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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03THEHAGUE2864 |
Priorities of Dutch Council of Europe Presidency [...] Summary: On November 6, the Netherlands assumed the Presidency of the Council of Europe (COE) for a period of six months. Dutch Presidency priorities include: giving priority to improving the effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights, enhancing the cooperation between the COE, OSCE [...] |
2003-11-14 15:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NL COE |
| 05NICOSIA1886 |
TURKISH CYPRIOTS UNVEIL NEW SCHEME FOR GREEK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriot administration has drafted a new law that would significantly alter the way in which the "TRNC" handles claims for restitution or compensation for Greek Cypriot property, which makes up between 80 and 90 percent of the land in the north. In response to an Apr [...] |
2005-11-30 09:31:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY TU PHUM PREF COE ECON |
| 05PARIS5174 |
INVITATION TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE (COE) CONFERENCE [...] This is an action request. See para 4. 2. The U.S. is invited by the Council of Europe Directors of Legal Affairs (DG-I) and the Ministry of Justice of Portugal to send an expert to the Octopus Interface Conference on Combating Economic Crime, Lisbon, 28-30 September 2005. 3. The goal [...] |
2005-07-26 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS SOCI EFIN KCRM COE |
| 05PARIS5472 |
INVITATION TO FIRST MEETING OF THE PROJECT GROUP [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARA 4. 2. THE U.S. IS INVITED TO SEND AN OBSERVER TO THE FIRST MEETING OF THE WORKING PARTY OF THE PROJECT GROUP ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN STRASBOURG, NOVEMBER 14-16, 2005. 3. DRAFT AGENDA INCLUDES: -- REPORT OF THE 17TH MEETING OF THE PROJECT GROUP ON A [...] |
2005-08-12 08:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | XG FR COE |
| 05PARIS5473 |
INVITATION TO COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL COHESION (CDCS) [...] This is an action request, see para 5. 2. The U.S. is invited to send a representative to the 15th meeting of the European Committee for Social Cohesion (CDCS) on November 15-16 2005 and a forum entitled "Reconciling Labor Flexibility With Social Cohesion" on November 17-18 2005. 3. [...] |
2005-08-12 08:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI XG FR COE |
| 06PARIS2200 |
COE CYBERCRIME [...] Summary. The first meeting of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention Committee took place March 20-21, 2006. The United States (Betty Shave, U.S. Department of Justice) was selected as vice-chair of the meeting. The key achievement of the meeting was adoption of an interpretation o [...] |
2006-04-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD FR COE |
| 06PARIS2272 |
HAMAS PARTICIPATION IN COE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Stapleton received April 4 a letter from Congressman Wexler to COE Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President van der Linden seeking to dissuade the parliamentary assembly from meeting with a Palestinian delegation of which one member belongs to Hamas. Embassy and CG St [...] |
2006-04-06 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PHUM PTER KPAL IS EUN COE |
| 06PARIS2313 |
FRENCH ON HAMAS/COE: GIVE US UNTIL THE 4/10 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 7, post further discussed possible Hamas participation in upcoming Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meetings with MFA DAS-equivalent for Strategic Affairs Nicolas Niemtchinow (responsible for CoE political affairs) and shared ref A points with DAS-eq [...] |
2006-04-07 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR KHUM KTER COE EUN |
| 06PARIS2610 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: A somewhat subdued Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in Strasbourg April 10-14, continued to wrestle with its overlap with other EU institutions. The PACE dodged a potential minefield when Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) representati [...] |
2006-04-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL COE |
| 06PARIS3843 |
FRENCH MFA CFSP CHIEFS ON EU DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 6 meeting, the MFA's CFSP chiefs lamented a certain absence of political will in the EU, but argued that the EU had largely succeeded, through an increase in ESDP operations, in recapturing some momentum following rejection of the EU constitutional treaty. They indicat [...] |
2006-06-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN COE KPAL CY TU |
| 06PARIS666 |
INVITATION TO THE 36TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN [...] This is an action request with a 20 February 2006 deadline. See para 4. 2. The USG is invited to send a representative to the 36th meeting of the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) at the Council of Europe (COE) in Strasbourg, France, 1-3 March 2006. Working document [...] |
2006-02-01 15:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | COE |
| 06PARIS674 |
INVITATION TO THE 3RD MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF [...] This is an action request. See para 4. 2. The USG is invited to send a representative to the 3rd meeting of the Committee of Experts on the inclusion of gender differences in health policy (SP-SHF) at the Council of Europe (COE) in Strasbourg, France, 23-24 March 2006. Working [...] |
2006-02-02 06:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | COE |
| 06PARIS683 |
INVITATION TO A MULTILATERAL CONSULTATION AMONG [...] This is an action request. See para 4. 2. The USG is invited to send a representative to the 1st Convention of Cybercrime for a Multilateral Consultation Among Contracting States (T-CY), at the Council of Europe (COE), Strasbourg, France, 20-21 March 2006. The meeting will begin at 09h30 o [...] |
2006-02-02 12:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | COE |
| 08CHISINAU1101 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE GROUP [...] (C) Summary: In an October 29 meeting Vladimir Ristovski, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE) in Moldova, briefed the Ambassador about the recent visit of a Council of Europe delegation. Ristovski stated that overall the visiting group left with a [...] |
2008-11-07 14:21:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID COE EU EUN MD |
| 08MOSCOW268 |
RUSSIA ON COUNCIL OF EUROPE REFORM [...] Summary. (C) The GOR told us Russia supported the January reforms to PACE's presidential election process, stressing that it did not perceive the resulting delay until 2010 of Federation Council Deputy Margelov's presidency as a slight against Russia, although recognizing that some member-st [...] |
2008-02-01 15:09:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL COE RS |
| 08MOSCOW2852 |
RUSSIA CONFIDENT AT PACE [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA and Duma representatives are confident that a proposal to strip the Russian delegation of its voting rights at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will fail. However, the MFA has developed a back-up plan to respond "tactically" to developments. [...] |
2008-09-24 11:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV COE RS |
| 08MOSCOW2935 |
RUSSIA WORKING THE EU TO INFLUENCE THE U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On October 1, MFA European Cooperation Director Voronkov sketched a Russian strategy to improve relations with the U.S. by working through Europe. Russia's "pragmatic cooperation" with German Chancellor Merkel, Spanish PM Zapatero, Italian PM Berlusconi, and the French leadershi [...] |
2008-10-03 03:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN COE RS |
| 08PARIS1960 |
THE POLITICS OF NYET: RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND THE COE [...] (C) Russian intransigence, lack of EU unity for meaningful action, general European desire for dialogue with Moscow at almost any price, and a cautious Council of Europe (COE) Secretariat combine to provide little hope that even minimal COE monitoring of Russia and Georgia will succeed. Incom [...] |
2008-10-24 15:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR GG RU |
| 09LJUBLJANA223 |
SLOVENIA FOCUSES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHILDREN [...] (U) After the successful launch of the "Our Rights" program in 2005 under Slovenia's Chairmanship of the OSCE, it is continuing the program on human rights education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Ossetia, during its chairmanship of the Council of Europe. In a July 16 meeting wit [...] |
2009-07-30 08:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL COE BK KV SI |
| 09OSLO199 |
JAGLAND'S CANDIDACY FOR NEXT COE SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. Thorbjorn Jagland is a leading Norwegian politician whose thoughtful comments often crystallize debates and support US positions. While he was the subject of some controversy while he was Prime Minister, he is now a seasoned elder statesman who would be a strong candidate to hea [...] |
2009-03-26 12:17:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE NO |
| 09STATE57302 |
OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO FOREIGN [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-03 21:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PGOV PREL PHUM COE |
| 09STRASBOURG15 |
COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS -- A PILLAR OF THE COE [...] (SBU) The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (COE) focuses on national and international trends in the 47 COE member states. Publicizing systematic failures to uphold the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and promoting the role of national courts and o [...] |
2009-07-10 15:14:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM COE FR |
| 09STRASBOURG16 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND KOSOVO MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) The Council of Europe (COE), involved in democratic consolidation in Kosovo over the past decade, takes a "status-neutral" approach to Pristina; many COE member states that have recognized Kosovo independence, including the UK, are cautious about promoting Kosovo's potential COE membership. [...] |
2009-07-17 13:07:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE KV FR |
| 09STRASBOURG17 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND GEORGIA: LITTLE TO SHOW AFTER AUGUST [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Europe (COE) has had a very limited effect on post-conflict relations between Russia and Georgia. The "quiet diplomacy" of the COE Commissioner of Human Rights has achieved only modest results. While Georgia may seek the suspension of the Russian COE parliamenta [...] |
2009-07-29 09:54:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR GG RU |
| 09STRASBOURG18 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE REVIEWS RELATIONSHIP WITH OBSERVER STATES [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Europe reviewed its relationship with observer states September 10 in the COE's Foreign Relations Committee. Most member states characterized the relationship as positive. Portugal asked what COE initiatives had been taken to obtain at least moratoria on the death [...] |
2009-09-11 08:38:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR |
| 09STRASBOURG20 |
LEGAL ADVISER'S DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Legal Adviser Harold Koh and European Court of Human Rights President Jean-Paul Costa supported increased contact between the U.S. and the Court during a meeting in Strasbourg September 11, with Costa noting that both face many of the same challenges. Koh outlined increased U. [...] |
2009-09-15 14:13:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL COE FR |
| 09STRASBOURG21 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE NEW SECGEN; [...] (C) The Council of Europe's (COE) Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is expected to elect the next Secretary General of the COE (REF A) September 29 or 30; a ranking Department official should consider reviewing our human rights agenda with the new SecGen soon - please see para two. The Georgians are pu [...] |
2009-09-24 09:06:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR GG KV RS |
| 09STRASBOURG22 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: PRIORITIES IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Several Council of Europe (COE) ambassadors have pointed to COE programs and influence in Armenia as one of the COE's success stories. Our contacts, including the Armenian Ambassador, have highlighted a positive COE role, including the COE's Parliamentary Assembly's (PACE) enhanced moni [...] |
2009-09-24 17:33:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL COE AM FR |
| 09STRASBOURG23 |
COE: NEW SECRETARY GENERAL; RUSSIA, GEORGIA, CLIMATE [...] (U) The Council of Europe's (COE) Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected September 29 Thorbjorn Jagland of Norway as the new COE Secretary General. The PACE noted that Georgia had met most and Russia had met almost none of their respective COE commitments post-August 2008. The PACE rejected, however [...] |
2009-10-02 13:44:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SENV COE FR GG NO RS |
| 09STRASBOURG24 |
COE: TAGLIAVINI REPORT ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA; DEATH PENALTY [...] (U) Russia and Georgia traded barbs at the COE October 7 over the Tagliavini Report, with the Russian Ambassador calling on the COE to end debate on the consequences of the war. In light of the "European Day Against the Death Penalty" -- October 10 -- the COE Chair (Slovenia), the Swedish EU [...] |
2009-10-08 14:57:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR GG RS |
| 09STRASBOURG30 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY DECLINES TO OBSERVE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-24 13:36:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL COE FR XG |
| 09STRASBOURG31 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA REGARDING [...] (U) Mission France received December 1 a letter (pouched to EUR/ERA) from Council of Europe (COE) Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President de Puig asking us to forward a letter from de Puig to President Obama regarding Copenhagen. 2. (U) Begin text: Strasbourg, 30 November 2009 Dear [...] |
2009-12-02 09:45:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV COE FR |
| 09STRASBOURG32 |
BELARUS AND COE: INCREASED ENGAGEMENT, BUT NOT MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) The Council of Europe (COE) seeks increased engagement with Belarus; if the GOB issues a death penalty moratorium the GOB likely will be invited to participate in more COE activities and negotiate accession to the COE Convention on Human Trafficking. While some COE member-states want eve [...] |
2009-12-14 09:32:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE BO |
| 09STRASBOURG33 |
SAVVY RUSSIAN MOVES ON COE PROTOCOL 14 [...] (U) Russian Ambassador Alekseev told Council of Europe (COE) plenary sessions December 9 and 14 that the Duma may ratify Protocol 14 in 2010 in light of written assurances that the European Court of Human Rights cannot specify how a member-state should implement court decisions. Most member-s [...] |
2009-12-15 15:57:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR RS |
| 09STRASBOURG6 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: MORE EFFECTIVE AROUND THE EDGES THAN AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Europe (COE) likes to portray itself as a bastion of democracy, a promoter of human rights, and the last best hope for defending the rule of law in Europe - and beyond. It is an organization with an inferiority complex and, simultaneously, an overambitious agenda. In eff [...] |
2009-03-10 10:51:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL COE FR |
| 09STRASBOURG9 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: RANCOR IN THE RANKS [...] C) SUMMARY: The Council of Europe´s (COE) election for its next secretary general has produced internecine warfare between resident ambassadors and the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), with the former having short-listed only Thorbjorn Jagland of Norway and Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz of Poland fo [...] |
2009-05-04 10:11:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE FR GG RU |
| 09WARSAW345 |
POLAND'S "TRUTH-TELLER" CANDIDATE FOR COE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's candidate for Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General has done it all. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has served as prime minister, foreign minister, justice minister, and parliamentary speaker; he has also run twice for president. A moderate social democrat, he is one of t [...] |
2009-04-01 07:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM COE PL |
| 09YEREVAN201 |
SPEAKER LEANS FORWARD ON MARCH 1 DETAINEES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Without revealing specifics, National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamian seemed to signal dramatic new moves on releasing March 1 (and election-related) detainees in the upcoming weeks, now that the parliament has enacted the criminal code revisions negotiated with PACE. He indica [...] |
2009-03-23 08:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM COE GG TU AJ RU AM |
| 09YEREVAN239 |
AUTHORITIES DROP SOME CHARGES AGAINST LEADING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Revised Criminal Code articles -- redrafted at the behest of PACE co-rapporteurs -- went into effect March 24. At the April 1 session of the "Trial of Seven," prosecutors withdrew the Article 300 charge of "usurpation of state power" while leaving in place slightly-reduced charges [...] |
2009-04-02 15:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS COE AM |
| 09YEREVAN26 |
PACE RAPPORTEURS FORESHADOW COMPROMISE TO POSTPONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PACE rapporteurs John Prescott and Georges Colombier debriefed the CoE member state ambassadors (and a few other invited diplomatic representatives) January 15 on the results of their meetings in Yerevan. They revealed that they had reached agreement with the GOAM on a proposal t [...] |
2009-01-16 15:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM COE AM |
| 09YEREVAN27 |
ARMENIAN JUDGE SEEKS LEGAL PRECEDENT TO REMOVE [...] (C) The judge who heads the criminal division of Armenia's Cassation Court sought the Embassy Regional Legal Adviser (RLA) office's help January 15 in obtaining Armenian translations of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) case law pertaining to cases in which defendants have waived or forf [...] |
2009-01-16 15:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS COE AM |
| 09YEREVAN78 |
LATEST PACE RESOLUTION SPURS LIMITED REFORM [...] (C) With its January 27 passage of Resolution 1643, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected to give Armenia more time to complete reforms highlighted in previous PACE resolutions 1609 and 1620, focusing on the way forward negotiated by rapporteurs John Prescott and [...] |
2009-02-10 16:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM COE AM |
| 10BERLIN154 |
GERMAN MFA SUPPORTS PACE MISSION BUT FEARS TIME IS [...] (U) On January 29, poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA office director for Iraq, Klemens Semtner. Semtner said that the MFA had engaged with German PACE representatives in support of the UNAMI invitation for an observer mission. However, his office had not yet received any feedback. Se [...] |
2010-02-04 12:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL COE FR XG GM |
| 10MOSCOW206 |
ELEVATING REQUEST FOR PACE ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] No summary [...] |
2010-01-29 06:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL COE RS |
| 10STRASBOURG3 |
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: APPLAUDING GEORGIA; CONCERN ABOUT [...] (C) The Council of Europe (COE) welcomed Georgia's transparency and efforts at political and human rights reforms, although it noted that Tblisi should increase efforts to involve the opposition in the parliamentary process. There is, however, increasing fatigue among member-states when disc [...] |
2010-02-26 15:34:00 | Consulate Strasbourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL COE BO FR GG RS |