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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00THEHAGUE1734 |
DUTCH WILL PROVIDE ALBANIA ELECTION SUPPORT [...] The Dutch have decided to grant USD 500,000 to the UNDP for the OSCE-coordinated election support effort for the October Albania elections, with the proviso that it be used for voter registry preparations and data verification. 2. The Dutch plan to open their embassy in Tirana by late J [...] |
2000-06-09 10:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL KDEM NL OSCE |
| 00THEHAGUE1796 |
ANTI-TRAFFICKING WORKSHOP IN KIEV [...] WE WERE INFORMED BY THE DUTCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY TODAY THAT MR. H.F. VAN DRUNEN OF THE DUTCH EMBASSY IN UKRAINE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE ANTI- TRAFFICKING WORKSHOP ON JUNE 21-23. THE MFA NOTED THAT NO OTHER DUTCH OFFICIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE BECAUSE THE APPROPRIATE PERSONS WILL BE A [...] |
2000-06-16 13:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM ELAB PHUM KWMN NL CGEN OSCE |
| 00THEHAGUE1940 |
DUTCH THOUGHTS ON RS WALKOUT OF SRCC, SERB [...] No summary [...] |
2000-06-27 16:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM EAID PREL MARR BK SR HR NL OSCE |
| 00THEHAGUE1950 |
DUTCH CONFIRM EU PLANS FOR MINISTERIAL TROIKA [...] No summary [...] |
2000-06-28 11:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BO NL OSCE EUN |
| 02AMMAN3548 |
STATUS OF JORDAN'S ACCESSION TO UN CT CONVENTIONS [...] Poloff delivered Ref points to Aiyman Aamri, Acting Director of the International Organizations section of the Foreign Ministry, on June 30. Poloff explained that the U.S. has now ratified all twelve UN CT Conventions and pressed Aamri on the GOJ's progress in ratifying the four remaining UN [...] |
2002-06-30 12:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL OSCE OSCE |
| 02AMMAN3621 |
POINTS ON OPEN SKIES TREATY DELIVERED [...] (U) POLCOUNS AND POLOFF DELIVERED REF NON-PAPER TO ALI AL-AYAD, PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO FONMIN MUASHER, ON JULY 2. AL-AYAD HAD NO INITIAL REACTION TO THE NON-PAPER BUT PROMISED TO REVIEW IT FURTHER. Gnehm [...] |
2002-07-03 06:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM OSCE |
| 02ROME5093 |
GOI AGREES WITH USG ON NEED FOR SERBIAN ELECTION [...] (C) ON OCTOBER 16, MFA BALKAN OFFICE DIRECTOR MAURIZIO MASSARI TOLD POLOFF THAT THE GOI AGREED COMPLETELY WITH USG THE USG VIEW EXPRESSED REFTEL THAT THE IC MUST PUT PRESSURE ON SERB PM DJINDJIC TO RECONVENE PARLIAMENT IN ORDER TO AMEND THE ELECTORAL LAW IN LINE WITH ODIHR RECOMMENDATIONS. M [...] |
2002-10-18 08:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SR MN IT OSCE |
| 02VATICAN5836 |
HOLY SEE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF SEPARATE OSCE [...] (SBU) POLOFF REVIEWED REFS (A) AND (B) DISCUSSION OF A SPECIAL SESSION ON ANTI-SEMITISM NOVEMBER 16 WITH VATICAN OSCE DIRECTOR MONS. ETTORE BALESTRERO, FOCUSING ON THE NEED FOR A STAND-ALONE MEETING TO DISCUSS ANTI-SEMITISM. UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 05836 [...] |
2002-12-04 07:59:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM VT OSCE |
| 03ADANA66 |
THE VIEW FROM THE SOUTHEAST, [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-07 16:46:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM TU OSCE ADANA |
| 03AMMAN6917 |
JORDANIAN VIEWS ON THE OSCE AND ITS MEDITERRANEAN [...] SUMMARY: In a bilateral meeting at the October 20-21 Aqaba OSCE seminar, U.S. and Jordanian officials discussed the Jordanian vision for the OSCE,s six Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation. While upbeat on OSCE principles and the partners, continued participation with the OSCE, the Jordanian [...] |
2003-10-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL JO OSCE |
| 03ANKARA1503 |
LAWYERS GROUPS OPPOSE NEW PRISON-RELATED [...] (C) Summary: Attorneys from the Ankara Bar Association (ABA) and Contemporary Lawyers Association (CLA) argue that a newly adopted package of prison-related laws holds attorneys responsible for hunger strikes, places hunger striking prisoners at risk, undermines the right of attorneys to consu [...] |
2003-03-10 13:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA1516 |
TURKISH CIVIC SOCIETY: VERDICT SUSPENDED IN CASE [...] (U) An Ankara State Security Court (SSC) March 10 ruled unanimously to postpone a verdict in the trial in absentia of controversial Islamic philosopher Fetullah Gulen. Gulen, indicted in 2000, faced five to 10 years imprisonment under the Anti-Terror Law on charges of establishing an illegal [...] |
2003-03-11 09:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA1578 |
ECHR RULING: OCALAN TRIAL UNFAIR, PRISON [...] (C) Summary: The European Court of Human Rights ruled that jailed PKK leader Ocalan did not receive a fair trial, while also determining that his prison conditions are acceptable. Both the GOT and Ocalan's attorneys plan to appeal the ruling. Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, Ocalan wil [...] |
2003-03-12 17:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK |
| 03ANKARA1624 |
GOT CLOSES PRO-KURDISH HADEP PARTY, OPENS CASE [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's highest court announced the closure of the pro-Kurdish HADEP party the same day a chief prosecutor opened a case to close the closely linked DEHAP party. HADEP is accused of aiding the PKK and other offenses; DEHAP is charged with actions against the democratic state and [...] |
2003-03-13 16:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA1636 |
OCALAN'S LAWYERS, BROTHER VISIT FOR FIRST TIME IN [...] (U) Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was visited March 12 for the first time since November 27 by his brother Mehmet and three attorneys. Jandarma officials had previously blocked visits to Ocalan's Imrali Island prison, supposedly due to stormy weather (Reftels B-D). 2. (C) Comment: Th [...] |
2003-03-14 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK |
| 03ANKARA2186 |
DRAFT EU PARLIAMENT REPORT CALLS FOR RADICAL [...] (C) Summary: A clear-sighted but controversial European Parliament draft report calls on the GOT to make fundamental changes to the Kemalist State in order to meet EU membership criteria. MFA and reportedly a few members of the European parliament reject the report as biased; several European [...] |
2003-04-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EU TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA2246 |
APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION IN LONG-STANDING [...] (C) Summary: An appeals court upheld the torture convictions of 10 police officers in the high-profile 1996 Manisa case; the ruling is final. The officers are expected to serve jail terms ranging from two years to more than four years. Human rights observers and European diplomats welcomed t [...] |
2003-04-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA2353 |
TURKEY: DIFFICULTIES FROM PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Trouble continues with ruling AK party parliamentary Human Rights Committee Chairman Elkatmis regarding Iraq-related anti-American statements he persists in making to the press, statements which (1) are at odds with the AK government line; (2) reflect the committee's refusal to ta [...] |
2003-04-11 09:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA2368 |
TURKISH PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE: ILL [...] (C) Summary: The parliamentary Human Rights Committee does not play a significant role in the development of reform legislation, and the public comments of its Chairman to date have focused on supposed human rights violations outside Turkey. Committee members are generally not well informed on [...] |
2003-04-11 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA2998 |
HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION: "POLICE RAID A WARNING [...] (C) Summary: Police May 6 raided the Ankara offices of the Human Rights Association (HRA), seizing records and computers as part of an investigation of alleged support for terrorism. The HRA President believes the action is an attempt to warn NGOs and the GOT against supporting a planned confe [...] |
2003-05-08 07:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA3843 |
TURKS VIEW TIER III TIP RATING AS UNFAIR, [...] Summary: GOT officials said they are "disappointed" by Turkey's Tier III ranking in the 2003 TIP Report. They claimed the report ignores TIP-related reforms adopted by the GOT over the past year, and argued that the ranking was not based on fair, objective analysis. The press focused on the [...] |
2003-06-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA3915 |
PENAL CODE AMENDMENTS INCLUDE HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS [...] (U) Summary: A revised version of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC), currently under parliamentary review, includes measures that would: expand the definition of torture and increase prison sentences for those who commit torture; strengthen privacy rights; introduce home detention for minor crimes; [...] |
2003-06-17 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03ANKARA5927 |
GOT ENGAGED IN INTERNAL DEBATE OVER IDP CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: Some MFA officials support a UN recommendation to hold an international conference on return programs for those displaced from the southeast during the PKK conflict; however, the Interior Ministry opposes. UNHCR believes the conference should also include the return of refugees f [...] |
2003-09-19 06:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 03OTTAWA1124 |
JUDGE TO LEAD CANADA'S DELEGATION TO OSCE [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-22 12:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM CA OSCE |
| 03OTTAWA1136 |
CANADA RULES OUT BID FOR OSCE CHAIR [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-22 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CA OSCE |
| 03OTTAWA2232 |
URGING HIGH-LEVEL CANADIAN ENGAGEMENT ON MOLDOVA [...] (C) Canada agrees with us that more pressure needs to be brought to bear on the Moldovan peace process and the withdrawal of Russian forces, and will seek opportunities to do so. Embassy Political Minister Counselor discussed reftel demarche with Norbert Kalisch, Acting Assistant Deputy Minis [...] |
2003-08-06 21:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EU MD CA OSCE |
| 03OTTAWA556 |
CANADA JOINS U.S., EU SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (SBU) On 27 February Political Counselor discussed the proposed visa sanctions against Transnistrian officials with John McNiesh, Eastern European Desk Officer for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). 2. (SBU) McNeish said that representatives of the U. [...] |
2003-02-27 21:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EU MD RS CA PREL PBTS CVIS OSCE |
| 03OTTAWA576 |
CANADA SUPPORTS OSCE PARTNER STATUS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) On March 28, Political Counselor discussed reftel's proposal for OSCE Partner Status for Afghanistan with Lisa Helfand at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). 2. (SBU) Helfand, who is Deputy Director of DFAIT's Division for Defense and Security Relations, s [...] |
2003-02-28 21:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL OSCE |
| 03ROME144 |
GOI ON DAYTON ARMS CONTROLS NEXT STEPS [...] (C) ACCORDING TO MFA OSCE OFFICE DIRECTOR FABIO CRISTIANI, THE GOI CONCURS WITH USG POLICY OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAYTON ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENT FOR THE NEXT 12-18 MONTHS AS OUTLINED REFTEL. HE TOLD POLOFF ON DECEMBER 10 THAT HE AGREED WITH THE NEED FOR CONTACT GROUP PRESSURE ON THE PARTIES FOR [...] |
2003-01-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL BK HR SR IT OSCE |
| 03ROME2137 |
GOI AGREES ON NEED TO COORDINATE "STEP BY [...] (C) MFA RUSSIA OFFICE DIRECTOR ROSA ANNA CONIGLIO SAID THAT POINTS REFTEL, WHICH POLOFF ORIGINALLY DELIVERED MAY 6, WERE USED AS FOOD FOR THOUGHT AT THE EU COEST MEETING (AT 25) IN BRUSSELS THE FOLLOWING DAY. SHE SAID THAT ALL EU MEMBERS AND ASPIRANTS AGREED - THE US "STEP BY STEP" AND EU B [...] |
2003-05-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU BO OSCE |
| 03ROME3107 |
GOI PLEDGES ENHANCED OSCE/EU COOPERATION DURING [...] (C) Summary: On June 23, MFA Political Director Giancarlo Aragona told visiting USOSCE Ambassador Stephan Minikes that the US and Italy must build on strong bilateral relations and work together to put transatlantic relations back on a strong footing. The OSCE is also extremely important i [...] |
2003-07-08 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PREL OSCE |
| 03ROME3700 |
URGING HIGH LEVEL ITALIAN/EU PRESIDENCY ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) ON AUGUST 14 THE ACTING (NORMALLY DEPUTY) DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MFA'S BUREAU FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS, FRANCESCO BASCONE, TOLD CHARGE THAT ITALY SHARED USG CONCERNS (REFTEL) OVER THE SLOW PACE OF PROGRESS TO REMOVE RUSSIAN TROOPS AND ARMS FROM MOLDOVA AND TO REACH A FINAL POLITICAL SETTLEMENT [...] |
2003-08-14 13:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EU IT MD OSCE |
| 03ROME856 |
ITALIAN MFA AGREES TO SUPPORT OSCE PARTNER STATUS [...] (C) WE DELIVERED TO MFA OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR OSCE ISSUES FABIO CRISTIANI REFTEL DEMARCHE REQUESTING GOI SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN TO BECOME AN OSCE PARTNER FOR COOPERATION. HE INDICATED THAT ITALY WOULD SUPPORT THE REQUEST, REFERRING TO AN UPCOMING MARCH 6 MEETING IN VIENNA. 2. (C) CRISTIAN [...] |
2003-02-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IT OSCE |
| 03ROME86 |
OSCE: GOI ON IMPROVING U.S./EU COORDINATION; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE. DURING A CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 00086 100733Z DISCUSSION ON TURKMENISTAN "MOSCOW MECHANISM" (SEE PARA 5), MFA OSCE OFFICE DIRECTOR FABIO CRISTIANI STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF U.S./EU COORDINATION ON OSCE ISSUES, AND O [...] |
2003-01-10 07:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EU IT TX OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE1524 |
DUTCH MFA ON "PEACE CONSOLIDATION" IN MOLDOVA PAPER [...] No summary [...] |
2003-06-13 13:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PBTS NATO OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE1847 |
OSCE: A/S JONES' MEETINGS IN THE HAGUE [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-22 10:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | GG KCRM MD NL PREL UP OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE2096 |
OSCE: CIO POSITIVE BUT CAUTIOUS ON IRAQ POLICE [...] This is an action request - please see para 3. 2. DCM conveyed reftel points to Daan Everts, the Dutch CiO's Personal Representative. Everts, while agreeing that an assessment team is desirable, was unwilling to give a "yes" to the proposal in advance of his meeting with FM de Hoop Scheff [...] |
2003-08-20 14:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | UK IZ NL OSCE KINL |
| 03THEHAGUE2128 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DUTCH ON GEORGIAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) DCM AND POLOFF MADE REFTEL POINTS TO DUTCH MFA OSCE TASK FORCE CHIEF AMB. DAAN EVERTS AND TASK FORCE STAFF IN SEPARATE CONVERSATIONS ON AUGUST 22. AMB. EVERTS TOLD DCM THAT DESPITE BEING "VERY DISAPPOINTED" WITH THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA, THE OSCE WOULD ENGAGE IN THE SELECTION OF TH [...] |
2003-08-22 16:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI KDEM GG NL OSCE DU |
| 03THEHAGUE2129 |
OSCE POLICE TRAINING IN IRAQ: DUTCH CIO NEEDS UNSC [...] Dutch OSCE coordinator Dan Everts briefed DCM on the outcome of his late August 22 meeting with FM de Hoop Scheffer on reftel demarche. Everts said that while the FM - like Everts - supported the idea of OSCE assistance to police training in Iraq, he could not simply decide to send an assessm [...] |
2003-08-25 08:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | UK IZ NL OSCE KINL |
| 03THEHAGUE2167 |
OSCE: MOLDOVA HIGH-LEVEL ENVOY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Due to the absence of CiO Personal Representative and OSCE Task Force Director Daan Everts until August 29, PolOff delivered ref A to OSCE Task Force Senior Policy Advisor Geoffrey van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen said the GoNL agrees that positions on both the Transnistrian and Moldovan sides hav [...] |
2003-08-27 13:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MD NL OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE2227 |
DUTCH THOUGHTS ON EU GYMNICH MEETING [...] (C) We spoke with working-level contacts about Gymnich while the FM was in Washington. According to contacts, the Dutch will push EU counterparts at Gymnich for an EU designation of HAMAS (ref B) and greater international support for the transition phase in Iraq. The Dutch will also query E [...] |
2003-09-04 13:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU NL UNHRC OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE2310 |
DUTCH MFA ON GYMNICH, MEPP, AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and PolOff met with MFA Director for Political Affairs Jaap Werner and Deputy Director Joop Wijnands on September 9 to discuss the results of the September 5-6 EU Foreign Ministers Gymnich meeting. Werner termed the September 2-3 visit of PM Balkenende and FM de Hoop Sch [...] |
2003-09-15 13:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PREL NL UNHRC OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE2508 |
RUSSIAN DEPUTY FM TRUBNIKOV ON MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: At a September 30 bilateral meeting in The Hague, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Trubnikov told EUR/SNEC Ambassador Perina that he would soon be calling the Deputy Secretary with specific ideas on how the U.S. and Russia can cooperate on Moldova. Trubnikov claimed that he [...] |
2003-10-02 11:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MD PARM NL RU OSCE EUN |
| 03THEHAGUE2560 |
OSCE: DUTCH PLANS FOR MAASTRICHT [...] Summary: In a meeting with visiting Dept. OSCE Coordinator Doug Wake, Dutch OSCE CiO Personal Representative Daan Everts stressed that the GoNL is looking ahead to a successful OSCE Ministerial December 1-2. To add to GoNL efforts throughout 2003, the Dutch are pushing hard for the Secretar [...] |
2003-10-06 14:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM NL OSCE |
| 03THEHAGUE2573 |
MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS BRIEF CIO DE HOOP SCHEFFER, [...] (C) Summary: In Paris October 2, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs held separate discussions with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, urging the two sides to quickly arrange meetings between the two presidents and announcing their desire to visit the region soon after the Azeri elections. [...] |
2003-10-07 15:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM AJ PARM NL RU OSCE EUN |
| 03ZAGREB1164 |
CROATIA: ELECTIONS FOR LOCAL MINORITY COUNCILS [...] (C) ELECTIONS FOR CROATIA'S NEW LOCAL MINORITY COUNCILS WERE HELD ON MAY 18, BUT THE TURNOUT WAS SO LOW THAT THE ELECTIONS ARE BROADLY JUDGED TO BE A TOTAL FAILURE. THERE IS ENOUGH BLAME ON ALL SIDES TO GO AROUND. THE GOVERNMENT SET AN UNREALISTICALLY SHORT -- BUT LEGAL -- DEADLINE, FAILED T [...] |
2003-05-23 10:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM HR OSCE PGOV |
| 03ZAGREB337 |
GOC PUSHING BACK ON IC CRITICISM ON RETURNS [...] (C) THE GOC IS REACTING TO IC PRESSURE ON REFUGEE RETURNS. MINISTER FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND RECONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING, RADIMIR CACIC, HELD A HASTILY ARRANGED MEETING ON FEBRUARY 4 WITH THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY TO PRESENT HIS MINISTRY,S PROGRAM ON REFUGEE RETURN. THE EVENT AT THE SHERATON HOTEL [...] |
2003-02-12 17:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL ECON HR OSCE EUN UNHCR |
| 03ZAGREB94 |
2003: CRITICAL YEAR FOR RETURNS TO CROATIA [...] (C) CUTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S PRESENCE AND CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ZAGREB 00094 01 OF 02 141716Z FUNDING IN CROATIA WILL MAKE THIS YEAR CRITICAL FOR REFUGEE RETURNS. OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS, A BUDGET-STRAPPED UNHCR WILL DRAW DOWN ITS IN-COUNTRY OPE [...] |
2003-01-14 16:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL HR UNHCR OSCE |
| 04AMMAN2789 |
DEMARCHE ON BERLIN ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE: JORDAN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-13 15:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI JO OSCE |
| 04ANKARA1532 |
TENSIONS REMAIN IN SOUTHEAST, DESPITE REFORMS [...] (C) Summary: Kurds in southeast Turkey want the U.S. to solve the Kurdish problem internationally as part of the Greater Middle East Initiative. They criticize the USG decision to list PKK successor Kongra Gel as a terrorist organization, arguing that the GOT should negotiate with Kongra Gel [...] |
2004-03-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 04BRATISLAVA26 |
SLOVAKIA: HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MANDATORY BUT NEEDS [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL QUESTIONS CONCERNING HOLOCAUST EDUCATION IN SLOVAKIA, POST OFFERS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION DRAWN FROM THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 1998 REPORT ON "THE TREATMENT OF JEWISH THEMES IN SLOVAK SCHOOLS" AND FROM DISCUSSION IN EARLY JANUARY 2004 WITH MRS. MARIA SLUGENOVA A [...] |
2004-01-09 17:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI LO CONGRINT OSCE |
| 04BRATISLAVA381 |
BERLIN ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE: SLOVAKIA'S [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-15 15:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL LO OSCE |
| 04BRATISLAVA513 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHEN STEGER [...] EMBASSY BRATISLAVA WELCOMES EUR/RPM NATO DESK OFFICER STEPHEN STEGER AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THE PERIOD OF MAY 28 THROUGH JUNE 1, 2004. THE EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT FOR YOUR VISIT IS KASSIE KOHLER, POL OFFICER. THE PHONE NUMBER IS +420-2-5920-3166 (OFFICE). THE FAX LINE I [...] |
2004-05-25 09:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PREL SL OSCE NATO PERM |
| 04BRATISLAVA524 |
PARLIAMENT ADOPTS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 20, the Slovak Parliament adopted the Law on Equal Treatment. The Director of the GOS Human Rights Section of the Government Office, Jana Kviecinska, told POL Specialist that this is one of the most important laws adopted in the post-communist parliament and brings Slovak [...] |
2004-05-28 04:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI LO OSCE |
| 04BRATISLAVA797 |
SLOVAK FOREIGN MINISTER TO HEAD OSCE DELEGATION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-27 09:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VT OSCE |
| 04BRATISLAVA980 |
SLOVAK VIEWS ON OSCE MEETING IN WARSAW [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 20, Poloffs met with some members of the Slovak delegation to the recent OSCE conference in Warsaw to discuss their views about OSCE concerns regarding human rights. Director General of Consular and Legal Affairs Ivan Grexa said he had been prepared for more criticism [...] |
2004-10-27 11:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LO OSCE |
| 04BRUSSELS14 |
EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY IN CONTEXT: ANALYSIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The final draft of EU HiRep Javier Solana's European Security Strategy (ESS) -- adopted by EU heads of state at their December 12-13 Brussels Summit -- envisages a world of dangerous but preventable threats, multilateral solutions, and stabilizing partnerships. The ESS identifies [...] |
2004-01-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM KNNP MARR MCAP EAID SOCI NATO OSCE UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1622 |
EU WELCOMES MOLDOVA CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Mission raised reftel proposal for five-party expert (Ambassadorial) level talks on Moldova April 14 with Christoph Heusgen, head of the Policy Unit. His experts on Moldova were not available, but Heusgen promised to get back to us soon with a more formal reply. He said he was confident [...] |
2004-04-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MD OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1806 |
EU RELEASES ANTI-SEMITISM REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 31, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) released its long-awaited report on anti-Semitism in the EU. Its data indicate a growing level of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. Right-wing "skin-head" attacks continue unabated, while a growing number [...] |
2004-04-26 12:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2091 |
U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU hosted a U.S. delegation headed by USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes for the biannual U.S.-EU "COSCE" consultations on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on May 7. Key findings were: --U.S.-EU Coordination within OSCE: cooperation between t [...] |
2004-05-14 10:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2541 |
EU PUZZLED BY MOLDOVA'S STABILITY PACT INITIATIVE; MOSCOW RESPONSE IS KEY [...] No summary [...] |
2004-06-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS OSCE MD |
| 04BRUSSELS3066 |
EU ON EXPANDED TRANSNISTRIA VISA BAN: NEED TO [...] (C) On July 19, USEU conveyed reftel non-paper to Council Secretariat Russia watcher Carl Hallergard, who is temporarily covering Moldova. He welcomed the non-paper, and said he would distribute it to member states at that day's COEST Working Group meeting. The Council Secretariat, he said [...] |
2004-07-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV RS MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3227 |
EU CONSIDERS VISA BAN ON 21 TRANSNISTRIAN [...] (SBU) On July 29, EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors agreed to consider imposing a visa ban on 21 Transnistrian officials connected to the recent closing of Moldovan schools in Transnistria. EU staff are preparing the paperwork to impose the ban; the PSC will review the is [...] |
2004-07-30 07:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3979 |
DEMARCHE TO EU: OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM AND TOLERANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4183 |
U.S.-EU OSCE CONSULTS FOCUS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The September 21 U.S.-EU OSCE consultations focused largely on Russian intransigence toward outside influence in its "near abroad." Both sides agreed that the CIS Astana Declaration is an attempt to undercut the OSCE role in human rights and democratization. Similarly, the EU re [...] |
2004-09-30 09:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04DUBLIN1135 |
IRISH RESPONSE TO OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP - THANKS, BUT [...] (C)During a farewell call on July 28 to DFA Secretary General Dermott Gallagher, DCM raised reftel points regarding GOI's possible bid for the OSCE Chairmanship in 2007. Gallagher stated the GOI seriously considered becoming a candidate, but decided against it primarily due to the general ele [...] |
2004-07-29 14:36:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE |
| 04DUBLIN1292 |
IRELAND NOT TO SEND HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION TO OSCE [...] Emboff, drawing on reftel points, spoke on September 2 to First Secretary, UN Section at the DFA Julian Clare. Clare stated that Ireland will not send a high-level delegation to the Sept. 13-14 OSCE conference on Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination. Ireland strongly supports such conferenc [...] |
2004-09-02 11:57:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM OSCE |
| 04DUBLIN1696 |
ROUND TWO: IRELAND TO MONITOR UKRAINIAN ELECTION [...] (C) On November 16, Emboff, drawing on reftel points, spoke to Austin Gormley, the DFA's Deputy Director for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Gormley, who was on the ground personally during the first Ukrainian election, stated that the GOI would be actively monitoring the second roun [...] |
2004-11-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE |
| 04HELSINKI1132 |
E-PINE: FINLAND COMMITS TO SEND OBSERVERS TO [...] (C) Per reftel instructions, Pol Chief and Poloff demarched Tuula Yrjola, the desk officer for Ukraine, and Terhi Hakala, Director on the Unit for East Europe and Central Asia, about the need for additional election observers in Ukraine during upcoming elections. Poloffs noted the interest [...] |
2004-09-01 11:19:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | KNEI PGOV PREL PHUM FI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA1089 |
SLOVENIA: NEW GOS CABINET CONFIRMED BY PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a 51:37 public vote on 03 December, the National Assembly confirmed the proposed cabinet of PM Janez Jansa. MPs from Jansa's four-party coalition plus the two national minority representatives supported the slate of 15 candidates. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Exactly two months [...] |
2004-12-06 06:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA1090 |
AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW (AGAIN) SLOVENE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel on Dec. 4 prior to the minister's departure for the OSCE Ministerial in Sofia. Rupel appeared relaxed and very comfortable in his surroundings, which he had vacated less than six months ago. Rupel said he was looking forward [...] |
2004-12-06 08:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA1107 |
SLOVENIA: FOMIN RUPEL AND USOSCE AMB MINIKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 10 December meeting with COM and USOSCE Ambassador Stephan Minikes, FoMin Rupel set out Slovenian priorities for its OSCE CiO year, indicating a special interest in dealing with issues in Southeastern Europe. Discussion focused on Ukraine and on the need to engage the Russ [...] |
2004-12-14 07:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SI OSCE RU |
| 04LJUBLJANA324 |
SLOVENIA: FOMIN TO ATTEND BERLIN ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (U) POL/ECON CHIEF AND POL-MILOFF DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS AND DELEGATION LIST ON 15 APRIL TO MFA OSCE TASK FORCE MEMBERS URSKA AJDISEK AND KATARINA GRADIC, BOTH OF WHOM WORK ON HUMAN DIMENSION ISSUES. AJDISEK SAID THAT FOMIN DMITRIJ RUPEL AND AT LEAST TWO OF HIS KEY STAFFERS, INCLUDIN [...] |
2004-04-15 12:22:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA976 |
SLOVENIA IN THE BIG LEAGUES NOW: DAS CONLEY HELPS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The visit of DAS Heather Conley to Ljubljana October 20-21 was well timed to take advantage of the momentum created by the arrival of a new U.S.ambassador. Her meetings at the MFA, MOD and with a small group of influential private citizens have helped us to galvanize and re-focu [...] |
2004-10-25 11:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SI OSCE |
| 04MADRID2977 |
SPAIN NOTIFIED OF US INTEREST IN SPANISH OSCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche concerning Spain's candidacy for the 2007 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Maria Victoria Scola Pliego, MFA Special Representative for OSCE issues, on August 4. Scola Pliego was encouraged by the U.S. position [...] |
2004-08-05 08:08:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP OSCE |
| 04MADRID3126 |
SPAIN WILL SEND MORATINOS TO OSCE CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) The Spanish MFA has told us that Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will be leading the Spanish delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Conference on Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination in Brussels on September 13-14. Alvaro Rodriguez Alvarez, [...] |
2004-08-18 11:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SP OSCE |
| 04PARIS6889 |
OSCE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to OSCE desk officer Guillaume de Kerdrel on September 17. Kerdrel indicated that the same points had been discussed during a September 1 meeting in Washington with Department officials and a French delegation that included the Ambassador for Holocaust Iss [...] |
2004-09-17 16:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM FR OSCE |
| 04ROME1472 |
ITALY SUGGESTS MODIFIED LANGUAGE FOR OSCE [...] (C) FOLLOWING UP ON REF A CONVERSATION, MFA OSCE OFFICE DIRECTOR FABIO CRISTIANI TOLD POLOFF THAT THERE WAS LITTLE SUPPORT AMONG OSCE MEMBER STATES FOR LANGUAGE IN THE OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE DRAFT DOCUMENT LINKING ANTI-SEMITISM TO ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL. HE CLAIMED THAT ITALY COULD LIVE [...] |
2004-04-14 17:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI IT OSCE |
| 04ROME3999 |
ITALY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING OSCE SPECIAL REP FOR [...] On October 15, MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told EUR/OHI Director Don Braum (in Rome for the Holocaust Education Task Force) that Italy fully supports US view that a special representative for anti-Semitism should be established in the OSCE. EU representatives met at 25 to discus [...] |
2004-10-18 07:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM IT OSCE EUN |
| 04ROME4000 |
BUREAUCRATICS WILL KEEP ITALY FROM SECONDING [...] (SBU) OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that a bureaucratic complication would make it impossible for Italy to second observers to monitor upcoming elections in Ukraine. He said that Italian legislation authorizing such funds came with a string attached - money for transportatio [...] |
2004-10-18 08:08:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UP IT OSCE |
| 04ROME4534 |
ITALY AGREES IN PRINCIPLE ON OSCE MONITORING [...] (U) MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that an OSCE election observer mission for Iraq as proposed reftel was in line with Italy's view that the organization's expertise should be exploited for "out of theater" missions. He agreed that ODIHR could provide invaluable assistance [...] |
2004-11-30 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ IT OSCE |
| 04THEHAGUE1484 |
MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: DUTCH RESPONSE ON STABILITY [...] (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche June 15 to Frank van Beuningen, MFA OSCE policy coordinator, Willemijn Kallenberg MFA OSCE senior policy advisor, and Bas Wels, MFA lead on East European issues during the Dutch EU presidency. 2. (C) Before we presented our points, the Dutch noted sim [...] |
2004-06-16 14:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS MD NL OSCE |
| 04THEHAGUE2104 |
OSCE - DUTCH PARTICIPATION AT CONFERENCE ON [...] The Dutch hope to send a delegation to subject conference headed by a cabinet minister, likely Rita Verdonk, Minister for Immigration and Integration, according to Joris Geeven, MFA officer covering the OSCE in the Human Rights Department who spoke with Poloff on August 20. Human Rights Speci [...] |
2004-08-24 12:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AORC NL OSCE |
| 04THEHAGUE2680 |
DUTCH ON OSCE ELECTION MISSION IN UKRAINE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-15 16:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UP NL OSCE |
| 04THEHAGUE686 |
DUTCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE 2009 KAZAKH [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-17 15:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KZ NL OSCE |
| 04VATICAN1231 |
OSCE BOSNIA HEAD PRESSES HOLY SEE AND FRANCISCANS [...] (U) This telegram contains a guidance request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) OSCE Bosnia Head of Mission Robert Beecroft emphasized the importance of inter-ethnic reconciliation in Mostar for Bosnia's future stability during March 23-24 meetings with the Hol [...] |
2004-03-26 18:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PREL SOCI VT BK BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA OSCE |
| 04VATICAN1471 |
OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE: HOLY SEE WANTS [...] (c) Holy See Deputy Foreign Minister Monsignor Pietro Parolin told the DCM April 8 that the Holy See was committed to a successful OSCE Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin, and agreed with the U.S. on the importance of achieving concrete results. To this end, the Holy See will be sending a hig [...] |
2004-04-14 15:39:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI VT OSCE |
| 04VATICAN3212 |
VATICAN LOOKING FORWARD TO OSCE CONFERENCE [...] Charge delivered reftel points to acting Vatican Foreign Minister equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin August 18. Parolin had seen the composition of the U.S. delegation in previous communication from the OSCE, and noted with interest the participation of Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore. Parolin [...] |
2004-08-20 06:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VT OSCE |
| 04VATICAN4441 |
VATICAN URGES OSCE REP TO FOCUS ON CHRISTIAN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Vatican Foreign Ministry,s director for the OSCE urged the U.S. November 18 to support the appointment of an OSCE Special Representative whose title would indicate a responsibilit [...] |
2004-11-19 16:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NL PHUM PREL VT OSCE |
| 04VATICAN4517 |
VATICAN HOLDS FIRM ON ADDING CHRISTIAN REFERENCE [...] (SBU) Holy See Deputy Foreign Minister Pietro Parolin told the Ambassador November 26 that the Vatican intended to continue pressing to add a reference to Christianity in the title of the proposed OSCE Special Representative on Tolerance and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination. [...] |
2004-11-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF IS NL VT OSCE VTPREL |
| 04YEREVAN2792 |
GOAM STILL LOOKING TO EXCHANGE SOLDIERS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PBTS AJ AM OSCE |
| 04ZAGREB1824 |
CROATIA ARMS CONTROL AND RACVIAC POINTS DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered refs A & B messages to Drazen Hrastic, MFA Head of Cooperative Security Section on Sept. 21. Poloff also informed RACVIAC directly of the U.S. decision (ref B) to accept observer status on Oct. 11. Hrastic welcomed the RACVIAC decision and noted that the Dayton Arms Cont [...] |
2004-10-19 11:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR HR OSCE |
| 05ANKARA1883 |
SOUTHEAST TURKEY: IRF ISSUES IN MALATYA [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with a member of the Protestant community in Malatya on March 22 to discuss religious freedom issues. According to British national Angus Reid (please strictly protect), a small group of worshipers are meeting in private homes and are not being prevented by authoritie [...] |
2005-04-01 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA1935 |
MINISTER DECLARES MISSIONARIES "SEPARATIST AND DESTRUCTIVE" [...] (C) Summary: State Minister Aydin, who oversees the GOT's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), released a statement labeling missionary activities in Turkey "separatist and destructive" and implying that missionaries are part of an organized effort by foreign governments to create divis [...] |
2005-04-04 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2061 |
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - A WEAK LINK IN TURKISH REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Turks cite history to argue that Turkey is a model of religious tolerance. They assert that the existence of diverse religious communities in the Ottoman Empire and the acceptance of the Jews who migrated to Istanbul after expulsion from Spain in 1492 proves Turkey is free of rel [...] |
2005-04-08 15:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2097 |
RELIGIOUS (UN)FREEDOM IN TURKEY: LONG-RESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: Authorities have given a long-resident Amcit Protestant pastor 15 days to depart Turkey because he does not have a work or residence permit. The pastor has been performing missionary work in Turkey for 20 years, and departs the country every three months to renew his tourist visa [...] |
2005-04-12 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2206 |
MFA BLOCKING PURCHASE OF ABANDONED CHURCH [...] (U) Summary: An American pastor and his wife operate a Protestant "cultural center" in the Mediterranean tourist city of Antalya. Although their work is primarily religious, they hold work permits as owners of the company that runs the center, which includes a cafe and a room where community [...] |
2005-04-19 08:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2258 |
GOT SUMMARILY DEPORTS SYRIAN KURD [...] (U) Summary: The GOT in March summarily deported a Syrian army deserter without allowing the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to review his asylum petition. The Syrian, who was acquitted in a Turkish court on terrorism charges, claimed that because he is a Kurd and a de [...] |
2005-04-21 08:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2313 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GOT ANTI-MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN WITH A FILIBUSTERING MINISTER AYDIN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador has emphasized to State Minister Aydin serious U.S. concerns about the GOT's anti-Christian missionary campaign, including a written statement by Aydin defining missionaries as a threat to the State and maligning Christianity. The U.S. has long urged the EU to supp [...] |
2005-04-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2331 |
ASSAILANTS FIREBOMB PROTESTANT CHURCH, CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE [...] (U) Summary: Unknown actors firebombed a Protestant church in Ankara in the early-morning hours April 21, causing minor damage. The attack followed an email threat to the church from a violent organization responsible for the attempted murder of a human rights activist in 1998. The organizati [...] |
2005-04-25 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2388 |
SE TURKEY: SYRIACS CELEBRATES NEW YEAR, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Syriac community in Mardin province expressed to poloff satisfaction about a first-ever (for Turkey) Syriac New Year celebration held on April 1. At the same time, they expressed concern about a property dispute brewing in Bardakci village of Mardin, whe [...] |
2005-04-27 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2689 |
COE EXPERT: TURKISH PRISONS RUN WITH "LOCK DOWN" [...] (C) Summary: A Council of Europe (COE) prison expert says the design of Turkey's high-security F-type prisons meets European standards, but some practices are draconian. Inmates are allowed very little time outside their cells. There is no evidence of systematic torture, but prison officials p [...] |
2005-05-10 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2726 |
TURKEY ON EDGE OVER EXPECTED EUROPEAN COURT OF [...] (C) Summary: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is expected to announce May 12 that Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) did not receive a fair trial in 1999 and is entitled to a retrial. Nationalism is always volatile in Turkey, and an Ocalan retrial c [...] |
2005-05-11 15:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK |
| 05ANKARA2750 |
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES SAY GOT BILL FAILS TO SOLVE [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is reviewing a draft bill designed to address the issue of properties seized by the Turkish State from religious minority communities. Representatives of the Christian and Jewish communities say the bill would have only minimal favorable impact, primarily because it would [...] |
2005-05-13 08:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2821 |
TURKEY WRESTLES WITH ECHR RULING QUESTIONING DUE [...] (C) Summary: Confusion and attempts to pass the buck among branches of government and between GOT and the Turkish State mark the Turkish reaction to European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that Turkey did not observe due process in interrogating and trying PKK terrorist leader Ocalan in 19 [...] |
2005-05-18 10:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2839 |
SE TURKEY: DSM EXPERIMENT DRAGS ON [...] (C) Summary: DEHAP leaders have yet to realize their hopes of creating a new, national-level, moderate political party from the Democratic Society Movement (DSM) announced last fall. One observer attributes the delay to both the PKK,s popularity and pro-Kurdish politicians, need to recalcula [...] |
2005-05-20 07:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA2840 |
AKP GOVERNMENT WEAKENS PENAL-CODE REFORM BILLS [...] (C) Summary: Attorney contacts say a set of last-minute amendments being reviewed by Parliament would weaken penal-code related reform legislation that lawmakers originally approved in late 2004 to bolster Turkey's EU candidacy. The amendments curtail some of the rights of suspects and detain [...] |
2005-05-20 07:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3032 |
GOT INTIMIDATION FORCES CANCELLATION OF [...] (U) This is a joint Ankara-Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: Under accusations of treason by GOT and other political leaders, and the threat of prosecution, Bogazici University officials announced May 24 their last-minute decision to cancel a conference at which independent-minded intellectua [...] |
2005-05-27 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3112 |
HIGH COURT RULES FOR CLOSURE OF TEACHERS' UNION [...] (U) Summary: A Turkish appeals court ruled May 25 for the closure of Egitim Sen, the country's largest teachers' union, on the grounds that the union's bylaw violates the Constitution by advocating education in "mother tongues," which would include Kurdish. The union will appeal the ruling to [...] |
2005-06-03 09:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3191 |
TURKEY'S SYRIACS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-08 10:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3262 |
OPEN SKIES QUOTA SHARING - TURKEY LIKELY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions with the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and MFA on the Open Skies Shared Quota, Acting PolMilCouns and Acting DATT discovered a large gap between the US and Turkish interpretation of the original agreement for a shared June flight which may have led to the recent impas [...] |
2005-06-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3265 |
OPEN SKIES QUOTA SHARING: TURKEY AGREES NOT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-10 06:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA3669 |
GOT PAPER OUTLINES CONCERNS ON EU "FRAMEWORK" [...] (C) Summary: The GOT has distributed to EU-member-state governments a paper outlining its concerns about the EU's upcoming Framework for Negotiations with Turkey. In the paper, the GOT urges the EU to adopt the Framework before the October 3 start date of Turkey's EU talks, and to avoid addin [...] |
2005-06-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU BRUSSELS USEU |
| 05ANKARA3887 |
REHN WARNS FM GUL THAT FOUNDATIONS LAW "FALLS [...] (C) Summary: EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn sent a letter to FM Gul warning that the GOT's draft Law on Foundations "falls short of European standards" despite some positive elements. Rehn states that the draft in its current form would lead to numerous cases against Turkey in the European [...] |
2005-07-06 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE EU |
| 05ANKARA4031 |
GOT DISCOURAGES VISIT TO SOUTHEAST BY GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: GOT officials tried to discourage a German Protestant Church delegation from visiting southeastern Turkey as part of a fact-finding mission on refugee issues. The Turkish press reported that the MFA and national intelligence organization (MIT) sent a letter warning governors not t [...] |
2005-07-11 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA5109 |
GOT WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING THROUGH ON [...] (C) Summary: Political observers widely credit PM Erdogan with breaking new rhetorical ground on the Kurdish issue in the context of his recent visit to Diyarbakir. But contacts say they doubt the GOT is prepared to follow through on the initiative. Members of the (PKK-related) Democratic Peo [...] |
2005-09-01 13:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA5115 |
PKK FUNERAL CLASH INDICATES RISING TENSION IN [...] (C) Summary: One demonstrator was found dead following an August 28 clash in Batman between police and a group of PKK sympathizers trying to claim the bodies of six PKK fighters killed by Turkish military forces. Relatives of the victim say he was shot to death by police; the Batman police chi [...] |
2005-09-01 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK |
| 05ANKARA5163 |
GOT HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL RESIGNS, OFFICE MAY BE [...] (C) Summary: Vahit Bicak, head of the GOT's Human Rights Presidency, told us he will resign this month, out of frustration over the lack of support for the office from PM Erdogan and other GOT leaders. He said Erdogan informed him that he will not back a plan to create a new, independent huma [...] |
2005-09-02 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA5281 |
PM, MINISTER CRITICIZE STATE OF ISLAMIC WORLD [...] (U) Summary: PM Erdogan and State Minister Aydin recently made public statements criticizing the state of the Islamic world and calling on Muslims to uphold the values of their faith. Using strikingly similar language, the GOT leaders said the Islamic world lags behind the West in terms of so [...] |
2005-09-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA5351 |
GOT DENIES IT PLANS TO CLOSE HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE [...] (U) The Prime Ministry issued a written statement September 8 denying press reports indicating that the GOT had decided against the creation of an independent human rights institution and was considering closing the existing Human Rights Presidency (reftel). According to the statement, the GO [...] |
2005-09-14 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA5632 |
CDA DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITH MINISTER AYDIN [...] (U) Summary: CDA emphasized to State Minister Aydin during a September 21 meeting the importance the USG places on religious freedom, and asked if he would join her in efforts to promote religious tolerance in Turkey. Aydin averred that he supports such efforts in principle, but they are poli [...] |
2005-09-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA6060 |
GOT: NEW LAW ON THE MENTALLY DISABLED WILL ADDRESS [...] (U) Summary: An international NGO issued a report September 28 asserting that Turkey's treatment of the mentally disabled is "tantamount to torture." The report alleges that Turkish psychiatric institutions employ practices such as shock therapy and physical restraint in ways that violate int [...] |
2005-10-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA6229 |
REHN OFFERS TURKEY FRESH START, URGES CONTINUED [...] (U) Summary: During his October 5-8 visit to Turkey, EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn offered a fresh start in Turkey's EU bid and called on the GOT to continue the reform process that enabled Turkey to open accession negotiations. Rehn pressed PM Erdogan, FM Gul and other GOT leaders to make [...] |
2005-10-13 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE EU |
| 05ANKARA6300 |
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT DISCUSSES JUDICIAL [...] (U) Summary: Tulay Tugcu, newly elected president of Turkey's Constitutional Court, told Charge during an October 7 meeting that she is proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow individual citizens to apply directly to the Court. Tugcu defended the headscarf ban in universities as [...] |
2005-10-18 07:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA6316 |
TURKEY: EDUCATION COUNCIL PRESIDENT SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Erdogan Tezic, president of Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK), told Charge during an October 17 meeting that he supports the reopening of the Halki seminary, and believes a solution can be found if Greece and Turkey discuss their respective religious minorities. He said Halk [...] |
2005-10-19 10:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE |
| 05ANKARA6642 |
TURKISH MFA CLARIFIES POSITION ON AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Following a weak initial MFA statement and amid press reports that Turkish observers found no irregularities during the November 6 Azerbaijan elections, MFA Director General Halil Akinci clarified the Turkish position during a November 9 meeting with visiting Senior Advisor for Eurasia Stev [...] |
2005-11-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU OSCE AZ |
| 05ANKARA6763 |
GOT "SATISFIED" WITH EU REPORTS, DESPITE CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: MFA contacts say the November 9 EU reports on Turkey are acceptable to the GOT, although they have some objections to language relating to Greek Cypriot access to Turkish ports, minority language rights, and religious freedom. GOT leaders have been more supportive of the reports [...] |
2005-11-16 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU |
| 05ANKARA6930 |
TURKEY FACES OBSTACLES ON PATH TO EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Now that Turkey has begun EU accession talks, it faces the difficult prospect of meeting EU requirements regarding Cyprus, minority rights, religious freedom, civil-military relations, and freedom of expression. This will require Turkey to open debate on sensitive topics and chan [...] |
2005-11-23 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU |
| 05ANKARA7242 |
TURKEY UNDER FIRE FOR HIGH-PROFILE SPEECH CASES [...] (C) Summary: Turkish prosecutors have recently opened a number of speech-related cases against high-profile writers and intellectuals, drawing sharp criticism from EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn and others. The number of such cases has actually dropped in recent years. However, political a [...] |
2005-12-12 07:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 05ANKARA7671 |
EU DELEGATION OBSERVES DANGEROUS TENSIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: A delegation of Ankara-based EU representatives recently observed what one member described to us as dangerously high tensions in the southeastern province of Hakkari following the November bombing of a bookstore, allegedly by Jandarma officers. Local residents resent what they v [...] |
2005-12-30 13:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 05ANKARA929 |
EX-MILITANTS CLAIM KONGRA-GEL "PEACEFUL" [...] (C) Summary: A group of ex-convict PKK militants faxed a letter to the Embassy making reference to the January U.S.-Turkey-Iraq talks on the PKK and claiming that the PKK successor organization Kongra-Gel seeks a peaceful solution to its conflict with the Turkish State. Officials from the pro [...] |
2005-02-18 09:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 05BRUSSELS1226 |
U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes, EU officials said: --in light of growing Russian intransigence on democracy issues, the EU is preparing a strategy on how to respond to the Russian challenge in OSCE; --Russia is blocking democracy promotion in the Counc [...] |
2005-03-24 07:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BRUSSELS1239 |
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION: EU [...] (U) At a two-day public hearing at the European Parliament, policymakers and experts exchanged ideas on harnessing international migration to help bolster European economies and populations. Their overarching call was for a legal and transparent immigration program, at the European level, whi [...] |
2005-03-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF SMIG PHUM KWMN EAID ELAB OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BRUSSELS2607 |
EU LUKEWARM ON IDEA OF MOLDOVA CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary. The initial EU response to reftel demarche is lukewarm, although member states will need to be consulted for an official response. The EU will likely be most supportive of a conference whose participants include at least Russia and, ideally, Transnistria as well. The EU sugge [...] |
2005-07-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BRUSSELS541 |
FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on February 7 to key Solana adviser Kees van Rij (protect), Head of the EU Council Secretariat Policy Unit Task Force on the Caucasus, and Mario SIPDIS Mariani (protect), OSCE desk officer in the External Relations Directorate-General of the European Comm [...] |
2005-02-07 13:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 05BUCHAREST1581 |
ROMANIAN COMMENTS ON MOLDOVA AND MULTILATERAL [...] (C) During the course of an initial call by Charge at the MFA on July 17, Director General for Global Affairs Stelian Stoian specifically raised "very strong" GOR disappointment that it had not been consulted by the U.S. prior to the U.S. approach to EU member capitals, Moscow, Kiev, and Chisin [...] |
2005-07-15 13:13:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MD RO EUN OSCE |
| 05DUBLIN921 |
IRELAND: ALL PARTIES SHOULD BE INVITED TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-25 16:09:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV EUN OSCE |
| 05ISTANBUL1333 |
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: KINALIADA CONTROVERSY BOILS [...] (C) Summary: Controversy flared this week between the GOT and the Ecumenical Patriarch after Turkish bureaucrats delayed the opening of a longstanding youth summer camp at a monastery on Kinali Island in an attempt to force church officials to recognize state seizure of that property. Church [...] |
2005-08-03 16:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ISTANBUL1359 |
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE RAISES SPECIFIC CONCERNS [...] (C) In a July 11 meeting with Charge (ref A), Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew offered to share with us upon his return the points discussed during his July 11-12 discussions in Brussels with EU officials, including European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU Enlargement Commissio [...] |
2005-08-09 11:51:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ISTANBUL2077 |
PATRIARCH EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR DEPARTMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-08 13:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE |
| 05ISTANBUL2177 |
AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a cordial introductory call on December 20, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I outlined for the Ambassador the history of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey and underscored three major factors threatening it: the lack of a seminary for the training of priests; the lack of [...] |
2005-12-28 08:20:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM TU AA OSCE |
| 05LJUBLJANA152 |
KOSOVO/WESTERN BALKANS, CROATIA'S EU ACCESSION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR/NCE Director Janet Garvey held a series of meetings in Ljubljana 4 March with key Slovenian interlocuters. Issues raised included: -- Slovenia's interest in working toward a final agreement on Kosovo this year; -- the priority Slovenia places on its relationships with its [...] |
2005-03-08 04:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI HR OSCE KO RU |
| 05LJUBLJANA164 |
SLOVENIA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON GEORGIA'S [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-11 10:17:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ZJ RS GG SI OSCE EUN |
| 05MADRID2102 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR US DELEGATION TO THE OSCE [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to the following individuals: Governor George Pataki, Head of Delegation, Major Gary Berwick, Chairman Charles Gargano, David Catalfamo, Director of Communications, Salvatore Graven, Travel Aide, Jeffery Lovell, Senior Policy Advisor to th [...] |
2005-06-02 11:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA PREL SP OSCE |
| 05MADRID992 |
SPAIN: DEMARCHE ON GEORGIA'S BORDER MONITORING [...] (C) Charge raised the issue of a Georgia Border Monitoring Organization (BMO) in a March 14 discussion with Rafael Dezcallar, MFA Director General for Foreign Policy, and Josep Pons, MFA Director General of Foreign Policy for Europe and North America. Dezcallar professed little knowledge of [...] |
2005-03-15 15:03:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS EUN OSCE |
| 05MINSK1359 |
Belarus Reneges on SA/LW Destruction; De-mining on Track [...] (SBU) Summary: Minsk previously asked the OSCE for help securing stockpiles of excess Small Arms and Light Weapons (SA/LW), and in their destruction. Several OSCE missions, following the UK's lead, were ready to contribute. Now, however, Minsk has withdrawn its offer to destroy excess SA/LW, [...] |
2005-11-08 13:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV MASS OSCE NATO BO |
| 05OTTAWA1615 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST ON OSCE CORDOBA DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche points to Foreign Affairs Acting Director for North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations, Isabelle Poupart, the morning of May 31. In a follow-up discussion, Poupart said that the matter had been resolved earlier in the day in Vienna with agr [...] |
2005-05-31 19:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CA OSCE |
| 05OTTAWA3507 |
OSCE SCALES OF CONTRIBUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (U) Reftel demarche was delivered on November 21 to Isabelle Poupart, Deputy Director for NATO and OSCE at Foreign Affairs Canada. In a follow-up coversation on November 22, Poupart said that Canada was aware of USG's position, that negotiations in Vienna were ongoing and continuous, and that [...] |
2005-11-28 12:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ABUD AFIN CA OSCE |
| 05PARIS1178 |
FRENCH HAVE NOT RECEIVED RUSSIAN PROPOSAL ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS MD FR OSCE |
| 05PARIS1510 |
FRENCH DISCUSS OSCE ISSUES WITH RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT [...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting March 7 with Alexander Grushko, Director of the Russian MFA's European Cooperation Department, A/S-equivalent for Security Affairs Philippe Carre told POL M/C he believed the Russians may understand they had gone too far in their efforts to diminish the OSCE, a [...] |
2005-03-08 13:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PGOVE RU OSCE |
| 05PARIS1611 |
FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION, RECEIVE [...] (C) Pierre Cochard, DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet states, told Poloff March 10 that France was not firmly opposed to a EU-led BMO in Georgia, but that it was being "cautious" based on the swirl of other options available and ESDP funding constraints. Cochard bemoaned the lac [...] |
2005-03-10 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG MD FR OSCE |
| 05PARIS1733 |
FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 17:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS FR EUN OSCE |
| 05PARIS5004 |
MFA UNCERTAIN ON TRANSNISTRIA CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting July 18 with POL M/C and Poloff, Jean-Francois Terral, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for the Balkans, Russia and the former Soviet space, said France was studying our ref A demarche supporting a multilateral conference on the Transnistria conflict, but was uncertain of its [...] |
2005-07-19 15:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MD FR UZ EUN OSCE |
| 05PARIS6335 |
EUR/RPM DIRECTOR CONSULTATIONS -- FRENCH CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: French MFA and MOD NATO experts told EUR/RPM Director Jim Warlick that closer cooperation with the U.S. was needed in order to resolve issues at NATO before they were turned over to the Military Committee. The French welcomed U.S. efforts to expand our transatlantic dialog, as ex [...] |
2005-09-16 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS FR NATO OSCE |
| 05PRAGUE1629 |
CZECH REPUBLIC: OSCE SCALES OF CONTRIBUTION 'END [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Deputy Director Vaclav Balek Nov 22. Balek responded the Czech Republic would study the points carefully and would make every effort to accommodate the U.S. position. CABANISS [...] |
2005-11-23 06:16:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | EZ ABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV OSCE |
| 05ROME1529 |
ITALIAN VIEWS ON "POST-STANDARDS" KOSOVO; SUPPORT [...] (C) EUR DAS Kathy Stephens, in town on April 29 for the Aspen Institute's rollout of the International Commission on the Balkans report on "The Balkans in Europe's Future" (copy emailed to EUR/SCE), discussed briefly with MFA EUR DG Giovanni Caracciolo and Deputy PolDir Claudio Bisognero Itali [...] |
2005-05-04 15:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IT SR EUN OSCE KFOR |
| 05ROME2310 |
ITALY OPEN TO MULTILATERAL CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MD IT EUN OSCE |
| 05ROME3797 |
OSCE/FCS: ITALY WILL NOT BLOCK PROGRESS AHEAD OF [...] (SBU) On November 16 Polmiloff received a response to Reftel demarche from Brunella Borzi, the MFA's office director for OSCE affairs. Borzi apologized for the delayed response saying she has been out of the country and wanted to first confer with the Italian delegation in Vienna before react [...] |
2005-11-17 12:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE IT PARM PREL OSCE |
| 05ROME3880 |
OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-23 17:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE |
| 05ROME3885 |
OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-25 08:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE |
| 05ROME3961 |
ITALY INSISTS IT IS FIRM ON PRESSURING RUSSIA ON [...] (C) Summary. On December 1, Poloff met with Dr. Susanna Schlien of the OSCE office of the Italian MFA to discuss the US position on a possible ministerial declaration during the OSCE Ljubljana summit. Poloff noted that the USG believed that no ministerial message might be better than one whic [...] |
2005-12-01 17:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE |
| 05ROME921 |
ITALY SUPPORTS ENHANCED EU PRESENCE ON [...] (C) As reported ref b, MFA EU CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo told poloff March 11 that the EU strategy at the moment would be to reinforce the office of the recently created EU Special Representative for the Caucuses, to include the 6 trainers mentioned in ref a. He underlined that this was an [...] |
2005-03-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS CG PBTS IT EUN OSCE |
| 05THEHAGUE3136 |
NETHERLANDS/OSCE: DEMARCHE ON OSCE SCALES OF [...] Polmiloff discussed reftel points November 21 with Senior Policy Advisor Arjen van den Berg (Security Policy Department, MFA). Van den Berg was aware of U.S. reservations regarding the draft narrative text, and planned to discuss reftel points with the Dutch mission to the OSCE. He added that [...] |
2005-11-21 15:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ABUD AFIN EU PGOV OSCE |
| 05VATICAN516 |
DEL PONTE MAKES ""UGLY IMPRESSION"" AT THE VATICAN [...] (S/NF) Holy See Balkans Director Maury described to us August 22 the ""undiplomatic behavior"" of ICTY Chief Prosecutor del Ponte on her recent visit to the Vatican foreign ministry (HAGUE 2263). Maury said the Vatican would not respond to the strong letter sent by del Ponte to the pope after [...] |
2005-08-26 14:10:00 | Embassy Vatican | SECRET//NOFORN | KIRF PREL SOCI NL BK HR VT OSCE |
| 05VIENNA2400 |
AUSTRIA VIEWS RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) On July 7, post conveyed reftel talking points to Josef Litschauer, Head of the MFA's CIS Unit. Acting Econ-Pol Counselor met with Litschauer on July 15 to elicit GoA views on a multilateral conference. Litschauer said the GoA would support EU participation in such a conference, but onl [...] |
2005-07-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV AU EUN OSCE |
| 05VIENNA847 |
GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-15 10:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS AU EUN OSCE |
| 05WARSAW1469 |
GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING ORGANIZATION AND THE EU: [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief delivered Ref A demarche on the EU and Georgia Border Monitoring on March 14 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, Counselor in the Security Policy Department, who handles all security issues related to Georgia. Kuzinski responded on March 15, indicating that the GOP position on Border Mo [...] |
2005-03-16 11:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS GG RS ZJ PL EUN OSCE |
| 05WARSAW3447 |
OSCE: HDIM OPENING FOCUSES ON OSCE REFORM [...] Summary: The opening session of the 2005 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting gave participants a chance to set out their views of the OSCE, against the backdrop of reform discussions ongoing in Vienna. Poland, the U.S., and Kyrgyzstan voiced strong support for OSCE's human rights work and [...] |
2005-09-23 09:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PL OSCE |
| 05WARSAW3473 |
OSCE: HDIM ELECTION ISSUES [...] (U) Summary. Election issues were the focus of three early events at this year's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM)in Warsaw. During the first HDIM Working Session, the clear fault line that separates most NGOs and participating States, including the United States, from Russia and [...] |
2005-09-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PL OSCE |
| 05YEREVAN168 |
YEREVAN UNABLE TO RECOMMEND AN OSCE EXTRA- [...] (SBU) The OSCE's program of criminal justice reform in Armenia has had several positive effects, including support and training for a fledgling prison monitoring board and minor improvement of living conditions at several prisons. Post cannot recommend additional funding for the project at th [...] |
2005-02-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ABUD AFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM AM OSCE |
| 05YEREVAN1717 |
DETAILS OF SHOOTING INCIDENT ON LINE OF CONTACT [...] (C) The September 20 shooting incident on the line of contact seemed clearly directed to disrupt N-K negotiations and will certainly be raised at the OSCE Permanent Council. While there is no way to determine which side fired, the round -- which impacted about 20 meters from an international [...] |
2005-09-23 11:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MASS AJ AM OSCE |
| 05YEREVAN173 |
ARMENIA CONFIRMS RELEASE OF POWS BY AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-01 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS AM AJ OSCE |
| 05YEREVAN45 |
AMBASSADOR DELIVERS WARNING ON ARMS CONTROL [...] (S/NF) In deploying troops to the coalition in Iraq and agreeing to a defense assessment, Armenia has taken important steps in building a broader, deeper defense relationship; lack of full compliance with conventional arms control regimes would negate that progress. That was the message the A [...] |
2005-01-12 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MARR KCFE AM OSCE |
| 06ALMATY1001 |
KAZAKHSTAN: OSCE ROUNDTABLE ON IMPLEMENTING THE ICCPR [...] (U) Summary: On February 13 the local NGO "Charter for Human Rights NGO" and the OSCE Center in Almaty hosted a roundtable discussion on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), ratified by Kazakhstan on November 28, 2005. The roundtable included [...] |
2006-03-21 01:45:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ ECONOMIC POLITICAL OSCE |
| 06ALMATY888 |
OSCE: PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] This cable responds to Ref A request for comments on OSCE project proposals. None of the proposals forwarded by USOSCE and the local OSCE Center duplicates activities in which Post is currently involved. Specifically, the proposal on creating a training center for defense lawyers would comp [...] |
2006-03-07 13:52:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AFIN ABUD EAID ECON KCRM PHUM KZ OSCE ECONOMIC |
| 06ANKARA1115 |
TURKISH PM TAKES CRITICS TO COURT [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan has opened numerous legal cases against writers, politicians, cartoonists, and others whose criticism he found personally offensive. Contacts say Erdogan's aggressive response to criticism reflects a combative nature honed during his childhood in an impoverished distri [...] |
2006-03-06 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE PINR TU |
| 06ANKARA1250 |
TURKEY/ARMENIA: NEW TURKISH PROPOSAL? [...] (C) MFA Caucasus DDG Karslioglu told us March 8 that Turkey would present a new "paper" to Armenia on March 10, but would not elaborate on its content or method of delivery. He stated "significant progress" must be made on both Nagorno-Karabakh as well as on bilateral issues (genocide and a [...] |
2006-03-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE AR AJ TU |
| 06ANKARA1479 |
GOT CONCERNED FRENCH PROPOSAL COULD STALL EU [...] (U) Summary: GOT and UK Embassy contacts say they are concerned about a French-led proposal that would require Turkey -- and perhaps other accession candidates -- to make progress on human rights reforms before opening talks on EU acquis chapters. GOT officials called the proposal a "headache [...] |
2006-03-21 10:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU |
| 06ANKARA1668 |
GOT PLANS TO RENOVATE CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUE [...] (U) ConGen Istanbul contributed to this report. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT's Directorate General for Foundations (DGF) is planning to renovate seven historic churches and a synagogue this year, marking the first time the agency has renovated non-Muslim places of worship. Christian and Jewish [...] |
2006-03-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
| 06ANKARA2053 |
GOT RESPONDS TO EU CRITICS BY ANNOUNCING REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Gul announced April 12 a package of political reforms Turkey plans to adopt to advance its EU candidacy. GOT contacts say the announcement was a response to unfair criticism from the EU that Turkey's reform process has stalled. They argue that the criticism reflects EU [...] |
2006-04-14 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL EU TU |
| 06ANKARA2100 |
TURKISH TV AIRS FILM DEPICTING ARMENIAN "GENOCIDE" [...] A Turkish cable TV channel on April 13 broadcast, for the first time in Turkey, the 2002 movie "Ararat," a film by Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan that promotes the idea that the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted genocide. The ultra-nationalist station Kana [...] |
2006-04-17 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA2206 |
TURKEY: PARLIAMENT TO ADOPT ANTI-TERROR LAW [...] (U) The GOT on April 18 submitted to Parliament a package of amendments to the Anti-Terror Law. Parliament is expected to adopt the package by early May. Key elements of the draft include: Tougher Domestic Anti-Terror Provisions --------------------------------------- -- Terrorist Propa [...] |
2006-04-21 10:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA2596 |
ACCUSATIONS OF GOT MEDDLING IN JUDICIARY RING [...] (U) Summary: Judicial officials and opposition politicians often accuse Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of stocking the judiciary with judges and prosecutors who share the party's Islam-oriented views. Most contacts, however, say the accusations are alarmist. They note tha [...] |
2006-05-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA262 |
COURT DROPS PAMUK CASE [...] (U) Summary/Comment: An Istanbul court has dropped the case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. The court did so on a technicality after Justice Minister Cicek declined to either grant or deny permission to proceed with the trial. While this is good news, attorney contacts believe the decis [...] |
2006-01-23 16:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA2667 |
TURKISH COURT ACQUITS PROFESSORS ON SPEECH CHARGES [...] (U) An Ankara court on May 10 acquitted professors Baskin Oran and Ibrahim Kaboglu on charges of "inciting hatred and animosity" in a 2004 report on minorities in Turkey (reftel). The prosecutor at the May 10 hearing, the trial's third session, surprised the defense by stating that no crime ha [...] |
2006-05-11 15:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA287 |
ERDOGAN GIVES SHAKY PERFORMANCE BEFORE EU [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan, recovering from the flu, gave what contacts described to us as a "rambling" and "nearly incomprehensible" performance at a January 20 lunch meeting with EU ambassadors in Ankara. After a positive though unremarkable opening speech, he made a weak statement on Iran, de [...] |
2006-01-26 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE PINR TU EU |
| 06ANKARA3093 |
DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-26 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA3098 |
TURKEY: FINNISH PM URGES PROGRESS ON CYPRUS, REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Ankara in the run-up to Finland's EU term presidency, Finnish PM Vanhanen told PM Erdogan May 17 that the EU is united on the need for Turkey to open its ports to Greek Cypriot shipping. Vanhanen said Finland will continue its policy of supporting the accession of all EU [...] |
2006-05-26 14:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU FI TU |
| 06ANKARA3312 |
TURKEY: ANTI-TERROR BILL RAISES CONCERNS AMONG [...] (C) Summary: European Commission (EC) officials in Ankara, as well as Turkish scholars and human rights activists, argue that a draft anti-terror bill currently under parliamentary review (reftels) could roll back some of the progress gained during Turkey's EU reform process and heighten tensio [...] |
2006-06-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU |
| 06ANKARA3515 |
GOT ANNOUNCES MORE FLEXIBLE POLICY ON KURDISH [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate Adana report. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey's High Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) has decided to exempt music and films from the time restrictions placed on broadcasts in Kurdish and other minority languages. A RTUK contact told us the decision i [...] |
2006-06-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA3676 |
TURKEY: KURDISH MAYORS INDICTED FOR ROJ TV LETTER [...] (U) Prosecutors have indicted 56 mayors from Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast on charges of supporting the PKK by sending a letter to Danish PM Rasmussen urging him to resist GOT pressure to shut down ROJ TV. The mayors, all from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), signed a [...] |
2006-06-22 08:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU DA TU |
| 06ANKARA3714 |
TURKEY: PROSECUTOR INVESTIGATING ECUMENICAL [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate Istanbul report. 2. (U) Summary: A Turkish prosecutor is conducting a preliminary investigation of the Ecumenical Patriarch for wearing religious garb at a ceremony in central Anatolia. An attorney for the Patriarch told us the prosecutor assure [...] |
2006-06-23 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KIRF TU |
| 06ANKARA4199 |
TURKISH ISLAMIC ORDERS, THOUGH BANNED, MAINTAIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Turkey is home to many brands of Islam. In addition to the official Sunni overlay and the many Alevis (heterodox Muslims), many Turks, including social and political leaders, continue to associate with Islamic orders known as "tarikats" and "cemaats." These have been officiall [...] |
2006-07-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KIRF TU |
| 06ANKARA522 |
TURKISH YOUTH ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF CATHOLIC [...] (U) Summary: Turkish police have arrested a 16-year-old suspected in the murder of a Catholic priest in Trabzon. Politicians and pundits have speculated about the motive behind the killing, but as yet there are no hard facts. Some Christians in Turkey believe the killing is related to worldwi [...] |
2006-02-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5268 |
PARLIAMENT TO TAKE UP EU LEGISLATION AT SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Parliament will meet in a special session on September 19 at the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) request to consider legislation related to Turkey's European Union accession process. The government will attempt to pass the so-called Ninth Reform package [...] |
2006-09-13 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL EU TU |
| 06ANKARA5463 |
EU-TURKEY DISCONNECT LENDS CREDENCE TO POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary: Fears of some form of "train wreck" in Turkey's EU accession process appear well-founded, given the apparent disconnect between cautiously optimistic Turkish officials and less sanguine EU contacts. In recent conversations, GOT officials have predicted that the EU may suspend ne [...] |
2006-09-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5608 |
TURKEY: SOUTHEASTERN KURDS SEE LITTLE PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary. During a week-long trip to Turkey's Southeast, government officials and local Kurds expressed diametrically opposed views to us regarding the progress of human rights in the region. Centrally appointed government officials praised the GOT's progress on improving rule of law, fre [...] |
2006-09-26 10:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM OSCE EU TU |
| 06ANKARA5640 |
TURKEY: FRAGILE CALM REMAINS IN SE AFTER [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary. A fragile calm pervades in the wake of the September 12 bomb explosion in Diyarbakir (ref A); the people are waiting for the government to bring the real perpetrators to justice quickly and fairly. If that fails to happen, the calm coul [...] |
2006-09-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5698 |
56 KURDISH MAYORS ON TRIAL FOR SUPPORTING ROJTV [...] (C) Summary: The trial of 56 popularly-elected Kurdish mayors in Diyarbakir began contentiously on September 26 but has been recessed until November 21. The mayors face up to 15 years of imprisonment each for allegedly supporting terrorism by signing a letter to Danish Prime Minister Rasmuss [...] |
2006-09-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5711 |
TURKISH GOVERNMENT FACING MOUNTING PRESSURE TO [...] (C) Summary. Pressure from the US, the EU, the Turkish press and several recent high profile cases is forcing the GOT to consider reform of controversial Penal Code Article 301, which restricts free expression. The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) had hoped to avoid addressing the [...] |
2006-10-02 09:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5793 |
183 NON-MUSLIM LEADERS ISSUE STATEMENT PROTESTING [...] (C) Summary: On September 25, 183 non-Muslim minority Turkish citizens, including many intellectuals and writers, issued a first-ever joint statement protesting the government's treatment of minorities. The statement came in the wake of contentious parliamentary committee debate over EU harmo [...] |
2006-10-05 07:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5868 |
TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DELCLARTION ON THE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-11 05:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5884 |
EUROPEAN LEADERS PRESS TURKEY TO IMPLEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-11 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6343 |
FIERY RHETORIC OVERSHADOWS LOW TURNOUT AT HUMAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-07 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6393 |
IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE: EU REPORT DELAYS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-09 17:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6447 |
DIYANET SEES POPE'S VISIT TO TURKEY AS OPPORTUNITY [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6469 |
LEFTIST PRISONERS' RIGHTS GROUP OVERRUNS ANKARA AP [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-21 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6502 |
TURKISH NGO'S ENERGIZED AND ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-24 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6521 |
TURKEY: KURDISH CONFERENCE TO CREATE UNITY IS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6529 |
TURKEY'S NEW FOUNDATIONS LAW ADVANCES RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-29 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6530 |
TURKEY AGREES WITH UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: Turkey agrees with a unified approach to the conflicts in Georgia and Moldova, strongly supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of both countries, and sees no recourse except to encourage more dialogue with separatists in each case. The Turks are skeptical that a mini [...] |
2006-11-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU TU |
| 06ANKARA6593 |
TURKEY'S PRESIDENT RESISTS REFORM BY VETOING [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-06 09:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6616 |
TURKEY: POPE WINS HEARTS AND MINDS BUT DOES NOT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-08 11:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6706 |
TURKEY: REGULATORY BODY DEFENDS MEASURES LIMITING [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-20 13:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6712 |
TURKEY GRUDGINGLY ACCEPTS PARTIAL SUSPENSION OF EU [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-21 07:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA783 |
TURKEY: VALLEY OF THE WOLVES AND ANTI-AMERICANISM [...] (C) Summary: The openly anti-American film "Valley of the Wolves - Iraq" continues to play to packed theaters across Turkey and appears certain to smash the Turkish box office record. The film has tapped into a deep well of anger and humiliation resulting from a 2003 incident in which U.S. tr [...] |
2006-02-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA786 |
TURKISH PROFESSORS STAND TRIAL FOR REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary: Trial proceedings began February 15 in the case against two Turkish professors accused of inciting hatred and denigrating "Turkish identity" in a 2004 report on minorities. The report states that non-Muslims in Turkey have second-class status and calls on the state to recognize t [...] |
2006-02-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA99 |
GOT TO ALLOW LOCAL KURDISH BROADCASTS, UNDER [...] (U) Consulate Adana contributed to this report. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey's High Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) has announced that private, local stations will be allowed to broadcast in Kurdish and other minority languages for the first time, provided they complete their applications. [...] |
2006-01-06 12:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ASHGABAT1228 |
TURKMENISTAN GROUNDS CZECH MILITARY PLANE OVER [...] (SBU) Turkmenistan on December 2 grounded at the Ashgabat airport a transiting Czech military plane transporting high-ranking Czech military and civilian officials from Kabul because some on board were carrying weapons. The issue was resolved 14 hours later through diplomatic channels, but th [...] |
2006-12-04 13:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PREL OSCE TX EZ |
| 06ASHGABAT698 |
TURKMENISTAN MOSTLY MUTE ON SPY SCANDAL [...] (C) Since the televised June 20 Cabinet of Ministers meeting detailing an alleged spy ring (reftel), the Government of Turkmenistan has not proceeded with either diplomatic or public denunciations of French Charge Henri Tomasini or OSCE Human Dimensions officer Benjamin Moreau. Local RFE/RL [...] |
2006-07-03 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
| 06ASHGABAT929 |
KAZAKHSTANI FM TOKAYEV IN ASHGABAT: GOOD NEWS FOR [...] (C) An August 30-31 visit by Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Tokayev to Ashgabat ended with an exchange of instruments on a five year-old agreement on delimitation and demarcation of the 400 KM land border between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The two also agreed to improve transportation links b [...] |
2006-09-01 14:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EPET KNNP KZ OSCE PREL TX |
| 06ASHGABAT955 |
TURKMENISTAN -- SUBMISSION FOR ANNUAL BORDER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-12 11:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OSCE TX |
| 06ASHGABAT987 |
GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN REFUSES TO MAKE PUBLIC [...] (C) On September 16 Turkmenistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rashit Meredov, emphatically told OSCE Ambassador Djikic that Turkmenistan did not intend to make public the results of the Myradova autopsy. Taking a legalistic approach, Meredov told Djikic that Myradova's case had been handle [...] |
2006-09-18 13:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL OSCE TX |
| 06ASHGABAT998 |
MYRADOVA CASE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPOSITION PRESS [...] (C) A week after the death in prison of Turkmenistan journalist Ogulsapar Myradova, the authorities have not issued an autopsy, and one is not expected for at least another week. Embassy officers have not talked with any members of Myradova's family since September 15, and there are no signs [...] |
2006-09-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL OSCE TX |
| 06ASTANA27 |
KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIZATION COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on State Secretary Oralbay Abdykarimov, who was recently named to run the new Democratization Commission ("the Commission") as deputy to President Nazarbayev. Abdykarimov, who will undertake the day-to-day operations of the commis [...] |
2006-04-11 09:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE PINR KZ |
| 06ASTANA280 |
KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER KEEPS COURSE FOR 2009 [...] (C) Summary: On October 23, Foreign Minister Tokayev told Ambassador Ordway that the GOK would not accept the OSCE CiO compromise laid out in the October 4 USG "non paper." The existence of "pre-conditions" to the Kazakhstani chairmanship, he said, "would embarrass us." Tokayev informed the [...] |
2006-10-24 07:34:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | OSCE PREL PHUM PGOV 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 |
| 06BISHKEK1753 |
KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON AIRBASE SHOOTING [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 12, Ambassador met with Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Ermek Ibragimov regarding the way ahead on the Manas air base shooting incident. He agreed that the incident had become an internal political issue, making it harder to contain. He raised questions about [...] |
2006-12-13 11:14:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OSCE MARR KG |
| 06BRATISLAVA411 |
SLOVAKIA RELEASES STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF [...] (U) The Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement of support of Montenegro,s referendum on May 23. The original text is available in Slovak at www.mzv.sk: BEGIN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION: The Slovak Republic together with the international community observes care [...] |
2006-05-25 14:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | POLG KDEM OSCE SR LO MW |
| 06BRUSSELS2538 |
SPECIAL ENVOY ARRIVES FOR OSCEPA, MEETS JEWISH [...] Dr. Gregg Rickman, the DoS Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism, made an introductory visit to Brussels. Rickman participated in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCEPA). He lobbied in support of a draft resolution principally [...] |
2006-07-20 07:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PHUM PREL BE |
| 06BRUSSELS2543 |
FIREWORKS AT OSCE ELECTION MONITORING CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Belgian OSCE Chairmanship focused its attention on election monitoring at a conference in Brussels on July 12. The technical theme was the need for continued strict adherence to observation guidelines when monitoring. The political message was that ODIHR remains the most co [...] |
2006-07-20 10:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE OSCE PHUM PREL |
| 06BRUSSELS2925 |
DEMARCHE ON KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP BID [...] (C) Poloff met with Marc Michielsen, Policy Director for the MFA's OSCE Chairmanship Unit, to relay reftel points on Kazakhstan's 2009 OSCE Chairmanship bid. Michielsen said Belgium planned to "take the temperature" of EU nations on Kazakhstan's bid over the next couple of months. As CiO, B [...] |
2006-08-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE BE |
| 06BRUSSELS3109 |
AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN FM DE GUCHT ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 12, Belgian FM De Gucht reiterated Belgian intentions to fulfill pledges of more forces for Afghanistan, adding that he would get the details worked out with the Socialist coalition partners after local elections October 8. He also s [...] |
2006-09-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR OSCE AF IR BE |
| 06BRUSSELS3668 |
A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 20, 2006 MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR A/S Fried met Belgian FM and OSCE CiO De Gucht in Brussels on October 20. Fried and De Gucht agreed that the U.S., EU, and OSCE needed to press Russia on treatment of ethnic Georgians in Russia. De Gucht repeatedly stressed the importance of having the Secretary attend the [...] |
2006-10-27 15:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINS OSCE GG RU BE |
| 06BUCHAREST1652 |
ROMANIA ON OPEN SKIES TREATY GUIDANCE AND CFE [...] (C) In an October 24 meeting with Polmiloff, MFA Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Counter-Terrorism Dan Neculeascu said Romania agreed with the US position on the issue of Russia's hazardous airspace zone Open Skies restrictions for a minimum 3,600 meter flight ceiling (ref A) [...] |
2006-10-30 08:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE NATO PARM PREL KCFE RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1766 |
ROMANIA PREPARING TO BID FOR OSCE HIGH [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-22 15:10:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM RO |
| 06COPENHAGEN980 |
DENMARK: TRANSNISTRIA'S PROPOSED INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-20 03:31:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | RS OSCE PBTS PREL DA |
| 06DUBLIN249 |
IRELAND SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON ODIHR'S BELARUS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-09 17:23:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL BE EI |
| 06DUBLIN609 |
IRELAND SUPPORTS A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV OSCE RU GG EI |
| 06HELSINKI1193 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) On 29 November, DCM delivered demarche to Finnish Foreign Ministry Political Director Pilvi-Sisko Vierros Villeneuve. Vierros Villeneuve welcomed US points on Georgia and agreed that maintaining US-EU unity is crucial. 2. (C) On Moldova, Vierros Villeneuve also fully agreed on the ne [...] |
2006-11-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU |
| 06HELSINKI682 |
FINLAND/EU TROUBLED BY TRANSNISTRIA INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE FINNISH EU PRESIDENCY SHARES THE US PAGE 02 RUEHHEA0682 C O N F I D E N T I A L HELSINKI 000682 CONCERN THAT TRANSNISTRIA'S PROPOSED INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM CANNOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY OR TREATED AS LEGITIMATE. THE GOF FEARS RUSSIA MAY ULTIMATELY SUPPORT THE REFERENDUM'S [...] |
2006-07-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PBTS PREL RS MD FI |
| 06HELSINKI876 |
FINLAND SUPPORTS DELAY OF KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-31 07:55:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KZ FI |
| 06KIEV1020 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: GOU BLAMES TIRASPOL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 briefing of OSCE member state reps, GOU officials accused Transnistrian authorities of purposefully engineering the ongoing border standoff and refusing GOU attempts to discuss the situation. GOU officials appealed to EU states to advise their shippers to avoid tra [...] |
2006-03-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR OSCE |
| 06KIEV1021 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER [...] (C) Summary: During March 13 meetings in Kiev, EUR DAS David Kramer praised the Ukrainian government's decision to implement a customs protocol to control the flow of goods across its border with Moldova/Transnistria. Drawing on reftel, Kramer told PM Yuri Yekhanurov, Deputy Minister of Defe [...] |
2006-03-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MD UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV1073 |
UKRAINE: SIXTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, Charge hosted a roundtable discussion with NGOs on the March 26 Rada (parliament) and local government elections. One NGO representative predicted long lines at polling stations, and attributed the poor organization of the elections to a lack of government meddlin [...] |
2006-03-20 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1084 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT SIGNS TWO OF THREE AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed into law March 17 two of the three bills passed by the Rada March 14, amending parliamentary and local election laws (reftel). The bills Yushchenko signed (now known as law No. 3519-IV) included provisions allowing District Election Commissions [...] |
2006-03-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV1088 |
UKRAINE: KAZAKHSTAN AND THE 2009 OSCE [...] (C) Summary: During a March 2 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley, DFM Volodymyr Khandohiy said Ukraine would not actively lobby for the 2009 OSCE Chairmanship in Office, but might consider advancing its candidacy if Kazakhstan were to voluntarily withdraw its bid. End summ [...] |
2006-03-22 05:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM OSCE UP KZ |
| 06KIEV1109 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS PARTY CONSULTANT ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 17, AmCit Catherine Barnes (please protect), a member of the consulting team from U.S. political consulting firm Davis-Manafort working for the opposition Party of Regions, told USAIDOff that Regions officials had expressed concern over the potential for "substantial f [...] |
2006-03-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1135 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: YUSHCHENKO ON [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting, President Yushchenko told Ambassador that the Ukrainian government had learned March 21 that Russia planned to ship humanitarian assistance to the Transnistrians. He had spoken to Russian Ambassador Chernomyrdin and said the Russian shipment was an unfriendly act be [...] |
2006-03-24 07:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PINR OSCE |
| 06KIEV1160 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIAN AID CONVOY, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. Maintaining the new customs regime ----------------------------------- 2. (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points on Ukraine's Transnistria-related customs proposal to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk March 24. Tarasyuk asked whether we wan [...] |
2006-03-24 15:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PBTS OSCE |
| 06KIEV1245 |
UKRAINE: DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT IN BREZHNEV'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a check of 12 polling stations and while observing opening and closing procedures at two others in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk oblast), an Embassy election monitoring team participating with the OSCE/ODIHR election mission found few irregularities March 26-27. The vast [...] |
2006-03-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1247 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT OF SEVERODONETSK, HOST [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, site of the infamous November 28, 2004 separatist rally held at the height of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, at which then-PM Yanukovych, many Party of Regions backers from e [...] |
2006-03-29 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1282 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: APPLYING POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Romania and Moldova Division Counselor Cornelia Luskalova told us March 30 that the Ukrainian government (GOU) was planned to combine political and economic levers to return cross-border trade between Ukraine and Moldova/Transnistria to normal. The GOU would urge the Moldova [...] |
2006-03-31 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR PGOV ETRD PREF OSCE MD UP RS |
| 06KIEV1313 |
UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: IN TERNOPIL, TYMOSHENKO [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in Ternopil city, capitol of the eponymous western oblast that voted 96% for Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine's 2004 presidential election and 69% for Our Ukraine in the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2006 voting for the pa [...] |
2006-04-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1444 |
UKRAINE: NSDC SECRETARY ON TRANSNISTRIA, BELARUS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Kinakh told Ambassador the Ukrainian government was concerned that Transnistrian authorities might provoke an armed confrontation at one of Transnistria's "border crossings" with Moldova. The Russians [...] |
2006-04-11 15:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ENRG ETRD PINR OSCE MD BO RS UP |
| 06KIEV2065 |
UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: FM TARASYUK'S FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Russia was reinforcing Transnistrian leader Smirnov's resistance to procedures required under the Ukraine-Moldova customs agreement. Furthermore, the Russians were refusing to agree to join a five-plus-two me [...] |
2006-05-26 16:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE PINR RS MD UP |
| 06KIEV2964 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER URGES [...] (C) Summary: In July 28 meetings with Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, and Deputy Foreign Minister (and special negotiator on Transnistria Issues) Andriy Veselovsky, EUR DAS David Kramer praised Ukraine's leadership in resolving problems arisin [...] |
2006-07-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP |
| 06KIEV336 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: NATO, [...] (C) Summary: In Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24, ASD/ISP Flory and EUR A/S Fried noted U.S. support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, but emphasized the importance of Ukraine demonstrating that it shared the political, economic, and social values required to meet the performance-b [...] |
2006-01-26 08:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR YI IZ MD BO UP OSCE NATO |
| 06KIEV365 |
UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: MFA DEFENDS DELAY IN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: Briefing EU/G7 representatives January 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky claimed the Ukrainian government had delayed implementation of the May 15, 2003, customs protocol with Moldova because the GOM's implementation of simplified registration procedures for Transnistrian bu [...] |
2006-01-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PARM PINR MD UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV382 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said, during a January 30 meeting with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies Head Bruce Jackson and Ambassador, that the Ukrainian government did not favor Kosovo independence. Such an outcome would destabilize the political situation in S [...] |
2006-01-30 15:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM PINR YI UP UNMIK OSCE |
| 06KIEV477 |
UKRAINE: MFA OFFICIAL ON OSCE REFORM, PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: MFA OSCE Department Counselor Volodymyr Tolkach expressed to us January 18 the Ukrainian government's support for OSCE reform. OSCE reform should include some provision that ensures a single country cannot block an OSCE decision. At the same time, Tolkach argued, there should be [...] |
2006-02-03 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE |
| 06KIEV483 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: TKACH ON CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: In a February 3 briefing, Ukrainian Special Envoy Tkach said the February 1 Ukraine-Moldova meeting had failed to make progress, but a second round would occur at the level of Ministers of Economy in the hope of resolving Ukraine's objections to Moldovan government registration p [...] |
2006-02-03 17:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCI OSCE |
| 06KIEV957 |
UKRAINE: USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley visited Kiev February 28-March 2 and met with OSCE, Central Election Commission (CEC), and political party representatives to get a better sense of how the run-up to the March 26 elections was proceeding. She noted repeatedly that the U [...] |
2006-03-13 18:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KINGSTON2427 |
JAMAICA: 1540 CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP [...] Per Reftel (B), in a private conversation of Dec. 22 with Chief Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Michelle Walker, PolOff extended thanks to the MFAFT for offering to host a CARICOM-wide consultative workshop to strengthen member states' capacity to ful [...] |
2006-12-22 18:33:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EFIN KPAO OAS OSCE PARM PGOV PREL UNSC |
| 06KUALALUMPUR2369 |
MALAYSIAN PARTICIPATION IN ARF WORKSHOP ON UNSCR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-29 10:19:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM AORC KPAO PTER UNSC OSCE KNNP ETTC |
| 06LISBON933 |
PORTUGAL: NOT READY TO PRESS ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) On May 22, Polecon Off delivered reftel demarche to MFA Russian Affairs Officer Ana Paula Moriera. While she acknowledged that Russia had been practicing a creeping influence policy, Moriera said the EU and OSCE messages urging restraint were probably sufficient given the sensitivities [...] |
2006-05-24 13:33:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL OSCE PGOV PO |
| 06LJUBLJANA770 |
SLOVENIA ON BOARD WITH UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) The Government of Slovenia supports the US positions on Georgia and Moldova at the OSCE. According to Deputy Director of the Office of International Organizations, Damjan Bergant, it will be difficult to get everything we hope for during negotiations, but worth the effort to try. While [...] |
2006-12-01 12:14:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS NATO OSCE SI |
| 06LONDON6272 |
(C) KAZAKHSTAN: UK AGREES ON DELAYING OSCE [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, FCO Head of International Organizations Department Tim Morris told Poloff August 25 that the UK agrees with the U.S. position and considers the timing "ideal." The EU will meet at working level on September 8 and the UK is prepared to block any attempt to [...] |
2006-08-25 16:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ |
| 06MADRID1909 |
SPAIN ON TRANSNISTRIA'S PROPOSED INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to GOS European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez Arias on July 18 and Spanish Sub-Director General for Eastern Europe Jose Maria Valdemoro Gimenez on July 27. 2. (C) Fernandez Arias agreed with the U.S. position that the referendum is poorly worded and [...] |
2006-07-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PBTS MD RS SP |
| 06MADRID2259 |
OSCE: SPAIN'S CHAIRMANSHIP, KAZAKHSTAN [...] (U) Please see action request paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed reftel demarche, Spain's plans for the Chairmanship, and the Personal Representatives on Tolerance with Jose Lopez Jorrin, MFA Coordinator for the Spanish Chairmanship of OSCE, on September 7. Lopez Jorrin said th [...] |
2006-09-11 10:55:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL OSCE SP KZ |
| 06MADRID3082 |
USOSCE AMB FINLEY CONSULTS SPAIN ON ITS OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: USOSCE Ambassador Finley discussed Spain's plans for its upcoming OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office with Spanish OSCE Task Force Director Lopez Jorrin and his team on December 15. Finley and Lopez Jorrin discussed the importance of focusing the next OSCE ministerial on a few key issues [...] |
2006-12-21 14:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE SP |
| 06MADRID933 |
SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL HASTINGS [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Rep. Alcee Hastings, President, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) and Ms. Vanessa Griddine, Administrative Assistant from April 18 to 20, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend mee [...] |
2006-04-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT OREP AFIN OSCE SP |
| 06MINSK134 |
Demarche On UN Reform [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-09 05:54:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PHUM PREL SOCI BO |
| 06MINSK904 |
BUILDING THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONITORING NEEDED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. Summary ------- 2. (C) On August 17, the Belarusian Central Election Committee confirmed that the municipal elections will be held on January 14, 2007. The democratic opposition believes, and we agree that these elections are the [...] |
2006-08-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE BO |
| 06MOSCOW10309 |
RUSSIAN MFA UNCLEAR ON TRANSNISTRIAN REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy three days before Transnistria's September 17 referendum, MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin provided no clarity on how Russia will treat the referendum result. While acknowledging that whatever the result, Transnistria would not be recog [...] |
2006-09-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS |
| 06MOSCOW10486 |
REFERENDUM RESULTS: PRICEY WRINKLE TO THE FIVE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Lavrov's short statement encapsulates GOR reaction to the referendum: the results were no surprise and the partners should return to the talks. MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin contended that the Transnistrians will most likely demand removal of the post [...] |
2006-09-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS |
| 06MOSCOW10692 |
ODIHR DIRECTOR STROHAL'S VISIT: OSCE "REFORM" AND [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 meeting with OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Strohal, DFM Grushko emphasized once again Russia's desire for OSCE "reform." However, ODIHR's harshest critic had much softened his tone, according to Strohal, while sti [...] |
2006-09-22 15:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE RS |
| 06MOSCOW12441 |
RUSSIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told us November 13 that Georgia shows no willingness to meet Russia's "simple" demands for normalizing relations. He downplayed the effects of the sacking of former DefMin Okruashvili. He fretted that an "alternative election" in South Osseti [...] |
2006-11-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS UNSC OSCE GG RS |
| 06MOSCOW12752 |
RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE, ISTANBUL COMMITMENTS [...] (C) The Chief of the Conventional Arms Control Division in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament, Anton Mazur, told us 28 November that we could expect "little or no change" in the GOR's approach to Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) issues at next week's OSCE [...] |
2006-12-01 15:02:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR OSCE PREL RS |
| 06MOSCOW12999 |
SOUTH OSSETIA: TALKS AND OBSERVERS [...] (C) We met with Russian MFA Ambassador-at-Large for South Ossetia Yuri Popov on December 19 and 20, delivering reftel demarche on the latter date. Popov said he had not been following the budget issue -- he has just returned from leave -- and said he was unwilling to repeat previous Russian s [...] |
2006-12-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Moscow | ||