Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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02TEGUCIGALPA2439 |
REPORT OF FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING [...] No summary [...] |
2002-08-28 16:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KLIG KTIA AMGT HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA125 |
FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING, [...] Summary: The purpose of this cable is to notify Washington legal offices of USAID, the Department of State and the Department of Justice of an administrative labor claim filed by a Honduran National. Also, this cable seeks Department guidance on stopping a GOH pattern of repeatedly transmittin [...] |
2004-01-20 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KLIG KTIA AMGT HO |
05KUWAIT2258 |
FOUR OUT OF FIVE KUWAITI LAWYERS AGREE: SYSTEMIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: An examination of many recent legal cases, discussions with Kuwaiti attorneys of all political stripes, and an overview of basic legal codes and procedures reveals significant flaws in Kuwait's judicial system. According to several lawyers, the system suffers from a c [...] |
2005-05-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PTER KLIG KJUS PHUM ASEC KU ISLAMISTS TERRORISM |
05TEGUCIGALPA1693 |
SEND LAWYERS, FUNDS AND GUNNY: SA/LW DESTRUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Department of State Small Arms and Light Weapons (SA/LW) program officer (PM/WRA) and Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) ordnance destruction team visited Honduras August 1-5 to review possible future technical assistance. Team and PolMilOff met with Vice Minis [...] |
2005-08-12 23:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR PARM PREL PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO |
05TEGUCIGALPA1753 |
HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DTRA SEMINARS FROM [...] (SBU) This is an Action request for PM/WRA and DTRA: Post requests that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provide the Government of Honduras (GOH) with Physical Security and Stockpile Management Program (PSSMP) seminars. Post received a formal request from Minister of Defense Federic [...] |
2005-08-23 22:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MARR MASS PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO |
05TEGUCIGALPA1821 |
HONDURAN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL: ROMERO LOSES APPEAL [...] (C) Summary. The Tegucigalpa Appeals Court ruled 2-1 late August 31 in favor of the Public Ministry's appeal of the August 18 decision by a lower court to grant bail to former Honduran Immigration Director Ramon Romero on the charge of abuse of authority. Post's initial assessment is that Ro [...] |
2005-09-02 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PGOV KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC KLIG HO |
05TEGUCIGALPA2249 |
HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DESTRUCTION AND [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-02 19:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MASS PREL MARR PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO |
06ASHGABAT1156 |
Demarche Delivered to Turkmenistan on Amending the Cuba [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-08 08:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF KLIG KSUM UNGA CU TX |
06ASHGABAT1177 |
Demarche Delivered to Turkmenistan on Country Resolutions [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-13 03:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF KLIG KSUM UNGA TX |
06ASHGABAT978 |
Demarche Delivered to Turkmenistan on Sudan's Darfur [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-15 10:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF KLIG KSUM TX |
06BERLIN3555 |
BUNDESTAG SENDS REQUEST FOR VIDEOS OF QUESTIONING [...] (U) This cable contains an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) On December 19, Post received the following letter addressed to Ambassador Timken from Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Bundestag Investigating Committee looking into allegations of renditions and the activities of the [...] |
2006-12-20 17:39:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PTER KLIG PGOV GM |
06BERLIN3587 |
GERMAN FEDERAL PROSECUTOR DECLINES INVESTIGATING [...] (SBU) German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms has decided that she is not responsible for investigating six EUCOM officers in Stuttgart for allegedly planning the kidnapping and rendition of six Algerian nationals from Sarajevo to Guantanamo Bay via Germany in 2002, according to December 29 Ger [...] |
2006-12-29 12:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG KJUS PREL GM |
06DJIBOUTI90 |
DJIBOUTI TAKES FRANCE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 10 Djibouti formally requested mediation by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between itself and France over the long-standing and thorny Judge Bernard Borrel Affair (see reftels). The Government of Djibouti (GoD) alleges that France violated its "internationa [...] |
2006-01-22 14:50:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS KGCN KJUS KLIG DJ FR |
06GENEVA2131 |
TAXATION OF UN MISSION RESIDENCES [...] Summary. Reftel requested information about Swiss taxation of foreign-owned diplomatic mission residences, and asked post to describe any USG or post-owned properties used as residences by US Mission personnel. Mission can confirm that there are no/no USG-owned properties used as residences [...] |
2006-09-01 05:08:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KLIG SW |
06MONTEVIDEO529 |
PULP MILL DISPUTE GOES TO COURT [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruguay's dispute with Argentina over the construction of two pulp mills on a shared river (reftels) has reached the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On June 8, both sides, backed by expensive international law firms, presented their opening arguments to the ICJ's 15 magistr [...] |
2006-06-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO640 |
HAGUE RULING ON PULP MILLS FAVORABLE TO URUGUAY [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-13 16:03:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI KLIG EINV AR UY |
06MONTEVIDEO977 |
ONCE AGAIN, THE PULP MILLS PLAGUE URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The long-running dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over the construction of pulp mills on a shared river shows no signs of letting up. For the second time this tourist season, Argentine environmental protesters will block international bridges linking the two countries. Wor [...] |
2006-10-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI KLIG EINV EWWT AORC SENV AR UY |
07BERLIN317 |
BUNDESTAG INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE SEEKS USG [...] (U) On February 9, 2007 Ambassador Timken received a letter from the chairman of the Bundestag committee investigating the detention in Guantanamo of the German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz. In the letter, Chairman Siegfried Kauder asks whether the USG would be willing to allow an Amer [...] |
2007-02-15 15:36:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GM KJUS KLIG PGOV PINS PREL |
07BERLIN524 |
MURAT KURNAZ: ANOTHER BUNDESTAG REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) On March 2, 2007 Ambassador Timken received another letter from the chairman of the Bundestag's Committee of Inquiry looking into allegations of renditions, the activities of the German intelligence services related to the war in Iraq, and the detention in Guantanamo of the German-born T [...] |
2007-03-15 11:14:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KLIG PREL GM |
07BERLIN61 |
GERMAN PROSECUTOR REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN KURNAZ [...] (U) This Cable contains an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) The State Prosecutor's Office in Tuebingen has contacted the Staff Judge Advocate, Stuttgart Law Center, asking for further information in connection with events Murat Kurnaz -- a Turkish citizen resident in Germany -- [...] |
2007-01-11 07:30:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG KJUS MARR MOPS GM |
07BERLIN865 |
GERMAN PROSECUTOR DROPS LEGAL COMPLAINT AGAINST [...] (U) Summary. German Federal Prosecutor decided April 27 not to pursue a full investigation into senior U.S. officials for alleged "war crimes" at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. As first reported in ref A, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, acting through German attorney Wolfgan [...] |
2007-04-27 18:15:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS KLIG PTER GM |
07BERLIN92 |
GERMAN PROSECUTOR FOLLOWS UP: KURNAZ CASE [...] (U) This Cable contains an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Further to reftel, the State Prosecutor's Office in Tuebingen has written the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Stuttgart Law Center, asking for further information in connection with events Murat Kurnaz -- a Turkish [...] |
2007-01-17 07:00:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG KJUS MARR MOPS GM |
07BUCHAREST1286 |
POTENTIAL IMPACT IN ROMANIA OF TEO PETER “FINAL [...] (C) Summary: The impending "final offer" by the U.S. Army Foreign Claims Service, Europe to the family of the late Romanian rock star Teofil Peter, who was killed in a 2004 car accident involving Embassy Bucharest's former Marine detcommander, seems certain to have a significant, negative effect on [...] |
2007-11-16 15:46:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KLIG MARR RO |
07DUSSELDORF30 |
DUESSELDORF COURT CARVES OUT NICHE IN TERRORISM CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court has emerged as one of Germany's major legal institutions for trying high profile terrorism and other sensitive cases (e.g. mafia, espionage). Following the "Caliph of Cologne" and al-Tawhid trials in recent years and an Al-Qaeda insurance f [...] |
2007-10-05 16:05:00 | Consulate Dusseldorf | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS KLIG KISL KCRM KOMC IR GM |
07DUSSELDORF34 |
IN LANDMARK CASE, DUESSELDORF COURT CONVICTS THREE FOR [...] (U) After a trial lasting more than 18 months, the Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court on December 5 convicted Syrian national Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil (32) and the Palestinian brothers Yasser Abu Shaweesh (34) and Ismail Abu Shaweesh (30) for belonging to and/or supporting al-Qaeda -- AQ (Ref B). [...] |
2007-12-06 16:26:00 | Consulate Dusseldorf | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS KLIG KISL GM |
07GEORGETOWN282 |
VULNERABILITY OF FRC REGIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-16 17:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER ODIP AODE AMGT KLIG |
07MONTEVIDEO90 |
HAGUE RULING DISAPPOINTS URUGUAY [...] (U) On January 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected Uruguay's petitions for provisional measures which would have obliged Argentina to remove roadblocks obstructing international bridges linking the two counties. The early morning newscasts here implied that the Court had deci [...] |
2007-01-25 11:02:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV SOCI KLIG EINV AR UY |
07TOKYO153 |
JAPAN'S VIEWS ON WAR CRIME ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a series of meetings on December 21-22, 2006, Senior Advisor to the Office of War Crime Issues Milbert Shin met with academics, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) think tank scholars, and government officials to discuss progress in the establishment of the K [...] |
2007-01-12 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC KJUS KLIG PHUM PREL AS ID JA KCRM |
08BUENOSAIRES146 |
ARGENTINA'S DIPLOMATIC "CAR TALK" SCANDAL ROLLS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: "Car Talk" continues to fill the daily press with new twists in allegations of illegal diplomatic car sales. The Supreme Court is expected to announce it found insufficient evidence against foreign diplomats to warrant its involvement in the case, somewhat vindicating the diplo [...] |
2008-02-07 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG KCOR KTIA ODIP PREL ASEC KREC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1550 |
ARGENTINA: ANTONINI-WILSON CLAIMS NESTOR KIRCHNER [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine daily "La Nacion" prominently published November 9 a lengthy exclusive interview with dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen Guido Antonini-Wilson (A-W), who was intercepted by GOA authorities in August 2007 with a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 arriving on a c [...] |
2008-11-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCOR KLIG CJAN AR |
08JAKARTA1021 |
INDONESIA - MAY 23 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. At a May 13-14 Tangerang Trilateral technical meeting, Tangerang local and district health and veterinary officials reported on current activities, including a launch of a public awareness campaign to stop the spread of bird flu. Tangerang authorities will conduct a USDA-funded [...] |
2008-05-23 08:48:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1189 |
INDONESIA - JUNE 18 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 16, Dr. Sangkot Marzuki, Director of the Eijkman Institute confirmed that the Eijkman Institute was now conducting full sequencing of samples H5N1 virus. Eijkman staff have isolated virus in the BSL3 laboratory after culture in embryonated eggs. He also outlined potenti [...] |
2008-06-18 08:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1257 |
INDONESIA - JUNE 27 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 25, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) indefinitely postponed the June 26 signing of a Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), citing current NAMRU-2 politics as the reason for the signing ceremony cancellation. On June 19, the Minis [...] |
2008-06-27 07:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1374 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA: SINGAPORE BELIEVES WHO DIRECTOR [...] (C) Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and World Health Organization Executive Board Member Balaji Sadasivan told Ambassador Hume that WHO Director General Margaret Chan and Director for Communicable Diseases David Heyman should have criticized Indonesia after Minister of [...] |
2008-07-17 02:16:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1379 |
INDONESIA - JULY 17 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. A World Health Organization (WHO) official verified on July 16 that Indonesia reported a new confirmed case of avian influenza (AI). At a July 16 meeting with Tangerang Trilateral project officials, Dr. Gindo Simanjuntak, Executive Secretary, confirmed that the USDA-funded base [...] |
2008-07-17 08:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1409 |
BIOSECURITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM MOU STATUS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Andy Rachmianto at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) plans to host an interagency meeting in mid-August, with the Ministries of Health, Research and Technology, and Agriculture to identify any difficulties to approving the Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) MOU originally schedu [...] |
2008-07-22 09:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1503 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA - ALLEGED AI OUTBREAK IN NORTH SUMATRA [...] (U) Recent press reports of a human avian influenza (AI) outbreak in North Sumatra appear to be unsubstantiated. The AFP released an article entitled "Bird Flu Outbreak in Indonesia Kills Three" on 6 August 2008. The article claims that three individuals from the Asahan district died, with anot [...] |
2008-08-07 08:14:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1504 |
LAWSUIT AGAINST THE USG: IMMUNITY LANGUAGE [...] (U) This message requests the Department's guidance. Please see para 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Jakarta has reviewed Washington's draft diplomatic note (refmail) in response to the avian influenza lawsuit. Embassy Jakarta recommends that the assertion of sovereign immunity be the cor [...] |
2008-08-07 08:58:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1512 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA - POSSIBLE OUTBREAK IN NORTH SUMATRA [...] (U) Summary: Avian influenza test results are still unavailable on the samples from the twelve individuals hospitalized in North Sumatra with flu-like symptoms. The health of the hospitalized patients continues to improve. Clinical findings are not consistent with avian influenza. The Indone [...] |
2008-08-08 08:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1518 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA - UPDATE ON ALLEGED AI OUTBREAK IN N [...] (U) The World Health Organization (WHO) reported to the U.S. government that all of the human samples from North Sumatra have tested Negative for H5N1 avian influenza (AI). The director of Kisaran District Hospital reported that all ten of the patients under its care are now healthy. They will [...] |
2008-08-11 07:25:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1584 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA - POST-MORTEM ON ALLEGED AI OUTBREAK IN [...] (U) Summary. Embassy staff from USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a review and found that the Indonesian response to the suspected avian influenza (AI) outbreak in North Sumatra was mostly good, but still leaves room for improvement. Surveillance and respo [...] |
2008-08-21 02:11:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1643 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA: WHO WITHHOLDING INDONESIAN AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) According to WHO resident representative Dr. Subhash Salunke, Indonesia is reporting possible outbreaks of avian influenza to the WHO within 24 hours in compliance with the International Health Regulations [...] |
2008-08-29 05:38:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1656 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified--Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message provides recommendations as requested in REF A and requests Department,s guidance by September 10. Please see para 10 for action request. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Legal proceedings are scheduled t [...] |
2008-09-02 09:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1676 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message requests Department's guidance by September 10. Please see para 8 for action request. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Legal proceedings are scheduled to begin in the Central Jakarta District Court on S [...] |
2008-09-05 08:01:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1733 |
INDONESIA - SEPTEMBER 11 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. On 8 September, the Ministry of Health (MOH) publicly reported two avian influenza (AI) cases, and the World Health Organization (WHO) followed suit. MOH experienced staffing changes including a change in Director General of the Directorate of Disease Control & Environmental Hygien [...] |
2008-09-12 07:04:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA1742 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: IMMUNITY [...] (SBU) On September 15, poloff delivered to the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) the Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum on the Application the Law of Foreign State Immunity: Sarmili v. World Health Organization and United States of America and the letter addressed to the co [...] |
2008-09-15 08:06:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1768 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: PLAINTIFF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Legal proceedings were scheduled to begin in the Central Jakarta District Court on September 17 in the avian-influenza lawsuit against the USG and the World Health Organization (refs). On DEPLU's advice, [...] |
2008-09-18 06:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1968 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: FURTHER [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Legal proceedings were originally scheduled to begin in the Central Jakarta District Court on September 17 in the avian-influenza lawsuit against the USG and the World Health Organization (refs). On advi [...] |
2008-10-24 10:20:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA1977 |
INDONESIA - OCTOBER 27 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. French embassy officials reported that in a series of avian influenza (AI) related meetings, Government of Indonesia (GOI)officials told them that the AI situation in Indonesia is improving and that the sample sharing impasse will likely end soon. U.S. government efforts to cont [...] |
2008-10-27 08:28:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA2086 |
INDONESIA - WIDJAJA DISCUSSION ON SAMPLE SHARING [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-12 09:52:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA2100 |
INDONESIA - NOVEMBER 14 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia's media has alarmed international press with reports of 17 likely hospitalized bird flu cases in Makassar, but health experts are suggesting that these are more likely cases of mild influenza-like illness (ILI) and pneumonia. The Makassar hospital has sent samples to [...] |
2008-11-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA2194 |
BIOSECURITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) is a pathogen security program run out of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN). BEP Indonesia works with partner institutions in the Ministries of Health (MOH), Research and Technology, and Agriculture to suppor [...] |
2008-12-02 10:27:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA2208 |
INDONESIA - DECEMBER 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia now has two new confirmed cases of avian influenza. Ministry of Health authorities have reported one of these cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) but has asked WHO to keep this information confidential. The MOH has not made a public announcement of either cas [...] |
2008-12-05 10:17:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA2275 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA LAWSUIT AGAINST USG: CASE DISMISSED [...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The avian influenza-related lawsuit against the USG and World Health Organization (WHO) has been dismissed. The Central Jakarta District Court cited the plaintiff's lack of seriousness and r [...] |
2008-12-16 08:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08JAKARTA2290 |
INDONESIA - DECEMBER 17 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-19 02:37:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA843 |
FAMILY SUES UNITED STATES FOR CAUSING AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S Government has been named in a lawsuit brought y( the family of a victim of Avian Influenza (AI). The suit rests on the claims made by Minister of Health Supari that the USG may be behind the development of a bio-terrorism weapon derived from AI samples. The complaint [...] |
2008-04-28 04:10:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA860 |
NAMRU ISSUE MIRED IN POLITICAL AMBITIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The basis of Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari's vitriolic public attacks against the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Jakarta (NAMRU-2) is her desire to make it a populist/vote-getting issue in the run-up to the 2009 national elections. Our failure to respond to Indonesia [...] |
2008-04-30 00:53:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TBIO AMED ID EAGR KLIG |
08JAKARTA894 |
MOVING FORWARD WITH SAMPLE SHARING NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-06 08:17:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA903 |
SAMPLE SHARING IMPASSE CREATES ADDITIONAL HEALTH RISKS [...] (SBU) Summary. International public health officials are focusing on the risks associated with Indonesia's refusal to share avian influenza (AI) virus samples. Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Supari's policies are damaging surveillance studies for other emerging diseases and related scientifi [...] |
2008-05-07 10:09:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
08JAKARTA921 |
FOREIGN MINISTRY NON-COMMITTAL ON AVIAN FLU LAWSUIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Foreign Ministry official was non-committal on whether the Ministry (DEPLU) could put an end to a lawsuit filed in a local court in April. The suit was brought by the family of an Indonesian victim of Avian Influenza (AI). An initial hearing is currently scheduled for May 13, b [...] |
2008-05-09 08:54:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TBIO KFLU KLIG ID |
08LAPAZ1406 |
CHARGE REITERATES SECURITY CONCERNS TO VICE FM [...] (C) Summary. Charge and EcoPol Counselor reiterated Post's security concerns in the aftermath of a violent June 9 protest at the Embassy to Vice Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez. The Charge delivered a diplomatic note asking that appropriate action be taken regarding a march organizer who con [...] |
2008-06-23 13:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ODIP KLIG KTIA BO |
08LAPAZ303 |
BOLIVIA: "SPYING" CHARGES FEED EVO'S PROPAGANDA [...] (C) Summary. Fulbright student Alex van Schaick reported to the Bolivian Foreign Ministry February 7 that he had been asked by Post's Assistant Regional Security Officer to report contacts with Venezuelan and Cuban nationals to the Embassy. Van Schaick told an ABC News.com stringer in La Paz th [...] |
2008-02-15 00:22:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PINR OFDP KLIG VE BO |
08LISBON2453 |
PORTUGUESE LEGAL ADVISOR SHOWS SUPPORT FOR U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the Secretary's visit to Lisbon on September 4, Legal Advisor Bellinger met with Portuguese MFA Legal Advisor Luis Tavares and covered several bilateral areas of interest, including transfer of Guantanamo detainees, Kosovo recognition, and Serbia's UN petition fo [...] |
2008-09-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KLIG PREL PO |
08MADRID201 |
RWANDA/SPAIN: INTL ARREST ORDERS IN WORKS, NOT YET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post agrees with ref A assessment regarding the February 7 indictments issued by Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Andreu of 40 Rwandan military officials on charges of genocide. The overall implication of the indictment is that Tutsi leadership, including President Kagame, [...] |
2008-02-22 14:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KLIG KJUS OFDP SP RW |
08MADRID409 |
RWANDA/SPAIN: FURTHER INFORMATION ON INDICTMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post offers the following answers in response to ref A questions from Department regarding the Spanish indictment of 40 Rwandan military officers. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JUDGE ANDREU AND THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE? Judge Andreu is completely indep [...] |
2008-04-11 15:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MASS KLIG OFDP RW SP |
08MADRID504 |
SPAIN/RWANDA - PROSECUTOR DOWNPLAYS INDICTMENTS [...] (C) Post's Consular Legal Advisor (LES) met informally with Spanish National Prosecutor Blanca Rodriguez on May 5 to discuss the ongoing Spanish prosecution of 40 Rwandan military officials (reftels). According to Rodriguez (please protect), the judiciary undertook the investigation and subs [...] |
2008-05-09 08:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MASS KLIG KAWC OFDP RW SP |
08MADRID571 |
S/WCI AMB. WILLIAMSON PRESSES SPAIN ON RWANDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In consultations with Spanish interlocutors in Madrid May 19-20, Ambassador Williamson (S/WCI) urged the Spanish government to reach out to the Rwandan government at the political level to try to ease tensions over the Spanish judiciary's indictment of 40 Rwandan officials in conn [...] |
2008-05-23 11:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM MASS KLIG KAWC OFDP RW SP |
08SEOUL362 |
SEOUL RESPONSE: REQUEST TO HOLD U.S.-ORIGIN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 6. 2. (S/NF) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) Divisions of Disarmament and Nonproliferation, and Security and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation took immediate action following our reftel demarche on February 23. Non-prolifer [...] |
2008-02-25 08:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET//NOFORN | EAIR ETRD ETTC KLIG PREL IR KS UK |
08SEOUL422 |
SEOUL UPDATE ON 747 AIRCRAFT BOUND FOR IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 5. 2. (S/NF) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) officials in the Divisions of Disarmament and Nonproliferation, and the Middle East discussed Ref (C) responses with Embassy officers on March 3. MOFAT had received the USG replie [...] |
2008-03-04 03:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET//NOFORN | EAIR ETRD ETTC KLIG PREL IR KS UK |
08SEOUL576 |
KOREAN AIR AGREES TO COMPLY WITH TDO ON 747 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 5. 2. (S/NF) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) Disarmament and Nonproliferation Director Lee Jang-kuen called in Emboffs March 22 to discuss the results of the ROKG's interagency meeting held yesterday on Ref (E) demarche [...] |
2008-03-22 05:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET//NOFORN | EAIR ETRD ETTC PTER PREL KLIG KS UK IR GR |
08SEOUL796 |
MOFAT DEPUTY MINISTER REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL LEGAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para 4. 2. (S/NF) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) Deputy Minister for Multilateral, Global and Legal Affairs OH Joon called in the Charge on April 18 to request an update on Balli Group's (BG) compliance with Commerce's Temp [...] |
2008-04-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET//NOFORN | EAIR ETRD ETTC PTER PREL KLIG KS UK IR GR |
08TRIPOLI226 |
GOL PROPOSES GLOBAL SETTLEMENT TALKS ON TERRORIST-RELATED LEGAL CLAIMS CLASSIFIED BY: Chris Stevens, CDA, Embassy Tripoli, Dept of State. REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) [...] No summary [...] |
2008-03-17 08:47:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KLIG PTER LY |
08ZAGREB185 |
SERBIAN MFA PROMISES TO PAY DAMAGES, PREVIEWS LEGAL [...] (SBU) A Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official confirmed to the Ambassador that the Serbian Government will pay all damage to embassies during the riots on February 21. The official also said the Serbian Government had formed a legal team to consider suing foreign governments over Kosovo [...] |
2008-03-04 06:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG ODIP OFDP AEMR PREL SR |
08ZAGREB186 |
SERBIAN MFA PROMISES TO PAY DAMAGES, PREVIEWS [...] (SBU) A Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official confirmed to the Ambassador that the Serbian Government will pay all damage to embassies during the riots on February 21. The official also said the Serbian Government had formed a legal team to consider suing foreign governments over Kosov [...] |
2008-03-04 08:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG ODIP OFDP AEMR POLI SR |
09BANGKOK1253 |
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST DEA EMPLOYEES [...] (SBU) Pursuant to reftel, this will advise that Embassy Bangkok has received notice of legal proceedings in Thailand naming as defendants the following three employees from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: Special Agent Derek S. Odney; Special Agent Scott Seeley-Hacker; and Special Ag [...] |
2009-05-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KLIG TH |
09BANGKOK1317 |
RESPONSE TO CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST DEA EMPLOYEES [...] Pursuant to ALDAC State 1087, this will request that the Department of Justice provide legal representation for the following employees from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently sued in a Bangkok court for acts performed during the course of their official duties: Special Agent De [...] |
2009-06-02 09:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KLIG TH |
09BANGKOK1367 |
VIKTOR BOUT CASE: URGENT REQUEST TO RETAIN LOCAL [...] (U) ACTION REQUESTED - see para 4. 2. (SBU) In an effort to delay his extradition to the United States, international arms trafficker Viktor Bout has filed a criminal complaint in Bangkok against three U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents (ref B). Bout's meritless complaint is based [...] |
2009-06-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG PREL KJUS TH |
09BANGKOK1549 |
VIKTOR BOUT CASE: EMBASSY DELIVERS DIPNOTE AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per reftel instructions, the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission (ADCM) on June 29 handed over to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of the Legal Affairs Division Chatri Archjananun the criminal complaint and court summons for three DEA Special Agents, which had been delivered [...] |
2009-06-30 03:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG PREL AMGT KJUS TH |
09BELGRADE653 |
REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: SUBPOENA FOR MAIN HEARING IN THE [...] (U) Summary and Action Request: The Embassy requests L/DL guidance on how to respond to an improperly serviced criminal case subpoena. End summary and action request. 2. (SBU) The Embassy has received a subpoena in the role of "a party that suffered a damage" from the District Court of B [...] |
2009-07-08 10:25:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG AMGT PREL SR |
09BISHKEK1193 |
EMBASSY FSNS RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST BUT CHARGES [...] (C) Summary: The two arrested RSO local employees were released to house arrest but the criminal case against them continues. A meeting with Maxim Bakiyev, son of President Bakiyev appears to have generated movement on the part of the government to resolve the issue. Following the Bakiyev me [...] |
2009-11-09 09:50:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09BISHKEK1200 |
KYRGYZ FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO CONDITIONS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-16 03:55:00 | Embassy Bishkek | SECRET | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09BISHKEK1224 |
PROGRESS IN STATUS OF ARRESTED FSNS BUT ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Over the weekend the SNB took steps to end the prosecution of our local employees for "collecting secret data." They closed the case and returned all items and papers seized in the arrest and subsequent searches. However, the provisions of law under which the actions were taken [...] |
2009-11-24 08:05:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09BISHKEK1244 |
ENDING THE FSN CONTROVERSY, AND MAKING THE PRESS [...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings with several Kyrgyz government interlocutors over the past week, we have pressed for a document from the government formally ending, or notifying the USG of a final ending, of the criminal process against our two local employees, arrested by the National [...] |
2009-12-02 09:42:00 | Embassy Bishkek | SECRET | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09BISHKEK1294 |
KYRGYZSTAN: FSN DETENTION ISSUE RESOLVED [...] (C) Ambassador requested a meeting with Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev to press for a final resolution of the issue resulting from the detention of two Embassy FSNs (reftels). At the resultant meeting on December 10, Sarbayev passed to the Ambassador a diplomatic note (translation below) [...] |
2009-12-15 04:51:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09GABORONE583 |
GOB WILL NOT INTERVENE IN IMPENDING SEIZURE OF [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-24 13:15:00 | Embassy Gaborone | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KLIG ABLD AMGT ASEC BC |
09JAKARTA398 |
INDONESIA - MARCH 6 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 3, Bayu Krisnamurthi, head of the National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Preparedness (KOMNAS) announced that Indonesia has had four cases of bird flu since the beginning of 2009. However, Ministry of Health (MOH)officials have not provided permissi [...] |
2009-03-06 09:05:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KLIG |
09JAKARTA824 |
GOI QUESTIONS USE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT IN U.S. [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see paras 7-8. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission has received a diplomatic note formally complaining about the use of the 2003 U.S. Department of State Country Report on Hu [...] |
2009-05-12 07:21:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KLIG ID |
09MADRID496 |
COUSO CASE: JUDGE REINSTATES CHARGES AGAINST U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: May 21 Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued new indictments against three U.S. soldiers in connection with the death in Iraq of Spanish journalist Jose Couso in 2003. The charging document introduces new, recently obtained evidence, including statements from form [...] |
2009-05-22 13:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG PREL SP CJAN |
09MADRID81 |
ORTEGA CASE: SPAIN SEEKS INFORMATION FROM USG IN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph five. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Ricardo Ortega was a Spanish journalist shot and killed in Haiti in 2004 while covering the unrest there. There have been repeated suggestions in the media here that U.S. forces fired the shot that killed him. The [...] |
2009-01-26 08:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG PREL SP HA |
09MUMBAI431 |
INDIA'S OVERLOADED JUDICIAL SYSTEM: CAN MAHARASHTRA [...] Summary. The state of Maharashtra has the biggest backlog of criminal cases in India, with over one million cases winding through the courts. Like other Indian states, Maharashtra's judiciary suffers from a lack of resources, a shortage of judges, and only the most basic case management sys [...] |
2009-11-10 08:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM IN KDEM PGOV KLIG |
09NIAMEY43 |
EMBASSY RECEIVES ATTY LETTER AND ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC NOTE [...] (U) On January 22, post received a diplomatic note and a letter from an attorney representing the former USAID FSN employees pertaining to a longstanding USAID issue concerning the separation of FSN employees when the USAID mission closed more than 10 years ago. The attorney also submitted 18 [...] |
2009-01-27 16:37:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG PGOV EAID USAID US NG |
09OSLO363 |
OSLO NEC - SUPREME COURT HEARING CONCLUDES, OUTCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: From May 12 - 14, opponents of the NEC sparred with GON lawyers before Norway's Supreme Court, contending that the Oslo City Council's rezoning decision in favor of the NEC should be overturned. After three appeals spanning the period 2006 - 08, all of them unsuccessful, our o [...] |
2009-05-26 06:47:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD AMGT KLIG NO |
09OSLO375 |
NORWAY: SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF THE [...] (U) Summary: The Norwegian Supreme Court on May 29 ruled unanimously against opponents of our NEC. Rejecting arguments that there had been inadequate consideration of alternative locations, the high court sustained the Oslo City CouncilQs decision in December 2005 to rezone our ten-acre site [...] |
2009-06-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD AMGT ASEC KLIG NO |
09OSLO434 |
OSLO NEC - THE HIGH COSTS OF FREEZING THE PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: After winning a nail-biting vote in the City Council, an appeal to the governor, two lower court cases, and a final Supreme Court appeal, then successfully concluding four years of negotiations over the purchase price for the land, we at last have a clear pat [...] |
2009-07-07 07:56:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD PREL AMGT ASEC KLIG NO |
09STATE10430 |
ARCHIVAL IMMUNITY WAIVER IN RESPONSE TO TAJIK MVD [...] (C) On January 4, 7, and 9, Post has received three official written requests for documentation and information from the Tajik Ministry of Interior related to a criminal investigation into a criminal case violating the Tajik law "swindling". (reftel) According to the documents received from [...] |
2009-02-04 23:30:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CVIS KLIG KVIS TI |
09STATE114174 |
LETTER FROM A/S BLAKE TO KYRGYZ FM PROTESTING [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary Blake requests that Post deliver the following letter to Foreign Minister Sarbayev at the earliest opportunity: Dear Minister Sarbayev, I am writing to express my deep concern over the continued detention of two U.S. Embassy employees, Emil Chodronov and Zamir [...] |
2009-11-05 15:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KLIG PREL PINR ASEC PGOV KG |
09STATE117704 |
AUTHORITY TO EMPLOY DIRECT CHANNELS TO RESOLVE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-13 23:17:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | ASEC KLIG PGOV PINR PREL KG |