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| 00ATHENS1917 | ENGAGING GREECE ON THE BALKANS: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A [...] (C) LAST APRIL OUR EMBASSY ENDURED DAILY DEMONSTRATIONS, MANY OF THEM VIOLENT, BY ANGRY GREEKS PROTESTING THE NATO AIR CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERBIA. EMOTIONS RAN HIGH WITH ANTI-AMERICANISM AND PRO- SERB EMOTIONALISM OFTEN TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN. ALTHOUGH POLLS INDICATED OVER 90 PERCENT OF THE [...] |
2000-04-20 12:18:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ZL GR |
| 00HANOI2452 | READOUT FROM ASEAN STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING ON US-ASEAN DIALOGUE [...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARAS 3-4. 2. MFA ASEAN DEPARTMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR NGUYEN HOANG AN GAVE POLCOUNS AND POLOFF A READOUT NOV. 1 ON THE "STATUS REPORT ON ASEAN-U.S. RELATIONS" WHICH WAS DISCUSSED AT THE OCT 9-11 34TH ASEAN STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING IN HANOI. AN ALSO PRESENTED [...] |
2000-11-08 01:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV TPHY EAID ECIN VM ASEAN |
| 00HANOI899 | VIETNAM: PREPARING FOR APEC ENERGY MINISTERS MEETING [...] ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY (MOI), MINISTER DANG VU CHU WILL LEAD VIETNAM'S DELEGATION TO THE MAY 10-12 APEC ENERGY MINISTERS CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO. (NOTE: THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM DOES NOT HAVE A MINISTRY OF ENERGY. CERTAIN FUNCTIONS ARE DELEGATED TO OTHER MINISTRIES OR TO STAT [...] |
2000-04-28 08:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECIN EPET VM APEC |
| 01ABUJA1919 | NIGERIA PASSES SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET EQUAL TO USD [...] (SBU) Summary. EconOff met with Dr. Joseph Nnanna, Director of Research at the Central Bank of Nigeria, on July 25 and Representative Mohammed Daggash, Chairman of the House Finance Committee, on July 26. Both Messrs. Nnanna and Daggash asserted that the Second Supplementary Appropriation Ac [...] |
2001-08-02 08:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ECIN PGOV NI |
| 01ABUJA2515 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT MUSEVENI SPEAKS ON AFRICAN [...] SUMMARY: President Yoweri Museveni, guest lecturer at the Nigerian National War College on September 17, was billed to speak to the filled hall about regional integration. His well-received speech focused largely on globalization as the driving force for integration. Museveni argued that st [...] |
2001-10-03 12:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECIN MARR UG NI |
| 01HOCHIMINHCITY1181 | CG'S INITIAL MEETING WITH CHAIRMAN OF HCMC PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY. ON OCTOBER 15, CG EMI YAMAUCHI MET WITH LE THANH HAI, CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE (PC) OF HO CHI MINH CITY (HCMC), ACCOMPANIED BY POLOFF AND CONOFF. HAI EXTENDED A WARM WELCOME TO THE CG AND EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT SHE WOULD BE BOTH COMFORTABLE AND BUSY IN HCMC. HE SAID THE [...] |
2001-10-17 05:24:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO ECON ECIN PREL PGOV PTER VM |
| 01HOCHIMINHCITY1316 | DPO'S MEETING WITH STANDING DEPUTY SECRETARY OF HCMC COMMUNIST PARTY COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: DPO MET WITH VO VAN CUONG, STANDING DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE HCMC COMMUNIST PARTY COMMITTEE (CPC), SIPDIS NOVEMBER 8, ACCOMPANIED BY ECONOFF AND CONOFF. CUONG SAID HCMC HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN A "LAB" FOR PARTY POLICY FORMULATION, BUT STRESSED THAT FINAL ACTION ON "EXPERIMENTS" REST [...] |
2001-11-23 09:52:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO ECON ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL VM BTA |
| 01PRETORIA1599 | SADC SUMMIT: SOUTH AFRICA HOPED FOR MORE ON ORGAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT THE MARCH 9 SADC SUMMIT DID NOT SELECT THE SUCCESSOR TO ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE AS CHAIR OF THE ORGAN ON POLITICS, DEFENSE, AND SECURITY. SAG OFFICIALS INDICATED MARCH 13 THAT MBEKI PREFERRED THIS DECISION BE MA [...] |
2001-03-16 05:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN SADC WA |
| 02ABUJA1346 | NIGERIA: A PARTICIPANT'S PERSPECTIVE ON NEPAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolMilOff met on April 9 with Egyptian First Secretary Gamal Metwally for a read-out on the NEPAD meeting SIPDIS in Abuja March 26. While the achievements of the young organization have been more rhetorical than real, some progress has thus far apparently been achieved in defin [...] |
2002-05-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECIN ECON EAID PGOV NI |
| 02ABUJA2685 | NIGERIA: GON AND PRIVATE SECTOR ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT [...] Summary: In mid-August, Special Advisor for the Department of the Treasury's Government Debt Issuance and Management (GDIM) program, Thomas Briggs visited Nigeria, presenting a proposal on the establishment of a regional securities clearing and settlement facility for sub-Saharan Africa to s [...] |
2002-09-17 17:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON ETRD ECIN NI |
| 02HANOI1384 | VIETNAM: EFFECTING CHANGE WITH THE BTA AND [...] CLASSIFIED BY ECON/C CLAIRE PIERANGELO, REASONS 1.5 (D) 2. (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: DURING RECENT MEETINGS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS, U.S. TECHNICAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01384 01 OF 02 301039Z ASSISTANCE PROVIDERS, AND OTHER L [...] |
2002-05-30 10:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN ETRD EAID PREL KJUS VM BTA |
| 02HANOI2465 | VIETNAM: APEC OCTOBER MEETING (C-AL2-00879) [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CLAIRE A. PIERANGELO, ECONOMIC COUNSELOR. REASON 1.5 (C). 2. (C) POST HAS HAD A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS WITH GVN OFFICIALS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS REGARDING APEC AND CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02465 01 OF 02 100745Z VIETNAM'S RO [...] |
2002-10-10 07:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECIN VM KPRP APEC CTERR |
| 02RANGOON1366 | BURMA: JAPANESE UNLIKELY TO PUSH REFORM FINANCING [...] (C) Summary: Japanese experts say that Japan plans to discuss economic reform during Prime Minister Koizumi's meeting with Senior General Than Shwe at the November ASEAN 3 meeting in Phnom Penh. They have also promised to share with us a copy of their proposed program for Burmese structural [...] |
2002-10-23 09:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON BM |
| 02ROME1517 | ITALY UPBEAT (SORT OF) ON STABILITY PACT [...] (C) SUMMARY. THE GOI BELIEVES THAT SOUTHEAST EUROPE COOPERATIVE PROCESS STATES HAVE VERY RECENTLY BECOME MUCH MORE REALISTIC IN EVALUATING THE ORGANIZATION'S POTENTIAL AND THE SEECP, AS A RESULT, IS POISED TO BECOME A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE FOR REGIONALISM BOTH WITHIN THE STABILITY PACT [...] |
2002-03-26 10:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON IT KSEI PREL |
| 02ROME3604 | ITALY BELIEVES ZIMBABWE MUST BE INVITED TO EU-SADC [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE REQUESTING THAT ZIMBABWE BE EXCLUDED FROM THE NOVEMBER EU MEETING WITH THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC), THE MFA'S OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICAN AFFAIRS STATED THAT THE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 RO [...] |
2002-07-22 16:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ZI IT UN |
| 02ROME4613 | GOI: IF WE SANCTION ZIMBABWE, WHY NOT ERITREA? [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARA 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) POLMINCOUNS DELIVERED TO MFA ASSISTANT SECRETARY-EQUIVALENT CABRAS REF A DEMARCHE ENJOINING THE EU SIPDIS NOT TO INVITE ZIMBABWE TO ITS FALL MEETING WITH THE SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY [...] |
2002-09-23 15:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PHUM KDEM ZI ER IT SADC |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2444 | SOTO CANO AIRBASE TO BECOME COMMERCIAL AIRPORT? [...] (U) Summary: On August 15, President Maduro announced his intention to convert the Soto Cano military airstrip into an international airport for commercial use. The Comayagua business community embraces the concept, which seeks to transform the area into a new commercial center with an eye [...] |
2002-08-28 20:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR MARR PREL ECON ECIN HO |
| 03ABUDHABI1756 | UAE MAY IMPOSE RETALIATORY TARIFFS ON SAUDI [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: General Director of the UAE Federal Customs Authority Mohamed Al-Mehairi told Econoff on April 13 that the UAE is seriously considering retaliatory tariffs on Saudi exporters, in response to [...] |
2003-04-13 11:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIPR ETRD ECIN ETTC ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2161 | UAEG SIGNS DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENTS WITH 65 [...] (U) ADDRESSING A SEMINAR ON LEGAL AND TAX ISSUES RELATING TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON 5/4, UAE MINISTRY OF FINANCE UNDERSECRETARY FOR BUDGET AND REVENUE KHALID AL- BUSTANI CONFIRMED THAT THE UAEG HAS SIGNED BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH 65 COUNTRIES ON AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND INCOME TAX. T [...] |
2003-05-04 09:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EFIN ELAB ETTC PREL PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI221 | GCC CUSTOMS UNION MAKING IT TOUGHER TO DO BUSINESS [...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Thomas E. Williams for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: Although it may be business-as-usual in some parts of the Gulf (ref A), the launch of the GCC Customs Union on January 1 is actually raising barriers to trade in the UAE. The emirate of Abu Dhabi, in [...] |
2003-01-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIPR ETRD ECIN ETTC ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2218 | UAE AND SAUDI CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AT AN IMPASSE [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). ------------------- Summary And Comment ------------------- 2. (C) Summary and comment: General Director of the UAE Federal Customs Authority Mohamed Al-Mehairi updated Econoff May 6 on negotiations between the UA [...] |
2003-05-06 13:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIPR ETRD ECIN ETTC ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3939 | MISSION SEEKS BILATERALS WITH US OFFICIALS ON THE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (U) AS A MAJOR DONOR TO THE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN BOTH AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND A STEADFAST PARTNER IN OUR EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORIST FINANCING, THE UAEG HAS DEMONSTRATED IT IS WILLING TO GO THE DISTANCE TO SUPPORT U.S. POLICI [...] |
2003-08-27 11:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECIN EFIN EINV OVIP PREL PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3995 | TRADE BANK OF IRAQ DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE UAEG [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires, a.i. Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary. Charge D'Affaires passed reftel points and non-paper 8/31 to UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuami, and Econoff se [...] |
2003-09-02 12:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI4202 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW AND THE U.S. [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Secretary Snow: I would like to welcome you to the UAE as you prepare for the 2003 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in Dubai. Dubai's leadership has investe [...] |
2003-09-15 13:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ECIN EFIN EINV OVIP PREL PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI523 | UAE: DEMARCHES ON NEW CUSTOMS CARGO MANIFEST RULES [...] No summary [...] |
2003-02-01 12:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KIPR ETRD ECIN ETTC ECON TC |
| 03ABUJA739 | NIGERIA: GON SAYS NEPAD PEER REVIEW MECHANISM ON [...] Summary. A GON official says Heads of State at a March meeting of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) had concluded negotiations on a Memorandum of Understanding of the African Peer Review Mechanism. The official said the review would be conducted by independent experts and fo [...] |
2003-04-24 13:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN PHUM EAID PREL PGOV NI |
| 03ANKARA5198 | TRADE OFFICIAL ON CUSTOMS UNION WITH NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy's August 13 discussion with a senior foreign trade official raised questions about how much substance there is to the customs union framework agreement Turkey signed with the "TRNC" authorities August 8. Foreign Trade Director General for Agreements Tevfik Mengu argued [...] |
2003-08-15 06:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ECIN TU CY |
| 03ANKARA6058 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Edelman,s first meeting with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler focused on Turkey,s efforts to reduce the high prices it pays for natural gas imports, principally from Russia, and Guler,s desire to help U.S. efforts in Iraq. Guler said his Ministry wa [...] |
2003-09-25 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG IZ PREL TU |
| 03ANKARA7492 | BLACK SEA STATES TO CREATE NETWORK TO COMBAT AIDS [...] Action Request -- See para 7. 2. Summary: The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), in cooperation with UN agencies, wants to establish a regional network to address the growing risk of an AIDS outbreak in the Black Sea region. The concept has been endorsed by BSEC Foreign Ministers; [...] |
2003-12-05 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN KHIV SENV SOCI TU |
| 03ANKARA7685 | TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY RAISES CONCERN ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Akif Ayhan, MFA Head of Department for Economics, raised the Ministry's concern about security for Turkish truck drivers in Iraq and emphasized that the problem could lead to more truckers quitting or even another truckers' strike. Ayhan said U.S. military security for truck co [...] |
2003-12-16 06:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG ETRD IZ PREL TU |
| 03ANKARA7878 | AMBASSADOR MANN, TURKISH OFFICIALS DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Steven Mann, State Department Special Representative for Caspian Energy Diplomacy, visited Ankara, December 16-18 to discuss Caspian issues with senior Turkish officials, who confirmed Turkey's commitment to the East-West Energy Corridor and expressed confidence that B [...] |
2003-12-23 12:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG EPET IZ PREL TU |
| 03BRASILIA306 | FTAA/WTO CONTINUITY DESPITE ASCENSION OF REGIONAL [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. Summary. Moving quickly to bring his ministry's institutions in line with the new government's focus on South American integration, and in particular, a reinvigoration of Mercosul, Foreign Minister Amorim has announced the creation of a new South America Und [...] |
2003-01-29 14:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PGOV BR WTRO FTAA |
| 03KATHMANDU382 | INDO-NEPAL CROSS-BORDER ENERGY TRADE STAGNATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's Minister for Water Resources Dipak Gyawali is sharply critical of India's policies on cross-border energy trade. He told us that he believes New Delhi focuses on the strategic aspects of water and energy to the exclusion of economics. Despite Nepal's current power surpl [...] |
2003-03-04 04:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ENRG PREL |
| 03KUWAIT1214 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES CUSTOMS LAW [...] During its April 1, 2003 session, Kuwait's National Assembly ratified and referred to the Council of Ministers a draft unified customs law for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Kuwait remains the lone member of the six-nation GCC yet to formally agree on the legal side of the GCC Customs [...] |
2003-04-02 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD ECON KU GCC |
| 03KUWAIT673 | GOK FOOT DRAGGING ON CUSTOMS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Common with Riyadh (Ref A), yet contrary to earlier assertions by Kuwaiti officials (Ref B), the GCC Customs Union that began ostensibly on January 1, 2003, remains for Kuwait a union in name only. While the GOK has enacted a common external tariff, as stipulated by t [...] |
2003-02-24 08:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON KU |
| 03KUWAIT726 | WTO BUDGET REFORM POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-03 05:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN AFIN KU WTRO |
| 03OTTAWA1862 | A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH ABDULLA BIN AL-ATTIYAH, [...] (SBU) Summary: During a bilateral meeting held June 25 on the margins of the International Arab Banking Summit in Montreal, A/S Anthony Wayne and Abdulla bin al-Attiyah, Governor of the Central Bank of Qatar, discussed the regional economic situation with a focus on the fight against terror [...] |
2003-06-30 20:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN ETRD EINV ETTC PREL PTER PINR QA XF |
| 03OTTAWA1863 | A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH LEBANESE MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During a bilateral meeting held June 25 on the margins of the International Arab Banking Summit in Montreal, A/S Anthony Wayne and Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Marwan Hamadeh discussed the regional economic situation with a focus on the fight against terrorist finan [...] |
2003-06-30 20:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN EFIN ETRD EINV ETTC CVIS PREL PTER PINR LE XF ETRN |
| 03OTTAWA1865 | A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH FAHIM MOUDAD, DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary: During a bilateral meeting held June 25 on the margins of the International Arab Banking Summit in Montreal, A/S Anthony Wayne and Fahim Moudad, Deputy Governor of the Banque du Liban, discussed the fight against terrorist financing; cooperation on Iraq; and the Lebanese econo [...] |
2003-06-30 20:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN ETRD EINV ETTC PREL PTER LE XF |
| 03OTTAWA1866 | A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH AHMED MOHAMED ALI [...] (SBU) Summary: During a bilateral meeting held June 25 on the margins of the International Arab Banking Summit in Montreal, A/S Anthony Wayne and Ahmed Mohamed Ali al-Khawi, Chairman of the Yemen Banking Association (YBA), discussed the fight against terrorist financing and Yemen's economic [...] |
2003-06-30 20:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN ETRD EINV ETTC PREL PTER PINR YM ZR |
| 03OTTAWA686 | CANADA SUPPORTS WTO BUDGET REFORM [...] Canada supports the U.S. objective, outlined Reftel, to reform the WTO budget process and move towards a two-year budget cycle, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Trade Policy Officer Dean Steadman. Steadman told Econoff that the WTO needs "results-based [...] |
2003-03-12 18:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN AFIN CA WTRO |
| 03ROME4957 | IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION: ITALY'S SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (U) This cable contains an action request in paragraph 15. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Italy's Special Envoy to Iraq, Ambassador Antonio Armellini, met with EmbOffs on October 27 to discuss the reconstruction process to date and Italy's pledge of Euro 200 million at the Madrid Donors Conference. Armell [...] |
2003-10-31 07:58:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON PREL IZ IT EUN |
| 03ROME5036 | AUTOSTRADE SPA: LOOKING TO EXTEND SUCCESS ABROAD [...] SUMMARY: Driven by a market imperative for private capital to finance massive infrastructure projects, Italy's successful Autostrade SpA has emerged as a world leader in devising innovative electronic toll collection systems that will soon be exported abroad. Autostrade SpA, the controlling i [...] |
2003-11-06 08:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON ELTN IT EUN |
| 03ROME5344 | IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION: GOI MAY SWEETEN TELECOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: TELECOM ITALIA OFFICIALS, EAGER FOR ANY PROGRESS ON THEIR PROPOSAL TO CONNECT IRAQ TO THE MEDNAUTILUS FIBER OPTIC NETWORK (SEE REF A), TOLD ECONOFF ON NOVEMBER 21 THAT THE GOI IS SO COMMITTED TO THE $15 MILLION PROJECT THAT IT MAY INCLUDE THE PROPOSAL IN THE 200 MILLION EURO DONATI [...] |
2003-11-25 10:51:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ECIN ECON ECPS IS IT IZ PGOV PREL IRAQI FREEDOM |
| 03SANTODOMINGO5058 | GODR: DOMINICANS WERE COOPERATIVE AT CANCUN [...] (SBU) GODR INTERLOCUTORS HAVE ASSURED EMBOFFS THAT THEY ENGAGED CONSTRUCTIVELY AND COOPERATIVELY DURING THE SEPTEMBER 10-14 WTO MINISTERIAL. ACCORDING TO SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS (AND PRESIDENT OF INDOTEL), ORLANDO JORGE MERA, AND THE GODR'S CHIEF AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATOR, OSM [...] |
2003-09-18 19:23:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EAGR DR |
| 03SANTODOMINGO6075 | AMBASSADOR AND EXIM BANK METTINGS WITH PRESIDENT, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Ex-Im Bank officials had a series of meetings October 20-21, with President Mejia, members of his economic cabinet and International Monetary Fund Representatives. Mejia expressed frustration about delays in disbursement of loans from the IMF and the multilater [...] |
2003-10-29 11:26:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ECIN ENRG EINV DR |
| 03SANTODOMINGO6999 | PRESIDENT MEJIA SETS UP INVESTIGATION TO GET THE [...] (U) Summary. In a December 2 meeting, President Mejia insisted that the exchange rate must go down sharply and told attendees that military and police officers will be watching exchange houses to detect questionable transactions. Most exchange houses have agreed not to sell dollars for more than [...] |
2003-12-04 10:59:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ECIN DR |
| 03SANTODOMINGO7134 | DOMINICAN PESO STEADY ONE WEEK AFTER PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dominican Peso (RD) continues to hold steady against the dollar one week after President Mejia talked it down while appointing a commission headed by military and police to counter alleged irregularities in trading(reftel). Foreign exchange houses and banks were buying dol [...] |
2003-12-09 10:59:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ECON ECIN DR |
| 03SANTODOMINGO7570 | DOLLARS SCARCE AT OFFICIAL RATE -- BLACK MARKET GROWING [...] No summary [...] |
2003-12-29 11:03:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ECIN DR |
| 03ZAGREB617 | PATTEN IN CROATIA: DOUBTS OVER ICTY PRESSUE; WAY AHEAD ON CROATIA'S APPLICATION [...] (C) LOCAL EUROPEAN COMMISSION HOM WUNENBURGER TOLD AMBASSADOR THAT COMMISSIONER PATTEN, DURING A MARCH 13 VISIT TO ZAGREB, EMPHASIZED THE GOC'S NEED TO MAKE REAL PROGRESS ON ICTY COOPERATION, REFUGEE RETURNS, JUDICIAL REFORM AND MEDIA LEGISLATION. MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT MESIC, PM RACAN AND KE [...] |
2003-03-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC ECIN PREF HR SR EUN |
| 04ABUDHABI2203 | PRIMER ON UAE INSURANCE MARKET [...] The UAE insurance sector is a small contributor to the federation's economy, but enjoys significant levels of protection from foreign competition. Most recent data available shows that the insurance sector contributed $630 million to the UAE economy in 2002 -- less than 1 percent of the UAE' [...] |
2004-07-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ECIN TC |
| 04ABUDHABI254 | ARAB MONETARY FUND PLEDGES ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) Summary: During a January 20 meeting with State DAS Greenwood and Treasury DAS Lowery, officials from the Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) gave assurances that the Fund would do everything it could to [...] |
2004-01-25 11:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV TC |
| 04ABUDHABI552 | UAE BOOSTS EXPORTS TO GCC, THANKS TO CUSTOMS UNION [...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: One year after its creation, the GCC Customs Union is proving to be a commercial boon for the UAE -- exports and reexports to the GCC states increased by 33 percent in 20 [...] |
2004-03-02 10:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIPR ETRD ECIN ETTC ECON TC |
| 04ABUJA1999 | ECOWAS OR EU-COWAS: ACCREDITATION AND INFLUENCE AT [...] Summary. The recently concluded ECOWAS donors conference highlighted a disparity in influence at the Secretariat between accredited observers and non-accredited SIPDIS donors. The ability of the EU to direct the conference agenda and to dominate the attention of ECOWAS was remarkable, an [...] |
2004-12-03 08:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECIN MARR ODIP NI ECOWAS |
| 04ANKARA1036 | GEORGIAN FM JAPARIDZE'S FIRST VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Georgian FM Japaridze reportedly gave Turkish FM Gul a positive readout of President Saakashvili's recent Moscow trip but said Saakashvili had emphasized that Georgia will remain oriented toward the West, will insist on Russian withdrawal from bases in Georgia, and will not agree [...] |
2004-02-23 16:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EPET GG PGOV PREL RS TU |
| 04ANKARA1350 | TURKISH COMPETITION POLICY - EU ACCESSION REQUIRES [...] (SBU) Summary. According to officials of the Representation of the European Commission to Turkey (EC Representation), over the past six years the Turkish Competition Authority (CA) has made good progress in those few sectors where it has chosen to focus. However, many sectors remain concentr [...] |
2004-03-05 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TU ECIN |
| 04ANKARA1373 | TURKEY WANTS TIGRIS-EUPHRATES BASIN AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials say Turkey wants to begin a dialogue with Syria and Iraq, leading to a comprehensive water sharing/management agreement for the Tigris-Euphrates basin, part of an effort by the Turkish government to contribute to stability in the region. They say that in the comin [...] |
2004-03-08 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECIN IZ PREL SENV SY TU |
| 04ANKARA149 | TURKEY PLEASED WITH ISRAELI CABINET APPROVAL OF [...] (C) Turkey is pleased with the decision (reftel) of the Israeli Cabinet to approve the broad outlines of the sale of fresh water from Turkey to Israel. MFA's Transboundary Waters Chief, Mithat Rende, said that Israeli working level officials had been in Ankara recently to agree on the text of [...] |
2004-01-09 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD IS PREL SENV TU |
| 04ANKARA1840 | THE SECOND IRAQ-TURKEY BORDER CROSSING; ANKARA'S [...] (U) Summary: Iraq and Turkey agreed in December 2003 to build a second border crossing; however, they have not been able to reach agreement on the location and associated issues, such as the connecting road in Iraq and financing (ref b). Although the backlog at the border has improved somew [...] |
2004-03-27 09:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD IZ PREL TU |
| 04ANKARA2201 | THE SECOND IRAQ-TURKEY BORDER CROSSING: PROPOSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Econoff shared U.S. proposal (ref b) for a TDA study of the Iraqi and Turkish proposals for a second border crossing. MFA DDG Sakir Fakili said Turkey had nearly completed its own study, but was open to all suggestions and would respond to the TDA idea after consulting with othe [...] |
2004-04-16 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD IZ PREL TU |
| 04ANKARA2441 | STICKER SHOCK: 50 BILLION EURO PRICE TAG TO BRING [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's Representation in Ankara is pressing forward with pre-accession assistance of Euro 250 million in 2004, rising to Euro 1.4 billion in 2011, if accession negotiations are on track. However, in one sector, the environment, the cost to bring Turkey up to E [...] |
2004-04-30 10:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN EU SENV TU |
| 04ANKARA2560 | TURKEY SAYS "NO THANKS" TO TDA FEASIBILITY STUDY [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Middle East Affairs Sakir Fakili told EconCouns May 5 that, while Turkish authorities appreciated the U.S. offer (reftel) for TDA to conduct a feasibility study on a second Turkish-Iraqi border crossing, they felt such assistance was unnecessary given that [...] |
2004-05-06 14:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD PREL TU IZ |
| 04ANKARA2721 | TURKEY AS THE HUB IN THE EAST-WEST ENERGY CORRIDOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish officials say they continue to strongly support the East-West Energy Corridor and are positioning Turkey to become the transit hub for Caspian and Middle East natural gas to Europe. Turkey is pushing two pipeline projects to export gas to Europe and exploring options f [...] |
2004-05-14 09:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG EPET ETRD SENV TU |
| 04ANKARA2914 | CASPIAN BASIN ENERGY AMBASSADOR MANN DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the margins of the IEA's Seminar "Natural Gas in South East Europe," May 5-6, in Istanbul, Ambassador Mann met with Energy U/S Sami Demirbilek and MFA DDG for Energy Hakki Akil to discuss U.S.-Turkish coordination in support of the East-West Energy Corridor. Turkish officia [...] |
2004-05-25 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ENRG EPET ETTC IR TU |
| 04ANKARA315 | TURKISH ELECTRICITY TO IRAQ -- ENERGY MINISTRY [...] (SBU) Energy Ministry Under Secretary Sami Demirbilek told us January 16 that Turkey continues to look for ways to help Iraq meet its electricity deficit, but needs more information about the amount and duration of Iraq's electricity shortfall. He said that Turkey will have a surplus of elec [...] |
2004-01-16 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ENRG ETRD IZ PGOV PREL TU |
| 04ANKARA3336 | AMBASSADOR EDELMAN URGES TURKEYS' ENERGY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a June 8 meeting with Minister of Energy Hilmi Guler, Ambassador Edelman welcomed progress on the East-West Energy Corridor, raised concerns about Iranian gas exports to Europe, expressed support for Bosphorus bypass pipelines, and pressed the GOT to accelerate energy sector [...] |
2004-06-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG EPET SENV TU |
| 04ANKARA4455 | GOT PREPARING THREE-YEAR ECONOMIC PROGRAM [...] (Sbu) Summary: Earlier this summer, the Turkish Government began work on a 3-year economic program. An outgrowth of previous and existing policy planning vehicles, the 3-year program is a GOT economic policy program being developed with input from--but independently of --the IMF. According t [...] |
2004-08-09 16:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECIN TU |
| 04ANKARA4528 | IMF OFFICIAL ON GOT'S DECISION TO SEEK A NEW [...] (C) Summary: Following IMF Mission Chief Moghadam,s surprise visit to Ankara last week, and public statements by PM Erdogan and Economy Minister Babacan that the GOT had decided to seek a follow-on disbursing Standby Arrangement(SBA), Econoffs met with IMF Deputy Resident Representative Chri [...] |
2004-08-11 16:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV ECIN TU |
| 04ANKARA532 | TURKISH AND IRAQI OFFICIALS ACHIEVE LITTLE AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a follow-up to agreements reached in Ankara in December 2003 (ref a), Iraqi and Turkish officials met in the Turkish border town of Cizre (January 20-22) to discuss improving border operations. However, the results were disappointing: the Turkish side insisted that it could [...] |
2004-01-28 05:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD IZ PGOV PREL TU |
| 04ANKARA6258 | SIGN OF IMPROVING RELATIONS -- TURKS FIGHT FIRE IN [...] Turkish officials over the past year have spoken often of improving relations with Syria. But so far it has been mostly talk, until October 27, when in a surprising show of cooperation, Syria asked for and Turkey delivered planes and fire fighters to put out a blaze along the border of Turkey [...] |
2004-11-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN PREL SY TU |
| 04ANKARA6489 | EUR DAS LAURA KENNEDY MEETS TURKISH OFFICIALS TO [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Laura Kennedy visited Ankara November 11-12 to discuss with Turkish officials the December 17 European Council decision on starting accession negotiations with Turkey. Kennedy met with Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mehmet Dulger, MFA Deputy U/S for EU A [...] |
2004-11-19 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EU PGOV PREL TU |
| 04BRASILIA3100 | DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVSIOR SHIRZAD'S NOV, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. At a November 22 dinner for visiting Deputy National Security Advisor Faryar Shirzad and NSC Director Del Renigar, senior executives of key Brazilian and multinational companies questioned Brazil's continued membership in Mercosur (in its current configuration [...] |
2004-12-17 18:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN EINV BR BL AR |
| 04BRATISLAVA896 | SLOVAKIA STILL UNDECIDED ON TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP, [...] (C) DCM raised reftel message on Turkey's EU accession with MFA State Secretary Ivan Korcok, MFA Acting General Director for European Affairs Frantisek Ruzicka, and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister Milan Jezovica on September 28 and 29. Ruzicka said Slovakia was supportive in prin [...] |
2004-09-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL EU TU LO |
| 04BRUSSELS5186 | ROMANIAN EU ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS GOING DOWN TO [...] (SBU) The European Commission has recommended against closing the competition chapter of Romania's accession negotiations because of concerns over state subsidies. No American companies are believed to be involved in any of the major cases of concern. The EU might miss its self-imposed deadl [...] |
2004-12-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN RO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04DJIBOUTI645 | AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES SELF-HELP SEWING WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] |
2004-05-03 06:50:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECIN SOCI DJ |
| 04DUBLIN1805 | IRISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BILATERAL TREATIES [...] On December 1, Post delivered reftel talking points to Tony Joyce, Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment (DETE) Senior Trade Negotiator. Post noted that the United States and Ireland have a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, dating back to 1950, with a Protocol signed i [...] |
2004-12-16 14:39:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN KTIA EINV ETRD EU |
| 04GUATEMALA305 | FOREIGN MINISTER BRIZ DESCRIBES AMBITIOUS AGENDA [...] (C) EconCouns and an AID delegation called on Foreign Minister Briz Feb. 6 to discuss integration. Briz confirmed that a customs union, beginning with El Salvador, was a top priority of President Berger. He noted that El Salvador and Guatemala already had harmonized 96% of their external t [...] |
2004-02-10 00:07:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD PGOV GT |
| 04KINSHASA1562 | ECONOMIC REPORT - AUG 13 THROUGH AUG 20 [...] Food prices have decreased due to the reopening of the Mai-Ndombe bridge. Exchange rates remain stable, but the FC is trading at a slightly higher value on the Kinshasa parallel market than official rates. The DRC's National Assembly created a commission to investigate Gecamines' mining and [...] |
2004-08-19 12:33:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN ECON EFIN ELTN EMIN EPET EWWT PGOV PREL CG |
| 04KINSHASA1590 | AFRICAN CANAL A PIPE(LINE) DREAM [...] (C) Summary. The DRC Ministry of Energy reported that a regional delegation with strong backing from Nigerian President Obasanjo visited Kinshasa to discuss a proposed canal linking the Congo River with Lake Chad. Involved parties include Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, th [...] |
2004-08-24 06:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EINV ETRD EWWT PREL SENV CG |
| 04KINSHASA1669 | ECONOMIC REPORT - AUG 28 THROUGH SEPT 3 [...] Summary. Prices are stable with the exception of food items, which registered a 7 percent increase. Exchange rates remain stable. Adastra Minerals is seeking to become a major metals producer in the region. Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) and Gecamines are in advanced negotiations for a jo [...] |
2004-09-03 14:32:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD CG |
| 04KINSHASA1709 | ECONOMIC REPORT - SEPT 4 THROUGH SEPT 10 [...] Summary. Prices and exchange rates remain relatively stable, with exchange rates showing signs of an impending slight increase. Public transportation prices have doubled in Lubumbashi due to higher gas prices and taxes. Zimtrade will hold a trade fair in Lubumbashi. RVF (river transportati [...] |
2004-09-10 12:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EIND ELAB ELTN ENRG ETRD EWWT CG |
| 04KINSHASA1840 | PETROLEUM SHORTAGES IN KATANGA [...] Summary. Petroleum shortages resulting from Zambia closing its border to exports are affecting the Katanga region, home to most of the DRC's copper and cobalt mining. Poor transportation infrastructure and an inefficient parastatal petroleum company leave the GDRC unable to supply the region [...] |
2004-10-04 06:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EPET CG |
| 04KINSHASA1841 | PETROLEUM SHORTAGES IN KATANGA [...] Summary. Petroleum shortages resulting from Zambia closing its border to exports are affecting the Katanga region, home to most of the DRC's copper and cobalt mining. Poor transportation infrastructure and an inefficient parastatal petroleum company leave the GDRC unable to supply the region [...] |
2004-10-04 06:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EPET CG |
| 04KUWAIT4514 | POSITIVE REPORT ON UNEMPLOYMENT IN KUWAIT [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed the employment situation in Kuwait during a December 27, 2004 meeting with Minister of Communications, Planning and State for Development of Administrative Affairs Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah al-Ahmed al-Sabah. When asked his opinion on Kuwait unemployment, the Minster [...] |
2004-12-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ELAB KU PGOV |
| 04LJUBLJANA438 | SLOVENIA: SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for information on the status of Slovenia's commitment to the establishment of a Permanent Sava River Basin Commission, the implementation of its mandate, and official representation. On 05 May, MFA State Undersecretary and Stability Pact National Co [...] |
2004-05-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL SI |
| 04MADRID3937 | SPAIN: APPROACH TO EU MEMBERS ON AID, TRADE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL EU TU CY SP |
| 04MADRID4381 | SPAIN SUPPORTS TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) Spain supports Turkish EU candidacy, a policy that has remained consistent through both the Popular Party administration of Jose Maria Aznar and the current Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. MFA EU Correspondent Luis Canovas del Castillo told Poloff November 15 t [...] |
2004-11-16 11:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL EU TU SP |
| 04MANAMA1899 | NEA DAS DIBBLE DISCUSSES FTA, FORUM FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. On a December 12-13 visit to Manama, NEA DAS Dibble paid a call on Bahraini Minister of National Economy (MOFNE) Abdulla Saif. They discussed the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the recent Forum for the Future meeting in Rabat, and plans for the establishment of the En [...] |
2004-12-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PREL BA |
| 04MAPUTO1625 | MOZAMBIQUE RATIFIES THE U.S.-MOZAMBIQUE BILATERAL [...] On December 14, Luis Sitoi, advisor to the Minister of Industry and Commerce, informed the Embassy that the Mozambican Council of Ministers ratified the U.S.-Mozambique Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) during the week of Dec 6. The text of the BIT has been sent for publication in Mozambique's [...] |
2004-12-17 03:56:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD EINV ECON MZ BIT |
| 04OTTAWA2893 | NEW CANADIAN TRANSPORT MINISTER INTERESTED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre on October 26 and learned his views on upgrading the bilateral aviation agreement and accelerating infrastructure improvements at land border crossings. The Minister indicated he will push for both, and that port security [...] |
2004-10-28 19:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EWWT ELTN ASEC PREL CA |
| 04OTTAWA3144 | CANADIAN MINISTER OF TRANSPORT SUGGESTS THAT THE [...] (SBU) Canadian Transport Minister Jean Lapierre has signaled his interest in reviewing Canada's civil aviation policy. He has proposed a broad examination of barriers to a more innovative and efficient civair system in Canada, including questioning foreign investment limits and cabotage proh [...] |
2004-11-22 16:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EINV CA |
| 04PRETORIA3831 | ANSWERS TO KEY EMPOWERMENT QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several industry charters are non- compliant with Black Economic Empowerment guidelines, according to Teddy Daka, one of the original drafters of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Bill. He also explained that sector charters would be issued as Codes of Good Prac [...] |
2004-08-24 15:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA4312 | APPROVAL OF SNO LICENSE - AN EMPTY GESTURE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe- Casaburri conditionally approved a license for the Second National Operator (SNO) on September 17. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) must now oversee negotiations to issue the license despite the lack of a [...] |
2004-09-25 06:57:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA4313 | AMERICAN FIRMS CRITICIZE FOURTH DRAFT OF ICT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (AmCham) submitted comments on the fourth draft of the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) empowerment charter September 15 to the ICT Charter Working Group. American businesses described the fourth draft as impractica [...] |
2004-09-25 06:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA4503 | UPDATE ON BEE CHARTER ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel helped to resolve the deadlock over the composition of the Financial Services Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Council in a September 20 meeting with industry stakeholders. Banks are concerned, however, that community and labor groups, excluded f [...] |
2004-10-07 12:37:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA4532 | DTI MINISTER ON BEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa reviewed the economic and social rationale for BEE and said that empowerment would contribute to economic growth during a September 30 breakfast briefing. Mpahlwa said that Codes of Good Practice regulating rating agencies were im [...] |
2004-10-08 15:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA4576 | BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT - AN OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Act, signed in January 2004, specifies that the Department of Trade and Industry will oversee the BEE process. DTI still has to create a critical advisory council and issue important guidelines. In the meantime, industry char [...] |
2004-10-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04PRETORIA5063 | DTI OFFICIAL CLARIFIES BEE CODES OF GOOD PRACTICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Director of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Jeffrey Ndumo met with representatives from U.S. firms at the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (AmCham). Ndumo said that DTI would release nine Codes of Good Practice in two phase [...] |
2004-11-22 09:49:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 04QUITO3260 | ECUADOR SPLIT ON SUPPORT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] Summary. A public opinion poll sponsored by USAID shows that about half of the Ecuadorian public has heard about the FTA and about half of the public (both informed and uninformed) supports it. Not surprisingly, solid majorities believe that the FTA will benefit the U.S. far more than Ecuado [...] |
2004-12-20 20:52:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECIN ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EC FTA |
| 04ROME3917 | ITALY AGREES ON NEED FOR IMMEDIATE AID FOR CYPRUS, [...] (C) MFA Turkey/Cyprus Office Director Renato Ricci told Poloff on October 4 that Italy concurs with the US view (REFTEL) that increased economic development in North Cyprus will aid reunification. To that end, Italy supprts rapid disbursal of the Commission's propoed Euro 259 million aid pack [...] |
2004-10-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECIN TU CY IT EUN |
| 04THEHAGUE2495 | CYPRUS/NETHERLANDS: APPROACH TO EU MEMBERS ON AID, [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on September 30 to Hannie Pollman-Zall, Director of the Dutch MFA's Western and Central European Affairs Department. Pollman-Zall responded that "many lawyers are breaking their heads over ways to facilitate direct Turkish Cypriot trade with the EU." She [...] |
2004-09-30 12:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN CY NL EUN |
| 04VILNIUS1194 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding support for Turkey's EU membership and provided non-paper on Turkey's progress on Copenhagen criteria to the MFA's Jurgita Apanaviciute on September 27. Apanaviciute, who is responsible for enlargement issues within the MFA's European Union Department, [...] |
2004-09-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EU TU LH |
| 04WELLINGTON686 | NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO BOTH RELAX AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Proposed changes to the New Zealand government's review of foreign investments would reduce the scope of business deals requiring its review while tightening the screening of land purchases by foreigners. The government [...] |
2004-08-11 01:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECIN ECON ETRD NZ |
| 04WELLINGTON727 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO APEC PROPOSALS ON CUSTOMS [...] Post delivered ref talking points August 24 to Adele Bryant, deputy director in the economic division of New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 2. On the proposal for permanently extending the customs duties moratorium on electronically transmitted products (ref B), Ms. Bryant [...] |
2004-08-25 21:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN ETTC EINV NZ APECO |
| 04WELLINGTON924 | APEC: NEW ZEALAND PM SAYS NZ WILL DEMARCHE CHINA [...] (C) Ambassador Swindells met with Prime Minister Clark on November 2. He asked that New Zealand urge China to support inclusion of the remaining APEC security deliverables at the upcoming summit. He stressed that despite China's statements to the contrary, the deliverables belong in APEC. W [...] |
2004-11-03 23:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KSTC PARM ECIN PTER ETTC EAID NZ |
| 04ZAGREB847 | PERMANENT SAVA COMMISSION HAS CROATIAN SUPPORT BUT [...] (U) THE FOLLOWING RESPONDS TO REFTEL QUESTIONS ON THE STATUS OF THE SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT COMMISSION IN ZAGREB. SUMMARY ------- 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT SAVA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION WITH A SECRETARIAT IN ZAGREB HAS BROAD SUPPORT AT THE [...] |
2004-05-13 09:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL HR |
| 05ABUDHABI3808 | UAE: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AT UN HLE [...] In September 4 call on Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi, U/S for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador enumerated several concerns about the outcome paper on development issues which will be discussed at the upcoming UN high level event (HLE), and left reftel non-paper detailing these concerns. Ambassador not [...] |
2005-09-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL UNGA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI600 | UAE Federal Cabinet Approves FTA negotiating Committee [...] (U) The UAE Cabinet, on February 7, formally approved establishment of a committee to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. According to the Cabinet decision, the committee would negotiate "within the framework of the Ministry of Finance and Industry's efforts on the issue." [...] |
2005-02-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON EFIN |
| 05ABUJA1684 | NIGERIA ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING [...] Embassy Abuja's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and an economic officer met on Sept. 9, 2005 with Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap, director general of the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's international organizations. 2. DCM presented ref talking points on the U.S. Government's views on the Declaration [...] |
2005-09-09 16:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN NI UNGA |
| 05ABUJA2006 | NIGERIA ECOWAS COMMON EXTERNAL TARIFF UPDATE [...] Summary: Nigeria appears set to implement the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET), before the end of October 2005. The CET would harmonize Nigeria's tariffs with those of other ECOWAS member states, and make Nigeria's trade policies more predictable. Though Nigeria had earlier abolished impor [...] |
2005-10-19 08:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN EINV NI AGOA ECOWAS |
| 05ANKARA2031 | TURKEY SUPPORTS US OBSERVER STATUS TO BSEC [...] (U) In conjunction with the visit of EUR/ACE Special Advisor John Markey to the Istanbul headquarters of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization, Econoff met with MFA BSEC desk officer Ali Sain Akin April 6 to discuss the U.S. application for observer status and Turkey's object [...] |
2005-04-07 14:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD TU PREL |
| 05ANKARA2729 | ANKARA FORUM PROMOTES BUSINESS COOPERATION AMONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Chamber of Commerce organized the first meeting of Israeli, Palestinian and Turkish business associations April 27 in Ankara, Turkey. In a joint statement after the meeting, the three parties named the initiative "the Ankara Forum for Palestine-Israel-Turkey Economic [...] |
2005-05-12 07:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECIN ECON ETRD IS PREL TU |
| 05ANKARA2787 | TURKEY PREPARES FIRST STEP FOR COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's MFA Water expert said water data received from the Iraqi Water Ministry showed Iraq's willingness to cooperate on the Tigris and Euphrates, and he hoped to issue soon an invitation for an Iraqi delegation to come to Ankara to start talks on cooperation. We recommend [...] |
2005-05-17 04:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN IZ PREL SENV SY TU |
| 05ANKARA2975 | BABACAN NAMED TURKEY'S EU NEGOTIATOR [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan announced that Minister of Economy Ali Babacan will be Turkey's EU negotiator. Although Babacan is among the most internationally-savvy Ministers, having long experience dealing with the IMF and the international financial community, some observers believe [...] |
2005-05-26 04:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN TU |
| 05ANKARA3093 | TESTY TURKISH-IRAQI WATER TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish officials agreed with Iraqi Water Minister Rashid to continue technical water discussions in July, but the Turks have yet to be convinced about Iraq's request for additional water from the Euphrates. In a testy meeting, the two sides disagreed on basic issue of whethe [...] |
2005-06-02 08:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECIN IZ TU |
| 05ANKARA3329 | TURKEY AND IRAQ WILL MEET TO DISCUSS TRUCKER [...] (U) The press reported June 10 that bilateral working group meetings on transportation security and consular affairs agreed to during the Ankara visit of PM Jafari will be held at a technical level on June 13 (transportation) and June 16 (consular). MFA Chief of Section for Iraq Economic Rel [...] |
2005-06-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN IZ MARR PREL TU |
| 05ANKARA398 | OBSERVER STATUS AT BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION [...] (C) Mission Turkey believes that it would be in U.S. interests to have observer status to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) forum and that we should begin consultations to this end. In ConGen Istanbul's initial meeting with him, new BSEC Secretary General Tedo Japaridze said he woul [...] |
2005-01-25 16:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETTC KFPC PREL TU XG |
| 05ANKARA4166 | TURKEY AND IRAQ COOPERATE ON TRUCKER SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: Turkey and Iraq continue to work to improve the safety for Turkish drivers who transport large volumes of refined products and other goods into Iraq. Trucker deaths have fallen sharply in 2005. On June 22-23 Turkish and Iraqi officials met in Ankara to discuss transportation se [...] |
2005-07-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD IZ PREL TU |
| 05ANKARA4504 | TURKISH CHAMBER CONTINUES TO PROMOTE BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: Business delegations from Israel, Palestine and Turkey (the Ankara Forum) met in Jerusalem June 7 and agreed to move forward with an Israeli proposal to revive the Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza and restore more than 4,000 jobs to Palestinian workers there. Special Envoy Wolfensoh [...] |
2005-08-03 11:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECIN ETRD IS PREL TU |
| 05ANKARA4553 | HIGH-LEVEL U.S. PARTICIPATION FOR TURKISH-IRAQI [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-04 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD BEXP TU IZ |
| 05ANKARA4609 | TURKEY AND IRAQ DEADLOCKED ON SECOND BORDER [...] (C) Summary: With reports of increasingly tight fuel supplies in Iraq, the Charge called the MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs and wrote to the GOT to urge SIPDIS whatever action can be taken by Turkish customs to maximize throughput at Habur Gate. Separately, an MFA official [...] |
2005-08-05 17:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU |
| 05ANKARA4880 | TURKEY WORKING TO EXPEDITE FUEL EXPORT TO IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: The GOT seems to be doing its best to maximize truck traffic at Habur Gate, but shipping flow through the gate will remain an on-going problem for a variety of reasons, particularly because the single gate will remain a bottleneck and because civilian and military needs in Iraq a [...] |
2005-08-19 13:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU |
| 05ANKARA5065 | FUEL FLOWING AGAIN TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Fuel shipments through Turkey to U.S. military and SOMO depots appear to have resumed following the partial clearing of SOMO payment arrears owed to Turkish suppliers and the establishment of a new Turkish system for monitoring deliveries in order to reduce smuggling. At the s [...] |
2005-08-29 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECIN PREL IZ TU |
| 05ANKARA5986 | TURKISH BUSINESS RELIEVED OVER START OF EU [...] (SBU) Summary: As expected, the business community breathed a collective sigh of relief over the start of EU accession talks, though many claimed they had always been confident of the outcome. The business community has been among a key constituency in support of EU accession, however, their [...] |
2005-10-04 16:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ECIN TU EU |
| 05ANKARA6066 | BSEC SECGEN PUSHES FOR ACTIVE U.S. ROLE [...] (SBU) In a September 27 meeting with Charge, Ambassador Tedo Japaridze was delighted that Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) "senior officials" had agreed to U.S. observer status in the organization. This would make his job of making BSEC a more effective organization. He said the decis [...] |
2005-10-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL TU |
| 05ANKARA6399 | IMF PROGRAM: GOT ACCEPTS FISCAL AUSTERITY,NEEDS [...] (C) Summary: Though the GOT has accepted the IMF's fiscally austere 2006 primary surplus target, the GOT has again run into fierce delaying tactics by the political opposition party on the social security reform legislation. Fund staff (strictly protect) is awaiting a decision from IMF Managem [...] |
2005-10-24 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ECIN IMF |
| 05ANKARA6897 | BABACAN: NO PLANS TO SEND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Economy and EU negotiator Ali Babacan explained that the GOT had deliberately not created a new structure to handle the EU process so as to keep all ministries engaged. The GOT has no plans yet to submit the Ankara Protocol Extension to parliament. Babacan reiterated [...] |
2005-11-22 16:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL PGOV EU TU |
| 05ASUNCION786 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, JUNE 11-17 [...] (U) Summary ----------------- -- MERCOSUR Summit to Focus on Economic Integration -- Flap Over U.S.-Paraguayan Military Exercises -- New Leaders in Congress -- Chavez to Address Congress but not Meet President MERCOSUR Summit to Focus on Economic Integration ---------------------------- [...] |
2005-06-17 17:48:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS ECIN PA KICC |
| 05ASUNCION841 | MERCOSUR SUMMIT: LONG ON RHETORIC, SHORT ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-30 18:12:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECIN EFIN EPET ETRD KIPR CU PA KICC VZ |
| 05BAGHDAD3092 | NORTHERN OIL COMPANY MOVING FORWARD DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 13 July, Charge d'Affaires David Satterfield and Emboffs met with North Oil Company (NOC) Director General (DG) Adil Al-Qazzaz to discuss pipeline security and plans for expanding oil production in Northern Iraq. Pipeline attacks and dilapidated infrastructure continue to ham [...] |
2005-07-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EAID PREF PHUM ECIN ECON IZ |
| 05BANGKOK2600 | THAILAND: EAST ASIA SUMMIT - THAI IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) On April 12, Poloff discussed reftel questions and passed reftel points to MFA official Buskorn Prugsapongse, Director of the Economic and Policy Division, Department of ASEAN Affairs. Buskorn's comments echoed many of those provided by the Singapore Embassy in Washington, as reported in [...] |
2005-04-12 09:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TH ASEAN |
| 05BANGKOK3041 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: PATRICIA [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Patricia Scoggs, Andrea Richhart and Teri Simpson Lojewski to attend the U.S.-ASEAN Informal Coordinating Mechanism from May 15 - May 18, 2005. 2. (U) Per Ref E-mail, USAID Regional Development Mission has made reservations at the [...] |
2005-05-06 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECIN ETRD TH |
| 05BANGKOK5128 | APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES INITIATIVE DEMARCHE: RTG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche (reftel A) to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Director of International Economic Policy at MFA; Katanawadee Kalayanamit, International Organizations/Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA; and Amornsate [...] |
2005-08-10 05:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO IAEA |
| 05BANGKOK5317 | EASTERN SEABOARD WATER SHORTAGE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A water shortage in the industrial areas along Thailand's Eastern Seaboard raises questions about the management of the nation's water resources with important implications for the further development of Thailand's most important industrial zone. A concurrence of two dry years [...] |
2005-08-18 07:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ECPS ELAB EINV ENRG EPET KCOR KPRV SENV SOCI TH EPWR |
| 05BANGKOK5748 | REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE - THAI PERSPECTIVES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TH |
| 05BANGKOK6943 | THAILAND: FOLLOWING UP ON ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) Poloff passed reftel points to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, MFA Director of International Economic Policy, and Katanawadee Kalayanamit from the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA. Chutintorn received the points without comment. Katanawadee said that Thailand does not plan to de [...] |
2005-11-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO |
| 05BRASILIA1100 | GUTIERREZ ARRIVES IN BRASILIA [...] (SBU) Ecuador's ex-president Lucio Gutierrez arrived in Brasilia Sunday afternoon, April 24, via Brazilian Air Force 737 and was transferred immediately by helicopter to Brasilia's Military Sector. For the time being, Gutierrez and his family will lodge in officers transit quarters on the ar [...] |
2005-04-25 12:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC ECIN BR |
| 05BRASILIA2404 | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] EmbOff delivered reftel non-paper to Antonio Jose Ferreira Simoes, Senior Economic Advisor to the Minister and Head of the Foreign Ministry's office for Diplomatic Planning. We will report septel should we receive any relevant response. CHICOLA [...] |
2005-09-12 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL UNGA |
| 05BRASILIA3052 | BRAZIL - PROCESS FOR VENEZUELA'S MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazil's decision to approve Venezuela's request for membership to Mercosul came from the top levels of the GoB, without substantial internal debate. While the process for admitting Venezuela to the bloc is moving forward, the Foreign Ministry appears to be approaching the iss [...] |
2005-11-18 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD ECON VE BR |
| 05BRASILIA91 | MERCOSUL SUMMIT: NO PARTY, BUT NO FUNERAL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction. Diplomatic restraint enabled the 27th Mercosul presidential summit to conclude on December 17 without incident, but widespread dissatisfaction with meager economic benefits flowing from the bloc, and bitter trade disagreements between Brazil and Argentina cloud [...] |
2005-01-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR |
| 05BRASILIA94 | MERCOSUL: CRITICISM GROWS BUT GOB POLICY SHIFT [...] (U) This cable reflects input from Consulates General Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Mission invites comment from other posts in the region regarding issues raised herein. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction. The Brazilian private sector has recently stepped up criticism of GoB trade policy, [...] |
2005-01-10 16:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR |
| 05BRUSSELS1583 | THE PROPOSED EU CONSTITUTION: WHAT IT COULD MEAN [...] (SBU) The Constitutional Treaty signed last October requires ratification by all 25 Member States. It faces its first serious test in the May 29 French referendum, and a second critical vote in the Netherlands on June 1. Under those circumstances, entry into force is a distant and uncertain [...] |
2005-04-22 08:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EAID ECIN MARR SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BUCHAREST818 | AMBASADORIAL FUND FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION [...] Post appreciates ECA/P/C indulgence. This is the formal request for the project discussed in Ref B emails. Charge has seen and approved this request. 2. GRANTEE: The Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum (NVM) Address: 28, Kiseleff Bv., sector 1, Bucharest, Romania Phone: 011 4021 222.9 [...] |
2005-04-04 11:46:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN KPAO OEXC SCUL |
| 05CHIANGMAI214 | CORRECTED COPY: THAI-CHINESE TRADE TALKS AIM HIGH - SOME [...] Summary. Thai and Chinese officials charted an ambitious five-year "strategic economic partnership" during the Second Meeting of the Joint Committee on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation in Chiang Mai September 21-23. While news accounts headlined "Chinese investment to surge", some [...] |
2005-09-30 05:02:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN PREL CH TH WTRO ASEAN |
| 05CHIANGMAI252 | BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME: THAILAND PLANS NEW MEKONG PORT TO BOOST CHINA TRADE [...] (U) Summary Although the Mekong River trade between northern Thailand and southern China has not lived up to expectations, the Thai government plans to build a second, larger, port in Chiang Rai. The go-ahead came after the Deputy Transport Minister returned from a visit to Yunnan province sol [...] |
2005-12-21 10:08:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON PGOV PREL CH TH WTRO |
| 05COLOMBO489 | AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION [...] Contact: Philip Frayne Public Affairs Officer U.S. Embassy, Colombo Tel: +94 11 242 1264 Fax: +94 11 244 9070 E-mail: fraynepa@state.gov Angela Gemza Cultural Affairs Officer U.S. Embassy, Colombo Tel: +94 11 242 1271 Fax: +91 11 244 9070 E-mail: gemzaa@state.gov 2. Grante [...] |
2005-03-08 04:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN KPAO OEXC SCUL |
| 05DAMASCUS5972 | TRANSPORT OF IRAQ-BOUND U.S. WHEAT REMAINS A [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past three months, Post has witnessed an incremental increase in the amount of Iraq- bound, U.S. wheat accumulating at the port of Tartous awaiting transport from Syria into Iraq. On the surface, the reason for the delay in wheat transport is a lack of available truc [...] |
2005-11-16 15:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELTN ECIN |
| 05DAMASCUS6327 | FATAL EXPLOSION IN LATTAKIA PORT [...] (SBU) Local and international press reported widely yesterday a huge explosion in the Lattakia port that resulted in eighteen injuries, one death and the destruction of up to four grain silos as well as the system of conveyor belts that connects them. Dr. Mohammad Fadel, manager of a major gra [...] |
2005-12-05 16:10:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ELTN ECIN SY |
| 05DARESSALAAM1185 | EAC CUSTOMS UNION: UPDATE ON TARIFFS [...] Per reftel, econoff and commercial FSN spoke with the East African Community (EAC) Director of Customs, Peter Kiguta, and with Dr. Kaboyoka of the Tanzanian Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) to solicit information on updated tariff rates under the EAC's Common External Tariff (CET). 2. A [...] |
2005-06-17 03:29:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECON EFIN ECIN KTEX TZ |
| 05DJIBOUTI559 | INDUSTRIAL PARK TO BE BUILT IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) SUMMARY: New American investment has come to Djibouti. Ali Toubeh, assistant to Saad Ahmed Cheikh - late owner of COMAD and a prominent figure in Djiboutian business - is carrying on Cheikh's last business venture. North Holding Investment Share Company was created as a subsidiary of the V [...] |
2005-06-09 13:08:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EINV EIND ETRD ECIN ELTN ECON DJ |
| 05DUBLIN1097 | GOI VIEWS ON HLE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Ireland shares a number of USG concerns about the development chapter of the UN High-Level Event (HLE) outcome document, but advocates flexibility to reach agreement on the document's interlocking elements, GOI officials told DCM on September 2. The Office of the Taoiseach (Pri [...] |
2005-09-06 12:08:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN UNGA |
| 05DUBLIN1115 | IRISH AID OFFICIALS: IRELAND SHARES U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Ireland shares U.S. hopes for a successful UN High-Level Event (HLE), as well as U.S. concerns about the development portion of the HLE outcome document, Ronan Murphy, Director General of Ireland's aid agency, told the Ambassador and DCM on September 7. Murphy said that aid re [...] |
2005-09-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN UNGA |
| 05GENEVA2731 | PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE CONFERENCE LEAVES AN UNCLEAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ten days after the 26 October UN ministerial conference on aid for Pakistan's earthquake victims, there is still a dramatic under-funding of UN agencies and other partners in the UN Flash Appeal. While the conference netted $579 million in additional pledges, raising the total am [...] |
2005-11-09 06:18:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAGR EAID ECIN ECON MASS PGOV PK PREF PREL SENV AESC UN |
| 05HANOI2027 | VIETNAM: AMBASSADOR MEETS VICE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Vu Dzung August 9 to deliver Reftel A points about the October 3-6 Export Control Conference in Hanoi. Vice Minister Dzung expressed his full understanding of the importance of continuing to hold this conference, but said Viet [...] |
2005-08-09 10:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC ETRD ECIN VM APECO APEC CVR |
| 05HANOI2482 | VIETNAM IS NOT READY FOR APEC 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) is struggling to prepare for APEC 2006 and faces a steep uphill battle. Vice Foreign Minister Le Cong Phung told the Ambassador during a luncheon on September 23 that Vietnam "does not have much time" to prepare for APEC and will seek help from [...] |
2005-09-23 10:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD ECIN VM APECO APEC |
| 05HARARE128 | ZIMBABWE NOMINATES SIMBA MAKONI FOR ADB PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) The GOZ informed diplomatic representatives from African Development Bank (ADB) shareholder countries that it will nominate former Finance Minister Simba Makoni to succeed Moroccan Omar Kabbaj as ADB President. Foreign Minister Mudenge and acting Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa presente [...] |
2005-01-25 06:01:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EAID AORC ZI EINV |
| 05ISLAMABAD16190 | PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: UN TRYING TO GET UP TO SPEED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission staff with direct interaction with the UN's earthquake relief effort - from the team leader for USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to emboffs attending UN sectoral cluster groups -- characterize the UN response thus far as "a day late and a dollar short," wit [...] |
2005-10-31 01:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAGR EAID ECIN ECON MASS PGOV PK PREF PREL SENV AESC UN |
| 05ISLAMABAD17835 | IRAN PIPELINE DEMARCHE DELIVERED; GOP DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOP officials took Ref B demarche points on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline under consideration but had no immediate reply. Petroleum Secretary Waqar met with Iranian officials in Tehran November 16-17 in what was termed a "confidence building" meeting that discussed routing o [...] |
2005-12-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG EPET ETTC IN IR PK |
| 05ISTANBUL1603 | BSEC SENIOR OFFICIALS CLEAR U.S. REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) In separate phone conversations on September 16 and September 20, Black Sea Economic Cooperation Secretary General Tedo Japaridze and First Deputy Secretary General Tugay Ulucevik confirmed to Istanbul P/E Chief that the organization's senior officials had agreed in their September 15 I [...] |
2005-09-20 10:57:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD TU PREL |
| 05ISTANBUL1968 | DOD A/S FLORY'S BSEC CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In an extended November 11 briefing and subsequent private meeting with Ambassador Tedo Japaridze, Secretary General of the Organization for Black Sea Economic SIPDIS Cooperation, visiting DOD Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy Peter Flory explored areas wher [...] |
2005-11-16 15:43:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD TU PREL |
| 05ISTANBUL2111 | BSEC: ROMANIAN CHAIRMANSHIP'S VISION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Executive Manager Stefana Greavu and Project Coordinator Konstantinos Zaimis reviewed possible areas of cooperation with the U.S. in separate meetings with us on December 8. Greavu outlined Romania's priorities for its Chairmanship-in-offic [...] |
2005-12-14 09:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD TU PREL |
| 05ISTANBUL470 | DELIVERY OF NOTE REQUESTING OBSERVER STATUS TO THE [...] (SBU) Post delivered diplomatic note contained in ref A para 5 to the International Secretariat of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Council on Wednesday, March 23. In P/E Chief's meeting later that day with the organization's Secretary General, Ambassador Tedo Japaridze, his three SIPDIS [...] |
2005-03-28 14:08:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG |
| 05ISTANBUL645 | RUSSIA PUTS HOLD ON U.S. BSEC OBSERVER REQUEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Sources in the Secretariat of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation indicate the Russian Delegation blocked approval of the U.S. application for observer status at last week's Meeting of Senior Officials in Komotini, Greece. While the Russians technically "supporte [...] |
2005-05-02 13:07:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG |
| 05KINGSTON2164 | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-15 16:50:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL JM UNGA |
| 05KINSHASA1647 | CONGO/B: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES [...] The following demarches were delivered on September 16, 2005 to Mr. Felix Ngoma, the Americas Desk Officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Note: REF G had also been earlier delivered, on September 9, 2005, by Charge' d'Affaires Rutherford to the Minister of Finance (see paragraph 6). [...] |
2005-10-04 07:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETTC KTFN EFIN PGOV PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR KISL KPAO OIIP TBIO EAGR ECON ECIN EAIR EAID KSCA SOCI UK SA CF UNGA WTO AID |
| 05KINSHASA396 | FY-05 PROPOSAL FOR AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR [...] SUMMARY: Kinshasa would like to submit the following proposal as its primary Cultural Preservation Project. This grant will fund the preservation project of the ethnographic and archeological collections of the National Museum of Lubumbashi thereby preserving the cultural and archeological her [...] |
2005-03-07 13:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP ECIN SCUL CG |
| 05KINSHASA399 | CONGO/B: FY2005 AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR CULTURAL [...] Brazzaville Embassy Office submits the following FY2005 project application for the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation. A. HEADING WITH COUNTRY AND CONTACT INFORMATION Embassy: Brazzaville Embassy Office Country: Republic of Congo POC: George W. Indyke Jr. (Deputy Chief of Mission [...] |
2005-03-07 16:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO ECIN SCUL CF OXEC UNESCO |
| 05KUWAIT3956 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN REFORM, U.S. VIEWS [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A and B demarches to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Head of International Organizations Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad in a September 5 meeting. The Ambassador emphasized the need for UN reform and outlined U.S. views on the draft outcome document being prep [...] |
2005-09-06 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN KWMN KU UNGA UN |
| 05LAGOS1892 | NIGERIA: RECAPITALIZATION OF MORTGAGE FINANCE [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria's ninety-plus primary mortgage institutions (PMIs) may soon be required to recapitalize in line with the ongoing reforms in the financial sector. In anticipation of a directive from the Central Bank (CBN), mortgagors are striving to raise their capital base from the curr [...] |
2005-12-15 10:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECIN NI |
| 05LIMA3466 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR REVISED U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KSTC PARM ETTC EAID ETRD ECIN |
| 05LIMA3825 | DEMARCHE ON DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/2. Garro had no substantive comment to make on the declaration or on the USG's views of that document, but state [...] |
2005-09-02 21:32:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA3826 | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-02 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL PE UNGA |
| 05LIMA4590 | FOLLOWING UP ON 2004 APEC ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (C) Econoff delivered the demarche "Following Up on the 2004 APEC Additional Protocol Commitments" (Reftel) to Amb. Juan Carlos Capunay, Peru's Ambassador to APEC, on 10/20. Capunay proudly noted that Peru has already signed and ratified the Additional Protocol, agreed that Brunei, Papua New [...] |
2005-10-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN PE APECO |
| 05LJUBLJANA398 | SLOVENIA ON US-EU ECONOMIC SUMMIT [...] Econoff delivered reftel talking points 15 June to Robert Kokalj, Head of the Economic Diplomacy Division at the MFA. Kokalj took pains several times during his comments to state that Slovenia and the EU have "roughly the same ideas" as the U.S. on transatlantic economic cooperation and growt [...] |
2005-06-15 05:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ECIN SI |
| 05MADRID1063 | SPAIN'S AID PROGRAM IN ANDEAN REGION [...] Econoff met March 13 with Spanish Agency for International Development (AECI) officials in the Subdirectorate General for South America to answer reftel questions. Our contacts noted that Andean countries have been priorities for Spanish Aid for several years, and that most Andean countries wi [...] |
2005-03-17 16:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL CO ECIN PE BL VE SP EUN |
| 05MADRID186 | SPAIN WANTS TO KEEP FCN TREATY WITH U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-19 11:03:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON ETRD KTIA EINV SP |
| 05MADRID3177 | SPAIN ON UNGA DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] DCM passed reftel points September 2 to MFA Secretary of State for International Assistance Leire Pajin, outlining U.S. concerns about the UNGA High Level Event (HLE) Outcome Document and the six-country (including Spain) draft "Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development." [...] |
2005-09-08 13:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL SP UNGA |
| 05MANAMA1315 | BAHRAIN: DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief September 11 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. views of the "Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development" to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was surprised to hear about this initiative and wondered a [...] |
2005-09-12 09:12:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN BA UNGA |
| 05MANAMA1434 | ISRAELI BOYCOTT SCRAPPED [...] (C) The GOB has made good on its promise to close its Israeli Boycott Office and is now the subject of heated criticism from the press, parliamentarians, political societies and anti-normalization groups. Following the October 1 opening of its current session, the Parliament appears set to he [...] |
2005-10-03 14:50:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD ETTC ECIN ECON BA |
| 05MANAMA145 | MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE DISCUSSES NEW [...] (C) Summary. On January 29, Ambassador and Minister of Industry and Commerce Hassan Fakhro discussed cabinet portfolios after the recent shake-up, the impact of the Saudi cut-off of its 50,000 barrel per day oil grant, and U.S.-Bahrain relations. Fakhro said that, for now, the Minister of F [...] |
2005-02-01 14:20:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN ENRG EPET PREL BA |
| 05MANAMA1485 | PARLIAMENT BLASTS GOB FOR LIFTING BOYCOTT [...] (C) In a nearly unanimous vote October 11, the parliament issued a strong rebuke to the GOB for lifting the ban on Israeli goods and closing the boycott office. The parliament expressed its displeasure by issuing a "proposal" to reinstate the Israeli Goods Boycott and reopen the boycott offic [...] |
2005-10-12 17:28:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD ETTC ECIN ECON BA |
| 05MANAMA179 | BAHRAINI CONCERNS ABOUT G8 COMMITMENT TO BMENA [...] (C) In a January 31 meeting with Econoff, Yousif Humood, Bahrain's Director of Economic Planning at the Ministry of Finance, expressed concern over the G8's apparent lack of activity on important BMENA initiatives, in particular the Entrepreneurship Center. He said that unless movement is se [...] |
2005-02-07 12:01:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PGOV PREL BA |
| 05MANAMA320 | GCC SECGEN AFFIRMS RIGHT OF MEMBERS TO SIGN FTA'S [...] (U) Bahrain's Al Ayam Arabic daily newspaper reported March 1 that GCC Secretary General Abdul Rahman Al Atteya confirmed that each GCC member state has the right to sign a free trade agreement with the United States, but the country must notify the other GCC members about the steps taken. He [...] |
2005-03-06 14:56:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ECIN BA |
| 05MANAMA38 | BAHRAIN FTA: FULL SPEED AHEAD DESPITE PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary. GOB officials were quick to defend their right to sign an FTA with the United States after several news accounts cited Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister as saying his country would impose duties on re-exported foreign goods if the U.S.-Bahrain agreement was ratified. Youssef Hamou [...] |
2005-01-05 14:41:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN ETRD PREL BA |
| 05MANAMA430 | UK TAKING LEADERSHIP ROLE IN G8/BMENA INITIATIVES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-21 15:25:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PGOV PREL BA |
| 05MANAMA705 | FORUM FOR THE FUTURE MAY 10 STEERING COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Bahrain hosted a meeting of the G8/Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future (FfF) Steering Committee May 10 that included representatives of the U.S., UK, Russia, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt. The parties discussed preparations for the FfF meeting, to be co-chair [...] |
2005-05-17 11:29:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON KMPI ECIN BA XF XG CA JA |
| 05MANILA5983 | TELECOM UPDATE: GRP ENCOURAGES INTERNET TELEPHONY [...] The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued recent rulings lowering entry barriers to encourage the development of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. The decisions should reduce international rates but will have less impact on lucrative cellular services, which have ecl [...] |
2005-12-28 08:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINV ETRD ECIN RP APEC |
| 05MINSK1159 | Minsk Wants Bilateral WTO Negotiations [...] (U) Summary: Econoff met September 13 with MFA representatives Anton Kudasov, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Foreign Trade, and Sergey Gulevich, Deputy Head of the Division of Foreign Trade Policy, to discuss Belarus' accession to the World Trade Organization. Kudasov argued strongly fo [...] |
2005-09-23 05:34:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN WTRO BO |
| 05MONTREAL1196 | FRENCH PROPOSAL TO TAX AIRLINE TICKETS - USICAO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Acting US Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) met with the representatives of Canada, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Russia and Egypt to notify them of the demarche (reftel) being delivered in their capitals and to request their sup [...] |
2005-09-09 15:07:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EAID EFIN UNGA ICAO |
| 05MUSCAT1350 | UN SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (C) On September 5, Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref demarches to MFA International Organization Department Chief Ambassador Talib Miran al-Raisi. Ambassador al-Raisi acknowledged USG desires for flexibility in negotiations, and agreed that a separate declaration on innovative sources of financing [...] |
2005-09-07 09:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EAID EFIN MU |
| 05NAIROBI3300 | REGIONAL ISSUES AND KENYA TRAVEL WARNING: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Congressman Donald Payne expressed appreciation to Kenya for its leadership role in the Sudan peace accord and the Somalia reconciliation process in a meeting with President Kibaki August 10. The Congressman said he was trying to encourage the State Department to take a more acti [...] |
2005-08-15 03:03:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN PINS KUNR SO SU ET DJ SP CH KE |
| 05NAIROBI3600 | KENYA'S PRESIDENT GOES TO CHINA - AND WHAT IT MEANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's August state visit to China was clearly aimed at further developing a bilateral economic relationship which, while small, is growing rapidly. Trade and tourism are especially robust. Investment by Chinese firms in Kenya has yielded less-spectacu [...] |
2005-09-05 05:39:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR ECIN ECON EFIN ELAB EINV ETRD PREL CH KE |
| 05NAIROBI4023 | East African Community Customs Union: Just Teething [...] (SBU) Summary: The East African Community Customs Union, established at the start of 2005, is experiencing teething problems - and in the minority view, may be unraveling. A slew of problems, ranging from tariff rates for pharmaceuticals to rules of origin for vehicles assembled locally by G [...] |
2005-09-27 06:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON KE TZ |
| 05NAIROBI4507 | KENYA/NEPAD: KENYA COMPLETES APRM SELF-ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-31 07:37:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KE NEPAD APRM |
| 05NAIROBI868 | KENYA LAUNCHES SELF-ASSESSMENT ON GOVERNANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KE NEPAD |
| 05NDJAMENA326 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] |
2005-03-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
| 05NDJAMENA329 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] |
2005-03-03 14:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
| 05NDJAMENA330 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] |
2005-03-03 14:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
| 05NDJAMENA653 | MINISTER OF COMMERCE DISCUSSES COTTON ISSUES [...] Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador April 6, the Minister of Commerce discussed plans for an early-May meeting in N'djamena among Cotton-4 trade ministers to prepare a unified strategy for the upcoming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. The Minister reiterated the GOC's appeal for elim [...] |
2005-04-25 09:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECIN ECON ETRD CD WTO |
| 05NEWDELHI1075 | INDIA: SAARC DECISION SENT A MESSAGE TO DHAKA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI remains unapologetic about the last minute cancellation of the SAARC Summit and the resulting unhappiness in Dhaka. In this context, on February 9, the MEA urged PolCouns not to underestimate the extent to which developments in Bangladesh influenced India's decision not to atte [...] |
2005-02-10 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECIN ENRG BG IN |
| 05NEWDELHI1298 | INDIA SAYS SAARC STILL ALIVE, SUMMIT HINGES ON NEPAL/BANGLADESH ACTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast with the predominant view in the Indian media that by opting out of the Dhaka Summit, India dealt a fatal blow to SAARC, the GOI told us it remains committed to the organization. MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok told PolCouns and Poloff on February 16 that he was [...] |
2005-02-18 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN PK NP BG IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI1426 | FOREIGN SECRETARY EMPHASIZES NEIGHBORS' IMPACT ON INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In a carefully considered February 14 speech on New Delhi's South Asia policy, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran unveiled a more muscular approach toward India's neighborhood that reflects the GOI's shifting view of its role in the world. Departing from the standard GOI line on the [...] |
2005-02-24 13:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN KDEM NP BG PK CE IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI2410 | SAARC: NO SUMMIT IN SIGHT, SAFTA ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for a rescheduled SAARC Summit in 2005 are diminishing amidst scheduling difficulties and Indian concerns over the coup in Nepal and instability in Bangladesh. In a March 30 meeting with USAIDoff and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok expressed optimism, ho [...] |
2005-03-31 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL IN PK NP BG SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI549 | INDIA ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT: NOT WITHOUT ME [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 2004 ASEAN Plus One Summit in Vientiane, the MEA scoffed at the idea of an East Asia Summit, but a recent conversation with MEA Joint Secretary (Southeast Asia Two) Biren Nanda indicates India SIPDIS has shifted from that position. It now appears that In [...] |
2005-01-20 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN IN ASEAN |
| 05NEWDELHI6036 | INDIA'S SAARC PRIORITIES: SAFTA IS KEY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 28 meeting, newly appointed MEA Joint Secretary for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) P.K. Kapur highlighted the GOI's priorities for the November 12-13 meeting in Dhaka, including the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), a poverty and infrast [...] |
2005-08-04 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN EAID BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI6312 | MEA ON PAKISTAN TALKS: SOME PROGRESS, MANY DOUBTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Pakistan policy manager Dilip Sinha believes India and Pakistan made good but slow progress in their latest round of Composite Dialogue efforts, with a more constructive climate than earlier discussions. They agreed to extend the LOC ceasefire, establish nuclear hotlines, pre [...] |
2005-08-12 13:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON ECIN ETRD MOPS IN PK AF INDO PAK |
| 05NEWDELHI6931 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: A/DCM and Poloff called on new MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora on September 6 and SIPDIS delivered Refs A and B demarches, underlining the importance in the new US-India relationship for India to be seen [...] |
2005-09-08 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECIN PHUM KDEM KUNR IN AF UNGA GOI |
| 05NEWDELHI8749 | OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: GOI PROPOSES US OBSERVER STATUS AT SAARC [...] (U) For SA: SEE ACTION REQUEST PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a surprise development, the GOI has told us that it would welcome US participation as an Observer to SAARC. At a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit briefing on November 16, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) P.K. [...] |
2005-11-17 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN AORC BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI9164 | FS SARAN CALLS FOR ENHANCED BHUTAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: India and Bhutan have a vital stake in each other's well-being and greater economic, security and cultural ties will benefit both countries, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued during an unusual December 3 seminar focused on Bhutan. Underlining the growing GOI concern about con [...] |
2005-12-05 14:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGREL PBTS ECIN ETRD PREF PTER PGOV IN BT NP |
| 05NEWDELHI9205 | INDO-JAPANESE INTERESTS CONVERGING AHEAD OF EAST [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh is heading to Kuala Lumpur for the December 14 East Asian Summit (EAS) at a time of rapid improvement in Indo-Japanese relations that may finally overcome the sense on both sides of unfulfilled potential. In a December 2 meeting with PolCouns, MEA's Asia Co [...] |
2005-12-06 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG TRGY KNNP CH JA IN ASEAN |
| 05OTTAWA1104 | SCENESETTER: CANADA AND THE SPP [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables offering Mission views and background information on elements of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This cable outlines some political and economic factors in Canada that may affect progress toward SPP goals. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Security [...] |
2005-04-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CA |
| 05OTTAWA1105 | CANADIAN OFFICIALS SUGGEST THAT MINISTER LAPIERRE'S [...] (SBU) Emboffs met on April 6 with Chief of Staff to Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre, Leslie Swartman, and Lapierre's Senior Policy Advisor, Paul Stothart, to discuss the Government of Canada's (GOC) slow steps toward air liberalization discussions. When Lapierre and Secretary of Transport [...] |
2005-04-13 13:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EINV CA |
| 05OTTAWA1197 | Canada and China conclude expanded air transport [...] On April 19 Canada's Transport Minister Jean Lapierre and International Trade Minister Jim Peterson announced the conclusion of a new and expanded bilateral air transport agreement with the People's Republic of China. The new entitlements include possibilities for all-cargo and code- sharing [...] |
2005-04-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECIN EINV CA CH |
| 05OTTAWA1201 | SPP: Can-Am Business Council shares views on next [...] Summary: Members of the Canadian-American Business Council (CABC), a Washington DC based industry advocacy group, outlined for the Charg their principal concerns that they think need to be addressed by the SPP. The CABC underscored the pressing need to quickly build appropriate infrastructur [...] |
2005-04-20 17:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN CA |
| 05OTTAWA1315 | SPP: Canadian Chemical producers like SPP, see it [...] Summary: Representatives of the Canadian Chemical Producers Association (CCPA) are supportive of the SPP and suggested that enduring institutional links between government agencies will be a major factor in increasing continental commerce in the chemical sector. They identified the Four Corner [...] |
2005-05-02 17:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN CA |
| 05OTTAWA1385 | SPP IN CANADA: THE PROSPERITY AGENDA [...] Summary: Following are Mission's general comments on the areas covered in the SPP declaration. Mission Canada recommends that Washington agencies focus on the following overarching elements for progress in SPP: -- a permanent dialogue between the two executive bodies charged with regulato [...] |
2005-05-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EFIN CA |
| 05OTTAWA1860 | SCENESETTER: Your Visit to Alberta, Canada [...] I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and House Agriculture Committee members and staff to Canada. I am sure that your visit will be productive and will help us advance the agenda on two of our biggest bilateral bilateral economic issues. The Canadian Political Scene 2. [...] |
2005-06-21 12:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN EAGR PREL CA |
| 05OTTAWA2649 | CANADA'S VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN TEH UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOC shares our views on the problems of length, coherence, and balance in the draft "outcome" document, as well as our commitment to reform and opposition to creative financing measures for ODA. We differ on the goal of 0.7% of GDP, with Canada still thinking it is an imp [...] |
2005-09-02 20:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN PREL CA UNGA |
| 05OTTAWA2708 | CANADA: DOESN'T OPPOSE DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE [...] (C) As reported refs A and B, the GOC shares many of our goals at the upcoming High level event, although priorities differ and there remain areas of disagreement. With regard to the declaration being circulated by Algeria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany and Spain, the GOC has not yet taken a [...] |
2005-09-09 17:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN CA UNGA |
| 05OTTAWA3228 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PARLIAMENT'S BORDER CAUCUS [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilkins and Minister Counselor of Consular Affairs Keith Powell met for 75 minutes with Parliament's Border Caucus on October 26, fielding questions on subjects ranging from the new travel document requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) to the [...] |
2005-10-28 21:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN ETRD CPAS ASEC CMGT CA |
| 05OTTAWA3362 | DETROIT TUNNEL OPERATOR COMPLAINS HAS BEEN SHUT OUT OF [...] (SBU) The President of the Detroit and Canada Tunnel Corporation (DCTC), Gordon Jarvis (a Canadian citizen), contends that despite many good faith attempts to negotiate an extension of their current lease arrangement for the tunnel with the City of Detroit, it appears that they are being shut [...] |
2005-11-10 15:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECIN EINV PREL CA |
| 05OTTAWA3732 | PRECLEARANCE CONSULTATIVE GROUP REVIEWS POLICIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The inaugural meeting of the Preclearance Consultative Group (PCG) took place in Ottawa on December 13. The U.S. side was represented by the State Department, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Transportation Security Administration. Canadian officials were from Fo [...] |
2005-12-22 15:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN ASEC CA |
| 05OTTAWA418 | SMART REGULATION IN CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (U) Following the September 2004 report on Smart Regulation (www.smartregulation.gc.ca), the Privy Council Office's group for Implementation Strategy for Smart Regulation is gearing up to put principle into practice. PCO plans to propose a number of new initiatives to improve the quality and [...] |
2005-02-10 14:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN ETRD |
| 05OTTAWA481 | AMBASSADOR SPEAKS AT INAUGURAL MEETING OF [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Cellucci addressed the first meeting of Parliament's new Border Caucus on February 8, 2005. The Ambassador affirmed our determination to keep the border functioning, while sounding a note of caution about the potential effects of marijuana liberalization in Canada a [...] |
2005-02-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD PREL CA |
| 05OTTAWA714 | ALASKA GOVERNOR MURKOWSKI AND YUKON PREMIER FENTIE [...] (SBU) Alaska State Governor Frank Murkowski and Yukon Territory Premier Dennis Fentie held two days of meetings in Ottawa in late February to promote a proposed rail line to link Alaska and Canada. Murkowski and Fentie jointly tried to sell the project to Government of Canada (GOC) officials, [...] |
2005-03-07 21:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECIN CA |
| 05OTTAWA774 | SCENESETTER: SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO OTTAWA, MARCH 17, [...] (U) As you prepare for your first meeting in Ottawa with Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, I want to extend my welcome and the Embassy's continuing support for the dialogue. At a time when Canadians are voicing concern about the growing role of "border risk" in the [...] |
2005-03-14 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECIN EWWT ASEC CA |
| 05OTTAWA875 | DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHERTOFF [...] (U) Summary: Handguns entering Canada illegally from the United States and divergence between Canadian and U.S. visa policies were two unscripted items discussed during Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff's and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Anne McLellan's [...] |
2005-03-23 21:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ASEC PREL CVIS CA PSEPC |
| 05PARIS1393 | GOF WELCOMES POSTPONEMENT OF ASAD VISIT TO VIENNA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-03 13:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AU SY PREL ECIN LE FR |
| 05PARIS4947 | U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND [...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 7. 2.SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A NUMBER OF CAS [...] |
2005-07-18 13:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL ECIN FR |
| 05PARIS5003 | U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND [...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A [...] |
2005-07-19 14:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL ECIN FR |
| 05PRAGUE1322 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REACTION TO USG POSITION ON UN [...] SUMMARY: The GOCR understands the USG position on the outcome document for the upcoming UN Summit, and while not optimistic, will work towards a consensus. The GOCR does not support the "Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development," and believes the focus should be on imp [...] |
2005-09-12 14:53:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAIR ECIN EFIN EZ PREL UNGA |
| 05PRAGUE1608 | CZECH RESPONSES TO OECD SECGEN SELECTION, ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econoff met November 10 with Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Multilateral Economic Relations Deputy Director Pavel Klima to deliver reftel A and B demarches. Klima said that during the July 21 Polish state visit, the Prime Minister signaled GOCR support former Po [...] |
2005-11-10 18:07:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN EZ EINV |
| 05PRAGUE842 | EU REFERENDUM DEFEATS INTENSIFY CZECH DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Not surprisingly in a country where the government has declared passage of the EU constitution the reason for its existence, and whose President has staked out a position as one of Europe's leading critics of the agreement, the French and Dutch "no" votes have only amplified dome [...] |
2005-06-05 15:01:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECIN EZ EUN |
| 05PRETORIA1904 | MUCH IMPROVED ICT CHARTER DELIVERED TO SAG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The information and communications technology (ICT) Charter Steering Committee delivered its final draft of the ICT empowerment Charter to Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri May 5. This draft has been reduced from ninety to thirty pages and is a significant impr [...] |
2005-05-16 14:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 05PRETORIA4076 | NEW NEPAD CHIEF EXECUTIVE [...] (U) Summary. In August 2005, Mozambican agricultural economist Firmino Mucavele was appointed the Chief Executive of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Secretariat. He replaced South Africa's Wiseman Nkuhlu, who continues to serve as South Africa's representative in the NE [...] |
2005-10-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR ECIN ECON EINV ETRD SF |
| 05PRETORIA425 | DTI OFFICIAL DISCUSSES MNC EQUITY OWNERSHIP [...] (C) Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Director of Black Economic Empowerment Jeffrey Ndumo explained to Econoff in a January 26 meeting that an imminent Statement on Ownership for Multinationals would not provide a blanket exemption to black economic empowerment equity requirements for [...] |
2005-01-31 15:28:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECIN ECON SF EFIN |
| 05PRETORIA937 | AMCHAM COMMENTS ON CODES OF GOOD PRACTICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (AmCham) submitted comments to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) this week on three draft Codes of Good Practice released by Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa in December 2004. AmCham's comments focus on c [...] |
2005-03-04 05:06:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECIN ECON SF |
| 05QUEBEC52 | QUEBEC PREMIER CHAREST VISIT SCENESETTER [...] Summary: Premier Charest is coming to Washington April 17-19 at the halfway mark of his four-year term, facing political difficulties at home but with his determination and vision for Quebec intact. When elected in 2003, the Premier promised to put Quebec on a "new path of development and p [...] |
2005-04-15 15:49:00 | Consulate Quebec | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECIN BEXP CA |
| 05ROME2998 | DEVELOPMENT FINANCE: ITALY SAYS ANY GLOBAL TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy does not oppose global tax schemes to fund development assistance, provided such programs are voluntary. There are no plans here to impose a surcharge on international airline tickets, and Italy would resist efforts by the EU to imposed such a tax on member states. Italy [...] |
2005-09-09 15:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN IT UNGA |
| 05SANAA1833 | DPM SOFAN ON CORRUPTION, USDA FOOD AID, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Nabeel Khoury met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Ahmed Sofan, on July 2 to discuss USDA food aid program implementation, corruption, and Yemen's Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) Threshold plans. Sofan agreed with the DCM [...] |
2005-07-06 08:47:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN EAID YM COM |
| 05SANAA3186 | COMMERCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN FY-2006 [CORRECTED COPY] [...] Summary: Embassy Sanaa's commercial office is currently a Partner Post of the Foreign Commercial Service's Riyadh office, and has recently undergone a transition in locally- employed commercial staff. The new Commercial Specialist, Ammar Al-Anssi, was trained on U.S. Department of Commerce F [...] |
2005-11-01 11:30:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN ECON KTDB YM COM |
| 05SANJOSE2101 | DEMARCHES ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND THE UNGA [...] (U) Econoff delivered nonpapers (Refs A and B) to Edwin Arias, Deputy Director for Foreign Policy in the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and discussed the issues with Ronald Obaldia and Rolando Madrigal from the MFA on September 8, 2005. The representatives of MFA understood o [...] |
2005-09-09 22:15:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAID EAIR EFIN PREL UNGA |
| 05SANJOSE2664 | JAN. 1, 2006 ENTRY INTO FORCE HELPS CAFTA-DR IN [...] (SBU) Summary. We know that USTR must make a determination soon so that it can recommend to the President when he should issue his proclamation bringing CAFTA-DR into force. Recognizing that this determination is of greater importance for countries that have already ratified, we want to hig [...] |
2005-11-15 23:37:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN PGOV PREL CS |
| 05SANJOSE2826 | COSTA RICA,S FORMER CAFTA LEAD NEGOTIATOR ANABEL [...] (SBU) Anabel Gonzalez, who was Costa Rica,s lead negotiator for the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) until her resignation in September 2004 reftel has accepted WTO Director General Lamy,s offer to head the WTO,s Agriculture and Commodities Division. Lamy ma [...] |
2005-12-13 10:22:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL CS |
| 05SANSALVADOR2524 | RESPONSE TO NON-PAPER: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE [...] Poloff discussed reftel with Felix Ulloa, Office of Multilateral Affairs on September 12, 2005. Ulloa stated that the GOES would review the information prior to the conference on September 14. Butler [...] |
2005-09-12 19:37:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL ES UNGA |
| 05SANSALVADOR2549 | FINANCE VICE MINISTER SHARES U.S. VIEW ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-14 20:03:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN ES UNGA |
| 05SANSALVADOR2875 | SECRETARY GUTIERREZ' BILATERAL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SACA [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez began his October 20-21 visit to El Salvador with a friendly but businesslike meeting with President Elias Antonio ("Tony") Saca. Saca reaffirmed El Salvador's commitment to CAFTA and to its relationship with the United States, thanking Preside [...] |
2005-10-20 22:57:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD OVIP PREL EPET ECIN ES |
| 05SANTIAGO1057 | CHILE SUPPORTS US APEC INITIATIVES ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) EconOff met yesterday with German King, Director, and Graciela Fernandez, Deputy Director, of the APEC Department of the Directorate of International Economic Relations (DIRECON) to discuss the GOC position on the APEC Radioactive Sources Initiative. King reiterated Chile's support for [...] |
2005-05-13 16:31:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ETTC KSTC ETRD ECIN PARM CI APEC IAEA |
| 05SANTIAGO2168 | CHILE'S PARTICIPANTS IN APEC EXPORT CONTROLS [...] Post is pleased to report that the Government of Chile will send three officials to the conference for "Effective Elements of Export Controls for APEC Economies" to be held in Hawaii the first week of November. Post understands that Washington will cover all costs associated with attending th [...] |
2005-10-21 18:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC EAID ECIN ETRD CI APEC |
| 05SANTODOMINGO4268 | DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-09 22:54:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAID DR EFIN EAIR |
| 05TAIPEI2039 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) AIT Econoff met May 4, 2005 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), APEC Task Force Chief Lisa Li-hsin Chuang to deliver reftel demarche requesting that Chinese-Taipei support the U.S. radioactive sources initiative at the Sen [...] |
2005-05-05 05:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KSTC PARM ETTC EAID ETRD ECIN |
| 05TEGUCIGALPA2223 | Honduras and Nicaragua Re-Open Borders For Cargo [...] Honduran truck drivers opened the Honduran - Nicaraguan border for cargo transport Friday, October 21, after blockading several key highways for approximately 48 hours. The blockage was in response to a similar move by Nicaraguan truckers a day earlier. Following a formal note of protest from [...] |
2005-10-31 22:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EINV ECON ETRD HO |
| 05TEGUCIGALPA708 | Central America: Progress on a Customs Union; A [...] Summary: The Central American customs union is on its way, slowly but surely. On Wednesday March 9 of this year, Honduras and Guatemala consolidated the process of customs unification by signing a bilateral agreement at El Florido, a border crossing between the two countries in the Department [...] |
2005-04-02 00:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD ELTN ECON EAGR HO |
| 05TOKYO1349 | U.S.-JAPAN INFORMAL POLICY PLANNING BILATERAL: [...] (C) Summary: During informal policy planning talks with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Vice Minister Tsuneo Nishida on March 2, Director of Policy Planning Stephen D. Krasner discussed East Asian architecture, China, North Korea and the President's democratization agenda. Nishida said Ja [...] |
2005-03-08 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | ECIN PREL PARM PINR KDEM CH TW KN JA ASEAN |
| 05VANCOUVER1524 | MARIJUANA FLOURISHES IN B.C. AS METHAMPHETAMINE CRISIS [...] Summary: The number of individual marijuana grow operations, or grow-ops, in British Columbia has leveled-off since 2000, but they continue to increase in size and sophistication, according to a June 2005 RCMP report and a study by the University College of the Fraser Valley's Department of [...] |
2005-12-05 19:07:00 | Consulate Vancouver | UNCLASSIFIED | CA SNAR PREL ECIN |
| 05VIENNA1312 | AUSTRIANS SKEPTICAL AFTER 10 YEARS OF EU [...] A recent poll by the Austrian Association for European Politics (OGE) revealed that the Austrian public remains highly skeptical of the EU. A significant majority of Austrians do not believe EU membership has brought the benefits they expected, such as higher growth, lower inflation, and red [...] |
2005-04-21 06:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECIN ECON ETRD AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA1917 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS REFERENCE TO IPR AT U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel points to the GoA's COTRA delegation in Brussels and followed up June 8 with Gabriela Habermayer, Austria's 133 Committee representative. Habermayer agreed that U.S.-EU cooperation on IPR, especially in the developing world, was an area of positive collaboration tha [...] |
2005-06-09 09:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN AU |
| 05VIENNA1969 | AUSTRIA: LEADERS EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austria's political establishment is underlining its deep skepticism of Turkish EU membership. First, Chancellor Schuessel (conservative People's Party - OVP) reiterated the position he took at the December 2004 EU summit: that the EU should conduct "open-ended" negotiations wit [...] |
2005-06-14 12:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN AU TU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2441 | AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR SCHUESSEL CALLS FOR AN EU [...] Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel has proposed an EU-wide tax on financial cross-border transactions. Schuessel said he believes the tax would provide increased financial autonomy for the EU's budget and close the unresolved financing gap in the 2007-2013 financial framework. Despite ov [...] |
2005-07-20 12:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECIN EFIN AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2626 | EU/TURKEY: AUSTRIANS SHARPEN CRITICISM, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austrian attitudes are hardening on Turkey's prospects for EU accession. Polls show only ten percent of Austrians support Turkish entry. In recent statements, leaders across the spectrum have voiced increasing skepticism regarding Turkish EU membership. Finance Minister Grasse [...] |
2005-08-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN AU TU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2670 | AUSTRIA HOSTS 4TH INFORMAL BALKANS SUMMIT [...] Summary: The Austrian Government and the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe hosted leaders from six southeastern European countries from 2-3 August for the 4th informal "Balkans Summit." Participants discussed the region's expectations for EU membership, establishing a common [...] |
2005-08-09 09:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN AL BK HR MK RO SR AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2699 | AUSTRIA'S 2006 EU PRESIDENCY: CHANCELLOR [...] (C) Summary: Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel brings a formidable toolbox of political skills and savvy to his task of directing Austria's EU presidency in the first half of 2006. Ever conscious of the inherent limitations of stepping into the Presidency from one of the EU's sm [...] |
2005-08-11 09:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECIN EFIN AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2717 | AUSTRIANS SUPPORT EU MEMBERSHIP, BUT SKEPTICISM GROWING [...] According to a recent poll, two-thirds of Austrians support EU membership, roughly the same percentage resulting from the 1995 membership referendum. However, support for the EU is at the lowest level since 1997, confirming an increasingly skeptical attitude towards the EU and its institutions. [...] |
2005-08-12 11:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECIN EFIN AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2752 | EU-TURKEY: AUSTRIANS ON CONSISTENT LINE; WON'T [...] (C) The Austrian position on Turkey's EU accession (as reported ref b) has been fairly consistent over the past several months and is not likely to change prior to October 3. Austria does not and will not want to reopen the December 2004 decision to begin talks this autumn. Austria [...] |
2005-08-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TU AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2827 | DEMARCHE ON TURKISH EU ACCESSION: AUSTRIA SUPPORTS [...] (C) Summary: The Austrian Foreign Ministry's Southern Europe head and its director for Common Foreign and Security Policy told us August 22 that Austria considers the October 3 start date for Turkey's EU accession talks absolute. Austria is seeking language in the negotiating framew [...] |
2005-08-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TU CY AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA2944 | TURKISH EU ACCESSION: CYPRIOT FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: On August 31, EconPolCouns met with the Foreign Ministry's Assistant Secretary-level Director for Southern European Affairs, Clemens Koja, to receive a readout of the Cypriot Foreign Minister Georgios Iacovou's August 30 visit to Vienna and to discuss Turkey's accession talks wi [...] |
2005-09-02 10:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TU CY AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA3024 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (U) Econ Unit Chief delivered ref A and B talking points to Thomas Nader, Director (A/S-level) of the MFA's Multilateral Development Cooperation Division on September 6 and to Thomas Wieser, Director General (U/S-level) of the Ministry of Finance's Economic Policy and Financial Markets [...] |
2005-09-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN AU UNGA |
| 05VIENNA3025 | ALPBACH ECONOMIC FORUM - EUROPE NEEDS MORE [...] The August 18-September 3 European Forum Alpbach's Reform Symposium focused on the flagging Lisbon Agenda, moribund EU growth rates, labor market inflexibility, and Germany's bleak economic outlook. Politicians, academics, and subject experts called for more democracy and closer po [...] |
2005-09-12 10:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN ECIN ELAB AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA3142 | ALPBACH POLITICAL FORUM: EU UNABLE TO PROJECT [...] SUMMARY: The EU, a self-conscious "soft power," is unable or unwilling to use the potential for political clout that stems from its economic might. At the same time, EU membership holds considerable attraction for countries in the Western Balkans and beyond, and is an important inc [...] |
2005-09-21 15:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECIN ELAB TU SR AU EUN RU CZ |
| 05VIENNA328 | AUSTRIAN BANK HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS TO EU OF [...] (U) A recent study by Austria's largest bank, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, concludes the EU would benefit economically from Turkish membership and that costs would be approximately the same as the costs from the May 2004 enlargement. There are certain caveats associated with Turkish membershi [...] |
2005-02-04 13:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN PREL TU AU EUN |
| 05VIENNA983 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY, FIRST HALF OF 2006 - [...] (SBU) This message provides an informal, first outline of the GoA's planned work program and a calendar of events for Austria's EU Presidency in the first half of 2006. We developed this information from public sources and personal contacts. This outline reflects a preliminary phase of plan [...] |
2005-03-25 09:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EFIN ETRD AU EUN |
| 05VILNIUS65 | LITHUANIA'S ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS TO ATTRACT U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Economy Minister and Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 18, stressed his commitment to attracting U.S. investment, improve the competitiveness of Lithuanian companies, and to work with the EU to help Lithuania diversify its oil supply a [...] |
2005-01-20 06:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG ECIN LH |
| 05VILNIUS859 | NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMY EMPHASIZES FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Economy Kestutis Dauksys, meeting with Ambassador on August 16, emphasized the need to attract foreign investment, to improve the capacity of Lithuanian companies, and to develop a sound energy policy that will guarantee fuel supplies and promote Lithuania's energy in [...] |
2005-08-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ENRG ECIN PREL LH |
| 05WELLINGTON385 | NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES [...] (U) This message contains an action suggestion, at para 5. 2. (U) Post shared reftel demarche with the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). The Division takes the lead at MFAT on all bilateral and multilateral disarmament-related issues. 3. (U) [...] |
2005-05-13 04:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN NZ APECO |
| 05WELLINGTON637 | New Zealand on U.S. APEC Radioactive Sources [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-22 01:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN APEC IAEA |
| 05WELLINGTON79 | EAST ASIAN SUMMIT: NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials have been watching with interest the proposal to hold an East Asian Summit, but they remain unclear as to either the form or function of the meeting. New Zealand would welcome the chance to participate in the Summit, but is unlikely to push for an invitation [...] |
2005-01-27 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN NZ ASEAN APECO |
| 05WELLINGTON891 | UNINTENTIONALLY, NEW ZEALAND LAW IMPEDES SOME [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand legislation intended to tighten the rules on foreign ownership of land is having the unintended effect of restricting sales of businesses and properties. U.S. sellers of two large investments in New Zealand -- a poultry-farm company and a stake in a forestry busines [...] |
2005-11-16 00:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECIN ECON NZ ETRC |
| 05YEREVAN34 | EMBASSY YEREVAN SUPPORTS U.S. JOINING BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary. Post strongly supports the United State's joining the Black Sea Economic Council (BSEC) as an observer, per ref A. There could be multiple benefits for the U.S.: we focus here on those that intersect with our regional goals in the South Caucasus. Due to Armenia's political isola [...] |
2005-01-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETTC KFPC PARM AM |
| 05ZAGREB1413 | CROATIAN BAR ATTEMPTS TO BROADEN [...] SUMMARY: An attempt to restrict access to the Croatian market for legal services was brought to post's attention by a multinational (including U.S.) law firm. The law firm registered a branch in Croatia in October 2004. In January 2005, the Croatian Bar Association (HOK) published a circula [...] |
2005-08-29 13:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN ETRD HR |
| 06ABUDHABI1775 | UAE TELECOM UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 19, econoff met with Mohammed Gheyath, Technical Affairs Manager of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), to discuss UAE telecom initiatives. Gheyath said the TRA is planning to allow a third internet service provider (ISP) in the UAE and is also consideri [...] |
2006-05-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN PHUM ECON AE |
| 06ABUDHABI2016 | UAE FTA: UAEG OFFICIALS RAISE CONCERNS< BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 14, during the UAE-Korean Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Forum held in Abu Dhabi, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Governmental Sector Development and the head of the UAE Telecommunications Supreme Committee, told the English language daily Gulf [...] |
2006-05-16 09:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECPS ECIN ECON AE |
| 06ABUJA2485 | ECOWAS MINISTERIAL MEETINGS [...] SUMMARY. On August 28, 2006, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held ministerial consultations to focus on four issues, restructuring the Secretariat into a Commission, regionalization, the West Africa/European Union (WA/EU) negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement [...] |
2006-09-21 10:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EFIN PREL ECOWAS NI |
| 06ABUJA3130 | ECOWAS DONORS' MEETING HIGHTLIGHTS PROGRESS [...] (U) Summary: Development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met November 20-21 in Abuja for a progress report on the organization's initiatives. While peace and security issues remain central to ECOWAS's work, transforming the ECOWAS Secretariat into a Commissio [...] |
2006-12-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS |
| 06ABUJA962 | ECOWAS: STUMBLING TOWARD CONVERGENCE [...] Summary. After years of false starts, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is taking concrete steps toward a customs and monetary union. The former French colonies minus Guinea already have both, and the others are trying to follow suit. The customs union and common extern [...] |
2006-04-27 17:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN EFIN NI |
| 06ACCRA2763 | Ghana Pol/Econ Highlights, Fall 2006 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic and political events and activities in Ghana for the period of August - October 2007. The issues covered are: -- Macro-economic performance -- 2007 Draft Budget To Be Published November 16 -- Halting Progress on Ghana Telecom Privatization -- Tema [...] |
2006-11-15 16:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EFIN GH |
| 06AMMAN1479 | TRIDE Hits Its Stride [...] Summary: Senior management from the Trilateral Industrial Research and Development (TRIDE) Foundation met Jordanian and USG representatives in Amman on February 20 for a strategic planning session. The productive and upbeat meeting inaugurated the Ministry of Industry and Trade as the lead J [...] |
2006-03-01 12:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND EINV ECIN PREL IS JO |
| 06AMMAN4833 | JPRC EXPANSION PLANS MOVING SLOWLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The future of Jordan Petroleum Refinery Corporation (JPRC) - operator of Jordan's sole refinery - remains unclear as its 25-year concession over production, distribution, and marketing of petroleum products draws to an end in 2008. JPRC, a semi-public corporation, hopes that it w [...] |
2006-06-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KPRV ECIN ECON JO |
| 06ANKARA4707 | TURKEY VIEWS ON HABUR GATE, FUEL TRADE TO SOMO, [...] (C) Summary. Although the smuggling investigation that had impeded Turkish fuel shipments to Iraq is over and construction of the new customs facility at Habur is nearly complete, Turkish trade officials observe that Iraqi demand for fuel from Iraq appears to be declining. At the same time [...] |
2006-08-11 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU |
| 06ANKARA5817 | TURKEY AND GMF - SEEKING WIDER BLACK SEA WESTERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 10-11 in Ankara, The German Marshall Fund (GMF) organized a workshop on "Developing a Western Strategy towards the Wider Black Sea Region", attended by EUR DAS Matt Bryza. Participants sought to strike common ground and called for greater cooperation on security, [...] |
2006-10-05 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EPET MARR PREL NATO TU RS XH ZJ |
| 06ASTANA158 | KAZAKHSTANI SURVEY TEAM IDENTIFIES PRIORITIES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan will focus on humanitarian assistance, participation in investment projects, and broadening commercial ties with Afghanistan, according to the Deputy Foreign Minister who led the recent survey team to Kabul and two northern provinces. As a regional leader, Kazakhstan [...] |
2006-10-03 11:37:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EINV MARR NATO AF KZ |
| 06ASTANA29 | KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAYEV OUTLINES PLAN TO MAKE KAZAKHSTAN ONE [...] (U) Summary: In his annual state of the nation address delivered on March 1, President Nazarbayev presented his "Strategy for Kazakhstan's being among - the world's 50 most competitive countries." In his introductory statement, he spoke of the key components of his vision: the market economy, [...] |
2006-04-13 07:02:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EINV ENRG KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE PINR |
| 06BAGHDAD3601 | PRICES RISE IN AUGUST BY 15.1 PERCENT [...] (SBU) Iraq's consumer price index (CPI) increased 15.1% in August, and the year-on-year increase reached 76.6%. The increase is largely driven by rising prices in the categories of Fuel/electricity (57.8%) and Transport/communication (20.8%). GOI's Central Office of Statistics and Information [...] |
2006-09-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD3988 | HOW MINOIL DEVELOPED THE FUEL IMPORT REGULATIONS [...] (C) Conversations with a key Ministry of Oil (MinOil) official indicate that there was a truncated process with no outside consultations during the drafting of the Fuel Import Liberalization Law Regulations published by the MinOil on October 12 (reftel). Longtime MinOil official and current D [...] |
2006-10-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG PGOV IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4044 | MINOIL OFFICIAL DISCUSSES NATIONAL OIL POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The Director General of the State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) described the Iraqi constitution as "unworkable" for efficient management of the country's natural resources. Falah Al-Khawaja discussed the Kurdish law, current capital projects in the Kurdish region, and nationa [...] |
2006-10-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG PGOV IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4151 | IRAQI ECONOMIST CALLS FOR PRIVATIZATION AND [...] (C) Summary: Professor of Economics Abdulrasool Al Jassim discussed major issues facing the Iraqi economy, notably the Investment Law, the need for privatization, and outreach efforts to convince Iraqis of the need for an open economy. Dr. Abdulrasool also highlighted the need for small bus [...] |
2006-11-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV IZ |
| 06BAKU734 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV TO ATTEND KIEV GUAM SUMMIT; GOAJ [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Aliyev will attend the GUAM Summit in Kiev, according to his foreign policy advisor, Novruz Mammadov. Mammadov believes Ukraine will use the summit to stake out a leadership role in the region. Russia, he believes, sees GUAM as a rival to the CIS and will try to lever [...] |
2006-05-18 13:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PBTS ECIN AJ GG UP MD |
| 06BEIJING18542 | CHINA CAUTIOUS ON ASEAN+6 TRADE PROPOSALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CHINA IS REACTING CAUTIOUSLY TO JAPAN'S PROPOSALS FOR AN ASEAN 6 FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AND OTHER EFFORTS TO INCREASE REGIONAL INTEGRATION. FURTHER DECISIONS ON SUCH STEPS COULD COME AT DECEMBER'S EAST ASIAN SUMMIT, BUT CHINA WILL CONTINUE TO LET ASEAN TAKE THE LEAD, FOREIGN MINIST [...] |
2006-09-01 10:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD XE JA CH |
| 06BEIJING19030 | China Pushes SCO Economic Agenda at Western China [...] (SBU) Sumary: Zhang Deguang, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), exhorted his central Asian counterparts at a September 2 event in Urumqi to quickly conclude three key economic agreements on customs, transportation and protection of foreign investment. These ar [...] |
2006-09-08 09:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD PREL PTER CH ZK |
| 06BEIJING23549 | CHINA/CENTRAL ASIA - URUMQI HIGH LEVEL FORUM [...] (SBU) Summary: At the fourth session of the Central, West and South Asia Regional Economic Cooperation High- Level Forum held in Urumqi, Xinjiang on September 2, 2006, participants effused about the future of regional cooperation and economic integration. The Executive Director of the Sunbr [...] |
2006-11-06 23:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL PTER EFIN CH ZK RS TU PK |
| 06BEIJING5362 | PRC-PACIFIC ISLAND CONFERENCE: BUSINESS AND AID, [...] (C) PRC Premier Wen Jiabao will use the first visit by a PRC Premier to a Pacific Island nation to launch a China-Fiji co-hosted economic development and cooperation conference on April 5, according to a MOFCOM American and Oceanian Affairs Division Director. MOFCOM Minister Bo Xilai will joi [...] |
2006-03-23 22:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID ETRD EFIS ECIN CH FJ PP TW |
| 06BEIJING6074 | SPECIAL MFA PRESS CONFERENCE ON PREMIER WEN TRAVEL [...] Premier Wen Jiabao will visit Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Cambodia from April 1-8, MFA Director Generals for Asian Affairs and for American and Oceanian Affairs told the local and international press corps on March 24. This will be a trip of firsts: the first visit by a PRC Premier to A [...] |
2006-03-31 10:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EAID ETRD EFIS ECIN CH FJ PP TW |
| 06BERLIN1672 | STRUCTURAL LIMITS TO INTEGRATING TURKISH [...] SUMMARY. Nearly 50 years since the first wave of Trkish immigrants arrived in Germany, economic inegration remains one of the Turkish immigrant comunity's greatest challenges. Prospects for greter economic integration are dimmed by high unemloyment rates, low education levels, and lack of G [...] |
2006-06-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON ELAB SOCI TU GM |
| 06BERLIN3518 | GERMANY HONING TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: The Chancellor and other senior German officials continue to note Germany's economic agenda for its EU presidency includes promoting a more highly integrated transatlantic market place, while at the same time reiterating support for a successfully concluded Doha Development Agenda [...] |
2006-12-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ECIN KIPR PREL GM |
| 06BISHKEK1300 | INVITATION TO KAZAKH PRESENTATION FORWARDED [...] (U) On September 1, PolOff met with Kuban Kabaev, Head of the MFA's Division of International Economic Organizations, to inquire about the makeup of the planned Kyrgyz delegation to the IMU and World Bank meetings in Singapore in mid-September and to pass along reftel invitation. Kabaev was [...] |
2006-09-08 10:46:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECIN KG |
| 06BOGOTA576 | COLOMBIANS HOPE TO CLOSE USATPA NEGOTIATIONS ASAP [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Trade Minister Botero and Chief Trade negotiator Gomez on January 20 to urge rapid Colombian movement toward agreement of a final text. Botero and Gomez indicated a clear determination to reach agreement, but more than any other time, indicated concern ov [...] |
2006-01-23 19:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECIN EAGR CO FTA |
| 06BRASILIA1440 | PROSPECTS FOR BRAZIL'S MERCOSUL PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently, Econoffs met with Julio Laranjeiras, Counselor for Mercosul at the Ministry of External Relations to discuss Brazil's ambitious and hopeful integration agenda during its 5-month tenure as Mercosul pro tempore president starting August 1. Brazil plans to, among other th [...] |
2006-07-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR |
| 06BRASILIA661 | MERCOSUR TURNS 15 - A SOMBER QUINCEANERA [...] (SBU) Summary. The fifteenth anniversary of the Treaty of Asuncion, which created Mercosul, took place on March 26, but was barely noticed in Brazil. Instead of an elaborate birthday celebration, the only events marking the date here were scattered ) and poorly publicized ) retrospective sem [...] |
2006-04-05 13:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECIN PGOV PREL BR |
| 06BRASILIA918 | BRAZIL; LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR THE UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazilian officials admit that their game-plan for achieving results at the May 12 EU-Latin American summit in Vienna, followed by a May 13 EU-Mercosul bilateral in the same locale, is now in question. While they had hoped to use the opportunity of the summits to have Presiden [...] |
2006-05-10 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN KSUM PREL BR |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1287 | OECS SIX SIGN ON TO CSME [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of quibbling and backtracking (Ref B), the six nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) signed on to the single market phase of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) at the start of the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting July 3-6 in St. [...] |
2006-07-21 21:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EAID PREL PINR XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN206 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN WARY OF CARICOM SINGLE MARKET [...] (U) Summary. The January 1 "start" of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and January 30 signing are purely ceremonial events because the CSME is a patchwork process that countries must implement through national legislation. Owing to fears of a mass influx of foreign labor, concerns [...] |
2006-01-31 14:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD ELAB EAID EIND EFIN PREL XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN553 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN MOVES TOWARD ECONOMIC UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Caribbean's small island-states are creating an economic union that could lead to political integration. Under a draft plan, the heads of government of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) would sit on a supranational body that has the authority to mak [...] |
2006-03-30 12:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EFIN PGOV PREL UK XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN777 | AMBASSADOR MAISTO PETITIONS CARIBBEAN FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador John F. Maisto, visited Bridgetown, Barbados, April 26-28 to attend the U.K.-CARICOM Forum. His primary goal was to meet with CARICOM Foreign Ministers to discuss the June OAS General Assembly [...] |
2006-05-05 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECIN ETRD KFPC KPAO OAS BB BF |
| 06BRIDGETOWN788 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) Leaders of the six independent nations in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) reaffirmed in April their intention to delay officially signing on to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) until a Regional Development Fund (RDF) is established to help less developed sta [...] |
2006-05-08 20:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM PREL CH |
| 06BRIDGETOWN992 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN DELAYS ENTERING CARICOM SINGLE [...] (SBU) Summary: CARICOM's delay in setting up a special fund for less developed countries threatens to further postpone the entry of the small nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) into the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The OECS members made the establishm [...] |
2006-06-09 19:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EAID PGOV PREL XL |
| 06BUCHAREST981 | ROMANIAN BLACK SEA FORUM: FIRST STEPS TOWARD A [...] (C) Summary. Senior GOR officials assert that they will use the momentum initiated by the June 5 "Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership" summit in Bucharest as a "launching pad" for further dialogue and cooperation in the Black Sea region. Romanian interlocutors have also expressed gr [...] |
2006-06-13 16:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC ECIN PINS PHSA NATO PGOV AM AJ BU |
| 06BUENOSAIRES2061 | ARGENTINE FOREIGN TRADE SECRETARY: WHY URUGUAY [...] (C) Charge paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Alfredo Chiaradia, Secretary of External Trade in the Argentine MFA, on August 29. The conversation ranged over prospects to re-energize the Doha Round (not optimistic), the possibility of Argentina joining the FTAA (even less so), and USTR's GSP [...] |
2006-09-11 10:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFTA ECIN ECON AR |
| 06CARACAS264 | DETAILS OF VENEZUELAN ENERGY COOPERATION AGREEMENTS [...] SUMMARY: On January 23 President Chavez signed two bilateral agreements with Bolivian President Evo Morales: the Broad Scope Energy Agreement and the Caracas Energy Accord. Both are aimed at expanding regional integration through the BRV's Petroamerica initiative and the consolidation of its [...] |
2006-02-02 17:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECIN EINV VE |
| 06CHIANGMAI20 | ANGER OVER THAILAND'S EARLY HARVEST AGREEMENT FUELS FTA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-20 10:21:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN WTRO EAGR PGOV CH TH |
| 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 |
| 06DAKAR2588 | LOOKING AT ELECTIONS AND OIL, UN SEES UNEMPLOYMENT AS [...] (SBU) On October 19, the six UN special representatives (UNSRs) in West Africa gathered in Dakar for their eighth meeting under the chairmanship of Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for West Africa. They focused on Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea alt [...] |
2006-10-26 08:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EPET PINS SNAR SG |
| 06DAMASCUS4094 | SURVEY OF SYRIAN WATER SECTOR - 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: After years of national water shortages, it has become clear that Syria faces a water crunch that, if not addressed comprehensively, will balloon into a crisis in the medium to long term. Rapidly growing demand for water from various sectors of Syrian society in recent years com [...] |
2006-08-21 13:25:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECIN ECON EIND EAID SENV SY EWWT |
| 06DAMASCUS598 | SYRIA JOINS THE UNOFFICIAL DEVELOPING NATIONS GROUP AT [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 6, the SARG announced that it had joined the unofficial developing nations group at the WTO, the latest in an ongoing campaign to portray the SARG as strengthening international economic relationships. Syria is receiving $1.6 million USD in pre-WTO accession assistan [...] |
2006-02-13 11:18:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN SY |
| 06DUBAI1322 | IN DUBAI, U/S MCCORMICK HEARS SADNESS, FRUSTRATION ON DPW [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-11 10:36:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | ECIN ECON PREL PGOV AE |
| 06DUBAI1450 | COMMERCE U/S MCCORMICK DISCUSSES STRATEGIC TRADE AND EXPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-14 09:46:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP ECIN ECON PREL PGOV AE |
| 06DUBAI1692 | DUBAI AND NORTHERN EMIRATES CONTINUE IPR EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-20 13:34:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV ETRD AE |
| 06DUBAI1842 | PROTESTING LABORERS AT DUBAI CONSTRUCTION SITE DAMAGE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-27 10:59:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ECIN ASEC PREL ZP AE |
| 06DUBAI2342 | IRAN REMAINS DUBAI'S LARGEST EXPORT/RE-EXPORT MARKET [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-24 11:41:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN ETRD PREL IR AE |
| 06DUBAI3360 | NEXT IPR STEP: COMBATING TRANSSHIPMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-06 13:10:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TC PREL PGOV ZR ECIN ETRD AE |
| 06DUBAI5780 | ECONOMIC MINISTER ENDORSES FTA, LOOKS FOR UPSIDE OF DPW [...] (SBU) Summary: Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, UAE Minister of Economy and Planning, spoke to Dubai's American Business Council (ABC) September 13. In prepared remarks, she affirmed the UAE's commitment to free trade, and said a bilateral FTA with the US would benefit both the US and UAE. During th [...] |
2006-09-14 12:50:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ECIN ETRD AE |
| 06DUBAI6929 | DP WORLD SELLS U.S. PORT OPERATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-14 16:01:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECIN EINV ETRD PINS TRSY EWWT AE |
| 06DUBAI6940 | RAS AL KHAIMAH SHEIKH DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, FREE TRADE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-19 13:27:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KDEM AE |
| 06DUSHANBE1718 | CHINESE PRIME MINISTER BRINGS GOOD FORTUNE TO SCO TALKSIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fifth session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of government began September 15 in Dushanbe to a flourish of publicity. High-level representatives from China, Russia, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, observers from India, Iran, Pakistan, and Mongoli [...] |
2006-09-15 13:09:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG PREL EAID TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1726 | DUSHANBE SCO CONFERENCE - MOVING BEYOND SECURITY INTO [...] SUMMARY: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) focused on economic and energy cooperation in its Dushanbe meetings September 15-16. The six member countries issued a joint communique affirming their intention to further cooperate in economic, trade, scientific, technological, social, cu [...] |
2006-09-20 12:16:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG EAID TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1765 | CHINESE DRAGON STEPS GENTLY IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan Li Huilai laid out the founding principles of friendship between Tajikistan and China, including economic, security, and cultural relations, at an academic conference hosted by the Tajik Center for Strategic Research in Dushanbe on September 26. Acad [...] |
2006-09-27 10:22:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE1977 | IRAN HAWKS WARES IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: Iran staged a business exhibition in Dushanbe October 27-30 with over 40 Iranian companies participating. The well-attended exhibition featured building materials, engineering consulting services, consumer goods, medical equipment, furniture, pharmaceuticals, and other goods. [...] |
2006-10-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG PREL TBIO TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2000 | "PLEASE TRAIN OUR WORKERS" -- TAJIK BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Summary. While the upper echelons of the Tajik government focus on immense energy projects, a frank and lively discussion by local businesspeople offered fresh examples of corruption and decay in the small and medium enterprise sector, especially related to customs, standards, and the lac [...] |
2006-10-31 12:59:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EIND EFIN EAID PREL TBIO ETRD PGOV TI |
| 06DUSHANBE2019 | DUSHANBE ELECTRICITY CONFERENCE PRODUCES MEMORANDUM OF [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan moved three steps closer to establishing a regional transmission system and electricity market at the Second Central and South Asia regional electricity market conference. During the October 26-28 conference in Dushanbe, [...] |
2006-11-03 07:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF KG PK |
| 06DUSHANBE2107 | DEFENDING TAJIKISTAN'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan has taken significant steps over the past year to protect intellectual property, but much work remains in order to change its position on the Special 301 List. Advances include: an amendment to the Law on Intellectual Property to protect copyright owners from Internet [...] |
2006-11-17 14:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETTC ECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI |
| 06GEORGETOWN299 | PROPOSED AGENDA FOR APRIL 12 CARICOM-USTR [...] an extension of the waiver for CBI (which expired in December 2005) 2. possibility of negotiating an appropriate US-CARICOM Trade Agreement 3. a re-configured Trade and Investment Council and the modalities attendant hereto (as suggested by the US Secretary of State on the occasion of t [...] |
2006-03-30 19:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL EAGR ECIN XL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN365 | Venezuela and the Caribbean [...] Following is text of the editorial in today's Stabroek News newspaper, Guyana's leading independent newspaper. The editorial is a good reflection of the Guyanese thinking man's view of Venezuela, Chavez, and the 160 year-old boundary dispute. 2. BEGIN TEXT: It was columnist Mr. Reggie D [...] |
2006-04-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS ECIN EINV EPET EAID XL VE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN760 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] Mining: Cambior prepared to sell bauxite stake 2. ESTH: Environmental permit sought for Berbice River bauxite project 3. Banking: Republic Bank Rebrands, Introduces Debit Cards 4. Debt: World Bank grants US$322M debt relief 5. Public Finance: Revenue Authority reports 2005 tax exemptions [...] |
2006-08-03 20:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EMIN EAID EAIR ECIN ENRG ECON GY |
| 06GUANGZHOU11065 | Short March: Jaunt Through Jieyang -- Poor But [...] (SBU) Summary: One of the oldest and most densely populated municipalities in the province, Jieyang in eastern Guangdong has not been nearly as successful as its neighbors in economic development. Local officials admitted that they might not be up to the challenge of overcoming numerous prob [...] |
2006-04-11 03:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN ELAB CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU5377 | Journey to the West Heads South to the Guangxi [...] (SBU) Summary: In Guangxi, the three port cities of Pingxiang, Dongxing and Fangchenggang boast a relatively healthy trade with neighboring Vietnam, though Dongxing's and Fangchenggang's access to the sea demonstrate a clear economic advantage over land-locked Pingxiang. Budding signs of fore [...] |
2006-02-27 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN ELAB CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU5778 | Got Milk? Two Guangxi Dairy Farms Invest in Future [...] (U) Summary: Two dairy farms -- one state-owned and the other private -- are participants in a Consulate Guangzhou Agricultural Trade Office project to develop the Chinese market for alfalfa and other products that would contribute to greater milk production in China. Both dairies are investi [...] |
2006-03-01 23:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON KTDB ECIN CH |
| 06GUATEMALA102 | VP and congressional leader stubborn on sanitary [...] (U) In comments to the press on January 18, Vice President Eduardo Stein sharply criticized the US for adding "new" requirements for CAFTA implementation, focusing specifically on the controversial law on patents and data protection (number 30-2005). Also referring to the US requirement for [...] |
2006-01-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN KIPR EAGR GT CAFTA |
| 06HILLAH4 | NAJAF OFFICIALS PLAN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Najaf Deputy Governor told REO Al-Hillah staff of his intention to hold an international investment and economic development conference in Najaf in February. In a January 4 meeting, the Deputy Governor asked for U.S. support in publicizing the conference to American officials [...] |
2006-01-06 17:03:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV ECIN EAGR PGOV KISL IZ |
| 06HONGKONG2914 | Hong Kong Participants for APEC Seminar on [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-18 01:33:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN TBIO KFLU HK |
| 06ISLAMABAD16739 | ISLAMIC BANKING IN PAKISTAN (C-TN6-00207) [...] (C) Summary. With limited government support, Islamic banking has gained momentum in Pakistan in the past three years. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reports that the capital base of the Islamic banking system has more than doubled since 2003 as the number of Islamic banks operating in P [...] |
2006-08-24 12:18:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECIN EFIN KTFN PK |
| 06ISTANBUL128 | BSEC REQUEST FOR OBSERVER VIEWS ON COOPERATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Further to the BSEC Secretariat's late December request to observers to forward their views on how they envision cooperating with BSEC and its project development fund in future (copy faxed to EUR/SE), on February 1 BSEC forwarded [...] |
2006-02-02 14:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PO PREL TU |
| 06ISTANBUL2095 | STABILITY VS. THE CANCER OF INFORMALITY [...] Summary: On November 6, at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Global Forum on Investment, an OECD Country Roundtable examined Turkey's recent experience with strategies to enhance the investment environment and the dramatic improvement in foreign investment in Tu [...] |
2006-11-20 13:31:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV BEXP ECON ECIN OECD TU |
| 06ISTANBUL444 | BSEC SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Black Sea Economic Cooperation organization's meeting of Senior Officials at the end of February highlighted both the organization's strengths and weaknesses. The organization is a rare forum grouping not just all the sea's littoral states, but also other countries such as [...] |
2006-03-27 09:20:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG |
| 06ISTANBUL961 | LAVROV VISIT HIGHLIGHTS RUSSIA'S 2006 BSEC AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov outlined Russia's priorities for Black Sea economic cooperation for its six-month period as "Chairman in Office" in a brief address to representatives and observers to BSEC at the organization's Istanbul secretariat on Thursday, June  [...] |
2006-06-02 10:18:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG |
| 06JAKARTA7278 | DEMARCHE ON THE ASEAN-U.S. ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP [...] Econ officerWe delivered on June 8 reftel demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorate of North and Central American Affairs Ahimsa Sukartono of the Directorate of North and Central American Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on June 8, emphasizing a sense of [...] |
2006-06-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECIN ASEAN ID |
| 06JAKARTA7279 | DEMARCHE ON THE ASEAN-U.S. ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-08 09:28:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECIN ASEAN ID |
| 06JAKARTA8792 | INDONESIAN PARTICIPANTS FOR APEC SEMINAR ON [...] This is an action request; see para 3. 2. Three different Government of Indonesia (GOI) agencies are deeply involved in the control of avian influenza (AI). The National Committee on Avian Influenza (KOMNAS) serves as the national coordinating entity. The Ministry of Health is the agency [...] |
2006-07-13 10:30:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO |
| 06KABUL2707 | AFGHAN BUDGET DEBATE (C-NE6-00713) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable is a response to Department's request for additional reporting on the Afghan National Assembly debate on the budget (REF A). END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Below are the responses, by question: A. What were the major points of debate on the budget? Please see REF C, par [...] |
2006-06-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECIN ECON PGOV AF |
| 06KATHMANDU688 | CHINA TO PROVIDE DUTY-FREE ACCESS FOR 500 NEPALI [...] (SBU) On March 14, news media reported that China would provide duty-free access to approximately 500 Nepali items, on a non-reciprocal basis. This news comes in advance of a three-day visit to Nepal by a Chinese delegation led by Chinese State Counselor Tang Jiaxuan, beginning March 16. Nain [...] |
2006-03-15 11:19:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ECIN NP |
| 06KHARTOUM2909 | Southern Sudan: Update on Nile River Issues [...] Summary: Southern Sudan, having signed an MOU with Egypt in August 2006 on technical cooperation on water issues, remains interested in capacity building and in developing the Nile River as a transport corridor. Although the Jonglei Canal Project remains sensitive politically and ecologicall [...] |
2006-12-27 03:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV PGOV ECIN EWWT EG SU |
| 06KIEV3569 | UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ADVANCES RELATIONS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: While media attention had focused on PM Yanukovych's comments regarding a NATO Membership Action Plan during his September 14 visit to Brussels, MFA European Union Department acting director Dir argued that Yanukovych had made significant statements and substantial progress on EU [...] |
2006-09-18 14:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD EPET EUN UP |
| 06KIGALI712 | DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ENGAGES RWANDA [...] Summary. At the request of USTR, Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Susan McDermott led a delegation to Rwanda to explore areas of assistance. The GOR was keen on soliciting support for a COMESA air traffic management project, but the main focus of the visit was [...] |
2006-07-20 14:37:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAID EAIR ECIN PREL ECON RW KE TZ UG |
| 06KIGALI731 | GOR'S POSITION ON AU SUMMIT, AMIS AND TANZANIAN [...] (U) Summary. On 25 July Rwandan foreign affairs and defense officials briefed diplomatic corps on a variety of issues including the African Union (AU) Summit, the GOR's position on The Great Lakes Conference, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APR [...] |
2006-08-01 14:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN KPKO KSUM MOPS PREF PREL AU RW TZ SU |
| 06KINGSTON1500 | U.S.-CARICOM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: JAMAICAN URGES [...] (C) Summary: According to a Jamaican official at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), there is tension within CARICOM regarding a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. The larger economies appear to desire an FTA, but the smaller Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (O [...] |
2006-07-31 22:25:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EINV PREL ETRD JM |
| 06KYIV4063 | UKRAINE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK FOR EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With just a week to go, the EU and Ukraine are still working to finalize a key document to be initialed at the October 27 Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki -- a visa facilitation agreement and an associated readmission agreement. Ukrainians are insisting that the provisions of the r [...] |
2006-10-20 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD CVIS EUN UP |
| 06LILONGWE179 | MALAWI'S MIXED FEELINGS ON HONG KONG TALKS [...] In a recent briefing for the private sector, Malawi's trade minist 2. To take better advantage of open markets, the GOM understands that 3. While noting good progress on eliminating export subsidies by 2013 4. COMMENT: The GOM's trade position appears to be driven mainly by t GILMOUR [...] |
2006-02-22 16:59:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD ECIN ECON MI |
| 06LILONGWE181 | MALAWI'S MIXED FEELINGS ON HONG KONG TALKS [...] In a recent briefing for the private sector, Malawi's trade ministry indicated both satisfaction and disappointment at the outcome of December's WTO ministerial conference held in Hong Kong. As expected, the GOM had been concerned mainly about concessions to least-developed countries (LDCs). T [...] |
2006-02-23 15:01:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD ECIN ECON MI |
| 06LISBON1814 | PORTUGUESE TO MEET WITH RUSSIANS ON NATURAL GAS [...] (U) SUMMARY: MFA Senior European Political Advisor informed Pol/Econ officer that Gazprom representatives were in Portugal in April to discuss the sale of liquified natural gas (LNG) from Gazprom to Portuguese Energy Company Galp Energia (Galp) via Algeria. A follow-up meeting is scheduled fo [...] |
2006-08-25 16:18:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY EPET ECIN ECON EMIN PREL PO RS |
| 06MANAGUA1990 | CAFTA SUCCESS STORIES: "NICARAGUA'S ON TOP" [...] (U) Trade statistics and investor interest support the view that CAFTA-DR is having an immediate and positive effect on the Nicaraguan economy since coming into effect on April 1. Dramatic increases in exports have been logged, though one has to take the seasonal nature of agriculture into ac [...] |
2006-09-11 22:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EINV ECIN ECON NU |
| 06MANAGUA20 | STATE AND USAID POLICY PLANNING DIRECTORS VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In their joint visit to Nicaragua, State Director of Policy Planning Stephen Krasner and USAID Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination Douglas Menarchik made clear that State, USAID and the White House are considering ways to reduce the complexity of U.S. fo [...] |
2006-01-05 21:09:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV NU |
| 06MANAGUA213 | EVIDENCE SUGGESTS SECRET TAIWAN PAYMENTS TO [...] (C) On January 25, poloff and RLA met Attorney General for Criminal Affairs Ivan Lara and Economic Crimes investigator Mario Diaz of the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) to discuss Taiwan's use of foreign aid funds in Nicaragua in recent years. Lara and Diaz did not have any evidence of Taiwan [...] |
2006-01-30 14:12:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR EAID CH PREL ECIN EINV ETRD PM GT TW |
| 06MANAGUA2432 | NICARAGUA: OPIC CEO MOSBACHER PROMOTES FUNDS FOR [...] (U) Summary. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Mosbacher, Jr. visited Managua on October 18 to announce five OPIC-sponsored investment funds and lending programs available for Nicaragua. In a day-long series of high-level meetings and [...] |
2006-11-01 22:33:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ECON ECIN NU |
| 06MANAGUA2584 | NICARAGUA: INTEROCEANIC CANAL PROPOSALS MIRED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In early October, President Bolanos unveiled the "Grand Interoceanic Canal for Nicaragua (GNIC)" project, a proposed $18 billion, 172-mile long, trans-isthmus "wet canal." The GNIC will compete with three more modest "dry canal" proposals also under consideration. The most adva [...] |
2006-11-27 21:32:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EIND ELTN EWWT NU |
| 06MANAMA584 | FOLLOWING DUBAI PORTS WORLD CONTROVERSY, U.S. [...] (C) The Dubai Ports World (DPW) controversy has receded from the headlines since Economic Development Board (EDB) CEO Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa Al-Khalifa's reported criticism of the outcome was published in the Daily Telegraph. In the early days following DPW's decision to sell its U.S. operat [...] |
2006-04-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EINV ECON PREL BA |
| 06MANILA144 | SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT POLICIES [...] Summary. This cable outlines responses by GRP National Telecom Commission to reftel questionnaire on spectrum management. End summary. POST RESPONSE TO RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM SURVEY A. Which organizations are involved in spectrum management in your country? To whom are they respon [...] |
2006-01-11 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINV ETRD ECIN RP |
| 06MANILA3064 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chris, the entire US Mission welcomes you back to the Philippines! We have been busy emphasizing our partnership in this historic year; upcoming Codels will be a next stage as will President Arroyo's September trip to Hawaii. Your visit focuses on outreach in two key areas -- [...] |
2006-07-21 09:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ECON PGOV ETRD ECIN EAID RP |
| 06MANILA4346 | FOREIGN SECRETARY DISCUSSES EAST ASIA ARCHITECTURE [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador and DCM on October 11, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, speaking as a friend and ally, sought to persuade us of the merits of U.S. participation in the East Asia Summit. He described the EAS as an important emerging forum, inclusive of all East Asia, with A [...] |
2006-10-13 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN XE RP |
| 06MANILA4717 | AGENDA FOR DECEMBER EAST ASIA SUMMIT: ENERGY AND [...] (U) See para 6 for action request. 2. (C) Summary: President Arroyo told us that, as host of the East Asia Summit on December 13, the Philippines intends to focus on energy and trade, especially the WTO. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has agreed to attend the Summit, and Arroyo would l [...] |
2006-11-16 06:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD ENRG PREL ASEAN RP |
| 06MANILA4855 | PHILIPPINE PLANS FOR ASEAN SUMMITS IN CEBU [...] (C) Summary. The Philippines plans to make a new counterterrorism convention and recommendations on an ASEAN Charter the highlights of the December 11 ASEAN Summit. The subsequent ASEAN 3 Summit and East Asia Summit will probably break no new ground and will not include new participants, [...] |
2006-11-30 07:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PTER ASEAN XE RU CH JA KN KS RP |
| 06MANILA4984 | ASEAN TRADE MINISTERS TACKLE TARIFFS [...] (U) Despite the postponement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders' Summit, ASEAN trade ministers on December 8 succeeded in signing six agreements intended to expand economic integration in the region. Four focus on enhancing intra-ASEAN trade and two agreements deep [...] |
2006-12-13 09:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL PHUM EAID CH RP |
| 06MANILA5015 | NEW SCHEDULE FOR ASEAN SUMMITS [...] (U) Following the December 8 announcement of the postponement of the ASEAN-related Summits in Cebu, citing typhoon threats (reftel), the Philippine Government now expects to host these events, again in Cebu, January 12-15. Most of the East Asia Summit leaders have already indicated their rea [...] |
2006-12-15 09:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN RP |
| 06MANILA685 | INDIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS AGREEMENTS ON DEFENSE AND [...] (C) Summary: During a February 3-6 State visit to the Philippines by Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, the GRP and GOI signed several defense and trade agreements. The defense agreement covers training and information exchanges, while the trade agreements deal with tourism, agriculture, and [...] |
2006-02-14 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ECIN PINR RP IN |
| 06MEXICO1609 | FORGING OPPORTUNITIES WITH CARLOS SLIM'S GRUPO [...] SUMMARY. The Ambassador hosted a breakfast March 16 with CEOs from various divisions of Mexican mogul Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso to discuss how the U.S. Mission in Mexico can assist U.S. companies (particularly small- and medium-sized companies) in entering the Mexican market, and form allianc [...] |
2006-03-27 21:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EIND EINV ENRG MX |
| 06MEXICO2097 | REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION PART II: THE FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite record amounts of remittances flowing from the U.S. to rural Mexico, sustainable economic development in those regions has been largely elusive. One factor inhibiting productive investment of remittances has been a scarcity of reliable financial services in rural areas [...] |
2006-04-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN ETRD SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO2123 | MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES PART III: HOMETOWN [...] (SBU) Summary. There has been a significant growth in the influence of migrant organizations based in the U.S., often known as "hometown associations" (HTAs). While Mexican immigrants have long supported their communities of origin, HTAs are now larger and better organized, and increasingly [...] |
2006-04-24 12:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO2154 | MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES PART IV: CROSS BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Mexican authorities, the number of people immigrating illegally to the U.S. in the first three months of 2006 grew to 275,792, an increase of 20 percent compared to the same time period in 2005. Many of these migrants have traditionally lacked financial and invest [...] |
2006-04-25 11:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN MX SMIG |
| 06MEXICO2559 | MEXICAN TRUCKERS FEAR COMPETITION [...] SUMMARY. Representatives of the trucking industry in Monterrey expressed frustration with inefficient and unsafe operations of Mexican customs facilities in Nuevo Laredo. Although the GOM is improving and updating border crossings, the road system that feeds into them remains substandard caus [...] |
2006-05-12 21:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EIND EINV ELTN ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO2595 | FRANCHISING IN MEXICO PART I: AN OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. Buoyed by increased purchasing power, a commercial real estate boom, and greater investor confidence, franchises are transforming the retail sector in Mexico. The franchise industry is an increasingly important component of the Mexican economy, creating thousands of new jobs a [...] |
2006-05-15 22:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO2633 | FRANCHISING IN MEXICO PART II: PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. Being driven by domestic and foreign investment, the franchise industry grew by 17 percent in 2005. While U.S. companies presently comprise most of the foreign-based franchises in Mexico, a substantial increase in the presence of Central and South American, European, and Chine [...] |
2006-05-16 22:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO2708 | NEW COMPETITION LAW BRINGS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite significant opposition to proposed changes to Mexico's competition law, the Federal Competition Commission (CFC) negotiated an agreement with the business community led by the Mexican Business Coordination Council (CCE), an umbrella group of trade associations. This [...] |
2006-05-19 23:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO4288 | MEXICAN TRANSPORT U/S ON CROSS-BORDER [...] (C) Econ Mincouns and Econoff met with Mexican Undersecretary of Communications and Transport (SCT) Aaron Dychter on July 31, 2006. Dychter is concerned that leaks about a proposed cross-border trucking pilot program could have negative effects on the ability to implement the program in the [...] |
2006-08-02 23:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR EINV MX ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS |
| 06MEXICO5157 | MIGRANT ASSOCATIONS SPUR DEVELOPMENT IN MICHOACAN [...] (SBU) Last April Embassy Mexico produced a series of cables (ref. A-D) detailing how the chain of migration and remittances from the U.S. affected life in rural Mexico. At the invitation of our Michaoacano contacts, econoff returned to the town of Venustiano Carranza to meet migrants tempor [...] |
2006-09-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO6760 | US-MEXICO "HYPERBORDER" CONFERENCE [...] (U) On November 16 and 17, Embassy EconOff and Ciudad Juarez ConOff attended the 2nd Annual Hyperborder Conference in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. They also spoke with the Director General of the Associacion de Maquiladora A.C. Consul General Donna Blair offered remarks at the op [...] |
2006-12-05 22:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ECIN ETRD ELTN ETTC ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO829 | FOLLOWING THE APEC ROAD MAP [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ Specialist met February 9 with the Director of Multilateral and Regional Negotiations for the Mexican Secretariat of Economy Flavia Farinetti de Wiechers to discuss APEC 2006 initiatives and agenda. Farinetti said that the GOM strongly supports Vietnam's road ma [...] |
2006-02-14 22:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON MX APECO ETRD |
| 06MONTEVIDEO295 | FRENTE'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS WAY FOR FTA TALKS [...] On March 25, the General Assembly of the Frente Amplio (FA) overwhelmingly rejected a motion from the Communist Party, which would have modified the FA's program to explicitly prohibit any FTA talks with the U.S. By doing so, the FA implicitly allowed President Vazquez to open [...] |
2006-03-28 12:11:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN UY |
| 06MONTEVIDEO296 | URUGUAY GROWS STRONG FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR [...] Summary: In 2005, Uruguay met its key IMF targets and achieved a 6.6% growth rate, outpacing expectations and driving real GDP back to pre-crisis levels. Still, despite the ongoing strong recovery, per capita GDP (in dollar terms), investment and several social indicators remained below pre [...] |
2006-03-28 12:15:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN UY |
| 06MONTEVIDEO907 | ENCE PULLS MILL PLANS IN URUGUAY; BLOCKADE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Spanish company ENCE informed the GOU that it will relocate its planned paper mill, but we suspect that the mill may never be built. Reports also indicate that Argentine protesters renewed last season's blockade of bridges into Uruguay and called on the remaining paper mill [...] |
2006-09-25 19:42:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI ECIN ETRD AR UY |
| 06NAIROBI1951 | CHINA'S PRESIDENT HU VISITS KENYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese President Hu Jintao's late April visit to Nairobi further strengthens the bilateral economic relationship between the two countries through several economic, technical, and financial assistance agreements. While the balance of the economic relationship is heavily tipped i [...] |
2006-05-05 05:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAIR ECIN ECON EFIN ELAB EINV ETRD PREL |
| 06NEWDELHI163 | INDO-PAK WALTZ SLOWS: BACKWARD ON RHETORIC, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 conversation with the DCM (other topics reported Septel), Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar underlined that much of the current friction between India and Pakistan stems from ongoing Pakistan-sponsored terrorism against India, including the spectacular Diwali bombings and t [...] |
2006-01-09 14:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ELTN ECIN ETRD IN PK |
| 06NEWDELHI2060 | CODEL BOND, NSA NARAYANAN FOCUS ON AREAS OF [...] (C) Summary: In his March 22 meeting with Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri), National Security Advisor MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's commitment to the transformed US-India relationship, and stressed the common ground India shares with the US. Narayanan responded positively to Senator Bond's c [...] |
2006-03-24 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER ECIN ENRG MARR MASS OREP EAGR US IN |
| 06NEWDELHI2323 | INDIA GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SAARC [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff's April 4 introductory call on Preeti Saran, the new MEA Joint Secretary for SAARC, revealed an element in the GOI that is generally upbeat about SAARC's potential to improve regional cooperation, in line with Prime Minister Singh's long-term vision of Indian [...] |
2006-04-05 14:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG ECIN EAID IN AF BG BT |
| 06NEWDELHI6298 | INDIA'S ROLE IN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT: [...] (C) SUMMARY: India may attempt to transform its role to that of a "bridge power" between the developed North and the impoverished South during the upcoming NAM Summit in Havana. In the context of considerable public and internal GOI debate about the utility of NAM and India's proper place in t [...] |
2006-09-08 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON ECIN IN |
| 06NEWDELHI7725 | INDIA STILL TESTING THE WATERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent visit to Dushanbe, New Delhi PolOff met with MFA and Ministry of Energy officials and local diplomats to explore Indo-Tajik relations. Indian rehabilitation and construction efforts include a small hydropower project, construction of a tunnel, rehabilitation of the a [...] |
2006-11-09 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS ECIN ENRG SNAR TI IN |
| 06PARAMARIBO690 | USOAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO VISIT DEMONSTRATES USG COMMITMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Overcoming logistical challenges which significantly shortened his visit, Ambassador John Maisto was an eloquent spokesperson for USG policy in the hemisphere, focusing on democracy, development and multilateralism. In meetings with President Venetiaan, the Ministers of Home Aff [...] |
2006-10-30 16:33:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECIN ETRD NS |
| 06PARIS4951 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON JULY 20 BAGHDAD COMPACT [...] (SBU) Embassy provided reftel points to the offices of Foreign Ministry Political Director Stansilas de Laboulaye and Ministry of Finance Director General of the Treasury and Economic Policy Xavier Musca to update them after their recent meetings with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Ki [...] |
2006-07-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL FR IZ ECIN OTRA |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN204 | CARICOM ON CRICKET WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS [...] (U) Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada provided a mid-morning press briefing on February 9 during the CARICOM Inter-Sessional meeting on the state of play of Cricket World Cup (CWC) preparations and the status of West Indies cricket more generally. Mitchell opened by noting that West I [...] |
2006-02-13 19:50:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN XL TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN217 | CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL WRAP-UP: PETROCARIBE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the final press conference of the 17th CARICOM Inter-sessional Heads of Government meeting, members announced that they had resolved two of the most contentious issues, Haiti's status in CARICOM and PetroCaribe. On PetroCaribe, T&T decided to support suspension of the common [...] |
2006-02-14 20:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD EPET XL TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN295 | TRINIDAD ABOUT-FACE ON PETROCARIBE AND CARICOM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Trinidad's opposition to Petrocaribe softened at the February 9-10 CARICOM summit, as it agreed to lifting the CARICOM common external tariff so other member states could go ahead with their individual agreements with Venezuela. One reason why T&T acquiesced is its interest in jo [...] |
2006-03-08 18:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD ECIN TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN863 | TRINIDAD/VENEZUELA CLOSER TO TREATY ON USE OF [...] (U) The June 19 edition of daily paper "Trinidad & Tobago Newsday" reported on a Ministry of Foreign Affairs release that addressed a future agreement between the governments of T&T and Venezuela on shared gas reserves. Full text of the release follows in next paragraph. 2. (U) Begin Text [...] |
2006-07-21 19:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECIN PREL TD |
| 06PRAGUE1414 | CZECH REPUBLIC: SKILL GAPS IN LABOR MARKET [...] Summary: The Czech Republic has been the darling of foreign investors in Central Europe, and as a result FDI is the number one engine of GDP growth. Foreign investors have taken advantage of the low-cost, highly skilled workforce and duty-free access to the EU to build mostly assembly plants, [...] |
2006-11-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EINV ECIN SOCI SCUL EZ |
| 06RIYADH6813 | US/SAUDI REGULATORY TRAINING: SAUDI'S CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Saudi equivalent of our U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Capital Market Authority (CMA), is in its third year of existence, and focused on educating its young, technocratic Saudi workforce. The CMA's main goal for 2007 is to utilize U.S. schools and inst [...] |
2006-08-27 12:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ECIN PREL CVIS SA |
| 06RIYADH7990 | IRAQI DELEGATION VISITS KSA TO DISCUSS IRAQ [...] The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance confirmed to us on October 9 that an Iraqi technical delegation came to Saudi Arabia on October 7 to discuss Iraqi debt to Saudi Arabia. 2. According to Deputy Minister of Finance Al-Bazi'y, three Iraqi delegates from the Ministry of Finance v [...] |
2006-10-11 10:47:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON IZ SA |
| 06SANAA2063 | WTO MEETING BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO TRADE REFORMS [...] SUMMARY: When it comes to trade reform, Yemen may finally be willing to do business. The ROYG's World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating team recently returned from the third Working Party meeting in Geneva reporting significant progress. Despite some differences on tariff rates, the ROYG [...] |
2006-07-18 13:21:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID ECIN KMCA KMPI YM |
| 06SANJOSE1792 | COSTA RICA--BEING OUTSIDE CAFTA HAS CONSEQUENCES [...] (U) Summary. The Dominican Republic and Costa Rica are the only signatories where CAFTA-DR is not yet in force. Costa Rica is the only country that has not ratified the agreement. Although the Arias Administration has placed a high priority on both ratification and passage of the necessary i [...] |
2006-08-15 22:22:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV CS |
| 06SANJOSE2037 | ARIAS ACCEPTS FIRST RESIGNATION: TELECOM MONOPOLY GETS NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Board President of Costa Rica's telecommunications monopoly, ICE, resigned on September 12 and was replaced almost immediately by a new head whose nomination improves CAFTA ratification and implementation prospects. Introduction of the long-promised telecom legislative packag [...] |
2006-09-13 18:44:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV CS |
| 06SANJOSE2041 | (CORRECTED COPY) ARIAS ACCEPTS FIRST RESIGNATION: TELECOM [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Board President of Costa Rica's telecommunications monopoly, ICE, resigned on September 12 and was replaced almost immediately by a new head whose nomination improves CAFTA ratification and implementation prospects. Introduction of the long-promised telecom legislative packag [...] |
2006-09-13 21:19:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV CS |
| 06SANJOSE2162 | JOINT STOCK EXCHANGE PLANNED FOR PANAMA, COSTA RICA AND EL [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-29 15:03:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN CS |
| 06SANJOSE2188 | FAKE T-SHIRTS PROMPT RARE IPR CONVICTION IN COSTA RICA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-03 18:31:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN CS |
| 06SANJOSE2649 | COSTA RICAN VIEWS ON ECUADOR WTO CASE ON BANANAS [...] Vice Minister for Foreign Trade Amparo Pacheco gave the following answers to us when we inquired about whether the GOCR planned to join Ecuador's WTO case against the EU on bananas. 2. Question: Will Costa Rica join Ecuador in the arbitration panel against the European Union? Answer: No [...] |
2006-11-21 17:15:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECIN ECON CS |
| 06SANJOSE2750 | COSTA RICA'S TELECOM MONOPOLY PREPARES FOR CHANGE [...] SUMMARY. With CAFTA-DR ratification slowly moving forward, and telecom competition on the horizon, Costa Rica's telecom monopoly, ICE, (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) is making moves to modernize under new ICE President, Pedro Pablo Quiros. The new ICE leadership is clearly engaged i [...] |
2006-12-12 21:52:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN ELAB PGOV CS |
| 06SANJOSE2779 | CAFTA RATIFICATION BILL FINALLY CLEARS COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The bill to ratify CAFTA-DR was approved by the legislative assembly's Committee on International Relations by a 6-3 vote on December 12, ending over a year of hearings and debate. Although the results were anticipated, the atmosphere during the vote was tense, with a small grou [...] |
2006-12-19 22:28:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV CS |
| 06SANJOSE2802 | COSTA RICA'S INSURANCE MONOPOLY PREPARES FOR COMPETITION [...] SUMMARY. Costa Rica's legislature has commenced hearings on legislation to open up the government's insurance monopoly to competition, a requirement of CAFTA-DR. Meanwhile Costa Rica's Instituto Nacional de Seguros,(INS,)is making plans to modernize and prepare for an open market. INS plans [...] |
2006-12-21 21:49:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV CS |
| 06SANSALVADOR109 | SACA TO ANNOUNCE 6TH CONTINGENT TO IRAQ; EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saca will inform the President January 13 that El Salvador will send a sixth contingent of troops to Iraq. The formal public announcement will come in early February. Saca told the Ambassador January 12 that he is concerned about two issues going into March 12 elections [...] |
2006-01-13 15:16:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN SMIG ES HO IZ |
| 06SAOPAULO357 | ITAMARATY NEGOTIATOR TALKS TRADE [...] (SBU) EconOff recently attended an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) event featuring Ambassador Regis Percy Arslanian, Director of International Negotiations for the Brazilian MFA (Itamaraty). Well-known to U.S. diplomats from his tenure as Brazilian DCM in Washington as well as his stewar [...] |
2006-04-03 19:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECIN KIPR PGOV PREL BR |
| 06SAOPAULO659 | ARGENTINE CG DISCUSSES REGIONAL INTEGRATION, CALLS FOR [...] (U) In a recent speech on Argentine-Brazilian bilateral relations, Argentine Consul General Vidal faulted regional asymmetries for Mercosul's disappointing economic performance (reftel) and proposed strengthening cultural ties as a means of achieving regional integration. Vidal points to indu [...] |
2006-06-12 11:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL SCUL BR AR |
| 06SARAJEVO1126 | HIGH REP ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW ECONOMIC INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling (CSS) has decided to make small and medium enterprise (SME) development an OHR priority. To this end, he has instructed that an "SME cell", staffed by both local hires and secondees, be established in OHR with the initial goal of [...] |
2006-05-19 13:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PREL BK |
| 06SARAJEVO945 | BOSNIA: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING AFFIRMS [...] (C) Summary: On April 19, the Vital National Interest (VNI) panel of the Federation Constitutional Court issued a formal decision upholding the USG-backed Law on Revenue Allocation (Ref B). With a resounding majority, the panel dismissed HDZ claims that objective and transparent revenue al [...] |
2006-04-28 11:24:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV ECIN BK |
| 06SEOUL2451 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: JULY 20 COMPACT MEETING IN [...] In response to reftel demarche, poloff met with Director of Development Cooperation Division Choe Cheol-kyu, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) International Economic Affairs Bureau, to convey appreciation for the ROKG's willingness to attend the Iraq Compact meeting. Choe [...] |
2006-07-21 07:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN OTRA IZ KS |
| 06STATE93016 | (U) ISLAMIC FINANCE (C-TN6-00207) [...] (C) AS POSTS ARE AWARE, POLICY MAKERS ARE INTERESTED IN THE GROWTH AND IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHICH OFFER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH ISLAMIC LAW, WHICH FORBIDS PAYING OR RECEIVING INTEREST, MANDATES THAT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS BE BASED ON REAL ECON [...] |
2006-06-07 23:17:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECIN EFIN AL BA BK EG ID KU MU MY PK QA SA |
| 06SUVA121 | PRC PREMIER'S EARLY APRIL VISIT TO FIJI MAKING A [...] (SBU) Summary: Heads of government from eight Pacific Island countries will be attending the PRC-sponsored China-Pacific Island economic cooperation conference in Nadi, Fiji April 5-6. Each leader will hold a bilateral with Premier Wen Jiabao April 5. All eight countries will reportedly s [...] |
2006-03-29 00:42:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD ECIN CH FJ PP TW |
| 06SUVA123 | PRC PREMIER'S EARLY APRIL VISIT TO FIJI MAKING A [...] (SBU) Summary: Heads of government from eight Pacific Island countries will be attending the PRC-sponsored China-Pacific Island economic cooperation conference in Nadi, Fiji April 5-6. Each leader will hold a bilateral with Premier Wen Jiabao April 5. All eight countries will reportedly s [...] |
2006-03-29 19:59:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD ECIN CH FJ PP TW |
| 06SUVA156 | CHINA WADES MORE DEEPLY INTO THE PACIFIC [...] (C) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his delegation met with many Pacific Island leaders and businesses during an April 4-5 visit to Fiji. The leader of each of the eight Pacific Island nations with which China has relations held private discussions with Premier Wen, at the conclusion of which t [...] |
2006-04-21 02:56:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECIN ETRD FJ CH TW |
| 06SUVA490 | PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM 2006: A/S HILL UNDERSCORES [...] (C) EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill emphatically reaffirmed U.S. commitments and interests in the Pacific at the 2006 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit in Nadi, Fiji. In a new PIF-Leaders "special session" for the United States, Hill countered a suggestion that the U.S. has disengaged [...] |
2006-11-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL EAID ECIN ETRD FJ XV |
| 06SUVA55 | PLANS FOR PRC-SPONSORED CONFERENCE, ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. The PRC has launched an ambitious, high profile outreach to the Pacific Island nations through a large-scale regional development conference and trade fair it is sponsoring in Fiji April 5-6. Premier Wen Jiabao will come to Fiji to open the conference, to which Ministers (and [...] |
2006-02-14 22:59:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD EFIS ECIN CH FJ PP TW |
| 06TEGUCIGALPA743 | HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR DAS WHA MADISON, VISIT TO [...] (U) Summary: New Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, will face a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. On November 27, 2005, there were national elections for a new President, the unicameral Congress, and all 298 municipalities; a new (and ov [...] |
2006-04-21 17:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ECIN MOPS SNAR PTER KJUS |
| 06TELAVIV3199 | SHIMON PERES ON THE HOSTILITIES IN THE NORTH AND [...] (C) Summary. During an August 10 meeting Vice Premier Shimon Peres told visiting U.S. Representatives Johnson, Miller, Royce, Shaw, and Sherwood, and Ambassador Jones that Hizballah's goal is to destroy Israel. Peres defended the Israeli Air Force (IAF) saying it is only targeting rocket lau [...] |
2006-08-14 14:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ECIN IS |
| 06TOKYO2040 | JAPAN: SAUDI CROWN PRINCE SULTAN'S APRIL VISIT [...] (S) Saudi Crown Prince Sultan's April 5-6 visit to Tokyo was considered a "success" by both sides, according to MOFA Second Middle East Saudi Desk Officer Asako and Iran Desk Officer Nakao. Asako suggested the most thorough briefing material available was the joint statement from the visit, a [...] |
2006-04-14 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR ECIN MARR PREL SA JA |
| 06TOKYO2758 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Schieffer told Trade and Economy (METI) Minister Nikai that he was concerned about reports that Japan was pursuing East Asian economic integration initiatives that excluded the United States. Nikai replied that Japan, too, wanted to sustain close relations and communi [...] |
2006-05-19 05:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ECIN PREL CH JA |
| 06TOKYO2905 | JFTC Flexes Its Muscles on Bid-rigging [...] (SBU) Summary: Japan's chief competition regulator, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), has made a good start in applying the new powers it gained at the beginning of the year in several bid-rigging cases. Though not a player in what has been arguably the most prominent bid-rigging cas [...] |
2006-05-25 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD EINV PGOV JA |
| 06TOKYO3449 | THE VIEW FROM JAPAN'S NORTHERN EDGE: ABSENCE OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The lack of a peace treaty hinders development of relations between Russia and neighboring Hokkaido, according to local officials. City officials in Wakkanai, Japan's northern-most city and close neighbor of Russia, point to visa and customs issues as preventing incr [...] |
2006-06-21 06:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ETRD ECIN JA RS |
| 06TOKYO5288 | SCENESETTER FOR EB A/S SULLIVAN: INCOMING [...] (SBU) With Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe the presumptive next prime minister, beef receding from the economic agenda, and a summit with President Bush anticipated in the coming months, your visit to Tokyo comes at an important point in discussions of how to broaden and deepen the bilater [...] |
2006-09-14 03:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EFIN ETRD ECIN JA APECO |
| 06TOKYO6764 | SCENESETTER FOR ECONOMIC SUBCABINET MEETINGS, DEC. [...] (C) Prime Minister Abe has gotten off to a fast start in the beginning of his administration with a strong political and foreign policy agenda. However, he has yet to demonstrate the same leadership on domestic economic policy, regulatory reform, and international economic policy. In prepar [...] |
2006-11-29 07:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL EAGR ENRG ECIN APECO JA |
| 06TOKYO77 | GOJ REACTIONS ON DOHA ROUND AFTER HONG KONG [...] (U) WTO member states obtained about as much as they could under the circumstances at the Hong Kong Ministerial, according to Japanese officials from several ministries at a symposium hosted by Aoyama Gakuin University's WTO Research Center. The Director-General of the Agriculture Ministry's [...] |
2006-01-06 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD EINV PGOV JA |
| 06TRIPOLI198 | QADHAFI INCORPORATED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Qadhafi often speaks out publicly against government corruption, but the politically-connected elite has direct access to lucrative business deals. This commercial access can easily be cut off when individuals fall out of favor. The Qadhafi family and other Jamahiriya political favorit [...] |
2006-05-10 09:26:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | ECON ECIN ETRD PGOV LY |
| 06TRIPOLI358 | LIBYAN PROSPECTS FOR BANKING PRIVITIZATION - TOUGH ROAD [...] (C) Embassy has spent several months developing a working relationship with a Libyan banker who returned to Tripoli six months ago to manage the office of a correspondent bank. As a representative office, he chases large business deals and then books the loans in London. He was educated and [...] |
2006-07-23 08:52:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV LY |
| 06TRIPOLI539 | LIBYA TELLS EXIM - TRUST US, OUR CREDIT'S GOOD [...] (C) EXIM Bank conducted its first visit in over thirty years to Tripoli September 5-9. After an introductory session with Mohamed Siala, Secretary of International Cooperation, the rest of the week was marked by mixed success pursuing additional meetings with key GOL entities. EXIM's Vice P [...] |
2006-09-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN ECON ECIN ETRD CMGT LY |
| 06TRIPOLI565 | BIS TEAM "CHECKS OUT" LIBYA [...] (U) Summary: The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) completed a largely successful series of export license compliance checks September 9-19. BIS agents Scot Gonzales and Perry Davis completed dozens of checks during the BIS's first-ever visit to Libya. Levels of co [...] |
2006-10-03 14:00:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EINV ENRG ECON ETRD ETTC LY |
| 06TRIPOLI592 | THE LIBYAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR STANDARDIZATION AND METROLOGY [...] SUMMARY: The Libyan National Centre for Standardization and Metrology (LNCSM) was established with the goal of bringing Libya into conformance with international trade standards, focusing on eventual accession of Libya to the World Trade Organization (WTO.) The current focus within the LNCSM [...] |
2006-10-17 14:40:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | BBSR BEXP ECIN EIND WTRO XI LY |
| 06TRIPOLI644 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY MCMURRAY VISIT AND [...] Post warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs McMurray. The following background information is provided in anticipation of your visit to Tripoli on November 11-13, 2006. Our scientific engagem [...] |
2006-11-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO EAIR ECIN EFIS EINV ETTC OSCI SENV |
| 06TRIPOLI645 | LIBYAN DEMARCHE ON CHINA SUMMIT WITH AFRICAN NATIONS [...] (C) Ibrahim Dridi, Director of the Americas Office at the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (MFA equivalent) requested a meeting on November 7 to convey a demarche regarding Libyan views on the China Summit with African nations. "I was instructed t [...] |
2006-11-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETRD PREL AU KECF LY |
| 06TRIPOLI648 | LIBYAN CENTRAL BANK ESTABLISHING NEW TRAINING INSTITUTE [...] (U) See action request, Para. 7. 2. (U) The Libyan Central Bank is launching a new training center to improve employee skills throughout the banking sector, and its director is open to U.S. offers of assistance. Pol/Econ Chief and Econoff met with the Libyan Central Bank on the afternoon [...] |
2006-11-10 16:07:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN EFIN LY |
| 06TRIPOLI686 | QADHAFI ISSUES ANTI-CORRUPTION WARNING TO LIBYA'S WEALTHY [...] (U) Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi recently issued a particularly stark warning against official corruption, calling on the wealthy to declare their holdings and income sources and "repent" for any ill-gotten gains. In a November 13 speech before the General Council for Planning broadcast l [...] |
2006-11-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG EPET LY |
| 06TUNIS2899 | MAGHREB LEADERS EXTOL VIRTUES OF FREE TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent two-day conference on Maghreb business and trade, regional leaders and businessmen extolled the virtues of increased regional economic integration and lamented the currently low levels of trade and investment between the Maghreb countries. Participants hailed from al [...] |
2006-12-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EINV TS |
| 06TUNIS2916 | ADB PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BANK'S FUTURE, WARY [...] (U) Summary: During the Ambassador's December 11 courtesy call on African Development Bank (ADB) President Donald Kaberuka, Kaberuka touched on the differing problems and varying situations of African nations and the importance of adapting the services provided by the ADB to meet these challen [...] |
2006-12-15 14:53:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECIN KDEM TS |
| 06USUNNEWYORK2147 | UN SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS BY [...] (U) The United Nations General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial Affairs) adopted three resolutions by consensus on November 7. Prior to adoption, the Committee Chair read out a statement that there were no program budget implications (PBIs) associated with these resolutions. [...] |
2006-11-13 23:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN EFIN ETRD UNGA |
| 06VIENNA1199 | APRIL 21-22 INFORMAL COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL [...] Under the overarching theme of "Investing in Excellence and Innovation," the EU's informal Competitiveness Council met in Graz April 21-22 to discuss how the EU could best meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Ministers focused on the completion of the intern [...] |
2006-04-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PREL ECIN EFIN ETRD AU |
| 06VIENNA1419 | EU-LATIN AMERICA SUMMIT: SLOW PROGRESS TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the May 11-12 EU-LAC (Latin America/Caribbean) Summit, the two regions sought strategies for closer cooperation. A striking lack of unity among LAC countries hampered the effort. The meeting produced a "Declaration of Vienna" enumerating common goals, among them the continu [...] |
2006-05-15 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM CU BL VE EUN AU |
| 06VIENNA1961 | Austria's New Takeover Regulations [...] Austria's Parliament has passed two takeover laws to implement the EU's Takeover Directive and to rectify problems with Austria's previous Takeover Law. An Amendment to the Austrian Takeover Act of 1998 incorporates Article 9 of the EU's Takeover Directive prohibiting defensive action to fru [...] |
2006-07-03 11:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EIND AU |
| 06VIENNA3602 | Austria's Raiffeisen - A Domestic and Regional Heavyweight [...] The Raiffeisen Association is a commercial heavyweight within Austria, with wide-ranging and diverse business holdings. Its business interests permeate Austria's economy, with impressive holdings in the banking, investment, insurance, dairy, media, and retail sectors. By virtue of its commer [...] |
2006-12-22 10:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECIN EFIN ETRD EUN AU |
| 06VIENNA3605 | Austria's Raiffeisen - A Domestic and Regional Heavyweight [...] The Raiffeisen Association is a commercial heavyweight within Austria, with wide-ranging and diverse business holdings. Its business interests permeate Austria's economy, with impressive holdings in the banking, investment, insurance, dairy, media, and retail sectors. By virtue of its commer [...] |
2006-12-22 10:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECIN EFIN ETRD EUN AU |
| 06VIENNA6 | Austria's Economic Footprint in Central Europe [...] Austrian commercial interests continue to benefit greatly from intensified trade and investment relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), as well as Southeastern European (SEE) nations. Exports to CEE have more than doubled since 1995 and exports to SEE have quadrupl [...] |
2006-01-03 12:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECIN ETRD AU EUN |
| 06WARSAW107 | POLAND: SENIOR ADVISOR FOR AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak visited Warsaw on November 29 and 30, 2005 to discuss the USG position on genetically modified organisms (GMO's), with GOP officials, members of the academic community, and the media. While the current GOP and much [...] |
2006-01-25 13:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ETRD EAGR KSCA ECIN PL |
| 06WARSAW481 | FHWA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR VISITS POLAND, [...] (U) Summary. Poland's lack of a quality road infrastructure presents serious problems for economic development, road safety, and quality of life. In continuing to investigate this problem and encourage GOP action, Embassy Warsaw Public Affairs and Econ Sections collaborated to bring King Ge [...] |
2006-03-16 08:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON ELTN PL |
| 06WELLINGTON102 | NEW ZEALAND'S PRIORITIES FOR APEC 2006 [...] (C) Rupert Holborow, New Zealand's senior official for APEC, said his government has identified key issues it would like APEC 2006 to address, but "without specificity" since it is waiting to learn about other APEC economies' priorities. Meanwhile, New Zealand sees APEC Senior Official Chairman [...] |
2006-02-08 03:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | APECO ECIN ETRD NZ |
| 06WELLINGTON125 | ATTENDANCE AT THE APEC POLICY DIALOGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand will participate at the Vietnam meeting of the High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology (HLPD) and at MOP3 in Brazil. End Summary 2. (SBU) Rupert Holborow, New Zealand's APEC Senior Official, received U.S. Senior Official Michalak's letter (refte [...] |
2006-02-16 03:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EAGR ETTC SENV TBIO NZ APECO |
| 06WELLINGTON597 | NEW ZEALAND WILL NOT ATTEND APEC SEMINAR ON [...] (SBU) On July 10, Poloff delivered reftel invitation to Llewellyn Roberts, Pandemic Planning Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), and on July 19 to MFAT representatives with the Americas Division and the United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division, which is the div [...] |
2006-08-01 05:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO NZ |
| 06WELLINGTON613 | NEW ZEALAND'S HIGH COMMISSION WILL REPRESENT GNZ [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-07 22:47:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO NZ |
| 06ZAGREB135 | FREE TRADE PROPOSAL TOUCHES OFF STORM IN ZAGREB [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The European Union touched off an exaggerated, if predictable reaction in Croatia last Friday when it gave its support to the Stability Pact Free Trade Agreement for Southeast Europe. Seized upon by a press corps ever eager to stir up controversy and let political [...] |
2006-02-01 16:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EU HR |
| 06ZAGREB1499 | CROATIA VIEWS CEFTA AS POSITIVE FOR REGION [...] Summary: The Government of Croatia is satisfied with the outcome of the CEFTA negotiations and the signing of the agreement in Bucharest on December 19. Despite negotiations that dragged until the eleventh hour with Bosnia, Zagreb believes that the inclusive outcome is positive both for Croati [...] |
2006-12-20 15:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN PREL HR |
| 06ZAGREB1504 | CROATIA VOTES TO ACTIVATE ADRIATIC FISHING ZONE IN 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: Amid no small amount of political posturing, the Croatian parliament voted to activate Croatia's self-declared Protected Ecological and Fishing Zone (ZERP) in the Adriatic as of January 1, 2008. The ZERP, first enacted prior to the last round of parliamentary elections in 2003, [...] |
2006-12-21 10:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIS ECIN HR |
| 06ZAGREB192 | INDUSTRY AND REAL ESTATE POSSIBLE BUMPS IN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: EU accession is Croatia's top foreign policy goal and an area of unusual political consensus. After beginning negotiations in October 2005, the government of PM Ivo Sanader has set an ambitious goal of accession by 2009, in time to participate in European election [...] |
2006-02-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EU HR |
| 06ZAGREB203 | CROATIA SPINS VICTORY ON BALKAN FREE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Croatian PM Ivo Sanader scored domestic political points over the past two weeks in the controversy surrounding proposals for a Western Balkans Free Trade Agreement. Although the concept of a regional free trade agreement is one that Croatia has nominally support [...] |
2006-02-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ECIN EU HR |
| 07ABUDHABI1015 | JUNE 11 U.S.-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] (S) Summary: Department of State International Security and Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation Initiatives (ISN/CPI) Director Tony Foley led an interagency delegation to the June 11 US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF) working groups meetings in Abu Dhabi to discuss questions relate [...] |
2007-06-19 08:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
| 07ABUDHABI422 | MARCH 1 US-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-13 13:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
| 07ABUDHABI493 | IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITIES NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR |
| 07ABUJA1158 | ECOWAS: PROGRESS ON AGRICULTURAL HARMONIZATION [...] Summary: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states met on May 16-18 to discuss harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations for ECOWAS non- West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Participants agreed that the signed UEMOA regulation should be [...] |
2007-06-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EAGR ECON EAID NI ECOWAS |
| 07ABUJA2560 | 2007 ECOWAS DONORS' MEETING [...] Summary: Development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met November 20-21 in Abuja for a progress report on the organization's initiatives. The central vision of the ECOWAS Commission was transforming ECOWAS into an "ECOWAS of the People." While peace and sec [...] |
2007-12-13 06:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS |
| 07ADDISABABA2474 | ETHIOPIA: VISITING EXPERT OFFERS ADVICE ON [...] SUMMARY: During a private visit, the president of the National Intellectual Property Institute (NIPLI) Dr. James Chandler stressed the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) in Ethiopia's future global competitiveness and development to the Government of Ethiopia. GOE officials, inc [...] |
2007-08-07 10:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EINV ET |
| 07AMMAN4227 | Israeli Embassy, Japanese, and Jordanian views on Peace [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following Israeli President Peres' late September briefing of Ambassadors Jones and Hale and subsequent request for the U.S. to encourage Jordanian progress on implementing elements of the Peace Valley Project, Post has engaged Government of Jordan (GOJ) officials, representativ [...] |
2007-10-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD PREL SENV KWBG JO IS |
| 07ANKARA1132 | TURKISH VIEWS ON OECD ENLARGEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey supports Russian OECD membership because of Russia's importance to Turkey and because Turkey believes greater Russian participation in international fora will make Russia feel more secure. Keeping Cyprus out of the OECD is their top priority but Turkey is open to consider [...] |
2007-05-11 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN OECD TU |
| 07ANKARA1207 | TURKEY ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE ON TURKMEN GAS [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Apakan expressed concern about the Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia gas deal and told Ambassador that Turkey wants closer collaboration with the US on access to Turkmen gas. Ambassador offered to provide what information we have about the Russian agreement and encouraged Ap [...] |
2007-05-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECIN PREL AJ TX KZ RS TU |
| 07ANKARA1505 | TURKISH-GEORGIAN RELATIONS: DEEPER AND DEEPER [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkish MFA Deputy Undersecretary Unal Cevikoz (a former Ambassador to Baku) visits Washington from June 18-20 for consultations on South Caucasus and Central Asia. Cevikoz is likely to identify the strengthening relationship between Turkey and Georgia as a major co [...] |
2007-06-13 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR ECIN ETRD SMIG NATO AJ AM GG TU |
| 07ANKARA1660 | TURKEY UNSATISFIED WITH CURRENT STATE OF EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey received the June 26 EU decision to open only two negotiating chapters rather than three with calm frustration. Turkish negotiators and business representatives reject the EU's technical justifications presented for not opening the economic and monetary union chapter, ar [...] |
2007-06-27 16:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECIN ETRD EUN FR TU |
| 07ANKARA1934 | Turkish MFA on BSEC and Environmental Protection Symposium [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN SENV TU |
| 07ANKARA2003 | TURKISH MFA ON BSEC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) held on July 10 an after action review of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) 15th Anniversary Summit in Istanbul on June 25. Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs Ahmet Asim Arar chaired the meeting, and representativ [...] |
2007-08-03 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN SENV TU |
| 07ANKARA21 | MINISTER BABACAN SEES NEW, UNCERTAIN ERA IN [...] (C) Summary: EU negotiator Ali Babacan told the Ambassador December 22 that Turkey's relations with the EU have entered a new, uncertain era, with progress depending more on political considerations than technical progress in meeting the EU acquis. Without clear targets and timelines to open [...] |
2007-01-08 06:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL EUN |
| 07ANKARA2847 | TURKEY EXTENDING A DIPLOMATIC HAND TO GEORGIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Through frequent high-level visits, the GOT has reaffirmed its strong support for Georgian independence and territorial integrity. It has sought, too, to reduce any sense of diplomatic isolation felt by Tbilisi since the deterioration of Russian-Georgian relations and, more rec [...] |
2007-11-28 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ELTN SMIG NATO AJ AM GG TU ZJ |
| 07ANKARA408 | TURKISH MINISTER DESCRIBES EU AND ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Minister of Economy and EU Negotiator Ali Babacan described the profound transformation of Turkey as a more transparent, globally-interconnected country to visiting EEB A/S Sullivan on February 10. Following the EU's December suspension of negotiations over eight chapters, [...] |
2007-02-26 11:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EFIN EU TU |
| 07ANKARA646 | TURKISH, ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN BUSINESS LEADERS TO [...] (SBU) In a March 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Rifat Hisarciklioglu, the chairman of TOBB, Turkey's leading business association, described plans to hold a meeting of the Ankara Forum, which includes Hisarciklioglu,s Israeli and Palestinian counterparts, on March 26 in Washington, DC. The po [...] |
2007-03-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ETRD IS KWBG TU |
| 07ASTANA2511 | MERMOUD DISCUSSES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. In September 3-5 meetings with leaders of Kazakhstan's government and business, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs J. Frank Mermoud discussed the planned October 22 Washington inauguration of the bilateral U.S.-Kazakhstani Public Private Partnership Initi [...] |
2007-09-13 09:26:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EINV ELTN PGOV PREL KZ |
| 07ASUNCION625 | PARAGUAY DRIVES TRANS-CHACO ROAD INTEGRATION PLAN [...] (U) Paraguay completed a major road network in the Chaco region in June that will enhance access to Bolivia, Chile, and Asian markets via Chilean ports. The newly paved Trans-Chaco Highway and new secondary roads are part of a multi-national transportation integration project that will increas [...] |
2007-08-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN ELIN PA |
| 07BAGHDAD1821 | MINISTRY OF TRADE'S GULF IRAQI EXPO [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Embassy Baghdad considers the Gulf Iraqi Expo to be a serious Ministry of Trade effort, run by the State Company for Iraqi Fairs. The U.S. Foreign Commercial Service in Iraq's website includes a link to the Expo, which was postponed from March 2007 to November 200 [...] |
2007-05-31 12:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EINV ETRD IZ |
| 07BAGHDAD2947 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ'S SLUGGISH [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi implementation of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) is in danger of losing momentum following its May 3 launch. The GoI named a director on May 28 to its ICI Secretariat, but has not staffed the Secretariat, nor formed most of the ICI working groups. The SIPDIS [...] |
2007-09-03 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IZ PREL |
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