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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04KATHMANDU74 |
NEPAL: DE FACTO FOREIGN MINISTER ON SAARC SUMMIT, [...] (C) In a January 9 meeting with the Ambassador, de facto Foreign Minister Amb. Bekh Bahadur Thapa discussed the SAARC Summit, recent problems in beginning the repatriation of Bhutanese refugees, and a possible EU demarche criticizing the Government of Nepal's (GON) failure to restore peace and [...] |
2004-01-09 09:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF NP SAARC |
| 05DHAKA503 |
BDG ANGRY REACTION TO SAARC POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) BDG cabinet members, opposition and civil society expressed anger with India over the SAARC cancellation announced February 2. Cabinet members told ambassador that Delhi made the announcement without giving Dhaka prior notification and after telling them earlier in the day that the conference [...] |
2005-02-03 04:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BG IN PK NP SAARC |
| 05DHAKA5592 |
13TH SAARC SUMMIT CONCLUDES; AFGHANISTAN INVITED [...] Summary: SAARC leaders concluded a successful 13th summit on November 13 with decisions to admit Afghanistan to membership, create a South Asia Poverty Alleviation Fund, implement SAFTA on schedule and implement the additional protocol on terrorism. Preparation paid off; the summit ran sm [...] |
2005-11-14 08:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON PTER BG SAARC AID |
| 05NEWDELHI1298 |
INDIA SAYS SAARC STILL ALIVE, SUMMIT HINGES ON NEPAL/BANGLADESH ACTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast with the predominant view in the Indian media that by opting out of the Dhaka Summit, India dealt a fatal blow to SAARC, the GOI told us it remains committed to the organization. MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok told PolCouns and Poloff on February 16 that he was [...] |
2005-02-18 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN PK NP BG IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI1426 |
FOREIGN SECRETARY EMPHASIZES NEIGHBORS' IMPACT ON INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In a carefully considered February 14 speech on New Delhi's South Asia policy, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran unveiled a more muscular approach toward India's neighborhood that reflects the GOI's shifting view of its role in the world. Departing from the standard GOI line on the [...] |
2005-02-24 13:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN KDEM NP BG PK CE IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI2410 |
SAARC: NO SUMMIT IN SIGHT, SAFTA ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for a rescheduled SAARC Summit in 2005 are diminishing amidst scheduling difficulties and Indian concerns over the coup in Nepal and instability in Bangladesh. In a March 30 meeting with USAIDoff and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok expressed optimism, ho [...] |
2005-03-31 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL IN PK NP BG SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI388 |
SAARC SUMMIT: WHAT'S THE HOLD UP? [...] (C) Summary: The GOI has not yet agreed to the proposed February 7-9 dates for the SAARC Summit, and media reports indicate New Delhi has suggested February 6-7 instead. The MEA remains tightlipped about the reasons for delay, but some New Delhi foreign policy watchers speculate that the SAAR [...] |
2005-01-14 10:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD BG PK IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI6036 |
INDIA'S SAARC PRIORITIES: SAFTA IS KEY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 28 meeting, newly appointed MEA Joint Secretary for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) P.K. Kapur highlighted the GOI's priorities for the November 12-13 meeting in Dhaka, including the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), a poverty and infrast [...] |
2005-08-04 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN EAID BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI6519 |
NATWAR DECRIES BANGLADESHI DENIAL, QUESTIONS SAARC [...] (C) The Ambassador used an August 23 meeting with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh to probe Indian thinking on next steps in Bangladesh, underling our hope that we will be able to develop the same kind of fluid information exchange and close coordination of diplomatic strategies that characterizes [...] |
2005-08-24 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM IN BG SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI826 |
REACTING TO NEPAL, INDIA WILL NOT ATTEND THE SAARC SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: The MEA announced on February 2 that India will not attend the SAARC Summit scheduled for February 6-7 in Dhaka. Both publicly and privately, GOI officials cited both King Gyanendra's actions in Nepal on February 1, and the security situation in Dhaka following the violence of J [...] |
2005-02-02 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN BG PK NP SAARC |
| 05NEWDELHI8749 |
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: GOI PROPOSES US OBSERVER STATUS AT SAARC [...] (U) For SA: SEE ACTION REQUEST PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a surprise development, the GOI has told us that it would welcome US participation as an Observer to SAARC. At a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit briefing on November 16, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) P.K. [...] |
2005-11-17 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN AORC BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
| 07KATHMANDU620 |
UPDATE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES; MEETING WITH EU [...] (SBU) At the Kathmandu-based Core Group meeting March 22, the Ambassador detailed his earlier discussions with Prime Minister Koirala, Home Minister Sitaula and Foreign Minister Oli on resettlement of Bhutanese refugees. UNHCR Resident Representative Abraham expressed concern about the activit [...] |
2007-03-23 11:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV BT EU SAARC NP |
| 07KATHMANDU653 |
NEPAL: PEACE NEGOTIATOR EXPECTS FORMATION OF [...] (C) Pradip Gyawali, the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) representative on the Government talks team with the Maoists, told the Ambassador March 28 that he expected the formation of an interim government would be delayed until after the South Asian Association for Region [...] |
2007-03-29 09:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAIR ETRD SAARC NP |
| 07KATHMANDU759 |
MFA COMMENTS ON IRAN'S STATUS AS SAARC OBSERVER [...] (C) On April 12, Arjun Bahadur Thapa, the Joint Secretary for the Foreign Ministry's South Asia and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Division, stated to Emboff that Iran had sent a note to the Prime Minister of India and the SAARC Secretary General expressing its interes [...] |
2007-04-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SAARC IN IR NP |
| 09KATHMANDU1002 |
KATHMANDU MEETING AGREES ON PLANS TO HELP TIGERS [...] (U) Summary: More than 200 tiger experts, government representatives and non-governmental organizations met in Kathmandu October 27-30 to consider how to reverse the alarming reduction of tigers in the wild in the last hundred years from 100,000 to about 3,500. The World Bank and the governm [...] |
2009-11-04 11:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO ETRD ETTC ASEAN SAARC XC XE XD NP |
| 09KATHMANDU264 |
NEPAL EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On March 24, Pradhumna B. Shah, Joint Secretary for Europe and the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), told Emboff that Nepal would be eager to participate in the South Asia regional workshop on UNSCR 1540 implementation in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 23-25. Emboff delive [...] |
2009-03-31 23:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAO AORC EUE EUN UNSC SAARC NP |
| 09KATHMANDU265 |
NEPAL EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On March 24, Pradhumna B. Shah, Joint Secretary for Europe and the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), told Emboff that Nepal would be eager to participate in the South Asia regional workshop on UNSCR 1540 implementation in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 23-25. Emboff delive [...] |
2009-03-31 23:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPAO AORC EUE EUN UNSC SAARC NP |
| 09KATHMANDU334 |
MOMENTUM BUILDS FOR THE GLOBAL TIGER INITIATIVE [...] The World Bank-supported Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) significantly advanced diplomatic efforts to save the world's remaining endangered wild tigers at an April 10-12 workshop of the Association of Southeast Nations Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) in Pattaya, Thailand. This workshop [...] |
2009-04-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO ETTC ASEAN SAARC XC XD NP TH |
| 09STATE26631 |
INVITATION TO SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON [...] This is an action request for all Posts with host governments who are current members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), as well as UNVIE, The Hague (OPCW), Geneva (BWC), EU, and USNATO -- see relevant paras 2 and 3, additional for USEU (see para 4), additional U [...] |
2009-03-19 19:36:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KPAO EUE PREL PTER UNSC EUN SAARC |
| 10BANGKOK456 |
Asian Ministerial Continues Efforts to Prevent Extinction [...] (U) Summary: In a ministerial meeting hosted by Thailand and the World Bank's Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) last month, thirteen tiger range states issued a joint declaration to stem the alarming decline of tigers in the wild, through regional law enforcement and country action plans. They a [...] |
2010-02-24 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD ETTC ASEAN SAARC XC XE NP TH |
| 10KATHMANDU72 |
SAARC: REGIONAL POLITICS LIMIT POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) lacks clout among its member states, preventing it from reaching its full potential. SAARC has facilitated some regional economic and social cooperation, but has little influence over regional geopolitical issues. Th [...] |
2010-01-26 11:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN SAARC IN PK NP |