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| 01VATICAN6322 | BIO INFO FOR GIUSEPPE PINTO - NEW VATICAN [...] THE POPE HAS APPOINTED ITALIAN PRIEST, MONSIGNOR GIUSEPPE PINTO, AS NUNCIO (AMBASSADOR) IN SENEGAL AND APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN MAURITANIA. PINTO IS CURRENTLY THE ARGENTINA-CHILE DESK OFFICER AT THE VATICAN FOREIGN OFFICE. HE WAS BORN IN 1952 AND ORDAINED A PRIEST IN 1978. MONSIGNOR [...] |
2001-12-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SG MR VT |
| 03OTTAWA2181 | FORCES FOR LIBERIA: CANADA WOULD LIKE TO HELP, [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-31 21:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | CD LI ML MR NG PGOV PHUM PREL XY CA UNSC |
| 03ROME4850 | USAID Humanitarian Attache visits Mauritania [...] US Mission/Rome humanitarian attache visited Mauritania September 13-17, and traveled in the drought affected regions of Bareina, Aleg and Boghe. Assessments of this area show a serious emergency situation. Many vulnerable groups, particularly children, will require continuing food and non- fo [...] |
2003-10-23 06:07:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR MR WFP UN |
| 03ROME5227 | US Mission/Rome attends WFP-sponsored Regional [...] US Mission/Rome personnel attended (September 9-10, in Dakar, Senegal) a WFP-sponsored Regional Ministerial Conference for the Launch of the "Alliance for Action" on School Feeding, Health and Basic Education for the Sahel. Nine countries of the region pledged their support to the effort. Dele [...] |
2003-11-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR MR WFP UN |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2824 | EXTRADITION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS [...] SUMMARY: ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS HAS AN OUTSTANDING ARREST WARRANT IN THE U.S. FOR CONSPIRACY, ILLEGAL CONCEALMENT OF ASSETS, MAKING FRAUDULENT AND FALSE STATEMENTS, AND CONSPIRACY TO LAUNDER MONEY. ON MARCH 18, 1992, MR. MORRIS FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINED HONDURAN CITIZENSHIP BY CONCEALING HIS U.S. [...] |
2003-12-02 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN KCRM CASC HO MR ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS |
| 03THEHAGUE1920 | LIBERIA: DUTCH WILL CONTRIBUTE EURO 500,000 FOR [...] (S) Summary: The GoNL plans to contribute euro 500,000 via ECOWAS to Mali to support Mali's military contribution to an ECOWAS force in Liberia. Such financial support will be dependent upon a "believable arrangement" that Taylor will leave country and will not be absolved of his war crimes [...] |
2003-07-30 14:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL CD LI ML MR NG XY NL UNSC |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 05CAIRO6135 | MAURITANIA COUP: ARAB LEAGUE SENDING PERSONAL [...] (C) Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian Affairs Said Kamal (protect) told poloff August 9 that he had been appointed as the Secretary General's Personal Envoy on Mauritania and that he would visit Nouakchott August 11 to meet with coup leaders and others. Kamal, who reques [...] |
2005-08-09 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PINR EG MR |
| 05CAIRO6494 | MAURITANIA: EGYPT MAINTAINING A LOW PROFILE ON [...] (C) During an August 22 meeting on other topics with MFA Cabinet staff member responsible for Arab affairs, Alaa Hadidi, poloff inquired into GOE policy toward the recent coup d'etat in Mauritania. Hadidi acknowledged Egypt's relatively quiet public posture on the coup and stated that Egypt [...] |
2005-08-23 15:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM EG MR |
| 05KUWAIT3112 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK UNAWARE OF MAURITANIAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OPDC KU MR |
| 05NOUAKCHOTT762 | WHY DID MAHMOUD ABBAS VISIT MAURITANIA? [...] (U) On July 2, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made his first official visit to Mauritania. Spending roughly 24 hours, he met with President Taya and toured Nouakchott,s port. The two men reportedly discussed Abbas' recent trip to the US, including discussions he had had with President B [...] |
2005-07-07 10:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MR IS |
| 05PARIS439 | FRANCE AND WEST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the last of a series of messages (reftels) briefly summarizing French relations with African nations. For the last two years, France's Africa policy has, of necessity, been focused on the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. Two years after France hosted the Linas-Marcoussis and Kleb [...] |
2005-01-25 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BN UV CV GA GH GV PU IV LI ML MR NG NI SG SL TO XY FR |
| 05PARIS5352 | FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL VIEWS MAURITANIA COUP AS [...] (C) GOF MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on August 4 said that France viewed Mauritania's coup as "consolidated" (i.e., concluded). He said that the key remaining question involved Mauritanian forces which remain loyal to President Taya and are conducting anti-terrorist oper [...] |
2005-08-05 07:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PINR MOPS CASC MR FR |
| 05PARIS6825 | AUSTRALIA MULLS OVER AMBASSADORIAL ACCREDITATION [...] (SBU) Australia is looking for signs of progress toward democracy since the August coup in Nouakchott in order to justify the accreditation of its ambassador in France to Mauritania, Second Secretary Tracey Haines informed Africa Watcher on October 4. Australian ambassador Penny Wensley, who [...] |
2005-10-04 13:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON EINV EFIN EPET PINR AS MR FR |
| 05RABAT1810 | GOM EXPLORES USG INTEREST IN NATO DOCUMENTATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) On the margins of a meeting with MFA Bilateral Affairs Officer Karim Halim on August 26, and drawing on Reftel, Poloffs inquired about Morocco's stated offer to establish a NATO documentation center in Rabat. Halim said that he was aware [...] |
2005-08-26 17:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL XF MR MO NATO |
| 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 |
| 06DAKAR1892 | AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO FINANCE BRIDGE [...] During a recent visit to Senegal, the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) announced the Bank's plans to provide financial support for the construction of a bridge at Rosso, on the Senegal River, which will link Senegal and Mauritania. The project of building a bridge over [...] |
2006-08-07 18:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO BEXP ECIN EAID SG MR |
| 06DAKAR249 | UPDATE ON AFRICAN-MAURITANIANS IN SENEGAL [...] (C) African-Mauritanian leaders in northern Senegal told visiting Ambassador Joseph LeBaron and Dakar Political Counselor January 24 and 25 that they want organized repatriation as a group under international auspices, and insist on restoration of Mauritanian citizenship and full recovery o [...] |
2006-02-02 15:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM PINR MR SG |
| 06DAKAR619 | ELY OULD VALL: "MAURITANIA HAS NO REFUGEES IN [...] (U) Mauritania'S Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall made his first visit to Senegal as head of state, March 6-7, 2006. In a press conference shortly before departure, he said use of the term "refugee" is inappropriate for those who left Maritania in 1989, and that those who claim to be Mauritani [...] |
2006-03-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF KFLU KUNR KPAL CN IZ MR SU SG |
| 06DAKAR940 | AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND WEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/W Director Phillip Carter discussed peacekeeping and Darfur with Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG P.K. Fall early in his visit. Carter concluded his successful visit to Senegal with a tour d,horizon of African issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Ambassador Mankeur [...] |
2006-04-18 19:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU GA GV IV MR PU SG US |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1000 | THE GREATEST THREATS TO THE DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION [...] (C) The current democratic transition was set into motion following the coup of August 2005, and ironically, a new coup presents the largest threat to the ultimate success of the transition. As the transition to democracy will not end with the presidential elections in March, but will take yea [...] |
2006-08-16 18:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1003 | MAURITANIA WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE TROOPS TO UNIFIL, [...] (U) On August 17, Ambassador paid a farewell call on Col. Fal, at which the two discussed Mauritanian policy on the situation in Lebanon and the transition to democracy (septel). Also present were FM Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed and DCM (notetaker). 2. (C) Ambassador asked Col. Fal his views on th [...] |
2006-08-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1004 | JUNTA LEADER FAL WELCOMES ELECTION OBSERVER [...] (U) On August 17, Ambassador paid a farewell call on Col. Fal, at which the two discussed the democratic transition and Mauritanian policy on the situation in Lebanon (reftel). Also present were FM Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed and DCM (notetaker). 2. (C) Ambassador stressed the importance to the USG [...] |
2006-08-18 12:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO EAID EFIN PINR MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1027 | GOVERNMENT TO REOPEN VOTER LISTS IN SEPTEMBER [...] (U) The transitional government has announced a series of procedural steps in preparation for the coming municipal and legislative elections. The announcements, made through military council decree and Ministry of Interior authority, formalize much of what the transitional government has alre [...] |
2006-08-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1036 | (C) DEMARCHE ON U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1039 | MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR JULY AND AUGUST 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on August 22, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Mohamed Salem, Abderrahmane Ould Mohamed El-Houcein Ould Aliases: Abdel Ghader, El-Hadj Ould, Youssouf Al-Mauritani Nationality: Mauritanian L [...] |
2006-08-25 10:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1060 | VENEZUELA TRIES TO WOO MAURITANIA [...] (U) Junta leader Col. Vall received Venezuelan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Director of International Relations Ivan Orellana-Alcala on August 16 in Nouakchott. Described in the press as "Special Envoy" of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Orellana was reportedly welcomed on his arrival in [...] |
2006-09-01 08:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1073 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL IN [...] (U) MFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine told Charge September 4 that Mauritania would be represented in Cairo by Secretary of State for Maghreb Affairs Bismillahi Ali Ould Ahmed and not by the foreign minister. 2. (C) Moulaye Zeine said that given that Mauritania presen [...] |
2006-09-05 09:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE IS LE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1081 | PRDR: RE-BRANDED, BUT STILL AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (C) Following the August 2005 coup, former president Taya's political party (The Democratic and Social Republican Party - PRDS) lost a significant amount of members, power, and influence (ref A). Parliament, which PRDS dominated, was dissolved, and the new transitional government took several [...] |
2006-09-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT111 | OIL DISPUTE PROCESS BEGINS; FIRST OIL STARTS FEB. [...] (U) On February 3, Woodside published a "Notification of Dispute" to the Australian stock market stating that Woodside is continuing discussions to resolve the dispute. Post understands that the PSCs allow for a 90-day "cooling off" period before the dispute goes to arbitration. 2. (U) I [...] |
2006-02-06 17:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1122 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ATTENDEES FOR NAM SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-11 13:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA PTER PHUM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1144 | LEADING POLITICAL PARTY COALITION FALLS APART [...] (U) On August 31, the AJD (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) announced that it had split from the BPC (Bloc For Change) political party coalition. The BPC was Mauritania's first political party coalition, and the only coalition with a clearly defined platform, namely, supporting the rights o [...] |
2006-09-13 17:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1193 | POLITICAL PARTIES ACCUSE GOVERNMENT OF MEDDLING IN [...] (C) Over the past 10 days, a majority of Mauritania's influential political parties and party coalitions have accused the government of interfering in the electoral process. The alleged interference comes at a key moment in the political transition. Registration of candidate lists for Novemb [...] |
2006-09-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1197 | ISLAMISTS PLANNING TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Jemil Ould Mansour, a key figure in Mauritania's Islamist movement, met with Charge September 27 to discuss Islamists' plans for the coming elections. Mansour began the meeting by explaining that Mauritanian Islamists, represented by his unrecognized political party The Centrist Reformist [...] |
2006-09-28 17:06:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1208 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION BRIEFS EMBASSIES ON ELECTORAL [...] (U) The National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) met with chiefs of the U.S., French, Spanish, German, EU and UN missions September 28 to discuss preparations for the municipal and legislative elections set for November 19. ----------- CENI UPDATE ----------- 2. (C) CENI preside [...] |
2006-10-03 16:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1235 | BALLOT PRINTING PITS UN AND ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (U) An October 12 UN Steering Committee meeting, including representatives from the EU, UN, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) and the embassies of Spain, France, Germany, and the U.S., focused on the government's ballot printing plan for Novembe [...] |
2006-10-13 11:43:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1244 | MAURITANIA BACKS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1259 | UNDP DECLINES TO PRINT BALLOTS [...] (U) Basket fund steering committee members sent a letter October 20 to the Minister, Secretary General of the Presidency Habib Ould Hemet declining the government's last-minute request to have the UN fund and contract the printing of the ballots for the legislative and municipal elections to b [...] |
2006-10-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1275 | BALLOT PRINTING PROBLEM RESOLVED, BUT PARTNERS [...] (U) The government has selected the London company Smith and Ouzman LTD to print the ballots for the upcoming municipal and legislative elections. The company will deliver the four million ballots by November 10 at a cost of $700,000. 2. (C) According to UN ResRep Cecile Molinier, the Secr [...] |
2006-10-26 16:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1363 | CHARGE INTRODUCTORY CAL ON COL. VALL [...] (U) CHARGE MADE AN INTRODUCTORY CALL ON MILITARY COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY (CMJD) PRESIDENT COL. ELY OULD MOHAMED VALL ON NOVEMBER 23, ACCOMPANIED BY DCM. NO ONE ELSE WAS PRESENT ON THE MAURITANIAN SIDE, AND THE MEETING WAS HELD IN VALL'S PRIVATE OFFICE. --------------------------- [...] |
2006-11-28 12:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KDEM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1386 | MEPI SENIOR ADVISOR BRIEFS COL. VALL ON ELECTION [...] (U) Visiting NEA Office of Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Senior Advisor Kent A. Patton paid a courtesy call on Military Council for Justice and Democracy President Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall on December 5, accompanied by Charge and DCM (Notetaker). Joining Col. Vall were Foreign M [...] |
2006-12-05 18:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KDEM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1388 | MAURITANIAN RUN-OFF: OBSERVERS SEE CONTINUED [...] (U) Mauritania completed a second round of legislative elections December 3 to decide the remaining 52 National Assembly seats not won during the November 19 first round polls (ref B). Post sent out nine observation teams of U.S. and Mauritanian personnel to track the process and compare find [...] |
2006-12-06 11:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT140 | MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR JANUARY 2006 [...] Post's Visas Viper Committee met on February 9, 2006. Post's Visas Viper Coordinator is CONS/ECON/COMM Officer Anita Ghildyal. 2. Post has no names to submit for the month of January 2006. LeBaron [...] |
2006-02-14 18:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1411 | MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER: DARFUR, [...] (C) Darfur. In a December 12 meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed to discuss several foreign policy matters, Charge raised the issue of last week's recent meeting in Khartoum of ACP countries, at which President Vall spoke on behalf of all West African members. Sid'Ahmed said h [...] |
2006-12-12 11:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL MR SU SY UNSC |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT1431 | MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR DECEMBER 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on December 19, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Ould Al-Hassan, Bouh Nationality: Moroccan (Western Saharan) Location: Mali Ref: TDX-315/64300-06 Name: Sall, Mohamed Beshir Nationality [...] |
2006-12-22 12:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT151 | HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND [...] (U) During a three-day visit to Mauritania February 7 - 9, an eight-member interagency delegation headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman and including members from S/CT, DRL, AF, NSC, OSD and USAID met with transitional government and election's officials to assess Mauritania's transition to democracy [...] |
2006-02-15 18:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT152 | HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND [...] (U) During a three-day visit to Mauritania February 7-9, an eight-member interagency delegation headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman and including members from S/CT, DRL, AF, NSC, OSD and USAID met with political party and civil society representatives to assess Mauritania's transition to democracy [...] |
2006-02-15 18:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT154 | THE HIGH-LEVEL US DELEGATION'S VISIT TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) The high level mission to Nouakchott headed by AF PDAS Bobby Pittman contributed significantly to the advancement of our policy in Mauritania. The delegation met with government officials (septel) and members of political parties and civil society (septel). 2. (C) The Embassy's assessm [...] |
2006-02-15 18:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT170 | WOODSIDE DISPUTE CONTINUES AS CEO SET TO ARRIVE [...] (C) Woodside Director of Corporate Affairs Gary Gray called on Ambassador twice during his February 7-10 visit to Mauritania. Gray said his role is to "create a space for dialogue" but maintained that Woodside did nothing wrong in negotiating the amendments and that they are consistent with c [...] |
2006-02-17 12:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN ASEC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT200 | SUBJECT: CENSUS BEGINS, MARKING SIGNIFICANT STEP [...] (U) During two days of observations in Nouakchott and Rosso areas February 21-22 organized by the local UN Secretariat for Electoral Assistance, EmbOffs followed census SIPDIS takers, witnessed voter registrations and met with representatives from the Ministry of the Interior, the National [...] |
2006-02-23 16:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT279 | AFRO-MAURITANIAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION ON THE [...] (U) A breakaway wing of the exiled Afro-Mauritanian opposition group, African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM), has called on the Mauritanian transitional government to address the plight of the estimated 20,000 Afro-Mauritanians refugees living in Senegal and Mali. The refugees fled so [...] |
2006-03-08 11:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT285 | Mauritania: Input for the Annual AGOA Report [...] Mauritania was one of the first 34 countries to be found eligible in 2000 for the trade benefits of AGOA. On December 22, 2005, however, President Bush terminated Mauritania's designation as of January 1, 2006, because Mauritania is not meeting the required criteria of making continual progre [...] |
2006-03-09 14:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PHUM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT287 | SEVERE CENSUS PROBLEMS BUT SUCCESSFUL VOTER LIST [...] (U) Emboffs met with members of the UN's Electoral Assistance Team, an NDI representative and a member of the National Independent Electoral Commission March eighth and ninth to discuss the status of the census/voter registration drive currently scheduled to end March 16. ------------------- [...] |
2006-03-10 09:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT289 | DEFEATING VENEZUELA IN THE 2006 ELECTION FOR [...] (C) On March 9, DCM called on MFA Director for International Organizations Amb. Telmidi Ould Mohamed Amar to follow up on Embassy's February 14 dipnote (Ref B) encouraging Mauritania to vote for Guatemala in the 2006 election for the non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. 2. (C) Te [...] |
2006-03-10 13:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNSC GT VE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT291 | YOUTH EVENT REVEALS A PASSIONATE BUT ILL-INFORMED [...] (U) Local National Democratic Institute (NI) Political Party Prrogram Director Eric Duhaimeb"riefed Ambassador on NDI's highly successful "Yuuth Day" which the Ambassador opened with remarks in classical Arabic. The ten-hour program held a rch 8 and attended by over 700 students, youth rroups [...] |
2006-03-13 09:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT313 | AFRO-MAURITANIAN COALITION PESSIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (U) On March 13 PollOff met with Mohamed Ould Sidi Ould Dellahi, President of the "Group of Parties for Change," the leading Afro-Mauritanian political party coalition, to discuss the outlook for Afro-Mauritanians in the coming elections. -------------------------------- "ELECTIONS WON'T CH [...] |
2006-03-17 11:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT317 | NATIONAL CENSUS AND VOTER REGISTRATION UPDATE [...] (U) Ambassador met with four census teams during a four-day swing through northern Mauritania March 13-16, visiting provincial capitals and several major towns and large villages. Concurrently, PolOff participated in two days of observations in the Nouakchott and Brakna regions March 13-14 or [...] |
2006-03-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT321 | MAURITANIAN - BURKINABE RELATIONS WARMING [...] (U) Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore arrived in Nouakchott March 16 for a two day "friendship and working" visit. Compaore, who had been invited to Mauritania by Colonel Fal, became the third West African head of state to visit the country since the August 3 coup. -------------------- [...] |
2006-03-21 15:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT322 | UPCOMING IMF BOARD MEETING--USG SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Prime Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar called in Ambassador on March 20 to seek USG support for Mauritania's efforts to convince the IMF Board to waive or delay any reimbursement of non-complying payments because of Mauritanian misreporting in 2002. The Board is scheduled to take up th [...] |
2006-03-21 17:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT326 | AFRO-MAURITANIAN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT; CLAIMS [...] (U) In a meeting with Ambassador March 20, political party president Ba Alassane discussed Afro-Mauritanian concerns regarding the census and coming elections. Alassane's party, the Party for Liberty, Equality and Justice (PLEJ) is one of only three recognized Afro-Mauritanian political partie [...] |
2006-03-23 11:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT330 | COMPROMISE NEAR ON WOODSIDE OIL DISPUTE? [...] (C) Both publicly and privately, the Embassy is seeing signs that the two sides are moving toward resolution of the dispute that has marred the otherwise positive development of first oil and first cargo from Mauritania. However, what is more telling is what we are not seeing, in that the gove [...] |
2006-03-23 18:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR ECON EFIN EINV EPET MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT336 | SPAIN TEAMS WITH MAURITANIA TO STOP MIGRANT FLOW [...] (C) The flow of sub-Saharan migrants from Mauritania's northern port city of Nouadhibou to the Canary Islands has developed into a crisis for the Spanish Government. According to the Spanish Consul Alvaro Diaz Duque, their response to the crisis has taken two paths, "first we are working with [...] |
2006-03-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT365 | DISPUTE ENDS BETWEEN MAURITANIA AND WOODSIDE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-31 15:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT377 | MAURITANIA'S PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER RELEASE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-04 19:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR ECON EFIN EINV EPET MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT409 | DISCRIMINATION PREVENTING AFRO-MAURITANIANS IN THE [...] (C) As the census to register voters finishes its first phase of door-to-door canvassing and enters into April's "fixed post" phase, there are indications that Afro-Mauritanians have been undercounted in relation to the general population. But hard statistics are impossible to get. The popul [...] |
2006-04-06 17:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT435 | UN AGREES THAT SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS EXIST IN [...] (C) Representatives of partners for the UN Basket Fund Steering Committee met April 7 to discuss preparations for the first official Steering Committee meeting scheduled for April 20. The group, which included UN, EU, French, Spanish, German, and US representatives, discussed the addition of [...] |
2006-04-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT438 | REPORT OF JOURNALIST ARREST ERRONEOUS [...] (U) On April 9 the local online Arabic newspaper Al-Akhbar reported the arrest of Abdallah Mimine, a Mauritanian news correspondent who covers West Africa for the Iranian Arabic-language satellite news channel, Al-Alam. Al-Alam is a popular satellite channel here. 2. (U) According to the A [...] |
2006-04-13 11:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT440 | MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR MARCH 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on April 12, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Mohamed ETOURAH Alias: Mohamed al-Turath, Tourath Citizenship: Mauritanian Residence: Bassiknou, Mauritania Profession: Trader REF: TD-314/25 [...] |
2006-04-13 13:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT457 | MILITARY COUNCIL RESHUFFLES DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) In late March the Military Council for Justice and Democracy replaced several of Mauritania's Ambassadors and Consuls to key African and Middle East countries. The shuffle, which had been expected since the August 3 coup d'etat, surprised many observers in that it drew largely from the fo [...] |
2006-04-19 16:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT468 | UNPUBLISHED OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMS PROBLEMS WITH [...] (C) In an unpublished report from the National Independent Electoral Commission's regional commission in Trarza (one of Mauritania's southern, predominately Afro-Mauritanian regions) the commission has found that significant problems persist in the process of applying for National ID cards (re [...] |
2006-04-20 17:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT469 | NEW OIL AGREEMENT MAINTAINS WOODSIDE'S EXPLORATION [...] (C) Woodside's Country Manager John Ozturgut told Ambassador April 12 that the terms of agreement that Prime Minister Boubacar described in his March 30 speech (Ref A) were essentially accurate, but that Woodside as well gained significant concessions. Most significantly, Woodside retained it [...] |
2006-04-20 18:07:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR ECON EFIN EINV EPET MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT471 | MAURITANIA: EMEGERNCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (S/NF) On April 20, 2006 at 1100 hours the Embassy's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to discuss recently obtained threat information which added specificity to previously acquired ambiguous information (reftels A and B). The threat suggested that GSPC teams have conducted surveillance op [...] |
2006-04-21 12:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | ASEC PREL PTER ABLD CASC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT479 | FAL SPEAKS OUT ON CORRUPTION, FOLLOWING UP ON [...] (U) In a speech April 20, Colonel Fal called on government officials and businessmen to bring an end to Mauritania's long-standing problem of corruption. The speech, attended by numerous governmental officials, political leaders, businessmen and the press first focused on Mauritania's legacy [...] |
2006-04-24 16:07:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT480 | EXTRAORDINARY SLAVE CASE DEMONSTRATES PERSISTENCE [...] (U) On March 28, the local human rights NGO SOS Esclaves (SOS Slaves) publicized the case of Sidi Ould El Mijriya, a Black Moor living in the small village of Daber II in the central Mauritanian province of Tagant. According to SOS Esclaves, Mijriya recently had to buy his freedom from his fo [...] |
2006-04-24 17:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT487 | MAURITANIA STILL SHORT $4-$5 MILLION FOR ELECTIONS [...] (U) An African Union (AU) sponsored Donors' Roundtable met in Nouakchott April 25 to solicit funds for Mauritania's electoral transition. Attendees included the AU, EU, UN, International Organization of Francophone Countries (OIF), and various Ambassadors and representatives from European, Af [...] |
2006-04-26 09:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT494 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION RECOMMENDS STEP TO ENABLE [...] (C) According to EU Counselor Bruno Gatta, his mission recently informed the Mauritanians that the European Commission has recommended to the EU Council of Ministers to close the consultation phase of the Article 96 process under the Cotonou agreement, and the council will make its decision a [...] |
2006-04-27 10:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT495 | MAURITANIA: VISAS VIPER FOR APRIL 2006 [...] (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee met on April 26, 2006 and based on a review of available information concurred on submitting the following: Name: Hadramy OULD HAMMA Alias: Abdellah MOHAMED DOB: 1970 Father: Ahmed Salem OULD HAMMA Mother: Salla MINT EL BAUBADIU Comment: Emotionally distu [...] |
2006-04-27 10:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT557 | CHINA GETTING ALL FIRST OIL; WOODSIDE AND [...] (SBU) Woodside Country Manager Jon Ozturgut told DCM that the Australian oil company and the transitional government are just days away from completing a new PSC. The draft must then be approved by the other partners in the group before it is signed. The transitional government will receive $ [...] |
2006-05-11 17:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT561 | CHINESE FM TO STOP BRIEFLY IN MAURITANIA [...] (U) The Peoples Daily Online, China's official online news source, has reported that Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing will make a "technical stopover" in Mauritania as part of his visit to six Latin America and Middle East countries between May 17 and 25. 2. (U) According to local sourc [...] |
2006-05-12 12:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT562 | IN POSSIBLY HISTORIC TURN, MAURITANIANS START [...] (U) At a ceremony commemorating the 17th anniversary of the outbreak of ethnic violence in Mauritania, key political parties and NGO's called on the transitional government to address the plight of the estimated 20,000 Afro-Mauritanian refugees living in Senegal and Mali. 2. (U) In a separa [...] |
2006-05-12 12:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT568 | SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN MAURITANIA, MAY [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc of Parties for Change," that has committe [...] |
2006-05-15 15:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT569 | MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a ha [...] |
2006-05-15 19:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT578 | MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...] |
2006-05-16 07:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT583 | MAURITANIAN-EU FISHING NEGOTIATIONS STALLED [...] (U) No agreement has yet been reached in negotiations between Mauritania and the European Union for renewing its fish agreement. The two parties have been in negotiations since the beginning of this year in both Brussels and Nouakchott. The last meeting, held last week, ended without neither [...] |
2006-05-16 07:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT584 | MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...] |
2006-05-16 08:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT585 | MORE VOTERS TO BE ABLE TO REGISTER BEFORE [...] (C) Representatives from the Ministry of Interior, National Office of Statistics, National Independent Electoral Commission, UN Electoral Assistance team, NDI, and various international partners met May 5 to discuss the census and voter registration drive which ended April 30 after two and a h [...] |
2006-05-16 08:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT590 | MAURITANIAN-EU FISHING NEGOTIATIONS STALLED [...] (U) No agreement has yet been reached in negotiations between Mauritania and the European Union for renewing its fish agreement. The two parties have been in negotiations since the beginning of this year in both Brussels and Nouakchott. The last meeting, held last week, ended without neither [...] |
2006-05-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT599 | SUBJECT: IMF STAFF TO GIVE GREEN LIGHT TO DEBT CANCELLATION [...] (U) IMF Deputy Division Chief of Middle East and Central Asia Department Jean Le Dem told heads of missions May 8 that after a two week mission here to assess Mauritania's progress on macro-economics and budgetary reform, the staff will recommend to the board to cancel Mauritania's IMF debt dur [...] |
2006-05-17 16:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON BBSR EFIN EPET MR EINV |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT605 | IN A SIGNIFICANT MOVE, FAL ACKNOWLEDGES PAST HUMAN [...] (U) Colonel Fal visited three of Mauritania's southeastern regions May 12-14 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. Fal's speeches focused on the democratic transition and the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25, but also addressed other national top [...] |
2006-05-18 17:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT606 | MAURITANIAN OIL PRODUCTION FALLS DUE TO POSSIBLE [...] (U) The Mauritanian oil production in the Chinguetti Field suddenly fell last week and this trend is likely to continue in the coming weeks. After a boom in March and April, production dropped during the first week of May from 70,000 barrels a day to 45,000 barrels. This decline is attribut [...] |
2006-05-19 09:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT621 | THREE WEST AFRICAN PROTESTANT PASTORS ARRESTED [...] (C) Three West African Protestant pastors were arrested in Nouakchott on May 18. According to an American elder in the local Protestant church who meets with the three regularly, authorities arrested the men, searched and seized religious materials from each of their churches, then padlocked t [...] |
2006-05-23 11:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT632 | GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (U) The transitional government's cabinet adopted a bill establishing a National Human Rights Commission May 17. The idea for the commission was first proposed in "National Consultations" that took place in October between political parties, NGO's and transitional government authorities (ref [...] |
2006-05-24 15:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT648 | UNHCR REPRESENTATIVES PROPOSE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (SBU) UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller, accompanied by Mr. Radhouane Nouicer of UNHCR Geneva and Head of Mission for UNHCR Didier Laye called on the Ambassador May 19 to discuss the situation regarding illegal migration from Mauritania to Spain. ----------------- [...] |
2006-05-26 14:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT658 | EMBASSY VISITS TO TWO SMALL PRISONS SUGGEST [...] (C) On May 18 Poloff visited two small prisons in the remote southeastern towns of Ayoun and Nema as part of an ongoing effort to investigate reports we have received alleging torture and dreadful confinement conditions. This was the Embassy,s first visit to these two prisons. Poloff spoke [...] |
2006-05-31 14:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT664 | FAL ADDRESSES SLAVERY ISSUE [...] (U) Fal spoke to a crowd of several thousand in the northern city of Akjoujt May 27 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. Fal's speech focused on getting-out-the-vote for the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25. At the end of his speech, Fal commen [...] |
2006-06-01 18:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT665 | LIBYA LOOKING TO FINANCE MAURITANIAN POLITICAL [...] (C) On May 30, National Democratic Institute (NDI) North African Regional Director Gerard Latulippe briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections (septel). During the meeting, Latulippe said that while in a hotel in Tripoli three weeks earlier, he h [...] |
2006-06-01 18:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT686 | 2006 TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOVERNMENT DISAPPOINTED [...] (U) ADCM met June 1 with MOFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine to deliver ref A demarche and English version of the 2006 TIP report. Later that day, Poloff delivered the same information to the Director of Human Rights Mohamedou Ould Tijani of the Commission for Human Right [...] |
2006-06-06 08:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT695 | NDI'S ACTIVITIES AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS [...] (U) On May 30, National Democratic Institute (NDI) North African Regional Director Gerard Latulippe and recently arrived Resident Director Jacques Veilleux briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections. ----------------- NDI'S PROGRAMMING ------ [...] |
2006-06-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT699 | FAL CLARIFIES HIS POSITION ON SLAVERY; EMBASSY [...] (U) Fal spoke to a crowd of several thousand in the southern city of Rosso June 3 as part of a national presidential tour that began April 28. While the speech was originally planned to get-out-the-vote for the National Constitutional Referendum scheduled for June 25, Fal used more than half [...] |
2006-06-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT701 | WOODSIDE AND MAURITANIA SIGN REVISED PRODUCTION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-08 11:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT739 | DEMARCHE: FIRST MEETING OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] On June 12, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Telmidi Ould Mohamed Amar. Ambassador Amar agreed in principle with the idea of using the first UNHRC meeting to &set the procedures for the organization8 [...] |
2006-06-12 17:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT745 | NDI NEEDS HELP AS ELECTION CLOCK TICKS DOWN [...] (U) On June 9, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Jeffrey England briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania transition to democracy. ------------------- WAITING FOR FUNDING ------------------- 2. (C) [...] |
2006-06-14 16:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT764 | SEVERAL ARRESTED FOR COUP PLOTTING [...] (C) The Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) last night arrested several high-ranking military officers. The motivation for the arrests is unclear at this time, but is believed to be related either to a coup attempt, coup plotting, or to an effort to disrupt the coming June 25 Nat [...] |
2006-06-20 11:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT770 | ARREST UPDATE [...] (C) The Embassy has continued meeting with civilian and military officials in an effort to get more information regarding last nights arrests of high ranking military officers and civilians associated with former President Taya (reftel), and to encourage Mauritanians to continue their commitme [...] |
2006-06-20 17:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO CASC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT774 | FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON ARRESTS [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed briefed Ambassador June 21 on the government's recent arrests of high ranking military officers and civilians associated with former President Taya, going over much of the material already covered in reftels. -------------- [...] |
2006-06-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO CASC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT778 | SUBJECT: STRONG "YES" VOTE LIMITING POWER OF [...] (U) Colonel Fal opened the official campaign period for the Constitutional Referendum with a speech, in the Capital city of Nouakchott, June 10. In the speech, Fal focused on the important role of women and youth, and urged all Mauritanians to unite in support of the June 25 Referendum and ab [...] |
2006-06-23 12:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT784 | THE REFERENDUM -- 97% VOTE "YES" TO [...] (C) The extraordinarily high percentage of yes votes notwithstanding, the evidence available to us suggests the referendum met international standards for a free and fair election. There could, of course, have been fraud that we have not yet uncovered, and we explore that possibility below in [...] |
2006-06-27 19:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT791 | PUBLIC STRONGLY SUPPORTS REFERENDUM RESULTS -- [...] (C) Following the landslide victory of the June 25 national referendum (reftel), public reaction has been highly supportive for both the referendum and the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD). While nearly all political actors have expressed their support for the election results [...] |
2006-06-28 16:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT812 | BROAD AGREEMENT -- REFERENDUM "FREE AND [...] (C) Embassy staff, including the Ambassador, DCM and PolOff, have met repeatedly with representatives from the UN, EU, Western Embassies and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to exchange views on last Sunday's referendum vote. All partners agree that while there were several procedural l [...] |
2006-06-30 12:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT814 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA [...] (C) On June 30, MFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine confirmed to DCM that Mauritania will not be sending a delegation to the July 1 and 2 AU Assembly of Heads of State in Banjul. Mauritania's membership to the AU was suspended following the August 3, 2005 coup. Moulay Zein [...] |
2006-06-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT842 | SUBJECT: LARGE PROTEST CALLS FOR BREAK WITH ISRAEL [...] (U) Several thousand Mauritanians participated in a pro-Palestinian rally in the streets of the capital city Nouakchott on July 4. The peaceful rally, organized by a newly-formed political party coalition, ended with speeches calling for Mauritanian unity with the Palestinian people, an end t [...] |
2006-07-05 17:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC CASC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT847 | POWERFUL POLITICAL PARTY COALITION FORMS -- MAKES [...] (U) On June 28 ten political parties formed the "Coalition of Forces for Democratic Change" (CFDC). The coalition, which includes some of Mauritania's most powerful political parties, has committed to working collectively to prevent any candidates from the former regime from being elected, and [...] |
2006-07-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC CASC MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT872 | HELPING MAURITANIA TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY -- FREE [...] (C) Eleven months after the bloodless military coup here, Mauritania is still on schedule to hold important parliamentary elections in November and a crucial presidential election next March. Those elections must be free and fair, if Mauritania is to have any chance of transitioning to democr [...] |
2006-07-12 17:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT876 | SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) DCM called on MFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine in the morning of July 13 to deliver reftel points, stressing USG request that Arab League members urge Qatar to delay seeking a vote on the resolution until at least after the AL ministerial meeting on Saturday. Moulay [...] |
2006-07-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL KWBG MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT885 | SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON SAUDI STATEMENT ON EVENTS IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-14 12:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL KWBG MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT894 | UN CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR ELECTORAL PROCESS [...] (C) UN Under Secretary General of Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari formally announced the UN's continued support for the democratic transition process in a letter to Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed on July 18. The letter, which UN Resident Representative provided [...] |
2006-07-19 08:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT898 | SUBJECT: GAZ DE FRANCE INCREASES PRESENCE IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-19 15:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | BBSR EINV EPET ECON EFIN MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT901 | NDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION [...] (U) On July 18, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Senior Program Officer Gregory Houel and Resident Director Jacques Veilleux briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania prepare for elections. ------------------------------------------ NDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMOCRAT [...] |
2006-07-20 09:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT968 | GOVERNMENT APPROVES $65 MILLION SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET [...] In meetings on July 27 and 28, the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) approved a supplemental budget for CY2006 to account for significantly increased revenues from renegotiated oil and fishing contracts, and IMF debt relief. In all, the MCJD increased the 2006 budget by 15.8 b [...] |
2006-08-03 09:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO EFIS ETRD EINV PGOV MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT979 | SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc for Change," that has committed to presen [...] |
2006-08-08 08:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT993 | POLITICAL POWER IN THE RUN-UP TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) The political environment in Mauritania is constantly changing, with political parties and coalitions regularly forming and dissolving, and new presidential hopefuls declaring their candidacy every week. Few political actors have strong platforms, and little separates one party from the n [...] |
2006-08-14 14:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO MR |
| 06NOUAKCHOTT994 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine told DCM it was his personal view that Mauritania would support the UNSC resolution on Lebanon as Mauritania has previously publicly stated it would join Arab League consensus on the issue. However, the government would unlikely make [...] |
2006-08-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE MR |
| 07DAKAR1570 | MAURITANIAN AND SENEGALESE PRESIDENTS DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Mauritanian President, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, paid an official visit to Senegal on July 9 and 10. He met President Wade and with the Mauritanian community where discussions included the status of Mauritanian refugees on the Mauritania-Senegal border. The newly installed P [...] |
2007-07-27 13:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS SOCI PHUM PINR PREF OVIP SG MR |
| 07DAKAR1764 | MAURITANIAN REFUGEES: THE DILEMMA OF RETURN [...] (SBU) On July 31, Poloff visited refugee villages in Dagana and Dodel to seek the opinions of refugees regarding recent initiatives by the Mauritanian Government inviting them to return home and President Wade's statement that those who wish to remain in Senegal will be granted Senegalese citi [...] |
2007-08-28 12:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF MR SG |
| 07DAKAR2259 | MAURITANIAN REFUGEES IN SENEGAL GOING HOME [...] (SBU) In a November 13 meeting hosted by the French Embassy, Rosaline Idowu, Regional representative for the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said that UNHCR and the governments of Senegal and Mauritania had signed an agreement to repatriate Mauritanian refugees living in Senegal. The [...] |
2007-11-19 10:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF MR SG |
| 07DAKAR612 | AF PDAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD MEETS SENIOR MINISTER OF [...] (C) During a March 12, 2007 meeting with Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio, AF PDAS Thomas-Greenfield praised a peaceful Mauritanian election while Gadio expressed hope that the new President will rejoin ECOWAS and deal with the refugee situation. On Somalia, Gadio agreed that a clear messag [...] |
2007-03-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KDEM GV MR SO SU SG |
| 07DHAKA1092 | RESPONSE TO INQUIRY RE. CLAIMS FACILITY FOR CAMEL [...] (U) At request of Department (reftel), Post has requested information from the GOB on the facility being set up by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to compensate camel jockeys. Post addressed Department's questions to the Ministry for Home Affairs (MOHA), which oversees anti-trafficking programs [...] |
2007-07-03 08:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN AE SU PK MR BG |
| 07ISLAMABAD2889 | PAKISTANI RESPONSE TO CAMEL JOCKEY CONFERENCE IN [...] SUMMARY: Poloff met with Khizar Hayat Khan, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, a GOP participant at SIPDIS the UAE-hosted Camel Jockey conference in Abu Dhabi, June 26-27. Khan is preparing a longer analysis of the GOP's expectations from the bilateral MOU for his Minister and p [...] |
2007-07-02 12:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KCRM AE SU BG MR PK |
| 07KUWAIT875 | KUWAIT'S ISLAMIC MODERATION INITIATIVE UNDER THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Kuwait recently launched a public relations campaign to further its "moderation" initiative, which seeks to foster tolerance and moderation among Muslims and to convey a moderate image of Islam to non-Muslims. The materials used in the campaign are of high quality [...] |
2007-06-05 08:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER KISL EG MR SU KU ISLAMISTS |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT1010 | Mauritania Exceeds Development Funding Target at Paris [...] The Government of Mauritania, with support from the World Bank, the European Commission and the UN Development Program, convened the fifth Consultative Group (CG) meeting in Paris December 4 and 5. Some three dozen bilateral and multilateral partners reviewed Mauritania's national development [...] |
2007-12-11 15:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM KMCA MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT139 | STEPS TOWARD DIALOGUE [...] (U) Post reported reftel on a January 31 meeting of the principal candidates for President, one intended to exchange views, work for success of the transition, and put together a code of conduct. A subsequent statement indicated they also agreed to ask the transitional authorities to abstain f [...] |
2007-02-06 18:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT140 | MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF [...] (C) Charge and EmbOff called on Director General of National Security Colonel Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed, aka Colonel Ghazwany, February 7. Joined by the Director General of State Security, Commissioner Taleb Abeidi Mohamed Abdelahi, Colonel Ghazwany said he understood the principled r [...] |
2007-02-07 17:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MASS PGOV PINR PINS MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT177 | TFGV01: DEMARCHE ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA: [...] (C) Charge called on Foreign Minister Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed February 19 to present demarche (ref A) and to deliver a copy of Embassy Conakry's public statement (ref B). Sid'Ahmed took careful note of our position and objectives. His eyes widened, however, when we asked that President Vall cons [...] |
2007-02-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GV MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT207 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HANANA [...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidate Saleh Ould Hanana said the August 2005 coup d'etat was a "vindication" of his bloody 2003 coup attempt. While pleased with the transition, he believes that the new government will need to go further in several areas. He was a "witness" to the 1989 Events, w [...] |
2007-02-23 16:07:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT32 | PEACEKEEPING IN SOMALIA: POSSIBLE MAURITANIAN [...] (C) During the course of a January 9 discussion with Armed Forces Chief of Staff Colonel Abderrahmane Ould Boubacar on the role of the military in a democratic Mauritania, we asked about interest in peacekeeping. The country's current role is limited to fielding twenty observers in the AU forc [...] |
2007-01-10 10:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | AU KPKO MR PREL SO |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT33 | MILITARY VIEWS ON ELECTIONS AND AFTERMATH [...] (C) Summary. Two high-level military officials express concerns about civilian abilities to govern while listening to our urging non-interference of the military in the presidential elections just ahead. The armed forces intend to focus on their own role and needs in the post-transition peri [...] |
2007-01-10 16:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MARR MASS PGOV PHUM MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT357 | PRESIDENT-ELECT: THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE THE FUTURE [...] (U) President-elect Sidi Mohamed Cheikh Ould Abdallahi, in an interview with the Algerian newspaper "Al-Khabar Al-Jazaaaeri published April 8, is quoted as saying "the last word on (Mauritanian-Israeli) relations belongs to the Mauritanian people." He added, "the reality is that there is an I [...] |
2007-04-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT400 | PARLIAMENT CONVENES, ELECTS ITS LEADERSHIP [...] (U) The new parliament met for the first time April 26, in the final step to the return to constitutional order. The Military Council for Justice and Democracy following the August 3, 2005 coup dissolved parliament and suspended the part of the constitution requiring parliamentary decision, a [...] |
2007-04-27 13:46:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM PINR MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT407 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ -- MAURITANIA [...] (C) Mauritania lacks the capability to provide military contribution to the Coalition at this time. Mauritania has a small contingent n the AMIS peacekeeping forces in Sudan (a 20-memer liaison unit). We have proposed that Mauritani join the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISM), but have [...] |
2007-04-30 18:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS PTER IZ MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT43 | VALL SEES EVENTS IN SOMALIA AS POSITIVE [...] (C) Former AF A/S Herman J. Cohen briefed Charge January 10 on his meeting with CMJD President Vall earlier that day. Vall spoke positively of the recent events in Somalia, noting that the Islamist movement is more a threat to Muslims than to anyone else. He appeared supportive of Ethiopia's e [...] |
2007-01-11 18:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | AU KPKO PREL SO MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT464 | AVIATION FEES WITH REGARD TO ASECNA MEMBER STATES [...] Responses are keyed to Paragraph 6, reftel for the airports of ATAR (GQPA) and NOUAKCHOTT (GQNN) in Mauritania: - IS THE AIRPORT OPERATED BY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OR A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY? (IF THE AIRPORT IS PREDOMINANTLY OR EXCLUSIVELY OPERATED BY ASECNA, PLEASE NOTE THAT SUCH IS [...] |
2007-05-23 07:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR KREC MARR MOPS MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT487 | CHARGE,S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE CHARGE PAID AN INTRODUCTORY CALL MAY 22 TO THE NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION MOHAMED SALECK OULD MOHAMED LEMINE. THE MINISTER SAID U.S.-MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WERE "IMBALANCED" TOWARD POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT AND HOPED THAT THE USG COULD PROVIDE COMMEN [...] |
2007-05-29 12:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | IS MARR MR PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT566 | FOREIGN MINISTRY REFUTES ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET CIA [...] (U) This an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) A spokesman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation has categorically denied what he called "baseless" allegations, published in the New Yorker, that the government of Colonel Ely Vall had allowed the creation of secre [...] |
2007-06-21 17:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT584 | CHARGE MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ZEINE OULD [...] (C) Summary: In a tour d'horizon meeting June 21, Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane assured Charge that Mauritania would continue to work closely with the United States on counter-terrorism despite the recent release of suspects thought to pose a threat to United States interests. He indicated [...] |
2007-06-26 14:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT683 | EMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT CONCURRENCE ON FY08 REQUEST FOR [...] (C/rel NACT) The US European Command J2, in conjunction with the Defense Attache Office at U.S. Embassy Nouakchott, has developed a request for funding under section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act entitled &Improve Partner Nation Intelligence.8 The Chief of Mission strongly s [...] |
2007-08-01 11:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PINR MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT700 | COURT SENTENCES FIVE FOR TERROR RELATED CRIMES [...] (U) The trial of the remaining 14 detainees accused of belonging to "Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb," formerly the Groupe Salafist pour la Predication et le Combat(GSPC) (reftel), concluded on July 31 with five convictions and nine acquittals. 2. (U) The Criminal Court condemn [...] |
2007-08-02 17:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CASC MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT701 | DETAINEE TRANSFER FRAMEWORK WITH MAURITANIA [...] (C) The Mauritanian government has agreed via dipnote to the transfer of GTMO detainee Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad (partial ISN 706) to Mauritania. The dipnote (informal translation para. 6) agrees to accept Detainee 706 "under its jurisdiction" without acknowledging that Detainee 706 is in [...] |
2007-08-02 18:03:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT710 | EXPANSION OF OEF-TS ACTIVITIES IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) With the successful deployment August 1 of the first JCET in Mauritania since 2005, we have re-established our military-to-military re-engagement, suspended following the August 2005 coup d'etat. The new government welcomes this engagement and encourages our continued military training and [...] |
2007-08-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL AMGT MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT711 | U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEE REPATRIATION [...] As seen reftel, Mauritanian government has begun to act on President Abdallahi's courageous decision to put an end to the issue of Mauritanian refugees. The refugee issue has had lasting effects on the human rights of refugees and other victims of the 1989 Events, has impeded national reconci [...] |
2007-08-07 19:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PREL MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT712 | ABDALLAHI PROMISES CONTINUED CT AND CN COOPERATION [...] Summary: President Abdallahi stressed his government's determination to continue close cooperation with the United States on Counter Terrorism and Counter Narcotics. He expressed his disappointment in the outcome of the recent terrorist trials, and explained his government's decision to reco [...] |
2007-08-08 07:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS ECON PHUM MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT78 | MEETING WITH KEY MILITARY OFFICIAL ABDEL AZIZ [...] (C) Summary. The Presidential election will be held as scheduled, without interference and in a transparent manner, according to one of the country's key military officers. Colonel Abdel Aziz said that the ruling Military Council will maintain its neutrality, while an individual, such as he, m [...] |
2007-01-29 10:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MASS PGOV MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT88 | MAURITANIAN DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO [...] The issue of the Mauritanians currently detained at Guantanamo receives a relatively low key, but fairly steady, drumbeat of attention in this country. The three, all claimed to be of Mauritanian nationality, are listed in the press as Mohamedou Ould Salahi, described as having been turned ov [...] |
2007-01-29 13:48:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KISL KJUS PREL MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT912 | OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN MAURITANIA'S [...] (U) Summary: Mission personnel have made several trips in September and October to Mauritania's second city of Nouadhibou. The city offers unique opportunities and challenges for U.S. engagement as both the center of economic activity in Mauritania and as the cross-roads for drugs and alien [...] |
2007-10-31 18:06:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREF SNAR MR |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT98 | MEETING WITH ISLAMIST LEADERS [...] (C) Charge and DCM called on newly elected National Assembly member Jemil Mansour, coordinator of the RC (Reformistes Centristes) group and head of the political wing of the Islamist movement in Mauritania, January 30, as part of our occasional contact with that group. Our last meeting was re [...] |
2007-01-30 18:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR MR |
| 07PARIS4592 | MAURITANIA: AMBASSADOR BOULWARE'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania Mark Boulware in Paris on November 19 hailed Mauritania's transition to democracy, which the French said they would tout as an example to other African countries and use to justify rewarding Mauritania for its good beh [...] |
2007-11-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID ECON MR FR |
| 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 |
| 07STATE19838 | DEMARCHE ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA [...] SUMMARY: The Department requests action embassies to encourage host country leadership at the highest appropriate level to press the Government of Guinea (GOG) to seek a resolution of the crisis, bring an end to the violence, promote dialogue, and seek a civilian-led constitutional transition [...] |
2007-02-16 19:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH GV ML MO MR PGOV PREL SL |
| 08ABUDHABI1217 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH MOROCCAN FM FASSI-FIHRI; [...] (C) Meeting on the margins of the October 18-19 Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte and NEA A/S Welch held a cordial exchange with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi-Fihri on three core issues: the Forum for the Future, the Western Sahara negotiation process [...] |
2008-10-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KMPI XI MO MR WI |
| 08ABUDHABI983 | UAE MFA VIEW ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on Mauritania via diplomatic note, reinforced in an August 27 conversation with Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan. The senior diplomat on duty, al-Haidan told the Charge and A/DCM that MFA had been visited by the Mauritanian Ambas [...] |
2008-08-28 13:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR AE |
| 08ABUJA2481 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE FOR AU PSC DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche urging African Union Peace and Security Council members to ramp up pressure on the Mauritanian junta to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of the African Union Division E.T.P. Josakweker on December 18 both orally and by diplomatic note. Josakweker had no [...] |
2008-12-18 17:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL USAU MR ML NI |
| 08ADDISABABA3066 | USAU: AU, PARTNERS KEEPING PRESSURE ON MAURITANIAN [...] (U) Summary: The African Union and its international partners agreed on November 10 in Addis Ababa to issue a communique warning the Mauritanian junta of sanctions and isolation should they fail to respond to the international community's demand for the immediate unconditional liberation of Pr [...] |
2008-11-12 05:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KDEM AU MR |
| 08ADDISABABA3240 | USAU: MAURITANIA'S ASSEMBLY SPEAKER URGES MORE [...] (C) Summary: Mauritania's National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir told the Ambassador on November 27 that sanctions targeting select members of the military junta and their supporters, including business owners, government ministers, and other government officials, will likely be req [...] |
2008-11-28 08:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU |
| 08ADDISABABA3398 | USAU: AU PSC TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) On December 19, USAU Ambassador met with AU Commissioner for Peace and Security (PSC) Ramtane Lamamra and delivered reftel points on Mauritania. The Mauritanian situation will be on the Peace and Security Council Ministerial Meeting agenda on December 22. In the meeting with Lamamra, Amb [...] |
2008-12-19 18:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR AU |
| 08ADDISABABA3450 | USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TAKES STRONG STAND [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: At an African Union Peace and Security Council Ministerial meeting on December 22, the AU agreed to take concrete measures against the coup leaders who overthrew the legitimate government of Mauritania. Specific [...] |
2008-12-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN MR AU |
| 08ALGIERS1181 | ALGERIA REMAINS FIRM ON MAURITANIA, SEES SOME [...] (C) MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane told visiting NEA/MAG Director Stephanie Williams November 3 that Algeria remains firmly opposed to the unconstitutional removal of Mauritanian President Abdallahi from power as a result of the August coup. Magrama [...] |
2008-11-05 18:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ML MR AG |
| 08ALGIERS589 | MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...] |
2008-05-23 10:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AG ML MR NG |
| 08ALGIERS590 | MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...] |
2008-05-23 10:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AG ML MR NG |
| 08ALGIERS906 | ALGERIA STANDS QUIETLY BEHIND AU AND ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Charge met with newly appointed MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane on August 13 to deliver reftel demarche and underscore the need for a constitutional resolution to the crisis in Mauritania. Magramane said that Algeria was closely monitoring events i [...] |
2008-08-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AG |
| 08AMMAN2356 | INFORMING JORDAN THAT MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-12 06:32:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ JO |
| 08AMMAN2579 | JORDAN'S REACTION TO MAURITANIA COUP LINKED TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-04 13:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | AG EG IS JO KDEM LY MO MR PREL QA SA |
| 08BAMAKO735 | MALIAN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS COUP TO MAURITANIAN ENVOY [...] (C) During his August 19 meeting with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Leavitt (septel), Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) said that he had spoken to the Mauritanian military and expressed his condemnation of their actions. ATT told them that he, too, had been a soldier wh [...] |
2008-08-19 15:54:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC CASC MR ML |
| 08BAMAKO956 | MALI: AU PSC TO RAMP UP PRESSURE ON MAURITANIAN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-22 14:25:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL USAU MR ML |
| 08BELGRADE951 | SERBIA: RESPONSE ON NEW GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-12 06:51:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ SR |
| 08BRUSSELS610 | EU RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU considers the Maghreb an area of high priority due to its proximity, its historic ties to Member States, and the role of Maghreb immigrants in the EU. While the EU shares U.S. concerns on CT issues, its primary focus is promoting trade, development and human rights. In Janu [...] |
2008-04-23 05:17:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AG LY MO MR TS EUN XI |
| 08CAIRO1965 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, we delivered ref A points to Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef and separately to GOE MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Affifi. On Israeli-Palestinian issues, Youssef called for more progress on the ground and criticized the lack of an Israeli settlement fr [...] |
2008-09-07 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE IS KPAL IAEA IZ SY MR XF |
| 08CAIRO1991 | SEPTEMBER 8-9 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef briefed the diplomatic corps September 10 on the September 8-9 Arab League Ministerial, stressing that the discussions focused on pessimistic assessments of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Youssef, Palesti [...] |
2008-09-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL LE IS IZ SY MR XF SU EG |
| 08CAIRO2079 | ARAB LEAGUE WORKING WITH AFRICAN UNION TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: According to senior officials at the Arab League and African Union, the two bodies are working closely to address key issues in Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania. AL SYG Amr Moussa and AU SYG Jean Ping head an Arab Ministerial committee on Darfur, and AU Peace and Security Commission [...] |
2008-09-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO MR IT QA EG |
| 08DAKAR1079 | SENEGAL: WADE-SARKOZY ENCOUNTER GONE AWRY [...] (C) Summary: According to the French embassy, the recent meeting between the French and Senegalese presidents did not go well. The French were astonished that President Abdoulaye Wade spent most of the meeting talking about his belief that he will win a Nobel Peace Prize this year. End summa [...] |
2008-09-17 18:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR FR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1095 | SENEGAL: DEMARCHE REGARDING WADE'S COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: Under instruction from Senegal's President Wade and in the presence of his Mauritanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Gadio publicly reiterated on September 17 Senegal's support of the AU position condemning the use of coup d'etat. The Foreign Minister had briefed Wade on the ref [...] |
2008-09-19 13:19:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1442 | SENEGAL: Gadio Visits Mauritania [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SG MR |
| 08DAKAR1486 | SENEGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUINEAN COUP [...] (C) Summary: On December 30 following a meeting with Charge and Political Counselor, Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio publicly clarified Senegal's position regarding the recent coup d'etat in Guinea; Gadio stated that Senegal is not supporting a military regime" in G [...] |
2008-12-31 14:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR GV MR SG |
| 08DAKAR1488 | SENEGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: On December 30 Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio briefed Charge and Political Counselor on his December 17 visit to Mauritania and his meetings with ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Gadio said Pr [...] |
2008-12-31 15:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR SG |
| 08DAKAR163 | GUINEA BISSAU:AL-QAIDA TERRORISTS NABBED [...] (C) The Government of Guinea-Bissau cooperated with French authorities to apprehend and extradite five Mauritanians, at least two of whom admitted to being al-Qaida members wanted in the December 24, 2007 murder of French tourists in Mauritania. At least one of the men had previously lived in [...] |
2008-02-08 12:30:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC SNAR PGOV PREL TER MR FR PU |
| 08DAKAR566 | CAMEROON REGIONAL FOOD FOR PEACE OFFICER [...] Summary: Dakar-based Regional Food for Peace Officer (RFFPO) traveled to Cameroon from March 31 to April 11, 2008 to assess progress of the humanitarian programs and the living conditions of Central African Republic (CAR) and Chadian refugees in the country. Visits to various refugee sites [...] |
2008-05-15 16:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL WFP SOCI NG EAGR MR ECON |
| 08DOHA356 | ARAB NATIONS CREATE REGIONAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a high-level conference of judicial and prosecutorial authorities from 22 Arab states, held in Doha on April 27 and 28, participants agreed to create a new liaison organization to help facilitate mutual legal assistance and extradition among their countries. The Government of [...] |
2008-05-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR AU FR XE MA DJ SU MR UN |
| 08DOHA799 | QATAR CONFIRMS MEDIATION EFFORT IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) It was Ambassador's first call on Shaykha Mouza, and the appointment had been set well in advance of Embassy Nouakchott's very useful reftel. 2. (C) Shaykha Mouza said Qatar's assistance programs in Mauritania targeted Mauritania's legacy of slavery. The Qatari hospital built in Boutil [...] |
2008-11-09 14:15:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR QA |
| 08JEDDAH335 | OIC OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON COUP IN MAURITANIA AND [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-13 16:01:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | PREF PREL KISL AJ GG MR TU SA |
| 08KUWAIT884 | KUWAIT TO FOLLOW ARAB LEAGUE LEAD ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) During an August 11 introductory call on Nayef Al-Otaibi, responsible for North African issues within MFA's Arab Affairs department, newly arrived POLCOUNS informally queried Al-Otaibi about Kuwait's reaction to the recent military coup in Mauritania. Al-Otaibi responded that Kuwait deplo [...] |
2008-08-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KU MR |
| 08LJUBLJANA346 | SLOVENIA INFORMED OF MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN GI [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-05 14:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL PTER KGIC MR UZ SI |
| 08LONDON1988 | UK RESPONSE TO ADDITION OF TWO NEW PARTNERS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-30 16:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ UK |
| 08MADRID1132 | NEA A/S WELCH MEETINGS WITH SPANISH OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY. NEA A/S Welch, accompanied by DCM, met with FM Moratinos, Director General for the Mediterranean, Magreb and Near Orient Fidel Sendagorta, and Policy Planning Director Andres Ortega on October 23 to discuss a wide range of issues including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), the Magr [...] |
2008-10-31 09:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL IR IZ SY SP MR |
| 08MADRID1183 | SPAIN SUPPORTS AU & EU EFFORTS TO RESTORE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-07 06:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR SP |
| 08MADRID946 | SPAIN'S STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) The Spanish MFA issued a communique condemning the coup in Mauritania and calling for the immediate liberation of the President and Prime Minister, along with re-establishing democratic practices, on August 6. 2. (C) August 26, Poloff contacted MFA Deputy Director General for North Af [...] |
2008-09-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AG EG IS LY MO QA SA MR SP |
| 08MANAMA597 | BAHRAIN: DELIVERY OF ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-07 13:13:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE IS IZ SY MR BA |
| 08MUSCAT615 | OMAN TO REFRAIN FROM SPEAKING OUT ON MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-27 13:55:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR MU |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT113 | MAURITANIAN AUTHORITIES IDENTIFY A SUSPECT IN [...] (SBU) On February 25 the Public Prosecutor officially accused one Al Khadim Ould Semane of participating in the February 1 attack on the Israeli embassy. Semane is a known activist for Al Qaeda who escaped from Nouakchott central prison in 2005 and fled the country immediately afterward. The [...] |
2008-02-26 16:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | PTER PREL ASEC CASC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT232 | KOSOVO RECOGNITION LOBBYING: TARGET COUNTRIES IN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-12 07:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNMIK PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT252 | MAURITANIAN GOVERNMENT CABINET RESHUFFLE -- RETURN [...] (C) One year into his administration, President Abdallahi is changing his team. The change was long anticipated -- a change from a government that reflected the necessary political compromises of the immediate post-election to a government that takes greater account of political, ethnic and [...] |
2008-05-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT256 | MAURITANIA: GENERAL AZIZ GOES TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: The visit of Personal Military Chief of Staff to the Presidency General Mohamed Abdel Aziz provides the opportunity for Washington policymakers key to sustaining Mauritania's democratic transition and helping face the challenge of terrorism. 2. (S - N/F) The Trip: GRPO will be [...] |
2008-05-29 13:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINR PGOV PTER MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT323 | POLITICAL STORM SEASON IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Over the past several weeks, Mauritanian media has been rife with political intrigue. President Abdallahi is said to have had a falling out with his security head General Aziz leading to rumors of impending coups. The opposition is trying to pull together the one-third majority of the Na [...] |
2008-06-25 18:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT332 | MAURITANIAN DEPUTIES VOTE TO INTRODUCE MOTION OF [...] (U) On 30 June 2008, 39 deputies in the Mauritanian Parliament signed a bill to introduce a motion of censure against the government of Prime Minister Waghef. 29 signatories to the bill were from the majority National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL) party. According to artic [...] |
2008-06-30 17:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT365 | EMERGING MAURITANIAN "SOFT" COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (SBU) Both the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (GIRM) and the U.S. have chosen similar paths to fight the root causes of terrorism in Mauritania. In April 2008, the GIRM developed an draft Action Plan addressing &Social and Economic Aspects of the National Strategy Against T [...] |
2008-07-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT400 | DISCONTENT IN THE RANKS: PARLIAMENTARIANS [...] (SBU) Tension continues to mount between President Abdallahi and the Parliament following the installation of a new Government on 15 July 2008. The new Government was the President's attempt to placate Parliamentarians from his PNDD-ADIL party who introduced a motion of censure against Prime [...] |
2008-07-31 14:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT403 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-03 16:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM IR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT408 | EAC MEETS IN RESPONSE TO REPORTED COUP [...] (SBU) The EAC met at 1015hrs to discuss reports of a coup and Mission security posture. Reports indicate that at approximately 0900hrs today, the President and Prime Minister were removed from their physical offices at the direction of General Mohamed Abdel Aziz. General Aziz has been Persona [...] |
2008-08-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT413 | SIT REP 3: COUP IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) UNDP Res Rep Maria Ribeiro invited COMs from the US, French, Spanish and German embassies as well as the EU Commission to discuss today's developments. Ambassador Boulware discussed his conversation earlier in the day with General Aziz. Counterparts reported similar discussions with vari [...] |
2008-08-06 20:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PINR MOPS MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT414 | SIT REP 4: COUP IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Nouakchott was calm overnight and activity was reduced in town but relatively normal. Post has received reports are that General Aziz moved from BASEP headquarters to the Presidency yesterday evening. He has not been seen in public since the coup took place. The perimeter established by [...] |
2008-08-07 14:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PINR MOPS MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT421 | SITREP 6: COUP IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Ambassador received a message from Presidential protocol the afternoon of August 9, inviting him to meet with individually with General Aziz. Once US and EU Ambassadors determined that General Aziz preferred meeting with us individually rather than to receive the joint demarche, the ambas [...] |
2008-08-11 09:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ASEC CASC EAID MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT431 | SITREP 7: COUP IN MAURITANIA [...] (SBU) The National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD), a coalition of six political parties opposed to the military coup, held a two-hour rally at the old stadium in Nouakchott. FSNs report a peaceful gathering of 3000-3500 attendees, with police present only to direct traffic. FNDD bus [...] |
2008-08-12 20:46:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC CASC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT439 | SITREP 10 - VISIT OF U.S. ENVOYS TO MAURITANIA [...] (C) General Aziz, accompanied by his Director of Cabinet, Cheyakh Ould Ely, and Presidential Diplomatic and Security Advisor, Ould Michel, received visiting AF DAS Todd Moss and DoD Principal Director for African Affairs, Michael Dumont as well as Ambassador and DATT. DAS Moss underscored that [...] |
2008-08-17 16:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT449 | MFA SAYS RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL WILL REMAIN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV MR IS |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT478 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH JUNTA'S "FOREIGN [...] (C) Ambassador met on September 2 with the junta's "Foreign Minister," Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou at the latter's request. Noting the historically good relations between the United States and Mauritania, Ould Mohamedou hoped that these could continue even under the current "difficult circu [...] |
2008-09-04 12:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CPAS MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT480 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT ELY [...] (C) Ambassador met with former President Ely Ould Mohamed Vall at the latter's residence on September 7. Vall, recently returned from Ireland where he has been studying English, indicated that he would be remaining in Nouakchott at least through Ramadan. Vall wanted to discuss the current p [...] |
2008-09-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT488 | INSPECTOR GENERAL SEES MILITARY CORRUPTION AS [...] (C) DCM met September 8 with Mauritanian National Inspector General Mohamed Abba Ould Sidi Ould Jeilany at the IG's request. A clearly disgusted Jeilany (strictly protect) told DCM that he was convinced the generals had gone after President Abdallahi because they were afraid they would be pro [...] |
2008-09-09 16:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT503 | PARLIAMENT ENDORSES CALL FOR NEW ELECTIONS [...] (U) Parliamentary Resolution: On September 14 the Emergency Session of the National Assembly, with 56 of its 95 members present, adopted a resolution supporting the report of a Special Commission established to review the causes of the political crisis and laying out recommendations for an e [...] |
2008-09-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT505 | AEP 15 MEETING WITH AU PEACE AND SECURITY [...] (C) AU Peace and Security Commissioner Lamamra asked UN Resident Coordinator Maria Ribeiro to invite repesentatives of the international community to meet with him on September 15 prior to his meeting with various Mauritanian figures. Commissioner Lamamra noted that he had asked to meet to d [...] |
2008-09-15 17:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT514 | FRENCH AND ALGERIAN TAKES ON AU COMMISSIONER [...] (C) The African Union's Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra made his third visit to Nouakchott September 14 and 15. Following his meeting with representatives of the international community (Ref A), Lamamra met with General Aziz. Ambassador met on September 16 with French Ambass [...] |
2008-09-17 13:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT515 | MAURITANIAN COUP: IFI'S FIRM, SPANISH IFFY [...] (C) During a regular meeting on September 16 of the ad hoc local coordinating group composed of representatives of the EU, UN, US, World Bank and IMF, attendees had a readout on the just concluded visit of AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra (Ref). UN Resident Coordinator Mar [...] |
2008-09-17 14:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT558 | EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS PLANNED OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS [...] (U) On October 5, 2008, the Charge convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting to discuss protests in Nouakchott planned for the afternoon (4:00 pm) of the 5th by the anti-coup National Front for the Preservation of Democracy (FNDD). 2. (C) Charge Meetings with Opposition: Charge [...] |
2008-10-05 13:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC CASC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT578 | A BIT OF JUNTA BLOVIATING ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) What was supposed to be a simple technical-level working October 6 meeting for 2008 Human Rights Report preparation between the AID Rep and a mid-level government civil servant, turned into an unanticipated meeting with the minister-level Commissioner of Human Rights, Humanitarian Action [...] |
2008-10-08 14:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT582 | MORE POLITICAL MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: The French share Mission view that slow movement towards a political resolution is underway. General Aziz, while ever stubborn on key points, has shown most flexibility to date in meeting with the French Ambassador. The EU Article 96 process is key leverage while the Mauritania [...] |
2008-10-09 19:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT590 | OTHER MAURITANIAN VOICES [...] (C) Charge met October 14 with President of the Senate Ba Mamadou who would constitutionally be designated interim president under the proposal put forward by President of the National Assembly Messaoud Ould Boulkheir whereby President Abdallahi would return to office only to resign. Ba said [...] |
2008-10-14 18:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT598 | PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FORMALLY [...] (SBU) Action Request: See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) The President of the National Assembly, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, has sent all diplomatic and international organization missions a diplomatic note outlining an exit strategy he hopes "can serve as a basis for responsible discussion acceptabl [...] |
2008-10-19 12:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT603 | AZIZ LETS NGO CONTACT GROUP MEETS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The NGO "Contact Group" met with General Aziz on October 19 and received permission to meet with President Abdallahi that same evening. The Contact Group, seeking to facilitate a political resolution to the crisis, saw Aziz as anxious to find an exit. They found President Abda [...] |
2008-10-20 17:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT616 | REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...] |
2008-10-22 18:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT620 | REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...] |
2008-10-22 18:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT624 | FOLLOW-UP MEDIA REVIEW: 3 MONTHS POST-COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months into what initially appeared a quickly consummated coup, Mauritanian media leaders see the country either no closer to finding a solution to the August 6th coup d'etat or on the brink of another one, depending upon who you talk to. The PAO sat down with media who in [...] |
2008-10-23 13:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT627 | DIPLOMATIC DISCORD ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: The first "UNDP Group" meeting following the failure of the October 20 Paris talks highlighted substantial difference between Western missions on the way forward -- centered primarily on the definition of what a "return to constitutional order" means in practical terms. European [...] |
2008-10-26 19:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT628 | UPDATE WITH FNDD FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Aziz Tells Lies: Charge met October 26 with FNDD co-leader and effective Abdallahi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ould Maouloud to follow-up on press reports that General Aziz had been on the verge of releasing President Abdallahi as a gesture to the European Union when he had learned the FNDD [...] |
2008-10-26 19:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT629 | THE MAYOR OF TIDJIKJA [...] (C) Summary: The anti-coup mayor of Tidjikja, the isolated capital of Tagant Province, says his city council increasingly against the coup despite a "culture of submission." He notes continued pressure on him as an anti-coup mayor. He doubts the seriousness of the recent arrest of "AQIM el [...] |
2008-10-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT633 | MAURITANIAN - ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP SAFE -- FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Articles in the Mauritanian Arab press on October 28 suggested that General Aziz was on the verge of severing relations with Israel in response to "the will of the people." Rumors within the diplomatic community suggested that the Israeli Ambassador had been convoked by Aziz to get the [...] |
2008-10-30 12:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT634 | MEDIA REACTION: MAURITANIAN JUNTA VISIT TO TANZANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday October 26th, 2008 the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, acting in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union, received a delegation from Mauritania's military junta. The Mauritania delegation was led by Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamendou, who serves as the junt [...] |
2008-10-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT636 | MEETING WITH AHMED OULD DADDAH'S VICE-PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AID Rep met with opposition parliamentarian and RFD Vice-President Dr. Hamidou Kane to discuss Mauritania's current political situation. The meeting was at Kane's request. Immediately after the August 6 coup, Kane expressed his ardent support for the junta's "rec [...] |
2008-10-31 12:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT637 | QATARI MEDIATION EFFORTS IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) The Qatari royal family, specifically Princess Chiekha Maouze, is beginning to increase its diplomatic profile in Mauritania with the possibility of the first serious mediation talks being held in Doha by mid-month. The Qatari Embassy, and by implication, Foreign Ministry are not central [...] |
2008-11-02 17:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV QA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT639 | EXPANDING MINING OPERATIONS THREATENED BY THE COUP [...] (C) Summary: EconOff recently visited SNIM's iron ore mining operations in northern Mauritania. After many years of low prices for iron ore, higher prices in recent years have led SNIM to develop new projects to increase production. SNIM has two projects that it is developing on its own as w [...] |
2008-11-03 10:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | ECON EFIN PGOV PTER EMIN MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT640 | "WE NEVER TALK ANYMORE" MAURITANIA JUNTA WANTS TO [...] (C) The USUN Demarche: The recent Mauritanian demarche on US PermRep Ambassador Khalilzad reflects the junta's frustration that the U.S., while maintaining an active dialogue on security matters, has not engaged in direct political talks with the regime as have some of our European partners. [...] |
2008-11-04 16:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT654 | MEETING WITH FORMER ECON MINISTER VEZZAZ -- [...] (C) MCC Scorecard A Validation Of Abdallahi Policies: Charge met November 5 with former Minister of Economy and Finance (and current FNDD economic director) Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz who had been the Mission's principal ministerial counterpart in the development of Mauritania's MCC Thres [...] |
2008-11-06 13:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT659 | MEETING WITH THE REGIME'S "FOREIGN MINISTER" [...] (C) Summary: Regime "Foreign Minister" Ould Mohamedou claims the High State Council wants to find a solution that will restore constitutionality and maintain stability. The Regime will "put something concrete on the table" at the November 10 African Union meeting in Addis Ababa. The regime [...] |
2008-11-09 18:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT666 | THE POST-COUP AL QAEDA THREAT IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The military regime has highlighted an increased terrorist threat as one argument the international community should accept their coup -- raising some questions whether the terrorist threat has substantially changed or whether it is being played up by the regime for political pu [...] |
2008-11-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT668 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI TRANSFERRED TO NATIVE VILLAGE [...] (C) Local media outlets have reported that President Abdallahi was transferred from Nouakchott during the night of November 12-13 to his native village of Lemden and placed under house arrest. LES contacts have independently confirmed the reports through indirect communication with Abdallahi's [...] |
2008-11-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT671 | REGIME STILL HAWKING SAME PLAN POST-ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Charge was convoked November 12 by regime "Foreign Minister" Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou who, along with Secretary General of the Government Ba Ousmane and several ministry division heads, presented a brief on the regime's plan to convene a national dialogue on democracy. The plan t [...] |
2008-11-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT673 | ANTI-COUP PARLIAMENTARY STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: The President's of the two houses of parliament are taking different tactics in defying the regime based on the political balance of power in their chambers. Both are under pressure from the regime and both greatly appreciate U.S. solidarity against the coup. End Summary Senat [...] |
2008-11-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT676 | ISRAELIS TAKING SOFTER LINE ON MAURITANIAN COUP [...] (C) Israeli Ambassador Michael Arbel briefed Charge November 16 on a senior-level Israeli delegation that had met with the regime the week earlier. Arbel said the Israeli delegation included a senior diplomat for the peace process, the MFA Maghreb Director, and the Israeli head of Diplomatic [...] |
2008-11-16 19:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT677 | FNDD STRATEGY FOLLOWING PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD sees President Abdallahi's transfer as "20% good news." The President's increased access to political leaders and the media are a plus, but his physical and communications isolation and an apparent regime effort to combat the FNDD directly off-set the benefits. The Pr [...] |
2008-11-16 19:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT681 | A DAY WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-17 21:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT682 | THE DEEP SOUTH POST-COUP: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... [...] (C) Summary: Since the August 6 military-led overthrow of President Abdallahi, political and economic conditions in the south of Mauritania have remained largely unchanged, according to numerous community leaders. Politically, most community leaders showed tacit approval for the coup, with o [...] |
2008-11-18 19:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAGR ECON ELTN MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT683 | A BARREN HOMECOMING: THE REFUGEE SITUATION IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Living conditions of the approximately 5,000 Mauritanians who returned to their homeland in 2008 after ethnic-based fighting in the country,s 1989-1992 "Passif Humanitaire" remains sub-standard with little hope for improvement. Despite claims of the opposite by junta leaders -- [...] |
2008-11-18 19:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID ECON MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT684 | ETHNIC RELATIONS IN THE SOUTH: A DEPUTY MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: On the surface, ethnic issues in Southern Mauritania appear to be better than ever -- both happy and peaceful. However, one deputy mayor was willing to describe the lack of national unity and the lack of a true feeling of citizenship, especially among youth. This situation, accor [...] |
2008-11-19 15:06:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT686 | MAKING IT PERSONAL [...] (U) Anticipating the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) November 1Oth 2008 release of country indicators, Nouakchott issued a release noting that Mauritanian advances outlined in the report had been made during the democratic Abdallahi administration. Mission wished to forestall attempts [...] |
2008-11-20 08:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KMCA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT688 | NEIGHBORING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 10 Addis Ababa Communique and the transfer of President Abdallahi to Lemden, Charge checked with embassies of Mauritanias neighbors Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal to discuss their views on the situation. As could be predicted, Algeria and Mali line up [...] |
2008-11-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AG ML MO SG MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT693 | MAURITANIA AIRWAYS: IF IT CAN SUCCEED IN [...] (C) Summary: Mauritania Airways recently celebrated its first anniversary, marking the end of a difficult year for the company. Its first year of operations has been extremely difficult and the company is struggling to stay afloat. It continues to be hampered by the reputation of the now defu [...] |
2008-11-24 09:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR EINV ELTN PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT696 | PRESIDENT BQALAHI ADDRESSES THE NATION FOO [...] (SBU) On November 21, President Abdallahi delivered his first address to the nation since the August 6 coup. Because the official state-run news outlets are tightly controlled by the military junta, the address was broadcast on the pan-Arab Al Arabiyasatellite channel which reaches most of M [...] |
2008-11-24 13:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT699 | GENERAL AZIZ SETS HIS SIGHTS ON FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) General Aziz, President of the High State Council (military junta), visited Rosso November 23. As expected, the trip was carefully staged theater full of praise for Aziz and his "rectification," while state-run TV Mauritania showed endless clips of enthusiastic crowds greeting him. Bey [...] |
2008-11-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT702 | EUROPEANS HOPE AU TRIP WILL PRESSURE ABDALLAHI TO [...] (C) Summary: Strong divisions remain between U.S. and European views of the way forward following the November 21 Addis Ababa meeting. The Europeans believe the high level AU/UN/EU/Arab League/OIC/Francophonie visit of December 5-7 needs to seek negotiation and encourage realism by President [...] |
2008-11-26 19:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT706 | ABDALLAHI UNIMPRESSED WITH FRENCH SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's advisors claim the special French delegation headed by Elysee Africa Director Romain Serman offered no concrete proposals but suggested the need for a concession by President Abdallahi. Abdallahi held firm to his position of no negations while the military [...] |
2008-11-30 17:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT707 | GENERAL AZIZ ADDRESSES THE NATION, PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: General Aziz made a televised speech to the nation on Mauritanian National Day (November 28), but he offered no new proposals or changes in the High State Council's policy. Meanwhile, President Abdallahi was reportedly forbidden from meeting with journalists in his native villag [...] |
2008-11-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO PTER MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT710 | NATIONAL DAY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT BUSH GARNERS [...] (U) Charge hand-delivered message from President Bush to President Abdallahi (Reftel) on November 30 to FNDD co-leader in charge of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Ould Maouloud. Local media picked up the story December 1, resulting in several calls to the PAO section asking for confirmation that the [...] |
2008-12-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KDEM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT711 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S UNDELIVERED MAURITANIAN NATIONAL DAY [...] (U) President Abdallahi was supposed to deliver an address to the nation on Mauritanian National Day (November 28). However, he was prevented from doing so by security forces that arrived and banned journalists from entering his village (Ref A). A text of the speech was released by the FNDD [...] |
2008-12-04 09:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KDEM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT715 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S UNDELIVERED MAURITANIAN NATIONAL DAY [...] (U) President Abdallahi was supposed to deliver an address to the nation on Mauritanian National Day (November 28). However, he was prevented from doing so by security forces that arrived and banned journalists from entering his village (Ref A). A text of the speech was released by the FNDD [...] |
2008-12-04 12:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KDEM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT716 | SPEAKER VISIT FURTHERS QUIET DIPLOMACY [...] IIP Speaker Mohammed Bashar Arafat visited Nouakchott from November 23 until November 26 2008. During this time, he gave presentations on Islam In America to two universities in Nouakchott, the University of Nouakchott (11/24) and the Islamic Institute, ISERI (11/25) reaching over 600 students [...] |
2008-12-04 12:16:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KMDR PREL MR PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT717 | MEETING WITH COL. VALL - "BETTER OFF WITH [...] (C) Summary -- While still looking for a quick transition to new elections, Vall is taking a tougher line on Aziz seeing the current efforts to attack political enemies leading inevitably to a counter-coup with all its inherent risks for civil war. Vall believes serious targeted sanctions mi [...] |
2008-12-04 13:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT718 | MEDIA FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TAKES A STEP BACKWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: After a "honeymoon" period of press freedom during the democratic transition of 2005-2007 and President Abdallahi's time in office, a marked decline has occurred since the August 6 coup led by General Aziz. State-run media is as tightly controlled as ever, and online web sites [...] |
2008-12-04 14:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO KDEM PROP MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT721 | AU-LED INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DELEGATION SETS [...] (C) Summary: The mid-level AU and other organizations delegation visiting Mauritania has set the bar low for the regime -- asking for full liberation of President Abdallahi, Abdallahi's participation in the discussions for an exit to the crisis, and early Presidential elections to re-establis [...] |
2008-12-07 15:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT722 | THE FNDD'S TAWASSOUL PARTY: STILL CONFIDENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Members of the moderate Islamist party Tawassoul expressed strong anti-coup sentiments and faith that their efforts to fight the military regime would eventually lead to its downfall. They rejected accusations by the High State Council (military junta) that they are "extremists [...] |
2008-12-07 17:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT723 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI -- A VERY LONG [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi has restated his absolute rejection of negotiations with the Mauritanian military but expressed a realistic view of American capacity to bring others around to the U.S. policy approach -- a "standard" for others to compare themselves to. Abdallahi also recog [...] |
2008-12-10 19:16:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT730 | ABDALLAHI'S CHIEF OF STAFF DOUBTS RELEASE [...] (C) Charge met December 13 with President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi at Ould Hammoudi's request. Ould Hammoudi said the President had asked him to pass on his disappointment with the AU-led Brussels meeting on the 12th even though he was not surprised by the result [...] |
2008-12-14 11:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT732 | JUNTA FINALLY ANNOUNCES START DATE FOR "NATIONAL [...] (U) The junta-designated "Prime Minister" Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf delivered a long-winded speech December 13 in which he outlined a long list of supposed accomplishments by the High State Council. He stressed the improvements in the daily lives of citizens and actions undertaken "with th [...] |
2008-12-15 12:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT733 | MAURITANIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Post's submission for the "2008 Country Reports on Terrorism" (Refs A and B) follows in paragraph 2. Post's primary point of contact is PolAsst Christopher Coffey (coffeycm@state.gov). Post's secondary point of contact is Charge Dennis Hankins (hankinsdb@state.gov). 2. (U) AQIM cont [...] |
2008-12-16 17:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT737 | JAPANESE REPRESENTATION IN MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT739 | RISK OF ETHNIC-BASED ARMED RESISTANCE? [...] (C) Charge met December 15 with the pro-Abdallahi senator of Mbout in Gorgol Province, Youssouf Tijani Sylla, who renewed his October warning (REFTEL) that Afro-Mauritanians were prepared to take up arms against the coup. Sylla, who is half White Moor and half Sonnike who presents himself as [...] |
2008-12-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | PREL PGOV ASEC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT740 | AHMED OULD DADDAH SEES POLITICAL LETHARGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leader of the Opposition Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to try to stake out a middle option between the military and President Abdallahi. Ould Daddah sees little chance of political movement in the near future but sees the economic cards stacked against General Aziz. While disag [...] |
2008-12-17 15:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT741 | AHMED OULD DADDAH SEES POLITICAL LETHARGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leader of the Opposition Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to try to stake out a middle option between the military and President Abdallahi. Ould Daddah sees little chance of political movement in the near future but sees the economic cards stacked against General Aziz. While disag [...] |
2008-12-17 15:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT744 | "COUP D'ETAT" IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AVERTED -- [...] (C) Summary: Pro-coup parliamentarians submitted a motion December 4 to amend the internal procedures of the National Assembly. The motion was a clear attempt to force the dismissal of National Assembly President (and fierce coup opponent) Messaoud Ould Boulkheir and four other FNDD anti-co [...] |
2008-12-17 16:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT745 | FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador sees no movement towards a resolution with General Aziz proceeding with a transparently manipulated "democratic transition" and President Abdallahi offering no political alternative. With no prospects for an early resolution, the French are re-engaging on [...] |
2008-12-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT746 | CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON BEHALF OF PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Mission received December 18 a letter signed by President Abdallahi's Minister of Education on behalf of Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef who is being held in prison by the post-August 6 coup authorities. An informal translation of the letter (being forwarded in the original F [...] |
2008-12-18 13:44:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPDC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT757 | FNDD: EMPTY PROMISES FROM AZIZ AND CONCERN FOR [...] (C) Summary: Anti-coup FNDD coalition leaders see General Aziz's supposed promise to release President Abdallahi "without conditions" as empty, and the upcoming "National Dialogue on Democracy" equally devoid of substance. They are also concerned for Abdallahi's personal safety, and see int [...] |
2008-12-21 11:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT759 | SPIES LIKE US: THE MEDIA'S TENDENCY TO SEE U.S. [...] (C) Summary: A December 14th allegation of spying on the part of the US Embassy brought to light an increasing tendency in the local media towards personal attacks, sensationalism and an erosian in journalistic integrity. Since the August 6th coup it has become commonplace to use bold titles [...] |
2008-12-21 16:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PROP MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT760 | CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL STICKS TO ITS LIMITED GUNS [...] (C) Summary: The High Constitutional Council exercised its limited oversight role in rejecting some of the National Assembly changes designed to kick out Assembly President Messaoud Ould Boulkheir. The Council exercises "pragmatic legalism" under the "exceptional" constitutional circumstanc [...] |
2008-12-22 07:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT762 | UPDATE FROM LEMDEN -- PRESIDENT'S PASSPORT TO BE [...] (C) President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi called Charge December 22 to advise that a delegation from the Mauritanian passport office and internal intelligence service has arrived in Lemden yesterday afternoon demanding the diplomatic passports of the President and [...] |
2008-12-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT765 | REASON FOR SENEGALESE VISIT STILL UNCLEAR [...] (C) Charge met December 22 with Senegalese Ambassador Mahmoudou Cheikh Kane to follow up on the December 15-16 visit to Mauritania of Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio (REFTEL). Kane said President Wade had sent his Foreign Minister to assess the political situation on the eve of President A [...] |
2008-12-22 18:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT770 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI RECONFIRMS HIS AMBASSADOR TO [...] (SBU) Charge received December 28 a letter from Mauritanian President Abdallahi to President Bush reconfirming Ambassador Dia Ibrahima as his representative in the U.S. Informal translation of the letter follows (copy of French original will be forwarded to AF/W). 2. (SBU) Begin Text: [...] |
2008-12-28 12:06:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPDC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT775 | REGIME'S "NATIONAL DIALOGUE" BEGINS [...] (C) Summary: The long-awaited National Dialogue on Democracy (Etats Generaux de la Democratie) started December 27 to a full house. President Abdallahi's FNDD party has boycotted the meeting as have several key elements of civil society. Official opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah's RFD pa [...] |
2008-12-30 18:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT776 | SITUATION IN GAZA - A/DCM DELIVERS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) A/DCM Cornelius Walsh, met with Americas and Asia Director Ambassador Ahmed Deya Ould Mohammed Vall to review contents of reftel and outline American position regarding December 31 Arab League Ministerial. This is one of the very few demarches the Mission has delivered since the coup as w [...] |
2008-12-31 12:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL MOPS PHUM MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT777 | AZIZ CONSOLIDATING SUPPORT IN SECURITY SERVICES -- [...] (C) In the past ten days we have seen signs of continued efforts by General Aziz to reposition his supporters in lower levels of the administration. Four governors were reassigned a week ago. Over the weekend senior police officials were reassigned and it is understood changes in the militar [...] |
2008-12-31 14:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC MR |
| 08NOUAKCHOTT779 | A PENSIVE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: The President of the National Assembly Messaoud Ould Boulkheir is pleased with the results of his extensive round of African contacts leading to a tough policy line by the Peace and Security Council. He praises the U.S. position while he worries about the Europeans. Ould Boulk [...] |
2008-12-31 17:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 08OUAGADOUGOU735 | BURKINA FASO WILL NOT DENOUNCE MAURITANIA COUP PUBLICLY [...] (C) On August 8, Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by PolOff, presented reftel demarche to Vincent Zakane, Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zakane said there is not yet an official Government of Burkina Faso (GOBF) position on Mauritania; however, he expressed the GOBF's displea [...] |
2008-08-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR UV |
| 08OUAGADOUGOU756 | BURKINA FASO: SUPPORTS UNSC STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-14 07:53:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MR UV |
| 08PANAMA626 | PANAMA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-29 13:49:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER PREL KGIC KNNP MR UZ PM |
| 08PARIS1805 | FRENCH GOVERNMENT TAKING A HARD LINE ON COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, Counselor on Africa at the French Presidency, on September 19 provided a frank assessment of the situation in Mauritania in the aftermath of the August 6 coup to Ambassador Mark Boulware, stating that the French are prepared for a "divorce" with Mauritania if P [...] |
2008-09-26 16:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KDEM PINS MR FR |
| 08PARIS1946 | MAURITANIA/FRANCE: "ISOLATE AZIZ, MAKE HIM LEAVE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French are attempting to isolate Mauritania coup leader General Aziz, in order to force his resignation, which would lead to the return of constitutional government, Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman said on October 22. Serman said that the GOF had had some success in [...] |
2008-10-23 13:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINS ETTC MR FR |
| 08PARIS202 | FRENCH MFA ON WESTERN SAHARA BEFORE VAN WALSUM'S [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau indicated January 29 that France is increasingly impatient with UN-led talks on Western Sahara and believes the process may even be moving backward. She blamed part of French frustration on UN Personal Envoy Peter van [...] |
2008-02-04 16:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG MR WS |
| 08PARIS2253 | MAURITANIA/FRANCE: POLITICAL PROCESS AT AN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, said on December 10 that the political process in Mauritania was blocked, with neither Aziz, President Abdallahi, nor opposition leader Amed Ould Daddah willing to compromise to reach a solution. Serman said that internal GOF [...] |
2008-12-11 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR KDEM MR FR |
| 08PRETORIA2621 | SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS MAURITANIA'S ELECTED [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, 2008 Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) North Africa division Chief Director Ambassador Ebrahim Saley, Director Ambassador Delarey Van Tonder and Deputy Director Lara Swart told Poloff that South Africa recognizes and supports democratically elected President Sidi [...] |
2008-12-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU |
| 08PRETORIA2718 | MAURITANIAN DELEGATION IN SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, 2008 Deputy Chief of Mission Helen La Lime met with the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) delegation from Mauritania led by National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir. Boulkheir explained the urgent need for action against the military junta [...] |
2008-12-17 10:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU SF |
| 08RABAT461 | U/S BURNS' LETTER TO ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] On May 19, Poloff delivered reftel letter, covered by a transmittal letter signed by Ambassador Riley, to Zoheir Merchaoui, AMU Counselor for Political and Information Affairs. Merchaoui received the text with enthusiasm. Taking note of the proposal to convene all AMU member state Foreign Min [...] |
2008-05-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL PTER ECON SOCI SMIG XI MO MR LY |
| 08RABAT651 | MOROCCO IN AFRICA: FM REACHES OUT ON SAHARA [...] (C) Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Taib Fassi-Fihri's spent early summer lobbying Sub-Saharan African countries, mostly on Western Sahara. From 19 to 23 June, the minister visited four Sub Saharan countries and he worked the corridors of the African Union,s (AU) summit meeting in Sharm [...] |
2008-07-14 17:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XA AG CD CM KE MP MR ML NI SF MO |
| 08RABAT736 | MOROCCO CONCERNED BUT CAUTIOUS IN RESPONSE TO COUP [...] (C) On August 7, A/PolCouns met with Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Nassar Bourita to express the United States' strong condemnation of the August 6 coup in Mauritania and to request that the Government of Morocco (GOM) issue a statement condemning it. Bourita replied tha [...] |
2008-08-07 14:28:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MO MR |
| 08RABAT833 | MOROCCAN MFA ON THE ARAB LEAGUE MEETING AND NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In preparation for the Arab League Ministerial, MFA Director General for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual told us that the League had no mechanism to block attendance by Mauritanian junta representatives. He maintained that democracy continued to function there and that [...] |
2008-09-05 16:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PBTS PINS PARM AL AG SY MR MO |
| 08RABAT879 | MAURITANIAN ENVOY EXPLAINS COUP TO GOM [...] (C) During a long September 16 briefing on Western Sahara (septel), Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri told the Perm 5 Ambassadors and Charges, as well as the Spanish Ambassador, that King Mohammed VI and he had met new Mauritanian Foreign Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou in C [...] |
2008-09-16 18:19:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MR MO |
| 08RIYADH1232 | SAUDI OFFICIAL DISCUSSES MAURITANIA COUP, AID [...] (S) SUMMARY. A Saudi MFA official, who is responsible for Arab League issues, confirms that the SAG condemns the Mauritania coup. While he did not have firm information on possible impact to the Saudi aid package for Mauritania, he did leave open the possibility that aid could be withheld. EN [...] |
2008-08-12 08:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL ASEC CASC EAID MR SA |
| 08RIYADH1343 | SAUDIS TO REMAIN SILENT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV PREL SA |
| 08RIYADH1372 | SAUDI ARABIA: ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-08 13:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | AL IS IZ LE MR PREL SA SY |
| 08STATE15502 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that the Maldives and Mauritania are interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now only two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are [...] |
2008-02-14 20:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MR |
| 08STATE15608 | SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL [...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...] |
2008-02-14 22:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MR |
| 08STATE48545 | KOSOVO RECOGNITION LOBBYING: TARGET COUNTRIES IN [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See talking points in paragraph 6 and questions and answers in paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Ambassadors are requested to deliver the following demarche on Kosovo to host governments at the highest possible level. Department appreciates posts' efforts to date and [...] |
2008-05-07 20:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV GA GH GV LI MI ML MR MP |
| 08STATE85170 | INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should immediately urge African Security Council members' to take the lead in the drafting of a Presidential Statement or Press Statement on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should draw from the following points when recommending text for the statement. [...] |
2008-08-08 12:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XA XY MR PHUM |
| 08STATE86600 | MAURITANIA REVISED INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should seek a Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should work with African members of the Council and France drawing from the following points. 2. (U) Begin points: -- The Security Council strongly condemns the Mauritan [...] |
2008-08-12 23:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XA XY MR PHUM |
| 08TOKYO3203 | JAPAN ON FUTURE OF EMBASSY IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Japan will not open its new embassy in Nouakchott under the current political situation, according to MOFA First Africa Division Principal Deputy Director Naoaki Kamoshida. Responding to ref A talking points, Kamoshida said Japan completely shares our view on the need to avoid giving inad [...] |
2008-11-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR JA |
| 08TRIPOLI204 | ENGAGING THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] No summary [...] |
2008-03-07 08:27:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PINS PREL PTER AG LY MO MR TS |
| 08TRIPOLI442 | MEETING OF AMU HEADS OF STATE - MINUS ONE - IN TRIPOLI; [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-09 16:34:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LY EG SY MR MO TS AG |
| 08TRIPOLI935 | LIBYA'S TOP AFRICA DIPLOMAT DISCUSSES CHAD-SUDAN, SOMALIA, [...] (C) Summary. Libya is pleased with recent progress on Chad/Sudan reconciliation and expects a Libyan-led peacekeeping force to be deployed along the border by year's end, according to the GOL's top diplomat for African affairs, Dr. Ali Treiki. Treiki said the GOL would soon re-start efforts to [...] |
2008-12-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO LY CD SU MR SO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK986 | MAURITANIAN PERMREP WANTS DIALOGUE WITH U.S., SAYS [...] (C) Mauritanian PermRep Ambassador Ould Hadrami met with PermRep Ambassador Khalilzad on October 28. Ould Hadrami requested the U.S. ambassador in Nouakchott engage in dialogue with the Mauritanian government during this "transitional segment of the democratic process," noting the EU and the [...] |
2008-10-29 22:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09ABUDHABI513 | UAE AND UNICEF CONTINUE TO ASSIST REPATRIATED [...] (U) Summary: The effort to repatriate young foreign camel jockeys was the headline focus of the UAE's anti-TIP efforts just a few years ago; the follow-up continues unabated, with significant UAE effort and resource applied to the rehabilitation of prior jockeys. End summary. 2. (SBU) U [...] |
2009-05-21 08:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KTIP EAID MR SU BG PK UN AE |
| 09ADDISABABA318 | AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Mauritania's National Assembly President Messaoud Ould Boulkheir on February 1 on the margins of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Boulkheir thanked the USG for its unwavering support of the legitimately elected government of Presi [...] |
2009-02-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU MR |
| 09ADDISABABA332 | USAU: PEACE AND SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para. 6. 2. (U) Summary: At its February 5 meeting, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council decided to impose targeted sanctions on the Mauritanian junta that overthrew democratically elected President Abdallahi six months ago. The [...] |
2009-02-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR AU |
| 09ADDISABABA753 | USAU: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON LOOKING FOR CHAMPION [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) discussed ref A points with African Union PermReps from Burkina-Faso and Uganda. Both reacted very favorably to the suggestion that one or both of their countries propose to the UNSC a UN Presidential Statement (PRST) on coups in Africa. Burkin [...] |
2009-04-02 05:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU LY MR UG |
| 09ALGIERS1069 | AFRICOM COMMANDER MEETING WITH ALGERIAN [...] (C) Algerian Presidential Counselor for Terrorism Kamel Rezag Bara told AFRICOM Commander General Ward November 26 that Algeria was leading a regional effort with Mali, Mauritania, and Niger against AQIM but that heads of state had yet to set the date for a summit meeting of these countries in [...] |
2009-12-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PINR PGOV PREL AG NG ML MR |
| 09ALGIERS1070 | AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Medelci registered AFRICOM General Ward's message that AFRICOM's mission was to reinforce African nations' own security efforts and not establish bases. The minister detailed Algeria's efforts within the African Union and regional partners to promote security and conflict [...] |
2009-12-02 10:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MOPS AG NG ML MR |
| 09ALGIERS269 | ALGERIA OF LIKE MIND ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Arab Maghreb Affairs Ayeche Ouahouah told us on March 18 that Algeria shared the U.S. view on Mauritania, and was confident that the African Union would remain focused on the points contained in reftel demarche. Ouahouah said that Libya's Qadhafi "was playing a rol [...] |
2009-03-18 16:03:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MR AG |
| 09ALGIERS397 | ALGERIA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON MAURITANIA [...] According to acting Director of African Multilateral Affairs Zineddine Birouk, Algeria sees the April 15 resignation of Mauritanian General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as a "positive sign" towards the expected June 6 elections. Birouk told us on April 21 that the Algerian position on Mauritania w [...] |
2009-04-21 11:33:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL USAU MR AG |
| 09ALGIERS729 | ALGERIANS AND POLISARIO READY FOR VIENNA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Algerians and Polisario are both ready for the informal talks on Western Sahara August 9 in Vienna. In separate meetings August 3, representatives of both the GOA and the Polisario told us they respect the effort of UNSYG Special Envoy Ross and find that his no-agenda approac [...] |
2009-08-04 19:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PBTS PREF KPKO AG MO MR |
| 09ALGIERS740 | ALGERIA LINKS RANSOM PAYMENTS TO TRANS-SAHARA [...] (S) SUMMARY. Algeria considers the payment of ransom to terrorist organizations a serious problem for security in the Sahel region and will propose an UNGA resolution condemning such payments based on a similar proposal recently acted upon by the African Union (AU). Algeria is not circulati [...] |
2009-08-09 07:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG PBTS |
| 09ALGIERS764 | ALGERIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR UN ACTION TO BAN RANSOM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Algerian Presidential Counter Terrorism Advisor, Kamel Rezag Bara, said August 12 that Algeria sought U.S. support at the UN for an African Union initiative to strengthen the international legal regime against abductions, including a specific ban on ransom payments to terrorist g [...] |
2009-08-20 12:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR PBTS UNGA AG ML MR NG US |
| 09ALGIERS825 | ALGERIA ON SAHEL SUMMIT PREP: "THE CHAIN IS NOW [...] (C) Algeria expects a regional heads of state meeting in Bamako on regional security cooperation before the end of the year. MFA Director General for African Affairs Magramane said he expects the summit to result in an action plan to address both joint security operations and development ini [...] |
2009-09-14 16:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV PBTS AG ML MR NG |
| 09ALGIERS948 | ALGERIA SAYS BAMAKO SUMMIT KEY TO REGIONAL [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister Delegate for Defense Guenaizia told visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston October 19 that the Algerian, Mauritanian, Nigerien and Malian chiefs of staff had agreed to set up a regional command for joint counter terrorism [...] |
2009-10-25 09:28:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG |
| 09ALGIERS962 | ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for African and Maghreb Affairs Abdelkader Messahel told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston on October 17 that governments in the Sahel region have the resources to combat terrorism and criminal networks and have agreed on the [...] |
2009-10-27 17:34:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG |
| 09ALGIERS983 | CTAG MEMBERS DISCUSS REGIONAL CT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Participants at the Italian-hosted Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting of G-8 Embassies in Algiers on October 25 discussed the current status of regional CT cooperation, ongoing Algerian and bilateral CT efforts, and the activities of the African Union Center for the Study and Res [...] |
2009-11-04 10:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG |
| 09ATHENS228 | MAURITANIA: GREECE AGREES "100 PERCENT" WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on EU policy toward Mauritania to MFA A9 Africa Directorate deputy head Taxiarchis Christopoulos. Christopoulos said Greek diplomats from Brussels would attend the February 20 EU meeting in Paris. He also said that Mauritania was a regular topic of [...] |
2009-02-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GR EUN MR |
| 09BRUSSELS232 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU WEIGHING MAURITANIA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with Guido Carrara, European Commission Mauritania desk officer, and Ambassador Petr Kopriva, Africa director at the Czech PermRep to the European Union, both of whom were cautiously optimistic the EU will consider targeted sanctions against key junta leaders [...] |
2009-02-19 12:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MR ETTC CVIS EUN |
| 09CAIRO1851 | AFRICAN AFFAIRS DISCUSSIONS AT THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-09-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO MR EG |
| 09CAIRO208 | THE ARAB LEAGUE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-04 15:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UN MR SO SU EG |
| 09COPENHAGEN89 | DENMARK BACKS FIRM LINE AGAINST MAURITANIAN JUNTA [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-18 14:32:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV EU MR DA |
| 09COTONOU100 | BENIN: RESPONSE TO QADHAFI-MAURITANIA DEMARCHE [...] PolOff delivered demarche to Thomas Adoumasse, Director of the Office of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 19. He took the points and promised to relay them to the AU team. 2. C) Adoumasse elaborated on the issue of democratic elections and said that j [...] |
2009-03-19 13:18:00 | Embassy Cotonou | CONFIDENTIAL | MR PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 09DAKAR289 | SENEGAL: MORE INSIGHTS FROM PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: (SBU) Minister Councilor at the Presidency and Financial Advisor to President Wade, Habib Mbaye (protect), recently shared new insights into the policy world of President Wade. Mbaye is in a new role where he is supposed to coordinate the inter-agency, inter-ministerial efforts t [...] |
2009-03-09 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KCOR KDEM PINR GV MR IR SG |
| 09DAKAR792 | DEADLOCK OVER HIGH STATE COUNCIL THREATENS TO [...] (C) Summary: Implementation of the June 4 Dakar Accord calling for the formation of a National Unity Government, President Abdallahi's resignation, and the organization of elections on July 18 has come to a standstill due to disagreements over the future of the extra-constitutional military [...] |
2009-06-23 18:20:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR SL KDEM |
| 09DAKAR793 | DAKAR ACCORD: THINGS MAY FALL APART [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanians claim they are still committed to the Dakar Accord. Nevertheless, after four days of intense negotiations, consensus over the wording of the High State Council (HSC) communiqueQ remains elusive. Sharp divisions are emerging within the International Contact Gro [...] |
2009-06-23 18:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR SL KDEM |
| 09LONDON430 | MAURITANIA: UK AGREES WITH USG POSITION [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-18 15:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EUN MR UK |
| 09LONDON714 | MAURITANIA/EU: APRIL GAERC CONCLUSIONS TO TAKE [...] (C/NF) The April EU GAERC conclusions will have "firm" language on Mauritania, Foreign Office Mauritania Desk Officer Emily Summers told Embassies London and Nouakchott poloffs March 23. The European Commission (EC) report issued in early March recommends that Cotonou Agreement Article 96 con [...] |
2009-03-23 17:36:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EU MR PGOV PREL UK XY |
| 09MADRID177 | DEMARCHING SPAIN ON DEMOCRACY IN MAURITANIA [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-19 17:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PHUM PGOV MR SP |
| 09MADRID188 | SPAIN NOT LIKELY TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL MAURITANIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Spanish MFA European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez-Dononso February 20, stressing the EU's opportunity to support the AU and its imposition of targeted sanctions against the military junta. Benitez-Donoso restated Spain's condemnation of the coup an [...] |
2009-02-23 08:02:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PHUM PGOV SP MR |
| 09NICOSIA130 | CYPRUS WILL SUPPORT USG, AU STANCE ON MAURITANIA [...] (C). On February 18, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche concerning USG views on the military junta in Mauritania and the African Union's (AU) recent decision to impose targeted sanctions to Andreas Kouzoupis, in the Cypriot MFA's Department of Middle East and African Affairs. Kouzoupis said th [...] |
2009-02-19 12:50:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL XA MR CY |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT1 | WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS, JUNTA STYLE [...] (C) Summary. Since the August 6 military coup, little has filled the state-run media besides promises that the self-proclaimed Chief of State Ould Abdel Aziz will make life better for all Mauritanians and public declarations of support for the junta. In an effort to sway public support, Mau [...] |
2009-01-02 11:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON MR PREF |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT101 | BEATING FEET: THE FREEZE DEEPENS [...] (U) Charge spoke with Israeli Ambassador Arbel over week-end and on February 1st and 2nd. 2. (C) Ambassador states that Israeli MFA contacted Mauritanian Embassy in Tel Aviv on February 1st. Embassy staffer, non-Mauritanian, discussed situation in English without realizing contact was wit [...] |
2009-02-02 14:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT102 | "TIME TO TALK TO AL QAEDA?" ARTICLE [...] (U) Summary: Local English language monthly, Peace, ran an item on January 18 entitled "Time to Talk to Al Qaeda?" by Junta Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou. The article posits that Al Qaeda grievances are legitimate and invites the US to acknowledge them: "Septemb [...] |
2009-02-03 16:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO MR PGOV PREL |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT105 | MORE AMBIGUITY ON MAURATANIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT108 | TARGETED SANCTIONS: THE MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON [...] (C) National Front for the Defense of Democracy director, Mohammed Ould Maouloud, tells us the very thought of targeted sanctions is taking a toll on the Junta. Anxiety is growing among businessmen and Junta financiers. As the February 5 AU/PSC and the February 20 EU/AU consultative meetings [...] |
2009-02-05 11:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT11 | REFINING THE FNDD POLITICAL STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD will hold back until February or March to launch a political counter-offensive believing General Aziz will see himself further isolated both internationally and domestically. The "National Dialogue on Democracy" brought nothing substantive to the negotiation table and w [...] |
2009-01-06 18:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT111 | TAWASSOUL, APP, AND SAWAB POLITICAL PARTIES OFFER [...] (C) Summary: Two anti-coup parties and one pro-coup party gave their reactions to recent events. From the anti-coup Tawassoul and APP parties, the main themes were categorical rejection of the "National Dialogue on Democracy" and upcoming presidential elections, concern about civil war, and [...] |
2009-02-08 13:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT114 | JUNTA GIVES FIRST REACTION TO AU-IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON [...] (U) Colonel Ahmedou Bemba Ould Baye, Secretary General of the High State Council posted a statement on the HSC web site in the junta's first official reaction to the sanctions imposed by the African Union on February 5 (Reftel). In his statement, Baye offered mild criticism of the AU, arguing [...] |
2009-02-09 17:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT116 | POLITICAL AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE RUMINATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On January 28, AID Rep met with United Nations Systems Mauritania Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Maria do Valle Ribeiro (protect) to discuss the current political and assistance environment in Mauritania. While Ms. Ribeiro is a sociologist and technical program spe [...] |
2009-02-09 17:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT117 | MEDIA AND POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO AU-IMPOSED SANCTIONS [...] (U) Reactions among the Mauritanian media and political class to sanctions imposed by the African Union on February 5 (Reftel) fell predictably along existing fault lines. Pro-coup media and political parties condemned the sanctions, while anti-coup forces largely welcomed the targeted sancti [...] |
2009-02-09 17:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT118 | MAURITANIAN JUNTA PRESSURES ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary: Mauritanian Junta Foreign Minister has called Israeli Ambassador and strongly suggested it is time for the Ambassador to leave. After consultations with the Israeli MFA, the Israeli Ambassador has informed us that if further pressure applied, he will indeed depart but he "won't [...] |
2009-02-09 18:06:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT124 | ROSSO MAYOR: "I AM THE MOST SANCTIONED PERSON IN [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the coup, the southwestern city of Rosso (Trarza region) is feeling the pressure. The World Bank has suspended two key projects -- a marketplace reconstruction and an advanced rain water canal. The canal, 70 percent complete, has filled with stagnant water and [...] |
2009-02-11 09:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV PREL |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT126 | IN LEMDEN, ABDALLAHI SEES THE TIDE TURNING [...] Summary: President Abdallahi is more determined than ever to oppose the coup and sees political and economic trends going in his favor. He has been approached by Aziz' own Ouled Bisbaa tribe business leaders about resigning but rejects any negotiations with the military and hopes to return [...] |
2009-02-11 19:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT128 | MAURITANIA: SIX MONTHS AFTER THE COUP [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the coup, the Country Team, senior LES, and external contacts are virtually unanimous in their opinion that Mauritania is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Political uncertainty and deadlock continue and the economy steadily worsens. The economic and so [...] |
2009-02-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EAID MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT130 | FOLLOWING THE MONEY PART 2 [...] (C) Summary: This cable is a follow-on to post's first following the money cable (REF A). Six months after the coup, the economic situation in Mauritania has deteriorated precipitously. There are increasing signs that the junta is running out of money and hard currency is becoming increasing [...] |
2009-02-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT131 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (C) Summary: For the week of February 8-12, the junta, political parties, and media voiced their first responses to AU-imposed sanctions. General Aziz visited the University of Nouakchott, leading to a tale of two visits, and he remained coy about his presidential intentions. Amidst rumors [...] |
2009-02-12 14:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT134 | MAURITANIA: LETTER FROM PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI TO [...] (SBU) On Sunday, February 15, the Charge was asked to meet with the Chief of Staff of the Abdahllahi administration. The Chief of Staff, Ahmed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, passed the letter translated below from President Abdahllahi to President Obama. A scanned copy of the letter will be sent to [...] |
2009-02-16 16:03:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPDC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT137 | LIBYAN DELEGATION ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE [...] (SBU) A Libyan delegation led by Ravi Al-Madani, a special envoy of Muammar Qadhafi, arrived in Mauritania February 11. The ostensible purpose of the visit was to encourage all sides to find a consensual solution to the crisis and spare the country from further international sanctions and is [...] |
2009-02-17 11:43:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT138 | MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Having watched the evolution of the Israeli relations issue in the context of the Mauritanian political crisis, we believe that the junta, particularly Foreign Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, is deeply concerned about the repercussions of a formal break in the Maurit [...] |
2009-02-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL USAU PGOV MR IS |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT139 | MAURITANIA: CHANGE OF LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT'S [...] (SBU) On February 15, 2009 the Charge received two letters, both dated February 10, 2009 from President Abdallahi addressed to Under Secretary General of the Office of Legal Affairs UN, Hon. Patricia O'Brien, indicating a change of Mauritania's representation to the United Nations. Scanned cop [...] |
2009-02-17 14:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPDC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT140 | JUNTA LETTER TO AU PSC PRESIDENT PING - ANOTHER [...] (U) Summary: Embassy has received copy of letter written and sent February 12 from Junta Foreign Minister Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou to AU Peace and Security Commission President Jean Ping. In the letter, Mohamedou promises that the HCE will limit itself to national security only as o [...] |
2009-02-17 20:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT142 | MEDIA AND POLITICAL PARTY REACTIONS TO JUNTA LETTER [...] (U) Foreign Minister Mohammedou's letter to the AU offering a transition of the Presidency to the President of the Senate 45 days before the presidential elections June 6 (Reftel) elicited a sharp response from coup opponents, while practically all sides assessed the measure as a last-ditch at [...] |
2009-02-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT143 | CORRECTED COPY: MEDIA AND POLITICAL PARTY REACTIONS TO [...] (U) Foreign Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou's letter to the AU offering a transition of the Presidency to the President of elicited a sharp response from coup opponents, while practically all sides assessed the measure as a last-ditch attempt to avoid EU sanctions. The following is a [...] |
2009-02-18 14:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT155 | SLIPPERY AS EVER, OULD DAHDAH STILL IN TOUCH WITH [...] (C) Summary: RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah informed Poloff he asked the National Assembly to postpone a February 19 vote to February 22 on key election-related issues and threatened an RFD boycott if he were denied. For the regime sponsored June 6 elections, Ould Dahdah demanded suffrage [...] |
2009-02-20 15:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT156 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of February 15-19, a Libyan delegation visited Mauritania, with little tangible results. The junta sent a letter to the AU proposing a way out of the crisis, a move widely regarded as a bid to avoid further EU condemnation. A proxy of Colonel Vall put forth a new [...] |
2009-02-21 09:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT159 | POST-PARIS: TWO REQUESTS FROM FNDD [...] (C) Charge met with National Front for the Defense of Democracy President (FNDD), Abdelkoudouss Abeidna, February 20 as Abeidna received word from Paris regarding the outcome of the OIF Consultative Committee meeting regarding Mauritania. (Note: FNDD is national coalition of 14 political par [...] |
2009-02-22 13:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT16 | REGIME'S "NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY' HARDENS [...] (C) Summary -- The two week "National Dialogue on Democracy" developed more a menu of options than a political roadmap out of Mauritania's political crisis. Detractors see what they expected from the process, a charade designed to legitimize General Aziz' coup. Insiders hope Aziz will not u [...] |
2009-01-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT161 | MEDIA AND POLITICAL PARTY REACTIONS TO PARIS [...] (SBU) Reactions among the Mauritanian media and political class to the results of the February 20 OIF-led Consultative Committee Meeting in Paris were mixed, though most saw a small victory for the High State Council. The following is a sample of the reactions. 2. (U) Junta response: No [...] |
2009-02-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT164 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of February 22-26, first reactions to the Paris Consultative Committee meeting emerged. Libya began a mediation blitz, sending a delegation to Mauritania, and receiving a visit by General Aziz in Tripoli. Muammar Qadhafi may also visit Mauritania for the Prophet [...] |
2009-02-27 14:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO PROP MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT165 | EDUCATING THE LIBYANS; FNDD OUTLINES FIRST STEPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) Director of External Relations, Mohamed Ould Maouloud, met with Charge, Thursday, February 26, to outline policies regarding the mediation efforts of African Union President Qadhafi, relationships within the Mauritanian opposition, [...] |
2009-03-01 07:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT167 | MAURITANIAN JUNTA ASKS ISRAELIS TO LEAVE [...] (C) Israeli Ambassador Miki Arbel called Charge evening of March 1 advising that he had been convoked that afternoon by the MFA Secretary General and asked to reciprocate actions taken by the Mauritanian authorities by closing his embassy and leaving. The Secretary General said Mauritania had [...] |
2009-03-02 11:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT168 | SOMETHING FISHY: JUNTA ANNOUNCES NEW "INVESTMENTS" [...] (C) Summary: The junta announced three new fisheries investments during January and February. These include a 20 million euro loan from Spain to expand Nouadhibou port, $120 million FDI by a South African company to build a fish processing factory, and a new fishing agreement with the Govern [...] |
2009-03-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIS EINV PROP MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT169 | WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING? REGIME SEES U.S. POSITION [...] (C) During a March 2 meeting with MFA Secretary General Mohameden Ould Sidi dit Bedena on issues related to Israel (SEPTEL), the Secretary General told Charge that the "government" saw the U.S. was finally coming to better understand the Mauritanian problem as seen in the State Department's F [...] |
2009-03-02 15:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT170 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI MAY GO TO LIBYA [...] (C) President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff, Ahmed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, told Charge March 2 that President Abdallahi had accepted in principle a request from Muammar Qadhafi to meet with him in Libya on Friday, March 6. Hammoudi said the President had accepted the request from the Libyan Special [...] |
2009-03-03 07:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT172 | IN ARAFAT, POVERTY AND HOPELESSNESS BREED [...] (SBU) Summary: Arafat is the largest and poorest district in the capital Nouakchott. Rapid urbanization, a large disenfranchised youth population, grinding poverty, and imported Islamist extremist ideas are a potentially volatile combination. EmbOffs met with a variety of people living and [...] |
2009-03-03 13:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PTER KDEM EAID MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT175 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S CAMP INCREASINGLY WORRIED [...] (C) Multiple FNDD contacts are markedly discouraged following the February 20 meeting if in International Consultative Group on Mauritania and Muammar Qadhafi's entry into the political mix. Qadhafi is not trusted to hold the AU's hard line against the coup but the FNDD recognizes rejecting [...] |
2009-03-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT176 | ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE "ON EXTENDED VACATION" [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-05 10:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT177 | FNDD SEES LIBYA RUSHING FOR A DEAL [...] (C) The FNDD's rotating President Abdel Koudouss Abeidna confirmed to Charge March 5 that President Abdallahi will probably go forward with the Friday trip to Libya to meet with Muammar Qadhafi. Abeidna said he had already received a partial readout from the FNDD delegation in Triploi that is [...] |
2009-03-05 10:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT182 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (C) Summary: For the week of March 1-5, the Israelis were asked to leave Mauritania by the MFA. Muammar Qadhafi's planned visit to Mauritania continues to generate excitement in the press, but more tempered reactions among the political class. The government continues planning for June 6 p [...] |
2009-03-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO PROP MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT183 | MAURITANIANS PULL BACK SECURITY FROM ISRAELI [...] (C) The Israeli Ambassador and his Security Officer notified Mission morning of March 6 that host government embassy security forces have been withdrawn from the Israeli chancery leaving it open to attack or pillaging. The Israeli's are moving what they can to the Ambassador's residence whi [...] |
2009-03-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT187 | ISRAELI AMBASSADOR LEAVES TOWN AS JUNTA CITES U.S. [...] (C) Status of Israeli Presence: Israeli Ambassador Miki Arbel and his wife departed Mauritania the evening of March 7. The Israeli Chancery is now officially "closed" with all security barriers and Mauritanian protective services removed. The Israeli management/security officer and two TDY [...] |
2009-03-08 13:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT188 | HEDGING THEIR BETS: PRO-COUP PARLIAMENTARIANS TAKE [...] (C) Summary: Consensus is not the word of the day among pro-coup parliamentarians. General Aziz's decision to rally his supporters under one party has found detractors. While stating their support to the High State Council (HSC), independent parliamentarians are distancing themselves from [...] |
2009-03-08 14:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT189 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI RETURNS TO NOUAKCHOTT AND [...] (SBU) At around noon local time on March 6, President Abdallahi and his vehicle convoy arrived in Nouakchott from his native village of Lemden. PolAsst and EconOff observed at least 200 cars (most of them packed with people) in the procession, lights flashing and horns blaring. Pictures of [...] |
2009-03-08 16:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT190 | EL BASHIR'S ARREST WARRANT ELICITS MIXED REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 4 International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar El Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur has elicited strong reactions in Mauritania. While the majority of the political class condemns [...] |
2009-03-08 16:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV ICC SU MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT191 | FNDD READOUT ON QADHAFI'S MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: On the day of President Abdallahi's return from Libya and the eve of Qadhafi's visit to Mauritania, rotating FNDD President Abdel Koudouss Abeidna remains skeptical about the success of a Libyan mediation and believes only targeted sanctions will precipitate a solution to the c [...] |
2009-03-09 12:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT195 | QADHAFI WILL SETTLE FOR A JOINT DECLARATION ON [...] (C) Negative review of Libya meeting: Charge met evening of March 9 with President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Ahmed Kaber Ould Hammoudi at Hammoudi's request. Hammoudi provided much the same readout on the Libya visit as provided by FNDD rotating President Abeidna in REFTEL (Hammoudi seemed [...] |
2009-03-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT199 | GLOBAL FUND ALLEGES FRAUD AND MISMANAGEMENT IN MAURITANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Geneva-based Global Fund issued a formal complaint letter to its Mauritania Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) February 13 alleging fraud and mismanagement of the country's $32 million Global Fund aid package for malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. All funding has been fro [...] |
2009-03-12 11:16:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV UNDP KHIV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT2 | THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY - AN INSIDER'S [...] (C) Summary: The respected moderator of the National Dialogue on Democracy (Etats Generaux de la Democratie) sees the process as the best chance to get out of an untenable situation. The 'pragmatists" in the process are looking to establish a framework that will get democracy back on track [...] |
2009-01-02 13:15:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT202 | QADHAFI LEAVES MAURITANIA WORSE THAN HE FOUND IT [...] (C) Summary: Libyan leader Qadhafi's visit to Mauritania saw the President of the African Union pursue a mediation policy in direct opposition to the pro-democracy position of the international community he was ostensibly recommending. Qadhafi embraced the junta's plan for return to civilian [...] |
2009-03-12 18:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT203 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of March 8-12, Muammar Qadhafi's visit to Mauritania dominated events. Qadhafi pressed hard for a joint declaration between the parties to the crisis, without success. Adding insult to injury, FNDD leaders walked out on his speech at the Palais des Congres when [...] |
2009-03-15 08:13:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT204 | OULD DADDAH AND THE FNDD: UNITED AGAINST QADHAFI, [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of Qadhafi's "mediation," Ahmed Ould Daddah and President Abdallahi's FNDD have again been pushed towards cooperation in denouncing Qadhafi and renouncing the military strategy for June 6 elections. Ould Daddah remains fixed in opposition to President Abdallahi's re [...] |
2009-03-15 17:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT210 | MAURITANIA: OPPOSITION LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-17 16:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV USAU LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT211 | PRESS CRACKDOWN: JOURNALIST ARRESTED, WEBSITE [...] (C) Summary: On the night of March 15th, Mauritanian police arrested Abbass Ould Braham, University English Teacher and editor of the tri-lingual on-line newspaper Taquadoumy while he sat in a restaurant among friends. On March 16th, General Prosecutor Seyid Ould Ghaliani ordered Mauritania's [...] |
2009-03-18 13:03:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT215 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of March 15-19, the effects of Qadhafi's visit reverberated throughout the political scene. Aziz began a series of trips around the country that were widely viewed as campaign stops, and launched direct verbal attacks on President Abdallahi and former presidents [...] |
2009-03-20 11:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM LY MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT220 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI REACTS TO RECENT EVENTS; FEARS [...] (C) Summary: In the Charge's fourth visit to Lemden, President Abdallahi expressed concern for Mauritania's economy, and the lack of international reaction to Qadhafi's failed "mediation" efforts. He offered his side of the story with his meeting with Qadhafi, and reiterated his belief that [...] |
2009-03-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT221 | DELAYS OBTAINING MAURITANIAN VISAS [...] (C) Summary: The military junta is delaying issuance of visas to American and European citizens. There have been no reports of visa applications actually being denied, but in many cases the delays have lasted well over a month. All visa applications made at Mauritanian embassies in the Unite [...] |
2009-03-25 15:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA PGOV PREL CVIS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT222 | DADDAH MAKES LEGAL CASE FOR JUNTA MEMBERS' [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Charge received a letter March 25 from RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah. The letter outlines the RFD's argument (which was also made publicly in the press) that members of the military junta (High State Council) cannot legally [...] |
2009-03-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT226 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (C) Summary: For the week of March 22-26, Charge visited President Abdallahi in Lemden, and met with FNDD Tawassoul members in Nouakchott. The AU reaffirmed sanctions against Mauritania in the wake of Qadhafi's "mediation" visit. The Iranian Foreign Minister visited Mauritania, while the RF [...] |
2009-03-30 07:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT227 | CONSOLIDATING POWER: THE JUNTA'S NEW CLIENTELISM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Qadhafi's mediation efforts unfolded the week of March 9-13, the High State Council (HSC) continuedQming coup supporters to key government positions -- particularly in ministries involved with elections such as the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Communicat [...] |
2009-03-30 11:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT229 | FNDD RESPONDS NEGATIVELY TO FRENCH AND SENEGALESE [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Ahmed Kabed Ould Hammoudi called Charge evening of March 28 to convey President Abdallahi's astonishment with statements made by French President Sarkozy to the effect that there was no opposition to the coup, and to advise that the President [...] |
2009-03-30 14:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR SG MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT230 | INSIDE THE MAURITANIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM: ONE [...] (C) Summary: Journalist and Editor-in-Chief Cheikh Tijani Ould Isselmou (pen name: Abbass Ould Braham) of the Taqadoumy website was arrested and detained March 15 after posting a story critical of the military regime (Reftel). PolAsst and PAO met with Isselmou March 26 to hear about the cond [...] |
2009-03-31 11:07:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT235 | FORMER PRESIDENT HAIDALLAH WEIGHS IN ON THE CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Former President Haidallah has maintained a low profile after the August 2008 coup. Nevertheless, he expressed clear support for the upcoming June 6 elections, and tacit support for General Aziz. He characterized the FNDD's position as "illogical," and by extension, the USG po [...] |
2009-04-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT236 | MAURITANIA TURNS TO CHINA, LIBYA AND IRAN FOR AID [...] (C) Summary: China agreed to provide a low-interest loan to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to finance a $294 million expansion of the Port of Nouakchott. The port will be expanded from 500 meters to 1400 meters, allowing it to accommodate four ships at a time. China also [...] |
2009-04-01 15:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EINV ETRD PREL MR CH IR LY |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT237 | MAURITANIANS DIVIDED OVER SETTLEMENT OF "PASSIF [...] (C) Summary: Almost twenty years after the "passif humanitaire" -- the state orchestrated persecution of Afro-Mauritanians that resulted in summary executions, arbitrary detentions, torture, layoffs, expropriations and deportations -- the Mauritanian government, led by junta leader General [...] |
2009-04-02 12:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT238 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK MARCH [...] (C) Summary: For the week of March 29-April 2, General Aziz went to Doha to attend the Arab League Summit, while other members of the ruling High State Council traveled around the country to "educate" the population about the "rectification movement" (coup d'etat). The election calendar was [...] |
2009-04-02 12:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPAO KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT240 | ROUND UP OF CURRENT EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Marked differn*ces exist between the French, Germans, Spanish and European Commission in Nouakchott. The EC sees the Europeans poised to join the American hard-line against the coup with the release of its Article 96 conclusions o/a April 6 (but at a lamentable cost for the Maur [...] |
2009-04-02 15:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USEU MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT246 | INCONSISTENT FRENCH TRANSLATION OF NATO STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mauritanians, who are prone to glom onto the slightest international statement as a sign of policy signals, are now focused on NATO's Strasbourg/Kehl Summit Declaration released April 4 The official French translation of the Declaration has caused consternation/excitement be [...] |
2009-04-05 18:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT247 | SENEGALESE STILL PUSHING FOR MEDIATION ROLE [...] (C) President Abdallahi's "Foreign Minister" Mohammed Ould Maouloud told Charge April 5 that Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio has returned to Mauritania intent on getting President Abdallahi and opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah to accept a bilateral Senegalese political med [...] |
2009-04-05 18:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT250 | ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN NOUAKCHOTT VIOLENTLY [...] (C) Summary: Two anti-coup protests in Nouakchott were violently dispersed by police on April 2 and April 3. In both cases, police used tear gas and batons to break up the protests, injuring several people in the process. EmbOffs obtained first-hand accounts from some prominent figures who [...] |
2009-04-07 16:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO KDEM ASEC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT251 | JUNTA UNILATERALLY APPOINTS ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (C) The junta took another step towards elections with the April 6 designation of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) president and members. Professor Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara, reputed Afro-Mauritanian sociologist, was appointed president while Hamdy Ould Mahjoub, former depu [...] |
2009-04-07 17:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT253 | WHILE PM WAGHEF AND OTHERS LANGUISH IN PRISON, [...] (C) Summary: Despite General Aziz's repeated claims that there are no political prisoners in Mauritania, the selective targeting of prominent anti-coup individuals indicates otherwise. Four people, Prime Minister Waghef among them, remain in prison charged with corruption and mismanagement [...] |
2009-04-08 13:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT255 | FROM CHILD BRIDE TO SEX SLAVE: HOW MAURITANIAN [...] (C) Summary: Reports of trafficking of Mauritanian child brides to Saudi Arabia are on the rise. The girls, usually between 5 and 12 years of age, are married off to wealthy Saudi men in exchange for hefty bride prices. Once they arrive in Saudi Arabia, they become sex slaves to their hus [...] |
2009-04-08 15:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT257 | MAURITANIA'S NEIGHBORS -- ABDALLAHI LOSING MALIAN [...] (C) Summary: Charge did the rounds April 5 of neighboring country embassies to check on evolving views following the failed Qadhafi mediation. Morocco and Algeria remain fixed on two sides of the fence -- Morocco urging acceptance of the status quo based on stability concerns (and discounti [...] |
2009-04-08 16:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU AG ML MO SG MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT260 | MAURITANIAN ECONOMY DETERIORATING AND LIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: The foreign exchange market in Mauritania has stopped functioning and the Central Bank has been rationing foreign currency since November 2008. The difference between the parallel and official exchange rates has grown from zero to 10%. While large companies with connections abroa [...] |
2009-04-12 09:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EMIN PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT261 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 5-9, anti-coup sentiment was visible in several venues. The EU suspended cooperation with Mauritania for two years, while an unfortunate translation of a NATO statement sowed confusion. The national electoral commission was finally appointed, while forme [...] |
2009-04-12 09:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT264 | MAURITANIA: NO REPORTS OF FORCED CHILD LABOR IN [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-12 16:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT266 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN AZIZ' [...] (C) Summary: Efforts to mediate a solution to the Mauritanian crisis continue. AU Commissioner for Security and Peace Ramdane Lamamra and Libyan Secretary of African Affairs Abdessalam Triky arrived in Nouakchott April 11 to discreetly continue the negotiations started by Senegalese Foreig [...] |
2009-04-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT268 | RENEWED AU-LIBYAN MEDIATION EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: The African Union and Libya have started a renewed mediation effort aimed at avoiding the need to apply sanctions. The African Union questions whether the three main Mauritanian protagonists can ever come up with a consensual plan if left to their own devices, and suggests the [...] |
2009-04-14 11:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT269 | THE FNDD'S INTERIM STRATEGY [...] (S - N/F) Summary: The FNDD sees opportunity in General Aziz's upcoming resignation to work on internal divisions in his support base -- hopefully leaving him out in the cold. Diplomatic activities (including travel by President Abdallahi) will continue as will open resistance. The FNDD fea [...] |
2009-04-14 13:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT271 | THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The first person to officially announce his candidacy in the upcoming June 6 elections, Ibrahima Sarr is a study in contradictions. A long-time advocate for Afro-Mauritanians, many of his own supporters and peers now accuse him of selling out by working with the military. Recog [...] |
2009-04-15 13:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT276 | MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT OULD [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT278 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 12-16, the RFD party was on the verge of collapse, and Ahmed Ould Daddah had his strongest words yet for General Aziz. Ibrahima Sarr announced his candidacy for president, and renewed AU-Libyan and Senegalese mediation efforts failed to generate enthusia [...] |
2009-04-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT28 | ANTI-ISRAELI DEMONSTRATIONS REACH NEW LEVEL OF [...] (SBU) Friday prayers in Nouakchott January 9 ended with people taking to the streets to protest continuing Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. Accurate crowd numbers are hard to obtain -- some press reports placed the crowd at 10,000 or even 13,000 people. A more realistic number may [...] |
2009-01-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT282 | DADDAH STILL IN THE ANTI-COUP CAMP; WANTS MORE US [...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah maintained his anti-coup stance, suggested the Senegalese mediation effort might be acceptable, and called for increased USG involvement. He tried to brush off the recent divisions within his party, and he still maintains t [...] |
2009-04-20 10:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT287 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION MEMBER RESIGNS FROM "MAFIA [...] (C) Summary: Sid'Ahmed Ould Habott, a prestigious member of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), resigned April 20 as he believes the CENI's objective is not to organize free and fair elections but to certify Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's electoral victory. For Ould Habott, or [...] |
2009-04-22 17:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT288 | ACCORDING TO VALL, PRO AND ANTI-COUP PARTIES WANT [...] (C) Summary: According to Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, political actors are ready for a consensual solution but Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz remains the main obstacle to an agreement. Vall believes the time before the election is crucial to finding a solution. Once the election takes place, [...] |
2009-04-23 12:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT290 | CONSIDERING THE SENEGALESE MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Democratically elected president Abdallahi intends to travel to Senegal on Sunday, April 26, accepting an invitation from President Wade. The FNDD and RFD remain open to participation in a Senegalese/African Union mediation subject to several large reservations. They believe (p [...] |
2009-04-23 16:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT292 | EAC REVIEWS INCREASED AQIM THREAT, UTILITY [...] (S) EAC was convened by the Charge on April 26 to review mission preparedness for the likelihood of renewed and increased AQIM activity in Mauritania in the aftermath of the Canadian hostages release, contingency planning should fuel, electricity and water become unavailable in coming months, [...] |
2009-04-26 16:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | ASEC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT306 | FNDD LOSES FAITH IN SENEGALESE MEDIATION AS IT [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD sees less and less utility in a Senegalese mediation. Despite initial positive signs from Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, the FNDD thinks President Wade was steered away by Aziz. The FNDD was upset that Wade accepted the regime Ambassador's credentia [...] |
2009-04-29 15:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT308 | SENATOR SYLLA: OUR RECURRING VIOLENT BIT ACTOR [...] (C/NF) Summary: Senator Sylla stated he and a group of anti-coup activists are determined to stop Aziz and derail upcoming elections, through violence if necessary. To this end, he wants to obtain arms and logistical support from the Israelis, and have Post serve as an intermediary between t [...] |
2009-04-29 17:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT31 | "NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY" RESULTS APPROVED [...] (SBU) On January 9 the junta-designated "Prime Minister" Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf presided over a special session at the National Assembly where the final report of the "National Dialogue on Democracy" was officially approved. Seventy of the 95 parliamentarians were present, with 63 membe [...] |
2009-01-12 17:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT312 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, anti-coup protests multiplied and the FNDD, labor unions, and civil society joined forces through the signature of NDI's CFD Charter, which earned them criticism from Ould Daddah for accepting foreign money and interference. Deputy Sid'Ahmed Ould Ahme [...] |
2009-04-30 14:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT313 | MAURITANIANS REPATRIATED FROM SENEGAL SURPASS [...] (U) Summary: The cumulative number of Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal surpassed 10,000 people in April. There are approximately 10,000 more refugees that remain in Senegal that have expressed their intent to return to Mauritania. To date, all of the refugees have returned to the [...] |
2009-04-30 16:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SOCI ECON MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT315 | SENEGALESE STILL WANT TO PURSUE MEDIATION [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting, Senegalese Ambassador to Mauritania Mahmoudou Kane downplayed President Abdallahi's decision to "delay" a visit to Senegal indicating that Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio would return to Mauritania the week of May 3 to revive the mediation initiative. 2. [...] |
2009-05-03 09:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT32 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI TO TRAVEL ABROAD, NAME SPECIAL [...] (C) President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff, Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, told Charge that President Abdallahi would be returning to Nouakchott "in a few days" and plans to take a trip abroad after a few days of political and diplomatic consultations in the capital. The President has asked the [...] |
2009-01-12 17:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT323 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCHEON WITH ANTI-COUP POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a lunch with the Ambassador, RFD and FNDD political leaders talked about repression of demonstrations, President of the Senate Ba M'Bare's "presidency," and the role played in the political crisis by Mauritania's neighbors. The FNDD and RFD asked the U.S. to pressure Fra [...] |
2009-05-11 16:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT327 | THE FNDD'S EVER-CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD, while suspicious of Senegalese President Wade's intentions, is again looking at the Senegalese mediation as a method to derail the regime's election agenda. The FNDD has multiple conditions, but sees the Senegalese proposal as the basis to start talking about talking [...] |
2009-05-12 17:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL USAU SG MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT328 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI IN LEMDEN [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi, still determined to fight the coup and very much active in the opposition, declared himself open to concessions as long as proposed solutions respected the constitution. The president thinks the Senegalese, rather than coming to the negotiation table with [...] |
2009-05-13 17:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT330 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: For the week of May 10-14, there were rumors of possible arms from Iran. An embassy travel notification to the MFA was rejected, and Taqadoumy touched off another sensation in the media. There was a sit-in at the National Assembly, and the Ambassador traveled to Lemden to visi [...] |
2009-05-14 12:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM PHUM CVIS ASEC PTER MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT332 | MEETINGS WITH NEW PRO-COUP POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst met with two different breeds of new pro-coup political parties. Union Pour la Republique (UPR), intimately connected with coup leader and now presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, sees the June 6 election as an opportunity to return to constitution [...] |
2009-05-17 08:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT333 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON JUNTA "FOREIGN MINISTER" [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on the junta "Foreign Minister" on May 12 amid a wave of negative press featuring accusations of improper interference by the Embassy in internal affairs, an apparent GIRM suspension of visa issuances for official Americans, and attempts to limit in-country US [...] |
2009-05-17 08:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | PREL PGOV ODIP MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT336 | SENEGALESE MEDIATION: FNDD AND RFD STILL COMMITTED [...] (C) Summary: FNDD and RFD emissaries told Ambassador that they remain committed to the Senegalese mediation, which they described as the "last opportunity" to reach a consensual agreement. Nevertheless, Aziz has sent discouraging signs by not responding to their calls to suspend the electi [...] |
2009-05-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT342 | CONTRARY TO SENEGALESE CLAIMS, FNDD AND AZIZ HAVE [...] (C) Summary: Contrary to what Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio apparently implied to U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Marcia S. Bernicat, the FNDD has not struck a deal with Aziz. According to the Senegalese, all the elements are in place for an agreement but RFD President Ahmed [...] |
2009-05-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT343 | THE FIRST LADY: NOT THE PRIMA DONNA DETRACTORS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware's wife and EconOff spent the day with First Lady Khatou Mint El Boukhary while Ambassador met with President Abdallahi. Boukhary, portrayed by many as controlling and demanding, was warm and down to earth and clearly pleased by Mrs. Boulware's visit. She than [...] |
2009-05-21 09:02:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT344 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: Senegalese mediation efforts dominated the political scene for the week of May 17-21. The anti-US media campaign continued, while the FNDD and RFD held a large march to protest General Aziz's election plans. Despite rumors of the imminent release of the "FNDD four" (arrested fo [...] |
2009-05-21 17:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR PHUM KPAO |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT345 | OULD DADDAH'S RESERVATIONS: THE SENEGALESE WANT A [...] (C) Summary: According to RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah, anti-coup forces are currently on standby following a May 20 meeting with Senegalese mediators. The opposition has still not received a firm response regarding pre-conditions for continued negotiations. If the response to their dem [...] |
2009-05-22 14:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT346 | SENEGALESE OPEN THE DOOR [...] (C) Summary. Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio and fellow mediators convoked on May 21 representatives of members of the International Contact Group on Mauritania to announce agreement in principle between major protagonists to end Mauritania,s political crisis. The deal, to be announced a [...] |
2009-05-22 14:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT352 | ABDALLAHI'S EMISSARIES' CONCERNS ABOUT MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Sidney Sokhna, Diplomatic Advisor to President Abdallahi, called on Ambassador to provide background on the Senegalese mediation and seek clarification of the USG position. Sokhna said that pro-democracy forces in the FNDD and RFD suspected the impartiality of mediators and we [...] |
2009-05-26 12:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT354 | FNDD AND RFD FEEL THEY ARE NEGOTIATING "UNDER THE [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD and RFD have accepted Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's invitation to travel to Dakar on May 28 for a last negotiation. They stated they are accepting "in good faith" but reiterated their distrust of the Senegalese and the Libyans. According to FNDD and RFD emiss [...] |
2009-05-26 18:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT356 | ROSSO'S TOWN HALL: AGREEING TO DISAGREE [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the town hall in Rosso, EmbOffs witnessed spirited but respectful political debates between the Secretary General, who expressed support for General Aziz, and a Deputy Mayor, who advocated constitutional order. Such free debate indicates a willingness to coe [...] |
2009-05-28 09:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT357 | THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION: AN EMPTY SHELL [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst visited Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) representatives in the Trarza, Mauritania's second largest administrative and electoral region after Nouakchott. The visit took EmbOffs to two contrasting places: the regional capital of Rosso and the [...] |
2009-05-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT358 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SGHAIR OULD M'BARECK: "I [...] (C) Summary: Sghair Ould M'Bareck is a Haratine (Black Moor) with extensive experience in Mauritanian government, and says he will strengthen democracy in Mauritania if elected. He accused the United States of encouraging a "radical" opposition, and maintains the June 6 elections are the so [...] |
2009-05-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT360 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAMIDOU BABA KANE: "YES WE [...] (C) Summary: Hamidou Baba Kane is one of two Afro-Mauritanian candidates in the upcoming June 6 presidential elections. The Vice President of the National Assembly (and former Vice President in Ahmed Ould Daddah's RFD party), Kane claims he is still a member of RFD, even though Daddah expel [...] |
2009-05-28 16:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT361 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: The electoral campaign has started without much participation or enthusiasm. General Aziz's campaigning has taken over Nouakchott, giving the not-so-mistaken impression that there is only one candidate in this presidential race. Nevertheless, the campaign's empty tents make it [...] |
2009-05-28 16:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT363 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESIDENT: CARTE BLANCHE AND [...] (C) Summary: Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara believes that the June 6 elections are the only way out of the crisis. Camara, not a friend of the FNDD or President Abdallahi's, is convinced that moving forward with the June 6 election has ma [...] |
2009-05-31 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT366 | JUNTA GIVING AWAY FOOD IN FINAL EFFORT TO GAIN [...] (C) Summary: In a thinly veiled attempt to gain public support, the junta is once again giving away food and land. Local mayors are distributing free fish to their constitutents, likely on behalf of the junta. The "Prime Minister" and "Food Security Commissioner" oversaw the distribution of 2 [...] |
2009-06-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIS PGOV PREL SOCI MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT368 | NOUADHIBOU CENI: FINGERS CROSSED FOR CONSENSUS BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a visit to Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) headquarters in Nouadhibou, EmbOffs saw comparable conditions to those found in the Trarza CENI (Ref A). Like their Trarza colleagues, Nouadhibou CENI representatives wished there would be a consensus but keep prep [...] |
2009-06-03 09:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT369 | TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED IN DAKAR, BUT NO [...] (SBU) The agreement: Representatives of the three main parties to the Mauritanian crisis -- General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ould Daddah and his RFD party, and the anti-coup FNDD group -- tentatively reached an agreement the evening of June 2 in Dakar, after six days of intense negotia [...] |
2009-06-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT37 | EUROPEANS ON NEXT STEPS IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: The EC Representative in Nouakchott says no position has yet been taken on the significance of the National Dialogue on Democracy but does not believe the regime's actions will be sufficient to avoid negative European actions under Article 96 proceedings. European ambassadors a [...] |
2009-01-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT370 | ON THE EVE OF AN AGREEMENT, NOUADHIBOU "MOROSE AND [...] (C) Summary: A day before a tentative agreement to the ongoing political crisis was reached in Dakar (Ref A), EmbOffs traveled to the economic capital of Nouadhibou to assess the mood and political situation ahead of elections. In meetings with both anti-coup and pro-coup political actors, t [...] |
2009-06-03 17:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT374 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: Once again, the Senegalese mediation dominated the political scene in Mauritania for the week of May 31 to June 4. To the surprise of many, a tentative agreement was reached in Dakar June 2. President Wade and the parties to the crisis are scheduled to officially sign the agr [...] |
2009-06-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT375 | MAURITANIANS REACT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CAIRO [...] (SBU) The speech: In response to Reftel, Post hosted twenty political actors, religious leaders, and journalists at the Embassy to watch President Obama's speech delivered at Cairo University on June 4. The audience watched and listened intently to the live satellite broadcast of the speech [...] |
2009-06-04 15:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT378 | HERDING CATS: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DAKAR [...] (C) Summary: The tentative agreement reached in Dakar was signed June 4 in Nouakchott by the three major sides to the crisis in a sometimes raucous ceremony. After a meeting with President Abdallahi in Lemden on June 6, International Contact Group members and representatives of the three po [...] |
2009-06-08 16:13:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT379 | LONG DETENTION PERIODS AND POOR CONDITIONS AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Much has been said about the Nouadhibou illegal migrant detention center, also known popularly as "little Guantanamo" or "Guantanamito." The detention center -- or "welcome center" as Mauritanian authorities refer to it -- houses illegal migrants intercepted at sea on their way [...] |
2009-06-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR PHUM SMIG |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT385 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (C) Summary: In Nouakchott for the week of June 7-11, the horse trading for ministerial posts according to the Dakar agreement took center stage. As of June 11, though, a national unity government had not yet been finalized. Prime Minister Waghef and other detainees deemed political prison [...] |
2009-06-11 11:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT386 | MAURITANIA: A NEW DRUG-TRAFFICKING HUB IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Drug-trafficking in Mauritania is on the rise and becoming a concern not only for the country but also the region. Mauritania is a transit country for hashish resin and cocaine, two highly profitable drugs. Hashish resin is trafficked from Morocco to the Gulf States through t [...] |
2009-06-11 12:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR SNAR PTER |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT396 | MAURITANIA TIP DEMARCHE CABLE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. 2. (U) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, leaving the non-paper and the 2009 TIP report country narrative for Mauritania with MFA Secretary General Mohameden Ould Sidi Baba on June 15, 2009. 3. (SBU) After a review of the TIP [...] |
2009-06-16 16:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT411 | FNDD REMAINS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ABDALLAHI [...] (C) Summary: FNDD co-President Mohamed Ould Maouloud denied Senegalese and European statements that the Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) and the Rassemblement des Forces Democratiques (RFD) were ready to accept implementation of the Dakar Accord without President Abdal [...] |
2009-06-24 18:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT414 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (C) Summary: This week, the parties to the crisis traveled to Dakar to negotiate the future of the High State Council (HSC), an issue that has been blocking the implementation of the Accord for the past two weeks. The parties were unable to reach a consensus, obliging President Wade to rus [...] |
2009-06-25 10:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT420 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 28 -- A [...] (C) One day into the new and internationally recognized transitional Government of National Unity, the inherent distrust of all the parties are already threatening collapse. The International Contact Group, that has agreed to meet twice daily into the foreseeable future, has its own division [...] |
2009-06-28 23:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT422 | MAURITANIA: THE TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Mauritanians and the international community alike breathed a sigh of relief when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi signed in the late hours of June 24 the decree forming a Transitional Government of National Unity, followed by his voluntary resignation. This symbolic gest [...] |
2009-06-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MR KDEM PINR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT423 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 29 -- [...] (SBU) June 29 saw the opposition parties' protest to the Constitutional Council dismissed, with the Council's decision to uphold the election schedule decreed by Prime Minister Laghdaf on June 28 despite the lack of consensus. The Constitutional Council's decision clears the way for the mult [...] |
2009-06-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT428 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 30: [...] (C) The Contact Group met the afternoon of June 29. AU Ambassador Annadif said that, despite previous confidence expressed by Prime Minister Laghdaf, the three parties had not yet been able to reach agreement concerning the civil society members of the National Independent Electoral Commiss [...] |
2009-07-01 09:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT431 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, the August 6 coup d'etat came to an official end with the formation of a Transitional Government of National Unity and President Abdallahi's resignation, in accordance with the Dakar Accord. The new government is up and running but maintaining consens [...] |
2009-07-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SNAR PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT433 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 2 -- ON [...] (C) Maouloud complains about electoral list revision timeframe: On June 30, Maouloud complained to Annadif and the ICG that the original ten-day extraordinary electoral list revision had been shortened to four days. The revision, a crucial step towards transparency and confidence building, [...] |
2009-07-02 15:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT436 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 5 -- THE [...] (SBU) Minister of the Interior satisfied: The International Contact Group (ICG) met with the Transitional Government of National Unity's Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ould Rzeizime (from the anti-coup FNDD political alliance) on July 2. Rzeizime stated election planning was on track and [...] |
2009-07-06 16:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT440 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 6-7 -- [...] (C) Electoral campaign kicks off (again): Almost overnight, Nouakchott has become a tent city with hundreds of "khaimas" erected one next to the other in honor of the main presidential candidates. Compared to the dull, one-man campaign leading to the canceled June 6 elections, this preside [...] |
2009-07-07 17:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT443 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 8 -- [...] (U) The OIF will send observers: The Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) confirmed on July 8 it will send an observer mission headed by former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya. 2. (U) Aziz comes forward as the real author of the 2005 coup: During a political rally i [...] |
2009-07-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT446 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Campaign against forced-feeding and over-eating: The Mauritanian government will launch a program in 2010 in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund to fight cultural practices and perceptions that adversely affect women, including forced-feeding and over-eating. The program [...] |
2009-07-09 15:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT447 | MAURITANIA: ATTENDANCE TO 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-09 15:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT45 | A BEATEN SENATE PRESIDENT [...] (C) Charge visited a dejected President of the Senate Ba M'Bare on January 14. During Charge's previous meeting in November (REFTEL), M'Bare opposed the regime despite extreme pressure from the new Central Bank Governor who had cut his check signing privileges and a commission of inquiry set [...] |
2009-01-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT451 | MAURITANIA ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 12 -- [...] (SBU) Aziz organizes massive political rally: As promised last week on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz held a political rally in the Nouakchott neighborhood of Arafat on July 11. The event was widely publicized and Mattel cell phone users received an unso [...] |
2009-07-12 17:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT453 | ARAB MAGHREB DIRECTOR TIGHT LIPPED ABOUT WESTERN [...] (C) PolOff paid a courtesy visit on July 12 to Arab Maghreb Director Mohamed Ould Mekhale to inquire after UN SRSG for Western Sahara Chris Ross's visit to Mauritania on June 27. PolOff wanted to ask if the Secretary of State in charge of the Arab Maghreb had met with Ross, how the Mauritan [...] |
2009-07-13 15:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV WI MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT455 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 13 -- THE [...] (C) AU pressures Prime Minister to address complaints: The Ambassador attended an International Contact Group (ICG) meeting July 12 which discussed persistent complaints by the main three opposition candidates about Aziz's disregard for main Dakar Accord points (Ref A and B), African Union r [...] |
2009-07-13 16:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT46 | IRAN URGES/ENTICES MAURITANIA TO CUT TIES WITH [...] (SBU) Iranian Vice President Mohamed Ridha Rahimi came to Nouakchott January 13 and met with military junta leader General Aziz to discuss primarily Gaza. Press reports in the official media said the Iranian welcomed the Mauritanian decision to recall their ambassador. Independent press and [...] |
2009-01-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT460 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 15 - 16 [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs declines US help: The US Embassy offer of aircraft support for the transportation of AU/OIF observer missions to the faraway cities of Zouerate, Selibaby and Nema was declined by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 16. In a telep [...] |
2009-07-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT461 | THE RISE OF THE OULED BISBAA [...] (SBU) Summary: It is extremely difficult for Westerners to gain an understanding of the complex and opaque world of Mauritanian tribes. Mauritanians tend to be tight lipped about tribal issues and rarely unveil tribal details or the dynamics of tribal politics. The Ouled Bisbaa, a traditi [...] |
2009-07-16 14:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT462 | MAURITANIA: DEFINING -- BUT UNPREDICTABLE -- [...] (C) Summary: As we approach the July 18 Presidential elections in Mauritania, there are too many unknowns to make any credible prediction about the outcome. Although Mauritania's elites have been enmeshed by over ten months of intense political struggle since the August 6, 2008, coup, the [...] |
2009-07-16 16:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT463 | NOUAKCHOTT - EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) [...] (U) The EAC met on Thursday July 16, 2009, to assess the security situation for the upcoming election period. The first round of elections will be held on Saturday July, 18, 2009, and a run-off, if needed, will be held on August 1, 2009. 2. (U) The EAC agreed that the elections will probably t [...] |
2009-07-16 16:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MR PTER |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT47 | FREEZING OF MAURITANIAN - ISRAELI RELATIONS [...] (C) The Mauritanian regime's decision, as announced by General Aziz at the Doha Summit on January 16, to "freeze relations" with Israel has little practical effect for the time being. The Israeli Ambassador received a diplomatic note January 17 announcing that Mauritania had decided to freez [...] |
2009-01-18 15:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT479 | PROPOSED SUSPENSION OF PEACE CORPS PROGRAM IN [...] (S) I am concerned to have heard over the week-end that Peace Corps has decided to suspend its operations in Mauritania after nearly forty years of presence. I understand the decision has been reached based on an assessment of security conditions in the field. While I am fully cognizant of [...] |
2009-07-19 16:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET//NOFORN | AMGT ASEC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT480 | THE MAURITANIANS DISAPPOINT -- AZIZ ELECTED [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian people appear to have selected General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as their next duly elected president. Although there are isolated reports of inappropriate efforts to influence voters, the election itself proceeded reasonably well offering the population a chance [...] |
2009-07-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT486 | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE WOULD WELCOME USG HELP IN [...] Summary: The Ministry of Justice has been informed of Mauritania's reclassification to Tier 3 in the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report and has been briefed about the process and potential consequences for future USG- Government of Mauritania engagement. Dr. Haimoud Ould Ramadhane, [...] |
2009-07-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR ELAB KTIP PHUM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT490 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JULY [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-23 15:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR PHUM PTER |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT491 | IT'S OFFICIAL -- CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL CONFIRMS [...] (U) The Mauritanian Constitutional Council on July 23 issued its ruling ratifying the results of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections definitively establishing General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as president elect. Prior to ratifying the election, the Constitutional Council addressed the [...] |
2009-07-24 12:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT492 | MAURITANIA -- ENDING U.S. SANCTIONS [...] (C) In light of the certification of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections, Post recommends the discontinuation of the legislative and policy-driven sanctions imposed on Mauritania following the August 6, 2008, coup d'etat. Post believes that Mauritania has returned to constitutional [...] |
2009-07-26 16:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC MASS EAID CVIS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT493 | NOUAKCHOTT WARDEN MEETING DISCUSSES GENERAL [...] (SBU) Following up on the last Mission EAC (REFTEL), the Ambassador hosted a July 23 Consular Wardens Meeting to discuss general security concerns shared by Nouakchott's American citizen (AmCit) community. The invitation was extended to official and unofficial AmCits, as well as those associa [...] |
2009-07-27 23:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC ASEC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT496 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT AZIZ [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware called on President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to say that the USG accepted the Constitutional Council,s determination that Aziz had been elected and was not persuaded that opposition complaints of major electoral irregularities were convincingly supported [...] |
2009-07-29 09:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT5 | AGGRESSIVE EVOLUTION OF NOUAKCHOTT ANTI-ISRAELI [...] (U) Summary: Sporadic Anti-Israeli demonstrations have grown in size and aggressiveness. Pre and post prayer marches on Friday, January 2, numbered several hundred; active but handily turned back from Israeli, Egyptian, and other Mission precincts by riot police. The January 4th return of [...] |
2009-01-05 15:16:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPAL KPAO MR PREL |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT500 | MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ [...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...] |
2009-08-02 23:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT503 | MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ [...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...] |
2009-08-03 08:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT504 | ON IRAN, ISRAEL AND US-MAURITANIA RELATIONS: HEADS [...] (C) Summary: According to Mohamed Aly Cherif, Parliamentarian Majority President and leader of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's party Union Pour la Republique (UPR), the new government is willing to work with the opposition but the ball is now on the opposition's court. Cherif doe [...] |
2009-08-03 09:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT505 | MODERATE ISLAMIST JEMIL MANSOUR ON THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Tawassoul president and presidential candidate Jemil Ould Mansour -- who was among the first to accept President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory -- believes the election was fair despite a number of irregularities. For Mansour, Tawassoul comes out of the crisis in a wi [...] |
2009-08-03 17:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT506 | OPPOSITION LEADERS ON THE FUTURE OF THE FNDD [...] (C) Summary: The Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) is still active despite its electoral defeat and the defection of founding party Tawassoul. Leaders Mohamed Ould Maouloud and Abdel Koudouss Abeidna believe the FNDD has a future as an umbrella organization for oppositi [...] |
2009-08-04 15:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT510 | MAURITANIA: LEADER OF OPPOSITION OULD DADDAH SEES [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to see fraud in the July 18 presidential elections even as he remains at a loss to explain how. He regrets that the U.S. -- "the last hope for Mauritania" -- has accepted a mechanical definition of democracy and opted for security o [...] |
2009-08-11 15:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT512 | MAURITANIA: TIER 3 REASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary: In response to Ref A, please note that due to a prolonged political crisis, Mauritania has made limited progress in addressing the recommendations outlined in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). The Transitional Government of National Unity stemming from the Dakar Acc [...] |
2009-08-12 16:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PGOV PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT513 | JAPAN TO MOVE FORWARD ON ESTABLISHING EMBASSY IN [...] (C) The head of the "Japanese Preparatory Office" in Nouakchott, Miyamoto Musayuk, told DCM August 12 that Tokyo was moving forward on the establishment of an embassy in Mauritania. As discussed in REFTELs, the Japanese had been well advanced in their planning for an embassy but had to put e [...] |
2009-08-12 17:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT514 | AZIZ' NEW GOVERNMENT "NOT BAD" [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT515 | THE "FIRST" FEMALE ARAB MUSLIM FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Foreign Minister Naha Mint Mouknass emphasized the importance for women in the Arab world that she not fail as the "first Arab Muslim" foreign minister. She welcomed renewed cooperation with the United States in all areas of counter-terrorism but emphasized devel [...] |
2009-08-17 17:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KWMN MR IS |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT53 | MAURITANIA 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] President Abdallahi's government strongly encouraged foreign direct investment and economic liberalization. The government's investment and development strategy emphasized private sector development, which was seen as the main engine of economic growth. Privatization, liberalization, and inves [...] |
2009-01-19 16:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV OPIC KTDB USTR EFIN ELAB MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT538 | BIO INFO FOR MAURITANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) On August 11, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz named his cabinet, composed of 29 positions (24 ministers, 3 deputy ministers, 2 minister secretary generals and one minister counselor) (Ref A). 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf: Laghdaf was first appointed prime [...] |
2009-08-20 11:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MR PINR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT546 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER LAGHDAF - [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian relationship with the U.S. has "turned a page," and the newly (re)appointed Prime Minister looks forward to a broad and strong revitalized relationship. Counter-terrorism is of extreme importance -- the withdrawal of Peace Corps following the killing of an Ameri [...] |
2009-08-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT549 | JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT [...] (C) Summary: Journalist and Taqadoumy Website Director Hanevy Ould Deha, detained on June 18 on charges of defamation against presidential candidate Ibrahima Moktar Sarr, was sentenced on August 19 to six months in prison, a 30,000 UM ($111 USD) fine and 230,000 UM ($851 USD) in legal fees [...] |
2009-08-26 16:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT567 | MAURITANIAN DISASTER ALERT CABLE: HEAVY RAINS [...] Between August 27-29, 2009, 174 mm of rain fell on the southern Mauritanian city of Rosso. Days after the flooding, many houses in the city were still under 15-25 cm of water, with some neighborhoods of Rosso being 90-95% flooded. In Rosso alone, over 2,000 families have been displaced by the [...] |
2009-09-08 10:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MR SOCI |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT568 | MAURITANIA - POTUS LUNCH WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN [...] (C) Ambassador conveyed to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 President Obama's invitation to participate in a September 22 lunch of sub-Saharan African Heads of State. While the Ambassador noted we had been notified he was not planning on going to UNGA, President Az [...] |
2009-09-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GA MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT569 | PRESIDENT AZIZ ON MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL [...] (C) Ambassador met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 ostensibly to deliver President Obama's invitation for a luncheon with sub-Saharan Heads of State on the margins of UNGA (SEPTEL) and to deliver REFTEL demarche on the eve of the Arab League summit. Ambassador expanded [...] |
2009-09-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT574 | MAURITANIAN DISASTER DECLARATION CABLE: HEAVY [...] Pursuant to the authority stated in Section 062, Volume 2 of the Foreign Affairs Manual, and in accordance with OFDA's mandate to save lives, alleviate suffering and reduce the economic impact of disasters, I, Ambassador Mark Boulware, have determined that Mauritania is suffering from a disaste [...] |
2009-09-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MR SOCI |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT575 | MAURITANIA: LAYERED SECURITY STRATEGY [...] (C) The Way Forward: On September 2-3, Post hosted a Trans-Sahara Counter-terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) country-specific conference to develop a coordinated "hard" and "soft" counter-terrorism re-engagement strategy for FY09 and FY10. Conference participants included Country Team members, [...] |
2009-09-09 16:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER EAID MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT577 | GLOBAL FUND INVESTIGATION IN MAURITANIA: FUNDS GO [...] (C) Summary: After widespread reports of mismanagement of aid granted to Mauritania through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, a Global Fund financial investigation uncovered that nearly 74% of all aid funds to Mauritania were either spent improperly, or were not sufficie [...] |
2009-09-14 09:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID TBIO SOCI MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT578 | RESUMPTION OF PEACE CORPS OPERATIONS IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: Mission recommends the return of Peace Corps volunteers in areas of lesser terrorist risk defined as locations west of the Mission-designated "frontier zone." Peace Corps volunteers in Nouakchott, if any, would have to be placed in housing that meets USG standards for direct hi [...] |
2009-09-14 09:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AMGT MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT580 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST 2009 [...] (U) Summary: The month of August saw Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, author of the August 6, 2008 coup d'etat, become the legitimately elected President of Mauritania. Aziz also received a visit from the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and traveled to Libya on his first official visit. Taqado [...] |
2009-09-14 13:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MR SNAR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT593 | MAURITANIA: PRESIDENT AZIZ ON TERRORISM AND [...] (C) During the Ambassador's August 8 call on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on other matters, Aziz spoke about the terrorist and extremist threats facing Mauritania. Aziz focused first on the internal drivers of extremism, telling the Ambassador that disgruntled youth were driven to extre [...] |
2009-09-15 12:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS EAID PTER MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT597 | MAURITANIA -- PRESIDENT AZIZ UNABLE TO ATTEND [...] (SBU) Subsequent to President Aziz' initial response to REFTEL A invitation, Mission received September 15 a formal reply from the Presidency indicating President Aziz' inability to attend. 2. (SBU) A translation of the letter follows: September 13, 2009 Nouakchott Mr. President: [...] |
2009-09-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA OPDC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT607 | MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP DOES A [...] (U) The International Contact Group on Mauritania convened on September 10, 2009 in Nouakchott to consider developments in Mauritania since the finalization of the Dakar Accord's laying out the steps for a consensual return to constitutional order leading to new elections to resolve Mauritan [...] |
2009-09-17 17:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT608 | VENEZUELA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO CONSTRUCT AN OIL [...] (U) In a statement released by the Venezuelan Ministry of Information and covered widely in the Mauritanian press, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela reached an agreement with the GIRM to build a refinery in Mauritania capable of processing 30,000 to 40,000 barrels of cr [...] |
2009-09-21 09:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ENRG EIND PREL MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT611 | IMF AGREES TO A NEW THREE YEAR PROGRAM WITH [...] (C) Summary. A delegation of IMF advisors visited Mauritania to mark the resumption of GIRM and IMF relations following the 2008 coup d'etat. The IMF announced a Special Drawing Right loan valued at USD 80 million for Mauritania, as well as plans for a three-year IMF aid plan to begin in 201 [...] |
2009-09-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT613 | C-CI9-01825 RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN MAURITANIA [...] (C). As requested in REFTEL, Embassy Nouakchott reviewed current Russian business interests in Mauritania: A. Russia does not have a trade representative or office in Mauritania, and has no plans to establish such an office in the near future. There is an agreement between the Russian agen [...] |
2009-09-27 11:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR ECON EINV MR PINR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT614 | LETTER FROM MAURITANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] No summary [...] |
2009-09-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPDC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT617 | MAURITANIA: FY2010 1206 PROPOSALS TO ESTABLISH [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post supports the following two fiscal year 2010 (FY10) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) section 1206 funded proposals totaling $16.1 million from US Africa Command for: - Mauritania counter-terrorism company T&E - $10.50 million - Maintenance/logistic [...] |
2009-09-28 10:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP MASS MR PGOV |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT619 | FIRST EVER MOSLEM AMERICAN COUPLE VISIT CEMENTS NEW [...] Summary: IIP and ARS speakers Mrs. Fatima (Jane) Casewit and Mr. Daoud (Stephen) Casewit visited Mauritania from September 6th - 10th, 2009. Post capitalized on the timing of their visit to refresh recently renewed ties with the Mauritanian government through informal gatherings with local g [...] |
2009-09-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KMDR PREL MR PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT623 | FORMER PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI - "I UNDERESTIMATED THE [...] (C) A Man Content With Himself: Charge met with former President Abdallahi on September 24 at his simple home in the village of Lemden (three hours southeast of Nouakchott). This was the first meeting with Abdallahi since he resigned his office on June 24 as his part of the Dakar Accords. Ab [...] |
2009-09-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT635 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR [...] (C) Summary: In the month of September, the International Contact Group visited Mauritania to take stock of the post-election political situation. Delegations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank also visited and renewed programs with Mauritania. President Aziz travel [...] |
2009-10-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER MR KDEM |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT636 | MAURITANIA'S SEMI-ANNUAL FRAUD REPORT [...] Mauritania is a poor developing country whose small population and relative isolation have kept the demand for visas relatively low. There has been significant rural to urban migration since the devastating drought of the 1970s. There are three major ethnic groups in Mauritania: White Moors, Bl [...] |
2009-10-01 14:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT639 | TURKEY TO OPEN EMBASSY IN MAURITANIA [...] (U) According to press reports published on October 1, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Davat Ogloo announced his country's intention to open an embassy in Nouakchott to strengthen Turkish-Mauritanian cooperation. This declaration followed Ogloo's meeting with Mauritanian Foreign Affai [...] |
2009-10-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR TU |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT640 | MAURITANIA: UNCERTAIN SUPPORT TO US INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, post delivered demarche on October 5 to the Ministry of Fishing and Maritime Economy's Director of Shipping Mohamed Lemine Ould Sidi Brahim who stated in principle the US could count on Mauritanian support for its candidacy. Nevertheless, he stressed the Ministry [...] |
2009-10-06 13:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA MR UK |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT647 | FY 2010 RENEWAL OF DISASTER DECLARATION FOR [...] (U) Summary. On September 9, 2009, Post declared a disaster due to the effects of severe flooding in the city of Rosso and surrounding areas in southern Mauritania. (Ref A). In response, the USG has provided USG 25,100 to UNICEF from the International Disaster Assistance Account for the cons [...] |
2009-10-08 11:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MR SOCI TBIO |