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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07BRIDGETOWN1123 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CARRILLO SEPTEMBER 9-23, 2007 [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for OFDA Regional Advisor Rene Carrillo to travel to Bridgetown, O/A September 9-23, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean during Hurricane Season 2007. [...] | 2007-09-05 18:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN1192 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GORMLEY [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Wilma Gormley to travel to Barbados o/a September 23-29 2007. The purpose of this visit is to work with CHART to establish a budget and SOW for the CHART Network. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID HIV Specialist, Angela [...] | 2007-09-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1195 | ON BOARD, ALMOST: BIOFUELS INITIATIVE IN ST. KITTS [...] (SBU) A successful biofuels conference hosted in St. Kitts on August 28 encouraged the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN) to move forward on a biofuels development plan. However, with tourism development competing for scarce land and resource dollars on the island, continued USG engageme [...] | 2007-09-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR EINV KPAO EAID EPET SENV |
07BRIDGETOWN1203 | DOMINICA AFTER DEAN -- VENEZUELA WILL HELP US [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dominica has been promised assistance from Venezuela to improve infrastructure, particularly roads and retaining walls, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean from August 16-17. These pledges far outstrip the modest assistance the USG has been able to provide to date, giving Hugo [...] | 2007-09-14 19:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL VE DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1205 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEONARD O/A SEPTEMBER 14-30, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Julie Leonard, USAID/OFDA Regional Advisor, from O/A September 14-30, 2007. The purpose of her visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Season 2007. 2. Embassy po [...] | 2007-09-14 21:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1224 | INTEREST IN BARBADOS OFFSHORE OIL BIDS HIGH [...] (SBU) P/E Chief and Deputy met with the country managers for Simpson Oil (SOL) and Shell Trading Company (Eastern Caribbean) on September 13, 2007 to discuss the energy market in the Eastern Caribbean, prospects for renewable energy and the upcoming bid for oil block exploration, announced by t [...] | 2007-09-19 20:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR ETRO EAID EPET EINV PGOV PREL BB |
07BRIDGETOWN125 | GRENADA'S SCRAMBLE FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Among local media predictions for the new year is one of increased People's Republic of China (PRC) efforts to gain influence on the United States' back doorstep, in the Caribbean, and specifically within CARICOM. Several local commentators have called for Grenada and CARICOM to [...] | 2007-02-01 21:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PINR PHUM CASC GJ CH CU VE XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1342 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RENE CARRILLO TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for OFDA Regional Advisor Rene Carrillo to travel to Bridgetown, O/A November 5-10, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend Risk Reduction Course. 2. Embassy point of contact is James Goggin, USAID Representative, tel. 1- [...] | 2007-10-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN1343 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MULLER TO TRAVEL TO ANTIGUA [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Duane Muller, Senior Program Specialist, EGAT/ESP/GCC, to travel to Antigua and Barbuda O/A November 5-7, 2007 to participate in a UNFCCC Expert Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity-Building in Developing Countries on behalf of the USG. [...] | 2007-10-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1348 | WIREC DELEGATION: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Post enthusiastically supports the nominations of individuals from Antigua and Barbuda for participation in WIREC in March 2008. Antigua and Barubda ------------------- -- Honorable Wilmoth Daniel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works -- Honorable Trevor Walker, Minister with [...] | 2007-10-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET SENV EAID XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1357 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MULLER TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Duane Muller, Senior Program Specialist, EGAT/ESP/GCC, to travel to Antigua and Barbuda O/A November 5-7, 2007 to participate in a UNFCCC Expert Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity-Building in Developing Countries on behalf of the USG. [...] | 2007-10-25 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1358 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CARRILLO November 5- [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for OFDA Regional Advisor Rene Carrillo to travel to Bridgetown, O/A November 5-10, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend Risk Reduction Course. 2. Embassy point of contact is James Goggin, USAID Representative, tel. [...] | 2007-10-25 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN1387 | ST. VINCENT: SPLINTERS OF AN OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: In several meetings with leaders of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) opposition New Democratic Party (NDP),and in consultations with the party's sympathizers as well as Unity Labor Party (ULP) and former-ULP members, Embassy Bridgetown learned of growing discontent with [...] | 2007-11-01 21:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB KCRM PGOV PINR PREL |
07BRIDGETOWN1415 | THE GRENADINES: THE INCREDIBLE DISAPPEARING RESORT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Bridgetown recently learned that the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSVG) has repossessed land on Union Island that is owned by a long-term American investor in the Grenadines. Ambassador Ourisman raised this possible expropriation with Prime Minister Ralph [...] | 2007-11-09 17:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CACM CDB CVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KCRM |
07BRIDGETOWN1419 | DEPORTEE REINTEGRATION PILOT PROGRAM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Per reftel A instructions, additional points on the Deportee Reintegration Pilot Program were delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Note #1274 to the Government of Barbados on November 9, 2007. Per reftel B instructions, demarche regarding the signing of the Deportee Reintegration IOM s [...] | 2007-11-13 17:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PHUM BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1440 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN TO ST. LUCIA: ARTICLE 98, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's October 17-19 trip to St. Lucia was highlighted by a positive meeting with PM King that helped move our Article 98 agenda forward. In addition, the Ambassador's presentation of USD 2 million to the OECS for a biodiversity grant and USD 39,000 worth of DSATA bomb [...] | 2007-11-20 15:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EINV EIND ASEC CASC KTIA ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1442 | DOMINICA: SKERRIT SUPPORTS DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit thanked China, Venezuela, and Cuba in his Independence Day speech, citing specific assistance these countries have recently provided. Other thanks also went to the European Union, which has also provided substantial assistance. This speech is an [...] | 2007-11-20 17:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1450 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR SOPHIA CAVE [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for Sophia Cave, USAID Administrative Assistant, to travel to Santo Domingo o/a December 2-8, 2007. 2. The purpose is to attend Financial Management training in Santo Domingo. 3. Itinerary as follows: December 2 AA 5108 San Juan to Santo D [...] | 2007-11-23 19:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB DR XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1476 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PAUL BONICELLI [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Paul J. Bonicelli, Assistant Administrator, to travel to Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua December 9 to 14, 2007 to conduct program oversight. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Representative, James [...] | 2007-12-04 18:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1477 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JERRY BISSON, TEAM LEADER [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Jerry Bisson, Environment Team Leader to travel to St. Lucia and St. Kitts & Nevis O/A December 10-14, 2007. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Representative, Mansfield Blackwood at tel. 1-246-227-4154 or 227-4118, fax. [...] | 2007-12-04 18:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1478 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HANNAH FAIRBANK [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Hannah Fairbank of the Natural Resources Management Office in the Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau (EGAT) to travel to St. Lucia, Antigua and St. Kitts and Nevis O/A December 10-14, 2007. 2. Embassy point of [...] | 2007-12-04 18:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1482 | THE UNDERBELLY OF SUCCESS: ST. KITTS' KID CRISIS [...] (U) Summary: Recent newspaper stories in St. Kitts and Nevis have highlighted the plight of child abuse in that country. The operator of a government-subsidized Children's Home has complained of threats against the home's female occupants and a recent incident in which a Cuban diplomat is all [...] | 2007-12-04 19:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI EAID SC XL KWMN |
07BRIDGETOWN150 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR COLLINS AND BARROR TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Letty J. Collins and Camilla Barror to travel to St. Lucia from February 11, 2007 to March 4, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to conduct an administrative review of PC/Eastern Caribbean, requiring some in-country travel. [...] | 2007-02-07 21:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN151 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SMITH, ARMBRISTER, [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA/IRG Chief of Party, Stephen Smith and OFDA/IRG Consultants, Beryl Armbrister and Cecil Shillingford; and OFDA/IRG Instructor, Cuffy McMillan and OFDA/IRG Participants, Daniel Simon, Claudine Roberts and Christopher Raville to travel to St. Vi [...] | 2007-02-07 21:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID VC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN1548 | ONE-SIDED VICTORY?: ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ADOPTS [...] (U) Summary: In early December 2007 the St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis Parliament approved major changes to the country's election laws, the first changes since 1984. Reforms in the current law include the introduction of a national voter identification card and new regulations allowing [...] | 2007-12-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI EAID SC XL VE CU |
07BRIDGETOWN1554 | DOMINICA DEVELOPING PRISONER REINTEGRATION PROGRAM [...] (SBU) The Dominica Prison Service is developing and implementing inmate rehabilitation and reintegration plans. Felix Gregoire, Cabinet Secretary, and Matthew LeBlanc, Labour Commission, both confirmed to PolOff that PM Skerrit has made prisoner rehabilitation a priority and is allocating fund [...] | 2007-12-20 16:06:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL EAID DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN178 | BARBADOS RELEASES DRAFT ENERGY POLICY [...] The Ministry of Energy and the Environment of the Government of Barbados (GOB) recently unveiled its draft National Energy Policy and invited a wide range of stakeholders to provide comments and suggestions. The proposed policy's priorities include energy conservation, alternative energy dev [...] | 2007-02-12 12:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR ETRO EAID EPET EINV PGOV PREL BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN194 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO GRENADA [...] (U) Summary: On January 17-19, 2007, Ambassador Ourisman visited Grenada to present her credentials. She conducted an initial round of meetings with Grenadian officials including the Prime Minister and the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, [...] | 2007-02-12 21:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON EAID CMGT GJ XL |
07BRIDGETOWN195 | (C) ST. LUCIA PM COMPTON HOLDS HIS CARDS CLOSE BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 2, Deputy Chief of Mission Gilroy called on Government of St. Lucia (GOSL) Prime Minister Sir John Compton to congratulate him on his return to power and to review the bilateral relationship. She also raised USG concerns about charismatic cabinet member Richard Frede [...] | 2007-02-12 21:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR SNAR ASEC EAID ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN196 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ourisman presented her credentials to the President of Dominica and called on both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister on January 24. In her courtesy calls, the Ambassador and her interlocutors discussed both current and possible future USAID projects, the Adva [...] | 2007-02-13 16:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID ENRG EINV MASS KCRM KPAO |
07BRIDGETOWN236 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MURRAY TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Rodney Murray computer specialist, OD, HHS/CDC to travel to Barbados March 1 - 3, 2007 to assist management staff on information technology preparations for CDC office move to Barbados from Trinidad and meet with Embassy staff officials concerning [...] | 2007-02-22 21:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EAID OTRA ASEC BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN255 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NURICK TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Karen Nurick to travel to Barbados O/A March 20 and depart O/April 5, 2007 to assist the Mission with designing the program and drafting the procurement documentation for the new HIV/AIDS activities. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not requ [...] | 2007-03-01 19:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN283 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GOGGIN AND ETERNO TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for James L. Goggin, USAID Representative-Barbados, and Anthony R. Eterno, Economic Officer, to travel to Santo Domingo from March 26-30, 2007. The purpose is to attend the Mission Disaster Preparedness Training in the Caribbean. 2. Mr. Goggin [...] | 2007-03-05 21:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB DR XL |
07BRIDGETOWN287 | CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK STAFFING DATA [...] This cable responds to Ref C. 2. Because the United States is not a member of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB),Post had difficulty obtaining detailed staffing data for the organization (Ref A). The CDB finally sent the information, which Post forwarded via e-mail on March 1 to Lynette [...] | 2007-03-06 18:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER ECON EAID XL |
07BRIDGETOWN299 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO ST. [...] (C) Summary: On February 25-27, 2007, Ambassador Ourisman visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines to present her credentials. Meetings with the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Opposition Leader focused on Venezuelan assistance, Article 98, narcotics trafficking and Cricket World Cup. T [...] | 2007-03-08 21:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON EAID CMGT EAIR SNAR |
07BRIDGETOWN310 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR METES TO TRAVEL TO SAINT [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Peace Corps Program and Training Officer Nick Metes to travel to St. Lucia arriving March 19 and departing approximately June 19, 2007. The purpose of this travel is to be on a three month TDY as the acting program and traini [...] | 2007-03-13 12:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN330 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CALLAGHAN TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Timothy M. Callaghan, OFDA Regional Coordinator to travel to Barbados O/A April 9-11, 2007 to brief mission on the handling of this year's hurricane season. 2. If you have any questions please contact James Goggin, USAID, U.S. Embassy, Wildey [...] | 2007-03-16 21:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA ASEC BB |
07BRIDGETOWN331 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MULLINGS TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Audrey Mullings, OFDA/IRG consultant to travel to Dominica on or about March 18-24, 2007 to facilitate Training for Instructors course. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions please contact Michael Taylor a [...] | 2007-03-16 21:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN396 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NOBLE TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO DAVID NOBLE, REGIONAL CONTROLLER, TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS ON OR ABOUT APRIL 17-21, 2007 TO PREPARE FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE BARBADOS MISSION ACCOUNTING RECORDS FROM JAMAICA TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 2. EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT IS USAID REPRESENTAT [...] | 2007-04-04 15:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN409 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR QUAIN TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Estelle Quain to travel to Barbados on or about April 30 to May 16, to lead the evaluation team of USG support to the Caribbean HIV and AIDS regional training initiative. 2. Hotel reservation is made at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort, telepho [...] | 2007-04-05 21:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN46 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SMITH, BAILEY AND DABREO TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA/IRG Participants Carl Smith, Cecil Bailey and Sharlene Dabreo to travel to Dominica to participate in a training course on Natural Disaster Reduction for the period January 29 thru February 2, 2007. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is [...] | 2007-01-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA DO XL |
07BRIDGETOWN465 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ARMBRISTER TO TRAVEL TO ST. [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA/IRG consultant Beryl Armbrister to travel to St. Lucia o/a May 7-11, 2007 to coordinate and monitor damage assessment course and meet with NDC to plan and confirm the country activities for June 2007-2008. 2. Understand Embassy assistanc [...] | 2007-04-17 21:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN488 | ST. LUCIA - TAIWAN BACK IN, CHINA TO BOW OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of St. Lucia formally announced during its April 24 budget debate that it will re-establish full diplomatic relations with Taiwan. In exchange, Taiwan has agreed to develop agricultural diversification, ecotourism, information technology, and learning centers thro [...] | 2007-04-25 22:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD OFDP CH TW ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN52 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR LEONARD, SARMIENTO, LORDE, [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OFDA Regional Training Advisor, Rene Carrillo, OFDA Regional Advisor, Julie Leonard, OFDA/IRG Technical Manager, Dr. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, OFDA/IRG Consultant, Clive Lorde, and OFDA/IRG Instructors, Howie Prince, Philmore Mullins, Carl Smith, Karl [...] | 2007-01-17 21:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN522 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CHARLES WARREN AND NATHAN [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Charles Warren, Statistician and Nathan Jones, Statistician, Global Tobacco Control Program, COCHP/NCCDPHP, HHS/CDC to travel to Barbados from May 6-11, to participate as the teaching faculty at the Global Tobacco Surveillance System workshop for [...] | 2007-05-04 15:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA OTRA US BB CDCC EAID XL |
07BRIDGETOWN525 | (C) ST. LUCIA: TAIWAN DECISION MAY WEAKEN COMPTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Rufus Bousquet has emerged as the head of a rival faction set on forcing Prime Minister Sir John Compton to retire from politics and leave FM Bousquet in charge. If Compton's departure is the outcome of current infighting in the five-month-old government, suspec [...] | 2007-05-04 18:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ETRD CH TX ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN561 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KEN YAMASHITA TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Susumu Ken Yamashita, Director, GH/OHA to travel to Barbados May 20-22, 2007 to assist the Mission with staffing and management issues in light of CDC co-location. 2. Hotel reservation has been confirmed for traveler at the Coral Sands Beach [...] | 2007-05-09 20:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA US BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN573 | (C) GRENADA PM MITCHELL ON CHAVEZ'S BAD LIST? [...] (C) Summary: In a somewhat tense mid-April meeting with Charge, Grenada's Keith Mitchell shared his fears that strongly leftist Caribbean leaders, led by St. Vincent's Ralph Gonsalves, had persuaded Hugo Chavez that the pro-American Grenada government should not receive further Venezuelan as [...] | 2007-05-09 21:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID AC DO GJ IS VC VE XL |
07BRIDGETOWN589 | ST. LUCIA: GOVERNMENT CRISIS POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post's May 10 meeting with St. Lucia's Comptroller of Customs and the Acting Commissioner of Police was a cry for help from PM Compton and his few remaining loyalists. While PM Compton is reportedly recovering in New York from a stroke, his chances of hanging on to power may be [...] | 2007-05-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ETRD CH TX ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN618 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SMITH JUNE 17 to July 1, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Stephen Smith, OFDA/IRG Chief of Party, to travel to Barbados from June 17 - July 1, 2007. The purpose of his visit is to provide OFDALAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean during Hurricane Season 20 [...] | 2007-05-16 21:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN619 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CALLAGHAN JUNE 18-20, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Timothy Callaghan, OFDA Regional Coordinator, to travel to Barbados from June 18-20, 2007. The purpose of his visit is to meet with partners regarding hurricane season. 2. Embassy point of contact is James Goggin, USAID Te [...] | 2007-05-16 21:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN620 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HOFFMANN MAY 20 TO JUNE 2, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Shirley Hoffmann, Supervisory Program Officer, to travel to Barbados from May 20 - June 2, 2007. The purpose of her visit is to provide technical assistance and program support. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Project [...] | 2007-05-16 21:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID OTRA EXO DR BB |
07BRIDGETOWN633 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DONALD MAY 29 - JUNE 6, 2007 [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Donald, Regional Environmental Advisor for the Caribbean, to travel to Dominica from May 29 - June 1, 2007 and to Barbados June 1-3 and June 5-6, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to assist Mission in Agency environme [...] | 2007-05-18 20:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA DR BO BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN636 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR SOPHIA CAVE [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for Sophia Cave, USAID Administrative Assistant, to travel to Santo Domingo from June 10-15, 2007. 2. The purpose is to attend orientation and training in Santo Domingo. 3. Itinerary as follows: June 10 AA 1857 San Juan to Santo Domingo [...] | 2007-05-18 20:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB DR XL |
07BRIDGETOWN644 | ST. LUCIAN CABINET COUP FAILED, BUT NEW PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: St. Lucia's Prime Minister Sir John Compton reportedly returned from New York on May 19. His weakened state probably means that St. Lucia's unsettled political situation will continue. The government has made no official announcements since his return, but it is likely that Acti [...] | 2007-05-22 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ETRD CH TX ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN66 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ARMBRISTER AND SHILLINGFORD [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Beryl Armbrister and Cecil Shillingford to travel to Antigua O/A January 22 and depart O/A January 27, 2007 to Instruct Shelters and Shelter Management Course & Initial Damage Assessment Courses. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not require [...] | 2007-01-20 14:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN660 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE AMENDED FOR CALLAGHAN FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown acknowledges change in travel dates and amends country clearance for Timothy Callaghan, OFDA Regional Coordinator, to travel to Barbados from June 12-20, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Eastern Caribbean Donor Group (ECDG) Hurricane meeting on June 13th. [...] | 2007-05-24 20:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN661 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEONARD O/A JUNE 3-17, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Julie Leonard, USAID/OFDA Regional Advisor, from O/A June 3-17, 2007. The purpose of her visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Season 2007. 2. Embassy point o [...] | 2007-05-24 22:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN67 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ARMBRISTER AND SHILLINGFORD [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Beryl Armbrister and Cecil Shillingford to travel to Antigua O/A January 22 and depart O/A January 27, 2007 to Instruct Shelters and Shelter Management Course & Initial Damage Assessment Courses. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not require [...] | 2007-01-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN692 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MICHAEL TAYLOR TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for Michael Taylor, Program Specialist, USAID Barbados, to travel to Trinidad June 1-2, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit is to attend an agriculture donor conference. 3. Itinerary as follows: June 1 LI 703 Bridgetown to Port-of-Spa [...] | 2007-05-31 18:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB TD XL |
07BRIDGETOWN72 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SEGURA TO TRAVEL TO ANTIGUA [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Nelly Segura to travel to Antigua O/A February 18 and depart O/A February 22, 2007 to conduct Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis Course. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Mansfield Bl [...] | 2007-01-23 17:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN753 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GELMAN O/A JULY 1-15, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Phil Gelman, USAID/OFDA Regional Advisor, from O/A July 1-15, 2007. The purpose of his visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Season 2007. 2. Embassy point of [...] | 2007-06-11 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN760 | DAS DUDDY AND ST. VINCENT PM GONSALVES DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy met with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on June 11 in preparation for the Conference on the Caribbean to be held in Washington later this month. Specifically, DAS Duddy and PM Gonsalves focused on the Confe [...] | 2007-06-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EINV ECON AORC OVIP KSUM PINR |
07BRIDGETOWN764 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer, to travel to Grenada June 20-21, 2007 and Georgetown from June 21-23, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for final certification under the Hurricane Ivan Pro [...] | 2007-06-13 18:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
07BRIDGETOWN767 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIA GARCIA [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Maria Virginia Garcia, Financial Analyst of USAID/DR Controller's Office, to travel to Barbados o/a June 18-23, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit is to provide financial management support to USAID Barbados. 3. Embassy [...] | 2007-06-13 20:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA DR BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN770 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AUDREY MULLINGS. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Audrey Mullings, OFDA/IRG Consultant to travel to St. Vincent O/A June 18-23, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to facilitate shelter management and initial damage assessment courses. 2. Embassy point of contact is James G [...] | 2007-06-13 21:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS VC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN777 | AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Bridgetown advises changes in travel schedule for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer. Mr. Blackwood's travel dates are Grenada from June 22-23, 2007 and Georgetown from June 20-22, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for final certific [...] | 2007-06-14 20:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
07BRIDGETOWN793 | AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Bridgetown advises changes in travel schedule for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer. Mr. Blackwood's travel dates are changed to June 19-22, 2007. 2. The purpose of the amendment to Georgetown is to attend CARICOM's Donors' Meeting. 3. Itinerary as follows: [...] | 2007-06-18 14:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
07BRIDGETOWN802 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE OFDA/IRG CONSULTANTS MULLINGS AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to OFDA/IRG Consultants, Audrey Mullings and Beryl Armbrister, and OFDA/IRG Participants, Phillip Ramdass, Alex Browne, Donna Pierre, Althea Daniels-Thornton, Laynette Carter and Sheik Kalid Hussein, to travel to Dominica from O/A [...] | 2007-06-18 21:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS DO |
07BRIDGETOWN803 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WOLFE [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Kelly Wolfe, Senior Technical Advisor for NGO/Community Development in OHA, to travel to Barbados O/A July 15-21, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a Mid-term Evaluation of the CRP Strategy. 2. Embassy point of [...] | 2007-06-19 12:29:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN848 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ARMBRISTER JULY 3-6, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Beryl Armbrister, OFDA/IRG Consultant, to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis O/A July 3-6, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to meet with National Disaster Office. 2. Embassy point of contact is James Goggin, USAID Representative, tel. 1-246-227 [...] | 2007-06-28 20:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS SC XL |
07BRIDGETOWN849 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HERRERA O/A JULY 15-29, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for OFDA Darlington Computer Manager, Ricardo Herrera to travel to Bridgetown, O/A June 15-29, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean during Hurricane Se [...] | 2007-06-28 20:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN906 | ST. LUCIA: GOVERNMENT CRISIS POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post's May 10 meeting with St. Lucia's Comptroller of Customs and the Acting Commissioner of Police was a cry for help from PM Compton and his few remaining loyalists. While PM Compton is reportedly recovering in New York from a stroke, his chances of hanging on to power may be [...] | 2007-07-16 19:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ETRD CH TX ST XL |
07BRIDGETOWN907 | CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING: HALTING [...] (C) Summary: The 28th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference took place in Barbados on July 1-4, 2007. Unsurprisingly, the Caribbean leaders agreed on a number of measures that should ensure some forward momentum in the region's integration efforts in the economic, security, and social develo [...] | 2007-07-16 19:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BB EAID EAIR ETRD PGOV PINR PREL XL |
07BRIDGETOWN923 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEONARD O/A JULY 29 THRU AUGUST 12, [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Julie Leonard, USAID/OFDA Regional Advisor, to travel to Barbados O/A July 29 thru August 12, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane [...] | 2007-07-19 21:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB XL |
07BRIDGETOWN945 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VELADO O/A AUGUST 12-26, 2007. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Sidney Velado, OFDA Regional Advisor, to travel to Barbados O/A August 12-26, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to provide OFDA/LAC coverage (preparedness and response) to the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Season 2007. 2. Emba [...] | 2007-07-24 21:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS BB |
07BRIDGETOWN965 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ARMBRISTER O/A AUGUST 13-18, 2007 [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Beryl Armbrister, Consultant, to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis O/A August 13-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to facilitate technical assistance in damage assessment and needs analysis development and conduct initial damage assessment trainin [...] | 2007-07-30 21:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ASEC OTRA CS SC XL |
07BRUSSELS1144 | HUMANITARIAN FUNDING ACCORDING TO NEED: DONORS [...] (U) State/PRM Policy Team Leader and USAID/OFDA Technical Assistance Team Leader attended a Good Humanitarian Donorship workshop in Brussels March 19-20 to explore donor approaches to allocating resources according to need. The workshop invited donor governments, humanitarian agencies, and a [...] | 2007-04-04 09:46:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID BE |
07BRUSSELS124 | BELGIAN PM PLANNING TO ANNOUNCE FURTHER SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GOB officials have stated that Belgium will be represented at the January 25 Lebanon Donors' Conference in Paris by Prime Minister Verhofstadt and Minister of Cooperation and Development Armand De Decker. Although GOB officials confirm that Belgium plans to announce further sup [...] | 2007-01-16 17:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN LE BE |
07BRUSSELS1253 | SERBIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY GENERAL OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The transition of the Stability Pact (SP) regional cooperation agenda to regional ownership (refs) hit a bump with the April 11 Serbian withdrawal of the nomination of Goran Svilanovic, former Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister and Stability Pact Working Table I (Democracy) chai [...] | 2007-04-13 16:21:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI TU |
07BRUSSELS1254 | BELGIANS PONDER LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION AT IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Belgium will be represented at the signing of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) on May 3 in Sharm el-Sheikh, at a minimum by its ambassador to Egypt. (Note: The Belgian political scene, including the agendas of ministers, is currently dominated by pre [...] | 2007-04-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL BE IZ |
07BRUSSELS1327 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREPARED TO INCREASE [...] (C) EAP PDAS Stephens discussed DPRK with European Commission (EC) Director for Korea/Japan Alan Seatter April 17, outlining developments since the February 13 agreement. Seatter noted that the EU will increase its assistance, particularly regarding food security, if the DPRK implements its in [...] | 2007-04-20 06:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KNNP EUN JA KN KS |
07BRUSSELS1456 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LANGE AND EU OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 10:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID TBIO SOCI |
07BRUSSELS1459 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LANGE AND EU OFFICIALS [...] (U) Summary. In his first official visit to Brussels since taking on his position in 2006, Ambassador John Lange, Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, met with the European Commission on April 26th as part of the run-up to the next meeting of the International Partnership [...] | 2007-05-02 11:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID TBIO SOCI |
07BRUSSELS1652 | DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES LATIN AMERICA, TURKEY, [...] (C) Deputy Secretary Negroponte discussed a wide ranging set of issues May 16 with EU officials over dinner hosted by Ambassador Gray. In attendance on the EU side were Robert Cooper (deputy of Javier Solana),Christian Leffler (head of cabinet to Commissioner Wallstrom),Simon Fraser (head of [...] | 2007-05-18 12:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN EAID XM IR TU |
07BRUSSELS1664 | NEGROPONTE DISCUSSES SUDAN SANCTIONS, SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: In a May 17 meeting, Deputy Secretary John D. Negroponte heard from two EU's senior experts on Africa policy that discussions of imposing European sanctions on Sudan are stalled. The EU is looking to the UN to take the lead on multilateral sanctions, but says the UN Security Coun [...] | 2007-05-21 05:00:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EUN AF |
07BRUSSELS2324 | A/S FRAZER AND EU CONFER ON RANGE OF AFRICAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and EU were in general agreement about a broad range of African issues, with the important exceptions of Eritrea and Zimbabwe, when they met June 24 for four hours of troika consultations on African affairs. On Eritrea, the EU favored continued engagement of President Is [...] | 2007-07-18 14:40:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID EUN XA |
07BRUSSELS233 | BELGIAN PLANS ON AFGHANISTAN AT JANUARY 26 [...] (C) Per refs A and B instructions, we outlined U.S. thinking on Afghanistan with the three key players on this issue in Belgium -- the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the Defense Ministry. Our contacts were pleased to learn of USG plans to provide additional support for Af [...] | 2007-01-24 05:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF BE EAID MARR MOPS PINS PREL |
07BRUSSELS2424 | EU ASKS ETHIOPIA TO ALLOW HUMANITARIAN ACCESS [...] (U) Summary: The European Commission's Office for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) is very concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Ogaden region and has asked the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) to allow movement of humanitarian workers and food aid immediately, officials said. T [...] | 2007-07-31 13:28:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PHUM PREL ET EUN |
07BRUSSELS243 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH FERRERO-WALDNER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 08:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ |
07BRUSSELS2475 | EU CONTACTS DISCUSS THE MIDDLE EAST [...] SUMMARY. (C) Contacts in Brussels confirmed that while many member states question the practicality of isolating Hamas, the EU is firmly committed to the Quartet principles and will not waver in its support for them. Despite a recent flurry of press articles and think tank analyses calling for [...] | 2007-08-02 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL XF LE SY EUN EAID |
07BRUSSELS2908 | SE NATSIOS AND EU STRATEGIZE FOR UPCOMING DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios and EU officials agreed to consider a select group of three or four Special Envoys for Sudan to bring the negotiating power of individual states to the upcoming Darfur peace talks in Libya and offer "carrots and sticks" that the UN does [...] | 2007-09-17 13:36:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SU EAID EUN |
07BRUSSELS3020 | DAS KRAMER, AMB STEWART AND THE EU DISCUSSES NEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 13:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
07BRUSSELS3037 | AMB WOOD DISCUSSES EU,S WORK IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood met with EU Council Secretariat and Commission officials September 17 and 18 in Brussels to discuss U.S. and EU efforts in Afghanistan. Topics included the EUPOL police training mission, European Commission assistance programs, and coun [...] | 2007-10-01 14:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU EAID SNAR PTER |
07BRUSSELS3039 | CORRECTED COPY: DAS KRAMER, AMB STEWART AND THE EU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 15:20:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
07BRUSSELS3120 | EU AND KOSOVO: MOVING TOWARD REALITY [...] (C) EU and member state officials are increasingly recognizing the strong likelihood that Kosovo will become independent without a UNSCR and that launching an ESDP mission is vital to decreasing instability in the region. Some EU contacts believe member states may still wobble if Belgrade pre [...] | 2007-10-10 14:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID EUN KV |
07BRUSSELS318 | DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH HIGH REP SOLANA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 15:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ NK |
07BRUSSELS3192 | EU AND W. BALKANS: CARROTS NOT ALWAYS EFFECTIVE; [...] (C/NF) The EU has repeatedly reaffirmed the "European vocation" of the countries in the Western Balkans. It is committed to membership for all countries in the region and the Commission plans to contribute almost USD two billion over 2007-09 to help prepare them for eventual membership. Whil [...] | 2007-10-19 12:35:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID ZL EUN |
07BRUSSELS3195 | THE EU AND CENTRAL ASIA: PREPARING FOR THE COEST [...] (C) Summary: Since the EU formally adopted a new strategy for Central Asia in June, it has been working to increase Member State focus on the region and generate interest in the implementation of the strategy. EU priorities in Central Asia include energy, demarcation and respect for borders, a [...] | 2007-10-19 15:10:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EU PGOV PREL UZ XG ZK |
07BRUSSELS3248 | U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON W.BALKANS: CONCERN OVER [...] (C) EU and member state officials told EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh, during the Oct. 24 U.S.-EU consultations on the W. Balkans (COWEB) and in separate meetings in Brussels, that they are reviewing the possible launch of an ESDP mission in Kosovo before a UDI and that a "critical mass" of member [...] | 2007-10-26 14:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ZL EUN |
07BRUSSELS3299 | COMMISSION'S ENLARGEMENT STRATEGY: CONSOLIDATION [...] (C) The European Commission's (EC) "Enlargement Strategy," published November 6, aims at tackling key issues, such as promoting judicial reform, both earlier than during previous enlargements and with the help of benchmarks. On Turkey, the EC's strategy notes that "the pace of negotiations ( [...] | 2007-11-06 17:39:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TU ZL EUN MCC |
07BRUSSELS3353 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EU HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Absent significant progress on the nuclear file, EU officials doubted that Iran or the EU could muster enough political will to resurrect the now-moribund bilateral human rights exchange. End Summary  [...] | 2007-11-16 17:17:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PREL PGOV KDEM IR EUN |
07BRUSSELS3382 | EU FMS AND KOSOVO: GETTING TO A "GENUINE" DEBATE [...] (C) EU FMs discusse Kosovo at their November 19 GAERC. According to several contacts, various FMs want a "genuine internal EU debate" on Kosovo, sometime after December 10, before taking key decisions on recognition and the ESDP mission. Some reportedly do not want to be seen as simply rubbe [...] | 2007-11-21 18:37:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID ZL EUN |
07BRUSSELS3417 | WIREC 2008: EUROPEAN COMMISSION HAS QUESTIONS, [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, 2007 ESToffs met with DG Environment to discuss preparations for the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC),March 4-6, 2008 in Washington. DG Environment is interested in participating in the EU delegation and queried about the possibility [...] | 2007-11-29 15:23:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG EPET SENV EU |
07BRUSSELS3430 | EU: EXPECT POSITIVE STATEMENT ON KOSOVO AT [...] (C/NF) Several missions have told us that the Political and Security Committee's (PSC) November 29 review of Kosovo was more detailed than previous discussions. While the meeting took no decisions, PSC ambassadors likely will recommend that the December 10 GAERC note that the Troika process [...] | 2007-11-30 15:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID ZL EUN |
07BRUSSELS3470 | EU EXPECTATIONS FOR EU-AFRICA SUMMIT [...] (C) The EU will consider that fact that the EU-Africa Summit takes place in Lisbon Dec. 8-9 a success in and of itself, particularly if President Mugabe does not succeed in running away with every headline from the summit. Officials in Brussels do not expect breakthroughs or even much substa [...] | 2007-12-07 10:59:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AF EU EUN |
07BRUSSELS3481 | DUTCH AND CYPRIOTS LOUDEST NAY-SAYERS ON KOSOVO AT [...] (C) According to numerous sources, the Dec 10 GAERC discussions on Kosovo were both exhaustive and exhausting, with virtually every FonMin insisting on speaking. As a result, the four-hour marathon crowded out other important issues (including Iran). In the naysayer camp, the Cypriots conti [...] | 2007-12-11 12:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KV EUN |
07BRUSSELS3493 | EU REPRESENTATION AT PARIS DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 16:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL EAID IS EUN |
07BRUSSELS3519 | EU TROIKA VISIT TO DPRK [...] (C) Summary: European Commission and Council officials emphasized that EU engagement with DPRK would proceed on a cautions track governed by North Korea's progress in meeting its six-party commitments. During a EU troika delegation trip to Pyongyang to encourage progress on denuclearization, DP [...] | 2007-12-19 08:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PHUM EAID EU EUN KN |
07BRUSSELS373 | CREATING THE REGIONAL COOPERATION COUNCIL: FIRST [...] (SBU) Representatives of key donor governments and of SEECP countries met in Brussels on January 23 and 24 to begin the process of establishing a Regional Cooperation Council and secretariat as a regional cooperation vehicle to replace the Stability Pact by early 2008. Discussions were produ [...] | 2007-02-02 16:03:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW |
07BRUSSELS666 | EU CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY PROGRAMMING IN IRAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche Feb. 27 to Francois Massoulie at the European Commission, who just returned from Tehran where he said the mood is "gloomy" regarding any collaboration between Iranian NGOs or individuals and Western governments. Massoulie, the desk officer for Iran at the C [...] | 2007-02-28 16:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM EUN KPAO PREL PGOV IR BE EAID |
07BRUSSELS76 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE ON LEBANON DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On January 10, Econoff drew on ref A points to urge strong Belgian participation in the Lebanon Donors' Conference, speaking with the following from the Ministry of Cooperation and Development: Pierre Vaesen, Chief of Staff; Michel Lastschenko, Advisor; and Jonathan Biermann, Advisor. S [...] | 2007-01-10 17:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN LE BE |
07BRUSSELS822 | EU DEBATES NEXT STEPS ON GEORGIA [...] (C) On March 6, the European Council's Political and Security Committee (PSC) debated the recommendations of a joint Commission/Council Expert Team to Georgia led by EU Special Representative to the Caucasus Peter Semneby. Nordic, Central and East European Member States strongly supported the [...] | 2007-03-12 17:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID GG EUN |
07BRUSSELS902 | MAJOR DONORS DISCUSS COORDINATION STRATEGY FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 11:36:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KPAL IS EUN |
07BUCHAREST216 | ROMANIA: INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy contacted GOR officials in the Ministries of Environment and Health as well as representatives of NGOs, and found them somewhat unprepared to discuss the questions of Romanian indoor air pollution (IAP). The issue is just beginning to appear on Romania's agenda due in l [...] | 2007-02-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID OECD RO |
07BUCHAREST237 | ROMANIA,S SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims - primar [...] | 2007-03-01 15:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB EAID KCRM KWMN |
07BUDAPEST136 | PRT TRAINING ON TIME AND ON TARGET [...] (SBU) Nearly 50 Hungarian military and law enforcement officers, diplomats, and development experts attended a seminar on PRT operations January 22 - 23. The seminar, consisting of a detailed overview for senior officials in Budapest January 22 and an in-depth, interactive session at a Hunga [...] | 2007-02-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID ECON |
07BUDAPEST188 | HUNGARIAN NOMINEES FOR CONFERENCE ON MODERN [...] Post warmly welcomes the opportunity to nominate the following GoH officials: Gyorgy Molnar, MFA Director for International Security Policy: A career diplomat, Molnar has extensive experience in the full range of security affairs including NATO issues. He visited Afghanistan during the pre [...] | 2007-02-12 08:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER MARR MOPS |
07BUDAPEST76 | MFA LOOKS FORWARD TO JANUARY 26 NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para xxx for action request. 2. (C) Ambassador Foley reviewed the latest USG thinking on Afghanistan and Kosovo with MFA Political Director Ivan Udvardi in preparation for the upcoming meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels January 26. A [...] | 2007-01-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID |
07BUENOSAIRES1113 | EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES STUDENT SELECTION LIST: TRAFFICKING IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-07 11:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN SNAR SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1736 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL AUDITOR GENERAL AND UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE [...] Summary: The President of the National Auditing Office (AGN),Ambassador Leandro Despouy, recently discussed the AGN's broad government oversight role and his responsibilities as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. He described his impressions of the state of h [...] | 2007-08-31 16:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL SENV KCOR KPAO AR EAID |
07BUENOSAIRES186 | GOA URGES GREATER SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON HAITI [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan called for increased senior-level dialogue on Haiti during a January 30 meeting with Ambassador. He extended a dinner invitation to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns with Arge [...] | 2007-01-31 22:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUENOSAIRES187 | GOA URGES GREATER SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON HAITI [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan called for increased senior-level dialogue on Haiti during a January 30 meeting with Ambassador. He extended a dinner invitation to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns with Arge [...] | 2007-01-31 22:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUENOSAIRES1951 | ARGENTINA: CHIEF JUSTICE TO SEEK JUDICIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Argentine Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti, on the eve of his first official visit to Washington, to discuss his agenda and judicial reform in Argentina. Lorenzetti shared the details of his October 1-5 Washington schedule and his hope to pr [...] | 2007-09-28 19:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM SNAR EAID KDEM AR PINR |
07BUENOSAIRES1964 | ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF [...] (C) GoA Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne briefed the Ambassador September 26 on his draft proposal to reform the federal criminal justice system (other discussion topics reported Ref A and septel). The reforms, based on the recommendations of a Special Commission, aim to alter the rules of e [...] | 2007-10-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR KJUS KCRM EAID KCOR PHUM |
07BUENOSAIRES2216 | IDB PRESIDENT MORENO OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO THE [...] (C) IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno urged the Kirchners to rebuild their relationship with the USG during his November 5-6 visit to Buenos Aires. Moreno relayed this to Ambassador November 6, noting that President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) seemed to understand that USG supp [...] | 2007-11-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2240 | ARGENTINA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR AMBITOUS JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Supreme Court President Dr. Ricardo Lorenzetti on November 15 to discuss Lorenzetti's October trip to Washington, learn more about Lorenzetti's proposed national judicial management reform plan, and identify areas for enhanced cooperation on deep [...] | 2007-11-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM SOCI PREL EAID AID JUS AR |
07BUENOSAIRES550 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT REDRADO PRIVATELY WARNS GOA [...] (C) During a March 16 meeting, Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado (STRICTLY PROTECT) told the Ambassador that GoA officials had not/not formally approached him to discuss the prospect of using BCRA reserves to capitalize the Banco del Sur, the Venezuelan proposed regional d [...] | 2007-03-22 10:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG EAGR ETRD AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES94 | ARGENTINA TO ATTEND HAITI KEY PLAYERS MEETING, [...] Summary. (C) Argentina supports a 12-month renewal of MINUSTAH's mandate and has demarched China in Beijing, New York, and Port-au-Prince urging them to do the same, Under Secretary for Latin America Policy Agustin Colombo Sierra SIPDIS told A/Polcouns on January 19 in response to reftel [...] | 2007-01-19 22:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUJUMBURA211 | WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WOLFOWITZ VISITS BURUNDI [...] (U) Summary. During a March visit to Burundi, the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz discussed with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza the World Bank's proposed $130 million poverty-reduction grant and stressed the need for increased support to the private sector. Mr. Wolfowitz exp [...] | 2007-03-23 10:24:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON EAID BY |
07BUJUMBURA266 | UN ASSISTANT-SECRETARY FOR PEACEBUILDING SUPPORT VISITS [...] The UN Assistant-Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support, Carolyn McAskie, visited Burundi March 29-April 1 to lay the groundwork for the initial visit of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) scheduled for April 9-15. In a meeting with the diplomatic community on April 6, McAskie describe [...] | 2007-04-05 15:18:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO SOCI UNGA EAID |
07BUJUMBURA337 | CONSULTANT TO US TRADE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY VISITS BURUNDI TO [...] Summary. An energy consultant for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) met May 2-3 with senior Government of Burundi (GOB) officials and private energy officials to discuss a feasibility study for a petroleum pipeline to Burundi. Burundian government officials and private concerns res [...] | 2007-05-08 05:29:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV EMIN ENRG EPET PREL PBTS RW KE TZ UG BY |
07BUJUMBURA411 | ADF IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL PROJECTS IN BURUNDI [...] SUMMARY: During a May 20-27 visit to Burundi, African Development Foundation (ADF) representatives identified promising sectors for future support and attended Burundi's Donor Round Table. ADF gauged the climate for economic development for small and medium sized enterprises and surveyed curr [...] | 2007-06-05 09:09:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV EFIN BY |
07BUJUMBURA798 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INHOFE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Burundi comes at a critical time in the country's modern political history. After a summer marked by political infighting and a virtual legislative standstill, President Nkurunziza appointed a new government and displayed some willingness to tackle Burundi's sig [...] | 2007-11-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PINR PGOV PREL OREP EAID MASS MARR BY |
07CAIRO1125 | EGYPTIANS REVIEWING DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff and Treasury Attach made reftel demarche to Amal Mourad, Foreign Ministry Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, on April 16. Mourad was well-briefed on the issue of Iraqi debt and knew Finance Minister Boutros-Ghali had discussed the issue with Iraqi authorities and Treasury [...] | 2007-04-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EG IZ |
07CAIRO1362 | EGYPT: SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM COMMENTS ON HIS [...] (S) Subsequent to inflammatory, anti-GOE statements made by self-styled labor activist Ali Al-Badry at an Ibn Khaldun Center symposium on April 24 (reftel),and acting on Embassy Cairo concerns about Al-Badry's bona fides, ECPO MinCouns and Poloff met on May 8 with Egyptian-American democracy [...] | 2007-05-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PGOV PHUM ELAB EAID EG |
07CAIRO1542 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE [...] (SBU) Representative Price, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Egypt. You are scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Speaker of the People's Assembly Ahmed Fathy Sorour and other parliamentarians. You will also mee [...] | 2007-05-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAL IAEA EG IZ SO SU |
07CAIRO175 | RAFAH BORDER GATES RE-OPEN TEMPORARILY; EGYPT MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts at the Egypt/Gaza border confirmed on January 23 that both the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah and the Palestinian border terminal opened on January 22 for civilian crossings, and would remain open on January 23. The contacts said that approximately 1,600 Palestinians [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAID KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO1766 | SCENE SETTER FOR AFRICOM CONSULTATIONS [...] (S) Mr. Henry, we warmly welcome you and your delegation to Cairo for AFRICOM consultations with Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials. A series of difficult, but unrelated issues have brought the mil-to-mil relationship to a sensitive juncture, and your primary interlocutor, Assistant Ministe [...] | 2007-06-11 07:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS KPAL KMFO EAID EG IS IR SU IZ |
07CAIRO1828 | NOMINATION OF HP EGYPT FOR SECRETARY'S CORPORATE [...] HP Egypt is actively addressing the pre-eminent economic problems in Egypt, both through its business practices and direct support to build the skills of the Egyptian workforce, thereby contributing to Egypt's sustainable economic development. HP Egypt not only provides funds to directly ass [...] | 2007-06-14 12:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON EINV ELAB ETRD EAID EG |
07CAIRO1834 | NEGATIVE MEDIA SURROUNDS U.S. WHEAT SHIPMENT [...] (U) On May 27, 2007, the vessel Fu Zhou Hai arrived at Damietta Port in Egypt carrying 62,010.19 metric tons of U.S. soft red winter wheat. The cargo was inspected by Egyptian Quarantine authorities, and live insects were found, indicating possible irregularities in the fumigation procedures [...] | 2007-06-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG |
07CAIRO1932 | FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORM: AUDITING ISSUES [...] (SBU) The GOE's progress on meeting the remaining benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU, signed in 2005, has been slow. Four hundred and twenty-five million dollars is tied to completion of benchmarks to improve the transparency and soundness of the banking system. To determine if these be [...] | 2007-06-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
07CAIRO2111 | RUMORS CONTINUE ABOUT SHIPMENT OF U.S. WHEAT [...] (U) The Egyptian media reported on June 28 that the Ministry of Trade and Industry had received a "refund" of the cost of a 62,000 ton shipment of U.S. wheat that was denied entry into Egypt by the Egyptian Quarantine Authority because of alleged insect infestation (reftel). The report quoted [...] | 2007-07-10 03:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EAG EG |
07CAIRO2143 | USAID SPONSORS MBA STUDENTS FROM MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador attended a July 2 media event with Minister of Health and Population Dr. Hatem El-Gabaly and seven MOHP employees who will attend USAID funded MBA programs in the U.S. El-Gabaly plans a U.S. visit in December. End Summary. 2. (U) On July 2, the Ambassador attend [...] | 2007-07-11 08:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID OEXC OVIP OPRC KPAO PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2148 | MB PLATFORM CALLS FOR "MIXED" PUBLIC-PRIVATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) In preparation for the Shura Council elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) issued a platform that included an extensive economic component. The document, our first in-depth look at the MB's economic views, criticizes capitalism and free markets in general, particularly the GOE's econom [...] | 2007-07-11 10:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO2190 | GOE'S NATIONAL POPULATION COUNCIL REORGANIZED WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOE recently announced the reorganization of Egypt's National Population Council (NPC) to coordinate GOE-led family planning and population assistance activities. NPC programming has stagnated in past years as a result of weakened authority, inefficient bureaucracy, and a de [...] | 2007-07-16 08:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SOCI PGOV KWMN EG |
07CAIRO2290 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) The Ambassador, A/USAID Director John Groarke, USAID Strategy, Coordination and Support Director Steffi Meyer and econoff met with Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga on July 19 to discuss ESF. Aboul Naga noted that if ESF levels decline to $150-200 million annually be [...] | 2007-07-25 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EG |
07CAIRO2581 | EGYPT: MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SOLIDARITY DISCUSSES [...] (C) In an August 15 meeting with Minister of Social Solidarity (MSS) Ali Al-Moselhy, USAID Acting Director followed up on the Ambassador's July meeting with Moselhy (ref A),and expressed USG concern about the new draft NGO law. Press reporting about the yet-to-be-publicized new law suggest [...] | 2007-08-20 09:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2620 | EGYPT: FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) After several months of waiting for the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to provide draft terms of reference (TORs) for international audit firms' work in the state-owned banks, we now have bilaterally-agreed TORs and the auditors can get down to business. This ends the worrisome delay in the [...] | 2007-08-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO2627 | EGYPT MONTHLY MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Emboffs discussed border security, prospects for a secure communications agreement, plans for the 2007 Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meetings, political release of defense systems, and BRIGHT STAR (BS) with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar, Assistant Minister of [...] | 2007-08-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID EG IS |
07CAIRO2669 | GAMAL MUBARAK ADVISOR DISCUSSES EGYPT'S ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Mohamed Farnawany, senior advisor to Gamal Mubarak, told poloff on August 27 that the GOE is not happy that the USG never responded to the ESF proposal to create an endowment. Poloff reminded Farnawany that the U.S. did respond, explaining the difficulties with the concept. Farnawany said [...] | 2007-08-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO2670 | EGYPTIANS REACT SHARPLY TO ESF REDUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Egyptian's strong reaction to diminished ESF levels reflects concern about political play on the new Israeli military assistance package. They are now trying for face-saving consultations. Ambassador Nabil Fahmy has been instructed to bring new ideas in de [...] | 2007-08-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL EAID ECON PGOV EG IS |
07CAIRO2697 | COOPERATION MINISTER ABUL NAGA ON FY 09 ESF; [...] (SBU) On September 2, Ambassador met with Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga , accompanied by Acting USAID Mission Director John Groarke and Econcouns (notetaker). The meeting was at Abul Naga's request, and focused on the recent notification by the USG to the GOE of the [...] | 2007-09-03 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV KIRF EG |
07CAIRO2726 | ECONOMIC REFORMS SHOWING RESULTS, BUT SLOWING [...] (U) Summary and introduction: Since 2004, the Nazif government has cut tariffs and tax rates, fixed the current exchange system and eliminated the black market, rationalized fiscal cash managements with its Single Treasury Account, partially privatized and recapitalized the banking sector, [...] | 2007-09-06 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2799 | EGYPT: ACTIVISTS RALLY TO PROTEST CLOSURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of Cairo's human rights and democracy activist community rallied on September 16 at a downtown demonstration to protest the GOE's September 8 closure of the Association for Human Rights and Legal Aid (AHRLA),apparently for accepting foreign funding, including from th [...] | 2007-09-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG |
07CAIRO2800 | EGYPT - SEPTEMBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) The Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation ("OMC Chief") discussed the annual Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meeting, the slow disbursement of FMF, border security and prospects for a secure communications agreement with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar and [...] | 2007-09-16 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR EAID EG |
07CAIRO2801 | DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI ON MIL-TO-MIL RELATIONS [...] (C) On September 16, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi and the Ambassador discussed the impact of the FMF debates on the overall relationship, the state of mil-to-mil relations, border security, the under-disbursement of FMF in FY07, and the peace process. Tantawi said that the U.S. [...] | 2007-09-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO2836 | SINAI: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Emboffs visited El Arish, capital of North Sinai governorate, September 12, to discuss economic development with local business leaders. Members of the North Sinai Businessmen's Association (NSBA) and the Al-Fawakhreya Association for Economic Development told Emboffs that the local eco [...] | 2007-09-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO2839 | Thirst on the Nile [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Although significant progress has been made in improving infrastructure for potable water and sanitation, including $3.3 billion in USAID assistance since 1977, poor maintenance due to poor management practices, combined with population pressures, mean that many [...] | 2007-09-19 15:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ECON PGOV SOCI EG |
07CAIRO2856 | SEEKING HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT AD HOC LIAISON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL KWBG EAID EG |
07CAIRO2868 | IMF BULLISH ON EGYPT: ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The IMF recently concluded its annual Article IV visit to Egypt, issuing a preliminary report lauding the success of Egypt's macroeconomic reform. The report cited strong economic growth and a decline in unemployment as signs of the program's success. Inflation is a concern, but the spi [...] | 2007-09-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2889 | TRADE MINISTER'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid, a leader of the cabinet's economic reformers, has been hesitant this year to confront bureaucratic opposition to key reform priorities. At the same time, he has laid out a bold public vision for the future of economic reform in Egypt [...] | 2007-09-25 09:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD EAGR PINR PREL IS EG |
07CAIRO2968 | NEW U.S.-EGYPT ESF CASH TRANSFER AGREEMENT: U.S. [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. and Egypt recently signed a new Grant Agreement totaling $400 million in ESF funds over the next three years. The funds will be disbursed directly to the GOE upon completion of mutually-agreed reforms in the areas of education, health and private sector development. Si [...] | 2007-10-04 11:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EG |
07CAIRO3017 | THE IMPACT OF CONDITIONING EGYPT'S FMF [...] (C) Congressman Obey's proposal to condition USD 200 million of FMF for Egypt on progress on border security, judicial independence and police reform continues to vex senior GOE officials. Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed Al Assar and a member of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's Cabine [...] | 2007-10-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO3026 | EGYPT: OCTOBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Embassy Cairo's OMC Chief discussed border security and his recent meetings on FMF with members of Congress with Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament MG Fouad abd el Halim, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohamed el Assar, and American Affairs Chief MG Ahmed Mo'taz on Oct [...] | 2007-10-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS MARR EG IS |
07CAIRO3309 | DEFMIN TANTAWI ON BORDER SECURITY, BRIGHT STAR, [...] (C) U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon discussed security assistance, border security, and EXERCISE BRIGHT STAR with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi on November 18. Tantawi and the senior MoD officials joining him: (1) confirmed Egypt's interest in ho [...] | 2007-11-21 15:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID MASS MARR MOPS KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3365 | FINANCIAL SECTOR CASH TRANSFER UPDATE [...] (SBU) Since the Financial Sector (FS) MOU cash transfer's first disbursement of $275 million in January 2007, the GOE has met several additional benchmarks. Pending conclusion of ongoing financial analysis of banking sector performance, up to $275 million could be disbursed in 2008, bringing [...] | 2007-11-29 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON EG |
07CAIRO3366 | EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Fayza Aboul Naga, Minister of International Cooperation to discuss the future of U.S. assistance. USAID Director Hilda Arellano also attended. Aboul Naga said the GOE wants to move toward a "sustainable and predictable" partnership based on "t [...] | 2007-11-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG |
07CAIRO3367 | EGYPT: NEXT STEPS ON A BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY [...] (SBU) Visiting EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met with Minister of Investment Mohieldin to discuss next steps on updating the U.S.-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). Mohieldin was positive about the U.S. white paper and said his staff would have a reply soon. He does not foresee problems wi [...] | 2007-11-29 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV EG |
07CAIRO3423 | EGYPT´S FY 2009 ESF: PROPOSED BUDGET FOR D&G [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: After a great deal of deliberation, in which Embassy Cairo participated fully, the inter-agency agreed to allot $66.5m for democracy and governance programs in Egypt for FY08 and $75m for FY09. These figures represent annual totals of our support for civil society -- b [...] | 2007-12-06 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV EG |
07CAIRO3426 | IBN KHALDUN CENTER PLANS NEW DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ibn Khaldun Center is moving forward with proposals for elections monitoring and other democracy-promotion programs next year, despite a staff reorganization forced by the absence of founder Saad Iddin Ibrahim and the threat of a lawsuit with potentially debilitating financ [...] | 2007-12-06 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PHUM PINR EG |
07CAIRO3541 | Central Bank Governor Commits to Completing Financial [...] (SBU) On December 17, the Ambassador and Econoffs met with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Farouk El Okdah and the two Deputy Governors, Tarek Amer and Tarek Kandil, to cover a wide variety of end-of year issues. The Ambassador began by congratulating the Governor and Deputy Governor Amer [...] | 2007-12-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON EG |
07CAIRO3542 | EGYPT REACTS TO CONGRESSIONAL CONDITIONS ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the Eid, Egyptian reaction to Congressional conditioning of US assistance has become more pronounced. Privately, GOE officials have expressed anger but hope that the Secretary will waive the conditionality. On December 23, Minister for Foreign Affairs Aboul Gheit told Am [...] | 2007-12-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KPAL EG IS XF |
07CAIRO379 | SCENESETTER FOR INTERAGENCY AVIAN INFLUENZA TEAM, [...] (SBU) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes the visit of Ambassador John Lange and the interagency avian influenza team. We are looking forward exchanging ideas on local avian influenza challenges, potential areas of enhanced cooperation, and developing a more cohesive interagency strategy. ----- [...] | 2007-02-12 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR TBIO KFLU AMED EAID EG |
07CAIRO404 | FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU: NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Now that the first disbursement of $275 million for completion of some of the benchmarks in the Financial Sector MOU has been made, we are considering next steps and a tentative timeline for verification of the remaining benchmarks. Five hundred and twenty-five million dollars in ESF ar [...] | 2007-02-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO469 | EGYPT CONSIDERING UTILITY OF IGAD SUMMIT ON [...] (C) EGYPT IS AWARE OF PLANS BY KENYA, AS CHAIR OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR DEVELOPMENT (IGAD),TO HOST A SUMMIT IN COMING WEEKS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SUDAN'S COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (CPA). THE GOE IS CONSIDERING A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT PROPOSAL, BUT [...] | 2007-02-20 17:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EG SU |
07CAIRO718 | NEW EU-EGYPT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On March 6 the EU and Egypt signed a new bilateral assistance agreement worth 500 million over the next four years. The agreement includes cash transfers and funds to implement projects in a number of areas, under the rubric of a bilateral "Action Plan." Technical sub-committees of EU a [...] | 2007-03-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PHUM KDEM EG EU |
07CAIRO721 | LABOR ANXIETY MAY OPEN DOOR TO UNION [...] (C) The anxious state of organized labor in Egypt over privatization, economic reform, and global trends may present opportunities for engaging the GOE on democratization and worker rights. Sensing this, the International Labor Organization (ILO) is advancing a proposal to promote democratiza [...] | 2007-03-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO924 | CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORS CRITICIZE CONDUCT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AT LEAST FIVE GROUPS OF EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS MONITORED THE MARCH 26 REFERENDUM ON EGYPT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. THEIR REPORTS, WHICH WERE ISSUED THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON MARCH 26, AND SUMMARIZED IN WRAP-UP PRESS RELEASES ISSUED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, PROVID [...] | 2007-03-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM EG |
07CANBERRA1496 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE TO AGREEMENT ON SECOND PHASE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points and paper to Andrew Willis, Acting Director for Korean Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on October 5. 2. (U) Willis referred to Foreign Minister Downer's media release the previous day in which Downer welcomed the agreement on "Seco [...] | 2007-10-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP EAID |
07CARACAS206 | GOVERNOR ROSALES AND EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE EAGER [...] (SBU) Action Request -- See Paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's January 23-24 visit to Maracaibo, Zulia Governor and former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales expressed strong interest in enhancing programs of cooperation with his state administration. Rosales said he [...] | 2007-01-30 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM PGOV SNAR VE |
07CASABLANCA16 | 2006 MOROCCO UPDATE OF THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) This message provides requested input for the Department of Labor's annual report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Host County's commitment to combat and eliminate them. It updates information provided by Post in 2005 (ref A) concerning Morocco's child labor laws and regulations, la [...] | 2007-01-18 15:38:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN MO |
07CASABLANCA254 | 2007 MOROCCO UPDATE OF THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary: This message provides requested updates for the Department of Labor's annual report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Morocco's commitment to combat and eliminate them. It updates information provided by Post in 2006 and years prior, concerning Morocco's child labor laws and reg [...] | 2007-12-14 19:20:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN USAID MO |
07CASABLANCA255 | 2007 MOROCCO UPDATE OF THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - [...] Summary: This message provides requested updates for the Department of Labor's annual report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Morocco's commitment to combat and eliminate them. It updates information provided by Post in 2006 and years prior, concerning Morocco's child labor laws and reg [...] | 2007-12-14 19:20:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN MO |
07CHENGDU12 | AIDS IN TIBETAN AREAS OF SICHUAN PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent conference on "Social Changes and Development in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan Areas," a researcher from the Sichuan Provincial Ethnic Research Institute said the HIV/AIDS situation in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province has grown more seriou [...] | 2007-01-11 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAID ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU144 | YUNNAN EARTHQUAKE -- TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS [...] (U) On June 3, Southwest China's Yunnan Province experienced an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. The quake hit Pu'er City, close to Yunnan's southern border with Burma, killing at least three, injuring 313, and leaving more than 180,000 people displaced, according to Chinese off [...] | 2007-06-05 09:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CASC CH |
07CHENGDU157 | CONVERSATIONS IN NORTHERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: Consulate Chengdu recently accompanied the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on a project monitoring trip to some of the highest and most remote areas of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). The TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) said it valued U.S. NGO pr [...] | 2007-06-25 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU19 | GAY AND LESBIAN CHENGDU [...] (C) Summary. Although Chengdu has been nicknamed "gay paradise," gays here still face considerable challenges, and official, social, and family pressures are often sufficiently intense to keep many local gays in the closet. The situation of lesbians is even more difficult, perhaps due to high [...] | 2007-01-22 05:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI EAID PGOV PHUM SCUL TBIO CH |
07CHENGDU58 | GUIZHOU GRASSROOTS NGOS FOCUS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Grassroots NGOs working on rural development in Guizhou Province have identified education of migrant children, health care, and rural governance as three primary areas of focus. One NGO trains teachers and volunteers who serve the needs of hundreds of migrant children in unregis [...] | 2007-02-27 08:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ELAB SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU77 | URGING TAR FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Consul General and Beijing Polmincouns urged Director General of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) Ju Jianhua to provide information on the Chinese investigation of the September 30, 2006 shooting (reftel) of border crossers by Chinese border gu [...] | 2007-03-22 01:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHISINAU1330 | CHISINAU ESTABLISHING SEVEN WORKING GROUPS ON [...] (C) Summary: As a follow up to President Voronin's confidence-building outreach to Transnistria (TN),the Government of Moldova is establishing seven working groups to elaborate specific projects for normalizing relations. Transnistria's "foreign minister" has already indicated interest in roa [...] | 2007-11-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV EAID MD |
07CHISINAU1362 | SHEVCHUK: MOLDOVA NOT A RELIABLE PARTNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's November 9 meeting with Transnistria's Parliamentary Speaker Evgeny Shevchuk took place against the backdrop of a controversial decree adopted by the Government of Moldova on November 7, requiring that all TN vehicles register with Chisinau. Shevchuk charged tha [...] | 2007-11-14 05:31:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EAID PGOV MD |
07CHISINAU1395 | REQUEST FOR TRANSNISTRIA DROUGHT ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) I am declaring a disaster in the Transnistrian region of Moldova due to severe drought, loss of crops, and consequent negative impact on living standards. I hereby request $50,000 from USAID/OFDA for disaster relief in Transnistria. 2. (SBU) This request follows reftel in which I requ [...] | 2007-11-26 13:42:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL MD |
07COLOMBO1057 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT STILL WORKING ON PLANS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Sri Lanka announced soon after consolidating military control over the East (ref A) that it would ask donors to fund development of the area. The president has designated his brother Basil as the point man for the Eastern development push. Basil told UN offic [...] | 2007-07-31 10:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EINV PGOV PHUM CE |
07COLOMBO1093 | SRI LANKA: EAST DEVELOPMENT -- TRINCOMALEE NOT READY TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trincomalee, the eastern seaboard town boasting one of Asia's finest natural harbors, is underdeveloped and depressed as a result of over two decades of civil war in Sri Lanka. The government wants to translate its recent reassertion of control over the east into development, mu [...] | 2007-08-08 11:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV PTER CE |
07COLOMBO1106 | SRI LANKA: HUMANITARIAN ACCESS COMMITTEE REVIEWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes, currently visiting Sri Lanka, attended the 11th Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance (CCHA) meeting chaired by Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe on August 7. Charg [...] | 2007-08-10 05:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PHUM PGOV PREL CE |
07COLOMBO1114 | SRI LANKA: USAID LAUNCHES NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] SUMMARY: The final version of the USAID-sponsored National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP),which outlines key steps the Government and private sector can take to address corruption, was presented at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) on July 28 as part of the [...] | 2007-08-13 11:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KCOR PGOV PREL ECON CE |
07COLOMBO1165 | SRI LANKA: TRINCOMALEE TAMILS WARY OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM met with local government officials, civil society leaders, and community members in the eastern city of Trincomalee on August 10-12th to discuss the security and humanitarian situation in the area and promote policies that will foster peace and economic development. The Gov [...] | 2007-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PTER PHUM PREF MOPS PREL KMCA CE |
07COLOMBO1186 | MALDIVES: PRESIDENT GAYOOM SAYS REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: Maldives President Gayoom told Ambassador August 28 that the country's August 18 referendum had been "well-organized," "in general, free and fair," and had produced an outcome of 62 percent in favor of a "U.S.-style" presidential system. Opposition Maldives Democratic Party leade [...] | 2007-08-30 12:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KWWW ETRD EAID MV |
07COLOMBO1196 | SRI LANKA - DCHA/FFP MONITORING REPORT ON WORLD FOOD [...] (U) Summary: From July 7 - 13, 2007, USAID/DCHA Food for Peace Asia Team Leader (FFP/TL) Matthew Nims and USAID/DCHA Food for Peace Officer Katey Schein (FFP/O) visited Sri Lanka to monitor the WFP Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) which receives U.S. Title II Emergency Assistanc [...] | 2007-08-31 06:49:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF CE PINS |
07COLOMBO12 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ERIC B. KING, [...] Post grants country clearance to Eric B. King, Country Manager, OFO, Washington D.C. The purpose of his visit is to conduct an initial visit as the country manager with the CSI Team in Colombo, Sri Lanka from January 7-14, 2007. Embassy control officer is Mr. Richard Merrin, Commercial Attach [...] | 2007-01-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EWWT OTRA CE |
07COLOMBO1233 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT TAKES CREDIT FOR INCREASED FLOW OF [...] Summary: Two weeks after returning from a visit to the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the Commissioner General of Essential Services (CGES) on August 30 briefed the diplomatic community and United Nations agency heads in Colombo on steps the Government of Sri Lanka has taken to maintain a steady [...] | 2007-09-10 02:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF CE |
07COLOMBO1252 | SRI LANKA: SUCCESS IN GARMENT IPR CASES; LESS PROGRESS IN [...] Summary: US apparel brands have found some level of success in combating piracy in Sri Lankan courts. In August 2007, the Colombo Commercial High Court issued an order in settlement in favor of Polo/Lauren, LLP, the largest IPR enforcement case in the apparel sector to date. Other companies [...] | 2007-09-12 02:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR EAID KMCA CE |
07COLOMBO128 | SRI LANKA: IPR RAID SEIZES 17,000 FAKE "POLO" BRAND SHIRTS [...] Summary: Sri Lankan police on January 11 raided a Sri Lankan factory manufacturing and supplying counterfeit "Polo" brand garments. The raid was the largest intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement bust since Sri Lanka began to enforce its 2003 IPR law in 2004. End Summary. 2. On [...] | 2007-01-23 03:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR EAID CE |
07COLOMBO1313 | SRI LANKA: TOURISM INDUSTRY PINS HOPE ON NEW TOURISM ACT [...] Summary: On October 1, following a two year delay, the government will implement the Tourism Act of 2005. The law provides for greater private sector participation in government-controlled tourism regulatory, promotion and training agencies. More importantly, the private sector will now ha [...] | 2007-09-24 05:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN EAID KMCA CE |
07COLOMBO1349 | DISCUSSION WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador met on September 28 with Basil Rajapaksa, the President's brother, senior political advisor, and coordinator of the stabilization and reconstruction program in the east, to discuss the opportunities and risks in the east (reftels). Rajapaksa acknowledged the need to stop ill [...] | 2007-10-01 11:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID CE |
07COLOMBO1371 | 256TH SESSION OF THE COLOMBO PLAN COUNCIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 27, 2007, The Colombo Plan Council convened for the 256th Session and discussed FY 2005/6 audited accounts, the 2006/7 draft annual report, a special paper on "Strategic Plan of The Colombo Plan 2025," and the needs assessment questionnaire. Ambassador Blake present [...] | 2007-10-04 12:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR SOCI ECON EAID CE |
07COLOMBO1399 | SRI LANKA: LAGGING IN WORLD BANK EASE OF DOING BUSINESS [...] Summary: Sri Lanka rated poorly in the World Bank Group's just-released Doing Business 2008 index and in the middle of Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perception Index. In the Ease of Doing Business index, Sri Lanka ranked 101 out of 178 economies. Notable was its ranking of 133 [...] | 2007-10-10 09:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EAID KMCA KCOR CE |
07COLOMBO147 | MCC IN SRI LANKA: MAJORITY OF INDICATORS PROBABLY NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Almost three years ago when Sri Lanka qualified as a Millennium Challenge Account candidate country, many of Sri Lanka's MCC indicators were on a positive trend. Since then, the government has changed hands twice and each new government has proven less commi [...] | 2007-01-24 12:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID EAIR CE |
07COLOMBO1542 | MEETING WITH SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SECRETARY ON [...] (C) Ambassador and EU Head of Mission Wilson met with Defense Secretary Rajapaksa on November 13 to present a list of incidents reported by NGOs operating in eastern Sri Lanka in the last year perpetrated by the paramilitary Karuna Group. Secretary Rajapaksa admitted such incidents were stil [...] | 2007-11-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM CE |
07COLOMBO158 | Respected NGO Analyst Tells Donor Ambassadors to Expect Protracted Conflict in Sri Lanka [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 12:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER EAID CE PHUM |
07COLOMBO1680 | Sri Lanka - DCHA/FFP Monitoring Report on WFP [...] Summary: From November 25 to December 4, 2007 USAID/DCHA Food for Peace Officer (FFP/O) visited Sri Lanka to monitor the UN World Food Program (WFP) Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO),which receives U.S. Title II Emergency Assistance. FFP/O visited multiple sites in the conflict [...] | 2007-12-19 03:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PINS CE |
07COLOMBO1687 | MCC DECISION NOT TO RE-SELECT SRI LANKA FOR COMPACT [...] (SBU) Sri Lanka's national focal point for Millennium Challenge Account issues, Secretary of Ministry of Plan Implementation Dhara Wijayatilake, contacted Econoff December 20 to seek clarification regarding the MCC board's December 12 decision regarding Sri Lanka. Wijayatilake had seen a local [...] | 2007-12-20 10:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL CE |
07COLOMBO228 | SRI LANKA: LIMITED EFFORTS TO ADDRESS INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] Summary: Government involvement in Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) issues in Sri Lanka is at an early stage. Although IAP was discussed at the country's first national symposium on air resource management in 2004, limited progress has been made in this area. The Ministry of Environment and Natural [...] | 2007-02-06 11:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
07COLOMBO241 | PRESS CONFERENCE TO PUBLICIZE POSITIVE WORK OF [...] The Ambassador and EU Head of Mission Wilson organized on February 7 a press conference to publicize the positive work that international NGOs are performing in Sri Lanka and condemn the recent campaign to discredit international NGOs. The German Ambassador (and EU President),the U.S. Ambass [...] | 2007-02-08 06:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV CE |
07COLOMBO244 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GEOFF MOYLE, ANURA [...] Post grants country clearance to consultants Geoff Moyle, Anura Widananpathirana, Ed Ely and John Standingford of URS Corporation to travel to Sri Lanka from January 23 to February 23, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to continue due diligence on the Infrastructure and ESA portions of the GOSL' [...] | 2007-02-08 11:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE |
07COLOMBO250 | SRI LANKA: GROWING COUT AND APPEAL OF NON-WESTERN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka is increasingly looking to non-Western partners like China, India, Korea, Malaysia, and even Iran to fund major infrastructure projects. These donors are promising aid without conditions, while the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European donors and t [...] | 2007-02-09 09:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV PREL CE CH IN IR JA KS MY |
07COLOMBO294 | SRI LANKA: GERMAN EMBASSY PROTESTS HARASSMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The German Ambassador has lodged a protest with Foreign Minister Bogollagama regarding separate recent incidents in Trincomalee and Batticaloa involving their aid agency and, apparently, members of the LTTE splitoff "Karuna group." German Technical Cooperation (GTZ),the German [...] | 2007-02-16 08:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS EAID CE |
07COLOMBO302 | SRI LANKA: AFTER THE FALL OF VAKARAI, GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: An Embassy team that visited Vakarai on February 14 was the first group of foreign diplomats into the area since the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) retook the strategic coastal town from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month. Demining operations and infrastruct [...] | 2007-02-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS EAID CA |
07COLOMBO322 | SRI LANKA: UK CONSIDERING CANCELING TSUNAMI DEBT RELIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK is considering canceling $80 million in debt relief provided to Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami because of concerns that Sri Lanka is not meeting pro-peace conditions of the debt relief agreement. The UK's privately-conveyed concerns were leaked to the Sri Lankan pre [...] | 2007-02-23 09:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV CE |
07COLOMBO352 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DARIUS NASSIRY, EILEEN BURKE, [...] Post grants country clearance to Darius Nassiry, Eileen Burke, Carlton Bennett, Doris McMahon, Mary Jo Johnson, Thomas Hohenthaner, Berry Deren and Amanda Beatty of Millennium Challenge Corporation to travel to Sri Lanka from March 11 - 30, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to continue due dilig [...] | 2007-03-02 06:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE |
07COLOMBO375 | SRI LANKA: 2006 U.S. EXPORTS UP, BUT BARELY DENT USD 1.9B [...] (U) Summary: The United States-Sri Lanka goods trade balance narrowed to nine-to-one in Sri Lanka's favor in 2006, from over ten-to-one in recent years. The improvement came from 20 percent growth in U.S. exports to Sri Lanka, while U.S. imports from Sri Lanka rose by only 3 percent. Neverth [...] | 2007-03-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAID CE |
07COLOMBO411 | SRI LANKA: PDAS MANN'S MEETING WITH FINANCE SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: SCA PDAS Steven Mann raised the Millennium Challenge Account, the payment dispute between Sri Lanka and U.S. power producer AES, and prospects for offshore oil exploration with Finance Secretary P.B. Jayasundera March 8. Jayasundera remains optimistic about the health of the Sri [...] | 2007-03-14 03:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
07COLOMBO455 | MALDIVES: DRUGS, EDUCATION, ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND WOMEN'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable contains an Action Request in Paragraph 14. During Under Secretary of State for Management Fore's March 7 visit to Maldives, in addition to discussions with President Gayoom (Ref A) and female political and business leaders (Ref B),she met separately with the Forei [...] | 2007-03-20 04:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ELAB ETRD MARR PHUM KDEM KISL EAID MV |
07COLOMBO464 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY CANDIDLY BRIEFS FOREIGN MEDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa held a closed door, off-the-record meeting with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association and some foreign diplomats. In response to pointed questions, Rajapaksa gave blunt answers, revealing a different side to that usual [...] | 2007-03-21 04:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE |
07COLOMBO483 | SRI LANKA: MANNAR COULD FACE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with military personnel and civil society members in Mannar on March 21, 2007, to discuss the humanitarian and security situation in the area. Over 8,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living on Madhu Church grounds in Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTT [...] | 2007-03-23 09:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS PTER PREL EAID CE |
07COLOMBO493 | SRI LANKA: FIU, MAKING LITTLE PROGRESS, WILL BE MERGED INTO [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),which began operations about a year ago, has made little progress towards becoming an effective, independent operation. Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor, who currently supervises the nominally autonomous FIU, plans to m [...] | 2007-03-26 12:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PTER CE |
07COLOMBO502 | SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT'S STATE VISIT TO CHINA FOCUSES ON PORT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa visited China February 26 - March 4 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and China. For Sri Lanka, key deliverables from the visit were economic, in the form of a Chinese government commitment to [...] | 2007-03-28 07:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
07COLOMBO511 | SRI LANKA: FOREIGN MINISTER PROMISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Bogollagama called in Ambassador on March 29 to request Embassy cooperation in overcoming human rights-based concerns about Sri Lanka's eligibility for a Millennium Challenge Compact. Ambassador explained that MCC eligibility is based on a country's governance r [...] | 2007-03-30 05:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM PGOV PTER MOPS CE |
07COLOMBO536 | SRI LANKA: 2006 GDP GREW 7.4 PERCENT; 2007 GROWTH LIKELY TO [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.4 percent in 2006, its highest annual growth rate since 1978. The Central Bank Governor announced that he expects 2007 growth to come in between and 7.5 and 8 percent. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts only [...] | 2007-04-06 06:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
07COLOMBO54 | SRI LANKA - DEAD BIRDS DID NOT HAVE AVIAN FLU [...] SUMMARY: Approximately 150 birds were found dead on January 5 in the town of Nikawaratiya, in Sri Lanka's North Western Province. Others were reported in the eastern part of Pollonaruwa Province on January 10. Salmonella caused the Nikawaratiya deaths. The Pollonaruwa deaths are still under [...] | 2007-01-11 11:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EAID WHO KFLU KSCA CE |
07COLOMBO56 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NANDA KUMAR RANGANATHAN AND [...] Post grants country clearance to Nanda Kumar Ranganathan and Gail Chambers of Millennium Challenge Corporation and URS consultant Michael Jacobs to travel to Sri Lanka from January 21 to February 1, 2007. Embassy control officer is Mr. Richard Merrin, Commercial Attache and Economic Officer, t [...] | 2007-01-11 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KMCA ECON ORTA KPAO AFIN OVIP CE |
07COLOMBO600 | HUMANITARIAN COORDINATION MEETING FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: At the eighth meeting of Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance on April 23 with Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Samarasinghe and Defense Secretary Rajapaksa, UN chief Lyons briefed on his April 20 trip to Killinochchi in which he expressed the UN's [...] | 2007-04-23 10:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER AORC EAID CE |
07COLOMBO631 | SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: Your visit comes at a time when the environment for human rights, civil liberties, and media freedom is declining broadly as the conflict escalates. Our top priority is to press the government to put forward a serious power-sharing proposal that can help it win back the sy [...] | 2007-04-27 11:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS ECON EAID SL |
07COLOMBO632 | SRI LANKA: OIL EXPLORATION PROSPECTS REAL, BUT CONSTRAINED [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. experts who have looked at recent geological survey data believe that significant petrochemical deposits lie off the coast of Sri Lanka. On May 1, the Ambassador will join Sri Lanka's Petroleum minister and others at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston to describ [...] | 2007-04-27 12:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ENRG EPET ETRD CE |
07COLOMBO736 | MALDIVES FLOODING: TEXT OF PRESIDENT GAYOOM'S [...] Summary: The Maldives Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a diplomatic note to Embassy Colombo May 21 conveying a May 18 letter from Maldives President Gayoom to President Bush stating that widespread flooding caused by heavy sea swells had damaged a third of Maldives' 194 inhabited islands [...] | 2007-05-21 12:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC EAID PREL SENV MV |
07COLOMBO743 | DISASTER DECLARATION FOR MALDIVES FLOODING [...] Summary and Action Request for USAID/OFDA: In response to recent flooding in Maldives, Ambassador Blake is making a disaster declaration and is exercising his authority to provide $50,000. In consultation with Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) regional advisor, Ambassador requests [...] | 2007-05-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV PREL MV |
07COLOMBO758 | SRI LANKA: SOLID WASTE ACCUMULATES AS AUTHORITIES FAIL TO [...] Summary: Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka, particularly in urban areas, is a severe environmental issue. Around 6,400 tons of waste is generated each day in Sri Lanka, and only 40% of this volume is collected. Sri Lanka has not created sufficient landfill space to keep up with the volume [...] | 2007-05-25 09:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID SENV CE |
07COLOMBO769 | SRI LANKA: EU HUMANITARIAN AID REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary: The EU Delegation to Sri Lanka, passed to us on May 28 a confidential report describing a recent European Commission Humanitarian Assistance (ECHO) visit to Sri Lanka's Vanni region, the heart of the northern area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The repo [...] | 2007-05-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON MOPS PHUM PTER CE |
07COLOMBO777 | SRI LANKA SUPPORTS ZOELLICK NOMINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 11:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD CE |
07COLOMBO778 | SRI LANKA: NATIONAL DECLARATION ON PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS [...] Summary: An International Labor Organization-initiated National Tripartite Declaration on Prevention of HIV/AIDS at workplaces in Sri Lanka was signed recently. Partners in this new program include government agencies, trade unions, trade chambers and employers. The Declaration describes plans [...] | 2007-05-30 12:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON TBIO CE |
07COLOMBO779 | SRI LANKA: CORRUPTION PANELISTS TELL AMBASSADOR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent roundtable hosted by Ambassador, participants from government, civil society organizations, the private sector, and the media described corruption as endemic at all levels of Sri Lankan government, and also widespread in dealings between business and government. Most [...] | 2007-05-30 12:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KCOR PGOV CE |
07COLOMBO825 | COLOMBO RESPONSE TO TSUNAMI, EARTHQUAKE WARNINGS [...] Per reftel, Embassy Colombo provides the following responses to listed questions. 2. Question: Does a duty officer or Mission Disaster Relief Officer (and alternate MDRO) receive tsunami and earthquake warnings on a 24-hour basis from the Ops Center or other service? --Response: To date [...] | 2007-06-11 11:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY AORC EAID AMGT CASC |
07COLOMBO847 | SRI LANKA: EASTERN MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: USAID Mission Director met with community leaders representing the Peace Secretariat for Muslims from the three districts of the Eastern Province -- Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara. Participants in the the meeting, chaired by Mr. M.I.M. Mohideen, the body?s Secretary-Genera [...] | 2007-06-14 11:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM PINS PREF PGOV CE |
07COLOMBO854 | AMBASSADOR AND OFDA DIRECTOR VISIT TO BATTICALOA, SRI [...] (SBU)Summary: On June 4 and 5, Ambassador and USAID Mission Director joined an OFDA assessment mission led by OFDA Director Ky Luu to Batticaloa District in eastern Sri Lanka. Also on the mission were William Berger, OFDA Regional Advisor and John Lee Park, USAID HA Program Manager. The team as [...] | 2007-06-15 05:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREF PGOV EAID CE |
07COLOMBO903 | SRI LANKA: FEW DONORS HAVE CUT AID DESPITE WIDESPREAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The resumption of conflict and a deteriorating human rights climate have caused relatively few donors to reconsider parts of their planned aid to Sri Lanka. However, out of reluctance to penalize the intended recipients of development assistance, both multilateral and bilateral [...] | 2007-06-25 05:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PHUM CE |
07COLOMBO913 | SUMMARY OF UNITED NATIONS REVISED COMMON [...] (U) The Interagency Standing Committee Country Team held a mid-year review meeting on the revised Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) 2007 for the international donor community on June 14, 2007. The U.S., Japan, UK, South Korea, Australia, Canada, India, France, Sweden, and others other don [...] | 2007-06-26 03:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREF PGOV EAID CE |
07COLOMBO927 | AMBASSADOR AND OFDA DIRECTOR VISIT TO BATTICALOA, [...] (SBU) Summary: OFDA recently completed a mission to Sri Lanka that was highlighted by the participation of OFDA Director, Ky Luu. While in Sri Lanka Mr. Luu, along with the Ambassador and USAID Director, spent two days in Batticaloa District assessing the situation of IDPs and returnees. The [...] | 2007-06-29 04:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREF PGOV EAID CE |
07COLOMBO948 | SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY AGREES TO APPOINT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, Swiss Ambassador Flint and the Head of the European Commission Humanitarian Office Verboom presented Defense Secretary Rajapakse on June 29 the findings and recommendations of the Bilateral Donor Group (BDG) visit in May to the Vanni (the LTTE-controlled area of north [...] | 2007-07-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID CE |
07COLOMBO980 | SRI LANKA: REQUEST TO STATE/DRL AND STATE/INL FOR SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka's Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) has begun investigations into serious human rights violations. The COI began hearings on one of the cases but a dispute between scientific experts regarding the forensic evidence is becoming a major impedimen [...] | 2007-07-16 10:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREL PREF PGOV EAID ASEC CE |
07CONAKRY1286 | GUINEA TO ATTEND NEW DELHI AVIAN FLU CONFERENCE [...] (U) Per reftel, Econoff contacted the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Government of Guinea will attend the New Delhi Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, December 4-6. 2. (U) The Guinean delegation will include M. Damey Fassou Elie, Sec [...] | 2007-11-30 12:25:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL GV |
07CONAKRY129 | GUINEA: FINANCIALLY UNFEASIBLE RICE AND FUEL CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) In brokering a suspension of the general strike that crippled Guinea for almost three weeks (Ref A),the Government of Guinea agreed to economic concessions that may prove untenable. Fuel and rice, which are already heavily subsidized, will be further subsidized with tax benefits for supp [...] | 2007-02-02 11:35:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV ELAB ASEC PINS EAID GV |
07CONAKRY130 | NO FIREWORKS AT UNION PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On February 1, the CNTG-USTG union coalition held its first press conference since the suspension of the general strike on January 27. The event was ostensibly organized to report on meetings between the visiting representatives from international labor organizations and various local [...] | 2007-02-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS EAID GV |
07CONAKRY1347 | RESPONSE - EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, Embassy provides the following analysis of drug trafficking in Guinea. In addition, reftels provide additional background information. 2. (SBU) The Government of Guinea (GoG) is engaged on drug trafficking issues and has a specialized police unit that [...] | 2007-12-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR EAID SOCI GV |
07CONAKRY155 | Interior Minister Promises to Deliver Free and Transparent [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the environment of uncertainty and tension over the naming of a prime minister (reftel),Guinea's government says it is moving forward with improvements to the electoral process. Minister of State for Internal Affairs Moussa Solano presided over the February 8 opening [...] | 2007-02-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR EAID GV |
07CONAKRY162 | SITREP NO. 29: GUINEA GENERAL STRIKE, FEB. 10, [...] (C) The security climate in Guinea is highly volatile and unpredictable following the appointment late February 9 of Eugene Camara as Prime Minister. After a night marked by sporadic rock-throwing and a brief early morning lull, the city has been hit with widespread protests and disturbances. [...] | 2007-02-10 18:32:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR EAID GV |
07CONAKRY370 | GUINEA'S NEW GOVERNMENT MEETS INITIAL DEMANDS [...] (C) On March 28, Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate addressed the nation with a clear message thanking all Guineans for their patience and cooperation in the creation of a "government of broad consensus". The Prime Minister listed eight priorities for his government with the consolidation of nat [...] | 2007-03-29 14:20:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PINS EAID GV |
07CONAKRY396 | Guinean National Assembly to Address Electoral Bills, Prep [...] (SBU) Summary. As the Guinean National Assembly begins its annual 45-day session, the details of the 2007 legislative elections are both a matter of focus and very much in flux. Four bills on the electoral process, negotiated during the political dialogues of the ad hoc committee last August [...] | 2007-04-11 09:53:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID PHUM GV |
07CONAKRY40 | Liberia Partners Forum -- Guinea [...] On January 9, Poloff delivered demarche on the Liberia Partners Forum (Ref A) to Ambassador Mamady Traore, Political Counselor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Traore saluted the U.S. efforts to support rebuilding Liberia but cautioned that any instability in the region would stymie progre [...] | 2007-01-10 10:08:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PPOL PREL PBTS EAID GV LI SL |
07CONAKRY434 | Kankan: History Destroyed, Uncertain Future [...] (U) Summary. Kankan, Guinea's second largest city, is still reeling from the violence and destruction unleashed during the strike and state of siege earlier this year. The fact that it is a traditional stronghold of opposition party Rally for the Guinean People (RPG),led by Alpha Conde, did [...] | 2007-04-19 12:20:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB PINS EAID GV |
07CONAKRY736 | QADHAFI'S ROAD TRIP THROUGH GUINEA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Libyan leader Mu'ammar Qadhafi's road trip to the AU Summit in Accra brought him through Guinea for 48 hours. Guineans celebrated Qadhafi's visit with a national holiday as they looked forward to new promises of aid for Guinea, which Qadhafi gave. On its side of the promise, [...] | 2007-06-29 12:19:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID LY GV |
07CONAKRY793 | Guinea Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) Annual [...] This cable serves to meet the requirement that all posts submit a DHRF annual status report covering all obligations and un-liquidated balances of open DHRF activities. END SUMMARY. ----------------------- PRIOR FISCAL YEAR FUNDS ----------------------- 2. FY 2005 AMT. OBLIGATED [...] | 2007-07-11 12:45:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PHUM KDEM GV |
07CONAKRY88 | SITREP NO. 26: GUINEA GENERAL STRIKE, JAN. 26, [...] (C) Guinea's general strike continues as the country awaits an outcome to ongoing negotiations to settle union (and popular) demands. After two days in which only one minor security incident took place in Conakry, the morning of January 26 has seen renewed rock-throwing on the Hamdallaye-Bam [...] | 2007-01-26 11:46:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR EAID GV |
07CONAKRY90 | SITREP NO. 27: GUINEA GENERAL STRIKE, JAN. 27, [...] (C) Conakry is quiet morning of January 27. The general strike nominally continues, as ordered by the union leadership, but we are seeing traffic patterns approaching normal for a Saturday. There are more private vehicles and taxis, as well as a handful of fuel trucks heading for the port t [...] | 2007-01-27 11:54:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR EAID GV |
07COPENHAGEN69 | DENMARK ON JANUARY EU GAERC [...] (C) Danish EU Correspondent Nicolaj Hejberg Petersen reported January 19 that the main agenda items for next week's GAERC ministerial will be Western Balkans, Iran and Sudan, on which Denmark broadly shares the goals outlined in Ref A. Petersen confirmed that the Danish government will remain [...] | 2007-01-19 15:47:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID EUN YI IR SU SO DA |
07COTONOU159 | SCENESETTER FOR BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS, COTONOU, BENIN, [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post warmly welcomes your participation in the March 9, 2007 USG/GOB bilateral consultations. Your visit follows the November Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security Conference and the December 2006 official US visit of pro-US President Boni Yayi, second-round victor in widely acclaimed [...] | 2007-03-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD PINR BN |
07COTONOU162 | BENIN'S COOPERATION WITH CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to REF A, Benin and China have a strong and growing diplomatic, economic, and military relationship. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, in 2005 an estimated 32% of Beninese exports went to China and 39% of Beninese imports originated there, making China now [...] | 2007-03-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID CH BN |
07COTONOU224 | BENIN: REDUCTION IN TOGOLESE REFUGEE POPULATION [...] (SBU) A UNHCR official told TDY PolOff on March 21 that the Togolese refugee population in Benin now stands at an estimated 5,900, down from a high of some 25,000 immediately after Togo's political crisis erupted in early 2005. This number represents those Togolese refugees living both within [...] | 2007-03-22 13:39:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EAID BN |
07COTONOU389 | BENIN: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE ISPS [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador delivered REF A demarche to the Minister of Transportation and Public Works and to the Acting Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively, on May 21, 2007. The Government of Benin and the Port of Cotonou now have ninety days to address the deficiencies [...] | 2007-05-29 12:41:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV KHLS PTER BN |
07COTONOU448 | BENIN PROPOSES TO INSTALL PORT SCANNER OUTSIDE MCC COMPACT, [...] This is an action message requesting input. Please see para 8 below. 2. SUMMARY: President Boni Yayi told the Ambassador on June 20 that Benin plans to purchase and install scanners at the Port of Cotonou, Cotonou International Airport and other land border posts for reasons of security. [...] | 2007-06-21 14:44:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PREL PGOV EAID EFIN MCC BN |
07COTONOU561 | PORT OF COTONOU: UPDATE ON DEMARCHE CONCERNING ISPS CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 24, 2007, United States Coast Guard (USCG)Lieutenant Commander Robert Keith, Charge d'Affaires J.A. Diffily, and Millennium Challenge Corporation Benin Acting Resident Country Director Randall Wood met with officials from the Port of Cotonou and the Beninese Merchant Mari [...] | 2007-07-25 11:38:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV KHLS PTER BN |
07COTONOU617 | PORT OF COTONOU: UPDATE ON DEMARCHE CONCERNING ISPS CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the request of the Mr. Armand Zinzindohou, Minister Delegate for Public Works in the Office of the President, the Charge d'Affaires, along with the Millennium Challenge Corporation Benin Acting Resident Country Director and the Coordinator of the Benin MCA Team, toured the Por [...] | 2007-08-13 12:04:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV KHLS PTER BN |
07COTONOU657 | PORT OF COTONOU: UPDATE ON DEMARCHE CONCERNING ISPS CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on an August 21, 2007 inspection of the Port of Cotonou, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commander Adam Shaw and Lt. Commander Robert Keith, presented to the Government of Benin (GOB) on August 22 a USCG Headquarters cleared-document stating their recommendation for a USCG determin [...] | 2007-08-24 07:46:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV KHLS PTER PINR BN |
07COTONOU872 | BENIN: GOVERNMENT PROPOSES AMENDMENTS TO WJEI LETTER OF [...] This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 9. 2. SUMMARY: Post transmitted the Letter of Agreement (LOA) (Ref B) to the GOB on September 11, 2007. Post received the GOB's response, a revised draft of the LOA, on November 5, 2007. In its response, the GOB renamed the LOA an Accord, re- [...] | 2007-11-16 05:30:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID BN |
07COTONOU875 | PARLIAMENT WELCOMES USG'S TOUR D'HORIZON ON US/BENIN [...] Summary: In a November 13, 2007 speech, the Ambassador outlined major elements of the USG/Benin cooperative partnership for economic growth and trade, investing in people, poverty reduction, anti-corruption, and regional peace and security in a well-attended National Assembly session in Porto [...] | 2007-11-16 08:06:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD ECON EWWT MASS PTER KMCA |
07COTONOU91 | Endorsement of Benin's Ten-Year Education Sector [...] SUMMARY: Under USAID leadership, 12 donors have completed their endorsement of Benin's Ten-Year Education Sector Development Plan (TESDP). USAID/Benin sent the donor assessment of the plan and letter of endorsement to the World Bank's Fast Track Secretariat on January 31, 2007. With this endo [...] | 2007-02-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PREL PGOV BN |
07COTONOU915 | BENIN: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] This cable responds to the Department's request for information for the Worst Forms of Child Labor report (Reftel). -------------------- Laws and Regulations -------------------- 2. Benin uses laws and ministerial decrees to set the minimum age for employment, to prohibit child traffick [...] | 2007-11-30 07:28:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID BN |
07DAKAR1035 | DEEP CUTS IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WILL HARM SENEGAL'S [...] (SBU) Having recently been apprised of possible significant cuts to USAID/Senegal's operating (OE) budget and development program, perhaps as early as the current fiscal year, I feel compelled to provide an initial reaction in the hope that there is still an opportunity for this Mission, as we [...] | 2007-05-14 07:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL KMCA PGOV SG |
07DAKAR1039 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIRALS STUFFLEBEEM AND [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for legislative elections on June 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in promoting peace and [...] | 2007-05-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP MARR PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
07DAKAR1054 | 2007 AGOA FORUM: SENEGAL AND GUINEA-BISSAU INVITED [...] On May 10, Ambassador Jacobs provided reftel information on the 2007 AGOA Forum to Senegal's Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Finance. In addition, the Economic Office briefed Mr. Abdoulaye Dieye, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Europe and the Americas, and Mr. Robert Niouk [...] | 2007-05-16 07:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EINV EFIN EAID PU SG |
07DAKAR1083 | UNICEF REP HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES IN GUINEA-BISSAU AND [...] On April 16, Jean Dricot, the UNICEF Representative in Guinea-Bissau, called on then-Charge and Acting DCM to solicit support for UNICEF's USD 58 million, 2008-2012 program. He highlighted some of the huge challenges that the Government and donors face in one of the world's poorest countries. [...] | 2007-05-18 14:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI EAID UNICEF PU |
07DAKAR113 | SENEGAL WILL PROBABLY PLEDGE AT LIBERIA PARTNERS' [...] (U) On January 11, Acting Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Claude Absa Diallo told Charge that Senegal will participate in the Liberia Partners' Forum (reftel) and plans to make at least a symbolic pledge to underscore Senegal's support for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government. [...] | 2007-01-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL IV LI PU SG |
07DAKAR1130 | GUINEA-BISSAU FY2006 DHRF ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 17:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM EAID PU |
07DAKAR1223 | IMF: SENEGAL'S POOR PUBLIC FINANCES WILL MAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to IMF Resrep for Senegal, Alex Segura, President Wade's administration has greatly exacerbated the country's public finances problems in recent years. The GOS and the IMF are facing difficult negotiations on a new program, whether a PRGF or a Policy Support Instrumen [...] | 2007-06-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL KCOR SG |
07DAKAR1251 | GUINEA BISSAU: NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES RIGHT STEPS, [...] (U) The government of Prime Minister Martinho N,Dafa Cabi has taken bold moves toward transparency of budgets, against corruption, petty crime, and drug trafficking. It is cleaning up the streets and harbor and has earned the trust of the World Bank, which is restarting the multi-sectoral pr [...] | 2007-06-07 17:58:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID SNAR PU |
07DAKAR1276 | MCC TELLS GOS IT HAS ENDED SUPPORT OF ORIGINAL COMPACT [...] (U) Possible action request for the Department, Johannesburg and Cape Town in para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The MCC has informed President Wade and Prime Minister Macky Sall that it will not continue supporting Senegal's MCC Compact proposal, the Diamniadio Platform. The MCC remains keen to [...] | 2007-06-13 16:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
07DAKAR1323 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR FIRST LADY (FLOTUS) [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, President Abdoulaye Wade has just changed Prime Ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States [...] | 2007-06-21 08:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
07DAKAR1382 | ROUNDTABLE ON SENEGAL'S AGOA FORUM PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 19, Senegal's Ministry of Commerce organized a stakeholder roundtable to assess the state of preparations for the GOS' participation in the July 18-19 AGOA Forum. EconOff and representatives from the West African Trade Hub/Dakar participated. Senegal is not yet well o [...] | 2007-06-29 13:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EINV EFIN EAID EAIR SG |
07DAKAR1454 | IMF RESREP ON SENEGALESE POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE [...] (S/NF) Senegal is clearly at a political and economic crossroads. Because we are friends, we should do what we can to help Senegal through this difficult time. On June 29, IMF ResRep Alex Segura sought out the Economic Counselor to better understand the MCC decision to end its work on the D [...] | 2007-07-11 12:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID EFIN ECON PREL SG |
07DAKAR1508 | REACTION TO MCC DECISION AND JAFZA DEAL: QUESTIONS FROM [...] (U) The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) decision to withdraw from the "Diamniadio" industrial platform project (reftel) has opened the door for Senegal's opposition politicians and press to challenge President Abdoulaye Wade's administration on governance, public finances, and commitm [...] | 2007-07-20 09:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
07DAKAR1515 | SENEGAL'S DONORS AGAIN GIVE IMF MISSION AN EARFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the beginning of a two-week mission to negotiate a new program with Senegal, IMF officials on July 12 received a non-stop stream of complaints and concerns by the country's traditional donors over the current state of public finance and governance. Senegal very much needs a [...] | 2007-07-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON ETRD EINV SG |
07DAKAR1530 | SENEGAL APPEARS READY TO GIVE-UP ON MCC OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) This cable includes an action request for MCC with coordination by the Department. Please see para 5 below. 2. (SBU) Summary: Senegal's Minister of Finance Abdoulaye Diop confirmed that Senegal insists on terms likely unacceptable to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for fin [...] | 2007-07-24 15:16:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
07DAKAR1591 | IMF MISSION: MIXED MARKS, BUT READY TO SUPPORT SENEGAL'S [...] Summary: A visiting IMF team led by Johanness Mueller provided an end-of-mission briefing for donors on July 26 to inform them of the state of the ongoing negotiations of a new program with Senegal. Mueller termed FY 2006 a "difficult year," and said that, while Senegal is still struggling [...] | 2007-07-31 13:34:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
07DAKAR1868 | REMITTANCES TO SENEGAL ARE AN ECONOMIC FORCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Formally recorded remittances to Senegal topped USD 800 million in 2006 and are undoubtedly higher this year. Informal money transfers are not quantified, but are also significant, perhaps equaling the formal flow. These funds are an important source of foreign currency and alle [...] | 2007-09-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
07DAKAR1993 | WADE INFORMS AND MISINFORMS ON MCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has publicly confirmed that his government will not pursue a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact to help with Dakar's toll road project. Having previously lost the opportunity for MCC funding of a new industrial platform because of [...] | 2007-10-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
07DAKAR2059 | SENEGAL: SIXTH CONSULTATIVE GROUP [...] SUMMARY: The sixth meeting of the Consultative Group (CG) for Senegal was convened at the World Bank's Paris Office on October 3-4, 2007. The meeting was chaired by Madani Tall, World Bank Director of Operations for Senegal. The 48-person Senegalese Delegation [press reports noted more than 100 [...] | 2007-10-18 12:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV OTRA SG |
07DAKAR2091 | GOS WILL LIKELY SELL COMPANY SHARES AS PART OF ITS NEEDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal has announced plans to move forward on its much-touted privatization agenda and speed up its divestiture from three key public-private companies by early 2008: Sonatel (Telephone Company),ICS (Fertilizer Company) and Dakar Dem Dikk (public transporta [...] | 2007-10-25 07:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ELAB BTIO PGOV SG |
07DAKAR2140 | GUINEA BISSAU: UNODC STEPS UP WITH MULTI-FACETED [...] The United Nations Office o\Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in conjunction with the GOGB a finalizing a project proposal for immediate and sustained assistance to Guinea-Bissau to fight narcotics trafficking and reform the justice sector. The progr is a responk to President Joao Bernardo fNino" Vieira [...] | 2007-11-06 06:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL EAID PU |
07DAKAR2144 | DELIVERY OF MCC SCORECARD IS OCCASION FOR CRITICISM BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In receiving Senegal's FY08 MCC Scorecard, Presidential Advisor Aminata Niane criticized the MCC's lack of clarifying information in the annual indicators and the lack of flexibility by the MCC to help Senegal, an "important partner," achieve a compact. Minister Niane was not [...] | 2007-11-06 14:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON MCC SG |
07DAKAR258 | SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 10:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
07DAKAR262 | SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | OVIP PGOV ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
07DAKAR276 | GUINEA BISSAU: GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY BUSINESS [...] (C) As AF/W desk officer Dorsey Lockhart, PolOff, and PAO met with Bissau-Guinean government, NGO, human rights, and business leaders, January 24-26, they heard "government is the only business in Bissau." Some might have added that narcotics is fast catching on (Reftel). On January 27, the [...] | 2007-02-02 14:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON SNAR PU |
07DAKAR299 | SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO [...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...] | 2007-02-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG |
07DAKAR309 | SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO [...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...] | 2007-02-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG |
07DAKAR457 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SENEGAL'S RESPONSE TO USG CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, Econ Counselor met separately with Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (CENTIF),Senegal's Department of Customs, and ECOWAS' Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA),to exchange views on the capacity and willingness [...] | 2007-02-28 12:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER ECON EAID SG |
07DAKAR506 | GUINEA BISSAU: UPDATE FOR U.S./CHINA DIALOGUE ON [...] (U) At a time when traditional Western donors are proceeding slowly with budgetary and program assistance to Guinea-Bissau, China is surging ahead with new trade and aid programs for the impoverished nation. The PRC is still focused on fishing but is also exploring agricultural assistance, h [...] | 2007-03-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD EAID PGOV PREL CH GB |
07DAKAR508 | TRANS-SAHARAN COUNTERTERRORISM PARTNERSHIP (TSCTP) [...] (C) The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) and the EUCOM Deputy Commander met in Dakar on February 6 and 7. There was general agreement that terrorism in North and West Africa is linked with organized crime, including illegal migration and traffickin [...] | 2007-03-05 17:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR ECON PHUM EAID MASS PREL SG |
07DAKAR547 | SENEGAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE THREAT AND THE [...] (S/NF) With a population of approximately 12 million, democratic, pro-Western Senegal should remain stable for the foreseeable future. Despite its predominately Islamic population and high levels of unemployment, there is no evidence, and indeed little chance, that Jihadist ideologies have t [...] | 2007-03-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC EAID PREL KISL SG |
07DAKAR588 | SENEGAL'S FY07 BUDGET RELYS ON HIPC SAVINGS AND DOMESTIC [...] Senegal's FY2007 (January 1 - December 31) budget expenditures of CFAF 1.519 trillion (USD 2.978 billion) represents an overall increase of 7.9 percent over the 2006 budget. For 2007, the Government of Senegal is anticipating revenues of CFAF 1.048 trillion (USD 2.0 billion) from domestic sou [...] | 2007-03-15 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID SG |
07DAKAR696 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION ATTENDING [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for President Abdoulaye Wade's second inauguration on April 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United Sta [...] | 2007-03-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ELAB PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG |
07DAKAR777 | TSCTP/RSI CONFERENCE: LESS COUNTERTERRORISM, MORE [...] (S) SUMMARY: To succeed in the medium- and long-term against terrorism in the Trans-Sahara region, the USG must help countries address fundamental social, economic, and political problems that undermine their stability, concluded Ambassadors at the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership ( [...] | 2007-04-10 11:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PTER EAID MASS PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SG |
07DAKAR819 | GUINEA BISSAU: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND PROPOSALS [...] We request USD 41,700 for the FY-2007 Community Development Fund (formerly the Ambassador's Special Self-Help and Democracy and Human Rights Funds) for Guinea-Bissau. Mission priorities follow. 2. Proposed self-help priorities are: A. Purchase and installation of a mill for grinding m [...] | 2007-04-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM ECON PREF PU |
07DAKAR944 | GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA, PHASE [...] Senegal's National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) is using this Global Fund grant to introduce new artemesinin-based combination therapy (ACT) drugs for treatment of uncomplicated malaria, provide intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, and distribute insecticide-treated bednets. [...] | 2007-04-27 15:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV TBIO SOCI SG |
07DAKAR952 | EMBASSY DAKAR,S PROPOSALS FOR FY-2007 AMBASSADOR,S [...] Embassy Dakar is pleased to submit three proposals to aid organizations that provide critical assistance to refugees in Senegal. Each of the three USD 20,000 proposals focuses on the conflict-ridden Casamance region. The proposals consist of continuing a project to increase awareness of the [...] | 2007-04-30 17:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID SG |
07DAKAR996 | UPDATED EMBASSY AKAR PROPOSAL FOR FY 2007 [...] EmbassyDakar is pleased to re-submit one project proposa to aid an organization that provides critical asistance to refugees in Senegal. The proposal focses on assisting landmine victims in the Casamane region. PROPOSAL ONE: HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL-INGUICHOR -------------------------------- [...] | 2007-05-07 17:54:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID SG |
07DAMASCUS490 | SYRIA: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENTS [...] (SBU) In accordance with ref A, Post has reviewed the relevant country documents. Our only substantive comment is that the documents do not refer to the phenomenon since late 2005 of Iraqi Palestinians attempting to flee Iraq to Syria. Currently, an estimated 310 Palestinian Iraqis live in th [...] | 2007-05-23 08:52:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL UNICEF |
07DARESSALAAM1009 | TANZANIA'S CENTRAL BANK UNDER FIRE IN PRESS FOR [...] SUMMARY. Throughout June and July, a steady beat of corruption claims against the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) have featured on the front pages of almost every major Tanzanian newspaper. Allegations in the press focus on the prohibitive construction costs of the new BOT "twin towers," payments ma [...] | 2007-07-18 13:23:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID KMCA PGOV PREL PHUM PINR TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1037 | BIG FISH STILL RISKY CATCH IN TANZANIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Tanzania's Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB) has never successfully prosecuted a high-level corruption case involving either the private or public sector. On July 14, the Director General of the PCB, Edward Hoseah, assured the DCM that the PCB was now prepared to prosecute a milest [...] | 2007-07-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID KMCA PINR TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1136 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY LEAVITT'S AUGUST 23-26 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterter [...] | 2007-08-14 15:46:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP EAID PREL PGOV ECON TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1143 | AGOA POINT OF CONTACT IN TANZANIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 06:03:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1183 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE FOR TANZANIA [...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT),International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs are addressing trafficking in persons (TIP) on a number of fronts. The Ministry of Health is working with IOM to increase awareness of TIP and IOM is finalizing the report of its 2006 research asses [...] | 2007-08-21 14:23:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL HSTC SOCI EAID PREF PGOV KWMN SMIG KCRM |
07DARESSALAAM1215 | TANZANIA: AMBASSSADOR RETZER,S AUGUST 30 FAREWELL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 11:05:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1464 | TANZANIA: SEABORNE HUMAN SMUGGLING FROM SOMALIA [...] (SBU) During an October 24 meeting with Ambassador Green, Government of Tanzania (GOT) Minister of Home Affairs, Joseph Mungai, stated his concern for what appears to be a human smuggling ring involving Somali, Ethiopians and Eritrean citizens entering Tanzania by sea on ships ostensibly carryi [...] | 2007-11-02 20:47:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1483 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterterrorism and [...] | 2007-11-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV EAID ECON TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1531 | EAC SAYS IT IS READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON THE US-EAC TIFA [...] (U) The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC),Ambassador Juma Mwapachu, told Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Africa Florie Liser November 13 that the proposed U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) would be at the top of the agenda of [...] | 2007-11-26 11:56:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1539 | TANZANIA: AMBASSADOR GREEN DISCUSSES [...] (C) Tanzania's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA),Bernard Membe, told Ambassador Green on November 27 that he has instructed Ambassador Ombeni Sefue to work proactively to resolve the issue of the domestic worker who was employed without pay by an official of the [...] | 2007-11-28 16:26:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KWMN PGOV EAID MOPS TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1555 | TANZANIA: DONORS INCREASINGLY WARY OF CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) In recent months, opposition leaders and the press have continued to batter the Kikwete administration with allegations of "grand corruption" at the senior-most levels of government related to the Bank of Tanzania, gold mining contracts, the "Richmond" power generation scandal, and a hos [...] | 2007-11-30 10:25:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV ECON TZ |
07DARESSALAAM1587 | TANZANIA: SECRETARY PAULSON AND PRESIDENT KIKWETE DISCUSS [...] (U) President Jakaya Kikwete told U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Henry Paulson, on November 15 that he would welcome more capital market investment in Tanzania to accelerate economic growth and raise the per capita income. Secretary Paulson expressed appreciation for both President Kikwete and Fi [...] | 2007-12-14 04:06:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL TZ |
07DARESSALAAM168 | MCC CEO VISITS TANZANIA: GREAT EXPECTATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During his visit to Tanzania from January 28-30, Ambassador Danilovich, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),commended Tanzania's engagement in the MCC Compact process. Repeatedly, he expressed his confidence that the MCC would successfully c [...] | 2007-02-06 08:43:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV EFIN ECON ETRD TZ |
07DARESSALAAM225 | WFP DEMARCHE: TANZANIA DECLINES TO BE A COMPROMISE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Begum Taj, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Multilateral Division, told PolCouns February 15 that Tanzania would not be interested in standing as a compromise candidate country for the Vice Presidency of the World Food Program Executive Board. Ambassador Taj said that [...] | 2007-02-15 16:06:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AORC PREL WFP TZ |
07DARESSALAAM245 | A QUICK 180: TANZANIA LIFTS BAN ON HAKIELIMU [...] (C) SUMMARY. Reversing directions and changing its tune, the Government of Tanzania (GOT) removed its ban on HakiElimu, a Tanzanian NGO accused by the government of tarnishing the nation's image in the education sector. Just two months after the Prime Minister's Office had expanded prohibit [...] | 2007-02-26 04:08:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID TZ |
07DARESSALAAM305 | TANZANIA: UPDATE ON TRADE AND COOPERATION WITH CHINA [...] (U) Tanzania has maintained diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1964. The Government of Tanzania's (GOT) relationship with the PRC has been historically strong, with frequent high-level exchanges and ongoing bilateral cooperation in development assistance, trade and [...] | 2007-03-09 04:39:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV CH TZ |
07DARESSALAAM355 | TANZANIA: INPUT FOR 2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] In calendar year 2006, Tanzania's exports under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) still hovered at approximately USD 3.7 million in AGOA-qualified exports to the United States. The U.S. Congress' December 2006 extension of the third country fabric provisions could boost Tanzania' [...] | 2007-03-14 04:02:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ETRD TZ |
07DARESSALAAM434 | RIFT VALLEY FEVER SPREADS IN TANZANIA, FROM [...] (SBU) Rift Valley Fever (RVF),an acute fever-causing viral disease that affects livestock and humans, has spread from northern to central Tanzania, with Dodoma Region the hardest hit. While most RVF cases are not fatal, the 18 deaths in Tanzania since the February 2007 outbreak have sparked [...] | 2007-03-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CASC PREL EAID PBTS TZ |
07DARESSALAAM573 | TANZANIA: SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR TOBIAS' MAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterter [...] | 2007-04-19 13:53:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PGOV TZ |
07DARESSALAAM609 | ZANZIBAR: TANZANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER UPDATES [...] (C) President Kikwete and insiders in the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Party agree that to close the divide in Zanzibar, the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party's demand for some form of power-sharing in the Government of Zanzibar (GOZ) needs to be accommodated, Foreign Minister Bernard Mem [...] | 2007-04-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON PHUM TZ |
07DARESSALAAM781 | FY07 AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR REFUGEES REQUEST FROM [...] SUMMARY: Per reftel's invitation, post proposes a USD 20,000 award from the Ambassador's Fund for Refugees for FY07 to continue and expand the activities addressing environmental degradation in refugee camps and their host communities in western Tanzania. Post has consulted with the UN High [...] | 2007-05-31 08:46:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SENV PGOV EAID ECON TZ |
07DARESSALAAM794 | TANZANIA: CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF [...] (SBU) Members of the Parliaments of ten African Union (AU) member states and of the Pan African Parliament (PAP),met in Dar es Salaam from May 26-28 to consider national responsibilities in responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, the AU Spe [...] | 2007-06-05 03:34:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON MOPS SU TZ |
07DARESSALAAM819 | TANZANIA: FOREIGN MINISTER MEMBE DISCUSSES [...] (C) The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe, told the Charge June 6 that Tanzania will join an AU mission to stabilize the situation in the Comoros Islands, by sending a company of 200 soldiers to monitor upcoming elections and train the Comoran army. The M [...] | 2007-06-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MOPS IR SO ZI TZ |
07DARESSALAAM85 | KIKWETE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST CORRUPTION: PROMISING [...] (C) SUMMARY. After one year in office, President Kikwete has yet to match his strong anti-corruption rhetoric with concrete results. There are promising signs on the legislative front: Parliament approved a new Anti-Money Laundering bill last fall and the Anti-Corruption Bill is slated to m [...] | 2007-01-18 14:15:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID ECON PGOV TZ |
07DARESSALAAM950 | UPDATE ON TANZANIAN ECONOMY: SHORT-TERM GROWTH [...] (U) Tanzania's economy grew by 6.2 percent in 2006 despite drought-like conditions and a prolonged energy shortage, according to second quarter Government of Tanzania (GOT) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports. Exports continue to rise with minerals the leading growth sector. The co [...] | 2007-07-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID FINE EINV ENRG PREL AA TZ |
07DHAKA117 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: BUILDING ANIMAL SURVEILLANCE [...] SUMMARY. Avian Influenza (AI) surveillance efforts in Bangladesh are expanding to include animal surveillance, but much work is needed. USAID conducted a local "Train the Trainers" program for the use of USAID-supplied personal protective equipment, decontamination equipment and field testi [...] | 2007-01-22 07:40:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSCA PREL EAID WHO WB BG |
07DHAKA1543 | ECONOMIC WOES TRUMP POLITICS IN FLOOD-HIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Much of northcentral Bangladesh remains under water from monsoon rains that began in August. A recent three-day visit to the region by PolOff found much dissatisfaction with the caretaker government, which villagers blame for spotty relief efforts and rapidly increasing prices. [...] | 2007-09-21 08:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | BG EAID ECON PGOV PINR SOCI |
07DHAKA1604 | BANGLADESH: LABOR-GSP PETITION -- STAKEHOLDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government, labor, and manufacturing representatives are preparing for a Washington review of Bangladesh,s labor rights regime following a petition to suspend Bangladesh,s access to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) submitted by the American Federation of Labor ) Congre [...] | 2007-10-04 10:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD EFIS EIND EAID PREL SOCI KTEX KWMN |
07DHAKA1642 | BANGLADESH MINISTERIAL DELEGATION TO WIREC 2008 [...] (U) Post has engaged with the Government of Bangladesh to solicit nominations for the official Bangladesh delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). 2. Through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we are likely to invite the Caretaker Government Advisor [...] | 2007-10-15 11:28:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA |
07DHAKA1745 | GOVERNMENT ADVISER ON S&T COOPERATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim, Adviser for the Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock, and Environment and Forest, expressed hope for a broad implementation of the U.S.-Bangladesh Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement, to include nuclear safety, agriculture, [...] | 2007-11-05 05:18:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID EFIS ELAB ENRG PHUM PREL SENV TSPL |
07DHAKA1797 | BANGLADESH CYCLONE SIDR SITREP FOR NOVEMBER 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bangladesh is slowly beginning to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr. Unofficial estimates of the number of deaths reached 2,000 by late afternoon November 17. As many as a million homes and an estimated 250,000 acres of crops may have been damaged or destroyed. Loss of [...] | 2007-11-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1808 | BANGLADESH CYCLONE SIDR SITREP FOR NOVEMBER 19 [...] (U) Summary: The official death toll in Cyclone Sidr rose to about 3,500 by early afternoon November 19, with local media quoting the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society chairman as saying the number could go as high as 10,000. A round-the-clock Embassy cyclone control room is now staffed by State, [...] | 2007-11-20 00:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1814 | US MILITARY OPTIONS IN SUPPORT OF USAID/OFDA IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Members of the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team, Defense Attach, Office of Defense Cooperation chief, USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and EMBOFF participated in briefings with host Armed Forces Division on 19 NOV, and the same group (less USAID/OFDA) [...] | 2007-11-20 17:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1815 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-20 18:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1816 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-21 01:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1817 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-21 04:12:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1818 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-21 07:34:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1819 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-21 08:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1820 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...] | 2007-11-21 09:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1826 | BANGLADESH REQUESTS IMMEDIATE US MILITARY SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CDA a.i. received a broad request from the GOB for immediate U.S. military resources to participate in the response to Cyclone Sidr. U.S. military planners already present in Bangladesh will now begin developing specific operational plans for implementing this request in conjun [...] | 2007-11-21 12:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1830 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #2: USAID/DART's [...] Summary. Storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has affected more than 1.5 million families in Bangladesh as of November 22. Although the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) early warning and preparedness programs have significantly reduced the humanitarian impact of the cyclone, severe rainfall [...] | 2007-11-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1832 | DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE VISITS BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) Summary: Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore November 20 visited Bangladesh to assess damage from Cyclone Sidr and offer USG support for relief efforts. During her visit she conducted an aerial survey of cyclone-hit regions, met with the Bangladesh [...] | 2007-11-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL OVIP ECON PINR EAGR SENV BG |
07DHAKA1833 | IMPRESSIONS FOLLOWING OVERFLIGHT OF SIDR AFFECTED AREAS [...] SUMMARY: DATT, Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief, CONOff and six members of III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF)'s Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST),accompanied by a Bangladesh military officer, November 20 flew in a host nation military helicopter to survey damage from [...] | 2007-11-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PNR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1834 | IMPRESSIONS FOLLOWING OVERFLIGHT OF SIDR AFFECTED AREAS [...] SUMMARY: DATT, Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief, CONOff and six members of III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF)'s Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST),accompanied by a Bangladesh military officer, November 20 flew in a host nation military helicopter to survey damage from [...] | 2007-11-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1835 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #3: The Impact [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground, provide recommendations on priority needs, and coordinate relief efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, USAID/B [...] | 2007-11-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1836 | FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: PLANNING FOR THE NEXT [...] (SBU) Summary: In only a week's time, the United States has been able to develop and implement an impressive humanitarian response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Sidr, which laid waste to large stretches of Bangladesh's southwestern coastal region when it made landfall on November 15 [...] | 2007-11-24 15:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL |
07DHAKA1838 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #4: The Adverse [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground, provide recommendations on priority needs, and coordinate relief efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, USAID/B [...] | 2007-11-25 13:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1847 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #5: USAID/DART [...] Summary. Tropical Cyclone Sidr made landfall in southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, leading to 3,061 deaths, affecting more than 6.8 million people, and damaging more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World F [...] | 2007-11-26 11:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1848 | JOINT INTERAGENCY PLANNING MEETING BETWEEN USG AND GOB TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Planners from the US military elements in Bangladesh and, along with representatives from USAID's Bangladesh mission, USAID/OFDA, and DOS attended a joint, interagency planning and coordination meeting with the Bangladeshi military and civilian agencies November 25 at Armed For [...] | 2007-11-27 00:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1860 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #6: Summary of [...] Summary. The impact of Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh has led to 3,243 deaths, affected more than 7 million people, and damaged more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) as of No [...] | 2007-11-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1870 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #7: USAID/DART [...] Summary. In conjunction with USAID/Bangladesh and the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE),USAID's Disaster Response Team (USAID/DART) assessed water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in Dublar Char, Khulna Division, which the Bangladesh military i [...] | 2007-11-29 12:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1879 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #8: USAID/DART's [...] Summary. From November 28 to December 2, the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) advisor from USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART),along with a USAID/DART communications officer and staff from USAID/Bangladesh, traveled to cyclone-affected areas in Barisal, Patuakhali, Khu [...] | 2007-12-02 13:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1885 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #9: Shelter and [...] The USAID'S Disaster Assistance Response Team's (USAID/DART) shelter and livelihoods advisor recently completed a three-day assessment in the cyclone-affected districts of Bagerhat and Pirojpur. These two districts, along with Borguna and Paktuakhali, are among the districts hardest hit by Cyc [...] | 2007-12-03 12:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1891 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #10: USAID/OFDA [...] Summary. To reduce the effects of perennial flooding and cyclones in Bangladesh, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) has invested in preparedness and mitigation programs for a number of years, including the pre-positioning of water purification units to provide clea [...] | 2007-12-04 11:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1902 | DEFINING THE USG ROLE AS BANGLADESH BEGINS ITS [...] (C) Summary: The prompt and effective response to Cyclone Sidr's devastation has saved many thousands of lives and averted a potential political crisis for Bangladesh's weak Caretaker Government. The USG response during this initial phase was a model of Diplomacy-Defense-Development workin [...] | 2007-12-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | BG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL |
07DHAKA1903 | BANGLADESH'S POST-CYCLONE ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Cyclone Sidr couldn,t have come at a worse time for Bangladesh,s economy. When the storm hit on November 15, Bangladesh already was suffering from weak export markets, debilitating inflation, meager investment and an agriculture industry reeling from severe monsoon flooding. Eco [...] | 2007-12-06 11:12:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | BG EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV PINR |
07DHAKA1914 | Country Team, USAID/DART, and U.S. Military Coordination [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh, the U.S. Government (USG) organized an interagency response under the leadership of the Department of State that included contributions from USAID and the Department of Defense (DOD). USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Te [...] | 2007-12-10 03:14:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA192 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON ADVISORS FOR EDUCATION AND [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and USAID officer (note taker) met separately on January 31 with Geeteara Safiya Choudhury, Advisor for Industries, Jute and Textiles, Social Welfare, and Women and Children's Affairs and with Ayub Quatri, Advisor for Education, Primary and Mass Education and Cultural A [...] | 2007-02-05 07:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM BG |
07DHAKA1920 | INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER VISITS BANGLADESH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee December 2 visited cyclone-affected areas of Bangladesh and met with government leaders to discuss bilateral issues including trade, water-sharing and security. Mukherjee announced a temporary waiver of India's ban on rice exports [...] | 2007-12-11 03:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EAGR BG |
07DHAKA1921 | GOB and Political Party Representatives in Barisal talk [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local government and political party officials in Barisal gave positive reviews of the Government of Bangladesh's initial response to Cyclone Sidr, as well as the role played by the U.S. Government, including the U.S. military. The Barisal branches of the main political parties [...] | 2007-12-11 03:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1925 | USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #11: [...] Summary. With the approach of the one-month anniversary of the November 15 cyclone in Bangladesh as well as improvements in humanitarian indicators, USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) will demobilize. USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) will now [...] | 2007-12-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV |
07DHAKA1933 | Trip Report- from Barisal through SidrQs destruction to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three weeks after cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, the response has transitioned from the critical first phase, which included U.S. military aircraft assisting in relief supply movement, to the second phase, which will be more centered on longer-term rebuilding and economic rehab [...] | 2007-12-13 04:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PINR PREL BG |
07DHAKA1979 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at the one-year mark of the Caretaker Government as Bangladesh begins to rehabilitate areas of the country hit by Cyclone Sidr, while at the same time continues to prepare for nationwide elections at the end of 2008. Bangladesh largely survived the immediate cri [...] | 2007-12-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREL MOPS BG |
07DHAKA412 | BANGLADESH REPORTS ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND [...] SUMMARY. One project in Bangladesh was awarded under the United Nations Democracy Fund, the "Clean Candidate, Clean Election Campaign, 2006" proposed by Brotee Samaj Kallyan Sangstha. The project is on hold, however, because the elections scheduled for January 22, 2007 in Bangladesh were can [...] | 2007-03-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP BG |
07DHAKA587 | HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...] | 2007-04-11 09:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG |
07DHAKA588 | HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...] | 2007-04-11 09:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG |
07DHAKA608 | BIRD FLU: BANGLADESH PERMITS INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOB agreed April 9 to allow foreign technical advisors to assist with the Avian Influenza response. This breakthrough opens the door for multilateral and bilateral assistance to implement the recommendations reported in ref (A). END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Early Assessment: [...] | 2007-04-15 08:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG |
07DHAKA611 | REO VISITS DHAKA Q REVIEWS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES [...] SUMMARY. REO John Adams and FSN Jay Pal Shrestha visited Dhaka March 7 Q 14 as part of a series of regular regional visits. They met with embassy personnel, GOB officials, and NGOs to assess major environmental issues facing Bangladesh. They also visited USAID projects in the field, and par [...] | 2007-04-16 01:28:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID BG |
07DHAKA626 | FAO TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASE EXPERT ASSESSES [...] (SBU) FAO Technical Assistance: Dr. Laurence Gleeson, Regional Manager of the Food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases, visited Dhaka April 4 to assess the avian influenza outbreak that began in February (ref B) and to make recommendations. He pr [...] | 2007-04-16 06:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG |
07DHAKA730 | LABORATORY CAPACITY IN BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. H5N1 continues to spread in Bangladesh, with confirmed poultry infections reported in nine of 64 districts but still no confirmed human cases. Numerous meetings between donors, experts, and the relevant GOB ministries have raised the question of Bangladesh,s laboratory capaci [...] | 2007-05-04 07:27:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG |
07DHAKA989 | BANGLADESH: PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-18 03:14:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | UNDP KUNR PREL EFIN EAID BG |
07DILI204 | MANAGING PORTUGESE AND LUSOPHONE INTERESTS IN EAST TIMOR [...] (C/NF) Summary: As the international community grapples with how best to assist East Timor in re-establishing security, strengthening the public sector, and stimulating economic growth, one of the most delicate issues confronting the major players is how to manage Portuguese, Brazilian and ot [...] | 2007-05-25 07:58:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID TT PO |
07DILI239 | UPDATE ON USAID/OFDA-FUNDED ACTIVITIES IN EAST TIMOR [...] USAID/OFDA Bangkok-based Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific (RA) traveled to East Timor June 4 - 7, 2007 to monitor ongoing USAID/OFDA-funded emergency and mitigation programs, and assess the humanitarian situation in Dili. Outbreaks of violence continue to be a part of daily life in Di [...] | 2007-06-26 07:18:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TT |
07DILI310 | AUSTRALIA, PORTUGAL BRING AID TO TIMOR-LESTE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 10:45:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID TT PO AS |
07DILI61 | RICE SHORTAGE: POLITICAL AND SECURITY IMPLICATIONS IN TIMOR [...] (U) Summary: A severe rice shortage in East Timor has caused both a dramatic increase in the price of rice and in many cases a total lack of availability at any cost. Although the UN has emphasized that the rice shortage does not translate into an overall food shortage, the immediate political [...] | 2007-02-22 09:57:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EAID ASEC CASC KPKO TT |
07DJIBOUTI1150 | U.S. DEVELOPMENT AID IN DJIBOUTI SCORES SUCCESSES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID assistance to Djibouti over the past four years has increased food security and raised agricultural incomes in Djibouti and its neighbors. It has helped to stave off famine and is reducing the risk of fatalities due to flooding. USAID re-established its presence and prog [...] | 2007-10-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID DJ |
07DJIBOUTI1349 | Declaration of Cholera Epidemic in Djibouti [...] Summary: The Minister of Health, Mr Abdilla Miguel declared a cholera epidemic in the poor parts of the city of Djibouti and other periphery areas last Friday, the 16th of November and requested international assistance to help with epidemic response. The Ambassador concurs that an adequate re [...] | 2007-11-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID |
07DJIBOUTI1414 | DJIBOUTI REPLACES DUBAI AS A FOOD FOR PEACE [...] (C) In a November 26 meeting, Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh warmly thanked USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa Kate Almquist for the U.S. decision to make Djibouti the new site for pre-positioned Food For Peace aid in the region (replacing Dubai). Guelleh called the decision a [...] | 2007-12-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET//NOFORN | DJ EAID ECON ET FAS MAS MOPS PINR PM PREF |
07DJIBOUTI425 | EAST AFRICA REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE (RSI), [...] (S) Summary: East African regional ambassadors and interagency representatives agreed to institutionalize the East African RSI by requesting dedicated, line-item FY09 regional funding for East Africa, along the lines of the Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorist Partnership. In this second RSI (th [...] | 2007-04-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PTER PREL PINR KPAO PGOV EAID XW YM |
07DUBAI425 | GERGAWI DISCUSSES MBR FOUNDATION FUND, [...] (C) Summary: UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Gergawi discussed potential areas of cooperation between the USG, U.S. educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) in a 90 minute meeting with the Ambassador and Consul Gen [...] | 2007-06-28 13:05:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI SCUL AE EAID PTER |
07DUBLIN32 | IRELAND CONSIDERING APPROACH TO LEBANON CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-12 17:09:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID XT LE JA CA NO EI |
07DUBLIN817 | EEB A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO IRELAND [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Daniel Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs met with SIPDIS Irish government officials, members of the NGO community, and the AmCham to discuss the making of the Celtic Tiger, the economic path forward for Ireland, and assistan [...] | 2007-10-25 15:24:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON EINV EI |
07DUSHANBE1030 | TAJIKISTAN A DECADE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR [...] (SBU) Ten years after peace accords ended the 1992-1997 civil war, President Emomali Rahmon has taken a great deal of credit for pulling Tajikistan out of conflict and setting it on a path which he claims could be a model for other post-conflict societies. At a June 25-26 conference commemor [...] | 2007-07-06 07:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID SNAR TI |
07DUSHANBE1080 | OSCE IN DUSHANBE: BORDER MANAGEMENT AND MANDATE ISSUES [...] ( C) Summary: OSCE Head of Center Pryakhin told Ambassador that the Tajik government had approved only one our its four proposed border management programs -- creation of a comprehensive border management strategy -- and deferred the other proposals for further study after the strategy is c [...] | 2007-07-18 12:08:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SNAR TI AF OSCE |
07DUSHANBE1091 | TAJIKISTAN'S WATER USERS ASSOCIATIONS: SUSTAINABLE [...] Summary: Winrock International's water users' associations provide an example of the kind of "bottom-up" assistance that delivers substantial and sustainable benefits to Tajikistan's poorest. During a July 20 site visit in Rudaki District, 30 miles outside Dushanbe, PolOff saw first hand how [...] | 2007-07-24 13:01:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID EAGR TI |
07DUSHANBE1092 | VAKHDAT: IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITAL [...] Summary: During a July 20 visit to Vakhdat city, just twenty kilometers outside Dushanbe, the mayor and first deputy chairman underscored their district's need for macro-level economic assistance, while representatives of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) revealed a greater [...] | 2007-07-24 13:02:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE1093 | TAJIK REGION STILL GRAPPLES WITH POST-WAR DECAY [...] (SBU) Summary: A July 18 trip to the southern Tajik city of Vakhsh revealed a range of economic problems, including unpaid teachers and impoverished cotton farmers. While thousands fled Vakhsh during the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war, the government has attempted to lure refugees back to the are [...] | 2007-07-24 13:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR TI |
07DUSHANBE1149 | PUTTING THE BRAKES ON TAJIKISTAN'S BACKSLIDING [...] (C) Summary: By comparison to some of its neighbors in Central Asia, Tajikistan does not stand out as particularly authoritarian, corrupt or incompetent. Yet even in this context, where the bar has been lowered considerably in terms of good governance, the Tajik government's policies and re [...] | 2007-08-10 12:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EAID KDEM TI |
07DUSHANBE1253 | BRIDGE OPENING SPURS DISCUSSION OF FURTHER COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: "This new bridge is as important for us as oxygen," Tajik President Emomali Rahmon told Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who led the U.S. presidential delegation to the opening of the new U.S.-funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj River. Rahmon [...] | 2007-09-04 03:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF |
07DUSHANBE1255 | TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENS IN STYLE [...] (U) On August 26, after 19 months of construction led by the Afghan Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $37 million in U.S. funding, 19,100 cubic meters of concrete, and countless demarches and interventions by the Embassy to secure building materials and licenses, Tajik [...] | 2007-09-04 11:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF |
07DUSHANBE1460 | PRIVATE POWER STATION IN EASTERN TAJIKISTAN RECOVERS FROM [...] Summary: Pamir Energy, the private energy company serving all of Gorno-Badakhshan in eastern Tajikistan, has largely bounced back from its catastrophic accident in February 2007 when its main hydropower station Pamir 1 flooded, but continues to face cash flow problems due to inefficient distrib [...] | 2007-10-16 09:23:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE1466 | A TASTE OF YAK IN REMOTE MURGHAB [...] (U) Summary: Remote, harsh and cold, and sparsely populated by residents with hardened wind-battered facial features, Murghab sits atop an 11,778-foot plateau in an area that defines remote in eastern Tajikistan. EconOffs drove to Murghab in eastern Tajikistan in early October to see how resid [...] | 2007-10-17 12:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV EAID PREL TI |
07DUSHANBE1481 | RENEWED PROMISE TO BEGIN OPERATIONS ON TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE [...] (C) Summary: Since the August 26 ceremonial opening of the U.S.-built Tajik-Afghan bridge, Tajik security authorities have blocked opening the bridge for operations. Recent interventions by the Embassy appear to have led to a new compromise among Tajik government agencies which will allow a [...] | 2007-10-18 14:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ELTN PGOV MASS TI |
07DUSHANBE1523 | FM ZARIFI ON OPENING THE BRIDGE AND DUSHANBE SUMMITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At an hour-long meeting October 22 requested by Ambassador, Foreign Minister Zarifi: --admitted that the government had not decided which agency would be in charge of the facilities including the U.S.-funded bridge at the Nizhniy Pyanzh border, but said they were working tow [...] | 2007-10-24 05:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ELTN MASS TI |
07DUSHANBE1582 | UNSEAMLY TAJIK TEXTILES MARKET [...] (U) Comment: Tajikistan's junior-size textile and apparel industry struggles to gain investment that would better utilize in-country cotton production. Despite the government's continued pleas for more processing capacity, private companies must weave through a maze of customs, taxation, and r [...] | 2007-11-02 16:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE1612 | MCC DEMARCHE - TAJIKS STILL MISSING THE POINT [...] (U) Summary. EmbOffs delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard to a variety of Tajik officials, who roundly ignored its implications and instead attacked the legitimacy and methodology behind the indicators. Kyrgyzstan's pending Threshold Program caught the attention of se [...] | 2007-11-14 04:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TI |
07DUSHANBE162 | BEWARE OF GARM! WINTER IN CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Introduction: Jan 22-24 EmbOffs visited the Rasht Valley in central Tajikistan to get a taste of rural life in the winter. A series of cables surveys border conditions (Ref A),the economic and social situation, health needs and assistance programs in central Tajikistan. End Introduction [...] | 2007-01-31 15:28:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR ELAB ENRG PGOV PHUM TI |
07DUSHANBE167 | NGO STANDOFF WITH THE TAJIK MFA OVER REQUEST FOR PERSONNEL [...] (SBU) Tajikistan's international nongovernmental organization community is wrestling with how to respond to a recent Ministry of Foreign Affairs request to provide information about their local employees and tax status. The Ministry sent a letter in early January -- received by only three [...] | 2007-02-01 12:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE171 | TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER ZARIPOV'S BILATERAL WISH LIST FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Zaripov invited Ambassador February 1 to meet newly-appointed Ambassador to the United States Abdujabbor Shirinov, and to discuss his ideas for additional cooperation in 2007, including the opening of the U.S.-funded bridge at Nizhnii Pyanzh and the Millennium [...] | 2007-02-02 10:40:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID KPAO TI |
07DUSHANBE199 | FLOOD SHUTS DOWN TAJIKISTAN'S PAMIR I POWER STATION [...] (SBU) Pamir Energy, the Aga Khan-supported energy company that serves Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, suffered a major disruption February 5 when the powerhouse at Pamir I hydro power station flooded, causing local employees to shut down the 28 MW station (and run for t [...] | 2007-02-06 11:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ENRG TI |
07DUSHANBE206 | TAJIK PITCHES INITIATIVES FOR THE OSCE [...] (U) Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for International Organizations, Nuriddin Shamsov, called in the deputy chief of mission February 5 to discuss Tajik issues at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The resident Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro [...] | 2007-02-07 09:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID TI OSCE |
07DUSHANBE224 | PANJ DISTRICT IN THE RUNNING FOR TAJIKISTAN'S MOST [...] Summary: In a country with widespread poverty, Panj district ranks at the bottom even by Tajik standards. No internet access exists anywhere in the district. The district's only newspaper comes out every ten days because of the time needed to create type-set for four pages on an old printin [...] | 2007-02-09 12:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR TI |
07DUSHANBE226 | NO NEWS FLASH: SCHOOLS IN PANJ, TAJIKISTAN NEED HELP [...] Summary: In Panj district in southern Tajikistan, the educational system fails to meet the basic needs of a poor rural community. A February 8 visit to a secondary school in the district capital and a primary school in a rural village demonstrated that Panj students still need better teachers [...] | 2007-02-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR TI |
07DUSHANBE238 | IMPROVING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN THE TAJIK BANKING SECTOR [...] Summary. The Tajik banking sector continues to develop rapidly, with over 35 percent growth since 2005. However, consumer confidence in the banking system remains weak, resulting in an extremely low deposit rate and little money available to feed economic investment. Tajikistan's top banker [...] | 2007-02-12 11:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EIND EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE239 | DONORS TRY TO SPELL RELIEF IN TAJIKISTAN'S COTTON SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: World Bank-contracted agricultural economist Garry Christensen outlined a new World Bank approach to resolving Tajikistan's $300 million cotton debt crisis -- an approach which could anger many farmers, but could garner the support of the Tajik government and investors. Infig [...] | 2007-02-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PGOV PHUM TI |
07DUSHANBE254 | MAKING A SPLASH IN TAJIKISTAN WITH WATER ASSISTANCE [...] Summary: Tajikistan's new water minister Masaid Hamidov appreciates U.S. support for rural water users' programs and water systems rehabilitation, but requested training exchanges to the United States as the best "hands-on" way to expose his staff to new technologies. The World Bank and Asia [...] | 2007-02-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL SENV KPWR EAID PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE256 | TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENING COULD HELP HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN [...] (C) The U.S.-funded bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan serves as the most visible symbol of our efforts to link South and Central Asia and establish lasting trade and transportation ties between the two regions. In Tajikistan, where the Chinese, Russians and Iranians have all donated [...] | 2007-02-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TI AF |
07DUSHANBE262 | TAJIK GOVERNMENT AND NGOS BEGIN DIALOGUE, BUT OUTSTANDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Two related issues from the Tajik government have kept non-governmental organizations in the spotlight (or crosshairs) and unsettled a number of U.S. assistance implementers. A draft Law on Public Associations passed by the lower house of Parliament February 14 could strengthe [...] | 2007-02-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE335 | AGAINST THE GRAIN - IMPROVING THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The newly-formed State Committee on Investments and State Property will seek to attract foreign direct investment to Tajikistan. However, the committee has few tools and resources to fully realize its well intentioned programs. U.S. technical assistance will support the committ [...] | 2007-03-07 11:56:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON EFIN EIND EAID ETRD PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE34 | ENERGETIC FOREIGN MINISTER FULL OF IDEAS -- PUSHING [...] (C) Summary: Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov visited the Embassy January 4 to sign the condolence book for President Ford and ended up canceling his follow-on appointments to discuss a number of issues with the Ambassador. Zaripov asked the Embassy's assistance to accelerate and expand U.S. [...] | 2007-01-05 12:15:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EINV ENRG PGOV OVIP TI |
07DUSHANBE381 | TAJIKISTAN: LIGHTS OUT AND EVERYONE HOME-AND COLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Even as Tajikistan seeks to become a regional energy exporter, most of Dushanbe has had only four to six hours of power each day for the last month. Many parts of rural Tajikistan have remained without any electricity throughout the winter, but the fact that the capital is exper [...] | 2007-03-20 12:17:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENGR EAID TI AF |
07DUSHANBE44 | TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER PITCHES HIGH PROFILE BRIDGE OPENING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel),Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov proposed a high profile opening for the United States Government funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj river. The Embassy fully supports a strong public diplomacy pa [...] | 2007-01-09 12:26:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS KPAO TI AF |
07DUSHANBE45 | IT'S ONLY NATURAL - TAJIKISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN AGREE ON GAS [...] (U) Summary. On December 27, 2006, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan reached lopsided agreements on trade of natural gas and electricity. While the electricity swapping arrangement favoring Uzbekistan will continue, the new natural gas agreement nearly doubles the price of gas paid by Tajikistan. U [...] | 2007-01-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN EAID PGOV TIUZ |
07DUSHANBE467 | COCHRAN INTERVIEWS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO FARM LIFE IN [...] "I would like to learn more about artificial insemination," a number of Tajik dairy farmers repeated in recent interviews for an agricultural exchange program. Alexander Simon of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agriculture Service in Almaty spent March 26-30 in Tajikistan intervi [...] | 2007-04-02 12:17:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EAID ELAB PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE501 | TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAN, KYRGYZSTAN, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Zaripov, following his trip to Astana March 27-29 for the EU Troika meetings with Central Asian Foreign Ministers, met Ambassador April 3 to discuss a full range of bilateral and regional issues: Iran: Tajikistan supports UN Security Council Resolution 1747, [...] | 2007-04-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PHUM KDEM ENRG EAID TI IR KZ RS |
07DUSHANBE509 | TAJIKISTAN BANKERS EXCHANGE: ANOTHER SET OF CONVERTS [...] (U) Summary: "Washington is the city of smiles!!" At an International Visitor Program exchange debrief March 28, Tajikistan's top bankers marveled as much about the technical and practical lessons observed in the U.S. banking system, as about at the openness of U.S. society and economy, and [...] | 2007-04-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAO TI |
07DUSHANBE525 | TAJIKISTAN AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (SBU) Five months after the presidential election secured President Rahmonov a third seven-year term, Tajikistan seems to have stalled on the road of reform. Throughout 2006, Rahmonov assured international visitors and his public alike that "after the election," new blood and new ideas would [...] | 2007-04-09 07:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE527 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR DAS FEIGENBAUM'S APRIL 12-15 VISIT [...] (C) Seven months after your last visit, you will find a Tajikistan that has set aside the promises of the November 2006 election, to a government less worried about international perceptions and more confident in tightening its control over society and the economy. President Rahmonov's minis [...] | 2007-04-09 09:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE743 | TAJIK WOMEN IN POLITICS? AS LONG AS DINNER'S STILL ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajik women active in political dialogue and the public sphere have had mixed success in establishing a meaningful discussion group or changing the profoundly discriminatory culture. In a meeting with visiting Central Asian Affairs Director Pamela Spratlen, members of the loc [...] | 2007-05-18 07:05:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM KWMN TI |
07DUSHANBE762 | TAJIKS SUPPORT FIBER OPTICS CONFERENCE, BUT WANT "EQUAL [...] (SBU) Tajikistan supports the idea of a U.S.-organized conference on regional fiber optic projects (reftel),but Minister of Transportation and Communications Adburahim Ashurov expressed greater interest in more international assistance to support the state-owned operator Tojiktelecom. Ashuro [...] | 2007-05-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN ECPS EINV ETRD EAID KG TI |
07DUSHANBE764 | TAJIK NGO LAW NOT AS BAD AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN~BUT STILL NOT [...] (SBU) Tajikistan finally has an official new law on non-governmental organizations. After multiple drafts, months of negotiations and parliamentary discussions, diplomatic interventions and civil society hand-wringing, President Rahmon signed the Law on Public Associations May 12. However, th [...] | 2007-05-25 03:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE778 | IN TAJIKISTAN, A LUMP OF COAL IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nothing would please the Tajik government more than big lumps of coal in their stockings this Christmas, preferably from a U.S.-financed mine that fuels a thermal power station. At a May 29 roundtable meeting on "Integrated Development of Coal and Power Projects and Reconstruc [...] | 2007-05-30 12:12:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF |
07DUSHANBE783 | TAJIKISTAN MUST COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL NORMS TO SUCCEED [...] (SBU) Summary. Tajikistan needs to take steps to sign and abide by international standard agreements if it wants to develop its electricity sector through exports to Afghanistan and beyond. In a series of meetings with top energy and economic officials May 28, Senior Advisor for Regional Eco [...] | 2007-06-01 05:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF |
07DUSHANBE785 | NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IN TAJIKISTAN: NO [...] Summary: Embassy Dushanbe strongly opposes granting National Endowment for Democracy funds in Tajikistan to the "Center of Democratic Transformation" to open a Women's Leadership School, as included in the June 2007 list of project proposal (ref A). This local non-governmental organization h [...] | 2007-06-01 05:58:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM TI |
07DUSHANBE786 | PERSIAN POWER: TAJIKISTAN'S DEVELOPING TIES WITH IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajikistan has characterized its ties with Iran as purely economic, but growing political, military and diplomatic relations indicate that more than investment and trade is bringing the two countries closer together. In the last eighteen months, Tajik President Rahmon and Irania [...] | 2007-06-01 13:11:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF IR |
07DUSHANBE860 | AFGHANS IN TAJIKISTAN -- READY FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: While a common perception amongst Tajik officials and academics is that the Afghans are all poor, coming from a war-torn country with little education and healthcare, Afghan businessmen are surprisingly successful and growing wealthy in Tajikistan, and they have an equally dim vi [...] | 2007-06-10 07:45:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI AF |
07DUSHANBE862 | LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND TAJIK [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent meeting with recipients of European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) small and medium sized enterprise loans shed new light on the obstacles facing small businesses in Dushanbe. Interviews with the owners of furniture, clothing, and household linens stores [...] | 2007-06-11 08:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE886 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S JUNE [...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe welcomes you on your first trip to Tajikistan. This will be an important step in forging personal relationships with key Tajik leaders. We enjoy friendly relations with this small but strategic country on the Afghan border. In addition to DoD and CENT [...] | 2007-06-13 09:46:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI |
07DUSHANBE894 | DONOR DISAGREEMENT ON TAJIK COTTON SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Fissures within the donor community threaten to derail efforts to resolve Tajikistan's $400 million cotton debt. The Asian Development Bank favors a donor bailout of the cotton sector, in order to save industry investors and prevent a potentially fatal breakdown of the nascen [...] | 2007-06-14 14:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EFIN ECON EAID PGOV TI |
07DUSHANBE933 | AMBASSADOR' S MEETING WITH HYDRO-POWERED FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Foreign Minister Zarifi June 20 to discuss a laundry list of outstanding issues, including the upcoming completion of the Nizhniy Pyanzh bridge, our demarches on Afghan refugees (Ref A) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's upcoming summit (Ref B),and the [...] | 2007-06-21 11:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV EAID KDEM TI AF IR |
07DUSHANBE967 | PENJIKENT, TAJIKISTAN: ISOLATED BY REGIONAL BUREAUCRACY AND [...] Summary: A June 20-22 trip to Penjikent and Aini districts in western Tajikistan illuminated how bilateral problems with Uzbekistan strangle the economy and trade for Tajik districts in the Zarafshan valley. In Penjikent city, officials and citizens expressed support for President Rahmon, but [...] | 2007-06-26 11:34:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR ENRG TI UZ |
07FREETOWN109 | MANU RIVER UNION BEGINS SLOW RECOVERY [...] (C) During a February 8 meeting, Manu River Union (MRU) Secretary General Aliou Diallo told the Ambassador and DCM SIPDIS that after one year on the job, he continues to struggle to rehabilitate the MRU, but that he is cautiously optimistic about future prospects. He said that he has succes [...] | 2007-02-15 16:29:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN SL |
07FREETOWN12 | SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following update to its 2005 Worst Forms of Child Labor report. 2. Background: Child labor is prevalent in Sierra Leone. Many children are employed in family businesses, subsistence farming, street trading, and domestic work. Within the country, [...] | 2007-01-05 12:43:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID SL |
07FREETOWN205 | SIERRA LEONE'S DIAMONDS REGAINING SOME SPARKLE? [...] Sierra Leone's legal export of alluvial diamonds lost some luster in 2006 with declines from 2005 of 17.25% in value and 12.31% in volume, ending seven years of dramatic increases. This decline was partially offset by a 3.99% rise in the value of kimberlite exports, but overall diamond exports [...] | 2007-03-27 17:36:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EMIN SL |
07FREETOWN333 | SIERRA LEONE: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM [...] In response to reftel, post generally agrees with the UNICEF draft country program document for Sierra Leone. Post has a positive working relationship with UNICEF. Post recommends UNICEF include additional information on the Trafficking in Persons Project within its Sierra Leone Child Protecti [...] | 2007-05-29 14:44:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL SL |
07FREETOWN341 | SIERRA LEONE: AGOA FORUM IN ACCRA JULY 18-19 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 18:22:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID SL |
07FREETOWN616 | NEW PARLIAMENT OPENS WITH POMP AND CEREMONY [...] (U) Summary: Amid impressive fanfare, and on schedule, the third parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone was officially opened on Friday, October 5 with an opening address by President Ernest Bai Koroma. Ambassador, DCM and AF/W Director Tom Dougherty attended the ceremony. The new [...] | 2007-10-11 18:14:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KDEM PGOV PREL SL |
07FREETOWN665 | STRIKE BY CENTRAL BANK WORKERS [...] (U) The employees of the central Bank of Sierra Leone went out on strike on Monday, November 5 in protest over salaries and benefits. The workers say they intend to come to work each day, stand in front of the headquarters building until 2:00 pm and then return home. The action potentially brin [...] | 2007-11-07 10:22:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ELAB PREL SL |
07FREETOWN670 | SIERRA LEONE SCORECARD AND REACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Following recent elections, a new government has been installed in Sierra Leone. In the course of making introductory calls on the new cabinet ministers, the Ambassador discussed the MCC and provided copies of the scorecard to key Ministers. The delivery of the scorecard was se [...] | 2007-11-09 11:43:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD KMCA MCC SL |
07FREETOWN675 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (U) Summary: During an introductory call the newly appointed Minister of Finance and Ambassador Perry discussed a wide range of topics including: the strike by workers at the Central Bank, the urgent need to provide electricity to Freetown, the high rate of interest, weakness in revenue collec [...] | 2007-11-09 14:14:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN PGOV EAID SL |
07FREETOWN676 | SCENE SETTER FOR A/S FRAZER TRAVEL TO SIERRA LEONE [...] (U) The inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma is an important milestone in the recovery of Sierra Leone from years of conflict and upheaval. Your visit to this country at the time of peaceful transition from one elected administration to another is an opportunity to underscore U.S. comm [...] | 2007-11-09 17:07:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SL |
07FREETOWN686 | PROMISES OF ELECTRIC ENERGY FOR FREETOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG PREL SL |
07FREETOWN709 | WORLD AIDS DAY: WHERE IS SIERRA LEONE? [...] SUMMARY: As World AIDS Day approaches (Dec. 1),it appears that Sierra Leone's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is reportedly low, officially at 1.53%, although some sources believe it to be higher. Th military's prevalence is higher. Efforts to combat HIV/AIDS are coordinated by the National HIV/A [...] | 2007-11-28 16:44:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI TBIO PREL EAID SL |
07FREETOWN714 | SIERRA LEONE'S PARTICIPATION IN NEW DELHI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 06:50:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL SL |
07GENEVA1803 | ECOSOC LAUNCHES ANNUAL MINISTERIAL REVIEW, [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered strongly-worded remarks at the July 2 opening of the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) High Level Segment, stating that "existing trade barriers, agricultural subsidies and restrictive rules on intellectual property rights...make [...] | 2007-07-18 11:50:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ETRD SENV ECOSOC UN |
07GENEVA2507 | WHO INTERGOVERNMENTAL MEETING: USDEL BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John Lange met November 21 with Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari on the margins of the WHO Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccines and O [...] | 2007-11-21 21:25:00 | US Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | KFLU TBIO EAID WHO |
07GEORGETOWN108 | GUYANA'S NEW VAT AND TAX RECIPROCITY - REQUEST TO CONVOKE [...] Action request para 8 and 9. 2. The Government of Guyana (GoG) instituted a 16% VAT on 1 January 2007. Preparations for the VAT were insufficient at best (Reftel). The GoG's public education campaign was misleading on many points causing confusion and discontent among the public and the un [...] | 2007-01-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ABLD AFIN EAID EFIN GY |
07GEORGETOWN175 | GUYANA'S 2007 BUDGET: THE VIEW THROUGH ROSE-TINTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Finance Ashni Singh presented the GoG's 2007 budget to parliament on February 2 under the banner of "Building a Modern and Prosperous Guyana." He said spending would hit US$500 million, or about 2.9 less than last year. At the same time, he forecast GDP growth at [...] | 2007-02-14 20:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID GY |
07GEORGETOWN211 | MAKE HASTE SLOWLY - CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally told the Ambassdor that the Heads of Government participating in the 18th CARICOM Inter-Sessional in St. Vincent on February 12-14 were determined to "make haste slowly" on a range of issues including governance, trade, economic development and re [...] | 2007-02-22 16:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EAID EAGR ENGR EAIR SMIG CARICOM XL |
07GEORGETOWN455 | MAKING THE USNS COMFORT A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Guyana's capital and populated coastal areas benefit from one of the more impressive primary health care delivery systems in the low-income world. On the other hand, Guyana's hinterland areas are in great need of the primary health care services the USNS Comfort's ashore team co [...] | 2007-05-11 13:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MASS MOPS PREL TBIO XK XL GY |
07GEORGETOWN511 | Foreign Medical Assistance in Guyana [...] Embassy Georgetown is committed to working with the Department, the Pentagon, and Southcom to carry through successfully the President's mandate that the USNS Comfort's visit will aid "people who might not otherwise get the basic health care they need to realize a better tomorrow." The Guyanes [...] | 2007-05-22 17:40:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MASS MOPS PREL SOCI TBIO KPAO GY |
07GEORGETOWN584 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND [...] Poloff delivered demarche on Promoting Transparency and Accountability at the UNDP on June 12 to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hamer thanked us for the information and stated that she would forward it to Guyana's repr [...] | 2007-06-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN EAID KUNR GY |
07GEORGETOWN776 | GUYANA PREPARES TO ENTER BIO-ENERGY FIELD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guyana recently hosted a two-day, regional agro-energy seminar to discuss the current world bio-energy market and the prospects of developing bio-fuel opportunities in Guyana, Barbados, and Jamaica. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pledged US $850,000 to Guyana to help j [...] | 2007-08-16 18:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR EAID EFIN ECON GY |
07GEORGETOWN818 | MCC SIGNING CEREMONY'S REVEALING INSIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 23rd, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Deputy Chairman Rodney Bent participated in a signing ceremony for the US$6.7 million two-year Guyana Threshold Program contract. The event was covered by all television and radio news programs and reported in each of the thr [...] | 2007-08-31 19:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL GY |
07GRENADA156 | SCENESETTER CABLE FOR WHA/CAR DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO GRENADA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Grenada warmly welcomes November 12-13, 2007 visit to St. George's of WHA/CAR Director Velia de Pirro. Director De Pirro is visiting Grenada at a time when the United States is seen by Grenadians as losing its dominance in the Caribbean and China is filling the voi [...] | 2007-11-06 21:21:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ASEC EAID GJ |
07GRENADA173 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT DECEMBER 2 - 8, 2007 [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin Text: A. New Chinese Ambassador Sworn In China's second envoy to Grenada, Ambassador Zhang Wanhai, presented his credential [...] | 2007-12-11 21:03:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EAID GJ CH PE |
07GRENADA85 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Grenada grants country clearance for Mr. Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer, to travel to Grenada June 20 - 21, 2007. 2. Post understands that the purpose of Mr. Blackwood's visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for final certification under the Hurricane Ivan Progra [...] | 2007-06-14 14:27:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
07GRENADA87 | COUNTRY CLEAREANCE GRANTED TO MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD FOR [...] Embassy Grenada grants country clearance for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer for the new dates: arriving in Grenada June 22 and departing June 23, 2007, as stated in ref C. 2. Post understands that the purpose of Mr. Blackwood's visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for f [...] | 2007-06-14 22:07:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
07GUADALAJARA226 | SECRETARY GENERAL ENDORSES ORAL TRIALS FOR JALISCO [...] On April 30, 2007, the Consul General met with Jalisco's recently-appointed Secretary General (Lt. Governor) Fernando Guzman Perez Pelaez, to seek his formal endorsement for judicial reform efforts in the state, particularly oral trials. Guzman expressed support for this initiative and agreed [...] | 2007-05-09 21:13:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS EAID PGOV MX |
07GUADALAJARA351 | PROGRESS ON JUDICIAL REFORM IN JALISCO [...] Jalisco is moving forward on judicial reform under the new government of Emilio Gonzalez Marquez. With our encouragement back in April, Jalisco's Secretary General Fernando Guzman finally sent a letter dated June 17 in which the Government of Jalisco formally committed itself to pursue the im [...] | 2007-07-13 22:58:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV EAID MX |
07GUANGZHOU640 | Guangxi: HIV/AIDS Programs on the Vietnam Border [...] (U) SUMMARY: Consul General and USAID Bangkok Health officer visited the cities of Dongxing and Pingxiang in Guangxi to take a look at and support USG-assisted HIV/AIDS projects along the border between China and Vietnam. Although small in scale, the projects serve two purposes: to provide o [...] | 2007-06-04 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV ECON CH |
07GUATEMALA1135 | LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...] | 2007-06-11 23:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT |
07GUATEMALA1136 | LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...] | 2007-06-11 23:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT |
07GUATEMALA115 | GUATEMALAN UNION LEADER MURDERED [...] (U) Summary: On January 15 unidentified gunmen assassinated Pedro Zamora, General Secretary of the Guatemalan Dock Workers Union of Puerto Quetzal (STEPQ),as he was driving home with his children. Zamora was shot 20 times and killed at point-blank range. At the time of his death, Zamora wa [...] | 2007-01-19 18:50:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM SNAR ASEC EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA1199 | COALITION OF U.S.-BASED NGOS IN GUATEMALA [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met with representatives of a coalition of U.S.-based NGOs with a significant presence in Guatemala to discuss human rights. The NGOs expressed concern over recent threats against human rights defenders and discussed the impact of mining in indigenous populated ar [...] | 2007-06-18 19:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS SNAR KCRM KDEM EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA1208 | INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ASSISTS IN [...] (U) Summary: International Justice Mission representatives discussed with us the organization's successes in assisting the Guatemalan Attorney General's Office in prosecuting child sexual abuse cases. They estimated a 90 percent conviction rate in Guatemala for the select group of cases it a [...] | 2007-06-19 18:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS EAID KDEM KCRM PGOV GT |
07GUATEMALA1259 | PRESIDENTIAL FRONT-RUNNER COLOM PRESENTS PLAN OF [...] (U) Summary: Presidential front-runner Alvaro Colom presented his plan for governing the country if elected. The plan, which represents the culmination of six years of work and the participation of all levels of government and sectors of society, is based on four strategic elements -- solida [...] | 2007-06-26 21:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ECON GT |
07GUATEMALA1328 | THREATS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN GUATEMALA [...] (U) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) called for investigation of threats and other acts of intimidation against human rights defenders and protective measures during a presentation on the current situation of human rights defenders in Guatemala. Civil society repre [...] | 2007-07-05 17:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID KCRM KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA1402 | GUATEMALA ESTABLISHES INTER-INSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) Summary: An inter-institutional commission to combat trafficking in persons and related crimes was established by Executive Order on July 12. Under an initial mandate of two years, the commission will serve as an inter-institutional body for consultation, development, and consensus on in [...] | 2007-07-13 18:42:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA1413 | GUATEMALAN POLITICS FROM AN INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting with Embassy, Alvaro Pop, indigenous leader and director of local indigenous NGO NALEB, discussed his research on the indigenous population in Guatemala, the country's socioeconomic development and expectations of indigenous involvement in future elections. Pop [...] | 2007-07-16 20:05:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM GT |
07GUATEMALA1468 | MANO DURA DEFINED BY GUATEMALA'S PARTIDO PATRIOTA [...] (U) Summary. Partido Patriota (PP) leaders discussed with us the candidacy of Otto Perez Molina and expressed concern over voter apathy, smear campaigns and possible election day violence as the result of a newly decentralized voting system. They also demystified PP's "mano dura" campaign sl [...] | 2007-07-23 21:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KDEM SNAR EAID PHUM SOCI GT |
07GUATEMALA1541 | GUATEMALAN CONGRESS APPROVES CICIG AS MATTER OF NATIONAL [...] Summary: On August 1, the Guatemalan Congress voted to approve the GOG-UN agreement to establish the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) as a matter of national urgency. The agreement will be sent to the Executive for final approval by the president. End summary. [...] | 2007-08-01 22:58:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD PREL KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA160 | GUATEMALAN ATTENDANCE AT FEBRUARY 1 HAITI MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-29 17:42:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UN HA GT |
07GUATEMALA1619 | LOGISTICS REMAIN A CHALLENGE AS ELECTION DAY APPROACHES [...] Summary: With election day only a month away, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has yet to launch an information campaign to tell citizens how and where to vote and implementation of the bold voting place decentralization plan does not appear to have advanced. Compliance with new campaign [...] | 2007-08-10 16:10:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI GT |
07GUATEMALA184 | GUATEMALAN LABOR UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS [...] (U) Summary: During a recent outreach visit by embassy officials to Quetzaltenango in western Guatemala, representatives of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Catholic bishop, labor union leaders, and human rights activists described the current situation of human rights and labor conditions. [...] | 2007-01-30 22:35:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA185 | LOBBYING FOR APPROVAL OF UN-LED INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Vice President Stein is leading highly visible efforts to obtain Congressional approval of the agreement establishing the UN-led International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) (reftel). Timing will be critical -- if CICIG is not approved by May at the latest, it [...] | 2007-01-31 00:05:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA1916 | GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S 2007 UNGA HUMAN [...] Per reftel, post submits the following information to help inform the discussion at the President's 2007 UNGA Democracy and Human Rights Roundtable. 2. Post strategy for promoting human rights and democracy in Guatemala focuses on helping the government strengthen its democratic institution [...] | 2007-09-20 22:28:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ELAB KCRM KJUS KDEM EAID SOCI PGOV |
07GUATEMALA194 | GUATEMALA: LIST OF MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] Per reftel request, Embassy has identified the following individuals as the most influential women in Guatemala in the fields of politics, civil rights, and education for the S/WE roster of women leaders worldwide. -- Wendy de Berger, First Lady, oversees the First Lady's Office of Social Wo [...] | 2007-01-31 22:12:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KJUS EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA1944 | EMBASSY OFFICERS GIVE PRESENTATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Embassy officers gave a presentation, entitled "Human Rights Advocacy: The Roles of the USG, Other Governments, and Human Rights NGOs," on September 19 to first and second-year international relations and journalism students at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City. The presentation [...] | 2007-09-25 23:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI KJUS EAID GT |
07GUATEMALA1957 | USG-FUNDED LABOR PROJECT DONATES VEHICLES TO [...] USDOL-funded Proyecto Cumple y Gana donated three new vehicles to the Ministry of Labor (MOL) to support and strengthen labor inspections by the MOL's regional offices in Quetzaltenango, Escuintla, and Chimaltenango. 2. Embassy participated in the September 11 donation ceremony, presenting [...] | 2007-09-26 23:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KJUS EAID KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA2016 | CICIG: NEWLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER VISITS [...] (U) Summary: The newly appointed head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) visited Guatemala September 17-23 to discuss initial steps for establishing CICIG. Commissioner Carlos Castresana met with President Berger, Vice President Stein, and other senior gove [...] | 2007-10-09 13:35:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA2017 | CICIG: NEWLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER VISITS [...] (U) Summary: The newly appointed head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) visited Guatemala September 17-23 to discuss initial steps for establishing CICIG. Commissioner Carlos Castresana met with President Berger, Vice President Stein, and other senior gove [...] | 2007-10-09 13:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA2164 | CICIG ON TRACK FOR JANUARY INAUGURATION [...] (U) Summary: During a second visit to Guatemala that concluded October 19, Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) Castresana met with local authorities and the international community to advance preparations for installing CICIG. Castresana reviewed [...] | 2007-10-30 18:28:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA2206 | FORMER GANG YOUTH SEEK BETTER LIFE THROUGH [...] On October 30, USAID, in collaboration with the major private sector organization CACIF, launched the second phase of its Youth Alliance Program's "Desafio 100: Peace for Guatemala" pilot project for former gang youth. This innovative project paired 44 young former gang members with 32 local [...] | 2007-11-08 16:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR SOCI EAID PHUM KJUS KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA426 | CICIG AGREEMENT SENT TO GUATEMALAN CONGRESS FOR [...] (U) Summary: In the wake of last week's highly publicized and brutal killings of three Salvadoran parliamentarians and four Guatemalan police officers suspected of carrying out the killings, the Berger Administration delivered to the Guatemalan Congress the agreement to establish the Internat [...] | 2007-03-01 18:32:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS SNAR EAID PTER ASEC KCRM GT ES |
07GUATEMALA469 | GUATEMALA: AMENDMENT TO DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Per previous consultations between PM/PPA and U.S. MILGP Guatemala, post needs to amend a previous diplomatic agreement concerning U.S. Army Corps of Engineers support for the renovation of the Guatemalan Army Regional Peacekeeping [...] | 2007-03-06 22:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MASS MOPS KPKO PREL EAID AFIN GT |
07GUATEMALA487 | CICIG AGREEMENT SENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT [...] (U) On March 6, the Guatemalan Congress sent the CICIG agreement (refs) to the Constitutional Court for an opinion on its legality, which will further delay ratification. At the request of the Foreign Relations Committee and with majority support of Congress, including representatives of ruli [...] | 2007-03-07 22:45:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SNAR EAID PTER ASEC KCRM KJUS GT |
07GUATEMALA488 | GUATEMALAQS 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Embassy GuatemalaQs point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...] | 2007-03-08 14:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID |
07GUATEMALA528 | GUATEMALA'S 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...] | 2007-03-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID |
07GUATEMALA569 | LETTER TO THE SECRETARY REGARDING INVITATION TO [...] This is an action request, see para 3. 2. We received from the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry a letter addressed to the Secretary that requests U.S. attendance at a regional conference on armed violence and development to be held in Guatemala on April 23-24. The conference, which is being o [...] | 2007-03-20 18:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PRELPLS PARM MASS EAID KJUS KCRM PHUM ASEC |
07GUATEMALA740 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RIGOBERTA MENCHU BREAKING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on April 16 with indigenous presidential candidate and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu. Menchu stressed that her election campaign will address not only the concerns of indigenous organizations but will focus on the broader challenges confronting G [...] | 2007-04-17 19:02:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI KDEM PHUM EAID SNAR GT |
07GUATEMALA772 | INL DAS MCCAMPBELL MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: INL Deputy Assistant Secretary Christy McCampbell met April 18 with UNHCHR, the Myrna Mack Foundation, and the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office during a four-day visit to Guatemala that also included meetings with the National Civilian Police and the new Minister of Government (s [...] | 2007-04-24 17:12:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT |
07GUATEMALA817 | GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...] | 2007-04-27 18:17:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT |
07GUATEMALA820 | GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...] | 2007-04-30 17:08:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT |
07GUATEMALA822 | GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...] | 2007-04-30 17:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT |
07GUATEMALA823 | GUATEMALA?S INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals for trade-related labor and environment projects for FY07 CAFTA-DR trade capacity- building funds. Post input is keyed to reftel para 7. End summary. 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-DR [...] | 2007-04-30 18:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT |
07GUATEMALA832 | PROGRESS ON COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF CHIXOY [...] Summary: The Guatemalan government released the outline of a process to reach agreement on compensation for indigenous communities affected by the 1976-82 construction of Chixoy hydroelectric dam. Both the GOG and leader of the organization of affected communities expressed satisfaction with [...] | 2007-05-02 16:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM ENRG EAID SENV SOCI GT |
07GUATEMALA834 | GUATEMALA'S INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals for trade-related labor and environment projects for FY07 CAFTA-DR trade capacity- building funds. Post input is keyed to reftel para 7. End summary. 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-DR [...] | 2007-05-02 17:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT |
07GUATEMALA858 | GUATEMALA LAUNCHES 2007 ELECTORAL SEASON [...] Summary: Guatemala's 2007 electoral season officially opened on May 2, leaving four months of campaigning until general elections on September 9. A second round, if necessary, to elect the president is scheduled for November 4. Approximately 5.7 million citizens are registered to vote for [...] | 2007-05-04 19:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI KDEM PHUM EAID SNAR GT |
07HANOI1009 | "ONE UN" PILOT PROGRAM INCHING FORWARD IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The "One UN" pilot program in Vietnam has taken its important first steps, but much work remains before the program becomes operational. According to Hanoi-based UN diplomats, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) strongly supports the "One UN" pilot, which Vietnam began last Februar [...] | 2007-05-30 00:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL UN EAID SOCI PHUM AL CV MZ PK RW TZ UY |
07HANOI1012 | "ONE UN" PILOT PROGRAM INCHING FORWARD IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The "One UN" pilot program in Vietnam has taken its important first steps, but much work remains before the program becomes operational. According to Hanoi-based UN diplomats, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) strongly supports the "One UN" pilot, which Vietnam began last Februar [...] | 2007-05-30 09:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL UN EAID SOCI PHUM AL CV MZ PK RW TZ UY |
07HANOI1016 | LIMP ENDING FOR WORLD BANK REVIEW OF VIETNAM'S PMU-18 [...] (SBU) Summary: The World Bank's review of corruption allegations and the Ministry of Transport's management of two Bank-funded projects is complete: the infamous Project Management Unit (PMU) 18 escaped any serious findings of corruption, but the Bank concluded that pervasive mismanagement abo [...] | 2007-05-30 10:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ECPS PREL VM |
07HANOI1117 | VIETNAM: HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES CENTER STAGE AT MID-TERM [...] (SBU) The World Bank and the Government of Vietnam (GVN) hosted an informal mid-term Consultative Group (CG) meeting on June 1 in Ha Long City. Senior GVN and donor representatives engaged on a variety of economic development issues. The agenda featured an overview of the economic situation a [...] | 2007-06-15 08:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV PHUM VM |
07HANOI1139 | PEACE CORPS AND GVN FAIL TO CONCLUDE COUNTRY AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Following three days of meetings, Peace Corps and Ministry of Foreign Affairs were unable to conclude a country agreement concerning a Peace Corps program in Vietnam. Outstanding issues could conceivably be resolved in future discussions, but the GVN would have to gain inter-age [...] | 2007-06-21 03:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAID VM |
07HANOI1189 | POOR TEST SCORES PROMPT CALLS FOR REFORM OF VIETNAM'S [...] (SBU) On June 17, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) released data showing that 320,000 students failed this year's high school graduation examinations. This year's pass rate was 25 percent lower than last year's. Some GVN officials have claimed that the lower pass rate this year i [...] | 2007-06-29 08:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL SOCI PGOV EAID VM |
07HANOI1197 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMAN CORRUPTION CASE: BAD TIMING AND FEW [...] (SBU) On June 26, the Supreme People's Court of Appeals (SPCA) upheld the guilty verdict of Mac Kim Ton, a former National Assembly (NA) member and Director of the Thai Binh Provincial Education Department (TBED),for "abusing power in the conduct of his official duties." Ton had been found gu [...] | 2007-07-02 09:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ECPS PREL PGOV SOCI VM |
07HANOI1366 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON STATE BANK GOVERNOR THUY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with State Bank Governor Le Duc Thuy as part of his farewell calls. The meeting covered a wide range of issues, including money laundering, anti-proliferation efforts, the stock market, equitization, inflation, the exchange rate, and areas for further coopera [...] | 2007-08-03 07:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID VM |
07HANOI1381 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRIME MINISTER DZUNG [...] (SBU) Summary. In a cordial August 3 farewell call on Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung, the Ambassador and the Prime Minister reflected positively on the progress in bilateral relations over the past three years, including growing trade ties and increased cooperation in areas such as [...] | 2007-08-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EAID EAIR KHIV VM |
07HANOI1414 | GVN PONDERS DELIVERABLES FOR A PM VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. In his farewell meeting with the Ambassador, the Chairman of the Office of the Government (OOG) said that the GVN is mulling a number of "deliverables" for Prime Minister Zung's September visit to the United States. Among them, he cited long-pending deals on the purchase of Boe [...] | 2007-08-08 14:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD PREL VM |
07HANOI1438 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON NEWLY-ELECTED OOG CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. At his August 9 farewell call with Ambassador Marine, newly-elected Office of the Government (OOG) Minister Chairman Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that PM Dzung has decided that he will retain responsibility for oversight of foreign affairs within the OOG. In that role, he looks forwar [...] | 2007-08-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV PHUM KIPR EAID VM |
07HANOI1561 | BUMPS IN THE ROAD FOR VIETNAM'S "EQUITISATION" PROCESS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The auction of shares in insurance company BaoViet, Vietnam's largest public offering to date, revealed the problems and strategic shortfalls of Vietnam's new method of "equitising" State Owned Enterprises (S [...] | 2007-08-30 17:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM |
07HANOI1681 | NEWLY-APPOINTED DPM HAI NIXES GANNON PROJECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a September 18 meeting with Ambassador Michalak, new Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Hoang Trung Hai said that U.S. power-producer Gannon would not receive a license to build a clean coal-fired plant in central Vietnam. Hai also asked the Ambassador to urge ConocoPhillips to [...] | 2007-09-20 13:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM KIPR EAID VM |
07HANOI1706 | VIETNAM'S NASCENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICE DEPARTMENT LACKS [...] 1. (U) Summary: Vietnam's new Environmental Police Department (EPD) reflects increasing awareness at high levels in the Government of Vietnam (GVN) of the environmental impacts of economic growth. The EPD has a broad mandate to target environmental violations throughout the country. However, [...] | 2007-09-26 15:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI VM |
07HANOI1729 | VIETNAM'S INFLATIONARY CONUNDRUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam is not sure how to tackle growing inflation, which reached a 20-month high of 8.8% in September. Government efforts to maintain simultaneously a stable exchange rate, low interest rates and open capital markets run smack into the "impossible trinity" of economic theory. [...] | 2007-10-01 17:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM |
07HANOI1817 | VIETNAM'S REGIONAL OVERVIEW: THE CENTER PLAYS CATCH-UP [...] (U) Summary: Central Vietnam understands that it needs to improve its competitiveness or risk falling further behind the booming urban clusters of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. A visit to three central provinces showed the difficulties in assembling the necessary components of a successful inve [...] | 2007-10-19 10:08:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND EINV ETRD OTRA PGOV VM |
07HANOI1836 | USG AND GVN CONDUCT 2007 LABOR DIALOGUE IN HANOI [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) conducted their fifth labor dialogue on October 22 in Hanoi. Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs (DUS) Charlotte M. Ponticelli led the U.S. delegation a [...] | 2007-10-26 05:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID ECON ETRD EINV WTRO VM |
07HANOI1838 | VIETNAM'S REGIONAL OVERVIEW: THE TALE OF TWO NORTHWEST [...] (U) Summary: Northwest Vietnam has traditionally been Vietnam's poorest region. Natural topography, a widely-disbursed population, poor infrastructure, and, in part, provincial governance practices have prevented provinces in this region from keeping apace of economic development occurring el [...] | 2007-10-26 07:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID EINV ETRD OTRA EIND KIPR PGOV VM |
07HANOI1841 | AMBASSADOR MICHALAK AND NEW VIETNAMESE MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (U) Summary: On October 25, Ambassador Michalak paid an introductory call on the new Minister of Health, Nguyen Quoc Trieu. After reviewing Trieu's strong political experience and connections, the Ambassador noted leading USG health cooperation priorities, particularly medication assisted thera [...] | 2007-10-26 09:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PROP SOCI TBIO EAID KHIV KFLU VM |
07HANOI1883 | VIETNAM'S MCC INDICATORS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post delivered MCC indicators and relevant talking points to Deputy Director General Ngoc of the Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on November 2. Ngoc asked whether Vietnam would become a threshold country. We explained that the MCC Board selectio [...] | 2007-11-05 02:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ETRD KMCA MCC ECON VM |
07HANOI2064 | VIETNAM'S FIRST OIL REFINERY TAKES SHAPE IN QUANG NGAI [...] (U) Summary: On November 29, members of the Embassy's Economic Section traveled to Central Vietnam's Quang Ngai Province to meet with government officials and tour the site of what will be Vietnam's first petroleum refinery, located in the nearby Dung Quat Economic Zone. Quang Ngai Province i [...] | 2007-12-11 04:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EAID EIND EWWT SOCI TRGY EINV EPET ETRD |
07HANOI2099 | DESPITE EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE, DENGUE CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Annual numbers of dengue cases continue to rise in Vietnam, particularly in the Mekong Delta region. Though the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has a comprehensive national program to control dengue, it cannot eliminate the disease. Instead, ecological factors, including the growt [...] | 2007-12-20 09:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED AMGT CASC KPAO VM |
07HANOI271 | VISIT TO VIETNAM BY SENIOR AG BIOTECH ADVISOR SHARON [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Sharon Wiener visited Vietnam from January 23 to 26 during an important moment in the country's agbiotech development. The advance of agbiotech is an official national priority in Vietnam. In August 2005, the Prime Minister issued a [...] | 2007-02-12 09:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO OTRA EAGR ETRD EAID KPAO VM |
07HANOI294 | Vietnamese Official Discusses MCA, TIFA Proposal, Apparel [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February 7 meeting with USTR, Commerce Department, and Embassy representatives, Office of the Government International Relations Department Director Mr. Bui Huy Hung pressed USTR on details for a potential Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA),expressed concer [...] | 2007-02-15 03:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAID KTEX VM |
07HANOI325 | VIETNAM OFFICIALS EAGER TO ENTER GSP PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with USTR visitors, Government of Vietnam officials expressed a strong interest in applying for the GSP program as soon as possible. USTR GSP Executive Director Marideth Sandler explained the GSP program and eligibility criteria to a 25-person forum of government of [...] | 2007-02-23 07:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAID ELAB KIPR VM |
07HANOI486 | U.S. AID -- INFLUENCING THE FUTURE OF VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. foreign assistance programs in Vietnam, though low in dollar figures, are having a huge, direct impact in shaping Vietnam's reform program. Government of Vietnam (GVN) decision-makers seemingly cannot stop praising our flagship STAR (Support for Trade AcceleRation) program, [...] | 2007-03-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ETRD ECON PREL VM |
07HANOI595 | STOCK MARKET PREDICTIONS [...] (U) Summary: At the second annual Euromoney Institutional Investor Investment Forum held March 19-20 in Hanoi, a panel of investment experts in Vietnam offered their opinions on and predictions for VietnamQ volatile stock market. While all panelists agreed a market correction will occur with [...] | 2007-03-28 10:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID EINV ETRD ECON VM |
07HANOI888 | GVN WANTS TO NEGOTIATE ON PEACE CORPS; STICKING POINTS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: EconCouns met with officials of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on May 14, 2006, to obtain an update on the Government of Vietnam's (GVN's) intentions on the esta [...] | 2007-05-15 08:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAID VM |
07HANOI932 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH FINANCE, STATE BANK: OVERVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: This message provides overview and general comment on Ambassador Marine's May 17 and 18 meetings with Vietnam's Minister of Finance and State Bank Governor. A series of five septels will report on individual agenda items. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Marine met Minister [...] | 2007-05-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD EAID KIPR PGOV CASC VM |
07HANOI935 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH STATE BANK, FINANCE ON CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: When asked about GVN thinking on ways to address overheating in securities markets by the Ambassador during separate meetings on May 17 and 18, the State Bank Governor and the Finance Minister showed no hesitation in embracing the market approach (but did not explicitly rule ou [...] | 2007-05-21 10:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID VM |
07HANOI936 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH STATE BANK, FINANCE ON U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador reviewed ongoing U.S. financial sector technical assistance programs in separate meetings May 17 and 18 with State Bank Governor Le Duc Thuy and the Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh. Both officials expressed appreciation for and asked for more assistance. Governor [...] | 2007-05-21 10:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM |
07HANOI940 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER: PEACE CORPS [...] (SBU) This message reports the content of the Ambassador's meeting with Vietnam's Minister of Finance regarding the taxation element of a draft Peace Corps country agreement. The discussion was held May 17 and was part of a lengthier agenda (reftel A). 2. (SBU) Background: Post has held d [...] | 2007-05-22 07:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID VM |
07HANOI998 | GVN SEEKS COMMENTS ON PROPOSED TEXT AND EARLIER DATES FOR [...] Action Request - Please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary/Comment/Action Request: EconCouns met with Ministry of Education and Training and MFA officials on May 24 to notify them of planned travel of Peace Corps (PC) officials to negotiate a Country Agreement. The Vietnamese welcome the team, [...] | 2007-05-25 10:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAID VM |
07HARARE1059 | OTHER DONORS CAUTOUS ABOUT ADDRESSING [...] (C) On November 26 USAID hosted a meeting with Ambassador, Ambassadors from the UK Australia, the EU, Sweden and the Netherlands a well as aid agency chiefs from Canada and the U, to discuss addressing misunderstandings among poitical leaders and SADC negotiators about donor conditions for ree [...] | 2007-11-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV ECON ZI |
07HARARE714 | WORSENING HUNGER, DWINDLING HARVESTS [...] Recent international NGO estimates indicate 4.1 million Zimbabweans will need food aid between November 2007 and April 2008, out of a total population estimated at 9-10 million. The UN World Food Program (WFP) plans to assist 3.3 million Zimbabweans, and C-SAFE, a consortium of US-sponsored N [...] | 2007-08-09 13:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM WFP ZI |
07HARARE903 | AA/DCHA HESS IMPRESSED BY PROGRAMS, BUT ALARMED BY [...] Summary: USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) Michael Hess, accompanied by Special Assistant Amber Brooks, visited Harare, Bulawayo, and rural areas September 16-20 to assess humanitarian needs and programs and to consult with civil society [...] | 2007-10-04 10:11:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM ZI |
07HELSINKI13 | 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM [...] (U) In response to reftel action request, post contacted Sirpa Maenpaa, Director for the Unit for Eastern and Western Africa in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) urging Finland to attend the Liberia Partners Forum on February 13-14, 2007. Maenpaa said Finland would most likely not [...] | 2007-01-09 13:56:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID PREL ECON FI LI |
07HELSINKI530 | GOF PREPARING REPORT AIMED AT INCREASED ISAF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF is preparing a wide-ranging proposal for increased participation in NATO/ISAF and for increased assistance to Afghanistan. Details are currently sketchy, but MFA officials expect the proposal to include an increase in Finnish troops; increased weapons and other materiel t [...] | 2007-07-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MOPS PREL EAID FI AF |
07HELSINKI639 | FINLAND'S LIKELY NEXT STEPS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Budgetary realities and political discomfort amongst a few at the highest levels have currently put the brakes on the GOF's plan to increase its military commitments to NATO/ISAF in 2008. Meaningful increases in Finnish development and counternarcotics assistance to Afghanistan ar [...] | 2007-08-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR SNAR EAID PGOV NATO AF FI |
07HELSINKI690 | FINNISH MINISTER WIRED ABOUT WIREC 2008 [...] (U) Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen is very interested in participating in the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) next March. According to Henri Backman, Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Pekkarinen would like to see a sa [...] | 2007-09-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI ENGR EAID EPET TRGY KPAO FI |
07HELSINKI715 | FINLAND LOOKS TO AFGHAN PRT LEADERSHIP IN 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva and other senior GOF officials told PDAS Volker and Ambassador Ware that Finland's Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (UTVA) gave a green light to PRT leadership in Afghanistan in 2009. The move will likely involve "alternating" leader [...] | 2007-09-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR EAID PGOV AF FI |
07HELSINKI725 | PDAS VOLKER'S SEPT. 13 - 14 VISIT TO FINLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDAS Volker visited Helsinki Sept. 13-14 for wide-ranging discussions with FM Kanerva, with MFA and MOD officials, and with senior advisors to the President and Prime Minister. Bilateral discussions focused on Finland's intention to increase its contributions in Afghanistan (sept [...] | 2007-09-25 09:29:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR EAID PGOV AF FI |
07HELSINKI76 | FINNISH RESPONSE - DEPARTMENT SEEKS NOMINEES FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-06 12:16:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER MARR MOPS FI |
07HELSINKI872 | FINNISH FM TO ATTEND DONORS CONFERENCE, PROVIDE [...] (SBU) Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva will attend the donors conference in Paris on December 17th according to Anna Savolainen in the Foreign Ministry's Middle East Unit. Savolainen said Finland's final contribution, in the form of bilateral aid and in-kind contributions, is still being [...] | 2007-12-12 13:18:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS FI |
07HILLAH133 | GOVERNOR DISCUSSES KARBALA APPROACHING PIC AND ANBAR TALKS; [...] (C) Summary: PRTOffs traveled to Karbala on October 1 to meet with Governor Aqeel, Karbala Provincial Council (PC) Chair Al'al-Yasiry, and the PC Reconstruction Committee. Governor Aqeel noted that the Prime Minister has now confirmed that Karbala will become a Province under Iraqi control (P [...] | 2007-10-06 07:18:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV IZ MARR EAID |
07HILLAH157 | KARBALA ENGINEERS MEETING; IP CHIEF GRUMBLES ABOUT MOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. PRT Karbala met with Karbala PC Chair and key PC members to continue discussion of cooperation between USACE (Corps of Engineers) and Karbala Provincial Engineers on Projects. PRT urged Karbala PRDC to work expeditiously to complete ESF project packages. IP Chief BG Ra'ad expr [...] | 2007-11-16 12:22:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ EAID |
07HILLAH158 | DUSD BRINKLEY VISITS KARBALA [...] Sensitive but unclassified. This is a PRT Karbala cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: DUSD Brinkley and his delegation, GOI spokesman Ali al Dubbagh, and PRT Leader were warmly received by Governor Aqeel for a five hour visit that was covered extensively by local media, and included lunch and a visit [...] | 2007-11-18 05:01:00 | REO Hillah | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL IZ |
07HILLAH84 | POOR LEADERSHIP, SCARCE CAPITAL AND POWER TOP BABIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (C) Summary: In recent meetings with the PRT, representatives of the Babil business and commercial sector highlighted the following as key to the province's near-term economic growth: -- Overcoming the ineffective and/or counterproductive role of governme [...] | 2007-06-06 05:33:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EAID EFIN EIND EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV |
07HOCHIMINHCITY45 | FOOD FOR EDUCATION BENEFITS ETHNIC MINORITIES IN QUANG NGAI [...] Consul General visited schools in rural Quang Ngai Province participating in the Red Cross school feeding program funded under the Dole-McGovern Act. USDA's Food for Education program reaches a large number of poor ethnic minority children and their families in rural Quang Ngai and has sharpl [...] | 2007-01-12 12:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EAGR SOCI PREL VM |
07HOCHIMINHCITY59 | LOST OPPORTUNITIES IN BINH PHUOC PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Binh Phuoc Province, located north of Ho Chi Minh City, is a backwater that could do more to take advantage of its proximity to HCMC. Provincial leaders used a recent investor conference to wine, dine and sing martial karaoke with their cronies. In many respects, a visit to th [...] | 2007-01-18 07:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV PGOV VM |
07HOCHIMINHCITY665 | HCMC CONTINUES TO DELAY LEGALIZING CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE [...] (SBU) On June 16, Pol and CDC met with a representative of Father John Dinh Toai, Director of the HCMC Archdiocese "Pastoral Care" program for people living with HIV/AIDS . He said that the biggest obstacle facing the church continues to be the unwillingness of local authorities to grant legal [...] | 2007-06-26 05:21:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KHIV VM |
07HONGKONG1661 | CLIMATE CHANGE DEMARCHE: ENGAGING HONG KONG AND [...] (SBU) Summary: AmConGen Hong Kong has actively engaged the governments and the general public of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions on U.S. climate change, renewable energy and other environmental programs. Post developed and actively promoted the Pollution Prevention and [...] | 2007-06-21 06:19:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENGR SOCI EAID EPET TRGY KPAO CH HK MC |
07ISLAMABAD1147 | OPERATIONAL PLAN REVIEW - PAKISTAN [...] We look forward to the upcoming Operational Plan Review for Pakistan, scheduled to take place in Washington on March 13. 2. In advance of that review, let us quickly highlight two items that were noted in the transmittal memo for our Operational Plan in early February: First, the importanc [...] | 2007-03-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV PK |
07ISLAMABAD256 | MUSHARRAF TELLS BOUCHER ABOUT PAKISTAN’S PLANS FOR [...] (S) Summary and introduction: In his January 12 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf spoke of irritants in Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan's tactical adjustments to enhance security i [...] | 2007-01-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | EAID MOPS PK PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD2647 | DEMARCHE - PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND [...] (U) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 13 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Assistant Director United Nations (III) Syed Mustafa Rabbani, who said the Government of Pakistan "can,t comment now" on the reftel points but would consult the GOP,s Permanent Representative to the Uni [...] | 2007-06-14 05:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN KUNR PGOV PK PREL UNDP |
07ISLAMABAD274 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, TRADE WITH [...] (C) On January 12, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Kasuri for a wide-ranging discussion, which included Pak-Afghan and Pak-India relations, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones, the development plan for Pakist [...] | 2007-01-17 12:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PREF PK AF IN CA |
07ISLAMABAD2870 | DISASTER DECLARATION -- CYCLONE YEMYIN [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: This cable declares areas affected by Cyclone Yemyin in Sindh and Balochistan provinces as a disaster, and requests U.S. government emergency assistance for those in need. The powerful cyclone is traveling along southern Pakistani coastal areas, killing over 2 [...] | 2007-07-01 10:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PK |
07ISLAMABAD2919 | SITUATION REPORT #1 - CYCLONE YEMYIN [...] (U) On Monday, July 2, 2007 Major General Farooq Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) held a meeting with the donor and diplomatic community to provide a briefing on the impact of the recent cyclone, what the Government of PakistanQs (GOP) respons [...] | 2007-07-05 06:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PK |
07ISLAMABAD2980 | PAKISTAN RAISES CONCERNS OVER PROPOSED ROZ LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 9, EconCouns met with Jamshid Khan, Joint Secretary and Raheela Tajwar, Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce to discuss Pakistan's concerns over proposed ROZ legislation. Some concerns were resolved by discussing the wording in the do [...] | 2007-07-10 01:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EIND ELAB ETRD PK |
07ISLAMABAD3296 | SITUATION REPORT #2 - CYCLONE YEMYIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: A USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Regional Advisor (RA) visited Pakistan from July 10 through 17 to assess additional needs following Cyclone Yemyin in Pakistan. To date 362 people have died in flooding and up to 2.5 million people have been affected. In add [...] | 2007-07-31 06:14:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PK |
07ISLAMABAD389 | ECONOMIC SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your January 27-28 visit to Islamabad. Your visit coincides with a period of expanding and deepening engagement between the U.S. and Pakistan on a range of key economic and trade issues. Reforms pioneered in 1999 by Prime Minister Shaukat Az [...] | 2007-01-22 08:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ECON EFIN EAID ETRD PREL PGOV PK |
07ISLAMABAD4084 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S BILATERAL MEETINGS IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Secretary Negroponte held bilateral meetings September 12 during the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue with Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan and Foreign Minister Kasuri. Khan raised concerns about the negative impact of the U.S. NIE, the 9/11 Commission legislation's Pakistan [...] | 2007-09-21 10:06:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PK |
07ISLAMABAD4108 | U.S.-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE, SEPTEMBER 12 [...] (SBU) The second session of the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue took place in Islamabad on September 12, 2007. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte and Foreign Secretary Khan chaired the meeting and agreed that future sessions of the Dialogue should occur every six months. The Pakistanis als [...] | 2007-09-24 15:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID ENRG TSPL KPAO PK |
07ISLAMABAD4273 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FAZLUR REHMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 14:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PK PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD4363 | FATA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE: OCTOBER 8, 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: Implementation of the Mission's strategy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is moving ahead despite challenges. We received our fiscal year 2007 (FY07) funding for the FATA by September 30. With our prodding, the donor community is taking ste [...] | 2007-10-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS KPAO PK |
07ISLAMABAD4421 | PAKISTAN SERIOUS ABOUT POLIO ERADICATION [...] (SBU) Economic Counselor and Economic Specialist met with Ministry of Health (MOH) Director General Lieutenant General (retired) Shahida Malik to deliver reftel demarche October 11. MOH Polio Country Coordinating officer Dr. Rehan Hafiz also attended the meeting. The Minister of Health is [...] | 2007-10-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA PK |
07ISLAMABAD4601 | FATA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE: OCTOBER 26 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: Per Ref A, Post requests urgent action on two pending requests: 1) Funding for a temporary FATA Coordinator; and, 2) Renewal of funding for a critical Pashto-language radio program. (See Paras 3 and 4 for action requests.) Post appreciates the swift respon [...] | 2007-10-27 12:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT EAID PGOV KPAO PK PTER PREL |
07ISLAMABAD4790 | PAKISTAN PRESIDENTIAL SCIENCE ADVISOR PROPOSES ENHANCED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Caird Rexroad, USDA Agricultural Research Service Associate Administrator, met with Pakistan government officials and the scientific community October 31, as part of the ongoing Science and Technology Dialogue, a sub-group of the of the U.S. Pakistan Strategic Dialogue. Mini [...] | 2007-11-08 11:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EAID ECON EINV PK |
07ISLAMABAD4888 | SIALKOT ENTREPRENEURS DISCUSS SKILLED LABOR SHORTAGES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a recent visit to the eastern Pakistani export center of Sialkot, Economic and USAID officers discussed the status of child labor monitoring and human resource development with private sector leaders. Our contacts were generally upbeat in their assessment of business conditio [...] | 2007-11-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ELAB EINV ETRD SOCI PK |
07ISLAMABAD4889 | FATA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post still awaits publication of the Central Command Planning Order that will formalize the security development plan (SDP). Post appreciates funding for Pashto radio programming and the temporary FATA Coordinator, and will continue to urge Pakistani leadership to appoint a FA [...] | 2007-11-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS PK |
07ISLAMABAD4962 | EXPANDED USAID PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable is a follow-up to reftel. In reftel, Post recommended that the $200 million cash transfer could be projectized. We believe funds currently used for the cash transfer could be more productively used for other USG programs that directly benefit the Pakistani people [...] | 2007-11-21 11:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER |
07ISLAMABAD4993 | NWFP REQUESTS HELP TO SET UP IDP CAMPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) authorities have asked UNHCR and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) for assistance in setting up IDP camps for residents fleeing the violence in Swat. The central government has yet to approve the request. Two potential sites have been [...] | 2007-11-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PREF UNHCR EAID PK |
07ISLAMABAD5019 | FATA IMPLEMENTATION PLAN UPDATE (11/26/07) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Construction crews broke ground for the Border Coordination Center (BCC) at Torkham November 17. Design teams working on the Frontier Corps Training Center (FCTC) at Warsak will return within the week to refine construction timelines. The UK may proceed (ahead of the US) with ef [...] | 2007-11-26 13:15:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS SNAR PK |
07ISLAMABAD5054 | PAKISTAN: PLANNING FOR JANUARY 8 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy is emailing to SCA, USAID, and DRL the first cut of the Mission Pakistan election monitoring plan. We will focus on constituencies which historically have been closely contested and/or stolen. We are planning, particularly if the Europeans do not participate in elec [...] | 2007-11-28 07:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM PK |
07ISLAMABAD5060 | GOP DECLINES UNHCR HELP FOR IDPS FROM SWAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing concern about the optics, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority declined to approve the Northwest Frontier Province's request for UN assistance to help displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the violence in Swat. NDMA claims it has sufficient tents and food, but pr [...] | 2007-11-28 10:34:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PREF UNHCR EAID PK |
07ISLAMABAD5091 | PAKISTAN TO MISS DEADLINE FOR 2008 AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Due to the upcoming elections in Pakistan and current caretaker government, Government of Pakistan (GOP) approval for the proposed USGS and NRL geophysical survey is not possible in advance of the December 1 deadline. Post will continue to advocate for project approval so that t [...] | 2007-11-30 10:32:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EMIN ETRD EAID PREL PK |
07ISLAMABAD5140 | FATA IMPLEMENTATION PLAN UPDATE (12/02/07) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We will be advising the Pakistanis on mechanisms to improve civil-military coordination in the FATA. Outcomes in Swat could be a case study for future FATA operations; effective civil affairs follow-up will be needed to consolidate short term security gains by Pak forces and rev [...] | 2007-12-05 01:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MASS SNAR PK |
07ISLAMABAD5160 | USG SUPPORT FOR CREDIBLE PAKISTANI ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: Pakistanis will go to the polls on January 8 to choose new National and Provincial Assemblies. It appears that none of the three major parties will receive enough votes to independently form a government, so political vote swapping and coalition building is in full swing. Pakista [...] | 2007-12-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK PREL EAID PHUM |
07ISLAMABAD5161 | BHUTTO CALLS ON THE AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto called on the Ambassador to thank her for the "critical" USG pressure that pushed Musharraf to resign from the Army and lift the state of emergency. Bhutto shared her concern about the government's ongoing and planned efforts to rig th [...] | 2007-12-05 15:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL EAID |
07ISLAMABAD5178 | PAKISTAN'S ELECTORAL CODE OF CONDUCT [...] (C) Summary: The Election Commission of Pakistan has now issued its Electoral Code of Conduct for the January elections. With no enforcement mechanisms, it will have little impact except to generate political party complaints. On November 27, the Ministry of Interior released further "unoffic [...] | 2007-12-06 13:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PK PREL |
07JAKARTA1144 | SAMOA: INDONESIAN POSITION [...] We conveyed USG position reftel to Ms. Rosmalawati Chalid, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Economic and Environmental Development at the Department of Foreign Affairs on April 24. Chalid said as far as she was aware Indonesia had not yet taken a position on the question of Samoa, but s [...] | 2007-04-24 07:29:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID ECON UNGA ID |
07JAKARTA1266 | PAPUA GOVERNOR UPDATES CHARGE ON DEVELOPMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary. Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu told Charge on April 23 in Papua that he was making headway in his efforts to heal the rift between Papua and neighboring West Irian Jaya province and to implement his village-based development program. The two provinces' governors signed a miles [...] | 2007-05-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA1290 | INDONESIA - RESPONSE TO TSUNAMI, EARTHQUAKE WARNINGS [...] Per reftel, Embassy Jakarta provides the following responses to listed questions. 2. Question: Does a duty officer of Mission Disaster Relief Officer (and alternate MDRO) receive tsunami and earthquake warnings on a 24-hour basis from the Ops Center or other service? --Response: Yes, th [...] | 2007-05-08 03:45:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY AORC EAID AMGT CASC ID |
07JAKARTA1561 | USG SUPPORTED EMBEDDED PERSONNEL IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In keeping with Secretary RiceQs Transformational Diplomacy objectives, US Embassy Jakarta really took stock of our successes in placing USG personnel directly into Indonesian government offices. We are pleased to report that we currently have 27 positions embedded within key G [...] | 2007-06-06 09:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER EAID PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KCOR KIPR ID |
07JAKARTA1672 | WEST KALIMANTAN - DWINDLING FORESTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: West Kalimantan's abundant forest and fresh water resources are under threat from logging and plantation companies, though the government has recently cracked down on some illegal loggers. The majority of tribal peoples in the province rely on forest resources for a livelihood [...] | 2007-06-15 10:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID |
07JAKARTA1735 | THE AWARD OF THE PRIME CONTRACT FOR THE USG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-22 11:51:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL SENV KCOR ID |
07JAKARTA1832 | INDONESIA - FORESTRY MINISTER WELCOMES ORANGUTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Minister of Forestry, Mr. Kaban, stressed to DCM in a July 3 meeting that conservation of orangutans and their forest habitat remains an urgent need. The Minister welcomed the $8 million USAID Orangutan Conservation Services Program and emphasized the importance of communit [...] | 2007-07-06 08:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON TBIO ID |
07JAKARTA1845 | CODEL PAYNE MEETS INDONESIAN PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO [...] SUMMARY: In a cordial 45 minute meeting on July 5, Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ) and President Yudhoyono agreed on the need to build the capacity of the Indonesian Parliament. Congressmen Payne, David Dreier (R-CA) and James Moran (D-VA),who were in Jakarta for two days of meetings with [...] | 2007-07-09 06:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID |
07JAKARTA1874 | REP. FALEOMAVAEGA MEETS WITH PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO [...] Summary. During a July 3-6 visit to Jakarta, Rep. Eni Faleomavaega met with the President, Vice President and the Foreign Minister, receiving promises from all three that he could go to Papua the next time he visits Indonesia, despite being refused permission on this trip. President Susilo [...] | 2007-07-11 00:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ID PREL KDEM EAID |
07JAKARTA1909 | East Java - Joint Police Anti-Human Trafficking Operations [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ConGen Surabaya launched a joint operation with local police May 29 targeting East Java human trafficking (TIP) rings. The primary goal is rescuing some of the thousands of child prostitutes in Surabaya and arresting traffickers, pimps and child sex tourists. Operation XXX init [...] | 2007-07-13 00:08:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM ELAB EAID KJUS KCRM KCOR ID |
07JAKARTA1911 | CODEL PAYNE AND HDAC FIND RECEPTIVE AUDIENCE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-13 00:39:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID |
07JAKARTA1930 | CODEL PAYNE AND HDAC FIND RECEPTIVE AUDIENCE IN [...] (U) On July 4-7, CODEL Payne visited Jakarta as part of the House Democracy Assistance Commission's (HDAC) ongoing legislative strengthening program in Indonesia. In a whirlwind three-day visit, CODEL Payne met with President Yudhoyono (Ref B),Defense Minister Juwono (Ref A) and top legislat [...] | 2007-07-16 03:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID |
07JAKARTA2065 | PAPUAN CIVIL SOCIETY DISCUSSES SPECIAL AUTONOMY [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent USAID-supported study of Papuan civil society demonstrates that opinion remains divided on the Special Autonomy Law. Papuan interlocutors agree that the GOI has not done an effective job [...] | 2007-07-31 10:13:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2139 | VISIT OF OES A/S MCMURRAY TO INDONESIA, CLIMATE CHANGE AND [...] (U) Summary. In a visit to Indonesia July 26-29, OES A/S McMurray and several Indonesian officials discussed climate change policy and the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 13th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP-13) meeting in Bali December 3-14. Dr. Emil Salim, P [...] | 2007-08-07 23:55:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID |
07JAKARTA2140 | FORESTRY ISSUES DOMINATE VISIT OF OES A/S MCMURRAY TO [...] (U) Summary. In a visit to Indonesia July 26-29, OES A/S McMurray discussed deforestation and climate change with senior Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials from the Ministries of Forestry and Environment, non-governmental organizations, and a policy advisor to President Yudhoyono. The GO [...] | 2007-08-08 00:26:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID |
07JAKARTA2185 | THE PEACE CORPS IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Dear Director Tschetter, I want to thank you personally for sending the superb Peace Corps Assessment Team here to Indonesia last February. The Team was able to travel through six provinces over two weeks and meet a wide variety of local leaders, international volunteers, and government [...] | 2007-08-10 09:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2189 | ENVIRONMENT MINISTER WITOELAR WELCOMES U.S. ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Health Rachmat Witoelar told the Ambassador on August 9 that he welcomed President Bush's climate change initiative and the upcoming conference on climate change in Washington, DC. He welcomed opportunities for dialogue, such as the upcoming visit of White House Cou [...] | 2007-08-10 10:01:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON ENRG PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2298 | TORQUING UP PRESSURE ON GOI, LEGISLATURE EMBRACES [...] (C) Summary: The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) has created an oversight body to monitor the reconstruction and rehabilitation of affected areas, as well as the disbursement of compensation to victims of the East Java mudflow. A move by the DPR to query formally the President ove [...] | 2007-08-22 10:44:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KISL EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2330 | THE PEACE CORPS IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Dear Director Tschetter, I would like to thank you for your swift and positive response regarding a Peace Corps program in Indonesia. Indonesia's burgeoning democracy, majority-Muslim demographics, and genuine developmental need are indeed worth a second look. 2. (SBU) We would be delig [...] | 2007-08-24 09:12:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2334 | INDONESIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR CORAL TRIANGLE INITIATIVE [...] (U) Summary. Indonesia seeks U.S. support for its proposed Coral Triangle Initiative, a new multilateral partnership that Indonesia will raise at the upcoming APEC summit in Sydney. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's adviser Dino Djalal last week presented visiting Chairman of the Council of [...] | 2007-08-24 10:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KGHG ECON PREL ID |
07JAKARTA2336 | INDONESIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR CORAL TRIANGLE INITIATIVE [...] (U) Summary. Indonesia seeks U.S. support for its proposed Coral Triangle Initiative, a new multilateral partnership that Indonesia will raise at the upcoming APEC summit in Sydney. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's adviser Dino Djalal last week presented visiting Chairman of the Council of [...] | 2007-08-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KGHG ECON PREL ID |
07JAKARTA2365 | ACEH GOVERNOR'S U.S. VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMIC [...] (U) This is a joint Medan-Jakarta message. 2. (U) Summary: Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf will visit the United States September 9-26. The visit includes stops in multiple cities and meetings with a range of companies and government officials. In Washington, he will also meet with the World [...] | 2007-08-28 09:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV EAID PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2449 | GOI INVITES U.S. TO PRE-COP 13 MINISTERIAL, 24-25 OCTOBER [...] (SBU) On September 5, Embassy received official correspondence from Government of Indonesia (GOI) Minister of Environment Rachmat Witoelar addressed to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky. The letter invites U/S Dobriansky to informal ministerial consulta [...] | 2007-09-06 00:02:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAID ECON ENRG PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2464 | MEASURED PROGRESS IN EFFORT TO REJUVENATE [...] (C) Responding to a Constitutional Court ruling, a Ministry of Law drafting team has endorsed a proposal which would preserve key elements of the Anti-Corruption Court. The new draft competes with an earlier proposal which would basically pull down the pillars, eliminating aspects of the court [...] | 2007-09-06 09:52:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2503 | AMBASSADOR VISITS KEY PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE AND [...] Summary: On August 28-29, Ambassador Hume visited Yogyakarta, touring schools and meeting local leaders. The Ambassador visited public and private schools that receive USAID assistance under President BushQs $157 million Education Initiative for Indonesia. The Ambassador met with Sri Sultan [...] | 2007-09-10 10:16:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV ECON ID |
07JAKARTA2539 | IRAQI OFFICIAL GETS CORDIAL WELCOME, BUT NO SOLID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a just concluded visit to Jakarta, Iraqi DFM Labeed Abbawi made the rounds of high-level GOI officials as he sought Indonesian assistance in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Abbawi also urged that Indonesia reopen its Embassy in Baghdad. The GOI gave Abbawi a cordial w [...] | 2007-09-12 08:48:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ID IZ |
07JAKARTA2545 | AMBASSADOR VISITS KEY PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE AND MEETS [...] Summary: On August 28-29, Ambassador Hume visited Yogyakarta, touring schools and meeting local leaders. The Ambassador visited public and private schools that receive USAID assistance under President Bush's $157 million Education Initiative for Indonesia. The Ambassador met with Sri Sultan Ha [...] | 2007-09-13 02:19:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV ECON ID |
07JAKARTA255 | YUDHOYONO CANS THE CGI [...] (SBU) Summary. In a surprise announcement, President Yudhoyono told the media on January 24 that Indonesia would end the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) donor forum. While many observers believed the CGI format had outlived its usefulness, the timing and abruptness of the announcement - [...] | 2007-01-31 09:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID EFIN PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2550 | PROPOSED REGIONAL DIALOGUE ON ILLEGAL LOGGING WELCOME [...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) Mark Linscott held a series of meetings on September 6 and 7 related to illegal logging. Officials at the ASEAN Secretariat welcomed the proposal of an informal regional dialogue on illegal logging. Government of Indonesia (GOI) offic [...] | 2007-09-13 06:41:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2580 | BUSINESSMEN TRAVELING WITH ACEH GOVERNOR ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary. The deal was too good to be true. Two businessmen traveling with Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf's delegation to the U.S. were arrested September 11 in New York City after printing a $32 million check from a scam internet site and trying to cash it at Citibank in Manhattan. The two [...] | 2007-09-14 08:17:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV EAID PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2598 | CENTRAL SULAWESI - POSO: ECONOMIC RECOVERY KEY TO [...] (U) This is a joint Surabaya - Jakarta message. 2. (C) Summary: While interlocutors describe the current security situation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, as "good," all agree that economic development is critical to Poso's stability. Extremists continue to eye Central Sulawesi's young and po [...] | 2007-09-17 07:44:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2611 | U/S DISCUSSES INDONESIA'S ROLE IN COP 13, CLEAN ENERGY, [...] (SBU) Summary. During his visit to Indonesia September 10-12, U/S Jeffery held a roundtable lunch on September 10 with GOI officials, donor representatives ad private sector representatives. The head of Indonesia's COP 13 steering committee said that the GOI would await the outcomes of the U.N [...] | 2007-09-18 01:19:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAID ECON PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2617 | U/S Jeffery - Corporate Social Responsibility Discussions [...] (SBU) Summary. Two prominent U.S.-headquartered companies briefed Under Secretary Jeffery on their integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their overall business plans for Indonesia. GE and Citi both said CSR activities in Indonesia are tightly integrated with their corporate [...] | 2007-09-18 06:58:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2623 | ACEH TRANSITION ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 17, the Ambassador and Chiefs of other donor missions assessed Aceh's transition from the reconstruction period to economic growth. The mandate of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR) expires in April 2009. Donors work closely with [...] | 2007-09-18 09:35:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EINV PGOV PREL ID |
07JAKARTA2625 | RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER WELCOMES [...] (SBU) Minister of Research and Technology Kadiman told the Ambassador during a September 17 courtesy call that he welcomed continued U.S. involvement on Indonesia's efforts to build a national tsunami warning system. He expressed particular appreciation for Embassy efforts towards developing [...] | 2007-09-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TPHY EAID KSCA PINR PREL ID |
07JAKARTA2643 | ASEAN FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE INCREASING [...] (SBU) ASEAN activity and programs on environmental issues, including climate change and illegal logging, is on the rise. ASEAN is focusing more on the environment during its 40-year anniversary and in the run-up to the 13th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 13) in Bali this December [...] | 2007-09-19 09:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2649 | U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH ECONOMISTS AND BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. U/S Jeffery discussed Indonesia's economy and investment climate with economists and business leaders September 10-11 in Jakarta. Outlying regions such as Aceh and Papua face infrastructure and development challenges. Large established western companies with good local partners [...] | 2007-09-20 00:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV EINV ID |
07JAKARTA2712 | NOAA ASST. ADMINISTRATOR SPINRAD'S VISIT TO INDONESIA [...] (U) Summary. Assistant Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR),Richard Spinrad, participated in a series of meetings on tsunami monitoring, climate change, and future collaboration on September 17-21 in [...] | 2007-09-26 02:22:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID TPHY ECON PREL ID |
07JAKARTA2723 | SOROS' INTEREST IN ACEH SPARKS ANTI-SEMITIC [...] (SBU) Summary. A September 21 statement by Aceh Vice Governor Muhammad Nazar on American financier George Soros' possible plans to invest in palm oil plantations in Aceh sparked an anti-Semitic backlash among national Islamic political party leaders in Jakarta. The alleged plan-reportedly d [...] | 2007-09-26 08:57:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EINV EAID PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2780 | USG COULD LEVERAGE $100 MILLION AUSSIE FORESTRY INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: In the run up to COP 13, Australia has announced an AUS$100 Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership. Post could increase the long-term impact of our current projects in forestry and wildlife conservation by leveraging this new initiative. Any additional fu [...] | 2007-10-02 09:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA2855 | INDONESIA/BURMA -- ACTIVISTS CALL FOR REGION-WIDE [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY -- Indonesian civil society activists concerned about Burma met with Emboffs at the DCM's Residence, October 5. A/DCM and Pol/C reviewed USG Burma policy, underscoring our strong support for civil society efforts in favor [...] | 2007-10-10 09:26:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ID BM EAID PHUM |
07JAKARTA2860 | ACEH -- ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY ON SECURITY, HUMAN [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Poloff held a dialogue on human rights with activists in a former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) stronghold in Aceh, October 3. Poloff emphasized the USG's full support for Aceh's peaceful development under terms of the Hels [...] | 2007-10-10 10:05:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM PINS ID |
07JAKARTA291 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES AID, INVESTMENT IN PAPUA [...] (U) Introduction and Summary. On a January 21 - 24 visit to Papua Province, Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe stressed the importance to Papua's development of both foreign aid and foreign investment. He said that the U.S. was examining ways to increase assistance to Papua, especially in the form of [...] | 2007-02-02 06:36:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EINV EAID EMIN SOCI CASC ID |
07JAKARTA2953 | INDONESIA'S SUPREME COURT -- LACK OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Supreme Court has made progress in implementing reforms designed to improve the efficiency and professionalism of the judiciary. The Court's potential remains unfulfilled, however, largely due its reluctance to tackle the issue of judicial accountability. While movin [...] | 2007-10-22 09:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID |
07JAKARTA2974 | CORRUPTION NEWS -- MAKING STRIDES IN GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest news related to corruption, the GOI continues to make strides in improving inter-agency coordination in anti-corruption cases. In a controversial case, the Supreme Court has overturned convictions against 10 local politicians. A civil case against a Suharto-linked [...] | 2007-10-24 06:46:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID |
07JAKARTA300 | TSUNAMI RECOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION - ACEH AT TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) Summary. Aceh is undergoing a remarkable transformation and recovery since the devastating December 2004 tsunami. All displaced persons are out of tents and in houses or temporary shelters. New or renovated houses are everywhere and the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)' [...] | 2007-02-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV KCOR EINV ID |
07JAKARTA3000 | LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR HUME TO USTR SCHWAB [...] (SBU) I wanted to thank you for agreeing to attend the Trade Ministers dialogue attached to the 13th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework of Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali, Indonesia on December 8th and 9th. I want you to know we will do everything we can to mak [...] | 2007-10-26 08:35:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ETRD SENV EAID ID |
07JAKARTA302 | TSUNAMI RECOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION - ACEH AT TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency of Aceh and Nias (BRR) has made significant progress on the immense task of rebuilding Aceh and Nias in its 20 months of operation. However, in contrast to a year ago, BRR is receiving increased criticism for spending too slowly (or t [...] | 2007-02-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL SENV KCOR ID |
07JAKARTA3049 | FREEPORT IN PAPUA: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (SBU) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified-please handle accordingly. Not for distribution outside of USG channels. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Freeport McMoRan is making efforts to address the economic impact of its operations in Papua, Indonesia. During the DCM's recent visit, the company s [...] | 2007-11-01 10:28:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3069 | INDONESIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT -- FOCUS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Constitutional Court Chief Justice Jimly Asshiddiqie--in a meeting with DCM--styled himself a reformer, including in the area of civil liberties. He added, however, that--in his opinion--reform of Indonesia's court system would require at least another decade. Asshiddiqie expres [...] | 2007-11-05 06:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL EAID ID |
07JAKARTA313 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES STRATEGIES WITH ACEH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aceh Governor-Elect and former leader of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) Irwandi Yusuf met with the Ambassador on February 5, three days before Irwandi's inauguration, to discuss strategies for the new administration. The discussion focused largely on economic development, with the [...] | 2007-02-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3143 | CT UPDATE -- SBY TOUGH ON BALI BOMBERS; PATROL [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In the latest counter-terrorism news, President Yudhoyono has asserted that he will not grant the three terrorists convicted for the 2002 Bali bombings clemency (should they request it). The three terrorists remain [...] | 2007-11-13 09:27:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3238 | TRAFFICKING -- MULTILATERAL STRATEGY MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission--at its initiative--recently hosted a trafficking-focused meeting of multilateral donors and NGOs. The meeting--chaired by Dep Pol/C--addressed several recommendations made in the 2007 GAO evaluation of USG international human trafficking projects. Meeting participants [...] | 2007-11-23 10:32:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3304 | WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT -- JAKARTA SMALL GRANTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission is pleased to recommend the following three proposals for EAP's 2007 Women's Issues Fund Competition for Small Grants. Mission closely reviewed and carefully weighed 45 applications in total before choosing these proposals. Each of the recommended projects would advanc [...] | 2007-12-03 10:55:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO KCRM SOCI EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3320 | ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMPS UP ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a highly positive development, the Attorney General has removed dozens of prosecutors from their positions during his first six months on the job, many for allegedly accepting bribes. These aggressive moves are part of a larger program--which Mission has strongly supported--to [...] | 2007-12-05 07:24:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3348 | HUMAN RIGHTS -- PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's new democracy continues to tackle thorny issues. A coalition of civil society groups has been lobbying hard to ensure that the new draft criminal code adequately protects civil lib [...] | 2007-12-07 10:13:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS PHUM PREL EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3355 | FIRST SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING OF CORAL TRIANGLE [...] (U) Summary: Indonesia hosted the Coral Triangle Initiative meetings on the margins of the Conference of the Parties 13 to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali. During a closed session of Senior Officials Meeting on December 6, the six CTI countries (Indonesia, East Timor, th [...] | 2007-12-10 08:49:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID KGHG ECON PREL ID |
07JAKARTA3408 | HUMAN TRAFFICKING -- INDONESIA ESCALATES LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian law enforcement agencies are escalating the war against human trafficking, armed with the robust new anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law and invigorated political will. Arrest and prosecution is at a record pace and corrupt officials who facilitate trafficking are [...] | 2007-12-17 05:41:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SMIG PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA3420 | BURMA -- ACTIVISTS CALL FOR REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. It also contains an Action Request in Para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A group of approximately 40 Indonesian civil society, labor, and media representatives gathered at Pol/C's residence on December 17 to discuss way [...] | 2007-12-18 07:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BM ID PGOV PREL EAID |
07JAKARTA3471 | DIPLOMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY FOR INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States and Indonesia have real opportunities within the bilateral relationship to move their respective environmental agendas forward. The Government of Indonesia used the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference in Bali to highlight its environmental resources [...] | 2007-12-27 09:03:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ECON EAID KPAO PREL ID |
07JAKARTA640 | INDONESIA: MALUKU/AMBON REBUILDING EFFORTS CONTINUE TO MAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a two-day trip to Ambon, capitol of Maluku province and an area once characterized by sectarian conflict, Feb. 22-23, Consulate General Surabaya Public Affairs Officer (PAO) met with a variety of local contacts to discuss the current situation in the area and ideas for future [...] | 2007-03-06 09:24:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID PINS PREF ECON PGOV ID |
07JAKARTA688 | Yogyakarta Earthquake: Economic Recovery Rapid, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The May 2006 earthquake that shook Yogyakarta and surrounding areas caused $2-3 billion of damage and destroyed over 33,000 businesses, mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ConGen Surabaya visited the affected areas on February 12-13, 2007 and met regional economic and bu [...] | 2007-03-09 08:44:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID PGOV KCOR ID |
07JAKARTA830 | RESPONSE ON UPCOMING U.S. INITIATIVES IN THE ASEAN [...] (U) We met with Deputy Director for ARF Issues Aji Surya at the Department of Foreign Affairs on March 21 to present U.S. proposals (reftel) and hear initial Indonesian reactions. Proposals had been faxed to Surya the preceding day. Surya stressed that his comments were "preliminary" only an [...] | 2007-03-22 09:58:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ARF MARR EAID PARM XB ID |
07JAKARTA852 | PAPUA GOVERNOR OUTLINES DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WELCOMES [...] (SBU) Summary. In a March 16 meeting with Charge and USAID and Embassy officials, Governor Barnabas Suebu explained that his development strategy for Papua focuses on four areas: good governance, village-based development, infrastructure improvements, and law and order. Suebu said that his [...] | 2007-03-23 08:38:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ID |
07JAKARTA853 | THE PEACE CORPS AND INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Mr. Director, I wanted to thank your personally for sending an excellent Peace Corps Assessment team to Indonesia on short notice. The Embassy staff, a number of whom are former Peace Corps volunteers, set up an outstanding program for the team, with visits to a range of potential Peace [...] | 2007-03-23 09:00:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID |
07JERUSALEM1034 | LAUNCH OF "PALESTINIAN ECONOMY" SITE ON STATE [...] CONSULATE GENERAL JERUSALEM IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF "PALESTINIAN ECONOMY," A NEW COMMUNITY WEB SITE FACILITATED BY THE DEPARTMENT'S KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TEAM. THE WEB SITE IS A COLLECTION OF IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ON THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY, DESIGNED TO HELP FACILITATE INFORMATION [...] | 2007-06-01 14:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PHUM SENV KWBG |
07JERUSALEM1253 | GAZA: FOOD AND FUEL AVAILABLE FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Basic food commodities and fuel remain available in Gaza, but prices are increasing and food stocks are declining rapidly, according to Gaza residents, UN agencies and NGOs. UNRWA and WFP have resumed operations, but UNRWA says it has only 10 days of flour in its warehouses. [...] | 2007-06-18 14:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1266 | SOME AID ARRIVES IN GAZA, MOST CROSSINGS CLOSED [...] (SBU) Summary: Fuel imports continued to flow into Gaza June 19, and several truck loads of humanitarian assistance entered through Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza. Gaza-based contacts report continued panic buying June 19, but, with the exception of wheat-flour, sugar, and dairy products, [...] | 2007-06-19 14:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1274 | FOOD SUPPLIES ENTER GAZA; LIMITED PASSENGER [...] (SBU) Summary: WFP delivered wheat-flour and oil to Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing June 20, with the concurrence of nearby Hamas forces. Limited movement of foreigners and injured Palestinians occurred at Erez. Israeli incursions into Gaza took place June 20, resulting in the death of [...] | 2007-06-20 14:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1275 | HEBRON REMAINS QUIET, THANKS TO RESPONSIVE [...] (C) Summary: In June 12 conversations with the Consul General, the Hebron governor, the mayor of Hebron, and a Hebron-based Fatah PLC member noted that Hebron remains calm, despite on-going violence in Gaza and the areas, strong Hamas elements. Hebron Mayor Osaily stressed his priority to pr [...] | 2007-06-20 14:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID PREL KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1290 | CONSUL GENERAL MEETS WITH NEW PALESTINIAN MINISTER [...] (C) The Consul General met the newly appointed Minister for Information and Justice Riad Malki on June 20 at the Ministry of Justice headquarters in Ramallah. Noting that he is the new government's spokesman as well as responsible for two significant ministerial portfolios, Malki said the jo [...] | 2007-06-22 07:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER EAID KDEM IS |
07JERUSALEM1296 | GAZA HOSPITALS STRUGGLE TO SERVE PUBLIC; JORDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Critical health care assistance is being supplied to Gaza hospitals, including a truck load of dialysis equipment funded by USAID. ICRC and other international organizations have resumed their work in Gaza. Twenty-one truck loads of food aid were shipped into Gaza June 21. [...] | 2007-06-22 11:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1304 | HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CONTINUES TO TRICKLE INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: Imports into Gaza remain mostly limited to humanitarian shipments. After Kerem Shalom crossing closed early June 25 due to mortar fire, WFP shipments of sugar, flour, and oil were diverted and passed through Sufa crossing. Gaza hospitals are all operational despite run-down f [...] | 2007-06-25 14:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1305 | PALESTINIAN PRIVATE SECTOR MOVES TO OPERATE GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian private sector leaders in the West Bank and Gaza are promoting a variety of proposals to "privatize" the Karni/al-Mintar and Kerem Shalom crossings. Private sector representatives in Gaza reached an agreement June 20 on a plan that would authorize a newly-established [...] | 2007-06-25 15:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1317 | PRICES STABILIZE AS FOOD REMAINS AVAILABLE IN GAZA [...] (SBU) Summary: Food prices for most items in Gaza have returned to just above normal following the panic-buying and price increases that occurred immediately following the Hamas takeover of Gaza. Gaza is not experiencing shortages of basic commodities. Hamas threatened to confiscate goods f [...] | 2007-06-26 14:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1330 | NEW PALESTINIAN MINISTER FOR PLANNING DESCRIBES [...] (C) The Consul General met with the newly appointed Minister of Planning and Labor Samir Abdullah June 25 at the Ministry of Planning headquarters in Ramallah. Abdullah began by saying that recent events in Gaza -- while unfortunate -- could nonetheless create opportunities for positive chan [...] | 2007-06-27 13:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREL KPAL KWBG KDEM |
07JERUSALEM1349 | LIMITED HUMANITARIAN SHIPMENTS CONTINUE TO MOVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Karni/al-Mintar, Kerem Shalom, and Sufa crossings were open to select humanitarian and commercial shipments June 28, as operations at the crossings remains ad hoc given the fluid security situation. ICRC transferred 17 sick and injured patients out of Gaza June 28. End summar [...] | 2007-06-28 14:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1429 | PM FAYYAD LAYS OUT SECURITY/DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary. At a July 5 meeting in Ramallah, PM Salam Fayyad told Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) that the PA must make immediate progress--including a political track with Israel--because this government is probably Palestinians' last chance. PM Fayyad said security is his government's pr [...] | 2007-07-10 09:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS OREP EAID PGOV ECON |
07JERUSALEM1435 | JAPANESE AGRICULTURE ASSISTANCE IN JORDAN VALLEY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) Jordan Valley agricultural development initiative began in March 2007 with a technical assistance program and two feasibility studies scheduled to run 18-22 months. The technical assistance program will train Palestinian far [...] | 2007-07-10 14:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ETRD IS JA JO KWBG |
07JERUSALEM1455 | GAZA ECONOMIC LOSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: According to data compiled by the Palestinian private sector, the closure of the Karni/al-Mintar crossing following the Hamas take-over of Gaza is causing catastrophic damage to Gaza's economy. Since the June 12 closure of the crossing, 80 percent of Gaza factories have closed [...] | 2007-07-13 13:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAID EFIN EIND PGOV PHUM KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1482 | LIMITED MOVEMENT AT GAZA CROSSINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sufa crossing and Nahal Oz fuel transfer station were open on July 17, the Karni/al-Mintar, Kerem Shalom, and Rafah crossings were closed. WFP plans to deliver eight truck loads of wheat flour per day to Gaza July 17-22 through Sufa, while ICRC transferred 25 patients from Ga [...] | 2007-07-18 11:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1483 | UTILITY PAYMENTS INDIRECTLY SUBSIDIZING HAMAS IN [...] (C) Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General July 17 that he no longer wants the European Union to fund utility payments through the Temporary International Mechanism (Window II) or the GOI to deduct utility payments from clearance revenues. Fayyad belie [...] | 2007-07-18 12:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1496 | USAID MEETS WITH PA MINISTERS OF HEALTH AND [...] (SBU) USAID Mission Director met with Minister of Health Fathi Abu Moghli and Minister of Planning Samir Abdallah July 16 to discuss USAID programs in West Bank/Gaza. Abu Moghli stated that he intends to (1) develop a strategic plan for the health sector and (2) work with USAID on its ongoing [...] | 2007-07-19 10:54:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1519 | NORWEGIAN AND PA VIEWS ON PROPOSED AHLC MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General July 17 that he supports the proposal to convene an Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in September 2007. Fayyad stated that the meeting should be limited to AHLC members only. He also suggested that a proposed follow-on [...] | 2007-07-23 11:26:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PGOV PREL KWBG |
07JERUSALEM1524 | HAMAS REPLACES THREE GAZA MAYORS, PRESSURES OTHER [...] (C) Summary. Hamas has taken control of three Gaza municipalities, replacing Fatah mayors and city council members. Gaza's other Fatah mayors report limited Hamas interference, but express concern about the agenda of Hamas' former Minister of Local Government. Gaza City's mayor described e [...] | 2007-07-23 14:33:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER KDEM PREL |
07JERUSALEM1535 | MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE REQUESTS MORE US ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: PA Minister of Agriculture Mahmoud al-Habbash told USAID Mission Director on July 23 that his ministry's efforts are focused on (1) land reclamation; (2) constructing roads for small farmers; and (3) developing water projects. Abu Hassan requested additional funds for Ministr [...] | 2007-07-24 13:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ECON KWBG KPAL PHUM PGOV |
07JERUSALEM1574 | FAYYAD STILL CONCERNED ABOUT GAZA UTILITY [...] (C) Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General on July 26 that he has raised his concerns about Hamas benefiting from EU funding for utility payments in Gaza with EC Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner (reftel),but he has not yet explicitly asked the EU to cut off [...] | 2007-07-30 06:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1576 | LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FUND CONVENES; SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Local Development Forum (LDF) met July 24 for the first time since December 2005. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stressed the urgent need for donor assistance and called for an Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in September, followed by a donors' conference before the [...] | 2007-07-30 07:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL PROV KWBG |
07JERUSALEM159 | WEST BANK/GAZA MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS SERVING PALESTINIANS ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE THE STEEP DOWNTURN IN THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY. THE NUMBER OF LOANS ISSUED MONTHLY BY UNRWA, THE LARGEST MICROFINANCE LENDER IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA, HAS DROPPED 77 PERCENT SINCE THE FORMATION OF THE CU [...] | 2007-01-26 13:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EAID KWBG |
07JERUSALEM1653 | FAYYAD SEEKS AN "IMPRESSIVE" AID PACKAGE FROM [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad told CODEL Lantos August 7 that an immediate and "impressive" aid package for the PA will send an important message of political support and focus the attention of Palestinians and people throughout the region. He called the present PA government the [...] | 2007-08-09 15:01:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL EAID |
07JERUSALEM1676 | FAYYAD TELLS CODEL BAIRD THAT ADDITIONAL USG [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 9 meeting with the Consul General and CODEL Baird, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad expressed his hope that additional U.S. assistance arrives quickly to improve the lives of Palestinians. Fayyad said that the future of the West Bank/Gaz [...] | 2007-08-14 05:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID IS KPAL KWBG OVIP |
07JERUSALEM1687 | GAZA PRIVATE SECTOR STRUGGLES; HUMANITARIAN NEEDS [...] (SBU) Summary: While food and other basic essentials continue to flow into Gaza, the Gaza private sector is being significantly impacted by the continued closure of the Karni/al-Mintar commercial crossing. Contacts report that 85 percent of industrial establishments have shut-down operation [...] | 2007-08-14 15:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAID KWBG KPAL PHUM IS |
07JERUSALEM1735 | GAZA ELECTRICITY CURTAILED AS EU SUSPENDS [...] (C) Summary. A security threat against Nahal Oz transfer station and increased HAMAS interference in the collection and distribution of utility revenues has led the EU - at the urging of the Palestinian Authority (PA) - to suspend its financial support for fuel shipments into Gaza, resulting in [...] | 2007-08-20 15:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG KWBG PTER IS |
07JERUSALEM1764 | GAZA ELECTRICITY FLOWS; HAMAS INTIMIDATION GROWS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Gaza power plant received EU-funded fuel shipments on August 22 and returned to its normal 65 MW of electricity output. According to Gaza contacts, most homes now have 18-22 hours of electricity each day. The electricity shortage from August 19-21 resulted in spoiled food [...] | 2007-08-24 14:38:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ENRG KPAL KWBG PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1766 | PA MORE THAN 1.5 BILLION IN THE RED FOR 2007; [...] (U) On August 20, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Cabinet approved its 2007 budget, with total expenditures of USD 2.5 billion and an estimated budget deficit of more that USD 1.5 billion this calendar year. The PA's wage bill remains its single largest expenditure: more than USD 1.3 billion a [...] | 2007-08-24 16:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1794 | GAZA CITY MAYOR: HAMAS PROVIDING SECURITY BUT [...] (C) Summary. Gaza City Mayor Majid Abu Ramadan (Independent, appointed by President Abbas in 2005) told PolOff August 20 that Hamas has effectively portrayed itself as a victim of hostile external policies and that most Gazans blame their suffering on Israel, the PA and the international comm [...] | 2007-08-27 10:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER KDEM PREL |
07JERUSALEM1795 | FAYYAD SAYS TERROR LITIGATION POSES "EXISTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told a visiting interagency team that the suits brought against the PA in the U.S. and Israel pose an "existential threat" to the Palestinian cause. Fayyad urged the State Department to provide a Statement of Interest in supp [...] | 2007-08-27 10:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS PTER KPAL EINV |
07JERUSALEM1818 | GAZA HEALTH CARE BECOMES PAWN IN HAMAS-FATAH POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: In reaction to Hamas' replacement of Fatah-affiliated hospital administrators in Gaza (reftel),the Fatah-affiliated labor unions of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Gaza have been conducting work-stoppages as of August 23. An estimated 95 percent of MOH hospital employees hav [...] | 2007-08-29 04:50:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM1835 | GAZA PLC MEMBER: PALESTINIANS BLAME ISRAEL, U.S [...] (C) Summary. Gaza PLC member Rawiya al-Shawwa told PolOff August 22 and 27 that most Gazans view Israel, enabled by the U.S. and EU, as the cause of Gaza's closures and poverty, not Hamas. Externally-imposed restrictions allow Hamas to claim it is the main force resisting occupation and shi [...] | 2007-08-30 12:52:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER KDEM PREL |
07JERUSALEM1875 | GAZA GOVERNOR SLAMS HAMAS "CRIMES" AND PREDICTS [...] (C) Summary. In a September 4 meeting in Jerusalem, Gaza Governor Muhammad al-Qidwa said Hamas has stepped up harassment of Fatah and independent activists and journalists in Gaza. He called Hamas "more brutal than Israel was in 27 years of occupation" in arresting, beating and torturing pr [...] | 2007-09-07 14:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER IS |
07JERUSALEM1994 | PM FAYYAD DESCRIBES PA EFFORTS TO COMBAT MONEY [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister and Finance Minster Salam Fayyad recently told a Treasury Department delegation that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is committed to taking aggressive action against groups and individuals involved in terrorism financing. Fayyad urged the USG to pass him relevant [...] | 2007-09-24 08:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KFTN EAID PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM1995 | PALESTINIAN MONETARY AUTHORITY GOVERNOR OUTLINES [...] (C) Summary: Banks continue to operate normally in Gaza, without any direct contact with Hamas, according to Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor George Abed. Two Gaza-based Palestinian banks will complete the transfer of their headquarters to the West Bank by the end of September 20 [...] | 2007-09-24 08:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KFTN PGOV EAID KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM2174 | FAYYAD TELLS LOCAL DONORS: PA MUST "OWN" REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told local donor representatives on October 18 that it is critical to his government's success that it be seen to own the reform and development plan to be presented at the December donors' conference in Paris. Fayyad said [...] | 2007-10-22 09:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL |
07JERUSALEM2198 | UN AGENCIES SEE CONTINUED TIGHTENING IN GAZA AND [...] (SBU) Summary. UN agencies reported to donors in Jerusalem on October 18 that the humanitarian and access and movement situation in the West Bank and Gaza continues to deteriorate. UNSCO said that GOI officials had confirmed reports that Gaza's Sufa crossing would soon close indefinitely, fu [...] | 2007-10-24 15:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF ECON EAID PREL IS KWBG PHUM |
07JERUSALEM2239 | FUEL SHIPMENTS TO GAZA CUT; SUFA CROSSING CLOSED [...] (SBU) Summary: Gaza-based Director of the Palestinian General Petroleum Corporation Mujahad Salama confirmed cuts in fuel deliveries to Gaza on October 29. The Gaza Power Plant received all 300,000 liters of fuel oil it had requested for the day, but there were no gasoline imports, accordin [...] | 2007-10-29 15:39:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM224 | GAZA'S WOOD AND FURNITURE INDUSTRIES STARVED OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Restricted throughput at the Karni/al-Mintar crossing has deprived Gaza's wood and furniture manufacturing sector of raw materials, driven up transportation costs, and severely limited access to the industry's sole export market: Israel. Industry representatives say about 10 [...] | 2007-02-02 15:27:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EIND EAID KWBG IS EG |
07JERUSALEM2258 | FRENCH BEGIN PLANNING FOR PALESTINIAN DONORS' [...] (SBU) Summary. Pierre Duquesne, a former French representative to the IMF, is leading French efforts to coordinate planning for the December donors' conference in Paris. Duquesne told the Consul General in Jerusalem on October 25 that the Palestinian Authority has agreed to hold the conferen [...] | 2007-10-31 17:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN FR KWBG |
07JERUSALEM2284 | SENIOR GAZA PLO LEADER: GAZANS SEE "NO FUTURE"; [...] (C) Summary. PLO Executive Committee (ExComm) member Riyad al-Khudari told PolOff by phone that Hamas has built a mini-state in Gaza with strong security forces, and cannot be effectively challenged if Gazans are too desperate to consider political alternatives. He said the near-total closu [...] | 2007-11-02 15:44:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER IS |
07JERUSALEM2393 | GAZA: FUEL IMPORTS CUT; FARMERS HOPE TO EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Gaza fuel imports have been reduced by roughly one-third since October 27. Gaza-based WHO contacts report that Gazans are receiving an "all time low" level of medical care. Humanitarian and commercial shipments have continued to enter Gaza in reduced quantities. Gaza farmers [...] | 2007-11-19 15:15:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM IS |
07JERUSALEM2399 | IMF OUTLINES PA'S FISCAL GAP AHEAD OF PARIS [...] (SBU) Summary. The IMF reports that the Palestinian Authority (PA) will need international assistance totaling more than $5.8 billion over the next three years to pay salaries, meet recurrent operational expenditures and make basic investments in health, education, security and infrastructure [...] | 2007-11-20 12:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KWBG EINV |
07JERUSALEM2411 | HOSPITALS IN NABLUS MORE SECURE [...] (SBU) Summary: PA Ministry of Health (MOH) officials told Econoff on November 19 that recently-arrived PA security forces in Nablus have (1) removed armed militias from the hospitals; (2) allowed hospital administrators to implement visitor hour programs for first time since 2000 and to clear [...] | 2007-11-21 12:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM2445 | PA SECURITY ADVISORS: ANNAPOLIS DECLARATION AND [...] (C) Summary. Presidential security advisor Haj Ismayil and the Prime Minister's security advisor, BG Hazem Attallah, told PolOff on November 28 that the Annapolis declaration's target timeline for negotiations and U.S. monitoring/assessment are very positive. They welcomed U.S. assessment o [...] | 2007-11-28 15:33:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER IS |
07JERUSALEM2513 | PDAS DIBBLE: MEETINGS TO ADVANCE PARIS DONORS' [...] (SBU) Summary: EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble met on November 29 in Jerusalem with officials from the World Bank and IMF, the PA Ministry of Planning, the French Consulate and the Office of the Quartet Representative (OQR) to discuss planning for the December 17 Paris Donors' Conference and to sol [...] | 2007-12-07 12:35:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID IS KWBG |
07JERUSALEM2514 | GAZA: REDUCED FUEL IMPORTS RESULT IN GAS STATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli restrictions on fuel shipments to Gaza, imposed on October 27, remain in effect, according to the head of the Palestinian Petroleum Corporation (PPC) in Gaza. In reaction, Gaza gas station owners began a work stoppage on December 1, despite the continued importation of [...] | 2007-12-07 12:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG KWBG PGOV PHUM |
07JERUSALEM2522 | GAZA CITY'S MAYOR/CITY COUNCIL SUSPEND OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Gaza City Mayor Majid Abu Ramadan (Independent) told PolOff by phone December 7 that he and the city council have suspended operations to protest illegal Hamas interference in municipal operations and personnel decisions. He said that, if not reversed, Hamas' appointment of a D [...] | 2007-12-07 15:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EAID PTER IS |
07JERUSALEM253 | CONSUL GENERAL PRAISES CANCER CARE AT EAST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE CONSUL GENERAL VISITED AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL (AVH) IN EAST JERUSALEM JANUARY 31 TO COMMEMORATE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST CANCER CONSORTIUM (MECC). AVH IS THE ONLY PALESTINIAN HEALTH CARE FACILITY THAT IS EQUIPPED WITH A RADIOTHERAPY MACHINE, AND MECC IS [...] | 2007-02-07 16:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID EFIN PREL KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM2560 | PA MAKES ITS CASE TO DONORS ONE LAST TIME BEFORE [...] (SBU) Summary. PA Prime Minister Fayyad and Planning Minister Abdallah used meetings of the Local Development Forum (LDF) and Paris Steering Committee on December 12 to push donors to make the upcoming Paris Conference a success. Fayyad was direct about the urgent need for budget support: "Do [...] | 2007-12-13 14:57:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV KWBG |
07JERUSALEM2567 | GAZA: STRAWBERRY EXPORTS LIMITED, CARNATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Strawberries exported from Gaza this harvest have been of lower quality that previous years, reportedly as a result of the lack of fertilizer and poor handling procedures at the Kerem Shalom crossing. Gaza farmers continue to export cut carnation flowers, but have not been ab [...] | 2007-12-14 13:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON KPAL KWBG |
07JERUSALEM2568 | PALESTINIAN PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERS URGE "MARSHALL [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian business leaders told Treasury DepSec Kimmitt that the economic situation in the West Bank and Gaza is getting worse, particularly in Gaza where Israeli restrictions on the flow of goods are most severe. They asserted that the capital necessary to stimulate the ec [...] | 2007-12-14 13:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAID KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM358 | USG-FUNDED PHARMACEUTICALS BLOCKED FROM ENTERING [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks, the GOI has been more aggressive in efforts to stop the flow of Palestinian-produced pharmaceuticals to East Jerusalem pharmacies and hospitals, according to ConGen contacts. Israeli Ministry of Health inspectors have stepped up warnings and inspections of pha [...] | 2007-02-21 14:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM ETRD ECON PGOV KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM459 | WFP/FAO REPORTS ON PALESTINIAN FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest WFP/FAO food security report states that one-third of Palestinian households are highly dependent on food assistance, as financial hardship greatly reduced Palestinian access to food in 2006. Forty-six percent of Palestinians fell below the USD 2.20 per capita per [...] | 2007-03-08 13:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID ECON EAGR KWBG |
07JERUSALEM470 | REACTION TO EC CONCEPT PAPER ON AN INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's draft concept paper on an international mechanism for support to Palestinians is largely focused on a further revision of the donor coordination mechanism, rather than the content of assistance. Both Salam Fayyad and the Norwegians have expressed opposi [...] | 2007-03-10 10:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KWBG |
07JERUSALEM509 | NEW LAGOON TO IMPROVE NORTH GAZA SEWAGE SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction of the donor-financed Northern Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant (NGWTP) began in February. The plant's new storage lagoon began receiving wastewater from the nearby Beit Lahiya sewage lake in early March in order to provide relief to the area's overflowing sewage [...] | 2007-03-16 12:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM EAID KBIO KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM511 | PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPS RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Palestinian private sector institutions who are members of the Private Sector Development Working Group, one of the donor coordination working groups chaired by the World Bank, have drafted a Resilience and Recovery Plan, designed to aid the Palestinian private sector duri [...] | 2007-03-16 16:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EAID PREL KWBG |
07JERUSALEM574 | WAVE OF SEWAGE SUDDENLY ENGULFS GAZA VILLAGE [...] (SBU) An earth embankment around a recently-built sewage pond near Beit Lahiya collapsed at 9:30 a.m. on March 27, spilling a large volume of sewage and sand onto the nearby Bedouin village of Um Nasser. The sewage pond was built by the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) in October 2006 in or [...] | 2007-03-28 10:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM EAID KBIO KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM851 | FAYYAD AND TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM [...] (C) The head of the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) management unit Mario Mariani confirmed May 8 that he had coordinated an early May disbursement of allowances with Palestinian Authority (PA) Finance Minister/PLO Economic Affairs Department head Salam Fayyad. The TIM disbursed 21 m [...] | 2007-05-10 08:43:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID KWBG IS |
07JERUSALEM868 | WORLD BANK ESSP STILL STRUGGLING TO DELIVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE WORLD BANK'S EMERGENCY SERVICES SUPPORT PROGRAM (ESSP) TEAM MET WITH DONOR COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 26 TO DISCUSS THE PROGRAM'S CURRENT STATUS, INCLUDING ITS IMPACT AND IMPLEMENTATION. WORLD BANK OFFICIALS SAID THAT PRESIDENT ABBAS HAS DESIGNATED PLO ECONOMIC AFFAIRS [...] | 2007-05-11 12:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID KWBG ECON PHUM |
07JERUSALEM894 | GAZA FISHERMEN REPORT RECORD SARDINE CATCH [...] (SBU) Gaza fishermen have caught record numbers of sardines over the last two weeks, bringing down Gaza's market price for sardines from 25 NIS to 13 NIS per kilo. Gaza-based Assistant Project Director of USAID's Palestinian Agribusiness Partnership Activity (PAPA) project Sa'lem al-Rais told [...] | 2007-05-16 09:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIS EAID IS KWBG |
07JERUSALEM928 | MAJOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES OPEN [...] (SBU) The American Director of the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) reported to Econoff that ANERA's Gaza office was damaged May 17 by an IAF missile strike on a Gaza City "Executive Force" headquarters (ref B),which took place an estimated 50 meters away. He said that none of ANERA's [...] | 2007-05-18 14:24:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM ENRG ETRD EAID KWBG |
07JERUSALEM931 | PALESTINIAN MONETARY AUTHORITY REFORMS GEARED [...] (C) Summary: George Abed, Governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA),told the Consul General May 11 that his program to reorganize the PMA along the lines of a central bank is 70 percent complete. He hopes that the U.S. and other donors will increase training and technical assist [...] | 2007-05-21 09:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL KWBG |
07JERUSALEM933 | FOEME CALLS FOR WORLD BANK TO CONSIDER JORDAN [...] (SBU) On May 10, regional NGO Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) held a conference in Jerusalem on the proposed Red Sea - Dead Sea Conduit (RDC) and the organization's recently-completed socioeconomic and environmental impact study, which was fully-funded by USAID's Middle East Regional [...] | 2007-05-21 12:24:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KWBG IS JO |
07KABUL1033 | KABUL POWER SUPPLY - LATE BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-29 03:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID ECON EPET ETRD KPWR PGOV AF |
07KABUL1095 | PRT SHARANA: PAKTIKA ASSESSMENT 2006 [...] (SBU) In the past twelve months, measurable progress in Paktika has been limited, although 2006 witnessed greater Afghan involvment in the province's security. The most positive changes were driven by the U.S. military and the PRT in Sharana. Paktika is a province that has never experienced [...] | 2007-04-04 03:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON MARR AF EAID |
07KABUL1123 | PRT/BADGHIS: SPAIN IMPROVES EDUCATION [...] (U) The civilian component of the Spanish PRT recently launched the latest part of its plan to improve the provincial government's ability to meet the educational needs of the people of Badghis Province. They plan to erect temporary tent schools at 160 locations identified by the Education Mi [...] | 2007-04-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AF |
07KABUL1165 | PRT/MAZAR: SNAPSHOT OF FARYAB PROVINCE: ECONOMY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faryab, the gateway to the north, has an agricultural economy crippled by severe drought. Many families cannot afford to buy enough food. Development has been slow to reach the region, which has fewer than 20 miles of paved roads. Half of all children start school, but most [...] | 2007-04-09 13:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI EAID ECON AF |
07KABUL1170 | FARAH PROVINCE SEES RISE IN TALIBAN ACTIVITY, [...] (U) Ambassador Neumann's March 5 visit to PRT Farah revealed that the province, which one year ago was a relatively low threat area (albeit with high rates of criminality and poppy production),has witnessed a disburing increase in Taliban activity, and its central districts are now considere [...] | 2007-04-10 03:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1206 | Afghanistan Energy: Letter From Ministers of Finance and [...] (U) On April 4, Embassy received para 4 letter from Minister of Finance Dr. Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady and Minister of Economy Dr. Mohammad Jalil Shams regarding energy sector commitments the GOA is prepared to make. The Ahady/Shams letter is in response to the Ambassador's March 29 letter offering US [...] | 2007-04-11 11:50:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR EAID ECON ETRD KPWR PGOV AF |
07KABUL137 | TEA CLUB OPENS DISCUSSION OF BERLIN JCMB AGENDA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EFIN AF |
07KABUL1569 | LAGHMAN'S AGGRESSIVE ERADICATION EFFORT LACKS ANA [...] (C) Summary. Laghman province has eradicated more than 60 times as much poppy this year compared to 2006, but ANP eradication missions are encountering increased resistance. Two ANP officers were killed in a clash on April 18. Governor Mangal has repeatedly requested increased support from [...] | 2007-05-09 15:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1570 | PRT MAZAR-E-SHARIF: POPPY PRODUCTION DOWN IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Northwest Afghanistan (Balkh, Jowzjan, Samangan, Sar-e Pul and Faryab provinces) will produce much less poppy than last year as a result of a substantial drop in cultivation in Balkh Province, the sixth largest producer last year in Afghanistan. Some governors exaggerate their [...] | 2007-05-09 15:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1571 | PRT QAL-E-NOW: BADGHIS GOVERNOR SET TO PROFIT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April visit to the Badghis district of Murghab, PRToff was told by local police that 80 percent of the district's poppy crop had been eradicated. Personal observations, reports from the Police Support Team (PST) Commander and other PRT units strongly indicate that fa [...] | 2007-05-09 16:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1583 | Afghanistan: GOA Confirms Request for Japanese [...] (SBU) Pursuant to Ref B, Econ Counselor raised the issue of securing Japanese assistance to the Afghan energy sector in separate meetings with Senior Adviser to the President Nadiri and Minister of Economy Shams. In the April 22 meeting with Shams, who chairs the Inter- ministerial Commissio [...] | 2007-05-13 03:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL1593 | 2007 AFGHANISTAN DEVELOPMENT FORM READ OUT [...] SUMMARY: The 2007 Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) was well attended and more coherently structured than its predecessor in 2005. The plenary Q working group Q plenary structure led to vigorous debate and helped to shape an emerging consensus on critical issues including aid effectivene [...] | 2007-05-13 12:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL1684 | AFGHAN-PAK JIRGA PREPARATIONS BUILDING UP: NEED [...] This cable contains an action request. See para 9. 2. On May 16, Afghan Regional Peace Jirga Preparation Commission Director of Secretariat Farooq Wardak briefed the international community on latest plans for the cross-border jirga with Pakistan, now scheduled for the first week of Aug [...] | 2007-05-20 02:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL1712 | SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE: AMENDED PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) President Karzai signed an amended Provincial Council (PC) law in late March. The law,s key elements give parliament and the president shared authority over PCs and give PCs a significantly expanded role overseeing appointed elements of the provincial governments, including the Provinci [...] | 2007-05-22 13:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL1725 | AFGHANISTAN - JCMB "INFORMAL GROUP" REVIEWS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 14:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ENRG EAIR PGOV PREL AF |
07KABUL1812 | PRT BAMYAN: AMBASSADOR, GOVERNOR DISCUSS BAMYAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Bamyan Provincial Governor Habiba Sarabi's May 20 introductory meeting with Ambassador at the Embassy, she expressed concerns over levels of U.S. and international funding, commented that connections between Bamyan and the central government were relatively good, and expr [...] | 2007-05-31 14:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PREL PGOV AF IR |
07KABUL1845 | INFORMAL GROUP POSTPONES ROME JCMB MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-04 03:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL AF |
07KABUL1860 | PRT GARDEZ: ASSESSMENT TEAM SUPPORTS NEW CZECH PRT [...] (C/REL) The Czech Republic is considering establishing a new PRT in Logar Province. During a May visit to US-led PRT Gardez, which currently has responsibility for Logar, a Czech assessment team indicated it planned to give a favorable recommendation to the Czech government and to ISAF HQ for [...] | 2007-06-05 09:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PREL AF |
07KABUL1861 | PRT/BADGHIS: PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS STEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last winter, the eight-year drought in Badghis ended with torrential rains, which caused major flooding throughout the province. On two occasions, the flooding prompted provincial authorities to request humanitarian assistance (HA) from NGOs and donor countries. The heavy rains, [...] | 2007-06-05 09:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AF |
07KABUL187 | AFGHAN AND UN OFFICIALS COVER KEY DONOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-21 01:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID PGOV EFIN AF |
07KABUL188 | PRT NURISTAN: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MEMBER KILLED IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 15, unknown assailants attacked Nuristan Provincial Council member, Ahmad Shah Walikzada, and his cousin on the road between Nangarach village and the PRT Nuristan base. Ahmad Shah was evacuated by U.S. military helicopter to the Asadabad Forward Surgical Team facility [...] | 2007-01-21 05:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1896 | POLITICAL OR PERSONAL? TWO FEMALE JOURNALISTS [...] (C) The June 5 assassination of Zakia Zaki marked the second murder of a female journalist in Afghanistan in a week. On June 1, Shakiba Sanga Amaaj, anchorwoman for Shamsad TV, was similarly gunned down at her home in Kabul. While not directly connected, the two murders have sent shock wave [...] | 2007-06-08 11:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL1914 | AFGHANISTAN - PRIVATE READOUT IMF MISSION CONCLUSIONS [...] (C/NF) The IMF mission visited Kabul in early May to assess the Government of Afghanistan's (GOA) compliance with the performance targets and structural benchmarks in the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF_ arrangement. This was the second PRGF review. The GOA met most of its benchma [...] | 2007-06-11 06:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PREL AF |
07KABUL1934 | AFGHANISTAN - AHADY CONSIDERS A/S SULLIVAN LETTER ON AFGHAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 12:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCOR KPRV EINV EAID ECON PREL PGOV AF |
07KABUL1935 | AFGHANISTAN: PULL THE PLUG ON ARIANA AIRLINES [...] (SBU) The IMF's recent mission report urging the GoA not to rescue Ariana Afghan Airlines has kept the ongoing discussion about what to do with Ariana before the GOA and the international community. While the top level of the GoA agrees with the JCMB V decision to seek Ariana's privatization, [...] | 2007-06-11 12:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EFIN ECON EAID AF |
07KABUL1961 | JUNE 12 INCIDENT IN NANGARHAR [...] (C) An Afghan police unit became engaged with Coalition Forces during a nighttime operation on June 12 in Nangarhar Province, leading to the death of 7 and injury of 4 police. The Governor quickly held a press conference, then met with the PRT and Special Troop Battalion Commanders. The Govern [...] | 2007-06-14 14:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL1970 | GUNMEN SHOOT SCHOOLGIRLS IN LOGAR [...] (SBU) Two schoolgirls were killed and five wounded on June 12 when two assailants fired at students leaving a school in Logar Province south of Kabul. Police report they have made three arrests, including one of the shooters. Afghan authorities believe that the gunmen were Taliban members; ho [...] | 2007-06-19 02:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAID PREL PGOV PHUM AF |
07KABUL1982 | Afghan Gas Fields -- Agreement in Principle [...] (SBU) On June 11, the Afghan Minister of Mines convened a meeting attended by Embassy, USAID, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB),at which the ADB and the GoA agreed in principle to a USG proposal to combine USAID and ADB efforts to develop the natural gas reserves in the Amu Darya basin. T [...] | 2007-06-20 08:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL1986 | EMBASSY KABUL STRATEGY FOR ENCOURAGING GOVERNANCE [...] (U) Post has developed a Sub-national Governance Strategy Paper (shared with Department and NSC) to both guide USG efforts and encourage greater international investment and coordination in support for governance -- to complement the significant increase in investments being made in the securi [...] | 2007-06-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV EAID AF |
07KABUL2068 | PRT BAMYAN: AMBASSADOR ASSESSES DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his introductory visit to Bamyan Province, Ambassador Wood and Governor Habiba Sarabi discussed development priorities and security risks in what has generally been Afghanistan's most secure province. The Ambassador also met the Provincial Council, a women's shura, and [...] | 2007-06-27 11:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PHUM PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL2070 | Afghanistan Energy: Revisiting NEPS [...] (SBU) Summary: The North East Power System (NEPS) is at the center of the GOA strategy to provide affordable and reliable electricity to the Afghan people, a high economic and political priority for the GOA and the donor community. NEPS transmission lines were designed to import 300MW of powe [...] | 2007-06-27 12:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL2071 | RECONSTRUCTING AFGHANISTAN - USG PROCUREMENT AS DEMAND [...] (SBU) Beginning with Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan's (CFC-A) landmark Afghan First initiative, local procurement of goods and services by the U.S. and NATO military establishments and the international community is growing. It needs to grow more. An April 2007 study estimates that of th [...] | 2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EIND ETRD EINV EAID MOPS AF |
07KABUL2131 | PRT LASHKAR GAH: ASSESSING SANGIN SECURITY [...] (C) Over the last two weeks, Helmand Province's Sangin district has seen a spate of violence directed not only at ISAF and Government of Afghanistan (GOA) military forces but also at Afghans with links to those forces or to reconstruction efforts. Taliban attacks have resulted in the deaths [...] | 2007-07-05 08:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF EAID |
07KABUL2143 | PRT/BADGHIS: DEALING WITH ETHNIC POLITICS, [...] (SBU) The June 9th insurgent attack against the Murghab district center that left two Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) Officers dead and three government buildings damaged by fire was the largest and best organized insurgent attack to date in normally calm Badghis Province. The attack i [...] | 2007-07-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL216 | PRT FARAH: ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT -- POPPY AND IRAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite being dry and barren, Farah depends heavily on agriculture. Although poppy production has decreased recently, Farah remains a major poppy producing province. Governor-led eradication has begun, but it has a long way to go. The Alternative Livelihoods Program is not [...] | 2007-01-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ELAB EAID AF IR |
07KABUL220 | USING THE BERLIN JCMB MEETINGS TO FLAG NEED FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The next presidential election is scheduled to take place in 2009, followed by national assembly elections in 2010. Given the significant steps that must be taken before the next elections, it is imperative that preparation begin immediately and have the support of the interna [...] | 2007-01-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID AF |
07KABUL2250 | OSCE INTEREST IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambant briefed Ambassador July 2 on OSCE's interest in forging a partnership with Afghanistan. OSCE plans to take a step-by-step approach to Afghanistan, beginning in limited, specific areas. It is looking at a possible border manageme [...] | 2007-07-12 14:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC MARR AF OSCE ECON EAID |
07KABUL2299 | PAG DISCUSSES SCHOOL SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 12 the Policy Action Group (PAG) chaired by NSA Rassoul discussed school security. Education Minister Atmar reported that there had been 20 attacks against schools in the previous week. Education Minister Atmar assessed that the Taliban have shifted their focus from d [...] | 2007-07-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PTER EAID NATO AF |
07KABUL2339 | Afghanistan Energy: TURKMEN POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 17, citing President Karzai's July 5 and 6 visit to Ashgabat, the Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) clarified comments that the Minister for Economics (MOE) had earlier made to the Ambassador concerning Government of Afghanistan (GoA) efforts to import electric power [...] | 2007-07-21 04:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL2341 | PRT GARDEZ: PAKTIA PROVINCE SIX MONTH REPORT [...] (SBU) Security incidents have increased with the onset of warm weather in Paktia, but vigorous government and coalition counter-insurgency activities have maintained a climate that allows for expanded economic development and the gradual extension of GOA administrative control. The new governo [...] | 2007-07-21 12:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2343 | PRT/QALENOW: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (C) In Badghis economic and social indicators continue to improve slowly, but growth has been restrained by a deteriorating security environment caused by a recently-removed corrupt and inefficient Governor. Recent insurgent attacks have grown in size and coordination in the Pashtun parts of [...] | 2007-07-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL2379 | PRT KANDAHAR: SIX MONTH ASSESSMENT [...] (C) The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IROA) are taking steps to improve security, governance, and the economy in Kandahar Province, but it remains a struggle. ISAF forces are taking the fight to districts north of Kandahar City. The [...] | 2007-07-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF ECON EAID CA |
07KABUL243 | JCMB SUCCESS - PRESIDENT KARZAI ISSUES FOUR COMMERCIAL [...] SUMMARY: On January 17, President Karzai signed decrees enacting laws on partnerships, corporations, arbitration, and mediation. The laws went into effect immediately, but are subject to parliamentary ratification. Their enactment results from active USG engagement through the JCMB process [...] | 2007-01-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL2465 | KHOST GOVERNOR PRAISES COALITION/AFGHAN [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Khost Governor Arsala Jamal in Kabul on July 19. Governor Jamal praised the strong coordination between Coalition Forces (CF) and Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). He also positively assessed his partnership with the PRT. He encouraged more U.S. investment i [...] | 2007-07-31 11:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2467 | PRT FARAH: DETERIORATION IN SECURITY, RISE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security in Farah Province deteriorated over the past six months. The Province now has its third ineffective governor since September 2006. The province continues to be plagued by high rates of kidnappings, robberies, and insurgent activity; weak and corrupt provincial and di [...] | 2007-07-31 13:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EAID ECON KSEC SOCI IR AF |
07KABUL2469 | PRT ASADABAD: KUNAR PROVINCE SIX MONTH REPORT [...] (C) Kunar Province on the mountainous border with Pakistan continues to see significant insurgent activity. Economic development and infrastructure improvements have helped limit the influence of insurgents in the Kunar and Pech valleys, but insurgents continue to contest control of isolated [...] | 2007-07-31 13:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2470 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SECURITY, COUNTERNARCOTICS [...] (C) During Ambassador's July 8 meetings in Kabul with members of Parliament from Nangarhar Province and his July 9 visit to Jalalabad, the MPs, Governor Sherzai, and provincial leaders highlighted security concerns, Pashtun community sentiments towards the IROA, and drugs. They expressed sup [...] | 2007-07-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PTER PHUM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2497 | PRT JALALABAD: NANGARHAR PROVINCE SIX MONTH [...] (SBU) Nangarhar's strategic location on the Pakistan Border and relative economic prosperity make it an important indicator of progress in Afghanistan. Recent set-backs in security and an increase in poppy production over the last six months are disappointing. ISAF and CF forces have intens [...] | 2007-08-02 10:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2505 | PRESIDENT KARZAI APPOINTS NEW GOVERNORS [...] (C) Governors have recently been sacked and replaced in Badghis, Ghor, Kapisa, and Logar. The status of the governor in Jowzjan remains unresolved, though he is no longer in the province. The governors from Faryab and Takhar were shifted to new provinces. Faryab remains vacant. The Ministry [...] | 2007-08-03 03:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR AF |
07KABUL2506 | PRT SHARANA: PAKTIKA PROVINCE SIX MONTH ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Despite an active pro-Coalition governor, weak government and a 60 percent increase in insurgent attacks continue to hamper progress in Paktika, a province of 800,000 people on the Pakistan border. The provincial government is well-meaning but weak, and almost all development in the provi [...] | 2007-08-03 05:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PTER ASEC MARR EAID AF |
07KABUL2510 | PRT BAMYAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unlike some neighboring provinces, Bamyan Province has enjoyed a calm security and political situation during the last six months. There is increased concern over threats from outside, due drug and weapons trade believed to be transiting the province. Bamyan remains one of Afgha [...] | 2007-08-03 07:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PREL EAID ECON SOCI AF |
07KABUL2554 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: PROACTIVE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The Afghan Government held a Strategic Partnership Quarterly Update meeting on Prosperity and Governance with Embassy counterparts on July 21. Organized by the Ministry of Finance and co-Chaired by Deputy Minister Shahrani, Afghan representatives reported progress on most Prosperity and [...] | 2007-08-05 06:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL261 | UNAMA OPENS PROVINCIAL OFFICE IN KHOST [...] (U) UNSRSG for Afghanistan Tom Koenigs opened the UNAMA Khost Office, one of nine new UNAMA provincial offices, on January 21. In his remarks, Koenigs highlighted the provincial center's importance to the region, noting its university (being developed),economic activity, and strategic locat [...] | 2007-01-25 12:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PREL PGOV PTER PHUM EAID AF |
07KABUL2649 | PRT HERAT: SIX MONTH REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The mood in Herat Province has soured due to deterioration of the security and economic environment. A wave of murders and the presence of illegal armed groups with connections to old warlords has undermined confidence in the government. Unemployment has increased due to the [...] | 2007-08-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON PTER SOCI EAID MARR IR AF |
07KABUL2684 | PRESIDENT KARZAI MOVES SUB-NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION [...] (SBU) President Karzai has decided to move the Ministry of Interior's civil administration division -- responsible for governors, district administrators, mayors, and civil registry functions -- to a new Independent Office for Sub-National Governance under the Office of the President. This wel [...] | 2007-08-13 04:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2723 | PRT MEHTARLAM: LAGHMAN PROVINCE SIX MONTH [...] (C) Governance capacity improved in Laghman province, which also saw progress in reconstruction during the last six months. Taliban and HiG insurgents continued low-level operations in remote areas, but IEDs were the main threat to ISAF and IROA forces. Afghan security force training is on t [...] | 2007-08-15 06:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL2735 | PARLIAMENT PASSES UN CONVENTION AGAINST [...] (SBU) The lower house of the Afghan National Assembly (Wolesi Jirga) passed the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) on August 15. Its passage by the upper house and ratification will complete an Afghanistan Compact benchmark. 2. (SBU) The Government of Afghanistan signed t [...] | 2007-08-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR EAID AF |
07KABUL274 | Afghanistan Energy: New Inter-Ministerial Commission Offers [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: A principal USG goal in Afghanistan's energy sector is ensuring an adequate and affordable supply of electricity to Kabul and other key population centers by end-2008 through rehabilitation and construction of power plants, dams and transmission lines. Despite [...] | 2007-01-27 06:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL275 | JCMB SUCCESS - ANDS PRODUCES PRIORITY PROJECT LIST IN [...] On January 25, ANDS Executive Director Adib Farhadi passed to Deputy ECON Counselor the GOA's consolidated priority project list, which emerged from the recent round of JCMB Consultative Group meetings in which GOA officials and donor representatives participate. Post successfully negotiated i [...] | 2007-01-27 06:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM AF |
07KABUL2852 | AF: Sheberghan project on schedule despite ADB pull out. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pulled out of a proposed project for the comprehensive development of northwest Afghanistan's most promising gas fields in the Amu Darya basin, near the site of the proposed Sheberghan power plant (reftel),despite an agreement to combine fund [...] | 2007-08-24 09:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL291 | JCMB SUCCESS - "TEA CLUB" APPROVES EMBASSY ENERGY WHITE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-28 10:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL294 | Afghan Budget Execution and Capacity Development - Another [...] Prodded by JCMB III Semi-annual Report and an Embassy-led donor White Paper, the GoA has taken the first step towards the preparation of an Afghan National Capacity Development Strategy, targeted for release at the spring Afghan Development Forum (ADF). A draft Framework Paper identifies four C [...] | 2007-01-28 11:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3054 | PRESIDENT KARZAI'S NEW GOVERNANCE CZAR OUTLINES [...] (SBU) President Karzai established the new Office of Local Administration on August 30 and appointed as its director general Ghulam Jelani Popal, a respected former deputy minister of finance. Popal outlined his vision for making the Afghan government "a reality in the lives of the people," p [...] | 2007-09-12 11:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR AF |
07KABUL3087 | AF: Anyak mine tender: WB comfortable with current state of [...] (SBU) In a September 13 meeting, World Bank staff informed Embassy Treasury Attach and EconOff that based on the information available to them, the initial evaluation of the Anyak copper mine bids appears to have proceeded according to the process spelled out in tender documents, and in accorda [...] | 2007-09-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3180 | AF: Update: 100 MW Power Plant Project for Kabul [...] (SBU) On August 26, 2007 the Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) sent a letter to USAID officially allocating a suitable site for the 100 MW Power Plant for Kabul. The site, designated landsite number #1130, (previously internally referenced as the "8/20" site as it was identified on Aug [...] | 2007-09-20 07:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3182 | FOUR NEW GOVERNORS APPOINTED AS NEW GOVERNANCE [...] (C) President Karzai has approved the appointments of new governors in Jowzjan, Faryab, Ghazni, and Uruzgan provinces. The appointments in Faryab and Jowzjan fill vacancies. The appointee in Uruzgan may have benefited from an early assertion by the new Director General of the Office of Local [...] | 2007-09-20 09:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL3198 | AF: Fuel price spikes stabilizing, Iran blamed. [...] (U) Reporting from Embassy PRT's as well as Kabul-based Embassy FSN's confirmed that July and August 2007 saw an increase in fuel prices across Afghanistan that quickly caused an up-tick in other prices, as well as increased grumbling against the government in Afghanistan's coffee house convers [...] | 2007-09-22 04:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3267 | Security in Nuristan -- The Enemy Within? [...] (SBU) Summary: Nuristan Province has seen an increase in security incidents since the establishment of a Coalition presence last fall. The situation became particularly acute this summer, with 21 separate attacks on Coalition or Afghan targets. While the frequency has declined since July, t [...] | 2007-09-27 11:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EAID ECON PHUM AF |
07KABUL3363 | AF: Update on Key USAID Power Projects [...] (SBU) The following is a summary of the current state of key ongoing USAID projects in the Afghan Energy Sector. In-depth reporting on the various projects mentioned will be forthcoming in the near future. 2. (SBU) 100 MW POWER PLANT FOR KABUL - (Reftel A) On September 23, 2007, project co [...] | 2007-10-02 12:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3414 | EVENTS IN PARLIAMENT; SEPTEMBER 17 - 28 [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament is completing the essential business of considering, modifying and, if it chooses, endorsing the 100-plus Presidential decrees enacted before its creation, even as Speaker Qanooni's dispute with President Karzai over presidential versus parliamentary prerogatives esc [...] | 2007-10-06 13:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL3498 | KARZAI POLICY CHIEF OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR THE NEXT [...] (C) Republic Party Chairman and President Karzai's Chief of Policy Sebghatullah Sanjar outlined in a September 24 conversation with POLCOUNS his plan for winning the 2009 presidential election. Sanjar's strategy is based on "drawing a line between those who favor the Constitution and those wh [...] | 2007-10-15 10:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL360 | PRT QALAT: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: The political situation in Zabul is fairly stable, with a good governor, Delbar Jan Arman, who has served for almost two years. His efforts are undermined by a weak administration both in the capital and in the districts, and his own unwillingness to empower and build the cap [...] | 2007-02-05 10:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL3662 | D/NSA LTG LUTE AND D/SRSG ALEXANDER DISCUSSIONS ON [...] (C) Deputy SRSG Chris Alexander used an October 22 meeting with Deputy NSA LTG Lute to lay out a proposal for closer UNAMA-ISAF coordination on an overall counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. He reported close coordination between the SRSG and COMISAF, but highlighted difficulties coor [...] | 2007-10-28 07:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID AF |
07KABUL3676 | AF: Current Status of 100MW Power Plant for Kabul [...] (SBU) After some delay in finding an appropriate site for the project, the 100 MW Kabul Power Plant project is underway. What follows is a short overview of the several project components and where they currently stand. Overall, the project is on schedule to deliver 67 MW of power to the Kabu [...] | 2007-10-28 11:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL370 | PRT BAMYAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Bamyan continues to enjoy relative peace and security. Development assistance from the U.S. Government is on the rise, almost entirely due to the twelve fold increase in CERP assistance for 2007. On the political front, Governor Sarabi has taken steps to counter criticism from her poli [...] | 2007-02-06 06:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON PHUM AF |
07KABUL371 | PRTSHARANA: PAKTIKA GOVERNOR SEEKS AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paktika Governor Khpalwak used his January 20 meeting with the Ambassador to seek U.S. support for projects in his province. The Governor requested help in funding new projects in the border districts. The Ambassador highlighted the importance of the newly-authorized Afghan N [...] | 2007-02-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MARR AF |
07KABUL3714 | NEW GOVERNANCE CZAR POPAL LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS [...] (SBU) Jelani Popal's three-year strategic plan for his new Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) aims to strengthen sub-national governance by holding appointed representative District Councils accountable for local governance, development, poppy-eradication, and security. To re [...] | 2007-10-31 08:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR EAID KDEM AF |
07KABUL372 | PRT NURISTAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Nuristan Province has traditionally been neglected and remains underdeveloped, but recent initiatives by Governor Tamin are energizing district administrations and encouraging communities to take responsibility for their own security. Despite these efforts, security remains problematic [...] | 2007-02-06 10:48:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON EAID MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL3727 | AFGHAN GOVERNMENT FOCUSES ON ELECTION PLANNING [...] (SBU) The October 3 JCMB has helped the Afghan government focus on the need to make several key decisions which will enable the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to move forward with plans for the 2009/10 Presidential, Parliamentary, and Provincial Council elections. Parliament is committ [...] | 2007-11-01 06:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL373 | PRT PANJSHIR: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (U) Over the past year, Panjshir Province has recorded remarkable progress. Security is holding, governance is maturing, reconstruction is advancing and society is evolving. Constraints remain, however, both in terms of infrastructure and mentality. The Governor highlights education as the [...] | 2007-02-06 10:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PTER MASS ECON EAID SOCI AF |
07KABUL3772 | DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY KEY THEMES IN AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) Development and security were the key themes brought up in conversations with local officials during the Ambassador's October 29 visit to Khost Province. In meetings with the Provincial Governor, Provincial Council and university students, Ambassador underscored the U.S. respect for Is [...] | 2007-11-07 09:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR MOPS PREL PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL3775 | AF: Afghan-Pakistani Bilateral Trade and Security Talks [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: US Embassy Kabul representatives attended the Afghanistan-Pakistan Cooperation Workshop, sponsored by the Canadian Government in Dubai, October 30 - November 1. Senior Afghan and Pakistani officials responsible for customs, immigration and border security spent thre [...] | 2007-11-08 01:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EPET EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3786 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO URUZGAN; OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHT [...] (SBU) The Ambassador visited Uruzgan Province on October 22 and met with the Governor and Provincial Council. Newly-installed Governor Hamdam said he already recognized the importance of development projects as a means to gain the loyalty and support of the local population. He complained t [...] | 2007-11-08 10:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON EAID AF |
07KABUL3788 | AFGHANISTAN: NEW OIL AND GAS FIELD TENDER EXPECTED IN THREE [...] (SBU) The Afghan Ministry of Mines intends to issue a tender for exploration of several blocks of the Amudarya Oil and Gas basin in north-western Afghanistan in February or March 2008 Post learned at the recent Oil and Gas Working Group meeting November 8. Note: The Amudarya basin is also where [...] | 2007-11-09 02:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3842 | POLLS SHOW AFGHANS OPTIMISTIC, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (SBU) Three polls released this fall suggest, contrary to many international press reports, that Afghans continue to feel that their country is headed in the right direction, with little change in attitudes from a year ago. The most pronounced difference over last year is a rise in perceptions [...] | 2007-11-15 01:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV AF |
07KABUL3908 | Central Asia-to-South Asia Regional Energy Market [...] Summary. The four countries working to create an electricity transmission corridor between Central and South Asia took a major step forward in their Third Ministerial Conference in Kabul, November 14-16, 2007. Representatives agreed on the scope and preliminary technical definition of the p [...] | 2007-11-26 01:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ENGR ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3914 | AMB VISIT: DEVELOPMENT, POLICING AND [...] (SBU) During the Ambassador's November 12 visit to Paktia province in the east, locals stressed the key themes of security and development in the province. In meetings with the Governor, Provincial Council, and Provincial Development Council, the Ambassador underscored the U.S. dedication to [...] | 2007-11-26 09:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EAID AF |
07KABUL3932 | AF: Aynak Copper: Details of winning Chinese bid remain [...] (SBU) Summary: After a prolonged tender and evaluation process, on October 20, 2007, the state-owned China Metallurgical Group (CMG) was awarded the right to start negotiating a detailed contract for the Aynak Copper Mine project. By some accounts, the Chinese are expected to invest approximat [...] | 2007-11-27 08:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH |
07KABUL3933 | AF: Aynak Copper: Details of winning Chinese bid remain [...] (SBU) Summary: After a prolonged tender and evaluation process, on October 20, 2007, the state-owned China Metallurgical Group (CMG) was awarded the right to start negotiatinQdetailed contract for the Aynak Copper Mine project. By some accounts, the Chinese are expected to invest approximately [...] | 2007-11-27 08:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH |
07KABUL3993 | Progress On Afghan Electricity from Uzbekistan? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Discussion with Afghans and donors on the North East Power System (NEPS) connection to Uzbekistan, yielded signs of increased Uzbek commitment to provide 150 MW of electricity to Afghanistan by the end of 2008 (including completing 43 KM of transmission lines to the Afghan border [...] | 2007-12-04 13:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR ECON EPET ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
07KABUL3998 | AF: Afghans to fund Uzbek power line connection to NEPS. [...] (SBU) Summary. Afghanistan's mission to Uzbekistan to reinvigorate negotiations for energy imports through the North East Power System (NEPS) project appears to have produced positive results. Delegation head Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Mir Sediq expects to lead a follow-on mission to [...] | 2007-12-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH |
07KABUL4007 | FOOD PRICE INCREASES CAUSE CONSTERNATION IN THE AFGHAN [...] Summary. Prices for household staples have risen across Afghanistan, driven primarily by worldwide increases in prices of key commodities. Even Afghans with "good" jobs have found themselves caught between rising food prices and flat salaries. Price increases are having a negative effect on [...] | 2007-12-07 04:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN AF |
07KABUL439 | STATE OF PLAY AND ACTION REQUESTS ON UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Embassy is working with the GOA to set dates and fix the agenda for upcoming working-level and senior-level Strategic Partnership meetings. We are in direct contact with our GOA counterparts for each working group. The MFA is responsible for overall organization of the Strategic Partne [...] | 2007-02-09 05:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS ECON EAID SNAR AF |
07KABUL466 | UPDATE ON AMNESTY RESOLUTION [...] (U) During a press conference on February 6, Presidential Spokesman Karim Rahimi said that President Karzai may reject the draft resolution on amnesty passed by the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on January 31. Even if Karzai were to reject the resolution, it could still pass if i [...] | 2007-02-10 13:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL579 | PRT ASADABAD: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (C) Kunar,s security improved significantly in 2006 except in the isolated border areas. Ongoing road construction will help consolidate security gains, and will enable economic growth. Better and larger police forces will be necessary to keep Kunar,s security and economic trends positive in [...] | 2007-02-21 11:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PTER ECON EAID MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL581 | SOUTHERN GOVERNORS OUTLINE MAJOR SECURITY [...] (C/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: During a February 6 introductory meeting in Kandahar with COMISAF, the governors of Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul pressed for increasing police salaries and getting more police officers into the Southern provinces to provide leadership to new recruits. ANA 205th Corps Co [...] | 2007-02-21 13:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PTER EAID NATO MARR AF |
07KABUL684 | IDA 15 NEGOTIATIONS GOAL - SUSTAIN MULTILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-03 05:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PREL AF |
07KABUL839 | KARZAI DESCRIBES "TERRIBLE" RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 8 meeting with Governors Tim Pawlenty (R-MN),Janet Napolitanto (R-AZ),and Brad Henry (D-OK),Lisa Marie Cheney, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum (Chief, National Guard Bureau),and Charge, President Karzai described Afghanistan's current relationship with Pakistan as "terrib [...] | 2007-03-13 02:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
07KABUL852 | STAFFDEL GROVE'S FEBRUARY 19-21 VISIT TO [...] (C/REL ISAF) Summary: Mr. Hakan Abaci, Civilian Director of the Turkish-led PRT in Wardak province, emphasized that the PRT is mainly a "civilian" operation, which seeks to minimize the visibility of the Turkish military element that provides security for the PRT compound. He said he believes [...] | 2007-03-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP MASS EAID SNAR ASEC AMGT AF |
07KABUL933 | AFGHANISTAN'S PROGRESS ON THE 1386 BUDGET [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 09:23:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID PREL AF |
07KABUL935 | LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN MINISTER OF ENERGY AND WATER [...] Post has received the following letter from Minister of Energy and Water Ismail Khan requesting USG assistance with purchase of 100 MW of electrical generating equipment for Kabul. 2. BEGIN TEXT Date: 13 March 2007 From: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water [...] | 2007-03-21 09:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID EFIN AF |
07KABUL940 | PRT/KUNDUZ: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON THE NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) The situation on the ground in the Northeast region of Afghanistan has not changed appreciably in the past six months. The security situation remains relatively calm, with only occasional criminal or terrorist attacks against local officials and ISAF. The primary threat and cause of ins [...] | 2007-03-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL944 | PRT GHAZNI: SIX MONTH REPORT ON SECURITY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Security and governance in Ghazni have improved over the last six months due to an increase in troops and a change in governor. Reconstruction and development appear to be moving forward, but there is still no prioritized provincial development plan. Ghazni's citizens are expe [...] | 2007-03-22 12:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON AF EAID |
07KABUL946 | UPDATE ON AFGHANISTAN DEBT FORGIVENESS AND DEBT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-24 10:15:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON AF |
07KABUL950 | PRT/QALENOW: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Qal-e Now, in the western part of Afghanistan, has witnessed much progress over the last year. Residents of the capital enjoy a much better quality of life then they did under the Taliban. The PRT has had a direct impact on economic growth in the provincial capital. However, th [...] | 2007-03-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL954 | KOENIGS AND BOUCHER ON INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION, [...] (C) A special response fund to allow the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan close developmental cooperation with ISAF would advance civilian-military coordination; Washington support requested. Additionally, in a March 14 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central A [...] | 2007-03-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF IR |
07KABUL955 | PRT/QALENOW: THE SPANISH BRING MODERN MEDICINE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: One of the primary objectives of the Spanish Development Agency (AECI) is to expand and improve healthcare throughout Badghis. AECI places a special focus on medical care for women and newborns. It aims to transform the central hospital in Qal-e Now into a fully functioning prov [...] | 2007-03-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID AF |
07KABUL979 | PRT/MAZAR: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Northwest Afghanistan enjoys a better security situation than much of the rest of the country but drought and crime hamper development. The Afghan National Police (ANP) and the judicial system need much work but progress has begun with the ANP. The balance of power between T [...] | 2007-03-26 05:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
07KABUL996 | PRT/PANSHJIR: FUTURE PLANS OF THE PROVINCE II [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Panjshir Province is changing. Its transformation will continue thanks to agents of change: a new road, radio broadcasts, cell phones, a maturing administration and an active PRT. Provincial officials have formulated specific plans to lay the foundation (ref A). Panjshir's f [...] | 2007-03-26 16:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EAGR AF |
07KAMPALA1011 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (June 4-16, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-06-15 07:49:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1050 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...] | 2007-06-26 12:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
07KAMPALA1079 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (June 17-30, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-07-02 03:13:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1160 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (July 1-14, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-07-13 08:23:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1209 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY (August 18-23) [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...] | 2007-07-26 04:19:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
07KAMPALA1224 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (July 15-28, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-07-27 05:15:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1291 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (July 29 - AUG 10, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-08-13 05:04:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1310 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FEINGOLD (AUGUST 26-30, [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive partner for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. Uganda is vigorously supporting a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives on HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR) and malaria (PM [...] | 2007-08-15 10:23:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID UG |
07KAMPALA1351 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (AUG 11 - AUG 24, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-08-24 09:39:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1435 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-09-12 12:16:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1485 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-09-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1594 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 5, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-10-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1689 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (OCTOBER 6 - 19, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social s [...] | 2007-10-31 07:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA1709 | UGANDA: POST DOES NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Post does not assess the Democracy and Governance environment in Uganda to be conducive for a quick success for the Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG) pilot. Government officials, including President Museveni, have publicly complained about outside interference on gover [...] | 2007-11-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID EUN OECD UG FR |
07KAMPALA1853 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (November 3-30, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-12-07 08:30:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG |
07KAMPALA193 | UGANDA: VOTE ON APPROVAL OF SOMALIA DEPLOYMENT [...] (U) On January 31, ruling party parliamentarians rejected the Defense Minister's motion to short-circuit parliamentary procedures to move forward a resolution to approve the Ugandan military's deployment to Somalia. In a 45-43-4 vote, ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentaria [...] | 2007-02-01 02:51:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID KPKO ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA238 | UGANDA: PARLIAMENTARY DEFENSE COMMITTEE TO [...] (SBU) On February 7, Parliament referred the Somalia resolution to the Defense and Internal Affairs Committee. The committee's chairperson, Rose Nsereko Namayanja, told P/E officer on February 9 that the committee was wrapping up its work on the Somalia resolution. She would be preparing the [...] | 2007-02-12 02:35:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA240 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (January 27-February 9, 2007) [...] Summary: Post presents the thirteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good gove [...] | 2007-02-12 04:33:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA254 | UGANDA: PARLIAMENT APPROVES SOMALIA DEPLOYMENT [...] On February 13, Parliament approved the deployment of the Uganda Peoples' Defense Forces (UPDF) to Somalia. The Defense and Internal Affairs Committee presented its report recommending the approval of the mission and ruling party parliamentarians debated the resolution for 1 1/2 hours. The [...] | 2007-02-13 12:54:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA297 | UGANDA: Parliamentarians Concerned about Immigrants [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 16, 2007, RefCoord met with parliamentarians Stephen Mukitale and Beatrice Mpairwe of Bulisa district, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). RefCoord asked for the meeting to determine how IDP and refugee settlements impacted the local economy. H [...] | 2007-02-20 11:42:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PINS UG |
07KAMPALA312 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD (FEB 27-28) [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money, and logistics. Uganda cooperates fully in the War on Terror, and is highly receptive to U.S. training and presence. On the humanitarian and develo [...] | 2007-02-23 03:10:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA341 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (February 10-26, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the fourteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good [...] | 2007-02-28 10:49:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA342 | UGANDA: ACTION ITEMS ON SOMALIA FROM EUCOM DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command General William Ward, discussed a wide range of issues with Ugandan military and civilian officials during his visit to Uganda from February 27 to 28. Ward praised President Museveni's commitment to regional stability. Senior military off [...] | 2007-02-28 12:28:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA345 | UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR AND NSC DEPUTY ADVISOR DAVID [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of US initiatives including Presidential initiatives o [...] | 2007-03-01 03:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG |
07KAMPALA399 | UGANDA: ROUNDUP ON MCCORMICK-POWELL VISIT [...] Summary: David McCormick, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs and Dina Powell, Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs led a delegation through Uganda from March 2-5. The delegation came to observe the impact of foreign assistance and public di [...] | 2007-03-07 11:05:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID PGOV PHUM PREF UG |
07KAMPALA449 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (February 27-March 9, 2007) [...] Summary: Post presents the fifteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governanc [...] | 2007-03-14 05:47:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA526 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (March 10-23, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the sixteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good g [...] | 2007-03-27 08:05:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA589 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (March 23-April 6, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the seventeenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good [...] | 2007-04-06 03:59:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA669 | UGANDA: OFFICIAL DISCUSSIONS WITH ERITREA ON [...] (C) Summary: President Museveni and Foreign Minister Kutesa held two separate, but similar, meetings with Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki over the issue of external support for Somali factions. Museveni and Kutesa asked that Eritrea end its support for the Islamic Courts in early April an [...] | 2007-04-20 10:05:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA727 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (April 7-30, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: Post presents the eighteenth edition of Northern Uganda Notes to provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good [...] | 2007-04-30 09:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA854 | UGANDA/SOMALIA: MILITARY AND CIVILIAN VIEWPOINTS [...] (C) Summary: Support for Uganda's deployment to Somalia remains firm among Ugandan military and civilian officials. During Africa Bureau Deputy Assistant Secretary James Swan's visit to Uganda from May 7-9, the Minister of Defense, Chief of Defense Forces, and parliamentarians raised a number [...] | 2007-05-18 09:16:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE UG |
07KAMPALA871 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 1-18, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-05-22 07:35:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA964 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 19-June 2, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting MissionQs objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to socia [...] | 2007-06-05 12:02:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KAMPALA968 | NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (May 19-June 2, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...] | 2007-06-06 03:52:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU |
07KATHMANDU1035 | MELAMCHI FIASCO HAS JAPANESE WONDERING ABOUT [...] (C) On May 24, Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka indicated to the Ambassador that Japanese soft lending may be affected by recent mishandling of the Melamchi Water Supply Project by Minister of Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami. Her decision to refuse to award the management contract [...] | 2007-05-25 09:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ADB ABLD JA NP |
07KATHMANDU1042 | NEPAL: FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO RAISE PENDING [...] (C) In response to a request from the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pradhan agreed May 24 to raise the U.S. interest in a speedy process for parents with pending Nepali adoptions with Maoist Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Biswokarma and in the cabinet. At the same time, the Am [...] | 2007-05-25 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CVIS KFRD KOCI PREF PTER EAID ADB |
07KATHMANDU1119 | NEPAL: INTERNATIONAL NGOS PESSIMISTIC ON NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) The IFES Country Representative, Asia Foundation Country Representative, and Carter Center Field Director told Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron on June 2 that many complex issues would have be resolved if the Government of Nepal hoped to [...] | 2007-06-06 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU1142 | MELAMCHI: ADB'S $350 MILLION DREAM IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) The future of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) USD 350 million Melamchi Water Supply Project has grown increasingly uncertain since the new Maoist Minister for Physical Planning and Construction, Hisila Yami, decided in early May to postpone awarding the contract for the management of [...] | 2007-06-11 13:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD EAID SENV NP |
07KATHMANDU1188 | KILLINGS OF MAOISTS IN TERAI PROMPT DELAY IN [...] (C) United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) chief Ian Martin told the Ambassador June 14 that the launch of the second phase of UNMIN's registration of Maoist "combatants" -- combatant verification -- had been unexpectedly delayed. He indicated the senior Maoist leadership had decided to hold [...] | 2007-06-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR EAID PHUM UN NP |
07KATHMANDU1204 | UNDP PLAYING SECOND FIDDLE TO UNMIN [...] (C) UN Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative Matthew Kahane told the Ambassador June 18 that UNDP was contributing the majority of the over 100 UN personnel deployed to manage verification of Maoist combatants. Kahane said the duration of the process would depend on whether the [...] | 2007-06-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EAID KDEM UN NP |
07KATHMANDU1248 | NEPAL: FINANCE MINISTER WANTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Finance Minister Mahat told the Ambassador June 22 that the Government of Nepal's most pressing need was support for the Nepal Police to ensure a free and fair Constituent Assembly election. The Ambassador said the U.S. had come up with an additional USD 2.8 million for election security [...] | 2007-06-25 12:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV EAID KDEM BT NP |
07KATHMANDU1373 | NEPAL: TIP REPORT DEMARCHE [...] (U) In a series of meetings with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Women and Social Welfare (MWSW),and the Ministry of Labor and Transport, Emboff delivered talking points and the final text of Nepal's country narrative from the 2007 Trafficking in Person (TIP) [...] | 2007-07-18 10:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM SOCI KPAO EAID IP NP |
07KATHMANDU1552 | NEPAL'S CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER APPRECIATES [...] (C) On August 10, with just over 100 days to go before the Constituent Assembly (CA) election, Chief Election Commissioner Bhojraj Pokharel reviewed for the Ambassador the Commission's current work on voter education, the code of conduct, as well as its efforts to encourage political parties [...] | 2007-08-15 06:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU1580 | FINANCE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT ESCALATING [...] (C) On August 20, Nepali Finance Minister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat told the Ambassador, USAID Director Beth Paige and visiting senior Senate Appropriations Committee staffer Tim Rieser that the Government of Nepal (GON) anticipated a shortfall of approximately USD 30 million in funds for the Const [...] | 2007-08-22 08:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KDEM IN NP |
07KATHMANDU1603 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR REVIEWS ELECTION, REFUGEES AND [...] (C) During the Ambassador's introductory call on Foreign Minister Pradhan on August 13, the Ambassador emphasized the ongoing U.S. interest in assisting Nepal with its upcoming Constituent Assembly election and its democratic transition. Minister Pradhan responded that the election was the Gov [...] | 2007-08-24 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PREF ELAB KDEM KWMN AMGT BT |
07KATHMANDU1613 | HOME MINISTER TRYING TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER [...] (C) On August 23 Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula told the Ambassador that the violent activities of the Maoists and of Madhesi splinter groups in the Terai were among many challenges to the Constituent Assembly election. Sitaula said that the Government of Nepal (GON) was attempting to r [...] | 2007-08-27 11:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF EAID KSEC KDEM BT NP |
07KATHMANDU1719 | NEPAL'S FIRST NATIONAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING DAY [...] (U) The Government of Nepal and private groups took advantage of the first national Anti-Trafficking Day on September 6 to publicize the newly passed Human Trafficking Control Act. The day also witnessed commitments by politicians to fight trafficking. The U.S. Mission held its observation a [...] | 2007-09-12 11:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ELAB EAID KCRM KJUS KWMN NP |
07KATHMANDU174 | NO COMPANIES IN NEPAL BENEFITING FROM EX-IM SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 09:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EINV EAID ETRD EXIM NP |
07KATHMANDU1744 | NEPAL: CA ELECTION UPDATE: 65 DAYS TO GO [...] (C) During the week of September 10, the Carter Center's observers, USAID partners IFES and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and other Embassy contacts reported increased political party activity in the districts and more momentum at the center to hold the November 22 Constituent Assembl [...] | 2007-09-17 12:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU176 | AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR PLANS TO MEET WITH MAOISTS [...] (C) Australian Ambassador Lade told Ambassador Moriarty January 24 that Canberra had authorized him to meet with the Maoists. He conceded that he had no illusions about the Maoists and acknowledged they were continuing their abuses. Nevertheless, the Government of Australia had interests in N [...] | 2007-01-26 00:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON ENRG EAID AS NP |
07KATHMANDU1783 | NEPAL CA ELECTION UPDATE: 58 DAYS TO GO [...] (C) Declaring Nepal a republic before the Constituent Assembly election and switching from the previously agreed upon mixed electoral system to a purely proportional electoral system for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election featured prominently in Maoist pronouncements during the week of Sep [...] | 2007-09-24 11:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU1811 | NEPAL: DRAFT GUIDANCE AND ACTION PLAN IF ELECTION [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- SEE PARA. 3. 2. (C) Prime Minister G.P. Koirala, his partners in the Interim Government and the Maoists may agree in the coming days to postpone Nepal's Constituent Assembly election, which is currently scheduled for November 22, 2007, until April or May 200 [...] | 2007-09-28 11:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID KDEM KPAO UN NP |
07KATHMANDU1817 | CA ELECTIONS - TO BE OR NOT TO BE: 51 DAYS [...] (C) The week of September 24-30 ended with an 11th hour announcement from the Election Commission (EC) that the deadline for candidate nominations for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election would be delayed by five days at the request of all seven major parties. The new deadline for submissio [...] | 2007-10-01 10:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU1847 | NEPAL: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION POSTPONED [...] (C) Nepal's Election Commission announced the morning of October 5 that it was suspending the Constituent Assembly election scheduled for November 22. The Commission postponed the polls at the request of the Interim Government. All of the governing parties apparently agreed to the Maoist dema [...] | 2007-10-05 08:19:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID KDEM NP |
07KATHMANDU1908 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) On October 3 Emboff met with Lekh Nath Bhattarai, America desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to confirm that the Government of Nepal(GON) plans to send an official ministerial delegation to the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). Bh [...] | 2007-10-25 08:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA |
07KATHMANDU2037 | NEPAL'S PARTICIPATION IN AI CONFERENCE IN NEW DELHI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 09:47:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX |
07KATHMANDU2062 | NEPAL: TAKING ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [...] Mission Kathmandu hosted a film festival, several speakers and a reception to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence and International Human Rights Day. Post used these events to help raise awareness and engage an audience on issues related to violence against women. A synopsis [...] | 2007-12-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM KDEM EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU303 | MAOISTS SHAKEN BY UNREST IN TERAI [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador February 2 that the Maoist leadership had been shaken by the unrest in the Terai. Government officials, meanwhile, were struggling to make sense of the situation and respond appropriately. The peace facilitator agreed w [...] | 2007-02-06 08:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID PHUM UN NP |
07KATHMANDU719 | AMBASSADOR URGES BRITISH TO SEND MAOISTS MESSAGE [...] (C) On April 5 British Ambassador Hall, briefed the Ambassador on the April 2-5 visit to Nepal by Gareth Thomas, UK International Development Minister, and the additional British Pound (BP) 13 million (USD 25.6 million) in aid Thomas had promised to the Government of Nepal's (GON) Peace Trust [...] | 2007-04-06 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID UK NP |
07KATHMANDU720 | NEPAL: COUNTDOWN TO THE ELECTION [...] (C) Nepal will need significant assistance if its planned June 20 Constituent Assembly election is to have a chance of success. Our work in the coming 75 days falls into four main categories: support for the Election Commission and the security forces, support for voter education, diplomatic [...] | 2007-04-06 13:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU77 | NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE WEST--WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Leaders of the main political parties from 12 districts in western Nepal told Emboff during a driving tour from December 14-25 that they trusted the police as a legitimate force to restore security and lamented the fact that the police were not allowed to do their jobs. There was, for the [...] | 2007-01-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU808 | 2006 END-USE MONITORING REPORT FOR NEPAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 11:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN KCRM KWMN EFIN PGOV EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU826 | NEPAL: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MODEL IS UNDER DEBATE [...] (C) Retief Olivier, a USAID-contracted peace facilitator, told the Ambassador April 20 about a 10-person official delegation headed by Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav that he was taking to the United Nations in New York as well as Peru April 22 - May 1 to look at transitional justice issues. [...] | 2007-04-23 13:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PTER CVIS UN SF NP |
07KATHMANDU914 | FAR-LEFT LEADER APPOINTED MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND [...] (SBU) On April 29, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala appointed People's Front Nepal (PFN) leader Giriraj Mani Pokharel as Minister for Health and Population. Although the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists had agreed that the far-left party would have two representatives in the Interim C [...] | 2007-05-08 11:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EAID NP |
07KATHMANDU915 | MAOIST TAKES THE HELM AT MINISTRY OF WOMEN, [...] (C) In a recent meeting with Prem Shukla (please protect),an Indian national and the Country Director of Plan Nepal, the new Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Khadga Bahadur Bishwokarma, explained that he wanted to restructure the ministry to ensure that the maximum amount of be [...] | 2007-05-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR EAID KWMM KOCI CVIS NP |
07KATHMANDU96 | NEPAL: JAPANESE TO ASSESS AREAS FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) On January 17, Ambassador Moriarty met with Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Tsutomu Hiraoka to discuss U.S. and Japanese assistance plans as a follow up to their December meeting (reftel). Now that the Security Council was close to a resolution on Nepal, Hiraoka reported, Japan's Director [...] | 2007-01-18 07:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID JA NP |
07KATHMANDU989 | AN OPPORTUNITY THAT SHOULD NOT BE LOST: U.S. [...] (SBU) Mr. Deputy Secretary, during our recent consultation in Washington, you requested that I send you my reflections on how the new foreign assistance reform process was working for Nepal. As we discussed, a historic window of opportunity has opened in Nepal to ensure its transition to a pea [...] | 2007-05-17 13:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID UDEM NP |
07KHARTOUM1018 | DARFUR - HUNGER SEASON BRINGS CHRONIC BUT STABLE NUTRITION [...] (U) Available indicators on malnutrition, including new admissions to feeding centers, food security levels, and sentinel site data, indicate a generally stable nutrition situation in Darfur as compared to the same time last year. Exceptions include areas in South Darfur currently receiving new [...] | 2007-06-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1028 | SUDAN - THE BLUES OF BLUE NILE STATE [...] (U) Blue Nile State, which lies in the fertile woodland savannah belt of eastern Sudan, has a strong potential for agricultural production. However, several challenges exist for this special administrative area as defined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. War destroyed most basic infrastr [...] | 2007-06-28 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1049 | OUT WITH THE DINAR, IN WITH THE POUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 30, the Central Bank of Sudan came one step closer to converting its currency, announcing that the dinar is now invalid in commercial transactions. Although the general public can still trade in dinars at banks until September 1 of this year, vendors are no longer oblig [...] | 2007-07-03 09:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1080 | DARFUR - NEW IDPS OVERWHELM AL SALAM CAMP [...] Begin summary: Since early May, an influx of newly displaced persons arriving in Al Salam camp near Nyala, South Darfur, has created a localized humanitarian emergency. New arrivals are often in poor health, and relief agencies are providing much-needed humanitarian aid. USAID field staff r [...] | 2007-07-11 08:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1085 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH SOUTH DARFURIANS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) During a July 9 visit to Nyala, Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, and US Embassy Charg Alberto Fernandez conducted a series of meetings with IDP camp representatives, the Magdoum of the Fur and civil society activists, as well as an impromptu meeting with the d [...] | 2007-07-12 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1086 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN NORTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary: In July, unseasonably heavy rains and subsequent flooding have affected more than 28,000 households in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile, Kassala, and Blue Nile states in northern Sudan, according to Sudanese government officials and humanitarian organizations. Government agen [...] | 2007-07-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1094 | S/E NATSIOS VISIT TO NORTH DARFUR (CORRECTED COPY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 9-10 visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios, accompanied by CDA Alberto Fernandez and others, met with representatives from the AU and UN, IDP camps, civil society groups and the local branch of the Umma Party. He learned of the challen [...] | 2007-07-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU AU |
07KHARTOUM1105 | SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS JULY 11 MEETING WITH SPLM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Special Envoy met with GOSS senior officials Luka Biong Deng, Paul Mayom, and Cirino Hiteng to discuss the status of CPA implementation, U.S. support for an equitable solution to the Abyei impasse, road development in the South, and the SPLM's efforts on Darfur. Despite the u [...] | 2007-07-16 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM EPET EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1119 | SUDAN - S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH NGOS [...] Summary: On July 12, Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez and others, met with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee in Khartoum to discuss issues facing the humanitarian community in Sudan. The NGOs noted that the Joint Communiq [...] | 2007-07-18 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1124 | SUDAN - DISASTER DECLARATION FOR FLOODING IN SUDAN [...] Summary: This cable declares a disaster due to flooding in Sudan and requests U.S. Government (USG) emergency assistance for those in need. Unseasonably heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding since late June have affected hundreds of thousands people in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile [...] | 2007-07-19 16:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1130 | SPLM DARFUR INITIATIVE CONTINUES, DIALOGUE NEEDED WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) intends to continue its regional consultations over the next few weeks with the Darfurians with the goal of still holding a conference in Southern Sudan in early August, as originally outlined by its Darfur Task Force (Task Force). [...] | 2007-07-22 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU EAID UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1132 | ARAB TRIBAL RESETTLEMENT IN DARFUR ISSUE MORE [...] (SBU) The much-anticipated report by the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) on the influx of Arabs from Chad into Darfur will determine their legal status rather than assess whether the Sudanese Government has launched a program to resettle Chadian Arabs in the region, according to UNHCR D [...] | 2007-07-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM EAID SU CD UN |
07KHARTOUM1133 | DARFUR: MINAWI DESCRIBES SAUDI TRIP, PREVIEWS TRIP [...] (S) Buoyant after his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi described his visit to Jeddah--which had included a rare 40-minute private meeting with King Abdullah and promises of financial support for the SLM--as " [...] | 2007-07-22 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PINR SU SA UN AU |
07KHARTOUM1135 | SPLM Diaspora Conference in Juba [...] Summary: Over 100 Sudanese Diaspora SPLM members participated in the First Sudan People's Liberation Movement Chapters' Conference. The purpose of the conference was to familiarize Sudanese Diaspora members with the reality in Southern Sudan, to mobilize resources and, if possible, to draw upon [...] | 2007-07-23 05:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV SOCI SU KPKO |
07KHARTOUM1137 | CENSUS DELAY LIKELY - POLITICS AND MONEY CAUSE [...] (C) Summary: The Census Technical Working Group is planning for the delay of the nation,s first nationwide census (and Comprehensive Peace Agreement milestone) by at least one month. The cause: continued delay in the release of long-promised funding by Khartoum to census programmers in both [...] | 2007-07-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM KDEM EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1167 | DARFUR - USAID AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS [...] Summary: Current USAID emergency agriculture interventions in Darfur have successfully improved the livelihoods and food security of small farming and agro-pastoralist households in many rural areas. However, ongoing conflict and insecurity make sustained agriculture and livestock interventi [...] | 2007-07-26 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1172 | DARFUR - ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Between July 12 and 19, USAID staff met with key civil society representatives in South and West Darfur to follow up on issues raised during the U.S. Special Envoy's visit to Nyala, gauge the views of civil society representatives in El Geneina, and assess possible areas of USG [...] | 2007-07-29 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1210 | SUDAN FLOODING UPDATE [...] Summary. The Government of National Unity (GNU),Government of South Sudan (GOSS),and humanitarian community continue to respond to flooding that has affected hundreds of thousands of people throughout Sudan in July. The GNU Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) estimates that flooding has dama [...] | 2007-08-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1213 | DARFUR - EL GENEINA'S NORTHERN CORRIDOR AT RISK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent USAID visit to El Geneina, West Darfur, U.N. staff alerted USAID to serious security problems and human rights abuses in the northern corridor of West Darfur. Arab nomadic groups and armed militia are terrorizing the residents of Abu Sorug, Sirba, Silea, and Bir [...] | 2007-08-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1236 | SUDAN - USAID AIRLIFTS PLASTIC SHEETING FOR FLOOD-AFFECTED [...] On August 8, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Fernandez and Undersecretary for the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Charles Manyang welcomed the arrival of a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) airlift carrying plastic sheeting for flood-af [...] | 2007-08-09 06:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1261 | EMBASSY CONTINUES OUTREACH IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 9-10 visit to the northern town of Shendi in River Nile State, and also birthplace of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, CDA Fernandez met with the newly-appointed commissioner, presented books to the vice chancellor of Shendi University, and toured area farms and te [...] | 2007-08-13 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU EAID UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1271 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD AND RETURNEE ASSESSMENT IN UNITY STATE [...] Summary. From August 7 to 9, a USAID staff member traveled to Unity State to assess the flood emergency. Three counties in Unity State are seriously flooded, and between 6,000 and 13,000 families displaced statewide. Aid agencies and local officials are concerned because flooding began in J [...] | 2007-08-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1288 | EMBASSY RECEIVES 1ST FORMAL REQUEST TO LIFT COMPANY FROM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 24, Embassy Khartoum received its first formal request from a company asking to be removed from the specially designated nationals (SDN) sanctions list issued on May 29, 2007. Osman El-Hadi of the Shiekan Insurance and Reinsurance Company contends that although the compa [...] | 2007-08-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1296 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT IN KASSALA STATE [...] Summary. From August 6 to 9, USAID/SUDAN staff traveled to Kassala State to assess the effects of recent flooding, following unseasonably heavy rainfall in early July. Flooding has affected an estimated 40,000 people, destroyed more than 2,600 homes, and resulted in 10 deaths and extensive d [...] | 2007-08-19 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1297 | DARFUR - MALNUTITION UPDATE [...] Summary: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that recent Darfur nutrition survey results indicate the first significant increase in malnutrition in the region since 2004. According to USAID partner the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF),six localized nutrition [...] | 2007-08-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1303 | SLM AWAITS SAUDI RESPONSE TO AID REQUEST [...] (S) Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi is awaiting a response from the Saudi Arabian government to his request for financial assistance to maintain the loyalty of his forces, integrate SLM fighters into the civilian population, and treat t [...] | 2007-08-20 10:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID SU SA |
07KHARTOUM1341 | USAID/SUDAN DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY [...] USAID/Sudan requests AID/Washington approval to provide Delegation of Authority to the Acting Mission Director Charles Knight. Mr. Knight will serve as Acting Mission Director until the arrival of the Mission Director Patrick Fleuret o/a September 9, 2007. Mr. Knight will have all authoritie [...] | 2007-08-26 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC AMGT EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1366 | SUDAN - STATUS OF IDP RETURNS TO SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. In a recent meeting with USAID, the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported that 1.24 million former internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the Three Areas and Southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. Based on IDP surv [...] | 2007-08-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1385 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. Since June, flooding has affected more than 91,000 people in Lakes, Warrab, Unity, Upper Nile, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and Jonglei states in Southern Sudan, according to the U.N. It is unclear whether the floods are worse than in previous years; however, non-governmental organizati [...] | 2007-09-04 08:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1390 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 1, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM144 | AEC Plenary Minutes - Jan. 15, 2007 Meeting [...] Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 16th plenary session in Khartoum on January 15. AEC Chair Vraalsen sounded a pessimistic note regarding the slow pace of implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),noting that implementation lagged far behind pr [...] | 2007-01-31 04:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PREL SOCI SU |
07KHARTOUM1442 | CDA DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, DARFUR WITH KEY NCP [...] (SBU) In a meeting with National Congress Party (NCP) Chair for Mobilization Ibrahim Ghandour on September 12, CDA Fernandez underscored the importance of a transition to democracy in Sudan under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),including free and fair elections in 2009. Despite the d [...] | 2007-09-12 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1446 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT RENK COUNTY, UPPER NILE [...] Summary. From August 28 to 30, USAID/OFDA staff visited Renk County in northern Upper Nile State, Southern Sudan, to assess the effects of recent flooding. Flooding caused severe damage to homes and livestock and affected an estimated 10,000 households, or approximately 50,000 people. Non-g [...] | 2007-09-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM146 | Sudan's New Currency [...] Summary: Commencing January 9, Sudan started phasing in its new national currency, the pound, as a major step in implementing the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and in promoting national unity. The par value is one pound per 100 dinars; the pound is subdivided into 100 piast [...] | 2007-01-31 04:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV AFIN AMGT PREL EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1469 | DEVELOPING PEACE DIVIDENDS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, the Darfur Donors Coordination Group convened for the first time in several months to discuss criteria for resuming the DJAM and possible activities taking place in Darfur outside the DJAM framework. In addition to core donor representatives, non-traditional dono [...] | 2007-09-18 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREC PHUM EAID UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1482 | CENTRAL BANK'S GOVERNOR GIVES OPTIMISTIC READOUT OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a September 19 visit with EconOffs, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Dr. Sabir Hassan, presented an optimistic outlook of the Sudanese economy. Although Hassan named U.S. sanctions, economic diversification, and poverty reduction as challenges, he stated that the Su [...] | 2007-09-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID PINR IMF SU |
07KHARTOUM1523 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 24, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-30 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1532 | HAC: MORE DEVELOPMENT, LESS FOOD AID [...] (SBU) Summary: In a lengthy September 26 meeting with CDA Fernandez, deputy head of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Hassabo Abdelrahman praised the U.S. role in humanitarian relief operations in Sudan, but maintained that the focus should shift to early recovery and development. There was [...] | 2007-10-01 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO PHUM AU EAID UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1565 | DARFUR - BRAZEN CARJACKINGS BRING NGOS TO TIPPING POINT [...] (U) Recent attacks on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working throughout Darfur, including USAID partners CARE and World Vision, have impacted the delivery of humanitarian services. Brazen daytime carjackings in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur, have prompted the UN to impose a 14 [...] | 2007-10-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1600 | SUDAN - DISASTER REDECLARATION [...] The humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to warrant U.S. Government (USG) assistance to meet the emergency requirements of conflict-affected civilian populations throughout the country. USG humanitarian assistance in Sudan saves lives, mitigates the economic impact of conflict on livelih [...] | 2007-10-11 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1602 | SUDAN - UNHCR FUNDING SITUATION AND PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] On October 2, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Deputy Representative for Sudan Craig Sanders briefed international donors, including USAID, on UNHCR's funding situation for the remainder of 2007. In addition, UNHCR discussed progress in expanding Darfur operations a [...] | 2007-10-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1626 | NO CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR OIL SHOULD SOUTH SECEDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of interviews conducted between September 24 to October 6, petroleum industry insiders and officials from the Ministry of Energy and Mining told EconOffs and visiting Washington analysts that there is no contingency planning for the oil sector in the event the south [...] | 2007-10-17 12:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EPET PHUM PREL SU |
07KHARTOUM1649 | SOUTH SUDAN GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO CONSTRUCT A [...] (SBU) Budgetary planning by the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) is hampered by excessive personnel costs and dependence on unreliable revenue sources. The GoSS is working to correct these deficiencies, but faces an uphill struggle given a lack of institutional capacity and likely resistance [...] | 2007-10-23 12:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV SU |
07KHARTOUM1659 | SUDAN - UN/DONOR PRINCIPALS MEETING RESUMES [...] On October 21, the UN reinstated the UN high-level donor coordination meeting in Khartoum. The UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in Sudan (D/SRSG) and the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) in Sudan, Ameerah Haq, chaired the meeting. At this f [...] | 2007-10-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM166 | Fiscal Federalism Comes to Sudan [...] (U) Summary: The Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC),created under the CPA, has the responsibility to establish an entirely new, decentralized, federal, financial system. The first transfers to the 25 state governments under this new fiscal federalism are to tak [...] | 2007-02-05 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON PREL SU |
07KHARTOUM1663 | BANK OF SOUTHERN SUDAN: LABORING TO BUILD A [...] (U) Summary: The Bank of Southern Sudan is struggling to establish the foundation for an independent financial system in the South in the face of physical difficulties and passive resistance from the authorities in the North. End summary. ---------------------------------- One Country, Tw [...] | 2007-10-25 14:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL PINR SU |
07KHARTOUM1669 | DARFUR - HAC PROPOSES TO DIVIDE IDP CAMPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1680 | UNREST AND TURMOIL IN CAMPS CREATE SUSPICIONS OF GOS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1689 | SUDAN - RIFT VALLEY FEVER [...] On October 28, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported that Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been confirmed in three states in northern Sudan. RVF is a viral zoonosis that primarily affects animals but also can infect humans. WHO reported that out of 70 known human cases 40 deaths had occu [...] | 2007-10-31 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1692 | AEC PLENARY MEETING - October 27, 2007 [...] SUMMARY: AEC Chairman Tom Vraalsen convened a special session of the AEC plenary on October 27 to discuss how the AEC can best move forward. The AEC Coordinators proposed this meeting to address the changed playing field after the SPLM suspended its participation in the Government in mid Oct [...] | 2007-10-31 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1696 | CPA Fiscal Oversight Chairman shows independence [...] Summary: As Coordinator of the Wealth Sharing Working Group, Embassy organized a special AEC plenary October 24 featuring Dr. Mohammed Osman Ibrahim, Chairman of the GOS's Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC). The presentation was organized to seek additional ins [...] | 2007-11-01 05:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1719 | SUDAN: SEPARATE ABYEI'S OIL AND LAND NEGOTIATIONS AND PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 3 meeting with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, the Norwegian Petroleum Envoy to Sudan Anders Hannevik reported that he has urged Sudanese leaders to separate Abyei's oil and land negotiations. He also shared his calculations of northern and southern percentages of [...] | 2007-11-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG SU |
07KHARTOUM172 | DARFUR: UNDP ISSUES STATEMENT ON NYALA ASSAULTS [...] (C) Summary: Reftels detail the January 19 incident wherein 20 UN, NGO, and African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) personnel were arrested following the violent breakup of a social event, which resulted in serious injuries to several of the humanitarian personnel. On January 30, UN Deputy Special R [...] | 2007-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID PREF SOCI AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1763 | SWEDISH PLAN TO SUPPORT SIRTRE TALKS FOCUSES ON JOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff attended a working-level meeting November 8 at the Swedish Embassy on a Swedish plan to provide non-lethal support to armed groups in order to stabilize the situation on the ground in Darfur to promote the success of the Sirte peace talks. To receive support, in the form [...] | 2007-11-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1771 | DARFUR - USAID NUTRITION UPDATE [...] Recent nutrition surveys in pockets of Darfur reveal that the nutrition status of children under five has deteriorated since May 2007 to levels approaching those recorded in 2004 -- the beginning of the Darfur humanitarian response when the nutritional situation was at its worst. From Septemb [...] | 2007-11-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1795 | DARFUR - THE HAC AND WALI DISCUSS KALMA ISSUES AND THE [...] (U) On November 10, the Charge d'Affaires Fernandez, the USAID Mission Director, and the USAID Darfur Team Leader met with the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commissioner and the Governor (Wali) of South Darfur to discuss the current state of affairs with Kalma internally d [...] | 2007-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1796 | PRESIDENT BASHIR ESCALATES WAR OF WORDS WITH SPLM [...] (U) President Al Bashir delivered his most bellicose speech in recent memory yesterday, warning the South that the North is ready for war, and branding western countries as greedy tyrants. He insisted the north would not compromise over oil-rich Abyei. The President was speaking at an annual [...] | 2007-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC UN SU |
07KHARTOUM18 | DARFUR: DSRSG DEFENSIVE ON LIGHT PACKAGE, CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a January 5 meeting between Charge d'Affairs Hume and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for the United Nations (UN) in SIPDIS Sudan Manuel Aranda d'Silva, the two discussed the CDA's recent visit to UN Light Package elements in El Fasher (ref [...] | 2007-01-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1817 | SUDANESE CENSUS MAY BE DELAYED FROM FEBRUARY TO MARCH [...] USAID and emboffs spoke November 19 with Herbert B. Kandeh, Chief Technical Advisor with the UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) office in Khartoum. Kandeh confirmed that the UNFPA, which is advising both the national government's and the GOSS's census bureaus on the upcomin [...] | 2007-11-20 16:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1821 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - LAINYA COUNTY UPDATE [...] From November 4 to 6, program officers from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to Lainya County in Central Equatoria State, Southern Sudan, to review the status of the planned transition of USAID/OFDA-funded programs to the Government of Southern Sudan (GOS [...] | 2007-11-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1832 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR TRANSITION UPDATE [...] Over the past three fiscal years, USAID has been able to steadily and responsibly decrease its non-food humanitarian budget from USD 88.3 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to USD 69.5 million in FY 2006 and USD 61.9 million in FY 2007 in anticipation of the eventual transition from relief to dev [...] | 2007-11-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1838 | IMF RESIDENT DISMISSES EFFECT OF U.S. SANCTIONS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 20 meeting with PolChief and EconOff, the resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Sudan, Wabel Abdallah labeled the Central Bank of Sudan's decision to convert its reserves to the euro as unrealistic, dismissed the effect of U.S. sanctions on [...] | 2007-11-25 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1853 | DARFUR - ADMINISTRATOR FORE SITE VISIT TO EL FASHER [...] (U) On November 22, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the Mission Director for USAID/Sudan traveled to El Fasher, North Darfur, to re [...] | 2007-11-27 06:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1854 | UN UPDATE: HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL PROCESSES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Briefing the donor community on November 25, UN DSRSG Ameera Haq introduced an agenda that included an update on the Darfur political process and humanitarian access situation, as well a preview of the launch of the UN's 2008 workplan (donors will be invited to a formal presentat [...] | 2007-11-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1856 | SUDAN - NGOS BRIEF AA/AFR ON CURRENT CHALLENGES [...] On November 21, representatives from the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee and other USAID implementing partners briefed the Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist on the current operating environment in Sudan. The NGOs reported that their [...] | 2007-11-27 09:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1861 | AEC PLENARY: VRAALSEN URGES PARTIES TOWARD GREATER CPA [...] Summary: At the November 27 monthly plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),departing Chairman Tom Vraalsen used his farewell statement to warn of the dangers of the current stalemate on implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). He urged the AEC's [...] | 2007-11-27 13:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1891 | AEC TWO-YEAR PROGRESS REPORT UPBEAT ON ACHIEVEMENTS, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: AEC Chairman Tom Vraalsen presented the AEC's two-year progress report to Sudanese President Al-Bashir on November 3. There has not been any public reaction by the Government as yet, no doubt because the report notes the major areas of deficiency in implementation, chief among t [...] | 2007-12-02 05:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1908 | BEJA CONGRESS: WE NEED INVESTMENT IN THE EAST [...] (SBU) Summary: In an introductory call with CDA on December 3, Beja Congress president and Presidential Advisor Dr. Amna Dirar stressed the need for investment in the eastern states of Kassala, Gedarif and Red Sea to promote development in the impoverished region ("Now, it's just us and the sun [...] | 2007-12-04 08:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1913 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS CDA WITH [...] A multi-party parliamentary delegation from the Southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly called on CDA Fernandez December 3 as part of their visit to Khartoum. The Delegation is in town appealing to GNU officials for an end to the current SPLM-NCP stalemate over implementation of the CPA wi [...] | 2007-12-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1914 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS CDA WITH [...] A multi-party parliamentary delegation from the Southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly called on CDA Fernandez December 3 as part of their visit to Khartoum. The Delegation is in town appealing to GNU officials for an end to the current SPLM-NCP stalemate over implementation of the CPA wi [...] | 2007-12-04 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1925 | MEDIA REACTION: NCP REFUSAL TO ATTEND ADDIS MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Khartoum daily newspapers reported December 5 the refusal of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to accept the Secretary's invitation to meet in Addis Ababa, adding that the NCP "does not object" to the American effort. All reports noted that the SPLM had accepted the U.S [...] | 2007-12-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1926 | KOSTI'S NEW IDLE PORT INDICATIVE OF CPA DELAYS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a December 4 visit to the city of Kosti, the "the river gateway to the south," emboffs visited the city's new port that remains unutilized due to Sudanese bureaucratic in-fighting. Motivated by the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Sudan Sea Ports Corporation (SP [...] | 2007-12-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1927 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S SITE VISIT TO JUBA [...] On November 23, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the USAID/Sudan Mission Director traveled to Juba, Southern Sudan, to review progre [...] | 2007-12-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1929 | AEC CHAIRMAN VRAALSEN ARGUES FOR MORE INDEPENDENCE AT FINAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: AEC Chairman Tom Vraalsen, wrapping up a contentious two year stint in Khartoum, held a final press conference December 3. He used his statement to warn of the dangers of the current NCP-SPLM stalemate and to argue for a more pro-active AEC led by a chairman with increased indepe [...] | 2007-12-06 08:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM1934 | WHITE NILE GOVERNOR DISCUSSES AGRICULTURE, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a December 4 meeting with emboffs, the Governor of White Nile State, Dr. Mohammed Nur Al-Tigani, highlighted the importance of agriculture for Sudan, expressed confidence that mid-term elections would be conducted in a free, fair, and timely manner, and dismissed the existence o [...] | 2007-12-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1936 | SWEDISH SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SUDAN ON SUPPORTING CPA [...] (SBU) Summary: Michael Fruhling, Swedish Ambassador and Special Envoy for Sudan, called on CDA Fernandez December 6 to discuss issues relating to Southern Sudan. He said his Government is looking for ways to be more active, "as a smaller country," on helping to advance the CPA process. He pr [...] | 2007-12-07 09:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM194 | OIL REVENUE: 2007 GNU BUDGET BASED ON QUESTIONABLE [...] (c) Summary: The 2007 budget for the Government of National Unity (GNU) assumes relatively high oil prices and production figures. Revenue, and therefore expenditures, are based on these optimistic projections. Non-discretionary spending, primarily salary and wage commitments, will consume [...] | 2007-02-09 08:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL EPET SU |
07KHARTOUM1955 | U.S. SANCTIONS HURT SUDAN'S ECONOMY SAY CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 10, 2007 in a conference entitled "Sudan in a Global Economy," almost all speakers stated that U.S. sanctions have hurt the Sudanese economy. Presenters claimed that U.S. sanctions have resulted in a shortage of medical supplies, prevented the economy from fully libe [...] | 2007-12-11 07:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1961 | EFFECT OF U.S. SANCTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a December 3 site visit to Kenana Sugar Corporation, the managing director of one of the world's largest integrated sugar farms told emboffs that U.S. sanctions have affected his business, forced it to use inferior non-U.S. products, and hurt the overall efficiency of his com [...] | 2007-12-11 09:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM1988 | DARFUR - WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE UPDATE [...] From November 11 to 24, a water, sanitation, and hygiene specialist from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to North and South Darfur to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing USAID-funded programs and make recommendations for future interventions. The USAI [...] | 2007-12-13 06:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1989 | MILITANT DARFUR IDP LEADERS: NO CHINESE, ARABS [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of Kalma IDP camp disavow having any weapons while at the same time admitting that they successfully drove out thousands of fellow IDPs in an October uprising. The Kalma sheikhs claimed AMIS was a failure and UNAMID would also fail if it consisted only of African, Arab an [...] | 2007-12-13 06:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM2001 | South Sudan: Finance Minister Delivers a Sober 2008 Budget [...] (SBU) Summary: GoSS Finance Minister Mawein delivered a sober assessment of the governance challenges facing South Sudan on December 10, when delivering the draft 2008 budget to the Legislative Assembly (SSLA). Mawein identified a bloated workforce, almost total dependence on oil revenues, an [...] | 2007-12-14 07:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV SOCI IBRD SU |
07KHARTOUM2005 | NORTHERN SUDAN - USAID-FUNDED NATIONAL NGO CPA ADVOCATES [...] (SBU) The recall of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials from the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the political crisis that followed has derailed implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and CPA-related activities throughout Sudan. Since mid-October, hara [...] | 2007-12-14 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM201 | FPOTUS CARTER PROVIDES READOUT ON MEETING WITH [...] (C) Former President Jimmy Carter provided a read-out to Charge Hume following his February 10 meeting with President Bashir. Regarding the North-South situation, Carter reported that Bashir was in favor of further involvement by the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD),perhaps [...] | 2007-02-11 16:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PREF AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM2020 | AEC COORDINATORS TO PUSH UK CANDIDATE WITH WARY SPLM [...] (SBU) Summary: UK and Norwegian Ambassadors briefed other Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) coordinators December 16 on their presentation of the UK candidate for the now vacant AEC chairmanship. While the NCP has been non-committal, SPLM representatives have expressed concerns about [...] | 2007-12-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM2030 | KHARTOUM CENTRAL BANK GRANTS THE SOUTH AUTHORITY TO [...] (U) On December 15 the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) Board of Directors approved the "Central Bank of Sudan Policies for the Year 2008." Inter alia, the "2008 Policies" document grants the Bank of Southern Sudan (BoSS) the authority needed to promulgate long-delayed independent financial regul [...] | 2007-12-21 11:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV SU |
07KHARTOUM2038 | MFA CLAIMS IT HAS "NEGATIVE REPORTS" ABOUT DYNCORPS [...] On December 23, the MFA delivered a Note Verbal to CDA Powers in response to the Embassy's dipnotes 750 and 803 concerning delays currently faced by DnyCorps International in obtaining visas and travel permits to enable it to fulfill its maintenance and support roles for AMIS operations. CDA [...] | 2007-12-23 13:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM2046 | GOSS EXPLORING OPTIONS FOR MAJOR WORKFORCE REDUCTION [...] (SBU) The Government of South Sudan (GoSS) has engaged an international consulting firm to explore options for downsizing its bloated and unproductive workforce. The GoSS payroll is estimated to be overstaffed by over 30% (67,000 individuals) and salaries consume over half of the GoSS budget. [...] | 2007-12-26 13:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB EAID PGOV SOCI SU |
07KHARTOUM2053 | SPLM MINISTERS SWORN IN, PAGAN AMUM IS MINISTER OF CABINET [...] (SBU) The GNU announced a cabinet reshuffle December 26 as part of a deal that ends the two-month long crisis provoked when the SPLM walked out of the government in mid-October 2007. The new ministers were sworn in December 27 at 11:30 a.m. local time, and were expected to take part in their [...] | 2007-12-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
07KHARTOUM211 | GOSS 2007 Budget Adopted [...] Summary: The Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) adopted its 2007 budget on January 29 with a projected revenue level of USD 1.536 billion. The anticipated amount flows from oil, non-oil, and non-tax revenue sources, excluding donor grants. The budget, as in 2006, allocates over 40 p [...] | 2007-02-13 07:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV PINR ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM248 | GOSS BUDGET SHOWS NEED FOR DONOR ACTION [...] Summary: The GOSS 2007 Budget highlights the need for donor action to assist Southern Sudan with budgeting, civil service administration, and cash management in order to assure success of the CPA. The budget also exposes the problem of weak legislative oversight of the military. The GOSS needs [...] | 2007-02-19 09:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
07KHARTOUM250 | DARFUR - VISIT OF THE USAID/DCHA ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR [...] (U) From January 20 to 25, USAID Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Assistant Administrator Michael E. Hess visited Sudan. Hess and six USAID/Sudan staff members traveled to North and South Darfur to gain a better understanding of the current humanitarian, political [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
07KHARTOUM251 | SUDAN - BLUE NILE STATE - HEALTH CARE FOR RETURNING [...] The USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA),accompanied by the Blue Nile State Minister of Health and the Dean of the Academy for Health Sciences, visited the Chali Way Station to consider options to improve working and living conditions for health care providers. The group also visited the r [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
07KHARTOUM274 | FEBRUARY AEC WEALTH SHARING WORKING GROUP MEETINGS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission's Wealth Sharing Working Group, chaired by the USG, convened two sessions in advance of the February 15 AEC plenary to bolster implementation of critical components of the CPA's wealth sharing provisions. The meetings focused on the curre [...] | 2007-02-22 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN PINS SU |
07KHARTOUM319 | INFLATION RATE EXPECTED TO INCREASE [...] (SBU) An IMF team visiting Sudan the week of February 26 concluded that the inflation rate is likely to increase, perhaps to as high as 20 percent. In a meeting with Econ officer, members of the IMF team stated that, while inflation one year ago was running at about 7 percent, it is now estim [...] | 2007-03-01 10:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN EAID EFIN PREL SU |
07KHARTOUM328 | SUDAN - LAUNCH OF SUDAN HUMANITARIAN POLICY 2007 [...] On February 1, the USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA) and two USAID/Sudan officials attended the launch of the Sudan Humanitarian Policy 2007 by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in Khartoum. The policy document disseminated to attendees included general goals of improving coordinatio [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
07KHARTOUM329 | SUDAN - IOM AND DONORS MONITOR RETURNS [...] From January 22 to 27, the USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA) and representatives of five European countries participated in a donor mission at the invitation of the International Organization of Migration (IOM). The group assessed registration and departure preparations in Khartoum-area [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU EAGR |
07KHARTOUM437 | STATEMENT OF THE ACTING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE [...] (SBU) Following is the text of remarks given by Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan Mr. Taye Brooke-Zerihoun to the Sudan Consortium on March 20, 2007. Further consortium reporting will follow septel. (Begin Text) Mr. Chairman, Honourable Ministers and Delegate [...] | 2007-03-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU EAID PINS MARR PHUM |