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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02ROME474 |
FINMIN VIEWS ON JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER, TERRORIST [...] (SBU) WHEN THE AMBASSADOR CALLED ON FINANCE MINISTER GIULIO TREMONTI, HE PRAISED ITALIAN ACTION IN FREEZING TERRORIST ASSETS, INQUIRED HOW ECONOMIC REFORM WAS PROGRESSING AND MADE A STRONG ARGUMENT THAT THE JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER WAS IN ITALY'S TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. TREMONTI [...] |
2002-01-31 08:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IT FAS EAGR PREL |
| 02ROME5831 |
FODAG AMBASSADOR CONVEYS U.S. MESSAGE ON FOOD AID [...] SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR TONY HALL, U.S. MISSION ROME, PRESENTED U.S. VIEWS ON THE GROWING HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ON DECEMBER 2 TO SELECTED ROME-BASED PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES. AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE ALSO PARTICIPATED. EU AND AFRICAN REPRESENTA [...] |
2002-12-03 14:26:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AF EAID ETRD EU TBIO FAO WFP FAS |
| 06BAGHDAD3031 |
IRAQ: FIRST USG WORKING MEETING WITH NEW MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 13, IRMO, USDA, USAID, and Econoff met with new Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Yaarub Nadhum Al-Obodi; the Deputy Minister, Dr. Subhi Al-Jumaily; and the Director General for Planning, Mr. Sabah This meeting was only the second between post officials and the minister, [...] |
2006-08-21 03:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD USTR IZ PREL FAS |
| 06PANAMA1318 |
PANAMA EXPORTS FULL ALLOTMENT OF 2006 SUGAR QUOTA [...] The GoP's Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MICI) informed Post that as of June 28, 2006, Panama had exported to the United States 49,882.41 metric tons of raw sugar. Panama's sugar export allocation is 52,104 metric tons. The GoP believes the remaining 2,222 metric tons will be used up when [...] |
2006-07-06 18:47:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON FAS |
| 07DJIBOUTI1414 |
DJIBOUTI REPLACES DUBAI AS A FOOD FOR PEACE [...] (C) In a November 26 meeting, Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh warmly thanked USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa Kate Almquist for the U.S. decision to make Djibouti the new site for pre-positioned Food For Peace aid in the region (replacing Dubai). Guelleh called the decision a [...] |
2007-12-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET//NOFORN | DJ EAID ECON ET FAS MAS MOPS PINR PM PREF |
| 07LAPAZ2730 |
USDA IN BOLIVIA: FEEDING CHILDREN, FORTIFYING [...] (SBU) Since 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has donated about $7.3 million through NGOs to Bolivia. One program provides a daily hot meal to approximately 20%-25% of rural school children in the nation. The program has helped build school greenhouses, chicken coup [...] |
2007-10-11 16:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ2928 |
READY TO GAMBLE ON BIOFUELS IN BOLIVIA? [...] (C) The potential for biofuel development in Bolivia is significant: land is abundant, fertile, and cheap; labor is plentiful (and employment demands great); and there is even an under-used pipeline to carry the fuel to a pacific port. Government rhetoric, lack of legal definitions, and pote [...] |
2007-10-31 20:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA PREL EPET BL |
| 07LAPAZ3038 |
EVO: OPPOSITION WAGING ECONOMIC WAR [...] (C) President Evo Morales declared in a November 15 speech that opposition forces are trying to sabotage his administration through economic means. As a defensive measure in this "economic war", Morales temporarily eliminated the tariff on key agricultural imports, prohibited the exportatio [...] |
2007-11-16 21:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AGR AADP FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3230 |
PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY. [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to any cooperation with the United States is hamstringing USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately [...] |
2007-12-11 19:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3236 |
PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to cooperation with the United States is hampering USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately US$6 [...] |
2007-12-12 15:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 07LAPAZ3259 |
DIESEL SHORTAGES: EXCUSES, BLAME, AND INFLATION [...] (SBU) Over the past four months, Bolivia has suffered repeated shortages of diesel, especially in the eastern, agricultural powerhouse of Santa Cruz where the concurrent winter harvest and summer planting seasons are hampered by fuel shortages. Logistical problems appear to be principally t [...] |
2007-12-14 18:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS IICA AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 07MANAGUA197 |
NICARAGUA LETTER TO USTR SCHWAB AND SECRETARY OF [...] (U) On January 18, 2007 the Embassy received an original letter in English dated December 12 and addressed to U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab and to Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johannes from the Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade Alejandro Arguello and Minister of Agricultur [...] |
2007-01-24 20:22:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR FAS WTO NU |
| 07PANAMA28 |
PANAMA MARKS CONCLUSION OF FTA (TPA) NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY. The GoP is engaged in a full court press to solidify public support for the U.S.-Panama FTA (now renamed as a "Trade Promotion Agreement" or "TPA") Working through the holidays, President Martin Torrijos led a December 27 event to mark the conclusion of the TPA negotiations. The [...] |
2007-01-08 20:24:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFTA ETRD FAS FCSC PM |
| 08BERLIN562 |
RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (U) Summary: The recent press coverage of rising food prices has prompted the German Government to review its current policies affecting food and feed supplies. Domestically, there are a variety of factors contributing to rising food and feed prices. As expected, farmers have responded to hi [...] |
2008-04-30 15:15:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL FAS |
| 08BERLIN566 |
RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (U) Summary: The recent press coverage of rising food prices has prompted the German Government to review its current policies affecting food and feed supplies. Domestically, there are a variety of factors contributing to rising food and feed prices. As expected, farmers have responded to hi [...] |
2008-05-02 05:19:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL FAS |
| 08KABUL3334 |
AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION TRUST FUND (ARTF) [...] At the December 17 Quarterly Donors meeting, the Afghan government met with donors to discuss the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF). The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) and the ARTF donors approved a proposal to reform the Recurrent Cost Window of the ART [...] |
2008-12-30 07:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON AF FAS |
| 08LAPAZ1006 |
ADM BREAKS RANKS, CUTS DEAL TO EXPORT COOKING OIL [...] (C) Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) struck a deal with the government of Bolivia to restart exports of cooking oil. The American company stands alone among the four principal cooking oil exporters in its decision to negotiate with the Morales Administration and accept conditions on exporting. [...] |
2008-04-30 22:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 08LAPAZ1053 |
REQUEST OF WHEAT AID FOR BOLIVIA [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. 2. (U) Bolivia is currently experiencing a serious shortage of wheat. It is the result of public and private mismanagement, faulty Argentinean supplies, and world-wide shortages. Donated wheat has been a fundamental part of Bolivian supply under both the T [...] |
2008-05-06 21:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AGR FAO FAS IFAD BL |
| 08LAPAZ111 |
BOLIVIAN FOOD SAFETY TAKES BACK SEAT [...] (C) The Bolivian Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (SENASAG) is facing a funding crisis heading into the new year. The termination of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan and an unwillingness to accept administrative controls mandated by the P.L. 480 program leave SENASAG [...] |
2008-01-15 20:24:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA EINV BL |
| 08LAPAZ1154 |
SANTA CRUZ BOLIVIA: SECOND CITY'S ECONOMY NOT [...] (SBU) Under the spotlight surrounding the autonomy votes, the Department of Santa Cruz is often portrayed as wealthy and white, and the movement for autonomy is simplistically characterized as a struggle over resources. While there is some truth in these generalizations, none of them adequat [...] |
2008-05-19 17:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS PREL PINR EAGR EAID BO |
| 08LAPAZ1175 |
AGRICULTURAL DEMARCHES DELIVERED, BOLIVIAN FOOD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) EconOff delivered demarche regarding the U.S. candidate for Chairperson FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (Ref. A) to Carmen Timeo, the new head of the Bolivian Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (SENASAG). The [...] |
2008-05-21 20:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
| 08LAPAZ1560 |
BOLIVIA TO FILL SUGAR QUOTA [...] In response to action request regarding sugar exports and allocated quote amounts, Bolivia intends to fill its entire sugar quota for fiscal year (FY) 2008. Marcelo Olguin, from the Ministry of Production, reports that there is an over supply of sugar this year and the industry plans to expor [...] |
2008-07-15 21:19:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON FAS BL FAO |
| 08LAPAZ2601 |
BOLIVIAN FOOD SAFETY: TENTATIVE STEPS FORWARD [...] (C) The Bolivian Plant and Animal Health Service (SENASAG) has spent the better part of 2008 trying to reorganize and line up operational funding. Our effort to fund technical programs with remaining Title I funds has been caught up in political battles and the refusal by some members of th [...] |
2008-12-18 12:37:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL EFIN PINR |
| 08LAPAZ589 |
BOLIVIA: A PRODUCTIVE SECTOR SQUEEZE IN SANTA CRUZ [...] (C) The Department of Santa Cruz is the commercial agricultural center of Bolivia. It has suffered two consecutive years of flooding, but Morales Administration political actions, neglect, and mismanagement have combined to exacerbate the problems. The agricultural sector has faced diesel [...] |
2008-03-17 12:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 08LAPAZ638 |
BOLIVIAN EXPORT BAN COULD DEVASTATE ECONOMY [...] (C) On March 19, President Morales issued a decree banning the exportation of four types of cooking oil. If maintained for any length of time, the move would destroy the most important sector of the economy in the opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz and force the withdrawal of American firm [...] |
2008-03-20 20:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 08LAPAZ670 |
EXPORT BAN STRETCHES TO SIX DAYS [...] (C) The devastating ban on Bolivian cooking oil exports has now been in effect for six days. The Morales Administration, according to the Vice President in a meeting with the Ambassador March 26 (Septel), is determined to guarantee the supply of cooking oil at affordable prices. They are pre [...] |
2008-03-26 22:44:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS AGR FAO IFAD BL |
| 08MADRID959 |
SPANISH MFA OFFICIALS REACT TO DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S [...] (C) PolOff held an introductory meeting with Gonzalo de Salazar, the former DCM in Warsaw who is two weeks into his job as the MFA's new Deputy DG for Non-Proliferation & Disarmament. His aide, Carlos Torres Vidal, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, sat in on the meeting [...] |
2008-09-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | FCS FAS MGT EXEC MIL SP |
| 08PANAMA204 |
PANAMA AND MEXICO TO RE-START FTA TALKS; MEXICO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 5, 2008, during the inaugural speech for Expocomer 2008 Trade Convention in Panama City, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced that he would seek a free trade agreement with Panama and that the GOM would eliminate the visa requirement for Panamanians traveling to Mex [...] |
2008-03-07 18:48:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON CVIS EFTA ETRD FAS PM |
| 08PANAMA253 |
PANAMA: GOP SEEKS TO PROVIDE RELIEF AGAINST [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the March 1, 2008 National Assembly inaugural speech, President Martin Torrijos presented a $110 million fiscal package, aimed in large part to ease the impact of higher inflation. The package provides continued energy subsidies, a middle class tax cut, increased mortgage s [...] |
2008-03-28 12:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFTA ENRG ETRD FAS PM |
| 08PANAMA269 |
PANAMA: GOP SEEKS TO PROVIDE RELIEF AGAINST [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the March 1, 2008 National Assembly inaugural speech, President Martin Torrijos presented a $110 million fiscal package, aimed in large part to ease the impact of higher inflation. The package provides continued energy subsidies, a middle class tax cut, increased mortgage s [...] |
2008-03-28 22:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFTA ENRG ETRD FAS PM |
| 08TUNIS1221 |
TUNISIAN AGRICULTURAL MINISTER TOUTS COOPERATION [...] (U) Recently appointed Minister of Agriculture Abdesselem Mansour, long a contact of the US Embassy, told the Ambassador in a December 12 meeting that he will seek to improve cooperation. Mansour asked for scholarships for Tunisian agricultural engineers and suggested the two governments explor [...] |
2008-12-16 11:08:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD FAS ESTH TS |
| 09KABUL2076 |
AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION TRUST FUND: [...] On July 20, 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the donors reached agreement on the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust FundQs (ARTF) Incentive Program for FY 1388 (March 20, 2009 - March 19, 2010), which is intended to support needed economic policy reforms and fundi [...] |
2009-07-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON AF FAS |
| 09KABUL3804 |
Commerce Minister Shahrani, Ambassador Wayne and Director [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EINV EFIN ENRG ECON ETRD EAID AF FAS EAGR |
| 09KABUL793 |
AFGHANISTAN Q MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE SHARES [...] DCM and USAID Deputy Mission Director met with the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) Muhammad Asif Rahimi on March 19, 2009 to discuss the recent USG strategic review and the increased emphasis on agriculture. The DCM highlighted the increased role for agriculture in o [...] |
2009-03-31 07:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON EAID AF FAS |
| 09KABUL932 |
DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW, UN SRSG DISCUSS DONOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 4, 2009, the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Jacob Lew and delegation met with Ambassador Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan (SRSG), United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA). The discussion [...] |
2009-04-15 05:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD ECON EAID AF FAS |
| 09KINGSTON458 |
JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UPCOMING ELECTION OF NEW [...] (SBU) Per reftel, EmbOff delivered demarche to determine whether Jamaica will present a candidate or support another country's candidate for Director General (DG) of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) at its biennial meeting in October in Montego Bay, Jamaica. D [...] |
2009-06-09 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD AGR AORC EAGR ECON ETRD FAO FAS IICA OAS PGOV |
| 09KINGSTON902 |
JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) Per reftel, Emboff delivered demarche requesting the support of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) for the candidacy of Dr. Victor Villalobos for Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) at the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) meeting in [...] |
2009-10-27 19:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD EAGR AORC ECON ETRD FAO FAS IICA OAS PGOV PREL |
| 09LAPAZ1529 |
BOLIVIA SUGAR QUOTA [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-05 19:35:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR BL FAO FAS |
| 09LAPAZ871 |
PL-480: TWO YEARS OF FRUSTRATION [...] (C) As the Bolivian State presses forward with its desire to more fully control U.S. donations, the attempt to program and use PL-480 Title I funds provides an insightful case study. Following the monetization of agricultural commodities in 2004-05, about $6.7 million was planned to be joint [...] |
2009-06-15 13:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL EFIN PINR |
| 09MANAGUA1158 |
NICARAGUA: RESPONSE TO FDA REGISTRY DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-12 21:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON FDA EAGR FAS ETRD NU |
| 09QUITO1148 |
ATPDEA Still Key to Many Ecuadorian Industries and Jobs [...] (U) Ecuador has benefitted substantially from the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) program since its inception in 1991. ATPA currently provides duty-free access to the U.S. market for approximately 5,600 Ecuadorian products. According to GoE estimates, approximately 350,000 jobs are tied [...] |
2009-11-30 14:04:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL EC AGR FAS EPET EMIN |
| 10DAMASCUS70 |
DROUGHT UPDATE: WFP RENEWS SYRIA AID APPEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN World Food Program (WFP) Country Representative Muhannad Hadi requested on January 13 that the United States donate food aid valued at $10 million to the drought appeal for northeast Syria. WFP seeks to begin food distribution in February but thus far has received only a fract [...] |
2010-01-21 13:16:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON FAS PREL SOCI SY WFP |
| 10DAMASCUS97 |
SARG SHEDS LIGHT ON ITS DROUGHT CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: SARG officials discussed the drought afflicting northeast Syria with surprising transparency during a January 27 public forum that drew comparisons to those held during the pre-2001 "Damascus Spring." During the same week, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Abdullah al-D [...] |
2010-02-01 13:29:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON FAS PGOV PREL SOCI SY WFP |
| 10PANAMA50 |
Panama Request for FY 2010 Biotechnology Outreach Support [...] (SBU) Summary. Agricultural producers, the Ministry of Agricultural Development of Panama, and the Agricultural Research Institute of Panama are interested in developing programs to research and produce genetically modified crops, such as: rice, maize, sorghum, and sugar cane. The goals would [...] |
2010-01-14 22:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR FAS PM |