing Algerian Ambassador Rachid Chakib Kaid (protect throughout) provided Charge a pessimistic outlook on Mauritania's political prospects in the coming year. Kaid, who has served in Mauritania for five years, said he had witnessed the roller-coaster of recurring coups. He had hope [...]	2009-10-12 15:12:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MR AG
09NOUAKCHOTT818	MAURITANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SEES ALGERIA AS [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian Foreign Minister sees Algeria as hindering a regional response to the AQIM threat -- both by seeking to exclude some regional countries (presumably Morocco) from the conversation and dissuading neighbors from cooperating with external partners like AFRICOM. The [...]	2009-12-28 14:17:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EPET MR AG
09PARIS1339	U.S.-FRANCE-EU DISCUSS SAHEL SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. government representatives met French, British, and European Union officials on September 10 in Paris to review efforts to address the security threat posed by terrorism in Africa's Sahel and Maghreb regions. There was broad agreement that the USG, France, and other thir [...]	2009-09-30 09:34:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PINR EAID EU UK MA NG MR NI AG FR
09PARIS1341	FRENCH CLAIM FRANCE-ALGERIA RELATIONS "NOT [...] (C) French-Algerian relations are "not strained," despite recent press reports to the contrary and despite repeated delays of the state visit of Algerian President Bouteflika, insisted MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre on September 29. Legendre told poloff that internal political [...]	2009-09-30 11:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AG FR
09PARIS1704	ALGERIA'S SA'ID BOUTEFLIKA -- A FRENCH MFA [...] (S/NF) The French have limited information about the private life, personal opinions, and political ambitions of Sa'id Bouteflika (reftel),according to French MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre. Nonetheless, Legendre told poloff December 14 that, based on French sources and analy [...]	2009-12-16 11:01:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AG FR

09PARIS277	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (U) Embassy has determined from open sources that OCEA's patrol boat contract with Algeria was one of the major foreign military contracts France obtained in 2007. The company's website indicates that OCEA has existed since 1987, has approximately 150 employees, and produces 10 to 15 aluminum [...]	2009-02-26 09:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC AG FR

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