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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 |